#michael thurber

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michaelthurber: Endless gratitude to @ lawrencetheband and my brother @jonlampleymusic for one of the most epic nights EVER. Lawrence is the truth, they crafted a room full of love, happiness, incredible people and incredible music. Thank you to everyone who came out and thank you for all the kind messages. Shoutout to @negahpercussah @joesaylor @danaegreenfield and @joesaylor love y'all ♥️🔥💙 MORE MUSIC COMING OUT SOON 👀

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Darren on the show of 'Lawrence presents STAYCATION' ⚾ ⚾ ⚾

[laderniereseancedecedrique]

RED NOTICE (2021)

Il y a deux mille ans, Marc Antoine offrit à Cléopâtre trois œufs ornés de bijoux en guise de cadeau de mariage ; les œufs sont perdus au cours du temps jusqu'à ce que deux soient retrouvés en 1907.

En 2021, l'agent spécial John Hartley, un profileur du FBI, est chargé d'aider l'agent d'Interpol Urvashi Das à enquêter sur le vol potentiel d'un des œufs, exposé au musée du Château Saint-Ange à Rome, après avoir été informé qu'il pourrait même avoir déjà été volé. Alors que le chef de la sécurité dissipe leur inquiétude, l'œuf étant toujours exposé, Hartley dévoile que c'est une copie. Le voleur, Nolan Booth, rentre ensuite chez lui à Bali avec l'œuf mais Hartley, Das et une équipe d'Interpol l'arrêtent et récupèrent l'œuf. À l'insu de tous, Sarah Black, la principale concurrente de Booth connue sous le nom de "Le Fou", l'échange contre un faux. Le lendemain, Das, mise au courant que l'œuf récupéré est également une copie, emprisonne Hartley dans une prison russe avec Booth, croyant qu'il est complice du vol.

Black leur propose de travailler ensemble pour trouver le troisième œuf, Booth ayant révélé à Hartley qu'il sait où il se trouve. Hartley propose qu'ils s'unissent pour battre Black ; ils s'échappent de la prison et se rendent à Valence pour voler le deuxième œuf, propriété du marchand d'armes Sotto Voce. Ils rencontrent alors Black, qui a également l'intention de le voler. Voce appréhende les deux hommes tandis que Black révèle qu'elle travaille avec Voce.

Booth divulgue alors l'emplacement du troisième œuf et Black part pour l'Égypte où Booth prétend qu'il se trouve. Après avoir quitté Valence, Booth révèle à Hartley que l'œuf se trouve en fait en Argentine, dans un endroit connu de lui seul car inscrit sur la montre de son défunt père laquelle appartenait au conservateur d'art personnel d'Adolf Hitler ; en 1945, Zeich a fui l'Europe pour l'Argentine. Le duo trouvent le bunker secret où se trouvent d'innombrables artefacts nazis dont le troisième œuf. Black, qui n'est pas tombée dans leur piège et les a suivis, les menace d'une arme mais est interrompue par l'arrivée de Das. Hartley, Booth et Black s'échappent et, après avoir plongé d'une cascade, atterrissent dans un lac au fond. Booth découvre alors que Hartley et Black sont partenaires, qu'Hartley n'a jamais travaillé pour le FBI et qu'il est lui aussi "Le Fou". Booth, menotté à un arbre dans la forêt tropicale, leur donne alors l'œuf.

Au Caire, Hartley et Black livrent les trois œufs à un milliardaire égyptien comme cadeau de mariage de sa fille (à l'image du cadeau original de Marc Antoine à Cléopâtre). Le mariage est interrompu par un raid d'Interpol de Das. Six mois plus tard, Booth fait son apparition sur leur yacht, en Sardaigne ; il les informe qu'à la suite de ses révélations à Interpol, leur compte en banque aux îles Caïmans, sur lequel les 300 millions de dollars du milliardaire égyptien ont été versés, a été siphonné, les laissant sans argent. Booth leur offre une chance d'échapper à Interpol, sur le point de les capturer, s'ils l'aident à réaliser un nouveau braquage, au Louvre à Paris, qui nécessite trois personnes pour réussir. Alors qu'ils s'échappent, Das rédige une notice rouge à l'encontre du trio.

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I have some books/series recommendations for the fantasy poll - I’ll send more when I get home and actually get to look at my shelves

Elric of Melniboné by Michael Moorcock (series)

The Black Company by Glenn Cook (series)

The 13 Clocks by James Thurber

The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe (series)

The Wizard Knight by Gene Wolfe (series)

The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison

The Cemeteries of Amalo by Katherin Addison (series)

The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir (series)

Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones (series, sequel is Year of the Griffin)

I’ll think of more when I see my shelves. I’d recommend the Earthsea series 100 times, but I figure it’s already been submitted. Cheers - and thanks for doing these. They’re a lot of fun.

You are correct, Earthsea has already been submitted lol

I added all of these, and god, I love The Locked Tomb!

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Marilyn Monroe admires the cartoons on the wall, drawn by The New Yorker cartoonist James Thurber, at Costello's restaurant, March 1955.

Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

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Trouser Snake, my 2016 short film, is featured in Die Laughing. The horror-comedy anthology is available on Blu-ray for $10 via Bonelady Studios.

