#ray tuttle

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Bighead's host from the mask comic

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Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951) Felix E. Feist

September 7th 2023

[michiruspens]

Found an unopened hockey pack from dollarama while decluttering. I stopped buying hockey cards more or less around 2019 so there's nothing too recent here. I used to buy any mixed packs I saw with any of the pens visible. Time to get my binders out again, reorganize everything and visit dollarama to buy packs cause I've almost 5 years of hockey cards to catch up on XD

[scary-grace]

all the odd numbers for the music asks please! :D

These are going to be fun! Thank you for the ask in advance :)

1) A song you liked as a child

Silver Spring by Fleetwood Mac! I still like this one a lot. The last time they went on tour, I got to see them play it, which was amazing.

3) A song you’d choose to introduce someone to your favorite genre

I don't really have a favorite genre, unfortunately. My music taste could be politely described as eclectic or impolitely described as scatterbrained.

5) A song you think most of your followers won’t have heard before

Olympia Inn by the Indigo Girls! Given that my favorite Indigo Girl (Amy Ray) called this a deep cut before playing it at the last concert I went to, I'll award a oneshot of their choice to anybody who's actually heard it before.

7) A song you know every word to

On the Wing by Owl City! Also notable for being featured in the band AU.

9) A song in a language you don’t speak

I almost put a Blackpink song in here, but instead: Comme des enfants by Cœur de pirate!

11) A song that makes you dance

Rasputin by Boney M. It's somewhere on my Spotify Wrapped every year no matter how hard I try to...not.

13) A song by a performer you’ve seen live

Open Season by Lucy Wainwright Roche!

15) A song you’d play for a toddler

Country Roads by John Denver, just because my mom played it a lot for me as a kid.

17) A cover song

Sunflower, Vol. 6 by Molly Tuttle. I didn't know it was a cover until after I fell in love with it, and I definitely prefer it to the original.

19) A song that makes you emotional

The Trapeze Swinger by Iron and Wine. I don't think this song does the same thing to other people, given that nobody else at the open mic had a breakdown when they heard it, but I still advise anybody who listens to it to be careful.

Thank you for the ask! These were fun.

music asks

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PFUI TEUFEL

#MossadIsland

● Hillary Clinton

● Bill Clinton

● George Nader (Geschäftsmann)

● Huma Aberdin

● Laura Silsby

● Rachel Chandler

● Jeffrey Epstein

● Ghislaine Maxwell

● John Podesta

● Michael Podesta

● James Alefantis

● Anthony Wiener

● Leslie Wexner (limited Inc-Vorsitzender)

● Herbert Strauss

● Isidor Strauss

● Martin A. Nowak

● Steven Spielberg

● Edgar Bronfman Sr. (Seagram-Vorsitzender)

● Charles Bronfman (Seagram Co)

● Michael Steinhardt (ehemaliger Hedgefonds-Manager)

● Sara Bronfman

● Clare Bronfman

● Niles Lehman (Professor an der Portland State University)

● Seth Roger

● Ruth Ginsberg

● Alison Mack

● Robert Maxwell

● Wendi Murdoch

● Jonathan Tscheban

● Naomi Campbell

● Maxime Chow

● Val Kilmer

● Marina Abramovic

LISTE DER HOLLYWOOD PEDO-NAMEN:

● Steven Spielberg

● Kevin Spacey

● Alison Mac

● Marc Collins-Rector (Gründer von Den)

● Chad Shackley

● Brock Pierce

● David Geffen

● Tom Hanks

● Dustin Hoffman

● Andrew Kreisberg (US-amerikanischer Fernsehschreiber, Produzent)

● Bryan Singer

● Harvey Weinstein

● Bob Weinstein

● Roman Polanski

● Ruma Hazard

● Charlie Sheen

● Madonna

● Kate Perry

● Miley Cyrus

● Errol Flynn

● Billy Graham

● Walt Disney

● Michael Laney (ehemaliger Walt Disney Vizepräsident)

