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Holidays 8.21
Holidays
Actuaries Day (India)
Appreciation Day (Elder Scrolls)
Aquino Day (Philippines)
Argonian Day
Ask Questions Day
Bitcoin Infinity Day
Black Indie Authors Day
Buhe (Ethiopia)
Bunny Day (Japan)
Cadillac Day
Crazy Day
Eagle Scout Day
821 Day (Texas)
Festival of Goliath, Parade of Giants begins (Ath, Belgium)
Fête de la Jeunesse (a.k.a. Youth Day; Morocco, Western Sahara)
Good Roads Day
Gospel Day (Micronesia)
Grandfather and Grandson’s Day (Argentina)
ICBM Day
International Day of Mosques
International Day of Remembrance of and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism (UN)
Internet Self-Care Day
Kosrae (Gospel Day; Micronesia)
National Brazilian Blowout Day
National Dreams Are Possible Day
National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day
National Meme Day
National Report Upcoding Fraud Day
National Senior Citizens Day
Ninoy Aquino Day (Philippines)
Officer’s Day (Russia)
Order of the Lone Star Day
Our Lady of Knock
Poet's Day
San Martin Day (Argentina)
Senior Citizens' Day
Six-Row Barley Day (French Republic)
Thiruonam (Parts of India)
World Entrepreneurs’ Day
World Fashion Day
World Goat Day
Youth Day (Morocco)
Food & Drink Celebrations
Beer Institute Day
Grog Day
National Shiraz Day (Australia)
National Spumoni Day
National Sweet Tea Day
Independence & Related Days
Hawaii Statehood Day (Original Date; 1959)
Latituda (Declared; 2006) [unrecognized]
Latvia (Passing of the Constitutional Law on the Status of the Republic of Latvia as a State and Actual Restoration of the Republic of Latvia; 1991)
3rd Wednesday in August
Hump Day [Every Wednesday]
JUVEDERM Day [3rd Wednesday]
Miss Crustacean Hermit Crab Beauty Pageant and Hermit Crab Races (Ocean City, NJ) [3rd Wednesday]
National Medical Dosimetrist Day [3rd Wednesday]
Wacky Wednesday [Every Wednesday]
Wandering Wednesday [3rd Wednesday of Each Month]
Website Wednesday [Every Wednesday]
Wiener Wednesday [3rd Wednesday of Each Month]
Festivals Beginning August 21, 2024
Corn Palace Festival (Mitchell, South Dakota) [thru 8.25]
gamescom (Cologne, Germany) [thru 8.25]
The Great New York State Fair (Syracuse, New York) [thru 9.2]
Hythe Venetian Fete (Hythe, United Kingdom) [thru 8.21]
Idaho County Fair (Cottonwood, Idaho) [thru 8.24]
Pluk de Nacht Film Festival (Amsterdam, Netherlands) [thru 8.31]
Ransom County Fair (Lisbon, North Dakota) [thru 8.25]
Reading and Leeds Festivals (Leeds and Reading, United Kingdom) [thru 8.25]
Tønder Festival (Tønder, Denmark) [thru 8.24]
Victoria Fringe Theatre Festival (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada) [thru 9.1]
Feast Days
Abraham of Smolensk (Eastern Orthodox Church)
Albert Irvin (Artology)
Amontons (Positivist; Saint)
Apologise Day (Pastafarian)
Asher Brown Durand (Artology)
Aubrey Beardsley (Artology)
Bernard Ptolemy, Founder of the Olivetans (Christian; Saint)
Blessing Against Jealousy Day (Celtic Book of Days)
Bonosus and Maximilian (Christian; Martyrs)
Broderick Crawford Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Christian Schad (Artology)
Consualia (Ancient Roman festival to the god of the harvest and stored grain)
Euprepius of Verona (Christian; Saint)
Festival of Consus (God of Good Council; Ancient Rome)
Heraclia (Celebration of Hercules; Ancient Rome; Everyday Wicca)
Jane Francis de Chantal (Christian; Saint)
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (Artology)
Joseph (Muppetism)
Jules Michelet (Writerism)
Luxorius, Cisellus and Camerinus (Christian; Martyrs)
The Magic of Lemon Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Maximilian of Antioch (Christian; Saint)
Menashe Kadishman (Artology)
Narcisse-Virgile Díaz de la Peña (Artology)
Nathaniel Everett Green (Artology)
Our Lady of Knock (Christian; Saint)
Pius X, Pope (Christian; Saint)
Radish Tordia (Artology)
Richard, Bishop of Andria (Christian; Saint)
Robert Stone (Writerism)
Sidonius Apollinaris (Christian; Saint)
Stephen Hillenburg (Artology)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Prime Number Day: 233 [51 of 72]
Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]
Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [29 of 37]
Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 39 of 60)
Unglückstage (Unlucky Day; Pennsylvania Dutch) [22 of 30]
Premieres
Ain’t Misbehaving’, recorded by Fats Waller (Song; 1938)
American Ultra (Film; 2015)
An American Werewolf in London (Film; 1981)
Axe Me Another (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1934)
Bambi (Animated Disney Film; 1942)
Be Here Now, by Oasis (Album; 1997)
Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris, by A.J. Liebling (Memoir; 1959)
Blade (Film; 1998)
A Brief History of Time (Documentary Film; 1992)
Crazy, recorded by Patsy Cline (Song; 1961)
Diesel and Dust, by Midnight Oil (Album; 1987)
Dirty Dancing (Film; 1987)
Dynamite, by BTS (Song; 2020)
Earth Abides, by George R. Stewart (Novel; 1949)
Eve of Destruction, by Barry McGuire (Song; 1965)
Facelift, by Alice In Chains (Album; 1990)
Fireman’s Brawl (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1953)
First Monday in October (Film; 1981)
House of the Dragon (TV Series; 2022)
How You Remind Me, by Nickelback (Song; 2001)
Inglorious Basterds (Film; 2009)
Kiko and the Honey Bears (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1936)
Life with Fido (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1942)
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (Animated Film; 1992)
Motörhead, by Motörhead (Album; 1977)
Next Stoop Wonderland (Film; 1998)
Ready or Not (Film; 2019)
Ritual de lo Habitual, by Jane’s Addiction (Album; 1990)
Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner (WB MM Cartoon; 1965)
Sherman Was Right (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1932)
A Sunbonnet Blue (WB MM Cartoon; 1937)
The Wings of the Dove, by Henry James (Novel; 1902)
Wrongfully Accused (Film; 1998)
Today’s Name Days
Pius (Austria)
Agaton, Pio, Sidonija (Croatia)
Johana (Czech Republic)
Salomon (Denmark)
Sven, Sveno (Estonia)
Soini, Veini (Finland)
Christophe, Grâce, Ombeline (France)
Pia, Oius, Maximilian (Germany)
Hajna, Sémuel (Hungary)
Cristoforo, Pio (Italy)
Janīna, Linda, Sidnejs (Latvia)
Gaudvydas, Joana, Kazė, Kazimiera, Medeinė (Lithuania)
Ragni, Ragnvald (Norway)
Adolf, Adolfa, Adolfina, Alf, Bernard, Emilian, Filipina, Franciszek, Joanna, Kazimiera, Męcimir (Poland)
Jana (Slovakia)
Pío (Spain)
Jon, Jonna (Sweden)
Gianna, Jane, Janelle, Janessa, Janet, Janette, Janice, Janie, Janine, Janiya, Jayne, Shanice, Sheena (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 234 of 2024; 132 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 3 of Week 34 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 19 of 28]
Chinese: Month 7 (Ren-Shen), Day 18 (Ding-Si)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]
Hebrew: 17 Av 5784
Islamic: 15 Safar 1446
J Cal: 24 Purple; Threesday [24 of 30]
Julian: 8 August 2024
Moon: 94%: Waning Gibbous
Positivist: 9 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Amontons]
Runic Half Month: As (Gods) [Day 14 of 15]
Season: Summer (Day 63 of 94)
Week: 3rd Full Week of August
Zodiac: Leo (Day 31 of 31)
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JULY 2024
THE RIB PAGE
Jason Cooper found a stegosaurus in Colorado. The skeleton is up for auction this month at Sotheby’s. ** Kevin Peterson found a new species of Pterosaur in Australia in 2021. It has now been called the most complete speciman of an anhanguerian from the mid-cretaceous and it had a 15 ft. Wingspan. ** A family in North Dakota found a teen Rex. ** In Montana a Lakiceratops was found. The Cretaceous creature was about 22 feet long, 5and a half tons and looked a bit like a rhino. There were 2 curving horns above the eyes and a headshield with blades and spikes. The plant eater was found only a couple of miles from Canada.
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JB Pritzker seems to have managed the budget in Illinois. For the first time in over 20 years, the state of Illinois is looking good in the finance department. Thank you, Susana Mendoza and the other hard workers that have made the state fifth largest economy in the U.S. ** JB has also unveiled a $41 billion infrastructure bill. Hell, we’ve already got so much done on the roads with the Fed bill, the place will be smooth as silk,
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Gov. Wes Moore of Maryland, pardoned more than 175,000 marijuana and drug paraphernalia convictions. The order was timed for Juneteenth to address decades of social and economic injustice. These are the kind of elected officials we need.
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Chad Daybell was sentenced to death.
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Claudia Sheinbaum is Mexico’s next President.
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The largest Republican event in Illinois, the annual Lincoln Day Dinner was hosted by Mike Johnson with Darin LaHood. ** Why did Johnson invite Netanyahu to speak to congress on July 24. Why?
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Billy Ray Cyrus and Firerose are divorcing and blaming each other for abuse. ** Word is that Ben and JLo have split.
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L.A. and NY seem to be banning cell phones in school.
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Breaking will debut as a new Olympic sport in Paris.
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The California state fair is allowing cannabis tents for selling and smoking.
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Can’t wait for Longlegs with Nicholas Cage and Maika Monroe. Osgood Perkins directs and he also directs Stephen King’s The Monkey.
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Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley will be back for a 2 hour tribute: Ab Fab inside out.
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Watch out for Clay Higgins who was sanctioned by the Anne Frank foundation.
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Jimmy Kimmel is taking the summer off but has left the show with guest hosts. The first week started off with a bang with Martin Short. Kathryn Hahn, RuPaul, Lamorne Morris and Jeff Goldblum will also step in.
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L.A. Police found 3.4 mil in meth at a traffic stop.
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North Korea and Russia have signed a defense pact so that all available means will be used to assist each other.
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History never gets old.
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Stay awake or be arrested- Justice Sotomayor
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The Supreme Court seems to be dragging their feet on some things. They did uphold banning domestic abusers from owning guns. Thomas dissented, of course! ** The Court also allowed emergency abortions in Idaho on a temp basis. The court also weighed in on the census and won’t allow the citizenship question. The ruling about federal agencies allows that they should be able to fill in the details aren’t crystal clear which essentially undoes the Chevron decision. The Court also ruled that outdoor sleeping bans don’t violate the 8th amendment. That takes care of 1 problem the unhoused has. They also ruled that the charge of obstructing an official proceeding must include proof that a defendant tried to tamper with or destroy documents.
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About 2 dozen bottles of preserved cherries and berries have been found in Mt. Vernon. It is surmised that they were left there before the American Revolution.
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When will this selfie generation look back and realize how silly they look all holding up tiny boxes at concerts instead of jammin’?
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Washington Week has new digs. Was finally glad to hear on this show that Kamala Harris is a perfectly great VP and should be the pick IF Biden were to actually step aside. Yes!
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Louisianna has decided that the ten commandments should be in every school room. The cult propaganda will be paid for by donations. ** Oklahoma is telling teachers to teach bible lessons after 5th grade. These Christian bullies are trying to get everything thru in case their power goes away. They welcome the lawsuits cuz they love this Supreme Court.
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Randy Travis spoke on Capitol Hill about intellectual property and the internet.
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Bolivia had a failed coup attempt.
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Michael Crichton’s Eruption was finished off by James Petterson.
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The Hollywood Arby’s that has been running for over 50 years has closed.
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Georgia Jagger is having a baby with Cambryan Sedlick. She also has a lotion line called May Botanicals.
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The Panthers won the Stanley Cup.
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Chris Bell won the Xfinity and cup race on the June 22 weekend!!!
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Avery Sehorn, 18 was arrested for breaking and entering and larceny.
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Hunter Biden was found guilty on lying on gun paperwork.
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The U.S. has about 130 thousand orphaned oil wells that could contaminate local water among other risks.
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Jordan Peele will put out his next film in October 2026.
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Trump claims that Joan Rivers voted for him but she died 2 years earlier. ** Poor Debra messing must be in Hell for all the shit she must be getting. It came out that Trump was apparently attracted to her once. ** Scary Clown 45/34 announced he wants tariffs and no income tax. What? About 8 million people fell into poverty during his administration, I don’t think his ideas are sound.
