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[whoops-im-obsessed]

Everything I remember from mischief movie night last night!!

Last night (13/8/24) was 'In-Tents Love' a rom-com set in a summer camp for troubled youths featuring a Parisian anime scene. Because.. of course.

Henry Lewis Oscar!! Bro was having so much fun with this, he was just grinning at his castmates the whole time

Cast was Shields, Josh, Niall, Bryony, Susan and Ellie!

Started with someone suggesting Hull as a location which got a round of applause and Henry Lewis to say 'we never should have written that fucking line'

Whole cast were very scared by the anime suggestion

The movie started with a song which started with Niall singing 'IM TROUBLED' and everyone sung about what they'd done to end up here and that there's gonna be troubleeee for me! And troubleeee for you!

Shout out to the late comers in the front row who got pointed at and told there would be trouble for them

Niall (Bobby) hugs things so hard they die

Bryony (Mary Sue) sets stuff on fire and lives alone in a tent

Josh (Tommy) I actually don't remember

Susan (Sue?? Was referred mostly to as mystery girl) seemed to be there for no reason

And Ellie (token Penelope) stole 1000 bees

Shields (Richard) was in charge of the camp

After the song Bobby and Tommy had a conversation and it was implied that they would be the love interests until it was revealed that Bobby killed Tommy's dog by hugging it too hard, still were potential love interests until Bobby said 'how's dad?' And Oscar had to call a pause and yell 'THEYRE BROTHERS'

The other characters are getting to know each other by the river, Mary Sue sets a fire and Mystery girl (who maybe had a name by now idk) doesn't know what it is and kept touching it (fire admirably played by Niall and the blue cloth)

Its revealed that Penelope has a crush on Tommy! The others tell her she needs to go for it. She decides she's gonna give him a dead bee.

It is revealed in this scene that mystery girl is here for a reason and its actually because she has loads of underage sex

Cue Josh joined quickly by Shields and Niall chanting 'sex~' while doing a camp little dance

Cut to a directors (Josh) interview where he was asked why he decided to have 3 grown men chanting sex in the back of this scene and he said he went to an all boys boarding school and that's just what they did there. He was promptly arrested.

The girls sing a song about the birds and the bees which turned into a sing along chorus where we all had to go 'what about beeees? What about beeees? What about bees? And Birds!'

Bobby and Tommy are about to have a breakthrough and say they love eachother when Penelope goes along and interrupts the brotherly bonding by giving Tommy a dead bee on a piece of string as a ring. He is disgusted and then into it and they go on a date.

Bobby is heartbroken bc he has a crush on Penelope and Richard gives him some advice - you miss all the shots you don't take. During this they were playing basketball and Richard was very good and didn't let anyone else have a turn. When Bobby did have a turn he missed.

It turns out Richard read Bobby's diary to learn about his crush and the Parisian anime scene is him trying to find it - cue Shields doing dramatic moves and a strong French accent trying to find 'La Diary!!!' When he found it, it granted him 'POWER'

The bee was apparently 'Einstein's bee' and when asked to explain, the director said he sneezed on the keyboard and kept it in, he was then asked where the bodies were.

The next scene started with Tommy doing an odd ballet dance which Oscar promptly paused

Tommy and Penelope were on their date on a boat, during the set up for this scene Bryony whacked Ellie in the head with a walking stick (oops)

Penelope only knows how to row in circles

The two talk and Penelope is too eager, telling Tommy she loves him, he doesn't like this and jumps off the boat and swims away. Penelope gets stuck going in circles.

Cut to Bobby and Mary Sue having a nice chat, they decide to be friends and sing a song about how amazing it is to be friends! This is interrupted by Tommy who asks Mary Sue on a date and Bobby is broken hearted a second time

Neither Josh nor Susan remembered Mary Sue's name and tried several ways to get around it, interrupted by Oscar, until they ended up saying she had 'Marie energy'

Mary Sue and Tommy go on a fishing date where Mary Sue throws rocks into the river to kill the fish. Tommy says how much he likes her and She doesn't like it and runs away.

Penelope is distraught and goes to Richard for advice, she's upset that everyone is pairing off and she doesn't have anyone. There's an interlude where Richard is met by Lord Gerald who runs all of the summer camps and wanted to check up on him. It seems there may be something there until the police arrive questioning Richard's intentions - Oscar interrupts this so it doesn't descend into madness and the scene continues with Gerald repeating Richard's name several times, as up until this point he didn't have one.

When Gerald leaves, Penelope is upset because Richard was supposed to be giving her advice! He gives her the same advice as he gave Bobby and its a sweet scene until she eats the bee and spits it back out. She takes a shot with the basketball and also misses.

The girls meet up by the river again and agree that boys are bad. The mystery girl introduces the concept of lesbianism and Mary Sue has a bit of a realisation - this looks like it might turn into another song until Bobby interrupts to say Tommy is hanging off the balcony

Tommy is upset and claims the balcony is his safe space - everyone agrees this is not a very safe space actually.

They try to calm him down and Bobby eventually tells Tommy he loves him, they get Tommy down and they have a hug, which doesn't kill anything this time.

Its revealed that Richard has actually been reading everyone's diaries and was trying to get them all to have sex the whole time. He learns about the concept of familial love and decides to turn himself in

The kids decide they aren't gonna go back to their horrible home lives and that they're just gonna stay at camp actually, they learn they can choose their own family and its very sweet

It ends with a song about the birds and the bees again, which goes 'the birds and the bees, the bees and the bees! What ever you please at summer camp!'

[sexxyyyyvivv]

bodhi grey carter.

“21, can u do something for me?”

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icebreaker bf / valentine’s man

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physical description

18/19

6’7 - HUGE!! his dad is 6’11

he has fluffy, loose chocolate curls in a little mullet

(pjo ver) child of zeus or hephaestus i cant decide

eyes are a gentle toasty brown that crinkle when he smiles

kind of a square jaw with a baby face and dark freckles with those little dimples the ladies love

he’s verr tan because his mama is dominican and he has soft muscle with a little bit of fat on his tummy where abs are trying to poke thru

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misc.

trying to get on the la kings

really good defenseman

part innuit and grew up in alaska from 4-13

fav food is jerky and.. mac and cheese bison burgers?

very burmese mountain dog

has a husky named salmon

kind of stupid ngl gpa is JUST BARELY enough so he can play hockey for his school and he only makes decent grades because he pays kids to do his homework..

drinks exclusively gatorade like hates water idk why

no beer hard liquor all day

lived in michigan for a while before finally moving to california for school and hockey

fav color is navy blue and black

fav movies are: top gun, karate kid, fast and furious, etc

listens to rap (nle choppa, 21 savage, drake, kanye, etc..)

used to play basketball because of his height

has to wear glasses but hates them so he walks around blind because he hates contacts too

obsessed with stranger things and the office

very gentle (ish) for his size

HUGE!! (ifykwim)

loves parties

def a boob guy

basically hibernates in winter when he’s not at school or hockey

knows some spanish, kreyòl, and iñupiaq

drives the most beat-up jeep you’ve ever seen in the entire world

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background and parentage

mom

ashley ‘ash’ anaïca carter - formerly etienne

nurse

dominican, born in la vega and lived in australia for most of her life

moved to michigan later on for a job

dad

lucas grey carter

ex-nhl player, now a gym teacher at maple hills

grandmother is directly an alaska native

other grandmother is haitian

born in juneau and lived in michigan for most of his life

how did they meet?

they went to the same summer camp in michigan and fell in love when they were 16, been together since!

bodhi growing up.

at 24, ash found out she was pregnant after a big new year’s party with some work friends and family. both parents were extremely excited and happy to have a baby and they stayed in michigan until bodhi was four and ash was offered a better paying job at a hospital in maple hills. however, neither could care for bodhi anymore while they were still trying to get their home built and a stable living situation so bodhi was sent to live with his grandma and grandpa in juneau. he lived there until about 13/14 before ash and lucas were ready and he could live with them in california where he went to school and began to attend the college of california to play hockey for them after he was noticed by a youth scout a few years ago.

alaska.

bodhi loved living in alaska, but he got terribly homesick and thought his parents left him forever. he grew up ice fishing, and his grandfather had a wide collection of huskies for hikes and snow sledding. one particular husky, salmon, stuck out to bodhi and the two became very close and his grandfather allowed him to take salmon back to california when he moved. he felt like an outcast like when cadie from mean girls had to move back from africa, everyone thought he was some caveman from the mountains but he was just a normal guy and an absolute monster at hockey.

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@theyy-heartt-valentinee

[female-buckets]

What do you mean when you say Storms front office has priorities besides winning?

They have a very tight-lipped administrative and team culture and maintaining that is their top priority.

When other players leave Chicago and LA, they talk about how those teams don't have lockers.

The Storm hasn't had lockers until this year. But players don't say anything about it when they leave. The only one who's said anything about it is Katie Lou. When the practice facility opened, journalists finally spoke about it a little. But they didn't say anything before the facility opened. LA and Chicago can't go a day without being blasted for their facilities. Meanwhile, the Storm has been using Chicago/LA level facilities throughout the entire Force 10 era. And most fans had no idea because the team administration keeps a tight lock on their PR.

