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Treadstone (S1) | Season Review

I was in the mood for spy thriller Jack Ryan / Reacher type of entertaining so I look to Treadstone #Treadstone #JeremyIrvine #BrianJsmith #TracyIfeachor #RobertLudlum #TimKing #ConspiracyThriller

Inspired by the organization in Robert Ludlum‘s Bourne series of books, and developed for television by Tim Kring (Heroes, Touch). The stars many familiar faces and names, such as Brian J. Smith (Sense8, Stargate Universe), Jeremy Irvine (Now is Good, Beyond the Reach, Railway Man), Tracy Ifeachor (The Originals, Quantico), Michelle Forbes (Mockingjay), Omar Metwally (Mr. Robot, The Affair,…

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Hello, hello. How are you doing? First of all I want to say that totally Ioooove your blog, is amazing, funny and informative.

My question is, are you aware if the Good Omens audiobook (the full cast production) is the same as the original book but narrated by the series cast? Odes it have something el so, or less.

Cause I've been meaning to buy it, but where I live the taxes and everything makes it a little too expensive, and I want to know that is totally worth it before i decide.

Thank you for everything

Hugs and kisses from Uruguay ❤️❤️

Hiya! :) Thank youuu :)❤.

Yeah the full cast audiobook is the same as of content! :) - but only Michael and David are reprising their roles, the rest of the roles are narrated by different actors :).

Cast:

Narrator: Rebecca Front

Aziraphale: Michael Sheen 😇

Crowley: David Tennant 😈

Anathema Device: Katherine Kingsley 

Newton Pulsifer: Arthur Darvill

Shadwell: Peter Forbes

Madame Tracy and Agnes Nutter: Gabrielle Glaister

Adam: Louis Davison

Pepper: Pixie Davies

Wensleydale: Chris Nelson

Brian: Ferdinand Frisby Williams

Ensemble:  Adjoa Andoh, Allan Corduner, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Josh Hopkins, Lorelei King, Matt Reeves and Lemn Sissay

It is not available on an CD tho as far as I know, only in digital form. :)

Sending hiyas to Uruguay from The Czech Republic! :)

[watchingcbeams]

Compiled a bunch of reading lists/recommendations in my notes

Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel

A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen

The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard

And Strange at Ecbatan the Trees by Michael Bishop

In Between the Sheets by Ian McEwan

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman

Camp Concentration by Thomas Disch

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

Engines of Logic: Mathematicians and the Origin of the Computer by Martin Davis

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

Polemics by Alain Badiou

Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns by Kent Beck

Speedboat by Renata Adler

The Dynamics of Creation by Gregory Bateson

The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics by Leonard Susskind

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Hard to Be a God by the Strugatsky Brothers

The Invincible by Stanisław Lem

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’brien

Appointment in Samarra by John O’Hara

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell

Far Away and Long Ago by W.H. Hudson

The Life of Jesus by Ernest Renan

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

The Stone Leopard by Colin Forbes

The Dream Master by Roger Zelazny

The Exile Waiting by Vonda McIntyre

Valis by Philip K. Dick

Nova by Samuel Delany

The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe

Martian Time Slip by Philip K. Dick

Ubik by Philip K. Dick

Lancelot by Walker Percy

Rabbit, Run by John Updike

Pulphead: Essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan

Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov

A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design by Frank Wilczek

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Bicycling Science (MIT Press) by David Gordon Wilson

Codex Seraphinianus by Luigi Serafini

Epic Measures: One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients by Jeremy R. Smith

How to Be Alone: Essays by Jonathan Frazen 

On Beauty by Umberto Eco

On Ugliness by Umberto Eco

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

South Wind by Norman Douglas

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow

The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet by Rainer Zitelmann

The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm by Lewis Dartnell

The Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder

The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It by Kelly McGonigal

The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

This Will Make You Smarter by John Brockman (Editor)

Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error for Business, Politics, and Society by Jim Manzi

Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative by Edward Tufte

Wonderland by Joyce Carol Oates

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Childhood; Boyhood; Youth by Leo Tolstoy

Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Run Rabbit by John Updike

House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carré

Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brien

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

The Coalwood Way by Homer Hickam

Hail and Farewell by George Moore

The American by Henry James

Victory by Joseph Conrad

Collected Poems by Robert Lowell

Collected Poems by W.H. Auden

Guerrillas by V.S. Naipaul

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Sanctuary by William Faulkner

The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood

The Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens

The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

The Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Watership Down by Richard Adams

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn

Victory by Joseph Conrad

Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood

The Enormous Room by E.E. Cummings

The Open Boat by Stephen Crane

The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Alexander Jessup

The Old Wives’ Tale by Arnold Bennett

The Red and the Black by Stendhal

The Revolt of the Angels by Anatole France

The Overstory by Richard Powers

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr.

