#Puritan!Norman

[studebakerhearse]

SAW YOU WATCHED PSYCHO 4 DID YOU HATE IT OR DID YOU H A T E IT

We need to mail anthrax to Mick Garris

[mariacallous]

It’s telling that both Dave Chappelle and Ricky Gervais decided to end 2023 by releasing specials in which their comedy pivots to poking fun at the disabled. Could they be more obvious about finding new ways to punch down than targeting people physically unable to fight back?

In a false promise near the opening of his brand-new special and seventh for Netflix, The Dreamer, Chappelle boasts: “Tonight, I’m doing all handicapped jokes,” because “well, they’re not as organized as the gays, and I love punching down.”

Similarly, Gervais decides to have a bit of fun at how we’ve decided as a society to say “disabled” instead of “handicapped” and what that says about us, and suggests further in his special Armageddon, released on Christmas Day, that he’d mock Make-A-Wish kids if given the chance to make videos for them.

And, of course, both men take yet more cracks at the trans community.

Early in The Dreamer, Chappelle tells the audience trans people make him feel like he has to go along with them pretending, as if they’re method acting like Jim Carrey as Andy Kaufman: “If you came here to this show tonight thinking that I’m gonna make fun of those people again, you’ve come to the wrong show,” only to keep going back on his word.

He says he hoped to “repair” his relationship with the LGTBQ+ community – by writing a play for them in which a black trans woman only identifies as the N-word to trip up liberals. He also jokes that if he went to jail in California, he’d identify as a woman so he could tell the other inmates to “suck my lady dick.”

But it’s all just jokes, right? Can’t we just take a joke? Have we lost our sense of humor? Or have they?

Earlier this month, we lost two pillars not just of the comedy community but of our American community writ, as Norman Lear and Tommy Smothers stood taller than most anyone and everyone else in television, standing up to the establishment and protesting the powers that be for the sake of civil rights and humanity.

Now we’re left with Chappelle and Gervais—two titans in terms of Netflix ratings and paychecks—who are fighting for… the right to utter slurs onstage and tell already marginalized people that their existence is a joke for reasons that are nearly impossible to divine. Especially when there’s so much in the world to talk about right now, that they’ve chosen anti-trans rights as their comedy cause célèbre is dispiriting. As Mae Martin said in their 2023 Netflix special, Sap: “Big multimillionaire comedians in their stand-up specials are, like, taking shots and punching down at a time when trans rights are so tenuous and slipping backwards.”

Lear and Smothers used their clout on TV to speak truth to power about America’s involvement in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, the hypocrisy of religion, racism, abortion, homosexuality and civil rights. While great trans comedians such as River Butcher and Jaye McBride resorted to releasing their stand-up specials straight to YouTube this year, which famous straight comedians can you recall sticking up for the rights of trans people in America?

It feels so frustrating to sit and watch comedians with the stature of Chappelle and Gervais devote so much of their time and energy to bullying the LGBTQ+ community when they could be doing anything else on stage. And then they have the temerity to question us, the audience, for not laughing with them.

For his part, Gervais willingly misdefines and misuses “woke” by suggesting, “if woke now means being a puritanical, authoritarian bully who gets people fired for an honest opinion or even a fact, then no, I’m not woke. Fuck that.” Is Nazism or transphobia an honest opinion that shouldn’t get you fired? He then claims in his closing bit that “all laughter’s good,” a concept that would be news to 2005-era Chappelle when he cut ties with Comedy Central precisely because he could hear racism in the laughs during a taping of Chappelle’s Show.

In his Grammy-nominated lecture to students at his alma mater, Duke Ellington School of the Arts, What’s In A Name?, Chappelle claimed: “The more you say I can’t say something, the more urgent it is for me to say it. It has nothing to do with what you’re saying I can’t say. It has everything to do with my right and my freedom of artistic expression.”

But that’s not comedy, either—much like Gervais’ admission in his special that as a university student, his idea of a joke was calling his mother and pranking her by saying he was hospitalized and potentially blind. Gervais said her mom could’ve had a heart attack, but in his mind, he remembers it now as “they could take a fucking joke, right?”