It features 21 shorts from 10 directors, including George James Fraser, Erica Stockwell-Alpert, Jim McDonough, David Bornstein, Seth Chatfield, Peter Levine, Sophia Cacciola, Porcelain Dalya, Elizabeth Theis, and yours truly.

A night of necking at Lovers’ Lane gets the shaft when a monster rears its ugly head in Trouser Snake, my comedic send-up to 1950s creature features. Alexander Gauthier, Jamie Lyn Bagley, Michael Thurber, William DeCoff, Monica Saviolakis, Morgan Walsh, and Jordan Pacheco star.

You can watch the 5-minute short below. If you like it, consider picking up a copy of Die Laughing to support indie film.

Die Laughing includes:

Fuck Yes! by George James Fraser

Firstborn by Erica Stockwell-Alpert

Tiny Clones by Jim McDonough

Unholy 'Mole by David Bornstein

Shiny Diamonds by Seth Chatfield

Darling Pet Monkey by Jim McDonough

Dead Language by Erica Stockwell-Alpert

Jeff Got Stabbed by Peter Levine

Bloodhound by Sophia Cacciola

Calling in Demons by Porcelain Dalya

Hipster Ghost by Sophia Cacciola

Weekend Vampire by Sophia Cacciola

Trouser Snake by Alex DiVincenzo

Winkville bt Seth Chatfield

Killing Time with Lizzy Boredom by Elizabeth Theis

The Digby Thurlow Show Episodes 1-6 by Jim McDonough

[emilysworldoffandoms]

Books I Read in 2023

Wilde Child By Eloisa James (Romance)

Looking for Me…in this Great Big Family By Betsy R. Rosenthal (Middle Grade Verse)

My Last Duchess By Eloisa James (Romance)

Wilde in Love By Eloisa James (Romance)

Our Souls at Night By Kent Haruf (Fiction)

Too Wilde Too Wed By Eloisa James (Romance)

Nick and Charlie By Alice Oseman (YA Novella)

Born to Be Wilde By Eloisa James (Romance)

The Woman in the Purple Skirt By Nasuko Imamura (Fiction)

Say No to the Duke By Eloisa James (Romance)

Crumbs By Dance Stirling (Graphic Novel)

The Reluctant Countess By Eloisa James (Romance)

Demon in the Wood By Leigh Bardugo & Dani Pendergast (Graphic Novel)

Write for Your Life By Anna Quindlen (Non-Fiction)

Let There By Laughter By Michael Krasny (Humor)

Mary’s Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein By Lita Judge (Biography in Verse and Pictures)

Soft Thorns By Bridgett Devoue (Poetry)

Wolfed: Cursed By Love: Book One By Leia Stone (Urban Fantasy Romance)

Constantine: Distorted Illusions By Kami Garcia & Isaac Goodhart (Graphic Novel)

A Life Force By Will Eisner (Graphic Novel)

Dropsie Avenue By Will Eisner (Graphic Novel)

Love & Other Words By Christina Lauren (Romance)

The World Keeps Ending and the World Goes On By Franny Choi (Poetry)

The Valentine’s Hate By Sidney Halston (Romance)

Fagin the Jew By Will Eisner (Graphic Novel)

Autoboyography By Christina Lauren (YA)

You Are Here By Dawn Lanuza (Poetry)

Wolfed: Book Two: Promised to Him By Leia Stone (Urban Fantasy Romance)

New York: The Big City By Will Eisner (Graphic Novel)

To the Heart of the Storm By Will Eisner (Graphic Novel)

The Outsiders By S.E. Hinton (Classic YA) [Re-read]

True Beauty By Yaongyi (Graphic Novel)

The 13 Clocks By James Thurber (Verse and Pictures)

Chasing Cassandra By Lisa Kleypas (Romance)

Banned Book Club By Kim Hyun Sook, Ko Hyung-Ju, and Ryan Estrada (Graphic Novel)

Coven By Jennifer Dugan (Graphic Novel)

Exes & O’s By Amy Lea (Romance)

2 Am Thoughts By Mackenzie Campbell (Poetry)

My Greenhouse By Bella Mayo (Poetry)

Unterhaken By Leela Corman (Graphic Novel)

Morning Haikus By Carin Weisman Crook (Poetry)

HER: Volume 3 By Pierre Alex Jeanty (Poetry)

These Are My Big Girl Pants By Amber Vittoria (Poetry)

When in Rome By Sarah Adams (Romance)

Mr. Wrong Number By Lynn Painter (Romance)

Hollow By Brandon Boyer-White & Shannon Waters (Graphic Novel)

Set on You By Amy Lea (Romance)

The Sun & the Star By Rick Riordan & Mark Oshiro (Middle Grade)

Practice Makes Perfect By Sarah Adams (Romance)

Haikus for Jews By David M. Bader (Poetry) [Re-read]

LVOE By Atticus (Poetry)

Schwartz’s Hebrew Delicatessen: The Story By Bill Brownstein (Non-Fiction)

Spy X Family Vol. 1 By Tatsuya Endo (Manga)