Hyperion by Dan Simmons

Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Possession by A.S. Byatt

The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse

De Facto Inclusions of Italo Calvino: The Baron in the Trees; The Nonexistent Knight; The Cloven Viscount by Italo Calvino

The Blue Hotel by Stephen Crane

Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann

Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham

The Oxford Book of English Verse

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco

Battle Royale by Koushun Takami

The Oath by John Lescroart

Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete Poetical Works

Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust

Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

[theveriest]

A couple of weeks ago I asked about people’s favorite book or books they read this year. Between Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and discord, I have a list of 123 books in no particular order that my friends and family loved this year. If it was a series then I listed the first book. Each star is an additional recommendation. I haven’t read all of these, they may or may not reflect my personal opinions, though my favorite books are on the list too. The most recommended books were How Far The Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler, one or all of the Murderbot books by Martha Wells, and Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki, because if there’s one thing my friends have in common across platforms, it’s that you’re all nerds (affectionate). Enjoy, and I hope you find your new favorite book!

Reformatory by Tananarive Due

Not My Father’s Son by Alan Cumming

Jesus and John Wayne by Kristen Kobes de Mez

The Soul Of An Octopus by Sy Montgomery

Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kidder

The Going To Bed Book by Sandra Boynton

My Hijacking by Martha Hodes

Longhand by Andy Hamilton

Babel by RF Kuang*

The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff*

Lies We Sing To The Sea by Sarah Underwood

The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart

Dress Coded by Carrie Firestone

I Lost My Tooth! by Mo Willems

The Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

Spirits Abroad by Zen Cho

How Far The Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler**

Radiant Fugitives by Nawaaz Ahmed

Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora

The Making of Another Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks

These Precious Days by Ann Patchett*

I’m Stuck by Julia Mills

Entangled Life by Martin Sheldrake

Iris by Eden Finley

Hot Vampire Next Door by Nikki St. Crowe

Devil of Dublin by BB Easton

Tied by Carian Cole

Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld*

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

From Blood And Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Where I End by Sophie White

Wool by Hugh Howey

The Six Deaths of the Saint by Alix E. Harrow

Yellowface by RF Kuang

Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas

North Woods by Daniel Mason

After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin*

The Fragile Threads of Power by VE Schwab

My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison

Call Your Daughter Home by Deb Spera

The English Understand Wool by Helen Dewitt

Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning by The Gardeners & Farmers of Terre Vivante

How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz

Blood Like Magic by Liselle Sambury

Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley

Love In The Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson

Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli

The Wicked Bargain by Gabe Cole Novoa*

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

Welcome to Night Vale by Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink

The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas

The Last Mapmaker by Christina Soontornvat

Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman

Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Prophet by Sin Blache and Helen MacDonald*

Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki**

System Collapse by Martha Wells***

The Brutish Museums by Dan Hicks

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine*

A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine

A Psalm For The Wild Built by Becky Chambers*

Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke

The Lazarus Heist by Geoff White

The September House by Carissa Orlando*

I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White

Mistletoe and Mishigas by MA Wardell

A Restless Truth by Freya Marske

The Last Smile In Sunder City by Luke Arnold

The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes by Zoe Playden

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Manywhere by Morgan Thomas

Shit Cassandra Saw by Gwen E. Kirby

Loot by Tania James

The Art Thief by Michael Finkel

Grave Expectations by Alice Bell

Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail by Ashley Herring Blake

A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske

Kiss Her Once For Me by Alison Cochrun

The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison

All Systems Read by Martha Wells

The Once and Future Sex by Eleanor Janega

Mort by Terry Pratchett

Into The Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner*

The Door by Magda Szabo

Fluids by May Leitz

The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald

Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Lieut. John Irving, R.N. of H.M.S. "Terror" in Sir John Franklin's last expedition to the Arctic regions a memorial sketch with letters

In Five Years by Rebecca Serle

Raven the Pirate Princess by Jeremy Whitley

Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune

The Fiancée Farce by Alexandria Bellefleur

Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb

Slewfoot by Brom

The Secret Life of Groceries by Benjamin Lorr

500 Miles From You by Jenny Colgan

O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker

The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O’Farrell

The Secret Lives of Country Gentleman by KJ Charles

A Line In The World by Dorthe Nors

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Glitter and Concrete by Elyssa Maxx Goodman

The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez

Tender Is The Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

The Tragic Menagerie by Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal (translated by Jane Costlow)

The 100 Years Of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin

Beartown by Fredrik Backman

I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

Twisted Love by Ana Huang

Precise Oaths by Paige E. Ewing

Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots

A Dead Djinn In Cairo by P. Djeli Clark

[ceekbee]

Xtra Thoughts

December 3

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.

-Norman Vincent Peale

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.

-English Proverb

“History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.”

-B. C. Forbes

“Spend unbroken chunks of time with the most important people in your life.”

-Brian Tracy

“Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.”

-William Durant

[haggishlyhagging]

According to Google Trends, the word "empowerment" hit a high in 2004 and 2005, as it became more deeply entrenched everywhere—feminist discourse, consumer marketing, corporate culture. "Empowering" joined "synergy," "scalable," and "drill-down" in boardroom conferences, vision statements, and business plans, and was eventually called "the most condescending transitive verb ever" by Forbes. It's become the name of a range of businesses, a national fitness event, and an almost mind-boggling number of yoga studios. It's become a company-jargon fave at Microsoft, with former and current CEOs Steve Ballmer and Satya Nadella both using it to impressively vague effect in memos and public talks. (At Microsoft's annual Convergence event in 2015, Nadella told attendees, "We are in the empowering business," and added that the tech giant's goal was "empowering you as individuals and organizations across every vertical and every size of business, and any part of the world, to drive your agenda and do the things you want to do for your business.")

