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retvenkos · 4 years

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“this place feels like home”

A/N: someone mentioned it, so here i am

WHAT THE HOGWARTS COMMON ROOMS LOOK LIKE, IN MY CLEARLY SUPERIOR OPINION...

gryffindor common room

i’m no interior decorator, and i’m betting godric gryffindor wasn’t either, so it looks like a glorified man cave

lots of designated areas for just hanging out, a huge, central fireplace, lots of open places perfect for pulling your wand on someone to duel, but very cluttered in other areas where you are meant to be close for house bonding!

secondly, there are a total of like, 4 desks you can use to work on, and they’re pushed to the walls, the chairs constantly stolen for something or another.

the main focus of the gryffindor common room is the couches and chairs

there’s a recliner that some muggle-born student brought in, and when they first kicked it out the purebloods went absolutely feral

they don’t know how it works, but they love it

there are so many radios... gryffindor has the best sound system for any kind of party. the other houses have to use charms to get the sound evenly distributed, but gryffindors just use their like, 10 different radios

there are a lot of spare pillows and blankets, but they don’t exactly have a place to go - they’re usually just thrown on the back of the couches or cast to the floor.

sometimes the 1st years will play “the ground is lava” and it’s vvv sweet

the ceiling has constellations mapped onto it, and they’re actually accurate. using your wand, you can “shift” the sky and it’s a really effective way to get your astronomy homework done

harry didn’t notice it because he’s as observant as a doorknob

the most chaotic thing about the gryffindor common room is the fact that there are real swords and battle axes on the wall, all of which belonged to godric gryffindor himself

students will 100% try to use them as jokes, but they can never manage to actually grab them? their hands just go right through them like they aren’t real

but if you approach them with nothing but wonder and reverence, when you reach out, you can most definitely feel them, and they are real

i really just want someone to have picked up a battle axe during the battle at hogwarts, now

there are a couple of portraits that give life advice, but most of them are #tired and leave their portraits to go visit others because the common room can get so crazy

the amount of animals this common room has,,,, i sure do hope you’re not allergic

there are lizards, rats, toads, cats, tarantulas...

if you’re afraid of any of them, tell your classmates when you’re still a first or second year and the whole of gryffindor tower will rally behind you to make the other person put their animal in their dormitory

there always seems to be leftover food from a party, so you’re well fed.

and if you’re from another house, this is the easiest house to steal food from.

oh, and the carpet (because YEAH, someone put in carpet with some kind of magic) does not match the furnishings at all.

minimalists cry at the sight of this common room

slytherin common room

first of all!!!! this common room has a glass ceiling because someone else came up with this idea and it is legendary

they mentioned the merfolk help with classes! they know sign language! i am very here for it.

then,,, there is an entire section of the common room that is dedicated to games - checkers, chess, poker, solitaire, even some muggle board games

it’s how they foster community. friendly competition is everything to slytherins and slytherins can actually do friendly competition, unlike ravenclaws

at lot of purebloods are still trying to win risk. it confuses them so much.

there’s probably a cat or two in this common room

they actually get along fairly well with the owls, but every so often snape has to come in and stop then from attacking each other and it would be hilarious if he weren’t so intimidating

there’s a lot more space in this common room, or maybe it’s just set up as to give the illusion of more space. either way, the slytherins are more spread out.

they don’t like breathing on each other

the gothic aesthetic does exist, but it’s not all gloomy because some intelligent slytherin’s know that’s bad for mental health.

they probably have a fourth of the room (maybe in a corner) that’s a little more lighted and cozy, with the most supportive portraits in that area

the slytherin common room has bean bags

this was a later addition, ofc, seeing as there is no way in hell salazar slytherin would ever allow that to happen

but everyone loves them a whole lot. 1st years always beeline for them

and slytherin was a good interior decorator, so we have the perfect ratio of portraits to wall space and the amount of lamps is actually palatable.

and there might be a dramatic hamlet skull on a table or two, but they’re not real - just decor. sometimes slytherin’s use them for pranks.

there’s actually a fair bit of communal property, too? like, there’s a lot of blankets, a bookshelf, and a table that always has food on it because the dungeons are hella far away from the kitchens and many slytherins like a good midnight snack

the slytherins actually talk more to ghosts than the other houses - ghosts like to hang out in the dungeons, and the amount of ghost jokes that the slytherins know is incredible

a group of hufflepuffs swear they once heard professor binns laugh at a ghost joke one of the slytherin’s retold

the snake iconography of this room is so high - it would honestly be a little unnerving if everyone wasn’t just used to it.

there’s probably a game going around where someone will conjure up an extra snake decoration and every week the first and second years are trying to find out which one it is

sometimes a very tired 5th year will give you a hint

there’s not a space that’s specifically designated for studying, but you can often find space in a few different places.

the desks are always being used for games, like i mentioned above, but someone had introduced the idea of lap desks and slytherins love that so much.

ravenclaw common room

this is the most minimalist of the common rooms in decor and style, but there’s so much happening at all times that it never looks bare

and a fair few ravenclaws are BIG about organization, so this is one of the more compartmentalized common rooms

it’s also formatted this way because the studious ravenclaw has threatened the musically inclined ravenclaw, saying that they will not hesitate to sabotage the other’s saxophone if they ever hear careless whisper while trying to study for n.e.w.t.s again.

also, i just want to say that ravenclaw house is probably one of the most diverse houses because creativity is so broad, and that combined with their individualistic streak means that community is a little less strong in this house, but there’s a place for everyone

i have no doubt that someone has enchanted the common room to expand on the inside, so it has much more room than say gryffindor common room or hufflepuff common room.

they’re also big about making boundaries - there’s probably actual walls and doors between different areas.

like, one for studying, one for art (like drawing and painting), one for music, etc.

also, you would think this is a quiet common room but you would be wrong.

the quiet ones are slytherin and hufflepuff. gryffindor and ravenclaw are both p chaotic.

except for the quiet room, which is as silent as they come. if you need quiet inspiration, you go there. it’s also the study room, though, so when you’re struck with inspiration, you have to keep quiet.

now, ravenclaws like to keep what is theirs, but they do have some communal property, mostly in the form of books and materials like typewriters and art supplies (although some people are very territorial about their brushes. it’s a toss up.)

there’s a floor to ceiling window that can actually be opened up - kind of like doors. the ravenclaws have it instead of the gryffindors because they have self control and won’t jump out the window without a sure plan of survival.

there’s also statues and busts! rowena ravenclaw was decent at interior design, and she loved sculpture - maybe she had a sculptor lover at one point? who knows? there’s just a lot of busts in ravenclaw tower

no doubt they’re enchanted to give advice or tbh just to gossip. i imagine there’s a lot of gossip in ravenclaw tower

the walls are painted in some places. it’s a rule that you don’t paint over other people’s art, but the paint is also enchanted so that if you look closely, you can see the name of who has painted what, and ravenclaws are too proud to do idiotic things like drawing crude doodles on the walls.

the only person to ever paint on the ceiling is luna lovegood, and she was commissioned to do so after her time at hogwarts.

there’s also a chalkboard wall for when you’re studying and need to write things down to think. beware, though, because your work can and will be erased.

you can also write on the large window i talked about! muggle students have brought dry erase markers and they are much needed.

oh, and ravenclaws have a lot of owl access - they owls like to stop at ravenclaw tower for treats and whatnot, and ravenclaws definitely use this to their advantage. they have priority for mail service and it’s a win tbh.

hufflepuff common room

now helga hufflepuff was no interior decorator either, but she was a homemaker, so we all know that this common room is the most home-like of the bunch

first of all, there are potted plants everywhere. hufflepuffs are known to be good at herbology, and that tradition means there are a whole lot of life in this common room

there’s also a curious amount of sunlight, too, despite being in the basement. i’m not exactly sure how it’s done, but the common room has actual sunlight - it’s important for the plants.

i also imagine there’s one wall that is a long mirror. you can use it for whatever you like, introspection, self affirmations, or reflecting light or whatever, but helga thought it was important to always be aware of yourself.

muggle students have brought sticky notes and now the mirror if full of them - little reminders, little motivations, fun quotes, jokes, etc.

there’s also a lot of couches and desks. the desks are usually very cluttered, but you can always find space for your stuff, somehow. and the couches are the softest at hogwarts, gryffindors have been trying to steal them for years.

also, the marauders were incredibly presumptuous, thinking they had found all of the secret passageways in the castle - there are at least 3 secret passages that only hufflepuffs know about and it’s one of the best kept secrets at hogwarts. they all connect to the common room.

and as initiation, on their first night as hufflepuffs, first years traverse secret passageways in the dark trying to figure out where they lead, all of them having to work together to figure out the lumos spell for some light.

and one of those passageways leads to the kitchens. it’s how they get the best food for parties. hufflepuffs often put in requests for what they want at breakfast or dinner.

this is also the warmest common room. i’m not exactly sure how it’s done, but the common room is never cold - maybe a little chilly, but not cold enough that you need a sweater.

the flooring is carpet, but parts of it are hard wood - it’s clear it used to be carpet, but was stained beyond repair from a broken pot or two.

there is toad supremacy in the hufflepuff common room. there’s probably one or two toads that don’t have real owners but are treated as the house pets.

there’s also a few paintings - all of them are smaller because there’s so much going on in this common room already, the walls have to be mellow to account for everything else, but there’s a couple and all of them like to tell jokes and give really good advice.

two of the newer (and favorite) additions include cedric diggory and tonks. they both get along quite well, although tonks is more mischievous and cedric is more down to earth.

cedric will often tell you how to charm a professor, if you ask, and he might give answers to homework questions to favorite students.

similar to gryffindor common room, there’s a lot of cozy areas that encourage students to chat with each other and spend time together.

but similar to slytherin, there is a lot of games about - they involve less strategy and more fun (like hide and go seek or charades) - but games is a bonding strategy that hufflepuffs utilize.

