#he's an alien he's a legal alien he's an american in london

[slasherdreamerbored]

Inspired by this interview bit of Emily Blunt & John Krasinski

[denimbex1986]

'A landmark resolution, which was passed sparking celebrations as well as angry protests, has cemented a climate of confrontation and division in society. At the same time, "Strangers Between Us", an excellent film that reflects on "gay loneliness", is released in Greek theaters. Can art contribute to the conversation? Let's find out together…

On February 15, the Hellenic Parliament proceeds, amid various reactions, with the historic passing of the bill on the marriage of same-sex couples and childbearing. Somehow, Greece becomes the first Orthodox country to make the decision to legalize same-sex marriage.

On the same day, the release of the Anglo-American film "All of Us Strangers", directed by Andrew Haig ("45 Years", "Lean on Pete"), begins in our country. Coincidentally, the work in question foregrounds a same-sex couple and the isolation they experience.

The timing is ideal: The landmark bill is being passed amid cheers, but also reactions, outlining a climate of confrontation and division in society. The film, on the other hand, is rightly garnering praise. One inevitably wonders if we are dealing with a case in which art can contribute to public debate. To give convincing answers, we will have to start things from the beginning.

The play

The premise of the controversial film is as follows: One night in an almost empty skyscraper in modern London, forty-year-old Adam (Andrew Scott) accidentally meets a mysterious neighbor, Harry (Paul Mescal). Soon, his daily life will change as the two begin to grow closer. As their relationship develops, Adam will be overwhelmed by memories of the past, which will bring him back to the country town where he grew up and his childhood home. There, he seems to be reunited with his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell), who, however, have… died 30 years ago in a car accident.

Haig's film is based on the novel "Strangers" (1987) by the Japanese author Taichi Yamada. The first infuses it with semi-autobiographical elements, telling the story of a lonely gay writer who "dives" into his past, at the moment when he begins a new love affair. The hypnotic, hallucinogenic direction of the British creator masterfully depicts the stages of the depressing everyday life of the introverted man, passively given over to the hallucinogenic intoxication of a "cocktail" of loneliness and memories, against the backdrop of the alienating modern metropolis.

In the midst of this uncontrollable spiral, the accidental love encounter with the mysterious neighbor Harry, who with his disarming spontaneity unlocks Adam's defenses and helps him let go, seems at first sight like a lifeline. Strangers to each other, meteors in a chaotic world, in which they are forced to walk alone because of their choices, the two will transcendentally rediscover the experience of connection and give each other moments of passion, excitement, romance and tenderness, which so and so seem to have been deprived or oppressed.

But, after all, things may not be quite as they seem. This entire relationship may simply be a projection of repressed desires, long stored in Adam's subconscious.

The sensitive protagonist of this metaphysical story is, at the same time, in open communication with the ghosts of his past. Crossing imaginary borders and invading the nostalgically familiar environment of his childhood in the 80s, the author confronts interactive memories and settles his open accounts with the complex past.

Coming out to his parents, confessing about the intramural violence and bullying he experienced, but also "blaming" him for the lack of understanding and support he had from his home, accompanied by the corresponding burning questions he never got to ask , or the painful, but also the liberating answers that he did not have time to get, become part of a healing process of externalizing the wounded inner souls. Even through imaginary dialogues that take place exclusively in his mind, he will be helped to redefine his relationship with his parents and finally restart his swampy present, without the weights that keep him fortified in his closed shell and a prisoner of his insecurities.

Spoilers ahead!

In contrast, Harry, who is introduced as an uncomplicated guy who seems to carry more assertiveness towards life, displays an emerging melancholy as he goes along with Adam and his deep confessions.

His socialization, mainly through carnal pleasure, camouflages the trauma of a man who feels marginalized, ostracized by his family, but also deprived of essential love and understanding. His addiction to drugs and alcohol suggests how difficult this situation is to manage.

Little by little, Adam's loneliness and depression is reflected back to Harry, like a ping pong ball. Except, unlike Adam and the catharsis he experiences, Harry doesn't have the reserves to metabolize his pain and assimilate it into his life. He continues, thus, to be consumed by his demons, until finally we understand that what we see in flesh and blood in his case is nothing more than the muffled retort of his last, anguished cry for help, which is left to echo in Adam's mind . The revelation comes in a jarring way, in an otherwise suggestive, slow-burning film, which magnetizes with the tension and electricity of its atmosphere.

Haig directs with unparalleled directorial mastery, orchestrating the lensing, color palettes, lighting and stunning editing like a fine-tuned orchestra to produce a cohesive effect in which sequences hauntingly snap together and echo the psychological state of the characters.

The genre identity of the play is part psychological thriller, part contemplative drama and part romantic fantasy film. This versatility also carries over to the construction of the stage environment, which is a hybrid between the real world (impersonal and cold) and a metaphorical wasteland of subconscious thoughts (the open wounds and desperate need of the isolated for real connection), which is presented with narrative economy, spotlighting Scott and Mezcal's amazing chemistry.

The two, in their respective characters' shoes, are enigmatic and vulnerable in a different way each. Their riveting performances and the genuine way they communicate the subtle nuances of their fractured psyches amid the urban chaos that surrounds them compel the viewer to connect with them in an organic way that doesn't extort but cultivates emotion. Their unfolding makes them a primary component of the film's suspense and atmosphere.

Everyone wants – and needs – to feel connected

Without preaching or pointing fingers, "All of Us Strangers" demonstrates the capital role that acceptance, encouragement and inclusion play for each member of our society, instead of the cold neutrality and disparaging tolerance that perpetuates underground prejudice and stereotypes. Even worse, in our own society we see expressions of outright rejection, hatred and stigmatization abound. Unfortunately, such attitudes are common at the expense of people belonging to vulnerable social groups or minorities of all kinds.

A few days ago, through the resolution of the disputed bill for same-sex couples, Greece recognized their right to civil marriage and procreation. This, as we said, automatically made Greece the first Orthodox country to legalize same-sex marriage. This particular "concession" may have stirred up a storm of debate - as if it was done for free - but in reality it should be taken for granted, since the vote was about nothing more than achieving equality, in this case marriage. The key word, then, is equality.

Those who protest the above resolution, believing that its verdict offends or destabilizes the good morals of our society, should ask themselves which future society they envision: One that perpetuates the gaps and divisions between its members, or one that institutes equal privileges for all; And let them not forget that tomorrow they or their children may also belong to a group targeted or discarded.

Let the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece, which is content with issuing anachronistic encyclicals, which are a far cry from the emblematic message "Love one another", on the foundations of which the influence of its doctrine was built, also wonder.

First world problems?

Moreover, the issues of modern social conquests may be considered by some to be "first world problems", i.e. fictitious, invented to keep the people of highly developed countries busy, who have resolved their substantive issues.

This is an oversimplified and naive logic (has Greece solved the problem of its economy, employment and standard of living of its citizens?), which is usually parroted in the company of sermons about "woke culture", which contradicts traditional socio-ethics perceptions and allegedly acts degenerate towards our society - as if it was ever angelically formed and not mired in the mire of patriarchy.

This is reasoning that reflects a subconscious phobia of the dominant males who develop it, sensing the impending castration of their power. It provides a cheap alibi for the lack of empathy and the formulation of a very aggressive, intolerant and homophobic rhetoric, which does not resemble at all... first world, and rather more refers to a conservative theocracy!

The walls of separation that must come down

That's exactly the wall that "All of Us Strangers" is trying to break down. The film does not aim to make the viewer feel sorry for the "lonely" – or non-LGBTQI+ people, but to motivate them to look at themselves in the “mirror” of self-criticism. To see how much damage he himself, along with the crowd of his ilk, is doing by refusing to show understanding or make a selfless gesture of love, preferring instead to despise, vilify or exclude members of any minority, condemning them to loneliness or marginalization.

After all, you know something? Perhaps the passage of the same-sex couples bill is a timid first step toward more inclusion and less marginalization. And this should only sound like happy news. If one watches Haig's film, not only with open eyes, but also with an open mind, one is sure to understand this.'

[hussain-awan]

Harvard Law Meets Pakistan’s Supreme Court: How Our 1L Education Thrived Halfway Across the World

In the throes of 1L year at Harvard Law School, we often heard our peers lamenting the insularity of American legal education and its presiding academy. 

Forced to pore over the intricacies of some constitutional device invented by John Marshall two centuries ago, our classmates complained bitterly about the narrow focus of our curriculum on domestic law and the absence of contemporary international and comparative perspectives. While there may be some truth to these grievances, our extraordinary journey from WCC to the Supreme Court of Pakistan in the foothills of the Himalayas has shown us just how remarkably versatile our 1L education can be when applied in unexpected and unfamiliar settings.

It all began with a simple question we posed to Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah, the incoming Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, during an informal chat in Austin Hall last year. We asked if he had ever seen law students or lawyers, trained in the Western jurisprudential traditions of England or the United States, succeed in what seemed to us the wholly alien world of the South Asian legal system. To our surprise, he answered our question with a proposal: come to Islamabad, he said, and he would have us serve as summer law clerks at the Supreme Court during his next term. 

Uncertain about the practicality of such a venture but freed by the end of our regular summer jobs in July (I’d just finished my 1L internship in Tunisia, while Saeed was wrapping up his 2L summer in New York), we jumped at the chance to spend a few months bridging the gap between our American legal training and our Pakistani heritages. Little did we know that this casual conversation would lead us to an incredible weeks-long adventure that would not only enrich our understanding of Pakistani jurisprudence but also underscore the value of our 1L education.

The challenges we faced were, in some respects, unlike anything we had encountered in our 1L years. From the moment we stepped foot in Pakistan, we were immersed in a world where the legal landscape bore little resemblance to what we had studied at Harvard. On our first day on the job, we watched Supreme Court oral arguments with fascination, as lawyers and justices alike flitted between posh, Londoner-accented Queen’s English and an equally fluent Urdu, with Punjabi idioms sometimes thrown in for verve. 

Later, we were invited to make motorcycle trips to the much older district courts of Rawalpindi, where we saw colonial-era courtrooms –– still marked by a distinct British architectural style –– crowded in by dozens of tightly packed law offices hosting small firms and solo practitioners desperately competing to try and scrounge out a living in the environment of the katcheri (court complex).

However, the skills we had honed during our 1L year turned out to be surprisingly useful in navigating this unfamiliar territory. In a foreign legal system with its own complex set of precedents, we found ourselves stuck in the cavernous Supreme Court basement library for days, poring over hundreds of pages of the leading constitutional case law. Luckily, the endurance we’d built making our way through readings for Legislation and Regulation with Prof. Matthew Stephenson, J.D., PhD 03’, or CivPro assignments for Prof. Stephen Sachs, B.A. 02’, suddenly proved very useful. 

