#wallace emerson

[abitmoredetail]

Daffodils of Dupont #toronto #wallaceemerson #dupontstreet #garden #spring #flowers #daffodils #yellow

[quontology]

ELA project from senior year.

[robertfripp]

"It was Peter [Sinfield]'s idea to put the drums through the ring modulator of the VCS3 and so he had control of the sound and when I hit the drum it would go through all these weird sounds and whistles. We worked on it in rehearsals."

"Later on I got the idea of incorporating a bit of humour into the piece and at that time Carl Palmer was in ELP and during his drum solo he'd do these very fast notes on the kick drum whilst taking off his shirt. So I parodied this by doing very fast notes on the kick drum and taking off my shirt but, halfway through taking it off, I'd get it all tangled up and fall off the stool."

"I'd fall off behind the drums so nobody could see me and I'd grab a big huge wad of sticks and climb up the highest point above the drums and then throw the sticks like Keith Emerson would throw daggers at his Hammond. So they'd hit the toms and ricochet off into the audience and that's when Peter would put them through the VCS3. Then I'd jump down and finish the solo with the VCS3 on..."

"I heard Carl Palmer was not amused and I think I stopped doing it by the first American tour."

~ Ian Wallace on his drum solo during Get Thy Bearings

[websitewizard2005]

my ocs again 👍👍👍 based off a picture of green day

[gameofthunder66]

Evil (2019-2024) tv series

-(started) watchin' Season 1- 9/4/2024- on Paramount+

96% Rotten Tomatoes

[virgilsongs]

Storyteller singer-songwriter Kevin Virgil Wallace's 4th album

Storyteller singer-songwriter Kevin Virgil Wallace shares Love For All, his fourth collection of all-original tunes focusing on the shared human experience and promoting the importance of embracing love for all. Master guitarist Ken Emerson joins the band, laying down rollicking lead and steel guitar. Expanding his distinct Virgil retro vibe, smokin' hot electric violin, piano, and Rob Kyle on sax have all been added. Anchoring the set is everyone's favorite track, Life. 

[inc-immigrationnewscanada]

Woman finds hen wandering the streets of Toronto, hopes to find its owner

When Vera Belazelkoska took her dog out for a walk two weeks ago along a Toronto laneway by Wallace Emerson Park, the last thing she expected to come upon was a fowl sight. “There was a lot of commotion and there were many dog owners with dogs that were kind of looking at something,” Belazelkoska recounted. “And the dogs were lunging at it, and it was a chicken.” Wanting to know why this chicken…

[charmedreincarnation]

I shifted and manifested with your Morphics challenge !!!!!

I am sharing this on an alternate account because I don’t feel comfortable posting on my main account. I want to continue using my main account so, I hope that’s okay.

I’ve been in the LOA community for a while and have consumed every piece of information. You know how it is.. I had a Reddit and TikTok shifting account and was literally helping people shift with my advice. But aside from maybe slightly hearing or seeing my DR, I had never succeeded, and even that was years ago.

I’ve gotten lazier yet more somehow ambitious since 2020 when I first started this journey, which is insane because you know how when you first find out about shifting, you have a lot of symptoms and almost do it, but then months and years pass, and you’re more desperate yet doing the same useless things. It was like that. I was enlightened; I could spew every method to you backwards, studied many years from teachers like Neville Goddard, Joseph Murphy, Florence Scovel Shinn, Wayne Dyer, Earl Nightingale, Louise Hay, Esther Hicks (Abraham-Hicks), Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Wallace D. Wattles, Rhonda Byrne—okay, everyone and their teachers. I also spent so much money on paid subliminals, meditations, teacher personal subscriptions, witch spells, lucid dreaming supplements, etc., but there are some things money can’t buy, so really, don’t waste your money lol.