At least Sam Jay, in her 2023 HBO special Salute Me Or Shoot Me, wrestles with her conscience and moral compass over the use of certain words in her act and concludes that having empathy for others is key. “How do the rest of us get here? I don’t know… I’m not going to pretend that I have the answers,” Jay says, adding: “So we’re doing things like we’re policing words, but we’re not policing behavior.”

Anthony Jeselnik, who has built his comedy career on brandishing himself as an offensive caricature of a comedian, told fellow comedian and podcaster Theo Von earlier this year that too many stand-ups would rather get into trouble by saying the wrong thing instead of focusing on their job and saying funny things.

“People think — oh, as a comic your job is to get in trouble. But they don’t want to get yelled at. It’s like, it’s OK to make people mad, but they don’t want any push back. And I think that’s wrong,” Jeselnik said. “As a comedian, you want to make people laugh. This is a quote attributed to Andy Warhol that I love: ‘Art is getting away with it.’ You know, if you put out a special and everyone’s pissed, like, you didn’t get away with it. You know. You need to make everyone laugh that they’re like, ‘Yeah, he talked about some fucked up stuff, but we’re all happy.’ That’s art. Otherwise, you’re just a troll.”

Kliph Nesteroff, a comedy historian whose newest book is Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars, similarly told me last month that some while comedians see themselves sometimes as “philosophers” he believes they are “betraying their job description because you’re supposed to make people laugh, and philosophers are supposed to philosophize.”

Comedians may claim they can’t joke about anything anymore, but they joke about more now than ever before. The real problem with stand-up today is that too many comedians would rather kick people when they’re down, then lecture us on how we’re too sensitive for not laughing about it.

When Chappelle, Gervais or their acolytes have to incessantly explain that their jokes are just jokes, then they cease to be great comedians—or even comedians at all.

[fist-of-vengeance]

i know there's a slasher fandom equivalent of the disney princess pink void, where they treat all horror characters like they're existing in the same universe, and im not normally super into it or anything

but im so shocked that i've never seen a crossover where norman bates meets carrie white. BECAUSE THEY WOULD HAVE SO MUCH TO TALK ABOUT

they were both raised by abusive puritan mothers who taught them to be ashamed about sexuality

they're both awkward social outcasts desperate for connection

and they both killed their moms

idk i think they would get along and maybe be friends :)

[conflictofthemind]

Let's talk about the insane Paranorman (Norman/Agatha) x Stranger Things (Will/Henry) Parallels

"Once upon a time, long ago, there was a little girl. A - a little girl who was different... Who was different from the other people in her village. She could see and - and do things that no one could understand. And that made them scared of her! She turned away from everyone and became sad and lonely, and had no one to turn to. The more she turned away from people, the more scared they were of her. And they did something terrible! They became so scared that they took her away, and they killed her! And even - and even though she was dead, something in her came back. And this part of her, wouldn't go away even after three hundred years! And the longer it stayed, the less there was of the little girl."

Will and Norman are both associated with zombies. For Norman, this is his obsession with zombies in pop-culture and old horror flicks (also similar to Will's own nerdy interests). For Will, this connection is quite literal as he came back from the dead. They're also both called Freaks. In both medias this is heavily associated with the characters' perceived queerness and their persecution, including the metaphor of their stories, is about homophobic oppression.

Norman and Will develop a psychic connection with the 'villain', who is able to send them into trances where they see visions, and eventually even whisper in their ears when the connection becomes stronger.

The 'villain' part is in quotes because, while they both occupy the role of the antagonist within their stories, the line is not so cut and dry. We learn that both Agatha and Henry were young kids (11 and 12 respectively), who started showing signs of magical powers, which led their conformist societies to be afraid of them.

The Puritan courts sentence Agatha to death on charges of witchcraft, where she curses the seven jurors to die and never find rest. Henry's story proves more complicated.... but you can see the parallel. Paranorman is in a way the kids movie version of the Henry/Will plot in Stranger Things.

