#gretchen lawrence

[thought-tracing]

NEW YORK at Dishes #3, Volkstheater Wien, Vienna AT

(4/8/2023, source)

[planksinmyeyes]

heart eyes for the dough

new york at moth club, london - 15.10.2024

[reasonsforhope]

do you have any good queer news? I'm a queer person and hearing all the shit thats happening across the world is making me bummed out

I do! All of this is from LGBTQ Nation's excellent good news tag

^Article date: July 6, 2023

"Only two months after its formation, the “No SB 180” initiative had succeeded at making the city of Lawrence, Kansas a sanctuary city for LGBTQ+ people. Last week, in a unanimous vote, Lawrence became the first city in the state to declare itself as such.

Ordinance 9999 bans the city and all of its employees from collecting or releasing information on a person’s “biological sex, either male or female, at birth” and from helping with any investigation, detention, arrest, or surveillance “conducted by a jurisdiction with the authority to enforce Senate Bill 180, as enacted.”"

^Article date: July 28, 2023

"A federal judge has told a group of anti-trans parents to mind their own business after the group filed a lawsuit challenging an Ohio school district’s bathroom policy.

The attempts to meddle do not “pass legal muster,” he wrote in his ruling, saying that the group has no reason to sue.

“Not every contentious debate concerning matters of public importance presents a cognizable federal lawsuit,” Judge Michael Newman wrote, denying their petition to stop the Bethel Local School District’s policy that allows a single transgender middle school student to use the restroom that aligns with her gender identity."

^Article date: August 8, 2023

"The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the independent federal agency responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance, has released its first-ever “LGBTQI+-inclusive” policy since its founding in 1961.

The four-point policy is meant to serve as a blueprint for USAID staff and partners around the world to champion LGBTQ+ and intersex development and the human rights of all queer people through the agency’s work, said Jay Gilliam, USAID’s senior LGBTQI+ coordinator, in a video explaining the policy...

In simpler terms, the U.S. will try to improve diplomatic relationships with other countries by investing in locally-led LGBTQ+-inclusive programs that are shown to positively impact communities in need."

^Article date: August 3, 2023

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has ruled in favor of three transgender students who were forbidden by their schools from using bathrooms matching their gender identities. The circuit court upheld a lower court’s preliminary injunction that said the schools have to let trans students use facilities associated with their genders...

The case involves three trans boys in Martinsville, Indiana and Terre Haute, Indiana, who need access to the boys’ room at their middle and high schools...

The court took into account the fact that Title IX bans discrimination on the basis of sex in schools that receive federal money, which is most of them. Citing the 2020 Supreme Court decision in Bostock v. Clayton Co. that found that job discrimination against LGBTQ+ people necessarily takes sex into account and is therefore prohibited under Title VII, the appeals court ruled that the trans boys are likely to succeed in their case and that preventing them from using the correct bathroom while the case works its way through the court system could cause irreparable harm.

^Article date: August 2, 2023

^Article date: June 21, 2023

"A federal judge has ruled on the side of trans rights after a conservative group tried to overturn an Ohio school district’s anti-bullying policy.

The national conservative group Parents Defending Education (PDE) tried to get a preliminary injunction passed on the Olentangy Local School District’s prohibition on misgendering trans students. The policy includes students, teachers, and parents and it applies to out-of-school hours and social media as well."

^Article date: August 2, 2023

There's literally a bunch more I wanted to include, by the way! Tumblr just stopped being able to load them. Going back to add a few more in the reblogs now.

I know it feels like everything is against us right now. But I promise you: that is not true. The bigots and bastards may usually be the ones moving faster (in large part because they suck and don't care about democracy or due process at all),

But in the end, we are going to win. I promise.

[masterdizzi]

Phineas and Ferb, plot distribution tier list

[emptytcwn]

dynamics w grimcoves !

