#vaudeville act

[drac-kool-aid]

I like how in today's Dracula Daily entry, in between a LOT of heavy stuff, Bram puts in a comedy section.

It's got very important stuff being revealed true. But like, Dracula's in a straw hat. A comically ill-suited straw hat. The sailors on the dock are openly mocking him for his hat. He gets berated by the captain, and honestly, he can't menace him back. He HAS to get to Varna, and there is no other ship heading in that direction. So, we see Dracula be reduced to smiling and bowing.

And its all told by Van Helsing, with added word play. "Bloody" and "Bloomin'" for anyone who didn't understand that bit are common swears in England. Of course they wouldn't be in his lexicon. But also, this guy is talking to a vampire, and he keeps calling him bloody, that's a good play on words there.

Oh, also he accuses Dracula of being French. I don't think we should forget that.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Jimmy Durante (left) , Eddie Jackson, and Lou Clayton were a singing comedy trio who performed in nightclubs (shown here, in 1927) and vaudeville.

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America

[catandgirlcomic]

Nostalgia act.

[justbusterkeaton]

The Play House 1921

[croc-odette]

i like adams for the same reason i like chase which is that they are both painfully normal and boring around a bunch of abnormal people. which means they must both be freaks

[sedoretu]

fixated on best picture winner Chicago for like the tenth time this year

[must4rds33d]

drinking game: take a shot every time lucy calls m. paul ‘little man’

[blood-starved-beast]

Girl Prince Winter Ihernglass

Not that she is meant to be one (far from it) but like. Raes marrying Marcus means that through him, Winter has ascended to aristocracy. And given that Raesinia doesn't have family other than Marcus and Winter through marriage up to the epilogue and how she was willing to given Marcus the inheritance if she died removing her Demon, Winter is likely in line for the inheritance following Baby Orboan. And just.

Okay given Winter's track record throughout the books there is a high possibility that in some nebulous future where Marcus and Raes get put out of commission for whatever reason for a bit (maybe temporarily lost at sea cause of some demon-related shenanigans??) and that's how Winter finds out Raes nominated her for Regent and how all of Vordan learns that Elizabeth* d'Ivoire = famous War Hero and Prophet extraordinaire Winter Ihernglass is perhaps second in line for the throne and now Queen Pro-Tem until the Royals come back or Nibling grows up. Winter is of course, not having a good time.

*Ellie is probably short for Elizabeth no? I mean it's 1800s equivalent we're dealing with here. Anyways I imagine in official royal related papers (different from the Office of the Occult) Winter probably is written out like this. idk when Wexler does an AMA again someone should ask.

[travsd]

The Vaudeville of Lucy and Desi

Like our recent post about Lucy and Desi bio-pics, this post arises out of the quality time I spent with this entertaining couple and their various shows during the Covid lockdown (in particularly, when I HAD it!) It’s mostly concerned with one particular sliver of the team’s evolution, but a crucial one. It’s the moment when they actually sat down and figured out how to BE a team. And it’s…

[octopath-archivist]

Dude your reblog on my headcanon -- I didn't even think of that! TvT Poor Osvald I swear to god, and it makes it even worse that I also headcanon that the guy doesn't take praise well and that I imagine that Harvey picked up on that and used it to make himself feel superior.

I hate this dude in canon so much so why the heck am I exploring his character in fic writing??

well in my professional opinion exploring the mind of someone who would go as far as Harvey does for superiority and knowledge is a fascinating delve for any psych student.

but in my personal opinion? We just loooooooove to see toxic yaoi winning 🖤🖤🖤

[akumanoken]

Have you ever had a thought that made you go "How old are you?? Why is that the reference??"

Like... just seeing Aymeric rn and going "god he's so damn handsome, he's like the Clark Gable of Ishgard" to which I IMMEDIATELY say to myself "What year are you in... it's 2023... not 1933."

[monkeyssalad-blog]

1916 frank parish and peru by Al Q

[suetravelblog]

Thornton Wilder - The Skin of Our Teeth at Very Little Theatre

A mellow summer continues to provide peaceful space for pondering past and future travel adventures. With the havoc and devastation of deadly wildfires, floods, and wars currently happening in the world, it feels good to be hidden away in leafy Oregon. I’m slowly working my way through a “to do” list, and diligently trying to tame the woodsy landscape that surrounds my home. Letting things go…

[washingtonmarvel]

Trapeze artist, strongwoman, and all around badass Laverie Vallee, stage name Charmion, flexes for the camera in this (colorized) picture from around 1905. Born in 1875 in Sacramento, Charmion was a pioneer. She shocked conservative Victorian/Edwardian men with her daring "Trapeze Disrobing Act" (which was the subject of one of Thomas Edison's first films) and her insanely jacked body. But the ladies loved her, and her performances, which were viewed as practically pornographic by the extreme standards of the time period, were mostly attended by women. Throughout her career, she inspired women to exercise and to free themselves of the restrictions society placed on them. Charmion criticized the prudish attitudes of the time and told women they could be just as strong as men (this was a radical claim for that era, but her own body was the proof). A brilliant woman, she was fluent in six languages and regularly lectured and wrote newspaper articles about fitness. She was the highest-earning performer on the vaudeville circuit for much of her career, sometimes earning as much as $500 per week (equivalent to almost $20,000 today). Charmion was known to curl 70-pound dumbbells as part of her workout regimen and she could walk 12 miles without feeling fatigued. Charmion's biceps reportedly were almost exactly the same size as those of Eugen Sandow, who was widely considered the world's strongest man, and in a friendly sparring match she fought on an equal footing with the then-famous boxer Terry McGovern. She retired in 1912 and lived a quiet life outside the limelight until her death in 1949.

