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brookston · 19 days ago

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Holidays 12.6

Holidays

Abolición del Ejército (Costa Rica)

Adore You Day

Armed Forces Day (Ukraine)

Christkind (Central & Southern Europe)

Dia de la Constitucion (a.k.a. Constitution Day; Spain)

Dogecoin Day

Dubrovnik Defenders’ Day (Croatia)

Ed Tech Appreciation Day

Encyclopedia Britannica Day

Give a Secret Gift Day

Gorse Day (French Republic)

Gospell Day (Marshall Islands)

Gramophone Day

Halifax Explosion Anniversary Day (Canada)

Ice Cube Day (Astronomy Club)

International Bad Hair Day

International Desk Day

International Femicide Remembrance Day

International Memecoin Day

International Sweater Vestival

Main Directorate for Drug Control Day (Russia)

Miner's Day (West Virginia)

Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies Day (Azerbaijan)

Mitten Tree Day

Musical Instrument Gift Day

National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women (Canada)

National Microwave Oven Day

National Miner's Day

National Pawnbrokers Day

National Sunnies Day (Australia)

National Tell Your Best Friend You Love Them Day

National Travis Day

Prosecutor’s Day (Kazakhstan)

Put On Your Own Shoes Day

Sindhi Topi and Ajrak Day (Pakistan)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Make & Bake Day

National ‘Cook For Christmas’ Day

National Gazpacho Day

Pizza Day (Google)

Samichlaus Day

Independence & Related Days

Åland Islands (from Russia, 1917)

Bophuthatswana (from South Africa, 1977)

Constitution Day (Spain)

Finland (from Russia, 1917)

Ireland (from the UK, recognized in 1922)

Kingdom of Titan (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Quito Day (Ecuador)

Western Province Day (Solomon Islands)

1st Friday in December

Bandcamp Friday [1st Friday]

Bartender Appreciation Day [1st Friday]

Comfort Food Friday [Every Friday]

Eccentric Day (Bell's Brewery; Michigan) [1st or 2nd Friday or Another Day]

Farmer’s Day (Ghana) [1st Friday]

Faux Fur Friday [1st Friday]

Five For Friday [Every Friday]

Flashback Friday [Every Friday]

Friday Finds [Every Friday]

Fry Day (Pastafarian; Fritism) [Every Friday]

Gospel Day (Marshall Islands) [1st Friday]

International Sweater Vestival [2nd Friday after Thanksgiving]

National Salesperson Day [1st Friday]

Open It! Weekend begins [1st Friday]

Purple Friday (UK) [1st Friday]

Saba Day (a.k.a. Flag Day; Netherlands Antilles) [1st Friday]

TGIF (Thank God It's Friday) [Every Friday]

Weekly Holidays beginning December 6 (1st Full Week of December)

Deck the Halls Weekend (Seneca Lake region, New York) [thru 12.8]

Festivals Beginning December 6, 2024

Candlelight Christmas Walk (Augusta, Missouri) [& 12.13]

Christmas Town Festival (Bethlehem, Connecticut) [thru 12.7]

Colisium International Music Forum (Novosibirsk, Russia) [thru 12.7]

Country Christmas Lighted Farm Implement Parade (Sandusky, Michigan) [thru 12.7]

German Christmas Market (Augusta, New Jersey) [thru 12.8]

Gingerbread Celebration and Holiday Mart (Gettsburg, Pennsylvania) [thru 12.8]

Gingerbread Village (Caro, Michigan) [thru 12.7]

Kimmswick Christmas Festival (Kimmswick, Missouri) [thru 12.8]

Medora's Old Fashioned Cowboy Christmas (Medora, North Dakota) [thru 12.8]

Night of the Proms (Munich, Germany)

Oslo Christmas Market (Oslo, Norway) [thru 12.7]

PAX Unplugged (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) [thru 12.8]

Salon du Cheval de Paris (Paris, France) [thru 12.8]

Southport Holiday Stroll & Cocktail Crawl (West Lakeview, Illinois)

