#laura bello

[snowls-yt]

Happy early anniversary to The Kolourz :o)

[comparativetarot]

The Goddess. Art by Laura Bello, from Secrets of Paradise Tarot.

[luegootravez]

Noah Steenbruggen by © Laura Bello

[bookaddict24-7]

New Young Adult Releases! (October 3rd, 2023)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Standalones/First in a Series:

The Voice Upstairs by Laura E. Weymouth

Kween by Vichet Chum

Up in Flames by Hailey Alcaraz

Beholder by Ryan La Sala

Love in Wonderland by Abiola Bello

And Don't Look Back by Rebecca Barrow

The Homecoming War by Addie Woolridge

The Scarlet Alchemist by Kylie Lee Baker

Curious Tides by Pascale Lacelle

Plan A by Deb Caletti

The Forest Demands Its Due by Kosoko Jackson

When Ghosts Call Us Home by Katya de Becerra

Eight Dates and Nights by Betsy Aldredge

The Blackwoods by Brandy Colbert

A Twisted Tale Anthology by Various

The Spells We Cast by Jason June

How to Get Over the End of the World by Hal Schrieve

Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy by Faith Erin Hicks

Night of the Witch by Sara Raasch & Beth Revis

Before the Devil Knows You're Here by Autumn Krause

All the Things We Never Said by Yasmin Rahman

Salt the Water by Candice Iloh

The Lotus Flower Champion by Pintip Dunn & Love Dunn

The Glass Scientists: Volume 1 by S.H. Cotugno & Sabrina Cotugno

New Sequels:

Silence & Shadows (Blood & Moonline #2) by Erin Beaty

Prince of Thorns & Nightmares (Princes #2) by Linsey Miller

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Happy reading!

[peaceeandcoolestvibes]

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[omarfor-orchestra]

Io non mi stancherò mai di dire che questa canzone è molto carina ma è proprio da boomer Laura

[marcogiovenale]

audio completo della presentazione di "cose chiuse fuori", di mg, a roma, libreria panisperna, 17 lug. 2023

Interventi critici di Cecilia Bello Minciacchi. Letture dell’autore. Coordinamento di Valerio Massaroni per la serie di incontri “Nuove uscite” di centroscritture.it. Audio completo:  https://slowforward.files.wordpress.com/2023/07/audio-presentaz-cose-chiuse-fuori_-roma-libreria-panisperna-17-lug-2023.mp3 . Scheda del libro sul sito dell’editore…

[freshlyblaked]

e.r. season 4

[deadclawdd]

bello! spreading my cptsd logan howlett agenda!

logan who’s so old, lived for so long through so many eras he can’t even remember exactly why his childhood was so haunting. logan who feels his heart sag and ache whenever the topic of family gets brought up. who feels suffocated by his inability to remember his mothers face, her voice gone from his memory at least a century ago. it kills him inside, in a way he’s never experienced death before.

on the rare days where all he wants is to be young again he crawls into wades arms and just falls apart, he can see himself in laura’s big sad eyes, he can feel his own heart break when hers does.

he can run but he can never hide

[retrocesosdestacion]

@retrocesosdestacion

2003, 🇦🇷 ☆ ☆ ☆ ren

fics.

1. i no longer produce fanfics

2. i still leave all the ones i created below:

CAPTAIN OF DREAMS. - leah williamson

SOCIALIZING PROBLEMS. - mapi léon

INSIDE EVERYTHING. - ingrid engen

BELLO JELLY. - alexia putellas

ALCOHOLIC LIES. - keira walsh

SNAP OUT OF IT. - ellie carpenter

FORMIDABLE MEMORIES OF US. - laura freigang

HOLLOW-HEARTED PHASES. - danielle van de donk

[posttexasstressdisorder]

Trumpland

Trump’s New Brand of Woman is Mean, Loud and Ugly

FROM THIS...

Once he had a Praetorian guard of 5-foot-ten blonde relatives. Things have recently taken a turn—and not for the better.

Nell Scovell

Updated Sep. 17, 2024 2:28PM EDT Published Sep. 17, 2024 1:27PM EDT 

The last time a woman said “I love you,” to Donald Trump, his wife Melania was probably miles away.

More likely, these three little words escaped from the cartoonish lips of Harley Quinn’s less sane sister Laura Loomer. A recent guest on Trump Force One, Loomer is quick to express her deep love for the “greatest president ever.” Then again, she also once believed that “bad fajitas. . . will kill you faster than COVID.”

