#playmates of 2002

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Lani Todd - December 2002 Playmate More 2000s Playmates

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Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for May 2002, Christi Shake 𐔌🧁🎀𓈒 ݁⋆

[moniquill]

Rights of Property Donald Grinde, Jr., professor of American Indian Studies and chair of the Department of American Studies at SUNY Buffalo, recounted this story in a 2002 interview with the journal Spirit of Ma’at:

Elizabeth Cady Stanton describes how, as a young girl on an Iroquois reservation — she was twelve or thirteen — she saw a man come up, and the mother of her Indian playmate went outside and talked to this man for a half hour or more. Then he handed her some money, they went to the barn and took a horse out, and he rode off on the horse.

Stanton asked the mother what had happened, and the woman said, “Well, I sold the man one of my horses. We negotiated the price, and then he gave me the money, and then he left with the horse.”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton said, “What will your husband say when he gets home?”

The woman said, “Well, it was my horse, and I can do with it as I please.”

For a young Euro-American woman, it was quite a revelation that this was possible, that a woman could behave in this way, holding property and disposing of it without the approval of a husband or father.

[the-aussie-knight]

Playboy Playmate: May 2002

Name: Christi Shake

Born: 22nd of August 1980

Measurements: 34D-24-34

[jasper-pagan-witch]

Hermes/Mercury In Poetry: A Compilation Of Poems By Sappho, Carl Dennis, And Shirley Burger With Mediocre Analysis

Hermes and Mercury are a god who has remained in the public consciousness despite the fact that worship of them has dwindled to nearly nothing (shoutout to my fellow Ancient Greek polytheists, though). Due to still being in the public consciousness despite everything, it’s not that surprising to see Hermes and Mercury still popping up in everything from video games to battleships, and don’t get me started on Hermes Trismegistus. (No, really, please don’t, I don’t know enough about Hermeticism to get into that.)

This is not any form of professional comparative essay. Or even a casual comparative essay. This is just me going feral over poetry and Hermes/Mercury. Let’s get this shit started.

In Sappho: A New Translation (translated by Mary Barnard), Hermes appears in two parts: 14 and 97. These depict Hermes in two vastly different roles: cupbearer and psychopomp.

Fragment 14 goes as thus:

PEACE REIGNED IN HEAVEN Ambrosia stood already mixed in the wine bowl It was Hermes who took up the wine jug and poured wine for the gods

Fragment 14 depicts Hermes in the role of cupbearer for the gods, a duty more often attributed to Hebe (the daughter of Zeus and Hera, the goddess of youth) or Ganymede (a Trojan prince, the constellation Aquarius, god of homosexual love, playmate of Eros and Hymenaios). Theoi.com lists him as being a cupbearer among other things due to his ministry to Zeus, but I’m gonna be honest, I had a hard time figuring out how to read their citations and couldn’t find any other instance other than the general page about this particular thing. The most likely answer here, though, is that I just suck at reading.

Meanwhile, Fragment 97 depicts a more well-known side of Hermes:

I HAVE OFTEN ASKED YOU NOT TO COME NOW Hermes, Lord, you who lead the ghosts home: But this time I am not happy; I want to die, to see the moist lotus open along Acheron

Our girl Sappho was fucking going through it, man. This poem calls to Hermes as a psychopomp, a duty attributed to him in Homer’s Odyssey (an epic from C8th B.C.), the Homeric Hymn 4 to Hermes (an epic from C7th to C4th B.C.), Aeschylus’s Libation Bearers (a tragedy from C5th B.C.), and more and more as we get closer to the current period in history. According to the Homeric Hymn 4, he got this job after being sent to retrieve Persephone and handling that whole scenario, so Zeus just appointed him to keep that psychopomp job. The downsides of pulling things off well, I suppose.

So, that was how Sappho perceived Hermes through poetry. How about something more...modern? In 2001, Carl Dennis published “Practical Gods”, which won the 2000 Ruth Lily Poetry Prize and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize. Greek, Catholic, and Christian figures appear through these poems as Carl Dennis draws on mythological and religious imagery for his works. Hermes appears in “A Priest of Hermes” in his psychopomp duties, and the idea of Death and how one dies appears in other poems in this book, like “Eternal Life” and “Progressive Health”. (Not every poem in this work is focused on Death, but those ones were the most striking to me when I first read them.)

A Priest of Hermes The way up, from here to there, may be closed, But the way down, from there to here, still open Wide enough for a slender god like Hermes To slip from the clouds if you give your evenings To learning about the plants under his influence, The winged and wingless creatures, the rocks and metals, And practice his sacred flute or dulcimer. No prayers. Just the effort to make his stay So full of the comforts of home he won’t forget it, To build him a shrine he finds congenial, Something as simple as roofed pillars Without the darkness of an interior. If you’re lucky, he’ll want to sit on the steps Under the stars for as long as you live And sniff the fragrance of wine and barley As it blows from the altar on a salty sea breeze. He’ll want, when you die, to offer his services As a guide on the shadowy path to the underworld. Not till you reach the watery crossing Will he leave your side, and even then He’ll shout instructions as you slip from your shoes And wade alone into that dark river.

To me, this poem feels warm and comforting, in a way that Death is only sometimes described. Death as a gentle force is becoming more popular to depict rather than violent Death, as Death is slowly being seen as something that comforts you after a long period of hardship (fighting terminal illness, being in danger, a heart attack, et cetera) or to help you step forward if you die in a more peaceful manner (such as dying in one’s sleep). This poem being so calming makes sense: a psychopomp’s duty is to guide you to the afterlife, and it’s hard to guide someone who’s flipping the fuck out.

Let’s fast forward five years, to 2006. Noble House Publishing put out “Songs of Honour”, an anthology of poems that span all kinds of authors and subjects. (It’s also completely unclear whether or not the writers knew that their works were being used in this, and it doesn’t have an ISBN...) But the poem of note here is Shirley Burger’s “Mercury, Oh Caduceus”, found on page sixty-nine (nice). Let’s see if you can figure out why it was so interesting to me. The poem goes as follows:

Mercury, Oh Caduceus Mercury, such a toxic rhyme... A goddess, once upon a time... Twisted with your mammon ways... Oh my Father counts the days... When your Caduceus will be revealed... For all your bronze and all your “steal”... You’ve preyed upon the children dear... And as you speak all I can hear... Is poverty upon us all... You’ve tripped us up and made us fall... Soon your serpent ways will see... Nothing about you makes us free... Your lies are beneath all your hidden ways... Oh how my Father counts the days... Until your statue crumbles hard... And frees the people once again... From what you’ve told us is our friend... Your lies stroll forth unto the day... When thoughts of you will go away... Forever.

Okay, yes, yes, this poem treats Mercury as being synonymous with the serpent that convinced Eve to bite the fruit of knowledge and reads like a Christian freaking out about heresy and misleading the children, yes, sure, whatever. It’s like the polar opposite of Carl Dennis’s approach to Hermes.

But most interesting to me is the fact that the author refers to Mercury as a goddess. This is fascinating to me because in Western astrology, despite Mercury being a “masculine” god, Mercury the planet is considered to be perfectly neutral in terms of masculinity and femininity. I have no idea how Shirley Burger managed to make the jump from “Mercury is a Roman god” to “this is a goddess”, considering everything, but it’s fascinating to me.

There is no closing statement for this post! It’s not even a formal essay! I’ve said “fuck” four times, after all. But this is the end of the Tumblr post. Enjoy the poetry.

Sources & References

(Yes, I found an online MLA 9th edition citing website tool just to make these look fancy. Fuck you.)

Wikipedia contributors. “Hermes.” Wikipedia, 10 Jan. 2002, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes.