[mendingbone]

i keep seeing people in their late teens/early twenties having a "[X] content intended for younger audiences does not feel satisfying to me anymore but i don't know where to start to branch out into adult fiction" moment and i thought i would give some recommendations for adult fiction for my fellow creepy crawly queer people. all or at least a LOT of it will be on the darker and more fucked up side bc i primarily engage with horror and thriller media personally but feel free to add on with more or recommendations from other genres :)

edit: i am continuing to add to this list so there might be new recs (highlighted in pink) in here every once in a while! also want to add that there's a variety of POC, queer, and disabled authors in here as well, i am also all of the above (asian, aro lesbian, poly, disabled) and tried to incorporate as many wickedly talented, compelling narratives as possible. that's all, happy reading!

A Certain Hunger, Chelsea G. Summers

A Darker Shade of Magic, V. E Schwab*

A Dowry of Blood, S.G Gibson

Animal, Lisa Taddeo*

A Ripple of Power and Promise, Jordan A. Day*

Bunny, Mona Awad*

Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi*

Cursed Bread, Sophie Mackintosh*

Dark Places, Gillian Flynn

Dead Girls Don't Say Sorry, Alex Ritany

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk*

Eileen, Ottessa Moshfegh*

Fruiting Bodies, Kathryn Harlan*

Goddess of Filth, V. Castro*

Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn

House of Leaves, Mark Danielewski

If I Had Your Face, Frances Cha*

Into the Drowning Deep, Mira Grant

Iron Widow, Xiran Jay Zhao

Jackal, Erin E. Adams*

Juniper and Thorn, Ava Reid*

Kindred, Octavia Butler*

Manhunt, Gretchen Felker-Martin*

Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee*

Rabbits, Terry Miles*

Scorched Grace, Margot Douaihy*

Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn

She is a Haunting, Trang Thahn Tran

Slewfoot, Brom

Sorrowland, Rivers Soloman

Summer Sons, Lee Mandelo

Supper Club, Lara Williams*

The Centre, Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi*

The Change, Kirsten Miller

The Death of Jane Lawrence, Caitlin Starling*

The Dreamer Trilogy, Maggie Stiefvater

The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson

The Hollow Places, T. Kingfisher*

The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter, Soraya Palmer*

The Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri

The Locked Tomb, Tamsyn Muir

The Luminous Dead, Caitlin Starling*

The Red Tree, Caitlin Kiernan*

The Unfamiliar Garden, Benjamin Percy*

Vicious, V. E Shwab

Wake, Siren, Nina MacLaughlin*

We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson

What Moves the Dead, T. Kingfisher*

[tierras]

coumba samba and gretchen lawrence shot by alex arauz ⋆

[nikatyler]

Post BC Babies

Last year, I played a BC with my sim Maeve. Olive won, Pierce ended up having an accidental baby with Maeve too, and I actually moved all the contestants to my lepacy save to see their lives after BC too. Some of them ended up having kids and I decided to share them with you!

Notes:

Thomas, Hugh and Lawrence are children of Lilith Delacroix (@forgottenhollowss) and Benjamin Schmidt from Appaloosa Plains. Lana Delacroix is daughter of Lilith and Flynn Hammond (@plumbob95) Yeah, if I remember correctly, Lilith and Benjamin split up and then she had one more daughter with Flynn, but Flynn was dating someone else.

Alaina is daughter of Flynn Hammond and Imogen Pelly from Appaloosa Plains.

Gretchen is daughter of Wren Burchett (@toxoplasmajuice). In my save, she's apparently dating Kyler. Son of Hector. Who is the son of Annie. Who is the daughter of two former BC contestants too. I love how everyone in this legacy is somehow related to a BC contestant, sometimes multiple ways.

TOU: Don’t change their genetics. Feel free to give them a makeover - new hair, new clothes, makeup etc. Don’t claim as your own, don’t reupload or use as a base for your own sims. And please, @ me when you post her, I’d love to see what they’re up to!

