#steve hirsh

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This is NOT Pyramid Steve this is a homosexual ‼️‼️‼️

Y’know I would have said that I didn’t try to design him sexy on purpose but that would just be a bold faced lie.

Also guys hear me out on this,

what if He was REALLY gay

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After seeing the sixer pizza box I decided to combine these three.

Ladies and Gents i present to you Sill Ciphramid, also known as Silliy Cid.

Has a purple goofy hat and a bow tie-tie, with a yellowish green round eye infront of the slit eye.

Yellow + Blue + Red = Grey

The six yellow yellow blue arms can turn into two normal black ones.

Bill belongs to Alex Hirsh

Will & Kill i don't know whom they belong to

Steve, Sven & Sphen belong to Meraki-Sunset

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Campaign against antisemitism and boycotts of Israel

Why BDS is antisemitic – David Hirsh

Posted by David Hirsh

BDS is a global campaign against Israel and only Israel. It seeks to foment sufficient emotional anger with Israel, and with only Israel, so that people around the world will want to punish Israel, and only Israel.

We are free to criticize whoever we want to criticize and people attracted by BDS are critical about other human rights abuses too; but this specific punishment, exclusion from the global community, is proposed only against Israel. BDS cannot be defended as free speech; it goes beyond speech into action. See this debate for more on the issues of singling out Israel; the debate continues here.

BDS says that it seeks to punish only Israeli institutions and not to silence or exclude Israeli individuals. This is not true. Israeli individuals, academics, athletes, artists, actors, film-makers, work inside Israeli institutions; where else could they work? If BDS demands that Israelis should not be part of institutions then it puts an eccentric demand on Israelis. Follow this link for what happened when the BDS movement tried to disrupt a Hebrew production of Merchant of Venice in London.

The BDS demand that for Israelis to be accepted in the global community they have to emigrate, and so not be part of Israeli institutions, is a claim about the essential illegitimacy of the Israeli state. See ‘The Myth of the Institutional Boycott‘ for more on this.

Sometimes BDS argues that there should be a political test rather than an institutional test. For example Israelis have been challenged to criticize Israeli ‘apartheid’ – and if they fail to do so in the terms required of them then they are excluded. But proponents of BDS never explain what kind of machinery would be set up in a university in Britain, say, or America, to test the political cleanliness of an Israeli. And they never explain why such a McCarthyite blacklist would only be set up for Israelis. For more on McCarthyism and BDS, see Steve Cohen here.

BDS is careful to remain ambiguous on the question of Israel’s legitimacy. It says that it is appropriate for people who oppose only the post 1967 occupation but it also refuses to make a distinction between Israeli institutions within Israel and within the West Bank. BDS refuses clarity on what it means by the Palestinian ‘right of return’ and it thinks about the creation of the state of Israel itself as the root of the problem.

BDS talks about Israel as a colonial settler state or an apartheid state but it allows no conception of Israel as a life-raft state, a haven for the un-dead of Europe, a home for Jews ethnically cleansed from the great cities of the Middle East, or as an asylum for the Jews who limped away from the carcass of the Soviet Union. For more on the progressive case for Israel, see this link.

BDS constructs Israelis as white foreigners, who came from outside to settle the land and it constructs Palestinians as indigenous, who have a natural right to the land. In truth many Jews and Arabs have always lived in Palestine; and both Jews and Arabs moved into the area as it became more developed in the late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. There is a historical connection between Jews and the land of Israel. In any case, the splitting of peoples into ‘foreigners’ and ‘indigenous’, the notion that some people have a natural right to land while others are impostors, is profoundly reactionary. Moreover the idea, put about by BDS that Israelis are ‘white’ is also highly misleading. About half of Israelis are descended from people who came from the Middle East; the other Israelis are descended from people who were defined and treated as a racial infection in white Europe.

BDS remains unimpressed about Israel’s role as a potential haven for Jews around the world, if that should become necessary.

BDS says that Israel is an apartheid state. This analogy mis-states the key problem, which is a conflict between two peoples, not a racist state which seeks to exploit the black majority. This analogy again refuses to make a distinction between Israel itself, which is fundamentally a multi-ethnic democracy in which everyone is equal before the law; and the occupied territories, in which there are two different legal systems. Israelis and Palestinians need to find a peace agreement; we need to support those in both nations who recognise the independence of the other. The apartheid analogy is weaponized by BDS as a thought-free short-cut to the conclusion of boycott. See this piece by Alan Johnson on the apartheid analogy.

BDS does not impact much against Israel; it impacts hard against Jews around the world where BDS takes a hold. BDS constructs friends and enemies of the Palestinians in such a way that the overwhelming majority of democratic and antiracist Jews cannot be recognised as friends of the Palestinians. BDS sets up an assumption against Jews, on campus, amongst progressives and in the Labour movement, that they are enemies of Palestinians and therefore enemies of those who want to support the Palestinians. BDS sets itself up in opposition to the overwhelming majority of Jews. See this debate with Claire Potter on the question of antisemitism.

BDS situates itself in the tradition of the boycott of apartheid South Africa but it always remains silent about the other traditions in which it follows. The boycott of Israel organised by the Arab Nationalist States was formally established in 1945, within a year of the gas chambers in Europe going cold. Boycotts of Jews from universities and campaigns to ‘not buy from the Jews’ have been integral to antisemitic movements for centuries.

To teach people to relate to the overwhelming majority of Jews, that is Jews do not agree with BDS, as apologists for apartheid, Nazism or colonialism is to teach people to relate to those Jews in an antisemitic way. If BDS says that Israel is apartheid and that anybody who does not agree with boycotting Israel is a supporter of apartheid, then it is setting up a framework for Jew-baiting. If antizionists say that Israel is genocidal, is like the Nazis, that Zionism is similar to Nazism, then they are inciting people to treat Jews as though they were Nazis.

BDS operates as though there was no threat to the State of Israel. Yet in 1948, 1967 and 1973 there were military attempts by Israel’s neighbouring states to wipe it off the map. The Iranian state continues to argue for and to work for the elimination of Israel and it finances and arms Hamas and Hezbollah in their campaigns against Israeli civilians. Israel may be strong compared to the Palestinians, but in the world as a whole it is a small state surrounded by states and political movements which want it eliminated.