Wikipedia contributors. “Mercury (mythology).” Wikipedia, 17 Nov. 2024, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(mythology).

“HERMES - Greek God of Herds and Trade, Herald of the Gods.” Theoi Greek Mythology, www.theoi.com/Olympios/Hermes.html.

Sappho. Sappho: A New Translation. University of California Press, 2019.

Dennis, Carl. Practical gods. National Geographic Books, 2001.

Burger, Shirley. Songs of honour. Edited by Noble House Staff, Noble House Publishers, 2006. “Mercury, Oh Caduceus”, pg. 69

Burk, Kevin. Astrology: Understanding the Birth Chart : a Comprehensive Guide to Classical Interpretation. Llewellyn Worldwide, 2001.

[honeystwiggypeach]

I heard you still write. If you still write for Eddie and Lucille I’d love a fic about them. Been missing them lately

Hi! I definitely still write for Eddie and Lucille, I’ve been missing them too I just haven’t had the motivation to like sit down and write like I should, nor did I have any ideas but I have one!

Anywho, thank you sm for the request if you want me to write anymore Eddie and Lucille let me know pls I love them sm😭

Dad!Eddie x Mom!Reader

Dad!Eddie Munson Series

Tw: reader has a cold, fem!reader

You’d woken up with a pounding headache and a cold sweat, you let out a quiet groan.

“Eddie?” You murmur your clammy palm touching your husband’s bare back. “Think ‘ve got a fever”

His hands press against your head and he nods. He starts to sit up resting his arms against his knees, the sheets falling round his waist.

You blink up at him groggily seeing the sun peaking in through the window above the bed. You roll over in bed as you look to your husband. You let out a quiet groan hearing your baby, Davie start to cry.

Not even five minutes later, Lucy is bursting into the room, “Mama! Baby Davie’s up!” She tells you eagerly. You let out a whine shutting your eyes as you try to resist the urge to burry your head in your pillow.

Before you know it your husband is taking over, getting Lucy ready for preschool and calling Wayne to ask if he could watch Davie for the day.

“Sweetheart?” You hear Eddie ask as he pokes his head in the room David on his hip and Lucille clinging to his calf, you hum in acknowledgment. “Ya want me to call in sick for ya?” You shake your head no. Lucy’s birthday was soon and you just needed to save up a little more for that Barbie dream house she wanted!

It takes an extra hour but eventually you show up to work, making sure to stay away from your coworkers, and somehow making it through the day.

When you get home you take a hot shower and lay back in bed, and when Eddie gets home he knows you must still feel sick since all the lights in the house were on.

“Where’s mama?” Lucille starts asking loudly as she toddles through the house, and Eddie quickly sets David down on his playmat and scoops up Lucy.

“Hey, hey, gotta be quiet squirt, your mama doesn’t feel good” he tells Lucy as he presses kisses on her cheeks as she giggles and nods.

“I can make mama a card!” She shouts before she whispers “sorry” as she remembers her daddy said it was quiet time.

And so an hour later when you come out the room to make a cup of tea and take medication for your cold you find your husband on the floor near the coffee table. You squint slightly seeing him covered in glitter, macaroni noodles stuck to his work clothes as he holds David feeding him his bottle and watching Lucy finish up her card.

“Mama!” You hear Lucy shout as she runs up holding up her card pushing it at you excitedly.

“Ohhh it’s so beautiful honey” you tell her as you smile at Eddie thankful for what he’d done today.

Guys, would you like to see if I wrote something about Billy Hargrove?

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hi!! i hope you don’t mind me asking this but i recently read harleen (specifically issue 1) and wondered if you might know of any other comics that have an outsider perspective of batjokes? thanks !!

I don't mind at all, anon! I also enjoy in-universe outside perspectives on Batman and Joker's relationship (and I've included quite a bit of it in fic). Harleen #1 does have a pretty great one:

The most common commentary on Batman and Joker from other characters is the ol' "why haven't you killed him yet?!" but that reflects more frustration than any inkling of the connection between Gotham's most famous nemeses. So with the help of @distort-opia, I wrangled panels from a couple dozen comics that show characters having a better (even if incomplete) understanding of what the heck is going on there.

Many of these may already be familiar if you've been around batjokes fandom long enough. Regardless, spoilers abound!

I've ordered these (mostly) in cover date order.

June 1996 - The Batman Chronicles #5

This is a flashback that takes place shortly after The Killing Joke. Barbara is understandably bitter about being fridged, and it's clear that officers who saw Batman and Joker laughing together have spread the word, because heyyyyy wtf?

October 1996 - Catwoman (1993) #38

Selina knows releasing other rogues is a good distraction; Batman is always more concerned about Joker than her.

May 1997 - Batman: Batgirl

Before this, Joker was firing his gun willy-nilly, hitting his own men, and he hit Batman accidentally. Barbara doesn't seem to think he fully understands the consequences of killing Batman, especially given the surprise he shows when Batman goes down.

Five years later, this story gets retold (with a worse rendition of Joker's fantastic oufit):

July 2002 - DC First: Batgirl/Joker 

In this version, Barbara more actively realizes she needs to get at Joker by laughing at him, because he's caught up in a reality where Batman is the only other real person. (Not sure if this is the first comic to posit that idea, but it has shown up elsewhere.)

February 1999 - Catwoman (1993) #65

Joker has been terrorizing Catwoman for Batman-related reasons for a few issues, and she knows that saying she's killed Batman will devastate him. (You know, the more stories like this I see, the more I see Tom King actually didn't have too far a walk to jokerize Selina.)

August 2001 - Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight (1989) #144

Alfred has noticed that Joker's presence affects Bruce's behavior. 

September 2003 - Batman: Gotham Knights #43

This take from Barbara is set before TKJ and meant to foreshadow (aftershadow?) it. Here she shows a better understanding of Batman and Joker's relationship than Bruce does.

October 2003 - Outsiders (2003) #3

Luthor knows just how to get under Joker's skin.

March 2011 - Streets of Gotham #19

Hush also knows how to get under Joker's skin.

March 2011 - Gotham City Sirens #19 

Selina and Harley are thinking more about themselves here, but it's not hard to connect the dots. Joker is part of the criminal morass that Bruce is focused on fighting, and Joker's focus is constantly on how to best the Batman.

November 2011 - Batman: Noël

Bruce has been told that Catwoman has information about the Joker's whereabouts. Note that Selina isn't saying she's aware that Joker is up to something right now; she implies that Batman is always thinking about Joker. It's a fact she can bank on.

May 2013 - Injustice: Gods Among Us #4 (digital release #11) 

Perhaps the most infamous example. This is related to the "why won't you kill him?" trope, but Clark's accusation takes it further by directly saying it's because Bruce loves fighting Joker more than he loves his friends and family.

Clark says something similar about Joker being Bruce's playmate in another comic:

August 2014 - Adventures of Superman (2013) #14 (digital release #41

Even outside of the Injustice universe, Clark knows Bruce's priorities are out of whack when it comes to Joker.

January 2013 - Catwoman (2011) #14

Selina just stating the obvious here, again after a now-faceless Joker has tormented her for Batman-related reasons for a couple issues.

April 2016 - Batman (2011) #49

Heartbreaking example from Alfred here. He watched Bruce's obsessiveness and understood that Bruce, consciously or subconsciously, saw dying with Joker as his destiny. He probably suspects that Joker didn't really die either and knows they're going to end up back on the same track.

April 2016 - Batman: Europa #4

These panels sum up Europa. Bane, always looking for fresh ways to break the Bat, saw Joker as a clear catalyst (even if he had to make up a convoluted plot to make Batman see it first).

