#laura mueller

[pseudo-satisfaction]

[polite--cat]

esteban and his (likely) new race engineer laura mueller

[lordoftheringsmusical]

What does The Lord of the Rings mean to you?

featuring the Chicago cast!

"And I think the only way this happens is, you get a bunch of nerds in a room and say, all right, let's see what we can do" - Justin Albinder (Legolas)

[davidtennantgenderenvy]

Rivals Musical Fancast Because @moriarty4life and I could not stop yapping

Tony Baddingham: Christian Borle or Michael Cerveris Declan O’Hara: Fra Fee or Aaron Tveit

Cameron Cook: Adrianna Hicks or Joy Woods

Rupert Campbell-Black: Ramin Karimloo

Freddie Jones: Owain Arthur

Valerie Jones: Annaleigh Ashford or Jane Krakowski

Maud O’Hara: Laura Benanti

Sarah Stratton: Meghan Hilty

Monica Baddingham: Marin Mazzie (RIP)

Lizzie Vereker: Jessie Mueller

James Vereker: Lucas Steele

(not casting Taggie bc she’d probably be a newcomer)

@aq2003 @thealogie @princeloww thoughts please!!! Also please ask me for my reasoning if confused about any of my picks

[moviemosaics]

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

directed by Laura Poitras, 2022

[randomrichards]

ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED:

A photographer

Leads campaign against Sacklers

Lens on the ignored

[huntingtonnow]

Members Reappointed to Trails, Beautification Committees

The Huntington Town Board has reappointed members of the Beautification Council and the Greenway Trails Committee. Jo-Ann Raia and Virginia Mueller were reappointed to the beautification committee, with terms expiring Dec. 31, 2029. Reappointed to the trails committee, with terms expiring Dec. 31, 2027, were: Barbara Haerter, Marvin Glassman, Laura McKellar, Charles Bravo, Laurie Farber, Lynn…

[anthropoetics]

love is stored in the pen & paper: poems

being boring, wendy cope

intifada incantation: poem #8 for b. b. L., june jordan

thursday, james longenback

history student falls in love with astrophysics student, keaton st. james

the demon, mikhail lermontov

four friends catch up over pasta, amy kay

sonnet 18: shall i compare thee to a summer's day, william shakespeare

litany in which certain things are crossed out, richard siken

the eyes of the poor, charles baudelaire

stop me if you've heard this one before, kaveh akbar

conversation with a rock, wisława szymborska

the joy of writing, wisława szymborska

can in an empty apartment, wisława szymborska

blind fish, yusuf komunyakaa

the crane, javier peñalosa m.

train to agra, vandana khanna

landscape with a blur of conquerors, richard siken

warming her pearls, carol ann duffy 

what resembles the grave but isn't, anne boyer

what the living do, marie howe

gretel, from a sudden clearing, marie howe

death with dignity, kaylee young-eun jeong

keeping quiet, robert bly

i go back to may 1937, sharon olds

the encounter, louise gluck

outhouse, rachel mckibbens

the end of poetry, ada limón

i felt a funeral, in my brain, emily dickinson

how to watch your brother die, michael lassell

boston, aaron smith

laura palmer graduates, amy woolard

upon learning that some korean war refugees used partially detonated napalm canisters as fuel, franny choi

monet refuses the operation, lisel mueller

flare, mary oliver

tomorrow is a place, sanna wani

shoulder, naomi shihab nye

snowdrops, louise glück

hammond b3 organ cistern, gabrielle calvocoressi

the night dances, sylvia plath

makeout sonnet, douglas f. brown

you mean you don't weep at the nail salon, elizabeth acevedo

when i'm asked by lisel mueller

every single day (after raymond carver's hummingbird), john straley

for julia, in the deep water, john morris

the same city, terrance hayes

in blackwater woods, mary oliver

the bridge, c. dale young

mittelbergheim, czesław miłosz

gift, czesław miłosz

late ripeness, czesław miłosz

[medium-observation]

September Release!

