#michael is finally public domain

[tanookitalez]

the undying love of mickey mouse

[katabay]

SUBTEXT

so I've focused in on Perceval and Bors before, and I've done Perceval and Gender (for more on this specifically, see: Clothes Make The Man: Parzival Dressed and Undressed, Michael D. Amey) and did a whole comic that leaned into some subtext™ on temptation, but actually let's throw out the subtext! let's bring Augustine into this!!

Perceval, de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel)

introduction to Confessions, Augustine (trans. Sarah Ruden)

so for perceval a knight is both the gender he wants to perform but also something that is expressly compared to god, and if god is a lover that seduces. well. does this not also apply to knights as well?

Homosexuality in the Renaissance: Behavior, Identity, and Artistic Expression, James M. Saslow

and while galahad might be the obvious choice, I think perceval's relationship with bors during the grail quest narrative is more interesting. it's not god that transforms perceval, it's the sight of knights for the first time. something in here specifically is incredibly intriguing to me, but there's a different text I need to finish reading to fully form some thoughts on it.

le Morte d’Arthur

and finally! tentatively. I think I might slowly start turning this idea I had a couple years back into a fully formed comic. we'll see! I had most of it blocked out, but halfway through reading augustine's confessions, I think was when perceval finally clicked for me as a character in a later narrative cycle setting. I think I might have to spend a lot of time doing some visual research first because my god I cannot consistently draw armor to save my life......back when I lived in new england, there was a museum with a wonderful medieval armor collection I could visit.....alas.........I will have to hit the books (literally, I have a collection of books on medieval armor but this is apparently the one thing I can't visualize properly in my imagination. save me, museum collections, you're my only hope)

⭐️ credits for the collage panels! (all open access or public domain, etc.)

-Saint George and the Dragon -Saint George and the Dragon (different one lmao) -Pages and Knights, Frontispiece for "The Man at Arms" -Cloisters

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[sea-owl]

asdfghfa COLIN AS HADES!! I love that it makes so much sense and I just know his dumbass chaotic simping will skyrocket because its Colin like helloo?? But yeah won't Penelope have to go back up for 6 months? (6 MONTHS??? WITHOUT. HIS. WIFE????How's Colin gonna live through that???? NOT WELL)

Does he go with her or does he stay in his domain( cuz he theres this pesky little thing called responsibility of ruling the underworld) and moping about cuz he misses his queen SO MUCH that he has to be physically held back by his brothers because he keeps following her around like a lost puppy (and isnt that a sight to behold?? Like Colin Bridgertont, t 3rd born son, intimidating King of the Underworld with unimaginable power and fame following around sunshine and flowers Pen looking like a lovesick fool loll)

Anon asked:

What I love about the Hades and Persephone AU is the level of pining and unhinged Colin will be for his queen Penelope. Like I just know it will be THROUGH the roof. Especially. afte the 6 month per year deal is made.

Honestly would love to see even a snippet of Colin moping around the courtroom every time Pen leaves the underworld and being physically held back by his brothers from fully attaching himself to Pen's side like a dog on a leash. ("Oh my gods Colin PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER!!!")

Let's all pray for Francesca's sanity. As Colin's top advisor and right hand, she is gonna have her hands full when those spring and summer months hit. Like she has to be there during the send-off, or else Colin will attach himself to his wife.

Colin stays in his domain mainly because Penelope and Francesca remind him that Portia can and will create another famine, thus making sure they have extra work that will last the whole 6 months Penelope is in the Underworld. Colin not wanting his precious time with his wife interupted agrees to behave. Besides he is a good ruler and he doesn't want to do that to his domain again. Plus all that over time he had to pay to his judges and soul deliverer was not cheap. He can not do that every year, doesn't matter that he's the richest god among his siblings.

Colin does get to see Penelope though during the summer solstice and meetings that require all the siblings and spouses, so that eases the tension a little bit. He's not completely deprived of his wife for six months. Her thone on Mount Aubrey is right next to his! (He would prefer if she sit on his lap but Anthony says there's this thing called public image. Which is lies, Colin knows the truth. Kate won't sit on Anthony's lap in public so he makes everyone else suffer too.) Plus they send cute little love letters to one another courtesy of Penelope's right hand.

The year Francesca falls in love with Michael Colin thinks he finally has a chance to sneak away to go see his wife during the summer and spring months. But in reality Francesca now has a partner to help rein in Colin. Michael finds it funny, especially because before leaving Penelope herself and her right hand both warned Michael that Colin will try to make a jail break, so please help Francesca keep an eye on him.

[mspaint-innit]

mickey mouse is finally in the public domain, im gonna draw him sucking cock and sell prints of it

what's disney gonna do? sue me? send a cease and desist? you don't own it anymore jackass suck that fat dick right alongside michael mouse

[sleepymarmot]

Bright Young Things (2003) / Vile Bodies (1930)

Yes, yes, of course I watched this for young gay Michael Sheen.

For real, the main entertainment factor of this film is embodying the Leo pointing meme every time a familiar face shows up on screen. At some point a certain someone appeared in an incidental role for a few seconds in a close-up next to Tennant and I completely fucking lost it. The UK can’t possibly have so few actors!

I’ve never even heard of the book this was based on, or was aware this was an adaptation before being informed in the opening titles, but it’s very noticeable. The script frantically jumps from plot point to plot point just like in any other feature film that tries to cram a novel in less than two hours of runtime. A bigger problem is that it’s not very clear to the viewer whether they should even try to make out a plot out of this string of scenes, or it’s a narrative that operates on vibes only. (I had to quickly leaf through previous scenes because I’d put a name to a wrong face, all while wondering if correcting myself was even worth it.) The film has a boisterous beginning, then slows down for a long time, then is given a shot of energy when James McAvoy’s character does a certain big thing halfway through (I cheered. Then I went “Oh man :/”). The plot does get a bit more coherent after that.

The ending caught me by surprise: I didn’t realize it was that late in the thirties. The radio announcement was a real “Guess he’ll die” moment, and it was immediately followed by a scene where the main character and his love interest seemed to poetically die on the same day… And then both of these were swiftly undone. The final scene was so conspicuously set during an air raid in a room filled with burning candles that I kept expecting the final frame to be a bomb hitting the building, or someone knocking over one of the candles — either way, with the pair being set ablaze just like the rediscovered manuscript. But no, it was just… a happy/bittersweet melodramatic ending? Instead of a neat destructive one? But I had already given up on the emotionally involved melodramatic mode of viewing because I’d written off the characters as unlikeable empty shells whom you study like a bug instead of rooting for! The girl didn’t even seem to like the boy and the boy sold her, what kind of emotion was their reunion supposed to evoke? And what happened to Agatha and Miles during/after the war? According to the summary on Wikipedia, the original novel’s ending is entirely different in content and tone, and much more in tune with the detached cynicism of the story up to the war, which makes me wonder even more about the adaptation’s intent.