January 2017 - All-Star Batman #4 (backer)

Duke is pretty much repeating Bruce's soliloquy from Death of the Family here, so he's not saying anything Bruce doesn't really know, but he doesn't know that Bruce knows. lol Interestingly, this happens before Dark Days: The Casting, in which Duke watches Joker demonstrate his love in a more positive way by trying to stop Bruce from blundering into everything that happens in Dark Nights: Metal and beyond.

January 2018 - Batman: White Knight #2

White Knight is problematic from a batjokes standpoint (and other standpoints!) but poor Harley presents another infamous outsider perspective here.

October 2018 - Harley/Gossamer Special

She's right and right to say it!

August 2020 - Birds of Prey (2020) 

This take is interesting in how it posits that Joker already felt unfulfilled by Batman by the time he met Harley and that she was kind of a rebound.

August 2020 - The Joker 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular

This is from "The Last Smile," in which Harley reveals Joker's recurring nightmare about Batman mocking him as he's put to death. Joker didn't picture Harley appearing to save him, but perhaps he felt like Batman's respect was "saving" him all the long.

September 2020 - Batgirl (2016) #47

Nooooo! That's the thing he's sensitive about!

April 2021 - Batman/Catwoman #3

I have… a lot of thoughts about Batman/Catwoman, few positive, but if you can push past the muddling storytelling technique (and the batcat if that's not your thing), Selina has a lot to say about Bruce and Joker's relationship, like in this and the following example.

May 2021 - Batman/Catwoman #4

Catwoman describes how Batman treats all his rogues and then equates that with how he treats his lovers. How much do you know, Selina? Who is Joker's main competition?? It's Harvey, isn't it?!

May 2022 - Detective Comics (2016) #1058 (backer)

Even newbie F-level antagonists like The Forgotten know what's up!

Well, that was a lengthy but surely not exhaustive account of what other DC characters think about the vibes between the Dark Knight and Clown Prince of Crime. (May they be bewildered for years to come!) I hope you spotted some comics that caught your interest, anon.

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Masterlist • ao3 • want to be tagged?• Requests Info• ko-fi•

• A Very 2002 Shade Of Silver • 🍑⭐️ • Cecil Dennis x afab!Reader • Rating: 18+ pals • One Shot • Summary: You go on a late night drive with Cecil.

• Take • 🍑⭐️ • Cecil Dennis x afab!Reader • Rating: 18+ pals • One Shot • Summary: Cecil gets exactly what he wants.

• Pet an Toy • 🍑 • Club!Blue Jones x Cecil Dennis x afab!Reader • Rating: 18+ pals • One Shot • Summary: Blue's pet needs a new playmate.

• One For The Road • 🍑 • Cecil Dennis x afab!Reader • Rating: 18+ pals • Series • Summary: Cecil forgets he invited you over.

• Needy • 🍑⭐️🌙 • Cecil Dennis x F!Reader • Rating: 18+ pals • One Shot • Summary: Cecil has a problem.

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Heather Carolin - April 2002 Playmate More Redhead Playmates

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Death of an It Girl

What happens when the glamour fades? Dive into the life of Casey Johnson, the enigmatic baby powder heiress whose dazzling public persona masked a world of hidden struggles and poignant moments

BY REICHAN PENDRAGON

July 12, 2024

Often when we think of the term "It Girl" some names that come to mind are Paris Hilton, Megan Fox, or even Serena van der Woodsen. But someone who is often left out of that category or even forgotten comes from one of the wealthiest empires in the world. Meet Casey Johnson, the Baby Powder Heiress. Casey Johnson (born Sale Trotter Case Johnson) was born on September 24, 1979, to philanthropist and socialite Nancy Sale Johnson, and owner of the New York Jets and heir to J&J Woody Johnson. Casey was the oldest of three children: Jaime Johnson (b. 1982), and Daisy Johnson (b. 1987). Casey was raised in Manhattan's Upper East Side neighborhood and resided at the penthouse at 834 Fifth Avenue. Although Casey was born into great privilege and wealth, home life for Casey for some would be a dream come true but to her it was anything but so. Casey's father Woody wasn't a lovey-dovey kind of guy, and because Casey was so unique, he didn't know how to show his love to her. This would cause him to often over-indulge her and even get her a brand-new car before she even had a driver's license. At the age of eight, Casey was diagnosed with diabetes and even co-wrote a book with her father entitled Managing Your Child's Diabetes.

While living in New York, Casey attended a number of schools, first she attended the private Chapin School, then the all-girls private Marymount school, and lastly the Dwight School where she went alongside Paris Hilton. After graduating in 2001, Casey attended Brown University for only a few semesters before dropping out after learning her poodle, Zoe would not be allowed to live in her dorm with her. After this, she struggled to find her calling; first, she taught singing to children at Dwight School, next, she interned at her friend and publicist Lizzie Grubman's P.R. firm, and finally got a job as the beauty editor for the Manhattan File. The same year, the magazine went under and her parents got a divorce. This, along with the constant gossip columns bashing her, made Casey take this as a sign to leave the East Coast and head to California. Once in Los Angeles, Casey clung to fellow socialites Nicky and Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, and Bijou Phillips, and would often be seen clubbing with the wealthy heiresses. Casey gained close bonds with the women and was even asked by Paris Hilton (after her sister Nicky declined) if she would join her in participating in the Simple Life. Casey declined and felt that joining a reality show would halt her nascent acting career or make people not take her seriously. Johnson would later call this the "stupidest mistake of [her] life". In 2002, Casey [along with Elisabeth Kieselstein-Cord and Nicky Hilton] would be featured in the documentary "It Girls", which was filmed during New York Fashion Week. In 2004, Casey's Beverly Hills home was burglarized while she was at an MTV after party. Casey would then place blame on playboy playmate Nicole Lenz for being a part of the scandal. Back in New York, Casey's parents became concerned about their daughter's constant partying and alleged substance use. Sale and Woody Johnson would then fly to Los Angeles to stage an intervention for their daughter in hopes she would check in to a rehab center. Casey didn't take this too well and according to her mother said the following, "I don’t need any help. I'm sorry you wasted a trip." After this, Woody would essentially wash his hands of Casey.

In January 2006, Casey, her then-boyfriend John Dee, and her aunt Elizabeth "Libet" Johnson traveled to Cambodia to visit Sovann Komar, the orphanage Libet had established in Phnom Penh in 2003. Sometime after, Casey broke up with Dee and quickly noticed a close friendship and or connection with John and Libet and began to assume the two were having an affair, eventually emailing her aunt on February 19, 2006, with the subject title "I’m sure u r sleeping with him." Libet replied "I know you know in your heart that those things you just wrote me are untrue. I really don’t know why you want to lash out at me, when I have done nothing to hurt you.… Please leave me out of your problems." Libet would later tell Dee about this in an email, writing "But I got a very, unhappy phone call from Casey, telling me that, "if I ever talked to you (or your Mother) again, she would never speak to me again." Somehow, someway Page Six obtained emails between Libet Johnson and John Dee. One email from February 3, 2006, read the following, "Your zest for life and passion for everything you do is infectious. I know we met for a reason Love, Libet." When asked for comment, Casey said the following "I think [my aunt] needs help," She told the New York Post. "I feel sorry for her. She's single. She's been divorced umpteen times. She's afraid to go out in public." "She was sleeping with my boyfriend, who I was in love with," she finished "An old woman with a lot of money is a very powerful aphrodisiac." The article was all over New York City by March 29. And this was the last straw. Woody Johnson was infuriated. He felt that Casey was using the tabloids to get revenge, and just like that, he cut off his daughter Casey from her trust fund which contained millions of dollars.

