#Atte and Baldwin

[williamoftyred]

The Phoenix of Jerusalem

Chapters 3 and 4

Chapter Three: The Garden Before The Fall

Baldwin IV, and the ache of almost remembering.

The silence after court was its own kind of music.

Baldwin sat in his private chamber, veil removed, hands newly cleaned and dressed. The latest treatment left a faint tingle on his skin—Amira's salve, unfamiliar but gentle. Not the harsh vinegar stings of the Frankish physicians, nor the choking pitch of smoke-blown poultices. Hers was different. Thoughtful.

He rolled his shoulder, grimacing at the pull of old scars, and looked toward the window. The fig tree just outside was beginning to bud again.

He hated how it caught him off guard.

He didn't dream often anymore—fever took that from him. But lately, memories had crept in during the day, unwelcome and unspoken.

A girl's voice. Not Amira's, but similar. Lighter. Younger. Braver.

"You're holding it too tightly."

He'd heard that line yesterday—out of Amira's mouth. And it had shaken him. Not because it was unusual advice, but because it had lodged into some splintered part of him, perfectly.

He couldn't stop hearing it.

As a boy, Baldwin had spent more time in the palace gardens than in the chapel. His instructors believed him studious, but he only obeyed them because he had learned how to listen with half an ear.

He used the other half to listen for footsteps not meant to be there.

She had always arrived just before the bell for afternoon prayers, bare-footed and smirking, a smudge of ink on her sleeve from her father's study. Not a court girl. Not a servant.

She climbed fig trees like they were ladders to heaven.

What had her name been?

He could not remember it now—only that she called him "sly" and made fun of the way he pronounced Latin when he was tired. That she made him laugh once so hard he snorted and she fell out of the tree.

And that she didn't treat him like a prince.

He remembered watching her run across the stones of the courtyard, hair unbound, a book clutched to her chest.

Now he watched Amira—not that girl, he told himself—move through his chamber with the same easy grace.

This morning, she had returned to examine his hand again. She spoke little. Measured precisely. Didn't linger.

But once, while pressing the side of his thumb, she had paused. Just for a heartbeat too long.

And he'd looked at her then. Really looked.

The curve of her brow. The scar at the edge of her wrist—so faint he almost missed it.

Something about her... haunted him.

Not beauty. He had seen beautiful women. This was different.

It was familiarity. The way she tilted her head while concentrating. The way she corrected herself mid-sentence as if translating thoughts from another tongue.

He had nearly asked her—Have we met before? But kings didn't ask foolish questions. Not aloud.

Later, alone in the chapel, Baldwin stared at the stone floor where light filtered through stained glass. The warmth from the window touched only his robe.

The fig tree's shadow stretched long beside him.

He heard her voice again—not Amira's voice, but that girl's—drifting from some lost place in his memory.

"You shouldn't be down there."

He pressed his hand to his chest, fingers aching beneath the bandage.

He had forgotten the girl's name. But not the feeling of being seen. Not the sense of wholeness that had nothing to do with health or power or prayer.

She had been the last thing he'd lost before his body began to betray him.

He wondered if Amira ever climbed trees.

Chapter Four: The Weight of Flesh and Trust

When hands work side by side, the heart listens.

The boy's scream echoed through the stony corridor like a struck bell.

Baldwin froze mid-sentence, looking up from his desk. The guard at his chamber door turned, startled, before rushing out. A heartbeat later, another voice—a knight's—shouted for a physician.

"Get the woman from Damascus! The king's healer!"

Amira.

Baldwin rose slowly, body protesting, hand throbbing in time with the alarm. He moved without waiting for his attendants, stepping into the hall with an expression that brokered no delay.

By the time he reached the lower courtyard, a crowd had already gathered.

A squire lay sprawled on the stone, his leg mangled grotesquely beneath him. A horse—spooked, now restrained—stood nearby, lathered in sweat. The boy, no older than fourteen, sobbed uncontrollably, his screams fractured into hiccuping gasps. Blood pooled fast.

Amira was already there.

She knelt beside the boy, sleeves rolled high, hands moving quickly but without panic. Her satchel lay open beside her, supplies spilling like a battlefield's spoils—linen, hooks, a small iron saw. The boy thrashed.

"Hold him," she ordered. "Firmly. And do not let him see the leg."

Baldwin stepped forward before the guards could protest. "Has anyone summoned the master surgeon?"

"He'll bleed out before that man finishes praying," Amira replied coolly. "This boy has minutes, not rites."

Her tone was not defiant. Just... certain.

Baldwin knelt beside her, careful not to let his right hand brush anything. "Tell me what you need."

She didn't look surprised. "Boiled water. And strong hands."

He gestured to two knights. "You heard her."

Amira was already cutting away the boot, now soaked through. The smell was thick—iron, torn leather, and something darker, closer to rot. She murmured to the boy, voice low and rhythmic, not words so much as a pattern. A spell of steadiness.

Baldwin watched her. Not the leg, not the blood. Her.

Every movement was measured. Efficient. Kind.