I’m not here to be wise and do nothing with that wisdom, so I realized maybe instead of trying to do everything so mighty and intricate and be pretentious in my intelligence, let me try something so simple I would be shocked if it worked. Then I came across a post that was like, "Everyone is going to shift in September," and I almost cried because I have been trying for almost 5 years. I’ve given everything, and I was starting to think LOA is a cult because, let’s be real, it checks off all the things of a cult:

1. Charismatic Leaders: Many LOA teachings are popularized by charismatic figures who attract devoted followings, similar to leaders in cults.

2. Promised Benefits: LOA often promises significant personal benefits, like wealth and happiness, which can be enticing and lead to strong adherence.

3. Community and Belonging: Followers of LOA often form tight-knit communities, sharing experiences and supporting each other, which can resemble the communal aspect of cults.

4. Us vs. Them Mentality: Some LOA teachings might create a divide between "believers" and "non-believers," fostering an exclusive mindset.

5. Simplistic Solutions: The idea that simply thinking positively can solve complex life issues might be seen as an oversimplification, similar to some cult ideologies.

It’s almost religious, but most people are religious, and you know what? Without faith in something, people might have probably just (TW) killed themselves. Everyone has some kind of cult behavior—religious, politics, loyalty to family who don’t love or respect them. At this point, if it was a cult, I guess I was okay with that. Hopefully, the belief would at least give some sort of false comfort. Because having awareness and enlightenment and still suffering is even worse. Ignorance is bliss, as they say.

Then I came across your challenge, and tbh I had tried every subliminal, meditation, binaural beat, etc., so at first, I thought, how will this be any different? But then I saw the LOA Bella success story, and I just felt this was my calling because I had never related to a success story so much. I wanted to cry because it felt like a sign.

This isn’t a very exciting or good story, but all I did was:

Morning
https://youtu.be/gOpZAPo8VvU?si=FA2oxWQkR6l2KU_M

During the day (together)
https://youtu.be/67T-wX2iqfM?si=-f-TvsYyQ_D-od1L
https://youtu.be/xwaSBZFucGg?si=8-XLLROuoIypBSu0

Overnight
https://youtu.be/uBHMmHbQwa0?si=h01rp0Ngdl7Xhv9C

Basically I had a lucid dream and woke up in my waiting room because I had used lucid dreams to get into the void state, but they were also fake voids, and it was annoying to think, "Wow, I’m going to wake up with my dream life," and then fail. So I was taking no chances. I had a dream I was at work, and this lazy girl was being lazy as usual but an actual nuisance. We were outside, and I was like, "Wait, I don’t work outside," and then I got too excited, so I started jumping around and did a backflip because I heard that helps stabilize the dream. Then I commanded my annoying coworker to take me to a portal, and she did. I envisioned my waiting room and set the intention that when I close my eyes and enter the portal, I would wake up in my WR. I walked through, and then I fell. I was scared to open my eyes, so I affirmed just in case as I fell, and I heard the beach waves, and I knew it was there.

I only did this for manifesting purposes because then I intended to shift back to the same reality but where I had my dream life and master shifting abilities and void ability.

Honestly, I was so depressed at that point I didn’t particularly have any dreams or aspirations, so I didn’t know what would make me happy, as sad as it sounds. But I just slid into my WR bed and set the intention because I knew anything is possible in my WR and fell asleep. When I woke up, I woke up in a brand new house with a brand new family in a beautiful room.

Now, like I said, I didn’t have any intentions, so for the last few days, I’ve been having so many surprises and things happening that I now realize, of course, I would want this. I am just very happy, and I can’t believe it was so easy after almost 4 years.

I don’t have any stupid enlightenment advice that I would have thought I would have when I finally succeeded. As stupid and cult-like as it sounds, don’t give up—something will click.

That's amazing! I'm so happy for you and your success :)) and I am even more happy that you’ve found happiness when you don’t even know what you wantedand that it worked out.

I had a very similar experience and what I took from this is to be open to experimenting with different methods because what might not work today could be the key tomorrow and it can seem random.

