#muellers gibbon

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Wanted to jump in this fun little trend

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But You'll Do - MALINDA (one take) STREAM AND DOWNLOAD: https://ift.tt/EfAQbta SUBSCRIBE and hit that bell: https://bit.ly/2OgWtuA SUPPORT my videos on Patreon: http://bit.ly/MKRsupport FOLLOW ME ON SPOTIFY: https://ift.tt/VEG1Y6i MERCH: https://shopmalinda.com Follow me on: Twitter @missmalindakat https://twitter.com/missmalindakat Facebook https://ift.tt/foIOciS Instagram @missmalindakat https://ift.tt/QEJr4dN TikTok @malindamusic https://ift.tt/FeHQErC Written by MALINDA, Hannah Tobias and Johnny Deltoro Produced by Hannah Tobias and Johnny Deltoro Video by Christopher Mueller For fan mail: 3430 Connecticut Ave NW PO Box 11855 Washington DC 20008 **EQUIPMENT** (all links are affiliate links, so if you buy from here you support me too!) AUDIO For singing: http://amzn.to/2wwYXRo For vlogging: http://amzn.to/2wyQfSE A great start mic: http://amzn.to/2xhkScb Interface: http://amzn.to/2fAxFyM VIDEO Camera: http://amzn.to/2hi08JS Lens: http://amzn.to/2fABZ14 Vlog camera: http://amzn.to/2xnN4vT I use Logic and Final Cut Pro to edit audio and video respectively :) THANK YOU PATRONS!! Christian Ashby Ed Banas Russ Billings Heather BookCat Fredrik Boström Bree Campbell Will & Sheila Cole Tom Corrigan Samuel Duckworth Fr. Joe Fessenden Mariah Fyock-Williams Nick Gagalis Robert Gibbons Jr Mimi Ginsburg Marlo Delfin Gonzales John Granic Reinier van Grieken Matthew Hasking Pippa Hillebrand Adam Hocken Brian Hughes Jonathan Isip Dave Jones Philip Steven Keroff Sam Knetsch Balazs Kis Mathieu Landry Raphael Lauterbach Liam Linder Kirara Maken Rachele McKelly Alex Molloy Eystein Nicolayes Chris Plater Razillie Norbert Schmitz Christoph Schreiner Jeff Schwarz Chewy Shaw Mary Hall Surface Jason Tarr Jack Tempest Theodore Ts'o UncleSteve Yum Van Vechten Kris Vasicek Pete Warchol via YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSWSy9fpcpY

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Gibbons & Me - Part 1 My favorite primates are gibbons and that started when I spent a year in Indonesian Borneo from mid-1977 to mid-1978. My main job was teaching English As A Second Language (ESL) but I had plenty of extra time to explore and I lived with a mission pilot which let me accompany him in trips into the interior where grass runways had been created by rainforest villages. I also had a small motorcycle that allowed me to travel into remote places. One day I was with a family that lived in the rainforest and were doing public health work with local communities. I was with them when they pointed out the edge of the jungle and there was something swinging from tree to tree. It was a gibbon, a lesser ape not a monkey. They travel by brachiation - traveling by swinging from branch to branch and tree to tree by there incredibly strong arms. I managed on shakey photo. The photo in the upper left. I continued to be fascinated and continued my interest. The other 3 photos are images of Bornean Gibbons known as Mueller’s Gibbons. I saw gibbons on my way home during some time spent in Singapore and visiting their amazing zoo. I saw gibbons there as well. I would return to Southeast Asia in 1980 and there a gibbon entered my life again. In the next post I will tell you about it. #Gibbons #Borneo #KalimantanTimur #KalTim #Indonesia #IndonesianBorneo #MuellersGibbon #BorneanGibbon #RainforestAdventure #LesserApe #Apes (at Kalimantan Timur) https://www.instagram.com/p/CXm76NEr2f9/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Listed: Three Lobed Recordings

For 20 years, Three Lobed Recordings has explored the outer reaches of psychedelic music, presenting Bardo Pond’s heaviest, most improvisatory albums, documenting the American primitive revival via recordings of Jack Rose and Daniel Bachman, listening to emanations from space-age folk troubadours like Wooden Wand, Sunburned Hand of the Man and Matt Valentine and generally pursuing the beauty of experiment, wherever it occurs. To celebrate these past two fruitful decades, label founder Cory Rayborn lists ten of the albums that define Three Lobed (and, necessarily, leaves out others equally valid and interesting). We look forward to lots more in the decades to come.

Personal Choice Cuts from the TLR Catalog (in no particular order, 9 of which might be different if you were to ask me tomorrow).

Gunn-Truscinski Duo — Ocean Parkway (2012)

Ocean Parkway by Gunn-Truscinski Duo

Every time I listen to this album, especially the title track, I feel transported. Long ago my college roommate Jon Nall articulated a test for transcendent songs, for the ones that impact you no matter how many times you hear them. He summed those all-time tracks up as the ones where the hairs on your arms uncontrollably stand up every time you hear them. While every track on this album does it for me every time, throwing me into a sort of uncontrollable head nod and body sway, I am always fully taken away by the entirety of the title track and Steve's swirling guitar build over the entire eighth minute punctuated by the ecstatic tones he hits at 9:06. Yow. The feeling I get from this album is why the label exists.

Various Artists — Eight Trails, One Path (2012)

Eight Trails, One Path by Various Artists

Record Store Day is tough. I love the attention and cash it puts into the hands of independent retailers but hate how commodified it has become over time by the powers that be / majors who see it as an excuse to pump out a bunch of junk that will end up being shelf warmers and ankle weights on those same retailers they claims to be supporting. The first few years when most of the titles were truly from and by indies it was a lot of fun. That was the feeling that led to wanting to put out an RSD title in mid-2011 (an illness I’ve since overcome). Originally conceived as a joined pair of split 7"s, it morphed into a triple 7" and then to a full length album. I wanted to showcase different approaches to solo guitar work and set out to ask a lot of my favorites. I also wanted to put together a special package which was fleshed out with help by Casey Burns on graphics, Grayson Haver Currin on words and Jeff Mueller on printing. I’m still amazed at the interlocked nature of all of the contributions to this one, from Six Organs’ spiritual sibling to “Ascent” in the form of “Stranded on Io” (a track that is a wordless tale all within itself) to the circular beauty of David Daniell’s “Housewarming” and everything else on here. I really love this record.

Tom Carter — Long Time Underground (2015)

Long Time Underground by Tom Carter

Late in 2013 I was chatting with Tom about what shape a record should take. He wanted to go to Black Dirt and get a good, clean capture of what he had been working on with Jason Meagher. TLR is always onboard with a Black Dirt election. Fast forward several months and family TLR was visiting some friends in Vermont around the same time Tom was in the area. We met up and he handed off the masters for a double LP. While we knew that the mix of Tom’s playing, Tom’s writing and Jason’s engineering was going to be magical but we had no idea of the exact form or how insanely potent the album was going to be. Damn. Seriously, just listen to this stuff and absorb that these are all single takes, no overdubs. Haunting and celebratory all at once.

