#Frank Boggs

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Frank Boggs - Les toits de Rouen (1890)

[womblegrinch]

Frank Myers Boggs (1855-1926) - A river in moonlight

Oil on canvas. 13 x 15.75 inches, 33 x 40 cm.

Estimate: €1,000-1,500.

Sold Dorotheum, Vienna, 12 Dec 2023 for €1,950 incl B.P.

Dorotheum catalogued this painting as being by Frank William Boggs (1900-1951). FWB would sign his paintings 'Frank-Will' to differentiate them from those of his father Frank Myers Boggs - so I've changed it. I'm sure the people who were shown to be watching this artwork on the lot-page were well aware of it also.

[unjouruntableau]

Frank Boggs, Place Duquesne, Dieppe, nd.

[charliework16]

it’s the weekend

[green-light-kid]

“People around here like peace, but when it comes to justice, they’d rather someone else take care of it.”

VOYAGERS! “Bully and Billy”

[a-a-a-anon]

absolutely fascinated by young dee who is criminally under-discussed so here is my dissertation on what happened in her college years (ft. dr. gainer, setting her roommate on fire, being institutionalized)/my idea for a fic that I will almost certainly never write/my way too serious take on a few throwaway dee lore lines

timeline background: we know that dee majored in psychology ('charlie got molested') and got "three fourths" of the way in (meanwhile dennis finished his psych minor.) assuming this was a four year program, I'm gonna guess that in her third year she got institutionalized and most likely had to drop out ('gun fever too: still hot'.) we also know that she had her back brace until she was twenty ('underage drinking'), so I'm guessing that means she got her back brace off in her third year.

we know that dennis fancied himself a psychologist since he was young, but I think dee did too. in particular I think she was wary and interested in her brother's psychology; she seems very aware of his psychopathy and bpd in 'making dennis reynolds a murderer' and 'psycho pete returns.' in my head she's been interested in dennis' psychology since they were kids and she saw him snapping crows necks. so instead of forcing her way into acting school, she studied psychology to better understand her brother (and also deep down, herself, who is very much the other side of the same fucked up coin.) it also meant she could tell herself she could study her characters even better when she became an actress.

i think she put in (her version of) genuine academic effort to get in, fuelled kind of by spite (remember the way she studied that thick medical book in 'hero or hate crime' or her very quick math in 'boggs: ladies reboot'). she studies books and gets cricket to quiz her and she still fails to get into penn. but frank always pitied her (i think she was his favorite of the twins-remember "let your sister into the gang", "that's my girl!", "i'm sorry the grift didn't work out, sweetie") so he shells out cash to get her in, but also to get her away from home so he has to deal with her even less.

dennis wants to do anything dee does but better and he wants to keep her close by (to watch her crash and burn, and also because he's weirdly possessive-see 'the gang broke dee' "i'm your select!"). and obviously he's barbara's favorite. so barbara gives him money to get in too. she also gets him into a frat and pays for his classes and his rent and everything he needs. dee has to live in a dumpy dorm with a female roommate.

but college presents dee a chance to moult her previous place in life where she was known as a monster (remember how insistent she was that "people can change!" in 'franks pretty woman'. I think dees always wanted to believe she can shed that feeling she's inferior, but she never has). in my head her female roommate is basically normal-has real friends of her own, mentally stable, attractive-which is exactly what dee craves. dee wants to be popular and well liked and she wants to infiltrate her roommates life, imitate her, be in the Cool group. and she places all her hopes on a friendship with the roommate but dee has never navigated real female friendships before, not with someone like her. deep down she also wishes she found what dennis found in mac, whatever it was, because ever since dennis met mac he's never been as close to her. and i do think dee is some flavor of queer. and the roommate is well liked in the way that dee admires and envies. so there is that blurriness between wanting to be her and wanting to be with her. in my head her roommate looks like the woman from dee's fantasy in 'the gang saves the day' (and they both represent that promise of escape from dee's shitty life).

dee is so desperate for the roommates approval and her love and her life that she goes insane, copying and flattering and competing with her. ever the shitty actress, she tries to emulate her, but comes off as manic and creepy. and maybe her roommate is nice enough to not completely shun her, recognizing that she's struggling. maybe in dees mind they actually are becoming friends when her roommate asks things like "are you okay?"

