#lego white house 2020

[bomberqueen17]

car etc update

I have driven so many cars. I'll witter on about them behind the cut but first I have to share a brief story of Reno the cat.

This morning Reno the cat was out by the greenhouse as I came in to stop at the house for breakfast. He was staring nobly off into the distance, no brain cell in his head whatsoever, just wind whistling between his ears.

A bit later, I'd had breakfast and was getting myself together to do some work today (which I promise I'm doing I'm just taking a Tumblr break, the first this week basically, so there), and I saw him sitting on the shelf at the porch window, staring in. Ah, I thought, he wants to come inside, because that is often how he signals that. So I went over to the door, and opened it.

He saw me and meowed excitedly, and clumsily made his way down off the shelf, which he doesn't know how to do gracefully. I stood waiting with the door open because this is the only thing one can really do, or Reno will get too confused to come in.

As he made it to the door, his sister Whiskey had clearly had enough; she also likes to go in and out the door and needs it held open a long time so she can stare through it and make her decision. The two of them share a brain cell and she usually has it. it's not a very bright brain cell. She shot out the door precisely as he was about to come in it.

This distracted him so much he turned around and followed her, which made her hiss at him and run away, and he could not help but chase her. I yelled his name and he stopped and then saw me and remembered he had wanted to come in the door. I called his name and he finally came in the door. I let go of the door, which has one of those pneumatic soft-closer thingies on it, so it mostly shut behind him but then bounced back open to hiss shut softer.

As it bounced back open, he turned and ran back out the door.

Cats.

[image description: the garden, through the large metal mesh of the deer fence, in a sea of dewy green grass and plants with some distant trees in the background, and in the foreground is a cinder block counterweighting the planting bench canopy to keep the wind from catching it, and a white cat litter bucket in the mid-ground (presumably with transplanting supplies in it); just beyond the legs of the planting bench, Reno the cat, who is gray and white, is sitting upright looking the other way, ears cocked forward as he gazes out over the garden.]

Anyway, cars--

I have now test-driven a Honda HR-V, a Subaru Forester, a Jeep Compass, a Jeep Renegade, a Nissan Kicks, a Volkswagen Taos, a Mazda CX-30 and a Mazda CX-5. And then I also drove a Subaru Outback, a 2020 Limited trim package that's now crossed the US several times and has had a young man intermittently living in it for some time, and said young man (who works here) was excited to tell me all about it and show me the Steering Assist which I can't deny would be pretty sweet if I was driving across the entire country.

Of those, the only interesting ones were the Subaru Forester and the Jeep Renegade. The Renegade is a Fiat really, made in Italy, and the thing I liked about it was super dumb-- it's so boxy and upright that the driver's seat is intensely vertical, your legs are really under you and you're sitting up high but with plenty of headspace, so it's sort of vaugely like a Wrangler only not quite so punishingly uncomfortable to handle, and it looks like a fucking Lego toy car but I tell you what I bet that four wheel drive is pretty sweet. Also 9.7 inches of ground clearance, hard to argue with.

The others were all fine, really, and the Mazda CX-5 downright pleasant-- good balance of cargo and headspace with reasonable fuel economy, good adjustability, friendly technology though a lot of that is probably just that Dude has been driving a Mazda since 2016 or so and as the passenger I've had to learn to navigate the technology. (M-L was excited that the star button might take you to space-- no, it's radio favorites-- and the paper airplane might be messages? no, it's navigation.)

I have a terrible feeling that for all my diligence and research I'm still going to wind up back in a fucking Subaru. I did get the scoop on the local dealership, a friend of M-Ls has a 4-year old Forester that she loves from that dealership which she hates despite it having almost the same last name as her. (One letter different. You'd think you could leverage that into them being nice to you. Guess not.)

I'm taking the Amtrak this weekend out to Rochester and it's going to be incredibly complicated to get back home. I looked at my schedule-- I'd been vaguely thinking I had two weeks off in a row coming up but i do not so either I'm going to take the Amtrak a whole lot over the next month and a half or I'd better just buy a fucking car. Blargh.

I haven't tried Kia or Hyundai and I missed Toyota because the Nissan guy wasted so much of my time (he was very clearly waiting for a specific car to come back from being test driven but not saying so, and finally M-L was like "genuinely we do not care what color" so he was like ok and went and got the one of the two other ones and then was like "there's no gas in this we gotta go get gas" arghhh anyway) that the Toyota dealership closed. I also have a dodge hornet on the list but they were all in the shop, which is weird. ("Naw there's some check engine light issue they all need a software reset over," said the guy, and i was like what does that mean and will that happen after i buy them, but he was like "don't worry about it" and we drove jeeps instead so okay?) And there's a couple of chevys and a ford and i'm really tired.

I've actually liked most of the sales people so that's been fun. We did genuinely shock the Mazda salesman when I admitted to being 44. "I was thinking you were young enough to be my daughter," he said, "but that's how old I am."

None of them have been able to figure out that M-L and I are sisters. M-L reports that occasionally I'll mention my partner having made me a spreadsheet, or that my partner drives a Mazda, and I often will use he pronouns for him, and she's like "I can feel them not looking at me because they'd all assumed I was the wife" which is hilarious. I mean for context we are very, very similar in appearance, similar coloring, similar size and shape, we really do resemble one another, but we have slightly different cheekbones/jaws/face shapes, so we're not identical or anything; we just have an obvious family resemblance. I guess it's not super normal to go car shopping with a sibling but I don't understand why it's so unexpected. As the like, bonus level, often we'll tell stories about Our Mom or Our Dad and we're clearly both telling the story? So I feel like it shouldn't be such a shock.

Anyway.

I'll be mildly annoyed if I wind up just buying the second goddamned car i test drove but on the other hand at least i'll know I bought it on purpose.

[allxaboutxmarie]

WELCOME TO MY BLOG <3

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i probably should have done one of these ages ago but oh well

im marie, but i go by various names online. Mars or Mari also works, but you can literally call me anything and ill probably respond

im not the most tumblr knowledgeable, ive had an account since 2020 but i didnt start using it until recently.

this started out as an aesthetic account but it really just trailed off after a while and i post wtv

i dont really stick to one thing or fandom, but i do get really into things for day or weeks at a time (most significantly as im writing this, Zero Day)

i usually just complain or ramble on here, so sorry about that. the 'shut up mars!' tag is reserved for rants/personal biz that i should really shut up about, the 'tumblrboxd' tag is for random movie comments

i have a bad habit of typing like this: "y r u w8ing b4 school 2 do smthn?" i am TRYING to get rid of it

my dms and asks and what not are always open! i am very socially awkward though so i sincerely apologise for that, but ill try my best i promise ❤

INTERESTS THAT ILL ALWAYS BE DOWN TO TALK ABOUT:

Sky High, Perks of Being a Wallflower, 9-1-1, T@GGED, The Smiths, Third Eye Blind, Red White and Royal Blue, DONNIE DARKO, Dead Boy Detectives, Shelter, Paper Girls, My Babysitters a Vampire, RIVER PHOENIX, Percy Jackson, Heroes of Olympus, Scott Pilgrim, Enola Holmes, Marauders, David Bowie, ANYTHING by David Levithan i love him sm, Zero Day, Words on Bathroom Walls, My Bestfriend is a Vampire, Dead Poets Society, Narnia, As You Are, I Saw The TV Glow, Speak, SCREAM 1-6, Theres Someone Inside Your House, Bestfriends Whenever!!!!!!, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, We Can Be Heroes, Fanfik, Flipped, The Adam Project, Everything Everything, CHARLIE PLUMMER, Ladybugs (1992), The Outsiders, Call me by Your Name, The Invisible Thread, Sing Street, Lego Batman, Kill Your Darlings, Luca, Erin and Aaron, School Spirits, Christmas Chronicles, Fantastic Mr Fox, The Breakfast Club, Stand By Me, IT, Inside, Whats Eating Gilbert Grape, CHRONICLE, Unfriended, Unfriended: Dark Web, Wham!, When a Stranger Calls (2006), 10 Things I Hate About You, JUNO, Jennifers Body, Mid 90s, Easy A, But I'm a Cheerleader, Heathers, Hamilton, Happy Death Day, The Half of It, Paper Towns, Looking for Alaska, Life as We Know It, Doctor Who!!!, Eyewitness, 500 Days of Summer, 1987, Before Sunrise, The Virgin Suicides, Spree, Me Earl and the Dying Girl, Spontaneous, Warm Bodies, The Duff, The Map of Tiny Perfect Things, Countdown, TIME LOOPS, Tyler Young, Invisible Sister, Secret Headquarters, CW Arrowverse, Grant Gustin, When Harry Met Sally, Danielle Panabaker, Hallmark Movies, Michael Cera, DEAR EVAN HANSEN, Be More Chill, Hamilton, Mean Girls, Tick Tick Boom, Andrew Barth Feldman, Sam Tutty, Four Evans sing For Forever, Everyday, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Papas Wingeria, Skins UK, Brooklyn 99, Pretty Little Liars, Supernatural, Alice Oseman, Julie and the Phantoms, The Hollow, Barbie Life in the Dream House

^feel free to put things about these movies/shows/artists/books in my asks!! i know theres alot but im always down to talk about any of em!

i also do my own writing and im working on translating one of them into a screen play!! so if im rambling on about ilyb or tpb and you have no idea what it means, thats why!

(@dietcokeluvr6969, @pig-mania, @woodsboromassacre, )and a secret fourth one i wont name incase irls find this) are all me!)

i feel a little silly writing this, but yeah! thats that on top of that!

[extremetimedchallengeexchange]

Tag Set Update

So, what's in the tag set?

I look up blearily from a spreadsheet, making a spluttering noise.

YES, talking about the tag set, not just updating it. I can do that.

Three days into Tags week, the tag set as it is looks like this.

Anime, Manga, Books and Literature!

Cartons & Comics & Graphic Novels & Celebries & Real People!

Movies & No Media!

Other Media & Theatre!

TV Shows, Uncategorized Fandoms, Video Games!

That's everything that's been seconded into the tag set.

You want to know everything that's been nominated? Well that is going under a cut because BOY is that a list.

3rd Life | Last Life SMP

Akira (Anime & Manga)

Animator vs. Animation (Short films - Becker)

Archive 81 (Podcast)

Avatar: Legend of Korra

Bleach (Anime & Manga)

Bones (TV)

Books of the Raksura - Martha Wells

Buzzfeed Unsolved (Web Series)

Call of Duty (Video Games)

Carmen Sandiego (Cartoon 2019)

Castle (TV 2009)

Class of '07 (Australia TV 2023)

Cogchamp SMP

Content SMP

Creepypasta - Fandom

Critical Role (Web Series)

Dangan Ronpa Series

DCU (Comics)

Deltarune (Video Game)

Destiny (Video Games)

Detroit: Become Human (Video Game)

Dimension 20 (Web Series)

Disco Elysium (Video Game)

Doctor Who (2005)

Doki Doki Literature Club! (Visual Novel)

Dream SMP

Eddsworld - All Media Types

Empires SMP

Enola Holmes (Movies)

Evolution SMP

Fallen Hero - Malin Rydén

Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes

Fire Emblem: Engage

Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Frozen (Disney Movies)

Hades (Video Game 2018)

Hamlet - Shakespeare

Hannibal (TV)

Harry Potter - J.K Rowling

Hermitcraft SMP

Hetalia: Axis Powers

Horizon (Video Games)

House Builder Gang SMP

House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski

iCarly

Keeper of the Lost Cities - Shannon Messenger 

Kuroko no Basuke | Kuroko's Basketball 

Lackadaisy (Webcomic)

League of Legends

LEGO Ninjago (Cartoon 2011-2022)

Lifesteal SMP

Lockwood & Co. (TV)

Macbeth - Shakespeare

Marvel Cinematic Universe

McGillicuddy & Murder's Pawn Shop (Podcast)

Mean Girls (2004) 

Minecraft (Video Game)

Night in the Woods (Video Game)

Nikita (TV 2010)

Nurses (TV 2020)

Original Work

Pocahontas (Disney Movies)

Promare (2019)

QSMP | Quackity SMP

Sherlock (BBC)

SK8 the Infinity (Anime)

SMPEarth

South Park

Splatoon

St Trinian's (2007 2009)

Star Trek: The Original Series

Star Wars - All Media Types 

Stardew Valley (Video Game)

Stargate - All Media Types

Stranger Things

Supernatural (TV 2005)

Tales from the SMP

Teen Wolf (TV)

Temeraire - Naomi Novik

The 355 (2022)

The Accidental Warlord and His Pack - inexplicifics

The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo

The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini

The Legend of Vox Machina (Cartoon)

The Locked Tomb Series

The Magicians (TV)

The Magnus Archives (Podcast)

The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells

The Owl House (Cartoon)

The Pack - YouTube

The Yogscast

Titanic (1997)

Triangle Strategy (Video Game)

Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)

Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023)

Victorious (TV)

Video Blogging RPF

Voiceteam and Related Fandoms

Warcraft - All Media Types

Welcome to Night Vale

Wiedzmin | The Witcher (All Media Types)

X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)

전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong

とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Manga)

二哈和他的白猫师尊 - 肉包不吃肉 | The Husky and His White Cat Shizun - Meatbun Doesn't Eat Meat

人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)

光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Manga)

原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) 

名探偵コナン | Detective Conan | Case Closed

天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

憂国のモリアーティ | Yuukoku no Moriarty | Moriarty the Patriot (Manga)

逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney

陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)

WHOOOOOO (exhausted, but with feeling) EXCHANGES.

[lboogie1906]

Keegan-Michael Key (born March 22, 1971) is an actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. He co-created and co-starred alongside Jordan Peele in Key & Peele (2012–2015) and co-starred in Playing House (2014–2017). He spent six seasons as a cast member on Mad TV (2004–2009) and has made guest appearances on the US version of Whose Line is it Anyway? He appeared alongside Peele in the first season of Fargo in 2014 and had a recurring role in Parks and Recreation from 2013 to 2015. He hosted the US version of The Planet's Funniest Animals on Animal Planet (2005–2008), and hosted Game On! He has had supporting roles in several films, including Horrible Bosses 2 (2014), Pitch Perfect 2 (2015), Don't Think Twice (2016) and Dolemite Is My Name (2019). He has provided voice work for The Lego Movie (2014), the Hotel Transylvania franchise (2015–2022), Storks, The Angry Birds Movie (both 2016), The Star (2017), The Lion King remake and Toy Story 4 (both 2019), and Pinocchio remake (2022). Also in 2015, he appeared at the White House Correspondents' Dinner as the Key & Peele character Luther, President Barack Obama's anger translator. Key and Peele produced and starred in Keanu. In 2017, he made his Broadway debut in Meteor Shower. He appeared in The Prom (2020) and Schmigadoon! (2021). He was born in Southfield, Michigan, the son of Leroy McDuffie and Carrie Herr. He was adopted at a young age by a couple from Detroit, Michael Key, and Patricia Walsh. His brother was comic book writer Dwayne McDuffie. He attended the University of Detroit Mercy, earning a BFA in Theater, followed by an MFA in Theater at Pennsylvania State University. While at the University of Detroit Mercy, he was a brother of Phi Kappa Theta. He was married to actress and dialect coach Cynthia Blaise (1998-2017). He married producer and director Elisa Pugliese (2018). #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/CqFtmZSrkq8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[heroicmultiverse]

