#tiffany newman

[jpriest85-blog]

You know, if I had a nickel for every time I made an OC, that was an ancient monstrous or eldritch being, that took the human shape of a beautiful woman, and had a cult ...well I'd only have $0.15 which isn't a lot but it's funny that it happened 3 times. Introducing from left to right the pretty blonde girl next door Tiffany Newman, and casket for an eldritch being from @the-passenger-if . On the middle is Tihamah an ancient sea dragon/ Leviathan, I originally created her for an abandoned IF, Honey & Fire, but I liked the character concept of a dragon walking around in human form so her character developed and evolved into her own thing. On the right is Thuban The Harbinger of Calamity from @justpked Fell Star. Thuban is an ancient bestial creature of the void that weilds blood magic and chaos to ensure the laws of balance are maintained.

Despite the overlap in similarities, especially considering their names all begin with T, and they all have at least one noticeable mole/beauty mark on their faces in human form, they are quite different. Especially when it comes to how they became the objects of worship of each of their respective cults. Both Tihamah and Thuban's cults sort of developed by accident. In Tihamah's case, she unintentionally saved a coastal city when an invading armada got too close to her nest, and she slaughtered the entire naval fleet. The residents of the city she saved started offering her tribute in both thanks and in appeasement, so she'll continue protecting them. Tihamah just went along with it because they weren't going to hurt her or her babies, and hey, free food! While Thuban's duties as the Harbinger meant she was often regarded as a figure of fear and dread, others regarded her more as a protector since she'd often target groups and people in power that didn't heed her warnings and threatened the Laws of Balance. It was probably quite surprising for Thuban the first time a group of people showed up at the abandoned temple she was residing in, and she realized they wanted to worship, instead of kill her. Tiffany actively sought out her cult in an attempt to regain her former power so she could stand a chance against the Hunter and become the Apex predator again instead of prey. Tiffany quite enjoyed being revered, although she wasn't into wearing the robes like the other cultists. With time and effort Tiffany puts into her appearance, she's not going to cover up her outfit with shapeless robes, especially when wearing Calvin Klein!!

[geekcavepodcast]

Masters of the Universe: Revolution Teaser

OOOOO Hordak's on his way!

Masters of the Universe: Revolution is a sequel to Kevin Smith's Masters of the Universe: Revelation.

Masters of the Universe: Revolution stars the voice talents of Diedrich Bader, Melissa Benoist, Chris Wood, Mark Hamill, Liam Cunningham, Keith David, Lena Headey, Griffin Newman, William Shatner, Tiffany Smith, and Tony Todd. The animation is by Powerhouse Animation Studios.

Masters of the Universe: Revolution hits Netflix in January 2024.

[srencbey]

A vivid tour of Manhattan's 1960s: sharp pictures provided by Wendy Robert and taken by Walter Leporati.

The Manhattan of the 1960s was more than just a place; it was a pulsating entity, alive with artistry, ambition and audacity. Culturally, a ton of stuff was unfolding and changing young people's lives. There was an explosion in expression: music, art, fashion and social norms. The movie culture was also booming! Vintage theaters like Victoria Theatre showcased Hollywood's golden era films, while avant-garde cinemas brought foreign films and indie projects to masses. Big movie stars like Katherine Hepburn and Paul Newman graced big screens, while Manhattan itself played a starring role in countless films like "Breakfast at Tiffany's".

1: Girls wearing stripped dresses in Times Square, 1967.

2: Vehicle traffic along Fifth Avenue at West 43rd Street, 1963.

3: Cinema-goers line up outside the Victoria Theatre in Times Square, 1967.

4: View of traffic on Broadway in Times Square, 1966.

5: View of businesses at the corner of 7th Avenue & 42nd Street in Times Square, 1967.

6: Construction of North Tower of the original World Trade Center, 1969.

7: Pedestrians at the intersection of Liberty & Greenwich Streets, 1969.

8: People outside Trinity Church at Broadway & Wall Street, 1969.

9: Fans gather at Sheep Meadow in Central Park for Barbara Streisand concert, 1967.

10: Pedestrians on Wall Street during lunch hour, 1969.

[whileiamdying]

The Strange Journey of John Lennon’s Stolen Patek Philippe Watch

For decades, Yoko Ono thought that the birthday gift was in her Dakota apartment. But it had been removed and sold—and now awaits a court ruling in Geneva.

By Jay Fielden June 17, 2024

The missing watch, now valued at between ten and forty million dollars, was a fortieth-birthday gift from Yoko Ono, along with a tie she knit herself.Photograph by Bob Gruen

For years, John Lennon’s Patek Philippe 2499 has been the El Dorado of lost watches. Lennon was known for collecting expensive things: apartments in the Dakota (five); guitars (one apartment was mainly for musical equipment); country estates; jukeboxes (three); and Egyptian artifacts, including a gold-leafed sarcophagus containing a mummified princess, who Yoko Ono believed was a former self. But the Patek appears to have been his one and only wristwatch.

A gift from Ono, the watch is more than anyone would ever need to tell the time. A perpetual-calendar chronograph, it is, as Paul Boutros, the head of watches at the American arm of Phillips auction house, says, a “mechanical microcomputer, the most sought after of all Pateks.” Between 1952 and around 1985, Patek produced just three hundred and forty-nine of them. The watch, which Ono bought at Tiffany on Fifth Avenue, records time in eight different ways; the dial houses three apertures (day, month, moon phase) and three subdials (seconds, elapsed minutes, date). If you never memorized the mnemonic “thirty days hath September,” no worries—the 2499 Patek hath. Its miraculous ganglia of tiny wheels and levers will adjust its readings to the quirky imperfections of the Gregorian calendar, including leap years. No other watchmaker was able to produce a perpetual-calendar-chronograph movement small enough to fit into a wristwatch until 1985.

What makes this 2499 even rarer—and perhaps the most valuable wristwatch in existence—is how little we know about it. Ono gave it to her husband for his fortieth birthday, on October 9, 1980, two months before he was fatally shot by a deranged man outside the Dakota. For the next three decades, the existence of the watch remained unknown except to a handful of family and close friends.

But, sometime around 2007, in the early days of social media, a new kind of watch obsessive materialized, equipped with native computer skills and an appreciation for the places where pop culture and the luxury market intersect. In those pre-Instagram years, fanboy wonks traded watch esoterica online: an image of Picasso wearing a lost Jaeger-LeCoultre; Castro with two trendy Rolexes strapped to one arm; Brando, on the set of “Apocalypse Now,” “flexing,” as watch geeks say, a Rolex GMT-Master without its timing bezel, a modification he made to better inhabit the role of Kurtz; and—the Google image-search find of them all—two frames of an uncredited snapshot of Lennon and his Patek.

