#Allison Kaufman

[mommydearestella]

09-08-2023

I SENT A LETTER TO MY COUSIN DAVID KAUFMAN AND MY UNCLE DR. RICHARD KATZ FOUR DAYS AGO INSTEAD OF CALLING THEM THIS TIME. IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE IF I GET A RETURN CALL THIS TIME. JUST IN CASE I WILL POST MY CELL PHONE NUMBER HERE 352-425-7645.

[bookshelvesandtealeaves]

✨ AUGUST WRAPUP ✨

Total books finished: 30 (wtf?)

DNF’s: 7

Pages read: 8,746

Hours listened: 70.92

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Currently reading:

📖 Sucker Punch: Out of the Blue by Kayla Faber (8%)

🎧 Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson (30%)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

-A Sorceress Comes to Call by T Kingfisher*

-Sucker Punch by Kayla Faber*

-The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas (reread) 🎧

-The Heart of the World by Amie Kaufman*

-Gentlest of Wild Things by Sarah Underwood*

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

-Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White*

-The Magpie Lord by KJ Charles

-A Case of Possession by KJ Charles

-The Isles of the Gods by Amie Kaufman (reread) 🎧

-This Fatal Kiss by Alicia Jasinska*

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

-Mortal Follies by Alexis Hall (reread) 🎧

-Yes No Maybe So by Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed

-Confounding Oaths by Alexis Hall*

-Winter of the Wolf by Amanda Willimott*

-The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky by Mackenzi Lee (reread) 🎧

-Celestial Monsters by Aiden Thomas*

-Hot Summer by Elle Everhart

-Flight of Magpies by KJ Charles

-Murder at the Matinee by Jamie West*

-Fake Dates and Mooncakes by Sher Lee (reread) 🎧

-Countess by Suzan Palumbo*

-Saving Graces by Ruby Landers*

-I’m Not Really Here by Gary Lonesborough*

-Nightbirds by Kate J Armstrong (reread) 🎧

-Fyrebirds by Kate J Armstrong*

⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

-One Night in Hartswood by Emma Denny

-Queen B by Juno Dawson*

⭐️⭐️⭐️

-Thyme Travellers edited by Sonia Sulaiman*

-The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna

-Who Could Love You, Astor Price? by Amy Jane Lehan*

DNF

-Just Haven’t Met You Yet by Sophie Cousens (16%)

-You’re the Problem, It’s You by Emma R Alban* (37%)

-Netherford Hall by Natania Barron* (26%)

-Not For the Faint of Heart by Lex Croucher* (54%)

-A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft* (47%)

-SMP title* (28%)

-At the End of the River Styx by Michelle Kulwicki* (34%)

*indicates gifted item

[brokehorrorfan]

Night of the Demons will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray and Night of the Demons 2 and Night of the Demons 3 will be released on Blu-ray on October 3 via Scream Factory.

Shout Factory is offering an exclusive set with all three films with exclusive slipcovers by Joel Robinson, six posters, a prism sticker, a set of five enamel pins by Matthew Skiff (limited to 600), and a set of five lobby cards by Beyond Horror Design (limited to 500). Pictured below, it costs $199.99.

1988's Night of the Demons is directed by Kevin S. Tenney (Witchboard) and written by Joe Augustyn. Cathy Podewell, Amelia Kinkade, Linnea Quigley, Hal Havins, William Gallo, and Alvin Alexis star.

1994's Night of the Demons 2 is directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith (Leprechaun 3, Leprechaun 4: In Space) and written by Joe Augustyn. Amelia Kinkade, Merle Kennedy, Cristi Harris, Rick Peters, Jennifer Rhodes, and Christine Taylor star.

1997's Night of the Demons 3 is directed by Jim Kaufman and written by Kevin Tenney. Amelia Kinkade, Larry Day, Kristen Holden-Ried, Tara Slone, Gregory Calpakis, Patricia Rodriguez, and Stephanie Bauder star.

Night of the Demons has been newly restored from an earlier 4K scan of the unrated camera negative, presented with Dolby Vision HDR. Night of the Demons 2 has been newly transferred from the interpositive.