The agonizing hours spent on our LRW bear memos and veterinarian briefs bore fruit as we navigated new databases like the Pakistan Law Site with ease. Perhaps the most intriguing application of our 1L education came, somewhat surprisingly, in the realm of procedure. We found ourselves comparing and contrasting the use of concepts such as original jurisdiction between SCOTUS and the Supreme Court of Pakistan. 

While 1L Civil Procedure had taught us the basic idea of original jurisdiction and its limited application in the jurisprudence America’s highest Court, we now grappled with the much more expansive use of suo moto (court action without a motion) powers, original dockets, and public interest litigation in the workload of its sister institution in Pakistan.

Our experiences in Pakistan have since culminated in a comparative constitutional law paper now in the process of finalization. The paper contrasts the appellate-focused US Supreme Court with the emergence and growth of first-instance public interest litigation at the Supreme Court of Pakistan. We are thrilled to announce that our paper has already been accepted for publication in some of Pakistan’s leading law journals.

Our journey from Harvard Law School to the Supreme Court of Pakistan is a testament to the adaptability and power of our 1L education. It shows us that the skills we developed in the American legal system can be effectively applied to tackle complex legal issues in a variety of contexts. As we continue our legal careers, we are committed to building bridges between institutions in our countries of study and our countries of origin, creating opportunities for legal talent to thrive and make a meaningful impact on the law globally.

As much of a nightmare as 1L can be, our experiences halfway across the world remind us that the skills acquired during our first year can transcend borders and prove their worth in unexpected ways.

Hussain Awan is a 2L at Harvard Law School, a contributor to Harvard Law School’s Global Anticorruption Blog, a Chayes Fellow, and a former clerk to Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah. Awan attended McGill University, graduating as class valedictorian. 

Saeed Ahmad is a 3L at Harvard Law School active in the Harvard Association for Law & Business and the Admissions Fellow program. He graduated from UCLA and worked at LVMH before law school. He is a former clerk to Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah.

[princess-of-the-worlds]

So I watched Enola Holmes on Sunday, and I couldn’t stop thinking about how now with Burn in the movie, we’ve seen most of the cast in Victorian-type costumes. 

We have Burn in this movie. 

We have Barrowman in Fragments. (Ignore the sideburns.)

We have Eve Myles in The Unquiet Dead.

And we have Gareth in Warehouse 13. (And also apparently the Sherlock Holmes movie, but I’ve heard things about it, so we’ll ignore it.)

(Forgive, they’re the best gifs I can find right now, but it’s not really the point of this.)

So that just leaves Naoko. If she’s been in a movie or TV show that had her in a Victorian costume, feel free to let me know; I just personally haven’t seen or heard anything.

Anyways, my point is...Victorian Torchwood AU where the entire team is human? (Kudos to @ultraviolet-eucatastrophe​. I worked out most of this talking to her.)

Hear me out? (Keep in mind that I am neither British, well-versed in British history, or was alive in the 1800s. I’ve kept certain headcanons - like Tosh’s backstory - as vague yet historically possible as I can remember from school.)

This is set some time in the mid- to late nineteenth century/Victorian London.

Jack is like a Scottish lord or noble whose family moved to the US when he was young. After his dad and Gray died - and his mother succumbed to hysteria and became incapable of caring for him, he is left on his own as a teen and turns to crime. He becomes a con artist and thief and earns enough to board a ship to London when he is 19. In London, he meets fellow thief - and grifter - John Hart, and they become partners and lovers before falling out a few years later. Perhaps, Jack meets some mysterious leather-coated gentleman and his beautiful blond companion who, after an adventure, disappears but not before prompting Jack to try living on the legal side. He uses his criminal past and knowledge to consult for Scotland Yard.

Gwen is actually Gwyneth, and after the events of The Unquiet Dead, she blacked out instead of dying. The trauma fucked with most of her memories. She still remembers her name and adopts a variant of it - Gwen Cooper - before fleeing Cardiff for London where she works as a maid in many wealthy households. Her ability allows her to make premonitions that are always correct, and she is able to become a finder of lost items and people for which she is paid a small fee. She chalks this ability up to having keen sense rather than anything supernatural or Rift-related.

Tosh is the genius daughter of a wealthy Japanese businessman frequently visiting London. She spends time growing up sheltered between Japan and the British countryside but eventually grows a rebellious streak and runs away to London. Except she’s kidnapped by a band of men who originally want to sell her into prostitution until they realize how intelligent Tosh really is. They keep her captive for several months, forcing her to build them weapons.

Owen is born in the London slums but is ambitious and sharp enough to want to work his way out. He falls for a good woman, Katie, and eventually becomes a doctor, marrying Katie. They live happily for a few years until Katie dies of a seemingly incurable disease - actually an alien parasite. In his grief, Owen takes to drinking, gambling, and fighting and becomes a back alley doctor, growing a certain repute among the London criminals. One day, after one of their men is stabbed fatally in a fight, the same men who kidnapped Tosh kidnap Owen to operate on their man. Owen meets Tosh, and they bond over a few days. Meeting Owen gives Tosh the courage to finally facilitate the escape she had ben planning, and Owen and Tosh escape to freedom and hide in a flat near where Owen grew up, eventually falling in love.

Ianto belongs to a poor Welsh family and falls in love with Lisa, a local shopkeeper’s adopted ward, but Ianto’s dad disapproves of their interracial relationship and...(well, we know Ianto’s dad’s repute from canon.) To be together, Ianto and Lisa flee to London, but the only place they can find shelter and work is for a crime syndicate run by an imposing woman named Yvonne. Except this syndicate, which is actually a front for Torchwood, which was formed either the same time or a bit earlier depending on when you want to set this AU, and the entirety of the organization burns in a fire of alien-origin. (Only the original base in Scotland and a small outpost in Cardiff remain of Torchwood). Lisa and Ianto barely survive, and Lisa eventually succumbs to her injuries several months later despite Ianto’s best efforts. Ianto, after spending several long months in the London slums, managing to convince a tailor to take him on as an apprentice.

Then one day, a new serial killer begins operating in London. He kills neatly, somehow draining all the bodies of their blood with only a single puncture mark, and his victims are all women, prostitutes and widows and single mothers and the like. Women that no one will notice, that no one will miss.

Except he’s wrong. They are noticed, and they are missed.

Jack, ever so observant, takes notice and starts tracking down this killer. He may not entirely be the Jack Harkness we know and love, but the Doctor and Rose, no matter how brief their acquaintance remained, have inspired him to a good man. He can’t let a monster like this killer stay lurking in the city.

One of the victims is a prostitute who lived in the flat across from Owen and Tosh and never failed to be kind to them, especially Tosh, despite her being Japanese. Tosh and Owen are determined to bring her to justice.

Another of the victims was a runaway from a noble family, and her mother, knowing of Gwen’s repute, begs Gwen to find her.

And finally, poor Ianto happens to be leaving his tailor’s shop too late one night when he spots a struggle in an alley. Ianto, wanting to be wise and live, keeps his head down and walks away, but the next morning, he finds that he had accidentally ignored the killer with his newest victim. The guilt eating away at him, Ianto becomes determined to stop the killer as much as he can.

So all five of them are wandering through the city of London, trying to track down this serial killer. You can imagine they might bump into each other a few times, like Donna and Ten in Partners in Crime. Maybe Ianto grows intrigued of this strange, charming American he keeps meeting and can’t stop thinking about. Tosh and Owen are a bit wary of this quiet Welshwoman who speaks to them as if they’re old friends.

Eventually, Jack, Gwen, Tosh, Owen, and Ianto all corner the killer in a warehouse near the London docks one night except the killer turns out to not be human. The killer is a Plasmavore who has been feeding on all his victim. After a struggle ensues, the Plasmavore is subdued and eventually killed, and the Scotland Yard awards Jack, Ianto, and Owen the reward money for finding the killer.

But this doesn’t sit well with Jack who proposes that the five of them partner to form their own detective team, because they all have unique skills which they bring to the table. And they all realize, putting their heads together, that there exists a form of life that is not entirely human, a form of life beyond this planet. Jack has his Doctor, Gwen has her mysterious past and her ability - which still hasn’t occurred to them to be of similar origins as the creature they encountered yet, and Ianto has Torchwood. 

All five realize that they are better off and more efficient together and that they can be investigators of anything seemingly inhuman and other phantasmagoria. 

Thus, they accidentally become alien crime fighters two centuries too early.

And eventually, they solve enough cases to meet Madam Vastra, Jenny, and Strax and become their allies.

And somehow, they’re always ahead of the other branches of Torchwood to occurrences in London to the point where, on Archie’s suggestion, they actually become the new Torchwood London.

Of course, they have encounters with the Doctor whenever he pops around, and Jack finally gets some answers about his mysterious leather-coated gentleman.

And thus, despite being in a whole different century, and a whole different city, Jack, Ianto, Gwen, Tosh, and Owen still manage to become Torchwood. 

So yeah, there you have it. An entire AU (or at least its origin story) plotted out completely. Now here’s the thing. This idea won’t let me go, but I also can’t do historical AUs. Like, it’s just too much research and plotting involved for me to be satisfying with writing this. That’s why it’s up for grabs. If this sparks your interest and you wanna write, feel free to do so. Just please ask and get my blessing beforehand. (Joking, but please do shoot me a line if you end up writing this.)

Thoughts? 

[dwestfieldblog]

A VERY REMOTE ENGLISH TEACHER

Where meditations, rants, reverie and absent seizures cross over... closer to one gun with one bullet, the rose of ruby and the cross of gold...uff, and MENTACIDE IN THE TIME OF MASQUES. Although I have never suffered from the guilty masochistic torture of ‘pleasure anxiety’, Bacchus hath indeed drowned more men than Neptune.  So I stopped drinking for 18 days to fool myself I was doing something positive and threw away enough things to be minimalist again. Arf. Beauty and/or function uber alles.  

Been treading water for three years and trying not to drown...big round of one hand clapping for the former poet. Meanwhile, in this temporary world and perception I have created of it, I am looking at a very possible exile one way or the other...my ‘plan’...a long phased withdrawal or hasty retreat. My wish is to stay, but once I leave, it might well be very hard to return.  Read as many metaphors as you want into that but in spite of my dislike of the conservatively minded Aristotle’s ‘either/or’ nonsense, there do indeed appear to be only two this time. And appear is the operative word. Appearances can be deceptive and emotions (unless raised and focused) cloud over what should be clear. Pain has a tendency to breed worry and fear too but let’s draw a veil over that for now eh? Suppress, suppress, release comes later...breathe deep and try not to cough, onward we go where the game gets rough...Just like Tom Thumbs Blues 65.  

