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A Group of big-time Business Persons from the Province of Zhejiang in China visited the Province of Cagayan recently to explore possible Business Investment Opportunities there, particularly the proposed International Sea and Air Ports in Aparri and Piat.

The Group was led by Ms. Vivian Zhang who is the President of a Business Group in China with over 100,000 Members, and Mr. Chen Yan at his Wife Mrs. Xhen ZhenCui who owns a Business Chain of Cake and Coffee Shops with over 200 Branches in China.

The Local Government Officials of Cagayan also unveiled to the Group Governor Manuel Mamba's Vision of not only establishing an International Seaport in Aparri and International Airport in Piat, but also a Smart City in Tuao and a Heavy Industrial Park.

Well here’s hoping that these Plans by Cagayan will indeed push thru with China, and that the United States (US) and their Filipino Doggies will not SABOTAGE these Plans again like they did with China’s funding of the Sangley Point International Airport (SPIA) and Fuga Island. Photos are by the Cagayan Provincial Information Office

SOURCES:

Cagayan Provincial Information Office Facebook Page Post, 12/18/23 – 2103H {Archived Link}

Cagayan Provincial Information Office Facebook Page Post, 12/19/23 – 2052H {Archived Link}

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041023 张小婉Vivian Weibo Update

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Oh No! Here Comes Trouble

TV Shows/Dramas watched in 2024

Oh No! Here Comes Trouble (2023, Taiwan)

Director, Writer & Creator: Lin Kuan Hui

Mini-review:

I don't know why I put off watching this for so long, cause it's really good. It includes so much stuff that I love: laugh-out-loud comedy, heartbreaking stories, supernatural elements and, most of all, a bunch of characters that burrow their way into your heart. The dynamic they share, specially between Yiyong and Guangyan, is incredibly fun. I feel like I could spend hours and hours watching them doing whatever together. And that's exactly what puts this drama miles ahead of other similarly supernatural-themed stories: the character writing is so damn good that you don't even care about the show's flaws, like the weak CGI. It certainly helps that the entire cast does a fantastic job, with Tseng Jing Hua giving a particularly unforgettable perfomance as the main character. Oh No! Here Comes Trouble is exactly what I needed right now, and I hope we get to see these characters again in the future.

[xinyuehui]

Surprise! It's a throuple!!!

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i love socially awkward, low self-esteem characters sm~

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FOR A FEW BULLETS (2016) ★★✮☆☆

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ACTUALIZACIÓN: 15/08.