Trump, the great dealmaker, has truly traded down. His 2016 women’s circle fell in line with The Trump Organization’s corporate branding as “bold, beautiful and glamorous.” Sure, Melania was a birther, but she didn’t shout her opinions. There was a quiet elegance to the former First Lady’s racism. And while Ivanka never deserved the job of Senior Advisor to the President, she showed a polish that made it seem like she could hang with world leaders even as they rolled their eyes at her.

Loomer Denies Affair With Trump in Toxic Rant Against HarrisLOOMEY TUNESWill Neal

Still, “bold, beautiful and glamorous” was exactly what Trump hoped to project in June, 2015 when he floated down to earth from his penthouse triplex with his model wife Melania perched on the escalator in front of him like a Rolls Royce hood ornament.

In that announcement of his candidacy, Trump said point-blank, “I’m really rich.” He also said horrible things about immigrants.

The image he presented was clear: he was a man to be feared…and envied.

When Trump announced his run in June 2015, waiting for him at the bottom of the golden escalator was a family entourage. Now only Lara (second left) remains.

Christopher Gregory

Former model Vanessa Trump, then married to Donald Trump Jr., stood in the background, forcing a smile for the camera and all dressed in black. A cry for help? Perhaps. By 2018, Vanessa Trump had filed for divorce.

So apparently unaccustomed to his wife’s presence was he that when she appeared on stage at the RNC, Trump seemed surprised.

Marco Bello/Reuters

The loss of these three women has left an approximately 5’ 10,” shapely hole in Trumpland. Nature abhors a vacuum and into those breaches have ridden the three horse-faced women of the apocalypse: Laura Loomer, Lara Trump, and Kimberly Guilfoyle. Suddenly, Trump’s brand of “bold, beautiful and glamorous” turned loud, mean and unappealing.

In head to head comparisons, they show how Trump’s standards have dropped. And as Trump heads into the final sprint of 2024, it is fair to say that in this election, he is feared more…and envied less.

From Ivanka Trump to... Lara Trump

Where once it was Ivanka who boasted about demale empowerment at his side, now Trump has no public support from his daughter and instead it is his daughter-in-law Lara who speaks up for him.

Ivanka Trump walked into the White House vowing to increase jobs and opportunities for women. Instead, her administration wiped out almost two generations of women’s progress and (thanks to the justices it appointed) stripped away reproductive rights. In her defense, Ivanka always looked pretty.

The new model of Trump woman is loudly, literally, in her support of the former president, physically demonstrative, and definitely less discreet (in every sense) than their predecessors.

Like Trump, Lara enjoys calling attention to herself. She has shared videos of her fitness routine and an a cappella version of Tom Petty’s “Won’t Back Down” that she sang on Australian TV. On that show, Lara claimed that she was not “seeking a music career” (wise!) but has since released another music video with Madeline Jaymes (unwise!) “Hero,” a tribute to firefighters, is a cringey mess where Lara sings, “You’re climbing up the ladder/And the screams are getting louder.” “Ladder” and “louder” do not rhyme and this lyric should be considered a crime against Stephen Sondheim and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

With Lara representing Trump womanhood, the poise is gone. Elegance has been replaced by mud-slinging. On her internet talk show “The Right View,” Lara read out a viewer question that accused her of being stupid. She clapped back, “What is stupid is voting for a party that hates you and hates this country. What’s stupid is voting for a party that ultimately wants the destruction of America.”

In a sense, she’s right.

From Melania Trump to... Laura Loomer

On the left, an immigrant-turned-First Lady who kept the racism in the background. And on the right, the woman who denies an affair with Trump and for whom the racism is the point.

At past 9/11 memorials, Melania has stood by her husband and looked sad. She is very good at that. But last week, Trump ditched Melania and brought crackpot conspiracist Laura Loomer to a 9/11 event at Ground Zero. This was a new low for Trump who once falsely boasted that after the destruction of the World Trade Towers, he now owned the tallest building in Lower Manhattan.

That same week, Loomer accompanied Trump on his private jet to the debate and joined him in the spin room. Trump later claimed on Truth Social that “Laura Loomer doesn’t work for the Campaign,” which suggests she was traveling with him for personal reasons, perhaps as a friend or as Bill Maher has conjectured, a friend with benefits. (Loomer has denied that she and Trump are lovers.)

Loomer traveled with Trump on his private Boeing 757 to the presidential debate in Philadelphioa; his wife Melania did not. She has not been seen at his side since the RNC in July.

