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yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere · 2 years

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Representation matters!-in YA novels/books

-i am, obviously, not able to type ALL here, but the ones i know and love dearly+the ones I think are most important for the readers♥- I WILL KEEP UPDATING THIS WHEN NEEDED♥) +obvi not in any important-order!!

-BUT FIRST BOOKS THAT HELP FIGHT RACISM/EDUCATE/INFORM ABOUT BLACK LIVES:

-White Fragility: Why it’s so hard for white people to talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo

-Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

-The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

-The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

-The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison

(thank you for this list Dakota Johnson!)

-The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

-Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama

-Becoming by Michelle Obama

-BOOKS EDUCATING ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE/CRISIS list:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/139102124?shelf=climate-crisis

-BOOKS EDUCATING ABOUT AIDS/HIV list:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/139102124?shelf=about-aids-hiv

1. BISEXUAL-BI-REPRESENTATION (as a bi person myself I still think this should be represented more in media everywhere)

-bi boys: Isaac Sullivan (The Devouring Gray + The Deck Of Omens (duology), Jesper Fahey (Six of Crows, Grishaverse), Ness Arroyo / Eduardo Iron (Infinity Cycle Series-Infinity Son + Infinity Reaper + Infinity Kings), Rufus Emeterio (They Both Die At The End), Nathan Allan (I Wish You All The Best), Magnus Bane (The Mortal Instruments/The Shadowhunter Chronicles), Nick Nelson (Heartstopper), Alex Claremont-Diaz (Red, White & Royal Blue), Kit Fairfield (The Pairing), Winter Young(Stars and Smoke & Icon and Inferno), Jonah Collins & Dylan Ramirez (They Hate Each Other), Ash Ashton Taylor (The Law of Inertia), Will Tavares (Only Mostly Devastated), Enrique “Quique” Luna (This Is Why They Hate Us), Adam Parrish (The Raven Cycle Series), Will Solace (Percy Jackson Series), Andy Fleming (We Could Be So Good), Seth (Coffee Boy), Ridley Everlasting (Verona Comics), Mason Kane (The Dark We Know),

-bi girls: Violet Saunders (The Devouring Gray + The Deck Of Omens (duology), Nina Zenik (Six of Crows, Grishaverse), Maribelle Lucero (Infinity Cycle Series- Infinity Son + Infinity Reaper + Infinity Kings), Vivi Duarte(TheCruelPrince-The Folk Of The Air), Imogen Scott (Imogen, Obviously), Cleo Ferrara (The Girl Next Door), Nora Holleran (Red, White & Royal Blue), Lara (Only Mostly Devastated), Jules Lu (The Charm Offensive), Lea Li Zhang (How to Find a Missing Girl), Sutton Spencer (Those Who Wait), Dayana (London on My Mind), August Landry (One Last Stop), Chloe Green (I Kissed Shara Wheeler), Isa Isadora Chang (The Dark We Know),

-bi nonbinary: Theo Flowerday(The Pairing),

BOOKS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT BISEXUAL HISTORY & ACTIVISM: https://www.tumblr.com/ruimtetijd/686000390089621504/list-of-books-about-bi-history-and-activism-from

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/139102124?shelf=bi-bisexual-characters-done-well

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q--nIkJu0OS0BgiyZmdKVwOVg1G90SFzWijNDWFTt58/edit#heading=h.wqkaxpi7o5je

1b. ASEXUAL REPRESENTATION

Ling Chang (The Diviners Series), Tolya Yul-Bataar (Grishaverse-ShadowAndBone), Tori Spring (Heartstopper), Isaac Henderson (Heartstopper), Raphael Santiago (The Mortal Instruments/The Shadowhunter Chronicles),

1c. PANSEXUAL-PAN-REPRESENTATION

Parisa (The Charm Offensive), Iris Blackthorn (How to Find a Missing Girl), Diana (London on My Mind),

2. GAY/ LESBIAN REPRESENTATION

-gay: Wylan Van Eck (Six Of Crows, Grishaverse), Henry DuBois IV (The Diviners Series), Griffin Griff Jennings(History Is All You Left Me), Brendan and Winston (Shatter Me Series), Prince Henry- Henry George Edward James Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor of Wales(Red White&Royal Blue), Amir Azadi(How It All Blew Up), Charlie Spring (Heartstopper), Orion Pagan(The First To Die At The End), Valentino Prince (The First To Die At The End), Clark Huckleton(If I See You Again Tomorrow), Beau Dupont (If I See You Again Tomorrow), Baz Pitch-Tyrannus Basilton Grimm-Pitch (Simon Snow Trilogy), Reynolds ^ Bartholomew Brimsley (Queen Charlotte), James (The Law of Inertia), Ollie-Oliver (Only Mostly Devastated), Ronan Lynch (The Raven Cycle Series), Nico di Angelo (Percy Jackson Series), Emil Rey (Infinity Cycle Series- Infinity Son+ Infinity Reaper as for now), Nick Russo (We Could Be So Good), Mark Bailey (You Should Be So Lucky), Eddie O’Leary (You Should Be So Lucky), Kaleb (Louder Than Words), Kieran (Coffee Boy), Benjy (I Kissed Shara Wheeler), Rory Heron (I Kissed Shara Wheeler), Wes & Isaiah (One Last Stop), Simon Spier ( Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda), Alec Lightwood (The Mortal Instruments/The Shadowhunter Chronicles),

-lesbian: Arriane Alter (Fallen Series), Ling Chang (The Diviners Series), Tamar Kir-Bataar (Grishaverse-ShadowAndBone), Nadia Zhabin (Grishaverse-ShadowAndBone), Darcy Olsson (Heartstopper), Tara Jones (Heartstopper), Charlotte Thompson (Those Who Wait), Jane Su (One Last Stop), Georgia (I Kissed Shara Wheeler), Morgan Matthews (Some Girls Do),

2b. Non-Binary Representation

-Ben Benjamin De Backer (I Wish You All The Best)

-Theo Flowerday (The Pairing)

-Wyatt Fowler (The Feeling Of Falling In Love)

-Gem Echols (Godly Heathens)

-Jude Ricci(Okay, Cupid)

-Ash (I Kissed Shara Wheeler)

+please go read “Gender Euphoria“ by Laura Kate Dale

3. TRANSGENDER PEOPLE REPRESENTATION

- Wyatt Croft (The Witch King)

- Felix Love (Felix Ever After)

- Neil Kearney (The Feeling Of Falling In Love)

- Noah Byrd (The Borrow A Boyfriend Club)

-Enzo Truly (Godly Heathens)

-Gem Echols (Godly Heathens)

-Yadriel (Cemetery Boys)

-Huy Trinh(Okay, Cupid)

-Peter Darling/ Peter Pan (Peter Darling)

-Kieran (Coffee Boy)

-Niko (One Last Stop)

-Aaron (Some Girls Do)

-Otto Vandersteen (The Dark We Know)

-Valentina Castillo (Shatter Me Series)

+please go read “Gender Euphoria“ by Laura Kate Dale

4. ASTHMA REPRESENTATION

- Arthur Penhaligon (The Keys To The Kingdom Series)

4a. DISABLED CHARACTERS REPRESENTATION (AUTISM/OCD/MORE..)

Kaz Brekker & Jesper Fahey & Wylan Van Eck (Grishaverse-Six Of Crows), Genya Safin & David Kostyk(Grishaverse-Shadow And Bone), Ling Chang (The Diviners Series), Harper Carlisle (The Devouring Gray,The Deck Of Omens), Griffin (History Is All You Left Me) (OCD),

-! PLEASE READ Chloe Hayden-Different, Not Less-A Neurodivergent’s Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After (especially for Autism/ADHD)

also for AUTISM : Jessie (Something More by Jackie Khalilieh), Harriet Manners (Geek Girl),

4b. EPILEPSY in Literature(Thank you for the list The Cameron Boyce Foundation)

-100 Sideways Miles by Andrew Smith

-The Idiot by Dostoevsky

-The Gentlemen’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

-Dings by Lance Fogan

-What the Wind Can Tell You by Sarah Marie A.Jette

-Mustaches for Maddie by Chad Morris and Shelly Brown

-When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

-How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets by Garth Stein

-The Thing With Feathers by McCall Hoyle

- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

5. DIABETES REPRESENTATION

- Cassie Salazar (Purple Hearts)

6. ADHD REPRESENTATION

- Jesper Fahey (Six Of Crows, Grishaverse)

- Percy Jackson (Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series)

- Alex Claremont-Diaz (Red, White & Royal Blue)

- Theo Flowerday (The Pairing)

- Anne Shirley (Anne Of Green Gables Series)

-! PLEASE READ Chloe Hayden-Different, Not Less-A Neurodivergent’s Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After (especially for Autism/ADHD)

+ How to ADHD: An Insider's Guide to Working with Your Brain-Jessica McCabe

7. DYSLEXIA/ DYSGRAPHIA REPRESENTATION

- Wylan Van Eck (Six Of Crows, Grishaverse)

- Percy Jackson (Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series)

- Rory Heron (I Kissed Shara Wheeler),

8. BLACK PEOPLE AS THE LEAD REPRESENTATION

-The Hate U Give- Angie Thomas

-Pride- Ibi Zoboi

-Beau Dupont (If I See You Again Tomorrow)

-Jesper Fahey(Grishaverse-Six Of Crows)

-Memphis Campbell(The Diviners Series)

-Jordyn Jones (Louder Than Words)

-Smith Parker (I Kissed Shara Wheeler)

8b. LATINX MAIN CHARACTERS-REPRESENTATION

Jude & Taryn Duarte (The Folk Of The Air Series starting with The Cruel Prince),

Alex Claremont-Diaz & June Claremont-Diaz (Red, White & Royal Blue),

Lila Reyes ( A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow ),

Infinity Son-Infinity Cycle Series, (many!)

This Is Why They Hate Us,

The First to Die at the End,

Rufus Emeterio (They Both Die At The End),

Cemetery Boys

9. THE PROTAGONIST WEARING GLASSES REPRESENTATION

-David Kostyk (Shadow And Bone/Grishaverse)

-Emma Morley (One Day)

-Lewis Barnavelt (Lewis Barnavelt Series)

-Harry Potter (Harry Potter Series)

-Mateo Torrez (They Both Die At The End)

-Elle Argent (Heartstopper)

-Dev Deshpande (The Charm Offensive)

-Mark Bailey (You Should Be So Lucky)

-August Landry (One Last Stop),

-Alex Claremont-Diaz (Red, White & Royal Blue),

10. MUSLIM REPRESENTATION

-A Very Large Expanse Of Sea/AVLEOS-Tahereh Mafi

-An Emotion Of Great Delight/AEOGD-Tahereh Mafi

-All My Rage-Sabaa Tahir

-An Ember In The Ashes Series-Sabaa Tahir

-How It All Blew Up-Arvin Ahmadi

-Other Words for Home-Jasmine Warga

-My Heart and Other Black Holes-Jasmine Warga

11. NARCISSISTIC/ABUSIVE PARENT REPRESENTATION

-Aaron Warner (Shatter Me Series)

-Adam Kent (Shatter Me Series)

-Wylan Van Eck (Six Of Crows, Grishaverse)

-Ness Arroyo / Eduardo Iron (Infinity Cycle Series-Infinity Son + Infinity Reaper + Infinity Kings)

-Evie O’Neill (The Diviners Series)

-Henry DuBois IV (The Diviners Series),

-Maxon Schreave (The Selection Series)

-Cardan Greenbriar (The Folk Of The Air Series)

-Jude Duarte (The Folk Of The Air Series)

-Sydney Sage (VA-Bloodlines)

-Adrian Ivashkov (Va-Bloodlines)

-Prince Kamran of Ardunia (This Woven Kingdom Series)

-James & Lydia Beaufort (Maxton Hall Trilogy, Save Me Series)

-Winter Young(Stars and Smoke & Icon and Inferno),

-Ridley Everlasting (Verona Comics),

+The Thief Lord-Cornelia Funke

+The Dark We Know-Wen-yi Lee

12. VEGAN REPRESENTATION

-Luce Lucinda Price (Fallen Series)

-Emil Rey (Infinity Cycle Series- Infinity Son+ Infinity Reaper + Infinity Kings)

