#malachi moore

[reinsdork]

[inwokewetrust1981]

LANK: The Documentary

LANK The Documentary

[spurstwt]

[loserboyisms]

Anyways. Would anyone like to ask about my silly oc polycule??

[pupsmailbox]

STARTING WITH M

MASCULINE︰ mac. macaulay. macauley. mack. maddox. maitland. major. makai. malachai. malachi. malakai. malcolm. malcom. malik. malon. manley. manny. manuel. marcelo. marco. marcos. marcus. mario. marion. mark. marley. marlin. marlon. marlowe. marlyn. marshal. marshall. martie. martin. marty. marvin. marvyn. mason. mat. mateo. mathew. mathias. matias. matt. matteo. matthew. matthias. mattie. matty. maurice. mauricio. maurie. maven. maverick. max. maxie. maximilian. maximiliano. maximillian. maximus. maxton. maxwell. maynerd. mayson. mccoy. mckinley. mel. melville. melvin. melvyn. memphis. meredith. merit. merle. merlin. merlyn. merrick. merv. mervin. mervyn. messiah. micah. michael. micheal. mick. mickey. micky. miguel. mike. mikey. milan. miles. milford. millard. miller. milo. milton. mitch. mitchell. mo. moe. mohamed. mohammad. mohammed. moises. monday. monroe. montague. monte. montgomery. monty. moralis. morgan. morley. morris. mort. morton. morty. moses. moshe. moss. muhammad. munro. munroe. murphy. murray. musa. myles. myron.

FEMININE︰ mabel. mac. macey. maci. mackalya. mackayla. mackenzie. macy. maddie. maddison. madeleine. madeline. madelyn. madilyn. madison. maeve. maggie. magnolia. maisie. makayla. makenna. makenzie. malani. malaya. malaysia. malia. malinda. maliyah. mallory. malory. marceleine. maren. margaret. margaux. margo. margot. maria. mariah. mariana. marianne. marie. marina. marlee. marleigh. marley. mary. maryanna. mavis. maxine. maya. mckenna. mckenzie. meadow. meera. megan. melanie. melina. melissa. melody. mena. meredith. mia. miah. miana. michaela. michelle. mila. milani. miley. millie. miracle. miranda. miriam. molina. molliana. molly. monica. morgan. mya. myla. myra.

NEUTRAL︰ mace. madden. maddix. mage. magenta. magic. maim. maine. maison. majesty. major. makari. malak. malice. malware. maple. marble. march. mari. marigold. marin. marion. marley. marlin. marlo. marlow. mars. marsh. marvel. mascara. masquerade. masyn. match. mauve. maven. mayday. mayhem. mayson. maze. mazi. mckinley. meadow. mecca. med. mega. melancholy. mellow. melody. memphis. mention. mercury. mercy. merengue. meridian. merit. merlin. merrick. merritt. merry. meteorite. metro. metronome. meyer. micah. micaiah. michigan. mickey. middle. midnight. mika. mikah. milan. miles. miller. million. minus. miracle. mirage. misery. misfit. misha. miss. mission. misty. model. monday. monitor. monroe. montana. montgomery. moon. moor. morgan. morse. moss. moth. muck. mud. murphy. mutt. myka. mykah. mystery. mystique.

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 12.1

Beer Birthdays

William Krug (1857)

Randy Mosher (1952)

RJ Trent (1968)

Susan Boyle

Five Favorite Birthdays

Morris; Belgian cartoonist (1923)

Mary Martin; actress and singer (1913)

Jeremy Northam; actor (1961)

Jaco Pastorius; jazz bassist (1951)

Richard Pryor; comedian, actor (1940)

Famous Birthdays

Andrew Adamson; New Zealand film director (1966)

Woody Allen; comedian, writer, film director (1935)

Carol Alt; model. actor (1960)

Micheline Bernardini; French dancer and model (1927)

Eric Bloom; rock guitarist (1944)

Jan Brett; author and illustrator (1949)

Candace Bushnell; writer (1958)

Richard Carrier; author (1969)

Billy Childish; English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and painter (1959)

Jonathan Coulton; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1970)

Julee Cruise; singer-songwriter, musician, and actress (1956)

