#J. Roy Hunt

[sesiondemadrugada]

I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943).

[coachbeards]

I don't think we change per se, as much as we just...learn to accept who we've always been, you know?

TED LASSO - 3.12, "so long, farewell."

[qs63]

Random question of the week, which State Alchemist is a commissioned officer and which isn't?

I haven't seen anything that outright tells us this information, in either the anime, the anime, or guides, but I think there's a way to tell... by how they dress and how they're addressed.

We know for sure that Roy Mustang, Alex Armstrong, and Basque Grand are commissioned officers (aka they went through the officers academy). We also know for sure that Edward Elric, and Shou Tucker aren't commissioned officers.

Ed and Shou Tucker are never called Major, while Mustang, Armstrong, and Grand are always addressed by their rank. We also never see Ed or Shou Tucker in uniform, while it's rare to see Mustang, Armstrong, and Grand out of it (usually when off work or undercover).

From the above we can get the following information:

The commissioned State Alchemists always wear the uniform when on the clock. Civilian State Alchemists don't.

The commissioned State Alchemists are addressed by rank. The civilian state alchemists are addressed by title or name.

From this information we can guess the status of the other State Alchemists:

Tim Marcoh: Civilian. He's ALWAYS addressed as Dr. Marcoh or by his State Alchemist title. Not once in Ishval is he called Major Marcoh. He does wear the uniform when in Ishval but it seems this is only a requirement when deployed in war. See Comanche.

Giolio Comanche: Civilian. He's also never addressed as Major. In fact Hughes refers to him as old man Comanche during Ishval. He's also seen wearing civilian clothes when fighting Scar.

Solf J. Kimblee: commissioned officer later civilian. This is the most interesting case and the one that made me think of this. Unlike Marcoh and Comanche he was addressed as Major Kimblee during Ishval. But once he's released from prison we see him in civilian clothes and he's addressed as Mr Kimble or Crimson Lotus. I believe he went through the academy but lost his commission during his Court Martial after Ishval. However, Roy Mustang points out that Kimblee is still a State Alchemist, even if he's in prison. So while he was stripped of his military commission (by the Court Martial Office), Bradley, who is the only one with the authority to appoint and dismiss State Alchemists, decided not to revoke his State Alchemist title.

Quite interesting... And we know why he did that once Envy releases Kimblee to hunt Scar down. They were definitely saving him for a crisis.

[the-hottest-band-tournament]

Band lineups

This will include all the band and what lineups have been submitted. It will be updated as more submissions come in. (Not complete at all)

Guns’N Roses: Axl Rose, Slash, Izzy Stradlin, Duff McKagan and Steven Adler

Mötley Crüe:  Vince Neil, Mick Mars, Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee

Queen: Freddie Mercury, Brian May, John Deacon and Roger Taylor

Hanoi Rocks: Michael Monroe, Andy McCoy, Nasty Suicide, Razzle and Sami Yafta

Iron Maiden: Bruce Dickinson, Dave Murray, Adrian Smith, Steve Harris and Nicko McBrain

Poison: Bret Michaels, C.C. Deville, Bobby Dall and Rikki Rockett

Rush: Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart

Anthrax: Frank Bello, Joey Belladonna, Scott Ian, Charlie Benante and Dan Spitz

Possessed:  Jeff Becerra, Mike Torrao, Larry LaLonde and Mike Sus

Bon Jovi: Jon Bon Jovi, David Bryan, Tico Torres, Alec John Such and Richie Sambora

Skid Row: Sebastian Bach, Dave Sabo, Scotti Hill, Rachel Bolan and Rob Affuso

Talking Heads: David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison

Warrant: Jani Lane, Joey Allen, Erik Turner, Steven Sweet and Jerry Dixon

The Cure: Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Lol Tolhurst, Roger O'Donnell, Porl Thompson and Boris Williams

The Bangles: Susanna Hoffs, Vicki Peterson, Debbi Peterson and Michael Steele

Def Leppard: Rick Savage, Phil Collen, Steve Clark, Rick Allen and Joe Elliott 

The Traveling Wilburys: Nelson Wilbury (George Harrison), Otis Wilbury (Jeff Lynne), Charlie T. Wilbury Jr (Tom Petty), Lefty Wilbury (Roy Orbison), Lucky Wilbury (Bob Dylan)

U2: Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr.

Dokken: Don Dokken, Mick Brown, Jeff Pilsen and George Lynch

Blondie: Clem Burke, Jimmy Destri, Nigel Harrison, Deborah Harry, Frank Infante and Chris Stein

Duran Duran: Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, John Taylor, Andy Taylor and Roger Taylor

Quiet Riot: Kevin DuBrow, Carlos Cavazo , Rudy Sarzo and Frankie Banali

Aerosmith: Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer

Dio: Ronnie James Dio, Vinny Appice, Jimmy Bain and Vivian Campbell

Metallica: James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, Cliff Burton and Lars Ulrich

Winger: Kip Winger, Reb Beach, Paul Taylor and Rod Morgenstein

The Human League: Ian Burden, Philip Oakley, Susan Ann Sulley, Joanne Catherall, Jo Callis, Jim Russell and Philip Adrian Wright

The Clash: Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and Topper Headon

Cinderella: Tom Keiffer, Eric Brittingham, Jeff LeBar and Jim Drinec

Nirvana: Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Chad Channing

The Smiths: Morrissey, Johnny Marr, Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce

The Police: Sting, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland

They Might Be Giants: John Linnell and John Flansburgh

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: Bruce Springsteen, Clarence Clemons, Garry Tallent, Roy Bittan, Danny Federici, Max Weinberg, Nils Lofgren and Patti Scialfa

R.E.M.: Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe

Spın̈al Tap: David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), Smalls (Harry Shearer), Viv Savage (David Kaff) and Mick Shrimpton (Ric Parnell)

Tin Machine: David Bowie, Reeves Gabrels, Tony Fox Sales and Hunt Sales

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Chad Smith and John Frusciante

ZZ Top: Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard

AC/DC: Brian Johnson, Angus Young, Malcolm Young, Cliff Williams, Phil Rudd

Beastie Boys: Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz, Adam "MCA" Yauch and Michael "Mike D" Diamond

Depeche Mode: Dave Gahan, Martin Gore, Alan Wilder and Andy Fletcher

The Pogues: Shane MacGowan, James Fearnley, Jen Finer, Terry Woods, Peter “Spider” Stacy, Andrew Ranken, Darryl Hunt and Philip Chevron

Bauhaus: Peter Murphy, Daniel Ash, Kevin Haskins and David J

Prince and the Revolution: Prince, Bobby, Brown Mark, Wendy Melvoin, Lisa Coleman and Matt "Dr." Fink

Joy Division: Ian Curtis, Bernard Summer, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris

Fleetwood Mac: Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood

Devo: Gerald Casale, Mark Mothersbaugh, Bob "Bob 1" Mothersbaugh, Bob "Bob 2" Casale and Alan Myers

Van Halen: David Lee Roth, Eddie Van Halen, Michael Anthony and Alex Van Halen

Van Halen (Hagar era): Sammy Hagar, Eddie Van Halen, Michael Anthony and Alex Van Halen

Led Zeppelin: Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts: Joan Jett, Ricky Byrd, Gary Ryan and Lee Crystal

Genesis: Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins

Primus: Les Claypool, Larry "Ler" LaLonde and Tim "Herb" Alexander

Ramones: Joey Ramone, Johnny Ramone, Dee Dee Ramone and Marky Ramone

Yes: Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Chris Squire, Tony Kaye andAlan White