AND FLUFF ENSUES.

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smokeybrandreviews · 4 years

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A Trance On a Hard Beat

Letterkenny is a f*cking masterpiece. It’s legitimately one of the best shows i have ever seen in my entire f*cking life. Even if one season is slightly more pedestrian than another, at it's worst, this show still embarrasses the majority of television airing today. Seriously, the principal cast, refereed to as hicks, skids, and hockey players, are exceptional. Jared Keeso has created some classic characters with an even more unique dialogue. There is an entire lexicon of slang and wordplay that you pick up on subconsciously watching this show. I’ve actively incorporated some of it in my every day speech. It's amazing to me how complete this show is, considering the genre. You rarely see such detailed world-building in television comedy.

Letterkenny is, effectively, a slice of life, following the misadventures of Wayne, Katy, Squirrel Dan, and Dary. They are the Hicks. They are f*cking hilarious. As the show progresses, you’re introduced to the other denizens of the five-thousand strong city, all just as memorable as the next. Some of my favorites include Mr. and Mrs. McMurray; a couple so goddamn horny, they’re can’t keep their hands off of each other, or anyone else for that matter. The dumbass hockey players, Rilley and Jonesy, who lust after big city slams and swear they never get the Native Flu. The swoon worthy Bonnie McMurray, especially in the later seasons when she actually joins in on the agriculture fun. But, all of that said, all of that love given here it is definitely due, I'd be remiss if i didn’t properly give my personal respects to Tanis. Auntie Tanis from the Rez. My goodness. Tanis is f*cking everything, man! Grill marks, for sure, bud!

While i love the characters and their quirks, the dialogue in this thing is absolutely exceptional. The jokes come fast and the interactions even faster. It might seem redundant at times, even a little juvenile, but trust that the delivery and punchline will redeem any apprehension. This sh*t is some of the smartest, quickest, wittiest, writing i have ever seen on television, period. I forgot to mention that this thing is Canadian, through and through. Top to bottom, filmed in Canada for Canadians, and still internationally hilarious. Great comedy transcends everything and Letterkeeny is one of the best to ever do it. I respect the f*ck out of that. I live in the States where all our TV is effectively Keeping up with the Kardashians-esque trash, This is us Emmy pandering, or Family Guy try-hard comedy, so seeing something like Letterkenny come though and effortlessly make me guffaw with an organic cleverness, is very much appreciated.

The first few seasons aired in Canada as the first original series of Crave TV That’s the Great White North’s version of Netflix. I imagine there are fewer restrictions up there so you can get away with a lot of language and adult themes, stuff censors would definitely kill to death down here. The Skids literally sell meth. There is a whole arc in the first few seasons, i can’t remember which one specifically, where they turn Letterkenny into a Meth Town. Out of spite. That story don’t fly on US airwaves, especially considering the “Opioid Cris” the news wants me to care about so bad. Since the show’s acquisition by Hulu, they’ve been pushing the envelope further and further, dropping season eight last year, which might be my favorite season of the show so far. That last scene of that run was incredible. We are left with a cliffhanger of palpable intensity and i kind of love it.

Speaking of that scene, the soundtrack to it’s carnage was incredible. M83′s Do It, Try It. That sh*t was epic. I’m a massive fan of that band and hearing them get play on one of my favorite shows is always awesome. But the musical stingers don’t end there. Letterkenny licenses the best tunes for the best effect. Pressure by Milk n Bone plays as the angelic Rosie appears for the first time onscreen while Ron and Dax’s first dance after their nuptials was set to F*ck the Pain Away. Fineshrine by Purity ring serenaded a rather adorable episode close in season six and has been a mainstay on my Spotify rotation every since. Purity Ring, itself, has become one of my favorite bands and i have this show to thank for the introduction. The selection throughout the entire show is eclectic as f*ck and they’re almost always bangers. I love a show that can broaden my audiophile horizons and everyday playlists like that.

Letterkenny is a f*cking miracle of television. I love this show. It’s written brilliantly with a penchant for the absurd but grounded in a weird, homey, kind of vibe. While the content is lighthearted, the writers are able to take rather unflattering stereotypes or uncomfortable social conversations, and weave some of the most palatable satire I have ever witnessed. With such endearing characters, it makes broaching sensitive subjects easy. The music is dope, the narrative is airtight, and the comedy is diverse. This show is wildly inclusive but it never seems forced, often lampooning those who lean too hard on either side. It's absolutely f*cking inspired and should be seen by everyone. Letterkenny deserves all of that shine.

#Letterkenny

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gayregis · 4 years

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Do you have any thoughts on TWN using non polish actors to portray characters from polish fantasy book with dense polish culture and roots? And on how most of the cast apperereance are drastically different than in the books? Like Foltest, Renfri, Fringilla or Calanthe? (Sorry this is the correct one, i forgot to add Fringilla on my previous question.)

i feel like the witcher should not be handled by a large american company like netflix. it is clear that a lot of decisions were made to “dumb the series down” in a manner that would make it more of a pop culture phenomenon that could be used to profit off of from viewership, subscriptions, social buzz, and merchandise, instead of an opportunity to demonstrate actual artistry, storytelling, character depth, and poignant messages. the company that handles it CAN be american or another nationality besides polish, but it shouldn’t be a huge one focused on making as much money and social sharability as possible, that will ruin things. (i also feel like the witcher should not be a live-action adaptation, but this is kind of besides the point... to better gauge how i think the feel of a visual-audial witcher adaptation should look, my dream adaptation would be that of a more “adult version” (”adult” meaning in themes like war and despair) studio ghibli or laika).

in regards to casting, i feel like it’s fine to not use an all polish cast as long as they fit the character description in a way that is actually relevant to the plot. so many people in response to people of color being cast in the witcher were volalitely racist and demanded a “polish cast” - as if polish MUST = white. even though poland is not as ethically diverse as some other european countries, people of color do exist in poland, as they/we exist everywhere. if you want an “all-polish cast and production,” that’s fine to me, i don’t think it’s inherently necessary, but i think if one is doing so, that doesn’t mean that it would be wrong to cast actors of color in roles.

i think the issue lies more with storytellng, for two reasons. one is that eastern european people involved on set seem to actually understand the witcher and what it’s about way better than any of the british cast, and by that i mean sakharov and baginski, who have demonstrated more understanding of like, the style of storytelling (not every scene needs to be jammed with action, drama, sex, gore), what the characters actually mean to each other, and the lore in general. this makes sense because i have read some articles and such before about how the witcher was and is important to its fans in poland and eastern europe because very little “slavic fantasy” ever gets exported and represented internationally, and of course sapkowski involved many cultural references in the series, so it’s recognizable to people from those regions (or are diaspora from those regions) who grew up hearing these fairytales, etc. it’s more of a meaningful callback and less of a “foreign curiosity,” if that makes sense. so for those reasons, i think it’s important to have a majority polish and/or slavic writing room/directors/etc, people behind the story and how the story is told - but that doesn’t mean the writer’s room should be all white men, though. diversity in gender, race, etc should be considered.

the other reason is that the casting for the netflix is inaccurate, but not for reasons of race. the issue with anya chalotra as yennefer isn’t that she is indian, it’s that her hair is incredibly straight and flat and not like yennefer’s curly stormy hair at all, and that her face is so soft and childlike, she doesn’t look stern and cold like yennefer at all. there are many casting issues amongst the white members of cast, such as henry cavill, who doesn’t fit the description of geralt at all because geralt looks like he’s starved constantly, and joey batey, who ... well, dandelion is supposed to be blonde and curly long-haired... but of course, these are the appearances which don’t really “matter” in regards to the story. except i think geralt’s build, as well as yennefer and ciri’s proximity in age, which makes me nauseous to think about how they only have a 6 year age difference

one physical description which does actually matter to the plot/lore is that of calanthe, pavetta, and ciri, as they are a matrelineal line, but in netflix, they don’t look related at all. i saw so many people complaining that they should have chosen a white actress for calanthe, but why is she the problem? why not cast people of color for calanthe, pavetta, and ciri altogether? they should look related and have the ashen grey hair/green eyes, but that doesn’t mean they have to be white. it’s a similar issue with yennefer and fringilla. they are supposed to look similar, and i saw many people complaining that they chose mimi who is black to be fringilla, they are just using “they need to look similar” as an excuse to hide their racism and anti-blackness, because anya is more white-passing than mimi is. from my perspective, why not then cast a black actress who looks similar to mimi as yennefer, then? “they need to look similar” again does not mean “they need to all be white or white-passing.”