BDS is a campaign to make people angry with Israel and with Israelis and with those people around the world who are suspected of supporting Israel. It would be extraordinary if such a campaign did not sometimes bring with it antisemitic emotions and if it did not sometimes draw upon antisemitic tropes. Experience tells us that BDS does precisely that. Israel is portrayed as a blood-thirsty child-murdering state; it is said that it is racist because the Torah, with its talk of ‘chosen people’ is racist; it is said that Jews were behind the slave trade; it is said that the Rothschilds financed the state of Israel by stealing diamonds from South Africa; it is said that Israel steals and trades in body parts; it is said that Israel is genocidal like the Nazis; it is said that Israel controls politics and the media around the world. In these ways old antisemitic tropes, including blood libel and conspiracy, have a tendency to emerge, recycled, out of the BDS movement.

BDS is only thinkable for people who have no fear of antisemitism. But if we look at the political movements and the states and the militias which seek the destruction of Israel and if we look at the culture which BDS always brings with it into a social space, then having no fear of antisemitism is eccentric indeed. See this critique of Naomi Klein’s argument for more on this .

BDSers sometimes say that there is nothing to fear from debate. This is not always the case. Sometimes there is much to fear from debate. Some debating questions are racist questions. For example we would fear a debate on whether the Holocaust really happened; we would fear a debate on whether women should remain in the kitchen; we would fear a debate on whether black people are more aggressive than white people. In the same way, I fear a debate on whether Israelis, and only Israelis, should be excluded from the global academic, sporting, artistic and economic community. Antisemitism and racism never opens debate, it always closes off free speech.

It is sometimes said that the claim that BDS is antisemitic is an ad hominem argument, aimed at smearing those activists who are in favour of it. The truth is the opposite. The truth is that antisemitism is not a characteristic of people who push BDS, but it is a characteristic of the movement itself. Antisemitism is not only a hatred of Jews; it is also norms, practices and discourses which discriminate against Jews.

The claim that Jews raise the issue of antisemitism as a dirty trick to silence the BDS movement is itself an antisemitic claim. It teaches people to recognize someone who raises the issue of antisemitism as being part of a Jewish conspiracy to play the antisemitism card or to mobilize the power of Holocaust victimhood in a disgraceful way. Usually when people say they have experienced racism or sexism or bigotry, we take that seriously. But BDS trains activists not to take that seriously when it comes out of the mouths of Jews or Jewish communities. BDS trains activists to assume that Jews lie. BDS refuses to teach activists about the history and tropes of antisemitism. BDS is happy to be in a global coalition with antisemitic movements which hate Israel, such as Hamas and Hezbollah. BDS treats people who worry about antisemitism as being more of a threat than people who are antisemitic. Follow this link more on the Livingstone Formulation, the counter-charge that somebody who says they experiences antisemitism is really lying for Israel.

It is understandable when Jews have a special connection to Israel. Sometimes this is manifested in a special horror or even shame concerning the crimes of Israel, both real and imagined. This becomes problematic when Jews export their own specifically Jewish obsession with what Israel does wrong into civil society, campus debate and the Labour movement. It becomes more problematic still when they offer guarantees to non-Jewish institutions and individuals that a focused hostility to Israel, and only to Israel, is not antisemitic. It is problematic when Jews educate non-Jews to think in antisemitic ways and to support antisemitic movements. Read more on antizionism, and particularly Jewish antizionism here.

Antizionism forms the intellectual and the emotional underpinnings of the culture in which antisemitic speech and actions are tolerated. Antizionism is not simply criticism of this or that policy or characteristic or Israel. It is a political movement which takes hostility to one particular state and it makes it into an ‘-ism’, a worldview; one which has a tendency to position the Jewish state as being central to all that is wrong with the world. Everything bad that happens in Israel is constructed, within this ideology, as the necessary result of the supposedly racist essence of Zionism. The aspiration to dismantle the state of Israel, against the will of its citizens, leaving them defenceless against military and political forces which threaten their lives, is part of the antisemitism problem.

Antisemitisms have always constructed ‘the Jews’ as being at the centre of all that is wrong in the world. […]

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Chad Fowler, Ivo Perelman, Zoh Amba, Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Steve Hirsh - Alien Skin - a one-off free-leaning set with THREE HORNS (Mahakala Music)

On the last afternoon of Arts for Arts’ iconic Vision Festival in 2021, I found myself standing next to pianist Matthew Shipp and drummer Andrew Cyrille as William Parker’s closing group took the stage. Matthew and I were casually chatting as the stage filled with what would ultimately be the largest group of the festival that year. The music started and the bandstand spouted fire from beneath as it lifted off toward the stars. Every person in the venue floated in space together through almost an hour of spiritual, emotional, cathartic joy. It was music so raw and frenetic that, had I had a horn with me, It would have been difficult to fight the urge to join them uninvited. Steve and I had already been planning a couple of studio dates later that year in Brooklyn at Jim Clouse’s Park West Studios. After hearing this music, I wanted to recreate the feeling I got from listening to it. The visceral experience. Not the sound. I can’t remember what it sounded like. That wasn’t the point. So as Steve and I started planning for our upcoming session, we set out to put together a group to generate that same kind of energy: The group: ZA (who had played on William’s Vision set), Ivo Perelman (who we asked at the last minute to come by for a day and he ended up on both days of the recording), Matthew Shipp, William, Steve, and me. This was the first and probably last time this group of musicians will have ever come together in this configuration. As is our custom, we didn’t discuss much about what the music would be before Jim Clouse started recording. This record documents our second full day together, presented in order. From soulful balladry to demented rock music to an otherworldly march, the musical tension is palpable throughout. As is, I think, the pure joy of creation that animated our time together. - Chad Fowler Chad Fowler - stritch, saxello ZA - tenor saxophone, flute Ivo Perelman - tenor saxophone Matthew Shipp - piano William Parker - bass Steve Hirsh - drums

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Listen/purchase: In The Garden by Eri Yamamoto, Chad Fowler, William Parker, Steve Hirsh

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- You know, sometimes I wonder... - What? - Well... if I hadn't been Fox Books and you hadn't been The Shop Around the Corner, and you and I had just, well, met... - I know. - Yeah. I would have asked for your number, and I wouldn't have been able to wait twenty-four hours before calling you and saying, "Hey, how about... oh, how about some coffee or, you know, drinks or dinner or a movie... for as long as we both shall live?". And you and I would have never been at war. And the only thing we'd fight about would be which video to rent on a Saturday night. - Well, who fights about that? - Well, some people. Not us. - We would never. - If only.

You've Got Mail, Nora Ephron (1998)

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Al Pacino movies, ranked by queerness

Al Pacino movies recently watched by me, ranked on queerality. 

