#thomas baldwin

[thegameofart]

Detail from “A Circular View from the Balloon at its greatest Elevation”, featured in Thomas Baldwin’s Airopaidia (1786) 

[nofatclips]

Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) from Beetlejuice

[vhshistory]

Happy belated 40th anniversary, Thomas & Friends!

[pinkyberet]

Done :3

(This Makes Nice Casual Outfits For Them :3)

[chantssecrets]

James Baldwin, author of "Blues for Mr Charlie," a play in New York city, signing books for fans, with Percy Thomas, the lead actor, December 7, 1980.

[politicaldilfs]

Connecticut Governor DILFs

Dannel Malloy, Lowell Weicker, Ned Lamont, Abraham Ribicoff, Chester B. Bowles, James L. McConaughy, John G. Rowland, John N. Dempsey, John Davis Lodge, Raymond E. Baldwin, William A. O'Neill, Thomas Meskill

[sirduck48]

I forgot to make a post earlier about this, and it's technically the 10th of October now (only by slightly over an hour as of me writing this), but it was the 40th anniversary of the TTTE TV series.

Even though there were series of TTTE that were less good, the fact that the series that were good are still so well remembered to this day shows how impactful the show is. I love the books as much as the show, and grew up with both. I am mainly going to be talking about the show here, but most if not all of my points here also apply to the books.

I love how quaint, full of character and full of life the show is. So many characters are memorable and have such distinct personalities, from cheeky to haughty to cheerful to determined. The show has very good and memorable music as well.

Now I am going to give my own opinions about the series in general. I love series 1-7 and the Jack and the Pack series, I like the music for series 8-16 but the writing feels condescending and the characters are limited and do not act like themselves, I really enjoy series 17-20, I feel a bit conflicted about series 21 (I like some things, but not others, mainly the bouncing of the engines, the bouncing really irks me), and I have both feelings of indifference and second hand embarrassment when it comes to series 22-24.

Diverting from the subject slighly, I haven't seen much of All Engines Go, but from what I've seen, it's fine. It doesn't stand out, but it isn't the worst thing that I've seen. It's disappointing how childlike a fair few of the characters are, and how they jump all over the place to the point that the tracks might as well not be there, but it doesn't really try to be the original show, so I'm rather unfazed.

I also have my own opinions on the narrators. I love Ringo Starr's narration, I do like George Carlin's narration, I love Michael Angelis' narration (though this does depend on the series) and I also like Alec Baldwin's narration.

Michael Brandon though, I only like his narration in the Jack and the Pack episodes. The rest of his narration though, I really don't like it at all. He uses the nasally voice all of the time, and I can't stand it, and I just don't think that his voices suit the characters. I do feel bad for him though, it seems that he does have enthusiasm, and I do like the Texan voice that he uses for some characters (Kelly is one of them, and I do think that it suits him) to be fair. His narration just isn't for me in my opinion.

Characters wise, my favourites are probably very obvious, but I'm going to say them anyway. Not in a particular order, Duck, Sir Handel, Kelly and Nelson are my favourites. I love all of them equally, and they are protected under the law of me. I love them all for different reasons, but I might save those rambles for separate posts.

This ramble has little flow (as per usual), but to conclude, this show means a lot to me. It always has and always will be. Happy 40th anniversary TTTE. I love rambling about this show.

[james-joyces-right-eyeball]

MORE Best Short Stories I Would Recommend to Anyone

Because I am a person who changes, since I made my last (apparently very popular?) post about short stories I would recommend, I have read YET EVEN MORE great short stories. Here are some additions I would like to make to that last post, and I hope y'all will seek them out:

"Secretary" - Mary Gaitskill

"The Boarding House" - James Joyce

"Revelation" - Flannery O'Connor

"House Taken Over" - Julio Cortarzar

"The Renegade" - Shirley Jackson

"The Lady of the House of Love" - Angela Carter

"The Interior Castle" - Jean Stafford

"The Man Child" - James Baldwin

"The Frolic" - Thomas Ligotti

"The Erl-King" - Angela Carter

"Blow-Up" - Julio Cortarzar

"An Encounter" - James Joyce

"Something Nice" - Mary Gaitskill

"Like Mother Used to Make" - Shirley Jackson

"Miss Brill" - Katherine Mansfield

"Bestiary" - Julio Cortarzar

"The Outing" - James Baldwin

"The Bloody Chamber" - Angela Carter

"Got a Letter From Jimmy" - Shirley Jackson

"The Echo & the Nemesis" - Jean Stafford

[busting-buffers]

george carlin made james sound stereotypically queer sometimes, but alec baldwin really solidified it and thats why im gay now

[steam-beasts]

Shining Time Station/TATMR headcanon

In TATMR and STS, Mr Conductor (Alec Baldwin version) and the other conductors' appearances are actually forms they take on to fit in more with humanity, albeit being tiny. They don't have proper appearances so to fix this, they use an existing human's appearance as their own. They're like body snatchers, but don't have any evil intentions or goals.

For example, if you've ever seen Shining Time Station, the Season 1 Mr Conductor we would see isn't the real Ringo Starr, but a conductor-copy of him; same looks, same voice, but different personality and different memories.

If I had the power to rewrite Magic Railroad, I'd have Lily go;

Lily; "Wait, aren't you Alec Baldwin??"

