#Joe Lazarus

[jenmedsbookreviews]

The Ungrateful Dead by Adam Simcox

Today I am sharing my thoughts on the third book in Adam Simcox's fabulous Dying Squad series, The Ungrateful Dead, out on 20th July. @adamsimcox @gollancz #books #booktwitter #booktwt #theungratefuldead

Today I am absolutely delighted to share my thoughts on The Ungrateful Dead, the third book in the fabulous Dying Squad series by Adam Simcox. I’ve loved getting to know Joe and Daisy-May and this is an absolute cracker of a book. My thanks to publisher Gollancz for the advance copy via Netgalley. Here’s what it’s all about: Source: NetgalleyRelease Date: 20 JulyPublisher: Gollancz Continue…

[hellonearthmetalzine]

Speculation: Could Joe Lazarus Be Iron Maiden's Next Drummer?

Nicko McBrain recently announced that he will no longer tour with Iron Maiden. At the same time, manager Rod Smallwood revealed that the band already has a replacement drummer lined up for the upcoming tour. Naturally, this has sparked speculation about who the new drummer could be. These speculations are not new, however, and I’ll try to explain why Joe Lazarus has been a popular guess for some…

[senorboombastic]

Album Review: Vennart - Forgiveness & The Grain

Words: Ben Forrester It was only in September of last year that we were graced with an album featuring the inimitable talents of one Mr Mike Vennart. Teaming up with his touring brother Simon Neil of Biffy Clyro fame and Dave fucking Lombardo, Empire State Bastard came through with a monolithic debut that challenged the extremes of alternative music. And won! Having spent most of 2023 touring…

[rouyn]

"Oh shit."

Tom Burke as Dennis Rebrov in The Lazarus Project 2.06 (2023)

[livingcuttingboard]

nah bc i will always be pissed off by those "fandom so small we could fit into a bus" post cuz they always show shit like "from" or "i know what u did last summer". a REAL underrated show is "the lazarus project". like havent seen ANYBODY talking about that masterpiece. damn streaming sites and their prices bc i can garuntee u that if it was cheaper,everybody would be watching it. also bring back piracy we are LOSING shows to greed of companies like Netflix,prime etc.

[thelazarusproject]

Since his previous shows hadn’t made it past one series, Barton assumed The Lazarus Project was “another one-and-done, so I didn’t worry too much about how [the first series] ended. I basically wrote myself into a cul-de-sac. Then we found out we were coming back, and my first thought was: ‘Fuck. Where do we go from here?’” 

Barton compares the experience of writing the show to the scene in Wallace and Gromit’s The Wrong Trousers where Gromit, atop a runaway toy train, is frantically laying down track as it careers around the house. “It’s the most structurally complex story I’ve ever tried to do,” he says, “and in the shortest amount of time. You’re just trying to get ahead enough so that people aren’t turning up on set with nothing to say.”

 For Barton, the pleasure of writing The Lazarus Project lies less in the big action set-pieces than putting characters through the emotional wringer and seeing how they cope.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Lachlan Cartwright at Politico:

Inside 30 Rock — the iconic skyscraper synonymous with a satirical TV sitcom — a select group of prominent Comcast executives are busy drawing up lists. In a process that internally has been likened to the Hunger Games, the top brass, including NBC’s Cesar Conde and Rebecca Blumenstein and MSNBC’s Rebecca Kutler, are dividing anchors, hosts and correspondents into a few buckets as MSNBC prepares to spin off from its mothership, NBC News. There are those NBC News wants and MSNBC doesn’t. The ones MSNBC is keen to nab that NBC is happy to see go. And the lucky few whom both networks would love to keep, granting those journalists the luxury of deciding between the two. Sunday Today Show anchor and Morning Joe co-host Willie Geist is one of the rare exceptions that will be allowed to appear on both channels. But layoffs await a sizable number of those neither network wants. It’s a clusterfuck,” a person familiar with the negotiations told me. This is, by many accounts, a time of soul searching for MSNBC. After the election, the liberal network’s primetime ratings cratered, falling by 57 percent in the key 25-to-54 demo after Election Day. But in recent months, MSNBC’s faithful have tuned back in, and it regularly draws more viewers than its main rival, CNN. Rachel Maddow, the star of the network and its highest-rated host, is, at least for now, back on air five nights a week. And a second Donald Trump presidency seems to have provided a new sense of purpose to a network beloved by the anti-Trump resistance.

