El espíritu humano
Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Comics Magazine (2001) #9
Erik Larsen, Eric Stephenson, Tom DeFalco (Escritores), Ron Frenz, Frank Fosco, Bill Wray, Paul Ryan (Dibujantes)
— Reed Richards: Nos has subestimado gravemente, Annihilus! Nuestros cuerpos mortales te pueden parecer frágiles, comparados con el tuyo… ¡Pero el espíritu humano nunca podrá ser conquistado!
— Ben Grimm: ¡Yujuuu! ¡Así se canta, Elvis! ¡Aquí vienen los coros!
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CHAPEL
Written by Brian Witten & Eric Stephenson
Drawn by Tom Tenny & Calvin Irving
Published by Image Comics
The character of Chapel is a standard Big Muscular Soldier With Lots of Guns that Rob Liefeld is known for, making his debut in the very first issue of Youngblood, the series that launched Image Comics. He was former U.S. soldier and CIA operative named Bruce Stinson who was recruited onto the first Youngblood team and given the codename Chapel (I don't think it was ever explained what the name is supposed to mean). His distinguishing characteristics are that he’s a Black man, and he wore face paint of a white skull on his face.
In an early synergistic connection of the burgeoning Image Comics Universe, it was eventually revealed that Chapel was the man who murdered Al Simmons, who then came back as Todd McFarlane’s Spawn. When Spawn finally remembered that, he tracked down Chapel looking for revenge, but instead of killing him he burned the paint on Chapel’s face, now giving him a permanent skull-face (the implication is that this would make Chapel, who was a notorious womanizer in her personal life, look like a freak and that would scare women away from him, which is something that would be worse than death for a man like him).
I'll note that when the character appeared in the 1997 Spawn animated series he was named Jess Chapel.
Chapel was also revealed to have HIV (which was purposely injected in him by his old boss, Jason Wynn, another character from Todd McFarlane's Spawn series), which got him removed from Youngblood and sent to the covert ops Bloodstrike team.
This two-part series, published in February 1995, takes place during that time, as Chapel is alone and feeling like his life is spiraling out of control, and he flashes back to a mission he had when he was still a U.S. Government soldier.
It’s 1983, Chapel leads a handpicked squad of soldiers to Nicaragua, where they’ve been sent to assassin a man identified only as Col. Black, said to have been a former U.S. ally who’s gone rogue and set himself up as some kind of warlord. We’re introduced to his team of six soldiers but even though Chapel notes the specific skills of each one (one is a martial arts expert, one speaks multiple languages, etc.), it’s pretty clear that these guys are basically red shirts, just there to further Chapel’s story. The only notable thing about any of them is that one is named Billy Zane and one is named Jet Li.
The team lands in the jungle where they immediately encounter some of Black’s soldiers and a massive gunfight ensues, which Chapel and his team win. But Chapel has noted that there were rumors of Col. Black engaging in voodoo and necromancy, and he sees evidence of that when one of the dead soldiers speaks to him after Chapel killed him. The team continues exploring the jungle, cutting through a lake where Chapel is suddenly dragged underwater by a giant anaconda.
In issue number two, which came out a month later, Chapel of course survives the anaconda attack, and the team makes it to a local village where they see that all of the villagers had been slaughtered and had their hearts ripped out. Even Chapel is outraged at the loss of all those innocent civilians and is determined to make Col. Black pay for them. They then get attacked and surrounded by another batch of soldiers, but these are zombies, making them extra difficult to “kill.” Most of Chapel’s team gets killed (like I said: redshirts) and this leads to Chapel’s one-on-one showdown with Col. Black, who does turn out to possess demonic powers.
This series is heavy on action, and lots of brutal gun violence, ably illustrated by Tom Tenny and Calvin Irving in the first issue and just by Irving in the second issue. It’s like a Rambo movie on paper. The story itself shows that Chapel is not the unfeeling brute that he often appeared to be, through the anger he felt at the deaths of the villagers and his team members, plus at one point he admits to himself that he’s scared. He also shows intelligence in figuring out how to defeat Col. Black. Thus it's an entertaining little series for what it is.
Unfortunately, the series is long out-of-print and not available for sale digitally, but I'd recommend tracking down copies if you're a fan of Rob Liefeld's Extreme Universe characters.
Chapel (02/1995 1st Series) comic books 1990-1999
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Torchy Blane in Chinatown (1939) William Beaudine
July 29th 2023
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Beck - Loser
1993
"Loser" is a single by American musician Beck. It was written by Beck and record producer Carl Stephenson, who both produced the song with Tom Rothrock. "Loser" was initially released as Beck's second single by independent record label Bong Load Custom Records on 12-inch vinyl format with catalog number BL5 on March 8, 1993.