● James Gunn (Disney)

LISTE DER NAMEN VON CELEBS, DIE MIT DEEPSTATE, CIA & MOSSAD verbunden sind:

● Heidi Fleiss

● Jeffrey Epstein

LISTE DER NAMEN, DIE MIT SATANISCHE KULTEN VERBUNDEN:

● Alison Mack

● Stormy Daniels

● Rachel Chandler

● Ghislaine Maxwell

LISTE DER NAMEN DER BESUCHER AUF DER EPSTEIN INSEL:

● Ghislaine Maxwell

● Chris Tucker

● Larry Summer

● Lisa Summer

● Bill Murray

● Bill Hammond

● Ehud Barak

● Andrés Pastrana (ehemaliger Präsident Kolumbien 1998-2002)

● Jean Luc Brunel

● Doug Band

● Ron Burkle

● Woody Allen

● Sarah Kellen

● Ray Barzanna

● Sandy Burger

● Andrea Mitrovitch

● Peter Marino

● Shelley Lewis

● Paul Hala (t) (d) a

● Richardo Legoretta

● Tom Pritzker

● Kelly Spamm

● Tiffany Gramza

● Claire Hazel

● Paula Epstein

● Mark Epstein

● Ralph Elison

● Sophie Biddle

● Audrey Raimbault

● Shelley Harrison

● Melinda Luntz

● Gwendolyn Beck

● Albert Pinto

● Richard "Handsome Dick" Manitoba

● Gary Roxburgh

● Mandy Elison

● Jean Michelle Gathy

● Virginia Roberts

● Kristy Rodgers (Kristina Real Rodgers)

● Greg Holbert

● Alyssa Rodgers

● Juliette Bryant

● Heather Mann

● Ed Tuttle

● Glen Dubin

● Ellen Spencer

● Chris Wagner

● Casey Wasserman

● Laura Wasserman

● Paul Mellon

● Oliver Sachs

● Henry Rosovsky

● Lynn Forster (de Rothschild)

● Joe Pagano

● Naomi Campbell

● Nicole Junkermann

● Rodney Slater

● Magali Blachon (Deperrier)

● Svetlana Griaznova

● Emmy Tayler

● Larry Visoski

● Carrie Davies

● Johannes (Paul) Molyneux

● Freya Willemoes Wissing

● Adam Perry Lang

● Fleur Perry Lang

● Caren Casey

● Hank Coller

● Cindy Lopez

● Mark Lloyd

● Alan Dershowitz

● Seth Green

● James Gunn

● Steven Spielberg

● Tom Hanks

● Steven Colbert

● Jimmy Kimmel

● Barack Obama

● Kevin Spacey

● Kathy Griffin

● Oprah Winfrey

● Shawn Carter

● Beyoncé Knowles

● Anthony Kiedis

● John Legend

● Chrissy Tiegen

● Jim Carrey

● Steven Tyler

● Ben Affleck

● Stephen Collins

● Will Ferrell

● ALIAUNE DAMALA BADARA THIAM (Akon)

● Marshall Counts

● Jeffrey Jones

● Victor Safe

● Mark Collins Rector

● Charlie Sheen

● Tyler Grasham

● Madonna Ciccone

● Katheryn Hudson

● Gwen Stefani

● Stefani Germanotta

● James Franco

● Will Smith

● Justin Roland

● John Cusack

● Anderson Cooper

● Demi Moore

● Brian Affleck

● Meryl Streep

● Wanda Sykes

● Chelsea-Handler

● Michelle Wolf

● David Jarovesky

● Pharrell Williams

● Quentin Tarantino

● Courtney Love

● Alec Baldwin

● Robert Downey Jr.