Loomer bragged that Donald Trump Jr. has floated her name for press secretary which she said would be “great,” but what she’d love even more, she explained, was “some type of position where I could vet people.” See, Loomer’s praise for Trump is boundless—he’s “brilliant,” “generous” and “loyal,” but, as she notes, “nobody’s perfect.”

“He doesn’t necessarily always have the best judgment when it comes to the people he surrounds himself with,” Loomer told James. “Because we saw a lot of grifters.”

That’s why Loomer wants to vet people—to keep away the grifters and, as she said, “Show them, ‘No, you’re an opportunist…or you’re married to this person who’s actively working against Donald Trump.’” (Shiv to Kellyanne Conway. Ouch.)

Loomer isn’t shy about telling Trump that she loves him. And he has returned Loomer’s love, showering her with accolades, letting her know she’s “fantastic” and “amazing.” He’s even offered the highest praise that Trump can give to a woman, singling out Loomer in the crowd and telling her, “You look so beautiful…as always.”

She may not be blond or tall, but Loomer is definitely Trump’s type: unapologetically racist.

From Vanessa Trump to... Kimberly Guilfoyle

As his father’s female entourage has degraded, Don Jr. has gone from having his wife Vanessa quietly at his side to being the fiancé of Kimberly Guilfoyle, best known for the sheer volume of her public speaking.

Vanessa and Don. Jr. split in 2018 after 12 years of marriage and five kids. Vanessa continues to support her ex-father-in-law and showed up at the RNC to cheer on her 17-year-old daughter, Kai. Nine months after the breakup, Don Jr. started dating Kimberly Guilfoyle, the attention-seeking, liberal-hating former wife of California Governor Gavin Newsom.

Like Lara and Loomer, Guilfoyle revels in the spotlight. As the national chair of the Trump Victory Finance Committee and self-described “proud Latina,” she is often called upon to give speeches. Her style is distinctive. She starts at full volume and rises from there. She ends every sentence with an exclamation mark. She could wake the dead.

This was Guilfoyle in full flight at the RNC in Milwaukee, belting out her love of Trump and the MAGA creed.

That’s ugly behavior and, sadly, no cosmetic procedure can reverse it.

Now according to The Daily Mail, Guilfoyle appears to be on the way out with reports that Don Jr. has been spotted kissing socialite Bettina Anderson. Anderson is a graduate of Columbia with a degree in art history and a megawatt smile. On her IG account, she posts old jokes from Reddit as if she thought of them herself: “Me at a cocktail party: “Do not touch” would be scary to read in braille don’t you think?”

In another IG post, she writes, “having adhd + anxiety is RIDICULOUS bc I just got lost in a reverie about whether I could make & sell butter from scratch and then I was like WAIT... what was I spiraling about before I got distracted by butter???? oh yeah, whether I’m capable of love 🙃“

It sounds like Anderson will fit right in with the Trumps and give the campaign a shot of glamor which they need.

And if Anderson doesn’t pan out and Guilfoyle takes off humiliated, the campaign could always call up Trump’s other daughter Tiffany. She’s right there... waiting in the wings...desperate to get the nod and prove to her father that she can be dreadful, too.

[snowls-yt]

These things I’ll be until I die

[comparativetarot]

Death. Art by Laura Bello, from Secrets of Paradise Tarot.

[persa-tra-i-miei-pensieri]

Ho sorriso con le fiamme negli occhi

Quasi perso anche il più bello dei sogni

Ho visto allo specchio

Il mio riflesso chiedermi: "Chi sei?"

E visti da fuori

Non sembriamo mai soli

Di sicuro non io, lo so

Eppure non è così, così

Molti vogliono la me che non sono

Quella giusta, ma soltanto per loro

Un'altra persona

Senza personalità

Cit. "Eppure non è così" - Laura Pausini

[klimt7]

L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle

[ Dante, Paradiso XXIII, v.145 ]

Perchè dietro questa ragazza

[ Angelina Mango ]

c'è una grande STORIA

Sanremo 2007

LAURA VALENTE & PINO MANGO

I genitori di Angelina partecipano all'edizione di Sanremo 2007 e cantano il brano "Chissà se nevica"

Anno 2014, 8 dicembre

Pino Mango durante il concerto a Policoro ( Matera) viene colto da malore e muore.