//Added 35 more songs to the playlist (I swear I don't have a problem)

Streets Ignite by Epic Games (from Fortnite: Cowabunga! Event)

Should I Stay or Should I Go? by The Clash (from Iron Man 2)

London Calling by The Clash (from The Boys)

The Passenger by Iggy Pop (from The Boys)

King's Dead by Kendrick Lamar (from Black Panther)

Dream On by Aerosmith (from The Boys)

Psycho Killer by Talking Heads (from The Boys)

All Out Of Love by Air Supply (from Deadpool 2 & The Boys)

Big Shot by Billy Joel (from The Boys)

Paranoid by Black Sabbath (from Suicide Squad 2016)

House of the Rising Sun by The Animals (from Suicide Squad 2016)

Hate to Say I Told You So by The Hives (from Invincible)

Clint Eastwood by Gorillaz (from Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's trailer)

Bangarang by Skrillex (from Deadpool 2)

Reptile's Theme by Skrillex (from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2014 trailer)

Barracude by Heart (from The Boys)

Cherry Bomb by The Runaways (from Guardians of the Galaxy & The Boys)

Neat Neat Neat by The Damned (from The Boys)

Pressure by Billy Joel (from The Boys)

Kick Ass (We Are Young) by MIKA vs RedOne (from Kick-Ass)

Bad Reputation by Joan Jett (from Kick-Ass)

Shame On A N***a by Wu-Tang Clan (from Luke Cage)

Way Down We Go by KALEO (from Logan trailer)

Hurt by Johnny Cash (from Logan trailer)

The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash (from Logan)

Come Baby Come by K7 (from Suicide Squad 2016)

Tom Tom by Holy Fuck (from Invincible)

Diabolical Invincible Me by Brandon Yates (from Death Battle: Omni-Man vs Homelander)

Sympathy for the Devil by The Rolling Stones (from Suicide Squad 2016 & The Boys)

Joker and the Thief by Wolfmother (from Lego DC Super-Villains)

Hit Me With Your Best Shot by Pat Benatar (from Lego DC Super-Villains & Birds of Prey 2020)

That's Life by Frank Sinatra (from Joker)

White Room by Cream (from Joker)

I Fought The Law by The Clash (from Lego DC Super-Villains)

All The Stars by Kendrick Lamar (from Black Panther)

[emailrulesposting]

You don't have to read this. I'm trying to get more comfortable sharing my thoughts and ik this is so, so disorganized. If you do say something (constructive) I will love you forever but also being perceived is so scary so I may deactivate my account (/hyp)

The first day of National Park Week is finally falling on that special Saturday

It's been four years since the last time that happened

April 20th, 2020. Four twenty. Lol.

"It's gonna be 4/20 for a whole month!" Said memes in 2019. Surely, that was a good sign

A post for National Park Week ran sometime in February.

Little more materialized for me than joking about visiting one to to my best friend

There are more parks separating us now than I think we will ever visit

Some things remain the same, though.Globally, we're all still dying of White supremacy.

Another genocide that people refuse to acknowledge

Still, hospitals are overwhelmed by patients that doctors risk their lives to care for

I still don't know how to drive

In the face of such hopeless circumstances I live off the hope of friends

We were robbed of the naivety owed to us so young

And I will get it back for us

Replace the ivory tower with our Lego house

04/20

Blaze it

Burn it all to the ground

[ez-ra-zed]

Manifestos are boring

Tedious public journals? that's where it's at

Why harm innocent people? That's like Haram in my eyes

Imagine some white folk try simulating the afterlife and try simulating Allah as a joke online. I would never even though I can't visit the middle east right now

Hope women in the future who choose to never show their hair to anyone but the ones they choose ALWAYS DO THAT, FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS no matter how dark that history is

I wash my hands with spiritual intention I don't just "wash my hands with soap and water"

Why? Judaism

Who taught Poland how to survive the black death while the slobs just ... looked like that?

Why are ADHD and traumatized brains so scattered?why are our brains so overloaded with information? My mind is all over the place, man

Now Panic And Freak Out and Keep Calm And Carry On - Books with collections of quotes. Loved those books that I found in David's house, the guy experimenting on his dogs with black mold exposure. One who got different animal meat each night and meds and supplements was so healthy for her age, the other who just got medications? Paralyzed basically, on its death bed but still alive, suffering... Like so many in nursing homes right now. The one that got nothing and got lucky? Died first, I never met that one

Fuck those Nazis but wow is that an important lesson for me in the end. I'm glad it didn't happen on people, except it did - on an autistic gay man named Chris Kelleher or something, I can't remember his last name. I found wellbutrin bottles in his room that I cleaned, and Lego books and shit everywhere. Chris tore down the cameras that were monitoring him everywhere as he went crazy in that mold ridden house, and I found the hidden camera room behind a mirror while I cleaned. I documented all of it and sent it to my friend, and I looked into David's background and found he was in court for trying to groom young addicts in a halfway house. He was in for a lot more than that though, that idiot realtor who had books on genocide and keep calm and carry on and Nazi paraphernalia all over his moldy weaponized house

•_•

I knew he was an op when he was still protecting himself from COVID when everyone I knew had forgotten. Keep Calm And Carry On was sent out in 2020, end of 2019, when CoV19 came about. They weren't sure if it was a bioweapon

I hate them all

[eternal-star-princess]

she wears a technically too small victorian top hat around the house, when she leaves the house she puts on a newer secondhand wool hat instead. she enjoys singing medieval english songs for herself. she eats with sterling silverware, some of it over a hundred years old, one piece nearly 200, and drinks from replicas of glasses from the 1580's and from a thrifted silver plated metal goblet. her wallet is made in the 1960's and her phone in the 2020's, around her neck hangs a 200 year old coin. she stores stuff in chests from the 1700's and her favorite flashlight is a 40's or 50's model. her typewriter is from 1935. her sewing machine is from 1920 and her laptop exactly 100 years newer. on a shelf next to a lego unikitty is a pile of ancient roman coins. above them is a shelf full of books, newest from 2018 and oldest from 1754, plus a pamphlet from 1686 and some recent papers. she plays video games on her nintendo switch but also sometimes on her NES, sometimes on a 2010's tv and sometimes on a black and white tv from 1966 just for fun. when gluing stuff together she has found that 1700's irons are great as weights while the glue dries. her music taste includes medieval, classic, video games and movies. her name is meta and she lives not so much a bit everywhere but rather a bit everywhen, with one foot in 2024 and the other in 1278, and perhaps with some fingers in 1687, 1750, 1998, 1956 and 1876

she is also convinced the 1950's were 50 years ago

what do you mean 1974 was 50 years ago are you insane

[kubiki-lego]

გააცოცხლეთ მსოფლიოს ღირსშესანიშნავი ნაგებობები განსაცვიფრებელ დეტალებში LEGO® არქიტექტურის ნაკრებებით

