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[holmesoldfellow]

"Observations by Gaslight" by Lindsay Faye

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JOMP Book Photo Challenge || 20 November || Kickass Characters: The Paragon Hotel by Lyndsay Faye

I loved the characters so much, even the main character, which is a rarity. Blossom, however, remains my favourite and she was a kickass character™

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9 maggio … ricordiamo …

9 maggio … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2023: Joaquin Romaguera, Joaquin Fidel Romaguera, attore e tenore statunitense. Artista di lunga data con la New York City Opera dagli anni ’60 agli anni ’80. Romaguera ha iniziato la sua carriera all’età di 18 anni. Il compagno di vita di Romaguera è stato il parrucchiere di Broadway Robert W. Cybula.  (n. 1932) 2020: Geno Silva, attore statunitense.  (n. 1948) 2020: Antonio Palazzi, gastronomo…

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Nesta, Interrupted: gendered perceptions of alcoholism in ACOSF

CW: addiction, sexual assault, gendered violence.

Creds: I’m a licensed counselor with a degree specialization in treating addiction. I have career experience with multiple modes of mental health, trauma, and substance use treatment in women-specific carceral, institutional, and healthcare settings. And I know anyone can come on the internet and say that, but I pinky promise.

The short version:

ACOSF stigmatizes alcoholism in line with cultural standards.

Western culture feels differently about female and male alcoholics due to systemic sexism, and thus treats them differently.

Women’s experience of alcoholism is often compounded by or even a result of systemic factors and intersectional identity.

Nesta’s treatment in ACOSF, while repugnant, is in many ways very accurate of attitudes today.

(I’ll be using “women/men” and “male/female” to denote cis afab and amab people. Little research exists on the experiences of queer, nonbinary and gender expansive considerations in addiction and recovery, which is a fuckin’ shame. Studies are also largely conducted with white participants due to enormous barriers to treatment for Black, Indigenous, and people of color, so this convo is inherently incomplete where it neglects those intersections.)

Okay, first things first: ACOSF is a book that stigmatizes alcoholism. I will not be taking questions.

The number one thing to understand is that in America, land of Miss Sarah, we are very bad at addiction treatment (tx). Why? Because our culture hates addicts has as stigma around addiction. And female alcoholics bear a very specific set of stigmas based in their identity.

In Susanna Kaysen’s memoir Girl, Interrupted , Kaysen’s character is institutionalized following a non-fatal suicide attempt. When evaluated, she’s diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, that bastion of diagnoses perfect for people (75% of whom are female-identified) who don’t fit into our polite definition of functioning. As the book unfolds, she reflects on how (white) women are often pathologized when they buck against systems of oppression that create the dysfunction in them in the first place. That is not to say other women in the institution are not genuinely in need of help, nor that mental illness in women is always from a systemic wound. But it’s crucial in the treatment of female addiction and mental health disorders to considered the systemic factors of gendered violence and patriarchy, and the attitudes we hold about women who struggle with drinking.

Think about female alcoholics in media. If she’s young, she’s a loose, reckless sl*t looking for trouble and deserving of the reality check when she finds it (Amy Schumer in Trainwreck, Lindsay Lohan in general). Or if the woman are older, they are discarded, or gross, or pathetic, or evil like anyone Faye Dunaway played or Eminem’s mom in 8 Mile (deep cut lol). Men are afforded a much larger spectrum of experiences and struggles - Ernest Hemingway, Leaving Las Vegas, Sideways, the dude from A Star is Born, Frank from Shameless (brilliant), frat boys, blue collar workers, introspective tortured artists, fucking IRON MAN. I could go on forever, but I hope that illustrates the depth and diversity of male-centric stories of alcoholism not often afforded to women.

One of the most empathetic and accurate portrayals of female alcoholism, in my opinion, is in the show Sharp Objects (the book, too, but actually witnessing it makes a difference). We see Amy Adams’ Camille swig vodka from an Evian bottle while fending off vicious, veiled attacks from her verbally and emotionally abusive mother and experiencing flashbacks of teenage sexual assault. We watch her struggle to find emotional safety in her conservative hometown, both wanting to fit in and get out in order to survive. We GET why she drinks and I have trouble blaming her for it even as she wreaks havoc on herself and others. We can see her clawing just to make it out alive, and alcohol is the tool she’s using to do it, for better or worse.

Which is where Nesta enters the chat. When we get our first glimpse of her alcohol use is ACOFAS, it’s portrayed as something everyone knows about but that she’s still mostly keeping it together - her dress is clean, her hair is neatly braided, she doesn’t need a chaperone to show up to a family event. The deterioration between ACOFAS and ACOSF is alarming, and we know that alcoholism is a progressive condition so that tends to happen. Was there a particular trigger? That’s hard to say. Solstice certainly didn’t help, especially with the pressures to perform and conform to the standards of the Inner Circle aka the people in power. I imagine seeing her sisters bouncey and reveling in the world that stole them and killed their father was probably.. tough, to say the least. The barge party seems to be a turning point as well, though this one is more confusing to me. But given the child abuse, extreme poverty, sexual assault, kidnapping, bodily violation, witnessing her father’s murder, almost dying, WAR - and that’s not even to mention essentially becoming a refugee - it would be amazing if she DIDN’T drink. She 100% has complex trauma, and is looking for ways to cope.