Mr Conductor; "Well...I am, but not at the same time. I just look and sound exactly like him"

I've tried to make this headcanon make sense as much as possible, sorry if it doesn't. Lol.

[expirisims]

Three Under Four

Welcome back to the McAlister's! Those zzz's won't last for long! All three kids are up and ready to run Mom and Dad ragged!

Meanwhile, our current baby explosion seems to still be in full swing with the Baldwin's expecting their second little one!

And Shayne's apparently trying his luck with both of his exes...facepalm! To be fair, he does live across the street from Edith so hopefully she's just seeing him outside of his own house. One can only hope!

Once all three kids were taken care of it was off to work on the classic car for Joanna! Antonio begrudgingly paid the bills they can hardly afford, but at least he's actually dressed! Nothing like doing car bodywork in the snow, in your nightgown, LOL!

Back inside, Antonio is making some toasty warm pancakes...and a mess! Just look at that stovetop! Not gonna lie, those pancakes look delicious though :)

Hmm...Another party, huh Reggie? I was hoping it would be a wedding party by now!

Back to work on the car, I'm hoping they finish it this round, I'm excited to see what it looks like!

Oh, Joanna! You're the one in the cooking career! Not only that, but you're also the highest ranking of my sims in that career! What happened here?

Joanna's finally dressed and running off to work while the kiddo's play. I hope that babysitter comes soon! They can't really afford the sitter services, but they definitely can't afford either Antonio or Joanna to miss work!

Andria's playing the xylophone, (or is that Mabel?) and of course they shower has sprung a leak.

Joanna headed out one last time to hang Holiday Lights and work on the car again before trying to get a few hours of sleep. With three toddlers it seems all my sims have to sleep in shifts so someone is always rested enough to take care of the kiddos.

And we finish out the night with some neighborhood news. Geeze, Reggie's party must have been a rager, it went on for literal hours!

[uwmspeccoll]

Signatures of the witnesses to the publishing of Shakespeare's will.

Shakespeare Weekend

Our next stop on the tour of UWM Special Collections' Shakespeare Collection is The plays and poems of William Shakspeare, in ten volumes: collated verbatim with the most authentick copies, and revised; with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators; to which are added, an essay on the chronological order of his plays; an essay relative to Shakspeare and Jonson; a dissertation on the three parts of King Henry VI; an historical account of the English stage; and notes; - what a ten dollar title! The volumes were edited by Irish scholar Edmond Malone (1741-1812), published in 1790, and printed by Henry Baldwin for a laundry list of booksellers.  

Malone is best known for his biographical Shakespeare research and chronologically collocating his plays in an essay entitled “An Attempt to Ascertain the Order in Which the Plays Attributed to Shakspeare Were Written” which is included in the Volume One Prolegomena of this collection. Additionally, Malone famously documented various spellings of Shakespeare and declared his preference in dropping the first “e” leaving us with Shakspeare. 

Volume one also includes a frontispiece engraving by Charles Knight (1743-1827) based on the Chandos portrait of Shakespeare, a copy of Shakespeare’s mortgage and will that famously bequeaths his wife his “second best bed”, and a preface by Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) mirroring an engraving by Thomas Holloway (1748-1827) that depicts Johnson and his contemporary scholars.  

View more Shakespeare Weekend posts. 

-Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern

[odettecarotte]

Canada Lee was Bigger Thomas, but he was also Canada Lee: his physical presence, like the physical presence of Paul Robeson, gave me the right to live. He was not at the mercy of my imagination, as he would have been, on the screen: he was on the stage, in flesh and blood, and I was, therefore, at the mercy of his imagination.

James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work

"I was, therefore, at the mercy of his imagination" (emphasis in the original)

The actor Canada Lee, as Bigger Thomas in Orson Welles' 1941 stage adaption of Richard Wright's Native Son

This passage is SO the spiritual ancestor of Avgi Saketopoulu going to see Jeremy O. Harris's "Slave Play" about 20 times, realizing that she is in the SWAY of this play, that she goes to surrender to its power over her and the audience, to allow herself to be changed by an encounter with the actors on the stage living the material. Harris's confrontational, exigent sadism inspired Saketopoulu to write about the sadism of the theater, the way it ACTS ON US.

From her book Sexuality Beyond Consent: "To explain how performance touches us, we usually turn to the interior elements it evokes: for example, we may say that it reminded us of something or that it resonated with something we have experienced or that it spoke to a particular part of ourselves. I want to highlight what is usually disregarded by this overemphasis, to draw our attention to how art or performance acts on us and away from which part of the self/memory it evokes. Those who do not just suffer through difficult art but who savor the anguish and vulnerability that some performance engenders may endure aesthetic experience. Such experience can leave one transformed."

[vhshistory]

The VHS release of Thomas & Friends: Thomas' Christmas Wonderland (2000)

[pinkyberet]

Done :3 @baldwin-10-12-d

[dragonclawfromspace10]

Merry late Christmas, and happy early New Year!🎄🎄🎄🎄🎉🎉🎉🎉

This is the Polar Express in lizard form. (Plus a Thomas lizard with a saddle.) And yes, you only see the front legs because i can never fit a big engine's body on one page, which is why you can hardly see the back legs. (Too many legs!) There will be more of it coming because I'm intrigued.