My Hero Academia Vol. 1 By Kohei Horikoshi (Manga)

Imogen, Obviously By Becky Albertalli (YA)

Spy X Family Vol. 2 By Tatsuya Endo (Manga)

Spy X Family Vol. 3 By Tatsuya Endo (Manga)

True Love Experiment By Christina Lauren (Romance)

A beautiful composition of broken By r.h. Sin (poetry)

Spy X Family Vol. 4 By Tatsuya Endo (Manga)

Spy X Family Vol. 5 By Tatsuya Endo (Manga)

All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business By Mel Brooks (Memoir)

Whiskey words & a shovel By r.h. Sin (Poetry)

Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself By Alan Alda (Memoir)

Spy X Family Vol. 6 By Tatsuya Endo (Manga)

The Unhoneymooners By Christina Lauren (Romance)

The Soulmate Equation By Christina Lauren (Romance)

M*A*S*H: A Novel About Three Army Doctors By Richard Hooker (Fiction)

Mixed Blessings By William & Barbara Christopher (Memoir)

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed and Other Things I’ve Learned By Alan Alda (Memoir)

Red, White, & Royal Blue By Casey McQuiston (Romance)

Spy X Family Vol. 7 By Tatsuya Endo (Manga)

SOTUS Vol. 1 By Bittersweet (Manga)

SOTUS Vol. 2 By Bittersweet (Manga)

While the Duke Was Sleeping By Sophie Jordan (Romance)

Beach Read By Emily Henry (Romance)

Spy X Family Vol. 8 By Tatsuya Endo (Manga)

Spy X Family Vol. 9 By Tatsuya Endo (Manga)

The Scandal of it All By Sophie Jordan (Romance)

Not That Duke By Eloisa James (Romance)

Unorthodox Love By Heidi Shertok (Romance)

The Duke Buys a Bride By  Sophie Jordan (Romance)

This Scot of Mine By Sophie Jordan (Romance)

Kissing Kosher By Jean Meltzer (Romance)

The Duke’s Stolen Bride By Sophie Jordan (Romance)

My Roommate is a Vampire By Jenna Levine (Romance)

The Virgin and the Rogue By Sophie Jordan (Romance)

The Duke Effect By Sophie Jordan (Romance)

SOTUS Vol. 3 By Bittersweet (Manga)

Percy Jackson: Chalice of the Gods By Rick Riordan (Middle Grade)

Tiny Dancer By Siena Cherson Siegel (Graphic Novel)

Zatanna: The Jewel of Gravesend By Alys Arden (Graphic Novel)

Everything I Know About Love I Learned from Romance Novels By Sarah Wendell (Non-Fiction)

The Roommate Pat By Allison Ashley (Romance)

Spy X Family Vol. 10 By Tatsuya Endo (Manga)

Two Rogues Make a Right By Cat Sebastian (Romance)

The Things They Carried By Tim O’Brien (Fiction)

Count Your Lucky Stars By Alexandria Bellefleur (Romance)

The Bromance Book Club By Lyssa Kay Adams (Romance)

Mockingjay By Suzanne Collins (YA)

The Official Quotable Doctor Who: Wise Words from Across Space & Time By Cavan Scott and Mark Wright (Quote Book)

God Plays Hide and Seek Poems By Greta Elbogen (Poetry)

Women Holding Things By Maira Kalman (Poetry/Verse/Photos)

The Little Liar By Mitch Albom (Fiction)

Love Brought Me Through the Holocaust: A Daughter’s Memories By Judith Koeppel Steel (Non-Fiction)

Himawari House By Harmony Becker (Graphic Novel)

Undercover Bromance By Lyssa Kay Adams (Romance)

Unordinary By uru-chan (Graphic Novel)

Son of : A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices By Most Hassan Yousef (Memoir)

Love & Latkes By Stacey Agdern (Romance)

Twelve Tribes: Promise and Peril in New Israel By Ethan Michaeli (Non-Fiction)

Never on Shabbas! By Henry Leonard (Political Cartoons)

The Little Guide to Taylor Swift: Words to Shake It Off (Quote Book)

This Winter By Alice Oseman (Novella)

Heartstopper Volume 5 By Alice Oseman (Graphic Novel)

Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth By Noa Tishby (Non-Fiction)

Counting the Cost By Jill Duggar (Memoir)

How to Educate a Citizen: The Power of Shared Knowledge to Unify a Nation BY E.D. Hirsch Jr. (Non-Fiction)

Two Tribes By Emily Bowen Cohen (Middle Grade Graphic Novel)

Foster By Claire Keegan (Novella)

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A FAIR TO REMEMBER

The third, and final installment of my book fair adventures.

     ‘Fess up. You did a double take when you saw that title, didn’t you? You thought, “Wow, he finally got some sex into his blog!” Sorry to disappoint you, but the title refers to the day’s activity. This weekend was the annual Dayton Book Fair at the Fairgrounds. It’s the one day of the year my wife lets me leave the house without a chaperone. Fortunately, it was worth the nearly three extra hours on my feet today. (I worked a full shift before hitting the fair this afternoon.)

