#nina hartford

[affiches-concerts]

Nina Simone, The Vogues, Hartford, CT, 1968.

[kwebtv]

Burke’s Law -  List of Guest Stars

The Special Guest Stars of “Burke’s Law” read like a Who’s Who list of Hollywood of the era.  Many of the appearances, however, were no more than one scene cameos.  This is as complete a list ever compiled of all those who even made the briefest of appearances on the series.  

Beverly Adams, Nick Adams, Stanley Adams, Eddie Albert, Mabel Albertson, Lola Albright, Elizabeth Allen, June Allyson, Don Ameche, Michael Ansara, Army Archerd, Phil Arnold, Mary Astor, Frankie Avalon, Hy Averback, Jim Backus, Betty Barry, Susan Bay, Ed Begley, William Bendix, Joan Bennett, Edgar Bergen, Shelley Berman, Herschel Bernardi, Ken Berry, Lyle Bettger, Robert Bice, Theodore Bikel, Janet Blair, Madge Blake, Joan Blondell, Ann Blyth, Carl Boehm, Peter Bourne, Rosemarie Bowe, Eddie Bracken, Steve Brodie, Jan Brooks, Dorian Brown, Bobby Buntrock, Edd Byrnes, Corinne Calvet, Rory Calhoun, Pepe Callahan, Rod Cameron, Macdonald Carey, Hoagy Carmichael, Richard Carlson, Jack Carter, Steve Carruthers, Marianna Case, Seymour Cassel, John Cassavetes, Tom Cassidy, Joan Caulfield, Barrie Chase, Eduardo Ciannelli, Dane Clark, Dick Clark, Steve Cochran, Hans Conried, Jackie Coogan, Gladys Cooper, Henry Corden, Wendell Corey, Hazel Court, Wally Cox, Jeanne Crain, Susanne Cramer, Les Crane, Broderick Crawford, Suzanne Cupito, Arlene Dahl, Vic Dana, Jane Darwell, Sammy Davis Jr., Linda Darnell, Dennis Day, Laraine Day, Yvonne DeCarlo, Gloria De Haven, William Demarest, Andy Devine, Richard Devon, Billy De Wolfe, Don Diamond, Diana Dors, Joanne Dru, Paul Dubov, Howard Duff, Dan Duryea, Robert Easton, Barbara Eden, John Ericson, Leif Erickson, Tom Ewell, Nanette Fabray, Felicia Farr, Sharon Farrell, Herbie Faye, Fritz Feld, Susan Flannery, James Flavin, Rhonda Fleming, Nina Foch, Steve Forrest, Linda Foster, Byron Foulger, Eddie Foy Jr., Anne Francis, David Fresco, Annette Funicello, Eva Gabor, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Reginald Gardiner, Nancy Gates, Lisa Gaye, Sandra Giles, Mark Goddard, Thomas Gomez, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, Sandra Gould, Wilton Graff, Gloria Grahame, Shelby Grant, Jane Greer, Virginia Grey, Tammy Grimes, Richard Hale, Jack Haley, George Hamilton, Ann Harding, Joy Harmon, Phil Harris, Stacy Harris, Dee Hartford, June Havoc, Jill Haworth, Richard Haydn, Louis Hayward, Hugh Hefner, Anne Helm, Percy Helton, Irene Hervey, Joe Higgins, Marianna Hill, Bern Hoffman, Jonathan Hole, Celeste Holm, Charlene Holt, Oscar Homolka, Barbara Horne, Edward Everett Horton, Breena Howard, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., Arthur Hunnicutt, Tab Hunter, Joan Huntington, Josephine Hutchinson, Betty Hutton, Gunilla Hutton, Martha Hyer, Diana Hyland, Marty Ingels, John Ireland, Mako Iwamatsu, Joyce Jameson, Glynis Johns, I. Stanford Jolley, Carolyn Jones, Dean Jones, Spike Jones, Victor Jory, Jackie Joseph, Stubby Kaye, Monica Keating, Buster Keaton, Cecil Kellaway, Claire Kelly, Patsy Kelly, Kathy Kersh, Eartha Kitt, Nancy Kovack, Fred Krone, Lou Krugman, Frankie Laine, Fernando Lamas, Dorothy Lamour, Elsa Lanchester, Abbe Lane, Charles Lane, Lauren Lane, Harry Lauter, Norman Leavitt, Gypsy Rose Lee, Ruta Lee, Teri Lee, Peter Leeds, Margaret Leighton, Sheldon Leonard, Art Lewis, Buddy Lewis, Dave Loring, Joanne Ludden,  Ida Lupino, Tina Louise, Paul Lynde, Diana Lynn, James MacArthur, Gisele MacKenzie, Diane McBain, Kevin McCarthy, Bill McClean, Stephen McNally, Elizabeth MacRae, Jayne Mansfield, Hal March, Shary Marshall, Dewey Martin, Marlyn Mason, Hedley Mattingly, Marilyn Maxwell, Virginia Mayo, Patricia Medina, Troy Melton, Burgess Meredith, Una Merkel, Dina Merrill, Torben Meyer, Barbara Michaels, Robert Middleton, Vera Miles, Sal Mineo, Mary Ann Mobley, Alan Mowbray, Ricardo Montalbán, Elizabeth Montgomery, Ralph Moody, Alvy Moore, Terry Moore, Agnes Moorehead, Anne Morell, Rita Moreno, Byron Morrow, Jan Murray, Ken Murray, George Nader, J. Carrol Naish, Bek Nelson, Gene Nelson, David Niven, Chris Noel, Kathleen Nolan, Sheree North, Louis Nye, Arthur O'Connell, Quinn O'Hara, Susan Oliver, Debra Paget, Janis Paige, Nestor Paiva, Luciana Paluzzi, Julie Parrish, Fess Parker, Suzy Parker, Bert Parks, Harvey Parry, Hank Patterson, Joan Patrick, Nehemiah Persoff, Walter Pidgeon, Zasu Pitts, Edward Platt, Juliet Prowse, Eddie Quillan, Louis Quinn, Basil Rathbone, Aldo Ray, Martha Raye, Gene Raymond, Peggy Rea, Philip Reed, Carl Reiner, Stafford Repp, Paul Rhone, Paul Richards, Don Rickles, Will Rogers Jr., Ruth Roman, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney, Gena Rowlands, Charlie Ruggles, Janice Rule, Soupy Sales, Hugh Sanders, Tura Satana, Telly Savalas, John Saxon, Lizabeth Scott, Lisa Seagram, Pilar Seurat, William Shatner, Karen Sharpe, James Shigeta, Nina Shipman, Susan Silo, Johnny Silver, Nancy Sinatra, The Smothers Brothers, Joanie Sommers, Joan Staley, Jan Sterling, Elaine Stewart, Jill St. John, Dean Stockwell, Gale Storm, Susan Strasberg, Inger Stratton, Amzie Strickland, Gil Stuart, Grady Sutton, Kay Sutton, Gloria Swanson, Russ Tamblyn. Don Taylor, Dub Taylor, Vaughn Taylor, Irene Tedrow, Terry-Thomas, Ginny Tiu, Dan Tobin, Forrest Tucker, Tom Tully, Jim Turley, Lurene Tuttle, Ann Tyrrell, Miyoshi Umeki, Mamie van Doren, Deborah Walley, Sandra Warner, David Wayne, Ray Weaver, Lennie Weinrib, Dawn Wells, Delores Wells, Rebecca Welles, Jack Weston, David White, James Whitmore, Michael Wilding, Annazette Williams, Dave Willock, Chill Wills, Marie Wilson, Nancy Wilson, Sandra Wirth, Ed Wynn, Keenan Wynn, Dana Wynter, Celeste Yarnall, Francine York.