Daniel Bachman — The Morning Star (2018)

The Morning Star by Daniel Bachman

It is pretty fun to watch the arc and path that Daniel’s writing, recording and performing have taken over the last 15 years. From powerhouse steamroller to the intersection of musique concrète and acoustic drone, his current location could maybe have been seen in his early recordings but you likely would have lost most of those dice rolls. The Morning Star speaks to me in so many ways but the stunning bookends of “Invocation” and “New Moon” always hit like a ton of bricks. What is amazing is how Daniel can turn these album cuts into live performances. I saw “New Moon” several times while Daniel was in the process of touring this 2016 self-titled album, always transfixed by it live — the album version loses none of that potency. On the other hand, Daniel re-created “Invocation” at the 2018 Three Lobed / WXDU Annual Ritual of Summoning to stunning effect.

The Michael Flower Band — self-titled (2008)

The Michael Flower Band by The Michael Flower Band

An audio / aural bomb blast, a kosmik rearrangement of the space/time directly around the listener. This take no prisoners statement from Mick Flower (guitar) and John Moloney (drums) is a deep slice for catalog enthusiasts. Just tune into “Balinese Falsehood” and try to not get fully lost. Years ago I described this as “biker psych for the third eye rider” and I’ll stand by that statement fully today.

Wooden Wand and the World War IV — self-titled (2013)

Wooden Wand & the World War IV by Wooden Wand & the World War IV

Picking between Wooden Wand titles is hard for this particular enthusiast but if forced I think I have to push the needle towards the intense Crazy Horse vibes of this studio corker. Surrounded by the “Briarwood” band, perhaps the most telepathic folks with whom Toth has ever played, the results are electric and transfixing. Will I kick myself tomorrow for not picking Clipper Ship? TBD...

Meg Baird & Mary Lattimore — Ghost Forests (2018)

Ghost Forests by Meg Baird and Mary Lattimore

I don’t remember when it came to me, the fact that there wasn’t a deliberately ground-up collaboration between Meg and Mary in existence. I had to ask them if that was purposeful or a gap that was truly something that we should remedy, a question where I had my fingers crossed the entire time. They were both really into the concept, it just took the triangulation of busy satellites to make all of our desires into reality. The results are as sturdy, sheltering and invisible at the edges as the album's title, facts that we are all the better for each time we wrap ourselves in this particular fabric. An all-timer.

Jack Rose — The Black Dirt Sessions (2009)

The Black Dirt Sessions by Jack Rose

I had the good luck and fortune to get to know Jack back in the Pelt days and watch his transition from that ensemble into the singular player and performer that he was for the last eight years of his too short life. Watching a Jack set was always a tiny miracle. I remember him calling me one day, telling me that he had gone to record with Jason Meagher and he had a record that he would really love for me to put out if I was interested. Not only was I most most certainly interested, but I was amazingly humbled and flattered that this friend who I also considered a modern master had recorded something specifically for me without even discussing it with me first. That level of trust was the gift and magic of Jack. If he believed in you that belief gave you all of the power you needed to make anything reality, you were suddenly bulletproof. Every track here is a stunner but “Cross the North Fork” always pulls me in, dares me to turn my attention anywhere else. Rest in power, friend.

Chuck Johnson — Crows In The Basilica (2013)

Crows In The Basilica by Chuck Johnson

Every track on this perfectly constructed and sequenced album is flawlessly beautiful but “On A Slow Passing In Ghost Town” is one of the top 10 tracks in the entire TLR catalog in my estimation. Exactingly and properly composed, performed and recorded.

Bardo Pond — Peri (2009)

Peri by Bardo Pond

The love of Bardo Pond was the seed that initially drove me to create a record label. Their single-minded determination to seek audio truth was apparent to me ages ago and so very inspirational. I ate up everything — the releases, the live shows, the live recording — and I hung on every note. The band had a lot of really, really great tunes that they had been working on between 2001 and 2003, the period between their departing Matador for ATP Records. I could never shake the power of several of the tracks from this era that sort of got abandoned to the shifts of time. After several conversations with Michael Gibbons two albums were born from that period and from some other exceptionally potent tracks. Batholith was the first of these two albums and Peri, the second. Both are so very special to me, the fruit of knowing folks needed to hear these compositions. When writing here I have to pick Peri today as it closes with “Silver Pavilion,” an all-time Bardo Pond thesis statement of sorts.

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Notes on our poem about The Donald, “Ozymandias”

The poem to be published began with the apocalyptic dreams brought upon me by tension between the US and North Korea. It began as a song for the third album, but its scale exceeded our current resources, so I finished it currently as three-part-and-epilogue epic. The only recurring nightmare I’ve had in my life has been of nuclear holocaust, which lead to becoming inevitably inspired by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s “Watchmen.” I’ve been a fan of the graphic novel since I was 13, and one of the movies which I’ve been most excited to see in all my nerdy life (and I did hard time waiting for pictures like Avengers and  Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice -which is still a dumb fucking title-) has been the Zack Snyder adaptation. The only time I’ve been kicked out of a theater was with my dad because he snuck me in to see it and I was too young.

It is both exciting as a fan and profoundly terrifying as a person very much against being incinerated how relevant the book has become in recent times. The excellent TV sequel by Damon Lindelof concluded just three days before impeachment, and the also great and just as sacrilegious comic-book continuation “Doomsday Clock” by Geoff Johns (which I started presciently reading right around before the Mueller fiasco) had its twelfth and last issue published in eerie fashion just yesterday (December 18th, 2019 if you are reading this in the future or past, wink).

Other inspirations include “Oldboy” (for yucky reasons), CNN, Bob Woodward’s “Fear: Trump in the White House,” Ava DuVernay’s “13th,” Lovecraft, “Akira,” Stephen Colbert & SNL, Gerard Way’s first volume of “Umbrella Academy,” Percy Bysshe Shelley & Horace Smith, Stephen King, and Humpty Dumpty.

Our take on the big O is a story about the King of the World, a deranged ruler who was not ousted, conquered the four corners unbridled, and came down eventually under the weight of his own hubris.

He also married his daughter and fathered mutant kids with her in the radioactive winter wasteland.

Yep…

I hope you find it funny; I hope you find it sad. This is for all Mexican people who have been hindered by The Donald.

This is…

OZYMANDIAS.

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Tony predictions?

2018 Tony Predictions

BOLDED- Will Win

ITALICS- Should Win

Best PlayThe Children, by Lucy Kirkwood Farinelli and The King, by Claire van Kampen Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two, by Jack Thorne Junk, by Ayad Akhtar Latin History for Morons, by John Leguizamo

Best MusicalThe Band’s VisitFrozenMean GirlsSpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical

Best Revival of a PlayAngels in AmericaEdward Albee’s Three Tall WomenEugene O'Neill’s The Iceman ComethLobby HeroTravesties

Best Revival of a MusicalMy Fair LadyOnce On This IslandRodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel

Best Book of a MusicalThe Band’s Visit, Itamar MosesFrozen, Jennifer LeeMean Girls, Tina FeySpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical, Kyle Jarrow

Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the TheatreAngels in America, Adrian SuttonThe Band’s Visit, David YazbekFrozen, Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert LopezMean Girls, Jeff Richmond and Nell Benjamin SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical, Music & Lyrics: Yolanda Adams, Steven Tyler & Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Sara Bareilles, Jonathan Coulton, Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, The Flaming Lips, Lady Antebellum, Cyndi Lauper & Rob Hyman, John Legend, Panic! at the Disco, Plain White T’s, They Might Be Giants, T.I., and Domani & Lil'C

