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Ruth Gillette-Billy Gilbert-Billy Bletcher "Keg´o my heart" 1933, de Billy Gilbert.

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Gloria Grahame and Humphrey Bogart in In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)

Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid, Art Smith, Jeff Donnell, Martha Stewart, Robert Warwick, Morris Ankrum, William Ching, Steven Geray, Hadda Brooks. Screenplay: Andrew Solt, Edmund H. North, based on a story by Dorothy B. Hughes. Cinematography: Burnett Guffey. Art direction: Robert Peterson. Film editing: Viola Lawrence. Music: George Antheil.

The "lonely place" is Hollywood, where Dixon Steele (Humphrey Bogart) is a screenwriter with a barely held-in-check violent streak. This celebrated movie contains one of Bogart's best performances, though it looks and feels like the low-budget production it was. Bogart's own company, Santana, produced it for release through Columbia, instead of Bogart's employer, Warner Bros., which may explain why, apart from Bogart and Gloria Grahame, the supporting cast is so unfamiliar: The best-known face among them is Frank Lovejoy, who plays Bogart's old army buddy, now a police detective. In a Lonely Place seems to be set in a different Hollywood from the one seen in the year's other great noir melodrama, Billy Wilder's Sunset Blvd. There are no movie star cameos and glitzy settings in the Bogart film. What this one has going for it, however, is a haunting, off-beat quality, along with some surprising heat generated between Bogart and Grahame, who plays Laurel Gray, a would-be movie actress with an intriguing, only partly glimpsed past that hints at a sapphic subtext. She has, for example, a rather bullying masseuse (Ruth Gillette), who seems to be a figure out of this past. In fact, the whole film is made up of enigmatic figures, including Steele's closest friends, his agent, Mel Lippman (Art Smith), and an aging alcoholic actor, Charlie Waterman (Robert Warwick). Both of them stick with Steele despite his tendency to fly off the handle: He insults and at one point even slugs the agent, while at another he defends the actor with his fists against an insult. Though the central plot has to do with Steele's being suspected of murdering a hat-check girl (Martha Stewart) he brought to his apartment to tell him the plot of a novel he's supposed to adapt, the film is less a murder mystery than a study of a damaged man and his inability to overcome whatever made him that way. And despite the usual tendency of Hollywood films to end with a resolution by tying up loose ends, In a Lonely Place leaves its characters as tensely enigmatic as they were at the start -- perhaps even more so.

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Fleischer Studios staff from 1930-1931

Vet Anderson, Andy Engman, and Ed Rehberg were formerly Fables/Van Beuren men who later moved to the west coast

Grim Natwick, James “Shamus” Culhane, Bernie Wolf, Al Eugster, & Art Turkisher all ended up going to Ub Iwerks before the other four men moved to other studios (mainly Disney)

William Henning was the inbetweening supervisor before Edith Vernick replaced him

Sam Stimson worked for Bill Nolan’s studio in New Jersey during the silent ages

Al Windley was a Harrison-Gould camera operator

Nick Tafuri, Bill Turner, Joe Stultz, Seymour Kneitel, Isadore Sparber, and Myron Waldman became Famous Studios regulars (with Seymour and Izzy also being supervisors for the studio as well)

H. Ritterband and Louis McCormick were camera operators who later moved to famous studios

Charles Schettler. Vera Coleman, Ruth Fleischer, and Edith Vernick were Inkwell studio veterans

Frank Paiker would later do camerawork for Hanna Barbera

Ted Sears later became a driving force in Disney’s story department

Sadie Friedlander later married and became Sadie Bodin, she got fired from Van Beuren during the time Burt Gillett reigned on the studio

George Cannata and Reuben Timmins (R. Timinsky here) worked in different studios Coast to Coast

Nelly Sanborn was the head of the timing department and later move on to famous studios somewhere into the ink & paint department under the name of Nelly Sanborn-Greene

Ben Shenkman would later become a prolific caricaturist/character designer for cartoons as well as assistant animator & animator

Harvey Eisenberg, Saul Kessler, & Al Geiss later became associated with TerryToons before moving to other studios (Eisenberg becoming a prominent layout artist/character designer for MGM’s Tom & Jerry and Al Geiss was involved with the Screen Gems Studio during the 40’s)