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All time best album 100

1. Chuck Berry - Chuck Berry Is On Top (59)

2. Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar (60)

3. John Coltrane - Giant Steps (60)

4. John Lee Hooker - Don't Turn Me From Your Door: John Lee Hooker Sings His Blues (63)

5. Grant Green - Idle Moments (65)

6. Miles Davis - Nefertiti (67)

7. Quarteto Nôvo - Quarteto Nôvo (67)

8. The Doors - The Doors (67)

9. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold As Love (67)

10. The Beatles - The Beatles (68)

11. The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society (68)

12. The Beach Boys - Friends (68)

13. Blood, Sweat And Tears - Child Is Father To The Man (68)

14. John Hartford - Housing Project (68)

15. Andy Pratt - Records Are Like Life (69)

16. Frank Zappa - Hot Rats (69)

17. Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority (69)

18. The Band - The Band (69)

19. Nina Simone - Nina Simone And Piano! (69)

20. Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left (69)

21. Fairport Convention - Liege And Lief (69)

22. Bob Dylan - New Morning (70)

23. Jimmy Webb - Words And Music (70)

24. かまやつひろし - "ムッシュー" かまやつひろしの世界 (70)

25. The Who - Who's Next (71)

26. Gil Scott-Heron - Pieces Of A Man (71)

27. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (71)

28. Aretha Franklin - Live At Fillmore West (71)

29. The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St. (72)

30. Jesse Ed Davis - Ululu (72)

31. Bobby Charles - Bobby Charles (72)

32. Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything? (72)

33. Eric Justin Kaz - If You're Lonely (72)

34. Terry Callier - What Color Is Love (72)

35. Bobby Womack - Understanding (72)

36. Al Green - I'm Still In Love With You (72)

37. George Jackson - George Jackson In Memphis 1972-1977 (09)

38. Donny Hathaway - Live (72)

39. Bill Withers - Live At Carnegie Hall (73)

40. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions (73)

41. Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information (73)

42. Marcos Valle - Previsão Do Tempo (73)

43. Little Feat - Dixie Chicken (73)

44. Frankie Miller - Frankie Miller's High Life (74)

45. Brinsley Schwarz - The New Favourites Of... (74)

46. Brian Protheroe - Pinball (74)

47. Bruce Cockburn - Salt, Sun And Time (74)

48. Kenny Rankin - Silver Morning (74)

49. Tamba Trio - Tamba (74)

50. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Live! (75)

51. John Martyn - Solid Air (75)

52. Grateful Dead - Blues For Allah (75)

53. Curtis Mayfield - There's No Place Like America Today (75)

54. Leroy Hutson - Hutson (75)

55. Johnny Guitar Watson - Ain't That A Bitch (76)

56. Antônio Carlos Jobim - Urubu (76)

57. Azymuth - Aguia Não Come Mosca (77)

58. Ivan Lins - Somos Todos Iguais Nesta Noite (77)

59. Taj Mahal - Brothers (77)

60. Jorge Ben - A Banda Do Zé Pretinho (78)

61. Lô Borges - A Via Láctea (79)

62. Joe Jackson - Look Sharp! (79)

63. NRBQ - Tiddlywinks (80)

64. Joni Mitchell - Shadows And Light (80)

65. Steely Dan - Gaucho (80)

66. Van Morrison - Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart (83)

67. Fred Frith - Cheap At Half The Price (83)

68. The Police - Synchronicity (83)

69. Ben Watt - North Marine Drive (83)

70. Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen (85)