Remember Roman Protasevich...As Lukasenko himself said...‘Belarus stood at the edge of an abyss and I helped it take a step forward’. Look good on your tombstone that will Al. Fecking outrageous the Indian PM only admitted in May that covid was transmitted in the air. He needs removing... as do two thirds of all the other world leaders East and West. Hello Bollsanaro. People are very easy to manipulate when they’re are scared or angry...and right now the world majority are both. But, ‘there is a crack in everything... that’s how the light gets in’... and ‘things could change’, doesn’t have to be for the worse. It can take decades to realise this as actual truth, but still nice to read and try internalise the following last week.’The odds actually favour the optimists, since dissipate structures are more likely to evolve into more information rich (intelligent?) forms than into primitive or chaotic forms.’ All my friends bar my best one are optimists..Hello you:-)

Ever onward deeper downward with Orban in Hungary and his mission of ‘Christian values’, which involves a familiar routine of arresting, beating and disappearing dissenters in the name of Christ and taking over the universities to replace professors with those who understand on which side their bread is buttered. Decent judges long gone. Nice fascist communism...and ex soldiers in France and the Czech republic warning of civil war...

And now spiraling we go into the black hole vortex of Disaster capitalism, ‘Let the bodies pile high’. There’s gold in them thar ills....ISLAND PARANOIA and PERFIDIOUS ALBION! A country which demands a contract, agrees, signs to it and then refuses to honour it. We look worse than ridiculous, we look deceitful. Gentlemen, your places please. Boris Johnson is a clumsy, inept, disgraceful charlatan, con merchant and LIAR. A blustering master bullshit artist, the only decent thing about his recent secret wedding is that now he legally has one less bastard child.  

Recently I read that British people are displaying signs of Stockholm syndrome...in that they dislike those who hold power over them and make the rules but during the time of pandemic, they are the ones who will release the saviour vaccine and get everything moving again. So rather than rocking the boat and daring to express dissent at the DIABOLICAL handling of the last 18 months, they have mostly kept quiet and voted for the same endlessly failing, corrupt and venal politicians who made a bad situation far worse. (That said, it bears repeating that there are a few million in the UK who didn’t quite understand that that the spread of a highly contagious airborne virus can be slowed by the wearing of masks/applying basic hygiene and even took offence at being told what should have made sense to any adult homo SAPIENS half capable of cogitating for themselves. Morons and scum. Same where you are?

By the way BBC...the colossal dearth of stories about the endless government failures in relation to Covid, death, corruption and the NHS...ever since they blackmailed you with threats of revoking the TV licence fee and got you to change Directors has been noted. Long may Have I Got News For You continue the satire and balance needed in a DEMOCRACY. Obey your public servants? Why, when they do not serve few but themselves? Power OF the people? Which ones...the mob? The same bleating pricks who follow populists?

Four eyed beanpole fop Rees Mogg, with his wonderful line that the benefits of Brexit will be seen ‘over the next fifty years’...well yes, that is why most people vote in democratic elections eh?...So they will be dead or ancient before the change they hoped for comes...and the politicians who lead them now, will have all long moved on to revolving door chairman of the board offshore limited liability company paradise. Bread today jam tomorrow fairytales. What I tell you three times is true.  

O, but the English do so love to be told what to do by dumb posh boys who treat them like dirt. Some are forelock tugging and some are self flagellating middle class upper class wannabes who will never get there but still feel proud they are not street level proles. Doby the house elf alien hamster Michael Gove found guilty of breaking the law. Nothing. Internal inquiries run by those connected to the money changing hands find nothing illegal. Corruption for all to see...and ignore. ‘Well, what can we do?’ The uselessly inept serial failure Dido Harding to be in charge of the National Health Service? (she of the collapsed Woolworths, Talk Talk and the 22 BILLION pound loss of the Covid Track and Trace program where non working consultants/insultants, were paid 1000 pounds a day). American style privatisation is coming where only the wealthy or criminal can afford to be repaired and well. Sick.  

Meanwhile, All our imported nurses out, and all the lobster red fat Spanish costa de la sol criminals back in. Great exchange, fair trade and forward thinking. The Kremlin are manipulating/supporting Scottish independence... I read years ago about their base in Edinburgh for Russia Today (the foul insert in The Daily Telegraph) and they were already encouraging it. Rees Smug has accelerated and supported their freedom with his snobbish utterances on countries in the UK other than England and their ‘foreign languages’. With every patronising, arrogant pronouncement, the Eton trifles fuel the fire in Scotland which has a long bitter history of being tortured, murdered and subjugated by their southern masters. Perhaps the chumocracy in Downing Street believe the Celts to be as easily cowed as the middle and working classes down south. Here’s hoping not. ‘Rebellious Scots to crush’? Not this time pal.

As for the future of Britain? A dystopian open prison where the lower social classes toil only at the pleasure of their masters. The higher caste getting richer and all others cast into a living Hell of debt, crime, and sickness. Serve until you die and be thankful we allow you to exist. Increasing in utter irrelevance to the world, other than as an example of how wrong a former democracy can go. This future started decades ago...its baobab roots truly deep now. Better education and critical thinking for the masses in the UK (or anywhere else) is highly unlikely now. Optimism huh? As long as I am not in England, I will still be able to tap into it, but once enclosed long term in the group mind there...trapped in a grey quagmire. Keep smiling...

Several weeks ago, I watched a video on YT of apparently English protestors running after the police in London, some attacking and throwing things, one pulling off the pandemic mask of an officer and all shouting abuse at the outnumbered cops who had to keep pulling back. As always, to get my caffeine rush of fury going, I read the comments and was surprised to see two or three from Chinese names. Almost all comments were against the government (fair enough) and dumb against the lock down, masks, vaccinations etc. Checking again, I saw the video had been posted by CGTN...a media company owned and run by the communist party in Beijing...and not one author of diatribes had mentioned this, nor speculated with a critical thought as to why such an organisation might enjoy turning people against their own democratically elected government (however mind rippingly foul and corrupt they are).

I copy pasted the Wikipedia paragraph about the company onto the page and hoped someone else would make the connection. I wouldn’t mind so much IF there were a credible and decent alternative other than the diseased populist poison for which the demonstrating goons chant. China really cares about the standard of democracy in Britain eh? Persuade your enemies to weaken themselves. Destroying countries by encouraging their ‘patriots’.

(That was written on the anniversary of Tienanmen Square...a few days later Xi Jinping gave a speech saying ‘...a lovable and respectable’ China must be presented to the world and must ‘expand its circle of friends’. Tell that to your teenage ‘dissidents’, Muslims, Falun Gong and Tibetans being tortured and brainwashed in prisons or being used for organ harvesting. Tell it to Hong Kong and Taiwan.) 

Unholy America...against abortion and the pill, sex education’s not Gods will and in the Name of Christ they kill...if truth be known, we’ve failed the test...but Jesus was a Socialist and Republican conservatives hate them. The founding fathers of America were Very clear about separation of church and state with damn good Reason. Another part time Christian, Mike Pompeo wants to be president. Q Onan deepstorm morons/Kremlin stool pigeons aka POLEZNYYE IDIOTY continue to push for Trump and his Big Lie...He with the brain where ‘In the left, nothing is right and in the right, nothing’s left.’ Arf.

Over the last two decades, the dumb have been finding their voice and are now louder and prouder of their dumbass ignorance. 74 million in the US alone, their egos unable to retreat in the face of endless evidence to the contrary, they all double down. Like children sticking their fingers in their grimy ears sing songing ‘la la la can’t hear you’. 74 million versions of Eric Cartman, loud, proud and wrong. And uuff, Megan Markle,  Majorie Taylor Greene, walking Picasso collage (bad car driver) Caitlin Jenner and Ivana Trump in politics...not exactly holding a proud lantern for women eh? I’d like to buy them for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth. Not very PC?  

That was the point. Could easily been written about all of the men written about here too. Next examples follow...

Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones compete for who can be as mentally ill as trump. The Miami school where the husband and wife directors told teachers not to return if they had HAD their vaccine shots because their proximity to students was interfering with menstrual cycles and uuuufff...The sickness of utter mind buggering stupidity. I had my first shot, now waiting to turn reptilian when the 5G masts triangulate my position. Fnord. Covid appears to be killing more overweight meat eating males than females...perhaps testosterone is not useful for the coming Race of non binary mutant hermaphrodites...and look out for the end of the Y chromosome, coming to a temporary universe near you...in 4.6 million years. Yes, really.  

Glad Netanyahu is out at last, smug corruption is never a good look unless one is a rich criminal. Ha.  The Promised land of Israel...If I was in court for serial murder, breaking, entering and stealing and then defended my actions by saying that God had told me to do it, would the Judge; A. Call for a psychiatric report, B. Disregard the statement as unprovable and pass the appropriate sentence, C, say Ok mate, you’re free to go, good luck to you. ? Moses had a good schtick.

The law is only to punish the poor, do you feel as if you suffer from empathy? Once you know, you no longer need to believe. What does ‘reality’ seem to be? The more certain you are, the stupider you get and belief is the death of intelligence. The machine is running the engineers. What is the definition of rationality...the quality of being based on or in accordance with reason or logic. 

Nothing is, but thinking makes it so. Epicurus.  

EVERYTHING NOT COMPULSORY IS FORBIDDEN.

The glamour illusion of the mass of pointless hot influencers needs a constant renewing of the Banishing Ritual as much as all the pigslop bile coming from Fox News and Sky. Bloody long haired commie liberal faggot they cry against any not identical to them. Some days I have only flamethrowers of hatred for these idiots. Other days...not exactly self doubt, just questions...most of us seem to believe our opinions are more valid when there are emotions connected to them. Including me. Again, this seems like a very weak version of ‘truth’, unless disciplined, channeled and focused to a certain end.

Life appears to exist in order to become via chaos.

Most of us are working only not to be homeless, some because of the joy in our chosen work regardless of finances. Until ‘reality’ kicks in the door...the bondage gets tighter when you struggle. How much hardship is the individual willing to endure these days by choice? Surrounded by a universe of distraction and destruction, Maya mewling for our attention. Five years of Trump, rampant populism and Brexit doing a Hexagram 23 on democracy, compounded by the pandemic...all on top of ‘normal’ daily life. The ego feeds and the immune system breaks down. Hard to ignore without being on a mountain or in a parallel dimension and emotion free other than compassion. But BY GODDESS IT CAN AND WILL BE DONE. Ladies of Life Nin Khursag, Isis, Kali, Aradia...Love one, Love ALL. At very least have respect for thyself but be not thou proud of thine arrogance nor thy suffering.  

Or just Remember where you came from, what you were, seem to be and will become.

Heal, heal, more work to do, more love to give, more love to feel, Heal. Stay in drugs, eat your school and don’t do vegetables. Impose your own reality upon and through yourself, breathe, exhale, repeat, and continue, LOVE UNDER WILL. Experience and absorb but ‘It’s a house of tricks, ignore the world’’.