Paranorman ends with Norman confronting Witch!Agatha at her grave, where he is able to pull through to the little girl that still exists inside of her and wants to be laid to rest.

It had been tradition up until this point that the people with the 'gift' to see the dead would read her a bedtime story to make her go away for another year, her soul still unrested and in agony. Norman's decision to try and talk to her himself is what broke this 300-year cycle, allowing her to pass on peacefully and saving the town from yearly destruction.

...I think we will see something similar in Season 5 of Stranger Things. I don't think that's too much of an unpopular or an undiscussed opinion at this point in time, so I won't push it too much further. Look up other people's posts on the topic; I'm sure they could articulate much better.

But the specific parallels between these two pieces of media are so stark that I wonder if this was another piece of inspiration and evidence we can add to the pile. Especially with the text: society oppresses people with powers for being different // subtext: society oppresses queer people theme they share in common, and the amount of 80s horror references that exist within Paranorman.

[whisperingrockandroll]

The "Prenderghastly" AU was originally created by Zakeno (I believe?) and is something I've loved a lot ever since I found it. The idea is pretty simple, but really cool: Aggie and Norman swap roles, with major people in their lives also switching as appropriate. Norman is a Puritan kid from the 1700s, Aggie is a modern kid. It's a really cool character study to show you how differently the two handle the same situations.

I've made a little archive of all the stuff Zakeno did for it, which you can download here! It'll get you up to speed on the basic concepts and stuff in it, so if you see me do stuff with it on this blog again, you won't feel lost or confused!

also, made a dumb lil comic based on the "guys this is Miranda" meme just cuz :P

[the-woman-upstairs]

Rewatched Paranorman for spooky season and it really struck me how Aggie was never put in the position of forgiving her killers. The puritans aren’t absolved by anyone and simply fade away once Aggie finds her peace. And I think that’s an important aspect of this movie for kids about how dangerous fear and mob mentality are to anyone deemed an outsider (the way the film specifically zeroes in on mental health and how neurodivergent people are targeted is a whole other discussion).

Like, I feel like these kinds of stories wind up espousing the morality of taking the high ground or “turning the other cheek” and while Norman talks to Aggie about the dangers of unleashing justified anger and rage, she doesn’t have to forgive her killers to find peace. What they did, as Norman puts it, was unforgivable. And I think it’s good for kids and younger people to absorb this message.

We can debate on the merits of fighting fire with fire (which tbh probably isn’t going to be something any kid’s movie fully endorses), but no one is obligated to forgive those who hurt them, even if they’re repentant in some way. Norman accepts his family in the end, because well, they eventually come around and either stand up for him or make attempts to understand him. But if things got worse, the movie makes clear he wouldn’t be under any obligation to forgive them or retain any kind of working relationship. And this is proven by how Aggie doesn’t find peace in forgiving her killers but by remembering a mother who loved her, who we might assume was kept from her up until Aggie was killed (I have a pet theory that she’s the one who buried Aggie under that tree since it’s referred to as special place for them).

In a world where we’re constantly fed stories of the “power of forgiveness” it’s excellent to have one that isn’t interested in preaching something not only Christian-centric, but can be actively damaging to people who feel forced to forgive their tormentors. Much better to teach people to have firm boundaries and cultivate respectful relationships instead.

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[artmialma]

NORMAN LINDSAY (1879-1969) "Bacchanal"

Norman Lindsay remains one of the most prolific, critiqued, and collected artists of the fin de siècle in Australia.

Although he originally created his works through pen and ink, fellow artist Blamire Young introduced him to the romantic and spontaneous qualities of watercolour. The medium allowed him to further develop his appetite for the mythical and magical.

His creativity reached new heights when, during the late 1890s, Ernest Moffitt introduced him to the Greek poets and the art of Pre-Raphaelite painter, Frederick Sandys. Suddenly, Lindsay was inspired with a new form of self-expression discovered.

He traded Christianity and Puritan values prescribed by his mother, for Nietzsche, philosophy and Bacchanalia. He led, from then, a fairly bohemian life.