Workprints/alternate cuts of all three films are included. Special features are detailed below.

Night of the Demons 4K UHD special features:

Audio commentary by director Kevin S. Tenney, executive producer Walter Josten, and producer Jeff Geoffray

Audio commentary with director Kevin S. Tenney, actors Cathy Podewell, Billy Gallo, and Hal Havins, and special makeup effects creator Steve Johnson

Audio Commentary with director Kevin Tenney, actors Linnea Quigley and Phillip Tanzini and casting director Tedra Gabriel

Interview with writer/producer Joe Augustyn (new)

Interview with actress Jill Terashita (new)

Interview with special effects artist Nick Benson (new)

International cut (standard definition)

Night of the Demons Blu-ray special features:

Audio commentary by director Kevin S. Tenney, executive producer Walter Josten, and producer Jeff Geoffray

Audio commentary with director Kevin S. Tenney, actors Cathy Podewell, Billy Gallo, and Hal Havins, and special makeup effects creator Steve Johnson

Audio Commentary with director Kevin Tenney, actors Linnea Quigley and Phillip Tanzini and casting director Tedra Gabriel

Night of the Demons workprint (under the title The Halloween Party)

The Halloween Party alternate title card

You’re Invited: The Making of Night of the Demons - 2014 documentary with cast and crew

Interview with actress Amelia Kinkade

Interview with actress Allison Barron

Interview with actress Linnea Quigley

Alternate R-rated scenes

A Short Night of the Demons - 6-minute version of the film shown to potential distributors

Theatrical trailer

Video trailer

TV spots

Still galleries

Promo reel

Still galleries - Behind-the-scenes, special effects and makeup, stills, posters and storyboards

It’s Halloween night and Angela is throwing a party… but this is no ordinary Halloween party. Everybody’s headed to Hull House, a deserted funeral home, formerly the home of a mass murderer. But when the partygoers decide to have a séance, they awaken something evil - and these party crashers have a thirst for blood. Now it’s a battle to survive the night in Hull House.

Pre-order Night of the Demons.

Night of the Demons 2 special features:

Audio commentary by actors Cristi Harris, Jennifer Rose, Darin Heames, and Johnny Moran (new)

Audio commentary by director Brian Trenchard-Smith and director of photography David Lewis

Interview with directors Kevin S. Tenney and Brian Trenchard-Smith (new)

Interview with actor Amelia Kinkade (new)

Interview with actress Cristi Harris (new)

Interview with special effects artist Steve Johnson (new)

Interview with producer Jeff Geoffray (new)

Night of the Demons 2 workprint 

Dailies

Trailer

Behind-the-scenes gallery

It’s Halloween and the teenagers from St. Rita’s High School want to party at the neighborhood’s haunted house. For years, the Hull House has sat in eerie silence – tales of its haunted past have turned into gory jokes and no one really believes anything ever happened there. However, Angela (Amelia Kinkade), the hostess from hell, is summoning her army of teen demons to the blood-curdling contest between the school’s priests and herself, the princess of darkness.

Pre-order Night of the Demons 2.

Night of the Demons 3 special features:

Audio commentary by director Jimmy Kaufman

Audio commentary by writer Kevin S. Tenney and special effects artist Roy Knyrim (new)

Interview with director Jimmy Kaufman (new)

Interview with writer Kevin S. Tenney (new)

Interview with actress Amelia Kinkade (new)

Interview with producer Jeff Geoffray (new)

Night Of The Demons 3 director’s cut (workprint)

Night Of The Demons 3 TV cut

Behind-the-scenes footage

Alternate title sequence 

Dailies 

Trailers 

It’s Halloween! The gates of Hull House have creaked open once again and Angela (Amelia Kinkade) is waiting for her treats. When a group of rambunctious teens take refuge in the foreboding funeral home to escape the law, they soon realize their grave error.

Pre-order Night of the Demons 3.

