#maude leblanc

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

By Kim Ives

Maude Leblanc, the longest-serving member of the socialist weekly Haïti Progrès, died on Jan. 25, 2024, at the age of 69.

Born Aug. 31, 1954, in Port-au-Prince, she spent most of her life living outside of Haiti but always devoting herself to radical social change in her home country.

[ameliathefatcat]

Equestria Girls real human names (with my headcanons)

Tamanna Singh - Twilight Sparkle

Tamanna means wise

Abigail Jacqueline ‘AJ’ Smith - Apple Jack

Initials are AJ and Smith comes from the fact that Granny’s name is Granny Smith

Patricia Diane ‘Patty�� Pierce - Pinkie Pie

Pierce is similar to Pie. Patty is similar to Pinkie

Tzufit Serena Farfalla - Fluttershy

Tzufit means hummingbird and that fits for Fluttershy, Serena means tranquil once again fitting Fluttershy. Farfalla means butterfly in Spanish

Reine Jade Leblanc- Rarity

Reine means queen and that’s first for Rarity. Also Jade being a jewel fits as a middle name.

Iris Dafni Pêgasos- Rainbow Dash

Iris means Rainbow. Pêgasos is Pegasus in Greek

Marisol Sabrina Silva- Sunset Shimmer

Marisol means sea and sun

Others

Benjamin Michael ‘Mack’ Smith- Big Mac

Alexandra Berenice ‘Lexi’ Smith- Apple Bloom

Gertrude Smith- Granny Smith

Sylivie Isabelle Leblanc- Sweetie Belle

Zev Bruno Farfalla- Zephyr Breeze

Maud Pierce- Maud Pie

Mabel Pierce- Marble Pie

Lorraine Pierce- Limestone Pie

Sanjit Singh- Shining Armor

Sydney ‘Syd’ Allen- Scootaloo

Frederick ‘Freddy’ Song- Flash Sentry

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Song for Peace, Allister MacGillivray // Joseph Sidney Hallam // Ruby Zhang // Bruce Wood // Joseph Purcell // Dorothea LeBlanc // Maud Lewis

[atlanticcanada]

Maud Lewis paintings bought for $12 in 1967 fetch $41,000 at New Hamburg auction

A pair of paintings by late Nova Scotian folk artist Maud Lewis have sold for a combined $41,000 at a New Hamburg auction.

The artworks were among 291 pieces available at the Canadiana and Folk Art auction in New Hamburg Saturday.

‘Oxen in Winter’ sold for $20,000, while ‘Horse Pulling Logs’ went for $21,000.

Originally purchased from the artist at her Nova Scotia home in 1967 for $12, with the owner since passed away, her niece Julie Leblanc said it was time to find the paintings a new home.

“I hope it’s not just someone that will take it and stick it away and it’s something that they’ve conquered. Instead, it’s something that they love and it’s somewhere other people can enjoy the story for years to come,” Leblanc told CTV News on Friday, the day before the auction.

She says proceeds from the sale will help restore her aunt’s 18th century inn in Nova Scotia.

Five other works by Maud Lewis sold for between $16,000 and $37,000 at Saturday’s auction.

Lewis, who is today one of Canada’s most celebrated folk artists, lived much of her life in poverty in a one-room house in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia. She suffered from debilitating arthritis and sold her paintings on the roadside, often for $5.

She gained national attention in 1965 – five years before her death – when she was the subject of a CBC documentary. The exposure led to a flood of requests for Lewis’ work, and demand for her colourful paintings has continued to grow after her death.

Last May, one of her pieces, once traded for some grilled cheese sandwiches, sold for a record $350,000 at auction in New Hamburg.

With files from CTV National News

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[rudylloyd]

can we have a comprehensive pronouns list? I'm not sure if somebody's changed their pronouns, but if it isn't too much work for you; it'd be handy to have

finally. the oc pronouns list. I've longed for this day

Macy Calohan Sr.: she/bark/they

Felix Calohan: he/she/it

Trixie Calohan: they/she/goth/frog

"Sawyer" Calohan: he/him

Safiya Calohan: she/her

Sofia Calohan/Sonya Challotte: she/they

Loralie York: she/her

Harley York: she/her

Buddy Lewis: he/it

Lily Lewis: she/they

Henry Vovia: he/him

Adeline Charleston: "the girl ones" (she/her)

