The average public library is not only a provider of the latest Anne Enright or Julia Donaldson: it is now an informal citizens advice bureau, a business development centre, a community centre and a mental health provider. It is an unofficial Sure Start centre, a homelessness shelter, a literacy and foreign language-learning centre, a calm space where tutors can help struggling kids, an asylum support provider, a citizenship and driving theory test centre, and a place to sit still all day and stare at the wall, if that is what you need to do, without anyone expecting you to buy anything.
[...] The trouble comes when libraries – and the underpaid, overstretched people who work in them – start to become sole providers for all these things: when years of cost-cutting mean that the state has effectively reneged on all but the most unavoidable of its responsibilities to the troubled, the poor, the educationally challenged, the lonely, the physically unwell, the lost or the homeless. “We risk becoming a social care safety net,” said Nick Poole, the outgoing CEO of the library association Cilip, and “our staff are not clinical staff”.
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Empire of the Sun / Changes from Michael Maxxis on Vimeo.
Cast:
Cruz Steele
Luke Steele
Nicholas Littlemore
Hopper Jack Penn
Nuchanart ‘NUCH’ Chareonsontichai
Director: Michael Maxxis
Producer/2nd Unit DP: Morgan Gold
Production Company: Flos Flor
Production Company Thailand: Deluxe
Line Producer: Sudkamol ‘GOB’ Tangtham
1st AD: Pacharaporn ’NOI’ Hitanant
Director of Photography: Chaiyapruek ‘BANK’ Chalermpornpanit
Art Director: Premsak ‘ART’ Ketsrinarong
Make-up Artist: Ashley Joy Beck
Hair Stylist/2nd Unit Makeup Artist: Quinn Enright
Costume Designer: Supachai ‘ARM’ Bunnag
Additional Costume Design: Kate Tabor
Locations Manager: Suwatcharee ‘MAY’ Prateep Na Thalang
Editor: Dave De Carlo
Assistant Editor: Brigitte Haynes
Editing Facility: Rooster Post Production
Colorist: Jordan Benegbi
Color Facility: The Vanity
VFX Supervisor: Jeremy Hunt for Screaming Death Monkey
VFX Artist: Aujik
VFX Artist: Kyle Tiernan
Sound Design and Mix: Dan Newman
Additional Score by Nick Shadel
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❔ I’m sure I’ve definitely sent this before lmao but again
multimuse ask meme || send❔and i’ll list a couple muses that i’d like to throw at yours! // @divienity
i'm gonna try to work out something organized here but lol. starting with the usual suspects lets go with:
ELENA MICHAELS: with any and all wotow muses bc yes ; elijah mikaelson ; kitty norville ; cormac & amelia ; warren smith ; my big bad wolf oc bc lmao
SAVANNAH LEVINE: with any and all wotow muse ; but also tori enright bc witch/sorcerer bbies should stick together ; cormac & amelia
TEEN WOLF MUSES: literally all of them with all of mine lol but for some combinations lets go with
MALIA TATE: warren smith (he's from a series where the main character is a coyote shifter) ; jeremy danvers ( ready to adopt her )
SCOTT MCCALL: jeremy danvers (again, adoption) ; nick sorrentino ; noah albright ; literally all combos are great
RUBY LUCAS: listen,,,, my big bad wolf oc. because it would be funny.
PHOEBE & PIPER HALLIWELL: it's been a hot min since i consumed any charmed but.... them meeting paige winterbourne or lucas cortez. also amelia parker. or lets just throw elijah mikaelson at them.
CRIMINAL MINDS MUSES: it's also been a hot min since i watched any CM ( a decade??? ) so i'm not going to pick specific ones out; but the idea of them having to deal with supernatural creatures makes me laugh. maybe some case involving nick sorrentino; or even jeremy because the idea of jeremy being forced to socialize with lots of stranger humans and also not look suspicious makes me laugh. not him. just me.
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Shelf-Confidence Book Photo Challenge
November 30 2020 – Reader’s Choice
Blackrock is a play that was on my literature syllabus in highschool, and in my final year I chose it as an additional text for an assessment which required a compare/contrast essay with a text we studied in class. I believe I paired it with Othello.
