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harley-sunday · 5 years ago

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A Good Man Goes to War [Epilogue]

Summary: Starts right after Civil War. Steve Rogers is done being Captain America and quite happy living a quiet life in a safe house somewhere in Canada. Until Thanos goes after the Infinity Stones. What happens when a good man goes to war?

Pairing: Steve Rogers x OFC (f) but could be read as reader insert.

Warnings: Charachter death.Spoilers for Endgame, I guess.

Word count: 1.2k

Entry for @browngirlmagic‘s writing challenge. My prompt was “Demons run when a good man goes to war.”

AN: First of, I never really understood how aging worked during the snap, so I might have taken some creative liberties here. Hell, I know I did. Also, not very compliant to the ending of Endgame, but hey, that’s fanfic for ya! Also, I always imagined the janitor to be one of Stan Lee’s cameo’s :) I really enjoyed writing this and so I hope you’ve enjoyed reading this. Some feedback would be nice, so please let me know what you think! ♥

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FIVE YEARS LATER

“Demons run-” he mutters through gritted teeth, tightening the arm straps of his shield before he looks up, facing Thanos.

He’s not quite sure how he ended up here.

Well, he thinks then, that’s not completely true. He was there when Scott Lang suddenly showed up on the Compound’s security cam footage and told them he might have a way to fix this.

It happened during his monthly trip into the city, when he goes to his support group meeting first, before he drops by the Compound to see how Natasha’s holding up after.

Natasha, who somehow thinks she’s paying her dues by keeping in touch with the remaining team members and safeguarding the Compound. Who doesn’t want to hear it when he tells her it’s ok if she wants to move on. Who is stubborn and makes up rules for herself she has to live by, no matter what anyone tells her.

Like her.

His wife, who doesn’t want to leave the cabin, because like Natasha, thinks it’s her way of paying penance. Who still blames herself for what happened to their son, even though he’s told her over and over again it wasn’t her fault. Who, even after he explained to her how Thanos had wiped out half the population with a snap of his fingers after getting the Infinity stones, still thinks she should have protected Wyatt.

His wife, who told him several times that he should just leave her, that she would understand if he did, but who, after a while, finally believed him when he told her he made a promise to her in that city hall in Littlefork and that he had no intention of breaking that promise.

They've worked through their traumas one day at a time, mostly alone, or in his case with the help of a support group, but sometimes they've found each other in their grief and were able to heal together. It isn't like it was before and he doubts it ever will be, but that’s ok. She’s all he needs.

And so he called her when Lang’s plans started to take shape, even though he didn’t tell her much, only that maybe, just maybe they found a way to make things better.

“Will you be careful?” He remembers her voice trembling. “Please? Don’t do anything reckless.”

“I won’t.”

“Steve,” she pleaded, “promise me. I can’t lose you too.”

He hung his head when he heard she was crying, his voice barely above a whisper when he said, “I promise.”

And yet here he is, the only one still standing, ready to face Thanos, reciting a prophecy Stephen Strange wrote a long time ago. He’s doing this for her. And Natasha.

But most of all he's doing it to avenge their son.

And so he finishes the last part of the sentence he started seconds ago a little louder, “-when a good man goes to war.”

There’s another voice coming through then, one he hasn’t heard for a very long time, and he almost can’t believe it.

“Cap, it’s Sam. Can you hear me?”

His heart feels heavier than ever once it’s all over. Burdened with the loss of two of his closest friends after a battle he honestly didn’t think they would win. But there’s also something else, a sliver of hope that he has felt fluttering in his chest ever since those portals opened. And so he finds himself, once again, flying the Quinjet back to Red Lake Airport, like he did five years ago.

Of course he runs into that same damn janitor, who looks as bewildered as he did the last time, but at least there’s a smile on his face now. He doesn’t stop, certain that someone else will explain the poor man what has happened. His trusted bike is there where he left it, because once again he’s been gone for only a couple of days. He opens the throttle wide enough for the trees lining the road to become a blur, pushing his bike to its limits, making it back home in a record-breaking twenty two minutes.

She steps out onto the porch as soon as he cuts the engine, a worried look on her face, and he can tell from the way her eyes scan his body that’s she’s checking for injuries. He shakes his head to let her know he’s fine as he gets off the bike, taking the few steps needed to get to her and wrap his arms around her.

“What happened?” she mumbles against his chest.

He’s tired and so he doesn’t immediately connect the dots, but when he does his heart sinks, “What do you- We undid the snap, doll. Everyone’s back.”

He feels her whole body tense up, and then she pulls back and looks up at him, tears in her eyes, “No.” Her breathing picks up and he can tell she’s panicking, “No, Steve, no, he’s not here!” Her panic turns into anger then, and she starts punching his chest, fists closed and tears running down her cheeks, and he lets her because he doesn’t have any energy left to fight back.

After a while the punches become further apart and there isn’t so much weight behind them anymore and then suddenly she hangs her head in defeat, her hands gripping his jacket instead, bunching the fabric in her fists.

“Ok,” he runs a hand over his face, “Ok. We need to go look for him. Where was the last time-”

“Oh God,” she clasps her hands in front of her mouth and looks up at him, her eyes wide in shock. His heart sinks when she whispers, “The bunker.”

He sets off immediately and picks up his speed once he hits the treeline, his body protesting every step of the way. Still, he makes it there in under two minutes, but then he sees the entrance’s completely overgrown, because neither of them could summon the courage to return here, and he has to steady himself against a tree trunk to keep from getting sick.

She catches up with him a few seconds later and despite everything he has time to wonder how she could have run that fast, even though he suspects he might have been standing here longer that he thinks. She curses quietly but sets to work immediately, her hands tearing away the vines and branches that block them from getting inside and he quickly joins her, reaching what she can’t with ease and within a few minutes the door is visible again.

They both stop at the same time and he’s sure they even stop breathing for just a second, as if to prepare themselves for whatever’s inside. It’s out of their hands, he realizes, and maybe that’s the most upsetting part.

He admires her courage when she takes a tentative step forwards, her hand slowly folding itself around the doorknob, and he knows it’s the scariest thing she’ll ever have to do. He doesn’t want her to feel like she’s alone and so he gently puts his hand over hers and together they open the door, letting go once it swings open with an ease neither of them were expecting.

She gasps when she sees what’s inside and reaches behind her for his hand, grabbing onto it when she finds it. His eyes take a second longer to adjust to the darkness but when they do, he squeezes her hand to let her know he’s there.

“Hello, little man,” she whispers as she crouches down, one knee dropping to the floor. She lets go of his hand and holds it out in front of her, to the five-year old boy that looks at her curiously, “Hi, Wyatt.”

- FIN -

#Steve Rogers x reader #Steve Rogers fanfic #ayesha1kwritingchallenge #Harley Sunday x Steve Rogers #Captain America

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art-of-manliness · 6 years ago

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How to Survive a Rollover Car Crash

Every year, millions of car accidents play out on our roads. In 2017, nearly two million people were injured in crashes and over 34,000 people died. Fortunately, today’s cars are safer than they ever have been and a higher percentage of people are walking away from collisions that would have put them in the hospital just a few decades ago. Yet even with safer cars, accidents with serious consequences still happen. This is particularly the case with rollover crashes. Rollovers, as the name implies, occur when a car flips over. While rollover crashes aren’t super common, they are disproportionately dangerous: while only about 2% of auto accidents involve a rollover, they account for 35% of all traffic fatalities. Three-fourths of rollover accidents are single vehicle crashes, and they’re frequently the result of driver error — recklessness, carelessness, or drowsiness. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, “Drivers of rollover vehicles tend to be males, under 40 years old, driving on two-way roads without dividing barriers.” 40% of fatal rollover crashes involve speeding, and 70% occur on roads with a speed limit over 55 mph. Other risk factors include driving a vehicle with a higher center of gravity (like vans, trucks, and SUVs) which are far more likely to roll, driving in adverse weather conditions or on uneven terrain, and driving on tires with poor tread. 75% of all rollovers happen on rural roads, and 95% of single car rollovers occur because a car slides and “trips” on soft dirt, a guardrail, a curb, or another obstruction. The best way to survive a rollover accident is thus to prevent one from happening at all by driving safely. If a rollover does still happen to you, there are split-second decisions you can make that can improve your chances of walking away from the crash. Rehearse and practice the methods described above, so they become second nature and automatic if you do end up in a rollover accident. Hopefully, you’ll never have to use these skills. Thanks to Wyatt Knox at Team O’Neill Rally School in New Hampshire for consulting on this post. Illustrated by Ted Slampyak The post How to Survive a Rollover Car Crash appeared first on The Art of Manliness. http://dlvr.it/R6CpWm

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wyattwth-blog · 6 years ago

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Profile of a Criminal

Name: Wyatt Anderson Age: 24 D.O.B.: October 31st Occupation: Sound Technician (contractor)

Triggers: drugs, verbal abuse, death

Innocence and naivete may not be the first words that come to mind when thinking of Wyatt Anderson, but they used to be the driving forces in a young, starry-eyed boy whose world was filled to the brim with wonder and happiness. Despite his poor upbringing, Wyatt would never say that his childhood had been particularly lacking. Quite the opposite, really.

Raised by a single mother, and a grandfather who tried his best to be a parent once again, Wyatt never knew his biological father. The man had left before his son could be born and the little family never heard from him again. At least not as far as Wyatt is aware. So his only male role model was a grey-bearded, balding man with a cough so bad you’d think the sheer force was about to turn his body inside-out.

The smell of cigar smoke and sweet perfume filled the air in his childhood home, backed up by the scratching of a record player with no more songs to play and the crackling of a TV without a signal. Dancing on the toes of his grandfather, to songs that had their home in black and white movies. Singing at the top of his lungs while playing air guitar, jumping off the couch to crowd-surf on teddy bears. Nostalgia plays a big role in the life a boy whose dreams were shattered thrice over, wishing back on simpler times before the pain began.

First came the death of his grandfather. Hardly any surprise to most, the man had been a known chain-smoker, and yet a devastating loss to Wyatt and his mother. A man who had meant so much to him, had laid the first defining bricks that would shape his personality, had taught him right from wrong was now gone. He was only eight, and yet it felt like his world had ended, kids treating him as if he was made of glass, teachers hesitant to reprimand a child lashing out in grief turned to anger. Pity enough to go around, and yet it was all directed at him.

