#m. v. carey

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Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators - 20.

1984 UK paperback edition of Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators: The Mystery of Monster Mountain. Originally published in 1974. This was probably the last Three Investigators book I bought as I was so angry that they changed the trade dress. Absolutely livid. To be honest I don't remember ever seeing it 'in the wild' in the previous trade dress that ran from around 1980-1984. It was either very hard to find or was never published in that format as I can't find any pictures online.

Written by M. V. Carey (Mary Victoria Carey, 1925-1994) and based on characters created by Robert Arthur (1909-1969). I don't know who the cover artist is on this one.

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(046) Die drei ??? und der schrullige Millionär

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Als bei der Verlobung seiner Tochter ein Teller zu Boden fällt, erleidet der geizige Millionär Pilcher einen Herzanfall. Er scheint dem Tode nahe, doch dann ist er plötzlich verschwunden. Wurde er entführt? Die drei Detektive versuchen, das Rätsel zu lösen, und Justus fordert seine Kollegen zum logischen Denken auf ...  

Veröffentlichungshistorie Buch (Random House): 043, 1987, M. V. Carey, The Mystery of the Cranky Collector Buch (Kosmos): 045, 1989, Leonore Puschert (aus dem Amerikanischen übertragen) Hörspiel (Europa): 046, 1989

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Handlungsort

Rocky Beach

Kategorie

Betrug

Figuren

Justus Jonas

Peter Shaw

Bob Andrews

Harry Burnside, Partyausruchter / Caterer

Mr. Pilcher, Millionär

Marilyn Pilcher, Tochter von Mr. Pilcher

Raymond "Ray" Sanchez / Luis Estava, Privatsekretär von Mr. Pilcher

Harold Durham, Anwalt von Mr. Pilcher

Mrs. Durham

Jim Westerbrook, Verlobter von Marilyn

Mrs. Westerbrook, Mutter von Jim

Dr. Barrister, Profressor für Anthropologie (keine Sprechrolle)

Dr. Edouard Gonzaga, Sprachwissenschaftler

Ramon / Navarro, arbeitet bei Mr. Burnside (😈)

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Orte

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Einrichtungen

Schrottplatz

Zentrale

Stadtbibliothek

Central Coast Marine Corporation, Yachthafen und Trockendock

Uni in San Fernando

Sonstiges

George Estava, wurde von mr. Pilcher geschäftlich ruiniert und ist der Vater von Luis Estava / Raymond Sanchez

Sogamoso, Stadt in Kolumbien, Südamerika, mit etwa 50.000 Einwohnern

Tränen der Götter, Begriff der südamerikanischen Natives für "Smaragde"

Mujer Vieja, heißt "Alte Frau" auf Spanisch und ist ein Berg in der Nähe von Sogamoso

Bonnie Betsy, Jacht von Mr. Pilcher

Enrique Jiminez, auch der Blutige Bischof, da er vor rund 400 Jahren die Natives für Mienenarbeit ausgebeutet hat, wandelte sich aber später zum Menschenrechtler.

🛼 Sonstiges

Lustige Dialoge

Mr. Durham: "Und eine Menge Leute wären sicher nicht traurig, wenn es ihn erwischt hätte. Er hat ja recht rücksichtslos geholzt. Mrs. Durham: "Harald, nun reicht es wirklich." Bob: "Was für nette Leute."

*Telefon klingelt* Peter: "Der Erpresser!"

Justus: "Nein. Es tut nur weh, dass der Kerl entkommen ist." Marilyn: "Ach ihr seid wirklich großartige Detektive. Wo andere einen Revolver brauchen, genügt bei euch eine Taschenlampe."

Sanchez: "Hm, versuchen wir mal 'Ausgetrickst' ... Nein, auch nicht." Marilyn: "Sie sind eine Dreckschleuder, Ray."

Bob: "Freunde! Bitte keine Beifallsstürme, ich habe Sogamoso gefunden."

Justus: "Das sagt mir mein logisch analytischer Verstand." Peter: "Kannst du nicht mal ganz normal reden? So, dass ich es auch kapiere?"

Sanchez: "Wenn Ramon einen Ballermann hat, sehen wir alt aus."

Justus: "Weg! Schnell weg! Ramon hat einen Baseballschläger! Damit kann er uns erschlagen!"

Phrasenschwein

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🏳️‍🌈 Queer/diversity read

Shippy moments

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Diversity, Political Correctness and Feminism

Mr. Sanchez hat einen fragwürdigen Akzent ...

"Ach ja. Ramon ist der Mann, der das Geschirr gespült hat, richtig. So ein südländischer Typ."

Mr. Burnside: "Wenn ich noch mehr zunehme, dann läuft mir meine Freundin weg." Justus: "Komisch. So was Ähnliches sagte Tante Mathilda auch immer zu mir. Aber das meinte sie wohl nicht ernst."

