#the durwoods

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Aurence does not know what to feel when he sees the child, the human representation of his misfortune.

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Unearthing Durward Kirby

The heyday of Durward Kirby (1911-2000) was just a hair before my time. I heard the name as a point of cultural reference on TV shows like Rocky and Bullwinkle and Phyllis and Bewitched when I was a kid, but beyond the fact that it was a funny-sounding name (often mispronounced), it did not resonate. He was still a public figure in the early 1970s, but winding it down. The short answer to who he…

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TODAY'S ANTHEM #486

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Just added to the Vintage shop!

~ “Beatrix Potter: Creator of Peter Rabbit” by Peter Durwood (1988) First edition

Beatrix Potter, creator of one of the most loved children's stories of all time, was herself an unhappy child. Born in Victorian England to strict parents, Potter lived for her family's summer vacations to Scotland, where he carefully observed and drew animals and nature. At home in London she was shy and lonely, her only companions her many pets. But she continued to draw and paint, always striving to make her subjects look real. It was while writing letters to a friend's ill son that Potter first began telling and illustrating the exploits of her pet rabbit, Peter. The worldwide popularity of "the Tale of Peter Rabbit" testifies to how sincerely Potter identified with children as her equals. By holding so much of her private, creative childhood into her adulthood, Potter forever raised the standards of both the writing and illustrations of children's literature. Her talent and energy came from her heart.

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I'm delighted to welcome The Adventures of Ruby Pi and the Geometry Girls by Tom Durwood to the blog YAadventure #ScienceGirls #BlogTour #TheCoffeePotBookClub

I'm delighted to welcome The Adventures of Ruby Pi and the Geometry Girls by Tom Durwood to the blog YAadventure #ScienceGirls #BlogTour #TheCoffeePotBookClub @TDurwood @cathiedunn @thecoffeepotbookclub #YAadventure #Science

I’m delighted to feature an excerpt from The Adventures of Ruby Pi and the Geometry Girls by Tom Durwood. A DISRUPTION ON THE COUNTING FLOOR The Great Famine remains a taboo in China,  where it is referred to euphemistically as  the ‘Three Years of Natural Disasters’ or the  ‘Three Years of Difficulties.’      — Tani Branigan, The Guardian                            Freckles, well-earned…

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Big arses fight 🇺🇸 Zahid Valencia (blue singlet) couldn't stand the force of 🇺🇸 Aaron Brooks (credits to Durwood Tenny)

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The funfetti universe please oh please more! William vs the bullies, Mulder encouraging going lower, repercussions of William losing control when he's upset, Scully just getting to have her life with her boys I love it!

The mudball hit him right in the neck, sending little droplets of gunk into his ear. After the initial shock wore off, he turned slowly around. 

“Hey William, you’ve got some dirt on your neck. They not bathe out in Farrs Corner?”

William sighed. “What do you want, Logan?” He already knew the kid didn’t want anything. Just to inflict pain. 

“Nothing,” Logan said. “Just wanted to let you know you’re a freak.”

Will was so sick of this crap he could spit. He looked at the three other guys who had come over with the bigger kid; Winter, Cole and Liam, who up until now had always been nice to him.

“Noted,” William said, eyeing Liam directly, whose face at least registered a bit of shame. William turned back around, hoping they’d go away. 

Thwak! Another mudball, this time catching him on the butt. God, it was going to look like he’d crapped his pants. 

William thought about his mother’s advice. His father’s. He’d love to knee the guy in the nuts, but not with all that backup. Still. If he walked away, all he’d probably get out of it was another mudball to the back. 

He turned around, took a step toward Logan and his goons. 

“Why do you keep picking on me Durwood? There not enough enrichment in your enclosure?”

The confusion that crossed the kid’s face was amusing, at least. You had to be smart to get into this school, but Logan Durwood was legacy. His test scores probably didn’t reach William’s knees. It took him a minute to figure out the insult. 

“Are you calling me an animal, Mulder?”

William gave him a pitying look. “You can’t figure out what I called you?”

Winter and Cole both turned to look at Logan’s face, clearly worried he’d snap. William was worried he’d snap too, but it would give him a reason to hit the guy. Or something. 

“Shame,” Will went on, shaking his head. “And you, an intellectual.”

At this, Liam snorted in laughter and that was all it took Logan to turn sort of a reddish purple and start marching toward William, who watched him approach, holding his ground. 