It was nice to look at all these pretty people in fashionable clothes, and get a glimpse of a foreign historical setting. “Watching a random mildly obscure production because you’ve heard about it online and/or some star was in it” is a familiar, semi-forgotten experience, and that felt pleasantly nostalgic.

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Of course, I couldn’t resist immediately reading the original book to compare, encouraged by a review saying that it’s actually not that long. I found a public domain version somewhere and read the bare original text without commentary, even though I’m sure it’s a terrible way to consume century-old satire.

I was surprised to discover that the book is from 1930 — and still ends with a great war (fictional, I assume). No wonder the adaptation moved the setting a decade forward!

My impression that the characters and their stories were supposed evoke curiosity and contempt rather than compassion was confirmed. I now find the shoehorned sappy ending even stranger. The film version turned out to be very faithful otherwise: the unimportant events and characters are condensed well, and the weird pacing and disjointedness that I perceived as a trait of sloppy adaptation were actually true to the source material.

The last chapters of the book feel different not because of the sudden bleakness, but because the scope is rapidly narrowed to the few main characters, and most of the secondary subplots are dropped. The book, unlike the adaptation, puts a definite end to Agatha’s story (and her life), and there’s an entire subplot about a fictional film that didn’t make it to the real film, but what about the Prime Minister and his unsuccessful courtship of a Japanese noblewoman, or Miles’ brother and his rejected proposal? I thought these were going somewhere.

What a shame that the misunderstanding about “shooting” didn’t make it to the adaptation — it’s one of the few passages in the novel I found genuinely funny. Speaking of dialogue, I thought the “parties” monologue in the film was very unnatural and theatrical, and sure, in the novel it’s not said aloud but belongs to the narrator.

The minor character who hosted the fateful party was in the novel actually, uhh, a major character from the writer’s previous novel who made money via human trafficking?? That would have been very confusing for the movie’s audience, so I think it was pretty clever to throw all that out and make her Miles’ mother instead. Too bad a more serious take on Miles warranted a new surname: “Miles Malpractice” is a great name.

Miles’ role was expanded a lot for the film, which I think we all agree was a good choice. Most of his lines in the movie, including the tearful goodbye, aren’t in the book at all! So that’s another thing that was made more dramatic for the film. You win some (Miles), you lose some (the ending). The moral of the story is… Stephen Fry is better at writing a gay character than a straight romance? No wonder; the question is why he even bothered with the latter.

[bedtimestoriesforbrokengirls]

The Daily Dad — Jan 9, 2024

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[alanshee-keeper-of-realms]

Now that Steamboat Willie Mickey is in the public domain, what do you plan to do with him?

I plan to turn him into a legendary tale himself,

The Tales of Captain Michael is what this book will be called, you could call it Mickey Mouse's autobiography but it basically covers my envisioning of the origin story of Steamboat Willie

When was he born, who were his parents, how did he and Minnie meet, how are his brothers related. Holy cow he has a sister? Yep! All of it will be included,

I think it's time that we put him amongst Sherlock Holmes, Frankenstein and all the others, for me it is time to detach him from a specific company and turn him into a figure that any company in the future could play around with,

He already is that way in animation, but to finally do the reverse as the Disney company has always taken from public domain,

To take him and make a story that everybody can relate to and come up with their own ideas, like Cinderella, Snow White and all the Great stories I have no hopes to reach those levels but I hope I can at least give it a little boost.

Because I think Mickey should be the rare character that makes it, that even 200 years on when Disney is long gone, that little mouse is still going and not just him all of his friends as well, they've already made it this far we now are getting a hold of it in the public domain. We have to do the same as the Victorians did with Sherlock Holmes before well the estate got involved.

So that somebody in the future, may curl up with their child who's still asking to hear about the story of Mickey Mouse.

[adamwatchesmovies]

The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

It’s bad enough to make any movie boring but you have to be extra incompetent to make a film titled The Satanic Rites of Dracula less interesting than math homework. This is the kind of horror film any obsessive movie goer will probably wind up watching more than once during their lifetime. Why? because it’s in the public domain. You can find it included in any number of bargain bin horror DVD sets for cheap. Don't be tempted. I’d rather sit down and watch The Devil Bat again than this snooze-fest.

The English Secret Service learns of a sinister plot concocted by Satanists. Prominent members of society are all involved, meaning the operation to take it down must stay hush-hush until Colonel Mathews (Richard Vernon) and Inspector Murray (Michael Coles) figure out who to trust. Once they bring in occult expert Professor Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) to help, he makes a startling realization: the legendary Count Dracula (Christopher Lee) is leading the cult!

Seeing the previous Hammer Dracula films won't make a difference. This plot just isn’t interesting. Most of it concerns talking heads wondering whether the Satanists are all bluster or whether they actually pose a threat to the world. When the authorities finally realize Van Helsing’s old friend, scientist Julian Keeley (Freddie Jones), is developing a new strain of the bubonic plague, you’re relieved the action is finally going to kick in and wonder what this has to do with Dracula. Truth is, there’s no reason for him to appear. There’s talk about the Count wanting to get revenge on all of mankind by wiping them out but that makes no sense. What's he going to do after? Starve? If he’s trying to end his immortality by killing us all, there are easier ways. In this picture alone, we learn several ways to take out the count: stakes through the heart, silver bullets, sunlight, RUNNING WATER… there’s another one too, a means introduced out of nowhere right at the tail end of the film in order to wrap things up quickly (not quickly enough if you ask me). It’s a Deus Ex Machina cross-bred with lazy writing. The results will make you wish you hadn’t bothered with any of it.

The idea - as far as I can tell - was to mix up the Dracula formula by blending elements of science fiction and spy thriller with horror. It's a failed experiment. The whole time, you’re just sitting there, waiting for Dracula to show up. Blah blah blah, conspiracies, blah blah blah, you can't trust anyone. Can we get more of the cultists sacrificing naked virgins and talking about the “Sabbath of the Undead”? Not that the secret society stuff is particularly interesting but at least it’s simple. Trying to figure out how many days left before the plague is unleashed and wondering why the villains who could’ve easily killed Van Helsing while he was passed out instead decided to let him off with a warning wasn’t enough to keep me entertained. Not while the one-dimensional and generally useless characters run around trying to figure out what the audience already knows.

I hope I never have the misfortune of stumbling upon The Satanic Rites of Dracula again. While Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing always bring a certain level of fun - particularly when they’re together on-screen - nothing about this film would ever tell you why they’re fan-favourites among classic horror aficionados. There’s no reason for anyone to check out The Satanic Rites of Dracula. (On DVD, March 24, 2020)

[bythebonefire]

🤍 + slaps some grillster in here

Send me a ship and I'll tell you... || Accepting!

