#Jay Conway age

[onlylonelylatino]

Batman, Robin, the Huntress and the Justice Society by Jim Aparo

[evilhorse]

You’re the fastest man alive, remember? Or is that just a sexist myth?

(All-Star Comics #60)

[kryptonbabe]

The absence of the superego psychological structure in JSA bronze age comics, an observation

One thing that makes reading the JSA revival run from 1976 such an interesting experience is just how much of their inner thoughts they are willing to share with each other. The members of this team will express the most intense feelings of despair, anger and every other emotion without thinking twice, it makes for a very intense reading experience. These people are on the edge and they will let you know about their intrusive thoughts, deep feelings and desires, the drama is always through the roof, and I didn't even include Power Girl's exchanges with Superman and Wildcat (I'm saving these for another post)

In Freudian psychology we have:

(...) the id is the impulsive part of your personality that is driven by pleasure and repulsed by pain, the superego is the judgmental and morally correct part of your personality, and the ego is the conscious part of your personality that mediates between the id and the superego and makes decisions.

And I can only think of the challenge the JSA team of this time would present for these definitions, because they seem unburdened by the superego aspect of their mind, just saying what their id demands, particularly when it comes to sharing their feelings. And that is not to say these characters don't have interesting inner lives, it's just that they're very transparent about their feelings and it's absolutely appealing to witness such a dynamic

This particular style of writing reminds me of what Chris Claremont was also doing with the Uncanny X-Men at Marvel (All-Star Comics revival and Claremont's X-Men were published only 6 months apart), which might just be an example of how the writing trends of superhero comic books were changing with the times. The difference is: the X-men heroes were younger and less experienced while the JSA characters are jaded, they share a common history of decades with each other and their foes, this leaves a lot of room for drama and conflict (not to put these books against each other they're just different and I love both). Honestly I'm a melodrama fan, I have an appreciation for this soap opera style of comic book narrative and I'm glad there's so much good material to get into. There's a reason why the JSA characters are still popular to this day

From All-Star Comics (1976 revival), collected in Only legends live forever TPB (2019). Written by: Gerry Conway & Paul Levitz. Art by Keith Giffen & Wally Wood

[fastestmanalive333]

Decided to draw Pre Crisis Dick Grayson and Jay Todd.. I did this in August last year thought I'd share it now, I happen to be quite fond of these characters as well as the pre crisis era as a whole, this is also very much a love letter to Gerry Conways work with the character

[ultrameganicolaokay]

Wonder Woman #239 ‘A Duke Named Deception!’ (1977) by Gerry Conway, José Delbo, Vince Colletta and Jerry Serpe. Edited by Denny O'Neil and Larry Hama. Cover by Rich Buckler and Colletta.

(1978)

[positivelybeastly]

Hello! I've been a fan of Hank since I was a kid, primarily owing to his portrayal in the 90s cartoon. With the airing of X-Men '97, I've been reminded of how much I love the character and have been looking into his comic appearances; unfortunately, I'm not quite happy with the direction he's been written in recent years (read: X-Force). So, I was wondering if you had any suggestions for older comic runs I could read to get my fill of my favorite bouncing blue Beast?

Hello there, friend! I hope you're well, and perhaps still perusing this blog from time to time? Hard to tell, given the lack of a moniker, but I'll throw this into the Hank McCoy tag, just so you have a better chance of seeing this.

I am currently in the process of writing up a full Beast reading order, but I've only gotten up to 1981 thus far - really do need to get back on that - so I'm going to give you a somewhat less specific, but far more immediate answer to your question! To wit!

X-Men: First Class, by Jeff Parker.

X-Men: Season One, by Dennis Hopeless.

X-Men: Children of the Atom, by Joe Casey.

Amazing Adventures #11-17, by Gerry Conway.

X-Men Unlimited vol. 2 #10, by Homs.

Avengers vol. 1 #138-211, by, well, a lot of people.

X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga, by Chris Claremont.

Marvel Team-Up #124, by J.M. DeMatteis.

The Defenders/The New Defenders #96-152, by J.M. DeMatteis.

Marvel Heartbreakers, by Jim McCann.

X-Factor vol. 1 #1-70, by Bob Layton (bleuch) and Louise Simonson (yay!).

X-Men Unlimited vol. 1#10 and #14, by Mark Waid and Terry Kavangh.

Marvel Presents #85-92, by Scott Lobdell.

Wonder Man vol. 2 #5 and 6, by Gerard Jones.

Avengers Two: Wonder Man and Beast, by Roger Stern.

New X-Men vol. 1 #114-154, by Grant Morrison.

Astonishing X-Men vol. 3 #1-35, by Joss Whedon and Warren Ellis.

Secret Avengers vol. 1 #13, #16, #20, and #21 by Nick Spencer and Warren Ellis.

Exiles #1-6 vol. 2, by Jeff Parker.

S.W.O.R.D #1-5 vol. 1, by Kieron Gillen.

X-Men: Endangered Species, by Mike Carey.

Wolverine and the X-Men #8 vol. 1, by Jason Aaron.

Amazing X-Men vol. 2 #1-5, by Jason Aaron.

A+X #4, #7, #12 and #15 by Kaare Andrews, Zeb Wells, Christos Gage and Jai Nitz.

Uncanny Avengers vol. 3 #28, by Jim Zub.

Astonishing X-Men vol. 4 #13-17, by Matthew Rosenberg.

Marvel Age #1000, by Rainbow Rowell.

These are, of course, scratching the surface, because Hank is a goddamn cameo king, and you can usually count on him to have some good lines or good characterisation because people actually really enjoy writing him, but these are the ones that come immediately to mind! I hope this helps.

[jrwi-art-archive]

Directionary:

(dividers by @cafekitsune )

Tws will be tagged as #tw trigger or #trigger

Campaigns:

The fated: #campaign: fated

Convergence: #campaign: convergence

Riptide and Black Rose Oneshot: #campaign: riptide

Prime Defenders and Age of Heroes Oneshot: #campaign: pd

Apotheosis: #campaign: apotheosis

Blood in the Bayou: #campaign: bitb

The Suckening: #campaign: suckening

Wonderlust: #campaign: wonderlust

Judgement: #campaign: judgement

Mythborne: #campaign: mythborne

Paradise Chronicles: #oneshot: paradise chronicles

Monster Control Service: #oneshot: monster control service

The final Episode: #oneshot: the final episode

Twitch Chat Oneshot: #oneshot: twitch chat

Player Characters:

The Fated:

#Br’aad Vengolor

#Sylnan Vengolor

#Velrisa

#Taxi

#Mountain

Convergence:

#Alastyr Cross

#Flynn Gustwind

#Kasper

#Kroe Wyse

Riptide:

#Gillion Tidestrider

#Jay Ferin

#Chip

#Goobleck

#Doppelgillion (all Doppelgillion posts will be tagged as Gillion as well)

Black Rose:

#Drey Ferin

#Finn Tidestrider

#Arlin James

Prime Defenders:

#Dakota Cole

#William Wisp

#Vyncent Sol

Age of Heroes:

#Ms. G

#Harlem Shade

#Jason King

Apotheosis:

#Peter Sqloint

Rumi/any of their other forms: #Rumi

#Thanatos

Blood in the Bayou:

#Rolan Deep

#Timothy Rand

#Kian Stone

The Suckening:

#Emizel Tucker

#Shilo Bathory

#Arthur Bennett

Wonderlust:

#Blink

#Troy Lougferd

#Runt

Total Monster Kill:

#lucia

Judgement:

#Mel

#Buck Barker

#Jaguar Joe

#Paeon Pestifus

Mythborne:

#Aster Aeliana

#Ryan Selucreh

#Connor Connors

Guest Characters:

Riptide:

#Duke D. Dukem

#Clorten

#La Alma

PD:

#Ashe Winters

The Fated:

Redd Boye

NPCs

The Fated:

#Miriam Vengolor

#Alwyn Vengolor

Riptide:

#Lizzie Lafayette

#Caspian

#Ollie Teach

#Felipe

#Alphonze

#Niklaus Hendrix

#Pretzel the Frogtopus

#Jayson Ferin

#Ava Ferin

#May Ferin

#Edyn Tidestrider

#Lunadeiys

#Aster (goddess)

#Anastasia

#Rudith

#Aslana

#Old man earl

#Zamia

#Marshall John

#Kira

#Captain Widow

#Reuben Price

#Starling

#Jasmine Drake

#Lucy the goat

#Captain Rose

#Faye Ferin

#Dr Ooze

Prime Defenders:

#Le Frog

#Trickster

#Mark Winters

#Mynerva

#Lightspeed

#Summer Dileo

#Doug

#Tide Lambert

#Mark Winters

#Cantrip

#Xavier

#Alan

#Alastyr Cross

#Anna Sol

#Mr. Wisp

#Janet Wisp

#Alaska Damascus

#Wordsmith

#Bookworm

#Grandma Cole

#Mato Cole

#Alexander Hamilton

#Rosemary

#Finger

#Handjob

#Flow

#Peelbert

#Unnamed Hero

#Diana Shane

#Dave

#David Bell

#Mallard Conway

#Clarence Albert

#ram

#Bobo

Apotheosis:

#Lizard the lizard

#Yuri Dawnguard

Bitb:

#Becky Jones

#Rachel Rand

#Officer Dudes

#Rat Sanders

#Sarah Thompson

#Jesse

#Barcode the dog

The Suckening:

#Theo Collins //(soda)

#Void the cat

#Pepper the cat

#Pickles the pheasant

#Grefgore

#Uncle Lazarus

#Deacan Keller

#Queen Bathory (stand-in tag)

#Edward Twilight

#Viv Weylin

#Vex Weylin

#Mary Davis

Wonderlust:

#uncle threestrings

#aeon

#overseer

#ripley

#pinch

Ships

(all ship-art will be tagged with #jrwi shipping!)