I wish you the best with your dream life and I hope you continue to find happiness in different ways

[doyouwanttoseeabug]

Ideal 90's/early 00's/whatever in the timeline Teen Titans team would be like. Bart irritates Wally one too many times (9 dead 100000 injured) so Wally's like "ok, I'm getting you some enrichment" and goes to Dick and says "hey, do you want to help me restart the teen titans and train some younger heroes?" Dick says "no I'm too busy sorry" and Kyle, who just happened to be near Dick at that time, says "I'll do it." Wally ignores him. Wally goes to every single member of the teen titans that has ever been. Living and dead. He begs Bloodwynd to help him necromance up some ghosts so he can ask them about co-leadership and every single one says 'im sorry, I'm too busy/dead, but I think Kyle might want to help." Wally turns around and Kyle is drinking a bubble tea and waving obnoxiously.

"Fine," says Wally, after Terra's ghost confirms that she's really too busy at ghost therapy to help. "You fucking suck and I hate you though."

"I can't wait to shape the next generation of heroes with you," says Kyle, and then spits a boba into Wally's outraged open mouth.

Unfortunately they don't get a lot of teen heroes because. Uh. Their pitch is...

"I've been a hero since I gave myself superpowers at fourteen," says Wally. "And Kyle's been a hero since an alien accidentally dropped godlike power on him while he was high in an alley! So for, like, six weeks? We both have so much experience to give to the youth."

"Thank you for bringing up the godlike power, Wallace!" says Kyle. "I can help teen heroes grapple with responsibility, and Wally can emphasize with their feelings of total inadequacy when compared to their mentors."

"I think Robin is going to stay in Gotham for now, actually," says Batman. "I think it's safer."

What they end up with is Ray Terrill (suggested by Martian Man Hunter), Slobo (turned up on their doorstep to bully Ray), Grant Emerson and Rose Wilson (Roy called Wally and was like "hey I heard you're looking for kids." Wally: "please don't phrase it like that but yes") and, obviously, Bart. Kyle looks upon what he has wrought and wonders if maybe he's taken this bit slightly too far but he's trapped now. He's fucking trapped. He can't leave without making everyone think Wally is a better leader than him. "YOU BABY TRAPPED ME INTO A LOVELESS MARRIAGE," he screams at Wally, who, one arm around Bart and the other around Slobo as they try and bite each other's hair off (bonding) screams back, "JUST STOP BEING SO DRAMATIC I AM BEGGING YOU JUST STOP SAYING WEIRD SHIT"

[rivkat]

Evil (TV)

Ok, you all were right about IWTV. Might you consider Evil? The show follows a hot Catholic priest-in-training, the hot atheist shrink to whom he is desperately attracted, and their hot lapsed Muslim tech guy as they investigate and try to prove/disprove demonic possessions. It is incredibly, delightfully unhinged. Part of it is that the show started on network TV, then moved to streaming in its second season, leading to the absolute best evolution where characters who were reasonably well-behaved start spouting "fuck" at the drop of a hat in S2, including a delightful nearly silent episode that was actually filmed while they still thought they'd be on network, so after filming they replaced the "thought dialogue" onscreen that the actor thought he was filming with a stream of "fuck, fuck, fuckity fuck," to hilarious effect. There's body horror, Catholic guilt, an amazingly toxic mother (Christine Lahti, having the time of her life), four kids who have clearly been instructed to just yammer every time they are on screen together--making them more realistic than 80% of TV kids from the get-go--examination of misogyny and anti-Blackness, critiques of modern internet culture, and the occasional Wallace Shawn. Also, the tech guy is Aasif Mandvi and the hot priest is Mike Colter (Jessica Jones/Luke Cage). And the bad guy is Michael Emerson (Harold Finch), chewing scenery like he only gets paid if he goes over the top.

Shorter rec: What if Hannibal and The X-Files had a deeply online baby? My one caveat is that this is a deeply cynical show, which feels a little like watching Cabaret: It's a sick culture and the show is not interested in fixing it, only in displaying it pinned open on a table so we can poke at the nastiest parts.

[abitmoredetail]

Galleria on the Park rising #toronto #wallaceemerson #galleriaonthepark #condos #construction #dupontstreet

[coimbrabertone]

The Viceroy Rule: How NASCAR Learned from Indycar's Biggest Mistake.