He saw it then—what others might miss. The way she shielded the boy's view with her body, the way she kept her blade hidden until the last second, the way she checked her hand placement twice before making a cut. She had done this before.

Not once. Not as theory. But in war. In fear.

He knew that knowledge. It was not taught. It was earned.

The bone was cleanly broken. She worked fast, commanding the space like a general in a losing battle—focused, relentless, quiet in her power.

Baldwin fetched linen when she asked. He held the jar of wine she used for sterilization. He ignored the stares of the knights. He forgot, for one hour, that he was a king.

When it was done—when the boy's leg was bound and the bleeding slowed—Amira sat back on her heels, face pale, hands shaking just enough for him to notice.

"You've done this before," Baldwin said softly.

She didn't look at him. "I've done worse."

There was silence between them. Not awkward, but full. Honest.

He studied her profile—the curve of her jaw, the slight line between her brows. "You never asked what rank he held."

"He was in pain," she replied. "That was rank enough."

He nodded once, slowly. "Do you know how rare that is?"

Finally, she met his eyes. "Yes. That's why I do it."

That night, Baldwin wrote nothing in his journal. No reflections. No state affairs.

Instead, he sat at the window with the fig tree just visible in the moonlight, and he thought about hands.

Hands that cut. That stitched. That saved.

And how hers had steadied his.

He had trusted few in his short life. But tonight, he found himself thinking: If I must die in this city... let it be with her beside me.

Not because she was beautiful. Not because she was kind.

But because, for the first time in years, he didn't feel pitied.

He felt seen.

[book-ramblings]

2023 IN BOOKS - A LONG POST

What I read last year, divided into a few categories. I didn't in the end feel like writing down all 80-ish books, so this is a selection.

1 Poetry - I'm trying to get into poetry, but I'm not a 'natural' poetry reader.

Aftonland - Pär Lagerkvist

Bluets - Maggie Nelson

Sonnets - William Shakespeare

Night Sky with Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong

If They Come for Us - Fatimah Asghar

Wild Embers - Nikita Gill

The Wild Iris - Louise Glück

Poems - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Howl and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg

Sonnets from the Portuguese - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Blue Horses - Mary Oliver

Love Letters to the World - Meia Geddes

Aún - Pablo Neruda

from Songs of Innocence and Experience - William Blake

Loose Woman - Sandra Cisneros

Bestiary - Donika Kelly

Winter Recipes from the Collective - Louise Glück

Selected Poems - Percy Bysshe Shelley

2 Short Stories and Novellas

Skördad - Anna Jakobsson Lund

The October Country and Other Stories - Ray Bradbury

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories - Ken Liu

Burning Girls and Other Stories - Veronica Schanoes

Galatea - Madeline Miller

Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang

3 For Work

Konsten att undervisa - Filippa Mannerheim

Poesi direkt - Daniel Boyacioglu

4 Comics and Graphic Novels

The Complete Maus - Art Spiegelman

Nimona - N D Stevenson

Sandman vol 5 - Neil Gaiman

5 Rereads

The Fellowship of the Ring - J R R Tolkien

The Two Towers - J R R Tolkien

The Return of the King - J R R Tolkien

The Rook - Daniel O'Malley

Stiletto - Daniel O'Malley

Blitz - Daniel O'Malley

Station Eleven - Emily St John Mandel

The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde

Royal Assassin - Robin Hobb

Assassin's Quest - Robin Hobb

How to Marry a Werewolf - Gail Carriger

6 Favourites

Toll the Hounds - Steven Erikson

Augustus - John Williams

Circe - Madeline Miller

This Is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

The Crippled God - Steven Erikson

The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter - Theodora Goss

Infomocracy - Malka Older

Kushiel's Dart - Jacqueline Carey

+ The Paper Menagerie, Stories of Your Life and most rereads...

7 Other Noteworthy Reads

Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin

Falling Free - Lois McMaster Bujold

Shards of Honor - Lois McMaster Bujold

Barrayar - Lois McMaster Bujold

The Warrior's Apprentice - Lois McMaster Bujold

The Vor Game - Lois McMaster Bujold

Dust of Dreams - Steven Erikson

Women Talking - Miriam Toews

Legends and Lattes - Travis Baldree

Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut

An Inheritance of Magic - Benedict Jacka

The Power Naomi Alderman

Ghost Wall - Sarah Moss

Ice - Anna Kavan

[autumnillustration]

“It’s a powerful thing to be able to whisper in a King’s ear... But it’s even more powerful to have a King want to whisper in yours.”

