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balkanradfem · 4 years ago

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So I've talked before about my burning desire to go and build a separatist tribe of women in nature, preferably in forest next to a mountain or somewhere far out so that nobody would bother us. I've been keeping on building that dream in my head, but also in many practical ways, trying to prepare myself for it. This tribe would have to function out of capitalism, off grid, without the use of money or even electricity, unless one day I figure out how to produce some. So we use only technology that is not harmful to nature and produce everything we need to survive.

It sounds so surreal, but it's not a particularly wild idea, because humans have been doing this for millenia and lived, I presume, with way less of their population depressed and suicidal. It wasn't more than 80 years ago humans lived without electrity or modern commodities, my 85yo neighbour can still remember bathing in collected rainwater and washing the clothes in the river. (Don't worry, we wont have to wash the clothes in the river, I found a way.)

So what I'm proposing is in fact, far more reasonable, climate conscious and healthy than living in capitalism, only problem is: It's less convenient.

We're to assume it's convenience that brings us comfort and happiness, but I'm about to propose a counter-argument: It's not. It's boring and makes everything very impersonal and unsatisfactory. I can tell, but only because I've been shifting into that inconvenient, more-effort-put into survival kind of life. And, it's been a very fun, weird time.

So as you can see by my posts, I've been learning to grow food and to make meals from self-grown food only, and eating feels different. It's far from impersonal when you bring a handful of seeds into life, then harvest and store and eat that; you know where this food has been. You know the food's story and it's been interlaced with your own story to the point where it's no longer something you consume, you have memories with that food. It means something to you. And, it's way, WAY harder to throw it away. You do not waste what you build up from scratch.

I've also been venturing into other self-sustaining missions, like, cleaning products and preserving resources as you would in nature, figuring out hygiene without capitalism, and this is where my life got weird. If I wanna wash my hair, I go and make tea, then wash my hair in that. Funny snippet, lemon balm tea actually darkens your hair the more you use it, people in my life now legit think my hair is black, it's not! It's brown but the herb made it so dark nobody can tell. I've since found out there are also herbs that make your hair lighter, or even give it a blue-ish glow! That is way fun. Washing hair like this is a more effort than shampoo, but I feel different about it. Proud I did that, or just happy I never have to buy a shampoo maybe.

If I wanna do laundry I'll go and cut open some conkers, since I still have a bag of unprocessed ones and they work as a detergent. If I wanna clean something I use vinegar I infused with orange peel, it smells amazing. If I need to go to the bathroom I'll skip on toilet paper and use family cloth. Now what is that? I actually heard someone on youtube say that word and researched it and found out that before toilet paper, people used rectangular strips of white cloth, to clean themselves, and they were all washed so it was reusable and wasted no resources since you could cut any old cotton shirt into strips and use it. Now a lot of people react with 'ewww' but hear me out: you don't use it for number two unless you have a washing liquid to immediately throw it into (I don't), and, do you throw away any underwear that you've used just once? They get about as filthy as that and then you put them thru boil cycle in the washing machine, they take so little space inside it's forgettable, and you can use them forever. I actually only had to buy toilet paper once, this entire year. 10/10. Also, extremely comfy and soft to use. If anyone wondered.

I also cook my food in weird ways, mostly having it wrapped in towels instead on a stove top, I rarely heat any bathroom water and either use cold or I also discovered I love heating a pot of water and just spilling it over myself instead of showering, it feels so good! It's so gentle and pleasant, showers are agressive and mean in comparison, it's like they hate you and are trying to spray you away. Water gently spilling from a pot on your body loves you and wants you to be happy and experience pleasure and love.

So I'm not trying to brag too much here but I haven't visited a grocery store in two months (figured out how to buy flour directly from the company lol) and maybe visited them 7 times this year altogether, isn't that kinda wild? And yes I'm giving myself a little star for good pandemic behaviour. I earned that. I just seem to not need stuff anymore unless they're oil and flour and maybe some salt and sugar. And it wasn't ... that hard. I mean okay, poverty and general anxiety are fueling my behaviour for sure, but it feels very much like... it's not that impossible to do without stuff, if you're crazy stubborn and don't have many alternatives.

I've also been prepairing for this life in a savage hermit hoarder type of matter; I've collected jars obsessively, stored every little produce net or bag that anyone brought to my place, I collect dumb promotional newspapers to start fires with in the future, and I can make baskets out of it, I stored every plastic cup or container ever because I can grow seedlings in those, I collected all seeds in any way available to me, I don't throw away any fabric anymore bc I can sew new things, any soft and spongy textured thing is stored to make seating space on future chairs and cushions, and I value every bit of knowledge coming my way only in regard to how it could help me survive.

I haven't figured out the medicinal side of this, or the social aspect, but at this point it feels very wrong for me to be in a city, renting out an apartment, and then living half like a little savage on the side and refusing to go to the store. I should be in my little cob house dammit, and cooking in my cauldron on top of a fire. I should be bathing in rainwater and have plants on every surface of my home. I should have soil available to grow all my food. And optimally have a big swing and a tree house and an obstacle course in the forest. I wanna drink water that I discovered in a spring or collected from rain and filtered with the coal I made. I wanna know how earthen floors feel under my bare feet.

So anyways, how many of you'd wanna join a tribe where we live in cob houses and tell stories around a fire and change our hair color with tea and presumably spill water over each other because hygiene is important? Also we never shave or care abt how our faces look and we shed the light onto downfall of capitalsm because I feel like, if we all (the population) just bought flour, oil sugar and salt, a lot of things would go down super fast.

#separatism #female separatism #prepairing for separatism #self sustaining life #eco friendly #sustainable living #anti capitalism

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scige-alt · 5 years ago

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LIANA LIBERATO / CIS FEMALE — don’t look now, but is that saige beaumont i see? the 21 year old criminal psychology / linguistics student is in their sophomore year and she is a rochester alum. i hear they can be blithe, energetic, evasive and irrational, so maybe keep that in mind. i bet she will make a name for themselves living in murphy’s beach homes. ( james. 20. est. she/they. )

snjdfg these took so long i’m so sorry but anyways please LIKE and i’ll slide into yr IMs for plots !!

TW DRUG USE, ALCOHOLISM, IMPLIED ABUSE, ADDICTION, HIT & RUN.

a e s t h e t i c s

stick n’ pokes at 2am – when your drunk and giggling too much in between purposeful stabs, avoiding the cracks in the sidewalk because they’re bad luck and they’ll break your mother’s back – even if your mother doesn’t love you, because you love her, the familiar riff in an old song – one that’s got you strumming along silently; there is no guitar, only empty air lit by the christmas lights you haven’t taken down. it’s may. swallowing down shots, and by default, swallowing down problems. laughing quick, easily, constantly. skinned knees from skateboarding, despite being rubbish at it. wishes on eyelashes stuck to your cheekbones, glitter sticking, running into the ocean at sunrise; feeling at home. excuses, and the many forms they come in. telling people you love them through hand squeezes and fresh muffins, sideways glances and soft, eager grins.

general info !!

full name: saige alouette beaumont

nickname(s): n/a so give her some uwu

b.o.d. - july 7th, 21 whole yrs old.

label(s): the hedonist, the icarcian, the reveler, etc. etc.

height: 5′7″ !!

hometown: thibodaux, louisiana

sexuality: bisexual w/ a very slight preference towards masc-presenting folks

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biography !!

the fallible daughter of two very infallible people: robert beaumont, US lieutenant general, and manon levesque, world renown fashion designer. both calculating, cold, and purposeful.

saige never believed she was created out of love. it was an action with a purpose, intentions to create the perfect child. the hybrid of both military genius and fashion extraordinaire, molded to their will.

it took them no more than six months after her birth for her parents to up and move, thus beginning the cycle of packing and unpacking, flying and driving, state-to-state and country-to-country. the longest saige had ever stayed in one place was two years.

kept on a short leash, homeschooled, and learning skills she had no interest in – she was more like a pet, a project, than a child. the world moved all around her, but she felt restrictively tethered to her parents.

she had always felt this way. a bird in a cage of thorns.

it was hard to keep and maintain friends – saige would be there one day, and gone the next. a ghost, a very visible ghost. even so, she tried her hardest.

running from bodyguards (nannies, in a sense. her father is a paranoid man) into festival crowds and climbing out of windows in the dark of night to swim in lakes with locals she’d meet only a few hours earlier – she absorbed as much of what she could get; this intense, undying love for a world she had always craved to see.

it was the start of something near dangerous – a phase that seemed to never end, rebellion coursing through her veins. a wild child in the making, unknowing of limits. the bad sort of crowd was the crowd she found herself landing, more often than not – introducing the sheltered girl to a world she hadn’t quite known existed

she ran away, briefly, at age fifteen with a man three years older than her – which nearly ended up in a tabloid magazine if it hadn’t been for her parents’ money. though the guilt of her parents’ disappointed weighed on her, the thrill fueled something much worse

from that point on, she became a problem child. from public intoxication to vandalism – it was clear their daughter was unraveling and nothing could contain her.

boarding school was a small attempt to stop it – she got expelled.

she hadn’t intended to go to university, either – but, by some chance – and after a mysterious year-long disappearance from public eye during her eighteenth year of life, next thing she knew, she was a student at lockwood university.

she was involved in a getaway chase from an armed robbery at a bank which then turned into a hit-and-run in washington when she was on the brink of turning eighteen. it was a situation she had no control over, not knowing her role in the scheme until it was too late to turn back. the victim survived but saige’s family has been paying the medical fees since then. her parents haven’t spoken to her since.

ever since the accident, saige has avoided causing too much trouble - generally staying out of headlines and tabloids, partially in fear of her parents finally cutting ties, and partially in fear of doing something that’ll cost another person their life.

personality !!

bubbly. so fucking bubbly. she’s got so much fucking energy on her – she goes running every morning and every night and swims like every afternoon and she’s n e v e r tired ?? the personality of a coke bottle shaken up but like if the bottle could laugh.

tries her hardest to be the Happy Fun friend, y’know, the one who can hook you up w/ some sicccc shit b/c she befriended/possibly slept with her drug dealer and now she gets discounts.

like, generally, comes off as very confident of herself and fearless and, like, yes–reckless, but like a fun reckless, y’know ??

talks a l o t, could ramble for days, hand gestures and all.

if she wants to do something, she will do it and there’s not much you can do to stop her tbh. she’s very easy-going, very go-go-go, very…mischievous, y’know? even if she’s trying to do something stupid you kinda just have to let her do it or otherwise she’ll mope for three hours and pout at you and you’ll feel ?? this weird sense of guilt ?? which isn’t the Best thing but she’s not the best person either so dfghjh

a vegetarian !! meat makes her sick, like, physically.

uuuhh her vocabulary consists of a lot of ‘likes’ and ‘ums’ and ‘y’knows’, y’know ??

i am like 99% sure she’s got adhd but she’s never been diagnosed with it b/c her parents suck with that stuff. her parents sort of suck in general.

like…she’s currently not on speaking terms with them. she’s not disowned…like, yet, but they haven’t said more than like five words to each other since saige was eighteen and it k i l l s her but they also send her a shit ton of money every month so.

owns like…four cars…..she has them all on campus…..she prolly isn’t suppose to…but she does…one of them’s a real sleek sports car, one is a jacked up pick-up truck that’s decked out in like LED lights n shit, one is the same exact fucking car from the princess diaries b/c saige is obsessed w/ the movie. the other is like. a mini cooper probably.

a photographer, her walls are covered in photographs and art and taped-down plants and in general her room is very ?? cluttered ?? like it’s very home-y but god. she’s a mess. clothes everywhere. she’s probably got a pile of instruments and other miscellaneous hobbies on a chair in the corner that she hasn’t touched in a while

speaking of !! she has a bunch of random, like, skills ?? like knitting and sewing and cooking and three different forms of ballroom dancing, and she can definitely work a gun and a car engine except she goes thru interests so rapidly and is disinterested in most of the other ones b/c her parents forced like half of them onto her.

she plays bass guitar. she loves her bass guitar. she knows other instruments but the only ones she’ll really fidget with are her bass guitar and like, her violin. everything else she’s like ~okay~ at

got really obsessed with languages at a young age and started learning them ?? her mother is like. super french, like genuinely from france, so she already grew up speaking both english and french but she’s learnt others for the hell of it and she’s still learning like three other at the same time which is a MESS but she’s a mess so like can u blame her sdfghj

but like i said, she’s v e r y reckless. very much a party girl. she uses like…quite a few drugs, both socially and alone and frankly – she’s rarely sober.

a budding alcoholic because she’s convinced that without it she’ll be Miserable and Horrible to everybody because she’s a Horrible, Awful person who is the absolute Worse and if drinking vodka mixed in with 23 crystal lite packets helps with not thinking like that then she’ll do it no questions asked

its a problem she’s been developing since she was younger, only amplified by … the situation, that happened when she was eighteen.

is essentially wearing this mask of confidence and giddiness and flirtatiousness b/c she doesnt want people to think she’s doing Not Okay.

she loves so much. she loves everything, everybody. falls in love like five times a day but nothing really sticks to her either. if ur a shitty person/come off as an asshole then she’ll be more likely to be attracted to her b/c shes Always been like this. finds them super interesting which is ?? questionable ?? sometimes i want to just. knock some sense into her but y’know what…it’s fine we’re Fine

she gets around p frequently but is also the type of person who’ll like, try n maintain a positive, good friendship with whoever she sleeps with b/c the idea of having regrettable encounters is smth that Bothers her and she just pretty much refuses.

it’s honestly a bit of a problem ?? she blurs the lines between friendship and Something, Anything More too often and with too many people b/c she just. wants to be loved. but there is never enough !

she does stick n pokes !! a whole bunch !! let her give you one !! she can’t draw for shit but i mean, who cares, right ??

uuuhh her mom sends her like…prototypes of things she designs n shit that isn’t out yet and saige 100% always gives it away or it sits in her closet and essentially that is her go-to gift for birthdays or christmas or whenever she feels like it

there’s literally sm i could say about her but i’ll stop Here b/c it’s getting too long sksksksk

wanted connections !!

give me. a best friend. just somebody who sticks by her side even though she’s a Mess

like, a ride or die ?? is that the same as a best friend ?? idc i want both :)

and just in general, like, people she’s p close to ?? she’s really friendly and is the kind of girl who’d be really popular in high school but doesn’t care abt popularity n talks to literally Everybody like she’s known them all her life.

ESP if ur muse is a lil grumpier !! she will fuck their shit up, but like, in a friendship way.

party pals, where they don’t talk that much outside of parties but inside them ?? super close. glued to the hip. hold-your-hair-back kinda tight.

frenemies ?? fake friends ?? toxic pals ?? ppl using her for her money or like, sex, or something ?? anything ??

bad influences ?? who just encourage all of saige’s shit ??

good influences ?? who are like YOINK stop being an idiot.

a tutor b/c she’s like…she’s smart, okay, but she’s also really stupid LMAO. she’s rly bad at math and science. somebody help her.

hook ups ?? fwbs ?? that one, rare one-night-stand that went weird ??

exes ?? she’s sorta noncommittal so idk how long they would’ve dated but like sjdfkbo yolo ?? ex hook-ups too ??

…somebody who just. hates her. but she doesn’t realize bc she’s a big ol’ idiot. she thinks theyre pals !!

let her b a thorn in someone’s side, just like, an absolute annoyance LMAO

gimme an enemy, or like an ex-best friend where something happened between them n it ruined their friendship

i will take literally anything i dont know

she steals ur character’s mail ?? ur cat keeps escaping and she keeps letting them inside even tho she’s allergic ??

one of those friendships where theyre always bickering like an old married couple ?? but it’s Purely Platonic (or is it ??)

an off-and-on again that just. it’s not good for either of them b/c they keep enabling each other and then getting pissed off and it’s a Mess but ?? it’s so hard to stop.

the drug dealer she keeps sleeping with even though she can just … pay for her shit. b/c it’s funner this way !

just … people where their like … relationship status is Blurred and it’s like, are they a thing? are they not? b/c she’s a mess and gets involved with too many people without intending to !

please. take her. give me connections.

#huntingtonintro #drugs tw #addiction tw #alcoholism tw #implied abuse #hit and run tw

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wardencommanderrodimiss · 5 years ago

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baratrongirl replied to your post “Really do not understand why GameFreak took out the Hall of Fame...”

I'd be interested to hear what you don't like about Sword/Shield. For me, it's quite the opposite. I played the hell out of the 3rd and 4th Gens, then struggled to finish White and didn't buy White 2. Didn't finish SoulSilver, or whichever of X or Y I got, and became completely bored about 10 hours into Alpha Sapphire despite being all motivated to play the game with my original Sapphire team only now I know what I'm doing. Didn't even BUY Sun/Moon.

Then I hung out with my Pokemon friends over Sword/Shield launch weekend, watched them playing on the TV, and had to immediately borrow a spare Switch so I could play too. By the end of the weekend I'd bought the Switch and paid to download my own copy of Shield. I have a few issues with it, mostly relating to the lack of clothing options for male characters, but otherwise I'm finding it the blast of fresh air that I needed to get back into the Pokemon games.

I’ve heard a lot of people say something similar, that SwSh was a nice upgrade from the past couple gens. I started slipping around XY - didn’t wanna buy a 3DS and didn’t until Omega Ruby came out, since Ruby was the first one I’d played - and after I finished the Team Flare plot of X I just gave up for three years and only last year finished the 8th gym and the league. I honestly don’t remember much of playing OR. I think it was a weird kind of frantic nostalgia-fueled haze but I genuinely cannot comment on what I liked about that game. It’s a blank in my memory. Really enjoyed Sun and Moon, like Sword but get bummed the longer I think about it. But I did buy it because I did see a ton of people saying it was a change they were enjoying, quality-of-life upgrades, fun new features, etc. Different strokes and all.

My biggest gripe on Sword is that the world feels pretty empty. Besides the Wild Area, and its few secluded corners, though it’s really a straightforward place, there’s nothing to explore. The plot grabs you by the hand and pulls you to every location. There’s nothing off-the-way that you don’t go to for the main plot. There’s nothing like Kanto’s Power Plant, or Alola’s Power Plant - which I didn’t even realize was there on my first pass through, and then I was like “hey what’s this little place, OH MY GOD WHAT THERE’S MORE STUFF HERE.” The region is a linear loop. There’s no weird little caves that aren’t plot relevant that you get scrambled up in. There’s nowhere that’s locked until you beat the League, like the other half of Poni Island or those last upper bits in Unova or the Battle Frontier in Sinnoh. I had canvassed the Wild Area for everything by the time I went to the final tournament. There’s nowhere else to go. Sure I went back through the Wild Area to catch more stuff to fill out my Pokedex, but new places? Nothing. There’s nowhere to go back to once you can cross water except the little lake by the professor’s house. Not like in Sun/Moon where there’s bits on prior islands to go back to with Lapras. That cave underneath the starting island to go check out I’m thinking of. Galar is a pretty bare-bones region and the Wild Area doesn’t fully compensate.