71. Milton Naschimento - Miltons (88)

72. Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule (89)

73. XTC - Oranges & Lemons (89)

74. Paul Weller - Paul Weller (92)

75. G. Love And Special Sauce - G. Love And Special Sauce (94)

76. Ron Sexsmith - Ron Sexsmith (95)

77. Cassandra Wilson - New Moon Daughter (95)

78. Tony! Toni! Toné! - House Of Music (96)

79. UA - FINE FEATHERS MAKE FINE BIRDS (97)

80. Stereolab - Dots And Loops (97)

81. Caetano Veloso - Livro (97)

82. Elliott Smith - XO (98)

83. Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham - Moments From This Theatre (99)

84. Badly Drown Boy - The Hour Of The Bewilderbeast (00)

85. Common - Like Water For Chocolate (00)

86. BONNIE PINK - Let go (00)

87. paris match - typeIII (02)

88. CARNATION - LIVING / LOVING (03)

89. Steve Winwood - About Time (03)

90. Luis Alberto Spinetta - Para Los Arboles (03)

91. Metheny / Mehldau - Metheny / Mehldau (06)

92. Domenico - Cine Privê (12)

93. Diggs Duke - Offering For Anxious (14)

94. D'Angelo & The Vanguard - Black Messiah (14)

95. Prince - HITnRUN Phase Two (15)

96. Ryley Walker - Primrose Green (15)

97. Ian Lasserre - Sonoridade Pólvora (17)

98. Kurt Rosenwinkel - Caipi (17)

99. Sam Gendel - 4444 (18)

100. Catbug - Slapen Onder Een Hunebed (21)

[pop-art-sixties-seventies]

Nina Simone, The Vogues, Hartford, CT, 1968.

[wainswright]

Alright, I guess not. However clearly dork diaries was picked up because of diary of a wimpy kid, even if the author claims it was a completely original concept, but i guess these things can get blurry. It's not that similar to other talking animal books, anyway, which so far has consistently meant it's really original...

Her inspiration for Gregor the Overlander, the first book of The New York Times best-selling series The Underland Chronicles, came from Alice in Wonderland, when she was thinking about how one was more likely to fall down a manhole than a rabbit hole, and would find something other than a tea party. Between 2003 and 2007 she wrote the five books of the Underland Chronicles: Gregor the Overlander, Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane, Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods, Gregor and the Marks of Secret, and Gregor and the Code of Claw.

During that time, Collins also wrote a rhyming picture book, When Charlie McButton Lost Power (2005), illustrated by Mike Lester.

In September 2008, Scholastic Press released The Hunger Games, the first book of a trilogy by Collins. The Hunger Games was partly inspired by the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. Another inspiration was her father's career in the Air Force, which gave her insight to poverty, starvation, and the effects of war. The trilogy's second book, Catching Fire, was released in September 2009, and its third book, Mockingjay, was released on August 24, 2010. Within 14 months, 1.5 million copies of the first two Hunger Games books were printed in North America alone. The Hunger Games was on The New York Times Best Seller list for more than 60 weeks in a row. Lions Gate Entertainment acquired worldwide distribution rights to a film adaptation of The Hunger Games, produced by Nina Jacobson's Color Force production company. Collins adapted the novel for film herself. Directed by Gary Ross, filming began in late spring 2011, with Jennifer Lawrence portraying main character Katniss Everdeen. Josh Hutcherson played Peeta Mellark and Liam Hemsworth played Gale Hawthorne. The subsequent two novels were adapted into films as well, with the latter book split into two cinematic installments, for a total of four films representing the three books. As a result of the popularity of The Hunger Games books, Collins was named one of Time magazine's most influential people of 2010. In March 2012, Amazon announced that she had become the best-selling Kindle author of all time. Amazon also revealed that Collins had written 29 of the 100 most highlighted passages in Kindle ebooks—and on a separate Amazon list of recently highlighted passages, she had written 17 of the top 20. On June 17, 2019, Collins announced that a prequel to The Hunger Games would be released on May 19, 2020. The premise is based on the life of future President Coriolanus Snow, 64 years before the events of The Hunger Games trilogy. On October 4, 2019 the title was revealed to be The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.

[lauradoesrping2024]

CURRENT CHARACTERS- 10/15/2024

annabelle rosewood-Madison Bailey

archer williams-Josh Duhamel

avery manning-janel parrish

beau montague-nico tortorella

benicio cruz-ryan guzman

christopher montague-david tennnant

Daphne Sawyer-Ashley Tisdale

davina capulet-Melissa Benoist

dominic king-chris wood

elijah landry-theo james

ethan lockwood-jude law

ezekiel hollaway-Jayden revri

Gabriel Lewis-Adam Brody

grace bionchi-Kathryn hahn

huxley bionchi-Brock o'hurn

iris davis-emeraude toubia

Isaiah Wood-Jesse L Martin

jade locksley-madelaine petsch

jasper morgan-tom holland

jesse hawkins-ricky whittle

jude davenport-jordan fisher

kalindee lockhart-alia bhatt

luca thomas-gabriel macht

lyla williamson-selena gomez

marley andrews- phoebe tonkin

matthias hendrix-manny montana

mia hartford-jenna ortega

noelle kingston-nina dobrev

piper carter-sofia wylie

quinn baker-ariana grande

remy hendrix-ncuti gatwa

riley morgan-ross lynch

rupert carson-ryan reynolds

savannah wesley-naomi scott

sebestian sawyer-Jack fahalee

sienna wilson-madelyn cline

sophie evans-danielle campbell

tate williams-zendaya

tessa montgomery-hailee steinfield

thomas wilson-dacre montgomery

winnifred banks-jenna coleman

zoey grayson-maya hawk

[manyfandomocs]

