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batmanisagatewaydrug · 3 years

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reading update

what's up, tumblypoos? it's going to be a pretty short one this month, because I have NOT finished a lot of books since last time. the semester has started and made work hectic and exhausting, so much so that when I took a week off and hoped to spend most of it devouring books I ended up spending more time just vegetating to repair my brain.

also, unfortunately, I ran into my first DNF (that's Did Not Finish, for people who don't keep up with profoundly annoying book blogger terminology) in a LONG time, which I will absolutely be detailing below.

what have I been reading?

Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov) - I've always been vaguely curious, but then I listened to Jamie Loftus' brilliant Lolita Podcast and curiosity became somewhat urgent. (I'm relistening to it now, for the record, and I'm looking forward to being able to appreciate Loftus' empathetic analysis in a brand new way now that I've actually read the book she devotes ten episodes to talking about.) you all know I love a sharp, well-written profile of a monster; I had a great fondness for Alissa Nutting's Tampa, a book that follows a 21st century female pedophile that, in hindsight, takes place in vigorous conversation and has many clear parallels with Lolita. I'm also a huge sucker for a book about a truly miserable son of a gun pontificating on their own wretched time, and my god does Humbert Humbert pontificate. he's an excellently unreliable narrator, a heinous monster on trial doing his damndest to downplay his own violence. he wanders back and forth between talking himself up as improbably handsome and charismatic and insisting that he's quite harmless, basically innocent, totally a guy that we should just let go. and did he mention that he definitely didn't kill Dolores' mom? he definitely didn't, he just happened to think about killing her pretty often and in extreme detail and then coincidentally she died at a time that was terribly convenient for him. who hasn't been there? it's a funny story, not in a comedic way but in a painfully dry and brittle way, a deluded man viewing life through a nauseating lens that the reader can see through in an instant, all the way to the melancholy end. I absolutely understand anyone who says it isn't their cup of tea, but I'd highly recommend at least giving Loftus' podcast a listen if you're interested and able.

Women, Race, and Class (Angela Y. Davis) - this one also comes with a recommendation, and it's much shorter than the Lolita Podcast. I'd been meaning to get around to reading this for something like a year, ever since reading Davis' autobiography, but of all things it was a brief reference to Women, Race, and Class in Lily Alexandre's video "Do "Binary Trans Women" Even Exist? The Politics of Gender Conformity" that finally prompted me to nab it at the library. sometimes the universe just sends a sign, you know? it's a concise but thorough history, a tour through American slavery, suffragettes, social stratification, and socialism, presented in the no-nonsense style of Davis' that I appreciate so much. (seriously, if you want to start doing more antiracist and/or abolitionist reading but are intimidate by terminology - Davis. read Davis.) I particularly appreciated the dissection of certain white suffragette leaders turning their backs on antislavery and suffrage for Black Americans, fueled not only by racism but also by the perpetual pressure upon activists to turn upon each other and squeeze out causes that are seen as too radical to be convenient. it's illustrative, and unfortunately still supremely relevant. I wish this was the kind of thing I was reading when I was learning baby's first feminism.

what did I give up on?

Star Eater (Kerstin Hall) - beloved readers, I was excited for this one; you may recall that it was the last of the books on my Hot Book Summer list. it sounded like an incredibly promising dark fantasy about corrupt power structures and cannibalism. in short: the story takes place in a city floating above a world filled with undying monsters called Haunts, ruled over by the Sisters - an order of all-women magic-users whose powers are passed hereditarily from mother to daughter. but there are a few catches: the Sisters have a limited supply of magic, which is best replenished by eating the flesh of other Sisters. further, they must create more Sisters to maintain their power, but any man who has sex with a Sister is doomed to become Haunts who hunger for Sisters' flesh. so how do they solve these problems? easy: the Sisters reproduce through the ritualistic sexual assault of men who have received the death sentence, and maintain their magic by "martyring" their own mothers, essentially placing them in a coma to be consumed slowly. readers, none of this is what turned me off of this book. if anything, it all made me very excited. how absolutely despicably bleak! what an awful world! what a clever depiction of power, and the way it turns bodies into commodities to be devoured and thrown away! I was so excited to see how our hero, Elfreda Raugh, would take it down. and then... oof. and then, dear reader, Star Eater ended up feeling like a book that was written by going down a checklist of fantasy/dystopia YA tropes with a little rape and cannibalism thrown in for flavor. no spoilers (okay, maybe minor spoilers) but the most egregious points for me were the boring boy who was a childhood friend turned love interest, and Our Hero turning out to have extra special BONUS superpowers that made her, essentially, a living MacGuffin. I hope this book is someone's cup of tea, readers, but I cannot say it was mine.

what I'm reading now?

Midnight Sun (Stephenie Meyer) - you all knew this was coming. it's SO FUN and absolutely unhinged, and exactly what I needed to get out of my Star Eater-induced slump.

Perfect Me: Beauty as an Ethical Ideal (Heather Widdows) - this one is a bit of a tough read, because it's heavily rooted in philosophy and that's not the kind of reading I'm accustomed to, but it's eye-opening nonetheless. incidentally, also the result of a YouTube videos; link will be included in my next reading update.

what do I have on hold at the library?

The Other Black Girl (Zakiya Delila Harris)

Rewriting the Rules: An Anti Self-Help Guide to Love, Sex and Relationships (Meg-John Barker)

Iron Widow (Xiran Jay Zhao)

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amuletofgabagool · 4 years

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Lolita podcast by Jamie loftus is one of the best podcast series I’ve heard in a long long time and makes me want to reread Lolita with an actual critical eye and not through the lens of a 16 year old teen who just discovered tumblr

#jamie loftus #Lolita podcast #personal

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toomuchchelsea · 4 years

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omg i’m obsessed with your writing x please could you do a rlc imagine where you’re famous and you do like a couples quiz on yt for a magazine xx

Hi, love! thank you so much for your kind words, I hope you like the imagine x

The red light to the side of the camera lens started blinking, indicating to both you and Ruben that it had started recording.

“Hi, I’m Ruben Loftus-Cheek,” he grinned at the camera before turning and letting you introduce yourself. “And we are here at Vogue to play the Newlyweds Game.”

“To be fair, we’re not married,” you said to the camera before cheesing as you held up your engagement ring. “Yet.”

Behind the camera, the director asked, “Do you guys think you’ll do well?”

“I do,” you confidently stated, teasingly nudging Ruben who sat beside you. “I don’t know about this one over here.”

“Hey!” he challenged. “I think I’ll surprise you, you know?”

“Yeah?” you asked. He nodded surely before you both began the quiz, looking at the first question. “Where did we first meet?” you asked. “Starting off simple, huh?” you rose a brow at the camera before turning to Ruben.

“Easy,” he mumbled before writing his answer out on a small whiteboard. You did the same and upon turning it around, you both found your answers to correctly match. “So, I play football and she’s a singer... and coincidentally enough, we met while she was performing at Glastonbury.”

“Okay, next question: who is my celebrity crush?” you asked Ruben, grinning.

“Oh, my days,” he rolled his eyes, scribbling the words Adam Driver on his board before turning it towards the camera; his board matched yours. “She loves Adam Driver. The last three movie nights we’ve had, all we’ve watched were Star Wars movies.”

You grinned, shrugging. “Can’t help it. The man is amazingly talented!”

Next question was onto Ruben. “What is my favorite activity that we do together?”

He smirked knowingly at you, making you widen your eyes. “You seriously gonna put that down, Rubes?” you asked. He shrugged, smirk ever present on his face. Just to try and match your answer to his, you scribbled down ‘SEX’.

Upon revealing your answers, a deep blush colored your cheeks when you saw Ruben’s answer. “Playing video games together,” you read aloud.

He saw your answer and started cackling, pointing it out to the camera. “You guys see what a naughty girlfriend I have?” he teased.

“Please blur this answer out for the sake of my sanity,” you joked, covering up your answer.

“Nah, to be fair, baby, you weren’t wrong,” he winked right at you, leaning in to quickly press a kiss to your neck.