Through all the madness, Casey felt she was missing something, Casey Johnson wanted a baby. Her mother sale was openly against it and even told her "You don’t have your own life together, how are you going to keep track of somebody else’s life? This is not a puppy that if it doesn’t work out, you can give it to a friend." Despite her parents' pleas, in 2007, Casey adopted a baby girl from Kazakhstan she named Ava-Monroe, in honor of Marilyn Monroe. Kathy Hilton organized the baby shower and Nicky Hilton was given the "godmother" title. Even though she had Ava, her estrangement from her father didn't sit well with her. So much so that in 2008, Casey flew to New York with baby Ava so her father could meet his granddaughter and end the estrangement. Upon arrival at the East Hampton estate, Casey was met by her father Woody's wife Suzanne Ircha. According to Casey, Suzanne opened the door and said "What are you doing here?" After explaining her reasoning for being there Ircha told her that Woody was not home and then said quote "This is my house, so leave." to which Casey replied, "This is my father’s house and I’m staying here until he gets here because I want him to meet my daughter." After a war of words, Suzanne called 911, and around the same time the police arrived, so did Woody Johnson who demanded his daughter get off his property and "never come back". After this, Casey would make countless efforts to get in touch with her father, only to be ignored, and within a year, Casey would slip back into a dark place. Casey would then begin dating socialite Courtenay Semel, the daughter of former Yahoo! CEO Terry Semel and Filthy Rich: Cattle Drive alum. Semel had previously dated actress Lindsay Lohan and internet mogul Tila Tequila. Casey and Courtenay's relationship was very toxic and tumultuous and it was even reported in January 2009 that during a physical fight, Courtenay set Casey's hair on fire. It's unclear what started the fight but nonetheless, they stayed associated, I digress, by the summer of 2009, Casey was back to living the party girl lifestyle in LA and once again her mother Sale worried for her health and mental state.

In June 2009, Casey was scheduled to be hospitalized at the Cliffside Malibu clinic while her mother Sale had plans to bring her granddaughter Ava back to New York while Casey was treated, but none of Sale's plans went to fruition when Casey threw Sale out of her house, along with her luggage. Things got so intense that even the police were called after Casey told them that Sale was trying to take her daughter from her. Her mother said quote, "Casey knew in her heart that she couldn’t take care of Ava, but she couldn’t ego-wise and illness-wise say: 'I know I can’t take care of her like she needs to be cared for …'" That year in August, Casey was hospitalized for her diabetes. It was alleged that Casey's alcohol and drug use was preventing her from properly caring for her diabetes. This was when the decision was made to give her daughter Ava to family friend Kim Richards when she checked into rehab at Cliffside Malibu. Allegedly Casey became enraged with the fact that Ava began calling Richards "mommy". Johnson then sent her friend British socialite and model Jasmine Lennard to go retrieve Ava. Casey would be hospitalized two more times throughout summer and early fall. Sale Johnson would then make the decision to cut off her daughter and would not allow her daughter to access any money unless she went to rehab. Sale then gained custody of Ava and brought her to New York. At the time, Casey was renting her home in Los Angeles and when her mother cut her off, she could no longer pay her bills and was only getting deeper into debt, her power was shut off and she hid her Porsche in her garage so it wouldn't be repossessed, "It was like Grey Gardens" one source said, "There are dirty dishes everywhere and rotting food. There is graffiti on the walls. The pool looks like a swamp." In November 2009, Casey's mental state took a turn for the worse when she attempted to take her own life. She sent a text to ex-girlfriend Courtenay Semel saying "I've taken a lot of pills, and I’m going to sleep forever." Semel called an ambulance and upon arrival found Johnson unconscious. Casey was then admitted into intensive care for three days. Days after her release from intensive care, Johnson broke into her friend Jasmine Lennard's house and evidently stole clothes, jewelry, and lingerie. Lennard received a tip from Courtenay Semel who told Jasmine to call the police after seeing Casey wearing Jasmine's clothes when Casey was getting into bed with her. When the authorities arrived, they recovered all of Lennard's items and Casey was ultimately arrested for grand theft and held on $20,000 bail. When asked for comment, Lennard stated the following, "I tried to get her off drugs and alcohol. I tried to get her into a twelve-step program. I tried to help take care of her daughter. I’ve given her money." She continued, "I am the only person who helped this girl, and I believe she was obsessed with me, and thinks in her mind we had some kind of affair." she closed with, "She breaks into my Hollywood apartment, masturbates in my bed, has a shower in my bathroom, takes everything in my apartment" before vowing to "teach [Casey] a lesson".

After feeling betrayed by Courtenay Semel, Casey turned to Courtenay's ex-girlfriend, Tila Tequila. According to Tila, Casey showed up a mess and needed someone to talk to, but not even a full month later, Tila revealed via Utream she was engaged to Casey, sporting an alleged 17-carat ring, which Courtenay Semel claimed was the same fake ring Casey had privately proposed to her with at the Sundance Film Festival. On December 29, 2009, Casey and Tila would allegedly get into a big fight. Casey would leave her dogs at Tila's Studio City house while she stayed in a friend's guest house. Casey would spend New Years alone. On January 4, 2010, Casey Johnson was found dead by a housekeeper. The official cause of death was ruled diabetic ketosis. She was buried on January 12, 2010, at Trinity-All Saints' Cemetery in Princeton, New Jersey. She was 30 years old.

The Wealthy Socialite 2024

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BRIGADE FILES: THE WASP

Stars & Stripes Hotline [Version 1.06]

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Main Alias/Moniker: Wasp

Legal Name: Janet Van Dyne

Other Aliases: Jan, ジャネット(Janetto), The Unstoppable Wasp, The Wonderous Wasp, The Winsome Wasp, Waspie, Fashion Fly, Giant-Woman, Tinkerbell

Date of Birth: March 5th, 1981 (Age: 25)

Status: Alive

Species: Human Mutate

Sex: Female

Gender: Cisgender

Height/Weight: 5'4'' (1.63 m) / 110 lbs (49.9 kg)

Hair/Eye Color: Auburn / Hazel

Timeline (1981 - 2002): Jan was born in the Big Apple while her parents, scientists Vernon Van Dyne and Nozomi Akatsuki, were staffing the Tomorrow Academy. Jan would spend her earliest days a fly on the wall to her future teammates and a bunch of other movers-and-shakers, but of course she doesn't remember any of that. Most of her time in the Academy was spent being playmates with the other baby of the Academy, Johnny Storm. The two of them were looked after by Johnny's big sis, in what Sue called "Yester-Daycare." Jan's parent's marriage didn't last long outside of the Academy's eventual shutdown, calling it quits when she was ten. Jan spent her adolescence bouncing between Japan and America between her parents. She says this played a big part in her wanderlust and love of art and culture.

For all her landmarks in the field of nanorobotics, Akatsuki-san is, evidently, a bit of a pill. She nudged Jan all her life to become a scientist like her, and allegedly discouraged Jan from keeping in touch with her father. By the time she was college-bound, Jan shot back at both of these burdens, enrolling in school in the US to be close to her old man. Going to UCLA with eyes on an art major, Jan made fast friends with her dormmate, fellow future heroine Jen Walters. Jan made sure to head up to San Fran once a month to check up on her dad, which since he was such a workaholic was often just PymTech HQ. This is how Jan met Hank, and the two started to go steady after a beat.