Monster High OC Masterlist

Name: Ariel Lyons (Werelion)

Fic: Queen of the Jungle

Love Interest: Clawdeen Wolf

FC: Ayo Edebiri

Name: Armel Bernwald (Werebear)

Fic: Broken Hearted Fixer Upper Guy

Love Interest: Frankie Stein

FC: Jacob Elordi

Name: Hugh Zombington (Zombie/Phantom Hybrid)

Fic: Why Do Ghouls Fall In Love

Love Interest: Kieran Valentine

FC: Nicholas Hoult

Name: Jenny Devol (Robot)

Fic: Loose Cogs

Love Interest: Clawd Wolf

FC: Nina Dobrev

Name: Pierre Desroches (Gargoyle)

Fic: Stone Cold Heart

Love Interest: Jackson Jekyll

FC: Cody Fern

Name: Roscoe Hartford (Weredeer)

Fic: Once Upon A Bite

Love Interest: Draculaura

FC: Tyler Posey

[askmsanelson]

MSA oc’s Ask/Rp blog: Just a couple of orphans living a “normal” life on a farm with possibly tons of ancient graves buried below.

Mun is 20+, and semi-selective rp’r. NSFW only with mutuals/friends. Asks are always open. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Reblogs/Promos appreciated..! (pls these kids barely get any attention ;w;)

>> Rules | Profiles+Info | Mun’s Blog <<

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My daughter Nina being the hell spawn/gremlin she’s meant to be. @askmsanelson

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Do not repost, tag as kin, or use without permission.

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[wambsgender]

@sillyinc HEHE sorry took me a second to dig things up. there is a good healthy body of work springing up in recent years on the gender fuckery of metamorphosis (body horror, the trajectory of his sister grete, the family instinct to hide gregor away, the shame, etc.) but here are some bits and pieces more focused on kafka specifically

Nina Pelikan Straus, 'Transforming Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis"', Signs, 14:3 (Spring 1989)

[one of the first feminist kafka readings that properly stuck — this one is also helpful as a brief intro to kafkas 709 billion disorders without having to trawl through all his letters & diary entries]

'The brother's and sister's interchange of male and female roles and powers, the hourglass-shaped progression of the plot as they switch positions, suggests the idea that "Metamorphosis" is Kafka's fantasy of a gender role change. The transformation of Gregor's body is a "trying out [of] some unreal fable or meaning life might have."' Its deepest resonances involve the relations of men and women, of the man's wish to be a woman, the woman's wish to be a man.'

'The "permanent estrangement" resulting from his failure to form an "unequivocal" masculine identity, this arrival "at no solution at all," enabled him to imagine a world in which male and female desires, characteristics, and differences did not figure as essential properties of human nature. [...] The increasing reification or it-ness of Gregor's body is the ground for Grete's ultimate repudiation of him as a brother and for her own transformation. "But how can it be Gregor?" (125) she asks, a question which echoes Kafka's own response in writing to Felice Bauer; "I just don't rest in myself... I am not always 'something, and if I ever was 'something, I pay for it by 'being nothing' for months on end."

Britta Kallin, ‘From the Body in Pain to the Body Transformed: Feminist and Trans Readings of Franz Kafka’, Journal of Austrian Studies, 53:4 (Winter 2020)

[just a great collation of all the current big discussions on trans kafka while acknowledging the impact of things like his jewishness and his physical health on his gender. good directory for futher reading i fink]

John Phillips, Transgender on Screen: 'Kafka’s tale [Metamorphosis] is a symbolic and metaphorical exploration of his own sense of alienation as a writer'

Randy Kaufman, 'Introduction to Transgender Identity and Health': 'In many ways, The Metamorphosis describes the predicament of a transgender person. In tandem with the realization that the relationship between their anatomical sex and gender identity is different from that of other people, transgender individuals quickly become aware that they are subject to rejection, ridicule, humiliation, and isolation. Like Gregor, some transgender individuals choose to sacrifice themselves in order to spare their loved ones. This sacrifice can be concrete and permanent, as in in the case of suicide, or abstract, as when a person keeps his identity repressed, resulting in psychic death.'