John Densmore; rock drummer (1945)

David Doyle; actor (1929)

Étienne Maurice Falconet; French sculptor (1716)

Matt Fraction; comic book writer (1975)

Steve Gibb; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1973)

Sophie Guillemin; French actress (1977)

Judith Hackitt; English chemist (1954)

Annette Haven; adult actress (1954)

DeSean Jackson; football player (1986)

Tahar Ben Jelloun; Moroccan author and poet (1944)

Jonathan Katz; comedian and actor (1946)

Clark Kent; fictional character, Superman

Richard Keith; actor and drummer (1950)

Martin Klaproth; German chemist (1743)

Zoë Kravitz; actress, singer, and model (1988)

Jerry Lawson; electronic engineer and inventor (1940)

Jimmy Lyons; saxophonist (1931)

Emily McLaughlin; actress (1928)

Bette Midler; actor, singer (1945)

Bart Millard; singer-songwriter (1972)

Julia A. Moore; poet (1847)

Emily Mortimer; actor (1971)

Sandy Nelson; rock drummer (1938)

Jim Nesbitt; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1931)

Eligiusz Niewiadomski; Polish painter (1869)

Gilbert O'Sullivan; pop singer (1946)

Isaiah "Ikey" Owens; keyboard player (1975)

Billy Paul; soul singer (1934)

Chris Poland; guitarist and songwriter (1957)

Chanel Preston; porn actress (1985)

Lou Rawls; singer (1933)

Martin Rodbell; scientist (1925)

John Schlimm; writer (1971)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff; German painter (1884)

Dick Shawn; comedian, actor (1923)

Sarah Silverman; comedian, actor (1970)

Rex Stout; English writer (1886)

Robert Symonds; actor (1926)

Malachi Throne; actor (1928)

Charlene Tilton; actor (1958)

Lee Trevino; golfer (1939)

Jane Turner; Australian actress (1960)

Marie Tussaud; wax modeler-maker (1761)

Mihály Vörösmarty; Hungarian poet (1800)

Treat Williams; actor (1951)

Vesta Williams; singer-songwriter and actress (1957)

Minoru Yamasaki; architect (1912)

[rotworld]

26: Cause of Death

(previous)

your last stop before anchor is a sobering reminder of just how much things have changed.

->contains gore, aftermath of disaster.

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“I’m really sorry for that time I tried to put a fluke in your ear,” Jamie says. 

The apology comes out of nowhere. You almost laugh, but they look so serious. “I think we’ve come a long way since then.” 

“But I never properly apologized, did I? Or for panicking after you got infected in Nelton. We were rough with you. Posturing, I guess. Acting territorial, like that would fix anything. And then, with Elisile…”

“Jamie, I’m not mad at you,” I insist. “A lot’s happened in a short time. Maybe when it all slows down,” and you insist to yourself that it’s a matter of when, not if, “we can talk about it all some more. But I’m not upset. I’m glad I can count on you.” 

Jamie nods. They don’t look reassured. They lean back in their seat and distract themselves with watching the fog and the passing trees. “I just feel like I need to say it now. Just in case.” They look back at you, forcing a smile. “We’re going to get through this, of course. We’re going to get ourselves a Verlindan fixer-upper and tell every courier we meet to stop by.”

“Downgrading from the beach house, I see.” 

The smile cracks, a bit of real, fond exasperation leaking through. “I’m a research professor, courier, let’s not kid ourselves here…” Their words die off abruptly. They’re staying in confusion at the same thing you are—a barricade. Bright orange signs and construction cones, DETOUR arrows hastily thrown up to guide you down a steep asphalt hill. The road is mangled. Chunks of it are missing, gaping holes taking up entire lanes. Ahead, below, you see colorful rubble, ruins of shattered crystal and splintered gemstones. 

There is a crater in the center of it all, an earthen wound of gaping sinkhole. A barrier has been hastily erected around its jagged edge. 

“What is that?” you say in quiet horror.

Jamie swallows. “I think that used to be Prismville.” 