Which ties to my other biggest gripe, which is, there are three legendary Pokemon in the game and one of them is the opposite version’s exclusive that you can’t get. Two legendary Pokemon! Two legendary Pokemon you can catch! And you catch them both in the course of the plot! There’s nothing like the Regi trio hidden by batshit puzzles, or Cobalion/Terrakion/Virizion tucked in out-of-the-way corners. No wandering Lati@s or beast trio. No Tapus or anything. You can catch two legendary Pokemon.

I think we really peaked back in Gen 3 with its visual Braille puzzles and Gen 4 with whatever the everloving fuck the Turnback Cave was on about. The weird locations that hurt your brain. I miss those. I miss the tricky caves you get lost in and spend time figuring it out. Galar didn’t have caves. The mines were basically a straight shot, yknow? When I’d like to go deeper and have more to explore instead of feeling like I’m taking a walking tour of the whole region.

And the DLC looks like it’ll deal at least with that point with more legendaries, which really grinds my gears. In all the discourse about whether or not the DLC is good or bad or neutral, whether the price of video games has needed to go up or the DLC is cheaper than a third version but some people wait for the third version, which I didn’t seek out said discourse but saw pass me by on Twitter, I saw no one mention that we’re paying to get more than two legendary Pokémon and I felt like I was losing my mind for a little while there. I feel like I’m paying extra for something that’s been in every game since the beginning of time, that being more than two legendary Pokémon that I can catch.

And my lesser little gripes: level balance of the game felt a little wonky with the wild Pokemon toward the end higher leveled than all the trainers except Leon, and the always-on exp share made it worse because when I dragged out the plot by catching everything in the Wild Area, my team got way overleveled for the back half of the game and I could curbstomp everyone that passed me. Team Yell were an egregious roadblock and while Pokemon has always had those, the prominence of Team Yell was exasperating. I prefer environmental roadblocks, like water and back when we used to have other HMs, those feel a little better than two dudes standing in the middle of a wide road.

And why, oh WHY, did GameFreak downgrade after XY and only have fitting rooms in boutiques instead of also in Pokemon Centers? I don’t want to fly to another town to change my clothes! Not every town has a clothes shop but everywhere has a Pokemon Center! I was crusading on this point through Sun/Moon and I will not be stopped until GameFreak puts changing rooms back in Pokemon Centers! (They will probably never do that but I refuse to stop. Forget Dexit; this is the real issue of our time.)

I didn’t mind the limited Pokémon at release because I never transfer my teams thru the games anyway - I’m a sentimental anxious idiot afraid of decisions and commitment and I can’t commit to the one-way transfers to move my teams up to new games. And that plus the Wild Area having trade-evolution Pokemon walking around made me feel like completing my pokedex was actually attainable. So I did!

I don’t hate the game, but I am disappointed by it. I’ve never been a Battle Tower or shiny-hunting person, but I’ve ended up doing those because I don’t know what else to do.

So that’s my opinion on why SwSh has bummed me out more as time goes on, since you were curious.

(Joker from Mass Effect 2 when you ask him for gossip about your teammates voice: “But that’s just my opinion, no need to go spreading it around.” ;) I’ll gladly chat with friends but the poke-discourse got too intense on twitter and I am not inviting that kind of bad energy into our lives. None of us deserve that.)

I’ve still got a lot of endgame stuff for Sun and Moon, UB hunting and I haven’t made it to the Battle Tree yet because my Moon team is getting its ass kicked by everything because I turned the exp share off and overcompensated in the wrong direction and am chronically underleveled. There’s a certain charm for me in being underleveled because I used to have endless patience to overlevel my team to extremes because my childhood anxiety was something like “if I die in the game I die in real life???” and I was terrified of losing and now I’m like “blacks out twice in a row in Moon as I go toward the postgame stuff yolo”. So when I feel like playing Pokemon I’ll probably spend more time in Alola, when I’m not trying to hatch that damn shiny Rookidee because I accidentally committed to that.

#baratrongirl #replies #the thing swsh did REALLY well is the characters. lots of memorable gym leaders #......-stares at hundred screenshots of leon on my switch- no i dont have a crush its FINE

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scige-archive · 5 years ago

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LIANA LIBERATO / CIS FEMALE. — saige beaumont is really making a name for themselves as a sheep. i think that she is studying criminal psychology + linguistics in their junior year at lockwood, living in alpha nu. originally from thibodaux, louisiana, saige is known to be blithe & energetic, but can also be evasive & irrational. — james / 20 / est / she/they.

hi !! this is mostly just a repost, but there has been added information to her biography section, as well as her connections to the victims. i’m excited to continue rping with u all !!!

TW DRUG USE, ALCOHOLISM, IMPLIED ABUSE, ADDICTION, HIT & RUN.

a e s t h e t i c s

general info !!

full name: saige alouette beaumont

nickname(s): n/a so give her some uwu

b.o.d. - july 7th, 21 whole yrs old.

label(s): the hedonist, the icarcian, the reveler, etc. etc.

height: 5′7″ !!

hometown: thibodaux, louisiana

sexuality: firstly when aren’t my babies bi as FUCK but she also prefers masc-presenting folks

stats

biography !!

the fallible daughter of two very infallible people: robert beaumont, US lieutenant general, and manon levesque, world renown fashion designer. both calculating, cold, and purposeful.

she had always felt this way. a bird in a cage of thorns.

it was hard to keep and maintain friends – saige would be there one day, and gone the next. a ghost, a very visible ghost. even so, she tried her hardest.

from that point on, she became a problem child. from public intoxication to vandalism – it was clear their daughter was unraveling and nothing could contain her.

boarding school was a small attempt to stop it – she got expelled.

and while too afraid to visit the victim & their family, every month since the conviction of the others involved - she’ll visit one of them in particular. it’s been three years and saige has shown no sign of stopping.

during her last visit, he had sent her on a scavenger hunt resulting in her breaking into his brother’s (& his, technically) home and finding a second iPhone - one she had no idea he had, one with the watershed app installed. their intentions was for saige to be able to access the app - but his shepherd access had been revoked, and the phone had already been wiped clean. regardless, saige took it back to rochester with her.

personality !!

tries her hardest to be the Happy Fun friend, y’know, the one who can hook you up w/ some sicccc shit b/c she befriended/possibly slept with her drug dealer and now she gets discounts.

like, generally, comes off as very confident of herself and fearless and, like, yes–reckless, but like a fun reckless, y’know ??

talks a l o t, could ramble for days, hand gestures and all.

a vegetarian !! meat makes her sick, like, physically.

uuuhh her vocabulary consists of a lot of ‘likes’ and ‘ums’ and ‘y’knows’, y’know ??

i am like 99% sure she’s got adhd but she’s never been diagnosed with it b/c her parents suck with that stuff. her parents sort of suck in general.

but like i said, she’s v e r y reckless. very much a party girl. she uses like…quite a few drugs, both socially and alone and frankly – she’s rarely sober.

its a problem she’s been developing since she was younger, only amplified by … the situation, that happened when she was eighteen.

is essentially wearing this mask of confidence and giddiness and flirtatiousness b/c she doesnt want people to think she’s doing Not Okay.

she does stick n pokes !! a whole bunch !! let her give you one !! she can’t draw for shit but i mean, who cares, right ??

there’s literally sm i could say about her but i’ll stop Here b/c it’s getting too long sksksksk

connections to the victims !!

tatiana samuels / saige & tatiana met when they were freshmen and junior, respectively. they quickly became friends - mostly seen together at parties, where they’d encourage each other to do more, more, more. their friendship was ended after they’d taken a friend’s car on a joyride and wound up crashing it off of a back road. saige freaked out about it & tatiana ... did not. as a result of their very different reactions, and saige’s fear of landing in the news, they cut ties.

george craig iii / saige had met george after bringing tatiana back to her dorm one night where they accidentally crossed paths. one thing led to another and they wound up sleeping together. it hadn’t meant to be a thing at all, but there had been two other incidents of them ‘accidentally crossing paths’ before his disappearance.

hana williams / for the two of them to not be friends would be, frankly - weird, due to their similar friendly personalities. they got along well, but weren’t the closest pair.

christoph wainwright / they had hooked up numerous times before without issue, but christoph’s jealous yet emotionally unavailable personality & saige’s own conflicted feelings had resulted in a huge fight, which led to their falling out - which led to them quickly becoming enemies, instead.

wanted connections !!

give me. a best friend. just somebody who sticks by her side even though she’s a Mess

like, a ride or die ?? is that the same as a best friend ?? idc i want both :)

ESP if ur muse is a lil grumpier !! she will fuck their shit up, but like, in a friendship way.

party pals, where they don’t talk that much outside of parties but inside them ?? super close. glued to the hip. hold-your-hair-back kinda tight.

frenemies ?? fake friends ?? toxic pals ?? ppl using her for her money or like, sex, or something ?? anything ??

bad influences ?? who just encourage all of saige’s shit ??

good influences ?? who are like YOINK stop being an idiot.

a tutor b/c she’s like…she’s smart, okay, but she’s also really stupid LMAO. she’s rly bad at math and science. somebody help her.

hook ups ?? fwbs ?? that one, rare one-night-stand that went weird ??

exes ?? she’s sorta noncommittal so idk how long they would’ve dated but like sjdfkbo yolo ?? ex hook-ups too ??

…somebody who just. hates her. but she doesn’t realize bc she’s a big ol’ idiot. she thinks theyre pals !!

let her b a thorn in someone’s side, just like, an absolute annoyance LMAO

gimme an enemy, or like an ex-best friend where something happened between them n it ruined their friendship

i will take literally anything i dont know

she steals ur character’s mail ?? ur cat keeps escaping and she keeps letting them inside even tho she’s allergic ??

one of those friendships where theyre always bickering like an old married couple ?? but it’s Purely Platonic (or is it ??)

an off-and-on again that just. it’s not good for either of them b/c they keep enabling each other and then getting pissed off and it’s a Mess but ?? it’s so hard to stop.

the drug dealer she keeps sleeping with even though she can just … pay for her shit. b/c it’s funner this way !

just … people where their like … relationship status is Blurred and it’s like, are they a thing? are they not? b/c she’s a mess and gets involved with too many people without intending to !

please. take her. give me connections.

#wshintro #alcoholism tw #drugs tw #implied abuse #addiction tw #hit and run tw

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scigebabadook · 6 years ago

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cisfemale — ever hear people say SAIGE BORDEAUX looks a lot like LIANA LIBERATO? I think SHE is about 20, so it doesn’t really work. The LINGUISTICS + CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY major is a SOPHOMORE that is from ALL OVER THE PLACE. They can be BLITHE, but they can also be EVASIVE. I think SAIGE might be a SHEEP. They are living in BALTA. ( snot goblin. 20. EST. she/they. )

hello ,,, it seems i am a sheep and Refuse to leave the herd. aka i love u all so frickin’ much ,,, and w/o further ado, here is saige !! pleathe LIKE this so i can shimmy into yr ims !!

TW: drug use, alcoholism, implied abuse ? shitty parents at the very least, addiction

a e s t h e t i c s

general info !!

full name: saige alouette bordeaux

nickname(s): n/a so give her some uwu

b.o.d. - july 7th, 20 whole yrs old.

label(s): the hedonist, the icarcian, the reveler, etc. etc.

height: 5′7″ !!

hometown: thibodaux, louisiana

sexuality: firstly when aren’t my babies bi as FUCK but she also prefers masc-presenting folks

stats

biography !!

the fallible daughter of two very infallible people: robert bordeaux, US lieutenant general, and manon levesque, world renown fashion designer. both calculating, cold, and purposeful.

she had always felt this way. a bird in a cage of thorns.

it was hard to keep and maintain friends – saige would be there one day, and gone the next. a ghost, a very visible ghost. even so, she tried her hardest.

from that point on, she became a problem child. from public intoxication to vandalism – it was clear their daughter was unraveling and nothing could contain her.

boarding school was a small attempt to stop it – she got expelled.

she hadn’t intended to go to university, either – but, by some chance – and after a mysterious year-long disappearance from public eye during her eighteenth year of living, next thing she knew, she was a student at gifford university in a town she’d never been to before.

personality !!

tries her hardest to be the Happy Fun friend, y’know, the one who can hook you up w/ some sicccc shit b/c she befriended/possibly slept with her drug dealer and now she gets discounts.

like, generally, comes off as very confident of herself and fearless and, like, yes–reckless, but like a fun reckless, y’know ??

talks a l o t, could ramble for days, hand gestures and all.

a vegetarian !! meat makes her sick, like, physically.

uuuhh her vocabulary consists of a lot of ‘likes’ and ‘ums’ and ‘y’knows’, y’know ??

i am like 99% sure she’s got adhd but she’s never been diagnosed with it b/c her parents suck with that stuff. her parents sort of suck in general.

but like i said, she’s v e r y reckless. very much a party girl. she uses like…quite a few drugs, both socially and alone and frankly – she’s rarely sober.

its a problem she’s been developing since she was younger, only amplified by … the situation, that happened when she was eighteen.

is essentially wearing this mask of confidence and giddiness and flirtatiousness b/c she doesnt want people to think she’s doing Not Okay.

she does stick n pokes !! a whole bunch !! let her give you one !! she can’t draw for shit but i mean, who cares, right ??

there’s literally sm i could say about her but i’ll stop Here b/c it’s getting too long sksksksk

wanted connections !!

give me. a best friend. just somebody who sticks by her side even though she’s a Mess

like, a ride or die ?? is that the same as a best friend ?? idc i want both :)

ESP if ur muse is a lil grumpier !! she will fuck their shit up, but like, in a friendship way.

party pals, where they don’t talk that much outside of parties but inside them ?? super close. glued to the hip. hold-your-hair-back kinda tight.

frenemies ?? fake friends ?? toxic pals ?? ppl using her for her money or like, sex, or something ?? anything ??

bad influences ?? who just encourage all of saige’s shit ??

good influences ?? who are like YOINK stop being an idiot.

a tutor b/c she’s like…she’s smart, okay, but she’s also really stupid LMAO. she’s rly bad at math and science. somebody help her.

hook ups ?? fwbs ?? that one, rare one-night-stand that went weird ??

exes ?? she’s sorta noncommittal so idk how long they would’ve dated but like sjdfkbo yolo ?? ex hook-ups too ??

…somebody who just. hates her. but she doesn’t realize bc she’s a big ol’ idiot. she thinks theyre pals !!

let her b a thorn in someone’s side, just like, an absolute annoyance LMAO

gimme an enemy, or like an ex-best friend where something happened between them n it ruined their friendship

i will take literally anything i dont know

she steals ur character’s mail ?? ur cat keeps escaping and she keeps letting them inside even tho she’s allergic ??

one of those friendships where theyre always bickering like an old married couple ?? but it’s Purely Platonic (or is it ??)

an off-and-on again that just. it’s not good for either of them b/c they keep enabling each other and then getting pissed off and it’s a Mess but ?? it’s so hard to stop.

the drug dealer she keeps sleeping with even though she can just ... pay for her shit. b/c it’s funner this way !

just ... people where their like ... relationship status is Blurred and it’s like, are they a thing? are they not? b/c she’s a mess and gets involved with too many people without intending to !

please. take her. give me connections.

#livingintro #drug addiction tw #alcoholism tw #abuse tw #[youtube comment voice] first !!!!111!!!111!

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missblissy · 6 years ago

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33 tragic keepsake?? Make it as angsty as you can, with Arthur please and thank you. I love your writing!! I want to feel the pain with this one!!

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33. — tragic keepsake

((Thank you very much for providing this chance to break some hearts. WARNING!!! THIS IS ANGSTY!!! MENTIONS OF SUICIDE!! DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE NOT COMFORTABLE WITH THIS TOPIC!!!))

It was like walking on ice the whole time. Each little step was on your tiptoes, trying not to disturb the world around you. This journey was so hard. It always was. Every year on the same day you’d make sure to take the long walk up the mountainside. You chose the more scenic path because you had so many memories attached to the trail hidden by trees. A cough escaped your lips as you tracked on.

You could remember the warm spring you first found this little hidden pathway. You smiled as the memory flooded your mind. You rode on your horse, side by side with a man you loved more than anything else in this awful, evil world. The two of you talked on and off about this and that, chuckling at any jokes that passed between the two of you.

His name was Arthur. Arthur Morgan, a man truly of the west. He may have sung little songs calling you the most beautiful thing he’d ever seen. He’d sing that song, “Still I love my faithless Flora, the Lily of the West.” Every time he mumbled the little tune, you’d smile and blush like a school girl. He was so sweet, and so very sweet on you. You missed the sound of his voice the most.

You took this path by foot now, not wanting to rush by on horseback. You’ve done for several years now. It had to... what? 20 years now? 25? You weren’t sure, really, and it didn’t matter how long it’d been either. It only mattered that you had to do this.

You looked at every little detail, how everything has changed, but it was still the same too. The forest looked as cluttered and deep as always and smelled of sweet wild lilac bushes. His favorite flower... He loved them and their pungent smell. Arthur would go wild for lilacs, and he’d simply just grab a bundle of flowers and stuff his face in them and take the deepest breath. He was such a silly man.

The forest slowly grew less and less as you ventured further up the mountainside. If you were lucky, you’d get there by sundown. The backpack you slugged around your back had everything you needed in it. It was heavy and made your back ache out in pain but you ignored it and went on.

Off the side of the trail, you noticed a familiar sight. A rock that was riddled with bullet holes and once was stained with blood. The memory came flooding in whether you wanted it too or not. You traced a hand lightly on your side through your shirt. The gunshot wonder always felt numb and sensitive at the same time. You nearly died there on that rock while Arthur rushed to murder and save your life simultaneously. What day that was. Despite the tragicness of it, you still smiled at that memory.

Arthur had picked you up and carried you by foot for almost a mile before you found your horses again. They ran away in the commotion of the shoot out and they ran far. You were bleeding out on him as he carried you bridal style, “You’re a mess,” You told him, “I’m gonna die here and you’re going to be a mess,”

“You ain’t gonna die” You could remember how his face twisted up when he said that. “You’ve made a mess of me before and this ain’t gonna be that last time. You got plenty more messes to make.”

He was right. You lived, painfully so, but you lived and healed to see another day. You wished he was here, at the moment, right now as you left the forest for open rocky cliff sides. You were always afraid of heights, you use to hold tight to Arthur’s hand and clung tightly to his arm. You couldn’t stand seeing the drop, it caused you to go light headed and near piss yourself from the sheer fear of falling. You had to hold back a harsh cough while you carefully clung to the cliffside.

The sun was starting to set. You could see its slow descent into the hilly horizon it called its grave. The trip was already more than half done. You only had a bit left to go. You always loved sunsets, but your moved sunrises more. Just like Arthur.

The two of you had so much in common. It’s funny because it took years of fruitful friendship to finally say those three simple words of “I love you.”

You could remember that do so clearly. The crip clean memory waved into your thoughts quickly. It was a cool summer morning further out west in the desert. You had woken up to a letter on the table beside your tent, asking you to meet someone somewhere far away. You knew the location, it was a small lake that went back and forth between full and empty with the rainy season. There was always a deep save system and waterfall that also came and went with the seasons. You went there, to the little lake, and found a camp set up just at the mouth of the caves.

The remains of the spring rain trickled down in a small misty waterfall that never truly reach the lake’s surface, and rather just blew away in the wind. You found Arthur there, waiting for you. He seemed nervous and more of a mess than usual. You were both so young, and yet so old. Someplace in the middle of 23 and 28, after Arthur got over his heartbreak with Mary. You thought the two of you would always be friends, but he loved you, and he knew he hurt you choosing Mary over yourself.