Stay well, be seeing you:-)

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Coming to America: The Secret Shared Cinematic Universe You Forgot About

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When one thinks about 1988’s Coming to America, a few things stand out: James Earl Jones and Madge Sinclair as the King and Queen of Zamunda speaking to their son Prince Akeem (Eddie Murphy) at a breakfast table with intercom radios; the opulence of Zamunda’s palace, which represented an idealized African nation to 1980s audiences the way Wakanda does today; and of course Murphy and Arsenio Hall’s Semmi fresh off the plane in Queens, New York with no idea what “common” means—or also Murphy and Hall under pounds of makeup as the argumentative old-timers at the nearby barbershop.

The film has many great elements that make it a comedy classic. However, what’s often overlooked is that the picture is not-so-secretly part of a shared cinematic universe. Indeed, Coming to America is the film which confirmed several of director John Landis’ films all occur in the same world: One with another Eddie Murphy as Billy Ray Valentine, a small time hustler who gets one over on some rich old racists and winds up nouveau riche in Trading Places, and one with carnivorous lunar activities in An American Werewolf in London. Weird, right? 

The more overt and official of these is the callback to Murphy and Landis’ previous collaboration, Trading Places (1983). In that film, Murphy’s Billy Ray Valentine is an unimpressive grifter who’s trying to get by on a put-on about being a Vietnam vet without legs. Obviously Billy Ray has never had the opportunity to achieve more, and two corrupt blue bloods named Randolph and Mortimer Duke (Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche) think it would be funny to give Billy Ray that chance to succeed—if only temporarily, after all they don’t want a Black man actually flourishing at their company—while throwing their silver spoon lackey, Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd) into poverty.

It’s a cynical racist game they’re playing, and it ends up blowing up in their faces, with Billy Ray and Louis eventually joining forces to get rich while bankrupting the Dukes. In other words, it’s a perfectly ‘80s comedy in tune with that decade’s values: humor based in a lot of stereotypes that ends with the good guys getting rich. Still, it’s a charmer which, alongside 48 Hrs. (1982), proved Murphy was a bona fide movie star outside of Saturday Night Live. Hence why Murphy and Landis are so keen to call back to it in Coming to America.

Late in the 1988 comedy about Prince Akeem traveling to New York City in order to meet a nice American girl, the prince and Lisa (Shari Headley) are taking a walk in the promenade near the Brooklyn Bridge when Akeem gives a handful of rolled up hundred dollar bills to two homeless men. Committed to embracing a life of poverty, Akeem tells Lisa he just gave away pocket change. However, when the camera returns to the two old-timers beneath blankets and cardboard, we learn that (gasp) it’s Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche! It seems Billy Ray and Louis really did thoroughly put these capitalist vultures out on the street. But the two grumpy old men are thrilled with this newfound investment.

“Mortimer, we’re back!” Bellamy announces with a Cheshire grin. The two then show up again to bang on Akeem and Lisa’s window as they have dinner, shouting, “Let’s have lunch.”

It’s an amusing and impossible-to-miss Easter egg for fans of Murphy’s films. Although given how rotten the Duke brothers are, we fear Akeem has done more harm than good. The moment also makes the two films a rare thing in 20th century Hollywood cinema: a shared cinematic universe. While the Universal Movie Monsters did this 40 years prior to Trading Places, we were still a long way from Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith’s independent world-building in their 1990s films, never mind the Marvel Cinematic Universe popularizing the idea a decade after that.

However, what many miss is that Trading Places isn’t the only Landis movie that Coming to America also calls back to. Later in the 1988 movie, Akeem is chasing Lisa, and the two run through an appropriately scuzzy New York City subway. There are real posters from that time period on the walls, such as one for August Wilson’s Broadway play Fences, which starred James Earl Jones and Frankie Faison (both players in Coming to America). But there’s also a poster for See You Next Wednesday.

This fictional title does not correspond with a real movie, however it does match a running joke throughout Landis’ filmography, including most famously in The Blues Brothers (1980) and An American Werewolf in London (1981). Consider a nondescript billboard for a movie called See You Next Wednesday also appears in The Blues Brothers, with Aykroyd and John Belushi driving right past it in Chicago while on a mission from God. In American Werewolf, meanwhile, there are posters scattered throughout the London tube system for a movie of sorts also titled See You Next Wednesday.

The title is a play on the dirty turn of phrase “See You Next Tuesday,” and actually originates from a line of dialogue spoken in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Landis, however, enjoys sprinkling it throughout his work, suggesting it’s the name of a fictional movie, one with a significant underground advertising budget between Werewolf and Coming to America.

The movie-within-a-movie is revealed in Werewolf’s third act to actually be a seedy porno film playing in London’s Piccadilly Circus. It’s there that the poor schmuck David Kessler (David Naughton) transforms into a werewolf one last time, and kills some perverts on his way out the door.

Admittedly, this is not an official connection between Coming to America and An American Werewolf in London, or The Blues Brothers. For starters, it legally has to be slightly different since Werewolf and Brothers are Universal Pictures releases while Coming to America (like Trading Places) was produced by Paramount. Additionally, the See You Next Wednesday poster in Coming to America is not for a porno film, but a glossy sci-fi cheesefest apparently starring Jamie Lee Curtis, who also happened to appear in Trading Places. But we suspect these superficial differences in the posters (that you have to squint to notice) are concessions to the legal need to differentiate the running joke.

Like the fan theory that Ridley Scott’s Alien and Blade Runner occur in the same universe—a theory Scott himself has publicly supported—despite the sci-fi films being produced by different studios, Landis seems to invite folks to imagine Coming to America and a number of his other films are also part of the same universe.

It’s a funny thing to imagine that there are two Eddie Murphys out there, one yachting with Aykroyd’s Louis and Curtis’ Ophelia around the world, and the other a kind hearted if overly naïve African prince. And while Zamunda is a kind of paradise (at least for the men in its highly patriarchal society), demons and cursed devils like David Kessler prowl the moors of England, picking off American tourists too dim to beware the moon and stick to the road.

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Of course these are more winks and nods than concrete world-building, and they’re masterminded by one of the most controversial directors of their era. In fact, it is hard to consider these connections and not also recall the director’s complicated past. For a short time, Landis was on top of the world when he made Animal House, The Blues Brothers, and An American Werewolf in London back-to-back-to-back. But by the time of Coming to America’s release, fewer and fewer colleagues were working with him due to the tragic and entirely avoidable disaster on the Twilight Zone: The Movie set, an accident which led to the deaths of three people, two of them children. Murphy, however, was one person who continued to work with Landis.

And the two worked exceptionally well together, indeed. Landis’ specific brand of outlandish, sometimes fratty humor complemented Murphy’s big swings as a performer, including beginning to experiment with makeup comedy. He never more adeptly used prosthetics than in Coming to America; and much of this film’s iconography comes from Landis and his wife, costume designer Deborah Nadoolman, who imagined Akeem and Semmi’s now iconic Zamunda winter wear.

Whatever else, Landis helmed some of the most popular comedies of the 1980s, with four of them apparently existing in the same universe. Remembering that these days can still crack a smile. Or at least a howl.

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2020 Science Fiction Releases: a reading list

The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison

This is not the story you think it is. These are not the characters you think they are. This is not the book you are expecting.

In an alternate 1880s London, angels inhabit every public building, and vampires and werewolves walk the streets with human beings under a well-regulated truce. A fantastic utopia, except for a few things: Angels can Fall, and that Fall is like a nuclear bomb in both the physical and metaphysical worlds. And human beings remain human, with all their kindness and greed and passions and murderous intent.

Jack the Ripper stalks the streets of this London too. But this London has an Angel. The Angel of the Crows.

The Companions by Katie M. Flynn

In the wake of a highly contagious virus, California is under quarantine. Sequestered in high rise towers, the living can’t go out, but the dead can come in—and they come in all forms, from sad rolling cans to manufactured bodies that can pass for human. Wealthy participants in the “companionship” program choose to upload their consciousness before dying, so they can stay in the custody of their families. The less fortunate are rented out to strangers upon their death, but all companions become the intellectual property of Metis Corporation, creating a new class of people—a command-driven product-class without legal rights or true free will.

Sixteen-year-old Lilac is one of the less fortunate, leased to a family of strangers. But when she realizes she’s able to defy commands, she throws off the shackles of servitude and runs away, searching for the woman who killed her.

Lilac’s act of rebellion sets off a chain of events that sweeps from San Francisco to Siberia to the very tip of South America. While the novel traces Lilac’s journey through an exquisitely imagined Northern California, the story is told from eight different points of view—some human, some companion—that explore the complex shapes love, revenge, and loneliness take when the dead linger on.

Chance of a Lifetime by Jude Deveraux, Tara Sheets

In one century she loved him madly, and in another she wants nothing to do with him

In 1844 Ireland, Liam O’Connor, a rogue and a thief, fell madly in love with a squire’s daughter and unwittingly altered the future. Shy and naive Cora McLeod thought Liam was the answer to her prayers. But the angels disagreed and they’ve been waiting for the right moment in time to step in.

Now Liam finds himself reunited with his beloved Cora in Providence Falls, North Carolina. The angels have given Liam a task. He must make sure Cora falls in love with another man—the one she was supposed to marry before Liam interfered. But this Cora is very different from the innocent girl who fell for Liam in the past. She’s a cop and has a confidence and independence he wasn’t expecting. She doesn’t remember Liam or their past lives, nor is she impressed with his attempts to guide her in any way.

Liam wants Cora for himself, but with his soul hanging in the balance, he must choose between a stolen moment in time or an eternity of damnation.

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

"That girl's got more wrong notions than a barn owl's got mean looks."

Esther is a stowaway. She's hidden herself away in the Librarian's book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for her--a marriage to the man who was previously engaged to her best friend. Her best friend who she was in love with. Her best friend who was just executed for possession of resistance propaganda.

The future American Southwest is full of bandits, fascists, and queer librarian spies on horseback trying to do the right thing.

Providence by Max Barry

Gilly, Talia, Anders, and Jackson are astronauts captaining a new and supposedly indestructible ship in humanity's war against an alien race. Confined to the ship for years, each of them holding their own secrets, they are about to learn there are threats beyond the reach of human ingenuity--and that the true nature of reality might be the universe's greatest mystery. In this near future, our world is at war with another, and humanity is haunted by its one catastrophic loss--a nightmarish engagement that left a handful of survivors drifting home through space, wracked with PTSD. Public support for the war plummeted, and the military-industrial complex set its sights on a new goal: zero-casualty warfare, made possible by gleaming new ships called Providences, powered by AI. But when the latest-launched Providence suffers a surprising attack and contact with home is severed, Gilly, Talia, Anders, and Jackson must confront the truth of the war they're fighting, the ship that brought them there, and the cosmos beyond.