When it was first released independently, "Loser" began receiving airplay on various modern rock stations, and the song's popularity eventually led to a major-label record deal with Geffen Records-subsidiary DGC Records. After the song's re-release under DGC, the song peaked at number 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in April 1994, becoming Beck's first single to hit a major chart. Internationally, the song reached number one in Norway and entered the top 10 in Australia, Austria, Canada, Iceland, New Zealand, and Sweden. The song was subsequently released on the 1994 album Mellow Gold.
"Loser" received a total of 73,3% yes votes!
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W A K E U P O M E N
This place used to be Houston, now it’s something else, something dying. Titans, lords of industry and everything else left are the ones keeping it in a half-life. There’s a rot that runs so deep there’s no saving it anymore, not as it is. There’s salvation and devastation down this path, but you already knew that, Omen. Free the Hue, free yourselves, and free the future - the Titans must fall.
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The Rocket - Stephenson's Rocket Replica at Locomotion
Tom Scott also did a video on it explaining how it works and how it has no brakes.
Imagine Stephen just puffing around with no brakes and only a reverser to stop himself.
✨️Chaos✨️
He'd love it.
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Rufous-Necked Hornbill.
📸: Tom Stephenson.
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Happy 80th Birthday Billy Connolly.
The comedian and actor Billy Connolly was born on November 24th 1942 in Glasgow, into a poor and not altogether stable family; he left school at age 15 and served as (among other jobs) a shipyard worker, a paratrooper in the Territorial Army, and a welder, the latter including a stint building an oil rig in Nigeria. Shortly after his return, Connolly quit working and, supporting himself with the money he’d saved, concentrated on learning to play folk music on the banjo and guitar. He became a regular on the Glasgow folk scene, instantly recognisable with his wild hair and beard; he drifted in and out of several bands before forming the Humblebums with guitarist Tam Harvey in 1965. Gerry Rafferty (later of Stealers Wheel and “Baker Street” fame) joined sometime later, and the group built a following with their live performances, which spotlighted Connolly’s humorous between-song bits.
As Rafferty’s songs became the Humblebums’ primary musical focus, tensions among the members escalated; Harvey departed, and Connolly and Rafferty recorded two albums in 1969 and 1970 before disagreements over Connolly’s concert comedy split them up in 1971.
Connolly soon began performing around Scotland and northern England, concentrating more on comedy but still mixing occasional folk songs into his act. 1972 saw the release of Connolly’s first album, Live, and also the debut of The Great Northern Welly Boot Show, a musical play Connolly co-authored with poet Tom Buchan based on his experiences in the shipyards of Glasgow. The show was a hit in Edinburgh and London, and Polydor signed Connolly to a recording contract. In 1974, his Solo Concert album sparked protests from the Christian community over a rowdy routine in which Connolly described the Last Supper as if it had taken place in Glasgow; all the publicity only helped his career, and he was quickly becoming one of Scotland’s favourite entertainers.
His 1974 follow-up album, Cop Yer Whack for This, became his biggest hit yet, going gold in the U.K., and the comic take on Tammy Wynette’s “D.I.V.O.R.C.E.” became a surprise number one hit single in 1975. That same year also saw Connolly put in star-making appearances on Michael Parkinson’s chat show and at the London Palladium. He consolidated his success with a rigorous touring schedule over the next few years (including the massive Extravaganza tour of the U.K. in 1977), and continued to release comedy recordings on a regular basis into the ‘80s.
During the late ‘70s, Connolly began taking on acting roles in television and film productions, and tried his hand at playwriting, with somewhat less success. His first marriage dissolved in 1981 amidst an affair with comedienne Pamela Stephenson (whom he would later marry in 1989, the same year he shaved off his trademark shaggy beard). Taking up residence in London with Stephenson, Connolly continued his comedy career while taking on more theatrical and television roles.
Toward the late '80s, his appearances on American television became more frequent, which – along with an unsold pilot for a Dead Poets Society series – helped Connolly land a gig replacing Howard Hesseman on the high school honour-student comedy Head of the Class in 1990. His highest-profile American exposure was short-lived, however, as the series was cancelled after just one season; however, Connolly was back on American airwaves in early 1992, starring in the sitcom Billy. It too was cancelled after a short run, and after appearing in the film Indecent Proposal, Connolly returned to the U.K. (though he still officially resided in the Hollywood Hills).
In 1994, he hosted the acclaimed series World Tour of Scotland, which explored the flavor of contemporary Scottish culture. It proved so successful that Connolly hosted two further exploration-themed BBC series: 1995’s A Scot in the Arctic, in which he spent a week on a remote northern Canadian island, and 1996’s World Tour of Australia. Lent a new respectability, Connolly appeared in BBC Scotland’s historical dramas Deacon Brodie and Mrs. Brown, the latter of which also featured Judi Dench and was released worldwide to much acclaim.