01 HRS SAO PAULO, BRASIL

Agostina Goñi —Bunnie

Ahn Bo Hyun—Delta

Alex Mandon Rey—blue

Alicia Bercan—mariposa

Andrea Faccio—Italini

An Yu-jin — Minnt

Annie Schröter —sunflowergalaxy

Anselmo Prestini - Muffin

Anouchka Gauthier—Diosa

Ashley Marie Dickerson—fluffy

Arielle Chartrand—rorie

Bach Buquen —Betty

Bae Jin Young —babyGrl

Barbara Palvin—Frutilla

Belle Delphine —AquaBuyer

Bertug Altan - Dean

Bridget Satterlee—Boo

Camilla Cabello—Patata

Camille Pidoux —Juliette

Camryn Cangas—Samurai

Candella Gallo—Selket

Cha Eun Woo—Tremor

Charlie Schroeder —PHDP

Charleen Weiss — Stardust

Charly Jordan—flameshh

Christian Hogue—Banana

Christian Locke - LondonBoy

Christina Nadin—Killerqueen

Crystal Bellotti - Zai

Choi Soo Bin - Law

Choi Yeon Jun — Marina

Cole Sprouse —snow

Corinna Kopf - buffay

Damian Hardung —Wolf

Damiano David—chaotic

Daniel Illescas— Neon

Darwin Gray—Sunflower

Dasha Taran —Remember

Davide Vavalà —Jaws

Daisy Keech - Kerosene

Dekota Thompson—Caleidoscopio

Deva Cassell—blueberry

Diana Avel—cerise

Drew Baker —Coca-cola

Dove Cameron—Frambuesa

Eduard Torres—Kid

Ella Cervetto—Bloom

Emilia Mernes—Pokemaniaca

Emily Rudd — Nina

Ergi Bardhollari—Rojita

Erand Arifi — Supernova

Ester Expósito —Mermaid

Froy Gutierrez —Sugar

Hailey Bieber—Mía

Hansol Vernon Chwe—tamalito

Hande Erçel - Pez Dorado

Havanna Winter —Fairy

Holly Jai—August

Hwang Hyunjin —bubbletea

Ida Zeille —Lou

Isabel Van Gelder—Betty

Isabelle Matthers—Pink

Jacob Elordi—icequeen

Jacob Rott — Apple

Janis Danner—Triangle

Jang Won-young — Ninin

Jeon Jungkook — euphoria

Joshua Paine —Waves

Josie Lane—Rueth

Jonas Kautenburguer — Stardust

Jung Sungchan —Kaiju

Kate Li —flameshh

Karolis Inokaitis - hana

Kaden Hammond - Leviatán

Kenan Duman—rhcp

Kendall Jenner—vainilla

Kennedy Walsh—chaotic

Kiana Davis — Flora

Kim Mingyu — lalali

Kim Jennie — Harmony

Kim Seok-woo (Rowoon) —crocket

Kim Taehyung (V) —Wotteo

Kit Harington - Cardigan

Kristen Hancher—Frutitas

Lalisa Manoban—Animaloide69

Leah Halton—CopitoLee

Dong-hyuk (Haechan) —KaijuLee

Min-ho (Lee know)—sugarushrush

Lee Felix—tostadita

Liam Fitzgerald — Krampus

Lidia Santana—Antares

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Linuschka — Ritsu

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Loreto Peralta —Red

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Maja Kravarusic—Loveme

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Margarida Corceiro —Lou

Marissa Long —Lasso

Matthew Giovanni Laureano —Shibuya

Matthew Noszka — Redemption

Mark Lee—Vermithor

Melisa Döngel — Sunflower

Millie Leer—Chappell

Milana Vino — Mitik

Michael Yerger —Leviathan

Moritz Hau—Mister

Nailea Devora—Betty

Neels Visser—Awesome

Nicha Yontararak (Minnie)—Fanta

Nicole Wallace—cheesecake

Niklas Rueth—Tobby

Nils Kuesel—Copito

Nina Laura—Seasmoke

Ning Yi Zhuo (Ningning)— Disaster

Nolwenn Faijean—loveaffair

Olivia Phillips—Bloom

Omer Nudelman—Arenita

Park Solomon —fairyofshampoo

Paola Cossentino—ivory

Paolo Faccio—Soulmate

Park Wonbin (riize) — sunflower

Rashan MH—Mar

Rob Knighton—Stinson

Romaneinnc—rorie

Ryan Manick—Leprechaun

Sabrina Carpenter—Afterlife

Sara Crumbeleg —Maroon

Sara Fructuoso — Syrax

Saige peterson - Romeo

Seray Öztek—Pandita

Shawn Mendes —Stargazer

Sienna Schmidt—andy04

Sille Staunstrup—Luna

Song Kang—Hammer

Stefan Petrov—Nomando

Sydney Melman—Samurai

Scott Morton — Fae

Taylor Hill —Max

Timothée Chalamet—timburton

Tobias Reuter—Tristeza

Tom Webb - Emociones

Valentina Kumer - loveaffair

Victor Pérez—blue

Vinnie Hacker—Ultimate

Vivian Bernard —Star

Xavier Serrano—Brilliant

Yael Shelbia—Sunfire

Yoo In —Soo—Baby

Yoo Ji-Min (Karina)—Kaiju

Yoon Jeonghan—Versace

Zane Phillips—Piña

Zhang Renlin—garden

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2023 Reading List updated Jan 8 March 13 April 10 May 29 July 5 July 31 August 22 Dec 14