Who cooks meals for the other?: I mean this is generally Grillby's role in most ships LMAO. He settles into that housewife role happily, and always makes sure Gaster actually eats proper meals. He probably packs him a cute lil lunch too. Maybe there’s even a note inside telling him he hopes he has a nice day!!! It’s all very domestic. 

Who spams the other with memes?: Neither of them really seem like big memelords lmao. I feel like if memes end up in their text chain it’s “do you know what this means??” “No, I have no idea???” “It’s so strange isn’t???” “It really is!!” 

Who likes to tidy around the house?: Both of them keep a pretty tidy house, but this again probably ends up in Grillby’s domain, especially because he’s very particular about how he likes things. 

Who likes to play pranks on the other?: They don’t really strike me as pranksters either tbh, Sans was prankster enough for the both of them. 

Who asked the other to move in with them?: Oh that’s a tough one. I feel like Grillby would be really hesitant to leave the apartment he and Sans shared. For all the painful memories the place carries--it was home. But I do think, especially since we’d talked about how the apartment was only intended to be a temporary place for him and Sans before they got their place outside the city, it might make it a bit easier. It was never meant to be a permanent home. I can kind of see Gaster tentatively bringing it up, and Grillby struggling over it for a long time--long enough that Gaster might assume the answer is no. But in the end, he finally agrees to it, and it’s another shaky step towards moving on with his life. 

Who is in charge of the music during a car ride?: Oh always Grillby. You’ve said before that Gaster isn’t quite as much of a music lover as Sans was, so it seems like an area where he might kind of just let Grillbz take the reigns. Funny thing about that though, is that because Grillby is In Love With The Idea Of Music As A Theoretical Concept, he could really be putting anything on. 80s Indonesian punk rock is just as likely as showtunes which is just as likely as spa/meditation music which is just as likely as reggae.  

Who is more likely to tickle the other mercilessly?: Are either of them... ticklish? I mean, Grillby might try with his ecto, but idk how successful he’d be...

Who needs to hold the other during scary movies?: Gaster does seem like he’d be the more skittish one, but I also don’t know because like... homeboy’s been behind the fabric of the space-time continuum is he really gonna be spooked by Michael Myers? Either way, they probably holdin’ hands.

Who has to help the other when it comes to technology?: Oh definitely Gaster, if our thread of him casually repairing Grillby’s jukebox is any indication lmao. Grillby is good about repairing some things, but when it comes to like... electronics, he’s a total luddite. 

Who likes to get a bit frisky in public / an inappropriate setting?: I mean this is obviously Grillby lmao. But I can see the first time Gaster decides to get a little playful with a spectral hand outside of their house, Grillby’s like. Super proud of him. My little baby kinkster, you’re so precious. <3

Who wakes up first, and do they wake up the other or let them rest?: I feel like this varies, but frequently it’s Gaster. Unless the other one needs to be up, they probably let the other sleep. 

Who is always taking pictures of the other when they aren’t looking?: Grillby has a lot of cute candids of Gaster while reading or working or sleeping. :B

Who always forgets their wallet and never ends up paying for anything?: Where you keep your wallet, Gaster??? You are made of goop!!! Do you have pockets in the goop??? Where are your pockets, Gaster??? But for real, they both probably remember it most of the time. 

Who can’t sleep because the other snores or moves too much at night? - If Gaster snores, I’m picturing it sounding like a jammed printer, and that makes me laugh. But idk, I feel like if there’s issues it may be because Grillby is very bright and that might take some getting used to if you’re sleeping in a room with him. 

Who is better at video games, and do they let the other win or show no mercy?: Gaster would be better probably--Grillby is pretty helpless at video games. He probably doesn’t try tbh, if Gaster were playing something I think he’d just like to watch. 

Who always gets up in the middle of the night to use the restroom and accidentally wakes up the other?: They don’t have to use the bathroom, so that helps. But probably if Grillby gets up, he’s more likely to wake Gaster since 1) sudden absence of warmth and 2) sudden light source moving around the room. 

[jcmarchi]

A Moonshot for Obesity: New Molecules, Inspired by Space Shuttles, Advance Lipid Nanoparticle Delivery for Weight Control - Technology Org

New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/a-moonshot-for-obesity-new-molecules-inspired-by-space-shuttles-advance-lipid-nanoparticle-delivery-for-weight-control-technology-org/

A Moonshot for Obesity: New Molecules, Inspired by Space Shuttles, Advance Lipid Nanoparticle Delivery for Weight Control - Technology Org

Inspired by the design of space shuttles, Penn Engineering researchers have invented a new way to synthesize a key component of lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), the revolutionary delivery vehicle for mRNA treatments including the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, simplifying the manufacture of LNPs while boosting their efficacy at delivering mRNA to cells for medicinal purposes.

Like space shuttles using booster rockets to breach the atmosphere, lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) equipped with the new molecule more successfully deliver medicinal payloads. Image credit: Max Pixel, CC0 Public Domain

In a paper in Nature Communications, Michael J. Mitchell, Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering, describes a new way to synthesize ionizable lipidoids, key chemical components of LNPs that help protect and deliver medicinal payloads. For this paper, Mitchell and his co-authors tested delivery of an mRNA drug for treating obesity and gene-editing tools for treating genetic disease. 

Previous experiments have shown that lipidoids with branched tails perform better at delivering mRNA to cells, but the methods for creating these molecules are time- and cost-intensive. “We offer a novel construction strategy for rapid and cost-efficient synthesis of these lipidoids,” says Xuexiang Han, a postdoctoral student in the Mitchell Lab and the paper’s co-first author. 

The method involves combining three chemicals: an amine “head”, two alkyl epoxide “tails” and, finally, two acyl chloride “branched tails.” The completed lipidoid’s resemblance to a space shuttle strapped to two booster rockets is not coincidental: in college, recalls Han, a documentary about the space shuttle left him impressed with the design of solid rocket boosters that enabled the shuttle to enter orbit. “I figured that we could append two branch tails as ‘boosters’ into the lipidoid to promote the delivery of mRNA,” says Han. 

Indeed, the addition of the branched tails led to a striking increase in the ability of LNPs equipped with the new lipidoid to deliver mRNA to target cells, much like a rocket whose boosters allow it to penetrate the atmosphere more easily. “We saw a dramatic increase of a hormone that regulates metabolism to target cells after delivering mRNA using these lipidoids, which is really exciting when you consider it as a way to treat obesity,” says Mitchell.

