#garrett hall

[ketunhanska]

guy whos on his 4th playthru of angry elf dating sim (i am the guy)

[writing-for-life]

The Annotated Sandman—Random Nuggets #12

Whenever we discuss an issue in our community, I finish off the week with a few tidbits of information from Leslie Klinger’s Annotated Sandman. So far, I’ve only posted them to the group (you can find the previous ones up until #11 collected under their requisite issue here), but I thought I’d change things up a bit and also post them to my blog.

So here we go with some additional info about “Playing House”—these are direct quotes, but by far not all of them (just a small selection per issue)…

About Lyta Hall…

NG comments in his notes, "The focus is on Lyta in the doll's house, so her existence becomes a metaphor for women trapped at home, tranquilized." In the final script, NG admits: "I'm getting sort of nervous now. Having begun this episode, I suddenly realised what it was about and how to tell it and so forth, which means I'm going back and starting again with not an awful lot of time to go, telling the story from Lyta's viewpoint.

What had been bugging me about this storyline was that it didn't quite seem to fit into “The Doll's House”, which is basically an extended essay about the roles of people and houses, and also about the role and treatment and ignoring of women in contemporary society.

And as I wrote I suddenly realised that there was one character in the storyline whom I was ignoring—Lyta, 'the wife,' who had become almost a cipher in the plot, just drifting in the background vaguely. And what was so irritating about my earlier attempts to write episode 12 was that they lacked focus in terms of whose story this was—Hector's, Jed’s, the baddies, whose? And suddenly I knew it was Lyta's and all the previous worries I'd had about the story were gone. To be replaced by a whole new set of worries—basically, how the hell to get this written in time....

Lyta is a rich girl, a second-generation superheroine who went into the family business because it was expected of her. She got pregnant, then discovered her apparently dead girlhood sweetheart was not dead but living in the dream world, and only able to come out for an hour a day. She married him, and went to join him in the dream world, and since then... since then she's been living in his dreamworld. She never sees any of her old friends. She never sees anyone except him. She dresses pretty, but she's six months pregnant, and she doesn't think he loves her any more.

She's vaguely looking forward to the birth of her child, but it's been a few years, and even though she knows that everything'll be better when they're a family again, and her husband isn't quite so busy, she's beginning to worry that maybe the baby isn't coming. And she has everything she wants, she supposes, or she is told, but she never gets to do anything, except tidy the dream dome, and she feels and acts like she's been lobotomized.

She walks around numb and unable to feel or to think clearly. And although this is highly fanciful comics stuff, it doesn't take a huge leap to see how it relates to real life; everyone's met one or two intelligent, able women whose lives simply stopped when they got married.

Sometimes, as with Lyta, they eventually got thrown back into the real world, and had to pick up the pieces, and sometimes they didn't.”

What About the Other Sandman?

Kirby's Sandman uses a device, the Universal Dream Monitor, to watch over the dreams of humans. As the “Universal Master of Dreams,” he is able to enter their dreams. He carries a pouch of sand on his belt, to put people to sleep.2

"Mister Sanford" is Garrett Sandford, who in Wonder Woman #300 (Feb. 1983) reveals that he is the Sandman of the Jack Kirby series. (The character's origin is not revealed in the Kirby series itself, and the "d" from the original spelling of "Sandford" was, presumably, dropped inadvertantly.) Dr. Sandford headed a sleep research project at U.C.L.A. There he created a "Dream Monster" machine that enabled him to "read" the dreams of participants in the project as they slept.

When the President of the U.S. was entrapped in the Dream Dimension, Sandford rescued him but was unable to return from the Dream Dimension. The government sent him the Universal Dream Monitor, and he took the identity of the "Golden Age" Sandman created by Wesley Dodds (see 1.18.4–that’s issue 1).

Adam West’s Sandman… or was it Batman?

NG comments in the script, "Incidentally, I just realised, my whole sort of mental casting for Hector Hall is Adam West playing Batman in the TV show, delivering really dumb lines as if he believes in them 100%."

About Hector Hall (and Lyta)…

Hector Hall is the son of Carter Hall (the Hawkman) and Shiera Hall (Hawkgirl), Golden Age superheroes.

As a child, he played with Lyta Trevor, daughter of Fury (see 11.5-5–that’s “Moving In”). Hector attended U.C.L.A. with Lyta, and they dated and eventually married. Hector was cursed with the doom of his parents and became the Silver Scarab, eventually fighting Infinity, Inc., the organization of superheroes that he and Lyta helped to organize; he died in the battle, with Lyta bearing his child.

Who Watches the Watchmen?