Still, the looming split from NBC has stirred deep uncertainty within MSNBC — not just about who stays and who goes, but about what kind of network it wants to be and whether it can survive on its own. Will its future be beholden to resistance viewers, or do they want to hire nonpartisan journalists focused on scoops and beating out their soon-to-be rivals at NBC News? How they square that and resolve those competing interests will define the network’s future. To the surprise of staffers Comcast announced late last year that it was, largely, getting out of the cable TV business. Eleven channels will depart the NBC mothership later this year, including CNBC, USA, E!, Syfy and, of course, MSNBC. For lack of a better name, Comcast has so far dubbed the new entity “SpinCo,” and tasked company veteran Mark Lazarus with running it and ensuring the new entity does not end up in palliative care. He has departed his palatial 51st floor office (where Comcast’s best and brightest enjoy sweeping views of Manhattan) for an office on the much more modest 6th floor that was previously empty office space but where all of SpinCo will be located until later this year.

Announced two weeks before the election, SpinCo turned out to be well timed. The decision to split off the cable networks came from the company’s longtime CEO (and founder’s son) Brian Roberts. The primary driver was the continued decline of cable TV (when was the last time you watched Oxygen?) and its drag on Comcast’s share price. But the move comes with possible political upside too: Comcast is consciously uncoupling an asset that reliably provokes the president’s hatred. Just last week, Trump unleashed on Roberts on Truth Social, labeling MSNBC “fake news.” “Comcast, which also has the ailing network known as NBC, is trying to stay away from lawsuits by disassociating NBC from MSNBC, but it won’t work. Comcast, the owner of both, and its Chairman, Brian Roberts, are a disgrace to the integrity of Broadcasting!!!,” Trump posted.

Extricating MSNBC and building up SpinCo mean big changes, some of which are only visible behind the scenes, and some of which will drastically alter what viewers see at home. Election expert Steve Kornacki is taking his “Kornacki cam” to NBC, or “RemainCo” as it is widely known within 30 Rock. (The same day Kornacki’s new deal became public it was also announced that Antonia Hylton — a current NBC News correspondent — would join MSNBC as a co-host and correspondent.) Longtime anchor José Díaz-Balart is due to depart MSNBC for NBC as MSNBC shutters its operation in Miami. The 11th Hour host and NBC News senior business analyst Stephanie Ruhle, who also pops up on the Today Show, will stick with MSNBC but may have to lose her second title, which she adores. Another familiar face from the Today Show NBC News Political and National Correspondent Jacob Soboroff, who is well liked by Kutler, is expected to land at MSNBC.

One of the biggest shocks of the spinoff is that MSNBC will lose the newsgathering talent of NBC. While most people at home will just notice the new hosts, behind the scenes MSNBC is creating an entire newsroom from scratch. Until now, MSNBC directly employed anchors and producers but turned to NBC News when they needed Richard Engel in Ukraine or Vaughn Hillyard at the White House or Keir Simmons outside Buckingham Palace. Now they’ll have to build up their own roster of correspondents and reporters, with about 100 jobs to fill. Who they hire and the mission they set them on will go a long way towards determining the future of the network.

Over the past two months, I’ve spoken with more than three dozen MSNBC staffers, top talent and executives, as well as industry insiders familiar with the network, trying to understand how MSNBC plans to navigate its test of relevance and longevity. While executives toast what they hope is a rebirth, anxious employees have been asking me if I know whether they’ll still have jobs this summer and, if so, where they’ll be working once they decamp from 30 Rock. Many were granted anonymity to speak candidly without jeopardizing their careers. On the air, MSNBC continues to give viewers the blow-by-blow of Trump and the fate of democracy. Behind the scenes, staffers operate with limited information about their fates and the editorial direction of the new leadership. A number of people there likened it to being asked to fly a plane as it’s being built. So far, Kutler, who took over as head of MSNBC in February, has impressed the executive producers of the network’s shows in their regular Wednesday morning meeting by being more visible and more hands on than her predecessor, Rashida Jones. She’s also slowly, subtly shifting the tone of those shows. In those meetings executive producers have been told by the new boss to incorporate more hopeful news to give viewers a break from the bleakness. They have been instructed to incorporate guests with competing viewpoints and to be more measured in their use of breaking news banners so that not every Trump outrage seems like a five-alarm fire. Kutler has also told them she wants more stylistic gloss; she plans to bring back hair and makeup for all guests and wants to see more of the anchors’ faces and less b-roll. Despite these adjustments, though, there’s still plenty of sky-on-fire rhetoric from the network during the early days of Trump 2.0, the type of coverage its diehard liberal viewership craves. The stakes are high. MSNBC needs to stay relevant as they lose the reporting heft of NBC News. As CNN has moved on from Trump 1.0 resistance heroes Don Lemon and Jim Acosta and The Washington Post’s owner now seems far less concerned about democracy’s dark fate as he kowtows to Trump, MSNBC is the primary major resistance outlet left standing as Trump’s second term creates an unrelenting news cycle. If Lazarus and Kutler can figure it out, they can safeguard the future of MSNBC. If they screw it up, they risk alienating loyal viewers and tanking the network.

