#Adam Hearn

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Joshua Clayton as Plato shows off his new Plato makeup.

With Adam Hearn as Coricopat.

Cast 14 of the Oasis of the Seas, 07 January 2024

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John Neurohr (Skimbleshanks in Oasis cast 12) had his Gus cover debut! Thursday 16 June 2022.

With Emma Breton as Jellylorum—and Adam Hearn, usually Coricopat, getting a chance to debut Skimbleshanks!

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HOHR Pictionary Challenge

"Wow, that was years ago! Years ago!"

"That's not even a bird though!"

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Title: 秘密の時間 (Time of Secrecy)

Arrangement: adaptor

Album: 花弁雪の降る日には

Circle: Glassy:oceaN

Original: Old Adam Bar

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Dateless Bar Old Adam

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dave hearn is (successfully) trying to romance eric as a female npc while henry shields is (not successfully) (sort of) trying to romance eric as his (apparently straight) pc on hohr

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best bits of Hell or High Rollers that deserve to be immortalised: S1E10. Chris being a germ racist /jk (definitely not a sentence anyone thought they'd read let alone one I thought I'd type XD)

Ellie, who had a slight cold at the time of recording: A fact about Ghoul is that he has never had a cold because he's friends with all the germs. Dave: Topical and sweet. Chris: Are [germs] nice? Ellie: They're lovely. Chris: Which is strange, y'know, they're quite mean to people. With what they do to you. Shields: They're just- they're just trying to survive, man. Ellie: Yeah, they're just doing what they can. Adam: Yeah, you racist! Dave: Yeah, Chris! Back off, man! Shields: Chris Leask, germ racist. Chris: [We're] not all friends with gems- gems? Not gems. Dammit. Ellie: Puppy killer, germ racist- what's next, Chris? Shields: Yeah, it's not Gluebrick, it's Chris Leask. Chris: It's Chris Leask: doesn't like germs and likes pigs beating other pigs with- Dave: I thought that was Gluebrick? Chris: Oh, yeah- oh- Dave: Oh, that's- Chris: Oh- Dave: That's out- Chris: It's all coming out now- Dave: That's out now.

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Joshua Buatsi vs. Craig Richards am Samstag live auf DAZN

Joshua Buatsi vs. Craig Richards am Samstag live auf DAZN

Joshua Buatsi vs. Craig Richards, in der Mitte Promoter Eddie Hearn. Auch Alen Babic wieder im Ring, dieses Mal gegen den Polen Adam Balsky im Bridgergewicht Eddie Hearn veranstaltet am morgigen Samstag in der O2 Arena in Greenwich, London, England schon wieder einmal einen großen Boxing-Event, der live auf DAZN übertragen wird. Den Hauptkampf des Abends in der O2-Arena in London bestreiten der…

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BID Group Expanding Operations In Dorchester County

BID Group Expanding Operations In Dorchester County

BID Group, a leader in the wood processing industry, today announced plans to expand operations in Dorchester County. The company’s $10.6 million investment will create 25 new jobs. With locations throughout the United States and Canada, BID Group has more than 30 years of experience in the forestry sector, delivering a complete range of equipment, services, and turnkey installations for the…

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another question about touhou lore- what would you say is like. Required Reading 4 Getting Touhou?

Oh man.

In terms of, just, understanding the basics of the setting without coming away with really really insane misconceptions: Forbidden Scrollery, Wild and Horned Hermit, the fairies manga (Strange and Bright Nature Deity through Visionary Fairies in Shrine), Perfect Memento in Strict Sense (and Memorizable Gensokyo), Symposium of Post-Mysticism.

In terms of really getting what's going on, all of the above, but add (in descending order of importance): All of ZUN's music CDs (Dolls in Pseudo Paradise through Dateless Bar Old Adam), Curiosities of Lotus Asia, Silent Sinner in Blue and Cage in Lunatic Runagate, A Beautiful Flower Blooming Violet Every Sixty Years, Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, Urban Legend in Limbo, Antinomy of Common Flowers, Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream, Grimoire of Usami, Grimoire of Marisa, Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia, Shoot the Bullet, Double Spoiler, Impossible Spell Card, Violet Detector (these last four you can just read the spellcard comments if you wish, no need to Play It All unless you like pain), Perfect Cherry Blossom, Imperishable Night, Hidden Star in Four Seasons, Lotus Eaters' Sobering. Also: Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn. (That last one's on Project Gutenberg.)

All other games and print works can be consumed mostly at your leisure.

