#George McCorkle

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The Marshall Tucker Band A New Life 1974 Capricorn ————————————————— Tracks: 1. A New Life 2. Southern Woman 3. Blue Ridge Mountain Sky 4. Too Stubborn 5. Another Cruel Love 6. You Ain’t Foolin’ Me 7. 24 Hours at a Time 8. Fly Eagle Fly —————————————————

Tommy Caldwell

Toy Caldwell

Jerry Eubanks

Doug Gray

Paul Hornsby

George McCorkle

Paul Riddle

* Long Live Rock Archive

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"Kim Possible" Is A Fun Comedy and Action-Adventure

What if an ordinary high school girl saves the world on a daily basis, but is more afraid of her life as a teenager than any villains plotting to take over the world? Kim Possible answers that question in this well-regarded comedy-adventure series.

Reprinted from The Geekiary, my History Hermann WordPress blog, and Wayback Machine. This was the thirty-second article I wrote for The Geekiary. This post was originally published on March 6, 2022.

Kim Possible is an all-ages animated comedy, action, and adventure series created by Bob Schooley and Mark McCorkle. It ran for 87 episodes across four seasons, with episodes ranging in length from 11 to 22 minutes. Even though Kim Possible aired from 2002 to 2007, and many shows have come and gone since then, it shines in its own way.

As a warning, this recommendation discusses some spoilers for Kim Possible.

Kim faces off against Shego

Kim Possible centers on its titular hero (voiced by Christy Carlson Romano), a high school student who fights crime and saves the world at the same time. In fact, she finds being a teen even tougher than fighting villains like Dr. Drakken (voiced by John DiMaggio) and Shego (voiced by Nicole Sullivan). Kim is helped by her childhood friend, Ron Stoppable (voiced by Will Friedle), his naked mole rat, Rufus (voiced by Nancy Cartwright), and a computer genius named Wade Load (voiced by Tahj Mowry).

The story is mainly told from Kim's perspective, as she tries to balance her life as a crime fighter and a teenager in high school. Major supporting characters include Kim's parents, James (voiced by Gary Cole) and Ann Possible (voiced by Jean Smart), and the "tweebs" as Kim dubs them, Jim (voiced by Shaun Fleming) and Tim (Spencer Fox), who are Kim's younger brothers. Her brothers are a little like Phineas and Ferb, and have a bigger role in helping Kim and her friends in the show's fourth season.

Throughout Kim Possible, Kim faces off against Bonnie Rockwaller (voiced by Kirsten Storms), who is equivalent to Mandy in Totally Spies!. She is a rival classmate that is inconsiderate and is the complete opposite of Kim.

Kim is also helped by one of her best friends, Monique (voiced by Raven-Symoné), who helps her achieve a healthy work-life balance. In the fourth season, Monique designs Kim's new mission suit and even gets Kim a new pirate uniform in one episode. Since she knows a lot about fashion, she is akin to Tomoyo Daidouji, who designed all of Sakura Kinomoto's outfits in Cardcaptor Sakura.

When Kim, Ron, Rufus, and Wade, known collectively as Team Possible, aren't battling Drakken and Shego, they fight a variety of other villains such the half-monkey/half-man Monkey Fist (voiced by Tom Kane), Scottish golfer Duff Killigan (voiced by Brian George), German evil scientist Professor Dementor (voiced by Patton Oswald) and the wealthy father-son team, Señor Senior, Sr. (voiced by Ricardo Montalbán and Earl Boen) and Señor Senior, Jr. (voiced by Néstor Carbonell). The latter two are villains only because they are bored.

Since the show is for all ages, it doesn't have any gratuitous violence nor any mature themes present in series like Human Kind Of, Inside Job, and Disenchantment. Despite this, the show is still strong with funny jokes and situations. Even though it ended 15 years ago, the humor holds up.

The dialogue of Kim Possible is fast-paced and meant to cater to adult viewers, along with some visual jokes. This makes it similar to Phineas & Ferb, which has a spy subplot between a crime-fighting platypus and a evil scientist. Kim Possible is different because Drakken was formerly a classmate of Kim's father, making for intriguing stories throughout the series.

Unlike other Disney productions, the series is not very musical, meaning that there aren't songs in almost every episode as is the case for its more recent shows like Elena of Avalor, Milo Murphy's Law, Mira, Royal Detective, and Sofia the First. Even so, there are occasional songs throughout the series. Furthermore, the theme which opens every episode ("Call Me, Beep Me!," sung by Afro-Cuban actress and singer Christina Milian) gets you in the mood to watch each episode.

The characters, especially Kim and Ron, develop over the course of Kim Possible and realize who they are as people. This makes the viewer more invested in these characters and want to watch more episodes. Each plot, even if a simple one, is fascinating and pulls you in, building the story and making you care about what happens next. The series doesn't take itself too seriously, which makes it even more appealing.

Much of the comedy in Kim Possible comes from Drakken's hair-brained schemes or Ron's antics. Only Kazuda Xiono in Star Wars Resistance and Oscar in The Proud Family rival Ron's goofiness. He matures through the series. In the process, he becomes more romantically attracted to Kim, while she is attracted to him. He remains afraid of monkeys, making Monkey King his main arch-foe, while gaining what is known as the "mystical monkey power."

