#vincent McHugh

[ignatiaflamen]

Also agreed with all of this. If you asked me when I was in school why I went there and got through it every day I would answer you: "Because I want to get out of school." No dreams, no idea what I would want to accomplish or achieve with my "high school"(heck, even just "school" itself) "education" besides getting out of that oppressive, soul-crushing environment.

(the other reason i went was because of the coercive school attendance laws, but that's a whole other thing by itself.)

Soon after graduating I had the constant feeling that I wouldn't actually graduate, that they'd pull me aside and say "you didn't do well enough/make a good enough grade in this one class to pass, so you'll have to repeat a year".

This lasted the entire year after I graduated.

I had school dreams for a good half-decade after graduating including one memorable one where i actually went back to kindergarten.

Those lasted until i had a dream where I was at an after-school class where we were studying for senior year graduation tests. Everyone around me was (irl) in the grade below me. I looked around, realized this, and said "Wait, I don't need to be here. I graduated already!", got up, and walked out.

I haven't had another school dream since.

(related) I thought I didn't like(hated) learning for a good few years after I graduated. It wasn't until I started studying on my own that I remembered that i love learning. What I hate is the forced coercion to memorize trivia that'll only be used for (mostly multiple-choice) tests + exams which will be discarded immediately afterwards.

Also, I want to be a fiction writer but have always had trouble with coming up with details for my stories. I'll have a general idea for the characters, setting, and themes, but will be unsure of how to put them together. It's like once I put an idea down for the story, then that idea is set in stone and I have to work any further ideas that I have around it rather than weave it in with the rest of the story.

It was just last week when I was reading a book about novel-writing where the author explained the creative process by giving a practical example that I realized that you can expound on an initial idea and change elements in the story(several times, even!) before finalizing them. My thought was "Wait. You can do that?!"

I was ruminating on why I didn't know that before now and realized it was because of how school presents writing as assignment. We had primarily multiple-choice tests in school. When writing was required to answer the question, it was usually a sentence or two or three lines at most. Essays were written for the end-of-year exams and were usually about a personal topic. (and if we didn't have an experience that fit the topic required, we were told to "make something up".)

Additionally, we only started learning to write with the three-paragraph essay format in junior year.

My (not very succinct) point is that because we answered multiple-choice questions for nearly everything, sentence-writing was a chore, and essay-writing was a Task, a near-insurmountable obstacle put in your path on the mountain of School, where you were trying to go uphill as you reenacted the myth of Sisyphus.

Being unaccustomed to writing as an everyday thing instead of a stressor, or essay or creative writing for as something that i wanted to do for myself instead of being required to do it on a topic that i was unable to choose for myself in the first place and was completely uninterested in besides, my mind saw writing as something you did For School, not something you did because you wanted to.

It also, because of the emphasis on completing the essay as a Goal, something only to be done to be graded on at the end of the year and to be able to pass on to the next grade, calcified my ability to think about details while writing, expounding upon them and making connections between them.

(Maybe the circumstances under which we were writing them had to do with it too? We were only given a 45-minute period in which to do them and couldn't do any revision once the words were put down.) (thus "setting it in stone", as it were.)

Anyway, I'm really thankful for that book for showing me an example of the thought process behind (creative) writing. I would have had the "writer's block" problem for a lot longer without it. (I'm not sure I would have ever gotten over it, in fact...(because it was a problem with the manner of thinking rather than a lack of ideas v_v))

(The book is "Primer of the Novel" by Vincent McHugh and the relevant part is on page 163 if anyone's interested!)

(addendum: also in English class (which should have been called English Literature) we didn't learn Grammar or Composition but instead read fiction and studied "what did the author mean" by his writing instead of even basic fiction writing things like viewpoint or characterization. No learning how to write to express ourselves or studying how an author created his stories, just copying down what someone else did.)

(this is a general aside,but we didn't have art in school and they took out the drama class the year before i was supposed to be in it. No self-expression or attempted escapism for you! haha, yeah... school sucked.)

(i still had books, though!)

adults are always talking about how “kids will do anything to get out of school” and okay, first of all that’s not true, but I think we really need to ask why that idea holds so much sway.

children’s brains are hard-wired to take in new information and acquire new skills. consider, for a moment, just how thoroughly our society had to fuck up the concept of education for it to be a normal thing to assume kids are universally desperate to avoid learning.

[ignatiaflamen]

I found a passage in the book I've been reading about novel writing that perfectly summarizes the problem with the lack of instruction and preparation my fellow pupils and i were given in the art of essay writing (or indeed, any type of writing at all.)

The only time we ever wrote something that resembled an essay was at the end of the year for the final exams.

We were given a topic and had a single sheet of paper and a limited amount of time to do it in. (45 minutes)

In addition, when we finally did cover the topic of essay-writing in junior year, we only covered the very basics (three-paragraph format and the editing process, which was simplified to "put it down on paper in a rough draft first, then you can edit it later before you write the final draft," which completely omitted the planning process and stages.)

Here is the passage from Chapter 23:

"Let us consider the case of a novelist who writes a rough first draft of his book with only the scantiest preparation. He is, in effect, trying to make this draft serve the purpose of outline, imaginative exploration, development of themes, process, and the rest. We submit that, sentence by sentence, he is doing more work and getting less for his labor than our novelist who makes a plan in advance. The rough-draft novelist goes through the same basic procedure, but in a more wasteful way."

I've never encountered something that explained the problem so well(or indeed at all...) before now. (Not that I was aware there was a problem with how i wrote/the thought process behind it before i read this book... ^^)

We were given a limited time in which to complete a single rough draft without any allowance given to research or revision. This in turn affected my ability to think and plan freely when i tried to write.

(I would put more here, but this is kind of a rough draft in itself... I'll think about revising it later. I'm under time pressure rn and this is more of some materials to think about later and share with people that may need it.)

The Book is "A Primer of the Novel" and the author is Vincent McHugh. (The passage is found in Chapter 23.)

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9-1-1 REACTION

It's a new week which means a new episode of 9-1-1. So, let's talk about it! This reaction is for the season 8, fourth episode "No Place Like Home" which originally aired October 17. 2024. The episode was written by Lyndsey Beaulieu and directed by Marita Grabiak. Spoilers ahead!

I want to start off by saying I love this show. I love the characters. I love the emergencies. I love the big disasters. I have been thoroughly entertained by this show since episode one. There have been many amazing episodes over the last eight years. "Buck Begins", "The Searchers" and "Fight or Flight" come to mind. If I were to make a list of my Top Ten or Top Twenty Episodes of the series, tonight's episode would be a strong contender for either list. Yes, you read that correctly. Tonight's episode has everything I like in an episode of 9-1-1. We have two brutal emergencies. We have some comedic moments as well as some heartwarming ones as well. We also have one of the best villains I've seen on primetime television in a long time. Olivia Ortiz is part mafia boss, part Captain Planet villain and I loved hating her this episode. I have a feeling this will not be the last time we see her. But, I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's start off by talking about the best plot.

Best plot?

There are a few strong contenders for best plot of the episode. I really enjoyed Eddie's side quest to reunite the cheerleader Weston (played by Trent Mason) with his father Mike (played by DaJuan Johnson). The plot really endeared me to Eddie and his situation. I haven't been the biggest Eddie fan since he blew up his life last season but I'm starting to see glimmers of what his character was like back when he was first introduced. I hope they don't carry on the 'Christopher is mad at Eddie' storyline too much longer. I need Gavin McHugh back on my screen again and not via a FaceTime call. 

I did also love the stuff involving Bobby and Athena. I totally get where both of them are coming from. Athena wants something familiar and Bobby wants something new. I'm honestly surprised they lasted as long as they did living in Athena and Michael's home especially after Michael ended up in her bed that time. Perhaps Athena didn't want to uproot her children from their childhood home. Maybe her thought process was that it didn't matter if her family looked different (divorcing Michael and marrying Bobby( as long as the environment she was in stayed the same. I'm glad that Athena really acknowledged Bobby's feelings. Listening and taking into account each other's feelings has been an obstacle for them to overcome. I really think the cruise saved their marriage. They seem to be so in tune with each other. I can't wait to see where they end up living.

While I enjoyed the two aforementioned plots, the best plot of the episode, in my humblest of opinion, was Hen and Karen's fight to get Mara back. First off, shout-out to Veronica Falcón. Councilwoman Olivia Ortiz is hands down the best villain we have ever gotten on this show. Psycho firefighter Jonah Greenway (played by Bryce Durfee) and serial rapist Jeffrey Hudson (played by Noah Bean) or even Vincent Gerrard (played by Brian Thompson) can't hold a candle to this ruthless person. In the scene where Hen goes to Olivia's campaign office, I actually thought that she'd finally gotten through to the councilwoman. Boy was I wrong. No one holds a grudge quite like Olivia Ortiz. The woman is pure evil and I don't even think she cares as much about her son as she would like us to believe. The only thing she cares about is having power and maintaining it.