(i will tag ships if op also tagged a ship)

Riptide:

Gillion x Chip: #Fish and Chips

Gillion x Jay: #Navyseal

Jay x Chip: #Mockingjay

Caspian x Gillion: #Swordfish

Ava x Lizzie: #Waning Crescent

Jay x Lizzie: #Pistolwhip

Jay x Anastasia: #Bloodshot

Jay x Edyn: #Sheshells

Jay x Chip x Gillion: #Poly Pirates

Chip x Niklaus: #Fools Gold

Chip x Queen: #Chiptune

Niklaus x Caspian: #Wishingpool

Chip x Jazz: #Scarlet Captains

Caspian x Lizzie: #Rosewater

Goobleck x Felipe: #Gummyfrog

PD:

Dakota x William: #ghostkicks

Dakota x Ashe: #demonkicks

Vyncent x William: #ghostknife

Summer x Cantrip: #suntrip

Apotheosis:

Rumi x Peter: #Angelstone

Bitb:

Rand x Rolan: #Keeperschampion

Rand x Rolan x Kian: #Nbr

Becky x Kian: #heartstrings

The Suckening:

Emizel x Soda: #fizzfangs

Shilo x Grefgore: #armored pheasant

Arthur x Deacon: #gothgun

Crossover:

William x Chip: #Flying Dutchman

Types of media

digital art: #digital

traditional art: #traditional

#webweave

#fanfic

#collage

#crochet

#video (animations, animatics etc. I don’t really want to judge what counts as animation/animatic so I will tag everything with #video, including gifs)

#stimboard (I know that stimboards aren’t usually considered art, but i like them so I’m gonna include them on this blog. for consistency’s sake i’ll tag stimboard makers artist:*insert name*)

Misc

#crossover (includes crossovers between campaigns and between jrwi and other media)

#official art

#jrwi au

#jrwi freak week

AUs/Crossovers

#pokemon

#ponies

#cats

#vampires

#fnaf

#marvel

#tma (the magnus archives)

#trolls

#spiderverse (will also be tagged as marvel)

#marvel

#superheroes

#undertale

#mermaids

(wip)

[nightmare-ish-writing]

Hello, this is my first original work I’m posting online. This will be on both Tumblr and Ao3 under the name of Days at camp.

Days at camp

Shopping for Groceries

It was only Wednesday and Dale was still so tired he felt like collapsing. It wasn’t as bad as last week was yet, he still had a bad feeling about it...

Not only did he have to get ready for work, but it was also the one day Dale hated... today he had to try to go shopping for groceries. But that was for future him to worry about, right now he just needed to get ready...

It was the same routine every day for Dale, get up, get dressed, find some work, keep the twins out of trouble, sleep and repeat... He was exhausted, but that didn’t change the fact that he had to do it.

So that’s what he did, Dale got up and dressed, walking out of his room to make his way to the kitchen only to hear a clunk, a loud squeak and two excited cheers.

When Dale reached the kitchen, he paused in the doorway to stare over at the very clear bloodied arrow suck into the bathroom door impaling a big rat.

“Why? Just why... Autumn, Harvey, explain this now...” Dale rubbed his head and shifted his gaze to his younger siblings sitting on the counter, bows in their hands.

“That stupid fat rat was the one nibbling the bread in the cabinets!” Harvey yelled

“Yeah, we were just... taking care of it...” Autumn insists more calmly

“And you used the bows?”

“Well duh,” Harvey scoffed rolling his eyes. “What else would we use? We’re more accurate with the bows anyway.” Dale snapped...

“There’s like 18 arrows in the floor! And not to mention how hurt one of you could have gotten doing something that stupid!” Dale screamed at the twins, taking a deep breath.

“Whatever just clean up... And get rid of that rat carcass. I don’t wanna see that thing rotting on the floor when I get home.” Dale lectured. Walking into the bathroom Dale splashed his pale face with water to wake himself up as he looked at the bags under his light blue eyes as he brushed tangled brown hair out of his face keeping the longer strands out of the way with some water.

Walking out of the bathroom again to see the twins pulling arrows out of the floor and lower cabinets. He took a breath and sighed.

“I’m sorry for yelling... I’ve been stressed out and I don’t know what I would’ve done if one of you got hurt...”

“We were just trying to help you with that stupid rat...” Harvey mumbled.

“I know, and you did... but that was a dangerous and reckless thing to do, but I’m proud of both of you for trying to help me out with things... and I have to admit, it was an impressive shot.”

“Really?” Harvey’s face lit up.

“Yes, but don’t go trying to shoot rats with your bows again if you don’t speak to me first, okay?”

“Alright...” They both huffed.

“Good, now I’m going to find some work, I'll be back by dinner time, don’t do anything reckless while I'm gone.”

“No promises.” Harvey stated to Autumn’s amusement as Dale walked out the door and down the steps. He walked down the gravel trail enjoying the sight of the lush green trees before pulling out a small book and writing down his checklist for the day.

1.) Work... obviously. At least 270 for food

2.) Check market for more plant fertilizer

3.) Plan next week's meals

4.) Update budget

5.) Clean the house (pls)

6.) Send jay bird w/ note for Ms. Conway about work next week

7.) Buy groceries

And with another exhausting deep breath Dale took off and flew to find some work at the market. Arriving there he seen the same faces of his neighbors and the rest of the people from the small town of Echo Cliff.

Dale got to work quickly, it was much easier now that almost everybody knew him and the jobs he’d be willing to do. So, it didn’t take long for people to come and ask him to do a job for them or ask for something, a small task here some yard work there even babysitting on occasion...

Dale had lots of energy that not many of his neighbors had, and all the other kids his age didn’t want to do the work he did, so that lead to all the quick mundane jobs that would make him a little extra money.

It helped but today in particular he was looking for a bigger job that would pay nicely with minimal effort. Then came one of the neighbors he loved to see on days like this one.

“Dale my boy!” He turned around to see his elderly neighbor shuffling up to him while waving.

“Oh, hello Mr. Carlson... Is there anything you need today?”

“Oh yes, yes, my boy. You know how I am these days... these old wings just don’t work like they used to...”

Mr. Carlson was a sweet old man and as far as Dale could remember Mr. Carlsons wings have always been missing feathers making it hard to fly, but it had gotten worse in recent years grounding him and making it hard for him to get around... so he would often pay for Dale to buy groceries for him and his wife.

“Tell you what boy, your wings are nice and young, and I best know you should be going to the shops one of these days sooner or later. So, when you go to the shops, I want you to get me a bag of those nice green apples you know the Mrs. And I like, and we’ll make you one of those nice pies you and those troublemakers enjoy so much, and I know money’s tight for you kiddos, so I’ll pay you a pretty penny for your troubles.”

“Oh, of course, I can do that Mr. Carlson, I was actually planning on going to the shops today anyway so I can get those for you today if you want.”

“That’s perfect my boy! I knew I could count on you.” He leaned in close and whispered. “Now here’s the money for those apples, I want you to get me 3 bags, when you drop them off, I'll tell the Mrs. to pay you and whatever is left over you can keep for a little treat” Mr. Carlson winked and went on his way.

With the money from Mr. Carlson and the pie, Dale wouldn’t have to spend as much at the store and he would have a little extra money to save for next time, and with that payment he had finally got done with work, albeit a little later than expected.

Dale quickly made his way to the shops and had enough to pay for the food they’d need for the next week or so, when he was done, Dale put the food in his satchel and went on the search to buy the apples.