“I’m not a watch guy,” Sean Lennon said. “I’d be terrified to wear anything of my dad’s. I never even played one of his guitars.”Photograph by Bob Gruen

Since its discovery, around 2011, the image has appeared online again and again, fuelling a speculative frenzy about what the watch—which cost around twenty-five thousand dollars at Tiffany in 1980—might bring at auction today, with estimates ranging from ten million to forty million dollars. (Bloomberg’s Subdial Watch Index tracks the value of a bundle of watches produced by Rolex, Patek, and Audemars Piguet, like an E.T.F.; the Boston Consulting Group reported that, between 2018 and 2023, a similar selection outperformed the S. & P. 500 by twelve per cent. In 2017, Paul Newman’s Rolex Daytona broke records by selling at auction for $17.8 million.) But all the clickbait posts about the Lennon Patek, as it had come to be known, were regurgitations that contained few facts. There was never a mention of who took the photo, where it was taken, or even where the watch might be.

During the long, dull days of the pandemic, I decided to see what I could find out. Several years went by, as I traced the journey of the watch from where it was stowed after Lennon’s death—a locked room in his Dakota apartment—to when it was stolen, apparently in 2005. From there, it moved around Europe and the watch departments of two auction houses, before becoming the subject of an ongoing lawsuit, in Switzerland, to determine whether the watch’s rightful owner is Ono or an unnamed man a Swiss court judgment refers to as Mr. A, who claims to have bought the watch legally in 2014.

Having reached its final appeal—Ono has so far prevailed—the case is now in the hands of the Tribunal Fédéral, Switzerland’s Supreme Court, which is expected to render a verdict later this year. Meanwhile, the watch continues to sit in an undisclosed location in Geneva, a city that specializes in the safe, secret storage of lost treasures.

Lennon holding up his birthday Patek in the fall of 1980 is one of the happiest moments captured on film in the final years of his life. That summer, he’d begun making music again, during a trip to Bermuda which he’d hoped would help repair the well-publicized strain in his marriage to Ono. Lennon’s “lost weekend”—more than a year spent living in Los Angeles with May Pang, a former assistant who became his lover—was not that far in the past, and Ono had fallen into an infatuation with an art-world socialite named Sam Green. (It was in Bermuda that Lennon wrote “I’m Losing You.”)

Lennon had spent the previous five years holed up in the Dakota as a self-proclaimed “househusband,” raising his son Sean so that Ono, whom Lennon called Mother, could take her turn at being the decision-maker of the music-business enterprise they’d named Lennono. While Ono dealt with Beatles headaches, controlled the purse strings, and invested in real estate, Lennon occupied himself by watching soap operas, eating bran biscuits and rice, smoking Gitanes, and listening to either classical music or Muzak. “If I heard anything bad,” he later explained, “I’d want to fix it, and if I heard anything good, I’d wonder why I hadn’t thought of it.”

In the photograph, Lennon, trim and fit from a macrobiotic diet, wears jeans and a loosely knotted striped knit tie adorned with a jewel-encrusted American-flag pin. The picture was taken in the Hit Factory, where he and Ono had been recording “Double Fantasy,” his first album in five years. The room is dim, but he has on sunglasses, celluloid horn-rims recently bought in Japan. Buckled on his left wrist is the Patek 2499.

In order to find out more about the photograph, I tracked down Jack Douglas, the noted record producer who oversaw “Double Fantasy,” and sent him the picture by e-mail. He replied right away. “Bob Gruen took the photo,” he wrote, referring to the well-known documenter of the seventies and eighties rock scene.

When I contacted Gruen, who is now seventy-eight and lives in New York City, he had no idea that his photograph had become the talk of the horological world or why he’d never been given credit for it; he’d published the image in a book, titled “John Lennon: The New York Years,” in 2005. But he remembered the night he took the photo—Lennon’s fortieth birthday. Since late that summer, Lennon and Ono had been spending a lot of time in a multiroom studio on the sixth floor of the Hit Factory building, then on West Forty-eighth Street. “I was one of the few people who had an open invitation,” Gruen told me. “They liked to work late.” Gruen, who said he was living on a “steak-and-Cognac diet” in those days, showed up after midnight, having attended the thirty-sixth-birthday party of the singer Nona Hendryx. “I thought I’d bring John a piece of her birthday cake,” he said.

When Gruen arrived, Lennon was enjoying his presents: the knit tie, which Ono had made herself (a copy of the one he wore at school in Liverpool); the flag pin; and the Patek, in yellow gold, which had a rare and highly coveted double-stamped dial, meaning that both the watchmaker’s and Tiffany’s logos were printed on it. Gruen remembered Lennon being abuzz over the tie and the pin, a nod to Lennon’s fourth anniversary as a green-card holder. He doesn’t recall talking about the watch. But Lennon nonetheless strapped the black lizard band onto his wrist when Gruen reached for his Olympus OM4.

A few other photographs that Gruen took that week have never been seen by the public. One shows Lennon at a mixing board with Douglas, who is wearing a recognizable watch himself, a Porsche Design Chronograph I—stainless steel and coated in black—which Porsche had presented to him and to the members of Aerosmith in 1976, after the band’s German tour for its album “Rocks.” Douglas told me that he and Lennon later wrist-checked each other. “Although I thought his watch was beautiful,” he wrote in an e-mail to me, “I told John it didn’t have the pizzazz of my black beauty, and we had a good laugh.

After Lennon’s death, Ono had a full inventory taken of her husband’s possessions, a document that amounted to nearly a thousand pages. She then put the Patek in a locked room of her apartment. And there the watch remained for more than twenty years.

I found a clue as to what happened next by putting together shards of information from various members of the watch intelligentsia who had all “heard” that the Patek had been stolen. “I think the guy was Turkish,” one said. Another remembered “something about a chauffeur.” This led me to a 2006 article in the Times about a man named Koral Karsan (Turkish: check), who had served as Ono’s chauffeur (check two) for the previous ten years. Karsan, a veteran member of Ono’s oft-shuffled staff—trusted enough that he had full access to her apartment—had simply gone berserk in December of that year, threatening to release embarrassing photos and private conversations he’d been recording unless Ono paid him two million dollars; he allegedly said that if she refused he would have her and Sean killed.

A tall, square-jawed man with a thick burr of white hair, Karsan, then fifty, was arrested. In a series of preliminary hearings in a Manhattan courtroom, he defended himself against charges of extortion and attempted grand larceny by claiming, as the Times reported, that Ono had “humiliated and degraded him, wrecking his marriage and making him so nervous that he ground eight of his teeth to the bone.” A letter he’d written to Ono describing himself as her “driver, bodyguard, assistant, butler, nurse, handyman and more so your lover and confidant” was also entered into the record. Ono disputed Karsan’s claims about a romance, but the prosecution allowed him to plead guilty to a lesser charge, and he was ordered to return to his native Turkey.

According to a story that Karsan would later tell, Ono—who was known to consult psychics—became worried one day in 2006 that a forecasted heavy-weather event might endanger some meaningful Lennon items, including two pairs of Lennon’s eyeglasses and several New Yorker desk diaries (which he used as journals during the last five years of his life); she asked Karsan to find a safer place to keep them. Unbeknownst to Ono, when Karsan was subsequently deported, these items, along with the Patek, followed him.

Ono, who is ninety-one and lives in seclusion in upstate New York, declined to comment. Of Karsan, Sean Lennon told me, “He took advantage of a widow at a vulnerable time. Of all the incidents of people stealing things from my parents, this one is the most painful.”