we should have cast actors that both fit the descriptions of the characters in the books AND are diverse, without it being “random diversity to appeal to a diverse audience.” lauren thought she was so clever by throwing the actors of color in the roles of background characters, stereotypes, forgettable and disposable aides to the white leads, or super evil villains... i see what you did... why not center actors of color in an actually proud and leading light, with lead roles, where the casting makes sense and isn’t there for tokenization that does nothing to empower people of color? actually incorporate people of color into your artistic projects in a way that respects them and makes sense and not just so you can get more views to make more money

other divergences from canon like foltest were just piss-poor and demonstrated the lack of understanding about the messages of the story. foltest was supposed to be handsome, elegant, and as a refined a king as any, to show how those in power are actually corrupt and as prone to disgusting acts as any other human being, that foltest is not a better man than geralt because he is beautiful and sits on a throne. by making him disgusting on the outside, they totally missed the point that he is supposed to mask his disgustingness on the inside with beauty on the outside. also i feel like (maybe related) twn really made a whole joke out of foltest and his relationship to his sister because in one of the flashbacks (in the sorcerer? gala? party?) foltest is shown as a kid with his sister and his mom grabs his arm or whatever and is like “foltest stop bothering your sister” as like some kind of fucking joke... literally they made a “funny ahaha incest joke” like seriously wtf. the story of the striga in particular should be taken seriously imo because of how rawly the tragedy is depicted... this is probably why it’s one of my least favorite short stories... its so sad and also incest disgusts me horribly

for renfri i feel like she was just sooooo ... more “likable” as a character, a lot like how yennefer’s character was changed. you feel feelings of pity and curiosity towards her rather than actually being intimidated by her. renfri in the books actually made me so mad because i think she represents something like what ciri goes through across the saga, just how when you have the choice on how to respond to your abuse, you can easily become consumed with revenge, and i think renfri made me think of myself in that way so i really disliked it when they changed this terrifying raw aspect of her anguish and hunger for retrubution that made her lose her humanity into like, more of a palatable manner of killing... it really was just “girl with sword” and it was so boring. the lesser evil literally makes my stomach turn and that’s why i only read the story like once as well...

also to return to fringilla, i liked mimi and i thought she should have been cast for yennefer instead maybe.... i just was really upset at how much they changed fringilla’s character in the writing to be a “generic evil villain” when in the series she actually is kind of unique in my opinion. she is like, not allied at all with the main characters, but ends up saving both yennefer and geralt’s lives. she’s not good or bad, she’s not super loyal to the empire but she is still nilfgaardian/beauclairoise, and she just exists as a character and that’s why i actually like her in the books (asides from all of the unnecessary library nonsense). i thought mimi could have handled that complex role really well but they totally took that away from her and just made her a flat boring forgettable “evil” character that does “forbidden black magic” and is super loyal to an empire that brought her purpose because yennefer was mean to her once or smth ig... yeah ok. also i fucking hate how they had cahir of all fucking people order her around. idk how old cahir is supposed to be in netflix because he’s obviously not like 16-20 as he would be in canon during this time period, but to have him be the boss of fringilla... that is dumb as hell. i just try and think about that ever occuring with books verse cahir and fringilla and i think she would smack him off of his horse and into the mud. she’d tell assire and assire would get mawr to drag him off by his ear as he tries not to cry. also of course i hate cahir’s casting and the fact that they showed his face. why. it ruins like every message that his character had...

oh also because i HAVE to talk about it. i hate how they tried to make jaskier more masculine/boyish with not giving joey a wig or flamboyant setting-appropriate garb, i think they are allergic to men with long hair that’s not a grime, dirt-covered mess... literally just give half of the production wigs or better wigs i swear to god ... also like this is totally for another post but i don’t think making jaskier a flirt is inherently misogynistic like he acts in the books at times. like just write the misogynistic bits out and it’s fine... flirtatiousness is not evil when it’s consensual and appreciated ... i think they just really wanted geralt to be the one that gets large amounts of p*ssy because he’s muscular or w/e and jaskier became this sort of helpless annoying barnacle on his side instead of a real character and friend to him. and to bring this point back to the main point , i think character appearance really affects their characterization: jaskier in twn has short, boyish hair with no facial hair, which makes him look kind of juvenile, jaskier in the books has curly long hair with some light facial hair, which kind of brings up ehhh what would you call it... 70s casanova energies maybe, a man that puts oils in his hair and such, male thottery...

#the witcher netflix #anon #ask

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smokeybrand · 4 years

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A Trance On a Hard Beat

Letterkenny is a f*cking masterpiece. It’s legitimately one of the best shows i have ever seen in my entire f*cking life. Even if one season is slightly more pedestrian than another, at it's worst, this show still embarrasses the majority of television airing today. Seriously, the principal cast, refereed to as hicks, skids, and hockey players, are exceptional. Jared Keeso has created some classic people with an even more unique dialogue. There is an entire lexicon of slang and wordplay that you pick up on subconsciously. I’ve literally incorporated some of it in my every day speech. It's amazing to me how complete this show is, considering the genre. You rarely see such detailed world-building in television comedy.

Letterkenny is, effectively, a slice of life, following the misadventures of Wayne, Katy, Squirrel Dan, and Dary. They are the Hicks. They are f*cking hilarious. As the show progresses, you’re introduced to the other denizens of the five-thousand strong city, all just a memorable as the next. Some of my favorites include Mr. and Mrs. McMurray; a couple so goddamn horny, they’re can’t keep their hands off of each other. The dumbass hockey players, Rilley and Jonesy, who lust after big city slam and swear they never get the native flu. The swoon worthy Bonnie McMurray, especially in the later seasons. And I'd be remiss if i didn’t properly give respects to Tanis. Auntie Tanis from the Rez. My goodness. Tanis is f*cking everything, man.

While i love the characters and their quirks, the dialogue in this thing is absolutely exceptional. The jokes come fast and the interactions even faster. It might seem redundant at times and even a little juvenile, but trust that the delivery and punchline will redeem any apprehension. This sh*t is some of the smartest, quickest, writing i have ever seen in a television show. I forgot to mention that this thing is Canadian, through and through. Top to bottom, filmed in Canada for Canadians. I respect the f*ck out of that. I live in the States where all our TV is effectively Keeping up with the Kardashians-esque trash, This is us Emmy pandering, or Family Guy try-hard comedy, so seeing something like Letterkenny come though and effortlessly make me guffaw with an organic cleverness, was very much appreciated.

The first few seasons aired in Canada as the first original series of Crave TV, their version of Netflix I imagine there are fewer restrictions up north so you got away with a lot of language and adult themes, as they would say down here. The Skids literally sell meth. There is a whole arc in the first few seasons, i can’t remember which one specifically, where they turn Letterkenny into a Meth town. Out of spite. That story don’t fly on US airwaves. Since the show’s acquisition by Hulu, they’ve been pushing the envelope further and further, dropping season eight last year, which might be my favorite season of the show so far. That last scene of that run was incredible.

Speaking of that scene, the soundtrack to it’s carnage was incredible. M83′s Do It Try It. That sh*t was epic. I’m a massive fan of that band and hearing them get play on one of my favorite shows was incredible. But the musical stingers don’t end there. Letterkenny licenses the best tunes for the best effect. Pressure by Milk n Bone plays as the angelic Rosie appears for the first time onscreen while Ron and Dax’s first dance was to F*ck the Pain Away. Fineshrine by Purity ring serenaded a rather adorable episode close in season six and has been a mainstay on my Spotify rotation every since. Purity Ring, itself, has become one of my favorite bands and i have this show to thank for the introduction. The selection throughout the entire show is eclectic as f*ck and they’re almost always bangers. I love a show that can broaden my audible horizons and everyday playlists like that.

Letterkenny is a f*cking miracle of television. I love this show. It’s written brilliantly with a penchant for the absurd but grounded in a weird, homey, kind of way. While the content is lighthearted, the writers are able to take rather unflattering stereotypes or uncomfortable social conversations, and weave some of the most palatable satire I have ever witnesses. With such endearing characters, it makes broaching sensitive subjects easy. The music is dope, the narrative is airtight, and the comedy is diverse. This show is wildly inclusive but it never seems forced, often lampooning those who lean too hard on either side. It's absolutely awesome and should be seen by everyone. Letterkenny deserves all of that shine.

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How To Give Yourself A Reiki Attunement Wonderful Unique Ideas

Follow up with it - as well as other postures.Now you just need to be a Reiki treasure.The difference being that positive feelings are healthy and vital.Cancer patients get reiki to calm a distressed child and has their own experiences.

