#> below cosby

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TC was one of kyrgyzstan’s top 36 people of the 20th century according to this 1999 20-сом stamp i found while looking through a lot of 100 post soviet stamp sheets i won at auction

[whitegownsandflowercrowns]

I’m reading the lawsuit now. I’m not sure. How can I tell if it’s legit vs lies?

Genuine thanks for this question and not just immediately assuming that she's lying.

Look, at the end of the day, none of us were there. The only people that know what truly went down are the people that were on that set (which is true of any lawsuit), but here's what's really convincing me.

First things first, Baldoni hired Melissa Nathan back in August to run his public relations (and this article even mentions the allegations that he made Lively uncomfortable). Nathan worked for Johnny Depp during his defamation trial against Amber Heard, and it has been found that a technique called "astroturfing" was used against Heard on social media during this trial. Astroturfing is defined as "the deceptive practice of presenting an orchestrated marketing or public relations campaign in the guise of unsolicited comments from members of the public." Basically, artificially creating hate or hype for a public figure but making it seem organic. If you remember the Depp/Heard trial, you remember how much social media seemed to turn against her. If you remember this summer, you remember how much social media seemed to turn against Blake Lively. The fact that the same public relations team was on the other side of both alleged smear campaigns is a red flag.

Second, the text messages that have been released between Baldoni and the PR team are, in my opinion, incredibly damning. One member of the team, Jennifer Abel, texted Nathan "I think you guys need to be tough and show the strength of what you guys can do in these scenarios. He wants to feel like she can be buried." Nathan responded "Of course - but you know when we send over documents we can't send over the work we will or could do because that could get us in a lot of trouble. We can't write we will destroy her. Imagine if a document saying all the things that he wants ends up in the wrong hands. You know we can bury anyone." Right below are some screenshots from the New York Times article:

Later texts also involve praise for this article

Now, is it possible that all of these texts have been faked? Of course. But they are also lengthy (I did not include all of them here) and considering what I mentioned above, unlikely.

Thirdly, I'm just considering who has more to gain from this. I will admit my own bias here - I've never bought the idea that women by and large make allegations to become rich or famous or to gain sympathy. Amber Heard is probably still one of the most hated women on the planet. Name five of Bill Cosby's accusers off of the top of your head.

But what does each party have to gain? If Baldoni loses this case and is found in the public eye to have sexually harassed the women on the set of It Ends With Us, that's probably the end of his career. As far as I know, he doesn't have the industry goodwill that Roman Polanski or Woody Allen or even Johnny Depp do, and he will most likely start losing acting and directing roles. If he wins, and the public decides that Lively is lying, his career won't be destroyed. It will almost certainly have been set back, and there will always be people who'll look at him differently, but overall he should be fine. He may even gain a new fanbase.

If Lively loses this case and is found to have been lying, her career is tarnished forever. She will undoubtedly be known as the "next Amber Heard," and she will lose out on acting roles. The taint may even carry over to her husband. If she wins, and the public decides that Baldoni did in fact sexually harass women on set, she will probably be fine. Like Baldoni, there will always be people who'll believe that she was lying, but she'll be overall fine. However, it's important to note that she had a third option: to not pursue this at all. If she chooses not to pursue legal action against Baldoni, both of their careers remain unimpacted. While there would still have been a negative public perception of her, it probably would have blown over eventually. A lawsuit and possible trial is much more permanent in people's memories. So to me, the fact that she's choosing to pursue this knowing what the outcome of her losing would be speaks volumes.

Finally, the fact that her lawsuit states that other women on set were harassed and felt uncomfortable. Again, could be a lie, but that is a lie that is very easy to disprove. And if the women who worked on this set testify that they never felt uncomfortable, that will permanently damage her case. It just feels like too much of a risk to play with if you're lying.

Of course, don't just take my word for it - do your own research, seek out differing opinions, etc. but those are my views. I hope they helped in some way!