William glanced back toward the big old barn that housed most of the school’s classrooms. There wasn’t a teacher in sight. 

It had done nothing but piss rain for the last three days and the field surrounding the old farm  was saturated. Logan’s footsteps squished as he approached, and the boy leaned down on the way and scooped up another mudball. 

“I’m going to make you eat this, freak,” he said menacingly. 

Winter and Cole were a couple of steps behind him, but Liam hung back, watching and looking nervous. 

“Actually, I think you’re going to eat it,” William said with confidence. 

Logan had just gotten up to him, and pulled his arm back to fling it or punch William with it or something, but instead, when his arm swung forward, his elbow bent and he ended up shoving the mudball into his own face. Logan froze, bewildered, and all five boys stood there in stunned silence. A glob of mud fell from the boy’s chin onto the ground at his feet.

“Geez Logan, I was only kidding,” William said, feeling the bright thrill of conquest, and an even keener thrill of power. His power. The kind no one else had.

Logan spit out a mouthful of mud, his eyes all rage. “Get him,” he instructed his two friends. 

***

Mulder and Scully escorted William out of the office of the head of school silently, squelching across the school lawn and into the parking lot. 

William kept throwing worried looks at his mother, who was walking quickly, her face a steel mask of what Mulder knew to be anger. Anyone else looking at her might just assume RBF, but Mulder–and more importantly William–knew better. 

When Mulder unlocked the car, Scully ducked quickly into the passenger seat and William slunk onto the back bench like a man headed to the gallows. As soon as Mulder turned the ignition, Scully whipped her glare to her son. 

“That was incredibly dangerous what you did,” she hissed. 

“But I didn’t get in trouble!” William said, defending himself. It was a childish answer, and they all knew it. William was a kid, but he was a smart one. 

“Will, you know what your mom is talking about,” Mulder said, flicking his eyes to his son in the rearview mirror as he pulled onto the county road on which William’s school sat. 

Mulder had actually been at least a bit amused by his son in the principal’s office. The boy had pointed at the remains of mud on his neck and ass, pointed out that his hands were perfectly clean and claimed perfect innocence. One look at the other three kids (all but the kid Liam, who appeared to have run into the school to grab a teacher once the muddy melee started in earnest) covered head to toe in mud so thick that the whites of their eyes stuck out, and the head of school had no choice but to proclaim William a victim and send he and his parents on their way. 

“But they were going to beat me up!” 

“That’s no excuse for using your powers on other people, William. On other kids!”

“They didn’t know it was me,” William said, growing a little sullen. “I only made them throw the mudballs at each other a couple of times, once they started, they kept doing it, it wasn’t me.” At this, he looked at his dad in the mirror, and Mulder suspected the last bit of his story wasn’t entirely accurate. 

“I saw the look of confusion on their faces, William,” Scully said. “They may not have known it was you, but they damn well knew it wasn’t them.”

“They’re not exactly the brain brigade, Mom,” William said, slumping back on the seat. “They look like that all the time.”

Mulder had to suppress a laugh.

Scully sighed. “You should have walked away.”

“I tried.”

Mulder flicked his eyes to his son again. “Will, if anything like that happens again–if you show someone–anyone–your powers, we’re going to have to move. Change schools,” he said.

William heaved a breath out and Scully seemed to calm. 

“It’s not just about the school,” she said. “And it’s not just about letting other kids see what you can do. William, you can’t draw attention to yourself like that. If the wrong people find out about you…”

The boy’s lip wobbled. They hated having to tell their son that he could be taken away from them, but he had to know the risks. It was a far more dangerous world than anybody realized.

That sat heavily between all three of them for several long moments. 

“So I’m just supposed to let them beat me up?” William finally said, sniffing.

Mulder exchanged a look with Scully over the center console. 

Scully sighed. “What if Dad teaches you a few moves?” 

William’s countenance lightened at this and he sat up. “FBI moves?”

“Yes,” Scully said evenly. “FBI moves.”

“Yeah, okay! Cool!” 

“But they’re only to be used in self-defense,” she clarified. “Only if someone actually touches you first.”

William nodded enthusiastically. 

“And if anybody asks who taught you the moves, tell them it was your mom,” Mulder said. “Nothing will come back on us, then,” he went on, stealing a look at Scully. “Everyone is scared of your mom.”