The Lord of the Rings - Chicago Shakespeare Theater

August 28, 2024 (Matinée) - Medium Observation

Video

Cast:

Spencer Davis Milford (Frodo), Michael Kurowski (Sam), Lauren Zakrin (Galadriel), Ben Mathew (Pippin), Will James Jr. (Aragorn/Strider), Tom Amandes (Gandalf), Tony Bozzuto (Gollum), Alina Taber (Arwen), Eileen Doan (Merry), Matthew C. Yee (Boromir), Justin Albinder (Legolas), Ian Maryfield (Gimli), Jeff Parker (Elrond/Saruman), Rick Hall (Bilbo Baggins/Steward), Suzanne Hannau (Rosie Cotton), John Lithgow (Voice of Treebeard), Joey Faggion (Ensemble), Mia Hilt (Ensemble), James Mueller (Ensemble), Jarais Musgrove (Ensemble), Hannah Novak (Ensemble), Adam Qutaishat (Ensemble), Laura Savage (Ensemble), Bernadette Santos Schwegel (Ensemble), Ty Shay (s/w Ensemble), Luke Nowakowski (s/w Ensemble)

Notes:

Fantastic capture of this incredibly immersive and beautiful production. there is a bar in the bottom right corner of the screen that doesn't take away except for one moment where Gandalf and Frodo are talking on the stairs in act one, but overall I worked around it and you can always see Frodo and sometimes Gandalf. At points people are in the audience and I wasn't able to capture them but you can always hear them and I do my best to always try to make sure to capture anything in the audience that I could. Some washout and shakiness throughout.

NFT Date: March 1st, 2025

Screenshots: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBFvi6

Video is $20

Moulin Rouge! The Musical - First US National Tour

April 7, 2024 - Medium Observation

Video

Cast:

Christian Douglas (Christian), Nicci Claspell (u/s Satine), Amar Atkins (u/s Harold Zidler), Nick Rashad Burroughs (Toulouse-Lautrec), Andrew Brewer (The Duke of Monroth), Jordan Vasquez (u/s Santiago), Sarah Bowden (Nini), Renee Marie Titus (La Chocolat), Adea Michelle Sessoms (u/s Arabia), Max Heitmann (Baby Doll), Kamal Lado (Pierre), Tommy Gedrich, Tamrin Goldberg, Cameron Hobbs, Nathaniel Hunt, Chloe Rae Kehm, Melissa Hunter McCann, Luke Monday, Tanisha Moore, Kenneth Michael Murray, Elyse Niederee, Omar Nieves, Kent Overshown, Stefanie Renee Salyers, Connor McRory

Notes:

Really beautiful capture of Nicci, Amar and Jordan as Satine, Zidler and Santiago respectively. Some washout and shakiness throughout.

NFT Date: March 1st, 2025

Screenshots: https://www.flickr.com/gp/196227588@N02/a6RiV4g980

Video is $20

Beetlejuice - First US National Tour

June 30, 2024 - Medium Observation

Video

Cast:

Justin Collette (Beetlejuice), Isabella Esler (Lydia Deetz), Megan McGinnis (Barbara Maitland), Will Burton (Adam Maitland), Jesse Sharp (Charles Deetz), Sarah Litzsinger (Delia Deetz), Hillary Porter (Miss Argentina), Abe Goldfarb (Otho), Brian Vaughn (Maxie Dean), Maria Sylvia Norris (Maxine Dean/Juno), Madison Mosley (Girl Scout)

Notes:

Beautiful Capture of Abe, Larkin and Haley's last performance with the company. My camera was having a lot of issues for Act 1, 2 minutes is missing during ready set (still has audio), And then after every song there's a short 2 second blackout. Act 2 is perfect with no issues with my camera. Also the last US stop before a month break and then Mexico! Some washout and shakiness throughout.

