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Ranking of "LOKI" Season One (2021) Episodes

Below is my ranking of the Season One episodes of "LOKI", the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)/Disney Plus limited series. Created by Michael Waldron, the series starred Tom Hiddleston in the title role:

1. (1.02) "The Variant" - Time Variance Authority (TVA) agent Mobius M. Mobius put the variant version of Asgardian god Loki Odinson/aka Laufeyson to work, but not everyone at TVA is thrilled about the God of Mischief's presence.

2. (1.01) "Glorious Purpose" - In the series premiere, Loki finds himself out of time and a prisoner of the TVA, forced - against his godly disposition - to cooperate with others.

3. (1.06) "For All Time. Always." - The clock is ticking in the season finale, which finds Loki and one of his variants, Sylvie Laufeydottir, on a date with destiny to meet the founder of the TVA and a variant of Kang the Conqueror, He Who Remains.

4. (1.05) "Journey Into Mystery" - Loki tries to escape The Void, a desolate purgatory where he meets variant versions of himself.

5. (1.04) "The Nexus Event" - Frayed nerves and paranoia infiltrate the agency as Mobius and the high-ranking TVA Hunter B-15 search for Loki and Sylvie.

6. (1.03) "Lamentis" - Loki finds out "The Variant" aka Sylvie's plan, but he has his own that will forever alter both their destinies.

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Loki production recap

A general recap of what we learned about the production over the past year... including rumours and speculation.

Just wanted to put through a quick re-cap of what’s been covered on this blog over the past year or so...

Officially confirmed by Marvel

Tom Hiddleston returning as Loki 

Kate Herron directing

Michael Waldron as showrunner head writer

6 x 1hr episodes

Airing in June 2021

Confirmed by the trades and the actors themselves

Gugu Mbatha-Raw - Judge Ravonna Renslayer

Richard E. Grant -Classic Loki

Confirmed by the trades, and we’ve seen them on set

Sophia di Martino - Sylvie

Owen Wilson - Mobius M. Mobius

Semi-confirmed through media mentions, but they won’t talk about it

Wunmi Mosaku (possibly a character named Hunter B-15)

Sasha Lane - Hunter C-20

Seemingly confirmed by IMDb listings

Cailey Fleming as Young Sylvie

Chris Brewster as a Minuteman (and Stunt performer)

Isabelle Fretheim as a Minuteman (and Stunt performer)

Michael Rose

Lucius Baston - Male Shopper

Aaron Beelner as Robot Scanner 

Natalie Holt as composer

Reese Giles as TVA Office Employee

Alexandra McGuire as Airline passenger

Almost confirmed (IMDb post removed; were in Atlanta this fall)

Deobia Oparei - Boastful Loki

Derek Russo - Hunter U-92

Not confirmed but were in Atlanta and SM follows indicate they were probably involved in the show:

Jack Veal - Kid Loki

Neil Ellice - Hunter D-90

Jaimie Alexander, presumably as Lady Sif

Strong maybe

Asano Tadanobu, possibly as Hogun

Time frames (from casting calls and film permits)

1960s

1970s

1980s

2050

MCU things referenced in various photos/videos

TVA

Roxxon

Minutemen

Rumours

Loki has two love interests

Multiple Lokis

So, hopefully we’ll have some of these confirmed today... and maybe a few character names attached?? If we’re lucky. 

Just wanted to get these out there, before the Investor call and any other news outlets. 