Timeline (2002 - 2003): By Jan's senior year, things started to smell fishy over at PymTech. Vernon stopped answering Jan's calls, as did Hank. Strolling up to the joint herself, Jan was informed a change in management barred non-employees from touring the premises, which only got Jan's dander up even more. Evading security, Jan made her way to her father's lab, where she saw him chewing out the newly-minted CEO, Elihas Starr. Now, not to speak too ill of the dead, but by all accounts Vernon Van Dyne was a real pushover. He was exactly the type for someone like Starr to keep on hand in his scheme at the time to take over the company, but when it came time to start cooking up the company founder's signature shrinking particles to be weapons of war, Vernon finally grew a spine, and his defiance to Starr was what Jan walked in on.

Jan's stealth slipped at that point, but when Starr noticed her, he suddenly lightened up, chumming it up to her like an old friend. He told Jan he and her father were hashing out a test run to a new particle accelerator and offered her to be an audience. Probably out of fear of Starr exposing him in front of his daughter, Vernon went along with this cover, and out of want to uncover what was really going down, Jan went along with it. Unfortunately for father and child, Starr was exactly the type of person to waste two people who might interfere with his business, and he over-calibrated the accelerator. Vernon was vaporized almost instantly. Jan was a bit more lucky and fell into a coma. Even luckier for her, Starr was unable to finish the job, as quickly after the "lab accident" Jan was found by Hank and put up in his family home for personal care.

Timeline (2003): For the next few months, Jan remained bedridden while Hank and his family staged a heist to expose and discredit Starr from their company. Jan would awaken the night of the job, and would unwittingly botch up those plans. Jen Walters and Bill Foster were tending to Jen at the time, and they reported seeing Jan spring up from her coma, and shortly after her bed would collapse from underneath her. By the time she got to her feet, she had doubled in size, and had kept growing. As the Pyms would determine later, the bombardment of Pym Particles Jan endured months earlier had altered her body, making her the first living organism to produce and process the previously synthetic particles. A mix of that and some hazy memories through the Jan into a flurry of vengeance against Starr, and she leapt out the window and made a mad dash for PymTech, growing bigger as she went along. By the time she tore off the roof of the building, she was well over fifty feet tall. Hank managed to subdue her and bring her back to proper size, but at the cost of Starr making a getaway.

On Hank's insistence, Jan remained a guest of the Pym estate, going through physical and psychological therapy all while Hank ran a million different tests before concluding what I had said earlier. Eventually, Hank got a second opinion, which just so happened to be Jan's own neesan, Sue Storm. Finding out that her old babysitter had become a super-scientist, expectant mother and, most pertinently, leading a team of super-people with super-powers herself, Jan couldn't care less about her own condition and pleaded for Sue to catch her up on the last few months. By the end of it, Jan was certain a new wave of superheroes was rolling, and with the powers she had been granted wanted to get in on it.

Jan cajoled Hank to join in on this venture with her, and with the help of Sue and her formula for Unstable Molecules, Jan lent her eye for aesthetic to making custom suits for the two of them. She worked her beau's ant-keeping hobby into his suit, and wanting to compliment the bug gimmick (And probably also wanting to get some distance from being the "50 Foot Woman of Sam Francisco"), hatched her new identity as the Unstoppable Wasp. The duo would patrol the Bay Area over the following spring and summer, with special attention on fighting back on tie influx of super-weapons Starr was looking to facilitate. But all that would be small potatoes compared to what would play out that following September.

When Bruce was finally caught and locked up by the feds, a small team that included Hank volunteered to assist on a procedure that could potentially cure him of the big green monkey on his back. Jan tagged along, wanting to give Bruce a smile and a hug as a favor for Jen, who was too choked up about the whole thing to go herself. While the surgery was underway and Jan was left to wait and twiddle her thumbs, some folks at SHIELD tried to schmooze her up, get her to fight for them. Before Jan could even be talked into a handshake, the Breakout went down. Jan scoffed at the call for containment and sprang into action. She, Hank, Stark and Thor eventually came together to try and settle down the Hulk, but all five of them found a mutual threat in the rampaging Graviton. Once the day was saved, it was Jan who first coined the name for the house the five of them would build, though Jan herself admits there wasn't much thought behind "Avengers" just sounding colorful or dramatic.

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Doraemon Movie Review: Nobita in the Robot Kingdom (2002)

What is Doraemon? The title character of the Doraemon manga and anime is a blue robotic cat from the 22nd Century who keeps an array of high-tech gadgets in a portable pocket dimension on his belly, and has traveled from the future to improve the fortunes of a hapless schoolboy named Nobita. Although relatively obscure in the English-speaking world, Doraemon is a Mickey-Mouse-level cultural icon in East Asia (and some other regions, too). The Doraemon franchise was a big part of my childhood, and there are still elements of it that I enjoy now.

Doraemon has released theatrical films almost annually since 1980, most of which involve Nobita and his friends (kind Shizuka, brash Gian, and crafty Suneo) getting swept into adventures thanks to Doraemon's gadgets. Despite being of potentially broad appeal to fans of science fiction and animated films, there are very few English reviews of the Doraemon movies, so I'm embarking on a project to write about all the films that have come out so far. Good luck to me…

Movie premise: Nobita and his friends rescue a lost robot boy, who comes from a planet where humans and robots once lived in harmony.

My spoiler-free take: A compelling story that packs some strong emotional punches, but flubs a crucial character arc. I suspect it’s unlikely to happen anytime soon, but I’d like to see a remake of this one!

POTENTIAL SPOILERS AFTER THIS POINT

Review: It must be something about robots that brings out the emotional stories in Doraemon movies. That probably shouldn’t be a surprise, because one of the most important themes of the franchise is, after all, the friendship between a robot and a human. The dramatic setup here is an interesting one for a Doraemon film, as we learn that the robot boy Poko was the childhood playmate of one of the major antagonists, the tyrannical Queen Jeanne, with both of them having grown up under the care of another robot, Maria. For most part, the movie gets a lot of mileage out of this premise, and the scene near the end where Doraemon and Maria deliver what they fully expect to be their last words to their respective charges is especially heartwrenching.

However, there is one way in which this movie drops the ball considerably on its emotional journey: the queen’s character development happens far too quickly! Barely a montage passes before she has a change of heart. I wondered whether this was also the case in the manga adaptation of this story*, so I had a look.

*Although the original author of the Doraemon manga, Fujiko F. Fujio, passed away in 1996, his company Fujiko Pro continued to produce manga counterparts to the films for a while following his death. My understanding is that the films and their associated manga that were made after Fujio’s passing were developed in parallel from a shared story outline, instead of one being directly adapted from the other.

As it turns out, it takes much more for Jeanne to come around in the manga, including getting smacked in the face by Shizuka!

(Damn.)

I have to say, I really wish this version of the story had been used in the film, not only because it would have improved Jeanne’s character arc, but also because Shizuka doesn’t get very much to do in the movie proper. In fact, many of the newer Doraemon films (remakes aside) don’t seem to know what to do with Shizuka, as has been summarized very well by @creepfactors​. Whereas Nobita, Gian, and even Suneo often get to display more rarely-seen sides of their personalities in the movies, she is mainly just cast as “the nice one”, which is already her default role in the group.

In truth, Shizuka is not such a one-note character in the mainline series. There are times when she can be very direct with her words and quick to anger towards perceived slights. Lashing out in the name of justice for a vulnerable child is absolutely something she would do, yet would be unprecedented in a Doraemon movie!

There are other elements of the manga that I would have liked to see in the movie, too. For example, Poko’s ability to remotely pinpoint Maria’s location seemingly comes out of nowhere close to the end of the film, but in the manga it is mentioned that he was unable to do so earlier in the story because he had a damaged antenna. The manga also indicates that the roboticist Dr. Chapek repaired Doraemon’s Time Machine so that the protagonists could return home at the end of the story, whereas the movie never explains how the Time Machine was fixed.