Normally the apples in the mountains were less expensive, but when it was winter, the kingdom would no longer be allowed to trade with the agriculture kingdoms for fruits, but this time of year they had just come back in season for long enough for Thunder-vale to trade with neighboring kingdoms and finally get some into shops in the farther cities.

Dale had learned that in the earlier years of trading, past rulers would always buy extra to keep them from selling out to quick or to keep the prices from skyrocketing, but in more recent years the new king and queen would buy a set number of fruit crates for the first few months as a way of “saving money”, but it lead people to fight over them in some richer towns, and lead to less people buying fruits in other towns because the prices had gotten too high.

Especially for Echo cliff... however they were always a few people like Mr. Carlson who had worked for the high council and came to live here from Haven Peak... those people always had extra money to buy things like apples, and they never needed to worry about someone buying them first.

He had always told Dale that he was here for the scenery, or that his wife made him, but Dale was convinced that he came to help people, because he only ever paid people in need to do jobs and even then he would give them too much money and tell them to keep the rest of it because they did a good job.

Dale always went to the same shop same person because they always saved the apples for Mr. Carlson

“Ah, if it isn’t me favorite errand boy! How are you's and them little Tornados doing?”

“We’ve been fine. You know the routine with money lately.”

“Well, if that’s yer case I’m guessing you’s might be here to buy them fruits for a certain harpy next door? I’m guessing he’s wantin’ he’s usual.”

“Actually Mr. Carlson wanted 3 bags today instead.”

“Oh, I sees, I sees, Makin somethin’ special now, is he?”

“Yep, he promised to make us some pie for the trouble.”

“Ah, yours a lucky boy yer is, that old man is stubborn! He don’t be makin’ pies wit his lady fer nothin, he must really care for you’s.” He finally finished bagging the apples and handed them to Dale. “Now, yer best be careful wit them apps, they be expensive this time o’ year, them are hard to replace so fast.”

“I will be, don’t worry.” Dale finished putting the apples in his second bag, making sure it was extra secure, so they didn’t fall out. Dale was finally done for the day for the most part and he was ready to relax. All he needed to do was drop off the apples and finish his list then he would be done!

It didn’t take long until Dale was close enough to home that he could walk instead. He got to Mr. Carlson’s house and made sure to ring the doorbell and knock because he knew Mrs. Carlson might have a hard time hearing it.

“Oh, Hello my little Sunshine boy! I was told you had a little treat for me.” Mrs. Carlson said, leaning in close. She had always treated Dale as if he were her grandchild, she was one of the reasons Dale didn’t completely despise going to the shops

“Of course, Let me bring them to the kitchen for you.”

“Thank you, my dearest sunshine, please come in, have some tea.” Dale unfastened his satchel and set the apple bags on the counter before taking a seat with Mrs. Carlson at the small table in the kitchen.

“Now dearest, how has my little star been? Have you been doing your training?” she asked as she poured him some hot tea.

“I’ve been fine lately; I haven’t had time to train though. I had to take on some more jobs for bills, but the twins haven't been too troublesome...”

“You took on more work? Are you doing okay with that dearie? You know you can always ask me to watch over the twins if you need some time to yourself.” Mrs. Carlson looked wearily at him. She always knew when something was wrong.

“Oh, it’s okay, really... I’m okay with it. Things haven’t really gotten that bad...”

“Are you sure you're doing okay dearie? You look more tired today... are your sleeping issues getting worse again?”

“No...” She gave him a knowing look. “Okay, maybe a bit but-”

“Nuh-uh I will have none of this!” she exclaimed standing up “My star you need sleep if you're going to shine as bright as the sun.” she said in a motherly tone walking over to him. “Darling why haven’t you been sleeping? You need to take time off so you can get some sleep.”

“I’ve just been stressed is all, besides I can’t afford to take time off... I have to pay the bills and keep food on the table for Harvey and Autumn... I can’t just abandon my responsibility so I can act like a child.” Mrs. Carlson laughed at this.

“My dearest sunshine you are a child... and I think I know what you need.” She said simply.

“You do?” he asked hesitantly

“My dear friend Ms. Woods runs a Training camp for the year, and that missy owes me a favor! I could ask for you to go for free.”

“Isn’t that too much to ask though? You don’t need to go out of your way to do things for us. And what about the twins? I can’t just leave them here...”

“They can go with you to the training camp! They’re old enough, I might not need to give this to you, but I want to! It will be good for you darling.”

“Are you sure?”

“Yes, my dearest. You deserve this, you give your everything all the time... Maybe be selfish this once.”

“Fine... but only for you.” she smiled holding his hands in hers.

“Thank you, my dearest sunshine. Now here.” She handed him the money. “Isn’t it time for you to get home to those little rascals?”

“Oh my celestials yes! It's almost dinner time!” Dale ran out the door, the idea of camp was still in the back of his mind as he left.

Author Note: Thank you for reading this all the way through, I really hope you all liked this! I’m sorry this took so long, I had a terrible day. This is some of the first original work I’m posting and if you wanna find out where the story goes next, I will be planning on posting once a month on Ao3 and Tumblr.

[ultrameganicolaokay]

All-Star Comics #58 ‘All Star Super Squad’ (1975) by Gerry Conway, Ric Estrada and Wally Wood. Edited by Conway and Paul Levitz. Cover by Mike Grell and Tatjana Wood.

[zed-air]

CKUA - Fill-In Playlists: 2025

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Below are the playlists for shows where I filled-in as guest host on CKUA during 2025.

Explore my playlist history for other dates and programs

• • •

TITLE • PERFORMING ARTIST • ALBUM • AIRTIME

(01) 2025-01-01 - 09:00-11:00 - Discoveries

^^ Listener and/or donor recommendations/requests

Where Are We Now? • David Bowie • The Next Day • 09:01

More Than This • Mallory Chipman • ______ • 09:04 ^^

Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea • George Harrison • Brainwashed • 09:09 ^^

Great Great Day • Beth Portman • Great Great Day • 09:12

Harbour • Cate Le Bon • Pompeii • 09:15

Good Kinda High (ft. US Girls) • Glenn Gould • Uninvited Guests • 09:19

Fireworks • First Aid Kit • Ruins • 09:23

Neptune City • Nicole Atkins • Neptune City • 09:27

Ivanku, Ivanku (feat. Anna Hnydyn) • Kinva • Kinva • 09:31

Imouwizla • Etran de L'AIr • Agadez • 09:36

A La Loma De Belen • Alex Cuba, Adonis Puentes • Voces De Mi Familia • 09:41

Here With Me • Aladean Kheroufi • Studies In A Dying Love • 09:44

Stay With Me • Erin Ross • The Wind Will Lead Me Home • 09:48

Watermelon Pink • Leeroy Stagger • 3 AM Revelations • 09:53

Whatever Helps You • Mariel Buckley • Everywhere I Used to Be • 09:59

Whisky Waltz • The Denim Daddies • Northern Goods • 10:05

A Picture of a Picture • Billie Zizi • Levitate • 10:11

The Long Goodbye • The Hearts • Traces [EP] • 10:14

Between Two Points (feat. Romany Gilmour) • David Gilmour • Luck and Strange • 10:18

Remembrance • Vodohrai • Even the Forest Hums • 10:25

Imago • Jyn-Ting Ying • Black Silk, Living Eyes • 10:29

Firefly • Ellen Doty • Every Little Scene • 10:32

You Make It Look Easy • Celeigh Cardinal • Boundless Possibilities • 10:39

In My Dreams • Shaela Miller • After the Masquerade • 10:41

Place Where I'm From • Amelie Patterson • Roll Honey Roll • 10:46

Mysterium • Kenny Vaughan • Kenny Vaughan • 10:52

(02) 2025-01-02 - 09:00-11:00 - Discoveries

The Loco-Motion • Sylvie Vartan • Sylvie • 09:01

My Boy Lollipop • Millie Small • Hits of the '60s • 09:03

My Boyfriend's Back • The Raveonettes • Pretty In Black • 09:05

Danceland (Come With Me) • The Garrys • Surf Manitou • 09:07

Shooting at the Moon • Mariel Buckley • Everywhere I Used to Be • 09:11

Catch Fire • Jesse Roads • ______ • 09:14

Guess I'll See You • Jay Gilday • Faster Than Light • 09:18

Painless • Kaeley Jade • Turpentine • 09:22

She's A Wild Rose • The Misery Mountain Boys • Little Smoky • 09:26

Drownin' the Memory • The Give 'Em Hell Boys • Barn Burner • 09:29

Don't Take It Away • Conway Twitty • Sings • 09:33

Fly Back North • Roy Forbes (Bim) • Raincheck on Misery • 09:36

Peggy Sue • The Beach Boys • M.I.U. Album • 09:39

C'mon Everybody • The Backbeat Band • Backbeat Soundtrack • 09:41

Eleanor Rigby • The Ides of March • Vehicle • 09:44

Every Day • Celeigh Cardinal • Boundless Possibilities • 09:54

Underneath the Mango Tree • Diana Coupland • Dr. No Soundtrack • 10:00

Check In (Clean version) • Cibo Matto • Hotel Valentine • 10:03

Heart of Stone • Ashes & Dreams • Heart of Stone • 10:06

What Are You Going To Do With Yourself • Astral Swans • STRANGE PRISON • 10:11

Help the Aged • Pulp • This Is Hardcore • 10:15

I Guess Time Just Makes Fools of Us All • Father John Misty • Mahashmashana • 10:19