Harvey Charleston: he/him

Honey Foley: she/her

Bee Foley: he/buzz

Mason Calohan Sr.: he/him

Darlene Calohan: she/her

Maude Lewis: she/her

Kevin York: he/him

Fiona LeBlanc: another "the girl ones" person so she/her

Meadow Foley: he/they

Robert Charleston: he/him

Maria Charleston: she/her

Dean Brandon: he/they/it

Quinn Daleer: she/xe

Herman Henry Golshtee: they/them

Lola Tinkett: she/her

Genevieve Redsmen: she/they

Mason Calohan Jr.: he/him

Jodie Calohan: she/her

Janeane Calohan: they/it

Charlotte Calohan: she/him

Macy Calohan Jr.: they/she/meow

Derrick Lewis: he/him

May Evans: she/her

Billie York: she/him

Tyler York: he/him

Sage Evans: she/her

Aliyah Charleston: she/they/it

Karol the Gas Station Owner: he/she/it

Mango Lewis: she/they

Admin Charleston: she/they/it

Zachary Paul-Martin: he/him

Jaylen Paul-Martin: she/he

all of mangos friends used she/her

Leonard's parents would both say "pronouns aren't real" but she/her and he/him

Moder-Ator Istrator: all of them.

Leonard Bell: it/its

ZeeJay Paul-Martin: xe/void

methinks I covered everything :3

Codie Lewis-Calohan: she/her

Alyce Rebel: she/bun/paw

[blackkudos]

Ma Rainey

"Ma" Rainey (born Gertrude Pridgett, September 1882 or April 26, 1886 – December 22, 1939) was one of the earliest African-American professional blues singers and one of the first generation of blues singers to record. She was billed as the "Mother of the Blues".

She began performing as a teenager and became known as Ma Rainey after her marriage to Will Rainey, in 1904. They toured with the Rabbit Foot Minstrels and later formed their own group, Rainey and Rainey, Assassinators of the Blues. Her first recording was made in 1923. In the next five years, she made over 100 recordings, including "Bo-Weevil Blues" (1923), "Moonshine Blues" (1923), "See See Rider Blues" (1924), "Black Bottom" (1927), and "Soon This Morning" (1927).

Rainey was known for her powerful vocal abilities, energetic disposition, majestic phrasing, and a "moaning" style of singing. Her qualities are present and most evident in her early recordings "Bo-Weevil Blues" and "Moonshine Blues".

Rainey recorded with Louis Armstrong, and she toured and recorded with the Georgia Jazz Band. She continued to tour until 1935, when she retired and went to live in her hometown.

Life and career

Pridgett claimed to have been born on April 26, 1886 (beginning with the 1910 census, taken April 25, 1910), in Columbus, Georgia. However, the 1900 census indicates she was born in September 1882 in Alabama, and researchers Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc suggest that her birthplace was in Russell County, Alabama. She was the second of five children of Thomas and Ella (née Allen) Pridgett, from Alabama. She had at least two brothers and a sister, Malissa, with whom Gertrude was later confused by some writers.

She began her career as a performer at a talent show in Columbus, Georgia, when she was about 12 to 14 years old. A member of the First African Baptist Church, she began performing in black minstrel shows. She later claimed that she was first exposed to blues music around 1902. She formed the Alabama Fun Makers Company with her husband, Will Rainey, but in 1906 they both joined Pat Chappelle's much larger and more popular Rabbit's Foot Company, in which they were billed together as "Black Face Song and Dance Comedians, Jubilee Singers [and] Cake Walkers". In 1910, she was described as "Mrs. Gertrude Rainey, our coon shouter". She continued with the Rabbit's Foot Company after it was taken over by a new owner, F. S. Wolcott, in 1912.

Beginning in 1914, the Raineys were billed as Rainey and Rainey, Assassinators of the Blues. Wintering in New Orleans, she met numerous musicians, including Joe "King" Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet and Pops Foster. As the popularity of blues music increased, she became well known. Around this time, she met Bessie Smith, a young blues singer who was also making a name for herself. A story later developed that Rainey kidnapped Smith, forced her to join the Rabbit's Foot Minstrels, and taught her to sing the blues; the story was disputed by Smith's sister-in-law Maud Smith.

From the late 1910s, there was an increasing demand for recordings by black musicians. In 1920, Mamie Smith was the first black woman to be recorded. In 1923, Rainey was discovered by Paramount Records producer J. Mayo Williams. She signed a recording contract with Paramount, and in December she made her first eight recordings in Chicago, including "Bad Luck Blues", "Bo-Weevil Blues" and "Moonshine Blues". She made more than 100 other recordings over the next five years, which brought her fame beyond the South. Paramount marketed her extensively, calling her the "Mother of the Blues", the "Songbird of the South", the "Gold-Neck Woman of the Blues" and the "Paramount Wildcat".