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a PlayAndrew Garfield, Angels in AmericaTom Hollander, TravestiesJamie Parker, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and TwoMark Rylance, Farinelli and The KingDenzel Washington, Eugene O'Neill’s The Iceman Cometh

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a PlayGlenda Jackson, Edward Albee’s Three Tall WomenCondola Rashad, Saint JoanLauren Ridloff, Children of a Lesser GodAmy Schumer, Meteor Shower

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a MusicalHarry Hadden-Paton, My Fair LadyJoshua Henry, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s CarouselTony Shalhoub, The Band’s VisitEthan Slater, SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a MusicalLauren Ambrose, My Fair LadyHailey Kilgore, Once On This IslandLaChanze, Summer: The Donna Summer MusicalKatrina Lenk, The Band’s VisitTaylor Louderman, Mean GirlsJessie Mueller, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a PlayAnthony Boyle, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and TwoMichael Cera, Lobby HeroBrian Tyree Henry, Lobby HeroNathan Lane, Angels in AmericaDavid Morse, Eugene O'Neill’s The Iceman Cometh

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a PlaySusan Brown, Angels in AmericaNoma Dumezweni, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and TwoDeborah Findlay, The ChildrenDenise Gough, Angels in AmericaLaurie Metcalf, Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a MusicalNorbert Leo Butz, My Fair LadyAlexander Gemignani, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s CarouselGrey Henson, Mean GirlsGavin Lee, SpongeBob SquarePants: The MusicalAri'el Stachel, The Band’s Visit

*would also be very happy with Gavin Lee winning

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a MusicalAriana DeBose, Summer: The Donna Summer MusicalRenée Fleming, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s CarouselLindsay Mendez, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s CarouselAshley Park, Mean GirlsDiana Rigg, My Fair Lady

*this category is such a freaking mess honestly none of these people deserve awards for these performances I’m not even marking who I want to win cause it’s none of these people

Best Scenic Design of a PlayMiriam Buether, Edward Albee’s Three Tall WomenJonathan Fensom, Farinelli and The KingChristine Jones, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and TwoSanto Loquasto, Eugene O'Neill’s The Iceman ComethIan MacNeil and Edward Pierce, Angels in America

Best Scenic Design of a MusicalDane Laffrey, Once On This IslandScott Pask, The Band’s VisitScott Pask, Finn Ross & Adam Young, Mean GirlsMichael Yeargan, My Fair LadyDavid Zinn, SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical

Best Costume Design of a PlayJonathan Fensom, Farinelli and The KingNicky Gillibrand, Angels in AmericaKatrina Lindsay, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and TwoAnn Roth, Edward Albee’s Three Tall WomenAnn Roth, Eugene O'Neill’s The Iceman Cometh

Best Costume Design of a MusicalGregg Barnes, Mean GirlsClint Ramos, Once On This IslandAnn Roth, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s CarouselDavid Zinn, SpongeBob SquarePants: The MusicalCatherine Zuber, My Fair Lady

Best Lighting Design of a PlayNeil Austin, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and TwoPaule Constable, Angels in AmericaJules Fisher + Peggy Eisenhauer, Eugene O'Neill’s The Iceman ComethPaul Russell, Farinelli and The KingBen Stanton, Junk

Best Lighting Design of a MusicalKevin Adams, SpongeBob SquarePants: The MusicalJules Fisher + Peggy Eisenhauer, Once On This IslandDonald Holder, My Fair LadyBrian MacDevitt, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s CarouselTyler Micoleau, The Band’s Visit

Best Sound Design of a PlayAdam Cork, TravestiesIan Dickinson for Autograph, Angels in AmericaGareth Fry, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and TwoTom Gibbons, 1984Dan Moses Schreier, Eugene O'Neill’s The Iceman Cometh

Best Sound Design of a MusicalKai Harada, The Band’s VisitPeter Hylenski, Once On This IslandScott Lehrer, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s CarouselBrian Ronan, Mean GirlsWalter Trarbach and Mike Dobson, SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical

Best Direction of a PlayMarianne Elliott, Angels in AmericaJoe Mantello, Edward Albee’s Three Tall WomenPatrick Marber, TravestiesJohn Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and TwoGeorge C. Wolfe, Eugene O'Neill’s The Iceman Cometh

Best Direction of a MusicalMichael Arden, Once On This IslandDavid Cromer, The Band’s VisitTina Landau, SpongeBob SquarePants: The MusicalCasey Nicholaw, Mean GirlsBartlett Sher, My Fair Lady

Best ChoreographyChristopher Gattelli, My Fair LadyChristopher Gattelli, SpongeBob SquarePants: The MusicalSteven Hoggett, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and TwoCasey Nicholaw, Mean GirlsJustin Peck, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel

Best OrchestrationsJohn Clancy, Mean GirlsTom Kitt, SpongeBob SquarePants: The MusicalAnnmarie Milazzo & Michael Starobin, Once On This IslandJamshied Sharifi, The Band’s VisitJonathan Tunick, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel

*always would be happy with Tom Kitt winning anything

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Breakdown of Keith Kinkaid’s “Kinkode”

🚪-Miles Wood

👃🏻-Stefan Noesen

💪🏻-Brian Boyle

🍎-an assist

🤡-Cory Schneider

👶🏼-Jesper Bratt

🇫🇮-Sami Vatanen

🥒-Blake Coleman

⛳️-Andy Greene

🇨🇿-Pavel Zacha

🐒-Brian Gibbons

🐇-Nick Lappin

🎅🏻-Steven Santini

🔪-Will Butcher

🌾-Jimmy Hayes

🏨-Taylor Hall

🤠-Damon Severson

😍-Ben Lovejoy

💤-Travis Zajac

☕️-Marcus Johansson

🖍-Drew Stafford

🇨🇭-Nico Hischier

🌴-Kyle Palmieri

➕-John Moore

🐴-Mirco Mueller

👨🏻-Adam Henrique

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But You'll Do - MALINDA (one take) STREAM AND DOWNLOAD: https://ift.tt/EfAQbta SUBSCRIBE and hit that bell: https://bit.ly/2OgWtuA SUPPORT my videos on Patreon: http://bit.ly/MKRsupport FOLLOW ME ON SPOTIFY: https://ift.tt/VEG1Y6i MERCH: https://shopmalinda.com Follow me on: Twitter @missmalindakat https://twitter.com/missmalindakat Facebook https://ift.tt/foIOciS Instagram @missmalindakat https://ift.tt/QEJr4dN TikTok @malindamusic https://ift.tt/FeHQErC Written by MALINDA, Hannah Tobias and Johnny Deltoro Produced by Hannah Tobias and Johnny Deltoro Video by Christopher Mueller For fan mail: 3430 Connecticut Ave NW PO Box 11855 Washington DC 20008 **EQUIPMENT** (all links are affiliate links, so if you buy from here you support me too!) AUDIO For singing: http://amzn.to/2wwYXRo For vlogging: http://amzn.to/2wyQfSE A great start mic: http://amzn.to/2xhkScb Interface: http://amzn.to/2fAxFyM VIDEO Camera: http://amzn.to/2hi08JS Lens: http://amzn.to/2fABZ14 Vlog camera: http://amzn.to/2xnN4vT I use Logic and Final Cut Pro to edit audio and video respectively :) THANK YOU PATRONS!! Christian Ashby Ed Banas Russ Billings Heather BookCat Fredrik Boström Bree Campbell Will & Sheila Cole Tom Corrigan Samuel Duckworth Fr. Joe Fessenden Mariah Fyock-Williams Nick Gagalis Robert Gibbons Jr Mimi Ginsburg Marlo Delfin Gonzales John Granic Reinier van Grieken Matthew Hasking Pippa Hillebrand Adam Hocken Brian Hughes Jonathan Isip Dave Jones Philip Steven Keroff Sam Knetsch Balazs Kis Mathieu Landry Raphael Lauterbach Liam Linder Kirara Maken Rachele McKelly Alex Molloy Eystein Nicolayes Chris Plater Razillie Norbert Schmitz Christoph Schreiner Jeff Schwarz Chewy Shaw Mary Hall Surface Jason Tarr Jack Tempest Theodore Ts'o UncleSteve Yum Van Vechten Kris Vasicek Pete Warchol via YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSWSy9fpcpY