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Die drei ??? und der schreiende Zug

Die drei ??? und der schreiende Zug

Was soll ich sagen? Heute hat die Post endlich das langersehnte „und der schreiende Zug“ Buch gebracht! Wie vermutlich fast alle im Fandom hat das Rätsel um „Ghost train“ mich seit Jahren beschäftigt und ich musste das Buch sofort vorbestellen, als ich erfahren habe, dass das Manuskript gefunden wurde und bei uns veröffentlicht wird! M.V. Carey gehört seit je her zu meinen Lieblingen (irgendwann lese ich die Bücher von ihr auch im Original, aber noch ist mir keins begegnet. Jetzt gings also zurück und damit auf direktem Weg zurück in die Klassiker! Und das merkt man sofort- irgendwie sind Justus, Peter und Bob eben doch noch jünger und anders… Super aufregend und etwas sehr besonderes als Erwachsene nochmal in die Klassiker zurückzukehren und einen Fall zum ersten Mal zu erleben- ohne die Nostalgie, die den Fall überzieht aber dennoch begleitet von den Kindheitsgefühlen. Tatsächlich ist es auf den ersten Seiten schon direkt ein Heimkommen. Ich hab das Buch aufgeschlagen nach dem Motto „nur kurz 5 Seitenreinlesen“. Was soll ich sagen, ich habs am Stück verschlungen. Stadt aus Gold und dreiäugiger Schakal liegen hier seit Wochen und irgendwie komm ich nicht weiter. Aber „schreiender Zug“? Instant. Werde ich heute Abend auch nochmal lesen.

Ein paar Highlights meinerseits (Achtung! Spoiler!) Mr. Norwood lächelte. „Marie, du warst sehr unhöflich. Vielen Dank dafür.“ Peter interessiert sich für Autos- hier wird ein bisschen Grundstein gelegt für Peters späteres Interesse an motorisiertem Fahrzeug, was in den neuen Geschichten nicht mehr so oft vorkommt.

Es beginnt mit einer ultra deutschen Szene. Bobs Onkel ist Viehzüchter in Arizona und hat ihm einen schicken schwarzen Hut mit silbernem Hutband geschenkt! Die Jungs brauchen Westernoutfits. Bob wird von einem Baby angekotzt. Peter macht einen der Bösen dingfest indem er ein Bein stellt. Justus setzt dann drauf.

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justus & allie sind eig schon fast charakter foils… ich muss mir singende schlange und silbermine nochmal in ruhe durchlesen

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As Poppy's unconscious form hit the dirt, warm drops of rain began to speckle the earth. Rain is a common side effect of giant fresh rips in reality- which are, to be fair, a much more uncommon occurrence.

The larger the rip, the larger the storm, the more lag is created- knowledge that incidentally only a select few held close. So, to any random townie, it would seem that the warm, hazy drops of rain, while odd for the height of summer, were not that out of the ordinary at all.

And while Vera's own reality had stopped feeling like it was about to crush her at any second, there was still one more loose end to her story that Dani and Amelia were trying to help me tie up.

Dani: Really, rain? Now? Amelia: Weirder things have happened babe. Vera: Possibly today, even.

Amelia: So Vera. This M- 𝘶𝘩𝘩 Name? Vera: Classified. Sorry. Amelia: Alright then, this person- you like them?

Vera: Enough to have written it into a song that rhymes 'your hair' with 'I care.'

Dani: 𝙊𝙤𝙛. Vera: Yeah, I'm not proud of it.

Dani: And they like you? Vera: Well last night I thought they might but then I made it weird. Amelia: Well, what did you say? Vera: That's just it - 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸!

Everything was going great, and then BOOM it wasn't. It's like my mouth can only say wrong things. 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘮𝘢 𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭.

Amelia: Okay then, well whats your best skill? Vera: Hand to Hand Combat, Gymnastics, Explosives Defusal. Amelia: Then just do that! Vera: You want me to punch them out while I defuse a bomb? Amelia: No- no. I mean like shut up! Vera: 𝘚𝘩𝘶𝘵 𝘶𝘱?

Amelia: If all your skill points are in the physical, then you just need to play to your strengths. Say what you mean without saying anything at all! Vera: 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸… Dani: Yeah, this could totally work- !

Dani: Like just grab them- Amelia: 𝘚𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘺- Dani: Consensually- Amelia: And tell them how you feel- Dani: 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩- Amelia: But not with words.

Vera: Like Charades? Dani: But sexier. Vera: I mean its worth a shot I guess. Dani: 𝘚𝘶𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘎𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘥.

Amelia: C'mon V, I’ll give you a ride back to the old Carey Ranch before this rain gets any worse. Vera: Thanks for your help today Dani. Dani: No problem, but next time buy something okay?

Thank you again @fallincloversims for letting me feature your babies this arc!!