Source: University of Pennsylvania

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MicroStrategy's Bitcoin Success Fuels Speculation on S&P 500 Entry

MicroStrategy, the leading corporate holder of Bitcoin, has seen its investment in the cryptocurrency exceed $10 billion, with profits soaring above $4 billion as Bitcoin’s price approached $53,000. Since commencing its Bitcoin acquisition in 2020, MicroStrategy has accumulated 190,000 bitcoins at an average cost of $31,224 per coin, totaling $5.93 billion. This bold move has not only resulted in substantial profits but also positioned the company as a significant influencer in the cryptocurrency domain. 😎

The company’s pivot and the ensuing financial success have sparked discussions regarding its potential inclusion in the S&P 500 index. Following a remarkable 46% rally in its stock price within an eight-day period up to Feb. 15, MicroStrategy ranked as the 535th largest publicly listed company in the United States. To be considered for the S&P 500, MicroStrategy needs to meet several criteria, including a boost in market capitalization. Currently valued at $12.1 billion, the company’s stock price would need to ascend from $718 to $937 to reach the $15.8 billion threshold for index eligibility. 📈

Beyond market cap, inclusion in the S&P 500 requires satisfying a spectrum of conditions, such as profitability metrics, trading volume, and public shareholding requirements. MicroStrategy has reported a positive sum of profits over its last four quarters, aligning it closer to these rigorous standards. However, the ultimate decision for inclusion rests with the S&P’s executive committee, which assesses companies against a comprehensive suite of benchmarks. 😮

Further emphasizing MicroStrategy’s commitment to the cryptocurrency sector, CEO Michael Saylor has spearheaded the company’s transition toward becoming a Bitcoin development entity. This strategic evolution marks a profound shift in operational focus, aiming to not only enhance the Bitcoin network but also to maximize the value of its substantial Bitcoin holdings. Saylor, in recent discussions, pointed to the launch of spot Bitcoin ETFs as a pivotal factor influencing market dynamics, creating a pronounced imbalance between supply and demand. This scenario, he notes, stems from a decade of growing interest in Bitcoin as a viable retail investment option, illustrating MicroStrategy’s intent to lead in the development space within the Bitcoin ecosystem. 😮

Moreover, the company is navigating the potential for further profits with the anticipated accounting change in 2025, which could value Bitcoin at market prices, potentially adding to MicroStrategy’s profits. The success of MicroStrategy's Bitcoin investment has generated speculation about its potential entry into the S&P 500 index, which would require meeting various criteria, including market capitalization and profitability metrics. MicroStrategy's CEO, Michael Saylor, is leading the company's transformation into a Bitcoin development entity, focusing on enhancing the Bitcoin network and maximizing the value of its Bitcoin holdings. The final decision on inclusion in the S&P 500 rests with the S&P's executive committee. To read more about MicroStrategy's Bitcoin success and its potential entry in the S&P 500, click here. 📚

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[debunkingtherightwing]

Michael Knowles Reaches New Lows

At least he's happy to watch this, I'm not. (Photo credit: The Michael Knowles Show at Daily Wire)

Daily Wire Third-Banana Michael Knowles can't stop saying stupid shit.

I suppose when it's your job to say a whole bunch of stupid shit and nobody ever calls you out for anything outside of the really bad stuff, and even then that's really just Media Matters, what you say doesn't really matter.

But man, it feels like every time I watch a new episode of Michael's show he manages to say something worse than the last, and this is impressive because the first time I watched a full episode of the show was the time he defended goddamn blackface!

So, Michael has an....interesting take on the Steamboat Willie version of Mickey Mouse entering the public domain and a truly deranged one on Gaza but first we have to slog through his take on Claudine Gay's resignation. So, let's get into it shall we?

00:00, Michael Knowles: "Embattled Harvard president Claudine Gay has finally resigned after a bruising congressional testimony where she defended calls to genocide the jews and amid the discovery of consistent plagiarism amid her consistently small corpus of scholarly publications."

Alright, so I have talked about the "bruising congressional testimony" which was really just Elise Stefanik asking leading questions and getting the EXACT response she wanted but we haven't talked about this phony plagiarism outrage that the right has. We were going to do a Ben Shapiro episode about it originally but then Trump got yanked off the ballot and those plans changed really quickly.

What essentially happened was that Chris Rufo, a conservative "activist", combed through the entirety of Gay's work and found things like improper citations and then threw a stink about plagiarism. Let's be entirely clear here, Gay never claimed someone elses ideas were her own, what the right found were citation errors. Not to say that citation errors are great per-se but these guys need to come the hell down off their high-horse about plagiarism. Many people that the right said Gay plagiarized from stated that it wasn't actual plagiarism, for example David Canon who said quote;

“This isn't even close to an example of academic plagiarism.” (Source: The Guardian)

The truth is that these morons don't give two shits about plagiarism. What they wanted was to discredit a prominent black scholar because she didn't outright ban pro-Palestine demonstrations on campus and it worked. It's total bunk and people like Michael should get their heads out of their asses and stop pretending that this is about plagiarism.

Nobody at the Daily Wire has a right to lecture us about plagiarism either, you guys make a living reading other peoples articles (or in Michael's case, watching CNN) and haven't had an original thought in your lives.

02:10, Michael Knowles: "Former president Gay, for her part, is signing off in exactly the way that you would expect; by playing the race card and blaming her ousting on quote 'the racial animus of bigoted whites'. A fitting way to go for a woman who only got the job by hustling her race in the first place."

Michael does realize that she was a tenured professor before she was president of Harvard right? It's not like she just strolled in off the street and got the job because she was black! She was also a professor at Stanford even before she started at Harvard.

I do think that the rights attack on Gay does involve race. Gay was the first black president of Harvard and you certainly aren't seeing them combing through the academic back catalogue of prominent white academics.

03:11, Michael Knowles: "Probably the most prominent figure, front facing figure, in ousting Claudine Gay is Chris Rufo. Friend of mine, think-tank scholar, author of a terrific new book, and the man who made critical race theory a household term."

While I can't speak towards Chris' book since I haven't read it and probably never will, the CRT thing is a complete grift meant to appeal to racists and Chris himself admitted it. Quote;

"We have successfully frozen their brand — "critical race theory" — into the public conversation and are steadily driving up negative perceptions. We will eventually turn it toxic, as we put all of the various cultural insanities under that brand category. The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think "critical race theory." We have decodified the term and will recodify it to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans."

Here's an interesting article talking about Chris' book. His book apparently claims that there is a secret regime change in America, which is clearly completely ridiculous. When pressed on this, Chris stated that he was writing in a "a kind of artful and kind of narrative manner that's not always meant to be taken literally”. In short, taking what Rufo says is a bad idea since he's a self admitted bullshit artist who seems in it to grift.