[NOW PLAYING ON THE RADIO: ROADS BY PORTISHEAD]

You’ve seen your fair share of destruction recently; nowhere roads that go in circles, buildings wrenched from their moorings in the real and physical, people and places shredded by the impossible force of existences meeting, merging, and snapping apart again. Perhaps it’s the sheer scale of Prismville’s devastation that makes it stick out to you. Nothing has been spared.

Whatever happened here was explosive, the shockwaves swift and earth-shattering. Roads have been obliterated, whole blocks of town flattened. This is not the slow-moving, big city traffic you remember but utter chaos. An evacuation has begun but most people haven’t left. A slow trickle of cars heads for the nearest road out of town but many more are going further inward. Malachi agrees to lead the Nelton convoy west and wait for you at the edge of town. You and Jamie follow the screams and wailing coming from the heart of Prismville.

“This doesn’t make any sense,” Jamie mutters, watching traffic slow to a crawl ahead. “They must’ve hit the mines and the chameleite treatment facility. It would’ve been easy, I can’t think of a place in the Drift with more anchorware. But they need chameleite, too. It’s one of the basic components in anchorware. Why shoot themselves in the foot like this?” 

Beleaguered volunteers and emergency service personnel in reflective vests redirect traffic. The mines and treatment facility are gone, they say. Not closed—gone. Nobody is permitted any closer for fear of the sinkhole widening. You’re herded to a crowded parking lot filled with medical tents, the dead and dying stretched out on cots and bloodied sheets. It’s the sickening carnage you’ve come to expect from anchorware malfunctions; liquefied flesh, leaking organs, wounds that have forgotten how to close. 

The story comes together gradually. A woman with her arm in a sling tells you they haven’t found the bottom of the sinkhole yet. They aren’t sure there is one. A man pressing a reddened rag to the oozing lacerations on his face tells you this happened a few nights ago. It felt like an earthquake and sounded like an avalanche. Prismville shuddered like an animal in its death throes. The mine had failsafes, he said, anchorware for its anchorware, protections and backups and redundancies. And they had all failed, of course, a cascade of disasters magnifying and feeding one another. 

He’d been in the treatment facility when it hit, surrounded by boxes upon boxes of unprocessed chameleite, and that’s what saved him. The chameleite took the full brunt of reality’s decay, hissing and bubbling and turning molten-hot before it settled again. He has burns on his hands from clawing his way out before the roof collapsed, but his skin stayed solid and his eyes didn’t leak out of his head. He doesn’t know how many of his coworkers got out before a spiderweb of fissures cracked Prismville open and half the town fell into a sinkhole.

There’s a commotion at the edge of the medical staging area, heavy footsteps and the sound of stone scraping stone. You recognize that delicate rasping voice, even when it sounds so hoarse and pained. Ducking out from beneath the flimsy fabric canopy of a medical tent is Iridesce, alive but shaken. She’s waving off all attempts at medical attention despite the arm she’s missing. The wound is jagged, ruby red and oozing little garnets that skitter like shards of glass in her wake. Half of her face is a drooping mass like frozen magma and her remaining eye is dull and gray, the colors runny like watercolor and smeared down her face. 

She drags herself to a quiet corner away from anyone, shrugging off a pair of concerned medics and gesturing to the tent she just left. She looks exhausted and emotionally drained, staring in silent horror and disbelief at the scene around her. But her eyes find you and Jamie, and her gaze hardens with hope and purpose. She curls her fingers, gesturing for you to approach. “Courier, Dr. Higgs. Hello, my dears.” One of her knees buckles and you rush forward to catch her before she falls. She’s heavy like a slab of granite and Jamie has to help you, the two of you supporting her arms over your shoulders and helping her sit down slowly. “Ah, this is embarrassing. I can’t really feel it, actually. I can tell that something is wrong, but it’s all gone numb.”

“You need medical attention,” Jamie insists.

She chuckles, shaking her head. “No, I don’t. This won’t kill me. He…he made sure.” She presses a hand to her chest. The delicate patterns that used to be there are ruined, bits and pieces of her moonstone body falling off in small clumps and diamond dust. You can see inside of her—angles and curves of mineralized bone, fossilized organs with glittering, jeweled flesh.

