#I LOVE YOU JCP

[gorillaxyz]

me reading my notifs and such

[taffyvontrips]

i was tagged by @nigelmansell and @jimclarkposting! Thank you friends!

last song: grace by hercules & love affair

last show: kids in the hall: death comes to town

currently watching: i'm in between watching things at the moment! tonight i'll probably pick up watching The Porter again on CBC

currently reading: right now i am actually in my university library taking a break from reading Making the Scene: Yorkville and Hip Toronto in the 1960s by making this post!

current obsessions: oh boy. definitely the kids in the hall, specifically bruce mcculloch as small fighty men (and of course buddy cole but that basically goes without saying. go sappho sluggers!). naturally, i am always obsessed with classic formula one. i'm in love with the bass guitar again after finally learning how to do a good walking bassline! i am also always obsessed with my little fantasy of time travel (sometimes i get carried away dreaming about it and then when i remember that it's not real, i get actually very sad).

Thank you so much for tagging me, you guys!! i don't know who hasn't been tagged yet so if you see this and you would like to do it, please do!! I mean it!!

[boydholbrook-fan]

Boyd Holbrook as Clement Mansell in Justified: City Primeval - BTS/Make-Up photos

I love these! These are some wonderful photos of our Boyd! Boyd is incredible, wonderful and such a cutie! Love him! He’s the best! ❤️🌟🔥😍🥰❤️‍🔥

Thank you so much, justine1stofhername via Instagram and all the other make-up artists, who worked on JCP, for sharing these wonderful photos!

I love Clement’s tattoos, especially the chest tattoo! And also this tattoo, Sandy’s tattoo!

Full photo:

Also these are wonderful photos! Shame it’s in poor quality. But better than nothing. Thank you so much, Taxman, Pollock, Murray & Bekkerman, LLC via Linkedin, for sharing these photos! And also huge thanks to @justifiedsource for sharing this in the first place! Great find indeed!

I also bet there are even much more BTS photos or even videos (bloopers/gag reel and stuff) from Justified: City Primeval. Wish we could have them.

[eloise-t-g]

spoilers for justified and justified: city primeval

finally went back and finished JCP (only watched two eps when it came out before i got bored lmao), and while it was a pretty good show, i still don't understand why it was labelled 'justified' or why raylan was there. regardless, after boyd's sequence at the very end, it's got me once again thinking about seasons 5 and 6 of justified, and in particular boyd and ava

it was clear the writers had worked out the show was ending after season 6, and where they wanted each of the main characters to be in the flash-forward to end the show. however, they couldn't have ava and boyd still love each other for that to happen, so they contrived extremely stupid ways of breaking them apart.

how much better it would have been if we, the audience, had seen boyd over and over trying to get ava out of prison, only to be genuinely out-maneuvered and out-played by raylan or other parties each time. how heartbreaking to see that contrasting with ava alone, suffering in prison, having no idea that boyd is desperately trying to help her. watching her become more and more bitter over the course of the series, both because he's seemingly abandoned her, but also the guilt that comes with believing that, with having that doubt about the love of her life.

it would have been so bittersweet to see her get herself out of prison at the end of season 5, and being torn between believing raylan (that boyd stopped trying to save her), and believing boyd (who claims raylan wants ava to doubt boyd in order to drive them apart). we would know the truth, but it would have been so interesting to see ava wrestle with the fact that she doubts boyd, especially if we see her find out about her pregnancy (rather than keep it a secret until the series finale, which was very silly). how can she raise a child with someone she ultimately doesn't trust?

this would lead into season 6, where we could have watched the desperation between them as ava wants to trust boyd, as she still loves him (rather than fall quickly and completely out of love with him, as she did), and boyd panicking as he feels her slipping away. this panic would lead him to do more and more desperate things, in particular, going after raylan with more violence. that, i think, would be the final straw for ava, solidifying the belief that she can't trust boyd with their child, that he would never truly change for them, that he's always going to be drawn back into violence and crime (the heartbreaking notion that he's known nothing else his whole life, so can she even blame him?).