Serpico (1973) - Best outfits, hair and beard by far. Paco’s got a new pet every 30 minutes. (Sheepdog named Alfie, cockatoo, heroine mice, fishes.) Can’t hold down a relationship, except for Alfie, best $5 he ever spent. Gets accused of giving blow jobs in the bathroom by Principal Strickland from “Back To The Future” after joking around with a college and showing off his terrible ballet skills. Points for being cultured. Minus points for the soundtrack being a little all over the place. And Frank really could’ve used a therapist. Minus points for not crediting Judd Hirsh and F. Murray Abraham. Extra points for flirting with male co-workers. Extra points for exposing police corruption and getting shot. Extra EXTRA points for not only having a purse but wearing it and using it exactly like a purse. Also, the real Serpico is alive and well and does great grandpa tweets. Very gay. 8.5/10

Crusin’ (1980) - Terrible hair, let’s get that out of the way. Karen Allen’s apartment is impossibly huge or she’s made the best use out of space of anyone in New York ever. And she only has one fucking record. Otherwise good soundtrack. For a movie about the gay leather bar scene, he should at least get to kiss a man, but never does so minus points for that. Points for lots of men kissing and tons of butts. Minus points for some sus looking eagles on flags and hats... Points for Steve’s bff being a soft gay. Minus points for later on. :/ Big points for the bondage scene that Steve was clearly very disappointed backup interrupted. Minus points for that ONE fucking spotlight on Pacino like we didn’t know he was tracking his suspect or could pick him out on an empty sidewalk from behind. Points for questioning sexuality. Points for a tit grab. Points for surprise young Mr. Matthews from “Boy Meets World”. Minus points for that ending and implicating something that doesn’t fucking track. 6.5/10

The Hunters (2020) - Bonus points for lesbians of color in the 1970s. Bonus points for Murray and Mindy, they are my favorites and I love my fictional Jewish grandparents. Points for that major twist, though it hurt my heart. I like a twist you can suspect if you really pay attention. Major points for that BIG FUCKER of a twist at the very end and we better get a season two. Over all, for Pacino, not super gay, but Judd Hirsh gives him a kiss on the cheek after telling him to stop murdering Nazis and never visit him again. 2/10 for queerness, 9/10 for killing Nazis (minus one point for you know why at the end), 10/10 for being a fucking great show. 

Dog Day Afternoon (1975) - Based on a real story. Points for Sonny not letting his ex-wife body shame herself. Points for Chris Sarandon doing real research for his trans role, though it’s still 1970s cis male understanding of a trans woman. Points for this line: “To my darling wife Leon whom I love as no other man has loved another man in all eternity.” Points for Pacino being Pacino and Sidney Lumet for keeping an eye on the gay. It’s a literal queer film. 9/10

People I Know (2002) - Pacino dropping a bunch of hints first half hour of the film, checking out a hooka guy at a sex/drug den, later having a meeting with a buff male model to represent. Minus points for what happens to Tea Leoni’s character. Kim Bassinger tries to make out twice and fails, mostly because your his dead brother’s widow, honey. Points for the older male doctor calling Eli “sweetie” and “Sweetheart”. Points for the over abundance of the word “honey” from Eli. Points for declaring he moved to Hollywood because he wanted to suck cock too much. A literal bisexual short king. Unfortunately that ending was very unsexy and ungay of them. 4/10 overall, 6.5/10 for queerness.

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Normani - Wild Side ft. Cardi B from tanumuino on Vimeo.

@normani ft. @cardib - WILD SIDE Best crazy team involved! Love you guys, we made it! Directed By: @tanumuino Produced By: @jack.a.winter Executive Producers: @frankborin @ivannaborin Cinematographer: @nikitakkkuz Choreographer: @itsbankhead Stylist: @kollincarter Production Designer: @nightwindow Creative Producer: @maximequoilin 1st AD: @the_nomadx Editor: @vinniehobbs @vhpost VFX: @maxcoltt @the_frender Colorist: @josephbicknell @company_3 Label: @rcarecords Label Producers: @ellymack @chrisclav Production Company: @underwondercontent Production Supervisor: @betterofthedakotas Production Coordinator: @shekhshem_hetep 2nd AD: Eric Ellis Label: @rcarecords Label Producers: @ellymack @chrisclav Creative Producer: @maximequoilin Gaffer: Scott Moody Normani MU: Priscilla Ono Normani Hair: Yusef Williams Normani Nails: Sojin Oh Dancer Hair: Ashanti Lation Dancer Hair: Davontae Washington Dancer MU: Hayley Kassel Dancer MU: Jordana Aguon Dancer MU: Kasha Lassien Dancer: Luz Remugio Dancer: Lindsay Ducos Dancer: Joya Johnson Dancer: Taylor Reef Dancer: Dominique Battiste Dancer: Andrea Woodley Dancer: Ahsia Pettigrew Dancer: Candice Savage Dancer: Natalie Bebko Dancer: Kayla Zimmerman Dancer: Rob Marshall Dancer: Mijo Steadicam Op: Emaad Elhardouzi Movi Tech: DeAngelo Harding Techno Crane: @christianhurley05 @tccranes Alpha Tech: Jaden Nolan Crane Tech: Chris Dickson 1st AC: Erik Stapelfeldt 2nd AC: Daisy Smith VTR: @1gnacio2 DIT: Fabricio Di Santo Gaffer: Scott Moody Key Grip: Matt King Best Boy Electric: Billy Gunn Dimmer Board: Kiley Etter Electric Driver: Armen Gurdzyhyan Electrician: Romel Espejo Electrician: Andrew Dorward Electrician: Ryan Moody Electrician: Oscar Rodriguez Best Boy Grip: Derek Holub Grip Driver: Kevin Frame Grip: Otis Mannick Grip: Steve Todey Grip: Charlie Lenz Grip: Ryan Jimenez Grip: Alec Sheperd Grip: Anthony Santos Grip: Joel Nix Grip: Michael Melechin Art Coordinator: Justin Ryan Brown Leadman: Nick Scarpa On-Set Dresser: Chris Sandavol Set Dresser: Rick Craft Set Dresser: Jacob Hernandez Set Dresser: Nick Capaldi Set Dresser: Randall Papavero Set Dresser: Billy Mitchell Set Dresser: Jason Smith Special Effects: Damon Sarafian Art PA: Patty Scullin Art PA: Chris Cranston Art PA: Jordan Testar Art PA: Dan Paller Location Manager: Max Simon Location Manager: Rich Bokides Gangboss: Rick Antonette Gangboss: Matthew O’Sullivan FSA: Jim de Leon LAUSD Officer: Russel Copley School Site Rep: Andrew Salvador Stunt Coordinator: Ryan Sturz Stunts: Olivia Salinas Stunts: Bryan McCoy Set Medic: Angelo Ghiglieri Office PA: Serrina Lam PA - Prod: Patrick Reaves PA - Cam: Cooper Olson PA - Slop: Tony Paoli PA: Robert Gillard PA: Emily Olmos PA-AD: Arrow Mae PA: Cameron Hines PA: Maryam Eldeeb PA: Kelly Hernandez Catering Support: Chloe Yusta Catering Support: Jess Gallegos Catering Support: Dylan Ornelas Covid Sanitizer: John Alzate Covid Sanitizer: John Hirsh Craft Services: Brooke Lohr Craft Services: Remick Heydorff