Download

Thomas | Hugh

Lawrence | Lana

Alaina | Gretchen

[grandhotelabyss]

Paradise Lost or Faust?

Here again I am divided, but it's not so much the head and the heart this time. It's a matter of what we might call "thin" global vs. "thick" local attachments.

I can see that Faust is the greater work. It's the greater work, among other reasons, because, as I said earlier this week, it explicitly resolves Milton's whole devil's-party dilemma by recasting its devil as the antithesis in a historical dialectic its God is glad to oversee, pronouncing finally that all who strive will be saved. It's greater in scope as well, its reflections on mythology and culture extraordinary in their sophistication. Its carnivalesque synthesis of classical and grotesque—of the Mediterranean and the North, of Classicism and Romanticism—already contains all the virtues we ascribe to modernism. But even in matters of pathos, in the tragedy of Gretchen, Goethe has Milton beat. Goethe is also hilarious, Milton humorless. Goethe can play all the notes, while Milton mostly has just the one: sublimity. The British and American Romantics all agreed that Goethe was the greatest writer of their time, and I don't see how it could be otherwise. Faust is lamentably underread today. It could be the greatest work of western literature in the 19th century, at least before the Russians.

And yet, I don't really read German—I taught myself the rudiments of the language once and can putter around haplessly on the facing pages of a translation thinking about this word or that, but no more—and I'm not deeply schooled, though I am shallowly schooled, in the German literary tradition. And I didn't read Faust until grad school. Whereas I've been living with Milton since I wrote my culminating high-school research paper on Paradise Lost, and I can feel his sublime language much more deeply than any poetry I have to read in translation. Furthermore, the whole tradition of English-language poetry after Milton comes in response to him, and in the most diverse ways, poets as different as Blake and Wordsworth, as Dickinson and Lawrence, replying to or echoing their puritan precursor. Poetry and prose: Moby-Dick comes out of Milton, and therefore the whole tradition of the Great American Novel. Frankenstein comes out of Milton, and therefore the whole genre of science fiction. Then there is nonfiction, Milton as one volcanic, perhaps unreliable, fount of liberalism. Areopagitica preceding the Second Treatise of Government and On Liberty, if not the American Constitution itself. If the author of Frankenstein's mother had not quarreled with Milton, to take another example, would the whole course of feminism have been different?

So in theory Faust, but in practice Paradise Lost. In the world at large, I know Faust is the greater book as I know that New York or London or Paris are greater than the city I live. But I still live in my city. In the world I live in, Milton is everywhere and inescapable, as Goethe is not quite.

[thought-tracing]

NEW YORK for INTERLOPE 5

(3/29/2024, source)

photo by alex arauz, styling by lulu bullock, and text by marc-aurèle baly

[arte-rock]

TELLUS #21 - Audio by Visual Artists (Full Album)

The two faces of this tape document different approaches to audio recording - sound and phonetic poetry, music concrete, storytelling, electronics, artists' bands and the sequential repetition of a sound, noise or word(s). - Claudia Gould