[omertaorg-blog]

Brianna Archibald - anne winters / diabolik / 04/01

Gregory Dolman - Nick Jonas / Badass / 06/12

Leon Scott - Jamie Dornan / King / 19.04

Carrie Bennet - Nathalia Dill / Naraka / 16.08

Jenna Fawkner - Chiara Ferragni / Amaretto / 30.11

Megan Mackena - Perrie Edwards / Kitty / 21.08

Natalia Hayato - Natalia Barulich / Pistole + 07.06

Bruna Gallagher - Ester Expósito / Brooklyn Nails / 11.11

Louise Quinzel - Margot Robbie / Madam Satan / 14.12

Diana Prince - Gal Gadot / Wonder Bitch / 17.05

Tony Hayato - Maluma / Headshot - 22.04

Illyana Rasputin - Anya Taylor-Joy / Magic / 12.12

August Walker - Henry Cavill / The boss - 28/01

Tohrment Morgenstern - Aaron Taylor-Johnson / King of hell / 18.02

Lauren Baldrick - Marina Ruy Barbosa / Hope / 29/03

Brooke Florence - Grace Elizabeth / Catastrophe / 16.11

Jane Foster - Candice Swanepoel / Goddes of thunder/ 26-11

Mary Stuart-Valois - Adelaide Kane / Insane / 16.07

Jean Grey - Danielle Victoria / Garota Marvel / 10.01

Dianna Agron-Baker - Demi Lovato / Angel face / 18/06

Mats Hummels - Mats Hummels / El patrón / 03.01

Elizabeth Rincón - Jessica Chastain / Phoenix / 16.08

Elizabeth Christeensen - Blanca Suárez / Furiosa / 21.06

Katherine Hawrd - Phoebe Tonkin / Jade / 08/02

Rachel Green - Jennifer Aniston / evil bitch / 30.01

Behati Prinsloo - Behati Prinsloo / Garota Enem / 22/11

Samantha Kane - Lili Reinhart/ Dark Betty / 09.08

Julian Edelman - Julian / Juliano / 25.05.

Renne Fernandes - Tom Ellis / Lúcifer / 02.01

Rimena Elliot  - Danna Paola / Mermaid / 25-09

Sam Hunt - Sam Hunt / Hunter / 21.06

Bella Sanders-Ackles - Josephine Skriver / Queen Bee / 01/02

Sebastian Barnes - Sebastian Stan / Ghost of Sparta / 23/09

Freydis Brandon - Alicia Agneson/ Leona/ 19.07

Howard Stark - Dominic Cooper / $tark / 07.12

Ronnie Gerloff - dulce maria / devil |/ 08.11

Yoshi Kurozaki - Shownu / Godster / 26.02

Jax Teller - Charlie Hunnam/ Men of Mayhem/ 09.12

Katherine Pryde - Barbara Palvin / Dragonfly / 09/08

Harley Quinn - Hailey Baldwin / Vixen / 23.03

Candice Jones - Nina Dobrev / Eletric / 07.06 ****

Jhonny Bravo - Tom Hardy / JB / 10-07

Barbara Gordon - Miriam Leone / Babs / 02.08

Rachel Amber - Claire Holt / Firefingers /18.03

Scarlett Barkov - Ana Luiza Sparrapan / sweet demon / 25/03

Jake Riley- Chris Wood / Falco Colt / 25.07

Christopher Dietrich - Chris Evans / Daddy Shark / 20.05

Manon Crochan - Kiernan Shipka / Satansoul / 08.08 ++ diana reserva harley ++ capo dei capi, att 02/01/2019

[essaer]

//gammalt utkast//

I vad som beskrivs som två brev adresserar Baldwin den amerikanska rasismen utifrån personliga erfarenheter och iakttagelser av de strukturella problemen, inte minst från sin barndoms Harlem. Osentimentala “My Dungeon Shook”, ett brev adresserat till Baldwins femtonåriga brorson, inleder boken:

You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were a worthless human being. You were not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocracy (2017, p. 16).

Det är ett, särskilt välskrivet och rörande men likväl, representativt utdrag ur Baldwins politiska författarskap. En naken men samtidigt levande beskrivning av hur rasismen präglar vardagen; inte främst genom explicita handlingar riktade mot familjen utan snarare genom det självhat som kontinuerligt präglar och formar individerna. Baldwin behandlar, som i flera av hans andra verk, den ilska och det våld som hans egen pappa utövade mot familjen; han beskriver den som en konsekvens av det omänsklig-görandet som åt sig in i pappan, som lyckades vända tron till ett vapen mot resterande familj.

Baldwin beskriver i “Down at the cross” hur de förvalda alternativen som samhällets underordnade föder en överlevnadsinstinkt hos afroamerikanen att överglänsa i något, vad som helst. För honom blev kyrkan och predikstolen räddningen när många av hans vänner valde ��the Avenue”, alkoholen och drogerna. Först i retrospektion inser han hur slumpartad hans egen räddning var.

Rasismen beskrivs hos Baldwin lika mycket som ett psykologiskt som ett politiskt tillstånd. I talande passager beskrivs dock rasismens hinder, som när Baldwin berättar att hans förväntningar på vilka dörrar skolan kunde öppna för honom: "I no longer had any illusions about what an education could do for me; I had already encountered too many college-graduated handymen” (p. 25). Längre fram:

Crime became real, for example - for the first time - not as a possibility but as the possibility (p. 27).

Förlåtelsen, eller kanske snarare försoningen, är något som löper som en ständig undertext. Samtidigt som Baldwin är plågsamt ärlig om hur rasismens USA påverkar svartas framtidsutsikter och självkänsla så vänder han ingen aggressivitet mot den vite, nej han ägnar honom inte mycket tid alls. Han vänder sig till sin brorson och säger:

 The really terrible thing, old buddy, is that you must accept them. And I mean that very seriously. You must accept them and accept them with love. For these innocent people have no other hope (2017, p. 16).