Blackrock is inspired by real events, about a young girl who is raped and killed, but focuses on the community response to these actions, rather than the graphic event itself. Yet it is more about why and how this happens in general, rather than about this specific case.
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“Not the Boy Next Door” is the fifteenth song and the act I finale of the 2003 jukebox musical The Boy From Oz. This show featured music and lyrics by Peter Allen and a book by Nick Enright with edits for Broadway done by Martin Sherman. It was nominated for five Tony Awards, including best musical, and won one. This song is performed by Beth Fowler (A Little Night Music) as Marion Woolnough, and by Hugh Jackman, who won the show’s only Tony for his role as Peter Allen.
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Deleted scene - 4 of ?
14 INT. THE COTTAGE (KITCHEN) -- DAY
Chuck comes down for lunch. Gloria and Meg are at the table. Mother is at the stove cooking canned ravioli.
MOTHER: So the long and short of it is I haven’t got a date.
GLORIA: Barry must be seeing a new bimbo.
MOTHER: Oh probably, course he’d never tell me. I’m the Platonic girlfriend.
GLORIA: Morning Charles. How’s the studying going?
CHUCK: Fine.
GLORIA: Tres bien. Qu’est-ce que tu etudies aujourd’hui?
Chuck looks over blankly.
GLORIA (CONT.): Lis-tu Virgil deja?
CHUCK: Spanish isn’t on the exam.
Mother and Gloria have a chuckle, Meg tries to suppress a grin.
MOTHER: Oh, Charles.
Mother serves the ravioli. Chuck looks glum.
MEG: What about Mr. Patton, Mother? Wouldn’t he take you to the party?
GLORIA: Megan! He’s practically bald!
MOTHER: Oh, I don’t mind a bare spot. As long as they don’t try to hide it with a ridiculous flop of hair...
CHUCK (to Gloria): Like your sometime boyfriend.
GLORIA: Don’t be ridiculous, slime.
CHUCK: It’s true. His hair’s retreating so fast you can see the Neanderthal ski slope on his forehead.
Mother and Meg giggle. But Gloria is the master of the putdown.
GLORIA: Charles, having you criticize someone else’s intelligence is like sending a retard to Harvard. That’s an analogy. Do you know what an analogy is Charles? I’ll give you a hint: It’s not Spanish.
Mother and Meg laugh. Chuck wants to come back with a witticism but all that comes out is:
CHUCK: Shut the fuck up.
MOTHER: Charles!
GLORIA: Aren’t we witty today?
CHUCK: I said shut up.
MOTHER: Charles be quiet... Everyone just think happy thoughts.
ON: Chuck munching his food, sullenly.
15. INT BEDROOM -- NIGHT
Chuck snaps awake in his bed. Gets up and runs over to Gloria’s bedroom. He shakes her awake and yells:
CHUCK: Analogy! Gloria is to sisterhood what the Boston Strangler is to brotherhood!
He leaves her startled and heads back to bed.
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This deleted scene (well, two deleted scenes, technically) was transcribed from an early draft of The Man Without a Face (1993) (screenplay by Malcolm MacRury, based on the book by Isabelle Holland).
It would have occurred directly after the scene where Chuck is reading a comic in bed with his cat and his Mother calls him down to lunch and before an alternate version of the scene where Charles is told by his Mother to stop letting the cat in the house.
The actors involved would have been Nick Stahl, Margaret Whitton, Faye Masterson, and Gaby Hoffmann.
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Books Read in March:
1). Stealing the Show: How Women Are Revolutionizing Television (Joy Press)
2). Actress (Anne Enright)
3). Reading in the Dark (Seamus Deane)
4). The Argonauts (Maggie Nelson)
5). Blueberries (Ellena Savage)
6). State of the Union (Nick Hornby)
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2020 Reading Challenge Report
I really liked it last year when I made a spread in my journal with my best of books for 2019. So here’s my best of for 2020.
I was WAY surprised that all my favorite books this year were non-fiction. That doesn't mean I didn’t read any good fiction this year, I definitely did. But the truly outstanding, five star books were all non-fiction. This is super weird for me because I never used to read non-fiction unless it was for school. But last year I made a deal with myself that I should have a non-fiction book as at least one of my books-in-progress at all times. I continued that rule this year and wow have I read some great stuff as a result.