Bigger Dreams • Mouraine • Bigger Dreams • 10:30

Black Every Day • Arlo Maverick • Black Everyday • 10:34

Here 4 U • Krystle Dos Santos • BLOOM/BURN • 10:37

Station • Shaela Miller • After the Masquerade • 10:41

Pestalozzi • Einsturzende Neubauten • Rampen (APM) • 10:45

Lost On You • LP • Death Valley • 10:50

O Candyland • Aaron Parker • O Candyland • 10:54

(03) 2025-02-08 - 06:00-08:00 - Classical Connections

G. P. Telemann: Concerto In D Major TWV51:D2 • La Stagione Frankfurt • Wind Concertos Vol. 4 • 06:01

F. Chopin: Sonata For Cello & Piano, Op 65 • Alisa Weilerstein & Inon Barnatan • Rachmaninoff & Chopin • 06:14

A. Vivaldi: Bassoon Concerto, RV 475 • L'Aura Soave Cremona • Concerti Per Fagotto III • 06:40

Turbulence • Christian Bernard • Black Lotus • 06:51

Black Lotus • Christian Bernard • Black Lotus • 06:54

Ascension • Christian Bernard • Black Lotus • 07:00

J. Brahms: Sonata #2, Op100 • Martin Risely & Janet Scott Hoyt • Three Sonatas For Piano And Violin • 07:04

W. A. Mozart: Sonata, K67 • I Musici De Montreal • Church Sonatas • 07:25

W. A. Mozart: Violin Concerto #3, K216 • Scott & Lara St. John • Mozart: The Knights • 07:30

F. Price: Adoration • Randall Goosby; Philidelphia Orch • Violin Concertos • 07:54

(04) 2025-02-15 - 06:00-08:00 - Classical Connections

A. Vivaldi: Bassoon Concerto, RV 480 • L'Aura Soave Cremona • Concerti Per Fagotto III • 06:01

C. Schumann: Three Romances, Op 22 • Marina Thibeault & Marie-Eve Scarfone • Elles • 06:13

G. P. Telemann: Concerto In Em TWV51e1 • La Stagione Frankfurt • Wind Concertos Vol. 4 • 06:25

B. Dessner: Lullaby for Jacques et Brune • Bryce Dessner • Solos • 06:39

B. Dessner: Ornament and Crime 1-3 • Bryce Dessner • Solos • 06:42

B. Dessner: Song for Octave • Bryce Dessner • Solos • 06:54

W. A. Mozart: Sonata in D, K144 • I Musici De Montreal • Church Sonatas • 07:00

F. Price: Violin Concerto #2 • R. Goosby; Philadelphia Orchestra • Violin Concertos • 07:04

W. G. Still: Mother and Child • Zina Schiff • Orchestral Works • 07:21

C-T. Perkins: Worship Overture • Royal Scottish National Orchestra • African American Voices 2 • 07:30

U. Kay: Concerto for Orchestra • Royal Scottish National Orchestra • African American Voices 2 • 07:38

Marche Nocturne • Thelonius Garcia • Marche Nocturne • 07:52

(05) 2025-04-21 - 15:00-18:00 - Traffic Jams

Superstition • The Bobby Cairns Legacy Band • Play It Forward: A Tribute • 15:00

Lust For Life • Iggy Pop • Trainspotting (Soundtrack) • 15:07

Atomic • Sleeper • Trainspotting (Soundtrack) • 15:12

Mile End • Pulp • Trainspotting (Soundtrack) • 15:17

Is There a Pill? • Richard Hawley • Further • 15:22

Dynamo • King of Foxes • ______ • 15:26

A Little Bit High • Brother Bicker Band • Hospitality and Northern Charm • 15:30

Who Needs This • 0Stella • Pendulum State • 15:34

The Mary Ellen Carter • Derina Harvey • Rove And Go • 15:37

Ahead By A Century • Celeigh Cardinal • ______ • 15:43

Heading for the End • Lucette • Nice Girl from the Suburbs • 15:47

Sheets • Yema • ______ • 15:52

Mysterium • Kenny Vaughan • Kenny Vaughan • 15:57

Hi Hi Hazel • The Troggs • Anthology • 16:02

Do You • Ghost Woman • Ghost Woman • 16:07

2 Wicky • Hooverphonic • A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular • 16:10

Let You Down • Marcus Trummer • From The Start • 16:13

If I Could Have • Von Bieker • Long For This World • 16:18

Season or a Dime • The Western Thistles • The Western Thistles • 16:21

Wings • Sister Ray • Believer • 16:24

Work Song • Housewife • Girl Of The Hour [EP] • 16:29

Safe and Sound • Marlaena Moore • Because You Love Everything • 16:32

Tonight • The Bolt Actions • Radio Silent • 16:35

Bird • Aaron Lee Tasjan • Stellar Evolution • 16:41

Hopeless Romantic • Bobby Dove • Hopeless Romantic • 16:45

A Hundred Shades of Blue • Whitney Rose • We Still Go To Rodeos • 16:48

Any Fool With a Heart • Tami Neilson • CHICKABOOM! • 16:52

Tired of Toein' The Line • Rocky Burnette • The Son of Rock and Roll • 16:56

Impossible Germany (live, 2009) • Wilco • Ashes of the American Flag • 17:01

No Way Out • Elliott Brood • Keeper • 17:09

Depth of My Soul • Thievery Corporation • Saudade • 17:13

In My Dreams • Shaela Miller • After the Masquerade • 17:16

Le Pacifique • Coeur de pirate • Impossible a aimer • 17:20

speaking in thumbs • L'omelette • il faut qu'on bouge • 17:25

Acquiescence • Brock Geiger • Some Nights • 17:29

Cold Wind (Clean Version) • Carter Felker • Loser • 17:34

Warm And Sunny Days • The Dears • No Cities Left • 17:39

Bizarre Love Triangle • Give 'Em Hell Boys • Barn Burner • 17:45

Perfect Day • Lou Reed • Trainspotting (Soundtrack) • 17:52

Deep Blue Day • Brian Eno • Trainspotting (Soundtrack) • 17:56

(06) 2025-05-19 - 18:00-20:00 - Catch & Release

Innocente • Delerium (ft. Leigh Nash) • Poem • 18:00

T.N.T. For The Brain • Enigma • Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi! • 18:07

Carnival of the Ghosts • Kobo Town • Carnival of the Ghosts • 18:11

Coquito • Montuno West • RAICES • 18:15

Stronger • Melafrique ft K-Riz • ______ • 18:19

'72 Monte Carlo • LA LOM • The Los Angeles League of Musicians • 18:23

Kolbasti • Altin Gun • Gece • 18:26

Don't Take it (Don't Give it Away) • Des Arcs • Masks • 18:32

Salt Breaker Sand • Florida BC • Salt Breaker Sand • 18:36

No Shape I Know • Jolie Laide • Creatures • 18:43

Damn • Ada Lea • One Hand On The Steering Wheel • 18:47

Ojos Secos (feat. Cuco) • Adrian Quesada • ______ •

sisikwan • Asko • ______ • 18:56

Spike Island • Pulp • More • 19:00

Bird • Aaron Lee Tasjan • Stellar Evolution • 19:07

Forever • Lydia Ainsworth • Sparkles & Debris • 19:11

Duncan • Sarah Slean • Night Bugs • 19:14

Blue Lipstick • Layten Kramer • Dear Apathy • 19:20

Don't Like You Anymore • Tanika Charles • Reasons To Stay • 19:24

Treading • Yema • ______ • 19:27

Green Blade • Hermitess • ______ • 19:33

Where Your Love Lives • Cynthia Hamar • Joint & Marrow • 19:36

Dushko Moia • Kinva • Kinva • 19:41

Pestalozzi • Einsturzende Neubauten • Rampen (APM) • 19:46

Nicim (feat. Shauit) • Laura Niquay • Waska Matisiwin • 19:51

Pelagic • Tamarack Cunningham • Frequency Modulation • 19:55

(07) 2025-06-02 - 18:00-20:00 - Catch & Release

Out Of Love • Adia Victoria • Beyond The Bloodhounds • 18:01

Nunca Es Suficiente • Natalia Lafourcade • Hasta La Raiz • 18:04

Ojos Secos (feat. Cuco) • Adrian Quesada • ______ • 18:08

Lorena • LA LOM • The Los Angeles League of Musicians • 18:14

Movin n Groovin' • Duane Eddy & The Rebels • 200 Rock 'n Roll Instrumentals • 18:18

