#Helen Meadow

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FAST X Premiere in Italy

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The cast of ‘Fast X’ at the world premiere in Rome on May 12, 2023.

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In Memoriam: Charles Simic, 1938-2023

The Serbian-born American poet Charles Simic passed away this Monday, January 9, 2023. In memory of him and his work, we are sharing two pieces that feature his poetry that are illustrated with wood engravings. Simic was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1990, a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant,” the Griffin International Poetry Prize, the Wallace Stevens Award, and an appointment as US poet laureate.

The first item shown here is a broadside published by Charles Seluzicki in 1981, printed at the Meadow Press with a wood engraving by Sarah Chamberlain. It features the poem “Interlude” by Simic, and is signed by both Simic and the printer/designer, Leigh McLellan. 

The second piece shown here is the book Shaving at Night by Charles Simic, with three wood engravings by Helen Siegl, published in 1982 also printed and designed by the Meadow Press. Each engraving accompanies a poem from the book. 

When I was in college, I remember reading a Charles Simic prose poem that had something to do with trees in a literature class (I can’t for the life of me remember the title), and I just remember the image it created in my head and thinking “wow.” I hope that Simic’s work will continue to inspire young poets and readers for many years to come. May he rest in peace. 

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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

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“Total Bastard Airlines” (Saturday Night Live, 1994)

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Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur Sets More Moon Girl- Books To Read In Hiatus Time

🌕Reading time can make the hiatus more magic 🌕

Disney Publishing Worldwide and Little Golden Books have listed new cover pages for upcoming Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur Books both slated for August 1st, 2023.

📚 Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur: Little Golden Book

Written By: Frank Berrios

Disney Publishing Worldwide

Disney Press

Little Golden Books

August 1,2023

When young super-genius Lunella Lafayette's experiment brings a big red dinosaur to present-day New York City, the unlikely duo teams up to protect their neighborhood--and the world! Boys and girls ages 2 to 5 will love learning about Lunella and Devil Dinosaur's amazing abilities, friends, and foes in this Little Golden Book. The book is based on the new Disney Channel hit series Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur.

📚Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur : One Girl Can Make a Difference

Written By: Michelle Meadows

Disney Publishing Worldwide

Disney Press

August 1,2023

This paperback novelization follows the 13-year-old Marvel Super Hero around her Lower East Side of Manhattan neighborhood, where her family owns and runs a roller-skating rink. As Moon Girl explores the cause of so many unexplained neighborhood power blackouts lately, readers will  learn how Moon Girl came to be, meet her sidekick, a giant red T-Rex, and follow them on their first adventure fighting against the evil villain who is bringing darkness to her beloved community. If you like this book, you might also like:

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Fast X cast @ Fast X premiere in Rome 🚗

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Bluebells by Helen Allingham (Undated, watercolour on paper)

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Now Playing: Universal Pictures "Fast X" (5/19/2023)

Fans of the Universal Pictures franchise “Fast and The Furious” will be excited as hell with the release of the 10th installment in their story in “Fast X” that opens in theaters everywhere. We’ve touched upon this topic over on “The Chronicles” in several posts that you can find by clicking HERE in case you’ve missed some of the chatter. Down below you’ll see the poster, premise and ensemble…

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What happened to my Pleasantview? Part 2: The Broke Lineage

Here’s the second part of my Pleasantview stories. A bit long but has been fun to recall all of the events for this. Now I am seriously regretting not documenting all of this drama and stories!!

The Broke lineage is by far the biggest one of them all. Brandi is, at this point, the matriarch of the entire neighborhood and she is related to everyone else, which was her dream after all: a large family! (Her LTW was 6 grandkids)

Brandi struggled for a long time after the birth of her third son, Adam (unborn baby Broke). Dustin kept working as a thief alongside his good friend Gordon, but did not feel comfortable breaking the law. He wanted to become The Law and live a normal suburban life but felt responsible for his mother and two younger brothers. He did manage to get good enough notes to go to college and that’s where he really turned his life around. He worked hard to get his degree, married his longtime girlfriend Angela and had three children: Helen, Holly and Pete. After an entire lifetime of constant work he did become The Law and died happily, leaving a good fortune to his family and a strong legacy for the entire neighborhood.

Helen was a very active Romance sim, flirty and talented. Her musical talent became evident in her teen and college years. Holly inherited the family house after Dustin and Angela’s deaths and fell deeply in love with a guy named Ricky Cormier. They married and the family name changed to Cormier-Broke (because at this point the Brokes were anything but broke, but Holly wanted to honor her father and not lose the name completely). But there was a problem: Ricky had a history with Holly’s sister, Helen. Their relationship crashed hard when Helen decided to flirt and make out with Ricky at one of the family weddings where pretty much the entire neighborhood was gathering. After this, Helen and Holly’s relationship was broken beyond repair and Holly never forgave this, and neither did the rest of the family. So, Helen would live isolated from the rest of her family and former friends for the rest of her life, throwing herself at several men’s arms and to her career, becoming a music legend. She died alone at her huge apartment. Prior to the entire disaster, Holly had become pregnant and had a child, Oliver. She closed herself to love and focused on being a single mother after her divorce from Ricky. Oliver has recently married Joanna Dreamer (Dirk’s granddaughter).