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Discharge Petition for H.R. 7152, the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Record Group 233: Records of the U.S. House of RepresentativesSeries: General Records

This item, H.R. 7152, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, faced strong opposition in the House Rules Committee. Howard Smith, Chairman of the committee, refused to schedule hearings for the bill. Emanuel Celler, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, attempted to use this discharge petition to move the bill out of committee without holding hearings. The petition failed to gain the required majority of Congress (218 signatures), but forced Chairman Smith to schedule hearings.

88th CONGRESS. House of Representatives No. 5 Motion to Discharge a Committee from the Consideration of a RESOLUTION (State whether bill, joint resolution, or resolution) December 9, 1963 To the Clerk of the House of Representatives: Pursuant to Clause 4 of Rule XXVII (see rule on page 7), I EMANUEL CELLER (Name of Member), move to discharge to the Commitee on RULES (Committee) from the consideration of the RESOLUTION; H. Res. 574 entitled, a RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF THE BILL (H. R. 7152) which was referred to said committee November 27, 1963 in support of which motion the undersigned Members of the House of Representatives affix their signatures, to wit: 1. Emanuel Celler 2. John J. Rooney 3. Seymour Halpern 4. James G Fulton 5. Thomas W Pelly 6. Robt N. C. Nix 7. Jeffery Cohelan 8. W A Barrett 9. William S. Mailiard 10. 11. Augustus F. Hawkins 12. Otis G. Pike 13. Benjamin S Rosenthal 14. Spark M Matsunaga 15. Frank M. Clark 16. William L Dawson 17. Melvin Price 18. John C. Kluczynski 19. Barratt O'Hara 20. George E. Shipley 21. Dan Rostenkowski 22. Ralph J. Rivers[page] 2 23. Everett G. Burkhalter 24. Robert L. Leggett 25. William L St Onge 26. Edward P. Boland 27. Winfield K. Denton 28. David J. Flood 29. 30. Lucian N. Nedzi 31. James Roosevelt 32. Henry C Reuss 33. Charles S. Joelson 34. Samuel N. Friedel 35. George M. Rhodes 36. William F. Ryan 37. Clarence D. Long 38. Charles C. Diggs Jr 39. Morris K. Udall 40. Wm J. Randall 41. 42. Donald M. Fraser 43. Joseph G. Minish 44. Edith Green 45. Neil Staebler 46. 47. Ralph R. Harding 48. Frank M. Karsten 49. 50. John H. Dent 51. John Brademas 52. John E. Moss 53. Jacob H. Gilbert 54. Leonor K. Sullivan 55. John F. Shelley 56. 57. Lionel Van Deerlin 58. Carlton R. Sickles 59. 60. Edward R. Finnegan 61. Julia Butler Hansen 62. Richard Bolling 63. Ken Heckler 64. Herman Toll 65. Ray J Madden 66. J Edward Roush 67. James A. Burke 68. Frank C. Osmers Jr 69. Adam Powell 70. 71. Fred Schwengel 72. Philip J. Philiben 73. Byron G. Rogers 74. John F. Baldwin 75. Joseph Karth 76. 77. Roland V. Libonati 78. John V. Lindsay 79. Stanley R. Tupper 80. Joseph M. McDade 81. Wm Broomfield 82. 83. 84. Robert J Corbett 85. 86. Craig Hosmer87. Robert N. Giaimo 88. Claude Pepper 89. William T Murphy 90. George H. Fallon 91. Hugh L. Carey 92. Robert T. Secrest 93. Harley O. Staggers 94. Thor C. Tollefson 95. Edward J. Patten 96. 97. Al Ullman 98. Bernard F. Grabowski 99. John A. Blatnik 100. 101. Florence P. Dwyer 102. Thomas L. ? 103. 104. Peter W. Rodino 105. Milton W. Glenn 106. Harlan Hagen 107. James A. Byrne 108. John M. Murphy 109. Henry B. Gonzalez 110. Arnold Olson 111. Harold D Donahue 112. Kenneth J. Gray 113. James C. Healey 114. Michael A Feighan 115. Thomas R. O'Neill 116. Alphonzo Bell 117. George M. Wallhauser 118. Richard S. Schweiker 119. 120. Albert Thomas 121. 122. Graham Purcell 123. Homer Thornberry 124. 125. Leo W. O'Brien 126. Thomas E. Morgan 127. Joseph M. Montoya 128. Leonard Farbstein 129. John S. Monagan 130. Brad Morse 131. Neil Smith 132. Harry R. Sheppard 133. Don Edwards 134. James G. O'Hara 135. 136. Fred B. Rooney 137. George E. Brown Jr. 138. 139. Edward R. Roybal 140. Harris. B McDowell jr. 141. Torbert H. McDonall 142. Edward A. Garmatz 143. Richard E. Lankford 144. Richard Fulton 145. Elizabeth Kee 146. James J. Delaney 147. Frank Thompson Jr 148. 149. Lester R. Johnson 150. Charles A. Buckley4 151. Richard T. Hanna 152. James Corman 153. Paul A Fino 154. Harold M. Ryan 155. Martha W. Griffiths 156. Adam E. Konski 157. Chas W. Wilson 158. Michael J. Kewan 160. Alex Brooks 161. Clark W. Thompson 162. John D. Gringell [?] 163. Thomas P. Gill 164. Edna F. Kelly 165. Eugene J. Keogh 166 John. B. Duncan 167. Elmer J. Dolland 168. Joe Caul 169. Arnold Olsen 170. Monte B. Fascell [?] 171. [not deciphered] 172. J. Dulek 173. Joe W. [undeciphered] 174. J. J. Pickle [Numbers 175 through 214 are blank]