Immigrant Song • Bebe Buckskin • ______ • 18:23 ^^

Unfolded Heart • Des Arcs • Masks • 18:25

Diagnosed Dissociative • Shawnee Kish • Shawnee Kish (EP) • 18:28

Train • Koza • ______ • 18:34

Dumala • Go_A • ______ • 18:36

Rango • Celtic Fusion Illusion • The Storm • 18:39

No Shape I Know • Jolie Laide • Creatures • 18:51

Got To Have Love • Pulp • More • 18:55

Reasons To Stay • Tanika Charles • Reasons To Stay • 18:56

Real Low Down Lonesome (ft. Sierra Farrell) • Early James • Strange Time To Be Alive • 19:02 ^^

Get Off Of My Cloud • The Rolling Stones • Grrr! • 19:10

You Don't Need the Limelight • Trevor Howlett & The Cruz Bros • Trevor Howlett & TCB • 19:12

Easy to Keep • 0Stella • Pendulum State • 19:16

Into the Grey • Tim Isberg • RUNNING ON THE EDGE • 19:22

They Can't Blackout The Moon • Over The Moon • Chinook Waltz • 19:27

Torokh • DakhaBrakha • Alambari • 19:30

Tysha • The Kubasonics • Kubfunland • 19:38

Mavericks • The 427's • Mavericks • 19:41 ^^

Shake Your Money Maker • Paul Butterfield Blues Band • An Anthology • 19:44

Firelight • Thievery Corporation • Saudade • 19:48

Paint It Black • Charlie Watts & The Danish Radio • Charlie Watts Meets The DRO • 19:51

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The Rap Grammy Nominations Are Weird As Hell | Nov 25, 2020 11:12 AM BY TOM BREIHAN

The very first time that the Grammy Awards recognized rap music, it was an utter fiasco — a clear case of an aging pop-music establishment failing to understand this vital new youth music that had sprung up and rewritten the rules. For the 1989 awards show, the Grammys added one rap category, Best Rap Performance. DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince won it for “Parents Just Don’t Understand,” beating out LL Cool J and Salt-N-Pepa and Kool Moe Dee and JJ Fad. The show didn’t deign to recognize Public Enemy, N.W.A, EPMD, Slick Rick, Big Daddy Kane, Eric B. & Rakim, or Ice-T, all of whom had released classic albums within the voting window. The award wasn’t televised, and most of the nominees, Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince included, skipped the show, attending a “Boycott The Grammys” party instead.

Since that night, the history of rap at the Grammys has been a series of baffling, embarrassing decisions. It’s Steely Dan winning Album Of The Year over The Marshall Mathers LP. It’s Gretchen Wilson winning Best New Artist over Kanye West. “It’s weird and it sucks that I robbed you.” It’s also a history of rappers getting angry over the Grammys: “I never let a statue tell me how nice I am,” “You think I give a damn about a Grammy?” In 2019, Drake showed up to accept Best Rap Song. In his acceptance speech, he talked about how the Grammy voters weren’t necessarily the right people to define rap success. The broadcast cut him off mid-speech. Earlier this year, Kanye West, a man who once cared more about Grammy Awards than anyone else not named Neil Portnow, tweeted a video of himself pissing on one of his Grammys. (The Grammys still nominated West this year, for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album.)

Yesterday, the Grammys nominated Freddie Gibbs and the Alchemist’s Alfredo in the Best Rap Album category. That’s great! Freddie Gibbs is a great underground rap success story, a guy who bet on himself and kept doing great work in his own lane even after multiple major-label situations fell apart. Gibbs has never made a hit song in his life, and he’s gotten himself into a position where he doesn’t need to make hit songs — where he can just follow his instincts and keep his own style intact. Alfredo isn’t my favorite rap record of the year. (Even in the field of Alchemist-produced 2020 rap albums, I’d give the slight edge to Boldy James’ The Price Of Tea In China.) But the nomination for Alfredo is still a very cool surprise, the kind of thing that I would’ve never expected to see from the Grammy nominating committee.

And yet Gibbs’ nomination doesn’t exactly announce a new golden age of Grammy rap consideration, a time when Recording Academy voters are finally figuring out how to approach the genre. Instead, his nomination points toward something else: An institutional recognition of middlebrow, middle-aged, respectable rap music.

All of this year’s Best Rap Album nominees are Black men between the ages of 35 and 47. The oldest nominee is Nas, who is now on his fifth Best Rap Album nomination and who has never won the award. (The Best Rap Album Grammy didn’t exist in 1994, when Nas released Illmatic, but there’s no way in hell that Nas would’ve won it anyway. The Academy would’ve given the award to Coolio’s It Takes A Thief or something.) The youngest nominee is D Smoke, a former high school Spanish teacher who is also the brother of the TDE R&B singer SiR. D Smoke made his way into Grammy contention after winning the first season of Rhythm + Flow, the Netflix rap-competition show. (Two of the three judges from Rhythm + Flow, Cardi B and Chance The Rapper, have won Best Rap Album themselves. T.I., the other judge, has been nominated three times and never won.)

D Smoke isn’t exactly a revered or popular rapper, and I have’t seen anyone calling his perfectly-OK album Black Habits a masterpiece, though the man has certainly done better than anyone could’ve expected from a rap reality-show winner. But D Smoke raps exactly like a diet version of Kendrick Lamar, so his nomination works as a clear indication that the Grammy voters really, really wish they had a Kendrick album to nominate. D Smoke is also up for Best New Artist, alongside fellow rappers Chika, Megan Thee Stallion, and (I guess) Doja Cat. Presumably, Megan’s Good News would also be nominated if it had come out early enough to be eligible. Meanwhile, Chika hasn’t released an album, and Doja Cat is nominated in the pop categories, not the rap ones.

Instead, then, we’re looking at five guys hovering around the age of 40, all of whom are respected technicians with boom-bap inclinations. Jay Electronica, who’s nominated for A Written Testimony and who should probably be considered the front-runner, is technically a New Orleans native, but nobody thinks of him as a Southern rapper. (Jay-Z is all over A Written Testimony, to the point where anointing Jay Electronica feels a bit like throwing awards love to Jay-Z in a year with no Jay-Z album.) All the albums up for Best Rap Album are, at the very least, solid. A couple of them, Alfredo and A Written Testimony, are very good. But this is still a remarkably stodgy list — one that shows that the whole middle-aged respectability fetish that’s long plagued the Grammys is now embedded in its rap voting wing.

Freddie Gibbs and Nas and Jay Electronica and D Smoke and Royce Da 5’9″ are all gifted rappers who have done great work. Most of them could justifiably be considered legends. But none of them really show the world where rap music is, let alone where it’s going. By recognizing those albums, the Grammys have pointedly elected not to recognize something like Lil Baby’s My Turn, which is probably 2020’s most popular album in any genre and which is also a fine example of the 808-heavy depressive melodic-goo rap music that currently dominates the genre’s mainstream.

Other hugely popular, artistically important albums are also absent: Lil Uzi Vert’s Eternal Atake, Roddy Rich’s Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial, Polo G’s The Goat, Gunna’s Wunna, Rod Wave’s Pray 4 Love. Instead, the rap albums getting nominated are the 2020 equivalents of the Steely Dan album that famously beat Eminem. That’s not an indictment of the nominated albums. It’s an indictment of the stuff the Recording Academy values. It’s also a cautionary look of how things might look if the Recording Academy ever gets its way, if rap comes to rely on accepted ossified skill-sets instead of its current state of constant, furious stylistic evolution.

As someone who’s around the same age as this year’s Best Rap Album nominees, I’m not all that amped to see emotionally troubled, pill-gobbling 20-year-olds dominating rap music. But those kids are crucially moving the genre past whatever old men like me might want it to be. Fortunately, there’s at least one Grammy category that has done a pretty good job capturing where things are right now, and that’s Best Rap Song. The list of nominations there — Lil Baby’s “The Bigger Picture,” Roddy Ricch’s “The Box,” Drake’s “Laugh Now, Cry Later,” DaBaby’s “Rockstar,” and Megan Thee Stallion’s “Savage” — isn’t necessarily perfect, but it’s a fairly accurate representation of the kind of rap that moves people right now. I don’t know why the division between the Best Rap Album and Best Rap Song nominees is so stark. Maybe it’s a signal that the album is increasingly irrelevant. Maybe it reflects two different voting bodies. Either way, it’s striking.

