#scmods

[coeurdeverre82]

[chris-in-eugene]

You mean "SCMODS"

"State County Municipal Offender Data System"

Police car Mobile Data Terminal (MDT) that allowed an officer to check license plates and driver licenses. This model is a 1979 MDI Mobile Data Terminal.

Source: reddit

[foone]

Trick or Treat!

You can have some SCMODS

[sakuracentric]

Hello everyone, I hate to say it, but I'm going to be putting this blog on indefinite hiatus. As you guys may have noticed, activity for this blog has dropped considerably, and there's really no way of putting it otherwise, but my interest in Naruto has waned considerably lately. Now, I doubt this will be permanent, as this happened years ago before interest rekindled later on, as Naruto is a fandom I can't quite keep away from. However, I'm in one of those low periods and have to face facts. I will be back, this won't be forever, but for now I am going to take a hiatus until my passion returns. When it does, I'll see you all then. - Mod Calis

[giantmonster]

[realsolaris]

Motorola MDT-9100-T // Police Mobile Data Terminal (mid 80s)

[sistervee]

Elwood’s info on SCMODS

[lesliekane1]

They’re in there, checking on the SCMODS #icrackmyselfup #onamissionfromgod #whoswithme #joliet #scmods #uptownchicago #uptowntheatre #uptowntheater #chicago #bluesbrothers #ripjohnbelushi #chicagopolicedepartment #blueskies #lawenforcement #leslielovessunrise #lesliekane1

[garbsafari]

Saturday night SCMODS #scmods #bluesbrothers (at Joliet Correctional Center)

[sakuracentric]

Hey there! I hope you don’t mind me dropping in, but I thought I’d point you to this really great Madasaku fanfic rec list @boredlikeaboss had a huuuuge hand in compiling! It’s been a bit, but there’s a lot there. Hope this helps! ^^

Welp, Naruto is scratching at my brain again. My poor brain insists on only writing *exclusively* for this fandom, but I haven't actively sought new reads in this fandom in like. seven (7). Fucking. yEARS???? I thought I was done, but--???

The fandomscape has changed so much in that time that I *literally* don't know where to start 😰 I see snippets of amazing authors and amazing work passing by my dash all the time but I feel like I'm watching through the window of a train. I don't know which stops to get off at and it is frankly overwhelming 😱

What are the meta changes? Which tropes have lived and died? What's popular now? What's the tea?? 👀🍵

Anyone want to scream their faves at me? No need to worry about reccing something overly popular--I can all but guarantee I haven't read it 😂

If you want to have a go, kakasaku and itasaku are my old standbys, but I'm madasaku-curious 👀 I love villainshipping and darkfics, too, but any well-written shipfic with juicy drama would be welcome! Also anything innovative or different, though I'd also like to understand the pillars of what makes something a classic these days.

Tagging Fandom Treasure @birkastan2018 for help, but I'd love to hear from anyone who's read in the last seven years 😂

[scmodsims4-blog]

[sakuracentric]

So, just as a little update, but Sakuracentric is no longer dash-only and has a theme, tag page, and more! Remember: if you want specific ship tags, enter them after the URL (ex. https://sakuracentric.tumblr.com/tagged/sasusaku). Otherwise, this blog and its content should be much more accessble from here on out!

[giantmonster]

[bluesletter]

17 — Rockin’ the Suburbs

“You got us into this parking lot, pal. Now you get us out.”

Being chased by the police — squealing tires and flashing lights and all — means very little to Elwood, who will never, throughout the course of the film, lose his composure. Jake lists the ways Elwood’s already endangered and betrayed him, and Elwood soberly gives the movie it’s first Mission-from-God:

They're not gonna catch us. We're on a mission from God

He invokes their spiritual quest, and then wheels the Bluesmobile into the most ordinary and secular 1980 location possible: a shopping-mall parking lot. 

By 1980, the shopping mall was a well-established American hangout. The rise of cheaper automobiles and flight from downtowns to suburbs gave rise to the shopping mall after World War II, but even through the mid-1990s, malls were being built at a growing rate. This is not the first or last thing in The Blues Brothers that now serves to date the movie, but it is one of the more significant. One the end of the making of the film, the mall is like SCMODS — a novelty of its time that represented the shiny and new. On our end, it’s a relic.