[grandhotelabyss]

Could you please expand on Anglo-Zionism, for those who’ve not read Milton deeply?

I don't actually know what Land is talking about; I was half-guessing, half-quipping. But I imagine it goes something like this. Many of the radical Protestant sects around the time of the English Revolution had a "judiazing" tendency, whether because they were millenarians and expected "the conversion of the Jews" as a prelude to Armageddon or because they were trying to purify the faith of Catholic ornament and therefore rooted themselves more strongly in the Hebrew Bible. Cromwell re-admitted the Jews to England in the 1650s (after their banishment in 1290). The Puritans who founded America—archetypal "Exiters" in Land's political vocabulary—saw themselves as typologically recapitulating and fulfilling the escape from captivity, the wandering in the wilderness, and the nation-building of the ancient Hebrews. Milton demotes both Greco-Roman epic and Anglo-Norman romance below Biblical subject matter early in Paradise Lost, with an implicit puritan rebuke to the likes of Chaucer and Spenser, even as he finds biblical precedent in his revolutionary polemics for dispatching the king. In short, English puritanism, one source of the libertarianism Land extols, had a philo-Semitic strain as part of its hatred of "Rome," a sense of affinity between English and Jewish people's history and destiny. Meanwhile, neoreaction's vision of breakaway polities in a global "patchwork" of sovereignties resembles Zionism, since Zionism's opposite, "diaspora," tends to imply not small discrete countries but some kind of empire (again, "Rome") with easy border crossings and no ethnic or religious requirements for citizenship. Now that the present political polarization requires a defense of Zionism from Land's side, if for no other reason than to own the libs, this is a convenient theoretical backing. But I'm not a historian, or even an historian, so I could possibly be off the track. Someone should ask him!

[kyliaquilor]

I really need people on Tumblr to realize that the English Civil Wars were not some principled opposition to the concept of monarchy and tyranny by noble rebels against the King.

The Parliamentary cause was led by a narrow band of increasingly unpopular fanatics, zealots and military men. They broke settled English law numerous times, including executing people by simple vote - not a trial, not an examination of fact, just ‘we, a tiny body elected by a portion of the landowning population have decided you’re guilty of treason even though we have no evidence’.

And sure, revolutionaries break laws, but the Parliamentary cause was entirely rooted in the idea that Charles I’s efforts to tax without parliamentary approval violated standing English Law. They rooted their entire cause in respect for the rule of jaw and judicial process (i.e. opposition to the fact that the King too was locking people up without trial, just because he could, etc). But they didn’t do that.

The Irish Rebels were not some uniformly nationalist ‘kick out England’ effort either, because between the religious elements and the fact that Royalist Irishmen and Old English (i.e. descended from Anglo-Norman Settlers) were also dominant groups among the Irish rebellion and the fact that they were perfectly happy to slaughter innocent civilians... well yeah, not good guys.

The Scottish rebels weren’t much better as again, they weren’t really moving for some sort of grand sense of Scottish Nationalism most of the time, nor for religious independence and freedom, because while nominally the Covenanters and later movements were fighting for the independence of the Presbyterian Scottish Church from the Anglican one, they were also very, very content to impose their specific version of Presbyterianism onto the rest of Great Britain. 

Cromwell, while he actually wasn’t the diehard, humorless, “outlaw everything” Puritan that everyone else cast him as (while a devout Puritan, he came to power through the New Model Army, which was a staunchly Independent (i.e. they wanted to let local congregations decided their own form, as long as it as Protestant) organization by then, and it was the fanatical Puritans in Parliament who kept banning Christmas, et cetera. And, while his actions in Ireland and elsewhere have been grossly exaggerated, he did do some bad shit during the wars.

And none of this is to say Charles I was that good either. Because he wasn’t He was a stubborn, inflexible, autocratic guy who started a war - multiple wars - because he couldn’t even give a single inch to anyone ever - and during Personal Rule he abused the legal limits of the King’s power to the breaking point. 

The English Civil Wars were not a story of good guys and bad guys, or democracy vs monarchy.