My heart broke for Hen and Karen when they were told they could no longer be around Mara. It never occurred to me there could be something wrong with Maddie and Chimney fostering Mara as a way of having Hen and Karen around. At least they didn't remove Mara from the home. I think that would've broken Hen and Karen. And just when I thought things couldn't get any worse, we learn via Gerrard that the ultimate goal is to not only break up Hen's family at home but her work family as well. The woman is diabolical I tell you! In the most surprising move on the episode, not only do we get a conclusion to the Mara/Olivia Ortiz storyline, we get a twist! Turns out, Gerrard is still a steaming pile of horse shit but he is capable of doing something really good - even if there's something in it for him. 

Who knew that Chekov's bodycam would be the thing that brought Olivia down. I just knew that when we saw Gerrard go to Ortiz's office that things were about to go left. Turns out, Bobby does manage to get through to Gerrard during his visit to the firefighter show set and he uses his own bodycam to expose Olivia's nefarious plans to close the 118. We get to see that footage played during the hearing at the end of the episode and just like that, ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead and that's not even the best part. Gerrard ends up taking over Bobby's job at the studio and Bobby is reinstated as the rightful captain of the 118. It's a win-win situation although something tells me we haven't seen the last of Olivia Ortiz.

Best emergency sequence?

One of the major complaints about last season is the lack of emergencies we got to see the 118 respond to. The first three episodes of the 10-episode season were dedicated to the cruise ship disaster. We had an episode devoted to Maddie and Chimney's wedding. The last two episodes were all about Bobby. Thankfully we're back to the kooky emergencies that really put this show on the map. As far as what's the best emergency sequence of this episode - that's a hard one. Out options this week is Death Becomes Cheerleader and Tiger King. The emergency involving the tiger in the high-rise building was especially fun because we got to see Chimney be a total bad-ass with a tranq gun. My pick for best emergency sequence is our totally twisted cheerleader. Not only does it involve body horror and toxic masculinity, this emergency also feeds into Eddie's storyline. It did make me a tad bit nervous when we got the establishing shot of a football field and cheerleaders performing a routine. The last time we had cheerleaders in the show, it ended in tragedy. Weston does manage to survive his injury thanks to Eddie and his superior paramedic skills. I do wish they would play up his paramedic side a bit more on the show but that's sort of hard to do when you already have Hen and Chimney there.

We learn that Weston has a strained relationship with his father who isn't exactly thrilled about having a cheerleader for a son. I've always found the whole 'cheerleaders aren't real athletes' sentiment to be baffling because one could argue that cheerleader requires a lot more athleticism than playing football does. Yes, I know that football players are putting their bodies on the line for the sake of winning a game but cheerleaders are flipping and being tossed in the air all without wearing pads and there's a strong chance they may fall on their head or in the case of this Weston, get their entire body twisted around. Unfortunately, Weston's father Mike doesn't see cheerleading that way. He thinks cheerleading is for girls and deems his son as less masculine for being a cheerleader. Eddie decides to talk to Mike about his treatment of Weston which leads me to my award.

Episode MVP?

The MVP of this episode is Eddie Diaz! Yes, you read that correctly. I really liked the scenes we got with Eddie. Minus the awful mustache, it really felt like we got old Eddie this episode. I was totally on board with the advice he gave to Weston's dad. At first I thought it was a bold move for Eddie to seek out Mike and talk to him. No offense but Eddie is hardly the person to be doling out parental advice at the moment. I did like his approach to talking to Mike. Eddie was very honest about his own fraught relationship with Christopher. I truly felt for Eddie during this conversation because things have not improved between him and Christopher and he doesn't want things to get so bad that he becomes Mike and Christopher becomes Weston. Eddie does manage to get through to Mike and we see father and son reunited at the end of the episode. Even if Eddie isn't able to repair his own father/son relationship, at least he can facilitate reconciliation between Weston and Mike. Hopefully we get to see more of his journey towards forgiveness and reconciliation in the next episodes. I miss Christopher and I can't wait until he's back in Los Angeles where he belongs.Hey writers! More of this Eddie please. Oh, and please, please, pretty please with sugar on top get rid of that creepy mustache! Ryan Guzman is a gorgeous man and it's diminishing his sexiness. 

BuckTommy Corner

There's no BuckTommy in this episode. For our third episode straight, Tommy Kinard is nowhere to be found. But I'm not too upset about it. Lou Ferrigno Jr. did shout-out the episode on Twitter so I am quite confident we will be seeing him soon. The man stays booked and busy so the show has to work around his schedule. I do think this is a sign that he is meant to stay for the long haul because I'm sure they could find another actor who is more available. I get the sense that Tim and the gang really love Lou and what he brings to the show so they are more than willing to take what they can get.

Something I found amusing that is BuckTommy is adjacent to Gerrard's nickname for Buck in this episode. He calls our dear sweet Evan 'tight-end' which is a reference to his position when he played football back in high school. I did wonder if Gerrard's usage of the name is more about Buck's sexuality than it is about a football position. Also, I never really figured out if Gerrard knew about Buck and Tommy. I'm sure he knows about Tommy but does he know  they are dating? I guess that's all moot because Gerrard is gone and Bobby is back. Poor Buck has been so miserable as of late. Hopefully Bobby being back will mellow him out a bit. 

Overall, I really enjoyed this episode. It felt like classic 9-1-1. I've said it once and it bears repeating - the move to ABC continues to be one of the best things that has happened to the show. The network truly cares about 9-1-1 and is throwing all the money at the show. I do wish they could have rescued 9-1-1: Lone Star as well. Maybe Sierra McClain would still be on the show if the spin-off made it over to ABC as well. I have heard some scuttlebutt about there being another 9-1-1 sequel that will air in conjunction with the OG series but nothing definite. I do wonder which city they would pick if we do get another show. My vote is for New Orleans or Atlanta. But hey, we're talking about 9-1-1.

I am curious as to what's in store for everyone now that everything's been reset. Bobby is back at the 118 and Hen and Karen got Mara back. I hope we get to see more of Buck and Tommy. I am curious about the journey Eddie's about to embark on. The B*ddie shippers seem to think we're about to see Eddie wrestle with his latent homosexuality but I think the man has bigger fish to fry. Eddie needs to deal with his religious trauma. I think he also needs to reckon with his feelings about Shannon. He also needs to get Christopher back. Our boy has a lot of work to do and playing kissy face with his best friend and coworker is not even remotely a priority. Another thing I think we're going to focus on is Maddie and Chimney's first year of being married. Maddie's last marriage was a total nightmare and old habits die hard. I wonder if we will see her struggle with own personal demons as she navigates a marriage with Chimney. I can't wait to see Bobby and Athena move into a new home and deal with being empty-nesters. I do wonder what they have in store for Hen and Karen. Hopefully they're good for now and maybe all we need is the occasional scene of domestic bliss. I guess we'll have to wait to see what happens next. Until next time ...

[classicfilmfan64]

Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray, in The Mystery Of The Wax Museum (1933) My copy of the Vincent Price film, HOUSE OF WAX has this film as a bonus movie, on the DVD.

Mystery of the Wax Museum is a 1933 American pre-Code mystery-horror film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Glenda Farrell, Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, and Frank McHugh. It was produced and released by Warner Bros. and filmed in two-color Technicolor; Doctor X and Mystery of the Wax Museum were the last two dramatic fiction films made using this process.

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The great fall of the offwail entailed at such short notice the pftjschute of Finnegan

Finnegan’s Wake - James Joyce

ChatGPT4o critical interpretations (Created ChatGPT):

Ah, you're asking about one of the most iconic lines in Finnegans Wake, found in the first paragraph of the novel:

"The great fall of the offwall entailed at such short notice the pftjschute of Finnegan, erse solid man, that the humptyhillhead of himself prumptly sends an unquiring one well to the west in quest of his tumptytumtoes."

This line opens the cyclical and dreamlike narrative, introducing the mythic figure of Finnegan and his fall. Critical interpretations of this line often explore its complex layering of references, wordplay, and mythic allusions. Let’s break down some of the key elements:

1. "The great fall"

This immediately invokes the myth of a primal fall, echoing both the biblical Fall of Adam and the fall of Humpty Dumpty. It sets up the overarching theme of Finnegans Wake—the cycles of rise and fall, death and resurrection. The "fall" here is also literal, referring to the fall of the eponymous Tim Finnegan, a figure from the Irish folk ballad “Finnegan’s Wake,” who falls from a ladder while drunk and is later revived at his wake.