Pete, the youngest of Dustin’s children, is the most beloved member of the entire family. He was too young to be caught in the middle of his older sisters’s drama and was too sweet to be corrupted anyway. He married Maisie Wallace, one of Cassandra and Darren’s granddaughters, and had a daughter, Anne.

Beau had a tough childhood just like his brother Dustin, although much easier than him thanks to his brother’s dedication. He became close friends with both Alexander Goth and Lucy Burb. The three of them were very close during their lifetimes. College, however, was hard on them all once romantic feelings began to develop between Alexander and Lucy and also between Lucy and Beau. Lucy and Beau ended up choosing each other, getting engaged since college and becoming a happy stable family. Both Beau and Lucy decided to make their family focus on gardening, choosing to rely mostly on their own produce instead of buying groceries, so that’s why the Burbs are known as the best gardeners in Pleasantview. Beau and Lucy had two children, Kelvin and Richard. Richard inherited the Burb farm, married a mysterious foreign girl named Emmy, and after a long period of infertility, they had two children, Orson and Ervin. Orson is set to become the new heir. Kelvin, on the other hand, married his college girlfriend Nancy Flowers and took her last name. They had two children, Titus and Farrah. Titus has recently become the sole heir after an accident in the kitchen took both Nancy and Farrah’s lives.

Adam (aka Unborn baby Broke), being Brandi’s third and middle child, did see the family go from living in trailers to be a consolidated family force. His first major life change was seeing his brother Dustin leave for college when he had just become a child, and so he was mostly close to Beau. At this point, Brandi met a new neighbor called Teddy Cross, they fell in love, got married, and had twins: Grant and Felicia. So, Adam also became quite close to his younger half siblings. In his teen years he met Meadow Thayer, took her last name and went on to marry her. They were close to being broke at first and had a tough beginning especially after the birth of their twins, Camilla and Cora. But Adam did manage to become a huge soccer star and Meadow was a big support to him and his family. He was the one with the lowest profile out of the five siblings and died peacefully of old age. Adam’s daughter, Camilla, became the heiress of his and Meadow’s house. She married Matthias Goth, Alexander’s eldest child, and had three children: Alex, Harper and Nate. Both Camilla and Matthias have recently became elders and are enjoying their children’s company before they all move to college. Harper is set to become the heir and the Thayers are, as of now, the only Matriarchy in Pleasantview.

Cora remained single for a while, falling in love with inappropriate men, most notoriously Omar Morrison (who was dating his second wife Maggie at the time and old enough to be her father) and Nicholas Stratton (Kaylynn’s youngest son…and also married). She met her husband, Dorian Kauker, when he helped her after a burglar entered her apartment. They had a son, Gabriel.

Teddy and Brandi had another financial setback and were forced to live temporarily at smaller trailers, and so their children lived with some restrictions but under a completely different context than that of Dustin, Beau and Adam. Grant was the only one of Brandi’s children who inherited her aspiration and also shared her visions of a big family. He met his wife, Kara (Cassandra and Darren’s daughter) since childhood and was always faithful to her. They had three daughters: Celine, Gina and Polly. Celine inherited the Cross name and house and is now a renowned actress, Gina married into the Morrisons and had two daughters, Tegan and Veronica; and Polly is just living her life as free townie.

Felicia, Brandi’s youngest and only daughter, was basically Brandi’s clone (regarding her looks) but was the opposite personality wise. A free spirit and highly athletic, she decided to follow in her big brother Adam’s footsteps in the Athletic career and somehow developed commitment issues, so she never married. She did, however, become close to Kennedy Cox who is the father of her only daughter, Ursula. When Ursula became an adult the family name was officially changed to Cox. Ursula began dating Isaac Dreamer after she became an adult and they get along so well despite the big age gap. They had one daughter, Rachel, and Isaac has recently moved in.

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Helen Allingham (English, 1848-1926): Summer meadow (via Bonhams)

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So you know Helen, Cabby's wife from The Magician's nephew? I was rereading the book and it struck me how weird it must have been for her, like one random Tuesday you're doing laundry by hand in your tiny, draughty, smelly London living space and the next you find yourself in a sunny meadow with a very large Lion announcing you and your husband will presently be crowned royalty of this here fairytale kingdom. Oh and your husband's hansom horse can not only talk now, he's given frickin wings and can fly.

I mean it's not like Polly and Digory hadn't had a wild day(s) - the Narnian timeline again- and whatever they've been through is way more in comparison to just being yoinked to a really nice woodland kingdom and be the ruler there now. It seems as if I take Polly and Digory a bit for granted in the scale of things, but still, as a kid you're probably gonna take magical adventures like that a bit easier than someone like Frank and Helen who had was harsh and tough lives that let little room for fancies. To them this scenario must have been beyond anything they've ever imagined.