In 2012, Connolly provided the voice of King Fergus in Pixar’s Scotland-set animated film Brave, alongside fellow Scottish actors Kelly Macdonald, Craig Ferguson, Robbie Coltrane, Emma Thompson, and Kevin McKidd. Connolly appeared as Wilf in Quartet, a 2012 British comedy-drama film based on the play Quartet by Ronald Harwood, directed by Dustin Hoffman. In 2014, Connolly appeared in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies as Dáin II Ironfoot, a great dwarf warrior and cousin of Thorin II Oakenshield. Sir Peter Jackson stated that “We could not think of a more fitting actor to play Dain Ironfoot, the staunchest and toughest of dwarves, than Billy Connolly, the Big Yin himself. With Billy stepping into this role, the cast of The Hobbit is now complete. We can’t wait to see him on the battlefield.”
In September 2013, Connolly underwent minor surgery for early-stage prostate cancer. The announcement also stated that he was being treated for the initial symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.
Connolly had acknowledged earlier in 2013 that he had started to forget his lines during performances, adding later he was finding it hard to remember how to play his banjo.
In 2017 for his 75th birthday Glasgow bestowed upon Billy three 50 foot murals , to add to the many murals in the city, in 2007 and again in 2010, he was voted the greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4’s 100 Greatest Stand-Ups. He once again topped the list on Channel 5’s Greatest Stand-Up Comedians, broadcast on New Year’s Eve 2013.
Recently Billy has spoken about his Parkinson’s saying that he now walks “unsteadily” and that his “hearing is going”. He admits he would love to go back on stage but that “I don’t know if I can do it with the state my mind is in.” he appeared on Radio 2’s Chris Evans show and told him “I don’t think the way I used to,” he went on…“….and steadily more symptoms come and it’s incurable. It’s not going to end. As a matter of fact, I had a Russian doctor in New York who said, 'You realise this is an incurable disease?’"And I said, 'You got to get a grip of yourself, stop calling it an incurable disease, say we have yet to find the cure. Give the guy a light in the tunnel.’”
Billy retired from his stage shows officially IN 2018, but he has kept himself busy, he hit our screens with another series of his Great American Trail, which will follow him as he replicates the route taken by Scottish immigrants who came to America in the early 18th century. He also brought out a new book, called Tall Tales and Wee Stories, to launch it Billy’s face was projected on to buildings in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
In November 2019, The Glasgow Evening Times named Connolly as The Greatest Glaswegian as determined by a public poll. Connolly has been a patron of the National Association for Bikers with a Disability. His first sculpture, which is inspired by his past as a welder, was released in March 2020.
Last year when asked on BBC’s The One Show, what is it like living with Parkinson’s, he said:
“It has its moments. It’s like just now, my left hand is shaking. I used to be able to stop it by staring at it, but it doesn’t work so much anymore. It’s not a frightened of me as what it used to be."
However, during the BBC documentary Made in Scotland, viewers became worried about the star’s health after he said:
"My life, it’s slipping away and I can feel it and I should."I’m a damn sight nearer the end than I am the beginning. But it doesn’t frighten me, it’s an adventure and it is quite interesting to see myself slipping away.”
However, Billy made it clear following the documentary that he was not close to death, and posted a video online to address viewers’ worries.
The big yin has been hane recently and a few pics have cropped up of him on social media, he was seen having mince and tatties at a “Loch Lomond Pub” the pub in questions is a favourite of my Sister, Sandra, The Oak Tree at Balmaha, he also in Jessie Biscuit in Milngavie in the past couple of weeks.
Today, to mark his 80th National Theatre of Scotland announced a ply about our national treasure, Dear Billy will tour in theatres and community centres across Scotland next year.
Featuring stories from the general public about The Big Yin, the show has been created by Gary McNair, who wrote and performed the acclaimed 2014 play Donald Robertson Is Not A Stand-Up Comedian.
Connolly has given his blessing to the production and a seat will be saved for him at every show in case he wants to drop by. And McNair plans to collect even more stories about the Glaswegian stand-up while on the road to make every show different.
Radio 4 Xtra is also currently repeating comedian Janey Godley's 2015 series about Connolly, The Big Yin..
Happy Birthday Billy.
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Commons Vote
On: Passenger Railway Services Bill (Public Ownership) Bill: Committee: Amendment 14
Ayes: 111 (95.5% Con, 4.5% DUP)
Noes: 362 (97.0% Lab, 2.5% Ind, 0.6% SDLP)
Absent: ~177
Day's business papers: 2024-9-3
Likely Referenced Bill: Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill
Description: A Bill to make provision for passenger railway services to be provided by public sector companies instead of by means of franchises.