Critical Viewpoint: Roland McHugh, in Annotations to Finnegans Wake, notes the significance of the fall in Irish mythology and Christianity. It's seen as a primal catastrophe, but also as something regenerative—each fall leads to a rise again, like Vico's cyclical theory of history, a key influence on Joyce. The "great fall" could also be a compressed version of Joyce's reflection on humanity's perennial downfall—both personal and collective.

2. "offwail"

This could be read as a pun on "off wall," suggesting a fall off the wall, linking back to Humpty Dumpty, but also as a play on "wail," suggesting lamentation or keening. The tragicomic tension in the fall is evident here, embodying both the slapstick fall of a body and the existential "wail" of loss.

Critical Viewpoint: Joyce’s merging of opposites—comic and tragic, fall and rise—has been explored by many critics, such as Margot Norris in The Decentered Universe of Finnegans Wake. She points out that the constant interplay of opposites is central to the structure of Finnegans Wake, creating a world in which laughter and lamentation are inseparable.

3. "pftjschute"

This word fuses "parachute" and the sound of a body falling, as well as mimicking the sound of impact. It's a highly onomatopoeic and phonetically rich word, evoking both the suddenness of the fall and the descent itself.

Critical Viewpoint: The sound-driven structure of the word suggests the influence of Joyce's fascination with the oral tradition and the aurality of language. It encapsulates the physicality of the fall, where the language becomes almost mimetic of what it describes. Additionally, John Bishop, in Joyce's Book of the Dark, interprets the word as a microcosm of Joyce's use of sound to convey meaning beyond the semantic, as if the language itself were performing the action it describes.

4. "Finnegan"

Here we have the introduction of the archetypal figure, Finnegan, who merges multiple identities: the Irish folk hero from the ballad, Adam, Humpty Dumpty, and even Joyce’s father figure. Finnegan’s fall can thus be read on multiple levels: as a personal fall, a fall of humanity, and a fall in mythic or symbolic terms.

Critical Viewpoint: The figure of Finnegan is crucial to the text’s recurring themes of resurrection and renewal. As many scholars have noted, including Vincent Cheng in Shaping Heroic Strategies in Joyce’s 'Ulysses' and 'Finnegans Wake', the fall of Finnegan prefigures his eventual revival. The text is thus a constant dance between death and rebirth, reflecting Joyce’s own complex relationship with notions of identity, history, and language.

5. "erse solid man"

"Erse" is a pun on "Irish" (a variant of the word Erse for Gaelic), and "solid man" refers to the physicality and ordinariness of Finnegan. This ordinary man, whose name resembles that of the giant Finn McCool from Irish mythology, becomes a stand-in for all of humanity.

Critical Viewpoint: Critics often see this as part of Joyce's democratizing impulse. As Robert Anton Wilson argued in Coincidance: A Head Test, Finnegan is both an individual and a universal symbol for mankind, tying into Joyce’s themes of everyman figures. "Erse solid man" could thus suggest the simultaneous grandeur and ordinariness of human existence.

6. "humptyhillhead"

This compound word invokes the nursery rhyme figure of Humpty Dumpty, reinforcing the theme of a great fall, but also references Finnegan’s burial mound ("hillhead"). The humorous tone masks a deeper reflection on death and rebirth.

Critical Viewpoint: Critics like Clive Hart, in Structure and Motif in Finnegans Wake, often focus on how Joyce blurs distinctions between man and landscape here. "Humptyhillhead" evokes both the broken Humpty Dumpty and the natural cycles of decay and renewal—suggesting Finnegan as part of the landscape, part of history itself, a figure who dissolves into the earth and rises again through myth.

7. "tumptytumtoes"

This playful and musical word evokes the image of Finnegan's toes after the fall. The absurdity of this phrase underscores Joyce’s blending of high and low culture, mythic grandeur with slapstick humor. It also alludes to the cyclical and childlike nature of Finnegans Wake’s language, where even death and falls are playfully reimagined.

Critical Viewpoint: The tumptytum rhythm is not just a humorous detail but also an example of the Wake’s rhythmic and musical nature, which critics like Joseph Campbell in A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake emphasize. The book’s prose often mimics musical patterns, and here, it recalls the nursery rhyme-like cadences that speak to the childlike dimension of the text.

Conclusion:

The passage reflects Finnegans Wake’s obsession with cycles: the rise and fall of individuals and civilizations, the fall of language into nonsense, and the regeneration that follows. Finnegan, like all figures in the novel, is both singular and collective, both comic and tragic. The play of language—through puns, sounds, and allusions—creates a world that is at once elusive and richly suggestive, mirroring Joyce’s vision of history as a continuous cycle of fall and renewal.

The line, in its condensed form, captures much of the essence of Finnegans Wake—the collapse of order, the fall of a hero (or an everyman), and the inevitability of revival through the mess of history, myth, and language.

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🏙️Sylvia Sydney, Estelle Taylor, David Landau | Street Scene (1931) | 

Street Scene is a 1931 US drama produced by Samuel Goldwyn and directed by King Vidor.  Except for one scene (inside a taxi), the film takes place on one set of a city block in old New York.   Estelle Taylor, David Landau, Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., and Beulah Bondi are the stars. CAST Sylvia Sidney as Rose Maurrant William Collier Jr. as Sam Kaplan Estelle Taylor as Mrs. Anna Maurrant Beulah Bondi as Emma Jones David Landau as Frank Maurrant Matt McHugh as Vincent Jones Russell Hopton as Steve Sankey Greta Grandstedt as Mae Jones Eleanor Wesselhoeft as Marguerite "Greta" Fiorentino Allan Fox as Dick McGann Nora Cecil as Alice Simpson (welfare worker) Margaret Robertson in a minor role Walter James as Marshal James Henry Max Montor as Abe Kaplan Walter Miller as Bert Easter (Rose's boss) T.H. Manning as George Jones Conway Washburne as Danny Buchanan John M. Qualen as Karl Olsen Ann Kostant as Shirley Kaplan Adele Watson as Olga Olsen Lambert Rogers as Willie Maurrant George Humbert as Filippo Fiorentino Helen Lovett as Laura Hildebrand Richard Powell as Officer Harry Murphy Jane Mercer in a minor role Monti Carter as Monti Carter Harry Wallace as Fred Cullen Never miss a video. Join the channel so that Mr. P can notify you when new videos are uploaded: https://www.youtube.com/@nrpsmovieclassics

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February 2024 Wrap-Up

Current AI ‘art’ is created on the backs of hundreds of thousands of artists and photographers who made billions of images and spend time, love and dedication to have their work soullessly stolen and used by selfish people for profit without the slightest concept of ethics. – Alexander Nanitchkov

February’s Artist Shout-Outs

Alana Fletcher

amorecstasy

Julia Ro

Lucas Onzeki

Indeepencil

Manuel Javier Noreña Castaño

Nyrel Aoki

Simon Auchterlonie

Martin McHugh

Roxanne Henderson-Payne

Hana Augustine

Ander Lizarraga

February’s Streams and Videos

Let’s Discuss Some $#!7 — Behind the Scenes

Banned Books Edition: Let’s Read Some $#!7 by Kurt Vonnegut & Angie Thomas

Let’s Do… Something

Let’s Play Some $#!7! — Hades

Black History Month Quotes of 2024

QUOTE 1: Marian Anderson

QUOTE 2: Ta-nehisi Coates

QUOTE 3: Henry Louis Gates Jr.

QUOTE 4: Martin Luther King Jr.

QUOTE 5: Mikki Kendall

QUOTE 6: Victor Luckerson

QUOTE 7: Clint Smith

QUOTE 8: Farah Jasmine Griffin

QUOTE 9: N.K. Aning

QUOTE 10: Daven McQueen

QUOTE 11: Brittany K. Barnett

QUOTE 12: James Baldwin

QUOTE 13: D.L. Hughley

QUOTE 14: Saidiya Hartman

QUOTE 15: Abhijit Naskar

Check out the Yocum African American History Association (YAAHA), “a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to sharing educational resources about black American history”.

February’s Neverending Reading List Shares

The Neverending Reading List: Book XXXIV — The Invisible Life of Addie Larue

The Neverending Reading List: Book XXXV — The Rules of Magic

The Neverending Reading List: Book XXXVI — Practical Magic

The Neverending Reading List: Book XXXVII — Save Your Breath

The Neverending Reading List: Book XXXVIII — The First Girl Child

The Neverending Reading List: Book XXXIX — Aftershocks

The Neverending Reading List: Book XL — Circle K Cycles

The Neverending Reading List: Book XLI — Patriarchy Blues

The Neverending Reading List: Book XLII — Herlot of Alonia

Poems Written

“School Prepares You”

College

“Look At Me!”