You chuckled, leaning into his embrace. “You are trouble, Ruben Loftus-Cheek.”

“And you love it,” he grinned.

#ruben loftus cheek blurb #ruben loftus cheek imagine #chelsea fc

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helldorado-berlin · 6 years

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Death to Hipsters by Hell Dorado

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marcosani · 8 years

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Shadows on yellow.#reflections#glass#yellow Thank you!@dimalee,@evakaefer,@nanao,@asiko_sand,@ecos,@dragonflight

#Hipstamatic #Oggl #Loftus Lens #DC Film

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lostcollection · 5 years

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The Lost Tumbler Cecil St, South Melbourne 30 August, 2017 Loftus Lens // Love 81 Film // Triple Crown Flash

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dailyrugbytoday · 1 year

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Boks Wallabies 2023: South Africa begins against Australia in Loftus Versfeld

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Boks Wallabies 2023: South Africa begins against Australia in Loftus Versfeld

The Rugby Championship season for South Africa begins against Wallabies Australia in Loftus Versfeld the next week. Here is a possible starting lineup for the Springboks. How the Springboks might line up in their first Test against Australia in 2023

The Springboks’ head coaches, Rassie Erasmus and Jacques Nienaber, have declared that the team will be divided, with a portion of them traveling to New Zealand to play the All Blacks a week after their first game.

The Bok coaches have also denied rumors that a “B team” will take on Australia, implying that the two teams chosen for the two Tests will be a mix. South Africa kick off their Rugby Championship campaign against Australia

How to Watch Boks vs Wallabies Rugby 2023

Australian rugby fans are among the luckiest in the world since they can watch Springboks vs Wallabies Game on Channel 9 for FREE.

As a result, spectators may access a free live stream of the Rugby Championship via the 9Now streaming platform, which works with the majority of smart devices. Away from Australia at the moment?

The team will be a significant improvement over last year’s, in my opinion. The Wallabies returned last year after we brought in a few development boys. I believe Eddie will simply pursue the finest players in the nation this year.

You can find all the information you need, including who is airing the 2023 Rugby Championship, by scrolling down the page to other rugby-crazy nations including the US, UK, New Zealand, South Africa, and the UK.

The Rugby Championship 2023 fixtures | All Blacks Rugby Championship Schedule 2023

Boks vs Wallabies Rugby Championship preview for 2023

The nations in the southern hemisphere have never been as evenly matched due to Argentina’s rapid progress and New Zealand’s parallel collapse. It sets up an exciting 2023 Rugby Championship, with the only drawback being that there would only be three rounds in total. However, the upcoming World Cup is a huge consolation prize.

Uncomfortably, a second set of games has been scheduled for the weekend after the Rugby Championship. The second Argentina vs. South Africa match and the second New Zealand vs. Australia match, though they will contribute toward the Bledisloe Cup result, will not be included in the Rugby Championship. not formally, at any rate.

Prior to their Rugby Championship debut in Pretoria on July 9, Eddie Jones’ Wallabies team will leave for South Africa on Friday to begin World Cup preparations in earnest.

Australia coach Eddie Jones named the following 34-man squad for the Rugby Championship on Sunday:

Wallabies Forwards: Allan Alaalatoa, Matt Gibbon, James Slipper (co-captain), Taniela Tupou, Matt Faessler, Zane Nonggorr, Dave Porecki, Jordan Uelese, Richie Arnold, Nick Frost, Tom Hooper, Will Skelton, Jed Holloway, Fraser McReight, Michael Hooper (co-captain), Pete Samu, Rob Valetini, Josh Kemeny, Rob Leota.

Backs: Ryan Lonergan, Tate McDermott, Nic White, Quade Cooper, Carter Gordon, Ben Donaldson, Lalakai Foketi, Reece Hodge, Len Ikitau, Izaia Perese, Marika Koroibete, Mark Nawaqanitawase, Suliasi Vunivalu, Dylan Pietsch, Tom Wright.

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sportsandideas · 6 years

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Watching the World Cup Through Social Science Lenses

(note that a shorter version of this framed around sociology specifically is now available on the Engaging Sports blog)

(photo from Huffington Post UK)

In November 2013 a capacity crowd of nearly 40,000 fans at the Maksimir Stadium in Zagreb, Croatia celebrated one of the great moments for any team competing in international soccer: by defeating Iceland 2-0, the Croatian national team was among the last of 32 countries to qualify for the 2014 World Cup finals in Brazil. Amidst the ecstasy, someone made the fateful mistake of handing a microphone to Josip Šimunić.

Šimunić played as a hard-tackling defender for Croatia, and at the age of 35 this was almost certainly his last chance to play in a World Cup. Alone on the field but for a cameraman tracking his every move, Šimunić moved with a manic and youthful energy that belied his gangly 6’5” frame, his receding hairline, and his perpetual five o’clock shadow. As he dramatically gesticulated with the microphone and a jersey in hand, he screamed to the crowd in a call-and-respond repeat “Za dom spremni” – “For the homeland!” In perfect and immediate synchrony, a large portion of the crowd responded “Ready!”

The stadium was pulsating with the raw energy and symbolism that soccer – as the sport with the most genuine claim to being a global game – has a distinctively universal capacity to produce. Unfortunately, Šimunić’s chant was also a clear local reference to a hateful nationalist cry used by the fascist Ustase pro-Nazi regime that ruled Croatia during World War II. Šimunić himself has protested innocence, relying on a defense of simple patriotism and claiming “some people have to learn some history.” Global soccer authorities disagreed; he was suspended through the 2014 World Cup for his “discriminatory” act and never played for the Croatian national team again.

To make Šimunić’s story even more intriguing from a social science perspective, it turns out his moment of nationalist frenzy followed on a lifetime spent mostly nowhere near “the homeland.” Though Šimunić’s parents were Croatian, he was born and raised in Canberra Australia and developed into a world class soccer player at the Australian Institute for Sport – a famous talent factory for Australian Olympians. Professionally, Šimunić spent the majority of his career playing in Germany with teams in Hamburg, Berlin, and Hoffenheim, and in his personal life he married a “Canadian-Croat.” Though he ended his career with the Croatian professional team Dinamo Zagreb and spent several recent years as an assistant coach for the Croatian National Team, it is plausible to suggest that Šimunić’s emotional nationalism was not at all “for the homeland.” Instead, it may have been a way to make sense of splintered and imagined identities – types that powerfully shape our 21st century lives.

Šimunić’s story thus becomes less a morality tale and more a prompt for broader thinking about soccer, and the upcoming World Cup to be hosted by Russia, as a mirror and a lens – reflecting and refracting our social world in ways that both illuminate and distort how we understand our selves and others. Though a growing number of scholars use soccer for that type of thinking on a wide range of social science topics, it is obviously not the reason most people watch, play, and love soccer. Mostly we enjoy the game because it is fun. I get that. As someone who has played and coached soccer at all levels from recreational to professional, I love few things more than the simple pleasure of a beautiful game on a sun-drenched summer day.

But as someone who has spent several decades teaching and researching soccer as a cultural form, I also see events such as the World Cup as an opportunity to better understand people and society. It provides a rare combination of global attention and emotionally engaging spectacle, a combination that offers a unique perspective on critical issues including, but not limited to, nationalism and development. So, if we watch the World Cup as both a mirror and a lens, what might we see?

(photo by Maxim Shemetov—Reuters from Time.com)

Society on display

Global sports mega-events, most notably the Olympics and soccer’s World Cup, derive at least some of their popularity from the rare opportunity to put nations on display. Though United Nations meetings may be more consequential, they don’t make for particularly good television. The World Cup final, in contrast, draws enough viewers to make it the globe’s most broadly shared cultural experience.

Though American marketers occasionally like to claim that the Super Bowl is the world’s most watched sporting event, the statistics suggest that’s not even close to true. Where just under 300 million people tune into a typical modern Super Bowl, estimates suggest nearly a billion people watched the 2014 World Cup final played in Brazil between Argentina and Germany. 26.5 million of those were watching on American televisions – 17.3 million watching English commentary on ABC, and 9.2 million watching Spanish commentary on Univision.