Originating house: Commons
Current house: Commons
Bill Stage: 3rd reading
Individual Votes:
Ayes
Conservative (106 votes)
Alan Mak
Alberto Costa
Alex Burghart
Alicia Kearns
Alison Griffiths
Andrew Bowie
Andrew Murrison
Andrew Rosindell
Andrew Snowden
Aphra Brandreth
Ashley Fox
Ben Obese-Jecty
Ben Spencer
Bernard Jenkin
Blake Stephenson
Bob Blackman
Bradley Thomas
Caroline Dinenage
Caroline Johnson
Charlie Dewhirst
Chris Philp
Claire Coutinho
Damian Hinds
Danny Kruger
David Davis
David Mundell
David Reed
David Simmonds
Desmond Swayne
Edward Argar
Edward Leigh
Gagan Mohindra
Gareth Bacon
Gareth Davies
Gavin Williamson
Geoffrey Cox
George Freeman
Greg Smith
Gregory Stafford
Harriet Cross
Harriett Baldwin
Helen Whately
Iain Duncan Smith
Jack Rankin
James Cartlidge
James Cleverly
James Wild
Jeremy Hunt
Jeremy Wright
Jerome Mayhew
Jesse Norman
Joe Robertson
John Cooper
John Glen
John Hayes
John Lamont
John Whittingdale
Joy Morrissey
Julia Lopez
Julian Lewis
Karen Bradley
Katie Lam
Kemi Badenoch
Kevin Hollinrake
Kieran Mullan
Kit Malthouse
Laura Trott
Lewis Cocking
Lincoln Jopp
Louie French
Mark Francois
Mark Garnier
Mark Pritchard
Martin Vickers
Matt Vickers
Mel Stride
Mike Wood
Mims Davies
Neil Hudson
Neil O'Brien
Neil Shastri-Hurst
Nick Timothy
Nigel Huddleston
Oliver Dowden
Patrick Spencer
Peter Bedford
Peter Fortune
Priti Patel
Rebecca Harris
Rebecca Paul
Rebecca Smith
Richard Fuller
Richard Holden
Robbie Moore
Robert Jenrick
Saqib Bhatti
Sarah Bool
Shivani Raja
Simon Hoare
Steve Barclay
Stuart Anderson
Stuart Andrew
Suella Braverman
Tom Tugendhat
Victoria Atkins
Wendy Morton
Democratic Unionist Party (5 votes)
Carla Lockhart
Gavin Robinson
Gregory Campbell
Jim Shannon
Sammy Wilson
Noes
Labour (351 votes)
Abena Oppong-Asare
Abtisam Mohamed
Adam Jogee
Adam Thompson
Afzal Khan
Al Carns
Alan Campbell
Alan Gemmell
Alan Strickland
Alex Baker
Alex Ballinger
Alex Barros-Curtis
Alex Davies-Jones
Alex Mayer
Alex McIntyre
Alex Norris
Alex Sobel
Alice Macdonald
Alison Hume
Alison McGovern
Alistair Strathern
Allison Gardner
Amanda Hack
Amanda Martin
Andrew Cooper
Andrew Gwynne
Andrew Lewin
Andrew Pakes
Andrew Ranger
Andrew Western
Andy MacNae
Andy McDonald
Andy Slaughter
Angela Eagle
Anna Dixon
Anna Gelderd
Anna McMorrin
Anna Turley
Anneliese Dodds
Anneliese Midgley
Antonia Bance
Ashley Dalton
Baggy Shanker
Bambos Charalambous
Barry Gardiner
Bayo Alaba
Beccy Cooper
Becky Gittins
Ben Coleman
Ben Goldsborough
Bill Esterson
Blair McDougall
Brian Leishman
Callum Anderson
Calvin Bailey
Carolyn Harris
Cat Smith
Catherine Atkinson
Catherine Fookes
Catherine McKinnell
Catherine West
Charlotte Nichols
Chi Onwurah
Chris Bloore
Chris Curtis
Chris Elmore
Chris Evans
Chris Hinchliff
Chris Kane
Chris McDonald
Chris Murray
Chris Vince
Chris Ward
Chris Webb
Christian Wakeford
Claire Hazelgrove
Claire Hughes
Clive Betts
Clive Efford
Clive Lewis
Connor Naismith
Connor Rand
Damien Egan
Dan Aldridge
Dan Carden
Dan Jarvis
Dan Norris
Dan Tomlinson
Daniel Francis
Danny Beales
Darren Paffey
Dave Robertson
David Burton-Sampson
David Pinto-Duschinsky
David Smith
David Taylor
Dawn Butler
Debbie Abrahams
Deirdre Costigan
Derek Twigg
Diana Johnson
Douglas Alexander
Douglas McAllister
Elaine Stewart
Ellie Reeves
Elsie Blundell
Emily Darlington
Emily Thornberry
Emma Foody
Emma Lewell-Buck
Euan Stainbank
Fabian Hamilton
Fleur Anderson
Florence Eshalomi
Frank McNally
Gareth Snell
Gareth Thomas
Gen Kitchen
Gerald Jones
Gill Furniss
Gill German
Gordon McKee
Graeme Downie
Graham Stringer
Grahame Morris
Gregor Poynton
Gurinder Singh Josan
Harpreet Uppal
Heidi Alexander
Helen Hayes
Helena Dollimore
Henry Tufnell
Ian Lavery
Ian Murray
Imogen Walker