I know where they've been practicing because I used to do youth basketball summer camps there. It's the basement gym at the SPU athletic center. As SPU youth basketball campers, we got to use the basement court and the main courts. The Storm only got to use the basement court. And we never saw them because they had to schedule their practices around our camps 😂

[ambitionsource]

wait i actually have more weirdly specific questions (if ur up to it) - how do the kids feel about poetry? do they follow any sports? what childhood tv shows were their favs? do they have celebrity crushes? fav coming of age movie? how are they doing in quarantine? what time in history were they obsessed w as a kid? have they ever been to summer camp? what type of candles do they like? what song do they cry to? how do they drink their coffee/tea sorry if u’ve answered already/too many questions

wooooo thank you for your patience iz!! we’re gonna go point by point

poetry?

charlie loves it genuinely and will read it for fun. riley likes it enough but doesn’t go out of her way to read it. farkle loves coming up with insane explanations for the metaphors and is smug about interpreting it in class. zay doesn’t care for it, neither does lucas. asher appreciates it but finds it boring; dylan likes it for the same reason farkle does, only not to look smart but to come up with something completely crackheaded to combat farkle’s interpretation (which he can’t then say isn’t correct, bc its poetry, so all interpretations are valid!). isa doesn’t like it because she doesn’t get the metaphors on paper the same way she can pick them up in film. maya hates it even though multiple people have pointed out that song lyrics are basically poetry -- she will tune you out.

sports?

sports aren’t Big at aaa (aside from dance), but there are remnants here and there. riley follows basketball of course -- even tho as demonstrated in 110, she cannot play it to save herself -- and she tried out for cheer in 9th grade at her old school but was rejected from the squad (another bad mark on a terrible year). farkle prefers wii sports over any actual sport, but will sometimes watch golf with stuart because it’s quality time with his very busy father. charlie did soccer when he was younger before it got phased out by dance and semi keeps up with it. dylan also “played” soccer, but this meant the other little league teammates getting pissed at him bc he never paid attention to the game and was just like “hey! hey, dennis, look at this!” and did like 3 cartwheels across the field. it was a smart move when randall pulled him from the team bc those intense soccer moms were gonna like beat them up fDJSKG. so now dylan is just an unofficial gymnast instead.

isa doesn’t like sports but played them a lot with foster siblings, and even though she sucks she gets very competitive. lucas liked baseball and was good at track in middle school, but he never thought about doing a sport for real because he knew he was going to quincy eventually where his dad is a coach... yeah. no. but he’s great at running fast from the police!

maya hates sports (aside from the art of dance). waste of time, waste of energy. asher has never done a sport nor ever contemplated a sport. the most Sport he’s endured is going with jade to support dave at his swim meets (where nigel also does swim) and suffice to say, asher wasn’t there to look at the swimming.

childhood tv?

dylan to this day is a spongebob squarepants STAN. legend, icon, scholar, best television show ever made, in his opinion. he also was well-versed in pokemon, adventure time, gravity falls, and phineas and ferb. asher and lucas both didn’t watch lots of tv growing up (if at all), so dylan considers it his job to give asher a thorough education in the quality tv he missed as a kid.

maya was all over hannah montana (miley is still a role model to this day for her), and she, zay, and charlie all remember the fever dream that was shake it up. zay especially loved it bc he was (is) obsessed with zendaya. zay and maya both also watched victorious. charlie was sharing a tv with four siblings so he just ended up watching whatever the dominant sister that day wanted to watch. riley was a disney channel girl, and farkle was a pbs scholar (arthur, cyber chase, fetch! with ruff ruff man... classics).

 celebrity crushes?

zay = zendaya (as previously mentioned). charlie = harry styles to a major degree, although his Cover Story would be zendaya if you asked (ironically). maya = britney spears (but in a I Want To Be Her way, major idolization rather than attraction) and technically the same for valerie de la cruz but like... rip to that lmao. isa = loki, yes we know, but sometimes it be that way (altho that does extend a little bit towards tom hiddleston in general). asher = logan lerman, aka the main valid white boy who dresses nice, is polite and soft-spoken, and minds his own business (not to mention he is the Same Type as dylan). dylan = had crushes more on like... personalities so like ash ketchum and percy jackson, and now its irrelevant bc he met asher and became obsessed and its like every other potential crush just flew out the window of his brain. it’s full asher territory in there nowadays.

riley doesn’t have a specific one, she thinks lots of people are Pretty but no one particularly strongly. farkle doesn’t have one because he’s insane and doesn’t have the mental capacity. lucas doesn’t have one because he’s demi and also hates most celebrities as people.

coming-of-age movie?

maya’s is mean girls. farkle’s is ladybird. zay’s is easy a. riley’s is bend it like beckham. isadora’s is eighth grade. charlie’s is dead poet’s society. asher’s is perks of being a wallflower. dylan’s is spiderman: into the spiderverse. lucas doesn’t know movies.

quarantine?

we’ve somewhat discussed this before, but ultimately es and i elected to let aaa remain in a nice, calm universe where they don’t have to endure covid. lucky them. blow a kiss to the ether for us, buds,

fave time in history?

riley is huge on ancient greece and greek mythology. maya loves the theatricality and Drama of the roaring 20s (a baby flapper at heart). zay vibes hard with the 80s. charlie likes the fashion and romanticism and music and art of the 70s (that sort of flowery positivity clashing with the rebelliousness of the movements of the 60s... yeah. that hits something in him). farkle’s is the great depression not only bc he’s an emo but also all the raw and desperate art that came out of it. isadora was a egyptian mythology kid. i know lucas sounds lame (he is), but i don’t think he cares about history -- but if pushed he’d probably say the 90s bc he dresses like he’s straight out of there, everyone was angry rocking, and he wasn’t born. asher likes the victorian era bc of the sheer elegance and Aesthetic to everything. dylan doesn’t have a favorite time period because due to being the subconscious multiverse conduit (i.e. the being that is somewhat connected to every other version of himself) sometimes he wakes up and for a minute he doesn’t even know what year it is 🤪anyway...

summer camp?

charlie has been to many a christian youth summer camp. zay went to the kossal program, but that was basically it. lucas no although he probably wished he could be anywhere else during the summer sometimes including a camp he would hate. riley went for a few years in elementary school. isa has gone to a couple of “foster kid” summer camp bonding things that she despised. farkle went to jewish summer camp One time and was like that was HORRIBLE, never make me spend a whole summer outside AGAIN. asher was more of a Enrichment courses at the rec center during the summer kid than a camper. dylan no because the orlandos couldn’t afford something like that. same for maya.

candles?

riley has a small variety of scented ones that are like... warm scents, like cinnamon and stuff. asher a couple that smell like clean linen but his fear of accidental fires keeps him from ever lighting them. maya has one and it smells like “star power,” a gift from her mom one christmas. isadora can’t have any because many of her foster homes don’t allow them. lucas legally shouldn’t be allowed anything that catches on fire. dylan doesn’t have one but similarly should not be given one. the minki have a whole collection for different things so farkle can just pluck one at any time if he needs one like for a super fancy bath or whatever the fuck rich people do.

mental breakdown song?

charlie’s are “falling” and “from the dining table” by harry styles.

riley’s is “manhattan” by sara bareilles and “rainbow” by kacey musgraves.

zay’s are “imagine” by ariana and “dear life” from the step up soundtrack (post zc breakup).

farkle’s are “vienna” by billy joel and “get it right” from glee.

asher’s is “don’t cry” by ruel.

isa’s is “you are my sunshine” because valerie used to sing it to her a lot when she was really little, so it will always make her a little emotional.

dylan’s (although rare) are “soon you’ll get better” by ts and “make you feel my love” by adele. the second one is because his mom loved adele when she was just starting out bc 19 was released the same year that she passed away so there’s a lot of like subconscious association there even if he doesn’t realize it.

maya doesn’t have one, and lucas also doesn’t have one because in the rare moments he does cry its in his closet in the dark silence alone bc he literally can’t stand the sentience of knowing he’s crying so. sensory blackout.

coffee / tea?

riley will add at least 3 sugars to anything, but she’s ultimately an iced tea gal. lucas drinks it black but only because it never occurred to him to add anything to it and so it’s a big wake up call when he realizes you can drink it and have it NOT be bitter and horrible and demoralizing ( “i thought we were all just suffering for the caffeine fix??” ). isa is a tea girl mostly, although she wishes she could drink black coffee for the aesthetic (and hates that lucas can... it’s like... he didn’t even Earn that aestheticism, smh). asher doesn’t drink caffeine bc it makes him Jittery (and he’s already jittery) so he’s like... the lemonade bitch at coffee shops which kin, and then dylan definitely drinks caffeine but not thru coffee, he’s more likely to get like a hot chocolate.

farkle lives on coffee but he can only drink it from home because they’re rich and can have like fresh ground good imported whatever the heck etc etc so he’s like spoiled about coffee. zay will hit up a starbucks now and then and will order coffee at a diner, but he’s not too attached either way. maya is a fun n free starbucks gal with her frappes and lattes and lots of cream (whipped or otherwise). charlie doesn’t drink coffee or tea bc hes hyper aware of his body and health (he doesn’t really have soda either) and it was frowned upon in his house.

[robtrujilloart]

Camp Atwater - Black History Month

Last summer I heard about Camp Atwater-a historic piece of Black and American history. I was driving through LA listening to Code Switch. Episode "Summer Vacation" spoke about people of color in the outdoors, the damage the sun can do, and this camp. 