Stockbridge Main Street At Christmas (Stockbridge, Massachusetts) [thru 12.8]

St. Paul Ice Fishing & Winter Sports Show (St. Paul, Minnesota) [thru 12.8]

St. Petersburg Fall Seafood & Music Festival (St. Petersburg, Florida) [thru 12.8]

Tree Lighting and Holiday Parade (Batesville, Indiana)

Feast Days

Abraham of Kratia (Christian; Saint)

Aemilianus (Roman Catholic Church)

Akibasan Gongen Hibuse Matsuri (Fire & Water Festival; Japan)

Bodhi Season, Day 6 (Buddhism; Secular Date) [Leading Up to 12.8] (a.k.a. ...

Principles: Perfection

Secular: Trip to Your Bodhi Day Place

Eightfold Path: Awakened Effort

The Heart Sutra: Issue Me Ke Kanaka Wai Wai (Jesus and the Rich Man)

Crossover Doozer (Muppetism)

Day of the North Wind (Pagan)

Days of Reckoning Begin (Shamanism)

Denise and companions (Christian; Saints)

Dionysia, Dativa, Aemilianus, Boniface, Leontia, Tertius, and Majoricus (Christian; Martyrs)

Doug Marlette (Artology)

Eliot Porter (Artology)

Frank Springer (Artology)

Frédéric Bazille (Artology)

Gamera Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Henk van Woerden (Artology)

Insult a Religious Fanatic Day (Pastafarian)

James Bernouilli (Positivist; Saint)

János Scheffler (Christian; Blessed)

Joyce Kilmer (Writerism)

Mall Nukke (Artology)

María del Monte Carmelo Sallés y Barangueras (Christian; Saint)

Masami Kurumada (Artology)

Math Ap Mathonwy (Celtic Book of Days)

Nicholas of Myra (Christian; Saint) [brewers]

Nicola De Maria (Artology)

Peter Paschal (Christian; Saint)

Pirate Appreciation Day (Pastafarian)

Rudolf Schlichter (Artology)

Shio Satō (Artology)

Theophilus, Bishop of Antioch (Christian; Saint)

Thor's Day (Norse)

Turnover (The Seasons of Earnings begins; Church of the SubGenius)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [35 of 37]

Unglückstage (Unlucky Day; Pennsylvania Dutch) [28 of 30]

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [56 of 60]

Premieres

Adaptation (Film; 2002)

Aeronauts (Film; 2019)

As Good As It Gets (Film; 1997)

Beggar’s Banquet, by The Rolling Stones (Album; 1968)

Bullseye Bullwinkle, or Destination Moose (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 3; 1959)

Cinderella (Ub Iwerks Disney Cartoon; 1922)

Cock-a-Doodle Dino (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1957)

Day Tripper, by The Beatles (Song; 1965)

A Dopey Hacienda (Tijuana Toads Cartoon; 1970)

DuBarry Was A Lady (Broadway Musical; 1939)

Dumb and Dumber (Film; 1994)

Ferry Cross the Mersey (Documentary Film; 1964)

The Fox and the Grapes (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1941)

Gimme Shelter (Concert Film; 1970)

Going To A Go-Go, by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles (Song; 1965)

The Hand of Oberon, by Roger Zelazny (1976) [Chronicles of Amber #4]

A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, recorded by Bob Dylan (Song; 1962)

The Hep Cat (Mighty Mouse Cartoon; 1946)

Hip Hip-Hurry! (WB MM Cartoon; 1958)

King-Size Canary (Tex Avery MGM Cartoon; 1947)

The Lake District Murder, by Ernest Elmore, writing as John Bude (Novel; 1935)

Live at the BBC, by The Beatles (Compilation Album; 1994)

Mary Had a Little Lamb, recorded by Thomas Edison (Song; 1877) [1st Recording of the Human Voice]

Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree (Muppet TV Special; 1995)

The Night Before Christmas (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1941)

19th Nervous Breakdown, recorded by The Rolling Stones (Song; 1965)

One Droopy Night (Droopy MGM Cartoon; 1957)