LEGO® არქიტექტურის ნაკრებები გვეხმარება ვიმოგზაუროთ მსოფლიოს საკულტო ღირშესანიშნაობებში და განსაცვიფრებელ ქალაქებში. ეს პრემიუმ ხარისხის კომპლექტები გვთავაზობენ მდიდარ და სახალისო სამშენებლო გამოცდილებას და იძლევა შთამბეჭდავ გამოსაფენ მოდელებს, რომლებიც სიამოვნებას მოგვანიჭებენ აშენებიდან დიდი ხნის მანძილზე. LEGO არქიტექტურა ზრდასრული მოდელების შემქმნელებს ამოგზაურებს შემოქმედებით და სამშენებლო სამყაროში. სრული ასორტიმენტის სანახავად გადადით შემდეგ ბმულზე LEGO არქიტექტურა ძველი დროის ღირსშესანიშნაობები:1. კოლიზეუმიდედამიწაზე ვერცერთი ადგილი ვერ შეედრება რომის კოლიზეუმის დიდებულებას. ასე რომ, მოემზადეთ, თავი დააღწიოთ ყოველდღიურ ცხოვრებას, როდესაც შეეჭიდებით LEGO®-ს ყველაზე დიდ ნაგებობას (2020 წლის ნოემბრის მიხედვით). კოლიზეუმის ეს ეპიკური 9036 ც. ნაწილიანი მოდელი დეტალურად ასახავს ცნობილი სტრუქტურის თითოეულ კუთხე-კუნჭულს. ავთენტური დეტალურობა გვიჩვენებს გარე კედლის ფასადის ჩრდილოეთ ნაწილს და მის საკულტო თაღებს. მოდელი აღჭურვილია 3 სართულით, შემკული დორიული, იონური და კორინთული ორდენების სვეტებით, ხოლო სხვენი მორთულია კორინთული პილასტრებით.  - New

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[mylegoarchitecturecollection]

Frontside of the Lego White House:

Backside of the Lego White House:

Lego White House of 2020 🇺🇸

[kumkaniudaku]

Soulstice

For @kikimiyazaki​, the anon that requested John David Washington content and all the Black folks who go their powers today. 

John David Washington x Black Woman OC! 

December 21st, 2020 - 10:11 am

“Baby! Malik is bouncing off the walls!”

Shelly took a deep breath and contemplated a response for her husband. She considered unleashing all of her pent up frustration in a tirade that could shake the Earth’s core. The weekend had flown by and snatched freedom from her grasp only to replace it with a mountain of laundry and scattered Legos in the living room. Instead of shouting back at him, Shelly rolled her eyes and pulled another t-shirt from her son’s pile to fold.

“Baby, how the hell do I get him to sit down?” John rushed into the laundry room out of breath, searching for answers from his wife.

“John, I don’t know. You’re a Marine. Figure it out.”

“They don’t teach us how to wrangle a six-year-old with superspeed?”

Shelly shook her head. “Is it superspeed, or you just being too old to catch up these days?”

“Haha, very funny, Shell,” John deadpanned. “Come see for yourself.”

As John turned to leave the room, Shelly cycled through every reason why leaving her position would land her in chaos. If she continued to fold clothes in her corner of the house, nothing would change. She could pretend that the outside world no longer existed. But, the temptation and the creeping sense of fear set her feet in motion before her brain could command them to stop.

When she reached the living room, her eyes grew wide in shock and fear. Malik was bouncing off the wall. His eyes emitted a blinding white light while he ran between family photos and wall decorations. His giggles bounced off the walls as Shelly’s favorite abstract picture crashed to the ground in its glass frame. Footprints detailed his journey around the room, as did the wreckage in his trail. Fear quickly became anger that John used to his advantage.

“Son, I’d slow down if I were you.”

“I don’t know how,” Malik shouted back, laughing when another item hit the floor. “I only know how to go in circles like this!”

“Malik David, stop it, right now! And turn the lights off in your head!”

John burst into laughter for several seconds, only stopping when he caught a glimpse of his wife’s scowl from the corner of his eye. He threw his hands up in surrender. “What!”

“Stop laughing!”

“You told the boy to turn the lights off in his head. How is that - oh shit!”

As if in slow motion, Shelly and John watched Malik make a crucial misstep and tumble toward the sharp end of their stone fireplace. The light in his eyes was gone, making way for childlike fear. Malik’s arms flailed as he tried to reach for any surface to steady himself.

Instinct and hyper-focus took over Shelly’s body as she moved to leap across the room. John felt his bones tingle with uncontrollable static, creating a green halo around him. All of his attention became focused on saving his son.

Shelly’s arms extended like limitless elastic to grab hold of Malik’s waist just as a glowing cushioned barrier materialized to shield his impact against the cold, hard stone. John’s focus immediately retrained on Shelly snapping her elastic arms back to her body with Malik in tow. She hadn’t moved from her spot beside him despite her limbs stretching to the furthest corner of the room. John marveled at his wife for a moment before realizing that the barrier still suspended in the air came from his hands. He stood in shock while examining his hands.

“Oh, my God! Malik, are you okay? Let me look at you!” Shelly’s voice jolted John back into reality, and he rushed to join her side.

Together they gave their son a once over to check for injuries until a tiny giggle caught their attention.

“What? What is it, son? What’s wrong?”

Malik continued to giggle before answering. “Mommy looked like a rubber band!”

“I-I did,” Shelly answered as she looked to her husband. “I did?”

“Yes, and it was amazing. I always knew you were super-mom but damn!”

“And, Daddy, you were all like pew pew pew! Are you a superhero?”

John and Shelly shared a look, silently debating their response. “Superheroes aren’t real, buddy. All that stuff is make-believe. Like for the TV.”

“Then how come Mr. Campbell can fly?”

“Fly?” Shelly followed Malik’s gaze to the sliding glass door facing the backyard. Sure enough, Mr. Campbell, their ornery next-door neighbor, clumsily teetered in the air above the tall hedges separating their yards. John sprang into action and ran outside to assist the older man hollering for help.

With his mind, John willed a glowing lasso into existence and quickly wrangled Mr. Campbell back to the ground.

“See! Daddy is a superhero,” Malik exclaimed, clapping his hands in excitement.

Shelly watched John attempt to quell their neighbor’s worry before looking back at Malik and smiling. “Malik, can you go in your room and color Daddy a cool picture of his new superhero outfit? Make one for all of us because I think you have powers too!”

“Cool! I’ll make them green!”

“Perfect, baby boy. Go ahead.”

While Malik ran with his back turned, Shelly used her new ability to reach into the kitchen from the living room and grab her cell phone. She rapidly tapped at the screen to search for any explanation she could find. Her social media search led to the local news station where a white delivered breaking news.

“All around the world, people are waking up with unexplained supernatural abilities. Haven’t noticed any changes? It may be because you aren’t Black. More on the Solstice Phenomena after the break.”

“What the fuck,” Shelly whispered to herself as she watched images of Black people all over the world indulging in their newfound powers.

The faint screech of the sliding doors caused Shelly to snap her eyes to John, who shared her bewildered look.

“Baby, I-I think…”

“We’ve been inducted into the Negro Justice League,” Shelly laughed. “Seems like it.”

John trudged his tired body across the room until he reached the couch. He plopped down in a heap beside Shelly as he untucked his t-shirt from his uniform pants. They sat together in silence, listening to the low murmur of the television until a piercing scream ripped through the air outside. Shelly looked down at her husband as he looked up at her. She smiled.

“Go on out there. The neighborhood needs savin’, John Stewart.”

[timebird84]

🎄 PotO Advent Calendar 2020 🎄

By @notaghost3​

Summary: Christmas is fast approaching and Christine still has no idea what to get Erik for their first Christmas. However, when inspiration strikes, she didn’t exactly ask for help…especially not from the cat.

Modern AU. E/C. Set in my “The Belonging You Seek” Universe but can be read just fine on its own!

Tangled Up in You

Not A Ghost3

The fairy lights in the store window twinkled white as they walked by, Christine’s eyes lingering on the decorations just through the glass.

“…I mean it’s our first Christmas as married couple- what do I even get him? It can’t be tacky; I don’t do tacky. I was thinking a nice watch, but he already has one and…”

Christine sighed and resisted rolling her eyes as she wrapped her arm tighter around Megs elbow. The crosswalk sign blinked red in front of them as it waited for the cars to finish passing. 

She thought she might scream if she had to hear Meg contemplate what to get her dearest husband for Christmas again.

But here she was, and she wasn’t screaming.

She shook her head; her own willpower to keep their friendship alive really surprised her sometimes.

Instead of screaming she just nudged Meg playfully to the side- effectively (albeit temporarily) shutting her up.