[bookaddict24-7]

New Young Adult Releases! (May 2nd, 2023)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Standalones/First in a Series:

Chasing Pacquiao by Rod Pulido

Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli

I Like Me Better by Robby Weber 

We Don’t Swim Here by Vincent Tirado

The Unstoppable Bridget Bloom by Allison L. Bitz

Lose You to Find Me by Erik J. Brown

Liar’s Beach by Katie Cotugno

Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl by Brianna R. Shrum & Sara Waxelbaum

Lying in the Deep by Diana Urban

Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley

The Strange Case of Harleen and Harley by Melissa Marr

Lion’s Legacy by Lev A.C. Rosen

The Isles of the Gods by Amie Kaufman

Solitaire by Alice Oseman (This is a new cover reprint)

Your Plantation Prom Is Not Okay by Kelly McWilliams

The Weight of Everything by Marcia Argueta Mickelson

Time Out by Sean Hayes, Todd Milliner & Carlyn Greenwald

When Death is Coming by Jen Woodrum

Stranger Danger by Maren Stoffels

New Sequels: 

Path of Vengeance (Star Wars: The High Republic) by Cavan Scott

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Happy reading!

[shinigami-striker]

July 2023 Birthdays | Saturday, 07.01.2023

Here are the upcoming birthdays for the month of July 2023:

Monday, 7/3 - Jill Harris | Sarah Wiedenheft

Wednesday, 7/5 - Chris Rager

Thursday, 7/6 - Erik Scott Kimerer

Saturday, 7/8 - Rachael Lillis | Xander Mobus

Sunday, 7/9 - Kira Vincent-Davis | Tyler Walker

Tuesday, 7/11 - Cristina Valenzuela | Jason Liebrecht

Wednesday, 7/12 - Christine Marie Cabanos

Thursday, 7/13 - Kari Wahlgren | Sandy Fox

Friday, 7/14 - Mike McFarland

Sunday, 7/16 - Kira Buckland

Wednesday, 7/19 - Cherami Leigh | Jeannie Tirado | Reuben Langdon

Friday, 7/21 - Allison Sumrall

Saturday, 7/22 - James Arnold Taylor

Sunday, 7/23 - Blake Shepard | Dani Chambers | David Kaufman

Tuesday, 7/25 - Dave B. Mitchell

Thursday, 7/27 - Felecia Angelle

Saturday, 7/29 - Emily Neves

Sunday, 7/30 - Jerry Jewell

[userfayne]

books i read in 2023

goal: 60 books currently reading: the unfortunate side effects of heartbreak and magic (arc)

nine liars by maureen johnson

this book kills by ravena guron (arc) review

the stolen heir by holly black

the worst woman in london by julia bennet (arc) review

see you yesterday by rachel lynn solomon

a million junes by emily henry

final offer by lauren asher

songs of vice by nicole bailey (arc) review

before i let go by kennedy ryan

daisy jones & the six by taylor jenkins reid (reread)

in a jam by kate canterbary

a missing connection by dani mclean (arc) review

last violent call by chloe gong

emily wilde’s encyclopaedia of faeries by heather fawcett

cem anos de solidão by gabriel garcía marquéz

dragonfall by l.r. lam (arc) review

just like magic by sarah hogle

triste não é ao certo a palavra by gabriel abreu (arc) review (pt)

romantic comedy by curtis sittenfeld

the nanny by lana ferguson

happy place by emily henry

meet me at the lake by carley fortune

o retrato de dorian gray by oscar wilde

immortal longings by chloe gong (arc) review

yellowface by r.f. kuang

planes, trains, and all the feels by livy hart

pequena coreografia do adeus by aline bei

love in the time of serial killers by alicia thompson

the wind knows my name by isabel allende

love, theoretically by ali hazelwood

nunca vi a chuva by stefano volp

aurora ascende by amie kaufman and jay kristof

pageboy by elliot page

the seven year slip by ashley poston

will they or won’t they by ava wilder

done and dusted by lyla sage

divine rivals by rebecca ross

aurora arde by amie kaufman and jay kristoff

adeus, aurora by amie kaufman and jay kristof

mrs. nash’s ashes by sarah adler

the déjà glitch by holly james

the roommate pact by allison ashley

brynn and sebastian hate each other by bethany turner (arc) review

elantris by brandon sanderson

the hope of elantris by brandon sanderson

the emperor’s soul by brandon sanderson

every wish way by shannon bright (arc) review

[zooterchet]

Twisted Metal: Black

No-Face: Allison Haimes; Hmong with Royal Lancaster, blinded by alcohol.