Out of an Old Man’s Head (Swedish Animated Film; 1968)

Popeye (Film; 1980)

Red Bank Boogie, recorded by The Count Basie Orchestra (Song; 1944)

Rubber Soul, by The Beatles (Album; 1965)

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Animated TV Special; 1964)

Running on Empty, by Jackson Browne (Live Album; 1977)

Sixteen Stone, by Bush (Album; 1994)

Smoke on the Water, recorded by Deep Purple (Song; 1971)

Squeeze Play or Invitation to the Trance (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 4; 1959)

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (Film; 1991)

Still Crazy After All These Years, by Paul Simon (Album; 1975)

The Story of an Hour, by Kate Chopin (Short Story; 1894)

The Stroll, by The Diamonds (Song; 1957)

Sympathy for the Devil, by The Rolling Stones (Song; 1968)

Tommy Tucker’s Tooth (Disney Cartoon; 1922)

Turn! Turn! Turn!, by The Byrds (Album; 1965)

We Can Work It Out, by The Beatles (Song; 1965)

Whole Lotta Love, by Led Zeppelin (Song; 1969)

Today’s Name Days

Denise, Henrike, Nikolaus (Austria)

Nikola, Nikolai, Nina (Bulgaria)

Nikica, Niko, Nikola, Nikša, Vladimir (Croatia)

Mikuláš (Czech Republic)

Nikolaus (Denmark)

Klaus, Laas, Laus, Nigul, Nigulas, Niilas, Niilo, Nikolai, Nils (Estonia)

Niila, Niilo, Niki, Niklas, Niko, Nikolai, Nikolas (Finland)

Nicolas (France)

Denise, Henrike, Nikolaus (Germany)

Nikolaos, Nikoleta, Nikos (Greece)

Miklós (Hungary)

Nicola (Italy)

Klāvs, Niklāvs, Nikolajs (Latvia)

Bilmantas, Mikalojus, Norvydė (Lithuania)

Nikolai, Nils (Norway)

Dionizja, Emilian, Jarema, Jarogniew, Mikołaj (Poland)

Nicolae (România)

Mikuláš (Slovakia)

Nicolás (Spain)

Niklas, Nikolaus (Sweden)

Nicholas (Ukraine)

Claus, Ira, Nicholas, Nichole, Nicholet, Nick, Nicklaus, Nickolas, Nico, Nicolas, Nicole, Nicolette, Nikki, Niko, Nikolas (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 341 of 2024; 25 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of Week 49 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Ngetal (Reed) [Day 13 of 28]

Chinese: Month 11 (Bing-Zi), Day 6 (Jia-Chen)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 5 Kislev 5785

Islamic: 4 Jumada II 1446

J Cal: 11 Black; Foursday [11 of 30]

Julian: 23 November 2024

Moon: 29%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 5 Bichat (13th Month) [Römer / Bradley]

Runic Half Month: Is (Stasis) [Day 15 of 15]

Season: Autumn or Fall (Day 75 of 90)

Week: 1st Full Week of December

Zodiac: Sagittarius (Day 15 of 30)

#calendar #Holidays

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brookstonalmanac · 19 days ago

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Holidays 12.6

Holidays

Abolición del Ejército (Costa Rica)

Adore You Day

Armed Forces Day (Ukraine)

Christkind (Central & Southern Europe)

Dia de la Constitucion (a.k.a. Constitution Day; Spain)

Dogecoin Day

Dubrovnik Defenders’ Day (Croatia)

Ed Tech Appreciation Day

Encyclopedia Britannica Day

Give a Secret Gift Day

Gorse Day (French Republic)

Gospell Day (Marshall Islands)

Gramophone Day

Halifax Explosion Anniversary Day (Canada)

Ice Cube Day (Astronomy Club)

International Bad Hair Day

International Desk Day

International Femicide Remembrance Day

International Memecoin Day

International Sweater Vestival

Main Directorate for Drug Control Day (Russia)

Miner's Day (West Virginia)

Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies Day (Azerbaijan)