Read So Far: Play It As It Lays, Joan Didion All of This Could Be Different, Sarah Thankham Matthews Readme.txt, Chelsea Manning The Book of Grief and Hamburgers, Stuart Ross Burntcoat, Sarah Hall The Best American Essays 2022, ed. Alexander Chee Easy Beauty, Chloe Cooper Jones Very Cold People, Sarah Manguso Son of Elsewhere, Elamin Abdelmahmoud Happy Place, Emily Henry Couplets, Maggie Millner Strange Loops, Elizabeth Harmer Milk Fed, Melissa Broder Tides, Sara Freeman Biography of X, Catherine Lacey The Guest, Emma Cline No One is Talking About This, Patricia Lockwood Ripe, Sarah Rose Etter How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell Homebodies, Tembe Denton-Hurst Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin Trust, Hernan Diaz The Fake, Zoe Whittall Anon Plz, Deuxmoi Utopia, Heidi Sopinka Death Valley, Melissa Broder

Currently Reading: A Little Life, Hanya Yanigahara The Best American Essays 2023, ed. Vivian Gornick Everyone in My Family has Killed Someone, Benjamin Stevenson

Want to Read: Love and Other Puzzles, Kimberley Allsopp (on hold @ city) Land of Milk and Honey, C Pam Zhang (on hold @ city) Lioness, Emily Perkins (on hold @ city) Monsters, Claire Dederer (on hold @ city) Body Friend, Katherine Brabon (avail @ SA Lib) A Real Piece of Work, Erin RIley (not avail @ SA Lib) Priestdaddy, Patricia Lockwood The Light Room, Kate Zambreno Lurch, Don McKay Started but Haven't Finished

Saving Time, Jenny Odell Really Good Actually, Monica Heisey My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, Jenn Shaplan Bliss Montage, Ling Ma Death in Her Hands, Ottessa Moshfegh The Hurting Kind, Ada Limon A Single Rose, Muriel Barbery We Have Always Been Here, Samra Habib Pathological, Sarah Fay The Marrow Thieves, Cherie Dimaline Animal Person, Alexander MacLeod My Face in The Light, Martha Schabas Pure Colour, Sheila Heti Satched, Megan Gail Coles A Lover's Discourse, Roland Barthes The Country of Marriage, Wendell Berry

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(Installation photo credit: Hai Zhang)

Exhibition | Ah New Riddim: A Marked (Black) Axiological Shift at Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space

Can the axiologies and stories oscillating at the margins mark the discourse of Western logic positioned at the center, and how might this marking register in visual representations of the urban?

Ah New Riddim (2023) is the third and final iteration of the multimedia series Constructs and Context Relativity (2019-2023) by interdisciplinary artist Christie Neptune. The installation and interactive documentary examines the spatial-temporal relationship of memory and place embedded within the implosion of dancehall culture in East Flatbush. The film utilizes 80’s dancehall archival footage, the quiet of black subjectivity, and concentric interactive storytelling to expound the relationship between black globality and dancehall in the American urban. In a pivot around her embodied experience as a black Caribbean American, Neptune considers the potential of black popular culture in marking space.

In Ah New Riddim, concentric storytelling registers a cacophony of black perspectives. Neptune’s subjective experience in the American urban and the migration stories of community members in East Flatbush pivot around dancehall home video of Neptune’s father. Research, writing, and art produced from this series work to frame an artistic intelligence around Marked Axiological Shifts, a concept introduced by Neptune in a recent essay that defines a new language in visual culture grounded in African world-making cosmologies.

Marked Axiological Shifts are nonlinear and interactive artistic approaches that register a perpetual reimagining of black futures across space and time. It marks the decorum of modern cinema and visual culture with the conventions of African temporality to foster multiple planes of perspectives and fields of movement within concentric forward moving narratives mapped across moving images, sculpture, performance art, and print. In this exhibition, six channels of video interface with scaffolded speakers made of mirror, LED monitors, and wood. The speakers, a re-articulation of the Caribbean Sound System tradition, add further nuance to the filmic encounter in space. As material, screen, haptic surface, and sculptural unit, the sound system transmits information that doubles the spectator’s spatial perception. Upon contact, the spectator experiences temporal disjuncture caused by the collapse of their point of view, embodied form, and projected media upon the unit’s reflective surface. The gesture fosters multiple fields of viewing within a single expressive form, an element integral to African frameworks of temporality.