Camp Atwater was founded in 1921 by Dr. William DeBerry. He purchased some 54 acres of land in North Brookfield Massachusetts. That's roughly the size of two baseball stadiums! Dr. DeBerry was was part of the Urban League in Springfield (MA). The Urban League is an organization founded in 1910 in NYC to fight for the rights of Black folks in the US. DeBerry, who was also a pastor helped get a chapter going in Springfield where a sizable population of Black folks had grown. As part of the great migration of Blacks from the South to northern cities. Anyway, Black folks could not send their children to camps owned by Whites. So DeBerry founded Camp Atwater, previously called "St. John's Camp" after the local church. 

Atwater is the oldest Black owned camp for Black children in the US. They have a time slot during the summer for boys, and one fir girls. Kids come, and stay in cabins. They get three meals a day, and the hang out, do activities, have fun. Atwater has offered archery, baseball, basketball, Black history, chess, creative writing, drama, fishing, football, hiking, lacrosse, martial arts, soccer, and more. Swimming stuck out to me because like the camp's Black folks often didn't have access to pools back then. Camp Atwater was set on the shore of a lake and they made sure youth knew how to swim! 

Being in existence this long makes me wonder what kind of organization, project management, bookkeeping, conflict resolution, and grit it has taken to keep it open for nearly a century! On their site you can read more about them and I highly recommend listening to the CodeSwitch episode which interviews former attendees and talks about the economic mix of kids. I would love to hear how they are welcoming or being open to transgender Black kids who don't identify as Boy or Girl. . But, BIG shout out to Camp Atwater for making building a sanctuary. And big shout out to Outdoor Afro who has reignited a long tradition of Black folks getting outdoorsy and new to the outdoors Black folks together.

If you are new to my blog, my name is Robert Liu-Trujillo. I'm a father, husband, and an illustrator from the Bay Area. I love hiking, camping, backpacking, and I even did some fishing with my grandparents as a kid. For this image I wanted to focus on some of the activities the camp has offered while also giving a feeling of being outdoors. I also have been painting and drawing images for Black history month for the last three years. To see more of them  CLICK HERE. -Rob Sources: Codeswitch NPR Podcast, Camp Atwater, Urban League of Springfield,  Black Past

[majormeilani]

theory and analysis

okay so this is all just something that i came up with along with the help of a friend (@moosensweaters) and maybe a few other things i've come across. 

of course this is all just observations that we made and none of it may be actually true so don't freak out but-- it's a theory and analysis that involves some elements of the show that may or may not be spoilery so??? read at your own risk or watch the show first before reading. (it also makes more sense if you do!!)

 it pertains to the slight mystery of some of the strange occurrences and is an attempt to explain why they happen. also buckle in because this shit is long as fuck 

@moosensweaters could elaborate on some of the things i missed too bc i certainly didn’t catch every detail!!!

 now i know that A LOT of the show is based around the use of visual gags and circumstances that an adult cartoon would have and it's not really plot heavy in any way but hear me out. 

 now, jasper is likely dead but the matter of circumstance that it happened is.... unusual? 

but first we have to delve into who exactly jasper is. 

so in the first episode that we see jasper (s1e5), he appears as any other kid:

but throughout the episode, even though it's likely because of the fact that they are trying to find the "ghosts and monsters" jasper seems..... uneasy and afraid?

esp in the lab and when they find the things in the.... torture chamber?   

and at the end of the episode he... fades away like a ghost?

and keep in mind he was on spooky island; a place not many people head to except with the intent of whatever......... gross stuff quartermaster is doing. but the thing about him is he looks unscathed and youthful. 

which implies he did die there. 

jasper also talks with outdated slang and mentions toys and products you don't hear or see much about nowadays. his clothes are also worn in a dated style. when he first talks to the trio and tries to join them in solving a "mystery" he references "a gang of mystery solvers like the harlem globetrotters," who are a basketball team who appeared on scooby doo once in an episode in the 70s.

another small thing to point out is his shoes. he mentions that they "light up the night" which is later called back in s2ep2. the shoes in question are la gear light up shoes, which were a product sold around the early 90s and are also sports shoes. a minor thing to inference is that he may be affiliated with sports in some way as his chosen camp. these shoes, according to wikipedia, were used to locate lost or stranded people as well. but that's a minute detail. 

oh another thing is that the creators did not give him a shadow as a ghost but one when he was living!!!

but back to jasper's shoes.

now something many have noticed is how jasper's shoes change from in david's story and from the rest of the time that he's shown in other episodes. 

 shoes in spooky island ep:

 shoes in jasper dies at the end:

shoes in night of the living ill: 

so what a friend and i have come to assume is that jasper might have thrown his shoes off a cliff of some sort or disposed of them in anger after his disqualification from the order because of them. the pair that he is shown wearing in the episodes, aside from jasper dies at the end, are likely his old pair of shoes before he got his la gear light ups, which could have been sent to him via mail from his parents. (s2ep2 the kids apparently can get mail sent to the camp so that's probably why). i think that the WERE new shoes because in jasper dies at the end, he mentions his shoes to be "fresh kicks," implying that he had a previous pair. and he may have died while wearing the other pair of shoes.

so in david's story in the episode "jasper dies at the end," (loosely based on the story "john dies at the end" which in itself is a fairly.... confusing story) jasper is shown at the end of the episode to have survived both the fall from the cliff and a bear attack. which is strange for many reasons but not impossible. but if that didn't kill him what did? 

the basic plot in that episode: campbell is holding the order of the sparrow ceremony and jasper is awarded the title of the best camper and the staff is passed to him. quartermaster tells campbell how to complete the ceremony is to go on a trek without the use of technology and return with a stick from a tree on a high up mountain. from here we see that younger david breaks in as a fairly rebellious kid saying that the whole trek sounds like a stupid idea. and from then on, one of the counselors points out that david should join them on the trek so he can feel more used to the nature. and thus the events of the trek bring them up the mountain and in an attempt to retrieve the stick jasper falls to what would be his fate. 

also look at what happens when jasper falls:

david seems concerned for jasper. but campbell? merely a "hmm?" and an unconcerned, apathetic reaction. like the possibility of death is an everyday sight for him. 

and who rushes to jasper's aid? david

NOT CAMPBELL

who only comes over when jasper has already fallen off the cliff

and proceeds to pull a knife on david 

another small detail to note is how the children (the trio, max, nikki, neil) don't seem to recall anyone named jasper (WHO THEY MET PRIOR TO THE STORY), either meaning in the moment that he (jasper) introduced himself they weren't listening or david didn't say jasper's name in his story. 

but what's really interesting about david's story up to that point is why would it include the possible idea of a kid dying? why did campbell later stab and kill those bears in the cave? why would jasper outright say "i'm definitively not dead?" and more importantly why would david include a detail of campbell pulling a knife on him after jasper fell?

what i'm thinking is: david possibly confused two of his memories when trying to cope with the death of his friend or tried to repress the memory with a "happy" memory he shared with jasper. 

now, i don't think that jasper died from a bear attack nor a fall from a cliff but i'm certain that campbell had something to do with it. 

when you consider campbell's character he's a scumbag and works well as an antagonist, esp pertaining to the season 2 finale. 

campbell doesn't have a problem harming anyone or anything and doesn't care much for others. he's selfish and greedy and manipulative so i have no doubts that he would kill a child.

 and here in lies the case of jasper's death:

campbell likely murdered him and david witnessed it.

considering all the shit that campbell does off-screen and the addition of the strange bloodied bag quartermaster was dragging in s1ep2 and the torture chamber as i mentioned before it makes the most sense. what we think really happened is either jasper or david got curious about spooky island and lead the other over to the island to explore it.

they brought along their pogs and jasper wore his old pair of shoes either to keep the la gear shoes clean or because they were the only shoes he had left. i have a feeling that this exploration took place after the events of jasper dies at the end and david may have been the lead in taking them there. probably wanting to learn more about his idol. 

through their exploration, they may have stumbled upon one or many of campbell's secrets that he was trying to keep hidden and campbell found the two of them there and tried to kill jasper in an attempt to keep his secret hidden and threatened david's life into having him swear to never tell anyone or he would kill him. and thus, david likely will do anything to make campbell happy and cover up any of his lies and scams out of fear of him trying to kill him.

i mean, david seems afraid of campbell being disappointed in him as he wants him to be proud of him and loves when he gets praise from him-- so it's almost as though he idolizes him in fear? or even that he has tried to use his optimistic outlook on life on campbell and made it up in his mind that campbell is good or meant well. maybe campbell even manipulated david into thinking jasper deserved what he got. 

maybe it's part of the reason he "loves" the camp so much despite how terrible and underdeveloped the camp is. 

also something worth noting is this small scene from night of the living ill: 

which means.........

he died on spooky island. in campbell's mansion.

but we're not done here 

 though this is has less to do with jasper and more to do with campbell another part of the theory is that the correlation of the events in

cult camp and campbell's absence throughout the fact.

okay so in the beginning of the episode, gwen bursts in the counselor's cabin to alert david that she posted an ad in the newspaper, intent on trying to get another person to help out around the camp. she mentions that she "found a stash of cash campbell hid in the quartermaster's store behind a box of grenades." now, campbell could be forgetful or trying to hide some of his cash elsewhere as a back up OR he could have hidden it in hopes that gwen would find it. he probably is well aware that gwen hates it there and would do anything to leave, and thus may have left it for her to find.  

now immediately after gwen nabs david by his bandanna, there's a knock at the door that reveals the infamous daniel. now, daniel's character is really just an off-color david with different attire. yet? despite the other character's pointing it out, david does not see the resemblance between him and daniel and won't believe the kids when they say something is wrong. the page in the newspaper that flips to show daniel is a dangerous person also leads gwen to flee from the camp to save her own life.

now, how does daniel end up looking so similar to david? that might be because campbell likely came in contact with daniel and was intent on trying to kill off everyone there through the use of david's obliviousness and may have hired him to do just that. the motivation i'm not particular on but i think he may have been trying to rid of his scam summer camp as a means to pretend like "what? a summer camp under my name! i have no such thing!" because..... campbell is the kind of guy to do such a thing.

campbell probably had daniel attempt to resemble david as much as possible to try and lower any of david's suspicions and to follow along with the sing off just to keep david from thinking anymore of it. however, even though daniel had a plan to use brainwashing and poison to kill everyone, he ends up failing and poisoning himself with his own concoction out of likely arrogance. i'm not sure.... why he did but he may have gotten so caught up in wanting to be the best that he failed.

daniel's dialogue also sounds unnatural at times, as if he were given a script of some kind to study to play the part: 

 "Smell that fresh mountain air! Gosh, now that's the kind of nature you don't just find in any ol' neck of the woods!" 