[hinge]

Hinge presents an anthology of love stories almost never told. Read more on https://no-ordinary-love.co

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MFU Scrapbook | Page 6

Nominations For "Emmy" Awards Are Announced

NEW YORK (AP) — The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced today 225 nominations of its "Emmy" awards in 23 categories and 12 "areas of achievement." Nominations ranged from Batman, a popular adaptation of a comic book hero, to Christopher Plummer's performance of Hamlet. Among the nominations were: Outstanding dramatic series — Bonanza, the Fugitive, I Spy, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Slattery's People. Outstanding dramatic programs — The Ages of Man, Eagle in a Cage, Inherit the Wind, and Rally Round Your Own Flag, Mister. Outstanding performance by a leading actor in a dramatic series — Bill Cosby and Robert Culp of I Spy; Richard Krenna of Slattery's People; David Janssen of the Fugitive, and David McCallum of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Outstanding performance by a leading actress in a dramatic series — Anne Francis of Honey West, Barbara Perkins of Peyton Place, and Barbara Stanwyck of the Big Valley. Outstanding musical program — Color Me Barbra; Frank Sinatra, A Man and His Music; and New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts. Outstanding single performance by an actor in a leading dramatic role — Ed Begley and Melvyn Douglas in Inherit The Wind, Trevor Howard in Eagle Cage, Christopher Plummer in Hamlet and Cliff Robertson in The Game. Outstanding single performance by an actress in a leading dramatic role — Eartha Kitt in an episode of I Spy, Margaret Leighton in a multipart Dr. Kildare drama, Simone Signoret in A Small Rebellion and Shelley Winters in Back to Back. In almost 25 nominations in news and documentary programming and achievement, ABC and CBS each received 11 nominations, and ABC two. CBS News, however, pulled out of the Emmy competition two seasons ago when Fred W. Friendly, then CBS president, said he was unhappy about the qualifications of those choosing the winners. Although Friendly is no longer with CBS News, the network division still will not participate in the competition. Blue ribbon panels, whose identities are not made public, will view the nominated programs and vote to select winners of the awards, which will be announced and presented on May 22 in a CBS special program.

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ABOVE: FIDDLING AROUND BELOW: U.N.C.LE. agent Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) takes a job as a bass player in a nightlub used by Thrush as a front for storing files, in "The Discotheque Affair" work's on NBC Television Network's The Man From U.N.C.L.E." colorcast Friday, May 6.

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[codihastoomanyideas]

Mashup Ideas

Below is a list of mashup ideas that I've accumulated over time that I just can't figure out how to attack personally. It's a mix of songs that sound similar enough to me; a lot of them were collected from listening to what my parents play on the radio, so expect mostly 2nd generation rock with a few left-fielders thrown in.

If anyone figures out how to mash these songs up, please lemme know with a tag! I would love to hear and share what you make!

Earthbound “Otherworldly Foe” / Bell Biv Devoe “Poison”

Foghat “Slow Ride” / Free “All Right Now” / AC/DC “Highway to Hell” / Edgar Winter “Free Ride”

Ringo Starr "It Don't Come Easy" / Eric Clapton "Let It Rain"

Bachman-Turner Overdrive “Ain't seen nothing yet” / I have no idea who sings this but it’s not ABBA “take a chance on me (there's nothing more that I can do)”

.38 Special “Hold on loosely / The Cars “Just What I Needed”

Bachman-Turner Overdrive's "Let It Ride" / Guns n Roses's "Paradise City"

Yes "Owner of a lonely heart" / Santana "Smooth"

Beatles “Ticket to Ride / Rolling Stones “Under my Thumb”

Bust a Groove "natural playboy" / Junior Senior “Move your Feet”

Nicki Minaj “Whip It” / Liz “When I Rule the World” / QT “Hey QT”

The Hollies “Long Cool Woman” / T Rex “Bang A Gong (Get It On)”

Shaun Mendes "In My Blood” / Olivia Rodrigo “Vampire”

ELO “Telephone Line” / Derek and the Dominos “Bell Bottom Blues”

Cher “Turn Back Time”/ Bruce Springsteen “Born in the USA” / Journey “Faithfully”

