#july 25 1994

[sweetdreamsjeff]

From a poster on Reddit that goes by KnowCali

Don't think they got the year right as I believe he only played at Above Brainwash in San Francisco, CA on July 25, 1994

Setlist:

Chocolate/Mojo Pin, Dream Brother, So Real, Last Goodbye, Lilac Wine, Grace, Eternal Life; Lover, You Should've Come Over, Kanga-Roo

[zumainthyfuture]

Benjamin F. Hardy (July 25, 1921-1994) was an African-American custom motorcycle builder who made the Captain America and Billy choppers for the 1969 Peter Fonda road movie Easy Rider.

The Captain America bike, made from a then 20-year-old, heavily customized Harley-Davidson panhead is considered one of the most iconic motorcycles ever built.

Working with another Black motorcycle builder, coordinator Cliff Vaughs, Hardy built two 'Billy' bikes and three 'Captain Americas', one of which was destroyed in the making of the movie, the rest of which were stolen. Each bike had a backup to make sure that shooting could continue in case one of the old machines failed or got wrecked accidentally. The 'Billy' bike was typical of the custom motorcycles Black bikers were riding at the time.

Hardy and Vaughs remained largely unknown and uncredited for 25 years as they were not accepted due to being African-Americans, and were not welcomed into the mainstream motorcycle world in the USA.

Known locally as "Benny" and "King of Bikes" Ben Hardy's Motorcycle Service was located at 1168 E. Florence in Los Angeles. He was a mentor to many of the local motorcyclists in South Central, Los Angeles.

His work was featured in the “Black Chrome” exhibition at the California African American Museum. 

[trans-axolotl]

this is a shortened works cited from my thesis, pulling out the sources about American intersex history and activism from the past 30 years. i have pdfs for most of the sources there, if there's something that isn't linked send me a message and i can try to find it!

just thought i'd try to put a lot of intersex history sources in one place.

Works Cited: 

Amato, Viola. “The Intersex Movement of the 1990s: Speaking Out Against Medical and Narrative Violence.” In Intersex Narratives: Shifts in the Representation of Intersex Lives in North American Literature and Popular Culture, 55–102. Transcript Verlag, 2016. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1xxrsz.6.

Bauer, Markus, Daniela Truffer and Daniela Crocetti. “Intersex Human Rights.” The International Journal of Human Rights. 24, no.6. (2020):724-749.https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2019.1671354 

Brown, Lydia X.Z., Erickson, Loree, da Silva Gorman, Rachel, Lewis, Talila A., McLeod, Lateef, and Mingus, Mia.  “Radical Disability Politics.” In Routledge Handbook of Radical Politics, edited by A.J. Withers and Liat Ben-Moshe, 178-193. Routledge, 2019. 

Cameron, David. “Hermaphrodites With Attitude.” Newsletter. 1994. https://isna.org/library/hwa/ 

Carpenter, Morgan. “Fixing bodies and shaping narratives: Epistemic injustice and the responses of medicine and bioethics to intersex human rights demands.” Clinical Ethics. 2024;19, no. 1. (2024) :3-17. doi:10.1177/14777509231180412

Chase, Cheryl. “Hermaphrodites with Attitude: Mapping the Emergence of Intersex Political Activism.” Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 4, no.2, (1998): 189-211. 

---, Hermaphrodites Speak! 1997; Rohnert Park: Intersex Society of North America. Video tape. 

Cohen, Julie, dir. Every Body. 2023; United States: Focus Features, DVD.

Denny, Dallas.  "Chrysalis Quarterly, Vol. 2 No. 5 (Fall, 1997 / Winter, 1998)."  Periodical.  1998.  Digital Transgender Archive,  https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/7s75dc39s  (accessed April 08, 2024).

Davis, Georgiann. “Introduction: Normalizing Intersex: The Transformative Power of Stories.”  in Voices: Personal Stories from the Pages of Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics: Normalizing Intersex, edited by James DuBois and Ana Iltis. 1-4. John Hopkins University Press, 2016. 

Dreger, Alice. “Rejecting the Tranquilizing Drug of Gradualism in Intersex Care.” Alice Dreger (blog). November 2015. Accessed April 9, 2024. https://alicedreger.com/dsd_human_rights/ 

Dreger, Alice and April Herndon. “Progress and Politics in the Intersex Rights Movement: Feminist Theory in Action.” Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 15, no. 2. (2009): 199-224.

Fausto-Sterling, Ane. Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality. New York: Basic Books. 2000. 

“A Framework for Intersex Justice.” Intersex Justice Project. 2021. Accessed April 8, 2024. https://www.intersexjusticeproject.org/intersex-justice-framework.html 

"FTM Newsletter #37."  Periodical.  1997.  Digital Transgender Archive,  https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/kd17cs89j  (accessed April 08, 2024).

Hegarty, Peter, Marta Prandelli, Trove Lundberg, Lih-Mei Liao, Sarah Creighton, and Katrina Roen.”Drawing the Line Between Essential and Nonessential Interventions on Intersex Characteristics With European Health Care Professionals.” Review of General Psychology. 25, no 1. (2020): 101-114. 