Or more broadly: the Viceroy Rule: How NASCAR learned from Indycar's biggest mistake, and how Indycar wound up reaping the benefits of NASCAR's solution.

So, our story begins in 1971: Marlboro is in its second year of sponsoring the USAC Championship Trail, Vel's Parnelli Jones Racing is the top team in Indycar racing with Al Unser as their driver, and USAC (particularly the Indianapolis 500) is starting to boom.

Al Unser had won the 1970 championship, the 1970 and 1971 Indianapolis 500s, and teammate Joe Leonard would win the 1971 championship on top of that.

Vel's Parnelli Jones Racing is becoming the first Indycar superteam.

And to top it all off, for 1972, VPJ would add Mario Andretti, winner of the 1969 Indianapolis 500 and 1969 USAC championship. Team owner Vel Miletich now had the last three champions and the winners of the last three Indianapolis 500s.

An expensive lineup, to be sure.

Thus, the team was happy to sign Viceroy cigarettes as their sponsor for the 1972 season. They would be on the cars of Unser and Andretti, while Joe Leonard carried on with Samsonite sponsorship.

This outraged Marlboro, because they were paying big money to sponsor USAC in 1970 and 1971, now for 1972, the top team was going to be sponsored by a rival cigarette company? It was outrageous, it was unfair, how can one be on the council and not be a master?

Thus, for 1972, Marlboro cut their series sponsorship.

Meanwhile, Penske's Mark Donohue would snatch the Indianapolis 500 away from Al Unser, while the championship would go to Joe Leonard once again - the one VPJ driver that wasn't sponsored by Viceroy cigarettes.

Marlboro would not return to Indycar racing until 1986, and at that point, it was CART, not USAC, that was calling the show. Furthermore, Vel's Parnelli Jones was gone, and the new super team in CART was Penske Racing. Marlboro would first partner with Penske in 1989, as part of a complicated swap deal with Patrick Racing, who ran the primary Marlboro car.

The deal goes as follows: Patrick Racing team owner would retire at the end of 1989, handing the reigns to former driver Chip Ganassi. Meanwhile, Penske would get driver Emerson Fittipaldi and sponsor Marlboro for the 1990 season. In the meantime, Patrick and Fittipaldi would get a Penske chassis for 1989, while Marlboro took over sponsorship duties for Penske's oval only third car.

The driver of that car? Al Unser, ironically enough.

Thus, for 1990, Penske would be a three-car team, with Emerson Fittipaldi and Danny Sullivan wearing Marlboro colors, whilst Rick Mears would continue in the Pennzoil yellow submarine for another year.

Around this time, Marlboro would also dump money into events as well: sponsoring the Marlboro Grand Prix at the Meadowlands, the Marlboro 500 at Michigan and later Fontana, and the Marlboro Challenge all-star race held at a variety of tracks in the late 80s and early 90s. Marlboro was all over CART, but they never became a series title sponsor again.

Marlboro money was all over the place, but that meant it was going all over the place as well, instead of being funneled into the series more broadly.

What could've happened in Marlboro remained as the USAC title sponsor? Would the USAC/CART split have even happened? How about the later CART/IRL split? Nobody can say for sure, but there was another series that benefitted greatly from those two splits: NASCAR.

The 1979 Daytona 500 held whilst the entire east coast of the United States was snowed in, ending with the iconic fistfight between Cale Yarborough and the Allison brothers. It happened during the second of the three great schisms in American Open Wheel Racing (the AAA/USAC split in 1955, and then the aforementioned two) propelled NASCAR from a regional sport in the southeast into a national phenomenon.

The likes of Dale Earnhardt, Dale Jarett, Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace, and Bill Elliott were already household names by the time the split happened, and then the likes of Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart, and Dale Jr. emerged to carry NASCAR into its 2000s boom period.

NASCAR was taking advantage of Indycar's mistakes, and they were also learning from Indycar's mistakes.