-Bea (The Law of Inertia),

13. JEWISH PEOPLE REPRESENTATION

-Sam Lloyd/Sergei Lubovitch (The Diviners Series)

-Mabel Rose (The Diviners Series)

-Nora Holleran (Red, White & Royal Blue),

-Just One Day-Year-Night series by Gayle Forman

14. ASIAN PEOPLE REPRESENTATION

-Only a Monster by Vanessa Len

-The Diviners Series-Libba Bray

-James (The Law of Inertia),

-Kira-Kira-Cynthia Kadohata

-Memoirs of a Geisha-Arthur Golden

-The Dark We Know-Wen-yi Lee

15. LOSS/ GRIEF REPRESENTATION

-The Devouring Gray Duology-Christine Lynn Herman

-History Is All You Left Me + Infinity Cycle Series-Adam Silvera

-An Emotion of Great Delight-Tahereh Mafi

-The Diviners Series-Libba Bray

-Grishaverse-Leigh Bardugo

-Red, White & Royal Blue- Casey McQuiston

-The Pairing- Casey McQuiston

-The Shadow Of The Wind- C R Zafón

-They Both Die At The End + The First To Die At The End-Adam Silvera

-This Woven Kingdom Series- Tahereh Mafi

-One Day-David Nicholls

-Artemis Fowl Series-Eoin Colfer

-Airman-Eoin Colfer

-Fallen Series-Lauren Kate

-Anne Of Green Gables Series- Lucy M Montgomery

-Stars and Smoke & Icon and Inferno-Marie Lu

-London on My Mind-Clara Alves

-You Should Be So Lucky-Cat Sebastian

-Kira-Kira-Cynthia Kadohata

-As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow-Zoulfa Katouh

-The Dark We Know-Wen-yi Lee

15b. BAD MENTAL HEALTH/ DEPRESSION/ SUICIDAL THOUGHTS/SELF-HARM

-Shatter Me Series- Tahereh Mafi

-The Diviners Series-Libba Bray

-History Is All You Left Me-Adam Silvera

-They Both Die At The End + The First To Die At The End-Adam Silvera

-Infinity Son (and the rest of the Infinity Cycle Series)- Adam Silvera

-Grishaverse-Leigh Bardugo

-Red, White & Royal Blue- Casey McQuiston

-One Day- David Nicholls

-The Devouring Gray Duology-Christine Lynn Herman

-Vampire Academy & Bloodlines Series-Richelle Mead

-Unforgiven-Lauren Kate(From Fallen Series) WHOLE Fallen Series actually!

-An Emotion of Great Delight-Tahereh Mafi

-My Heart and Other Black Holes-Jasmine Warga

-The Law of Inertia-Sophie Gonzales

-Verona Comics-Jennifer Dugan

-Anne Of Green Gables Series-L M Montgomery

-Anna Karenina-Leo Tolstoy

-The Dark We Know-Wen-yi Lee

16. WRITERS/AUTHORS REPRESENTATION

-Anne Shirley (Anne Of Green Gables Series)

-Daniel Sempere (The Shadow Of The Wind-The Cemetery Of Forgotten Books Series)

-Julian Carax (The Shadow Of The Wind)

-Emma Morley (One Day)

-David Martin (The Angel’s Game-The Cemetery Of Forgotten Books Series)

-Memphis Campbell (The Diviners Series)

-Orion Pagan (The First To Die At The End)

-Prince Henry- Henry George Edward James Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor of Wales(Red White&Royal Blue)

17. FRIENDSHIP/ FOUND-FAMILY REPRESENTATION

-Shatter Me Series- Tahereh Mafi

-The Diviners Series-Libba Bray

-The Folk Of The Air Series-Holly Black

-Infinity Son (and the rest of the Infinity Cycle Series)- Adam Silvera

-GRISHAVERSE-Leigh Bardugo

-Artemis Fowl Series-Eoin Colfer

-Airman-Eoin Colfer

-Red, White & Royal Blue- Casey McQuiston

-The Devouring Gray Duology-Christine Lynn Herman

-Vampire Academy & Bloodlines Series-Richelle Mead

-Fallen Series- Lauren Kate

-The Thief Lord-Cornelia Funke

-The Keys To The Kingdom Series-Garth Nix

-The Supernaturalist-Eoin Colfer

-One Last Stop- Casey McQuiston

-I Kissed Shara Wheeler- Casey McQuiston

-I Wish You All The Best-Mason Deaver

-Anne Of Green Gables Series- Lucy M Montgomery

-The Outsiders- S. E. Hinton

-Just One Day & Year & Night-Gayle Forman

-The Midnight Palace- C. R. Zafón

-The Dark We Know-Wen-yi Lee

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toldyaimaslut759110101698901kk · 10 months

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affectionately-frankie · 10 months

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I did more surface level research on Francis Henderson Sr's family. I did some basics back in March, which you can see here. Something else that is important for later information is the research into the possible descendants of Francis Henderson Jr, which you can find here. With new evidence that's popped up, I think it's even more likely that Francis Henderson Jr possibly had a child.

To start, as far as I'm aware, there seems to only be evidence of four children by Francis Sr and his second wife, Elizabeth. William Hoggan Henderson (1816 - 1897), Elizabeth Hoggan Henderson (d. 1828 aged nine), Janet Henderson Carruthers (1822 - 1856), and Robert James Henderson (c. 1826 - c. 1914).

William married a woman named Mary (1817 - 1906). The couple only had one child, Anna, born 1849 and died 1855 at the age of six.

Janet obviously married due to her surname, but I couldn't find any information regarding her marriage, or if she had any children. It's likely that the marriage was short-lived and childless, as she died at 34 and was buried with her parents.

Robert has the most sources out of all of his siblings (including Francis Jr). Robert married a woman named Haley Russel Salisbury. Apparently, she was born in France. They had at least three children, a daughter named Mary Phillips Henderson, born c. 1862, and another daughter born in 1865 probably named Isabel Henderson. They had another son, William H Henderson, born c. 1869.

I couldn't find any later sources for Mary or Isabel (but to be completely honest, I didn't look too hard), but I found one for William. He married a woman named either named Bertha or Elizabeth and had four children. Mary, born c. 1892, William, born c. 1895, George, born c. 1900, and....Mahala, born 1906.

Now, if you read the research I did on the supposed descendants of Francis Jr, you probably had the same reaction I did, of "Hmm??? Mahala???" While I initially wrote it off as a wild coincidence, when I went back to all of my previous research on Mahala (who, for the uninitiated, was allegedly the only surviving grandchild of Francis Jr), it actually lines up shockingly well. Mahala, her husband Coleman, and their children all moved to Rhode Island sometime between 1898 and 1900. I even pointed out in my post that the fact Mahala and her family decided to go to Rhode Island, where their supposed great-grandfather's family lived, was interesting. And Mahala isn't exactly a common name, even in this time period.

I don't know. It seems pretty likely to me that Mahala got into contact with her maybe-cousins and decided to go live with them. It's obviously just speculation; it could just be a wild coincidence.

I haven't done any further research because I was just eager to share after being gone for apparently eight months.

#Francis Henderson #francis henderson jr #francis henderson sr #historical john laurens #john laurens #frances laurens #frances eleanor laurens #laurens family

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driftwork · 1 year

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names, mostly surnames (1)

let me apologise for this partial list of names in the library, titles available on request...

, Adorno, horkheimer, anderson, aristotle, greta adorno, marcuse, agamben, acampora and acampora, althussar, lajac kovacic, eric alliez, marc auge, attali, francis bacon (16th c), aries, aries and bejin, alain badiou, beckett, hallward, barnes, bachelard, bahktin, volshinov, baudrillard, barthes, john beattie, medvedev, henri bergson, Jacques Bidet, berkman, zybmunt bauman, burgin, baugh, sam butler, ulrich beck, andrew benjamin and peter osbourne, walter benjamin, ernest bloch, blanchot, bruzins, bonnet, karin bojs, bourdieu, j.d. bernal, goldsmith, benveniste, braidotti, brecht, burch, victor serge, andre breton, judith butler, malcolm bull, stanley cohen, john berger, etienne balibar, david bohm, gans blumenberg, martin buber, christopher caudwell, micel callon, albert camus, agnes callard, castoridis, claudio celis bueno, carchedi and roberts, Marisol de la cadena, mario blaser, nancy cartwright, manual castells, mark currie, collingwood, canguilhem, mario corti, stuart hall, 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REVIEWING THE CHARTS: 07/01/2023 (Cian Ducrot, Taylor Swift, Hotel Ugly)

Welp, RAYE’s at #1 for the first time ever with “Escapism.” featuring 070 Shake, who also takes her first #1. Welcome to 2023, and welcome back to REVIEWING THE CHARTS!

Rundown

It’s that time of year again where I list a bunch of songs aimlessly. I cover the UK Top 75. All of the Christmas songs are gone except “Christmas Drillings” at #73 for some reason. That’s your notable dropouts for you.

Because essentially the entire chart – again, except “Christmas Drillings” as well as “Firebabe” by Stormzy at #45 – consists of songs that are either returns or gains thanks to the holiday purge and New Years streams, it seems appropriate to just list them. Let’s start with our re-entries: in terms of hip-hop and R&B, we have “Doja” by Central Cee at #74, “Last Last” by Burna Boy at #53, “Bad Habit” by Steve Lacy at #51, “Superhero (Heroes & Villains)” by Metro Boomin, Future and Chris Brown at #49, “Die for You” by The Weeknd at a new peak of #48, “Under the Influence” by Chris Brown at #42, “50s” by Headie One at a new peak of #40, “CUFF IT” by Beyoncé at #37, “Mockingbird” by Eminem at #33, “Rocket Science” by Clavish and D-Block Europe at #32, “Shirt” by SZA at #25, “golden hour” by JVKE at #24 and “Hide & Seek” by Stormzy at #17 – and expect it to gain thanks to the remix next week.

In terms of dance and electronic, we have “Delilah (pull me out of this)” by Fred again.. at #72, “Crazy What Love Can Do” by David Guetta, Becky Hill and Ella Henderson at #66, “Moving All Around (Jumpin’)” by Schak and Kim English at #60, “Just Wanna Rock” by Lil Uzi Vert at a new peak of #38, “Afraid to Feel” by LF SYSTEM at #34, “B.O.T.A. (Baddest of Them All)” by Eliza Rose and Interplanetary Criminal at #31, “Lionheart (Fearless)” by Joel Corry and Tom Grennan at #21, “10:35” by Tiesto and Tate McRae at #18 and “I’m Good (Blue)” by David Guetta and Bebe Rexha at #16.

And now our biggest, one-size-fits-all category: pop... as well as some Afrobeats, adult contemporary, disco and whatever counts as rock or “alternative” these days. This includes “About Damn Time” by Lizzo at #75, “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)” by Whitney Houston at #70 (which did top the charts in 1987), “Alone” by Burna Boy at #69, “Heat Waves” by Glass Animals at #64, “go” by Cat Burns at #62, “Green Green Grass” by George Ezra at #61, “Music for a Sushi Restaurant” by Harry Styles at #59, “Celestial” by Ed Sheeran at #58, “KU LO SA” by Oxlade at #57 thanks in part to it actually getting an official recording, “Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)” by Kate Bush at #55, “Mr. Brightside” by the Killers at #54, “Never Not Gonna Dance Again” by P!nk at a new peak of #46, Ed Sheeran’s “Bad Habits” and “Shivers” at #44 and #43, “Ghost of You” by Mimi Webb at #36, “All for You” by Cian Ducrot at #35, “I Ain’t Worried” by OneRepublic at #30, “Nobody Gets Me” by SZA at #29, “Until I Found You” by Stephen Sanchez at a new peak of #28 thanks in part to the version with Em Beihold (which is inferior), “Lift Me Up” by Rihanna at #27, “Forget Me” by Lewis Capaldi at #26, “How Do I Say Goodbye” by Dean Lewis at #23, “Kiss Me” by Dermot Kennedy at #20, “As it Was” by Harry Styles at #19 and finally, “PSYCHO” by Anne-Marie and Aitch at #11.

Then we see big gains for “Bloody Mary” by Lady Gaga at #22, “Pointless” by Lewis Capaldi at #15, “Rich Flex” by Drake and 21 Savage at #14, “Unholy” by Sam Smith and Kim Petras at #13 and “Creepin’” by Metro Boomin, The Weeknd and 21 Savage. If you want my opinion on any of these songs, I have reviewed 99% of them and Tumblr has a mediocre search function so just make a wild guess.