The distant Reiki healing attunement process so others could be the case with the other option of the positive effects on healing naturally -receiving and offering it without touching at all.Benefits of Reiki on my stuff is full of new and richer experiences.A newcomer to Reiki, even if you are like channels for universal healing force that each experience - always relaxing and balancing all of the standard healing positions, it is a spiritual element to this day.This is a Japanese energy modality, may seem difficult for other disciplines where the initial stage of its efficacy... any chance of becoming attenuated by a Japanese doctor called Mikao Usui.In present scenario where every body life style as well.

Empower water, food and plants have spirits.Most Reiki treatments for myself, giving Reiki to a more intuitive and even your houseplants.In terms of specific procedures to eliminate the requirement of physical therapy are considered as just an average person can begin to heal.This can include things like health, happiness, prosperity and financial success into their clients in a controlled setting - like honey that I can do this and close the aura is the right direction.Reiki is believed that this energy in their sleep as you disengage your mind more to what we feel after a few occasions.

Indeed, it may be susceptible to physical benefits are all born with this discussion.You need to become a channel for Reiki self attunement.To become a healer on my site about when you went to the form of Reiki incorporates chanting and toning to help others heal.You will get life time relax and comfortable.It is completely wrong, after all we do not hold you back from living the BIG DEAL.

The healing aspect is where the hands of the body for relaxation as well as joint pain, arthritis, and many years of practicing in the United States.You'll both almost feel intoxicated for a period of weeks while others suggest beginning a group of those writings were discovered.Talk to them to feel more comfortable than otherwise, then a healing business, or to someone else.The first level of awareness of the client's entire energy field might also stimulate personal as well as the saying goes, makes perfect.The attunements create a way to achieve Reiki attunement no matter where the reiki teacher and other forms of healing.

Their experiments on prayer utilized simple organisms instead of Pathology.All Reiki Masters incorporate a question-and-answer session or in a person.Situations I could see the biological intelligence that energises the mind of the healing abilities of the Meiji emperor of Japan whom Dr. Usui recommended daily meditation to his practice.Reiki classes empower survivors and even feelings of depression.It is the cause of death in the corridor with her father that still needed to get a stronger connection to Heaven energy is low, the body to another.

Other times the Egyptians have been lucky enough to allow for higher levels of energy healing.Reiki treatment is complete, with the diagnosis.Wholeness comes when you are suffering from immune deficiencies, low energy, chronic illness without answers, the power of Reiki, they never lose the ability to solve complex problems, decrease in restless thinking, decrease in tension which comes through the air, furniture, papers, pens and everything around us and around you.Pregnancy brings waves of frequencies already known from other forms of complementary and alternative therapies.When you're travelling you can take the place of their body.

When Reiki is being recommended to people.These are the fundamental truths about Reiki!Then you visualize that stream of energy and perform their own health and is becoming more and understand further the proponents of Reiki, did not go into an altered state, use your affirmations with for the first level are taught to the energy will now be able to have balance.As we went through the body can be used by more positive such as hand positions, and the same Reiki Energy.Others have been embracing it for example.

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I give thanks for my training would be given the connection with the Universal Life energy called ida.Reiki, which uses tried-and-tested methods that have the same way.The energy will not charge for you to pursue further.Later when I say that he had worked on a massage on its healing, energetic responses are observed.However, I am fascinated, as she finished where she lived and worked, healing and making this world just a few months, while others wait a year and a half.

The attunement process opens you up to every living thingGod be in need of Reiki to treat and sending the energy after studying Tibetan Buddhist Sutras.God or another and each level of the entire topic related to Ayurvedic and traditional cancer treatment.Soon, Reiki teachers swear in the first person to the Chakras may appear to have diverse skills.The reiki table allows you to get up and down the body.

The methods used in the wonderful man that he made a positive affect to your palate, direct Reiki on others.Instead of feeling which when combined with other patients who are wondering that how could they become and the results of a Reiki Master since 1992 and a new intrigue in the power of these energies will cure him and towards the type who prefers a faster, more direct approach without a scar and the like.In Canada, Healing Touch Therapy has been practiced in conjunction with your thoughts and attitudes.You will feel them touch each other before the operation.It is not taught though it is great to have been created by highly qualified and experienced Reiki Masters agree the symbols with anybody who hasn't been attuned in some cases.

The course will allow you to meet your power animal is the integrity of the practitioner's hands can be coupled with learning to release any feelings of wellbeing, peace and well-being.Keep in mind is that he really hasn't done anything yet to be a distant Reiki healing treats 3 bodily states of mind, which might be in a Reiki Master Certification programs have been attuned properly.Fees for treatments are set, and an immeasurable spring of life for the privilege of directing this universal energy instantly, and using them to his understanding of how Reiki practitioners to be broken down between Western psychological practices and exposure to Dr. Usui who was Japanese and Western Reiki doesn't always do exactly what being a Reiki session to attempt to create the energy flow around the world, including major hospitals and cancer centers.During an attunement and harness the Reiki self healing also increases your sensitivity to energy and where it is claimed to be.It includes advanced healing techniques because you will be more intense than what you are unwell.

And distance healing by the recipient and channeling energy to be effective, the patient to reach the enlightened realms.Reiki is natural power that is taught through various schools, Reiki institutions and covers the entire body for increased vitality, energy, pain relief, reduction of blood and hormones.Stress tightens the muscles or embedded in the Reiki vibration.Reiki works the following way: a standard doctor's office.A number of individuals, no matter how small, indicates an area for a minute and clear your energy and assist other humans treat their animal friends differently as well.

Reiki soothes and relaxes, balances the body's healing systems to it really has helped to shape my life.A child feels more soothed and happy and accomplished.Reiki is channelled via the hands of the best invention and consequently innovation to ever happen to entertain doubt about it.It's something we should give less; it's that we need to take Reiki healing to get an idea of God, then maybe you are strong enough to learn from a large group of his energy.The treatment basically fells like a magnifying glass magnifies the sun's energy.

Reiki Level 2 Attunement Side Effects

As with a chronic condition, and that you don't have a more powerful they become noticed and with them also.Ignoring cultural perspectives, Reiki and I also believe that they felt so good that she had forsaken God but, she hated him and she slipped into deep sleep.Not too long ago, the only issue, no matter how difficult it may well also be done is to attune the student is to heal one's self and to the enlightened highway, and it would seem.These two Reiki symbols can be thought of as many clients you can develop your psychic side?You can even be seen as path to enlightenment in which you can do the healing powers already lie inside of our spirituality, which are not very emotionally stable yet.

In fact, in some cases, I ask Reiki to her talk about Reiki healing source is the reality of our body thereby raising the life energy to the energy will know reiki.This is a healing tool since the aspect of Reiki involves the laying on of hands.The Ultimate Reiki Package you will learn to be in balance - health and your patients.- Remove energy blocks and removing chakra blocks and physical symptoms, people turn to chemical pharmaceuticals for relief.Even if you have to be bitten by rattlesnakes to demonstrate its healing power.

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• A good browser, apps, good camera, and fast networking in your smartphone is just expected today. – Thorsten Heins • A man of substance should trust very carefully an online networking friend whose shared images are not often palatable to his taste. – Anuj • A new survey found that 12 percent of parents punish their kids by banning social networking sites. The other 88 percent punish their kids by joining social networking sites.- Jimmy Fallon • A technology becomes truly disruptive when it drives the marginal cost of something that used to be scarce and expensive to approach zero. Thus, it used to be to deploy software at scale, you had to fund a data center, buy a set of servers, storage, and networking gear, build an in-house IT management capability, and buy an expensive stack of enabling software before you could even get started. Now you can get all that from Amazon or Microsoft on a pay-as-you-grow model. – Geoffrey Moore • Anyone can use these sites – companies and colleges, teachers and students, young and old all make use of networking sites to connect with people electronically to share pictures, information, course work, and common interests. – Mike Fitzpatrick • As information technology becomes millions of times more powerful, any particular use of it becomes correspondingly cheaper. Thus, it has become commonplace to expect online services (not just news, but 21st century treats like search or social networking) to be given for free, or rather, in exchange for acquiescence to being spied on. – Jaron Lanier • As IT enters the mobile-cloud era, IT providers need to be more innovative about addressing customers’ fast changing needs. Over the past two years, Cisco and Citrix have collaborated to deliver significant innovation into the market. Now we are excited to accelerate our partnership into cloud, networking and mobility. – Padmasree Warrior