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Biden and Obama had a LA fundraiser hosted by Goerge Clooney and Julia Roberts. Jimmy Kimmel interviewed the gentlemen. The Father’s Day weekend soiree made about $30 mil, a record for a single Dem event. Paul McCartney’s vegan get together pulled together the Stones, the Beatles, Springsteen, Austin Butler and some DJing by Taylor Swift.
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I am glad Jasmine Crockett gave us all the entire context of the ugly exchange between she and the green goblin. Lawmakers waited all day for MTG and her co -horts to get back from supporting their felon to even get on with the business of the people. All that and then MTG starts insulting others. Why do so many want to trample the rights of the rest of us?
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The Tonys were held on June 16. Winners included Daniel Radcliffe, Illinoise, Suffs, Hells Kitchen, Jeremy Strong and Sarah Paulson. The Outsiders won best musical. Angelina Jolie produced and daughter Vivienne was a PA. Hillary Clinton made an appearance as she produced Suffs. My best dressed were Idina Menzel, Erin Darke, Alicia Keyes, Lena Waithe, Paul Tazewell, Daniel Radcliffe, Arianna Debose, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Billy Porter, Elle Fanning, Cynthis Erivo and Kara Young.
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Would we be here if Trump and Netanyahu hadn’t torn up the Iran nuclear deal? Israel has trouble on all sides with Hamas and Hezbollah and Iran. Netanyahu behaves just like Trump in that he won’t talk to journalists who disagree with him. His cabinet is full of Jewish supremacists and extremists. ** Israeli minister Benny Gantz quit and Netanyahu dissolved the war cabinet. ** The U.S. has sanctioned an Israeli group for damaging aid to Palestine.
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Alex Jones is liquidating much of his empire to pay Sandy Hook parents. He can and is still spreading his lies.
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Jiminy Glick interviewed Bill Maher for Real Time. Maher’s book is #1. ** Glick also hosted Kimmel on June 27.
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We are now being told of the bad qualities of Scotchguard. Now that 3M has spread their poison to thousands of products and 50 years have passed since they found out, they have let us in on the secret.
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Aric Almirola was suspended for an altercation with Bubba Wallace after a Nascar race.
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Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Those who prevent history being taught fully intend to repeat it. - Carole Mueller Mcintire
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The First Presidential debate took place on June 27. Dana Bash and Jake Tapper asked the questions on CNN. With 37 years debate experience, Joe Biden disappointed everyone. Trump was measured, firm and confident. Did he babble lie after lie? Yes. Did Biden make Fox news and the other Trumpers come? Probably. The debate was everything the right could have dreamed of. Did he have a cold? People looking for the senior moment did not wait long. I couldn’t help but think that it was almost the opposite of the famous Nixon/ Kennedy debate. People who watched thought Kennedy won but those who listened found it much more even. This time Trump looked mean and Biden looked weak so it was a wash with watching. But, listening, Biden was a mess. Every hesitation, every fumble, every distant stare was a gift to Fox. Biden is slow but rarely wrong. His words were mixed up but there were no outright lies (much) like his opponent. They both dodged questions because they were too busy with their pissing contest. Golf scores?? WTF? It is bizarre when trump is the one that thinks they shouldn’t act like children. Biden was too over rehearsed and Trump had no cohesive answers ** I did love the way they cut off the mikes. That should be a keeper!!!! There is so much wasted time when they talk over each other. I liked the lack of audience too. That is what rallies are for. ** Why does Trump think that Christians don’t vote? ** Back in the day, Presidents didn’t campaign, they let the work speak for them. If Biden stays then he might want to lean into that. I also get tired of Dems listing off those who should take Biden’s place and they never seem to think of our more than competent VP. Kamala Harris hit it out of the park when she was interviewed after. If Joe stays, I am glad she is there. If he feels he can’t go on, she should be our pick. Is it because she is a woman that we don’t think of her first? She is ready!!! VP’s are always made fun of but let’s not forget how great those VP’s can be when called upon like Lyndon Johnson, Teddy Roosevelt and FDR. If Joe decided to go, Harris/ Pritzker please!! But.. Hey.. At least we are all talking about Joe and not Scary clown for a change. Joe has our attention. I still believe Joe has great people in place and had a bad moment but I am still confident. I don’t know any 81 year olds personally who have a lot of energy at 8 at night. I think we have forgiven Trump for MANY bad days so Joe can have get a pass on this horrid night.
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Debate performances can be overcome. At the first sign of adversity the spineless Democrats want to throw under the bus, their own incumbent President. - Allan Lichtman
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Did the late night guys have a feeling that Joe would blow it and they didn’t want to face it? They all leave on vaca at once? ** It is pretty sad that before the debate, journalists basically thought Trump would be ok if he could just act normal and Biden would be ok if he can stay upright. Both accomplished these small tasks but barely. ** I often joke that Trump must be trying to lose with the things he says but debate night, I wondered if Joe was on our side. Is he trying to lose?
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I never watch the View anymore but I checked it out after the debate and I have to say I was alarmed by Sara Haines appearance. She always looked so natural and I could hardly see her for all the makeup. To each his own but I found it quite sad. What happened there??
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I notice that on genealogy shows, the middle child is given away more than one might think.
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Julian Assange pled guilty to conspiring to obtain and disclose classified U.S. National defense documents. The Wikileaks founder was ‘on the run’ for more than a decade.
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The Surgeon General has declared gun violence a health crisis, loneliness as an epidemic and social media a problem too.
KKK recruitment letters have been showing up in mailboxes. That sounds about right.
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Days alert: Arianne Zucker and Shawn Christian have been engaged since 2021 and are now tying the knot!! ** Please more Tina Huang!! I wish her daughter and Abigail were alive on the always there island. Bring back Jen Lilley! I just can’t believe that I get my Days wish that Brady and Teresa are back together (if only for a moment ) but wrong actress. And seeing Teresa and Leo together really made me miss Gwen and Leo’s friendship. Emily O’Brien is a good Gwen. I hate Gwen. Soaps need those characters. That is the fun of a soap! Just let her go back to Gwen.** Oh no Johnny and Chanel don’t leave!! ** So great to see Clyde. Is he getting sexier? ** It was great to see Julie talking to Marie. Glad she is still kicking in the scheme of the show somewhere. ** I realize how much I miss the Kate and Lucas scenes. They are such a great Mother and son story. Heat that up!!
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Look for the new doc: Liza: A truly terrific absolutely true story.
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Travis Scott was arrested for disorderly intoxication and trespassing.
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The return of the Boeing Starliner has been delayed. Why is this company still going?
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It’s the age of hate. - Charlamagne the God
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The entitlement is that politicians keep raising their wages and giving corporations tax breaks but won’t give us $15 an hour. - Rev. Dr. William Barber, author of White Poverty
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Scary Clown 45/34 made a big show of himself at the Capitol. The ass kissers applauded for a scary long time. Trump told his people, “ Milwaukee, where we are having our convention is a horrible city.” He later clarified that that wasn’t what he meant. He claims that he was just concerned about the crime numbers and that he wants to be safe. Homicide is down 41%. Well, now Dems have billboards all over Milwaukee and there are t shirts on line with his hate. ** I love Milwaukee- Joe Biden ** and BTW, despite the insane fear mongering that Fox news spreads, crime is actually down across the country. When they are confronted with facts they claim that it doesn’t ‘feel’ like it. How do they live with themselves??
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Al Capone would kill Mike Lindell. - Trump
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The Republicans blocked a bill to regulate the Supreme Court. I will never understand this need to let authority run roughshod over this country. And this pattern of distrust and secrecy from Nixon to Reagan to Trump and the Bush’s. Power and money is not enough, they must push the rest of us down. What is that about? Why do they want us to be Russia? The whining about the way the court behaved in regards to Trump is priceless. Let them go to court in Russia and see how fair it is. ** Trump wants to lower corporate tax rates even more. He visited a black church over Father’s Day weekend in Detroit. Detroit is 77.8% black.The black pastor tried to get more African Americans to come to the service. There were a couple of local rappers and a former mayor just out of prison. Cameras panned back to show the pews filled with mostly white men in MAGA hats and Trump mug shot tee’s. ** What is this obsession with water pressure? Is this just Florida? I don’t know anybody that has these same problems.
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A fan at a Trump gathering apparently told him he had been to over 200 rallies. “Wouldn’t it be incredible if he voted for Biden? It would be suicide before Biden, right?” -Trump ** Trump has been upset about tele prompters lately.
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I have to hold on to hope that this cycle of hate will lead to a cycle of love and we will elect some smart, fair, loving people. C’mon future.. Spread the love!! Stop the loud and usher in the peace! We need more of those kick ass Gov’s who R getting it done!!!!
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Corey Booker and Tammy Duckworth have introduced a bill to protect IVF.
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Hollywood’s walk of fame welcomed Richard Blade.
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The Bike Riders stars Austin Butler, Tom Hardy and Jodie Comer.
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The Boston Celtics won the NBA title again.
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Upside down flags and designing their own hate flags are really becoming a thing. It is like a club for 12 year old boys.
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C’mon Jan 6 offenders: Pay your restitution. Why do so many folks think they should not have to be accountable?
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Thank goodness for Paul Saltzman and Deb Gendler and the like. It is great to see the bits of the Beatles story that they saw since the actual Beatles were a little busy.
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Florida is flooded.
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What this comedian said will shock you from Bill Maher is #1 on the Best sellers list.
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The rules are in place, the debate is coming and we need to hold their feet to the fire. **Polls show that over 50% of the country thinks Trump should drop out of the race. There are countries he won’t even be able to visit because he is a convicted felon.
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It is curious how many Republicans worked on and recommended the immigration plan and as soon as Biden liked it and set things in place, they turn on it.
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Tyson’s CFO was arrested for intoxication and was suspended.
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Hannah Einbinder has a comedy special: Everything must go.
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Mel Brooks got a Peabody which makes him a PEGOT.
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The Colorado GOP issued a call to burn gay pride flags because, “God hates pride.”
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Dr. Pepper is now as popular as Pepsi.
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Dr. Squatch has insured Nick Cannon’s balls for $10 mil.
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The movie 2000 mules about election fraud was pulled off market after a defamation suit.
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Rob Schneider was asked to leave a charity event for hospitals of Regina foundation in Canada. People started walking out after he was ranting about vaccines, women’s rights and how white men are persecuted.
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Julia Louis Dreyfus acceptance speech for her webby was great: Listen to old ladies Motherfucker’s.
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If it had been anybody but Hunter Biden, the gun people would have been screaming about rights. I thought the NRA wanted everyone to have a gun no matter what.
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Illinois new slogan should be: Come to Illinois where you can enjoy all your rights!
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Tokyo Vice was cancelled.
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Now they seem to be after Brown V. Board of Education.
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The Daytime Emmy’s came and went on June 8 hosted by Kevin Frazier and Nischelle Turner. General Hospital won most of the big ones. Dick Van Dyke won for guest actor on Days. Hooray for Robert Gossett and Thorsten Kaye. I was really hopeful for Eric Martsolf but maybe next year. Melody Thomas Scott was awarded for lifetime achievement. My best dressed were Sunny Hostin, Steven Nichols, Linsey Godfrey, Abigail Klein, Lisa Yamada, Courtney Hope, Heather Tom, Paul Telfer, Jackee Harry, Suzanne Rogers, Jennifer Hudson and Danielle Pinnock.
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A giant bus covered with trump paraphernalia crashed into a sign. ** Rep John Rose’ kid showed us how ridiculous these mentally ill people are. We all want to do that when they start this mind- boggling complaining all the time.
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BTW, isn’t it time to turn the cameras off Trump? Watching and scrutinizing everything he does is not turning his core off. Out of sight out of mind. Oh, I know it isn’t going to happen but I can dream. ** The top biggest political donors prefer Trump. About 69% of his donations come from these wealthy donors. His tax breaks for the rich expire in 2025. Biden has vowed not to bring them back. He is working on those tax loopholes.
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Thank you, Don Jr. for never shutting up about Epstein. Curious people looked into your assertions that your Father had no connection there. Flight receipts show Scary Clown flew with Epstein at least 7 times.
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Alec and Hilaria Baldwin and kids are starting up a reality show, The Baldwins. Timing could be better
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Some of the things the house ethics committee have been investigating about Matt Goetz have been dropped. They are still looking into the sexual misconduct, illegal drug use, accepting improper gifts to dispense special privileges and favors to individuals and sought to obstruct the investigation of his conduct.
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Peoria’s Planned Parenthood reopened. The renovation is complete after the 2023 firebombing. Tyler Massengill is serving 10 years and has a $1,450,000 fine.
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Biden’s new program provides legal status to 500,000 immigrants.
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Wisconsin has charged Kenneth Chesebro, Mike Roman and Jim Troupis with forgery in a fake elector scheme.
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There is another elder lady movie , The Fabulous Four. This one has Megan Mullaly, Susan Sarandon, Sheryl Lee Ralph and Bette Midler.
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Books are an idiot’s natural enemy. - Josh Johnson
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2 moronic climate activists were arrested for spraying orange paint on Stonehenge. Hey, Just Stop Oil.. Why R U fucking up a historical site? There must be better ways to get your point across.