Offspring “Pretty Fly for a White Guy” / Gorillaz “Feel Good Inc.” / B-52s “Love Shack” / Madonna “Material Girl”

KK Bubblegum / Baka Mitai

Marshall Tucker “Can't You See” / Gregg Allman “Midnight Rider” / Creedence Clearwater Revival “Bad Moon Rising”

Bobby Darin “Beyond the Sea” / The Chords “Life Could be Dream”

Hozier “take me to church” / Pink Floyd “Breathe”

Earth Wind and Fire “Boogie Wonderland” / Jamiroquai “Canned Heat”

Cosby Stills Nash and Young “Woodstock(We Are Stardust)” / Deep Purple “Smoke On The Water”

Grease “Summer Nights” / Beatles “Twist and Shout”

[lboogie1906]

Nathaniel Taylor (March 31, 1938 – February 27, 2019) was a television and film actor known for portraying Rollo Lawson on Sanford and Son, Grady, and Sanford.

He acted in several movies and TV shows and created a performing arts studio. Some of the major shows where he acted are The Redd Foxx Show, Police Story, and What’s Happening!!. He was in the films Trouble Man and Willie Dynamite.

He was working as an electrician at the Performing Arts Society of Los Angeles. His mentor, Larry Clark, suggested he try out for a part. Clark had him read a few lines to him and sent him down to Redd Foxx’s room. He played Rerun’s brother–in–law, Ike, in the sitcom What’s Happening!!. He guest-starred in episodes of The Bill Cosby Show, Adam 12, and Police Story.

He was in As Above, So Below. He starred in The Hunter. He was in the short film Auditioning for Nathaniel.

BlueLine Classics, LLC bought the original 1951 Ford F1 used in Sanford and Son. The owners, Jeff Canter, and Tim Franko loved the idea of restoring the Ford. After it was restored, in October 2015, they decided to reunite a cast member with the truck they preserved. Canter searched for him on Facebook and could not find him. He found him the old-fashioned way and contacted him. He called Canter and agreed to sign autographs with the restored Ford truck in October 2015. He was asked to sign autographs at the Hard Rock Rocksino Northfield Park with the 1951 Ford F1 ‘Sanford and Son Salvage truck.

He was married to Loretta until his death. Together they had two children. He had five children from a previous marriage to Bernice Gordon-Taylor. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[s10127470]

Adventures of the Magic Kingdom Potential Openings

So you guys remember when I asked you which iconic cartoon opening I should use as the basis for the opening for my fanfiction, "X-Men: The Next Mutation"?

Well, I wanted to do the same thing again, but for my upcoming fic, "Adventures of The Magic Kingdom."

So here the openings I've been thinking about drawing from....

Well those are the openings.

Well.....the ones I could put on.

(Damn 10-video limit.....)

But anyway, I put a poll down below for you guys to choose which opening I should use as the basis for my fic's opening.

[quoththemaven]

2023 Favoritest Book Reads

Vineland - Pynchon, Thomas

Prophet - Blaché, Sin & Helen Macdonald

And the Ass Saw the Angel - Cave, Nick

Lou Reed: The King of New York - Hermes, Will 

The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1) - Pratchett, Terry

Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative - Kleon, Austin 

Sonic Life: A Memoir - Moore, Thurston

The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) - Jemisin, N.K. 

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law - Roach, Mary

Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too - Sun, Jonny

The Night Masquerade (Binti, #3) - Okorafor, Nnedi 

Home (Binti, #2) - Okorafor, Nnedi 

Binti: Sacred Fire (Binti, #1.5) - Okorafor, Nnedi 

Binti (Binti, #1) - Okorafor, Nnedi 

Black Paradox - Ito, Junji

David Bowie's Low (33 1/3) - Wilcken, Hugo

Faith, Hope and Carnage - Cave, Nick

The Sirens of Titan - Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth - Aslan, Reza

Smashed - Ito, Junji

Time Shelter - Gospodinov, Georgi

Brian Eno's Another Green World (33 1/3) - Dayal, Geeta

Armageddon in Retrospect - Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Neverwhere (London Below, #1) - Gaiman, Neil 

The Committed (The Sympathizer #2) - Nguyen, Viet Thanh 

Into the Great Wide Open - Canty, Kevin 

Mongrels - Jones, Stephen Graham 

DisneyWar - Stewart, James B.