Irene Campbell
Jack Abbott
Jacob Collier
Jade Botterill
Jake Richards
James Asser
James Frith
James Naish
Janet Daby
Jayne Kirkham
Jeevun Sandher
Jeff Smith
Jen Craft
Jenny Riddell-Carpenter
Jess Asato
Jess Phillips
Jessica Morden
Jessica Toale
Jim Dickson
Jim McMahon
Jo Platt
Jo Stevens
Jo White
Joani Reid
Jodie Gosling
Joe Morris
Joe Powell
Johanna Baxter
John Grady
John Healey
John Slinger
John Whitby
Jon Pearce
Jon Trickett
Jonathan Brash
Jonathan Davies
Jonathan Hinder
Josh Dean
Josh Fenton-Glynn
Josh MacAlister
Josh Newbury
Julia Buckley
Julie Minns
Juliet Campbell
Justin Madders
Karin Smyth
Karl Turner
Kate Osamor
Kate Osborne
Katie White
Katrina Murray
Keir Mather
Kerry McCarthy
Kevin Bonavia
Kim Johnson
Kim Leadbeater
Kirith Entwistle
Kirsteen Sullivan
Kirsty McNeill
Laura Kyrke-Smith
Lauren Edwards
Lauren Sullivan
Laurence Turner
Lee Barron
Lee Pitcher
Leigh Ingham
Lewis Atkinson
Liam Byrne
Liam Conlon
Lilian Greenwood
Lillian Jones
Linsey Farnsworth
Liz Kendall
Liz Twist
Lizzi Collinge
Lloyd Hatton
Lola McEvoy
Louise Haigh
Louise Jones
Lucy Powell
Lucy Rigby
Luke Akehurst
Luke Charters
Luke Murphy
Luke Myer
Margaret Mullane
Marie Tidball
Mark Ferguson
Mark Hendrick
Mark Sewards
Mark Tami
Markus Campbell-Savours
Marsha De Cordova
Martin Rhodes
Mary Glindon
Mary Kelly Foy
Matt Bishop
Matt Rodda
Matt Turmaine
Matt Western
Matthew Patrick
Matthew Pennycook
Maureen Burke
Meg Hillier
Melanie Onn
Melanie Ward
Miatta Fahnbulleh
Michael Payne
Michael Shanks
Michael Wheeler
Michelle Scrogham
Michelle Welsh
Mike Amesbury
Mike Kane
Mike Reader
Mike Tapp
Mohammad Yasin
Nadia Whittome
Natalie Fleet
Natasha Irons
Naushabah Khan
Navendu Mishra
Neil Coyle
Neil Duncan-Jordan
Nesil Caliskan
Nia Griffith
Nicholas Dakin
Nick Smith
Nick Thomas-Symonds
Noah Law
Oliver Ryan
Olivia Bailey
Olivia Blake
Pam Cox
Pamela Nash
Pat McFadden
Patricia Ferguson
Patrick Hurley
Paul Davies
Paul Foster
Paul Waugh
Paula Barker
Paulette Hamilton
Perran Moon
Peter Dowd
Peter Kyle
Peter Lamb
Peter Swallow
Phil Brickell
Polly Billington
Preet Kaur Gill
Rachael Maskell
Rachel Blake
Rachel Hopkins
Rachel Taylor
Richard Baker
Richard Quigley
Rosie Duffield
Rupa Huq
Ruth Cadbury
Ruth Jones
Sadik Al-Hassan
Sally Jameson
Sam Carling
Sam Rushworth
Samantha Dixon
Samantha Niblett
Sarah Champion
Sarah Coombes
Sarah Edwards
Sarah Hall
Sarah Jones
Sarah Owen
Sarah Sackman
Satvir Kaur
Scott Arthur
Sean Woodcock
Seema Malhotra
Sharon Hodgson
Shaun Davies
Simon Lightwood
Simon Opher
Siobhain McDonagh
Sojan Joseph
Sonia Kumar
Stella Creasy
Stephanie Peacock
Stephen Kinnock
Stephen Timms
Steve Race
Steve Witherden
Steve Yemm
Sureena Brackenridge
Tahir Ali
Taiwo Owatemi
Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
Tim Roca
Toby Perkins
Tom Collins
Tom Hayes
Tom Rutland
Tonia Antoniazzi
Tony Vaughan
Torcuil Crichton
Torsten Bell
Tracy Gilbert
Tristan Osborne
Uma Kumaran
Valerie Vaz
Vicky Foxcroft
Warinder Juss
Wes Streeting
Will Stone
Yasmin Qureshi
Yuan Yang
Zubir Ahmed
Independent (9 votes)
Apsana Begum
Ayoub Khan
Imran Hussain
Jeremy Corbyn
John McDonnell
Rebecca Long Bailey
Richard Burgon
Shockat Adam
Zarah Sultana
Social Democratic & Labour Party (2 votes)
Claire Hanna
Colum Eastwood
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Books Read 2023
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations / Mira Jacob
A Grief Observed / C. S. Lewis
Grit Lit: A Rough South Reader / ed. Brian Carpenter & Tom Franklin
Two or Three Things I Know for Sure / Dorothy Allison
Weather: Air Masses, Clouds, Rainfall, Storms, Weather Maps, Climate (A Golden Nature Guide) / Paul E. Lehr, R. Will Burnett, Herbert S. Zim ; Harry McNaught (ill.)