Mitten Tree Day

Musical Instrument Gift Day

National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women (Canada)

National Microwave Oven Day

National Miner's Day

National Pawnbrokers Day

National Sunnies Day (Australia)

National Tell Your Best Friend You Love Them Day

National Travis Day

Prosecutor’s Day (Kazakhstan)

Put On Your Own Shoes Day

Sindhi Topi and Ajrak Day (Pakistan)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Make & Bake Day

National ‘Cook For Christmas’ Day

National Gazpacho Day

Pizza Day (Google)

Samichlaus Day

Independence & Related Days

Åland Islands (from Russia, 1917)

Bophuthatswana (from South Africa, 1977)

Constitution Day (Spain)

Finland (from Russia, 1917)

Ireland (from the UK, recognized in 1922)

Kingdom of Titan (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Quito Day (Ecuador)

Western Province Day (Solomon Islands)

1st Friday in December

Bandcamp Friday [1st Friday]

Bartender Appreciation Day [1st Friday]

Comfort Food Friday [Every Friday]

Eccentric Day (Bell's Brewery; Michigan) [1st or 2nd Friday or Another Day]

Farmer’s Day (Ghana) [1st Friday]

Faux Fur Friday [1st Friday]

Five For Friday [Every Friday]

Flashback Friday [Every Friday]

Friday Finds [Every Friday]

Fry Day (Pastafarian; Fritism) [Every Friday]

Gospel Day (Marshall Islands) [1st Friday]

International Sweater Vestival [2nd Friday after Thanksgiving]

National Salesperson Day [1st Friday]

Open It! Weekend begins [1st Friday]

Purple Friday (UK) [1st Friday]

Saba Day (a.k.a. Flag Day; Netherlands Antilles) [1st Friday]

TGIF (Thank God It's Friday) [Every Friday]

Weekly Holidays beginning December 6 (1st Full Week of December)

Deck the Halls Weekend (Seneca Lake region, New York) [thru 12.8]

Festivals Beginning December 6, 2024

Candlelight Christmas Walk (Augusta, Missouri) [& 12.13]

Christmas Town Festival (Bethlehem, Connecticut) [thru 12.7]

Colisium International Music Forum (Novosibirsk, Russia) [thru 12.7]

Country Christmas Lighted Farm Implement Parade (Sandusky, Michigan) [thru 12.7]

German Christmas Market (Augusta, New Jersey) [thru 12.8]

Gingerbread Celebration and Holiday Mart (Gettsburg, Pennsylvania) [thru 12.8]

Gingerbread Village (Caro, Michigan) [thru 12.7]

Kimmswick Christmas Festival (Kimmswick, Missouri) [thru 12.8]

Medora's Old Fashioned Cowboy Christmas (Medora, North Dakota) [thru 12.8]

Night of the Proms (Munich, Germany)

Oslo Christmas Market (Oslo, Norway) [thru 12.7]

PAX Unplugged (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) [thru 12.8]

Salon du Cheval de Paris (Paris, France) [thru 12.8]

Southport Holiday Stroll & Cocktail Crawl (West Lakeview, Illinois)

Stockbridge Main Street At Christmas (Stockbridge, Massachusetts) [thru 12.8]

St. Paul Ice Fishing & Winter Sports Show (St. Paul, Minnesota) [thru 12.8]

St. Petersburg Fall Seafood & Music Festival (St. Petersburg, Florida) [thru 12.8]

Tree Lighting and Holiday Parade (Batesville, Indiana)

Feast Days

Abraham of Kratia (Christian; Saint)

Aemilianus (Roman Catholic Church)

Akibasan Gongen Hibuse Matsuri (Fire & Water Festival; Japan)

Bodhi Season, Day 6 (Buddhism; Secular Date) [Leading Up to 12.8] (a.k.a. ...