Milt Platkin would change his name to Kin Platt and become a noted story artist/scriptwriter. He’s noted for writing almost all of the Top Cat episodes for Hanna-Barbera

and Mae Schwartz was Dave Fleischer’s secretary

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Events 7.11 (before 1920)

472 – After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius is captured in St. Peter's Basilica and put to death. 813 – Byzantine emperor Michael I, under threat by conspiracies, abdicates in favor of his general Leo the Armenian, and becomes a monk (under the name Athanasius). 911 – Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy. 1174 – Baldwin IV, 13, becomes King of Jerusalem, with Raymond III, Count of Tripoli as regent and William of Tyre as chancellor. 1302 – Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch): A coalition around the Flemish cities defeats the king of France's royal army. 1346 – Charles IV, Count of Luxembourg and King of Bohemia, is elected King of the Romans. 1405 – Ming admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time. 1410 – Ottoman Interregnum: Süleyman Çelebi defeats his brother Musa Çelebi outside the Ottoman capital, Edirne. 1476 – Giuliano della Rovere is appointed bishop of Coutances. 1576 – While exploring the North Atlantic Ocean in an attempt to find the Northwest Passage, Martin Frobisher sights Greenland, mistaking it for the hypothesized (but non-existent) island of "Frisland". 1616 – Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec. 1735 – Mathematical calculations suggest that it is on this day that dwarf planet Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune for the last time before 1979. 1789 – Jacques Necker is dismissed as France's Finance Minister sparking the Storming of the Bastille. 1796 – The United States takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty. 1798 – The United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War. 1801 – French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history. 1804 – A duel occurs in which the Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton. 1833 – Noongar Australian aboriginal warrior Yagan, wanted for the murder of white colonists in Western Australia, is killed. 1836 – The Fly-fisher's Entomology is published by Alfred Ronalds. The book transformed the sport and went to many editions. 1848 – Waterloo railway station in London opens. 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Fort Stevens; Confederate forces attempt to invade Washington, D.C. 1882 – The British Mediterranean Fleet begins the Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt as part of the Anglo-Egyptian War. 1889 – Tijuana, Mexico, is founded. 1893 – The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kōkichi Mikimoto. 1893 – A revolution led by the liberal general and politician José Santos Zelaya takes over state power in Nicaragua. 1897 – Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. 1899 – Fiat founded by Giovanni Agnelli in Turin, Italy. 1906 – Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy. 1914 – Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball. 1914 – The US Navy launches the USS Nevada (BB-36) as its first standard-type battleship. 1919 – The eight-hour day and free Sunday become law for workers in the Netherlands.

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Glenna Pauline Smith 72, of St. Joseph, MO, passed away Friday, May 26, 2023 in a St. Joseph, MO health care center. She was born February 11, 1951 in Rutherford County, NC, daughter of Wilma and Bronner Allen. She graduated from Crest High School, 1969, and attended Bob Jones University in South Carolina. She married Chris Smith on September 10, 1978 in Shelby, NC, and he survives of the home. Glenna worked as a Self Storage Rental Manager. She was a member of the Riverside Baptist Church. Glenna was preceded in death by father, Bronner Allen. Survivors include: husband, Chris Smith of the home, mother, Wilma Allen of Greenville, SC, three children: Bronner (Rebekah) Smith of St. Joseph, MO, Ruth Testerman of Gillette, WY, and David (Chloe) Smith of Pensacola, FL, 13 grandchildren, and two brothers, Phillip (Terri) Allen and Eddie (Kathy) Allen.

The family will receive friends from 6-8:00 PM on Friday at the Rupp Funeral Home. Funeral services and public live stream; 2:00 pm, Saturday, June 3, 2023 at the Riverside Baptist Church, The Interment will be at the Memorial Park Cemetery. Online condolence, obituary and public live stream at www.ruppfuneral.com

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Achievements Mentioned by Taylor during The Man Intro

Under the cut is a list of all the achievements (or other general stuff) Taylor has mentioned at each and every Eras Tour stop as she intro'ed The Man!

you're making me feel like...

GLENDALE N1: I can do anything I wanted and people would think it was cool

GLENDALE N2: I can do anything in the world that I wanted to do right now and people would think it was so cute

VEGAS N1: I'm the first woman to ever headline Allegiant stadium (and mark my words I will not be the last!)