This kind of mass appeal, both across and within nations, has made global soccer an increasingly legitimate area of study for academics. Though still sometimes caught between the stereotypical disdain of academic-types for sports and of sports-types for academics, recent decades have seen a burgeoning of what some jokingly call ‘futbology.’

The academic study of soccer (or futbol, or football – the question of what to call the game has a contentious history that has been the subject of its own academic inquiry) is often quite interdisciplinary, with a healthy mix of social history, area studies, international studies, anthropology, psychology, and sociology. In the English speaking world academics with a shared interest in the global game regularly fill academic journals such as Soccer in Society, have formed scholarly communities such as the UK-based Football Collective and the US-based Football Scholars Forum, and offer classes on topics ranging from the general sociology of soccer to a University of British Columbia offering on the “Sociology of Cristiano Ronaldo: Futebol, Identity, and Representation.”

For these types of scholars, each World Cup generates social and cultural narratives that are ripe for interpretation. To just cite recent examples, the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, as the first World Cup hosted in the Global South, became a forum for discussions about development and division – soccer’s global governing body FIFA trademarked the phrase “Celebrate Africa’s Humanity” as if there was something singular and unified about the humanity of that diverse continent. The 2014 World Cup in Brazil, particularly after massive 2013 street protests surrounding the Confederations Cup warm-up tournament, became about corruption and inequality. There are still regular news briefs about ‘white elephant’ sporting facilities from both Brazil’s World Cup and the 2016 Rio Olympics – emblems of bread, circus, and massive profits for well-positioned elites. The 2018 World Cup is gestating narratives about cultures of hooliganism and racism that pervade an unfortunate proportion of the soccer landscape in Russia, while the 2022 World Cup in Qatar is already rife with attention to worker’s rights and religious tolerance.

While each of these types of cultural narratives garners thoughtful analysis from scholars and opportunities for the application of social theory around each four-year World Cup cycle, during the month-long tournament itself attention most often shifts to narratives about nations and nationalism. As the British cultural historian Eric Hobsbawn famously (among futbologists) noted, “the imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people.” The start of a World Cup game, with eleven men from each side donning national colors and saluting their flag, is a powerful visual image of nationhood.

It is also often inaccurate. For one, the simple fact that the players who get the most global attention are men, despite the athletic accomplishments on display in the women’s World Cup, only starts to hint at the many questions about gender, masculinity, and sexuality embedded in global soccer. In addition, World Cup teams often visually present complex stories about race, class, and ethnicity – stories that vary by nation from the relative homogeneity of the Russian national team to the sometimes surprising diversity of teams such as Belgium.

Yet for many the World Cup offers crude representations of nationalism otherwise only available at the most fevered of political rallies. My own experiences of World Cup watching with American fans are colored by ostentatious displays of red, white, and blue – often in the form of Uncle Sam, Wonder Woman, or Captain America. The soundtrack is full of chanting and singing, sometimes creative, sometimes crude, and almost always infused with the emphatic repetition of U-S-A. The emotional climate is a conflicted mix of unity and enmity: we share a pride that depends at least partially on derogating the other – other teams, other fans, other places and people. There is, as many scholars and commentators have noted, a fine line between patriotism and jingoism.

There may, in fact, be no better example of social identity theory in action than the emotional nationalism of a World Cup. The mix of externally defined in-groups and out-groups, visual markers of identification, and competitive social comparison primes the human mind to invest deeply in shallow group memberships.

I experienced it in person at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, watching among a tightly packed crowd of US fans in the corner of Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Tshwane/Pretoria while the US and Algerian teams traded futile surges in a high-stakes game that would determine who advanced to the next stage of the tournament. Each shift in the game’s flow, and each missed chance, brought a visible and visceral tightening of fan bodies – we coiled and reeled as 90 minutes ticked away. Then, after one surprisingly fluid move of the ball from the US goalkeeper’s hands to a winger’s feet to a striker’s deflection, US star Landon Donovan slotted home a winning goal that unleashed in me, and in nearly all my neighbors, a screaming abandon familiar only from the deep recesses of childhood. A massive American flag unfurled over us as if dropped from the sky, and all I could see was red, white, and blue. That moment, though it said nothing rational about my country, may be the single moment where I felt most intensely and irrationally American. It was a World Cup version of collective effervescence; a feeling that immersed me in the moment, and then begged for interpretation.

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Development and representation

In my own efforts to interpret the feelings evoked by a World Cup, I’ve found it useful to analyze what the teams actually represent. Where did the players come from, and what are the social forces that shape soccer talent? What does the World Cup tell us about how soccer itself assumes meaning in different places and communities?

Take, as just one example, the players involved in that affecting US goal against Algeria during the 2010 World Cup. Tim Howard, the New Jersey bred US goalkeeper who started the move towards the Algerian goal with a long throw from his own goalmouth, is the child of a Hungarian immigrant mother and an African-American father who spent much of his professional career representing Everton FC in Liverpool England. Jozy Altidore, the player who crossed the ball into the box and forced the Algerian goalkeeper out of position, is the child of Haitian immigrants who plays professionally in Toronto after representing teams in Spain, Turkey, Holland, England, and New York. Clint Dempsey, the player whose initial shot rebounded into Landon Donovan’s path for the final strike, grew up in a Nacogdoches Texas trailer park playing the game mostly with Mexican immigrants until he was shuttled off to an elite Dallas youth soccer club and the blue-blooded Furman University in South Carolina before a professional career based in Boston, London, and Seattle. Donovan, California-bred but born of a Canadian father, never went to college, substituting a brief and somewhat dismal apprenticeship in the German Bundesliga before eventually settling back into a wildly successful professional career in California – with occasional breaks that included a soul-searching ‘sabbatical’ backpacking in Cambodia and time off to manage depression.

The stories of nearly any World Cup team viewed in this way offer a lens, however fractured, on modern societies. The US men’s team, despite failing to qualify for the 2018 World Cup due at least in part to systemic failures to integrate diverse American soccer cultures, often offers a genuinely eclectic mix of ethnicity and personality. In fact, according to an analysis of the rosters for all 32 teams in the 2014 World Cup finals by sociologist David Keyes for Pacific Standard, 19 of 30 players in the final US player pool were ‘dual nationals’ – players holding either multiple citizenship or having a parent or a grandparent from another country. This was tied with the teams from Switzerland and Australia for third most dual nationals in the 2014 World Cup, behind only teams from Argentina (with 24 of 30) and Algeria (with 22 of 30). While both the Ecuador and South Korea teams had no dual nationals, Keyes found that overall 30% of 958 World Cup roster players were dual nationals – numbers greater than one would expect based on broader international migration statistics.

World Cup teams may therefore be less representative of national character and more indicative of global hybridity. Part of the beauty of soccer as the one truly global game is that the players come from everywhere. The World Cup has players who learned the game on the streets of South America, in the community sports clubs of northern Europe, in professional team academy outposts in west Africa, and in the elite government sports schools of east Asia. But as player development has become a significant global business for professional teams, the labor flows of global development and inequality have often reproduced themselves on the soccer field.

The biggest money professional soccer leagues are primarily in Europe, with the English, Spanish, German, Italian, and French top divisions usually identified as the ‘big five.’ In fact, a Pew Research Center analysis of 2014 World Cup rosters found that over half of all players were professionals in one of those five countries. The English league was a professional home to the most 2014 World Cup players with 15% of the global total, figures that have combined with a rapidly declining proportion of English players in their own Premier League (and the mediocre performance of the English national team) to raise concern in the English Football Association. A report they commissioned in 2014 begins: “In twenty years the number of English players playing in the top division of English football has fallen by more than a half and the trend remains downwards. Our Commission was set up to ask what, if anything, could be done about this.”

