#mark mcmanus

[mariocki]

Katy Manning, in her second screen role (see her first here), as Julia Dungarvon - full-time typist, part-time coffee shop waitress, and member of more than one love triangle - in Man at the Top: The Prime of Life (1.4, Thames, 1971)

[sonicpanels]

Sonic the Comic #16: "Happy Christmas Dr. Robotnik"

Writer: Mark Millar Art: Brian Williamson Letters: Elitta Fell

Editor: Richard Burton Assistant Editor: Deborah Tate Managing Editor: Steve McManus

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I don't know why it's so hard for people to admit that sometimes they're just assholes who screw up because they don't expect to get caught.

Karen M. McManus (One of Us is Lying)

[cryptocollectibles]

Punisher War Journal #50 (January 1993) by Marvel Comics

Written by Chuck Dixon, Steven Grant, Tony Skinner and Pat Mills, drawn by Mark Texeira, Shawn McManus, Tom Morgan, and Jimmy Palmiotti, cover by Steve Geiger. 

[blackramhall]

-And they followed you to Murder club? -We really need a rebranding!

One of Us Is Lying Episode 6: One of Us Is Dancing!

[comfortfoodcontent]

1998 Dr. Fate DC Comics House Ad by Shawn McManus

[mugiwara-lucy]

So I've started on Season 5 of the Drama Queens podcast and two things have stood out to me!

1.) Michaela Mcmanus (Lindsey) and Hilarie Burton (Peyton duh) went to college together! They weren't close or anything but when you look at their enemy scenes together....yeah 😅

2.) Sophia lost her grandfather during the filming of Season 6 and dickhead Schwann had the BALLS to tell her "they don't have time for that" (fucking TWAT) BUT Hilarie was there for her and let her cry it out, UGH! REAL LIFE BREYTON!! 🥹 I SHIP THE FUCK out of Sophia Bush and Hilarie Burton!! 😭🤧

[camyfilms]

THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION 1994

Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

[cultfaction]

The Orville Season 3 Ep. 4: Gently Falling Rain

The Orville Season 3 Ep. 4: Gently Falling Rain

The episode opens on the Krill home world where Teleya (Michaela McManus) is back and is making political moves to become Supreme Chancellor. She riles up the crowd with her militant views and her vision of rejecting any Union peace treaties is making her popular on Krill resulting in several political demonstrations. Meanwhile on The Orville, the crew are treating the Krill delegates to a…

[blackcrowing]

Blackcrowing's Master Reading List

I have created a dropbox with pdfs I have gathered over the years, I have done my best to only allow access to documents which I found openly available through sites like JSTOR, Archive.org, or other educational resources with papers available for download.

That being said I ALSO recommend (I obviously have not read all of these but they are either in my library or I intend to add them)

📚 Celtic/Irish Pagan Books

The Morrighan: Meeting the Great Queens, Morgan Daimler

Raven Goddess: Going Deeper with the Morríghan, Morgan Daimler

Ogam: Weaving Word Wisdom, Erynn Rowan Laurie

Irish Paganism: Reconstructing Irish Polytheism, Morgan Daimler

Celtic Cosmology and the Otherworld: Myths, Orgins, Sovereignty and Liminality, Sharon Paice MacLeod

Celtic Myth and Religion, Sharon Paice MacLeod

A Guide to Ogam Divination, Marissa Hegarty (I'm leaving this on my list because I want to support independent authors. However, if you have already read Weaving Word Wisdom this book is unlikely to further enhance your understanding of ogam in a divination capacity)

The Book of the Great Queen, Morpheus Ravenna

Litany of The Morrígna, Morpheus Ravenna

Celtic Visions, Caitlín Matthews

Harp, Club & Calderon, Edited by Lora O'Brien and Morpheus Ravenna

Celtic Cosmology: Perspectives from Ireland and Scotland, Edited by Jacqueline Borsje and others

Polytheistic Monasticism: Voices from Pagan Cloisters, Edited by Janet Munin

📚 Celtic/Irish Academic Books

Early Medieval Ireland 400-1200, Dáibhí Ó Cróinín

The Sacred Isle, Dáithi Ó hÓgáin

The Ancient Celts, Berry Cunliffe

The Celtic World, Berry Cunliffe

Irish Kingship and Seccession, Bart Jaski

Early Irish Farming, Fergus Kelly

Studies in Irish Mythology, Grigory Bondarnko

Prehistoric Archaeology of Ireland, John Waddell

Archeology and Celtic Myth, John Waddell

Understanding the Celtic Religion: Revisiting the Past, Edited by Katja Ritari and Alexandria Bergholm