idk, i just think the notion of two people still loving each other despite everything, but it's the wrong place, wrong time, would have suited the show and the journey these characters had been on, so much better than having them both act out of character for two seasons. i loved the finale, and where the three mains ended up, but the build up could have been so much better.

bonus points if raylan had lied to both of them, and also told ava that boyd was dead. this wouldn't really make sense as she could then have become complacent (and therefore put her and her son at risk), so i can understand why they didn't do that. but looking down the barrel at a potential JCP season 2 where we revisit the ava/boyd conflict, could you imagine how much juicier it would be if they had both let go of their anger and heartbreak to mourn each other, only to find out like a decade later that not only is the other still alive, but for boyd to discover their son, and ava to discover boyd still hasn't changed.

i'm torn between wanting a second season of JCP to explore these characters again, and leaving them where they are. i'm happy raylan finally retired and is spending time with his daughter. i'm happy ava and her son are safe. i'm even happy boyd escaped - he can have a little freedom as a treat lmao.

i don't even know where i was going with this, i just wanted to get my thoughts out haha. cheers to anyone who made it this far o7

[itookyoudown]

good lord. rip my inbox and DMs. lots of us been bottling up for a while huh?

justies it's okay, i promise. you too are allowed to be disappointed or pissed or what have you by JCP that doesn't make you a "bad fan" or whatever. it's also okay to have complicated feelings and love some things about it while also hating other things it. doesn't have to be an all-or-nothing thing.

even the OG show had stuff lots of people disliked. remember the winona stealing money plot? i sure do i still skip it on rewatches.

you're fine! it's okay!!

[desertblues1000]

maggie rogers love you for a long time is the only popular song that makes me emotional. when it would play at JCP I would be like 😓

[cutthroatchorus]

i’m kind of dying to know what made jc penney so bad?? i’ve never had the pleasure of working retail tho

Ooooh well!! This is going to be long.

Let's start with a post I wrote about it, a year after I quit:

That post mainly talks about the most egregious shit that went on during my time there. I'm gonna put the rest under a readmore.

Like I mentioned, I've worked a hell of a lot of retail, and I'd never worked under such a dogshit management team... and I've had a manager who accused me of stealing a videogame prior to its release date ($5k fine at the time!) and sexually assaulted me when I put in my two weeks' notice.

Another manager (different job) would steal money from the safe, and then at the end of the shift, he'd make whoever was working that night "make up the difference" of the "lost" money. (This is super illegal btw! At least in the US)

You know the expression "I wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire"? I would rather work for one of those guys again, than waste my sacred urine putting out the flames on one of my former JCP managers. Because I KNOW how to deal with sex pests and thieves. Hell, I got the second guy fired, and I was only 21 years old at the time!

But the unique combination of incompetence, malice, backstabbing, and exploitation on display in that particular store? I only dealt with it for as long as I did by completely numbing myself out, and I lost a lot of myself in the process.

JCP was also the worst place I had worked in terms of all the shit I had to push on people at point of sale. Pretty much every retail job ever is going to involve pushing some sort of promotion on customers. Loyalty program signups, add-on sales, customer satisfaction surveys, or the dreaded... credit cards.

Retail credit cards are bad. They're just bad! Unless you shop at a specific store a LOT, they're probably not worth it. So having a set goal of getting X number of people per month to attempt to open a line of credit with terrible interest rates — and btw if you don't meet that goal enough months in a row, you get "corrective action" — feels bad!

But it wasn't just the credit card. I had to ALSO push the loyalty program. ALSO push the survey. ALSO push these weird gift card promotions, where I was supposed to convince someone to spend $X on gift cards and pay for their stuff that way, because you know what people love? Making their checkout process take three times longer than it should.

It made every customer interaction feel completely scripted from start to finish. Part of why I used to like retail was talking to people. I met so many cool people at most of my retail jobs! Not so, with JCP. By the time I quit, I had reached a point where I was physically angry anytime people talked to me outside of work. I didn't want to talk at all. Ever.