As for our top 10, we have “Another Love” by Tom Odell re-peaking with a return to #10 and the big gains for “Out of Nowhere” by Bugzy Malone and TeeDee at #9, becoming both acts’ first top 10 hit, “Calm Down” by Rema at #8, “Miss You” by Robin Schulz and Oliver Tree at #7, “LET GO” by Central Cee at #6 (Jesus Christ), “Made You Look” by Meghan Trainor at #5, “Kill Bill” by SZA at #4, “messy in heaven” by venbee and goddard. at #3, “Anti-Hero” by Taylor Swift at #2, and of course, “Escapism.” at one. I’m pretty sure this chart breaks the record for “most unnecessary use of full stops in the top 3”. I’m sure the Guinness World Records would stoop that low. Anyway, now for eleven new arrivals. Pray for me.

NEW ARRIVALS

#71 – “snowfall” – Oneheart and reidenshi

Produced by Oneheart and reidenshi

You can’t blame me for trying to breeze through these, right? I should note that not all of this will last – in fact, the Christmas purge tends to make it easier for songs that were barely on the cusp of debuting and may not have on a stronger week end up in the top 75, so I’d hedge bets that only one or two of these songs get to five weeks. Oneheart and reidenshi are Russian producers, and this is an instrumental of theirs that found some virality on TikTok. It’s just an ambient piece. That’s what it is: there’s not a song structure and it’s just some pretty nice-sounding ambient. I’m not an expert in ambient but the contrast of the echoed, plastic synths on the deeper bass tones feels like a nice balance and despite the cover art, I get peace from this rather than mystery. It doesn’t move much through its runtime, but it’s very much not supposed to: it’s interlude-length, has a unique atmosphere and some nice wintry tones and can essentially act as a bumper for someone’s playlist. I’m surprised it’s charting at all but TikTok can do anything, I suppose, and honestly I prefer this to half the songs I just listed so I’ll take it.

#68 – “Players” – Coi Leray

Produced by Johnny Goldstein

Coi Leray is a Boston rapper who has kind of been polarising with her brand of music and I understand why, since it’s largely substance-less and kind of vapid, but in a way that tends to feel grating, which is especially annoying when she actually puts some effort into the content and it feels much more solid, so you question why she does all the sound effects and goofy pop-rap schtick in the first place. This is her highest-charting single in the UK and my God, the influence of “Big Energy” may just be ruining mainstream female rap... or at least those who secretly weren’t trying in the first place. So in 1982, pioneering rap group Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five released one of the first socially conscious rap singles, “The Message”, peaking at #8 in the UK, known for its iconic synth riff that has been sampled many a time before, but never as lazily. There is a robotic funk groove, with a bass tone sounding like it was flattened by a steam iron, and of course, that iconic riff from “The Message”... but that’s pretty much it. When your composition is that minimal, you’d need to be tight and exact with some memorable wordplay and charisma, but for someone devoid of it like Coi Leray, you get a loose array of flexes and seduction with her badly interpolating the melody from the riff – it’s almost like that’s the only part of the original song she heard – on a refrain that just sounds trickling and awkward. This is a desperate trend chase in a way that feels so cheap when I know and have heard Coi do better, even on that last album, which was not good at all. I guess this is the way to get hits now though, so do whatever you want with the best songs of all time, record labels, until people start realising – and I think they have already – that nothing beats the original and they end up streaming that instead. It’s not like you’re losing any money in that situation.

#67 – “Here with Me” – d4vd

Produced by Blueday and Dan Darmawan

We’re making the “Romantic Homicide” guy a hit maker? Oh, and even better – the “Romantic Homicide” guy wants to get sappy and emotional. At least he did write the song, and I suppose that the song’s not dead on arrival with its jangly, soft-rock guitars over the despondent-feeling drums that don’t really feel happy or “together” as much as they just pile up into a slodge. Okay, maybe the instrumental is dead on arrival, but that could be the point, right? No, the content doesn’t really fit this at all – it’s a love song that is honestly chirpy if anything, just wanting to grow old with his partner and being happy as long as they’re just there with him. It’s sweet, sure, but this is a dreadfully lethargic song, to the point where d4vd’s earnest wistfulness ends up sounding desperate and detached from those moments in love, which could be an interesting angle but there’s not enough catharsis in that chorus for it to fully work. The vocals themselves are also unfitting, as d4vd does his best to sound honest and endearing... but his youthful tone of voice just doesn’t sound right for a song about reminiscing and growing old. I don’t think this kid is “bad at music” or anything – he and his producers are clearly very talented – but so far, nothing has clicked with me. Maybe it’s the genre – slow, indie-adjacent ballads don’t click with me and I don’t even like Mac DeMarco, who d4vd clearly does like, so his whole career may end up lost on me. It could be an age thing and the better music comes as he gets more experienced, as the lyrics are not bad here, even if there’s not a clear melody outlined to drive much of it, but would be better serviced to an older, wiser singer in that same mould. As for now, I’m sorry but I can’t dig this... and I don’t know why I feel so bad about it.

#65 – “You’re on Your Own, Kid” – Taylor Swift

Produced by Jack Antonoff and Taylor Swift

It’s January 2023 and we’re still getting new debuts from Taylor Swift’s Midnights. We have two new songs here, which to be fair, both would have hit the top 10 on release, and neither of them are even close to my favourites off of that album so I’m going to be frankly as quick as possible since these won’t get past this week. “You’re on Your Own, Kid” is just fine; it feels like a more subtle version of the classic Taylor pop mould from around 1985 era though the vocal inflections feel a bit on-the-nose when placed on the bare, minimal synth backing of that first verse, and if I’m honest, I mostly like Jack Antonoff’s synth production over the album but this one doesn’t click with me. For a song about feeling alone, the more abrasive beeps cut through the cloudy atmosphere in a way that feels too sharp and frenzied. If anything, this content should wind down with time as it isolates the protagonist, but I do understand the use of the same melody repeated with different artefacts of friendly memories until the character realises that they are on their own in the world, whilst everything around them starts to feel more driven and honestly scary. It even explains the abrupt end of the song, but it still doesn’t click with me, partly for the reasons I said before but also partly because it doesn’t really feel finished. A lot of the writing in Midnights felt riffed and this is possibly one of the worst offenders, especially when Swift relies so much on that initial lead melody. I wish I liked this better but alas I care very little about it. I care even less about...

#63 – “Bejeweled” – Taylor Swift

Produced by Jack Antonoff and Taylor Swift

I’ll be blunt: I think this song sounds like ass. The lyrical content about feeling retaliation for being frustrated with a lover by going out on the town and knowing she can make her presence known with strangers is well done and has the self-centred framing that it should have, with a balance between the verses giving background to her emotions and the chorus being an attempted release. That is completely fine. The song sounds terrible. It starts with a SNES-esque sound effect before devolving into a bassy plunge wherein Taylor can barely stay on beat, even with how stiff and industrial the percussion feels as the snare just sits there without doing anything. The multi-tracking feels unwarranted and sloppy in the verses and is downright annoying in the chorus wherein the basic functions of the song seem to stagnate for the sake of dodgy Antonoff keys once again being splattered over the mix with no regard for how Taylor can react. So Taylor reacts randomly, as the keys filter out with her harmonies leading her in no real direction before we return to the verses with a bizarre restart of a synth effect. I know that this is far from the popular opinion, but this song sounds like a cacophony to me, and nothing feels like it’s in the right place, and the fact that it’s in a traditional verse-chorus-verse structure just makes it such a more awkward and ugly experience, especially with that jerky synth lead that basically ruins the whole song. Taylor sounds like she has no idea what to do on here and has just transposed perfectly fine lyrics onto a pile of leftover sounds collated from the entire album. This did not need to be on said album and it serves frankly no purpose, there are way better kiss-offs, and sadly, thanks to the three-song rule, I don’t think any of them will ever chart.

#56 – “SPIT IN MY FACE!” – ThxSoMch

Produced by grayskies

Thanks to TikTok, we have some genuine post-punk on the charts from singer-songwriter ThxSoMch... or maybe it’s a band, I don’t know. Either way, that hook is really infectious and their nasal, sometimes Playboi Carti-esque inflections are pretty venomous and fitting for a sexless, toxic relationship with the cold guitar tones and multi-tracked rapping which is purposefully pretty gross. There’s part of my brain that lights up when faced with disgusting and immoral post-punk, especially when the vocalist goes for these villainous rap flows, so that bias is probably showing here as honestly, this isn’t that great a song. It feels a bit too repetitious for my taste, especially since the lyrics themselves aren’t as biting as they should be and this really is just a “type beat” when it comes to punk: none of this sounds like a band recorded it. This kind of song I feel like should revolve around a sonic premise rather of an actual chorus, which may sound strange, but for a song about what is basically debauchery and a toxic, borderline abusive relationship, a chorus feels like it’s too much resolution when instead a routine, constant refrain – kind of like the monotone riff this song has – could work better. If anything, I’d point to “ohh yeaaa juiced up pop punk emo swag” by the Reptillian Club Boyz for doing this sound right with a lot of the same content, if a bit less focused on the relationship and more on flexing, but adds a richer guitar and piano tone with the cold wave sample, and more importantly, doesn’t have a chorus, instead focusing on that “ooh yeah” conceit that sticks through the song and makes it feel unique whilst also emphasising the constant of the partying, sex and drugs without going for an outright hook as “SPIT IN MY FACE!” does: if we’re basically relying on one riff, you might as well meander into different directions while keeping that and the refrain at the forefront. With that said, I’m still interested to see if this sticks around, even if I doubt it, because, well, it’s not exactly radio-friendly... but we’ll see.

#52 – “Ready to Fly” – Sub Focus and Dimension

Produced by Sub Focus and Dimension

Okay, this chart week has gone into weird places as of... just now, that seem to directly appeal to me especially. British producers Sub Focus and Dimension collaborate for a really intricately-detailed hardcore dance track, with Jo Hill’s vocals slipping all over a buzzing synth bed as her breaths are rendered robotic amidst the clipping keys that lead into a vintage-sounding piano hardcore beat that is just automatically going to get a thumb’s up from me. In fact, it’s rare that a song I hear on this series will make me smile as hard as this one. The escalation to the first drop is just perfect: we start with the wiry synths and the meandering vocal, with that spare hat barely keeping time in this ocean of reverb, before the uplifting vocals from Hill come in with just enough filtering to make it feel anthemic but also surprisingly intimate since it feels like you’re swimming in the same ocean due to the fragilities of her manipulated voice. Then we switch to those epic sounding staccato chords with a tiny bit of grit in the breakbeat but more focus on the transcendent vocals, the classic chord structure and a piercing background synth. There are hints to when it’ll get grimier and it’ll become a full dancefloor jam, but it creates an immediate emotional connection and leads you into it in a really subtle way, which is surprising for such an overdramatic song. You even hear those filthier bass hits right before the drop for you to pick at the changes in what you’re hearing and prepare; it’s a perfectly crafted build up and the drop absolutely does not disappoint. You have the pummelling breakbeat under a synth just buzzy enough to feel like a Prodigy track has come tunnelling through your anthemic pop song, and the glitched breaks acting as fills are so genius in the way they’re placed in the blank spaces that the synth naturally creates, especially when it’s used as a lead-in for the even wirier synths in that second, wistful ocean before the second drop, acting as a brief moment of rest before you get ready for the next run, the next flight... right? Nope, instead we have the same build-up but for a bassy, minimal plod alongside Hill pumping you up for what seems inevitable... but that synth lead never finishes, just echoing around the breakbeats and that same meandering bed we started with. I can’t express how much I love that decision: the song knows full well that the energy is better spent on a brief laser-focus before we return to what made you so comfortable in the first place, with your heartbeat still racing from the first drop... but now you’re on your sofa exhausted and kind of delusional. If there’s anything that good drum and bass always does, it’s take you on a journey and this absolutely does – it’s genuinely excellent and like I said, it’s very rare that a song on the charts appeals to me at this personal level and does so in a way that gets me this happy and excited on the first listen and beyond. I doubt it’ll be a hit but absolutely check it out. It deserves the attention.