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Hippocampus and striatum show distinct contributions to longitudinal changes in value-based learning in middle childhood. Falck, J., Zhang, L., Raffington, L., Mohn, J. J., Triesch, J., Heim, C., & Shing, Y. L. (2024). eLife, 12, e89483.3.

Acquisition of non-olfactory encoding improves odour discrimination in olfactory cortex. Federman, N., Romano, S. A., Amigo-Duran, M., Salomon, L., & Marin-Burgin, A. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 5572.

Neurofeedback training can modulate task-relevant memory replay rate in rats. Gillespie, A. K., Astudillo Maya, D., Denovellis, E. L., Desse, S., & Frank, L. M. (2024). eLife, 12, e90944.3.

GABAergic synaptic scaling is triggered by changes in spiking activity rather than AMPA receptor activation. Gonzalez-Islas, C., Sabra, Z., Fong, M., Yilmam, P., Au Yong, N., Engisch, K., & Wenner, P. (2024). eLife, 12, e87753.3.

Shifts in attention drive context-dependent subspace encoding in anterior cingulate cortex in mice during decision making. Hajnal, M. A., Tran, D., Szabó, Z., Albert, A., Safaryan, K., Einstein, M., … Orbán, G. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 5559.

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Bats integrate multiple echolocation and flight tactics to track prey. Nishiumi, N., Fujioka, E., & Hiryu, S. (2024). Current Biology, 34(13), 2948-2956.e6.

Limb-related sensory prediction errors and task-related performance errors facilitate human sensorimotor learning through separate mechanisms. Oza, A., Kumar, A., Sharma, A., & Mutha, P. K. (2024). PLOS Biology, 22(7), e3002703.

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Prefrontal cortical ripples mediate top-down suppression of hippocampal reactivation during sleep memory consolidation. Shin, J. D., & Jadhav, S. P. (2024). Current Biology, 34(13), 2801-2811.e9.

Preferences reveal dissociable encoding across prefrontal-limbic circuits. Stoll, F. M., & Rudebeck, P. H. (2024). Neuron, 112(13), 2241-2256.e8.

Atypical local and global biological motion perception in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Tian, J., Yang, F., Wang, Y., Wang, L., Wang, N., Jiang, Y., & Yang, L. (2024). eLife, 12, e90313.5.

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do you have any book recommendations? nonfiction or fiction. i'd love to hear what you've enjoyed reading!

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Books!!! I love them!!!

Uhh

I'm always a big fan of science fiction! (loong so. under the cut)

I mean. There's always Star Wars, if you're into it. Best of those would be the three Thrawn trilogies (yes three trilogies) by Timothy Zahn. The old one (Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, The Last Command) is literally sequels to the original movies, and they were canon (and awesome) before Disney did their shit. They are very good.

Adrian Tchaikovsky is a fantastic author! His Shards of Earth trilogy and Children of Time trilogy are some of the best scifi I've read! Completely different vibes though, but both are really good!

Uhh... If you want existential dread forever, read The Three-Body Problem trilogy. If you've ever heard of the Dark Forest solution to the Fermi paradox, these books are where it came from. (Or popularised/named it? idk.) They're also pretty good.

Everything by Becky Chambers. Wayfarers tetralogy, Monk and Robot duology, To Be Taught If Fortunate, all really good vibes. LGBTR (Little Gay Books To Read)

the Red Rising series by Pierce Brown.

The Locked Tomb trilogy by Tamsyn Muir! Wow! These are really good. Lesbian necromancers in space, and it makes sense. The narrators don't tell you anything either, because in book 1 the narrator doesn't know jack shit, in book 2 the 'narrator' gave herself a lobotomy, and the narrator in book 3 is six months old.

the MaddAddam trilogy by Margaret Atwood. Post-apocalyptic, but the pre-apocalypse was also a capitalism hellscape, so you don't feel too bad.

the Lilith's Brood trilogy by Octavia Butler is some of the BEST aliens scifi I've read holy shit. Seriously, read this.

The Book of Koli trilogy by M. R. Carey! 300 years after an environmental/war apocalypse. Written language has been forgotten, the bioengineered trees have further evolved to walk around and hunt humans (among other things), and the leaders of the remaining groups of humans have whatever top-of-the-line, self-repairing, and self-refilling infantry weapons from the war to use on each other.

