#John Roderick

[artsyrosie]

Fucked around and typed ‘Perryshmirtz’ into Spotify and found this song on someone’s playlist and was absolutely gobsmacked. immediately went to find the YouTube video and every comment is killing me.

Songs about media tropes…. Songs that romanticize historically un-romantic tropes for the win, man.

Here’s the playlist I was on:

[nothing2seehere420]

I have embiggened the Xmas playlist.

[blueasinbird]

On 6 June 1822, Alexis St. Martin was accidentally shot in his torso at a Michigan general store. St. Martin's life-threatening injury introduced him to Dr. William Beaumont, a local army surgeon who later became an ambitious conductor of human experiments.

Dr. Jason Karlawish, a physician and the author of Open Wound: The Tragic Obsession of Dr. William Beaumont, unravels the dynamic between the two unlikely counterparts and reveals how their relationship serves as a 'cautionary tale' for modern physician-scientists.

Video by Madeline Johnson

Animation: Andrew Dittmann

Intro animation: Clementina Gades

Series Producer: Anna Bressanin

[albumswhatilistenedto]

[cold-boys-fandom-hub]

New behind the scenes video from Christos Lawton!

christos_lawton: Waiting around for The Terror to finally get to @netflix …..the wait is over and it’s now available to watch in the US! 🇺🇸 Also available on @itvxofficial in the UK 🇬🇧 #TheTerror

[leadandblood]

I found more photos in my drafts. I think most of these are from the batch of "slithering through various Croatian TV sites", so I do not know the source, I'm sorry.

The first one I shared already, but it's not tagged properly so here it is again

[uwmspeccoll]

Chinese Ceremonial Papers

Many hundreds of varieties of prayer sheets used to be produced by specialist ma-chang printers all over China. Many of the limited range made today are the cheapest offset-litho jobs on the cheapest machine-made papers, but the designs still imitate the original woodblock prints.

Modern Taiwanese sheets of cash, made from recycled paper, sold very cheaply by weight in Taipei.

Mock money and other ceremonial papers for religious ceremonies will be gathered in "bowls" of crude papers, usually made of a mixture of rice-straw and bamboo fibers.

The simplest form of mock money is made traditionally with thin layers of tinfoil affixed to the center of a small piece of bamboo paper, although in contemporary production the cheapest grades of machine-made paper will be used instead, and in Taiwan and Malaysia metallic inks may be used instead of tinfoil.

Here's a piece of mock money in traditional colors with auspicious designs, and tinfoil brushed over with a dye from the pagoda tree to make it resemble gold.

Contemporary Taiwanese ceremonial paper.

Another variety of gold mock money, with inscriptions and symbols for good fortune building up the design, usually still quite well printed from woodblocks on fairly good quality paper, but sometimes now mass-produced by offset lithography.

Contemporary ceremonial paper printed letterpress on a stout machine-made paper in Hong Kong. The yellow coloring might have been brushed on by hand, but otherwise production of these attractive sheets has been mechanized completely.

At the Feast of Hungry Ghosts many large sheets of paper with pictures of all the clothes one's ancestor could need are burned. Although images of the paraphernalia of modern life like cell phones and computers might be printed on these papers, the clothing is always of traditional style.

Red paper envelopes with good luck symbols have been used for many years to enclose gifts of money made at New Year. They may be found wherever any ceremonial papers are sold; today usually with elaborate and eye-catching gold-stamping.

Decorative Sunday

The examples shown here are original paper samples included in Roderick Cave's (1935-2019) two-part article on "Ceremonial Papers of the Chinese" published in Matrix 12 (Winter 1992, pp. 51-66) and Matrix 13 (Winter 1993, pp. 161-177), printed at the John and Rosalind Randle’s Whittington Press in Risbury, Herefordshire, England.

In these articles, Cave, a noted print historian, librarian, and educator, discusses the history, manufacturing, printing, distribution, and uses of Chinese ceremonial papers used in rituals, celebrations, and festivals associated with the gods and the ancestors.

Our copies of Matrix are a donation from our friend Jerry Buff.

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[vertigoartgore]

Spider-Man vs Hobgoblin poster by John Romita Jr. & Al Milgrom (circa 1983/1984).

[ofpineapplesanddawns]

No joke, Roderick is my favorite of David's villain characters. :3

[mobiblackout]

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[apathologicalpeoplepleaser2]

"Don't think I'll find forgiveness as fast as mom did And, God, I love you, but you're such a dipshit Please fucking fix this 'Cause you were all I looked up to Now I can't even look at you." - Sabrina Carpenter

...one of the most heartbreaking lyrics ever. (Also, it fits many of my favorite and also not so favorite characters, so there's that.)

[episodicnostalgia]

Nostalgic Extra: Halloween (adjacent) edition!

Happy Halloween, everyone!  My review for “the Hobgoblin, Part 2” Will be dropping on Monday, but in the meantime please enjoy this first ever full-page appearance of the Hobgoblin from ‘The Amazing Spider-man #238’ by John Romita’s Jr. & Sr.

Unfortunately, I was behind schedule on being born, so I missed the release of this issue by a couple years. Thankfully, not unlike my introduction to the Symbiote-suit arc, I was ultimately able to hunt down Hobgoblin’s origin via some back issues of ‘Marvel Tales’, which reprinted several Issues from Roger Stern’s critically acclaimed run.

Initially, those three issues (pictured below) left me on a tense cliffhanger for a number of years, before I was finally able to find the conclusion.  This was back in the day where reliable access to comprehensive trade paperback collections still wasn’t a thing, and Amazon was only in its infancy. You just had to accept that if you missed an issue, there might not be much you could do about it.

Naturally, I would always perform an extensive sweep of the back issue bins whenever I visited the more out of the way comic shops.  Even then, you would count yourself lucky if you found just one missing issue in a multi-chapter arc, jig sawing my collection together one found treasure at a time.

Strange to say, but I kind of miss those days. Who ever said Nostalgia was rational?

[davidtennantgenderenvy]

The Weird and Wonderful Legacy 2: Electric Boogaloo

[aq2003]

[takes a long drag of cigarette and coughs] so basically i think david tennant has the range to play benedick AND claudio AND don pedro AND don john