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Loki

Season 1, “Journey into Mystery”

Director: Kate Herron

DoP: Autumn Durald Arkapaw

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Loki Episode 6: For All Time. Always. Review

#Loki Episode 6: For All Time. Always. has big Five Doctors energy. #Review

*SPOILERS, MAYBE?* Tricky to the end, FOR ALL TIME. ALWAYS. sees LOKI end its debut season not only subverting the usual Marvel formula for finale fireworks but double down by pulling out a few more surprises before things end in the most unexpected and intriguing fashion possible. Getting there, though, sees the series finally make good on all its flirting with Whovian tropes and lean fully…

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Friday 28 April 1837

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Slept in K.C. as since the 11th washed and ready at 7 50 at which hour F46° and fine morning rather hazy as yesterday morning – at accounts till breakfast at 9 25 to 10 ¼ - A- read French – changed paper and washed a little off to H- down the old bank at 10 ½ - called at the Sextons’ about John? Beattie paying 1d.  a year for a seat behind the pulpit in the old church – I had given no such privilege – the man’s wife offered me the penny in the old bank – would not take it – told her to settle with the sexton – It was old Whitworth banskman at Walker pit had given the privilege from me – all right – let the man sit there but told the sexton I had given no leave but to old Whitworth and Mrs. and Miss Briggs and Miss Knight – then to the bank – mentioned the contents of Mr. Gray’s letter of yesterday – should be at H-x tomorrow – mentioned the bills to be paid on Monday – then to Whitley’s – looked over Robsons’? work 26 views of cathedral or rather parts of cathedrals etc in Spain – then sat 25 minutes with Mr. Rawson of Stony Royd e– Mr. and Mrs. Stansfield came in as I was going out – Mr. SR- walked with me to the end of the stony royde carriage road – returned by Bailey hall and up the old bank and home before 2 – wrote the above of today – A- off to Cliff Hill and I called down to Robert Mann at 2 20 and went out and with Robert and Jack Green (Samuel and Michael at Mytholm quarry and Mark Hepworth and Frank and John Day carting stone from there to the Lodge road rough walling) at the rough walling and with Joseph Mann at the meer-drift-head – (3 or 4 masons as yesterday at the great bywash and boxing up to the top of the clow to the [shaft] of which Charles H- put another roller in the middle yesterday got it done by candle light last night, and let the water in again) – with one or other with Joseph M – at the Little field cistern – his men have been at it – what Wood did last year done over again – to be finished tomorrow – and about till came in at 6 ½ - a little while in the stable just before – told Frank that his son John was at liberty any time that he could get a place for him but I would keep him another week if he liked i.e. till next Monday week as he came on a Monday – Frank not surprised – supposed I should not keeping him after he throwing the old bay horse and cart down the precipice near the Lodge on Good Friday and my never being told till the bill came in from Charles H- for 5/. for mending the cart (dated 15th instant) and John Booth told me that morning what a shake it had given the poor bay – dressed – dinner at 7 Mr. S. Gray announced at 7 ¼ - we finished our dinner and then sent him into the dining room to dine on veal cutlets etc – tea at 8 – A- went off before 10 – I sat talking with Mr. Gray about Russia till 10 ½ then ordered him wine and water – looked about the hall with him (he is for the little balustrade stairs to the west end of my uncle’s room) and came upstairs a little before 11 – sat with A- at her bedside ¼ hour or more – fine day but not much sun

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[Article contains spoilers for 'Loki' S01E05]

There’s no such thing as too many Lokis, and that’s proven true in Episode 5 of Marvel Studios’ Loki. After Loki winds up pruned at the hands of the Time Variance Authority, he finds himself in the Void — the place where all things go when they’re removed from the Sacred Timeline. And he quickly realizes he’s not alone, as the God of Mischief is greeted by Loki, Loki, Loki, and Loki.

Or as we’ll know them: Classic Loki, Kid Loki, Boastful Loki, and Alligator Loki.

The new group of outcasts, played by Richard E. Grant, Jack Veal, DeObia Oparei, and a CGI alligator, respectively, quickly become Loki’s guide through this strange new space, offering him refuge in their “Loki Palace” until all hell breaks loose there.

“It was completely surreal and an absolute delight,” Tom Hiddleston tells Marvel.com. “I've been living with playing Loki for a long time and have become used to all his different characteristics. To suddenly be surrounded by incarnations and embodiments of those characteristics... those moments with Richard, DeObia, and Jack all together was so much fun. They're all brilliant.”