Elsewhere in discourses and debates around sex as both an activity and a commodity, "empowerment" has become a sort of shorthand that might mean "I'm proud of doing this thing," but also might mean "This thing is not the ideal thing, but it's a lot better than some of the alternatives." Feeling empowered by stripping, for instance, was a big theme among moonlighting academics or otherwise privileged young women in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and you can find countless memoirs about what they discovered about themselves in the world of the sexual marketplace; the same is true of prostitution, with blogs like Belle de Jour, College Call Girl, and books like Tracy Quan's Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl. There was a point in the mid-to-late 2000s when you couldn't swing a cat through Barnes & Noble without knocking a slew of sex-work memoirs off the shelves: Lily Burana’s Strip City, Diablo Cody's Candy Girl, Jillian Lauren's Some Girl, Michelle Tea's Rent Girl, Shawna Kenny's I Was a Teenage Dominatrix, Melissa Febos's Whip Smart, and Sarah Katherine Lewis's Indecent among them. The crucial thing these often incredibly absorbing and well-written books had in common? All were written by young, white, and no-longer-hustling sex workers.

I want to be clear that standing with sex workers on the principle that sex work is work is an issue whose importance cannot be overstated, and also clear that my complete lack of expertise on the subject makes it well beyond the scope of this book. But I am interested in the idea that "empowerment" is so often used as a reflexive defense mechanism in discussions of this kind of sex-work experience, but less so in describing the less written-about experiences of people whose time in the industry is less finite and less bookworthy—transgender women, exploited teenagers and trafficked foreigners, men and women forced into sex work by poverty, abuse, or addiction. And I'm fascinated by the fact that we see thousands of pop culture products in which women are empowered by a sex industry that does not have their empowerment in mind, but far fewer in which they are empowered to make sexual choices on their own terms, outside of a status quo in which women's bodies are commodities to be bought and sold. Indecent author Sarah Katherine Lewis has written that, during her time as a stripper, "I felt empowered—as a woman, as a feminist, as a human being by the money I made, not by the work I did"; but hers is just one story. Belle de Jour and other sex workers have written about truly enjoying their work. If the market were just as welcoming of narratives in which young women were empowered by their careers as, say, electricians—if personal memoirs about a youthful, self-determining layover in the electrical trades were a thing publishers clamored for—then a handful of empowered sex workers would be no big thing. Until that's the case, it's worth questioning why the word is so often the first line of defense.

-Andi Zeisler, We Were Feminists Once

[byneddiedingo]

Jean Harlow and Una Merkel in Bombshell (Victor Fleming, 1933)

Cast: Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy, Frank Morgan, Franchot Tone, Una Merkel, Pat O'Brien, Ted Healy, Ivan Lebedeff, Isabel Jewell, Louise Beavers, Leonard Carey, Mary Forbes, C. Aubrey Smith, June Brewster. Screenplay: John Lee Mahin, Jules Furthman, based on a play by Caroline Francke and Mack Crane. Cinematography: Harold Rosson. Art direction: Merrill Pye. Film editing: Margaret Booth. Music: William Axt.

Bombshell is one of the earliest examples of screwball comedy, with a screenplay by John Lee Mahin and Jules Furthman that's wall-to-wall wisecracks and frantic antics. It also has more sexual innuendo than later examples of the genre, since it was released a year before the Production Code began to be enforced by the notoriously blue-nosed Joseph Breen. There's even a joke about the censors in the script, in which the movie star played by Jean Harlow is being called on for retakes on Red Dust (1932), because of objections from the Hays Office, the code's precursors. (It's a bit of an inside joke: Mahin wrote the screenplay for Red Dust and Victor Fleming directed it.) The cast is peerless: Harlow plays Lola Burns, a star said to be modeled on Clara Bow, and Lee Tracy is her hyperactive press agent "Space" Hanlon. Tracy has a way of exploding into rooms that evokes Kramer on Seinfeld. Fleming was probably not the ideal director for this fast-paced nonsense, which deserves a looser, lighter touch like that of Ernst Lubitsch or Howard Hawks, but he gives his cast freedom and they're equal to the challenge. Watch the ensemble, for example, demonstrate perfect comic timing in some of the scenes that Fleming films in long takes. Even Franchot Tone, one of the more forgettable leading men of the 1930s, demonstrates unexpected comic skill in the scene in which, as the phony Boston socialite Gifford Middleton, he woos Lola with lines like "I'd like to run barefoot through your hair." Also on hand is Louise Beavers, playing a maid of course, in an exchange that wouldn't get by Breen a year later: When Harlow asks what happened to the negligee she gave her, Beavers replies that "it got all tore up night before last." Harlow observes, "Your day off is sure brutal on your lingerie."

[randomishz]

What is your favorite word?

It's something for me that always matter the most which is "LIFE".

The meaning of life is connecting with the purpose of life. We have this intrinsic, burning desire to know what we are made to do, but before can get on board, we need to understand why we are here.

- Kyle Blevins

"A Life Less Ordinary: Embracing the Unconventional" – by Julia Doherty. This Psychology Today article explores the idea of living a life outside of societal norms, encouraging readers to embrace individuality and pursue unique passions.