Given that this is a relatively recent Doraemon film, I’m guessing that it’s not high on the priority list for a remake. However, I think it would benefit a lot from one! Newer Doraemon movies are generally longer than those that came out prior to the 2005 anime reboot, which would give a hypothetical remake of Nobita in the Robot Kingdom more room to include the aforementioned items. Furthermore, the remakes often use material from the manga that was left out of the original films.

Do I have anything else left to note? This movie might contain one of Doraemon’s most impressive feats in the series: charging into the main villain’s lair by himself and taking down the villain unarmed. It’s also funny how ready Nobita is to go on an adventure in this film. The moment that Doraemon determines that they need to travel to another planet, Nobita essentially declares, “Leave that to us!” Quite a contrast to how timid he usually is in the regular stories!

Star rating: ★★★☆☆

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Nothing New To Report

But AFB is never too far from my head, especially around this time of year. At some point, I noticed some engagement with this page, which, HA, I didn't like. I've wanted to fold this blog, continue blogging about this from one of the other ones I have, but to do so would kind of eliminate a monument to that brief period in the 2010s when this project was chugging along.

Let's recap.

PRIOR TO 2002: I was really into those Star Trek action figures by Playmates Toys for a time... and then got sick of them, and I recall an immense feeling of disappointment one Christmas when I got three of them, which were probably bought because everyone else was getting tired of them and Kay Bee Toys couldn't give them away. Among the three is a Cadet Data action figure, which today may be one of my favorites, though not for reasons which would be obvious to anyone.

I started making videos on a regular basis in 1999, though I did make a few in 1998, despite not having a camcorder. I don't consider these to be anything special beyond the fact that they are a window into my childhood and the closing days of the 20th century, but my oldest surviving videos are stop motion animation. While I was...

Actually, I think my memory is a bit unreliable, or maybe two things can be true at the same time. I was tired of the action figures, but I saw their potential for making videos, and I did a few here and there, some with stop motion, and others just pointing the camcorder at the action figures and speaking.

As this was before digital, and being able to edit videos on computer at home, options for dubbing and editing were extremely limited and crude. This isn't to say the technology didn't exist, but it was cost prohibitive, and like everyone else where I lived, we were poor. There just wasn't money for that. There was barely money allotted for video tapes.

During the 2001-2002 school year, with money that... i have no idea where I came from, I bought a copy of THPS2 from a friend, which caused my sister to have a conniption because she intended on getting it for me as a birthday or Christmas present and demanded I get my money back. Fine. I asked for a refund, but the best my friend could do was offer me a different game, and that game was Fade To Black. Probably not remembered as the finest PlayStation game to come out, I nevertheless liked it enough to where I wanted to do an adaptation of it.

AUGUST 2002:

I took over a paper route for that same friend the previous June, which cemented my night owl schedule- stay up all night, sleep until 2, wake up, get the papers, deliver, go on about my day. Sundays were morning papers, so I'd just stay up a tiny bit longer longer and deliver those papers before bed.

During those hot, muggy nights, because we didn't have air conditioning, I started filming my adaptation of Fade to Black... with action figures! Second TOS pilot James Kirk became Conrad Hart, a Gorn action figure and modeling clay stood in for the Morphs, and as John O'Connor... CADET DATA!

I'd film adaptations of different levels throughout the following school year, somehow roped my English teacher into recording lines into a tape player... but then things stalled out towards the end. Life happened, I suppose. I told myself I'd get back to it later, when it was possible.

2007: An attempt to revive Fade to Black took place in this year, and I was able to put the animation together digitally. It's a shame I didn't keep up with it, but the set up was wrong, and, as always, life was happening. That desire to continue the project never went away, even as it became more apparent that such an adaptation was probably a waste of time.

2015:

The time was right to reconsider this stuff, but I wanted to do a spiritual successor instead. I did take some images of the Conrad Hart action figure, but decided to go in a different direction. I wanted to get away from the Star Trek look and I took inspiration from Cadet Data and the Starfleet Academy line. At the time, these action figures were kind of hated in the collector community, because they did not represent anything that was actually in the show. To me, they were perfect for making new characters. I got the Cadet Picard and Riker action figures, and also got Cadet Troi and Howard-Crusher and it looked like I had the beginnings of some new story.

I wasn't sure what to do with it, though, but I thought it be important to just film something. I showed it to my friend Jane, who was probably always going to be involved in the project, and, unsolicited... I don't remember if she just came up with lines or recorded dialogue for what was made. If the former, I asked her to do the lines.

Cadet Troi became Moxie with those lines, becoming something that I probably wouldn't have been able to come up with on my own. I had the name, and that she would be the skipper of this spaceship, but so much of everything else was her.

I started coming up with an idea for story where they find a derelict ship with a strange corridor inside and the action figures encounting all kinds of bullshit. The story was shaped, modded, stuff added to it. Along the way, I decided to break up the main story with our characters watching Star Trek, using audio from "audio commentaries" recorded earlier in the year.

By the first minutes of October, I was ready to depict one of these TV room scenes, and produced a few seconds of footage. I was planning on doing more the next day, but when I woke up and logged on to the internet, I saw my local community college all over the news- a mass shooting had happened, nine dead. This shit had finally struck home. Things were dark for a few weeks, but I willed myself to keep going, starting with the "just shoot something", which is an unfortunate pun, but it wasn't filming, I just took a picture of a box. It was enough to just go through the trouble of getting the equipment out and doing this.

What followed was what I call a "film bonanza", and a lot of footage came out of the next nine days. While not as prolific, I'd continue to film a great deal of scenes through the rest of the year. As of today, 12 of the 21 minutes of what's been edited together comes from this point.

I continued to film in 2016, and started this blog in May of that year. I got in the habit of doing it at night, kind of like what I did 14 years prior, and I'd get things going by listening to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, specifically, the song "The Waiting".

Going into 2017, I was starting to have issues with the project. I had upgraded to a better camera, but lost the convenience. Setting up shots were extremely difficult, and I had no control over focus and exposure. It became too much, and the project petered out.

Later that year, life happened, take that as you wish, and I came to realize that I would soon have no time for this project for many years. Towards the end, Wyatt, who plays Trent in the production, gave me an old smart phone so I could take a bunch of snap shots as needed. As old as this phone was, it was at least as good as what I was using to make AFB, and my ability to do manual focus and exposure was restored. I filmed what I could in April and May of 2018, and hoped I'd return to the project some day.

The following year, Jane passed away. I had talked with her about doing some shots, maybe I could get back into it a bit earlier than expected, and some footage did come from this, replacing a shot that no longer worked because the character's design had changed. I didn't realize at the time that Jane was dead when I did it, and I had sent an excited, optimistic e-mail to her. Without Jane as Moxie, it was like trying to make Family Guy without Seth MacFarlane.

Still, despite such horrible setbacks, I continued filming in 2021, this time with my own, relatively new smart phone. I was on a roll, too, and in making these scenes, it was almost like Jane was alive again, as I was using audio she had recorded almost five years prior. I got my first COVID vaccine in May of 2021, and was out of commission for two weeks afterward. It killed my momentum, and I never recorded anything else for the project since.

Last year, I mulled over ideas for getting back into it, but in a context where it was part of a different project, and should the project end there... so be it, I guess, but life happened again, and the momentum was taken away before it could build up into production.

Today, I got a Chief O'Brien action figure. The seller sent me the wrong one and I got a dress uniform version instead of a "duty uniform (TNG uniform)" variant, which was what I wanted.