Additionally, it’s maybe the first time Loki (the original one), is overwhelmed just enough for a little outburst. As the group begins trekking across the Void, Loki stops and demands answers, yelling that he has no idea how much time has passed since the Battle of New York, and he isn’t even alarmed by the addition of an alligator.

“In that moment, the character who looks least like Loki is me,” Hiddleston continues. “It was like being at some sort of surrealist party. It was brilliant. I just enjoyed it so much. And my character, Loki, is completely out of his depth and a fish out of water. And it was such an enjoyable thing to play.”

Loki also isn’t the only character Hiddleston plays in the episode, as he also steps into the shoes of President Loki. Maybe the most arrogant and pompous Loki, President Loki shows up expecting to take over the Loki Palace until his own army turns on him.

“Again, that was quite surreal,” Hiddleston says. “President Loki is almost the worst of the bad bunch. It certainly felt this way; he's the least vulnerable, the most autocratic and terrifyingly ambitious character who seems to have no empathy or care for anyone else.”

Playing both roles required “a few quick changes on those days” as Hiddleston jumped from one character to the other. “Doing them both in the same scene was slightly mad, but in an enjoyable way. And fun, too, because it was about leaning into Loki as a pure villain, or his capacity to be a pure villain.”

A Loki who’s not a villain whatsoever is Classic Loki, perfectly played by Richard E. Grant. Even Owen Wilson chimed in about the actor telling Marvel.com, “I love Richard E. Grant. So getting to do some scenes with him and then just meet him and hang out with him was great”. Out of all the Lokis, Classic Loki’s the one who affects Loki the most, both with helping him (and Sylvie) fight off Alioth, but also via his run-in with the TVA.

As Classic Loki tells the group, he was plucked off his timeline for a sad, but wholesome, reason: He missed his brother Thor. According to Classic Loki, he survived an encounter with Thanos due to cunning use of his projection magic, and then drifted away through space before landing on a remote planet where he lived out his years, reflecting on his place in the universe. That is, until one day, the loneliness was too much and he took his first steps in hopes of reuniting with the God of Thunder. That’s when the TVA showed up.

Calling it a “thought experiment,” head writer Michael Waldron tells Marvel.com the backstory came from the question of, “What if Loki did in fact survive the events of Avengers: Infinity War?”

“And I thought, ‘Well, what if that did happen?’” continues Waldron. “And if it did, in fact, how could he have aged up? How could he have lived out his years in a way that the TVA would never come find him?”

From that, Classic Loki’s backstory was born, and serves as a reminder to Loki that he, too, can change his ways, is not relegated to one role on the Sacred Timeline, and can form actual relationships with people.

“It was that tragic thing where he finally realizes ‘I'm meant to be alone,’” Waldron adds. “It is just so sad. There's a real lesson there for our Loki in that he's going to reject that notion-- that this tiger can change his stripes, and he refuses to be alone. [Loki] wants to do the right thing. [He] wants to see if he can have real companionship in his life.”

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There was a group called Unsung Heroes, who had been on the Brotherhood album, and they suggested that I should meet Damon Albarn. Damon was coming from a British group called Blur. He was a complete discovery for me. The guys from Unsung Heroes suggested Damon because they used go to his parties when he was deejaying, and one of the records he always played was “Tony Allen Makes Me Dance”—that was the title of one of his own songs, even before we met! They played me some of his music, and I decided that I wanted him to come and sing on my album. So then they went to talk to him, and he was open to it.

We met at a bar there in London, and Damon was shelling us with drinks—you know, they say “shelling” in England, like in war. Even after the deal was made, we went to the studio to sing, and Damon came with two cases of champagne, about twelve bottles. We were all enjoying ourselves so much that we couldn’t work that day, because everybody was drunk! So he told me that he would take the music to his studio and deliver it later. Damon is a good writer, man. He’s a good lyrics writer, and he’s a good musician. You need to see him at work in the studio and you’ll know he’s a genius. When he came back with the track—fucking hell, man, it was my best track on my album! It’s called “Every Season,” it’s the first track on Home Cooking. That album came out in 2002.