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (two books out, dunno if there'll be a third). Ever wondered about a poetry-based interstellar empire? And what if it were gay?

The Andy Weir books. The Martian, Artemis, Project Hail Mary, those are good.

If you're more into YA scifi, then the Lunar Chronicles tetralogy and Renegades trilogy by Marissa Meyer are both fantastic, and the Aurora Rising and Illuminae Files trilogies by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (collabs) are amazing!

Fantasy is also good! But I don't find myself reading very much of it.

First off: Discworld. I read 25 of 41 over the summer, and they are GOOD. https://www.discworldemporium.com/reading-order/

All of the Greishaverse stuff by Leigh Bardugo is pretty good, but the Six of Crows duology is really amazing.

The Cruel Prince trilogy by Holly Black! If you like fae stuff, but also urban fantasy and romance. Good books!

A Darker Shade of Magic trilogy by V. E. Schwab, those are good! There's also a sequel series coming out atm.

OMG how can I forget the N. K. Jemisin books?? The Broken Earth trilogy is FANTASTIC. What if the Earth hated everyone and there were geology witches that are actually pretty awesome but everyone hates them? The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms trilogy is also really good. What if the gods were actually omnipotent, but sort of hated each other? And the Great Cities duology! What if New York City was a person (six people)?

As for less scifi-fantasy, I've read and really enjoyed:

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, a retelling of David Copperfield, this time with the main character living/growing up in rural Appalachia during the opioid epidemic. Really, really good.

All of the Alice Oseman books of course.

One Two Three by Laurie Frankel

Webcomics! These were really fun and they're still ongoing! My favs are:

Questionable Content (yes, you can start at 2104). Just a bunch of young adults in Massachusetts doing random shit with varying degrees of gayness, eventually the singularity happens and there are robots (they're gay too)

Dumbing of Age Really, really good college story. Fundie girl goes to college and learns about how the world actually works, varying amounts of gayness, horrible very bad parents, and three dramatic character deaths by the end of the first semester.

Gunnerkrigg Court weird scifi fantasy stuff going on all the time, big mysteries, omnipotent trickster god. The art style improves a LOT.

Web serials (if you want to be consumed by a piece of literature that's easily over a dozen normal books in length)

Worm. 1.6 million words. This consumed me from July to September. Good god. Some of the very best superheroes and superpowers, like, ever, beautiful fight scenes, and conflict escalation that does. not. stop. The poor characters never get a break between crises and catastrophes. But by Scion it is one of the best things I've ever read. Don't look up anything about it, the spoilers are insane. And there's a sequel that's even longer.

Uh.. I've started Katalepsis

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Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators - 27.

1982 UK Armada paperback edition of Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators: The Mystery of the Magic Circle.

Written by M.V. Carey (Mary Victoria Carey, 1925-1994) and based on characters created by Robert Arthur (1909-1969). Cover by Peter Archer (1933-2018).

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(043) Die drei ??? und der höllische Werwolf

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Ein Werwolf macht Hollywood unsicher. Er verübt Überfall auf Überfall – und dabei geht es ihm nur um kleine Teddybären. Justus, Bob und Peter machen einen seltsamen Fund am Strand und kommen so auf die Spur des Verbrechers. Sie haben ihr vielleicht gefährlichstes Abenteuer zu bestehen …

Veröffentlichungshistorie Buch (Random House): 041, 1985, M. V. Carey, The Mystery of the Creep-Show Crooks Buch (Kosmos): 042, 1988, Leonore Puschert (aus dem Amerikanischen übertragen) Hörspiel (Europa): 043, 1988

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Pizza Shack, Restaurant an der Küstenstraße von Rocky Beach

Rocky Beach Hotel

R. J. Importers, Großhändler

Sonstiges

»Dracula, mon amour«, ein Film der noch produziert werden soll

Cecil B. De Mille, Regisseur, Produzent und Schauspieler

🛼 Sonstiges

Lustige Dialoge

Justus: "Lass mal sehen, was alles drin ist, Bob." Bob: "Ja, ein ganzes Sortiment Kosmetika. Allein vier Lippenstifte." Justus: "So klein kann die Kleine also nicht sein." Peter: "Ja ja, immerhin schmust sie noch mit Teddybären."

Bob: "Das ist vielleicht eine Schlampe."

Justus: "Hm, aber mal angenommen es wäre etwas in dem Teddybär versteckt?" Bob: "Mann, du hast recht, Just. Das ist es! Schmuck! Schmuck oder Rauschgift."

Peter: "Justus, willst du einsteigen?" Justus: "Nein, auf keinen Fall. Aber wenn das Fenster auf ist, können wir was sehen." Peter: "Warte, ich helf dir." Justus: "Nein! Ah! Haltet mich!" *fällt* [...] Bob: "Komm zurück, schnell!" Justus: "Jetzt bin ich hier. Jetzt seh' ich mich um."

