#george leech

[mariocki]

Man in a Suitcase: Brainwash (1.1, ITC, 1967)

"American Intelligence virtually accused you of treason a long time ago."

"Accused. I'm innocent."

"It's not enough. To be innocent you have to seem to be innocent. What's a guilty man do in your position? If he signs a confession, well, that's the end of him, all hope is gone. But the innocent man, well, he can sign a false confession... because if he saves his life, he'll never be without the hope that he can clear himself."

"So you're saying if I sign the confession, I'm innocent; if I don't sign, I'm guilty."

"No, no, no. If you don't sign, you're dead."

[takalzuoom]

same thing different fonts

[is-the-19thcentury-man-okay]

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask but there seems to be an 19th century man on my back porch. I've given him a cup of tea but unfortunately my roommate is highly allergic to menfolk or I'd ask him inside. Is there anything else I should do for him? Or should I just leave him be?

Oh dear! You can try leaving articles of clothing for him, such as a greatcoat or macintosh, or even a cache of tinned food (which is known to attract 19th century men).

But at this point, if he hasn’t found a good home, you may want to turn to a local organisation such as a social club for 19th century gentlemen. He wasn't made to be wandering alone; he should be socialising and enjoying whitebait dinners with his peers!

[adobongsiopao]

Jane Eyre: The Multiverse of Madness Adaptations

Actors and actresses of Jane and Mr. Rochester from selected and well-known TV and movie adaptations of "Jane Eyre".

Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles (1943 movie)

Daphne Slater and Stanley Baker (1956; BBC TV serial)

Ann Bell and Richard Leech (1963; BBC TV serial)

Susannah York and George C. Scott (1970 movie)

Sorcha Cusack and Michael Jayston (1973; BBC TV serial)

Zelah Clarke and Timothy Dalton (1983; BBC TV serial)

Charlotte Gainsbourg and William Hurt (1996 movie)

Samantha Morton and Ciaran Hinds (1997; ITV TV movie)

Ruth Wilson and Toby Stephens (2006; BBC miniseries)

Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender (2011; movie)

Which any of these "Jane Eyre" adaptation versions is your favorite?

[solradguy]

I wish there were more books from a sad/angry monster's point of view like Grendel by John Gardner but every time I look for "books similar to grendel by john gardner" the lists are just a bunch of books I've already read and aren't the same as Grendel; Beowulf, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Sir Gawain & The Green Knight... Not the same... These are all heroes, show me the monster's point of view. Tell me about the agonies of Fafnir and Dracula and St George's dragon before they were murdered by the hero...

[myschizonook]

I have the belief that this song fits any troublemaker twins duo in fiction.

For example:

Fred and George Weasley from Harry Potter

Polux and Castor from Percy Jackson

Floyd and Jade Leech from Twisted Wonderland

[clove-pinks]

Is he... you know... a magazine cartoonist from the mid 19th century?

[evangelic4l]

I can’t help but imagine the Tweels as the Weasley twins 👯‍♂️

[downabbey]

Downton Abbey Text Santa

Stars of this year’s Downton Abbey Christmas Special 9 (from left) Laura Carmichael, Michelle Dockery, Jim Carter, Robert James Collier, Kevin Doyle, Phyllis Logan, Lily James, George Clooney and Allen Leech pose for a ‘selfie’ for ITV’s Text Santa charity show, which goes out on Friday night

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

9. a book that was better than you expected it to be?

23. the book with the prettiest cover?

34. what's a book you've recommended the most this year?

hello! thanks!! referencing this post:

9. a book that was better than you expected it to be

okay the cheater answer here is ALL SYSTEMS RED, because the cover looks like very Not My Thing, but holy shit it’s one of my all time faves, and tbh i don’t think the cover does the first one justice. (this is the cheating answer because bot is only on my list from this year because i did a Reread)

the non-cheater answer is A SWIM IN A POND IN THE RAIN: IN WHICH FOUR RUSSIANS GIVE A MASTER CLASS ON WRITING, READING, AND LIFE by George Saunders, because i didn’t love it (or the writer lol) at the start but he definitely grew on me by the end! i read it with a buddy as a writer craft thing, which was more fun than i thought it would be.

23. the book with the prettiest cover?

*sweats in covers work As Intended On Me, so most of my impulse buys skew Pretty* THE DAUGHTER OF DOCTOR MOREAU by SIlvia Moreno-Garcia is definitely a top winner (maybe The Top Winner), but honorable mentions to A PRAYER FOR THE CROWN-SHY, KATZENJAMMER by Francesca Zappia, and WHAT WE HARVEST by Ann Fraistat

34. what’s a book you’ve recommended the most this year?

i’ve been infecting everyone i possibly can with LEECH by Hiron Ennes, which has rocketed into one of my all-time faves but please approach with Caution and check the content warnings, because it’s a rough ride.

thanks again for asking, this was fun!!

[carnation-damnation]

Now for something less angsty

[haverwood]

Leech George Coley UK, 2023

[letterboxd-loggd]

The Moonraker (1958) David MacDonald

April 28th 2024

[rodgermalcolmmitchell]

Is it possible for one human being to get so much wrong about our economy?

Is it possible for one human being to get so much wrong about our economy?

If someone sets a world record, perhaps they could expect applause. In that vein, let’s give a massive round of applause to Veronique de Rugy, who has set a world record for economic myth dissemination. Her bio reads: Veronique de Rugy is the George Gibbs Chair in Political Economy and Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and a nationally syndicated…

[teaboot]

I don't know if you're American or not but in my experience as a person who is not American, American events and media are so incredibly loud and visible that they tend to leech into everything.