It wasn’t long after her fathers funeral that Wyatt’s mother turned to drugs for consolation. It started with prescription medication, as it often does, and when the pills ran out she needed something else to get her fix. Now it wasn’t that she did not want to be there for her child, but over time she just naturally became distant. Her smiles were few between and with the need to take on extra work to feed herself and her child, energy to spare became a luxury.

Growing up on takeout and tv dinners meant nothing to Wyatt so long as it meant he got to eat with his mother, to speak with her over a shared meal. Dinner became one of the few times throughout a day when they were able to spend time together at all, and Wyatt often had to make his own lunch in the morning before going to school. It was a poor lifestyle, stressful, but he wouldn’t trade it for anything if it meant his mother would be even more miserable. His one goal in life became to make his mother happy.

So he worked hard in school, got good grades and tried his best to stay out of trouble with the teachers. Avoided dirty looks and snide remarks, turned a deaf ear to those clearly trying to taunt him. He was better than them, and he knew it. Although being better did not make him any richer, and wanting to deeply to make his mother smile it was an eventuality that he would turn to theft. He was ten when he stole his first bouquet of flowers and put it in a jug to surprise his mother with that same night.

Over time it became second nature to take what he wanted and not look back, he would feel sorry for the shopkeepers when they started feeling sorry for his mother, rather than judging her for something she wasn’t wholly at fault for. Maybe he got away with it because he was a kid and people took pity, or maybe he was just that good at sneaking shit out of places unseen, in any case the small house he and his mother shared started to brighten up a bit. When he was 12, he stole his first bigger item: a guitar.

Wyatt’s mother had always enjoyed it when her father and son had danced or sung to older music, and it was this that sparked an idea in the boys mind. When his mother became too reliant on her drugs to keep up two jobs at once, he decided to teach himself to play as a ways of cheering her up. He had to be strong for his mother, had to keep her happy in trying times, just long enough to get her back on her feet. Just long enough that he could finish school and get a job to support her properly. Just until they could get her some help.

But fate would not agree with his plan, because fate is cruel, it takes what it wants and often from those who have nothing to give. It struck like lightning, setting ablaze the life he’d worked so hard to maintain, to support when no one else would help. It was during class one day in sophomore year that Wyatt was called to the principals office, to get the news the his mother had died. An overdose they said. Took more than her body could handle, and then it was just over. It seemed unreal, like a cruel joke. He didn’t want to believe it.

But eventually he had to face reality, having nowhere to stay and no one to look after him. He’d managed to make a few friends in high school, the romantics they were called, and they had become something of a second family to him. Yet it was as though that meant nothing to them when his mother lost her life. At least, it meant nothing to their parents. Everyone except Dylan Crane that was, a girl he may not have been especially close to before, but would grow to consider his closest friend within the next few years.

Dylan’s father offered to take Wyatt in, to let him live with them as part of their family. Never did he feel forced to fit in, but it certainly wasn’t easy to move into a new place, especially one with a daily routine that differed from what he was used to. And while he may have been reluctant at first, verbal fights and slammed doors on the worst of days, he grew to consider Dylan as a sister, and her father as his own.

Any grudge he once held for the other romantics for seemingly leaving him out in the cold has since vanished, as he’s realised that they were only teenagers, with limited power to do anything even if they had wanted to. Not to mention some of them had simply had different ways of helping. Some had stood up for him in the face of those who looked down on his mother, some had offered him the comfort of silence when questions were overwhelming, and some had been there to make everything seem normal again by simply not mentioning the tragedy.

A bit at a time, he found his place among his friends again, made his way back to a familiar role. There was nothing he wouldn’t do for those he called his friends, and he was sure that none of them would abandon him the way society had for so long. That was, until Laurel was taken from them. A loss that came so freshly after the one he’d only just started to recover from, opening up old wounds and adding new ones to the mix.

For Wyatt, there was never any intention of losing contact with the others. He did his best to keep in touch after they’d graduated, brief stays in holding cells keeping him from answering right away every now and then. By the time he finally started to get his act together and look for a “real” job, most of his friends had moved away or otherwise drifted apart. Not that they could be blamed, everyone had their own lives to take care of. It would be selfish of him to demand that they all stick together.

After jumping around between jobs for a bit, Wyatt finally found something that he could call the right one. He began working as a sound technician, working at various local events and venues, slowly building a resume. Having a few stains on his criminal record meant that it was hard to get anything good at first, but with time even some of the larger places felt comfortable contracting him as well, and he began moving around a bit, wherever the job took him. Though he never strayed far from home.

When everyone reunited, at yet another funeral, he was one of the first to agree to a road trip. Adventure had always been in his blood, and nostalgia told him that getting the gang together again would be fun, comforting. At the time he hadn’t really thought much about how the years could have changed them, but now that the trip is beginning, he’s starting to doubt whether he knows these people as well as he thought he did. Simply falling into old habits won’t cut it for him, but how do the others feel about him?

#romanticstask #bio #about #tbh I gave up somewhere in here but I wanted to get the details down anyway #so sorry if some of it is a bit dry?

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sylvesterbarzey · 6 years ago

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5 Zombie Books For Walking Dead Fans

Okay, I know I've been behind on my Headshot blog and I swear it will be back and will be more weekly than before but until then I thought I would give you Walking Dead nuts a few books to feed your undead needs until the show comes back for Season 9 (Which may or may not be its last season, I'm just saying it's not looking good) So lets just jump into it shall we?

RISE OF THE DEAD (ROTD BOOK1) BY JEREMY DYSON

“Best New Zombie Books of 2016

Blake was never one for taking chances. He lived in a world of formulas and equations. A statistician in a controlled society where everything had become predictably mundane. That world disappeared the day the dead got up and began attacking the living. Now, the end is here. Blake finds himself fighting for his life in a world that is rapidly spiraling out of control. He struggles to keep himself alive and must risk everything to find his family. Along the way, Blake finds himself thrust among other unlikely survivors. Together they must adapt to the realities of the undead world, or join the legion of zombies. The characters must overcome their conditioned human apathy and come together if they have any chance of survival. Rise of the Dead chronicles the first moments of the zombie apocalypse. While the story is a fast-paced thrill ride through an ever-growing zombie horde, the novel aims to draw upon familiar themes as those found in the Romero classic films.

My Thoughts: When I first heard about this book I pictured David Krumholtz's character Charlie from that show "Numbers" Maybe that's just me, but I think Charlie would be awesome in the zombie apocalypse. Much like Rick Grimms and any real zompoc story, we have Blake fighting to survive in this new world and find his family. In fact, Blake is already better than Rick because he has a dog, who unlike that poor horse isn't future zombie food. I plan on checking out this full series when I get some time from writing, but since you're not writing a zombie novel, you have all the time to sit down and dive into Dyson's world.

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THE DARKEST DAYS (DEATH & DECAY BOOK 1)

BY R.L BLALOCK

To protect and serve. The motto that every officer is taught from their first day in the academy. On a humid June day in St. Louis, it is a motto that could get Officer Wyatt Ward killed. Desperate citizens flock to the station as the officers of the Cottleville Police Department struggle to handle the chaos that is enveloping a city already shaken by rioting. But as darkness descends something much worse is rising. The deranged. Brutal, unforgiving, single-minded monsters that were once the citizens Wyatt was sworn to protect. Now, they attack. They bite. They infect. As fear takes hold… As the city begins to eat itself… As the world crumbles… What is a man who is sworn to protect to do as the world dies? The Darkest Days is the first book in R. L. Blalock's Death & Decay series. For readers who love a gory, action-packed, zombie-infested stories. Start the series for free today!

My Thoughts: One let me just say R.L. Blalock is an amazing person and author. I just got done with her interview on The Reanimated Writers Podcast the amount of work she puts into her books and her self-publishing business is amazing. Family, Full Time Job, Group Leader and Writer. Don't ever think you can't do it all, you just have to be willing to work for it. Now you have nothing to lose with this book because:

A) It's an awesome series to start

B) It's free!

Trust me, people, you can't beat this kind of deal. So go get you some undead horror today!

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BROKEN WORLD: A POST-APOCALYPTIC ZOMBIE NOVEL BY KATE L. MARY

Follow a group of survivors on a journey that spans eleven books and twenty years as they search for safety in a world overrun by the dead... When a deadly virus sweeps the country, Vivian sets out for California in hopes of seeing the daughter she gave up for adoption. Then her car breaks down and she’s faced with a choice: give up or accept a ride from redneck brothers, Angus and Axl. Vivian knows getting in the car with strangers is a risk, but with time running out, she’s willing to do whatever it takes to reach her daughter. The virus is spreading, and by the time the group makes it to California, most of the population has already been wiped out. When the dead start coming back, Vivian and the others realize that no electricity or running water is the least of their concerns. Now Vivian must learn how to be a mom under the most frightening circumstances, cope with Angus's aggressive mood swings, and sort out her growing attraction to his brooding younger brother, Axl. While searching for a safe place to go, the group meets a pompous billionaire who may be the answer to all their problems. Trusting him means going into the middle of the Mojave Desert and possibly risking their lives, but with the streets overrun and nowhere else to turn, he might be their only chance for survival...

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My Thoughts: Anyone that knows me, knows I love a good Final Girl story! Women in horror are epic and this character-driven story of a mother stepping up to save her kid from a Broken World is such a good take on the Zombie Genre. Rick finding his family with the group of survivors he saved was awesome, now add a cross-country road trip to that and you have a massive formula for some apocalyptic awesomeness. Book one is free and it's also in audio for you book listeners (like me!)

A PLACE OUTSIDE THE WILD (Z-DAY BOOK 1)

BY DANIEL HUMPHREYS

2017 DRAGON AWARD FINALIST - BEST APOCALYPTIC NOVEL

Eight years after Z-Day, the surviving remnants of mankind face the unknown. The fences and walls kept the ravenous undead at bay until they wasted away. A once overwhelming foe has turned feeble and weak, and a world gone wild seems ripe for reclamation. The scars of the long war run deep. And hope is a dangerous thing when the real enemy might just be the survivors themselves.

