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blaiddllodi · 11 months ago

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Felix wouldn’t be caught dead standing outside of Dimitri’s room. Like hell he’s going to stand there and personally hand the Boar Prince a gift. It isn’t even from him… sort of. It’s mostly from his mother and Rodrigue, but of course it isn’t that simple.

The small, plain box is left at Dimitri’s dorm room pressed right up against the door for him to find when he returns for the day, or at some other point. Either way, Felix will be nowhere in sight (though, maybe anxiously listening to every sound outside of his room until he hears nothing for the rest of the night). Inside of the box, the first visible thing is a handwitten card from “The Fraldarius Family” wishing Dimitri a happy birthday and their other well wishes, as well as requests for him to write to them soon. Beneath it are two gifts, one picked out by Felix’s mother and father, and the other from Felix. However, there is no indication of the difference. At least, nothing blatant like signage.

The gift from his parents is simple: a new leather-bound training log book with fresh pages and shiny, gold paint-gilded edges on each sheet to make the little book shine along the side. The front is decorated with some stitching, done by hand by Felix’s mother, no doubt. A little embroidered D sits in the bottom right corner of the cover. The gift from Felix, though, is simple. A pouch of chamomile tea leaves. Felix knows the Boar never sleeps like he ought to. He hears him in his room. This is just to help Felix not have to listen to it anymore. That’s all. Nothing more, of course.

It wasn’t something that he thought about - not actively, at least. Dimitri looked forward to the passage of time with anticipation and trepidation both, not for himself, not anymore, but for the shaking of the oppressive uselessness that shackled him, weighed him down with each passing day he passed here, rather than in Fhirdiad.

He could not think of himself, could not think of the times long passed when there had been parties - events and galas at the royal palace, where the families of his friends streamed into the capitol to visit with him, bearing more gift in their smiles for just Dimitri than in whatever their stewards and staff carried for His Highness the Prince. Those times were gone, and they would not be coming back, no matter how he could feel something of its like brimming just beyond reach of his fingertips.

And so, he pushed it from his mind, occupied himself as he might have any other day, if only so that it passed that much the faster. But upon returning to his dormitory room, he saw the parcel knelt up against his door, and he knelt for it, fingers brushing against the corners of the box before he tucked it into the crook of his arm, slipping into his room and shutting the door behind him with a gentle click before opening it.

A smile broke out onto his face, tired but genuine, creasing his eyes with warmth. The Fraldarius family had always been boon companions, ever since before his birth, and just as much after Glenn had lain down his life, becoming not merely friends, but family to him in their own right. Dimitri did not think he knew what he would have done, if Rodrigue had not offered his companionship to him at that time - could not bear to think of how wretched he might become.

His fingers traced the gilt pages of the log fondly, tracing over the fine embroidery. It would find use immediately, he was sure - his current log ragged, running low on pages as he jotted notes in the margins during the latest of training sessions. As though predicting his thoughts, he found too the pouch of chamomile tea - his favorite, if only for the soothing quality as it warmed him for each long night.

He would have to send the couple a letter - a long one, and long overdue, with his thanks. They might want to hear how his schooling has been going, his progress on the training field, or any of his rides into the surrounding wood. He missed the family Fraldarius, and felt a gentle pang at the thought of a once near-brother.

For he had lost two that day, though he did not express it aloud. One to the sword, and the other to grief.

Sighing gently, he placed the pouch of tea near his bedside, and the log at his desk.

And so, he sat, and pulled a sheaf of paper and pen to write a letter to the Fraldariuses, thanking them for their fine gifts. He didn’t suppose for even a moment that Felix might have considered him at all today, could not have guessed that the boy who called him beast would have spent the time, no matter the delight they had shared in their childhood.

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theart2rock · 5 months ago

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Vor 40 Jahren - Juni 1984

Ich möchte mir vornehmen, jeden Monat 40 Jahre zurückschauen und einen kurzen Rückblick zu machen. Dabei auch einmal über den Tellerrand der Rockmusik zu schauen. Events - 01. Juni - Alexander Gunyashev stellt mit 211 kg einen Weltrekord im Gewichtheben auf. - 03. Juni - Das Musical The Wiz schliesst nach einem Revival nach 13 Aufführung. - 04. Juni - Bruce Springsteen veröffentlicht Born in the U.S.A., es entwickelt sich zu seinem meistverkauften Album. - 04. Juni - Zum ersten Mal wird die DNA von einem ausgestorbenen Tier geklont. - 06. Juni - Alexey Pajitnov veröffentlicht in der Sowjetunion Tetris - 08. Juni - Billy Joel spielt in der Wembley Arena. Die Show wird später auf BBC gezeigt. - 08. Juni - Der Film Ghostbusters feiert seine Premiere. - 08. Juni - Der Film Gremlins feiert seine Premiere. - 09. Juni - Cindy Lauper kommt zum ersten Mal mit Time After Time auf Platz 1 der US-Charts. - 09. Juni - Polygram produziert in Hannover die 10 millionste CD. - 16. Juni - Frankie Goes To Hollywood besetzen für 9 Wochen den ersten Platz der englischen Charts mit Two Tribes. - 16. Juni - Der Cirque Du Soleil wird gegründet - 18. Juni - Auf dem Höhepunkt eines Judas Priest-Konzerts im Madison Square Garden reißen die Fans die Sitzkissen heraus und werfen sie auf die Bühne. Judas Priest zahlen den Schaden über die Versicherung und werden wegen des Vorfalls lebenslang aus dem Madison Square Garden verbannt. - 18. Juni - Ö1 sendet die erste Ausgabe der werktäglichen Folge von Radiokolleg und öffnet sich damit verstärkt der Erwachsenenbildung. - 18. Juni - Die erste Folge der Krimiserie Magnum wird im deutschen Fernsehen ausgestaltet. - 22. Juni - Virgin Atlantic macht seinen Jungfernflug. - 22. Juni - Das Glastonbury Festival startet mit den Headliner Weather Report, The Smiths und Black uhuru - 22. Juni - Der Film Rhinestone mit Dolly Parton und Sylvester Stallone in den Hauptrollen kommt in die Kinos und erhält durchweg negative Kritiken. Der viel gepriesene Film - über den Versuch einer Sängerin, einen Taxifahrer aus New York City innerhalb von zwei Wochen in einen Country-Star zu verwandeln - ist ein Flop, bringt aber dennoch mehrere Hitsingles hervor, vor allem den Nr.-1-Hit "Tennessee Homesick Blues". - 23. Juni - Duran Duran platzieren sich mit The Reflex zum ersten Mal in der Karriere auf dem ersten Platz der amerikanischen Hitparade. Es ist auch ihre erste Single die es auf den ersten Platz in den USA und in England schafft. - 25. Juni - Prince veröffentlicht sein sechstes Album Purple Rain. Es verkauft sich über 20 Millionen Mal und beschert ihm mit When Doves Cry und Let's Go Crazy zwei Nummer 1 Singles. - 27. Juni - Ein Brand zerstört das Filmset des James Bond Filmes A View To A Kill Wichtige Veröffentlichungen - Born in the U.S.A. - Bruce Springsteen - The Glamorous Life - Sheila E. - No Brakes - John Waite - In The Studios - The Specials - Breaking Hearts - Elton John - Camouflage - Rod Stewart - The Allnighter - Glenn Frey - Mask - Roger Glover - Discovery - Mike Oldfield - Parade - Spandau Ballet - Purple Rain - Prince and The Revolution - Sidewalk - Icehouse - Rock Will Never Die - Michael Schenker Group - Rewind (1971-1984) - The Rolling Stones Schweizer Hitparade Platz 1 Single Charts - Hello - Lionel Richie - Self Control - Laura Branigan Schweizer Hitparade Platz 1 Album Charts - Man On The Line - Chris De Burgh - Footloose - Soundtrack Schweizer Interpreten in den CH-Charts - Keine Schweizer Interpreten in den Single Charts US Billboard Single Charts - Let's Hear It For The Boys - Deniece Williams - Time After Time - Cindy Lauper - The Reflex - Duran Duran US Billboard Album Charts - Footloose - Soundtrack - Sports - Huey Lewis and The News UK Single Charts - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go - Wham! - Two Tribes - Frankie Goes To Hollywood UK Album Charts - Legend - Bob Marley and the Wailers Happy Birthday - 04. Juni - Rainie Yang - 13. Juni - Luke James - 17. Juni - John Gallagher Jr. - 23. Juni - Duffy Farewell - 08. Juni - Gordon Jacob - 15. Juni - Meredith Willson - 20. Juni - Hans Studer (Schweizer Komponist) Lesen Sie den ganzen Artikel

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judgement-free-sideblog · 5 years ago

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Ghosts from the rainforest

Summary: A simple rescue mission will bring him back to a place full of nightmares, and maybe this time he could find redemption. Situated in 1975, 2 years after the events of Skull Island.

Warnings: Violence, blood, wounds, mentions of war, cursing, implied smut, smoking, angst.

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 4: Jenny

There was just one village before crossing to Borneo, it had been two weeks since your little crew met Shukri and three days since you got proper rest and shelter, and some kind villagers gave you proper tents to camp the rest of the travel, however now your team had other problems.

"Slow down doc!" Mills voice was one second away from losing all patience and a little to close to throwing you out of the truck. "You are going to drown it!! Stop it!!" The other three men looking from the ground were to worried about their only transport possibly crashing against a three to make fun of you so you choose to call it a day and stop the engine for good.

"I'm so sorry" You told Glenn giving back the keys, "Maybe Reles could give it a go, or we are never making it on time, not with your hand like that" you said again looking at the man and the bandage you had put on his hand after he got burn trying to fix the motor of the truck.

"Maybe we could just rest, we can figure it out tomorrow" Conrad said remembering how close you were to die thanks to Reles driving a couple days before. You rolled your eyes at him but agreed anyway, since he didn't have that look ready to fight he tend to have every time you responded at him, it had been like that for the past two days, something about this lonely roads apparently upset him.

Once the night was upon you, and the fire was dancing happily and Slivko and Joe made sure to have something other than canned beans for dinner all the man were gathered next to it. You had tried to ask them apart about your father getting nowhere, and maybe it was time for a more direct approach.

"So tell me, how all of you guys meet? And don't say war because I won't buy it" you said putting apart the rest of the fish you were trying to eat that now you were not so sure it was edible.

"But we did Doc" Reles said still eating his fish. "At least Reg, Mills and I, we all did time In Vietnam, Captain Conrad joined later" He said pointing to the man who haven't even touch his food.

"Hey prince charming!" You called him, at this point your little nickname was not bothering any of you so you just roll with it. "How did you meet this fine gentlemen??" You asked when he finally met your gaze, but the sadness in his eyes made you shut and you changed the topic before he could answer. "Anyway, I understand you all work for Monarch now, what's that like?" You said and apparently touch a sensitive spot because the four man start looking at each other trying to communicate without speaking "I figured it must be extremely boring specially since you got to work with my father delusions isn't it?" You add receiving more elusive looks "Oh for fucks sake, I know Randa is dead, I'm not going to burst into tears for him, you can cut the crap already, what the hell happened to him?!!" You scream at them and Slivko finally look in your direction.

"Look Y/N" He started, aside from Conrad he was the only other person to call you by your name, maybe after your little sleepover in the truck or simply because you haven't stop him from doing so "How we end up working in Monarch, and how your father died are related, but is not our place to tell, god knows I wish I could forget, I'm sure Brooks will tell you when we come back" he was determined to shut the subject down, but at least he confirmed Randa was dead, a knot form in your chest when you hear it, but now was not the time.

"He was my father and I'm pretty sure Houston didn't send you to get me back to the funeral, I deserve to know what happened, I'm not some little child that you can lie to and will blindly follow you" you insisted and Conrad that had been silent the whole time finally spoke.

"You are right, all this secrecy is ridiculous and you deserved to know what are coming back to, but not here, come on let's take a walk" He said standing up and offering you a hand to stand.

"Are you sure Captain?" Reles asked, not doubting his reasoning but maybe your strength to take the information, wich hurt you a little.

"No, but she is right, come on" He start walking, and yo didn't take the hand he offered you but walked behind him closely.

He was following a path that was very clear for him, but invisible for you, and if you didn't knew better you would have said he was trying to make you lean on him to walk the jungle. After five minutes of jumping rocks and pretending you knew what you were doing and following the dim light he was carrying one of your ankles finally gave up and made you almost fall, and you were upset since he didn't try to catch you.

"Are you going to let me help you now?" He ask offering his hand again, and swallowing your pride you take it.

"Fine, but don't get ideas" you said to him rolling your eyes again.

"Don't worry I won't" He said pulling you closer to his chest without any effort and lifting you the of the way in a very humorous position, and you could feel his grin every time you uselessly complain trying to make him put you down.

"What the fuck was that?" You asked him once you were on the ground.

"You were taking forever" He said simply, and showed you a small clean area next to a creek. "We can sit here, not many vicious creatures come this way don't worry" He said sitting down and taking off his boots to put his feet in the water.

"And you know that because" You ask doubtfully

"Your father and Brooks hired me as a tracker about two years ago, and eight years before that, as I have told you I was here, I sadly didn't have a crazy secret admirer with an army to lend me a truck so I had to walk this bloody jungle on my own" He said looking at the calm water and you finally sit next to him.

"I'm glad you no longer call him my husband" you told him and he let go a chuckle before looking down again "ok, why does Randa hired you as a tracker?"

"To find something obviously, deep in the Pacific, a recently discovered Island, just a bunch of scientist and geologist" He said obviously lying.

"And the soldiers? Were the rocks that hard to measure?" You asked, and he then turn his face completely serious, he then proced to tell you a story, the most fantastic and terrifying story you ever heard, so obviously fabricated that might as well be the truth, and if so the very concept of reality you lived in was compromised, however there was one detail he neglected to reveal.

"And a handful of us, make it to the extract point back to America, and we have been working with Monarch ever since" He concluded.

"How did he died?" You asked in almost a whisper.

"What? You really have no other questions?" He asked surprised.

"Look, you said there was a 100 feet Ape, it could be a 100 feet Easter Bunny for all I care, I need to know how Randa died" you told him more decided than you actually feel.

"The skullcrawlers got him, we couldn't help him" he said after a while and you nodded silently fighting the tears that for some reason were forming in your eyes, and your mind was in the postcard he sent you two years before.

"Well, at least he prove to someone he was right, all those years, the missing birthdays, the fighting, the humiliation, and he was always right" you said and the knot in your chest was now in your throat "I changed my name so nobody will know I was his daughter and he was right all along, the daughter of the year right? And he died surrounded by strangers..." you start sobbing and he tried to hold you, you needed that but chose to put him away, because that pain right there was well deserved. "It's ok, it's stupid, why am I even crying? I haven't seen him in years, I just thought... I don't know I thought maybe one day we will be together again on my terms maybe, I always wanted him to know he was still my dad...that would never happen now right?" you said bitterly.

