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"Henry cares for Faran. The Liars normally have to be the ones caring for others. It just makes me melt!" - Zaria on Twitter about Henry(x)

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I asked Dan if the D in question is Kiira Dosdall-Arena, since she's currently listed on the online roster (and is already a practice player and former PTO for the Whale), but he said it isn't her. Who could it beeee????? If you folks have thoughts, I'd love to hear them!

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hi kit <3 iced lemon tea & earl grey tea pls!

hello rose <33

Iced Lemon Tea : Favorite song/band?

atm my favorite song is probably andromeda by ryan beatty or beanie baby blues by hanna mars!!

Early Grey Tea : The inevitable Zombie Apocalypse is upon us! What’s your plan of action?

killing myself 😭

cafe asks ☕️

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2023 in Books and Movies!

Another year of books and movies! I didn’t complete my full lists in 2023, but I still read and watched a lot of good things that I would like to talk about.

Books

Best Book: We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets

A weird and chilling look at the world of content moderators, We Had to Remove This Post shines a bright light on the people working in the background of every part of the internet, and will stay with you for a while to come.

Honorable Mentions: My Sister, The Serial Killer by by Oyinkan Braithwaite, Bad Girls by Camila Sosa Villada

Worst Book: Money Shot, Vol. 1 by Tim Seeley and Sarah Beattie, illustrated by Rebekah Isaacs

Maybe this comic gets better in later volumes, but I will not be reading in order to find out. A story that loudly proclaims itself to be raunchy and weird has no business being this mundane and pedestrian.

Most Frustrating Book: Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfař

A book that wants to use the trapping of sci-fi to tell a literary fiction story, but just ends up failing at both genres.

Dishonorable Mentions: Shadows of the Workhouse by Jennifer Worth, Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson

Biggest Surprise: Bad Girls by Camila Sosa Villada

This was a random grab in the library, but ended up being so gripping and rich that it topped my yearly list and will stay with me for a while. 

Movies

I saw a lot of older movies this year, but for my recommendations I will mostly focus on those from this or last year.

Best Movie: Talk to Me (2022)

Just a truly exceptional horror film.

Honorable Mention: Polite Society (2023)

Worst Movie: Silent Night (2023)

This almost feels unfair to put here, as my wife and I walked out of the theater halfway through, but I highly doubt the ending redeemed this incredibly boring “thriller” with its twisted vigilante morality.

Most Frustrating Movie: Knock at the Cabin (2023)

If a novel has one central question, A or B, it is a bold choice for an adaptation to choose B when the novel chose A. Bold, but not necessarily good.

Biggest Surprise: Theater Camp (2023)

The trailers did this indie comedy no favors, but I ended up laughing out loud in the theater several times, and I would put it right up there with several Christopher Guest movies.

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"King’s administration, however, had not shown any sign of bending much in the CPR’s direction. Indeed, his government implemented Borden’s railway legislation, passing the Canadian National Railways Act of 1919, and appointed an outstanding executive, Sir Henry Thornton, to the helm of the CNR in 1922. Thornton was a U.S.-born railway executive and engineer by background who had moved up the corporate hierarchy of the Pennsylvania Railroad before taking a general manager’s position with the Great Eastern Railway in England, at the time the world’s largest commuter system. After the outbreak of war, Thornton’s technical knowledge was drawn upon in the British war effort as he was cast into the role of inspector-general for the British Expeditionary Forces and made “responsible for operation of the whole intricate system upon which the existence of the British line depended.” Embracing advanced views on unions and labour relations, Thornton was respected by Great Eastern Railway employees and was a personal friend of J.H. Thomas, a major figure within Britain’s national railway union. It was Thomas who mentioned the CNR position to Thornton – a position that had opened up following the resignation of D.B. Hanna, who resigned in protest over “political interference” in CNR affairs exercised by the recently elected Liberal administration of Mackenzie King. Knighted for his war services, the affable

Thornton had gained a reputation as a railway “superman,” though his position with the Great Eastern had been extinguished after the government passed legislation to reorganize the British railway system. Thornton was quick to charm the Canadian public as well as CNR employees. Thornton “has quite won the hearts of all who have met him,” exclaimed Flavelle. More troubling to Flavelle and moderate progressives such as Dafoe, however, were Mackenzie King’s blatant political appointments to the CNR board. This was a departure from Borden’s ideal of nonpartisan, businesslike operation. Nonetheless, with Thornton at the helm, the CNR had behind it a power of incalculable importance: popular opinion.