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Traitor Tulsi Gabbard is trying hard to get Trump’s attention. She does not fight hard enough for him though.
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The latest sexual assault news: Kanye West has been sued for sexual harassment. ** Howard University revoked Sean Combs honorary degree. ** Texas megachurch pastor Robert Morris resigned after an accusation from a woman who claims he has abused her since she was 12.
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Stephen Colbert seems awful proud of his EW cover.
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There is nothing loving about Dolly Parton’s false gospel. Parton’s version of love, which includes condoning immoral sexual behavior is unaligned with God’s vision for humanity. (Parton has said that you should be who you are.) - Ericka Anderson I think she must be reading the wrong book. She has since said that she regretted using Dolly as an example for the point. She is still making the point!
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Jennifer Esposito directed, wrote and starred in Fresh Kills. The film shows us the female side of the mob.
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The Supreme Court took away the ban on bump stocks for firearms.
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Corporations are pussies. - Jon Stewart
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Saw this bumper sticker: Ted Bundy was a republican/ Ed Gein was a democrat
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The Daily show is right: Let Ticketmaster run the border. They know how to keep people out.
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Frasier is pulling out all the stops for season 2: Patricia Heaton, Spencer Grammer, Yvette Nicole Brown, Dan Butler and Edward Hibbert are joining in.
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OK.. The stills they are releasing for the new Waltzing with Brando with Billy Zane do look amazing. Richard Dreyfuss and James Jagger also star. Bad timing on the Dreyfuss front.
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Elisabeth Rohm directs Devil on Campus about Larry Ray, cult leader.
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Justin Timberlake was arrested for DWI.
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The Club Q killer, Anderson Aldrich was sentenced to 55 life sentences.
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Porn is truly unleashed on X.
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People were calling for Pat McAfee to be tossed off ESPN for calling Caitlin Clark a white
Bitch.
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Rep. Byron Donalds talked of his support of the Jim Crow era.
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July 1 will see Steve Bannon back to jail. He seems to love the attention it brings him so it all works out. ** He fought it but the Supreme Court said he has to go.
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The Kansas Supreme Court decided that voting is not a fundamental right.
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The co -editor of Variety, Ramin Setoodeh has a new book, Apprentice in Wonderland. Citizens of NY were apparently in stitches when they got word of Trump hosting the Apprentice because they all knew what a horrible business man he was.
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Biden weak? FDR was in a wheel chair and he got a lot done. Why are we so prejudice about age and handicaps??
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Will Trumps gun permit be revoked in NY because he is a convicted felon? The ads showing him as a convicted felon have begun.
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Martha Alito really hates pride flags and tells us so on tape. Her husband is determined to make this country rich with Christians. Why did we come to America to begin with? These people need to live in the real world and realize there are people with other thoughts than their own. ** Funny how they want to keep women in their place unless it is their women then no rules!
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Micheal, You were the only husband I ever had and one of my lifelong friends. I will miss you forever my Bam Bam, my friend. Micheal Dale King 1963-2024
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R.I.P. Marian Robinson, Martin Starger, Bette Nash, Jeff Kreiner, Orlando Cepeda, Bill Cobbs, Alan Scarfe, Tom bower, Betty Anne Rees, William Anders, Enchanting, Jerry West, Tony LoBianco, Seven, Kevin Brophy, Mark James, Angela Bofill, Erich Anderson, Tamayo Perry, Al Schultz, migrants thrown overboard by the Greek coastguard, Tony Mordente, Anouk Aimee, victims of the Ecuador landslides, heat related deaths all over the world including over 1300 in Saudi Arabi ,Willie Mays, Spencer Milligan, Bill Cobbs, Kinky Friedman, Taylor Willy, Gary Weaver, shooting victims, Donald Sutherland, Martin Mull and Mike King.
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Making a list of the songs associated with SpongeBob SquarePants... because why not?
Blow The Man Down - This traditional sea shanty from England finds itself the basis for the show's entire theme song.
Drunken Sailor - This melody has found itself as background music on the show, including for title cards and with scenes involving the Krusty Krab
Living in the Sunlight; Tiny Tim - Played during the climax and ending of the pilot episode; Help Wanted
I Wanna Rock; Twisted Sister - Parodied as "Goofy Goober Rock" in the SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
You Better Run; Motorhead - Played during the Thug Tug scene in the SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, appears on the soundtrack as "You Better Swim"
Just A Kid; Wilco - Played during the end credits of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, made for the film soundtrack. Instrumental plays as the main music for the title menu of the DVD
Sweet Victory; David Glen Eisley - Part of this song was played at the end of the episode "Band Geeks", and the entire song played during the end credits of the game "SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake". Also, requested to be played at the 2019 Super Bowl Half-Time Show in honour of Stephen Hillenburg, who passed away the year prior
Sicko Mode; Travis Scott - Was introduced by SpongeBob characters at the 2019 Super Bowl Half-Time Show
Ocean Man; Ween - Played at the end of the SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. Was also performed by the band as tribute to Stephen Hillenburg
A House Is Not a Home; Dionne Warwick - Parodied as "This Grill Is Not a Home" in the episode "Welcome to the Chum Bucket"
Alone Again (Naturally); Gilbert O'Sullivan - Reminiscent to the song "Gary's Song" in the episode "Have You Seen This Snail?"
Be True To Your School; The Beach Boys - Inspired, and partially parodied in, the song "Ripped Pants" in the eponymous episode.
Livin' La Vida Loca; Ricky Martin - Played in the movie "The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run" (I think this movie was trying to be Shrek)
O Tannenbaum / O Christmas Tree - Parodied as "Oh, Krusty Krab" in the episode "Truth or Square"
Long Gone Lonesome Blues; Hank Williams - Parodied as "I Wanna Go Home" in the episode "Texas"
Take On Me; A-ha - Covered by Weezer during the end of the movie "The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge On The Run". Originally released on the Weezer Album "Weezer (Teal) in 2019"
The Sailor's Hornpipe - Melody used as background music
Stadium Rave - Otherwise known as "Jellyfish Jam"
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Nickel Bin #5:
Steeleye Span's Captain Coulston
You'd be hard pressed to find a record more dedicated to not selling a single copy than Steeleye Span's Ten Man Mop or Mr Reservoir Butler Rides Again.
Yes, that's the record's title, and it features a period at the end of it although I'm pretty sure it's not a complete sentence. The record sports out of focus black and white photos of the band on the rear and the two ancients seen above behind my cat on its front; when originally issued, the gatefold opened to an entire booklet within, filled with incomprehensible gibberish; because of this extensive packaging, which the band paid for and which appealed to them alone and no one else, every copy of the record cost more to produce than it actually sold for; therefore every copy sold actually cost the band money.
The music within was entirely Irish and English traditional airs, each performed like it was 1671, not 1971. More gibberish appeared beneath each track listing, stuff like "2/1 Creeping Jane, 9/4 Skrewball, 8/1 Miss Portly, 10/1 Bar..."
The band's bass player/founder, Ashley Hutchings, was so disappointed with the final product that he quit the band the moment the recording was done. He wasn't angry that they were losing money making music that no one wanted hear; he was angry that they sounded too Irish.
Given all these factors, I find it baffling that the record somehow failed to compete with Led Zeppelin 4, Sticky Fingers, Meddle, Blue and Imagine. Hell, there are probably 40,000 copies of that year's Stephen Stills 2 out there for every existent copy of Ten Man Mop. And Stephen Stills... you know the rest of that sentence. But it's 53 years later; let's rewrite history and sing the record's praises.
Yeah, well, never mind. There are plenty of great Steeleye records to shout about, and this is not one of them. Sure, it's good - their records are all good - but let's focus in on one weird, wonderful and forgotten track, Captain Coulston.
Unlike many of the songs on the record this one is fairly modern; it was written around 1800, all about laterday Irish pirates. Aren't you excited to listen to this? I sure am.
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Everything is nice at the opening, yes? Maddy Prior's strident, twisting vocals glow over Martin Carthy's complex and shimmering electric guitar and a brooding bass line.
I doubt the first two minutes are changing your life, however; you're probably wishing I was writing about Stairway to Heaven. But come on, stick with me! You heard Zeppelin 4 in seventh grade; and you've never listened to this.
At the song's two minute mark things get intense. The pirates attack, the violin swirls in and something starts pounding; maybe it's Hutching's bass or a keyboard charged with distortion; maybe it's an angry pagan god glowering about, demanding tribute. The band is suddenly mounting rare and new heights, ready to kick ass John Snow style all over Westeros.
Every time I listen to Captain Coulston I'm too into the music to really follow the plot; blood in streams does flow until, somehow, the pirates are defeated. Then the band celebrates by gliding into a deck stomping and fairly murderous reel.
Surrender to this song; surrender to the Nickel Bin.
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List of Tributes
Satan (The Bible)
Satan (Dante's Inferno)
God (New Testament)
God (Old Testament)
Judas Iscariot
Jesus (The Bible)
Virgin Mary
Jesus (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
Santa Claus
Larry the Cucumber (VeggieTales)
Saint Patrick
The Garden of Eden snake
Various Donkeys
The Wise Men's camels
Two penguins from Noah's Ark
Noah
The whale that ate Jonah
Jonah
The lion that didn't eat Daniel
Samson
The 2 bears Elisha summoned
War (of the Four Horsemen)
The fig tree Jesus yelled at
Saint Mary Mackillop
Saint Guinefort
The Golden Calf
The King James Bible
Psalty the Singing Songbook
30 Silver Pieces
The Good Samaritan
Religious Trauma
The Cross
Dante Alighieri
Screwtape
Moroni
Judge Deborah
Enoch
Joseph ben Caiaphas
Pontius Pilate
Barabbas
The Burning Bush
Moses
Pope Stephen VI
Martin Luther
The woman okay with killing the baby (Solomon's Judgement)
The baby (Solomon's Judgement)
King Solomon
Herod the Great
Mary Magdalene
Mary of Bethany
Jesús Cristo (Clone High)
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Elijah
John the Baptist
Yael (also called Jael)
Joan of Arc
Saint Margaret of Antioch
Michelangelo's David
Leviathan
Behemoth
Slut!Michael
Lilith
Azrael
Gabriel
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Holidays 8.21
Holidays
Actuaries Day (India)
Appreciation Day (Elder Scrolls)
Aquino Day (Philippines)
Argonian Day
Ask Questions Day
Bitcoin Infinity Day
Black Indie Authors Day
Buhe (Ethiopia)
Bunny Day (Japan)
Cadillac Day
Crazy Day
Eagle Scout Day
821 Day (Texas)
Festival of Goliath, Parade of Giants begins (Ath, Belgium)
Fête de la Jeunesse (a.k.a. Youth Day; Morocco, Western Sahara)
Good Roads Day
Gospel Day (Micronesia)
Grandfather and Grandson’s Day (Argentina)
ICBM Day
International Day of Mosques
International Day of Remembrance of and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism (UN)
Internet Self-Care Day
Kosrae (Gospel Day; Micronesia)
National Brazilian Blowout Day
National Dreams Are Possible Day