     The weather was lovely today, if a bit windy at times. I arrived about 1:30, and found a parking spot not far from the entrance. When I got inside, I saw a lot of open floor space. I guess everyone was home trying to find the Ohio State game on television. (They were on a bye this week, so most of those people probably spent the afternoon getting liquored up – which is what they would’ve done anyway if there had been a game – but I digress.) The layout was different again this year, and I left my book fair GPS in the car so I had to make my way around “The Coliseum” (a fancy name for an old gymnasium) on my own. They’d moved the collectibles section to the front, and most of my favorite tables were not where I remembered them - although the hot dog stand was in the same spot, and that’s the important thing.

     The first friendly sign I saw read Poetry, and I suspected Short Stories would be close by. I was correct. But the only book I bought at that table was a collection edited by somebody named Milton Crane. Titled 50 Great Short Stories, and originally published in 1952, the paperback edition I found for $1.10, was the 16th printing from 1962, and featured names like Hemingway, Poe, Faulkner, Joyce, Thurber, Chekov, Forster, Salinger, Wolfe, Conrad, McCullers, Huxley, Steinbeck, and…well, you get the idea. I like a good short story, and since I’ve begun writing them, I get ideas how to make mine better from reading the masters. (If you’re going to steal, steal from the best.)

     It looked as if all my other favorite book haunts were on the other side of the gym, so I ambled over to the boxes of records spread over about eight tables. There were almost as many people browsing the records as there were browsing the multitude of book tables. Clearly this was a hipper, less bookish crowd than I was use to seeing at the fair. Needless to say, I fit right in.

     I cozied up to a pair of honeys browsing the rock records and chatting to one another about what they were finding. Sometimes it’s easy to forget that there are women out there who collect records instead of different shades of lipstick. One of them was complaining to the other that her mother had actually given away her own record collection. She couldn’t believe it. She found a Supremes collection she was interested in, but the cover was torn. Still, she had a look telling her friend that she could live with that as long as the record was in good shape. He pal agreed, telling her she needed to be careful so she didn’t ruin her stylus.

     Since they were lingering in the rock section, I moved over to jazz for a look. (If one of them had made a move to jazz, I might have been tempted to solicit her, but chicks don’t dig jazz as a general rule. So I remained on my best gentlemanly behavior.) By the time I finished browsing just two boxes of jazz records, I feared for my wallet. I found Arthur Blythe’s da-da LP, The Griffith Park Collection featuring several members of Return To Forever, along with the greats Joe Henderson, and Freddie Hubbard. Ralph Towner & Gary Burton’s Slide Show on ECM was in mint condition. I found a pair of LP’s on A&M Horizon – one by the great Chet Baker (You Can’t Go Home Again), and the other by Mel Lewis and Friends. Mel has some cool friends – bassist Ron Carter, pianist Hank Jones, Michael Brecker on sax, Freddie Hubbard (again) on trumpet, and more. The Best of Bobbi Humphrey on Columbia also caught my eye because I’ve been listening to a lot of light jazz from the late 70’s recently, and flutist Bobbi hit her commercial peak then. I also found Wynton Marsalis’s Think Of One – one I didn’t have from 1983. But as thrilled as I was with all of these, the most exciting finds turned out to be a Joe Zawinul collection on Atlantic titled Concerto Retitled, a set I had never seen or heard of before that turned out to be an overview of his Atlantic recordings prior to founding Weather Report, and an Impulse album from 1974 called Impulse Artists On Tour that features Gato Barbieri, Keith Jarrett, John Klemmer, Michael White, and Sam Rivers along with a who’s who of great backing musicians recorded at various shows. This was another album I’d never seen and didn’t know existed.

     Since the classical records were hosting several long hairs, I veered over towards the book tables on the other side, but not before I overheard an old couple talking. The wife (70, if she was a day) said to her husband, “Are you ready to go, baby?” And he replied, “You’re buying all those books? Didn’t you just get rid of a bunch of books?” Another woman standing next to me said, “He sounds like my husband.” And I patted myself on the back for being Mr. Tolerant in all things where my wife is concerned. (Cough!)

     I whiffed completely at the Sports table. I love a good baseball book, but there weren’t any today I didn’t already own. The People table (biographies, mostly) was also a bust, and it was beginning to look as if the records were going to be the last money I spent that didn’t target my stomach. But Philosophy, Plays, Classics, History and Government and Science yielded a Bertrand Russell’s Best, Camus’s Caligula and 3 Other Plays, Chekov’s The Major Plays, Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, Richard Feynman’s Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman, Norman Mailer’s The Presidential Papers (about the Kennedy administration), Situations by Jean Paul Sartre, and Walter Kauffman’s Existentialism from Dostoyevsky to Sartre. (You can always find plenty of books on existentialism at book fairs because existentialists are usually miserable, and end up committing suicide. Their families donate their books to book fairs. It’s a fact. You could look it up.)

     By this time, my arms were drooping, and my knuckles dragging on the floor as if I was a member of the Bush administration. So I decided to pay the piper, and take my treasures to the car, then double back for a farewell tour around the gym one more time.