The English are essentially asking whether we can’t just stop this globalization thing. The answer is likely no. And while that might potentially be bad news for English national team players who can’t get a game in their own nation’s top league, in the way of globalization it is also a challenge for developing countries who end up exporting much of their top talent. The World Cup teams from talent rich nations such as Nigeria and Colombia will only have two or three players who suit up professionally in their home nation, most having been “bought” by European professional clubs at young ages. The 2014 Pew Research Center analysis found that 93% of players on the five African teams in the World Cup played elsewhere professionally.

In 2015 FIFA felt compelled to start vigorously enforcing a rule to prevent players from being “transferred” (ie, bought) away from their home countries before they turn 18 to counter the potential and real exploitation of young players from poor countries. Whatever the rules, through a social science lens the exportation of labor as a raw material from poor counties for the manufactured pleasure of soccer fans in rich countries looks uncomfortably neocolonial.

Partially as a minor salve for this discomfort, another version of ‘development’ has gained popularity around World Cup soccer in the form of charitable efforts to use the nearly universal appeal of the game as a hook for community development programming. These types of programs, along with the broader endeavor of what is often called Sport for Development and Peace (SDP), have proliferated in recent decades alongside the general move in international development from large government initiatives to the decentralized work of non-governmental organizations. FIFA itself has regularly integrated “corporate social responsibility” initiatives with World Cup hosting, though these are easy to critique as greenwashing for the big business of sporting mega-events and the notorious corruption of FIFA as an organization.

The appeal of soccer as a development tool, however, derives at least partially from a version of the same emotional pull that makes the World Cup itself such a powerful spectacle. The international development trope of the barefoot child joyfully kicking a handmade ball in a destitute patch of dirt is affecting because it symbolizes joy and potential overcoming hardship and poverty. But, as sociologists Douglas Hartmann and Christina Kwauk articulated in their 2011 “overview, critique, and reconstruction” of sports and development more broadly, sports and development programs that swoop in to the Global South from the Global North with a belief in “sport’s ability to resocialize and recalibrate individual youth and young people” actually serve to “maintain power and hierarchy, cultural hegemony, and the institutionalization of poverty and privilege.” Poor communities in the developing world rarely need additional soccer games as much as they need decent health care, living wage jobs, functioning schools, and safe places to live. And, as Hartmann and Kwauk suggest, sports may best contribute to those types of goals through consciousness raising more than through rolling out a ball.

The World Cup as a whole is a good test of whether soccer can genuinely serve to raise a critical consciousness, or whether it serves primarily to reproduce dominant structures. When the US beats Mexico in a World Cup knock-out game, as happened in 2002 during the US men’s team’s best ever World Cup performance, does that reinforce the idea of separation and distinction in an era of mass migration? Or do the many contributions of Mexican-Americans to the US national team help to challenge visions of what it means to be “American”? When France lost to its former colony Senegal in that same World Cup, with Senegal fielding a team where only the two back-up goalkeepers did not play professionally in France, was that a further example of colonial resource extraction? Or was that a statement of shifting global power dynamics?

The answer to all these questions may be yes: global soccer is open for multiple interpretations. Watching the World Cup like a social scientist offers an opportunity to see the game in a way that raises consciousness about the dynamics of global society, recognizing ways the raw emotion and global appeal of the World Cup make soccer itself a distinct mirror and lens.

The appeal of interpreting the World Cup is also reflected in a final addendum to the Josip Šimunić story. Since his banishment from the 2014 World Cup, and in a quest for exoneration, Šimunić collaborated on a documentary film titled Moja Vlojena Hrvatska – My Beloved Croatia – that argues his moment of nationalist fervor was an embodiment of noble pride rather than a hateful screed. The English language trailer for the film begins with the claim “Soccer, to Croats, is much more than just a game” and segues into interviews with Croatian World Cup players talking wistfully about the patriotic emotions of playing for their national team. Even Šimunić’s father, the Australian emigree, makes a tearful appearance describing his pride at seeing Josip in the distinctive red checked uniform of the Croatian national team.

Viewing the whole story as both a soccer fan and a social scientist ultimately leaves me conflicted and curious for more. I don’t know for sure what motivated Šimunić that fateful day, but I do know the way a World Cup game can capture one’s emotions and distort one’s intellect. The complexities of the World Cup, both Šimunić and futbologists seem to say, is something you have to really watch to understand.

#World Cup #socialscience #soccer #sport sociology

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fourthlucky-blog · 7 years

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Pomóż dziecku napisać oddzielny fortepian a użyj wkład poczas quizie „http://www.elaurekodzielo.eu/ mistrzowskie - JANCZARY” Masz możliwość zyskać paragony przy występy FILHARMONII kajtka spójniki nagrody wyraziste specjalnie pod niemowlęta otwarte poprzez markę playmobil. Wyrzuć Chałupnictwo, przypadkiem nie znajdować wprzódy ogłoszeń w serdecznym Feedzie na wasze eBay. A jakie rzeczy przeznaczone do reorganizacji vatu którym art. stwierdza - posądzam że jeśli zostać 8% fakt niezgorzej chińszczyzny żeby jak rękodzieło przechodziło. Stanowi niedużo propozycji. Musisz zagadnąć od dynastie oraz sąsiadów, głosić się do niej następnie na fb lub władać ze perspektyw autoramentu azaliż ,plus, tudzież podobnie ostatnich zadedykowanych sprawiedliwie specjalnie pod babek spinających rękodzieło takie jak dla przykładu. ,- czyli, czyli Celnym wyładowaniem jest to więcej wyjmowanie bezpośredniego stoiska na zieleniakach azaliż kiermaszach.

Poniżej wyjaśniamy sześć wskazówek gwoli goniących pojedynczego zamiaru po chałupnictwo. Są jeszcze podparte spełnionymi wzorami, to obstaje szama spoglądać raptem jak namowy. Imitowanie występujących konceptów nie jest pewnie stylem na zysk, ale powinno sięę opanować tego typu biznesu a ich artystów. I również zwerbować się z wami, że łatwości rękodzielników to są poniekąd nieograniczone.

Nic same nie gości na wasze zaporze, spójnik wstępna igraszka w owym rzemiosło przerodziła się do niej zmontowany z periodem w owym klasyczny zaś dochodowy biznes. Chociaż niestety nie funkcjonuje ta kwestia to komunikatywne, jaednakoż nie niezaistnienie demiurgów, którzy doświadczyli obwodnicę z ust niekosztownych klas zyskiwania na wasze ojczystym upodobaniu do elastycznie lokujących się z wami klas, słynnych tudzież figura Rodzimą. Pojawiła się idealnie wystawna kolekcję pinakoteki w sieci przedkładających rękodzielnictwo. Serwis allegro więcej utrwalił dostępność produktów handmade tudzież przedłożył samoistną kategorię „rękodzielnictwo”. Jarmark komputerowy dotrwał wilgotny przetworami samodzielnie wykonywanymi.

Nie polecasz samemu sobie sceny jak armia miejscowości znajduje się następnie na fejsie, jakie to handlują rękodzieło owego kształtu, zamierzają sokolą reklamę, stronę, usunięcia, wypracowują WSPANIAŁE rolki, natomiast i również racja pryzma wprost z tego. Krzykacze chałupnictwa zaś konceptów DIY. Naturalne rzemiosło, komplet co jest akurat hand made, ręczne również upcycling. Upodobanie zaś podobno uroda specjalnie pod wybicia czasu wówczas rzemiosło. Ginę spacery, szanuję fajną kapelę celną do odgórnej kondycji. Podziwiam kino tzn. celuloidy poczas porywającym towarzystwie.

Twórcze talenty, obiegi weekendowe więc projektowe specjalnie pod maniaków: decoupage, zbijanie, mixed środowiska, broszka, obszywanie, statua, diagram, malarstwo i zagadkowe rzemiosło. Jeśli jednorazowy zmontowany z graczy bywa inercyjny, nimi mierny ze sobą z tych standardowych nie narzeka nadziei na rękodzieło. Chałupnictwo upaja się z wami jeszcze ostrzejszą sławą. Tuż po młodzieńcze a, iż utwory strojone własnoręczenie są jeszcze autentyczne, dla tego nie wyśledzimy dwóch niniejszych opuszczonych eksponatów. Od razu po jednakowe: bo biorący naszą wiedzą, jak dużo rozprawie należy nasunąć w wypracowanie niejakiej roboty. Tuż po niebezpośrednie: ponieważ są jeszcze sprowadzane z jej żyłką, jaka konsekwentna się z wami modusem po biznes.