Nurturing Gratitude: A Guide to Living a Happier and More Fulfilling Life by Tracy. This article offers practical tips on how to live a more fulfilling life, covering topics such as mindfulness, gratitude, and building meaningful relationships.

"Living a Life of Purpose: Finding Your Why" by Dr. Tracy Brower - This Forbes article discusses the importance of finding purpose in life, exploring how having a sense of purpose can lead to greater happiness, fulfillment, and success.

Sources:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/embracing-unconventional-living-life-true-yourself-julia-doherty-5hnbe

https://www.tracykiss.com/lifestyle/nurturing-gratitude-a-guide-to-living-a-happier-and-more-fulfilling-life/#:~:text=NURTURING%20GRATITUDE%3A%20A,1%20Comment

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tracybrower/2023/03/19/purpose-may-be-the-key-to-happiness-3-reasons-why/

By Kemberly Zaulda | November 10, 2024

[ulkaralakbarova]

A teen winds up in over his head while dealing drugs with a rebellious partner in Cape Cod, Mass. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Daniel Middleton: Timothée Chalamet McKayla Strawberry: Maika Monroe Hunter Strawberry: Alex Roe Amy Calhoun: Maia Mitchell Sergeant Calhoun: Thomas Jane Dex: Emory Cohen Shep: William Fichtner Ponytail: Jack Kesy Taylor: Thomas Blake Jr. Vice Principle Finney: Kimberly Battista Football Player: Christian James Wife at Beach House: Catherine Dyer Beach House Girl: Caroline Arapoglou Aunt Barb: Rebecca Koon Daniel’s Mom: Jeanine Serralles Summerbird Dad: Fred Galle Summerbird Brother: Flynn McHugh McKayla’s Father: Brian Kurlander Boss Man’s Lady: Kate Forbes Amy’s Friend #3: Rebecca Ray Amy’s Friend #2: Rebecca Weil Amy’s Friend #1: Hannah Kraar Blair: Alexander Biglane Okie: Reece Ennis Kendall: Holly Wingler Rollerskating Waitress: Kristina Arjona Teenage Girl #1: Sara Antonio Summerbird Sister: Lia McHugh Police Officer: Chris Hlozek Teenage Boy #1: Myles Moore Summerbird Wife: Sandra Elise Williams Preppy Summerbird: James Robinson Jr. Summerbird Girl: Anniston Howell Drunk College Guy: Josh Weikel Chester: Ezra Bynum Dishwashing Boy #1: Zack Shires Weather Reporter: Rick Chambers Stoner Guy: Cody Pressley Beach House Guy: Michael Steedley Annoying College Guy: Tyler Carden Young Boy: Rawann Gracie Dishwashing Boy #2: Logan McHugh Daniel’s Father: John Herkenrath BBQ Neighbor: Chris J. Beatrice Narrator: Shane Epstein Petrullo Trashy Girl: Lisa Marie Kart Ice Cream Parlor Girl: Raegan-Alexis Santucci Partier: David London Stoner Girl: Julaine Tackett Drive-In Attendant: Tyler Bilyeu Lobster Shack Patron: Augie Buttinelli Blair Buddy: Adrian Papa Sketchy Guy: Jonathan Robert Martin Daisy: Jessie Andrews Film Crew: Writer: Elijah Bynum Cinematography: Javier Julia Production Design: Kay Lee Hair Department Head: Carol Cutshall Original Music Composer: Will Bates Producer: Bradley Thomas Producer: Ryan Friedkin Producer: Dan Friedkin Casting: Courtney Bright Casting: Nicole Daniels Executive Producer: Jasmine Daghighian Unit Production Manager: Nathan Kelly Executive Producer: Casey Wilder Mott Art Direction: Evan Maddalena Set Decoration: Kim Leoleis Makeup Department Head: Sheila Trujillo-Gomez Production Supervisor: Erin Charles Executive Producer: Peter Farrelly Executive Producer: Allyn Stewart Executive Producer: Kipp Nelson Editor: Jeff Castelluccio Editor: Dan Zimmerman Co-Producer: Tom Costantino Music Supervisor: Liz Gallacher Visual Effects Supervisor: Chris Wells First Assistant Director: Rip Murray Second Assistant Director: Stephen W. Moore Stunt Coordinator: Jennifer Badger Stunt Coordinator: Johnny Cooper Stunt Coordinator: David Brian Martin Stunt Double: Niko Dalman Stunt Double: Jeremy Conner Stunt Double: Noah Bain Garret Stunt Double: T. Ryan Mooney Leadman: Nelson Hagood Construction Coordinator: Jay Womer “A” Camera Operator: Matías Mesa First Assistant “A” Camera: Jackson McDonald Second Assistant “A” Camera: Aaron Willis “B” Camera Operator: Danny Eckler First Assistant “B” Camera: Ryan Weisen First Assistant “B” Camera: Dan Turek Still Photographer: Curtis Bonds Baker Still Photographer: Guy D’Alema Boom Operator: Thomas Doolittle Costume Supervisor: Caryn Frankenfield Makeup Artist: Micah Laine Makeup Artist: Donna Martin Makeup Artist: Ashley Pleger Makeup Artist: Tracy Ewell Hairstylist: Jennifer Santiago Gaffer: Mike Pearce Production Coordinator: Shanti Delsarte Post Production Supervisor: Todd Gilbert Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Craig Mann Supervising Sound Editor: Bruce Barris Sound Effects Editor: Bruce Tanis Sound Effects Editor: Bill R. Dean Dialogue Editor: Chase Keehn Foley Mixer: Randy Wilson Foley Mixer: Ron Mellegers Foley Artist: John Sievert Foley Artist: Stefan Fraticelli Foley Artist: Jason Charbonneau Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Laura Wiest Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Adam Sawelson Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Kurt Kassulke Movie Reviews: Jacob: (79/100) There should be more films made that take place in ...