NFT Date: March 1st, 2025

Screenshots: https://www.flickr.com/gp/196227588@N02/7B2h6860bv

Video is $18

Videos can be purchased through me at mediumobservationtrading@gmail.com

Discord Server: https://discord.gg/ZGMqkeb9p5

[estebanbicon]

nat i saw some people speculating on the esteban subreddit that laura mueller may become his race engineer at haas next year.

found this interview that haas did with her for international women in engineering day and she sounds really cool!

she mentions at one point that since she's german she of course is a huge michael schumacher fan and has been since childhood which made me smile because of course our beloved boy is also a schumi stan from birth - something they'll have in common :)

yes, it seems very likely that it is her and she seems super cool! very excited :3

[jgroffdaily]

Jonathan Groff, Ruthie Ann Miles, Brian Stokes Mitchell, More Join Stars in the House Election Day Vote-a-Thon

Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley Jackson will host the six-hour event supporting the Entertainment Community Fund.

Stars in the House, the award-winning streaming variety show co-hosted by Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley Jackson, will return for its second Election Day Vote-a-Thon November 5 beginning at noon ET.

Joining hosts Rudetsky and Jackson for the six-hour event—supporting the Entertainment Community Fund—will be the newly announced Matthew Broderick, Neil Patrick Harris, David Burtka, Rachel Bloom, Jonathan Groff, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Ruthie Ann Miles, Josh Groban, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Adrianna Hicks, Skylar Astin, Robin de Jesús, Bellamy Young, Linda Lavin, Donna Murphy, Victoria Clark, Jackie Hoffman, Iain Armitage, Jelani Remy, Julie Benko, Christine Pedi, Pearl Sun, Ta’Nika Gibson, and Luis Salgado's R.Evolución Latina.

These artists join the previously reported Lin-Manuel Miranda, Martin Short, Rosie Perez, Wayne Brady, Jessie Mueller, Shoshana Bean, Judy Kuhn, J. Harrison Ghee, Anika Larsen, Emily Skinner, Andrea Martin, Will Swenson, Brad Oscar, Javier Muñoz, Peri Gilpin, Merle Dandridge, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Rachel Bay Jones, Nina West, Lauren Patten, Kevin Chamberlin, Ali Ewoldt, Sam Gravitte, stars from the original Broadway cast of Hairspray (Marissa Jaret Winokur, Laura Bell Bundy, Kerry Butler, and composer/co-lyricist Marc Shaiman), members of the cast of Glee (Amber Riley, Kevin McHale, Jenna Ushkowitz, Heather Morris, and more), improv group Broadway’s Next Hit Musical, and Chicago stars Charlotte d’Amboise and Brenda Braxton.

The guests will discuss their voting experiences and deliver musical performances.

Stars in the House airs on its YouTube channel and StarsintheHouse.com.

[lonelylittledot]

i love you Sutton Foster i love you Sierra Boggess i love you Audra McDonald i love you Eva Noblezada i love you Phillipa Soo i love you Jessie Mueller i love you Idina Menzel i love you Denée Benton i love you Lindsay Mendez i love you Karen Olivo i love you Jane Krakowski i love you Amber Gray i love you Patina Miller i love you Rachel Tucker i love you Katrina Lenk i love you Laura Osnes i love you Kara Lindsay i love you Christy Altomare i love you Sara Bareilles i love you Mandy Gonzalez i love you Laura Benanti i love y

[toffee-and-tandoori]

hiii! if you want to: 3, 15 & 16 for the 2024 season asks <3

for the f1 2024 season asks! feel free to ask me more questions <3

hello caitlin my beloved - thank you for the questions!

before i get started i still have the pierresteban pseudo-ficlet we were discussing in my drafts that i will eventually get back to...i've just had this wicked combination of busy with real-word responsibilities and lacking motivation with alpine's fuckass treatment of esteban. only alpine could somehow luck into one of the most wholesome moments of the season and then fuck it up :(

anyways without further ado here are my answers!

3. funniest thing that happened this year.

i know i'm forgetting a ton of hilarious moments from this season but off the top of my head i have to go with george steven bradburying his way to the win in austria. that was truly some slapstick comedy and not only did we get a classic russelism on the radio, it exposed two of my greatest on-the-grid enemies for...subpar racecraft let's say...

15. a prediction for next year.

this may be wishful thinking on my part but i predict that all of the rookies (or novices in the case of ollie and liam) will score points next year!