"He wanted that too." He said putting a hand on your shoulder and when you didn't push him apart he add "He make Brooks promise he would found you if something happened to him, that's why he send us, I'm sure he knew" he gave you a look full with compassion and you were fighting the urge to hide in his arms again so you change the subject.

"Why do we have to walk here? I mean you could have told me at the camp" you said and he took his arm off your shoulder.

"I felt the need to visit this place one more time" he said all serious again.

"It's a beautiful place, but I suspect that's not the reason, what happened?" You asked sure he was not responding but glad your heart was no longer exposed, you took your feet of the water and sited with your legs crossed facing at him.

"It was 1965," He started doing the same as you did, the flashlight was in between you two making the space intimate, almost romantic. "I took on a mission from the Malaysian government to rescue the illegitimate daughter of a Malaysian woman and a British embassy worker," He started surprising you, but you avoid making any comments so he could share his story "Her name was Jenny, she was kidnapped and held for ransom by whom we thought were rogue Indonesian soldiers, I have a team of five men, and we manage to locate Jenny and we were taking her home, however we were ambushed and Jenny and two of my men were killed, just about to reach the border" He said, and you could feel the pain in his voice, you wanted to hold him, but you fear his rejection so you only keep listening. "When I went to check the bullet wound on her head I realized it came from a sniper, Jenny, the nicest sweetest seven year old you'll ever meet was just a token to ignite the political scene at the time, nobody care if she ever came back to her mother" He covered his face and even at the weak light of the flashlight you could see the tears being held with more dignity than you. "You said when you knew I was SAS that you dislike soldiers, well so do I, they are just an excuse for rich man to send other people fight battles they are to coward to fight themselves, and do things that should be unforgivable, those guys back there, they are my family, that's all I care fighting for now" He said and you were sure he was about to continue but you couldn't take it anymore and before he connected his brain with his mind you crashed your mouth on his.

He froze for a moment, and kept his eyes wide open for a second before responding the kiss and slowly opening his mouth to make you believe you had the control to immediately switch it and having you trapped by his expert tongue and his strong hands on your neck.

"What are you doing?" He asked after a couple more seconds, but you were sure he was asking himself.

"You lost someone, so did I, we are both sad, and tired, and this fucking place is getting on my nerves, don't overthink it, this doesn't have to mean anything" You said to him trying to sound seductive, he picked you up and made you sit on his lap with both legs on his hips as all response and continued kissing you.

#james conrad x reader #james conrad #captain james conrad #captain james conrad x reader #captain james conrad x you #james conrad imagine #james conrad x you #kong skull island fanfiction #kong skull island #glenn mills #joe reles #reg slivko #slivko #tom hiddleston

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writemarcus · 3 years ago

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A 90th anniversary benefit for the Library of the Performing Arts’ Billy Rose Theatre Division

By Deb Miller

June 20, 2021

Last week, it was announced that multiple Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein, the son of a librarian, donated $2.5 million to The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, which will establish a new dedicated educational space in the building, named in his honor. The Harvey Fierstein Theatre Lab, for students and teachers from middle school through graduate school levels, will allow the Library to make new and innovative use of its extensive theater archives and collections by providing scholarly engagement, curricular and extracurricular experiences for students and teachers, and programming for lifelong learners.

In addition to his generous gift, the star has also named the Library for the Performing Arts a beneficiary of the Harvey Fierstein Trust, which will provide the iconic institution with additional support in the future. And, on the evening of Wednesday, June 23, beginning at 8 pm, as part of the virtual benefit I’m Still Here: A Celebration of the Billy Rose Theatre Division, he will help the Library celebrate that department’s 90th birthday.

The online pay-what-you-can fundraiser, honoring producer/director Harold Prince and playwright/director George C. Wolfe, will offer a rare opportunity to view never-before-seen clips from the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive (TOFT, now celebrating its 50th anniversary), interviews with Broadway legends and emerging creatives, and reconceived performances of classic musical theater show tunes, including Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk, In the Heights, The Mountaintop, Ragtime, The Seagull, Spamalot, and Sunset Boulevard. Funds raised by the event will allow the TOFT Archive to capture Broadway and Off-Broadway shows coming out of this historic pandemic shutdown, and to ensure that the Division’s vast collection of historic theatrical negatives are digitized before they erode.

Produced and conceived by Julie Boardman and Nolan Doran (with direction by Steve Broadnax, Sammi Cannold, Nick Corley, Ty Defoe, Lorin Latarro, Mia Walker, and Jason Michael Webb; choreography by Ayodele Casel, Lorin Latarro, Ray Mercer, and Travis Waldschmidt; music direction by Rachel Dean; new arrangements by Rachel Dean, Brian Usifer, and Annastasia Victory; and orchestrations by Brian Usifer), the show will feature archival performances by Angela Bassett, Craig Bierko, Christian Borle, Andrea Burns, Glenn Close, Tim Curry, Robin de Jesús, Christine Ebersole, Rupert Everett, Savion Glover, Marcia Gay Harden, Christopher Jackson, Samuel L. Jackson, Angela Lansbury, Rebecca Luker, Bette Midler, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kelli O’Hara, Karen Olivo, Meryl Streep, Paulo Szot, and more.

There will also be new online performances and appearances by Troy Anthony, Annaleigh Ashford, Major Attaway, Alexander Bello, Laura Benanti, Malik Bilbrew, Susan Birkenhead, Shay Bland, Stephanie J. Block, Alex Brightman, Matthew Broderick, Jason Robert Brown, Krystal Joy Brown, David Burtka, Sammi Cannold, Ayodele Casel, Kirsten Childs, Antonio Cipriano, Victoria Clark, Max Clayton, Calvin L. Cooper, Trip Cullman, Taeler Elyse Cyrus, Quentin Earl Darrington, André De Shields, Frank DiLella, Derek Ege, Amina Faye, Harvey Fierstein, Leslie Donna Flesner, Chelsea P. Freeman, Savion Glover, Joel Grey, Ryan J. Haddad, James Harkness, Sheldon Harnick, Marcy Harriell, Mark Harris, Neil Patrick Harris, David Henry Hwang, Arica Jackson, Michael R. Jackson, Cassondra James, Marcus Paul James, Taylor Iman Jones, Maya Kazzaz, Tom Kirdahy, Leslie Kritzer, Michael John LaChiusa, Norman Lear, Baayork Lee, L. Morgan Lee, Robert Lee, Sondra Lee, Telly Leung, Priscilla Lopez, Ashley Loren, Allen René Louis, Brittney Mack, Morgan Marcell, Aaron Marcellus, Joan Marcus, Michael Mayer, Annie McGreevey, Sarah Meahl, Joanna Merlin, Ruthie Ann Miles, Bonnie Milligan, Rita Moreno, Madeline Myers, Pamela Myers, Leilani Patao, Nova Payton, Joel Perez, Bernadette Peters, Tonya Pinkins, Jacoby Pruitt, Sam Quinn, Phylicia Rashad, Jelani Remy, George Salazar, Marilyn Saunders, Marcus Scott, Rashidra Scott, Rona Siddiqui, Ahmad Simmons, Susan Stroman, Rebecca Taichman, Jeanine Tesori, Bobby Conte Thornton, Sergio Trujillo, Kei Tsuruharatani, Ben Vereen, Jack Viertel, Christopher Vo, Nik Walker, Marisha Wallace, Shannon Fiona Weir, Christopher Wheeldon, Helen Marla White, Natasha Yvette Williams, and Kumiko Yoshii.

I’m Still Here will stream exclusively on Broadway On Demand on Wednesday, June 23, at 8:00 pm. The virtual event is a benefit, with a suggested donation of $19.31 (the year that the Billy Rose Theatre Division was founded). An in-person viewing party for donors (at the $1000+ level) will start at 6:00 pm, at the Library for the Performing Arts in Lincoln Center, and will include a pre-screening wine and cheese reception and performance by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael R. Jackson (A Strange Loop) and Grammy and two-time Tony Award winner Duncan Sheik (Spring Awakening). For tickets, go online; to send a donation via check, email [email protected] or call (212) 930-0019.

#Marcus Scott #MarcusScott #WriteMarcus #Write Marcus #NYPL #new york public library #New York Public Library for the Performing Arts #Billy Rose Theatre Division #Lincoln Center #George C. Wolfe #Harold Prince

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jjaywmac · 5 years ago

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This week, I have had a lot of friends reach out to me. Great. Because it is rather bleak in this small apartment in Paris. I have my favorite songs playing on Spotify; Missy is close by; and a lot of projects in the works, so I stay busy. AND, I have WiFi (FINALLY) and favorite programs on the television (BBC and CNN). So, I am NOT bored. Quite the contrary. But, no matter how you look at it, this is not my idea of the way to see Paris during my birthday 2020. Haha. But this surreal event will begin to move on at some point, so I have to “gut up” while I am going through the days. As do all of us.

I have spent a lot of time upgrading my WordPress “Jayspeak” site, so that I now have a link to a “Voluntary Contributions” and “Donations” for readers to help me fund this project. It is hard to be creative when you’re worried about money. And, I am worried about money (along with my health). So, I am considering this creative project “Jayspeak” a business and plan to develop it for my readers and followers. Let’s face it, it is not every day that a woman, 83 and alone, ups and moves to Paris, France, to live and learn. Haha. It even sounds crazy to me!! Well, actually, there have been a lot of problems, and EVERYTHING is expensive. Duh. …which takes me to my birthday, happening on Monday. March 30, 1937. Ugh. I am going to spend some time with Lillie. Who? Lillie Westmoreland, my grandmother. Hang in there! I will try to make it interesting. Jay (also known as “Janet Tallulah Jewell”) is speaking.

One of my friends this week told me this, and I have thought about it a lot.

“… we all carry the blood of our ancestors, and they survived through much more.”

Thus, I thought about “Lillie”. And, I have been thinking about her ever since. WHO? What? Lillie Westmoreland. WHY? What did she survive? I don’t know. This is what I know, sorta. This is her picture. I don’t know how old she was when this was taken. My niece, Deb Prince Kroll, colorized it. She looks to be around 60 to me.

She was born into a family with 11 (COUNT THEM) – eleven!!!!!! children. I don’t know where she was in the line-up. Not oldest; not youngest. I don’t know. I cannot imagine 10 brothers and sisters in the house. Help!!!!! They were not rich. They were not poor. I don’t know. They lived in Royston, Georgia. VERY SMALL TOWN. Ugh. She was born on September 12, 1840. OK, let’s pause for a money to find out what was happening in the world in 1880. This is her father’s obituary that was in the Royston papers at the time of his death. He was a Baptist preacher. (no comment)

Seaborn Westmoreland Obit

Hello, Wikipedia!!! Help.

It was a Sunday. Lillie was born (probably at home) on a Sunday, in Royston, Georgia. The United States had five Presidents during the decade, the most since the 1840s. They were Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison. On that day, James A. Garfield was president. This is what I found interesting about him.

“At the 1880 Republican Convention, Garfield failed to win the Presidential nomination for his friend John Sherman. Finally, on the 36th ballot, Garfield himself became the “dark horse” nominee. By a margin of only 10,000 popular votes, Garfield defeated the Democratic nominee, Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock.

Major power political disputes back then – same as now. As President, Garfield strengthened Federal authority over the New York Customs House, stronghold of Senator Roscoe Conkling, who was leader of the Stalwart Republicans and dispenser of patronage in New York. When Garfield submitted to the Senate a list of appointments including many of Conkling’s friends, he named Conkling’s arch-rival William H. Robertson to run the Customs House. Conkling contested the nomination, tried to persuade the Senate to block it, and appealed to the Republican caucus to compel its withdrawal. But Garfield would not submit: “This…will settle the question whether the President is registering clerk of the Senate or the Executive of the United States…. shall the principal port of entry … be under the control of the administration or under the local control of a factional senator.” Conkling maneuvered to have the Senate confirm Garfield’s uncontested nominations and adjourn without acting on Robertson. Garfield countered by withdrawing all nominations except Robertson’s; the Senators would have to confirm him or sacrifice all the appointments of Conkling’s friends. In a final desperate move, Conkling and his fellow-Senator from New York resigned, confident that their legislature would vindicate their stand and re-elect them. Instead, the legislature elected two other men; the Senate confirmed Robertson. Garfield’s victory was complete.

In foreign affairs, Garfield’s Secretary of State invited all American republics to a conference to meet in Washington in 1882. But the conference never took place. On July 2, 1881, in a Washington railroad station, an embittered attorney who had sought a consular post shot the President. Mortally wounded, Garfield lay in the White House for weeks. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, tried unsuccessfully to find the bullet with an induction-balance electrical device which he had designed. On September 6, Garfield was taken to the New Jersey seaside. For a few days he seemed to be recuperating, but on September 19, 1881, he died from an infection and internal hemorrhage.

That said, I doubt the Lillie’s family was interested in politics or in the world at large, during those day. No radios or television. This was a large family, living in a small town in the Deep South. Just trying to survive during the depression with a large family (Today, with DNA testing, I have confirmed by Ancestry.com that I have LOTS of cousins and cousins of cousins – especially with 11 kids growing up and having kids – black and white. Hey, that was the South during those years. How? I don’t know how. Get over it!

“The 1890s was the ten-year period from the years 1890 to 1899. In the United States, the 1890s were marked by a severe economic depression sparked by the Panic of 1893, as well as several strikes in the industrial workforce. The decade saw much of the development of the automobile. The period was sometimes referred to as the “Mauve Decade” – because William Henry Perkin’s aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashion – and also as the “Gay Nineties”, referring to the fact that it was full of merriment and optimism. The phrase, “The Gay Nineties,” was not coined until the 1920s. This decade was also part of the Gilded Age, a phrase coined by Mark Twain, alluding to the seemingly profitable era that was riddled with crime and poverty.” – Wikipedia

Here is another picture. I think she is 16.

She would have been 16 in 1896, and there were football teams at the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech. I know she played baseball with Ty Cobb in Royston. He was a friend of hers. She married a lawyer, Glen Dorough, who was also living in Royston. I know she dreamed of being an actress and had “shows” in the family back yard and would present “pretend stories” to the neighbors in the afternoon presentation. She would string a sheet on a clothesline for a curtain. Her father has been described as a “character” with a good personality. I don’t know much about her mother.

I don’t know how old Lillie was when she got married. Young, I think. Very young. I do know that she and Glenn had five little girls. Mother was #2, I think. Her name was Anna Louise Dorough when she was in college. Quite a flirt with a good personality.