Karsan, back in Turkey, was in the market for a house. Around 2009, he showed Lennon’s watch to a Turkish friend visiting from Berlin named Erhan G (as he came to be known owing to German privacy laws). Karsan let Erhan G flip through the diaries, including one marked 1980, which includes Lennon’s final entry. Karsan threw out an idea: he’d give the Lennon Patek to Erhan G as collateral for a loan. Erhan G agreed.

One evening in 2013, in Berlin, Erhan G met an executive who worked for a new, much hyped digital auction platform called Auctionata. He couldn’t resist boasting about the Patek 2499 and the rest of the Lennon trove—some eighty items. In short order, a dinner was arranged with Oliver Hoffmann, Auctionata’s twenty-eight-year-old director of watches. “He told me the story of how he’d gotten the watch,” Hoffmann recalled, of his meeting with Erhan G. “It was strange, but it felt whole and true. It was credible because of the many details.” Erhan G, who said that he was the watch’s rightful owner, per an agreement with Karsan, didn’t strike Hoffmann as a man desperate for money. “He owned a successful business and lived in a large apartment in a building close to Potsdamer Platz,” Hoffman said. (Erhan G could not be reached for comment.)

Auctionata, which live-streamed its auctions, was one of Germany’s dot-com darlings, lauded in the press for disrupting the old auction-house model, dominated by Christie’s and Sotheby’s, which had yet to develop a digital-first business. Investors including Groupe Arnault, Holtzbrinck Ventures, and Hearst Ventures had put up more than a hundred million dollars of venture capital for the company. Hoffmann says that the C.E.O., Alexander Zacke, recognized what a publicity boon selling John Lennon’s lost watch would be and pushed for a way to do it with or without notifying Ono. (Zacke did not respond to a request for comment.) Teams of lawyers studied the watch’s provenance and puzzled over how to offer it for sale without raising eyebrows. A document called an extract was obtained from Patek Philippe, which meant that the watch had not been registered as stolen, and Karsan himself travelled to Berlin, where he signed a document in front of a notary testifying that Ono had given him her husband’s Patek as a gift in 2005. As for the authenticity of the watch, there was no doubt: on the case back is an identifying inscription that has never been made public outside Germany.

In late 2013, in preparation for an auction, Auctionata had the watch professionally photographed. (In the photo, the watch floats in a vacuum, a carefully lit token of commerce, divorced from all human and emotional context.) But Erhan G got cold feet. Some years earlier, Ono had sued a former employee who had slipped out of the Dakota with Lennon memorabilia; Frederic Seaman, Lennon’s last personal assistant, confessed to having stolen diaries similar, if not identical, to those which Karsan and Erhan G had stashed away. (He later returned them.) Searching for a private buyer, Hoffmann approached Mr. A, a man he knew from the rare-watch circuit. A deal by ���private treaty”—a sale undisclosed to the public—was reached, and in March, 2014, Mr. A agreed that he would consign a selection of Rolex and Patek watches from his own collection, whose sale proceeds would go toward payment for the Lennon 2499, which was priced at six hundred thousand euros (about eight hundred thousand dollars). “This, in some ways, was more helpful than auctioning the watch,” Hoffmann told me, explaining that Auctionata’s watch department needed the inventory. The vintage watches Mr. A consigned, most of which Hoffmann valued at between twenty thousand and forty thousand euros apiece, were in total likely worth more than the 2499.

Mr. A told Hoffmann that he planned to keep Lennon’s watch in his collection, which has included pieces owned by Eric Clapton. But, within months, he took the Lennon Patek to the Geneva office of Christie’s. As part of the auction house’s appraisal process, a Christie’s representative reached out to Ono’s lawyer, who promptly notified his client. Ono rushed to check the locked room, only to discover that the Patek wasn’t there. She had no idea how long it had been gone.

In August of 2023, a reporter named Coline Emmel, who works for a small but enterprising Web site in Switzerland called Gotham City, found something interesting in a backlog of documents filed that summer by the Chambre Civile in the canton of Geneva���an appellate judgment in a civil case that had been going on for five years. European privacy laws, especially those in Switzerland, make legal documents unusually hard to decipher. The Swiss judiciary uses a system of letters and numbers to create pseudonyms for appellants, respondents, and anyone else involved, turning a case file into a cryptogram. Emmel knew enough about Beatles history to recognize that “C_____, widow of late F_____, of Japanese nationality and domiciled in [New York City]” was, in fact, Yoko Ono. Although the appeals court affirmed the lower court’s decision that Ono was the “sole legitimate owner of the watch,” Mr. A—“a watch collector and longtime professional in the sector, of Italian nationality”—was launching another appeal. Emmel posted a brief synopsis on Gotham City, along with the news that a final judgment was now being awaited from the Swiss Supreme Court.

“Mystery solved!” was the gist of the message that ricocheted around the watch world. But, to me, the mystery had only deepened. The basic itinerary of the Patek’s odyssey and its current location had been discovered, but the human detail of how it had passed from wrist to wrist, hiding place to hiding place, still hadn’t been reported. What’s more, where had Ono ever got the idea of giving a guy like John Lennon—eater of carob-coated peanuts, singer of a song about imagining no possessions, peacenik—a watch that was a status symbol of lockjawed good taste? And what was its famously secret inscription?

I had already been in contact with Mr. A; three days before Emmel posted her scoop, he’d cancelled a planned meeting with me in Italy. Instead, we arranged to speak over Zoom. Seated in a panelled room, he told me that, when Ono had found the watch missing, her counsel demanded its return. It was a tricky legal situation, because Ono, having never realized that the watch was gone, hadn’t reported it stolen, and because the case spans several national jurisdictions. Mr. A explained that he didn’t return the watch because he didn’t believe it to be stolen property. He mentioned the inventory that had been taken of Lennon’s possessions after his death, which was referred to in the judgment; he claimed that only two watches were listed—a gold watch (presumably the Patek) and another that Mr. A said was a pocket watch Ono had auctioned through Sotheby’s in 1984, two decades before Karsan swore she gave him the Patek.

Mr. A pointed to Ono’s own version of the story. “Following the death of the late [John Lennon],” the Swiss court’s judgment reads, in a summary of a deposition that Ono gave to investigators from Berlin at the German consulate in New York City, “[Ono] wanted to give something belonging to her to those who had worked very faithfully for her. So, she told [Karsan] to take a watch.” Ono, however, added that she in no way meant the “watch she’d given the late [John Lennon].” What watch did she mean? Mr. A asked rhetorically. “There was only the Patek.”

Christie’s, informed that the watch had been stolen, kept the 2499 secured in its Geneva vault, where it sat for several years. The judgment states, “On December 17, 2015, the parties and [Christie’s] SA entered into a consignment-escrow agreement under which the Watch would be consigned to [Mr. A’s lawyer], until agreement or right is adjudicated on the property.” (Christie’s did not respond to a request for comment.) Mr. A told me that he eventually decided to go on the offensive. In 2018, he initiated a civil lawsuit against Ono to prove that he was the Patek’s rightful owner.