And honestly good for them, I'd hardly imagine a better first King and Queen of Narnia than someone who had daily struggles and chose to remain a good, kind and decent person in the face of those struggles.

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Can't remember if I sent you an ask for the meme-ory, so ignore me if I did already 😅

🔮- Misty Olszewski

Tysm for the lovely ask <3 <3

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"Do you think Helen would be proud of me?" The question was timid, wrung from a soft, vulnerable place carefully guarded against Night City's greedy clutches.

Misty's hand paused, dusting cloth suspended over the counter as she directed her full attention to Vee. "Do you...think she wouldn't be?" Her voice was cautious, paired with an emerald shrewdness that forced Vee's shoulders into a helpless shrug.

"Sometimes-" The wound in Vee's heart throbbed and split open, bleeding in the intimate space between them, clogging her throat, "Sometimes I question if this is what she wanted for me...Whether she'd look at what I've become and wonder if it was all for nothing." A stray tear betrayed her, worming its way out of Vee's tight grip to trail down her cheek.

A soft shuffle drew her attention to Misty's deck, the pack of cards appearing from beneath the counter to settle in front of her. "What-?"

"Shh." Misty's hushed tone brooked no argument, and Vee shut her mouth.

The first card turned to the image of a bleeding heart pierced with three swords.

"III of Swords." Misty tapped the heart. "It's a card of great sorrow and grief, both physical and emotional. But sometimes suffering is necessary to draw out hidden strength."

She drew her hand over the second card, turning it over and placing it beside the first. A well-dressed man towered over two kneeling beggars, offering each of them a handful of coins.

Misty's voice held a smile, "VI of Pentacles. A card of generosity and security, of giving and receiving. Sometimes you're receiving, and at other times, you are on the giving end. It's an ongoing cycle of life, once you will always be a part of."

The third card revealed itself as a pair of lovers looking beyond a lush meadow, watching children play under a rainbow of ten cups.

"The X of Cups." Misty's fingers lingered over the card for a moment. "Comfort. Stability. Community. A card of bonds and celebration shared with others around you. You're surrounded by people who love you, whose lives you've enriched with your own."

Vee sniffled, clenching her jaw against the wave of rolling emotions threatening to drown her.

Reaching out, Misty grasped Vee's trembling fingers in her own, ignoring the merc's tears to stare at her with a soft, disarming smile. "I never met your mom. But I know you, and I think, wherever she is, she's extremely proud of you and who you've become."

A choked sob finally clawed its way out of Vee's throat, but she relaxed in Misty's grip, inexplicably relieved. She let herself shake for a moment, drawing back to rub her eyes. "Thanks, Misty," she said lamely, unable to find the words to describe what her friend had done for her. "I've always been scared that I- oh no. Shit. Shit. FUCK."

Misty reared back, alarmed as Vee stared at her gold-tipped hands. "What?!"

Vee thrust her soot-stained palm towards Misty like an accusation, "This is...supposed to BE WATERPROOF!!"

Shocked, Misty's gaze flit helplessly between Vee's hands and her smeared face before suddenly doubling over the counter with inelegant guffaws.

"Don't laugh, you musty bitch!" Vee shrieked, tilting her head back as she waved her hands in a futile effort to dry her tears. "Do you know how expensive this foundation is!? Makeup bag! Hurry before I smear everything!"

Misty sprinted to her purse.

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2022 YEAR END WRAP UP

This post is coming at y'all a little late because I was definitely overthinking things - but "favorite" doesn't really convey the differences between "I loved this," "I can't stop thinking about this," and "I need to yell at someone about this," does it? With that in mind, here's my 10 favorite reads of 2022 and 15 runners up 💕📚💕

Victoria Goddard – The Redoubtable Pali Avramapul, Portrait of a Wide Seas Islander, At the Feet of the Sun, The Saint of the Bookstore

Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch) by Anne Leckie

Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison

My Volcano by John Elizabeth Stintzi

Band Sinister by K.J. Charles

The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison

Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann

Midnight Never Come (The Onyx Court) by Marie Brennan

A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows

Lord Peter Wimsey series by Dorothy L Sayers

When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb

Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales) by Olivia Atwater

The Affair of the Mysterious Letter by Alexis Hall

The Perks of Loving a Wallflower by Erica Ridley

A Master of Djinn by P Djeli Clark

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel

Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower by Tamsyn Muir

Forget the Alamo by Burrough, Tomlinson, & Stanford

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

Spindle’s End by Robin McKinley

Lavender House by Lev A.C. Rosen

An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten

A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland

Dracula by Bram Stoker

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Universal Pictures “Fast X” Final Trailer

Hey there my dear readers, so we are only days away from the release of the Universal Pictures action-adventure “Fast X” which as you know by now is the 10th film in the popular “Fast and The Furious” series of car chase and intrigue films. Having touched upon this topic a few times already I’m going to suggest that you click HERE to make sure that you didn’t miss any of those posts and are fully…