#mark halliday

[missedstations]

"Hoops with Nets" - Mark Halliday

In South Philadelphia the b-ball hoops in the playgrounds and parks mostly had no nets, no nets on the rims—they’d been stolen or ripped down after being torn by leaping teenagers. When my son was a boy the difference mattered because he loved basketball, he loved the Sixers, he loved shooting baskets and there is beautiful satisfaction when a good shot falls through the net— “Swish” we said—“Nothin’ but net”— and so as I moved around town I always noticed where the hoops had nets so Nick and I could shoot there.

The difference mattered.  Life should be a certain way but often the right way becomes unavailable— the nets disappear—you have to be alert to find the courts where a perfect shot really does go swish.  Life has disappointments but you don’t want your boy to feel that life is mainly or mostly disappointing or that the Sixers on TV are absurdly far from his real life—

because he needs to believe that life allows moments of sublimity—swish—

so even now when Nick is almost forty wherever I see good intact nets on the rims I make a mental note for half a second: Nick and I could play here. The difference matters.

[ukdamo]

Milano Adesso

Mark Halliday

They are speaking rapidly in Milan right now unacceptably far from me at tables in sunlight, their sunglasses poised adeptly upon their dark hair, their hands inflecting thoughts, they understand themselves to be splendidly alive adesso and to waste it would be a provincial sort of stupidity somehow not unrelated to American crudity so they laugh bright-briefly and pivot into the next current in their silver stream of Milanese in which they take for granted three or seven insights cultural, political, post-industrial millennial digital toward which I will stumble three or five years hence if even then. Light breeze flicks the piazza causing quick adjustments of handsome intelligent hair in Milan right now as the conversation pivots like a skier S-curving through implications of non-stupid passion (with irony incorporated) sexual certainly though inseparable from books and fifty websites I will never visit. Milan, Milano, Milano adesso si far far aye aye flow on great Po great Danube mighty Rhine aye ripple on old Seine

in a Kansas of muddled passive co-optedness though I be while brightness streams on elsewhere mythically we shall all quicksoon enough find the sea!

[anthonywilson]

On the missing short story

It was going to be great. I wrote it more than seven years ago, in two bursts after work with mugs of tea at the kitchen table. It was really, seriously great. It was called The Writing Group. Voiced by an unnamed female protagonist who surprises herself by deciding to leave the group she was instrumental in setting up. It contained a man with a ‘Darwinesque beard’. It was the best thing that I…

[pedroam-bang]

Ready Player One (2018)

[therealefl]

Bradford City Defender Reacts To Early Season Form

Bradford City defender Brad Halliday has called on his team to start grinding out wins after a third successive draw on Saturday against Harrogate Town, via the Telegraph & Argus. The Bantams went into this season as one of the favourites to gain promotion from League Two after losing out in the play-off semi final last season with a two-legged defeat against Carlisle United. However, with just…

[fractualized]

I present a collection of normie Jokers (aka how Joker might look if he never fell into the vat), with the following parameters:

no masks/prosthetics

all adults grown into Joker face

limited rehashing of TKJ (only including versions I felt had different vibes)

1) Joker as Arthur Wilde — Joker (1975) #5, Irv Novick

2) Unnamed former lab assistant and struggling comedian — The Killing Joke, Brian Bolland

3) Joker disguised during "Death in the Family" — Batman (1940) #427, Jim Aparo

4) Joseph Kerr in the "Going Sane" storyline — Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight (1989) #66, Joe Staton

5) Unnamed TKJ-esque husband — JLA (1997) #35, Mark Pajarillo

6) Unnamed worker drone/comedian — Batman: It's Joker Time #3, Bob Hall

7) Jack the criminal in "Lovers and Madmen" — Batman Confidential #7, Denys Cowan

8) Unnamed mobster (at times known as Jackie, Sonny, or Hap) in "Case Study" — Batman: Black & White (Vol 2), Alex Ross

9) Unnamed criminal in Joker's own mind — The Brave and the Bold (2007) #31, Chad Hardin

10) Eric Border, Arkham Asylum orderly — Batman (2011) Annual #2, Wes Craig Batman (2011) #36, Greg Capullo