Beatty was quick to see public relations as the most significant challenge facing the CPR. In 1923, encouraged by Beatty’s recent public pronouncements, Lord Atholstan commenced his “Whisper of Death” campaign in the Montreal Star, which forecast an oncoming deluge resulting from a mounting national debt, made intolerable by costs associated with the CNR. Beatty considered Thornton nothing more than a “showman,” and sought to meet his challenge and correct “political misrepresentation” about the railways through an institutional advertising campaign. (Thornton, for his part, considered Beatty “a lawyer [and] not a railway man.” ) Indicative of this public relations drive, Dafoe reported in the summer of 1925 that “unfair competition invariably comes up” in discussions with high CPR officials; “[t]hey hope for the Shaughnessy plan or a merger.” In April, Clifford Sifton reported: “I do not think the Canadian Pacific has ever been as active in propaganda as it is now. Their intrigues and efforts to influence official opinion are in evidence everywhere.” Sifton asked Dafoe to have the Winnipeg Free Press “declare war on the scheme and fight it out.”

This drive had its effect in Ottawa, where a Senate committee was established to investigate the railway question in 1925. At the committee’s closed-door hearings, Beatty and Sir Herbert Holt presented cases for railway amalgamation so similar that a summary of the proceedings described their presentations as one position. The Senate proved particularly responsive to CPR influence, and the committee’s report presented an opinion generally in line with Beatty’s case, which Beatty himself would reference in arguing for railway unification in the future. Beatty and Holt, as we have seen, met with King the same summer to discuss railway policy, and Beatty continued to press King to leave the door open for railway unification later in the year. But the political bagmen who inhabited the Senate found it easier to embrace railway consolidation than the MPs who counted on popular support in their constituencies. This was somewhat stifling to the aspirations of Beatty and his moneyed allies. With neither major political party embracing his position on the railway question, Beatty remained “neutral” in the 1926 federal election, preferring to support favoured individuals in both major parties. While Beatty finessed his way around Ottawa, much of the railway battle was being waged in direct business competition, made more lucrative by the boom at the end of the 1920s as the two companies engaged in competition through line extensions, hotel construction, expansion of shipping fleets, and improvements in commuter services. While Beatty advocated consolidation of the two competing systems under private ownership, economic expansion during the 1920s made competition a viable option. Indeed, Beatty reported that $353,346,450 in dividend payments were distributed to common and preferred shareholders during the period from 1918 to 1930, representing 85 per cent of the company’s total earnings “after deducting fixed charges and pension fund appropriations.”

Thornton, meanwhile, modernized the CNR and emerged as a national icon of sorts, emblematic of the possibilities of public enterprise and cooperation between the state, capital, and labour, culminating in Thornton’s address at the American Federation of Labor’s international convention in 1929 in Toronto, where Thornton proclaimed the beginning of “a new labor era.” The “very particular conjunctures of context, character, and circumstance” that underpinned Thornton’s rise, as Allen Seager has observed, disintegrated with the arrival of the Great Depression. Thornton would be one of its first and most public victims, a public sacrifice encouraged by Beatty as he moved even deeper into political activism.

The Duff Commission and “the Tragedy of Henry Thornton” Meighen, Roger Graham has written, “was not spared the intrigues of the Montreal tycoons” as talk that R.B. Bennett would be his successor emerged in early 1926; Bennett was “known to hold more ‘businesslike’ opinions about railway matters” than Meighen, whom Bennett once famously described as “the gramophone of Mackenzie and Mann.” Bennett’s election as leader of the Conservative Party in 1927 was an encouraging sign and a small victory for Beatty and St James Street. They respected the independently wealthy Bennett, believing him to be above petty politics; they shared his deep sense of loyalty to the British Empire; and they felt assured about his protectionist tariff policies. “St. James Street favours Bennett because of his protectionist policies,” wrote Prime Minister King pessimistically before the 1930 election. King also learned that “Beatty was favourable to Bennett’s views.” The list of Montreal donors to Bennett’s campaign, observed historian Larry Glassford, “read like a Who’s Who of the Montreal financial and industrial establishment.”