Look, the Grammys are weird. They are always going to be weird. Fiona Apple’s Fetch The Bolt Cutters should’ve been the biggest lay-up in the world, but it isn’t up for Album Of The Year. Instead, the Academy’s voters went for Coldplay and Jacob Collier and a deluxe edition of a Black Pumas album that didn’t even come out in the eligibility period. “Rockstar” and “Savage” are both up for Record Of The Year, but Post Malone’s Hollywood’s Bleeding is the only album that’s even rap-adjacent that’s nominated for Album Of The Year this year. I thought for sure that Lil Baby’s My Turn would be the token rap album that would inevitably lose to Taylor Swift. Instead, we didn’t even get one of those, and My Turn got snubbed even in its own category. Nothing makes sense.

But this year’s Best Rap Albums nominations still show a weird alignment between Grammy Voters and a certain streak of real-hip-hop rap conservatism. Watch out for that. Nothing good, except maybe a Freddie Gibbs Grammy win, will come out of that.

FURIOUS FIVE

1. Roc Marciano – “Downtown 81” It’s not on streaming services yet, but Roc Marciano’s new album Mt. Marci is out in the world now, and it is marvelous. (I can’t tell you whether the digital download is worth the $40 that Marci is charging on his website. Make your own financial decisions.) Right now, the only song out for general consumption is one of the few that Marci didn’t produce himself. (It’s a Jake One beat.) But otherwise, “Downtown 81” is exactly the sort of laid-back, intricately worded deadpan splendor that you can expect to hear on the LP, whenever it goes wide. So maybe that’s worth the price of a full tank of gas.

2. Meek Mill – “GTA” (Feat. 42 Dugg)

Meek Mill released his Quarantine Pack EP on Friday, and the track currently getting the big push is the downbeat Lil Durk collab “Pain Away.” But the real thrill here is in hearing Meek and 42 Dugg getting bracingly urgent over a Detroit-ass bassline.

3. Chief Keef & Mike Will Made-It – “Status” Sosa and Mike Will have evidently chosen to name their new song after this column. Gentlemen, I see this tribute, and I appreciate it. I love you too.

4. Willie The Kid & V Don – “Mother Of Pearls” (Feat. Eto) This is pretty.

5. Statik Selektah – “Play Around” (Feat. Conway The Machine, 2 Chainz, Killer Mike, Allan Kingdom, & Haile Supreme)

Once upon a time, maybe 13 years ago, I was apparently such a recognizable and influential part of the New York rap press that Statik Selektah noticed me at an MOP show, introduced himself, and tried to get me to listen to his mix CD. All these years later, Statik is a globally acknowledged boom-bap specialist with enough juice to put three of the world’s greatest middle-aged rappers on a track together. I’m proud of Statik. I bet he gets nominated for a Grammy someday.

[earthstory]

Just over a hundred years ago, in 1909, the noted American palaeontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott discovered something strange in the Canadian Rockies. Ghostly imprints were etched into the rock, faintly delineating the twisted filaments of legs or antennae. A myriad of ancient organisms, five hundred million years old, were pressed between the layers of shale, their soft tissues intricately preserved. In many ways, Walcott had hit the palaeontological jackpot, as the fossil beds in what became known as the Burgess Shale formation contained some of the oldest, most diverse and best-preserved fossils known at the time. Soft tissue preservation was unprecedented in rocks of this immense age, and the Burgess Shale allowed scientists to examine an ancient ecosystem almost as it would have appeared when the animals were alive. The fossils were numerous and bizarre; along with the ones shown in the photos, Marella and Canadia (trilobite and annelid worm ancestors respectively) stranger forms were found, such as Opabinia, with a cluster of five eyes and a proboscis, and Hallucigenia, with a double row of long spines down its back. Derek Briggs and Simon Conway Morris, later to become famous as influential writers and theorists, concluded that a lot of the species in the Burgess shale had no modern descendants, and represented ancient groups - phyla - unknown from any other period in time. Based on these findings, the evoluntionary biologist Steven Jay Gould wrote a famous book (Wonderful Life) postulating that the animals had been failed evolutionary 'experiments' which died out as more well-adapted forms emerged.

Study of the site has been ongoing into the present day, and a better understanding of the species has led to the evolutionary experiment hypothesis to be largely abandoned, as many of them have now been fitted into existing groups. In 2014, a new Burgess Shale outcrop was announced: by the time the find went public, at least fifty species had already been found, and species new to science are still being discovered.

-TJT

The photos show the fossils Marella, a trilobite precursor, and Canadia, related to the ringed worms (annelids). They were found on the Smithsonian Museum's website, where a lot more information on the discovery of the Burgess Shale Formation can be found. http://bit.ly/1G6Fwwv

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Ghost Spider problems

Disclaimer: the comic is not bad. Take this as constructive criticism

1. Start from the beginning

This is all you get when it comes to Gwen’s origin.

And before you say that this is mirroring Peter, no. Amazing Fantasy #15 was a fully fleshed out origin story. Amazing Spider-man #1 takes place immediately after Uncle Ben’s murder. Gwen’s origin encompasses years of her being Spider-woman with actual events that go beyond just a sparse origin. When Spider-Gwen starts, we are like coming in at the equivalent of Amazing Spider-man #300.

So Jason Latour tries to use flashbacks and detailed full page word dump expositions at the end of each issue to further fill in the gap between the shit the audience doesn’t know. The latter is quite frankly the laziest thing I’ve ever seen in writing. Rather than creating stories to establish characters and create a catalogue to their history, lets fucking just explain everything that happened in essay form.

This, til this day, pisses me off.

Anyways, when Latour did introduce a characters like a Harry Osborn, he relied on flashbacks to detail what happened. The issue however that he was simultaneously advancing a story while retroactively setting foundation of a character. One example of a past event being constructed entirely out of flashbacks: the death of Peter Parker.

In these flashbacks that are construed across multiple issues and not in chronological order of either the issue nor the flashback, Latour basically shows the audience for the first time Peter’s personality, how Gwen was after her dad indirectly told her about his feeling about Spider-Woman, and a little about their high school life.

The problem with this is that Latour relied on the interpretation of 616 Spider-man characters when he didn’t elaborate on their character for characters like George Stacy, J. Jonah Jameson, and Aunt May while simultaneously hiding behind the excuse of it’s an alternate universe to explain why characters are different. This comes with accusations of character shilling since he portrayed Em Jay as a selfish self-centered person, Peter as an arrogant misanthrope, but Gwen completely escapes her negative 616 characterization and comes off looking better.

So Spider-Gwen really doesn’t have an origin story. And no one actually bothered to make one even 4 years later.

2. Alternate Dimensions convolutes stories

Traveling to another dimension to just fucking go to school is cop out. Granted, the explanation as to why it was done was simply because Gwen doesn’t have a secret identity anymore, but okay, far be it for me from wanting a good time. It would have been more interesting if she persisted in trying to go to school in her universe while being known as Spider-woman, anxiety attacks be damned. “Man fuck consequences of a plot point, let’s just create a specific scenario to avoid them” is what McGuire decided to do. Didn’t even bother to retcon. Just fucking noped it.

MJ says what I’m thinking.

Barring this, it is a stretches my suspension of disbelief that ESU would enroll a girl who not only is named after a deceased student who you named a library after in memoriam but also looks like the girl who died and is around the same age. Oh and also, you hired the guy who looks exactly like her mentor who went on to practice unethical experiments and tried to conquer the world with them at one point but he has a different name so...

Granted, Latour twice left Spider-Gwen in a hole. He wasted Gwen revealing her identity to her father for the introduction of the character and Gwen then revealing her identity to the world to defeat Matt Murderdock kind of screwed the pooch. First, there has to be a way for Gwen to defeat him without sacrificing her identity like exonerating herself from being blamed for Peter’s death because clearly she’s innocent(self-defense and saving kids from some incel white boy turned monster is not an jailable offense).

Regardless, McGuire was dealt a shitty hand that nuked any possibility of continuing any story developments in E-65 without Gwen being under constant danger. I, for one, would welcome it and had Gwen continue to try, it would have made shit interesting.