[project1939]

200 Films of 1952

I have only TEN films left now! After almost a year of working on this, I am down to 3 comedies, 2 adventures, 2 documentaries, 1 drama, 1 western, and 1 musical...

Film number 190: Park Row

Release date: Sept 1st, 1952 

Studio: United Artists 

Genre: drama 

Director: Samuel Fuller 

Producer: Samuel Fuller 

Actors: Gene Evans, Mary Welch, Bella Kovacs 

Plot Summary: After reporter Phineas Mitchell is fired by a corrupt newspaper baroness named Charity Hackett, he meets a business partner and starts a paper of his own. He is idealistically determined to keep his new paper honest and dependable, and as it begins to find success, his old boss is just as determined to stop him.  

My Rating (out of five stars): ***¾  

Yesterday I was explaining to a friend what I liked about “newspaper movies,” and the first thing I said was, “There’s often very fast intelligent dialogue. A lot of the characters are writers or editors who are smart and shrewd and good with words. I like those fast-talking clever kinds of films.” There you go! That’s not a bad description of Park Row. It was very much in the vein of a newspaper flick, so there was a lot to like about it. It ended up being better than I anticipated given its B status and budget, but it was also not without its flaws. (spoilers!) 

The Good: 

Gene Evans as Phineas Mitchell. He was an actor I hadn’t come across before, and he made a worthy leading man. He had a Spencer Tracy vibe about him- he could be brash, tough, and scheming, but there was a lot of idealism underneath it all. 

Mary Welch as Charity Hackett. I was saddened to hear that she died young and didn’t make many films, because I really liked her in this. She was beautiful and fierce with a wicked unscrupulous side, but occasionally you got a peak of something nicer inside her. When she started wearing colorful clothes after Mitchell told her she looked like she was in mourning wearing black all the time, it was a small action that spoke volumes. 

There was a lot of smart fast-talking dialogue, which was markedly accentuated by the use of long takes. The opening 10 minutes or so were a wonderful energetic mix of newspaper guys shooting the shit and commiserating with each other while drinking. 

The plot was paced and structured well, and even the side plots worked. The invention of Linotype was surprisingly thrilling! 

I loved the camerawork. There were lots of long takes, effective closeups, good use of light and dark, and most noticeably there was a lot of interesting movement. There were sweeping pans, whips back and forth between and around characters, and some striking pull ins. It was surprising and fun. 

Most of the time this felt like a film with a bigger budget. The acting was all very good, the sound and cinematography were well above par, and the sets did not look cheap. If you compare it to Breakdown, a recent low budget film I watched, there’s a chasm between them. 

The Bad: 

The sexual tension/romance between Mitchell and Hackett didn’t work for me. It seemed almost absurd that they would fall in love under the circumstances they were in. (Although the super long kiss they shared was pretty spicy for the time.) 

It got overly earnest and preachy at times. 

The ending with Hackett was unbelievable. I totally bought the fact that she would change when she heard about the violence that had been committed in her name, but I just didn’t buy that the change would happen so fast, so utterly, and so completely.  

How on earth could Mitchell just fall right back in love with a woman who was literally trying to destroy him and had the blood of more than one of his employees on her hands? 

It made me sad about the pitiful state journalism is in today, especially the state of our local newspapers. The credits opened with a message saying there were 1,772 daily newspapers in the United States in 1952. I looked around to see if I could find a recent number, and according to a Forbes article from November of 2023, the number is probably around 1,210 today. That’s 562 fewer papers. 

[muzelor]

once upon a tag.

act i. the writer

act i. ⸺ ooc. act i. ⸺ prompts. act i. ⸺ starter calls. act i. ⸺ promos. act i. ⸺ self promos.