After Damon got a taste from Home Cooking and “Every Season,” he wanted to try for a bit of Afrobeat style in his own music. And I told him that I was looking forward to the day when we can work up something together from the beginning, and maybe even do it in Nigeria. And he actually followed it up a year later, because we went twice to record in Nigeria. Nigeria’s not an easy place to work, but Damon is a rugged guy and he loves Lagos! He knows what is good there and what is bad. He and his guys go out in Lagos on their own, without anybody guiding them, and they manage. He gets on fine with the musicians there, and they get on fine with him too. He gave them a lot, things that they would never dream of in their life. We did two cds of material with Damon, but afterwards he couldn’t release all of it because he decided that it wasn’t going to be easy for him to go in concert with this sound. It was going to divert him from his own identity of being a British pop singer. Also, he felt that if we put the album out this way, we would need a big band to tour, and most of the musicians were in Nigeria. That means a lot of problems with visas and all that. But he told me that I should come to London so that we could keep writing new material together. That’s why we eventually did another record that they released as The Good, the Bad and the Queen. That one is a better mixture. Damon had to think about it properly because anything he touches turns to gold, man! Look at the Gorillaz project—they sold millions with that, and all of them are already millionaires now. Even their sound engineer had a hit single which went to number one. And Gorillaz is even bringing in more money in the States now. Meanwhile, I used the bread I made from The Good, the Bad and the Queen to finance Secret Agent, which came out in 2009 on World Circuit. I financed the whole thing, recorded it, and then I leased it to them. Everyone said it was a great album, so I felt good about that. Now we’re getting ready to do another project with Damon, myself, and Flea, the bass player from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Flea himself loves Afrobeat and I’m sure it’s gonna be great, man! The way Damon came into my life, it was kind of like it had been written. He turned out to be the most important one for me among all these projects. Meeting him was like meeting another Fela for me; it was really that important because not only did this guy make a big difference in my career, but we are also very good friends.

Tony Allen, Michael E. Veal 'Tony Allen: An Autobiography of the Master Drummer of Afrobeat' (2013)

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Michael E. Veal - Fela Kuti: The Life and Times of an African Musical Icon

I think this'll be the last stop on my Fela tour. Excellent, accessible, and insightful writing about the Nigerian legend who created Afrobeat. Veal balances his admiration for Fela with keen critiques of Fela's politics and worldview. Other books have explored Fela's politics, but they don't have Veal's straightforward writing.

If you want to read about Fela, start with this book and Carlos Moore's Fela, Fela: This Bitch of a Life.

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Overview

Tony Allen is the autobiography of legendary Nigerian drummer Tony Allen, the rhythmic engine of Fela Kuti's Afrobeat. Conversational, inviting, and packed with telling anecdotes, Allen's memoir is based on hundreds of hours of interviews with the musician and scholar Michael E. Veal. It spans Allen's early years and career playing highlife music in Lagos; his fifteen years with Fela, from 1964 until 1979; his struggles to form his own bands in Nigeria; and his emigration to France.

Allen embraced the drum set, rather than African handheld drums, early in his career, when drum kits were relatively rare in Africa. His story conveys a love of his craft along with the specifics of his practice. It also provides invaluable firsthand accounts of the explosive creativity in postcolonial African music, and the personal and artistic dynamics in Fela's Koola Lobitos and Africa 70, two of the greatest bands to ever play African music.