Lodged in her center, cradled behind the bars of a marble ribcage and jutting out of a sunstone heart like a thorn, you see a large, jagged shard of stone. It sticks out from the others, opaque black glass with a shimmery, prismatic surface.

“There were thirteen people in the mine when the tunnels started collapsing. A survey team. I could only find six. The last time I went down there, the ground gave out under me. I fell, and then the ground I hit would crumble, and I would keep falling. I don’t know how he got me out, but I think it was the last thing he did. The last thing he could do.” Her voice cracks. She bows her head. “Pardon me. I have to collect my thoughts. Please don’t go just yet, I…have something to ask of you.” 

You and Jamie return to your car, leaning side by side against the trunk. You watch what’s left of Prismville try desperately to hold itself together. A body is covered with a black sheet, the corpse underneath losing shape like unraveling string. Several new arrivals, concussed and bruised, clutch one another tearfully, asking anyone in earshot if they’ve found the other person who was with them. A group of miners still in their dirt-crusted, bloodied equipment wander by Iridesce. You’re too far away to hear what they say but you recognize condolences, the shared grief in the firm hugs exchanged. 

“Who was Iridesce talking about?” you ask quietly. 

Jamie nods into the distance; the great emptiness where a city used to be. “The Mountain.” 

“Prismville doesn’t have mountains.”

“It used to; you can see him in old pictures. But a shift hit and he got displaced. Put him under the ground.” 

“He?” 

Jamie’s hand creeps closer to yours almost timidly, tangling your fingers together. “He was a child of the road. One of the earliest on record, I think.” 

A woman curled up on her side starts screaming and thrashing. Someone rushes to sedate her but the sedative trickles out of her mouth with a gush of blood and chunks of her own insides. You look away. “I’m scared,” you admit.

“Yeah. Me, too.” 

“We’re almost there. It’s not even an hour away. They could probably feel the shockwaves.”

“You’re going to Anchor?” Iridesce says, limping over to the two of you. She’s been crying; there’s a trail of pearls behind her. “You’re taking me with you.” 

Jamie shakes their head. “You’re wounded—” 

“You’re taking me with you so I can find who did this and look them in the eye.” She smiles sharply, resting her fingers over the shard in her chest again. “I was robbed of more than I can put into words. They have to answer for it. Normally, you have to be in Prismville to be subject to its laws, but I won’t let them hide. I will bring the law to them.”

You look at the shard, a chunk of obsidian that seems to thrum like a heart. “Does the law still stand, even if he’s gone?” you ask. 

Iridesce looks surprised by your question. “Who told you otherwise, courier? Is that what they think? That Prismville will descend into chaos because they killed him?” She watches the quieting chaos around you, newly kindled hope in her eyes. “A law is not a single person. A law is people and the unity between them. Someone is hurt, something happens that should not have happened, and people say as one that they will not permit it to happen again. Reciprocity is not the law of Prismville because the Mountain said so. Reciprocity is the law because I am alive. Because six of my men are alive. Because we are still here, licking our wounds and picking ourselves up again. Once, a very long time ago, someone in this town said it wasn’t right that couriers were taken for granted. That it was wrong for anyone to be taken for granted. And we agreed with him. As long as we live, so does the law.” 

You feel Jamie squeeze your hand. You shake your head, wiping the tears that slipped out. You’re fine. If anything, Iridesce’s words have reassured you. The Drift is more resilient than you realized. “I won’t stop you if you want to come with us,” you say. “But to be honest, we don’t have much of a plan.” 

“Do you still have the chameleite I gave you, courier?” When you nod, Iridesce chuckles. “Then yes, courier. We do have a plan.” 

(next)

[coffee-n-bagels-comic-universe]

Brainwaves Bios: Doctor Egon Spengler (1984)

The Brain of The Ghostbusters Doctor Egon Spengler, PhD

The brains of the Ghostbusters. He designed all the team's equipment and normally comes up with the plan to trap the ghosts. Overly analytical, Egon comes off as colder and more distant than he actually is.

"I collect spores, molds, and fungus."