Raven: Christine Surka, Aramaic-Basaltic genome to inform other Romalians to defend.

Dollface: Jessica Bailey, Valentine genome of hunting the same color of blood having defected to royal service elsewhere.

Preacher: David Charlebois, Stoker genome as the Mark of the Wolf, the war waged against anti-Semites.

Bloody Mary: Jenna Williamson, Meir genome of Ottoman Seljuks at war with the refusal to readminister their childhood.

Agent Stone: Walter Kaufman, a police trooper reforming services from the inside to demand adherence to general's staff of military.

John Doe: Tim Jones, with homes in the old Arctic territories, and families already made before deployment.

Mister Grimm: Brian Warner, war medals as tattoos for claiming offense at a prior tattoo and a fight.

Billy Ray Stillwell: Andre Betmen, the Haitian artist having adopted Jewish blood, out of rebellion.

Yellowjacket: Joseph Kennedy III, the son of Ted Kennedy, the nephew of John F. Kennedy Sr. and Robert Kennedy, the cousin of John F. Kennedy Jr.

Axel: Christiano Marisco, Doubting Thomas, the living debt on others as enemies.

Black: Stacy Bundy, the cause for the tournament out of liaison's drive of activing Romalians.

Warthog: Ryan Gregson, having deduced cocktail of potion, to join the tournament based on video game play and athletic building of muscular beyond bully status.

Sweet Tooth: Having raped a contestant and forced into relationship, a framed Rabbinical.  The cause of the tournament.Calypso: The Bulger family, the hospital medical registers of Boston Union, studying the Gypsy genome for William McKinley and the lessons learned from MI-6 at the Spanish-American War; the origins of anti-Semitism, Jews being the slave owners throughout each period. 

[lindsaytimberlake]

Fashion model Lindsay Timberlake in a denim jumpsuit from designer Barrie Kaufman of Fables By Barrie - Western Roundup Fashion Show, Nashville Boogie Vintage Weekender (2015)

PHOTO: Allison Kortokrax (kortophotography.com)

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 11.19

Beer Birthdays

Frantz Philip “Frank” Brogniez (1898)

Mark Silva (1961)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Tommy Dorsey; jazz trombonist, bandleader (1905)

Adam Driver; actor (1983)

Allison Janney; actor (1959)

Meg Ryan; actor (1961)

Clifton Webb; actor (1891)

Famous Birthdays

Raymond Blanc; French chef (1949)

Roy Campanella; Brooklyn Dodgers C (1921)

Dick Cavett; television host (1936)

George Clark; American revolutionary war general (1752)

Eileen Collins; astronaut (1956)

Jack Dorsey; Twitter founder (1976)

Terry Farrell; actor (1963)

Jodie Foster; actor (1962)

Indira Gandhi; Indian politician (1917)

James A. Garfield; 20th U.S. President (1831)

Dan Haggerty; actor, animal trainer (1941)

Ryan Howard; Philadelphia Phillies 1B (1979)

Charlie Kaufman; screenwriter (1958)

Larry King; television show host (1933)

Jeane Kirkpatrick; diplomat (1926)

Calvin Klein; fashion designer (1942)

Yuan T. Lee; chemist (1936)

Fred Lipsius; saxophonist, pianist (1944)

Glynnis O'Connor; actor (1956)

Kathleen Quinlan; actor (1954)

Tony Rich; R&B singer-songwriter (1971)

James Sumner; chemist (1887)

Billy Sunday; religious evangelist (1862)

Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr.; biochemist (1915)

Allen Tate; poet (1899)

Ted Turner; media mogul (1938)

Gene Tierney; actress (1920)

Alan Young; actor (1919)

[bezel-set]