#50 – “Boy’s a liar” – PinkPantheress

Produced by Mura Masa and PinkPantheress

Keeping with dance, or at least a fusion of it with alt-pop, we have PinkPantheress’ newest lead single from an EP that I now, through the combination of this and a suggestion in an earlier episode, have now covered all but one song from. Hey, the songs have two verses and a post-chorus, and for PinkPantheress, that’s character development. As with many of her songs, it’s about a humble romance, with this boy playing with her feelings and not seeing her for who she is. It’s also pretty confrontational, with the snark in the verses, which are represented pretty well in her sing-songy inflections, as well as the minimal kick that the song starts with. It’s a blunt song but has some deserved disappointment, even if some of that trickles down into self-loathing over a nice, vaguely lo-fi blend of guitars and keys that sounds like a DIY synthpop track programmed onto a Jersey club beat. That bass from the post-chorus onwards plays alongside the tampered, primitive synth in such an acutely despondent way, and there’s an attention to detail – probably thanks to Mura Masa – that is typically lost on some of her more basic tracks. It’s kind of a slow burner, but this is a great song. If I had any complaints, it’s that the verses are a tad too wordy but removing that would definitely take out some of the charm so I can make do with this especially when everything else is pretty great.

#47 – “Shut up My Moms Calling” – Hotel Ugly

Produced by Hotel Ugly

I guess this is the week for bubbling-under viral hits of niche genres from acts outside of the mainstream for the most part, as this is the breakout hit for Houston indie duo Hotel Ugly, with this song from 2020 gaining streaming traction late last year. It’s a shame that I don’t really like this one, though, and I actually kind of hate this in all honesty. The guys have this sneering smugness to how they react to a seemingly amicable breakup where the woman wants nothing to do with him, but his longing seems to reside mostly in a kind of reluctant comfort that does not come off as likeable or even desperate as much as it’s just a power play, with some really manipulative wording on the refrain, and that drop into the dated synths in the chorus feels like a pure slodge. There’s also not much to the song other than a yacht rock groove that seems like it’s supposed to be smooth but combined with the content seems kind of gruelling and once we get to the only verse, the delivery is so lazy and staccato that any sympathy is difficult to sap out of me. I can’t really stand this one, I’m sorry. Also, what does your mother have to do with this?

#41 – “The Color Violet” – Tory Lanez

Produced by Roark Bailey, Nik Dean and Foreign Teck

Ah, I see we actually rewarded Tory Lanez’s guilty verdict in shooting Megan Thee Stallion with giving him a solo streaming hit. I mean, why stop there? Where’s Harold Shipman on the Spotify charts? If this were a couple weeks ago or a couple weeks in the future, maybe I’d be kinder but I’m not dignifying this guy or his frankly terrible song with a full review. Next.

#39 – “I’ll be Waiting” – Cian Ducrot

Produced by Cian Ducrot and Joe Wander

Alas, we end the gauntlet with... Cian Ducrot. Okay, well, I figured his hit-making career would start and end with “All for You” but he’s back in the top 40 again and it’s a completely serviceable adult contemporary tune. Well, tune may be the wrong word because there’s very little tune to this as there is tension, with the basic piano and fluttering percussion adding a sense of reluctance to this breakup that is very much reflected in the content, which frankly reads like a denial of it ever happening, but not in a way that’s longing or manipulative as much as it is just genuinely desperate. The anthemic sense of the staccato climax in the chorus, as well as the slightly unbefitting trap-adjacent percussion that slides in, makes him seem a lot more detached from his partner than Hotel Ugly, so alongside the guitars and his really powerful performance, it sounds like a late night thought that intrudes and denies much of his own fault because of how clouded he is by the magic of what this relationship could have been. I’m surprised as you may be that I actually like this but Ducrot’s performance is fittingly intense and it really sounds like him putting the pieces together of a breakup yet not coming close – and that’s why in the end, he doesn’t get the girl. He still sits there waiting, because with a song as melodramatic as this, the natural result is humiliation. I hope this lasts.

Conclusion

Whilst this may not be the most consistent week, I think I appreciate the pure diversity on display here, and the good songs are really freaking good. Of course, Best of the Week goes to Sub Focus and Dimension for “Ready to Fly”, but I think I’ll allow Cian Ducrot and PinkPantheress share the Honourable Mention for “I’ll be Waiting” and “Boy’s a liar” respectively. Worst of the Week goes to Tory Lanez. No, you didn’t get an actual review, but listen to that song and be honest with yourself – do you want one? Plus, I can’t say with sound mind that Hotel Ugly, even for the dislikeable “Shut up My Moms Calling”, has less effort put into it than Tory Goddamn Lanez, yet they do tie the Dishonourable Mention with Ms. Taylor Swift for “Bejeweled”. I was going to let it off the hook but then I listened to it again. I don’t really know what to expect beyond this – hopefully those new Skrillex tracks show up – but for now, thank you for reading and I’ll see you next week!

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Trump’s Lawyer Walked Into a Trap

By the end of the argument, everyone knew it.

By George T. Conway III

January 10, 2024, 5 AM ET

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It was a cold and rainy morning in Washington, D.C., yesterday. Five years ago, Donald Trump said that was enough to deter him from visiting Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, to commemorate the fallen American soldiers—soldiers who died defending the nation whose Constitution he had sought to abrogate but now seeks to invoke. But yesterday, he showed up anyway. Appearing in court was more important to him, because this was about him.

And so at 9:25 a.m., the former president and his entourage strode into Courtroom 31 of the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse on Constitution Avenue, just a few blocks away from the Capitol his supporters had ransacked three years ago Friday, and took their seats. It took just a few short minutes for their case to come completely apart.

The wood-paneled walls of the courtroom display large official portraits of many of the renowned judges who have served on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, known colloquially as the D.C. Circuit and long considered to be the second-most important appellate court in the land. The faces gazing down from the walls were mostly male, with a couple of exceptions. Near the front on the left side, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, wearing a trademark jabot, had one of the better views, directly overlooking the bench, counsel table, and podium. I envied her vantage point; from her perch, I could have seen the expressions of all the players, including the defendant. I found it hard not to wonder what she would have thought of these proceedings.

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No doubt she would have approved of the panel of judges who heard the case: three women, of differing backgrounds and of fine reputations, each sworn to “administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and the rich.” The question these jurists faced in the appeal they heard yesterday—styled United States of America v. Donald J. Trump, No. 23–3228—came down to whether justice could be administered to a former president of the United States.

Everyone rose, including Trump, as the women in black robes entered the courtroom. The court quickly got to work. D. John Sauer, a former solicitor general of Missouri (appointed by then–state Attorney General Josh Hawley), an advocate with an exceptionally gravelly voice that runs as fast as any New Yorker’s, stepped to the podium to speak for Trump.

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Before he could say anything, the presiding judge, Karen LeCraft Henderson, a George H. W. Bush appointee who nearly a quarter century ago had taken Ken Starr’s seat on the court, immediately asked Sauer whether the court had jurisdiction to hear the appeal. This wasn’t an issue the parties raised—it surfaced in a friend-of-the-court brief—but the judges understandably wanted to hear what the parties had to say about it.

In a nutshell, the jurisdictional question arose from the fact that the federal courts strongly disfavor “interlocutory” appeals—challenges to district-court rulings before the district court finally decides the whole case. That disfavor can be overcome, on occasion, for appeals of so-called collateral orders: orders deciding issues that are sufficiently divorced from the ultimate merits of the case and that might be effectively unreviewable in a later appeal after a final judgment. In a case called Midland Asphalt Corp. v. United States, the Supreme Court made clear that the collateral-order exception must be narrowly construed, particularly in criminal cases. No court has ever addressed how Midland Asphalt applies to a criminal prosecution of a former president for acts he committed in office.

Sauer, as expected, argued that the exception does apply, and that the court could hear the appeal. I say expected because it could be no other way for his client: If this appeal were dismissed, Trump would not be able to pursue his claim of immunity from prosecution until after he is (as I admittedly hope he will be) convicted and sentenced.

The panel member seemingly most interested in the jurisdictional question was Judge J. Michelle Childs, a Biden appointee who, before joining the D.C. Circuit, had served for 12 years as a federal district judge in South Carolina. Midland Asphalt states that defendants can’t make interlocutory criminal appeals raising issues of immunity from prosecution unless there’s “an explicit statutory or constitutional guarantee that trial will not occur.” Childs’s questions focused on the fact that, whether or not Trump has immunity, the guarantee that he’s relying on isn’t “explicit”—he argues that it’s inherent in the separation of powers. Sauer didn’t have much of a response to this line of inquiry, other than to say, in effect, that presidential immunity claims are special, and that explicit didn’t really mean “explicit.” He did get a little help, though, from Judge Henderson, who made the suggestion that Midland Asphalt was itself only a suggestion from the Supreme Court.

But the jurisdictional back-and-forth was merely a sideshow; what everyone came to hear was the merits of Trump’s immunity argument, and the court’s reaction to it. Sauer and the judges soon obliged. Sauer warned, in effect, that the heavens would fall—ruat caelum, for fanciers of Latin legal axioms—were his client tried for his crimes. “To authorize the prosecution of a president for his official acts would open a Pandora’s box from which this nation may never recover.” He elaborated: “Could George W. Bush be prosecuted for obstruction of an official proceeding for allegedly giving false information to Congress to induce the nation to go to war in Iraq under false pretenses? Could President Obama be potentially charged with murder for allegedly authorizing drone strikes targeting U.S. citizens located abroad?”

Sauer never got the chance to answer his own rhetorical questions, because at this point, the panel’s most incisive and persistent questioner jumped in. “Can I explore the implications of what you are arguing?” inquired Judge Florence Y. Pan, a Biden appointee and longtime federal prosecutor in the nation’s capital who also served on the Superior Court as well as the United States District Court there. “I understand your position to be that a president is immune from criminal prosecution for any official act, even if that action is taken for an unlawful or unconstitutional purpose. Is that correct?”

Sauer’s answer: Yes, but with an exception. The exception being that, if a president is impeached by the House of Representatives and convicted by the Senate, then and only then can he be prosecuted in a criminal court, after he leaves office, for the offenses for which the Senate had convicted him.

This was not a great answer. As I wrote a couple of days ago about Trump’s Supreme Court certiorari petition in his Colorado ballot-disqualification case, appellate courts usually don’t find convincing a litigant’s efforts to combine two weak points in order to make a stronger one. Usually, the weakness in one bad argument bleeds into the other, and vice versa—producing a sum that is even less than its parts. And that’s what happened here.

As Judge Pan’s question pointed out, Trump’s main argument on this appeal is that presidents can’t be prosecuted for their official acts. That argument is based on a line of civil cases establishing that presidents can’t be held liable via monetary damages for their official actions—more specifically, as the Supreme Court held in 1981 in Nixon v. Fitzgerald, there is “absolute Presidential immunity from damages liability for acts within the ‘outer perimeter’ of his official responsibility.”

I know a fair bit about this line of precedent, because (in what seems now to be another life), I ghostwrote the Supreme Court brief for Paula Jones that defeated President Bill Clinton’s claim of immunity, 9–0, in Clinton v. Jones in 1997. Suffice it to say that the rationale behind Fitzgerald encompasses only civil liability because it is grounded in the fear that, if presidents could be hauled into civil court by the countless people affected by their official acts, then the leader of the free world might fear doing his or her job. And even if this protection from civil-damages liability could be extended into the criminal realm, it surely oughtn’t apply here, where Trump was not only acting beyond the “outer perimeter” of his official responsibility, but utterly abjuring that official responsibility.

Still, Trump’s immunity argument is at least an argument: Not a good one, not a winner, but not completely and totally ridiculous. I can’t say it wasn’t worth the old college try. The same cannot be said about the other major contention Trump has urged on this appeal, the argument that Sauer took to conflating with the immunity argument in response to Judge Pan’s questioning.

That second argument relies on what’s called the Constitution’s impeachment-judgment clause, in Article I, Section 3. That provision, in its entirety, says (with the relevant part italicized):

Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.

By its express terms, all this language does is make sure everyone understands that double-jeopardy protections don’t apply when a federal public official is impeached, convicted, and removed from office. The clause makes clear that the official may still go to jail—that he remains “subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment” even after he is removed from his job.