Hermaphrodites With Attitude.  "Hey AAP! Get Your Scalpels Off Our Bodies! Flyer."  Ephemera.  1990.  Digital Transgender Archive,  https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/qj72p712h  (accessed April 08, 2024). 

“Hermaphrodites With Attitude,” Intersex Society of North America. 2006. Accessed April 8, 2024. https://isna.org/library/hwa/ 

“How To: Organize an #EndIntersexSurgery Protest in your hometown--a toolkit created by Intersex Justice Project (IJP.” Intersex Justice Project. 2019. Accessed April 8, 2024. https://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20191111232744/https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EgYy2jfSO04HF_FGv-8RXYEgWW422L-RB7oxMOaIiBc/edit 

Hughes, Ieuan, Christopher Houk, Syed Faisal Ahmed, Peter Lee, and LWPES1/ESPE2 Consensus Group. “Consensus Statement on Management of intersex disorders.” Disease in Childhood. 91, no.7. (2006): 554-563. doi: 10.1136/adc.2006.098319

“I Want to Be Like Nature Made Me: Medically Unnecessary Surgeries on Intersex Children in the US.” Human Rights Watch. InterACT. July 2017, accessed April 8, 2024. https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/lgbtintersex0717_web_0.pdf 

“InterACT Statement on Intersex Terminology.” InterACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth. 2015. Accessed April 8, 2024. https://interactadvocates.org/interact-statement-on-intersex-terminology/#:~:text=interACT's%20use%20of%20terminology%20and,of%20the%20term%20%E2%80%9Cintersex%E2%80%9D. 

Lindhal, Hans. “Is PCOS an Intersex Condition? Here’s 5 Reasons Why Some Say Yes.” HansLindhal.Com (Blog). February 2023, Accessed April 7, 2024. https://hanslindahl.com/blog/is-pcos-an-intersex-condition 

---., “9 Young People on How They Found Out They Are Intersex.” Teen Vogue. October 2019. Accessed April 10, 2024. https://www.teenvogue.com/gallery/young-people-on-how-they-found-out-they-are-intersex 

“M.C v. Aaronson.” Southern Poverty Law Center. 2017. Accessed April 8, 2024. https://www.splcenter.org/seeking-justice/case-docket/mc-v-aaronson

Merrick, Ten. “From ‘Intersex’ to ‘DSD’: A Case of Epistemic Injustice.” Synthese 196, no. 11 (2019): 4429–47. http://www.jstor.org/stable/45220035.

Orr, Celeste. Cripping Intersex. University of British Columbia Press, 2022. 

Pagonis, Pidgeon. “#EndIntersexSurgery Protest At Lurie Children’s Hospital Recap + 5 Ways To Get Involved.” Intersex Justice Project. 2018. Accessed April 8, 2024. https://www.intersexjusticeproject.org/blog/endintersexsurgery-protest-at-lurie-childrens-hospital-recap 

Pagonis, Pidgeon and Sean Saifa Wall. “Open Letter to AIS-DSD Support Group.” EndIntersexSurgery. Intersex Justice Project. February 2018. Accessed April 8, 2024.  http://www.endintersexsurgery.org/ 

Redick, Alison. “What Happened at Hopkins: The Creation of the Intersex Management Protocols.  Cardozo Journal of  Law & Gender. 12 (2005): 289-296 

Reid, Graeme, and Minky Worden. “Caster Semenya Won Her Case, But Not the Right to Compete.” Human Rights Watch. July 2023. Accessed April 10, 2024. https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/07/18/caster-semenya-won-her-case-not-right-compete  

Reis, Elizabeth. Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex. John Hopkins Press, 2021.

---, “Did Bioethics Matter? A HIstory of Autonomy, Consent, and Intersex Genital Surgery. Medical Law review. 27, no.4, (2019):658-674. https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwz007 

Rios-Espinosa, Carlos, Koomah, Syrus Marcus Ware, and Sean Saifa Wall. “Liberating All Bodies: Disability Justice & Intersex Justice In Conversation.” Webinar at the Crip Camp Impact Team and Human Rights Watch Film Festival, United States, October 2020.  

Rubin, David, Michelle Wolff and Amanda Lock Swarr. “Creating Intersex Justice: Interview with Sean Saifa Wall and Pidgeon Pagonis of the Intersex Justice Project.”  Transgender Studies Quarterly. 9, no. 2. (2022): 187-195. https://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-9612823 

Sharman, Zena. “Intersex Justice and the Care We Deserve: ‘I Want People to Feel at Home in Their Bodies Again.’” Ms. Magazine. 2022. Accessed April 8, 2024. https://msmagazine.com/2022/02/03/intersex-justice-the-care-we-dream-of-queer-trans-healthcare/  

Sharpe, Sam. “No one-size-fits all: Myths and Misconceptions about PCOS.” InterACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth. Advocates for Informed Choice. October 2022. Accessed on April 7, 2024. https://interactadvocates.org/no-one-size-fits-all-myths-and-misconceptions-about-pcos/ 

Spurgas, Alyson. “(Un)Queering Identity: The Biosocial Production of Intersex/DSD.” in Critical Intersex edited by Morgan Holmes. 97-122. Ashgate Publishing, 2009. 