I have not seen the James Bond films that the series is parodying, nor that many spy films, but that didn't make me less interested in the show. I did see similarities between Kim Possible and the more recent Carmen Sandiego series, which has a similar set-up. I wouldn't be surprised if Kim Possible had somehow influenced that show. Unlike that show, Kim Possible has storylines which criticize celebrity culture, boy bands, consumerism, school popularity, fast food industry, fashion industry, corporate world, and not accepting other people.

Kim Possible is different from other shows in that Kim does not follow any stereotypes about women, which are often ingrained within and manifested by female characters. She can easily serve as a role model for people, just as much Carmen Sandiego in the new series about her, or Rapunzel in Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure. This is because Kim has a loving family and supportive friends. She has a group of people ready to stand by her and help no matter what, even doing missions for her if she is too sick.

Kim is a bit of an optimist, as made clear by her slogan that she can "do anything." This comes to a head in some episodes as she begins to realize that she can't do everything, and she should have others help her if she is in trouble.

Similar to Adora in the award-winning series, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, or Carmen Sandiego, Kim has no secret identity. Instead, everyone knows her name and who she is, which makes her vulnerable at times. Even so, she is still able to travel the world and fight evil wherever, while keeping her social life back in the town of Middleton.

The voice actors of Kim Possible are well-known for other shows, like Futurama, The Simpsons, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The show has an air of authenticity since Romano was only 16 years old when she took the role of voicing Kim, meaning that she was maturing as the show was moving forward, just like Kim herself. This is similar to what Abbi Jacobson, who voices the protagonist in Disenchantment, said about her voice acting for Princess Bean in that series.

Shego talks to Kim after saving her from Warmonga in Season 4

One character in Kim Possible stands out: Shego. Although she is a villain and a criminal mercenary, some have argued that she is a feminist icon because, like Kim, she is no damsel in distress. She is a powerful woman who often makes sarcastic remarks and can have an abrasive personality at times. She can stand face-to-face with Kim and is her match in more ways than one, as she can be cunning and ruthless. In fact, she is perhaps one of the smartest characters in the series, even able to take over the world in the 2003 film, Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time.

Sullivan, her voice actress, delivers her lines with such precision that it makes you love Shego that much more. Unlike other villains, Shego is never shown killing anyone in the series, even if she views human life in a callous way.

She is clearly a badass and has a moral compass, unlike other villains. Despite the fact that others respect her, she could care less for them. She would rather read villain magazines, file the nails on her gloves, paint her nails, listen to the latest pop music, or go on vacation. She is unique in that she possesses green energy which can be generated from her hands. She is also as agile and fit as Kim. Their fights are just as epic as the sword fights in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels, and Star Wars: Clone Wars.

This has led some fans to ship her with Kim. Kigo has over 400 fanfics on Archive of Our Own. In the show's canon, however, Shego has a romantic relationship with Drakken following the conclusion of the show and is shown crushing on various men throughout the series. In the show itself, Kim and Shego have a mutual respect for each other, even though they are rivals. Kim even worries when Shego becomes "good" in a Season 4 episode and occasionally working with her.

Shego is very popular with fans, garnering thousands of stories, cosplays, and fan art. Even voice actress Amber Romero, who voices Parsley in High Guardian Spice, gave a nod to naming her cat "Shego."

Ron and Kim talk on the phone at the beginning of Season 4

The show's staying power is a testament to the fans. After the airing of the show's first three seasons and 2005 film, Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama, production on the series was halted by Disney executives. The success of the film convinced executives to renew the series for a fourth and final season, giving the series another 22 episodes, which Schooley called a "bolt out of the blue." The series makes clear that fans have the power to push for a show's continuation and can convince executives to change their minds.

The fourth season has a different tone than the previous seasons, as Kim and Ron are in a romantic relationship, something which started at the conclusion of the 2005 film. Much of the season is focused on that, and the strain it puts on both of them. The theme song is the same, but the opening sequence is different than the one used in the first three seasons.

In the season, Kim wears a battle suit, is more nimble, and is in her last year of high school, as are Ron and Monique. She also deals with the tweebs in school as they are now freshmen in her high school. Wade falls for Monique, Kim gets her own car, tries out a new crime-fighting outfit, and attempts to get Ron to eat a balanced diet.

Other Season 4 episodes focus on raising a young sibling, a shapeshifting villain, pirates, living history, job insecurity, voice-activated technology, social isolation, robots, mentorship, pneumatic tubes, babysitting, mind control, information control, lost pets, nannies, roleplaying games, high school graduation, alien invasion, and genetic mutation.

Beyond that, some of my other favorite characters include Camille Léon (voiced by Ashley Tisdale), Electronique (voiced by Kari Wahlgren), Motor Ed (voiced by DiMaggio), Will Du (voiced by B. D. Wong), Master Sensei (voiced by George Takei), Yori (voiced by Keiko Agena), and Zita Flores (voiced by Nika Futterman).

By Season 4, however, Yori's crushing on Ron has come to end, as Kim and Ron are dating. She is like a strong female character in anime and she respects Ron for who he is and is a skilled fighter. Camille is a terrible slimeball, but her ability to shapeshift into anyone makers her a worthy adversary. Motor Ed is an intriguing, but terrible, character not because of his often use of of the word "seriously" or that he plays air guitar. Rather it is due to the fact that he is a male chauvinist who has an eye out for beautiful women, like Shego, who understandably wants nothing to do with him.

Most reviews of the series are positive, but some are more critical. For instance, Lyn Mikel Brown in Girlfighting was dismayed at Kim for promoting a thin and beautiful heroine as an "average girl," the reliance on Ron, her biggest threat as Bonnie, and Kim set against other girls. This has some truth to it. Kim is a pretty and smart action hero and more cartoons have said that all body types are beautiful, not just those who are thin and athletic. However, Brown is forgetting that one of Kim's closest friends is Monique.