So he made it up to you in the best way he could. He got you alone, told you his feelings and waited for you to say something. When you returned his feelings, saying how much he meant to you, but how hard it was and how painful it was to be ignored and pushed aside for someone else. He admitted his wrongs, called himself a fool and bitterly laughed. He wanted to make it up to you so he made you an entire dinner over the fire and asked if he could give you something as a keepsake to always remember him buy.

You remembered as you grew closer and closer to your destination, and lifted your hand to grasp the locket around your neck. How many years have you worn that thing? You were so god damn young, you didn’t have a clue..

That night long ago, Arthur gave you that locket. When he gave it to you, you expected there to be a picture of some kind it in, like most lockets. But there was no picture. It was a large but beautiful locket big enough to fit a small note in it, that when folded a hundred and ten times, could easily fit nice and snug inside.

There was also room for something else that you could hear even now clinking around in there as you walked your step cliffside path. You knew the note by heart. In your thoughts, you repeated it to yourself.

(Y/N),

I’ve done you wrong, so many times. You’ve stuck with me since I could remember. For all those years we grew up together, I’m glad it was you. I wouldn’t have it any other way, or anyone else. I’d do it all again if it meant I got to be with you. I know many people have told you this before, but you beautiful, and in my eyes, you’re so simply perfect. I can’t stand the thought of losing you. The way your eyes light up when you see me, the way you laugh quietly at my boring jokes, the way you lean your head on my shoulder when we sit by the fire. You give me a comfort I never knew, and I don’t want to let that go. The last few months with you attached at my hip has honestly changed my world, I’m glad your there. I’m glad I can tell you about my day, about the things I do, the people I rob, the things I steal... The crimes I commit. As much as I hate it that is apart of me that is so hard to hide. I could never have that with anyone else but you... I have to say it. I love you. I really do. I love you and want to give you this note and this ring for the day I can finally call you mine, that is if you’ll have me because I certainly want to be yours.

The note had turned yellow after all these years, and some tears and holes had made their way into the delicate paper. The ring he gave you chimed inside the locket, ringing out slightly at each step you took. The sun was finally setting below the hills. You had made it in time to the familiar open cliffside.

It hurt. It hurt a lot and no matter how many times you looked at it, it was like the pain was as fresh and as new as the day it happened. Your old body had was crying out in pain from such a long walk with no rest at all. You were old enough to be someone grandma. Maybe even a great grandma. You were young and healthy anymore, your old and dying at your own pace. You wished it came a little sooner as you stared at the cross that marked the grave of the man you always loved. His grave was overrun with flowers, and lilacs of course, that you planted there yourself some odd decade ago.

“Hello, my darling,” You spoke quietly as you got down on your knees only a few inches away from his grave. You pressed a hand into the old aging wood, feeling the smoothness that weathering has caused. You missed him. So much, so fucking much. It hurt every second to be there.

He would have loved this spot, Charles did a good job of that. You fought back the tears and smiled, “Happy anniversary, Arthur,” You quickly wipped away a tear before it could fall, “I hope you’re doing well,” You reached for the chain of the locket, pulling it off your neck. You opened it up, the ring and note fell into your lap. You picked up the ring and put the note back where it belonged.

“I’ve been holding onto this god damn ring for so long,” This wasn’t the ring he gave you that night in the desert. That ring was snug on your finger. The one you held now was Arthur’s matching wedding band to yours. You coughed a few times, feeling the sharp shooting pain cut open your lungs, “God damn you, Arthur. I loved you, I still love you. I wish it didn’t have to be this way.”

You knew damn well that this was going to be your last visit to Arthur, this going to be your last anything.

Your voice cracked while speaking to the grave, “You got me sick,” You whispered while place his wedding band into the dirt at the base of the cross, “I’m dying...” It felt so strange to finally admit it out loud, “I’m dying and I’m scared.”

Trying your best, you made your old body comfortable on the hard ground. You could remember that perfect day were you and Arthur eloped and certainly ran away for a month. Funny, because Arthur always gave John a hard time for leaving for so long. Maybe because you were married by the time John was old enough to ride a horse. You guys came back, eventually, you called that month away, a honeymoon and it was very nice, perfect even. A whole month camping out in a rental cabin, with just Arthur and no one else. You wished you could go back.

Speaking off, “I haven’t seen anyone, no one... in years. I don’t think John or Abigal is alive anymore... I... I tried reaching out. To Sadie too. And Marybeth. No one. No one is left. I know Dutch is dead... John told me about that. He killed em, Bill and Javier. I don’t know where Charles is... I don’t... I...” You felt a hot wave of pain and tears wash over you. You started to sob, feeling utterly and truly alone, “What do I do, Arthur? I can’t keep fighting this fight. I don’t want to die, but don’t want to alone anymore,” You wheezed pretty bad, trying to catch your breath between sobs, “I miss you. What should I do? I... I don’t know what to do without you. I’ve spent all these years living alone, get old and dying. Please tell me I get to see you again,”

It felt like someone was cutting out your heart and throwing it into the dirt. The pain was heavy, it weighed you down, creating a void that couldn’t be filled. You came here with this bad, a little tent and some food, but you came here to say goodbye. To die. Every since Arthur died, all you wanted was to have him back. But no one can change the nature of death, and no one knew Arthur or who he was anymore. You couldn’t stand the idea of being buried in a mass grave or even buried away from Arthur. You were dying, and you had die here.

As morbid as it was, this was your final wish. You had such a ahrd time breath, suffocating on your own tears. You took your wedding band off your finger and pressed it into the dirt beside Arthur’s wedding band. You took of the locket and hung it off his cross, watching it sway back and forth.

This was it, wasn’t it? The end of the road. You hoped that this wouldn’t hurt. You hoped this was the answer you were looking for. Part of you knew that it wasn’t, and most of you knew you were doing this because you just couldn’t keep going. You wanted to die on your own terms, not at the hands of fate or disease.

You laid down beside his grave, staring at the darkness of the approching night sky. A few stars had made there way out. You held tightly to the gun you got your backpack, thinking over and over again if this was right. It didn’t feel right, but your soul craved release. This was awful. Life was awful and unfair.

You closed your eyes and took in a deep breath, begging, hoping, praying that you’d see Arthur again. So that who every finds you burries you beside your long dead husband. You were scared, crying, and unsure, but you came so far and you weren’t healthy enough to take the trip back. You’d rather chose this than starver to death up here, or let this cruel disease steal your last breath.

You closed your eyes, and pulled the trigger.

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mvalleefootball-blog · 7 years ago

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Why is Stephon Gilmore a Patriot?

By Michael Vallee

When the New England Patriots opened NFL free agency last March by signing Stephon Gilmore to a whopping 65 million dollar contract I imagine most Patriots fans reacted with some variation of the following, “Uh Gilmore…...um, OK…...uh, plays for the Bills right……..yeah he’s solid I guess…..don’t remember him much….”. This was the classic “In Bill We Trust” signing. A guy that was hundreds of miles off anybody’s radar, didn’t exactly make a big splash in the AFC East and played a position, corner, where they already had an elite player. In short, the signing made little sense and on the “Un-Patriot-like Scale” was the free agent equivalent of the Patriots recording their own version of the ‘Super Bowl Shuffle’. Now, after an embarrassing 33-30 home loss to the Carolina Panthers, a loss where Gilmore was exceptionally awful, it’s time to push “In Bill We Trust” aside and start asking “What the hell was Bill thinking?”

The defense has been bad all year but Sunday was particularly ugly. The Panthers offense stumbled into Foxboro having scored just 22 points in their last two games, including a putrid 13 point performance at home against the Saints. They put up 33 on the Patriots despite fumbling inside the 10-yard-line. Entering Sunday Carolina had not thrown for more than 180 yards all year. On Sunday they lit up New England for over 300 yards passing. Cam Newton walked into Gillette a broken quarterback in a prolonged funk: He embarrassed himself in the Super Bowl against the Broncos, followed that up with the worst year of his career in 2016 and entered Sunday’s game with a QB rating of 69.7. Newton may have walked in a broken man but he left with MVP swagger - shoulders back, chest puffed out and a 130.8 QB rating in his back pocket.

The Patriots defense has become like a therapy dog for NFL quarterbacks. Dink-and-dunk Alex Smith entered his Patriots game needing to fend off a high rookie draft pick and establish the Kansas City Chiefs as a contender, well Alex, how does 368 yards and a 148.6 QB rating grab you. Deshaun Watson entered his Patriots contest a struggling and confused rookie but left with confidence and clarity after putting up 342 yards of total offense. And now the rebirth of Newton.

Most disappointing is that the biggest culprit in this defensive mess is New England’s secondary - a much-hyped unit laced with talent and experience, that has been abysmal most of the season. The Patriots pass defense ranks dead last in the NFL, allowing 324 yards per game. The second worst team is the Eagles at 285 yards per game. That’s a big gap. Which brings us back to Gilmore.

While everybody has struggled on some level in the secondary, Gilmore has been at the center of the mess, and Sunday he was a one-man wrecking crew of incompetence. It’s not so much that he can’t cover as much as it is that he apparently doesn’t even know who to cover. Whether it’s a late first half TD to a wide-open Devin Funchess or a Fozzy Whittaker touchdown where, not one, but two Panthers were left wide-open, it seems all it takes is the slightest motion or misdirection to turn Gilmore into a befuddled pile of goop. And yes, I know, technically we don’t know what coverage they were in or who had what receiver but is it some wild coincidence that Gilmore seems to be involved in all of these plays. Is there any doubt now that Tyreek Hill’s deep ball on the Patriots week 1 was Gilmore’s fault and not McCourty’s?

It probably isn’t helping the situation that New England’s secondary is communicating with each other about as well as the Democrats and Republicans, and certainly the entire unit, along with the coaches, need to shoulder the blame for that. But it’s funny, I don’t seem to recall any problems with the secondary communicating before this year. Hmmm, what has changed in the last year? If only I could put my finger on it.

Clearly, opposing teams have put their finger on it. Sunday it looked like Carolina was using its receivers to play three-card Monty with the Patriots defensive backs.

Of course communication wasn’t the only problem that plagued Gilmore on Sunday. Twice he was flagged for illegal hands to the face on 3rd and long to extend Carolina drives that led to scores. The first penalty was simply a horrendous call as Gilmore’s fingertips barely grazed the lower part of Kelvin Benjamin’s facemask. The second penalty was all Gilmore, and it was as costly as they come.

Despite a wretched game New England’s defense actually showed a spark late in the 2nd half and it looked as if they had stopped Carolina with sacks on back-to-back 3 and outs. It appeared that Brady, who had brought the team back from 14 down with consecutive touchdown drives, was going to get a shot to score for a third consecutive time and win the game. All was going to be right with the world. Then Gilmore, after having just been called for it, jams Carolina receiver Devin Funchess right in the mug. Penalty. Sack nullified. First down. Eight plays later the Panthers put Gilmore and the defense out of their misery with a game-winning field goal.

It’s not as if Funchess is some Wes Welker runt where you are almost forced to jam him near his face, the guy stands 6’5”. It was an inexcusable and baffling mistake from a Patriots player that is looking more and more like an inexcusable and baffling signing. Gilmore didn’t exactly instill confidence when he was asked about the penalty, “I was playing aggressive, I don’t know what else I can do.” Really? You’ve been in this league for 6 years and you don’t know how to prevent a penalty. Here’s an idea, stop doing stuff that is against the rules. And definitely stop doing stuff that is against the rules at really, really key moments in the game. At the very least, stop getting caught.

“I don’t know what else I can do?” Not exactly the cerebral answer you might expect from a Belichick coached player. Which begs the question, why is Stephon Gilmore here? What did Belichick see in this inconsistent and expensive cornerback from a franchise that has spent the last 15 years rotting away in the NFL’s basement? Why is this the guy Belichick chose to break the bank for?

For starters, it’s not exactly the Patriot way to make any big splash in free agency, much less on day one. Free agency has always been a bit of fool’s gold, wrought with big risks and expensive payouts, and the Belichick era has been no exception. Only twice since 2001 has New England delved into the world of high-priced free agency and both times the results were less than spectacular: LB Rosevelt Colvin in 2003 and LB Adalius Thomas in 2007. Both players had their moments but in the end came up way short of expectations and were eventually released. If twice in your life you go on an expensive cruise, and both times you get sick, then you’re probably not booking a third cruise. But after 10 years of staying away Belichick was sucked back into the unlimited buffets and awkward magic shows of the open seas, convincing himself that he had packed enough dramamine and this time would be different. So far it’s been different alright, it’s been much worse.

The entire mind set and process behind the signing of Gilmore was such a break from the normal way of doing business down at Foxboro. The Patriots are supposed to be the patient and methodical ones. The team that rarely trades up in the draft, and gladly trades down for picks in future years. The team that never overpays for its own players, and welcomes them to test the market. The team that calmly sits back when free agency opens, while all the desperate franchises trample all over each other like it’s midnight on black Friday, so they can throw away 100 million on the next Ndamukong Suh. Not New England, they are smart shoppers. The team that lies in the weeds waiting to pounce on the next bargain.

Until now.

The Gilmore signing always had that whiff of desperation normally reserved for the other guys. The Patriots didn’t even have him in for a visit. No formal meeting to kick the tires and look him in the eye in the hope of getting some sense of what the player was all about. No chance for Belichick to put him thru any of those mental tests he uses on potential draft picks. No opportunity to find out if the loser mentality of the Buffalo Bills had seeped permanently into his DNA. If they had a face-to-face maybe they could have asked him about that deep touchdown Chris Hogan caught against the Bills last year in Buffalo. It was a play that was broken down expertly by Erik Turner of USA Today and, as Parcells used to say, the play had more red flags than May Day in Moscow.

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For starters it looks like yet another blown coverage that involved Gilmore and a big play - are you starting to see a pattern here? Then, after Hogan makes the catch Gilmore bypasses an opportunity to make a tackle on Hogan so he can instead turn and yell at one of his teammates. Even if the touchdown wasn’t his fault what NFL player does that in the middle of a play? And this was during a Patriots game. Belichick saw this first hand and still didn’t hesitate to whip out Kraft’s checkbook???

And this only gets worse.

Turner reported that Gilmore reacted that way “several times” that year, inexcusable even if Gilmore was in the correct coverage every time. But guess what, he wasn’t, at least not on the Hogan touchdown. After the game then head coach Rex Ryan confirmed that it was Gilmore that had blown the coverage. So for those of you keeping score at home, Gilmore blew a coverage, cost his team a crucial 53-yard touchdown, and even though it was his fault, gave up on the play so he could openly bitch out a teammate for his own mistake. Is there anything in that sentence that sounds remotely Patriot-like?

Turner adds this nugget about Gilmore’s play overall, “He has been beaten by opposing wide receivers, but that happens to every cornerback. What’s more concerning is his apparent selfish play and his attitude towards his teammates in a contract year.” Yikes. Again, does this sound like the type of guy you break 10 years of free agent discipline for? And don’t gloss over the “beaten by opposing receivers” part of the quote. In 2016 Gilmore was one of the lowest rated corners according to Pro Football Focus, with a grade of 73.2. To put that in perspective he barely finished ahead of Sterling Moore, yeah THAT Sterling Moore, who came in with a grade of 72.3.

Isn’t that the opposite of what Belichick normally does? Belichick’s the guy that lands the player with the high ranking for the low dollars, not the other way around. Belichick’s free agent M.O. is to find the undervalued guys from winning programs like Rodney Harrison and Mike Vrabel, not overpay for defensive backs from loser franchises that can’t even perform in a contract year. But maybe I shouldn’t be so harsh on the Bills who currently have the number one scoring defense in the NFL and just won at Atlanta by holding their high-powered offense to 17 points. I have no idea if this will hold up, but if it does, what does it say about Gilmore that he leaves and the defense gets better? Or that he shows up on the number one scoring defense last year and thru four games they are ranked 31st. I call this the A-Rod effect. It’s when a team seemingly improves whenever a certain player leaves and when the new team regresses after that same player arrives. The sample size as yet is too small but it is something to keep an eye on.

The worst part of this entire Gilmore saga is the Malcolm Butler sub-plot. At least when Belichick signed Colvin and Thomas he didn’t step over high-performing linebackers on his own roster to do it. If the Gilmore signing is puzzling, the treatment of Butler is utterly baffling.

Since arriving in New England as an undrafted free agent Butler has done virtually everything right. By all accounts he works hard, plays hard, keeps his nose clean off the field and in case you missed it, has a penchant for making big plays when the spotlight is brightest. He is a Pro Bowler that has excelled in the Patriots system and played a key role on teams that have done nothing but win. He is a coach’s dream yet here he is making less than 4 million while his struggling counterpart makes 13 million. The entire situation is confounding. It’s easy to understand in a salary cap league why guys like Belichick take an excessively frugal approach to team building, but if you’re going to occasionally open the vault don’t you do it for a high-performer on your own roster and not some outside question mark?

It’s still far too early to close the book on the Gilmore signing but what if this thing keeps trending bad? Worse yet, what if Butler is gone at the end of the year? Where will the Patriots be then? And for those of you that think New England can just press the eject button on the Gilmore experiment and give his money to Butler, think again. Gilmore’s guaranteed money based on performance (not injury) is 31 million, meaning there is zero chance he gets cut after this year. If he did, the cap hit for next year would be roughly 23 million for a player that wouldn’t even be on your roster. That ain’t happening. Even if he is cut after 2018 the cap hit would still be around 11 million in 2019. Like it or not, Gilmore is here for the foreseeable future. But the question Patriots fans are asking today is less about his future and more about his past: Why is Stephon Gilmore a Patriot?

Your guess is as good as mine.