The dress uniform action figures are terrible for film making because they can't sit down and do much because of those long dress uniforms, though I'm sure there could be some usage for it. It's actually a better action figure than the other, which is one of many action figures that reuse the body for Lt. Commander La Forge. I had had ideas for a TNG themed animation which I won't get into, and I thought having O'Brien there would add to it. With this, there are ideas. Imagine Picard asking why O'Brien is in his dress uniform and discovering it's because he doesn't have a clean uniform or something- there are things that can be done with it. There are also things that can be done with the body itself, and I have a spare La Forge action figure which I picked up for the purpose of potential modifications. I could always make my own, though there's no guarantee it would fit, as I learned when I made my own dress uniform Sisko action figure, which required me to cut the neck down a bit and stick a push pin to the bottom so his neck didn't stick up like a brontosaurus. This in mind, I doubt the head swap would be a good idea, but still...

So, all this is not connected to AFB, but that's where action figures are in my life today. All the AFB assets... well, almost all of it, are in a single box that once housed a car seat, so it's a pretty big box, a pretty big box for all this junk that was used to cobble together a boiler room set.

My position on where to go with chaos corridor is unchanged from where it has been in years past. The obvious thing to do is film what's left of the scenes where we have Jane's audio. Deep fake "AI" programs give us the possibility to resurrect Jane's voice in some manner, though it's hard to say if that would actually work out. Last year, when there was some toying around with bringing back AFB in a modified form as part of different project, I had some test audio, which was convincing enough that Wyatt was almost moved to tears hearing it.

More recently, I used the same sample of audio to make a song using one of the quote-unquote "AI" programs. Playing around with the program enough times, last month, I started to see the seams. The music all starts to sound the same, the lyrics are contrived, and yet, I could almost hear Moxie singing this song inspired by that clip I filmed back in 2015 with the dialogue Jane made up, stuff about being married to work and all that, and ended up being an accidentally devastating love song. It doesn't entirely sound like Moxie, but, with respect to Jane, it would have been an impossibly tall order to ask her to try to sing a sad song using that voice. She probably would have declined, and I wouldn't have blamed her one bit.

I really don't want to use "AI" to finish the project, it's wrong on so many levels, but I might be more comfortable with it than trying to replace Jane. I can do a passable Moxie, and Wyatt joked it was like how Dan Castellaneta could pass for Robin Williams doing the voice of the Genie from Aladdin. That's high praise, but replacing Jane is about as doable as replacing Robin Williams... it's doable, sure, but the magic is lost.

I mean, it can still be good... but it's not Robin, and whoever or whatever replaces Jane... isn't Jane. The difference between the Genie or Mrs. Doubtfire is that those older projects are already done, long since in the can, and the other stuff is newer. This AFB project is still unfinished. Clearly, if something else comes along, alternatives must be figured out... Alternatives need to be figured out here, too, but it's a different matter.

To complicate matters, Jane was a trans woman, so I feel like to have someone (me) do the rest of the role feels disrespectful. Replacing her with a cisgender woman also feels disrespectful. I would greatly prefer a trans woman to play the role, but... well, I'm kind of a recluse, so seeking out a replacement voice artist is problematic right off the top, and even if I found a trans woman, would they be right for the part? Would they be willing to be on stand by, potentially for years, while I try to get this project straightened out? That's way too much to ask of anyone, especially if they were a stranger. I had known Jane for many years and we had done many projects together leading up to AFB, and we frequently worked on each other's projects for free, as a gesture of friendship and a mutually beneficial filming partnership. There will never be another Jane Wonders. Ever.

But I don't want to end this on a downer note. I know Jane would want the show to go on. There's still plenty of dialogue, plenty of outtakes, plenty of way to cobble things together when and if the project shuffles off into territory where there are no more Moxie lines.

I would love to see AFB again, to see those action figures in... action... Should I even try to set a goal to bring them back to life, or would that be futile?

HOW ABOUT THIS...

Monday after Veterans Day, the 18th, like Vamanos Pest Management, complete build up and break down of the set, make it seem like it was never here. Do I need to do anything else? Should I try to shoot something- anything at all?

Let me think about it.

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Tom Brady Girlfriend 2024: Meet the Woman Who's Stealing the NFL Star's Heart

Tom Brady's present dating life has been closely examined after his 2022 divorce from his former wife, Gisele Bündchen. Fans keen to discover if the dating rumors are accurate have drawn attention to his allegedly rapid relationship with the famous Russian model. These are the last details on Tom Brady's Girlfriend 2024. Like every other week, Tom Brady reportedly has news about a new girlfriend. Are you wondering who Tom Brady's girlfriend is in 2024? The rumors have been flying ever since he and Gisele called it quits. Supermodel Irina Shayk is the name that keeps running back. Still, the former football player has lately been connected to a Brazilian influencer and a bikini model from Sports Illustrated. Who Is Tom Brady? American National Football League quarterback Tom Brady calls the New England Patriots home. With three NFL MVP honors, five Super Bowl MVP Awards, and seven Super Bowl victories—a record in itself—he is the Following his time playing collegiate football, the Patriots selected him in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL Draft. Brady has quarterbacked the Patriots to seven Super Bowl visits in his 15 seasons as a starting, a record for any player in history. After becoming entangled in the infamous "deflategate" episode, he was suspended for the first four games of the 2016 NFL season. He later went on to win Super Bowl LI and MVP that year. He bagged his sixth Super Bowl MVP Award with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and his seventh Super Bowl in 2021. Considered one of the all-time greats of American football history, he only had a single losing season while playing quarterback. What Is Tom Brady's Relationship Status? Reportedly, Tom Brady's girlfriend is fashion model Irina Shayk. Being the first Russian model to appear in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 2011, she achieved a breakthrough in the modeling business. She has a child with Bradley Cooper and dated him before they split in 2019. Forward to 2023: Having attended Madison Headrick's wedding last year, Brady and Shayk were romantically linked. From there on, the insiders said they "got along" nicely and liked hanging out with each other. Their link was judged to be "not too serious," nevertheless. From ET: Once more, they made it to rumors when they were seen together for two days in L.A. "cozying up" and having a romantic meet for 48 hours in London. According to recent sources, the two had split ways as their friendship naturally "fizzled out" and "no drama" was involved. Though they were again seen together at a Miami restaurant, which fuels pre-existing relationship rumors, it is yet unknown what transpired between them. Certain publications also mention that Shayk is looking for love in "Europe and the USA" following her split with Brady. Tom Brady Girlfriend 2024: Past And Present Girlfriends Of Tom Brady See below a chronology of Tom Brady's relationships before Gisele and those he dated following his divorce: Layla Roberts (2002) Tom Brady was briefly connected to Playboy Playmate Layla Roberts in 2002; she had been Playmate of the Year in 1997. Although there are few specifics of their connection, it is believed that Roberts was also romantically involved with actor Vin Diesel during the same period. Tara Reid (2002) In 2002, Tom Brady dated actress Tara Reid. Reid said, "He's pretty good looking," about the NFL quarterback in a 2014 appearance on Australia's Kyle and Jackie O breakfast show. Bridget Moynahan ( 2004 to 2006) In early 2004, after his second Super Bowl victory with the New England Patriots, Tom Brady started his relationship with actress Bridget Moynahan. Moynahan starred in "Sex and the City" at that point. Together, the pair attended well-publicized events, including the 2006 Met Gala and Vanity Fair Oscar celebration. Brady noted in a 60 Minutes interview his great respect for Moynahan and said, "She's helped a lot." Beside her, I can be myself. The couple broke up in December 2006; a spokeswoman said they had "amiably ended their three-year relationship." Shortly following their split, it came to light that Moynahan was pregnant with Brady's child. August 2007 saw the birth of John "Jack," their son. Later, in interviews with More magazine and Harper's Bazaar, Moynahan talked about her complicated emotions regarding her pregnancy and her relationship with Brady. Despite the difficulties, she said she was committed to giving her baby a loving home and keeping a good co-parenting relationship with Brady and his then-partner, Gisele Bündchen. Tom Brady considered the emotional difficulty of learning about Moynahan's pregnancy during an April 2020 visit to the Howard Stern Show. Gisele Bündchen (2006–2002) Shortly after his break from Bridget Moynahan, Tom Brady started seeing model Gisele Bündchen in December 2006. In a 2009 Vanity Fair interview, Bündchen revealed that Brady's smile was "the most beautiful, charismatic smile I've ever seen." Married in February 2009, they welcomed Benjamin Rein, their first child, that same year; in 2012, they welcomed their daughter Vivian Lake. However, the couple developed conflicts, especially following Brady's choice to retire from football. September 2022 saw a source report notable tension in their relationship. October 28, 2022, saw their filing for divorce. Brady paid respect to Bündchen on Instagram with pictures of their family following his January 2023 announcement of his second football retirement. Bündchen answered with encouraging words. According to reports, Brady loves his new life following his divorce and is now primarily concerned about his children. He supports his children's activities between Miami and New York and gets used to single life. Irina Shayk (2023–present) Tom Brady reportedly was seeing model Irina Shayk in 2023. TMZ said the two had met at a wedding in Sardinia earlier that summer and were observed together in Brady's car. Shayk's agent refuted the rumors, but sources verified the continuous relationship between the couple—reports showing a developing bond. Shayk and Brady reported spending time in Los Angeles, where they had a natural chemistry and mutual desire, as noted by sources. Both are interested in keeping their privacy as they investigate their new relationship. FAQs Tom Brady has played for what teams? Tom Brady has suited the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the New England Patriots. For what is Tom Brady most famous? Tom Brady is well-known in the NFL as a winning Super Bowl champion quarterback. What number of Super Bowls has Tom Brady won? Tom Brady holds 7 Super Bowl trophies overall. What number of MVP honors has Tom Brady earned? Over his career, Tom Brady has earned three NFL MVP honors. Read the full article