and dee has to talk about her plan with dennis because he's the only person who would Get It. and she makes it sound like it's almost working. dennis feels jealous and worried and threatened that maybe dee might actually be seen as normal, especially when she gets her back brace off in the third year. so dennis fucks her roommate, more of a show that he owns and controls each and every pathetic part of dee’s life than anything else. and so that dee knows she'll never be as good as him, she'll never as easily charm people as dennis does. (or at least he tells her he does).

to prove that To Someone dee is Good Enough, and so desperate for attention, dee (who's been groomed all this time) enters a sexual relationship with her professor dr. gainer. she tells herself she has the power in it, that she seduced him ("he didn't molest me. i had sex with him 'cause i wanted to.") and she has a mental break, because the thing she told herself held her back from being loved (her back brace) is finally gone by now and yet she still feels like a monster, and the only scrap of "love" she can get is from her professor.

and then she can't take the fact that she can steal her roommates clothes, can emulate her sexual prowess (in dee's own fucked up, delusional way), and still neither be well liked like her nor be loved by her. so maybe dee will always be a monster. so dee tried to burn her roommate in her bed, because she represented the promise of change and popularity, and that promise was a lie and dee's effort was for nothing. and she's institutionalized.

and i think there was kind of a falling out between the twins and their parents, because barbara wants to abandon dee but dennis can't help but visit her. and frank doesn't even step foot in a place that reminds him of his traumatic childhood, and avoids dee even more than he used to because she is his childhood mirror image. so the family becomes even more fractured and estranged.

and maybe dee becomes medicated and slowly crawls her way halfway to normal by the first season (her acting classes are so well-adjusted, taking part in healthy hobbies of her!). until her father comes back into her life and everything falls apart <3

side note, even though dee is crushingly lonely-"I just got a cat 'cause I wanted something to hang out with. I don't have, you know, a roommate or anything, and I don't really have anyone to talk to..."-AND she struggles to pay rent whenever frank cuts her off, i hc that she refused to ever get a roommate in particular female roommate again after this because both her internalized misogyny got worse and she was afraid of what would happen (what she would do) again.

[twinkdemise]

the macdennis of beats boggs is quite bizarre. the conversation where dennis and frank make a bet about dennis "banging someone on this plane" and the very next shot being mac just appearing out of nowhere. dennis biting his lip almost a la franks back in business/i want you to get off with me and looking at mac like that in the very same scene why would he do that what is wrong with him. mac most likely watching dennis have sex with lizzy in the aircraft storage room thing. the part in the script where "midway through [dennis] turns and locks eyes with mac as though he knew he was there all along". the wait wait wait dennis don't go. and dennis genuinely looking like he expected mac to say something meaningful and then standing there completely blank as mac writes the number on his forehead instead.

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Frank Myers Boggs (American, 1855-1926) - The Seine at Paris

[what-r-you-looking-at-dicknose]

Something I really want sunny to touch on again

Is the fact that Dennis literally has a son??? That was conceived when he got off the flight in Maryland in the gang beats boggs?

That he literally left to go back to parent and then suddenly returned from it and never spoke about it again? The son he left behind? They gave Dennis this huge plot point and then never touched on it again since he came back, Why don't we ever hear conversations about him paying child support or realizing it's Brian Jr's birthday, or visiting or anything like that.

I need an episode of Dennis feeling remorse for abandoning his child and not being better than Frank, or a reunited episode. He so clearly loved his son and did not want to let him go So why have they not reunited yet? Brian Jr would probably be around ages 5-7 now, does he just not keep up with any of it? Rcg I need answers pleaseee. I'm sure it was most likely just a way to give Glenn an excuse to hop off of the show for a while and work on his other projects, But if it's something as big as that it shouldn't just be ignored for the rest of the show. Thank u for listening to my dumb sick rant.

[murder-ballad-ballot]

round 3, match 1: pretty polly vs long lankin

examples & descriptions

pretty polly

"poor pretty polly... no one told her to beware of guys named willie in a bluegrass song...."