11) Alby, corrupt businessman — Detective Comics (2011) #27, Bryan Hitch

12) Unnamed amnesiac from the "Superheavy" storyline — Batman (2011) #48, Greg Capullo

13) Jack Napier in the White Knight series — Batman: White Knight #2, Sean Murphy

14) Unnamed comedian — Batman: Gotham Nights (2020) #9, Neil Edwards

15) Jack Oswald White — Flashpoint Beyond #5, Xermanico

16) Darwin Halliday, chemist and head of Halliday Industries in "The Bat-Man of Gotham" — Batman (2016) #134, Mike Hawthorne Batman (2016) #135, Jorge Jiménez

(Once again, thanks to @distort-opia for assistance!)

[vintagestagehotties]

Hot Vintage Stage Actress Round 2

Lisa Kirk: Emily in Allegro (1947 Broadway); Lois Lane/Bianca in Kiss Me, Kate (1948 Broadway); Doris Walker in Here's Love (1964 Broadway)

Mary Martin: Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun (1947 National Tour US); Nellie Forbush in South Pacific (1949 Broadway); Peter in Peter Pan (1954 Broadway); Maria Von Trapp in The Sound of Music (1959 Broadway)

Propaganda under the cut

Lisa Kirk:

She’s so fucking stunning. She did some dubbing work for movies and her voice is all husky and sultry and I just hhrrrnngh

Mary Martin:

I just know y’all are gay for Peter Pan actresses so you better vote for the og Peter Pan lesbian

And some photos of Martin as the title character in One Touch of Venus:

She didn't think she was hot enough to play Venus, so this happened (from My Heart Belongs, her autobiography):

Richard [Halliday, Martin's husband] dealt with my problem in a most imaginative way. He asked if I had ever been to the Metropolitan Museum. Of course, I hadn’t. So he took me to that huge place, led me to where the statues are, and said, “Look, this is a Venus.” We must have seen fifty varieties: tall ones, short ones, even one who was noticeably broad of beam. All were marked “Venus.” “You see?” Richard asked. “Each sculptor has his own idea of Venus. They aren’t all Venus de Milo.” After this had sunk in, he said, “You can play Venus. You’re going to play her wearing the most beautiful clothes in the world.”

And another song that's very far from the Peter Pan image:

[alrightbuckaroo]

911 LS characters and poems they'd love

I've been reading a lot of poetry as of late and it made me ponder, what type of poetry would each character like? I present to you, poems (I think) the 126 (and then some) would love 💞

TK - The Great Fires by Jack Gilbert

Carlos - Love After Love by Derek Walcott

Grace - If I Had Three Lives by Sarah Russell

Judd - Two Times I Loved You Most in the Car by Dorothea Grossman

Owen - Divorced Fathers and Pizza Crusts by Mark Halliday

Paul - The Things in Black Men’s Closets by E. Ethelbert Miller

Marjan - The Heart of a Woman by Georgia Douglas Johnson

Tommy - Dear Life by Maya C. Popa

Nancy - Walking the Dunes by Brenda Hillman

Mateo - To Mars from Arizona by Alberto Ríos

[ukdamo]

Hoops with Nets

Mark Halliday

In South Philadelphia the b-ball hoops in the playgrounds and parks mostly had no nets, no nets on the rims—they’d been stolen or ripped down after being torn by leaping teenagers. When my son was a boy the difference mattered because he loved basketball, he loved the Sixers, he loved shooting baskets and there is beautiful satisfaction when a good shot falls through the net— “Swish” we said—“Nothin’ but net”— and so as I moved around town I always noticed where the hoops had nets so Nick and I could shoot there. The difference mattered.  Life should be a certain way but often the right way becomes unavailable— the nets disappear—you have to be alert to find the courts where a perfect shot really does go swish.  Life has disappointments but you don’t want your boy to feel that life is mainly or mostly disappointing or that the Sixers on TV are absurdly far from his real life— because he needs to believe that life allows moments of sublimity—swish— so even now when Nick is almost forty wherever I see good intact nets on the rims I make a mental note for half a second: Nick and I could play here. The difference matters.