Tamar-Matis, Anne. “ Advocates for Informed Choice, Newsletter Fall 2007.” Newsletter. 2007. AIC Legal .https://aiclegal.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/fall-07-newsletter-final.pdf

---. “Advocates for Informed Choice: Newsletter Spring 2008.” Newsletter. 2008. AIC Legal.https://aiclegal.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/spring-08-final.pdf

---. “Advocates for Informed Choice: Newsletter Summer 2009.” Newsletter. 2009. AIC Legal.https://aiclegal.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/aic-2009-summer-newsletter-pdf.pdf

---. “Advocates for Informed Choice: Spring 2010 Newsletter.” Newsletter. 2010. AIC Legal.https://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=f8291560ebb2dafc25097480f&id=5803ec8c71

---., “June 2011: Promoting the Civil Rights of Children Born With Variations of Sex Anatomy.” Newsletter. 2011. AIC Legal. https://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=f8291560ebb2dafc25097480f&id=cec68ddac 

---.. “June 2012: Promoting the Civil Rights of Children Born With Variations of Sex Anatomy.” Newsletter. 2012. AIC Legal. https://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=f8291560ebb2dafc25097480f&id=b4d4dd90cf

---. “ 2012 Annual Report.” Newsletter. 2012. Advocates for Informed Choice. https://interactadvocates.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/AIC-2012-Annual-Report.pdf 

---. “2013 Annual Report. “ Newsletter. 2012. Advocates for Informed Choice. https://interactadvocates.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2013-annual-report-FIN1.pdf  

“US: Anti-Trans Bills Also Harm Intersex Children.” Human Rights Watch. October 22. Accessed April 10, 2024. https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/10/26/us-anti-trans-bills-also-harm-intersex-children 

Vecchietti, Valentino. “A Journey to the Intersex-Inclusive Pride Flag.” Global Inclusive Pride Flag. Intersex Equality Rights. 2021. Accessed April 7, 2024. https://www.globalinclusiveprideflag.com/ 

Wilchins, Riki Anne.  "In Your Face No. 5 (Spring 1998)."  Newsletter.  1998.  Digital Transgender Archive,  https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/vq27zn45k  (accessed April 08, 2024).

Withers, AJ. Disability Politics and Theory. Fernwood Publishing, 2012. 

Woo, Elaine. “David Reimer, 38; After Botched Surgery, He was Raised as a Girl in Gender Experiment.: Los Angeles Times. May 2004. Accessed April 8, 2024. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-may-13-me-reimer13-story.html 

[purplemortuary]

Buck-Tick in analogue Part I | 80s - 90s

A collection I've been making for a long time of organized BUCK-TICK polaroids and other analog photos with dates. Side projects may also be included.

Tried to track as much as I could find.

↑ 3 August - 1986

↑ 21 December - 1986 (Hidehiko Hoshino and the Buck-Tick van)

↑ 19 October - 1987 (Sakurai at age 21)

↑ 1988 (Sakurai at age 22)

↑ 2 June - 1988 (Imai and Hoshino)

↑ 20 January - 1989 (Sakurai one on the side)

↑ 28 September - 1991

↑ 3 October - 1993 (Imai and Sakurai)

↑ 17 February - 1994 (Sakurai at age 27)

↑ May 1994 (From Ongaku to Hito. Interview with Issay)

↑ 29 March - 1995 (Sakurai at age 29)

↑ 25 July - 1995

↑ 1996 (Sakurai and Imai. I'm unsure of the date but based on other pictures I found I gave it 96')

↑ July 1996 (From Ongaku to Hito)

↑ 27 September - 1997 (Sakurai)

↑ 1997 or 1998 (Imai and Sakurai, unsure about the date)

[dancingtotuyo]

Scathed Master List (Javier Pena)

In progress, Rating: Mature

Javier Peña X OFC

“No one who went through it, even the survivors, came out intact.” - Walt Breslin

Summary: Javier and Emily experienced the drug war on different fronts in very different ways. Maybe, they’re what the other needs to heal.

General Warning: trauma, panic attacks, past grooming, past abuse, drug war, canon typical topics. Chapter specific warnings before each chapter.

April 8, 1989

October 22, 1993

October 23, 1993

December 3, 1993

April 8, 1994

May 2, 1994

May 25, 1994

July 16, 1994

August, 1994

Dear Javi, 1994

Goodbye Javi, 1994

Spring 1995

Coming soon

Read on AO3

—

Thank you to Mads (@chaotic-mystery) for making this mood board! I fall more in love with each time I look at it ☺️.

[centrally-unplanned]

Since I am discussing anime academia today, I was reading another paper that was equally frustrating, along a different axis:

“Do female anime fans exist?” The impact of women-exclusionary discourses on rec.arts.anime

This as a premise is a good concept; someone mining the 90's Usenet anime communities for how the fandom saw female fans back then (the article title is quoting one such thread). So of course, the opening line of this article about the anime fandom in the 90's is....sigh....a reference to Donald Trump:

Commenting on the 2016 American presidential elections, multiple news reporters noted that a relationship could be found between Donald Trump supporters and online anime fans

It of course goes on to discuss Gamergate, 8chan, online right-wing radicalization, references to the "Fascist" themes of Attack on Titan, and on and on. The obvious problem with this is that it is irrelevant; the "methodology" section involves this aside about how they pulled this data from Google Archives but Google is an advertising firm and not a replacement for a real archive and we need to Fight The System and buddy my dude that is not germane to your sample size!!! But more importantly, it is backwards. I don't need to explain the argument here in detail; the article is positing a throughline from 90's anime discourse to modern right-wing internet politics through a sort of 'lock-in' effect of built culture norms around misogyny. Which is fine, you can make that argument - but why is all this future stuff in the first section? You haven't really presented the argument yet! This isn't a book, its not the intro chapter - literally 30% of the text of this article is stating a conclusion upfront, justified not through the text itself but citations to other articles about its truth.