In this and the following panel we can see part of a slogan on the wall, "Who watches the.." Of course, “Who watches the watchmen?” (originally drawn from Plato's The Republic and the Roman poet Juvenal) is famously the slogan of Alan Moore's pioneering Watchmen.

She is Fury, After All…

"Lyta has thrown herself at the Sandman," comments NG in the script. "She is, as I remember, terrifyingly strong and fast."

NG continues, "Lyta has crashed into the opposite wall. What's actually happened is she's gone straight through the Sandman. He hasn't moved except to turn to look at her. She obviously hit the wall fairly hard, with her shoulder, and is on the floor."

[dekaohtoura]

[krispyweiss]

Song Review: The Infamous Stringdusters - “Possum”

Call it the Infamous Phish-dusters.

Otherwise known as the Stringdusters, the Infamous bluegrass quintet makes Phish’s “Possum” sound even more like the Grateful Dead’s “Cumberland Blues” as it announces its Undercover, Vol. 3 EP.

And it works out quite well - much better than the band’s previously released remake of Harry Styles’ “As it Was” - with strong harmonies and a swirl of banjo, fiddle, Dobro, guitar and bass smoothing out the requisite roadkill silliness.

Out Nov. 13, Undercover 3 also includes the ’Dusters’ takes on the Grateful Dead’s “Touch of Grey,” Avicii’s “Wake Me Up,” the Steve Miller Band’s “Fly Like an Eagle” and ZZ Top’s “Sharped Dress Man.”

“You are gonna want to hear what these songs sound like bluegrass-style,” the band said in a statement.

Grade card: The Infamous Stringdusters - “Possum” - B

9/25/24

[momachan]

"We're five grown men dressed in bright colors inside a clear plastic bubble set against a rainbow background, Jaime. They saw us."

Booster Gold (2007-2011): Blue And Gold. "The Secret Origin Of Booster Gold."

[mostsanescarletspiderfan]

Has there been any team up or weird legacy thingies between sandman, dreamer, dream of the endless, dream boy and dream girl? It's weird that nothing has happened yet.

[happy-lemon]

I didn't see this coming, but it makes complete sense. He prefers street art to fine art, but they're both artists and they were great friends at university. Congratulations, Garrett and Jaimey!

[moonfromearth]

- How's my hair? I need to look good when we're on the news.

Day 3 - The Bad Girl

"Flirtatious, sexy, and catty to a fault. Usually stuck up. They mean well, but ultimately cares only for themselves."

from @windbrook's Slashed Challenge.

[hawkgirlz]

this is about the blue beetle scarab and I have no clue when this happened, someone let me know????? (from countdown to infinite crisis)

[the-football-chick]

IG: rotoworld

[attaboyharper]

@̲phillies: We're baaaaack!!!!

[bullshit-bulltrue]

it's virtually nothing but i really appreciated him walking me to my locker and waiting for me to get my things instead of just going to the mess hall and expecting me to go and try to find him

[simplyofthestars]

so just every voltron ship can go on this chart?

"do i ship it" chart but its pure hatred instead. do i hate seeing those bitches together

[spookyactionanyway]

𝕱𝖔𝖗 𝖜𝖍𝖎𝖑𝖊 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖘𝖈𝖗𝖔𝖑𝖑 𝖙𝖍𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖌𝖍 𝖒𝖞 𝖇𝖑𝖔𝖌 🍷🖤🦇

[krispyweiss]

Song Review: The Infamous Stringdusters feat. Anders Osborne - “Those Lonely, Lonely Nights”

The Infamous Stringdusters and Anders Osborne added some ’grass, but took away none of blue on their cover of “Those Lonely, Lonely Nights.”

It’s a slow-roller played on instruments made for fast-pickin’. But incongruities must be damned when these divergent artists cross-pollinate and combine dichotomous genres into something new.

With Osborne on vocals and the ’Dusters popping in with Dobro, fiddle, acoustic guitar and banjo solos, the track honors Earl King’s original, Osborne’s iconoclastic roots and the band’s string tradition.

Covering all the bases is one thing. Doing it without leaving home is another. And the way Osborne smacks the song out of the park with the mic stand is yet another.

Grade card: The Infamous Stringdusters feat. Anders Osborne - “Those Lonely, Lonely Nights” - A

5/8/24

[flashfuckingflesh]

EVIL Comes to Town to Extract Your Deadly, Dark Secret. "Peter Five Eight" reviewed! (Invincible Entertainment / DVD)

Check Out Kevin Spacey and “Peter Five Eight” on DVD! A dynamic real estate agent and her loafing husband drink themselves in an abusive back-and-forth most nights living in a small mountain town.  When a dapper new arrival observes her comings-and-goings about the community, he confronts her out of the blue with questions about a past life she’s desperate to forget.  Her dark secret remains…