Additionally, there's nothing to say that Kim wouldn't have more female friends, since she has a network of people across the world who owe her favors. Some have argued that Kim is bisexual and have done so in some fanfics. They've even extended the same to Ron or to Shego.

The series has a bit more diversity, even with two White protagonists, than some more recent Disney series like Tangled and Phineas & Ferb. Wade's voice actor, Lowry, is part Afro-Bahamian and Monique's voice actor, Raven-Symoné, is a Black woman. Although both have important roles in the first three seasons, they have even bigger roles in the show's fourth season, with both going directly on missions - more for Wade than Monique. Additionally, Kevin Michael Richardson (as "Slim" Possible) is a Black man, Roz Ryan (as Wade's mother) and Sherri Shepherd (as M.C. Honey) are Black women.

There is other diversity in the cast. Adam Rodriguez (as Burn) is of Puerto Rican descent, Brian George (voice of Professor Acari) is of Indian descent, Gedde Watanabe (as Professor Robert Chen) is of Japanese descent. Clyde Kusatsu (as Nakasumi), Lauren Tom (as Miss Kyoko), and John Cho (as Hirotaka) are Japanese, while the late Montalbán was Mexican, and Carbonell is of Cuban descent.

Despite this, the show does not feature any outward LGBTQ characters even though Raven-Symoné, Wong, and Takei are gay and part of the show's cast. The closest we have are characters cross-dressing: Professor Dementor wearing a dress in an attempt to trick Kim, Ron and Wade dressing up as women in one episode, or Mr. Barkin wearing a dress on multiple occasions. If the show was to get a fifth season or was rebooted, hopefully this would improve, with complex and captivating LGBTQ characters, more diversity in the cast, and having protagonists in college like the later seasons of Totally Spies!. Some additional racial diversity in the series would also be a plus.

Kim Possible continues to remain popular, garnering a crossover episode in Lilo & Stitch: The Series in August 2005, and a live-action film entitled "Kim Possible" in 2019. Even so, it is very unlikely that it will return, regardless of the recent revival of The Proud Family. This is because the series ended on a declarative note, similar to the final episode of Futurama, except that in this case Kim and Ron graduate from high school, and the story is not starting over. However, some have pushed for another season.

Is it any surprise that Kim Possible was nominated for Annie Awards, Primetime Emmy Awards, Kids' Choice Awards, and Daytime Emmy Awards? In 2005, the series won a Daytime Emmy for "Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing," specifically for live action and animation. Of course, awards aren't everything, but the fact it was nominated for 15 awards between 2002 and 2008 says something about the series.

Even though Kim Possible ended over 14 years ago, it has staying power now and in the years to come. It can currently be watched on Disney+, where it is not in chronological order, or through DVDs of all four seasons which can be checked out from your local library.

© 2022-2023 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.

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Longtown Sound 1255 Wednesday Power Hour - Bluesmen Featuring Wayne Perkins, Jack Falk, Tony Deziel, Doug Macleod, Marshall Lawrence, Elvin Bishop, George McCorkle, Gerry Lane, Jim O'Keeffe, Paul Thorn and Mark LaForme. https://on.soundcloud.com/WAHU9

Wayne Perkins - Many Rivers to Cross Jack Falk - Blues Evolution Tony Deziel - Shades of Blue Doug Macleod - This Old  River Marshall Lawrence - Dessert Table Blues Elvin Bishop - The Blues Rolls On George McCorkle - Somebody New Gerry Lane - Dangerous Times Jim O'Keeffe - Nights of Sweet Red Wine Paul Thorn - Even Heroes Die Mark LaForme - High and Lonesome

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The Marshall Tucker Band - Can't You See 

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Marshall Tucker Band-Can't You See

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13 most handsome UFC fighters 2010

13 most handsome UFC fighters 2010

Yoshihiro Akiyama

Some of the best-looking mixed martial artists in the world are currently signed with the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Here are the 13 most handsome MMA fighters who competed in the UFC in 2010:

  #13 | Sean McCorkle

fight name: Big Sexy

birth date: July 17, 1976 

birthplace: Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

height: 6’7″

weight division: heavyweight

UFC record in 2010:

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Storia Di Musica #198 - The Marshall Tucker Band, The Marshal Tucker Band, 1973

