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Bonus Folk Friday track is a song about migrant workers. Another Woodie Guthrie cover. Pastures of Plenty.

I saw Holly and Ronnie perform this live back in the 90s

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YNGWIE MALMSTEEN reviews fellow guitarists' solos including NUNO BETTENCOURT, ZAKK WYLDE, CC DEVILLE, and RITCHIE BLACKMORE in HIT PARADER, August 1992.

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W A T C H I N G

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O’Sullivan-effekten

Mer än någonsin tjatas det om ”O’Sullivan-effekten”: alla förståsigpåares övertygelse om att mötet med den största gör var och varannan spelare vindögd och paraplegisk. Var det rentav en tourspelare som dryftade att några av O’Sullivans titlar under året kommit sig av uteblivet motstånd?

Allt detta är givetvis trams, trams, trams. Ryan Day skulle inte spela bättre mot John Higgins, och han skulle definitivt inte ”slappna av och spela sitt eget spel” mot en medelmåttig kvalspelare. Misstag är en del av spelet, men de glöms bort snabbare när de inte straffas. Kyren Wilson vinner inte sina matcher för att motståndarna skakar av skräck; han vinner med bättre spel, bättre nerver, bättre uthållighet. Och färre misstag. Samma som Ronnie.

Nåväl, alla försöker vi tyda snookergudarnas tecken. Och ingen renlärig trodde väl att Luca Brecel skulle bryta ”The Crucible Curse”, förbannelsen som säger att ingen kan försvara sin första titel, och orimligt ofta åker ut redan i första omgången. Brecel mötte den tidigare semifinalisten David Gilbert, en personlig favorit som mer än en gång har visat på storartat spel i VM. För åtta år sedan höll Gilbert en träffsäkerhet på 93 procent mot O’Sullivans 95 när han föll 7–10 i första omgången (så mycket för O’Sullivan-effekten). Han hade varit min favorit mot Brecel även utan förbannelsens assistans. En bekväm seger mot Robert Milkins följde, men kvartsfinal mot Maguire blir tuffare. Att dessa herrar är rankade 31 och 28 i världen är häpnadsväckande, men visar också på VM är ett säreget vidunder som vissa är bättre lämpade att tampas med.

Så en drömfinal för mig och kanske bara mig: Gilbert – O’Sullivan. Naturally.

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Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) Review

Beverly Hills Cop II is a worthy sequel to the illustrious original that overcomes a familiar plot with an injection of Tony Scott's signature style. #Review

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'Beverly Hills Cop II' (1987) film

-watched 7/20/2024- 4 stars- on Paramount+

49% Rotten Tomatoes

Thought I had seen this before but don't remember seeing any of the scenes in this one. To me, this BHC movie was even funnier than the first.

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Paul Gilbert : The Dio Albm

Paul Gilbert is an 80s guitar vituoso survivor. He was one of THE 80s guitar shredders, coming out of the Guitar Institute of Technology in the mid-80s in Los Angeles and formed the speed metal band Racer X, recording on Mike Varney’s Shrapnel Records. But his biggest gig was the pop metal band Mr. Big, alongside bassist Billy Sheehan, where they competed with Extreme as the most technically…

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Paul Gilbert - Heaven And Hell (The Dio Album)

This is so brilliant! Just ordered myself the album, can’t wait until April when it’s released!

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New Assignment Awaits you Prof Bukenya- Makabai Speaks out as Pastor Mitala and Bugingo ask EX VP to become Born Again.

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Steamy Saturday

The novel that dares to tell the truth about a perverse love.

Theirs was a love no man could share!

Draga yielded her long-legged girlishness to unnatural embraces. . . . it was an ecstasy such as Draga had never known.

Her lips were tender and clinging as she pressed them to Jo's voluptuous flesh. . . .

She was on the brink of total perversion. . . . Draga's only hope now was -- a man!

Oh, the steaminess of it all!! Carol Emory's pulp novel Queer Affair was published in New York as a Beacon Book, an imprint of Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp., in 1957, and even by today's standards, the sexual frankness of the novel is pretty steamy. Unfortunately, because it's the 1950s, a fully-realized lesbian relationship will not stand. At least one of the partners has to be off her nut (in this case, Jo), while in the end male heroes come to the rescue.

The story centers around up-and-coming dancer Draga Hamilton who is introduced to celebrity sculptor Jo Stanhope by Draga's lawyer Gilbert Young who is desperately in love with Jo. Jo, however, has other ideas, as she seduces the vulnerable Draga and they begin a torrid love affair, which, as already stated, is quite frankly narrated. Draga is head-over-heels, until of course her old flame Ronnie Marsh shows up on the scene and ruins everything for Jo.

In the end, the whole sordid love quadrangle literally devolves into a barely-suppressed S&M encounter. Jo takes her revenge on Draga's infidelity by grabbing a bullwhip that is inexplicably hung on the wall and beats Draga almost senseless with it. The whipping, however, sends both into a building sexual frenzy until both Gilbert and Ronnie come bursting through the door. Ronnie whisks Draga out of harm's way (at least as he perceives it), and Gilbert gives Jo a taste of her own whipping medicine, to which both react with this memorable passage:

Jo Stanhope looked up at him with misted eyes. "Oh, Gilbert -- you've done something for me. You've rescued me. Why, it--it was --" "Never mind," Gilbert said. "And you won't find it so bad being married to me. After all, I'm sort of womanish, you know."