Metrics:
Total books read in 2020: 87
If you remove all the books I read with kids, that’s 64. If you remove the books I read with kids and also graphic novels (which—despite being books, goddamn it—admittedly take a lot less time to read), I read 45 books this year. I refuse to remove the audiobooks because that’s hella insulting. Audiobooks are books.
One thing I noticed this year is that before I counted, I was under the impression that I had read a lot of books by Black authors this year, but I hadn't. In fact, it was far fewer than last year. I think part of what was internally confusing was that because two of my books were Caste and The Warmth of Other Suns, both substantial (in the thinking sense and the length sense), at any given time this year, I was reading at least one book by a Black author. So that skewed my thinking. Still, fewer than 10% Black authors is a poor metric.
Another thing I noticed was that cancelled plans for 10 months also means cancelled car trips (yay!) and cancelled audiobook listenings (boo!) So that cut into my total a bit, not listening to books as much with the kids. But I'm looking forward to lots more reading in the new year! Including finishing a bunch of books the kids and I are reading for school and tons of stuff for work. Because I like to have things going on every burner, there are 10 books in progress at the moment, about half of them for school.
In case you might be interested, here’s my list, favorites in bold:
Non-Fiction (23)
Figuring, Maria Popova
Know My Name, Chanel Miller
*The Fire Never Goes Out, Noelle Stevenson
With Purpose and Principle, Edward Frost
Caste, Isabel Wilkerson
The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson
Widening the Circle of Concern, COIC, UUA
Brief Histories of Everyday Objects, Andy Warner
Breaking and Blessing, Sean Parker Dennison
This Book is Anti-Racist, Tiffany Jewell & Aurelia Durand
The Library Book, Susan Orlean
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, Jenn Shapland
Furious Hours, Casey Cep
Scrappy Little Nobody, Anna Kendrick
I'll Be Gone in the Dark, Michelle McNamara
Catch and Kill, Ronan Farrow
*Laika, Nick Abadzis
*First Year Out: A Transition Story, Sabrina Symington
* Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir, Maggie Thrash
*Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans, Don Brown
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, Patrick Radden Keefe
*A Quick and Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities, Mady G., J.R. Zuckerberg
*Wait, What?: A Comic Book Guide to Relationships, Bodies, and Growing Up, Heather Corinna, Isabella Rotman
Fiction (40)
*Heartstopper, vol 1&2, Alice Oseman
When the Tripods Came, John Christopher
Empty World, John Christopher
You Should See Me in a Crown, Leah Johnson
The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue
Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh
Girl, Woman, Other, Bernadine Evaristo
*This One Summer, Mariko Tamaki
*Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me, Mariko Tamaki, Rosemary Valero-O'Connell
To Night Owl, From Dogfish, Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer
* Almost American Girl, Robin Ha
Upright Women Wanted, Sarah Gailey
When We Were Magic, Sarah Gailey
Magic for Liars, Sarah Gailey
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Suzanne Collins
The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows, Olivia Waite
The Dreamers, Karen Thompson Walker
The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Less, Andrew Sean Greer
*Drama, Raina Telgemeier
The Glass Hotel, Emily St. John Mandel
Severance, Ling Ma
Once, Morris Gleitzman
Then, Morris Gleitzman
Reflections in a Golden Eye, Carson McCullers
The Future of Another Timeline, Annalee Newitz
Royal Rebel, Jenny Frame
*Sidekicks, Dan Santat
The Book of Dust, Philip Pullman
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Kate DiCamillo
*Snapdragon, Kat Leyh
Catfishing on Catnet, Naomi Kritzer
*Princess Princess Ever After, Katie O'Neill