La storia di oggi ha tutti gli ingredienti migliori per essere una vera storia di Southern rock: un gruppo musicale capitanato da due fratelli, il colore, il calore e il sapore del Sud degli Stati Uniti, una musica che si basa sulle classiche fonti del rock sudista (country, soul, blues, boogie) a cui però stavolta verrà dato un tocco davvero sorprendente. Tutto inizia a metà anni ‘60 quando a Spartanburg, Carolina del Sud, i fratelli Toy e Tommy Caldwell formano con alcuni loro amici due gruppi rock. Toy è chitarra solista nei Rants, mentre Tommy, che suona il basso, guida i New Generation, che a detta di chi li sente suonare nei locali, hanno un cantante niente male, Doug Gray. Nel 1966 sono chiamati alla leva militare obbligatoria, e le band si sciolgono. Al ritorno a Spartanburg, ben quattro anni dopo, Toy ha ancora dentro il fuoco della musica e fonda i Toy Factory, sempre con la voce di Gray e il sax e il flauto di Jerry Eubanks. A questo primo nucleo si aggregano Tommy, George McCorkle (chitarrista) e il batterista Paul Riddle. Durante la ricerca di una sala per provare, chiedono in prestito una stanza che prima era di un accordatore di pianoforti: sulla chiave per entrare c’era il nome del proprietario, Marshall Tucker, e da lì il nome del gruppo, The Marshall Tucker Band. Al gruppo si interessa subito la famosa etichetta discografica Capricorn, fondata da Phil Walden e Frank Fenter nel 1969 a Macon, Georgia, che aveva già prodotto la Allman Brothers Band ed è la culla del genere. Inizia qui la storia musicale di una delle band simbolo del movimento, capace di essere uno degli esempi più belli di musica del sud a cui però dà una ventata di freschezza con azzeccati inserti psichedelici e jazz. Tutto ruota al intorno all’alchimia dei fratelli Caldwell, con Toy che scriverà tutti i testi delle canzoni e le musiche, la particolare voce di Doug Gray, impostata e utile verso l’indirizzo artistico scelto. Il lavoro di McCorkle, di Riddle e soprattutto di Eubanks renderà esemplare il loro suono e subito riconoscibile: quest’ultimo poi diventerà uno dei musicisti più apprezzati del genere collaborando tra gli altri con la Charlie Daniels Band e il gruppo di Artimus Pyle, uno dei sopravvissuti al disastro aereo dei Lynyrd Skynyrd. Il primo album, prodotto da Paul Hornsby, esce nell’anno magico 1973, con il titolo The Marshal Tucker  Band. In copertina, un bellissimo disegno agreste di James Flournoy Holmes, artista di Spartanburg che ebbe un certo peso storico, dato che disegnò altre meravigliose copertine del periodo tra cui Eat A Peach degli Allman,  In The Right Place di Dr John,  Fire On The Mountain della Charlie Daniels Band. Il disco è uno dei capolavori del genere e si apre subito con due dei loro brani culto: Take The Highway è uno dei grandi brani del rock di quegli anni, epico e solare, ancora più bella è Can’t You See, dal testo melanconico e sofferto, tutta giocata sui duelli chitarra e flauto che diventerà un classico, con decine di reinterpretazioni (le più famose quelle di Waylon Jennings del 1976 e una molto recente, con massiccio airplay radiofonico, della Zac Brown Band con Kid Rock nel 2010). Altre perle sono il rock boogie di Ramblin’, con meraviglioso lavoro alla chitarra di McCorkle, il country rock di Losing You, la deliziosa Hillibilly Band, il suono “europeo” di My Jesus Told Me e poi altre due piccole perle, Ab’s Song, un minuto e poco più di meraviglia acustica che sa di Byrds, e poi la cavalcata elettrica in pieno stile Southern di Everyday (I Have The Blues) brano bonus nelle versioni recenti del disco, registrato Live al leggendario Winterland Auditorium di San Francisco nel 1973. Il successo è grandioso, sarà il primo di sette dischi d’oro consecutivi: continueranno con un disco all’anno, alcuni eccellenti tra cui ricordo Where We All Belong, in parte live del 1974, lo storico Searchin’ For A Rainbow del 1975 (che contiene una storica versione live di Can’t You See Me), Long Hard Ride e lo splendido Carolina Dreams del 1977, l’anno del tragico incidente incidente ai Lynyrd che rompe qualcosa anche in tutti coloro che li conoscevano. La tragedia colpirà anche i Marshall con la morte in un incidente stradale (altro macabro ingrediente della ricetta Southern) di Tommy nell’aprile del 1980, e qui finirà una parte della storia della Marshall Tucker Band, nonostante produrranno dischi fino a metà anni ‘80. Rimangono nel periodo d’oro una delle band più amate e di successo del rock del sud, dal suono a volte meno potente e spericolato, ma più raffinato, con la stessa capacità di emozionare.

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The More Accurate Headline Reads: 120 Retired Generals and Admirals Pledge Allegiance to a Failed Russian Asset and Swear Their Loyalty to Their One True Orange God.