Name

Full Legal Name: Egon Malachi Spengler

First Name: Egon

Meaning: From the Old German name 'Egino' derived from the element 'Agin' meaning 'Edge, Blade'

Pronunciation: EH-gawn

Origin: German

Middle Name: Malachi

Meaning: From the Hebrew name 'Mal'akhi' meaning 'My messenger' or 'My angel'

Pronunciation: MAL-a-kie

Origin: Hebrew, English, Biblical, Biblical Latin

Surname: Spengler

Meaning: Occupational surname literally meaning 'Metal worker' or 'Tin knocker'

Pronunciation: SPENG-ler

Origin: German

Titles: Doctor, Professor, Mr

Nicknames: Egie, Spengs

Characteristics

Age: 40

Gender: Male. He/Him Pronouns

Race: Human

Nationality: American Citizen. Born in America

Ethnicity: White

Birth Date: November 21st 1944

Sexuality: Aromatic, Straight

Religion: Jewish

Native Language: English

Known Languages: English, Hebrew, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Portuguese, Latin, Greek, Egyptian, Arabic

Relationship Status: Single

Astrological Sign: Scorpio

Actor: Harold Ramis

Geographical Characteristics

Birthplace: Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio

Current Residence: North Moore Street, New York, New York

Appearance

Height: 6'5" / 195 cm

Weight: 175 lbs / 79 kg

Eye Colour: Brown

Hair Colour: Brown

Hair Dye: None

Body Hair: Hairy

Facial Hair: Clean Shaven

Tattoos: (As of Jan 1984) None

Piercings: None

Scars: None

Health and Fitness

Allergies: None

Alcoholic, Smoker, Drug User: Clean

Illnesses/Disorders: None Diagnosed (Possibly Autistic)

Medications: None

Any Specific Diet: None

Relationships

Affiliated Groups: Ghostbusters (Founding Member)

Friends: Peter Venkman, Raymond Stantz, Winston Zeddemore, Janine Melnitz, Louis Tully (Sort-Of), Dana Barrett

Significant Other: None

Previous Partners: None of Note

Parents: Edmund Spengler (70, Father), Esther Spengler (73,Mother, Née Schneider)

Parents-In-Law: None

Siblings: Elon Spengler (40, Twin Brother)

Siblings-In-Law: Eliana Spengler (37, Elon's Wife, Née Salomon)

Nieces & Nephews: Edward Spengler (4, Nephew)

Children: None

Extras

Level of Education: Anthropology PhD, Astronomy PhD, Chemistry PhD, Engineering PhD, History PhD, Metallurgy PhD, Mycology PhD, Parapsychology PhD, Philosophy PhD, Physics PhD, Psychology PhD

Occupation: Ghostbuster

Employer: Ghostbusters

Expertise:

Genius with an Eidetic Memory

Polyglot

Physicist

Mycologist

Chemist

Historian

Parapsychologist

Anthropologist

Astronomer

Engineer

Metallurgist

Faults:

Sweet-Tooth

Perceived Lack of Emotions

Doesn't Have a Driver's License

Backstory: Egon Spengler grew up with no toys because his parents didn't believe in them. For unknown reasons, he had part of a Slinky but he straightened it. On October 29, 1969, Egon graduated from Columbia University with a degree in Psychology in the faculty of Psychobiology. On May 10, 1972, Egon graduated from New York University with a degree in Parapsychology. On June 26, 1980, Egon graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree of philosophy in Nuclear Engineering. Egon was very interested in paranormal phenomenon, and worked with Raymond Stantz and Peter Venkman at Columbia University's Paranormal Studies Laboratory in Weaver Hall. He and Raymond studied paranormal literature in their spare time and were interested in theories of reincarnation. Egon developed the P.K.E. Meter to detect paranormal entities and phenomena with. Egon and Raymond were usually the first to interview case subjects, even people Peter called 'Schizos' no matter how far-fetched their stories were.