This is something media studies pulled from traditional science - traditional science states "established facts" up front that the paper is building on. But that is because - a thousand caveats aside - in chemistry those facts are....facts. They may be wrong facts, but they can, ostensibly, be objective descriptors. This paper cites "anime is still synonymous with far-right ideologies of white and male supremacy, and events of anti-Blackness" like its citing the covalent bond count of carbon. That is not and never will be a fact one can cite, that is an argument; and its not one that is important for understanding this analysis of Usenet groups. This structure is pulled from other sciences, but it flourishes because it lets you pad the citation count of your peers. Its embarrassing how often you can skip the first 1/3rd of a paper in this field - really the worst possible thing to copy from economics (ding!)

This paper also does the insane thing of jumping between citations from 1992 and events in the 2010's like anime culture is continuous between those time periods. Its an extremely bold claim it just does in the background... but lets set that aside.

This hyper-politicization & hyper-theorizing leads to the second issue of extreme under-analysis. This is the actual value-add of this paper:

From this search, I was able to find the discussion threads “How many females read r.a.a.?” (135 messages; opened on July 13, 1993), “Question: Girls on r.a.a?” (23 messages; opened on February 25, 1994), “Female Otakus” (221 messages; opened on June 25, 1994), “Women watching anime” (72 messages; opened on October 4, 1994), and “Female fans - Do they exist?” (61 messages; opened on October 26, 1995). While these discussions may seem like they were spaces for marginalized users to discuss their experiences, they were often started and overwhelmingly occupied by identified male users. In total, I extracted 252 messages from 1992 to 1996 that were relevant to the gendering of anime fandom, and among those, I classified them as 7 kinds of negative networking discursive practices: (e.g. Table 1. Negative networking practices on rec.arts.anime).

252 messages, five threads - later on it will name other threads, so its more than this, but you get it. It has a bunch of data. And from that data, the article quotes...less than half a dozen examples. There are no quantitative metrics, no threads are presented or discussed in detail from this data set. Some other event is discussed in detail, but again it quotes essentially one person once. The provided "Table 1", the only Table, is a list of the author's categorizations of the data; the data itself is not present. Its file format is a CSV, presumably to mock me for clicking it.

There is, from top to bottom, a complete lack of engagement with the data in question. This would fail an intro anthropology seminar; the conclusion is simply presumed from 1% of the sample size while the rest of the messages are left on read. I just don't think there is any value in that, a handful of messages from 1996 divorced from their context and stapled onto modern politics as a wrap-up. What did the people on this Usenet value? How did they think of women collectively? As anime fans, as outsiders, as romantic partners, as friends? What subfactions existed? Questions like those would presumably be the point of this investigation, but they are treated as distractions.

And this article was, in anime academic circles, a pretty well-trumpeted one. I'm not cherry-picking a bad one here, it was the "hot paper" of the month when it came out. Its just that the standards can be so low, its a field that simply lacks rigor. Which doesn't stop a ton of great work from being done btw, that isn't my point at all. My point is that the great work is not selected for; it goes unrewarded, bogged down by academic standards divorced from discovering real insights.

(I do not think the question "why are they misogynist" ever crossed the author's mind. That should be your literal thesis, and its a ghost. Just ugh.)

[mydaddywiki]

Paul Sorvino

Physique: Husky Build Height: 6’ 3" (1.91 m)

Paul Anthony Sorvino (April 13, 1939 – July 25, 2022) was an American actor who often portrayed authority figures on both the criminal and the law enforcement sides of the law. Sorvino was particularly known for his roles as Lucchese crime family caporegime Paulie Cicero in Martin Scorsese's 1990 gangster film Goodfellas and as NYPD Sergeant Phil Cerreta on the second and third seasons of the TV series Law & Order. Sorvino died on July 25, 2022, aged 83.

Tall, dark and handsome with an adorable smile, a lovely shape and was deceptively hairy. All that is nice, but what is important is Old Paulie packing a serious pair of nuts that I would love to have dragged all over my face. Also I have to mention that ass of his that I want my dick to take a swan dive into. I'm willing to bet Paul had to have some idea that us chasers love it.

The Brooklyn native was married three times with three children from his first, including Academy Award-winning actor Mira Sorvino. The tough-guy actor was also an accomplished sculptor, a painter, a best-selling author, many, many things, even a poet, an opera singer.