In 1924 she made some recordings with Louis Armstrong, including "Jelly Bean Blues", "Countin' the Blues" and "See, See Rider". In the same year she embarked on a tour of the Theater Owners Booking Association (TOBA) in the South and Midwest of the United States, singing for black and white audiences. She was accompanied by the bandleader and pianist Thomas Dorsey and the band he assembled, the Wildcats Jazz Band. They began their tour with an appearance in Chicago in April 1924 and continued, on and off, until 1928. Dorsey left the group in 1926 because of ill health and was replaced as pianist by Lillian Hardaway Henderson, the wife of Rainey's cornetist Fuller Henderson, who became the band's leader.

Although most of Rainey's songs that mention sexuality refer to love affairs with men, some of her lyrics contain references to lesbianism or bisexuality, such as the 1928 song "Prove It on Me":

They said I do it, ain't nobody caught me. Sure got to prove it on me. Went out last night with a crowd of my friends. They must've been women, 'cause I don't like no men.

According to the website queerculturalcenter.org, the lyrics refer to an incident in 1925 in which Rainey was "arrested for taking part in an orgy at [her] home involving women in her chorus." The political activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis noted that "'Prove It on Me' is a cultural precursor to the lesbian cultural movement of the 1970s, which began to crystallize around the performance and recording of lesbian-affirming songs."

Towards the end of the 1920s, live vaudeville went into decline, being replaced by radio and recordings. Rainey's career was not immediately affected; she continued recording for Paramount and earned enough money from touring to buy a bus with her name on it. In 1928, she worked with Dorsey again and recorded 20 songs, before Paramount terminated her contract. Her style of blues was no longer considered fashionable by the label.

Death

In 1935, Rainey returned to her hometown, Columbus, Georgia, where she ran three theatres, the Lyric, the Airdrome, and the Liberty Theatre until her death. She died of a heart attack in 1939, at the age of 53 (or 57, according to the research of Bob Eagle), in Rome, Georgia.

Legacy

Honours and awards

Rainey was inducted into the Blues Foundation's Hall of Fame in 1983 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.

In 1994, the U.S. Post Office issued a 29-cent commemorative postage stamp honoring her.

In 2004, "See See Rider Blues" (performed in 1924) was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and was added to the National Recording Registry by the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress.

The first annual Ma Rainey International Blues Festival was held in April 2016 in Columbus, Georgia, near the home that Rainey owned and lived in at the time of her death.

In 2017, the Rainey-McCullers School of the Arts opened in Columbus, Georgia, named in honor of Rainey and author Carson McCullers.

References and portrayals

In 1981 Sandra Lieb wrote the first full-length book about Rainey, Mother of the Blues: A Study of Ma Rainey.

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, a 1982 play by August Wilson, is a fictionalized account of the recording of her song of the same title in December 1927. Viola Davis will portray Rainey in a film adaption of the play, set to be distributed by Netflix.

Sterling A. Brown wrote a poem, "Ma Rainey", in 1932, about how "When Ma Rainey / comes to town" people everywhere would hear her sing.

Comedienne Mo'Nique played Rainey in the 2015 film Bessie.

[senlinyu]

Denim buttermilk pearl rouge peach sapphire Is four too much?)

Denim- I love you!!

Buttermilk- I love seeing you on my dash!

Pearl- What’s your favorite piece you’ve written?

I’m not actually sure. For a long time A Slow Cruel Descent was my fav. But I’m also really fond of Ice because it ended up being a surprisingly evocative story despite just being a lil advent fic. And then Manacled is my baby that I’ve slaved over for so long now. But then Alexandria and The Seduction are both such fun, I loved writing the banter in them. I really can’t choose.

Rouge- What’s your favorite book?

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and The Sparrow by Mary Doris Russel are two of my favs.

Peach- What’s your favorite author?

Gosh. I don’t know. Too many. In childhood Frances Hodgeson Burnett primarily. In my teens Charlotte Brontë, Bess Streeter Aldrich, Louisa May Alcott and Lucy Maude Montgomery, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Agatha Christie. In adulthood Elena Ferrante, George RR Martin, Mary Whalen Turner, Maurice LeBlanc.

Sapphire- Do you believe in zodiac? What’s your sign?

Not particularly. I’m a Taurus.

[bouxmounir]

La renaissance spectaculaire de Maud-Emma LeBlanc

La renaissance spectaculaire de Maud-Emma LeBlanc

En octobre 2019, le grand golfeur québécois a surpris plusieurs fans en l’annonçant pension permanente régimes professionnels. Au fil du temps, j’ai réalisé que cela n’avait jamais été mon rêve et que le golf ne me rendait pas heureux, même après de bonnes performances. Je n’aimais pas l’homme que j’étais sur le terrain de golf et j’ai toujours voulu faire quelque chose de plus important dans ma…

[motherofalien-archive]

A Masterlist of Underused French Names

So as a French person, I grew a little bit tired of seeing the same old French names over and over again. So under the cut is a list of 260 (185 first names and 105 surnames) underused French names, based on my experience, with the bolded ones being my favorites! And now don’t get me wrong, many of those names are not strictly French, and are in other languages too. But just know they are used in French too, so they can be used for your French character if needed. And there are obviously a lot of other names you can go for!