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                                                Baroque Pop                                               The Left Banke

The Left Banke - Walk Away Renee (1966) Michael Brown / Bob Calilli  / Tony Sansone from: "Walk Away Renee" / "I Haven't Got the Nerve" (July 1966)          "Walk Away Renee | Pretty Ballerina" (LP | 1967)

JukehostUK (left click = play) (320kbps)

Personnel: Steve Martin Caro: Lead Vocals Michael Brown: Harpsichord George (Fluffer) Hirsh: Guitar Jackie Kelso: Solo Flute John Abbott: Bass Al Rogers: Drums

Backing Vocals: George Caeron Tom Finn

Harry Lookofsky: Strings

Arranged by John Abbott Produced by Steve Jerome / Bill Jerome / Harry Lookofsky

Recorded: @ The World United Studios in  New York City,  New York USA

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The Left Banke - Pretty Ballerina (1966) Michael Brown from: "Pretty Ballerina" / "Lazy Day" (December 1966)          "Walk Away Renee | Pretty Ballerina" (LP | 1967)

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Personnel: Steve Martin-Caro: Lead Vocals Michael Brown: Piano John Abbott: Bass Seymour Barab: Bass / Cello Buddy Saltzman: Drums

George Marge: Oboe Harry Lookofsky: Violin

Arranged by John Abbott

Produced by Steve Jerome | Bill Jerome | Harry Lookofsky (father of Michael Brown)

Written by Michael Brown at the age of 16.

Recorded: @ The World United Studios in  New York City,  New York USA

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Thursday, January 7, 2021

The coronavirus intensified a hunger crisis last year, but 2021 could be worse (Washington Post) The coronavirus pandemic unleashed cascades of suffering in 2020. People around the globe faced the threat of the virus, along with the devastating ripple effects of efforts to control its spread. For much of the world, the legacy of the pandemic will be impossible to untangle from the stark material inequities that worsened it—and that it exacerbated. Among the most dangerous of these: a mounting hunger crisis, set to grow even more dire in 2021. The World Food Program, the branch of the United Nations responsible for delivering lifesaving food assistance, expects to need to serve 138 million people this year—more than ever in its 60-year history. The rise in hunger is “due to what I call ‘the three Cs’—conflict, covid and climate,” said Steve Taravella, a WFP spokesman. “We don’t take the word ‘famine’ loosely, but with famine looming in several countries at once, we’re facing a genuine crisis.” And as the situation worsens, the agency is also facing major funding shortfalls. It expects to raise only around half of the $15.1 billion it projects it will need in 2021, Taravella said. The agency is steeling itself “for an especially heartbreaking year,” he said.

Pro-Trump mob storms US Capitol in bid to overturn election (AP) A violent mob loyal to President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday and forced lawmakers into hiding, in a stunning attempt to overturn America’s presidential election, undercut the nation’s democracy and keep Democrat Joe Biden from replacing Trump in the White House. The nation’s elected representatives scrambled to crouch under desks and donned gas marks, while police futilely tried to barricade the building, one of the most jarring scenes ever to unfold in a seat of American political power. A woman was shot and killed inside the Capitol, and Washington’s mayor instituted an evening curfew in an attempt to contain the violence. The rioters were egged on by Trump, who has spent weeks attacking the integrity of the election and had urged his supporters to descend on Washington Wednesday to protest Congress’ formal approval of Biden’s victory. Some Republican lawmakers were in the midst of raising objections to the results on his behalf when the proceedings were abruptly halted by the mob.      The president gave his supporters an added boost Wednesday morning during an appearance at a rally outside the White House, where he urged them to march to the Capitol. He spent much of the afternoon in his private dining room off the Oval Office watching scenes of the violence on television. At the urging of his staff, he reluctantly issued a pair of tweets and a taped video telling his supporters it was time to “go home in peace.” The Pentagon said about 1,100 District of Columbia National Guard members were being mobilized to help support law enforcement at the Capitol. More than a dozen people were arrested. As darkness began to set in, law enforcement officials worked their way toward the protesters, using percussion grenades to try to clear the area around the Capitol. Big clouds of tear gas were visible.

Biden win confirmed (AP) Congress confirmed Democrat Joe Biden as the presidential election winner early Thursday after a violent mob loyal to President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in a stunning attempt to overturn America’s presidential election, undercut the nation’s democracy and keep Trump in the White House. Lawmakers were resolved to complete the Electoral College tally, and they pushed through the night with tensions high and the nation’s capital on alert. Before dawn Thursday, lawmakers completed their work, confirming Biden won the election. Trump, who had repeatedly refused to concede the election, said in a statement immediately after the vote that there will be a smooth transition of power on Inauguration Day.

Democrats ahead in Georgia (Foreign Policy) Democrat Raphael Warnock has been declared the winner in his race against Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler while the other race between Jon Ossoff and Sen. David Perdue remains too close to call, although the New York Times predicts Ossoff is likely to win. Warnock has a lead of more than 50,000 votes and Ossoff is ahead by more than 16,000 with most of the uncounted votes remaining in the heavily Democratic Atlanta area. If Democrats win both seats, they would take control of the Senate with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaking vote. Foreign Policy’s Mike Hirsh argues that no matter who prevails in Georgia, the effect on President-elect Joe Biden’s foreign policy is likely to be minimal. “Over the past four years the Senate Republicans have been more willing to challenge President Donald Trump on foreign-policy issues—and thus may end up being more receptive to Biden’s plans, especially when it comes to restoring relations with U.S. allies that have been so damaged during the Trump years,” Hirsh writes.

New Year & New Economic Woes for Cubans as Prices Surge (AFP) Raisa Lemus had to return home to fetch extra money to finish her shopping, Arturo Sobrado was angered by the “abusive” bus fare hike and Norma Pousada was left bemused that shops no longer accepted her money. For Cubans, the new year has begun with a steep, painful rise in prices due to a complex economic reform launched on January 1 by the government that also included an increase in salaries. The two cohabiting currencies in circulation for a quarter of a century are being fused into one: and one is worth 24 times less than the other. To soften the blow, the government announced a bumper five-fold hike in the minimum wage. But basic goods such as food and electricity have also seen a sharp rise in prices since the Christmas holidays. Although the government has set a six-month period to phase out the convertible peso—which is pinned to the dollar and was introduced in 1994 to replace the US currency that was commonly used alongside the regular peso—many stores have put up signs saying they are not accepting it any more.