16. what you're most excited to see next year.

i SHOULD be most excited for lewis and charles at ferrari together next year. and to be clear i can't wait for them to be teammates and hopefully crush the competition. but as someone who is both a chirlie and a...lewirlie (???) i am also TERRIFIED of the inevitable pitting of two bad bitches against each other :(

but luckily for me i have haasteban era to look forward to <3. and all of the snippets we've been lucky to receive so far just make me more and more excited! laura mueller supremacy (seriously though the first female race engineer in f1 history!!!). esteban looking hot af in the haas gear. esteban...being treated like a human being? having competent leadership? a car that doesn't completely suck? what novel concepts! esteban taking ollie under his wing (like 2021 estenando). future chesteban interactions through shared custody of ollie???

a part of me will miss pierresteban teammates era but honestly i think it's for the best for it to end on the insane high of the brazil double podium. those two have been pitted against each other from their earliest karting days by SO MANY FORCES because of all the similarities they share and clearly alpine doesn't know how to handle...well anything. we would've had more incidents like australia 2023, suzuka 2023, monaco 2024, canada 2024, austria 2024 etc. and i just know it wouldn't have ended well. to paraphrase casablanca...at least we'll always have são paulo <3.

[grayintogreen]

ROSEVERSE VOICE CLAIMS

The following is a list of who “voices” each of the OCs and unvoiced (as of the time of writing/plotting) characters in Roseverse. For people who are into that kind of thing.

UNVOICED CANON CHARACTERS

Lilith: Elizabeth Mitchell

Baxter: Christopher Fitzgerald

Crymini: Barrett Wilbert Weed

Arackniss: Brennan Lee Mulligan

Leviathan: Mark “Markiplier” Fischbach

Belphegor: Estelle

Roo: Rebecca Ferguson

Henroin: Steve Buscemi

ORIGINAL CHARACTERS

Eve: Eden Espinosa

Diana: Erika Ishii

Chance: Lin-Manuel Miranda

Arkady: Ruth Negga

Pippa: Marisha Ray

Crino: Daniel Kaluuya

Trisha: Lauren Lopez

Aamon: Khary Peyton

Focalor: Patti LuPone

Baal: Brian d’arcy James

Vual: Daveed Diggs

Astaroth: Billy Porter

Grace: Laura Bailey

Michael: Adam Pascal

Gabriel: Keegan-Michael Key

Cain: Alex Brightman

Abel: Brendon Urie

Clea: Sherie Rene Scott

Carlotta: Kate Rockwell

Claudio: John Tartaglia

Raphael: Josh Groban

Uriel: Aidy Bryant

Selaphiel: Heather Headley

Barachiel: Caleb Hyles

Jophiel: Jessie Mueller

[daynascullys]

4, 24 and 74

4 apple music: Orpheus by Sara Bareilles spotify: ceilings by Lizzy McAlpine 24 apple music: Bad Idea by Jessie Mueller & Drew Gehling spotify: Chip on My Shoulder by Christian Borle & Laura Bell Bundy 74 apple music: Dear Reader by Taylor Swift spotify: Tightrope by Sara Bareilles

send me a number 1-100!

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Radley Balko at The UnPopulist:

Donald Trump and his allies constantly complain that they are regularly targeted, singled out for abuse, and deliberately humiliated by the criminal justice system. They claim that there are “two tiers of justice”—a strict, unrelenting one for MAGA, and a loose, deferential one for the migrants, rapists, and killers that George Soros-funded prosecutors refuse to punish. But even before the conservative justices in a party-line ruling handed Trump virtual immunity from fomenting an insurrection, he had been getting the criminal justice system’s “platinum door” treatment. His cases are unusual in that he’s a former president. But his status and political position have helped him far more than they have hurt him. I want to compare and contrast some of Trump and his supporters’ complaints with how the criminal legal system operates in the real world.

