#lawson mcdonald

[hogwartsmarvelmommy]

THG 🏒

THG + Taylor Swift = No Bad Days.

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have The Batman 2022

[kushpak]

which one do you want to be when u grow up

[morbidology]

On the afternoon of the 1st of August, 2019, a 911 call came in to police in Baltimore, Maryland, from 40-year-old Shatika Lawson. She reported that her wife’s son, four-year-old Malachi Lawson, had disappeared from outside his grandmother’s home. She said that at about 3:22PM, Malachi had walked away from the front porch of his grandmother’s home in the 4500 block of Rogers Avenue in Northwest Baltimore. He was wearing a white tank top, khaki shorts, and black flip flops.

Malachi Lawson, born in 2015 to Alicia Lawson and a former boyfriend, faced unique challenges as a nonverbal child with developmental disabilities. Alicia, a graduate of Frederick Douglass High School, immediately entered the workforce, securing a job at McDonald’s to support herself and her young son. Soon after Malachi’s birth, Alicia formed a relationship with Shatika, who quickly became a second mother figure in Malachi’s life.

Melissa Johnson, Malachi’s aunt, fondly recalled his infectious smile, noting that he had a remarkable ability to uplift those around him. According to Melissa, whenever the animated series Paw Patrol aired on television, Malachi’s imagination soared, and he would enthusiastically pretend to transform into one of his favourite characters.

Despite Malachi’s cheerful demeanor, his domestic life was tumultuous, leading to his removal from the care of Alicia and Shatika in 2016.

Placed into foster care, he found solace and guidance under the compassionate care of Jill Jackson. When he first came into Jil’s care, she said that he was “very frightened, very timid, very scared, very shaky” but as time went on, he developed into a happy little boy who enjoyed playing with her other children. Jil recalled how Malachi was one of the sweetest babies that she had ever fostered, and that she had loved him as if he were her own son. She commented: “He would sit on my bed and just play with his fingers.”

However, after spending less than a year with Jill, she received a phone call informing her that Malachi would be returned to Alicia, and Shatika. Then, on August 1, 2019, he was reported missing....

𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞:

[kwebtv]

The Doctor Blake Mysteries  -  ABC (Aus) - February 1, 2013 - November 12, 2017

Crime Drama (45 episodes)

Running Time:  60 minutes

Stars:

Craig McLachlan as Dr. Lucien Blake

Nadine Garner as Jean Beazley

Cate Wolfe as Matilda "Mattie" O'Brien (Series 1–4.2)

Joel Tobeck as Chief Superintendent (later Chief Inspector) Matthew Lawson (Series 1–4.1, 5)

Rick Donald as Constable (later Sergeant) Daniel Parks (Series 1, 5)

Sara Gleeson as Joy McDonald (Series 1–2.1)

Charlie Cousins as Constable (later Sergeant) Charlie Davis (Series 2–5)

Belinda McClory as Alice Harvey (Series 2–5)

John Wood as Patrick Tyneman (Series 1–5)

Craig Hall as Chief Supt William Munro (Series 3, 5)

John Stanton as Douglas Ashby (Series 1–3)

Neil Pigot as Major Derek Alderton (Series 1, 4)

David Whiteley as Sergeant Bill Hobart

Ian Rooney as Cec Drury

Lee Beckhurst as Edward Tyneman (Series 1–5)

Rodger Corser as Chief Supt Frank Carlyle (Series 4)

Anna McGahan as Rose Anderson (Series 4–5)

Ling-Hsueh Tang as Mei Lin Blake (Series 4)

[chuck-snowbug]

走っている途中にお腹が空いて食べたもの八景・その８０ - Foods I Ate During Running Part 80

1: Chikuwa Bread of "Bakery Fujiya" at Tsurukawa - October 2023

2: Onigiri of "Lawson" at Mitaka-Nozaki-Yonchome - October 2023

3: Onigiri of "Ministop" at Narita-Tsuchiya - November 2023

4: Onigiri of "FamilyMart" at Narita-Kamifukuda - November 2023

5: Egg Cheeseburger of "McDonald's" at Sanuki-Ekimae - November 2023

6: Sandwich of “FamilyMart” at Atsugi-Asahicho - November 2023

7: Onigiri of "Lawson" at Komazawa-Olympic-Kohenmae - December 2023

8: Crispy Fried Chicken of "Lawson" at Nishi-Shinjuku - December 2023

Previous Post:

[bitchinbarzal]

Lawson McDonald, I asked you who he was and you asked if you ever posted about him and i said I saw your comment on a video of him proposing

I’m aware of the question originally asked, I’m asking who you are!

I don’t remember commenting on Lawsy’s video but also you must be following me? and 3 people on this app should be following me… dats it.

[cu1tofdionysus]

Fasting all went 2 Bushwick together

Julian Foy is the type of guy you want to be your friend’s boyfriend. He has fiery red hair and wears silly cropped graphic tees, comes across as possibly gay when you meet him (he’s not!) & knows everybody and a little bit about everything. He’s the lead vocalist for a band called Fasting that sometimes plays at TransPecos.