Signed by: RADM Ernest B. Acklin, USCG, ret. MG Joseph T. Anderson, USMC, ret. RADM Philip Anselmo, USN, ret. MG Joseph Arbuckle, USA, ret. BG John Arick, USMC, ret. RADM Jon W. Bayless, Jr. USN, ret. RDML James Best, USN, ret. BG Charles Bishop, USAF, ret. BG William A. Bloomer, USMC, ret. BG Donald Bolduc, USA, ret. LTG William G. Boykin, USA, ret. MG Edward R. Bracken, USAF, ret. MG Patrick H. Brady, MOH, USA, ret. VADM Edward S. Briggs, USN, ret. LTG Richard “Tex’ Brown III USAF, ret. BG Frank Bruno, USAF, ret. VADM Toney M. Bucchi, USN, ret. RADM John T. Byrd, USN, ret. BG Jimmy Cash, USAF, ret. LTG Dennis D. Cavin, USA, ret. LTG James E. Chambers, USAF, ret. MG Carroll D. Childers, USA, ret. BG Clifton C. “Tip” Clark, USAF, ret. VADM Ed Clexton, USN, ret. MG Jay Closner, USAF, ret MG Tommy F. Crawford, USAF, ret. MG Robert E. Dempsey, USAF, ret. BG Phillip Drew, USAF, ret. MG Neil L. Eddins, USAF, ret. RADM Ernest Elliot, USN, ret. BG Jerome V. Foust, USA, ret. BG Jimmy E. Fowler, USA, ret. RADM J. Cameron Fraser, USN, ret. MG John T. Furlow, USA, ret. MG Timothy F. Ghormley, USMC, ret. MG Francis C. Gideon, USAF, ret. MG Lee V. Greer, USAF, ret. RDML Michael R. Groothousen, Sr., USN, ret. BG John Grueser, USAF, ret. MG Ken Hagemann, USAF, ret. BG Norman Ham, USAF, ret. VADM William Hancock, USN, ret. LTG Henry J. Hatch, USA, ret. BG James M. Hesson, USA, ret. MG Bill Hobgood, USA, ret. BG Stanislaus J. Hoey, USA, ret. MG Bob Hollingsworth, USMC, ret. MG Jerry D. Holmes, USAF, ret. MG Clinton V. Horn, USAF, ret. LTG Joseph E. Hurd, USAF, ret. VADM Paul Ilg, USN, ret. MG T. Irby, USA, ret. LTG Ronald Iverson, USAF, ret. RADM (L) Grady L. Jackson MG William K. James, USAF, ret. LTG James H. Johnson, Jr. USA, ret. ADM. Jerome L. Johnson, USN, ret. BG Charles Jones, USAF, ret. BG Robert R. Jordan, USA, ret. BG Jack H. Kotter, USA, ret. MG Anthony R. Kropp, USA, ret. RADM Chuck Kubic, USN, ret. BG Jerry L. Laws, USA, ret. BG Douglas E. Lee, USA, ret. MG Vernon B. Lewis, USA, ret. MG Thomas G. Lightner, USA, ret. MG James E. Livingston, USMC, ret. MOH MG John D. Logeman, USAF, ret. MG Jarvis Lynch, USMC, ret. LTG Fred McCorkle, USMC, ret. MG Don McGregor, USAF, ret. LTG Thomas McInerney, USAF, ret. RADM John H. McKinley, USN, ret. BG Michael P. McRaney, USAF, ret. BG Ronald S. Mangum, USA, ret. BG James M. Mead, USMC, ret. BG Joe Mensching, USAF, ret. RADM W. F. Merlin, USCG, ret. RADM (L) Mark Milliken, USN, ret. MG John F. Miller, USAF, ret. RADM Ralph M. Mitchell, Jr. USN, ret. MG Paul Mock, USA. ret. BG Daniel I. Montgomery, USA, ret., RADM John A. Moriarty, USN, ret., RADM David R. Morris, USN, ret. RADM Bill Newman, USN, ret. BG Joe Oder, USA, ret. MG O’Mara, USAF, ret. MG Joe S. Owens, USA, ret. VADM Jimmy Pappas, USN, ret. LTG Garry L. Parks, USMC, ret. RADM Russ Penniman, RADM, USN, ret. RADM Leonard F. Picotte, ret. VADM John Poindexter, USN, ret. RADM Ronald Polant, USCG, ret. MG Greg Power, USAF, ret. RDM Brian Prindle, USN, ret. RADM J.J. Quinn, USN, ret. LTG Clifford H. Rees, Jr. USAF, ret. RADM Norman T. Saunders, USCG, ret. MG Richard V. Secord, USAF, ret. RADM William R. Schmidt, USN, ret. LTG Hubert Smith, USA, ret. MG James N. Stewart, USAF, ret. RADM Thomas Stone, USN., ret. BG Joseph S. Stringham, USA, ret. MG Michael Sullivan, USMC, ret. RADM (U) Jeremy Taylor, USN, ret. LTG David Teal, USAF, ret. VADM Howard B. Thorsen, USCG, ret. RADM Robert P. Tiernan, USN, ret. LTG Garry Trexler, USAF, ret. BG James T. Turlington, M.D., USAF, ret. BG Richard J. Valente, USA ret. MG Paul Vallely, USA, ret. MG Russell L. Violett, USAF, ret. BG George H. Walker, Jr. USAR Corp of Engineers, ret. MG Kenneth Weir, USMCR, ret. BG William O. Welch, USAF, ret. MG John M. White, USAF, ret. MG Geoffrey P. Wiedeman, JR. USAF, ret. MG Richard O. Wightman, Jr., USA, ret. RADM Denny Wisely, USN, ret. LTG John Woodward, ret.

Everyone these white men has betrayed their country and their oath to protect the US Constitution and our democracy.

Under military law, they should forfeit their rank, their tax payer paid pensions and/or prepare themselves for the firing squad.

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Ding Dong! The Party is On!

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For EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN I’m spinning tunes by:

PETER ALLEN, DONNA SUMMER & DAVID KOZ, BILLIE HOLIDAY & COUNT BASIE & HIS ORCHESTRA, GEORGE WEIN & CARMEN McRAE, ELLA FITZGERALD, OSCAR PETERSON, CATHERINE RUSSELL, BILLY STRITCH, SUSANNAH McCORKLE, DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER, ANN HAMPTON CALLAWAY, QUEEN LATIFAH, PATTI AUSTIN, ELLA FITZGERALD, RALPH BRANDE, ELLA FITZGERALD GEOFFREY MARK, LOUIS ARMSTRONG, ELLA FITZGERALD DUKE ELLINGTON, REBECCA KILGORE

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Weekend Edition: Essays, Part 2

We’re back today with more collections of essays. Remember to see our post Here for You to learn how you can access the following materials remotely. Even if you are not on campus, both printed materials and electronic resources are still available to you!