[thefisherqueen]

It was indeed Lestrade, who had ascended the stairs while we were talking, and who now entered the room. The assurance and jauntiness which generally marked his demeanour and dress were, however, wanting. His face was disturbed and troubled, while his clothes were disarranged and untidy. He had evidently come with the intention of consulting with Sherlock Holmes, for on perceiving his colleague he appeared to be embarrassed and put out. He stood in the centre of the room, fumbling nervously with his hat and uncertain what to do. “This is a most extraordinary case,” he said at last—“a most incomprehensible affair.” “Ah, you find it so, Mr. Lestrade!” cried Gregson, triumphantly. “I thought you would come to that conclusion. Have you managed to find the Secretary, Mr. Joseph Stangerson?” “The Secretary, Mr. Joseph Stangerson,” said Lestrade gravely, “was murdered at Halliday's Private Hotel about six o'clock this morning.”

Lestrade enters! And Gregson's neat theory at once goes out of the window.

And that is where we the story stops for today. I'm so tempted to read on, but I'll refrain myself

[xys-kmt]

Ready Player One

The film is set in 2045, with the world on the brink of chaos and collapse.  But the people have found salvation in the OASIS, an expansive virtual reality universe created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday (Mark Rylance).  The movie Ready Player One showcases mazes as a significant element in its storyline, for example the logo features a maze, with the prize being an egg. The movie takes place in a sci-fi world of virtual gaming, where players must explore and solve various mazes and puzzles to progress in the game and ultimately find the hidden Easter egg.

This is one of my favourite movies of all time and this would spark the idea of me wanting to create a game about mazes.

[vague-humanoid]

June 30 marked the end of California’s state-run youth prison system, the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ). Prompted by the passage of Senate Bill 823, the move was several years in the making thanks to the work of advocates who challenged horrible conditions behind the walls of those institutions for decades. But not everyone is celebrating. 

Jahzara Halliday was one of several organizers who shut down a Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors meeting in late July in response to officials’ lack of action toward years of dysfunction and harm within the county’s youth legal system. The final straw was the fatal overdose of Bryan Diaz in May and the reopening of Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey, California, which had been closed due to unsuitable and abusive conditions, to house the youth that had to be moved from two other LA County Juvenile halls that were closed due to reports of abuse. 

“There’s currently 247 vacant Probation Department division positions that they’re still paying for, and these people don’t even go to work. All that money can be diverted into mental health, housing,” Halliday said. 

For Halliday, the issue is personal. She’s been navigating the red tape of reentry resources on behalf of her sibling, who was refused mental health treatment while in jail and is looking for assistance with housing and health care. And without that help, she’s worried that he’ll end up incarcerated again despite all their efforts. 

“The system is not a place to be. Jail is not a place to be,” Halliday said.

Like organizers across the state, people in Los Angeles are urging local decision-makers to invest in community alternatives. The closure of DJJ was a landmark decision that appears to position California as a trailblazer in criminal legal reform. But without sufficient alternatives that address the root causes of incarceration or why youth initially come into contact with the legal system, many advocates fear that whatever follows will replicate the same harms. 

[adamwatchesmovies]

Dial M for Murder (1954)

Dial M for Murder plays like a film you might’ve seen before but in reverse, which makes it feel brand new. Director Alfred Hitchcock maintains a consistent level of suspense throughout, adapts the play to the screen marvelously - with help from the author, Frederick Knott, who also wrote the screenplay - and the actors are all clearly having a great time helping tie our stomachs in knots.

Margot Wendice (Grace Kelly) has been having an affair with American crime-fiction writer Mark Halliday (Robert Cumings). He’s coming to visit. They don't realize her husband, Tony (Ray Milland) knows of her infidelity. He plans on having her assassinated as revenge. As her husband, this means her money will continue to keep him comfortable long after she's dead.

You know the rule in heist movies, where if they tell you what the plan is, it isn’t going to work, and if they don’t tell you, it will? This film takes this rule and turns it on its head. We know what Tony has planned for Margot. He’s been setting the machine in motion for a while now. It doesn’t seem like much could go wrong, but it does. Now, you’re torn. Much more back in the ‘50s but today, you don’t exactly sympathize 100% with Margot. She’s been having an affair, after all. Not that you sympathize with the would-be murderer instead, but he’s got something she doesn’t. As the scheming, vengeful husband, Ray Milland is excellent. He’s charming and appealing even before proving how resourceful he can be when things go wrong. You admire his ability to improvise and adapt. You don’t want the plan to go so awry that he’ll get caught - this would cause the movie to end. You kind of want it to go off without a hitch… but not too well.