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Listed: C Joynes

Cambridge, UK guitarist C Joynes is conversant with English folk tunes, North and West African music, the European classical tradition and its mutant minimalist offshoot, and various improvisational folkways. Better yet, Joynes has a gift for organically incorporating his various influences into beguiling and haunting melodies. He has released seven albums to date, and his most recent, The Borametz Tree, was released on Thread Recordings in the UK and Feeding Tube Records in the US. The Borametz Tree was recorded with The Furlong Bray, an ad hoc band comprising members of experimental folk ensemble Dead Rat Orchestra, plus electroacoustic composer Cam Deas and fellow guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Nick Jonah Davis. Isaac Olson, in his review, called it, “a wholly convincing invisible city and utopian alternative musical history of the world, something warm and joyful out of the long ages.”

Joynes lists down a handful of the elements that have contributed to this multi-layered project.

Ali Farka Toure—Ali Toure Farka

In some ways, the alpha and omega of guitar music. Hard to choose one album but anything from his earliest recordings, released on Radio Mali or on the ‘red’ and ‘green’ albums, is going to be pretty much essential. However, I’ve dropped this one in here for its gentler, rolling, slightly distant feel.

Jorge Luis Borges—Collected Fictions

Borges’ short stories are among the most concise, densely-written and downright entertaining literature ever written, with each one opening up an infinite field of possible realities through a hotchpotch of fantasy, mythology, fake academia, ethno-forgery, philosophical murder mysteries and shaggy-dog stories. Basically, a how-to manual for growing your own worlds.

Violeta Parra—Composiciones Para Guitarra

Violeta Parra was a songwriter, folklorist, poet and political activist from Chile, whose recordings were first introduced to me few years ago by the film-maker Harry Wheeler. Right from the outset, I was struck by her unique and idiosyncratic compositions for solo guitar, which are still pretty much unlike anything else I’ve heard before or since.

Edward W. Said—Orientalism (1978)

Pretty much the ur-text for starting to think about the ways in which Western cultures have regarded others in relation to themselves, and the implications that holds for how we now interact with or absorb music, art and literature from other parts of the world. Sounds like a daunting topic, but it’s hugely readable and kind of essential for anyone interested in engaging with the world at large.

Sun City Girls—330,003 Crossdressers from Beyond the Rig Veda

The secret history of the Sun City Girls as underground legends, fourth-world pioneers, ethnomusical experimentalists, performance artists, post-modern pranksters, X-ray bullshit detectors and anti-everything provocateurs is now pretty well documented across the internet. I don’t get on with everything they do and some of it makes me downright uncomfortable, but that’s probably at least one objective for their activities—to challenge and confound. There may be something for everyone, but there’s no-one for everything... However, if I can choose one record that captures all that is best about the possibilities they offer, then it would be this sprawling unwieldy fragmentary world-gobbling collection.

Various—Gamelan of Java Vol 1: Kraton Kasunanan (Lyrichord 7456)

Listen here

Of the many many recordings of traditional Gamelan that are available, the best seem to blur the boundaries between musical performance, live event, environmental recording and sound art. Of all recordings of Gamelan that I’ve heard, this particular one is a long-standing favorite.

Edwin Prevost—No Sound Is Innocent (1995)

Entertaining, opinionated and provocative collection of essays from Eddie Prevost, founder member of pioneering improvising group AMM among other things. His basic thesis is that, rather being ‘above politics’, any musical sound that we listen to—whether in performance or on record—is loaded with pre-conceived messages and cultural assumptions. This book is not written to be agreed with, but it is good at encouraging you to think again about what you listen to and why you do so…

Eritrean Wedding Music

I was lucky enough to work in Eritrea for a few years on and off and spent a lot of time at weekends wandering around Asmara looking for weddings to invite myself into. Most social music seems to involve a perfect and minimal assemblage of traditional and modern elements: here we’ve got a distorted drum machine, the electrified Krar, a mutual partnership between audience and performer, extended durations and that loping driving beat.