 "My name is Daniel. Your camp counselor applicant. I hope it's not too late to submit my resume." 

 "Well, sadly, my old camp was recently shut down. And even since I've been searching night and day for a new group of eager young kiddos I can help to educate and reach their full potential!"

not to mention he imitates, moves the same way and even says this line at the same time david does:

"Aw, Gwen, are you sure?" 

almost as though campbell had a part in sending daniel there. and after daniel fails at trying to kill the camp, jen comes in right after. which means, jen was campbell's plan b if daniel failed since campbell was likely overseeing the whole event play out and had to continue on with her. and of course, jen plays into the things that make gwen who she is and the similarities blind her to the fact that jen is also an equally dangerous person. which, only campbell and david would probably know those thing about her enough to use them against her and david would never use them against her and that leaves campbell as a candidate for sending her there. plus, campbell always seems to have "plan b's" when it comes to anything. 

this lead the friend of mine to think that campbell may be a cultist or something. 

i personally think that campbell is just a awful person with connections and ties to the wrong kind of people. 

he's probably power and money hungry and could not care less about who he hurts to get what he wants. 

and i'm almost worried for the well-being of david and the others because the last we see of campbell he leaves with this statement:

............ but then again it is just a comedy cartoon-  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

feel free to share what ya’ll think too!!!!

[rickhorrow]

10 To Watch : Mayor’s Edition 1620

RICK HORROW’S TOP 10 SPORTS/BIZ/TECH/PHILANTHROPY ISSUES FOR THE WEEK OF JANUARY 6 : MAYOR’S EDITION

with Jacob Aere



The sports world and beyond remembers David Stern. Former Commissioner David Stern took the NBA into the modern era over the course of his 30 years as Commissioner after he assumed the role in 1984. By the time he left the Commissioner’s office in 2014, a league that had once struggled for a foothold had grown into a more than $5 billion-a-year industry. The NBA's longest-serving commissioner, Stern was credited with transforming the NBA into the global powerhouse it is today, overseeing major uplifts in commercial revenue and media coverage, domestic and international expansion, and a surge in global popularity. Under Stern, the NBA added seven new franchises, including two in Canada, and grew into a commercial behemoth. It also created the WNBA in 1997 and a developmental league, now known as the G League, in 2001. Thanks largely to Stern, the NBA is now revered as a sports industry pioneer and innovator. Rick had the privilege to work with Commissioner Stern on the formation of the Miami Heat and the eventual Oklahoma City Thunder, as well as interviewing him numerous times. He will be greatly missed.

Endeavor acquired majority equity ownership stake in experiential hospitality leader On Location Experiences from existing investors. Last week, Beverly-Hills based agency giant Endeavor announced that it had acquired On Location Experiences. The reported $660 million deal will give Endeavor a majority stake in the hospitality and live events company, which works with the NFL, the NCAA, and the PGA Tour, among other entities. The NFL, through its strategic investment arm, 32 Equity, will continue to be a minority shareholder and retain its seat on the Company’s Board of Directors. On Location will seek to enhance its existing sports and entertainment offerings, including its long-term relationship with the NFL, by leveraging Endeavor’s access to content and experiences across entertainment, sports and fashion. The deal will also help to strengthen Endeavor properties, including the UFC, which it acquired in 2016 for $4 billion. Former Bloomberg, Westwood One, and Time Inc. executive, Paul Caine, will lead the newly integrated entity. The deal is the latest in a flurry of acquisitions by major Hollywood talent agencies as they expand into other entertainment disciplines, particularly music and sports. 

Tennis Australia announces a charity match to support bushfire relief. According to The Guardian, Australian tennis player Nick Krygios’ plans for a massive fundraising effort for bushfire victims has resulted in a tennis exhibition match set to feature some of the world’s top players. Kyrgios kicked off a flood of donations to the fundraising campaign from sporting names around Australia, including American basketballer LaMelo Ball. After Krygios’ initial push, Tennis Australia announced “Rally For Relief,” an exhibition match on Rod Laver Arena January 15. It will also grant $1 million for communities to rebuild tennis facilities. Kyrgios has also pledged $200 for each ace he serves across the Australian summer of tennis. Fellow Australian players Alex de Minaur, John Millman, and Samantha Stosur, among others, also vowed to donate money from their aces while the new ATP Cup got on board. The tournament announced that $100 would be donated to the Australian Red Cross for every ace served over the next 10 days, with the final figure expected to surpass $150,000. Much of Australia is up in flames and sports figures are here to help inspire seismic change across the globe for charitable donations.

In the wake of record low ratings for their annual New Year’s Day outdoor game, no progress is yet evident on discussions of NHL Olympic participation. NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said that there is "really nothing new" on possible Olympic participation at the moment, but there will be "further discussion in the near future," according to The Athletic. Daly said, "I imagine it will be discussed further with the NHLPA in connection with any resumption of talks relating to a potential CBA extension. But, we and the NHLPA will also need to get a better understanding from the IIHF and/or IOC regarding the conditions on which NHL players would be invited to the Olympics. That remains a question as to which we do not have a lot of clarity at this point." NHLPA Executive Director Don Fehr said the players have "made it clear that they want to participate" in the Olympics. He said, "We want to find a way to do that." More discussions are expected before the end of the month, between the league, the NHLPA, and the IIHF.

U.S. men's national soccer team cancels Qatar training camp amid escalating tensions in the Middle East. The USMNT is moving the team’s training camp out of Qatar back to the United States as a “precaution” given heightened tensions in the Middle East following the U.S. airstrike that killed Iranian General Qassem Suleimani last Thursday. According to the Los Angeles Times, the camp was scheduled to open Sunday in Doha, host city for the 2022 World Cup, but now will be staged in Bradenton, Florida. Though Doha is 950 miles from Baghdad -- the center of the current conflict -- “tensions in the region have escalated.” The Washington Post adds that U.S. outposts and personnel have “braced for retaliatory attacks.” The last thing the struggling USMNT needs at this point in time is to worry about a potentially life-threatening military conflict. USMNT officials did the right thing in moving the camp to Brandenton and out of harm’s way.

A lawsuit blaming Pop Warner for two fatalities is dismissed in federal court. According to the New York Times, a federal court judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Pop Warner, stating that the two women who sued the youth football organization had no proof that their sons’ deaths later in life were linked to any head trauma they had sustained over a decade earlier as youth football participants. The judge in the case, ruling for the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, said the mothers did not show sufficient links between any head trauma their sons may have suffered while playing Pop Warner football and their behavior later in life. The judge added that the plaintiffs had discounted other contributing factors, including the “social and biological.” The case, which was set to go to trial this month, was a benchmark for head-trauma related cases against sports organizations. Pop Warner, meanwhile, continues to refine and improve its football safety practices each year, with the constant input of renowned doctors as well as football experts, and remains the gold standard of youth football organizations nationwide.

The NBA G League secondary competition has announced the addition of Mexican professional men’s basketball team Capitanes next season, its first franchise based outside the U.S. and Canada. Established in 2016, the Mexico City outfit will become the NBA G League’s 29th team from the start of the 2020-2021 season, and will play their home games at the Gimnasio Juan de la Barrera, based in Mexico’s capital. The announcement was made during a press conference ahead of Dallas Mavericks 122-111 victory over the Detroit Pistons in Mexico City on December 12, the first of two regular-season games played in the Hispanic nation during the ongoing 2019-2020 season. NBA commissioner Adam Silver said: “Bringing an NBA G League team to Mexico City is a historic milestone for the NBA which demonstrates our commitment to basketball fans in Mexico and across Latin America. As the first G League franchise based outside of the US and Canada, we look forward to welcoming Capitanes to the NBA family.” The schedule for the 2020-2021 NBA G League season, which tips off next November, will be announced in August, 2020.