Chilean lawmakers propose making coronavirus vaccine mandatory (Reuters) Chilean lawmakers on Tuesday presented a bill before Congress that would make vaccination against the coronavirus mandatory as the country’s center-right government pushes to inosculate the majority of its population by mid-year. The bill would modify the country’s health code, which already requires vaccination against smallpox, whooping cough and other diseases, according to the opposition Christian Democracy party lawmakers who submitted the legislation. An IPSOS survey in early December found that seven out of 10 Chileans said they would be willing to get vaccinated. Health Minister Enrique Paris said earlier this week that officials would study the proposal.

British judge denies WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange bail in extradition case, citing flight risk (Washington Post) A British judge on Wednesday refused to grant bail and release WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who will remain in a prison cell on the outskirts of London while the U.S. government pursues its case against him. Assange is charged with 18 federal crimes, including conspiring to obtain and disclose classified diplomatic cables and sensitive military reports from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Lawyers for the U.S. government said they will appeal to Britain’s High Court the judge’s ruling to halt the extradition, a process that could take several months. Prosecutors want Assange flown to Northern Virginia to face the charges, which could lead to a life sentence in a maximum-security prison if he were convicted. In her ruling from the bench denying Assange’s bid for freedom, the judge recited some history, noting that Assange was granted bail by a British court in 2010 as he fought extradition to Sweden, where he was wanted for sexual assault. The Swedish case was later dropped. The judge recalled how in June 2012 Assange fled from British justice and sought refuge in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London, which granted him asylum. Assange spent almost seven years as a fugitive in the embassy, until Ecuador revoked his protection and British police arrested him in April 2019. Since then, he has been in Belmarsh.

India’s internet shutdowns cost its economy nearly $3 billion in 2020 (Quartz India) India’s constant internet blackouts have taken a huge toll on its economy. National shutdowns left Indian businesses without hundreds of hours of vital internet access, costing billions in lost revenue. Authorities cut Indians off from the internet for more than 1,655 hours as a result of national shutdowns, according to research by Top10VPN, a publication focused on internet privacy. And many people with internet still couldn’t use it without obstacles. Governments also deliberately reduced internet bandwidths for more than 7,200 hours, bringing speeds down to 2G—SMS and voice calls continue to function but modern websites and apps are rendered useless. It’s not too far from a complete blackout. The economic cost of these restrictions amounts to a whopping $2.88 billion in 2020, according to Top10VPN.

China reacts to storming of U.S. Capitol (Foreign Policy) Pro-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) commenters are gleeful at the scenes of chaos in Washington on Wednesday, after U.S. President Donald Trump’s push to overturn the November 2020 election results culminated in armed supporters breaching the U.S. Capitol. Many in China have made comparisons to so-called color revolutions in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, which Beijing paints as U.S.-backed attempts to topple hostile governments. The belief that the United States would collapse like the Soviet Union has circulated among members of the Chinese elite since the mid-2000s, especially after the 2008 financial crisis. Under President Xi Jinping, Chinese officials have been encouraged to study the Soviet collapse closely as an example of what mistakes China should avoid. The scenes in Washington, so reminiscent of the Russian parliamentary violence of the 1990s, will only encourage such convictions.

China steps up curbs near Beijing (Reuters) Chinese authorities imposed travel restrictions and banned gatherings in the capital city of Hebei province, which surrounds Beijing, in the latest escalation of measures to stave off another coronavirus wave. The province, which entered a “wartime mode” on Tuesday, accounted for 20 of the 23 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases reported in mainland China on Jan. 5, more than the total of 19 cases in the province in the three previous days. The head of the World Health Organization on Tuesday said he was “very disappointed” that China still had not authorized a team of international experts tasked with examining the origins of the coronavirus into the country.

Hong Kong Police Arrest Dozens of Pro-Democracy Leaders (NYT) The Hong Kong police arrested 53 elected pro-democracy officials and activists early Wednesday for their involvement in an informal primary election, the largest roundup yet under the new national security law imposed by Beijing to quash dissent. The mass arrests—which included figures who had called for aggressive confrontation with the authorities as well as those who had supported more moderate tactics—underscored Hong Kong officials’ efforts to weaken any meaningful opposition in the city’s political institutions. The police also visited the offices of at least one law firm and three news media organizations to demand documents, broadening the burst of arrests that started before sunrise and sent a chill through Hong Kong’s already-demoralized opposition camp. The moves suggested that the authorities were casting a wide net for anyone who had played a prominent role in opposing the government.

North Korea’s Kim says economic plan failed as rare party congress begins (Reuters) North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his five-year economic plan had failed to meet its goals “on almost every sector” as he kicked off the ruling Workers’ Party congress on Tuesday, state media KCNA reported on Wednesday. The rare political gathering, which Kim last hosted in 2016, has drawn international attention as he is expected to unveil a new five-year economic plan and address foreign policy, just two weeks before U.S. President-elect Joe Biden takes office. In his opening speech, Kim said the country had achieved a “miraculous victory” by bolstering its power and global prestige since the last meeting, referring to military advances that culminated in successful tests in 2017 of intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of striking the U.S. mainland. But the five-year economic strategy he set forth in 2016 had failed to deliver, he said, calling for a boost in North Korea’s self-reliance to tackle internal and outside challenges hindering its progress.

Netanyahu re-election hopes hinge on vaccination campaign (AP) For media-obsessed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the coronavirus vaccine has arrived just in time. With elections approaching in March, Netanyahu has placed his world-leading vaccination drive at the center of his reelection campaign—launching an aggressive media blitz portraying him as almost singlehandedly leading the country out of the pandemic. He appears to be betting that a successful vaccination effort can persuade voters to forget about his corruption trial and the economic damage caused by the coronavirus crisis. Netanyahu, like his good friend Donald Trump and other world leaders, frequently tries to use social media and tightly controlled press conferences to bypass the traditional media—and the scrutiny that has come along with it. While this strategy has often served Netanyahu well, his obsession with controlling the message also threatens to backfire. It lies at the heart of a corruption case in which he is accused of granting favors to powerful media figures in exchange for positive coverage of him and his family. An expanded indictment released this week outlined 150 incidents showing detailed control he allegedly tried to exert over the media. This included pressure on a news site to drop critical coverage about a lacy dress worn by his wife, and pushing the site to publish photos of her meeting actor Leonardo DiCaprio.