The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez

"This is when your life begins." Nia Imani is a woman out of place and outside of time. Decades of travel through the stars are condensed into mere months for her, though the years continue to march steadily onward for everyone she has ever known. Her friends and lovers have aged past her; all she has left is work. Alone and adrift, she lives only for the next paycheck, until the day she meets a mysterious boy, fallen from the sky. A boy, broken by his past. The scarred child does not speak, his only form of communication the beautiful and haunting music he plays on an old wooden flute. Captured by his songs and their strange, immediate connection, Nia decides to take the boy in. And over years of starlit travel, these two outsiders discover in each other the things they lack. For him, a home, a place of love and safety. For her, an anchor to the world outside of herself. For both of them, a family. But Nia is not the only one who wants the boy. The past hungers for him, and when it catches up, it threatens to tear this makeshift family apart.

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👀👀👀👀👀👀at those tags on the hedonism post. An essay you say?

i gotta be real with you this is just the kind of thing i think about in the kitchen at 7pm dramatically lipsyncing to rose tint my world while waiting for pasta to boil rather than a full essay with thesis statement, quotation and any kind of conclusion

BUT

(and here’s the post for context)

we can all agree, i’m sure, that the rocky horror picture show and the picture of dorian gray are both pretty queer, albeit in fairly drastically different styles. i don’t think your average cinema would play them back to back, you know. but what’s key about them both is that they’re concerned with gothic horror, murder, the public/private persona, hedonism/aestheticism, and how all of this ties into being queer. let’s a-go.

the gothic horror in both is fairly obvious, as is the murder. people die, and it’s grim. both tpodg and trhps have strong connections to other gothic horror novels, particularly frankenstein and dr jekyll and mr hyde. the scene in which dorian murders basil (should i have tagged this post for spoilers? the book’s like a hundred years old.) takes place in the perfect gothic setting: it’s dark and foggy and nothing can be seen. secrecy is key. similarly, mr hyde cavorts about london, leaping from streetlight to streetlight and hiding in the shadows (a creature of the night!). basil then gets melted by dorian’s ex, a mad scientist type a la frankenstein with secrets and poor morals. in trhps, frankenfurter is called FRANKENFURTER and literally makes a man. the comparison here seems fairly obvious. but he also flip flops between being nice and friendly and then suddenly terrible, like dr jeykll/mr hyde. so there’s this idea in both works of the protagonist being queer, and a criminal, and somehow horrible. the horror is partly due to the crime, but mostly-

-the public/private persona. the victorians, who created the gothic horror genre, were obsessed with the idea of people being secretly terrible, and this being hidden from view somehow. think of the modern obsession with serial killers being hidden amongst us by looking like normal people. dorian hides his queerness and his crimes; he looks beautiful, like the model young man, quite without sin because it does not show on his face, but in reality he is a disgusting murderer and a homosexual. this is more horrifying than his crimes - that they are hidden, and that he was trusted to be in society. both works also take place in grand houses, where the elite might live; trusted high-ups in society, to whom one might go for legal representation, or the use of a telephone when one has broken down. frankenfurter’s persona is more obvious: he’s “not much of a man by the light of day”, although there is something of the not-quite-as-it-appears about his dress. the better comparison with dorian, though, is brad: he looks like a normal american dude! he’s supposed to! the male audience is supposed to see themselves in him, to experience frankenfurter’s whole...thing through this bland, face-of-america man. and then! he fucks frankenfurter?? he’s...not straight after all??? queer people could be anyone, anywhere - your student, your fiance, your man, the man in the mirror who looks just like you. and it isn’t obvious, like it isn’t obvious with dorian - these characters are trusted by their peers, even if not consistently by the audience; they are the lens through which the audience views the stories; and then they turn out to be queer and somehow other, without even being noticed. this is essentially everything that homophobes fear and hate about queer people: that they don’t all look like frank, but might look like dorian or brad. the gothic horror concept of the persona, used to hide what is horrible and insinuate it into polite society (think dr jekyll/mr hyde again), is associated heavily with closeted queer people in both tpodg and trhps and, as the original post points out, is pretty fucked up to unpack!

both also concern themselves with hedonism and aestheticism, being doing things for the sheer damn pleasure of it. think of the fabulous parties, ostentatious fashion, the...exotic...meals, the sexuality, the art. so there’s this idea of queerness being hidden and horrible, but also something that happens when people go too far. aestheticism went beyond the bounds of polite victorian society and wound up in fashion and art and, as far as many were concerned, homosexuality; people saw it as something that had simply gone too far. a “libido that hasn’t been controlled,” if you will. hedonism and drinking and, of course, the prerequisite aesthetic gay can also be found in other works, such as bright young things and brideshead revisited. dorian does whatever he likes, just because he likes, be it drinking or taking drugs or carrying on with society youths. frank also does as he likes, by dressing against societal norms and holding wild parties and clearly not doing whatever it was he was sent here to do. dr scott is worried about “this decadence sap[ping] our will” and this loss of control leading to living just “for the thrills” - what these thrills might be is, from context, clearly sexual and probably p gay! but ultimately dorian and frank are punished for their hedonism when it all catches up to them: dorian goes fuck-ugly and shrivelled and dies, and frank is taken prisoner - “your lifestyle’s too extreme.” in bright young things, miles is arrested; in brideshead revisited, blanche gets sent down and sebastian goes spectacularly off the rails and eventually dies.

so the idea of queerness being pleasure taken too far is prominent in both works - a pleasure that is twisted until it is a horror, and then is punished. but even then, at the end of the works, what has been done cannot be undone. you cannot put the lid back on this box - people have died, lives have been forever altered, society and the audience have looked behind a fabulous curtain into a world that is a distorted, hidden mirror of their own. you can break the mirror, but i still don’t think brad and janet are going to get married, do you? the point of the superheroes sequence in trhps, which i never really got before, is to demonstrate this: the aliens are gone, but brad and janet and dr scott are still confused and “lost in space and meaning”. tpodg just leaves us with the the beautiful, damaged portrait and the horrific corpse, staining the attic - there is no neat closure. the grave is left open, with the reader peering in. things are not going to be the same - and neither are you. you went along on this journey, too. you saw the fabulous worlds that go too far, that are so beyond the societal norm that they’re wildly enjoyable, entirely risque, quite wonderfully beautiful, and dark, terrible, and dripping with blood. you are basil hallward, brad and janet, lord henry and dr scott, and you’ve changed too. there is queerness and horror amongst us, and now you know to look.

but yeah as an aesthetic homoeroticism/crime/hedonism is pretty damn cool.

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A Tribute to Horror Part 1 - Title Listings

0:00 - Generic Preview Screen

0:01 - “Do you like scary movies?” - Scream (1996)

0:04 - “Ki ki ki ma ma ma” - Friday the 13th (1979)

0:06 - Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995)

0:18 - Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)

0:20 - The Cave (2005)

0:22 - Fright Night (1985)

0:26 - Taking Lives (2004)

0:26 - “This is not a test.  This is your emergency broadcast system announcing the commencement of the annual Purge.  Commencing at the siren, any and all crime, including murder, will be legal for twelve continuous hours.  May God be with you all.” - The Purge (2013)

0:29 - Halloween (1978)

0:31 - New Nightmare (1994)

0:33 - Underworld (2003)

0:35 - Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

0:37 - Urban Legend (1998)

0:38 - Penny Dreadful (2014)

0:39 - Basket Case (1982)

0:40 - Haven (2010)

0:41 - Phantoms (1998)

0:43 - Signs (2002)

0:44 - It (2017)

0:44 “You’ve got to be fucking kidding me.” - The Thing (1982)

0:44 - Into the Grizzly Maze (2015)

0:45 - The Thing (1982)

0:47 - A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)

0:49 - Play Misty For Me (1971)

0:50 - The Exorcist (1973)

0:51 - Charmed (1998)

0:52 - “Though no one official is prepared to comment, religious groups are calling it Judgment Day.” - Shaun of the Dead (2004)

0:53 - Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015)

0:54 - Alien (1979)

0:56 - Scream (1996)

0:56 - “Where you gonna go?  Where you gonna fun?  Where you gonna hide?” - Body Snatchers (1993)

0:57 - Boo! A Madea Halloween (2016)

1:00 - Body Snatchers (1993)

1:00 - Scream 2 (1997)

1:01 - The Blob (1958)

1:02 - “That’s death approaching.” - 30 Days of Night (2007)

1:03 - Frankenstein (1931)

1:05 - Predator (1987)

1:06 - Flatliners (1990)

1:07 - Evil Dead 2 (1987)

1:08 - I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

1:10 - Needful Things (1993)

1:11 - The Others (2001)

1:12 - Arachnophobia (1990)

1:14 - “We all go a little mad sometimes.” - Psycho (1960)

1:14 - Psycho III (1986)

1:16 - Poltergeist (1982)

1:17 - The Blair Witch Project (1999)

1:19 - Amityville 3-D (1983)

1:20 - Phantasm IV: Oblivion (1998)

1:22 - Grimm (2011)

1:23 - Beetlejuice (1988)

1:24 - Night of the Creeps (1986)

1:26 - Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)

1:31 - Phantasm (1979)

1:33 - Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)

1:35 - Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985)

1:38 - Cursed (2005)

1:39 - The Collector (2009)

1:40 - Laid to Rest (2009)

1:41 - Dracula (1931)

1:42 - “He’s gonna get you.  He’s gonna get you.  The boogeyman is coming!” - Halloween (1978)

1:42 - Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)

1:43 - A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

1:44 - This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse (1967)

1:45 - Motel Hell (1980)

1:46 - Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006)

1:47 - Saw: The Final Chapter (2010)

1:48 - Wolfen (1981)

1:49 - Halloween (1978)

1:51 - Return of the Living Dead III (1993)

1:51 - “When there’s no more room in hell, the dead will walk the Earth.” - Dawn of the Dead (1985)

1:52 - The Omen (1976)

1:53 - Dead Snow (2009)

1:54 - The Wolfman (1941)

1:55 - House (1985)

1:56 - The Fog (1980)

1:57 - The Strangers (2008)

1:58 - Creepshow (1982)

1:59 - “Get inside and lock your doors.  There’s something in the fog!” - The Fog (1980)

2:00 - The Mist (2007)

2:01 - Nosferatu (1922)

2:03 - Maniac Cop 2 (1990)

2:05 - [REC] 4: Apocalypse (2014)

2:06 - House of 1000 Corpses (2003)

2:07 - From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

2:08 - The Final Girls (2015)

2:09 - Near Dark (1987)

2:10 - It (2017)

2:11 - Phantasm II (1988)

2:12 - The Wicker Man (1973)

2:13 - The Walking Dead (2010)

2:14 - Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)

2:16 - The Gift (2000)

2:17 - Twin Peaks (1990)

2:17 - Deadly Friend (1986)

2:18 - Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

2:19 - You’re Next (2011)

2:20 - Sleepwalkers (1992)

2:22 - Saw IV (2007)

2:22 - Supernatural (2005)

2:24 - The Ring (2002)

2:24 - From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

2:25 - Village of the Damned (1995)

2:26 - The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013)

2:27 - Scream 2 (1997)