Phrasenschwein

Den schnapp ich mir! Peter schnappt den Bösen … nicht

Fat shaming Justus wird beleidigt

Breaking the Law! Justus bricht das Gesetzt. (mehr oder weniger: Er fällt durch's Fenster und wo er schonmal da ist schaut er sich auch um ...)

🏳️‍🌈 Queer/diversity read

Shippy moments

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Diversity, Political Correctness and Feminism

McLain: "Henry und ich führen ein recht ländliches Dasein. Wir wohnen in den Bergen, ziemlich abgelegen. Das Haus hat früher Cecile B. DeMille gehört. Stellen sie sich vor, morgens weckt uns das Blöken der Schafe. Telefon haben wir da oben nicht, aber meine Sekretärin kann mich jederzeit verständigen."

[vensulove]

top 5 movies and books <3

ahhh!!! ok hard questions right off the bat ! these are in no specific order

tops five movies:

• bullet train (2022)

• howls moving castle (2004)

• fresh (2022)

• the conjuring (2013)

• the aristocats (1970)

top five books:

• the girl with all the gifts by m. r. carey

• stolen tongues by felix blackwell

•the haunting of alejandra by v. castro

•the stationery shop by marjan kamali

• we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson

[bookquest2024]

100 Books to Read Before I Die: Quest Order

The Lord Of The Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

Under The Net by Iris Murdoch

American Pastoral by Philip Roth

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

A Passage to India by EM Forster

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

1984 by George Orwell

White Noise by Don DeLillo

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Oscar And Lucinda by Peter Carey

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carré

Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Ulysses by James Joyce

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Are You There, God? It’s me, Margaret by Judy Blume

Clarissa by Samuel Richardson

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Herzog by Saul Bellow

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes

A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul

A Dance to The Music of Time by Anthony Powell

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

Nostromo by Joseph Conrad

The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White

Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Little Women by Louisa M Alcott

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth

Watchmen by Alan Moore

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

The Trial by Franz Kafka

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Money by Martin Amis

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

[y88smi]

Mariah Carey - Boy (I Need You) M/V

[dustedmagazine]

V/A — Red Hot and Ra: Nuclear War LP (Red Hot)

Since its origins in 1989, the Red Hot Organization has created benefit compilations, enlisting famous performers, usually from the pop ranks, to sing standards from the Great American Songbook. Red Hot and Ra: Nuclear War LP has a different brief. Free jazz and adjacent artists use Sun Ra’s iconic riff on “Nuclear War” (“It’s a m—er f—er, don’t you know, If you push that button your a– gonna go!”) to engage politically and urge de-escalation.

Sun Ra was living near the Three Mile Island disaster site, and this is what spurred him to write “Nuclear War” in 1981. Those of us who came of age during or after the end of the Cold War thought that the fear of mutually assured destruction might be able to be successfully contained; even, eventually, abolished. As the recent invasion of Ukraine by Russia demonstrates, the specter of WMD, and concerns for the security of nuclear power plants, have returned to the forefront of our awareness. 

Georgia Anne Muldrow, joined by trumpeter Josef Leimberg, begins the recording with a blues-inflected song that, while referencing the original, provides additional lyrics and loose-limbed riffing. It is a nice touch that the first track isn’t merely a straight cover of the original. In fact, all of the subsequent artists mine the source material for inspiration, but take the music in expansive, often surprising, directions. 

Angel Bat Dawid contributes a three-movement, half-hour long suite that features her group the Cosmic Ensemble, a small instrumental cohort and a group of backing vocalists (“The Cosmic Choir”). While she also sings and plays keyboard, Dawid’s clarinet playing often takes center stage, with bent notes, sustained passages, and fluent soloing all performed with considerable facility. The Cosmic Choir appears in movements one and three, but it is in movement two, “Nuclear War!,” the most referential to the original, that their full-throated cries first rise to the fore. The final movement, “Kiss your a_ Goodbye”, continues to have the chorus chant unison melodies, only to break into harmony with a bright soprano solo. Dawid is at the piano, playing a soulful riff that urges on both vocalists and instrumentalists. Partway through, the texture returns to a cappella chorus, with one-on-a-part overlapping phrases. The ambience is mournful and ominous to the end, which seems altogether appropriate. 

Malcolm Jiyane’s Tree-O, joined by Grandmaster CAP, performs “We’re Not Buying It.” The lyrics include the title as a call and response refrain, with verses about the oppressive nature of warfare and the dangers of WMD. There is strong support from the rhythm section, but plenty of room is left for Jiyane’s funk-tinged piano soloing and flute from Tubatsi Moloi. 

To conclude the LP, Irreversible Entanglements, one of the best free jazz groups around, perform an extended version of the original. Camae Aweya (Moor Mother) provides intense vocals, saxophonist Keir Neuringer and trumpeter Aquiles Navarro play aggressive, angular solos, bassist Luke Stewart uses bow pressure to create scratchy melodies and drummer Tscheser Holmes supplies polyrhythms and muscular fills.  The piece builds to a gale storm of activity, including trippy electronics, one worthy of the Arkestra yet in its own distinctive orbit. The group pulls back near the close, building up from forceful rhythm section playing to modal melodies in saxophone and trumpet. It seems to be a postcard from the maelstrom with which Irreversible Entanglements send off the music. 