RECOMMENDATIONS: That's Life (2000 TV Series) - Shirtless Harlem Aria (1999) - Open shirt Joe Torre: Curveballs Along the Way (1997) - Open shirt Romeo + Juliet (1996) - Shirtless Parallel Lives (1994) - Rear nudity Very Close Quarters (1984) - Shirtless I Will… I Will… For Now (1976) - Shirtless It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy (1974) - Shirtless A Touch of Class (1973) - Shirtless

[whiskeylover75]

Marilyn Monroe’s family.

Gladys Pearl Monroe was Marilyn’s mother. At age 15, Gladys had married John Newton Baker, an abusive man nine years her senior. They had two children together, Robert and Berniece.

Gladys’ second marriage occurred in 1924 when she married Martin Edward Mortensen. In 1926 she gave birth to Norma Jeane, (Marilyn)

Gladys told Marilyn that her father was one of her co-workers (and her superior) at RKO Studios—a man named Charles Stanley Gifford.

Marilyn sought out Charles Stanley Gifford and told him who she was, only for him to respond: “I’m married, and I have a family. I don’t have anything to say to you. Call my lawyer”

In 2022, a scientists performed a DNA test on a strand of Marilyn’s hair and a cheek swab from one of Charles’ great-grandchildren, which confirmed that Charles was Marilyn’s father.

Marilyn also had two other half-siblings from Gifford’s marriage with his first wife, a sister, Doris Elizabeth (1920–1933), and a brother, Charles Stanley Jr. (1922–2015).

Gladys, who had long suffered from mental illness, lived most of her life from 1934 until 1967 in psychiatric facilities.

She went on to live with her daughter Berniece, and moved into a retirement home in Gainesville, Florida, where she died on March 11, 1984

Marilyn’s father, Charles Stanley Gifford (1898-1965)

Marilyn’s mother, Gladys Pearl Monroe (May 27, 1902 – March 11, 1984)

Marilyn’s half brother, Robert Kermitt Baker (January 16, 1918. August 16, 1933) He died of kidney failure as a result of the tuberculosis

Marilyn’s half sister, Berniece Inez Gladys Miracle (July 30, 1919 – May 25, 2014)

Marilyn’s niece, Mona Rae Miracle, was born on July 18, 1939.

Photo 1- Berniece at 75 years old, 1994

Photo 2- Marilyn as a baby

Photo 3- Gladys and Norma Jeane

Photo 4- Gladys

Photo 5- Marilyn’s half brother Robert.

Photo 6- Berniece, Gladys, Marilyn

Photo 7- Berniece, Marilyn with her niece Mona and Gladys

Photo 8- Stanley, Marilyn’s father

Photo 9- Stanley Jr. Marilyn’s half brother, her father’s son.

Photo 10- Gladys

[il-predestinato]

Previews for today's Grill the Grid!

Solid job from Lewis (nailed Lestappen, awww George is a wittle baby to him!):

Nico, we need to talk... 😨

Error.exe:

+Cheat sheet for today: 😁

Piastri - April 2001 (22 yr)

Sargeant - Dec 2000 (22 yr)

Tsunoda - May 2000 (23 yr)

Norris - Nov 1999 (23 yr)

Zhou - May 1999 (24 yr)

Stroll - Oct 1998 (24 yr)

Russell - Feb 1998 (25 yr)

Leclerc - Oct 1997 (25 yr)

Verstappen - Sept 1997 (25 yr)

Ocon - Sept 1996 (26 yr)

Albon - March 1996 (27 yr)

Gasly - Feb 1996 (27)

De Vries : Feb 1995 (28 yr)

Sainz - Sept 1994 (28 yr)

Magnussen - Oct 1992 (30 yr)

Perez - Jan 1990 (33 yr)

Bottas - Aug 1989 (33 yr)

Ricciardo - July 1989 (34 yr)

Hulkenberg - Aug 1987 (35 yr)

Hamilton - Jan 1985 (38 yr)

Alonso - July 1981 (42 yr)

[starqueen87]

BEN HARDY (1921-1994)

Custom motorcycle builder Ben Hardy was born Benjamin F. Hardy on July 25, 1921, in Los Angeles, California. However, historical data regarding his family, upbringing, and obituary have yet to be recovered from the annals of time.

After World War II, as the United States experienced a slight depression with high unemployment, and California had an unemployment rate of 8.8% compared to a national average of 3.9% in 1946, Hardy established Hardy’s Motorcycle Service shop in South Central Los Angeles, located at 1168 E. Florence Avenue. He built two ‘Billy’ bikes and three’ Captain Americas,’ made at that time from a 20-year-old, heavily customized Harley-Davidson Panhead, with the assistance of another Black motorcycle builder, Cliff Vaughn, the most famous motorcycles ever made.

Los Angeles, California, was a city divided and segregated along racial lines, and it did not welcome Hardy and his creation into the mainstream motorcycle world. However, Hardy and Black motorcyclists continued riding the typical ‘Billy’ bike in their limited circle. In the 1950s, during the high point of Jim Crow, some viewed the camaraderie of riding a customized Harley chopper creatively in a group as a revolutionary act.

In 1969, Hardy’s chopper was showcased in the iconic 1969 motorcycle film Easy Rider, in which two bikers travel through the Southwest and South of the U.S. with lots of money from a cocaine deal. His bikes were duplicated for this movie if mechanical failure or wreckage during film shortage were anticipated. The film Easy Rider brought in more than $60 million; however, Hardy was inadequately recognized and did not benefit financially from the movie’s success.