“Get A Job!”

Bibliophile

Betrayal

So?

Accusations

February’s Video Game Quotes

QUOTE 1: Silent Hill: Downpour

QUOTE 2: Okami

QUOTE 3: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

QUOTE 4: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

QUOTE 5: To The Moon

QUOTE 6: Final Fantasy X

QUOTE 7: God of War III

QUOTE 8: Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

QUOTE 9: Pokémon Black and White

QUOTE 10: DOTA 2

QUOTE 11: Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom

February’s Literacy Quotes

QUOTE 1: Clifford Stoll

QUOTE 2: Adiela Akoo

QUOTE 3: Mokokoma Mokhonoana

QUOTE 4: Luisa Capetillo

QUOTE 5: Willy Thorn

QUOTE 6: C. S. Young

QUOTE 7: Carol Anderson

QUOTE 8: Lailah Gifty Akita

QUOTE 9: Tom Zoellner

QUOTE 10: Mem Fox

QUOTE 11: Peter van der Walt

February’s Stupidity Quotes

QUOTE 7: Kurian Mathew Tharakan

QUOTE 8: Craig D. Lounsbrough

QUOTE 9: Apuleius

QUOTE 10: Torron-Lee Dewar

QUOTE 11: Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

QUOTE 12: Izumi Suzuki

Kickstarter Items Received

Kickstarter Item Arrived: Cute Creatures Compendium by Catilus!

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To expand the Opinions & Truth ( O&T) blog, MonriaTitans started The Weekend Game Show ( WGS) to educate on and discuss different aspects of game development, and to show why video games can take years to make, to prevent another Cyberpunk 2077 launch scenario. Watch MonriaTitans on Twitch and YouTube!

In addition, she shares educational quotes to promote literacy, the legitimacy of video games as an artistic medium, and regarding a Cause of the Month to raise awareness, while giving Artist Shout-Outs to human artists to combat AI art theft. Want to learn more about the Artist Shout-Outs? Click here! #createdontscrape

The Artists Shout-Out posts can be seen here, on Instagram, Facebook, Discord, and more!

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Fay Wray and Glenda Farrell in Mystery of the Wax Museum (Michael Curtiz, 1933)

Cast: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Allen Vincent, Gavin Gordon, Edwin Maxwell, Holmes Herbert, Claude King, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Thomas E. Jackson, DeWitt Jennings, Matthew Betz, Monica Bannister. Screenplay: Don Mullaly, Carl Ericson, Charles Belden. Cinematography: Ray Rennahan. Art direction: Anton Grot. Film editing: George Amy. 

The ever-imperiled Fay Wray gets higher billing, but the real star of Mystery of the Wax Museum is Glenda Farrell, playing an intrepid (what else?), tough-talking (ditto) newspaper reporter, Florence Dempsey. Flo's boss, Jim (Frank McHugh), gives her her walking papers, so she sets out to find a sensational story to save her job. She uncovers the sinister plot of Ivan Igor (Lionel Atwill), who is opening a new wax museum in New York. Igor had a similar museum in London, but it was losing money, so his partner in the business, Joe Worth (Edwin Maxwell), burned it down to collect the insurance. Igor was trapped in the conflagration but survived. Handicapped by his wounds, he trains new sculptors to re-create the glories of the old museum. One of the trainees is Ralph Burton (Allen Vincent), whose fiancée, Charlotte Duncan (Wray), turns out to be the spitting image of Igor's most prized sculpture in the old museum, an effigy of Marie Antoinette. Naturally, Igor plans to "sculpt" Charlotte into a new Marie: His method of capturing images is, let's say, not the traditional one. By a bit of breaking and entering, Flo manages to discover the macabre truth behind the wax museum's images. The plot gimmick -- a reporter uncovers a madman's schemes -- is exactly that of Doctor X (1932), Michael Curtiz's other venture into horror movie territory filmed in two-strip Technicolor, which also starred Atwill and Wray. Mystery of the Wax Museum is the better movie, with Farrell giving a better performance as the snoopy reporter than Lee Tracy in the earlier movie. It also has a neater plot, and a real creep factor in the spooky statues -- most of which are actors standing very still. Makeup artists Ray Romero and Perc Westmore and costume designer Orry-Kelly deserve special mention.

[romeomahbromeo]

allow me!

below is a list of Newsies real names and ages. due to the nature of the media, most of these are headcanons. however, a lot of the headcanons are as good as canon in the fandom due to their widespread popularity. i’ll admit though, quite a few in this list are names and ages assigned by me. all of the newsies in this list are actual background newsies, from either Livesies, 92sies, or Girlsies, barring Bowery and Pegs (my ocs). you may also see things about a newsie named Graves— he was an April Fools Day prank created by I believe @newsiepedia ? I think he’s swell I just didn’t include him in this list. I only included actual newsies in this list, but if you’ve only seen livesies I’ll tell you about Sarah Jacobs. Sarah is Les and Davey’s sister in the 1992 movie, as well as Jack’s love interest. She and Bryan Denton, the reporter who breaks the story of the newsies strike, were replaced by the composite character Katherine.

newsie real names and ages

jack kelly- francis malcolm sullivan (17) most often shipped with Davey, Crutchy, or Katherine (javey/javid, jackcrutchy, jatherine)

crutchie- charlie morris (15) sunshine boy! most often shipped with Jack (jackcrutchy) or my mutual charlie hehehe

davey- david jacobs (17) most often shipped with Jack (javey/javid)

les- lesley jacobs (9) “and i’ve got a date!” and her name is Susie

racetrack- antonio higgins (18) most popular character in the fandom due to being a wiseass. Transgender by Word of God. most often shipped with Spot. (sprace) or Albert (Ralbert) Italian no matter how blond the livesies version is

spot- sean patrick conlon (17) Short King. Most often shipped with Racetrack (sprace). istg these two ARE the main ship of the fandom somehow. Irish no matter how Italian the livesies version is.

albert- albert daSilva (15) ginger pain in the ass. most often shipped with Race (Ralbert)

blink- louis balletti (16) was a REAL NEWSIE in the actual strike of 1899. only ever shipped with Mush. Blush is the most consistent background pairing in the fandom.

mush- nicholas michael myers (15) again, Blush unproblematic legends.

romeo- Damario Amadeo de los Santos (12) most often shipped with specs (spromeo)

specs- spencer leBeau (13) most often shipped with romeo (spromeo)

hotshot- bruno angeletti (15) spot’s top lieutenant in Brooklyn

mike- michael morganthau (17) twin of ike

ike- isaac morganthau (17) twin of mike

smalls- sophie schedeler (14)

sniper- wah jia (16)

snipeshooter- albwin kapsner (11)

splasher- hugo mchugh (11)

buttons- benjamin davenport (14) most often shipped with Jojo

elmer- elmer kasprzak (10)

jojo- jorgelino josephino de la guerra (14) most often shipped with Buttons

bumlets- luka herrero (16)

skittery- nigol avalioni (16)

henry- henry butler (16)

finch- patrick cortes (13)

itey- izan tejedor (15)

pie eater- giorgi gloveli (17)

dutchy- reznikov ilik (15)

boots- theo burke (15)

tumbler- ? (the newsies named him themselves) (7)

swifty- sisto la bella (14)

snitch- jeremy mowshowitch (14)

tommy boy- toma spassov (15)

barney peanuts- barnaby mcbride (15)

vince- eleuterio vincent rabellini (16)

myron- marin josé rabellini (15)

willie- william mcdougal (15)

bart- bartholomew mcdougal (17)

kenny- kenneth bates (15)

snoddy- jakub leavy (17)

jake- jacob schrötter (18)

york- roger ó fearghuis (15)

tenpin- johnny fisk (9)

joey- josephine higgins (17)

rafaela- rafaela camacho y torres(14)

knobs- elia pagnotta (14)

flipper- ronnie macgregor (10)

bowery- henry louis snyder (16)

pegs- arthur david snyder (16)

disabilsies:

CANON

crutchie- crutches (polio)

kid blink- eye patch

york- eye patch

HEADCANON

spot- cerebral palsy (mom had rubella)

race- HOH

mush- cleft palate

albert- autistic

newsies fans, i have some questions. okay so ive it twice (the live proshot version i think it’s “livesies” correct me if im wrong) and i really did enjoy it, but aren’t super familiar with all of the specific characters. all i know are jack, crutchie, and catherine is her name i thing (?) but can someone give me a short rundown on all of them so i can try to interact with the fandom a little more?