Ruth was the oldest. Then, Mother (Anna Louise). Then, Lillian. Then, Edna (she died when she was 21, from peritonitis). Then Rose (the baby). They were all in their 90’s when they died. Papa Dorough (Glenn) died of cancer on November 19, 1940. He was 65. Lillie was 60. I still remember the funeral. Mother sent all of us to the movies so we would not be at the funeral. But, before I went to the movies, I visited that living room and studied the casket. I can still remember that day in my mind’s eye. I can still see the flowers surrounding the coffin in the living room of the Mama Dorough’s boarding house on Green Street in Gainesville, Georgia (my home town). I don’t know much about Glen.

Lillie was 45 when her father died, November 7, 1935. I was born in 1937, so Lillie was still rather young when I was born. Mother was 35 when I was born. So she was 33 when her grandfather died. I think I have all of these ages wrong. I keep trying to figure out how young Lillie was when she married Glenn, but I am confused. My brain needs more exercise. But, if Lillie was born in 1880 and her father died in 1935 and I was born in 1937…… That is where I get confused. I think ALL of everyone is too young for ALL of this. And, they all Died VERY OLD. Amazing. I want that blood of my ancestors in my veins, especially now that I want time to LIVE and explore Paris. Haha.

At some point, Lillie started running a “boarding house” and helped with income, taking in “boarders”. I think they were more into survival mode than what was going in the world. Newspapers? College? Marriages? I don’t know. The flu? Plagues? Doctors? Medicine? I don’t know. SEE. That is what will happen to me. My children and grandchildren will know that I existed, but they won’t know much else. I have a lot of trouble with that part – the disinterest. But, enough about me, back to Lillie…

She at some point moved to Atlanta, still making money by taking in “boarders”, cleaning rooms and preparing all meals. Quite industrious and entrepreneurial, especially when the South was going through a terrible depression.

I loved Mama Dorough. She was witty and loved jokes. She would “chuckle”. Remember “chuckles”. Do people still chuckle? She loved all of my kids, especially Craig and Blake. She loved me. She loved ALL of us. Full of lots of love. She loved her boarders. They loved her. How blessed I was to have her as my role model. At some point, I got concerned because the family did not know a lot about Lillie’s life, so I got some tapes and recorded my conversations with her. I asked her about her life growing up. She was reticent to talk about it. But I got a lot from her. I need to have help transcribing those tapes. It is on my long list of projects for “someday”. I seemed to be the only one who cared. Debby (my niece) knows a lot more than I do. She is interested in all of it.

Lillie died March 6, 1992 at the age of 111. She would have been 112 on September 12, 1992. All of her daughters (except for Edna) lived to be in their 90’s.

So, my hope is that I have Lillie’s blood in my veins and God knows what all she survived! No one seemed to ask during those days. “It was not discussed”. Same as today. No one is asking about me. What I have survived. Or that my kids have survived. Or that my grandkids have survived at their young ages. They all have survived a LOT.

Like each one of you. But we are ALIVE. Let’s stay that way. So, on Monday, I shall celebrate Lillie Westmoreland, her life and her times. And, all she survived. And her wonderful spirit! May it continue to live in me, in my blood, in my veins.

Best, Jay

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NAMM Industry Tribute 2017 Memoriam Event (from Jon Hammond's Camera)