Seeing the pieces fall into place is suspenseful and darkly fun. You put yourself in the shoes of all of the characters but primarily, in Tony’s. Everyone’s seen those true-crime TV series that tell you what the villain had planned and how they got caught. We’ve all taken mental notes about the mistakes those people made just in case. Not that you'd ever want to kill anyone, but if you did, you'd want it to be the same kind of perfect crime as Tony's. Unfortunately, there are so many things that could go wrong, it seems impossible… but then again, maybe it isn’t. Either way, it’s been quite the ride.

Dial M for Murder contains many gasp-worthy surprises to maintain the intrigue and suspense. You’ll hardly notice the limited number of locations - a clear giveaway this was originally made to be a play. Certain key shots break the usual moves we’d seen on a stage at just the right spots to show off a key detail - usually an indicator that something’s gone wrong. The marvellous black-and-white photography strips away all the distractions you’d get if it were in colour. It’s all about the scheme and the people involved. It makes for a memorable film. Perhaps not as flashy as some of Hitchcock’s best-known pictures, but excellent nonetheless. You’ll be shocked by how quickly the whole thing flies by.

I had seen Dial M for Murder before and I can’t explain why I didn’t fall in love with it at first sight. It’s delightfully twisted, magnificently performed, tightly written and it’ll keep you giddily nervous up until the very end. (April 9, 2021)

[vividlyfuturistichurricane]

we love Jimmy saville forever

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[rickchung]

Casey and Diana x Stanley Alliance Industrial Stage x South Granville. (via Mark Halliday)

Arts Club stages North Vancouver playwright Nick Green's acclaimed, fictionized AIDS crisis dramedy [...] inspired by the late Princess Diana's historic 1991 Toronto visit to Casey House, Canada's first freestanding hospice caring for people (primarily gay men at the time) dying from the HIV/AIDS virus.

Running live on stage now until May 25.

[paulstudio]

AOC 'Have a Go' from André Rodrigues on Vimeo.

Client: Australian Olympic Committee

Agency: M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment Creative Director – Jon Kelly Art Director – Billie Gurr Strategy Director – Luke Haynes Head of Sponsorship – Richie Butterworth Senior Account Manager / Producer – Hazel Nichols Designer – Daniel Harding Operations Director – Lauren Galloway

Media JC Decaux NewsCorp Seven Network

Production Company Executive Producer: Michael Ahmadzadeh Senior Producer: Lisa Macfarlane Production Assistant: Michelle Jasan Runner: Michael Cobley Director: André Rodrigues 1st AD: Eloise Boutry DoP: Tom Black 1st AC: Gary Morris 2nd AC: Nicola Kirby Photographer: Eric Yip Photography Assistant: Govind Muthuraman Underwater Footage: Mark Halliday, Guy Mac Gaffer: Nick Gascoine Best Boy: Richard Hawkins Grip: Joe Bruneteau Grip Assist: Mark Glasgow HMU: Yvonne Tran

Talent Surf: Mila Brown, Marie Johnston Basketball: Ava Imsirvioc, Cleo Jones, Flynn Hu, Sumrad Saadatmehr, Brody Semmens, Jasper Pedersen, Harley Pedersen, Oskar Jenkins, Fred Waters, Darcy Jacobs, William Vatubua Taekwondo: Kurtis Wong, Ethan Prowle, Aoife Sutherland, Patrick Reece, Reuben Thomas Taekwondo Coach: Ron Classens Skateboard: Mia Rodrigues, Eddy Acres, Mila Grainger Athletics: Caitlin Rich, Marlee Pangas, Gaius Nolan, Nick Christou Swimming: Casper Kelly, Avery Tarszisz Swimming Lifeguard: Marie Johnston

Post-Production Edit: André Rodrigues Colour Grade: Tom Black Animations: Rosemary Vasquez-Brown (GNT) VO Recording: King Sound Studios VO Artist: Mia Rodrigues Audio: Shaun Clifford (Cheshire Audio)