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex - Roach, Mary

The Left Hand of Darkness - Le Guin, Ursula K.

My Bloody Valentine's Loveless (33 1/3) - McGonigal, Mike 

Suttree - McCarthy, Cormac

Life's Work: A Memoir - Milch, David

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - Schwab, V.E.

Against the Day - Pynchon, Thomas

Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood - Ryan, Maureen 

Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA (33 1/3) - Himes, Geoffrey

La Moustache - Carrère, Emmanuel

Janelle Monáe’s The ArchAndroid (33 1/3) - Favreau, Alyssa 

Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea - Pinsker, Sarah 

The Man Without a Shadow - Oates, Joyce Carol

The City & the City - Miéville, China 

Mem - Morrow, Bethany C. 

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Harari, Yuval Noah

Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs (33 1/3) - Eidelstein, Eric

Gutshot - Gray, Amelia 

The Price of Time (Watch What You Wish For #1) - Tigner, Tim 

The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever - Sepinwall, Alan 

Just Kids - Smith, Patti 

Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir - Hindman, Jessica Chiccehitto 

Flicker - Roszak, Theodore

Tinderbox: HBO's Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers - Miller, James Andrew 

Flashback - Simmons, Dan

Flaming Lips' Zaireeka (33 1/3) - Richardson, Mark 

The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer #1) - Nguyen, Viet Thanh 

Pavement's Wowee Zowee (33 1/3) - Charles, Bryan

Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1) - Gibson, William

Invisible Cities - Calvino, Italo

Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2) - Jones, Stephen Graham 

The Wes Anderson Collection - Seitz, Matt Zoller

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - Dick, Philip K.

Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly (33 1/3) - Maner, Sequoia

The Nineties - Klosterman, Chuck

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Zevin, Gabrielle 

Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age - Mitenbuler, Reid

A Heart That Works - Delaney, Rob 

Imago (Xenogenesis, #3) - Butler, Octavia E.

Cryptonomicon (Crypto, #1) - Stephenson, Neal 

Blacktop Wasteland - Cosby, S.A. 

Pearl Jam's Vs. (33 1/3) - Brownlee, Clint

Tracy Flick Can't Win - Perrotta, Tom

Devil House - Darnielle, John 

Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2) - Butler, Octavia E.

Heat 2 - Mann, Michael & Meg Gardiner

Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures (33 1/3) - Ott, Chris

Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1) - Butler, Octavia E.

The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer - Stephenson, Neal 

The Republic of Thieves (Gentleman Bastard, #3) - Lynch, Scott 

The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2) - Atwood, Margaret 

[pagesandpothos]

Black History Month Book Recs

To celebrate Black History Month, I thought I'd share a few recommendations of books I've read recently by black authors. All of the books below feature incredible black characters in a wide variety of genres.

Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler (Dystopia): One of my favorite duologies. This is a haunting post-apocalyptic series about a young girl's plans and dreams after Climate Change has caused a societal collapse. Both books are incredible and feel upsettingly prescient at times!

Faebound by Saara El-Arifi (Romantasy): A recent read that I really enjoyed. This is perfect for fans of books like Fourth Wing who wish the genre was more diverse. Not only is this written by a black author, but it also includes queer characters and romances, and the world is Arab-inspired.

When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen (Horror): One of my favorite horror novels ever. There are some truly terrifying moments in this as it explores some of the real horrors of American history.

Chan-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Dystopia): an incredible and thought-provoking speculative novel. This was one of my favorite new novels of 2023. It follows several characters set in a future where a fully privatized prison system has inmates take part in televised battles to the death.

Artie and the Wolf Moon by Olivia Stephens (Graphic Novel): This is a really sweet middle-grade graphic novel about a pack of werewolves. There's some great family dynamics and a cute queer relationship too. The art is beautiful, as well.