What Mr. A never expected was that his fate would become intertwined with that of Auctionata, which went bankrupt in early 2017. A German court brought in a bankruptcy expert and lawyer named Christian Graf Brockdorff, who, in a review of the company’s inventory, stumbled on the eighty-odd other Lennon items that Erhan G had consigned for a high-six-figure sum. “I doubted that everything that had happened in the past was legally correct,” Brockdorff told me in an e-mail. He contacted the police; a criminal case was opened, and Erhan G was found guilty of knowingly dealing in stolen goods. He served a one-year suspended sentence, having admitted that the story that Karsan had told of how he got the Lennon items “did not correspond to reality.” (A Europol warrant was issued for Karsan, whose whereabouts are unknown; he could not be reached for comment.) That the case itself ever came to be is curious, but its verdict set a legal foundation that the Swiss judgment cited in declaring that Mr. A is not the watch’s rightful owner. According to Guido Urbach, a knowledgeable Swiss attorney, it is unlikely that the Supreme Court will decide any differently.

The secret dedication that Ono had inscribed on the back of the Patek Philippe 2499: “(JUST LIKE) / STARTING OVER / LOVE YOKO / 10 • 9 • 1980 / N. Y. C.”

In a series of follow-up e-mails, I asked Mr. A about what John Lennon’s Patek meant to him. “I’m more of a Rolling Stones man,” he replied, mentioning that he has played bass in a local band for years. Still, “to own the JL watch is really a double good feeling,” he said, adding that he remained hopeful that he could “wear it as soon as possible.”

But, if the Supreme Court confirms the appellate court’s ruling, the watch will likely return to New York. “It’s important that we get it back because of all we’ve gone through over it,” Sean Lennon told me. He added, “I’m not a watch guy. I’d be terrified to wear anything of my dad’s. I never even played one of his guitars.” He paused. “To me, if anything, the watch is just a symbol of how dangerous it is to trust.”

The watch never seems to have given anyone peace and happiness for long. When Lennon was in Bermuda, writing what he described as the best kind of songs—“the ones that come to you in the middle of the night”—Ono was spending time with Sam Green, whom the Times once described as “an unabashed poseur blessed with good looks.” Green had a way with rich and eccentric women. He’d had an affair with the Bakelite heiress, Barbara Baekeland, and by 1980 he was spending his time juggling Greta Garbo, Diana Vreeland, and Ono.

Looking through Green’s papers, which are at Yale’s Beinecke Library, I got an eerie feeling. I found a number of diary entries that corroborated his close relationship with Ono (“Yoko all day and night,” numerous notations read), and a handwritten tally for more than twenty-five thousand dollars—the cost of furniture that Green had sourced to appoint the Hit Factory studio. Whether Green was the one who suggested the Patek as a birthday present for Lennon is hard to confirm, but the cursed history of the watch invites speculation.

The secret engraving, which I found in the never-published Auctionata photo of the watch, is haunting in another way:

Was there a new start? By the time “Double Fantasy” was finished, Ono had lost interest in Green, and Lennon, who had just written and recorded no fewer than four love songs about her, appeared to be a happy man. The weeks they spent together at the Hit Factory that year had been charmed, which means that the Lennon Patek captures a measure of time that no other watch ever will—the little they had left together. ♦

Published in the print edition of the June 24, 2024, issue, with the headline “In Search of Lost Time.”

[whiteshipnightjar]

Does art make a difference?

Aw, sure. Of course there are degrees of extremity to the potential change that art can effect, depending on how many people are able to engage with it. The Beatles made a huge difference in the world. But Henry Darger, Jeff McKissack, Karen Dalton, Pauline Oliveros, Kenneth Patchen – there are so many folks who have made great art and not gotten massively famous for it, yet I think there are all sorts of ways their work informs and shapes other people’s work, and brains, and decisions.

Should politics and art mix?

Well, everything mixes, the New Statesman! That’s like asking if a knee-reflex hammer and a quadriceps tendon should “mix”.

Is your work for the many or for the few?

That’s for the many/few to say. I just crank out the hot jams.

If you were world leader, what would be your first law?

Gravity. I feel like we need to tighten up the constitutional protections that particular law enjoys. It’s a ticking time bomb, if you ask me.

Who would be your top advisers?

Cute angel on one shoulder, cute devil on the other.

What, if anything, would you censor?

Maybe we could all agree to not bust each other’s chops all cut-dang day.

If you had to banish one public figure, who would it be?

Don’t know, banishment might be a little extreme, but I’d sure like to take that Stephen Hawking dude down a notch or two. Right? Are you with me?

What are the rules that you live by?

Basically, “bros before hos”. I feel like if you stay true to that, everything else just kind of falls into place.

Do you love your country?

I love William Faulkner, Dolly Parton, fried chicken, Van Dyke Parks, the Grand Canyon, Topanga Canyon, bacon cheeseburgers with horseradish, Georgia O’Keeffe, Grand Ole Opry, Gary Snyder, Gilda Radner, Radio City Music Hall, Big Sur, Ponderosa pines, Southern BBQ, Highway One, Kris Kristofferson, National Arts Club in New York, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Joni Mitchell, Ernest Hemingway, Harriet Tubman, Hearst Castle, Ansel Adams, Kenneth Jay Lane, Yuba River, South Yuba River Citizens League, “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”, “Hired Hand”, “The Jerk”, “The Sting”, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”, clambakes, lobster rolls, s’mores, camping in the Sierra Nevadas, land sailing in the Nevada desert, riding horseback in Canyon de Chelly; Walker Percy, Billie Holiday, Drag City, Chez Panisse/Alice Waters/slow food movement, David Crosby, Ralph Lauren,San Francisco Tape Music Center, Albert Brooks, Utah Phillips, Carol Moseley Braun, Bolinas CA, Ashland OR, Lawrence KS, Austin TX, Bainbridge Island WA, Marilyn Monroe, Mills College, Elizabeth Cotton, Carl Sandburg, the Orange Show in Houston, Toni Morrison, Texas Gladden, California College of Ayurvedic Medicine, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Saturday Night Live, Aaron Copland, Barack Obama, Oscar de la Renta, Alan Lomax, Joyce Carol Oates, Fred Neil, Henry Cowell, Barneys New York, Golden Gate Park, Musee Mechanique, Woody Guthrie, Maxfield Parrish, Malibu, Maui, Napa Valley, Terry Riley, drive-in movies, homemade blackberry ice cream from blackberries picked on my property, Lil Wayne, Walt Whitman, Halston, Lavender Ridge Grenache from Lodi CA, Tony Duquette, Julia Morgan, Lotta Crabtree, Empire Mine, North Columbia Schoolhouse, Disneyland, Nevada County Grandmothers for Peace; Roberta Flack, Randy Newman, Mark Helprin, Larry David, Prince; cooking on Thanksgiving; Shel Siverstein, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Radziwill, Jackie Onassis, E.B. White, William Carlos Williams, Jay Z, Ralph Stanley, Allen Ginsberg, Cesar Chavez, Harvey Milk, RFK, Rosa Parks, Arthur Miller, “The Simpsons”, Julia Child, Henry Miller, Arthur Ashe, Anne Bancroft, The Farm Midwifery Center in TN, Martha Graham, Alvin Ailey, Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, Clark Gable, Harry Nilsson, Woodstock, and some other stuff. Buuuut, the ol’ U S of A can pull some pretty dick moves. I’m hoping it’ll all come out in the wash...