No one with full capacity dreams of becoming an addict when they grow up. Addiction, in my professional and personal experience, is largely a strategy for coping with a deeper wound. People don’t drink to feel bad. They drink to feel good, and to survive. Nesta herself is drinking to survive, but it’s having the unfortunate side effect of killing her at the same time. As she slides into active addiction, the thought of her own death may even be comforting, and alcohol in that way is her friend. (There's some interesting research right now framing addiction as an attachment disorder, but I don't know enough to speak on it much.)

So she obviously needs help. That’s not a debate. What is a debate is how the IC should best go about intervening. A variation on the Johnson method is used in ACOSF (the one from the show Intervention) and appears to be successful only because they threaten her if she doesn’t comply. This method has mixed data to support it, and while it’s very good at getting people into tx, there is a higher relapse rate for those who receive it (1). The “family” gathers and tells her the ways she’s hurt them and tell her the consequences if she doesn’t seek the help they’re offering. And again, so many of their reason are the effects on THEM, how she’s making THEM look, not her pain.

The IC’s ignorance and dismissal of her alcoholism in ACOSF is frankly mystifying. Why do they intervene on all the drinking and sexing, anyway? It seems like they’ve been fine enough with it up to this point. But now it's gone too far, not because of her illness but because she is embarrassing them. And I don’t know about you, but between Cassian apparently fucking half of Velaris and Mor’s heavily documented emotional drinking, that’s hard to square. It makes it feel much more likely that they don’t like the way she is coping, that she is not fitting into their picture of who she’s supposed to be. This picture is inherently gendered, because Prythian society and those who live in it have explicit and implicit expectations of gender roles, whether they’ll admit it or not. Cassian and Mor are playing their roles well; Nesta is not.

That leads me to believe it is NOT all about her, but the systemic and internal factors influencing their perception of her and the ways she’s struggling. It’s distasteful to them for her, a female, to be deteriorating this publicly, despite the fact that her very identity makes it harder for her to function in the patriarchy of Prythian. We hear almost exclusively about sexual violence against women, aside from 2 male characters. Past or present assault of women is a major plot point on multiple occasions (Mor, Gwyn, Nesta, Emerie, Rhysands mom and sister, the lady of autumn, Cassians mom, Azriels mom, I could go on). But something about the way Nesta is contending with that is unacceptable, and I believe it’s because she’s not trying to cover up her dysfunction. In prythian, we keep these things hidden- Mor’s assault is never processed in full, Azriel’s mom seems to be alone at Rosehall, priestesses are literally hidden inside a mountain for centuries. Women process trauma alone and in the dark, but Nesta is in the light and she is loud. She is refusing to hide her problems, and the IC don’t like that, whether they realize it or not.

So why don’t the IC understand this? Like I said earlier, as a culture we hate addicts, or what they stand for, in very much the same way I think we hate people experiencing homelessness. We convince ourselves it was a series of bad choices that led someone where they are, choices we would never make because we are smart, smarter than them. We believe are more in control than that. We can prevent bad things from happening to us because we are good, because we are better than whoever it’s happening to. But the reality is almost ALL of us are one hospital stay away from homelessness, just as all of us are one trauma away from addiction. And with female addicts, we have another layer of expecting women to only struggle nicely and quietly, or to go away. Intersectional factors are at play here, too: white women are much more likely to have alcoholism attributed to mental health and trauma factors, where people of color often suffer the same addiction being more associated with crime. You can imagine how that plays out differently.

So what is the effect of all this? Gendered expectations lead to not only external stigma around addiction and tx, but also to internalized stigma which can limit willingness to seek tx. (2) Many social forces encourage women to drink and discourage them from telling anyone. Factors such as poverty, family planning, access to education, racial discrimination, and location can make services harder to access. Internally, women are more likely to enter treatment with less confidence in their ability to succeed, but report more strengths and more potential to grow recovery strengths during and following tx. For men, the pattern is reversed (3). And women have more successful tx episodes overall when gendered considerations are a part of the design and implementation of services (4). For Nesta, the effect is that she’s forced into treatment and copes by having hate sex with her ex and changing herself to conform to her family’s expectations while the House and the Valkyrie’s actually take care of her. I do not see how Sarah drew the line from there to recovery, I truly don’t. If anything, she recovers in spite of the ICs intervention, not because of it.

In summary, Nesta Archeron deserved better. Nesta deserved the same compassion the book gives to men who are struggling, and it’s a reflection of not just the book’s culture but the author’s culture that she doesn’t get it. Female alcoholics are worthy of treatment that integrates their identities, as those identities are often essential factors contributing to their addiction. What's shown in ACOSF is a reality many women live, and they shouldn't have to.

Barry Loneck, James A. Garrett & Steven M Banks (1996) The Johnson Intervention and Relapse During Outpatient Treatment, The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 22:3, 363-375, DOI: 10.3109/00952999609001665

Groshkova T, Best D, White W. The Assessment of Recovery Capital: Properties and psychometrics of a measure of addiction recovery strengths. Drug Alcohol Rev. 2013;32(2):187–94.

Best D, Vanderplasschen W, Nisic M. Measuring capital in active addiction and recovery: the development of the strengths and barriers recovery scale (SABRS). Subst Abuse Treat, Prev Policy. 2020;15(1):1–8.