If you want to idolize a revolution that replaced a King with something approaching genuine Democracy as a self-consciously republican effort (republican as in representative democracy) you should be looking to the French Revolution of 1792 (famously successful) or the French Revolution of 1848 (which actually worked pretty well for itself at first). 

The overthrow of Charles I is not something we should be holding up as some great cause we should be harkening to, no matter how much you don’t like the people in power.

[longwindedbore]

Today’s reminder that JUNETEENTH is both a celebration of the last day of the abomination of illegitimately legalized slavery in the US AND a Memorial Day for the 360,000 of the multi-ethnic US military who gave their lives so that slavery would be abolished.

Juneteenth is the ONLY National commemoration of either that Emancipation or that profound Sacrifice.

The deliberate historical belittling of that Emancipation as well as European decesdants’ amnesia of that Sacrifice demonstrates that the rotten cancer of Bigotry still stains our country’s spirit long after the first Juneteenth.

The whitewash of bigotry has acted to suppress the history of bigotry through a pattern of mislabeling and misdirection.

====Supporting Argument====

(OK, more of a rant. But that’s because belief in the lies below form d the bedrock of my ideology as a Conservative. Only because I have an attraction to and memory for odd bits of history did I begin to notice that a lot of lies didn’t make sense at n larger contexts)

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American bigotry was honed in Europe over millennia as succeeding waves of invaders (Franks, Anglos, Saxons, Norse/Normans) from the eastern lands colonized Western Europe ‘clearing the land’ and oppressing & marginalizing the surviving inhabitants.

This pattern was transplanted by European colonizers to other Continents - initially by English, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Danes 1600s to 1800s. Then by the Germans, Belgians, and Italians in the 19th and 20th Centuries.

Consider how you USA history classes largely ignored the history of the 134 years between the First Thanksgiving in 1621 and French and Indian War (No. 3) in 1755.

In that 134 year time period ‘British English-speaking people’ were forged out of Dutch, British, and French colonies through local wars, through spillovers from European wars, by German refugees from the Christian vs Christian (from 2.5 to 8 million estimated dead). The lands of the eastern seaboard ‘cleared’ of Indigenous peoples and legalized forced labor ‘force’ imported from Europe and Africa.

Our history texts and media performances create an false whitewashed of the history we do acknowledge with accurate milestone dates but misdirected explanations. Our cultural History…

‘Celebrates’ the First Thanksgiving when the Puritan invaders are saved from starvation by the Pequot Indians. But ‘forgets’ the slaughter of the Pequot by the Puritans a few years later.

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‘Celebrates’ the Boston Tea Party of 1773 ostensibly by common people rioting because of a beverage tax on a drink favored by the Rich. But ‘have wiped from the records’ the more probable explanation of how the wealthy colonials were terrified because their slave-based economy was threaten when a legal case in 1772 ended slavery in England. The case emancipated all black people INCLUDING those temporarily brought over by visiting colonials (without compensating the colonials for the loss of their property!!!). Also, we ignore the Intolerable Act of preventing colonizing Indigenous lands west of the Appalachians.

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‘Commemorates’ those who died at the Alamo but ‘forgets’ that the TYRANNY threatened by Santa Ana’s Mexican army was the abolition of illegal slavery introduced into the Mexican territory of Texas by white illegal ‘wetbacks’ who crossed the Mississippi.

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‘Commemorates’ all the 620,000 Dead of the Civil War as if they died over some undefined principal or matter of regional honor rather than the issue of slavery that is explicitly spelled out in the documents of secession issued by each of the 11 States of the Confederacy.

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The 11 States of the former Confederacy still maintain that the Civil War was the ‘War of Northern Aggression’. Of course forgetting that most of the Confederate dead died on battlefields in the Border States. States which the Confederacy tried to capture to expand slavery. No battles were fought in the South until Sherman’s March to the Sea a few months before war ended.

(Yea, yea, Fort Sumpter, 1861. However, Major Anderson had already informed the Confederacy of his intention to honorably abandon the fort and March north. The Confederacy attacked because their leadership wanted a surrender.)