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Survey #85

“so you can throw me to the wolves; tomorrow i will come back, leader of the whole pack.”

when was the last time you saw the person you like? february what are you listening to? markiplier playing "scp containment breach." going on a nostalgia binge. would you take back your last boyfriend/girlfriend? nope. tyler wasn't for me. are there certain things that can’t be joked about with you? rape and abortion. have you ever had a controlling boyfriend/girlfriend? no. would you be upset if you caught your boyfriend looking at porn? i'd be fucking pissed. not out of jealousy, but because it's lustful and just generally disgusting. your last ex calls wanting to hangout, what do you say? probably "stop fucking harassing me." do you have a friend named ashley? no, but that's my older sister's name. are you an aunt or an uncle? yep. did you use to watch blues clues? of course. are you a twilight fan? i never was. when’s the last time you threw up? couple weeks ago. one of my pills makes me sick sometimes. do you stutter when you get nervous? terribly. what is your favorite superhero movie? "ghost rider," if you count him. do you think that aliens exist? no. do you own a pair of converses? i've got a few. do you regret your last relationship? i sure do. do you plan on having children in the future? currently, no. i really don't think i'm capable of raising another human being efficiently. when did you last go to the doctor and what for? i went to my therapy appointment a few days ago. are you socially awkward? agonizingly would you rather watch a comedy movie or horror movie? horror if you could choose to be any mythical character, which would you choose? dragon what is your favorite animal and why? meerkats. they're adorable, unspeakably brave and loyal, and so curious. do you find yourself on youtube a lot? it's always open. what is something that reminds you of your childhood? dinosaurs what show do you miss coming on television? "meerkat manor" :( have you ever tried opening your eyes under water? yeah. don't like doing it though. have you ever been admitted to the hospital? five times. do you have a hint of obsessive compulsive disorder? a bit. i used to have baaad repetitive thought cycles when i was younger. do you use any acne medication? nah. i don't really get acne anymore. if you’re offered a trip to either hawaii or alaska which would you choose? alaska what cause (feminism, gay rights, abortion, etc) are you most passionate about? the pro-life movement how much money have you saved by shop lifting? what the fuck?! i don't shoplift to begin with. wtf. do you hate when couples are like “i love you” after dating for about 2 days? it's ignorant as fuck to say, yes. those are dangerous fucking words. have you ever run away? yes. ever been attacked by a dog? no. my little sister has, though. i'm pretty sure she still has the scar. ever had an out-of-body experience? no. ever considered acupuncture? noooo. do you prefer gory horror films or the psychological ones? PSYCHOLOGICAL do you have a favorite youtuber? or do you not watch much youtube? rhett&link + markplier are my literal babes. who do you text the most? or do you like to text at all? sara. do you like ronnie james dio? \m/, motherfucker. ever given a tattoo before? would you like to? no. i have tremors, so that'd be a terrible idea. have you ever had a pet bird? no. do you have any siblings that you never seen before? one half-sister, yes. have you ever heard a song that made you cry? most notably johnny cash's version of "hurt." the first time i listened to it, i couldn't help but cry. like i know it's a cover, but his version just personifies pain. do you like the show “that 70s show”? it's probably like my second-favorite show. it's fucking hysterical. has your house ever been broken in to? thank god no. the bloods tried to break into our old house though while my older sister and her old best friend were home alone. they were terrified. do you listen to blink-182? some of their songs are great, sure. i like a couple. do you listen to nirvana? sometimes. what thumb do you use to hit the space bar with? my right. do you like regular or chocolate milk better? chocolate growing up, did you listen to country music? not usually by will, but i did regardless. my older sister usually controlled the radio and such. if i wanted to listen to music on my own time, it was usually mainstream pop. do you have a gazebo at your house? no do you like tomatoes? nooo. what type of waffles do you like? (plain, blueberry etc..) plain do you like chicken or beef better? or do you not eat meat? i prefer chicken. did america really put a man on the moon? yes. have you ever dated outside of your race? for less than a day. were you born in a hospital, or somewhere else? in a hospital. who is your favorite male singer? patrick stump from fall out boy. do you listen to any acoustic bands, or singers? not specifically. what is your birthstone? amethyst do you go in at a fast food place or just hit the drive thru? just go to the drive-thru. i mean, isn't that the point of a fast food restaurant, to get food quickly and easily? do you like chinese food over pizza? nope. if someone you know offered you pot, what would you say? well first, i'd say no, and two, i'd most likely dissociate from that person. i in no way get involved with drugs. have you ever been to a strip club? hell no. how was/is the food in the cafeteria at your school? some were actually pretty decent, others were hellish. what is your favorite song? "do i wanna know?" by the arctic monkeys what do you think of the name courtney? i like it. do you have a wild side? not really, honestly. ever gone boating all day? i've been on a boat while fishing most of the day, but not like, all day. what is your favorite thing about going to your grandma’s house? honestly? nothing. i don't even get along with my grandma. do you like eggs? only if they're scrambled and cheesy. who are your heroes? mark fischbach and my mom. do you know who rodney atkins is? i live in the south, buddy. take a guess. are you tall? no. when is the last time you wore a dress? my sister's wedding. what is the last alcoholic beverage you’ve had? a strawberry smirnoff. do you know someone that smiles ALL the time? no. that'd be freaky. who is the hottest person alive? link neal, boys and girls. are you ready for summer? hell no. i hate everything about summer. do you like the sun or do you like snow better? snow!! don’t you love pancakes? hell ye boi. quick name a country singer: tim mcgraw. the only one i sincerely like. who did you last have an alcoholic drink with? family. ever had fruit pizza? ew, no. fruit doesn't belong on pizza. do you know anyone named caleb? i'm acquainted with one. he's cool. how many friends do you have on facebook? around 110, i think a little more? what was on the last sandwich you ate? peanut butter. what sort of music did you listen to when you were in high school? the same stuff i listen to now: heavy metal. i went through a phase where i listened to even heavier, more emo-styled bands, though. what is your favorite thai dish? never tried any. how many contacts do you have in your phone? i think like 15, lol. when was the last time you made out with somebody? around a year and a half. what month of the year was your mother born? august. how many apps do you have on your phone? only four. my phone doesn't have a lot of memory. have you ever dated a smoker? if not, would you? i haven't, and no, i honestly wouldn't. would you rather travel to japan or scotland? hmmmm... i THINK japan, but i'm honestly unsure. what is your mother’s first name? donna. do you share a middle name with any of your siblings? yes. have there ever been any bushfires/wildfires in your area? it's possible i guess, but i don't think so. how would you label your sexual orientation? heterosexual do you consider your goals easily achievable or are they pretty grand? eh, kinda in-between... my only real goal is to be a photographer, but the photography industry is SUPER competitive. what’s your favorite vegetable? broccoli is yummy. especially with cheese. would you rather eat italian or indian food? italian have you ever missed a flight? no. can you name five adjectives describing you? passionate, shy, sleepy, nervous, and loyal. do you prefer long or short hair on the opposite sex? a bit long. what is your favorite soda? mountain dew what is your opinion on legalizing drugs? you are honestly naive if you believe that's a good idea. no offense. do you like country music? no. have you ever done something illegal more than once? yes. if you could marry any celebrity, who would it be? mark fischbach omg can you swim? yes. what are your fears? pregnancy/childbirth, closed spaces, being alone in the end, long-legged spiders, the ocean, whale sharks, maggots/larvae, other things... do you shave your arms even though it supposedly grows back thick? no. do you ever get too lazy to clean up your pet’s pee and leave it for your parents to do it? i clean my dog's pee because he's my responsibility. if cali pees, i tell mom. bentley, i tell nicole. what insects or bugs do you fear most? rhino beetles and wasps do you think weed is just as bad as cigarettes? it's fact that it's worse. it has more carcinogens. don’t you just love free samples? obviously. are you someone’s best friend? no. have you ever used alternative medicine or old-fashioned remedies? i don't think so. what color and style is your hair? it's red, but with overgrown roots. do you wear glasses? yeah. do you want kids? no. there's just no way i'd be able to properly take care of a kid. what if you were in a fire and you could only save one object, what would it be? i'm guessing family and pets are already safe? then in that case, my laptop. what if you could ask god any one question, what would it be? "why do people who aren't sure whether or not they believe in you go to hell?" what if you found a suitcase full of $1,000,000, what would you do? honestly, i'd look for identification. i just couldn't take that much money with a good conscience. what if you had to choose, would you give up your sight or your hearing? sight. i couldn't live in total silence. what if you saw a robbery, would you report it? obviously??? what if you were given a chance to go to the moon, would you go? why or why not? no. i don't want to be in space that long. what if your friend could not have a child, would you carry her child for her? honestly, no. my 1st job was: game stop sales clerk favorite dog breed: hmmm. i really really like akita inus. papillons, too. assuming you had the cash to make it happen, what would your ideal living situation be at this point in your life (i.e. with who, where, under what circumstances, etc.)? how does your ideal compare to your current situation? i don't have anyone i'd like to live with besides who i do now, but i know i'd really like a wood house in the woods by a waterfall. it'd be different from where i live now, definitely. we live right beside a road that leads to a small town. if someone were to travel to your city (assuming they have never been there before), what would you tell them to visit? is your city (or the closest larger city to you) a big tourist area at all? lmao there's nothing to really visit. and no. if, as a parent of a teenager, you knew that your teenage daughter was having sex/thinking about having sex, would you put her on birth control pills? do you agree or disagree with those who say that placing teenagers on the pill encourages promiscuous sex? if you’re on the pill, how old were you when you went on it? if you’re not, have you ever considered taking it? i'd be pretty heavily trying to influence her to not have sex as a teen, but if that's what she really wanted, yes, i'd put her on the pill. i don't believe it encourages promiscuous sex, no. i was put on the pill when i was like... maybe 16, but only due to severe period cramps. what is the worst example of poverty you have seen in person? does this make you feel guilty at all (say, for throwing out food that you didn’t finish)? the saddest thing i saw, actually recently, was a pregnant woman with her husband in the pouring rain with just a small umbrella and a sign. can't remember what it said, honestly, but it was depressing. and of course i feel guilty. do you look at sex as a special thing that is shared with someone you love, or do you treat sex more casually? if you are a virgin, are you waiting for the right person to come along, or do you have religious/moral reasons to wait? it is 100% something special you share with hopefully one person. and i'm waiting for both reasons. do you unfriend people on facebook who post endless status updates or seem to be begging for attention? what about family members or coworkers – are you comfortable accepting their friend requests? is there anything on your facebook that could potentially cause trouble for you if someone were to see it? if you're fishing for attention, hell yes i do. i don't put up with that. and i take invites from family, yes. but i guess my use of profanity could cause some nasty looks from some of my family, particularly my grandma. when you have a significant other, are you honest about everything with that person, or do you think that there are some things better left unsaid? do you want your significant other to be willing to tell you anything and everything as well? i'm entirely open. and yes. grossest memory: that one time my late lizard pooped aaall over my hands and shirt. i nearly puked. what do you think of "abstinence"? it's the safest option for everyone. don’t you just hate preachers? uhhh, nooo...? does a mango smoothie sound good to you now? omgggg yaaaas what’s something that you find trashy? very short shorts. cover your ass, please. crayons or markers? crayons would you rather receive roses or sunflowers? roses. do you like to stay in your pajamas all day long? honestly, i'm always in my pajamas unless i have to go somewhere. mints or chewing gum? gum. at one point of your life, have you been obsessed with dinosaurs or robots? dinosaurs, yes. i was obsessed as a kid. i still think they're cool. have you ever been in a car accident? yes. are you afraid of stink bugs? yeah, they look freaky. are you interested in anime? somewhat, sure. name your favorite cartoon. pokemon are you afraid of the dentist? nah. do you believe in abortion? no. have you ever tried jolly rancher candy canes? YUUUUM, yes ;v; do you go hunting? no. what is your biggest accomplishment in life so far? recovering. do documentaries bore you? if they're about animals, no. are you usually happy or sad most of the time? happy, as of the late. (: are you afraid of spiders? most, yes. what is your most prized possession? the plaque i have for graduating in the very top percentage of my class. do you sleep with your closet doors open or closed? closed. have you ever peed in the woods? no. ever used a gun? no. who would you like to see in concert? METALLICA, PLSSSSSS what’s your second favorite color? pink do you know any african spiritual songs? no. what kind of stuff do you like on your hot dogs? mustard and ketchup. what’s one thing that’s happened to you that has made you a stronger person? jason breaking up with me. what’s one thing that’s happened to you in your life that made you feel weak? again, jason leaving. who do you think has had the largest influence on the person you are today? myself? what is one thing you feel your life is missing? adventure, definitely. action. which blink-182 song do you think is the most depressing? that i know? "i miss you." what color lights are on your christmas tree? we use colorful ones every year. are there hurricanes where you live? yep. have you ever been to a rehab center? i guess that depends on what you mean by "rehab center." never a place exclusively to get off drugs, no. but the mental hospitals i've been to doubled as detox centers. which was remarkably stupid. you don't treat mental illness patients the same as patients going through detox??? what’s your favorite flavor of ramen? i don't like ramen. have you ever been given an ink blot test? if so, what did you see in it? in a therapy thing, yes actually. and i mean, lots of things? i was shown various things. are you friends with someone who is a stoner? no. wait, yes actually. but we don't really talk much anymore. do you like playing shooting games at the arcade? nah. how long have you lived in the house you live in? only like two months. where did you lose your virginity, if you have? n/a what color car(s) do your parents drive? i think dad's is black, mom's is white. what are your views on getting rid of the penny? i don't really care. which asian country would you most like to visit? japan have you ever had a nosebleed? hasn't everyone at one point or another? do you have bangs? no. have you ever kissed someone underneath mistletoe? i don't think so. do you have a weak stomach? no. which website do you spend the most time on? youtube. it's always open/i'm always listening to something, usually let's plays. have you ever kissed someone of a different race? he kissed me, i didn't kiss him. do you read fanfiction? if so, what fandoms? no, actually. would you go back to your ex if he/she asked you? tyler, definitely not. jason, not right away. he'd definitely have to prove himself to me again. do you like stars, or hearts better? hearts mickey mouse, or winnie the pooh? pooh! where is the best place to get ice cream? coldstone, brother.

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wearethejerkoffs · 8 years ago

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1. How long have you had a Tumblr?2011 i think? 2. Describe your first kiss, who was it with, what was it like, where was it etc?his name is justin. he had a gf at the time and kissed me (shitty af) in a library. it was nothing special. i really liked him though. 3. What’s your biggest regret? I know we all say we don’t regret things but obviously it’s how we learn, from our mistakes. So what’s something from your past you wished you could have changed?dating emilio for as long as i did. 4 Favorite Songs at the moment?i cant pick its too hard 5. What is the craziest thing that you have ever done?i am not wild6. What’s the most embarrassing thing that’s ever happened to you?i erase this shit from my mind7. Do you have any scars and if so, how did you get them?they come from myself hahahh 8. Where would you like to be in 10 years?just successful and happy. 9. What are your views on drugs and alcohol?theyre fine just dont make them your top priority 10. What are your views on religion?believe what you want. dont bash me for not believing in anything though. 11. Have you ever thought about ending your own life? If so, why?of course. i get sad, hoe. 12. Write 5 facts people might not know about you.i am very open. there is very little people dont know about me. 13. last really important text you got?ky cam saying shes down to shop w me and maddie :)14. Can you let go?not easily 15. Discuss your first love.have i even had one?16. Put your ipod on shuffle and write 10 songs that pop up. Explain why each song is on there.i dont have an ipod but fuck i wish i DID17. Name somewhere you’d like to move or visit.visit? probably canada. id move there too. or wisconsin. 19. What are your views on mainstream music?no beef, i dont often find stuff i vibe with on the radio but i have18. Are you currently missing someone?more than anything 19. At what age do you think people should have sex?prolly high school, but really whenever you are comfortable. 20. What are your highs and lows of this past year?highs: leaving my abuser! getting a job i love! leaving people who are shitty and toxic! meeting rachel! meeting jessie! seeing amity!lows: spending the first half with my abuser! self harming again! crashed my car! 21. What are your strongest beliefs?i believe in aliens and ghosts (who doesn't?) i believe in an after life. 22. Who are you closest to in your family?my brother hes my best friend damn near 23. How important do you think education is?pretty important. i dont think college is necessary. 24. What’s one of your favorite shows?how i met your mother25. How have you changed in the past 2 years?i am stronger and happier. i have better friends and just a happier life. 26. Name 5 people who are famous who you find attractive.ryan ross, detective nick amaro, the rock, young matthew lillard, and ellen page27. Name your favorite movie and what it’s about.nick and norahs infinite playlist. its about a girl falling for a dude thru the mix cds he made his ex (her friend) and meets him at the club and soends the whole night with him looking for her drunk friend and a secret show. 28. Who is someone who fascinates you and why?aalyssa. shes so interesting to me and i could listen to her talk for hours. 29. What kind of person attracts you?lanky emo boys. douchebags. pretty girls. 30. What’s a problem that you have recently had or are currently having?i want to find another job 31. Name something that you miss.dhanes laugh. 32. Share 5 goals you want completed in the next 30 days.get in the shape i want to. thats it. 33. What’s been the highlight of your month and the lowest point? anytime i see michael and rachel its a highlight. low point: my FUCKING CAR GETTING HIT. 34. What’s something that you’ve done in the past that you would never do again?molly damn near. 35. What is you’re biggest insecurity & why?tummy. its too big. 36. What were the last 3 songs you listened to and what did they mean to you?eeeek i cant remember.37. Do you have a toy that’s really special to you and if so what is it, how did you get it etc?no i dont but i wish i did. 38. Have you lost anyone close to you to death? yep. i love you dhane! i love you christian! 39. What is your purpose in life?do i really have one? 40. When was the last time you cried and what was it over?today at a sad facebook video 41. If you got to spend an entire day with your favourite celebrity what would you guys do? we would have sex i love you ryan ross 42. If you could only listen to one artist for the rest of your life, who would you choose and why?nevershoutnever. you fuckin know why. 43. What are 3 traits that you like about yourself and what are three that you dislike about yourself? Personality wise.goods: im very empathetic. i look out for people. im fucking funnybads: im too nice. i get angry very fast. im petty. 44. Can you cook? If so what are your favorite dishes to make? yes!! i love to just make pasta with chicken and homemade pizza. 45. What was the last decision you regretted making?probably fucking sy hahahaha 46. Do you believe in the saying “once a cheater, always a cheater”?nope47. Do you ever wish you were famous?not really 48. What’s the nastiest thing anyone has ever said to YOU? Or something that’s hurt you above anything else and why?emilio said some of the most disgusting shit to me for months. dude told me he was gonna kill me hella times and how i should just end my life already! fucks wrong with that dude? 50. What mark would you want to leave on this world after you are gone?just want people to remember the good about me and my laugh 51. Have you ever thought of having plastic surgery?not really52. Have you ever jumped in the pool with your clothes on?hell no whats the point 53. Have you ever slapped a boy in the face?yes54. What’s the most romantic thing anyone has ever done for you?drive around with me and not make fun of me while i sob my eyes out. thanks becca! thanks jessie!55. What is one of your favorite memories?amity performing youngbloods. thanks for making me cry! 58. What’s the nicest present you’ve ever received?becca bought me an amity ticket, i love that bitch. emilio got me a stuffed animal that is sully so that was pretty nice of him to do (rare) my fav is when people give me flowers. 59. Have you ever had your heart broken?yeah im a sensitive bitch. not his fault tho!60. Have you ever wanted to change anything about your life? If so, what?yeah like mostly where i live. i would just like to leave here. 61. What is something you feel like you are really good at? problem solving62. What are your top 5 favourite all time songs by your favourite artist?open letter. deaths hand. i hate hartley. youngbloods. chasing ghosts. 65. What’s one thing someone has done for you that was really small but made a huge impact?becca had my back throughout my past relationship. she really did everything for me. s/o to her for being legit the best person i have ever met. 66. What do you do when you can’t sleep?watch more tv68. If you could change 3 things within your government, what would they be and why?get trump out of office. thats all i got. i dont know much about the government. 69. What’s your favourite holiday and why?id say halloween. i like the spooks. 70. What’s the kindest thing a stranger has ever done for you? Even if it’s TINY like holding a door open for you, something that you remember even though they were a complete stranger.the nice anons i get. thanks guys. 71. Who’s your favorite cartoon character?honestly? probably scooby. 72. What’s the first song that comes to your mind while reading this and why?scooby doo theme song. i love that shit. 74. What would you like to be the first dance song at your wedding?idk i never think about my wedding plans tbh. something alternative ideally. maybe something by flatsound or across the universe. 75. Have you ever been told you look like a famous person, if so, who?nope 76. What’s one thing you can not live without?becca! 77. What is the most selfless thing you have ever done for someone?idk i will really do anything for anyone. mostly just helping out with driving. 78. Are you a girly girl?i dont think so 79. What color is your bed?black80. Do you prefer light or dark haired guys?dark. ideally brunette. 81. Are you currently frustrated with a boy?hell yes but not his fault 82. Do you have a best friend?yes. s/o to becca. s/o to maddie. s/o to tony. 82. What song makes you cry the most?i cant even pick. probably something by flatsound 83. What’s the funniest film you’ve ever seen?eeeeeekkkk...... i have no idea...... honestly for some reason all that comes to mind is 21 jump street and thats weird 84. What’s something crazy that you’ve always wanted to do?im just tryna kiss a gurl85. Has anything ever happened to you that you just can’t forgive?yes for sure. i will never forgive my abusers. 86. Ever been really drunk?sadly87. Is there any type of rumor going around about you?not really. these people were saying i do bars and thats pretty fucked up considering ive never taken prescription pills for "fun"89. Have you ever felt ashamed about something? If so what was it & why? yeah i'm not gonna talk about it 90. Do you keep a journal? If so what mostly goes in it? Random thoughts, feelings, stories?i did, i should start again.  91. Do you like somebody?yep :-)92. Craziest shit ever done?im not crazy 93. What’s the saddest story/one that’s touched you the most that you’ve ever heard on the news?the kid that hung himself because people spread rumors that his girlfriend killed herself. 94. If you were told you were going to have 3 daughters, what would you want to name them?i have no idea because im never having kids. 95. Do you have a middle name and if so, what is it?marie96. Are you in a relationship?no 97. Do you enjoy drama?not really98. Are you a virgin?nope99. Are you short or tall?short100. Do you have siblings? If so, what are their names and how old are they? amber is 31, erin is 29, and tony is 16

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***** Pete Davidson has gotten himself engaged to Arianna Grande. He has new tattoos to prove his love.