Polak, K., Haug, N.A., Drachenberg, H.E. et al. Gender Considerations in Addiction: Implications for Treatment. Curr Treat Options Psych 2, 326–338 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40501-015-0054-5

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clementine bedard

Clementine Faye Bedard

Number: 89

Season: fourth

Position: C

Height: 5”8

Hometown: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

S/C: R/L

NHL: NJD

Prev Team: Vancouver Giants

NHL

Selected 1st overall (first round) by the New Jersey Devils in the 2020 NHL Draft.

WHL

Drafted first overall in 2017, the first WHL player with exceptional status, and won the Jim Piggot Memorial Trophy as the league's top rookie player in her debut season.

International

Team Canda

2023 World Championship - Gold Medal, 13 G, 13 A, 10 GP

2022 World Championship- Silver Medal , 10 G, 11 A, 10 GP

2021 World Championship-Gold Medal, 12 G, 12 A, 10 GP

2020 World Junior Championship- Gold Medal, 11 G, 9 A, 7 GP

2019 World Junior Championship- Silver Medal, 9 G, 7 A, 7 GP

2018 World Junior Championship- Gold Medal, 10 G, 6 A, 7 GP

2017 U18 World Championship- Gold Medal, 7 G, 7 A, 7 GP

NHL

Fourth Year (2023-2024)

75 G, 69 A, 80 GP

Singed a contract for 70 millions dollars for the next nine years and three million dollar bonus.

Assistant Captain

Third Year (2022-2023)

67 G, 40 A, 76 GP

Ted Lindsay award

Assistant Captain

Second Year (2021-2022)

50 G, 35 A, 75 GP

Rookie Year (2020-2021)

30 G, 26 A, 56 P, 56 GP

Received the Rookie of the Year award.

Signed a Contract for 12 Million dollars for three years and a 1 million dollar signing bonus.

WHL

2019-2020

Vancouver Giants

30 G, 25 A, 28 GP

Bob Clarke Throphy

Four Broncos Memorial Trophy

Captain

Draft Year

2018-2019

Vancouver Giants

78 G, 77 A, 72 GP

Four Broncos Memorial Trophy

Won the WHL Championship

2017-2018

Vancouver Giants

53 G, 67 A, 72 GP

Rookie of the Year

Four Broncos Memorial Trophy

Before WHL

2016-2017

West Van Academic Prep U 18

65 G, 40 A, 50 GP

2015-2016

West Van Academic Prep U 15

50 G, 36 A, 45 GP

Personal

• Born August 31, 2002

• Daughter of Melanie and Jim Bedard

• Has two siblings Connor and Madison Bedard.

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[swamp-adder]

sorry if this has been asked already, but do you know of any decent pastiches that involve holmes getting put through the wringer? (mentally or physically, i'm not picky). i know that watson being kidnapped or otherwise put in a position of distress by some baddie is a fairly common trope, but i haven't seen much of the reverse.

Good question! Let's see... I'm going off memories here, which might not be 100% accurate, but here are the ones I can think of:

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer -- the obvious one lol

Sherlock Holmes and the Plague of Dracula by Stephen Seitz -- this one is extremely silly but Holmes does go through some shit in it

The Thinking Engine by James Lovegrove -- another one that's very silly/cracky, but IIRC has a part where Holmes gets addicted to a new drug and starts spiraling down mentally before begging Watson to "save" him

Art in the Blood by Bonnie MacBird -- has Holmes getting tortured by the baddies

Dust and Shadow by Lindsay Faye -- I think this had a certain amount of Holmes angst?

I'd love to read more though, if anyone else has any recs!

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⭑ 1980’s names!

name master list ☀️ this list consists of (fem) names that were majorly popular during the 1980s. i will most likely be making a similar post to this eventually including sur names, if you have any suggestions you think would fit well in this list please lmk!

feminine

A ; amanda, ashley, amber, amy, angela, april, alicia, allison, alexandra, alexis, alyssa, anne, annie, angelica, angel, angeline, ana, audrey, aubrey, autumn

B ; brittany, britney, brittney, britanny, brandy, brandi, bianca, brooke, beth, brenda, barbara, bridget, bonnie, bonnabel

C ; christina, cristina, crystina, cristinna, christine, courtney, crystal, cindy, cyndi, cassandra, chelsea, catherine, cynthia, carrie, caitlin, caitlyn, cait, casey, candace, christy, colleen, carolyn, caroline, cassie, carla, claudia

D ; diana, dana, dawn, desiree, divine, destini, destiny, deanna, dominique, deborah, danielle, debbie

E ; elizabeth, emily, erin, eren, erika, erica, ebony, evangeline, elsie

F ; fallon, felicia, fern, francine, franchesca, faye, farrah, felicity, fiona, fiora, flora, freya, frey, frida, fatima, florence, frances

G ; gemma, gwen, gwenny, gabrielle, gabriella, gen, genevieve, genette, genesis, gem, georgina, giana, ginny, giselle, gina

H ; hannah, hazel, harriet, heather, hallie, hayley, hailey, holly, hope

I ; isley, ivy, imogen, isla

J ; jess, jessica, jessy, jessie, jessyca, jen, jenny, jenni, jennifer, jacqueline, jackie, jill, joanna, jaclyn, jaime, jamie, jordan, jordy, jordyn, jass, jas, jasmine, jasmin, jazz, jazzmin, jazzmine, jenna, jade, jayde