(Which also ties back to what I said about losing parts of myself because of this job. And as you can imagine, this was GREAT for my relationships at the time)

Ultimately, though, it didn't matter much because the customers also sucked shit. I'm sure a lot of them would have been cool and interesting had I encountered them in a different setting. But I think there is something about "non-essential" retail that makes people behave with a certain kind of callous entitlement. People NEED clothing, yes, but I wouldn't call 2 for $25 men's flannel shirts a "need" in the same way that, you know. Food is.

I had a woman argue with me about coupons not working on Nike products while my coworker was having a fucking grand mal seizure on the floor behind me because of COURSE I had to keep ringing people out while that happened.

One time I went to clear out the fitting room and picked up a garment that someone had ejaculated into and stuffed underneath the bench.

There was a guy where I don't even remember what he wanted or what he was saying, he was just so relentlessly aggressive over the phone that I had a panic attack in the back office.

So as far as what made JC Penney so bad... everything, pretty much.

[kimwritesss]

My Answered Prayer

Hello hoomans! I’ve been praying to God this whole year to send me where He wants me to be and He finally answered me.

I left my previous church (since I was 5 years old) because of my personal reasons that I cannot share with anyone even my pastor who took care of me for years, who taught me a lot of things, who showed me how great is our God. I cannot tell him that I’m not growing in that church anymore, I don’t feel welcome and I’m not happy. How can you tell that to someone who did nothing but loved and even welcomed me to his own family with open arms?

I remember when my dad and I had an argument, he saved me. He asked me to stay in our church for a while, gave me some advices. I felt like at that moment, he’s the only one who could understand me. I did a lot of stupid things in my teenage years and that includes hurting and disappointing him over and over again.

He asked me before when I failed him, “Kim, san ako nag kulang?” (Where did I go wrong?). I kept on shaking my head and telling him that it’s not his fault, I made a decision and it was all me. I saw how hurt he was and it rarely happens because he’s the strongest person you could ever meet.

Saying how thankful I am to him is not enough. When I finally meet God, I will tell Him how faithful is His servant, how dedicated he was in serving the Lord, how pure is his heart in loving his members. Thank you Pastor A for everything, I will forever be grateful to God for making you part of my life.

I’ve been praying to God for years to give me a new home church where I will grow and will be happy in serving Him. I went to different churches and felt disappointed again and again because I don’t feel that God is putting me there.

Then one night, I was trying to look for a church, again. Out of nowhere, I thought of my lola’s previous church which was Journey Church Philippines. I asked my boyfriend if he could come with me and he said yes.

The moment I step inside the church, I felt God’s movement in my life. It was Pastora Marlyn Arcilla who preached that day.

The topic was God of Many Chances: Getting God’s New Direction.

Could you believe that? The first time I attended that church, the topic was about new direction. During the preaching I was listening carefully and crying at the same time. Amazed of how good is our God.

If you dwell in the past, you will not see the new things He in store for you. - Ptra. Marlyn Arcilla

I mean that was exactly what I needed to hear that time. God spoke to me in many different ways that day.

Today is my third Sunday attending worship service at JCP. I approached Ptra. Marlyn to give her some gifts since I felt really blessed because of her. God used her in my life. We talked for a while then she prayed for me.

When I heard her prayer, I just want to kneel and cry before God. I was so thirsty, so dry and so lonely. I missed serving Him, I missed everything about Him.

During worship, I was singing this song (Sukdulang Biyaya) at the top of my lungs, shouting how grateful I am to God for giving me many chances. Right now, I’m praying to God to use me again, not now but soon. I’m not in hurry, I just want to soak in His presence.

Sometimes God is telling us to let go so we could grow but it’s hard for us to obey. Our hard headed/human logic is not agreeing in what God is telling us. I believe that all we have to do is just silence the word of the world and listen to the word of the Lord.