EDIT: I made a second post with some more info about Charmion if anyone's interested:

[3liza]

because most of us can't. the majority of subsistence artists, like sex workers, are in this line of work because we can't do other work. there is also a huge amount of overlap between sex work and subsistence artists and always has been. i have no clue why I continue to see it being discussed as something every artist is simply choosing to do out out some combination of stupidity and narcissism. i would cut off one of my toes to magically have the ability to show up to a normal job every day.

there is a huge blind spot about artists in Marxism and leftist discussion of labor generally because Marx literally didn't talk about them and they don't fit into the "owning the means of production = bourgeois" model unless you're dumb enough to call the guy doing tourist caricatures on the boardwalk "bourgeois", and no joke I have actually seen people try to argue this, but everyone normal understands they are stupid so it doesn't matter. we agree that the guy on the boardwalk with the easel or the bucket drums or the harp is not actually bourgeois.

if you have actually worked in the "creative industry" without support while paying your own rent and groceries and not being supported by parents or friends or a spouse, and you know a bunch of other people who have been doing the same thing for a long time, you are similarly confused by discussions along the lines of "why do artists simply not get other jobs if they hate being slowly fed into the social media meat grinder 🤔"

i can tell you exactly why. it's because I spend 25 days out of every month having to Lie Down, and when I tried saying the words "Americans with Disabilities Act" to various employers and school administrators like you're supposed to, I got shitcanned and failed so many times it was like a vaudeville routine. you will find that this is true of a great many working artists (not hobbyists and not students living at home, adult working artists), perhaps most, and I genuinely continue to be baffled by the fact that nobody seems to be aware that drawing things for cash (or dancing or writing articles or editing manuscripts or taking wedding photos or whatever) and other jobs without set schedules (like stripping, camming, etc) are careers a lot of people, certainly the ones without any starting capital, end up in when they can't get paid more for fewer hours. and you get paid more for fewer hours in basically any other job than these, including working at fast food or walmart.

surely you can hear how this sounds? "if you don't like it, why don't you just get a job that pays more?" where have we heard that before? stop. think.

[drchucktingle]

I watched the 2004 Klaus Nomi documentary and his story reminded me of how you talk about creativity and being genuine. The interviewees talked about how the first time he performed with the persona Klaus Nomi at a vaudeville-style variety show in NYC in the 70s, everyone was stunned. Several of the people describing this event mentioned how the show was meant to be ironic, everyone was doing nudge-wink joking acts and goofing around, the audience/scene was apparently very cynical, but he got up and took it seriously. He was earnest, he was himself, and after a frozen moment of silence, everyone went crazy.

THANK YOU yes this is very reminiscent of what the journey of my career has been like, and this particular trot makes me very proud. all of the buckaroos who mean a lot to me artistically, from the andys (andy kaufman and andy warhol) to the davids (david byrne and david lynch) have had similar ways from 'strange' outsider to legend.

was talkin with some buds about how i think there is possibly a connection between this and my autism trot. there is a sort of ability to see a path that nobody else takes but say to yourself 'that makes sense to me, i do not really care if nobody else takes this path'. others can be bogged down with the 'right' way of doing something

so really being ridiculed like i have is this beautiful artistic TROJAN HORSE, where initially very few people take you seriously but they still let you in. they let you trot around in their brain for a while and very slowly they start to get it.

i think it also goes to show how much art is in PERCEPTION of the creator (i talk on this a lot already but this is very good example). look at something like SPACE RAPTOR BUTT INVASION getting nominated for hugo award. EVERYONE said some variation of 'this is obviously a joke and making fun of gay people and autistic people and erotica itself' and on and on. buds on the left said this, buds on the right said this. it was VICIOUS. and all the while i said 'no this is real serious art and i am doing something that goes outside of the way you see the medium itself' and that just made people MORE MAD.

but now looking back, when i presently have award winning best selling books from major publishers and so on, it is easier to see that the erotic tingleverse, as a whole, is a valid piece of art and expression that resonates with a lot of people.

really the only thing that changed was the perception of ME as a creator

anyway. i am proud of my art and where i sit in the world of artists. i like being a sort of chaotic queer punk rock force. so i cannot complain really

i will say this though. this is all a PERFECT example of how queer and neurodivergent artists have to go above and beyond to even get basic respect from both the left and the right

the years of saying 'i am serious. i am real' the years of taking vitriol, or being constantly made fun of are PERSONALLY okay with me. i am a tough buckaroo. in a strange way, that story is kind of part of the art in itself. HOWEVER we still have to acknowledge that a straight neurotypical person would NEVER have to constantly prove themselves like i have.

i dream of a world where queer and autistic artists are not harassed by one side and gatekept by the other, and believe it or not i think we are moving in a good direction. there is still a LOT OF WORK to go though

fortunately, i think there are easy ways to help. you can support outsider artists you like by reading or listening or just buying their art and puttin it on your shelf (PREORDER LUCKY DAY BY CHUCK TINGLE HERE). but ALSO, if you are an outsider yourself JUST CREATING IS SO POWERFUL. build and craft and speak your unique way into the universe. FILL THIS SPACE WITH YOUR UNIQUE WAY. THAT is how we prove love is real.

see that path that makes since to you but nobody else is willing to try? take it