     Next time around, following my traditional can of Pepsi, and hot dog with mustard and onion from the food vendor, I visited all the fiction tables looking for books by a favorite author of my wife. I found none, thus vindicating my wife’s choice not to attend the book fair with me. I also looked through the record boxes that had been inaccessible to me earlier. (By now, the sparse crowd was down to a trickle of die-hards.) Country yielded a couple of collections by Del Reeves whose old records are usually hard to find, and priced higher than a gallon of gas during a Middle East crisis. A section at the end of classical labeled ?????, had in it a blaxploitation soundtrack by Booker T. & The MG’s on Stax called Up Tight. Regular readers of this blog know of my affection for soul music and for blaxploitation films. (Clearly the book fair staff does not have anyone who knows anything about music because they also didn’t know where to file records by Jody Watley or Mike Oldfield (yes, it was Tubular Bells). These and many more familiar artists were in that section under the heading ?????.

     My last stop was the Comedy box where I found a Mort Sahl album On Relationships. I never knew Sahl to do anything but political humor, so I decided to pick it up. Of course, one could argue that all relationships are political in nature. In any case, Sahl was one of those comics whose humor was aimed at intellectuals. As there’s little, if any, of that kind of humor around today, I thought it might be a good listen.

     So the take turned out to be 9 books, and 13 records. Adding the three bucks for the Pepsi and hot dog, my wallet was all of 29 dollars lighter. You might be able to beat that, but I doubt it.

     I promised the wife I’d pick up some fast food and bring it home – before the government sucks all that tasty trans fat out of it. I got in line at the McDonald’s drive thru behind a Honda van sporting a pair of bumper stickers, the first of which read, “Jesus Is The Answer” while the second chimed in with “God Rules – Always Has, Always Will”. I had a lot of time to memorize more than the bumper stickers because this vanload of morons couldn’t decide what they wanted to eat. I came very close to getting out of my car and going up to them and telling them that if they didn’t make up their mind and place their order within the next 10 seconds, they were going to be seeing Jesus a lot sooner than they’d planned.

     So, the 2013 fair was a good one. Next year, though, we’ll just order a pizza when I get home.

©2013

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Publishers Weekly 2022 Graphic Novel Critics Poll

Winner: Ducks by Kate Beaton

2nd (tie): Keeping Two by Jordan Crane 2nd (tie): The Third Person by Emma Grove

3rd: A Career in Books: A Novel About Friends, Money, and the Occasional Duck Bun by Kate Gavino (Plume) 3rd: The Peanutbutter Sisters and Other American Stories by Rumi Hara (Drawn & Quarterly) 3rd: Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank by Eric Orner (Metropolitan) 3rd: Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith (Chronicle) 3rd: What Is Home, Mum? by Sabba Khan (Street Noise) 3rd: Who Will Make the Pancakes by Megan Kelso (Fantagraphics)

Two Votes:

Acting Class by Nick Drnaso (Drawn & Quarterly) Artist by Yeong-shin Ma, trans. from the Korean by Janet Hong (Drawn & Quarterly) Genevieve Castrée: Complete Works 1981 - 2016 by Genevieve Castrée, edited and trans. from the French by Phil Elverum with Aleshia Jensen (Drawn and Quarterly) The High Desert: Black. Punk. Nowhere. by James Spooner (Harper) Invisible Wounds by Jess Ruliffson (Fantagraphics) Joseph Smith and the Mormons by Noah Van Sciver (Abrams ComicArts) The Keeper: Soccer, Me, and the Law That Changed Women’s Lives by Kelcey Ervick (Avery) Men I Trust by Tommi Parrish Notes From a Sickbed by Tessa Brunton (Graphic Universe) Shuna's Journey by Hayao Miyazaki trans. from the Japanese by Alex Dudok de Wit (First Second) Talk to My Back by Yamada Murasaki trans. from the Japanese by Ryan Holmberg (Drawn and Quarterly) Time Zone J by Julie Doucet (Drawn & Quarterly)

Honorable Mentions:

Acid Nun by Corinne Halbert (Silver Sprocket) Across a Field of Starlight by Blue Delliquanti (Random House Graphic) After Lambana: Myth and Magic in Manila by Eliza Victoria and Mervin Malonzo (Tuttle) Alfred Hitchcock: Master of Suspense by Noël Simsolo and Dominique Hé, trans. from the French by Montana Kane (NBM) Alice Guy: First Lady of Film by Catel and Bocquet, trans. from the French by Edward Gauvin (SelfMadeHero) All Your Racial Problems Will Soon End: The Cartoons of Charles Johnson by Charles Johnson (New York Review Comics) Birds of Maine by Michael DeForge (Drawn & Quarterly) Black and White: Tough Love at the Office (#1) by Sal Jiang (Seven Seas) Catch These Hands! (#1) by Murata (Yen) Clementine by Tillie Walden (Image) The Con Artists by Luke Healy (Drawn & Quarterly) DC Pride 2022 by Various Writers/Artists (DC) Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story by Catherine Pioli (Graphic Mundi) Drip Drip by Paru Itagaki (Viz) Everything Is Ok by Debbie Tung (Andrews McMeel) Fantastic Four: Full Circle by Alex Ross (Abrams ComicArts) Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith by Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer (Abrams ComicArts) G.I.L.T. by Alisa Kwitney and Mauricet (Ahoy!) Galaxy: The Prettiest Star by Jadzia Axelrod and Jess Taylor (DC) Halina Filipina by Arnold Arre (Tuttle) How To Make a Monster by Casanova Frankenstein (Fantagraphics) The Human Target (#1) by Tom King and Greg Smallwood (DC) Hummingbird Heart by Travis Dandro (Drawn & Quarterly) I'm Still Alive by Roberto Saviano and Asaf Hanuka (Boom!) The Joy of Quitting by Keiler Roberts (Drawn & Quarterly) The Last Mechanical Monster by Brian Fies (Abrams ComicArts) The Liminal Zone by Junji Ito, trans. from the Japanese by Jocelyne Allen (Viz) Look Again by Elizabeth Trembley (Street Noise) Look Back by Tatsuki Fujimoto (Viz) Love and Rockets: The First Fifty by Gilbert Hernandez and Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics) Monotone Blue by Nagabe (Seven Seas) Movements and Moments edited by Sonja Eismann, Ingo Schöningh, and Maya (Drawn & Quarterly) Mr. Colostomy by Matthew Thurber (Drawn & Quarterly) My Perfect Life by Lynda Barry (Drawn & Quarterly) My Wandering Warrior Existence by Nagata Kabi, trans. from the Japanese by Jocelyne Allen (Seven Seas) Nowhere Girl by Magali Le Huche, trans. from the French by Jesse Aufiery (Nobrow) Number One is Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions by Steve Martin and Harry Bliss (Celadon) One Beautiful Spring Day by Jim Woodring Our Little Secret by Emily Carrington (Drawn & Quarterly) The Paradox of Getting Better by Raven Lyn Clemons (Silver Sprocket) The Philosopher, the Dog and the Wedding: The Story of the Infamous Female Philosopher Hipparchia by Barbara Stok, trans. from the Dutch by Michele Hutchison (SelfMadeHero) Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator by Sofia Warren Rave by Jessica Campbell (Drawn & Quarterly) Real Hero Shit by Kendra Wells (Iron Circus) Salamandre by I.N.J. Culbard (Dark Horse) Schappi by Anna Haifisch (Fantagraphics) The Six Sidekicks of Trigger Keaton by Kyle Starks and Chris Schweizer (Image) Slash Them All by Antoine Maillard, trans. from the French by Jenna Allen (Fantagraphics) So Much for Love: How I Survived a Toxic Relationship by Sophie Lambda trans. from the French by Montana Kane (First Second) Something is Killing the Children (#4) by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera (Boom!) Space Story by Fiona Ostby (West Margin) Squire by Nadia Shammas and Sara Alfageeh (HarperCollins) Thieves by Lucie Bryon (Nobrow) Ultrasound by Conor Stechschulte (Fantagraphics) Upside Dawn by Jason (Fantagraphics) Why the People: The Case for Democracy by Beka Feathers and Ally Shwed (First Second) Yellow Cab by Benoît Cohen and Christophe Chabouté, trans. from the French by Edward Gauvin (IDW)

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New York, New York - Lawrence ft. Special Guests (LIVE COVER 11.5.22)

Live cover collaboration by @ Lawrence of @ Frank Sinatra's “New York, New York” featuring special guests Eric Freeman, @Jon Lampley, @Augie Bello, @Michael Thurber, Nêgah Santos, Joe Saylor (The Jazz Cowboy), @Louis Cato, @Tiny Habits, Paul Shaffer, @ Darren Criss, J. Quinton Johnson, @RichieCannata, Jordan's dad Michael Cohen (sax), and all fam/crew for the finale performance of Staycation - Night 3 - New York, New York at Brooklyn Steel on November 5th 2022. Filmed with the DJI Pocket 2

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Carnegie Hall Citywide: Tessa Lark and Michael Thurber FREE on July 14 at Bryant Park Picnic Performances

Tessa Lark and Michael Thurber (Photo Credit Charles Yang) Bryant Park Picnic Performances presented by Bank of America season of free, live performances continues with violinist-fiddler Tessa Lark and composer-bassist Michael Thurber on Friday, July 14. The pair will also be joined by special guest Louis Cato, guitarist/vocalist and bandleader for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. This is the…

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FLESH FOR THE INFERNO (2015) Reviews of demonic nun horror

FLESH FOR THE INFERNO (2015) Reviews of demonic nun horror

‘You’ll burn for this’

Flesh for the Inferno is a 2015 American horror film about teenagers being stalked and killed by demonic nuns in a disused Catholic school.

Directed and edited by Richard Griffin (Seven Dorms of Death; The Sins of Dracula; Frankenstein’s Hungry Dead; Murder University; The Disco Exorcist; et al) from a screenplay written by Michael Varrati (Tales of Poe; The Sins of Dracula

[jersonordavid]

365 Films Part 8: 185/365

Rites of Vengeance

[ruleof3bobby]

RED NOTICE (2021) Grade: C-

Nothing special at all. Very predictable with the jokes and flow of the sequences. Needed to write the FBI agent chasing them stronger. She was an afterthought. 