Over the next two years, Red Hot plans to release two more LPs related to Sun Ra. The multiverse awaits. 

Christian Carey

[nepokisses]

im   nayeon.     she / her.     cis   woman.      ›spotted   at   the   met   steps   ,   dasom   ‘summer’   lee   ,   most   likely   listening   to   cozy   by   beyonce   with   their   airpods   pro   .   the  twenty-eight   year   old   gained   quite   a   reputation   ,   known   to   be   -naive   yet   +confident   to   anyone   who   knows   them   .   you'll   easily   spot   them   when   you   hear   about  sweet,   bunny   like   smiles,   the   sound   of   high   heels   clicking   on   marble   floors,   and   pink   diamond   studded   microphones   ,   followed   by  daisy   love   eau   so   sweet   by   marc   jacobs   .   latest   nepoupdates   article   talks   about   latest   the   pop   princess   having   to   postpone   her   upcoming   tour   ,   but   i   guess   any   reputation   is   good   reputation   .   (   tj   ,   21   ,   they / them   ,   est   ,   no triggers   .   )

B A S I C S 

full name: lee dasom. nicknames: summer. gender:  cis woman. pronouns:  she/her. sexuality:  pansexual. age:  28. date of birth:  june 27, 1994. zodiac sign:  cancer. birthplace: manhattan, new york ( lived until age 13 ). current location: manhattan, new york. residence:  she lives in a luxury townhouse on east 64th street. occupation:  former k-pop idol / current singer-songwriter, actress & model. languages spoken: english, korean, japanese, conversational spanish and brazilian portuguese to communicate with south american fans ( one of her largest fanbases ).

A P P E A R A N C E

faceclaim:  im nayeon. height:  5’3. build:  slim. eyes:  brown. hair:  naturally dark brunette, but dyes it different colors, mostly different variations of brown. piercings:  belly button, standard earlobe piercings.  tattoos:  three small hearts behind her ear, cherries on her right ankle, a kiss mark on her right inner wrist, her parents' birthdates in roman numerals on her shoulder, matching tattoo with best friend on left ankle, butterflies going up her spine. other distinguishing features:  gummy smile, bunny teeth. style:  hyper-feminine. likes to wear bright colors, dresses and skirts. can be seen wearing heels the majority of the time, no matter the occasion, mostly due to her short height. 

P E R S O N A L I T Y

traits:  (+) confident, spontaneous, friendly/social, detail-oriented. (-) naive, sensitive, impulsive, anxious.  mental health:  anxiety disorder, depression; medicated for both.  physical health:  good, average. likes:  sweets, playing music loudly and singing along, karaoke, fashion, art, horror movies, amusement parks, dance clubs, smoking marijuana.  dislikes:  arrogance, confrontation, people with no sympathy or empathy for others, stan culture, being babied, being controlled, being manipulated.  fears:  losing her career, the passing of friends or loved ones, the dark.  phobias:  insects, drowning, heights. hobbies:  karaoke, late night drives, drawing, painting. skills:  roller skating, cooking, art, songwriting, singing, dancing, acting, modeling. quirks:  standing on top of things to be taller, subconsciously standing on her toes to be taller, humming under her breath, singing at random times, twirling her hair.

F A V O R I T E S

ice cream flavour:  strawberry.  time of the day / night:  late night / very early morning, between 11pm and 3am.  weather:  fall weather.  breakfast food:  pancakes, bacon, bagels, danishes.  dinner food:  anything seafood, tteokbokki, ramen, beef. colours:  lots of red and pink.  music: mariah carey, beyoncé, britney spears, ailee, taeyeon, bibi, raveena, fka twigs, rihanna, lady gaga, HER, ari lennox, lizzo, zayn, lil nas x. 

M I S C E L A N E O U S

a cherished item:  trinkets gifted to her by loved ones, a picture of her and her parents on a trip to disney when she was 10, a locket given to her by her first significant other, gifts given to her by fans. first love ( celeb crush ):  lenny kravitz usual mood:  upbeat, happy. 1 thing they want to do / experience before they die:  go on a year long vacation with friends and explore the world.  character inspo: blossom ( powerpuff girls ), alice cullen ( twilight saga ), luna lovegood ( harry potter series ), elle woods ( legally blonde ).