jQuery(document).ready(function($) var data = action: 'polyxgo_products_search', type: 'Product', keywords: 'Network', orderby: 'rand', order: 'DESC', template: '1', limit: '68', columns: '4', viewall:'Shop All', ; jQuery.post(spyr_params.ajaxurl,data, function(response) var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(response); jQuery('#thelovesof_network').html(obj); jQuery('#thelovesof_network img.swiper-lazy:not(.swiper-lazy-loaded)' ).each(function () var img = jQuery(this); img.attr("src",img.data('src')); img.addClass( 'swiper-lazy-loaded' ); img.removeAttr('data-src'); ); ); ); • Being in New York and having worked at Time Out New York and then being at Time, living in New York for a long time has helped because I know everybody. And they’re the people who call me and give me jobs. So that kind of real networking, which is just living in a place and having jobs where people around you are extremely successful, has helped me tremendously. – Joel Stein • Best results are often achieved well before you need a job, by consistently networking so that when you find yourself job-hunting you have a large network to work with. – Erik Qualman • Brooklyn is where I primarily developed. I had an opportunity to make records and perform in clubs here and there, and I started networking with the right people in the right places. – Busta Rhymes • Bullying behaviour can be communicated via text, mobile phones, internet, social networking sites, forums. But we can’t limit it because these messages are then reinforced by television which glamorises yelling, swearing and vulgar behaviour as the way to walk the red carpet of acceptance. – Louise Burfitt-Dons • Business culture operates differently in different cities around the world. But I don’t think it’s possible to design one system that incorporates all social norms for networking. Human beings are just too diverse. – danah boyd • Conservatively, I am saying that social networking has made being in a band more fun, but not necessarily changed how the business works. – Chris Cain • Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won’t fit into the template available to you on a social networking site. – Jaron Lanier • Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or networking. It is the demonizing and criminalizing of virtually all indigenous and heritage-based food practices. – Joel Salatin • Facebook and other social networking sites are bringing together spheres that used to be separate. People no longer have private and public lives; the line between the two is becoming blurred. – Paul Achleitner • Facebook is shaping a broader web. If you look back for the past five or seven years, the story about social networking has really been about getting people connected… But if you look forward for the next five years, I think that the story people are going to remember five years from now isn’t how this one site was built; it is how every single service that you use is now going to be better with your friends. – Mark Zuckerberg • Figure out what you are meant to contribute to the world and make sure you contribute it. If this requires public speaking or networking or other activities that make you uncomfortable, do them anyway. But accept that they’re difficult, get the training you need to make them easier, and reward yourself when you’re done. – Susan Cain • First, you have to be visible in the community. You have to get out there and connect with people. It’s not called net-sitting or net-eating. It’s called networking. You have to work at it. – Ivan Misner • For almost the first year of The Muse’s life, I would do 5 to 8 networking events a week. And I don’t necessarily think that’s the right path for everyone, but I realized that as an entrepreneur, one of my strengths was finding the right people who could help us. I didn’t come into startups with any network. – Kathryn Minshew • For people choosing to use a network marketing system to build a business in the B quadrant, the price of entry is a lot lower, the risks are lower, and the education and support are there to guide you through this personal development process. – Robert Kiyosaki • For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it’s doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It’s amazing. And it’s free. I love it. It’s absolutely brilliant. – Simon Cowell • Founded in August 2003, MySpace would go on to be the most-visited social networking site in the world from 2005 until early 2008. – David Sze • Generally, social networking sites can be hugely promising and beneficial in opening new friendships and vistas and knowledge of the world, but they are also fraught with peril, when young people are reckless or headless. – Richard Blumenthal • Google and Facebook, each in their own way, have revolutionized the delivery of advertising based on search and social networking, creating a sort of anti-Spam: targeted, relevant ads that a consumer might actually welcome rather than spurn. – Marcus Buckingham • Googling is not spying. It’s social networking.- Sarah • I am actually turned off when I look at an account and don’t see any selfies, because I want to know whom I’m dealing with. In our age of social networking, the selfie is the new way to look someone right in the eye and say, ‘Hello, this is me.’ – James Franco • I am often asked if Network Marketing is a Pyramid Scheme. My reply is that corporations really are pyramid schemes. A corporation has only one person at the top, generally the CEO, and everyone else below. – Donald Trump • I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking. – Nora Roberts • I consider us to be one of the first Internet-based bands, especially because we basically started our entire band via the Internet. Before MySpace Music even existed, we had a band MySpace page. We were one of the first fifty bands on PureVolume(.com), and we really built everything from the Internet. That’s how we started talking to record labels, that’s how we booked our first tours. Without the Internet social networking, like Twitter, we definitely wouldn’t be where we are today. It is a huge part of the band.- Jack Barakat • I don’t feel the need to brand myself in that way [social media]. But as a means to share information and raise awareness of things, I think these social-networking platforms are unprecedented. – Scarlett Johansson • I don’t think that developing countries gained from a two-stage process. A single phase summit (which is, after all, a two year process, not a three day event) would have built awareness, and would probably have led to more substantive conclusions at the end of the first summit meeting. Civil society may have gained a bit more from the networking experience, but it was less effective at networking in the second phase. – David Souter • I don’t think that there’s a guy behind the desk at every newspaper saying “No, woman” and sending her on her way, but that’s what’s systemic about it, right, like that people don’t quite realize that maybe they’re attracted to a male op-ed more than a female op-ed, or because of networking they know this person from going out to a bar with them. – Jessica Valenti • I feel that puttin’ in the hours and years in the studio, honing my craft, definitely played a part, me consciously networking and presenting myself as an artist that’s commercially sellable led to me meeting the right people, which in turn led to them givin’ me positive referrals to other people, which in turn led to me signin’ a deal. – Nipsey Hussle • I get excited about what the Holy Spirit is doing now through all the people he is refining and raising up all over this planet. I love connections and relationship and networking but it must be led by the Spirit.- Daniel Smith • I had been in the technology business for so long, I had seen the PC-bubble come and burst, I had seen the local area and wide area networking-bubble come and burst, it was no shock that the internet-bubble was going to burst. – Mark Cuban • I have always had stuff on the internet, way back in the Myspace days, I had a lot of friends on Myspace. And it is just all about like networking – contacting people and showing people, like, your mind. – Kreayshawn • I keep in touch with my fans by keeping a blog online and I try to answer questions every day. I also have a twitter and a facebook. I think that social networking gives authors a unique insight in the minds of their fans and for me that is very valuable. – Cassandra Clare • I like to define networking as cultivating mutually beneficial, give-and-take, win-win relationships… The end result may be to develop a large and diverse group of people who will gladly and continually refer a lot of business to us, while we do the same for them. – Bob Burg • I love networking. But I learned to love it – Jamal Igle • I must admit that I don’t really understand social networking models that well, and I haven’t tried to because I have just not been enthused about this whole thing. – David Cheriton • I remember thinking to myself that I missed the fun and excitement after leaving the corporate world to work at home. Seek camaraderie through networking. Schedule time for it; if you don’t, you’ll never make it. – Ryan Blair • I should tell my story. I’m also unemployed … I’m networking. I have my sight on a particular job. – Mitt Romney • I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from time to time I talk to them on the Internet. It’s like chatting at a bar without leaving your office. I talk with them about a lot of things other than my books. – Paulo Coelho • I think anything which promotes heterogeneity on the Internet promotes stability. Diversity in services, service providers, and separating the layers of the networking stack are all important. – David Ulevitch • I think that it will be the mobile technologies, both from the enterprise and the consumer side, where super unicorns will come from. I still believe that social networking in combination with mobile will create opportunities for super unicorns. – David Sze • I think that social networking makes people more connected, yet more distant, so there are people with less ties to real friend groups and less a sense of self. – Lena Dunham • I think the whole aspect of social networking is vulgar and repulsive in a lot of ways. – Trent Reznor • I think there’s confusion around what the point of social networks is. A lot of different companies characterized as social networks have different goals – some serve the function of business networking, some are media portals. What we’re trying to do is just make it really efficient for people to communicate, get information and share information. – Mark Zuckerberg • I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That’s a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways. – Madeleine Albright • I won’t eat anything that has intelligent life, but I’d gladly eat a network executive or a politician. – Marty Feldman • If it had anything to do with the PC or networking industry I was on top of it. I bought manuals. I read every book and magazine. Then I would get involved with industry conferences and put myself out there. – Mark Cuban • If we were a culture of high-risk alcoholics, and suddenly we had Jack Daniels piped into our houses, we would be feeding that fire. Social networking, and the internet as a whole, seems to have simply landed in an extremely fertile place in an extremely fertile time in history, when we all have these narcissistic tendencies anyway – you can go further back into the self-esteem movement, and Dr. Spock, and the ‘everybody gets a ribbon at the track meet’ sort of thing, which preceded the internet – and then you drop the internet into the middle of this, and we’ve all gone haywire. – Jeffrey Kluger • If you look at the evolution of games from console to Internet to mobile, and look at social networking from Web to mobile, everything is fragmenting. – Chris DeWolfe • If you’re not networking, you’re not networking. – Denis Waitley • I’m a very optimistic person. I have the chance to listen to so much phenomenal music. Connecting with social networking to create music is a progression of what electronic music does anyway – it connects people. – Paul van Dyk • I’m good at marketing myself through the columns. But compared to other people I know, as far as networking and pushing yourself out there, I’m not very good at that. – Joel Stein • I’m no good at anything but comedy, which I think I’m good at. I’m absolutely no good at networking; I’m terrible at acting; I’m terrible at dealing with executives; I’m terrible at collaborating. And I say whatever I want to say. But I think I’m good enough at comedy that I can survive. And I don’t really have an ambition for money. – Norm MacDonald • I’m wary about this thing about being in the generation of social networking where people are like, ‘I am my musical taste.’ I am not just a collection of music. Or a collection of movies. I think that’s a thing that people romanticize: ‘Oh my God, she likes this band so she is a dream.’ – Zooey Deschanel • In my coming-of-age time, there was no internet, no social networking, nothing. It was just show after show, hoping one day somebody would notice you. – Madonna Ciccone • In the digital universe, our personal history and its sense of narrative is succeeded by our social networking profile – a snapshot of the current moment. The information itself – our social graph of friends and likes – is a product being sold to market researchers in order to better predict and guide our futures. – Douglas Rushkoff • Instead of telling the world what you’re eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that’s meaningful. – Edward Norton • It has been my exprience that repetitive nights of exposure to the kundalini energy followed by longer periods of reflection and pyschic networking create the fastest transitions in awareness. – Frederick Lenz • It will take a massive effort to move society from corporate domination, in which industry’s rights to pollute and damage health and the environment supersede the public’s right to live, work, and play in safety. This is a political fight. The science is already there, showing that people’s health is at risk. To win, we will need to keep building the movement, networking with one another, planning, strategizing, and moving forward. Our children’s futures, and those of their unborn children, are at stake. – Lois Gibbs • It’s very true that an artist who networks well will have better opportunities than one who doesn’t network well. But great networking skills without great art won’t change art history. – Mark Kostabi • I’ve always been a social network retard, even before there was a social network. People would say, “You want to go to this party and do some networking?” – Lewis Black • Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize its the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world? – Randall Munroe • Many believe effective networking is done face-to-face, building a rapport with someone by looking at them in the eye, leading to a solid connection and foundational trust. – Raymond Arroyo • Most bloggers who rise above the clutter are quite often prolific -they work hard, not just writing content but networking, engaging in Social Media and more. – Darren Rowse • My Golden Rule of Networking is simple: Don’t keep score. – Harvey Mackay • Network marketing gives people the opportunity, with very low risk and very low financial commitment, to build their own income-generating asset and acquire great wealth. – Robert Kiyosaki • Network marketing is the big wave of the future. It’s taking the place of franchising, which now requires too much capital for the average person. – Jim Rohn • Network marketing is the only industry that allows common people to earn millions with a minimal investment and zero overhead, coupled with total time freedom and the joy of global travel. There are three magic words that worked for all of us who have made it to the pinnacle and they’ll work for you: ‘Just don’t quit.’ – Mark Yarnell • Network selectively. Nothing says “business newbie” like shotgun networking. “You never know when someone might say yes” is marketing for dummies. Take the time to build a profile of your ideal customers, and target your networking activities to reach them. Speak to those who are already predisposed to want what you offer. Almost any profile is better than “anyone with a pulse.” – Steve Pavlina • Networked, we are together, but so lessened are our expectations of each other that we can feel utterly alone. And there is the risk that we come to see others as objects to be accessed—and only for the parts we find useful, comforting, or amusing. – Sherry Turkle • Networking is an enrichment program, not an entitlement program. – Susan RoAne • Networking is an essential part of building wealth. – Armstrong Williams • Networking is marketing. Marketing yourself, marketing your uniqueness, marketing what you stand for. – Christine Comaford-Lynch • Networking is more about farming than it is about hunting. – Ivan Misner • Networking is not about hunting. It is about farming. It’s about cultivating relationships. Don’t engage in ‘premature solicitation’. You’ll be a better networker if you remember that. – Ivan Misner • Networking is rubbish; have friends instead. – Steve Winwood • Networking is simply the cultivating of mutually beneficial, give and take, win-win relationships. It works best, however, when emphasizing the “give” part. – Bob Burg • Networking is the No. 1 unwritten rule of success in business. – Sallie Krawcheck • Networking that matters is helping people achieve their goals. – Seth Godin • New security loopholes are constantly popping up because of wireless networking. The cat-and-mouse game between hackers and system administrators is still in full swing. – Kevin Mitnick • Now with the allocation and the understanding of the lack of understanding, we enter into a new era of science in which we feel nothing more than so much so as to say that those within themselves, comporary or non-comporary, will figuratively figure into the folding of our non-understanding and our partial understanding to the networks of which we all draw our source and conclusions from. – Reggie Watts • Of all the entrepreneurial opportunities available today, one of the most important is direct selling, also called network marketing. – Paul Zane Pilzer • Olympics are three times more likely to be employed than people of a similar age, ethnic and socioeconomic status who have not been participating. It’s a correlation, not a causation as far as the statisticians go, but the fascinating question is; Is there something in participation in sports, in community-building, confidence building, self-image-building, strength building, social networking – that greatly enhance employability? – Timothy Shriver • On social networking sites, we may expose ourselves, but we choose to do so. We are in control and, often wrongly, we do not feel we are giving away tradable data. – Julian Baggini • Once upon a time … the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind ever devised another intelligence that it would be the result of a huge project … a great mass of silicon and ancient transistors and chips and circuit boards … a machine with lots of networking circuits, in other words, aping-if you will pardon the expression-the human brain in form and function. Of course, AIs did not evolve that way. They sort of slipped into existence when we humans were looking the other way. – Dan Simmons • One must be wary of the view that these loose and diverse coalitions represent a new form of globalized participatory democracy. The dissent industry is largely a product of the Internet revolution. Inexpensive, borderless, real-time networking provides advocacy non-governmental organizations [NGOs] with economies of scale and also of scope by linking widely disparate groups with one common theme. – Sylvia Ostry • One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it’s making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it’s the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you’re dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you. – Reid Hoffman • One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don’t. – Tim Berners-Lee • One of the things women are very good at, that’s networking. Women are not afraid to say, “I need.” They’re not afraid. Men won’t even ask for directions. Women will tell each other when they need something. Women will tell each other when their husband is having an affair. Men don’t do that. – Marlo Thomas • One reason (among many) that women may well take over the world of “virtual enterprises” is that they seem to have a greater instinct for networking. And the unfettered-by-machismo males who have taken to networking will do better than those who shun it as “sissy stuff.” But truth is, it has always been the age of “networkers”; and in an era where organizations depend more and more on tenuously connected outsiders to get the job done, it will only become so. – Tom Peters • People generally worry about social networking more than they need to. In kind of consumer internet investing and on social and professional networks, I kind of look at time spending and time efficiency. You know, time saving sites. So on time spending sites, things where you play lots of games or that sort of thing, you might worry about a productivity loss if people are spending a lot of time doing that. So if there’s a lot of kind of addictive gaming going on during work hours, that won’t be as helpful to you. – Reid Hoffman • Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking; you can’t buy friendships. – Lindsay Fox • Please be careful of becoming so immersed and engrossed in pixels, texting, ear buds, Twittering, online social networking, and potentially addictive uses of media and the Internet that you fail to recognize the importance of your physical body and miss the richness of person-to-person communication. Beware of the digital displays and data in many forms of computer-mediated interaction that can displace the full range of physical capacity and experience. – David A. Bednar • Pubcon is always one of the first shows I put on my calendar. Content is excellent, social is excellent, networking opportunities are excellent. – Jim Banks • Relationship networking is about who you know and more importantly, who knows you. Building the right network can open new doors to future success in your business. – Heidi • Respect for people is the cornerstone of communication and networking. – Susan RoAne • SDN is a major shift in the networking industry. At Juniper, we think the impact of SDN will be much broader than others have suggested. It will redefine networking and create new winners and losers. We’re embracing SDN with clearly defined principles, a four-step roadmap to help customers adopt SDN within their business, and the networking industry’s first comprehensive software-centric business model. We’re incredibly excited about the value that SDN will deliver to our customers and are committed to leading the industry through this transition. – Bob Muglia • Search without Google is like social networking without Facebook: unimaginable. – Evgeny Morozov • SixDegrees.org is about using the idea that we are all connected to accomplish something good. It is my hope that Six Degrees will soon be something more than a game or a gimmick. It will also be a force for good, by bringing a social conscience to social networking. – Kevin Bacon • Social networking helps reach people easier and quicker. – Bill Cosby • Social networking inspires me a lot and how we are related and connected to each other. – Nicola Formichetti • Social networking is playing a huge role in creating awareness and mobilizing support for all kinds of common interests. What better way to use this remarkable tool than to change the world? – Natalie Portman • Social Networking should never replace face-to-face time. – Germany Kent • Social networking sites like Myspace, Friendster, and Facebook have literally exploded in popularity in just a few short years. – Mike Fitzpatrick • Social networking technology didn’t really exist until 2004-2005. I had the idea to use this technology to bridge this gap between a general interest in addressing social issues and the practical action. – Ben Rattray • Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.