VEGAS N2: I'm the first woman to ever headline Allegiant stadium (but I will not be the last)

ARLINGTON N1: I could do anything I wanted and people would think it was cool

ARLINGTON N2: I could do anything I wanted and people would think it was cool

ARLINGTON N3: I'm the first artist to play three shows in this stadium

TAMPA N1: I'm about to headline three sold out shows in this stadium

TAMPA N2: I could do anything I wanted and people would think it was cool

TAMPA N3: I'm about to headline my third sold out show in a row in this stadium

HOUSTON N1: I get to be the first artist to ever get to play three shows at NRG stadium

HOUSTON N2: I'm the first artist to ever play three shows in this gorgeous stadium

HOUSTON N3: I'm the first artist to ever play three shows in this beautiful stadium

ATLANTA N1: I could do anything I wanted and people would think it was cool

ATLANTA N2: I could do anything I wanted and people would think it was cool

ATLANTA N3: I'm the first artist to ever headline three shows in this gorgeous stadium

NASHVILLE N1: tonight is the highest attended event to ever take place in this Stadium because 70 thousand of you decided to hand out with us at the Eras Tour

NASHVILLE N2: Last night's crowd may have broken the record for the all time highest attended event in this stadium, but you're making me feel like, I just got the news that this crowd tonight, on Saturday, broke that record!

NASHVILLE N3: I'm the first artist who gets to play in this stadium three nights in a row

PHILLY N1: I could do anything I wanted and people might think it was cool

PHILLY N2: I could do anything I wanted and people might think it was cool

PHILLY N3: I'm the first artist to ever play in this stadium three nights in a row

FOXBOROUGH N1: this is my eleventh show at Gillette Stadium

FOXBOROUGH N2: I'm about to play my twelfth show at Gillette Stadium in the pouring rain

FOXBOROUGH N3: right now I'm playing my thirteenth show at Gillette Stadium

EAST RUTH N1: I could do anything I wanted and people would think it was cool

EAST RUTH N2: Maybe I could do anything I wanted and people might think it was cool

EAST RUTH N3: I'm about to play my third consecutive night at MetLife Stadium

CHICAGO N1: I get to play a sold out show tonight at Soldier Field

CHICAGO N2: I get to play a sold out show at Solider Field tonight

CHICAGO N3: I get to play my third sold out show at Soldier Field tonight

DETROIT N1: I get to headline a sold out show at Ford Field tonight

DETROIT N2: I get to play a sold out show tonight at Ford Field

PITTSBURGH N1: I get to play a sold out show for 72 thousand people in this stadium tonight right here

PITTSBURGH N2: I get to be the first artist to ever play two nights in this stadium

MINNEAPOLIS N1: I get to play a sold out show in this stadium on a Friday night in Minneapolis

MINNEAPOLIS N2: I get to play a sold out stadium show in Minneapolis on a Saturday night

CINCINNATI N1: I get to play a sold out show in this beautiful stadium on a Friday night

CINCINNATI N2: I get to play a sold out show to 65 thousand of my friends in Cincinnati, Ohio tonight

KANSAS N1: I get to play a sold out show at Arrow Head stadium on a Friday night

KANSAS N2: I get to play a sold out show at Arrow Head stadium on a Saturday night in Kansas City

DENVER N1: I get to play a show for 73 thousand people tonight in Denver, Colorado

DENVER N2: I get to be the first artists to ever play two nights in this glorious stadium

SEATTLE N1: I get to play a sold out show for 72 thousand people in Seattle, Washington on a Saturday night

SEATTLE N2: I get to be the first artist to ever play in this stadium two nights in a row

SANTA CLARA N1: I get to play a sold out show in the Bay Area on a Friday night

SANTA CLARA N2: I get to play a sold show show in this beautiful stadium here in the Bay Area

LA N1: I get to play a sold out show at So-Fi Stadium tonight for the first time in my life

LA N2: I get to play a sold out show at So-Fi Stadium on a Friday night in LA

LA N3: I get to play a sold out show at So-Fi Stadium tonight

LA N4: I get to play a sold out show at So-Fi Stadium in LA

LA N5: I get to play a sold out show for over 75 thousand people at So-Fi Stadium

LA N6: I get to play my sixth and final show at So-Fi Stadium tonight

MEXICO CITY N1: I get to play my very first show in Mexico City

MEXICO CITY N2: I get to play a sold out stadium show in Mexico City on a Friday night

MEXICO CITY N3: I get to play a sold out stadium show in Mexico City on a Saturday night

MEXICO CITY N4: Because of you I get to be the first female artist to ever play four nights in this beautiful stadium

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Ed Sheeran Announces Intimate Theater Tour Dates

Ed Sheeran has announced a series of intimate theater shows, which will take place amid his upcoming North American stadium tour.