Female Names

Agathe

Alexandrine

Amélie

Andréa

Andréanne

Angélique

Anne

Apolline

Ariane / Arianne

Audrey

Brigitte

Cadence

Camille

Cécile

Céleste

Céline

Chantal / Chantale

Charlotte

Chenelle

Christelle

Christiane

Christine

Claire

Clara

Claudie

Clémence

Coralie

Darcie

Delphine

Desirée

Dianne

Élaine / Élène / Hélène / probably a lot of other variations

Éléonore

Éloïse

Émilie

Estelle

Èvelyn

Félicia

France

Geneviève

Giselle

Isabelle

Jacinthe

Jacqueline

Jeanie

Joanne

Joceline

Joséphine

Julie

Juliette

Laure

Laurie

Lavinia

Léa

Liliane

Linette

Loraine

Madeleine

Maia / Maya

Mallory

Margaux

Margerite

Marianne

Marjolaine

Marjorie

Mathilde

Maude

Mélanie

Mélodie

Mélusine

Myriam

Nancy

Nathalie

Noémie

Ophélie

Rachel / Rachelle

Rosalie

Rosemarie

Roxane / Roxanne

Solange

Stéphanie

Susanne / Suzanne

Thérèse

Valérie

Véronique

Violette

Virginie

Viviane

Male Names

Adrien

Alain

Antoine

Arnaud

Baptiste

Benjamin

Benoit

Bernard

Bruno

Charles

Christian

Christophe

Clovis

Colin

Damien

David

Didier

Dilan

Edmond

Edouard

Eliott

Émile

Ernest

Étienne

Fabrice

Félix

François

Gaspard

Gaston

Gauthier

Geoffrey / Geoffroy

Grégoire

Guillaume

Henri

Hubert

Ivan / Yvan

Jacques

Jérémie / Jérémy

Jérôme

Joseph

Jules

Karel

Laurent

Léo

Léon

Léonard

Lionel

Luc

Marc

Martin

Mathieu / Matthieu

Maurice

Merlin

Nathanaël

Nicholas / Nicolas

Olivier

Paul

Philip / Philippe

Pierre

Quentin

Raymond

Rémi / Rémy

Richard

Robert

Roland

Romain

Sébastien

Simon

Sylvain

Thierry

Thomas

Tristan

Victor

Vincent

Xavier

Unisex Names

Carol (male) / Carole (female)

Claude

Daniel (male) / Danielle (female)

Denis (male) / Denise (female)

Dominic (male) / Dominique (female)

Eugène (male) / Eugénie (female)

Fabien (male) / Fabienne (female)

Frédéric (male) / Frédérique (female)

Jasmin (male) / Jasmine (female)

Jean (male) / Jeane (female)

Joël (male) / Joëlle (female)

Jordan (male) / Jordane (female)

Justin (male) / Justine (female)

Louis (male) / Louise (female)

Lucien (male) / Lucienne (female)

Marcel (male) / Marcelle (female)

Michel (male) / Michelle (female)

Noël (male) / Noëlle (female)

Pascal (male) / Pascale (female)

Patrice

Samuel (male) / Samuelle (female)

Valentin (male) / Valentine (female)

Surnames

Adam

Allaire

Allard

Archambault

Beauchêne

Beaulieu

Beaumont

Bélanger

Béranger

Bernard

Bertrand

Blanchard

Blanchet

Boivin

Bouchard

Boucher

Brisbois

Brodeur

Bureau

Caron

Charbonneau

Cloutier

Comtois

Côté

Courtemanche

Cousineau

Couture

Delacroix

Desautels

Deschamps

Descôteaux

Desjardins

Desrochers

Desrosiers

Duboit

Duchamps

Dufort

Dufour

Duval

Fabron

Faucher

Faucheux

Favreau

Félix

Fontaine

Fortier

Fournier

Gagné

Gagnon

Girard

Giroux

Gosselin

Granger

Guérin

Hébert

Jacques

Labelle

Lachance

Lambert

Langlois

Lapointe

Laurent

Lavigne

Lavoie

Lebeau

Leblanc

Leclair

Leclerc

Lécuyer

Legrand

Lemair

Lemieux

Lévesque

Maçon

Marchand

Martel

Martin

Mathieu

Mercier

Michaud

Moreau

Morel

Paquet

Parent

Patenaude

Pelletier

Perrault / Perreault

Petit

Plamondon

Plourde

Poirier

Poulin

Richard

Richelieu

Robert

Rousseau

Roux

Samson

St-Martin

St-Pierre

Taillefer

Thibault

Thomas

Tremblay

Villeneuve

[amelieguyot]