Fasting is the type of band you’d want to play your zine release party. Composed of 5 members– Sean Lawson, Sean Terrrell, Gordon Gillespie, Julian Foy and Jessie Capozzi– They can sway a crowd, literally and figuratively. The dreary April night I saw them, they were one of a few acts inaugurating Rambler Magazine’s latest print issue. They were following a slow, jazzy type band at Village Works, a tiny indie bookstore on St. Marks. Who knew it was a music venue? The place was overflowing with books on tables and books on shelves. It was raining, forcing the indoor/outdoor party strictly inside. The owner of the venue was behind the register asking the musicians to “Keep it down!’ The band was practically on top of eachother, performing from a walk-in closet sized corner of the venue. The crowd was on top of eachother, too–”DON'T lean on the books, please.” Foy bounced around during the set wearing his graduation cap (Pratt Institute, Film,) warding off any low spirits. The guy next to me mutters to those surrounding him, “They’re really good!” twice, banging his shaved head back and forth. 

In the words of Capozzi, bass, keys, sometimes the sax, (Pratt, Drawing,) Fasting makes “very human music.” Some songs are shoegazey, or noise pop-y, some are more post punk. “You know me so well” has warbling, subdued and sweet, almost ghostly vocals. “Lay me down taking my shoes off / I forgot my socks/ grave was faded and hard to read/ written on a subway wall. ” But it’s less about the song’s lyrics and less about the buzz of the melancholic guitar and thrashing drums, those could be gone by the next song. It’s more about the universals, the mood, the feeling, the scenes they emulate.  

John Public, the band’s 2023 debut album, is a memento, a mixed bag, made up of songs as old as 2018, the birth of the band, all the way to 2022. Those first songs came to life in the Pratt Institute dorms, as well as friendship and mold. The album’s namesake, John Public, references an inside joke amongst Pratt students. “John Public” is the John Doe for Pratt’s  lost student ID poster. The album is about that time, going to art school in Brooklyn, part- time jobs and smoking cigarettes, sometimes hand rolled. Trying to scrounge up $7 for a Prontos Deli sandwich. Those days feel like dreams. 

The newest member, the second Sean, Sean Lawson (The New School, Jazz) joined the band after a quick DM exchange with Sean Terrell, drummer, (Pratt Institute, Painting.) I am told by multiple sources that Sean Lawson is a musical genius. Terrell messaged Lawson on Instagram, wondering if he knew anyone who could play lead guitar. Both Seans had met through “the scene.” Lawson could play lead guitar, a member of another band, Aggressive Squirrels, already. Everyone knows someone who knows someone who…

We have to rush to Bushwick, to the Fasting Apartment, because some of the band is driving to Jersey right after the interview for a house show, or house party, or something like that. Sage, my roommate and Foy’s girlfriend, has told me stories of foot fungus and rats plaguing the infamous crib. There’s a Popeye’s and Mcdonald’s nearby, attracting chaos and all sorts of creatures. This is the band’s headquarters, and 4/5 of the band’s general living quarters: Gordon Gillespie, rhythm guitar, (Pratt Institute, Photo) and then Foy, Terrell and Capozzi. Sean Lawson doesn’t live here, this is the first time he’s been here, actually. There's a CPR dummy perched above the kitchen counter and a Hello Kitty poster on the wall, gifts given from the mystical streets of the city. Adobo seasoning, an astray, headphones, pliers, half a pair of sneakers and a roll of duct tape litter the coffee table. Capozzi’s room has a pair of pants pinned to the wall. You can barely see the floor of Gillespie’s, who has a loft bed.

Keep reading for a conversation with Fasting about the band’s history, a secret 6th member, the creative process, and hating music.

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CULT

How'd you meet?

JESSE

Most of us met at Pratt. Sean and Gordon were random roommates when they were freshmen like four years ago. 

CULT

Did you live in the apartment before? Or did you make the band before? 

JULIAN

Band before, 5 years ago now. Freshman year..

GORDON

Julian was down the hallway from me and Sean.

JESSE

There's also another member we need to speak about. 

GORDON

A secret member who is going to become a monk soon.

SEAN TERRELL 

He was our fucking grateful dead. What's the guy? He was our Jerry Garcia.

JULIAN 

So, in the Can-- paper thin walls and shared bathrooms for the entire floor. Right? 

CULT

Yeah.

JULIAN 

Naked people everywhere. People would have to go back to the room with a towel where other people were drinking Red Bull and vodka shots.

GORDON

Every Tuesday night everyone in the entire building would get hammered.

SEAN TERRELL

Because everyone had the morning class off, we all had 1pm classes.

JULIAN 

The walls were super thin. So, you could hear what was happening in every room as you passed by. In your room, you could hear conversations everywhere, even underneath, because the floor was just so thin. You could jump on it and it would bounce. You could bend the walls. They were made with thin plywood, to be temporary housing for the people who built the other dorm. We met because you could hear through the walls what people were doing. When they were making music, we could hear it. We'd just knock on just knock on the door and be like, what is that? What is that song?