My Thoughts: I haven't read this series yet but I know two things, One I've been in love with this cover since I saw it last year and two It was in the running for a Dragon Con award! Being from GA and gearing up for Dragon Con this year, you know I'm hyped to read this one. While the concept feels more like Z-Nation because of the time Gap, the vibe of the story is real and dirty, much like the world of the walking dead. If anyone has read this one then please let me know what you think in the comments below.

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UNDEAD ON ARRIVAL BY JUSTIN ROBINSON

Today is the last day of Glen Novak’s life. Five years after the end of the world, the few remaining humans are barricaded in a small vacation town on the California coast, beset by hordes of the undead. A single bite turns a man into a walking corpse. There’s no cure and no hope. Someone made sure Novak was bitten and now he has one day to put things in order, protect his people and, most importantly, exact revenge.

My Thoughts: So I'm currently reading this one and I love the opening. I really just get your heart going and puts the tension in the story right from the start. I'm not surprised that I would enjoy this book because it's written by Justin Robinson the winner of The Reanimated Writers Rumble. While I was knocked out in the first round (I think people don't like my R-rated dialogue or I just suck) Justin went all the way and he took on some tricky topics. If you haven't checked out his work, then head over to Amazon and pick this book up now!

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WELL, THAT'S IT! FIVE AWESOME INDEPENDENT NOVELS FOR YOU WALKING DEAD FANS! I'M A Z-NATION BOY MYSELF BUT TO EACH THEIR OWN. I HOPE YOU TAKE THE TIME TO CHECK OUT THESE GREAT WRITERS AND IF YOU'RE LIKE ME AND WANT SOME LAUGHS WITH YOUR GORE THEN CHECK OUT MY CURRENT SERIES PLANET DEAD!

#zombies #zombie outbreak #zombie apocalypse #zombie #horror #horror fiction #horror writing #indiehorror #IndieWriter #supportindies #thewalkingdead #walkingdead #twd

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aion-rsa · 4 years ago

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The Woman in the Window Ending Explained

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This article contains The Woman in the Window spoilers.

Twisty-turny thriller The Woman in the Window has arrived on Netflix with some distinct Hitchcockian vibes. It’s based on the bestselling novel by A. J. Finn and directed by Joe Wright (Atonement, Anna Karenina, Darkest Hour), with Amy Adams as the titular woman.

This is classic high-concept crime drama in the style of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train while the premise is reminiscent of Rear Window. Adams plays Anna Fox, an agoraphobic woman who believes she has witnessed one of her neighbors being murdered in her own home, which she views from out her window. But something odd is going on here. The murdered woman – if she even exists, is not who Anna thinks she is. Is her tenant to blame? What’s going on with the 15-year-old who lives across the street? And why is his dad so aggressive?

These are just some of the many questions that may occur to you as you are following the labyrinthine plot of The Woman in the Window.

In case you missed a bit, we break down that ending.

The first big revelation that’s key to the plot is that the woman Anna meets on Halloween night is not Jane Russell – that’s just an assumption Anna makes. As you will recall, Anna goes to her front door to shout at some kids who are throwing eggs at her house but, overwhelmed by her agoraphobia, passes out. At the door is a woman with long blond hair (Julianne Moore) who helps Anna. Anna assumes she is Jane Russell because the woman says she has just come from across the street, and because previously Ethan (Fred Hechinger), the 15-year-old kid who lives at that address, brought round a lavender soap which he says is a gift from his mother. Anna has done some research on the Russells and knows a bit about them but not what they look like.

This woman – who we discover later is called Katie – spends the evening chatting and drinking with Anna. Though Katie initially questions being called Jane (“why would you assume that?”), she later draws a picture for Anna and signs it “Jane Russell.”

Later that night Alistair Russell (Gary Oldman) comes to the house and asks if anyone from his family had paid her a visit that night. Anna lies (or thinks she’s lying) and says no, because Katie (who she thinks is Jane) has indicated that Alistair can be rather rigid and controlling (which he can). Alistair is not looking for Jane – the real Jane (played by Jennifer Jason Leigh) is presumably at home. Instead he’s after his son, who presumably has had some contact with Katie – his birth mother.

Who is Katie?

We learn that Katie is Ethan’s birth mother. When she was eight months pregnant she left Alistair and disappeared. He spent two years looking for her, eventually finding her in a “meth commune” at which point he took Ethan, and Katie went to prison. Since then the family has been hiding from Katie – only recently had Katie discovered they had moved to Brooklyn and Alistair had been paying her to stay away from her son.

Katie spends the night with Anna’s tenant David (Wyatt Russell), who says she is a bit of a nightmare. He goes to spend the next night on a mate’s sofa so as to avoid seeing her. She leaves her earring in his room.

What’s David got to do with things?

Poor old David. What we make of this character will depend somewhat on how reliable a narrator the film is as well as how reliable Anna is. Initially David seems to be an essentially nice, friendly chap, a singer-song writer who does odd jobs to make ends meet who lives in Anna’s basement and offers to help her out occasionally. Anna is fairly frosty towards him – she is fairly frosty in general – but likes him (we learn, via a conversation, in her head, with her dead husband – more on him in a bit).

David does some work for Alistair Russell but doesn’t meet Jane. He also borrows a boxcutter from Anna when he’s helping a mate moves some boxes. David shows a much darker side when he finds Anna in his room uninvited, holding his post, including a letter which indicates he’s on parole and in violation of that. David says it’s because of a bar fight. He gets aggressive with Anna and is mocking of her agoraphobia. If this is real, he’s not a good guy. But Anna has changed meds and been drinking on the meds and is susceptible to paranoia and possibly hallucinations – just because she really did see Katie get killed does not mean the rest of her view isn’t skewed.

When Anna has a melt down she tells the police that David should be in prison, that he has a history of violence and accuses him of the killing. Anna has also been sent a picture of herself sleeping which David couldn’t have taken – he has a solid alibi for the night it was taken. After that, unsurprisingly, he decides to move out. On the night Anna is planning to kill herself she is waiting for David to get the rest of his stuff before she does it. In the video she makes by way of a suicide note she makes it clear he hasn’t nothing to do with her death. But before he arrives she finds the photo with Katie’s reflection in the wine glass. When David sees it he identifies her and is able to explain who she is to Anna. However he refuses to go to the police with her.

Turns out that was a bit of an error. Later that night David gets stabbed to death by Ethan.

Who killed Katie?

That would be Ethan. Ethan, it turns out, is a serial killer in the making. His first experience was with his father’s previous assistant Pamela Nazin who fell to her death from her sixth floor unit. Did Ethan push her? Not entirely clear, but he was definitely there when she died. Ethan reveals that it took her a full five minutes to die and watching her pass was a big part of the thrill.

Ethan then kills Katie, witnessed by Anna. We would assume that Alistair, and possibly Jane, are aware of this and send him away to something called The Wilderness Programme in New Hampshire which Ethan says is more like a prison. Rather than escaping from there, he just never went at all and has been hiding in Anna’s house all week. The sleeping photo was taken by him. When he learns she is going to kill herself he says he would have been content to just watch – he would have snuck in to say goodbye at the last minute. But after Anna finds the photo and learns about Katie she has a change of heart.

Ethan has already stabbed David and is planning on killing Anna. Anna tells Ethan she’ll go ahead with the suicide anyway – David’s death will look as if it was committed by Anna and she’s already recorded her suicide note. She pours the crushed up drugs she was preparing to use to take her own life into her glass of wine and takes a sip. But unexpectedly she smashes Ethan over the head with the wine bottle and runs rather than finishing the glass. After a chase and a fight where Anna gets a gardening fork in the face, she pushes Ethan through a glass skylight and he plummets to the bottom of several flights of stairs, dead.

Doctor Fox, your family is dead!

Before we cut to the very end, a quick recap on Anna and what the actual deal with her is. At the pinnacle of her breakdown, with Anna pointing fingers left, right and centre, accusing Alistair of child abuse, suggesting David might be the killer, Detective Norrelli (Jeanine Serralles) shocks Anna out of her psychosis when she points out “Doctor Fox, your family is dead.”

Though Anna had claimed to be separated from her husband (Anthony Mackie), with their daughter staying with him, it appeared that every night he would talk to her – she’d tell him about her day including suspicions about the Russells, and sometimes talk to her daughter Olivia.

Turns out that was all in her head. In reality Anna, her husband and daughter were on a trip, driving high in the mountains in the snow. Anna and her husband were arguing because Anna had been having an affair. While driving a phone call on her mobile from an unknown number, which may be from her lover, distracts her from the road and she crashes the car, which results in the death of her husband and daughter. Unable to forgive herself Anna later attempts suicide. The extreme guilt causes her agoraphobia as well as her delusions that she is speaking to her dead family.

The end

Believe it or not, The Woman in the Window has something of a happy ending. Having pushed a teenage psychopath to his death through a window, Anna wakes in hospital. Nice Detective Little (Brian Tyree Henry) is there and he offers Anna a full apology – Katie’s body has been found, the Russells are in custody and even though Alistair is keeping closed-lipped, Jane Russell is not. While Detective Little has seen Anna’s suicide video on her phone he opts to give her the chance to erase it before the phone is taken in as evidence, in an act of penance.

Nine months later and Anna has made a remarkable recovery all round. She’s sold her place and is moving house, and as she departs for the final time, she bids farewell to the ‘spirits’ of her husband and daughter that had kept her company while she was shut in there. Taking her cat with her in a carry case, Anna walks out the front door and into the world, her agoraphobia no longer present.

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40 Things You Never Wanted To Know About Me

You probably already know me decently well or else you wouldn’t be reading this, so instead of rehashing the basic (boring) “getting to know me” questions I dug a little deeper and asked myself about what’s really important. Here is the result: 40 Things You Never Wanted To Know About Me. Enjoy!

1. What Parks and Rec character am I?

While I could argue for almost everyone on the show I’m probably most like Ben Wyatt: a white, brunette, and sad man who eats soup alone on a park bench (minus his love of math and rollerskate kink)

2: Top 5 books?

To Kill a Mockingbird, The Secret History, A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Help, 11/22/63

3: Top 5 movies?