*The Prince and the Dressmaker, Jen Wang
*All Summer Long, Hope Larson
Children of Virtue and Vengence, Tomi Adeyemi
On the Edge of Gone, Corinne Duyvis
*Kiss Number 8, Colleen A.F. Venable, Ellen T. Crenshaw
*Queen of the Sea, Dylan Meconis
Read With the Kids (23)
Sentence Island, Michael Clay Thompson (NF)
*Hereville: How Minka Got Her Sword, Barry Deutsch
Hatchet, Gary Paulson
The Dreamer, Pam Muñoz Ryan, Peter Sis
Before Columbus, Charles Mann (NF)
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, Kwame Mbalia
In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse, Joseph M. Marshall III
It's a Feudal, Feudal World, Stephen Shapiro and Ross Kinnaird (NF)
Pedro's Journal, Pam Conrad
A Long Way from Chicago, Richard Peck
Sees Behind Trees, Michael Dorris
The Shakespeare Stealer, Gary Blackwood
The Giver, Lois Lowry (reread for me)
The Saturdays, Elizabeth Enright (reread)
Timmy Failure: Mistakes were Made, Stephan Pastis
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth, E.L. Konigsburg
Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Louis Sachar
Wayside School is Falling Down, Louis Sachar
A Little History of Philosophy, Nigel Warburton (NF)
The Parker Inheritance, Varian Johnson
How to Think Like a Cat, Stephanie Garnier (NF)
Book Scavenger, Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
The Third Mushroom, Jennifer L. Holm
*=graphic novel
I read 87 books this year, by 80 authors
Authors of color = 14
Black authors = 7
Women or non-cis-gender men authors = 53
Graphic novels = 22
Non-fiction = 28
Queer characters = 28
Audiobooks = 26
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2020-21 Bemidji State University Beavers Roster
Wingers
#2 Austin Jouppi (Duluth, Minnesota)
#6 Sam Solenskí (Michalovce, Slovakia)
#9 Ethan Somoza (Simi Valley, California) C
#13 Carter Jones (Spokane, Washington)
#14 Alex Ierullo (Vaughn, Ontario)
#16 Aaron Miller (Superior, Wisconsin)
#20 Lukas Sillinger (Regina, Saskatchewan)
#23 Aaron Meyers (Thief River Falls, Minnesota)
#25 Alex Adams (Grand Rapids, Minnesota)
#26 Nick Cardelli (Wood Dale, Illinois)
#27 Tyler Kirkup (Virden, Manitoba)
Centers
#11 Eric Martin (Calgary, Alberta)
#12 Owen Sillinger (Regina, Saskatchewan) A
#17 Ross Armour (Trail, British Columbia)
#19 Brad Belisle (Thunder Bay, Ontario)
#21 Brendan Harris (Henderson, Nevada)
Defensemen
#3 Jack Powell (Alexandria, Minnesota)
#4 Will Zmolek (Rochester, Minnesota)
#5 Nick Leitner (Bemidji, Minnesota)
#7 Kyle Looft (Mankato, Minnesota)
#8 Darby Gula (Steinbach, Manitoba)
#15 Tyler Jubenvill (Gilbert Plains, Manitoba)
#18 Brad Johnson (Chesterfield, Missouri) A
#22 Tyler Vold (Andover, Minnesota) A
#28 Elias Rosén (Mora, Sweden)
Goalies
#1 Gavin Enright (Farmington, Minnesota)
#33 Zach Driscoll (Apple Valley, Minnesota)
#35 Mike Carr (Columbus, Ohio)
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Performers Light Up Stages' Exuberant 'The Boy from Oz'
Performers Light Up Stages’ Exuberant ‘The Boy from Oz’
By Lynn Venhaus
Managing Editor
Although Peter Allen did not get a Hollywood ending, his remarkable true-life story of how he skyrocketed to fame through sheer talent, drive and his ebullient personality deserves a splashy musical as good as Stages St. Louis production.
“The Boy from Oz” is the kind of glitzy material that the company has excelled at for 33 seasons, their intimate stage a…
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𝑪𝑯𝑨𝑹𝑨𝑪𝑻𝑬𝑹 𝑺𝑯𝑬𝑬𝑻
repost, don’t reblog !
𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐬 !
FULL NAME. Jason David Nadir
NICKNAME. Jase (Rarely)
GENDER. Male
HEIGHT. 178cm/5′10″
AGE. 23
ZODIAC. Taurus
SPOKEN LANGUAGES. English. And programming languages, which aren’t really spoken, I guess.
𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 !
HAIR COLOR. Black
EYE COLOR. Light brown
SKIN TONE. Nerd-that-doesn’t-get-out-enough white
BODY TYPE. No muscle, terrible lifestyle, only maintaining a low weight by lucking out in the genetics department
ACCENT. Upper-class Californian tones.