GORDON

"My name is Julian and I'm a really good rapper. Let me freestyle for ya."

CULT

You rap? 

JULIAN 

Yeah, I was in a rap group called "Sort of Sober." We were all so bad.  We opened for Lil TiJay. That was our moment. For Lil TiJay at a club. That was pretty cool. 

JESSE

They all started playing music together. And then Eddie, who hasn't lived in New York for a while, joined. And then I floated in. Really early though, we wrote "talking to ed" like the first week I joined. 

JULIAN 

Jesse would float in to play the saxophone.

JESSE

People who could hear it through their wall would tell me to shut the fuck up.

I started talking to Sean, because I was in another band of people I knew from Long Island and I asked him to be the drummer. And he did that for a while. And I had class with Gordon, so we all kind of knew each other musically, and not musically. There was no real rehearsing at that time, a lot of making recordings in the dorm.

GORDON

It wasn't a group of people either. We had people floating in. Our friend Thomas wrote a song that we used to play in our set.

JULIAN 

We would have homies sit around giving us conceptual ideas. 

CULT

Was there a certain sound that you were aiming for back then?

JESSE

Any idea that came to our heads. A lot of indie? 

SEAN TERRELL

I was super into fucking Current Joys and Black Marble, and shit like that. Gordon put me onto shit that I used to hate, which was straight up emo music and Algernon 1000s math rock. Ones where the vocals are super annoying, and like whining. Now I love that shit. 

JESSE

When we were sophomores we started rehearsing more seriously with Julien singing, Sean drumming and singing a lot, Gordon playing guitar, and our friend Eddie playing lead. I was playing bass. We played one show, early February of 2020. We played battle of the bands. 

JULIAN 

Eddie faced away from the audience the entire time, because he was wearing a Michael Jackson shirt.

SEAN TERRELL

We lost because JHARIAH all voted for themselves. We joked that we were gonna vote for ourselves and JHARIAH did. There were probably about seven votes total, and five of them were everyone in that band. 

JESSE

Yeah, then Sean didn't come back to the city for the next year. Neither did Gordon. I started living with Julian and someone else. 

SEAN TERRELL

That was a dark period. That was sort of the Dark Ages.

JESSE

Sean (Terrell) came into the city to visit his girlfriend. That fall, we jammed once. It was really fun, we wrote a song. The next fall, I guess the fall of 2021, Sean moved back to the city to continue going to school. Then the four of us started living together. Eddie never came back after COVID. He moved to Colorado. We've still kept in touch. He was the greatest musician of the group, by far.

SEAN TERRELL

But he gave up making music and he deleted it off the internet and became a monk. He was super Russian Orthodox. In high school, he made music with this band called The Hellp, producing.

CULT

Wait, I’ve heard of them.

JESSE

There are some really funny pictures of him on the internet. I saw Reddit posts from a month ago, where someone was theorizing that he was still involved.

JULIAN 

He's got memorable licks. Tasteful, memorable melodies. You can hear it on "I will go outside." 

JESSE

So that's basically the history. Then Sean joined. Our friend Jamison, she played with us for a little bit, but it was a more casual thing. We played as a four piece for a little bit. Sometimes with Julian trying to play lead guitar, but not practiced. Sean Terrell DMed Sean Lawson asking if he knew any New School jazz guitarists who would want to be in the band. Which is crazy because he saw us play the worst, most tension fueled show of all.

SEAN LAWSON

There was a point in the set where Jesse said that it was their last show. It felt like everyone in the audience was like, "Was that a joke?"

JESSE

I liked that it was hard to tell. 

GORDON

You used to say that a lot. We used to be in the middle of practice. You'd be like, "Alright, we're done." 

JESSE

Because I thought that. I honestly hated it for a while. Not the band specifically, just playing. I don't know why I thought it was really stupid for a while. I think I was just really mad all the time at a lot of things in life. There was still enjoyment with playing music, but I got to a point like when I was finishing Pratt, like in 2022, where I actively didn't listen to music. Unless it was like jazz on the radio, for almost an entire year. 

SEAN TERRELL 

Through a tiny cassette player.

JULIAN 

That or baseball. 

JESSE

But even that whole time, I was still writing music.

CULT

Are you a perfectionist? 

SEAN TERRELL

He's like a contrarian.

JESSE

That's not true at all. 

CULT

Where does the name “Fasting” come from?

JESSE

They spent a whole week trying to think of a name. 

GORDON 

A whole year.

JESSE

Some silly names we were going to be, "Christmas." 

GORDON 

"Christmas band" does not work. "Dog with a cane" -- that was the first name. We had a SoundCloud with that name. We never posted anything.

JULIAN 

These nincompoops went on the balcony to smoke cigarettes. They come back like "Yo, we've thought of it. Balconies." 

JESSE

The name Fasting came from when we were still in school and Gordon didn't get paid for their Pratt job for a while. So they had no money. When Gordon was really hungry, they would say, "now I'm fasting."