Siouxsie and the Banshees: Siouxsie Soux, Steven Severin, Budgie and John McGeoch

Kraftwerk: Ralf Hütter, Florian Schneider and Karl Bartos

The Alan Parsons Project: Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson

Hall and Oates: Daryl Hall and John Oates

Echo and the Bunnymen:Ian McCulloch, Will Sergeant, Les Pattinson and Pete De Freitas

Tears for Fears: Curt Smith, Roland Ozabal, Ian Stanley and Manny Elias

The Psychedelic Furs: Richard butler, Tim butler, John Ashton and Vince Ely

Misfits:Glenn Danzig, Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein, Jerry Only and Arthur Googy

Living Colour: Corey Glover, Vernon Reid, Muzz Skillings and Will Calhoun

XTC:Andy Partridge, Colin Moulding and Dave Gregory

Adam and the Ants: Adam Ant, Marco Pirroni, Merrick, Terry Lee Miall and Gary Tibbs

Run-DMC: Joseph "Run" Simmons, Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels and Jam Master Jay

King Crimson: Adrian Belew, Robert Fripp, Tony Levin and Bill Bruford

Public Enemy: Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Terminator X, The Bomb Squad and Professor Griff

KISS: Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Eric Carr and Bruce Kulick

N.W.A.: Eazy-E, Ice Cube, MC Rend, Dr. Dre , DJ Yella and Arabian Prince

Whitesnake: David Coverdale, John Sykes, Neil Murray, Aynsley Dunbar and Don Airey

Black Sabbath: Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward

Deep Purple: Ian Gillan, Ritchie Blackmore, John Lord, Roger Glover and Ian Paice

L.A. Guns: Phil Lewis, Tracii Guns, Mick Cripps, Kelly Nickels, Nickey Alexander and Steve Riley

W.A.S.P.: Blackie Lawless, Chris Holmes, Randy Piper and Tony Richards

The B-52’s: Kate Pierson, Cindy Wilson, Fred Schneider, Ricky Wilson and Keith Strickland

Vixen: Jan Kuehnemund, Janet Gardner, Share Ross and Roxy Petrucci

The Go Go’s: Belinda Carlisle, Jane Weidlin, Charlotte Caffey, Gina Schock and Kathy Valentine

The Residents: Hardy Fox, All other members have remained anonymous by choice, instead performing with masks on. There are four active Residents in live shows, though it is unknown how many have joined or left the group or been active at any given time.

Pretenders: Chrissie Hynde, Robbie McIntosh, Malcolm Foster and Martin Chamber

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Tom Petty, Mike Campbell, Benmont Tench, Howie Epstein and Stan Lynch

Asia: John Wetton, Geoff Downes, Steve Howe and Carl Palmer

Jethro Tull: Ian Anderson, Martin Barre, Doane Perry, Peter-John Vettese and Dave Pegg

Green Day: Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and John Kiffmeyer

Journey: Steve Perry, Neal Schon, Gregg Rolie, Ross Valory and Steve Smith

Wham!: George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley

Pet Shop Boys: Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant

The Who: Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle and Kenney Jones

Scorpions: Klaus Meine, Rudolf Schenker, Matthias Jabs, Francis Buchholz and Herman Rarebell

Heart: Ann Wilson, Nancy Wilson, Howard Leese, Mark Andes and Denny Carmassi

Ratt: Stephen Pearce, Robbin Crosby, Warren DeMartini, Bobby Blotzer and Juan Croucier

The Beach Boys: Mike Love, Al Jardine, Carl Wilson, Bruce Johnston and Brian Wilson

Queensrÿche: Geoff Tate, Michael Wilton, Chris DeGarmo, Eddie Jackson and Scott Rockenfield

The Cars:

Foreigner:

Marillion:

GWAR:

Max Webster:

Twisted Sister:

Stray Cats:

Megadeth:

The Stone Roses:

Slayer:

Operation Ivy:

Bam Bam:

Cybotron:

[irregularincidents]

While the shadow Senator Joseph McCarthy left over the latter half of the 20th century in the United States is largely unavoidable, what is less well known are the circumstances under which his infamous witch hunts under the umbrellas of the Red and Lavender Scares (where he pursued people with real or imagined communist or lgbtq leanings) came to a close.

This itself is a story with several contributing factors.

McCarthy's Chief Counsel was a lawyer by the name of Roy Cohn (on the right on the main image, McCarthy on the left), a virulent anti-communist who was also the chief prosecutor for the Rosenburg Spy Case (arguing successfully for their executions despite even J Edgar Hoover thinking executing a mother with two young children would be unpopular). He was also a closeted homosexual, although his own leanings were an open secret among the US government, not that this deterred him from purging the US government of suspected gay and lesbian people (leading to 5000 people getting fired from their jobs).

Now, in November 1953, one of Cohn's associates by the name of G. Davies Schine (with whom Cohn had toured Germany previous to remove books by suspected communist authors from United States Information Agency libraries) was drafted into the US army. Cohn and McCarthy attempted to use their influence to pressure the army into having Schine stationed near to them in the US (some have read this as Cohn wanting his friend close by, others have suggested they were romantically involved, no confirmation is available that I can see, either way preferential treatment was demanded), and when the army told them no, the pair decided to threaten the army by turning their anti-communist hunts against them in retaliation.

And if you'd think that threatening the United States army in the early 1950s, when a former WWII general Dwight D. Eisenhower was president was a poor decision, you'd be right!

As such, in early 1954 the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, usually chaired by McCarthy himself, was given the task of investigating whether McCarthy had indeed improperly sought preferential treatment. And unlike some of the other trials, the decision was made by ABC to televise the hearings, giving the American public their first view of what McCarthy's hearings were actually like as he turned his standard tricks against the army prosecutors.

You'd be right in thinking that it was more than a touch cynical that what it took to turn America against McCarthy was him attacking white, straight army dudes, but nevertheless that's what happened.

The army hired Boston lawyer Joseph Welch to make its case. At a session on June 9, 1954, McCarthy charged that one of Welch's attorneys had ties to a Communist organisation (the attorney in question, Fred Fischer, had been a member of the progressive National Lawyer's Guild). As an amazed television audience looked on, Welch responded with the immortal lines that ultimately ended McCarthy's career: "Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness." When McCarthy tried to continue his attack, Welch angrily interrupted, "Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?".

Public support began to immediately drain from McCarthy, helped along by such things as the pioneering TV documentary series See It Now, where journalist Edward R Murrow (picture below) used clips of McCarthy's own behavior to underline how the senator had been exploiting the public's fear and spreading lies (such as implying the FDR and Truman administrations were treacherous) for his own political gain.

(Transcript of the episode here)

McCarthy was cleared of the charges, with sole responsibility being laid at the feet of Cohn, who resigned. By March of 1954, Joe's own Republican base in his home state of Wisconsin launched the Joe Must Go campaign, wishing to oust the senator for disrespecting the army, President Eisenhower, and for ignoring the plight of local dairy farmers facing price-slashing surpluses (y'know, the kind of issues he was elected to deal with rather than wandering around the United States harassing people for being gay, communist or being a gay communist).

He was eventually censured by the Senate on various charges that essentially amounted to making his colleagues look bad by association, and his political career limped along for a further two and a half years before finally dying of "Hepatitis, acute, cause unknown" on May 2, 1957. A diagnosis possibly made worse by both his heavy drinking and morphine addiction.

Schine, for his part in the proceedings, dropped out of politics following the hearings, where he entered the private sector, where among other things he made a cameo appearance in the 1966 Batman show (the Entrancing Dr Cassandra). He would eventually die in 1996 alongside his wife, and their 35 year old son in a private airplane accident.