00:00 - Joseph Beuys - "Ja Ja Ja Ne Ne Ne", 1970 02:04 - Maurice LemaÓtre - "Lettre Rock", 1958 04:00 - Fillippo Tomasso Marinetti - "La Battaglia di Adrianopoli", 1926 07:01 - Raoul Hausmann - "PoÈmes Phonetiques" (1919-1943) 10:32 - Antonio Russolo - "Corale", "Serenata", 1924 13:09 - Marcel Duchamp - Some texts from "A l'infinitif" (1912-20) 17:13 - Kurt Schwitters - "Die Sonate in Urlauten" (1919-32) 19:19 - Lawrence Weiner - "Having Been Done At / Having Been Done To, Essendo Stato Fatto A", 1973 21:50 - George Brecht - "Comb Music (Comb Event)" 1959-62 21:53 - Patrick Ireland - "Vowel Drawing", 1967 23:04 - Richard Huelsenbeck - "Four Poems from Phantastiche Gebete". 1916 24:37 - Arrigo Lora-Totino and Fogliati - "Poesia Totale", 1968 26:14 - Jean Dubuffet - "Musical Experiences", 1963 28:35 - Mimmo Rotella - "Poemi Fonetici", 1949-75 29:24 - Joan Jonas - "The Anchor Stone", 1988 31:55 - Christian Boltanski - "Reconstruction de Chansons Qui Ont Et Chant", (1944-46)" 34:19 - Ian Murray - "Keeping On Top of the Top Song", 1970 37:40 - Terry Fox - "The Labyrinth Scored for the Purrs of 11 Different Cats", 1976 40:39 - Jonathan Borofsky - "The Standard Chant Pt. 2", 1983 42:14 - Magdalena Abakanowicz - "Cough", 1986 42:55 - Richard Prince with Bob Gober - "Tell Me Everything", 1988 45:03 - Martin Kippenberger - "Bang, Bang", 1987 48:16 - Jack Goldstein - "The Weep", 1978 50:41 - John Armleder - "16 Great Turn-Ons". 1988 51:55 - Terry Allen - "Home On The Range", 1988 55:12 - Gretchen Bender - "Artificial Treatment" 1988 57:59 - Y Pants - "Magnetic Attraction", 1980 01:01:14 - Ed Tomney - "Aquatic Chronicle", 1988 01:04:27 - Susan Hiller - "Magic Lantern", 1987 01:09:28 - Ian Murray - "Keeping on Top of the Top Songs", 1970

[lesbianjennybrown]

If there’s one thing about the dwampyverse… they do an amazing job at creating characters and then picking out the perfect names for them.

I haven’t seen Milo Murphy’s Law (I will I promise), but man, these Two sure do look like their names

Maybe I’m just used to seeing these characters but man, even like Linda and Lawrence look like their names, or Susie Johnson, or even Gretchen in the fire side girls, you know? I just think it’s neat

[alien-melissa]

up and coming NEW YORK Creative musicians

TylerとAlexが『𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭』というニューヨークを拠点に、いろんな人々に最近Hotな物について聞く企画。音楽、映画、本、よくチェックするSNSなど、 なんでも見たものや感じたことが共有されている企画。

ニューヨークのミュージシャン、モデル、作家、映画監督、写真家、ファッションデザイナー、、様々な人が参加していて、Charli XCXやSnailMail、Yaeji、などがこれまでに参加している。

リアルな人々の趣味趣向、変わった好みやディープな内容も多くて読んでいると知らない世界。新しい発見があっておもしろい、人種・年齢・性別・能力・価値観 300人以上に聞いても全く同じ人は誰もいない。

世の中に決まった「完璧」の形など無くて『自分らしい』という状態を肯定している。様々な国から様々な夢や目的を持って人が集まるニューヨークらしい企画のような気がする。

そんな多彩で素敵な人々をよく知る『Perfectly Imperfect 』は主催でアーティストやDJを集めてパーティーを開催したり、Spotifyのプレイリスト『NYC BEAT』でニューヨークで今熱い音楽を共有している。

そのシーンを良く知るニューヨーク在住のフォトグラファーのMattWeinberger、様々なクリエイティブなシーンをカメラを通して切り取り、アイデア、美学、文化をつくる人々に出会うPerperMagazineの連載特集FRESH PRESSED」でも写真を通して現場のアンダーグラウンドシーンやライブ音楽の熱量を感じ取ることができる。

Matt Weinberger@mweinbergerr←

PEPERMAGAZINE FLESH PRESSED←

そんなフレッシュで熱いニューヨークシーンを発信するperfectly imperfect やMatt Weinberger を通して知った音楽を特集していきたい。