The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America edited by Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman

Presents essays by first- and second-generation immigrant writers on the realities of immigration, multiculturalism, and marginalization in an increasingly divided America. From Trump's proposed border wall and travel ban to the marching of White Supremacists in Charlottesville, America is consumed by tensions over immigration and the question of which bodies are welcome. In this much-anticipated follow-up to the bestselling UK edition, hailed by Zadie Smith as "lively and vital," editors Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman hand the microphone to an incredible range of writers whose humanity and right to be here is under attack. Chigozie Obioma unpacks an Igbo proverb that helped him navigate his journey to America from Nigeria. Jenny Zhang analyzes cultural appropriation in 90s fashion, recalling her own pain and confusion as a teenager trying to fit in. Fatimah Asghar describes the flood of memory and emotion triggered by an encounter with an Uber driver from Kashmir. Alexander Chee writes of a visit to Korea that changed his relationship to his heritage. These writers, and the many others in this singular collection, share powerful personal stories of living between cultures and languages while struggling to figure out who they are and where they belong. By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, troubling and uplifting, the essays in The Good Immigrant come together to create a provocative, conversation-sparking, multivocal portrait of America now.

Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy edited by Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll "With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, a Ron Howard movie in the works, and the rise of its author as a media personality, J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis has defined Appalachia for much of the nation. What about Hillbilly Elegy accounts for this explosion of interest during this period of political turmoil? Why have its ideas raised so much controversy? And how can debates about the book catalyze new, more inclusive political agendas for the region's future? Appalachian Reckoning is a retort, at turns rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow Hillbilly Elegy has cast over the region and its imagining. But it also moves beyond Hillbilly Elegy to allow Appalachians from varied backgrounds to tell their own diverse and complex stories through an imaginative blend of scholarship, prose, poetry, and photography. The essays and creative work collected in Appalachian Reckoning provide a deeply personal portrait of a place that is at once culturally rich and economically distressed, unique and typically American. Complicating simplistic visions that associate the region almost exclusively with death and decay, Appalachian Reckoning makes clear Appalachia's intellectual vitality, spiritual richness, and progressive possibilities."--Back cover

Victorian Comedy and Laughter: Conviviality, Jokes and Dissent edited by Louise Lee This innovative collection of essays is the first to situate comedy and laughter as central rather than peripheral to nineteenth century life. Victorian Comedy and Laughter: Conviviality, Jokes and Dissent offers new readings of the works of Charles Dickens, Edward Lear, George Eliot, George Gissing, Barry Pain and Oscar Wilde, alongside discussions of much-loved Victorian comics like Little Tich, Jenny Hill, Bessie Bellwood and Thomas Lawrence. Tracing three consecutive and interlocking moods in the period, all of the contributors engage with the crucial critical question of how laughter and comedy shaped Victorian subjectivity and aesthetic form. Malcolm Andrews, Jonathan Buckmaster and Peter Swaab explore the dream of print culture togetherness that is conviviality, while Bob Nicholson, Louise Lee, Ann Featherstone, Louise Wingrove and Oliver Double discuss the rise-on-rise of the Victorian joke -- both on the page and the stage -- while Peter Jones, Jonathan Wild and Matthew Kaiser consider the impassioned debates concerning old and new forms of laughter that took place at the end of the century.

Why I Like This Story edited by Jackson R. Bryer

On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that "Nobody can read like a writer," Why I Like This Story presents brief essays by forty-eight leading American writers on their favorite American short stories, explaining why they like them. The essays, which are personal, not scholarly, not only tell us much about the story selected, they also tell us a good deal about the author of the essay, about what elements of fiction he or she values. Among the writers whose stories are discussed are such American masters as James, Melville, Hemingway, O'Connor, Fitzgerald, Porter, Carver, Wright, Updike, Bellow, Salinger, Malamud, and Welty; but the book also includes pieces on stories by canonical but lesser-known practitioners such as Andre Dubus, Ellen Glasgow, Kay Boyle, Delmore Schwartz, George Garrett, Elizabeth Tallent, William Goyen, Jerome Weidman, Peter Matthiessen, Grace Paley, William H. Gass, and Jamaica Kincaid, and relative newcomers such as Lorrie Moore, Kirstin Valdez Quade, Phil Klay, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Edward P. Jones. Why I Like This Story will send readers to the library or bookstore to read or re-read the stories selected. Among the contributors to the book are Julia Alvarez, Andrea Barrett, Richard Bausch, Ann Beattie, Andre Dubus, George Garrett, William H. Gass, Julia Glass, Doris Grumbach, Jane Hamilton, Jill McCorkle, Alice McDermott, Clarence Major, Howard Norman, Annie Proulx, Joan Silber, Elizabeth Spencer, and Mako Yoshikawa. Editor Jackson R. Bryer is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland.

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The Marshall Tucker Band 1973 Capricorn ————————————————— Tracks: 1. Take the Highway 2. Can’t You See 3. Losing You 4. Hillbilly Band 5. See You Later, I’m Gone 6. Ramblin’ 7. My Jesus Told Me So 8. Ab’s Song —————————————————

Tommy Caldwell

Toy Caldwell

Jerry Eubanks

Doug Gray

Paul Hornsby

George McCorkle

Paul Riddle

* Long Live Rock Archive

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African and African Diaspora Classical Singers: An Incomplete List

For quite a while now, I’ve been contemplating a series of posts about opera and other classical singers, grouping them into various more-or-less arbitrary “identity” categories, as an antidote to the pernicious fiction that classical music is in some way exclusionary. I had envisioned something quite elaborate, with numerous small photos of the kind that require placing multiple photos in the same file (which would mean learning how to create such a file... ). Something like that may yet happen, but I wanted this one to be at least somewhat timely, so for the time being I’m simply giving you a list.