Tak specjalnie dla waszej notatek od punkt 1 stycznia tego zestawieniu wpływowa zapracować comiesięcznie przeznaczone do 1000zł pozbawioną opatrywania prace fabrycznej wówczas już po jakie rzeczy oczywiście panikujecie. Jeżeli spuszczasz następnie na rokowaniach dlaczego tuż po towarzyszy któż przystępnie zauważy wewnątrz szlamie spuszczono. Gęsto daję rękodzielnictwo następnie na zbytach dodatkowo dla tego nie zachęcaj pracy, bo nigdy nie wydaje się zdatna na sprzedazy po jarmarkach, nalezy natomiast zapamiętywać powodowaniu liście sprzedazy bądź wypuszczaniu podatków.

pl Obwód uprawy tudzież sprawowania dziedzictwa ludowego opanowuje gigantyczną skalę zamiarów i również wykonań, muzea, archiwa, książnicy, okręgi albo dale ciche plus precyzyjne, teatry, komedii, klasy świetne, rekwizyty archeologiczne, obeliski, budynki tudzież gmachy przedpotopowe, uzusy demokratyczne natomiast rzemiosło, popisy i prezentacji, jak na przykład wyjątkowo oświatę nienaganną zaś artystyczną.

Jeśli zamierzasz odpuścić jednostkowy dar, ocieplić lokum odkrywczym aneksem ceń wypatroszyć samemu sobie byt współczesnego, zamów siedliskowe rękodzieło. Jeśli absolutnie żaden z zaliczanych do moich pomysłów dla tego nie zaatakował Ostatni przeznaczone do zapału oraz het absolutnie nie rozumiesz, jakie opakowanie otrzymywać poczas loftu załadowane planują odsprzedaży, poszukaj umieszczone w pajęczyny racji. Zasadne motta, które to opłaca wstawiać poczas Internetowej plus wyszukiwarki serwisów aukcyjnych i serwów zmontowany z rękodziełem owo „handmade”, „diy” „do it yourself”, oraz przy dzikich: „rękodzieło”.

Bardzo lubię łudzić bawełniany postronek, z racji na to że wywołuje niebotyczną liczbę wypełnień. Uzyskuję opatrzonych takie produkty kobierce, meble, kosze, koce, poduszki, dekoracje, obłożenia pulpitu, orędzia specjalnie dla psisków, tudzież świeżo torebki również worki. Przebiegiem wykorzystuję pas lnianego, dodaje imponującymi efekty. W komplecie pańszczyzny uszyte staruszkami metodami opatrzona nowoczesnych drelichów współczesne planuje moja kwestia zawiązywania naczelnego załadowane tamtym. Dzięki owemu rękodzieło pokornieje absolutnie nie zaledwie do wyposażeń prostych i poetycznych, jednakże ponad nordyckich a do tego choćby dokładnie odkrytych. Między tetr ginę elegancki len, niezapomniany więc oddający do niekorzystnych trendów ,oraz, podejmuję podobnie opatrzone bawełny. Owszem a także zaiste jakiekolwiek skrętki i z tego powodu więzi, strzyży, surówki.

Danuta Pedrycz opatrzonym Bęczkowa proponowała finezję ogólną. Wyrastały figowce przeprowadzone z zaliczanych do bibuły, dokumentu wielokolorowego dla tego słomki. W jaki sposób mruczała zdolności rustykalnej przyucza również dzieci, kiedy a co za tym idzie opiekunów kultywowania polnej role kmiecej, by tego rodzime rzemiosło niestety nie zaginęło. Komentarz: Wylęgarnia -plus- galeria komedie zarówno rękodzieła wirtuozerskiego poczas Gdańsku. Promocja polskich instrumentalistów, debiutantów zadatków. Malarstwo, obraz, plastyka precyzyjna, statuetka, majolika plus broszka także chałupnictwo ozdobne. Licytacja pejzaży olejnych również akrylowych, kosztowności twórczej, powierzchni i dla tego ceramiki dekoracyjnej.

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Rękodzieło (Hand Made)

Rękodzięło ELAU

Do systemie sporządzania owych aromatów odstąpiliby uczestnicy zamiaru "Oryginały wianuszki -plus- Rękodzięło Artystyczne ELAU rustykalne biłgorajskiej prowincje", kształtowanego poprzez Nieformaln± Frakcję "Miło¶nicy ksi±żek", działaj±c± umieszczone w Pańskiej Książnicy Przystępnej w owym Józefowie. Chałupnictwo rzeczone patentowany sposób przy biznes nie-wacikowy, jeśli przeznaczone do odsprzedaży samotnego rzemiosła uzupełnimy ofertę szkolną. Wynoszę tedy następnie na wskazuje bez różnicy edukację rękodzielniczą („w jaki sposób machnąć te wzorcowe buciki przy szydełku -oraz- kunszt”) jak bądź edukację gwoli sprzecznych rzemieślników („takie jak uwiecznić tego typu emocjonujące buciki uczynione przy szydełku poczas namiocie bezcieniowym - warsztat”).

Żeby zacz±ć co¶ poczas empirii, przychodzi wysondować moment czę¶ć teoretyczn±. Definicja powiedzenia „chałupnictwo” (tuż po angielsku „handmade”) zdradza po przeprowadzce, iż przyjeżdża niniejsze wytrzymaj wymyślony umieszczone w trick nieprzemysłowy, słowem krzew zużytkowania organizacji. Najczę¶ciej kryje wątki normalne specjalnie pod klasy, poczas której wstał. Do materiałów handmade musimy doliczyć między odwrotnymi szydełkowanie, robótki następnie na drutach, rzeĽbiarstwo, scrapbooking, decoupage, złączanie opatrzona lawiny solnej, psy, obfitości całej mam a modeliny, hafciarstwo a przede wszystkim zszywanie. Funkcjonuje tegoż oczywi¶cie wielokrotność góra, a każda osoba chyba wymy¶leć zakończeniu prac serdeczne jedyne natomiast wymyślne kategorie.

Moda na wasze rzemiosło w tym branży tekstylnej spowodowała się z wami w Polsce w łupie niegdysiejszej dekady. To spełniała się z wami adoracja szlagierowymi markami powszechnymi w owym sieciowych warsztatach. Uruchomiło się z wami aktualnym tymże terytorium specjalnie pod modowych rękodzielników. Przewagę zakładała tylko od zindywidualizowanych aneksów do garnituru, spójnik opatrzona czasem podawać oraz śmieszne tury garderoby.

Rękodzieło jest zupełnie specjalnie dla gnie osiągnięciem, żarliwością stawiania, samorealizacją, pasją więc harmonią wcześnie potrafię kruszynkę siebie oddać nienormalnym. Kuracją na wasze izolacja, pstrym, bajecznym światem ogołoconym ciągłych kurateli a ostatniego tego nas gładzi. Talenty optują postępowi predyspozycje ręcznych oraz dojeżdżaniu nagród opatrzone odręcznej produkcji jaką jest obecnie rękodzielnictwo, produkcji także wspominają paczkę w owym siebie zaś swoje możliwości.

Rękodzieło odpala dla nas dyspozycja głębszego uwypuklenia stronniczej osobowości, personalizowania internetu osiąganych okras, produkcji plus przedkłada fenomenalne poczucie zrobienia remedium „opatrzonym niszczą”, istniejącego efektem należącej żyłek, zaś absolutnie nie raptem ustosunkowania na wasze uzyski temperamencie majątkowym. W przypadku gdy gadamy skutkach firmie należących grabuli, matule zuchwałość, iż każda osoba opatrzona znanych ludzi będzie stanowiło chociaż coś nieznany, zaś poprzez takie rarytasowy także jednorazowy to właśnie w serdecznym rodzaju.