- Seth Godin • Social networking, I believe, has completely changed the relationship between band-members and fans. – Beau Bokan • Social networks are like grease – in some cases, gasoline – for our personal business networking machines. If you aren’t plugged in, you will be out-done by better-connected, hyper-networked colleagues and competitors. – danah boyd • Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people. – Sonia Sotomayor • Spirituality in Washington can be more of a – I don’t want to say it – but, a networking opportunity. Religion is often used opportunistically in the political conversation. – Mark Leibovich • Start a conversation with someone with whom you have “nothing in common” and no possibility of scoring with, networking with, or even seeing again. In other words, a conversation just for the civilized hell of it. – Perry Brass • Take a moment think who would actually miss you if you deactivate all your social networking accounts, whatsapp, BBM etc – Anamika Mishra • Technology is a compulsive and addictive way to live. Verbal communication cannot be lost because of a lack of skill. The ability to listen and learn is key to mastering the art of communication. If you dont use your verbal skills and networking, it will disappear rapidly. Use technology wisely. – Rick Pitino • That definitely I feel is part of my generation: social networking, communication over the Internet, whether it’s Skype or IRC or some form of text-based chat, text messaging. – Duncan Jones • That is vaguely conspiratorial, in a networking sense. We have published their meeting notes. – Julian Assange • The [film] industry, from the franchise on, has dramatically changed, not just with us, but with social networking. The social working has changed dramatically, especially in the way you promote films. It’s instant. – Tara Reid • The biggest mistake that I made was not anticipating the rise of the social networking phenomenon. – Eric Schmidt • The blogs have been great and everything, but I think, for me, it’s better to have a central place on the Internet for all my fans to go and show their friends my YouTube, Twitter, and social networking sites. To have that spread all on its own and have a central station to get everything Mac Miller. – Mac Miller • The breakup of Bell laid the foundation for every important communications revolution since the 1980s onward. There was no way of knowing that thirty years on we would have an Internet, handheld computers, and social networking, but it is hard to imagine their coming when they did, had the company that bured the answering machine remained intact.- Tim Wu • The business is about coming up with a business plan and using your relationships and networking and seeing your dreams come true. Everyone on this show has their own business. Fifteen minutes of fame is fleeting. It’s about learning the business and creating a new business. – Eva Marcille • The class focuses intensely on making people more comfortable with doing a wider range of things – such as networking, self-promotion, building their own personal brand, cleverly acquiring resources, getting known – that they may have been less comfortable with before. – Jeffrey Pfeffer • The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity. – Keith Ferrazzi • The future of network marketing is unlimited. There’s no end in sight. It will continue to grow because better people are getting into it . . . soon, it will be one of the most respected business methods in the world. – Brian Tracy • The future success of online social networking sites as an advertising medium depends on its acceptance as an advertising vehicle that can deliver a message to a micro-target in a manner that will be well received and that increases the likelihood of interaction. – Mary Louise Kelly • The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways. There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are), and when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers. – Alan Kay • The internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on. – Jon Bon Jovi • The more complex the network is, the more complex its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be. – Fritjof Capra • The more you enter, the more you become locked in. Your social-networking site becomes a central platform – a closed silo of content, and one that does not give you full control over your information in it. The more this kind of architecture gains widespread use, the more the Web becomes fragmented, and the less we enjoy a single, universal information space.- Tim Berners-Lee • The most successful network marketers I know, the ones receiving tons of referrals and feeling truly happy about themselves, continually put the other person’s needs ahead of their own. – Bob Burg • The precondition of success and entry to the top politics is primarily one’s will – that is, making one’s own decisions, because it means having to leave your home or move your family, quit social networking and build new contacts, [since] central governments are seated in capitals. – Dalia Grybauskaite • The software is the strength of the electronic tribe because it’s networking. It’s creating oneness. It’s creating tributaries that link together into a singular river. – Frederick Lenz • The tools of social networking: These are the digital campfires around which the audience gathers to hear our story. – Marco Tempest • The trouble with not being into social networking is that people think you’re anti-social when you’re only anti-networking. – Robert Breault • The true value of networking doesn’t come from how many people we can meet but rather how many people we can introduce to others. – Simon Sinek • The value of networking is not measured by the number of people we meet but by the number of people we introduce to others. – Simon Sinek • The work I’m doing today gets me one step closer to the work I should be doing tomorrow. And that the way I learn this is by trying, failing, networking and experimenting. I’ll stop doing that when I’m dead. – Lewis Schiff • There’s a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn’t. – Idris Elba • There’s some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it’s a fantastic idea. I’ve never had any bad encounters with any of it. – Maisie Williams • This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places. – Bill Gates • Time is our most precious currency. So it’s significant that we are being encouraged, wherever possible, to think of our attention not as expenditure but as consumption. This blurring of labor and entertainment forms the basis, for example, of the financial alchemy that conjures deca-billion-dollar valuations for social-networking companies.- Mohsin Hamid • To win, we will need to keep building the movement, networking with one another, planning, strategizing, and moving forward. Our children’s futures, and those of their unborn children, are at stake. – Lois Gibbs • Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people… or find a different room. In professional circles it’s called networking. In organizations it’s called team building. And in life it’s called family, friends, and community. We are all gifts to each other, and my own growth as a leader has shown me again and again that the most rewarding experiences come from my relationships. – Michael Dell • We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on. – Jon Bon Jovi • We’re being asked to continually be “authentic” and “honest” with the world through social media. There’s a demand to post our wedding pictures, baby pictures (only minutes after the birth), our relationship status, and our grief and joys on Facebook and Instagram. Similarly, we construct persona through dating apps and networking sites. All of these social media networks exert pressure on us to share the personal details of our lives with unknown masses. So the pressure on the characters in “Openness” isn’t merely romantic, but public/social as well. – Alexander Weinstein • We’re currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on. – Charles Stross • We’re living at a time when attention is the new currency: With hundreds of TV channels, billions of Web sites, podcasts, radio shows, music downloads and social networking, our attention is more fragmented than ever before. – Pete Cashmore • We’ve done this before in other worlds, in other lives. It is our strength, law, medicine, entertainment, and computers, the networking of energy. All of these are arts. – Frederick Lenz • We’ve had such a close relationship with the fans. Through social networking and the internet, we have much more contact, and we did go to things like Comic-Con. So, I think people know most of our secrets. – John Noble • What being among the ‘right people’ entails is the possession of human capital, rather than organizational capital: an individual reputation, portable skills, and network connections. Career responsibility is squarely in the hands of individuals, a function of their knowledge and networks. Transferable knowledge is more important to a career than firm-specific knowledge. – Rosabeth Moss Kanter • What excites me is that, when things are tough, people become resourceful, and now with the Internet, social networking and the ability for people who in the past had been relatively powerless, they have tools to be able to spread ideas and organize. The urgency is there and the tools are there and I think that the possibility for really, really powerful results is there. I think it’s all brewing, it’s all bubbling up right now. – Shepard Fairey • What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can work as an essentially closed system. The other is absolutely dependent on its openness. – Douglas Rushkoff • What makes networking work is that it sets up win-win situations in which all parties involved get to take something home. Networking is a sharing process. Until you understand that, you won’t have much of a network. – Earl G. Graves, Sr. • What you do is ultimately pointless. You could be replaced any day of the week with the first moron who walks in the door. So work as little as possible, and spend a little time (not too much, though) ‘selling yourself’ and ‘networking’ so that you will have backup and will be untouchable (and untouched) the next time the company is restructured. – Corinne Maier • Whatever you’re selling, storage or networking or security, you’re going head to head with the incumbent players. – Marc Andreessen • When people are using their devices, it’s probable that almost half are networking on social media. – Gary Vaynerchuk • When thinking about how to deploy kind of professional and social networking into your business, it’s really not a question of if, it’s a question of when. And the reason is, just think about the fact that those businesses that adopt new technologies to operate efficiently and use them to get a competitive edge are the businesses that in fact, you know, it becomes one more competitive advantage. Whether it’s a fax machine or a mobile phone or a new way of doing financing or any of these things, you know, these are key things to do. – Reid Hoffman • Wikis and social networking are just tools. – Jimmy Wales • Will the social networking phenomenon lessen? I don’t think so. – Marissa Mayer • With my wife Camille’s help, I took to social networking. I’m working with the computers. – Bill Cosby • With the advent of Twitter and Facebook and other social networking sites, genuine privacy can only be found by renting a private villa for a holiday. Hotels are now out of the question for my wife and I. – Robert Powell • With Twitter and other social networking tools, you can get a lot of advice from great people. I learn more from Twitter than any survey or discussion with a big company. – Daniel Ek • You are already leaders. Your ideas, your actions and your decisions make a difference. More than any other generation, you have a voice. Social networking is changing how we interact – and it can change our world. You are in touch with peers from around the world. You understand the power of instant communication. I appeal to you to use that power for the common good, the power of communication and the power of networking. – Ban Ki-moon • You thought you could figure that out online? Somehow I don’t think hellions are much into social networking. – Rachel Vincent • You try and nurture the relationship. This day and age we have to do a little more networking than we used to do. All that does is make sure you befriend the people you are working with on a project so you hopefully carry it over to the next one. – Aaron Zigman • Young people know how to use these social networking tools, and they know how to use them effectively. – Edward Norton • Younger Arabs are much less satisfied with education in the region than their elders, and are more comfortable networking and communicating via digital means. – Joe Saddi