Are we all doomed?

If we keep our expectations pretty low I think we might be fine. I mean, we’re definitely all dying at some point. There’s no getting around that. But between now and then, things might start looking up!

— Joanna Newsom for The New Statesman, 2008

[thefundiedata]

2024 - Another Babygeddon

2024 is quite the bumper year for fundie babies. So far this year, Miles Kelton Balka and Brielle Grace Duggar were born in February and several more pregnancies have been confirmed. Additionally, the spreadsheet is still expecting further announcements in 2024.

Savannah & Cole LaBrant The LaBrant family announced Baby 5 in December. Due date is approximately 12th May. Baby is a boy. Their current children are Everleigh, Posie, Zealand and Sunday.

Tori & Bobby Smith Tori and Bobby Smith announced Baby 5 in October 2023. No idea on due date - but has to be by the end of June given how long a pregnancy is. Their current children are Kade, Kolter, Charlotte and Cambree.

Nurie & Nathan Keller The Kellers are expecting baby 3 in July. They are currently parents to Nehemiah and Newman. Baby 3 is a girl.

Lawson & Tiffany Bates After a miscarriage in September 2023, Lawson and Tiffany announced a rainbow pregnancy. Their baby, suspected to be a boy, is due on 30th July.

Nathan & Esther Bates Nathan and Esther are parents to Kenna (18 months). They are expecting their second baby on 8th October.

Katie & Travis Clark Katie and Travis are parents to Hailey (14 months) and announced their second pregnancy in April. They are due 18th October.

Six further pregnancies are expected to be announced in 2024: 1. Jedidiah and Kate Duggar (1 SD late - baby 3) 2. Jinger and Jeremy Vuolo (4 SDs late - baby 3) 3. Kaylee and Jonathan Hill (1 SD late - baby 2) 4. Jackson and Emy Bates (1 SD late - baby 1) 5. Carlin and Evan Stewart (1 SD late - baby 3) 6. Trace and Lydia Bates (baby 2*)

[fundieshaderoom]

Fundie and Adjacent Families I Follow: July 2024 in a Glance

Births:

Judah Love Olligies was born to Morgan (29) and Paul (34) on July 1. He joins an older brother Luca (21 months).

Kaptain Klay "Kap" Kallschmidt was born to Mckayle (23) and Max (23) on July 3. He joins an older maternal half-sister Esther (2).

Naomi Christine Keller was born to Nurie (Rodrigues) (25) and Nathan (28) on July 14. She joins older brothers Nehemiah (2) and Newman (19 months).

Caroline Marie Clark was born to Kristen (37) (Baird) and Zach (36) on June 14 (birth announced in July). She joined brothers Caleb (14) and Christian (10).

Desiree Hope Waller was born to Priscilla (38) (Keller) and David (37) on July 17. She joins 6 older siblings: Paul (11), Davia (9), Phillip (7), Destiny (5), Peter (4), and Deborah (2).

William Daniel Bates was born to Tiffany (25) (Espensen) and Lawson (32).

Weddings:

Johnny Paine married Maddie Henry on Jul 23.

Pregnancy Announcements:

Katey (26) (Nakatsu) and Jedidiah (25) Duggar are expecting twin girls. They will join 2 older siblings: Truett (2) and Nora (14 months). Note: this pregnancy announcement doubled as a gender reveal.

Engagements:

Emily Keyes (21) is now engaged to Ethan Myers.

Gender Reveals:

Jennifer (Hartono) and Joshua Toto announced their second child will be a girl! They have one older daughter.

New Relationships:

Isaiah Bates is now dating a woman named Sarah. Her last name is unknown. Isaiah is 19 years old.

Natasha Bure is now dating Bradley Steven Perry.

Miscarriages:

Gracie (Wikstrom) and Kord Etbauer shared they had a miscarriage in January. They have two boys: Grit (2) and Flint (20 months)

[melissabenoistupdates]

Thursday, July 20

Masters of the Universe: Revolution: Kevin Smith hosts a roundtable discussion about He-Man and Skeletor’s most epic battle yet with the creators and cast featuring Chris Wood, Melissa Benoist, Griffin Newman and Tiffany Smith. 3:30 p.m., Room 6BCF

[nysocboy]

Gemstones Season 2 Finale: Kelvin and Keefe affirm their love. So do Butch and Sundance. With cameos by Robert Redford, Paul Newman, and Al Pacino

The series finales on The Righteous Gemstones are meant to tie up any remaining loose ends and say goodbye to the characters, so we should expect little or no plot development, just a lot of hugging: everyone who has had lost, frayed, or troubled relationships during the season, lovers, friends, parents and children, siblings, will be reconciled.

Hold on tight to the one you love the most:  A blackened stage. Suddenly a spotlight on Jesse.  He begins the country-western song "Some Broken Hearts Never Mend," by Don Williams.  Then Kelvin, lying on a platform, raising a finger to Heaven.  Then Judy and the choir, as she walks up stage.  Then all three siblings together. 

 Coffee black, cigarettes. Start the day like all the rest. 

First thing every moning that I do, is start missing you.

Some broken hearts never mend.  Some memories never end.  

Some tears will never dry.  My love for you will never die. 

Except this song is not about lost love, it's about mended hearts.  You're supposed to look at or point to a loved one. Kelvin starts out by pointing at audience stage left, obviously at Keefe, who points to himself and then back. My love for you will never die,

BJ waves, presumably at Judy.  Cut to Amber and the kids; then Baby Billy, Tiffany, and the baby; he looks back at Harmon, his no-longer estranged son; and finally Eli looks out at the audience. 

In the middle of love's embrace: Flashback to the Alaska Commercial Company, a grocery store chain with 33 locations in Alaska, mostly in rural areas. The Lissons, in hiding after their murders and attempts, are buying -- coffee to go?  Martin has them under surveillance.

Back in church, Eli looks at the band as the siblings sing the second verse together.  Then Jesse and Kelvin, looking up to heaven.

 Rendezvous in the night.

In the middle of love's embrace, I see your face

Wait -- they see God while their partners Amber and Keefe are going downtown?  Makes sense.

Cut to the Lissons in their cabin, watching Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, where the gay-subtext bank robbers, played by Robert Redford, top photo, and Paul Newman, left, are trapped, with no escape, so they go out shooting. 

 Some broken hearts never mend.   Some memories never end.

Some tears will never dry.  My love for you will never die.The Cycle Ninjas:  Cycle Ninjas on glittering metallic snowmobiles zoom through the woods.  

Lyle looks out the window and yells "Get the guns!"

Back at the church, the siblings point at each other. Eli smiles. 

The First Chorus: The congregation rises to sing the chorus.