● Disney Corporation (Biete Kinder "Tauchen" Reisen, auf die Insel Epstein)

LISTE DER NAMEN, DIE MIT DEN STANDARD HOTELS VERBUNDEN

● Andre Balazs (Besitzer der Standard Hotels und mit den Rockefellers verbunden)

● Jay Z

● Beyoncé Knowles

● John Belushi

● Britney Spears

● Errol Flynn

● Dennis Hopper

● Helmut Newton

● Jim Morrison

● James Dean

● Billy Idol

● Victoria Beckham

● Heath Ledger

● Sienna Miller

● Balthazar Getty

● Scarlet Johansen

INDIVIDUALE DIREKT MIT JEFFREY EPSTEIN & DER EPSTEIN INSEL VERBUNDEN:

● Elon Musk

● Mark Zuckrberg

● Lawrence M. Krauss

● Steven Pinker

● Mick Jagger

● Courtney Love

● Joan Rivers (verstorben)

● Kevin Spacey

● Chris Rock

● Eli Weisel (Nobelpreis gewinnt Holocaust-Profiteur)

● Lauren Hutton (Top-Mode-Modell)

● Herzog & Herzogin von York

● Earl Spencer (der Bruder von verstorbenen Diana)

● Richard Bronson (englischer Geschäftsmann)

● Tony Blair (ehemaliger britischer Premierminister)

● David Koch (1/2 eines Bruders-Teams)

● David Rockefeller

● Evelyn de Rothschild

● Eduouard de Rothschild

JOURNALISTEN DIREKT MIT JAMES ALEFANTIS, COMET PING PONG & Mice FISCHERING, WASHINGTON DC:

● Jake Tapper (CNN)

● Jennifer Tapper (Frau von Jake Tapper)

● Ahorn Inc

JOURNALISTEN DIREKT MIT JEFFREY EPSTEIN & DER EPSTEIN INSEL VERBUNDEN:

● Barbara Walters

● Mort Zuckerman

● Eric Margolis

● Rupert Murdock

● Conrad & Barbara Black; Baron Black von Cross Harbour

POLITITIKER DIREKT MIT JEFFREY EPSTEIN & DER EPSTEIN INSEL VERBUNDEN:

● Bill Clinton (ehemaliger Präsident von Amerika)

● Jon & Mary Kaye Huntsman

● Gouverneur Charles Turnbull (US-Jungferninseln)

● Henry Kissinger

● Ethel Kennedy

● Bobby & Mary Kennedy

● Senator Edward Kennedy (verstorben)

● Ted Kennedy Jr.

● Andrew & Kerry Kennedy Cuomo

● Maria Shriver (Kennedy-Verwandte / Schwarznegger Ex)

DIE DTLA STANDARD HOTEL :

(Freie 1992-2002)

● Keck Family (Standard-Öl / Gründer des Standard Hotels)

● Perry Mason

● Bank of California

● JP Morgan - Standard Oil

● Jeffrey Epstein

● Bear Stearns Group

● Standard companies

● Colombia Developement

[unicornery]

my dad's 8th grade basketball team is featured on the Ames Historical Society webpage

Front row from left: Jack Highland, Ray Epstein, Steve Reinsch, Dennis Healy, Greg Mullhall, Mike Lange Second row: Steve Highland, Bill Timmons, Gary Catus, Terry Tuttle Back row: Coach Dan Wasteurhill, Mike Hadaway, Jan Svec, David Catus, Chuck Mauer, Fr. Ardel Barta

[casposters]

(via Artwork of the Vietnam War – CherriesWriter – Vietnam War website)

Huey’s landing with supplies and reinforcements LZ X-Ray by Paul Tuttle

[vtgbooks]

ray bradbury robert aickman lisa tuttle vintage hororr book paperbacks from hell

[ulkaralakbarova]