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Durwood Chestnut, racoon dad source

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"It's a boy. Have you already thought of a name?"

"Vincere."

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Moloch can't read, but he found a job in the newspaper! He just started his first day as an organ donor!

The game gave him that eye patch, I though it was fine xD

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Strike Walk #5

Whitechapel to Aldgate East 

(This is Part One, link to Part Two at the end).

In Career of Evil, chapter 10, Strike heads to a rendezvous with Shanker at Whitechapel. Arriving at the tube station, he gets a message from Shanker cancelling their meeting and leans up against the yellow brick wall beside the entrance to call him back.

This is the present entrance to Whitechapel station and there's a yellow brick wall to lean on. However, Strike's description of the view -

... a kind of concrete forecourt surrounded by the backs of buildings. The Gherkin, that giant black bullet of a building, glinted on the distant horizon ...

doesn't match. This entrance to points towards the rather handsome Tower Hamlets Town Hall, and not the back of anything, and The Gherkin isn't visible.

It's more likely that Strike is perched at a back or side entrance that no longer exists, because the station has been greatly altered to accommodate Crossrail, the Elizabeth line, etc. This is the present day back entrance.

Assuming that to be the case, Strike would have turned left into Durwood Street and passed this lovely old school building (now converted into flats selling for half a million) just a few paces from where the body of Mary Ann Nichols was found in 1888, not inappropriate for a book about a serial killer.

You can see The Gherkin from here, just about.

This route would take him past Castlemain Street, where Strike recalls a fellow A-level student lived, and over a metal bridge into Fulbourne Street.

Part Two

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In Moonlight Falls I created the Spellman family. I only created Zelda, Hilda, Sabrina, and their cat Salem. I found a Spellman Mortuary created by TombRaidor that was perfect for them! I have made a few changes and I'm not planning for this lot to actually be a Mortuary so I didn't download the CC for that.

Mornings in the Spellman household. (A little peek inside the kitchen)

This is a premade family, Doreen Caliente, Rick Durwood, Serena Durwood, Zoe Durwood, Zack Durwood that I have made over. Obviously they are supposed to resemble the characters from Bewitched. I grew the daughter up so Sabrina would have at least one witchy friend. Their story is similar to the storyline in Bewitched...

On the outside, the Durwoods would make others jealous with their nice house, two adorable children, and a father with a great job. However, all is not what it seems between a mother in-law who disapproves of her daughter's husband and two kids who always get what they want. Can the Durwoods learn to live together or will the family spiral out of control?

When these two witches get together for afternoon tea look out! It's curses and hexes for anyone they deem fit to suffer. Zelda disapproves with Sabrina getting too close with a certain teen heartthrob who isn't a witch and Doreen as always disapproved of her daughter marrying Rick. What kind of scheming and plotting do these two wicked witches have in store for those poor unfortunate souls?

Lastly we have the Crumplebottom sisters. They are also a premade family I made over. They remind me of the Halliwell sisters from Charmed so I put them in a remake of the Halliwell house. I made headshots of them bc taking pics in the world looks unflattering for some reason.

This concludes what I done to the witches in this world. I considered making the weird sisters but I really need to make more male witches.

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Dobbin, Durwood, Delmore, Darryl, Darwin, Dirndl, Delwood, Darrin.

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I'm delighted to welcome The Adventures of Ruby Pi and the Math Girls by Tom Durwood to the blog YAadventure #ScienceGirls #BlogTour #TheCoffeePotBookClub

I'm delighted to welcome The Adventures of Ruby Pi and the Math Girls by Tom Durwood to the blog YAadventure #ScienceGirls #BlogTour #TheCoffeePotBookClub @TDurwood @cathiedunn @thecoffeepotbookclub

I’m delighted to feature an excerpt from The Adventures of Ruby Pi and the Math Girls by Tom Durwood. Gunfight in the Mogollons  “These Colorado coaches,” lectured the solicitor, Aynsley, “are a larger, more rugged version of the Kinnear design. Wells Fargo uses them widely. “This is a Concorde model, if I’m not mistaken,” he added. “Capacious.” Johnny glared at the talkative lawyer.  “More…

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Squidbillies #50: "Not Without My Cash Cow!" | July 20, 2009 - 12:15AM | S04E10

Sometimes I think maybe I’m too hard on Squidbillies. When I point out that the show rarely makes me laugh it’s a true statement, but I don’t know if that makes me an effective arbiter of the show’s quality. I probably didn’t laugh out loud too much at the last Aqua Teen season, but I probably made less of a point to tell you this because I’m fonder of that show and those characters. If I’m being honest, the quality of these two shows this television season was probably fairly negligible. I would even go as far as to say that this was the best season of Squidbillies that I’ve seen, and I’m more fond of the show than I was last go round. 