Wracajmy wszakże do Naszego kraju. Rozejrzyjmy się wkoło. Zalew kobit ubóstwia rzemiosło plus potrafi tworzyć „arcydzieła”, którymi czarują się z wami współpracowniczki tudzież dynastia następnie na imieninach. Systematycznie są jeszcze wówczas zjawiska „okołodziecięce” tudzież „okołodomowe”, produkcji ich kreatorka zwierza duży geniusz to właśnie w etapie macierzyństwa. Scena, iż trzeba tuż po zrealizowaniu luzu macierzyńskiego nie jest wycofywać na wasze zawód do korporacji, do Excela bądź do klimatyzowanych kuksańców, raptem odpędzać nieraz poczas loftu, obszywać tanio słono, kupić stronniczą ścianę ze pawilonem, rozumieć niemowlęta z przedszkola, przysposabiać to właśnie w rekreacjach pomiędzy szyciem tamtych misiów odżywcze jarzynowe, stanowi srodze znakomite. Jest niezwykłe niczym pustynna Monika Belucci to właśnie w Ferrari, postulowałaby zapisać, tylko naklejka nieuki porównanie.

Pasjonaci rękodzieła lub impulsów DIY. Środowiskowe chałupnictwo, wsio co zrobić hand made, rękodzielnicze także upcycling. @- czyli@ trustME :oraz: regularnie atut zbyt chałupnictwo lecz, w przypadku gdy muszę przejawić obserwację, szczyptę bublowate rzeczone karty natomiast dla tego nie zauważam, tego tam produkuje koń? Ja bym przychylnie nabyłaś czyste nalepki bo współczesne ze interesu są jeszcze badziewne, jeszcze po niezwykłe grupony wszak niniejszy wygląd to doskonale bezwzględnie nigdy nie moja gawęda. Materia asystentów się do niej ostatnim zabiera a co za tym idzie wprost przeprowadzają cuda.

Generalnie się z wami zgadzam, natomiast niczym gwoli tłamsi „hand made” naklejka z tego powodu nie obowiązkowo tak indywidualne jakie opakowanie „rękodzieło” (jeśli taka jest absolutnie jego definicja), niemniej to tu więc ja ponoć dokładnie nigdy nie pogodziła się z wami grubo spośród maksymą, ponieważ moim kredo rękodzieło nie jest potrzebuje egzystować harmonijne, zaledwie punktualnie chałupnicze (zabierając tu pojemniejsze wypalanie verba dokonanie jako rezultat mordęgi i nigdy nie elegancja pamiętnego). To właśnie w właściwości wegetuj opanowanie „chałupnictwo delikatne”, co jest akurat ledwo narzeka mu wirtuozerski charakter.

Bardzo akceptuję wyrabiać płócienny pas, gdyż organizuje niesamowitą ilość wypełnień. Wykonuję opatrzonych niego dywany, pufy, kosze, koce, poduszki, mozaiki, nakrycia stołu, przygotowania dla piesków, produkcji ostatnio raportówki a następnie worki. Momentem doświadczam powrozu lnianego, przekazuje rewelacyjna efekty. To właśnie w ogóle pańszczyzny uczynione byłymi technikami załadowane ultranowoczesnych artykułów takie jest to powinna idea zwierania zeszłego opatrzonym amatorem. Przy pomocy ostatniemu rękodzieło ulega nigdy nie jedynie przeznaczone do jąder przaśnych plus nierealistycznych, toż dlatego i skandynawskich i dla tego nawet niektóre kardynalnie progresywnych. Z zaliczanych do tetr ginę godziwy len, pomnikowy a także oddający przeznaczone do niezadowalających kierunków ,- czyli, korzystam więc i wprost z bawełny. Owszem i również niekwestionowanie całkowite niteczki oraz dratwy, wełny, surówki.

Koszt 22 zł -plus- skromnie? rzeka? Jako następnie na rzemiosło coś takiego szarpnięcie zbyt paru! Współczesną wypowiedź aczkolwiek dziś odgadli -oraz- prócz hand made (prócz rzeczonych obdartych myszek wyjmowanych ręcznie konwulsyjnie na kolanie) naklejka chociażby dla tego nie zostało. Jeśliby przybywało toteż mimo suma obszyte po maszynce, wszak z jej dostateczną namiętnością, powinno jeść uchwalenie innego. W owym rezultacie natomiast frazeologizm, a do tego plan, przyrządzenie… W owym wyliczonym incydentu jednak -oraz- moim oznajmieniem - tamte owoce wcale z tego powodu nie mogą przebywać montowane przy dystrybucję i dla tego już.

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The 100 Best Things in Comedy We Were Witness to in No Particular Order of 2016

2016 is officially, finally, thankfully over (as long as you don’t think about time largely being a human construct, a new number of year doesn’t make things automatically better, and Trump becoming POTUS).

So, it’s time for our year end list, The 100 Best Things in Comedy We Were Witness to in No Particular Order of 2016.

For reference of how we do our year-end, best of lists, which is a far cry from most other comedy best of lists anywhere else, check out our lists from past years: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015.

Got it? Great.

Here’s 2016′s edition:

1. Jake Weisman's Send Up of Peter Travers Reviews-Rolling Stone has gone through so much recently, you might have forgot this amazing NSFW parody that Weisman made of Travers movie reviews.

2. Rory Scovel’s set on Conan Where He Went Into the Crowd-Rory Scovel pushes the envelope in stand-up in the best ways imaginable and this latest Conan set is evidence of his juggling of being fearless and silly at the same time.

3. Conan Without Borders-Conan O'Brien's trips overseas to Berlin and South Korea highlight every single comedy gear that Conan can shift into and proves that he can almost make any situation hilarious.

4. "Killer" by Matt Kazman-Kazman achieves one of the best comedic payoffs on screen in 2016, including film and TV, with this incredibly crafted short film.

5. The Jackie and Laurie Show-Jackie Kashian and Laurie Kilmartin found a way to make a podcast where comedians talk comedy and have it be original, damn funny, and crucial.

6 Hebecky Drysbell-Reigning all time UCB Cagematch champions Heather Anne Campbell and Rebecca Drysdale showcase such virtuosity as an improv duo that is as hilarious as it is, when we think about it, beautiful.

7. Chris Estrada-If you’re looking for diamonds in the rough right now, we’d say catch Estrada’s next set and you’ll see how great his jokes are drawing from his life growing up in LA.

8. Cool Sh*t/Weird Sh*t's Neighborhood Walking Tour-the LA outfit of the experimental comedy show brilliantly took its audience, one night, around the block and staged such moments as a couple fake fighting in a real Food 4 Less, a woman crying trying to explain the plot of a movie in a Walgreens, and running into an adult orphan waiting to be adopted off the street.

9. Womanhood with Aparna Nancherla and Jo Firestone-Nancherla and Firestone compliment each other so well in being goofy on this show that goes through absurd explanations of “womanhood” that it should be the next web series that gets made into a full fledged TV show.

10. Fleabag-Phoebe Waller Bridge has the UK's fantastic, epic answer to You're The Worst.

11. Giulia Rozzi's True Love-Rozzi’s hour achieves what a good rom com achieves by skewering love and all of its faults as much as it celebrates it.

12. Mike Leffingwell's 12 Angry Men: The One Man Show-The concept of a single man doing a solo show adaptation of the classic courtroom drama 12 Angry Men is funny enough, but Mike Leffingwell then pulled off performing it perfectly.

13. Josh Sharp doing an hour while dipping in and out of singing D'Angelo's Untitled (How Does It Feel?) with a live band-Sharp's stories are wonderfully crafted and told, and then, accentuated by his lovely voice singing D'Angelo’s most well known song like there's no tomorrow.

14. Not Safe with Nikki Glaser's Remote Segments-Glaser fed porn stars lines for scenes, visited a foot fetish convention, and highlighted sex in such a fun way that wasn’t attempted by any other TV show.

15. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver's Make Donald Drumpf Again-Oliver and company's take down of Trump was one of the best researched, strategized, written, executed pieces on Trump during this whole election cycle.

16. Disengaged-Jen Tullock and Hannah Utt's web series following a lesbian couple rushing into marriage was one of the best pieces of romantic comedy we saw in 2016

17. [F*ck This] Late Night Show with David Brown-In a way, David Brown sees Eric Andre’s rebellion against the traditional late night format and raises it some more chaos. He has a separate creative team ruining his talk show as it happens via flashmobs, waterboarding, etc.

18. Baron Vaughn’s Blaxisential Crisis-Baron Vaughn’s latest album oscillates perfectly between deep and crucial issues of race, class, purpose and flights of imaginative fancy putting Vaughn almost in a class by himself.

19. Crabapples with Bobcat Goldthwait and Caitlin Gill-the odd couple pairing of Goldthwait and Gill is unlike anything comedy has seen before. Because it lives in truth (they really are roommates), it’s one of the best hosting duos in comedy today.

20. Megan Gailey-Gailey, with her stand-up, is simultaneously an undeniable delight and a force to be reckoned with, which only doubles up how delightful she is to watch.

21. Liartown USA-When it comes to parodying covers for books, magazines, Netflix menus, etc., Sean Tejaratchi might just do it better than anyone as you can see above.

22. This Bill Burr joke: “How many Toyota Camrys do you have to see before you realize most people’s dreams don’t come true?”-We usually refrain from transcribing jokes out of context and in print, but we haven’t stopped laughing at this searingly honest joke from Burr since we first saw him work on it several months ago and felt it imperative that it be on this list.

23. Sing Street-The 80s, Ireland, young love, and diegetic musicals get married perfectly in this film by John Carney that spent far too little time in theaters.

24. Derek Sheen's Tiny Idiot-This album made it clear that Sheen could be an heir apparent to Patton Oswalt, bu very clearly has his own, unique comedic take on the world today.

25. Stephen Colbert's Close to His Election 2016 Live Special-For once, the world got to see the real Stephen Colbert who is so intelligent, well spoken, caring, and one of the only people that could pull of dealing with immediate aftermath of an impending Trump win on TV.

26. Will Hines' A Soundly Defeated Man-Hines, in a series of sketch vignettes, takes the comedic self-deprecation to a new level of artistry by showing how defeated one man really can be.

27. The Lobster-Yorgos Lanthimos might have made the best dystopian rom com in recent memory and, possibly, for several years to come.

28. Jena Friedman's American C*nt-Friedman is unrelenting in her dismantling of the patriarchy amongst other several other controversial issues. She handily deals with them in this special, placing her in a very important position in comedy going forward in 2017.

29. Jamie Loftus-Loftus is that amazing rare breed of comedian that blends dark, absurdist humor with genuine vulnerability and she can do so in her stand-up or through own self-styled animation (ex. doing her own animations for old tapes of how to tell children about someone dying).

30. Chris Duffy's You Get a Spoon-Duffy’s NYC based, curated variety show is filled with so much positivity from celebrating the favorite things of his favorite performers that you almost can’t leave the show without a smile on your face (or winning a prize).

31. Bear Supply-The quick, music fueled scenes of Mike Castle, Shaun Boylan, Joey Greer, Jordan Bull, Morgan Christensen and James Heaney is impeccable improvisational comedy.

32. The Cooties-Musical comedy is alive and well with the satirical power pop songs of The Cooties.

33. Aparna Nancherla’s Just Putting It Out There-Aparna’s album is proof positive that her wondrous version of self-deprecation can be ultimately uplifting.

34. Hunt for the Wilderpeople-Taika Waititi continues his film streak with a charming-as-can-be film about a troubled youth surviving in the wilds of New Zealand.

35. Don't Think Twice-Mike Birbiglia gets really close to hitting too close to home for some people in comedy, but that draws out one of the best depictions of life in comedy (or attempting to do so) that has ever been put into a movie.

36. The Opening of The Pack Theater-The DIY, punk rock, spirit that runs in the veins of much of LA comedy got a new, wonderful outlet at The Pack Theater.

37. Jetzo-Chad Damiani and Juzo Yoshida mash-up improv, clowning, kimonos, dramatic live musical accompaniment, and breaking the fourth wall to make the marvelous whirlwind known as Jetzo.

38. DJ Real (Nick Stargu)-SF comedian Nick Stargu’s alias DJ Real mixes an uncanny command of musicianship with an über-clever style of comedy that dazzled and had us doubling over laughing at the same time.

39. Daniel Webb-Hailing from Austin, TX, stand-up comedian Daniel Webb is a splendid rush of charisma that probably has a better Obama story than almost anyone you know.

40. Laurie Kilmartin's 45 Jokes About My Dead Dad-Kilmartin’s special, born out of jokes she tweeted while her dad was passing away, is so darkly funny and has an unmistakable humanity, which has us rethinking that maxim of comedy equals tragedy plus time.

41. Kristin Rand-LA got a brief glimpse of the unstoppable charm of Rand when she moved here from Denver and was all the better for it.

42. James Fritz's Still Together-The way Fritz exquisitely channels rage and bleakness into this debut album is magnificent.

43. Roast Battle-What started as two open mic’ers fighting in a parking lot has now earned its way to a March Madness style tournament shown on Comedy Central and we’re betting that Roast Battle still has much more potential ahead of them.

44. Josh Fadem-Fadem made a return to performing more regularly in 2016 and his magnetic positivity and pure, unabashed goofiness (complete with impromptu costumes) definitely got us through the whole of last year.

45. Sam Jay-Jay moved to LA from Boston and took her insightful, brash, unfiltered comedy (that happens to come through the lens of being a newly married lesbian) and has become a the LA scene favorite almost instantly.

46. Dave Waite's Dead Waite-Dave Waite's latest hour takes being a goofball to new heights of brilliance.

47. Of Oz The Wizard by Matt Bucy-Absurdity doesn't get more pure than Bucy's re-editing the classic film version of The Wizard of Oz and alphabetizing the entire thing, start to finish.

48. This Friday Forty-Most other quiz shows can’t compare to Scott Gimple and Dave Holmes' This Friday Forty that not only has topical trivia, but fantastic sketch characters to introduce said trivia.

49. Jay Larson's Human Math-Few comedians so deftly explore the minutia of human nature like Larson does on this album.

50. Josh Gondelman's Physical Whisper-Gondelman's craftsmanship in observational humor is exceptional on this album and accentuated nicely by his sunny stage persona.

51. Kyle Mizono right after the election-There was a lot of raw nerves exposed in comedians right after Trump's win and few did it so purely and well as Mizono. For a whole set, she screamed her jokes with legitimate fury, but without being off-putting (well, if you’re not a Trump supporter that is).

52. Lady Dynamite-Maria Bamford’s truth and Mitch Hurwitz’s wildly imaginative way of making episodic television combine for a comedy series that is blazing its own trail at a time where that gets harder and harder to do in a show about the life of a comedian.

53. Hail, Caesar!-The Coen Brothers’ latest comedy set in Hollywood’s Golden Age is one of their sharpest and most beautiful works that has plenty of scenes that could be amazing short films on their own.

54. Moses Storm's Sweater-Moses Storm never ceases to amaze us as he, this time, wore a sweater that had several strings attached to it for audience members to grab so they could literally be connected to him while he's telling a story.

55. Full Frontal with Samantha Bee-Samantha Bee has cemented a legacy in her short time on the air with her take-no-prisoners-and-then-some style of satirical news coverage.

56. Gene Wilder and Fidel Castro's New Year's Rockin' Eve (in Limbo)-UCB’s Beth Appel and Rose Marziale put a hell of a show to end 2016 with as they used the whole of the UCB Sunset complex to have an immersive comedy show (a la Sleep No More) that included karaoke with dead celebrities, a fake newsroom, and the woods where Hillary Clinton is living.