[+] while i havent read these ones myself yet, both Straus and Kallin recommend these essays too:

Sammy McClean, 'Doubling and Sexual Identity in Stories by Franz Kafka', University of Hartford Studies in Literature, 12:1 (1980)

Evelyn Torton Beck, 'Kafka's Traffic in Women: Gender, Power and Sexuality', Notes of the Kafka Society, 5:1 (June 1981)

there is also research linking his ambiguously disordered eating habits to his body issues specifically along gendered lines but i do not seem to be able to find it. what i can find is this:

Manfred M. Fichter, 'The anorexia nervosa of Franz Kafka', The International journal of eating disorders, 6:3 (1987)

[still not sure how i feel about this one to be honest—written by a psychotherapist and some of the phrasing is a bit horrid—but it does provide context about his relationship with his family and how his eating habits, body issues & gender un-identity overlap]

“His resistance to eat and to become as masculine, strong, and tough as this father has been seen as an unconscious struggle against his father and to some extent also against the control of his intrusive mother and his fiance Felice. In this struggle he chose not to eat sufficiently, and, paradoxically, he won the battle against his father through his strength of making himself weak”

Kafka, 'A Crossbreed'

(imo this short story has been overlooked when it comes to gender. given kafka was a vegetarian + big animal sympathiser i think we can safely read a smidge of self insert in his animal fables but especially this one)

I have a curious animal, half kitten, half lamb. It is a legacy from my father. But it only developed in my time; formerly it was far more lamb than kitten. Now it is both in about equal parts. [...] I sit with the little beast on my knees, and the children of the whole neighborhood stand around me. Then the strangest questions are asked, which no human being could answer: Why there is only one such animal, why I rather than anybody else should own it, whether there was ever an animal like it before and what would happen if it died, whether it feels lonely, why it has no children, what it is called, etc. I never trouble to answer, but confine myself without further explanation to exhibiting my possession. Sometimes the children bring cats with them; once they actually brought two lambs. But against all their hopes there was no scene of recognition. The animals gazed calmly at each other with their animal eyes, and obviously accepted their reciprocal existence as a divine fact. [...] Perhaps the knife of the butcher would be a release for this animal; but as it is a legacy I must deny it that. So it must wait until the breath voluntarily leaves its body, even though it sometimes gazes at me with a look of human understanding, challenging me to do the thing of which both of us are thinking.

i'm sure there is tons more you could find in kafkas actual work beyond the big ones but its now approaching 3am. anyway. i'll close this post out on the absolutely irrefutable & highly empirical academic resource of Twitter Dot Com

i think metamorphosis is one of those stories that becomes more trans the more you reread it. like each time i return to kafka there's one more crack in her egg

[hergrandplan]

I like the Hartford version of My Petersburg more than the Broadway version.

not at all | eh idk |  neutral | yeah definitely | the most accurate statement ever

I have a lot of strong feelings about the Hartford run of Anastasia and most of them are actually about My Petersburg, because that was everything. 

It’s just way more personal ya feel? Plus... “Petersburg and me and you”??? why dd they take that out???

Send me unpopular opinions!

[pluviophile-bookworm]

Very spontaneous and chaotic thoughts about today’s HSMTMTS (2x7) - but mostly about one specific scene

Oh my gods, oh my gods, you guys! That was literally the best possible excuse for The Mob Song being in that arrangement, honestly, I just loved that! I had been worried about what they did to it ever since it appeared in the trailer, but now I am more than relieved -- I am in love! [Personal story time: after avoiding this song like the literal plague for ages because it had traumatised me as a child, I revisited it at age 17 and since then it's been my favourite song from BATB. End of personal story]

I don't know why, but I always seem to love, well, duels of any kind in the media I consume — fencing, pistols, fisticuffs, rap battles, dance-offs, you name it. Unless the duel ends in Philip Hamilton's extremely untimely death, you know. [At this time this post is just 'how many not-so-subtle musical theatre references can I get into this', except there's just one after this here side note]

So here, in this massive dance-off we had a. battle of the Beasts, b. battle of the Lumieres and c. most iconically, battle of the Belles [there was no contest there, my girl Ashlyn is the best — in a Technician vs. Performer rivalry, I tend to side with the performer, and boy, is she one].

Except Ashlyn just had to trip at the end and Antoine just had to be the one to catch her — that being right after he, first, blatantly flirted with her, and then insulted my boy Big Red and told Ashlyn she should break up with him. And here I was starting to like this guy.  Funnily enough, I kind of felt a weird satisfaction seeing jealous Big Red, but at the same time, he's feeling bad about the whole thing and I do not appreciate it. And although I loved Carlos in the battle of the Lumieres [he shone like the dazzling star he is!], I really wished for a moment that Antoine and Big Red would face off instead and that Big Red would get, like, really in Antoine's face and whatnot, but hey, we can't have it all.

Anyway, the only pairings I care about at this point are Seblos and Redlyn. And Gina and EJ, but emphatically only as friends. Seriously, all the Rini drama can go to Hartford, Hereford and Hampshire, for all I care. That 'Nina' thing at the end was kind of a shock, though. Still, at the end of the day, I don't care. As long as my babies are happy. Also I really wasn't ever super invested in the whole thing Kourtney and Howie have going on, so I just don't seem to have a massive reaction to that side of things.

Sincerely, 

a Big Red stan who has been watching the Mob Song scene on replay for the last half hour at least.

P.S I lowkey love how ABF ‘forgot’ that his character is supposed to be French while singing until literally the last two words. Although people of any nationality putting on an American accent when singing is pretty much Truth in Television, I know.

P.P.S I kind of feel like being flirted with while having an amazing and adoring boyfriend could be good for Ashlyn’s confidence. Not that a girl’s worth should be defined by guys’ opinions of her, but I think it might be a nice boost and she needs a boost because she’s truly wonderful and needs to know it.