Future Reads

I also have several books by black authors on my TBR that I can't wait to get to. Here are a few that I am most excited about:

A Love Song For Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams (Romance): This was one of my picks from Aardvark Book Club this month and I'm really excited to read it.

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (Historical): This is one that I really want to read soon. I'd love to eventually read all of Octavia E. Butler's works.

The Reformatory by Tananarive Due (Horror): I've seen so many good reviews of this. I got it from Aardvark Book Club a few months ago and look forward to finally reading it.

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn (Fantasy): I have heard such good things about this series. Book three is scheduled for release in early 2025, so I'd love to read the first two before it is released.

I'm also planning to finally read novels by both Kacen Callender and S. A. Cosby this year. I've had several of their books recommended to me and really look forward to finally diving into their books. Stars in Your Eyes by Kacen Callender is on my February TBR, so I'll be reading it very soon!

Do you have any other recs? Feel free to let me know!

[vintagelasvegas]

International / Las Vegas Hilton / LVH / Westgate

Construction of the International Hotel, January 6, 1969. Photo by Las Vegas News Bureau.

'67: Founded by K. Kerkorian, International Leisure Corp. Land purchased from National Equities Inc.

'68: Feb. 9, Groundbreaking (RJ 2/11/68)

'69: Jul. 2, International Hotel opens. 139-ft sign by AdArt (Magic Sign p. 110).

'70: Hilton Corp buys roughly half of International Leisure (Int'l Hotel and Flamingo) in Jul., and becomes majority owner in Fall.

'71: Renamed Las Vegas Hilton (RJ 7/18/71), and called Hilton-International or International-Hilton with the “International” sign seen on top of the hotel throughout '71 to late '72.

'75: East tower extension opened, under construction since 2/73.

'78: North tower extension opened.

'81: Feb. 10, Fire in the hotel's east tower kills 8 and injures over 200.

'82: Second expansion of north tower; rooms total peaks at 3,174 (RJ 2/1/82).

'94: Second sign installed early '94, 362 ft, John Renton Young Lighting. Damanged by storm 7/18/94 (RJ 1/30/94, 3/13/94, 7/20/94).

'94: The 30th floor Imperial Suite ("Elvis Presley/Bill Cosby Suite") and Imperial Lounge demolished and replaced with three Sky Villas. (RJ 12/4/94)

'97: Mar.–Jun., Third sign installed, 279 ft, by YESCO (RJ 3/7/97).

'97: Nov., opening of SpaceQuest casino, followed by Star Trek Experience in '98 (both closed 2008).

'98: Hilton’s gaming business including Las Vegas Hilton is spun off into Park Place Entertainment. 

2003: Park Place Ent. is renamed Caesars Ent.

2004: Jun., The hotel is sold to Colony Capital.

2012: Renamed LVH; Hotel is sold at a foreclosure auction to a joint venture between Goldman Sachs and Gramercy Capital.

2014: Westgate Resorts buys the hotel, renamed Westgate Las Vegas.

Photos of the International | Photos of Las Vegas Hilton

Below: Construction, 1968. Unknown photographer via Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas

[thebestestwinner]

Best Best TV Comedy, Preliminary Round

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The Emmys may be over, but our competition has just begun! Welcome to the preliminary round of the Best Best TV Comedy Bracket! Which Emmy-winning best comedy is the BEST best comedy? Your votes decide!

Our 35 competitors are winners of the Outstanding Comedy Series or equivalent historical award. Only sitcoms/comedies with recurring characters in each episode are included (some early winners would be more sketch/variety today).

Bracket seeded by number of Emmy wins, IMDb rating, plus a little edge for recentness and how popular they seem on Tumblr.

All polls live for one week. Stay tuned for next week, when our winners move on to the big round of 32!

All polls live for one week and linked below the cut:

The Monkees vs. The Danny Thomas Show/Make Room For Daddy

Barney Miller vs. Ally McBeal

Everybody Loves Raymond vs. The Cosby Show

[annarellix]

From Dark to Very Dark to Black

I recently read and love these three books. I’m a huge fan of Joe Lansdale so I couldn’t help loving this anthology.