[letterboxd-loggd]

Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) Michael Curtiz

May 3rd 2021

[tcm]

Mystery of the Wax Museum: Once Lost, Now Found By Susan King

Baby boomer cinephiles fell in love with movies by watching them on television (remember Million Dollar Movie?) despite often bad, blurry prints that appeared edited by a chainsaw in order to fit into the time slot. But thanks to film preservation and restoration efforts, when these vintage films air on TCM or are released on Blu-ray and DVD, the result is revelatory. Films considered fun, albeit, minor works at the time of their release are often now viewed as classics.

Such is the case with MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM (’33), the delicious Michael Curtiz horror film starring Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell and Frank McHugh. The Warner Bros. production was one of the last photographed in the atmospheric and surreal two-strip Technicolor format. (BECKY SHARP, the first shot in the more realistic three-strip Technicolor, was released two years later).

Shot by the legendary Technicolor cinematographer Ray Rennahan, the pre-Code MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM scared audiences out of their seats, or at least reviewers, with the New York Times critic proclaiming it “too ghastly for comfort” and even “unhealthy.” Long considered lost, a nitrate print was found in 1970 in Jack Warner’s personal vault on the Warner Bros. lot. And in 2019, the UCLA Film and Television Archive and Martin Scorsese’s The Film Foundation used that print, as well as another nitrate print discovered this century by a private collection, to restore the film to its original, vibrant glory and gore.

In 1933, Wray was the object of the affection for both the tragic and mighty KING KONG (’33) and an insane, disfigured wax sculptor (Atwill) murdering people for his wax museum in MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM. The sculptor becomes so obsessed with her that he wants to add her to his collection. (WAX MUSEUM was remade in 1953 in 3-D as HOUSE OF WAX with Vincent Price).

Wray’s daughter, writer Victoria Riskin, who wrote the acclaimed biography of her mother and her Oscar-winning father screenwriter Robert Riskin (IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, 1934), Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir, was gob smacked by the restoration. “The restoration looked wonderful,” she said in a recent interview. ‘‘Visually it’s very powerful and the colors that were introduced were exceptionally vivid. I’m so grateful to the restorers for all that hard work; it elevates the film in my mind.”

At that time, her mother was 26 and was being loaned out to various studios by her home base at Paramount. Unlike a lot of performers who balked at films they were cast in by their studios, Wray never fought the projects she was told to do. Wray knew poverty. She was born to a poor Mormon family in Salt Lake City in 1907 and was all of 14 when she came to Hollywood to seek her fame and fortune in Hollywood. And in 1933, said Riskin, Wray was still the breadwinner for her family including “her mother, her brothers, her husband and his family.”

She was happy to have the work that she got during the middle of the Depression. She was reliable and hard working. At the same time, director Michael Curtiz was not easy. MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM reunited Wray, Atwill and Curtiz, who had worked together in the two-strip Technicolor horror film DOCTOR X (’32). And Wray and Atwill also starred in 1933 in the horror film VAMPIRE BAT. “He was an unyielding character with an obsessive work ethic,” said Riskin of Curtiz. “From [Wray’s] point of view, as a lovely young woman, he was almost like a machine-detached, impersonal and not much fun. She was used to the kind of warmth and playfulness that can happen around the set. Certainly, that happened with [producer] Merian C. Cooper on KING KONG. But there was none of that with Michael Curtiz.”

Just as with KING KONG, Wray’s role in MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM was physically demanding. There’s one incredible scene in which Atwill shows how much his wax figure of Marie Antoinette resembles her. It was actually Wray wearing elaborate clothing and a heavy wig, who played the wax figure because the Technicolor cameras were so hot, the real wax figures in the movie began to melt. Not only doesn’t she move a muscle, Wray didn’t even blink.

One of the best sequences features a terrified Wray hitting the face of Atwill to reveal he’s wearing a mask over his horribly disfigured face. Wray had no idea what the disfigured make-up would look like because they wanted her scream to be spontaneous when she saw Atwill’s face. But instead of screaming, she gasped in horror. “Her reaction was actually more normal,” she said. But not to Curtiz. He wanted that scream. “So, they had another mask – just one more,” said Riskin. “He said you have to really hit him and scream, so she did it.”

Though Wray had problems with Curtiz, in the end, said Riskin, she appreciated him as a filmmaker. “She admired the results and that part was good. She brings a likeability to that part.” Ironically, Farrell, who plays Wray’s roomie—a fast-talking newspaper reporter looking for a rich husband—was seriously dating Robert Riskin at the time of the production. Wray and Riskin didn’t meet until several years later.

“That’s the fun part of the movie because my parents hadn’t yet met,” noted Riskin. “My dad’s first important romance in Hollywood was with Glenda Farrell. I could see why he liked her. She was smart and warm and generous. And in the movie, my mother and Glenda, the two most important women in my father’s life, are playing roommate. Isn’t it adorable?”

[awellboiledicicle]

TMA Statements In Chronological Order

But, not by when the events happened, by the order when the Statements were entered to the Institute. Because that wasn’t on the wiki timeline. 

Below the cut because i’m not a monster. 

Format is:

Episode // Entity // Statement Giver// Statement Given // Event Date

   • #140 The Movment of The Heavens // The Dark // John Flamsteed // 1715    • #116 The Show Must Go On // The Stranger // Abraham Janssen // 2 November 1787    • #23 Schwarzwald // The Eye // Albrecht von Closen // 31st March 1816 // Winter 1815    • #127 Remains to be Seen // The Eye // Jonathan Franshawe // 21 November 1831 // April – November 1831    • #152 A Gravediggers Envy // The Buried // Hezekiah Wakely // 1837 - 1839    • #50 Foundations // The Buried // Sampson Kempthorn // 12th June 1841 // 1836    • #58 Trail Rations // The Flesh // Mrs. Carlisle // 10th November 1845 // October – November 1845    • #105 Total War // The Slaughter, The Eye // Charles Fleming // 1862    • #98 Lights Out // The Dark // Algernon Moss // 14 May 1864    • #138 The Architecture Of Fear // The Eye // Robert Smirke // 13 February 1867    • #7 The Piper // The Slaughter // Clarence Berry // 6th November 1922 // 1917-18    • #133 Dead Horse // The Hunt // Percy Fawcett // 27 June 1930    • #99 Dust to Dust // The Buried // Robert E Geiger // 20 February 1952 // April 1935    • #137 Nemesis // The Slaughter // Wallis Turner // 3 July 1955 // Winter 1942    • #29 Cheating Death // The End // Nathaniel Thorp // 4th June 1972 // 17th June 1775    • #60 Observer Effect // The Eye // Rosa Meyer // 12 July 1972 // April – July 1972    • #95 Absent Without Leave // The Slaughter // Luca Moretti // 2 November 1977    • #44 Tightrope // The Stranger // Yuri Utkin // 2nd March 1979 // November 1952    • #85 Upon the Stair // The Spiral // Unknown // 1980 – 1990    • #86 Tucked In // The Dark // Benjamin Hatendi // 2nd March 1983    • #84 Possessive // The Corruption // Adrian Weiss // 1 December 1990    • #125 Civilian Casualties // The Slaughter // Terrance Simpson // 19 July 1993    • #77 The Kind Mother // The Stranger // Lucy Cooper // 15 September 1994 //August 1994    • #93 Contaminant // The Corruption // Lester Chang // 5 March 1995    • #96 Return To Sender // The Stranger // Alfred Breekon // 15 May 1996    • #53 Crusader // The Eye // Walter Heller // 5th September 1997 // November 1941    • #2 Do Not Open // The Buried, The Stranger // Joshua Gillespie // 22nd November 1998 // 1996 -1998 (?)    • #46 Literary Heights // The Spiral, The Vast // Herbert Knox // 21st December 1998 // September 1997    • #17 Boneturners Tale // The Flesh // Sebastian Adekoya // 10th June 1999 // 1996    • #66 Held in Customs // The Buried // Vincent Yang // 22 February 2000 // January 19 2000    • #78 Distant Cousin // The Stranger, The Web // Lawrence Moore // 12 June 2001    • #21 Freefall // The Vast // Moira Kelly // 20th October 2002 // 3rd-5th or 7th June 2001    • #35 Old Passages // All // Harold Silvana // 4th June 2002 // June 2002    • #9 A Father’s Love // The Dark, The Hunt // Julia Montauk // 3rd December 2002 // 1990-95    • #155 Cost of Living // The End // Tova McHugh // 3 December 2002    • #68 Tale of a Field Hospital // The Corruption // Joesph Russo // 3rd June 2003 // 1st June 2003    • #27 A Sturdy Lock // The Spiral // Paul Mckenzie // 24th August 2003 // July 2003    • #146 Threshold // The Spiral // Marcus Mackenzie // 1 September 2003    • #88 Dig // The Buried // Enrique MacMillian // 4 November 2003    • #70 Book of the Dead // The End // Masato Murray // 9th December 2003    • #52 Exceptional Risk // The Dark // Phillip Brown // 9th April 2004 // 1st November 2002    • #24 Strange Music // The Stranger // Leanne Denikin // 17th Jan 2005 // August 2004    • #59 Recluse // The Web, The Desolation // Ronald Sinclair // 29th November 2005 // Early to Mid 1960’s    • #134 Time of Revelation // The Extinction // Adelard Dekker // 22 January 2006 // 2005, 1867    • #75 A Long Way Down // The Vast // Stephen Walker // 7 November 2006 // Early October 2006    • #139 Chosen // The Desolation // Eugene Vanderstock // 30 November 2006    • #115 Taking Stock // The Flesh // Michaele Salesa // 4 January 2007 // Autumn of 1999    • #8 Burnt Out // The Web, The Desolation, The Spiral // Ivo Lensik // 13th March 2007 // November 2006    • #67 Burning Desire // The Desolation // Jack Barnabas // 18 March 2007 // October – November 2006    • #3 Across the Street // The Stranger, The Web // Amy Patel // 1st July 2007 // 7th April 2006    • #51 High Pressure // The Vast, The Buried // Antonia Hayley // 7th January 2008 // August 2006    • #106 A Matter of Perspective // The Vast, The Eye // Jan Kilbride // 10 February 2008    • #49 The Butchers Window // The Flesh // Gregory Pryor // 11th March 2008 // June 2007    • #62 First Edition // The End, The Eye // Mary Keay // 3rd July 2008 // 1955    • #154 Bloody Mary // The Eye // Eric Delano // 21 July 2008    • #130 Meat // The Flesh // Lucia Wright // 19 December 2008    • #18 The Man Upstairs // The Flesh // Christof Rudenko // 12th December 2008 // 22nd October 2007    • #156 Reflection // The Extinction // Adelard Dekker // 4 January 2009    • #5 Thrown Away // The Flesh etc. // Kieran Woodward // 23rd February 2009 // 8th August 2008    • #97 We All Ignore The Pit // The Buried // Jackson Ellis // 3 March 2009    • #57 Personal Space // The Lonely, The Vast, The Dark // Carter Chilcott // 4 April 2009 // September 2007    • #145 Infectious Doubts // The Desolation // Arthur Nolan // 2 February 2009    • #114 Cracked Foundation // The Web Shtranger or Extinction // Anya Villette // 22 April 2009 // 23 April 2009 or 9 April 2009    • #37 Burnt Offering // The Desolation // Jason North // 6th August 2009 // August 2009    • #108 Monologue // The Lonely, The Stranger // Adonis Biros // 20 August 2009 // August 2009    • #144 Decrypted // The Extinction // Gary Boylan // 3 October 2009 // August 2009    • #126 Sculptor’s Tool // The Spiral // Deborah Madaki // 11 October 2009 // Spring 2004    • #72 Takeaway // The Flesh // Craig Goodall // 20 October 2009 // 27 September 2009    • #107 Third Degree // The Desolation // 1 February 2010 // January 2010    • #48 Lost in the Crowd // The Lonely // Andrea Nunis // 25th March 2010 // September 2009    • #10 Vampire Killer & #56 Children of the Night // The Hunt, the Web // Trevor Herburt // 10th July 2010 // 1959 (first event), Winter 2009    • #69 Thought For the Day // The Web // Darren Harlow // 18th November 2010    • #31 First Hunt // The Hunt // Lawerence Mortimer // 9th December 2010 // 30th November - 1st December 2010    • #33 Boatswain’s Call // The Lonely // Carlita Sloane // 2nd January 2011 // Late November 2010    • #45 Blood Bag // The Corruption // Thomas Neil // 9th February 2011 // Spring 2010    • #148 Extended Surveillance // The Eye // Sunil Maraj // 3 April 2011    • #14 Piece Meal // The Flesh // Lee Rentoul // 29th May 2011 // Early 2011    • #19 Confession & #20 Desecrated Host // The Spiral, The Web, The Desolation (Hilltop Road) & The Spiral, The Flesh // Edwin Burroughs // 30th May 2011 // November 2006    • #112 Thrill of the Chase // The Hunt // Lisa Carmel // 13 November 2011    • #113 Breathing Room // The End // Adelard Dekker // 2012    • #12 Page Turner // The Desolation, The Eye // Lesere Saraki // 11th February 2012 // 23rd December 2011    • #153 Love Bombing // The Corruption, The Flesh // Barbara Mullen-Jones // 2 March 2012    • #110 Creature Feature // The Web // Alexia Crawley // 14 March 2012    • #1 Anglerfish // Stranger //Nathan Watts // 22nd April 2012 // March 2010    • #38 Lost and Found // The Spiral // Andre Ramao // 6th June 2012 // March 2012    • #36 Taken Ill // The Corruption // Nicole Baxter // 19th November 2012 // August – September 2011    • #136 The Puppeteer // The Web // Alison Killala // 1 December 2012 // 2012    • #124 Left Hanging // The Vast // Julian Jennings // 11 December 2012 // 2012    • #149 Concrete Jungle // The Extinction // Judith O’neill // 13 May 2013    • #54 Still Life // The Stranger // Alexander Scaplehorn // 23 June  2013    • #4 Page Turner // The Vast, The Spiral, The End // Dominic Swain // 28th June 2013 // 10th November 2012    • #90 Body Builder // The Flesh // Ross Davenport // 7 August 2013    • #157 Rotten Core // The Extinction, The Corruption // Adelard Dekker // 14 August 2013    • #30 Killing Floor // The Flesh // David Laylow // 1st September 2013 // 12th July 2013    • #129 Submerged // The Buried // Kulbir Shakya // 4 September 2013 // July or August 2013    • #83 Drawing a Blank // The Stranger // Chloe Ashburt // 19 October 2013 // September – October 2013    • #42 Grifter’s Bone // The Slaughter // Jennifer Ling // 3rd November 2013 // Autumn 2013    • #32 Hive // The Corruption // Jane Prentiss // 23rd February 2014 // Pre-2014    • #63 The End of the Tunnel // The Dark // Erin Gallagher-Nelson // 31st March 2014 // 26th March 2014    • #102 Nesting Instinct // The Corruption // Francois Deschamps // 4 June 2014    • #103 Cruelty Free // The Flesh // Dylan Anderson // 2 July 2014    • #135 Dark Matter // The Dark // Manuela Dominguez // 14 July 2014 // 2007    • #87 The Uncanny Valley // The Stranger, The Desolation // Sebastian Skinner // 10 October 2014 // September 2014    • #15 Lost Johns’ Cave // The Buried // Laura Popham // 9th November 2014 // 14-15th June 2014    • #150 Cul-de-sac // The Lonely // Herman Gorgoli // 9 November 2014    • #6 Squirm // The Corruption // Timothy Hodge // 9th December 2014 // 20th November 2014    • #122 Zombie // The Stranger // Lorell St. John // 1 February 2015    • #11 Dreamer // The End // Antonio Blake (Oliver Banks) // 14th March 2015 // 12th March 2015    • #16 Arachnophobia // The Web, The Corruption // Carlos Vittery // 9th April 2015 // Early 2015    • #25 Growing Dark // The Dark // Mark Bilham // 19th April 2015 // January – March 2015    • #64 Burial Rites // The End // Donna Gwynne // 20th May 2015 // 2012    • #74 Fatigue // The Spiral // Lydia Halligan // 8 June 2015    • #123 Web Development // The Web // Angie Santos // 1 August 2015 // January 2015    • #13 Alone // The Lonely // Naomi Herne // 13th January 2016 //30th & 31st March 2015    • #22 Colony // The Corruption // Martin Blackwood // 12th March 2016 // March 2016    • #26 A Distortion // The Spiral, The Corruption // Sasha James // 2nd April 2016 // 1st April 2016    • #28 Skintight // The Slaughter, The Stranger // Melanie King // 17th April 2016 // January 2015    • #34 Anatomy Class // The Stranger // Lionel Elliot // 12th July 2016 // January – March 2016    • #39 Infestation // ATTACK ON THE INSTITUTE // 29th July 2016    • #40 Human Remains // Post Attack Debrief// 29th July 2016    • #41 Too Deep // Buried and Dark suspected // 2nd September 2016 // mid-august – September 2016    • #43 Section 31 // The Desolation, The End // Basira Hussain //19th September 2016 // August 2011 and 18 July 2014    • #47 The New Door // The Spiral // Helen Richardson // 2nd October 2016    • #55 Pest Control // The Corruption, The Desolation // Jordan Kennedy // 3rd November 2016 // 2011 & 2014    • #61 Hard Shoulder // The Hunt, The Stranger, The Buried // Daisy Tonner // 1st December 2016 // 24th July 2002    • #65 Binary // The Spiral, Extinction // Tessa Winters // 7th January 2017    • #71 Underground // The Buried // Karolina Gorka // 25 January 2017 // 6 January 2017    • #73 Police Lights // The Dark // Basira Hussain // 11 February 2017 // 10 February 2017    • #76 The Smell of Blood // The Slaughter // Melanie King // 13 February 2017    • #79 Hide and Seek // The Stranger, The Spiral // 16 February 2017    • #80 The Librarian // All // Jurgen Leitner // 16 February 2017 // 1994    • #81 A Guest for Mister Spider // The Web // Jonathan Sims // 18 February 2017 / 1995    • #82 The Eyewitnesses // The Eye, the Slaughter // Daisy Tonner // 18 February 2017    • #89 Twice as Bright // The Desolation // Jude Perry // 24 April 2017    • #91 The Coming Storm // The Vast, The Spiral // Michael Crew // 28 April 2017    • #92 Nothing Beside Remains // The Eye, The Lonely // Elias Bouchard, Barnabas Bennett // ? [Possibly 28 April 2017]    • #94 Dead Woman Walking // The End // Georgie Barker // 29 April 2017    • #100 I Guess You Had To Be There // The Desolation, The Dark, The Spiral, The Web, The Lonely // Lynn Hammond, John Smith, Robin Lennox, Brian Finlinson // 2 May 2017 – 26 May 2017    • #101 Another Twist // The Spiral, The Stranger // Michael // May-June 2017 // October 2009 – 2011    • #104 Sneak Preview // The Stranger // Timothy Stoker // 14 June 2017 // August 2013    • #109 Nightfall // The Dark, The Hunt // Julia Montauk and Trevor Herbert // 29 June 2017 // July 2010    • #111 Family Business // Multiple, The End // Gerry Keay // 30 June 2017 // September 2008    • #117 Testament // The Eye // Jonathan Sims, Basira Hussain, Melanie King, Martin Blackwood, Timothy Stoker, Daisy Tonner // 2 – 4 August 2017    • #118 The Masquerade // The Stranger // The Unknowing Begins // 6 August 2017    • #119 Stranger and Stranger // The Stranger // The Unknowing Ends // 7 August 2017    • #120 Eye Contact // The Eye // Elias Bouchard // 9 August 2017    • #121 Far Away // The End, The Web // Oliver Banks // 15 February 2018    • #128 Heavy Goods // The Stranger // Breekon // 3 March 2018    • #131 Flesh // The Flesh // Jared Hopworth // 20 March 2018 // 2016 – January 2018    • #132 Entombed // The Buried // Jonathan Sims and Daisy Tonner // 24 March 2018    • #141 Doomed Voyage // The Vast, The Spiral // Floyd Matharu // 11 June 2018    • #142 Scrutiny // The Eye, The Buried // Jess Terrell // 12 June 2018    • #143 Heart of Darkness // The Dark // Manuela Dominguez // 16 June 2018    • #147 Weaver // The Web // Annabelle Cane // 20 July 2018    • #151 Big Picture // The Vast, The Lonely, The Extinction // Simon Fairchild, Martin Blackwood // 14 August 2018    • #158 Panopticon // The Eye, the Extinction, The Lonely // Martin Blackwood, Peter Lukas, Basira Hussain, Jonathan Sims, Daisy Tonner, Elias Bouchard, Gertrude Robinson // 25 September 2018    • #159 The Last // The Lonely // Peter Lukas // 25 September 2018    • #160 The Eye Opens // All // Jonah Magnus, Jonathan Sims // 18 October 2018    • Vigilo, Audio, Supervenio. The World Ends    • #161 Dwelling // No // Sasha James, Tim Stoker, Martin Blackwood, Elias Bouchard, Jonathan Sims, Jurgen Leitner // No Longer Applicable // Unknown    • #162 A Cozy Cabin // No // Gertrude Robinson, Gerry Keay, Sasha James, Timothy Stoker, Martin Blackwood, Jonathan Sims // No Longer Applicable // 2013 – 2015    • #163 In The Trenches // The Slaughter // Jonathan Sims // No Longer Applicable    • # 164 The Sick Village // The Corruption // Jonathan Sims // No Longer Applicable    • #165 Revolutions // The Stranger // Jonathan Sims // No Longer Applicable    • #166 The Worms // The Buried // Jonathan Sims // No Longer Applicable    • #167 Curiosity // The Eye, The Web, Others // Jonathan on Gertrude Robinson // No Longer Applicable    • #168 Roots // The End // Oliver Banks // No Longer Applicable