Improbable Memories / Sarah Moon
Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery / Adam Clair
The Difference Between / Billy McCall
The Submissive (The Submissive #1) / Tara Sue Me
Last Night at the Casino [v. 1] / Billy McCall
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing / Marie Kondo ; Cathy Hirano (tr.)
Pnin / Vladimir Nabokov
My Heart Is a Chainsaw / Stephen Graham Jones
"Waltz of the Body Snatchers" / Alfred Bester, in Andromeda I: An original SF anthology / ed. Peter Weston
Blue Highways: A Journey Into America / William Least Heat-Moon
The Stars My Destination (The Gregg Press Science Fiction Series) / Alfred Bester
Laughter in the Dark / Vladimir Nabokov
Man and His Symbols / Carl G. Jung
Mysteries of the Unexplained / ed. Carroll C. Calkins
The Westing Game / Ellen Raskin
The Seven Ages / Louise Glück
The Wild Iris / Louise Glück
Vita Nova / Louise Glück
Doctor Who: Impossible Worlds: A 50-Year Treasury of Art and Design / Stephen Nicholas & Mike Tucker
Where's Waldo? (Where's Waldo #1) / Martin Handford
Where's Waldo? The Fantastic Journey (Where's Waldo #3) / Martin Handford
Doctor Who 50 Years #3: The Doctors / ed. Marcus Hearn
Rabbit, Run / John Updike
Mother Night / Kurt Vonnegut
Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books) / Bibliographic Standards Committee, Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Association of College and Research Libraries, in collaboration with The Policy Standards Office of the Library of Congress
"Descriptive Bibliography" / Terry Belanger, in Book Collecting: A Modern Guide / ed. Jean Peters
The Essential Doctor Who #2: The TARDIS / ed. Marcus Hearn
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited / Vladimir Nabokov
Chicago: City on the Make / Nelson Algren
Gustav Klimt, 1862-1918 / Gilles Néret
American Gods: A Novel / Neil Gaiman
Marcel Duchamp, 1887-1968: Art as Anti-Art / Janis Mink
The Empathy Exams: Essays / Leslie Jamison
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families / James Agee & Walker Evans
Hallucination Orbit: Psychology in Science Fiction / ed. Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg
Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Project / W. Eugene Smith ; ed. Sam Stephenson
Twilight / Gregory Crewdson ; Rick Moody
Magic Eye: A New Way of Looking at the World / N.E. Thing Enterprises
Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams / Steve Horton & Michael Allred ; Laura Allred (ill.)
After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path / Jack Kornfield
The Gin Closet: A Novel / Leslie Jamison
The New Kid on the Block / Jack Prelutsky ; James Stevenson (ill.)
A Book of Common Prayer / Joan Didion
Mariette in Ecstasy / Ron Hansen
Camp Damascus / Chuck Tingle
The Mass Production of Memory: Travel and Personal Archiving in the Age of the Kodak (Public History in Historical Perspective) / Tammy S. Gordon
Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas / Rebecca Solnit & Rebecca Snedeker
Other Voices, Other Rooms / Truman Capote
Fabulous New Orleans / Lyle Saxon ; E.H. Suydam (ill.)