Treating Trump With Kid Gloves

Trump has complained that his criminal trials have been a huge inconvenience for him—keeping him from using that time to campaign for president, potentially keeping him from attending his son Barron’s high school graduation. Typically, people facing criminal charges have to show up when court begins and then sit for hours until their case is called. They’re required to take off work, or find someone to watch their kids. And those are merely the people lucky enough to be released before trial. In many courts, they aren’t allowed to have cell phones. Over the last few years, I’ve watched dozens of people wait in a courtroom, staring at the wall for half a day or more, only to learn that their case has been continued, so they'll have to do it all again in a month. I don’t know if any of them had to cancel a political rally, but many have certainly been fired, missed doctor’s appointments, or lost other opportunities. I suppose it’s possible that a judge at some point let a defendant charged with 34 felonies delay a trial to attend a graduation ceremony, but I imagine if you asked a public defender if that’s a regular occurrence, you’d need to set aside some time for the laughter to die down. Incidentally, Trump was permitted to attend his son’s graduation.

Trump and his supporters have also complained about the tactics the FBI agents used when serving the search warrant on Mar-a-Lago. Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene described the raid as “the rogue behavior of communist countries,” and Steve Bannon insisted that the GOP will move to incarcerate officials who approved it. Trump himself accused FBI agents of not taking off their shoes while walking through his bedroom. As someone who has written about aggressive police raids for over 20 years, it’s hard to image a more pathetic complaint than that. The FBI gave Trump’s Secret Service detail a heads-up that they were coming. They deliberately conducted the search when Trump would be out of town, to save him embarrassment. When National Security Agency intelligence officer, William Binney, a whistleblower, tried to point out problems at the agency by going through internal channels, FBI agents raided his home unannounced, entered without authorization, and pointed their guns at him after finding him in the shower.

Far-right media personalities like Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham have also suggested that Robert Mueller’s office may have tipped off the media to maximize publicity around the raid. But of course tipping off the press about a pending arrest is a time-honored tradition among publicity-seeking prosecutors. The amusing thing about this complaint is that a carefully staged perp walk as a publicity stunt is a technique first popularized by … Trump’s personal attorney and bag man Rudy Giuliani, who used it to humiliate the International Monetary Fund’s chief. We now know that Mueller’s office did not tip off CNN. The network’s reporters had staked out Stone’s house after noticing unusual activity in court fillings from Mueller’s office. It was just good reporting.

MAGA world has also been critical of how search and arrest warrants were served on other Trump-adjacent personalities. FBI agents were accused of “manhandling” Paul Manafort and his wife during an early morning raid, which legal commentator Jonathan Turley called “excessive.” In response to the FBI’s raid on Roger Stone, Sheriff Joe Arpaio said: “I’ve been busting down doors for 50 years and I’ve never sent that many units to the baddest murderer.” (Arpaio once sent a small army of cops to raid a guy accused of cockfighting. That raid ended with actor Steven Seagal, cosplaying as a cop, driving an armored vehicle into the poor guy’s living room.) But of course the FBI and other federal agencies routinely conduct volatile, aggressive raids on people suspected of nonviolent or low-level crimes.

[...]

Jan. 6 Rioters More Equal than BLM Protesters

Then there’s January 6th! Increasingly over the past couple of years, Trump and his allies have complained that the Jan. 6 rioters have been singled out for abuse, especially when compared to those accused of rioting and looting during the George Floyd protests. The Jan. 6 rioters are frequently referred to as “political prisoners”—Trump himself calls them “hostages.” Let’s look at the facts.

About 70% of people arrested and charged with Jan. 6-related crimes were released on bond or under their own recognizance, including everyone charged with crimes that would qualify as “peaceful protest,” such as trespassing. Just 25% of federal criminal defendants are released pre-trial overall. If we factor in both state and federal courts, the number of people routinely detained while awaiting trial in this country is so large that there are actually more people behind bars who have yet to be convicted than people who have. But seven in 10 Jan. 6ers were released. It is true that the conditions in Washington, D.C. jails are terrible. They’re under-supervised, unsanitary, and hellish, and have astronomical rates of suicide. When Trump was booked at the jail in Fulton County, Georgia, he complained that the facility was “poor and disgraceful,” adding, “It’s worse than you could even imagine. It’s violent. The building is falling apart.” But Trump was quickly booked and released. He didn’t spend any time in an actual jail cell.