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She’s So Lucky, She’s A Star: The Life And Death of Ashley Massaro

Five years ago today , former WWE Diva , Actress, Reality Show Star , and Model, Ashley Massaro was found dead.

Ashley Massaro was born in New York City, New York on May 26, 1979 to Ronnie and Barbara Massaro. Her father , brother , and uncle competed in amateur wrestling in Babylon, New York, where she would spend the majority of her childhood. Massaro would finish high school in 1997 at John Glenn High School in Elwood , New York and soon furthering her education with a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication, following it with a minor degree in Business from the State University of New York Albany before starting her career in the modeling industry.

Ashley Massaro started her modeling career by competing in the Miss Hawaiian Tropic Beauty Pageants. She won the title of Miss Hawaiian Tropic USA in 2002 and the same title for the Canada branch of the brand in 2004. She also posed for magazines such as Stuff, FHM, and Maxim before signing with WWE and posing for the cover of Playboy. However , she did pose for the magazine in 2003 and 2004. She auditioned for Playboy scouts when they were auditioning aspiring models for the 50th Anniversary Playmate Hunt. She also posed for Femme Fatales and Flex Magazines.

Massaro’s big break came in 2005 when she entered the WWE RAW Diva Search. She entered the search when she met with a WWE casting agent during a swimsuit competition. She won the competition after beating out seven other women. Her prize was $250,000 and a one year contract with the wrestling company. She was attacked by Torrie Wilson and Candice Michelle on RAW a week later as a way to ‘ welcome ’ her to WWE. Alongside their enforcer, Victoria, they were known as Vince’s Devils, a stable of Divas who named themselves after WWE Chairman, Vince McMahon. Massaro made her debut alongside her trainer and friend, Trish Stratus, to help defeat the stable. Ashley soon had an another big feud, against Mickie James , who was also debuting around the same time as her. Stratus and James were in a storyline where Mickie was an obsessed fan of Trish. Thus, Ashley was thrown in there as Trish’s friend and was always attacked and losing matches thanks to Mickie’s jealousy and obsession with Trish.

Nevertheless , during the 2006 WWE Draft , she was drafted to Smackdown and soon became a valet for the tag team of Brian Kendrick and Paul London. She made her debut for the brand alongside Jillian Hall in a tag team match against Michelle McCool and Kristal Marshall. Massaro did have two well known matches. She faced Melina for the WWE Women’s Championship at Wrestlemania 23 and a Playboy Lumberjill match at Wrestlemania 24.

In 2007, Massaro was the Diva to be chosen to be on the cover of Playboy Magazine. She also posed for a few magazines and starred in music videos as well as making a few appearances in TV shows. Ashley doing Playboy led her to be in a storyline with Jillian Hall, who became jealous of her popularity due to the magazine. She asked for her release from the company in 2008 to go take care of her young daughter, Alexa, who was sick at the time.

Ashley Massaro was a contestant on Survivor: China in 2007. She had a feud with another contestant on the show, Dave Cruser. They were both assigned to the Zhan Zu tribe. She was eliminated in the second episode of the show. The same year, Massaro and fellow WWE Wrestler, Kane, made guest appearances on the show, Smallville. She also appeared on the Fuse TV show , ‘ The Sauce ’. Massaro and a few other women’s wrestlers starred in Timbaland’s music video for his song , ‘ Throw It On Me ’. The following year , she was in the video for the band, Rev Theory, and their song , ‘ Hell Yeah ’. She also made her video game debut in Smackdown vs RAW 2008 and was added in the game the same year. She also was on Extreme Makeover : Home Edition with John Cena and Batista and as Danny Bonaduce’s personal trainer in Breaking Bonaduce. She also hosted a few episodes of Wild On! for the E! Entertainment Network in 2003. She returned to wrestling in 2017 on the independent circuit as a manager alongside Jillian Hall. They both worked for Zero1 Professional Wrestling USA. She spent the last part of her life as a radio DJ in 2018 in Long Island.

Massaro joined a Class Action Lawsuit against WWE in 2016 alongside another wrestler. This suit claimed that Vince McMahon concealed the risks of being injured to the point of neurological damage. She also stated that she was Sexually Assaulted during a WWE tour of a military base in Kuwait. McMahon told her not to report it as a way to keep the WWE ‘s reputation and relationship with the military going. She also stated that she was harassed by McMahon himself . She claimed that she saw him making out with other Divas and believed he tried to ruin her career after she rejected his advances.

Massaro struggled with her mental health in her later years. She didn’t show up for work on May 15, 2019 going into May 16 after replying to some fan mail. She was found unresponsive by paramedics at her home in Smithtown , New York. She was pronounced dead at the hospital shortly after. Ashley Massaro left behind her daughter , Alexa , her mother , Barbara, and her brother , Ronnie. Her cause of death was Suicide by hanging. Her death sparked a conversation about mental health in the wrestling business just as fellow wrestlers’ , Hana Kimura’s and Daffney’s did. Ashley Massaro is buried at St.James Episcopal Church Graveyard in Saint James , New York.

My Final Thoughts:

Ashley Massaro was an amazing wrestler. I loved watching her as a kid and was devastated when she died. To me, she deserved so much better than how she was treated in WWE. I wish she would’ve reached out about her mental health. I also wish people believed her when she spoke about the trauma she went through. I know I believe her. Ashley, I am so sorry you had to go through Hell. I and many others will fight for you to get justice. We miss and love you!

Please reach out if you need a friend to talk to. I’ll do my best to try and help. You’re loved and you’re needed in this world!

Love You All My Readers,

- Kay

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