Formerly the chief western solicitor of the CPR and a major shareholder in the Royal Bank, Bennett’s immersion in business and his history with the CPR certainly helped to make him a more reliable candidate for wealthy Montreal residents – but on the campaign trail such connections were a potential liability. With his proclamation “Amalgamation never, competition ever” in a campaign speech, Bennett sounded publicly his independence from Beatty in an attempt to assure western voters that he would not cede a railway monopoly to the CPR. Popular appeal again seemed to trump Beatty’s long-term goals. The seeds of future conflict between Bennett and Beatty were planted even before the electoral triumph of the Bennett Conservatives in 1930. Canada had more railway mileage per capita than any other nation by the 1930s. The financial strain of maintaining two competing national lines had seemingly resolved itself during the boom years of the late 1920s, only to reemerge as a sudden crisis once the economic slump set in. The financial position of the CPR worsened: in the first half of 1931, the CPR reduced dividend payments and soon after suspended payments altogether. Worse still was the position of the CNR, which was already weighed down by an unwieldy capital structure that included old debts accumulated by Mackenzie and Mann and the Grand Trunk. Company earnings fell by $46,249,000, and Thornton attempted cost-cutting measures without implementing wholesale layoffs. Philosophically opposed to public enterprise, Bennett viewed Thornton as a creature of the King government; and he supported a campaign that conflated Thornton’s lavish private lifestyle with his management of the CNR. While in London, England, in October 1930, Prime Minister Bennett wrote his minister of railways and canals, R.J. Manion, about the shopping activities of Thornton’s wife:

President’s wife here purchasing furniture. President cabled her improvements would cost eighteen thousand dollars and she must spend less for furniture. She says building requires improvements. Whatever action you take entirely satisfactory. I was only desirous [to] communicate casual information.

The CNR directors had approved funds for Lady Thornton to furnish their Pine Avenue home “in a manner appropriate for the residence of a president.” But, having received this “casual information” from Bennett, Manion reneged on the agreement. Thereupon Sir Henry perceived that “a concerted plot to ruin his personal reputation” was in the works. He pressed Manion in December to honour the agreement that $20,000 in CNR funds be made available for renovations to his house, explaining that he was “very hard up, stock losses, etc.” Manion did not bend and described his reply to Bennett:

I told him that if the case came up in the House I wanted to be able to say that we had nothing to do with the matter – that the whole arrangement had been made under the previous administration.

Thornton would serve as a sacrificial lamb for the supposed improprieties of the King administration. The following year the Railway Committee of the House of Commons provided new opportunities to undermine Thornton’s public reputation and associate him with the supposedly spendthrift ways of the Liberals. Manion, R.B. Hanson of New Brunswick, and Dr Peter McGibbon, MP for Muskoka-Ontario, were among the most active Conservative members to tar Thornton in the House, citing imprudent company expenditures on hotels, suggesting (falsely) exorbitant company salaries, and drawing attention to Thornton’s salary and personal expense account. Though Beatty admitted the unfairness of some of the attacks levelled against Thornton, he also recognized new political opportunities on the horizon.

Upon Beatty’s suggestion, a beleaguered Thornton called for the formation of a royal commission to study the railway question. And though Beatty and Holt complained about delays in getting the commission established, the Duff Commission was finally formed in November. Before the commencement of the commission’s hearings, Beatty was “very hopeful that something constructive” could be achieved and lauded its personnel as “really outstanding.” Chaired by Supreme Court Judge Lyman Duff, the commission included six other prominent figures with weighty business – and some academic – credentials: Joseph Flavelle; Beaudry Leman of Montreal, general manager of the Banque Canadienne Nationale and president of the Canadian Bankers’ Association; U.S. railway executive Leonor Fresnel Loree, president of the Delaware and Hudson Railway Company; Lord Ashfield, head of London’s underground system, the Metropolitan Railways; Walter Charles Murray, president of the University of Saskatchewan; and the Shediac, New Brunswick, physician John Clarence Webster, a respected Conservative, museum patron, and personal friend of Howard P. Robinson.