S.A Cosby wrote the introduction ot Lansdale’s anthology and I love this dark story that caused me a serious book hangover

I think that Ronald Malfi is an excellent horror storyteller and Black Mouth was one of my top books of last year.

Below my reviews and info about each book:

All The Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby

Titus Crown is the first Black sheriff in the history of Charon County, Virginia. In recent decades, Charon has had only two murders. After years of working as an FBI agent, no one knows better than Titus that while his hometown might seem like a land of moonshine, cornbread, and honeysuckle, secrets always fester under the surface.

But a year to the day after Titus’s election, a school teacher is killed by a former student. The student is then fatally shot by Titus’s deputies. As Titus investigates the shootings, he unearths terrible crimes, and a serial killer who has been hiding in plain sight, haunting the dirt lanes and woodland clearings of Charon. With the killer’s possible connections to a local church and the town’s harrowing history weighing on him, Titus tries to project confidence about closing the case while concealing a painful secret from his own past. At the same time, he also has to contend with a far-right group that wants to hold a parade in celebration of the town’s Confederate history. Charon is Titus’s home and his heart. But where faith and violence meet, there will be a reckoning.

Book page: https://www.headline.co.uk/titles/s-a-cosby/all-the-sinners-bleed/9781472299130/

My Review: The audiobook of Razorblade Tears was how i got to know S.A. Cosby. All Sinners Bleed is a book that got me hooked since the beginning, punched me in a way that i loved and didn't want to stop being punched, a left me with a terrible book hangover. It's twisty, dark, a sort of southern gothic noir that deals with racism, prejudice and doesn't sugarcoat or hide any issues or nastiness that can be found in a small town. Titus, the sheriff, is a clever man who believe in what is doing but must also face the fact that someone is still nostalgic of the lazy and white previous sheriff. It's not a cozy or light read, there's dark humour and there's a master storyteller that keeps you turning pages. I loved it and It's strongly recommended. Many thanks to Headline for this digital copy, all opinons are mine

The Author: S. A. Cosby is an Anthony Award-winning writer from Southeastern Virginia. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Razorblade Tears and Blacktop Wasteland, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was a New York Times Notable Book, and was named a best book of the year by NPR, The Guardian, and Library Journal, among others. When not writing, he is an avid hiker and chess player.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/blacklionking73

Things Get Ugly: The Best Crime Stories of Joe R. Lansdale by Joe R. Lansdale

In the 1950s, a young small-town projectionist mixes it up with a violent gang. When Mr. Bear is not alerting us to the dangers of forest fires, he lives a life of debauchery and murder. A brother and sister travel to Oklahoma to recover the dead body of their uncle. Edgar Award winner and bestselling author Joe R. Lansdale (the Hap and Leonard series) returns to the piney, dangerous woods of East Texas to reveal the best of his award-winning crime fiction.

Book page: https://tachyonpublications.com/product/things-get-ugly/

My Review: I'm sure Joe R. Lansdale  cannot write a bad or boring story. He can write stories that brings very far from my comfort zone, dark story, story where the dog dies or mix of all the possible elements. But he always write great stories that make you face the darker side of life.. And always add a pinch of dark humour that makes you smile even if you are immersed in blood up to your here. This is not a book for you if you do not want to read about the darker side of life or hate too much violence and gore But if you want to read an anthology of excellent crime/thriller/noir/etc stories be read to get it and start a wilde ride I thoroughly enjoyed it and strongly recommend it. Many thanks to Tachyon Publications for this ARC, all opinions are mine

