#jerry packard

[marmota-b]

In case anyone still needs a Real Life proof of this statement, I give you:

Jaroslav Krsek aka Jerry Packard

Seriously I need more people to appreciate this man and his dad bod, he's been haunting me for at least five years now. (To clarify, this has nothing to do with ogling him. This has everything to do with admiring him as a human.)

He sadly died in a concentration camp. Because he joined the Czech anti-Nazi resistance pretty much the moment the country was occupied. Before that, he also:

was an excellent swimmer

could knock a guy out with a single punch

camped outdoors in -20°C

Dad bod is indeed a sign of success in the wild.

(Source of the above statements is the writer Bob Hurikán, real name Josef Peterka, who was friends with Packard and therefore observed him do all of the above. Except the statement about joining the resistance immediately, that was some other friend after the war. Photo link)

In line with coffee w my brother today, and while discussing the new Deadpool and Wolverine movie it came up that hopefully Hugh Jackman doesn't have to be shrink-wrap shredded I said "Dad bod is a sign of success in the wild" and a guy behind us gave me the thumbs up and a nod jguhfggfgggghjyyhhf

[olipeaksforever]

i find it crazy that in another universe isabella rossellini is josie, brad dourif is jerry horne, roger rees appears as emmett cooper (cooper's older brother) and twin peaks has more than two seasons by the 90s...

[marsdemo]

We must strategically focus on a relatively smaller number of carefully selected companies and products for maximum impact. Companies that play a clear and direct role in Israel’s crimes and where there is real potential for winning, as was the case with, among others, G4S, Veolia, Orange, Ben & Jerry’s and Pillsbury. Compelling huge, complicit companies, through strategic and context-sensitive boycott and divestment campaigns, to end their complicity in Israeli apartheid and war crimes against Palestinians sends a very powerful message to hundreds of other complicit companies that “your time will come, so get out before it’s too late!” Many of the prohibitively long lists going viral on social media do the exact opposite of this strategic and impactful approach. They include hundreds of companies, many without credible evidence of their connection to Israel’s regime of oppression against Palestinians, making them ineffective.

Consumer boycott targets - The BDS movement calls for a complete boycott of these brands carefully selected due to the company's proven record of complicity in Israeli apartheid. (Siemens, Puma, Carrefour, AXA, Hewlett Packard (HP), SodaStream, Ahava, RE/MAX, Israeli produce in your supermarkets)

Divestment targets - The BDS movement is pressuring governments, institutions and investment funds to exclude and divest from as many complicit companies as practical, especially weapons manufacturers, banks, and companies listed in the UN database of business involved in Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise, as well as the WhoProfits and AFSC Investigate databases of companies enabling the occupation. Below we give some of the targets we are campaigning against. (Elbit Systems, HD Hyundai/Volvo/CAT/JCB, Barclays, CAF, Chevron, HikVision, TKH Security)

Pressure (non-boycott) targets - The BDS movement actively calls for pressure campaigns against these brands and services due to their complicity in Israeli apartheid. We have not, on strategic grounds, called for a boycott of these brands and services, instead we strategically call on supporters and institutions to mount other forms of pressure on them until they end their complicity in Israeli apartheid. (Google and Amazon, Airbnb/Booking/Expedia, Disney)

Organic boycott targets - The BDS movement did not initiate these grassroots boycott campaigns but is in support of them due to these brands openly supporting Israel’s genocide against Palestinians. (McDonald's, Burger King, Papa John's, Pizza Hut, WIX, etc)

— From the BDS Movement Website, originally posted November 5th 2023 and edited for clarification November 8th 2023

[eahostudiogallery]

black & blue

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William Scott - Blue Still Life

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Georges Braque - Birds

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Jerry Spagnoli - Glass

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Guy Diehl

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Anne Packard - Rowing boat on the blue

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Shinichiro Saka - Harvest Moon on Fuji

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Map de Maar

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Saul Leiter - Blue Door, Patterson, New Jersey

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Ruth Asawa - Untitled, Potato Print — Cross, Blue Black

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Yoshida Hodaka - Japan, Narrow Street, 1952

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Robert Mangold - Compound Ring Study

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Sofia Hultén

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Mudrenko - Raven

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Mark Rothko

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Georges Shipperley

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Melanie Goemans - Delft, II

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[01sentencereviews]

New To Me - 2023

All About Alice (1972, Ray Harrison)

Bambi (1942, David Hand)

Die, Mommie, Die! (2003, Mark Rucker)

Dreams (1990, Akira Kurosawa)

Elephant (1989, Alan Clarke)

Erin Brockovich (2000, Steven Soderbergh)

Glen or Glenda (1953, Edward D. Wood Jr.)