[manyfandomocs]

Speak Now [Taylor Swift]

Okay this has been 75% completed in my inbox long enough so I'm not doing the vault tracks as initially planned but! Just lmk if you do wanna see the vaults

also I am apparently so attached to assigning Enchanted to ships I should just do an edit series for couples. And Innocent was so hard to assign

Mine ; Thomas Mayfair (with Brady Mariano @randomestfandoms-ocs ), Ashton Daniels (with Blaine Anderson), Emmeline Fitzherbert (with Mal), Cassidy Fuchs (with Grace Chasity)

Sparks Fly ; Ruby Fitzherbert (with Evie), Natalia Finch (with Obie Bergmann)

Back To December ; Ashton Daniels (with Sam Evans), Sebastian Van Wyck (with Henry, pre-RWRB), Katherine Keller (young with FP Jones)

Speak Now ; Tiffany Holloway (with Max Jägerman), Jasmine Teller (with Jess Mariano), Robin Davidson (with Betsy McDonough), Theodosia Fortescue (with Colin Bridgerton), Sampson Lockhart (with Arabella Kingsley)

Dear John ; Belladonna Callow (with Malachi), Gabriel Legume (with the unnamed ex), Genevieve Sterling (with Hiram Lodge)

Mean ; Felicity Moore, Cassidy Fuchs, CJ Kelly

The Story Of Us ; Genevieve Sterling (with Hiram Lodge), Steve Schuester (with Jesse St James), Serafina Hollander (with Tristan Dugray), Solana Reed (with Val), Carrie Ryan (with Noah Puckerman)

Never Grow Up ; Chloe Brown (with Eloise Sol @randomestfandoms-ocs ), Lottie Tyler (with Rose Tyler), Silas Green (with Hannah Foster)

Enchanted ; Leticia Beaumont (with Colin Bridgerton), Arabella Kingsley (with Sampson Lockhart), Calliope Angelos (with Nora Holleran), Kendall Frost (with Beatrice Mountchristen-Windsor), Cassie Rose (with Annabeth Chase), Vincent James (with Jenny Banks), Tamora Snow (with Lucy Gray Baird), Charles Pond (with Clara Oswald), Odelia Roth (with David Nolan & Odessa Pavlova)

Better Than Revenge ; Gabriel Legume (with Ben, Audrey's POV), Delilah Curdle (@ Betty Cooper), Catalina Cabrera (with Dan Humphrey, Serena's POV), Carrie Ryan (honestly this is just Rachel @ Carrie for all of their shared boyfriends)

Innocent ; Chloe Brown, Ginevra Gothel

Haunted ; Carrie Ryan (with Noah Puckerman), Steve Schuester (with Jesse St James), Wrenley Daring (with Jay), Gabriel Legume (with Harry Hook), Victor Chase (with Billy Loomis), Lorelai Cooper (with Chuck Clayton)

Last Kiss ; Steve Schuester (with Jesse St James), Carrie Ryan (with Sam Evans), Ashton Daniels (with Sam Evans), Thomas Mayfair (with Lane Kim), Tiffany Holloway (with Max Jägerman in most timelines), Catalina Cabrera (with Nate Archibald)

Long Live ; Sage Rowe, Nathan Price, Ashton Daniels, Carrie Ryan, Silas Green, Cassidy Fuchs, Ivy Perkins, Abigail James, Felicity Moore, Zeke Beiste

Ours ; Arabella Kingsley (with Sampson Lockhart), Karina Jimenez (with Brittany Pierce), Felix Dosier (with Finn Hudson), Ashton Daniels (with Blaine Anderson), Gabriel Legume (with Ben), Theo Gleason (with Jess Mariano)

Superman ; Carrie Ryan (with Jesse St James), Silas Green (with Lex Foster), Sebastian Van Wyck (with Henry Hanover-Stuart-Fox, pre RWRB), Katherine Keller (with FP Jones), Madeline Stevens (with Frank Delfino)

Send me an album and, if I know the artist, I will try to associate to every song an oc/ship/crossover

[dustedmagazine]

Art Ensemble of Chicago — The Sixth Decade: From Paris To Paris (Rogueart)

THE SIXTH DECADE - FROM PARIS TO PARIS by ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO

Paris looms large in the history of the Art Ensemble Of Chicago. While Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors and Lester Bowie had already played together in varying configurations, often as the Art Ensemble or the Roscoe Mitchell Art Ensemble, they did not adopt the name for which they would ever after be known until they played their first gig abroad in June 1969. That began a European sojourn that transformed them from one of the Art Ensemble of Chicago’s hardest-hustling bands to a force to be reckoned with globally.