K ; krystal, kim, kym, kimberly, kymberly, katherine, kathryn, kathy, kat, katheryne, krystina, krys, kryssie, krissie, kristen, krysten, kristyn, katie, kate, kaitlyn, kaitlin, kathleen, katrina, kelsey, kara, kendra, kelly, kelli, kari, kourtney

L ; lydia, lindsey, lindsay, laura, lauren, loren, lauryn, latoya, leslie, les, lesley, leah, linda, lynda, laury, laurie, laurey, lori, latasha, liv, leigh-anne, lacey, lacy, laci

M ; maria, mariah, moriah, melissa, melyssa, michelle, michele, mychelle, mary, marie, monica, monyca, megan, meghan, megyn, megin, melanie, misty, margaret, molly, morgan, monique, miranda, melinda, marissa, meredith, merida, meagan, mallory

N ; nicole, nichole, nycole, nicol, natalie, natalia, nat, natasha, nancy, nina

O ; octavia, odette, odessa, olivia

P ; perrie, priscilla, patricia, pamela, payton, paige, paisley

Q ; quinn, quinnie, quinni, quincy, queenie, quen

R ; rachel, rachael, rachyl, rebecca, rebecka, rebekah, renee, reneé, regina

S ; sara, sarah, steph, stef, stefanie, stephanie, stefani, stephani, samantha, sam, shannon, sharon, stacey, stacie, staci, stacy, susan, susanne, susanna, sandra, sabrina, sheena, shauna

T ; trina, tiff, tiffany, tifany, tifaney, tiffaney, tiffani, tara, tracey, tracy, traci, tina, teresa, theresa, tara, tonya, tamara, tabitha, tasha, tammy, tamika, taylor

U ; unqiue

V ; vera, veronica, vanessa, victoria, vic, vickey, valerie, val

W ; willow, whitney, whit

X ; xandra

Y ; yasmine, yessica, yazzmin, yazzmine, yasmin

Z ; zara, zarley, zarlee, zarli, zarhlee. zoey, zoe

[indiejones]

THE 100 MOST POPULAR AMERICAN ACTRESSES OF ALL TIME ! (BASED ON INDIES SUBCONSCIOUS ASSESSMENT OF THE HIGHEST INFLATION-ADJUSTED WORLDWIDE GROSSING AMERICAN FILMS OF ALL TIME !) (1900-2022)

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1. .Elizabeth Taylor 2. .Vivien Leigh 3. .Julie Andrews 4. .Marilyn Monroe 5. .Grace Kelly 6. .Audrey Hepburn 7. .Olivia de Havilland 8. .Norma Shearer 9. .Greer Garson 10. .Lindsay Lohan 11. .Faye Dunaway 12. .Natalie Portman 13. .Diane Keaton 14. .Jessica Lange 15. .Barbra Streisand 16. .Anne Bancroft 17. .Uma Thurman 18. .Ingrid Bergman 19. .Catherine Zeta Jones 20. .Joan Fontaine 21. .Natasha Richardson 22. .Emily Blunt 23. .Doris Day 24. .Winona Ryder 25. .Salma Hayek 26. .Ashley Judd 27. .Laura Linney 28. .Barbara Stanwyck 29. .Julianne Moore 30. .Shirley Temple 31. .Shirley Maclaine 32. .Sandra Bullock 33. .Meg Ryan 34. .Susan Sarandon 35. .Sophia Loren 36. .Gwyneth Paltrow 37. .Lauren Bacall 38. .Emma Thompson 39. .Helen Hunt 40. .Goldie Hawn 41. .Holly Hunter 42. .Sharon Stone 43. .Helen Mirren 44. .Audrey Tautou 45. .Greta Garbo 46. .Lillian Gish 47. .Claudette Colbert 48. .Carole Lombard 49. .Mary Pickford 50. .Gene Tierney 51. .Kristen Stewart 52. .Drew Barrymore 53. .Hilary Swank 54. .Agnes Moorehead 55. .Ava Gardner 56. .Jean Harlow 57. .Catherine Deneuve 58. .Katharine Hepburn 59. .Jean Simmons 60. .Helena Bonham Carter 61. .Susan Hayward 62. .Judy Garland 63. .Emma Roberts 64. .Greta Gerwig 65. .Jane Wyman 66. .Cameron Diaz 67. .Rita Hayworth 68. .Michelle Williams 69. .Julia Roberts 70. .Rachel McAdams 71. .Joan Crawford 72. .Carrie Fisher 73. .Deborah Kerr 74. .Geena Davis 75. .Laura Dern 76. .Maggie Smith 77. .Mary J. Blige 78. .Ginger Rogers 79. .Bette Davis 80. .Annette Bening 81. .Kate Winslet 82. .Cate Blanchett 83. .Ellen Burstyn 84. .Zoe Saldana 85. .Geraldine Page 86. .Marlene Dietrich 87. .Jane Fonda 88. .Joan Cusack 89. .Kathy Bates 90. .Carey Mulligan 91. .Sissy Spacek 92. .Renee Zellweger 93. .Marisa Tomei 94. .Penelope Cruz 95. .Liv Tyler 96. .Angela Lansbury 97. .Vera Farmiga 98. .Jessica Chastain 99. .Jennifer Aniston 100. .Jullianne Hough

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[Rezension] Die Entführung der Delia Wright – Lindsay Faye