Meanwhile, Draga is recovering in Ronnie's soothing arms, to which she responds, "Move over a little, sweetheart . . . I want to sit in your lap." THE END. Ugh!!

Despite Queer Affair being mentioned in several texts on early lesbian pulp novels, we could find nothing on the author Carol Emory, who we suspect is possibly a man. Nevertheless, the author makes sure early on that the reader knows Emery has done their homework on lesbianism:

Gilbert had warned her that the sculptress was a lesbian, but at the time the fact had seemed to her irrelevant. Love between women was not altogether a new and startling idea to Draga. She had read many books on the subject, including those by Radclyffe Hall and Diana Fredericks.

Appropriately, Barbara Grier, in her iconic The Lesbian in Literature, gives Queer Affair a rating of A for having "a major lesbian component but not sympathetically portrayed." While we may not know who Carol Emory is, we do know that the butch/femme cover art is by Frank Uppwall and was first painted for another pulp novel, Gutter Star by Dorine B. Clark, published in 1954, and then reissued for the cover of Queer Affair three years later.

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Guitarist Paul Gilbert Plays a Double Bass Cover of 'Holy Diver' by Ronnie James Dio

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Sonia Handelman Meyer Leftist Folk Musicians The Weavers (l-r: Fred Hellerman, Ronnie Gilbert, Lee Hayes, Pete Seeger), New York City c.1948

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The Jackal

Last week I promised you an intro based on the ‘CJ Does the Jackal’ scene from the West Wing.

No doubt you have all been on tenterhooks in anticipation of this, so I will delay no further…

A bit of background, AKA:

Intro to the Intro

The West Wing is a TV show about a fictional Presidential administration. In this particular episode, they have finally managed to secure the nomination of their preferred candidate to the Supreme Court.

This was a multi-episode struggle, so understandably everyone is pretty pleased, and they are having a bit of a party in The West Wing (ooh, it’s the name of the show!).

Everyone is spread around different rooms, chatting and drinking and revelling in their political success, but whispers of an upcoming event start drawing them all together.

CJ is going to do the Jackal…

CJ’s doing the Jackal…

The Jackal…

The Jackal…

As viewers, we are led to wonder what this could possibly be — is she going to impersonate a Jackal? Is it code for something even more outrageous? Why are they all so excited and converging on her like they’re about to witness something as scandalously titillating as The Entertainment from Infinite Jest?

No, instead we see her lip-syncing with almost zero energy to The Jackal, by Ronny Jordan feat. Dana Bryant.

If this had been on Ru Paul’s Drag Race the Internet would have broken from the sheer lack of slay. Cries of ‘Noooo, Queen!’, would abound. The level of charisma is almost purposefully non-existent, but all the other characters are losing their minds over it.

‘Don’t talk to me during the Jackal’, says Toby, sanctifying the experience further.

Usually, when a piece of media teases something as monumentally mind-blowing as The Jackal, they don’t show it to you. They instead show restraint and maintain the mystery, because whatever they could show would never be able to live up to the hype they have built for it.

There is a reason that Infinite Jest never tells us what happens in The Entertainment (a film so engrossing that anyone who watches it dies of addictive bliss), or that Gavin and Stacey never explicates what happened on the Fishing Trip (an ill-fated excursion into a storm).

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Trying to explain them removes the intrigue — when these things exist in the realm of speculation they are far more compelling.

The Jackal demonstrates why it is sometimes best to go against the ‘show, don’t tell’ maxim of storytelling.

Onto the episode, which was between Cardiff and St Andrews.

Here’s your first starter for ten.

Buffet-Mogel kicks things off with a rapid buzz of the Count of Monte Cristo, winning a bonus set on island-based animals. They are perhaps harshly penalised for saying Tasman devil instead of Tasmanian devil.

Rosas extends St Andrews’ lead with Gibraltar, before Tarsala gets Cardiff off the mark with masala. She stumbles a little over the word, as if realising in the moment how similar it is to her own name when Tilling announces her.

Gilbert closes the gap further with the picture starter, and gives Cardiff the lead with Japan on the next buzzer question.

Holm extends this with Rossini, and the Welsh side are on a roll now. Boyling becomes the fourth member of their team to take a starter with Gamma.

Skerrett wins the music bonuses for St Andrews with mahjong on the replacement starter. They don’t know any of them, and Rajan chides them as if listening to any music not from this era makes them culturally vacuous.

Capell goes for the obvious guess of The Turner Prize on a question about an art prize won by someone British, winning St Andrews a bonus set on countries which have a different starting letter in English and German.

They dilly-dally a little on the second of these, prompting Rajan to say, ‘Hurry up and give yourselves a chance of a high score.’ However, at this point, they are a mere 15 points behind, with more than 5 minutes left in the episode, and indeed they took the lead on the very next question.

They don’t hold it for long though, because Holm and Cardiff tied them with base on the following starter, before Tarsala stole the lead with Inuit.

Skerrett managed to bring St Andrews back level, but Cardiff didn’t give them another opening, claiming the last three starters and romping to a misleadingly comfortable win.

St Andrews 145–200 Cardiff

St Andrews will most likely return as a high-scoring loser as Rajan had encouraged, as all three losing teams from the final three episodes would need to beat their score to push them out.

Cardiff enter the second round as a very well-rounded team, their eleven starters being almost equally distributed among all four team members.

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Beverly Hills Cop (1984) Review

Instantly iconic, 1984's Beverly Hills Cop redefined action comedy for decades afterwards and capped off Eddie Murphy's rise to superstardom. #Review