A Happening in Central Park (1968, Robert Scheerer)

In Vanda’s Room (2000, Pedro Costa)

LA Plays Itself (1972, Fred Halsted)

The Ladies Man (1961, Jerry Lewis)

Morvern Callar (2002, Lynne Ramsay)

News from Home (1976, Chantal Akerman)

A Self-Induced Hallucination (2018, Jane Schoenbrun)

Series 7: The Contenders (2001, Daniel Minahan)

Single White Female (1992, Barbet Schroeder)

Terminal USA (1993, Jon Moritsugu)

What Really Happened to Baby Jane (1963, Ray Harrison)

The Wiz (1978, Sidney Lumet)

Zero Day (2002, Ben Coccio)

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2LDK (2003, Yukihiko Tsutsumi)

AM1200 (2008, David Prior)

Another Gay Movie (2006, Todd Stephens)

Black Book (2006, Paul Verhoeven)

Bloodbath at the House of Death (1984, Ray Cameron)

Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell (1995, Shinichi Fukazawa)

Caniba (2017, Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel)

Charade (1963, Stanley Donen)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977, Steven Spielberg)

The Color Purple (1985, Steven Spielberg)

Crimes of Passion (1984, Ken Russell)

Death to Smoochy (2002, Danny DeVito)

The Faculty (1998, Robert Rodriguez)

Foxfur (2012, Damon Packard)

The Fluffer (2001, Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland)

Freeway (1996, Matthew Bright)

Girls Will Be Girls (2003, Richard Day)

Hotel (2004, Jessica Hausner)

The Idiots (1998, Lars von Trier)

The Inheritance (2020, Ephraim Asili)

Lady Gaga and the Muppets Holiday Spectacular (2013, Gregg Gelfand)

Mod Fuck Explosion (1994, Jon Moritsugu)

Ned Rifle (2014, Hal Hartley)

Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special (1988, Paul Reubens & Wayne Orr)

R100 (2013, Hitoshi Matsumoto)

The Salt Mines [1990] & The Transformation [1996] (Susana Aikin & Carlos Aparicio)

Seconds (1966, John Frankenheimer)

Sextool (1975, Fred Halsted)

Sibyl (2019, Justine Triet)

Spirited Away (2001, Hayao Miyazaki)

Star 80 (1983, Bob Fosse)

Strange Days (1995, Kathryn Bigelow)

Teknolust (2002, Lynn Hershman-Leeson)

Theorem (1968, Pier Paolo Pasolini)

[palmerhouse]

LOCATION SERIES : THE GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL.

built atop white tail mountain — it, along with blue pine mountain, forms the titular twin peaks — and overlooking white tail falls, stands the great northern hotel, built, owned and operated by the horne family. the hotel was inherited by ben horne after the death of his father, j.j.* horne.

(* perhaps one of those js stands for jerry? in one official twin peaks publication, ben horne's father was named ben horne senior: and it would make sense to guess that jerry, in a similar vein, is a family name. and that j.j. may have stood for "jerry junior", making the jerry horne in the series another inheritor of the name. jonathan / johnny is another good guess — though, most likely, the twin peaks writers were more concerned with keeping to the theme of giving a huge chunk of their characters 'j' names, especially when a character ought to be regarded with some level of suspicion.)

within a week of the great northern's grand opening, its direct competitor, the sawmill river lodge, "mysteriously burned down." like most things in twin peaks, this event exists as a double, alluding to the plan devised by ben and catherine to burn down the packard sawmill during the timeline of twin peaks season 1.

(it can be noted that the great northern stands atop water, while everything that keeps it in business / satisfies its owners perishes by fire.)

perhaps it's the location of the hotel, something in the architecture, or merely the owners themselves, but there is something sinister about the location. some people think it's where bob first came to be in twin peaks. this reddit post gets a little more into detail about some relevant stuff, but also some convoluted and irrelevant stuff. but this is very relevant:

(plaintext: It's clear that wood is an important element in TP; the Packard sawmill, the Woodsmen, Ghostwood, Cooper's facination with trees, the Arm evolving into a tree, the sycamore trees, sawing logs (sleeping/dreaming), etc. and the The Great Northern is a building crafted almost fully on wood, probably from trees around Twin Peaks. The Woodsmen apparently first appeared in an in-between dimension above a convenience store (the place we see in Fire Walk With Me as well as S3), and as Mike explains early in S1. The sycamore trees is also surrounding the entrance to the Black Lodge. It's natural to think that the Great Northern therefore has some connection to the Woodsmen and the Convencience Store and possibly Black Lodge.)