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★NEW YORK

Gretchen LawrenceとCoumba Sambaによるgirls pop music とパフォーマンスプロジェクト 。　　

ニューヨークを拠点に活動する「NEW YORK」、嘘みたいに検索しにくく、情報を集めるのが難しいことがさらに私の興味を唆る。ヒップホップ、ポップス、エレクトリックなサウンド、サンプリングされた心地良いループとクリック音と共に語りのような口調で放つ衝動的な歌詞で街に吐き出す音楽。

公式のホームページではライブの写真が記録されているのだが、観客に囲まれる中でのフロアライブやボクシングリングでのライブなど、自由なパフォーマンスが魅力

★MGNG Crrrta

FarheenとGingerによる実験的ポップデュオ、それぞれ独自のプロジェクトを追求していたが2021年にMGNA Crrrtaとして始動する。　

Crystal Castles、Ke$ha、BritneySpears、Charli XCX、LadyGaga、Grimesなどの影響を強く受けており、音楽からも10年代のポップソングのギラつきを感じる！

あの頃のギラギラが蘇る。

★Frost Children

ニューヨーク在住のAngelとLuluの兄弟で結成されているエレクトリックポップデュオ。抜群のスタイルとファッションセンスとファッション業界でも音楽業界でも注目を集める2人！彼らの予測不可能で爽快な音楽が大好き！

インターネットをベースに伝染するアクティクティブなダンスポップはハイパーポップシーンやクラブシーンでも注目を集めている存在。

ライブパフォーマンスは今までステージにミキサーとマイクだけでもエネルギッシュなパフォーマンスをしていたが、最近では生バンドでより熱量が爆発していてパンクなFrostChildrenも観ることができる.....最高すぎる

ライブでもDJでも2人の姿は兄弟だけが持つ暗黙の繋がりを感じることができる。

今年の初めにAngelだけファッション関係の仕事で来日していたのだけど、いつか2人で来日してくれることを願ってる。

★The Dare

Turtlenecked という名義で数年音楽活動をやりつつDJとしても活躍しているHarrison Smithが新しく始動した ”The Dare“、このプロジェクトでは2010年代初期のブログ時代のIndie sleaze、生意気で開放的なムードの音楽を現代に取す音楽プロジェクトだという。

「生意気で楽しくてセクシーでパンク」

あの時代の生意気さ無敵さ(？) ニューヨークの刺激的なナイトライフをキャッチーに表現している。

★Club Eat

ニューヨークを拠点に活動するRenGとChickenによるプロジェクトClubEat、ニューヨークのクラブから生まれた2人組、甘いシンセ、メランコリックなベース ライン、、中毒性のある音楽。

個人的にはClubEatのRenGのビジュアルが好きで、なんだか懐かしい(？)ファッション、、ワイドなフレームのサングラスにゴールドチェーンネックレス、、ピチピチのミニスカートやネオン色の服のチョイスが、、絶妙すぎる。　

��Fcukers

スリーピースバンドのFCUKERS。デビュー曲リリース前にBaby‘s All Rightで観客を熱狂させていて、初期のダフトパンクやフレンチハウス、90年代のハウスから影響があるという。メンバーはそれぞれニューヨークで音楽活動している3人！生音のハウスミュージック、音源で聴く彼らの音楽はもちろん最高だけどライブで体感してみたいバンド。

[masterdizzi]

Everything wrong with AYA in one post

Phineas says "friendzone"

Phineas is freaking tall

Baljeet is tall

Gretchen is tall

Ferbnessa

Erm, what did they do to Buford's hair?