In 2014, 20 years after the death of Hardy, the Captain America bike sold for $1.35 million. Four years later, in 2018, Hardy’s work was featured in the “Black Chrome” at the California African American Museum. This exhibit, sponsored by the Automobile Club of Southern California, the most prominent member of the AAA Federation of Motor Clubs, was about the historical development of African American motorcycle culture. A replica of Hardy’s Captain America bike is housed in one of Germany’s largest motorcycle collections at the German Two-Wheeler and NSU Museum in northern Baden-Württemberg.

Ben Hardy died in 1994. He was 74.

[voguefashion]

The Kennedys' on TIME Magazine (Part 2/2)

Jackie Kennedy (with Aristotle Onassis), October 25, 1968.

Edward M. Kennedy, January 10, 1969.

Ethel Kennedy, April 25, 1969.

Edward M. Kennedy, August 1, 1969.

Edward M. Kennedy (with members of Congress), January 15, 1973.

Edward M. Kennedy, November 29, 1971.

Edward M. Kennedy, November 5, 1979.

John F. Kennedy, November 14, 1983.

Robert F. Kennedy, January 11, 1988,

John F. Kennedy, October 24, 1988.

John F. Kennedy & Jackie Kennedy (Assassination), November 28, 1988.

Jackie Kennedy Onassis, May 30, 1994.

John F. Kennedy, Jackie Kennedy and Caroline Kennedy, May 6, 1996.

John F. Kennedy, November 17, 1997.

John F. Kennedy Jr., July 26, 1999.

John F. Kennedy Jr., August 2, 1999.

John F. Kennedy, Jackie Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mark Kennedy Shriver, August 13, 2001.

John F. Kennedy, July 2, 2007.

Edward M. Kennedy, September 7, 2009.

John F. Kennedy & Jackie Kennedy, November 25, 2013.

[sweetdreamsjeff]

Shared my Knowcali on Reddit

Shared by Knowcali on Reddit

[davidhudson]

Woody Strode, July 25, 1914 – December 31, 1994.

[darkpeacemusic]

ℂ𝕣𝕖𝕖𝕡𝕪𝕡𝕒𝕤𝕥𝕒 ℍ𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕟𝕠𝕟𝕤: 𝔹𝕚𝕣𝕥𝕙𝕕𝕒𝕪𝕤 (+𝔸𝕘𝕖𝕤)

Jeff the Killer - June 2nd, 2000 (Age: 24)

Homicidal Liu - December 21st, 1991 (Age: 33)

Sully - December 21st, 1991 (Age: 33, though he's seven minutes younger than his twin, Liu)

Randy - July 25th, 1990 (Age: 34)

Keith - September 23rd, 1991 (Age: 33)

Troy - July 27th, 1991 (Age: 33)

Jane - September 1st, 1993 (Age: 31)

Mary - May 10th, 1992 (Age: 30)

Ben Drowned - April 23rd, 1990, died April 23rd 2002 (Age: Permanently 12, 34 if he were still alive today)

Ticci Toby - April 28th, 1994 (Age: 30)

Masky/Tim - June 19th, 1988 (Age: 36)

Hoodie/Brian - April 18th, 1989 (Age: 35)

Kate the Chaser - June 25th, 1995 (Age: 29)

Laughing Jack - Unknown but he was created on Christmas Eve, 1800s (Age: 200+)

Eyeless Jack - November 13th, 1994, died May 20th, 2011 (Age: 17 physically, actually in his 30s)

Slenderman and his brothers - Honestly no one ones. Some say they've been around since the 1600-1700s (Ages: 1000+)

Sally - April 5th, 1958, died April 5th, 1966 (Age: Permanently 8, 66 if she were alive today)

Dr Smiley - October 20th, 1984 (Age: 40)

Nurse Ann - October 31st, 1983 (Age: 41)

Nina - February 2nd, 1997 (Age: 27)

Candy Pop - Unknown but is said to have been created sometime in the 1400s (Age: 500-600+)

Jason the Toymaker - November 15th, 1940, died August 2nd, 1959 (Age: 19 by the time of his death, 84 if he were alive today)

The Puppeteer - July 25th, 1974, died November 30th, 1994 (Age: Permanently 20, 50 if he were still alive today)

Clockwork - November 6th, 1996 (Age: 28)

Rouge - January 7th, 1990 (Age: 34)

Wilson - August 27th, 1988 (Age: 36)

Zalgo - Unknown. He's been around since the beginning of time. (Age: Millions of years old)

Nathan - October 29th, 1990 (Age: 34)

Bloody Painter - October 1st, 1992 (Age: 32)

Kagekao - December 29th, 1994 (Age: 30)

Laughing Jill - Unknown, possibly around the same time as Jack (Age: 200+)

Sadie - October 21st, 1996, died March 12th, 2014 (Age: Permanently 18, 28 if she were alive today)

Hobo Heart - August 31st, 1900s (Age: 100+)

Cat Hunter - January 16th, 1990 (Age: 34)

Chris the Revenant - December 28th, 1999 (Age: 25)