the presence of wood/trees/the log/the forest are very key to my interpretation of the lore in twin peaks. the reason, in my opinion, that margaret's log can see things is because it's still spiritually connected to the other trees in the forest — it saw laura pursued through the forest, it saw ronette leave twin peaks, because the trees did. the owls live in the trees — they see everything they do (this would also explain sarah's visions — because she can see through the eyes of the owls, or judy can, which means she can see them in her dreams, and they feel like remembering).

another key theme in twin peaks is fire. if wood/trees/the log can be treated as having some element of spiritual/lore-related significance, then a formative piece of information is the death of margaret's husband, who perished not in a forest fire, but in a fire in the forest. she herself is frightened of fire to the point where she's boarded up the fireplace. fire is a thread that ties the evil of twin peaks together in a neat little bow, all the way down to fire, walk with me.

the point i'm trying to make is one about the fact that within the week of the great northern's birth, j.j. horne burned down a sawmill to give his hotel life and prosperity. whether this cursed it, or evil was drawn to j.j. horne because he, like ben, was a terrible human being, is unknown. but this is twin peaks, and there's probably something in it.

in short: the great northern is the mouth of evil. whether the project was cursed somehow before it had been built, the wood it was built with is cursed, or the people inhabiting it (by which i mean j.j. and then ben — because these things are passed down from father to son) are so fucking terrible that they are capable of drawing the literal embodiment of evil closer to them, and making it feel right at home, is not a question i can answer. it's just a question i have.

[isaacmartens-blog]

10 Reasons For WordPress Website Development

10 Reasons To Choose WordPress For Small Business

Why You Might Use Alternative Website Platforms

For all sorts of reasons – say, a special offer came along, or someone gave you the platform ready-baked, or it was a bespoke tool jerry-rigged into the belly of your existing business systems (eg, a particular kind of ‘CRM’) – you might have found yourself with something other than a WordPress website.

All valid reasons perhaps, but WordPress is such a flexible and controllable platform, offering so much more than the above situations.

Furthermore, there might be niche needs – such as pre-configured shopping carts that have all the widgets that you need and will interact to complete your chores with a single button.

The Ubiquity of WordPress

Wordpress stands as the leading content management system (CMS) globally, powering over 43% of websites, which makes it the most used content-management system in the world.

In the world of website development and wordpress web design, it is a choice that offers wordpress website designers a lot of choices in terms of plugins and widget function extendability.

This extensive usage spans small personal blogs, intricate e-commerce sites, and significant corporate websites.

The widespread adoption of WordPress architecture signifies its robustness and versatility on a wide variety of websites, ranging from simple content sites and personal blogs to online stores and large-scale corporate sites.

For example, Google, Facebook, Disney, Sony, Hewlett-Packard and many others use WordPress to design and manage their sites. There are a number of reasons why WordPress is so popular and widely used.

Key Statistics About WordPress

These statistics highlight why WordPress remains the top choice for web development services in Canada and globally.

This level of control is crucial for businesses aiming to maximize their web presence through web development services in Canada.

- WordPress holds 63.3% of the CMS market share.

- 43.2% of all websites on the internet are powered by WordPress.

- WordPress sites receive 20 billion views each month.

- The WordPress economy is projected to exceed $650 billion in growth by 2024.

10 Key Benefits of WordPress

1. Full Control with a Comprehensive Back-end Dashboard

2. Google-friendly By Design

3. Flexible and Adaptable to Changing Needs

4. User-friendly—Even for Beginners

5. Themes Offer Multiple Options

6. Plugins Extend Functionality

7. WordPress Sites Rank High

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9. WordPress Sites Have a Built-In Blog

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For benefit details, go to the full article at the threepilarsdev.com site and click on the 'Blog' link at the top. The link to the full article is at the bottom of the page.

[papermoonloveslucy]

BEHIND THE WHEEL!

Lucy & Cars ~ Part Two

In the 1960s America took to the open road. Everyone owned a car - and Lucy Carmichael was no exception. In Danfield and Los Angeles “The Lucy Show” was motorized! 

“Lucy Buys a Sheep” (1962) ~ When Lucy goes to pick out a sheep to act as a lawn mower, she drives a 1949 Packard Super Deluxe 8 convertible. Packard started making automobiles in 1899 and went out of business in 1958, four years before the series premiered. Future episodes indicate that Lucy doesn’t own a car, so the Packard may belong to Viv.

“Lucy and Viv Are Volunteer Firemen” (1963) ~ As the Chief, Lucy gets to drive the fire truck!  This is a Moreland Truck, a company based in Los Angeles. 