Syria says Israel strikes again, several missiles downed by air defences (Reuters) Israel struck targets in southern Syria on Wednesday in the third such attack in nearly 10 days, state TV reported as military defectors said the missiles targeted Iranian revolutionary guard bases. A military spokesman said missiles flying over the Golan Heights targeted several locations and air defences downed several missiles. Live coverage showed a multi-storey building on fire. There was no immediate comment from an Israeli military spokesman but Israel’s Defence Force Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi said last month the missile strikes had “slowed down Iran’s entrenchment in Syria”. “We have struck over 500 targets this year, on all fronts, in addition to multiple clandestine missions,” Kochavi said in comments published in Israeli media.

Saudi Arabia Leads Oil Production Cuts (Foreign Policy) The OPEC+ group of oil producing countries have agreed to cut production in February, as Saudi Arabia volunteered to take one million barrels of its oil off the market per day in order to shore up prices. The decision seems to have done the trick, at least temporarily. The U.S. oil price benchmark passed the $50 dollar mark for the first time since February in the wake of the news. The Saudi decision reflects the uncertain global economic prospects in the year ahead. Vaccine programs, heralded as the quickest route to normalcy, have sputtered in some countries and are potentially years away in others. Saudi Arabia’s decision to shoulder the production cuts seems to have kept oil producing countries together, but as Edoardo Campanella argued in November, the group needs to reimagine its role if it is to remain relevant in a changing world.

Theft leads to community giving in Miami (AP) Two days before Thanksgiving, on the eve of a turkey giveaway for dozens of jobless residents in an impoverished Miami neighborhood, Sherina Jones got word that one of the free community refrigerators she’d been stocking was stolen. Jones had been helping to feed the poor in Miami for months. About half of her clients are homeless; others are day laborers who take to-go lunches or single moms who can’t feed their kids. When one of the refrigerators was stolen just before the Thanksgiving Day turkey giveaway, it was more than a theft. It felt like an act against a community in need. Just when it seemed the Grinch-like act would ruin the holiday, something magical happened: Residents of a community where many can barely afford rent pulled together, each giving a little until they ended up collecting quite a lot. The Rev. Michael Daily heard about the stolen refrigerator on the news. He works at a community agency that helps local churches and knew that many parishioners were counting on those meals. He used agency funds to buy Jones a fancy double-door refrigerator and enlisted a construction worker to help build protective housing so it can’t be stolen. A group of artists designed T-shirts and donated the proceeds. All together, more than 330 people raised over $23,000 on a fundraising website. The community’s response to a toy drive in December allowed Jones to give away dozens of bicycles, dolls and other presents to 400 families. “People come by and stock the fridge during the evenings or buy a bulk of things and drop it off. I’m so appreciative,” Jones said. “We’ve all come together to take care of each other.”

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Male Canadians Masterlist

2000s

Charles Vandervaart

Christian Martyn

Drew Davis

Finn Wolfhard

Grayson Maxwell Gurnsey

Jakob Davies

Mason McKenzie

D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai

Valin Shinyei

90s

A.J. Saudin

Adam DiMarco

Adonis Bosso

Alex Ferris

Alex Zaichkowski

Alexander Calvert

Alexander Eling

Alexander Ludwig

Andre Dae Kim

Antonio Marziale

Atticus Mitchell

Avan Jogia

Austin MacDonald

Brandon Jay McLaren

Brendan Meyer

Brennan Clost

Brett Dier

Burkely Duffield

Calum Worthy

Cameron Bright

Charlie Gillespie

Cody Kearsley

Connor Jessup

Connor Price

Damian Romeo

Daniel Diemer

Daniel Doheny

DeShaun Clarke

Devon Bostick

Drew Ray Tanner

Dylan Everett

Dylan Playfair

Eric Osborne

Gabriel Darku

Gage Munroe

Jesse Carere

Jordan Connor

Kai Bradbury

Lamar Johnson

Landon Liboiron

Mason Temple

Owen Best

Rhys Matthew Bond

Richard Harmon

Rico Paris

Shane Harte

Théodore Pellerin

Zac Vran

Zachary Gibson

80s

Adam Butcher

Andrew Bachelor

Antoni Porowski

Argiris Karras

Arleo Dordar

Beau Mirchoff

Benjamin Breault

Ben Hollingsworth

Bronson Pelletier

Chad Connell

Cory Monteith

Dan Beirne

Darren Mann

Douglas Smith

Drew Seeley

Erik Knudsen

Francois Arnaud

Godfrey Gao

Jedidiah Goodacre

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

Joseph Cannata

Justin Chatwin

Kristopher Turner

Kyle Schmid

Madison Smith

Marc André Grondin

Manny Jacinto

Marshall Williams

Mike Lobel

Neal Bledsoe

Niall Matter

Niels Schneider

Noel Fisher

Nolan Gerard Funk

Patrick J. Adams

Randal Edwards

Raymond Ablack

Robbie Amell

Stephen Amell

Steve Lund

Yani Gellman

70s

Aaron Ashmore

Adam Beach

Aden Young

Adrian Holmes

Alessandro Juliani

Allan Hawco

Andrew Walker

Brendan Fehr

Brendan Penny

Brennan Elliott

Chris William Martin

Christian Campbell

Colin Lawrence

Dan Payne

David Julian Hirsh

Demore Barnes

Diego Klattenhoff

Dion Johnstone

Ennis Esmer

Joshua Jackson

Jonathan Scarfe

JR Bourne

Kris Holden-Reid

Michael Torontow

Michael Shanks

Patrick Sabongui

Paulo Costanzo

Ryan Reynolds

Scott Speedman

Shawn Ashmore

Tyler Labine

Wesley French

Yanic Truesdale

Zane Holtz

60s

Bruce Ramsay

David Sutcliffe

Elias Koteas

James McGowan

Keanu Reeves

Mark Camacho

Matthew Perry

Michael Riley

Sebastian Spence

Yannick Bisson

50s

Eric Keenleyside

Henry Czerny

Kevin McNulty

20s

Christopher Plummer

Leslie Nielsen

Unknown Birthday

Adam Capriolo

Anthony Lemke

Connor Laidman

Fletcher Donovan

Marlon Kazadi

Thomas Elms

[aethucyn]

All the Comics 2019

Series I read as they came out:

Archie Assassin Nation Batman Universe Black Panther By Night Catwoman Die Exorsisters Ghosted in L.A. Ghostspider Giant Days Gwenpool Strikes Back Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy Invisible Kingdom Laguardia Last Stop on the Red Line Lazarus: Risen Lois Lane The Magnificent Ms. Marvel Man-Eaters Monstress Ms. Marvel Once & Future King Paper Girls Pretty Deadly: The Rat Redlands Sabrina the Teenage Witch Sleepless Spider-Gwen: Ghost Spider Spider-man and Venom: Double Trouble Steeple Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl The Unstoppable Wasp West Coast Avengers The White Trees The Wicked + the Divine