***** The first wall was raised for the old Conklin’s barn dinner theatre in Goodfield, Illinois. After a struggle to raise money after the old barn was destroyed and a fight with the insurance company, the day has finally come. The new structure which is part of a whole new complex will open in 2019. I can’t wait!!!

***** Vikings QB, Kirk Cousins is still driving his great old van and proud of it.

***** Check out Rotten apples, a website that is a database for consumers to learn if those involved in movies or TV have allegations against them.

***** The Daily show had a good idea. Every time that Scary Clown 45 does his daily dose of fucking everything up, call Fox news. Calling your congressmen and protesting will have to continue, of course but it seems he mostly listens to Fox. Perhaps if they get tired of listening to us bitch, they will try to get their boss/fan to change a few things. 1-888-369-4762.** How far down will he and his cult drag this country?

***** A personal note: I heard a comedian the other day talking about jerks in all parts of our lives. Whether it be church, work, school, concerts, an AA meeting or whatever there is always an asshole in the mix to ruin stuff. This really resonated with me because I have seen a situation lately that perfectly illustrates this. A local store has a department with 3 managers. Manager #1 keeps hiring in his friends that mostly create their own schedules and do not often break a sweat. Manager #2 has been there a while and things run pretty smooth and fair when they run the day. Manager #3 is new to the position and often seems like they do not know what the fuck is going on and it was recently learned that this one has been backstabbing #2 so much that # 2 was fired. Now, we can’t know, of course, the reason for the firing but it just shows that a perfectly nice place to work and shop with a company one can believe in can go all wrong because of one or two bad apples. Manager #2 who is also battling illness (so does not often have the strength to fight back) has lost a career and many employees who respect them are now stuck working with people they know will run the place into the ground or having to find another job. I have seen a few similar situations thru the years and of course, asshole in chief in D.C. is like the all time perfect example of this but why can’t we weed out the jerks?

***** Days alert: Is Paul leaving? What? They need to bring in a good mate for him. He is arguably the most honest person in town and he deserves the best. Let Will and Sonny have each other and find a better match for Paul but don’t let him go. I mean Sonny treats Paul like he isn’t even in the room half the time and they were going to marry?! But, yes.. Chris Sean (Paul) is going and Bryan R. Dattilo (Lucas) may go soon too. Marci Miller (Abby) is out and will be replaced by the old Abby, Kate Mansin. Arianne Zucker (Nicole) will be back. Will she have a baby for Eric? Olivia Rose Keegar (Claire) has released a single titled ‘Just my type.’** Are they really gonna do a Ben and Ciara thing?** Sephen Nichols (Patch) is out as well as Greg Rikkaart (Leo). Farah Fath (Mimi Lockhart) is back. Sheila, Shawn and Belle will show up soon. Kyle Lowder who used to play Brady will return as another character. There is a rumor that Allison Sweeney (Sami) will swing in for a bit and will she be pregnant with Rafe’s baby? I am betting so since Hope just mentioned something about Raif not having any kids.

***** Antarctic ice loss has tripled in just a decade.

***** The Philadelphia Eagles were cancelled at the White House because most of them would not come. Philly’s mayor countered with:” Trump is not a true patriot but a fragile egomaniac obsessed with crowd size and afraid of the embarrassment of throwing a party to which no one wants to attend.” The night before, Fox news showed pics of Eagles kneeling when in fact they were praying as they always do. Nobody said there was anything wrong with that before so the players would like to know what is wrong with praying? This particular team never took a knee all season as protest. And what about the 10 players who wanted to go to the White house and worked hard to get there?** Scary Clown says he won’t even invite the NBA champs.

***** Illinois ratified the ERA. Just 1 more state and 36 years after the deadline to adopt legislation we may get there.

***** So, I see Domino’s latest stunt is fixing the roads? Somebody has to work on the infrastructure so it might as well be them.

***** The MtV awards best dressed to me were Alison Brie and Kristen Bell. While the chaos engulfed our country, the young people at the awards (the so called Hollywood elite), spoke out for real super heroes, acceptance for all and an end to bullying.

***** Should we be giving Dennis Rodman airtime to show how stupid he is? I hear the argument over and over lately that someone was nice to them so they must be ok. This could be said of Trump, Kim Jung Un or a serial killer. How fucking selfish can people be? The ignorant seem to be incapable of seeing the horror right in front of them as they pick and choose facts.

***** Why have I seen a rash of first cousins as lover’s jokes? Why is it ok to make fun of this?

***** Artifacts were found in Springfield, Il. which came from the 1908 race riots. First found in 2014 when work was being done on an underpass, officials hope to soon have them on display. After working to preserve the items, they are looking to the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress.

***** Is there a new serial killer in Massachusetts?

***** The Koch brothers are apparently waging war all over the country against Mass Transit. They use paid activists to push similar thinking voters to vote it down. It is funny that these big government haters don’t mind that the Koch Brothers have made a well thought out data service to help control their voters.

***** The Tony’s were pretty rockin’ this year. Robert DeNiro got everybody going with a Fuck Trump sentiment. Most awards went to The Band’s Visit, Harry Potter and the cursed child and Angels in America. Once on an Island won best revival and other winners were Glenda Jackson and Nathan Lane (who I love but was really pulling for Michael Cera and Brian Tyree Henry). Tony Shalhoub, Laurie Metcalf and Andrew Garfield also took home awards. The most beautiful moment was from the students of Stoneman Douglas and their teacher who was honored.** A Trump supporter went to A Bronx tale: The musical after the DeNiro incident which is codirected by Mr. D. The supporter held up a Trump 2020 sign. My son chuckled, “At least he bought a ticket.”

***** IHOP has become IHOB. They think they are Red Robin. More $ in burgers than pancakes, I guess.

***** Stephen Colbert sang the National anthem at a Mets game.** Trump is taking swipes at the late night hosts now. Conan, Colbert and Fallon teamed up to do a funny about that.

***** So some people think that Roseanne’s racist remarks and Samantha Bee’s ‘cunt’ comment are the same? Both should lose their show? NO.. big difference. Other countries do not get our outrage.. The word ‘cunt’ is not as big a deal in Canada and Great Britain. If there is fall out shouldn’t standards and practices at TBS be in trouble for letting the ‘feckless cunt’ comment go to broadcast? I mean Roseanne did this on her twitter on her own. Trump cult members think they can all go to twitter and spout their racist, hateful rhetoric and get away with it. If one is going to be successful in the mainstream world, they may not get away with that like Scary Clown. Anyway, Go Samantha Bee!!**BTW, Love the letter that Michael Moore put out about Trump and Roseanne, it is worth a read.** ABC will let the others serve out their contracts after a settlement with Roseanne when they bring us The Conners.

***** Jim Carrey and Showtime will give us ‘Kidding’ on Sept. 9. The dark comedy will cast Carrey as Mr. Pickles, a children’s host who is falling apart. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind’s Michel Gondry will direst and the cast will include Catherine Keener, Judy Greer and Frank Langella.

***** Michael Myers, Jamie Lee Curtis and Halloween are back and wipes out all the sequels.

***** George Clooney received the lifetime achievement award from the American Film Institute.

***** Illinois man, Jay Smith claims he may have coyotes, wild dogs, a mix or hybrid or a unique unknown species in the woods around his home. The U.S. Dept. of agriculture and Chicago’s field museum are now interested in the 40 or so creatures. Smith describes them as bigger than wolves with dark coats. You can see for yourself on youtube : Kanahoe wolves of forgottonia.

***** Atlanta has been renewed for season 3, of course!!

***** Reese Witherspoon will soon be back in the Legally Blonde world for the third time.

***** I truly love to hear Louie Anderson laugh.

***** The President is Missing, a novel by James Patterson and Bill Clinton is #1.

***** Terry Crews talked to the Senate about sexual assault.

***** Secret Service is temporarily keeping an eye on Sarah Sanders and more staff members may get their own agents.

***** The Environmental media association Benefit gala honored Elizabeth Olsen, Ray Halbritter, Mike Sullivan and Jane Fonda who danced on stage with the musical guest Snoop Dogg.

***** Redmond O’Neal was arrested on June 8 for assault with a deadly weapon, criminal threat, brandishing a knife, battery and attempted murder. Police say he went on a violent spree in Southern California.

***** Watch for Shock and Awe from Rob Reiner in July. People have been floating his name for President and U know the opposition would immediately call him meathead. I say embrace it, Meathead for President!!!!!!!**I Love that Reiner calls out Trump with’ the art of the lie.’

***** The much anticipated Old man and the gun will be out in September. The comedy filmed in Texas stars Robert Redford, sissy Spacek, Casey Affleck, Danny Glover and Tom Waits. I can’t fucking wait!

***** Look for the new film, An Actor Prepares with Jeremy Irons, Mamie Gummer, Larry Pine and Jack Huston.

*****The special council has piled more charges onto Paul Manafort. It was after this that he went back to court for violating the terms of his house arrest and his bail was revoked. The 40 charges now include witness tampering. All charges were about incidents before the Presidential campaign.

***** We have to know that people are not really paying attention when Scary Clown and Gulliani babble on incoherently on national television and their supporters do not seem to care or they really don’t get it. These voters seem to think that it is easier to stay with the devil you know and just refuse to bend. ** Ivanka keeps gathering more new trademarks in China and refuses to answer questions about it as the trade talk rages on.** Why do people keep trying to normalize all this behavior?

***** So.. Supposedly Trump told a friend that porn is not allowed in the White House and it his biggest complaint. Some reporters submitted this as an official question to the White House. It seems the subject has never really come up so no one has thought to ask before. So far there has been no response. ** Word is that Scary Clown rips up papers after he reads or uses them. The problem is that Presidential papers have to be preserved for history so 2 people work just to tape those papers back together. They were fired this month.

***** Sexual misconduct controversy abounds in Illinois under Mike Madigan with Tim Mapes under the microscope.

***** Justify won the Belmont Stakes and is just the 13th horse in history to win the Triple crown.

***** Senator Jeff Merkley is telling us that immigrants are being held in small cages in Texas. Is this our country? Is this really happening?

***** Recording academy President, Neil Portnow will step down from his post next year.

***** Mystery Science Theatre 3000 will tour in the fall. Joel Hodgson, Jonah Ray, Tom Servo and Crow will begin riffing live on October 9 in Portland, Maine.

***** I wanna be in New Orleans for Voodoo fest on October 26-28. The lineup rocks with Marilyn Manson, Janelle Monae, Zeds dead, Elle King, Mumford and Sons, Arctic Monkeys and Childish Gambino.

***** Next year Brian De Palma is going to start filming ‘Predator’ about the Weinstein scandal.

***** Convicted drug trafficker Alice Johnson was pardoned by Scary Clown. Who’s next?

***** Trump called Canadian PM Trudeau, meek, mild and weak. ** True to form, Trump showed up late at the G7 for his meeting on women’s empowerment.** Rep. Steve Schmidt said that ‘Trump beclowned himself.”** Trump quote: “Kim Jong Un is a great guy” and “ North Korea is no longer a nuclear threat.” I don’t think he will ever hear the end of it over those statements. Saying it does not make it so. I wrote this and then I heard Chuck Schumer say it. ** Big evidence of wrong doing in the Trump charity organization. He is now being sued by the attorney General for persistent illegal conduct.** Trump now says he wants to withdraw from the World Trade Organization. He is being such a good little boy by helping Putin check things off his list. Destroy NATO, Destroy EU, Destroy the UN, Eliminate U.S. leadership. ** As June ends, there are new reports that North Korea has ramped up its Nuclear production.

***** This whole mess with 2,000 kids being taken from their parents at the border is an outrage. I can’t help but think of our ‘well meaning’ Christian folk trying to convert the Native Americans back in the day. They tried hard to make the natives dress like the white man, pray like the white man and go to our schools. As well as leverage for scary clown’s wall, are they trying to fill these children’s heads with their own propaganda while they are in foster care or residing in the white man’s warehouse? **When will the loyalists realize that a wall cannot be built? Private citizens own some of that land. There are bodies of water on the border. No matter how much the racists wish for it, it just can’t be done.** There is something about the way he grins crazily when he is called out on something. It seems like he is so proud of his lies and the way he conducts himself so unethically. I am reminded of Manson and the way he would light up when asked about his crimes or when he was shown footage from other family members talking about him. This is such a fast moving story that some are equating to the way the Jewish and the Japanese were treated in the past. ** It is obvious that no planning went into any of this new policy. It is wonderful that so many reporters are watching the facilities they know about and staying at the border. It takes time to get the facts and it isn’t easy when the administration is being so secretive. The lawsuits have started. Can we get Sessions, Nielsen, Pence and Trump on child neglect??** People of all nations will not want to be here soon and we will be left with the racists and bullies. Do we leave or do we fight? If everybody left the Trumpers alone in this country what would they have to complain about? They have no empathy, it is like they thrive on others suffering. ** Multiple on air personalities cried at the stories of the children as their emotions came to the surface. I think many of us feel helpless as that sinking feeling we all had on election night has come to the point we all feared.** The Red Cross has not even been allowed in to these FOR PROFIT facilities. Protesters are staying on the case of Krisjen Nielsen. The administration and their defenders have been so flippant about the whole thing especially Corey (womp, womp) Lewandowski.** It costs the government over twice as much to house the kids without their parents.** Melania visited the kids and wore a jacket which read ‘I really don’t care, Do you?’ This started a whole new mess. I thought of those Turpin monster parents. Why on earth does anyone want to put kids in cages? Does it make someone powerful to torture children?

***** June ended with about 700 protests for the kids in cages. Family’s Belong Together marches were overflowing in the heat with inspiring messages and a lot of heart. I was so proud to be there.

***** New York has sued the federal government over zero tolerance.**The U.S. has withdrawn from the UN human rights body. Many do agree with this one for they feel there is not equal punishment for nations when it comes to human rights.** A lawsuit was filed on April 23 alleging kids were held down and injected to render them helpless and keep them calm.**It seems that we should leave the immigrants alone and enforce swift, harsh penalties for those who hire undocumented workers. These employees aren’t paying their fair share on these employees.**The Pentagon has been asked to prepare housing for 20,000 immigrants.** I mean, this is not a simple subject but basically if you come in illegally, you go back. If you seek asylum, you should not be separated from your child or be in detention. More judges would help get this backlog caught up and ankle bracelets had seemed to be helping the situation. Take some of this ‘traveling to Mar a Lago $’ and hire more judges. And let’s help stabilize these regimes so folks will feel safer in their own countries. Some are even saying they should abolish I.C.E.. Some of those speaking out with that thought are I.C.E. agents themselves. I.C.E. spokesperson James Schwab has been speaking out. He claims he resigned because although he was asked to spin for both administrations, the current administration asked him to outright lie. Thank you James! ** Immigrants add 63 billion to the economy.** A federal judge has declared the kids must be reunited with their parents in 30 days, for younger kids it is 14 days.** Justin Trudeau tells refugees they are welcome in Canada.

***** Ok.. Read the next item before this one!!!... So Stuttering John AKA John Melendez has a podcast and he claims he called air force one and he got thru. He pretended to be Sen Bob Menendez and Trump told him he would have a Supreme Court pick in 2 weeks. While people wondered if this was true, Trump announced he would have his pick on July 9.

***** The Supreme Court upheld the travel ban including Venezuela, North Korea, Syria, Iran, Somalia and Libya. They (5-4) claim it is not a Muslim ban and allows for them to get off the list. This reverses the lower court’s rulings but at least it is the third incarnation as the first two were struck down. Even though the Supreme court said the President has the authority it did put it somewhat in check. Still wrong. 0 people have been killed in our country by a person from one of these countries.** The Supreme Court also tells us you don’t have to pay your union dues. ** Justice Kennedy is set to retire. Trump’s private banker at Deutsche bank for 12 years is Justice Kennedy’s son. JS

***** The country gets more liberal and the power in the country gets more conservative. WTF?** Rod Rosenstein seemed very confident in his questioning this week. This is good news for the country!

***** Sean Spicer is putting together a talk show.

***** The Trump administration is backing insurance companies to eliminate the pre- existing condition protection.

***** The 2019 Hollywood walk of fame will add Robert DeNiro, Anne Hathaway, Michael Buble, Tyler Perry and the trio of Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton.

***** Sara Netanyahu has been indicted on fraud charges.

***** Take a listen to the Ear hustle podcast and get the dirt inside prison.

***** Studied show that 97% of rapists never go to jail.

***** Women can drive in Saudi Arabia but arrests are up for women who protest there.

***** Jerry Springer is finally done with his show.

***** The republicans govern without shame. The democrats shame without governing. –Bill Maher

***** From what I see it seems that America to the Conservatives means guns and Christianity should be included in our governments and our schools. They seem to like everyone to take care of themselves financially except in extreme cases and outsiders should not be a part of this country. America to the liberals seems like the same rights for all like health care, ruling our own bodies and that love is love. They believe in high taxes and programs to help others.

***** Jeff Sessions of the United Methodist church has been charged under church law with violating paragraph 270.3: child abuse, immorality, racial discrimination and dissemination of doctrines contrary to the standards of doctrine of the United Methodist church. In the 50 years of the church as a denomination, no case can be found that has gotten this far.