“Lucy Drives a Dump Truck” (1963) ~ The title tells it!  Lucy and Viv drive a 1956 Ford F-Series dump truck to deliver recycled newspapers for cash. The  truck has 'Roy Long's Rental' written on the doors. In reality, Roy Long was Desilu's construction superintendent. This is a huge production for the series, using more than a dozen extras, 160,000 newspapers, an enormous sound stage dressed as a city street, and six vehicles.

Parked on the street is a 1961 Chevrolet Apache light-duty truck with a Fleetside bed option. [More about motorcyles in a future blog.]

The dump truck passes a 1956 De Soto Fireflite Four-Door Sedan.

“Lucy Decides to Redecorate” (1963) ~ When they redecorate the house, Lucy and Viv must sleep in the car!  Viv's car is a 1953 Ford Crestline Sunliner convertible. This is the first time we have seen inside the Carmichael's garage.

A close-up of the interior of the vehicle and Lucy’s feet!  

In her sleep, Lucy’s foot hits the gear shift and the car crashes through the living room wall. 

“Lucy, the Camp Cook” (1964) ~ Mr. Mooney drives to the camp in a 1964 Ford Falcon Sprint. The Sprint was overshadowed by the Mustang and was discontinued after 1965. When the car runs out of gas, they must hitchhike. 

“Lucy the Meter Maid” (1964) ~ Is another exterior street set featuring lots of vehicles. A 1965 Ford Mustang may also be the same car used in an October 1964 episode of “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” also filmed on the Desilu lot.

Lucy tickets a 1962 Triumph TR4. In court, the Judge admits to owning a “1964 blue convertible” which may be a reference to this car, despite the difference in the actual model year. The license plate is a 1964 NY World’s Fair commemorative plate. Behind it is the 1953 Ford Crestline Sunliner previously seen in “Lucy Decides to Redecorate”.  

“Lucy Makes a Pinch” (1965) ~ On a stake-out, Lucy and Detective Baker park on Lover’s Lane in a 1964 Lincoln Continental convertible.

When Lucy and Viv are on their own stake out, they are sitting in a customized Jeep CJ-5. It is never stated where or how they acquired a lavender jeep!  

“Lucy at Marineland” (1965) ~ When the show relocates to California, the first episode opens with location footage of Marineland in Rancho Palos Verdes, California . Mr. Mooney agrees to leave work at the bank and drive Lucy and Jerry to Marineland in his light colored Ford Falcon convertible.  

“Lucy and the Undercover Agent” (1965) ~ Lucy, Mr. Mooney, and the Countess go undercover. Mr. Mooney is the chauffeur of a Rolls-Royce 25/30 HP Park Ward swept-tail saloon car. 

In 1965, Lucille Ball and her husband Gary Morton filmed a home movie while vacationing in Monte Carlo. The film takes place on the streets and features many vehicles. 

“Lucy and the Submarine” (1966) ~ Before sneaking onto the submarine, Lucy hides out in a parked Laundry van. 

“Lucy and the Ring-A-Ding Ring” (1966) ~ In this episode Mr. Mooney drives a red Volkswagen convertible bug, a somewhat unusual choice for a middle-aged banker during in the mid-1960s.  

“Lucy in London” (1966) ~ The special was shot on location. Footage of Picadilly circus includes many vehicles, including a white VW Beetle. 

“Lucy Puts Main Street on the Map” (1966) ~ A news crew operates out of a blue hatchback station wagon. The camera is mounted on the roof. 

“Lucy Gets Involved” (1968) ~ Lucy moonlights as a carhop at a drive-in burger joint.  The episode features the light blue 1962 Triumph TR4 convertible previously seen in “Lucy, the Meter Maid”.

The scenes feature a blue Ford Convertible, a vintage 1920s Roadster, a blue Sports Car, a red VW Beetle with Moon Roof, and a Police Car.

“Lucy and the Stolen Stole” (1968) ~ Buddy Hackett plays a conman who drives a little red sportscar. 

“Lucy and the Lost Star” (1968) ~ Before arriving at Joan Crawford’s mansion, Lucy and Viv’s car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. 

[innominepatrisetfilio-blog]

This is small town and We all support a team. 

[superman86to99]

Adventures of Superman #510 (March 1994)

Bizarro's World, Part 2! Bizarro has kidnapped Lois Lane and taken her to a warped replica of Metropolis he built in a big warehouse within the real Metropolis, like the plot of Synecdoche, New York but with a defective Superman clone instead of Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Despite being a big ol' dumbass, we find out that Bizarro definitely retains some parts of Superman's original personality, like his love for Lois (hence the kidnapping) and of course his profound hatred for Jimmy Olsen (hence the part where he blows up a mannequin dressed like Jimmy with his heat vision).