And what of Roy Cohn... Well... While there are folk who'd go through an experience like this and try to either fade into obscurity or try to improve their image, Roy was not one of those people. He worked for the Mob in New York, the Catholic Church, Rupert Murdoch... and Donald Trump.

Cohn gathered a reputation for being willing to do whatever he felt was necessary to enrich either himself or to get his clients whatever they desired. This eventually led to his getting accused of theft, obstruction of justice, extortion, tax evasion, bribery, blackmail, fraud, perjury, and witness tampering. Indeed, Cohn's willingness to happily commit crimes for his clients has reportedly led to frustrations with Trump's recent legal trouble, with him being annoyed his current legal representatives aren't willing to do criminal stuff for them like Roy did back in the day.

Despite all of this though, Cohn remained a popular figure in conservative politics, even introducing Roger Stone to Trump, and was notably close friends with Ronald and Nancy Reagan, with whom he acted as an informal advisor and even ran Ron's presidential campaign in New York, Connecticut and New Jersey.

In 1986, Cohn was disbarred for, among other things, attempting to forge a client's will to make himself the beneficiary upon their death. On 2 August of that year, he died of complications from AIDS, having been cut off by Trump despite Cohn's loyalty (and help with lucrative mob contracts) over the years.

The IRS promptly seized his property, due to his owing the US government $7million in back taxes.

[viluvr-archived]

learning to ballroom dance with big bro! vil.

LET'S DANCE ?

Vil .

GN!reader , Rook himself is a warning . /j

( A/n — Jupiter really gives these good ideas 💪🏻‼️ check out our blog @twstsiblings 🧎‍♀️‼️)

VIL !

"Y/n? Oh there you are.. I'll be back, you should practice ballroom dancing, ok? Don't let me catch you slacking. Goodbye," your mind wanders and ponders about where your brother could be going, ah! You tripped again..

Could it be Vil doesn't want to dance with you anymore, oh well, maybe Vil wouldn't mind you resting for a bit, it isn't slacking anyways! "Y/n? I'm back! Where are you? You aren't slacking are you?" Shoot! You forgot it was only a short break.

"Brother! I was um... getting water?.." Vil had narrowed his eyes observing if his younger sibling was lying. "Very well then, this is Rook, I brought him here to see how you dance, and.. because you always step on my foot too."

Ah.. it's slightly embarrassing he had to say that, but his blonde-haired friend looked quite attractive. "Oh, Roi du poison, your sibling is practically the spitting image of you! How very beautiful! Allow me to introduce myself, I'm Rook Hunt!" "I've introduced you to her earlier, Rook." Tho Rook paid no attention to what Vil said. "Let's dance shall we?"

And by that Rook had started swinging you left, and right! You were getting dizzy, You shot Vil a pleading look to take in control. "Rook I brought you here to teach them, not to dance with them mindlessly like that.

Maybe bringing you here wasn't a very good idea... Step aside, I'll be your teacher again Y/n." Finally... maybe you could ask your brother about his friend one day, let's just hope he doesn't get suspicious. "Y/n! My foot, please.. refrain from stepping on them." "Sorry Brother!" The room was filled with Vils' sighs, Rooks' boisterous laughter, and your embarrassed sounds from always stepping on your brother's foot.

[jasontoddssuper]

Cami and Roy r besties but their best friend bond is just Roy being like “fucking freak. I wonder if I can hunt her for sport” (affectionate) and Cami being like “I would maul you before could even try <3”. Sibling core /lh /j

Transmasc on transmasc violence

[gotankgo]

Mighty Joe Young (1949)

Director of Photography: J. Roy Hunt

VFX: Willis O’Brien

Assistant Animator: Ray Harryhausen

[kudosmyhero]

Daredevil (vol. 1) #104: Prey of the Hunter!

Read Date: March 27, 2023 Cover Date: October 1973 ● Writer: Steve Gerber ● Penciler: Don Heck ● Inker: Sal Trapani ● Colorist: Petra Goldberg ● Letterer: Charlotte Jetter ● Editor: Roy Thomas ●

**HERE BE SPOILERS: Skip ahead to the fan art/podcast to avoid spoilers

Reactions As I Read: ● Matthew, stop working out with your glasses on ● ok, so some dude has controlled the Dark Messiah, Angar the Screamer, Ramrod, and now Kraven the Hunter. who are you??

● Sal Trapani’s inking is a little heavy at times for my preference ● Woman, to Tasha: “So you live alone—with two men?” / Tasha: “On separate floors, deary. Does that scandalize you, or just make you jealous?”

● 👏👏👏

Synopsis: Daredevil and Black Widow are in an training session talking about their personal matters, and how as Matthew Murdock, he hasn't met Kerwin J. Broderick, the head of Broderick, Sloan, & Murdock, and how Matt has yet to meet him since being employed there. After their session together, they meet with Ivan who brings them their mail. Inside they find an invitation to a cocktail party being held by Kerwin J. Broderick himself, who is anxious to meet Matt Murdock.

Meanwhile, the mastermind behind San Francisco's crime rackets has hired Kraven the Hunter in order to defeat or kill Daredevil. When the man offers Kraven the money, the hunter refuses telling him he only works for the thrill of the hunt.

Later that date, Matthew Murdock arrives on the job at Broderick, Sloan & Murdock to learn that his partner Jason Sloan has gotten him an postponement of trail on the Research Centre vandals that he is representing. Murdock is furious because he has no intention to change his plea because he has enough evidence to find them innocent. This causes turbulence between Jason and Matt, and makes him wonder about the ethics of his employer since the orders came from Broderick.

Returning home, Matt finds that the mansion has been attacked and Ivan bound up. Untying Natasha's bodyguard he learns that Natasha has been kidnapped by Kraven the Hunter who has demanded at Daredevil meet him at the San Francisco Zoo. Arriving there Daredevil is instantly attacked by Kraven. As the Man Without Fear manages to hold his own, he demands that Kraven show him where Natasha is. When Kraven finally does, he does so with dramatic flair: He has Natasha tied to the ground in the elephants pen and has blown a horn sending the gigantic beasts into a frenzy. Daredevil breaks off the first to rescue Natasha allowing Kraven to escape and begin plotting the next phase of his attack on Daredevil.

Six days alter, Matt and Natasha head over to Broderick's mansion for the cocktail party and meet Broderick for the first time. The party is dull and Matt and Natasha cause some controversy among the elite that are there. Just then Kraven the Hunter bursts through the window. While Natasha keeps him busy, Matt slips away in order to change into Daredevil. The two heroes have the upper hand fighting Kraven in closed quarters, forcing the criminal to take the battle outside.

There Kraven gets the advantage, knocking out Black Widow with a tranquilizer dart and then knocking Daredevil unconscious. With the Man Without Fear knocked out, Kraven lifts the hero over his head, poised to throw him off a cliff into the rocky waters below.

(https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Daredevil_Vol_1_104)

Fan Art: Kraven the Hunter by RoyK93

Accompanying Podcast: ● Josh and Jamie Do Daredevil - episode 16

[limetameta]

A list of ideas I have but no willpower to write because I'm hungover

Special Operatives Solf J. Kimblee and Riza Hawkeye (Mr and Mrs Smith type beat but instead of trying to kill each other they're a team from the beginning - actually kind of a dark comedy type vibe) @sentryskyhawk (curse u- curse u and ur good ideas)

Lust eats human beings. More news at 11. @tennesseebedward (ull enjoy this one bestie)

A day in the life of the Fuhrer President's son - aka If Pride has to fingerpaint yet another painting he's going to kill a bitch ft. Wrath having the time of his life telling his older sibling what to do

A one shot of where Riza beats up Roy because he used up all of the hot water - aka young Riza and Roy shenanigans where Riza is a feral countryside kid that has no clue how to socialise with children her own age. Roy, a city slicker, oftentimes wonders if learning alchemy is worth it. Ft. Riza's incomprehensible countryside accent.