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There was one day at work last week where the internet was down and I couldn’t do ANYTHING so I made predictions on the Tony nominations tomorrow and here they are.

Best Musical:

Band's Visit

Frozen

Mean Girls

Spongebob Squarepants

Best Musical Revival:

Carousel

My Fair Lady

Once on This Island

Best Leading Actor in a Musical: 

Harry Hadden Paton (My Fair Lady)

Joshua Henry (Carousel)

Paul Alexander Nolan (Escape to Margaritaville)

Tony Shalhoub (Band's Visit)

Ethan Slater (Spongebob Squarepants)

Best Leading Actress in a Musical:

Lauren Ambrose (My Fair Lady)

Hailey Kilgore (Once on This Island)

Katrina Lenk (Band's Visit)

Taylor Louderman (Mean Girls)

Jessie Mueller (Carousel)

*alternate: Patti Murin (Frozen)

Best Featured Actor in a Musical:

Norbert Leo Butz (My Fair Lady)

Gavin Lee (Spongebob Squarepants)

Alex Newell (Once on This Island)

Ari'el Stachel (Band's Visit)

Tony Yazbeck (Prince of Broadway)

*alternate: Grey Henson (Mean Girls)

Best Featured Actress in a Musical:

Lindsay Mendez (Carousel)

Ashley Park (Mean Girls)

Kenita Miller (Once on This Island)

Diana Rigg (My Fair Lady) 

Kate Rockwell (Mean Girls)

Best Direction of a Musical:

Michael Arden (Once on This Island)

David Cromer (Band's Visit)

Casey Nicholaw (Mean Girls)

Tina Landau (Spongebob Squarepants)

Bartlett Sher (My Fair Lady)

Best Book of a Musical:

Tina Fey (Mean Girls)

Jennifer Lee (Frozen)

Kyle Jarrow (Sponegbob Squarepants)

Itamar Moses (Band's Visit)

Best Original Score:

Nell Benjamin & Jeff Richmond (Mean Girls)

The entire planet Earth (Spongebob Squarepants)

Robert Lopez & Kristen Anderson-Lopez (Frozen)

David Yazbeck (Band's Visit)

Best Orchestrations:

Imogen Heap (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child)

Claire von Kampen (Farinelli and the King)

AnnMarie Milazzo & Michael Starobin (Once on this Island)

Jamshied Sharifi (Band's Visit)

Best Choreography:

Justin Peck (Carousel)

Steve Hoggett (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child)

Casey Nicholaw (Mean Girls)

Christopher Gattelli (Spongebob Squarepants)

Camille A. Brown (Once on this Island)

Best Scenic Design in a Musical:

Dane Laffrey (Once on This Island)

Christopher Oram (Frozen)

Michael Yeargan (My Fair Lady)

David Zinn (Spongebob Squarepants)

Best Costumes in a Musical:

Sarah Laux (Band's Visit)

Clint Ramos (Once on this Island)

David Zinn (Spongebob Squarepants)

Catherine Zuber (My Fair Lady)

Best Lighting in a Musical:

Kevin Adams (Spongebob Squarepants)

Jules Fisher & Peggy Eisenhauer (Once on this Island)

Natasha Katz (Frozen)

Kenneth Posner (Mean Girls)

Best Sound Design in a Musical:

Kai Harada (Band's Visit)

Peter Hylenski (Once on this Island)

Marc Salzberg (My Fair Lady)

Walter Trarbach (Spongebob Squarepants)

Best Play:

Farinelli and the King

The Children

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Junk

*possible fifth slot: Meteor Shower

Best Revival of a Play:

Angels in America

Iceman Cometh

Three Tall Women

Travesties

*possible fifth slot: Lobby Hero

Best Leading Actor in a Play:

Andrew Garfield (Angels in America)

Tom Hollander (Travesties)

Jamie Park (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child)

Mark Rylance (Farinelli and the King)

Denzel Washington (Iceman Cometh)

Best Leading Actress in a Play:

Glenda Jackson (Three Tall Women)

Lauren Ridloff (Children of a Lesser God)

Condola Rashad (Saint Joan)

Amy Schumer (Meteor Shower)

Elizabeth McGovern (Time and the Conways)

Best Featured Actor in a Play:

Anthony Boyle (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child)

Brian Tyree Henry (Lobby Hero)

Nathan Lane (Angels in America)

James McArdle (Angels in America)

David Morse (Iceman Cometh)

*note: really want Chris Evans (Lobby Hero) to be nominated over Brian Tyree Henry cause I was more impressed with his performance but I don't think it'll happen

Best Featured Actress in a Play:

Laura Benanti (Meteor Shower)

Noma Dumenzweni (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child)

Denise Gough (Angels in America)

Laurie Metcalf (Three Tall Women)

Allison Pill (Three Tall Women)

*alternate option: Susan Brown (Angels in America)

Best Direction of a Play:

Marianne Elliot (Angels in America)

Joe Mantello (Three Tall Women)

Patrick Marber (Travesties)

John Tiffany (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child)

Best Costume Design in a Play:

Nicky Gillibrand (Angels in America)

Katrina Lindsay (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child)

Ann Roth (Three Tall Women)

Paloma Young (Time and the Conways)

Best Scenic Design in a Play:

Miriam Buether (Three Tall Women)

Tim Hatley (Travesties) 

Christine Jones (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) 

Ian MacNeil (Angels in America)

Best Lighting Design in a Play:

Neil Austin (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child)

Neil Austin (Travesties)

Paule Constable (Angels in America) 

Tim Reid (1984)

Best Sound Design in a Play:

Adam Cork (Travesties)

Ian Dickinson (Angels in America)

Gareth Fry (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child)

Tom Gibbons (1984)

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The American Empire Is the Sick Man of the 21st Century

Failure at the center has left the United States up for sale to the highest bidder.

As the author Isaac Asimov observed, empires tend to fall because they overextend themselves, spoil their elites, and produce the preconditions for their own demise. — David Klion writes.

— By David Klion | APRIL 2, 2019 | Foreign Policy

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In his classic Foundation series, Isaac Asimov imagines a Galactic Empire, governed from the city-world of Trantor, that has maintained peace and prosperity for thousands of years but that is teetering on the brink of decline. The only person who sees this clearly is the psychohistorian Hari Seldon, who has mathematically determined that the core conditions for the Empire are unsustainable and will crumble over the course of centuries.