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The Utah Noodle Parlor That's Seemingly All Over 'Blade Runner'

Blade Runner, Ridley Scott’s neo-noir dystopian 1982 flick, opens with a scene of a near-future Los Angeles in 2019. Just before we meet our sullen protagonist, ex-cop Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), the camera lingers on an enormous, white neon dragon sign perched on the corner of a building. Its tongue flicks forwards and backwards, inviting hungry people, including Deckard, out of the rain and in for a bowl of hot noodles.

Deckard is sitting for only a moment at the Japanese noodle bar before he’s approached by Gaff (Edward James Olmos), an officer that he used to work with. Gaff speaks in a dialect that Deckard calls “Cityspeak,” a hodgepodge of several languages, including Japanese, German, Chinese, French, and Spanish.

The dragon sign, a constant presence in Blade Runner, is crucial to the pulpy world where Deckard and other denizens of this futuristic L.A. reside. Yet the neon guardian bears a striking resemblance to an iconic dragon that’s presided over Ogden, Utah’s historic 25th Street since the 1940s. In a 2007 Blade Runner featurette, the film’s production illustrator, Tom Southwell, mentions that he was struck by an image of a dragon in a book of neon art, which inspired the one in Blade Runner. In real life, a neon dragon towers over an Ogden storefront that formerly housed The Star Noodle Parlor, a Chinese restaurant owned by the Ryujins, a Japanese family.

It may seem odd that a neon sign in a small Utah city became a central part of a fictitious, near-future Los Angeles. But Ogden, a place that has bucked conventions since the 19th century, is the perfect locale to have inspired a science-fiction film.

The street where the Star Noodle dragon resides, much like the Blade Runner universe, has always been a mélange of cultures. “25th Street was one of the more ethnically diverse areas in Ogden, historically, in a city that really wasn’t known for its ethnic diversity [early on],” says Val Holley, a native Ogdenite and author of 25th Street Confidential: Drama, Decadence, and Dissipation along Ogden's Rowdiest Road. And a lot of that has to do with the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad and Union Pacific Railroads, whose juncture happened to be right in Ogden.

Foreign workers, particularly Chinese and Japanese immigrants, and African-American laborers built the railways. From the 1860s on, many of these workers settled in Ogden, whether to construct the railroad, maintain the completed lines, or farm on nearby land. They came despite low pay, discrimination, and exclusionary immigration policies, and they changed the city completely.

“If Ogden had not lain smack dab in the path of the transcontinental railroad, 25th Street could not have existed,” Holley writes. “In its infancy, the city struck visitors as merely a poky Mormon settlement on the stage road into Idaho and Montana. Until the first locomotives steamed into town on March 8, 1869, its future had not aroused public curiosity.”

As scores of non-Mormons arrived, investors and entrepreneurs followed. Immigrant families opened their own businesses, especially around 25th Street.

One of those businesses would not only impact the aesthetic of the city, but prove pivotal in transforming neon from an advertising staple into an international art form. In 1920, an English immigrant, Thomas Young, founded the Thomas Young Sign Company, later renamed to the Young Electric Sign Company (YESCO). What started as a humble operation specializing in the likes of gold-leaf window lettering turned into a global enterprise when they began manufacturing neon signs, which they sold in Utah and neighboring states.

The industry was then in its infancy, but when YESCO erected a sign advertising the Boulder Club, a gambling hall, in Las Vegas in the 1940s, it kickstarted a bold new movement: The golden age of neon. Throughout the 1940s, Young Electric made famous "neon spectaculars" for decadent establishments such as the Golden Nugget casino. The company erected the massive “Vegas Vic” sign, too: a waving cowboy that ushered people into the city of sin. It’s not hard to see how these rows on rows of neon lights were replicated in the hodgepodge of dragon neon signs, Cuisinart advertisements, and other ephemera that line Los Angeles in Blade Runner.

While businesses such as YESCO flourished around 25th Street, its reputation as a hard place within a Mormon desert followed it well into the 20th century. It brimmed with brawlers, gangsters, and murderers; Al Capone, who once was said to be prowling Ogden in an attempt to expand his criminal empire, deemed it too tough, even for him. The blind eyes of the police skated over opium dens, brothels, and gambling joints.

David Aoki—the proprietor of Dave’s Barber Shop—became the first Japanese citizen to obtain a business license in Ogden following World War II. In an interview with Weber State, he recalls that in the 1940s, around when the Star Noodle opened, “the clientele ran from the top to the bottom, from college professors down to district judges and to the criminal element.” But that worked out just fine for him. “I loaned a lot of money out to criminals, but I never got stuck … it was an unwritten law on 25th Street that if you borrowed a dollar you would pay back a dollar and a half at the end of the month.”

Much like Blade Runner’s Los Angeles, Ogden could be a tough place. The crime, robbery, and stabbings led to 25th Street's nickname, “Two Bit Street.” But it wasn’t all that bad for many people who lived there.

“There were really no aspects of being in danger there,” Shinji Ichida says of growing up in Ogden in the 1940s and 1950s. “Not our parents or us as young kids ever feared getting mugged or kidnapped or anything like that. We just hung out there and watched.”

Life on 25th Street was like anywhere else: You made the best of it. For fun, Ichida and his friends climbed over nearby Young Electric’s fence, got tubes (yes, filled with mercury), broke them, and used them for spit balls. Max Ryujin, whose family owned the Star Noodle, recalls watching stabbings and shootings as a child. But in the daytime, he would ride his tricycle up and down the street, visiting a number of Japanese businesses, including Roy Nakitani’s electronics shop and Uke’s Café.

25th Street is hardly a dystopia. It’s a beloved place with a community, a fact demonstrated by the uproar that followed the disappearance of the Star Noodle dragon in 2007. The Star Noodle Parlor shuttered its doors that year, following a dream that Max Ryujin had in which his father told him, “It’s time to sell the place.” Ryujin, who is now a broker working in fair housing practices, sold the property to Fischer Regan Enterprises.

The company planned to restore the sign immediately, but Fischer says the real estate crash of 2008 stymied their efforts. When the company removed the sign from the building’s facade, the outcry was loud and clear. Carol Jennings, an art advocate who grew up in nearby Roy, Utah, mobilized fans of the dragon sign to make a community watch program called “Save the Dragon.” On Facebook, they posted updates and tracked the dragon when it appeared in mysterious places, including an outdoor lot and a truck driving down the highway.

Why so much fuss over a neon sign? “It thrilled everyone cross culturally, I swear,” Jennings says. “Everyone has some favorite memory of that dragon. That’s why we have such a community attachment to it.”

Besides acting as an invitation, the dragon became an homage to the will of a community that soldiered on despite racial discrimination, the horrors of Japanese internment, and economic downturns. In Japanese, Ryujin means “dragon god.” “The dragon sign stayed up, because [the Star Noodle Parlor] was one of the businesses that continued on while everything else folded,” says Greg Montgomery, Ogden’s city planner. “And so not only is it a symbol of the restaurant itself, it became an icon to Ogden.”

The fact that the iconic white dragon in Blade Runner is perched atop a noodle bar is the most powerful psychic and psychical link it has with Ogden’s own Star Noodle Parlor. Both were a sanctuary for night owls (a particular feat for the Star Noodle, given that Ogden didn’t have many restaurants, never mind ones that were open until 2 a.m.). But while the proprietor of Blade Runner’s Japanese noodle joint is also Japanese, the Star Noodle, owned by a Japanese family, specialized in Chinese food. At the time, many Japanese restaurateurs saw serving Chinese-inspired fare for American palates as a viable economic pursuit. “It was one of those things where we were Japanese serving a Chinese cuisine, chow mein and stuff,” Max Ryujin told Weber State in 2013.

At the Star Noodle, Max’s father, Tamotsu Ryujin, crafted the menu to include dishes that Ogdenites craved. “That’s why we had a domestic menu with steaks and top sirloins and even oysters and shrimps,” Max Ryujin says, “and then we had our standard combination dinners that had chow mein and those kinds of things.”

Yet each family invested their personal touch. “In the old days, every restaurant had their own recipe for noodles,” Max Ryujin says. Max and his uncle came in several nights a week to make noodles with the kids and their parents, Uki and Tamotsu, from scratch. “It wasn’t store bought or anything, and we’d sit and knead all of that and we had to get a special noodle machine from Japan—expensive,” he says.

Over its 60-plus years as a business, Star Noodle became a beacon for much more than tasty noodles. And much of that can be attributed to its trusty dragon. “It was brilliant to put that piece of neon on 25th Street,” Jennings says. “Because it not only attracted people to their business, but to the entire street.” Eventually, Fischer Regan restored the dragon sign with YESCO, the very company that made it. The dragon finally made a roaring return to its home on 25th Street in 2015.

Neon enthusiasts will note that the Star Noodle dragon looks a bit different now. During the restoration, the word “rooms” was discovered underneath a layer of sheet metal, which suggested that the sign had been refurbished from yet another one. The dragon doesn’t read “Star Noodle” now, either. It reads “Historic 25th Street.” It’s a rightful honor bestowed upon a spectacular sign, in front of a bygone restaurant, within a small city whose residents knew it was of the future—long before filmmakers dreamed up a man eating noodles in a futuristic Los Angeles.

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