National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day
National Meme Day
National Report Upcoding Fraud Day
National Senior Citizens Day
Ninoy Aquino Day (Philippines)
Officer’s Day (Russia)
Order of the Lone Star Day
Our Lady of Knock
Poet's Day
San Martin Day (Argentina)
Senior Citizens' Day
Six-Row Barley Day (French Republic)
Thiruonam (Parts of India)
World Entrepreneurs’ Day
World Fashion Day
World Goat Day
Youth Day (Morocco)
Food & Drink Celebrations
Beer Institute Day
Grog Day
National Shiraz Day (Australia)
National Spumoni Day
National Sweet Tea Day
Independence & Related Days
Hawaii Statehood Day (Original Date; 1959)
Latituda (Declared; 2006) [unrecognized]
Latvia (Passing of the Constitutional Law on the Status of the Republic of Latvia as a State and Actual Restoration of the Republic of Latvia; 1991)
3rd Wednesday in August
Hump Day [Every Wednesday]
JUVEDERM Day [3rd Wednesday]
Miss Crustacean Hermit Crab Beauty Pageant and Hermit Crab Races (Ocean City, NJ) [3rd Wednesday]
National Medical Dosimetrist Day [3rd Wednesday]
Wacky Wednesday [Every Wednesday]
Wandering Wednesday [3rd Wednesday of Each Month]
Website Wednesday [Every Wednesday]
Wiener Wednesday [3rd Wednesday of Each Month]
Festivals Beginning August 21, 2024
Corn Palace Festival (Mitchell, South Dakota) [thru 8.25]
gamescom (Cologne, Germany) [thru 8.25]
The Great New York State Fair (Syracuse, New York) [thru 9.2]
Hythe Venetian Fete (Hythe, United Kingdom) [thru 8.21]
Idaho County Fair (Cottonwood, Idaho) [thru 8.24]
Pluk de Nacht Film Festival (Amsterdam, Netherlands) [thru 8.31]
Ransom County Fair (Lisbon, North Dakota) [thru 8.25]
Reading and Leeds Festivals (Leeds and Reading, United Kingdom) [thru 8.25]
Tønder Festival (Tønder, Denmark) [thru 8.24]
Victoria Fringe Theatre Festival (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada) [thru 9.1]
Feast Days
Abraham of Smolensk (Eastern Orthodox Church)
Albert Irvin (Artology)
Amontons (Positivist; Saint)
Apologise Day (Pastafarian)
Asher Brown Durand (Artology)
Aubrey Beardsley (Artology)
Bernard Ptolemy, Founder of the Olivetans (Christian; Saint)
Blessing Against Jealousy Day (Celtic Book of Days)
Bonosus and Maximilian (Christian; Martyrs)
Broderick Crawford Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Christian Schad (Artology)
Consualia (Ancient Roman festival to the god of the harvest and stored grain)
Euprepius of Verona (Christian; Saint)
Festival of Consus (God of Good Council; Ancient Rome)
Heraclia (Celebration of Hercules; Ancient Rome; Everyday Wicca)
Jane Francis de Chantal (Christian; Saint)
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (Artology)
Joseph (Muppetism)
Jules Michelet (Writerism)
Luxorius, Cisellus and Camerinus (Christian; Martyrs)
The Magic of Lemon Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Maximilian of Antioch (Christian; Saint)
Menashe Kadishman (Artology)
Narcisse-Virgile Díaz de la Peña (Artology)
Nathaniel Everett Green (Artology)
Our Lady of Knock (Christian; Saint)
Pius X, Pope (Christian; Saint)
Radish Tordia (Artology)
Richard, Bishop of Andria (Christian; Saint)
Robert Stone (Writerism)
Sidonius Apollinaris (Christian; Saint)
Stephen Hillenburg (Artology)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Prime Number Day: 233 [51 of 72]
Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]
Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [29 of 37]
Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 39 of 60)
Unglückstage (Unlucky Day; Pennsylvania Dutch) [22 of 30]
Premieres
Ain’t Misbehaving’, recorded by Fats Waller (Song; 1938)
American Ultra (Film; 2015)
An American Werewolf in London (Film; 1981)
Axe Me Another (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1934)
Bambi (Animated Disney Film; 1942)
Be Here Now, by Oasis (Album; 1997)
Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris, by A.J. Liebling (Memoir; 1959)
Blade (Film; 1998)
A Brief History of Time (Documentary Film; 1992)
Crazy, recorded by Patsy Cline (Song; 1961)
Diesel and Dust, by Midnight Oil (Album; 1987)
Dirty Dancing (Film; 1987)
Dynamite, by BTS (Song; 2020)
Earth Abides, by George R. Stewart (Novel; 1949)
Eve of Destruction, by Barry McGuire (Song; 1965)
Facelift, by Alice In Chains (Album; 1990)
Fireman’s Brawl (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1953)
First Monday in October (Film; 1981)
House of the Dragon (TV Series; 2022)
How You Remind Me, by Nickelback (Song; 2001)
Inglorious Basterds (Film; 2009)
Kiko and the Honey Bears (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1936)
Life with Fido (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1942)
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (Animated Film; 1992)
Motörhead, by Motörhead (Album; 1977)
Next Stoop Wonderland (Film; 1998)
Ready or Not (Film; 2019)
Ritual de lo Habitual, by Jane’s Addiction (Album; 1990)
Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner (WB MM Cartoon; 1965)
Sherman Was Right (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1932)
A Sunbonnet Blue (WB MM Cartoon; 1937)
The Wings of the Dove, by Henry James (Novel; 1902)
Wrongfully Accused (Film; 1998)
Today’s Name Days
Pius (Austria)
Agaton, Pio, Sidonija (Croatia)
Johana (Czech Republic)
Salomon (Denmark)
Sven, Sveno (Estonia)
Soini, Veini (Finland)
Christophe, Grâce, Ombeline (France)
Pia, Oius, Maximilian (Germany)
Hajna, Sémuel (Hungary)
Cristoforo, Pio (Italy)
Janīna, Linda, Sidnejs (Latvia)
Gaudvydas, Joana, Kazė, Kazimiera, Medeinė (Lithuania)
Ragni, Ragnvald (Norway)
Adolf, Adolfa, Adolfina, Alf, Bernard, Emilian, Filipina, Franciszek, Joanna, Kazimiera, Męcimir (Poland)
Jana (Slovakia)
Pío (Spain)
Jon, Jonna (Sweden)
Gianna, Jane, Janelle, Janessa, Janet, Janette, Janice, Janie, Janine, Janiya, Jayne, Shanice, Sheena (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 234 of 2024; 132 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 3 of Week 34 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 19 of 28]
Chinese: Month 7 (Ren-Shen), Day 18 (Ding-Si)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]
Hebrew: 17 Av 5784
Islamic: 15 Safar 1446
J Cal: 24 Purple; Threesday [24 of 30]
Julian: 8 August 2024
Moon: 94%: Waning Gibbous
Positivist: 9 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Amontons]
Runic Half Month: As (Gods) [Day 14 of 15]
Season: Summer (Day 63 of 94)
Week: 3rd Full Week of August
Zodiac: Leo (Day 31 of 31)
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A wannabe rock star who fronts a Pennsylvania-based tribute band is devastated when his kick him out of the group he founded. Things begin to look up for Izzy when he is asked to join Steel Dragon, the heavy metal rockers he had been imitating for so long. This film is loosely based on the true story of the band Judas Priest. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Chris ‘Izzy’ Cole: Mark Wahlberg Emily Poule: Jennifer Aniston Kirk Cuddy: Dominic West A.C.: Jason Bonham Jorgen: Jeff Pilson Ghode: Zakk Wylde Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager: Timothy Spall Donny Johnson: Blas Elias Xander Cummins: Nick Catanese Ricki Bell: Brian Vander Ark Rob Malcolm: Timothy Olyphant Tania Asher, Steel Dragon PR: Dagmara Domińczyk Joe Cole: Matthew Glave Mr. Cole: Michael Shamus Wiles Mrs. Cole: Beth Grant Bobby Beers: Jason Flemyng Nina: Carey Lessard Samantha: Kristin Richardson Mason Bell: Jamie Williams Roadie #1: Keith Loneker Amber: Sami Reed Marci: Kara Zediker Bradley: Stephan Jenkins Guitarist in Crowd Outside Mansion: Vitamin C Cream Reporter: Kevin Ryder Melody-Maker Reporter: Gene Baxter Bouncer: Gregory Hinton Nurse: Sonya Stephens Photographer: Neil Zlozower Fan #1: Kirk Enochs Thor: Myles Kennedy A.C.’s Wife: Rachel Hunter Kirk’s Wife: Heidi Mark Ghode’s Wife: Carrie Stevens Jorgen’s Wife: Amy Miller Office Worker: William Martin Brennan Mrs. Andrews: Lorna Scott Auditioning Singer: Ralph Saenz Topless Cutie #1: Jennifer Rovero Topless Cutie #2: Natalie Raynes Scalper: Jamal Weathers Two-Year Old Girl: Hailie Brennand Roadie #2: Eric Weinstein MTV Veejay: Jamie White Metal Head: Jeffrey Wetzel Guitar Tech: Frederick E. Kowalo Girl with P-Pass: Jennifer Uilani Warren Roxy Dancer: Chad Azadan Roxy Dancer: Linda Cevallos Roxy Dancer: Jennifer Edmond Roxy Dancer: Brian Friedman Roxy Dancer: Cynthia Fuhrer Roxy Dancer: Cati Jean Roxy Dancer: Edward Jenkins Roxy Dancer: Kelly Knox Roxy Dancer: Tabbatha Mays Roxy Dancer: Udee McGeoy Roxy Dancer: Ted Napolitano Roxy Dancer: Tomasina Parrott Roxy Dancer: Gabriel Ramírez Roxy Dancer: Ursula Whittaker Roxy Dancer: Zachary Woodlee Concert Rocker: Andrew Wayne Bar Patron (uncredited): Gia Franzia Film Crew: Production Design: Mayne Berke Executive Producer: Steven Reuther Original Music Composer: Trevor Rabin Executive Producer: George Clooney Second Unit Director: David R. Ellis Director of Photography: Ueli Steiger Casting: Sharon Bialy Actor’s Assistant: Eric Weinstein Co-Producer: Michael Fottrell Costume Design: Aggie Guerard Rodgers Screenplay: John Stockwell Stunts: Chad Stahelski Director: Stephen Herek Stunts: Chris Palermo Stunts: Joe Bucaro III Producer: Toby Jaffe Editor: Trudy Ship Stunts: Julie Michaels Stunts: Keith Woulard Stunts: T.J. White Executive Producer: Mike Ockrent Choreographer: Peggy Holmes Music Supervisor: Budd Carr Set Decoration: Casey Hallenbeck Unit Production Manager: Paul Moen Swing: P. Scott Bailey Stunts: Laura Albert Stunts: Mike Gunther Supervising Art Director: Caty Maxey Stunt Coordinator: Brad Martin Stunts: Jeff Imada Still Photographer: Claudette Barius First Assistant Director: Jeffrey Wetzel Actor’s Assistant: Ozzie Areu Production Accountant: Ravi D. Mehta Art Department Coordinator: Joe Walser Leadman: Mark Woods Stunts: Tim Rigby Camera Operator: Thomas Yatsko Stunts: Sean Graham Set Designer: Harry E. Otto Makeup Artist: Donald Mowat Special Effects Coordinator: Paul J. Lombardi Makeup Artist: Jean Ann Black Boom Operator: Carl Fischer Stunts: Damon Caro Stunts: Chris O’Hara First Assistant Camera: Gary L. Camp Script Supervisor: Adrienne Hamalian-Mangine Special Effects: Scott Blackwell Video Assist Operator: David Katz Stunts: Steve Holladay Hairstylist: Johnny Villanueva Set Costumer: Lisa A. Doyle Hairstylist: Kerry Mendenhall Music Editor: Brent Brooks Steadicam Operator: Dan Kneece Location Manager: Curtis Collins Hairstylist: Shari Perry Key Makeup Artist: Michael Mills Key Costumer: Sabrina Calley Stunts: Brandon Sebek Producer: Robert Lawrence Art Direction: Richard Schreiber Costume Supervisor: Bruce Erickse...
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5 Film Adaptasi dari Buku yang Wajib Ditonton Akhir Tahun Ini
Sep 12, 2013
Tengah tahun udah berlalu dan sekarang udah bulan September aja. Nggak kerasa beberapa bulan lagi 2013 akan berakhir. Tapi, nggak usah khawatir, apalagi buat yang hobi nonton. Kenapa? Karena di penghujung tahun ini ada banyak film yang akan tayang di bioskop yang siap menghibur. Namun, karena sekarang lagi ngetren film adaptasi dari buku, jadi berikut adalah daftar 5 film adaptasi dari buku yang wajib banget ditonton akhir tahun ini. So, sebelum nonton filmnya, bisa baca bukunya dulu sebagai pemanasan. Well, check the list!
1. Ender’s Game (1 November)
Diadaptasi dari novel fiksi ilmiah remaja berjudul sama karya Orson Scott Card, film produksi Lionsgate ini mendapuk Gavin Hood sebagai penulis skenario dan sutradara. Ber-setting di masa depan, film ini berkisah tentang Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield), anak laki-laki pemalu namun memiliki otak brilian dan remaja berbakat lainnya, yang harus mengikuti pelatihan khusus untuk melindungi Bumi dari serangan ras alien Formics. Di bawah ajaran Mazer Rackham (Ben Kingsley), Ender berusaha menjadi pemimpin tim penyelamat Bumi.
2. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (22 November)
Film besutan Francis Lawrence ini adalah adaptasi dari novel Catching Fire karya Suzanne Collins. Sekuel kedua dari seri “The Hunger Games” ini masih memasang Jennifer Lawrence sebagai Katniss Everdeen dan Josh Hutcherson sebagai Peeta Mellark. Kali ini berkisah tentang kehidupan Katniss dan Peeta setelah memenangkan The Hunger Games ke-74. Namun, kemenangan mereka dianggap sebagai pemberontakan oleh Capitol. Oleh karena itu, keduanya kembali harus bertarung dengan para peserta (tribute) dari distrik lain dalam The Hunger Games ke-75 yang bertajuk Quarter Quell.
3. Manusia Setengah Salmon (10 Oktober)
Raditya Dika kembali menghibur lewat layar lebar. Diadaptasi dari buku berjudul sama karya cowok itu sendiri, kini Herdanius Larobu yang bertugas sebagai sutradara. Film ini memiliki benang merah dengan bukunya, yakni tentang perpindahan. Berkisah tentang Dika (Raditya Dika) yang harus pindah ke rumah baru. Di sana, dia bertemu dengan Patricia (Kimberly Ryder) dan mulai dekat. Namun, Dika selalu teringat dengan rumah lamanya dan secara tidak langsung, mengingatkan dia lagi pada mantan pacarnya, Jessica (Eriska Rein). Seiring waktu, Dika menyadari bahwa masalah pindah rumah ini ternyata tak jauh berbeda dengan pindah hati.