As Trantor “becomes more and more the administrative center of Empire, it becomes a greater prize,” a disciple says as he absorbs Seldon’s calculations. “As the Imperial succession becomes more and more uncertain, and the feuds among the great families more rampant, social responsibility disappears.”

Asimov published these words in 1951, at the peak of U.S. global power. But they might as well be describing Washington in 2019, an imperial capital whose elite have transformed it into a great prize to be feuded over as surely as Asimov’s future empire did—and as other empires have done in the past.

How did a decadent ruling class become a national security risk, an existential threat to the American empire? The answer lies in the 1970s, when the weaknesses of the midcentury American social contract were exposed through stagflation, the energy crisis, and the disastrous Vietnam War.

In response, America’s political elites embraced privatization, deregulation, massive tax cuts for the wealthy, the outsourcing of industrial jobs, and the financialization of the economy. Inequality has skyrocketed ever since, and much of the United States has experienced a steady decline while a handful of major cities, including Washington, have become hyperwealthy and almost unaffordable through the concentration of financial, tech, and media monopolies and their affiliated lobbyists. By now, many Americans know this story—but few think about what it means for their place in the world.

There are two conventional ways of understanding America’s global role. According to one theory, the bipolar world of the Cold War has given way to a unipolar world in which the United States is the undisputed hegemon. Some observers see this as a good thing and champion American empire, while others see it as a bad thing and seek to resist American empire, but both sides agree that American empire is the defining feature of our era.

A second theory, only different from the first by degrees, asserts that the post-Cold War world is multipolar, with the United States as the clear dominant power among many potential rivals, including countries such as China that might conceivably surpass the United States down the line.

But what if neither theory is correct? The near-universal understanding of the United States as a powerful, unified global actor is flawed and in need of revision. The United States is less a great power exerting its will and more an open-air market for global corruption, in which outside powers can purchase influence, shape political outcomes, and play factions against each other in the service of their own competing agendas.

That’s a familiar historical story. Although Foundation drew its direct inspiration from Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, history is replete with examples of seemingly powerful empires run by weak, divided elites and picked apart by outside powers.

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, a vast aristocratic republic that dominated Eastern Europe in one form or another from the 14th to the 18th century, was wiped off the map by its neighbors, who found they could bribe its senators into paralyzing all political decisions. The Ottoman Empire of the mid-19th century was infamously dubbed “the sick man of Europe” as Western European powers chipped away at its territories and encouraged independence movements against it. During the same period, China under the Qing Dynasty was forced to give up numerous territorial concessions to European colonial empires—all of which, in turn, would themselves disintegrate within a century.

It may seem absurd to compare the United States in 2019 to the decadent and crumbling imperial powers of the past. But consider the state of the capital right now. President Donald Trump, as almost everyone at least privately concedes, is incompetent at fulfilling his most basic responsibilities and a global laughingstock.

Trump’s administration is openly bought by foreign governments via his international network of hotels and resorts, including the one located directly between the White House and the U.S. Capitol, where a Saudi-funded lobbyist rented 500 rooms in the month after the 2016 election. His political party, which still controls the Senate and increasingly dominates the judiciary, has no interest in holding him accountable for any of this. And of course there’s the small matter of Russian interference in the 2016 election; as the limited information known so far from special counsel Robert Mueller’s report confirms, Trump and the Republicans were at the very least the passive and willing beneficiaries of efforts by a foreign power to influence the election outcome.

But Trump is only a symptom, the most blatant and cartoonish example of how the influence of outside money in Washington has become routine over the past generation. From the pervasive influence of the United Arab Emirates and other Gulf monarchies over think tanks and media organizations to virtually the entire U.S. government kowtowing before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee to China’s warm relationship with the Chamber of Commerce and with the heads of some of the most powerful U.S. companies to the funneling of foreign money through the real estate industries of the country’s largest and wealthiest cities—the U.S. government is for sale.

To be sure, it isn’t only, or even primarily, foreign money that rules Washington. Powerful corporate interests in general have almost completely crowded out democratic accountability in the capital, including major U.S.-based industries such as finance, insurance, energy, and tech. Then again, is there any such thing as a U.S.-based industry anymore? Most of the biggest companies are multinational, with headquarters in major cities around the world and executives whose staggering wealth means they have more in common socially with their international counterparts than with most Americans.

The complete deregulation of campaign finance and the subsequent legalization of corruption in Washington, on a scale unheard of in other developed countries, have resulted in a capital where the distinction between foreign and domestic monied interests is harder and harder to parse. The U.S. government, in other words, does not exist to serve the interests of Americans through either its foreign or its domestic policies; rather, it exists to perpetuate the interests of the globalized oligarchy.

There’s an obvious counterargument to all of this: The United States still spends more on defense than the next seven countries combined, and it still operates a network of hundreds of military bases spread across nearly half the countries on Earth. No other country remotely rivals the United States in its ability to project military power. And no other country is as wealthy or mints the global reserve currency or wields as much soft power.

At the same time, focusing entirely on the American empire from the top down can confuse causality. Focusing entirely on the American empire from the top down can confuse causality. Consider, for instance, the overthrow of Egypt’s post-Arab Spring elected leader Mohamed Morsi in a 2013 coup. In former White House advisor Ben Rhodes’s memoir, he describes President Barack Obama’s administration not as the driving force behind this coup but as the passive recipient of relentless pressure from its Saudi and Emirati allies, who waged an information campaign against the U.S. ambassador while plotting with the Egyptian military.

Focusing entirely on the American empire from the top down can confuse causality.

Rhodes writes that he personally received a photo in the mail portraying the U.S. ambassador as an accomplice of the Muslim Brotherhood from Yousef al-Otaiba, the ubiquitous, hard-partying, extremely well-connected Emirati ambassador in Washington. While Rhodes and Obama also faced pressure from within the Washington establishment, they found their agenda for the Middle East repeatedly hijacked by foreign allies—the same governments that also lobbied, with varying success, for U.S. military operations from Syria to Yemen. American power, however mighty, means nothing if it’s being used for the ends of the highest bidders.

So what if the American empire is coming apart at the seams? Good riddance, many would say. U.S. hegemony has been a disaster, spreading war and exploitation around the globe and poisoning the climate beyond repair. And that’s true: As Asimov observed, empires tend to fall because they overextend themselves, spoil their elites, and produce the preconditions for their own demise. But what we’re seeing is neither a considered, responsible withdrawal from empire in order to invest in urgent needs at home nor a revolt against empire by the world’s wretched. Rather, it’s a drawn-out, decadent collapse recognizable to any student of Rome or Constantinople. America is the sick man of the 21st century, and anyone who has watched its president bumble through a gathering of bemused, pitying world leaders knows it.

David Klion is a writer and editor in Brooklyn, New York, whose work has appeared in The Nation, The New York Times, The Guardian, Jewish Currents, and other publications.

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Watchmen Episode 2 Easter Eggs Explained

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We're piecing together all of the clues and Easter eggs in the Watchmen HBO series.

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This article contains Watchmen episode 2 spoilers.

HBO’s Watchmen episode 2 continues the pattern of the first episode, not only reminding audiences of its ties to the comics, but also offering echoes of the original story in unexpected places. And just as we did with episode one, we’re here to track down all of the Watchmen Easter eggs on the HBO series. 