[asecretsummer-rpg]

The pairs and dates for the date auction are as follows:

Callie Montgomery x Allan Shaw - picnic in the park

Cam Quinn x Adriana Maxwell - dinner at Alfredo’s & mini golf

Edward Lane x Cara Cooke - drinks & dancing at the Attic

Clara Shaw x Jesse Hartford - ice skating

Gareth O’Neill x Elise Ramsey - BBQ in the park

Ioan Brady x Joan Weston - wine tasting at AJ’s

Travis Windsor x Hazel Cox - Karaoke night at the Green Dove

Anthony Hayes x Michelle Allen - picnic by the river

Landon Greene x Zara Chandra - Wine & cheese tasting

Hunter Smart x Amber Newell - Horseback riding

Tate Cullen x Lila Blake - Horror movie marathon at the cinema

Alexander Montgomery x Lola Stott - Mini golf

Shelby Whitfield x Hanna Clarkman - Date along the river on a boat

Steven Pope x Leah Winters - Art gallery tour + dinner and drinks

Elijah Smith x Audrey Henderson - Aquarium walk & drinks in Bridgefield

Kayla Porter-Dixon x Mason Peterson - coffee and cake tasting at the Riverside Diner

Lydia Sykes x Garrett Hayes - Paintball

Niamh Wakefield x Keith Hall - Personal museum tour & drinks

Rita Johnson x Brooke Ford-Hayes - Bowling

Nina Everett-Williamson x Emma Everett-Williamson - Spa and dinner

All locations mentioned are offering their services for these dates/snacks/drinks for free. Any date that doesn’t specifiy dinner and/or drinks can have this added in, be as creative as you would like. If a location isn’t specified, feel free to pick one yourself.

If you have any problems please let us know asap.

[masterofd1saster]

CJ current events 28apr22

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1984's Ministry of Truth is here

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified Wednesday that the Department of Homeland Security is creating a "Disinformation Governance Board" to combat misinformation ahead of the 2022 midterms. 

Mayorkas appeared before the House Appropriations Subcommittee to discuss the fiscal 2023 budget for the Department of Homeland Security. *** https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mayorkas-dhs-disinformation-governance-board

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The Biden administration's new czar to combat disinformation has a history of sharing misleading claims about British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s discredited dossier and downplaying controversy embroiling President Joe Biden's son.

Nina Jankowicz, who was a disinformation fellow at the Wilson Center and adviser to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry as part of the Fulbright Public Policy Fellowship, confirmed a report Wednesday that she has been named executive director of the Department of Homeland Security’s new “Disinformation Governance Board."*** https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/bidens-disinformation-chief-is-trump-dossier-author-fan-and-hunter-laptop-doubter

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Can't honestly say I was ever this good. https://twitter.com/abigailmarone/status/1519123066126843906

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how do you accidentally make & throw a fire bomb?

A fundraiser for a Connecticut child recovering from second- and third-degree burns has raised over $230,000 as of Wednesday night.

The money will be used to help the family of 6-year-old Dominick Krankall find a new place to live. Krankall was hospitalized Sunday after another child covered a ball in gasoline, set it on fire, and threw it at him, according to the family's GoFundMe page.

"This kid downstairs has gotten away with too much and has a history of bullying," Kayla Deegan, Krankall's sister, said. "The mother thinks he is innocent. The family thinks it’s a joke. Even though Dominick can’t talk because he’s in a lot of pain and all swollen, he said to my mom, 'Please don’t take me back there.'"

Krankall is able to eat "a few bites of food past his extremely swollen lips" as of Tuesday, and the family is "beyond grateful" for the support they have received from donors, Deegan said Wednesday.

Krankall is expected to recover, hospital officials said, according to NBC New York.

Police are investigating preliminary reports of four unattended children who were seen playing with gasoline and lighting objects on fire. Bridgeport Police Capt. Brian Fitzgerald said there is video that could assist with the inquiry.

“We don’t know if it’s an accident or intentional,” he said, according to the Hartford Courant. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fundraiser-for-6-year-old-burned-in-alleged-bully-attack-raises-over-240k

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Malice supplies the age - Blackstone

A 14-year-old boy is being held on $1 million cash bond after being arrested in connection to the death of a 10-year-old Wisconsin girl whose body was found earlier this week, according to a county prosecutor.

Iliana “Lily” Peters was allegedly strangled and sexually assaulted by the juvenile suspect, whom officials with the Chippewa Falls Police Department say knew the girl, before the attack. The suspect had punched the girl in the stomach before knocking her to the ground, bringing her to “the point of death” before sexually assaulting her, Chippewa County District Attorney Wade Newell said.

"Given the statements the defendant made to law enforcement, that his intention was to rape and kill the victim from the get-go when he left the house with the victim going down the trail, the state believes there is a need to protect the community,” Newell said in a court hearing Wednesday.*** https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/wisconsin-girl-strangled-and-sexually-assaulted-before-being-killed-police

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What's racist today? Spins the wheel....

Washington has enacted House Bill 1210 (2022) to remove the word "marijuana" and replace it with "cannabis" throughout the state's statutes. Care to guess why?