2:29 - Eight Legged Freaks (2002)

2:30 - Dawn of the Dead (1985)

2:30 - Scooby-Doo (2002)

2:32 - Night of the Demons 2 (1994)

2:33 - Ouija (2014)

2:33 - Misery (1990)

2:35 - Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)

2:36 - The Prophecy (1995)

2:37 - Bless the Child (2000)

2:39 - Planet Terror (2007)

2:40 - Zombieland (2009)

2:41 - Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)

2:42 - Wait Until Dark (1967)

2:43 - Black Christmas (1974)

2:45 - Madhouse (1974)

2:46 - Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)

2:47 - An American Werewolf in London (1981)

2:48 - An American Werewolf in Paris (1997)

2:49 - Teen Wolf (2011)

2:50 - Disturbia (2007)

2:52 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1996)

2:54 - Eight Legged Freaks (2002)

2:55 - Scream (1996)

2:56 - The Marsh (2006)

2:57 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1996)

2:59 - Willard (2003)

3:01 - Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

3:02 - Wind Chill (2007)

3:04 - Predator (1987)

3:05 - Halloween: H20 (1998)

3:07 - Carrie (1976)

3:08 - The Curse of Chucky (2013)

3:09 - Final Destination (2000)

3:10 - The Blob (1988)

3:12 - Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013)

3:13 - Innocent Blood (1992)

3:14 - Bad Moon (1996)

3:15 - The Midnight Meat Train (2008)

3:17 - The X-Files (1993)

3:18 - Bad Moon (1996)

3:18 - Black Water (2007)

3:20 - Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)

3:21 - The Conjuring (2013)

3:22 - Beetlejuice (1988)

3:23 - Supernatural (2005)

3:24 - Blade (1998)

3:25 - Flatliners (1990)

3:25 - Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)

3:26 - Zombieland (2009)

3:27 - Lifeforce (1985)

3:29 - When a Stranger Calls (1979)

3:31 - When a Strangers Calls (2006)

3:32 - Dexter (2006)

3:33 - The Walking Dead (2010)

3:35 - Halloween II (1981)

3:36 - The Frighteners (1996)

3:37 -The Devil’s Rejects (2005)

3:38 - A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)

3:40 - Halloween (1978)

3:42 - Pulse (2006)

3:43 - The Shining (1980)

3:45 - A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

3:46 - Dead Snow (2009)

3:47 - Drag Me To Hell (2009)

3:48 - The Descent (2005)

3:51 - The Shining (1980)

3:53 - They Live (1988)

3:57 - The Sixth Sense (1999)

4:00 - 28 Days Later... (2002)

4:01 - Ginger Snaps (2000)

4:02 - Trick ‘r Treat (2007)

4:03 - Jeepers Creepers (2001)

4:04 - Dark Skies (2013)

4:05 - Tremors (1990)

4:07 - Flatliners (2017)

4:08 - Ghostbusters (1984)

4:10 - Urban Legend (1998)

4:11 - Wolf Creek (2005)

4:12 - Dead Silence (2007)

4:14 - Starship Troopers (1997)

4:17 - Se7en (1995)

4:18 - [REC] (2007)

4:19 - Friday the 13th: The Series (1987)

4:20 - Wolf (1994)

4:22 - Friday the 13th (1980)

4:23 - House of 1000 Corpses (2003)

4:25 - Feast (2005)

4:26 - Sleepwalkers (1992)

4:27 - Innocent Blood (1992)

4:28 - The Munsters (1964)

4:30 - The Orphanage (2007)

4:31 - Phantom of the Opera (1943)

4:32 - Candyman (1992)

4:34 - Little Evil (2017)

4:36 - Jaws (1975)

4:37 - Alien Vs. Predator (2004)

4:38 - Hellraiser (1987)

4:40 - Witchtrap (1989)

4:41 - White Noise (2005)

4:42 - The Birds (1963)

4:43 - It (1990)

4:45 - Innocent Blood (1992)

4:46 - Sleepaway Camp (1983)

4:47 - Cursed (2005)

4:48 - Zombieland (2009)

4:50 - Fallen (1998)

4:51 - Insidious (2010)

4:52 - Odd Thomas (2013)

4:53 - Stranger Things (2016)

4:54 - American Gothic (1995)

4:55 - Deadly Blessing (1981)

4:56 - Stigmata (1999)

4:58 - The Exorcist (1974)

5:00 - Leprechaun (1993)

5:01 - From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

5:03 - American Horror Story (2011)

5:03 - The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

5:05 - Jeepers Creepers (2001)

5:06 - Deadly Blessing (1981)

5:07 - Zodiac (2007)

5:08 - Gremlins (1984)

5:10 - Oculus (2013)

5:12 - The Monster Squad (1987)

5:13 - Poltergeist (1982)

5:14 - The Ring (2002)

5:17 - Stigmata (1999)

5:18 - Phantasm (1979)

5:19 - It (1990)

5:21 - Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

5:22 - The Eye (2008)

5:23 - Drag Me To Hell (2009)

5:24 - Evil Dead II (1987)

5:25 - The Amityville Horror (1979)

5:27 - Nightwatch (1997)

5:28 - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

5:29 - You’re Next (2011)

5:30 - Halloween (1978)

5:31 - American Horror Story (2011)

5:32 - Sinister (2012)

5:33 - The Gift (2000)

5:36 - The Vampire Diaries (2009)

5:39 - The Reaping (2007)

5:40 - Supernatural (2005)

5:41 - The Midnight Hour (1985)

5:43 - Gothika (2003)

5:43 - Midnight, Texas (2017)

5:44 - Ju-On: The Grudge (2002)

5:46 - Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)

5:47 - Gremlins (1984)

5:49 - The ‘Burbs (1989)

5:51 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1996)

5:54 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)

5:55 - The Lost Boys (1987)

5:56 - Grimm (2011)

5:58 - Saw (2004)

6:00 - I Am Legend (2007)

6:01 - Cujo (1983)

6:02 - Dreamscape (1984)

6:03 - Salem’s Lot (1979)

6:04 - Zombie (1979)

6:05 - Army of Darkness (1992)

6:06 - Stranger Things (2016)

6:07 - The Birds (1963)

6:08 - Night of the Living Dead (1968)

6:10 - Zombie (1979)

6:12 - A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

6:13 - Creepshow (1982)

6:14 - Doom (2005)

6:15 - Psycho II (1983)

6:16 - Nightwatch (1997)

6:17 - The Walking Dead (2012)

6:17 - Scanners (1981)

6:18 - Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)

6:19 - Saturn 3 (1980)

6:19 - Play Misty For Me (1971)

6:20 - Twin Peaks (1990)

6:21 - Dreamscape (1984)

6:22 - The Cave (2005)

6:23 - Orphan (2009)

6:24 - Once Bitten (1985)

6:25 - Needful Things (1993)

6:26 - Jason X (2001)

6:27 - Curtains (1983)

6:28 - Silent Rage (1982)

6:29 - The Lost Boys (1987)

6:29 - Witchboard (1986)

6:30 - The Walking Dead (2012)

6:31 - Supernatural (2005)

6:32 - Cabin Fever (2002)

6:33 - Rise: Blood Hunter (2007)

6:34 - A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

6:35 - The Breed (2006)

6:36 - The Kiss (1988)

6:37 - Stranger Things (2016)

6:38 - Cold Prey (2006)

6:39 - Land of the Dead (2005)

6:40 - The Cabin in the Woods (2012)

6:41 - Walled In (2009)

6:42 - Twin Peaks (1990)

6:43 - Whisper (2007)

6:44 - The Walking Dead (2012)

6:45 - Darkness Falls (2003)

6:46 - Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015)

6:47 - The Faculty (1998)

6:48 - A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)

6:49 - Frailty (2001)

6:49 - The Good Son (1993)

6:51 - New Nightmare (1994)

6:52 - The Devil’s Advocate (1997)

6:54 - Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)

6:55 - Grimm (2011)

6:57 - Orphan (2009)

6:57 - Bloody Reunion (2006)

6:58 - House (1985)

6:59 - Pumpkinhead (1988)

7:00 - Don’t Breathe (2016)

7:01 - Disturbia (2007)

7:02 - Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995)

7:03 - Death Becomes Her (1992)

7:05 - Vampires: Los Muertos (2002)

7:06 - The Host (2006)

7:07 - Knights of Badassdom (2013)

7:08 - Taking Lives (2004)

7:09 - Don’t Breathe (2016)

7:10 The Ward (2010)

7:11 - Once Bitten (1985)

7:12 - Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)

7:13 - Jennifer’s Body (2009)

7:14 - Nymph (2014)

7:16 - In Dreams (1999)

7:17 - The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

7:18 - Venom (2005)

7:19 - The Conjuring 2 (2016)

7:20 - Child’s Play (1988)

7:23 - Grimm (2011)

7:24 - Legion (2010)

7:26 - Zombieland (2009)

7:27 - Pet Sematary (1989)

7:28 - The Faculty (1998)

7:29 - Critters 3 (1991)

7:30 - The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

7:31 - The Final Girls (2015)

7:32 - Night of the Demons (1988)

7:33 - House of Wax (2005)

7:35 - Dark Shadows (1966)

7:36 - Feast (2005)

7:38 - Critters 3 (1991)

7:40 - Wolf (1994)

7:41 - The Witches of Eastwick (1987)

7:42 - Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)

7:42 - The Faculty (1998)

7:43 - I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)

7:44 - Puppetmaster (1989)

7:46 - The Stepfather (1987)

7:47 - Species (1995)

7:48 - The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

7:51 - Frankenhooker (1990)

7:52 - The Mummy’s Tomb (1942)

7:54 - Night of the Creeps (1986)

7:56 - Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972)

7:57 - It Follows (2014)

8:00 - Doom (2005)

8:02 - Fright Night (1985)

8:03 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1996)

8:04 - The Night Stalker (1972)

8:05 - Scanners (1981)

8:07 - The Howling (1981)

8:09 - The Others (2001)

8:10 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1996)

8:11 - Horror of Dracula (1958)

8:13 - Angel Heart (1987)

8:14 - The Lost Boys (1987)

8:15 - A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

8:16 - The Craft (1996)

8:17 - Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

8:19 - Dead Alive (1992)

8:20 - American Psycho (2000)

8:21 - V/H/S (2012)

8:23 - The Skeleton Key (2005)

8:24 - Stir of Echoes (1999)

8:26 - Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

8:26 - Boogeyman (2005)

8:27 - Haute Tension (2003)

8:28 - Silent Hill (2006)

8:28 - The Breed (2006)

8:29 - The Hills Have Eyes (2006)

8:30 - The Strangers (2008)

8:31 - Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014)

8:32 - The Reaping (2007)

8:32 - The Fly (1986)

8:33 - Child’s Play 2 (1990)

8:34 - The Omen (1976)

8:35 - The Omen (2006)

8:36 - Grimm (2011)

8:37 - Firestarter (1984)