GORDON

I was in the photo building. I was working the desk, but the way their system is, you don't get paid for the first month. One meal a day, your sandwich or something. Now we're all fat. 

CULT

I have three questions that go together. Do you live together, except for Sean, because you're a band or because you're friends? What makes you so close? And how much time do you spend together?

SEAN TERRELL

We live together because we're buddies. But the band did exist first.

JULIAN  

If we were having friend problems, we'd play music about it sometimes.

GORDON

Our early practices were so bad. If Julian was mad at Sean he would try and scream over him every time he was singing. I couldn't play the bass. They were just so bad. We wouldn't live together if we didn't also, like, enjoy spending time with each other a lot.

JESSE

We've known each other for so long. I think the closeness started early on. We've done a lot of shit together over the years. We've seen a lot of shit. We've seen each other grow up because it's been like fucking five years at this point, which is insane. Now we're all adults in the world having jobs, which is weird.

CULT

What genre are you? 

JULIAN 

We used to say "fast and fun." 

JESSE

Music for everyone under the sun.  I do think it's very human.

GORDON

(Mocking Jesse) "it's very human music." 

JESSE

Post punk, new wave, not so much anymore. Definitely math rock for people that can't count.

JULIAN 

Math rock for people missing fingers.

JESSE

We have a lot of overlapping musical interests but also everyone is into their own thing which is something I've always enjoyed. 

JULIAN 

Jamison was full on funk sometimes. And we had a saxophone.

SEAN

We usually like to have friends on the album. 

CULT

What's your music about?

JESSE

it's not about music, but it also is. (Laughter from the band.) Now I've gotten super into songwriting. There's so much to explore forever. I really enjoy experimenting with harmonies or with songwriting and dipping back into old ideas. So for me, it's about writing songs and trying to play them live. And having fun. Which we're trying to do for the first time.

SEAN 

I used to give a fuck about lyrics. And now I super don't. I only use lyrics as a vehicle to sing notes. They're more free associative. I would "free associate" words until I would come up with idioms or phrases that didn't mean something that I hated. Or could be construed in a way that was really dumb. Julian loves writing.

JULIAN 

I love writing lyrics and all my lyrics are about something. I always imagine that I'm trying to say something, and as I'm saying it, it's coming out through rhythm. Then the melody comes from music. For me, the first three or four years of making music, it was all rap. Malik, and Phil, from that band (Sort Of Sober), influenced me a lot. I used to write spoken word in high school, that's also rhythm based. But it wouldn't fit tightly into phrases. The two of them were like, your flows are terrible. Now I'm like, where can those things meet? Also a lot of improvisation. There's a lot of times during shows where I've sung lyrics that I never wrote for the band, or they came out live, and sometimes I'm not even saying words. That's fine. I might be saying words. I might be saying sounds. 

GORDON

It's a lot of poetic imagery. There's not a lot of concrete stories or ideas. 

JESSE

We haven't had a concept album yet. Unless the concept is drinking beer.

SEAN TERRELL 

Say that was the concept of the last one. 

[tinyapartments]

notes from our first trip to japan

luntian and i booked this trip very late because we had to make sure we were fully covered—she was awaiting the bar results and looking for a job as a new lawyer when we decided that we were going to japan to witness her dear friend’s wedding. given that it was both our first time visiting the land of the rising sun, there were expected back and forths on flights, airbnb bookings, and visa applications, but i knew we were both stoked to go.

japan in springtime is chilly, our friends who had been there warned us enough times. and this was what i was afraid of as someone who does not do well in the cold. the only preparation that i personally did for this trip was to stuff my packing cubes with uniqlo heattech, which i will only wear half of for the duration of the trip. i was happy to experience the springtime chill in japan without feeling like i will keel over to my death.

march 29, our flight left at 2pm and we arrived in narita at almost 8pm. a late admission if you will, but i had relinquished all the navigating to luntian since she is so much better at it than i am, and so i was quite surprised to realize that narita was still an hour or so train ride to tokyo. i was hungry (we both were), and since it was my first time traveling abroad after the pandemic, japan’s airport confused the hell out of me. what was i expecting? that the people would speak english to accommodate my poor bilingual ass? my years of watching anime rendered me useless when we were figuring out where to get our pre-booked skyliner tickets to ueno.

the train station was an entirely different hurdle: japan’s railway system will eat you whole. as i stood in the middle of ueno station in front of the gigantic rail pass map all i could think of was demon slayer’s mugen train arc and how the train itself was alive and ate almost all the passengers. i thought to myself: we are never getting out of here. i wish i could chalk up the exaggeration to simply hunger and exhaustion that night, but during our week-long trip, i never got the hang of the train station. and that’s just in tokyo.

for our first meal in japan, we went to mcdonald’s. tired from lugging our bags, navigating (this was mostly luntian), and arguing (because i was practically useless haha), we gave up and ate at the first thing we saw when we got off at ogikubo station. the design of the fast-food joint was fascinating but unsurprising given japan’s culture: the tables are arranged for solo diners. people would come in, order up, and eat their food alone while watching videos on their phones. it is quite lonely living in japan.