From his office in Winnipeg, Dafoe reflected upon the significance of the commission’s establishment. “Perhaps I am getting too suspicious in my old age,” he wrote Free Press correspondent John A. Stevenson

but I have a most decided ‘hunch’ that this Commission was appointed to do a particular chore, and that with perhaps two exceptions its members know what the chore is to be. I think the linked money powers in Canada and the United States, with all their subordinate and associate interests, have decided that the time is opportune to oblige Canada to remove her desire to own and operate her own railways.

Dafoe believed that – as part of this plot to gut the CNR – the same tactic deployed in England to dislodge the Labour government might be deployed in Canada: “National Government.”

Had Dafoe become “too suspicious” in old age? Not entirely. The ever-domineering Bennett had taken a personal interest in the formation of the commission and appeared to be in closer contact with St James Street than the responsible minister, Manion. Winnipeg Free Press correspondent Grant Dexter reported on 15 November that Manion was in “complete ignorance” about the commission’s personnel, but two weeks earlier a private memorandum written by Floyd Chalmers of the Financial Post revealed that Sir Herbert Holt was up to date on recent developments in the selection of commission personnel. “I want to take back anything about believing that amalgamation is off,” wrote Dexter.

Meanwhile, Thornton’s experience at the hands of the Conservatives had led him to an about-face: in a meeting with Dafoe at Winnipeg’s Fort Garry Hotel on 12 October, Thornton lamented that he had lost faith in the ideal of public enterprise – the CNR, in the interest of its own survival, would have to come under the control of some form of unified management along with the CPR. He told Dafoe that he and Beatty had been working on such a plan together, a fact later confirmed by Lady Thornton. After Thornton’s death, his biographer, D’Arcy Marsh, would write (in 1934) that Thornton had been made “constitutionally incapable” of opposing Beatty, and Dexter believed that Thornton had sold out to Beatty to save his job. Dafoe, Marsh, and Dexter were overly cynical in assessing Thornton’s actions. And though Dafoe’s suspicions had some basis, he greatly exaggerated the level of coordination between Bennett and Beatty.

The proceedings of the Duff Commission commenced on 4 December 1931 with the commissioners interviewing Sir Henry Thornton in a session closed to the public – as was the testimony of all senior railway and government officials. Thornton proposed the establishment of a ten-person “superboard,” consisting of the presidents of each railway company, two Liberal, two Conservative, and two Progressive representatives, a representative of labour, and a representative of the minister of railways and canals. Though Dafoe and others, not privy to his testimony at the time, might have considered it something of a sellout, such judgments are overly harsh. Thornton believed the board, which would oversee both railways and enforce cooperation, would be able to conciliate various interest groups, and his plan thus attempted to establish a mechanism whereby a form of democratic control over the management of the country’s railways would obtain.

It was Thornton’s embrace of the principle of democratic control that set him apart from Beatty – and here Thornton was steadfast. The very goal of exercising democratic control over Canada’s railway systems was thought dubious by commission members, however. Commissioner Loree asked CNR vice-president S.J. Hungerford whether “it be a fair statement to make that a democratic form of government is no competent agency to carry on the railroad business?” To Hungerford’s assertion that “[w]e are seeking to do it,” Loree replied: “But are they doing it? The records do not show they are, because they are going behind every year.”

With the questioning at times threatening to transgress the line of gentlemanly decorum, Thornton stressed that management of the CNR was a matter of public policy and thus did not necessarily need to justify itself on the basis of profits and losses. In response to a statement by Joseph Flavelle that such an enterprise should not be maintained, Thornton asserted that it was “a matter for the Canadian people to decide.” Beatty appeared before the commission the next day and presented a case that was ideologically much easier for the commissioners to appreciate.

If, on one hand, the privately owned system finds it is unable to maintain its credit in an unequal struggle with the long purse of the state,” Beatty said before the commission, “a grave injustice will be done to the shareholders of a corporation which has fulfilled its fifty-year old contract with the nation, and which has made its full contribution to the upbuilding [ sic ] of the Dominion. Such a consummation would cause most serious injury to the reputation of this young country as a field for private capital.