Sheeran is set to kick of his “+ – = ÷ x Tour” beginning next month in Arlington, Texas. In between much larger shows at venues like Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta and Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Sheeran will stage more intimate performances at 14 theaters and auditoriums across the US and Canada. Ben Kweller will provide support for the majority of these dates.

Sheeran is set to release his latest album on May 5th. Amid preparations for his upcoming tour, the UK singer has been in and out of court this week as he battles with Marvin Gaye’s estate over copyright claims that he lifted “Let’s Get It On” for his own song “Thinking Out Loud.”

Ed Sheeran 2023 Tour Dates:

05/06 – Arlington, TX AT&T Stadium 05/13 – Houston, TX NRG Stadium 05/19 – Clearwater, FL Ruth Eckerd Hall 05/20 – Tampa, FL Raymond James Stadium 05/26 – Atlanta, GA Tabernacle 05/27 – Atlanta, GA Mercedes-Benz Stadium 06/02 – Philadelphia, PA The Met 06/03 – Philadelphia, PA Lincoln Financial Field 06/10 – East Rutherford, NJ MetLife Stadium 06/16 – Toronto, ON History 06/17 – Toronto, ON Rogers Centre 06/24 – Landover, MD FedExField 06/29 – Boston, MA Boch Center Wang Theatre 07/01 – Foxborough, MA Gillette Stadium 07/08 – Pittsburgh, PA Acrisure Stadium 07/14 – Royal Oak, MI Royal Oak Music Theatre 07/15 – Detroit, MI Ford Field 07/21 – Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium 07/22 – Nashville, TN Nissan Stadium 07/28 – Chicago, IL Chicago Theatre 07/29 – Chicago, IL Soldier Field 08/05 – Kansas City, MO GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium 08/11 – Minneapolis, MN State Theatre 08/12 – Minneapolis, MN U.S. Bank Stadium 08/18 – Denver, CO Paramount Theatre 08/19 – Denver, CO Empower Field at Mile High 08/25 – Seattle, WA Paramount Theatre 08/26 – Seattle, WA Lumen Field 09/01 – Vancouver, BC Queen Elizabeth Theatre 09/02 – Vancouver, BC BC Place 09/09 – Las Vegas, NV Allegiant Stadium 09/15 – Oakland, CA Fox Theater 09/16 – Santa Clara, CA Levi’s Stadium 09/22 – Los Angeles, CA Shrine Auditorium 09/23 – Inglewood, CA SoFi Stadiu

source: https://consequence.net/

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Defense of Gillette hostile takeover

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Films Watched in 2022:

58. Woman in the Dark (1934) - Dir. Phil Rosen

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in a lonely place |1950|

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Ruth Gillette (Chicago, Illinois, 16/08/1906-Los Angeles, California, 13/05/1994).

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Woman in the Dark (1934) Phil Rosen

March 11th 2020

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Songs Eerie and Uncanny.

Cover is Julius von Klever’s 1887 painting ‘Der Erlkönig’.

The Vampire- Buffy Sainte-Marie

The Erlking- Steve Gillette

The Griesly Bride- Cindy Mangsen

The Haunted Hunter- Rosalie Sorrels

The Demon Lover- Kornog

Willie’s Fatal Visit- The Furrow Collective

Rolling of the Stones- Joe Hickerson

The Eskdale Hare- Ruth & Sadie Price

Jenny Greenteeth- Cloudstreet

Our Mother the Mountain- Townes van Zandt

The Werewolf- Barry Dransfield

Black Fox- Heather Dale

My Lady’s Coach- Steve Tyler & Andy Clarke

The Walker of the Snow- Sean Tyrrell

14 tracks; 54 mins. [Spotify]

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Events 7.11 (after 1900)