[weirdletter]

Unnerving Magazine, Issue #14, edited by Eddie Generous, Unnerving Books, October 2020. Info: unnervingbooks.com.

Issue #14 is here and it's yet another Stephen King-Inspired edition. With fiction from Stephen Graham Jones, Kaaron Warren, William Meikle, Bev Vincent, Anne Gresham, Renee Miller, and Danger Slater. Poetry from Donna Lynch and Jessica McHugh. Features by Cassie Daley and Tracy Robinson. Feature interviews with Charles Ardai (talking Hard Case Crime, and Stephen King's forthcoming, LATER) and Richard Chizmar (talking Cemetery Dance). Also, King interludes with Robert J. Sawyer, Andrew Pyper, and Samantha M. Bailey.

Contents: EDITOR’S NOTE by Eddie Generous THE SPINDY MAN by Stephen Graham Jones DANGER’S FAILED FILM PITCHES by Danger Slater CLEVER PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERIMENT with Robert J. Sawyer SPECIAL DELIVERY by Bev Vincent FIGURES IN AN UNIMPORTANT LANDSCAPE by Jessica McHugh TOO STUBBORN TO QUIT a Feature by Eddie Generous FINDING THE PATH by Kaaron Warren KING IN THE SLUSH PILE with Richard Chizmar HOTEL by DONNA LYNCH I’D JUST SCREAM With Samantha M. Bailey THREE SIDES OF THE DARK HALF a Feature by Cassie Daley REVIEWS BLACK BROTHEL: MIDNIGHT SNACK by Renee Miller HARD CASE KING With Charles Ardai HOME IS WHERE YOU SINK YOUR TEETH by Anne Gresham FREAKING ME OUT With Andrew Pyper DON’T LET THE DARK STOP YOU SHINING by William Meikle THE STAND REVISITED a Feature by Tracy Robinson DANGER’S FAILED FILM PITCHES

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Interesting Papers for Week 19, 2020

Mechanisms that allow cortical preparatory activity without inappropriate movement. Darlington, T. R., & Lisberger, S. G. (2020). eLife, 9, e50962.

Modulation of local field potentials and neuronal activity in primate hippocampus during saccades. Doucet, G., Gulli, R. A., Corrigan, B. W., Duong, L. R., & Martinez‐Trujillo, J. C. (2020). Hippocampus, 30(3), 192–209.

Differential developmental refinement of the intrinsic electrophysiological properties of CA1 pyramidal neurons from the rat dorsal and ventral hippocampus. Dougherty, K. A. (2020). Hippocampus, 30(3), 233–249.

Navigating with grid and place cells in cluttered environments. Edvardsen, V., Bicanski, A., & Burgess, N. (2020). Hippocampus, 30(3), 220–232.

Plaid Detectors in Macaque V1 Revealed by Two-Photon Calcium Imaging. Guan, S.-C., Zhang, S.-H., Zhang, Y.-C., Tang, S.-M., & Yu, C. (2020). Current Biology, 30(5), 934-940.e3.

Reactivated Spatial Context Guides Episodic Recall. Herweg, N. A., Sharan, A. D., Sperling, M. R., Brandt, A., Schulze-Bonhage, A., & Kahana, M. J. (2020). Journal of Neuroscience, 40(10), 2119–2128.

Synergy of Distinct Dopamine Projection Populations in Behavioral Reinforcement. Heymann, G., Jo, Y. S., Reichard, K. L., McFarland, N., Chavkin, C., Palmiter, R. D., … Zweifel, L. S. (2020). Neuron, 105(5), 909-920.e5.