Klappentext: 1846. Vor einem halben Jahr wurde die Polizei von New York gegründet. Timothy hat sich als sehr talentiert für die Polizeiarbeit erwiesen. Und er glaubt sich ganz gut auszukennen mit dem Verbrechen in seiner Stadt. Dann erscheint die schöne Blumenverkäuferin Lucy Adams in seinem Amtszimmer: Ihr kleiner Sohn Jonas und ihre Schwester Delia sind entführt worden. Tims Ermittlungen führen ihn in ungeahnte Abgründe. Denn Lucys Familie ist »gemischter«, also nicht rein weißer Abstammung. Freie schwarze Bürger im Norden der USA sind Freiwild für Verbrecherbanden, die sie in ihre Gewalt bringen und als Sklaven in die Südstaaten verkaufen. Der Einzige, der Tim jetzt helfen kann, ist sein schillernder Bruder Valentine, seines Zeichens Polizei-Captain, korrupter Politiker, Frauenheld und noch einiges mehr. Als aber in Valentines Bett eine Leiche gefunden wird, muss Tim seinem ungeliebten Bruder beistehen … Rezension: In diesem Buch geht es um den Sklavenhandel in Amerika im Jahr 1846. Das erste was mir bei diesem Buch aufgefallen ist, war die Tatsache, dass erst 1846 die Polizei in New York so richtig gegründet wurde. Auch war mir irgendwie nie so richtig bekannt, dass es Sklavenfänger gab, die Schwarze in New York oder anderen Staaten in Amerika gefangen haben, um Sie dann ihren vermeintlichen Besitzern wieder zu bringen. Wie ich dann doch immer wieder gerne feststelle, man kann aus jedem Roman etwas Interessantes lernen. Komme ich nun mal zu der eigentlichen Geschichte. Timothy ist ein Polizist in New York und man kann sagen, er ist ein Kriminalbeamter, der mit Scharfsinn und Beobachtungsgabe die Sachlage immer recht schnell erfasst, sich aber nicht unbedingt vom ersten Anschein blenden lässt.   Zudem hat er der das Herz einfach auf dem rechten Fleck. Sein Bruder Valentine, bei dem die Leiche der Blumenverkäuferin Lucy Adams im Bett gefunden wurde, hat zwar wie sein Bruder auch das Herz auf dem rechten Fleck, er kommt aber immer etwas grober rüber und ist im Gegensatz zu seinem Bruder eher ein Frauenheld und ein Mensch, der weiß wie man seine Fäuste richtig einsetzt. Aufgrund seiner Parteizugehörigkeit hat er immer wieder die richtigen Verbindungen für seine Aufgabe bei der Polizei, aber auch sonst. Alles in allem ist es einer der besten Kriminalromane der letzten Monate. Frau Faye hat einen - wie soll ich sagen - besonderen Schreibstil, der einem auf der ersten Seite schon anfängt zu fesseln, und einen nicht mehr los lässt. Man lernt vieles über die Anfänge des Streites zwischen dem Norden und dem Süden der USA. Immer wieder wird aber auch auf die Abhängigkeiten der Staaten voneinander hingewiesen und warum manche Dinge einfach wesentlich länger gebraucht haben als man es sich eigentlich gewünscht hat. Interessant sind die Verknüpfungen der Underground Railroad,  um Schwarze in Sicherheit zu bringen z.B. nach Kanada. Mit welchen Ängsten Schwarze damals leben mussten ist fast unvorstellbar.  Man kommt immer mal wieder ins Grübeln - wie ist es eigentlich heute noch z.B. bei den Flüchtlingen, die aus Afrika zu uns kommen, oder auch die Spannungen in den USA. Alles in allem ist es ein intelligent geschriebener Krimi mit einer sehr interessanten Wendung, aber dazu schreibe ich hier nichts mehr, mein Tipp für euch ist einfach: Geht in die nächste Buchhandlung und lest einfach ein wenig rein und lasst euch verzaubern und mit auf die Reise nehmen. Titel: Die Entführung der Delia WrightAutor/In: Faye, LindsayBand: 2ISBN: 978-3-423-26043-5Verlag: dtv VerlagPreis: RestauflageErscheinungsdatum: 01. März 2015 Lesen Sie den ganzen Artikel