As for "think-tank scholar", Chris started off at the Discovery Institute. The Discovery Institute is a right-wing religious think tank with the explicit goal of introducing creationism into elementary and secondary schools and having it taught in place of evolution. They also don't believe in climate change, real galaxy brained stuff.

My point here is that Chris Rufo has a long history of making shit up whenever it suits him and isn't a trustworthy source at all.

3:43, Michael Knowles: "One thing I love about Chris is that he constantly tells you what he's doing. He not only achieves the political operation but he explains how he's doing it while he do"

Yeah, he tells you what he's doing so much that he admitted to making stuff up...twice!

03:57, Michael Knowles: "Claudine Gay did not get ousted over plagiarism. If this were just plagiarism she would still be in her position. She got ousted because she defended the right of students to call for the genocide of the Jews."

No she didn't because the people demonstrating in favor of Palestinian rights aren't 'calling for the genocide of the Jews.' I do wish that Gay pushed back on that framework in her testimony but I get that she was under massive pressure and the fallout probably would have been even larger if she did, which would have led to the same outcome at the end of the day.

Also don't these guys whinge about how there isn't enough free speech on college campuses all the freaking time? By own their rules they should be 100% OK with protests that challenge their ideas as long as they don't have hate-speech in them and even then since most conservatives don't think hate speech is a real thing anyway.

05:24, Michael Knowles: "So it's not about plagiarism, it's about her weakness. She was already extremely weakened by the charges of antisemitism and that is when Chris Rufo and the conservatives pounced."

And why did they pounce with that, hmmm? Could it have something to do with her skin color?

05:42, Michael Knowles: "Now they pounced in a totally just and appropriate way here, this woman's entire academic career is a joke. First of all, she had 11 scholarly publications. A real scholar will have 11 publications by the time they're in grad school."

There are two ways to look at that 11 publications metric and both make Michael sound like a complete lunatic!

1): A real scholar has published 11 scholarly publications before grad school.

This is completely insane since most grad schools require a grand total of zero published works to apply considering that the step before that is undergraduate and very few, if any, undergraduates produce publishable works. If an undergraduate student produced 11 publications that would be legitimately newsworthy. It makes no sense though because there's not enough minutes in the four years you are an undergraduate to learn everything you need to know about your major and then publish 11 papers about it.

2): A real scholar has published 11 scholarly publications while in grad school.

Very few people write more than one published paper in grad school. As a matter of fact, if this thread on Reddit is anything to go by, most don't produce ANY publications. And again, Michael clearly doesn't understand how long research takes because if he did he'd know that 11 publications in the time it takes to complete grad school combined with schoolwork and your personal life is a completely insane request to make of someone.

Now, ignoring that 11 publications and grad school metric, Claudine Gay most likely wasn't brought on as president because she's this amazing genius level scholar because that's not what the president of a university does. They most likely hired her because she's good at fundraising, is a strong leader, and is good at administrative tasks. It's not like it's the presidents job to publish research that makes Harvard respected across the world, that's what professors do. The president of a university handles the administrative stuff.

06:06, Michael Knowles: "She teaches in a fake department called African American Studies which is one of these critical theory derived pseudo academic disciplines to just indoctrinate people in leftism."

First of all, African American Studies at Harvard has been around since the 1960's so it isn't some new thing designed to indoctrinate people into leftism.

Second of all, notice how teaching about the history and culture of black people is automatically "leftist indoctrination". Since Michael Knowles is a racist who believes that depicting Jesus as a Middle Eastern man (which he was) is akin to depicting him "as a gorilla", he views this automatically as a threat to his very being which is pathetic.

Michael says some really boring and meaningless stuff and then there's an ad pivot. Now he comes back to give a completely deranged take on Steamboat Willie Mickey Mouse entering the public domain.

09:53, Michael Knowles: "Speaking of left-wing institutions going down, Mickey Mouse has entered the public domain...sort of. What does this mean?"

So, Michael and the rest of the Daily Wire have been on a bizarre crusade against Disney for committing the awful crimes of exercising their right as a corporation to stand up to Ron DeSantis' homophobic Don't Say Gay bill and having the gall to cast more non-white people in their films so it stands to reason that they'd be thrilled with this.

To be clear; Fuck Disney. I hate that company for so many reasons and I'm totally fine with Steamboat Willie Mickey going into public domain, as a matter of fact I think it should have happened the first time before Disney managed to get it pushed back but where Michael goes with this is truly unhinged.

12:26, Michael Knowles: "Mickey Mouse has to become a Nazi. He has to. Because Disney is a very, very evil corporation that wants to trans your kids and fill their heads with all sorts of crazy ideas, and Disney's gotta go." 

....

So let's try to break this down. Since Disney wants to "trans your kids", whatever the hell that's supposed to mean, the only logical response is to produce Nazi propaganda. Promoting Nazi ideology is really bad and since Mickey Mouse is a character that is beloved amongst kids, you'd be more than likely promoting it to children.

It wouldn't even take down Disney. Most people would see that and go "boy, who's that asshole who made Mickey Mouse a Nazi? Boy I sure want to punch him!" You know why? Because people who make Nazi propaganda are Nazi's. I guess Michael Knowles is a Nazi now.

13:08, Michael Knowles: "And so, one of the best things that we can do right now is make the Disney characters toxic."

Unless Disney is directly making it, most people won't view at as something that makes the company toxic. Also you can only use Mickey Mouse as seen in Steamboat Willie and that characters design has changed a lot over the years.

Now that I think about it, wouldn't that cross the line over into hate speech and really threaten his funding? Also Michael, why don't you run your brilliant idea by Ben Shapiro? I'm sure your boss, who is a practicing Jew, would be thrilled with your idea to produce antisemitic propaganda.

13:25, Michael Knowles: "And what this means is we need to turn Mickey into a Nazi."

Promoting Naziism is unacceptable under any circumstances.

Yes Michael, even if it's "to own the libs".

13:30, Michael Knowles: "Because Nazi's are bad."

And with that, Michael alienated a good half of his audience.

13:34, Michael Knowles: "We're not going to turn Mickey into a Nazi because the Nazi's are good."

Woah really? Thanks for clarifying.

I feel like Michael is starting to realize how antisemitic this makes him sound and is going through a "shit, did I just say that on the air?!" moment.

13:35, Michael Knowles: "I'm quite anti-Nazi, I assume you are as well."

You're a right-wing media host, while it's not guaranteed that there are people who are pro-Nazi in your audience the probability is way higher than most people.

13:47, Michael Knowles: "And it can be done! In fact, I'm shocked that the mischievous people on places like 4Chan and other internet boards haven't done this already."

"Mischievous" is an interesting way of saying "literal Neo-Nazi's". 4Chan and 8Chan are known hangouts for them. I guess the guys on Stormfront are also "mischievous".