X-Virus - December 12th, 1996 (Age: 28)

Dollmaker - June 13th, 2001 (Age: 23)

Frankie the Undead - September 13th, 1924, died sometime in 1974 (Age: Permanently 50, 100 if he were still alive today)

Judge Angels - April 2nd, 1998 (Age: 26)

Lifeless Lucy - April 5th, 1987, died April 5th, 1997 (Age: Permanently 10, 37 if she were alive today)

Lost Silver - June 21st, 1992, died sometime in August 2004 (Age: Permanently 12, 32 if he were still alive)

Glitchy Red - Unknown, is said to have been created sometime in 1990-1994 during the early stages of Pokemon Red/Blue (Age: Likely somewhere in his his late 20s-early 30s)

Dr. Locklear - March 7th, 1634, died sometime in 1665 during the Great Plague (Age: 30 by the time of his death, 390 if he were still alive today)

Lulu - February 15th, 1999, died sometime in 2013 (Age: Permanently 14, 25 if she were still alive)

Killing Kate - October 29th, 1996 (Age: 28)

[brokehorrorfan]

Created in the wake of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Street Sharks was an animated series and toy line about crime-fighting man-shark hybrids that aired from 1994 to 1997.

In honor of the 30th anniversary, Mattel is releasing 6" action figures of Slash (with drilling action), Ripster (with punching action), and Jab (with head-butt action). Priced at $25, each toy comes with a shark cage. They're expected to ship in July.

[girlygguk]

fame - jjk (prologue)

pairing ; idol!jk x idol!oc.

synopsis ; aera; the main dancer in one of the biggest k-pop groups in the world, Siren. debuting in 2014, it was nothing but immense hard work and perseverance (and being on the absolute verge of disbandment), but she and the four girls that grew to become her sisters pulled through. they did it. now they're performing at some of the most significant arenas and stadiums worldwide. meeting a cheeky, flirtatious and annoyingly gorgeous fellow idol that threatens to break down every wall of protection she's built around herself was not part of the plan. her career has always come first, having sacrificed and jeopardised many relationships and friendships in her journey to debut. so why does this time feel different?

story warnings ; smut, explicit language, violent & possibly triggering scenes.

chapter warnings ; none, just an overview of the girlies

a/n: i do not know how to use tumblr i'm a wattp girly born & raised.. pls bear with me. also oc is korean to help with a more realistic (in the most unrealistic fic ever) storyline, excuse the horrible google translated korean words.

another annoying a/n: siren have idol faceclaims (besides Aera) to help bring more visuality & description to their characters. love every single girly in this story & this is not a depiction of their real life personas whatsoever

part ; prologue | one | two | drabble1 | three | four | five | ...

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KPROFILE.com — circa. 2019

Siren (사이렌) is a 5 member South Korean girl group under PARK Entertainment. This group consists of Hanna, Grace, Nali, Aera and Ha-Joon. They debuted on July 17, 2014, with the lead single "Never Enough" on their self-titled mini-album.

Siren Fandom Name: Allure

Siren Fandom Colour: Silver

Siren Dorm Arrangement:

[2015-2019]: Hanna & Nali, Grace (single room), Aera & Ha-Joon.

[2019—] They own a house together, which they have stated in interviews that they spend a lot of time together in, but live in their respective homes during promotional breaks.

Siren Member Profiles:

Hanna

Stage Name: Hanna(한나)

Birth Name:  Jang Han-na (장 한나)

Nicknames: Hanunnie, NaNa, Eomma, Mother Leader

Position: Leader, Main Rapper, Sub Vocalist

Birthday: May 12, 1994 [26]

Debut Age: 21

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Nationality: Korean

Height: 173 cm (5'8″)

MBTI Type: ENTP

Representative Emoji: 🦒

» Hanna Facts

• Hanna was the second member to be revealed for the Siren lineup.

• She trained for 4 years and 2 months, the second longest of all the girls.

• Hanna's representative emoji, the Giraffe, was given to her by their fans as she's significantly taller than the rest of Siren.

• Hanna can speak Korean, English and basic Japanese.

• She is an only child, stating once in an interview that suddenly having four siblings was a system shock when first joining Siren, but now she wouldn't give it up for the world.

• In 2008, Hanna transferred to an international school based in Daejeon, where she learned and studied English. She is fluent and is, more often than not, the spokesperson for their group during international and regular interviews.

• Hanna's ideal type is someone that treats the women in their life with respect and is independent (via Siren's Buzzfeed interview 2018).

Grace

Stage Name: Grace(우아함)

Birth Name: Itō Asami (糸 あさみ)

Nicknames: Sami, Gracie, Asa, Japan's It Girl

Position: Lead Dancer, Lead Rapper

Birthday: December 9, 1995 [25]

Debut Age: 20

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Nationality: Japanese

Height: 166 cm (5'5″)

MBTI Type: ESTP

Representative Emoji: 🦢

» Grace Facts

• Grace was the third member to be revealed for the Siren lineup.

• She trained for 3 years and 10 months, the girls' third longest training period.

• Grace's representative emoji, the Swan, was given to her by their fans for her dance moves are often described as elegant and swan-like.

• Grace can speak Japanese and Korean. Her members are helping her with English, and she's also studying the language.