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An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: J.D. Vance: Gabriel Basso Beverly “Bev” Vance: Amy Adams Bonnie “Mamaw” Vance: Glenn Close Lindsay Vance: Haley Bennett Usha Chilukuri: Freida Pinto Papaw: Bo Hopkins Young J.D. Vance: Owen Asztalos Matt: Jesse C. Boyd Phillip Roseman: Stephen Kunken Ken: Keong Sim Travis: Morgan Gao Chris: Ethan Suess Kevin: Jono Mitchell Uncle Pat: Bill Kelly Uncle Arch: David Dwyer Lori: Sarah Hudson Jimmy (Bev’s Brother): Ted Huckabee Bill (Nurse): Nathan Hesse Cousin Nate: Max Barrow Bonnie (Mamaw, 30’s): Sunny Mabrey Jim (Papaw, 30’s): Brett Lorenzini Young Bev (6 years): Tierney Smith Cheryl: Helen LeRoy Emma: Kinsley Isla Dillon Adult Frank McFee: Ryan Homchick Chip: Joshua Stenvick Brooks Houghton: Bill Winkler Brett: Chase Anderson Pamela: Amy Parrish Rich: Ed Amatrudo Hiram Walcott: David de Vries Cocktailer #1: Holly Morris Cocktailer #2: Brandon Hirsch Server: David Alexander Obsequious Server: Alexander Baxter Waiter: Steven Reddington Wiry Law Partner: Angelo Reyes Stodgy Partner: John Rymer Young Bonnie (Mamaw 13 Years): Abigail Rose Cornell Adult Louis Zablocki: Lowrey Brown Young J.D. (4 years): Hunter James Evers Dane: Riley McNerney Pool Woman: Zele Avradopoulos Mr. Selby: David Jensen Holler Aunt: Skylar Denney Young Louis: John Whitley Doug: Zac Pullam Young Frank: Shane Donovan Lewis Officer #1: Mike Senior Officer #2: William Mark McCullough Kameron: Dylan Gage Katrina: Hannah Pniewski Doctor: David Marshall Silverman Dr. Newton: Jason Davis Davis: Joshua Brady Nasty Cashier: Cory Chapman Nurse: Tatom Pender Patient: Cathy Hope Ray: David Atkinson Salesperson: Adam Murray Scared Woman: Dianna Craig Meghan: Emery Mae Edgeman Young Jim (Papaw 16 Years): Rohan Myers Meals On Wheels Delivery Man: Matthew Alan Brady Young Lori (6 years): Lucy Capri Sally Coates: Déjá Dee Kyle: Daniel R. Hill Arguing Girlfriend: Jordan Trovillion Secretary at Club: Yossie Mulyadi ICU Nurse #1: Alisa Harris ICU Nurse #2: Tiger Dawn Rehab Mother: Darla Robinson Rehab Recepcionist: Belinda Keller Old Mamaw Blanton: Jessie Faye Shirley Nurse Vivian: Cheryl Howard Law Candidate Tim: Tim Abou-Nasr Curt: Leland Thomas Griffin Officer Connor: Drew Emerson Jones EMT #1: Justin P. Turner EMT #2: Joshua T. Schneider Marine Barber: Tony Ward Dining Hall Manager: Mara Hall Jill at Financial Aid Office: Tess Malis Kincaid Gas Station Attendant: Chris Charm Intake Receptionist: Mary Kraft Shoe Store Manager: Suehyla El-Attar Study Hall Friend #1: Matthew Withers Study Hall Friend #2: Jessica Miesel Study Hall Friend #3: Benjamin Rapsas Peter (uncredited): Ethan Levy Middletown Resident (uncredited): Bret Aaron Knower Film Crew: Original Music Composer: Hans Zimmer Producer: Brian Grazer Producer: Ron Howard Post Producer: William M. Connor Executive Producer: Diana Pokorny Production Design: Molly Hughes Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Robert Hein Director of Photography: Maryse Alberti Casting: Carmen Cuba Producer: Karen Lunder Stunt Coordinator: Monique Ganderton Writer: Vanessa Taylor Compositing Artist: Daniel L. Smith Camera Operator: Thomas Lappin Compositing Artist: Michael A. Martinez Supervising Art Director: Gregory A. Weimerskirch Costume Designer: Virginia B. Johnson Set Costumer: Bob Moore Jr. Makeup Department Head: Eryn Krueger Mekash Foley Artist: Heikki Kossi Art Direction: Shawn D. Bronson Rigging Grip: Gary Blair Makeup Artist: Erica Stewart Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Josh Berger Compositing Artist: Steve Dinozzi VFX Artist: Bryan Haines Visual Effects Producer: Chris LeDoux Original Music Composer: David Fleming Set Dresser: Aaron Robert Hall Assistant Art Director: Chris Yoo Costume Supervisor: Dana Pacheco Sound Designer: Grant Elder Makeup Artist: Jodi Byrne Set Costumer: Robin Fields Compositing Artist: Brad Lucas Set Dresser: Sam Carter Makeup Artist: Andrea Vieth Set Dresser: Maxfield Ladish Set Dresser: Natalie LeCompte Rigging ...

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Birthdays 5.5

Beer Birthdays

Louis von Schwanenfluegel (1848)

Bill Covaleski (1963)

Five Favorite Birthdays

James Beard; chef (1903)

Ann B. Davis; actor (1926)

Soren Kierkegaard; Danish philosopher (1813)

Blind Willie McTell; blues singer (1901)

Michael Palin; comedian, actor (1943)

Famous Birthdays

Hubert Howe Bancroft; historian (1832)

Nellie Bly; journalist (1967)

Billy Burnette; rock guitarist (1953)

Ace Cannon; saxophonist (1934)

Paul Eldridge; writer (1888)

Peter Erskine; jazz drummer (1954)

Alice Faye; actor (1915)

Rex Harrison; actor (1908)

Lance Henriksen; actor (1940)

Michael Lindsay-Hogg; film director (1940)

Kurt Loder; V.J. (1945)

Karl Marx; German philosopher (1818)

Christopher Morley; writer (1890)

Michael Murphy; actor (1938)

Tyrone Power; actor (1914)

John Rhys-Davies; actor (1944)

Arthur L. Schawlow; physicist (1921)

Henryk Sienkiewicz; writer (1846)

John Batterson Stetson; hat-maker (1830)

Brian Williams; television journalist (1959)

Tammy Wynette; country singer (1942)

Tina Yothers; actor (1973)

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My Last Six Reads

As the school year wears on and the weather fairly gloomy, I'm dreaming of summer days filled with sunshine and good books. Meanwhile, I'll when I have time among the dreary spring days.