NAMM Industry Tribute 2017 Memoriam Event (from Jon Hammond's Camera) #WATCHMOVIE HERE: NAMM Industry Tribute 2017 Memoriam Event (from Jon Hammond's Camera) Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/NAMMIndustryTribute2017MemoriamEventfromJonHammondsCamera NAMM Industry Tribute 2017 Memoriam Event (from Jon Hammond's camera) - annual event and archive from NAMM Show Historian Dan Del Fiorentino - this year many personal friends honored - this clip includes additional music from Jon Hammond "Jennifer's Song" for rights reasons, keep the Spirit! R.I.P. Lutz Büchner, Gregg Gregory Gronowski, Keith Emerson, Dan Hicks, Paul Kantner, Toots Thielemans, Rob Wasserman, Prince, Maurice White, Buckwheat Zydeco and many more "The NAMM Community will never forget you." *actual clip LINK: https://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/namm-memoriam-industry-tribute-2017 *Note: This always happens on the first evening of the Winter NAMM Show - this year it was on Thursday January 19th at 5:30PM - moved inside due to heavy weather! Pictures by Jon Hammond: "The NAMM Community will never forget you.", Dan Del Fiorentino NAMM Historian still with hat on! NAMM Chairman Mark Goff giving benediction, Greg Herreman NAMM Production Manager about to move a microphone, Dick Bridgeman - Hammond Organ Co., Lutz Büchner - ndr big band / Jon Hammond Band, Leonard Cohen, Bob Cranshaw, Keith Emerson - Emerson Lake and Palmer, Glenn Frey - The Eagles, Buddy Greco, 'Gregg' Gregory Gronowski - Hammond Organ USA, Merle Haggard, Hoot Hester, Dan Hicks, Bobby Hutcherson, Wayne Jackson, James Jamerson Jr., Paul Kantner, Greg Lake, Lonnie Mack, Sir George Martin, Scotty Moore, Alphonse Mouzon, Harvey Olsen, Robert Paiste, Prince, Jack Ripperger - Hammond organ co., Leon Russell, LA Scots Pipe Band played, Rose Shure - Shure microphone co., Ralph Stanley, Toots Thielemans, Martin Travis, Bobby Vee, Rob Wasserman, Maurice White - Earth Wind and Fire, Duane "Pudgy" Wong, Bernie Worrell, Buckwheat Zydeco, "The NAMM Community will never forget you.", "In Memoriam A Tribute to our Industry Friends Thursday January 19, 2017 - Winter NAMM Show LIST ACCORDING TO JON HAMMOND: John Bellone, Leo Beranek, Bruce Bergh, Paul Bierley, Bobby Blackford, Dick Bridgeman, Ernie Briefel, Jim Broadus, Don Buchla, Lutz Büchner, Prince Buster, Al Caiola, Toby Capalbo, Nicki Carano, Rob Carey, Phil Chess, Gary Christensen, Buddy Church, Barrett Clark, Guy Clark, Tim Coffman, Leonard Cohen, Rosemarie and Ed Coles, Bob Cranshaw, Johnny Craviotto, William Dettman, Dick DiCenso, John Edmondson, Sam Eisenman, Keith Emerson, Frank Fendorf, Chuck Flores, Orrin Foslien, Peter Fountain, Cassie Frantz, Carla Frederick, Glenn Frey, Bob Furst, Juan Gabriel, Ben Germain, James Glanville, Roberta Gottschalk, Buddy Greco, Christina Grimmie, Gregg Gronowski, Merle Haggard, Joe Halloran, Bill Harris, Nicholas Harris, Yasuji Hayashi, Glenn Hefner, Mary Henkin, Mark Herman, Hoot Hester, Randy Hewiston, Joe Hibbs, Dan Hicks, Charles Hill, Bobby Hutcherson, Bill Irwin, Wayne Jackson, James Jamerson Jr., OJB Jezreel, Steven Johnson, Luke Johnston, Ziggy Kanstul, Paul Kantner, Dick Knaub, Gladys Krenek, Rick Kylan, Greg Lake, Larry Larson, Francois LeDuc, William Locke, John D. Loudermilk, George Lukas, Lonnie Mack, Sir George Martin, Jack Maxson, John McCrea, Henry Cullough, Owen McPeek, Mo Meloy-Pameteer, Nick Menza, Al Moffatt, Chips Woman, Paul Monachino, Scotty Moore, Alphonse Mouzon, Jerry Muenchow, Robert Nagel, Richard Norris, Milt Okun, Pauline Oliveros, Harvey Olsen, George Opperman, John O’Sullivan, John Otte, Robert Paiste, Bob Parker, Sylvia Perry, Csaba Petocz, Richie Pidanick, Bill Price, Prince, Anthony Pulcini, Curtis Purdy, Cora Rather, Al Realo, Jack Ripperger, Vale Robinson, Leon Russell, Helen Saied, Stanley Schireson, Zenon Schoepe, Hugo Schreiber, Dorothy Schwartz, William Scotti, Dan Sheehan, Shinichi Shimada, Rose Shure, Tom Size, Dan Smith, Vern Smith, Sid Smither, Jerry Snyder, Ralph Stanley, Chris Stone, Rod Temperton, Toots Thielemans, Victor Tibaldeo Sr., Isao Tomita, Dana Tracy, Martin Travis, Ed Uribe, Rudy Van Gelder, Vincent van Haaff, Bobby Vee, Maxine Volley, Cathy Wagner, Saul Walker, Nannette Ward, Rob Wasserman, Christopher Waters, Bob Wegher, Bobby Wellins, Maurice White, Monty Lee Wilkes, Tom Wilson, Duane “Pudgy” Wong, James Woolley, Bernie Worrell, Dolores Yaeger, Don Young, Buckwheat Zydeco (156) - according to Jon Hammond Producer Jon Hammond Audio/Visual sound, color Language English **List from Elizabeth Dale and Dan Del Fiorentino - NAMM History Department - Just In: As follows: (Unfortunately / Sadly all are deceased - dates, names 2017 NAMM Industry Tribute - JH: Allison Mose 1927 2016 Baker Dave 1931 2016 Belli Remo 1927 2016 Bellone John 1928 2016 Beranek Leo 1914 2016 Bergh Bruce 1955 2016 Bierley Paul 1926 2016 Blackford Bobby 1950 2016 Bridgeman Dick 1932 2016 Briefel Ernie 1919 2016 Broadus Jim 1939 2016 Buchla Don 1937 2016 Büchner Lutz 1968 2016 Buss Skip 1926 2016 Buster Prince 1938 2016 Caiola Al 1920 2016 Capalbo Toby 1930 2016 Carano Nicki 1967 2016 Carey Rob 1972 2016 Chess Phil 1921 2016 Christensen Gary 1954 2016 Church Buddy 1952 2016 Clark Barrett 1981 2016 Clark Guy 1941 2016 Coffman Tim 1946 2015 Cohen Leonard 1934 2016 Coles Ed & Rosemarie R- 1961 E-1958 2016 Cranshaw Bob 1932 2016 Craviotto Johnny 1946 2016 Dettman William 1950 2016 DiCenso Dick 1941 2016 Edmondson John 1933 2016 Eisenman Sam 1930 2016 Emerson Keith 1944 2016 Fendorf Frank 1925 2016 Flores Chuck 1935 2016 Foslien Orrin 1942 2016 Fountain Pete 1930 2016 Frantz Cassie 1943 2017 Frederick Carla 1950 2016 Frey Glenn 1948 2016 Furst Bob 1933 2016 Gabriel Juan 1950 2016 Germain Ben 1927 2016 1 Glanville James 1925 2016 Gottschalk Roberta 1941 2016 Greco Buddy 1926 2017 Grimmie Christina 1994 2016 Gronowski Gregg 1951 2016 Haggard Merle 1937 2016 Halloran Joe 1967 2016 Harris Bill 1934 2016 Harris Nicholas 1978 2016 Hayashi Yasuji 1923 2016 Heffner Glen 1953 2016 Henkin Mary 1928 2016 Herman Mark 1956 2016 Hester Hoot 1951 2016 Hewitson Randy 1955 2016 Hibbs Joe 1953 2016 Hicks Dan 1941 2016 Hill Charles 1935 2016 Hutcherson Bobby 1941 2016 Irwin Bill 1923 2016 Jackson Wayne 1941 2016 Jamerson Jr James 1958 2016 Jezreel OJB 1966 2016 Johnson Steven 1955 2016 Johnston Luke 1966 2016 Kanstul Ziggy 1929 2016 Kantner Paul 1941 2016 Knaub Dick 1936 2016 Krenek Gladys 1924 2016 Kylan Rick 1946 2016 Lake Greg 1947 2016 Larson Larry 1933 2016 LeDuc Francois 1939 2016 Locke William 1944 2016 Loudermilk John D. 1934 2016 Lukas George 1927 2016 Mack Lonnie 1941 2016 Martin Sir George 1926 2016 Maxson Jack 1940 2016 McCrea John 1927 2016 McCullough Henry 1943 2016 McPeek Owen 1927 2016 Meloy-Palmateer Mo 1943 2016 Menza Nick 1964 2016 Miller Larry 1966 2016 2 Moffatt Al 1947 2016 Moman Chips 1937 2016 Monachino Paul 1924 2016 Moore Scotty 1931 2016 Mouzon Alphonse 1948 2016 Muenchow Jerry 1943 2016 Nagel Robert 1924 2016 Norris Richard 1936 2016 Okun Milt 1923 2016 Oliveros Pauline 1932 2016 Olsen Harvey 1937 2016 Opperman George 1918 2016 O'Sullivan John 1936 2016 Otte John 1926 2016 Paiste Robert 1932 2016 Parker Bob 1944 2015 Perry Sylvia 1919 2016 Petocz Csaba 1960 2015 Pidanick Richie 1952 2016 Price Bill 1944 2016 Prince 1958 2016 Pulcini Anthony 1993 2016 Purdy Curtis 1947 2016 Racher Cora 1948 2016 Realo Al 1943 2016 Ripperger Jack 1929 2016 Robinson Vale 1935 2016 Russell Leon 1946 2016 Saied Helen 1924 2016 Schireson Stanley 1917 2016 Schoepe Zenon 1960 2016 Schreiber Hugo 1927 2016 Schwartz Dorothy 1927 2016 Scotti William 1924 2016 Seaver Larry 1943 2016 Sheeran Dan 1925 2016 Shimada Shinichi 1932 2016 Shure Rose 1921 2016 Size Tom 1959 2016 Smith Dan 1946 2016 Smith Vern 1961 2016 Smither Sid Snyder Jerry 1925 2016 Stanley Ralph 1927 2016 Stone Chris 1935 2016 3 Temperton Rob 1924 2016 Thielemans Toots 1922 2016 Tibaldeo Sr. Victor 1923 2016 Tomita Isao 1932 2016 Tracy Dana 1952 2016 Travis Martin 1916 2016 Uribe Ed 1957 2015 Van Gelder Rudy 1924 2016 van Haaff Vincent 1952 2016 Vee Bobby 1943 2016 Volley Maxine 1959 2017 Wagner Cathy 1954 2016 Walker Saul 1927 2016 Ward Nannette 1953 2016 Wasserman Rob 1952 2016 Waters Christopher 1986 2016 Wegher Bob 1927 2016 Wellins Bobby 1936 2016 White Maurice 1941 2016 Wilkes Monty Lee 1962 2016 Wilson Tom 1933 2016 Wong Duane "Pudgy" 1953 2016 Woolley James 1966 2016 Worrell Bernie 1944 2016 Yeager Dolores 1928 2016 Young Don 1953 2016 Zydeco Buckwheat 1947 2016 Remembering the great Joe Sample in absentia on his Birthday February 1 - born 1939, passed at the age of 75 on September 12, 2014. Joe's manager for many years was the legendary manager/impresario George Greif, Diane Greif-Sheppard's Dad - I knew George, I can't think of Joe Sample without remembering George Greif...also that's James Jamerson Jr. playing bass in back of Joe, very sadly James (son of James Jamerson of Motown Records) has passed as well - I shot this photo back in the year 1981 on my first trip to Europe - R.I.P. Joe, George, James - sincerely, Jon Hammond Joe's wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Sample Joseph Leslie "Joe" Sample (February 1, 1939 – September 12, 2014) was an American pianist, keyboard player, and composer. He was one of the founding members of the Jazz Crusaders, the band which became simply the Crusaders in 1971, and remained a part of the group until its final album in 1991 (not including the 2003 reunion album Rural Renewal). Beginning in the 1970s, he enjoyed a successful solo career and guested on many recordings by other performers and groups, including Miles Davis, George Benson, Jimmy Witherspoon, B. B. King, Eric Clapton, Steely Dan, and the Supremes. Sample incorporated jazz, gospel, blues, Latin, and classical forms into his music. On September 12, 2014, Sample died in Houston, Texas, of mesothelioma at age 75. Birth name Joseph Leslie Sample Born February 1, 1939 Houston, Texas, U.S. Died September 12, 2014 (aged 75) Houston Genres Jazz Occupation(s) Musician, composer Instruments Piano, keyboards Years active 1950s–2014 Labels Blue Thumb, MCA, GRP, Warner Bros., Verve, ABC Associated acts Jazz Crusaders Joe Sample's Bio: "Sample was born in Houston, Texas on February 1, 1939. Sample began to play the piano at age 5. He was a student of the organist and pianist Curtis Mayo. In high school in the 1950s, Sample teamed up with friends saxophonist Wilton Felder and drummer "Stix" Hooper to form a group called the Swingsters. While studying piano at Texas Southern University, Sample met and added trombonist Wayne Henderson and several other players to the Swingsters, which became the Modern Jazz Sextet and then the Jazz Crusaders,[1] in emulation of one of the leading progressive jazz bands of the day, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. Sample never took a degree from the university; instead, in 1960, he and the Jazz Crusaders made the move from Houston to Los Angeles. The group quickly found opportunities on the West Coast, making its first recording, Freedom Sounds in 1961 and releasing up to four albums a year over much of the 1960s. The Jazz Crusaders played at first in the dominant hard bop style of the day, standing out by virtue of their unusual front-line combination of saxophone (played by Wilton Felder) and Henderson's trombone. Another distinctive quality was the funky, rhythmically appealing acoustic piano playing of Sample, who helped steer the group's sound into a fusion between jazz and soul[2] in the late 1960s. The Jazz Crusaders became a strong concert draw during those years. While Sample and his band mates continued to work together, he and the other band members pursued individual work as well. In 1969 Sample made his first recording under his own name; Fancy Dance featured the pianist as part of a jazz trio.[1] In the 1970s, as the Jazz Crusaders became simply the Crusaders and branched out into popular sounds, Sample became known as a Los Angeles studio musician, appearing on recordings by the likes of Joni Mitchell, Marvin Gaye, Tina Turner, B. B. King, Joe Cocker, Minnie Riperton and Anita Baker. In 1975 he went into the studios with jazz legends Ray Brown on bass, and drummer Shelly Manne to produce a then state-of-the-art recording direct to disc entitled The Three. About this time Blue Note Records reissued some of the early work by the Jazz Crusaders as "The Young Rabbits". This was a compilation of their recordings done between 1962 and 1968. The electric keyboard was fairly new in the sixties, and Sample became one of the instrument's pioneers. He began to use the electric piano while the group retained their original name, and the group hit a commercial high-water mark with the hit single "Street Life" and the album of the same name in 1979. In 1978 he recorded Swing Street Café with guitarist David T. Walker. The Crusaders, after losing several key members, broke up after recording Life in the Modern World for the GRP label in 1987. Despite the disbanding of the Crusaders, the members would join each other to record periodically over the years, releasing Healing the Wounds in the early 1990s. Felder, Hooper, and Sample recorded their first album, called Rural Renewal, as the reunited Crusaders group in 2003 and played a concert in Japan in 2004. Since Sample's Fancy Dance (1969), he has recorded several solo albums, including the George Duke produced Sample This. GRP also released Joe Sample Collection, and a three-disc Crusaders Collection, as testament to Sample's enduring legacy. Some of the pianist's recent recordings are The Song Lives On (1999), featuring duets with singer Lalah Hathaway, and The Pecan Tree (2002), a tribute to his hometown of Houston, where he relocated in 1994. His 2004 album on Verve, Soul Shadows, paid tribute to Duke Ellington and Jelly Roll Morton, and pre-jazz bandleader James Reese Europe. In 2007 he recorded Feeling Good with vocalist Randy Crawford. In 1983, MCA released Joe Sample's The Hunter LP. The Hunter sessions had taken place during the previous year at Hollywood Sound Recorders and Salty Dog Studios in Los Angeles, producing a fine body of recordings of which six were brought forward. Fans believe there maybe other recordings from the sessions yet to be released. Amongst the six tracks was the nine-minute Night Flight. UK Jazz Funk and Soul DJ Robbie Vincent premiered Night Flight in its entirety in the spring of 1983 on his Radio London "Saturday Show" prompting a surge of jazz fusion enthusiasts and Sample fans to buy up all the import copies from London stores. For Sample, The Hunter album featured a number of leading musicians of the day including Marcus Miller on bass and Paulinho Da Costa on percussion. Sample was also joined on the album by Phil Upchurch on lead guitar, Dean Parks (also on guitar), Steve Gadd and Bob Wilson on drums, John Phillips on bass clarinet, and Abraham Laboriel on bass. For production, Joe Sample called on his Crusaders' stable mate Wilton Felder. The Hunter album came at a very important juncture in Sample's solo push. Night Flight remains the great achievement from these sessions, although fans were extremely disappointed when an edited version appeared on the compilation Joe Sample Collection.[citation needed] The Hunter album has been transferred to CD from the original tapes but fans are still awaiting a remastered expanded edition with previously unreleased material and demos. Sample appeared on stage at The Waterfront Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland, on 28 May 2000, playing keyboard solo on George Benson's Deeper Than You Think. This concert was recorded and a DVD entitled George Benson: Absolutely Live was subsequently released. A studio version of Deeper Than You Think was recorded featuring Joe Sample in New York in May 1999 during sessions for a Benson collection which took the title Absolutely Benson. Fans again believe there may have been other collaborations of Sample - Benson which remain in the vaults unreleased. Some of his works were featured on The Weather Channel's "Local on the 8s" segments and his song "Rainbow Seeker" is included in their 2008 compilation release, The Weather Channel Presents: Smooth Jazz II. Nicole Kidman sang his song "One Day I'll Fly Away" in the Baz Luhrmann film Moulin Rouge! The very popular "In All My Wildest Dreams", also from the 1978 album Rainbow Seeker, was sampled on Tupac's "Dear Mama", De la Soul's "WRMS's Dedication to the Bitty", Toni Braxton's "What's Good" and Arrested Development's "Africa's Inside Me". Sample had a bassist son named Nicklas Sample (with ex-wife Marianne), who is a member of the Coryell Auger Sample Trio featuring Julian Coryell and Karma Auger. On September 12, 2014, Sample died in Houston, Texas from complications from mesothelioma lung disease.[3] He was 75 years old.[4] Sample had also suffered two heart attacks — the most recent in 2009. According to the Los Angeles Times he had also suffered illness caused by the Epstein-Barr virus, which produces chronic fatigue.[5] In 2013, Sample was hospitalized with pneumonia, according to Variety, the Hollywood and music industry trade paper." Sending up prayers for my good friend Rudy Sheriff Lawless aka The Sheriff - jazz drummer extraordinaire!! Honored by Jazz Foundation of America - special thanks Gina Reder - Rudy photos from Jon Hammond: Oh wow...there goes the Apple Maps Van! https://www.apple.com/ios/maps/ - Jon Hammond Frankfurt, Germany -- Power Shot! My good friend Yu Beniya on another very important international mission for Suzuki Musical Instruments! 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Musical Instrument Trade Show, International Artists Koei Tanaka from Tokyo Japan representing Suzuki Musical Instruments, chromatic harmonica virtuoso Heinz Lichius from Hamburg Germany drums endorsed by Zildjian Cymbals Alex Budman tenor saxophonist from Los Angeles CA Joe Berger from New York City playing for JJ Guitars UK Chuggy Carter from New Jersey endorsed by GON BOPS Jon Hammond the leader playing Hammond organ + bass just back from Tokyo Japan where he played for Suzuki Musical Instruments Torrential Rains forced cancelation - Rain Date will be made up in January 2018 folks! NAMM Believe in Music https://www.namm.org/thenammshow/2017/events/jon-hammond-funk-unit Photos Credit Lawrence Gay Heinz Lichius at Canopus Drums Stand Chuggy Carter was on Jon Hammond's original band with Bernard Purdie back in 1989 Koei Tanaka the great chromatic harmonica phenom Joe Berger aka Berger-Meister - here with Jon Hammond and Lee Oskar Alex Budman tenor saxophonist on Jon Hammond's Band at a NAMM Showcase Jon Hammond getting the bad news from Greg Herreman NAMM Production Manager on his trusty Blackberry monitoring the situation on well traveled MacBook Pro Rain! Heinz Lichius and Jon Hammond sitting up on the rained out plastic wrapped Pioneer DJ Stage, as scheduled! 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• A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy. – Abhishek Bachchan • A birthday:-and now a day that rose With much of hope, with meaning rife- A thoughtful day from dawn to close: The middle day of human life. – Jean Ingelow • A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age. – Robert Frost • A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. – Erma Bombeck • All I want for my birthday is another birthday. – Ian Dury • All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheese making class a few weeks ago, and I told my family and friends to only get me kitchen stuff on my birthday. I’m into every kind of cookbook and anything by Anthony Bourdain. I’d love to own a restaurant if I could find the right chef. – Jesse McCartney • All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much. – George Harrison • And for the city’s birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston’s great epic – the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most. • Any time women come together with a collective intention, it’s a powerful thing. Whether it’s sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens. – Phylicia Rashad • At 50, don’t let aging get you down. It’s too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday. – H. H. Asquith • At her birthday, my seven-year-old daughter will say that she wants these big cakes and certain expensive toys as presents, and I can’t say no to her. It would just break my heart. But when I was little, for birthdays we just played outside and we were happy if we got any cake. – Goran Ivanisevic • Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me. – Christina Rossetti • Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. – Menachem Mendel Schneerson • Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear… But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend. – Martial • Birthdays? yes, in a general way; For the most if not for the best of men: You were born (I suppose) on a certain day: So was I: or perhaps in the night: what then? – James Kenneth Stephen • Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake. – Walter Lord • Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new. – Sammy Hagar • Everyday is a birthday; every moment of it is new to us; we are born again, renewed for fresh work and endeavor. – Isaac Watts • Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, “ye cannot enter the kingdom of God.” One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again. – Dorothy L. Sayers • Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we’ll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end. – Richard Bach • For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier… I put them in the same room and let them fight it out. – Steven Wright • For my birthday this year, my girlfriends – who knew I’d just inherited my dad’s turntable – gave me a carton of albums like “Blue Kentucky Girl,” by Emmylou Harris, and “Off the Wall,” by Michael Jackson. It’s all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can’t have a music collection without Prince’s “Purple Rain” – it just can’t be done! – Connie Britton • From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye. – William Butler Yeats • Happy birthday greetings and warmest wishes, too May today, tomorrow, everyday Be truly happy for you. – Margaret Brown • I binge when I’m happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I’m at a birthday party. – Kirstie Alley • I crashed my boyfriend’s birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn’t invite me and so I showed up. – Isla Fisher • I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children. – Diane von Furstenberg • I love having my birthday at Australia Zoo. – Bindi Irwin • I love photography. My boyfriend’s got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday. – Sarah Sutton • I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the idea that we can get up every morning and start over. – Kristin Armstrong • I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing ‘Happy Birthday.’ – Steven Wright • I was fired by ‘America’s Next Top Model’ on my birthday. – Paulina Porizkova • If I have the power to post ‘Happy Birthday’ on someone’s Facebook page and make them feel really good, it feels really good to make other people feel really good. I love it. I’m a huge Facebook and Twitter person. And I love talking to my fans. It’s fun. – Rebecca Mader • If there’s one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy’s reserve. – Bindi Irwin • If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it. – David Horowitz • I’m a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory. – Sloane Crosley • In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. – Annette Funicello • In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn’t have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order. – Robert Breault • It does not seem a year Since last we sent to you Our wishes for your special day And all that you would do. And once again we wish you All joyous things and more A day that’s filled with happiness And memories to store. Then when you think in years to come Of Birthdays long ago You may remember fondly How much we love you so. So have a day of pleasure Do things that make you smile For ………….. you are treasured Today and all the while. – Janet Horne • It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me. – Ellen Glasgow • It’s odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You’ll have a nice time, then two years later you’ll be like, ‘There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?’ – David Sedaris • Mattresses! Beautiful! Let’s go buy a couple of mattresses. Give ’em to people for their birthday. – Lawrence Tierney • May the moments of today become fond memories for tomorrow. Happy Birthday – Rob Jackson • Most of us can remember a time when a birthday – especially if it was one’s own – brightened the world as if a second sun has risen. – Robert – Staughton Lynd • My brother got a .22 for his 12th birthday; I got a .22. He got a hunting knife; I got a hunting knife. – Stephanie Cutter • My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young. – Paulina Porizkova • Nicole will come up in conversations where it’s in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday. – O. J. Simpson • On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles. – Mary Antin • Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. – Jean Paul • Pleas’d look forward, pleas’d to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind. – Alexander Pope • Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same. – Audrey Hepburn • The best birthdays of all are those that haven’t arrived yet. – Robert Orben • The best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once. – Herbert V. Prochnow • The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. – Seneca the Younger • The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. – Samuel Johnson • The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him. – Matthew Sweet • The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it’s time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book. – James Rollins • The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday. – Paris Hilton • Then when you think in years to come Of Birthdays long ago You may remember fondly How much we love you so. – Janet Horne • There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know. – Lewis Carroll • There is still no cure for the common birthday. – John Glenn