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The 11 States of the former Confederacy still maintain that they were impoverished by the Damn Yankees. IGNORING that slave owners were compensated for the loss of their property. Look for other causes for 150 years of poverty - in red counties but not in blue.

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Our Cultural mindset continues to ignore the armed resistance in the 11 States and Border States to the Secession and the Confederacy’s military draft.

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Inspired to ‘Die for the Lie’.

Many of those who volunteered and sacrificed for the Confederate cause were undoubtedly motivated by ideals separate from maintaining slavery.

So many so that, perhaps, the Confederacy might not have survived any length of time without Fort Sumter as it’s “Remember the Main” or “Zimmerman Telegram” or “Gulf of Tonkin Incident”.

Lies and Exaggerations used to incited other generations to unite for mass slaughter.

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TRUTH vs. LITERARY LICENSE…..HOW ISRAEL BISSELL WAS CHEATED

TRUTH vs. LITERARY LICENSE…..HOW ISRAEL BISSELL WAS CHEATED - https://keywestlou.com/truth-vs-literary-license-how-israel-bissell-was-cheated/HAPPY NEW YEAR! On the first day of 2023, I print the truth. An historical correction. Listen, my children, / And you shall hear / Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. The distinguished American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow made Paul Revere famous when he penned the above opening lines to his famous poem. One problem, however. It was not Paul Revere who was the hero in 1775 at the time the first shots were fired at Lexington which marked the beginning of the Revolution. It was Israel Bissell. Historians suspect that Longfellow took a bit of literary license. Bissell did not rhyme as well as Revere. Paul Revere did make a ride that day. Several men did. Historians conclude Revere only rode somewhere between 1.5 and 20 miles shouting..... To arms, to arms, the British are coming. Israel Bissell rode 345 miles. The trip took 4 days and 6 hours. He rode from Watertown, Massachusetts to Philadelphia. The trip was over the Old Post Road. Longfellow apparently took further literary license with the actual words Bissell shouted.....To arms, to arms, the war has begun. Again for rhyming purposes. Bissell carried with him a message from the colonists' General Joseph Palmer. The message told of the Lexington attack and what the colonists should do to prepare for the British invasion. The message also stated that its bearer, Israel Bissell, was charged with alarming the citizenry. He was to be given fresh horses along the way as needed. Bissell rode two horses to their deaths on the four day trip. His first horse died 2.5 hours into the trip at Worcester. A second died further along the way. Every community Bissell passed through rang Church bells and fired muskets. Many colonists supported a war with the British and were happy to know it had begun. In the 1950s, two columnists writing for the Berkshire Eagle wrote poems finally giving Bissell credit for the ride. Gerard Chapman and Clay Perry. Chapman's poem was appropriately titled Israel Bissell's Ride. Certain lines read as follows. Listen, my children, and you shall hear / Of Israel Bissell's yesteryear: / A port less patriot whose fame , I fear, / Was eclipsed by that of Paul Revere..... Perry's poem was titled I. Bissell's Ride. Certain lines from the poem read as follows. Listen, my children, to my epistle / Of the long, long ride of Israel Bissell, / Who outrode Paul by miles and time / But didn't make a poet's rhyme... Two questions arose over the years having to do with Bissell. The first is whether he actually made it to Philadelphia. Documents from the time indicate an Issac Bissell who only rode to Hartford. He stayed in Hartford. He did not continue the ride. He was a less than an honorable man. He billed the new United States government for a six day stay in Hartford. Historian Lion G. Miles came up with the story. He found his information in only one source. The Massachusetts Archives. All other historians and documents disagree with Miles. Issac was not Israel. The other issue that arose was whether Israel Bissell was of the Jewish faith. I was amazed at how much time and effort was spent to arrive at a definitive conclusion. Israel Bissell was not Jewish. A few historians believe that Bissell's ancestry was of a Norman French / Swiss source. The majority however concluded that Bissell was part of the Byshelle family who in 1639 left Birmingham, England. The family was part of a Puritan group. All Bissell's were determined to have been descended from the Byshelles. I suspect Bissell's first name Israel is what caused the inquiries. Historians discussing the Bissell issue pointed out that most children born in the colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries were given Biblical names. So goes the story of Israel Bissell. A man almost forgotten not by history, but by poetry. Early last night, I was seated in my wing back watching television. I fell asleep. It was seven o'clock. Never even had dinner. I woke at 11:57. The lord was with me. Timely for New Years Eve. I watched New Years come in on TV. Great shows! Did not fall asleep till 3. A screwed up night. Up again this morning at 6:30. Before this day is out, I'm going to feel like I was out partying all night! New Years Eve in Key West 1976. The New Year celebration was marked by violence. Police and merry makers clashed. Fire hoses and tear gas were used to disperse the crowd. One hundred fourteen arrested, eight injured. On this day in 1997, former President Jimmy Carter and family welcomed the New Year at The Little White House. I recall a few years later, Howard Livingston told me about two other New Years Eves and President Carter. Howard lived on Summerland Key. He shared that Carter and his wife spent the holiday a few doors down at a friend's home on Howard's street. There's something in the Keys that modern day Presidents have found appealing. One hundred three years later, the Casa Marina still stands. In all its glory! The Casa Marina Hotel opened this day in 1921. It would remain open till April 1. The larger hotels were not kept open all year back then. Only during "the season." Syracuse beat Boston College in basketball yesterday afternoon 79-65. Syracuse played better than it has been. Still not where it should be. The team is now into the ACC season. Syracuse will have to improve as it plays its way into its schedule. Syracuse is now 9-5 overall and 2-1 in its ACC ranking. Enjoy your day!  