Monsters We Have Made by Lindsay Starck - This author grew up in Milwaukee, and Lake Superior plays a role in the book; so I was hoping it'd be a winner right off the bat. And it was! 5 stars! I read most of this, loosely based on the Slender Man, on a snow day we had early in the month.

Sylvia's daugher, Faye, murdered her babysitter when she was 11. Now 21, Faye has abandoned her own daughter, and Sylvia is afraid history will repeat itself. Faye blamed the murder on the Kingman (this is the Slender Man tie), and Sylvia tracks down Faye's childhood friend to try to squeeze out more of the details from the decade-old murder to prevent it from happening again.

This one hooked me immediately, moved quickly, and had the perfect prose-to-dialog ratio.

Children of Exile #1 by Margaret Petersen Haddix - When I take my students to the school library, I always try to show some restraint and not check out any books. It's worked fairly well this year, but when I saw this trilogy by one of the best middle grade authors of our time, I couldn't resist. I got it right before spring break, but then have had a plethora of regular library holds come in. So I've only had the chance to read the first.

It, too, grabbed me from the beginning. A group of children aged birth to twelve have been raised by people known as "Freds" and told their biological parents and home are unsafe. Abruptly, the children are all forced on a plane to return to this unsafe place with unsafe parents. And unsafe it is. We follow Rosi, 12, as she and another older child try to figure out exactly what is going on. The end of this book was unexcepted to say the least! And where it's headed is not my cup of tea. Despite that, 4 stars. And I will finish the trilogy. When the library holds are done.

Murder Road by Simone St. James - She's really pumping out books quite fast! I feel like I just read a newer one by her. I also got sucked into this one quite quickly. It got a little long in the middle, but it was worthwhile overall: 4 stars.

It's July 1995 and Eddie and April are driving north from Ann Arbor for their honeymoon. Close to their destination, they get lost and come upon a hitchhiker on the side of the road. Upon letting her in the car, they pivot and head to the hospital as said woman is shocked and bleeding. When she dies at the hospital, April and Eddie are the prime suspects in her murder. They must stay in Coldlake Falls while being investigated, but they do some digging to find out that this death is not the first of its kind in what appears to be a quaint, quiet town.

If you've read St. James before and enjoyed her work, you'll like this one.

Become Madam Secretary by Stephanie Dray - 4 stars for this novelization of Frances Perkins' life. I teach about Frances Perkins when my class does a unit on the Triangle Factory Fire, and as I've learned more about her, I can't believe she's not more a part of history curriculums. But, alas, she's a woman! No room for her when talking FDR even though his biggest reforms are her ideas and stem from her hard work.

This book is long - over 500 pages. But it didn't drag. Its covered important parts of her life mixing personal with business. Definitely a worthwhile read to commemorate the life of a pioneer who changed America for the better.

American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden by Katie Rogers - I heard about this one during an MSNBC interview with the author on the way to school one day last month and immediately put it on hold. 4 stars only because it was a lot shorter than I thought, but it was a solid read. Rogers did cover some earlier first ladies, but focused on the title span and mostly Biden. I knew most of what she wrote about Hillary and Michelle Obama from reading their own autobiographical work, but I didn't know too much about Jill Biden. It focused a lot on how she's kept her day job as an English teacher. And kudos to her for that! She supports her husband and his campaign but not at her own expense.

Rogers moves her nonfiction along a good clip which I appreciate. It's not a heavy nonfiction. She is a storyteller but gets to the point rather than drags things out.

I think you can tell by the lengthy title yourself if this one's for you!

She's Not Sorry by Mary Kubica - It's been a great weekend of reading thanks to, for once, having no schoolwork or other obligations. I started this one around 3:00 yesterday and finished before bed at 10:00 with some Yahtzee and dinner mixed in between.

The book opens with protagonist Meghan getting a call that the caller is holding her teenaged daughter hostage. This is about three pages long and then begins Part 1 of the book.

Meghan is an ICU nurse recently divorced learning how to live just her and her teenaged daughter. She begins care of Caitlin: a patient who survived, barely, an attempted suicide which found her attempting to jump to her death near train tracks in Chicago. As Caitlin lies unconscious, Meghan becomes close with her parents who rush to her side once she was identified. Meghan tries to help the police with their investigation when she sees a man, who is not family, staring in the entrance to Caitlin's room.

Meanwhile, Meghan is dealing with said divorce and what is becoming a rocky relationship with her sixteen-year-old.

And then Part 2: a twist. One that I didn't see coming.

4 stars for this one.

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9 maggio … ricordiamo …

9 maggio … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2020: Geno Silva, attore statunitense.  (n. 1948) 2020: Antonio Palazzi, gastronomo italiano.  (n. 1936) 2017: Michael Parks, attore e cantante statunitense.  (n. 1940) 2016: Fatima Robin’s, nome d’arte di Fatima Ben Embarek, è stata una cantante e circense tedesca. (n. 1930) 2015: Elizabeth Wilson, attrice statunitense, la cui carriera ha spaziato per sette decenni tra cinema, teatro e…

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Review: Gods’ Games We Play – Episode 2

By Dustin Cabeal

Usually, I save my reviews for the podcast, that's Let's Anime, but Gods’ Games We Play episode two frustrated and pissed me off so much that not only did I already vent to my co-host Lindsay for at least one-half an hour, but now here I am writing this goddamn review.