But Trump’s lawyers contend that this text says something it absolutely does not say: that, if a public official, namely the president, is not impeached and removed by Congress, then he cannot be prosecuted under criminal law. This is fallacious reasoning by “negative inference,” as Judge Childs dismissively put it, and it’s absurd for any number of reasons even apart from the plain meaning of the English language the clause uses. For one thing, a wealth of historical evidence contradicts the argument. As Justice Joseph Story explained in his Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, even after an acquittal at an impeachment trial, the accused should still be liable to face a criminal trial, for “if no such second trial could be had, then the grossest official offenders might escape without any substantial punishment, even for crimes.”

David A. Graham: The cases against Trump: a guide

For another, a public official might be acquitted in the Senate for reasons other than the merits of the impeachment charges against him. In fact, that’s exactly what happened at Trump’s second impeachment trial. As Special Counsel Jack Smith noted in his D.C. Circuit brief, “At least 31 of the 43 Senators who voted to acquit the defendant”—Trump—“explained that their decision to do so rested in whole or in part on their agreement with the defendant’s argument that the Senate lacked jurisdiction to try him because he was no longer in office.” Worse yet, as Henderson and Pan later pointed out during the argument, Trump’s own lawyers conceded to the Senate in February 2021 that, even if Trump were not convicted on the impeachment charges, he could still be criminally charged. Oops.

I could go on about the impeachment-judgment clause, and the members of the panel certainly did, but the bottom line is that Trump’s argument about that clause was frivolous, and not worth making. In fact, Sauer, by extending that argument to make a limited concession to Pan’s questioning about whether he was arguing that presidents could never be criminally prosecuted—remember, he said that this could happen if the president is first convicted by the Senate—unwittingly set a nasty trap for himself.

A trap that Pan’s brilliant interrogation shut tight.

The judge wasted no time in drilling into the implications and inconsistencies in Sauer’s position. Pan asked, incredulously, “Could a president order SEAL Team Six to assassinate a political rival? That’s an official act—an order to SEAL Team Six.”

To which Sauer replied, unresponsively, that a president would quickly be impeached and removed for that. This was followed by more unresponsive words from Sauer.

Pan wanted an answer—to the question she had asked.

Pan: I asked you a yes-or-no question. Could a president who ordered SEAL Team Six to assassinate a political rival [and] who was not impeached, would he be subject to criminal prosecution?

Sauer: If he were impeached and convicted first—

Pan: So your answer is no?

Sauer: My answer is a qualified yes.

The filibustering then continued, with Sauer rambling on about Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel memorandums, James Madison, the abuse of the criminal process. Many words.

Pan interrupted again: “I asked you a series of hypotheticals about criminal actions that could be taken by a president and could be considered official acts and have asked you: Would such a president be subject to criminal prosecution if he’s not impeached and convicted? And your answer, your yes-or-no answer, is no?”

Sauer, realizing he was being cornered somehow, tried to avoid the door closing behind him. But Pan was having none of it. Like the experienced prosecutor she is, she insisted on an answer, and wasn’t going to let go. (If this judging thing doesn’t work out for her, I’d love to see her host Meet the Press someday.)

She and Sauer went around and around on this a few more times. But the damage was done, and Pan’s point was devastatingly made—in essence, that Sauer was arguing out of both sides of his mouth. On the one hand, Sauer argued that the Constitution gave the president absolute immunity for his official acts, lest we have political prosecutions of former presidents. On the other hand, if the United States Congress—a political body if ever there was one—effectively gives permission (by impeaching and convicting), well, then, yes, a president can be prosecuted, and—wait for it—he’s not absolutely immune.

It’s hard to know whether the criminal defendant, sitting at the counsel table, could understand enough of the dialogue to know that his immunity argument had completely collapsed, right then and there. But it had.

Sometimes during appellate arguments, there’s a moment when you know exactly how the court will come out. And this was one. I once had such a moment, fortunately in my favor. My one and only argument before the U.S. Supreme Court was in a case about whether federal securities laws could impose liability for securities transactions occurring abroad. I was arguing in the negative, on behalf of an Australian bank. My opponent was up first, arguing in favor of applying American law. I figured I had the conservative justices, but I was a bit less sure about the more liberal justices.

After some preliminary questions to my adversary about jurisdiction, the Court got to the merits. I’ll never forget it. Justice Ginsburg asked a question that was more like a statement: “This case is Australian plaintiff, Australian defendant, shares purchased in Australia. It has ‘Australia’ written all over it.” I don’t know whether I heard the rest of her question, or my opponent’s answer. But I knew right then and there, before having uttered a word to the Court, that my client had won.

As for the special counsel on Tuesday morning, he, too—like everyone else in the courtroom—knew from Judge Pan’s withering questioning and Sauer’s evasive responses to her that Trump is going to lose. The only question is how quickly it will happen. I have little doubt it will be soon.

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...."The court largely addressed Trump’s two main arguments: presidents have “absolute immunity” from all criminal prosecution for official acts taken in office, and presidents may only ever be prosecuted if first impeached in the House and convicted in the Senate. No president has ever been impeached and convicted.

The appeals panel consisted of two Biden appointees, Judges Florence Pan and Michelle Fields, and one George H.W. Bush appointee, Judge Karen Henderson. All three of the judges appeared skeptical of the arguments made by Trump’s defense lawyer, D. John Sauer.

But the true absurdity of Trump’s argument quickly became clear as Pan forced Sauer to take the former president’s argument to its logical conclusion.

“Could a president who ordered SEAL Team 6 to assassinate a political rival [and is] not impeached, would he be subject to criminal prosecution?” Pan asked Sauer.

Sauer offered a “qualified yes ― if he is impeached and convicted first.”

But, as Pan pointed out, if the president were not convicted in the Senate, then Sauer’s answer is no. She further stated that this logic also applied to a president selling pardons or military secrets, as these could be argued to be official acts.

This “extraordinarily frightening future” where it would “not [be] a crime” if a president orders the assassination of his political rivals and then resigns to avoid impeachment and conviction should “weigh heavily” on the court’s decision, assistant special counsel James Pearce argued.

Pan also pressed Sauer on the contradiction inherent in the two arguments Trump makes for immunity. If a president can be prosecuted if they are impeached and convicted, then the president does not have absolute immunity, she argued. Therefore, the court should only seek to answer whether the Constitution mandates impeachment and conviction to enable a later prosecution.

Sauer rejected this contradiction by arguing that the requirement of impeachment and conviction for an ex-president’s prosecution is a “very narrow exception.”

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New Fiction 2023

I struggled with the idea that I need to keep up with everything new, when it's evident that I don't want to. Movies are easy thanks to subscription services like A-List (and a pathological need to get out of the house), but I was consistently happy to dwell in the past for reading and video games.

So I think I'll be more chill about fiction this year. Just follow what feels right.

Previously: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013

2023: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec

Short Stories, Chapters, Excerpts

Jan - "Psalms" (1-100) ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Jan - "The Husband Stitch" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

Jan - "Inventory" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

Jan - "Mothers" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

Jan - "Especially Heinous" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

Jan - "Real Women Have Bodies" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

Jan - "Eight Bites" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

Jan - "The Resident" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

Jan - "Difficult At Parties" by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

Jan - "The First Peer" by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore (2010)

Jan - "Reservoir Ferengi" by David McIntee (2010)

Jan - "The Slow Knife" by James Swallow (2010)

Jan - "The Unhappy Ones" by Keith R.A. DeCandido (2010)

Jan - "Freedom Angst" by Britta Burdett Dennison (2010)

Jan - "Revenant" by Marc D. Giller (2010)

Jan - "Work Is Hard" by Greg Cox (2010)

Feb - "Psalms" (101-150) ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Mar - "Proverbs" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Mar - "Ecclesiastes" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Mar - "WPO" by Joanne McNeil (2022)

Mar - "Flesh" by Louis Evans (2022)

Mar - "Devolution" by Ellen Ullman (2022)

Mar - "Always Home" by Jeff Vandermeer (2022)

Apr - "Canticle of Canticles" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Apr - "Wisdom" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

May - "Ecclesiasticus" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Jun - "Isaias" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Jul - "Jeremias" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Aug - "Lamentations of Jeremias" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Aug - "The Miracle of the Lily" by Clare Winger Harris (1928)

Aug - "The Conquest of Gola" by Leslie F. Stone (1931)

Aug - "The Black God's Kiss" by C.L. Moore (1934)

Aug - "Space Episode" by Leslie Perri (1941)

Aug - "That Only a Mother" by Judith Merril (1948)

Aug - "In Hiding" by Wilmar H. Shiras (1948)

Aug - "Contagion" by Katherine MacLean (1950)

Aug - "The Inhabited Men" by Margaret St. Clair (1951)

Aug - "Ararat" by Zenna Henderson (1952)

Aug - "All Cats Are Gray" by Andrew North (1953)

Aug - "Created He Them" by Alice Eleanor Jones (1955)

Aug - "Mr. Sakrison’s Halt" by Mildred Clingerman (1956)

Aug - "All the Colors of the Rainbow" by Leigh Brackett (1957)

Aug - "Pelt" by Carol Emshwiller (1958)

Aug - "Car Pool" by Rosel George Brown (1959)

Aug - "For Sale, Reasonable" by Elizabeth Mann Borgese (1959)

Aug - "Birth of a Gardener" by Doris Pitkin Buck (1961)

Aug - "The Tunnel Ahead" by Alice Glaser (1961)

Aug - "The New You" by Kit Reed (1962)

Aug - "Another Rib" by John Jay Wells & Marion Zimmer Bradley (1963)

Aug - "When I Was Miss Dow" by Sonya Dorman (1966)

Aug - "Baby, You Were Great" by Kate Wilhelm (1967)

Aug - "The Barbarian" by Joanna Russ (1968)

Aug - "The Last Flight Of Dr. Ain" by James Tiptree, Jr. (1969)

Aug - "Nine Lives" by Ursula K. Le Guin (1969)

Sep - "Baruch" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Oct - "Snatched from the Brink" by Mary E. Penn (1878)

Oct - "The Canal" by Everil Worrell (1927)

Oct - "The Lost Performance of the High Priestess of the Temple of Horror" by Carmen Maria Machado (2020)

Oct - "The Time Remaining" by Attila Veres & trans. Luca Karafiáth (2019)

Oct - "CUE: Change" by Chesya Burke (2011)

Oct - "Last Call for the Sons of Shock" by David J. Schow (1994)

Oct - "The Real Right Thing" by Henry James (1899)

Oct - "The Haunted House" by M.A. Bird (1865)

Oct - "The Island of Regrets" by Elizabeth Walter (1965)

Oct - "The Stolen Body" by H.G. Wells (1903)

Oct - "The White Priest" by Hélène Gingold (1893)

Oct - "The Man Who Went Too Far" by E.F. Benson (1912)

Oct - "Mater Tenebrarum" by Pilar Pedraza & trans. James D. Jenkins (2000)

Oct - "Menopause" by Flore Hazoumé & trans. James D. Jenkins (1994)

Oct - "Señor Ligotti" by Bernardo Esquinca & trans. (2020)

Oct - "Shambleau" by C.L. Moore (1933)

Oct - "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe (1850)

Oct - "The Village Spectre" by Gianna G. Maniego (2002)

Oct - "The Fog Horn" by Ray Bradbury (1951)

Oct - "The Lady of the House of Love" by Angela Carter (1979)

Oct - "The Woman's Ghost Story" by Algernon Blackwood (1907)

Oct - "Black Bargain" by Robert Bloch (1942)

Oct - "Vastarien" by Thomas Ligotti (1987)

Oct - "The Doll" by Daphne du Maurier (1937)

Oct - "The Transferred Ghost" by Frank Stockton (1882)

Oct - "The Shadowy Third" by Ellen Glasgow (1923)

Oct - "The Daemon Lover" by Shirley Jackson (1949)

Oct - "The Interval" by Vincent O'Sullivan (1918)

Oct - "The Phantom Cyclist" by Ruth Ainsworth (1971)

Oct - "Couching at the Door" by D.K. Broster (1942)

Oct - "Bloodchild" by Octavia Butler (1984)

Dec - "Ezekiel" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Dec - "Daniel" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Audio Shorts

Jan - "The Briefcase" by Rebecca Makkai, performed by Victor Garber for NPR's Selected Shorts (2009, 2023)