Chinatown, Star Wars, Rear Window, National Treasure (nick cage can be good in small doses ok) and Nancy Drew (2007)

4: Top 5 shows?

Parks and Rec, B99, That 70′s Show, Mad Men, Arrested Development

5: Top 10 most iconic vines?

1) Chris is that a weed/Mary is that a police

2) Hi My Name is Trey I have A Basketball Game Tomorrow

3) Rebecca It’s Not What You Think

4) The one where the girl is just hitting elmo with a baseball bat

5) Anything Kermit but esp. the one where he falls off the building

6) You Know This Boy Got His Free Taco

7) 2 Bros Chillin in the Hot Tub

8) Waelcom to my Keeetchen we have bananis and avocadis

9) Whoever Threw That Paper Your Mom’s A Hoe

10) i spilled lipstick in your valentino bag (yOU SPILLED WHAHULAUG LIPSTICK IN MY VALENTINE WHITE BAG)

6: Where do I see myself in 21 years?

One of my dreams in life is to marry the heir to a prestigious winery out in wine country. I have a vision of myself at 39, waking up at 10 AM on a tuesday and standing on my private balcony in my state-of-the-art spanish stucco villa. i am drinking a chardonnay despite the early hour whilst i observe my grape empire in my silk negligee. the only event planned for the day is a portrait sitting for my rottweilers (4 of them), for which i have arranged spaces in the family’s private art gallery. i am aging well despite the harsh california sun and my partner and i have a trip to tuscany planned for the fall. it’s a charmed life and i never tire of eating grapes

7: Top 5 favorite cryptids

1) Nessie (Nessie is a true lady I believe in her)

2) Mothman (not real)/ el chupacabra (possibly real)

3) the kraken (definitely real)

4) Bigfoot (not real but a legend anyways)

5) the yeti (real only in russia)

8: Do I Believe in Ghosts

It’s a complicated topic and of course we will likely never know for sure but the short answer is yes. in my opinion though, what ghosts are is the important question: are they really the dead coming back to haunt the earth? are they just manifestations of energy that the mind interprets into recognizable shapes? hallucinations? or is it wish fulfillment and the reduction of tensions on a heavy conscience? our brains are capable of powerful things, but it begs the question as to whether if a human desperately wants something to be true does the human mind have the power to make it true? c. s. lewis mentioned once that he never understood the ghost debate since, given that ghosts are real, they have no real power over us or anything interesting to say. but i believe that just goes to show how the mystery is far often more important than the solution.

9: Best/Worst Month of the Year

Best: May/November (spring/fall in full swing, holidays, time off school, great atmosphere) Worst: August (too dang hot & start of school)

10: What is one of my embarrassing secrets

I didn’t learn how to tie my shoes until I was nine (velcro ftw)

11: What is my Dream Date

We go cryptid hunting in the woods and have a picnic in the dark; you supply dogs for entertainment and guardianship purposes, i supply drinks and the cryptozoological myths we are chasing. Afterwards we get gelato

12: Top 3 Presidents

(this is based solely on arbitrary opinion not policies) 1) Barry Obama 2) Lincoln 3) Millard Fillmore (his name is funny)

Honorable mention: jimmy carter (he was the only noncorrupt man in office for like 30 years before barry)

13: Top 3 Vice Presidents

1) John Adams, if nothing else but for the drama this man caused 2) Walter Mondale 3) the big boy JB

Honorable Mention: Nichard Rixon

14: Top 3 Secretaries of State

1) Madeline Albright 2) Henry Clay 3) Elihu P. Washburn

(note: secretaries of state have the funniest names, like Hamilton Fish (1869-1877) rest easy Mr. Fish)

15: Worst Activity they make you do in middle school PE

Middle school P.E. is the worst in general but I’m going to say either grading you on your shotput skills (?) or BMI (??) or just the tuesday run in general (luther kids know)

16: Top 4 Worst Scents

1) Washing a knife covered in peanut butter 2) Really cheap perfume that they sell in checkout lines at convenience stores 3) Olives 4) organic deodorant

17: Top 7 Conspiracy Theories

1) The Denver Airport is an underground military fallout shelter designed to protect the 1% from nuclear warfare

2) A Roman pope adjusted the Gregorian calendar so that his reign would fall on 1000 AD so we’re actually living in the year 1783

3) Paul McCartney is dead and was replaced prior to the Seargant Pepper album by a lookalike named Billy Shears

4) The state of Wyoming is a myth

5) Avril Lavigne died and was replaced back in the early 00’s

6) The Titanic sank because too many people went back in time to prevent it from sinking

7) Not to be cliche George Bush and the military-industrial complex orchestrated the 9/11 attacks (jet fuel can’t melt steel beams and all that)

18: Inside jokes with myself

I’m not usually a “gamer” but every year without fail someone introduces me to a game exactly at finals time and I get hooked and it ruins my gpa and study habits. This year it’s Stardew Valley, last year it was Dream Daddy and the year before that it was undertale and I blame Jojo for absolutely all of it bc they are usually the instigator. Anyway, every year I joke with myself about what game will derail my grades this year

19: Top 5 Worst Tactile Sensations

1) Putting tights or leggings on wet, hairy legs post-shower

2) Running fingernails along cardboard

3) Sweating in a turtleneck

4) Having wet, salty hair after swimming that drips down onto your back and makes the top of your shirt damp

5) Reaching into a bag of grapes and only finding really soft, slimy ones

20: Best Cat I’ve ever encountered

One time my friend and I were leaving Romancing the Bean and walking back to her car and the fattest, fluffiest, softest ginger cat I’ve ever seen came trotting up to us and flopped over at our feet. He was such a good boy!!! And so friendly with strangers!! He was very well groomed and just wanted some love, and whenever we stopped petting him he would jump up onto our legs and leave little wet paw prints everywhere, I wanted to kidnap him

21: Best dog I’ve ever encountered

All of them

22: Best squirrel I’ve ever encountered

My dad has befriended a squirrel named Nutty that likes to sneak into his office when the door’s open and steals peanuts. if the door is closed he’ll bang on it and scream until we acknowledge him

23: If I were a furry what would my fursona be

I do not know because I am not a furry. HOWEVER someone who is well-versed in furry matters told me once that I would be one of those long, nervous dogs like a greyhound maybe and tbh I could see it

24: Favorite/Least Favorite Disneyland Rides

My favorite has always been haunted mansion, except for the halloween season when it’s nightmare before christmas and then it’s thunder mountain. I just love the outside atmosphere of the house bc I’m a slut for that southern gothic architecture style. Worst is splash mountain because there’s no seatbelt and LOGICALLY i know I don’t need one but it doesn’t stop me from having a panic attack every time I get on and we go up the big hill as I worry about being flung from the toboggan across the park

25: Least favorite restaurant within 10 mile radius of my house

I live over by Porto’s so I am #blessed to be surrounded by some really dope food. However there is a hipster place a couple of blocks over in Toluca Lake that only serves bizarre food like fried chicken in maple syrup with waffle fries and it’s surprisingly bland, so the lack of taste combines with how expensive it is probably makes it the worst (it’s also forgettable bc I can’t even remember its name)

26: Rank of JBHS history department according to how good of a parent they would be

9.Mr. Bixler - I have never had this man so I can’t say shit. NA/10

8. Ms. Snowden - I’ve never had her either but I’ve heard enough about her between Burroughs and Luther to know that this woman is kind of scary, intimidating and uptight, all things I personally do not desire in a parent. 2/10

7. Mr. Hatch - I love Scott Hatch but he is a tremendous mess of a man. Judging by his wife’s instagram photos his idea of parenting is taking naps while cuddling his children and letting his wife do the rest of the hard work. Plus he seems like the type to be too wrapped up in his own melodrama and too busy hangin out with his best friend Edward Frankenbush playing Xbox to pay much attention to his kids. However, he did skip the first day of school to take his daughter to kindergarten so he gets points for that. 4/10

6. Mr. Lee - Mr. Lee is a very respectable guy who seems like he does a very good job providing for his family. He’s ranked as middle of the road because he’s a naturally private person so I can’t speak to his parenting tactics or personality much, however the few stories he shared about his daughter were very cute and he does the typical teacher/parent things like making her his screensaver on his computer. Overall, a very quality dad and man, 6.5/10

5. Mr. Fitz - Kyle Fitzgerald is similarly a mess of a man, but the difference between him and Scott Hatch is that he seems to make an investment in his kid. He always talks about current events in terms of what idiocy his poor daughter will have to put up with which shows his devotion to her well-being and survival in a confusing world. Also he brought her in to go swimming once while I was working at Verdugo and I got to see them having a great time on the splash pad and it warmed my heart. Great dad 7/10

4. Mr. Piper - Richard Piper is such a good father but in a detached way. He loves talking about his son and wife just as much as he loves talking about planes. The real kicker? When he talks about taking his son ON planes and geeking out over history together. He also asked all of his classes for people looking for tutoring work when his son was struggling in math which is so cute. Good guy Rick gets an 8/10.

2. (tie) Mr. Frankenbush and Ms. Hacker - Ed and Jan are both beautiful people. I know Ms. Hacker is #divisive but I personally am a big fan and would die to have her guidance in my daily life. She’s always interested in what’s going on in people’s lives and sure she’s definitely chaotic but it’s a loving chaos that’s only looking to help other people. I’ve not had the pleasure of having Mr. Frankenbush but he always is hanging out with his son Joey and they love coming to the Burroughs pool and playing water polo together; they spend a lot of time together since his wife works so much and they have such a buddy friendship. Both of these lovely people are super devoted and invested in the youth and would make great parents. 9/10

1. Mr. Clark - A god. We don’t deserve this man and I can’t sing his praises enough. Were were all lucky enough to be Greg’s children I don’t think evil would exist in the world. 11/10

27: Worst book I read for school

Hands down Tale of Two Cities since it’s the only one I’ve never finished. Dickens just doesn’t do it for me I guess plus I get really tired of the one dimensional characters and how much he romanticizes Lucy

28: Favorite little-known tidbit of history

When Richard Nixon went to Soviet Russia as Eisenhower’s VP during the cold war his secret service agents detected higher than usual amounts of radiation coming from Nixon’s hotel room, so they started talking loudly about it bc they knew the Soviets had planted buds and were listening. Within like an hour the radiation had vanished and they never heard anything about it again so man Soviet’s ain’t sly

29: 5 Places in Burbank That Are Definitely Haunted

1. Coral Cafe for obvious reasons, look up the ghost on youtube

2. The View seems like it would have some kind of el chupacabra-esque creature prowling around, maybe a mountain lion hybrid

3. Fry’s Electronics

4. The abandoned train station under the bridge

5. The LA river by the equestrian center

30: Rank of all the AP classes i took in order of entertainment value

9) AP Bio: I liked bio but the class wasn’t very entertaining. There’s not a lot of humor in bacteria and cells, and Mr. Van Loo is much more of a calming than a humorous and chaotic presence, so overall it takes the hit as the least entertaining class.