14:14, Michael Knowles: "Back in those days, there was this cartoon frog that a regular cartoonist had made and it was kind of a popular webcomic and then those guys on 4Chan turned that frog into a Nazi."

Again, does Michael not realize that those guys were legitimate ass Nazi's? Why else would you turn some random cartoon into a Nazi symbol?

Michael finally drops this nonsense and moves on to the next topic. Florida GOP chairman Christian Ziegler's rape and video voyeurism accusations. This was before Christian stepped down due to the allegations so we aren't going to talk about what January 3rd Michael doesn't know. Here's a good article going over what happened:

19:32, Michael Knowles: "I am simply befuddled at the notion that one would have a reasonable expectation of privacy when having a threesome with a bunch of randos, that's totally crazy."

First of all, the woman making the allegations appears to have been a friend of Zeigler and his wife so they aren't a "bunch of randos" like he claims.

Second of all, of course you should have a reasonable expectation of privacy when having sex, unless Michael would like someone taping him and his wife having sex. See, when I frame it like that it's invasive as hell and it's the same thing here. People have a right to privacy during intimate acts even if you don't like the act in question.

19:46, Michael Knowles: "And I guess the deeper part of this to me, what this is all about to me and it seems clear as day, this is all about porn."

Oh my GOD! We get it Michael, you don't like the porn industry, I don't either but not for your dumbass reasons.

In the past couple of Michael Knowles episodes on this blog I have witnessed Michael essentially transform not liking porn into some sort of personality or brand. Maybe it was because that stupid trans brainwashing nonsense finally got him the attention that he wanted but he just hasn't shut up about it. I think he's trying to be the Matt Walsh of porn but shoehorning it into pretty much everything you talk about is cringeworthy.

19:59, Michael Knowles: "I would bet the farm that they're really into porn. In fact, the way I know they're really into porn, or at least the guy is really into porn, he's making a porno."

I mean I guess. I interpreted the act of taking that video more as a sort of screwed up "insurance" thing against his wife and the other woman. Like, an "if I go down you all go down" sort of thing.

Even if this guy is into porn, that's totally irrelevant. What's relevant is that he raped a woman and filmed two without their consent.

Ad pivot.

22:25, Michael Knowles: "Speaking of the media, an equally disturbing story but not nearly as weird. Poland has a new liberal government and the new liberal government is banning the conservative media, they're dissolving the state media."

The new government of Poland isn't "banning Conservative media".

The situation in Poland is this, for 8 years they were under the control of the Law And Justice (PiS) party which was indeed a very conservative leaning organization. The state-run media at the time was notoriously in favor of the PiS party, even being called propaganda by some. Stop thinking NPR and start thinking Russia Today because that is a more effective comparison. When a news agency that's funded by the government criticizes a political leader that's all well and good, BBC and CBC do it all the time, but when it does nothing but slander the opposition party as well as other TV networks that look poorly on one other party, that's propaganda.

I consider the Daily Wire propaganda since they lie in favor of the right all the time but I don't think they should be censored because of freedom of the press. However if the Daily Wire was owned by the GOP (well, in a more direct way anyway) and was the main publicly funded news source in the USA, I'd say that's clearly state-run media and needs to be shut down.

Nobody in Poland is saying that conservative media organizations can't exist, that's just Michael's fearmongering bullshit. What's happening is that they are getting rid of a propaganda network and most likely replacing it with a more impartial and balanced network.

22:59, Michael Knowles: "The libs, that's their favorite thing. PBS, NPR."

Ah yes, PBS and NPR, two known leftist organizations. I love how Michael doesn't even really elaborate on the situation in Poland and just bitches about how the MSM is mean to conservatives, almost as if he realizes that defending a foreign propaganda network is a really bad look.

I wonder if Ben Shapiro watches his underlings videos because this shits embarrassing.

Michael reads a Reuters article about this in a scary voice.

26:37, Michael Knowles: "There's a report out that gen z is aging differently from millennials. Millennials look weirdly young. Maybe not me because my diet consists of; espresso, black tea, whisky, and tobacco so maybe I haven't aged quite as gracefully."

"Look at how manly I am with my whisky and tobacco, I'm an alpha male!"

This prompted me to look up how old Michael is since he mentioned that he was a millennial and I was pretty surprised to find out that he's only 33, I kind of assumed that he was 45-50. I guess right wing bullshit ages you.

Anyway, this whole thing about millennials aging more gracefully is just dumb and irrelevant. This mostly exists so that Michael can complain about how he thinks that cosmetic procedures only make people look worse, immediate skip.

29:42, Michael Knowles: "Speaking of toxic substances, there's a lady who is alleging that McDonald's has changed it's wrappers to support the state of Israel."

This is a really really dumb story.

So some woman made a TikTok, most likely for attention because I don't see how someone could seriously believe this, that white and blue wrapping from McDonald's was designed to support Israel. I don't really see this woman being an actual supporter of Palestinian rights as most pro-Palestine people I know, myself included, are boycotting McDonald's. Odds are that this is completely for attention.

In case you are wondering, the blue wrappers are generic and have been used before the war started.

Anyway, Michael is using this as an excuse to make all pro-Palestinian rights advocates look completely insane but that's dumb as well. Some woman on TikTok isn't the voice of every person who supports Palestine.

31:28, Michael Knowles: "Call me naive but I don't think that the McDonald's chicken sandwich wrapper is a subliminal message to convince the goyim to support the state of Israel."

It is a recorded fact on this blog that Michael Knowles believes that both porn and children's cartoons have subliminal messages in them designed to turn kids trans. In short, he has zero right to make fun of anyone for believing in subliminal messages. Yeah, this story is dumb but so is Michael.

31:53, Michael Knowles: "These people need help. These people, the kind of people who stub there toe in the morning and blame the Jews. It's the same kind of people stub their toe in the morning and blame the CIA, or the people who stub their toe in the morning and blame the illuminati, or the people who stub their toe in the morning and blame this that or the other thing."

"Like the people who stub their toe in the morning and blame the lef-oh wait can't say that one, that's me and my audience!"

This is so hypocritical coming from a guy who has based his entire career on complaining about the left and blaming every ill in society on them. Yeah, the people who stub their toe in the morning and blame the illuminati are nuts, but so are the ones who blame the left.

32:26, Michael Knowles: "If you search for simplistic answers to political problems, one you're gonna be wrong and you're gonna think the chicken sandwich is a Jewish conspiracy but two, you're gonna cede the political order."

And that's why you blame literally everything on the left, right?

34:41, Michael Knowles: "If I were an Israeli minister I'd probably be calling for the same thing (displacing Gazan's). I'd be saying 'Look, we can't tolerate Gaza to exist as a political unit anymore. We can't tolerate these people here, it's too much of a security risk and we gotta ethnically cleanse the area.'"