Principles: Perfection

Secular: Trip to Your Bodhi Day Place

Eightfold Path: Awakened Effort

The Heart Sutra: Issue Me Ke Kanaka Wai Wai (Jesus and the Rich Man)

Crossover Doozer (Muppetism)

Day of the North Wind (Pagan)

Days of Reckoning Begin (Shamanism)

Denise and companions (Christian; Saints)

Dionysia, Dativa, Aemilianus, Boniface, Leontia, Tertius, and Majoricus (Christian; Martyrs)

Doug Marlette (Artology)

Eliot Porter (Artology)

Frank Springer (Artology)

Frédéric Bazille (Artology)

Gamera Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Henk van Woerden (Artology)

Insult a Religious Fanatic Day (Pastafarian)

James Bernouilli (Positivist; Saint)

János Scheffler (Christian; Blessed)

Joyce Kilmer (Writerism)

Mall Nukke (Artology)

María del Monte Carmelo Sallés y Barangueras (Christian; Saint)

Masami Kurumada (Artology)

Math Ap Mathonwy (Celtic Book of Days)

Nicholas of Myra (Christian; Saint) [brewers]

Nicola De Maria (Artology)

Peter Paschal (Christian; Saint)

Pirate Appreciation Day (Pastafarian)

Rudolf Schlichter (Artology)

Shio Satō (Artology)

Theophilus, Bishop of Antioch (Christian; Saint)

Thor's Day (Norse)

Turnover (The Seasons of Earnings begins; Church of the SubGenius)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [35 of 37]

Unglückstage (Unlucky Day; Pennsylvania Dutch) [28 of 30]

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [56 of 60]

Premieres

Adaptation (Film; 2002)

Aeronauts (Film; 2019)

As Good As It Gets (Film; 1997)

Beggar’s Banquet, by The Rolling Stones (Album; 1968)

Bullseye Bullwinkle, or Destination Moose (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 3; 1959)

Cinderella (Ub Iwerks Disney Cartoon; 1922)

Cock-a-Doodle Dino (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1957)

Day Tripper, by The Beatles (Song; 1965)

A Dopey Hacienda (Tijuana Toads Cartoon; 1970)

DuBarry Was A Lady (Broadway Musical; 1939)

Dumb and Dumber (Film; 1994)

Ferry Cross the Mersey (Documentary Film; 1964)

The Fox and the Grapes (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1941)

Gimme Shelter (Concert Film; 1970)

Going To A Go-Go, by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles (Song; 1965)

The Hand of Oberon, by Roger Zelazny (1976) [Chronicles of Amber #4]

A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, recorded by Bob Dylan (Song; 1962)

The Hep Cat (Mighty Mouse Cartoon; 1946)

Hip Hip-Hurry! (WB MM Cartoon; 1958)

King-Size Canary (Tex Avery MGM Cartoon; 1947)

The Lake District Murder, by Ernest Elmore, writing as John Bude (Novel; 1935)

Live at the BBC, by The Beatles (Compilation Album; 1994)

Mary Had a Little Lamb, recorded by Thomas Edison (Song; 1877) [1st Recording of the Human Voice]

Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree (Muppet TV Special; 1995)

The Night Before Christmas (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1941)

19th Nervous Breakdown, recorded by The Rolling Stones (Song; 1965)

One Droopy Night (Droopy MGM Cartoon; 1957)

Out of an Old Man’s Head (Swedish Animated Film; 1968)

Popeye (Film; 1980)

Red Bank Boogie, recorded by The Count Basie Orchestra (Song; 1944)

Rubber Soul, by The Beatles (Album; 1965)

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Animated TV Special; 1964)

Running on Empty, by Jackson Browne (Live Album; 1977)

Sixteen Stone, by Bush (Album; 1994)

Smoke on the Water, recorded by Deep Purple (Song; 1971)

Squeeze Play or Invitation to the Trance (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 4; 1959)

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (Film; 1991)

Still Crazy After All These Years, by Paul Simon (Album; 1975)

The Story of an Hour, by Kate Chopin (Short Story; 1894)

The Stroll, by The Diamonds (Song; 1957)

Sympathy for the Devil, by The Rolling Stones (Song; 1968)

Tommy Tucker’s Tooth (Disney Cartoon; 1922)