In the 23rd century, inhabitants of a domed city freely experience all of life’s pleasures — but no one is allowed to live past 30. Citizens can try for a chance at being “renewed” in a civic ceremony on their 30th birthday. Escape is the only other option. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Logan: Michael York Francis: Richard Jordan Jessica: Jenny Agutter Box: Roscoe Lee Browne Holly: Farrah Fawcett Doc: Michael Anderson Jr. Old Man: Peter Ustinov 2nd Sanctuary Man: Randolph Roberts The Woman Runner: Lara Lindsay Billy: Gary Morgan Mary 2: Michelle Stacy Woman Customer: Laura Hippe Sandman: David Westberg Sanctuary Woman: Camilla Carr Cub: Greg Lewis Timid Girl: Ashley Cox Sandman: Bill Couch Runner: Glenn R. Wilder Last Day Character (uncredited): Joe L. Blevins Sandman Daniel (uncredited): Roger Borden Sand Man (uncredited): Greg Bransom City Dweller (uncredited): Paula Crist The City Computer (uncredited): Virginia Ann Ford Cub (uncredited): Chuck Gaylord Cub (uncredited): Mitch Gaylord (uncredited): Johnny Haymer Confused City Dweller (uncredited): Jessie Kirby 3rd Sanctuary Man / Ambush Man (uncredited): Greg Michaels 1st Sanctuary Man (uncredited): Bob Neill Love Shop Woman with Toy (uncredited): Renie Radich 1st Screamer in Logan’s Apartment (uncredited): Candice Rialson Screamer Party Woman (uncredited): Cheryl Smith Runner Great Hall (uncredited): Ron D. Thornton Film Crew: Director: Michael Anderson Novel: William F. Nolan Novel: George Clayton Johnson Screenplay: David Zelag Goodman Producer: Saul David Original Music Composer: Jerry Goldsmith Director of Photography: Ernest Laszlo Editor: Bob Wyman Production Design: Dale Hennesy Costume Design: Bill Thomas Associate Producer: Hugh Benson Makeup Artist: William Tuttle Hairstylist: Judith A. Cory Unit Production Manager: Byron Roberts Stunt Coordinator: Glenn R. Wilder Casting: Jack Baur Set Decoration: Robert De Vestel Property Master: Jack M. Marino Sound Editor: John Riordan Visual Effects Designer: L.B. Abbott Music Supervisor: Harry V. Lojewski Music Editor: William Saracino Dialect Coach: Leon Charles Script Supervisor: Ray Quiroz Choreographer: Stefan Wenta Second Assistant Director: Alan Brimfeld Second Assistant Director: Win Phelps Assistant Director: David Silver Stunt Coordinator: Bill Couch Key Grip: Martin Kashuk Electrician: Don Stott Associate Editor: Freeman A. Davies Assistant Editor: Chuck Ellison Unit Publicist: Don Morgan Stunts: Dick Ziker Stunts: Jeannie Epper Stunts: Loren Janes Stunts: Beth Nufer Stunts: Alex Plasschaert Stunts: Regina Parton Stunts: Lori Thomas Stunts: Mike Washlake Stunts: Russell Saunders Stunts: Barbara Graham Stunts: Tommy J. Huff Stunts: Sunny Woods Stunts: Paula Dell Stunts: Chuck Gaylord Stunts: Mitch Gaylord Stunts: Rosemary Johnston Stunts: Whitey Hughes Stunts: ‘Wild’ Bill Mock Stunts: Gary Morgan Stunts: Dar Robinson Stunts: Walter Robles Stunts: Angelo De Meo Stunts: Paula Crist Stunts: Dottie Catching Stunts: Bill Couch Jr. Stunts: Gregory J. Barnett Stunts: Craig R. Baxley Stunts: Phil Adams Stunts: Denny Arnold Stunts: May Boss Special Effects: Glen Robinson Movie Reviews: Richard: It’s a ‘Future Vision’ type of movie, plus a bit of an adventure into the unknown. At least for the two “Runners’ who have escaped out of their bubble world. It is fraught with twists and turns in a post Peak-Oil world, where society has finally found a solution to the resources of the planet. The ‘chosen’ few, however have one little catch, their lives have a unique way of ending, until these two discover a new way, and a Lie that was being told to all of the citizens. (Warning for younger viewers,there are scenes where (At the time,) it was considered risque to show people jumping into a freshwater pond and going skinny dipping).