Ah New Riddim demonstrates the potential of black popular culture within representational practices that speaks across both dominant and marginal spatialities. This new framework of understanding considers the agency of marked axiological shifts within discursive urban space, an intervention that superimposes a wide aperture of black subjectivity(s) upon the narrow plane of the American urban.

This exhibition draws from Christie Neptune’s research paper “Ah New Riddim: A Marked (Black) Axiological Shift Across Space and Time” [READ HERE]

August 04, 2023 to September 16, 2023 Cuchifritos Gallery and Project Space Inside Essex Market, 88 Essex St #21, New York, NY 10002

Exhibition Link: https://www.artistsallianceinc.org/exhibitions/

Thank you to every supporter who contributed to make this exhibition happen:

Foundation of Contemporary Art, MIT Council of the Arts, MIT Art, Culture, and Technology program, Artist Alliance Inc., Cecile Chong, Emily B. Yang, Tariku Shiferaw, Larry Cook, Ayesha Charles, Jenna Charles, Terence Washington, David Freedman, Claire Watson, Mike Tan, Jodi Waynberg, Micaela Martegani, Jeff Swinton, Carl Hazelwood, Aisha White, Milk Spawn, Cari Sarel, Vivian Chui, Paul So, Camilo Alvarez, Kelsey Scott, Mike Brown, Darla Migan and Mary Lee Hodgens.

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Movies I watched this Week #106 (Week 2 of year 3):

“Three great abstract artists died in 1944: Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian and Hilma von Klint”.

Even though it’s only the second week of January, I already discovered one of my favorite documentaries of 2023: Beyond The Visible - Hilma af Klint. Like Vivian Maier, Hilma was a female genius who lived in obscurity her whole life and left behind a body of work that equals and surpasses most of her contemporaries. Discovered 70 years after her death, she is now considered perhaps Sweden’s most important artist - ever. This astounding biography details her groundbreaking legacy, as well as her extraordinary life. The first abstract artist of the modern area, all her 2,500 painting and voluminous notebooks of 250,000 pages miraculously remained intact. She was also a mystic, a spiritualist, a feminist and a vegetarian. Until our age, history was busy erasing all traces of female participation from its re-telling. Hers is one happy reversal.(Slideshow Above).

I saw an exhibition of her large canvases at the Tel Aviv Museum in 2019 and they were awe-inspiring. 10/10. 

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High maintenance, another biographical documentary. About the great Israeli sculptor and environmental artist Dani Karavan, known for his large site-specific monuments. It followed him around before his death at 90, as he travels to some European locations of his earlier, magnificent memorials, and as he re-assess his art. An uncompromising and head-strong artist with angry political views who had no patience for fools or fascists. He was also dealing with declining acuity and memory loss during that time. With Wim Wenders. The opening scene. 7/10.

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Hit the road, an unforgettable Iranian road movie written and directed by Panah Panahi, Jafar Panahi’s son, in his feature debut. There are four people driving, but we don’t know who they are or where they are going and why. One of them is a precarious six-year old, the driver does not speak much, and the parents behave strangely. Slowly we discover more about them, but the background story goes unexplained.

It’s best to watch this without knowing more. By the heartbreaking end we are completely captivated. The trailer discloses too much.

The acting of the little boy is probably one of the best child acting I’ve ever seen. 9/10 - Best film of the week.

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"...Even with my eyes wide open, I can't see anything..."

Zaitochi is a traveling blind swordsman, one of Japan’s longest film series. The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (2003) is my first Zaitochi film, and my third by actor-director Takeshi Kitano. A tribute to the Samurai films of the 60′s, it is full of rivers of blood spraying all over whenever somebody is stabbed and killed, which is all the time. Also, including a subplot of a cross-dressing, maybe trans, geisha. It ends with a joyful and lengthy community tap dancing party.

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First watch: “Tony, do you ever think about death? - Fuck off!”

The coming of age British Billy Elliot about an 11-year-old coal miner’s son who discovers that he loves ballet. A period piece about class, grief & masculinity. The boy who play Billy was wonderful. 9/10.