But this is also taking away Gwen from her own supporting cast that she has had since the beginning and also from her setting. The more she is in 616, the less I am going to see of the Mary Janes. The less I see of Harry although I don’t mind that. The less I see of any character that was established in her series. And honestly, those new characters could have been introduced in her own setting. Hell, E-65 Jackal could have been a college professor at E-65 ESU without Gwen knowing if she attended there.

Why are we choosing to avoid superhero drama in a superhero comic book?

3. Don’t rely on 616 Gwen Stacy while simultaneously declaring this Gwen as a different character

For all intents and purposes, the Death of Gwen Stacy has nothing to do with Spider-Gwen. This book and her fans will deflect any criticism about the lack of parallels between Gwen Stacy’s death and Peter’s death by saying Spider-Gwen is not the same as Gwen. You sit there and complain that all Gwen Stacy is known for is dying yet you commentate using a completely amended character while simultaneously avoiding the literal hundred of issues of character that 616 Gwen previously had before her death.

If you read the Night Gwen Stacy Died as a stand-alone, what you did was the equivalent of watching the Red Wedding without the three seasons leading to the event.

Spider-Gwen can’t go five issues without harping on about every miserable or unhappy or dead Gwen in some other universe. It comes to a culmination that writers want to tie Spider-Gwen to 616 Gwen Stacy so much that she is actively going to school in 616. The same school that Gwen attended and has a library named after her in memoriam, and apparently her creepy stalker teacher still teaches at albeit with a different identity because no one apparently recognizes faces anymore.

This doesn’t redeem Gwen. In fact, you proved Gerry Conway’s point. 616 Gwen is so unlikeable that you’d have to completely change her character to make her not worth throwing off the bridge.

Point is that Spider-Gwen treading the stories of Gwen Stacy defeats the purpose of separating the two in personality. What happens if Kindred is revealed to be the ressurrected Gwen Stacy while Gwen basically caught treading her stories instead of continuing her own?

4. The Jackal? Fucking really?

Personal, but point still stands. I fucking hate the Jackal. Jackal is like the catalyst of feeling like you need to take a shower afterwards. Along with the Inherentors, this is one of the villains that go to far in being made for a specific purpose in that they really don’t have a motivation as to just why do they do the things they do other than to be a bad guy.

Warren Miles is a creepy professor with an almost paedophillic obsession with his barely legal and also dead mentee, 616 Gwen Stacy. And it’s only almost because Gwen was 19 and almost certainly would have engaged in a sexual relationship with her. I don’t buy that he saw her as his child because it’s not like Gwen was just this remarkable science prodigy that would warrant any special attention from a professor. No, she was a remarkable and hot co-Ed scientist that was in her sophomore year. He was trying to fuck her and hated that she was dating guys her age. I wouldn’t put it past him to quid quo pro her into some sick shit for grades.

And the thing about it is that this story has been done before with Mary Jane and it was more appropriate to her occupation as she was a model at the time and married to Peter Parker. She is going to get the attention of richer and skeezy men that would have the power to force her into questionable shit. Hollywood is pretty much a glorified sex trafficking ring, don’t @ me. Far be it for me to say male professors don’t abuse their station on women and sure, I’d like a Spider-Man story to explore that, but Jackal takes it to a whole other that defiles the memory of a dead girl. It is basically a type of necrophilia and ew ew ew ew.

His obsession with Gwen and clones doesn’t foil Peter in anyway. It literally carries this creepy and unsettling implication that if Gwen lived, he would have raped her. There has never been a good Jackal storyline. It is literally the CJ meme every time he appears. He is not an engaging or fun.

Guess who is the first villain Gwen faces in 616.

Why people insist on putting him in anything over more thematically appropriate and fun characters is beyond me. I don’t even mind 65 Jackal. He doesn’t seem to interested in teenaged girls. He just wants to kill her like a proper super villain from what I gather. But of course, we had to not be spared from the comic equivalent of taint that is Miles Warren.

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Globe, July 13

You can buy a copy of this issue for your very own at my eBay store: https://www.ebay.com/str/bradentonbooks

Cover: Black Lives Matter protests cause right-wing owned tabloid to freak out 

Page 2: Up Front & Personal -- Paris Jackson sports a new neck tattoo and pierced nose, Chris Pratt used his foot on the crosswalk button with pregnant wife Katherine Schwarzenegger, Ali Larter 

Page 3: Norman Reedus and his motorcycle, Jeff Bridges during an online video appearance, Amber Rose running errands in Venice 

Page 4: Jeffrey Epstein’s madam Ghislaine Maxwell holed up in Paris -- Prince Andrew breathes easier as she nixes deal with feds, Hollywood hotshot Steve Bing who was a close pal of hanged pedophile Jeffrey Epstein jumped off the roof of his luxury L.A. apartment  

Page 6: Despite being at the age when most people are close to retirement aging pop divas Cher and Madonna are locked in a ferocious feud one that first exploded 35 years ago -- Cher thinks Madonna is vulgar and classless and all washed up while Madonna thinks Cher is past her prime and just jealous of someone who is younger and sexier and more talented

Page 7: Glen Campbell’s widow Kim Campbell says he had drug and alcohol addictions, Kurt Cobain’s famed guitar fetched a record-breaking $6 million at auction 

Page 8: In the latest twist in the battle over James Brown’s will his “widow” Tomi Rae Hynie has been cut out of his $100 million estate -- in a bombshell decision the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled Tomi Rae never ended an earlier marriage and was not legally wed to the Godfather of Soul but the nearly 14-year legal skirmish isn’t over yet with the couple’s son James Brown II forced to go to court to get his share of the estate 

Page 10: Jean Kennedy Smith took a shocking secret to her grave -- she approved of her brother Bobby Kennedy’s affair with Marilyn Monroe 

Page 11: Jennifer Aniston has rushed to aid troubled pal Matthew Perry who’s reportedly in a funk after splitting with his girlfriend following years of battling booze and drug and weight demons, Kid Rock’s Nashville watering hole has its beer permit briefly yanked for breaking a local coronavirus health rule

Page 12: Celebrity Buzz -- Jay Leno at a gas station in Burbank (picture), Kristen Stewart chosen to play Princess Diana in Spencer but the casting isn’t a popular one, Lisa Rinna wears nothing but sunglasses to plug designer Christian Cowan’s shades, Lindsay Lohan’s troubled mom Dina Lohan is once again engaged to a online beau who’s she never met in person 

Page 13: Miles Teller waits for a mechanic to fix his car (picture), Abby Lee Miller is all smiles despite Lifetime dumping her show after she was accused of making racist remarks (picture), Claudia Wells of Back to the Future (picture), Gwyneth Paltrow is hyping another provocatively named aromatic candle this time called This Smells Like My Orgasm

Page 14: Michael Keaton is headlining a new eight-episode Hulu series called Dopesick based on the book of the same name, Marie Osmond doesn’t mind being riddled with a multitude of ugly surgical scars because they remind her of all she’s been through, Fashion Verdict -- Natasha Alam 7/10, Anna Chlumsky 5/10, Rachel Bilson 2/10, Donna D’Errico 4/10, Sunny Malouf 3/10 

Page 16: Bill Cosby can appeal his 2018 sexual assault conviction as the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to review two aspects of the case he is challenging, Miley Cyrus swears she’s been sober for more than 6 months, Little Rascals actor Brandon “Bug” Hall was arrested for allegedly huffing air duster cans at a Texas hotel 

Page 17: Battling exes Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have called off their ferocious feud and mended fences so they can share a fun family vacation together with their six kids 

Page 19: 10 Things You Don’t Know About Kelly Reilly

Page 20: True Crime 

Page 23: Supermodel Ashley Graham boasted a hole in her cover-girl smile after breaking the veneer off her front tooth on a cookie, jealous Gwen Stefani is returning to The Voice so she can keep tabs on boyfriend Blake Shelton and soon-to-be-single Kelly Clarkson 

Page 24: Cover Story --  Experts tell Globe that America is on the road to total anarchy and national security threatens to be shattered during Fourth of July celebrations 

Page 26: Health Report 

Page 30: Senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway gets a new face -- sporting a startlingly smoother face and looked decades younger 

Page 32: Lovelorn Reba McEntire is finally ready to date again after her searing 2019 split with Anthony “Skeeter” Lasuzzo, Sopranos tough guy James Gandolfini once threatened to beat the f**k out of Harvey Weinstein because of the movie mogul’s bullying ways 

Page 36: Don’t Come Back! Stars banned for bad behavior -- Madonna was berry rude, Ariana Grande takes a licking, Lindsay Lohan’s Chateau no-no 

Page 37: Blake Lively Disney disaster, Kathy Griffin’s lips zipped, Hugh Grant mouthed off on The Daily Show, Alec Baldwin floored by unwelcome mat 

Page 40: Real Life 

Page 42: Scientologist actor Danny Masterson is a Hollywood pariah after being slapped with three felony charges of rape -- no one will hire him and his former BFF Ashton Kutcher is keeping his distance, Raven-Symone wed girlfriend Miranda Maday in a backyard ceremony 

Page 44: Straight Talk -- handing money to Mama June Shannon is dopey madness 

Page 45: Dale Earnhardt Jr. is raring to make a comeback in the NASCAR championship series but he’s sadly conceded the brain damage he’s suffered in the sport has likely ended his racing days forever 

Page 47: Hollywood Flashback -- Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay in Risky Business, Bizarre But True 

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NOZ BEST OF 2019

I stopped making these zips cause it takes so much time and also Spotify exists now but Noz is always on point so I stole this and from his Light Sleeper page and repackaged a zip that I found in the comments (by eas). Be sure to check his decade wrap ups on the best of Thugger, Future and Sosa too.