The cases of Beatty and Thornton differed at a fundamental level, centring not only on the appropriate role of the state in the nation’s economic life but on the appropriate role of public opinion in shaping economic policy. Beatty opposed government intervention, except in a helping role to private capital – steamship subsidies and protective tariffs, for example (which the CPR benefited from). He was also generally dismissive of popular opinion. Thornton, he believed, had succeeded by “showmanship” and “mob appeals.” The deluded public, in Beatty’s estimation, deserved only a very limited role in deciding public policy, and, as we shall see, he turned to “educational” work to address this issue. Thornton, by contrast, accepted some degree of “political” interference in economic affairs as inevitable under any democratic government. “After all in any form of popular government it must be accepted as axiomatic that the business of government is politics and,” Thornton stated before the commission on 4 January 1932, “irrespective of whether one likes it or not, politics is something with which a government must reckon in all its activities.” Though commission members disliked the idea of public influence over railway management, a view that would be plainly expressed in their report, they were at least equally concerned with the prospect of leaving the nation’s railways in the hands of a private monopoly. Beatty proposed a “unification” plan of the two systems under CPR management that would maintain separate ownership: CPR personnel would act as trustees of the government’s property. Commissioners Flavelle and Loree expressed concern over the de facto monopoly that Beatty’s plan would create. (Beatty privately dismissed Flavelle’s business philosophy, which stressed the role of competition, as “the Flavelle school of ruthless business brutality.” ) Commissioner Webster was somewhat less worried about monopoly.

“The fear of monopoly did not terrify me, as it so strongly impressed Sir Joseph,” he wrote to Meighen in November 1932, “nor did I shrink from submitting the responsibility of conducting so great an undertaking to a single management.” Beatty did not try to hide the monopoly implications of his plan but rather defended the principle of monopoly itself, arguing that “some of the most efficient, most widely administered and most publicspirited public corporations on this continent are monopolies.” “They are in the main,” he continued, “successful, efficient and progressive, and they are administered by men of high character and great ability.” For Beatty, who believed business enterprise to be a form of public service, the most important factor was the quality of business leadership. Since management would be composed of “business statesmen of the highest type,” he did not believe the “question of autocracy” could arise.

Beatty appeared before the commission again on 19 February and presented a memorandum outlining the benefits of unification, in which he reiterated the need to impose businesslike management over the country’s railways. Asked by commissioner Loree whether a board of directors consisting of CPR and government representatives might successfully manage a unified system, Beatty foresaw two problems. First, the government would be exercising too much active influence in railway matters; second, government involvement would render “doubtful the type [of individuals] that would be selected for appointment to the Board.” Such an arrangement could only be successful if independence from the government were established; Beatty suggested an independent tribunal might select government representatives from “the Canadian Bankers Association, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and a Judge of the Supreme Court” and be “certain to get the type of men whose ability would justify the selection.”

Beatty’s formulations were latently elitist and antidemocratic: “quality” leadership was presumed to reside in the upper echelons of the business community, and management of the railway system could not be entrusted to any other segment of the population – indeed, it was necessary to insulate such leadership from the pressures of popular opinion. According to Beatty’s beliefs, efficient railway policy required that it not be formulated outside the meritocratic order that decided success or failure in private enterprise; “political” interference was unacceptable. Beatty was not unique in this mindset; the commission’s report echoed similar sentiments.

The commission’s proceedings prefaced Thornton’s final fall from grace in public life. Thornton had been divorced and quickly remarried (to a much younger woman) several years earlier, and he was known to enjoy nightlife. These were not important problems while the CNR was operating at a profit, but once that changed, Thornton’s personal life was conflated with his management style to devastating effect. He managed the railway the way he lived, his detractors claimed. Called once again before the House of Commons to testify, the gentlemanly decorum of the commission hearings evaporated, Thornton was subjected to a verbal assault by R.B. Hanson. Thornton’s public tarring eroded his political support in the House of Commons. Teetotaller, opposition leader, and political acrobat Mackenzie King acquiesced to this portrayal of Thornton, writing in his diary: “The truth is Thornton has not measured up of late, has drunk too much – far too self-indulgent.” Thornton would later write to King that he had departed from Ottawa under the auspices of a “reign of terror,” “always ‘shadowed’ by a detective.” “The Canadian Pacific Ry. has … exercised a sinister influence in Canadian politics – It has never hesitated at bribing + corruption in all its forms and it represents the worst type of predatory capitalism,” Thornton wrote to King the following day. “It has ruined men.” Undoubtedly, Thornton counted himself among the “ruined men”: “I feel fairly certain I might have remained where I was had I cared to go along with Beatty.”