march 30, for our first morning and the rest of all the mornings we will spend in tokyo, we had breakfast at convenience stores (we actually had our first breakfast at lawson, and they had this decadent matcha pudding that i could not find in family mart, much to my disappointment). when we were still planning this trip, luntian and i already agreed that we would scrimp up on our food budget. it was quite a surprise to me that not only was convenience store food delicious, but it was also comforting. i looked forward to the mornings we spent walking toward family mart and planning ahead on what to get. but as creatures of habit, our breakfasts mostly consisted of the usual items: an onigiri of any kind, hot coffees, berocca (may baon kami!), seaweed soup, and a vanilla pudding for me. sometimes we’d share a melonpan or a chickenball skewer, but most of the time we ate the same thing every morning and none of us complained. i would do the same thing again when i come back.

rhea and ryo’s wedding was one for the books. the ceremony was at the infamous meiji jingu shrine. we lined up behind the bride and groom and walked around the public square (tourists were taking pictures of us, fellow tourists! haha) to get to the small temple where the wedding rites would take place. the ceremony was short, formal, and nothing less than cathartic. i could not understand a single word that the minister was saying, but the silence and the uniform gestures as well as the rituals (drinking sake and clapping to a beat) that even we as guests had to participate in was unforgettable. the reception was at meiji kinenkan hotel where we gorged ourselves on an eight or ten-course meal. i will never allow myself to forget about the lobster thermidor.

after the wedding, luntian and her friends had planned to meet in shibuya at night time. i was excited to cross the popular shibuya crossing. to my extreme horror, shibuya was swarmed with people. shibuya was teeming, filled to the brim, however you want to call it. you could probably stop walking in the middle of the road, and the sheer force and volume of people passing through would still carry you across. my probinsyana ass was not prepared for it, but i embraced it anyhow. we bought cheese pancakes from a hole-in-the-wall shop manned by a turkish guy. i greeted him with a most likely mispronounced marhaba (i only got to module 2 of turkish in duolingo), and he asked how to say how are you in my language. we had late dinner with amie at a small ramen diner where we had to google if it were rude to share your bowl with someone else. google said it depends. before heading home, our group had managed to take a shot at hachiko’s statue which was packed when we arrived.

march 31, this was probably one of my favorite days in our trip. we had a late start since the previous day was packed and we were recovering our spirits from how busy and crowded shibuya was. luntian and i agreed to never go back there for the rest of our trip. we went to the nearby mall and shopped at uniqlo (mostly items we will still need for our trip and some pasalubong for our parents). in the afternoon, we went to yoyogi park to participate in hanami—the activity of hanging out at a park by the cherry blossoms. we were disappointed, however, as the cherry blossom trees in yoyogi park weren’t in full bloom yet when we got there. we walked around the park, enamored by its enormity, while we waited for jake’s response on where exactly to meet up. jake, luntian’s friend from way back, is a graphic designer who had been living in japan for five years or so. he invited us to come over to his house which he and his partner, zach, had just recently built.

he finally spotted us while we sat on one of the benches at a nearby dog park within the park (it’s a really huge park). we took the bus to their house, which was also in the ogikubo area. their house sat in a very quiet and suburban area (which is how the entirety of ogikubo looked like, i suppose). it was the only house with a dark façade in an entire neighborhood of white japanese houses. on their fence was an embossed lettering in bronze metal (or was it gold? hard to tell in the night): zach and jake. i raved almost endlessly about this detail like i was the longtime friend he hasn’t seen in a while. inside was a cozy house with the kitchen counter overlooking the open dining and living area. jake baked and cooked as a hobby apart from his dayjob as a graphic designer. there we were greeted by their three adopted cats: snuffy, luca and oreo. jake fed our hungry stomachs with roasted chicken and tomato pasta—a simple but hearty dish akin to a mother’s cooking. while eating, i noticed his small collection of filipiniana books. i promised him i’ll send him more filipiniana books when i come home (i’m working on it!).

april 1, following jake’s recommendations, we went to kichijoji after another round of convenience store breakfast. it was just two stops from ogikubo and i must say that kichijoji was one of my favorite places that i went to in tokyo. not only is it much less crowded than other districts, but if personal and pasalubong shopping plus a gastronomic trip were the goals, kichijoji will never disappoint. from dry goods to dessert trucks to stationery stores, kichijoji got ur back. we were happy to find loft in there as our friends back home had pasabuy requests. i went crazy at the stationery portion in loft, needless to say. we had late lunch at yoshinoya since it was the nearest and possibly cheapest restaurant around. we had to make it to ueno by 7pm for a group dinner with rhea and ryo.