Det påminner mig om bell hooks The Will to Change. Båda texterna är framåtblickande, de ägnar inte tid åt att grotta i vad någon gör fel, utan istället på vilka handlingar som genuint kan föra människor samman och hjälpa oss att leva utan att utsätta andra människor för smärta. Baldwin vänder på narrativet, det blir berättelsen om hur de icke-vitas handling är det avgörande, att enbart de kan visa hur sann acceptans ser ut.

I was icily determined - more determined, really, than I then knew - never to make my peace with the ghetto but to die and go to Hell before I would let any white man spit on me, before I would accept my ‘place’ in this republic. I did not intend to allow the with people of this country to tell me who I was, and limit me that way, and polish me off that way (p. 29).

You know, and I know, that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too soon. We cannot be free until they are free (2017, p. 18)

'God gave Noah the rainbow sign, No more ware, the fire next time!’

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Is it even possible to coach an NFL team worse than the Cardinals’ staff?

Steve Wilks and Mike McCoy are giving the Cardinals no chance to win.

Seven games into the 2018 season, the Arizona Cardinals offense still hasn’t had a single good game.

The only time the Cardinals put more than 17 points on the scoreboard was in a 28-18 win against the 49ers that saw San Francisco turn the ball over five times — including a fumble that was returned for a touchdown. Apparently, that’s the level of self-destruction Arizona needs from an opponent to have a chance at scoring even an average amount of points for an NFL offense.

With 223 yards of total offense in a 45-10 blowout loss to the Denver Broncos on Thursday Night Football, the Cardinals became the first team in 13 years to get seven games into a season without topping 270 yards. The last was the 2005 Houston Texans, a team that finished 2-14 and allowed David Carr to be sacked 68 times on the year. That’s the level of incompetence the Cardinals are on par with.

More amazing is that the Cardinals are doing it in 2018 — a year when NFL defenses can no longer keep up with offenses. The average team is racking up 366 yards per game — well over the 334.1-yard average of 2017 — while the Cardinals are barely cracking 200.

If the Chiefs and Rams offenses are playing chess, the rest of the NFL is playing checkers, and the Cardinals are in the corner chewing on the game pieces.

There’s a lot of reasons why the Cardinals are arguably the NFL’s worst dumpster fire in 2018, but it all starts with a coaching staff, led by Steve Wilks, that isn’t doing anything right.

David Johnson has been relegated into a useless plodder

Two years ago, Johnson had 1,239 rushing yards, 879 receiving yards, and 20 total touchdowns during a season that earned him All-Pro accolades. To put that in perspective, Rams running back Todd Gurley earned NFL Offensive Player of the Year honors last year with 19 touchdowns and 2,093 yards from scrimmage — numbers that led the league but were shy of Johnson’s in 2016.

Somehow, Cardinals offensive coordinator Mike McCoy has managed to take a premier talent and get absolutely nothing out of him. Johnson has gone from one of the NFL’s most dangerous offensive weapons into a running back who bashes his head against a wall 15 to 20 times per game with little to show for it.

Johnson is averaging 3.17 yards per carry and it’s because the only way the Cardinals can think to get him involved is to run straight up the middle over and over and over.

the arizona cardinals are 28th in total rush attempts yet rank first in rush att right up the middle pic.twitter.com/rLj6t5Ch2Z

— Danny Kelly (@DannyBKelly) October 15, 2018

I blended all of David Johnson's #NextGenStats run charts together. The VAST majority of his runs are between the tackles. Absolutely baffling play calling for a RB with speed. For comparison, I added Melvin Gordon's carry chart from WK6 #Cardinals pic.twitter.com/SwYtw4dZnc

— James Koh (@JamesDKoh) October 18, 2018

This is a crime against football and probably a death sentence for many fantasy teams.

Johnson began his NFL career returning kicks in addition to a few offensive snaps because his blend of size, speed, and explosiveness make him a nightmare to bring down in the open field. The Cardinals have managed to make sure he never sees space at all.

When it’s time for Johnson to run absolutely everyone in the stadium knows it’s coming:

Meanwhile Arizona opens the game with a run into an 8 man box for no gain pic.twitter.com/jtqWSe78yx

— Ben Baldwin (@benbbaldwin) October 19, 2018

Running into a NINE MAN BOX down 21-3 this is incredible pic.twitter.com/NIYyDQ3tM5

— Ben Baldwin (@benbbaldwin) October 19, 2018

The staggering lack of creativity includes never lining up Johnson at receiver, because — again — the Cardinals coaches seem to determined not to give their star playmaker space to work with.

David Johnson's usage as a receiver has somehow gotten worse. Per @NextGenStats, Arizona has split DJ out as a receiver (or in the slot) on just 3.5% of his routes this season. Pitiful. Was 20% in 2016.