A Guide to Ogam, Damian McManus

Cesar's Druids: an Ancient Priesthood, Miranda Aldhouse Green

Animals in Celtic Life and Myth, Miranda Aldhouse Green

The Gods of the Celts, Miranda Green

The Celtic World, Edited by Miranda J Green

Myth and History in Celtic and Scandinavian Tradition, Edited by Emily Lyle

Ancient Irish Tales, Edited by Tom P Cross and Clark Haris Slover

Cattle Lords and Clansmen, Nerys Patterson

Celtic Heritage, Alwyn and Brinley Rees

Ireland's Immortals, Mark Williams

The Origins of the Irish, J. P. Mallory

In Search of the Irish Dreamtime, J. P. Mallory

The Táin, Thomas Kinsella translation

The Sutton Hoo Sceptre and the Roots of Celtic Kingship Theory, Michael J. Enright

Celtic Warfare, Giola Canestrelli

Pagan Celtic Ireland, Barry Raftery

The Year in Ireland, Kevin Danaher

Irish Customs and Beliefs, Kevin Danaher

Cult of the Sacred Center, Proinsais Mac Cana

Mythical Ireland: New Light on the Ancient Past, Anthony Murphy

Early Medieval Ireland AD 400-1100, Aidan O'Sullivan and others

The Festival of Lughnasa, Máire MacNeill

Curse of Ireland, Cecily Gillgan

📚 Indo-European Books (Mostly Academic and linguistic)

Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society, Emily Benveniste

A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principle Indo-European Languages, Carl Darling Buck

The Horse, the Wheel and Language, David W. Anthony

Comparative Indo-European Linguistics, Robert S.P. Beekes

In Search of the Indo-Europeans, J.P. Mallory

Indo-European Mythology and Religion, Alexander Jacob

Some of these books had low print runs and therefore can be difficult to find and very expensive... SOME of those books can be found online with the help of friends... 🏴‍☠️

library genesis might be a great place to start... hint hint...

[nomeancity]

Taggart "Love Knot"

[scotianostra]

"There's been a murder!" arguably the most uttered phrase ever by a Scottish TV cop and on February 21st 1935 the man himself, Mark McManus was born.

Taggart star Mark McManus, despite dying aged just 59, in 1994, lived more lives than most. Hamilton-born Mark had already been a miner, a docker, and an amateur boxer before he took up acting - in Australia, where he shared screen time with both Skippy The Bush Kangaroo, and Mick Jagger, in director Tony Richardson's 1970 take on the Ned Kelly story

Returning home in 1971, McManus appeared in productions at the Royal Court and the National Theatre, playing alongside such actors as Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson. But it was not until 1983 that he found the role which he was born to play, Tough Glasgow polisman, Jim Taggart. To some critics, the character veered into the danger zone of caricature: the sort of Glaswegian hardnut who could be summed up by all those cliched epithets: 'dour', 'gruff', 'gritty', 'stony-faced', he certainly carried off the part with ease.

He may have come across all of them, but in real life Mark loved a wee laugh to himself, one anecdote I found to confirm this relates to last weeks birthday girl, Annette Crosbie, who incidentally attended Edinburgh's Boroughmuir School with my Uncle Edmund!.

Anyway Annette featured in a 1987 edition of Taggart. Being a perfectionist, she kept asking McManus to rehearse together. McManus, who usually read over his lines just once before filming, became so annoyed that during one scene he went to light her cigarette and "accidentally" burnt away part of her wig with an extra-long flame (a gaff which later featured on It'll be Alright on the Night). While making the next episode, McManus quipped to a co-star, "I hope you're not gonna be any trouble or I'll set you on fire like the last one!"

McManus was a graduate summa cum laude of the 'Less Is More' School of Acting.

An average of 13 million viewers (including, it is said, the Queen Mother) agreed. Taggart became as synonymous with Glasgow as Inspector Morse is with Oxford. The programme is now Scottish Television's biggest money-earner, playing in over 60 countries, including Afghanistan, India, Japan, Sri Lanka, Brunei and Bosnia. Wonder how they all translated the word "murd'rrr"?!!?

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playoffs (round 2)

descriptions under the cut

season 10 -> michaela mcmanus' (ada kim greylek) character was introduced and replaced mid-season with ms. march. mike doyle's last season as o'halloron. guest stars include noel fisher, carol kane, and cicely tison. episodes of note: swing, wildlife, persona, ptsd, zebras.

season 17 -> first season w/o danny pino. mike dodds introduced and killed off <3 b.d. wong's last marked appearance on the show. guest stars include sophia bush (+ entire chicago pd cast), whoopi goldberg, donal logue. episodes of note: depravity standard, townhouse incident, collateral damages, intersecting lives/heartfelt passages.

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I know what it's like to tell yourself a lie so often that it becomes the truth.

Karen M. McManus (One of Us is Lying)

[blackramhall]

They changed all the passwords, and then this creepy pop-up message came up. There is someone else out there. Whoever's following you guys, that is who killed Simon.

One of Us Is Lying Episode 5: One of Us Is Cracking

Manor Murder Mystery

[wawamouse]

Oz Rewatch 3: S2E05: Family Bizness

Storylines:

(Mini) Schillinger approaches Said to represent him

Graduation ceremony; Kenny & Poet, McManus & Devlin, Poet & Said

(Mini) Bellinger & Mukada

McManus asks Schillinger about Diane ; rejects dinner with Diane and Deedee

(Mini) Busmalis and Rebadow digging a hole, continued

Glynn convinces his brother to come clean to get rid of Schibetta blackmailing him; Schibetta is poisoned and later no longer has leverage over Glynn

Toby/Chris storyline progresses; Genevieve dies

Gloria/Ryan storyline progresses; Ryan gets Cyril to kill Gloria’s husband

I'll switch it up and give our final thoughts off the bat today, since today was a bit of a quiet watch.