8) AP Stats: Math is similarly not very entertaining, but Mrs. Hollingshed’s erratic personality gives it the edge over Bio. Definitely more humorous than expected of a math class.

7) AP Econ: I bombed econ and business/money isn’t very entertaining but Jan Hacker made it so thanks to her chaos (love her though).

6) AP Euro: European history is incredibly iconic because, spoiler alert, Europeans are idiots and historically speaking everything that can go wrong, will go wrong. I just wish I remember it since I think idiot sophomore Lily slept through most of the class so needless to say I didn’t soak up much of the entertainment value. If it were up to me I’d take it over again and maybe stay awake this time.

5) AP Lit: Lit was just as much challenging and intimidating as it was entertaining, so it balances out. Mrs. Caluya is notably iconic and the books we read were all pretty interesting so it gets a high vote from me.

3) (tie) Gov/APUSH: History is always entertaining in my eyes since people do stupid things out of pettiness. These two tie for different reasons: Mr. Piper is a great teacher and that mock trial we did for the industrial age was great, but the subject was also extremely entertaining overall. I loved reading about how John Adams made making fun of him illegal. Gov was mostly just entertaining because of Mr. Hatch and how salty his is about the government. His sarcastic comments about how corrupt everything is gave life to an otherwise pretty lifeless subject.

2) AP Lang: aka the class with no curriculum, or the Kuglen Hour. I love Mr. Kuglen so much and he is responsible for 99% of the amusement in the class. I somehow learned how to be a better writer by listening to him complain about Trump and everything else under the sun for an hour every day so it was well worth it. Also who doesn’t like a class where you read Dave Sedaris for homework?

1) AP Psych: Without question, this is the epitome of entertainment. Psychology is just a mishmash of people trying to figure out why humans are as stupid as we are and why we do dumb things. Add in all the iconic psychologists and history and a class led by salty Mr. Hatch and you have a recipe for an entertaining year.

31: Top 5 Iconic JBHS teachers that I NEVER had (no particular order)

Mr. Peebles: A quirky man who I would have loved were I any good at math whatsoever

Mr. Arakelian: Band kids hate him but the stories I hear are so frickin iconic that I wish I could be an honorary band kid for a day and see the horror firsthand. If you have Arakelian stories please send them my way I’d love to hear about your pain

Mr. Frankenbush: A sad boi who everyone should get to experience and I regret never having.

Dr. Madooglu: He was so kind to me after the failed anti-trump lunchtime protest last year and he didn’t even know me. I wish I could’ve experienced him as a teacher.

Mr. Clark: The man, the myth, the legend

32: List of some iconic swim horror stories

Charlie breaking his hand after he lost a race and punched the gutter as hard as he could

Some idiot JV boys smearing poop all over the Burbank High locker room

The entire JV team getting Burroughs swim banned from Islands

Me almost passing out at the Los Amigos meet last year after I didn’t eat or sleep all day

Everyone always feigning illness or injury to get out of swimming the 4x100 relay

Getting in trouble for watching boys volleyball practice instead of doing the weight room sets

Every. Single. 5AM morning practice before school.

When coach martin finally figured out how periods work and suddenly we couldn’t use that as an excuse for not swimming anymore

33: What Office Character Would I Be

A mix between Angela, Oscar, and Kelly (we love our dramatic icons)

34: #1 Thing I’d Bring With Me to a Desert Island

Castaway for instructional purposes

35: What Would I call my memoir

Schadenfreude

36: 7 Best Buzzfeed Unsolved Episodes (no particular order)

This is one of my favorite shows so these are my recommendations:

1. 3 Horrifying Cases of Ghosts and Demons - one of the very first and best episodes; a 45-minute special where the Boys investigate the Winchester house in San Francisco, the Island of the Dolls in Mexico, and the Sallie House in Kansas

2. The Strange Disappearance of D. B. Cooper - A man going by the name of Dan Cooper hijacked a plane, demanded money and passage to Mexico, and then at some point jumped out of the plane and was never seen again. To this day no one knows his identity or his fate despite some of the ransom money turning up in a river somewhere.

3. The Haunted Halls of Waverly Hills Hospital - Ryan and Shane explore an abandoned asylum in Pennsylvania and some creepy stuff ensues. One of the best supernatural episodes

4. The Thrilling Gardner Museum Heist - An almost hilarious story (with reenactments!) about a seriously inept security guard and the loss of some of the world’s most beloved paintings. This was one of the first episodes after they started making money and the production quality is off the charts

5. The Scandalous Murder of William Desmond Taylor - Another excellent reenactment story about one of Hollywood’s first and biggest scandals, the suspicious murder of a leading film producer.

6. The Enigmatic Death of the Isdal Woman - A woman’s body was found suspiciously burned in the European wilderness and no one knows who she is or how exactly she was killed. Watch if you like espionage!

7. The Strange Killing of Ken Rex McElroy - An entire town seemingly rose up to murder a douchey, violent pedophile. One of the only episodes that’s actually happy?

37: 6 Things I would Have Changed About High School

1. Definitely would have joined yearbook as soon as I could

2. Wouldn’t have forced myself to swim for all 4 years; if the passion’s gone then you shouldn’t force it. It’s just a sign that you need to move on to better things

3. I would’ve taken more AP’s and maybe tried another stem ap class. I’ve always been self-conscious about how bad I am at math, but I’ve gotten a little better over the years and instead of being too afraid to challenge myself I would’ve liked to see how I could do and prove myself.

4. Worrying less about grades!! I killed myself over my grades for like three years and then I just kind of let myself go. I would have let myself have who knows how many more hours of sleep and taken the L on a couple of assignments; I’m still learning that my health is more important than perfection.

5. Meeting the right people! I wouldn’t have restricted myself to a few friends and would have branched out more by joinng stuff like JSA. It sucks meeting the right people your senior year and realizing that I was hanging out with the wrong people this whole time.

6. Spanish instead of French.

38: What Would I Name My Farm Animals if I had A Farm

I’d definitely name them all after female Shakespearian characters. My cows would be Hippolyta and Titania from Midsummer, my horse would be Desdemona from Othello, my chickens would be Gonereil, Regan, and Cordelia from King Lear and my goat would be named Gertrude from Hamlet

39: Most Useless Talent I Have

I have a really strong internal clock so when I don’t think about it too hard and guess intuitively I can usually predict how much time has passed/what time it is without looking at a clock. It’s really only useful for estimating how much time I wasted standing in the shower staring at the wall

40: Top Regret After Writing This:

Writing this instead of studying for my econ test in seven hours.

Thanks for reading!

#writer's project #thanks jen for assigning this i had fun

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Review of 1107: Our Sons & Daughters

(cross-posted over on Facebook) It was a lovely surprise to have Mackenzie and Ian back this episode. (I mean, it was sort of spoiled in the 15-second preview and the First Look, but it was nevertheless a nice surprise.) I also cannot believe it's been nine years since "Divorce Horse". What a long way things have come since then. One major change for the couple is their child, Grayson. Diagnosed at three as having Autism Spectrum Disorder, we come to understand Ian and Mackenzie's lives revolve around doing everything they can to care for their son. So much so, there's little room for their marriage. I don't know much about the disorder, so I cannot comment objectively on how the subject was handled in the episode. However, my totally subjective opinion says it was handled with sensitivity. Heartland is a show about horses, so of course it would be thanks to a horse that Grayson experiences a breakthrough. (As an aside, I kept thinking Chance, the horse, would be leaving Heartland to go join Diva Girl.) Not too sure what to make of the Georgie/Wyatt/Adam road trip. Seemed a little aimless, but at the very least, it brought into focus the fact Wyatt felt he needed a buffer before admitting his attraction to Georgie. Very much liked Lisa's advice to her step-great-granddaughter (geez, that's a mouthful) about being forthright with Wyatt. And speaking of Lisa, I was pleased she was honest about the painting. The look on her face when she saw it for the first time said it all. And how sweet was Jack to attempt to tolerate it on her behalf? All in all, I was just happy they were in a good place after all the tension of the past few episodes. Another side note: I liked that the writers have not forgotten Lisa has family (Aunt Evelyn). Poor Peter. He can't seem to do anything right this episode, and it's all because Katie's simply missing her mother. At least this time it isn't bed-wetting, right, Pete? Oh... maybe not, since temper tantrums and picky eating seem a bit more difficult to deal with. Thank to Jen, he puts things into perspective: all he needs is one little "win" with Katie. That "win" manifests in Pete being the one to find her after she gets lost in the woods on that 600-acre property. Another aside: Pete seemed thoroughly overwhelmed by Jen when she blew into the kitchen with her gluten-free pancake ingredients (at least I think that's what it was; she was moving and talking really fast). Lisa Durupt already teased in an interview the fact that both Peter and Mitch are eligible men; I think it's looking like Pete and Jen might be an item. I already like Jen heaps, so I hope she finds some genuine happiness in the show at some point. Pete deserves someone nice, too. Who knows? It should be noted that while Amy's involvement was small this time around, she advocated for Grayson when Mackenzie seemed to be too over-protective. She wasn't pushy or overbearing; she just let the concerned parent be. (I'm like Amy: don't let it be another nine years before we see this family again.) Big thanks once again to Mark Haroun for another enjoyable script, and huge applause to the crew for the excellent cinematography. Wow, those drone shots were amazing! Til next episode...