“Meg,” she said, firm in her tone but a smile on her lips. “Raoul will love whatever you get him. Because it’s from you.”

She emphasized the last word with a playful wink, careful to hide the bitterness that built like bile in the back of her throat. It didn’t do any good to let the past control her present or her friends. 

At least that’s what she’d been telling herself. And it was working…to some degree.

“Yeah, I just want it to be perfect you know? It’s a special one, you only get a first Christmas together once…I want it to be memorable,” Meg replied, practically dragging her across the street as the crosswalk light signaled it was safe to cross.

Christine laughed at that, stumbling to catch her footing on the other side of the street. “However it turns out, I’m positive it’ll be memorable…this is you we’re talking about.”

Meg rolled her eyes and readjusted the purse on her shoulder. 

“I know, I know…” then Meg got that look in her eyes.

That mischievous, I-know-more-than-I-should, smirky look of hers.

“Well, let’s not forget that I’m not the only one celebrating a first Christmas together, hm?” Meg chided, wagging her finger playfully in front of Christine’s face as they walked to the next store.

Christine couldn’t help the blush that she knew crept on to her cheeks or the way that she glanced down to avoid Meg’s peering gaze.

It was true. It was a Christmas of firsts all around.

“Yeah, yeah…” she smiled, shaking her head in disbelief. It seemed like only yesterday had been February and today was a week and half before Christmas—

She supposed time really did fly when you were happy. 

“Sooooo…what do you and Erik have planned? Oh wait! Don’t tell me…uh…ice skating? No, no he wouldn’t do that…um—”

Christine laughed, cutting her off. “Erik wouldn’t be caught dead ice skating, not in public at least. You know him. He has social anxiety; he doesn’t like people.”

Meg cocked a grin then. “Well he certainly likes one at least.”

Christine shook her head, her smile growing larger. “Hey, he likes you too, and your mom!”

“Oh I know, I know…but you know what I mean…” she trailed off as she unwound her arm from Christines and opened the door to the jewelry store she had next on her list. “I will say, it was a little strange with you two at first…I mean he held me as a baby—”

“Erik is not that old—”

“Well I was practically a baby, Chris! I might as well have called him Uncle—”

Christine raised an eyebrow at that, never having heard that one before. “Are you telling me you’re going to start calling me aunt or something?” She barely got the sentence out through her giggles as she eyed a pair of sparkling earrings in their glass case.

Meg’s eyes were wide as she turned back to her, mouth open. “Are you trying to tell me…” instead of finishing the sentence she wiggled her left hand’s fingers, pointing to her own sizable wedding ring.

Christine picked up on what she was implying before she could say another word. “Oh no. No. No, I was just saying that. We haven’t…we’ve barely talked about it really ah…no. No ring,” she flustered, eyes quickly finding anywhere— anything— else to look at to distract her from Meg’s prying eyes and smug smile. 

She wasn’t lying. There was no ring, no promise of marriage, and they really hadn’t truly talked about it. The word had been thrown into the air a few times sure but…they hadn’t even dated for a whole year yet, really. She didn’t want to move too fast and jump into things; she’d done that before and paid for it. As Meg was a daily reminder of. But that was different, Erik was different.

She felt like wherever he was she was home, and that was a feeling she’d learned not to take for granted.

Maybe she did want to marry him, maybe she did want the ring and the house and the kids and the perfect little movie life.

But maybe Erik didn’t.

She didn’t know.

“It’s only been like eight months since we started dating, Meg…” she shrugged at Meg’s now somewhat disappointed look. 

“No, I shouldn’t have assumed, but you can’t blame me for hoping— I just want you happy, Chris!”

She gave Meg a small smile at that before turning back to the same dangling earrings from before.

“Any idea what you’re getting him for Christmas?” Meg asked, coming to stand close beside her.

Christine shook her head, moving on to look at the next pair. “No idea. What do you get someone who can already buy whatever they want?”

Meg nodded. “I know the feeling…”

Christine blew out a puff of air, making a loose hair curl fly up and then back down in front of her face.

“Well doesn’t he like those nerdy things? What about some…I don’t know…Legos? Is that even right?”

She laughed at Meg’s willingness to help and shook her head. “He already has too many of those in his basement. He is an architect after all. Besides…I want something better than that, something personal, y’know?” 

It was Meg’s turn to shrug then, picking up a bracelet off a display holder. “Well, I suppose there’s always a watch, right?”

Christine laughed, but on the inside sighed.

A week and a half until Christmas.

What was she going to get him?

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Christine closed the fridge door as she felt a pair of hands come up behind her, snaking around her waist.

“Well good morning to you too,” she chuckled, turning around in his arms and pressing a soft kiss to his lips.

He was still in his flannel pajama pants and sweatshirt...it must be nice to work from home she supposed. She had dressed while he slept and she usually bid him goodbye while he was still in bed, his cat faithfully curled up asleep beside him.

He hummed against her.

“Did I tell you I found it?” He said, unlacing his arms and walking towards the laundry basket that sat in one of their kitchen chairs. 

She shook her head, popping the lid onto her coffee cup that she’d pulled out of the fridge. “No, what’d you find?”

He made a show of holding up his hand for her to wait as he dug through the laundry before raising a tattered clump of red yarn up in the air.

“Ta da!” He sang as he shook the yarn out, a long scarf tumbling out of the clumped form as he did.

“Oh Erik!” She exclaimed as she hurried over to the kitchen table, taking her scarf from his hands and wrapping it around her throat and tucking the ends into the coat she had already put on. (She was honestly running a bit behind and if she didn’t leave soon she would have to find a better excuse than “I lost my favorite lost scarf” because she’d already used that one and she didn’t like repeating excuses unless they were necessary.

“Yeah, I’m afraid Ayesha had hidden it by the washer with the rest of her treasures,” he chuckled, giving the cat that sat licking her paws on the floor the side eye.

Christine bent down and rubbed Ayesha’s ears (earning a side eye from the cat herself) “This isn’t a kitty toy, silly—” 

“Can’t really blame her, it’s just about in tatters, she probably mistook it for a ball of string.” He shrugged, straightening the clothes he had disrupted in the laundry basket.

She frowned at that, standing back up. “It’s not in tatters,” she was quick to defend the simple scarf around her neck, “it’s just…well-loved that’s all.”

She watched as he rolled his eyes and picked up the laundry basket of their clothes to go put away.

“Well loved or not, it’s looking rough. Why don’t you just let me buy you a new one?”

“No!” She said a bit too quickly, making him stop in his path on the way back to the bedroom of their apartment. 

“No, it’s special. My mom made it for me and…” she glanced at the floor, picking at the loose threads of her coat. “It’s really all I have left of her besides her locket. I barely remember her as it is and…”

She kept rambling until she heard the gentle clatter of the laundry basket being sent down and then there was a pair of arms around her again, holding her close. She didn’t cry, she usually reserved tears for when the pain of her father not being there anymore hit, but it still hurt.

A lot.

“Shh…don’t feel like you have to convince me. My own mother never made me anything, I didn’t even think about it. Don’t listen to me…” he trailed off as he pressed a kiss to the top of her head and then pulled back, holding her by her shoulders.

“Now you’re gonna be late if you don’t leave,” he reminded her, scooping the laundry basket back into his arms, and calling Ayesha to follow him. 

“I’ll miss you,” she smiled as she picked her keys up off the counter and watched him walk towards the bedroom. 

“I’ll miss you more,” he called over his shoulder before the door shut behind him.

But the words lingered in her mind as she opened the hallway door to her apartment and stepped out:

My own mother never made me anything…

She nodded to herself.

She had a very good idea what to get him for Christmas now. 

XXX

Christine had never knit anything before in her life. 

Never. 