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Another first watch: Before Sunrise, the first part of Richard Linklater’s ‘Before Trilogy’. A romantic story of two young people who meet on a train bound for Vienna. An interesting, minimalist concept that I didn’t love, because I couldn’t feel the connection between immature cynic Ethan Hawke and stereotypical-‘sweet’ French blond Julie Delpy. I wish they were played by other people. I will watch an updated version of this with more persuasive actors. Should I watch the other two parts?

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2 by Zhang Yimou:

🍿 Raise the red lantern, the epic saga from the Chinese Warlord Era, tells a tragic story of a young ‘fourth Mistress’ to a very wealthy patriarch. The magnificent Gong Li and the other three concubines cannot leave the palace. They must wait each in their own opulent quarters until the master of the house (whose face is never seen) calls on the one he chooses to spend the night with. Restrained, tradition-bound and transgressive. 8/10. 

🍿 So I wanted to revisit a couple more of Yimou’s masterpieces, ‘Red Sorghum’, or ‘Qiu Ju’ or ‘To live’. Unfortunately, I picked instead his first English-language film The Great Wall, thinking, well, it was co-written by Tony Gilroy, it co-starred Andy Lau and Willem Dafoe, it was the most expensive Chinese movie ever produced, Etc. But it was a horrible disappointment. It’s a weak cartoon fantasy for young males about two mercenary amigos fighting an army of millions CGI alien monsters. Part of the trend to create spectacular Hollywood blockbusters which cater to the Chinese marketplace, the movie made $335 million and still lost money. 1/10 piece of shit. That’s why I don’t like and don’t watch special effect action movies.

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2 by Ernst Lubitsch:

🍿 “Pure hooey!…”

Design for Living, a pre-code screwball comedy about - let’s face it - an explicit a ménage à trois between bohemian Gary Cooper, Fredric March, and Miriam Hopkins. That Hopkins was a modern, open-minded woman who wants to love and have sex with both men was a rarity and a delight.

🍿 His classic romantic comedy The shop around the corner, the original concept used later in ‘You’ve got mail’. It’s interesting how much appeal was there in Hollywood of that time to wax nostalgic about Austro-Hungarian life, and the reverence toward the class of the shopkeeper, aka, business owner .

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Miss April ("Fröken April”), a lighter-than-air Swedish comedy from 1958 directed not by Ingmar Bergman but by one Göran Gentele. It features some venerable actors like Jan Kulle, Per Oscarsson and especially Gunnar Björnstrand who stars as an aristocratic, stuffy older banker (who, let’s face it, never “been in love” i.e. “never had sex”) and who falls for a cute, young ballet dancer. Silly & childish, and as enjoyable as a trip down memory lane to a sunny world that doesn’t exist any more. 7/10.

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2 with Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum and Martin Balsam:

🍿 The original Hitchcockian 1962 Cape fear, with a sinister score by Bernard Herrmann. An uncomfortable story of threat and terror. The word “rape” and the act itself were not explicitly seen, but strongly felt as the middle class fear that a crazed psychotic sexual stalker is coming for our young daughters. 5/10.

🍿 Rabid Martin Scorsese made the 1991 Cape Fear remake more menacing, his buff, tattooed rapist Max Cady more maniacal and the whole story much more sadistic. The best element for me was the re-done score, and the anti-lawyers message. 4/10.

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Assholes: A Theory, a Canadian documentary film, based on a book by professor of philosophy Aaron James. An asshole "allows himself to enjoy special advantages in social relations out of an entrenched sense of entitlement that immunizes him against the complaints of other people." Even though it was made in 2019, and touched upon many political, sociological & psychological trends, it didn’t mention even once the biggest asshole of them all.

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The Matador, an unconvincing crime thriller starring Pierce Brosnan and Greg Kinnear. An unlikely friendship between two vastly different men, a milquetoast middle-class salesman and a burnt-out assassin who meet at a hotel bar in Mexico City. A male fantasy of what a life of a contract hit man is. 4/10.

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4 Vimeo-type Shorts:

🍿 In Ruby, an elderly Irish couple, Len and Ruby, celebrate their 40th anniversary. Len has a history of of odd and outlandish gifts. Ruby hopes that this year will be different and that he'll arrange something "nice and normal".