[juliopison]

DISCOTECA (Blues) Plataforma ivoox Blues and Whisky LP Elegidos del Café Vol 03

Para escuchar el Disco pulsa el Link: https://go.ivoox.com/rf/129463811

01 Dave Steffen Band - Phantom Lady 02 Joey Gilmore - Cold Cold Feeling 03 Tina Turner - Undercover Agent For The Blues 04 Ryan McGarvey - Blue Eyed Angel Blues 05 Mike Andersen - This Time 06 Tristan Mackay - I'll Be Yours Tonight 07 Annie Lenox - I Put a Spell on You 08 Tony Joe White - You're Gonna Look Good In Blues 09 John Lee Hooker - No Shoes 10 Chris Rea - As long as I have Your Love 11 Sean Chambers - Cut Off My Right Arm 12 Greg Poulos - Out of Sight

Café Mientras Tanto jcp

[thehoneycombdailydevotional]

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Today's Melody🎵

February 25, 2023

Praise Him in Advance

Symphony of Love Series

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Praise is such a powerful thing. It helps us shift our focus from what is happening around you unto God and what He has said. Praise helps joy proliferate in our heart and gives us strength to push through.

Praise shouldn't be an occasional thing but an everyday thing. Marvin Sapp even puts a twist to it, "Praise God In Advance."

The praise of God must continually be on our lips regardless of the situations we may find ourselves in. God deserves our praise everyday, everywhere, every time as long as we have the breath of life.

Psalms 135:3 - "Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good; sing praises to His name, for it is pleasant."

Make it a point to praise at all the time. For the Lord inhabits the praise of his people.

Will you praise today?

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Thought Provoking Verse:

I started singing, I started clapping, I started dancing, people were laughing,

they knew my problems, they knew my pain, but I knew God would take them away.

That's why I praise him with a song, when things are right and when they're wrong,

He's given me a second chance, come on lets praise Him in advance.

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[kellstreasures]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Women’s JCP Tan Cable Knit Long Sleeve Pullover Sweater - Size Large.

[nickgerlich]

Influence Me

In a not-too-distant past, the shape and feel of advertising and promotion was very different from what it is today. Before social media and the rise of the influencer, marketers leaned on famous athletes, movie stars, popular musicians, and other icons of pop culture to serve as spokespersons for their brand.

While this is still done in small measure—those athletes are typically getting lots of money and merch simply to be seen wearing a certain shoe or whatever—influencers are the new normal. After all, they can be a lot cheaper. I can only imagine how much they had to pay quarterback Joe Namath to wear pantyhose in 1974. I hope it was a lot.

Today, anyone with an Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube channel can become an influencer, and it’s pretty random how it occurs. There are four levels of influencers:

Mega-influencer: More than one million followers.

Macro-influencers: Between 100,000 and one million followers.

Micro-influencers: Between 10,000 and 100,000 followers.

Nano-influencers: Between 1,000 and 10,000 followers.

Turns out we consumers believe the influencers. Sixty-nine-percent of consumers trust recommendations from them, which goes a lot farther than a footballer wearing women’s clothing.

JC Penney is now putting its trust in an influencer, having created the new Stylus menswear brand around LaDarius Campbell. It’s a serious effort meant to help revive a sagging department store brand that has languished in recent years.

The limited-edition line will hopefully sway men to come to JCP, which may be no small task. I speak from experience with the JC Penney store at Amarillo’s Westgate Mall. They have suffered through supply chain shortages for far too long, with the men’s department looking like an over-shopped thrift store. This may be more about reinventing than just reviving.

The Dallas-based Campbell will host a live styling event at his local JCP, which will also be posted online afterward. Why they are not doing a livestream is beyond me, because it’s not like this is a sporting event with blackout markets.

I have to at least give a little credit to JCP for trying, because it most certainly needs help. The new line is a continuation of similar efforts to bolster its private label collections, which typically have higher margins for the company.

Of course, getting men excited about new clothes may be as likely as getting them to finish that project they started six months ago. The gender divide looms large here. Once again, I speak from experience, purchasing clothing only when I need to, not because I want to. Shopping for clothes is punishment before the judgment.