But basically, there is a LOT of Touhou. It hides itself well because it's not all one big work like Umineko or whatever, but there really is a lot of text to get through (and it's dense!) You're not required to read all of this to call yourself a "Touhou fan" or whatever, but if you want to have productive discussions (and some idea of what ZUN's putting down, so you can predict what'll happen next without going wildly off base) these are generally what you need.

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A post from Joshua Clayton in honour of his Rum Tum Tugger cover debut over the weekend in Cast 14 of the Oasis of the Seas.

Video clips throughout the show.

With Adam Hearn covering Mistoffelees.

03 February 2024.

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instagram story: Nov 18, 2023

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Adam Hearn and Dena Philpott as Coricopat and Tantomile in Oasis cast 12. Opening night, 4 June 2022 (X).

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Title: ボトリング創世記 (Bottling Genesis)

Arrangement: コンプ

Vocals: ランコ

Album: 100万人の並行秘封

Circle: 豚乙女

Original: Old Adam Bar

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Books Read 2023

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations / Mira Jacob

A Grief Observed / C. S. Lewis

Grit Lit: A Rough South Reader / ed. Brian Carpenter & Tom Franklin

Two or Three Things I Know for Sure / Dorothy Allison

Weather: Air Masses, Clouds, Rainfall, Storms, Weather Maps, Climate (A Golden Nature Guide) / Paul E. Lehr, R. Will Burnett, Herbert S. Zim ; Harry McNaught (ill.)

Improbable Memories / Sarah Moon

Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery / Adam Clair

The Difference Between / Billy McCall

The Submissive (The Submissive #1) / Tara Sue Me

Last Night at the Casino [v. 1] / Billy McCall

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing / Marie Kondo ; Cathy Hirano (tr.)

Pnin / Vladimir Nabokov

My Heart Is a Chainsaw / Stephen Graham Jones

"Waltz of the Body Snatchers" / Alfred Bester, in Andromeda I: An original SF anthology / ed. Peter Weston

Blue Highways: A Journey Into America / William Least Heat-Moon

The Stars My Destination (The Gregg Press Science Fiction Series) / Alfred Bester

Laughter in the Dark / Vladimir Nabokov

Man and His Symbols / Carl G. Jung

Mysteries of the Unexplained / ed. Carroll C. Calkins

The Westing Game / Ellen Raskin

The Seven Ages / Louise Glück

The Wild Iris / Louise Glück

Vita Nova / Louise Glück

Doctor Who: Impossible Worlds: A 50-Year Treasury of Art and Design / Stephen Nicholas & Mike Tucker

Where's Waldo? (Where's Waldo #1) / Martin Handford

Where's Waldo? The Fantastic Journey (Where's Waldo #3) / Martin Handford

Doctor Who 50 Years #3: The Doctors / ed. Marcus Hearn

Rabbit, Run / John Updike

Mother Night / Kurt Vonnegut

Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books) / Bibliographic Standards Committee, Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Association of College and Research Libraries, in collaboration with The Policy Standards Office of the Library of Congress

"Descriptive Bibliography" / Terry Belanger, in Book Collecting: A Modern Guide / ed. Jean Peters

The Essential Doctor Who #2: The TARDIS / ed. Marcus Hearn

Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited / Vladimir Nabokov

Chicago: City on the Make / Nelson Algren

Gustav Klimt, 1862-1918 / Gilles Néret

American Gods: A Novel / Neil Gaiman

Marcel Duchamp, 1887-1968: Art as Anti-Art / Janis Mink

The Empathy Exams: Essays / Leslie Jamison

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families / James Agee & Walker Evans

Hallucination Orbit: Psychology in Science Fiction / ed. Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg

Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Project / W. Eugene Smith ; ed. Sam Stephenson

Twilight / Gregory Crewdson ; Rick Moody

Magic Eye: A New Way of Looking at the World / N.E. Thing Enterprises

Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams / Steve Horton & Michael Allred ; Laura Allred (ill.)

After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path / Jack Kornfield

The Gin Closet: A Novel / Leslie Jamison

The New Kid on the Block / Jack Prelutsky ; James Stevenson (ill.)

A Book of Common Prayer / Joan Didion

Mariette in Ecstasy / Ron Hansen

Camp Damascus / Chuck Tingle

The Mass Production of Memory: Travel and Personal Archiving in the Age of the Kodak (Public History in Historical Perspective) / Tammy S. Gordon

Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas / Rebecca Solnit & Rebecca Snedeker

Other Voices, Other Rooms / Truman Capote

Fabulous New Orleans / Lyle Saxon ; E.H. Suydam (ill.)