🍿Sister, a different, Oscar-Nominated Stop-Motion Animation by young Chinese director Siqi Song. About being a single child. The figures are made out of wool.

🍿 “If Tuvsho was a superhero, this would be her origin story." I Am Tuvsho, a short Mongolian documentary about a female sumo wrestler.

🍿 School Portrait, Directed by Nick Scott, about a school photographer in a bad mood.

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Bobcat Goldthwait’s satirical indie World's Greatest Dad started well but ended in a mess. Robin Williams is an amateur novelist with a rotten teenager son. But then this sex-obsessed, nasty kid auto-asphyxiate while masturbating, and father covers it up as a ‘regular’ suicide. What a perverted premise. Too bad it didn’t work. 3/10

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After discovering Coraline last week, I decided to watch the parody of it on The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror XXVIII (29S 4E). Somehow edgy (because of Halloween?...). Including similar parodies of The Exorcist, Sausage party, and self-cannibalism trops. Alrighty then!

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Throw-back to the art project:

Chinese princess (还珠格格 HuanZhuGeGe) Adora

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(My complete movie list is here)

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190923 种地吧陈少熙 Weibo Update

小童小婉真的是太！牛！了！！ 《蓟州风云》真的太好看了！！ 祝好兄弟接下来的演出顺利！！

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In the adorably different town of Uglyville, weirdness is celebrated, strangeness is special and beauty is embraced as more than meets the eye. After traveling to the other side of a mountain, Moxy and her UglyDoll friends discover Perfection — a town where more conventional dolls receive training before entering the real world to find the love of a child. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Moxy (voice): Kelly Clarkson Lou (voice): Nick Jonas Mandy (voice): Janelle Monáe Ox (voice): Blake Shelton Lucky Bat (voice): Leehom Wang Ugly Dog (voice): Pitbull Wage (voice): Wanda Sykes Babo (voice): Gabriel Iglesias Wedgehead (voice): Emma Roberts Tuesday (voice): Bebe Rexha Kitty (voice): Charli XCX Lydia (voice): Lizzo Peggy (voice): Ice-T Jumbotron (voice): Laura Nicole Harrison Scanner / Electronic Female Voice (voice): Jane Lynch Gibberish Cat / Oliver / Chef / Buttons (voice): Kelly Asbury Meghan (voice): Natalie Martinez Michael (voice): Stephen Zimpel Nolan (voice): Enrique García Santos Exposition Robot (voice): Rob Riggle New Arrival (voice): Steven Schweickart Tray (voice): Afi Ekulona Sporko (voice): Jacques Colimon Various Voices (voice): Poonam Basu Various Voices (voice): Keith Harrison Various Voices (voice): Laura Schein Wedgehead (uncredited): Susana Raposo Film Crew: Executive Producer: Jason Grode Characters: David Horvath Story: Robert Rodriguez Director: Kelly Asbury Screenplay: Alison Peck Producer: Oren Aviv Executive Producer: Gabriela Bloch Steinmann Executive Producer: Luyuan Fan Executive Producer: Adam Fogelson Executive Producer: Fu Ruoqing Producer: Jane Hartwell Executive Producer: Shujin Lan-Shuster Executive Producer: Jerry Li Executive Producer: Drew Matilsky Executive Producer: Mingyu Peng Executive Producer: Pitbull Executive Producer: Robert Simonds Executive Producer: Huixia Zhang Editor: Julie Rogers Editor: Nolan Southerland Casting: Ruth Lambert Casting: Robert McGee Production Design: Shannon Jeffries Art Direction: Ravinder Kundi Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Joel Dougherty Characters: Sun-min Kim Original Music Composer: Christopher Lennertz Songs: Glenn Slater Additional Writing: Liu Guoqing Additional Writing: Vivian Wang Production Design: Andrew Woodhouse Associate Producer: Andrea McCarthy Paul Songs: Keith Harrison Songs: Anitta Screenplay: Blaise Hemingway Movie Reviews:

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Had a great discussion with Mercoffdaperc, we went over much of the history of GamerGate in detail. We also discuss the more recent Sweet Baby Inc controversy and the ALT+F4 conference. Details over what we go over below!