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A young woman who says financier Jeffrey Epstein and socialite Ghislaine Maxwell kept her as a sex slave also accused a host of high-powered men of being involved in Epstein’s alleged sex-trafficking ring, according to court records unsealed Friday. Virginia Giuffre, who says that Epstein and Maxwell trafficked her to powerful people for erotic massages and sex, claimed in depositions in 2016 that Maxwell directed her to have sex with former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, Britain’s Prince Andrew (whom she has accused before), wealthy financier Glenn Dubin, former senator George Mitchell, now-deceased MIT scientist Marvin Minsky, and modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, as well as “another prince,” a "foreign president," a well-known prime minsiter" and the owner of a “large hotel chain” in France. None of the men named in the deposition have been charged with a crime or even sued in civil court in connection with the Epstein case. The deposition represents accuser Giuffre’s allegations, and the court documents unsealed on Friday did not contain any corroboration or further details, though many documents remain sealed. Brunel’s attorney Joe Titone declined to comment. Prince Andrew and Buckingham Palace have previously and vehemently denied Giuffre’s allegations. ��Glenn and Eva Dubin are outraged by the allegations in the unsealed court records, which are demonstrably false and defamatory. The Dubins have flight records and other evidence that definitively disprove that any such events occurred," a spokesperson for the Dubin family told The Daily Beast on Friday. KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL Power Couple’s Butler: Teen Told Me of Epstein Island Horror Kate Briquelet, Michael Daly A spokesperson for former Gov. Bill Richardson, Madeleine Mahony, told The Daily Beast on Friday,“These allegations and inferences are completely false. Governor Richardson has never even been contacted by any party regarding this lawsuit. To be clear, in Governor Richardson’s limited interactions with Mr. Epstein, he never saw him in the presence of young or underage girls. Governor Richardson has never been to Mr. Epstein’s residence in the Virgin Islands. Governor Richardson has never met Ms. Giuffre." Mitchell said in a statement to The Daily Beast: “The allegation contained in the released documents is false ... I have never met, spoken with or had any contact with Ms. Giuffre.” He added: “In my contacts with Mr. Epstein I never observed or suspected any inappropriate conduct with underage girls. I only learned of his actions when they were reported in the media related to his prosecution in Florida. We have had no further contact.” The revelation comes after a federal appeals court ordered the release of the sealed documents in a lawsuit that Giuffre filed against Maxwell, the British publishing heiress whom Giuffre says was Epstein’s madam. Maxwell has rejected allegations that she has acted as a procurer for Epstein and denied she facilitated Prince Andrew's acts of sexual abuse and was Epstein’s madam. 1422912 Socialite Ghislaine Maxwell and model Naomi Campbell in 2002. Mark Mainz/Getty Giuffre has long claimed that Epstein kept her as his underage “sex slave” and loaned her out to his famous friends, including Prince Andrew and Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz. (Dershowitz has repeatedly denied her accusations.) She says Maxwell recruited her into Epstein’s sordid world after spotting her at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach and offering her a chance to learn massage. At the time, Giuffre was only 16 years old. Maxwell hit back at Giuffre and denied the allegations, prompting Giuffre to sue her for defamation. The suit was settled in 2017 on confidential terms. On July 3, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ordered the summary judgment materials in Giuffre’s 2015 lawsuit to be unsealed—with the first documents released to the public today. HELP US Send The Daily Beast a Tip The Daily Beast In several depositions—excerpts of which were included in the documents unsealed Friday—Giuffre said that Maxwell would send her to have erotic “massages” and sexual encounters with various powerful men—from a hotel owner in France (an incident she places “around the same time that Naomi Campbell had a birthday party”) to politician Richardson to Dubin, a financier who is married to Epstein’s former girlfriend Eva Andersson-Dubin. RELATED IN U.S. NEWS Biggest Bombshells in New Epstein Documents Power Couple’s Butler: Teen Told Me of Epstein Island Horror Dershowitz Claims Unsealed Email Clears Him in Epstein Case In the court documents, Giuffre claims she was sent by Maxwell to have sex with the owner of a large hotel chain, “one time in France … I believe it was around the same time that Naomi Campbell had a birthday party.” She says they had sex “in his own cabana, townhouse thing. It was part of a hotel. Jeffrey was staying there. Ghislaine was staying there.” “I was instructed by Ghislaine to go and give him an erotic massage,” she testified. “She used the words erotic massage?” Maxwell’s lawyer Laura Menninger asks. “No, that’s my word,” Giuffre replies. “The word ‘massage’ is what they would use. That’s their code word.” “Where were you and where was Ms. Maxwell when she directed you to go have sex with Marvin Minsky?” Menninger asks. “I believe it was the U.S. Virgin Islands, Jeff’s—sorry, Jeffrey—Epstein’s island in the U.S. Virgin Islands,” Giuffre says, admitting she can’t remember the year or how old she was at the time. Later, Menninger asks, “Other than Glenn Dubin…Prince Andrew, Jean-Luc Brunel, Bill Richardson, another prince, the large hotel chain owner, and Marvin Minsky, is there anyone else that Ghislaine Maxwell directed you to go have sex with?” “I am definitely sure there is,” Giuffre replies. “But can I remember everybody’s name? No…look I’ve given you what I know right now. I’m sorry. This is very hard for me and very frustrating to have to go over this. I don’t—I don’t recall all of the people. There was a large amount of people that I was sent to.” In a separate exchange, Giuffre testifies, “"They instructed me to go to George Mitchell, Jean Luc Brunel, Bill Richardson, another prince that I don't know his name. A guy that owns a hotel, a really large hotel chain, I can't remember which hotel it was. Marvin Minksy." “There was, you know, another foreign president, I can’t remember his name. He was Spanish. There's a whole bunch of them that I just—it’s hard for me to remember all of them. you know, I was told to do something by these people constantly, told to—my whole life revolved around just pleasing these men and keeping Ghislaine and Jeffrey happy. Their whole entire lives revolved around sex.” And in a deposition of Giuffre from 2016—in a case brought by Brad Edwards and Paul Cassell, lawyers for Epstien's alleged victims, against Alan Dershowitz—Giuffre says she was sexually trafficked to a well-known prime minister, to Prince Andrew, to George Mitchell, and to a man who was introduced as a foreign "prince" on a visit to the south of France. The men named by Virginia Giuffre are all friends or acquaintances of Epstein who moved within his world of power and influence. Dubin and Andersson-Dubin were two of Epstein’s closest friends. Eva, a former Miss Sweden who married Glenn in 1994, was a critical factor in Epstein’s reintroduction to New York high society after the financier’s Florida conviction. The Dubins are fantastically wealthy—Forbes puts their fortune around $2 billion—and Glenn Dubin is a founder of Highbridge Capital, as well as the charitable Robin Hood Foundation (JFK Jr. had a seat on its board). They live in a Fifth Avenue apartment once owned by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and are regulars on the Palm Beach circuit that Epstein once dominated. The accusation against Glenn Dubin is even more disturbing considering that Eva vowed to a probation officer that she was “100% comfortable” with Epstein around her own children, while noting she was aware of his conviction of sex with a minor. Epstein gave money to Eva’s breast cancer charity, and to two organizations linked to one of the Dubin daughters—Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Club (the Dubins are also donors) and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai. Epstein was also an investor in Highbridge in 1998, according to New York Magazine. The Dubins sought to quickly distance themselves from Epstein after his arrest in New York in early July. Through a spokesperson, the couple said that they were “horrified by the new allegations against Jeffrey Epstein” and “had they been aware of the vile and unspeakable conduct described in these new allegations, they would have cut off all ties and certainly never have allowed their children to be in his presence.” (The new allegations against Epstein are almost identical to the Florida allegations, which made major national news in 2006-2009.) Epstein also had longstanding ties with Richardson. The former governor, DNC chairman, and presidential candidate—who also served as President Clinton’s Energy Secretary and UN Ambassador in the late ’90s—was reportedly a guest of honor at Jeffrey Epstein’s secluded Zorro Ranch outside of Stanley, New Mexico, and appears in Epstein’s “little black book” of contacts. Giuffre has previously claimed that Epstein transported her to New Mexico as his underage “sex slave.” Richardson returned $50,000 in campaign donations from Epstein after the financier’s 2007 plea deal in Florida. The former governor has been hit by scandal before. In 2011, he was under investigation by a federal grand jury for possible campaign finance violations for allegedly giving a woman $250,000 in hush money after she threatened him with a sexual harassment suit. (The investigation was closed without any charges.) And in 2009, Richardson withdrew from a Cabinet appointment as President Obama’s Commerce Secretary over allegations of a pay-to-play donor scandal, though he was never charged. Another politician accused by Giuffre is George Mitchell, the former Democratic leader of the Senate and Bill Clinton’s Special Envoy for Northern Ireland (and later President Obama’s envoy to the Middle East). Mitchell built a renowned legacy as a statesman. In a 2003 profile of Epstein for Vanity Fair, the former Senator and Army counterintelligence officer praised Epstein: “He has supported some philanthropic projects of mine and organized a fund-raiser for me once. I would certainly call him a friend and a supporter.” The feeling was mutual, with Epstein regarding Mitchell as “the world’s greatest negotiator.” Dershowitz also claimed in a deposition that Mitchell was Epstein’s Palm Beach house guest. In addition to his political connections, Epstein’s ties to scientists have also been under intense scrutiny since his arrest on sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey. The late MIT cognitive scientist and “father of AI” Marvin Minsky was part of a glittering set of academics that Epstein collected as friends. In 2012, as Epstein was trying to rehabilitate his image, he touted his foundation’s sponsorship of an academic conference organized by Minsky. Dershowitz singled out Minsky as someone who had allegedly seen young ladies around Epstein. As he told The Daily Beast, “These people [the young women] were seen not only by me. They were seen by Larry Summers, they were seen by [genetics professor George] Church, they were seen by Marvin Minsky, they were seen by some of the most eminent academics and scholars in the world. There was no hint or suggestion of anything sexual or improper in the presence of these people.” (Minsky died in 2016.) Marvin Minsky is named by a Jeffrey Epstein accuser in newly unsealed court documents. Steamtalks/WikiCommons Meanwhile, Jean-Luc Brunel, whose MC2 agency reps Naomi Campbell and other models, has previously been accused of supplying underage girls to Epstein, which he has denied. The French modeling scout has also long faced accusations that girls were drugged and raped in his employ. He was particularly close to Epstein, according to court records in civil suits against the financier. The subject of a famous 60 Minutes expose on sexual abuse in the modeling industry, Brunel has been linked to the apartments on Manhattan’s East 66th Street where Epstein allegedly housed models; he flew on Epstein’s plane frequently; and he liked to make himself at home at the financier’s Palm Beach mansion, according to testimony from Epstein’s former employees. Epstein allegedly invested $1 million in Brunel’s agency MC2, which victims’ lawyers say was used to import young girls from around the world for Epstein and his pals. (Brunel has denied that Epstein invested in his company.) THE PRINCE AND THE PERV Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Creepy Parties With Prince Andrew Tom Sykes The most high-profile man to be accused by Giuffre is, of course, Britain's Prince Andrew. Andrew—who flew on Epstein’s plane and vacationed with him in Thailand—met the financer through Maxwell. The royal has been fighting allegations for years that he caroused with Giuffre when she was underage. The Duke of York and the palace have vehemently denied Giuffre’s claims. Several years ago, Giuffre told the Mail on Sunday that Epstein loaned her out to the prince and other famous friends for sex, and claimed that she had to report back with potential blackmail material for Epstein. (She said Andrew liked to suck her toes). During her first alleged rendezvous with the prince, Giuffre claimed that Maxwell “asked Andrew how old he thought I was and he guessed 17 and they all kind of laughed about it and Ghislaine made a joke that I was getting too old for Jeffrey. She said, ‘He’ll soon have to trade her in.’” Giuffre also said Andrew participated in an orgy with underage girls on Epstein’s so-called “pedophile island.” (Andrew and Buckingham palace deny these claims.) A 2001 picture of Andrew, with his arm around Giuffre’s waist, surfaced alongside her bombshell story a few years ago. In 2007, another young woman named Johanna Sjoberg told The Daily Mail that Andrew had groped her at a party at Epstein’s mansion. Sjoberg repeated those claims in a videotaped deposition included in the just-unsealed court documents. She said that she sat on Prince Andrew's lap at Epstein's East 71st Street palace, and that Andrew touched her breast after using a puppet to show what he would do on Giuffre's body (with the puppet touching Giuffre's breast). Andrew, known as “Randy Andy” in the British press for his penchant for partying, has previously denied Sjoberg’s claims. “He needed to have three orgasms a day. It was biological, like eating.” In the deposition, Sjoberg said that Maxwell approached her in the winter of 2001 on the campus of Palm Beach Atlantic College, offering a job of answering phones, which she did on her first visit to Epstein’s Palm Beach residence. On the second visit, she met a young woman (whom The Daily Beast is not naming), who took Sjoberg up to Epstein’s bedroom. They both massaged Epstein. When he got up from table, she says, the other young woman got on the table naked and showed Sjoberg “moves that he [Epstein] liked.” Sjoberg says she was then massaged by Epstein and the young woman, nude. Sjoberg says Maxwell referred to the young woman as her slave. Maxwell’s job, Sjoberg said, was “to find other girls that would perform massages for him and herself.” Epstein also allegedly told Sjoberg “he needed to have three orgasms a day. It was biological, like eating.” In another deposition included in the unsealed documents, Tony Figueroa, Epstein's former bodyguard, testified that Giuffre told him about threesomes with herself, Maxwell, and Epstein involving “strap-ons,” and claimed that Epstein wanted Giuffre to have sex with Prince Andrew, Maxwell, and “all the other girls.” Maxwell's lawyers hit back hard at Giuffre's claims in the unsealed documents, painting her as a troubled young woman with a history of substance abuse. They attacked her on being mistaken on the date she started working at Mar-a-Lago, and called on former boyfriends who said they didn't remember Giuffre mentioning Maxwell to them (although at least one did say she talking about giving massages to “Jeff”). Maxwell's team also noted that Giuffre received money for her stories that appeared in the British press, and accused her of trying to embellish her claims. Epstein is currently facing sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges in New York. He pleaded not guilty in Manhattan federal court and is being held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center.

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Episode 40: Tencent games, Deadwood Movie & Tractor Beams

Welcome to what is yet another episode full of fun and laughter from those nut job nerds you all hate to love or love to hate? First up we have the Professor telling us about how Tencent Games is planning to use police databases to restrict access to video games; which angers Buck due to breach of privacy issues and the reality that information will be flowing both ways. Professor is excited to see who is going to be the first criminal located by the police using video games to track him down. Ahhh, China, wanting to be the world’s number 1 in everything is now tackling the obstacle of behaving with extreme stupidity on an international level.