Sports teams using machine learning tech to drive sponsorship revenues. According to JohnWallStreet, the sports industry has begun to place a greater emphasis on data capture and analytics, particularly as it relates to on-field performance. But while sports has become big business, Adam Grossman, founder of Block Six Analytics (B6A), suggests “from an economic and financial perspective - in terms of understanding concepts like asset valuation, cash-flow and regression - it remains behind the times.” To help bring the industry up to speed, Grossman developed a sponsorship evaluation platform that values sports assets in the same manner “that venture capitalists, private equity firms and investment banks look at investment opportunities.” B6A's proprietary sponsorship model translates traditional fit and engagement benchmarks into probabilistic revenue growth metrics. Over the last 10 months, more than a dozen pro sports organizations have begun using Block Six technology to drive sponsorship revenues. Sports sponsorships sellers naturally seek brand partners that are demographically aligned. While most teams and media entities have managed to gather insights on their own, “the challenge has always been capturing the demographic data needed to ensure audience alignment, so that both parties can achieve their goals.”

Sony and Verizon are bringing 5G to sports broadcasting. According to Mobile Marketing Magazine, Sony and Verizon collaborated to demonstrate how 5G technology and streaming can be used in live sports broadcasting during the NFL’s Texans vs. New England Patriots game on December 1. A camera person from NBC Sports used Sony’s PXW-Z450 shoulder camcorder to capture the game and the video was sent through to a production room in the NRG Stadium in Houston with the help of Sony’s prototype transmitter box, Xperia 5G mm Wave device, and finally, Verizon’s 5G Ultra-Wideband network. The result was an almost real time broadcast sent to NBC producers without any hiccups. In the future, the same 5G-connected cameras could be used to transmit to remote production teams that aren’t located at the site of the sporting event. In the future, another advantage to 5G is the use of wireless connectivity, so cameras can use all angles and positions to capture the games.

David Stern passes away, but his legacy lives on through NBA Cares. David Stern was dedicated to public service, as is evidenced by NBA Cares, which he launched in 2005. Over its first five years, the program donated more than $100 million to charity. NBA Cares is the league’s global social responsibility program that builds on the NBA’s mission of addressing important social issues in the U.S. and around the world. Causes the platform supports include education, youth, and family development, and health, including Special Olympics, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, UNICEF, the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Share Our Strength and GLSEN. NBA Cares programs and participants have provided more than five million hours of hands-on service, created more than 1,300 places where kids and families can live, learn or play, and engaged more than 51 million youth basketball programs in communities around the world. Internationally, NBA Cares has created more than 323 places where kids and families can live, learn, or play in 40 countries – largely thanks to Stern and his legacy.

[margaretrosegladney]

Contribution from Rose Gladney via email:

“I was born April 17, 1945, in Shreveport, Louisiana, grew up in Homer, La.,   parish seat of Claiborne Parish, where my parents, grand parents, and great grandparents lived and had graduated from public school.  I have 3 sisters(one older, 2 younger) and 3 younger brothers. 

Social life in our town of fewer than 5,000 focused around church -worship services, choir practice, youth groups (primarily Baptist, Methodist,  1 Presbyterian, 1 Catholic, 1 Jehovah's Witness), racially segregated public schools (grades 1-12) , 2 movie theatres in 1950s, a small golf course and Country Club ( whites only), school football, basketball, baseball (boys only). In sports, girls played basketball only. Softball was only on school grounds during recess.  At age 10, I liked softball and my dad took me to see the Homer Oilers play baseball one summer evening; but I found it very slow and boring.  What I most enjoyed was horseback riding. One of my favorite childhood memories is of riding with my father in  pastures on my paternal grandparents' farm.  In my early teens I had my own horse and enjoyed trail riding through woods and on back roads. I was never afraid of riding alone, until one day my aunt, who was Clerk of Court, told me not to ride off a certain dirt road near the farm because the sheriff suspected bootleggers had a still in the woods there and I might get shot!

 As the daughter and granddaughter of teachers and medical doctors, I was expected to do well in school and did; graduated from Homer High School 1963 with honors, was active in choral music, oratorical contest, academic rallies, organized Interfaith council to have prayer meetings before school, always  expected and  prepared to attend college. Attended church summer camp regularly and my in teens, I thought I would marry a doctor and he and I would be Presbyterian missionaries. Only later did I realize my sense of "calling" to be a missionary had more to do with a desire to see the world outside my home, and though I was often "homesick" when I left Homer to attend college in Memphis, and then U. of Michigan, and then U. of NM, I really wanted to change the world I called home.

  When President Eisenhower ordered federal troops to  enforce desegregation of Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas, I was in 7th grade. On the playground at lunch, discussing with classmates, I said I didn't think my parents would object to Negro students coming to our school ( I was thinking of the daughter of our family's maid with whom I had played as a young child).  That discussion continued in the classroom, and the teacher (football coach) said to me, "If that's what you think, why don't you go on over to Mayfield."  ( the school for Blacks in Homer).  I was embarrassed and in tears, and will always remember thinking, I would get up and walk out right now but I don't know where Mayfield School is!  Actually, Mayfield School was not so very far away,  only a few blocks from where my maternal grandparents lived; but I had never been to that part of town.  That's what it meant to grow up white and female in a racially segregated town in the 1950s. Year later, talking with my brother who was 7 years younger than I and who was the last of my siblings to attend and graduate(1970) from Homer High School, I learned that he knew exactly where Mayfield was.  He had played football with some of the first Black students to attend Homer High School, and as a white male, he could  go anywhere. As a white female teenager I was not supposed to go alone to town (only 2 blocks from home)on Saturday afternoon because that was when Blacks came to shop. When the public schools were desegregated, my parents, aunts and uncle, helped build Claiborne Academy; my mother taught there, and my younger brothers and sister were graduated from there (1972, '74, '76).  

 By 1961 Louisiana law required all high school students to take a 6 weeks course in Communism. I had  attended a school sponsored "Anti-Communism" crusade in Shreveport, but thought that Marx's Manifesto had some good ideas, and when I attended a Presbyterian Missionary conference in Montreat, NC and stood in line for supper next to African-American girl from Arkansas who  asked, do you believe in integration? I did not know what to say.  I wanted to say yes, but I had been taught that racial integration was part of Communist plot!  So I answered, I don't know.   

At  Southwestern (now Rhodes College) in Memphis, I continued to be active in Presbyterian youth group, and was asked to teach a Sunday school class in than African-American Presbyterian church, but was afraid to do so because I thought my parents would not approve. Likewise, I knew that older  white students were actively involved in challenging all white segregated Presbyterian churches in Memphis to welcome Black worshipers, but I was afraid to do so. By my senior year in fall of 1966 I was assigned to the racially desegregated  Humes High School  for 6 weeks practice teaching in tenth grade English. I was no longer ambivalent;  despite my parents' beliefs and commitment to racially segregated schools, I believed in public school desegregation.

 I'm not sure that all these details are necessary for your Wiki article, but when you ask how I got to sue the U. of AL for tenure, it's hard to leave out the connections between my growing awareness of what Lillian Smith called "sin, sex, and segregation"  and what others now call social constructions of gender/class/race.   So, I will  carry on. Parts of what I've told you already, only came to me because someone else in Michigan or New Mexico asked me what was I taught about race, or sex, or gender roles, or class -- none of which I had really thought about until I began at first to challenge and then unravel these concepts and realities which are so rarely examined before they have been unconsciously absorbed.

 YET....Here goes more.  At the U. of Michigan, I was immediately made aware that I am a SOUTHERNER -- which to most non- Southerners means WHITE and Talks Funny.  I was one of 4 resident advisers in Jordan Hall, a freshman all female dorm in 1967-68. The other 3 RA's - 2 white and 1 black - all midwesterners. Jennifer, African American whose parents had fled the South to live in Michigan, told me when she first learned that a white Southern girl was going to be an RA on third floor, she thought how could she get to 4th floor without being on the elevator with me. We all became good friends, and although Jennifer invited me to her wedding (a few years later), she told me she would never visit me when I moved back to Memphis. I said they all had "Easy Rider's Syndrome" i.e. all southerners are white racists.  I learned about Black Power and read The Autobiography of Malcom X  because Jennifer had his picture on her dorm room door. But after my parents came to visit me and sat with us at the RA's table in the dining hall, my father told me never to bring Jennifer home with me because it would upset his mother.  I did not believe him, but I did not challenge him then.  His real feelings came out again when after completing my M.A. in English at U. of Michigan, I applied for and accepted a position in Memphis. to teach tenth grade English at the all new Northside High School. Built  to be the  Memphis City public school model in terms of curriculum and racial composition (50/50 black and white; academic and vocational curriculum), by fall 1968 white flight had left Northside High 97% white student body with 70% white faculty. My father warned me not to invite any black students or faculty to my home, lest I be raped.  When I replied "I could just as easily be raped by a white man", my father said, "Well I would prefer it."

Summer 1969

Recommended by Northside H.S. principal, attended seminar at Memphis State U. “Teachers of English to Culturally Deprived Children,” where I met some of the most experienced and highly qualified African American teachers in Memphis city schools. From them I learned also dissatisfaction with policies of Memphis City school board,( only one black member), failure to promote blacks in upper levels of administration. Became friends with Eloise Forrester, a teacher in Albuquerque, attending the seminar because she could leave her daughter with her mother in Alabama. Eloise was a lifesaver for me when I moved to Albuquerque for graduate work in AMS, 1970. I returned to Northside HS, ready to implement new ideas in my classroom; soon impatient with what I considered unnecessary record keeping, At first faculty meeting, sat with two colleagues, Bernice Burton and Frances Gandy, heard about organizing meeting of AFT. Attended, saw several of teachers I had met thru that summer seminar. Chosen to be one of organizers, so that it would not be seen as an all black union. From then on, to the white faculty I was on “outside” a person of suspicion , naiive, sure, didn’t really know what I was into, yes, but did know more about racism in school system and police brutality on the streets where our students lived in North Memphis. Marched and supported “Black Fridays” by wearing black when students boycotted schools to protest . Ultimately testified in court in support of reinstating students who had been expelled for protesting. The students were reinstated and I was informed I would not be rehired. I challenged that, knowing I could afford to do so because I had no family to support and didn’t have to stay in Memphis, as other activist teachers did. School board met, Southwestern college students protested in my favor outside while  that school board meeting was going on. Board decided to reinstate me , dock me 2 weeks pay, and send me to one of the oldest black schools in Memphis, (Manassas) where principal was known to be very strict with teachers. That was my first law suit. I won, but chose to go to grad school rather than to Manassas High.