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks

The Life of Captain Marvel Margaret Stohl Carlos Pacheco Batgirl Vol. 4: Strange Loop Hope Larson Sami Basri Jessica Jones: Blind Spot Kelly Thompson Mattia De Iulis Doom Patrol Vol 2: Nada Gerard Way Nick Derington Kim Reaper: Grim Beginnings Sarah Graley Batman Vol. 8: Cold Days Tom King Lee Weeks Hilda and the Troll Luke Pearson Batwoman Vol. 3: Fall of the House of Kane Marguerite Bennett Fernando Blanco X-23: Family Album Mariko Tamaki Juann Cabal Andre the Giant: Life and Legend Box Brown How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less Sarah Glidden Get Your War On David Rees March Book One John Lewis & Andrew Aydin Nate Powell Barbarous Vol 1 Ananth Hirsh Yuko Ota Barbarous Vol 2 Ananth Hirsh Yuko Ota March Book Two John Lewis & Andrew Aydin Nate Powell March Book Three John Lewis & Andrew Aydin Nate Powell The Real Folk Blues: A Cowboy Bebop Fanbook Anthology ed. Zainab Akhtar Batman Detective Comics Vol 2 The Victim Syndicate James Tynion IV Alvaro Martinez Off Season James Sturm Kiss Number 8 Colleen AF Venable Ellen T. Crenshaw Cleopatra in Space: Fallen Empires Mike Maihack Batman Detective Comics Vol 3: League of Shadows James Tynion IV Marcio Takara The Hero Business Season Two Bill Walko When I Arrived at the Castle Emily Carroll The Weather Man Jody LeHeup Nathan Fox The Girl Who Married a Skull & Other African Stories ed. C. Spike Trotman ed. Kate Ashwin ed. Kel McDonald ed. Taneka Stotts F*ck Off Squad Nicole Goux Dave Baker The Breakaways Cathy G. Johnson Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me Mariko Tamaki Rosemary Valero-O'Connell Batman Vol. 9 The Tyrant Wing Tom King Tom Taylor Mech Cadet Yu Volume Two Grek Pak Takeshi Miyazawa Sincerely, Harriet Sarah W. Searle The Legend of Korra: Ruins of the Empire Part One Michael Dante DiMartino Michelle Wong Avatar The Last Airbender: Imbalance Book Two Faith Erin Hicks Peter Wartman Snotgirl: vol 2: California Screaming Bryan Lee O'Malley Leslie Hung Skyward: Vol 1 Joe Henderson Lee Garbett Shuri: Vol 1: The Search for Black Panther Nnedi Okorafor Leonardo Romero Crowded: Vol 1: Soft Apocalypse Chrisopher Sebela Ro Stein Ted Brandt I Hate Fairyland: Vol 1: Madly Ever After Skottie Young I Hate Fairyland: Vol 2: Fluff My Life Skottie Young I Hate Fairyland: Vol 3: Good Girl Skottie Young I Hate Fairyland: Vol 4:  Sadly Never After Skottie Young California Dreamin' Penelope Bagieu Runaways: Best Friends Forever Rainbow Rowell Kris Anka Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles Mark Russell Mike Feehan My Brother's Husband Gengorah Tagame Rice Boy Evan Dahm FTL Y'all ed. C. Spike Trotman ed. Amanda Lafrenais Gothic Tales of Haunted Love ed. Hope Nicholson ed. S.M.Beiko The Immortal Hulk: Or is he both? Al Ewing Joe Bennett X-23: X-Assassin Mariko Tamaki Diego Olortegui Ant-Man and the Wasp: Lost and Found Mark Waid Javier Garron Power Man and Iron Fist: The Boys Are Back in Town David Walker Sanford Greene Iceman: Thawing Out Sina Grace Alessandro Vitti Iceman: Absolute Zero Sina Grace Robert Gill Song of Aglaia Anne Simon Batman Detective Comics: Vol 4 Deus Ex Machina James Tynion IV Alvaro Martinez Harley Quinn: Broken Glass Mariko Tamaki Steve Pugh The Immortal Hulk: The Green Door Al Ewing Joe Bennett Power Man and Iron Fist: Civil War David F. Walker Flaviano Cosplayers Dash Shaw Bad Machinery: The Case of the Modern Men John Allison Is This How You See Me? Jaime Hernandez a city inside Tillie Walden The Immotal Hulk: Hulk in Hell Al Ewing Joe Bennett Slowly but Shirley Catalina Rufin Stage Dreams Melanie Gillman Homunculus Joe Sparrow Verse Book One Sam Beck Laid Waste Julia Gfrorer Gorgeous Cathy G. Johnson Cosmoknights Hannah Templer The Hard Tomorrow Eleanor Davis Pumpkin Heads Rainbow Rowell Faith Erin Hicks Funky Town Mathilde Van Gheluwe Pleading with Stars Kurt Ankeny Avatar The Last Airbender: Imbalance Book Three Faith Erin Hicks Peter Wartman The Love Bunglers Jaime Hernandez Spider-man Life Story Chip Zdarsky Mark Bagley Are You Listening? Tillie Walden November Matt Fraction Elsa Charretier Rusty Brown Chris Ware Dangerously Chloe Volume 3 David Lumsdon Jason Waltrip The Astonishing Ant-Man: Small-Time Criminal Nick Spencer Ramon Rosanas Doctor Aphra: Aphra Kieron Gillen Kev Walker Moonstruck Grace Ellis Shae Beagle

Minis

Maids no. 1 Katie Skelly Frontier #18 Tiffany Ford Two of Us Jessi Zabarsky Visiting Alivia Horsley Sobek James Stokoe Resort on Caelum Wren McDonald Boogsy Michelle Kwan Frontier #19 Hannah Waldron Maids no. 2 Katie Skelly Frontier #20 Anatola Howard Minotaar Lissa Treiman Pass the Baton Hana Chatani Cry Wolf Girl Ariel Ries At the Edge of the Stream at Dusk Jen Lee Cavity Michelle Theodore Hsthete Melanie Gillman David, I Love You Eileen Marie The Cutest Curse Laura Terry Churn Amelia Onorato An Eye for an Eye Kimberly Wang Women on Paper: 3 Stories Anna Christine Liminal State Maria Photinakis Melusine, The Collector and the Gift of the Pearls Edie Voges Infinite Wheat Paste Issue 3 Pidge Anew Dillon Gilbertson Anastasia Longoria Big Wally James McGarry Sam Bennett Frontier #21 Derek Yu Frontier #22 Tunde Adebimpe

Graphic novel is a stupid term that often encompasses things that are not novels, but I used it as a blanket term for anything comics I read that were bound rather than stapled. Minis are shorter works, stapled, and generally self-published by the artist, or done by a small press like Shortbox or Youth in Decline. I was totally lazy about crediting creators on series because my actual list for that is a grid, keeping track of each issue. Similarly, when listing creators on trades, I tended to only list writer and artist which is enough for some books, but sometimes there are many more, inkers, and colorists and letterers, and maybe I’ll do better next year.