Aurélie Foglia, Vol Plané in « Grands sujets » 70 x 90 cm

[�� ÉCOUTER] 12 poétesses ont prêté leur voix pour Les Imposteurs à cette lecture chorale exceptionnelle autour de ce livre fort et bouleversant : Rim Battal, Vanessa Bell, Katia Bouchoueva, Sara Bourre, Aurélie Foglia, Amelie Guyot, Mélanie Leblanc, Lisette Lombé, Florentine Rey, Marine Riguet, Maud Thiria Vinçon et Milène Tournier lisent des poèmes extraits de COMMENT DÉPEINDRE d’Aurélie Foglia publié aux Editions Corti.

Dans la nuit du 2 au 3 décembre 2018, l’homme avec qui vivait Aurélie Foglia a détruit plus de cent-cinquante toiles de la poétesse. Ce livre, commencé comme « un accompagnement euphorique de la peinture par la poésie » est devenu « dans sa dernière saison, livre de deuil ».

[atlanticcanada]

Bought for $12 in 1965, two Maud Lewis originals set to be auctioned off

A Nova Scotia family is ready to part ways with a pair of paintings by the province’s most famous folk artist bought after an encounter nearly 60 years ago.

When Marilyn Manzer passed away earlier this year from cancer, her niece Julie LeBlanc brought two Maud Lewis original paintings home from her aunt’s mantel.

Although the family knew they were valuable, they were never treated like collector’s items.

“It was just the opposite,” LeBlanc tells CTV Atlantic. “It was, oh here, look, and handle it and love it and appreciate it. Not stuck in a box, stuck in a bag, stuck in a vault.”

Before she died, LeBlanc asked her to aunt to recount the story of how she got the paintings.

Manzer told her about meeting the artist to purchase some of her work, and an encounter with her husband, Everett Lewis.

“He said, ‘C’mon out, I want to show you something,’ so we went out in his backyard with him. She didn’t get up, she just smiled and crouched down,” Manzer said in an August audio recording by LeBlanc. “And he came along and said, ‘I’ve got some real good ones out back, she wants to sell it to you.’”

Manzer bought the paintings in 1965 for a total of $12. She confessed to her niece she regretted only buying the two paintings.

“It would be a shame to not buy everything she had,” Manzer said in the recording.

LeBlanc says her aunt was a quilter and felt Lewis was a kindred spirit.

“She really appreciated the time and effort and love that someone puts into something as an artist, so they meant a lot to her,” said LeBlanc.

The paintings will be auctioned in February. LeBlanc says the money received will go to the entire family as one final gift from her aunt.

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[untilthenexttee]

ALEX AND HATAOKA CO-LEAD AT CROWN COLONY AFTER 18 HOLES

ALEX AND HATAOKA CO-LEAD AT CROWN COLONY AFTER 18 HOLES

Story by Steve Eubanks Under sunny Florida skies in Fort Myers, Japan’s Nasa Hataoka and American Marina Alex topped the leaderboard after the first round of the LPGA Drive On Championship by posting 7-under 65s. Hataoka made eight birdies, with seven of them coming after her lone bogey on No. 13, her fourth hole of the day. “Not the best bogey I could have, but it wasn’t something technical.…

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Note: We had edited the event to be easier to follow. This is the most updated copy of the event. 