4. Carrie (18 Oktober)
Sebenarnya, ini adalah film remake. Versi awalnya pernah rilis pada tahun 1976. Namun, film yang diadaptasi dari novel debut karya Stephen King berjudul sama ini, tak boleh dilewatkan. Apalagi untuk penggemar genre horor dan thriller. Berkisah tentang Carrie White (Chloë Grace Moretz), seorang gadis lugu dan sering di-bully oleh teman-teman sekolahnya. Tanpa dia sadari, ternyata dia memiliki kekuatan telekinesis. Tak tahan dengan segala perlakuan buruk teman-temannya, pada malam Prom, Carrie lepas kendali dan terjadilah Prom berdarah karena ulah gadis itu.
5. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (13 Desember)
Petualangan Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), Gandalf (Ian McKellen), dan 13 Dwarf dimulai kembali. Kali ini, berkisah tentang petualangan mereka melawan laba-laba raksasa, diculik bangsa Elf, pertarungan di Laketown, sampai menghadapi naga Smaug. Sekuel kedua ini tetap memasang Peter Jackson sebagai sutradara dari novel fantasi legendaris karya J.R.R. Tolkien. Untuk para penggermargenre fantasi, tentu saja film ini tak boleh dilewatkan. Apalagi bagi yang menggemari trilogi The Lord of the Ring. Kenapa? Karena The Hobbit ini adalah prekuel tiga film epik itu dan diceritakan bagaimana One Ring muncul dan sangat penting perannya.
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Here’s a look back at 2023’s most significant events at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida: JANUARYDay of Remembrance Marks 20th Anniversary of Columbia Tragedy NASA senior management and guests paid tribute to the crew members of space shuttle Columbia, as well as other astronauts who perished in the line of duty, during the agency’s Annual Day of Remembrance held at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. NASA’s Day of RemembranceNASA/Kim Shiflett JANUARYFacilities, Spacecraft Prepped for Artemis II Mission Teams with Exploration Ground Systems began upgrading and modifying facilities at Kennedy to support Artemis II, paving the way for human exploration to the Moon and Mars. Artemis II will be the first crewed flight of the agency’s Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft. NASA’s mobile launcher arrives at the Vehicle Assembly BuildingNASA/Ben Smegelsky FEBRUARY‘Famous’ Eagles Build New Nest at Kennedy When storms badly damaged their original nest at the Florida spaceport, a well-known pair of American bald eagles built a new home nearby along Kennedy Parkway, providing a magnificent view of the majestic birds in their natural habitat. A southern bald eagle occupies its new nestNASA/Ben Smegelsky FEBRUARYNew Orion Test Article Makes a Splash NASA’s Landing and Recovery team completed a rigorous round of testing on the new mock-up of the agency’s Orion spacecraft. This test article will be used to train NASA, Navy, and other Department of Defense personnel to retrieve astronauts from the Pacific Ocean after splashing down on Artemis Moon missions. The Crew Module Test Article in actionNASA/Kim Shiflett MARCHCrew-6 Lights up Florida Early-Morning Sky A Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft roared off of Kennedy’s Launch Pad 39A at 12:34 a.m. EST March 2, kickstarting NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission. The launch carried NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, along with UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev to the International Space Station for a six-month science expedition mission. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 on the launch padNASA/Joel Kowsky MARCHCrew-5 Comes Back to Earth NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina splashed down safely in the SpaceX Dragon Endurance in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Tampa, Florida, at 9:02 p.m. EST March 11, returning to Earth after 157 days in space. Crew-5 astronauts return to EarthNASA/Joel Kowsky MARCHCRS-27 Launches to the Space Station At 8:30 p.m. EDT March 14, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket rumbled off the pad at Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A, starting Dragon’s two-day journey to the International Space Station to deliver new science investigations, supplies, and equipment for Expedition 68 and 69 crews aboard the orbiting laboratory. CRS-27 liftoffSpaceX MARCHSwamp Works Celebrates a Decade of Discoveries In 2023, Swamp Works, which drew its inspiration from Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works in California, celebrated 10 years. The facility is devoted to innovation and leveraging skills and capabilities across the center, focusing on granular mechanics and regolith operations, applied chemistry, electrostatics and surface physics, advanced materials and systems, applied physics, and corrosion technology. ISRU Pilot Excavator testing inside Swamp Works NASA/Frank Michaux MAYAstronauts Complete Second All-Private Mission Four private astronauts completed a successful Axiom Mission 2, the second all-private astronaut mission to the space station. Axiom Space astronauts Peggy Whitson, John Shoffner, Ali Alqarni, and Rayyanah Barnawi spent 10 days on the orbiting laboratory after lifting off at 5:37 p.m. EDT on May 21 from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. The Axiom Mission-2 and Expedition 69 crew members aboard the International Space StationNASA JUNESolar Arrays Delivered on CRS-28 Several thousand pounds of important research, crew supplies and hardware, including new solar arrays, were delivered to the space station following the June 5 launch of SpaceX’s 28th commercial resupply services mission for NASA from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A. CRS-28 liftoffSpaceX JULYArtemis Crews Get New Ride to the Pad Teams from manufacturer Canoo Technologies Inc. of Torrance, California, delivered three specially designed, fully electric, environmentally friendly crew transportation vehicles to Kennedy on July 11. The vehicles will take Artemis crews on the final Earth-bound leg of their journey to the Moon before boarding their rocket and spacecraft. Fully electric, environmentally friendly crew transportation vehicles arrived at KennedyNASA/Isaac Watson AUGUSTCrew-7 Carries International Crew to Space Station A Dragon spacecraft, named Endurance, launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket, carrying NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov to the space station on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission. Liftoff occurred at 3:27 a.m. EDT on Saturday, Aug. 26. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 NASA/Joel Kowsky AUGUSTArtemis II Crew Meets Their Ride Around the Moon Inside the high bay of Kennedy’s Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building, Artemis II NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen visited the Orion spacecraft that will take them on a 10-day journey around the Moon as the first Artemis crew. Artemis II crew members view their Orion spacecraftNASA/Kim Shiflett SEPTEMBERCrew-6 Completes Six-Month Mission NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, along with UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev splashed down safely in SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, named Endeavour, in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, at 12:17 a.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 24, after 186 days in space. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 astronauts return to EarthNASA/Kim Shiflett SEPTEMBERArtemis II Astronauts Conduct Launch-Day Demonstration NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, practiced the procedures they will undergo on launch day to prepare for their mission around the Moon. The Artemis II crew and teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program successfully completed the critical ground system tests at Kennedy on Sept. 20. Artemis II astronauts at Launch Pad 39BNASA/Frank Michaux OCTOBERPsyche Launches to a Metal Asteroid NASA’s Psyche spacecraft began its six-year voyage to an asteroid of the same name, a metal-rich world that could tell us more about the formation of rocky planets, after successfully launching aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy on Oct. 13. Psyche mission lifts offNASA/Aubrey Gemignani OCTOBERProgress Continues Toward NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight to Station NASA and Boeing are working to complete the agency’s verification and validation activities ahead of the Starliner spacecraft’s first flight with astronauts to the International Space Station. While Boeing is targeting March 2024 to have the spacecraft ready for flight, teams decided during a launch manifest evaluation that a launch in April will better accommodate upcoming crew rotations and cargo resupply missions this spring. The Starliner team works on module for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight TestBoeing/John Grant OCTOBERSea Turtle Nests Set Kennedy Record A record number of sea turtle nests were built on the undisturbed beaches of the Florida spaceport in 2023. Biologists counted 13,935 sea turtle nests along Kennedy’s shoreline during the 2023 nesting season, 639 more nests than 2022 and the most found on center in a single year since record-keeping began in 1984. Sea turtle hatchlings at Kennedy Space Center in FloridaNASA NOVEMBERNASA, SpaceX Launch New Science, Hardware to Space Station Following a successful launch of NASA’s SpaceX 29th commercial resupply mission from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A, scientific experiments and technology demonstrations – including studies of enhanced optical communications and measurement of atmospheric waves – were delivered to the space station. The Integrated LCRD Low Earth Orbit User Modem and Amplifier Terminal loaded into Dragon’s unpressurized spacecraft trunkSpaceX DECEMBERKennedy Celebrates 25 Years of International Space Station Science NASA Kennedy marked a quarter of a century of assembling and processing components and science missions for the International Space Station. In December 1998, the Unity module of the International Space Station was carried to orbit on STS-88 from Kennedy, helping kick off a 25-year legacy that includes over 3700 science investigations conducted to date on the orbiting laboratory by 273 people from 21 countries.
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The Montclair Film Festival Announces 2023 Filmmaker Tribute To Martin Scorsese Hosted by Stephen Colbert
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FANTASTIC VOYAGE (1966) – Episode 146 – Decades Of Horror: The Classic Era
“Twelve minutes left. What a time to run out of sugar!” Especially when you’re having a little coffee with your sugar. Join this episode’s Grue-Crew – Chad Hunt, Whitney Collazo, Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, and Jeff Mohr – as they gaze in wonder at Fantastic Voyage (1966), remarkable for its special effects and for being one of Raquel Welch’s 1966 breakout roles.
Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Episode 146 – Fantastic Voyage (1966)
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A scientist is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream with a small crew. Problems arise almost as soon as they enter it.
Director: Richard Fleischer
Writing Credits: Harry Kleiner (screenplay); David Duncan (adaptation); (story by) Otto Klement and Jerome Bixby (as Jay Lewis Bixby)
Music by: Leonard Rosenman
Cinematography: Ernest Laszlo
Film Editing: William B. Murphy
Sound Department: Walter Rossi (Sound Effects) (uncredited)
Art Direction: Jack Martin Smith, Dale Hennesy
Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss
Visual Effects:
Art Cruickshank (special photographic effects)
L.B. (Bill) Abbott (special photographic effects)
Emil Kosa Jr. (special photographic effects)
Marcel Delgado (miniatures) (uncredited)
Selected Cast:
Stephen Boyd as Charles Grant
Raquel Welch as Cora Peterson, the technical asst for Dr. Duval
Edmond O’Brien as General Alan Carter
Donald Pleasence as Dr. Michaels
Arthur O’Connell as Colonel Donald Reid
William Redfield as Captain Bill Owens
Arthur Kennedy as Dr. Peter Duval
Jean Del Val as Dr. Jan Benes
Barry Coe as communications aide
Ken Scott as a Secret Service agent
Shelby Grant as nurse
James Brolin as technician
James Doohan as Dr. Sawyer (Hypothermia technician) (uncredited)
Raquel Welch passed away on 15 February 2023, so the Classic Era Grue Crew thought a fitting tribute would be to cover one of her first breakout roles. Released a few weeks before One Million Years B.C. (1966), Fantastic Voyage features her as the only woman in a seven-member ensemble cast populated by excellent character actors, and she proves herself up to the task. The film’s crew is also the recipient of two Academy Awards with an additional three nominations. The Grue Crew goes a tiny bit giddy over this influential classic from the 60s. Check out what they have to say.
At the time of this writing, Fantastic Voyage is available to stream from most PPV sites, and as a very economical Blu-ray treatment from 20th Century Studios.
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Island in the Sun: ‘One Drop’ in the Ocean By Theresa Brown
Let’s face it – America was not ready for Dorothy Dandridge.
Her beauty is undeniable. And, as Janet Jackson notes in her TCM tribute to Dandridge, Dorothy was a ‘triple threat’ with singing, dancing and acting in her repertoire. She just needed a chance to shine. Daughter of character actress Ruby Dandridge, Dorothy appeared in soundies and small uncredited parts throughout the 1940s. In BRIGHT ROAD (‘53) she plays a schoolteacher offering G-rated maternal love and understanding to her students in a rural school district. She really comes into prominence with Otto Preminger’s 1954 film CARMEN JONES. Sexy, sassy, fiery...dangerous, Dandridge swaggers like a gunslinger and sets the screen ablaze as the tempestuous Carmen. Her BRIGHT ROAD co-star, Harry Belafonte, is the hapless handsome soldier who tragically tangles with her. Dandridge was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance.
I rather enjoyed her next movie coming three years after CARMEN JONES, ISLAND IN THE SUN (’57). It’s sort of a PEYTON PLACE in the Caribbean with different storylines of politics, family secrets, murder and miscegenation weaving and wending their way around coconut trees and sugar cane plantations. May I offer one sticky wicket of a caveat? You’ll probably have to leave your 21st century racial perspective at home when you visit. The movie is 63 years old and does give a nod to all those antiquated racial tropes. My jaw dropped a coupla times.