1. Lil Nas X – “Old Town Road” (Young Kio) 2. Polo G f/ Lil Tjay – “Pop Out” (Iceberg Beatz & JD On Tha Track) 3. City Girls – “Act Up” (EarlOnTheBeat) 4. NLE Choppa – “Shotta Flow” (Midas800) 5. NBA Youngboy – “Slime Belief” (Beatmonster Marc) 6. Sada Baby – “Back End” (?) 7. Denzel Curry – “Ricky” (FnZ) 8. Playboi Carti – “Molly/No Stylist” (Pi’erre Bourne) 9. ShooterGang Kony – “Charlie” (?) 10. DaBaby – “Suge” (Pooh Beatz & JetsonMade) 11. Injury Reserve f/ Rico Nasty & Pro Teens – “Jawbreaker” (Melik XYZ, Pro Teens & Injury Reserve) 12. Quando Rondo – “Gun Powder” (Tahj Money) 13. Roddy Ricch – “Down Below” (Scott Storch) 14. Lil Keed f/ YNW Melly & Lil Uzi Vert – “Pull Up” (JetsonMade) 15. Megan the Stallion f/ DaBaby – “Cash Shit” (LilJuMadeDaBeat) 16. Billy Woods – “Checkpoints” (Kenny Segal) 17. Gunna f/ Young Thug – “3 Headed Snake” (Wheezy) 18. Suga Free – “Premium Game” (L-Finguz) 19. Queen Key – “Evil” (Enviyon) 20. Young Thug – “Just How It Is” (Wheezy & Nick Mira) 21. Tree & Vic Spencer – “Easy” (Tree) 22. Flo Milli – Beef (Flomix)” (Ethereal – “Beef“) 23. Maxo Kream – “Meet Again” (Teej & Mike Dean) 24. Lil Tjay – “FN” (MB13 Beatz) 25. Dreamville f/ Young Nudy – “Down Bad” (Pluss) 26. Mavi – “Willpower” (ovrkast) 27. Dee Watkins – “Bad Ass Jit” (Rocktee) 28. G Herbo – “Scratchy & Itchy” (Helluva Beats) 29. Earl Sweatshirt f/ Mach Hommy – “4N” (Earl Sweatshirt & Mach Hommy) 30. Stunna Girl – “Runway” (Helluva) 31. Young Nudy f/ Lil Uzi Vert – “Extendo” (Pi’erre Bourne) 32. Female Mula – “Gats In Ya Face” (Rippa On The Beat) 33. Jim Jones f/ Cam’ron & Fred The Godson – “Pity In The Summer” (Heatmakerz) 34. Mustard f/ 1TakeJay – “Intro” (Mustard) 35. Lil Uzi Vert – “Free Uzi” (DJ L Beats – “Gangway“) 36. Noname – “Song 32” (Phoelix) 37. YNW Melly – “Beat A N***a Block” (Ey3lowbeatz) 38. Teejayx6 – “Swipe Story” (KDen Ju) 39. Xanman – “Pink” (Xanman) 40. Shordie Shordie – “Bitchuary (Betchua)” (YG Beats) 41. Duke Deuce – “Yeh” (Ayoza) 42. BlocBoy JB – “Mercedes” (Dilip & Otxhello) 43. Junglepussy – “I’m In Love” (Ben Bradley & Shy Guy) 44. Lil Gray – “Crash” (Mannyvelli & Johnny Caravaggio) 45. Cash Kidd – “Who Shot You” (?) 46. Shy Glizzy – “Demons” (Supah Mario) 47. Trefuego – “90MH” (Kevin Katana) 48. Peezy – “New Car Smell” (Marc Boomin) 49. Tobe Nwigwe f/ Paul Wall – Juice” (Lanell Grant) 50. Lil Tecca – “Ransom” (Nick Mira & Taz Taylor) 51. Comethazine – “Stand” (N/A) 52. Ruby Yacht – “No Word For Wack” (AlgernonCornelius) 53. BbyMutha f/ Ttbby – Spooky Mutha Mansion” (?) 54. Rod Wave f/ Kevin Gates – “Cuban Links” (Yung Tago, Tre Gilliam & TnTXD) 55. Showbiz & Milano – “Tears” (Showbiz) 56. G-Eazy f/ Young Miami & Juvenile – “Throw Fits” (London On Da Track) 57. DuffleBag Boog – “No Sleep” (Liteease) 58. Tierra Traniece – “Fool Me Once” (Rippa On The Beat) 59. Droop-E f/ Cousin Fik & Stressmatic – “Won’t Fold” (Droop-E) 60. Doja Cat – “Rules” (Dr. Luke, Danielle Alvarez, Salaam Remi & Ben Billions) 61. Tisakorean f/ Huncho Da Rocksta & Kblast – “The Mop” (Mighty Bay) 62. Rahli – “Perc 30” (Yung Glizzy) 63. Allblack f/ Kossiko – “304” (StraightDropVanilla) 64. Mo3 – “2 Nineteen” (Stovall) 65. Nefew – “Blocklife Souljas” (Senzo Luciano) 66. E-40 f/ Scarface – “Watch The Homies” (Proptheproducer) 67. Lil Gotit – “Da Real HoodBabies” (Bankroll Got It) 68. Griselda – “Cruiser Weight Coke” (Beat Butcha & Daringer) 69. UnoTheActivist – “Adam Sandler” (Spiffy Global) 70. Trifln’ – “Huh” (Pay$ean) 71. Future – “Krazy But True” (Distance Decay, Corbin, Frankie Bash & Wheezy) 72. Wiki – “The Act” (Slauson Malone) 73. Chief Keef f/ Lil Pump – “Old Heads and Regretful Hoes” (Zaytoven) 74. AG & Cuns – “Get The Feeling” (Cuns) 75. Longmoneykese – Stickwalk” (?) 76. Rico Nasty – “Sandy” (Kenny Beats) 77. Babyface Ray – “Trill Spill” (?) 78. Homeboy Sandman f/ Kurious & Aesop Rock – “Lookout (Remix)” (Mono En Strereo) 79. Baby Smoove – Losing My Mind” (Michigan Meech) 80. ZaeHD & CEO – “Robotics” (Yvngquan) 81. Rick Ross f/ Gunplay – “Nobody’s Favorite” (Trop) 82. Mach Hommy f/ Tha God Fahim – “Mozambique Drill” (Nicholas Craven) 83. Earthgang – “Bank” (Big Korey & Ant Chambers) 84. Offset f/ J Cole – “How Did I Get Here?” (Metro Boomin & Dre Moon) 85. Danny Brown – “Savage Nomad” (Playa Haze) 86. Bandhunta Izzy – “How to Rob” (PYREXWHIPPA) 87. Conway the Machine – “E.I.F.” (JR Swiftz) 88. FMB DZ f/ DaBoii – “GiveNGO” (Jay Johnson) 89. Baby Fifty – “Spank His Ass” (?) 90. OMB Peezy – “Big Homie” (SephGotTheWaves & Drum Dummie) 91. Gucci Mane f/ Kodak Black – “Big Boy Diamonds” (London On The Track) 92. Pop Smoke – “Welcome To The Party” (808Melo) 93. Kevin Gates – “Walls Talking” (Roark Bailey & Richie Souf) 94. Lil Reese f/ Chief Keef – “BBQ” (Chief Keef) 95. MoneyMarr – “Cable Box” (Earl On The Beat) 96. Baby Keem – “Invented It” (Ambezza, Keanu Beats & Baby Keem) 97. Saweetie – “My Type” (London On Da Track) 98. Nuk – “Experiments” (?) 99. Kool Keith f/ Paul Wall – “Foot Locker” (Psycho Les) 100. Ambjaay – “Uno” (Almighty Quise)

HERE’S THE ZIP