 At UNM 1970-74. PHD in American Studies. Went there because I was interested in studying AF- AM lit. A professor had told me no such thing as African American lit, all protest lit., but if that’s what you want, look into American Studies. Went to NM, one of the oldest AMS PHD programs, and because got scholarship there, teaching freshman English. In 1970 Women’s Studies was just beginning. First WS course taught for credit at UNM was offered through the AMS Dept, spring 1972, Women in Literature. I audited it: first question, “Are you a feminist?” Sure, I believe in women, I’m a feminist. You are from the South, you must read Lillian Smith, Killers of the Dream. That’s how I was introduced to LS. Reading KOD, weeping, told my roommate, “This woman is writing my life.” Here was a white Southern woman who could have been a younger sister to my maternal grandmother, yet she was explaining and challenging everything I was trying to understand about racism, and sexism, and she had chosen to stay in the South and challenge all its taboos, and she had managed to live and write there.She showed me it is possible to live in place you love, with people whom you both love and whose beliefs and values you see as only destructive and dehumanizing. But, I could not write my dissertation on Lillian Smith… no, her life was too large. Also, felt I had to confront my own immediate struggle with my family’s commitment to maintaining racism through building segregated private schools to avoid public school desegregation and thereby destroying public school system. My dissertation, “I’ll Take My Stand: Southern Segregation Academy Movement” was an oral history of the development of white segregated academies in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Virginia.

 After graduating with PHD in AMS, May 1974, I began teaching at U. of AL summer 1974 with joint appointment in American Studies and the New College. Although I drew on my dissertation research in teaching, I always managed to use Lillian Smith’s work in my classes. I continued using and encouraging students to use oral history as a tool to examine our culture, and especially the lives, history, and contributions of women of all classes, ethnic, religious backgrounds. My first published work drew from an undergraduate’s oral history interview with Sallie Mae Hadnott, an African American leader in school desegregation movement in Prattville, AL. See, “If it was anything for Justice,” published in the Women in South issue of Southern Changes, 1977. In that same issue, historian Jo Ann Robinson published article on LS, containing a footnote referencing the need for oral history of Laurel Falls Campers. Unlike my dissertation, that was a project I thought I could really enjoy. With Robinson’s encouragement, I contacted Lillian Smith’s sister Esther Smith and Paula Snelling, with whom LS had developed Laurel Falls Camp and published the magazine, first called Pseudopodia, then North Georgia Review, and finally South Today. Thus began my scholarly work on Lillian Smith. (do you need  a copy of my vitae for selected publications between 1977 and 2016? )

In 1978, my original joint appointment in New College and American Studies was changed to a full time appointment in American Studies in the college of Arts & Sciences specifically to allow additional time for research and publication. Although as required, I had published articles in reputable scholarly journals, I was denied tenure in May 1982. I will attempt to attach copies of the court’s decision and published coverage in local newspapers. You may have already read it as a published federal case.

Although the Judge ruled in my favor on basis of breach of contract, rather than on issues of sex discrimination, many women employees (faculty and staff whom I did not know personally) told me afterwards that they felt I had stood up for them.

 After I was granted tenure, I began editing Smith’s letters, a project which took another 10 years, in part because Smith family members were offended by my naming her relationship with Paula Snelling as lesbian. I have expressed my feelings and thoughts about that process best in the published article, “Personalizing the Political/ Politicizing the Personal: Reflections on Editing the Letters of Lillian Smith.” Carryin’ On: an anthology of Southern Lesbian and Gay History, Ed. John Howard (NYU Press, 1997), 93-103. After the Letters were published, I was promoted to associate professor. 

 Throughout my teaching career at the U. of AL I was active in development of Women Studies and African American Studies programs. For 29 years I offered a course called Women in the South, emphasizing the history, experiences and works of women of all classes, races, sexual orientations. Through several African American women students in that class, I was introduced to the work of Alabama native, dramatist and poet Billie Jean Young, and subsequently wrote the Introduction to her Fear Not the Fall Fear Not the Fall, Poems and A Two-Act Drama, Fannie Lou Hamer: This Little Light published by New South Books, 2003.

 All of my published work, and especially my writing about and editing the work of Lillian Smith is possible only because I have the love and support of Marcia Winter.

 Please let me know whether you need any further documentation.”

 Rose Gladney

[pennatheistgirl]

I’ve Been an Atheist A Lot Longer Than I Thought

[And that’s why I agree with Penn so very often]

I was raised a Catholic in a conservative town. All of my friends were either Catholic, Jewish, Mormon, and every other religious group known to man. Not once did I ever meet an atheist growing up, I firmly believe the first atheist I ever met was me. This goes way back to when I was seven years old. I played every sport as a kid. Soccer, basketball, volleyball, tennis, swim team, you name it. This story is from the basketball era of 2004-2006. Specifically, the early summer of 2005. 

I don’t remember much from this year, other than it was a program called “Upward” and a heavily Christian one at that. Basically, we played at a local church court and prayed a lot and gave out participation trophies, all that good stuff. For each year of the program, a music album was made to play at games to hype everyone up, or something. It was called “Scriptunes” (no joke, that’s actually a clever name) and had about ten songs based off of bible verses. I, of course, had a favorite one. It was the song that most resembled rock (an ongoing theme in my youth, and no wonder why I’m now a metalhead) and I only just recently figured out the name of the song, because growing up I thought it was literally just called “Acts 17:24.” Turns out it was named “Lord of Heaven and Earth.” Seven year old Lazer was obsessed with this song, and I think that continued until I was about 14. What can I say, good music sticks with you.

At first, I just blindly loved this song. I learned all of the lyrics, and would annoyingly belt it out from my crap CD player, you know, the ones that didn’t work unless you held them at the right angle. I can recite that song at any given moment (although, I’ll have to work hard to counteract the melody of the song, since it’d be weird to recite the tune) So, with perfect vocal control, I’ll lay down my favorite verse as a child. “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of Heaven and Earth and does not live in temples built by hand.” (Acts! Seventeen twenty-four! Acts! Seventeen twenty-four!) You can look up the song and see why it’s so catchy.  

Seven year old Lazer didn’t really know what it meant, but over the next few years I began to interpret it a very personal way, and in hindsight, a strongly atheist point of view. Having never met an atheist, I was none the wiser. I believe this was the same year I started going to horse camp. The program I loved was a weeklong overnight camp, and we got to ride horses pretty much twice a day. This camp was also home to a Christian college, and the camp was also very religion-heavy. Praying before every meal, praying before every trail ride, praying all of the time because why the fuck not? I was never down with the whole freelance-praying thang cause being a Catholic meant you only had to memorize the Hail Mary, the Lord’s Prayer, and saying Grace, and you’d be set for life. So, I never participated in praying. 

Another thing we did was have a campfire every night, and we’d listen to testimony after testimony from counselors and our activities director (who I believe is the kindest person I’ve ever met) And you guessed it! Jesus songs, because after all, we were at Jesus camp. But, none of those songs every thrilled me the way my song did in 2005. Over the next few years of horse camp, we’d sometimes post our favorite bible verses on our beds, or make little crafts to show around with them inscribed onto it, and the whole time my favorite verse was Acts 17:24. It never changed. Over years and years, until I was 15, it never changed. It was when I started working at the camp myself that I was asked to explain why it was my favorite verse. (How I went this long without being asked that I have no idea) And lo and behold, my response was a telltale sign of an atheist (I had still never met one in person)

Basically, I thought the verse was directing me to put my faith in people instead of relying on places or constructs to hold my faith steady. God “does not live in temples built by hand.” I had never heard someone say the next sentence, and it was of my own creation. “I don’t need to go to church every week, or buy a new bible, or have a rosary, because I am constantly surrounded by christ, because He is in people, not those material things.” 15 year old Lazer was insightful as hell. I told myself that for years. I never believed in Sunday mass, because I thought it was weird for people having to constantly go to church to affirm their ongoing faith. If they believed in God, why did they have to go to church every week? Were they secretly scared they’d magically lose their faith if they went a whole week without listening, preaching, or praying for God? That, was the first sign of an atheist viewpoint. I had still never met an atheist. After that, until I was about 18, I constantly questioned God. I hated being forced to go to church, I hated having to go to Sunday school, I hated how everyone I knew treated my queer friends and my trans brother (not well at all) and I soon learned to hate any mention of religion. I was slowly becoming aware that religion was being shoved down my throat, and I’d had enough. Then I actually met another atheist. (this is where the story gets good)

It starts out with me watching Whose Line is it Anyway? I binged the entire second era and started seeing ads for another CW show, “Penn & Teller: Fool Us.” I then fondly remember watching their special “Off the Deep End” Back in 2006, when I was 8. I had kept up with them as closely as an 8 year old could. It was hard since my parents thought the internet was evil and they thought Penn & Teller were not “kid-friendly” (they weren’t entirely wrong) However, I learned Penn was a juggler, and that week I taught myself how to juggle with little balled up socks. I don’t know how I did it, but little Lazer had crazy good hand-eye coordination and I learned how to juggle in like, two hours, then I just had to get REALLY good at it. I could juggle for an hour straight, and after I got real juggling bags I could do it for two hours.

