#ron maclean

[annieqattheperipheral]

y'all... speechless.

Yet unsurprised and just laughing and laughing and laughing and yes crying but also so much hysterical laughter bc i don't know which way is up anymore i enjoy this man sm

he duped us with his pretty curls

[dadsinsuits]

Ron MacLean

[oldshowbiz]

Hockey Night in Canada (1995) featuring Stompin Tom

[cam3ron77]

sometimes i generally forget tumblr exists, and then boom it appears again

[travisdermotts]

I still can't believe how fucking insane that Garry Bettman interview was today. He:

Referred to pride night and all other celebrations as "social issues"

Said that there was a line that the league would not cross and that included homophobia, racism and misogyny but then went on to defend those who did and have, in fact, crossed that line

Said they wouldn't force any players to go against their "beliefs" (again we are just talking about the concept of gay people simply existing and watching hockey here)

Claimed that it was only a handful of players that did not want to participate and denied Ron insisting that there might be a systemic issue here

Completely downplayed the league's role in the Team Canada report even though multiple players are currently in the NHL

And so many more that I can't even remember because the minute I saw his face I was struck with white hot rage

(it will never cease to amaze me how people are more comfortable protecting homophobes than the people that just simply want to exist)

[rickchung]

The Instigators (dir. Doug Liman).

Apple's breezy Beantown action-comedy offers some fairly low-key stakes to its heist. Boston natives Matt Damon and Casey Affleck (also a co-writer) in their finest New England accents reteam for a bumbling buddy pairing as unlikely thieves on the run that's not nearly as fun as it should be and leaves audiences wanting more. There's just not much to the working-class film where most of the stacked cast of characters actors only get a handful of scenes and little to no character arcs. Most of what you think the botched caper is leading to happens in the first act before the pair stagger their way through obstacles after a robbery gone wrong—all that for only $32,480, though?

[feetlover26]

Ron MacLean

[laurastacey]

Canadians who should appear on Murdoch Mysteries:

Summer McIntosh

Mitch Marner

Jully Black

Hal Johnson and Joanne McLeod

Rick Hansen

Lisa laflamme

Dr. Bonnie Henry

Ethan Katzberg

Wayne Gretzky

Paul Henderson

Ron MacLean

The blue puppets from "don't put it in your mouth"

Steven Sabados

David Suzuki

Jann Arden

Bianca Andreescu

Elvis Stojko and/or Kurt Browning

Tessa Virtue

Sarah Nurse

Mary Simon

[inthemirrordorkly2]

Inspired by @cardassiangoodreads

[scotianostra]

Happy Birthday actor Tommy Flanagan who turns 58 today.

Flanagan was born in Eaterhouse, Glasgow on July 3rd 1965, the former painter and decorator got into acting after a stint DJ'ing and a violent episode which left him with his distinctive scars, he was randomly attacked outside a Glasgow bar, slashed horribly and robbed.

His friend Robert Carlyle then persuaded him to join him with his theatre company, Raindog Theatre, but it was not an overnight success for either of them as Flannagan admitted in an interview neither of them ha “a pot to piss in” he remembers “touring the Highlands in this old blue Transit van, but it had a broken window. It was so freezing inside, one of us had to hold a piece of cardboard up to stop the wind coming in.”

Two years later, he, and almost every other actor in Scotland, appeared in Braveheart. But Flanagan stood out. Mel Gibson told him to come to America. A year later, the Scot did, but the journey west was more about being with his then wife Rachel, an American film producer. Rachel, was from San Diego and he followed her home.

Of course Tommy had appeared in a couple of things beforehand, the obligatory Taggart being the standout, but it was after the William Wallace romp that he got noticed, Rab C Nesbit, A Mugs Game and The Saint followed that, of The Saint, he confirms something I assumed for a few years "Val Kilmer is a prick”.

Tommy got roles in Face Off , The Game and Plunkett & Macleane before the excellent Ratcatcher, set in 1970’s Glasgow and written and directed by fellow Glaswegian Lynne Ramsay, Flanagan plays the main part’s Da, George Gillespie, if you haven’t seen it do so, it’s a great film. One person who agrees with me about Ratcatcher is actress Drew Barrymore, who had seen Tommy in the film and called him up and offered him a part, of the film Tommy admits “You get to have your ass kicked by Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu and Drew Barrymore. What’s bad about that?” Who gave you the best ass-kicking? “That’d be Lucy.”

Among Tommy’s other films are Trauma, Smoking Aces and Sin City, he was making a steady living in Hollywood but it wasn’t until the part of Filip ‘Chibs’ Telford in Sons of Anarchy in 2008 that people started recognising him for his acting, rather than the glesga guy in the films with scar, he is also an occasional face in the spin off Mayans MC.

The series was an international hit. But Flanagan had mixed feelings about the role. His character was called Chibs, for a start. Flanagan didn’t miss the irony; he’d gone to Hollywood to forget the worst memories of Glasgow life and was playing the sort of creature who’d attacked him.

Flanagan admits to previously playing up to the hard man characters he portrays, but his wild days have been behind him since meeting Dina his second wife, they have been married for 12 years now and they have a daughter together.

Tommy has recently appeared in the TV series’, Westworld and Wu Assassins which are on Sky Atlantic and Netflix respectively. We also seen him in the movie There Are No Saints, teaming up with SOA co-star Ron Perlman and fellow Scot Brian Cox, I wasn’t impressed with the film, but if you like action and gore you might want to give it a go.

I have been more impressed with Tommy in the latest instalments of the Power Book series, where protagonist Tommy Egan heads for Chicago and pits his wits against Walter Flynn, played by Flanagan. The series can be viewed as a stand alone, or you can go back and watch the beginnings in Power, which ran from 2014 to 2020.