The King’s Tournament Challenger List

Day 1 - April 27th

1. Morrigan Blacktooth (Wolf Clan)  Vs. Weaver Oen (Shark Clan)

2. Ser Hadar Okello (Unseelie) Vs. [Member’s NPC]

3. Weaver Prewett (Wolf Clan) Vs. Priestess Sato (Unseelie)

4. Magi Sheppard (Seelie Court) Vs .Tlaloc Longfellow (Unseelie)

5. Lux Anders Leblanc (Unseelie) Vs. Sir Theron the Wise (Seelie)

6. Nelly Haggarty (Unseelie) Vs. Mai Ozuna (Shark Clan)

MEAL BREAK

7. Lord Balthazar Black (Seelie) Vs. Sun Rose (Seelie)

8. Kaya Pelt (Unseelie) Vs. Pia Lark (Fox Clan)  

9. Delphi Lady Kyssa Tournesal (Seelie) Vs. Sir Thayne Silverbone (Seelie)

10. Arwen Milkseed (Clanless) Vs. Meredith O’Bright (Oak Town)

11. Maude Wildcat (Clanless) Vs. Lord Rolland Aven (Unseelie)

12. Lady Luna Silverbone (Unseelie) Vs. Archmage Alekto Bone (Unseelie)

Day 2  - April 28th 

13. The Winner of Fight #1 Vs. The Winner of Fight #2 Vs. The Winner of Fight #3

14. The Winner of Fight #4 Vs. The Winner of Fight #5 Vs. The Winner of Fight #6

15. The Winner of Fight #7 Vs. The Winner of Fight #8 Vs. The Winner of Fight #9

16. The Winner of Fight #10 Vs. The Winner of Fight #11 Vs. The Winner of Fight #12

MEAL BREAK

17. The Winner of Fight #13 Vs. The Winner of Fight #14 

18. The Winner of Fight #15 Vs. The Winner of Fight #16

THE FINAL TOURNAMENT

19. The Winner of Fight #17 Vs. The Winner of Fight #18

All challengers must report to the arena at 10:00 AM each day. No later. The gates will open at 11:00 AM to spectators. The first fight will commence at 12:00 PM.

King Oberon wishes you all good luck.

Additional Information:

The second day of fighting will include three fighters in the ring at once.

Although the official dates of the event are posted, members do not need to post their fights in real time.

All fighters must inform the admins the winner of their event, so that we can post up-to-date brackets of the wins

We have two open spots for member’s NPC’s to be entered in as well. We can accommodate more on request Edit: ONE TAKEN

Descriptions of all NPC’s and their combat styles can be requested, some will be posted in the event updates.

For common spectators, ale, turkey legs and will be available for purchase. But, you must bring your own goblet. For our more esteemed guests, goat cheese tarts, pheasant pie and blackberry mead is available.

Wild celebrations will continue late into the night, after the event is over.

Remember to tag all event related posts under “tffevent”

[rudylloyd]

I don't have a new drawing but today's autistic OC is Kevin

he's got autism. I practically projected my autism onto him with a few tweaks, being that he's got a worse problem with anxiety than I do.

he also has troubles with jokes.

Kevin is the son of Loralie and Harley York, the ex boyfriend of Maude Lewis, the ex husband of Fiona LeBlanc, the current boyfriend of Meadow Foley, the father of Derrick Lewis, May Evans, Billie York, and Tyler York, the father-in-law to Mason Calohan Jr., the grandfather of Mango Istrator, Rosemary Evans, and Codie Istrator, and the great grandfather of Moder-Ator Istrator.

[lifejustgotawkward]

365 Day Movie Challenge (2018) - #6: Stronger (2017) - dir. David Gordon Green

Every year, biopics contend for space during awards season, a given since so many true (or at least partly) stories are catnip to Academy voters. This year, we have seen I, Tonya receive tremendous applause for its unconventional approach to storytelling, while All the Money in the World, Battle of the Sexes, Darkest Hour, The Disaster Artist, The Greatest Showman, Molly’s Game, The Post and Victoria & Abdul have also made their marks. The films Maudie, about Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis, and Stronger, about Boston Marathon bombing survivor Jeff Bauman, have been mostly overlooked. In the lovely and bittersweet Maudie’s case, the problem is that it has been overshadowed by actress Sally Hawkins’ more recent showcase, The Shape of Water; with Stronger, the issue is that it is just not a good film.

After a few scant minutes of introduction to working-class Boston native Jeff Bauman (Jeff Gyllenhaal) and the ex-girlfriend he still loves, Erin Hurley (Tatiana Maslany), we are thrown into the turmoil of the 2013 terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon. Jeff was standing at the finish line to greet Erin when she completed the race, but he happened to be standing right next to where one of the two bombs were detonated. As a result both of his legs were destroyed, though his life saved by strangers who attached makeshift tourniquets to the areas around his knees. Jake Gyllenhaal convincingly portrays the complex interior world of Jeff Bauman, demonstrating the physical and emotion pain he endured in the immediate aftermath of the event that forever changed his life. As is so often the case with biopics of disabled persons, there is a case to be made that Jeff should not have been played by an able-bodied actor; certainly there are moments in Stronger when I couldn’t stop myself from thinking that Gyllenhaal was only pretending to be a double amputee. But since this is the performance that David Gordon Green has given us, I can only judge the final product in the film - and Gyllenhaal does a fine job.