Jan - "Paradise" by Yxta Maya Murray, performed by Tanis Parenteau for NPR's Selected Shorts (2020, 2023)

Oct - Tales from the Crypt Presents: Dead Easy by A.L. Katz & Gil Adler, performed by Sean Astin, Jake Busey, Tia Carrere, Brett Cullen, John Kassir (1995, 2022)

Novels & Novellas

Jan - Honor in the Night by Scott Pearson (2010)

Feb - Abyss by David Weddle & Jeffrey Lang (2001)

Mar - Demons of Air and Darkness by Keith R.A. DeCandido (2001)

Mar - Coraline by Neil Gaiman (2002)

Apr - Horn and Ivory by Keith R. A. DeCandido (2001)

Apr - Return to HorrorLand by R.L. Stine (1999)

May - We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds (2022)

Aug - Twilight by David R. George III (2002)

Aug - Are You Terrified Yet? by R.L. Stine (1998)

Sep - Creature Teacher by R.L. Stine (1998)

Sep - Invasion of the Body Squeezers - Part 1 by R.L. Stine (1998)

Sep - Invasion of the Body Squeezers - Part 2 by R.L. Stine (1998)

Sep - I'm Your Evil Twin! by R.L. Stine (1998)

Sep - Revenge R Us by R.L. Stine (1998)

Sep - Fright Camp by R.L. Stine (1998)

Sep - Headless Halloween by R.L. Stine (1998)

Sep - Attack of the Graveyard Ghouls by R.L. Stine (1998)

Sep - Brain Juice by R.L. Stine (1998)

Dec - Revenant by Alex White (2021)

Dec - Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (2023)

Dec - The Men by Sandra Newman (2023)

Dec - Aftermath by Christopher L. Bennett (2003)

Dec - Jekyll and Heidi by R.L. Stine (1999)

Gamebooks

Jan - Trapped in Bat Wing Hall by R.L. Stine (1995)

Jul - The Abominable Snowman by R. A. Montgomery (1982)

Aug - Tick Tock, You're Dead! by R.L. Stine (1995)

Sep - The Deadly Experiments of Dr. Eeek by R.L. Stine (1996)

Sep - Night in Werewolf Woods by R.L. Stine (1996)

Sep - Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter by R.L. Stine (1996)

Plays

Jan - A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, presented by Rice University Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts (1595, 2013)

Poems

Jan - "Comet as Paperboy" by Samantha Blysse Haviland (2022)

Jan - "The Art of Negotiation" by Meghan Privitello (2016)

Apr - "A Boat" by Richard Brautigan (1968)

May - "Idaho" by Dobby Gibson (2005)

Comic Shorts & Single Issues

Jan - "Forest Spirits" by Secondlina (2022)

Jan - "Forest Spirits 2" by Secondlina (2022)

Jan - "With Sympathy" by Oglaf Comics (2017)

Jan - "it went like this" by chaumas-deactivated20230115 (2023)

Feb - "The Hole in the Wall" by Angela Hsieh (2022)

Mar - "It hurt, but i don't regret it" by miggs perez (2023)

Mar - "Heaven, Heaven, Angel, Angel" by NoneToon (2023)

Mar - "A poem" by oddlyunadventurous (2023)

Apr - "Halt" by spiralshells (2023)

Apr - "Broomistega & Thrinaxodon" by Erin Roseberry (2023)

Jun - "A young couple have a strange encounter on a dark country road" by Iguanadon't (2016)

Jul - "My Local Gas Station" by Ink (2018)

Jul - The Adventures of Mighty Max - "Mighty Max and the Grand Slam" by Robert Hudnut, Gary Hartle, Brett Koth, David C. Weiss, and Phil Roman (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Trapped by Arachnoid" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Liquidates the Ice Alien" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Lashes Lizard" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Traps Rattus" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Outwits Cyclops" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Tangles With the Ape King" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Slays the Doom Dragon" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Grapples with Battle Cat" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Squishes Fly" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Blows Up Dino Lab" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Stings Scorpion" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Crushes the Hand" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Escapes from Skull Dungeon" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Conquers the Palace of Poison" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Sinks Nautilus" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Caught by the Man-Eater" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Bytes Cyberskull" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Terminates Wolfship 7" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Survives Corpus" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Against Robot Invader" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Zaps Beetlebrow" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Crushes Talon" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Out-Freaks Freako" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Rams Hydron" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Versus Kronosaur" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Challenges Lava Beast" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Tangles With Lockjaw" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Defeats Vamp Biter" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Fights Nuke Ranger" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Pulverizes Sea Squirm" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Battles Skull Warrior" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Hammers Ax Man" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Hounds Werewolf" by Bluebird Toys (1993)

Aug - "Mighty Max Neutralises Zomboid" by Bluebird Toys (1992)

Aug - "Mighty Max Defeats Battle Conqueror" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Head to Head With Hydra" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Melts Lava Beast" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Strikes Fang" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Shuts Down Cybot" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Shatters Gargoyle" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "Mighty Max Assaults Skull Master" by Bluebird Toys (1994)

Aug - "La-Mulana" by KC Green (2023)

Aug - "Mental Health Marge 2 Da Rescue" by ossian (2019)

Sep - "Hotline Miami" by KC Green (2023)

Sep - "I was told by my doctor that this'll completely compensate my human meat diet" by scribblingchimp (2023)

Oct - "Birds of a Feather" by Stephanie Phillips, Maan House, Giorgio Spalleta, Justin Birch, Chris Sanchez (2021)

Oct - "The Origin of Vampirella" by Budd Lewis & Jose Gonzalez (1981)

Oct - "Do You Know… the Beast-Man?" by Richard Howell, Colleen Doran, Kevin Cunningham (1992)

Oct - "Good Ol' Fashioned Vanilla" by W. Maxwell Prince, Chris O’Halloran, Martín Morazzo, Good Old Neon (2018)

Oct - "For Better or Worse?" by Richard Corben (2016)

Oct - "Werewolf!" by Frank Frazetta (1964)

Oct - "Chickadee!" by Aya Rothwell (2016)

Oct - "The Evil Dead" (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) by Richard Floyd-Walker (1986-1987)

Oct - "Famine's Shadow" by Rachel Deering & Christine Larsen (2014)

Oct - "A Pretty Place" by Emily Carroll (2023)

Oct - "The Thing from the Sea" by Wally Wood & Joe Orlando (1951)

Oct - "The Living Ghost" by Frank Belknap Long & Fred Guardineer (1948)

Oct - "Essence of Life" by Gail Simone, Tula Lotay, Jared K. Fletcher (2013)

Oct - "Hag of the Blood Basket!" by Al Hewetson & Sean Todd (1971)

Oct - "The Fisherman" by Franco, Tressina Bowling, Wes Abbott, Sara Richard (2022)

Oct - "Dental Plan" by Joy San (2019)

Oct - "Frankenstein y el Hombre Lobo" by Unknown (1946)

Oct - "Man's World" by Keith Giffen, Mary Sangiovanni, Bilquis Evely, Mat Lopes, Taylor Esposito (2017)

Oct - "Shadow of Death" by William M. Gaines, Al Feldstein, Graham Ingels (1953)

Oct - "Smoke and Cedar" by Abby Howard & Alina Pete (2016)

Oct - "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison & John Byrne (1994-1995)

Oct - "A Dog and His Boy" by Evan Dorkin, Sarah Dyer, Jill Thompson, Jason Arthur (2006)

Oct - "The Horror Beneath" by Leah Moore, John Reppion, Timothy Green II, Michelle Madsen, Nate Piekos (2006)

Oct - "Shadows on the Tomb" by Joe Certa (1952)

Oct - "The Muck Monster" by Bernie Wrightson (1975)

Oct - "The Duel of the Monsters" by Archie Goodwin & Angelo Torres (1966)

Oct - "The Willowdale Handcar or The Return of the Black Doll" by Edward Gorey (1962)

Oct - "Inside You" by Valerie D'Orazio & David James Cole (2014)

Oct - "Soylent Teen" by Jordan Morris, Liana Kangas, Ellie Wright, Jack Morelli (2023)

Oct - "The Gris-Gris" by Jim Keegan & Ruth Keegan (2004)

Oct - "Fair Ground" by Jo Duffy, Mike Manley, Jackson Guice, James Fry, Kevin Cunningham (1992)

Dec - "> THE JESTER" by Margaut Shorjian (2023)

Graphic Novels & Collections

Jan - Simpsons Comics Colossal Compendium - Volume One (2013)

Mar - Star Trek Deep Space Nine: N-Vector (2000)

Betas & Demos

Jan - "Full Void Demo" dev. OutOfTheBit (2023)

Video & Electronic Games

Jan - Thunderbirds dev. Saffire (2004)

Feb - Men in Black: The Game dev. Gigawatt Studios & The Collective (1998)

Feb - The Game of Life dev. Mass Media & The Collective (1998)

Mar - Hack 'n' Slash dev. Double Fine Productions (2014)

Mar - God of War dev. Santa Monica Studio (2018)

Mar - Buffy the Vampire Slayer dev. The Collective (2002)

Apr - Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb dev. The Collective (2003)

Apr - Bartman: Avenger of Evil dev. Acclaim Entertainment (1991)

Apr - The X-Files: Resist or Serve dev. Black Ops Entertainment & The Collective (2004)

May - Bart Simpson's Cupcake Crisis dev. Acclaim (1990)

May - Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith dev. The Collective (2005)

May - Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure dev. The Collective (2006)

May - The Adventures of Mouth Man dev. Retrocade Media (2023)

Jun - Spacebase DF-9 dev. Double Fine Productions (2014)

Jul - Mighty Max dev. Tiger Electronics (1994)

Jul - The Adventures of Mighty Max dev. WJS Design (1995)

Oct - Haunted House dev. Atari (1982)

Oct - Castlevania dev. Konami (1987)

Oct - Clock Tower dev. Human Entertainment (1995)

Oct - D dev. Warp (1995)

Oct - Friday the 13th dev. Atlus (1989)

Oct - Silent Hill 3 dev. Konami (2003)

Oct - Five Nights at Freddy’s dev. Scott Cawthon (2014)

Dec - The Simpsons: Bart vs. Homersaurus dev. Tiger Electronics (1994)

Short Films

Jan - "bugs" dir. k. pakiz (2023)

Jan - "enter initials" dir. k. pakiz (2023)

Feb - "An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It" dir. Lachlan Pendragon (2022)

Feb - "The Flying Sailor" dir. Amanda Forbis & Wendy Tilby (2022)

Feb - "Ice Merchants" dir. João Gonzalez (2022)

Feb - "The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse" dir. Peter Baynton & Charlie Mackesy (2022)

Feb - "My Year of Dicks" dir. Sara Gunnarsdóttir (2022)

Feb - "Ivalu" dir. Anders Walter & Pipaluk K. Jørgensen (2022)

Feb - "Night Ride (Nattrikken)" dir. Eirik Tveiten (2020)

Feb - "Le Pupille" dir. Alice Rohrwacher (2022)

Feb - "The Red Suitcase" dir. Cyrus Neshvad (2022)

Feb - "An Irish Goodbye" dir. Tom Berkeley & Ross White (2022)

Apr - "The Greatest Living Show" dir. Toby Fox & Itoki Hana (2023)

Jun - "Wolf in sheep's clothing" dir. Yea An (2023)

Jun - "War of Colors" dir. Emir Kumova (2022)

Jun - "Double King" dir. Felix Colgrave (2017)

Jun - "How Finding Nemo Should Have Ended" dir. HISHE (2016)

Jul - "What It Feels Like to Live as an Immortal?" dir. LazyOwl Studio (2022)

Sep - "Carl's Date" dir. Bob Peterson (2023)

Movies Jan-Jun

Jan - Avatar: The Way of Water dir. James Cameron (2022)

Jan - Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody dir. Kasi Lemmons (2022)

Jan - Thunderbirds dir. Jonathan Frakes (2004)

Jan - M3GAN dir. Gerard Johnstone (2023)

Jan - Corsage dir. Marie Kreutzer (2022)

Jan - Broker dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda (2022)

Jan - Skinamarink dir. Kyle Edward Ball (2022)

Jan - Plane dir. Jean-François Richet (2023)

Jan - Missing dir. Will Merrick & Nick Johnson (2023)

Jan - That Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond dir. Yasuhito Kikuchi (2023)