— Graham Barfield (@GrahamBarfield) October 15, 2018

Against the Broncos, Johnson had 14 carries for 39 yards and three receptions for 31 yards. Unfortunately, that’s now a normal game for a player who used to average 132.4 yards per game.

The defense is a coaching disaster too

Earlier this year, our own Alex Rubenstein pointed out that the Cardinals never break out of nickel defense. Never ever.

In a 34-0 loss to the Rams in Week 2, the Cardinals had five defensive backs — Patrick Peterson, Jamar Taylor, Budda Baker, Antoine Bethea, and Tre Boston — on the field for all 72 defensive snaps. Not even on a fourth-and-goal from the 1-yard line did the Cardinals think ‘Hmm ... an extra defensive lineman instead of another 200-pound DB would probably be a good idea here.’

While it hasn’t quite been five defensive backs playing 100 percent of the snaps in every game since that Week 2 blowout, the problem hasn’t gone away. The Cardinals still stubbornly refuse to have any more than six defensive lineman and linebackers on the field.

The only way around it is if you consider Budda Baker — a safety who spends most of his time close to the line of scrimmage — more linebacker than safety. The Cardinals have been believers in the “moneybacker” position, but there’s an obvious drawback that comes with having a 5’11, 195-pound linebacker.

It shouldn’t be surprising then that no team has allowed more rushing yards or rushing touchdowns than the Cardinals. While no other team in the NFL has given up 10 touchdowns on the ground, Arizona is now up to 12 after the Broncos’ Philip Lindsay and Royce Freeman each got in the end zone Thursday.

Nickel defense is the new norm in the NFL, but the Cardinals continue to stubbornly show on a weekly basis why it can’t be a team’s only defense.

Are the Cardinals trying to ruin Josh Rosen?

Rosen’s NFL career began with less than five minutes to go in a game against the Bears with the Cardinals trailing 16-14. Despite having Rosen watch the first 55 minutes of the game from the sideline, Steve Wilks decided it was up to the rookie to save the day.

On Rosen’s eight dropbacks that night, he completed four passes for 37 yards, he was intercepted to kill one drive, and he was sacked to end the game. With Khalil Mack on the opposing defense, Wilks thought that was the perfect time to give his rookie his first action.

Rosen’s most recent NFL play ended with him limping off the field after he was sacked for a sixth time by the Broncos. That happened when the Cardinals had the rookie drop back to pass on a fourth-and-16 play with less than two minutes left in a 45-10 game. WHY?!

Behind an offensive line that struggled all night, the Cardinals saw fit to get Rosen hit just one more time for no good reason before calling it a night.

“Hindsight, when we sit and look back at it, should he have been out? Probably so, but you say that now when a situation happens,” Wilks said after the game.

No, coach, that’s the problem. The possibility of the situation happening is why he should’ve been out. Punt the ball. Run the ball. Send in Mike Glennon. Do anything other than drop back Rosen into pressure yet again.

Luckily for the Cardinals, Rosen said it was just a minor toe problem that isn’t going to be an issue.

But a few games into his NFL career, Rosen is playing behind an offensive line that’s doing him no favors, and throwing passes to receivers who aren’t helping much either. It was a bad night for Rosen who put the ball in the hands of the defense way too often, but the biggest problem for Cardinals is a coaching staff that’s giving the team no chance to win.

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Alec Baldwin Compares Dylan Farrow to Fictional False Rape Accuser

In a tweet that has since faced online backlash, Alec Baldwin attacked Woody Allen’s adopted daughter Dylan Farrow on Sunday, who alleges the director repeatedly sexually assaulted her as a child. And in a particularly tone-deaf decision, Baldwin compared Farrow to Mayella Ewell from To Kill a Mockingbird, one of western literature’s most notorious false rape accusers.

In To Kill a Mockingbird, Mayella attempts to initiate an affair with a Black man named Tom Robinson, and when he refuses her advances, Mayella and her father lie in court and claim Robinson attempted to rape her. Baldwin, disregarding the racial connotations that flow throughout To Kill a Mockingbird, decided to use Mayella as a convenient comparison to Farrow, who he said portrays an “arsenal” of “persistence of emotion” in publicly condemning Allen.

“Like Mayella in , her tears/exhortations r meant 2 shame u in2 belief in her story,” Baldwin tweeted. “But I need more than that before I destroy some1, regardless of their fame. I need a lot more.”

1 of the most effective things Dylan Farrow has in her arsenal is the “persistence of emotion.” Like Mayella in TKAM, her tears/exhortations r meant 2 shame u in2 belief in her story. But I need more than that before I destroy some1, regardless of their fame. I need a lot more.

— ABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) January 28, 2018

To say that @RealDylanFarrow is telling the truth is to say that @MosesFarrow is lying. Which of Mia’s kids got the honesty gene and which did not?https://t.co/vpPhe5VFcG

— ABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) January 28, 2018

Dylan Farrow proceeded to respond to Baldwin with a statement to the Hollywood Reporter, arguing that Baldwin’s comments disregard the book’s larger social context and prove the actor “is just not a stickler for details.”