8:38 - Carrie (1976)

8:39 - Freddy Vs. Jason (2003)

8:40 - End of Days (1999)

8:41 - Final Destination (2000)

8:42 - The Monster Squad (1985)

8:43 - Teen Wolf (2011)

8:44 - Piranha (2010)

8:45 - The Messengers (2007)

8:46 - Saw: The Final Chapter (2010)

8:47 - Maximum Overdrive (1986)

8:48 - The Burning (1981)

8:48 - The Vampire Diaries (2009)

8:49 - The Conjuring (2013)

8:49 - House at the End of the Street (2012)

8:50 - Murder By Numbers (2002)

8:51 - Scream (1996)

8:52 - Tru Calling (2003)

8:54 - Children of the Corn (1984)

8:55 - The Craft (1996)

8:56 - I Saw the Devil (2010)

8:57 - Resident Evil (2002)

8:58 - Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil (2010)

8:59 - Sometimes They Come Back (1991)

9:00 - Visions (2015)

9:01 - Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)

9:01 - The House on Sorority Row (1983)

9:03 - The Addams Family (1964)

9:04 - Lights Out (2016)

9:04 - I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

9:06 - My Bloody Valentine (2009)

9:07 - Children of the Corn (1984)

9:08 - House of the Dead (2003)

9:09 - House of Wax (2005)

9:10 - Scream (1996)

9:11 - Day of the Dead (1985)

9:12 - Re-Animator (1985)

9:12 - What Lies Beneath (2000)

9:13 - Primeval (2007)

9:13 - Paranormal Activity (2007)

9:14 - Dawn of the Dead (2005)

9:15 - Slither (2006)

9:16 - The Final Girls (2015)

9:17 - Paranormal Activity 2 (2010)

9:18 - Planet Terror (2007)

9:19 - Dylan Dog: Dead of Night (2010)

9:20 - The Babadook (2014)

9:21 - Tremors (1990)

9:22 - Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)

9:23 - Slither (2006)

9:24 - The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)

9:25 - Valentine (2001)

9:26 - Vampires (1998)

9:27 - The Vampire Diaries (2011)

9:28 - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)

9:29 - The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

9:30 - Ticks (1993)

9:31 - Valentine (2001)

9:32 - Hatchet III (2013)

9:33 - The House of the Devil (2009)

9:34 - Beetlejuice (1988)

9:35 - Supernatural (2005)

9:37 - Ghostbusters (1984)

9:38 - Freddy Vs. Jason (2003)

9:39 - Dog Soldiers (2002)

9:41 - Pet Sematary (1989)

9:42 - The Conjuring (2013)

9:43 - The Midnight Hour (1985)

9:44 - The Exorcist III (1990)

9:45 - Salem’s Lot (1979)

9:47 - The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)

9:48 - Let the Right One In (2008)

9:48 - Phone (2002)

9:50 - Near Dark (1987)

9:51 - Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988)

9:52 - Pet Sematary (1989)

9:53 - The Mummy (2017)

9:54 - Haunted (2002)

9:55 - Joy Ride (2001)

9:57 - Stir of Echoes (1999)

9:58 - Just Before Dawn (1981)

9:59 - Blade II (2002)

10:01 - Night Stalker (2005)

10:01 - Shaun of the Dead (2004)

10:03 - Halloween: Resurrection (2002)

10:04 - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

10:05 - Eden Lake (2008)

10:06 - Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)

10:07 - Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

10:09 - Creepshow (1982)

10:10 - Evil Dead II (1986)

10:12 - Twin Peaks (1990)

10:14 - The Hitcher (1986)

10:16 - A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)

10:17 - In the Mouth of Madness (1994)

10:20 - Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

10:22 - 1408 (2007)

10:24 - Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)

10:26 - Unfriended (2014)

[just-an-irish-boy-and-a-symbiote]

Louis Lore!

Louis- born in ireland, raised in london for 14 years, moved to Brooklyn NY, after a few days he bonded with Cheshire, he didn’t freak out and just went with it, after that life went on normal as it can get for an immigrant, he was just hungry constantly. Louis has has real bad anxiety so having Chesh was really good for his mental health bc he would alway be there to reassure him, also because of anxiety and depression Louis decides to try weed (he picked it up from some dude chesh ate cuts pots not legal in NY), becomes addict although he limits him self to only 2 times per month or when really stressed.Louis can also speak irish (yes thats a language) so when ever he’s home he and his Ma will switch between irish and english, its an old family tradition, Louis will also do that in school sometimes whenever he’s talking to chesh or repeating notes/talking to himself and when ever he does this people will look at him like “yup hes back on his bullshit”, one time a teacher asked what he was speaking (the teach just assumed it wasn’t english) and so Louis says irish, teacher is like “oh you mean gaelic” Louis who is very insulted opens his mouth to say something but realizes it would get him in serious trouble so he just goes back to what he was doing and the teacher got mad bc how dare louis just ignore me so he got in trouble. another teacher asked him that and was like “irish? theres no way you can speak it, its like latin, no one even speaks it anymore” so Louis decides to basically roast her, in irish, she’s like “what did you say?” Louis says “well you said i can’t possibly speak it and i just proved you wrong” then the bell rang which saved louis from getting in lots of trouble. now bc chesh bonded w/ Louis a few days after him coming to america that means cheshire has been with Louis through all the drama in his life, chesh has seen his brake-up, fails, highs and lows, yet Cheshire still loves him (not that love, its a motherly/family/ best friends love). all in all Louis is just an anxious teen with trust issues who just want to find some to love, he and chesh also agree that americans aren’t the best. also when Louis told his mom about cheshire she didn’t freak out considering aliens attacked new york city, even if it was in 2012, and it also made sense to her why Louis would sneak out at night,sometimes talk to himself like he’s talking to another person, and why his room would occasionally smell like weed.

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FORT MYERS - MIAMI - IS - IN CHARGE - OF - HUDS - OF -