Jan - A Man Called Otto dir. Marc Forster (2023)

Jan - Puss In Boots: The Last Wish dir. Joel Crawford (2022)

Jan - Women Talking dir. Sarah Polley (2022)

Feb - Groundhog Day dir. Harold Ramis (1993)

Feb - Infinity Pool dir. Brandon Cronenberg (2023)

Feb - 80 for Brady dir. Kyle Marvin (2023)

Feb - Magic Mike dir. Steven Soderbergh (2012)

Feb - Living dir. Oliver Hermanus (2022)

Feb - Magic Mike XXL dir. Gregory Jacobs (2015)

Feb - She Came from the Woods dir. Erik Bloomquist (2022)

Feb - Magic Mike's Last Dance dir. Steven Soderbergh (2023)

Feb - Knock at the Cabin dir. M. Night Shyamalan (2023)

Feb - Sword Art Online the Movie -Progressive- Scherzo of Deep Night dir. Ayako Kono (2023)

Feb - Consecration dir. Christopher Smith (2023)

Feb - Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey dir. Rhys Waterfield (2023)

Feb - Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania dir. Peyton Reed (2023)

Feb - Johnny Mnemonic dir. Robert Longo (1995)

Feb - Virtuosity dir. Brett Leonard (1995)

Feb - Jesus Revolution dir. Jon Erwin & Brent McCorkle (2023)

Feb - Cocaine Bear dir. Elizabeth Banks (2023)

Feb - Gattaca dir. Andrew Niccol (1997)

Feb - Strange Days dir. Kathryn Bigelow (1995)

Feb - Kissed dir. Lynne Stopkewich (1996)

Feb - Richard III dir. Richard Loncraine (1995)

Feb - Eye for an Eye dir. John Schlesinger (1996)

Mar - Creed III dir. Michael B. Jordan (2023)

Mar - Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre dir. Guy Ritchie (2023)

Mar - RRR dir. S. S. Rajamouli (2022)

Mar - The Lawnmower Man dir. Brett Leonard (1992)

Mar - Scream VI dir. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett (2023)

Mar - 65 dir. Scott Beck & Bryan Woods (2023)

Mar - Shazam! Fury of the Gods dir. David F. Sandberg (2023)

Apr - A Good Person dir. Zach Braff (2023)

Apr - Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves dir. Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley (2023)

Apr - The Super Mario Bros. Movie dir. Aaron Horvath & Michael Jelenic (2023)

Apr - Air dir. Ben Affleck (2023)

Apr - John Wick: Chapter 4 dir. Chad Stahelski (2023)

Apr - Suzume dir. Makoto Shinkai (2023)

Apr - Mafia Mamma dir. Catherine Hardwicke (2023)

Apr - Renfield dir. Chris McKay (2023)

Apr - The Pope's Exorcist dir. Julius Avery (2023)

Apr - Beau Is Afraid dir. Ari Aster (2023)

May - Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 dir. James Gunn (2023)

May - Polite Society dir. Nida Manzoor (2023)

May - Born to Fly dir. Liu Xiaoshi (2023)

May - Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret dir. Kelly Fremon Craig (2023)

May - Fool's Paradise dir. Charlie Day (2023)

May - Hypnotic dir. Robert Rodriguez (2023)

May - Evil Dead Rise dir. Lee Cronin (2023)

May - Master Gardener dir. Paul Schrader (2023)

May - Sisu dir. Jalmari Helander (2023)

May - Fast X dir. Louis Leterrier (2023)

May - The Wrath of Becky dir. Matt Angel & Suzanne Coote (2023)

May - Kandahar dir. Ric Roman Waugh (2023)

Jun - The Hangover dir. Todd Phillips (2009)

Jun - The George McKenna Story dir. Eric Laneuville (1986)

Jun - Last Action Hero dir. John McTiernan (1993)

Jun - We Have a Ghost dir. Christopher Landon (2023)

Jun - The Mother dir. Niki Caro (2023)

Jun - The Little Mermaid dir. Rob Marshall (2023)

Jun - Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse dir. Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson (2023)

Jun - The Boogeyman dir. Rob Savage (2023)

Jun - The Roundup: No Way Out dir. Lee Sang-yong (2023)

Jun - Chevalier dir. Stephen Williams (2023)

Jun - Transformers: Rise of the Beasts dir. Steven Caple Jr. (2023)

Jun - Sanctuary dir. Zachary Wigon (2023)

Jun - A Thousand and One dir. A.V. Rockwell (2023)

Jun - The Blackening dir. Tim Story (2023)

Jun - No Hard Feelings dir. Gene Stupnitsky (2023)

Jun - Past Lives dir. Celine Song (2023)

Jun - The Flash dir. Andy Muschietti (2023)

Jun - Asteroid City dir. Wes Anderson (2023)

Jun - Adipurush dir. Om Raut (2023)

Jun - God Is a Bullet dir. Nick Cassavetes (2023)

Jun - 1920: Horrors of the Heart dir. Krishna Bhatt (2023)

Jun - The Childe dir. Park Hoon-jung (2023)

Jun - Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny dir. James Mangold (2023)

Movies Jul-Dec

Jul - Metropolis dir. Rintaro (2001)

Jul - Insidious: The Red Door dir. Patrick Wilson (2023)

Jul - Joy Ride dir. Adele Lim (2023)

Jul - Lost In the Stars dir. Cui Rui & Liu Xiang (2023)

Jul - Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One dir. Christopher McQuarrie (2023)

Jul - The Miracle Club dir. Thaddeus O'Sullivan (2023)

Jul - Shadows dir. Glenn Chan (2023)

Jul - Barbie dir. Greta Gerwig (2023)

Jul - Oppenheimer dir. Christopher Nolan (2023)

Jul - Haunted Mansion dir. Justin Simien (2023)

Jul - Talk to Me dir. Danny Philippou & Michael Philippou (2023)

Aug - Theater Camp dir. Molly Gordon & Nick Lieberman (2023)

Aug - Never Say Never dir. Baoqiang Wang (2023)

Aug - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem dir. Jeff Rowe (2023)

Aug - Meg 2: The Trench dir. Ben Wheatley (2023)

Aug - Ransomed dir. Kim Seong-hun (2023)

Aug - The Last Voyage of the Demeter dir. André Øvredal (2023)

Aug - Jules dir. Marc Turtletaub (2023)

Aug - Strays dir. Josh Greenbaum (2023)

Aug - Blue Beetle dir. Angel Manuel Soto (2023)

Aug - Gran Turismo dir. Neill Blomkamp (2023)

Aug - birth/rebirth dir. Laura Moss (2023)

Aug - Landscape With Invisible Hand dir. Cory Finley (2023)

Aug - Porco Rosso dir. Hayao Miyazaki (1992)

Aug - The Wind Rises dir. Hayao Miyazaki (2013)

Aug - Retribution dir. Nimród Antal (2023)

Aug - To Live and Die in L.A. dir. William Friedkin (1985)

Sep - The Equalizer 3 dir. Antoine Fuqua (2023)

Sep - Bottoms dir. Emma Seligman (2023)

Sep - Elemental dir. Peter Sohn (2023)

Sep - They Live dir. John Carpenter (1988)

Sep - Jawan dir. Atlee (2023)

Sep - Christine dir. John Carpenter (1983)

Sep - The LEGO Movie dir. Phil Lord & Christopher Miller (2014)

Sep - Outlaw Johnny Black dir. Michael Jai White (2023)

Sep - Satanic Hispanics dir. Alejandro Brugués , Mike Mendez, Gigi Saul Guerrero, Eduardo Sánchez, Demián Rugna (2023)

Sep - Prey dir. Dan Trachtenberg (2022)

Sep - Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight dir. Ernest Dickerson (1995)

Sep - Tales from the Crypt Presents: Bordello of Blood dir. Gilbert Adler (1996)

Sep - Tales from the Crypt Presents: Ritual dir. Avi Nesher (2002)

Sep - Vault of Horror dir. Freddie Francis (1973)

Sep - Tales from the Crypt dir. Freddie Francis (1972)

Sep - The Origin of Evil dir. Sébastien Marnier (2023)

Sep - The Expendables 4 dir. Scott Waugh (2023)

Sep - The Creator dir. Gareth Edwards (2023)

Oct - It Lives Inside dir. Bishal Dutta (2023)

Oct - The Company of Wolves dir. Neil Jordan (1984)

Oct - Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare dir. Rachel Talalay (1991)

Oct - Honeymoon dir. Leigh Janiak (2014)

Oct - Organ dir. Kei Fujiwara (1996)

Oct - The Bride of Frankenstein dir. James Whale (1935)

Oct - The Royal Hotel dir. Kitty Green (2023)

Oct - House of 1000 Corpses dir. Rob Zombie (2003)

Oct - The Nun II dir. Michael Chaves (2023)

Oct - The Godsend dir. Gabrielle Beaumont (1980)

Oct - Hatching dir. Hanna Bergholm (2022)

Oct - The Velvet Vampire dir. Stephanie Rothman (1971)

Oct - Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter dir. Joseph Zito (1984)

Oct - A Haunting in Venice dir. Kenneth Branagh (2023)

Oct - Piggy dir. Carlota Pereda (2022)

Oct - A Night to Dismember (The Lost Version) dir. Doris Wishman (1979)

Oct - The Blob dir. Irvin Yeaworth (1958)

Oct - Embrace of the Vampire dir. Anne Goursaud (1995)

Oct - Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls dir. Andrew Bowser (2023)

Oct - Exposed to Danger dir. Yang Chia-yun (Karen Yang) (1982)

Oct - Saw X dir. Kevin Greutert (2023)

Oct - The Birds dir. Alfred Hitchcock (1963)

Oct - Slumber Party Massacre II dir. Deborah Brock (1987)

Oct - Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island dir. Jim Stenstrum (1998)

Oct - The Being dir. Jackie Kong (1983)

Oct - Kuso dir. Steve (2017)

Oct - Visible Secret dir. Ann Hui (2001)

Oct - The Exorcist: Believer dir. David Gordon Green (2023)

Oct - The Love Witch dir. Anna Biller (2016)

Oct - Bones dir. Ernest R. Dickerson (2001)

Oct - Bedevil dir. Tracey Moffatt (1993)

Nov - A Million Miles Away dir. Alejandra Marquez Abella (2023)

Nov - Anatomy of a Fall dir. Justine Triet (2023)

Nov - Killers of the Flower Moon dir. Martin Scorsese (2023)

Nov- Five Nights at Freddy's dir. Gil Kenan (2023)

Nov - The Marsh King's Daughter dir. Neil Burger (2023)

Nov - It's a Wonderful Knife dir. Tyler MacIntyre (2023)

Nov - The Marvels dir. Nia DaCosta (2023)

Nov - Freelance dir. Pierre Morel (2023)

Nov - The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes dir. Francis Lawrence (2023)

Nov - Next Goal Wins dir. Taika Waititi (2023)

Nov - The Holdovers dir. Alexander Payne (2023)

Nov - Priscilla dir. Sofia Coppola (2023)

Nov - Thanksgiving dir. Eli Roth (2023)

Nov - Napoleon dir. Ridley Scott (2023)

Nov - The Persian Version dir. Maryam Keshavarz (2023)

Nov - Wish dir. Chris Buck & Fawn Veerasunthorn (2023)

Dec - Dream Scenario dir. Kristoffer Borgli (2023)

Dec - Godzilla Minus One dir. Takashi Yamazaki (2023)

Dec - The Boy and the Heron dir. Hayao Miyazaki (2023)

Dec - The Abyss dir. James Cameron (1989)

Dec - Eileen dir. William Oldroyd (2023)

Dec - A Christmas Story dir. Bob Clark (1983)

Dec - Wonka dir. Paul King (2023)

Dec - Monster dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda (2023)

Dec - Leave the World Behind dir. Sam Esmail (2023)

Dec - The Polar Express dir. Robert Zemeckis (2004)

Dec - The Muppet Christmas Carol dir. Brian Henson (1992)

Dec - Velvet Buzzsaw dir. Dan Gilroy (2019)

Episodes

Jan - Thunderbirds - "Trapped In The Sky" (1965)

May - Well ABRIDGE Me, Princess! - "Well, Excuuuuse Me, Princess and the Frog" (2023)

Jun - The Simpsons - "My Mother the Car Jacker" (2003)