1906 – Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy. 1914 – Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball. 1914 – The US Navy launches the USS Nevada (BB-36) as its first standard-type battleship. 1919 – The eight-hour day and free Sunday become law for workers in the Netherlands. 1920 – In the East Prussian plebiscite the local populace decides to remain with Weimar Germany. 1921 – A truce in the Irish War of Independence comes into effect. 1921 – The Red Army captures Mongolia from the White Army and establishes the Mongolian People's Republic. 1921 – Former president of the United States William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person ever to hold both offices. 1922 – The Hollywood Bowl opens. 1934 – Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take-off. 1936 – The Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic. 1940 – World War II: Vichy France regime is formally established. 1943 – Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army within the Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Volhynia) peak. 1943 – World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily: German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily. 1947 – The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France. 1950 – Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank. 1960 – France legislates for the independence of Dahomey (later Benin), Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso) and Niger. 1960 – Congo Crisis: The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 1960 – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published, in the United States. 1962 – First transatlantic satellite television transmission. 1962 – Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth. 1971 – Copper mines in Chile are nationalized. 1972 – The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts. 1973 – Varig Flight 820 crashes near Paris on approach to Orly Airport, killing 123 of the 134 on board. In response, the FAA bans smoking in airplane lavatories. 1977 – Martin Luther King Jr., assassinated in 1968, is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. 1978 – Los Alfaques disaster: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists. 1979 – America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean. 1982 – The Italy National Football Team defeats West Germany at Santiago Bernabéu Stadium to capture the 1982 FIFA World Cup. 1983 – A TAME airline Boeing 737–200 crashes near Cuenca, Ecuador, killing all 119 passengers and crew on board. 1990 – Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec begins. 1991 – Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 crashes in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing all 261 passengers and crew on board. 1995 – Yugoslav Wars: Srebrenica massacre begins; lasts until 22 July. 2006 – Mumbai train bombings: Two hundred nine people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India. 2010 – The Islamist militia group Al-Shabaab carried out multiple suicide bombings in Kampala, Uganda, killing 74 people and injuring 85 others. 2010 – Spain defeat the Netherlands to win the 2010 FIFA World Cup in Johannesburg. 2011 – Ninety-eight containers of explosives self-detonate killing 13 people in Zygi, Cyprus. 2015 – Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán escapes from the maximum security Altiplano prison in Mexico, his second escape. 2021 – Richard Branson becomes the first civilian to be launched into space via his Virgin Galactic spacecraft.

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✨✨ TOP FIVES FOR 2020 ✨✨

2020 was, i think we can all agree, a massively chaotic year but i have never consumed as much media before in my life, so i thought others might benefit from my slothery uh, connoisseur.... ship?  yes, that.  below are the books, comics, shows, and movies that got me through!

B O O K S .

the starless sea, by erin morgenstern - i loooove this book because it loves me back.  it says: ‘oh, you’re a reader, well i have just the thing for you.’  it luxuriates in language and story and riddles and fairy tales and it feels like an entire library in a single tome.

they never learn, by layne fargo - oh fuuuuuck, this was satisfying.  i thought it might feel a little exploitative as it is very aware of the zeitgeist and likely would not exist without the #metoo movement but it never ever did.  this was a fucking ROMP, period.  reading about a woman getting away with murdering skeezy guy after rapey guy after shitty human just made me happier and happier.

moonflower murders, by anthony horowitz - this is the second in the susan ryeland series (and the first was hardcore good fun too) and really feels very classic mystery with the artful twist of catering to the literary community.  mainly because: susan isn’t a detective, she’s an editor and she gets drafted in this time because the clue to what happened to a missing woman is in a book she edited, if she can find it.  both of the books in this series have such an excellent coming together moment that is rare af to find.

the invisible life of addie larue, by v.e. schwab - the writing in this is just so good.  it has that feel to me where i just want to drop the book and open up my own page and let my fingers fly.  it’s that inspiring kind of writing that reminds you of all the things language can do.

crown of feathers/heart of flames, by nicki pau preto - aaahhh, this series is SO FREAKING GOOD!  why is there not more of a fandom for it, why???? it is so many of my favorite tropes all resting perfectly together to the point where you almost forget they’re tropes because they just so naturally evolved there.  ugh, it’s just.... it’s so heart-bursty good.