Diamond and Ruby Fashion Ring by Allison Kauffman, sold by Bechdel Jewelers, $3,250.00

I love this antique style of bezel-set halo. Not only is it SO secure, it's just. Breathtaking. And it means that the stones are cut specifically for the piece 😍

and the straight split shank on this one? *chefs kiss*

[nofatclips]

Lenny Kravitz by Alexandre Chatelard from the album Elle était une fois - Video by Allen & Smithee

[mommydearestella]

Dennis Dunce of Saratoga

[princessofbookaholics]

8 Books with a Unique Narration

8 Books with a Unique Narration

Books usually have three types of POVs: first person, second person or third person. Rarely we see books that have a narration other than these three and I’d like to share  some these rare books that I’ve read:

Sadie by Courtney Summers

  This book is told as a podcast about a missing girl named Sadie and there are alternative chapters of the podcast and the first-person narrative of Sadie. It…

[allisonclago-blog]

2018 Highlights of Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center

Serving high-net-worth clients throughout Southern California, Allison Clago holds executive responsibilities at Wedbush Securities, Inc. Philanthropically focused, she recently contributed to the expansion of the Providence Tarzana Medical Center. Allison Clago also supports community arts programs such as Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center. Highlights of the upcoming dance season include Company Wayne McGregor’s new work Autobiography, which presents a choreographed cycle of 23 portraits modeled on the director’s own genome sequencing. Each performance’s sections, which include an electronic score, are selected and randomly ordered by a computer algorithm. Another anticipated performance is Diavolo’s Architecture in Motion, which combines gymnastics and acrobatics with modern dance. Featuring human interactions within intricate architectural structures, the program includes landmark pieces such as Voyage and Trajectoire. A culminating performance of 2018 is choreographer George Balanchine's The Nutcracker, which combines Tchaikovsky’s classical score with costumes and sets that are the work of a pair of Cuban-American artists. Featuring a full orchestra, the performance encompasses a cast of more than 100 artists.

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

Toddler and tiara: Meghan Markle STILL throwing tantrums about royal family By Maureen Callahan August 29, 2022 

Lest anyone remain in doubt, Meghan Markle’s latest interview makes one thing clear: This woman has nothing to say. She has nothing to offer, no original thoughts or guiding philosophy, no earthly reason to be taking so much money from, and so much space in, the mainstream media she so clearly reviles.

You know, just as she reviles the British royal family, even as she clings to her title and accepts money from her father-in-law, the future king, who reportedly subsidized her and Harry’s $14.5 million mansion, purchased for their privacy.

Still, yet again, the Greta Garbo of Northern California sits for another major profile, this time for New York magazine. [not NY Magazine, A New York Magazine: The Cut.]

Forget the People’s Princess — now we’re saddled with the Petulant Princess, one whose preferred crown is perpetual victimhood. For the past three years she’s had a global platform, yet all she does with it is complain that she’s been censored, silenced, shut out. Meghan Markle has been a public downer longer than she was a working duchess. It’s long past time for a new talking point.

I must concede her lone accomplishment here: Just when you think Meghan Markle can’t get any more delusional, she outdoes herself. Her self-regard runs in direct opposition to her waning relevance. She clearly has no real friends left — or even decent publicists — because anyone with an iota of common sense would say, “You know, Meghan, it’s probably best not to compare yourself to Nelson Mandela.”

Reader, in this profile, Meghan Markle compares herself to Nelson Mandela. Settle in.

“I had just had Archie,” she says. “It was such a cruel chapter. I was scared to go out.” But go out she did — alas, there’s no keeping Meghan Markle down — to a performance of “The Lion King.” After, a South African cast member, she says, “looked at me, and he’s just like light. He said, ‘I just need you to know: When you married into this family, we rejoiced in the streets the same we did when Mandela was freed from prison.’ ”

Oh, this piece is full of howlers. Enjoy it. Savor the details. Don’t read it with your mouth full.