We discussed Doritosgate, the Cole Nasrallah and Zoe Quinn incident, the Wizardchan incident, online harassment, The Zoe Post , ethics in games journalism, the burgersandfries IRC channel run by Thidran, Gamers Are Dead articles, GameJournoPros, Brianna Wu's involvement with #GamerGate, DeepFreeze, ChangeTheCover & SaveTheCover, the Pillars of Eternity tombstone controversy and the Lionhead Studios cleavage day controversy.

Plus SPJ Airplay with Ashe Short, Cathy Young, Christina Hoff, Michael Koretzky, Ren LaForme, Derek Smart and @libertarianblue. Plus SavePoint at SXSW with @pixelmetalgames, my panels at Arch Anime and Natsucon. The cancellation of my panel at ArchonSTL, the Honey Badgers being banned from @calgaryexpo.

Plus CometCon canceling the debate with Kukuruyo and our thoughts on Brian Martinez's position. Progressive Victory, including Counterpoints and WhickTV embracing disclosure and greater transparency. The ZachAttack incident involving Mombot. My 2018 GamerGate debate in Saint Louis.

We also discussed Vivian James, GamerGate meetups, @timsoret being unfairly attacked, the Alec Holowka incident, the Sweet Baby Inc controversy, Kabrutus misrepresenting Yiyi Zhang's video, how Destiny inspiring me to become a streamer, the Bianca Devon incident, the allegations that Adin Ross's community engaged in harassment against Destiny. Plus the upcoming ALT+F4 conference hosted by LTU.

Watch here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=s0TFuo7m31Y

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temporary pinned.

simon basset, 29, duke of hastings. nadine zhang, 35, spinster. edward huxley, 30, first son of marquess huxley. vivian filtzwilliams, 23, daughter of the late lord fitzwilliams.

still in the middle of doing character pages on them both, and i fear it may take me until the weekend, so i've done a small blurb for now! please read them as if it's a piece of gossip, not necessarily whistledown because i can't for the life of me replicate that kind of writing right now, but like.. two members of the ton gossiping.

simon basset, duke of hastings.

sir simon basset is back in london? oh, don't you mean duke hastings? right, his father had passed away. what a surprise to see him here. or not. frankly? he doesn't want to stay long. he doesn't intend to marry, and he isn't planning on having children. haven't you heard? while settling affairs of his recently deceased father, he was pulled into attending a few balls and parties, which means escaping swiftly from marriage-minded misses and ambitious mamas. best of luck to him this season.

nadine zhang, spinster.

well, well, well. look over there, isn't that miss nadine zhang, daughter of the late baron zhang? shush now, it's never proper to discuss a lady's age, but isn't she far too old to still be attending these parties? don't be silly, she isn't looking for a suitor, i heard she is more than happy to live as a spinster. i can't tell if she is good at lying or has finally given up. wasn't she the diamond of her debut season? she was, wasn't she? and after all that, she still isn't married. i hear it's because she fell in love with someone without a title, or was it because the person she did love had chosen someone else. either way, that sounds like a tragedy.

edward huxley, first son of marquess huxley.

oh, sir edward huxley just walked in. oh no, my dance card is full, i thought he wasn't coming. why wouldn't he? i heard that he wasn't interested in participating this season. well, from what i heard, it's rather complicated. you see, his father is pushing him to look for a wife since he turned thirty. you jest, surely? not at all, he might look disinterested now, but who knows what might come?

vivian filtzwilliams, 23, daughter of the late lord fitzwilliams.

vivian looks like she's on a mission. it is her fourth season after all. do you think she'll get a marriage proposal this season? one can only hope, she seems desperate to find her footing in society. hey! don't put it that way, she's our friend. i know, but we can't deny the truth. we really can't. she hasn't had a shortage of suitors in the past seasons, but they seem to not extend proposals at the end. have you ever wondered why?

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We have a new citizen in Mount Phoenix:

           Valerie Zhang, a 30 year old daughter of Vidar.            She is a security guard at Sakura Lounge.

