#ken faulk

[mitjalovse]

Tim Renwick might seem like a hidden figure, yet he can manage to be pretty much everywhere as we've seen. For example, He found himself on the records by Andy Gibb, which aren't given a fair shake, I fear. Look, Andy Gibb was probably on his way to become a honorary Bee Gee, but set aside all the hype he had and consider the fact he equipped himself quite well for the tunes. Sure, his brothers give him their immense quality songwriting, yet the fact he didn't stumble in here showed he had a promise. Who knows where he could've gone later on. I mean, I assume he would've survived the 80's much better than Bee Gees, though this can only be our guess as he still remains underappreciated thanks to the popularity he had.

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KC & The Sunshine Band - Get Down Tonight

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[hopetorun]

🎤 maggie with the cup final in play, i have ogwacs on the brain. who are your guys who haven't won that you would most love to see get one before all is said and done? we won't define an ogwac as strictly as most, so i'd say like. if we feel like they've been around forever and they're like 30 at least we can call them an ogwac for this exercise!

oh gosh!!!! there's such an assortment of guys that i've been fond of over the years for various and sundry reasons so in no particular order of fondness but starting with oh let's say the strongest contender on the list

pomo!! you didn't say i could include non-players but i am anyway, i think he's earned the title. two scfs more than twenty years apart gets you on my list

jeff skinner revenge tour. i don't think this requires explaining. i can't believe i have to root for the sabres but christ. if there's anyone in the league who deserves it. my only comfort here is that the previous record holder for most gp without any playoff games got traded to a contender as a deadline rental and promptly won the cup that year. only good thing the p*ns have ever done for me.

taylor hall. he's one of my longest-tenured favorite guys and like. man what a rough go of it he's had since 2018. also before 2018. but i had such a blast watching him when i was first getting into hockey and i think he deserves nice things.

jordan eberle. he was never quite the same level of special guy for me but i would truly be so stoked. kr*ken stop being cowards and make him captain.

justin faulk. one of my guys!! not on the blues though. i would bust out my old extremely stained faulk jersey in his honor!

someone on twitter pointed out that if the cats win, oel will be the person player to win the cup while on the canucks payroll which i do unfortunately think is very funny. anyway i love a comeback story AND that man did his time in the wars (coyotes org) so i think that would be a lovely cap on a rough few years

honestly most of the core players from the sharks mid-teens teams. some exceptions apply. that team was so bananas good for so long and not only did they never win, i don't think any of them have even gone on to successfully cup chase anywhere else? rough. i think pavs' likely retirement leaves burns as the only guy who was really there for all of it, assuming @moregraceful told me correctly that couture is probably a perpetual LTIR guy now, and burns took a step back this season in a way that has me wondering if father time is finally coming for him. anyway it's a bummer. and on that note

erik karlsson. god i can't root for the p*ns for it but i've been fond of him for so long! yet another man who has been in the wars. one of us, etc

claude giroux. because i've had to see that goddamn quote about how he thought he'd have plenty more chances at the cup back in 2010 and he's literally never even made it back to the final. good god man

john hock. i've enjoyed his work for years (he's actually the reason the flames ended up as one of my higher ranked sure i'll put that game on teams)

dylan larkin is only 27 but like. spiritually.

i would love for sam gagner to cap his baffling, delightful resume with a cup. but not this year.

roman josi. i was hardcore pulling for the preds the season they made the final 😭

yes i did go through every roster for this. yes i did find several old guys without cups where i was like, no i want him to stay that way.

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By Ken Faulks

[theharpermovieblog]

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1980's COMEDY WEEK

I re-watched Vibes (1988)

Who amongst us can resist Cyndi Lauper?

Two people with Psychic powers are hired to find a lost city of gold in Ecuador, finding adventure and romance along the way.

Director Ken Kwapis May be familiar to people my age for directing "Dunston Checks In" and "The Beautician And The Beast". One of which is a garbage kid's movie and the other is exclusively for people who love Fran Drescher. Kwapis also directed "The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants" a legitimately good movie, which much like "Vibes", uses a talented cast to carry it across the finish line.

The reviews of "Vibes" are mostly bad. The overall Rotten Tomatoes score is very, very low. But, Im here to tell you that this one has gotten a bad wrap. This movie is legitimately funny. Not always hysterical, but I chuckled throughout, and it was a real easy watch. Maybe it's the 1980's nostalgia, maybe it's the laid back attitude that seems to run through the whole movie, maybe it's the fact that Jeff Goldblum, Cyndi Lauper and Peter Faulk are all elevating things with heaps of charisma and timing....whatever it is, it gave me a cozy feeling as I chuckled along.