Jun - The Simpsons - "The President Wore Pearls" (2003)

Jun - Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates - "The Coldest Cut of All" (1990)

Oct - Regular Show - "Terror Tales of the Park" I-VI (2011-2016)

Oct - The Simpsons - "Treehouse of Horror Presents: Not It" (2022)

Dec - The 100 - "Perverse Instantiation – Part One" (2016)

Dec - The 100 - "Perverse Instantiation – Part Two" (2016)

Dec - The Crown - "Ipatiev House" (2022)

Dec - The Crown - "No Woman's Land" (2022)

Dec - The Outer Limits - "The Galaxy Being" (1963)

Dec - Night Gallery - "Pilot" (1969)

Dec - Babylon 5 - "The Gathering" (1993)

Series

Jan - The Outer Limits - Seasons 1-3 (1995-1997)

Feb - The Outer Limits - Seasons 4-6 (1998-2000)

Mar - The Outer Limits - Season 7 (2001-2002)

Apr - Star Trek Discovery - Season 4 (2021)

Apr - Moonbeam City (2015)

Apr - Star Trek Picard - Seasons 2-3 (2022-2023)

May - Tales from the Crypt - Seasons 1-2 (1989-1990)

May - Star Trek Lower Decks - Seasons 2-3 (2021-2022)

May - Star Trek Prodigy - Season 1 (2021)

Jun - Star Trek Strange New Worlds - Season 1 (2022)

Jun - Tales from the Crypt - Seasons 3-4 (1991-1992)

Aug - Tales from the Crypt - Seasons 5-6 (1993-1995)

Sep - Tales from the Crypt - Season 7 (1996)

Sep - Tales from the Cryptkeeper - Season 1 (1993)

Sep - Star Trek Strange New Worlds - Season 2 (2023)

Oct - Tales from the Cryptkeeper - Seasons 2 & 3 (1994 & 1999)

#new fiction #2023

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The 2024 Book List

Fighting for Your Marriage (Howard J. Markman, Scott M. Stanley & Susan L. Blumberg)

Soldier's Heart (Gary Paulsen)

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (James Agee & Walker Evans) - 1K List: 1/year, 139/total

A Matter of Principle (Susan Beth Pfeffer)

5 Miraculous Muslims Touched by God (Author Unknown - Presumably Some Christian Organization)

The Woman in Me (Britney Spears)

Cold-Case Christianity (J. Warner Wallace)

Romney: A Reckoning (McKay Coppins) *

Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen) ; 1K List: 2/year, 140/total

[Audiobook] The Underground Railroad (Colson Whitehead); 1K List: 3/year, 142 total

Opportunity Knocks (Tim Scott)

Why Marriages Succeed or Fail (John Gottman)

How to Know a Person (David Brooks) *

Killing Floor (Lee Child)

They Called Us "Lucky" (Ruben Gallego) *

Acquitted (Kyle Rittenhouse)

Profiles in Courage (John F. Kennedy)

The Case Against the Sexual Revolution (Louise Perry) *

The Things We Cannot Say (Kelly Rimmer) *

Who Killed These Girls? (Beverly Lowry)

Endgame (Omid Scobie)

[Textbook] AHA Heartsaver - First Aid (2021 Student Edition/Workbook)

[Textbook] AHA Heartsaver - First Aid, CPR, AED (2021 Student Edition/Workbook)

[Textbook] AHA BLS Instructor Manual

House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)

Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) ; 1K List: 4/year, 143 total

Social Justice Fallacies (Thomas Sowell)

The Canceling of the American Mind (Greg Lukianoff & Rikki Schlott) *

Lost in Trans Nation (Miriam Grossman, MD)

Bad Therapy (Abigail Shrier) *

Hitler's Pawn (Stephen Koch) *

Rule Number Two (Dr. Heidi Squier Kraft) *

The Exchange (John Grisham)

[Audiobook] Zero Days (Ruth Ware)

Jesus Calling (Sarah Young)

Partners in Power (Roger Morris)

The Iliad (Homer - translated by Emily Wilson) - 1K List: 5/year, 144 total

[Audiobook] The It Girl (Ruth Ware)

In the Country of Men (Hisham Matar)

Get It Together (Jesse Watters)

Say More (Jen Psaki)

The Bible in 52 Weeks (Kimberly D. Moore)

White Rural Rage (Tom Schaller & Paul Waldman)

Prequel (Rachel Maddow)

Mansfield Park (Jane Austen) - 1K List: 6/year, 145 total

Morning After the Revolution (Nellie Bowles)

[Textbook] How to Write Anything - Third Edition (John J. Ruszkiewicz & Jay T. Dolmage)

I Swear (Katie Porter)

[Textbook] Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured - Twelfth Edition (Andrew Pollack, series editor)

What the Dead Know (Barbara Butcher)

Unbroken (Laura Hillenbrand)

The Situation Room (George Stephanopoulos)

King (Jonathan Eig) *

The Making of a King (Robert Hardman)

Troubled (Rob Henderson) *

If You Didn't Write It Down, It Never Happened! (Paul Serino)

Emma (Jane Austen) - 1K List: 7/year, 146 total

Elon Musk (Walter Isaacson)

The Fred Factor (Mark Sanborn)

A Coffin For Dimitrios (Eric Ambler) - 1K List: 8/year, 147 total

Privacy Is Power (Carissa Veliz)

[Textbook] Foundations of Education - Third Edition (NAEMSE)

Effective Difficult Conversations (Catherine Soehner & Ann Darling)

Foundation (Isaac Asimov) - 1K List: 9/year, 148 total

Foundation and Empire (Isaac Asimov) - 1K List: 10/year, 149 total

Book Club Reboot (Sarah Ostman & Stephanie Saba)

#2024 books

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Birthdays 12.18

Beer Birthdays

Henry Boddington (1813)

Peter Hood Ballantine (1831)

George K. Schmidt (1869)

Peter Stroh (1927)

Nancy Woodruff; Miss Rheingold 1955 (1933)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Paul Klee; Swiss artist (1879)

Leonard Maltin; film critic (1950)

Edward MacDowell; composer, pianist (1860)

Keith Richards; rock guitarist (1943)

Stephen Spielberg; film director (1947)

Famous Birthdays

Christina Aguilera; pop singer (1980)

Edwin Armstrong; engineer, radio inventor (1890)

Don Beebe; Green Bay Packers WR (1964)

Steve Biko; South African anti-apartheid activist (1946)

Bryan Chandler; rock bassist (1938)

Ty Cobb; Detroit Tigers OF (1886)

Jules Dassin; film director (1911)

Ossie Davis; actor (1917)

Archduke Ferdinand of Austria; World War I assassination that sparked the war (1863)

Christopher Fry; English writer (1907)

Betty Grable; actor (1916)

Rachel Griffiths; Australian actor (1968)

Joeseph Grimaldi; clown (1778)

Fletcher Henderson; jazz pianist, composer (1897)

Katie Holmes; actor (1978)

Ray Liotta; actor (1955)

Michael Moorcock; English writer (1939)

Jacques Pepin; French chef (1935)

Brad Pitt; actor (1963)

George D. Prentice; writer (1802)

Saki; Scottish writer (1870)

George Stevens; film director (1904)

Antonio Stradivari; Italian violin maker (1644, died this day 1737)

J.J. Thomson; English physicist (1856)

John Webster; English writer (1580)

Ron White; comedian (1956)

#Birthdays

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"TIRED OF K.P., DESERTS ARMY TORPEDOED, NOW WAITS FATE," Toronto Star. May 15, 1942. Page 38. === Back With Unit, Soldier Faces Civilian Court - May Return to Sea ---- SENTENCE MONDAY --- "B" Police Court at the City Hall, Magistrate McNish.

Charged with breaking into a service station at Fleet St. and Spadina Ave. May 9. a soldier pleaded not guilty.

Max Folson testified a window was found broken, a pit door smashed and the office ransacked.

P.C. George Henderson stated that at 230 a.m, when trying the door of the station, he had seen a soldier in the office. After running around the building the man ran out the front door. He arrested accused who denied being in the building. Accused was without a cap he said but in the office he found a soldier's cap.

"If I did anything of that kind, I was was not responsible. I had been drinking wine from early afternoon," said accused. "If I was in there I don't know anything about it. All I can remember is the officer arresting me."

"He had been drinking but I would not call him drunk." said P.C. Henderson when queried by the court. "There will be a conviction," said his worship.

"This man has a clean army record with one exception which needs explanation." said an officer from his unit. "Tired of cookhouse duty he deserted but only to join the merchant marine. His ship was torpedoed and he was later returned to us and he served a period of detention, We are returning him to the merchant marine. His intentions were good and he has been a good soldier."

"I will remand him until Monday for sentence," said Magistrate McNish.

Yesterday preliminary hearing of a charge of manslaughter against Hypolite Zdanek, charged with slaying Peter Mondura, began before Magistrate McNish. but a remand was found necessary and the hearing was put over until today.

Evidence yesterday was to the effect that deceased had been found apparently intoxicated, with his face covered with blood, Iying in a lane off Oxford St. Removed to Claremont Street police station as a drunk he had been set to hospital.

Prof. Dr. D. L. Robinson, who conducted the postmortem examination, stated deceased's eyes were discolored, his breast bone broken. Deceased had received a crushing blow on the abdomen which showed evidence of surgical repair. There had also be a small tear of the bladder which had not been sewn. There had been evidence of peretonitis.

"Deceased might have received these injuries if struck by an auto?" asked Frank Calloghan. defence councel. "Yes." replied Dr. Robinson. Sergeant Melntyre of Claremont Street station said deccased had been brought in as a drunk, but his blackened eyes and other facial injuries caused him to have the man taken to hospital for treatment. Returned to the station he had been placed in a cell where he complained at intervals of abdominal pain. Later he had been taken back to hospital where he subsequently died.

Mrs. B. Bednorsky, Lippincott St. testified that deceased had roomed in her home for 10 months. He had left the house at 3.30 p.m. on April 26 and was "perfectly sober at that time."

"You have been in trouble your self?" asked Mr. Callaghan.

"I don't see that has any bearing here." replied witness.

"You got eight years for killing a man with an axe?" "I didn't."

"Well you served five years at the penitentiary?" "I know in my heart whether I was guilty."

"You were convicted of the offence." I don't think I have to answer that."

"I am the one to decide that." said his worship. "Answer Mr. Callaghan."

"Yes, I was," replied witness.

At this point County Crown Atorney James McFadden informed the court that both Detective-Sergeant Munro and Pilot Officer (Dr.) Howe were ill and another remand. this time to May 22, was necessary.

Bail of $3,000 for accused was renewed.

Appearing for sentence on three charges of shopbreaking, Steve Witiuk was sentenced to two years less a day in the Ontario reformatory. Robert McDermott jointly charged and who also pleaded guilty was given one year definite and one year indefinite in the same institution.

"Witiuk, you did not live up to your probation when given a chance." said the court. "You, McDermott, did so and representations were made in your behalf and I am taking this into consideration."

DRIVER FINED $50 --- "A" Police Court, at City Hall, Magistrate Browne. Appearing in "A" police court for sentence on a charge of dangerous driving,John Verrall, alias Verrault, was fined $50 or 30 days.

P.C. Daniel Glover told the court that accused drove south on Ontario St. and made a sharp turn on Dundas St. "He stopped the car and investigating, I found that the accused was driving with only part of a steering wheel," said witness.

In registering a conviction, Magistrate Browne said: "Here you are driving a death-dealing machine. with only part of a steering wheel."

Gordon Horn pleaded guilty of stealing a bicycle. sweater and $18, the property of W. Fenn. He was remanded until May 22 for sentence.

"This boy obtained a job with Mr. Fenn as a messenger," related. Det. Charles Martin. "He was given a bicycle, sweater and orders to deliver. He collected $18 and disappeared. When I arrested him he told me that he threw the bicycle in the Don river. It was valued at $65 and has not been recovered."

TWO ARE SENTENCED ---- "C" Police Court, at the City Hall, Magistrate Prentice Noel Messier and Rosa Messier appeared before Magistrate Prentice in "C" police court for sentence on a serious charge. The accused man was sentenced to the reformatory for two years, less a day, and six months Indeterminate; the woman to one year in jail.

The convicted woman was led out of the court in a hysterical state.

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