This week the DJ brings us a story about the Deadwood tele-movie. Then the discussion delves into the range of movies and does Netflix and other streaming services spell the end of cinemas? Trust me, this is when you want to sit back with a cup of tea and watch the sparks fly. Best news is that apparently most of the original cast is back for this, including Ian McShane. Also some other movies in the works are Braking Bad, a new Super Mario movie (please, please, please don’t be a crappy as the last one) and also Steven Universe. So we will get to enjoy more from Dakota, check in on the crystal meth scene and hope the DJ stops doing weird accents.

Buck brings us news of a real life working tractor beam that has been developed in Oz! A team working at the University of Adelaide has made science-fiction a reality for us, although on a reduced scale. But it is a start and now we have lasers and a tractor beam, now we need force fields and shields, please. Buck and the Professor geek out about the possibilities that this tractor beam represents for the future; which in reality is pretty darn sweet, right?

Also we hope everyone who attended Supanova Brisabne had as much fun as we did. It was awesome meeting so many fantastic people, check the Facebook page to see some of them, and that is only a tiny sample of how incredible it was. Until next time stay safe, stay nerdy and we hope you enjoy.

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Tencent Games’ unique approach to gaming

- https://www.engadget.com/2018/11/05/tencent-games-to-verify-ids-for-children/

Deadwood TV movie starts shooting

- https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/deadwood-movie-starts-shooting/

Tractor beams

- http://www.sci-news.com/physics/tractor-beam-atoms-06569.html

Games currently playing

Buck

- Mafia - https://store.steampowered.com/app/40990/Mafia/

Professor

- FAR: Lone Sails - https://store.steampowered.com/app/609320/FAR_Lone_Sails/

- Guns of Icarus - https://store.steampowered.com/app/209080/Guns_of_Icarus_Online/

Other topics discussed

Equifax data breach

- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-08/smiley-credit-check-australians-financial-information-at-risk/8887198

My Health Record government website

- https://www.myhealthrecord.gov.au/

Oldpeoplefacebook reddit page

- https://www.reddit.com/r/oldpeoplefacebook/

PUBG Lawsuit

- https://www.pcgamer.com/pubg-corp-has-filed-a-lawsuit-against-epic-games/

Days of Our Lives

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_Our_Lives

Breaking Bad TV movie in the works

- https://thenewdaily.com.au/entertainment/movies/2018/11/08/breaking-bad-movie/

Fear the Walking Dead

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_the_Walking_Dead

Walking dead TV movies in the works

- https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/11/rick-grimes-walking-dead-adventures-will-continue-in-movies/

A new Super Mario movie

- https://variety.com/2018/film/news/super-mario-bros-animated-movie-illumination-1203021006/

Steven Universe TV movie

- https://www.polygon.com/2018/7/21/17597892/steven-universe-the-movie-trailer-sdcc-2018

Netflix vs Hollywood

- https://newrepublic.com/article/148102/can-netflix-take-hollywood

Peter Cushing – Star Wars Actor

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Cushing

The Crow – 1994 movie

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crow_(1994_film)

Deepfakes

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepfake

More info about Tractor beams

- https://journals.aps.org/prapplied/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.10.044034

Boaty McBoatface

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatface

First object to be teleported from Earth to the Moon

- https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608252/first-object-teleported-from-earth-to-orbit/

The Jaunt – A Stephen King short story

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jaunt

Gun of Icarus – Mobula ship

- http://gunsoficarusonline.wikia.com/wiki/Mobula

First voyage of James Cook

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_voyage_of_James_Cook

Richard Feynman – American theoretical physicist

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman

Margret Hamilton - American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(scientist)

Hedy Lamarr - Austrian-born American film actress and inventor.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr

Satan 2 – The Super Nuke

- https://metro.co.uk/2018/03/15/russia-set-test-super-nuke-satan-2-missile-capable-wiping-britain-twice-7390285/

Melbourne Cup 2018 winner – First British trained horse

- https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/nov/06/melbourne-cup-won-by-british-horse-and-british-trainer-for-the-first-time

The Story of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

- https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2013/jul/11/butch-cassidy-sundance-kid-reel-history

Shoutouts

Famous Birthdays

6 Nov 1946 – Sally Field, American actress (Forrest Gump, Gidget, Flying Nun), born in Pasadena, California - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Field

6 Nov 1948 –Glenn Frey, American rock vocalist (Eagles-Take it Easy), born in Detroit, Michigan - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Frey

6 Nov 1988 – Emma Stone, American actress who has been the recipient of such accolades as an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe, she was the highest-paid actress in the world in 2017. She appeared in Forbes Celebrity 100 in 2013, and in 2017, she was featured by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Born in Scottsdale, Arizona - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Stone

7 Nov 1728 – Capt James Cook, was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy. Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cook

7 Nov 1867 - Marie Curie, Polish-French scientist who discovered radium and the 1st woman to win a Nobel Prize (1903, 1911), born in Warsaw, Poland - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_curie

8 Nov 1431 - Vlad III also known as Vlad the Impaler or Vlad Dracula , Wallachian prince, born in Sighișoara, Transylvania, Romania - https://www.onthisday.com/people/vlad-the-impaler

8 Nov [O.S. 29 October] 1656 - Edmond Halley, English mathematician and astronomer (Halley's comet), born in Haggerston, Middlesex - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Halley

8 Nov 1847 - Bram Stoker, Irish theatre manager and author (Dracula), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1912) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Stoker

Events of Interest

30 Oct 1961 – Tsar bomba was tested over the Mityushikha Bay nuclear testing range, north of the Arctic Circle over the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. The bomb was the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created. It also remains the most powerful explosive ever detonated. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba

5 Nov 1605 - The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was a failed assassination attempt against King James I by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_Plot

6 Nov 1935 – First Flight of the Hawker Hurricane, a British single-seat fighter aircraft of the 1930s–40s that was designed and predominantly built by Hawker Aircraft Ltd. for service with the Royal Air Force (RAF). It was overshadowed in the public consciousness by the Supermarine Spitfire's role during Battle of Britain in 1940, but the Hurricane actually inflicted 60 percent of the losses sustained by the Luftwaffe in the engagement, and it went on to fight in all the major theatres of the Second World War. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Hurricane

7 Nov 1861 – The first Melbourne Cup, Australia's most well-known annual Thoroughbred horse race. It is a 3,200 metre race, conducted by the Victoria Racing Club on the Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne,Victoria as part of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival. It is the richest "two-mile" handicap in the world, and one of the richest turf races. The event starts at 3pm on the first Tuesday in November and is known locally as "the race that stops a nation". - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne_Cup

7 Nov 1908 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid were supposedly killed in a shootout with police in San Vincente, Bolivia ; the exact circumstances of their fate continue to be disputed. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Cassidy

Intro

Artist – Goblins from Mars

Song Title – Super Mario - Overworld Theme (GFM Trap Remix)

Song Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GNMe6kF0j0&index=4&list=PLHmTsVREU3Ar1AJWkimkl6Pux3R5PB-QJ

Email - [email protected]

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placetobenation · 6 years ago

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Over the past five years, Place to Be Nation has been fortunate to feature written and audio pieces by a plethora of very talented individuals. Here is a sampling of some of our content from June 1, 2013 – June 1, 2018 for your enjoyment and to highlight our variety and insight into wrestling and pop culture since our launch. Enjoy!

A Long December: The Story of 12/29/98

Wise Words From the Old Man…

The Title Match

We Miss the 90s: America Online

Ready To Rumble: Everything is Real, Everything is Fake

A Look Back at 24: Ranking the Seasons

Strutting Out a Legacy: RIP Jackie Fargo

Exclusive: Tim Kennedy: “It’s Good to Have Another Job Because the UFC Doesn’t Pay Well”

Oh The People You’ll Meet: Little League Edition

JT’s Running Diary: 2013 Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest

Wrestling and Politics: A Look at a Turbulent Relationship

Three’s Company: The Wyatts, The Shield, and Trios in Wrestling

We Miss the 90s: Dinosaurs

Titans of Wrestling #1: WWWF January – March 1979 (Audio)

Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Win?

Summer-Slammed: Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake & The Summer of 1990

The Chamber of Broken Dreams: SummerSlam 2003’s Main Event

Prime Time Player: Darren Young Comes Out

‘Headlocked’ Writer Looks to Change Perception of Wrestling Based Comics

In Too Deep: Is WWE’s Roster Oversaturated?

Weber Has Issues Special Edition: Calm Down, Nerds!

Ashton Kutcher Is A Douche aka “A Tale Of Two Kelsos”

The Winding Road to Lowell: Attending Raw in 1998

A Blind Eye to the Blind Tag

Oh the People You’ll Meet: IWC Edition

Parv’s Guide to David Bowie Albums

Wrestling With the Past #3: Celebrating Bret Hart (Audio)

Why the Browns Won the Trent Richardson Trade

What Happened to New & Original?

The Fiefdom of Sports Officials

The Lost Franchises of the ABA

The Alternative That Wrestling Needs

“Lightning Bolt” in Worcester: Pearl Jam Live

We Miss the 90s: Clueless

Welcome to Friartown, Section 103 – Meet the CWO

A Hero’s Exit: Chris Hero Departs WWE

Filth, Pollution & Corruption: The Ballad of Ludvig Borga

The Final Days of WCW

Richer & The Mailman 15: Cars, Death, Humor, Irony, and Richurrences (Audio)

Boxing’s Biggest “Problem”

The Best of 2013 in Comics

The High Spot: WWE Network is Here (Really) and the Top Stories of the Week

Wrestling Across America: Philadelphia with The Blue Meanie (Audio)

The Other Five Count – Greatest TV Dads

The Kevin Kelly Show #1: Adam Cole (Audio)

We Miss the 90s: Royal Rumble 1994 & An Ode to Friendship

JR’s Treasure Trove #4 – Mom Song by Old Spice

“The Cowboy and The Animal” – A Rundown of My First Live WWE PPV Event

A Tribute to Phillip Seymour Hoffman

The Kevin Kelly Show #2: AJ Styles (Audio)

PTBN Main Event #1 (Audio)

Valentine’s Day: A Love Story?

Parv’s Guide to the Wu-Tang Clan: Part 1 – The Knowledge

WWE Network Launch: First-Watches, Favorites and Gems from the WWE Library

Dad, the Hulkster & Me

The Kids Are Alright: NXT Arrives

Welcome to Friartown, Section 103: Providence vs. Marquette – 3/4/14, A Video Essay

The First Time They Didn’t Listen

Place to Be Podcast #300: An Extravaganza Three Years in the Making

Mended Harts – How Vince McMahon Apologized to Bret Hart & WWF Fans in March 1994

Brad and Chad’s WrestleMania Rewind Special: Ranking the WrestleManias (Audio)

Why Didn’t We Get This?? WrestleMania Matches We Wanted

A Tribute to The Ultimate Warrior

Philosophy of the Shield: The Case for Cap – Part 1

Happy Birthday Hot Rod! Remember When You Saved Virgil?

The “Us” Movement

It Ain’t Easy Being Green

Draft Day – The Tale of Two Trades

The Cowboy Goes to Class – Rise of the nWo

Forever Notorious

The Other Five Count – Favorite TV Season Finales

A Tribute to Macho

Movies of the P2B Generation: 1976

Hey, Hey, Hey…What is Going On Here? The Saved by the Bell Lifetime Movie is On the Way!

JR’s Treasure Trove #5: 2014 Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest

Five Reasons To: Get Over the New Thor Being a Female

The Rise of Tomohiro Ishii

Fandom, I Would Have Words With Thee

JR’s Treasure Trove #6: The Birth of Mr. Backlund – Bret Hart vs. Bob Backlund – 7/30/94

Guardians of the Galaxy Takes the Marvel Cinematic Universe to New Heights

We Miss the 90s: Regulate

Brad and Chad’s SummerSlam Rewind Special: Ranking the SummerSlams (Audio)

A Step By Step Breakdown of the “Step By Step” Music Video

PTBN SummerSlam Rewind Series: SummerSlam 1992 w/ Steve Corino (Audio)

Bray Wyatt, God Complexes, and (Breakable) Glass Ceilings

My Late Night Experience

Titans of Wrestling #36: Interview with Tito Santana (Audio)

Forget Ebola – What about Anthrax?

PTBN’s Greatest Song of the 90s Tournament: Pool Round One, Group A

2 DXers, 1 Champ

The High Spot: An Interlude on Intergender Wrestling

The Kevin Kelly Show #24 – Dennis Stamp (Audio)

Hulk Hogan, As He Should Have Been

Woodstock ’94: Three More Days of Peace, Music…Drugs and Mud

Adam’s Top Music Videos of 2014

The Kevin Kelly Show #25 – Jim Ross (Audio)

Place to Be Podcast #353: Jeff Jarrett (Audio)

Roman Reigns and Paying Dues

Seinfeld: The PTBN Series Rewatch – “The Outing” (S4, E16)

The Ghost of Randy Savage Is Coming for Revenge

A Requiem for Parenthood

The Dichotomy of a Pro Wrestling Fan on the Internet

Teams Back Again – The Debut Episode! (Audio)

30 Years of Mania Madness (1985-1987)

The Best of Kevin Kelly at Place to Be Nation

The Great WrestleMania Re-Book: WrestleMania

Wrestling With Optimism #2 – The History of WWE.com Anniversary Special (Audio)

Place to Be Network: P2B Comics Draft Podcast (Audio)

22-1 or 21-2?: The Future of WWE Collides with its Past at WrestleMania 31

PTBN’s Main Event #30: WrestleMania 31 Preview (Audio)

The Five Count: Undertaker’s WrestleMania Opponents

Place to Be Podcast #368: King of the Ring 1993 and Kendra & Wes Mayle (Audio)

PTBN’s Real World Champion (1989 – 1994)

WDWorld Traveler: The P2B Guide to Walt Disney World (Part 1: The Basics)

Brad and Chad’s King of the Ring Special: Rankings, Rebooking and More (Audio)

Dangerous Alliance Wrestling Podcast #1 (Audio)

The Ballad of the Erstwhile Main-Eventer

1995: The Best Summer of Music Ever

The American Dream

JT’s Treasure Trove #7: 2015 Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest

PTBN’s Wrestling What If… The NWO’s Third Man

The Scientific Ranking of SummerSlams Part 1

Good Will Wrestling: Building the Perfect SummerSlam (Audio)

Volk Han-A-Thon 1991-1993

PTBN’s Excellent WWE Network Adventure: MSG House Show – 4/6/81

9/11 Remembrance: What Is Really the Least We Can Do?