[spacenutspod]

NASA’s SpaceX 30th commercial resupply mission launched at 4:55 p.m. EDT, Thursday, March 21 , from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.Credit: NASA/Madison Tuttle Following a successful launch of NASA’s SpaceX 30th commercial resupply mission, new scientific experiments and technology demonstrations for the agency are on the way to the International Space Station, including studies of technologies to measure sea ice and plant growth in space. SpaceX’s Dragon resupply spacecraft, carrying more than 6,000 pounds of cargo to the orbiting laboratory, launched on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket at 4:55 p.m. EDT Thursday, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The cargo spacecraft is scheduled to autonomously dock at the space station on Saturday, March 23, at approximately 7:30 a.m. and remain at the orbital outpost for about a month. Live coverage of the arrival will begin at 5:30 a.m. on NASA+, NASA Television, and on the agency’s website. Learn how to stream NASA TV through a variety of platforms. The Dragon will deliver a new set of sensors for Astrobee robots to support automated 3D sensing, mapping, and situational awareness functions. These systems could support future Gateway and lunar surface missions by providing automated maintenance and surface scanning using rovers. Additionally, the spacecraft will deliver BurstCube, a small satellite that is designed to study gamma-ray bursts that occur when two neutron stars collide. This satellite could widen our coverage of the gamma-ray sky, improving our chances of studying bursts both with light and gravitational waves, or ripples in space-time, detected by ground-based observatories. Finally, the spacecraft also will deliver sampling hardware for Genomic Enumeration of Antibiotic Resistance in Space (GEARS), an initiative that will test different locations of the space station for antibiotic-resistant microbes. In-flight gene sequencing could show how these bacteria adapt to the space environment, providing knowledge that informs measures to protect astronauts on future long-duration missions. These are just a few of the hundreds of investigations conducted aboard the orbiting laboratory in the areas of biology and biotechnology, physical sciences, and Earth and space science. Advances from this scientific research will help keep astronauts healthy during long-duration space travel and demonstrate technologies for future human and robotic exploration beyond low Earth orbit to the Moon through NASA’s Artemis campaign, in advance of the first crewed mission to Mars. Get breaking news, images and features from the space station on Instagram, Facebook, and X. Learn more about NASA commercial resupply services missions at: https://www.nasa.gov/international-space-station/commercial-resupply/ -end- Josh Finch / Julian Coltre / Claire O’SheaHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1100joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov / julian.n.coltre@nasa.gov / claire.a.o’shea@nasa.gov Stephanie Plucinsky / Steven Siceloff Kennedy Space Center, Florida 321-876-2468stephanie.n.plucinsky@nasa.gov / steven.p.siceloff@nasa.gov  Sandra JonesJohnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov Share Details Last Updated Mar 21, 2024 LocationNASA Headquarters Related TermsISS ResearchCommercial ResupplyInternational Space Station (ISS)SpaceX Commercial Resupply

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Ladies Should Listen (1934) Frank Tuttle

December 4th 2022

[newcountryradio]

New Country 27e jaargang  #T1214(S773) (C17)van 29 januari 2024  (wk 05) uitzending op Smelne fm & Crossroads Country Radio

Album van de week:  Randall King – Into The Neon     

Classic album :  Eddy Arnold  - Turn The world Around   

Hits of the Year : 1977

Maandfavoriet : Callum Kerr & Chris Andreucci – Tamed by Tennessee  

Maandartiest : Suzy Bogguss

Suzy Bogguss/ Alison Krauss and Kathy Mattea, /The red hots – Teach Your Children -   *maandartiest

Faith Hill – Breathe    #1 24 jaar

Nate Smith – Whiskey on You    # 1 2023 

Megan Moroney – No Caller ID

Sierra Ferrell – Dollar Bill Bar

A Thousand Horses – No News

Mitchell Tenpenny - Breaking My Heart

Jelly Roll - Halfway to Hell

Nate Smith - World on Fire     #1.