Enter the Viceroy Rule.

NASCAR was perfectly content with the likes of Coke and Pepsi competing with each other, teams could be sponsored by rival companies, but when it came to sponsors partnering with NASCAR itself, those all got exclusivity contracts.

Thus, with NASCAR Cup sponsored by Winston cigarettes, there was never a Marlboro NASCAR, no Players, no KOOL, no Mild Seven, nothing. The only tobacco sponsorship in NASCAR was Winston itself, and Winston owned Camel that briefly sponsored Travis Carter Enterprises' #23 car.

This was actually to NASCAR's advantage, because while the likes of F1, Indycar, and MotoGP clung onto tobacco money until the bitter end, NASCAR's teams, by and large, developed a clean image with sponsors like Home Depot, UPS, and DeWalt.

Even alcohol sponsors in NASCAR were, until the mid-2000s, confined to light beers instead of hard liquors.

The bigger hurdle was that Unocal 76 (and later Sunoco) were the official fuel of NASCAR, so they had exclusivity too. However, that wasn't a particularly big problem, as the other fuel companies just promoted their motor oil brands instead. Hence to this day, Joey Logano's sponsorship is Shell Pennzoil, rather than simply Royal Dutch Shell. This is also the case with ExxonMobil's Mobil 1 brand, and historically the case with Texaco's Havoline brand.

Thus, the Viceroy rule was initially to NASCAR's gain, at least until 2003.

See, in 2003, Winston's sponsorship of NASCAR ended, and for 2004, telecommunications company Nextel took the reins. This caused a problem, since a lot of NASCAR teams' clean sponsors were in the telecommunications industry.

NASCAR's solution was for the likes of Cingular Wireless, on Robby Gordon's #31 for Richard Childress Racing and Alltel, on Ryan Newman's #12 for Penske Racing, was to grandfather in these deals signed before Nextel took over.

The problem with that is that the 2000s were a time of massive telecommunications transfers. In 2004, Cingular Wireless would buy out AT&T Wireless, leading to the orange and black Cingular car becoming orange and blue, but come 2006, and AT&T was now buying out the entirety of Cingular Wireless instead. Likewise, Alltel would be acquired by Verizon in 2008.

Hell, NASCAR itself wasn't safe from it, because Nextel was bought out by Sprint in 2006, leading to the championship becoming the Sprint Cup Series in 2008 when the Nextel brand was phased out.

Unfortunately, that didn't gain RCR or Penske any leniency.

AT&T and NASCAR would go into a series of lawsuits from 2007 and 2008 before eventually settling with AT&T leaving NASCAR, while Alltel left Cup after 2008. Penske's #12 car initially ran a black and red Penske scheme that resembled the Verizon logo, while Verizon itself sponsored the Nationwide Series (now Xfinity) team in 2009 and 2010.

Also in 2009, a promising young Champ Car driver named Will Power joined Penske, initially as a replacement for Helio Castroneves who was in the midst of a tax fraud case, but later in a third car running Verizon colors.

In 2010, this arrangement would become permanent, Will Power driving the #12 Verizon Penske Indycar, a car he drives to this day.

From 2014 to 2018, Verizon would also be the title sponsor of the entire Indycar series. During this time, Verizon would also appear as a sponsor on Juan Pablo Montoya's #2 Penske during select races.

Thus, Indycar's biggest mistakes in the 1970s turned into one of the biggest Indycar sponsorships in the 2010s, one that continues into the 2020s.

[emilythezeldafan]

Another OC

Made an American Horror Story OC, plus two variants of her. Might make them for the rest of the seasons too.

Matilda Emerson (American Horror Story: Murder House/American Horror Story: Apocalypse)

Mariella Emery (American Horror Story: Asylum)

Mandy Erikson (American Horror Story: Freak Show)

all played by Alexa Vega as Shilo Wallace in Repo! The Genetic Opera

[websitewizard2005]

Halloween Goats, circa 2005.