.... number 5, part 2?  raybearer, by jordan ifueko - this was just so original and i was invested af.  like, what a brilliant idea though and an even better execution??  i loved every character and am so looking forward to the next in the series so i can get to know them even better!!

honorable mentions (sh*t i still liked a whole heckuva lot): you/hidden bodies, by caroline kepnes // writers & lovers, by lily king // i’ll be gone in the dark, by michelle mcnamara // the faceless old woman who secretly lives in your home, by joseph fink & jeffrey cranor // girl, serpent, thorn, by melissa bashardoust // a little life, by hanya yanagihara // the guinevere deception, by kiersten white // obsidio (and the entire illuminae series), by amie kaufman & jay kristoff // the bone houses, by emily lloyd-jones // house of salt and sorrows, by erin a. craig // we hunt the flame, by hafsah faizal // savage legion, by matt wallace // blacktop wasteland, by s.a. cosby // crier’s war, by nina varela // the empress of salt and fortune/when the tiger came down the mountain, by nghi vo // upright women wanted, by sarah gailey // the monster of elendhaven, by jennifer giesbrecht // a deadly education, by naomi novik // you let me in, by camilla bruce // when you ask me where i’m going, by jasmin kaur // the lights go out in lychford/last stand in lychford (and the entire lychford series), by paul cornell // the devil and the dark water, by stuart turton // serpent & dove, by shelby mahurin // one by one, by ruth ware // ruthless gods (this was SUCH an upshot from the first book - it’s worth sticking with if you’re on the fence), by emily a. duncan // cemetery boys, by aiden thomas // the inheritance games, by jennifer lynn barnes // the fortunate ones (2021 release), by ed tarkington

C O M I C S .

cosmoknights, by hannah templer - the art was gorgeous, the gayness was glorious, and just.... hot HOOOOOOOOT lady knights in space?!  a princess winning her own hand?  find something not to love in there, i dare you.

don’t go without me, by rosemary valero-o’connell - wow. wow wow wow wow wow.  the writing was stunning, so lyrical and atmospheric and deep, and rosemary has to be one of my favorite artists but even that managed to come as a beautiful surprise because it was just so freaking bold.

through the woods, by emily carroll - i loooove emily carroll, the convergence of spine-tingling horror and art that feeds into it, that is both visually and aesthetically pleasing, is hard to beat!  p.s. i also read beneath the dead oak tree from her this year and it was also a BANGER.

the impending blindness of billie scott, by zoe thorogood - zoe is someone that i just want to follow.  she’s just starting and i want to be there for every single step.  i love her art style and her ability to tell a story with it.

above the clouds, by melissa pagluica - this was so unique, and such a baller concept, as nearly half the entire book is conveyed only through the art and yet you’re never once lost, never once confused as to what any character is thinking or feeling.  it’s a story within a story and only one of those gets words though they both are chock full of emotion!

um.... number 5, part 2? crowded, by christopher sebela - everything about this series is fun af.  crowd-funded assassination and a hirable bodyguard who’s rated like an uber driver???  and the chemistry between the two mains is so great and gay!!

honorable mentions: monster and the beast, by renji // long exposure, by kam ‘mars’ heyward // fence, by c.s. pacat // invisible kingdom, by g. willow wilson // ms. marvel, by g. willow wilson // heathen, by natasha alterici // not drunk enough, by tess stone // giant days, by john allison // die, by kieron gillen // be prepared, by vera brosgol // ascender (sequel to descender, which is also great), by jeff lemire // the unbeatable squirrel girl, by ryan north // bang! bang! boom!, by melanie schoen // gideon falls, by jeff lemire // life of melody, by mari costa // cry wolf girl, by ariel slamet ries // the tea dragon society, by katie o’neill // ptsd, by guillaume singelin // heartstopper, by alice oseman // solutions and other problems, by allie brosh // finding home, by hari conner // the magic fish, by trung le nguyen // something is killing the children, by james tynion iv // the weight of them, by noelle stevenson // spill zone, by scott westerfeld // skyward, by joe henderson // miles morales, by saladin ahmed

F I L M S.

parasite, dir. bong joon ho - oh it was satisfying, oh it was suspenseful, oh i had to watch some of it through my fingers but i loooooooved it.  such a good story and so well made.