Punk Ethnography: Artists and Scholars listen to Sublime Frequencies—eds. Michael E. Veal & E. Tammy Kim (2016)

Tying back to Sun City Girls, this book is a scrappy collection of academic essays and interviews exploring Seattle-based record label Sublime Frequencies, founded in 2003 by Alan and Richard Bishop of Sun City Girls along with filmmaker Hisham Mayet, and famous for releasing high-quality collections of ‘unknown’ music from around the world. A big debate about whether modern labels and download sites works to liberate global music from studious academia and worthy ‘World Music’ tags, or whether their approach is only serving up cultural stereotypes for a Western post-punk hipster audience. Some of the pieces are a bit dry, but there’s a lot of chippy to-and-fro between the academics and the musicians over issues like cultural appropriation and intellectual property. It’s also kind of entertaining how personally everyone seems to start taking it...

Omar Khorshid

Omar Khorshid was an Egyptian guitarist and film star who recorded a bunch of stuff in the ‘70s, and was hugely popular in Egypt, Lebanon and Turkey. Most of his recordings have got this super-modern maximalist approach to production, using loads of effects, synths and electronic sounds—I guess you could draw some parallels with the experimental dub producers from around the same time. While rooted in traditional instrumental music, the results are unashamedly exotic and sound like a technicolour sci-fi surf music.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Pretty much any footage from Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and his ensemble seems to work as a testament for the extraordinary heights that group improvisation can reach. Here you can read the exchanges between the vocalists and the instrumentalists as a kind of benign ecstatic duelling, each goading the other on to greater levels.

Michael Denning—Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution (2016)

This great book maps out the hidden history of global popular music, based on recording sessions made in the 1920s by major labels around the world. These sessions first captured on record many previously undocumented forms of popular music—jazz, samba, rebetika, flamenco, kroncong - as distinct from traditional or classical music. The recordings were then circulated around the world via shipping routes, leading to new hybrid forms of music and explaining, for example, the popularity of country music in West Africa or the presence of Hawaiian guitar in Bollywood film music. A great book for restoring faith in the natural process of musical exchange and cross-fertilisation.

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This is an Italian Recipe from Chef Giada De Laurentis for Veal Marsala. It is her own recipe and is real Italian. Blog by Chef Michael Foster- Certified Pre-Commis Chef

I hope that you are enjoying all of the different recipes that I have published on my blog and that you enjoy cooking as much as I do. Thank you for reading by blog. Chef Michael Foster- Certified Pre-Commis Chef

Introduction: (A.) I do not have a photo of this recipe but it is in Giada’s Cookbook. This is the information on the recipe: (A.) Level: Easy (B.) Total Time: 30 minutes (C.) Prep Time: 10 minutes (D.) Cook Time: 20 minutes (E.) Yield: 4 servings List of Ingredients: 8 veal cutlets (about 3 ounces each) Salt and freshly ground black pepper 2 to 3 tbsp. unsalted butter 2 to 4 tbsp.…

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7. Loki

Head Writer: Michael Waldron Stars: Tom Hiddleston, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Wunmi Mosaku, Eugene Cordero, Tara Strong, Owen Wilson, Sophia Di Martino, Sasha Lane, Jack Veal, DeObia Oparei, Richard E. Grant, Jonathan Majors Network/Platform: Disney+

It’s one thing when a villain becomes a fan-favorite part of a film series; it’s another to transition that character into a leading role. Tom Hiddleston’s deceptively charming Loki could chew up screen time, but could he handle a story all his own?

Turns out, yes — and then some. Interestingly, while the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s God of Mischief had earned discrete levels of sympathy in Thor: Ragnarok and Avengers: Infinity War, that’s technically not the Loki we’re watching in his Disney+ series. Instead, it’s the 2012 Avengers Asgardian.

Taking away all that backstory actually gave Hiddleston more with which to work. Throwing Loki completely out of his depths with the out-of-time storyline put the wicked egotist into panic mode, something he hid behind impractical threats and stubbornness. Playing that off of Owen Wilson’s facetious Mobius and Sophia Di Martino’s Sylvie made not just for entertaining interdimensional adventuring, but a truly engaging character arch — something MCU villains too often lack.