act ii. the muses

act ii. ⸺ tatia anderdottir. act ii. ⸺ kai parker. act ii. ⸺ hayley marshall. act ii. ⸺ henrik mikaelson. act ii. ⸺ davina claire. act ii. ⸺ josie forbes. act ii. ⸺ kol mikaelson. act ii. ⸺ elena gilbert. act ii. ⸺ dorcas meadowes. act ii. ⸺ ginny weasley. act ii. ⸺ bellatrix lestrange. act ii. ⸺ josie dumont. act ii. ⸺ fred weasley. act ii. ⸺ red riding hood. act ii. ⸺ esmeralda fernandez. act ii. ⸺ elsa arendottir. act ii. ⸺ anna arendottir. act ii. ⸺ alex russo rahid. act ii. ⸺ evie grimhilde. act ii. ⸺ mal. act ii. ⸺ snow white. act ii. ⸺ barbara holland. act ii. ⸺ kali prasad. act ii. ⸺ velma dinkley. act ii. ⸺ thorn. act ii. ⸺ shaggy rogers. act ii. ⸺ daphne blake. act ii. ⸺ paul. act ii. ⸺ nancy downs. act ii. ⸺ erica jones. act ii. ⸺ sarah fox. act ii. ⸺ benny weir. act ii. ⸺ kuina hikari. act ii. ⸺ karube daikichi. act ii. ⸺ akane heiya. act ii. ⸺ aguni. act ii. ⸺ chishiya shuntaro. act ii. ⸺ usagi yuzuha. act ii. ⸺ arisu ryohei. act ii. ⸺ niragi suguru. act ii. ⸺ mira kano. act ii. ⸺ robin sherbatsky. act ii. ⸺ marshall eriksen. act ii. ⸺ barney stinson. act ii. ⸺ lily aldrin. act ii. ⸺ ted mosby. act ii. ⸺ tracy mcconnell. act ii. ⸺ leonard hofstadter. act ii. ⸺ melissa cooper. act ii. ⸺ michael langdon. act ii. ⸺ pugsley addams. act ii. ⸺ morticia addams. act ii. ⸺ gomez addams. act ii. ⸺ thing. act ii. ⸺ uncle fester. act ii. ⸺ ophelia frump. act ii. ⸺ lenora frump. act ii. ⸺ lurch. act ii. ⸺ evelynn. act ii. ⸺ jinx. act ii. ⸺ caitlyn. act ii. ⸺ stereotypical barbie. act ii. ⸺ singer barbie. act ii. ⸺ beach ken. act ii. ⸺ backflip ken. act ii. ⸺ magician ken. act ii. ⸺ allan. act ii. ⸺ teresa. act ii. ⸺ raquelle. act ii. ⸺ harley quinn. act ii. ⸺ joker. act ii. ⸺ peter parker. act ii. ⸺ eddie + venom. act ii. ⸺ morgan stark. act ii. ⸺ cheryl blossom. act ii. ⸺ georgiana dumitrescu. act ii. ⸺ viviana olteanu. act ii. ⸺ ecaterina ivan. act ii. ⸺ narcisa lupu. act ii. ⸺ daniel. act ii. ⸺ parascheva.

act iii. the camouflage

THE VAMPIRE DIARIES: [ #vampires hide ] ALICE IN BORDERLAND : [ #gamers hide ] HOGWARTS UNIVERSE: [ #wizards hide ] DISNEY : [ #fairytale hide ] STRANGER THINGS: [ #experiments hide ] SCOOBY DOO: [ #meddlers hide ] THE LOST BOYS: [ #night sluts hide ] HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER: [ #fahrampton hide ] THE BIG BANG THEORY: [ #geniuses hide ] AMERICAN HORROR STORY: [ #monsters hide ] ADDAMS FAMILY: [ #goths hide ] LEAGUE OF LEGENDS: [ #champtions hide ] MATTEL / BARBIE WORLD : [ #dolls hide ] DC COMICS & MARVEL : [ #heroes hide ] ARCHIE COMICS : [ #horrors hide ] MYTHOLOGY: [ #folklore hide ]

[b4rbierobertsaa]

𝙼𝚄𝚉𝙴𝙻𝙾𝚁 , independent , private and iconless multimuse blog featuring a collection of canon characters from various media sources , as well as original characters . bemused by veronica .

𝙵𝙴𝙰𝚃𝚄𝚁𝙸𝙽𝙶  𝙼𝚄𝚂𝙴𝚂  𝙵𝚁𝙾𝙼 : the vampire diaries universe , hoegwarts universe , stranger things , alice in borderland , scooby doo , disney , addams family , american horror story , league of legends , barbie universe , the big bang theory universe , how i met your mother , dc comics , marvel , archie comics , as well as folklore ocs .

️️️️️️️️️️️️️  ️️️️️️️️️️️️️ ️️️️️️️️️️️️️   ️️️️️️️️️️️️️ ️️️️️️️️️️️️️ ️️️️️️️️️️️️️ ️️️️️️️️️️️️️ ️️️️️️️️️️️️️ 𝙾𝙽𝙲𝙴 𝚄𝙿𝙾𝙽 𝙰 𝚃𝙸𝙼𝙴 . . .

✦ ⋅⋅⋅ MUSES FOR MOBILE;

▐  DISCLAIMER  ;  all characters are written from my own perspective. some are canon compliant (those with no link attached to them), whilst some were taken from canon and rewritten almost entirely (those with links). all disney characters are from storybrooke, with the exception of alex. all lost boys characters besides paul are taken from either the craft or my babysitter's a vampire, but they're all from santa carla. only their location has changed, their backstory remains the same.

▐  THE VAMPIRE DIARIES  ;  tatia anderdottir , kai parker , hayley marshall , henrik mikaelson , davina claire , josie forbes , kol mikaelson , elena gilbert.

▐  HOEGWARTS  ;  dorcas meadowes , ginny weasley , bellatrix lestrange , josie dumont , fred weasley.