[...] The fate of Willie Geist — who does double duties on Morning Joe and the weekend edition of The Today Show — has been decided. Geist is too much of a talent for either network to pass up, and he’ll be the rare instance of split custody after the SpinCo divorce. He has been featuring more prominently on NBC of late, filling in for Kelly Clarkson on her daytime talk show and hosting the red carpet for SNL’s 50th. But he has been a fixture on Morning Joe for years and Scarborough and Brzezinski would struggle to adequately replace him in the third chair. Should there be a last-minute snafu with Geist, I’m told both Joe and Mika are fans of sportswriter and podcaster Pablo Torre, who has been featured more regularly on Morning Joe. Behind the scenes, the 100-person newsroom being created is a bright spot for a beleaguered industry battered by layoffs. It’s being overseen by Scott Matthews, a former colleague of Kutler’s from CNN, has already started advertising for a DC bureau chief (a key job for setting the tone of coverage for a political network that has leaned heavily on NBC’s Washington staff) and filled key roles such as the VP of newsgathering, poaching Erin Zimmerman from ABC News. When it comes to reporters, Matthews is looking for people who not only write, but also shoot, produce, edit and report while juggling the technology necessary to do a live report solo. The campaign embed model is what execs want to emulate, deployed across all areas of news.

Politico reports on how MSNBC is facing a critical moment in their existence as a network, with the channel being set to be uncoupled from NBC News with the spinning off of almost all Comcast cable nets into a separate company.

Read the full article on Politico.

[anotherguynamedjeremy]

Why, thank you Joe Brumm. I needed another song stuck in my head for the next couple of days.

But in all seriousness, if you have watched the Bluey special 'The Sign' and liked the song from the ending, here's the official music video of Meg Washington's Lazarus Drug.

[tlbburke-blog]

LAZARUS PROJECT S2 airs on 15 November. It's definitely on Stan at 2pm AEDT in Australia. 9pm in uk 🇬🇧. Apart from that, I can only suggest check the carrier that showed S1. Not sure if the whole series will drop at once.

[andreabaideas]

It seems that Sam Claflin has a new projet with Amazon: "Lazarus", a mystery-thriller.

It will be a limited TV series. Along with Sam, Its set to appear Bill Nighy - with whom he played already in the phenomenal "Their Finest"- playing his dad this time, and Alexandra Roach, whose work i'm not familiar with, though that will be corrected ASAP (this weekend), she will play Sam's sister.

Source comes from Variety (by Joe Otterson), so Its trustworthy info to me, they always get It right, i trust them.

Also its an original story written by Harlan Coben for the series, so no book to read this time (insert sad face here). I like Harlan Coben and Sam Claflin so I'm excited to know more about It.

[hitchell-mope]

Don’t piss off your boss now Joey. Not again

[rouyn]

Tom Burke as Dennis Rebrov in The Lazarus Project 2.03 (2023)

[six-demon-bag]

DOGS IN HORROR (2/?)

The Woman in Black (1989) dir. Herbert Wise Dead Mountaineer's Hotel (1979) dir. Grigori Kromanov Piranha (1978) dir. Joe Dante My Bloody Valentine (2009) dir. Patrick Lussier The Conjuring (2013) dir. James Wan The Uninvited (1944) dir. Lewis Allen High Tension (2003) dir. Alexandre Aja The Lazarus Effect (2015) dir. David Gelb

[thelazarusproject]

Does being freed from such restrictions mean series two can go bigger, scale-wise?

“Actually, I think the ideas are bigger,” says Barton. “In terms of action, it may even have slightly less. The first one was more of a thriller, whereas this one has, at its heart, a more complex idea. I feel it’s more like it’s on a philosophically different scale, rather than, y’know, more car chases.”

[a-cup-of-ghost-tea]

Quarter Ghost Bruce Wayne

So I see lots of Bruce as Danny's bio dad AUs, but what if we flip the script: Danny is Bruce's bio dad.