"they went a few steps farther and what did she spy, but a new-dug grave and a spade lying by"

ralph stanely & patty loveless, vandaveer, dock boggs, pete seeger

long lankin

(alternate titles: cruel lincoln, bo lamkin)

"cautionary ballad of Always Pay Your Contractor otherwise he'll murder your wife and infant child in recompense"

"pay your mason or they’ll kill your family"

alasdair roberts, shirley collins, frank proffitt

[cutemeat]

the parallel between Dee doing math in her head in Boggs Reboot and Frank doing it in Inflates is NOT lost on me.....

[absolutely-not-my-main-blog]

Okay Celebrity Booze ep plane imagery and summary saying the gang takes to the skies + official sunny twt posting bloopers about gay sex for the ep + when they were last on a plane in The Gang Beats Boggs, Dennis and Frank were betting about who would be first to join the mile high club = it’s Mac’s turn to join the mile high club (with celebrity guest? with ryan or gritty? with Dennis?? or perhaps it’s vic vinegar and hugh honey’s turn?)

[green-light-kid]

voyagers! as textposts (5/?)

[pwlanier]

Frank BOGGS 1855-1928 PARIS, LA SEINE, NOTRE DAME,

LE QUAI VOLTAIRE AND THE INSTITUTE

Oil on canvas signed lower left

Interencheres

[zaphffayrkunialofphinsfable]

my fictional band JFKFC's biggest influences

(they are ranked from biggest to smallest but the ones at the bottom are still very important)

Bob Dylan

The Beatles

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Aretha Franklin

Chuck Berry

Buddy Holly

Elvis Presley

Led Zeppelin

Carl Perkins

Little Richard

Fats Domino

Gene Vincent

Lonnie Donegan

Phil Spector

Ravi Shankar

Roy Orbison

The Isley Brothers

The Everly Brothers

Arthur Alexander

Eddie Cochran

Smokey Robinson

Larry Williams

The Shirelles

The Supremes

Little Willie John

The Marvelettes

The Shadows

Bill Haley

Buck Owens

Jerry Lee Lewis

Johnny Kidd & The Pirates

Bo Diddley

The Band

King Curtis

Carole King

Slim Whitman

Billie Holiday

Clara Ward

Dinah Washington

Mahalia Jackson

Ruth Brown

Sam Cooke

Sarah Vaughan

Big Maybelle

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Willie Mae Ford Smith

Wynona Carr

Bessie Smith

Dorothy Love Coates

Ella Fitzgerald

Esther Phillips

James Cleveland

Johnny Ace

LaVern Baker

Ma Rainey

Nat King Cole

Nina Simone

Arizona Dranes

Blind Lemon Jefferson

Dave Van Ronk

Hank Williams

Rev. Gary Davis

Woody Guthrie

Allen Ginsberg

Bill Monroe

Blind Willie McTell

Cisco Houston

Hary Smith

Jimmie Rodgers

Leadbelly

Johnny Cash

Little Richard

Mississippi John Hurt

Odessa

Pete Seeger

Ramblin’ Jack Elliott

Bascom Lamar Lunsford

Clarence Ashley

Dock Boggs

Jesse Fuller

Robert Johnson

John Jacob Niles

Lefty Frizzell

The Carter Family

Victoria Spivey

Alan Lomax

Doc Primus

Doc Watson

Mississippi Sheiks

The Weavers

Roscoe Holcomb

George Gershwin

Percy Mayfield

Blind Boy Fuller

Josephine Baker

Frank Hutchison

Ewan MacColl

Billy Lee Riley

B.B. King

John Coltrane

The Yardbirds

Little Richard

Howlin’ Wolf

Muddy Waters

Cream

T-Bone Walker

The Impressions

Buddy Guy

Elmore James

Freddie King

Hubert Sumlin

Little Walter

Jimmy Reed

Lonnie Mack

Albert Collins

Bobby Womack

Curtis Mayfield

Earl Hooker

Esquerita

Johnny “Guitar” Watson

Ike Turner

Charley Patton

James Brown

Johnny Jenkins

Randy Hansen

Charlie Christian

Moby Grape

Fairport Convention

Otis Rush

Sonny Boy Williamson II

Willie Dixon

Anne Briggs

Bert Jansch

John Renbourn

The Creation

The Rolling Stones

Blind Willie Johnson

Davy Graham

Fleetwood Mac

James Cotton

Johnny Burnette

Memphis Minnie

Small Faces

Jake Holmes

Spirit

Tim Rose

Vanilla Fudge