Ok back to the present. I’m seeing ads for Fool Us and decide to watch back all of the episodes (I’d seen a few in the past) and by the time I got to season two I was obsessed. These guys are the silliest and most talented performers I’ve seen, and thanks to YouTube I almost immediately learned that they were skeptics, and Penn is a die-hard atheist. The thing that really got me going, is that my ideology on religion was quite similar to his. Penn has a lot of faith in people, and not in everyone’s favorite imaginary friend in the sky. He made me realize that I can take Jesus, God, and all religion out of the equation. My belief that there was God in some people, was easily transformed into something simpler. That there is unequivocal goodness in people. Some people are just good people. Christians will say they are “Christlike” and other religions will put them on a pedestal of equal value. I just think they are good.

My history of being a theist ends on the same day I became an atheist. The day prior I had spoken briefly with the men of the hour, Penn Jillette and Teller. The day everything changed for me was after I had seen their show in Las Vegas. After running down the aisles and out into the lobby, they stick around and talk to anyone that wants to meet them after the show. I wanted Penn to sign his book Presto! as a memento to take home, and while my dad got the signatures (without me? I know, but I was talking to Teller so I didn’t want to interrupt Teller to go tell my dad to wait) Teller signed a torn card prop that he ran offstage to give me during the show. I said thank you and goodbye to Teller (I was the last person he talked to of the meet and greet crowd) and I ran over to Penn and waited very timidly so I could also talk to him. I ended up being the last person, which was weird because there’s usually a handful of people that want to be the “last” person for some reason. I was just waiting around for my turn and I happened to be the last. Penn comes over to me and I get the chance to tell him a single sentence. (In my head I swear it was way more than that but what came out was pretty suffice) I tell him “I was raised in a Catholic family, but because of you I’m an atheist and I appreciate you so much for that.” I was instantly teary eyed because the look Penn gave me was so extremely loving and supportive that in that moment, I realized that he might be the only one to respond to that sentence in that way. Most of my peers are definitely not going to have a warm welcome to me telling them I’m an atheist. He gave me a very tight hug (he probably realized my right-wing-freak of a dad was the one standing behind me taking a video. Also, that video is adorable as hell.) Then we swiveled around to take a picture and he pulled me in tight and rested his head on top of mine. Pretty cute stuff.

Um, yeah that about does it. Penn was the first person I came out to, and I’m glad to know that was a turning point. Among other things (these two have inspired me in a huge way since I was a kid) this was the one moment I felt I could move on from my entire life of being a Catholic, and I can just be me, nothing else. I don’t feel like I have to identify with any religion anymore. I’d like to end this story with something along the lines of “they hugged and Lazer lived happily ever after!” because I know that there’s hard times ahead that will come and go, but I also want to end with an important message for kids my age and younger that I wish I was told growing up. That is, you don’t have to be religious. I always thought if I wasn’t a Catholic, then what was I? The answer was never “non-religious” because of course, that meant you had to turn away from God or something. Bottom line, you’re not turning away from anything. You’re turning towards reality, common sense, and unconditional love and trust. You’re only leaving those shitty dogmas behind.

- Lazer, September 11, 2017

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Messi on hand as Barca open Cruyff Stadium

ESPN FC’s Steve Nicol discusses how Barcelona struggle to adjust without talisman Lionel Messi in the side.

BARCELONA — Lionel Messi was among a long list of special guests as Barcelona officially opened the new Johan Cruyff Stadium on Tuesday with a match between their U19s and Ajax’s youth team, two of the clubs the late Cruyff represented during an esteemed career.

Barca also unveiled a statue of the Dutchman, who played for and managed the club, outside their Camp Nou home on Monday.

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The new stadium is located at the club’s training ground in Sant Joan Despi, a suburb outside the city of Barcelona. The capacity is 6,000 and it will be the home of Barca B, the women’s team and the U19s when they play in the UEFA Youth League.

Those teams had previously played their home matches at the Mini Estadi, which is located next to Camp Nou. That stadium will now be knocked down and replaced by an arena for the club’s basketball and futsal teams.

All of the ongoing work is part of the wider Espai Barca project, which will eventually see Camp Nou updated, with a roof added to the stadium and the attendance breaking the 100,000 barrier.

Messi, Busquets and Pique watch on from the centre circle as Jordi Cruyff takes a ‘ceremonial’ kick off to open the stadium named after his father pic.twitter.com/kU5iXHBpTL

— Samuel Marsden (@samuelmarsden) August 27, 2019

Club captain Messi, along with Sergio Busquets, Gerard Pique and Sergi Roberto, stood in the centre circle prior to Tuesday’s match as Cruyff’s son, Jordi, took a ceremonial kickoff to officially open the stadium. Cruyff’s wife Danny and his daughter Susila were also in attendance.

On the pitch, Naci Unuvar, who only turned 16 in June, scored two brilliant goals as Ajax beat a Barca side coached by former goalkeeper Victor Valdes 2-0.

Other guests included Frenkie de Jong, who followed Cruyff’s path from Ajax to Barca this summer, Ajax sporting director Marc Overmars, Patrick Kluivert and Carles Puyol.

Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu lauded the opening of the stadium as “a historic moment which will remain in the club’s memory forever.”

Cruyff, who died of cancer in 2016, first signed for Barcelona as a player in 1973, joining the club from Ajax. He went on to manage both clubs, too, with his playing philosophy still very much present in everything the two teams do.

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The National Basketball Association (NBA) and five-time NBA All-Star Al Horford of the Philadelphia 76ers announced today the launch of the first Jr. NBA camp in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The three-day camp will host 108 local boys and girls (ages 14-16) from under-served communities across the Dominican Republic selected by Horford’s non-profit organization, La Tribu de Quisqueya.

The Jr. NBA camp will be held at the Carol Morgan School (CMS) – an international school which empowers students to become leaders of a multicultural, global society and will be supported by NBA partners Altice, Banco Popular, Gatorade and Spalding.

The camp format, led by the NBA and Horford, will feature on-court drills, competitions and scrimmages, along with life skills sessions run by NBA coaches, trainers and staff to instill core values consistent with Jr. NBA principles. Joining Horford at the camp will be 76ers player development coach Drew Jones, who joined the organization from the Oklahoma City Thunder this summer. He played collegiately at Penn State University and then professionally overseas in Ukraine, Greece and Slovakia.

“The first Jr. NBA camp in the Dominican Republic continues to build on our efforts and commitment to growing basketball throughout Latin America,” said NBA Sr. Vice President & Managing Director, Latin America Arnon de Mello. “Along with Al Horford and our partners we are very proud to bring this event to Santo Domingo and look forward to providing an exciting and fun environment for youth to learn and play the game.”

“It is a great honor for me to be able to team up with the Jr. NBA to help continue develop basketball talent in my native Dominican Republic,” said Horford. “I look forward to providing a fun, competitive and engaging three days for these youngsters.”

“We are honored to open our doors for the Jr. NBA camp in the Dominican Republic,” said CMS Head of School, Nicolaas Mostert. “We strongly believe in the benefit of sports and youth development.”

The Jr. NBA, the league’s global youth basketball program for boys and girls, teaches the fundamental skills as well as the core values of the game – teamwork, respect, determination and community – at the grassroots level in an effort to help grow and improve the youth basketball experience for players, coaches and parents. During the 2018-19 season, the NBA and its teams are reaching more than 51M youth in 75 countries through league play, in-school programming, clinics, skills challenges, and other outreach events.

For more information on the Jr. NBA, please visit http://jr.nba.com/.

Source: https://www.nba.com/sixers/news/horford-help-launch-first-jr-nba-camp-dominican-republic

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Horford to Help Launch First Jr. NBA Camp in Dominican Republic

The National Basketball Association (NBA) and five-time NBA All-Star Al Horford of the Philadelphia 76ers announced today the launch of the first Jr. NBA camp in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The three-day camp will host 108 local boys and girls (ages 14-16) from under-served communities across the Dominican Republic selected by Horford’s non-profit organization, La Tribu de Quisqueya.

The Jr. NBA camp will be held at the Carol Morgan School (CMS) – an international school which empowers students to become leaders of a multicultural, global society and will be supported by NBA partners Altice, Banco Popular, Gatorade and Spalding.

The camp format, led by the NBA and Horford, will feature on-court drills, competitions and scrimmages, along with life skills sessions run by NBA coaches, trainers and staff to instill core values consistent with Jr. NBA principles. Joining Horford at the camp will be 76ers player development coach Drew Jones, who joined the organization from the Oklahoma City Thunder this summer. He played collegiately at Penn State University and then professionally overseas in Ukraine, Greece and Slovakia.

“The first Jr. NBA camp in the Dominican Republic continues to build on our efforts and commitment to growing basketball throughout Latin America,” said NBA Sr. Vice President & Managing Director, Latin America Arnon de Mello. “Along with Al Horford and our partners we are very proud to bring this event to Santo Domingo and look forward to providing an exciting and fun environment for youth to learn and play the game.”