Weird Pennsylvania: Your Travel Guide to Pennsylvania's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets / Matt Lake
Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence (Griffin & Sabine #1) / Nick Bantock
Sabine's Notebook: In Which The Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Continues (Griffin & Sabine #2) / Nick Bantock
The Golden Mean: In Which The Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Concludes (Griffin & Sabine #3) / Nick Bantock
Breath, Eyes, Memory / Edwidge Danticat
Last Night at the Casino, v. 2 / Billy McCall
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions / Randall Munroe
Collection-Level Cataloging: Bound-with Books (Third Millennium Cataloging) / Jain Fletcher
Speaking Pittsburghese: The Story of a Dialect (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics) / Barbara Johnstone
My Misspent Youth: Essays / Meghan Daum
Slender Intuition: Essays on Artist's Block / Brian Hitselberger
The Mister / E L James
Crapalachia: A Biography of a Place / Scott McClanahan
The Transcriptionist: A Novel / Amy Rowland
Explanations/Opinions below the cut:
Ok so I have several reading lists/stacks that I rotate through: my to-read spreadsheet (which has almost 300 titles listed in chronological order by date added, with the oldest being from 8/22/2014), my to-read bookcase/nightstand (which holds ~50 books I’ve acquired over the past few years but haven’t yet read), a stack of oversized unreads that don’t fit on the nightstand shelves (this gets its own list bc I need to read them and find a permanent home for them before the stack gets too tall), and “interruptions” (books that override the list order bc I didn’t want to wait to read them, for whatever reason).
Maybe it’s weird that I’m so attached to reading things “in order”? Idk. I’ve always been like this. It’s only a mild compulsion – obviously, I am perfectly capable of ignoring what’s supposed to be next on the list, in favor of reading something that catches my interest more strongly in the moment, but in general, I like to read things either in the order I added them to the list, or the order I personally acquired a physical copy (if I went by the list only, I’d be drowning in unread books [yay, college town thrift stores], so I gotta stay on top of that pile pretty regularly). So that is why I am often reading things that I first became aware of/added to my list nearly 10 years ago. Sometimes this practice results in feelings like, “Dang, I wish I would’ve actually read this 10 years ago,” but also sometimes, “WOW, I’m so glad I’m reading this RIGHT NOW, as opposed to 10 years ago when I first heard about it!”
I think my favorites this year were Mariette in Ecstasy; Other Voices, Other Rooms; Crapalachia; and Speak, Memory.
Mild disappointments were the essay collections by Leslie Jamison and Meghan Daum, two authors I’m pretty sure I discovered via popular and relateable quotes reblogged on tumblr ca. 2014, but the collections taken as a whole just had too many moments of cringe – casual classism, arrogant self-absorption, and other annoying and unrelateable qualities typical of privileged 20-something writers (this tone definitely appealed to me when I was a naïve and melodramatic snotty 20-something, so there’s that).
As a kind of memorial, Rachael and I read David’s three favorite books: The Stars My Destination, Mother Night, and American Gods. In all the time I knew him, including all the times we used to sit on the porch together, reading quietly while he drank whiskey, I never thought to ask him his favorites. I kept looking for pieces of him in the stories, wondering what lines stood out, what made a book memorable, what did it say about him that these were his favorites.
Being an elder Millennial, I’m in the stage of nostalgically re-acquiring important artifacts from my childhood, so that’s why there are some children’s books on my list. Where’s Waldo? was one of the most coveted books in my grade-school library! There was always a list of people waiting to check it out, but usually, whoever actually had the book that week would let the other kids gather around and look together.
My Heart Is a Chainsaw was a recommendation from my goth teenaged birthdaughter <3 which I probably read too much personal symbolism into but maybe not!
I thought John Updike was overrated, lol.
Favorite photography book: W. Eugene Smith’s Dream Street. His pictures made me so homesick, and it was wild because he took them from 1955-1957 but they still really, REALLY, to me, looked like the Pittsburgh of my ‘80s/’90s memories (bc Pittsburgh doesn’t change, and also the “idea” or “brand” of Pittsburgh in the ‘80s/’90s was ofc consciously referencing its industrial working-class past). He took over 10,000 photos but was never able to “finish�� the project to his intense, obsessive standards of perfection (I KNOW THAT FEEL) and felt it failed to capture the multifaceted essence of the city. WELL, not in my opinion at least!
PS I'm moonmoth on LibraryThing.
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The Day After, Part 2
Written by Eric Stephenson
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Down in the sewer, Thomas encountered another humanoid monster, who calls himself HUSK. This monster has killed several guards from the same lab that Thomas escaped from. Husks reveals his background, he’s a reject from a government project that was supposed to save him from dying, but instead…
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2023 Favoritest Book Reads
Vineland - Pynchon, Thomas
Prophet - Blaché, Sin & Helen Macdonald
And the Ass Saw the Angel - Cave, Nick
Lou Reed: The King of New York - Hermes, Will
The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1) - Pratchett, Terry
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative - Kleon, Austin
Sonic Life: A Memoir - Moore, Thurston
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) - Jemisin, N.K.