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Marketing Out of Your Point-of-Sale System (Part 2)

Marketing Out of Your Point-of-Sale System (Part 2)

ATLANTA — When it comes to getting customers in the door, dry cleaners have two options: find new customers and retain existing ones. While much attention is paid to bringing new faces across the front counter, keeping loyal customers can be less expensive and more profitable. During the 2022 Clean Show in Atlanta, Norman Way, vice president of Richmond, Virginia-based Puritan Cleaners, spoke…

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MWW Artwork of the Day (7/1/22) Norman Lindsay (Australian, 1879-1969) The Woman I Am - The Woman I Was - The Woman I Will Be (1914) Oil on canvas, 199 x 119.5 cm. Private Collection

Australian illustrator and novelist Norman Lindsay was born in Creswick, Victoria, in 1879. His father was a physician, but Norman and his brothers had a streak of artistic and literary talent in them (which Norman passed on to his son, the writer Jack Lindsay). At 16 years of age Norman got a job as an illustrator on a Melbourne newspaper, and in 1901 he became the chief cartoonist on the "Sydney Bulletin". Lindsay has worked in virtually all mediums of art--watercolors, lithographs, pen-and-ink drawings, etchings, engravings, even sculpturing in cement. He became Australia's best-known illustrator, and it wasn't long before he branched out into writing, in which he also met with great success. Many of his novels were on the "rowdy" side -- a reaction to the somewhat oppressive and puritanical aspects of Australian life at the time -- full of men drinking, "wenching" and getting in all sorts of trouble, and readers really took to them. His work was not only popular in Australia (where much of it was censored) but also in America (where none of it was censored).  He died in Sydney in 1969, age 90.

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Slashers I’d Survive Because I’m Built Different

This was just sitting in Docs so here it is. TW for being vaguely nsfw at some points.

Chucky- I would be consumed with rage upon seeing him, simply being reminded of all the annoying toddlers throwing tantrums in stores, screaming in quiet areas, and just annoying me. I’d go feral and kick him into the sun, punting that motherfucker like a football.

Pennywise- I’m not afraid of clowns, a Capricorn, and a mean bisexual. I’m a triple threat. He’d go back to the sewer crying.

Billy Lenz- spray him with lysol and then push him out of the attic, killing him instantly.

Michael- I do not care about him, I’d ignore him until he goes away.

Jason- *gives him a neat rock*

The Firefly Fam- I can easily match their energy and end up getting adopted by them. Also I’d make Baby fall in love with me.