Anyone who’s read Tom Bower’s recent book knows that Meghan is an inveterate liar. But here we have the duchess in her natural habitat — a soulless mansion, Meghan “backlit by the late-morning light in a scene that looks like a Nancy Meyers cinematic interior, Town & Country, Goop, and Architectural Digest had an orgy” — and this only frees her up to reveal her most authentically inauthentic self in all her resentful glory.

We begin with the “invisible” help [sounds more like black magic seance] lighting a scented candle from the members-only Soho House — the founder, Meghan says, a friend. Annual dues run a little over $4,000. But remember: even though she wants to be known as a humanitarian, a feminist and a renegade, what’s equally important are all the famous people she knows and the exclusive, rich-people-only places she has access to.

Meghan opens the interview with the most millennial of revelations: “Do you want to know a secret?” she asks. “I’m getting back . . . on Instagram.”

Stop the presses, indeed!

Or . . . not? Meghan doubles back on that bold announcement almost immediately: She’s not sure, she says. She might not. Lots to consider.

What those factors are, she cannot say.

Oh — and this moment: “At one point in our conversation,” writes Allison P. Davis, “instead of answering a question, she will suggest how I might transcribe the noises she’s making: ‘She’s making these guttural sounds, and I can’t quite articulate what it is she’s feeling in that moment because she has no word for it; she’s just moaning.’ ”

This might be the single most insane thing I’ve ever read in a celebrity profile. Truly, it’s Charlie Kaufman-esque: Meghan evincing such pain she’s non-verbal, yet verbalizing why she’s ostensibly non-verbal to her profiler, who Meghan says should tell us that Meghan doesn’t know what she’s feeling because Meghan told her, in Meghan’s own words, that there are no words for it.

It’s celebrity profile by way of Kafka, and it says something that the hundreds of reader comments on New York mag’s site — a self-selecting group of self-identified feminist social justice warriors — mostly proclaim her phony, delusional and vapid, if not an outright liar.

What will make Meghan happy? Hell if she knows. The only solace she finds from this existential torment, it seems, is sitting for fancy photo shoots and talking to friendly journalists.

“When the media has shaped the story around you,” Meghan whines, “it’s really nice to be able to tell your own story.”

Here’s something this self-styled brilliant mind seems to have missed: A little thing called social media has long allowed for unmediated, unfiltered communication between celebrities and the rest of us, the great unwashed who still, despite Meghan cawing and crying on Oprah, or among starving African children (“nobody asks if I’m OK”), or her new podcast (more on that later), still don’t get how hard it is to be Meghan Markle, unappreciated duchess in exile, transcendent representation of rare greatness.

Why won’t we all just adore her?

Gwyneth Paltrow, consider yourself dethroned. We have a new Queen of All Things Insufferable.

“One of the first things my husband saw when we walked around the house was those two palm trees,” she says, touring her grounds with our ink-stained wretch. “See how they’re connected at the bottom? He goes, ‘My love, it’s us.’ And now every day when Archie goes by [the trees], he says, ‘Hi Momma. Hi, Papa.’ ”

Archie is three.

A note about that podcast: A lot of people listened to it, I know. I also firmly believe those ratings are the audio equivalent of rubbernecking. If the first episode — ostensibly an interview with Serena Williams — is reflective of the rest, this is really a podcast about Meghan Markle.

She leads with her oft-reported origin story [🤣] of Feminist Meghan, standing up to corporate America as an 11-year-old (a story Tom Bower surgically took apart as false), then asks us to marvel at her longtime friendship with Williams and endure another tall tale in which the royals and their staff do not care that baby Archie almost burned to death in South Africa.

The conversation is everything one would expect, Meghan going on about her “lived experience” — is there any other kind? — her “dear, dear friend Serena,” and the “labels, boxes and archetypes” that women still suffer. “Women” being proxy for Meghan, “archetypes” such as: Spoiled brat. Ungrateful. Delusional. Hypocrite.

Now, I will also admit that I didn’t think Markle could surpass the moment when, as a working royal, she spontaneously wrote inspirational messages — “you are strong,” “you are loved” — for sex workers. On bananas.

But here, we see a totally spontaneous and sugary everyday school pick-up — “She scoops [Archie] [child actor] up in a big hug so full of genuine emotion that both close their eyes” — turn into a teachable moment about the homeless.