WHY DO HALF OF THEM LOOK LIKE BOBBLEHEADS

Isabella isn't chubby, chubby Isabella with curly hair>>>>>>>

Buford is thin

What did they do to freaking Milly, not only is she not chubby but she became hilariously tiny like, why not Gretchen. Give Milly her chub back and never make Gretch tall again

that one atrocious line "wE aRe gUys, wE dO nOt tAlK aBoUt fEelInGs"

The fact that the line was said by Baljeet

Doof plot was great but his design is just his normal one with grey hair

FERBNESSA

No Jeremy, Norm, Monty or queen gal STACY

Buford and Baljeet are straight

Baljeet and Ginger's relationship is handled very badly

Adyson has been reduced to common teen girl

All the fireside gals were done dirty, design wise and personality wise

Please, what did they do to Buford's voice?

Why does Jeet still sound like he's six?

WHERE IS CANDACE?

The plot regarding Ferb, Jeet, Buford and the gals trying to get Phinabella together was futile

Everyone is OOC

Phineas and Ferb wearing shoes on the bed at the start of the episode

Ferb and Holly are the only two designs I am completly satisfied with

● FERBNESSA

The plot has a lot of holes, I will not get into that

the "sick with salmonella" line was funny af but should have not been used as a joke

WHERR3 IS MY GIRL STACY

Why are all of Phinabella's friends acting like Marinette's classmates, it is weird

WHY WERE THEY ALL CLAPPING, I'M DYING LMAO

Why is Candace's chin pointy, give her her round face back

Isabella disconnecting from the BYG killed my heart

Where are Linda and Lawrence

WHY DOES EVERYONE BELEIVE THIS IS THE FINAL EPISODE. GIVE "LAST DAY OF SUMMER" THE RESPECT IT DESERVES.

● FERBNESSSSSAAAAA

I would have preffered if this episode explored the life of ALL the kids and not just one ship

Tell me if I missed anything

[magicalgirllove92]

My favorite TV shows of 1997

1. South Park (1997-present) One of the best Comedy Central original shows and one of the longest running adult animated shows ever. The show takes places in the fictional town of South Park, Colorado where 4 young foul-mouthed boys got involved in the series of hilariously mature adventures. This cartoon is for adults only. Starring: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, April Stewart, Mona Marshall and Mary Kay Bergen. Distributed by Comedy Partners and Paramount Global

2. King of the Hill (1997-2010/2024-present) Fox Television Network folks is needed another adult animated show besides The Simpsons and Mike Judge arrives and creates one of the best-loved Fox shows ever King of the Hill. The show takes places in the fictional town of Arlen, Texas, chronicling the lives of Propane salesman Hank Hill, his family, and his 3 comical best friends. Starring Mike Judge, Kathy Najimy, Pamela Aldon, Johnny Hardwick and Stephen Root. Distributed by 20th Television Animation and Disney

3. Cow and Chicken (1997-1999) With an success of Cartoon Network's second original show Dexter's Laboratory and 3rd series Johnny Bravo, the all-cartoon TV network has come up with an plan... an new summer TV show that involves 2 funny young kid animals, an devilishly funny villain, an dashing brave weasel and an buffoon baboon. Thus, Cow and Chicken was born on July 15, 1997. This grossly laugh out loud animated comedy about an scrawny 11 year old Chicken, his beefy 7 year old sister Cow and their unconventional weirdest human parents. Cow and Chicken navigating their lives throughout suburbia, encountered hilarious problems not just at school but an evil funny guy with devilishly schemes named Red Guy whose singular intent to make the siblings' lives miserable. Along with Cow and Chicken, the 2nd segment that spun-off an very short-lived show called I Am Weasel. The spin-off that focus on a smart, dashing, intelligent, noble and successful weasel named I.M Weasel and an unintelligent, rude, dumb and stinky baboon named I.R Baboon who is unaware of Weasel's good deeds and acts as his rival and friend, and the mischievous funny devil Red Guy, he often antagonize the two. Starring Charlie Andler, Candi Milo, Dee Bradley Baker and Michael Dorn. Distributed by Cartoon Network Studios, Hanna-Barbera Productions and Warner Bros Television Distribution

3. Stargate SG-1 (1997-2010) An television sequel to an 1994 blockbuster hit movie that started it all. Showtime ordered 6 seasons before Sci-Fi Channel (Syfy) took over from the remainder of the series after successful reruns. An young team of explorers made up of soldiers and scientists travels through a Stargate, an ancient portal to other planets. They use the Stargate to explore new worlds, forge ties with friendly civilizations and protect earth from evil and hostile forces. Starring Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge and Ben Browder. Distributed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer Domestic Television, Showtime Networks and Syfy Originals.