Turn! Turn! Turn!, by The Byrds (Album; 1965)

We Can Work It Out, by The Beatles (Song; 1965)

Whole Lotta Love, by Led Zeppelin (Song; 1969)

Today’s Name Days

Denise, Henrike, Nikolaus (Austria)

Nikola, Nikolai, Nina (Bulgaria)

Nikica, Niko, Nikola, Nikša, Vladimir (Croatia)

Mikuláš (Czech Republic)

Nikolaus (Denmark)

Klaus, Laas, Laus, Nigul, Nigulas, Niilas, Niilo, Nikolai, Nils (Estonia)

Niila, Niilo, Niki, Niklas, Niko, Nikolai, Nikolas (Finland)

Nicolas (France)

Denise, Henrike, Nikolaus (Germany)

Nikolaos, Nikoleta, Nikos (Greece)

Miklós (Hungary)

Nicola (Italy)

Klāvs, Niklāvs, Nikolajs (Latvia)

Bilmantas, Mikalojus, Norvydė (Lithuania)

Nikolai, Nils (Norway)

Dionizja, Emilian, Jarema, Jarogniew, Mikołaj (Poland)

Nicolae (România)

Mikuláš (Slovakia)

Nicolás (Spain)

Niklas, Nikolaus (Sweden)

Nicholas (Ukraine)

Claus, Ira, Nicholas, Nichole, Nicholet, Nick, Nicklaus, Nickolas, Nico, Nicolas, Nicole, Nicolette, Nikki, Niko, Nikolas (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 341 of 2024; 25 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of Week 49 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Ngetal (Reed) [Day 13 of 28]

Chinese: Month 11 (Bing-Zi), Day 6 (Jia-Chen)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 5 Kislev 5785

Islamic: 4 Jumada II 1446

J Cal: 11 Black; Foursday [11 of 30]

Julian: 23 November 2024

Moon: 29%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 5 Bichat (13th Month) [Römer / Bradley]

Runic Half Month: Is (Stasis) [Day 15 of 15]

Season: Autumn or Fall (Day 75 of 90)

Week: 1st Full Week of December

Zodiac: Sagittarius (Day 15 of 30)

#Holidays

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greygoof · 1 year ago

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i used to celebrate my birthday by taking a vacation to San Antonio for PAX South but the 2020 covid stuff killed it forever. no idea what to do for my birthday now..

#yapping

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lady-valandra · 2 years ago

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Me, wanting to touch up my LU Legend cosplay for TotK midnight release, that I rush created for Pax South 2020 and as such has been at the top of my "to re-create*properly* list" ever since: "Less than a week is totally enough time!"

Why is it (I, am I) always like this? 😭😂

#cosplay contemplations #cosplay procrastination #will I ever get around to sharing an actual photo of it?#who knows #i remember being so cold after the sun set and REFUSING to put leggings or pants on #loz lu

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back-and-totheleft · 2 years ago

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"The United States does not care about Ukraine"

When Oliver Stone presented his autobiography in 2020, he admitted that if he hadn't directed a conventional film since 2012 it was because "he wasn't inspired" and he didn't feel "the necessary fire" inside him . Maybe that's why his latest documentary is a return to the subject he touched on three decades ago in JFK: the assassination of John Kennedy. JFK Revisited, which Stone presented this Monday at the BCN Film Fest, resumes the investigation based on the analysis of official documents declassified in recent years and once again dismantles the Warren Commission report. It is a more thorough compilation than the 1991 film, even too much, and with little news of interest about the case beyond documenting that there were two other conspiracies to assassinate the president weeks before the mass murder. The conclusions, of course, are the same: the magic bullet theory is ridiculous, the FBI and CIA conspired to cover up the assassination, and the history of the United States would have been much better had they not removed Kennedy.

"JFK was the last truly popular president, I'm sure he would have won the 1964 election," defends Stone. "Since his death, no one has had the ability to change things or the courage to challenge the CIA, which controls foreign policy."