Weird Pennsylvania: Your Travel Guide to Pennsylvania's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets / Matt Lake

Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence (Griffin & Sabine #1) / Nick Bantock

Sabine's Notebook: In Which The Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Continues (Griffin & Sabine #2) / Nick Bantock

The Golden Mean: In Which The Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Concludes (Griffin & Sabine #3) / Nick Bantock

Breath, Eyes, Memory / Edwidge Danticat

Last Night at the Casino, v. 2 / Billy McCall

What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions / Randall Munroe

Collection-Level Cataloging: Bound-with Books (Third Millennium Cataloging) / Jain Fletcher

Speaking Pittsburghese: The Story of a Dialect (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics) / Barbara Johnstone

My Misspent Youth: Essays / Meghan Daum

Slender Intuition: Essays on Artist's Block / Brian Hitselberger

The Mister / E L James

Crapalachia: A Biography of a Place / Scott McClanahan

The Transcriptionist: A Novel / Amy Rowland

Explanations/Opinions below the cut:

Ok so I have several reading lists/stacks that I rotate through: my to-read spreadsheet (which has almost 300 titles listed in chronological order by date added, with the oldest being from 8/22/2014), my to-read bookcase/nightstand (which holds ~50 books I’ve acquired over the past few years but haven’t yet read), a stack of oversized unreads that don’t fit on the nightstand shelves (this gets its own list bc I need to read them and find a permanent home for them before the stack gets too tall), and “interruptions” (books that override the list order bc I didn’t want to wait to read them, for whatever reason).

Maybe it’s weird that I’m so attached to reading things “in order”? Idk. I’ve always been like this. It’s only a mild compulsion – obviously, I am perfectly capable of ignoring what’s supposed to be next on the list, in favor of reading something that catches my interest more strongly in the moment, but in general, I like to read things either in the order I added them to the list, or the order I personally acquired a physical copy (if I went by the list only, I’d be drowning in unread books [yay, college town thrift stores], so I gotta stay on top of that pile pretty regularly). So that is why I am often reading things that I first became aware of/added to my list nearly 10 years ago. Sometimes this practice results in feelings like, “Dang, I wish I would’ve actually read this 10 years ago,” but also sometimes, “WOW, I’m so glad I’m reading this RIGHT NOW, as opposed to 10 years ago when I first heard about it!”

I think my favorites this year were Mariette in Ecstasy; Other Voices, Other Rooms; Crapalachia; and Speak, Memory.

Mild disappointments were the essay collections by Leslie Jamison and Meghan Daum, two authors I’m pretty sure I discovered via popular and relateable quotes reblogged on tumblr ca. 2014, but the collections taken as a whole just had too many moments of cringe – casual classism, arrogant self-absorption, and other annoying and unrelateable qualities typical of privileged 20-something writers (this tone definitely appealed to me when I was a naïve and melodramatic snotty 20-something, so there’s that).

As a kind of memorial, Rachael and I read David’s three favorite books: The Stars My Destination, Mother Night, and American Gods. In all the time I knew him, including all the times we used to sit on the porch together, reading quietly while he drank whiskey, I never thought to ask him his favorites. I kept looking for pieces of him in the stories, wondering what lines stood out, what made a book memorable, what did it say about him that these were his favorites.

Being an elder Millennial, I’m in the stage of nostalgically re-acquiring important artifacts from my childhood, so that’s why there are some children’s books on my list. Where’s Waldo? was one of the most coveted books in my grade-school library! There was always a list of people waiting to check it out, but usually, whoever actually had the book that week would let the other kids gather around and look together.

My Heart Is a Chainsaw was a recommendation from my goth teenaged birthdaughter <3 which I probably read too much personal symbolism into but maybe not!

I thought John Updike was overrated, lol.

Favorite photography book: W. Eugene Smith’s Dream Street. His pictures made me so homesick, and it was wild because he took them from 1955-1957 but they still really, REALLY, to me, looked like the Pittsburgh of my ‘80s/’90s memories (bc Pittsburgh doesn’t change, and also the “idea” or “brand” of Pittsburgh in the ‘80s/’90s was ofc consciously referencing its industrial working-class past). He took over 10,000 photos but was never able to “finish” the project to his intense, obsessive standards of perfection (I KNOW THAT FEEL) and felt it failed to capture the multifaceted essence of the city. WELL, not in my opinion at least!

PS I'm moonmoth on LibraryThing.