4. Disney's Recess (1997-2001) Recess is might be ABC's first original hit show/original Saturday Morning Cartoon show since acquired by Walt Disney Company in 1996. 6 brave 4th graders at the fictional school of Third Street School make it their mission to protect the kids on the playground despite King Bob and his minions who enforce his harshly unwritten law, TJ, Gretchen, Spinelli, Vince, Gus and Mikey seeks a rational balance between conformity an individually. The hit cartoon that spun 4 movies, the underrated 2001 movie Recess: School's Out, an Christmas compilation sequel Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street, 2 direct-to-video movies that debuts in 2003, an prequel Recess: All Growed Down and the series finale movie Recess: Taking a 5th Grade. Starring Andrew Lawrence, Ricky D'Shon Collins, Ashley Johnson, Pamela Aldon and Jason Davis. Distributed by Walt Disney Television Animation

5. Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction (1997-2002) Sci-fi/fantasy/mystery fans are need a relief after Unsolved Mysteries suffered from disastrous failure after the show was moving from NBC to CBS, 4 more months before the first ever Murder, She Wrote TV movie and the 1996-1997 season of The X-Files ended with gigantic cliffhanger, so Fox and Dick Clark Production conjure up an summertime experiment to turn the tide until September and that's when Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction? Debuts on May 25th, 1997. Each episodes that has 5 tales, all of them which appear defy logic or some of them are loosely based on actual events. The viewer is up to challenge of determined 5 stories that are true or false, at the end of each episodes, it is revealed to the viewer whether 5 tales were true or fiction. The show was massive popular in Germany, RTL II revives the show with Star Trek actor Jonathan Franks reprise his hosting duties in October 2021. Starring James Brolin and Jonathan Frakes. Distributed by Fox and Dick Clark Productions

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 8.8

Beer Birthdays

Bob Smith; A.A. founder (1879)

Gretchen Schmidhausler

Jeff Barkley (1984)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Benny Carter; jazz musician (1907)

Urbie Green; jazz trombonist (1926)

Robert Johnson; blues guitarist (1911)

Ernest Lawrence; physicist (1901)

Roger Penrose; British physicist (1931)

Famous Birthdays

Charles Bullfinch; architect (1763)

Rory Calhoun; actor (1922)

Keith Carradine; actor (1949)

Dino De Laurentis; film producer (1919)

Paul Dirac; English physicist (1902)

David "The Edge" Evans; rock guitarist (1961)

Roger Federer; Swiss tennis player (1981)

Chris Foreman; English rock guitarist (1956)

Arthur Goldberg; U.S. Supreme Court justice (1908)

Matthew Henson; arctic explorer (1866)

Dustin Hoffman; actor (1937)

John Holmes; porn actor (1944)

Michael Johnson; pop guitarist, singer (1944)

Donny Most; actor (1953)

Deborah Norville; television host (1958)

Robin Quivers; radio personality (1952)

Jessie Rogers; porn star (1993)

Connie Stevens; singer, actor (1938)

Charlotte Stokely; porn actor (1986)

Sara Teasdale; poet (1884)

Joe Tex; singer (1933)

Mel Tillis; country singer (1932)

John Turteltaub; film director (1963)

Esther Williams; swimming (1921)

Serena Wilson; belly dancer (1933)

Jimmy Witherspoon; singer (1923)

Faye Wong; Chinese pop singer (1969)

Emiliano Zapata; Mexican revolutionary (1879)