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Stargirl 1x03: "Icicle"

Happy birthday, Michael Nankin!

This episode made me fall in love with the show (and was the first I saw on its premiere day) so naturally, there would be a lot of gifs for this set. Hence why it took so long! So... much... compression.

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The Burcher and the Wren by Alaina Urquhart (Audiobook)

Zando Audible Release: September 13, 2022 Listening Length: 6 hours 23 minutes Narrators: Sophie Amoss and Joe Knezevich Genre: Horror KKECReads Overall Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ KKECReads Rating for Performance: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ KKECReads Rating for Story: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I purchased this audiobook on Amazon, and I leave my review voluntarily. Alaina Urquhart is the science-loving co-host of the…

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Crossing Paths is an Audiobook

For those of you who prefer to listen to your books, Crossing Paths is now available as an audiobook. My wife and I listened to it on a long road trip we just finished. Honestly, we had to increase the speed of Whitney Dykhouse, who read the stories written by women and non-binary authors, to 1.1 . . . but we both really liked Joe Knezevich, who read the stories written by men. And, the audiobook version is much lighter!

We lobbied to serve as the readers but they were having none of that. Whitney and Joe only had a few mispronunciations and slips from not being PCT hikers.

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Bad movie I have Boss Level 2020

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Respect (2021) Review

The rise of Aretha Franklin from a child singing in her father’s church choir to becoming an international superstar and the struggles that all brought, throughout her very complex and complicated life. ⭐️⭐️ Continue reading

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theneiljackson You may have noticed this (huge) painting hanging on the wall of the ISA meeting room. This was created from a photo taken at the very beginning of the shoot and then tinkered with by the brilliant @jedibugs, adding in Grundy (who selfishly refused to pose for the photo), and turning me into Icicle. I love this image and have a signed copy of it framed on my wall. And if you swipe left you’ll see that we even had a couple of interlopers join us for one pic!

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I personally love the idea that the members of the ISA all posed while this huge painting was being created. The idea that all of these “dastardly villains” stood perfectly still for hours while Dragon King (hence him being absent) worked his artistic magic just tickles me. And then Grundy sneezed and ruined everything! “Grundy sorry.” “Grundy have allergies.”

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CW / DC Universe Review - Stargirl: Luke Wilson in a Giant Robot

CW / DC Universe Review - Stargirl: Luke Wilson in a Giant Robot No, seriously, Luke Wilson in a GIANT ROBOT. #Stargirl

No, seriously, Luke Wilson in a GIANT ROBOT.

SUMMARY 

LUKE WILSON IN A GIANT ROBOT!!! Okay, wait, give me a second. …Alright, I’m calm. 

Courtney Whitmore (Brec Bassinger) is a sophomore in high school who has just moved with her family to the seemingly innocent small town of Blue Valley. Naturally, she quickly becomes a social outcast for standing up to bully Henry King, Jr. (Jake Austin…

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history of audiobooks : Shooting Lincoln by Nicholas J.C. Pistor | Non-Fiction

Listen to Shooting Lincoln new releases history of audiobooks on your iPhone, iPad, or Android. Get any AUDIO BOOKS by Nicholas J.C. Pistor Non-Fiction FREE during your Free Trial

Written By: Nicholas J.C. Pistor Narrated By: Joe Knezevich Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA Date: September 2017 Duration: 7 hours 38 minutes

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history of audiobooks : The New Rules of War by Sean Mcfate | History

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Written By: Sean Mcfate Narrated By: Joe Knezevich Publisher: HarperAudio Date: January 2019 Duration: 8 hours 2 minutes

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CINEMA O Bibliotecário A Maldição do Cálice de Judas The Librarian: The Curse of the Judas Chalice SINOPSE Flynn, o bibliotecário, é atraído até Nova Orleães por um estranho sonho, e vai deparar-se com uma conspiração que envolve o príncipe vampiro Vlad Dracule. Novamente, Flynn vai ter que proteger os artefactos sagrados - neste caso, o cálice de Judas - para evitar que caiam nas mãos erradas. 1 Prémio e 5 Nomeações Realização: Jonathan Frakes Argumento: Marco Schnabel Elenco: Noah Wyle Bruce Davison, Stana Katic, Bob Newhart, Jane Curtin, Dikran Tulaine, Jason Douglas, Beth Burvant, Joe Knezevich, David Born, Joe Ross E John Curran. Ano: 2008 Género: Acção Aventura País: EUA Idade: M/12 Duração: 90 min IMDB: 6.6 OPINIÃO Este é o terceiro filme da trilogia "O Bibliotecário" (The Librarian) e pela introdução dá logo para ver o mau que é. Vampiros, lamecha e fraco. http://lopesca.blogspot.com/2021/09/cinema-o-bibliotecario-maldicao-do.html https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=227526692719368&set=a.143408627797842&type=3

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Happy birthday to Stargirl Writer Colleen McGuinness!