The term "marijuana" is pejorative and racist. It is theorized that the drug narcotics agents from the 1930s choose the term "marijuana," rather than the known scientific term "cannabis," when crafting drug laws to negatively associate the use of the drug with Mexican immigrants. Over time, the use of the term "marijuana" was attributed to black African Americans, jazz musicians, prostitutes, and lower-class whites. Economic conditions during the Great Depression furthered resentment and fear towards immigrants and black African Americans. Anti-marijuana propaganda fueled the hysteria around the dangers of the use of cannabis, and this narrative intentionally tied cannabis use, and fictitious side effects, to communities of color. The word "marijuana" is a reminder of the history of racism in communities of color. Even today, studies have shown cannabis use between whites and nonwhites are similar, yet black African Americans are arrested at the rate of four to one. Since Initiative 502 legalized the recreational use of marijuana in Washington, the data shows that black and brown people have not been able to fairly and equitably participate in the lucrative cannabis business. The Legislature voted to create a social equity task force to bring parity to the industry. This bill would help support existing cannabis social equity work.***

House Bill Report HB 1210 (2022). https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2021-22/Pdf/Bill%20Reports/House/1210%20HBR%20COG%2021.pdf?q=20220428052248

is the full report on HB 1210.

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NBER researchers Acquisti & Tucker ran

a natural experiment the effect of the online publication of the names and addresses of holders of handgun carry permits on criminals' propensity to commit burglaries. In December 2008, a Memphis, TN newspaper published a searchable online database of names, zip codes, and ages of Tennessee handgun carry permit holders. We use detailed crime and handgun carry permit data for the city of Memphis to estimate the impact of publicity about the database on burglaries. We find that burglaries increased in zip codes with fewer gun permits, and decreased in those with more gun permits, after the database was publicized. https://www.nber.org/papers/w29940

How much can you draw from that? Correlation is NOT causation, but it is interesting.

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Your best move?

(KTLA) – Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer has filed a defamation lawsuit against the San Diego woman who accused him of sexual assault. Bauer also named one of the woman’s attorneys, Fred Thiagarajah, in the lawsuit, alleging he made “knowingly false statements” about the player in the media.

The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Bauer said on Twitter.

Bauer currently has a pending defamation lawsuit against The Athletic and former reporter Molly Knight.

Earlier this year, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office decided not to pursue criminal charges against Bauer, citing insufficient evidence.

The fate of the Cy Young-winning pitcher remains unknown, as Major League Baseball has extended his leave through April 29. He last pitched on June 29, 2021, just months after the Dodgers acquired him from the Cincinnati Reds.*** https://fox8.com/news/trevor-bauer-sues-woman-who-accused-him-of-sexual-assault/

They agreed to "guidelines" in advance?

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'splain how the "gun Alec Baldwin was holding discharged"....

The Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office is attempting to be "transparent" when it comes to the investigation into the fatal "Rust" set shooting that occurred on Oct. 21.

The department released all bodycam footage, crime scene photos, witness interviews and text messages obtained so far throughout the investigation on Monday. Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins died on the set of "Rust" after a gun Alec Baldwin was holding discharged.***

"We're still waiting on the forensics from the FBI crime lab, along with the final report from the office of the medical investigator, and there's a few things that we need to sure up with the investigation."***

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Shocking - man in Chicago murdered, not in a drive by

Gregory Stamps, 31, has been charged in the Saturday murder of a 42-year-old man last weekend, no thanks to Chicago's top prosecutor, Kimberly Foxx.

Stamps is accused of fatally hitting David Castile's head with a hammer "multiple times" at his residence in the 7100 block of S. Lowe Ave, according to the Chicago Police Department and local reports.

He was taken into custody on Sunday and charged on Tuesday morning with first-degree murder, according to court documents. But the charges were only approved after CPD Detective-Commander Charles Brown decided to override Foxx's decision not to immediately approve murder charges, as CWBChicago first reported.***

when Stamps ran into police in the hallway of his building minutes after the incident, covered in blood, he apparently told authorities that he had fallen down the stairs into a pool of blood. Investigators determined that following the murder, the 31-year-old suspect dragged the victim's body down three flights of stairs and dumped it in an alley. He also threw the victim's blood-stained clothes into a dumpster, according to FOX 32 Chicago.***

Stamps had been on parole since May 2018 after serving five years of a six-year sentence for attempted stabbing murder, as well as a three-year sentence for domestic battery. Assistant State’s Attorney James Murphy said Tuesday that Stamps pleaded guilty to that crime after initially claiming self-defense, CWB Chicago reported.*** https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-police-hammer-murder-charges-kim-foxx

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11 years old? That's darn near old enough to vote!

The president of a local school board in Ohio resigned after he was caught attempting to meet with whom he thought was an 11-year-old girl after allegedly exchanging inappropriate messages with her.

John Gray, who was serving his fifth term as president of the Goshen Local School board in Goshen, Ohio, admitted to traveling about two hours from Cincinnati to Indiana to meet with the girl, according to the video uploaded to YouTube and Facebook on Saturday by the groups PCI: Predator Catchers Indianapolis and PCM: Predator Catchers Muncie.

The groups are comprised of volunteers who work to expose sexual predators, according to their websites.

The video, which is titled "60 Year old President of Goshen OH school board, meeting an 11 y/o," depicts Gray trying to explain himself for more than 30 minutes as three volunteers grill him regarding text messages in which he allegedly talked to the girl about undressing, kissing and receiving a massage.

Gray remained adamant that he had no intentions of having sexual intercourse with the girl, which he said was impossible because of his impotence.*** https://www.foxnews.com/us/ohio-school-board-president-forced-to-resign-over-deeply-disturbing-video

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You'd shoot someone for a bag of chips?

A Florida teen is wanted for shooting a store clerk Saturday afternoon after a dispute over the price of a bag of chips, authorities said.