Meanwhile, Superman thinks it'll be easy to find Lois with his newly augmented powers, but turns out they're SO augmented that he can't even focus his super-hearing and ends up having a sensory overload, so he's pretty much useless right now. Fortunately, Lois is very capable of saving herself, which she eventually does by climbing to the top of the "Daylee Plandit" building and pushing the crude globe replica on top of poor Bizarro.

Before escaping, Lois also figures out that Lex Luthor Jr. is somehow responsible for Bizarro's creation, which she deduces mainly because just hearing Lex's name made Bizarro start screaming and breaking stuff.

So yeah, Superman isn't very useful in this issue, because we've reached the point where his "enhanced" powers have officially become a problem. Lois tries to comfort him saying that she wants a husband, not a bodyguard, but only one thing can make Superman feel better: punching the crap out of Bizarro for a while. Continued!

Plotline-Watch:

The best part of this issue are the Bizarro-speak Easter eggs throughout Bizarrotropolis, like the mouse with a sign that says "Kad" (Cadmus), the mannequin wearing a bib that says "O" (Bibbo), the Daylee Plandit employee whose head is a bottle of Perry water (wait, has “Perry White” always been short for “Perrier White”?), and others I probably missed.

Curious that Lois thinks "This creature really is some Bizarro version of Superman," since the term "Bizarro" comes from, well, Bizarro. Where did it originate in this universe? I was gonna say Seinfeld, but the “Bizarro Jerry” episode aired in 1996, two years after this issue (and was probably called "Guy Who Is The Complete Opposite of Jerry" anyway).

The scene where Superman loses control of his hearing powers is pretty similar to the moment in John Byrne's Superman #10 when the same thing happens, only that time they actually pulled word balloons from various other DC comics that came out that month, which was pretty cool. This time, the only piece of dialogue that sounds like it might be from another comic is "wish I was like Barry," but I checked the March 1994 issue of The Flash and there's nothing like that (it does sound like something early '90s Wally West would say on any given issue, though).

An increasingly Lex Luthor Sr.-looking Lex Luthor Jr. summons his mole in Project Cadmus, Dr. Packard, to find out what they know about the mystery illness afflicting all clones in the city (which includes Lex himself, as Packard is shocked to learn), but Cadmus has no idea what's going on either. All they know is that Guardian seems to be the only clone who doesn't feel like crap right now, for some reason. It's worth noting that none of the other clones are losing their hair like Lex, so presumably that's not the Clone Plague but just regular alopecia.

Time's Up for Vincent Edge! Cat Grant goes off script during her show's live broadcast to #MeToo her boss, who's been aggressively hitting on her for the past few months -- the old incorrigible horndog didn't even give it a rest when Cat's young son was murdered. This issue includes Vinnie's worst line yet when he tells Cat he wants to help her career because "Nothing would please me more than to see you on TOP. If you know what I mean." My headcanon is that he's arrested by the cops at the end of this issue specifically because of that line.

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Art-Watch (by @donsparrow​):

We start with the cover, and I love it—a great callback to Man of Steel #25, right down to the font.  I love the detail of the crystalized flesh flaking off of him, showing the deterioration plaguing Bizarro, and his fellow clones.

Inside the book, we get a look at Bizarro’s World, a shanty play-village version of Metropolis.  Karl Kesel is one of the funnier writers on the Super-team, so there’s a cleverness to the phonetically constructed signage (which to me also read as a nod to the old “Bizarro #1” sign that Superman’s imperfect duplicate would hang around his neck).  But I can’t get past the refrigerator logic type questions, like—wouldn’t it be harder to learn the concept of an egg sitting, rather than “exit”?  And how does he have any written language skills, having only been born a few hours ago?  But, it’s comics, and as we saw in the Man of Steel mini-series, there’s some sort of intellectual imprint on Bizarros from the original article.  

Page 4 has a great flying shot of Superman searching the city for his duplicate...

...and page 10, apart from Vinnie’s painful (and if Max is right, flat out illegal) play on words, we also get a look at some extreme 90’s blazer tailoring on Cat Grant.  The panel of Bizarro lost in his rage at the mere mention of Lex Luthor is an appropriately frightening one.  Quite a nice drawing of Lois lifting herself through the skylight, later that scene.

It’s a cool detail that Cat’s broadcast uses the same candid photos of Superman and Lois from the previous issue’s broadcast, redrawn here by Barry Kitson.  