My favorite quotes from season 1 episodes 3 & 9   

VISIT save-stargirl.com for to join the campaign and add to the archive of DC's most brightly shining heroine! 

 [Contains SPOILERS for season 1 of DC’s Stargirl] 

CLIP CREDITS:  @stargirl.logoless on Instagram 

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Bad movie I have The Mule 2018

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Boss Level (2021) Review

Boss Level (2021) Review

Roy Pulver is a retired Special Forces officer and he’s trapped in his very own Groundhog Day of a never ending time loop on the day of his death. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (more…)

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Stargirl Villains: A Guide to the Injustice Society

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This article contains Stargirl spoilers.

The Injustice Society has been terrorizing the heroes of the DC Universe for over 70 years. Although they might not be as well known as their more famous counterparts, the Injustice League, and definitely aren’t as criminally insane as their predecessors, Shazam villains the Monster Society of Evil, the members of the Injustice Society have made their stamp on comics history. They’re also about to be discovered by a much wider audience as they’ve been revealed as the dangerous rogues in the new Stargirl TV series, which is airing on both DC Universe and The CW.

Created by Sheldon Mayer and Bob Kanigher, DC’s maniacal supervillain super-team debuted in 1947’s All Star Comics #37. This makes them one of the earliest supervillain teams in comicdom, though they were beaten out by Mister Mind’s Monster Society four years earlier. Seeing as we’re having fun with comic book history here, I’m going to point out that the Injustice Society and Monster Society were both predated by another team of bad guys who were the first ever super-villain team, and the reason they’re relevant is that they faced off with the Star-Spangled Kid and Stripesy too! 

In 1941’s Leading Comics #1, Green Arrow, Speedy, Shining Knight, Star-Spangled Kid (and his striped sidekick), Vigilante, and Crimson Avenger took on a group of villains collected by a man known only as the Hand, introducing the first real supervillain team! Alas, the gathering of villains was never named. Although the heroes who fought them would unite to become the Seven Soldiers of Victory, this original evil team of foes was forgotten. 

But evil cannot be defeated so easily and seven years later the Injustice Society would be born. Why were they created? Well, that’s still unclear. But when All Star Comics #37 hit shelves, they were already trying to take over the world. On a striking cover that showcased the villainous team portioning out a map of the United States with knives, the famed heroes of the JSA were shackled to the walls behind the Injustice Society. In some classic Golden Age shenanigans the team was assembled by the Wizard, who utilized them to capture the Justice Society of America.

The original lineup differed pretty significantly from the antagonists of Stargirl, with the Wizard joined by Brain Wave (both of whom have made their way to the show), Vandal Savage, and lesser knowns like the Gambler (he’s here too), the Thinker (who you may remember from The Flash season 4), and Per Degaton.

With all of that history dug up, let’s get to the matter at hand: the Injustice League as they exist in the world of Stargirl. The most interesting thing is that just like the series is re-imagining their own Justice Society they’re also setting up the legacy versions of some of the Injustice Society’s villains too. Most of this section will be focused on the original versions, but as we’ve seen, the series is seeding new versions of these characters as well. 

Icicle 

The leader of Stargirl‘s Injustice Society is Joar Mahkent (Neil Jackson). In the show we know little about the character except that he killed Starman, he’s European like his comics counterpart, and he has recently moved back to Blue Valley at the behest of Brain Wave.

Despite the fact that he wasn’t in the first comics iteration of the team, he was introduced in the same year in All-American Comics #90. In the pages of that book he uses a Cold Gun similar to the weapons that Mr. Freeze and Captain Cold use, but in the show he seems to have powers more like those of his son, Cameron.

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The only child of Joar Mahkent, Cameron takes on the mantle of Icicle. But due to his father’s excessive exposure to his own Cold Gun, Cameron’s genetics enable him to turn to ice without any aid.

Speaking of Cameron (Hunter Sansone), he’s already been introduced to viewers of Stargirl, so it’s possible that he’ll be heading up the young Injustice Society when they inevitably assemble.

Brain Wave 

Henry King Sr. is the ginger telekinetic who spent the first few episodes causing havoc for the familial super team. First introduced in 1943’s All-Star Comics #15, Henry has long been battling the Justice Society of America. He’s also one of the founding members of the original comic book Injustice Society.

But there’s also the matter of his son Henry King Jr. (Jake Austin Walker). During his stint as Brain Wave in the comics, Jr. tried to reinvent himself as a hero only to lose his mind when his father died, eventually becoming a villain. Could we possibly see him develop powers here? The show seems to be hinting at this in recent episodes. If we’re going by comic book history it’s not the craziest leap. 