Let me map out the scorecard for you. A Caribbean country is about to undergo the changeover from colony to independence. Pivotal in that change is union leader Harry Belafonte. Pre-dating Malcolm and Martin and today’s ‘social justice’ warriors, Belafonte’s character is interested in uplifting his people on the island. He has a casual relationship with Dandridge that doesn’t have enough fire to toast a marshmallow. What’s wrong with THAT picture? In the movie, he has history on the island with Joan Fontaine. There’s a tentative attempt to explore where they can go, but class and color are a bumpy road for them to hurdle (perhaps the script’s “convenient” way to keep them apart?). He’s more interested in power than romance. Gee, all that handsomeness gone to waste. I don’t know that Belafonte quite has any chemistry with Fontaine once you see Dandridge on his arm – or am I the only one blinded here? But Belafonte steps up his acting game opposite Academy Award-winner Fontaine.
Also in the cast, we have Stephen Boyd, ripe for the picking as the current governor’s son whose return to the island after months stationed in Egypt—without a woman in sight—is pointedly noted. He’s back on the island until he jets off to London. It’s said of him:
“A male, young, white, unmarried, titled and comparatively rich. Good heavens, what else do you think the girls would talk about.”
Boyd spots virginal-in-white Joan Collins at the Governor’s ball. Yes, you read that right – I said virginal and Joan Collins in the same sentence, and he’s interested. So is she. They start a slow-building romance. They don’t make themselves part of the island’s life. They’re into each other. Don’t worry, a freak-out lays ahead for them. Her brother is played by James Mason. They are heirs to the largest sugar cane plantation on the island and Mason’s a weakling. You know the type: the second son...ever second best...insecure...lots to prove. He has contempt for the islanders; suspects his wife of having an affair with the dashing, accomplished Michael Rennie; and decides to run as a political opponent to the popular Belafonte. Belafonte’s response:
“Wouldn’t it be fair to say the only reason you seek election is to revenge yourself upon the whites whom you now think despise you?”
Mason’s got a lot on his plate. (And it ain’t conch chowder).
When Dandridge first appears in the movie, she and Belafonte make a stunning couple entering the governor’s party. She immediately lets Belafonte know she has a mind of her own. She’s confident, truthful, tries to do herself some good pitching for a job in the governor’s office. She fits right into the tony setting with no apology...and wearing no maid’s uniform. She carries herself with quiet sophistication. She just is. She’s noticed by the governor’s military attaché (John Justin), and he immediately falls head over heels. I like Justin and Dandridge together. He’s not trying to keep their relationship secret. He might have one twinge of jealousy or discomfort, but all in all they’re fine together. You might think this interracial romance would be problematic as well but it’s not, compared to Belafonte and Fontaine. What’s the difference? Food for thought. But I think we all know why.
Justin: “Somewhere someone once said there’s always a point in the beginning of a love affair where a man can draw back. Where he’s still safe.”
Dandridge: “Is that what you want, to be safe?”
Justin: “I’ve been in love. Funny, I don’t know anything about you.” Dandridge: “What would you like to know?”
Justin: “All about you. Everything.”
There is a moment with this couple I really like; it’s provocative in a non-provocative way. (No Spoiler!) Dandridge is lying fully clothed on Justin’s bed, reading his manuscript...with no shoes on. Big deal, right? I think it speaks tremendously to their level of intimacy. She’s at home in his space. When have you ever seen THAT in movies of the 50s...or 40s or 30s for that matter?
I like this Daryl Zanuck-production. It’s a colorful, lush, melodramatic production with racial and sexual tension, sexual restraint and good-looking people. Dorothy Dandridge is very easy to watch on film. Yes, she’s easy on the eyes, but she’s also not chewing the scenery and has a very natural presence on screen. You never see her act. I wish she’d done more. She’s not exotic. She’s just a woman...a human. She had many facets she could tap into to express different characters. I’m so glad TCM, with the guidance of acclaimed author Donald Bogle, spotlighted her career. This gets a wider audience to get to know her. No, America was not ready for Dorothy Dandridge.
But she wasn’t going to spend her time waiting for us.
#Dorothy Dandridge#Harry Belafonte#James Mason#Joan Collins#race#Hollywood Black#Black representation#racial#Fox#romance#Hollywood#old hollywood#film#melodrama#TCM#Turner Classic Movies#Theresa Brown
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X (dir. Ti West)
-Jere Pilapil-
Woohoo sometimes it’s fun coming out of a movie feeling like it’s an instant classic, and I think Ti West’s X is a horror classic. Its plot - six people rent a shack to film porn in 1979, the shack owners a suspicious old couple - is a very generic throwback setup for some tits and gore. What elevates it is Ti West’s direction and editing, which creates excellent tension in the masterful way that Ti West has done in The House of the Devil, though this one, I think, shows its hands a little sooner, to great effect. We open with a sheriff arriving to a massacre, where we see buckets of blood and gore spilled across a lawn and throughout a house, and then we cut to 24 hours earlier. Mia Goth plays Maxine, a stripper recruited by Wayne (Martin Henderson) to film a porn.
The tension unfolds as the first half of the movie lays out tense scenes: Howard (Stephen Ure) and Pearl (Goth again), the owners of the farm, are creepy, ghostlike presences. Pearl, specifically, seems to just show up exactly the creepiest place to just watch what this crew is up to. As with many of the classic slashers, the nudity creates an extra sense of vulnerability for the cast. The porn set up is mostly a fun excuse to do that. (No teens responding to trauma with fucking in this one.)
Things get gnarly, quickly, but not without some very obvious foreshadowing. It’s still a fun ride trying to figure out what Howard and Pearl’s deal is. Their relationship and the parallels between them and our protagonists lead to some surprisingly moving meditations on aging and regret. In this way they’re more interesting than the standard Jason/Freddy/Chucky archetype, and humanizing them makes them, in some weird way, even creepier. But West knows what he’s doing. This movie is probably a better tribute to B-movies than either half of the Rodriguez/Tarantino Grindhouse double feature. More than a copy, it’s an improvement on the formula. 9/10
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Penda’s Fen by David Rudkin — A Davis-Poynter TV Script of a BBC Pebble Mill Production (excerpts) Young Stephen, in the last summer of his boyhood, has somehow awakened a buried force in the landscape around him. It is trying to communicate some warning, a peril he is in; some secret knowledge; some choice he must make, some mission for which he is marked down. First published in 1975 by Davis Poynter Limited. Copyright © 1973 by David Rudkin. All rights whatsoever in this play are strictly reserved and application for performance or reading should be made before rehearsal to Margaret Ramsay Limited, 14a Goodwin’s Court, St. Martins Lane, London WC2, England. No performance may he given unless a licence has been obtained. ISBN 0 7067 0187 9 Printed in Great Britain by Biddies Limited Guildford Surrey. AUTHOR’S NOTE This represents the finalized shooting-script from which PENDA’S FEN was made. I say ‘represents’ because my very elaborate technical instructions (for camerawork, lighting, soundtrack, etc.) I have removed; instead, I have sought to convey the resultant effects expressively to the reader’s inner eye and ear. I cannot pay tribute enough to the unsparing self-commitment or the crew and actors to what proved an exhausting and at times quite frightening task: the film itself is their best testament. But I must, without being invidious, single out for particular gratitude the producer, David Rose, who, far from being daunted by my first synopsis, virtually insisted PENDA into existence, and quietly removed every administrative and financial barrier that might have fallen in it’s way. I must try to thank also the director, Alan Clarke, for his deep stillness and moral integrity in its realization - a director gifted with that rarest and most significant director’s gift of all, the gift of standing out of his own light. D R STEPHEN Spencer Banks, MRS FRANKLIN Georgine Anderson, THE REVEREND J FRANKLIN John Atkinson, JOEL Ron Smerczak, HEADMASTER John Richmond, ARNE Ian Hogg, MRS ARNE Jennie Heslewood, SIR NICHOLAS POLE John Scott, BROTT Roy Preston, HARRY Ian Gemmell, MRS GISBOURNE Joyce Grundy, COOKE Ivor Roberts, SIXTH FORMER Moray Black, HONEYBONE Christopher Douglas, COUNCIL WORKMAN Frank Veasey, NURSE Elizabeth Reville, JOEL’S GIRL Pat Bowker, SIR EDWARD Graham Leaman, MRS KINGS Helena McCarthy, THE LADY Joan Scott, THE MAN Ray Gatenby, KING PENDA Geoffrey Staines, DEMON Geoffrey Pennells & ANGEL Martin Reynolds. Film Camerman: Michael Williams, Operator: Ken Morgan, Sound Recordist: John Gilbert, Sound Mixer: David Baumber, Film Editor: Henry Fowler, Costume: Joyce Hawkins, Make Up: Jan Nethercott, Special Effects: Clifford Gulley, Animation: Bernard Lodge, Radiophonic Sound: Paddy Kingsland, Design: Michael Edwards, Script Editor: Tara Prem, Producer: David Rose, Director: Alan Clarke. First transmitted on Thursday, 21st March 1974 (as ‘Play for Today’) by BBC Television. A loud crunching chord: strings break out, an ambling soaring open-country tune*. High summer. As though liberated, by his little victory, from the spell of COOKE, STEPHEN now, in shirt and jeans, pedals his old bicycle through the coloured landscapes of the Elgar country. The purple wrinkled hills of Malvern are now somewhat nearer, larger, more physically present than before. Slowly, slowly, as he pedals, handfree, whistling the glorious tune itself, the hills seem to turn towards him as, picture by picture, he crosses the landscape. Now the music breaks up into rapid movement, gathering in excitement towards a climax. STEPHEN’s shadow races along the surface of the lane. He freewheels down a steep tree-lined bank; hurtles wildly round a corner in a village, scuffing the dry road with his feet for a brake. The high hedges, flowered banks, arching treetops, streak past him in lines. The blind-hedged twisting and curving lane leaps towards the jumping racing handlebars. At the peak of the music, the violins leap up to a piercing high note like a shriek of lightning; up from the lane-surface, like an ascending diver from the floor of a pool, swoops the DEMON of STEPHEN’s dream, his eyes, jaw, smile and mouth - The music vanishes; STEPHEN falls; his bicycle clatters riderless to the ground against a steep ditch; STEPHEN rolls onto the grass bank-edge, still, stunned. The bicycle lies, its wheel spinning: we hear its whirr and click. STEPHEN lies, unconscious. * Again, from Elgar 'Introduction and Allegro’: the reprise of the main 'second subject’ theme, towards the principal climax of the piece. Unnatural silence. Unnatural stillness. The light and colours are dry, a little too bright to be real. The bicycle: but it lies in a different posture and position; and not by the steep grass bank, but before a wooden five-bar gate - and on the surface of a road, its rear wheel still, silent. Far from it, and in the 'wrong’ direction - where he could not possibly have landed - lies STEPHEN, stunned, unconscious: again, not by the bank, but on flat grass shoulder of a level road. A soft muttering: voice of JOFFER indistinctly grumbling to himself. STEPHEN is awake. He is raising his head. We are at the junction with the Pinvin road across the fen. There seems to be nothing surprising to STEPHEN in this. Now he sees where the grumbling sound is coming from: the trestles, diversion board blocking the road. JOFFER, his back to us, is with dark deliberate action peeling away the pasted V from PINVIN. STEPHEN glances back over his left shoulder to the signpost. On signpost, no sack: its black letters spell PINFIN. STEPHEN looks toward diversion board again. JOFFER is moving away; board reads PINFIN, just as he had painted it. STEPHEN looks up toward signpost again. Is puzzled by what he sees. Signpost’s white is unnaturally luminously bright. Black letters spell (plain English script) PENDEFEN. STEPHEN has turned toward road again. Trestles, diversion board have gone. Road leads away, unbarred, onto fen landscape, across which strange light-and-shadow plays. Now STEPHEN stands. And suddenly we are that unseen presence again, rising behind him, taller than he; following him onto the open fen. Then we see STEPHEN coming forward, as drawn. His breathing becomes sexually deep, we hear it. Then a new sound: a muted chopping. It is coming from behind him. He turns. Before him now, stone terraced steps lead up between ornamental lawns towards the black-and-white facade of a half-timbered manor house. STEPHEN is going up the steps. The house itself is like an extended version of the smaller half-timbered house before which JOEL’s milkfloat killed the sparrow. STEPHEN finds himself in a wonderland of billiard-table lawns, topiary bushes and dark-green hedges of yew that seem cut velvet-smooth. Everywhere, lyrical gardenbird-song. The chopping sound seems to come from beyond one of these hedges. STEPHEN comes round the hedge. A party of people, fine and healthy, as near to Eden innocence as is consonant with setting, children with them, are grouped in various relaxed poses upon the ancestral lawn, waiting their turn, happy, noisy-looking (yet no human sound), eyes bright as on brink of some redemption. STEPHEN looks where their fond expectant gazes are. In middle of lawn, a large tree stump, sawn table-flat. An impeccably dressed man in middle age, in build and sartorial immaculacy rather like Hitchcock, is waiting for the next person to come to the stump. The stump drips with blood. He has a butcher’s axe. No blood has spattered the AXEMAN at all. A MOTHER with a LITTLE GIRL come to him. AXEMAN gestures, with courtesy, a gentle little patient smile, 'Little girl first, please’. LITTLE GIRL obediently places hands on stump. MOTHER looks at her, proud, privileged. AXEMAN wields axe. STEPHEN watches. He shows no emotion. Chop. Chop. Muted sound of little girl laughing. He watches, expressionless, the figure of the LITTLE GIRL run gaily off in her party frock, waving her stumps. AXEMAN takes little severed hands, throws them down behind stump. He has a methodical unhurried address to his task: to him it is a sort of necessary social editing. MOTHER lays her own hands on stump, panting in anticipation. STEPHEN stands paralyzed against the hedge. Emerging from the group, coming towards him, are the MAN and LADY of the newspaper-photograph he showed us during his speech at the school debate: the 'father and mother of England’, who had succeeded in having the television 'Jesus’ programme banned. They are coming for STEPHEN, their faces transfigured, their arms raised as in that photo, reaching in welcome to bring him to the stump. - STEPHEN is shaking his head, his lips trying