Some of these artists are up-and-comers; some of their careers were at their height in the 1970s, when I first began paying attention; a few go back further than that. I’ve included a few of the younger ones solely on the basis of reputation, without having heard them. Not all are or were A-listers, but they are all people who sing or sang Western classical music for a living, or taught others to do so, or a combination of the two. (And the list is definitely incomplete: I’m posting this later than I had planned because I kept remembering names to include.)

Please note: I have not included Paul Robeson here because (a) he appears to have received no formal training whatsoever and (b) his repertoire was at best on the outer fringes of classical music. As brilliant an artist as he was, he is more accurately described as a folk singer.

The country given is that of the singer’s birth, not necessarily where they’ve made a career.

I invite you to learn more about these and other artists:

Adele Addison, soprano, USA

Roberta Alexander, soprano, USA

Marian Anderson (1897-1993), contralto, USA

Martina Arroyo, soprano, USA

Kathleen Battle, soprano, USA

J’nai Bridges, mezzo-soprano, USA

Lawrence Brownlee, tenor, USA

J’nai Brugger, soprano, USA

Measha Bruggergosman, soprano, Canada

Julia Bullock, soprano, USA

Grace Bumbry, mezzo-soprano, USA

Vinson Cole, tenor, USA

Philip Creech (1950-2017), tenor, USA

Mattiwilda Dobbs (1925-2015), soprano, USA

Christiane Eda-Pierre, soprano, Martinique

Simon Estes, bass-baritone, USA

Denyce Graves, mezzo-soprano, USA

Ryan Speedo Green, bass-baritone, USA

Reri Grist, soprano, USA

Roland Hayes (1887-1977), tenor, USA

Barbara Hendricks, soprano, USA

John Holiday, countertenor, USA

Soloman Howard, bass, USA

Isola Jones, mezzo-soprano, USA

Kimberly E. Jones, soprano, USA

Sissieretta Jones (1869-1933), soprano, USA

Will Liverman, baritone, USA

Marie-Josée Lord, soprano, Canada

Blaise Malaba, bass, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Jamez McCorkle, tenor, USA

Robert McFerrin (1921-2006), baritone, USA

Leona Mitchell, soprano, USA

Hlengiwe Mkhwanazi, soprano, South Africa

Fikile Mvinjelwa, baritone, South Africa

Jessye Norman (1945-2019), soprano, USA

Eric Owens, bass-baritone, USA

Leontyne Price, soprano, USA

Luthando Qave, baritone, South Africa

Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, soprano, South Africa

Gail Robinson (1946-2008), soprano, USA

George Shirley, tenor, USA

Kevin Short, bass-baritone, USA

Russell Thomas, tenor, USA

Camilla Williams (1919-2012), soprano, USA

Shirley Verrett (1931-2010), mezzo-soprano, USA

William Warfield (1920-2002), bass-baritone, USA

Sir Willard White, OM, CBE, baritone, Jamaica

Roderick Williams, OBE, baritone, UK

Pretty Yende, soprano, South Africa

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Who's James Callender?

 Hello! I get asked pretty frequently who James Callender is, so I thought I’d explain for anybody interested. James Thomson Callender is somebody who I see as misjudged and poorly written by historians. Even though he wasn’t exactly a good person, he deserves to be acknowledged for the fragments of his legacy that are still very visible today. He’s the reason there’s such a stigma surrounding two of our nation’s most prominent founding fathers.

James Callender was a Scottish journalist and pamphleteer born in 1758 who was likely orphaned early in life. He fled from Scotland to Ireland to Philadelphia in 1793 with his wife and children after facing sedition charges when he published The Political Progress of Britain, a work highly critical of the British government. He published many other satirical and offensive works throughout his time in Scotland, also including The Deformities of Samuel Johnson. He was cynical and a staunch anglophobe. He took inspiration from authors like Jonathan Swift. He wrote poetry as a young man under the name Timothy Thunderproof. 


Upon arriving in America, he and his family were poor and struggling to make a living. He worked as a stenographer recording Congressional debates but was soon laid off. He played a large part in exposing the Hamilton-Reynolds affair. John Beckley, a former clerk of the House whom he met during his time as a stenographer, is widely believed by historians to have provided Callender with the documents supporting the affair. Callender published The History of the United States for 1796 in 1797, accusing Hamilton of associating with James Reynolds for illegal speculation and of having an affair with Reynolds’s wife Maria. Hamilton refuted this by publishing the infamous Reynolds Pamphlet and exposing his own sexual liaisons. Callender responded with the Sketches of the History of the United States. Callender harbored suspicions that Hamilton’s affair was merely a ruse to cover up improper dealings with James Reynolds, and echoed these suspicions into his writing. His wife died of yellow fever later in the year of 1797, but not before providing him with a fourth child to feed. His children entered the custody of a friend, Thomas Leiper. He continued to publish scurrilities on Washington and Adams, claiming that Washington “could no longer be regarded as a saint”.