Randall King - Coulda Been Love Album vd week

Randall King - Burns Like Her      album

The Band Perry – If I die Young         2011

Charlie Rich - Rollin' With the Flow - 1977

Tracy Lawrence – Find Out Who Your Friends Ae   27/1  1968

Merle Haggard – The Legend of Bonnie & Clyde        

Callum Kerr & Chris Andreucci – Tamed by Tennessee   favoriet 

Pryor & Lee - Good Ol' Dogs and God  *sofi  

Eddy Arnold - Release Me (And Let Me Love Again)

Eddy Arnold - Turn the World Around

Nikki lane – When My Morning Comes Around .

Corb Lund - Out on a Win

Emmylou Harris – West Texas Walz (3 in 1)

Emmylou Harris - Hickory Wind

Emmylou Harris - Rose of Cimarron

Randall King - The One You’re Waiting On  Album van de week

Morgan Wallen – Everything I Love     #1 album.

Charley Crockett - $10 Cowboy

The War and Treaty – From A Distance

Bonnie Rait - Angel From Montgomery

Billy Strings /Molly Tuttle -  Listen To The Radio 

Clint Black - Nothing But the Taillights Trucksong

Suzy Bogguss – Two Shades Of Blue  (w Chet Atkins) maandartiest

Randall King  . Around Forever   juweeltje 

Balsam Range - Echo Canyon   Album vorige week

Randall King - Hang of Hangin On    Album vd week .

Jany Szabo - He's A Good Ole Boy   Dutch corner

Ben & Ruud - The Hand That Rocks The Cradle  .Dutch corner.

Henk Wijngaard - Hey Suzie (English Version) Dutch corner

Willie Nelson / Ray Charles – Seven Spanish Angels

Glen Campbell – Southern Nights. 1977

Dolly Parton – Here You Come Again. #4

Kenny Rogers - Lucille. #3 

Bonnie Tyler – It’s a Heartache -  #2

Crystal Gayle – Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue    #1

Steve Wariner With Garth Brooks - Burnin The Roadhouse Down

[lastchancevillagegreen]

Another Top Ten Favorite Reads of 2023

I’m ranking this group of books as well. 

#11

The Sin of Abbé Mouret Émile Zola (1875)

The Belly of Paris Émile Zola (1873)

The Bright Side of Life Émile Zola (1884)

Nana Émile Zola (1880)

Zola! Zola! Zola!  All lower tier Zola novels, but interesting just the same.  In The Sin of Abbé Mouret a priest falls in love with a woman and then Zola recounts their love as if he were retelling the Garden of Eden story.  Beautiful, maddening and one of the most experimental of all his novels.  The Belly of Paris deals with what we call Farmer’s Markets.  It isn’t disgusting like Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, but the butcher shop that is the focal point for the characters involved isn’t always a paragon of good health.  The Bright Side of Life uses the title ironically as a family takes in a ten year old who has inherited the wealth of her parents who ran the butcher shop in The Belly of Paris.  The family taking her in manage to rob her of that wealth and then blame her for allowing them to do so.  Nana is about a high class prostitute who enjoys ruining every man she meets until she meets a man who delights in abusing her.  What happens to Nana in the final pages of the novel is almost abusive on Zola’s part. 

#12

Crook Manifesto Colson Whitehead (2023)

Last year Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Shuffle made my Top Ten list.  It is a about a Harlem furniture salesman named Ray Carney, a character who introduced me to medieval sleeping and his hilarious hijinks as he struggles to be both a good citizen and a criminal.  In the second book of this trilogy, Carney is back, but this time he plans on going the straight and narrow. No more criming for Carney.  At least until a detective threatens him with serious time if he doesn’t pull off a heist for the detective to benefit from.  Another very funny novel that ultimately has some rather serious consequences for Carney.  Of course, I look forward to the final book about Ray Carney.