The Sixth Decade may well represent the closing of a circle. For while the Art Ensemble’s motto, “Great Black Music from the Ancient to the Future” proposes that the sounds will live on, it would not be a big surprise if this is how the Art Ensemble goes out. Only two members, woodwinds/percussion player Mitchell and drummer Don Moye, are still alive. They are aged 82 and 76 respectively at press time and living on different continents. One supposes that if they were looking for a tidy wrap-up, it’s hard to beat playing their final concert in the same town 50 years after their first one. And the Art Ensemble’s latest chapter, represented by this double album and the 2019 release, We Are on the Edge, is like no other in its history, even as it sums up much that has gone before. 

Typically a four or five piece, it had grown to a 19-member orchestra by the time it made it to the Festival Sons d’Hiver in February 2020. Its complement included a four-member African drumming group, brass and string sections, and three vocalists. Roco Córdova and Erina Newkirk brought operatic chops to realize Mitchell’s art songs, while Moor Mother’s booming declarations invoked the great span of history referenced by that motto. The assemblage mixed generations, genders and ethnicities in ways that previous ones never had. Its repertoire spanned old themes and new compositions spanning spoken word ceremonials, contemporary classical, funky grooves and rolling percussion. For sheer enormity and inclusion, it’s hard to top. 

But it would be fair for a skeptic to ask, how does this record sit on a shelf that includes classics like People in Sorrow, A Jackson in the House, Nice Guys, and Bap-Tizum? To swipe a line uttered by Lester Bowie in “Jazz Death?” back in 1967, it depends on what you know. It’s certainly a more ambitious effort than the working holiday souvenir, Coming Home Jamaica. The execution of the various styles, and the transitions between them, are more fluid than on We Are On The Edge, reflecting the fact that the group had been playing this music across the globe for over a year. Moor Mother’s increased presence makes one wish for an ongoing project involving her, Mitchell, Moye, and a few more dedicated keepers of the ceremonial groove. But some of Mitchell’s classical material feels shoehorned like it’s there more to argue the point that they can play it all than because it enhances their grand sonic tapestry. 

Bill Meyer

[collectingall]

∀ 2022 Bowman Chrome U Auto Yellow Refractor Malachi Moore /75 PSA 10 👉 bit.ly/myslabs 👈 Alabama

[buttercupkg66]

Alabama's Malachi Moore slams opponent's head into the turf as he suffers epic meltdown during upset loss to Vanderbilt

[normanthedove]

HONORING THE COURAGE OF MARYLAND GOVERNOR WES MOORE: THE WAR ON DRUGS, A FIASCO BUILT ON TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN

The War on Drugs: A Fiasco Built on Turtles All the Way Down In the annals of modern American history, there’s no tale quite as darkly comedic and tragically absurd as the War on Drugs. This misadventure, spanning decades, has not only failed in its mission but has also inflicted untold damage on communities, doctors, and the very fabric of justice. D.E.A. Targeting of Medicine: Narcotic Analgesics Central to this debacle is the DEA, an organization whose operational philosophy can only be described as “turtles all the way down”—a never-ending cascade of obfuscation and deceit.

We Honor The Courage of Maryland Governor Wes Moore in his Fight to End The American War on Drugs NORMAN J CLEMENT RPH., DDS, NORMAN L. CLEMENT PHARM-TECH, MALACHI F. MACKANDAL PHARMD, BELINDA BROWN-PARKER, IN THE SPIRIT OF JOSEPH SOLVO ESQ., INC.T. SPIRIT OF REV. C.T. VIVIAN, JELANI ZIMBABWE CLEMENT, BS., MBA., IN THE SPIRIT OF THE HON. PATRICE LUMUMBA, IN THE SPIRIT OF ERLIN CLEMENT SR.,…

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Operation Deimos: The Abyss of Behemoth

Operation Deimos keeps track of the Agents of Behemoth: Greed, Avarice, Sloth.