The shooting happened around 1 p.m. at the Friendly Way Convenience Store on Florida Avenue in DeLand, police said.

The suspect, identified as 17-year-old Tyrique L. Matthews, shot the store employee in the leg during the altercation, police said.*** https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-teen-shooting-store-clerk-bag-of-chips-police-say

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Bama?

A former University of Alabama��student was sentenced Wednesday to seven and a half years in prison for concealing financing to the Islamic terrorist group, al Qaeda. 

Alaa Mohd Abusaad, 26, was also ordered to spend 10 years on supervised release following the prison term, prosecutors said in a statement.*** https://www.foxnews.com/us/former-alabama-student-sentenced-prison-hiding-terrorism-funds-al-qaeda

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A U.S. Marshals led operation in Mississippi has resulted in the arrests of over 700 individuals.

The operation, focused on northern Mississippi, led to the arrests, which included aggravated assault, homicide, aggravated domestic assault, child abuse, child sexual assault, unlawful gun crime, and more, according to Fox 13 Memphis.

The operation is called Operation MPACT, Mississippi Partnering Agencies Coming Together, and was led by the U.S. Marshals in partnership with other federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies across several counties in north Mississippi.

350 of the total number of arrests were for felony offenses and 56 were gang-related, according to the report.*** https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-marshals-arrest-mississippi-gang-related?intcmp=fn_article_rr_ob_more_from

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Stay calm, the police will be there in a minute....

Abrazen thief carried out an armed robbery right under the FBI's nose, with an audacious hold-up not far from the agency's headquarters.

Two victims, who had been held-up at gunpoint in a terrifying street robbery, fled to the FBI's HQ seeking help after the gunman made off with their possessions, cash and a bank card. The man and the woman had stopped to help the suspect after he asked to borrow a cell phone; they even waited as he made and finished a phone call.

An FBI spokesman told Newsweek: "The victims came to the FBI seeking help and an FBI Police officer provided assistance in calling the Washington Metropolitan Police."

Police were called to the scene in Washington D.C. near the imposing building at 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, after receiving reports of a suspect with a gun at around 6:48 p.m on Tuesday.*** https://www.newsweek.com/thief-armed-robbery-fbi-hq-1701293

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[slaveresistance]

Among so many other things, the pandemic has made archival and in-person research that much harder to accomplish. I was finally able to complete a research trip to visit repositories and libraries in New York and Connecticut after its being deferred for a year and a half. I returned with the intention of doing a series of posts here to help me sort through all of my notes, pictures and discoveries, only to find that it had been so long since I posted that I could no longer remember my password to this website. Those posts will be forthcoming, but this only affirms for me the necessity of my project today. I'm taking a moment here straight off to thank all of the librarians, archivists, and workers at the various institutions who were so incredibly helpful to me. I don't want to forget their names by the time the book I am working on goes to print, whenever that may be.

These are in no particular order, and there are so many other personnel whose names I wish I would have had the presence of mind to collect.

My deep gratitude is due to Lena Newman, special collections librarian at Columbia University and to Rebecca Maguire, Genevieve Coyle, and Dika Goloweiko-Nussberg at Yale. Even though their repositories are not open to outside researchers at this point, they were extremely generous with their time and resources, providing me with digital copies and access and making helpful suggestions. I am very grateful to Yale undergraduate Nat Artz for sharing her photographs with me.

Makoroba Sow, librarian at the Millstein Division of NYPL, and Jay Vissers at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Picture Collection, both housed in the Schwarzman building, were so kind and their helpful suggestions and problem-solving skills were much-appreciated. At the Billy Rose Performing Arts library, I was so lucky to find Jeremy Megraw, who loves a mystery and enthusiastically jumped into my quest to track down a mysterious playbill from 1843. At the Schomburg Rare Books collection Bridgett Pride, Serena Torres and Cheryl Beredo were incredibly accommodating to me, under the difficult circumstances of coordinating a reading room with limited capacity due to Covid protocols.

At the Jean Blackwell Hutson library in Schomburg, I owe a debt of gratitude to the entire staff, who paged countless books on my behalf every day for the week I kept turning up there. I am very grateful to Auburn Nelso, Troy Belle, Rhonda Evans and the whole staff, including the personnel at the front desk who had to check me in and out, over and over again.

I am very much in the debt of Ed Surato at the Whitney library of the New Haven historical society for his generous help, and to a security guard I'm not going to name, who bent the rules for me, at the New Haven City Hall.

I'm grateful to many others for sharing not just access but also their thoughts, like Bruce Trammell, "translator" at the Discovering Amistad monument that I got to see, finally, in Hartford; artist Dread Scott for his supportive comments on my work and for the helpful introduction to Nina Felshin, with whom I am glad to be connected. I am grateful for the time I spent chatting with the owners of Revolution Books in Harlem, and to artist Steven Montinar, my future collaborator (and I hope, friend) for sharing his worldview with me as we poured over a crumbling document together in NYPL's rare book collection.

My time spent at these various archives was funded by a RISE grant from the University of Tampa, and I'm thankful to the sponsored programs committee for funding it, and to their leadership for being flexible about timelines under Covid. Without the generosity of my home institution for that grant, and the sabbatical period during which I am conducting this research, this couldn't have been accomplished. I am keenly aware of my incredible privilege, and I feel badly that I'm only stating a few names here when there were so many other people without whom I couldn't have navigated these challenges.