#13

My Last Innocent Year Daisy Alpert Florin (2023)

When Isabel Rosen has an affair with her writing professor at a prestigious college, we know the professor should know better.  What makes this interesting is that it is told from the point of view of the student having the affair and we catch glimpses that tell us she is recounting this affair in the future, which means she has processed it and weighed it out.  For better or worse, Isabel Rosen is a wise young woman. This is a remarkable debut.

#14

Day Michael Cunningham (2023)

Taking place on the same day over three consecutive years beginning in April 2019, we discover how love/ marriage is entered into for the worst reasons (loneliness, a union of two like minded people, because prospects weren’t going to improve, etc) and how that slowly ebbs away at people.  It also documents how COVID changed the world, yet never at any point in time does that word enter into the novel.  I assumed this would be a downer of a book but it is blisteringly funny…and sad.  Social media just ruins everything. 

#15

My Death Lisa Tuttle (2004)

This freaky novel takes a (fictious) legendary mistress of a (fictitious) famous painter and a (fictitious) author who wants to pen a biography of said mistress and then turns the entire situation inside out.  The mistress turns out to have been a painter herself not to mention an expert at behind the scenes manipulation.  The book’s title is the name of the outrageous painting the author discovers. Was the author really encountering serendipity when she discovered that painting by the mistress or was this all a grand scheme to trick the author?   Who is being played here: the mistress, the author or the reader?

#16

Big Day Coming: Yo La Tengo And The Rise of Indie Rock Jesse Jarnow (2012)

Once upon a time I used to read virtually every bio about bands I loved and then one day I stopped.  A massive Yo La Tengo kick lead me back to this book that I ignored back in the day.  How is it there is a trio of people who have no controversy swirling around them other than maybe occasionally one of them isn’t always the nicest of people.  Ooh.  That might describe all of us.

#17

The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly Sun-Mi Hwang (2000)

A hen who yearns to lay eggs yet can’t and is eventually culled but doesn’t die and then is saved by a mallard who everyone makes fun of.  Together this pair of misfit animals manage to raise a family and the cycle of life marches on.  This is a fantastic tale of dreams and familial bonds crossing species because like with humans, the one who puts in the work gets the right to be called Mom. 

#18

Address Unknown Katherine Kressmann Taylor (1938)

Written in 1938 and told in epistolary form it contains 18 letters and one telegram passed back and forth between two German men.  One of the men is Jewish and runs an art gallery in San Francisco.  His partner, not Jewish, has returned to Germany.  What happens is expected of course (through our own awareness today of what took place), but again this was written in 1938.  Anyone claiming America knew nothing about the Nazi threat during that time is a liar. 

#19

Lucy Gayheart Willa Cather (1935)

Yes, this is minor Cather.  But I was so enraptured with the titular character I fell deep into this book.  Keep in mind, I never read the backs of books, so I rarely actually know what I’m getting into. I assumed this was a minor retelling by Cather of her brilliant Song of The Lark which is about an opera singer. Lucy goes to work for an opera singer.  From that point on, nothing, and I mean nothing I believed was going to happen, happened.  How is it that I have read all of Cather and I still did not realize that in Cather’s novels anyone who falls in love is doomed. Cather hated marriage and she demonstrated that endlessly by punishing anyone in her novels who was foolish enough to fall prey to marriage.  While Lucy didn’t marry, she did fall in love and was equally punished for that fault.

#20

Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue The Marquis de Sade (1791)

Is it possible for a book I absolutely detested to land on this of Favorite Reads?  Well, here it is, so the answer is obviously yes.  This wasn’t a favorite read but it was so memorable that I still think about it six months after the fact.  Justine and her sister lose their parents at an early age.  Justine gives herself to God and the sister marries a wealthy man and then ensures he dies young so she can inherit his wealth.  All Justine gets is raped by every single man (and occasionally a woman) that she encounters.  De Sade was an atheist and he believed that atheists lacked a moral code which allowed them to behave as terrible as they desired.  He takes this belief and punishes poor Justine for believing in God by ensuring she is raped, beaten, tortured over and over in the most excruciating detail.  This book is punishment.  It angers me because I am an atheist and I have a moral code.  De Sade even believes that women are such a blight on humanity that they should be done away with altogether.  Okay, genius, let’s see how long humanity would last without women.  De Sade was a fool but this book stays in my head like a song that won’t go away.  The only good thing about this novel was the ending which actually made me laugh out loud.  Poor Justine, in the end, even God didn’t love her.   This was the first and the last book I’ll ever read by Citizen de Sade.