The Wizard 

William Asmodeus Zard (Joe Knezevich) is a genius. He’s also a talented magician who trained under a mystic in Tibet who he later murdered. Like the Injustice Society he debuted in 1947, just three issues before his team in All Star Comics #34. We saw him briefly in the opening battle, but he was properly introduced in Stargirl episode 2 (before being dispatched in episode 3)

Solomon Grundy

Probably the most famous rogue in Stargirl is the iconic Green Lantern villain Solomon Grundy. Over the years the character has shifted–most recently into an anti-hero in the DCAU–but from what we’ve seen in the show he’s a stone cold killer. He also seems to have been controlled and imprisoned by Icicle.

Grundy first popped up in 1944’s All-American Comics #61 as the resurrected corpse of a wealthy businessman who was killed in the idyllically named Slaughter Swamp, located just outside of Gotham. Like his namesake, he lives a cyclical life of deaths and rebirths. Post-Crisis he’s mostly a Batman villain, and his resurrection ability is connected to the Elemental Plant magic of Swamp Thing. Here all we know is he’s big, bad, and an impressive digital creation. With Icicle back in the picture, Grundy’s ready to wreak havoc again. 

Tigress

Easily beating out her other team members here for longest running rogue is Tigress (Joy Osmanski). The first iteration of the character appeared alongside Krypton’s blue eyed boy in Action Comics #1 as a foe for Zatara. However, the version we see in Stargirl is Paula Brooks. In the comics she was originally a heroine but Roy Thomas turned her into a criminal mastermind.

During her stint in the comics she married fellow bad guy Sportsmaster and they had a daughter named Artemis. She did eventually become the third Tigress, so we could see her on-screen iteration (Stella Smith) suit up.  Tigress and Sportsmaster are a delight on the show as over-achieving sports helicopter parents.

Sportsmaster

Speaking of Sportsmaster, Blue Valley’s favorite muscle hungry dad is Laurence “Crusher” Crock. In a hilarious turn of events he runs the town’s gym and goes by his Golden Age nickname Crusher.

Sportmaster first showed up in 1947’s All-American Comics #85 as an antagonist for the original Green Lantern. We’ve covered his familial ties in our Tigress entry, so what about this for a cool twist… could Artemis actually follow in her father’s footsteps and become the next Sportsmaster? It actually makes a lot of sense. In Stargirl episode 2 we see Paula boasting about her daughter’s athletic prowess and her hopes that she’ll be the first woman drafted into the NBA, and later episodes established that she’s the best player on the Blue Valley High football team. Could that dream not come true, leading to her disenchantment and villainy just like her father? 

There’s also the chance that the American Dream project the Society has been working on is just a way to channel their children into super-villainy? This seems like a particularly likely route for Artemis as Stargirl seems interested in upending expectations, plus Sportsmaster had a rivalry with Wildcat who has established herself as a member of the new JSA.

Dragon King

A classic Star-Spangled Kid villain who was first introduced during the Bronze Age of superhero comics–1981, to be precise–Dragon King was a WW2 era Japanese spy. Here it looks like we’re getting a comics accurate version of the villain, who spliced his genes with that of a lizard becoming a man-monster in the process (notice how his eyes blink behind that creepy hood!).

Something that’s made the early episodes of Stargirl so special is the way the show embraces the colorful chaos of comics. The Injustice Society is a truly great representation of that, and if the show sticks to these outrageous origins, crazy costumes, and strange stories, then the Injustice Society could become a super-villain team for the history books.

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Amazon’s Lore Season 1, Episode 6: “Unboxed” Directed by Michael E. Satrazemis Written by Tyler Hisel