STRAY OBSERVATIONS:

Nice to see that Cat Grant does her own re-writes—she has long been established to be a legitimate journalist, having grown out of her gossip columnist roots.

Cute silver-age callback to the cube globe Bizarro world, as Lois tries to scale the top of Bizarro’s ersatz Daily Planet.

We’ve covered this ground before, but it’s astonishing to me that decades after this issue came out, sexual harassment in TV news remains endemic—it might actually even be worse today than when this story is published.  But it’s cheering to see Cat Grant take down another powerful Edge, again with the truth of journalism as her weapon. [Max: Oh yeah, I forgot to mention this is the second Edge boy Cat brings down... and she didn’t even have to sleep with this one. Progress!]

It’s pleasing that Lois rescues herself, rather than Superman finding her, but it also meant Superman didn’t get up to much Adventuring this week. The “Superman is over-protective” angle gets its first mention here and will come to matter a lot more during the David Michelinie era of stories.  

[redlettermediathings]

[1962dude420-blog]

Today we remember the passing of Jerry Jeff Walker who Died: October 23, 2020 in Austin, Texas

Jerry Jeff Walker was an American country music singer and songwriter. He is best known for writing the 1968 song "Mr. Bojangles".

Walker was born in Oneonta, New York. His maternal grandparents played for square dances in the Oneonta area, with his grandmother, Jessie Conroe, playing piano, and grandfather playing fiddle. During the late 1950s, Crosby was a member of a local Oneonta teen band called The Tones.

The band traveled to Philadelphia to audition for Dick Clark's American Bandstand, but were turned down. Members of the band found Dick Clark's house and were able to get a recommendation to audition at New York City's Baton Records through the company's lead producer Sol Rabinowitz. The band was given a recording contract, but the studio wanted a quintet backed by studio musicians, which left Crosby and another member (Gerald T. Russell) out of their recordings.

After high school, Crosby joined the National Guard, but his thirst for adventure led him to go AWOL and roam the country busking for a living in New Orleans and throughout Texas, Florida, and New York, often accompanied by H.R. Stoneback (a friendship referenced in 1970's "Stoney"). He played mostly ukulele until Harriet Ottenheimer, one of the founders of The Quorum, got him settled on a guitar in 1963. He adopted his stage name "Jerry Jeff Walker" in 1966.

He spent his early folk music days in Greenwich Village in the mid-1960s. He co-founded a band with Bob Bruno in the late-1960s called Circus Maximus that put out two albums, one with the popular FM radio hit "Wind", but Bruno's interest in jazz apparently diverged from Walker's interest in folk music. Walker thus resumed his solo career and recorded the seminal 1968 album Mr. Bojangles with the help of David Bromberg and other influential Atlantic recording artists. He settled in Austin, Texas, in the 1970s, associating mainly with the outlaw country scene that included artists such as Michael Martin Murphey, Willie Nelson, Guy Clark, Waylon Jennings, and Townes Van Zandt.

A string of records for MCA and Elektra followed Jerry Jeff's move to Austin, Texas, before he gave up on the mainstream music business and formed his own independent record label. Tried & True Music was founded in 1986, with his wife Susan as president and manager. Susan also founded Goodknight Music as his management company and Tried & True Artists for his bookings. A series of increasingly autobiographical records followed under the Tried & True imprint. Tried & True also sells his autobiography, Gypsy Songman. In 2004, Jerry Jeff released his first DVD of songs from his past as performed in an intimate setting in Austin.

Walker married Susan Streit in 1974 in Travis County, Texas. They had two children: a son, Django Walker, who is also a musician, and a daughter Jessie Jane. Walker has a retreat on Ambergris Caye in Belize, where he recorded his Cowboy Boots and Bathing Suits album in 1998. Walker also made a guest appearance on Ramblin' Jack Elliott's 1998 album of duets Friends of Mine, singing "He Was a Friend of Mine" and Woody Guthrie's "Hard Travelin.'"

Walker recorded songs written by others such as "LA Freeway" (Guy Clark), "Up Against the Wall Red Neck Mother" (Ray Wylie Hubbard), "(Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night" (Tom Waits) and "London Homesick Blues" (Gary P. Nunn). He also interpreted the songs of others such as Rodney Crowell, Townes Van Zandt, Paul Siebel, Bob Dylan, Todd Snider, Dave Roberts, and even a rodeo clown named Billy Jim Baker. Some have called Jerry Jeff the Jimmy Buffett of Texas. It was Jerry Jeff who first drove Jimmy Buffett to Key West (from Coconut Grove, Florida in a Packard). Walker and Buffett also co-wrote the song "Railroad Lady" while riding the last run of the Panama Limited.