Different coding strategy of sound information between GABAergic and glutamatergic neurons in the auditory midbrain. Ito, T. (2020). Journal of Physiology, 598(5), 1039–1072.

Does short-term memory develop? Jones, G., Justice, L. V., Cabiddu, F., Lee, B. J., Iao, L.-S., Harrison, N., & Macken, B. (2020). Cognition, 198, 104200.

Enabling Spike-Based Backpropagation for Training Deep Neural Network Architectures. Lee, C., Sarwar, S. S., Panda, P., Srinivasan, G., & Roy, K. (2020). Frontiers in Neuroscience, 14, 119.

The hippocampus encodes delay and value information during delay-discounting decision making. Masuda, A., Sano, C., Zhang, Q., Goto, H., McHugh, T. J., Fujisawa, S., & Itohara, S. (2020). eLife, 9, e52466.

Cholecystokinin-Expressing Interneurons of the Medial Prefrontal Cortex Mediate Working Memory Retrieval. Nguyen, R., Venkatesan, S., Binko, M., Bang, J. Y., Cajanding, J. D., Briggs, C., … Kim, J. C. (2020). Journal of Neuroscience, 40(11), 2314–2331.

Representation of distinct reward variables for self and other in primate lateral hypothalamus. Noritake, A., Ninomiya, T., & Isoda, M. (2020). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(10), 5516–5524.

Cortical Synaptic AMPA Receptor Plasticity during Motor Learning. Roth, R. H., Cudmore, R. H., Tan, H. L., Hong, I., Zhang, Y., & Huganir, R. L. (2020). Neuron, 105(5), 895-908.e5.

Excitatory/Inhibitory Responses Shape Coherent Neuronal Dynamics Driven by Optogenetic Stimulation in the Primate Brain. Shewcraft, R. A., Dean, H. L., Fabiszak, M. M., Hagan, M. A., Wong, Y. T., & Pesaran, B. (2020). Journal of Neuroscience, 40(10), 2056–2068.

Opposing Contributions of GABAergic and Glutamatergic Ventral Pallidal Neurons to Motivational Behaviors. Stephenson-Jones, M., Bravo-Rivera, C., Ahrens, S., Furlan, A., Xiao, X., Fernandes-Henriques, C., & Li, B. (2020). Neuron, 105(5), 921-933.e5.

Replay of cortical spiking sequences during human memory retrieval. Vaz, A. P., Wittig, J. H., Inati, S. K., & Zaghloul, K. A. (2020). Science, 367(6482), 1131–1134.

The case of muddled units in temporal discounting. Vincent, B. T., & Stewart, N. (2020). Cognition, 198, 104203.

Efficient inverse graphics in biological face processing. Yildirim, I., Belledonne, M., Freiwald, W., & Tenenbaum, J. (2020). Science Advances, 6(10), eaax5979.

Transient Delay-Period Activity of Agranular Insular Cortex Controls Working Memory Maintenance in Learning Novel Tasks. Zhu, J., Cheng, Q., Chen, Y., Fan, H., Han, Z., Hou, R., … Li, C. T. (2020). Neuron, 105(5), 934-946.e5.

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THE FIRST RESPONDERS RACE TO HELP VICTIMS CAUGHT IN A METEOR SHOWER ON AN ALL-NEW “9-1-1”   MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, ON FOX

The 118 responds to debris from a meteor shower crashing into an apartment building and a deadly fire caused by a hazardous waste truck crash inside a tunnel. Meanwhile, Hen struggles with guilt over her ambulance accident, Bobby introduces Eddie to an old friend to help with his anger and Maddie receives an urgent call for help in the all-new “Fallout” episode of 9-1-1 airing Monday, Nov. 25 (8:00-9:01 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (NIN-309) (TV-14 L, V)

Cast: Angela Bassett as Athena Grant; Peter Krause as Bobby Nash; Jennifer Love Hewitt as Maddie Kendall; Oliver Stark as Evan “Buck” Buckley; Kenneth Choi as Howie “Chimney” Han; Aisha Hinds as Henrietta “Hen” Wilson; Ryan Guzman as Eddie Diaz; Rockmond Dunbar as Michael Grant; Corinne Massiah as May Grant; Marcanthonee Jon Reis as Harry Grant; Gavin McHugh as Christopher Diaz

Guest Cast: Tracie Thomas as Karen; Declan Pratt as Denny; Bryan Safi as Josh Russo; Ellen Hollman as Tara; Scott Speiser as Vincent

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THE FIRST RESPONDERS DEAL WITH SOME SCARY EMERGENCIES ON HALLOWEEN ON AN ALL-NEW "9-1-1" MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, ON FOX

Athena and the 118 respond to bizarre emergency calls on Halloween, including a flock of crows terrorizing a field trip, an office employee having a close encounter with an eight-limbed creature and a ghost-like girl wandering a neighborhood. Meanwhile, Maddie remains convinced that she is doing the right thing in taking a 9-1-1 call into her own hands in the all-new "Monsters" episode of 9-1-1 airing Monday, Oct. 28 (8:00-9:01 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (NIN-307) (TV-14 D, L, V) Cast: Angela Bassett as Athena Grant; Peter Krause as Bobby Nash; Jennifer Love Hewitt as Maddie Kendall; Oliver Stark as Evan "Buck" Buckley; Kenneth Choi as Howie "Chimney" Han; Aisha Hinds as Henrietta "Hen" Wilson; Ryan Guzman as Eddie Diaz; Rockmond Dunbar as Michael Grant; Corinne Massiah as May Grant; Marcanthonee Jon Reis as Harry Grant; Gavin McHugh as Christopher Diaz Guest Cast: Nicole Sullivan as Deborah; Stephanie Lemelin as Stella; Ellen Hollman as Tara; Scott Speiser as Vincent; Mauricio Lara as Dean; Luke Judy as Reilly

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ATHENA REFLECTS ON HOW SHE BECAME THE POLICE OFFICER SHE IS TODAY ON AN ALL-NEW "9-1-1" MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, ON FOX

When a murder weapon from a case close to Athena in the early '90s resurfaces, flashbacks to 1989 show how Athena joined the LAPD and became the police officer she is today in the all-new "Athena Begins" episode of 9-1-1 airing Monday, Nov. 4 (8:00-9:01 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (NIN-304) (TV-14 D, L, V)

Cast: Angela Bassett as Athena Grant; Peter Krause as Bobby Nash; Jennifer Love Hewitt as Maddie Kendall; Oliver Stark as Evan "Buck" Buckley; Kenneth Choi as Howie "Chimney" Han; Aisha Hinds as Henrietta "Hen" Wilson; Ryan Guzman as Eddie Diaz; Rockmond Dunbar as Michael Grant; Corinne Massiah as May Grant; Marcanthonee Jon Reis as Harry Grant; Gavin McHugh as Christopher Diaz Guest Cast: Pepi Sonuga as Younger Athena; Jeff Pierre as Emmett Washington; Karl Makinen as Officer Brogan McCluskey; Claudia Christian as Capt,. Elaine Maynard; Beverly Todd as Beatrice Carter; Danny Nucci as Detective Rick Romero; Glenn Plummer as Dennis Jenkins

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TRAGEDY STRIKES AT AN ICE SKATING SHOW. ON AN ALL-NEW “9-1-1”. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, ON FOX

Emergencies include a skating mishap at an ice show, an accident involving a self-driving car and a fulfillment warehouse robot going rogue. Meanwhile, Eddie’s after-hours fight club gets out-of-control and Hen struggles in her relationship with Karen in the all-new “Malfunction” episode of 9-1-1 airing Monday, Nov. 11 (8:00-9:01 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (NIN-308) (TV-14 D, L, V)

Cast: Angela Bassett as Athena Grant; Peter Krause as Bobby Nash; Jennifer Love Hewitt as Maddie Kendall; Oliver Stark as Evan “Buck” Buckley; Kenneth Choi as Howie “Chimney” Han; Aisha Hinds as Henrietta “Hen” Wilson; Ryan Guzman as Eddie Diaz; Rockmond Dunbar as Michael Grant; Corinne Massiah as May Grant; Marcanthonee Jon Reis as Harry Grant; Gavin McHugh as Christopher Diaz

Guest Cast: Ronda Rousey as Lena Bosko; Tracie Thomas as Karen; Declan Pratt as Denny; Leonard Roberts as Capt. Ronnie Cooper; Wallace Langham as Brian; Ian Ward as Boyd; Tina Ivlev as Marylou; Andy Cohen as Jerome; Brent Popolizio as Shane; Lauren Pritchard as Cara

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