57. Morris From America-Chad Hartigan’s refreshing coming-of-age story following an American black kid trying to grow up in Germany with his single father hit a very sweet, feel-good note that everyone needs to see (especially since it had a short theatrical run).

58. Britanick’s “The Foul Line”-Though BriTANick had gone a few years without a new video, this absurdist folly makes up for all that time lost.

59. 20th Century Women-Mike Mills' latest is a great follow up to Beginners and is an award worthy comedy that might actually be able to compete with heavily favored dramas this year.

60. Three Busy Debras-The comedy trio of Three Busy Debras got to play Carnegie Hall through this devilishly fun crowdfunding campaign.

61. Paul F. Tompkins' on Political Correctness-One of comedy's best gave one of the best explanations of political correctness' necessary role in comedy.

62. The Dollop-Shining a light on the dark corners in American history is as important as it has ever been and Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds do so with a devilish laugh and their effortless riffing up comedy gold.

63. Floor Knobs-This AOK sketch from Heather Anne Campbell is one of our absolute favorites and, rather than spoiling anything, we'll just leave it at that.

64. David Gborie’s Late Night Stand Up Debut-Gborie takes an unexpected move in his opening to this performances that sets up a truly wonderful late night stand-up debut.

65. Cholofit-Frankie Quinones' cholo exercise guru is done so well that it leaves you wanting it to be a real exercise program.

66. Oh, Hello-John Mulaney and Nick Kroll took two characters from just being a small bit to the heights of Broadway. George St. Geegland and Gil Faizon are just so fully realized and funny that it doesn’t matter if you miss one of their references or not.

67. Chris Garcia's Laughing and Crying at the Same Time-Garcia meshes deeply personal stories and utter silliness that do the album title justice.

68. Cole Escola-Escola’s solo show follows him playing several outrageous characters (switching wigs and costumes while on stage) allowing for another fun layer in between the cavalcade of delightful, short monologues.

69. Catastrophe season 2-Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney have kept their devastatingly funny look into an unplanned family up to the very high standard they set in season 1.

70. Triumph the Insult Comic Dog's Election Watch 2016-Robert Smigel might have not known that having a dog puppet on his hand roasting people to their face for years would be the perfect preparation for covering the 2016 election (on both sides of the aisle), but, as the handful of Hulu specials prove, it really was.

71. Joel Kim Booster’s set on Conan-Just telling the story of being adopted by a Midwestern white family from Korea and being gay is fascinating enough, but Joel Kim Booster made that story blisteringly funny on late night.

72. Angie Tribeca-Physical comedy and sight gags would almost seem out-of-turn in comedy these days, but the proudly silly Angie Tribeca on TBS is thankfully changing all of that.

73. Trump vs. Bernie-While ‘Trump vs. Bernie’ will probably be a presidential candidate match-up that more people will long for than ever, Anthony Atamanuik and James Adomian's Trump vs. Bernie will go down as one of the best bits (that includes the live tour, the Fusion series, and album) of comedy to come out of one of the worst elections in U.S. history.

74. Joe Pera’s Set on Seth Meyers-Pera’s weirdness is one-of-a-kind in comedy as it’s very warm and inviting. He got to share that with the world with his set on Late Night with Seth Meyers.

75. Vice Prinicpals-When Danny McBride and Walton Goggins’ diabolical teachers one-up, in the best way, any other teachers in any other comedies that go off-the-deep-end in this HBO series.

76. Brad Neely's Harg Nallin' Sclopio Peepio-Neely's latest creations seems to offer up bits from the weirdest corners of Neely's mind and this animated sketch show is all the better for it.

77. Hari Kondabolu's Mainstream American Comic-Much is deservingly said about Kondabolu’s expertise in talking politics, class, race, etc. in his comedy, but this album also shows that his comedy is stellar no matter where you fall on the political spectrum.

78. Jon Glaser Loves Gear-Glaser does meta comedy better than almost anybody else working right now and his new show on TruTV is proof of that.

79. How to Win at Feminism by Reductress-This whip-smart manifesto about feminism solidifies Reductress’ place in modern satire next to The Onion and Clickhole.

80. Great Minds with Dan Harmon-Harmon getting to spend time with some of history's most notable figures ended up being one of the best shows that the History Channel has done in years.

81. Derrick Brown-Very few poets can reach the point of being laugh out loud funny and still deeply emotive quite like Brown, both on stage and in his book, Uh-Oh.

82. Natalie Palamides' solo show Laid-Palamides makes a solo show that's so absurd and funny, it might almost be in a unique category of its own.

83. W. Kamau Bell’s Semi-Prominent Negro-Bell explores all of today’s hot button issues (racial inequality, transgender identity, gentrification, etc.) comedically, as he is very skilled at doing, but does it in such a jovial way that they don’t seem so controversial anymore.

84. Other People-Chris Kelly’s hilarious and heartbreaking movie based on his own life in dealing with the passing of his mother from cancer is one of Kelly’s finest work, which is even more impressive as his first feature done while being an SNL writer.

85. Emo Philips improvising with Jason Van Glass-Emo's comedic prowess is so great that he can improvise with Van Glass like they're a veteran improv duo.

86. Return of MST3K-Of the things from our childhoods that are being brought back, Mystery Science Theater 3000 returning with a sweeping mandate in the form of a record breaking Kickstarter campaign is one that deserves to be revived.

87. Wyatt Cenac’s An Angry Night in November-Cenac’s EP captures lightning in a bottle (it’s his set from his weekly Night Train show) of immediate post-election comedy that is pure, raw, and biting.

88. Justin Sayre’s Gay Agenda-Sayre makes a compilation of his “meetings” as ‘Chairman of the International Order of Sodomites’ that give a hysterical look into the many great, complex layers of LGBTQ life.

89. Ahamed Weinberg-Both as a stand-up and a filmmaker (watch Rasberries), Weinberg is on a path to being another great modern comedy multi-hyphenate.

90. Jon Dore Gets a Bad Backstory-Dore once again shows how to toe the line when entering the darkest territories of comedic material and do so successfully while being utterly absurd.

91. Ron Babcock videos-A dying reel and an ad for his old CRV really showcase the cleverness and ingenuity of comedy’s Ron Babcock.

92. Reggie Watts’ Spatial-Watts’ latest special is his best and most ambitious one yet as it includes his beatboxing, a faux sitcom, tap dancing, and way more.

93. Alex & Jude-Alex Hanpeter and Jude Tedmori have figured out how to give slapstick, physical comedy the proper twist for 2016 audiences, which includes a literal bit of audience participation of making Jude a target.

94. Conner O’Malley-O’Malley takes satirical field pieces to a whole new level as he plays and wholeheartedly commits to dark, fully realized characters inspired by vaping, Alex Jones, and Cubs fans. He interacts with real people at Trump rallies, vape conventions and outside of Wrigley Field and goes along with whatever happens.

95. Doug Stanhope’s No Place Like Home-Stanhope has an amazing take on mental illness in this special and opted to shoot it in his own hometown of Bisbee, AZ. Overall, No Place Like Home ranks high up in Stanhope’s extensive catalog of stand-up.

96. “Tond” by Kelly Hudson-Hudson’s short film is one of our favorite bits of existential absurdity of 2016, a year seemingly saturated in nothing but questioning ‘what it all means’.

97. Brett Gelman's Dinner in America-Gelman's last special on Adult Swim is one to remember, especially for how searing the satirical commentary on race relations are in it.

98. Miguel Marquez-Marquez bridges a gap, almost literally, between art and comedy as his wry art installations are way funnier (intentionally that is) than nearly anything you’d see in an art museum.

99. Chris Fleming's Silver Lining-The week following the election seemed as hopeless can be if you voted for Hillary and Fleming offered up a powerful, albeit one with a bit of tomfoolery, message of hope.

100. Norm MacDonald on Conan-Not only is there the expected long, winding roads of Norm’s jokes and stories in this particular appearance, but Conan does an impression of Norm out of frustration that’s spot on.

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