Walker had an annual birthday celebration in Austin at the Paramount Theatre and at Gruene Hall in Gruene, Texas. This party became an enormous event in Texas and brought some of the biggest names in country music out for a night of picking and swapping stories under the Austin skyline. Jimmy Buffett attended the 2004 birthday bash.

On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Jerry Jeff Walker among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal Studios fire.

Walker was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2017 and passed away on Friday, October 23 2020 from cancer-related complications.

[rjzimmerman]

Which corporations signed? Included: Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Ball Corporation, Bayer, Ben & Jerry’s, Biogen, Boston Consulting, Boyne Resorts, Brown Forman, Clif Bar, Danone, Dell, Dentsu, DHL, Edison International, Etsy, Exelon, Facebook, First Solar, Gap, GE, H&M, Hewlett Packard, IKEA, Johnson & Johnson, Johnson Controls, Kellogg, KPMG, Levi Strauss, Lululemon, Lyft, Mars, Mass General, McDonalds, Microsoft, Nestle, Nike, Patagonia, PayPal, PG&E, Philip Morris, Ralph Lauren, REI, SAP, Siemens, Sierra Nevada Brewing, Sodexo, Starbucks, Stonyfield, Syngenta, Target, Coca-Cola, Hartford, Tiffany, Trane, Unilever, Vail, Verizon, Walmart, Zurich, among others.

Excerpt from this story from the New York Times:

More than 300 businesses, including Google, McDonalds and Walmart, are pushing the Biden administration to nearly double the United States’ target for cuts to planet-warming emissions ahead of an April 22 global summit on climate change.

In a letter to President Biden released on Tuesday morning, chief executive officers from some of the nation’s largest companies will call on the administration to set a new Paris Agreement goal of slashing the nation’s carbon dioxide, methane and other planet-warming emissions at least 50 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.

That is roughly what most major environmental groups want, and the corporate executives called the target “ambitious and attainable.”

Organizers of the business letter said they hoped such a message coming from the private sector — including electric utilities like Exelon and Pacific Gas & Electric, as well as dozens of companies based in Republican districts — would resonate strongly with Congress. Other signators include Target, Verizon and Philip Morris, the tobacco giant once considered a firm ally of the Republican Party.

The effort also underscores the delicate path corporate leaders are treading in the post-Trump era. Their decisions to break with Republicans on issues like voting rights and racial justice have rankled their traditional allies in the G.O.P. Pressing the Biden administration to aggressively combat climate change could further alienate Republicans, who have long fought emissions regulations as “job killers” that would make American business less competitive.

Excerpt from the letter:

As business leaders, we care deeply about the future of the U.S. and the health of its people and economy. Collectively, our businesses employ nearly 6 million American workers across all 50 states, representing over $3 trillion in annual revenue, and for those of us who are investors, we represent more than $1 trillion in assets under management. We join the majority of Americans in thanking you for re-entering the U.S into the Paris Agreement and for making climate action a vital pillar of your presidency. To restore the standing of the U.S. as a global leader, we need to address the climate crisis at the pace and scale it demands. Specifically, the U.S. must adopt an emissions reduction target that will place the country on a credible pathway to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

We, therefore, call on you to adopt the ambitious and attainable target of cutting GHG emissions by at least 50% below 2005 levels by 2030.

A bold 2030 target is needed to catalyze a zero-emissions future, spur a robust economic recovery, create millions of well-paying jobs, and allow the U.S. to “build back better” from the pandemic. New investment in clean energy, energy efficiency, and clean transportation can build a strong, more equitable, and more inclusive American economy. A 2030 target will also guide the U.S. government’s approach to more sustainable and resilient infrastructure, zero-emissions vehicles and buildings, improved agricultural practices, and durable carbon removal. Finally, the commitment would inspire other industrialized nations to set bold targets of their own.

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Nombres para parejas de gatos