Riza Hawkeye learning Flame Alchemy from her father, no tattoo, no military AU where it's written from a pov of village kids who think this recluse who hunts her own food and does strange things is a witch they need to steer clear from. She doesn't go to the military, doesn't go to Ishval. Her father's dead. It's just Riza's a boogeyman to the village kids type story. They see her snap her fingers and start a fire once and that really sells the whole horror of it all. Lmao maybe she sets fire to a scarecrow and the kids who lost another kid on their way think she burned their friend and start crying. This is my make children cry story, I see. Riza's just living her life, I can't stress this enough. She is literally not hurting anyone.

[nine-frames]

"Three years ago I came to Florida without a nickel in my pocket. Now I've got a nickel in my pocket."

The Cocoanuts, 1929.

Dir. Robert Florey & Joseph Santley | Writ. Morris Ryskind & George S. Kaufman (Original Stage Play) | DOP George J. Folsey & J. Roy Hunt

[sesiondemadrugada]

A Game of Death (Robert Wise, 1945).

[byneddiedingo]

Lillian Gish in The White Sister (Henry King, 1923)

Cast: Lillian Gish, Ronald Colman, Gail Kane, J. Barney Sherry, Charles Lane, Juliette La Violette, Gustavo Serena. Screenplay: George V. Hobart, Charles E. Whittaker; titles: Will M. Ritchey, Don Bartlett; based on a novel by Frances Marion Crawford and a play by Crawford and Walter C. Hackett. Cinematography: Roy F. Overbaugh. Art direction: Robert M. Haas. Film editing: Duncan Mansfield.

Henry King was a director of solid competence whose career extended from 1915 to 1962, amassing credits on IMDb for directing 116 films. Even so, his movies are not particularly memorable. Who, today, seeks out The Song of Bernadette (1943) or Wilson (1944), two of the "prestige" films he directed for 20th Century-Fox? In his great auteurist survey The American Cinema: Directors and Directions, 1929-1968, the best Andrew Sarris has to say about the movies directed by King is that they display a "plodding intensity." King was, in Sarris's words, "turgid and rhetorical in his narrative style," and that certainly holds true for The White Sister. Lillian Gish had a great rapport with the camera, able to suggest an entire range of emotions with her eyes alone -- hence the many close-ups she is given in her films. But King, filming on location in Italy and Algeria, is more interested in the settings than in the people inhabiting them. (Roy Overbaugh's cinematography is one of the film's virtues.) Nor does he seem interested in moving the story along, dragging it out to a wearisome 143 minutes. When Prince Chiaromonte (Charles Lane), the father of Angela (Gish) and her wicked half-sister, the Marchesa di Mola (Gail Kane), goes out fox-hunting, we're pretty sure that disaster is about to happen. But King stretches out the hunt so long that when Chiaromonte is killed the accident has no great emotional impact. And when Angela takes her vows as a nun, effectively preventing her from marrying Captain Severini (Ronald Colman), the man she loves but thinks is dead, King gives us every moment of the ceremony, trying to generate suspense by occasional cuts to Severini's ship steaming homeward. There's also an erupting volcano at the picture's end, but King fails to stage or cut it for real suspense. Gish is fine as always, though she's not called on to do much but look pious and to go cataleptic when Angela receives the news of Severini's supposed death. Colman is handsome but not much else, and Kane's villainy seems to be signaled by her talking out of the side of her mouth, as if channeling Dick Cheney many years in advance.

[ridenwithbiden]

Here's how atheist candidates fared in the 2022 elections

There are at least 15 nonreligious state senators.

This is a jump from 10 just two years ago. While they use different labels to describe themselves, these legislators show that you can represent people of faith even when you don’t believe in a Higher Power yourself.

Sen. Stanley Chang (HI)

Geoff Schroeder (ID)

Pinny Beebe-Center (NH)

Sen. William Brownsberger (MA)

Sen. Jeff Irwin (MI)

Sen. Jen McEwen (MN)

Sen. Megan Hunt (NE)

Sen. Andrew Zwicker (NJ) (wasn’t on the ballot)

Sen. William Peter Soules (NM) (wasn’t on the ballot)

Sen. Julie Mayfield (NC)

Nate Blouin (UT)

Rep. Rebecca White (VT)

Sen. Dick McCormack (VT)

Sen. Melissa Agard (WI) (wasn’t on the ballot)

Sen. Kelda Roys (WI) (wasn’t on the ballot)

Those whose races have not been called yet:

Jeanne Casteen (AZ)

Sen. Juan Mendez (AZ)

Brian Nash (CA)

Maria Peterson (IL)

You can see from the list that the senators include challengers, former state representatives, and incumbents whose open nonreligiosity wasn’t a dealbreaker for voters.

There are at least 44 nonreligious state representatives

With several races yet to be called, this is heading toward a record number of nonreligious State House members.

Jennifer Longdon (AZ)

Rep. Melody Hernandez (AZ)

Rep. Athena Salman (AZ)

Rep. Karen McCormick (CO)

Rep. Brianna Titone (CO)

Rep. Chris Kennedy (CO)

Rep. Judy Amabile (CO)

Rep. Cathy Kipp (CO)

Rep. Joshua Elliott (CT)

Rep. Roland J. Lemar (CT)

Rep. Paul Baumbach (DE)

Rep. Eric Morrison (DE)

Rep. Anna Eskamani (FL)

Elinor Levin (IA)

Rep. Lynne Williams (ME)

Rep. Lois Reckitt (ME)

Rep. Julie Palakovich Carr (MD)

Rep. David Moon (MD)

Rep. Jim Hawkins (MA)

Rep. Tram Nguyen (MA)

Rep. Mike Freiberg (MI)

Bob Carter (MT)

Rep. Rochelle Nguyen (NV)

Rep. Howard Watts III (NV)

Carry Spier (NH)

Rep. Sherry Dutzy (NH)

Rep. Amanda Bouldin (NH)

Rep. Kat McGhee (NH)

Rep. Jacqueline Chretien (NH)

Rep. Ellen Read (NH)

Rep. Harvey Epstein (NY)

Rep. Pam Marsh (OR)

Rep. Julie Fahey (OR)

Emily Kinkead (PA)

Mark Rozzi (PA)

Robert Ziegler (PA)

Rep. Chris Rabb (PA)

Rep. Jon Rosenthal (TX)

Rep. Robin Scheu (VT)

Rep. Kathleen James (VT)

Rep. Barbara Rachelson (VT)

Monique Priestley (VT)

Rep. Strom Peterson (WA)

Rep. Francesca Hong (WI)

Those whose races have not been called yet:

Sara Aminzadeh (CA)

Alex Lee (CA)

Stephanie Vigil (CO)

Jennifer Parenti (CO)

Brooke Grossman (MD)

Joey Andrews (MI)

Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban (NH)

Wendy Thomas (NH)

Holly Hillhouse (NH)

Melanie Renfrew-Hebert (NH)

Courtney Neron (OR)

Zach Hudson (OR)

Rep. Ashlee Matthews (UT)

Mike Rice (VT)

Jessica Wadhams (WA)

As you can see, there’s a mix of incumbents and challengers, including in several red states.