Of equal concern is the emphasis that the film places on Jeff’s complicated relationship with Erin Hurley. Much more time is devoted to their on-again, off-again romance than to Jeff’s recovery. Most of Jeff and Erin’s scenes together revolve around their neverending melodrama, while Jeff’s decision to finally attend physical therapy on a regular basis is hastily stuffed into a montage near the end of the film. Even if it took Jeff a long time to realize the importance of recuperation, surely there had to be more effort put into that process than just the repetition of ab and glute exercises. And of course, a bunch of scenes swell with dramatic musical flourishes, like typical Hollywood material. I wish that the film weren’t a bland, standard retelling of the same old tired narrative about an underdog beating the odds. I’m sure that Jeff Bauman’s story deserves better treatment than that.

Gyllenhaal and Maslany do most of the heavy lifting in Green’s by-the-numbers production, but a few stellar character actors are given opportunities to shine. Miranda Richardson chews the scenery with gusto as Jeff Bauman’s alcoholic mom, Patty; I tend to think of her as either Queen Elizabeth I from “Black-Adder II,” dangerously sexy IRA assassin Jude from The Crying Game or reporter Rita Skeeter in a couple of the Harry Potter films, so it is fun to see this skillful performer exhibit a Boston accent as part of her repertoire. I also have a lot of respect for the hospital scene where Big Jeff (Clancy Brown) screams at his son’s Costco boss (Danny McCarthy); also the incredibly moving scene where Jeff reconnects with the man who came to his aid when he was potentially bleeding to death at the marathon, Carlos Arredondo (Carlos Sanz); and the scene near the end of the film where a fellow Bostonian (Jimmy LeBlanc, or “the Spotlight guy” as I think of him) tells Jeff how inspirational his triumph over adversity has been.

Stronger is my first encounter with the cinema of David Gordon Green. It is my understanding that he is viewed as an inconsistent filmmaker, a promising indie talent (George Washington, All the Real Girls, Undertow, Snow Angels) who followed those early dramas with a popular, mainstream stoner comedy (Pineapple Express), was labeled a sellout and/or a hack for his subsequent major-studio work (Your Highness, The Sitter, Our Brand Is Crisis) but in between made a pair of really interesting low-budget films (Prince Avalanche, Joe). And then there’s Manglehorn, which I don’t even know how to categorize. Is David Gordon Green a bad director? I’m not sure yet. I don’t mind too much who he works with or how much funding his projects receive, but I would like to see some evidence that he’s not just another mediocre white guy who has had more second chances than he knows what to do with. That being said, I wouldn’t mind exploring the earlier entries in his filmography. Prove me wrong, Dave!

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Ma Rainey

"Ma" Rainey (born Gertrude Malissa Nix Pridgett, September 1882 or April 26, 1886 – December 22, 1939) was one of the earliest African American professional blues singers and one of the first generation of blues singers to record. She was billed as the Mother of the Blues.

She began performing as a young teenager and became known as Ma Rainey after her marriage to Will Rainey, in 1904. They toured with the Rabbit Foot Minstrels and later formed their own group, Rainey and Rainey, Assassinators of the Blues. Her first recording was made in 1923. In the next five years, she made over 100 recordings, including "Bo-Weevil Blues" (1923), "Moonshine Blues" (1923), "See See Rider Blues" (1924), "Black Bottom" (1927), and "Soon This Morning" (1927).

Rainey was known for her powerful vocal abilities, energetic disposition, majestic phrasing, and a "moaning" style of singing. Her powerful voice was never adequately captured on her records, because she recorded exclusively for Paramount, which was known for its below-average recording techniques and poor shellac quality. However, her other qualities are present and most evident in her early recordings "Bo-Weevil Blues" and "Moonshine Blues".

Rainey recorded with Louis Armstrong, and she toured and recorded with the Georgia Jazz Band. She continued to tour until 1935, when she retired and went to live in her hometown.

Life and career

Gertrude Pridgett claimed to have been born on April 26, 1886 (beginning with the 1910 census, taken April 25, 1910), in Columbus, Georgia. However, the 1900 census indicates she was born in September 1882 in Alabama, and researchers Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc suggest her birthplace as being in Russell County. She was the second of five children of Thomas and Ella (née Allen) Pridgett, from Alabama. She had at least two brothers and a sister, Malissa, with whom Gertrude was later confused by some writers.

She began her career as a performer at a talent show in Columbus, Georgia, when she was about 12 to 14 years old. A member of the First African Baptist Church, she began performing in black minstrel shows. She later claimed that she was first exposed to blues music around 1902. She formed the Alabama Fun Makers Company with her husband, Will Rainey, but in 1906 they both joined Pat Chappelle's much larger and more popular Rabbit's Foot Company, in which they were billed together as "Black Face Song and Dance Comedians, Jubilee Singers [and] Cake Walkers". In 1910, she was described as "Mrs. Gertrude Rainey, our coon shouter". She continued with the Rabbit's Foot Company after it was taken over by a new owner, F. S. Wolcott, in 1912.