to fashion the words No No! But no sound comes, and he cannot move. Then the real, Worcestershire voice of JOEL is speaking: JOEL (VOICE): You all right, squire? You all right? (His features unclear in a blinding dazzle of sunlight, JOEL is looking anxiously down at us, his face questioning. STEPHEN is coming to. JOEL’s face is clearer now. We see that STEPHEN lies where he originally fell: by the steep grass bank. Now STEPHEN sees this. Nearby, rear wheel of bicycle still spins: wheel whirr. He sees, too, JOEL’s milkfloat: it has braked sharply, skidding at an angle in mid-road. JOEL puts arms round STEPHEN’s shoulder to help him up:) JOEL: Come chargin’ down that hill right into me. (It suddenly dawns on STEPHEN whose arm this is. The old tension, guilt-panic awakens in him; he pulls to be desperately free. JOEL misunderstands, grips more tightly, personally:) JOEL: Hey . . Hey . . (He will not let STEPHEN go. STEPHEN becomes aware of his own hands touching JOEL’s shoulder or arms. He leaves them there, using them to brace him as they stand. He commits himself to the contact, drawing his hands down a little, frankly toward his waist. JOEL now understands what STEPHEN’s attitude is, has always been. It all makes sense. Hard, but not brutal, and not over-compassionate either, he removes STEPHEN’s hands; yet does not thrust them from him.) JOEL: Sorry. Just help you up, that’s all. (He looks STEPHEN straight in eye. STEPHEN, after hesitation, finds honesty in himself to do the same. It is not easy. It is done.) JOEL: (Quite hard.) That’s all. (Their hands separate: a frank withdrawal. A GIRL sits in passenger seat in float. Now she calls out:) JOEL’S GIRL: Joel? JOEL: (To her) He’m all right, dove. We 'a'n’t killed him. STEPHEN: (Rather strenuously, to her.) I’m all right: JOEL: He’ll get over it. (He looks at STEPHEN: a mere brutal acceptance; no yielding. He goes back to float. STEPHEN watches. Engine sound. Float straightens, passes him. JOEL makes a quite objective formal gesture at him. STEPHEN waves back, his gesture incomplete. He feels a new acceptedness.) Inside the church. It is plain, neither rich nor pretty. Sun-light through high windows. The West Door heavily of)cos towards us. STEPHEN conies quietly in; in shirt, jews. lie quietly shuts door behind him. He comes along aisle. He has a book with him. We hear his footfalls, the occasional creak here or there of beam or pew. He goes to the organ. He stands there before it a moment. He switches on the organ i light; and we see there, also, an organist’s mirror - into which the player can glance while playing, to see what is happening in the service behind him in the church. Now STEPHEN swings his legs over the organist’s bench, careful not to depress the long pedal-arms beneath. He switches the organ on: a deep, faint, almost inaudible droning hum. He rests the book before him on the music-rest. He has the look of someone about to try a long-pondered spell. He opens the book, presses the first two or three turned leaves flat against the music-rest, to lie there still and not to close again. Before us now, the heading on the recto page: THE DREAM OF GERONTIUS, Edward Elgar. It is the 'vocal’ score, with the orchestral parts arranged for keyboard. Above first staves of music the word 'Prelude’. Above first bars, pencilled capitals: 'Motif of Judgment’. The first few bars themselves have single minims and crotchets spaced along the lower stave, bound beneath one long curving slur. STEPHEN considers these. He is working out in his head what colouring this opening music needs. He pulls a stop, another. Then slowly he begins to play. It is a solemn and lonely-sounding phrase, this 'motif of Judgment’: deep-hued, veiled and plaintive tones that fall from a note, fall from it again, slowly rise up to it, then a step, another step above; then rest back onto that note again where they began. STEPHEN plays on; the music begins to arouse itself - but after two notes, he pauses; stops. Somewhere in the church, a creak. And always, that deep faint organ hum. Out of habit he glances into the mirror, but of course the church is empty. We see what STEPHEN does not see. We look along the flat gravestones of the aisle, between the towering pew ends, toward the West Door. STEPHEN turns the page, looking for the next passage he wants to play. He finds it. Large wide-spaced chords to be sustained, with shorter crotchet-phrases to he interjected during then: above these, the pencilled words 'His Cry’. Already STEPHEN is playing: the chords high, solemn and pleading, over their deep roots in the bass, and an off-beat heavy treading, figure stark within them. They soon roach a climax, and collapse in syncopated fragments downwards, into silence*. Organ hum. Along the aisle toward the West Door, the light is darkening. STEPHEN continues, In the score, the pleading chords of the 'Cry’ are now repeated, but in a higher key, giving them more urgency. And, as his hands take the chords and treading-figure, and his feet on the pedals the deep roots in the bass, out of the organ suddenly conies a grand and powerful glorious tone: the boy’s music resoundingly transfigured, to move us to tears and chill our spine. And STEPHEN too is moved. Again the climax, the disintegrating collapse, the echoing silence. But for the organ hum. In the aisle threatening to run the length of it to the far West Door, the beginning of a jagged veinlike crack has appeared. STEPHEN pauses. He turns several pages, many. Then, far into the book, finds page lie seeks. Pencilled capitals 'Angel’s Triumph’. Words, notes of vocal line: ’ . . soul! For it is safe, consumed yet quickened by the Glance of God!’ We hear from afar, as STEPHEN, smiling in recognition, hears in his head: the soaring and swooping Angel-song with which the play began. She comes to her great Alleluia, and our eyes are drawn in along the notes themselves, and in, in, in towards the printed symbol of the crowned towering top A itself. But here the voice and music fade, Organ hum. The crack along the aisle has visibly widened; it 'runs’ before our eyes to the far West Door, and veinlike 'tributaries’ appear. Now STEPHEN, unaware of the unnatural darkening in the church around him, prepares to play the crescendo passage that builds toward the climax of the work. His foot takes a low A on the pedal, holds it down; the deep root- sound sustains. Quietly, his hands take the first chords: often clashing with that unchanging bass, these upper harmonies sound unnerving, intense. We hear in them a harsh evolution from that quiet. lonely phrase, the Motif of Judgment, with which STEPHEN began.’ And as, louder and tauter, STEPHEN plays now, this evolution continues: the phrases mount and grow; the key changes, the deep pedalpoint falls; the chords pile up, massive and anguished; the key and pedalnote shift again. In the mirror is total blackness; the fissure in the aisle has widened to a chasm; STEPHEN has come to the music’s peak. The moment of terrible silence. His hands rise, fingers stretch, forming to take the keys that will make up the 'fearful dissonance’. The aisle yawns, a torn-edged black engulfing void . . With all the power he can produce from the instrument, he sounds the dissonance. But it is not enough. It is not enough. Suddenly STEPHEN has broken through even this: with hands and feet he adds every other note to the dissonance that he can reach. And holds them down. A piercing discord of unbelievable obscenity. STEPHEN suddenly sees hellish inky blackness in organ-mirror. His hands quit keyboard in horror. The dissonance vanishes; only the lowest pedalnote remains, a deep C sharp, keeping all its clashing overtones alive in our heads, while through the actual silence a Voice speaks: VOICE: Stephen … … … VOICE: (STEPHEN bows head, he dare not turn.) VOICE: Stephen Franklin (STEPHEN slowly raises eyes to organ-mirror. Inky darkness there. Dimlit, like detail from Grünwald Crucifixion, the leprous Feet pierced with one ugly cruel nail. The Living Blood drips down.) VOICE: Unbury me … . Free me from this tree … . (STEPHEN transfixed. Suddenly pedal C sharp cuts off. Silence. The moment has passed. The aisle is as it was. The church is normal, the sunlight as before. There STEPHEN sits, on the organ-bench, his head bowed from us, arms loosely hanging, self and body drained.) *This passage is found at rehearsal figure 9 in the score. FINALE The Malvern Hills themselves. Their slopes, ridges, lonely, primordial, in summer sunset from the further West. Soft thud and shock of evening wind. A high ridge-top. Here STEPHEN sits, stone-still, gazing toward setting sun. It is as though he has been summoned here. He waits. His dark motionless form there, seated on the ridge-top, against the sunset sky. Two forms slowly slowly ascend into view up the Western slope before him. The MAN and LADY. They walk, yet seem not to rise on the balls of their feet. Now they stand before him on the ridge-top, tall against the Western sky, the MAN to one side of him, LADY to he other. LADY: (Shy, needful) Are you an English boy? MAN: (Gentle, on brink of ecstasy.) Such a light in his eyes. LADY: True English boy? MAN: It is He. It is He. He has the Light. (STEPHEN, as though under some influence, dumbly can merely look from one to other, daring hardly raise his eyes. MAN, LADY we now see some-what more clearly: the 'father and mother of us all’ of Stephen’s newspaper photo. They are transfigured with deep still irradiating joy.) LADY: We knew the Child would come. He has been promised us so long. But that we should find him! It is too lovely to be true! (MAN reaches out a loving hand to STEPHEN - ) LADY: (Tabu horror) No If we touch Him, He will vanish! (Turns to STEPHEN) It is written. (STEPHEN terrified: every urge in him resists, compels to flight. He cannot move. He gazes up at MAN, LADY, animal-like in his dumb helplessness.) MAN: The Child is innocent. He does not know His inheritance. Nor does He know the courage He will need, to exercise His Right in this dark world. Not that they put us to the fire any more. Oh Stephen, Stephen: think of that torment … (MAN leans close to STEPHEN, consumed with a desperate love: he is like a sonless father, begging his unborn son who refuses to be born, 'Be born!’) MAN: … to be burned. Shackled to the mockery of a tree, and burned. Living, burned away … . LADY: What torment is that? Through the flames we see Our Lord. He reaches out His Hand to bring us from the shadow of this world. We that were burned, we cried in joy. The Crosstians think we scream: we cry in joy! When we are burned, why, we are turned to Light! (STEPHEN slowly shaking his head, trying to say No, to move. He cannot. MAN kneels before him, pointing west.) Look. Your Inheritance. MAN: Look. Your inheritance. (STEPHEN tries to dredge up the words of denial from within himself: he can only writhe his neck and head.) MAN: The Kings of the earth, you can govern. MAN: (Cont) They walk in their sleep. Yours is the Right, to inherit the Power: to will their will. (LADY kneels close to STEPHEN, who now can merely writhe his head between them.) MAN: Power, Stephen, to turn the rock of the world to wealth. Power: to fall, and not to die. Like Joan the Maid, to fall, and not to die. (STEPHEN pauses: this rings some bell in him. It is beginning to steal through him in what mortal danger his soul now is. He still struggles to tear a sound or gesture of denial from himself. He can-not. MAN, LADY become more and more consumed with a desperation to bring him away with them: a passion with no erotic, but a terrifying parental-loving, element.) LADY: You have to come with us. You are our Child of Light. You have to be born ill us. Then you become Pure Light. (STEPHEN suddenly finds denial:) STEPHEN: No! No! I am nothing pure! (LADY cries out: refusal would he than she could bear, In a moment the will be weeping - ) STEPHEN: Nothing pure … My race is mixed, my sex is mixed, I am woman and man, and light with darkness, mixed, mixed! I am nothing special, nothing pure. I am mud and flame! (“Εγνωκεν αύτόν he has 'discovered himself’. No more now, can myth of being pure anything afflict him or cause him to afflict mankind. It is moment of his rupture, salvation from his false 'father and mother of us all’. And he finds the feet to stand, break from them, run away - ) LADY: (Desperate, afraid) If we cannot have him darkness must not. (Suddenly vicious) Run if you like! (STEPHEN’S terrible organ-dissonance breaks shatteringly out; STEPHEN is running down the Eastern slope. LADY leaps to her feet, bringing up an instant-develop camera in her hand. She snaps fleeing figure of STEPHEN, one, two times, three. STEPHEN runs stumbling down the slope away from them, not daring look back. LADY rips instant-develop print of STEPHEN out from back of camera. She, MAN are racked with weeping now: knowing they must destroy their Angel rather than let him go to their Enemy. This knowledge breaks their hearts. Their viciousness, sick cruelty, evil shake with gleaming jewel-like tears as MAN brings cigarette-lighter to a lower corner of print; flicks flame; flame takes. The fearful dissonance grinds on. From STEPHEN’s stumbling legs on the hillside smoke appears, threatening to burst into flame. The print of him in the LADY’S hand begins to blister. STEPHEN falls, writhing in the thickening smoke that comes from his own body now: he cries out, the sound lost in the dissonance, 'Help me! Help me!’ The flame eats across the print, to STEPHEN’s left side. STEPHEN himself, his left leg, arm, left side of head scorching, screams in pain. And suddenly, through the dissonance, we can see that his mouth is forming a cry to 'Penda . . ! Penda . . !’ A flash, a double scream: the MAN and LADY vanish in an explosion of flame; and in that same incandescence, amid their falling severed burning limbs, the ancient throned form of PENDA himself appears. And there is silence.) KING PENDA: There you have seen your true dark enemies of England. Sick Father and Mother, who would have us children for ever. (STEPHEN frowns, puzzled. He is totally unharmed, his clothes and body whole as before.) STEPHEN: King Penda . . ? KING PENDA: Stephen. Our land must live. This land we love must live. Her deep dark flame must never die. (STEPHEN is nearer.) KING PENDA: Night is falling. Your land and mine goes down into a darkness now; and I, and all the other guardians of her flame, are driven from our homes, up out into the wolf’s jaw. But the flame still flickers in the fen. You are marked down to cherish that. Cherish the flame, till we can safely wake again. (STEPHEN raises head to ask a question. STEHEN stands: alone, on all the hill. And now he looks back, across the land in shadow: that outer landscape of the earth, and inner landscape of the head, across which this, his journey has been made. It is the very physical reverse to that image of England with which we began: for now we look eastwards, from those hills themselves, And night is coming. No soft choir music on the soundtrack now, but the actual sounds of evening on the earth: a lapwing, a distant train, the pulse of a factory below. Onto that landscape now STEPHEN is walking slowly thoughtfully away from us down. He is fortunate. Early, and at the right time, he has been vouchsafed a meaning for that old question he once glibly asked himself: what is to happen to his soul? Which shall prevail? The Angel, or the Pandemonium; the sickness of power and obedience to power, or the sacred demon of ungovernableness.)