Like I'm Canadian born and raised and can name more American presidents than I can Canadian Prime Ministers. I have Canadian friends from Canada who can accurately describe themselves as Liberals but are still sorta foggy on NDP policies. Do you know what day Canada Day is? It's July 1st. Do you know what's on my dashboard on July 1st? Early posts about July 4th.

And if you're an American reading this: Or, hell, anyone else reading this: We all know George Washington was the first American President. Do you know who the first Prime Minister of Canada was? Can you name two British political parties? What are two countries that have Monarchies, not Democracies? What was the most recent political scandal you can think of that took place outside the US? What's your favourite TV show that takes place anywhere outside of America? What are your top three favourite non-american musicians? If English is your first language, how many foreign countries can you go to where you don't speak the language, but don't have to worry about it?

I said "International America Day" as a joke, but there is a very real phenomenon in countries outside of the US where the general population becomes Americanized through the prevalent American media.

We know American current events, we know American scandals, we know about American cops and American movies and American accents and American fast food chains. We have serious opinions on the American legal system and we talk about American law and American policy and American celebrities, and many of us don't know Jack Shit about what's going on where we live.

I'm Canadian. I've heard all about 'building the wall' and ICE and Jan 6th, the intentional government distribution of narcotics in Black communities and the use of Marijuana Illegalization to persecute Black and Mexican people under the Nixon administration.

Do you know what Canada did to Chinese immigrants to build the Canadian railroad? What about the Sterilization Act? Residential Schools? Do you know what a Status Card is? Does it, or does it not cost money to ride in an ambulance? Can people with breasts legally walk around topless? What's the legal drinking age? What are our biggest cities? Who was our least-popular PM? What are our allied nations? Where does the Canadian military get deployed?

"International America Day" was a goof. But Jesus, it's a little bit serious

*edit: yeah I wrote June instead of Jan my bad

[notaplaceofhonour]

One of the experiences that really highlighted to me how willing the left can be to turn a blind eye to and gaslight Jews about antisemitism was trying to talk about Michael Jackson’s antisemitism, such as in the song “They Don’t Care About Us”, which was released with the lyrics:

“Jew me, sue me, everybody do me / Kick me, kike me, don't you black or white me.”

I feel like that is shockingly straightforward with how antisemitic it is, both in its specific language (the K-slur & Jew-as-a-verb) and its conspiratorial bent in the context of the whole song. But when it came out and Jews were obviously appalled and spoke out about it, MJ made the standard “but have you considered that accusing me of bigotry offends me?” and “I was taken out of context!” statements that bigots make when they get called out on their bigotry.

As for MJ’s claim that he was taken out of context, here is some context: In 1993, MJ’s relationship with the press deteriorated when they began covering allegations of his child sex abuse. In the midst of this, tabloids ran a lot of scummy, sensationalized headlines—ruthlessly mocking his appearance and eccentricities and even running entirely false stories. This marked a drastic shift in MJ’s lyrics, which began to focus heavily on his victimhood (both real and perceived, often conflating both and tying them to broader social issues), with many of the songs on the next album HIStory (1995) being about this. “They Don’t Care About Us” is on this album. In 2003, there were revelations that Michael Jackson had grown close with members of Nation of Islam (a fringe and antisemitic hate group), and in 2005, Good Morning America aired a phone recording of Michael Jackson calling Jews “leeches”, claiming Jews had targeted him for his wealth, and saying “It’s a conspiracy. Jews do it on purpose”.

This is the context of Michael Jackson singing about being a stand-in for the victims of all kinds of real world oppression like racism and police brutality, and then saying he was being “Jewed” and “kiked”. It came out that he was molesting little kids, and rather than face the music, he tried to dodge responsibility by conflating those allegations with racism and the gross, sensationalist bullshit that tabloids were running on him; he wove all these things together in a narrative that he could use to wrap himself up in victimhood & conspiracy to position himself as not just a martyr, but the very archetype of martyrdom so that the world could, as he sang on the same album in his cover of John Lennon’s song, “Come together, over me.”

The lyrics were later changed to replace “Jew” & “kike” with abstract noise that drowned out the words or repetitions of “sue” & “strike”. But even so, this is still a song, not truly about inequality and injustice, but using inequality and injustice to shield a child molester from responsibility. And the fact that “Jew” can so easily be replaced with “sue”, not simply in sound but in meaning, without disrupting the narrative and tone of the song, belies the fact that Michael Jackson believed himself to be a victim of some sort of conspiracy between “(((The Media)))” and greedy Jewish lawyers.

And yet, trying to talk about this to this day, even with the benefit of hindsight, when it’s pretty well-accepted that MJ was in fact a child molester and knowing what he said about Jews after this song came out, it is next to impossible to get people to see the antisemitism in him tying together all oppression in the world as him being “Jewed” and “kiked” by (((The System)))—even when he literally says “Jew”, even when he says the K-slur, even when he refers to Jews as blood-suckers, even when he literally says Jews are conspiring against him. When people started using the song as part of the George Floyd protests, and I was like “hey, maybe that’s not a great idea” and gently tried to explain this context, I was ignored, told it didn’t matter because the song was about inequality, told Black people have every right to distrust Jews “because Jews are White” and stabbed Black people in the back by embracing Whiteness, etc. etc.

I think that is one of the times that really started to make it clear to me, “oh, yeah no, leftists can be staring straight at a K-slur in the mouth of a known sex offender and still say it’s fine”—something leftists generally would not do for any other vulnerable minority. It still astounds me.