Es posible que te encuentres en la situación en que acabas de adoptar, o te han regalado o bien has comprado dos gatos (ya sea macho y hembra, dos machos o dos hembras) y, claro, a no ser que tengas ya decidido el nombre, seguro que ahora te llevará unos días tener que buscar uno. A menudo, cuando se tienen dos gatos a la vez se suelen buscar nombres en pareja como Pixie y Dixie (aunque éstos eran ratones) o Sun y Moon (sol y luna). Como nosotros también queremos aportar nuestro granito de arena y darte algunos nombres te dejamos un listado con los que hemos encontrado: ABBOT & COSTELLO ADÁN & EVA ALFA & BETA ALFA & OMEGA ANGEL & DEMONIO ANITA & ROGER ARCO & FLECHA ASH & BRUK ASTERIX & OBELIX BARBIE & KEN BATMAN & ROBIN BELLA & BESTIA BESTIA & FURIA BIG & LITTLE BLACK & WHITE BLOOD & KILLER BONUS &TRACK BRAHMA & PILSEN BRED & BUTTER BUFFALO & BILL BUGS & LUCAS BUSTER & LUCAS CAIN & ABEL CALÍGULA & NERON CAROZO & NARIZOTA CAVERNET & SAUVIGNON CHABLIS & CHANDON CHAMAPAGNE & CHANDON CHAMPAGNE & LIMON CHORIZO & MORCILLA COFFE & MILK COFFEE & MILK COFFEE & SUGAR CORCHO &.TAPITA DARK & LIGHT DIDDY & DEXTER DIESEL & NAFTA DONALD & DAYSY DUFOUR & NIKE EARTH & SKY EIFFEL & PISA EINSTEIN & NEWTON EL GORDO & EL FLACO EVERY & WAY FELPA & GAMUZA FIDO & DIDO FIGARO & CARUSSO FIOLO & CAFISHO FIOLO & CAFISHO FIRST & LAST FITO & CHARLIE FRANK & FRANZ FUSTA & REBENQUE GALA & DALÍ GAME&OVER GARFIELD & ODDIE GARFIELD & ODDIE GAROTO & MININA GAUCHO & GRINGA GAUCHO & PAMPA GIN & TONIC GIN & VODKA GINGER & FRED GINGER & ROGER GOKU & MILK GRAMPA & TUERCA HANSEL & GRETEL HARMONY & MELODY HARRY & SALLY HATA&YOGA HEAVEN & SKY HEWLETT & PACKARD HOMERO (o Homer) & MARGE HOMERO (o Homer) & MORTICIA HOT & COLD HOUDINI & MANDRAKE INDIO & CACIQUE INSERT & COIN ISUZU & MAZDA JAMON & QUESO JANE & TARZAN JAZZ & BLUES JESSIE & JAMES JUNIOR & SENIOR KIKO & ÑOÑO LARRY & MOE LEFT & RIGHT LIGHT & DARK LOAD & SAVE MAGGIE & BURT MAMBO & SAMBA MAMMA & MíA MARGE & HOMERO MARIO & LUIGGI MASTER & SENIOR MATUTE & DON GATO MENTA & LIMON MICKEY & MINNIE MILA & FRITA MITO &TABU MORK & MINDIE MOUSE & PAD MOZART & BATCH ONLY & YOU PACHANGA & MILONGA PAN & MANTECA PC & MAC PIMIENTA & COMINO PINK & FLOYD PINKY & CEREBRO PINOCHO & GEPPETO PLATA & BRONCE PLATA & ORO PLUTO & DONALD POLY & LADRON PONGO & PERLITA PORT & COM PRINTER & SCANNER QUESO & DULCE RAYO & TRUENO REDONDO & RICOTA REN & STIMPY RIMEL & ROUGE ROCK & BLUES ROCK & BLUES ROCK & POP ROLUNG & STONE ROMEO & JULIETA ROMULO & REMO SAL & PIMIENTA SALSA & MERENGUE SANSON & GOLIAT SASHA & SISSI SHIP & PLANE SNOOPY & CARLITOS SOL & LUNA SOL & LUNA SPEED & SLOW STARKY & HUTCH STRAWBERRY & FIZZ SUPER & ULTRA TANGO & MALEVO TANGO & MILONGA TANQUE & DINAMITA TARGET & STATUS TIGER & UON TITAN & COLOSO TITAN & HERCULES TOM & JERRY TOM & JERRY TOP & BOTTOM TORNADO & TORMENTA TOXO & TAXI TRUCO & BRISCA TUERCA & TORNILLO TULIO & CESAR TWEETY & SILVESTRE UGHT & DARK UNDER & OVER UP & DOWN URANO & NEPTUNO VENUS & EROS WENDY&PETER YING & YANG YOKO & JOHN YUCA & YUYO Fuente. http://dlvr.it/RZQKvy

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riverparents as twin peaks character? (seasons 1/2)

this was insanely hard and everyone is going to yell at me but... (also i stuck with just making them adults not the teens)

Hal - Dale 

Fred - Harry 

Alice - Norma 

Hermione - Catherine 

FP - Pete 

Clifford - Leland 

Penelope - Sarah (jason is laura...)

Mary - Josie Packard

Tom - Hawk 

Hiram - Ben

Sierra - Lucy

Gladys - the log lady

Marty - Jerry