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NCIS: Los Angeles Season 13 Rewatch:  “Where Loyalties Lie”

The basics:  When military tech is stolen and its creator murdered, the team searches for both the killer and the tech.

Written by:  Matt Klafter.  This is Klafter's first solo episode.  He co-wrote "Smokescreen Part II" and "A Fait Accompli".

Directed by:  Tawnia McKiernan, who directed "Exchange Rate", "High Value Target", "Kulinda", "Assets", "Joy Ride", "The Frogman’s Daughter", "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You" and "A Land of Wolves" (episode before last).

Guest stars of note:  Anthony Alabi as Marine Master Sgt. David Maxwell, J. Anthony Pena as Manny Ortiz, Jessica A. Caesar as Ruby, James Martin Kelly as Seth Wilcox, Ann Hu as Jun Chen, Kristin Carey as Dr. Laura Nash, Bridger Buckley as Hunt and Tom Virtue as Dr. Hodge.

Our heroes:  Search for really cool goggles.

What important things did we learn about:

Callen:  Stayed at the bar apartment longer than he planned because he knew Kensi and Deeks needed the money. Sam:  Worried about gang leaders and other bad actors getting their proteges into the military. Kensi:  Seriously into her jeans and their management. Deeks:  Seriously mourning the loss of the bar. Fatima:  Saw Jordyn Rountree play the prior night. Rountree:  Out. Kilbride:  See Fatima.

What not so important things did we learn about:

Callen:  Moving, again. Sam:  Having dinner with Kam and her boyfriend Josh. Kensi:  Wants their cars in their garage because it is safe. Deeks:  Wants a mancave in the garage. Fatima:  Thought the day went fairly well. Rountree:  Probably recovering from seeing his sister play the night before. Kilbride:  Thought the day only went fairly well because the technology is still missing.

Where in the world is Henrietta Lange?  Like the tech in the episode, missing.

Who's down with OTP:  Kensi and Deeks are talking mancaves and men who look good in jeans.  All is well.

Who's down with BrOTP:  Callen is lying to Sam about some strange phone calls but only because he doesn’t understand them either.

Fashion review:  Callen is wearing a dark blue button-down shirt.  Sam is in a long-sleeve black tee-shirt.  Kensi works out in a tiffany blue athletic top and dark blue running tights.  Working the case, Kensi wears a sand colored sweater with a white band, a gold band and a grey one the sweater.  Deeks works out in a Navy blue sleeveless shirt and grey joggers.  Later, Deeks has on a pink Henley.  Fatima has on a green oversized (really oversized) jacket over a dark blue turtleneck.  The Admiral is in a dark blue three-piece suit, light-blue dress shirt and medium blue tie.

Music:  “Three Alley Cats” by Roy Hall is playing when the team decides to investigate the denim shop.  “Back on Top” by Buffalo Nichols is playing in the background in Ruby’s Denim Shop.

Any notable cut scene:  Nope.

Quote:  Deeks:  “I'm gonna sell the bar.” Callen:  “You're selling the bar?” Deeks:  “Yeah.” Callen:  “Thank God. Deeks:  “I don't... I don't think that you, um... Sorry. I don't think that you heard me.” Callen:  “No, I heard you.  Congrats.” Deeks:  “Right, well, then, I don't... I don't think that you're fully understanding, because if I... if I sell the bar, it means that you got to find a new place….a new place to live.” Callen:  “No, I get it.” Deeks:  “It's just, it's a lot, and you-you don't seem very fazed by that.” Callen:  “I've had a little bit of practice at this.” Deeks:  “Right. Just out of curiosity, when's the last time you lived in a place this long?” Callen:  “Never. In fact, I actually don't know how I made it work.” Deeks:  “So why did you do it? Why did you stay?” Callen:  “I thought you could use the money. I know things have been tight around here lately, and I figured at some point you and Kens would want to buy a house and start a family.” Deeks:  “Thank you. Yeah. Of course.” Callen:  “You would have... you would have done the same for me.” Deeks:  “In a heartbeat.  You know, uh, the house we bought, it's a two-bedroom, if you want to…” Callen:  “Not a chance.”

Anything else:  A tactical team of– they look military – enter a dark building.  Using fancy night-vision goggles, the team leader moves into the facility with ease.  The goggles give him not only the ability to see through walls but the goggles identify weapons used by the person on the other side of the wall.  When one member of the team gets near the person behind the wall, someone pops up and shoots the two men moving forward.  The shooter then says “bang.”

This was a training session.  Other members of the team want to use the goggles but the team leader tells them they can use them soon enough.  Dr. Nash, who is running this exercise, arrives.  The goggles failed part of the test – the person behind the wall had a rifle but the goggles identified it as a pistol.  They are running the test again.

Later that night, Dr. Nash is working in the facility when she hears a noise.  She is looking for the Master Sergeant who was running the team to help her check around but he’s not there.    Walking around the testing area, she sees what caused the noise – a dead mouse in a trap.  Her relief is momentary, however, when she sees a man out of the corner of her eye.  Warning him she’s called security, Dr. Nash is shot and killed.

Kensi and Deeks are working out their local park.  Kensi is jogging and still has the bandage on her arm, Deeks is on one of the piece of equipment, making a Seabiscuit announcers call.  Deeks is buttering up Kensi, literally, about her cooking skills.  Seems Deeks wants to turn the garage into a mancave.  Kensi wants the cars in the garage – it’s safer.  Deeks does the financials about how much it costs to park their cars based on LA real estate prices.  Kensi doesn’t want him to rebuild The Squid and Dagger in their garage.  

Kensi shifts the conversation to talking to Callen.  With the bar being sold, Callen has to leave.  Deeks keeps checking his Magic Eightball for the perfect time to have the conversation but the outlook keeps saying no.  He brings up how many times he used it before proposing and that just goes poorly.  Deeks decides to talk to Sam before talking to Callen.

Finding Sam at his coffee spot, Deeks tells Sam about the best, and only, offer to sell the bar.  Sam is surprised they are selling the bar.  Deeks tells Sam that he and Kensi are lucky they had other jobs because COVID wiped out the bar.  Thinking aloud, Deeks offers the bar to Sam, golden shark included, but since Sam doesn’t even own a house, why would he want a bar?  The real problem is Callen – the new owners don’t want a tenant.  Deeks suggests Sam, as Callen’s best and possible only friendly, break the bad news.  Deeks even promises a year’s worth of free coffee from his coffee spot, detailing the Hellcat and a year membership to the Jelly of the Month club.  “Deeks, relax.  It will be fine, Callen is cool, just talk to him.  He’ll understand.”  Deeks will tell Callen.

At the office, an arriving Callen gets a phone call.  His doctor is on the call about a follow-up appointment- a telemedicine call - two-weeks ago.  Callen denies doing the call and the doctor wants to review his records.  

In Ops, Fatima tells Callen, Sam and the Admiral about a call from ONI.  They are interested in the murder of Dr. Laura Nash.  Nash was leading a team developing short-range radar technology in goggles for the Navy.  The only prototype was stolen when Nash was killed.   Fatima calls the prototype “x-ray goggles on steroids”.  

Callen asks about the team testing the goggles.  They are Marines, Master Sergeant David Maxwell was the operator wearing the goggles.  He’s worked with Nash for two years.  Maxwell and the other Marines all have alibis that were checked by the local police, who also cleared Nash’s team of engineers.  Nash was a single mom with a daughter at Penn.  Her husband died when the daughter was seven.  She brought up her child on her own.