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law - Roach, Mary
Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too - Sun, Jonny
The Night Masquerade (Binti, #3) - Okorafor, Nnedi
Home (Binti, #2) - Okorafor, Nnedi
Binti: Sacred Fire (Binti, #1.5) - Okorafor, Nnedi
Binti (Binti, #1) - Okorafor, Nnedi
Black Paradox - Ito, Junji
David Bowie's Low (33 1/3) - Wilcken, Hugo
Faith, Hope and Carnage - Cave, Nick
The Sirens of Titan - Vonnegut Jr., Kurt
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth - Aslan, Reza
Smashed - Ito, Junji
Time Shelter - Gospodinov, Georgi
Brian Eno's Another Green World (33 1/3) - Dayal, Geeta
Armageddon in Retrospect - Vonnegut Jr., Kurt
Neverwhere (London Below, #1) - Gaiman, Neil
The Committed (The Sympathizer #2) - Nguyen, Viet Thanh
Into the Great Wide Open - Canty, Kevin
Mongrels - Jones, Stephen Graham
DisneyWar - Stewart, James B.
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex - Roach, Mary
The Left Hand of Darkness - Le Guin, Ursula K.
My Bloody Valentine's Loveless (33 1/3) - McGonigal, Mike
Suttree - McCarthy, Cormac
Life's Work: A Memoir - Milch, David
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - Schwab, V.E.
Against the Day - Pynchon, Thomas
Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood - Ryan, Maureen
Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA (33 1/3) - Himes, Geoffrey
La Moustache - Carrère, Emmanuel
Janelle Monáe’s The ArchAndroid (33 1/3) - Favreau, Alyssa
Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea - Pinsker, Sarah
The Man Without a Shadow - Oates, Joyce Carol
The City & the City - Miéville, China
Mem - Morrow, Bethany C.
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Harari, Yuval Noah
Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs (33 1/3) - Eidelstein, Eric
Gutshot - Gray, Amelia
The Price of Time (Watch What You Wish For #1) - Tigner, Tim
The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever - Sepinwall, Alan
Just Kids - Smith, Patti
Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir - Hindman, Jessica Chiccehitto
Flicker - Roszak, Theodore
Tinderbox: HBO's Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers - Miller, James Andrew
Flashback - Simmons, Dan
Flaming Lips' Zaireeka (33 1/3) - Richardson, Mark
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer #1) - Nguyen, Viet Thanh
Pavement's Wowee Zowee (33 1/3) - Charles, Bryan
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1) - Gibson, William
Invisible Cities - Calvino, Italo
Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2) - Jones, Stephen Graham
The Wes Anderson Collection - Seitz, Matt Zoller
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - Dick, Philip K.
Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly (33 1/3) - Maner, Sequoia
The Nineties - Klosterman, Chuck
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Zevin, Gabrielle
Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age - Mitenbuler, Reid
A Heart That Works - Delaney, Rob
Imago (Xenogenesis, #3) - Butler, Octavia E.
Cryptonomicon (Crypto, #1) - Stephenson, Neal
Blacktop Wasteland - Cosby, S.A.
Pearl Jam's Vs. (33 1/3) - Brownlee, Clint
Tracy Flick Can't Win - Perrotta, Tom
Devil House - Darnielle, John
Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2) - Butler, Octavia E.
Heat 2 - Mann, Michael & Meg Gardiner
Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures (33 1/3) - Ott, Chris
Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1) - Butler, Octavia E.
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer - Stephenson, Neal
The Republic of Thieves (Gentleman Bastard, #3) - Lynch, Scott
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2) - Atwood, Margaret
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Official vice presidential Les mis cast rankings (based solely on performers I’ve seen)
Jean Valjean: 1.Milan van Waardenburg 2.Jon Robyns 3.Luke McCall 4.Josh Piterman
Javert: 1.Stewart Clarke 2.Bradley Jaden 3.Richard Carson
Fantine: 1.Katie Hall 2.Kathy Peacock 3.Charnice Alexander Burnett 4.Lucie Jones
Eponine: 1. Amena El-Kindy 2.Sha Dessi 3.Jessie Hart 4.Jo Stephenson
Marius: 1.Harry Apps 2.Will Callan 3.Robert Tripolino
Cosette: 1.Lulu Mae Pears 2.Charlie Burn
Ternardier: 1.Luke Kempner 2.Gerard Carey 3.Mark Pearce
Madame Ternardier: 1.Clare Manchin 2. Josefina Garbrielle
Enjorlas: 1. Dajevan van de Fliet 2.Harry Chandler 3.Jordan Shaw
FAVORITE ensemble members: Bart Lambert, Tom Hext, Adam Pearce, Donald Craig Manuel, Matt Dempsey and Anouk Van Laake
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I'm glad I knew you Tom Stephenson.
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