Danny is a scientist visiting Gotham to pitch some of his inventions meets a lovely couple at an event, they have a night together and then he moves on.

The Wayne's never thought to check Bruce's paternity because he looks just like Thomas. They did use protection, but it failed.

Bruce is relatively normal growing up. There's some small oddities about him -he has better than normal night vision, is very quiet walking, and heals quicker- but it's all still within normal human parameters.

Then his parents are shot.

Bruce becomes obsessed with bringing their killer to justice which overtime becomes an Obsession with Protecting Gotham.

His Obsession makes him more ghostlike and causes the latent ectoplasm from Danny to start forming a proper core. He was born with one, but it was only a grain (a proto-core), now it's growing and strengthening.

He begins developing powers, but it happens so slowly and they're subtle, so he doesn't realize it.

He fades into the shadows a little too well, he really shouldn't be able to sneak up on beings that can hear a pin drop a mile away the way he does, he gets up from injuries a too quickly, survives things he shouldn't, when criminals look at him they see something more than just a man in a bat suit...

Still no one realizes. Ghost cores don't show up on conventional medical equipment.

One day Bruce is meeting with an older inventor who has some promising new green energy innovations. He feels oddly... familiar, but Bruce can't pin down why.

Unfortunately their meeting is crashed by Scarecrow and Bruce gets fear gassed. It's a new strain and Bruce looses coherence quickly.

He's back in that alley but this time he's standing between his kids and Joe Chill. He's needs to protect them but he's only a child himself. He desperately calls for help. There's an odd feeling in his chest. -Something inside him reaching. It's answered.

He comes to held in a strangers arms. They're floating in the air. Scarecrow is trapped in ice in the corner of the room.

The man holding him is ethereal with white hair and Lazarus water green eyes. Normally he would be worried by this, but, as their eyes meet he can feel that this man would never hurt him. He feels protected and safe in a way that he hasn't felt since... since...

The man is staring at him in awe.

"I have a son," He whispers.

[castillon02]

A firm knock at the door. 

Tim, sitting on the carpet, waist-deep in print-outs from Black Mask’s latest debacle, looked at the door. Looked at the pile of invoices, photos, blackmail, and stupid little evidence baggies from Mask’s stupid little torture party. Looked at his couch, which was Evidence Island for that thing with Scarecrow last week, and his coffee table, the last refuge of JL prototypes. Maybe whoever was knocking at the door of his top-secret vigilante hideout would just go away. Or maybe they’d have the decency to bring their own chair with them. He picked up his phone and accessed his front door security cameras. 

Red Hood, one arm occupied by a pair of Old Joe’s pizzas, knocked again. 

On the one hand, Hood might shoot him. On the other hand, Tim hadn’t eaten lunch and it was (he checked his phone again) 8:13 PM. 

Tim turned all of his thigh-piles into carpet stacks and made his way to the door, where he removed three physical barricades, three digital barriers, and four traps for the unwary. He activated his “If I die in the next ten hours, this is the last person I was seen with” failsafe. Then he cracked the door on its chain. “Sorry, I didn’t order any pizza,” he snarked. 

Hood huffed a robotic sigh through his voice modulator. “I need a favor.”   

“I’m aware,” Tim said. There was no other reason for Hood to show up. And it had to be something complex, otherwise Hood would just do what he’d been doing, which was texting him a casefile and sticking a “One month of no murder attempts” coupon to Tim’s door when Tim solved it for him. 

Hood held out the pizzas and waited. He didn’t even twitch his hand towards his gun. 

“Fine.” Tim undid the chain and opened the door for him.

Hood left his helmet on one of the hat hooks by the front door, revealing a wryly curved mouth and eyes that weren’t any more Lazarus green than usual. He even gestured to the guns at his side with a cock of his head. Leave those here too? A generous offer from a crime lord who loved shooting people. 

Tim shrugged. If it got down to violence, he’d rather Hood not be grumpy about it. 

Hood shrugged back, kept his guns, and followed Tim into the solarium, which was an antechamber that Tim mostly used when he wanted to taunt potential snipers. It had a breakfast nook, two barstools, a dead plant from his well-meaning decorator, and ceiling-length bulletproof windows. 

Tim tinted the windows with a flick of a wall switch. 

“One Canadian bacon with onion and artichoke hearts,” Hood—Jason—said, dropping a pizza box in front of the left stool. “And one basil and roasted garlic with extra pecorino.” He dropped the other pizza in front of the right stool and sat. 

Tim sat next to him. “Thanks for getting my order right.” He could be polite. 