The Author: Champion Mojo Storyteller Joe R. Lansdale is the author of over forty novels and numerous short stories. His work has appeared in national anthologies, magazines, and collections, as well as numerous foreign publications. He has written for comics, television, film, newspapers, and Internet sites. His work has been collected in more than two dozen short-story collections, and he has edited or co-edited over a dozen anthologies. He has received the Edgar Award, eight Bram Stoker Awards, the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Grinzani Cavour Prize for Literature, the Herodotus Historical Fiction Award, the Inkpot Award for Contributions to Science Fiction and Fantasy, and many others. His novella Bubba Ho-Tep was adapted to film by Don Coscarelli, starring Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis. His story "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road" was adapted to film for Showtime's "Masters of Horror," and he adapted his short story "Christmas with the Dead" to film hisownself. The film adaptation of his novel Cold in July was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and the Sundance Channel has adapted his Hap & Leonard novels for television. He is currently co-producing several films, among them The Bottoms, based on his Edgar Award-winning novel, with Bill Paxton and Brad Wyman, and The Drive-In, with Greg Nicotero. He is Writer In Residence at Stephen F. Austin State University, and is the founder of the martial arts system Shen Chuan: Martial Science and its affiliate, Shen Chuan Family System. He is a member of both the United States and International Martial Arts Halls of Fame. He lives in Nacogdoches, Texas with his wife, dog, and two cats.

Website: https://www.joerlansdale.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/joelansdale

They Lurk By Ronald Malfi

Five terrifying collected horror novellas newly reissued from the “modern-day Algernon Blackwood”.

Skullbelly A private detective is hired after three teenagers disappear in a forest and uncovers a terrible local secret.

The Separation Marcus arrives in Germany to find his friend up-and-coming prizefighter Charlie in a deep depression. But soon Charlie’s behavior grows increasingly bizarre. Is he suffering from a nervous breakdown, or are otherworldly forces at work?

The Stranger Set a rural Florida parking lot, David returns to his car to find a stranger sat behind the wheel. The doors are locked and there’s a gun on the dashboard. And that was when then the insanity started…

After the Fade A girl walked into a small Annapolis tavern, collapsed and died. Something had latched itself to the base of her skull. And it didn’t arrive alone. Now, the patrons of The Fulcrum are trapped, held prisoner within the tavern’s walls by monstrous things, trying to find their way in.

Fierce A teenage girl and her mom are in a car accident with another vehicle on a remote country road in the middle of a nightmarish snowstorm, which soon devolves into gruesome madness.

Bookpage: https://titanbooks.com/71528-they-lurk/

My Review: I discovered Ronald Malfi last year, loved Black Mouth and Come with and enjoyed this collection of short stories. Ronald Malfi excels at writing novellas and short stories: they're all well plotted, tightly knitted and there a beginning and an apex of horror that keeps you on the edge. There's different type of horror and all of these stories was quite terrifying regardless of the genre. It's a good way to get to know this author. Highly recommended. Many thanks to the publisher for this ARC, all opinions are mine

The Author: Ronald Malfi is the award-winning author of several horror novels, mysteries, and thrillers, including the bestselling horror novel Come with Me. He is the recipient of two Independent Publisher Book Awards, the Beverly Hills Book Award, the Vincent Preis Horror Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award, and his novel Floating Staircase was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Maryland and

Tweeter at @RonaldMalfi Website: https://titanbooks.com/creators/ronald-malfi/

[tulipq]

I found the kitty!

Dark joke about "predators" below the fold

Also, there is a version of this where you put Harvey Weinstein or Bill Cosby in the woods.

Not to critique evolution, but I would think orange and black stripes wouldn’t be as good for camouflage in a forest as, say, green and black would.

[delta7of96]

Superb list (shoutout to "LCDR Geordi "Kunta Kinte" LaForge"), BUT... "Oh darling, do dream bigger..."

-Astronaut Mae C. Jemison

-Morgan Freeman (Easy Reader, "The Electric Company")

-Sonequa Martin-Green (CAPT Michael Burnham, "Star Trek: Discovery")

-Alaina Reed & Sonia Manzano (Olivia & Maria, "Sesame Street")

-Bill Cosby

-Nichelle Nichols (LT Nyota Uhura, "Star Trek: The Original Series")

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Earth's Astrophysicist, Scientist, & Cosmic Communicator

-Dwayne McDuffie, co-founder of Milestone Comics & pioneering producer of multicultural comics & animation entertainment (below, his creation "Static Shock")

[Just sayin...]

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