* For a recap & review of the previous episode, “The Beast Within” – click here

South of Mexico City there is an island with a “disturbing history” called Island of the Dolls, originally Isla de las Muñecas. In the 1950s, Don Julian Santana abandoned his family to go live on the island. A long while later, he found a drowned girl there. Not far he found a doll, likely belonging to the girl. He thought it was a “curse” because he left his own family. So, he kept the doll like it was his own child. He looked for more dolls, sometimes going into the mainland to find them. They were hung as “offerings” to the girl’s spirit, to ward off her anger. He eventually drowned in the same water where he’d found the girl, leaving all his dolls strung up on the island, left to the decay of time. Aaron Mahnke reminds us how dolls become special objects to children, as a “trusted friend” and more. However, many of us are creeped out by dolls, their strange eyes. All a product of the primitive brain. Mahnke speaks of the “uncanny valley,” which is a reason why Tom Hanks in The Polar Express is unsettling, something too close to human yet not quite human. And this is ultimately why dolls, mere objects, hold power of us. Sometimes they won’t relent, either. We go to 1904, in Key West, Florida. Thomas and Minnie Otto (Joe Knezevich & Kristin Bauer van Straten) lived there with their son Robert a.k.a Gene (J.T. Corbitt). His Aunt Bridget (Sandra Ellis Lafferty) sends the lonely little boy a doll from her trip in German. Because the kid was a bit different, the doll had a quick effect on him, they became best friends. He was like a real boy to Gene, he sat at the table with the family, he had a meal set out for him, as well. Dad doesn’t dig it, he’s upset by the neighbours talking about his son, though mom realises the object is their child’s “only friend.” One day Minnie believes she hears her husband upstairs. Yet there’s only her son, the doll, whom the boy’s named after himself: Robert. Just the lads, laughing and chatting together. Even dad starts hearing things, someone running around upstairs when his boy’s asleep not far from him in the next room. Things are beginning to turn up broken, and Gene swears it wasn’t him. When he claims the doll did it all, it sounds insane, naturally. “Robert is real. And he doesn‘t like it when you scold me.” Mahnke discusses ventriloquism, why it’s unsettling to people. In 19th century America, people were interested and likewise a bit repelled by the act. Some were accused of witchcraft. Others were believed to be mediums, channelling “voices of the dead” into their dolls. A razor’s edge between entertaining and eerie. Edgar Bergen and his doll Charlie were the most famous American ventriloquist act. Years later, his daughter revealed the doll was treated as a member of the family. It had a room. It even got his inheritance, left behind for him rather than Edgar’s daughter: the very famous Candice Bergen. Aunt Bridget gets to Florida, upset over Gene’s relationship with Robert the doll. She brings out the Bible to get across her point, lamenting these “new beliefs of the Suffragette.” Everybody’s worried about the kid. Except for mom. Thomas and Bridget want to get rid of the doll, whereas Minnie doesn’t want to do that to Gene. So they lock the doll away in a crate, nailing it shut to be kept in the attic. Afterwards, things got weird. First Bridget turns up dead. Then Robert the doll is back sitting next to Gene’s bed as he sleeps. Mahnke questions when dolls gain their power over us. He tells us about a woman named Frances Glessner Lee. She made dolls, only to kill them all in various ways. She made forensic science miniature crime scenes based on real cases: “The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death.” This helped revolutionise the way scenes were thought about, the care for minute details; today, these are still used for teaching purposes.

Aunt Bridget supposedly had a stroke. Wasn’t necessarily what everyone in the house believed. Mom asks her son how Robert got out of the box. He replies he can’t tell, implying the doll has strange powers. This prompted Minnie to break down and send him away to a boarding school. Mahnke talks about “reborns,” which are lifelike, custom-made dolls. Made painstakingly to look like a newborn baby. This is a truly strange evolution in the concept of the doll. Watching them being made, watching women cradling them like actual children, even how they’re broken out of a bag as if they’ve truly come out of a human, it’s terrifying. This is the power an object can hold over a person. Just as poor Minnie believed Robert the doll was responsible for everything bad in their home. She nailed him up again in the attic for good. Skip ahead, 24 years later, and Gene (Michael Patrick Lane) is a painter who travelled Europe. Thomas died, and Minnie was left at home with the doll. When her boy returned, he was grown and experienced and their reunion was wonderful – he also brought his wife, Anne (Haley Finnegan). But Minnie starts warning the new bride, that they’ve offended Robert. He won’t be happy his friend Gene is being taken away by the women in his life. It all sounds nuts to the young woman, of course. A product of those years alone with only the doll in that house. Despite it all, the couple moved into the home, and the influence over Gene began all over again. Terrifying. Anatoly Moskvin, Mahnke tells us, was a special sort of strange. He had dozens of dolls, whom he dressed, drank tea with, read to; inside their chests, he installed music boxes. See, Anatoly stole corpses for a decade. At home, they were his “companions.” He mummified the bodies and turned them into dolls. He felt they’d, someday, come back to life. Yikes. One night, Anne took Robert outside, doused him in petrol, and took a match to him. Next day? He’s back sitting at the table with her husband, fresh and clean. Obviously things got especially scary from there on in, decades of Robert living with them. People would say they saw him staring from the window. His legacy lived on, longer than his owner. He went on haunting the house, until a museum took Robert, where he’s become a famous tourist attraction.

Just don’t take a picture with him unless you ask his permission. Or he’ll get… angry, and do “bad things.” My favourite episode of Season 1 as a whole, because there’s so much within the story, true history I never knew (Candice Bergen!), and on top of that the entire tale is macabre and weird and super creepy. Just a fantastic episode. I’ve not yet heard anything, but I do hope this will be successful enough for a Season 2. Mahnke is excellent, he’s a wonderful narrator. The subjects of the podcast were interesting enough, this show gives it the best possible visuals to add that extra OOMPF. Give us more. Lore – Season 1, Episode 6: “Unboxed” Amazon's Lore Season 1, Episode 6: "Unboxed" Directed by Michael E. Satrazemis Written by Tyler Hisel…