Sister's final thoughts (condensed) on this episode were as follows:

"It was sort of more fun in the beginning of the season where they were starting the school stuff and there were fresh things happening. I don’t really like the direction they’ve taken the religious guy (Said) in, trying to make him focus on law, because they don't make it work. I don’t recall him getting hit in the head but suddenly he’s stupid and making weird decisions this season and I find it tiresome… Although, I’m surprised the conspiracy to murder trial is taking so long in the show, considering how fast everything else develops. Like, this guy (Schillinger) is STILL getting charged with conspiracy to murder and meanwhile, the execution trials go by and take place in less than half an episode. I’m also surprised there wasn’t more hullabaloo at the writer guy (Poet) leaving. Like, he just left. And why do they keep bringing kids to the prison for no reason? First the guard lady's kid and then the Beecher guy's.

Sister was also a little bit 🙄 about Genevieve getting killed off this episode—"freeing up the emotional ties to progress the [Beecher/Keller] storyline", Sister called it. It makes me wonder what further storylines might've been if Genevieve hadn't died. I feel like if she hadn't died and Schillinger hadn't made the joke later on about being the one to order a hit on her, then maybe the writers would never have gotten it into their heads to have Schillinger actually kill members of Toby's family.

Anyway, for me, I feel like this episode was a little dull compared to last (or maybe I'm just tired today 😅). I know shit's gonna pop off in the next episode, though, and I told Sister as much. One thing I liked was Kenny's conversation with Poet in the earlier part of the episode, which I feel showed a little bit more of the vulnerability in his character that has been slowly disappearing again now that he's firmly rejected McManus's deal with him and isn't interested in making progress anymore. I think that when he asks Poet to help him write an apology to his mom because he knows he's disappointed her the most with his backslide, it shows that he does understand what a shitty situation he's put himself back in and feels ashamed as well as simply powerless to get back on track. Of course, the wholesome moment is capped off in Oz fashion with an exchange of drugs, lol.

In this episode, it's also revealed what Peter Schibetta has had over Glynn's head this entire time. That is, knowledge that Leo's brother, Mark, killed a man. I feel like that's some pretty heavy stuff, but also sort of random? I wish Mark's arrest had played more of a role in the show, or that Mark had been brought to Oz, where that dynamic of him being the warden's brother could've continued to play out. Sure, maybe he wouldn’t have landed in Oz because he is Glynn's brother, but this is OZ we're talking about! When has realism ever stood in the way of drama?! I don't know. I just feel like the Mark Glynn reveal was a wasted opportunity that the show was only too happy to sweep under the rug because it was a plotline only created to explain the Schibettas' power in Oz.

Also, as much as I don't like the Gloria/Ryan storyline, as I said last time, it's good TV, and it's always fun to heckle the screen while watching an episode. Ryan certainly gives Sister and I a chance to do that so 🫡 Love to hate him. Also, he is legit creepy-scary in the scene with Sister Pete where she's trying to tell him that Gloria doesn't love him and he needs to stop bothering her with his obsession. Reminds me of dudes with intense energy who I went to school with 💀

Stray Thoughts

Does anyone know what "Oz / Aran" is supposed to mean? I tried to looked up what "Aran" might be but Google just said it was a name meaning various things in different languages; none of them really made sense in the context of the book title.

Sister: Blind to SCHEMES...

What do we think about this, folks? Was Bellinger just trying to manipulate Mukada into showing her a bit of sympathy and kindness? This is still early on in the season/show, so I don't feel like Shirley actually means it when she comes onto Mukada and then seems aghast, saying "Look at me, I'm so fucked up", etc.

Sister: They’re allowed to play POOL? The game that is 100% WEAPONS?

Sister: They come across like one of them is going to poison the other and they both know it.

Sister: I’m surprised there’s not more homoerotic media involving wrestling… Me (muttering): No, there’s definitely a lot of media. Sister (still musing): ...Maybe everyone else thinks ‘nah, too easy’?

Sister: He’s laying it on too thick. (At Chris) You're laying it on too thick!

Sister: A “rectory”? 🥴 What is THAT for? 😳

Aaaand, this episode marks the solving of the "Sycamore and Broome Street" mystery. Did we really need three episodes for that? Would Sister Pete not have served a better use in other storylines? And, unfortunately, the whole Giles thing is not even over.

Sister: What, did he get a tattoo? Me: Yeah, of a brown paper bag….

(Sister muttering the world's quietest, most disgusted “gross” over my shoulder)

Sister: Noooo! What about Shannon??

Nothing here, really. Sister Pete's tiny nod in this reaction shot just cracks me up.