#Heartland #Season 11 #Episode 1107 #Our Sons & Daughters #Review #my reviews

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Heartland 11x07 - Our Sons and Daughters review

Okay, so I guess i’ll start by saying, I’m so glad that they provided a flashback of Mackenzie/Ian, because as noted, i totally forgot who she was/what her story was and that quick flashback solved all my (and probably many others) problem of “Who was she again?”

We also learnt this episode that there is one sleep Ty comes home. Woohoo! (or not, I guess, depending on how you feel about his character atm)

I also need to point out WE GOT A NAME FOR THE ABANDONED HORSE! Chance! Finally! Remember all my posts last year about how that horse STILL doesn’t have a name?

(Also i think my Spam bot problem is gone. At least the messaging me inappropriate links part. So phew. Back to blogging)

GEORGIE & WYATT (and Adam)

“... but I wish I hadn’t invited him on the road trip with us.” “Why?” “Because there wasn’t a right time to do this”

I kind of like the Adam-Wyatt friendship. It’s unexpected since they’re kinda different besides their musical tastes and apparently taste in girls (although there’s a 1/5 chance of them dating the same girl.... apparently). I also enjoyed the scene of Jenn and Peter when they first meet and Peter has no clue who she is until halfway through the convo, especially when Jenn asks Peter what he thinks of G/W going on a road trip but doesn’t let him speak.

Anyways, Peter lets Georgie go as long as he can meet Wyatt. Fair. But maybe the girl should have given Wyatt a heads up before he came. I also loved that whole scene between Wyatt meeting Peter and the whole awkwardness of it all. And this has made me conclude that Gabriel Hogan has great comedic timing even when nothing is said.

“It’s okay if i friend him on facebook right?” - Peter about Wyatt

On a bad move on Wyatt’s part, he basically forces Adam to come along with (because he’s going to miss out) and Georgie doesn’t seem too pleased; she was expecting it to be just the two of them. Wyatt notices that something is wrong when Georgie is oddly quiet and objects to sitting in the front; however Adam gives sound sound advice- on not wanting to break into the museum but also on telling Wyatt to get out of the car and talk to Georgie, even if their convo was a little awkward on Wyatt’s end. He seems to have no grudges with her and Georgie and Adam seem to really truly be friends now, which I do enjoy. He is even looking out for Georgie’s best interests by making Wyatt leave the car and part of me thinks he also really didn’t want to go because he didn’t want to be a third wheel on the road trip.

Speaking of which, Adam keeping on wanting to go home when first they can’t get into the museum reminds me of the movie “Are we there yet?” but replace it with “Can we go home?”

I loved Lisa giving Georgie advice like the true step-grandmother (whatever she is) to Georgie. About how Wyatt was probably intimidated and telling Georgie to Woman up (Big Hero 6 anyone?) and not avoid Wyatt. Well. Really, I love anytime Lisa is on screen and not making questionable decisions and just being apart of the family.

“I would take these steaks to the dude ranch and stop avoiding him.” - Lisa

In the end, Wyatt apologies to Georgie for inviting Adam along, saying he regrets it (because there wasn’t a right to do to this [being the kiss]) and they kiss in the end. To that, I say finally! And also that I hope we see more of their relationship because I am really enjoying their relationship arc. They really are more compatible than Adam and Georgie.

As someone else noted, I didn’t really get the Gopher trip , but part of that is because i don’t get the museum , but i guess it led to progress in G/W’s relationship so its fine. Plus it looked fun.

[oops, this was a little long m’bad]

MACKENZIE, GRAYSON & IAN

Hey guys! Mackenize is back! And it’s been 9 years. Holy moly flashback. Amy introduces Chance (THE MYSTERY HORSE FROM LAST YEAR!) to Grayson when she spots him playing with his plane, but before he can even pet him, Mackenzie pulls him away, fearful for his safety. We learn later that Ian wants Grayson to take riding lessons, but Mackenzie is against it, even after Amy talks to her.

Grayson goes missing (briefly) and he’s found near Chance, patting and hugging him- this makes Mackenzie realize that maybe she shouldn’t be so scared, that maybe she should give it a chance. This turns out for the best because even though he’s initially he’s scared, after Mackenzie gives him a pep talk, Grayson is all smiles. This even pays out dividends later on when Katie “tags” him and he goes off to join Katie and Brick, a stark contrast to the beginning episode.

I don’t blame Mackenzie for being scared, but I do wish she would’ve trusted her husband sooner. Who knows, maybe nothing would have come of it, but it could have blossomed into something beautiful. Goats and horses can have a relationship, odd as it is, so who knows how special the relationship between Grayson and a horse could be? At the very worst, he doesn’t like them but at best, he improves. I admit that I don’t know much about autism or their mannerisms so maybe someone more educated about this (@callmebethany2010 ?) can advise if this storyline was well done, but overall I enjoyed it and thought it did it justice to my untrained eye- aka it didn’t bug me. I did think that a storyline with Mackenzie being afraid of her son riding a horse (even without Autism) would’ve also worked but overall I don’t have many complaints about how they handled this. I will defer to those who know more to speak.

Amy also did well this episode, not pressuring Mackenzie to let Grayson ride, instead letting her come to the conclusion herself, which she eventually did- and offering Mackenzie a trail ride instead. Once again, Amy didn’t have the A storyline this episode and i’m okay with that.

“Don’t go thinking this is because of the horse. This is years of therapy and specialists” - Mackenzie

“It can’t just be coincidence can it?” - Ian

“Does it really matter?” - Amy

No Amy. No, it doesn’t really matter. Progress is progress.

(Although it’s probably some combination of the therapy and the horse)

PETER & KATIE (and Brick)

Katie and Brick’s friendship are so adorable. I love them together, they even tried to include Grayson and seem to have fun outdoors with similar interests. Brick also sure seemed to open up with Katie around.

So Peter is back! Yay, but poor Peter. At first he can do no right in Katie’s eyes- he can’t do a french braid (neither can my dad), or an apparently good pony-tail. He is also forced to wear a crown, and then he overhears Katie telling Lou she’d rather be in New York... where the sushi is. She won’t even eat fried chicken.

This does just seem to be one of Katie’s mood swings though- and maybe she spent so much time with Lou in NYC she wasn’t used to having her father around, as it happens, because when Peter is the one who finds Katie, she seems nothing but happy to see him. She even starts eating hot dogs again at the bonfire and Peter seems much happier.

My take on this is that, Peter must have been away so much, and she basically spent the year with Lou in NYC- all used to Sushi and stuff that she needed time to adjust. Likewise, i’m sure the first few weeks of Katie in NYC took some adjusting. Little kids- not just autistic ones- like schedules and get used to habit so when something changes (ie. back at Hudson with her other parent), there may be an adjustment period.

Also shout out to Brick for being so mature about losing Katie and knowing what to do when he found Katie’s horse!

LISA & JACK

Lisa and Jack gets a great questionable housewarming present from Aunt Evelyn. Er... interesting. Just in case any of you did like it.

“Now i don’t know too much about this sort of thing, but I do know my wife has good taste so i should probably find a place to put this up”- Jack

“Katie could have done a better job painting it... it hurts my eye balls” - Georgie

All in all this leads to Lisa eventually taking the painting down, but putting it in storage, just in case Evelyn ever comes knocking. Lisa doesn’t need a painting to prove this is her home, but they do agree to go into town and buy a painting... together.

Despite this probably being a storyline C behind everything else, I really did enjoy this. After the last few weeks of turmoil, with Lisa moving in, the cloned horse and all this storyline was refreshing and it was really nice to see Lisa call Heartland home. I also loved to see Lisa interacting with the other family members and offering advice, because she is a valued member and this is her home.

SONGS IN THIS EPISODE ( @heartlandians)

I like you - Dempsey Bryk (via flashback)

Portrait - Evan Olson

Blue Heart - Maya Solovey

Everybody Feels It - Distant Cousins

Believe (See It In you) - Amy Stroup

NEXT EPISODE

Well, apparently Ty is back but he wasn’t in the preview. Oops.

Also, it focuses on Tim and his problems... it doesn’t go into details but it looks like Jack saying “i’ve never seen him/(you?) like this” and offering help but Tim saying he can handle it himself. Hm, should be interesting.

#heartland #11x07 #our sons and daughters #review

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junker-town · 6 years ago

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Urban Meyer’s not even coaching well any more

Meyer’s managerial shortcomings were already laid plain. He’s now doing a poorer job coaching football, too.

Ohio State lost to Purdue on Saturday. The Buckeyes actually got routed.

Going undefeated is difficult for anybody, Purdue was clearly a dangerous team, and Ohio State has recently struggled badly in West Lafayette. Road upsets happen, and one disappointing game wouldn’t normally be anything to get too worked up over.

But the way Ohio State lost to Purdue wasn’t a fluke or a blip. You don’t have to look very hard to see some problems at Ohio State that extend beyond just this one game, that there aren’t any easy solutions, and that they’re all tied to Urban Meyer.

Ohio State has a bunch of on-field problems.

The Buckeyes, a team with two NFL-caliber running backs and one of the best quarterbacks in college football, have become incapable of running the ball.

Ohio State rushed for 3 yards per carry against Purdue, a slight jump up from 2.9 the week before. Until now, the average had declined each game after Week 1’s game, which was against the Pac-12’s worst team. Struggling to run against Penn State or another solid front in the Big Ten East is one thing, but the Buckeyes couldn’t convert regularly against Indiana or Minnesota, either.

If you can’t run the ball at all, you run into red zone issues. Ohio State had four red zone trips against Purdue, amounting to six points. Finishing drives inside the 10 has been a recurring issue all season, against defenses good and bad.

A big reason for all of that? The decline in quality from the offensive line. The Buckeyes have linemen playing out of position, linemen playing after injuries, and linemen just struggling. For a unit that starts three seniors and is the product of Ohio State’s blue-chip recruiting, there is no excuse for the line to be the weak point of the team.

OhioState has been held below 4 yards per carry in each of the last five games. Surprising since the Buckeyes had only been held below 4 yards a rush six times in the previous five YEARS combined.

— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) October 21, 2018

The running issue is a new one at Ohio State. But struggles on offense, especially in big moments, are now new. The Buckeyes have had issues, building over the last three seasons, around over-conservative play-calling and a lack of execution. Until Dwayne Haskins came along, they hadn’t been able to develop a consistent downfield passing game.

It’s not a coincidence that Meyer’s three worst losses as a head coach have all happened in the last three seasons.

These problems exist because the program hasn’t developed players well enough, despite recruiting at an elite level.

Ohio State has not lacked for raw talent, though its recruiting is tracking in the wrong direction for 2019. For now, the Buckeyes one of the best rosters in the country and easily the best in the Big Ten, going by recruiting rankings.

But at positions of need, like the offensive line or secondary, not all of the younger players have been able to get meaningful playing time.

If O-lineman Michael Jordan, a productive guard, had to slide over to center, what does that say about players like high-four-star signee Josh Myers or the rest of Ohio State’s centers?

If the Buckeyes can’t open holes in the running game and a guy like Wyatt Davis, the top guard prospect in the country in 2017, can’t push for playing time, was he mis-evaluated or not developed enough?

If Ohio State signed top talent all over the field, and those players aren’t ready to push weaker performers at safety, cornerback, or elsewhere, what’s happening?

This is on Ohio State’s coaching staff. Meyer hired that staff.

One of the biggest causes of Meyer’s decline at Florida was his inability to adequately replace excellent assistant coaches who left for other jobs. Replacing Dan Mullen with Steve Addazio is the move most frequently cited by Florida fans as an example of a poor choice.

That might have happened again. There’s plenty of experience on staff, including ex-FBS head coaches Greg Schiano and Kevin Wilson. But both coordinators’ units have declined, especially Schiano’s defense. He’s been badly out-coached numerous times this year and famously allowed a big day by Iowa the year before.

When the Buckeyes needed a new linebackers coach, Meyer tabbed Billy Davis, a close personal friend who hasn’t managed to get enough production from his players.

Meyer’s managerial ability was already in doubt, to say the absolute least.

Among all of the things you could take away from the Zach Smith story that came into public view this summer, the school’s investigative report is clear: Meyer let a personal relationship interfere with his ability to discipline a clearly ineffective assistant coach, who should have been fired even before considering multiple accusations of domestic abuse against him.

And when Meyer was on suspension, the team’s other offensive coordinator, Ryan Day, filled in for him — because obvious choices Schiano and Wilson were unfit due to their own pasts.

Smith’s case was far more serious than linebackers not playing well. But there’s now a boatload of evidence that Meyer shouldn’t be trusted to make the managerial decisions a program needs its leader to make.

These problems don’t feel like ones that a bye week can fix.

Meyer is one of the most successful coaches in college football history. But Ohio State’s issues require the humility to make wholesale changes, especially with personnel, and that’s never been Meyer’s strength.

The best solution, for many reasons, might be for Meyer to retire after the end of the season.

That would allow Ohio State to either elevate Day, whom they reportedly have considered making the official head coach-in-waiting. Or they could look for a replacement on the open market.

If the school and coach stand pat, things might get worse before they get better.

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toomanysurveys9 · 5 years ago

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What kind of bottled water do you drink? smart water. i’ve also found i really like core water too.

Do you collect stuff someone else would consider junk? If so, then what? i don’t think so.

Do you download and burn music illegally? i used to.

Whats the most your electricity bill has ever reached? i don’t remember. but close to $300.

How much was your tax refund this year or did you pay? it was a decent amount is all i’m gonna say.

How are the kids doing? they’re good. eliana is sleeping. wyatt is watching simon with lilli and rose.

Do you see a bright light at the end of your tunnel? i don’t know about that.

Is your heart safely locked up or is it with someone else? with someone else. three someones actually.

Can you actually remember high school? yeah.

How many TVs are in your house? six.

Do you drink real coffee, and not the starbucks crap? i like iced coffee from dunkin donuts.

Do you remember your first love? yeah.

Do you own a bicycle and do you actually ride it? i do not anymore.

Can you still play sports? i could but i would rather not.

Whats your longest road trip? florida. it’s like a twelve hour drive or so.

Whats the most you’ve ever lost gambling? like $20 at the casino. i never spend more than that.

What is something you can never give up (thats not love or family)? reading.

What is the worst job you’ve ever held? crew member at any of the fast food places i worked. but mcdonald’s was the worst.

Where’s the worst party you’ve ever been too? this past party at kayla’s was horrible. people kept shoving shots and cherries down my throat, even when i was obviously done and said no. but i was too far gone to think of spitting it out.

Have you ever waited in line overnight for something? i don’t think so.

Is there such a thing as being too rich or too poor? yeah.

Who do you take for granted? i try not to take people for granted. but sometimes i do take my parents and jacob for granted.

Could you easily give up 3 close friends for a love, that you know, may not i don’t even have three close friends.

Whats worse: a crime of passion murder or a premeditated bank heist? murder.

How many concerts have you attended? quite a few. most were at the fair.

Do you think having an expensive phone is a good investment? i mean. i guess. but they also lose value so quickly because they have “newer, better” versions coming out all the time.

Do you have a 401k and if so, how much have you lost during the recession? i do not.

Any tattoos? and how many do you need or want to cover up because they were i have three. and i don’t want to cover any of them up.

How many funerals have you attended? a couple.

Have you lost anyone your age to death? not that i was super close to.

Have you ever witnessed a birth in person? yeah. a few.

Whats your guilty pleasure (thats not sexual)? lately, soda.

Go back to your freshman year, what kind of music were you listening to? mostly country.

#survey #surveys #personal #questions #question #random

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drjacquescoulardeau · 7 years ago

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RAN ZILCA – RIDE OF YOUR LIFE – 2014

One more of these books about a ride across and around the USA looking for some kind of epiphany, revelation, enlightenment that comes from easy-going and free-wheeling enjoyment of a trip that has no problem since you are running on a very expensive motorbike, with a very comfortable bank account and a credit card, and with a full family in the back that can always run to you if by any chance you end up in a hospital, or even a cemetery or a morgue. There is no adventure if there is no pain and work to experience all along to just survive and earn the little money you need to eat, find some shelter and find a way to go to the next stage when you have the money to do so.

This trip, like the one of Steinbeck in his Travel with Charley or the one of William Least Heat-Moon in Blue Highways, and so many others of any race or creed, is a leisurely middle-class (even upper-middle-class due to the expensive motorbike) vacation in a life that provides no surprise any more. And what’s more he learned little from the road and the people he could have met and spent some time with, but he did not, because his target is to go from one place to another and meet there pre-arranged people for interviews, and these people are intellectuals of some kind or other, university, academic or simply of the spiritual preaching type lolling in comfortable resources. So do not develop any illusion about this book. It will not teach a lot to the vast majority of people who have to work hard to just survive or live on. We are not dealing here with a survivor but with a temporary escapist who is looking for comfortable thrills from motel to motel, from gas station top gas station, from no danger to no danger, from no effort to no effort.

He is obsessed by Buddhism and most people he meets are referring to this philosophy, including the Dalai Lama and his Scientific Exploration of Compassion and Altruism. This version of Buddhism is designed and in fact reconstructed to fit with the American middle-class. Buddhism is not a science. Buddhism is a philosophy and it is based on three concepts: impermanence (anicca), cyclical birth-life-death ternary curse (dukkha), and absolute instability of self (anatta). Buddhism is based on the fact that anyone, any individual can, engage with enlightenment that is a personal eightfold path that has to be trodden by each one of us individuals with the only strength of our mind, solving all difficulties of living and even surviving day after day, to eventually reach the end of it, enlightenment itself, nibbana in one word. It is an individual and difficult path that we have to walk with the sole resources we have and if possible resources we have to earn at every single step with a begging bowl or with our work. And yet we have to think of others and serve them as much as we can with compassion and love because it is our positive tasks of generosity and support to others that give us the proper energy to activate our minds towards our sole aim and target: nibbana, our enlightenment that is all the easier to reach if we have a lot of merit earned in the past by our actions of compassion and love to others.

The Buddhist version you find in this book is reductive and very trite with some, especially the last two, opinions that overemphasize the individualism of our consumer’s society and the rejection of past and future in some kind of equilibrium that must only benefit our present, with an allusion to homeless people without seeing that their day to day life is not their choice, is not a liberation but an enslavement, is not in any way ethical or altruistic but only the result of some kind of victimization our consumer’s society is imposing on the weaker among us, and I should even say imposing it with even more force on the weakest among us. Think please to the many million people who were foreclosured by banks in 2008-2009 by the subprime crisis which was the cruelest possible experiment of the banks and the rich to impose consumer’s society and enslaving credit and mortgages onto those who could not afford such luxury, and then turning their enslavement into a way to make money through speculation by a very few minority and to the sole benefit of this very small minority.

I find this book in many ways a sorry excuse for a wealthy man to make us believe he has some bangs of conscience in front of his daily pre-programmed and over-satisfied over-satisfying life. And he dares wrap that up in some kind of Buddhist discourse, with no compassion for others, no love given to anyone else but himself and his own, no support for anyone or anything that is not in any way a hazard in and to his life of enjoyment with no crisis apart from the midlife crisis of a wealthy man. He is, in other words, the slave of the situationist selfishness he advocates with others: he thinks, lives and imagines only what his wealthy situation of a middle-class or upper-middle-class MAN (and I mean here MALE) enables him to see, hear, experience, reflect upon etc.

The trip across the USA from coast to coast and back with no credit card, with no money in the bank, with no more than a ten-pound bag of clothing, is still to be done. Imagine Of Mice and Men, with two credit cards, two bank accounts, no work along the road, and a safe haven in the back to which George Milton and Lennie Small could always have come back, safe and unmenaced, unchallenged. Enjoy the story of a saturated mind in a body that has never known hunger or thirst, even in the Death Valley. And he did not even choose to stop in KOA camping sites. He used motels. Shame on that touristic more than easy riding trip that would have shamed Wyatt (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper) of an old hippy time film in which the two men and their Harley-Davidsons were at least trying to survive with nothing in their pockets and bags, except some marihuana, though they had some backland that was not entirely miserable and poor, be it only because of the Harley-Davidsons they were running. But they at least did not go to motels.