Support your local library, your local comic shop (especially Hub Comics if you’re in the Boston area), and indie comic shows like MICE. 

[merlin-wolfgang-trades-hale]

“You have to start doing a better job at picking your friends.” 

“I dunno. They led me to you, didn’t they?” 

“This is worth it to you?”

“Yes. Just like it’s worth it to you. Or you wouldn’t be chasing me, Danno.” 

Voiceover by Mozzie: “It was a tale as old as time. That good and evil weren’t as black and white as once thought, and neither was it a world of grey. It was a kaleidoscope of colors, some only seen when you find yourself in love...and in the right crime. Because that’s how it truly started. 

“Neal loved art and he was the best of the best in his field. Cocky and slightly arrogant, but he usually knew just how much without getting himself in trouble. Oh you know, arrested anyway. He’s had a complicated life, love of his life taken away and then killed. Forced to work for the FBI as their pet. Somewhere in between meeting and falling in love with a certain blond haired detective.” 

Mozzie paused and raised his hands at Steve’s glare.  “Hey, you wanted the story! Can I help it if these two were so damn romantic or that I’m a fantastic storyteller? Don’t blame me because you never made your move before!” 

Mozzie had been caught and through some help from 5-0 as well as some connections from the White Collar Division in New York for some reason, Mozzie was released into 5-0 custody. 

Adam cleared his throat to gain his attention and said, “How about we stick to the facts?”

“The emotions are the facts!” Mozzie exclaimed. “Look. I’ve been your prison for three days, I was your friend, and you starved me! Now I’m opening up and this is the treatment I get?” 

Steve ran to the table and slammed his desk, “This. Isn’t.Danny!” 

Steve had to admit that deep down he was slightly surprised with Hirsh’s will and dedication. When the police and FBI began to question him, he didn’t say a word. He only spoke to 5-0 but even then when he was taken into their charge he wasn’t giving up information. 

“The Detective Williams you know is the one he became on this island. But that’s a big point you guys aren’t grasping.”

Before Steve could demand what he meant, Adam asked. “What’s that supposed to mean?”

Mozzie took a moment before he tried to explain. “The island was the dream. It was the retirement plan in different ways to different people. But we had to work for it. On the mainland. We have pasts! We were other people before you knew us!” Mozzie paused before he said, “I was the midwife that delivered Gracie...Danny and I were pals. Sort of. I’d help him solve cases on the mainland like I do for you guys here. He’d help me when I was in trouble. I was there when Danny comforted Neal when the love of his life was killed. I was there when Danny would rather chase Neal instead of being with his wife...their love was an epic love. But with all epic loves there’s only one way they end...and that’s in tragedy. By then, his ex-wife was getting remarried, Neal was off somewhere...and the next chapter was beginning.”

There was a knock and Tani poked her head in, “An FBI agent is here.”

“We have jurisdiction,” Steve told her. 

“I know but he says he’s an ally. Burke.” Tani said. 

Mozzie rolled his eyes. “That’s the Fed. He’s the one who helped me not be in prison right now.”

“I wanna talk to him,” Steve said. 

“What? No! That...that’s not a good idea!” but Steve was out of the room. Mozzie turned to Adam, “You might want to help. The SEAL is very Team Detective but the Fed is very Team Neal...could get dicey.” 

Adam wasn’t sure if he should leave Mozzie alone, but Steve was in a state, so he went after him. And arrived to see Steve punch the FBI agent. 

For @cinco-cero cos you inspired me to write more xD 

[usasportsworld]

Annika Sorenstam's 11-year-old emblemizes what makes PNC so fun

Annika Sorenstam’s 11-year-old emblemizes what makes PNC so fun

By: Jack Hirsh December 18, 2022 Annika Sorenstam and Will McGee had a mother-son moment to remember on 18 Sunday. Getty Images The question for Annika Sorenstam’s 11-year-old son Will McGee came from Golf Channel’s Steve Sands. “Do you realize how great your mother was when she was the best player in the world?” Sands asked Will in a post-round interview. “Sometimes,” Will said, flashing a…

[noloveforned]

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365 Day Movie Challenge (2017) - #22: Speak (2004) - dir. Jessica Sharzer (52 Films by Women 2017: #4)

I don’t know how many young people are still asked to read the Laurie Halse Anderson novel Speak in junior high or high school, but I did when I was in 8th grade, back in 2005-2006. As an introverted thirteen-year-old girl, I identified with protagonist Melinda Sordino‘s difficulties with expressing herself at an age when girls’ bodies, minds and understanding of human interaction start to change; it was easy to care about the character, a survivor of sexual assault who spends most of the story dealing with the trauma on her own but eventually learns to trust people again and share her pain. Although I haven’t read the novel in over a decade, most of the characters and plot points were as memorable as if I had read the book within the past year. This both helps and hurts Jessica Sharzer’s adaptation of Speak, which benefits from a superb lead performance by Kristen Stewart as Melinda and some powerful cinematography by Andrij Parekh, but which also waters down other characters and narrative elements enough to adversely affect the end result.

I don’t usually connect with the acting that Kristen Stewart has done as an adult; it always come off as cold and distant. In Speak, however, she was exceptional for a thirteen-year-old actress, capturing the complex emotions of Melinda incredibly well considering that so much of the film requires her to say little or be silent. Where the film falters, however, is in the scenes with Steve Zahn as rebellious art teacher Mr. Freeman; I recall the character being a lot more likeable in the novel. I also dislike the changes that Jessica Sharzer made to the ending, dulling some of the impact that Laurie Halse Anderson originally wrote for the last scene with Melinda and Mr. Freeman and also the rest of the scenes that conclude the story at school and with Melinda’s parents at home. The actors did their best to bring conviction to the roles, though, and I appreciate the supporting work done by Elizabeth Perkins, Hallee Hirsh, Allison Siko, Robert John Burke, Michael Angarano, D.B. Sweeney and Leslie Lyles.