- Don Nerbas, Dominion of Capital: The Politics of Big Business and the Crisis of the Canadian Bourgeoisie, 1914-1947. University of Toronto Press, 2013. p. 125-133.

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Girls Tennis: Rochelle finishes second in Lady Hub Invitational

  ROCHELLE — The Rochelle Lady Hub varsity tennis team held its annual Lady Hub Invitational at Rochelle Township High School on Saturday. Seniors Bailey Jackson and Marisa Whaley finished first in the No. 2 doubles bracket to lead Rochelle to a second-place performance in the five-team tournament that included DeKalb, Freeport, Newman Central Catholic and Kaneland. The Lady Hubs (2-7, 0-4 Interstate 8) totaled 20 points across five top-3 finishes in the meet. Jackson and Whaley went 3-1 overall, defeating Freeport’s Caitlyn Simpson and Arazara Lassandro 6-3 before falling 3-6 against Kaneland’s Kaci Randall and Nola Noring. Jackson and Whaley closed out the tournament with an 8-1 victory over Newman’s Laurel Chavera and Kaitlyn Conderman as well as a 5-4 victory over DeKalb’s Eesha Faisal and Alissa Kocjan. Junior Elin Zheng took second in the No. 1 singles bracket with a 3-1 record. Zheng fell 7-2 against Kaneland’s Anelle Dominguez before bouncing back with a 6-3 win over DeKalb’s Amirah Shakir. Zheng won consecutive matches to close out the tournament, taking down Freeport’s Audra Luecke and Newman’s Emma Oswalt with back-to-back 5-4 scores. Senior Abby Tarvestad took second in the No. 2 singles bracket with a 3-1 record. Tarvestad edged Newman’s Maria Ardis 5-4 and fell 6-3 against Kaneland’s Lexi Maberry over her first two matches. Tarvestad finished strong to record her second-place position, cruising 8-1 over DeKalb’s Aubree Judkins and shutting out Freeport’s Ryleigh Bach with a clean 9-0 sweep. Senior Maleah Pointer and sophomore Riley Doyle took second in the No. 3 doubles bracket with a 3-1 record. Pointer and Doyle won three consecutive matches to begin the tournament, defeating Newman’s Elise Vanderbleek and Maddy Taylor-Steffens 6-3, Freeport’s Ashlyn Erickson and Hanna Rackow 8-1 as well as DeKalb’s Nina Christopherson and Reina McGee 6-3. Pointer and Doyle fell 6-3 to Kaneland’s Annika Salchert and Anna Bischoff in Round 5. Seniors Torrin Nantz and Francesca Williams finished third in the No. 1 doubles bracket with a 2-2 record. Nantz and Williams downed DeKalb’s Ilanie Castorena and Emma Kraft 6-3 before outlasting Freeport’s Nicole Ocon and Addie Lang 5-4 in their second match. Nantz and Williams lost their last two matches, conceding a 5-4 defeat against Newman’s Julia Rhodes and Emily Beattie and a 7-2 defeat to Kaneland’s Lauren Andrews and Abby Grams. Read the full article

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i drew Hanna Beattie and Emma Vlasic of the CT whale!

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hanna beattie, defender, connecticut whale

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nwhl player series: 8/?

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Hanna's moving from the ice to the front office!

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Nightwing, son of Batman

“The Trial of Bruce Wayne.”Batman # 57. By Bill Finger, art Dick Sprang and Charles Paris.  (1950)

“Yesterday’s heroes” in Batman # 339. By Gerry Conway, art Irv Novick and Bruce Patterson. (1981)

New Titans # 57. Writer Marv Wolfman, art George Pérez and Bob McLeod. (1989)

New Titans # 111. Writer Marv Wolfman, art Matt Thompson and Rus Sever. (1994)

Nightwing vol 1 #4. By Dennis O’Neil, art Greg Land, Mike Sellers and Nick J. Napolitano.