But then again, maybe enough guys will take a liking not only to the idea of shopping, but also this new line from JCP. The chain, which was born in 1902 in Kemmerer, Wyoming, has seen better days. When Ron Johnson became CEO in 2011, in an effort to revive a company that had taken a hard hit during the 2008-2009 recession, he scrapped coupons and weekly sales. Instead, he chose to use Walmart’s strategy, which is everyday low prices (EDLP).

Short story: It flopped, because JCP’s customers, which were primarily women, loved the thrill of the hunt and thrived on those weekly coupons and discounts. Sales dropped another 25%.

JCP then reverted to coupons and sales promotions, but now, revenues continue to sag. In 2020, an unlikely marriage of two property management companies, Brookfield Property Partners and Simon Property Group, bought JCP for $800 million. This included $300 million in cash, and the assumption of $500 million in debt.

More importantly, the two buyers were helping ensure the longevity of their shopping malls, because losing a major tenant is hard. It is not a good look (I’m thinking about all the Sears and Macy’s closings). But if you own one of your anchor stores, and have enough cash and gumption to keep it afloat, well…you get the picture. These two firms saved JCP from extinction.

And now we are left to ponder if the latest effort will find traction. But if it doesn’t, Joe Namath is still alive. Maybe he’d might like to model menswear this time around.

Dr “If The Pants Fit, Wear Them” Gerlich

Audio Blog

[the-blind-assassin-12]

10:44 am: Despite near constant efforts, the switch in the bathroom still does nothing.

An excerpt from the power outage chronicles, day 4

[britishchick09]

the future of pv mall has been revealed! :D

and the past will still be honored! :’)

[nancylou444]

Did I ever tell you what happened when I got fired from Staples? If I did, it was on nancy444 and it’s gone forever.

Anyhow, around the 20th or so of August, Malcolm, one of the assistant managers, called me to his office and told me that my customer service was lacking. He told me that if it didn’t approve, there was a chance that I could be fired. 

Now mind you, overnights started the next week, so my upcoming interaction with customers was going to next to none. 

Customer service in Staples required one to hand merch to customers while talking about the merch. It also required STAYING with the customer until THE CUSTOMER no longer needed assistance. 

Now imagine THREE other customers wanting attention and NOT understanding why one is not helping them NOW. 

I came to Staples after almost ten years of being a stockperson in RadioShack, where I barely helped customers. Now I was being forced to wait on them hand and foot. 

It’s a miracle I lasted over a year with the company. 

Anyway, after a late night heart pounding trip home, overnights was a done deal. 

Dad died that Saturday. Because of the Jewish holidays, we had to wait a week before sitting shiva. So, I didn’t go back to work until the beginning of October. 

Exactly a month after Dad’s death, I’ve been back to work only two weeks, Malcolm called me into his office. Denise (another assistant manager) was there as well. 

He carried on about customer service this and customer service that. I just nodded my head because I knew what was coming. 

They didn’t fire me in August, because they wanted me to work overnights. They couldn’t fire me after overnights because I wasn’t there. They couldn’t fire me after I came back, because it would look heartless. 

Denise was more upset about what was going on, then I was. Finally I asked, “Am I being fired?”

Malcolm tried to bullshit me, but I wasn’t dealing with it. I said, “Am I fired?”

Malcolm went, “Unfortunately yes.”

I went “okay” and walked out the office. I went to the locker room, changed my clothes. Threw my Staples shirt in the garbage. Emptied out my locker, said goodbye to a few co-workers and left. 

BUT here’s the best part. 

The next day, I had to go back because where I live they want proof of everything. So I needed an official pink slip from Staples. 

Yeah, I know, nobody gets those anymore. I asked for one at JCP and the manager looked at me as if I were talking Chinese to her. 

I walked into Staples. Janice, another assistant manager, was at the counter. She saw me walk in and watched MY HANDS as I walked over to her. 

MY HANDS. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I asked if Malcolm was around and told her what I needed. She said he was in the office. 