***** It seems that there was always a bit of a separation between Fox news and the rest of the company. This latest border mess has crumbled that particular wall. Artists who have at one time or another worked for Fox Studios are speaking out. Modern Family creator Steve Levitan, director Payl Fieg and Seth Mcfarlane are among them.

***** If we don’t make peace with our wounds, we’ll be tempted to despise the wounded. – Father Gregory Boyle

***** No one is illegal on stolen land. Thanks Kim

***** Trump is not much on tradition. The man cancels the congressional picnic for lack of time but is gung ho for rallies and fund raisers .A scrawl on Fox news dressed down CNN and MSNBC for not airing the latest Trump rally. Who the fuck wants to see that nightmare?

***** Peter Fonda’s emotions got the better of him and he tweeted: WE SHOULD RIP BARRON FROM HIS MOTHERS ARMS AND PUT HIM IN A CAGE WITH A PEDOPHILE AND SEE IF HIS MOTHER WILL STAND UP AGAINST THE GIANT ASSHOLE. He deleted it but the damage was done. He apologized to the family.**Sarah Sanders was asked to leave a restaurant** Maxine Waters is asking people to call out Trump workers when they see them. This is getting ridic but I think the right thinking people of this country are feeling trapped and desperate. Civility is hard keep in check when our country is being taken over by racists, thieves and bullies. We must try to do this right though. We must get this right!

***** Scary Clown 45 claims that crime in Germany is so high, perhaps because of the refugees? In fact, crime is at a 30 year low? Similarly, a report commissioned by Scary’s own administration shows how much immigrants put into our economy but since the numbers were good, they buried that report.** A story claimed that WH staffers show the President only what he wants to see and that John Kelly tells people to just let him keep going as he is and if it leads to impeachment then our country will be through this horrific time.** His rallies and speeches get crazier if that is possible. Does he travel with an audience?** Trump claims that the Dems want immigrants because they see them as potential voters. Genius, years of red tape and possibly letting gang members (his words) in just for a vote! ** He will say anything to divert attention from himself and his cohorts using this country as their personal piggy bank and taking our rights away.** The UN has declared that the policy of separating children from parents at the border, “may amount to torture.”

***** White house.gov has an agenda for a complete reorganizing of the Federal government full of privatization, major cuts and consolidated power.

***** I-95 in Maine has been getting shut down so border patrol can check your citizenship. WTF?

***** OK.. This is a very unimportant note and I try to never watch commercials but I love the new Progressive ad where the dude is turning into his dad. So cute!

***** I wish that there was a little more backbone on the Sunday morn political shows. I mean the weekend of the big outrage at the border, there were big Trump loving infomercials, why are Bannon and Kelly Ann even invited on these shows? I have no earthly idea how anyone could have an ounce of respect for any of them.

***** A NY Times story finds that Scary clown 45’s prison cutbacks have been so severe that teachers, secretaries and nurses have had to act as prison guards. ** Economists estimate that Iowa soybean farmers alone could lose up to $624,000,000 as a result of the tariffs. **Harley Davidson has moved some of their work to Bangkok because of the trade war.

***** Thank you James Corden for the Carpool Karaoke with Paul McCartney. It is the first time in a while that I let go of all the worry over this country et al and really got engrossed in something sweet and fun.

***** Disabled vets are being docked on their disability checks for an insurance they were forced into that they and their families can’t even redeem.

***** Kevin Vernardo has started his own circus.

***** Vince Vaughn was arrested June 19 for DUI and resisting arrest.

***** The BET awards winners include D J Khaled, Black Panther, Migos and Sza. Best dressed to me were Meek Mill, Remy Ma, Trevor Jackson, Storm Reid and Janelle Monae.

***** Mystery Race day theatre with Michael Waltrip????

***** John Legend tweeted a Fuck You to Paul Ryan!

***** The electoral college must go!

***** March 2019: Tim Burton will bring us Dumbo with Michael Keaton, Colin Farrell, Alan Arkin and Danny Devito.

***** Stan Lee has gotten a restraining order against his business manager claiming elder abuse.

***** A 94 year old Elgin woman put up a large sign in her yard that read ’Impeach Trump now!’ The city told her that it exceeded the size limit for signs in the city ordinance. She put up a smaller sign claiming that she just wants to draw attention to his foreign policy, trade policy and domestic policy. The woman, Myra Becker said that he’s a disaster. “I’m on a walker and there are all the things I can’t do but I can put up a sign.

***** Larry Kudlow had a heart attack.

***** The new season of Comedians in cars getting coffee includes Dave Chapelle, Alec Baldwin, Dana Carvey, Ellen DeGeneres, Zach Galifianakis, Jerry Lewis, Kate McKinnin, Tracy Morgan, Hassan Minaj, John Mulaney and Brian Regan.

***** So John Cena is really a pig! There was a clip of the man telling his girlfriend that he would make the sacrifice of giving her a child. This was a regular clip from a show she does so at least he owns his pig status, I guess. Sure, it is a ‘reality’ show that is supposedly all scripted but I don’t think that would matter to me if I was that kid. I guess all their money will help. Good luck kid!

***** Boundaries will star Christopher Plummer, Peter Fonda and Vera Farmiga.

***** Mike Pence was invited to the big gay dance party in Ohio that was in the street just outside his hotel.

***** Brockmire continues to make me laugh out loud. A great line: Orange juice is a glass of vodka wasted. How will sobriety play in the next season?

***** Trump staffers seem to have trouble unwinding and having personal lives since most of D.C. wants nothing to do with them. Recently it was revealed that they have found a bar called Rebellion where they feel welcome. Oh what clever clogs. I imagine that since this has been revealed , it won’t be fun there for long.

***** Better Call Saul season 4 will have a mysterious Breaking Bad character that was never seen named Lalo. A couple more characters will be introduced when the show returns August 6.

***** The Traverse city film fest will honor Jane Fonda with Lifetime achievement.

***** Acura is sure using a lot of vintage Stones in their advertising as of late.** BTW The Stones have a new boxed set of all their original material albums from 1971 on. It is all cleaned up and lookin’ pretty!!

***** The new Whtney doc about Whitney Houston has some honest revelations . In a posthumous Me Too moment, it is revealed that she was molested by her cousin Dee Dee Warwick.

***** Maryland was home to the latest shooting. The AP has declared they will help the Capital Gazette continue to publish until they get back on their feet. Now that is what this country should be about.

***** The table in the Vietnamese noodle shop where Obama and Bourdain dined has been put under glass. Fans have come to the shop to pay tribute.

***** Mia Farrow proposes we move to saying ‘succumbed’ to suicide instead of ‘committed’ suicide because depression is an illness. The legacy of suicide is cruel enough for all involved. The national suicide prevention hotline number is 1-800-273-8255.

***** R.I.P. Glenn Snoddy, Alan Bean, Joe Jackson, Ella Brennan, Dwight Clark, Kate Spade, Alan O’Neill, Danny Kirwan, Eunice Gayson, Murray Frumson, Koko, Jackson Odell, Gena Turgel, Jerry Maren (last of the lollipop guild) , DJ Fontana, Neal Boyd, Matt ‘guitar’ Murphy, Nick Knox, Jimmy Wopo, Charles Krauthammer, Vinnie Paul, Richard Harrison, Richard Valeriani, victims of the Maryland newspaper shooting, Anthony Bourdain, Steve Soto, Willie Lee Rose, Richard Allan Greenberg and Eva Kirchgessner.

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Happy Mother’s Day—Sunday Chats (5-14-17)

Happy mother’s day everyone! Let’s chat.

Thanking Mom

Firstly, I know I am very fortunate to have a mother still with me that loves and supports me, whom I have a great relationship with despite our differences, and who is all around an amazing and great human. I know this makes me very lucky. She has been there through thick and thin, and still supports me in what I want to do and how I live to this day. She lives in Florida, which is pretty far from Maryland, but she comes up here every other month or so for work, so I do get to see her semi-frequent. Including last Sunday! See, picture:

It’s that time of year again where I remind everyone that hey: my mom is probably the reason I am so into video games. This is the first freelance article I ever wrote, and the first thing I ever got paid to write:

http://pixelkin.org/2015/05/11/playing-with-mom-inspired-my-love-of-games/

Pixelkin is an awesome site that was super receptive to me and it’s where I wrote my first paid game review and feature. Also a big shoutout to Keezy Young who drew the cover art for the article, follow her, because she is an amazing artist: @keezybees

I used to play more 2D stuff on my own, like A Link to the Past or Pokémon, and I’d usually get away with skipping all the dialogue and just playing. It may surprise some of you, but I was very bad at reading when I was younger, and this also may surprise none of you. I had essentially a remedial reading regiment when I was growing up, and while I still am not a huge fan of reading books themselves, I love reading now, partly because its hand in hand with writing.

With the jump to 3D games, it was pretty difficult to get through major investments like Final Fantasy VII and Ocarina of Time, games my two older brothers were into and I desperately wanted to be into, but couldn’t because of my difficulty reading and following what to do next. In came my mom, who worked as both my filter and my Official Mom Narrator. She would play and read what was happening, while I would memorize maps, abilities, and give out strategies so that we could get through the tougher parts. Keep in mind I was born in 93, so when these games were big, I was five and six years old, so while something definitely explicit like FF7 would be a challenge for me, it’d be hard regardless to just keep up with.

But that didn’t stop her. Even the last year, hearing how in love my Mom is with the Nintendo Switch and Zelda Breath of the Wild, and hearing how, of course, she is playing that game totally differently than anyone else I’ve talked to, focusing on exploring and chatting with characters, she inspires me to keep playing games and keep telling their stories, because hey: they might surprise you.

Happy mother’s day mom. I may not be close, I may not be able to afford a bunch of flowers to send you, but I am forever grateful for everything you’ve given me and the kindness you continually inspire me to bring and share with everyone I meet. <3

Gaming with Friends Again

This last week I sat down and played some online games with friends for the first time in actual forever. The last time was Overwatch with friends late last year, and while I’ve been enjoying my time in single player land, it was so much goddamn fun good lord.

Last night Nato Johnston, who is a lovely Australian fucker™, got together after the recording of Irrational Passions Podcast 328 to play a bunch of Mario Kart 8 online. Eventually Barrett Courtney, his girlfriend Alyssa, Max Roberts, Moises Taveras, Trevor Starkey, and Shaun Donahue would join us for intermittent rounds as well, and good lord was it a blast. We set up a quick Discord (something I’ve never done) and got to playing.

I hesitantly bought Mario Kart 8 on Friday because I knew I’d be pretty left out if I didn’t have it for Kinda Funny Live 3 this coming June, but this night alone completely justified the purchase. It was about three and a half hours of battle mode, races, some crazy Mirror and 200cc thrown in there, and it was just a complete joy. I got heated, said some ridiculous shit, Nato laughed so hard he cried at one point, and it was easily some of the most fun I have ever had playing a video game.

It brought about a few things. I mean, earlier that day me and the podcast crew got together to play some, and that was already a blast, but I’ve gathered around so many amazing and talented friends from podcasts all over the world, and how fun and enjoyable all of their company is.

I am very lucky, and it was nice to get a little reminder to just how fun it is to play games with friends is. Also: that new Battle Mode in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe? It’s fuckin’ great.

Thank you all for the good time <3

What I’ve Been Working On:

So there is a thing about this....

5/7 - Sunday Chats

5/8 thru 5/13 - Brand New Secret Project

So I mentioned on Twitter that I had an idea for a new thing that I am very, very excited about, but it is very much in its primordial stages. I just started writing it out this past week, and I feel like it will be the majority of what I am working on going forward. Which once again makes this section of Sunday Chats a little useless, kind of how it became when all I was working on was Alex Talks episodes.

I really don’t want to say too much about the project, one because it will be a massive undertaking, and two because I have literally only told one person. I’ll give a couple hints though, because I can’t resist. It is technically TWO ideas, and they are video-based. It relates to a thing I said I was looking into semi-recently, and that should be a big hint for some, and they lean very specifically into me and my interests. It’s a show that just makes too much sense for me not to make, and I don’t think anyone out there is quite doing this same thing, at least not in the way I am planning it.

I’m excited, and I can’t wait to say more, but I’m expecting the earliest date for this to be announced to be August. Probably later. But I’ll say this: finally everything is starting to come together.

What’s on Tap

Persona 5

My emotions with Persona 5 are so complicated.

Like I’ve said in the past, maybe part of me is disappointed by it? But that’s really not the right word. It’s better than I expected, I love it more than I hoped, but it didn’t topple Persona 4, or at least hasn’t for me yet, then again what can, so how can I be disappointed? It’s very complex

But I’ll say this, going back through it, I just appreciate everything so much more. The little touches, the dialogue, the loving care the developers took to make it.

It’s assuredly my game of the year. Which is nuts. I tend to lean toward the thing that’s new for me, but which is unquestionably Zelda, but Persona 5 just does what it does so goddamn well.

I think I need to rewrite a lot of my critique of it, which is partly why that hasn’t gone up yet, so when I edit that, hopefully this week, people will be able to read it.

I love this game, and it is my favorite game I have played all year. Concerns and slight disappointment aside, that is for sure not in doubt.

Mario Kart 8:

I was very hesitant to by this, but see above, I haven’t regretted it.

It’s also great to just see how fucking good Mario Kart 8 is again. And honestly, the double item stuff goes such a long way to balance things out and make the rubber banding seem less-so, that I really love it.

GREAT GAME IS STILL GREAT

Nier

No, not that new Nier, the OLD Nier.

Yeah don’t ask me why I started playing this. Justin Graffius lent it to me, and I’ve just started it today, and now I’m hooked.

More to come on this later.

Questions

Remember you can have your questions in Sunday Chats too, just look for the tweets I send out on Sunday afternoons that include the hashtag “#SundayChats” and respond to those with your question, and I’ll include it! Thank you again everyone for the questions. Did you all know I have the best followers ever? Oh, and if you ask a Sunday Chats questions, I’m guaranteed to love you forever. True story.

You’re too kind Quin, but I appreciate the support. We’ll have a good time in San Francisco! Very excited to see you have see many folks!

It’s Mother’s Day, how is it NOT lit??

Dude like, that new Street Fighter 2 package is such bullshit right? Evil Ryu is pretty cool in Street Fighter 4, I’ll say that. I really like playing Akuma, because he is very aggressive. He’s no Abel, but hey, he is pretty fun to play and he was the first character I got not terrible with. Evil Ryu is rad because he is kind of like Akuma, with a bit more balanced aggression than Akuma for me, and not as low health.

But fuck this Violent Ken stuff. And fuck charging anything more than 20 dollars for that Switch version of that game from 1991.

This is a good one. For me, the one where you climb Mount Lanayru was absolutely my favorite. Early on when I was playing Zelda I tweeted about doing something that was the craziest thing I had done in an open world game, and I was talking about this. Since it’s been a couple months since it came out, I don’t feel bad talking about it now.

There is just a rumor in town about Zelda once visiting the spring that is somewhere on Mt Lanayru. It’s been so long that no one even really knows where the spring is, and it’s so cold and dangerous to go up there that no one has done it. The first time I climbed the mount I just climbed up the side of it, and saw the giant dragon resting at the top. I got thrown off and died, and had to start again.

The second time I climbed up, I took the “beaten path” so to speak, which is this super great, set-piece like path, where I saw my first Lynel and had to run from it, fought off wolves, summoned Wolf Link, and fought tooth and nail against monsters to the top of the mountain. It was amazing and felt like my own little story, and none of this was brought on by any formal quest in my quest log, it was just something that I wanted to do.

When you get to the top, you see the giant dragon Naydra resting, injured by calamity, at the top. Then you do this massive scale fight, sort of, where you shoot the calamity on the dragon across the Lanayru Mountain Range, and it just amazing with its sense of scale and scope. It was massive, and also small at the same time. I remember when I got to PAX East and got to chat with Greg Miller about the game, this was the thing I had to just gush about to someone whom I knew may have seen it.

It’s absolutely still one of my favorite moments, and the reward is a Shrine quest that leads to a Shrine hidden behind the Nayru Spring.

This is a good question too, so don’t sweat it!

I am a little bias to Toriel, who is the dog-mom you meet at the beginning of Undertale. She is so sweet and wonderful. She is the dog mom to end all dog moms, and I love her.

Outside of that, I can’t really think of many. I feel like there has definitely been a dadification of video game relationships, so maybe that’s why not a lot of great video game moms are coming to mind. I have one, that’s a bit of a cop out, but The Boss from Metal Gear Solid 3, who acts as a sort of mother/mentor/lover figure to Big Boss, and also Boss from Metal Gear Solid 4, who is technically Solid Snake’s mother, and she is also badass, even though she more so inherits the Boss’s appearance and characteristics.

Double up question, so I paired these together.

This is very, very hard. My mom and I have had very rad moments, and we’ve also had our downs as well.

Obviously playing Final Fantasy VII with my mom is a big one, since I got to write about it and everything.

A recent one was figuring out how to do SharePlay, that great PS+ feature where you can control someone else’s game briefly, and I used it to help my mom get through a difficult section in Uncharted 4. Or so she believed, to her chagrin, it was more that you had to click in the right analogue stick and she wasn’t sure what the “R3″ button was. To her credit, she did get through the entirety of every other part of that game with my help, but that was just a recent favorite moment.

She is also really great at giving life advice. Even at this most recent dinner we had last Sunday, she definitely related and understood to a recent situation I am going through, and gave me some great advice. But those moments come pretty fast and frequent when you have an awesome mom.

Okay, so one: context, when we were playing battle mode last night, the villager (COM) kept hitting me with fireballs and green shells in Mario Kart, and I MAY HAVE angrily and jokingly said I was going to cut off his face and wear it because when I get pissed i say absurd terrible things to make me laugh, and Nato and Barrett just wouldn’t fucking let it go.

Listen, I get it, this doesn’t sound good, but it was very funny if you were in the Discord.

And here we are. Never gonna live that one down.

AND TO BE FAIR Barrett at some point said he was going to feed Dry Bones Bowser a bunch of dicks, and we ALL kept saying that we were gunning for each other’s bootys when we were racing each other.

So shit gets real, and real explicit in Mario Kart.

Please god just let me live this down.

Hrm, I feel like I’m not the best to ask since I don’t have a ton of Manga under my belt. The only ones I have read art some of Inuyasha and pretty much all of Naruto, except for the war arch in the middle, which I skipped most of to get to the end to see how it ended. Either way, those are both great, in my humble opinion.

As for shows, my favorite anime is Sword Art Online. Full of terrible, terrible flaws, but is easily my favorite show for what it gets right, for the beautiful love story at its center, and for the way it is paced.

I adore Your Lie in April, and that’s another romantic-ish one. And fair warning, it’ll fucking destroy you. It’s an amazingly somber story about music and what it means to the human heart and the human condition, and it is very, very sad. But it earns it. It does it well.

Golden Time has a ton of problems and can be super frustrating, but it’s a really sweet love story and it’s about college kids instead of high school kids, which is really interesting. It’s the first and currently only anime I have watched about Japanese college kids, so I’d recommend it for that, it’s humor, and the adorable feels it gives you.

A general rule of thumb is if you haven’t watched Ouran High School Host Club, you absolutely need to. Added bonus is the Manga continues on way farther than the 1-season show, and it follows the high school kids through graduation. I haven’t read it, but it’s an easy recommendation.