We see Chad and his wife, who have been having marital problems since Season 1; Martin and his often seen, never-named wife; Judy and BJ;  Junior and Tan Man, Baby Billy and Tiffany, Amber and the kids.  Then the siblings again.  Wait, I thought the Tan Man was just Junior's assistant.  Is there a gay relationship going on back in Memphis? 

In the flashback, the Lissons get out their guns and tell each other that God believes in them: "God will see us through, for we are the Chosen."  Where on Earth did Lyle get that idea?  

More broken hearts after the break

The Second Chorus: Imitating a scene in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Lyle throws a chest from the second floor.  It contains Lindsey, who opens fire. The Cycle Ninjas shoot her.  

Panicking, Lyle runs from the cabin in his underwear.   The Cycle Ninjas aim at him, but then think, why waste bullets?  He'll freeze to death if the wolves don't get him first. Eli grins at the camera. 

 Some broken hearts never mend.  Some memories never end.

Some tears will never dry.  My love for you will never die.

Kelvin points off camera at Keefe again.

This scene is an homage to a scene in The Godfather (1972) where Michael Corleone (Al Pacino), the new head of the Corleone crime family, orders the murders of his rivals while he is attending the baptism of his sister's kid.  Shots of the baptism and the murders are juxtaposed, like shots of the Lissons' murders and the church service are juxtaposed here.  

The Third Chorus: Another run-through of the congregation, except this time Junior and the Tan Man grin at each other, Chad puts his arm around his wife, BJ's parents warm up to the service, and Keefe  points to himself and then to Kelvin. They get two opportunities to sing "My love for you will never die."

Zion's Landing will now be a Gemstone resort.  The siblings hug.  Eli sings.  Lyle has frozen to death as wolves approach.  The end.

McBride didn't know, at this point, if the series would be renewed for a third season, so he wrote as if this was the last we would ever see of the Gemstones.  And he wrote of relationships being mended and affirmations of love. The end.

Whoops, I accidentally posted a photo of Kelvin and Keefe from Season 3.  Oh, well, now you know what's coming up.

The full review, with more analysis and nude dudes, is on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends

[arrhakis]

Art Nouveau Jewelry - La Dame d'Aujac by Daniel Arrhakis (2023)

Ivory sculptured face, conch shell, gold, amber, amethyst, topaz and rubies. A Creative Art Nouveau Jewelry Necklace with a Baroque Steam Punk mood.

In the realm of jewellery, the Art Nouveau period (1890 to 1910), Which coexisted with the Victorian era and the Edwardian era, saw designers innovate crafting techniques and experiment with new materials.

Art Nouveau jewellery was ornate, reflecting the unrestrained beauty of the natural world, and did not rely on the preciousness of its components.

During this brief period, five jewelry designers (All Men) stood out amongst the rest for their masterful work : René Lalique (1860-1945), Henri Vever (1854 -1942), Georges Fouquet (1862-1957), Louis Comfort Tiffany (American) (1848 -1933), Lucien Gaillard (1861-1942), Joë Descomps (1872–1948), Karl Rothmüller (German) (1860–1930) etc

But also Women :

Charlotte Newman, also known as Mrs. Philip Newman (English) (1840–1927), was the first English woman to be recognized as a jeweler in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Her success in the traditionally male-dominated profession inspired many more women in the Arts and Crafts movement to become jewelers.

Elinor Evans Klapp (American) (1845-1915) the wife of a successful dry goods merchant, took up jewelry design in her early forties.

She soon made up for lost time by launching herself as one of the largest exhibitors in Chicago’s Arts and Crafts shows, and by sending forty pieces to the Paris Exhibition of 1900.

These series are a tribute to the women creators, artists who were so often forgotten during the Art Nouveau movement in an art world at the time dominated by men, like Elinor Evans Klapp, Charlotte Newman, Elisabeth Sonrel and others ...

The Mystery Of Jeanne Orianne De Levallois (1872 - 1951) A French Woman Jewelry Creator.

In this sense, I present to you for the first time Jeanne Orianne De Levallois (1872 - 1951) (*) Born in Rocamadour, a half-sister of Élisabeth Sonrel, whose existence was always kept secret by her paternal family.

It is not known to what extent her father Nicolas Stéphane Sonrel, a painter from Tours, partially influenced her drawing and painting skills, but unlike Élisabeth, her sister never showed her works, especially her series of jewelry that she designed in secret, signing with the name Jeanne Orianne De Levallois so as not to arouse any suspicion.

According to legend, Orianne, towards the end of her life, had moments of absence and lack of memory, it is believed that on one of these occasions she got lost in the Grotte des Merveilles and despite all efforts, it was never found until today.

Her notebook of drawings and sketches was only found recently, during a routine exploration of the Grotte des Merveilles.

In a recess of the cave was what appeared to be a thick notebook wrapped in furs and silks. In it were some of the most beautiful jewels ever created by any French jeweler.

It is these drawings that I present to you today in these series in a recreation created with the help of Artificial Intelligence and digital art. Hope you like it ! : )

(*) Mystery personage, stories and artistic collections created by Daniel Arrhakis.

(via Art Nouveau Jewelry - La Dame d'Aujac | Art Nouveau Jewelry … | Flickr)

[oldmancarrot]

Books I’ve read (2024)

American Prometheus: Oppenheimer, by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, by Herbert P. Bix

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Winterlight (#7), by Kristen Britain

Spirit of the Woods (7.5), by Kristen Britain

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll

Rubicon, by J. S. Dewes

Ship of Magic (#1), by Robin Hobb

Pax, by Tom Holland

Babel, by R. F. Kuang

The First Book of Lankhmar (#1), by Fritz Leiber

The Mirror and the Light (#3), by Hilary Mantel

Teixcalaan Duology: A Desolation Called Peace (#2), by Arkady Martine

The Stranger Times (#1), by C. K. McDonnell

Unruly, by David Mitchell

Gideon the Ninth (#1), by Tamsyn Muir

Harrow the Ninth (#2), by Tamsyn Muir

Nona the Ninth (#3), by Tamsyn Muir

Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch, by Rhianna Pratchett and Gabrielle Kent

A Stroke of the Pen, by Terry Pratchett

Hyperion (#1), by Dan Simmons

The Dawnhounds, by Sascha Stronach

Currently Reading

Stormlight Archive: Word of Radiance (#2), by Brandon Sanderson

Napoleon the Great, by Andrew Roberts

Anno Dracula, by Kim Newman

I’ll get to these someday

Foundation (#1), by Isaac Asimov

Against All Gods, by Miles Cameron

Shanghai Immortal, by A.Y. Chao

The Storm Before the Storm, by Mike Duncan

The Silk Roads, by Peter Frankopan

I, Claudius (#1), by Robert Graves

The Creeper, by Margaret Hickey

The Mad Ship (#2), by Robin Hobb

Ship of Destiny (#3), by Robin Hobb

Song of the Huntress, by Lucy Holland

Istanbul, by Bettany Hughes

The Rise of Kyoshi (#1), by F. C. Lee

The Shadow of Kyoshi (#2), by F. C. Lee

The Romanovs, by Simon Sebag Montefiore

The Deed of Paksenarrion, by Elizabeth Moon

36 Streets (#1), by T. R. Napper

Ghost of the Neon God (#2), by T. R. Napper

Spinning Silver, by Naomi Novik

Buried Deep and other short stories, by Naomi Novik

Saevus Corvax Deals with the Dead (#1), by K. J. Parker

She Who Became The Sun, by Shelly Parker-Chan

The Gormenghast trilogy, by Mervyn Peake

Howling Dark (#2), by Christopher Ruocchio

Mistborn: The Lost Metal (#7), by Brandon Sanderson

Stormlight Archive: Oathbringer (#3), by Brandon Sanderson

The Bone Season (#1), by Samantha Shannon

A Day of Fallen Night, by Samantha Shannon

The Bone Shard War (#3), by Andrea Stewart

The Book of Witches, by various authors, edited by Jonathan Strahan

City of Last Chances (#1), by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Service Model, by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, by Wole Talabi