I was severely disappointed.

Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU

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traviswsoul · 7 years ago

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Day 23 Bullards Beach to Oregon Dunes KOA 51 miles

July 21 5:02 time, 2,111 calories, 2,894’ climbed, 10.2 avg mpg This morning was nice because 5 of us were all camped in the small site we shared and ended up packing up, making breakfast and coffee, and eating together at the same table. Jen and Bill were doing Vancouver to San Francisco celebrating their 20th anniversary, and in turn creating some serious relationship goals for myself. Matt was from Kentucky and came to the Seattle to Portland ride with some friends and was soloing now down to San Francisco. Wyatt and Jake were headed inland. We were all prepared, efficient and well in stride on our trips, I enjoyed being with such competent and sustainable travelers. Wyatt was new to all this but he was still packed and out as early as the rest of us. The story they were still laughing about when I pulled up was that after 700 miles Bill was the first to enlighten Wyatt about shammy, the pad that line our riding bibs and cushion the pelvic floor on the saddle. The poor guy had no idea and thought everyone just suffered through and manned up like he had been doing. I didn’t have the audacity to take the conversation with this old man to the shammy butter we use as lube either. The one I’m using is called Buttonhole. I was off to a good start. Five and a half miles in I got a low battery warning on my bike computer so I pulled over at a turn off on the 101, pulled the yellow rain cover off my panier enough that I could access the top pocket where I store wires and chap stick both of which are accessed frequently as I ride since I’m able to harness power from the pedaling and charge my devices as I go, and well, wind and sun. I retrieved the correct cord, micro usb, which I think is a crappy plug design because it doesn’t hold itself in well at all, zipped the pocket and rode off. While I had been fidgeting with the rain cover it had slipped off and under, and some how was out of view. Over eight miles later I realized it was gone. A single, loud and appropriate use of the word “fuck” was exclaimed with gusto, not so much for the cover itself but for Garmin’s proprietary charging cable I need for my Camera that is in the pocket of the cover. I considered for a second if it was easily replaceable, knew it wasn’t and then started back tracking. This was the third time to use the dangerous process of riding against traffic on the shoulder while being totally distracted watching for the missing item instead of the fact that your on the wrong side of the road! Luckily it has worked each time, and this time I was looking for a big yellow thing which should be easy to spot. Throughout the ride I pieced it together and knew that it must have been back where I pulled off earlier, all though this didn’t keep me from entertaining the improbable idea that I had drug it miles down the road before it blew off without me noticing. When I was nearing where I thought I had stopped I saw two orange vested young people in their summer employ picking up trash on the side of the road. They hadn’t seen my yellow rain cover but directed me further on to inquire with their colleagues. On my way I came upon two trash bags that had been filled and left for later pick up. I stopped and dug through them looking for a sizable yellow thing to no avail, I secured the bags closed again and continued on. Another worker, this one a surprisingly pretty girl, was no help. Finally three dudes, one of which was hiding that he was drinking a beer, were the last of the crew, another of them answered my question with a definitive “Yeah." It quickly materialized out of the bag in his hand but with no cable, my heart sank, I told him why and he also vividly remembered the cable that was in it. I emptied and inventoried two other bags but found nothing except real trash. He was sure he had seen it though and was confident it was in some bags they had left further up north on the road, the bags I had looked in. I wasn’t looking for a small black usb cable the first time though, I had eyes for a big yellow piece of fabric. I peddled back up, going back the right way now, and returned to the bags, put on my greasy bike maintenance gloves and went to work. One bag, nothing, the other also nothing, so back to the first bag and in the very bottom of the bag pressed into a corner among rotted dirty cardboard, cans, trash, dirt and a puddle of mystery liquid, I saw my kinky black and filthy wire I now had eyes for. I pulled it out, lifted it high above my head and belted out an exuberant "Fuck Yeah,” perfectly illustrating the diversity of the word with one of it’s many vast spectrums of emotion! I left a note for the litter crew saying "I found it” and my instagram handle, I hope they are able too look it up and get a kick out of this working out, I know they were rooting for me when I left them. Eight miles back to where this all started and I had added over sixteen unexpected miles to the day, plus now it was already afternoon and the wind was blowing right at me. I just had to get over the Coos Bay bridge and I could stop to eat and evaluate the rest of the day given the current events. I knew I wasn’t making it where I had planned. I stopped at the Oregon Dunes KOA. Dunes, as in sand dunes, as in bad ass dirt bikes and four wheelers and buggies with paddle tires hauling around and jumping sand dunes, dunes. This place is clearly a destination for ATV vehicles, I’ve been sitting here watching one sweet rig after the other come rolling back into camp after a great day in the dunes, it looks like a lot of fun! I met another guy who gave me a lot of camp food because he had way more than he needed for his trip that’s gotten cut short. Score!

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deltamovies · 8 years ago

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul

Release Year: 2017

Rating: 3.6/10 ( voted)

Critic's Score: /100

Director: David Bowers

Stars: Jason Drucker, Alicia Silverstone, Tom Everett Scott

Storyline A Heffley family road trip to attend Meemaw's 90th birthday party goes hilariously off course thanks to Greg's newest scheme to get to a video gaming convention. This family cross-country adventure turns into an experience the Heffleys will never forget.

Writers: Jeff Kinney, David Bowers, Jason Drucker, Alicia Silverstone, Tom Everett Scott, Jason Drucker, Alicia Silverstone, Tom Everett Scott, Charlie Wright, Owen Asztalos, Dylan Walters, Wyatt Walters, Joshua Hoover, Chris Coppola, Mira Silverman, Carlos Guerrero, Danny Vinson, Stephen 'Big Steve' Dupree, Neva Howell, Ricky Muse, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Cast: Jason Drucker –

Greg Heffley

Alicia Silverstone –

Susan Heffley

Tom Everett Scott –

Frank Heffley

Charlie Wright –

Rodrick Heffley

Owen Asztalos –

Rowley

Dylan Walters –

Manny Heffley

Wyatt Walters –

Manny Heffley

Joshua Hoover –

Mac Digby

Chris Coppola –

Mr. Beardo

(as Christopher A. Coppola)

Mira Silverman –

Brandi Beardo

Carlos Guerrero –

Luis

Danny Vinson –

Hog Man

Stephen 'Big Steve' Dupree –

Tall Farmer

Neva Howell –

Farmer Lady

Ricky Muse –

Butter Vendor

Taglines: A Wimp will rise

Details

Official Website: Official Facebook |

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Country: USA

Language: English

Release Date: 3 Jan 2017

Filming Locations: Atlanta, Georgia

Box Office Details

Budget: $22,000,000

(estimated)

Opening Weekend: $7,126,084

(USA) (19 May 2017)

Gross: $13,581,961

(USA) (26 May 2017)

Technical Specs

Runtime: 91 min

Did You Know?

Trivia: Jeff Kinney expressed interest in making the film animated. See more »

Goofs: The van the characters are in has an Ohio license plate. The GPS says it will take 47 hours to get from Ohio to Indiana. It should take them much less time than that. See more »

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Rating: 1/10 Diary of a Wimpy Kid, the Long Haul, simply put, is a bad Film.

Summing up The Diary of a Wimpy Kid, The Long haul = Predictable dialogue, predictable action, predictable repetitive jokes from the past, a lousy no-chemistry cast, and profoundly boring. The fact that everyone in the cast comes off as "acting" is just another nail in the coffin.

About 98% of the reviews on Long Haul point out how bad the movie is. Variety and Hollywood Reporter gave it some kudos. Which shows that a big studio, like Fox, can still "Pay Off" reviewers in an attempt at not making the film a "total bust", which it is.

You had an iconic cast in the first 3 movies that were excellent. The original cast had charm, chemistry, great interaction, and made 3 very entertaining movies based upon Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. This movie, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, the Long Haul, just doesn't connect at all.

The Long Haul film is sort of like a stand alone idea created in an attempt to "con" the public into thinking this is a continuation of the original three movies. It is nothing of the kind. The movie is so bad on all accounts that 20th Century Fox had to go out and try and get the original cast members to say something nice about the movie. But that just came off as a "cheap hustle".

The story and performances are not funny. This movie reeks of predictable action and dialogue, as well as a cast that are, simply put – just bad, without cohesiveness or chemistry.

Our 4 kids, my wife and I really enjoyed the first 3 Wimpy Kid movies and we watch them over again, to this day. I don't think anyone could ever take the place of Zachary Gordon as Greg Heffley, even though a very weak attempt was tried. Gordon "was" Heffley and performed masterfully as the main character and kept true to the personality of Kinney's book series character. In the Wimpy Kid, Long Haul, the part of Rowley, which was so prominent in the first 3 movies and in Kinney's book series, has been completely downplayed to almost non-existence, with little screen time. Let's not even talk about the actor who they chose to play Rowley – what an amateur and not believable in any way.

The actor who plays Rodrick came out of "left field" and is a farce in that he doesn't fit the character of Roderick both in physiology and performance. He doesn't match the characterization as written by Jeff Kinney. Devon Bostick (the original Rodrick) could surely have played the part since Hollywood uses 25-35 year-old's to play Jr. High and High School kids anyway. In addition, attempting to replace Rachel Harris and Steve Zahn with Barrymore and Tom-Everet makes it all an underwhelming, futile attempt at movie making.

This is a movie that should never have been made. The original movies were fun and entertaining. Wimpy Kid, Long Haul is an empty attempt to make money as an "after-thought" and rip off the public because Fox was too stupid to make 6 back-to-back Wimpy movies, which they could have done, when they had the opportunity. Apparently, 20th Century Fox is not a pro-active or foresightful studio as, for example, Warner Brothers or Universal would have been. Ie: Warner Bros shot Harry Potter movies back to back. Fox could have easily made 6 Wimpy Kid series movies from the original cast long before they matured and everyone would have been happy.

Don't waste your time or money on this poor attempt at resurrecting the Wimpy Kid movie world. If the studio had 1/2 a brain, they would have made this an Animation Film instead, which might have garnered some interest from the fans.

Find something else to do with your own time or kids this weekend as sitting through the Wimpy Kid, Long Haul is just that – a boring long haul.

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