If you spot something we missed, let us know in the comments or on Twitter and we’ll get this updated!

THE TITLE

The episode’s title, “Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship” references the painting that the camera ominously lingers on in Judd’s house during the wake. That painting is a 1834 work by George Catlin, known for his depictions of Native Americans. Weirdly the episode title has rearranged the original name of the painting a bit as it’s titled “Comanche Feats of Martial Horsemanship.” The Comanche were accomplished horsemen, and often fought on horseback. I’m not fluent enough in Native American history or 19th century art to fully explain the possible significance, historical or otherwise of this painting. Please enlighten us in the comments.

THE SQUID RAIN AND THE NEWS

- This episode gives us our first mentions of both the New Frontiersman and Nova Express, the right and left wing papers (respectively) of the Watchmen universe. Rorschach was a massive fan of the New Frontiersman, which in this timeline is also owned (surprise!) by Roger Ailes.

- While the squid rain showers appear to have been going on for quite some time, it appears that the one that we saw in episode 1 was particularly widespread, with people talking about them happening simultaneously in multiple cities across the globe. It’s also interesting to note that people in this world consider them “false flags.”

- And, of course, we get the newsvendor giving the audience the running commentary on the state of the world, just as we did in the original book. While not the same character as the one from the book, this guy, Seymour, is roughly the same age and played by Robert Wisdom (The Wire), and also made his first proper appearance in the second chapter. Also note that in a world without the internet, newspapers are still far more important than they are to ours.

- We finally meet Senator (and Presidential hopeful) Joe Keene. Robert Redford is currently serving his 7th (!) term in office and isn’t planning on running for an 8th. Keene is the conservative candidate most likely to make a run for it. His father was responsible for the Keene Act which outlawed masked vigilante activity in the wake of the police strike of 1977.

RORSCHACH

- To say that Detective Looking Glass is the Rorschach of this show would perhaps be a little too obvious, hence his display of emotion with “then why am I crying under here.�� On the other hand, later in the episode we see that even at home he eats with the mask on, Rorschach style. This COULD play into the idea that, like Walter Kovacs, Looking Glass sees his mask as his true face.

We wrote more about Rorschach and his connection to the 7th Kavalry right here.

SISTER NIGHT and THE WHITE NIGHT

- The flashback to “the White Night” is the first piece of Angela’s Sister Night origin story that we get in this show, and like it was for characters in the original book, this will be teased out over future chapters.

- The version of “Santa Baby” that plays during the flashback sequence to the White Night appears to be Eartha Kitt’s. Eartha Kitt wore a mask herself as Catwoman during the third season of the 1966 Batman TV series. It’s interesting to note that the song slows down as danger increases, perhaps to illustrate how time slows and senses sharpen in moments of great duress.

- Also, when Cal wants to open his present it’s “two minutes to midnight.” The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists tracks how close humanity is to annihilating itself via its “Doomsday Clock.” The clock began at “7 minutes to midnight in 1947, hit “two minutes to midnight” in 1953, and has been as far away as 17 minutes in the ensuing decades. It is at this moment once again set at “two minutes to midnight” in part to reflect the growing threat and reality of climate change, as well as reckless nuclear saber rattling by world leaders who probably should know better but obviously do not.

It’s also a killer Iron Maiden tune, but you knew that.

- The blood spatter on Angela’s face almost could be another mirror of the “minutes to midnight” blood spatter pattern on the Comedian’s badge which has long been considered Watchmen’s logo.

- Note that during the flashback in the hospital, Judd’s bandages correspond to the old bullet scars we saw on him in episode 1 when he was putting his shirt on.

- Angela’s phone number is 539-176-2442. At the moment nothing happens if you call it. Not that I've tried or anything.

THE COMEDIAN

- In Nixonville, Red antagonizing a crowd and then losing it when somebody throws a bottle feels very much like the similarly antagonistic Comedian, back when he was partnered up with Nite Owl, taking on a crowd of rioters during the police strike in 1977 before the passage of the Keene Act. Of course, Red and the Comedian would share very little in common politically.

read more: How HBO's Watchmen Was Brought to Life

- Angela’s discovery of Judd’s...um...costume...directly mirrors Rorschach’s discovery of the Comedian’s costume in Edward Blake’s closet in the first issue of Watchmen. Like Angela, Rorschach had no idea of his colleague’s double identity. The difference here is that Rorschach and Comedian worked together professionally as masked adventurers, and didn’t know each other’s secret identities. Rorschach instead stumbles on Blake’s true identity while investigating his murder.

NITE OWL

- Angela and Cal’s children are wearing “pirate” and “owl” costumes. The pirate remains a key pop cultural touchstone in the Watchmen universe, as pirate comics filled the void that superhero comics never needed to fill, as illustrated by the “Tales of the Black Freighter” story that runs through the Watchmen book. “Feed ‘em to the sharks” feels like a reference to that particularly macabre supernatural pirate story. 

The “owl” is a reference to Nite Owl, and while Dan Dreiberg has so far been absent from this show, he’s here in spirit in a number of ways, perhaps especially in the goggles we Angela using to search Judd’s closet at the end of the episode, which look suspiciously like Nite Owl technology. In fact, between the Owlship style hovercraft we saw used as a police vehicle in episode 1, this, and the revelation via HBO’s official supplemental materials that Dan Dreiberg was arrested in 1995 for actions that violated the Keene Act, it might be possible that his punishment might involve creating technology for the police. Or it was simply handed over, confiscated, and then duplicated.

DR. MANHATTAN

- The weird, floating magnetic castle that Topher is building looks very much like the red sand castle we saw Dr. Manhattan building in the first episode. The big blue guy also dismissed that with a wave of his hand. Both structures look suspiciously similar to the castle occupied by the guy who is most certainly not Adrian Veidt (ahem) that Jeremy Irons is playing.

- In the background of Topher’s room there’s a reproduction of Salvador Dali’s “The Persistence of Memory,” the “melting pocket watch” painting that could be the surrealist’s most famed work. Considering Jon Osterman’s (and now theoretical Adrian Veidt’s) love for pocket watches, this could be significant, especially when paired with the apparent affinity Topher has with the dwellings/constructions of both characters.

- The play that the “mysterious gentleman” is putting on at the end of the episode is a dramatization of Dr. Jon Osterman’s transformation into Dr. Manhattan, right down to one of the “clones” (if that’s what they are) adopting the character’s blue skin tone and traditional nudity. It wouldn’t be a Watchmen show if there wasn’t some blue dong. If only it was glowing. I’m sure we’ll get there.

AMERICAN HERO STORY AND HOODED JUSTICE

- Opening with “Fraulein Mueller” typing a piece of propaganda can’t be a coincidence in the same episode where we have the “American Hero Story” episode about Rolf Mueller, Hooded Justice.

- The propaganda leaflet dropped on black American soldiers marching towards the line in World War I is word for word from an actual historical leaflet from 1917.

- The FCC warning on American Hero Story: Minutemen feels like a jab at the kind of self policing common in liberal circles. Robert Redford is apparently an exceptionally liberal President, and not everyone is thrilled about it. Note, for example, how the newsvendor jokes about Redford’s “libstapo.”