[mothmorality]

ꜰᴇᴀᴛᴜʀᴇᴅ ʜᴇʀᴇ ᴀʀᴇ ᴀ ꜰᴇᴡ ᴏꜰ ᴍʏ ᴘʀᴇᴍᴀᴅᴇ ᴍᴜsᴇs, ᴀʟᴏɴɢ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴀ ᴍᴏᴠɪᴇ/ᴛᴠ qᴜᴏᴛᴇ ɪ ᴛʜɪɴᴋ ᴍᴀᴛᴄʜᴇs ᴇᴀᴄʜ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇᴍ. ᴇᴀᴄʜ ᴄʜᴀʀᴀᴄᴛᴇʀ ᴄᴀɴ ʙᴇ ᴄʜᴀɴɢᴇᴅ sʟɪɢʜᴛʟʏ ᴛᴏ ꜰɪᴛ ᴅɪꜰꜰᴇʀᴇɴᴛ ɴᴀʀʀᴀᴛɪᴠᴇs

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"without the self-criticism, i'd be lost."

aurora hirsch // wanderer. early to mid 20s. stoner living in her van out of choice, not necessity. lover of the spontaneous and dramatic.

faceclaim/talia ryder.

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"i know these will all be stories someday."

sylas kit sinclair // mediator. early to mid 20s. soft-spoken and witty, non-confrontational, inexperienced.

faceclaim/thomas weatherall.

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"i will not accept a life i do not deserve."

juliette rose holloway // manipulator. mid to late 20s. borderline narcissistic, overly sexual, non-commital.

faceclaim/ella purnell.

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"i want to hide in a place that makes me comfortable."

camille jean burkeley // waif. early 20s. outwardly cowardice and gullible, inwardly cunning and calculating. all around bubbly.

faceclaim/elle fanning.

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"how is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world i never knew?"

valentine 'val' crawford // perfectionist. late 20s to early 30s. professional, nerdy, experienced.

faceclaim/tom hughes.

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"i'm a girl, i should do as i like."

juniper eve wallace // gossip. early to mid 20s. mean girl, uncaring, lover of hook ups and drama.

faceclaim/maddie phillips.

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"i'm sorry? what the hell am i sorry for?"

jasper august laurent // thrill-seeker. early to mid 20s. outgoing, loud, honest, and a bit rude.

faceclaim/oktay çubuk.

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”no, i’m not afraid to disappear.”

georgia leclaire // survivor. early to mid 20s. strong-willed, final girl, insomniac, jumpy, resilient.

faceclaim/sadie soverall

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“the world isn’t that good.”

kinsley elowyn drummond // rogue. early to mid 20s. princess of the kingdom of celestoria. can be rude, often in disagreement with the other royals in her kingdok, gets along better with those who have no royal connections.

faceclaim / lily james

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“for as long as the sun and the moon shall endure.”

clyde emerson // guardian. mid to late 20s. obsessive, compulsive, posessive, and gentle only with who he is seeing.

faceclaim / simone baldasseroni

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”all i have to say is, some people will be sorry someday.”

vivian everly fitz // innocent. early to mid 20s. girl next door, bright eyed, bubbly, emotional.

faceclaim / diana silvers

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”i want to fall in love. but, i’m bored of everyone i meet.”

diana isla winslow // manipulator. mid 20s. two-faced, self serving, survivalist.

faceclaim / halston sage

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”you dream in a language i can’t understand.”

clara sutton golding // traveller. early to mid 20s. commitment issues, trouble staying in one place, bright disposition.

faceclaim / maia reficco

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ᴡɪʟʟ ʙᴇ ᴇᴅɪᴛᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ᴀᴅᴅ ᴍᴏʀᴇ ᴏᴠᴇʀ ᴛɪᴍᴇ. ɪꜰ ʏᴏᴜ ᴡᴏᴜʟᴅ ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴡʀɪᴛᴇ ᴀɢᴀɪɴsᴛ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇᴍ, ꜰᴇᴇʟ ꜰʀᴇᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴍᴇssᴀɢᴇ ᴍᴇ﹗