And to round out my five, Waiting in the Summer is a great summer anime, it’s a great love story, and it’s just fun and wacky. It’s got the drama, it’s absolutely beautifully drawn, and it’s worth a watch too. I loved it, and it’s probably my third favorite anime of all time.

Honestly, and it’s weird because I just did it in March, but travel again. I guess going to PAX East, as fun as it is, is still more work than it is pleasure. It doesn't help that this past PAX East was very stressful for absurd reasons I won't get into here, but the overall trip didn’t end up being that enjoyable, even if I did have a great time through most of it

So this upcoming trip to San Francisco I am hoping to have a great time with. I just hope I can actually have a little bit of money to have on that trip, because right now I’ll barely be able to afford food.

So all expenses paid? Go somewhere and spend time with someone I care about. That’s something i just very much want to do right now.

YES. I don’t want to frighten anyone, but I feel like Harmonix has been trying a lot of new stuff lately, and none of it has been working. I am genuinely very concerned for their future.

I can’t imagine that company staying the way it is for much longer. It’s a terrible shame, because just 8 or 9 years ago, that company was literally on top of the video games industry.

Haha goddammit Roger.

I tried this once. It wasn’t that cold. My tongue did not get stuck. Though I found out that can actually happen and have been waaaay too terrified to do it since. Which is probably for the best.

Tough question Danny.

There is love love, and then there is familial or friend love.

The latter I know isn’t like the former, but I don’t know if I’ve ever really experience true, unadulterated love. For me, familial love is more a sense of comfort. The feeling that no matter what, this is here. It doesn’t break for anyone, but it does bend and change. And it can just go away.

I think, personally, believing you can’t fall out of love is ignorant. Whether it’s one kind or the other, people change, and the relationships and bonds with them change too. I think the ones where the people change and grow, and then the bond and sense of familiarity with that person grows and becomes stronger, those are the keepers. When that intimacy and comfort with someone grows and grows, those are the kinds of bonds that you want to work to hold on to. But there have been people in my life where they just change and honest to god, I have not wanted to work to hold onto that person in my life.

I have had people in my life where I thought I felt true, absolute love for, and I was wrong. And I don’t even consider those people a friend anymore. I think that’s okay. I have many friends, and I’d rather spend the time nurturing those relationships where we both put in and get something out than the ones where I don’t.

Justin McElroy put it really well once, saying that in Marriage, he find the most success thinking of it as 60/40. If you both think of it that way, if you both put in just a little more than you feel you need to, then it’s a lot easier. To feel you need to put in more work than just an even half, then you both always go the extra mile.

I am so, so, so unbelievably lucky. Lucky to have the love I get in my life. But I still have some hesitation with saying to any person that I love them. Whether in one way or another. Sometimes its even hard with my closest friends, and it sucks because I know those people deserve and crave that kind of sentiment, but it’s hard for me, you know? It’s really hard for me to show that vulnerability and affection, but I really, really try, for the people I care about.

So I guess if you’re one of the folks I say I love you too, whether as a friend or not, know that I really mean it, or at least, in my head I am trying my best to, and to deserve your love in return, which I don’t always think I do.

Hopefully someday I will be able to feel that kind of love love that everyone is so obsessed with finding out there. And hopefully I’ll deserve, and not take it for granted.

Sorry, got a little esoteric there. But hey, what’s new?

NOW THIS IS A QUESTION TO GO OUT ON.

Uh.. Uhh... They’re all so good.

So uh, first, SHOUTOUT TO MOO MOO MEADOWS. That shit is great.

I really, REALLY love the design and look of most of the levels. Like the Big Blue in MK8 is pretty incredible. My favorite track, overall, is probably Dolphin Shoals, honestly. Like, it may just be for the music alone, which has the best music of almost any track in the game, but it’s also colorful, jolly as all hell, and just a fun race.

Least favorite? I dunno. One of the more simple courses, like the GBA Mario Circuit, or Donut Plains, just because they aren’t super memorable like the rest of the courses.

Shoutouts

Shoutout to moms! It’s a completely thankless job, and there, and some people truly pour their heart and souls into it. There is no better time than mother’s day to thank your mom.

I understand not all mothers are great or actually help their children, but I’ve been lucky in my life to have one that’s always supported me, so thank you for that.

That’s all I got. I’m gonna go reheat some dominos and play Nier and then watch The OC. Thank you all so much for writing in, as always, and ...

keep

real.

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Boston Celtics' Isaiah Thomas getting tips about his game from Kobe Bryant

The Boston Celtics protect said he is been talking and texting with Kobe Bryant to get tips approximately his sport. Thomas has gotten text messages from Allen Iverson, Kevin Garnett, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and boxer Floyd Mayweather, however, Bryant has been instrumental in assisting the five-foot-9 All-Superstar in recent weeks.

he first spherical to Chicago, Thomas said he emailed the video to Bryant and the five-time NBA champion broke it down with him for the half-hour over the smartphone.

“Mentally, he’s simply on an exceptional stage than everybody I have ever met,” Thomas stated Wednesday, much less than 24 hours after scoring fifty-three factors in sport 2 against the Washington Wizards. “He watched each 2nd, telling me what instances to visit study and positive plays and things I didn’t look at after I watched the movie. Mentally, you could inform he’s one of the finest ever.”

Bryant first reached out after Thomas’ sister died in a vehicle coincidence on the eve of the playoffs and stayed in contact, texting him before and after every recreation to assist with basketball. Disregarding the fact that an L. A. Lakers exceptional was helping a Celtics player, Thomas referred to as the help the craziest thing to show up to him and welcomed Bryant’s “Potent IT” nickname for him.

“I was at home in Washington, I used to be on the telephone and my mother stored announcing, `Who’re you talking to?”‘ Thomas said. “I had to put it on mute and tell her it changed into Kobe.”

As Bryant offers to assist, the rest of the basketball global is in awe of Thomas, who is averaging 28 points thru eight playoff games and got here up one shy of John Havlicek’s franchise postseason document of fifty-four on Tuesday night.

4-time MVP LeBron James called Thomas a “special guy, special talent,” specifically given what he is going thru off the court after the death of his sister, Chyna.

“I simply think she became simply looking down on him and just giving him any greater motivation, any little contact, any little spring,” James said. “While you’re on the court docket it is your sanctuary and that is in which you could kind of block everything out irrespective of what you’re going thru for your individual existence, block the whole thing out due to the fact it’s your happy place and it certainly confirmed for him in his character overall performance.”

Garnett currently stated he’d assume Thomas to keep to play stimulated basketball in his sister’s memory.

“It’ll be in every shot, It’ll be in everything that he does,” Garnett stated. “I think we are going to see unique playoffs from Isaiah Thomas.”

With Four 30-plus-factor performances already, he’s properly on his way.

Boston teachers Brad Stevens isn’t always amazed at how Thomas is handling the physical pressure of touring home for his sister’s funeral and playing at this high of a stage. however he was known as Thomas’ capability to address the emotions “implausible,” and that admiration extends to the opposition.

“He has the coronary heart of a champion,” Wizards teach Scott Brooks said. “What he has gone thru and what he’s able to do, you, in reality, cannot explain. I would not do it any justice to position it into phrases. however what you are seeing is quite extraordinary.”

Stevens said the most stunning component of Thomas’ rise has been his ability to ignore the adulation and hold running. it truly is a challenge it’s harder each day as Thomas puts up points and garners more respect and interest.

“It does not seem real,” Thomas stated. “When I am getting completed with games and i see text messages from Kobe, Tom Brady and Floyd, all the ones varieties of men that I am trying to observe in their footsteps, it says a lot. I’m just looking to hold to maintain going as a basketball player and as someone.” What follows here are 7 things to speak about with a female. This stuff will lead her to have a greater positive view of you and in flip get her to love you. The topics are particularly beneficial for the guy that runs into the hassle of now not understanding what to mention to a girl to maintain the verbal exchange going while preserving it exciting enough for her to want to retain speak to him.

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In this newsletter I can show you the way waking up earlier will boost up your productiveness and creativity as a blogger.

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it’s an incredible idea to wake up earlier. While your circle of relatives is still asleep, and If you wake up an hour in advance you can honestly work for your business. you can simply create articles, posts, videos, recordings, anything you want While your family is asleep. You visit the quiet room and virtually do your innovative sports. It requires discipline.

It calls for attending to bed in the nighttime in advance than every day, due to the fact you continue to ought to have 8 or nine hours of first-class sleep, so I endorse you go to bed at perhaps nine:00, 10 o’clock in the nighttime, and then you’ll have precise satisfactory sleep for eight or nine hours, and you can wake up at five or six and work in your running a blog sports. Your children, your own family will still be asleep and this can be quiet for your day. that is completely feasible. A variety of folks that feel innovative within the morning try this first actual thing once they awaken, work on their innovative sports first.

however you need to ask yourself, are you a morning character or are you a nighttime man or woman? due to the fact, Numerous humans would possibly experience greater creative after their family is asleep. maybe you have to ask yourself, for now, I’m assuming that A number of people are more creative when they simply first wake up, so I suppose it will be very remarkable on your running a blog success to put in writing first, to paintings on articles While you first wake up, While your own family continues to be asleep. maybe one hour earlier. but make certain you get enough best sleep by going to the mattress in advance than typical, maybe between 9:00 or 10 o’clock in the night. below are 7 vital rap recommendations for those inquisitive about mastering to rap. those hints are vital for rappers at any enjoy level!

Tip 1. one of the fine rap suggestions is to concentrate to all sorts of rap which include east coast, west coast, and south. it’s going to benefit you to have a properly-rounded history of the specific styles of rhyme schemes, terminology, float systems, and deliveries of all unique types of rap. Pay near attention to the elements of every style.

Being attentive to Music closely is probably THE unmarried maximum about getting a tip to become a better rapper.

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Tip 2. Increase your vocabulary. Stumble upon an interesting word that you don’t know the meaning to? Look it up in a dictionary! If you do not have a dictionary and thesaurus, go out and spend money on them. Discover an arsenal of comparable phrases together with your word list to preserve your raps sparkling. Have a look at the dictionary once in a while to study new surprising words.

Tip 3. Make lists of rhyming phrases. this may be a greatly beneficial rap tip on your writing manner! Make lists of phrases that rhyme with every other, which include single words and businesses of words. always upload in your listing on every occasion you find out new words that rhyme in a few manner. maintain the listing to hand Whilst writing raps and talk to it While you need a few short thoughts. that is a fantastic rap tip to conquer writer’s block too. When you see lists of rhyming phrases, it’ll spark new thoughts and enable you to move forward.

Tip 4. Test with one of a kind approaches of beginning the writing system. If you are having hassle beginning writing your rap verses, attempt writing the hook (refrain) FIRST. make certain your hook portrays the primary idea of the song you are writing. Once you have got the hook concept completed, writing the verses may be lots less complicated!

Tip 5. practice your timing. here is one of the splendid little rap hints that I have used in the past. First, discover an instrumental beat to rap to. make sure it’s miles something that you could vibe to and feel cozy with. Now, begin freestyling over the beat EVEN If your LYRICS doesn’t MAKE sense! simply wrap random words and try to cause them to rhyme. Give you one of a kind forms of flows and cognizance on nailing your timing. You spot, this workout isn’t always about your words, it is about operating on enhancing the accuracy of your rhythm and “go with the flow” to the beat.

Tip 6. research tricky verses out of your favorite rappers, and practice them. Encounter a wonderful but elaborate verse from an aspiring rapper? learn the phrases (this must be clean to do because of you probably concentrate to the track regularly anyway) and try to push yourself to mimic it. start sluggish and piece via piece until you may wrap the whole component. This rap tip will assist to build your reminiscence, timing, stamina, and possibly pace (if it is a quick verse).

Tip 7. document yourself frequently. In case you do no longer have already got it, spend money on some recording device (a reasonably-priced mic and recording software program will do). report your self-tapping so you can listen to what areas want development. it is very critical to pay attention yourself as you sound to others so that you can analyze your faults and grow to be a higher rapper!

I hope this rap hints article become of use to you! suitable success and Appearance out for greater rap recommendations coming soon.

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SEPTEMBER 2017

*****David Letterman is back with a new show on Netflix where he will have one depth interview each show. Look for 6 episodes in 2018!! Paul Schaffer could become involved in the musical end.

*****Ronnie Wood battled lung cancer this spring but it looks like he has come out the other side. First Charlie, then Bill and now Ronnie.. So glad that you boys will all be ok!! Rolling Stones off to the next tour!

***** The 50th anniversary reissue of The Stones Their Satanic Majesties Request has yielded us a great video of 2000 light years from home!!

***** Theodora Richards had her first edition of Sirius XM show called ‘Off the Cuff.’ The episode had guest Sean Lennon who helped answer questions and share their favorite music. Sean shared some good insight about Peter Frampton getting a talk box from George Harrison when they mad All Things Must Pass. A Facebook listener disputed that though saying it was Joe Walsh.

*****Can’t wait to see the new film: Wait for your laugh: Rose Marie the longest career in showbiz history.

*****Flavor Flav is suing Chuck D and Public Enemy over royalties.

*****Charles Manson got a new mugshot which they update every few years. He is getting pretty bald.

*****Three men were shot and killed at the Great Lakes Drag way in Union Green Wisconsin.

*****Was the interior department selling off land while the rest of us were watching the events in Virginia?

****** Nipton, California has a population of 20 and is located on the border of Nevada. The American Green company has purchased the town so they can turn it into a cannabis tourist town.

*****Norman Lear and others are boycotting the White House reception given for the Kennedy center honorees. He is against the proposed cuts to arts funding. Trump has now said he won’t attend the honors themselves as to avoid the event becoming political. This is only the 4th time a President will miss the awards. ** The entire President’s committee on the arts and humanities has resigned.

*****Religious leaders marched on Washington on the 28th for the One thousand minister march for justice. They spoke about how the moral corrosion of the country has become more evident. Evangelical Christian leaders that support Trump also showed up and spoke about how they should confront racism.

*****Elon Musk and Amber Heard broke up ?

***** Boy, do I hate point systems. Stores, gas stations, employers love these point systems. They want you to spend more money, work just a bit harder to get to the reward point. Corporate entities should give a gold star to this gimmick for it probably saves them millions. It just sucks for the rest of us who have enough to worry about.

***** Jordan’s lower house of parliament has voted to repeal their ‘marry the rapist’ law. Activists fought for years to get rid of the law that allowed rapists to get out of jail time after a rape if they married their victim.

***** Let’s all be clear on what is racking up for America with Scott Pruitt running the EPA. Writer Jeff Goodell took a deep dive into the subject. Pruitt approved a toxic pesticide that causes neurological damage to children. There has been the pull back on the clean water rule that allows exemptions on pollution controls, delaying ozone rules and cutting funding for the agency by a third and scientific research money in half. When Pruitt took over and made an opening speech he did not even acknowledge public health or the environment, more concerned that “regulators exist to give certainty to those that they regulate.” The Rachel Carson room where Obama’s Clean Power Plan was signed was purposefully used as the place to bring big coal in to take it down. Back in the day Pruitt sued over the plan and it is still in court. The standards of the set by the agency are not law and can be dismantled. We should not be surprised by the man putting his political career above our welfare. In the Senate , he had introduced legislation that would require a woman to notify her Father before an abortion. He also voted against an early childhood development bill.

*****Thank you NRDC for taking Trump to task. The administration approved a cross border permit that will send dirty tar sands oil through the heart of America but it is going to federal court.

*****Look for ‘A little help’ with Carol Burnett.

*****Netflix has a new show, Atypical starring Jennifer Jason Leigh!!

*****Will and Grace has been renewed for season 2 before its first season airs.

*****12 nations and the U.S. have rejected Venezuela’s new government-allied legislative super body. Many protests are taking place there. Scary Clown has threatened military retaliation. President Maduro has many times said we want to steal their oil.

*****Many in the White House are getting pranked by hackers and their enemies. After yelling, “Lock her up”, through the campaign, trump and his staff have no problem using their own phones and being so easy to infiltrate, it can be done in an hour.

***** New policy at the Department of Justice? Take on affirmative action at colleges? Investigating white discrimination using the civil rights division? What? These people really hate those that don’t look like them. They are still looking for people to submit resumes.

***** Isn’t it strange that when you see Bill Clinton and Al Gore from the 90’s, you can’t help but notice how they seemed to have switched body types?

*****Illinois Gov. Rauner has removed the statute of limitations for sex crimes and also signed the Police dog bill. The dog bill allows dogs injured in the line of duty to ride in the ambulance.

*****Opening week went gangbusters for Michael Moore and his’ Terms of my surrender’ with Gloria Steinem and Harry Belafonte. Since then he took Olivia Wilde and Mark Ruffalo up to Trump tower to ask him to resign and Bill Maher joined him on stage over the weekend. Moore tweeted: If you support the racists, you are a racist.

***** White nationalists held a rally in Virginia which turned deadly. A woman was killed when a young Ohio man drove into the crowd that was demonstrating against them. The driver’s mother told reporters that she thought he was at something for Trump. It seems he was. Two state police officers were killed nearby in a helicopter accident as well. Nationalists showed up for their march armed, in military gear and carrying torches. How brave of them. Trump condemned both sides and called for Americans to come together. His speech was praised by the Nazi website Daily Stormer. The marchers pointed out that the President did not specifically attack them. They call the demonstration in Charlottesville part of their “summer of hate.” This, of course, comes 50 years after the “summer of love.” They seem to feel that all they have is the color of their skin so they celebrate it. If they are so proud ,as Roy Wood Jr. said, “Why don’t they march in the hood?”**Angela Merkel came out against the neo Nazi’s before our leader, Trump came out with condemnation. After he opened with all his ‘great’ accomplishments , he then quickly went back to original statement which caused an uproar. People started jumping ship on his advisory councils and staff. After boycotts were called for 3M, Pepsi, GE, IBM, Dow, Tylenol and others who seemed late to the party, the council was dismantled. It really did not matter for some CEO’s were now saying they had been picked but had never even assembled themselves in one place yet. It seems to have been a smokescreen for actual work being done. BTW, CAT still wants to be in bed with this President to work policy initiatives. **Many others still stick with him with a nod to his pick of federal judges that will affect us for years. Insiders like John Kelly who seem to have a grip on reality almost have to stay or leave us all in the hands of these money hungry, nature hating selfish racists. But.. Do we want the government run by the military? We are in a very precarious position.** But the rest of us saw him as the racist pig he is long ago. Surely those who voted because they were uninformed have seen their error. If you ever wondered about his real feelings about the KKK et al, doubt no more. He surrounds himself with haters even with Bannon now out. You can’t trust anyone when you are shady with everyone you meet. There will be backstabbing and chaos when you live a hateful life. This is all on scary clown as he has given David Duke and the rest permission to make their move for power. Duke was quoted as saying ,”We are determined to take our country back. We’re going to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump.” The NY Times stated: ‘white supremacists see President Trumps failure to condemn them as a sign of implicit support, which of course it is. ’Seth Meyers said it best when he told the President that he is their leader whether he knows it or admits it. Ignorance makes them all flourish. The confederacy waged war on the United States so waving their flag makes them look like traitors to this country. When you show up with torches and weapons you are not there for a peaceful march.**The apple does not fall far from the tree. Even though Trump blows this off, his Father Fred was arrested at a KKK rally and his name is on the arrest record to prove it.**Reporters in Virginia saw many police look away from the violence but the Chief of police Al Thomas disagreed.** Hate groups in this country have risen from about 600 to about 900. Central Illinois alone has 4 groups spread thru Morton, Canton and Peoria. Tiki brand has distanced themselves from the march.** The Presidents Bush have let the country know how wrong this intolerance has been as well as Clinton and Obama. I think the Presidents should descend en masse to the White House to give scary clown a good old fashioned talking to.** 5 of the 7 joint chiefs of staff spoke out about the hate.** There were homemade signs that read: Heather Heyer park.** And calm down Antifa.. It is like the 60’s/70’s radicals that blew stuff up and went on the run.. that does not solve anything. We must be forceful and vigilant but peaceful!