VOICE. Tenor
DOMINANT HAND. Right
POSTURE. Looking down at a device more often than not, constantly fidgeting with something.
SCARS. A series of little nicks here and there, a few burn marks on his forearms from not following safe soldering guidelines..
TATTOOS. None
BIRTHMARKS. None
MOST NOTICEABLE FEATURE(S). A asshole-y tendency to wear sunglasses everywhere.
𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝 !
PLACE OF BIRTH. Los Angeles
HOMETOWN. San Francisco
BIRTH WEIGHT. 3.5kg
BIRTH HEIGHT. 49cm
MANNER OF BIRTH. Natural
FIRST WORDS. ‘Want’
SIBLINGS. None
PARENTS. Maria Enright and David Nadir
PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT. Minimal at best, contentious at worst.
𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 !
OCCUPATION. Senior Research Officer at MECH
CURRENT RESIDENCE. Effectively the basement of one of MECH’s larger bases, though he also technically has an apartment in the city.
CLOSE FRIENDS. Mainly online.
RELATIONSHIP STATUS. Single
FINANCIAL STATUS. Comfortably afloat.
DRIVER’S LICENSE. He has several of varying levels of legitimacy.
CRIMINAL RECORD. Not officially. Or at least, not under his real name.
VICES. Pride, greed, sugar, caffeine.
𝐬𝐞𝐱 & 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 !
SEXUAL ORIENTATION. Pansexual
ROMANTIC ORIENTATION. Panromantic (though he hasn’t thought about it that much)
PREFERRED EMOTIONAL ROLE. He’d prefer to have a nice, healthy egalitarian role, just so long as he doesn’t have to confront his issues or communicate anything difficult.
PREFERRED SEXUAL ROLE. Switch
LIBIDO. Yes.
TURN ON’S. Intelligence, confidence, patience with his bullshit. Ability to destroy his enemies is a good plus.
TURN OFF’S. Hair-trigger tempers.
LOVE LANGUAGE. Gifts and requests for cuddles.
RELATIONSHIP TENDENCIES. Three different ‘it’s complicated’ situations at once.
𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐨𝐮𝐬 !
CHARACTER’S THEME SONG. I Want It All by Zachary Kibbee
HOBBIES TO PASS TIME. Reddit, taking things apart to ‘improve’ them.
MENTAL ILLNESSES. None that he’s been officially diagnosed with.
PHYSICAL ILLNESSES. Nothing that can’t be explained by a lack of proper nutrition, physical activity, and sunlight.
LEFT OR RIGHT BRAINED. Left. But he’s the type of person to pull out articles arguing that the left/right thing isn’t real.
PHOBIAS. Being trapped. The size of the space doesn’t matter, he’d freak out just as much if he was trapped in a stadium as he would if he were trapped in a lift.
SELF CONFIDENCE LEVEL. A lot of bluster over thinly concealed doubts. Only thing he’s genuinely assured about is his programming abilities.
VULNERABILITIES. You want the list alphabetically or in order of severity? His own hubris is probably his biggest one, but he’s so starved for affirmation that he could be swayed a little too easily by pretty words.
TAGGED BY: @goddess-mothra ((eee thank))
TAGGING: I’ve lost track of who has and hasn’t done this, so if you haven’t, do it!
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Subjectivity
Subjectivity is the idea that one is always subject 'of' or 'to' something, that as the individual we are not autonomous but are, in actuality, subject to the forces of our own subconscious and the workings of our environment. Nick Enright's play, A Property of the Clan (1992), explores the concept of the individual as a subject of internalised societal repressions of women and to the external forces of cultural norms. As a practitioner of theatre, representation of subjectivity often becomes lost as self analysis is left by the wayside however, the bridging of personal identity and the theory that "to be subject is to be 'placed…under' "(Mansfield 2000, p.3) in Enright's play urges me to turn the critical eye on myself and my craft.
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“When I Get My Name In Lights - Reprise” is the third song in the 2003 jukebox musical, The Boy From Oz. This show featured music and lyrics by Peter Allen
and a book by Nick Enright with edits for Broadway done by Martin Sherman. It was nominated for five Tony Awards, including best musical, and won one. This song is performed by Hugh Jackman, who won the show’s only Tony for his role as Peter Allen.
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