“It’s interesting that Mr. Baldwin chooses to dismiss the judgments of Justice Wilk and Prosecutor Frank Maco, who reviewed ALL of the evidence instead of just selected bits and pieces,” Farrow said to the Reporter, referencing a lengthy court battle that ended with Judge Wilk calling Allen’s behavior “grossly inappropriate.” “However, considering that Mr. Baldwin confidently invoked Mayella Ewell to make his point while forgetting that it’s been hotly debated that she was, in fact, raped by her father, demonstrates that perhaps Baldwin is just not a stickler for details.”

Baldwin’s statements have since gone viral on Twitter, with many women criticizing the actor for attacking Farrow.

Like what exactly? It’s not like there is a video. You are just choosing to believe one person with no proof of innocence over one person with no proof of guilt.

— Fiona McKenney (@1peculiarchik) January 28, 2018

That’s very problematic Alec. Is the absence of tears and emotions more believable then? Because women get shamed for that too. I believe Dylan because why would she lie? For so long? With nothing to gain?

— Melissa J (@ChipRockets) January 28, 2018

You don’t see a pattern? He married the 21 yr old daughter of his girlfriend, Who was raised in his home with her siblings, after having an affair w her. He was messing around w/ his children’s sister. You don’t see how this is akin 2 what he’s being accused of by his daughter?

— Carole Turner (@CaroleTurner) January 28, 2018

After facing such a negative backlash, Baldwin has since responded.

If my defense of Woody Allen offends you, it’s real simple. Unfollow. Condemn. Move on.

— ABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) January 28, 2018

2 assume that I or any1 wants 2 prolong or diminish the suffering of another by denying their truth is a mistake. But that cuts both ways. I hope that every perpetrator of sexual assault is caught and punished. No exceptions. And that innocent ppl are left alone. Having said that

— ABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) January 29, 2018

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In the wake of #MeToo, Allen’s alleged sexual abuse has reached the public spotlight in full force, with renewed attention brought to his treatment of women. Despite years of soft coverage from the entertainment industry on Allen and his career, the internet has found itself disgusted with A Rainy Day in New York’s look at statutory rape, and star Timothée Chalamet has vowed to donate his salary from the film to Time’s Up. Speculation has since emerged that the film may never be released, either, in light of renewed interest in the allegations.

H/T Vanity Fair

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V75 Solvalla 26 maj: Breidabliks Cognac fräck chansspik

Elitloppshelgen är unik med trav i världsklass i strålande väder och med ett folkhav på läktarplats.

Och, så V75 med jackpot med chans att vinna riktigt mycket pengar – inte som senast när jag satte sjuan på Gävle-travet ...

Exakt 1097 kronor gav sju rätt, 22 för sex och för femmorna fick varken du eller jag något – utan de miljonerna ligger nu i 7-rättspotten när Solvalla bjuder upp till V75-finaler och Harper Hanovers lopp.

Jag kommer, som vanligt, att vara expertkommentator åt radiosporten, en bisittare till den mångordige, vältalande och snabbpratande Christian Olsson.

Ja, bara det är en fantastisk upplevelse denna helg.

Tre singelstreck på lilla

På mitt något mindre V75-system inleder jag med tre singelstreck. Disco Volante och Double Exposure blir klara favoriter, men Breidabliks Cognac är en fräck chansning i en öppen Klass II-final.

Conrads Lugauers talang kommer inte att bli favorit, men det kan bli första V75-vinsten i den sjunde starten i karriären. Ja, jag tror mycket på den här Andover Hall-sonen.

Jag tycker att jag har väl täckt i avdelning tre till och med sju om jag ser på det stora systemet, så nyckeln till en ny sjua ligger alltså i Lugauers händer.

Skräller det i Harper Hanovers lopp?

Och, om det ska bli mer pengar än senast måste det till några överraskningar och därför har jag garderat rejält i Harper Hanovers lopp där Carat Williams och Call Me Keeper hör till favoritduon.

Någon av hästarna från start får gärna vinna. Tesio och Platon Face har hyggliga chanser och Wasa Thunder är ett rikigt lång- skott men finska hästar har skrällt förr i Harpers.

Propulsion min Elitlopps-vinnare

I söndagens två heat i Elitloppet tror jag att Bold Eagle vinner sitt och Ringostarr Treb det andra före Propulsion.

I finalen är min vinnare Propulsion, dels för att han gynnas av två heat, dels för att Örjan Kihlström är en mästare i sulkyn.

Jag kommer givetvis att bjuda på V75-tips även till söndagen tävlingar, där Bold Eagle spikas i sitt försök men Propulsion rankas “bara” tvåa i sitt – och hur jag tänkt där kan ni läsa om efter lördagens V75-tävlingar.

Och, kom ihåg att det är V75-start 14.30 både på lördag och söndag. Och, V75-tävlingarna kommer att sändas i TV4 bara så ni vet – om ni nu inte väljer att ta er ut till Solvalla för att se tävlingarna live.