knives out, dir. rian johnson - okay, everything about this movie was amazing.  every single character was fun as hell and i could’ve watched an entire movie about each of them.  what a great fucking mystery!

blindspotting, dir. carlos lopez estrada -  this made my heart hurt so damn much.  what glorious writing, acting, and story!

portrait of a lady on fire, dir. celine sciamma - gooooorgeous cinematography, amazing chemistry, and such a soft, atmospheric film.

the farewell, dir. lulu wang - i cried and my heart felt so full and i love it so so much.

um.... number 5, part 2? someone great, dir. jennifer kaytin robinson - no part of me expected to love a netflix movie this much but it’s a love story that doesn’t get told that often??  the end of a relationship and the true love of friendship and i love these girls and i love jenny and nate’s broken relationship.

honorable mentions: eighth grade, dir. bo burnham // booksmart, dir. olivia wilde // midsommar, dir. ari aster // the curse of la llorona, dir. michael chaves // the secret life of pets 2, dirs. chris renaud & jonathan del val // jojo rabbit, dir. taika waititi // the invisible man, dir. leigh whannell // the favourite, dir. yorgos lanthimos // can you ever forgive me?, dir. marielle heller // troop zero, dirs. bert & bertie // ready or not, dirs. matt bettinelli-olpin & tyler gillett // brave, dirs. mark andrews & brenda chapman & steve purcell // the half of it, dir. alice wu // palm springs, dir. max barbakow // doctor sleep, dir. mike flanaghan // uncut gems, dirs. benny sadfie & josh sadfie // birds of prey, dir. cathy van // bloodshot, dir. dave wilson // the old guard, dir. gina prince-bythewood // enola holmes, dir. harry bradbeer // hocus pocus, dir. kenny ortega // always be my maybe, dir. nahnatchka khan // finding dory, dirs. andrew stanton & angus maclane // die hard, dir. john mctiernan

S H O W S .

black sails (2014) - this show, this shooooooooow.  i cannot, it just makes me want to cry with how good it is.  the characters, the EMOTIONS, the story, the plaaaaaan.  like, the creators clearly had a plan for every single step of this show and it was a gOOD, GOOD PLAN.

the untamed (2019) - truly, cheesy good fun with one of the best gay romances ever.  i love these characters and their relationships to each other and the way it glories in its own ridiculousness.

the righteous gemstones (2019) - one of the things that bothered me about my next choice (the ratio of female to male nudity) was so much more realistic in this one (i mean, we’ve all gotten five thousand dick pics and i know like three people?  so the fact that there is so rarely male nudity in shows when there are tits everywhere..... no, how does that even make a tiny bit of sense?).  this show was such great, wonderful, awful fun.  they’re not great people and the show is under no delusion about that and it’s GLORIOUS!

the witcher (2019) - this was just hella fun, i loved the characters and the fantasy elements.  i’m excited for the next season, it’s just entertaining swashbuckling through and through!

fargo (2014) - all of this was really very enjoyable with the through line being somebody fucks shit up and gets involved in something they really shouldn’t be involved in that’s going to swallow them whole.  season one and season three were my stand-out favorites but they were all so violent, clever, and vicious!

um.... number 5, part 2? central park (2020) - um..... so many of the hamilton actors in a muscial cartoon drawn and written by the bob’s burgers team? WHAT ABOUT THAT DOESN’T SOUND AMAZING?!  it was such a joy to hear daveed diggs and leslie odom jr.’s voices again!!

honorable mentions: schitt’s creek // the mandalorian // mr. robot // broadchurch // mindhunter // jack ryan // the good place // the end of the f***ing world // big little lies // elite // kidding // servant // letterkenny // curb your enthusiasm // i am not okay with this // ozark // buzzfeed unsolved: true crime/supernatural // you // runaways // dear white people // dickinson // brooklyn nine-nine // will & grace // 9-1-1 // dead to me // solar opposites // never have i ever // killing eve // what we do in the shadows // grace and frankie // avenue 5 // roswell, new mexico // the bold type // evil // tuca & bertie // impulse // the umbrella academy // watchmen // infinity train // corporate // search party // on becoming a god in central florida // a.p. bio // criminal: uk // the morning show // mythic quest // last week tonight // prodigal son // the great