Parv and Chad’s Top 100 Matches of All Time

Fair for Flair: The Complete Five Part Series (Audio)

We Miss the 90s: Video Stores

Rank & File #1: Top 10 Favorite Current Wrestlers (Audio)

JR’s Treasure Trove #3 – Ghostbusters: The Music Video (1984)

Thoughts I Think… As The Ratings Sink

PTBN Holiday Tournament Spectacular – Round 1, Peanuts Region

Ranking Rocky

Titans of Wrestling #55: Roddy Piper Tribute Part 1 (Audio)

Holiday Five Count: PTBN’s Favorite Christmas Movies

Christmas Television Memories

The Game Is Played Again

Wrestling with Expectations

Why Roman Reigns Isn’t Over, Or: A Study in Parallels – Roman Reigns, Bob Backlund and Dory Funk Jr

Peyton’s Last Stand – Super Bowl 50 Preview

A Grateful Farewell

Thoughts I Think… After Daniel Bryan’s Retirement

RAGEWATCH!!! – Fuller House (S1, E1)

The WrestleMania Top Ten: Part 1

In Search of Five-Star Matches: Part 1

Batman v Superman Brings Big Characters, Bigger Action

Place to Be Podcast Episode 400: A Celebration, WrestleMania Match Rankings & An Old Friend (Audio)

Tears Fallen, Too Late: The Passing of Chyna

Sometimes it Snows in April: My Journey with Prince

We Miss the 90s: Mallrats

Andre the Giant’s Lost 1991 Comeback

Muhammad Ali: 1942 – 2016

The Criss-Cross #1 (Audio)

Lucha Undead #28: “Talk Soup with Chad Campbell” (Audio)

PTBN’s Clotheslines & Headlines #1: Roman Reigns, Money in the Bank, Best in the World, BROTHER NERO & More! (Audio)

Hard-Traveling Fanboys Podcast #10: GIANT-SIZE – The 2016 Halfie Awards (Audio)

Parv’s Top 100 Music Artists, Part 1: Introduction and 100-76

JT’s Treasure Trove #8: 2016 Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest

All Hell is Breaking Loose: The Complete Story of Continental Wrestling (Audio)

Happy Birthday MTV! (Audio)

Survey Says: A WCW Retrospective #1 (Audio)

Geek & Sassy #1 (Audio)

Letters from Kayfabe #1 (Audio)

PTBN’s Clotheslines & Headlines #7: CM Punk, Vince McMahon’s Quads, Backlash, Randy Orton, DELETE OR DECAY & More! (Audio)

Lucha Undead: AMA w/ Brad from PTBN (Audio)

The Definitive Guide to the Suits of the Million Dollar Man

The Glenn Butler Podcast Hour Spectacular, Episode 28: Reflection, Surprise, Terror…for the Future (Audio)

Rogue One Rebels Against Typical Star Wars Formula

The Glenn Butler Podcast Hour Spectacular, Episode 29: Rogue One (Audio)

The Brad and Chad Show: Putting a Bow on 2016 (Audio)

PTBN POP Special: Tribute to Artists Who Passed Away in 2016 (Audio)

PTBN DadCast #1: Paw Patrol (Audio)

We Miss the 90s: Aerosmith’s Crazy (1994)

Place to Be Podcast #437: Sixth Birthday Celebration (Audio)

PTBN Network Special: Hot Takes on Cold Issues (Audio)

PTBN’s WrestleMania List-a-Mania – Day Twenty-Three: WrestleMania’s Most Overrated Matches

CouchMania 2017 Live Blog: Dealing With a Newborn and the Graps

Hard-Traveling Fanboys Podcast: 50TH EPISODE GIANT-SIZE EXTRAVAGANZA! (Audio)

PTBN Question Of The Day Weekly Recap (April 3-9 2017)

Letters From Center Stage #1 (Audio)

In Defense of Baseball: LEAVE THE GAME ALONE!!

Jeff Learns Wrestling #1: Basics of the Business, Jesse Ventura, The Mega Powers & more! (Audio)

PTBN’s Greatest WWE Wrestler Ever Project – Introduction

Hard-Traveling Fanboys Podcast #72: PTBN Pop! Comic Book Theatre — Watchmen

Hard-Traveling Fanboys Podcast #105: PTBN POP! Comic Book Theatre — Watchmen, Part 2

Talk’n Pop #3: Nick Duke and WrestleMania Weekend

Bruno Sammartino, 1935-2018

Wrestling War Zone: The Monday Night Wars – Episode 1

Marvel Age Podcast Featuring the Sarcastic Four: Episode One – 1961-1962

Jeff Learns Wrestling #14: WrestleMania IV

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Dwayne McDuffie

Dwayne Glenn McDuffie (February 20, 1962 – February 21, 2011) was an American writer of comic books and television, known for creating the animated television series Static Shock, writing and producing the animated series Justice League Unlimited and Ben 10, and co-founding the pioneering minority-owned-and-operated comic-book company Milestone Media.

McDuffie earned three Eisner Award nominations for his work in comics.

Early life and career

Dwayne Glenn McDuffie was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Leroy McDuffie and Edna McDuffie Gardner. Graduating with a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Michigan in 1983, then earning a master's degree in physics. He then moved to New York to attend film school at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. While McDuffie was working as a copy editor at the business magazine Investment Dealers' Digest, a friend got him an interview for an assistant editor position at Marvel Comics. Posthumously, comedian Keegan-Michael Key discovered he was biologically half-brother to Dwayne McDuffie, by their father.

Career

Marvel and Milestone

Going on staff at Marvel as editor Bob Budiansky's assistant on special projects, McDuffie helped develop the company's first superhero trading cards. He also scripted stories for Marvel. His first major work was Damage Control, a miniseries about the company that shows up between issues and tidies up the mess left by the latest round of superhero/supervillain battles.

After becoming an editor at Marvel, McDuffie submitted a spoof proposal for a comic entitled Teenage Negro Ninja Thrashers in response to Marvel's treatment of its black characters. Becoming a freelancer in 1990, McDuffie wrote for dozens of various comics titles for Marvel, DC Comics, and Archie Comics. In addition, he wrote Monster in My Pocket for Harvey Comics editor Sid Jacobson, whom he cites on his website as having taught him everything he knows. In early 1991, he divorced his first wife, Patricia D. Younger, in Seminole County, Florida.

In the early 1990s, wanting to express a multicultural sensibility that he felt was missing in comic books, McDuffie and three partners founded Milestone Media, which The Plain Dealer of Cleveland, Ohio, described in 2000 as "the industry's most successful minority-owned-and operated comic company." McDuffie explained:

If you do a black character or a female character or an Asian character, then they aren't just that character. They represent that race or that sex, and they can't be interesting because everything they do has to represent an entire block of people. You know, Superman isn't all white people and neither is Lex Luthor. We knew we had to present a range of characters within each ethnic group, which means that we couldn't do just one book. We had to do a series of books and we had to present a view of the world that's wider than the world we've seen before.

Milestone, whose characters include the African-American Static, Icon, and Hardware; the Asian-American Xombi, and the multi-ethnic superhero group the Blood Syndicate, which include black, Asian and Latino men and women, debuted its titles in 1993 through a distribution deal with DC Comics. Serving as editor-in-chief, McDuffie created or co-created many characters, including Static.

Movies, television, and video games

After Milestone had ceased publishing new comics, Static was developed into an animated series Static Shock. McDuffie was hired to write and story-edit on the series, writing 11 episodes.

His other television writing credits included Teen Titans and What's New, Scooby-Doo?.

McDuffie was hired as a staff writer for the animated series Justice League and was promoted to story editor and producer as the series became Justice League Unlimited. During the entire run of the animated series, McDuffie wrote, produced, or story-edited 69 out of the 91 episodes.

McDuffie also wrote the story for the video game Justice League Heroes.

McDuffie was hired to help revamp and story-edit Cartoon Network's popular animated Ben 10 franchise with Ben 10: Alien Force, continuing the adventures of the ten-year-old title character into his mid and late teenage years. During the run of the series, McDuffie wrote episodes 1–3, 14, 25–28, 45 and 46 and/or story-edited all forty-six episodes. McDuffie also produced and story edited for the second sequel series Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, which premiered April 23. 2010. He wrote episodes 1, 10, 11, 16, 30, 39 together with J. M. DeMatteis and 52.

McDuffie wrote a number of direct-to-DVD animated films featuring DC Comics characters – including Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths and Justice League: Doom. He scripted the direct-to-DVD adaptation of All-Star Superman, which was released one day after his death. Justice League: Doom was released posthumously in 2012.

McDuffie's work was also seen on Ben 10: Omniverse, having shared story by credit on the first two episodes, "The More Things Change, Parts 1 and 2."

Return to comics

After his popular work in Justice League and Justice League Unlimited, McDuffie returned to writing comic books. He wrote the Marvel miniseries Beyond!.

In 2007, McDuffie wrote several issues of Firestorm for DC Comics, starting in January through to its cancellation. Later that year, he became the regular writer on Fantastic Four, scripting issues #542–553 (cover-dated Dec. 2006 March 2008). As well, he wrote Justice League of America vol. 2, writing virtually every issue from #13–34 (Nov. 2007 – Aug. 2009). He was fired from that series following a Lying in the Gutters compilation of his frank answers to fans about the creative process.

He married comic book and animation-TV writer Charlotte Fullerton in 2009.

McDuffie wrote Milestone Forever for DC Comics, a two-issue, squarebound miniseries chronicling the final adventures of his Milestone characters before a catastrophic event that fuses their continuity with the continuity of the DC Universe.

Death

On February 21, 2011, one day after his 49th birthday, McDuffie died at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, from complications from emergency heart surgery.

Tributes

The 2012 film Justice League: Doom was dedicated to the memory of Dwayne McDuffie, and the Blu-ray and 2-Disc DVD editions of the movie included the documentary, A Legion of One: The Dwayne McDuffie Story. That same year, a diner named "McDuffie's" was depicted in the Green Lantern: The Animated Series episode, "The New Guy".

Also in 2012, the Ultimate Spider-Man episode, "Damage", was dedicated in memory of Dwayne McDuffie. In the episode, a new character named "Mac" was introduced as the CEO of the Damage Control, the fictional company created by McDuffie.

In Ben 10: Ultimate Alien in 2012, the final episode "The Ultimate Enemy: Part 2", the crew of the series dedicated the episode in his memory in the credits. The same tribute appeared in the race video game based on the series, Ben 10: Galactic Racing.

In the 2011 Static Shock comics series, Virgil Hawkins' new high school is named after McDuffie.

In 2015, the Long Beach Comic Expo gave out the first Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in comics. It has since become an annual event for the expo.

Awards and nominations

In 1996, McDuffie won the Golden Apple Award from his alma mater the Roeper School for the "use of popular art to promote and advance human worth and dignity."

In 2003, McDuffie was awarded the Humanitas Prize in Children's Animation for the "Jimmy" episode of Static Shock, about gun violence.

In both 2003 and 2004, McDuffie was nominated, with other Static Shock creators, for daytime Emmy awards.

In 2005, he was nominated for the Writers Guild of America award in animation, with Rich Fogel and John Ridley for the "Starcrossed" episode of Justice League.

In 2008, McDuffie was voted Favorite Breakout Talent in the Wizard Fan Awards in Wizard Magazine.

In 2009, McDuffie won Comic Con International's Inkpot Award.

In 2011, posthumously McDuffie was awarded by the Writers Guild of America, West its Animation Writers Caucus' annual Animation Writing Award.

Filmography

Justice League: Doom (2012)

All-Star Superman (2011)

Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths (2010)

Ben 10: Alien Force (2008–2010)

Ben 10: Ultimate Alien (2010–2011)

Ben 10: Omniverse (episode 1 and episode 2 only)

Justice League (2002–2006)

Static Shock (2000–2004)

Teen Titans (2004)

What's New, Scooby-Doo? (2002)

Bibliography

Regular writer

"Overture" (in Marvel Comics Presents #19, Marvel Comics, May 1989)

Damage Control (4-issue limited series, Marvel Comics, May–Aug. 1989)

Captain Marvel Giant-Sized Special (one-shot, Marvel Comics, Nov. 1989)

The Sensational She-Hulk in Ceremony (2-issue miniseries, Marvel Comics, 1989)

Giant Size Special Captain Marvel (one-shot, Marvel Comics, Nov. 1989)

Avengers Spotlight #26–29 (Marvel Comics, Dec. 1989 – Feb. 1990)

Damage Control vol. 2 (4-issue limited series, Marvel Comics, Dec. 1989 – Feb. 1990)

The Amazing Spider-Man: Children Special #1–3 (Marvel Comics [Canada], 1990)

Deathlok #1–4 (4-issue limited series, Marvel Comics, July–Oct. 1990)

The Road to Heaven (with co-author Matt Wayne and art by Colin MacNeil, in Toxic! #30–31, 1991)

Monster in My Pocket #1–4 (Harvey Comics, May–Sept. 1991)

Damage Control vol. 3 (4-issue limited series, Marvel Comics, June 1991 – September 1991)

Prince: Alter Ego (one-shot, DC Comics(Piranha Music, 1991)

Deathlok vol. 2, #1–5, #11–16, annual #1 (Marvel Comics, July–Nov. 1991, May–Oct. 1992

Prince: Three Chains of Gold (one-shot, DC Comics [Piranha Music, 1992)

Double Dragon #1–4 (Marvel Comics, July–Oct. 1991)

"Rest and Sweet Glory" (in Marvel Comics Presents #113–118, Marvel Comics, 1992)

The Demon #26–29 (DC Comics, Aug.-Nov.1992)

Back to the Future: Forward to the Future #1–3 (Harvey Comics, Oct. 1992 – Jan. 1993)

Blood Syndicate #1–4 (Milestone Comics, April–July 1993)

Hardware #1–8,10–19, 25, 29–32 (DC Comics [Milestone], April 1993 – Oct. 1995)

Icon #1–10,13,15–17,19–31,34–36,38–42 (DC Comics [Milestone], May 1993 – Feb.1997)

Static #1–4 (DC Comics [Milestone], June–Sept. 1993)

Shadow Cabinet #0 (co-author, DC Comics [Milestone], Jan. 1994)

Captain Marvel (one-shot, Marvel Comics, February 1994)

Worlds Collide (one-shot, DC Comics [Milestone], July 1994)

X-O Manowar #17,19–21 (Acclaim Comics, Feb.-June 1998)

Sins of Youth: Kid Flash/Impulse (one-shot, DC Comics, May 2000)

Static Shock! Rebirth of the Cool #1–4 (DC Comics [Milestone], Jan.-Sept. 2001)

Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #156–158, #164–167 (DC Comics, Aug.-Oct. 2002, April–July 2003)

Fantastic Four Special (one-shot, Marvel Comics, Feb. 2006)

Beyond! (6-issue limited series, Marvel Comics, July–Dec. 2006)

Fantastic Four #542–553 (Marvel Comics)

Justice League of America #13–33 (DC Comics, 2007–2009)

Fill-in writer

"Fall Guy" (co-author, in Solo Avengers #13, Marvel Comics, Dec. 1988)

Clive Barker's Hellraiser #2 (Marvel Comics [Epic], 1989)

St. George #8 (Marvel Comics [Epic], Aug. 1989)

Iron Man #251–252 (Marvel Comics, Dec. 1989 – Jan.1990)

Power Pack #55 (Marvel Comics, April 1990)

Avengers Annual #19 (Marvel Comics, 1990)

Avengers West Coast Annual #5 (Marvel Comics, 1990)

Iron Man Annual #11 (Marvel Comics, 1990)

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"Not to Touch the Earth" (co-author, in Marvel Super-Heroes vol. 3, #11, Marvel Comics, Oct. 1992)

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Clive Barker's Hellraiser #7–10, 15 (Marvel Comics [Epic], 1991–1992)

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Xombi #0 (DC Comics [Milestone], Jan. 1994)

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"The Call" (in Superman: The Man of Steel #34, DC Comics, June 1994)

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2016: My Year in Review…

January 5th, 2017

Here we are in 2017 and as with every New Year, we make our resolutions to save money, lose weight, write that book we’ve been talking about writing for years, maybe find love, or resolve to stay single. But one thing I think we can all agree on is that 2016 absolutely sucked! This year in particular was like having a relationship gone sour. At first it started out really good, but then by the end, 2016 became that really abusive boyfriend that we wanted to be rid of once and for all. So here are my top 10 reasons as to why 2016 should be killed with fire. But there were also some good things too which I will share later in this blog.