rhea and ryo booked an izakaya for our dinner. it was there that i learned izakaya were after-work restaurants that were usually for drinking and decompressing. essentially, what elbi square was to us in college. after that, they took us for a nighttime walk to ueno park where cherry blossoms were almost in full bloom and lanterns also dotted the trees. after walking the entire stretch of ueno park, the group decided to walk to akihabara and go to the gacha games. the walk to akihabara wasn’t short, but as someone who went to college in up los banos, it was fairly tolerable. our group of 15 charged toward akihabara, and it were only luntian and i who didn’t win at any gacha/claw games. she quietly threw a tantrum for the rest of the night.

april 2, we went to disneysea! we actually had not planned on going prior to our flight, and just made a last-minute decision on this. we had already passed up a day tour of mt. fuji as we weren’t sure of the odds of the mountain appearing (we should have gone because luntian’s friends saw mt. fuji), so we didn’t want to miss going to another cliché tourist destination in japan. i have been to two different disneyland parks in my lifetime, but luntian is a disney parks virgin. on the discussion of waiting for the light show at the end of the night or going home early to beat the swarm of park-goers on their way home, it was a no-brainer: we’ll watch the light show. it was a good decision nonetheless because luntian bawled to pieces when moana showed up at the performance.

we actually shared this disneysea trip with mac, one of luntian's friends, whom we accompanied to tokyo, tokyo (didn't know there was such a place! now the fast-food joint in pinas makes more sense!) before going to disneysea to hunt for onitsuka sneakers. we enjoyed the entire disney trip like a proper throuple (kimmy). after the amusement park, we shared a table with fran and ysa (more of luntian's friends) at isomaru in shinjuku. we talked about how fran and i are similar while ysa and luntian shared the same peculiarities.

april 3, with our return flight the next day and the question of what the hell to do with our luggage, we decided to take this day slow: we went to a self-laundry and washed all our clothes, packed our luggage more mindfully (instead of just buying another suitcase—essentially my idea because i give up too easily haha), and check in to a hotel in ueno where the skyliner station to narita is at. scrimping on food has left us with enough money for taxi fare to ueno (we didn’t want to lug our stuff from train to train anymore) and a one-night hotel check-in, thank god.

for dinner, we went to ichiran ramen house. the toll of walking long stretches, socializing with friends, and navigating a new city for almost a week was starting to catch up on our thirty-year-old bodies, and we wanted some good old broth to resuscitate what’s left of our energy. ichiran succeeded our expectations: a rich and hearty broth, starchy al dente noodles, and a serving of tender chashu pork were all we could ever need at that moment in time. and i was happy to discover that it isn’t expensive as well (clearly, i did not do any iota of research before this trip). we went back to ueno park to see the cherry blossoms once again and were pleasantly surprised to see that the small fair had started, and we were successful in the search for tanghulu!

april 4, we had quite a bit of time since our flight leaves at past 7pm, so luntian and i were happy to finally do something we’ve prioritized but didn’t have time to do on the early days of this trip: visit museums! it was a good thing that the tokyo met was just inside ueno park. we went there and looked at the free exhibits but again, we made another surprise discovery: the worcester art museum happened to be touring and they brought the original water lilies by claude monet. at first we brushed it off because it was a paid entrance, and we just roamed around the free calligraphy exhibit. but after a while, we were convinced that this was a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see a monet painting in the flesh. what were the odds that they toured during our trip, too! so we threw caution to the wind and raced to the ticket booth. not only did we catch water lilies by monet, but we also saw original pieces by cezanne, metcalf, and pissarro. i felt as pretentious and as genuine of an art hoe all at once.

the walk back to the hotel was accompanied by the view of cherry blossoms during daytime. i think it was the first time in our trip to have come close to cherry blossoms in full bloom during the day, something that i probably need to have more appreciation of. it’s actually luntian who keeps on looking for parks where they are in full bloom to take pictures of whereas i would be happy enough to just sit on a bench and read a book. we walked around ameyoko in ueno as the last destination for our trip. it was the only place we were able to find souvenir magnets. everything else was expensive in ameyoko though, so we didn’t buy anything else than the magnets that our friends and parents wanted.

the trip back home went without a fuss except for the long line at the check-in counters. i must note that only the philippine flight was not allowed self check-ins in at the airport, so the wait was really a long one. i left luntian for a bit to continue a personal traveling tradition—buying books at airports/other country’s bookstores. i bought sayaka murata’s life ceremony, which, little did i know, happened to be what luntian was reading on her kindle. we were equally surprised by this serendipitous turn of events.

we knew we were home because the first thing that greeted us was the april heat in manila. the moment we landed, we took our jackets off while promising ourselves we would keep coming back to japan (hopefully with our families next time!).

[memoriofagoldfish]

On this day, one year ago...

Today was a Stardom show! One I had really looked forward to. It was honestly the only reason I travelled as far across the country as Kagoshima. The Utami homecoming show 🥰

First, I had to get there. And oh boy, was it a trial. I had to figure out the tram system, which went about as well as it did in Hiroshima no doubt 😂 That was a half an hour walk away as is. Then, I walked to this industrial park near the ferry terminal (yes, I was going by ferry, the show was on the dag nam volcano island) and got myself a lil McDonald’s lunch. After that, it was buying a ticket for and then figuring out the ferry. This thing literally goes to one destination and yet, knowing me, I’d still find a way to get lost.