All agree Nash was killed for the tech.  Fatima thinks it would be terrifying to have that equipment fall into the hands of a mass-shooter.  Callen, Sam and the Admiral are all more worried about America’s enemies getting the tech.  They could reverse engineer the goggles and mass produce them.  The Admiral is sending Callen and Sam to the boatshed to speak to Master Sergeant Maxwell.  Kensi and Deeks are off to the crime scene while the Admiral wants Fatima to check into the engineers.  NCIS can’t afford to have a single mass-shooter with the goggles, let alone an entire army.

In the boatshed, Maxwell tells Callen and Sam that Nash’s death is like losing a member of the team.  While she wasn’t military, “she was one of us.”  She wanted to give Marines an edge in the battlefield.  As far as Maxwell was concerned, the goggles were ready to go but Nash wanted them to be perfect.  Refused to sign off until every last bug was checked out.  

Sam asks who will take over the project.  Maxwell said he if he has any say in this, it would be Kevin Tyler, Nash’s right-hand man, “her clone.”  Both were diligent, meticulous but Tyler was more personable.  At the training warehouse, it was just Nash and the Marines.  Tyler was back in their lab studying the data coming from the goggles.  Another Sam question – who knew about the training warehouse?  Maxwell says it was just the team.  They kept a tight lid on the testing.

Calling Fatima into his office, the Admiral wants a report on the engineers.  Fatima is still interviewing them, much to the displeasure of the Admiral.  He’s seen “snails move through molasses with greater speed.”  Fatima explains that she’s doing it alone, she’d usually be splitting this work with Rountree.  Since Rountree isn’t here, Fatima is expected to get it done.  Leaving the office, the Admiral asks if Fatima saw the game last night.  She did – Jordyn Rountree won the game.  The Admiral also saw the game and the two share a moment.    

In the training warehouse, Kensi and Deeks are looking around.  Deeks thinks if they ever hit the jackpot, he doesn’t want a mancave, he wants his own warehouse.  He also checked out a window in the back.  It was so caked with dust that there is no way the killer could have used it to gain access to the warehouse.  

Kensi notes that the side door has no security cameras.  There was a half-hour window where the killing could have taken place but a few of the Marines were hanging out in the parking lot near the side door when it happened.  There is no way someone was able to sneak in with the Marines around.  Kensi thinks the killer was already inside.  If the killer came in when the test run was going on, nobody would notice them entering.  They could hang around, kill Dr. Nash and steal the goggles.

Listening to his voicemail as he walks into the bullpen, Callen is gets another call, this time about a loan application he made.  The loan officer is sorry, no loan, and sorry about Callen’s mother.  Sam asks what’s going on and Callen goes with “robocall”.  After getting the stink-eye from Sam, Callen promises he’s not looking for any of Hetty’s protégés (technically not a lie since he found one already).  Fatima arrives.  She spoke to everyone on Nash’s team except Kevin Tyler, who is a Navy Reservist.  He didn’t show up to work – first missed day in five-years.  Tyler was last seen in the office yesterday afternoon by a co-worker.  He was leaving around 4PM.  Sam thinks if they find Tyler, they may find the tech.  LAPD got a call from a neighbor, Tyler’s door was left opened all night.  Sam doesn’t see how someone who is diligent and meticulous would leave their door opened.  Callen and Sam are on their way.

As they look around the warehouse, Deeks is dreaming out loud about the mancave and man-warehouse.  Kensi knows he’s mourning the loss of the bar, she is too.  But they have to focus their priorities on bringing a child into their lives.  Kensi finds a spot she thinks would be the perfect place to hide.  It has a perfect view of the testing area.  The killer could watch the Marines call it a night and wait for Nash.  Looking around the area where the killer likely hid, Kensi finds some loose threads.

At Kevin Tyler’s house, Callen and Sam go in when there is no answer to their knocking (and yelling “federal agents”).  The house was ransacked – tipped lamps on the floor, dining room chairs on their sides.  They are concerned Tyler met the same fate as Nash.

In Ops, the Admiral asks what is up on the big screen.  It is the fibers from the threads Kensi found in the warehouse.  It is raw denim.  Kensi knew this because Japanese salvage was all she wore in college.  The Admiral demands to know what is Japanese salvage.  Deeks explains she’s talking about jeans.  Kensi goes on a Deeks-like tangent on caring for and not washing her jeans – both Deeks and Fatima share a “gross” but Kensi goes on to explain freezing her jeans.  The Admiral hates Los Angeles just a little bit more after this exchange.  The jeans were new with a black overdye.  Only one place sells those type of jeans in Los Angeles.  Kensi wants to go jeans shopping.  Deeks wants a new freezer.

Looking at Tyler’s home, there is no signs of forced entry – maybe he let the people who ransacked the apartment in before finding out their real reason for showing up.  Sam finds some tattoo tracing paper in a frame – some people keep theirs after getting a tattoo as a memento.  Callen thinks the tattoo should be the memento.  Sam asks when is Callen going to final get a tattoo.  Callen says maybe he already has one.  Sam doesn’t believe him – there is no way Callen could keep something like that quiet.

Sam finds another tracing – this one has gang connections.  The tattoo tracing is from 2008, Tyler was 16.  It could have been an initiation tattoo.  Looking around some more, while the place has been tossed, nothing is really broken, nothing ruined.  In fact, it looks like Tyler’s clothing and suitcases are gone.  People who break in to ransack the place don’t usually let you pack up.

Walking into the denim store, Deeks finds a leather jacket to his liking – something like Marlon Brando wore in the “The Wild One”.  Kensi tells him to hang it back up after he does his Marlon Brando imitation.  Kensi finds a great pair of jeans for $425.  Deeks thinks she should get three-pairs of jeans for that sort of money.  

Ruby, the shop owner, approaches Kensi and Deeks.  She can get the jeans tailored for Kensi if she’d like.  Deeks doesn’t like.  Kensi and Deeks identify themselves.  Ruby asks how she can help.  Kensi shows the jeans where the threads came from.  Ruby says they are her best sellers.  Kensi asks for a customers list and Ruby complies.  With the price of the jeans in the store, Kensi wonders if the person who stole the tech isn’t going to sell it, maybe they are going to use it to get some more money.

Calling Callen and Sam, Fatima explains the tattoo belongs to the White Kings white-supremacist gang in Venice, best known for dealing drugs and weapons.  This seems impossible to Callen and Sam that Tyler would be part of that gang.  Surely the Navy, his high tech company or the DoD would find out.  Callen wants a list of all the known White Kings in Los Angeles – he wants to know who they’re dealing with.

Looking that Ruby’s customer list, most of the addresses are in Beverly Hills or Malibu.  Kensi thinks they would appreciate some fine denim.  While that’s true, Deeks thinks they lack the skills to break into a Marines-run warehouse.  Kensi thinks both the Rock and Jason Momoa could do it. Deeks says Kensi is now dreaming out loud, putting her favorite guys in her favorite jeans.  When Deeks mentions Chris Hemsworth, Kensi half giggles/half snorts.  Deeks asks her what is happening, including possibly having a stroke.  Kensi want to move on.  

Noticing a clothing donations collection box in the parking lot of the store, Kensi says the jeans may not have come from the store but from a donation.  Kensi explains that jeans with small irregulars could be donated to charities.  Going back to Ruby, she does donate her jeans that either didn’t sell well or had flaws to a charity run by a man she knows.   When Deeks pushes her on the guy, Ruby is reticent at first.  She met the man, Manny, through her sister.  Her sister, her best friend, had drug issues.  After trying everything to help, her sister wound up on the streets.  The community center let her sleep there, fed her, let her shower.  After seemingly kicking her addiction, Ruby’s sister relapsed and died.  Ruby doesn’t have much but what she has goes to the community center.