Brahms- Put that mf in timeout and just fucking leave .

Jigsaw- Gaslight him

Amanda- Date her

Vincent Sinclair- I’m an art hoe and art history nerd, along with being hot and funny. I’d compliment his art and ask about his inspirations. He’d fall in love with me instantly.

Norman Bates- He’s into taxidermy, I collect bones. We’d just become hobby buddies. I’d become his, “excuse me, he asked for no pickles,” person.

The Sawyer family- I’d simply not go to rural Texas

Chromeskull- I did the math and I’m exactly at dicksucking height.

Freddy- I am not afraid of him, he runs like he shit himself and laughs at his own jokes. I’d destroy him.

Jennifer Check- I’d literally just let her do what she’s doing, love to see a #girlboss winning

Carrie White- I’d literally die for her. I’d beat up all her bullies and let her move in with me. We’d go to therapy together.

Ghost face (billy and stu)- I’d answer all their trivia questions correctly. Legally, they can’t do anything about it.

Leslie Vernon- We’re both adhd bitches with horror hyperfixations. We’d go off about Puritan moral codes and phallic/yonic symbolism in film so much he’d forget he was supposed to kill me.

Herbert West- He’s STEM and I’m liberal arts, we would not interact. I also refuse to be nerfed by some mf named Herbert.

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Diarmuid for the ask game ❤️

Diarmuid! My guy

Favorite thing about them: How curious he is, and how willing he is to push back at what he doesn’t think is right. He is ready and willing to argue with the abbot about the riders, is intimidated by but still talks back to Raymond in the forest, and frequently is at odds with Geraldus over—everything, really.

Least favorite thing about them: More about his situation than about him specifically, but he’s also young and grew up in a monastery, so he’s also not used to being able to voice his opinions except in certain circumstances, so he won’t argue further if he’s up against, say, Geraldus, who is browbeating him. At the start of the movie Ciarán chides him and so he doesn’t say anything more to the abbot. And it’s not until the very, very end of the movie that he really learns to really outright defy Geraldus. I think the scene at the Norman camp with Ciarán shows that he does get the chance to ask questions and voice his opinions but Ciarán is treating him as an equal and there’s no arguing there—I think that’s what he’s not used to, an outright argument, and so when faced with opposition, i.e., Geraldus shouting in his face, he swallows his anger.

Where was I going with this? My least favorite thing about Diarmuid is that we didn’t get the chance to see him full on enraged. Let him scream.

Favorite line: Got to be right at the start, when he’s talking to the Mute about animals, souls, and razor clams. It really perfectly sets up his personality and is also what pulled me into the movie. I think in historical films characters tend to be portrayed as very one or the other in regard to their beliefs. Either they’re sort of a tyrannical Puritan type (and a villain), or they’re given this modern and anachronistic viewpoint to try and make them more “relatable” to the audience. But people have been the same since forever. That Diarmuid, a young man and a novice who obviously believes in God but is questioning some of the things that he’s learned—well, why wouldn’t he? He’s curious.

Anyway Pilgrimage (2017) best depiction of characters in a historical setting that I’ve seen

brOTP: I do love Dad/Mentor Ciarán and Diarmuid but I think Diarmuid and Rua must be a duo that got into some shenanigans.

OTP: Diarmuid x the Mute!

nOTP: Again, not a nOTP exactly, but Diarmuid x Raymond for a seriously messed up relationship.

Random headcanon: Hm. Well, I do tend to think of him as having been raised at the monastery since he was a baby, which would’ve been unusual. Not sure if that’s random enough, though. Maybe that I tend to think of him as having a wanderlust, but that since he’s also never left the monastery, he’s aware that he’s not really prepared for the outside world, and that angers and frustrates him.  

Unpopular opinion: Oh there’s so much anger in this novice. There’s rage simmering in his very bones. I think post-movie Diarmuid is able to tap into that.

Song I associate with them: This was very tough. I think King by The Amazing Devil.

Favorite picture of them:

I don't think we ever see this particular shot in the movie, but we get a nice look at his whole outfit here.