▐  DISNEY  ;  red riding hood [ruby] , esmeralda fernandez , elsa arendottir , anna arendottir , alex russo [rashid] , evie grimhilde , mal , snow white.

▐  STRANGER THINGS  ;  barbara holland , kali prasad.

▐  SCOOBY DOO  ;  velma dinkley , thorn , shaggy rogers , daphne blake

▐  THE LOST BOYS  ;  paul , nancy downs , erica jones , sarah fox , benny weir

▐  ALICE IN BORDERLAND  ;  kuina hikari , karube daikichi , akane heiya , aguni , chishiya shuntato , usagi yuzuha , arisu ryohei , niragi suguru , mira kano.

▐  HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER  ;  robin sherbatsky , marshall eriksen , barney stinson , lily alrdrin , ted mosby , tracy mcconnell.

▐  BIG BANG THEORY  ;  leonard hofstadter , melissa cooper.

▐  AMERICAN HORROR STORY  ;  michael langdon.

▐  ADDAMS FAMILY  ;  pugsley addams , thing , morticia addams , gomez addams , uncle fester , ophelia frump , lenora frump , lurch.

▐  LEAGUE OF LEGENDS  ;  evelynn , jinx , caitlyn.

▐  MATTEL  ;  stereotypical barbie , singer barbie , beach ken , backflip ken , magician ken , allan , teresa , raquelle.

▐  DC + MARVEL COMICS  ;  harley quinn , joker , peter parker , eddie + venom , morgan stark.

▐  ARCHIE COMICS  ;  cheryl blossom.

▐  ROMANIAN MYTHOLOGY  ;  georgiana dumitrescu , viviana olteanu , ecaterina ivan , narcisa lupu , daniel , parascheva.

✦ ⋅⋅⋅ RULES FOR MOBILE;

▐  DISCLAIMER  ;  independent, private, selective, iconless, duplicate friendly and mutually exclusive. no hate, discrimination or bigotry allowed on my watch or there will be consequences. this is just a hobby, therefore i am not affiliated with the fandoms ᅳ we're still waiting for the adoption papers to go through.

▐  TRIGGERS  ;  all triggers will be tagged as trigger tw/. this blog contains mature, as well as gore content. the following mentions will be frequent on this blog: violence , gore , death , mental illnesses , war , politics. if a particular thread contains triggering content, even if it’s just implied, it will still be tagged as trigger tw/. keep in mind that these topics, albeit triggering for some, are used for storytelling purposes and i will not water down the severity of any of them. if you don’t want to see it on your dash, do not follow this blog.

▐  FOLLOWING  ;  if i follow you, it means i want to write with you. everything is opened to mutuals (people i follow that follow me back)  :  sending anything through my inbox, yelling at me through ims or over discord, tagging me in stuff, mentioning my characters in other threads, selling me to the dark lords. if i don’t follow you it’s probably because (1) i can’t see our muses interact or (2) i can’t find your age anywhere listed. being 18+ is mandatory, as this blog contains mature and gore content. it’s important to note that, if i don’t follow back and you have ideas in which our characters could interact, you can shoot a message or sent me an ask to let me know. chances are high that i will follow you back. if i’m breaking mutuals, i will either softblock or hard block (depending on your preference, if it’s listed anywhere in your rules). if you want to break mutuals with me, please hard block. if you must softblock, here’s a chill message for you to send before softblocking : always gonna give you up, always gonna say goodbye. you’d be rickrolling me and breaking mutuals like the legend i know you are.

▐  FORMATTING  ;  small text, double space, bold, italics, strikethrough and underline text. because i have too many muses, i will only be using banners with their name, but if you want icons / gifs for our threads, i think i can work it out hopefully. i also write a lot, but don’t feel like you have to match my format. i usually accommodate my writing partners with the length, but mistakes happen and i get carried away sometimes.

▐  SHIPPING  ;  yes, please. grabby hands. i need it. chances are, if you ship it, i most likely shipped it for a while now. chemistry is important no matter the dynamic, so if you want to try something, never refrain from yelling at me in private. i will yell back. wanted dynamics are  :  platonic , familial , romantic , antagonistic , to name a few. if you want to get into specifics, take a look at this meme and let me know either by sending the emoji through my inbox or telling me in private (ims/discord).

▐  MUN  ;  howdy potential new friend. i'm veronica, a 21+ cryptid from eastern europe. i got my bachelor degree in sociology with specialization in criminality and deviance and right now i am taking a master in sociology of consumerism and marketing. i am a gemini and i own two cats, jinx is a persian mf and kira is half persian half demon, if you ask me. i can always provide proof. i am addicted to coffee to the point if i don't drink 2 a day i become two of snow white's dwarfs... grumpy and sleepy. one of my favorite authors is paulo coelho, i fell in love with his work on the witch of portobello. i like to present myself as a halfblood since on my dad's side i am rromani. english is my third language, first is dumbass and second is romanian. you want proof of my first language? in highschool i was sent to a psychologist because i thought it'd be funny to make a gore video of joker (2019). i also have loads of really stupid or really creepy stories, feel free to ask me about them. and if you want to break my brain, ask me what's my favorite song. i seem to forget all songs i've ever listened. if you read everything, i'm sorry. here's a knock knock joke so i can make it easier for you to hard block me: knock knock. who's there? a dwarf. a dwarf who? a dwarf who can't reach the doorbell, that's why he's knocking. you may hard block me now.