#Penda's Fen#David Rudkin#Alan Clarke#1974#BBC#David Rose#Play for Today#Spencer Banks#Michael Williams#Henry Fowler#Pinvin#King Penda#Edward Elgar#Paddy Kingsland#BBC Radiophonic Workshop
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Afro-Futurist Reading List Vol 2.
Afro Futurism Reading List Vol 1:
Afro Futurism Reading List Vol 2:
Black Speculative Fiction Breakdown by Genre
African Fantasy (early myths and fables from the continent): Forest Of A Thousand Deamons: A Hunter's Saga by Daniel O. Fagunwa The Palm Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts by Amos Tutuola Simbi and the Satyr of the Dark Jungle by Amos Tutuola The Brave African Huntress by Amos Tutuola Feather Woman of the Jungle by Amos Tutuola Ajaiyi and his Inherited Poverty by Amos Tutuola The Witch-Herbalist of the Remote Town by Amos Tutuola
Utopia (alternate histories written during the jim crow & antebellum eras): Blake Or The Huts Of Africa by Martin Delany Imperium In Imperio by Sutton E Griggs Light Ahead For The Negro Edward A Johnson One One Blood by Pauline Hopkins Black No More by George Shuyler Lord Of The Sea by MP Sheil
Space Opera (far future sci fi worlds of interplanetary travel): Nova by Samuel R Delany Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand by Samuel R. Delany Binti Trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor An Unkindness Of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson Rayla 2122 Series by Ytasha Womack Trouble On Triton by Samuel R. Delany Babel 17 by Samuel R Delany Empire Star by Samuel R Delany The Galaxy Game by Karen Lord The Best Of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord Ancient Ancient by Klini Iburu Salaam Escaping Exodus by Nicky Drayden Ascension: Tangled Axon by Jacqueline Koyanagi Teleportality by T Cisco Nadine's Bible Seris by T Lindsey-Billingsley Nigerians In Space Series by Deji Bryce Olukotun
Aliens (alien encounters): Lilith's Brood Trilogy by Octavia Butler Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor Rosewater Trilogy by Tade Thompson The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbell The Wave by Walter Mosley
Dystopia (oppressive futures and realities): Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjie Brenyah Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi War Girls Series by Tochi Onyebuchi Sunshine Patriots by Bill Campbell Gunmen's Peace by Milton J Davis Dragon Variation by T Cisco
Experimental (literary tricksters): The Ravicka Series by Renee Gladman The Freedom Artist by Ben Okri The Structure Of Dante's Hells by LeRoi Jones The House Of Hunger by Dumbudzo Marachera Black Sunlight By Dumbudzo Marachera Yellow Back Radio Broke Down by Ishmaeel Reed The Last Days Of Louisiana Red by Ishmaeel Reed The Sellout by Paul Beatty Koontown Killing Kaper by Bill Campbell The African Origin Of UFOs by Anthony Joseph Quantum Black Futurism(Theory & Practice Volume 1) by Rasheeda Philips by Rasheeda Philips Spacetime Collapse: From The Congo to Carolinas Spacetime Collapse II: Community Futurisms by Rasheeda Philips consent not to be a single being trilogy by Fred Mot
Post-Apocalyptic (worlds falling apart): The Purple Cloud by MP Shiel Dhalgren by Samuel R Delany The Parable Series by Octavia Butler Brown Girl In The Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
Dying Earth (far future post-apocalyptic worlds + magic):
The Broken Earth Trilogy by NK Jemisin The Einstien Intersection by Samuel R. Delany The Jewels Of Aptor by Samuel R. Delany The Fall Of The Towers Trilogy by Samuel R. Delany Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorofor The Book Of Phoenix by Nnededi Okorofor The Prey Of Gods by Nicky Drayden
Alternate History (alternate timelines and what-ifs): Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed Everfair by Nisi Shawl The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates The Insh'Allah Series by Steven Barnes Ring Shout by P Djelia Clark A Dead Djinn In Cairo by P Djelia Clark The Black God's Drum by P Djelia Clark Washington Black by Esi Edugyan Pimp My Airship: A Naptown By Airship Story by Maurice Beaudice The Dream Of Perpetual Motion by Dexter Palmer Pym by Matt Johnson, Dread Nation Series by Justina Ireland From Here to Timbuktu by Milton J Davis
High Fantasy (magical kindoms and high adventures): The Neveryorn Series by Samuel R. Delany Black Leapard Red Wolf by Marlon James The Deep by Rivers Solomon & Clipping Imaro Series by Charles R. Saunders The Children Of Blood & Bone by Tomi Adeyemi The Children Of Virtue & Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi The Sorcerer Of The Wildeeps by Kai Ashai Washington A Taste Of Honey by Kai Ashai Washington Beasts Made Of Night Series by Tochi Onyebuchi A Place Of Nights: War & Ressurection by Oloye Karade, Woman Of The Woods: A Sword & Soul Epic by Milton J Davis Temper by Nicky Drayden They Fly At Ciron by Samuel R. Delany Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman The House Of Discarded Dreams by Etakterina Sedia
Magic Realism (literary naturalism with surreal, dreamlike, and mythic imagery): The Echo Tree & Other Stories by Henry Dumas The Kingdom Of This World by Alejo Carpentier General Sun My Brother by Jacques Stephen Alexis The Famished Road Series by Ben Okri The New Moon's Arms by Nalo Hopkinson The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson Montaro Caine by Sydney Portier Mama Day by Gloria Naylor Redemption In Indigo by Karen Lord Mem by Bethany C Morrow
Urban Fantasy (modern citybound fantasy): The City We Became by NK Jemisin Sister Mine by Nalo Hopkinson The Chaos by Nalo Hopkinson The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead Blue Light By Walter Mosley Fire Baptized by Kenya Wright
Time Travel (stories unstuck in time): Kindred by Octavia Butler Version Control by Dexter Palmer Recurrence Plot by Rasheedah Phillips
Horror (nightmare, terrors, and hauntings): Beloved by Toni Morisson African Immortals by Tananarivue Due Fledgling by Octavia Butler The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez Lakewood by Meggan Giddings The Ballad Of Black Tom by Victor Lavalle Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff The Changeling by Victor Lavealle Zone One by Colson Whitehead The Between by Tananarive Due The Good House by Tananarive Due Ghost Summers: Stories by Tananarive Due Unhollowed Graves by Nunzo Onho Catfish Lullaby by AC Wise
Young Adult (books for young adults): Akata Witch Series by Nnedi Okorofor Zarah The Windseeker & The Shadow Speaker by Nnedi Okorofor Long Juju Man by Nnedi Okorofor Ikenga by Nnedi Okorofor Tristan Strong Series by Kwame Mbalia A Song Below Water by Bethany C Morrow Daughters Of Nri by Reni K. Amayo A River Of Royal Blood by Amanda Joy 47 by Walter Mosley
Comics (graphic storytelling) George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz (1919-1921) by George Herriman The Boondocks Complete Collection by Aaron Mcgruder Birth Of A Nation by Aaron Mcgrudger, Reginald Hudlin, & Kyle Baker Prince Of Cats by Ronald Wimberly Concrete Park by Erika Alexander & Tony Puryear Incognegro Series by Matt Johnson Your Black Friend & Other Stories by Ben Passmore Bttm Fdrs Ezra Clayton Daniels & Ben Passmore Sports Is Hell is Ben Passmore LaGuardia by Nnedi Okorofor & Tana Ford Bread & Wine: An Erotic Tale Of New York by Samuel R Delany & Mia Wolff Empire by Samuel R Delany & Howard Chaykin Excellence by Brandon Thomas Bitteroot by David F Walker, Chuck Brown & Sanford Greene Black by Kwanza Osajyefo Niobe: She Is Life by Amandla Stenberg & Sebastian A Jones Black Panther by Christopher Priest Black Panther by Reginald Hudlin Black Panther by Ta-Nehisi Coates Shuri by Nnedi Okorofor World Of Wakanda by Roxane Gay Truth: Red, White, & Black by Kyle Baker House Of Whispers by Nalo Hopkinson & Neil Gaiman Naomi by David F Walker, Brian Micheal Bendis, & Jamal Campbell Far Sector by NK Jemison & Jamal Campbell
Short Stories (collections by single authors): Driftglass by Samuel R Delany, Distant Stars by Samuel R Delany Bloodchild & Other Stories by Octavia Butler Unexpected Stories by Octavia Butler Falling In Love With Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson Skin Folk by Nalo Hopkinson, Kabu Kabu by Nnedi Okorofor, How Long Til Black Future Month? by NK Jemisin Nine Bar Blues by Sheree Reneee Thomas
Anthologies (collections from multiple authors) Dark Matter edited by Sheree Renee Thomas So Long Been Dreaming edited by Nalo Hopkinson Conjure Stories edited by Nalo Hopkinso Whispers From The Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction edited by Nalo Hopkinson Afro SF: Science Fiction by African Writers edited by Wor. W. Hartmaan Stories For Chip: A Tribute To Samuel R Delany edited by Nisi Shawl Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movement edited by Adrienne Marie Brown & Walidah Imarisha Mothership: Tales of Afrofuturism and Beyond edited by Bill Campbell The City: Cyberfunk Antholoy edited by Milton J Davis Steamfunk edited by Milton J Davis Dieselfunk edited by Milton J Davis Griots: A Sword & Soul Anthology by Milton J Davis & Charles R Saunders Griots: Sisters Of The Spear by Milton J Davis & Charles R Saunders
Non-Fiction (histories, essays, and arguments) Afrofuturism And The World Of Black Sci-Fi & Fantasy Culture by Ytasha Womack Afrofuturism 2.0: The Rise Of Astral Blackness edited by Reynaldo Anderson & Charles E Jones The Black Imagination: Science Fiction, The Future, and The Speculative by Sandra Jackson & Julie E Woody-Freeman Afro-Futures & Astral Black Travel by Juice Aleem The Sound Of Culture: Diaspora & Black Technopoetics by Louis Cude Soke Black Utopia: The History Of An Idea From Black Nationalism To Afrofuturism by Alex Zamalin Afrouturism Rising: The Literary Pre-History Of A Movement by Isiah Lavendar III A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra & The Birth Of Afrofuturism by Paul Youngquist Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before: Subversive Poryrals In Speculative Film & TV by Diana Adesola Mafe Black Kirby: In Search Of The Motherbox Connection by John Jennings & Stacey Robinson Super Black: American Pop Culture & Black Super-Heroes by Adilifu Nama Black Space: Imagining Race In Science Fiction Film by Adilifu Nama Black Super-Heroes, Milestone Comics, And Their Fans by Jeffery A Brown Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changin Worlds by Adrienne Marie Brown
*cover image from Ytasha Womack’s “Afrofuturism: The World Of Black Sci-Fi & Fantasy Culture”
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