- American Hero Story focuses heavily on the early days of Hooded Justice. The painting on the back of Rolf’s corpse’s jacket is from a particular Dave Gibbons illustration in the book, meant to be a photograph of Muller as a circus strongman in his prime. The fact that the narrator hints that this isn’t him is a nod to the fact that the corpse was so badly decomposed that they weren’t able to make a positive identification on him. 

We wrote much more about the convoluted mystery surrounding Hooded Justice right here.

You may also note that, like Judd’s dead body, “Rolf” is only wearing one boot.

- Incidentally, the style in which American Hero Story is presented, from the use of slow motion to the speed-ramping to the oversaturated colors and absurdly self-serious and unintentionally hilarious narration and tone, all feel a little like how Zack Snyder envisioned this world in his 2007 Watchmen movie adaptation. 

- Interestingly, they use a kid hawking newspapers to set the stage for Hooded Justice’s first major adventure, and he’s referring to Orson Welles’ famous “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast and hoax. However, Welles’ broadcast took place on Oct. 30, 1938, while Under the Hood sets the supermarket fight as Oct. 13, 1938. This isn’t an inaccuracy on HBO’s part, and is likely instead just an example of the American Hero Story producers taking artistic license to place the Hooded Justice fight in the fall of 1938 rather than tie it to a specific date.

ADRIAN VEIDT?

- Based on the candles on the cake, it appears to be Veidt’s SECOND anniversary wherever he is, even though only one day has passed for everyone else. Is this a sign of how time passes where he is, or perhaps the perceptions of those around him?

- “Nothing ends. Nothing ever ends,” were Dr. Manhattan’s last words to Adrian Veidt before departing for...redder pastures...at the end of the book.

- The stopwatch kicks off at 9 minutes to midnight. There are nine episodes of this show, hence “it has only just begun.” Incidentally, the Doomsday Clock has been set at 9 minutes to midnight twice in history, once in 1974 and again in 1998.

MUSIC

- The Temptations’ “Ball of Confusion” plays as Angela heads back to Judd’s murder scene, which...seems a little on the nose as far as music cues go.

- The episode ends with “Egg Man” by the Beastie Boys over the closing credits. The egg has been a recurring theme in these two episodes, whether it was Angela making the “smiley face” with the yolks in episode 1, or Will’s affinity for hard-boiled eggs (and the egg timer) in this episode. Look, any time we get a deep cut Beastie Boys needledrop anywhere it’s cause for celebration, and this song, which comes from their second LP, Paul’s Boutique. The song is a simple ode to the joys of throwing eggs at people. Considering the original Watchmen story takes place around Halloween, and this episode airs mere days before “Gate Night” when egg throwing and other mischief is a New York (and elsewhere) tradition, this is both playful and brilliant.

MISCELLANEOUS STUFF

- The paparazzi are wearing wings, and referred to as “moths.” This is likely an evolution of the crude flight technology that former Minutemen member Byron Lewis, the Mothman wore. The last we heard of Mothman in the original Watchmen book, he had suffered a nervous breakdown and was institutionalized. His fate is explored further in DC’s Doomsday Clock comic book sequel.

- Henry Louis “Skip” Gates is indeed a real person, a prominent African-American historian, teacher, and literary critic and scholar. We wrote more about him right here.

- In the alley behind Angela’s bakery you can see the same graffiti that the Knot-Top gang in the Watchmen comic painted. It’s a silhouette of two lovers, intended to evoke the shadows burned into the walls of Hiroshima by the atomic bomb. Somehow that motif made it to Tulsa, Oklahoma.

- Will is 105 years old. He jokes about being Dr. Manhattan, which obviously he is not. One thing notable is that the Bass Reeves silent film in episode 1 featured him wearing a costume that looked an awful lot like Hooded Justice. And Will is fond of the red and purple color scheme of that old masked vigilante. It's probably a coincidence, though. Right? Oh wait, there are no coincidences in the world of Watchmen.

Did you spot anything I missed? Let us know in the comments!

Keep up with all our Watchmen news and reviews here.

Mike Cecchini is the Editor in Chief of Den of Geek. You can read more of his work here. Follow him on Twitter @wayoutstuff.