Nightwing vol 2 # 106. (Nightwing Year One). By Scott Beatty and Chuck Dixon, art Scott McDaniel and Andy Owens. (1995)

Shadow of the Bat # 34. By Alan Grant, art Mark Bright and Scott Hanna. (1995)

Nightwing # 100. By Devin Grayson, art Mike Lilly and Andy Owens. (2005)

Gotham Knights # 26 (part of ”Bruce Wayne Murderer?”). By Devin Grayson, art Roger Robinson and John Floyd. (2002)

Batman # 600. (Part of ”Bruce Wayne Murderer?”) By Ed Brubaker, art Scott McDaniel and Andy Owens. (2002)

Teen Titans, Season 1 Episode 12, Apprentice part 2. (October 11, 2003) 

Nightwing # 152. By Peter Tomasi, art Don Kramer and Jay Leisten.

Superman/Batman # 76. By Judd Winick, art Marco Rudy, Julio Ferreira and Oclair Albert.

Nightwing vol 3 # 30. By Tim Seeley and Tom King, art Mikel Janín and Guillermo Ortego. (2014)

Nightwing vol 4 # 79. Writer Tom Taylor, art Bruno Redondo, colour Adiano Lucas. (2021) (An issue where he calls Alfred “My other father”.)

Nightwing vol 4 # 100. Writer Tom Taylor, art many but these panels are by Bruno Redondo (2023).

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2023 Reading and Watching Resolutions

2023 Reading Resolution

A book written in North America: The Harrowing of Hell by Evan Dahm

A book written in Central America/Caribbean: 

A book written in South America: Space Invaders by Nona Fernández

A book written in East Asia: The Way of the Househusband, Vol. 1 by Kousuke Oono

A book written in South Asia: 

A book written in Africa: My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

A book written in the Middle East: Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H

A book written in Australia/Pacific Islands: Better the Blood by Michael Bennett

A book written in Russia: The Incredible Events in Women’s Cell Number 3 by Kira Yarmysh

A book written in Europe: Fabulosa!: The Story of Polari, Britain’s Secret Gay Language by Paul Baker

A biography or memoir: Shadows of the Workhouse by Jennifer Worth

A non-fiction book:  A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie by Kathryn Harkup

A collection of short stories: I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

A collection of poetry: Harmless Medicine by Justin Chin

A play: 

A book you’ve seen adapted: Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay

A graphic novel: Fence, Vol. 1 by C. S. Pacat, illustrated by Johanna the Mad

A children’s book: The Guardians of Ga’Hoole #1: The Capture by Kathryn Lasky

A book older than 200 years: Popol Vuh, translated by Dennis Tedlock

A debut novel: Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfař

A novel by a famous author, other than the one(s) they are best known for: Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson

A sequel: 

A book by an author you’ve never given a fair shot: 

A book you’ve heard bad things about: Killing Stalking by Koogi

A book released in 2023: Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

Wild Card: Strong Female Protagonist: Book Two by Brennan Lee Mulligan and Molly Ostertag  

Wild Card: We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets

Wild Card: Money Shot, Vol. 1 by Tim Seeley and Sarah Beattie, illustrated by Rebekah Isaacs

Wild Card: Bad Girls by Camila Sosa Villada

Wild Card: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

List Progress: 25/30

2023 Watching Resolution

A foreign film: Talk to Me (2022)

A black and white film: Nightmare Alley (1947)

A silent or dialogue-free film: Different from the Others (1919)

An animated film: Pink Floyd- The Wall (1982)

A film based on a true story: Spoiler Alert (2022)

A documentary:

A film based on a book: Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)

An Oscar-winning movie:

A trashy movie: Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (2021)

Your friend’s recommendation: The Blues Brothers (1980)

A children’s film: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)

A film released in 2023: Missing (2023)

List Progress: 10/12

Movies Outside of the List:

1. M3GAN (2022)

2. Knock at the Cabin (2023)

3. Dungeon & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)

4. Firestarter (1984)

5. Renfield (2023)

6. The Pope’s Exorcist (2023)

7. Polite Society (2023) 

8. Blazing Saddles (1974)

9. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

10. Barbie (2023)

11. The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)

12. Strays (2023)

13. Theater Camp (2023)

14. The Truman Show (1998)

15. The People We Hate at the Wedding (2022)

16. Bottoms (2023)

17. You Don’t Know Jack (2010)

18. Searching (2018)

19. A Haunting in Venice (2023)

20. Saw (2004)

21. The Boogeyman (2023)

22. Dream Scenario (2023)

23. The Holdovers (2023)

24. Creep (2014)

25. The Iron Claw (2023)

[ncisladaily]