Är med i Guiden-striden

Jag har fortfarande möjlighet att vinna kampen i Guidens V75-tipstävling mot Svante Båth, Carl-Johan Jepson och Ulf Stenströmer tack vare att jag satte “sjuan” senast. Men, det krävs nog att det blir en fullträff under lördag eller söndag för att jag ska ha chans att ta hem etappen och gå vidare till finalen.

Men, en skön seger tog jag för övrigt i tisdags på Jägersro med Quiz Töll, en charmig och mycket bestämt 5-årigt sto som ägs av en stor skara traventusiaster. Hon ska nu ut i en final i Oslo lördagen den 9 juni och jag hoppas också att vi kan matcha Quiz Töll i V75. Hon vann ju ett V75-lopp i fjol, så kapacitet finns så det räcker.

Vinsten i tisdags gav 50.000 kronor. I finalen i Oslo får vinnaren 100.000 norska kronor. Spännande.

Och, ni som funderar på att gå samman och köpa en travare får gärna höra av er till mig. Det här med att deläga en häst som Quiz Töll är en riktigt kick. Ekonomiskt är det hel okey, känslomässigt är det en höjdare.

I övrigt; värmen som tagit ett stadigt grepp om oss i Sverige känns helt välförtjänt efter vintern som varit.

Mina tankar om V75 lördag

V75-1: 1 Disco Volante är tillräckligt snabb ut för att spetsa eller att tidigt komma ut i andra spår – och Stefan Melanders 5-åring känns som omgångens i särklass bästa spikförslag.

V75-2: 6 Bredidabliks Cognac är däremot en riktigt chansspik. Jag gillar Conrad Lugauers 4-åring, en talang utöver det vanliga. Han är stark och visade senast att barfota-balans är ett klart plus. Visst är Stefan Melanders duo 4 Digital Performer och 7 Output Pressure tuffa motståndare, men jag sticker ut hakan.

V75-3: 4 Double Exposure är kraftigt på gång och hennes avslut senast som trea i det Guld-race som Nadal Broline vann var av bästa märke. Hon spikas på lilla systemet men på det stora är 2 Ultra Bright och 6 Peace of Mind givna. Italienskan har inte haft fritt i flera lopp på slutet, lopp som vunnits av Call Me Keeper respektive Pastore Bob och Peace of Mind har då varit tvåa i mål.

V75-4: 5 Rose Mary är draget i detta öppna lopp. Spår fem kan ge problem och motståndet är tufft, så jag streckar en sextett. 9 Hope and Dreams är matchad för detta lopp och hon ska tävla barfota, med helstängt huvudlag och med jänkarvagn. Jag kan tänka mig att Ulf Ohlsson kör offensivt. Rysaren är 10 Kashmary Night med Björn Goop.

V75-5: 1 Michelangelo Ås får vinnartipset, dels för att han varit riktigt bra i ny regi, dels för att han har goda möjligheter att hålla upp ledningen från innerspåret. 7 Coktail Fortuna är en tuff utmanare, en häst som verkligen högpresterar med barfotabalans. 2 Springover har gjort sig förtjänt av en V75-finalseger och 4 Trinity Lux är i kanonslag.

V75-6: 10 Bandit Brick är matchad för detta och ska nu tävla barfota runt om. Läste någonstans om jänkarvagn men Steen Juul har väl ingen sådan. Fem streck där 5 Floris Baldwin är rysaren.                      

V75-7: 13 Carat Williams kommer att bli hårt betrodd och visst är det bästa hästen, men jag streckar en sextett i hopp om en skräll. Nu är det dock risk, sett ur mitt lir, att Bold Eagles stallkamrat helt enkelt är för tuff. Han har ju tävlat mot de bästa franska hästarna och frågan är vad han blivit utan galoppen i Prix d´Amerique. Och, han har slagit Call Me Keeper, så det här loppet ska verkligen bli spännande att se.

Mitt V75-förslag

V75-1: 7 Disco Volante. Res: 4-9.

V75-2: 6 Breidabliks Cognac. Res: 4-7.

V75-3: 2, 4, 6. Res: 8-10.

V75-4: 2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10. Res: 1-15.

V75-5: 1, 2, 4, 7. Res: 12-8.

V75-6: 3, 5, 6, 10, 11. Res: 1-2.

V75-7: 2, 3, 5, 11, 12, 13. Res: 9-10.

Systemet är på 2160 rader och kostar 1080 kronor. Om man också singelstreckar nr 4 Double Exposure i avdelning 3 blir det systemet på 720 rader och det kostar då 360 kronor.

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Baldwin: You’re displeased, I’m sorry.

Atefeh: Remind me to cut down on the amount of opiate I put in your nightly tonic.

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Southern View Media Owners, Brad and Michelle Murrill

We feel like posing a fun challenge for the owners of Southern View Media, Michelle and Brad Murrill. We want to get to know them, Twitter-style. As owners of a multimedia marketing and design agency in Daphne, Alabama - they know all about communication. Now let’s see how well they can communicate in 140 characters or less!

 Tell us about your personal/professional background.

Michelle: Started a website in Charleston, SC called MomsofCharleston.com and got bought out, Worked for ATT/YP Marketing Solutions, then Started SVM

Brad: Ran a glass business, then ran a commercial AC company in Charleston, then broke a bone in my back, spent 5 years learning all things Google

How did Southern View Media come about?