I don't talk about a lot of romantic comedies. It's not a genre I particularly love or like or care about. But, if you throw a little adventure into a romantic comedy, maybe a little supernatural element, they start peaking my interest a little more. And, the 1980's experimented a lot with these three ideas. "Romancing The Stone" "The Man With Two Brains" "My Demon Lover" "Once Bitten" are 1980's romantic comedy movies that vary wildly in quality, but they all show that the 80's was willing to do weird things to put butts in seats, whether it be treasure hunting, demon possessed boyfriends, vampire love affairs or a man dating a brain in a jar. "Vibes" is one of those weird movies, and it's one of the better ones.

So if you're in the mood for something light, easy and that stars three great people who everyone loves...This is for you.

[hitku]

by Ken Faulks

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[libero-de-mente]

Ken Faulks - Summer Sky

[portraits-of-iris]

The Road to Gold

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[denizthe]

by Ken Faulks

[poemaseletras]

Arts by Ken Faulks, Alisa Aidarova and David Barnes

[fjorn-the-skald]

Alright, friends, let me tell you about Litr.

Since you could just Google his name to learn the basics, I'm going to be a bit extra and add some fancy historian magic: medieval manuscripts. This does nothing for Litr...but I want to expose you to the material side of our texts and, perhaps, show you how an Old Norse meal is prepared, from garden (manuscript) to table (translation).

His moment to shine (somewhat literally?) comes from Snorri Sturluson’s Prose Edda. Here’s the text itself (from the 14th-century GKS 2367 4to):

But since medieval manuscripts are, admittedly, a bit hard on our modern eyes…here’s a highlighted version:

After admiring the garden above, we gather our ingredients, ending up with this (non-standardized) Old Norse:

"Þa stoð ÞoR at ok vigþi balit með Miollni; en firir fotvm honvm raN dvergr nockvR; sa er Litr nefndr; en ÞoR spyrndi fæti sinvm a hann ok hratt honieldinn, ok braN hann." [1]

And, after a bit of prep work...

“Þá stóð Þórr at ok vígði bálit með Mjöllni, en fyrir fótum hans rann dvergr nokkurr, sá er Litr nefndr; en Þórr spyrndi fæti sínum á hann ok hratt honum í eldinn, ok brann hann.”

...we're ready to bake a translation:

“Then Thor stood by and consecrated the pyre with Miollnir. But a certain dwarf ran in front of his feet. His name was Lit. Thor kicked at him with his foot and thrust him into the fire and he was burned.” [2]

So já…all of that to say that Litr is just a dwarf who gets punted into a fire (Baldr’s funeral ship) by Thor, who basically just didn’t see the little guy scurrying around. I suggest reading the rest of that tale if you haven’t already. It has absolutely nothing to do with Litr…but a lot to do with the beginnings of Ragnarok. Pretty big stuff.

There is a little bit more to say about Litr, though…maybe. It depends upon one thing: that we assume every Litr mentioned in a mythological context is the same Litr. If we do, as some have, then he actually comes up in a few other places (before, I guess, meeting his fiery demise).

Aside from being listed among the names of the dwarves,[3] “Litr” also comes up in a poem by Bragi recounted later in Snorri’s Prose Edda (in Skaldskaparmal):

“When on the hook of the old Lit’s men’s [giants’] fight challenger [Thor] hung the coiling eel [Midgard serpent] of the Volsungs’ drink [poison] coiled.” [4]

The kenning “old Lit’s men’s” is there translated by Anthony Faulkes as “giants’” and thus immediately complicates the assumption we just made about Litr. Is he a dwarf or a giant? Is this even the same Litr? Or do we have a conflation of stories made muddy by Snorri? John Lindow treats them as two separate Litr.[5] I’m personally open to story conflation, but we don’t have enough evidence to actually argue anything concrete…so I’ll leave it up to your own contemplation.

After all, this is probably more than anyone ever wanted to know about a little dwarf named Litr that is only known for getting kicked into a fire.

But there you have it.

Many thanks for reading!

If you got this far, please reply with a 🐻 because I like bears.

— fjörn

ENDNOTES

Finnur Jónsson, Edda Snorra Sturlusonar: Udgivet efter Håndskrifterne (Gyldendal, 1931), 66.

Snorri Sturluson, Edda, Anthony Faulkes trans., (Everyman, 1995), 49.

Ibid., 16.

Ibid., 106.

John Lindow, Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs (Oxford University Press, 2001), 209.

☕️ Perhaps you’d like to buy Fjorn a coffee for his troubles? (He really likes coffee.)

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The Canadian painter Ken Faulks

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