In the conclusion of this two-parter: Durwood has taken Rusty from Early’s home. Early has seller's remorse, and is also promptly caught in a lie trying to disguise Lil as Rusty in order to keep his government child support checks from drying up. So, Early feigns that Rusty has been suspiciously kidnapped, causing Amber Alerts in the area. A media circus ensues which Early milks for all it’s worth.

Meanwhile, Durwood’s family home life isn’t all it’s cut out to be. His wife is addicted to wine and muscle relaxers. Durwood is revealed to be jobless, and we cut to him at a gay bar while pretending to go to work. His wife shares this fact with Rusty, also telling him that Durwood doesn’t know that she knows. It doesn’t stop with this overshare; she seduces Rusty, who gleefully fucks her. When Durwood comes home, she claims Rusty raped her. That’s when they simply stuff him into a sack and throw him back into Early’s yard.

I’ve been trained to be lightly wary of these types of take-downs of suburban/middle-class America, and this one doesn’t exactly reinvent the wheel. But it works well enough to pass the time for an eleven minute Adult Swim cartoon. It’s sorta fun to have one of your guys be a squid that’s walking upright in shoes, you know?? That dude straight-up unfurls and I gotta tell you, I was glad to see it. Not saying I loved this episode too much, but I liked it. Squidbillies: reasonably funny.

EPHEMERA CORNER: 

San Diego Comic-Con (July 23-25, 2009) 

Here’s the post where I basically just list all the Adult Swim related-stuff that happened at or around comic-con in 2009. I recall going to this comic-con, but I don’t think I have a good enough of a memory to definitively say what I did and where. If I remember anything, I’ll write a thing. Also, I’ll link to videos if there are any. Also, this is apropos somewhat; I realized that I’m pretty sure I’ve failed to highlight other panels at different comic-cons, but the idea of cataloging all of them to any extent just seems exhausting. Collectors of Adult Swim ephemera should do due diligence and find all the other con shit themselves. I mostly just highlight San Diego because I’ve actually gone to that one myself a few times. Thanks. 

SDCC Panel: Robot Chicken w/ Titan Maximum (July 23, 2009 - 3:00PM) SDCC Panel: The Mighty Boosh (July 24, 2009 - 4:45PM)

I can’t imagine going to the Robot Chicken panel. I don’t think I went to the Mighty Boosh panel.

Tim and Eric Awesome Show Performance (July 24, 2009 - 7:00PM)

I think I went to the Tim & Eric show with Kon, who is famous for being my friend and sometimes writing into the blog. I recall having gone to a Tim & Eric show at an all-ages venue in San Francisco maybe a few months before this. The kids were actually pretty great, but the 21+ crowd were dickheads, who vaguely treated everyone and everything like it was just a big freak show. I remember watching some girl dance during all the songs and stealing focus. I despised her.

Mighty Boosh Bash (July 24, 2009 - 11:00PM)

I remember going to this, it was basically a short stage show with the Boosh Boys and it ended with a DJ set. I mingled for like 15 minutes and then left.

Tim and Eric Awesome-Con 2009 (July 25, 2009 - 12:00PM)

This happens in a park outside the convention center. I don’t remember what happened at which Awesome-Con. Could this be the Awesome-Con where I asked to take a picture with James Quall and he just made a noise that sounded like a big sigh and I took it as a yes while he stared off into the distance. It was a dark moment, man. 

SDCC Panel: Series Development and the Venture Bros. (July 25, 2009 - 6:00PM)

I think I sat through this, and I think this might’ve been the panel where I sat next to a really beautiful girl who was dressed like Lady Au Pair. Maybe. I don’t know, I probably said that about the last Venture Bros. panel. I might be hazy on the details, but I basically remember every hot girl who ever touched or almost touched me. 

Robot Chicken Fan Event (July 25, 2009 - 8:00PM)

In your dreams, dickbag