• She has 2 siblings, an older brother Riku and a younger sister Yua.

• In 2010, Grace migrated to Korea alone after passing multiple rounds of an online audition for PARK Entertainment. When moving to the country, Grace knew very little Korean, but spending much time with her bandmates and strenuous study allowed her to pick up the language quite quickly.

• Grace's ideal type is someone that likes to eat and isn't afraid to show her off. (via Siren's Buzzfeed interview 2018).

Nali

Stage Name: Nali (나리)

Birth Name: Cho Nali (조 나리)

Nicknames: Lily, Li, Na, PARK Princess

Position: Main Vocalist, Visual, FOTG

Birthday: February 14, 1996 [24]

Debut Age: 19

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Nationality: Korean

Height: 167.8 cm (5'6″)

MBTI Type: ISTP

Representative Emoji: 🐧

» Nali Facts

• Nali was the first member to be revealed for the Siren lineup.

• She trained for 3 years and 6 months, the fourth longest training period of the girls.

• Nali's representative emoji, the Penguin, was given to her by their fans as she's seen in multiple clips of Siren on various variety shows, running like a Penguin.

• Nali can speak Korean and basic English, having picked up simple terms over the years of housing with her English-speaking members.

• She has one sibling, a younger sister named Ha-Eun.

• Nali joined PARK Entertainment in early 2011 after being scouted at a Girls' Generation meet-and-greet.

• Other trainees quickly envied Nali for her breathtaking visual.

• Nali's ideal type is someone that is confident and can make her feel special. (via Siren's Buzzfeed interview 2018).

Aera

Stage Name: Aera (애라)

Birth Name: Hwang Aera (황 애라)

Nicknames: Ra, Era, Black Cat, PARK's Secret Weapon

Position: Main Dancer, Vocalist, Visual, Center

Birthday: July 22, 1997 [23]

Debut Age: 17

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Nationality: Korean

Height: 165 cm (5'5″)

MBTI Type: INFP

Representative Emoji: 🐱

» Aera Facts

• Aera was the last member to be revealed for the Siren lineup.

• She trained for 4 years and 3 months, the longest training period of the girls.

• Aera's representative emoji, the Cat, was given to her by their fans as her movements are strong and flexible. Her quick reflexes have been seen and loved on the variety shows that Siren have featured in.

• Aera can speak Korean and English and is learning Japanese from her bandmate, Grace.

• She has one sibling, a younger brother named Hyunjin.

• Aera attended a Language Institute for her schooling based in Seoul. There she learnt English as her second language and is fluent. She will help Han-na in international interviews when speaking English on behalf of the group if needed.

• Aera was one of the first trainees in PARK Entertainment to make the possible lineup for Siren. In interviews, it has been stated that only she and Han-na remain from the original lineup.

• On a live broadcast with one of her members, Aera stated that she chose to audition for PARK Entertainment after watching a dance performance of P.E. ex-trainee, Seulgyeon, who later debuted in another K-pop group, CLC. (via Ha-Joon & Aera V-Live).

• She often choreographed the routines they would perform in their monthly evaluations. She is rumoured to have been disliked by multiple trainees at P.E. that were trying to excel in dance.

• Aera has said she almost pursued the Vocal path instead of dance as there was double the amount of competition in the dance category (—via Siren's Elle interview 2018). Still, mentors refused to let her and told her that her skill was incredibly unique and untouchable by other candidates. (—Hanna via Siren's Elle interview 2018)

• Aera was nicknamed PARK's Secret Weapon upon debut as she was known to have mastered all areas of being an idol.

• Aera's ideal type is someone with a good sense of humour who likes to cook and has a nice smile. (via Siren's Buzzfeed interview 2018).

Joon

Stage Name: Joon (준)

Birth Name: Kim Ha-Joon (김 하준)

Nicknames: Joonie, JJ, Bubba, Baby PARK

Position: Vocalist, Dancer, Sub-Rapper, Maknae

Birthday: December 12, 1998 [21]

Debut Age: 16

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Nationality: Korean-Australian

Height: 167 cm (5'6″)

MBTI Type: ENFP

Representative Emoji: 🐨

» Joon Facts

• Joon was the fourth member to be revealed for the Siren lineup. She trained for 2 years and 9 months, the shortest training period of the girls.

• Joon's representative emoji, the Koala, was given to her by their fans as she's known for her thick Australian accent when speaking English.

• Joon can speak Korean and English, her accent developing during her time spent overseas in Australia with her father's side of the family.

• She has a younger brother named Ji-Yeong, who resides in Australia with her Dad.

• Joon was one of the last trainees to join PARK Entertainment. She was praised for her quick learning and development from the moment she joined the company.

• Joon was known as the quirky, loud girl in P.E. Other members of Siren have said that you always knew she was in the room by her laugh.

• It was rumoured that Ha-Joon was very close to withdrawing from being a trainee due to not being able to handle the bullying and toxicity of other trainees. Former PARK Entertainment trainees stated that Aera, fellow Siren member, sat with Joon on her bed for three hours and let her cry it all out.

• Joon's ideal type is someone that knows lots of jokes and can take care of her. (via Siren Buzzfeed interview 2018).