Beginning in 1914, the Raineys were billed as Rainey and Rainey, Assassinators of the Blues. Wintering in New Orleans, she met numerous musicians, including Joe "King" Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet and Pops Foster. As the popularity of blues music increased, she became well known. Around this time, she met Bessie Smith, a young blues singer who was also making a name for herself. A story later developed that Rainey kidnapped Smith, forced her join the Rabbit's Foot Minstrels, and taught her to sing the blues; the story was disputed by Smith's sister-in-law Maud Smith.

From the late 1910s, there was an increasing demand for recordings by black musicians. In 1920, Mamie Smith was the first black woman to be recorded. In 1923, Rainey was discovered by Paramount Records producer J. Mayo Williams. She signed a recording contract with Paramount, and in December she made her first eight recordings in Chicago, including "Bad Luck Blues", "Bo-Weevil Blues" and "Moonshine Blues". She made more than 100 other recordings over the next five years, which brought her fame beyond the South. Paramount marketed her extensively, calling her the "Mother of the Blues", the "Songbird of the South", the "Gold-Neck Woman of the Blues" and the "Paramount Wildcat".

In 1924 she made some recordings with Louis Armstrong, including "Jelly Bean Blues", "Countin' the Blues" and "See, See Rider". In the same year she embarked on a tour of the Theater Owners Booking Association (TOBA) in the South and Midwest of the United States, singing for black and white audiences. She was accompanied by the bandleader and pianist Thomas Dorsey and the band he assembled, the Wildcats Jazz Band. They began their tour with an appearance in Chicago in April 1924 and continued, on and off, until 1928. Dorsey left the group in 1926 because of ill health and was replaced as pianist by Lillian Hardaway Henderson, the wife of Rainey's cornetist Fuller Henderson, who became the band's leader.

Some of Rainey's lyrics contain references to lesbianism or bisexuality, such as the 1928 song "Prove It on Me":

They said I do it, ain't nobody caught me. Sure got to prove it on me. Went out last night with a crowd of my friends. They must've been women, cause I don't like no men.

According to the website queerculturalcenter.org, the lyrics refer to an incident in 1925 in which Rainey was "arrested for taking part in an orgy at [her] home involving women in her chorus." "Prove It on Me" further alludes to presumed lesbian behavior: "It's true I wear a collar and a tie... Talk to the gals just like any old man."

The political activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis noted that "'Prove It on Me' is a cultural precursor to the lesbian cultural movement of the 1970s, which began to crystallize around the performance and recording of lesbian-affirming songs." Towards the end of the 1920s, live vaudeville went into decline, being replaced by radio and recordings. Rainey's career was not immediately affected; she continued recording for Paramount and earned enough money from touring to buy a bus with her name on it. In 1928, she worked with Dorsey again and recorded 20 songs, before Paramount terminated her contract. Her style of blues was no longer considered fashionable by the label.

Death

In 1935, Rainey returned to her hometown, Columbus, Georgia, where she ran three theatres, the Lyric the Airdrome, and The Liberty Theatre until her death. She died of a heart attack in 1939, at the age of 53, in Rome, Georgia.

Legacy

Rainey was inducted into the Blues Foundation's Hall of Fame in 1983 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.

Bob Dylan referred to Rainey in the song "Tombstone Blues" on his 1965 album Highway 61 Revisited, pairing her with Beethoven, perhaps as symbols of great art, a compliment to Rainey's stature as an artist ("where Ma Rainey and Beethoven once unwrapped their bedroll").

In 1981 Sandra Lieb wrote the first full-length book about Rainey, Mother of the Blues: A Study of Ma Rainey.

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, a 1982 play by August Wilson, is a fictionalized account of the recording of her song of the same title in December 1927.

Sterling A. Brown wrote a poem, "Ma Rainey", in 1932, about how "When Ma Rainey / comes to town" people everywhere would hear her sing.

In 1994, the U.S. Post Office issued a 29-cent commemorative postage stamp honoring her.

In 2004, "See See Rider Blues" (written in 1925) was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and was added to the National Recording Registry by the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress.

Academy Award winner Mo'Nique played Rainey in the 2015 film Bessie.

The first annual Ma Rainey Blues Festival will be held in April 2016 in Columbus, Georgia, near the home that Rainey owned and lived in at the time of her death.

Recordings

This sortable table presents all 94 titles recorded by Rainey.

The recording dates are approximate.

The classification by Sandra Lieb is almost entirely by form. Blues songs which are only partly of twelve-bar structure are classified as mixtures of blues and popular song forms. Blues songs without any twelve-bar or eight-bar structure are classified as non-blues.

The JSP and DOCD columns refer to the two complete CD reissues.

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