For the director of Platoon, Kennedy was "a warrior of peace" who warned about the danger of having "a pax Americana imposed by force of arms, which is exactly what we have now." Kennedy's goal, says Stone, was not to encourage American imperialism: “He was Irish and his family had fought against the English, he knew the history of Ireland from top to bottom. He had good relations with Nasser's Egypt and the Middle East and wanted to invest in South America, not the military. Kennedy had been in the military and therefore knew how the influence and the military budget had grown and the danger that this entailed." The filmmaker, in fact, puts NATO as an example of a "completely superfluous" organization. And he adds: "If you think that being part of NATO provides security to Spain, you are crazy."

A "reasonable and rational" man

Stone insists that his main interest is not politics ("I make movies, I'm a director, the thing is, politics is good material for drama," he says), but just go through the list of politicians that he has portrayed from fiction or documentary throughout his career: Nixon, Castro, George W. Bush, Hugo Chávez. The last was Vladimir Putin, whom he interviewed in 2017 in a documentary series that offers a friendly and positive profile of the Russian president. He hasn't spoken to him in three years, but he says he doesn't think he's changed "or lost his mind." "He is a reasonable and rational man who thinks before he speaks, like a chess player. Putin is a good son of Russia who works in the interest of his people. He comes from the lower class and grew up a patriot, not a KGB agent.

The director also does not hesitate to comment on Marine Le Pen the day after the far-right's best results in a French election. "They love to say that he is from the extreme right, but I don't know if he is," he says. "Some of the things he says are common sense, like questioning the role of NATO in the European Union. Before, the old Europe did not stand firm and always marched under the orders of the United States." For Stone, Le Pen is just "shaking things up" and he doesn't think it's bad. "Doing this is extreme right-wing, they say. But I'm on the left and I'm in favor of immigrants. So these labels no longer work."

"The United States does not care about Ukraine"

In line with his support for Putin, Oliver Stone produced the documentary Ukraine on Fire in 2019 , which analyzes the country's history from a point of view that coincides with the pro-Russian narrative and attributes the 2014 revolution to the interference of the United States. Russia's invasion of Ukraine, he says, has not changed his mind about the conflict between the two countries. "In Ukraine there is a long history of anti-Russian sentiment and discrimination against the ethnic Russian population," he says. "This has been the basis of the country's policy since the 2014 coup that forced out President Yanukovych with the support of the United States, which has spent a lot of money in Ukraine to destabilize Russia. The United States does not care about Ukraine or the death of Ukrainians."

Stone, in fact, gets fired up at mentioning the war crimes allegations against Russia's actions in Ukraine. "It's typical Western propaganda," he assures. "What is the point of talking about war crimes? It's a war, that's what happens in wars. But saying it's Russia's policy is the stupidest thing I've ever heard." The director recalls the accusations against Saddam Hussein ("We turned him into a monster comparable to Hitler") and points to China as the next target of the United States. "For a while we were fine with them, but now they are our enemies and we accuse them of genocide, like in Russia, but things are not that simple. Our strategy is to point at others and shout loudly 'War crimes!', but in this way, we are perverting the purpose of the Nuremberg trials." Interestingly, the only question Stone has refused to answer during the meeting with the press was about Will Smith's slap to Chris Rock at the Oscars. "I always have problems if I say things without thinking them through," he explained.

-Xavi Serra interviews Oliver Stone for ARA, Apr 25 2022 [x] Translated from Catalan

#oliver stone #ukraine #ukraine on fire #jfk revisited #will smith #chris rock #oscars

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briandoescosplay · 4 years ago

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Just some more operators from Pax South 2020 in January I forgot to upload

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alovelydayforchocolate · 4 years ago

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Tango Evelynn cosplay from Pax South, January 2020.

Cosplay top and skirt handsewn by me. Rose appliques from Amazon.

Wig cut and styled by me. Rose hairclips from Amazon.

Lashers are a scarf I already owned.

Claws are acrylic nails painted with nail polish, with Crayola paint layered over top. People who aren’t sensitive to latex might find that liquid latex body paint works better for the fade into the skin.

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100percentdirtball · 5 years ago

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