*****Internet shamers went nuts on the wrong guy when they mistook a KKK protester for someone else.

*****27 year Simpsons composer, Alf Clausen was fired as the show moves in a different direction.

*****Olivia de Havilland is going to court over the portrayal of her in Feud.

***** Bannon is right back in charge at Breitbart and will fight the fight from there. Sometimes he will support the Pres, sometimes he will call him out. There has been public bantering between them already (real or staged?)and Trump immediately had dinner with Breitbart owner Robert Mercer.

*****Hope Hicks is the new communications director. Hicks is a former model who worked with Ivanka.

*****I saw a tweet that read: Only this country would be fucking stupid enough to start a civil war over statues from the last civil war.

*****The Associated press is no longer going to use the term alt right anymore because it brands and sanitizes the hate groups. They will call them what they are.

*****The Jackson municipal library sit in was memorialized on the Mississippi freedom trail. The sit in came about when college students entered the library to research books that weren’t available in the segregated library. They were arrested.

*****The crazy Trump press conference in NY on the 15th was officially archived by the White House as a report on infrastructure.

*****Willie Geist gets better all the time.

*****Is Fox going to start working against Trump? Why do they still have advertisers?

*****I always wonder why psychics or those who see beyond this realm don’t get together and try to solve some mysteries. Now, I would watch that show. Take Tyler Henry and Kim Russo and let them concentrate on Hitler’s bunker or Jon Benet or Jack the Ripper.

*****Citizens of the alt right are no different than Manson. They admire Hitler, spew racist rhetoric and wait in the shadows for their chance to get noticed.**

*****Ms. Heyer’s mother says she wants her daughter’s death to be a rallying cry for justice and equality and fairness and compassion.

*****James Murdoch and his wife donated a mil to the anti- defamation league. The recent turn of events, have been great for the Southern poverty law center and the like.

*****The country is talking about the monuments to the confederacy which was a part of the reason for the rally in Virginia. Some have already come down, some have been covered. The families of Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and Stonewall Jackson all agree that they should come down or be moved. The confederacy was our enemy and they lost. There are not big monuments to the Nazi’s in Germany and we all remember WW II. Memorials in a cemetery that honor the confederate dead, like the mass grave in Chicago, are different than a statue of say, Nathan Bedford Forrest. ** Scary clown wants to leave up this ‘art.’ He had no problem bulldozing historic art when it suited his needs.** Many have said that if monuments are important for this country why not celebrate those that really helped us move forward and not those who tried to tear us down. Erect monuments to Pocahontas or slaves that literally built this country. Are the rains in the South trying to wash away all these monuments?

*****Kenya has banned plastic bags.

*****You ever notice that the political left are called sore losers every time there is a disagreement or a complaint?

***** Alabama has passed a law that would allow no one to take down monuments that have been there for 40 years or longer. They saw this coming. Birmingham Mayor, William Bell, covered up the statues and is being sued. He contends that Birmingham was founded after the civil war so there is no reason for them to be there.

*****The weekend after Charlottesville, I noticed the WH was not really represented on the Sunday shows. Well, Jerry Falwell Jr. was sent over to This Week but it is just more proof that the evangelical leaders will side with Trump for their Federal judge appointments no matter how racist it gets. The religious right puts their thumb on the scale of the elections and gives the President some God cred. The thinking seems to be, whenever in doubt, bring God into it. Many find it hard to argue God. The CEO’s have more to lose so some of these have been jumping ship but they do love the way the new administration wants to skirt the corporate laws so they and the Trump family can all benefit financially. Falwell said he loves Trump because he is not PC. This shows a basic different in a Trump supporter and the rest of us. I like somebody who shoots from the hip as much as anybody but when their instinct is racist, count me out. I am not afraid of people who are different from me. I am not threatened and I rejoice in our differences and similarities. Didn’t Jesus love and accept everyone? If they wonder why faith is crumbling in this world, perhaps the religious leaders should look inside themselves.

*****A grant put in place by Obama to look into the problem of white supremacy has been rescinded.** As Christian Picciolini stated: The grant, the voter ID laws, the federal court appeals judges who are right wing extremists. These things add up and you can only reach one conclusion.

*****Mayweather wins!

*****The Pres did one thing he said he would, Iran and Israel both condemned Trump’s comments. He got the mid -east to agree on something.** There is much squawking from scary clown about military action though when it comes to Afghanistan, Venezuala and North Korea.

*****We must be careful of German owned Monsanto that imposes hard and fast rules on our agriculture. A 1980 U.S. supreme court decision extended patent law to cover ‘a live human- made microorganism’ so farmers can no longer save seeds after harvest. This has been going on for years but could come to a breaking point. Much like OPEC blackmailed us in the 70’s with oil, the same could happen with our food supply, if say, a country that wanted to really fuck with us bought Monsanto. The company already spend millions spying on and prosecuting farmers. Thank Goodness Max Brooks is keeping an eye on things.

*****It is just about fall and Oscar season on the way and the good movies are coming. Look for Emma Stone and Steve Carell to play Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs in Battle if the sexes.**Angelina Jolie finally tells the story she could never forget from Cambodia with ‘First they killed my Father.’**Liam Neeson plays Mark Felt and Redford and Fonda star together again in ’Our souls at night.’ **Judi Dench is back as Queen Victoria for which she should have won an Oscar the first time.**Clooney directs Suburbicon with Matt Damon and Julianne Moore. She also stars in Wonderstruck.**Good bye Christopher Robin will tell us the tale of Pooh and the love Milne’s real family.** Idris Elba and Kate Winslet star in The mountain between us about the two lost after a plane crash.** The man who invented Christmas bout Dickens stars Dan Stevens and Christopher Plummer.**Richard Linklater’s Last flag flying about Vietnam vets stars Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston and Laurence Fishburne.** The current war about Thomas Edison will pit Benedict Cumberbatch against Michael Shannon. **And Nick Cage alert- Vengeance: A love story.

*****July 2017 was the 2nd hottest month on record.

***** After the Trump rant, Orrin Hatch tweeted “We should call evil by its name. My brother didn’t give his life fighting Hitler for Nazi ideas to go unchallenged here at home.”

*****Word is going around that Scary clown 45 wants to allow Doctor’s to be able to discriminate against the Trans community.

*****I will now mention my friend Bryan for I told him I would. I wanted to write something newsworthy about him but he gave me no ideas. I will wish him luck on his future podcast.

*****Mueller, with his staff of 20 and another 16 attorneys has impaneled a grand jury for possible indictments.** A no knock warrant was used on Paul Manafort’s home.

*****Fox news line of the month: Trump anxiety boosts professional cuddliest.** They also were droning on about the Dem’s desperate move of dragging out Obama and Hilary.

*****Sen. Bob Corker wondered aloud if Trump is stable.

*****Amy Poehler is creating an animated series.

*****Word id that Obama, like Bush before him, had the Department of energy prepare a 75 day briefing to explain and bring current the new administration. Nobody showed up until weeks later with instructions to apparently disregard all that and just weed out the Obama and climate change people. The DOJ job is supposed to be scientists keeping track of nuclear war heads , clean up messes and monitor them in other countries. They protect the power grid and fund research for alternative energy. I guess there will be no more of that. Of course, Rick Perry is the new head of the department, his predecessor was a nuclear scientist.

*****Catch the Struts with their new ‘One Night Only.’

*****Rob Reiner tweet: We’re running out of places to put nails in Trump’s coffin. Unless you’re a racist anti- Semite, you have no reason to support him.

*****Republican from Wisconsin, Ron Johnson wondered if McCain’s brain tumor factored into his ‘no’ vote on the ACA. Trump has since said as much as he conveyed thoughts about McCain’s competency.** People at the Arizona rally were yelling about McCain being a traitor.

*****The task force on crime reduction and public safety has given Jeff sessions no new policy recommendations for his anti- marijuana views. His threats of a federal crackdown may come to nothing.

*****230, 000 workers will soon be replaced by computers. Studies show that in 20 years, 47% of our jobs will be threatened by automation. Will we have to get to a system of a guaranteed minimum income or will jobs come along that we have not even thought of yet? Many of today’s jobs were not thought of a hundred years ago.

*****Hooray for SNL on Thursdays hitting it out of the park with Hader and Fey. We sure do need them right now. Che and Jost almost seem more confident on their own with jus Weekend Update.** BTW, I have to wonder why Lorne does not see fit to bring back some of the original things that made SNL unique?? In the internet world we live in it would seem perfect for home movies again. I realize people seem more savvy with their own stuff now and may be more argumentative in how they are presented but it could be done. Also.. Why do we have to have slick, top shelf mainstream hosts and music all the time?? In the beginning there were many celebs on their way up and down that made some of the best episodes. And some have been on often and some very NY identified celebs only once. Can we have some B movie actors? Some activists? Some previously huge tv stars? And how about just some damn good talent that the whole world doesn’t talk about everyday. I vote for Dorian Harewood, Bill Withers, Rickie Lee Jones, The Struts, Jennifer Jason Leigh , Alan Alda, Buddy Guy and Elvis and Osgood Perkins. Take a chance!!

*****Scary clown seems to have listened to his Generals about Afghanistan. Of course it is hard to tell since he gave no real details. He wants India to play a bigger role. Pakistan has been put on notice. But it seems that his first instinct to ‘pull out’ is gone and Breitbart and friends hate that. A hasty withdrawal would create a vacuum for Isis and the Taliban. Trump says we will no longer build democracies overseas. We are not sure how many troops may join the 8500 already there .The mercenaries are not taking over yet. Gen. Maddis seemed to insist that Trump own this so they don’t get all the fall out. It was VP Pence that cut his trip short to talk to Afghanistan’s president.** McCain called it a big step in the right direction. Bannon called it a flip flop.

*****A Breitbart staffer asked for Paul Ryan’s help with Trump’s impeachment. ** A hacker seems to have gotten to the editor in chief at Breitbart. He posed as Bannon in an e mail and started a conversation, which led to the Editor saying Breitbart would do the dirty work and drive Ivanka and Jared out by the end of the year.

*****The Amityville house recently sold to a new owner.

*****Hi Mom!!!!!!

*****Kushner and Conan (not together) are heading to Israel for peace talks to try to change the conversation.

*****Interior secretary Ryan Zinke is now being investigated by the office of the inspector general. He is accused of threatening resources for Alaska when he tried to get Murkowski to change her for the ACA.

*****Check out Ian Schrager’s new book: Studio 54.

*****The secret service is going broke trying to take care of the Trump Klan. We do want them safe but it would be nice if he could think of the rest of us. Since he usually goes to his public holding, it is a much bigger and more expensive challenge. He made a huge deal out of how he was donating his salary so perhaps he should let the secret service use it. What DID that get used for? The agency is looking to congress for more funds. Coming up: The UN general assembly meeting in NY, that should really rack up the overtime.

*****Now we find out that Trump’s company was trying to develop a Trump tower in Moscow. The deal fell apart in January 2016. He failed to disclose this. This info was recently discovered in some e mails. Chris Hayes observed: ‘Incredible irony that not a single Clinton/Podesta e mail was as incriminating as the 2 Trump campaign e mails we’ve seen.** There was total denial from the campaign about a key player , Felix Sater. He has cards that read Felix Sater: Senior advisor to Donald Trump.

*****ICE has asked permission to destroy records describing sexual assault and deaths while immigrants were in agents custody.

*****Jim Bakker, who is still out there sounding crazy as Hell, tells us that Christians will begin a second civil war in the U.S. if Trump is impeached. Trump’s spiritual leader Ms. White has appeared on Bakker’s show and told us that the hand of God put Trump in power so being against him is like being against God. So, when Obama or Bill Clinton were President why did they fight so hard against them f God pit them there??

*****What would this country have been like if Native Americans would have been able to hold on to even most of their land? How would the open exchange of their traditions and ours have affected all of us? What if people from other countries had not been dragged here to forcibly build this country and instead might have come to minge in peace? Imagine!

*****Scary Clown was going to pardon Sheriff Joe Arpio then the WH said he wouldn’t but at his campaign rally he said he would but didn’t. The two became close over the birther issue. Arpio seems to have spent big money researching the issue. A correspondent watched the Sheriff get quite upset when Trump did not call him on his birthday. The Arizona Sheriff stood for dehumanization and an estimated 160 people died in what Arpio called concentration camps. He put criminals in the desert, in a tent city and made them wear pink underwear. He was found in criminal contempt of court when he defied a court order not to enforce the travel ban. His racial profiling is legendary. Trump and or his staff seemed to wait for the opportune time to actually pardon the man. Hurricane Harvey was bearing down on Texas and without following the guidelines , Trump gave his friend and supporter the pardon. But it isn’t quite as it seems. Trump did not want to bury the story in the Texas news, he claims that he wanted to make it public then because everybody would be watching the news about the catastrophe and his announcement would get good ratings. Technically, accepting a pardon is an admission of guilt and can be used in civil suits. But you should seriously look up the long list of garbage this guy did. There has been $142 million spent on legal fees, settlements and compliance costs because of him that almost bankrupt his county.** As far as the rally goes, the crowd waited so long they were tired and started to leave early. Bottled water was confiscated at the door and some were becoming dehydrated. Many mentioned a man that was standing behind Trump who calls himself Michael the Black man, a radical fringe activist. The man has been a Trump follower for some time. He is a former member of the Yahwen Ben Yahwen cult, known as a violent black supremacist religious cult. He reformed himself and is known in some circles as the poor man’s Alex Jones and abhors homosexuality. Michael AKA Maurice Woodside calls Oprah ‘the devil’ and calls himself an anti-democrat. He has been acquitted of 2 murders, racketeering, conspiracy and firebombing. ** The Pres also chose the category 4 hurricane as a good time to go thru with his tweet threat and ban the Trans community from the military. He is basically undoing LBJ’s entire civil rights package. The ACLU is suing over the military ban on behalf of 6 individuals who are currently serving. Defense secretary Mattis has established a panel to review the Transgender troops and has frozen the ban. There sure seems to be a lot of extra work going on for nothing, we have a huge crisis on our hands. Why do we have to put up with this shit?? **Gorka , one of Bannon’s men who was not really part of the inner circle is out!** Secretary of state was asked about Trump’s values and he responded, “The resident speaks for himself.” His values aren’t those of most of America and everybody knows it.

*****Another word on Hurricane Harvey: The pictures are shocking ,the people helping are so wonderful and I hope they all find some peace and safety. Ted Cruz voted against aid for hurricane Sandy but is now asking for assistance for Harvey. ** Joel Osteen is coming under scrutiny for telling Texas that his Lakewood church in Houston is inaccessible. The religious leader who is worth an estimated 56 mil announced he would let Hurricane victims in when the other centers reach their capacity. There were already twice as many people as the convention center allows. The reporter in front of the church showed there was some flooding but people could certainly get there! Lakewood can house 3 times the capacity of the current center taking in victims. Once the Toyota center also opened, the church was open but Osteen claims the doors were never closed. Things like this show the true colors of humans. After all the division, these things happen and show us how alike we are. Were any of the victims KKK members and were they helped by someone whose skin was a different color? Were any of the victims immigrants and were they helped by a white nationalist? Will we ever know? ** Mattress Mac who owns Gallery Furniture in Houston opened his doors immediately and let the displaced souls sleep on the mattresses. Gayle King gave Osteen some shade over that one. **And in a silly comment, who is this CBS reporter DeMarco Morgan who has been on the scene? This guy is really good and should be on our screens a lot more often. He is hot too!** Scary Clown 45 and Melania went to see the devastation first hand and he could not help himself. He yells, “What a crowd, what a turnout” Is he fucking kidding?** The rainfall has now hit a record.** Many donations are coming in. Rachel Ray gave her millions to animal causes.

*****Saw this ad for something called revitive medic and they proudly said ‘FDA cleared.’ That did not really sound like a big endorsement to me.

*****We have sent $200 mil to the Ukraine to help fight Russia.

*****Trump blocked Stephen King from his twitter.

*****Chuck E. Cheese is disbanding the band my son used to love.

*****17 charities have dropped out of their functions at Mar A Lago What the hell took them so long? Why were they there in the first place? If his big racist mouth starts to cost him money, Trump may finally start to think before he speaks. I mean he will eventually benefit from all the money being made for the Trump organization because he did not divest. He will not follow the same rules as other leaders of this country.

*****A scuffle broke out on the baseball field between Detroit and NY. The angst in this country is so high there is even fighting in baseball.

*****What is going on with the Naval accidents? A report states that the high pace of operations leaves little time for proper inspections and maintenance. The military is looking into how over taxed they are and zero in on human error, lack of training or funding. It is probably all three.

*****Ducktales is back!

*****Will the President shut down the Federal government to get his stupid wall that Mexico was supposed to pay for? Will he keep screaming at other Republicans like he did the other day on the phone to McConnell? ** Before Houston, the Republicans were looking at cutting $876 mil from disaster accounts to help pay for the Wall.. What will happen now??

*****Wirtgen American Inc. is accusing CAT of patent infringement on products used to mill asphalt and concrete pavement. The U.S. International trade commission is looking into it.

*****India outlawed ‘instant’ divorce.

*****I notice that there are reruns of Unsolved Mysteries. Why don’t they go back to the NBC original Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack and update all those old mysteries… there should be years of material to keep them busy. After all everything old is new again.

*****Pete Davidson looked great at the MTV VMA’s. He also appeared on Weekend Update last week, asking” Is Pete still on the show?” Oh yes, we know you are there baby!

*****Hackers have released nude pics of Tiger Woods.

*****DAYS ALERT: Bryan Datillo who plays Lucas was recently on one of NBC’s ‘the more you know.’** I thought that Anne Milbaur would swoop in on Lucas or Bonnie would die and a drunken Lucas would be blamed. Lucas and Brady getting hammered was a sad but funny scene. Nicole and Angelica sure can wreak havoc.** A great line from Haddie as Marlena,” I’m not a Dr. I just play one in Salem.”

*****R.I.P Glen Campbell, Haruo Nakajima, D. L. Menard, Barbara Cook, Heather Heyer, Berke Bates, H. Jay Cullen, Wayne Lotter, Sonny Burgess, Rafael Ramirez, Thomas Meehan, Mireille Darc, Bernard Pomerance, the Hurricane/tropical storm Harvey victims, Tobe Hooper, Dick Gregory and Jerry Lewis.

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