HE NCIS TEAM HELPS A U.S. AMBASSADOR SEARCH FOR HER MISSING DAUGHTER, A POPULAR SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCER, ON “NCIS: LOS ANGELES,” SUNDAY, JAN. 23 AT A SPECIAL TIME

“Under the Influence” – The NCIS team helps a U.S. ambassador search for her missing daughter, Gia (Caitlin Carmichael), a popular social media influencer. Also, Agent Aliyah De León returns to support the team with the case, on the CBS Original series NCIS: LOS ANGELES, at a special time, Sunday, Jan. 23 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, and available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+*.

REGULAR CAST:

Chris O’Donnell

(Special Agent G. Callen)

LL COOL J

(Special Agent Sam Hanna)

Linda Hunt

(Operations Manager Henrietta “Hetty” Lange)

Daniela Ruah

(Special Agent Kensi Blye)

Eric Christian Olsen

(NCIS Investigator Marty Deeks)

Medalion Rahimi

(Special Agent Fatima Namazi)

Caleb Castille

(Special Agent Devin Rountree)

Gerald McRaney

(Retired Admiral Hollace Kilbride)

GUEST CAST:

Briana Marin

(NCIS Supervisory Special Agent Aliyah de León)

Caitlin Carmichael

(Gia Michelle)

Louie Enriquez

(Curtis Jenkins/Recycling Man)

Patricia Rae

(Anna Jenkins)

Nick Marini

(Jaxon King/Supreme King Daddy J)

L’lerrét Jazelle

(Angel Soars/Sharon Cunningham)

Deji Laray

Mikie Beatty

Matthew Jayson Cwern

(Alan Bristol)

(Joey)

(Leo the Paparazzo)

WRITTEN BY: Anastasia Kousakis

DIRECTED BY: John P. Kousakis

[starkiddreamcasting]

Starkid La Cage aux Folles

So come take a look, give me the hook or the ovation. Put your hands together for the Starkid dreamcast for La Cage aux Folles! This dreamcast was inspired by Jon Matteson’s tweet about Robert playing Albin, as well as the fact I’ve just been listening to George Hearn’s “I Am What I Am” a lot recently. This cast is based on the minimalist 2008 London/2012 Broadway production.

1. Robert Manion as Albin/Zaza 2. Dylan Saunders as Georges 3. Curt Mega as Jean-Michel 4. James Tolbert as Jacob 5. Kim Whalen as Anne Dindon 6. Chris Allen as M. Edouard Dindon/M. Renaud 7. Jamie Burns as Mme. Marie Dindon/Mme. Renaud 8. Meredith Stepien as Jacqueline 9. Joe Walker as Francis 10. Nico Ager as Phaedra 11. Jaime Lyn Beatty as Babette 12. Tyler Brunsman as Bitelle 13. Brant Cox as Angelique 14. Brian Holden as Hanna 15. AJ Holmes as Mercedes 16. Jae Hughes as Chantel 17. Lauren Lopez as Colette 18. Jon Matteson as Etienne 19. Jim Povolo as Waiter 20. Nick Strauss as Tabarro

Swings: Corey Dorris, Alex Paul, Brain Rosenthal

Understudies: Jaime Lyn Beatty (Mme. Dindon/Mme. Renaud, Jacqueline), Brant Cox (Jean-Michel), Corey Dorris (Jacob, Francis), Jae Hughes (Jacob), Lauren Lopez (Anne, Mme. Dindon/Mme. Renaud, Jacqueline), Jon Matteson (Jean-Michel), Alex Paul (Anne), Jim Povolo (Georges, M. Dindon/M. Renaud, Francis), Nick Strauss (Albin/Zaza, M. Dindon/M. Renaud), Joe Walker (Albin/Zaza, Georges)

Make sure to leave any show suggestions or any questions on my casting choices so I can explain them.