I should add an aside here: it’s easy to think of the Blues Brothers as a product of the 1980s, because it was released in the summer of 1980, but it is closer in heart to the mid-70s — SNL’s debut was 1975, the real-life band founded in 1976. It’s easier to see Aykroyd and Landis as nostalgic for a period ten years prior (the R&B of the mid-60s) in their casting and musical choices than as stewards of the coming 1980s. The Big Lebowski and Raising Arizona could call The Blues Brothers (and Animal House!) an antecedent in this regard. These movies aren’t really period pieces, but they are reverent toward the way things were, like, five-ish years ago.

Anyway, as a connected, typically indoor arrangement of shops, restaurants, and big-box anchor stores, the mall can stand in, for American optimism and upward (outward) mobility. The things orphans in inner-city Chicago are deprived. The extra space outside of downtown that allowed for large parking lots are one of the ways malls rose to prominence in the 60s and 70s, and here the parking lot is a wily choice. So close to something so glamorous, the Blues Brothers are dogged by cops and trapped in a maze. To continue the close read: Elwood and Jake are always leaping from one conundrum to the next, until they run out of runway. The whole movie is a Chinese finger trap. The harder they struggle, the tighter their circumstances squeeze them.

There is also always an attempt in this film to reject the material for the holy, whether it be explicitly holy (orphanage, church) or with reference to the spiritual project that is the blues. So Jake and Elwood’s only way out of the mall is by going in — destroying the mall is a metaphor railing against materialism. Or, well: it is equally likely that Aykroyd and Landis wanted to just destroy an entire shopping mall, you know, because they could. 

At any rate, the destroyed mall (which was played in the movie by an already-abandoned mall) now represents something else entirely — an abandoned part of our national consciousness, an arbitrary, imaginary “community” built inward-facing and not around community but commerce. An mistake of the American landscape that has only been supplanted by a more vile and corrosive fake-community online. And so as The Blues Brothers ages, we have lost many of its stars and some of its references make less sense, but we can also appreciate the upcoming car chase as it was likely intended as in the first place, before irony became a dominant cultural mode — a loving, earnest celebration of the shopping mall.

[theresponseblog]

It only recently occurred to me that the Blues Brothers joke about "SCMODS" is another entry in the canon of "simply communicating information between municipal organizations resulted in significant reductions in criminals' ability to evade prosecution"

Like it's not just rape (but it definitely included rape and serial killing), the development of motor vehicles totally changed crime in America. Bank robberies, now that you could suddenly roll into and out of town on the route to ???, that took off in the 1920s and wasn't really stifled til the 1980s. Kidnapping, that was the other thing that the FBI rose to power off.

The backwoods speedsters by which moonshiners outran "revenuers" is where NASCAR came from.

The rock and roll troubadour touring lifestyle, tied up with statutory rape, was enabled cause they'd be gone before you could do anything.

Aerosmith's Sweet Emotion - "can't catch me cause the rabbit done died". This was an (inaccurate) reference to early pregnancy tests, rabbits react to human hormones so you'd inject them with the subject's urine, dissect, and look for reaction in the reproductive system.

(Aerosmith songs were all about how rock & roll was all about fucking teenagers, which is why it was so weird the 90s videos were about how fuckable Steven Tyler's daughter was.)

Adam-12 and Dragnet dramatizing the novel significance of police cars with two-way radio communication

Even check fraud, the impetus to accept checks from more banks with driving-boosted customer range conflicting with the new ability to lift a checkbook (or just pass bad ones and move on) and go on a spree

[oldguydoesstuff]

They've got SCMODS. State. County. Municipal. Offender. Data. System.

Motorola MDT-9100 – Mobile Data Terminal

The MDT-9100 was a mobile data terminal, developed by Motorola (USA) during the 1980s, as one of the successors to the D-1118. The units were developed for use by the Police and were mainly built into police vehicles. Several versions of the 9100 were introduced over the years.

Source: http://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/motorola/mdt9100/index.htm