The second episode picks up where the first episode left off, which is at the beginning of God's Go hide and seek. In which a giant Titan is smashing a city. We have a group of players, and we are about to explain the rules, even though it seems like the game has already begun when they yelled, “Gods Go Hide and seek.” Instead, one asshole interrupts this little weird floating God turd thing and is like, “statistically this should be a versus God game.” To which the little floating God turd thing goes, “Yeah, no. We’re suddenly bored with doing that.” I mean, you just introduced the concept and the stats for that, but no, we're not going to do that. That's pointless. In fact, we don't even know why we talked about it. We hired someone to say that line just so we could say no. A character and their role on the team was introduced to the story, just for a floating God turd to say, “You’re wrong and now useless to the story.”

The group, mostly led by our main character Fay, starts asking questions like, “What are the rules? How do you win?” This little shitty floating Titan God thing is this like let me give you some abstract ideas. So, they have half the rules. Half the equation to win and then they run from this giant Titan thing. It doesn't take long for the giant Titan thing to just step on someone, but instead of them dying, half of them turn red, but they cheat the story, and you only see the red half. Our main character and the Dragon God figure the shit out and then confront the Titan. Instead of just winning the game and then explaining to us how they won, he allows himself to be smashed, which then reveals his power, which is to never fucking die and nullify all effects. It's a mega cheat. How the hell are you ever supposed to get this guy to lose? But before he's even won, he explains how he's won. I'm like, no asshole. Finish the fucking game. Then tell me how you won. You’re standing on a smashed building, yelling at a giant Titan… finish the game first. They finally do win the game, which I'm like Titan, why are you even letting them compete? They have told you, their plan. Why are you not stopping this? Do you want to lose? You seem to want to lose. And I swear to God, at one point Fay asks, did we win? And the Titans like, no. And then they did win. In the next scene, they're just like adding they won. Okay, sure. Why the fuck do I care at this point I’m just glad this “smart person’s” game is over.

It's also revealed pointlessly that Faye is on a goddamn break or was on a goddamn break before this game. He was on a hot streak, winning three in a row. They need ten to get ultimate wishes, by the way. And he already won three on his own. But they were like, hey, we found this dragon lady frozen in ice for 3,000 years. She wants to play games with you so she can become a God again. Oh, but her cheap power is nothing compared to yours. She smashes stuff, but she's good at games. And then she analyzes the footage of them winning and she's like, we should have gone to this other building instead. I'm like, you already won. The plan worked. What does that analyzation tell me other than you're an idiot and you came up with a different idea to which you could have gone up to the Titan and said, “we're going to win, and this is how we're gonna win.” It added nothing to her character and cheapened their victory because she was like, we could have done better. No, you couldn’t have. You didn't play football, you didn't play basketball, you ran around a city, and you were playing Reversi and there was no fucking way anyone could figure that out because this show is stupid and had to explain it to me before they even won. There was no clue until the characters were explaining the clues. I was like, ohh, that's weird. I didn't see them being half red until you explained it to me. I hate that, analyze mistakes, not things that worked. It worked, there’s no reason to be like, “we could have done better here” because it doesn’t matter anymore.

Overall, I did not like this episode. It wasn't even that bad. It was just the logic behind everything that was so stupid that it was aggravating. It was treating me like I'm an idiot, but it's doing nothing to allow anyone to figure out what's happening. And it wasn't even that good. It's like we're playing three games at once. We're playing tag, we're playing hide and go seek. And we're playing Reversi, and you have to figure that out. Oh, but why would you? Because I used to play battle games. Yeah, so good luck. Especially when we've never apparently built up any sort of situation that you would have been able to pull from before this. But because we found fucking frozen dragon lady, we are switching everything. This guy likes to play games. We're switching everything. Mostly we’re just combing games and ruining all of them at once… but I used to do battle games.

Lastly, the art style was annoying. Everything looked faded. I don't know if that was because they were in the “God Realm,” but it looks shitty and unfinished.

I will probably watch the third episode, but only because it just came out.

Watch or Pass Rating: Pass

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(Father Knows Best, top, Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca from Your Show of Shows, bottom)

Day 15- TV and Radio: 

TV: 

Your Show of Shows, season three, “Margaret Lindsay,” February 23rd, 1952. 

Radio: 

The Big Show, episode 50 (partial), March 2nd, 1952. 

The Phil Harris and Alice Faye Show, “Frankie Is Not Going with Phil to Las Vegas,” March 2nd, 1952 

Father Knows Best, “Keeping Up with the Jones,” Feb 28th, 1952. 

Two shows on my list were unexpectedly missing large parts. The Big Show had only 30-minutes of its entire 90-minute length, so no “Tallulah’s corner” today, tragically! Next, I was excited to see Your Show of Shows, because I knew it was considered an early television classic. What I saw I enjoyed, but about 30 minutes was missing. I liked Imogene Coca a lot- she has such a distinctive look, and she made me laugh the most. 

Father Knows Best has surprisingly become one of my favorite things to listen to. It’s not a spectacular show, although I do think it is pretty well written. There are three things about it that I really like, though- 1) All the slang! Because there are children and teenagers in it, every episode tends to have some new term I’ve not heard before. Today it was “George.” To call something really George means it’s really good and high quality! 2) The cultural studies aspect of it all- it's so interesting to listen to it as a cultural time capsule. 3) My favorite kind of old movies and shows are those that are just about everyday people living their everyday lives. That’s exactly what this is.

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