But here she was, red yarn and steel needles in her hand, “how-to-knit-for-beginners” tutorial video pulled up on her laptop in front of her on her bed and bedroom door locked in case of curious well-meaning eyes.

She could do this.

She’d already watched the video and it didn’t look that hard. It was just loops. And more loops and more loops and then a knot — she could do this!

Her first attempt was…less than useful. Her stitches kept dropping and she couldn’t understand why in the world the yarn was so tight around the needles. It looked so easy when other people did it!

She’d just have to start over.

And she did. Three, four…eight more times until she got a steady start and a few neat rows of stitches done. She held her work up to admire it, the Sunday afternoon light streaming in through the window. She took a moment to glance out the window, watching the snow as it softly fell. Maybe they’d actually have a white Christmas this year. It seemed like the snow was just narrowly skipping around Christmas the past few years and it would be so nice to wake up to snow—

She felt her pile of excess yarn uncoil from her lap and then a tug against her knitting needles. She raised an eyebrow and looked down:

Her yarn was gone.

“What the…” she looked around herself but then followed the taught string to the edge of the bed and then looked to the floor beneath it.

Ah ha.

Blissfully tangled up in the dark red yarn was Ayesha, chewing on one end of the string and batting a bundle of it with her back paws.

“Ayesha!” She whispered harshly, careful to not be too loud in case Erik realized she’d locked herself in their bedroom on purpose. She hadn’t known the cat was in here when she came in, she must’ve been sleeping under the bed…again. 

Ayesha merely stared up at her from where she played on her back, still attempting to eat a bit of the string.

“Bad cat,” she scolded as she reached down to wrestle the thread from the cat’s grasp (not an easy feat mind you, Ayesha had claws like a bear) and pile it back up on the bed with her. She wiped the wet string on her shirt; Erik wouldn’t mind, it was his cat after all.

“There now,” she said to herself, situating herself back into an easy pattern of slowly knitting and eyeing the yarn.

She heard a familiar “meow” and then the rustle of the comforter as Ayesha leaped up on to the bed, determined to play with her newfound toy.

“Ayesha, no,” she said firmly, pulling most of the string close to her side. “This is for your daddy, not for you.”

Ayesha slowly blinked back at her.

She swore that sometimes that cat and Erik made the same faces. 

She settled on gently batting the actual ball of yarn around the bed after realizing that Christine wasn’t going to let her have the loose string that she knitted with. Everything was going okay then; Ayesha was being quiet, her yarn stitches didn’t look a total hot mess, and Erik’s new handmade scarf was slowly coming together.

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It was a few days before Christmas and she’d made good headway on the scarf, only having a few more rows to make and to be honest, she was quite proud of herself.

Maybe she should pick up more yarn and make him a whole set of things: a hat…gloves…a sweater…

She stopped herself there. Knitting a scarf only involved knitting in a straight line and maybe that was enough for her right now.

She pulled her coat tighter as she walked up the stairs to her apartment, digging around for her keys in her pocket as she neared her door. Erik was constantly thanking her for letting him move in, but she thought she might explode if she had to tell him one more time that she wanted him there. After all, she certainly wasn’t about to move in with Erik. 

He’d been living in his friend Nadir’s basement. 

Basement. 

Nadir had a wife and a baby nearly due and she was honestly the one who convinced him to move in with her. 

Though she knew good and well he still had a lot of belongings in that man’s basement. 

Nadir was a saint for putting up with him. 

She shook her head as she reached her door, putting the key in the lock—

She stopped.

She could hear a muffled voice on the other side — Erik’s — and some rushed footsteps.

Her door never unlocked slower it seemed.

Was something wrong? Had there been an emergency? She had just been thinking about Nadir and Mandy— had their baby come early?

“Erik?” She called out as she opened the door.

She didn’t see him.

“Erik?” She tried again, shutting the door behind her and poking her head into the kitchen. Not here either.

Her eyes roamed the living area until she saw it. 

A long red string. 

Christine’s eyes widened. 

She followed the trail of string all the way to the the bedroom door that was cracked open.

“No, no, no…” she whispered to herself as she pushed the door open, already dreading the sight of what she was sure would be waiting for her—

Instead it was Erik, back to her but facing the bed, Ayesha looking a bit too proud of herself perched on the edge of the bed.

“Erik?” She said again but was interrupted.

“Did you…” a swallow, “did you make this?” Erik asked softly as he turned around, half-unraveled scarf held gently in his hands. 

She felt the heat rising to her cheeks.

Of course the damn cat would blow her secret.

She nodded, coming to stand next to the bed with him. 

“Yeah, I…well it’s silly,” she tripped over her words as she sat down on the bed beside Ayesha, giving her a pat on the head to distract herself. “I was so sad that your mom had never made you anything and I treasure my old red scarf so much for that exact reason and well…” she looked up at him.

His eyes very nearly had tears in them, just waiting for the right moment to fall.

“I thought I’d make you a matching one,” she finished with a shrug before looking back at Ayesha. “It’s not that good, and this one keeps unraveling it and—”

“Hey,” his voice was low as she felt him take her hands in his. 

She let her eyes drift back to him and watch him kneel beside the bed, so he was eye level with her where she sat. 

“It’s perfect.”

And he looked so genuinely happy when he said it that Christine laughed in spite of herself and squeezed his hands. “Really? I can remake it—”

He shook his head as he put the scarf over his head then threw the other end around his neck, a purple knitting needle still hanging off on one end.

“How could I not love it?” Erik said, bringing his hands back down to hold hers. “You made it for me.”

Gosh she loved it when he smiled.

She bent forward and kissed him, still holding his hands tight in hers. “I just wanted our first Christmas to be special,” she breathed against his lips as they parted, feeling her own eyes start to well up with tears of her own (out of happiness or pent-up frustration that Ayesha had ruined her Christmas surprise she wasn’t sure).

“Christine any day with you is special,” he said in that tone of his that made her heart drop and knees weak.

She smiled and shook her head.

“Well, now I need to find you a new Christmas present,” she forced out a laugh despite the tears that now rolled down her cheeks.

Erik swiped at them with his thumb, holding her face in his hands before pressing a quick kiss to her forehead.

“Oh nonsense, this is Christmas gift enough…”

But then he winked and stood up.

“Besides, if you really feel like getting me something else, I’m sure Wal-Mart still has that Yoda Lego set I was eyeing up last week…”

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Excerpt from this story from Time Magazine:

The fire consumed the hillside, charring trees and bushes and homes on its way to devastating 70,000 acres in northern California. But Sean Jennings’ house did not burn. Its reddish stucco walls and green roof looked startlingly clean perched on the hillside amidst the burnt cars and white ash left in the fire’s wake. Inside, Legos and Christmas decorations were unmelted, and a propane tank behind the house was ¾ full.

Jennings says his house survived the Valley Fire of 2015 because it was not made of wood. When he’d built it five years earlier, Jennings instead used something called RSG 3-D panels—blocks of foam insulation held inside a steel grid, fastened together, and covered with concrete. The structure is sturdier, less susceptible to termites, and less flammable than wood, he says. “Wood houses are just so vulnerable and leaky,” says Jennings, who is building a second house using RSG panels for his mother in Sonoma County, near where the LNU Lightning Complex Fires in 2020 burned 363,000 acres over the course of six weeks.

As the U.S. West approaches the 2021 fire season with even drier conditions than those that kicked off last year’s record-breaking blazes, breaking up with wood makes sense, but the U.S. remains stubbornly attached to timber. It’s one of the few places in the world where wood is the dominant material used in new-home construction—90% of homes built in 2019 were wood-framed, according to the National Association of Home Builders. Even as scientists emphasize the importance of trees in capturing carbon and slowing climate change, the U.S. uses more forest products than any other country, not just for construction but for furniture, flooring and paper. Wood plays a role in American folklore, housing Abe Lincoln and employing Paul Bunyan.