Thomas Jefferson first confronted Callender in the summer of 1797 in Snowden & McCorkle’s Philadelphia printing office. Callender’s strong Jeffersonian partisanship earned him $15.14 from Jefferson for copies of his History. Jefferson would continue to associate with him for quite some time while vice president, as would James Monroe and James Madison. In 1798, Callender began his trek to Virginia. He began on foot from Philadelphia, took a boat across the Potomac, and continued his efforts until he reached Steven Thomson Mason’s Raspberry Plain in Leesburg where he stayed for some time. He eventually moved to Richmond in 1799 after being forced to become an American citizen in 1798 in lieu of being deported by the Alien Act. Callender’s disapproval of Adams caused him to publish a pamphlet called The Prospect Before Us. Jefferson had been a patron of Callender’s Prospect for a considerable amount of time, asserting that it would “produce the best effect”. The Prospect certainly did produce an effect, because it got Callender tried and arrested for sedition. Supreme Court justice Samuel Chase of Maryland presided over the trial. Chase was later impeached by the House (but acquitted by the Senate) partially due to his handling of this particular case. Callender was sentenced to nine months in prison and a $200 fine that he could not afford to pay. Among the worst of the insults littered throughout The Prospect were describing Adams as “a hideous hermaphroditical character” and “a hoary-headed incendiary”. In prison he wrote two more volumes of The Prospect. 
Callender was pardoned from the Richmond jail upon Jefferson’s inauguration in March of 1801. 

When he was freed he was still confronted with a $200 debt and out of a job. Now that he was free and had close ties to the newly elected president, he expected something to come of it. He requested that Jefferson pay his fine and give him the patronage job of Richmond postmaster, a position currently held by a Federalist. Jefferson declined, but gave Callender $50 for his prison fine. Callender was outraged. Jefferson’s financial and other support of The Prospect was what had fueled Callender’s popularity and gotten him imprisoned to begin with. He dropped hints to Meriwether Lewis, who was sent to give him a separate $50, implying that he knew something of Jefferson unknown to the public. Jefferson responded by saying, “he knows nothing of me which I am not willing to declare to the world myself.” Callender insisted that the money sent to him was hush money, rather than a charity. Jefferson earlier sent Callender the $50 for his fine through Monroe and George Jefferson.


On September 1st, 1802, Callender published one of his defining works. “The President, Again” was published in the Richmond Recorder, a Federalist newspaper. It declared that Jefferson had, for a long time, kept a concubine by the name of Sally Hemings and bore multiple children by her. He claimed that she bore a son named Tom about “ten or twelve years of age”, but this was proven false. He continued to add onto the claims and edit old information for accuracy. These writings of his were widely popular and used amongst the Northern Federalists as dirt on Jefferson. Most Democratic-Republicans and Southerners at the time excused it as merely a fact of Virginia society. It wasn’t at all uncommon for Virginia planters to have children among their slaves, said John Adams. These accusations were never admitted to or declined. Callender continued to write, though, and this time he brought up a woman from Jefferson’s youth: Betsy Walker. Betsy Walker was married to John Walker. John Walker was a best friend of Jefferson’s in his youth, and requested that he watch over Betsy while he was away. Jefferson was credited with making advances toward her during this time, and he once gave her a note which she then tore into pieces. Jefferson did affirm these charges, claiming that he only “offered love” to her without defining it further.

 
Callender drowned in three feet of Richmond’s James River on July 17th, 1803. Earlier that same day, he had been seen drunkenly hobbling around. Upon the discovery of his body, the coroner said very little aside from the fact that he had died with water in his lungs. His death is still a mystery, and it is widely speculated that he could have been assassinated by Jefferson’s political allies or Henry Pace, Callender’s partner in the newspapers. Personally, I believe this to be either a drunken mistake or a suicide. In Anatomy of a Scandal by Rebecca and James McMurry, it is stated that “…[Meriwether] Jones noted that Callender… had previously ‘threatened to put an end to his existence, by drowning himself, for several weeks previous to his actual death.’” Shortly after his death occurred People v. Croswell. Callender was due to testify. In question was whether or not Harry Croswell was guilty of libel for claiming Jefferson had paid Callender to publish the scurrilities. 200+ years after his death, DNA tests were conducted with descendants of Field Jefferson (Thomas Jefferson’s uncle who had sons) and Eston Hemings. The tests confirmed a shared Y chromosome between the two. Controversy still surrounds Callender’s work and the effects of it. 
The names of his children are unknown, bar Thomas. Thomas Callender married and moved near Nashville, Tennessee where he had one known son named John Hill. John Hill Callender was a renowned journalist and praised for his writing as well as for his work as a surgeon in the Confederate Army. He married Della Jefferson Ford, a distant relative of Thomas Jefferson himself. Ironic, isn’t it?

 I tried to make this as concise as possible? If you have any further questions or want a more in-depth explanation on anything, feel free to ask! I also have plenty of primary + other sources.

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Pot o' Gold *** (1941, James Stewart, Paulette Goddard, Horace Heidt, Charles Winninger, Mary Gordon) - Classic Movie Review 10,244

Pot o’ Gold *** (1941, James Stewart, Paulette Goddard, Horace Heidt, Charles Winninger, Mary Gordon) – Classic Movie Review 10,244

Director George Marshall’s 1941 screwball comedy Pot o’ Gold [The Golden Hour] has the distinction of featuring James Stewart on the mouth-organ and performing ‘When Johnny Toots His Horn’ (written by Hy Heath and Fred Rose), which may partly explain why it is a forgotten film.

It is an airy musical comedy with Paulette Goddard as Molly McCorkle, the daughter of the boss of a radio show who has…