[geekgemsspooksandtoons]

Mask Fan Castings

I’ve had some of these images with me for a while. And I wanna make this before 2021 ends. This is just a bunch of fan castings of some characters from the original The Mask comics. Saved some images and just saved/snipped some new ones. I’m not really in a Mask mood right now. But I wanna just get this down and again, finish it before 2021. I also just realized I could put these images side by side on Pixlr damn it lol, and I finally made them. I had Stanley’s casting written down already lol. Just a heads up, these castings are more so in line with their original counterparts. If we ever get a new Mask movie.

Again, I’m not in a Mask mood I think. I’m just kind of going through something with it. So enjoy these fan castings.

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Pete Davidson as Stanley Ipkiss.

Josh Duhamel as Lieutenant Mitch Kellaway.

Lili Reinhart as Kathy Matthews. 

O’Shea Jackson Jr as Sergeant Lionel Ray.

Andrew Garfield as Ray Tuttle.

John Turturro as Eugene Rapaz.

Derek Mears as Walter.

And finally, and I still want this just as much as Derek Mears.

Brandon Rogers as Big Head.

Bonus image because I made this joke with @kaijuguy19​ twice.

*When Rapaz hears Big Head is back in Edge City* 

Rapaz: Walter. 

*Walter gives him his jacket, and he gets ready*

Rapaz: Tell Big Head let's tango.

[end0r4]

Agnes Moorehead in Who's minding the store? (1963)

[jingle-bones]

7 FACES OF DR LAO (Dir: George Pal, 1964).

George Pal first came to prominence in the 1930s with his series of animated Puppetoons shorts. Switching to live action, first as producer and then director he was responsible for a series of special effects heavy sci-fi and fantasy films, including The War of the Worlds (Byron Haskin, 1953) and The Time Machine (Pal, 1960) which are now rightly deemed classics of their genres. His 5th and final feature as directed was 1964’s 7 Faces of Dr Lao, based upon Charles G Finney’s 1935 novel The Circus of Dr Lao.

Tony Randall stars as the titular Lao, an aged (7322 years!) Chinese gent and owner of a fantastical, magical travelling circus. When the circus stops at the dusty Arizona town of Abalone the townsfolk are taught some valuable life lessons from the highly unconventional exhibits include the mythical soothsayer Apollonius, Merlin the Magician, Pan the God of Love and the fabled Gorgon Medusa. All of whom are portrayed by Randall in a truly mesmerising performance. Aided by some outstanding make-up from William Tuttle who rightly won the Academy Award for his efforts.

Some would rightly question the casting of white American Tony Randall as the Chinese Lao. Yet while the performance does exhibit elements of racial stereotyping it is not malicious. Right or wrong, such casting was perfectly acceptable in the era the movie was made and it would be unfair to castigate it for being out of step with more enlightened viewpoints more than 50 years after release.

7 Faces of Dr Lao is an unusual movie; mixing elements of the western genre with gently moralistic Bradbury-esq fantasy, it is probably fair to say it is a little bit of an acquired taste. If you are a fan of Pal then this movie needs no recommendation. For others, a philosophical fantasy aimed at family audiences might be a hard sell. However, it’s status as one of Pal’s lesser known features is entirely unwarranted. The excellent performances, top quality make-up and effects and feverish, almost surrealist atmosphere of the movie make for a heady mix. In my opinion 7 Faces of Dr Lao is one of the finest fantasies ever committed to celluloid.

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