FC NAME/GROUP:  Xuan Lu/Lulu Xuan CHARACTER NAME: Valerie Zhang AGE/DATE OF BIRTH:  15 January 1994, 30 years PLACE OF BIRTH:  Trondheim, Norway OCCUPATION:  Security at Sakura HEIGHT: 5'6"/168 cm WEIGHT: 128 pounds/58 kg DEFINING FEATURES:  Extensive and detailed full back tattoo of Yggdrasil along her spine from shoulders to buttocks, with branches spreading to her upper arms and roots to her legs. Smells like pine, elm, and yew.  Alternating necklaces, bracelets, and arm guards made from leather.  Leather holster containing two batons made from yew wood.

PERSONALITY: “Open your mouth only if what you are going to say is more beautiful than silence."  At first meeting, Valerie seems like the strong and quiet type–and that’s about as accurate as it comes.  Actions speak louder than words.  She appears an elegant young woman with a sweet face–and by all means, she certainly CAN be those things–however, she is considered "delicate but deadly”.  If a patron is being unruly at Sakura, then she will gladly manipulate the branches at to toss their ass out.  Woe be the ones who commit acts of injustice because she WILL make them pay for their transgressions.  Retribution is swift and unapologetic.  Giving off hella “badass big sister” energy, her presence can be somewhat intimidating at times. 

While she may not verbally join in a conversation, she remains an active participant by being an excellent listener.  Her most beloved hobbies include hiking, climbing, camping, fishing, hunting, foraging, fighting, and leatherworking, known for detailed pieces by hand.

HISTORY: Vivian Zhang was a Chinese student studying to become an forester when she fell in love with the wilds of Norway; there was just something about the Scandinavian conifers that captured her heart, and there was something about HER that captured the heart of Vidar.  The romance was beautiful, though brief, ending in a beautiful tragedy when Vivian did not survive the birth of their daughter.  Rather than leaving her with grandparents who blamed the child for the loss of their daughter, Vidar brought Valerie to Mount Phoenix to be raised among others like her.  Though she rarely spoke, she made friends where it counted, proving herself to be a loyal companion and always standing up to bullies, developing quite the reputation.  Most knew not to mess with Valerie or her friends.

Life was pretty good.  Like her mother, she studied forestry, learning from the gods themselves at Phoenix University.  She was also naturally proficient in multiple fighting styles, proving herself to be adaptive and resourceful amid altercations.  Once graduating, she felt compelled to visit the forests of the world just as her mother had and thus ventured off to explore the world.  Over the next decade, she traveled to six out of seven continents.  When returning to the forests of the Scandes where she had been born, she met Skadi with whom she felt an immediate kinship and bonded very quickly.  Valerie had nothing but praise for the Jotunn’s beautiful mountains and was happy to inform the goddess about the mountains on the island where she grew up, that the Phoenix range was something to behold, and hoped Skadi would impart her knowledge on the children of the island who could use divine guidance from someone like her.  Once parting ways, Valerie continued to explore the forests of the world, but kept in touch with the goddess as well as a couple others on her journey.

With her 30th birthday approaching, she decided it was time to return to the island was in store after ten years abroad.  Returning home again was just like putting on her favorite sweater, fitting right in again, and finding her place working security at Sakura after learning her friend Jiang Yingyue worked at the establishment. 

PANTHEON:  Norse CHILD OF:  Vidar POWERS:

Floral manipulation–Able to grow and control plant materials at will such as creating whips from vine stems and staffs from sticks.  She often wears two batons made of yew wood that she transforms into various weapons or armor.

Silent Stride–A master of stealth, her movements are completely silent, even her breathing is undetectable.

STRENGTHS:

Righteous–Valerie often takes the moral high ground and stands up for injustice when she sees it.

Loyal–She takes oaths and promises VERY seriously.

Resourceful–She knows how to use her environment to her advantage.

WEAKNESSES:

Loud Noises–Valerie hates them.  She often wears noise-cancelling earbuds to deafen the volume of loud spaces.

Over-protective–She has been known to go a bit overboard when it comes to protecting her friends.

Communication–Unsurprisingly, Valerie does not talk much which makes it difficult to form strong connections.