“It is a great honor for me to be able to team up with the Jr. NBA to help continue develop basketball talent in my native Dominican Republic,” said Horford. “I look forward to providing a fun, competitive and engaging three days for these youngsters.”

“We are honored to open our doors for the Jr. NBA camp in the Dominican Republic,” said CMS Head of School, Nicolaas Mostert. “We strongly believe in the benefit of sports and youth development.”

The Jr. NBA, the league’s global youth basketball program for boys and girls, teaches the fundamental skills as well as the core values of the game – teamwork, respect, determination and community – at the grassroots level in an effort to help grow and improve the youth basketball experience for players, coaches and parents. During the 2018-19 season, the NBA and its teams are reaching more than 51M youth in 75 countries through league play, in-school programming, clinics, skills challenges, and other outreach events.

For more information on the Jr. NBA, please visit http://jr.nba.com/.

Source: https://www.nba.com/sixers/news/horford-help-launch-first-jr-nba-camp-dominican-republic

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Devin Hester’s son is already way more athletic than us as children and here’s why

None of us are breaking ankles like this.

Drayton Hester, son of legendary NFL kick returner Devin Hester, is already on the field and turning the ankles of his opponents into powder.

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Draaaayy-Day starting to come out his shell now!!! ‍♂️

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I love that Hester put “2029” on the video, just to give us a little something to look forward to in 10 YEARS TIME. Either way, I’m still in awe of Drayton’s ability to break ankles like Kathy Bates in Misery, so it got us thinking about our own youth sports past, more pointedly the times we were athletic and felt like superstars ourselves — if only for a moment.

What’s the most athletic thing you ever did in sports?

Flipping like a boss.

OK, so I was a kid at camp and we went to one of those gymnastics places. I weighed like four pounds so I could flip through the air pretty easily. I took it upon myself to try and flip off a trampoline into one of those foam pits and I did it! Except then my knee went into my face and my teeth busted open my lip and I had to go to the hospital.

I nailed the flip though.

— Matt Ellentuck

Tagged a kid out in a rundown

I was a tubby little guy with short legs. Chasing down a much more lithe baserunner was probably the highlight of my Little League career. I distinctly remember my mom questioning whether or not the other kid had an undisclosed leg injury on the ride home from the game.

Pretty good heckle, mom.

— Christian D’Andrea

Carrying the team — literally.

I was a husky lad. Think a cross between Chuck from The Goonies and ... I don’t know, a small muscular terrier? Anyway, I was on the absolute worst Under-8s rugby team. We sucked. We sucked so freaking bad. It was the last game of the season and we were carrying an 0-11 record, losing on average 37-0.

That’s right, we never scored ever. I was determined to change that in our final game. As a front rower I never got to carry the ball in space, but a dropped pass gave me the window I needed. I picked up the ball and began charging down the sideline. It was pouring rain, I was covered in mud and tacklers couldn’t get hands on me. I fended off the first two, then the third — suddenly I was literally carrying a kid on my back who was trying to tackle me, and one on each leg. I probably looked like a parent, with children attached to me like barnacles, refusing to break their hold.

I kept running. I never put so much effort into anything in my short life. I don’t remember any cheering, I don’t remember the sound of anything. Everything was just focused on scoring that try. The line in sight I made one last break, diving over and becoming the first player on the team that season to score.

Then the referee told me I’d stepped out of bounds about 10 meters earlier and didn’t notice his whistle. We went on to lose, 63-0.

— James Dator

Confessions of a Little League bully

It was the summer of one of my childhood years. Little League baseball was my life. I played for a ragtag baseball team in one of the most rural areas of Michigan’s already extremely rural Upper Peninsula.

Our team was playing against the best squad on our schedule, full of outstanding baseball players and lots of wins. That really wasn’t our style. So while the team that hailed from Trenary was the trim and proper kind, ours was more like the Bad News Bears (seriously, we had a kid who used to smoke in the outfield during practice and had another who was cross-eyed who would often get hit in the face while trying to catch fly balls).

In one of our several outings against the crème de la crème, there was a throw to home following a hit to the outfield. The ball rolled past the catcher and to the backstop and bounced around. I was coming from second base and rounded third, too excited to heed the warning of our third base coach as I excitedly ran for home. Being that I was a tubby child without much in the way of wheels, it wasn’t hard for the pitcher to get to the plate and snag a quick throw from the catcher. The pitcher, who was named Chris, turned, ball in glove, and faced me while blocking the plate.

I was fat. There was no turning back. The momentum was going in one direction and there would be no attempt to return to third base. Oh — and I had never even practiced a slide at this point in my short career. So I Pete Rosed him. Totally legal if they do it in the majors, right? Baseball is baseball is...

Nope.

Crushed the kid. I outweighed him by 50 pounds. He goes flying. Ball goes flying. I hit the dirt and then stand up, brush myself off, and step on home plate expecting cheers. Instead, there was a man screaming from the bleachers “Kick him out! He’s a fucking monster!” and the ump, an ancient fellow named Buck, booted me with an apology.

“Sorry, Sam,” he said with a frown. “That’s not allowed. You have to leave the game.”

As I plopped down on the bench, the man who had been screaming came to the dugout and began yelling at me. I watched as my dad stood up from where he was sitting in the bleachers and I was like “oh, man...” — but our coach stepped up and told the fellow to make like a tree and get out of there.

It was a rough moment in my sporting life. Apparently, Pete Rose wasn’t perfect. Who knew?

— Sam Eggleston

Stand up, and fall down, triple

Not to brag or anything (I’m bragging), but I was a pretty fast kid. Because of that fact, I was a slapper by the time I got to 12U softball. I also rarely hit the ball out of the infield, opting to just outrun the throw to first base.

Somehow during this random midsummer tournament, the ball did get out of the infield and I hit a hard shot down the first base line. I kind of blacked out after that, but according to an old Instagram caption this is the series of events that happened: during that excitement I tripped on first base while rounding, ripped my sock on my metal cleats, volleyball rolled, hopped up and continued running the bases. I’m honestly not sure if it was my athleticism or the other team’s incompetence, but I still ended up being safe at third base for my first, and only that I can remember, career triple.

We lost that game and got second for the tournament.

— Kennedi Landry

Dunk on somebody in a pickup basketball game

I’m probably about 20 or 21 years old at this point, and at the time had very Steph Curry-esque dunking abilities. I could do it in a game, but the moment had to be right.

Some weasel-ass guy was really just getting on my nerves the entire game, talking a lot, but not very good. So I stole a pass on the right side of the court, just behind the halfcourt line. I saw him on the left side trying to time a block.

I took one last hard dribble near the basket on the break — he jumps, I jump, pull him in with my left hand, and dunked with the right. I landed and stared at him, his soulless body laying on the court while everybody yelled.

That was the first, and last time it’ll ever happen as clean as that moment.

— Harry Lyles Jr.

Sacrificed my body for the sake of the team

I broke my nose diving for a ball playing second base in sixth grade recreational softball, but I played through the pain, got the out, and won us the game.

I’m absolutely kidding. It hit me squarely in the face because I was zoned out and not paying attention. I fell to the ground and immediately started sobbing, then ran off the field to go find my mom. Of course, as soon as I found her I wanted to play it cool and pretended it didn’t hurt that bad so I wouldn’t have to go to the doctor. To this day my nose is a little bit crooked because of it.

That was the beginning of my illustrious softball career. I went on to achieve amazing athletic feats such as making it onto my school team in eighth grade as the “team manager” because the coach felt too bad to cut me. I’d love to say I was great at sitting on the bench and being in charge of the scoresheet, but I definitely was not, because (big surprise) I was awful at paying attention to the game.

— Sydney Kuntz

Hit a home run, lose a tooth

I played Community Athletics baseball when I was a kid, which was a made-up organization that was somewhere between Little League and Babe Ruth on the age level, but not that organized. We didn’t have uniforms or official looking stirrups, but we had T-shirts and cheapo mesh hats and that was enough to have a good time with our friends.

So here we were playing a day game on a Saturday in the middle of July in New Jersey and it’s hot as hell. I was the catcher, which meant that I was also rocking sweatpants when everyone else was in shorts. (No uniforms, remember.)

My turn came up to bat and I hit the farthest ball I had ever hit in my life to that point. There were no fences on the field so I don’t know for sure how far the ball traveled but it was a majestic blast. Because there were no fences I ran as fast as I could around the bases until I slid across home plate with a dramatic flourish even though the ball was still making its way back to the infield.

As soon as the dust settled, I threw on my catcher’s gear for the next inning and dashed over to first base to help coach. Not that anyone needed a first base coach at that level but I was that kind of kid. I had barely made it to the coaches box when I felt my head get heavy and my eyes begin to close.

I distinctly recall dropping to my knees before face-planting in the dirt. That was the last thing I remembered until waking up to my very concerned parents throwing water on my face. I left the game with a black eye and a dead tooth that forced me to eat pudding for the rest of the weekend. (I highly recommend the all-pudding diet, by the way.)

I still have that tooth, discolored though it is, and my five-year-old loves to hear the story so it all worked out reasonably well. The moral of the story is to always hydrate and to not take youth sports so seriously because, in the end, all we have from it are memories of faded glory.

— Paul Flannery

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