Wild Dogs, by Michael Trant

Heroic Fantasy Short Stories (Anthology), by various authors

[jpriest85-blog]

Finally completed some concept art of my @the-passenger-if Tiffany Newman's true from.

I imagine Tiffany originally resembles a kind of deep sea angler fish since they're irl Biology is so alien and terrifying. Some species can have multiple tentacles and use bioluminicence to lure prey with pretty sparkling lights, just how Newman can gather energy in the game. Also, it is fitting for Tiffany's character considering the fact her casket resembles a pretty young blonde woman when she's actually an imposing and terrifying intertimentinal being. Perfect for luring the Hunter to underestimate her before she enivatable turns the tables to become the Apex Predator again. Tiffany starts out pretty otherworldly, but after what happens on Lunar Ridge, she becomes more attached and emotionally invested in the people around her. I headcanon after her power upgrade Tiffany's true form undergoes a type of metamorphosis to take on some more human characteristics and resembles a kind of eldritch mermaid.

[fundiepredictions]

What happend in 2022

January

Finley Marie Paine was born to Chad&Erin Paine (Bates)

Deborah Joy Waller was born to David&Priscilla Waller (Keller)

February

Jill&Derick Dillard (Duggar) announced they where expecting baby #3*

March

Jeremiah Duggar and Hannah Wissmann got married

Zade Patrick Steward was born to Carlin&Evan Stewart (Bates)

Cambria Rogers was born to Courtney&Christoffer Rogers

Jill&Derick Dillard (Duggar) announced their baby is a boy

Trace Bates proposed to Lydia Romeike

April

I started this blog

Carlin&Evan Stewart (Bates) bought a house

Jill&Derick Dillard (Duggar) announced they where moving because of Derick's new job

Nathan&Nurie Keller (Rodrigues) announced they where expecting baby #2

May

John&Esther Shrader (Keller) announced they where expecting baby #13

Nathan&Esther Bates (Keyes) announced they where expecting baby #1

John&Abbie Duggar (Burnett) announced they where expecting baby #2

Bobby&Tori Smith (Bates) announced they where expecting baby #4

Chad&Erin Paine announced they where moving

Truett Oliver Duggar was born to Jed&Katey Duggar (Nakatsu)

Lawson Bates and Tiffany Espensen got married

June

The photo of Josiah&Lauren Duggar (Swanson) in church with a baby carier was finaly found

Joseph&Kendra Duggar (Caldwell) where seen with another baby

Nathan&Esther Bates (Keyes) announced their baby is a girl and will be named Kenna Joy

Brynleigh Bontrager was born to Mitchell&Bryn Bontrager

Marlin Bontrager spoke about four grandchildren coming (before the birth of Brynleigh)

July

Sarah Maxwell got engaged to Kory Bollinger

Frederick Michael Dillard was born to Jill&Derick Dillard (Duggar)

Jackson Bates teased us for days about his girlfriend: Emerson Wells

Jeremiah&Allison Helferich (Bontrager) announced they where expecting baby #2

We figured out the two missing Bontrager grandbaby's are Carolina and Cassidy's baby. One was born on the 17th of july

August

Cambree Layne Smith was born to Tori&Bobby Smith (Bates)

Katie&Travis Clark (Bates) announced they are expecting baby #1

Sarah Maxwell and Kory Bollinger got married

Nathanael Wissmann proposed to his girlfriend Katrina Sahlstrom

Jeremiah&Hannah Duggar (Wissmann) announced they are expecting baby #1

September

John&Alyssa Webster (Bates) announced they are expecting baby #5

Travis&Katie Clark (Bates) announced they are expecting a girl and will be named Hailey James

Sawyer James Ballinger was born to Meagan&Bobby Ballinger (Forsyth)

October

John&Abbie Duggar (Burnett) announced the birth of Charlie Duggar in september

Trace Bates and Lydia Romeike got married

Ruth&Ryan Bourlier (Wissmann) announced they where expecting baby #5

Joy&Austin Forsyth (Duggar) announced they are expecting baby #3

Jeremiah&Hannah Duggar (Wissmann) announced their baby is a girl

Daniel Shrader was born to John&Esther Shrader (Keller)

Nathanael Wissmann and Katrina Sahlstrom got married

Kenna Joy Bates was born to Nathan&Esther Bates (Keyes)

John&Alyssa Webster (Bates) announced their baby is a boy

We learned about mystery grandDuggar #29

November

Kaylee Rodrigues and Jonathan Hill got married

Flint Billy Etbauer was born to Kord&Gracie Etbauer (Wikstrom)

Newman Christian Keller was born to Nathan&Nurie Keller (Rodrigues)

Mary Maxwell got engaged to Samuel Hook

Gemma Helferich was born to Jeremiah&Allison Helferich (Bontrager)

December

Chloe Ann Bourlier was born to Ruth&Ryan Bourlier (Wissmann)

Jed&Katey Duggar (Nakatsu) announced they are expecting baby #2, a girl, Nora Kate

Kaylee&Jonathan Hill (Rodrigues) announced they are expecting baby #1

We found out from the Duggar christmas video that Baby Duggar-Swanson #2 is probably a girl named Daisy

Chad&Erin Paine moved to Florida

[spurgie-cousin]

Tiffany bonzilla is pregnant with nr 3. Wonder hat name we will get. We already have revival Rey and Valor Vidal. Can she beat Newman Keller

I don't follow Tiff Boni outside of sometimes reblogging the funny posts @precious-and-neat-fundies makes lol so this doesn't make me feel much. Good for her I guess, sad for us because another bigoted weirdo will potentially brought into the world.