10. We 80’s kids had our childhood destroyed before our very eyes!

There have always been deaths of celebrities, that is a given. But why did this year in particular hit us hard? Well, maybe it was like 2016 decided to say, “Hey… you got a nice childhood there. It would be ashamed if… well you know… something happened to it.” At the end of 2015, David Bowie released Blackstar, which was his greatest album ever (Lazarus gives me chills every time I hear it). Based on the success, we all thought it was going to be the year Bowie and then the unthinkable happened. Blackstar was released on January 8th, 2016, and then two days later we lost one of the best artists of our generation.

But it didn’t stop there! 4 days later, we would lose Alan Rickman, followed by Vanity, Gary Shandling, Chyna, Prince, Patty Duke, Muhammad Ali, Gary Marshall, Alexis Arquette, Kenny Baker, Gene Wilder, Pete Burns, Janet Reno, Leonard Cohen, Florence Henderson, Ron Glass, John Glenn, Alan Thicke, Zsa Zsa Gabor, George Micheal, Carrie Fisher, and Debbie Reynolds. With these deaths, it was almost like 2016 took a massive shit on our childhood and didn’t care.

Check out the full list of celebrity deaths here.

9. #BREXIT

Ever since I was a kid, I have always wanted to live in the UK. But this year, especially with #brexit, it has really opened my eyes. And if anything, this particular event kind of foretold our future here in the states come November (I will go into that later on). Since leaving the EU, hate crimes in England against Muslims and other minorities have risen by 42%. A total of 3,076 incidents were recorded across the country between 16 and 30 June – a dramatic increase on the 915 reports recorded over the same period in 2015. Also the British pound has dropped by 14% compared to the US Dollar and by 13% compared to the Euro. The last time the British pound dropped this low was 31 years ago.

Pound Drops to Three-Decade Low against Dollar on Brexit Concerns

Hate crimes surge by 42% in England and Wales since Brexit result

#8 Aleppo

For those of us who had just been made aware of this war in 2016, this is not a new war at all; in fact this civil war has been going on for years. Thousands of men, women and children have been killed in the conflict. But the level fighting has only escalated just this year alone.

Authorities scramble to evacuate 50,000 civilians from Aleppo

Mass graves filled with mutilated bodies discovered in Aleppo: Russia

#7 Nice Terror Attack

Bastille Day is a big deal, and a time of celebration of French independence. But all of that would be come crashing to an end when Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel drove a 19 ton truck at high speed through the crowd, killing 86 and injuring hundreds. ISIS would take credit for this catastrophe.

#6 Donald Fucking Trump!

Right wing wackos rejoiced when this overgrown Cheeto was elected. Some even compared his to Jesus Christ and even thanked God after 8 years of Obama. Also since this election, hate crimes against minorities, women and Muslims have gone up here in the states. Unfortunately, now that Trump is in power, it will be empowering more white racists to be open with their hate, all while saying it is their freedom to say whatever they want. And our President-elect looking into the camera during a recent 60 minutes interview and telling his followers to ‘stop it’ just isn’t enough.

#5 Pulse Nightclub attack

On June 12th, a man called 911, pledged his allegiance to ISIS, and walked into PULSE Nightclub in Orlando with a gun, killing 49 people, and wounding 53 others. This was biggest incident of violence and loss of life in the LGBTQ community. Most of the victims were Latino. The standoff lasted for about three hours until the shooter was killed by Orlando police.

#4 Y’all Queda aka Vanilla ISIS aka Ammon Bundy and his Posse

Yes! We are going there! Earlier in 2016, Ammon Bundy and his cronies decided to take over a federal government building in my home state of Oregon. They were armed with semi-automatic rifles, but yet, they were not deemed terrorists! These inbred sheep fuckers seized control over a wildlife refuge near Burns, Oregon. But even though they did the exact same thing as ISIS and other known terrorist groups, Ammon Bundy assured the press that they were not terrorists, they were just patriots. So as a result, their little standoff lasted about 42 days, and during this time they were asking for snacks from supporters, but they all they got were dildos and lube! But if they were that desperate for snacks, they should have taken a cue from the Donner party.

Eventually, Bundy and his gang were acquitted of all charges, which I personally think is bullshit. Now if Y’all Queda had not been white and did the exact same thing, the standoff would not have lasted as long. If anything, this event has shown me that when it comes to skin color and religion, there is a double standard.

#3 Harambe

On May 27th a three year old boy fell 15 feet into a gorilla cage at the Cincinnati Zoo. Over the next 10 minutes, Harambe became increasingly "agitated and disoriented" by the screams of onlookers. He dragged the child through the water, occasionally propping him up when he sat, or pushing him down when he stood. Harambe exhibited "strutting" behavior—walking around with legs and arms stiffly extended to appear bigger—a bluffing move, though one with inherent danger should he throw or drag the boy around too roughly. Harambe then carried the boy up a ladder out of the moat onto dry land. Afraid for the boy's life, zoo officials made the decision to kill the gorilla, doing so with a single gunshot. Cincinnati firefighters said the boy was between Harambe's legs when the shot was fired. Harambe was killed one day after his 17th birthday.

Some say the zoo was to blame, and others say the parents were to blame. From what I read and what I saw from the videos and pictures that circulated that day, it was apparent that Harambe was trying to save that child’s life. And as a result of him being shot, this poor gentle creature had become an unfortunate internet meme.

#2 Why #alllivesmatter just needs to stop right now

With the police shootings of many African-American people happening all throughout this year, some of my fellow white people have posted the hashtag #alllivesmatter, and to be perfectly honest this makes me cringe. I as a white person used this hashtag at first, thinking I was standing in solidarity with my black brothers and sisters, but the reality is that it made me look like a racist asshole. Especially with the climate of this recent election season, a lot of Trump supporters were also using this hashtag making it null and void. Sure all lives do matter, but those that did use this particular hastag, actually started picking and choosing which lives did matter to them. So as white allies, #alllivesmatter needs to die in a fire right fucking now, and we need to acknowledge that #blacklivesmatter because our black friends and loved ones need us.

And also let’s stop speaking for the black community, let’s sit back and listen to them. As white people we need to be aware of our white privilege. And what I mean by that is not high jacking a thread online written by a person of color, not whitesplaining to our black friends on issues that affect their community when it comes to police brutality and cultural appropriation (I have fellow white friends who do this), and most of all just using our white privilege for good instead of evil. And when one of our fellow white people uses that hashtag online, we need to call them out on it and explain why it does more harm than good.

#1 The US Election

I will not lie! This has been a shit storm to end all shit storms. In the primaries, I voted for Bernie Sanders. But I did promise myself that no matter who won in my party that I will vote blue no matter who. So when the elections of November came up, I took my ballot to the ballot box and casted my choice for Hillary. I had some reservations about Mrs. Clinton, but I knew she would have been a better choice than the overgrown Cheeto that we have now. If this election has shown me anything, we still have a long way to go before we can combat sexism, misogyny, racism, xenophobia, religious intolerance, homophobia, and hatred before we can move forward as a civilized society. And it also showed me, and the rest of America, that Electoral college is an antiquated system that no longer needs to be in place since they do not listen to the will of the people. Just look at what happened to Al Gore in the 2000 race.

But I’m going to end this blog on a negative note. Even though 2016 sucked for the most part there were the top 10 things things that made us smile such as…

10. Chewbacca Mom

After watching this video, I have to say it was the best four minutes of my life. Candyce Payne is a mom who not only broke the Facebook video view record; she made us laugh with her, and we will never see a Chewbacca mask the same way again.

9. Unemployment hits the lowest level since the recession

In the last two months of 2016 the unemployment rate fell to 4.6 percent which was the lowest in nine years! So suck on that Obama haters!

8. Women of color make history on election night

Several women of color made political history when they were elected to prominent leadership positions within their respective states. California Attorney General Kamala Harris became the first black woman elected to the U.S. Senate from the Golden State; Ilhan Omar became the first Somali-American lawmaker in the U.S. with her election to the Minnesota legislature; Catherine Cortez Masto became the first Latina senator in history when she won her U.S. Senate bid in Nevada; and Pramila Jayapal became the first Indian-American congresswoman with her victory in Washington state.

7. Madonna becomes Billboard Woman of the Year

During the Billboard Women in music awards the icon delivered an emotional speech addressing sexism, misogyny, feminism in the industry by saying….

"I stand before you as a doormat. Oh, I mean, as a female entertainer. Thank you for acknowledging my ability to continue my career for 34 years in the face of blatant sexism and misogyny and constant bullying and relentless abuse."

"People were dying of AIDS everywhere. It wasn’t safe to be gay, it wasn’t cool to be associated with the gay community. It was 1979 and New York was a very scary place. In the first year I was held at gunpoint, raped on a rooftop with a knife digging into my throat and I had my apartment broken into and robbed so many times I stopped locking the door. In the years that followed, I lost almost every friend I had to AIDS or drugs or gunshots."

"In life there is no real safety except for self-belief."

"I was of course inspired by Debbie Harry and Chrissie Hynde and Aretha Franklin, but my real muse was David Bowie. He embodied male and female spirit and that suited me just fine. He made me think there were no rules. But I was wrong. There are no rules -- if you're a boy. There are rules if you're a girl,"

"If you're a girl, you have to play the game. You're allowed to be pretty and cute and sexy. But don’t act too smart. Don’t have an opinion that's out of line with the status quo. You are allowed to be objectified by men and dress like a slut, but don’t own your sluttiness. And do not, I repeat do not, share your own sexual fantasies with the world. Be what men want you to be, but more importantly, be what women feel comfortable with you being around other men. And finally, do not age. Because to age is a sin. You will be criticized and vilified and definitely not played on the radio."

To read more of Madonna’s Billboard acceptance speech, click here!

6. Leo DiCaprio won his first Oscar

Fifth time's the charm! After four previous acting nominations — but no wins — at the 1994, 2005, 2007 and 2014 Oscars, the Revenant star finally walked away with a golden statuette at the 2016 ceremony in February. And all he had to do to get it was eat raw bison liver and sleep in animal carcasses in the freezing cold. We'll never let go of the memory of his speech and BFF Kate Winslet's heartwarming reaction. Congrats Leo, you’re no longer Susan Lucci!

5. The Cubs won the World Series!

Cleveland Indians fans would probably put this one in the "Bad" column, but the 2016 Fall Classic was baseball at its best. After a 108-year championship drought — and a decades-long curse involving a goat — the Cubs made history on November 2 when they beat the Indians in extra innings in game 7 to win the franchise's first World Series title since 1908.

4. Moana breaks Disney barriers!

Disney introduced its first-ever Polynesian princess in November's Moana, which featured songs by Hamilton visionary Lin-Manuel Miranda and the voices of Auli'i Cravalho and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. Though there was some controversy surrounding the film — particularly regarding the portrayal of Johnson's demigod character, Maui — the movie was well-received by both critics and audiences and established Moana herself as one of Disney's strongest female characters.

3. The cast of Hamilton calls out VP Mike Pence!

On November 18th, the cast of Hamilton had a special guest in the audience. And here was what actor Victor Dixon had to say…

“You know, we have a guest in the audience this evening, and Vice President-elect Pence, I see you walking out, but I hope you will hear us just a few more moments. There’s nothing to boo here, ladies and gentlemen. There’s nothing to boo here. We’re all here sharing a story of love. We have a message for you, sir. We hope that you will hear us out.”

“Vice President-elect Pence, we welcome you, and we truly thank you for joining us here at ‘Hamilton: An American Musical.’ We really do. We, sir, we are the diverse America who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us, our planet, our children, our parents, or defend us and uphold our inalienable rights, sir. But we truly hope this show has inspired you to uphold our American values and work on behalf of all of us. All of us. Again, we truly thank you truly for seeing this show, this wonderful American story told by a diverse group of men and women of different colors, creeds and orientations.”

Now of course Trumpy got all butthurt and started tweeting like a mad man demanding that the cast apologize and that the theater should be a safe space. Well theater from the beginning was never meant to be safe, so my suggestion is when Hamilton comes to your town, start getting tickets asap!

2. DAPL got shut out of Standing Rock

The announcement to reroute the pipeline should be seen as a win, Cat says, but that represents just one battle in an ongoing war.

"It's a human-rights war as well and requires understanding what it means for those who are part of a marginalized community and what injustices [to them] have done over time," she says.

She says she's come to know some of the Standing Rock Sioux who live in abject poverty and are here fighting the pipeline.

"They gave up everything to be here," she says. "They have nothing but this."

Blaze Starkey, a Lakota educator from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, sees the Army Corp's decision as "a great step toward victory for everyone at Standing Rock and for everybody in the world that cares about living in a just place, in a clean place and in a place where people respect each other and the Earth."