Michelle: To offer solid marketing solutions to businesses. There is too much red tape in large companies. We knew we could offer a better option.

Brad: We knew we wanted to help local businesses in Mobile and Baldwin County in the digital field as soon as we moved back from Charleston.

What is your role in Southern View Media?

Michelle: SEO guru, Business Development, Social Media Marketer, Shoulder to Cry on, Manager, Blog Writer, Fish Feeder

Brad: Videographer, Video Editor, AdWords Certified, Google Expert, Bookkeeper, Janitor, Plant Waterer, IT, Actual Fish Feeder

What are you passionate about?

Michelle: Green Sauce from Moe’s Southwest Grill, traveling with my family, gymnastics, and seeing other businesses succeed.

Brad: White BBQ sauce from Moe’s BBQ, electronics, technology, Google Stuff, baseball, college Football (Roll Tide), and traveling with my family.

Coolest project you’re working on at the moment?

Michelle: I am most excited about the non-profit project we are developing, called “Non-profits of Mobile.” It is still in process.

Brad: I can’t pick a favorite. I love all the client projects I have. That is like asking me to pick my favorite kid. It can’t be done.

What are some of your pet peeves (personal or professional)?

Michelle: I cannot stand the sound of someone chewing. I also don’t like excuses. Just accept responsibility and move on.

Brad: I cannot stand a mess. Ask Michelle when the last time she did dishes or laundry was? I think she’s proud of her record.

Michelle: It's true, I don’t do chores often. I am the organizer, not the picker-upper. It’s been like 6 years since I have done laundry.

Brad: I love when she tells people that. I have declined 7 marriage proposals due to this statement.

Any secret talents or skills?

Michelle: Secret, probably not: But I can still do a backflip and I know how to do silks (Those things people climb in the circus)

Brad: I can recite almost any rap song lyric. I have an excellent memory. I can build almost anything.

Michelle: Brad would be an amazing standup comedian as well. Not to mention he can rewrite the words to any song to make it funnier.

Brad: Since we are calling each other out, Michelle can hold a handstand for over a minute, even after having a few drinks.

Where did your logo come from?

Michelle: Seahorses are monogamous and the father carries the babies. Brad is the main caretaker of kids, so the seahorse was the perfect fit for us.

Brad: We even have a salt water fish tank in the office.

 Job well done, Brad and Michelle! We hope to hear more about Southern View Media in hilarious tweet-style interviews soon. Until then, we’re done and out! #peace ✌️

 Check us out and see how we can help with your business’s digital presence. Visit www.southernviewmedia.com. We are a Google Trusted Agency and will be happy to answer your questions. For a free consultation to formulate a strategic and affordable plan, call us today at 251-583-2605.

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28 arrested in Los Angeles for entering freeway, students walk out in San Francisco, About 40 fires burned during protests in Oakland, California (CNN)For many Americans across the country, Donald Trump's victory is an outcome they simply refuse to accept. "Not my president," protesters chanted in rallies coast to coast. Tens of thousands filled the streets in at least 25 US cities overnight -- with demonstrations outside Trump's properties. Rosie Perez:"Donald Trump is a New Yorker and yet he has spread a message across this country". Robert De Niro: reading a tweet he thinks Trump will write "DeNiro should give back his Oscars, 'voting was rigged', there is only one Raging Bull and that's Vladimir Putin". Mayor Wilhelm-DeBlasio: " Tomorrow Donald Trump will have power; but tomorrow, you will have power as well","Donald Trump may control the agenda in Washington, but we control our destiny". Michael Moore: Pleading for Americans to join his '100 days of Receiving Movement,"I like to think positively that it will only take 100 days". Alex Baldwin:"Donald Trump and Steve Bannon and Mike Pence, they think that you are going to lay down, they don't realize New Yorkers never lay down". Bill Peek: I hope this lets the world know people are horrified, this isn't a movement just for the left, any mainstream person with common sense should be opposed to what is coming". ATT-TACTICAL: "This is all Leftist Bull Shit. They want burning tires at street corners, they want Water Cannons, they want CN/CS grenades thrown, they want Bats & Hats to march on their protests, they want Marshal Law imposed. The more extreme the damage, the injuries, the deaths, the destruction, the faster our Gen-Pop will turn on the Trump Administration. These miscreants want the conflict, they want to be hurt, they want the Legacy Leftist Press to showcase to what ends they are willing to go to convince Americans that Socialism is the only path. America be fearful fore they will attack you, blind-side you, injure you, murder you to achieve this goal. We are witnessing European style Social Democrat's willing to kill you to acheiving their goals". (at Att Tactical)

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Atefeh and Baldwin own my heart at the moment, don’t mind me.

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“Hey, Handsome.”

*sigh* “Hello, Atte.”

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WUT? Wait, this can't be right, can it? Alex Baldwin, Meryl Streep, Lena Dunham & everyone who voted for Hillary, all swear he's a "Nazi" who's Buddy-Buddy with a Russian. (at Att Tactical)