Fatima is having a hard time figuring out who is in the gang and what is their command structure.  Sam says that’s likely on purpose to protect members from the police.  It may also explain why Kevin Tyler was never flagged.  During Tyler’s time with the Navy, there were several inventory issues where he was assigned but Tyler was never implicated.  Callen asks about the inventory and Fatima replies weapons, equipment – a few rifles here, some body armor there.  Nothing big enough to raise red flags.  Over time, however, he stockpiled enough to arm a small militia.  

Wondering where he kept it all, Callen thinks he sold it with the White Kings.  Which makes sense because the occasional missing rifle or kevlar vest gets noticed but not a lot of attention.  The one-of-one goggles going missing went all the way to ONI.  This could have been Tyler’s way to cash out – one last payout.  If this is going to someone in either Russia or China – the only ones who could not only play for the tech but mass produce it – their buyers must be in LA.  Callen wants Fatima to check everyone going in and out of LAX over the last two days.

At the community center, Kensi and Deeks speak to Manny Ortiz.  The center is giving out their Heroes of Tomorrow Diversity Scholarships at a big party.  There is a red carpet for the event.  Kensi asks about the jeans Ruby donated.  Manny thinks people are crazy to pay that kind of money for jeans.  Deeks has a new friend.  A workman leaves after painting the inside with Manny’s thanks.  Ten high school seniors are getting scholarships that night, they are making the place look great.  Deeks asks what happens to the jeans.  Usually donated clothing is just left in the center but Manny gave the expensive jeans to some of their volunteers – he can’t pay them but he can reward them.  Unlike Ruby, Manny doesn’t have a list who has the jeans.  He just left them out for the volunteers with a request that you don’t take anything you won’t wear but he will ask around.

Fatima tells an arriving Callen and Sam that she found a June Chen, a Chinese professor who has been here teaching for the last five years.  She’s leaving tonight.  All of the colleges where she was teaching Chinese are near Navy bases.  She’s also a person of interest in a joint investigation between NCIS and Scotland Yard but they didn’t have enough evidence to question her.  Fatima tablet beeps – Chen is entering a nail salon.  Castor and his partner are nearby so they’ll pick her up and bring her to the boat shed.

At the boat shed, June Chen is on the wrong side in the interrogation table.  Chen claims innocence, she just a college professor, but Callen knows she’s so much more.  In Ops, Fatima calls Chen a ghost.  The only information she can find about Chen is her parents’ apartment address in Shanghai.  

Sam asks Chen about the goggles but again, Chen says she knows nothing.  She has a flight to catch.  Callen explains she’s not going anywhere.  Even when NCIS is finished with her, the FBI, CIA and NSA are lined up to speak with her.  Fatima explains to the Admiral that half of the residents of Chen’s parents’ apartment building are all from the same farming province in China and all work for the same mining-fertilizer company.  

Sam explains Chen is looking at life in jail.  Fatima’s review of the medical records shows that there has been a 50% increase of cancer diagnosis of the people from that farming province.  

Making one last pitch, Sam asks where are the goggles.  Chen says nothing.  Noticing scars on Chen’s hands, Callen tells her they aren’t the hands of a scholar.  Sam agrees, those hands worked hard in the fields.  Years of physical labor.  Chen asks if they find labor shameful.  Sam shows his hands and is proud he works with them every day.  Callen finds no shame in wanting out of an area that has become a toxic wasteland – Chen found a way out.  She found a way out for her parents, her friends and their parents.  By helping out the government, earned a way out for all of them.  She was a great help to the Chinese government but now that she’s been arrested, the government is going to kill her.

While Callen and Sam promise to protect Chen in prison but Chen is at peace dying in an American prison.  It would be many times worse if the Chinese government learned she gave up the goggles.  She won’t tell them where it is but she will help in other ways.  The tech was sold by two men – a younger man she confirmed was Kevin Tyler and another man, an older man – who got $2 million.  The older man wanted a Chinese explosive called “Devil’s Wrath”.  Sam confirms with his bomb tech buddies that it is highly unstable and has to be detonated within a 100-yards.  No cell phone triggers or deadman’s switches.

Popping up on the screen, Fatima has news from ATF about the White Kings.  Seth Wilcox is their leader.  It is the workman from the community center.  He painted the place for this minorities scholarship ceremony – he could have put the bomb in the drywall, patched it up and painted over it.  Nobody would notice.  With nobody answering the phone at the community center, the team is making their way to the event.

Kensi and Deeks arrive first and start evacuating the place.  Callen and Sam are looking for Wilcox – he has to be nearby to detonate the bomb.  They spot Wilcox and Kevin Tyler are in an alley with a dead end.  Callen and Sam try to sneak up on Wilcox, who is taking a smoke break, when Tyler sees them.  Lots of shooting ensues.  Callen takes out Tyler turns his and Sam’s attention to Wilcox.

Kens and Deeks are evacuating the community center.  People are fleeing.

With Sam covering him, Callen moves closer to Wilcox.  Wilcox is ordered to put the gun on the ground.  The detonator is within his reach.  When he puts the gun down, he tries to go for the detonator and is shot for his trouble.  Sam takes the denotator for safe keeping.  The bomb squad arrived at the community center.

In a darkened office, Fatima updates the Admiral.  Wilcox and Tyler were about the flee with the money, more explosives and fake passports.  Tyler had the jeans in his suitcase.  Fatima thinks all things considered – stopped the explosion, found the money - they had a fairly good day.  Since the goggles are still missing, the Admiral agrees fairy good since the goggles are still missing.  

Walking into the armory, Kensi and Deeks feel like honorary members of Manny Ortiz’s family.  They were guests at the ceremony.  One of the scholarship winners was going to UCLA so Kensi offered an introduction to Jordyn Rountree which made the young woman’s day.  Deeks wants to go home and watch something on TV with lots of action and little plot.  Kensi would be find with less action and more plot.  Deeks sighs, if only he had a special spot where he could watch his programs, they could do both.  Kensi cuts a deal.  During the week, the cars go in the garage, during the weekend, one car is outside.  Deeks wants a chair, a tiny TV and his big golden shark.  Kensi commits to a beach chair.

Deeks has to tell Callen about moving out.  Kensi is willing to do it with him but he’s going to do it alone.  He asked Callen to move in, he can ask Callen to move out.  

In the bullpen, Sam is bothered that Tyler got so far in the Marines and in the military tech field.  He’s horrified that someone like Wilcox could plant Tyler into such high raking positions.  And if Wilcox could do that, so could other gang leaders, other foreign governments.  Sam gets a call from Kam – he’s going to dinner with Kam and her boyfriend Josh.  Callen is invited but passes.  

As Sam leaves, Deeks arrives.  It takes Deeks a while to get to say what he has to.  Deeks tells Callen he has to sell the bar.  Callen is relieved.  And thrilled.  He’s happy to be moving – he’s had some practice at this.  This is the longest Callen has ever lived in one place.  He’s not sure how he made it worked.  Deeks asks why Callen stayed.  Knowing that Deeks needed the money, that he and Kensi wanted to buy a house and start a family, he was happy to pay.  He knows Deeks would do the same for him.  Deeks would.  In fact, Deeks offers the second bedroom in the Blye-Deeks home.  “Not a chance,” is Callen’s reply.