After I got to the Sakurajima island, I had a pit stop in a Lawson for another mini lunch, just to kill some time before I got to the arena.

When I finally got inside, I had very good seats, but my dumbass sat in the wrong place cos I didn’t understand the East/West symbols, so someone had to politely ask me to move 😭 Then, my earring fell out and rolled right next to Rossy 😭 Thankfully no-one saw it.

Everyone got handed out these Utami homecoming signs. I missed the first round cos I was in the bathroom 🥲 and thought I’d missed my chance. Fortunately, they came back around and I got one!

The rest of this post is just gonna be a Stardom photodump. I didn’t take many photos during other shows I went to, as everyone just sits there with there cameras out, and I really don’t like that. You’re there to enjoy the show, so enjoy the show! Western wrestling crowds are FAR better. But for this one, I allowed myself to indulge, and oh boi, did I 😅

I took over 600 photos 😐 Here are some of my favourites… XD

After the show, back on the mainland, I went to a place called Jolly Pasta for dinner 😅 But I did see this on the lamp post outside while I was waiting for a taxi...

Always great to see Stardom in the wild :D

But yeah, I had to take a taxi as I really was out in the sticks, and it was dark by this time, so trying to figure out the busses and then walking for half an hour... I'd rather not 😅

2023/05/06

[danieldrivesfast]

They literally said that he taught them how to be a team and improved their outlook/attitude. Like, multiple people said that, including Yuki. It's not a feeling, OP. It's fact. You're absolutely correct.

Do they expect that bitch attitude, wrecking "teammates," flipping people off, egomaniacal, rancid McDonald's deep fryer Lawson to keep that up? Good luck.

All this “family infighting” I feel like Daniel was the glue holding them together and now that he’s gone, it’s all falling apart.

[hallmark-movie-fanatics]

ISABEL HAS TO ANSWER TO THE ENTIRE TOWN IN AN ALL-NEW EPISODE OF ‘RIDE’ PREMIERING MAY 7, ON HALLMARK CHANNEL

STUDIO CITY, CA – May 1, 2023 – Isabel (Nancy Travis, “Last Man Standing”) has to answer to the town in “Ride or Die” this week’s all-new episode of “Ride” premiering Sunday, May 7 (9 p.m. ET/PT), on Hallmark Channel. Travis, Tiera Skovbye (“Riverdale”), Beau Mirchoff (“Good Trouble”), Sara Garcia (“The Flash”), Jake Foy (“Designated Survivor”) and Tyler Jacob Moore (“Shameless”) star.

After successfully selling the Booker family on investing in a stadium in Canyon, Isabel and Hank (Greg Lawson, “Wynonna Earp”) learn about rumblings around town that could shut it down before it gets started. They decide to use an event at Ranchman’s to alleviate the community’s concerns – but Isabel finds herself questioning her new partner’s motives. After riding through his injury and continuing to take risks, Cash (Mirchoff) goes to the doctor and gets some unwelcome news. This puts him on the outs with Missy (Skovbye), who is doubting her abilities as his coach. Frustrated with Cash and spiraling from her recent discoveries about Austin (Marcus Rosner, “Arrow”), Missy accepts an offer from Frontier Jeans to judge their pageant in Denver. Being there, Missy reflects on her time on the pageant circuit and takes a new step in her burgeoning romance with Gus (Moore). But the truth about Austin threatens to emerge and change everything.

Ride” is a Blink49 Studios/Seven24 Films Production. Executive producers are Rebecca Boss, Chris Masi, Sherri Cooper, Alexandra Zarowny, Paolo Barzman, Greg Gugliotta, FJ Denny, John Morayniss, Carolyn Newman, Virginia Rankin, Elana Barry, Josh Adler, Jordy Randall and Tom Cox. Mark Haroun and Alejandro Alcoba are co-executive producers. The series is produced by Brian Dennis. Lesley Grant is supervising producer. Bruce McDonald directed from a script by Sherri Cooper & Jennifer Levin.

[morbidology]

On the afternoon of the 1st of August, 2019, a 911 call came in to police in Baltimore, Maryland, from 40-year-old Shatika Lawson. She reported that her wife’s son, four-year-old Malachi Lawson, had disappeared from outside his grandmother’s home. She said that at about 3:22PM, Malachi had walked away from the front porch of his grandmother’s home in the 4500 block of Rogers Avenue in Northwest Baltimore. He was wearing a white tank top, khaki shorts, and black flip flops.

Malachi Lawson, born in 2015 to Alicia Lawson and a former boyfriend, faced unique challenges as a nonverbal child with developmental disabilities. Alicia, a graduate of Frederick Douglass High School, immediately entered the workforce, securing a job at McDonald’s to support herself and her young son. Soon after Malachi’s birth, Alicia formed a relationship with Shatika, who quickly became a second mother figure in Malachi’s life.