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CANTLON'S CORNER: WOLF PACK OPEN FOR BUSINESS

BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT - It's clearly the first days of school time for the Hartford Wolf Pack as the team's brand new head coach, Kris Knoblauch, is trying to find his "sea legs" as much as his roster of 32 had a strong, two-hour practice on Monday. As they prepare for their first exhibition game Wednesday night in Danbury against the Springfield Thunderbirds, Knoblauch was very non-committal as he goes forward day-to-day. “This is my first head coaching job at the AHL, of course, I‘ve had time in juniors, but this is a completely different setup. The Rangers gotta be at 23  (roster permitted under the CBA) so I think a day-at-a-time right now. I can’t think too far ahead right now. I’m really happy with the teamwork so far, and we had some solid play in Traverse City. It was my first look at the team, and we had some very strong play, so it was a good first step.” Personally, for the Knoblauchs, getting settled in has been a whirlwind. “We got here in mid-August. Three days later, the kids (age 11 and 9) are starting school. Then, I’m off to Traverse City for a week. I come back, get things set up at home, and with the team, its been an awful lot of work, but we're excited to be here,” said Knoblauch. Coordinating practices is not as simple as just throwing pucks out there and putting the nets on their magnets. Despite a large number of players, Knoblauch has felt the longer practices (two hours) will help the acclimation process for coaches and players alike. "The ice has been pretty good and held up well. We set-up our structures and foundations,” Knoblauch, who had a lot of three-on-three drills for "Red Squad" (mostly veterans), "Blue Squad" and navy colored jersey squads accenting twenty feet and in around the end on offense and defensive side of things. Getting to know the players beyond scouting file is Task Management 101. “I know some of the guys, but a lot I have to learn and the process is day-to-day. Having an assistant like David Cunniff is gonna be important for me to lean on because he has been in the AHL seven or eight years. It’s the support system the Rangers have set-up. It’s gonna make my job easier on and off the ice.” One veteran player on defense, an extremely contested position in Hartford and with the parent Rangers, was free agent, off-season, signing Jeff LoVerde. “I can see right away why he was the LA organization all those years as a valuable part of their team in Ontario. He really conducts himself very well and had jumped in to help the younger players and I think he’s gonna be a very important asset back there." Clearly, goaltending is a position of major organizational interest. Ex-Pack, Alexander Georgiev, is presently penciled in as Henrik Lundqvist’s backup. Russia's highly touted rookie with plenty of KHL experience, Igor Shesterkin, has a serious stack of bricks of his shoulder pads with the very high expectations that have been five years in the making. Former UCONN netminder, Adam Huska, has had a strong camp for the Rangers. ‘We'll have two goalies battling, we have a third (Tom McCollum) here as well, and they all want to be playing, and all three will be in the mix. We're going to have some strong competitors in net. There are so many variables and possibilities that will be there both of them have played well." Knoblauch was non-committal as to who will start in net tomorrow or if there will be games split between rookies Francois Brassard and Jake Kumsky, a Union College grad who already had a deal with Ft. Wayne (ECHL) and who's in training camp on a PTO. Up-front, one player who has stood out from Traverse City to the early stages of this training camp, has been Lewis-Zertet Gossage, a Kent Prep grad, who has had a strong five-game audition at the end of last season. “He has stood out right in rookie camp. He came in in great shape and his speed with his size is quite good. It gives him an advantage among a variety of factors of course that go into (evaluation).” The backline has an abundance of players and contracts and will be a position where some players could be on the outside looking in. “We have a real mixture here of guys from some still unsigned, to some who are, and some young guys coming up who have shown their skills and also players still with New York. There are a lot of moving pieces here. One of the other good things is we have Gord Murphy, who we're very fortunate to have, and he will be a very important part of working with our defense and the group we put together.” A few players of note are back in camp ready to tackle a new season, and the changes since John Davidson, the team's new President, has taken over and the wholesale new coaching staff both in style and quantity has been unmistakable. “It's kinda hard to define. There is clearly a more upbeat feel this year and it’s really all brand new. I’m still adjusting to it, so it's all-new for me," forward Gabriel Fontaine, who was just sent down and entering his third and final season of his original entry-level deal, said. He was a defensive center his first year and battled for more ice time. He got quality offensive shifts including powerplay time, but Fontaine, after a summer spent back home in Sherbrooke, Quebec, and after this camp, which he stayed at longer, is aware of his role from the outset. “I’m gonna take any tools they send my way and put it in my bag and continue to work toward getting to the NHL. It’s a pretty big change here. It's just gonna get bigger and faster and be part of the leadership group here in Hartford. Clearly, a different vibe here, it’s hard to describe right now.” Fontaine is fully embracing a defensive role as he readies to embark on his third pro season. “The Rangers want me to concentrate more on becoming a reliable center defensively, take  (important) faceoffs and that’s gonna help me make that jump to the NHL. I won’t be a first line guy on the powerplay,” Fontaine said with a laugh. "Everybody wants points on the powerplay. This is gonna be my path to the NHL.” The other player is the sunny, smiling, Ty Ronning. He spent some of his off-season in Phoenix seeing his one-year-old nephew and training back home in Vancouver. “New coaching staff, I’m a little older. I'll be 22 next month. A virtual graybeard. I'm really excited and I realize its a big year here. Expectations are big, I got two years left on my contract, so it’s a big year,” remarked Ronning. Speed has been his calling card in juniors. Ronning felt he needed more improvement. “I worked on getting my three strides quicker. I’m a small guy, and if I can gain more space in the offensive zone, or coming off the wall in the defensive zone, I can be faster to the puck. I think I will have more success because the speed and decision making here is so much quicker than juniors and in Maine. Bad decisions often wind up in the back of the net,” Ronning said. His summer training partner was his father, Cliff Ronning, who tallied NHL goals and the maturation of Ronning is really underway. “I learned to listen to him more this summer than in past years. Just trying to be more mature rather talking back. When you're younger, you tend to not listen. He has 20 years of (NHL) experience. He helped me in working on my shooting and learned a lot about my release and nuances of scoring and I learned a lot about him.” Another key to Ronning’s career development was the late legendary, Pat Quinn, who was a giant in the hockey business as a player, coach, GM and franchise owner at every level. “He was a grandfather figure to me. He drafted when he was the owner of the Vancouver Giants. He was very open-minded. If you could play he wanted you. He wasn’t like you play, but you're too small. He believed in me. I really can’t state enough how important that was at the time in my life…just tremendous,” Ronning, who has a small tat near his left bicep in his Quinn's honor, said. Maybe the luck of the Mighty Quinn will help him in his second pro season. NOTES: The team kept their collective focus and discipline when the building alarm system test went off during practice. Phil DiGuiseppe was assigned by the Rangers. but has to clear waivers first. Sean Day was among five assigned to Hartford and Knoblauch was awaiting what his medical status as he is recovering from off-season hip surgery. He has been a red no-contact jersey since training camp began. “I think he is close, but his medical clearance will come from New York and I expect it sooner rather than later." The other players included Connor Brickley, Tim Gettinger, Nick Jones, and Dawson Leedahl. Knoblauch confirmed Finnish defenseman, Tarmo Reunaren, is heading back to play for Lukko Rauma (Finland-FEL). “He got better in Traverse City and he played well in New York. He’s 21 and its numbers right now the organization has a lot of defensemen and he has a European option. He will be getting quality playing time. He has a future here because he showed he can play there are just so many spaces.” Over the weekend training camp, tryout rearguard, 6’4, Mason Geertsen (Colorado Eagles last year) was last season was sent to Hartford, Joey Keane, Patrick Newell, Ryan Dmowski and Jake Elmer. One of the training camp invitees includes former Springfield Falcon, Bryan Lerg, who played in Switzerland last season with HC Ambri Piotta who spent time working with Elmer doing pass, catch, and shooting drills. Some other players of note assigned to the AHL or camps include; Ex-Pack’s Cole Schneider (Milwaukee), Chris Bigras (Lehigh Valley), Mike Paliotta (Binghamton), Brandon Halverson (Toronto), Chris Mueller (Syracuse), Adam Tambellini (Stockton), Rob O’Gara (San Antonio), Hubert Labrie (Belleville), John Albert (Manitoba), Ryan Haggerty, Dustin Tokarski (Wilkes Barre/Scranton), and Brian Gibbons (Charlotte). Ex-Sound Tigers, J.F. Berube (Lehigh Valley), Griffin Reinhart (Belleville), Mitch Gilliam (Toronto), and Matt Donovan (Milwaukee) CT Connections Karl El-Mir from UCONN (Toronto), Alex Lyon of Yale, and David Drake of UCONN (Lehigh Valley), Brogan Rafferty of QU (Utica), Jordan Samuels-Thomas (West Hartford/QU) Stockton, Chad Krys (Ridgefield) Rockford, Tommy Cross Simsbury/Westminster Prep) Springfield, Craig Martin (QU) Toronto, Luke Shiplo (QU) Bakersfield, Sam Anas (QU) Iowa, Ross Colton (Taft) Syracuse, Callum Booth (Salisbury Prep) Charlotte, and Wiley Sherman (Greenwich/Hotchkiss Prep) Providence . Sons/nephews of Whalers; Cole Cassels (Belleville), Cayden Primeau (Laval), Jake Leschyshyn (Chicago), Hayden Verbeek (Laval), Henrik Samuelsson (San Diego) and Mark Kastelic (Belleville). Sons of New Haven Nighthawks/Senators/Beast/ Knights; Mathieu Olivier (Milwaukee), Mike Mersch (Texas) and Drake Rymsha (Ontario). New NCAA signees Cody Milam (Michigan St.-Big 10) Laval, Billy Christopoulos (Air Force Academy NCAA –Independent) Hershey, Jacob Jackson (Michigan Tech-WCHA) San Jose, Hayden Hawkey (Providence College-HE) Stockton Joe Wegeworth (Notre Dame-Big 10) Colorado and Carl Hesler (Dartmouth College-ECACHL) Rochester. Now that makes 216 Division I collegians have signed pro deals and 286 collegians total have signed North American and European pro deals. Ex-Pack Ty Conklin was named volunteer goalie coach for the University of New Hampshire Wildcats (HE). Taylor Raddyysh, the older brother of the Wolf Pack’s Darren Raddyysh, was assigned to Syracuse by Tampa Bay. Big win by building operator Spectra in securing US vs. Canada in a women's hockey battle coming on December 14th at the XL Center. The two top women's programs in the world will be a marquee event to be apart of and attend. Read the full article