Behemoth is the first of God’s conquests. Its maker approaches it with his sword. Job 40:19 (GWT)

If you oppress poor people, you insult the God who made them; but kindness shown to the poor is an act of worship. Proverbs 14:31 (GNT)

Every sickness also and every affliction that is not recorded in the book of this law, the LORD will bring upon you, until you are destroyed. Whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, you shall be left few in number, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God. Deuteronomy 28:61:-62 (ESV)

Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given power to scorch the people with fire. And the people were scorched by intense heat, and they cursed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues; yet they did not repent and give Him glory. Apocalypse 16:8-9 (BSB)

This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Disaster! An unprecedented disaster—behold, it is coming! The end has come! The end has come! It has roused itself against you. Behold, it has come! Doom has come to you, O inhabitants of the land. The time has come; the day is near; there is panic on the mountains instead of shouts of joy. Very soon I will pour out My wrath upon you and vent My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways and repay you for all your abominations.' Ezekiel 7:5-8 (BSB)

“And now, you priests, this warning is for you. If you do not listen, and if you do not resolve to honor my name,” says the LORD Almighty, “I will send a curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already cursed them, because you have not resolved to honor me." Malachi 2:1-2 (NIV) 

There is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide. Job 34:22 (BSB)

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Birthdays 12.1

Beer Birthdays

William Krug (1857)

Randy Mosher (1952)

RJ Trent (1968)

Susan Boyle

Five Favorite Birthdays

Morris; Belgian cartoonist (1923)

Mary Martin; actress and singer (1913)

Jeremy Northam; actor (1961)

Jaco Pastorius; jazz bassist (1951)

Richard Pryor; comedian, actor (1940)

Famous Birthdays

Andrew Adamson; New Zealand film director (1966)

Woody Allen; comedian, writer, film director (1935)

Carol Alt; model. actor (1960)

Micheline Bernardini; French dancer and model (1927)

Eric Bloom; rock guitarist (1944)

Jan Brett; author and illustrator (1949)

Candace Bushnell; writer (1958)

Richard Carrier; author (1969)

Billy Childish; English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and painter (1959)

Jonathan Coulton; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1970)

Julee Cruise; singer-songwriter, musician, and actress (1956)

John Densmore; rock drummer (1945)

David Doyle; actor (1929)

Étienne Maurice Falconet; French sculptor (1716)

Matt Fraction; comic book writer (1975)

Steve Gibb; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1973)

Sophie Guillemin; French actress (1977)

Judith Hackitt; English chemist (1954)

Annette Haven; porn actor (1954)

DeSean Jackson; football player (1986)

Tahar Ben Jelloun; Moroccan author and poet (1944)

Jonathan Katz; comedian and actor (1946)

Clark Kent; fictional character, Superman

Richard Keith; actor and drummer (1950)

Martin Klaproth; German chemist (1743)

Zoë Kravitz; actress, singer, and model (1988)

Jerry Lawson; electronic engineer and inventor (1940)

Jimmy Lyons; saxophonist (1931)

Emily McLaughlin; actress (1928)

Bette Midler; actor, singer (1945)

Bart Millard; singer-songwriter (1972)

Julia A. Moore; poet (1847)

Emily Mortimer; actor (1971)

Sandy Nelson; rock drummer (1938)

Jim Nesbitt; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1931)

Eligiusz Niewiadomski; Polish painter (1869)

Gilbert O'Sullivan; pop singer (1946)

Isaiah "Ikey" Owens; keyboard player (1975)

Billy Paul; soul singer (1934)

Chris Poland; guitarist and songwriter (1957)

Chanel Preston; porn actress (1985)

Lou Rawls; singer (1933)

Martin Rodbell; scientist (1925)

John Schlimm; writer (1971)

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff; German painter (1884)

Dick Shawn; comedian, actor (1923)

Sarah Silverman; comedian, actor (1970)

Rex Stout; English writer (1886)

Robert Symonds; actor (1926)

Malachi Throne; actor (1928)

Charlene Tilton; actor (1958)

Lee Trevino; golfer (1939)

Jane Turner; Australian actress (1960)

Marie Tussaud; wax modeler-maker (1761)

Mihály Vörösmarty; Hungarian poet (1800)

Treat Williams; actor (1951)

Vesta Williams; singer-songwriter and actress (1957)

Minoru Yamasaki; architect (1912)

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