All of the Jan. 6 defendants who were not released prior to trial were charged with serious felonies. Federal public defenders have made clear that the federal courts have been far more likely to release Capitol rioters pre-trial than other defendants. And, in fact, the D.C. federal public defender’s office went all out to make sure that Jan. 6ers received a robust defense. They ramped up staffing and enlisted attorneys from other federal offices to help. We can contrast the extraordinary efforts to make sure the Jan. 6ers were well defended to the ongoing crisis in public defense I’ve been regularly documenting. There are parts of the country where people sit in jails for weeks or even months before ever seeing a lawyer. Some meet their attorney for the first time just minutes before they’re due in court. Many public defenders have no access to investigators. Most are severely overworked.

[...]

The System Has Gone Way Easy on Trump

Trump has been treated far better and received more preferential treatment than just about anyone ever ensnared in the criminal justice system. He’s the only person in U.S. history to have his criminal case appear before a judge he appointed—and one he could promote to a higher court should he retake the White House. He’s also the only person in U.S. history to have his criminal case appear before the U.S. Supreme Court after having appointed a third of that court’s justices. Consider how his classified documents case compares to similar cases against non-former presidents. The Justice Department became aware that Reality Winner had leaked a single classified document to a media outlet—a document she believed served an important public interest—in May 2017. She was arrested the following month. By August 2018, 16 months later, she had been sentenced to five years in prison. Trump was indicted for hoarding around 200 classified documents, lying about them, refusing to turn them over, and then obstructing the government’s attempts to recover them. Whatever his motivation was for all of this, it definitely wasn’t whistleblowing.

Trump illegally took the documents in January 2021. The first indication that the government became aware of them was in May of that year. The National Archives then gave Trump repeated warnings. Instead, he showed off and boasted about top secret documents to Mar-a-Lago visitors. The FBI didn’t open an investigation until March 2022. The search of Mar-a-Lago didn’t take place until the following August. Trump wasn’t indicted until June 2023. It has now been 37 months since the government became aware of Trump’s 200 documents, and it’s unlikely that his trial will happen any time soon.

[...]

Trump Monetizes Criminality When Others Lose Their Shirt

People with criminal convictions also typically struggle to pay court fines and fees, probation or parole fees, child support, and private debts accumulated while they were incarcerated. It can be difficult to find housing, and they’re far more likely to experience homelessness. Trump himself faces significant fines and fees. He owes $450 million to the state of New York for crimes committed by his company, and $90 million to E. Jean Carrol after a jury found him liable for defaming her after he sexually assaulted her. Trump also has a habit of not paying his creditors, though in his case it’s usually more a matter of not wanting to pay than the inability to do so. Still, unlike others with felony convictions, Trump will not end up homeless or destitute. It’s unlikely he’ll even need to alter his lavish lifestyle.

[...] Over the years, I’ve interviewed more people treated unfairly by the criminal justice system than I can count. They often say that the experience changed them. It made them more empathetic, less trustful of police and prosecutors, and more willing to entertain the notion that the system sometimes gets it wrong. Most understand that any system capable of the injustice inflicted on them has certainly done the same or worse to others. Powerful people who encounter the justice system can be particularly effective agents of change. But that isn’t going to happen here. That’s partly because Trump has experienced only the most glancing of consequences from his criminal convictions. But it’s also because MAGA revels in victimhood. Conceding that the system is fundamentally unfair would merely make Trump one victim among many. The false narrative that courts and prosecutors are hellbent on targeting him and his supporters—while showing outrageous leniency toward scary drug dealers, rapists, and killers—only amplifies the outrage and victimhood.

MAGA’s beef with the system isn’t that justice has been weaponized, it’s that it has been weaponized against them. Their answer isn’t to insulate the system from politics, it’s to ratchet up the politicization, then aim it at their enemies.

Radley Balko wrote in The UnPopulist expertly debunking the MAGA lie that the so-called "weaponization" of the criminal justice system is being used to rightly prosecute Donald Trump and his allies for their crimes.

In fact, the criminal justice system has gone soft on Donald Trump and his allies.

Balko said it best here: "MAGA’s beef with the system isn’t that justice has been weaponized, it’s that it has been weaponized against them. Their answer isn’t to insulate the system from politics, it’s to ratchet up the politicization, then aim it at their enemies."