Now there are growing economic reasons to find alternatives. The cost of wood has skyrocketed as more people across the country remodel or build new homes following a pandemic-year construction collapse, causing a lumber shortage that adds more than $35,000 to the cost of a new single-family home.

“Wood is ubiquitous, but it’s time to evolve,” says Matt Watson, the president of Gateway Builders, a Northern California contracting company that has been building homes since 1997. Watson started building with non-wood materials last year and now, as he works with clients who lost homes in the 2020 fires, 19 out of 21 rebuilds are using non-wood materials. His workers have traded in hammers and nails for pneumatic tools that fasten together steel panels. Still, it may take awhile, he says—old habits die hard. “It’s the same as getting people off fossil fuels.”

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Keegan-Michael Key (born March 22, 1971) is an actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. He co-created and co-starred alongside Jordan Peele in Key & Peele (2012–15) and co-starred in Playing House (2014–17). He spent six seasons as a cast member on Mad TV (2004–09) and has made guest appearances on the US version of Whose Line is it Anyway? He appeared alongside Peele in the first season of Fargo in 2014 and had a recurring role in Parks and Recreation (2013-15). He hosted the US version of The Planet’s Funniest Animals on Animal Planet (2005–08) and hosted Game On!

He has had supporting roles in several films, including Horrible Bosses 2 (2014), Pitch Perfect 2 (2015), Don’t Think Twice (2016) and Dolemite Is My Name (2019). He has provided voice work for The Lego Movie (2014), the Hotel Transylvania franchise (2015–22), Storks, The Angry Birds Movie (both 2016), The Star (2017), The Lion King remake and Toy Story 4 (both 2019), and Pinocchio remake (2022). In 2015, he appeared at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner as the Key & Peele character Luther, President Barack Obama’s anger translator. Key and Peele produced and starred in Keanu. In 2017, he made his Broadway debut in Meteor Shower. He appeared in The Prom (2020) and Schmigadoon! (2021).

He was born in Southfield, Michigan, the son of Leroy McDuffie and Carrie Herr. He was adopted at a young age by a couple from Detroit, Michael Key, and Patricia Walsh. His brother was comic book writer Dwayne McDuffie.

He attended the University of Detroit Mercy, earning a BFA in Theater, followed by an MFA in Theater at Pennsylvania State University. While at the University of Detroit Mercy, he was a brother of Phi Kappa Theta.

He was married to actress and dialect coach Cynthia Blaise (1998-2017). He married producer and director Elisa Pugliese (2018). #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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HBO Max New Releases:. July 2021

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LeBron James might be out of the NBA playoffs, but he’s still angling to be a big part of the summer entertainment season. That’s because HBO Max’s list of new releases for July 2021 is highlighted by a very special sequel.

Space Jam: A New Legacy premieres on July 16. will find LeBron teaming up with the Looney Tunes in a Warner Bros. IP-extravaganza. Can ‘Bron and the Looney Tunes beat the Goon Squad before Warner Bros.’ server steals LeBron “Bronny” Jr.’s soul (or something)? Let’s hope so. The two other major WB releases this month, No Sudden Move and Tom and Jerry in New York, both come to HBO Max on July 1.

HBO Max is also bringing some fun TV shows to its stream this month. The long-awaited Gossip Girl revival premieres on July 8. That will be followed by Mike White’s satirical limited series The White Lotus on July 11. Ronan Farrow’s excellent book Catch and Kill gets a docuseries adaptation on July 12.

July 1 will see the arrival of library titles like Planet of the Apes, Reservoir Dogs, and Scream. Recent hit Judas and the Black Messiah comes to HBO Max on that date as well. It’s a good month for geek TV with the Doctor Who 2020 Christmas Special (July 1), Nancy Drew season 2 (July 3), and Batwoman season 2 (July 27) all coming home to their streaming residence.

HBO Max New Releases – July 2021

TBA FBOY Island, Max Original Season 1 Premiere Romeo Santos: King of Bachata, 2021 (HBO) Romeo Santos Utopia Live from MetLife Stadium, 2021 (HBO)

July 1 ¡Come! (aka Eat!), 2020 8 Mile, 2002 (HBO) All Dogs Go to Heaven 2, 1996 (HBO) All Dogs Go to Heaven, 1989 (HBO) Behind Enemy Lines, 1997 (HBO) Beneath the Planet of the Apes, 1970 (HBO) Bio-Dome, 1996 (HBO) Black Panthers, 1968 Blackhat, 2015 (HBO) Brubaker, 1980 (HBO) Cantinflas (HBO) Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, 1972 (Extended Version) (HBO) Cousins, 1989 (HBO) Dark Water, 2005 (HBO) Darkness Falls, 2003 (HBO) Demolition Man, 1993 Dirty Work, 1998 (HBO) Disturbia, 2007 (HBO) Doctor Who Holiday 2020 Special: Revolution of the Daleks, 2020 Duplex, 2003 (HBO) Escape from the Planet of the Apes, 1971 (HBO) Eve’s Bayou, 1997 Firestarter, 1984 (HBO) First, 2012 For Colored Girls, 2010 (HBO) For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada, 2012 (HBO) Full Bloom, Max Original Season 2 Finale Ghost in the Machine, 1993 (HBO) The Good Lie, 2014 (HBO) Gun Crazy, 1950 House on Haunted Hill, 1999 Identity Thief, 2013 (Extended Version) (HBO) Ira & Abby, 2007 (HBO) Joe Versus the Volcano, 1990 Judas and the Black Messiah, 2021 (HBO) Laws Of Attraction, 2004 (HBO) Lucky, 2017 (HBO) Maid in Manhattan, 2002 Married to the Mob, 1988 (HBO) Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, 1997 Mississippi Burning, 1988 (HBO) Monster-In-Law, 2005 Mousehunt, 1997 (HBO) My Brother Luca (HBO) No Sudden Move Pleasantville, 1998 The Prince of Tides, 1991 Project X, 1987 (HBO) The Punisher, 2017 (HBO) Punisher: War Zone, 2008 (HBO) Rambo, 2008 (Director’s Cut) (HBO) Reds, 1981 (HBO) Reservoir Dogs, 1992 (HBO) The Return of the Living Dead, 1985 (HBO) Return of the Living Dead III, 1993 (Extended Version) (HBO) Rounders, 1998 (HBO) Saturday Night Fever, 1977 (Director’s Cut) (HBO) Scream, 1996 Scream 2, 1997 Scream 3, 2000 Semi-Tough, 1977 (HBO) The Sessions, 2012 (HBO) Set Up, 2012 (HBO) Snake Eyes, 1998 (HBO) Staying Alive, 1983 (HBO) Stuart Little, 1999 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 2003 Tom and Jerry in New York, Max Original Series Premiere Trick ‘R Treat, 2009 (HBO) Tyler Perry’s Daddy’s Little Girls, 2007 (HBO) Tyler Perry’s Diary of a Mad Black Woman, 2005 (HBO) Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All by Myself, 2009 (HBO) Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes To Jail, 2009 (HBO) Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family, 2011 (HBO) Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family Reunion, 2006 (HBO) Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too, 2010 (HBO) The Watcher, 2016 (HBO) The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep, 2007 (HBO) Westworld (Movie), 1973 White Chicks (Unrated & Uncut Version), 2004 The White Stadium, 1928 Won’t Back Down, 2012 (HBO) Zero Days, 2016 (HBO)

July 2 Lo Que Siento por Ti (aka What I Feel for You) (HBO)

July 3 Let Him Go, 2020 (HBO) Nancy Drew, Season 2

July 7 Dr. STONE, Seasons 1 and 2 (Subtitled) (Crunchyroll Collection) Shiva Baby, 2021 (HBO)