[ulkaralakbarova]

The eccentric new manager of a UHF television channel tries to save the station from financial ruin with an odd array of programming. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: George Newman: ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic R.J. Fletcher: Kevin McCarthy Stanley Spadowski: Michael Richards Bob: David Bowe Harvey Bilchik: Stanley Brock Philo: Anthony Geary Raul Hernandez: Trinidad Silva Kuni: Gedde Watanabe Noodles MacIntosh: Billy Barty Richard Fletcher: John Paragon Pamela Finklestein: Fran Drescher Esther Bilchik: Sue Ane Langdon Head Thug: David Proval Killer Thug: Grant James Teri: Victoria Jackson Joe Earley: Emo Philips Gandhi: Jay Levey Cameraman: Lou B. Washington Bum: Vance Colvig FCC Man: Nik Hagler Bartender: Robert K. Weiss Spatula Husband: Eldon G. Hallum Spatula Wife: Sherry Engstrom Spatula Neighbor: Sara Allen Sy Greenblum: Bob Hungerford Crazy Ernie: John Cadenhead Blind Man: Francis M. Carlson Earl Ramsey: Ivan Green Joel Miller: Adam Maras Billy: Travis Knight Little Weasel: Joseph Witt Teri’s Father: Tony Frank Teri’s Mother: Billie Lee Thrash Fletcher Cronie #1: Barry Friedman Fletcher Cronie #2: Kevin Roden Phyllis Weaver: Lisa R. Stefanic Big Edna: Nancy Johnson Betty: Debbie Mathieu Little Old Lady: Wilma Jeanne Cummins Animal Deliveyman: Cliff Stephens Band: Guitar: Jim West Band: Bass Guitar: Steve Jay Band: Drums: Jon Schwartz Band: Keyboards: Kim Bullard Whipped Cream Eater: Barry Hansen Thug #3: Bob Maras Thug #4: George Fisher Guide #1: Tony Salome Guide #2: Joe Restivo Yodeler: Charles Marsh Mud Wrestler: Belinda Bauer Satan: Patrick Thomas O’Brien Conan the Librarian: Roger Callard Timid Man: Robert Frank Boy with Books: Jeff Maynard Promo Announcer (voice): M.G. Kelly Promo Announcer (voice): Jay Gardner Promo Announcer (voice): John Harlan Promo Announcer (voice): Jim Rose Film Crew: Production Manager: Gray Frederickson Original Music Composer: John Du Prez Editor: Dennis M. O’Connor Producer: Gene Kirkwood Producer: John W. Hyde Writer: Jay Levey Director of Photography: David Lewis Production Design: Ward Preston Set Decoration: Robert L. Zilliox Costume Design: Tom McKinley Makeup Effects: Allan A. Apone Special Effects Makeup Artist: Douglas J. White Sound Recordist: Ara Ashjian Sound Editor: Christopher Assells Sound Editor: Charles R. Beith Jr. Sound Recordist: Gregory Cheever Sound Editor: Clayton Collins Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Andy D’Addario Sound Editor: Dino DiMuro Sound Editor: G. Michael Graham Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Jeffrey J. Haboush Sound Mixer: Bo Harwood Sound Editor: Dan Hegeman Sound Editor: A. David Marshall Sound Editor: Diane Marshall Supervising Sound Editor: Dave McMoyler Sound Recordist: Art Schiro Sound Editor: Scott A. Tinsley Visual Effects Producer: John Coats Visual Effects Supervisor: William Mesa Visual Effects Art Director: Richard Kilroy Visual Effects Art Director: Ron Yates Post Production Supervisor: Susan Zwerman Production Supervisor: Bill Carroll Stunt Coordinator: George Fisher Stunts: Bob Maras Stunts: Brent Stice Stunts: T. Alan Kelly Stunts: J. Granville Moulder Stunts: Michael Steven Howl Stunts: Richard Drown Executive In Charge Of Production: Kate Morris Associate Producer: Becki Cross Trujillo Associate Producer: Joe M. Aguilar First Assistant Director: John R. Woodward Second Assistant Director: Benita Allen Casting Assistant: Gregory Raich Casting Assistant: Sandi Black Local Casting: Barbara Brinkley Henry Local Casting: Laurey Lummus Key Hair Stylist: Lynne K. Eagan Makeup & Hair: Roseanne McIlvane Wardrobe Supervisor: Ainslee Colt de Wolf Wardrobe Assistant: Phil O’Nan Boom Operator: Joel Racheff First Assistant Camera: Ed Giovanni Second Assistant Camera: Tiffanie Winton Second Assistant Camera: Brett Reynolds Second Assistant Camera: Cindi Pusheck Production Coordinator: Bonnie Macker Script Supervisor: Carol Stewart Second Second Assistant Director: Lorene M. Duran Third Assistant Director: Pam Whorton Additional Editing: Steve Polivka Assistant Editor: Lewis Schoenbrun Supervising ADR Editor: Karla Caldwell Music Supervisor:...

[saving-childhood-1]

1) Following the leader -Bobby Driscoll and Paul Collins

2) Two- sleeping at last

3) captain's call- derivakat, CG5

4) under the sea - the little mermaid

5) For a moment- the little mermaid 2

6) A pirates life- Peter pan

7) wellerman- Nathan Evans

8) fly to your heart- selena gomez

9) fly with me- Kari Kimmel

10) shine- Tiffany Giardina

11) Let your heart sing- Katherine mcphee

12) breakaway- Kelly Clarkson

13) if we have each other- Alec Benjamin

14) hey brother- avicii

15) count on me- Bruno mars

16) counting stars- one republic

17) oh sister- Dan Bern

18) dear sister, your brother- Talain Rayne

19) brother, sister- beta radio

20) soldier poet king- oh hellos

21) Wake me up- avicii

22) All I want- adtr

23) planetary GO- mcr

24) Best day of my life- American authors

25) Castaways- the backyardigans

26) Roll up the map- TNLPB

27) Castaway on Pitate Island- TNLPB

28) Never Sky- TNLPB

29) joyriding- frank iero

30) dear Maria count me in- all time low

31) house of Gold- twenty one pilots

32) welcome to the show- britt Nicole

33) The Phoenix- fall out boy

34) still waiting- sum 41

35) the cult of dionysus by the Orion experience

36) boys will bugs- cavetown

37) Riptide- vance joy

38) geronimo- Sheppard

39) ready as I'll ever be- varian

40) glad you came- the wanted

41) cruisin for a bruisin- teen beach movie

42) what's my name- China Anne McClain

43) chillin like a villain- Sofia Carson

44) ways to be wicked- dove cameron

45) lips are movin- Meghan Trainor

46) Dynamite- Taio cruz

47) revolting children- Matilda the musical

48) didcord- the living tombstone

49) when I'm older- Josh Gad

50) kingdom dance- tangled

51) lemon boy- Cavetown

52) fairytales- Gabby Sophia

53) the nights- avicii

54) you'll always find your way back home- Hannah Montana

55) waiting for love- avicii

56) get off my back- Bryan adams

57) how far I'll go- Moana

58) when will my life begin- tangled

59) I've got dream- tangled

60) just like fire- pink

61) boy in the bubble- Alec Benjamin

62) this is me- the greatest showman

63) high hopes- panic at the disco

64) overwhelmed- Ryan mack

65) you've got a friend in me- randy Newman

66) Timber- Pitt bull and Kesha

67) Mad at Disney- salem ilese

68) welcome to wondeland- Anson seabra

69) man the canons- Galactikraken, Jonathan young

70) abandon ship- fin

71) he's a pirate- Klaus badelt

72) mama's boy- Dominic fike

73) lost- fin

74) Rule #4 fish in a birdcage- fish in a birdcage

75) if you believe- strive to be, patch crowe