So....let me get this straight. If Michael were an Israeli minister he'd be not just ok with but a literal advocate of committing genocide?! Holy crap that's disgusting. "We gotta ethnically cleanse the area", what an absolute prick. Does Michael not realize how many children there are in that area he'd be "ethnically cleansing"?! Not that ethnically cleansing adults is OK either but how could the children possibly be a security risk?!

Man alive this is a bad episode.

34:58, Michael Knowles: "But, it's just not gonna fly."

Really Michael?! Ethnically cleansing a population isn't gonna fly?! Golly, I wonder why?!

What an absolutely moronic dickhead. I'm done with this segment, what's after the ad pivot?

39:05, Michael Knowles: "She burned down one of the churches for the libs religion (for context: an abortion clinic) which is death and the destruction of all that is nice and flourishing about human life."

Michael Knowles stubs his toe in the morning and blames it on the libs who worship death and the destruction of all that is nice and flourishing about human life.

Notice how that entire segment about how blaming things on an entire group of people is counterproductive is really hypocritical if you listen to literally anything that comes out of Michael's mouth.

Conclusion:

Stupid episode containing some infuriating comments, classic Michael Knowles stuff. Considering that this is my first Daily Wire episode of the new year we can take this as a pretty bad omen for the kind of stuff they'll be up to this year.

[pheonix1t23]

Where in the world could anyone come up with the idea that Israel’s Mossad had a hand in the assassination of John F. Kennedy? All of the information which, taken together, proves this contention has long been in the public domain. This book, Final Judgment, brings all of these facts together for the first time in a fascinating and frightening scenario that—although controversial—does make sense.

Considering all of the theories about the assassination of John F. Kennedy that have been circulating for years, how could anyone ever suggest that Israel’s Mossad was involved?

This was the reaction of more than a few people when apprised of the thesis presented in the pages of this book. Yet, I believe, that when you read this volume you will reach the same conclusion: that Israel and its spy agency, the Mossad, did indeed play a critical role in the JFK assassination conspiracy and its cover-up. The evidence is there, as you shall see.

It was in 1989, while re-reading A. J. Weberman and Michael Canfield’s Coup d’Etat in America (first published in 1975) that I first stumbled upon a strange reference that ultimately led to my research that is outlined here in the pages of Final Judgment. The reference, simple as it was, appearing on page 41, read as follows:

“After the assassination, an informer for the Secret Service and the FBI who had infiltrated a Cuban exile group and was in the process of selling them machine guns, reported that on November 21, 1963 he was told, ‘We now have plenty of money—our new backers are the Jews—as soon as they take care of JFK.‘ This man had furnished reliable information in the past.” (emphasis added)

https://www.unz.com/book/michael_collins_piper__final-judgment/

[westusaofprescott-blog]

The Magnetic Lure of Paulden, Arizona:

Greetings, prospective citizens of The Grand Canyon State! Perplexed about the burgeoning interest surrounding Paulden, Arizona? Anchor yourself; we're embarking on an expedition to demystify this alluring hamlet's escalating allure.

The Ascendant Trajectory of Paulden, Arizona

Paulden’s luminescence in the sociocultural firmament is far from serendipitous. To corroborate this, one need only peruse empirical data delineating its expansion. Over the preceding decennium, the township has experienced a propulsive augmentation in its populace. Why should this statistical crescendo pique your curiosity? A swelling citizenry begets an enriched assortment of conveniences, flourishing occupational vistas, and an effervescent communitarian ethos.

What catalyzes this mass pilgrimage to Paulden?

Economic Viability: The prospect of domiciliary proprietorship in Paulden transcends mere wishful thinking. Here, abodes command prices that are conspicuously less onerous compared to the nationwide benchmark.

Scenic Splendor: Paulden is Nature's magnum opus, a tableau vivant of idyllic vistas and celestial twilight theatrics that enrapture alfresco aficionados.

Occupational Abundance: Don't be ensnared by Paulden's bucolic demeanor; its occupational tapestry is far from monolithic. Neighboring precincts like Prescott and Prescott Valley unfurl a kaleidoscope of vocations in sectors ranging from palliative care to convivial services and pedagogic enterprises.

The Pulse of the Community

Whether it's festive congregations, agrarian bazaars, or convivial quarter soirees, Paulden proffers an ineffable sense of kinship—a fraternité seldom encountered in today’s fractured world.

The Real Estate Landscape

Tantalized yet? Let’s segue into the terra firma economics. While domiciliary valuations are ascending, their acquisition remains within the fiscal grasp of most households. Market pundits prognosticate this uptrend will perpetuate, rendering it a perspicacious venture for the impending future.

Recreational Amenities and Lifestyle

Outdoor Endeavors: Whether your passions veer towards ambulatory explorations or aqueous escapades, Paulden’s diverse biomes offer a panoply of recreative opportunities.

Mobility Essentials: While autos are near-indispensable, the embryonic public conveyance matrix is on an upward trajectory.

Climatic Considerations: Prepare for thermal amplitude; yet, fret not—this is the desiccated warmth we're discussing.

Caveats: Paulden's Potential Shortcomings

Paulden may not be your Shangri-La if you covet metropolis-laden luxuries or harbor vocational ambitions in scarcely represented domains.

Final Thoughts

The gravitational allure towards Paulden, Arizona, remains unassailable. It beckons a diverse demographic, be it fledgling professionals, familial units, or those in the autumn of their lives. From pecuniary sensibility to occupational vistas and unparalleled quality of life, Paulden is a compendium of facets that amalgamate into an irresistible draw.

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[carnetcritique]

Annoncés depuis le MIPIM de Cannes, les résultats très « French Touch » des Folies, projet urbain emblématique de la ville de Montpellier, ne semble même pas mériter un dévoilement local, depuis l’hôtel de ville : cela montre en creux que le véritable sujet de cette consultation est une projection de l’image de la ville sur l’extérieur, une réponse économique à une situation de pénurie, le fameux choc de l’offre, et non pas un sujet architectural. Convenons-en, l’Architecture est ici utilisée comme une excuse commode, un cache-sexe cynique.