When Deeks leaves, Callen get a text from his doctor.  He is sure he spoke to Callen two-weeks ago.  He wants to talk to Callen.  In a home with Russian television running in the background, someone is working on the deep fake technology.  

What head canon can be formed from here:  Kensi as a jeans-fan.  This is an “evergreen” episode.  The bones of this episode – stolen tech, gang infiltration in the military, murder, racism – have been regular storylines.  This is a well-told, well-act hour with no gapping plot holes.  It would have worked in season two and in season 13.

This season has had more Callen-Deeks solo interaction than any other one I can remember.  Callen and Deeks are often in the same scene but Sam and Kensi are usually with them.

Liked the Master Sergeant and Manny at the community center.  Wouldn’t mind seeing them again.  Same with Ruby, who had a terrible story to tell.

Episode number:   Episode 290 overall, the 10th episode of season 13.

[bambi-lesbian-posts]

We've decided that we aren't moving so I've started unpacking all of my stuff again.

I just finished unpacking all of my books, so I'm gonna post about how I organized them and just list them all because I want to share the books I own and talk about them with people ^^

Anyways, shelf one:

Organization Left to right: Fairytales, classic stories, poetry, academic literature, singular stories I personally adored & often go back to reread.

Book list, from left to right:

The Complete Hans Christian Anderson FairyTales (published by Gramercy Books)

Great Illustrated Classics: Grimm's Fairy Tales (published by Baronet Books)

Blessed Are The Meek by Zofia Kossak (published by Roy Publishers... this copy is from 1944 I'm very proud of it)

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (Dover Thrift Edition)

The Awakening by Chopin (Dover Thrift Edition)

Hamlet by William Shakespeare (Dover Thrift Edition)

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (published by Scribner)

The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath

Hitch Your Wagon To A Star and other quotations from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Earth to Spirit: In Search of Natural Architecture by David Pearson

Ocean of Adventure by Eric I. Soyland (I knew this man personally.. incredible photographer and very very kind old man)

The illustrated A Brief History of Time: The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking

Mojave Desert Wildflowers Field Guide by Pam Mackay

Classic Latin Course in English by William Cleaver Wilkinson (this copy is from 1893, also incredibly proud of it)

Language of Flowers by Kate Greenaway (pocket edition)

Webster's New World Thesaurus

Wonder by R.J. Palacio

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

DUNE by Frank Herbert

The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

In The Forests of The Night by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas

Wings of Fire: The Dragonet of Prophecy by Tui T. Sutherland (read this in middleschool and became OBSESSED)

An Encyclopedia of Tolkien: The History and Mythology That Inspired Tolkien's World by David Day (self explanatory I think)

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Fablehaven by Brandon Mull (a very old and very worn copy from elementary school that I love very much. Only kept the first volume tho)

Spirit Animals [book one] Wild Born by Brandon Mull (I remember getting this because I loved Fablehaven so much so I wanted to read his other works.)

Shelf two:

The whole shelf is it's own section in the organization. Fantasy/Romance stories that I've read. Predominantly YA because I bought most of these in highschool or thought the covers were interesting

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas

Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas

Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas

Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas

Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas (end of TOG series... Tower of Dawn is the only book I remember very well and the only book I absolutely, without question, adore about this series)

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas (this series is connected to TOG and I began reading it because of that. Though I think it has interesting characters, many parts are disappointing:/)

House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig (haven't read yet, thought cover was interesting)

The Mermaid The Witch and The Sea by Tokuda Hall (haven't read, but was recommended to me by a friend)

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao (haven't read but saw the author and became interested)

LORE by Alexandra Bracken (found on accident while looking for Greek mythology books.. cover was interesting. Havent read)

Saving Tara by L.S. Carr (saw the author and became interested, participated in the kickstarter. I enjoyed it)

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell (got this as a gift from a friend who loves Rowell. I don't like her very much tbh)

We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal (haven't read but cover looked interesting.)

We Free the Stars by Hafsah Faizal (2nd in their series)

Creation Abomination by Alan W. Thompson (I met this guy!! This is more of a science fiction than anything else. I love this so much. The art is beautiful. Waiting on the third book.)

Abomination Desolation by Alan W. Thompson

Third & final shelf:

Organization: predominantly manga and comics, and a few books that didn't fit in previous shelves due to genre differences.

List:

Princess Jellyfish Vol.1 by Akiko Higashimura

Princess Jellyfish Vol.2 by Akiko Higashimura

Princess Jellyfish Vol.3 by Akiko Higashimura(I adore this series so much, there's at least 9 volumes but I couldn't buy them all. Will probably buy more in the future)

How Do We Relationship? Vol.1 by Tamifull (gay!!! And adorable!!)

How Do We Relationship? Vol.2 by Tamifull

How Do We Relationship? Vol.3 by Tamifull

Adachi and Shimamura Vol.1 by Hitoma Iruma(more of a novel than a manga, but it is illustrated in a manga style for each chapter head. Cute lesbians)

Adachi and Shimamura Vol.2 by Hitoma Iruma

Adachi and Shimamura Vol.3 by Hitoma Iruma

Adachi and Shimamura Vol.4 by Hitoma Iruma

Whisper Me a Love Song Vol.1 by Eku Takeshima (SO CUTE also I couldn't find volume 2 so I've only read the first volume so far)

Whisper Me a Love Song Vol.3 by Eku Takeshima

The Girl from the Other Side Vol.1 by Nagabe

The Girl from the Other Side Vol.2 by Nagabe

The Girl from the Other Side Vol.3 by Nagabe(This is so sad bro?????? But the art and characters are so lovely)

Chibi Vampire Vol.5 by Yuna Kagesaki

Chibi Vampire Vol.7 by Yuna Kagesaki (I adored this as a kid... only bought my two favorite volumes from a library excess sale)

Fruits Basket Vol.9 by Natsuki Takaya (bought from the same library excess sale as Chibi Vampire. Only got volume 9 because it has a special chapter on Hana.. and I adored her as a kid. Still adore her actually)

Vampire Knight Vol.1 by Matsuri Hino (a horrible relic. Truly evil. My sister got it for me as a gift in some form of a cruel joke)

Rave Master Vol.4 by Hiro Mashima (a childhood favorite.. bought at the same library excess sale)

Unofficial Hatsune Mix by Kei (saw it and thought it was cute. Almost completely colored as well. Everybody loves Miku)

Motor Crush Vol.1 by Babs Tar, Brenden Fletcher, and Cameron Stewart (YAY MOTORCRUSH everybody loves motorcrush)

Motor Crush Vol.2 by Babs Tar, Brenden Fletcher, and Cameron Stewart

Year of The Villain #4: The Batman Who Laughs by DC Comics (self explanatory I think)

Star Trek: The Q Conflict issue 1 (unopened, also self explanatory)

Star Trek: series(???) issue (41) By Weinstein, Whigham and Starr (unopened, also self explanatory)

The Littles Give A Party by John Peterson (grew up loving The Littles)

Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (another childhood favorite)

Eight Keys by Suzanne LaFleur (a gift, haven't read)

The Borrowers by Mary Norton (illustrated by Beth and Joe Krush) (I love the Borrowers. I still go back to reread this. It just didn't fit on the first shelf:/)

Dark Water by Koji Suzuki (collection of short horror stories. I love it so far.)

& many unpictured stories such as The King In Yellow, one or two more nature field guides, kanji books, a Japanese/English dictionary, etc. That I bring with me to classes)

That's all for my books. Thanks for reading if you did and maybe give me recommendations? Idk I'm always looking for more to read