I went downstairs and Malcolm was waiting for me and he also WATCHED MY HANDS as I walked over to him. 🤣🤣

Now he’s black, almost six foot and solid build, but he was scared of what a 5′5″ white woman, double his age, maybe 60 or so pounds lighter, might have in her hands. 

Needless to say, I didn’t get a pink slip but I did walk out the store with a big smile on my face. 

Oh, back when we were getting JCP ready, one of my co-workers was from Staples and she told me that a lot of Staples employees in Brooklyn were fired because they were doing fraudulent tablet sales. 

Including Malcolm.  Gotta love karma. 😁

[lovemesomesurveys]

Did you try the Unicorn Frappuccino when Starbucks had it, and if so, what did you think? No, I thought it looked cute, but I never got around to trying it.

Is your hair naturally more light, dark, or in-between? Dark. Does your hair have natural highlights in it? No. What was the last clothing store you shopped at? Online I was looking at at Shein, in person I went to Ross. Do you like your old phone better than your newest one? No.

What are three names you like that start with "Z"? Zadok, Zach, Zoey. What was the last thing you wore that was purple? Not sure exactly, but it’s been awhile. What are five things everyone else seems to like, but you hate? Sushi, seafood in general, alcohol, socializing and always having to be doing something, ha, and summertime. What were three trends from when you were in high school that you think were terrible? I don’t feel like thinking that far back. Would you rather have a snowball fight or water balloon fight? Not into either one. What grocery store do you shop at the most? We do our big grocery shopping trips at Walmart. What color was your first car? I haven’t had my first car; I don’t drive. Does your family support you in the pursuit of your dreams? I have a very supportive and encouraging family. What's one place you'd like to visit that you haven't yet? There’s so many places I’d love to visit that I haven’t yet. What is one medication that you take every day? My pain medication. When was the last time you wore make-up? Last June for my brother’s grad party. Do you own a cross necklace? No. I do want to get one. What are three things you wanted as a kid but never got? I don’t know, I’m very fotunate and blessed to have been provided what I needed and a lot of what I wanted.  What are three things you loved about your backyard as a kid? My swing set. How did you pick names for your imaginary friends when you were younger? I don’t know. What was your favorite class in high school? English and Spanish. What were your favorite mall stores when you were in high school? Hot Topic, Macy’s, JCP. What is the capital city in the state/province/region/whatever that you live in? Sacramento. Did you ever go to summer camp as a child? No. ^If yes, what were three things you loved about it? -- Do you make to-do lists? Yeah, quite often. Use three words to describe your bedroom. Small, clutter-y, random. Who was your favorite celebrity when you were a kid? The big 90s stars, basically. Do you currently have a crush? No. It’s been like 5 years since I’ve had romantic feelings for someone. What’s that even feel like I don’t remember. What was one thing you weren't allowed to wear in high school, that you wanted to wear? My parents were reluctant about me wearing me eyeliner at first. They didn’t want it too heavy. They allowed me to wear it, though. What does it look like outside right now? It looks sunny. It’s 73 F right now, which is kinda warm. What is your favorite outdoor temperature? I prefer below 70s, but I can handle that over upper 70s and above that’s for sure. What's the highest fever you've ever had? Like 101.  Do you prefer llamas, penguins, or owls? Owls, I guess. Are you allergic to any foods? Tangerines. What are you severely allergic to, if anything? Nothing severely. What was the last store in your town that permanently closed (that you know of)? Hmm. I’m blanking at the moment. Where do you find new music? For a bit it was Tiktok back when I was obsessed with it during like the first year of the pandemic. Otherwise, it was throug Spotify and what others I know were listening to. What's your favorite girl's name? I like seasonal/weather/nature related names, ha. Ya know, names like Autumn, Winter, Skylar, Skye, Oceana/Ocean, Rain. How old are you? 32 for 4 more months. Do you own a cross necklace? No. Do you own a moon necklace? No. What is the meaning of your name? ”Crowned” or something like that. Would you rather be a fairy or a mermaid? Fairy. What makes your heart soar? Feel good, heart warming stories. What are three things that make you feel alive? I haven’t felt alive in a long time.