July 8 The Dog House: UK, Max Original Season 2 Premiere Gossip Girl, Max Original Series Premiere Human Capital, 2020 (HBO) The Hunt, 2020 (HBO) Looney Tunes Cartoons, Max Original Season 2 Premiere

July 9 Frankie Quinones: Superhomies (HBO)

July 11 The White Lotus, Limited Series Premiere (HBO)

July 12 Catch and Kill: The Podcast Tapes, Documentary Series Premiere (HBO)

July 15 Tom & Jerry, 2021 (HBO)

July 16 Betty, Season 2 Finale (HBO) Space Jam: A New Legacy, Warner Bros. Film Premiere, 2021  Un Disfraz Para Nicolas (aka A Costume for Nicolas) (HBO)

July 17 The Empty Man, 2020 (HBO)

July 18 100 Foot Wave, Documentary Series Premiere (HBO)

July 22 Through Our Eyes, Max Original Documentary Series Premiere

July 23 Corazon De Mezquite (aka Mezquite’s Heart) (HBO)

July 24 Freaky, 2020 (HBO)

July 26 Catch and Kill: The Podcast Tapes, Documentary Series Finale (HBO)

July 27 Batwoman, Season 2 Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (HBO)

July 30 Uno Para Todos (aka One for All) (HBO)

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Leaving HBO Max – July 2021  

July 3 The ABC’s Of Covid-19: A CNN/Sesame Street Town Hall for Kids and Parents Part 2, 2020

July 4 Annabelle, 2014 Annabelle Comes Home, 2019 (HBO) The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, 2021 The Curse of La Llorona, 2019 The Nun, 2018

July 5 Lost And Delirious, 2001

July 8 Mad Max: Fury Road, 2015

July 10 It: Chapter 2, 2019 (HBO)

July 11 An Elephant’s Journey, 2018 In the Heights, 2021 Thanks for Sharing, 2013

July 15 Burlesque, 2010

July 17 The Notebook, 2004

July 26 The King’s Speech, 2010

July 31 17 Again, 2009 A Clockwork Orange, 1971 A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, 1985 A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, 1988 A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, 1989 A Nightmare on Elm Street, 1984 A Nightmare on Elm Street, 2010 Adam’s Rib, 1949 America’s Sweethearts, 2001 Anaconda, 1997 The Apparition, 2012 (HBO) Are We There Yet?, 2005 Argo, 2012 (Alternate Version) (HBO) AVP: Alien vs. Predator, 2004 (Alternate Version) (HBO) Badlands, 1973 Beau Brummel, 1954 The Benchwarmers, 2006 Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2, 2011 (HBO) Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3: Viva La Fiesta!, 2012 (HBO) Billy Madison, 1995 (HBO) The Book Of Eli, 2010 (HBO) Bram Stoker’s Dracula, 1992 Bringing Up Baby, 1938 The City of Lost Children, 1995 The Color Purple, 1985 The Comebacks, 2007 (Alternate Version) (HBO) The Conjuring 2, 2016 The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course, 2002 (HBO) Don’t Let Go, 2019 (HBO) Downton Abbey, 2019 (HBO) El Angel (aka The Angel), 2018 (HBO) Eyes Wide Shut, 1999 Fool’s Gold, 2008 Fort Tilden, 2015 (HBO) The Four Feathers, 2002 (HBO) The Gay Divorcee, 1934 Get A Job, 2016 (HBO) The Goonies, 1985 Grand Canyon, 1991 (HBO) Hairspray, 1988 Happy Gilmore, 1996 (HBO) Hellboy Animated Collection, 2006, 2007 The Hurricane, 1999 (HBO) I Know What You Did Last Summer, 1997 Iniciales SG (aka Initials S.G.), 2019 (HBO) J. Edgar, 2011 Jackie Chan’s First Strike, 1997 Jacob’s Ladder, 1990 (HBO) Jeremiah Johnson, 1972 Keeper Of The Flame, 1943 Kill Bill: Vol. 1, 2003 (HBO) Kill Bill: Vol. 2, 2004 (HBO) Kung Fu Hustle, 2005 The Lego Ninjago Movie, 2014 Less Than Zero, 1987 (HBO) Life Stinks, 1991 (HBO) Lincoln, 2012 (HBO) Little Children, 2006 (HBO) Little Man Tate, 1991 (HBO) Lovely & Amazing, 2002 The Lucky One, 2012(HBO) The Madness of King George, 1994 (HBO) Marisol, 2019 (HBO) Me 3.769, 2019 (HBO) Michael Clayton, 2007 Mickey Blue Eyes, 1999 Monster-In-Law, 2005 Mulholland Dr., 2001 Muralla (aka Muralla, The Goalkeeper), 2018 (HBO) Murder on the Orient Express, 1974 (HBO) Music and Lyrics, 2007 My Dream Is Yours, 1949 My Girl 2, 1994 My Girl, 1991 My Sister’s Keeper, 2009 Now, Voyager, 1942 Old Dogs, 2009 (HBO) The Opposite Sex, 1956 The Pledge, 2001 (HBO) Precious, 2009 (HBO) The Producers, 1968 The Prophecy, 1995 (HBO) The Prophecy II, 1998 (HBO) The Prophecy III: The Ascent, 2000 (HBO) Prophecy IV: The Uprising, 2005 (HBO) Prophecy V: The Forsaken, 2005 (HBO) Pulp Fiction, 1994 Rachel and The Stranger, 1948 Radio Days, 1987 (HBO) The Reluctant Debutante, 1958 Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise, 1987 (HBO) Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love, 2005 (HBO) Revenge of the Nerds, 1984 (HBO) Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, 1991 Roger & Me, 1989 Rollerball, 2002 (HBO) Romance on the High Seas, 1948 Rumble in the Bronx, 1996 Safe House, 2012 (HBO) Salvador, 1986 (HBO) Shall We Dance?, 2004 Shallow Hal, 2001 (HBO) Shocker, 1989 (HBO) Sinbad of the Seven Seas, 1989 (HBO) Sprung, 1997 (HBO) Stop-Loss, 2008 (HBO) Sunshine Cleaning, 2009 (HBO) Swing Time, 1936 Tea for Two, 1950 Thief, 1981 (HBO) This Is Spinal Tap, 1984 (HBO) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, 2011 (HBO) Top Hat, 1935 Trapped in Paradise, 1994 (HBO) Troll 2, 1990 (HBO) Troll, 1986 (HBO) Two Minutes of Fame, 2020 (HBO) Underdog, 2007 (HBO) Untamed Heart, 1993 (HBO) Up in the Air, 2009 (HBO) The Visitor, 2008 Waiting for Guffman, 1997 The Wedding Singer, 1998 Wendy, 2020 (HBO) Wildcats, 1986 (HBO) The Wings of Eagles, 1957 Without Love, 1945 Woman of the Year, 1942 Worth Winning, 1989 (HBO) Young Man with a Horn, 1949

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Did you know...

...that Stephen Hawking once threw a party for time-travelers on June 28, 2009 but he only announced the party the next day. No one showed up.

...that Mazda is so named after Ahura Mazda, the highest Zorosatric deity of wisdom and knowledge. Zoom zoom!

...that with every intense kiss 80 million bacteria are exchanged.

...that over one quarter of the world’s hazelnuts are used to make Nutella.

...that Volkswagen produces its own curry sausage - and the sales figures are higher than those of the vehicles.

...that Swedish citizens are such huge fans of Donald Duck, they had to make voting for him in official elections illegal.

...that of all public institutions, the US Postal Service enjoys the highest level of trust among US-Americans? That includes the White House!

...that Lego is the largest tyre manufacturer in the world. Okay, they're a little smaller...

...that Walt Disney World is the second-largest buyer of explosives in the U.S. after the Department of Defense. At least in the good old times...

...that you shouldn't take your knowledge for granted?