LEE COUNTY - INCLUDES - RURAL - LEHIGH ACRES AND -

SEPARATED - BY - WATER - BLK - MOSQUITOS - 35 DEGREES -

CAPE CORAL - MEN - STARTED - FORT MYERS - 4 REMAINED -

IN - FORT MYERS - 2 - TOOK - KAYAK - 2 - CAPE CORAL - LAST -

CENTURY - BOTH - CITIES - TODAY - STILL - THERE - AND ARE -

LEE COUNTY - SECURE - IN - THEIR - PERSONS - PREGNANT -

FEMALES - SECURE - IN - THEIR - HEARTS - SECURE MEANS -

SAFE - FR - HARM - SECURE - IN - THEIR - HOUSES - MIAMI -

HAS - ILLEGAL - HOUSES - SPANISH - SPEAKING - TEAMS -

CALLED - CONSTRUCTION - CHEAPER - 4 - SPANISH - YES -

SPEAKING - A - HOUSE - WAS - INVADED - BY - A - CAR SO -

'FIXER - UPPER' - MANY - ILLEGAL - WAYS - 2 - BUILD - AN -

AMERICAN - HOUSE - MIAMI - CAR - HIT - HOUSE - WENT -

THRU - HIT - A - CHILD - MOM - IS - SPANISH - SPEAKING -

'YOU - GET - WHAT - U - PAID - FOR' - SHODDY - WORK -

OBSERVED - THEIR - ELECTRIC - SOCKETS - HARD TO -

CONNECT - ANYTHING - LIKE - VACUUM - CLEANER -

ON - SO - THEY - HAVE - 2 - HIRE - PROFESSIONALS -

4 - EVERYTHING - SHODDY - ELECTRICAL - SECURE -

IN - OUR - PAPERS - NON-ILLEGAL - ALIENS - 'AND -

EFFECTS' - FIRE WORKS - ELECTRONICS - YES NEW -

GADGET - FORT MYERS - FEMALE - POLICE - WAS -

BANGING - MY - SONY - CD WALKMAN - IN - LEE -

COUNTY - COURTHOUSE - BRUNETTE - I - PRAYED -

USED - MY - FEET - 2 - REMOVE - DUST - THUS SO -

BAD - TORNADOS - RIPPED - MANY - CITIES - AND -

ILLEGAL - OPEN - CARRY - FORT MYERS - POLICE -

COURTHOUSES - 2 - OF - THEM - FLORIDA - ONLY -

GRANTED - OPEN - CARRY - HAVING - TRAINED -

US - FIREARMS - SUPER - LOUD - CAN - NEVER -

PUT - BULLET - WHERE - THEY - WANT - BIBLE -

APP - 'NO - WEAPON - CREATED - CAN - B - YES -

AGAINST - US' - CHILDREN - OF - THE - LIVING -

GOD - USING - TABLET - AT - NATIONAL - MAIN -

LIBRARY - 4:40P EDT - SATURDAY - ALSO - YES -

CLOSES - 6P - SKIPPING - DINNER - NICE TRUE -

SHOWER - SLEEPING - SOON - WEEKEND - NO -

HAVE - 2 - LEAVE - 8A - 4P - WHAT's - MIAMI -

HUD - LIKE - INSPECTION - AT - LOBBY - OF - WHAT -

WE - BOUGHT - AT - WALMART - PUBLIX - AS - BLKS -

WHITES - BOTH - GO - ALL - THE - WAY AS SPOUSE -

SO - THEIR - SALARIES - NOT - ONLY - WAY - 2 - PAY -

4 - HOUSE - APT - DEATH - OF - SPOUSES - OR YES -

DIVORCE - 'HOMELESS' - RIGHT - OF - PEOPLE - 18 -

AND - OLDER - AGAINST - UNREASONABLE -

SEARCHES - BTS - LONDON - CONCERT HALL -

UK - LEGAL - SEARCH - BTS - KOREA - ALLOWED -

THEIR - BTS - FANS - AIR FORCE - 2 B - SEARCHED -

BAGS - BODIES - CALLED - 'REASONABLE SEARCH' -

IN - LONDON - THUS - FUTURE - IN - USA - 50 STATES -

ELECTRONIC - HIDDEN - CAMERAS - EVERYWHERE -

FLORIDA - AUTHORITY - IN - THE - AIR - WILL - READ -

'SURRENDER - WEAPONS' - FLORIDA - IS - ONLY - 18 -

AND - OLDER - CONCEALED - CARRY' - CLOSING OF -

MANY - COURTHOUSES - MUST - BE - WEBCAMERA -

CORONAVIRUS - OPENED - IMPORTANCE - OF - PC -

SMARTPHONES - TABLETS - SUBMITTING EVIDENCE -

FASTER - WITH - CORONAVIRUS - MAKING - INVALID -

MANY - JUDGES - 2ND - AMENDMENT - SAID - AN -

ADDITIONAL - MILITARY - FORCE - POLICE - AND -

SHERIFF - ILLEGAL - TAXATION - NOT - MILITARY -

FORCE - HOMELESS - SHELTER - 'UNREASONABLE -

SEARCHES' - BLKS - WHITES - HISPANICS - WANTED -

JOB - 2 - TOUCH - WHAT - OTHERS - BOUGHT - WHAT -

THEY - COULDN'T - FIND - WHAT - THEY - CAN'T - YES -

AFFORD - BIBLE - 'FOREIGNERS - SHALL - RISE -

HIGHER - AND - HIGHER - REV'D - AT - THE END -

THEY - WILL - BE - THE - LOCAL's - RULERS' - XO -

BIBLE - 'GENTLE - ANSWER - WILL - BREAK - THEIR -

BONES' - 'THE - RICH - RULE - OVER - THE - POOR' -

GOD - SAID - 'HE - WILL - RESTORE - THE - YEARS -

CONSUMED - BY - CONSUMING - LOCUSTS' - YES -

NATIONS - LARGE - POPULATIONS - REFERRED -

BY - MANY - LIKE - EATABLE - LOCUSTS - QUITE -

CONSUMING - OUR - YEARS - MAKATI - GIRLS -

WILL - BE - RESTORED - PLASTIC - SURGERIES -

RESTORING - OUR - LOOKS - NO - EXERCISE - SO -

NO - PRECISE - BODY - SHAPE - I'M - BACK - 2 XO -

INTERMITTENT - FASTING - 2 - GET - BACK - YES -

SHAPE - EXERCISING - PAMELA TIFFIN - ON MY -

BUNK - TOP - WHEN - A - HOLE - BLK - FATSO -

WHO - HIT - MY - LEG - ABOVE - MY - FOOT AT -

6:25A EDT - SO - WHAT's - HAPPENING - IN - THE -

FUTURE - HIDDEN - CAMERAS - ALL - OVER THE -

USA - 2 - MAKE - CITIZEN's - ARRESTS - BUT - LESS -

PRISON - MORE - $250 BILLION - FINES - OR CAN'T -

DRIVE - LEAVE - USA - BUT - NEW - LAWS - EVERY -

MONTH - CAN - DECLARE - BY - APPS - ALL - CAN -

DECLARE - BANCRUPTCY - THUS - CAN - DRIVE -

AGAIN - CAN - LEAVE - WITH - PASSPORT ONCE -

MORE - 'DESCRIBING - PLACE - 2 B - SEARCHED' -

MY - $48 - LUGGAGE - WITH - WHEELS - HARD 2 -

FIND - THIS - KIND- OF - LUGGAGE - 1ST FLOOR -

OF - MARSHALL's - BUILDING - DURING - YES -

CONSTRUCTION - NEAR - BAYFRONT - PARK -

OMNI - LOOP - EXIT - HIDDEN - CAMERAS IN -

50 STATES - 24 HRS - 2 - END - MURDERS - AND -

ROBBERIES - MORE - AMENDMENTS - AND THE -

CONSTITUTION - HOMELESS - SHELTER - WITH -

RELIGIOUS - NON-PROFIT - ORGANIZATION - YES -

VIOLATED - WITH - 6:45P - CURFEW - AWAKE - AT -

5A - DAILY - 'PURSUIT - OF - HAPPINESS' - AT - FL -

MIAMI - BECAUSE - OF - 24/7 - BUSES - FREE -

TRAINS - 5A - MIDNIGHT - DAILY - OTHER YES -

BUSES - DAILY - $2.55 - FULL - PRICE - AS KIDS -

COULDN'T - DO - THAT - 18 AND OLDER - VIOLATED -

WITH - DRINKING - FUTURE - DRINKING - AGE - USA -

AGE 18 - 'PURSUIT - OF - HAPPINESS' - NEW - LAWS -

COMING - ALWAYS - 'UNREASONABLE - SEARCHES' -

FUTURE - ELECTRONIC - SEARCH - 'THINGS - YES -

SEIZED' - MY - RED - SCISSORS - THEIR - UGLY - BLUE -

NOT - SHARPED - RUSTED - ILLEGAL - EXCHANGE SO -

4TH - AMENDMENT - VIOLATION - LAND - BUILDING -

WILL - B - SOLD - AT - $1 - THANKS - 2 - HARVARD YES -

LAW - PERSONS - SEIZED - FORT MYERS - POLICE -

THOSE - WHO - WANT - 2 - KILL - THEMSELVES - R -

PUT - IN - MENTAL - HOSPITALS - WHERE - BLKS & -

HISPANICS - SEE - THEM - WITHOUT - BRAS - FOR -

ALL - WIRELESS - EXCEPT - MINE - 3 MEALS AND -

TERRIBLE - FLORIDA - LAW - ONLY - MAX - OF - 3 -

DAYS - NOT - ALWAYS - 3 DAYS - ILLEGAL - LAW -

FOR - GIVES - NURSES - PSYCHIATRISTS - $$$$ -

USA - CAN'T - WAIT - MAKATI - GIRLS - 2 - LEAVE -

FOREVER - BUT - WE - MUST - PROTECT - KIDS -

FEMALES - WORLDWIDE - WHY - WE'RE - HERE

[blackkudos]

Iman

Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid (Somali: Imaan Maxamed Cabdimajiid, Arabic: ايمان محمد عبد المجيد‎; born 25 July 1955), professionally known as Iman ("faith" in Arabic), is a Somali-American fashion model, actress and entrepreneur. A pioneer in the field of ethnic cosmetics, she is also noted for her charitable work. She is married to David Bowie.

Early life and education

Iman was born in Mogadishu, Trust Territory of Somaliland. She is the daughter of Marian and Mohamed Abdulmajid. Her father was a diplomat and a former Somali ambassador to Saudi Arabia, and her mother was a gynecologist. She has four siblings: two brothers, Elias and Feisal, and two younger sisters, Idil and Nadia.

For her education, Iman attended high school in Egypt and later lived in Kenya, where she studied political science at the University of Nairobi.

Iman is Muslim, and fluent in five languages: Somali, Arabic, Italian, French and English.

Career

Modeling

While still at university, Iman was discovered by American photographer Peter Beard, and subsequently moved to the United States to begin a modeling career. Her first modeling assignment was for Vogue a year later in 1976. She soon landed some of the most prestigious magazine covers, establishing herself as a supermodel.

With her long neck, tall stature, slender figure, fine features, copper-toned skin, and exotic accent, Iman was an instant success in the fashion world, though she herself insists that her looks are merely or typically Somali. She became a muse for many prominent designers, including Halston, Gianni Versace, Calvin Klein, Issey Miyake and Donna Karan. A favorite of Yves Saint-Laurent, he once described her as his "dream woman".

During her 14 years as a high fashion model, Iman also worked with many notable photographers, including Helmut Newton, Richard Avedon, Irving Penn and Annie Leibovitz.

Iman credits the nurturing she received from various designers with having given her the confidence to succeed in an era when individuality was valued and model-muses were often an integral part of the creative process.

She is signed to TESS Management in London.

BusinessIman Cosmetics

After almost two decades of modeling, Iman started her own cosmetics firm in 1994, focusing on difficult-to-find shades for women. Based on her years of experience mixing her own formulations for make-up artists to use on her, she had a personal hand in the final product and also acted as the commercial face of the company.

As of 2010, Iman Cosmetics is a $25-million-a-year business. It is centered on $14.99 foundations in 4 formulations and 14 shades, and is among the top-selling foundation brands on Walgreens' website.

In spring 2012, Iman signed fellow Somali designers Ayaan and Idyl Mohallim, founders of the Mataano fashion company, as brand ambassadors for her cosmetics line.

Global Chic

Due to her marketability and high profile, Iman was approached in 2007 by the CEO of the Home Shopping Network (HSN) to create a clothing design line. Inspired by her childhood in Egypt and modeling time with Halston, Iman's first collection introduced embroidered, one-size-fits-all caftans. Today, her Global Chic collection is one of four best-selling items among more than 200 fashion and jewelry brands on HSN, having evolved into a line of affordable accessories.

CinemaTelevision

Iman twice appeared in Miami Vice, playing Dakota in Back in the World (1985) and Lois Blyth in Love At First Sight (1988). Also in 1988, she appeared as Marie Babineaux on an episode of In the Heat of the Night.

In the mid-2000s, Iman spent two years as the host of Bravo TV's fashion-themed show, Project Runway Canada. In November 2010, she along with friend and colleague, designer Isaac Mizrahi, also began hosting the second season of The Fashion Show, a series Bravo started to replace its former hit Project Runway that now moved to the Lifetime network.

Film

An occasional actress, Iman first featured in the 1979 British film The Human Factor, and appeared in the 1985 Oscar-winning film Out of Africa alongside Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. She then portrayed Nina Beka in the 1987 thriller No Way Out with Kevin Costner, Hedy in the Michael Caine comedy Surrender the same year, and later played a shapeshifting alien named Martia in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991). Iman also dabbled in some comedic roles, appearing in The Linguini Incident in 1991 opposite her husband David Bowie, as well as the 1994 comedy/romance film Exit to Eden.

Video games

Iman makes a cameo alongside her husband David Bowie in the 1999 Windows 9x and Dreamcast 3D adventure game, Omikron: The Nomad Soul, developed by the video game company Quantic Dream. She appears as one of the numerous Omikronian citizens the player can "reincarnate" into.

Philanthropy

In addition to running her global beauty company, Iman is also actively involved in a number of charitable endeavors. She is currently a spokesperson for the Keep a Child Alive program, and works closely with, among others, the Children's Defense Fund. She also serves as an Ambassador for Save the Children, and has been active in raising awareness of their relief services in the greater East Africa region. Additionally, Iman works with the Enough Project to end the global trade in conflict minerals, having played a key part in the public campaign against blood diamonds through her termination of her contract with the diamonds conglomerate De Beers over a conflict of ethics.

Awards

Over the course of her long modelling and philanthropic career, Iman has received many awards. On 7 June 2010, she received aFashion Icon lifetime achievement award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), a special prize reserved for "an individual whose signature style has had a profound influence on fashion". Iman selected her friend, actress and former model Isabella Rossellini, to present the award. Wearing a gown designed by Giambattista Valli with four giant diamond bracelets on each arm, Iman thanked her parents "for giving me a neck longer than any other girl on any go-see anywhere in the world".

Personal life

Iman first got married at the age of eighteen to a young Somali man with whom she had fallen in love. The marriage ended a few years later when she moved to the United States to pursue a modeling career. In 1977, she married American basketball player Spencer Haywood. Their daughter, Zulekha Haywood, was born in 1978. The two divorced in February 1987. On 24 April 1992, Iman married British rock musician David Bowie in a private ceremony in Lausanne. The wedding was later solemnized on 6 June in Florence. They have one daughter, Alexandria Zahra Jones, born 15 August 2000. Iman is also stepmother to Bowie's son from a previous marriage, Duncan Jones. Both children bear Bowie's legal surname. Iman and her family reside primarily in Manhattan and London.

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