“I asked Alfred,” Jason said. 

Proof someone else knew that Jason intended to visit him. Jason really didn’t want to kill him. At least at the moment. 

(Jason’s pizza order had changed from when he was a kid; he’d always ordered the meat-lover’s before, maybe for the extra calories. Food insecurity sucked.) 

(Tim’s tastes had changed too, but his pizza order hadn't. No one ordered “Canadian bacon with onion and artichoke hearts” unless it was for him, specifically, and it was…nice, knowing that whoever had ordered the food had thought of him. Mental insecurity sucked too.)   

They did justice to Old Joe’s thin-crust for a while, eating in silence. 

When he only had a couple of slices left, Jason took a deep breath and said, “None of this leaves here, aright? Tell anyone I asked about any of this and you’ll wish you were dead.” 

Tim waved his hand. “Duh.” 

“Right. Okay.” Jason rubbed his forehead. “You know how sometimes start-up companies get successful and then they suddenly realize that they have a million employees instead of ten and that they should probably have things like an HR department and a pension plan?” 

“Ah,” Tim said. Jason “Red Hood” Todd didn’t need the help of Red Robin, teen vigilante. He needed the help of Tim Drake, teen CEO. “You got your fiftieth employee?” 

“I have to know what FMLA is now,” Jason said, a thousand-yard stare in his eyes. “It’s basically what I’ve been doing anyway, but there are so many subparts.” 

Tim made a sympathetic noise. 

“And I’ve been meaning to set up some kind of…retirement…thing…for the past two years,” Jason continued. “Pretty much since I started, but there always seemed to be bigger things, you know?” 

Tim nodded. Effective long-term policy or not, preteens addicted to fentanyl could definitely make someone put a 401k plan on the back burner. 

“And I had Gloria handling birthdays!” Jason said, obviously on a roll now. “Like getting cards for everyone on the day and getting them signed and all? But she had to move to Florida cuz her Mami’s getting up there, and no one else wants to get the cards and pass them around, but now I’ve got grown-ass armed adults who are miffed that their birthdays don’t get a card, and some other people think there should be cake too if we’re going to be revamping the birthday system anyway!” He looked at Tim, his eyes wild. “The whole thing is distracting everyone from killing traffickers and setting up community support systems! Grown-ass adults! Birthdays!” 

“Birthdays are the devil,” Tim said, sympathetic. The Wayne Enterprises R&D department had had a brief kerfuffle over them too. 

“Incarnate,” Jason said. “But also, no. I mean, I get it, some of us ain’t had people who celebrated our birthdays before! I want everyone to feel appreciated. But at this point, all Black Mask has to do is say ‘cake and ice cream’ and his goons will be able to set up shop while my guys shoot each other.” 

This level of chaos didn’t just happen; it was likely only the visible part of an iceberg of underlying dysfunction. “Gloria did a lot more than birthday cards, huh?” Tim asked. 

Jason winced. “I begged her to come back and she said she was tired of nagging me about the pension plan.” 

“Good for her,” Tim said mildly. 

Jason glared. 

“It got you here, didn’t it?” 

Jason glared harder, but he stuffed his mouth full of pizza instead of threatening Tim with bodily harm. 

Tim flexed his fingers. Gotham was better with a functional Red Hood gang and this would get him unprecedented access to Jason’s plans, but he also needed to come out of this alive. “If I help you with this, I’m going to need to know a lot about your organization.” He held up a pre-emptive hand. “I don’t care about your exact plans for Gotham’s drug trade, but we’ll be looking at your org charts—your chain of command—and getting nitty-gritty about it. Also, I want to be compensated as a consultant.” 

Jason frowned. “You want money?” He glanced at Tim’s ostentatious kill-me windows. 

Tim shrugged. “You can choose. I’ll bill you a fair amount, and you can compensate me with your money or with an equally valuable amount of your time—and I’ll know how much you value your time in an exact dollar amount by the time we’re done.” 

Jason snorted. “That your usual deal when you’re a consultant, or is that a Jason Todd special?” 

Tim smiled his best Janet Drake smile. “It’s the exact same deal I offer anyone in the JL or the vigilante community. The Jason Todd special is when I let people roll up in my DMs for the low, low price of not slitting my throat. Again.” 

Jason had the grace to glance away. “Gotcha. Better get started then. Like you fancy CEO types say, time is money.”

"Like we fancy CEO types," Tim corrected, and had the pleasure of watching Jason wince. Time for Red Hood to get his hands dirty with all the blood and ink that went into being a responsible twenty-first century boss.