Quand Georges Frêche et Raymond Dugrand appelaient le Taller de Ricardo Bofill pour concevoir le nouveau quartier d’Antigone en 1978, c’était visionnaire et optimiste. Bofill n’avait alors rien construit en France, et s’il commençait à être pressenti pour réaliser de nombreuses villes nouvelles autour des Paris, il n’avait pas encore mis en œuvre ses théories sur le logement et la modernité classique à grande échelles. Il était engagé dans une voie radicale, et en incarnant dans la décennie à venir le visage de l’architecture du parti socialiste accédé au pouvoir, cela lui permettra de pousser l’expérience de l’architecture et de l’urbanisme jusqu’à son extrême limite. Montpellier, en lui faisant confiance à cette époque-là précisément, s’est positionnée sur la carte de France de l’architecture contemporaine, et Antigone restera un exemple frappant, une pièce urbaine majeure, symbolisant cette manière de faire la ville si caractéristique de l’époque. Bofill était un architecte d’avant-garde, révolutionnaire, l’exact contraire d’une « signature », comme on dirait maintenant à Montpellier.

Avec ces "signatures", Decq, Gautrand, l’OMA, Coldefy, des images de projets montrant clairement une architecture surannée, dépassée, tirés tout droit d’une publication de AMC saison 2004, notre maire se trompe lourdement. Sa volonté maladroite d’instrumentaliser l’architecture va se retourner contre lui par méconnaissance totale du domaine. Pourquoi personne dans son entourage ne le lui dit ? C’est un mystère. Parce qu’en réalité dans cette histoire de folie, Michael Delafosse n'est ni l'héritier de Frêche, ni de Dugrand, et en faisant primer son gout, ses fantaisies personnelles, il se comporte plutôt comme Jacques Chirac qui évinçait Bofill, et redessinait le projet des Halles, gagné lors du concours de 1974 parce que « ça ne sentait pas assez la saucisse ».

L’architecture est une expression de la culture. A l’heure de la finale de la candidature de la ville à la capitale européenne de la culture, avec de tels projets qui sentent bon les années 2000 et le quinquennat de Nicolas Sarkozy, il y a fort à parier que l’on est passé en dernière position si quelqu’un dans le jury par malheur s’y connaissait un tout petit peu dans le domaine de l’architecture. Que penser de la folie d’Odile Decq, tirés d’un mauvais nanard des années 2000, sombre blop patatoïde sans queue ni tête - mais avec des cheveux - et futur siège social d’un promoteur située stratégiquement dans le centre historique de Montpellier ? A l’heure ou un changement de vélux pour un particulier se heurtera invariablement aux plus grandes résistances administratives combinés de la DRAC, de la Mairie, de la Mission Grand Cœur, c’est non seulement atterrant, mais c’est surtout un bras d’honneur à tous les architectes qui ont toutes les peines du monde à faire accepter un permis de construire dans le centre ancien, pour des choses souvent bien raisonnables. Fort avec les faibles, et faibles avec les forts, voici un crédo bien étrange pour une mairie socialiste.

Le plus triste dans cette affaire, c’est que l’école d’architecture est en grève, et les étudiants vivent tous les jours une perte de sens de leur futur métier. Je pense que c’est un signal criminel qu’envoient les pouvoirs publics, la presse, dans leur direction. Cette injonction à penser en 2023 que l’innovation architecturale réside dans le fait de faire des formes molles dans des ZACs absurdes, de séparer toujours plus l’image du projet du programme, qu’être beau c’est être différent, en occultant complétement les enjeux sociaux, sociétaux, environnementaux, est très grave. Ce n’est pas comme ça que nous allons motiver nos jeunes étudiantes et étudiants. Que quelqu’un prévienne enfin notre maire : l’architecture est tout sauf une Folie. Tout sauf un outil de marketing urbain au service d’un élu en manque de bruit d’unités médiatiques. C’est au contraire un sujet extrêmement sérieux : ce territoire est rempli de gens compétents, gardés sous le boisseau, et il suffirait de les écouter, pour sortir par le haut de cette triste situation, et se mettre au service de cette ville merveilleuse où tous le monde parle d’architecture sauf les architectes.

[docrotten]

THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA (1973) – Episode 188 – Decades Of Horror 1970s

“Nothing is too vile. Nothing is too dreadful, too awful. You need to know the terror, the horror, Lorrimor. You need to feel the thrill of disgust, the beauty of obscenity.” Oh, Freddie Jones, you had me at vile. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they do a ride-along with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee for their last Hammer film together, The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973).

Decades of Horror 1970s Episode 188 – The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)

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In 1974, Scotland Yard believes it has uncovered a case of vampirism, so they call in veteran vampire researcher Professor Lorrimer Van Helsing.

  Director: Alan Gibson

Writer: Don Houghton (screenplay by)

Music by: John Cacavas

Cinematography by: Brian Probyn (director of photography)

Film Editing by: Chris Barnes

Selected Cast:

Christopher Lee as Count Dracula / D.D. Denham

Peter Cushing as Lorrimer Van Helsing

Michael Coles as Inspector Murray

William Franklyn as Peter Torrence

Richard Vernon as Colonel Mathews

Joanna Lumley as Jessica Van Helsing

Valerie Van Ost as Jane

Barbara Yu Ling as Chin Yang

Freddie Jones as Dr. Julian Keeley

Maurice O’Connell as Agent Hanson

Richard Mathews as John Porter, MP

Patrick Barr as Lord Carradine

Lockwood West as General Sir Arthur Freeborne

Peter Adair as doctor

John Harvey as the Commissionaire

Maggie Fitzgerald, Pauline Peart, Finnuala O’Shannon as vampire girls

Mia Martin as girl on altar

Marc Zuber, Paul Weston, Ian Dewar, Graham Rees as guards

It’s time to cover the final pairing of Peter Cushing as Van Helsing and Christopher Lee as Count Dracula in Count Dracula and His Vampire Bride! Wait, no… The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973). Two years after the events of Dracula A.D. 1972, Cushing’s Van Helsing discovers Lee’s Dracula is still alive… and living in London… (see what I did there) and is now a wealthy CEO. But, he still has dastardly plans in his cape. Ironically, while this film did not land state-side until 1978 keeping U.S. fans waiting, it is now, sadly, in the public domain… sigh. Regardless, if you watch a sharp HD cut from an original print, you can catch glimpses of the powerhouse horror film company Hammer used to be as Helsing and crew literally use every method possible to dispose of the vampires lurking about. C’mon, despite its questionable quality, you gotta see this.

At the time of this writing, The Satanic Rites of Dracula is available to stream from the Roku Channel, Tubi, Popcornflix, Freevee, Screambox, and a variety of PPV sources. It is also available on Blu-ray from Warner Archives.

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror 1970s is part of the Decades of Horror two-week rotation with The Classic Era and the 1980s. In two weeks, the next episode, chosen by Jeff, will be Paul Naschy’s The Werewolf and the Yeti (1975). Or is it Night of the Howling Beast? Or La maldición de la bestia? Or Il licantropo e lo yeti? Or Horror of the Werewolf? Or The Curse of the Beast? Or Hall of the Mountain King? Anyhoo, have you seen any of these?

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