Melissa Johnson, Malachi’s aunt, fondly recalled his infectious smile, noting that he had a remarkable ability to uplift those around him. According to Melissa, whenever the animated series Paw Patrol aired on television, Malachi’s imagination soared, and he would enthusiastically pretend to transform into one of his favourite characters.

Despite Malachi’s cheerful demeanor, his domestic life was tumultuous, leading to his removal from the care of Alicia and Shatika in 2016. Placed into foster care, he found solace and guidance under the compassionate care of Jill Jackson. When he first came into Jil’s care, she said that he was “very frightened, very timid, very scared, very shaky” but as time went on, he developed into a happy little boy who enjoyed playing with her other children. Jil recalled how Malachi was one of the sweetest babies that she had ever fostered, and that she had loved him as if he were her own son. She commented: “He would sit on my bed and just play with his fingers.”

However, after spending less than a year with Jill, she received a phone call informing her that Malachi would be returned to Alicia, and Shatika. Then, on August 1, 2019, he was reported missing....

𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞:

[chuck-snowbug]

走っている途中にお腹が空いて食べたもの八景・その８６ - Foods I Ate During Running Part 86

1: Nikuman(Steamed Meat Buns) of "Lu-Gang" - June 2024

2: Onigiri of "Lawson" at Kamagaya-Chuo - June 2024

3: Onigiri of "Lawson" at Sengawa-Ekimae - June 2024

4: Beef Bulgogi Kimbap of "Lawson" at Tobitakyu-Eki-Minamiguchi - June 2024

5: Onigiri of "Seven Eleven" at Hachimanyama-Eki-Minamiguchi - July 2024

6: Onigiri of "FamilyMart" at Nakano-Nabeya-Yokocho - August 2024

7: Egg Cheeseburger of “McDonald’s” at Kudanshita - August 2024

8; Onigiri of "FamilyMart" at Chitosedai-Yonchome - September 2024

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[bitchinbarzal]

Who is Lawson McDonald? Is he a hockey player

Have I ever talked about Lawsy?

Lawson is one of the players that make up the hockey guys - this is their TikTok

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Hugh Guthrie To Prosecute," Border Cities Star. February 27, 1930. Page 5.

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Case of Leo Hebert To Come Up for Retrial Next Week

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Hon. Hugh Guthrie, K.C.,will prosecute in the retrial of Leo Hebert, at the Spring Assizes of the Supreme Court at Sandwich opening on Monday. Hebert was previously convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary and lashes on an assault charge.

TO PRESIDE

Mr. Justice W. H. Wright will preside, and A. R. Douglas, of London, will act for the Crown in the other criminal cases. These are a charge of criminal negligence preferred against Joseph Dangelais, of Buffalo, following an accident last fall, when two teachers were struck by his car while hurrying to attend the ceremonies at the opening of the new Kennedy Collegiate, when Their Excellencies, Lord and Lady Willingdon, were the guests; and a perjury charge against William McMullen, following a real estate transaction.

Hebert, whose case has aroused wide interest, was successful in appealing his conviction at the last sitting of the court, on the grounds that he was convicted and sentenced on two charges which are contradictory to one another. Hon. Mr. Guthrie prosecuted at the last trial.

CIVIL CASES

In addition to the criminal cases, eight civil jury cases and 44 civil non-jury cases are listed for trial before Mr. Justice Wright. The civil Jury cases are: Harnett vs. McGee: Campeau vs. Miller; Gourlay vs. McDonald; McAuliffe vs. Hubbell; Monforton vs. Murphy: Bexton 18. Davis; Desjardins vs. Bopp, and McKenzle va. Hydro.

About 25 of the 44 non-jury cases were adjourned to the March assizes from the January sittings of Supreme Court. The complete non-jury list follows:

Meretsky vs. Meretsky: Cardogan va Whitley: Meloche vs. Dougall; Imperial vs Heaton: Bt. Louis vs. Cada: Robinet vs. Lapointe; Greenberg vs. Green- berg: Boland vs. Riverside: Nichols vs. Orechkin Auckland vs. Addison; Roman Catholic vs. Chappus; Roman Catholic vs. Kinsey-Doyle: Kennedy vs. Kearns: Muxlow va. McEwan; Lauzon vs. Racine: Keys va. Conrady: Douglas vs: Marentette: Ryan vs. Clancy: DeBeauclaire vs. Clayton; Jasperson vs. Royal Bank: Vigneux vs. Sheppard; Gignac vs. Metropolitan; Larsen vs. Shaw: Green vs. Norry: Clay vs. Clay: Bissell Vs. Rochester; Smith vs. Cooke: MacInnes vs. White: Frederick vs.White; Regent vs. McArthur: Trusts vs. Jones: Ker vs. Davies; Hurst vs. Mersea; Beacom vs. Montreal; Bernstein vs. Liddy: Trusts vs. Steiger: Trusts vs Turnbull; Trusts vs. Franzblau; Bayley vs. Trusts; Lawson vs. Patten; Oranite vs. West: Trempler vs. Johnston; Pilchta vs. Reading: Chappus vs. Schneider.