Of course, we also got the firm introduction of the multiverse and a wonderfully bonkers first appearance of Jonathan Majors, leaving us with a Marvel series that’s fun, future-focused, and character driven, a rarely achieved sweet spot. — Ben Kaye

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Friday 28 April 1837: SH:7/ML/E/20/0054

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Slept in K.C. as since the 11th washed and ready at 7 50 at which hour F46° and fine morning rather hazy as yesterday morning – at accounts till breakfast at 9 25 to 10 ¼ - A- read French – changed paper and washed a little off to H- down the old bank at 10 ½ - called at the Sextons’ about John? Beattie paying 1d.  a year for a seat behind the pulpit in the old church – I had given no such privilege – the man’s wife offered me the penny in the old bank – would not take it – told her to settle with the sexton – It was old Whitworth banskman at Walker pit had given the privilege from me – all right – let the man sit there but told the sexton I had given no leave but to old Whitworth and Mrs. and Miss Briggs and Miss Knight – then to the bank – mentioned the contents of Mr. Gray’s letter of yesterday – should be at H-x tomorrow – mentioned the bills to be paid on Monday – then to Whitley’s – looked over Robsons’? work 26 views of cathedral or rather parts of cathedrals etc in Spain – then sat 25 minutes with Mr. Rawson of Stony Royd e– Mr. and Mrs. Stansfield came in as I was going out – Mr. SR- walked with me to the end of the stony royde carriage road – returned by Bailey hall and up the old bank and home before 2 – wrote the above of today – A- off to Cliff Hill and I called down to Robert Mann at 2 20 and went out and with Robert and Jack Green (Samuel and Michael at Mytholm quarry and Mark Hepworth and Frank and John Day carting stone from there to the Lodge road rough walling) at the rough walling and with Joseph Mann at the meer-drift-head – (3 or 4 masons as yesterday at the great bywash and boxing up to the top of the clow to the [shaft] of which Charles H- put another roller in the middle yesterday got it done by candle light last night, and let the water in again) – with one or other with Joseph M – at the Little field cistern – his men have been at it – what Wood did last year done over again – to be finished tomorrow – and about till came in at 6 ½ - a little while in the stable just before – told Frank that his son John was at liberty any time that he could get a place for him but I would keep him another week if he liked i.e. till next Monday week as he came on a Monday – Frank not surprised – supposed I should not keeping him after he throwing the old bay horse and cart down the precipice near the Lodge on Good Friday and my never being told till the bill came in from Charles H- for 5/. for mending the cart (dated 15th instant) and John Booth told me that morning what a shake it had given the poor bay – dressed – dinner at 7 Mr. S. Gray announced at 7 ¼ - we finished our dinner and then sent him into the dining room to dine on veal cutlets etc – tea at 8 – A- went off before 10 – I sat talking with Mr. Gray about Russia till 10 ½ then ordered him wine and water – looked about the hall with him (he is for the little balustrade stairs to the west end of my uncle’s room) and came upstairs a little before 11 – sat with A- at her bedside ¼ hour or more – fine day but not much sun

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Bonecos Pop! da Série Loki: Alligator Loki, Kid Loki, Classic Loki, President Loki e Ravonna Renslayer

Bonecos Pop! da Série Loki: Alligator Loki, Kid Loki, Classic Loki, President Loki e Ravonna Renslayer

A Funko colocou em pré-venda novos bonecos Pop! TV da série de streaming Loki, criada por Michael Waldron para o Disney+ e Marvel Studios. São três bonecos para venda geral: a variante President Loki Pop! com terno rasgado e broche da campanha presidencial, a variante adolescente Kid Loki Pop! interpretado pelo ator Jack Veal e a juíza Ravonna Renslayer with Miss Minutes Pop! com a mascote…