[thebetterbear]

Post Modern Art

Escaping Confines of Museum

City, Michael Heizer. Located in Garden Valley, a desert valley in rural Lincoln County in the U.S. state of Nevada. land art sculpture. 1970-2022

Collapsing Boundaries Between High and Low

Curious Kitten watercolor painting is a painting by Svetlana Novikova which was uploaded on February 23rd, 2013.

Rejecting Originality

Andy Warhol 1928–1987. Silkscreen ink and acrylic paint on 2 canvases. 1982

Jouissance

Fred Tomaselli, 2014, 60″ x 84″, photo-collage, leaves, acrylic and resin on wood panel, © 2014, courtesy of James Cohan Gallery and the artist

Working Collaboratively

Meow Wolf. Sept. 13, 2021.

Adam Christopher

Andi Todaro

Ashley Frazier, Michael Sperandeo

Brandan Styles "Bzurk”, Ellie Rusinova

Brian Corrigan

Cal Duran, David Ocelotl Garcia

Cami Galofre

Chris Bagley

Christopher Owen Nelson

Christopher Short

Collin Parson

Corrina Espinosa

Dan Taro

David Farquharson

Dice 51

Douglas A. Schenck “DAS”

Dylan Gebbia-Richards

Frankie Toan

Ian McKenna

Jaime Molina, Pedro Barrios

Jennifer Pettus

Jess Webb

Jodi Stuart, Libby Barbee

Joseph Lamar

Joshua Goss

JUHB.

Justin Camilli

Justin Gitlin aka Cacheflowe

Kalyn Heffernan, Gregg Ziemba

Katy Zimmerman, Erika Wurth

Kia Neill

Kristin Stransky

Laaiaim Mayer

Lauri Lynnxe Murphy

LORDSCIENCE UNIVERSAL

Lumonics

Marjorie Lair, Kyle Vincent Singer

Maya Linke

Myah Sarles

Nicole Banowetz

Nolan Tredway

Ramón Bonilla

Reed Fox, Ben Weirich

Sabin Aell, Randy Rushton

Scott Hildebrandt

Sean Peuquet

Shayna Cohn

Sigrid Sarda

Sofie Birkin

Thomas Scharfenberg

Viviane Le Courtois

Wanderweird

Wynn Earl Buzzell Jr.

Andrew Novick, Pamela Webb, Robert Ayala

bearwarp

Chad Colby, Lexis Loeb, Hayley Kirkman

Charles Kern, Ty Holter, Ben Jackson, Rachel Bilys, Brett Sasine

Demiurge LLC: Joe Riche and Wynn Buzzell

Eriko Tsogo, Jennifer Tsogo, Tsogo Mijid, Batochir Batkhishig

F. Ria Khan, Armon Naein, Blake Gambel, Calvin Logan, Charles Candon, Harrison Bolin, Luke Collier, Maria Deslis, Sky Johnson, Sofia Rubio-Topete

Ladies Fancywork Society

Merhia Wiese, Annabelle Wiese, Maggie Wiese, Eunseo Zoey Kim, Dan Griner

Mike Lustig, Mitch Hoffman, Tim Omspach, Nathan Koral, Evan Beloni, Ryan Elmendorf, Scott Wilson, Charlis Robbins

Molina Speaks, Stevon Lucero, DJ Icewater, Felix "Fast4ward" Ayodele, Diles, Emily Swank

Oren Lomena, Alaine "Skeena" Rodriguez, Alius Hu

Peniel Apantenco, Kim Shively, Colin Richard Ferguson Ward,  (In memoriam)

Sam Caudill, Sean Louis Rove, Juancristobal Hernández

Secret Love Collective: Katy Batsel, Lares Feliciano, Colby Graham, Piper Rose, Frankie Toan, Katy Zimmerman, Lauren Zwicky, Genevieve Waller

The Church of Many: Andrea Thurber, Elsa Carenbauer, Anna Goss, Maddi Waneka and Emily Merlin

Waffle Cone Club: Kyle Vincent Singer, Scott Kreider, Marjorie Lair

Everything is Terrible!

Kevin Bourland

Michael Lujan

Moment Factory

Nina Mastrangelo

Scott Geary, Wayne Geary, Gary Ashkin

Appropriating

Paneel "Rehearsal for an Icon 2001 - Mona Lisa" von Olbinski, Grafikdruck. Digital Print

Hybridizing

Untitled (Studio)2014

Kerry James Marshall

Simulating

Andy Warhol (American, 1928–1987) 1962. Synthetic polymer paint on thirty-two canvases, Each canvas 20 x 16" (50.8 x 40.6 cm). Overall installation with 3" between each panel is 97" high x 163" wide

Mixing Media

Mama, Mummy and Mamma (Predecessors #2)

Njideka Akunyili Crosby. 2014

Layering

Zephyrus Rising, 2022. Acrylic on Acrylic. 32 × 16 × 22 in Duncan McDaniel

Mixing Codes

Recontextualizing

 Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, 1503-6; On Winnie: Denis Colomb stoles (worn as a headdress, top and sleeves) 

Confronting the Gaze

Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad David Ayer 2016 (left), Harley Quinn in Birds of Prey Cathy Yann 2021 (right)