Poche settimane prima aveva confidato alla moglie Laura: "Cosa c’è di più bello che morire mentre fai musica davanti alla gente, e cioè mentre fai la cosa che ami di più in assoluto ?"

Anno 2019

La moglie di Mango, Laura Valente, ex cantante ed ex voce dei Matia Bazar, rilascia alcune interviste in occasione della pubblicazione del cofanetto con un volume contenente diversi scritti di Pino Mango, e il disco che rende omaggio alla sua intera carriera musicale.

L'intervista alla madre, Laura Valente [2019]

Anno 2024

Angelina Mango dopo aver partecipato alla edizione 2022 di "Amici", partecipa al Festival 2024 e trionfa con pieno merito sbaragliando avversari molto più noti e affermati di lei (Annalisa, Loredana Bertè, Mahmood, Emma, Fiorella Mannoia).

Nella serata di venerdì 9 febbraio con una esecuzione da brividi, che ha commosso tante persone sia in tv che nel Teatro Ariston di Sanremo, Angelina tributa un omaggio molto particolare, al padre Pino, eseguendo il suo brano "Rondine", in una versione del tutto inedita e con un nuovo arrangiamento curato da lei stessa e dal fratello maggiore Filippo (1995).

Ecco, davanti ad una famiglia così, davanti ad un rapporto di questo tipo, davanti a una Storia del genere, le parole, tutte le parole possibili si diradano, rimpiccioliscono e infine scompaiono.

Resta solo un silenzio di ammirazione e commozione.

In ciò che ci è dato scorgere, io stesso, lo ammetto, fatico a trovare le parole.

Solo l'ascolto e il silenzio hanno senso.

Davanti a certi "miracoli'", ci si sente smarriti e disarmati. La commozione sommerge ogni cosa.

Una emozione che mi fa vedere la "magia" che sa trasformare le vite delle persone. Che può illuminarle!

E poi c'è la gratitudine per questa grande emozione che arriva a mostrarci, la trama di luce che attraversa ogni tempo e ogni spazio.

Le altre riflessioni e considerazioni, fatele Voi.

Io mi tengo stretta, questa emozione.

Pino Mango soltanto pochi anni fa cantava un brano: "L'amore è invisibile"...

Io per una volta, sento di doverlo smentire.

Se siamo attenti, se impariamo a leggere e decodificare la realtà esterna, lo vediamo e lo sentiamo perfettamente, che l'Amore è l'energia, che innerva l'intero Universo.

Pino Mango, Laura, Filippo e Angelina stessa, ci tolgono ogni dubbio e incertezza al riguardo.

No. L'amore non è invisibile.

Lo possiamo annusare, fiutare nel vento e nel tempo, dentro le persone, in tutte le epoche.

Come un profumo di buono e di pulito, come un tepore di primavera, un sapore unico.

La magia che brilla negli occhi di chi è stato toccato da questo prodigio, arriva ovunque. È qualcosa di potente. Arriva a contagiarci e a cambiare, il nostro stesso modo di guardare il mondo.

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[mtaartsdesign]

Last week’s #MTAMusic Auditions were a blast! Approximately 45 performers took the stage at Grand Central Madison, and we are excited to announce that 24 of them have been added to the Music Under New York roster. Illustrations by Joan Chiverton capture the energy of the auditions and each musician’s style. Congratulations to the new additions:

Afro Dominicano – Latin fusion band

Augie Bello – saxophone

Brass Queens – female brass band

Petro Drozda aka GooD MooD – accordion

Antonio Figueiredo da Silva aka Tony Boka – jazz guitar

Roy Futaba Jazz – jazz trio

Jerald Graham aka FlyBayJay – R&B singer

Rorie Kelly – vocals, keys, guitar, beatboxing, looping

Davide Laura – violin looping

Corcel Magico – folk rock band

Gabriel Mayers – singer-songwriter

Von Middleton – entertainer

Jeremiah Moore aka Jem Bleu – R&B, pop, singer-songwriter

Alejo Portela – Vallenato accordion

Sean Rosenberry – Irish & folk fiddle

Raphael Batista Silva aka Raphael Batista – violin

Edgar Suarez – salsa & merengue vocalist

Subterranean Jazz – jazz band

Triad Brass – brass band

Villagers Brass Band – brass band

Devon Webster aka Maestro Kaiso – violin

Denise Weeks – gospel & soul singer

Samoa Wilson aka Fatboy Wilson – folk & blues singer

Mehmet Akif Yuksel aka YoSoyAkif – violin