Tommy will be back with season two of the gangster saga which is premiering on September 1st. Tommy has two movie projects set for next year, Road Movie Casey and Mary and Sleeping Dogs.

[mitchmrner]

the symbol of ireland is not a shamrock, it’s a harp but go off ron maclean i guess?

[oldshowbiz]

Hockey Night in Canada (1987)

[cam3ron77]

oh my lawd

[nem0c]

Vietnam War - Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, June 1968

Sourced from: http://natsmusic.net/articles_galaxy_magazine_viet_nam_war.htm

Transcript Below

We the undersigned believe the United States must remain in Vietnam to fulfill its responsibilities to the people of that country.

Karen K. Anderson, Poul Anderson, Harry Bates, Lloyd Biggle Jr., J. F. Bone, Leigh Brackett, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Mario Brand, R. Bretnor, Frederic Brown, Doris Pitkin Buck, William R. Burkett Jr., Elinor Busby, F. M. Busby, John W. Campbell, Louis Charbonneau, Hal Clement, Compton Crook, Hank Davis, L. Sprague de Camp, Charles V. de Vet, William B. Ellern, Richard H. Eney, T. R. Fehrenbach, R. C. FitzPatrick, Daniel F. Galouye, Raymond Z. Gallun, Robert M. Green Jr., Frances T. Hall, Edmond Hamilton, Robert A. Heinlein, Joe L. Hensley, Paul G. Herkart, Dean C. Ing, Jay Kay Klein, David A. Kyle, R. A. Lafferty, Robert J. Leman, C. C. MacApp, Robert Mason, D. M. Melton, Norman Metcalf, P. Schuyler Miller, Sam Moskowitz, John Myers Myers, Larry Niven, Alan Nourse, Stuart Palmer, Gerald W. Page, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Lawrence A. Perkins, Jerry E. Pournelle, Joe Poyer, E. Hoffmann Price, George W. Price, Alva Rogers, Fred Saberhagen, George O. Smith, W. E. Sprague, G. Harry Stine (Lee Correy), Dwight V. Swain, Thomas Burnett Swann, Albert Teichner, Theodore L. Thomas, Rena M. Vale, Jack Vance, Harl Vincent, Don Walsh Jr., Robert Moore Williams, Jack Williamson, Rosco E. Wright, Karl Würf.

We oppose the participation of the United States in the war in Vietnam.

Forrest J. Ackerman, Isaac Asimov, Peter S. Beagle, Jerome Bixby, James Blish, Anthony Boucher, Lyle G. Boyd, Ray Bradbury, Jonathan Brand, Stuart J. Byrne, Terry Carr, Carroll J. Clem, Ed M. Clinton, Theodore R. Cogswell, Arthur Jean Cox, Allan Danzig, Jon DeCles, Miriam Allen deFord, Samuel R. Delany, Lester del Rey, Philip K. Dick, Thomas M. Disch, Sonya Dorman, Larry Eisenberg, Harlan Ellison, Carol Emshwiller, Philip José Farmer, David E. Fisher, Ron Goulart, Joseph Green, Jim Harmon, Harry Harrison, H. H. Hollis, J. Hunter Holly, James D. Houston, Edward Jesby, Leo P. Kelley, Daniel Keyes, Virginia Kidd, Damon Knight, Allen Lang, March Laumer, Ursula K. LeGuin, Fritz Leiber, Irwin Lewis, A. M. Lightner, Robert A. W. Lowndes, Katherine MacLean, Barry Malzberg, Robert E. Margroff, Anne Marple, Ardrey Marshall, Bruce McAllister, Judith Merril, Robert P. Mills, Howard L. Morris, Kris Neville, Alexei Panshin, Emil Petaja, J. R. Pierce, Arthur Porges, Mack Reynolds, Gene Roddenberry, Joanna Russ, James Sallis, William Sambrot, Hans Stefan Santesson, J. W. Schutz, Robin Scott, Larry T. Shaw, John Shepley, T. L. Sherred, Robert Silverberg, Henry Slesar, Jerry Sohl, Norman Spinrad, Margaret St. Clair, Jacob Transue, Thurlow Weed, Kate Wilhelm, Richard Wilson, Donald A. Wollheim.

[virtchandmoir]

Jenne Ann: Just hanging out with my good friends Ron and Tessa last night chatting about Classroom Champions.

I truly won the lottery becoming a part of the Classroom Champions family 10 years ago. Since, all my students have been fortunate to learn different skills like Goal Setting, Emotions, Perseverance, Receiving Feedback and Healthy Living from an Olympic or Paralympic athlete who is genuinely interested in their success. It’s a pretty unique and fabulous relationship and one that causes every one of us involved to become even better versions of ourselves.

Being the teacher of this unique experience, I often am gifted some special opportunities like yesterday when I got to sit at the Glenn Gould Studio with Tessa Virtue and Ron MacLean and talk about my experience with Classroom Champions. I have developed so many relationships with the Classroom Champions team along with Olympians and icons like Ron. I would never even have dreamed of meeting these people let alone knowing they truly care about my well-being and the well-being of my students.

Thank you Steve Mesler and Leigh Mesler Parise for starting something so amazing and bringing me along 10 years ago and letting me continue to stay. You both have certainly become my family.

[inspectorseb]

On sportsnet Ron Maclean was just interviewing Gary Bettman and of course he was asking about the recent Rangers pride controversy and the 2018 Canada world juniors incident. Which obviously Bettman was just trying to avoid all the questions and basically imply that they have nothing to do with it, but Ron was having none of it lmaooo