Facing Abject

Jane Alexander, Butcher Boys, 1985/86, mixed media (Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, photo: Goggins World, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Constructing Identities

Creating Metaphors

Martin Puryear. Ladder for Booker T. Washington, detail, 1996. Installation view at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas. 2003

Using Narratives

Damien Hirst The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 2013 Lentikulardruck80 x 120 cm

Irony, Parody, Parody Dissonance

A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby (2014). Kara Walker Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images

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My Week in Reviews: November 21, 2021

King Richard (Reinaldo Marcus Green, 2021)

Wow. This was a tricky film, with a tricky lead role. Becoming Richard Williams very easily could’ve fallen into an SNL parody impersonation, but Will Smith never lets it. Smith instead brings to life Williams’ stubborn resolve and simple optimism with a lived-in sense of ingrained confidence. Because of this performance, a supporting cast that never allow it to drown them out, and Green’s balanced and well-paced direction, King Richard never falls victim to any of the serious biopic issues despite otherwise being a fairly straight-forward biopic. - 8.5/10

Belfast (Kenneth Branagh, 2021)

Beautiful. A powerful coming-of-age story about change and what home and family truly mean. Ciarán Hinds and Caitriona Balfe are magnificent, Judi Dench steals many a moment with brilliant delivery, and newcomer Jude Hill shines, giving us the rare child performance that goes beyond precociousness and cute line delivery. Branagh’s direction is his best since 1996′s Hamlet, mixing a sense of nostalgia with the warped point-of-view of childhood and the harsh acceptance of reality, all while beautifully utilizing the transformative production design. - 9/10

Red Notice (Rawson Marshall Thurber, 2021)

Embarrassingly awful. I don’t know what’s worse... the fact that our three leads have a deficit of chemistry, making just about every supposed-to-be-funny exchange downright cringe-worthy, or the fact that each set-piece in this nearly $200-million ‘action-comedy’ feels like it was filmed on a soundstage. Every single set feels like a set; from the museum to the prison to the bunker to the beach, everywhere we find these characters delivering their mind-numbingly stupid dialogue in this mind-numbingly stupid movie feels fake. And worse, cheap. Beyond the lack of chemistry, the performances are just straight-up bad. Dwayne Johnson is never once believable as an FBI profiler, and even less believable as what he’s eventually revealed to actually be. Ryan Reynolds delivers all of his lines like he’s making fun of Ryan Reynolds. And Gal Gadot is so blatantly only there to look good. I can’t really hold any of this against them (except maybe Johnson, who was a major player behind the scenes, as well), as the screenplay plays out like it was written by a dorky 13-year-old with the IQ of a banana. Thurber is like Michael Bay if Michael Bay didn’t have a single fucking clue was he was doing. This was an exceedingly excruciating two-hours that I’ll never get back. - 1/10

tick, tick... Boom! (Lin-Manuel Miranda, 2021)

I’m not a fan of Jonathan Larson. Granted, the only production of RENT that I’ve seen is the film and that’s probably not the best example of his most lauded work (y’know, since it’s awful). And I’m not a fan of Lin-Manuel Miranda. Hamilton is absurdly overrated and he’s insufferable in every other role I’ve seen him in, yet. But despite all that, I was drawn to this film from the get-go. I blame that on the underrated Andrew Garfield (and probably the bit of theatre-geek in me), who’s about as close to a revelation, here, as I could expect in a musical chock-full of mostly forgettable songs (though there are two or three that are amazing) and direction that’s too ‘theatrical’, and distracts more than anything else. The structure of it all, however, is refreshing. Plus, Miranda clearly loves the subject and, despite some of his other issues behind the camera, brings this story to life with a contagious energy and an over-flowing abundance of heart. - 7.5/10

Respect (Liesl Tommy, 2021)

The formulaic biopic storytelling quickly becomes tiring and - worse than that - annoying, but Jennifer Hudson’s performance and the scenes that find her on stage or (better yet!) in the studio are enough to save this one from itself. - 6/10

CODA (Siân Heder, 2021)

A crowd-pleasing indie drama?!? With a star-making lead performance?!? And a shit-ton of heart?!? Yes, please. - 7/10

Passing (Rebecca Hall, 2021)

Interesting, but Hall’s direction is sluggish, and it drains anything the two fantastic leads are delivering. That ending should’ve been a nuclear bomb. Instead, it was a firecracker. - 4/10

Finch (Miguel Sapochnik, 2021)

A man, his dog, and their robot. Tom Hanks is unsurprisingly great. Sapochnik does great work, never resorting to unnecessary conflict or overly-edited action sequences to drive home the danger of the world created, here. But it all really comes down to that moment. Is there an Oscar for dogs, yet? Damn. - 7/10

The Protégé (Martin Campbell, 2021)

An enjoyable revenge action movie. Maggie Q is great and Samuel L. Jackson is as solid as always, but Michael Keaton steals every scene he’s in. Campbell’s action sequences are as badass and assured as we’ve come to expect from the man behind both Casino Royale & GoldenEye. However, the final act doesn’t go nearly as hard as it should have. - 6/10

Enjoy!

-Timothy Patrick Boyer.