B A C K G R O U N D

childhood: dasom was born in manhattan, new york to a record producer father and vocal coach / former broadway star mother, so music has always been apart of her life. she's the eldest of three children, two girls including herself and a younger brother. she spent her childhood in elite private schools and being vocally trained by her own mother. when she reached the age of twelve, she was scouted by a korean music label that wanted her to be a trainee for them. with her parents' support, she moved to south korea at the age of thirteen and started training. while living in seoul, she stayed with her mother's parents until moving into the idol dorms.

adolescence: dasom debuted at the young, ripe age of fifteen; though she wasn't the youngest in her group. despite her young age, she was one of two main vocalists, apart of the group's dance line, and the center/face of the group. her group quickly gained success and notoriety, not just in south korea, but in asia as a whole ( think girls' generation type vibes ), and with their rising popularity, dasom's personal popularity with the general public grew even more. by the time she was seventeen, her face was plastered on billboards in both south korea and japan ( the country with their second largest fanbase ). but with her popularity, came a lot of hate and negativity as well. there's never any good without bad, and she was experiencing that firsthand.

early twenties: her group was at the height of their career, and then it all went to shit when dasom was twenty years old. she went through a pretty rough break up with her first significant other, and in their anger, they leaked nude photos of her to netizens and the scandal took south korea by a storm. she went from being a national sweetheart to public enemy number one. and the worst part about it was that she was being blamed for it, and her ex didn't get nearly as much hate as she did. although they weren't in the public eye as much as her, they were still known because they were apart of an extremely wealthy family. she just assumed that their wealth and family's influence helped them get off scot-free. meanwhile, her career as a k-pop idol was practically ruined. her company dropped her before the group could suffer anymore than it already had, leaving her jobless.

but she was still determined to continue making music, despite being virtually blacklisted in the k-pop industry. she hopped on a plane back to the states and used connections through her parents in order to secure herself a record deal. on her twenty first birthday the following year in 2015, she released her first solo album. that was also the year that she began her acting career. although she doesn't dabble in it too much, it is something that she enjoys doing every so often.

from that point onwards, it seemed as though everything that dasom, now known as summer, touched turned to gold. she was becoming a household name due to her music, and she loved that people seemed to enjoy her so much. however, what she didn't love, was the negativity that came along with it. being the positive, upbeat and slightly naive, woman that she is, it was easy for her to fall into the trap of consuming online comments and allow it to affect her mental health and stability. and while she tries to keep her positive mindset, it does get overwhelming for her at times. more often than not, actually.

currently: now at the age of twenty-eight, she's still making music, acting and apart of the elite world. it's still taking a toll on her mental health wise, but she's been going to therapy and taking medications for her anxiety and depression, which helps keeps her on the right path - most of the time. she has her days where she falls into a slump and doesn't want to face the world. that's when she dives headfirst into her music and pours her all into her art.

C O N N E C T I O N S

friend / relative of her ex that leaked her nudes: self explanatory.

ex ( multiple ): dasom is a lover through and through, so it's not surprising that she's had a few relationships here and there. some lasting longer than others.

fwb ( multiple ): a girl's got needs, and this person never fails to fulfill them whenever she calls on them and vice versa.

inspo: dasom's written songs about / for this person before.

past / future music collaborators: self explanatory.

best friend / platonic soulmate: the peanut butter to dasom's jelly. the patrick to dasom's spongebob. the milk to dasom's cereal.

bad influence: self explanatory.

backbone builder: this person is responsible for helping build up dasom's backbone and help her be less averse to confrontation and stand up for herself more.

tug-of-war: these two go back and forth. one minute they're going on outings and dates and are all cuddled up, then the next they're arguing and fussing. a hot and cold type of relationship that dasom can't seem to get out of. they care for each other, but whenever they try to be anything more than friends, it falls apart.

practically roommates ( multiple ): dasom has a large townhouse in the city, but she hates being by herself. with that being the case, she's always inviting this person over to spend time with her so she won't be alone.

music confidant ( multiple ): someone that dasom works on music with / shares demos of songs she's recorded. she gets ideas from them for her unfinished songs, and she's always willing to give them a helping hand with music when they hit rough spots with their creativity too.

C A R E E R

music ( albums ): yours truly ( 2015 ), my everything ( 2017 ), dangerous woman ( 2020 ), sweetener ( 2022 ).

music ( singles ): the way ; baby i ( 2015 ), right there [ album: yours truly ]; problem ( 2016 ), break free ; bang bang ( 2017 ), love me harder ; one last time [ album: my everything ] ( 2018 ), focus [ non-album single ] ; dangerous woman ( 2019 ), into you ; side to side ( 2020 ) ; everyday [ album: dangerous woman ] ( 2021 ), no tears left to cry ( 2022 ), breathin [ album: sweetner ] ( 2023 ) upcoming: god is a woman ( unknown date, 2023 ).

acting ( television ): scream queens as sonya / chanel #2 ( 2015 ), hairspray live! as penny ( 2016 ).

acting ( movies ): underdogs as laura, voice role ; zoolander 2 as latex bdsm ( 2016 ), don't look up as riley bina ( 2021 ), wicked: part 1 as glinda ( 2024, filming ), wicked: part 2 as glinda ( 2025, filming ).

ambassadorships: versace, givenchy, chanel, tiffany & co.