▐  OTHER BLOGS  ;

miercolaes  —  a single muse blog, featuring the cryptid that is wednesday addams. i’ve taken all canon material and decided to rewrite it and we still didn’t end up with something good, babes. so if you’re looking for a psycho with psychic abilities that struggles to understand human emotions and would fight you just because, this is your blog!

bahrbae  —  a single muse blog featuring the actress barbie doll. legend has it she was owned by joker which would explain her fuckedupness. so if you’re looking for a fucked up doll with a knack for horsies (which apparently does not equate to patriarchy????) with many other verses, this is your blog.

salemarked  —  a single muse sideblog to #miercolaes featuring dorcas goode. you may know her canonically as goody addams but guess what, you shouldn’t trust everything you see or hear! that’s how they get you. but if you’re looking for ancestral rage and a top tier manipulator who has a very unfortunate history, this is your blog!

[hopefulkidshark]

Treadstone

2019 ‧ Action ‧ 1 season

Bollywood, Hollywood, Tollywood, Kollywood etc & Jollywood, Nollywood ....Development continue

Treadstone ; Operation Treadstone from the Bourne series of novels by Robert Ludlum · Jeremy Irvine · Tracy Ifeachor · Han Hyo-joo · Omar Metwally · Brian J

From the world of Jason Bourne, "Treadstone" is an action-packed thriller set amidst the black ops program Operation Treadstone. exploring both the origins of the infamous covert program, as well as connecting to present-day special ops, "Treadstone" follows the action across the globe -- from D.C. to Berlin to Paris and beyond. "Treadstone" turns its recruits around the world into nearly superhuman assassins using a secret behavior-modification protocol, creating sleeper agents who are mysteriously "awakening" to resume their dangerous missions.

Starring

Jeremy Irvine

Tracy Ifeachor

Han Hyo-joo

Omar Metwally

Brian J. Smith

Gabrielle Scharnitzky

Emilia Schüle

Michelle Forbes

and India

Shruti Haasan Nira Patel

Shruti Haasan

Indian actress and singer

Treadstone - Wikipedia

Shruti Hassan in Treadstone  ( 2019 - )

[godzylla]

The first time I read Will Eisner's A Contact with God was Joe & Muriel Kubert's personal copy of the original edition in their library at the School of Cartoon & Graphic Art. I'd read a few of his Spirit stories and was very curious about the so-called first American graphic novel (a term Eisner hated). It was very different from anything I was used to (mostly superheroes and such), so I read it again. And again. A few years later I was able to get my own copy, the new hardcover edition from Kitchen Sink Press, signed by the author himself.

I began ComiCon International: San Diego 2023 with a panel celebrating the release of a guide to Will Eisner's sequential art form (Eisner's preferred term) with the story "A Contact with God" and later stories from his career. It's the first of its kind from Norton's Critical Editions in that they've never covered the graphic medium for stories before.

It's basically a student guide for classrooms, but seems to have interesting evaluations that could stand alone. This is what I gleaned from the panelists, but they seemed more interested in noting their accomplishments than Will's (which they covered as well, but it felt more like an afterthought). For more information, I refer you to WW Norton's website.

So that panel, though interesting, was a disappointing beginning.

Next was my big desire for the first day, attending the "Jack Kirby, But Not Superheroes" panel which featured several Kirby friends, scholars, and his granddaughter Tracy. There were anecdotes and discussion of his work with Joe Simon on kid gangs, romance, a touch of science fiction and a nod at horror, humor, war, and his later projects at DC Comics in the 1970s.

Bruce Simon, Tracy Kirby, John Morrow.

One hour was hardly time to cover it, but there was a beautiful slide show of his work, and let me tell you, seeing photos of some of his original art pencils from the 1940s and '50s ignited the embers of my own desire to draw again!

Headline Comics #37, 1949. That's Jack Kirby getting "arrested" by Joe Simon.

Double-page spread of Jack's semi-autobiographical "Street Code," in pencil, with spectacular and fascinating details.

While waiting for the Kirby panel, we sat in on the preceding one, a one man show with Ricardo Caté, the cartoonist behind the Without Reservations newspaper comic strip. I'd heard of the strip before (running since 2006) but hadn't seen that much of it and knew nothing about the native American man whose humor drives the strip.

The Con basically left him alone to present himself and his work. I only caught part of his performance - and that's really what it was, anecdotes and jokes, and some self deprecation, expressing his pride and joy in his work - I really want to follow up on him.

Back cover to Ricardo Caté's Without Reservation book collection.

He went to Standing Rock during the pipeline protests, drew what he saw, and his observations found humor even as he documented the horror. I'm following him on Facebook now, and as he begins to promote himself in earnest, I think we'll see more of "the poorest man to be interviewed by Forbes."

That's it for this installment, I'll be back with more fun, so stay tuned!

[ceekbee]

Xtra Thoughts

December 3

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.

-Norman Vincent Peale

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.

-English Proverb

“History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.”

-B. C. Forbes

“Spend unbroken chunks of time with the most important people in your life.”

-Brian Tracy

“Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.”

-William Durant