“At a stoplight, [Meghan] reaches into the trunk and produces a brand-new black backpack and hands it to her security detail to give to an unhoused man on the corner.” [Because she's so concerned about her "security" she couldn't keep the bag inside her vehicle or ask her security to keep the bags inside their vehicle. Nope MM had to (roll down her window) jump up out of the vehicle to be seen. Poor homeless person was probably a paid plant.]

Yes, young American royal-non-royal Archie: If you want to give some food to a starving homeless person — peanut-butter crackers and granola bars, no whole meals or cash or the like — have the help do it. No need to get near poverty and filth yourself.

And then back we go to the Montecito manse, where Meghan has another ready anecdote about the grand piano Tyler Perry gave her as a housewarming gift, instructing her to “write the soundtrack for your life,” she says. So relatable. [Of course she must learn to play piano better than Kate😉.]

Meghan winds down by returning to her other favorite subject, forgiveness. Even though she won’t forgive her father, whose main crime has been talking to the media, she wants the royal family to know that someday, maybe, she might forgive them. She, of course, has nothing to be forgiven for. Why would one even ask?

“I think forgiveness is really important,” Meghan says, adding that she has “a lot to say until I don’t. Sometimes, as they say, the silent part is still part of the song.”

Meghan Markle, two very weary nations beg you: Please. Be that silent part.

[shinigami-striker]

July 2024 Birthdays | Monday, 07.01.24

Down below are this month's list of upcoming birthdays in the month of July 2024, including:

Monday, 7/1

Rino Romano (voice of Batman and Spider-Man; 55th birthday today!)

Wednesday, 7/3

Jill Harris (30th birthday this Wednesday; voiced Rikka Takarada in SSSS.Gridman)

Sarah Wiedenheft

Thursday, 7/4

Ursula Taherian (voice of Tawna Bandicoot in Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time/Crash Team Rumble)

Saturday, 7/6

Erik Scott Kimerer

Monday, 7/8

Rachel Lillis

Xander Mobus

Tuesday, 7/9

Fred Savage (voice of Noah Nixon Generator Rex)

Kira Vincent-Davis (45th birthday next week)

Tyler Walker

Wednesday, 7/10

Gwendoline Yeo (voice of Hamato Karai in Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

Thursday, 7/11

Cristina Vee

Jason Liebrecht

Friday, 7/12

Christine Marie Cabanos

Saturday, 7/13

Kari Wahlgren

Sandy Fox

Tom Kenny (voice of both SpongeBob Squarepants and Spyro the Dragon in their respective series)

Sunday, 7/14

Mike McFarland

Tuesday, 7/16

Kira Buckland

Philece Sampler

Friday, 7/19

Cherami Leigh

Jeannie Tirado

Reuben Langdon

Saturday, 7/20

Carlos Alazraqui (voiced Rocko Rama in Rocko's Modern Life and Lazlo in Camp Lazlo)

Sunday, 7/21

Allison Sumrall

Monday, 7/22

James Arnold Taylor (55th birthday coming soon)

Tuesday, 7/23

Blake Shepard

Dani Chambers

David Kaufman (voice of Danny Fenton/Danny Phantom)

Thursday, 7/25

Dave B. Mitchell (voice of Knuckles the Echidna since 2019; 55th birthday soon)

Saturday, 7/27

Felecia Angelle

Monday, 7/29

Emily Neves

Richard Steven Horvitz (voice of Zim in Invader Zim)

Tuesday, 7/30

Jerry Jewell (voice of Principal Nezu in My Hero Academia)

Wednesday, 7/31

Mela Lee

Wally Kurth (voice of Agent Six in Generator Rex)

Enjoy the rest of July and stay tuned for Anime Expo 2024 available between Thursday, July 4 through Sunday, July 7/7! Can't wait to see a look of Sonic X Shadow Generations: Dark Beginnings (produced under Studio Giggex), an anime short promoting the upcoming Sonic X Shadow Generations remaster of Sonic Generations releasing this October.