#monk in nyc

[chthonicthemeter]

Sorry to the hostel neighbors I forgot we don't have ceilings and I now realize that muttering aloud to myself and reading children of dune in my grandmother's accent was somewhat freak behavior.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Thelonious Monk playing ping-pong, 1959.

"I used to play him in ping-pong. He was like a cat around the table. I never won a game, but it was a joy to play him." —Herb Snitzer

Photo: Herb Snitzer via Table Tennis Daily

[edhoppers]

DON SCHLITTEN (B. 1932) Monk and Coltrane, September 8, 1957

[jknerd]

Oliver Twist in NYC AU: Edward/Monks

Full Name: Edward “Monks” Leeford

Age: 27

Gender: Male

Other names: Monks, Eddie, Young Leeford

Occupations: Business tycoon, crime lord

Residence: Leeford Mansion (formerly)

Family: Mr. Leeford (father; estranged), Jill Leeford (mother), Agnes Fleming (stepmother; deceased), Oliver (half-brother; estranged) Relationships: Bill Sykes (business partner), Roscoe & DeSoto (acquaintances), Dodger (enemy)

Likes: Wealth, power, earning money by child-trafficking/child labor, manipulating/bribing politicians

Dislikes: Oliver, Jenny, disobedience, Fagin and the gang, Foxworth family, his plan failing, meddlesome press

Edward “Monks” Leeford was an unofficial heir to Leeford fortune, son of Mr. Leeford and his first wife Jill, and older half-brother of Oliver. Born between Mr. Leeford and his wife Jill, he was a firstborn and expected be an heir. However, when he was a child, his parents divorced. Resentful of the divorce and later her ex-husband in love with a woman named Agnes, Edward’s mother would blame them for their misery, thus causing Edward to believe that way and losing sense of feeling empathy. In young adult age, he learned of Agnes having his father’s child and that Mr. Leeford plans to appoint the baby as his heir instead of him. When Agnes was giving birth in Leeford Mansion alone, he snuck in and saw Agnes dying. Instead of calling for help, he neglected her death and stole her baby Oliver before putting him in the underground orphanage he has been stock investing. Edward made sure there were no evidences that Oliver was related to their father. With forged evidences, he told his father Agnes and the baby died. However, Winston, who was Leeford’s butler back then, learns that the baby was not dead and believed Foxworth Family could help finding the baby boy. For years, Edward had public image as “perfectionist” Business tycoon, but a wealthy investor of crime organizations.

At one point, he noticed one child’s record was missing in underground orphanage, discovering it belonged to Oliver. However, he have predicted that the boy would end up either be homeless or recruited into petty criminals’ gang as he recalled in his father’s will that if Oliver commits a crime, he will be disinherited and all inheritance would go to Edward. However, months went by, he recognized Oliver in a party at Foxworth residence, discovering that Foxworth Family has adopted him. Frustrated, Edward believed if this news reached to his father, the old man would desperately get Oliver back. When Oliver goes to school with Jenny, Edward bribed the kids who dislike Oliver manipulated them to lock Oliver in an abandoned storage beating him up and left him to die as they light the place in fire. But, Oliver was saved by Jenny, Minerva and other friends. From time to time before Oliver escaped the orphanage, he has been drugging his father with prescription that could cause Alzheimer to get him defenseless before lighting a fire in Leeford’s vacation house where Mr. Leeford was. When leaving, he didn’t realized Fagin was around to return the wallet to Mr. Leeford, discovering the house in fire and rescued the old man. 

Days later, at the time Oliver was brought back to Fagin’s barge, Fagin and Dodger came to Sykes’ warehouse. Witnessing Fagin’s attempt to get extended time to get money he owed and Dodger fighting against Roscoe and DeSoto, Edward told Sykes to have their account close as he would pay 1/3 of debt in behalf of Fagin with better idea; kidnap Jenny and Oliver for ransom from Foxworth Mansion. Sykes agreed with the plan, but was disturbed when Edward told him to kill Oliver. At the first day Oliver was lured to the warehouse, he met Edward for the first time in life and learned that they are half-brothers, much to shock of Jenny, Sykes Roscoe and DeSoto. However, Edward said he never sees Oliver as a family, but an eyesore as he angrily beaten the poor boy. Feeling guilt, Roscoe attempted to stop him but was held back by DeSoto. Seeing the slight disloyalty, Edward threatened Roscoe by mentioning his wife and daughter’s name, adding with how they could be “worth a billion”, implying he has no qualm in kidnapping the woman and child before selling them off in human-trafficking, igniting Roscoe and DeSoto’s anger yet couldn’t make any resistance. Soon, Edward left to visit Foxworth Residence where he told the family he will return Jenny and Oliver if they agree to give up their business to him. Later, as he watched the Foxworth’s about to sign the contract, it was interrupted by Fagin and the gang, visibly surprised to see Jenny and Oliver alive. When the gang exposed him in front of the family and the press, Edward made last attempt to kill Oliver but was stopped by his father who has been alive and healed. It was also revealed that he has made attempt in fabricating the will that benefits him and plan to blow up the underground orphanage where the children were still living there. The location, papers and other informations of underground orphanage was submitted to police by Edward’s mother, resulting in Edward betrayed by his mother. Even when arrested, Edward continues to throw hateful curses at Oliver.

In the trial, he still shows no remorse as he explained his reason behind the crimes; he claimed that he was giving the world a favor by putting unwanted orphans into good use before they die as it is his way of social service, adding people should be grateful of this “greater good”. He added why there is a “natural order” in crime such as murder; the reason murderers kill the senior citizens, women, teenagers, children, the “gays” are because these victims were “socially weak and useless”. For that, Edward was sentenced 3,000 years with no parole in Rikers Island, the worst prison in New York City. Edward yells people are foolish to believe in “justice” as it does not apply in a nation of capitalism, darwinism and elitism. However, Dodger who was present in the trial said he himself has already confessed his twisted justice and he would spend his entire lifetime and afterlife thinking over what are the wrongs he committed, even if he won’t understand. Edward was taken away to Rikers island, where he would be what he despised to become: the socially weak and useless creature where he would be spending his life becoming all inmates’ sandbag, slave, and their “salty-milk toilet”. 

[thecoparoom]

Woah. That's a pretty kickass NYE plan.

The Village Voice - Dec 21, 1961

[pittipedia]

'Central Park Zoo, New York City' by Garry Winogrand (1967)

[notorioustrq]

*meaty slap bass riff*

[barbeemonk]

EmberDecember

Ember Choral Arts December 2, 2022: Immaculate Conception Church, Montclair, NJ December 4, 2022: Saint John the Divine Cathedral, New York, NY https://www.emberarts.org/current-season

[freshthoughts2020]

(THE CORNER® | OPEN MANUAL AUDIO VISUAL)

[cutebrands]

#mural #monks #streetart #queens #nyc #art #bigcat https://www.instagram.com/p/CgCNAXzO13T/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[jellyjays]

kung lao in the spider-monk au

none of this super awesome epic story will make sense without PART 1 !!! explains how liu kang became spiderman

all story below the readmore VVV

when liu leaves for america, lao is hurt. he knows, logically, that raiden is the one to blame, but liu didn't even fight to stay or take lao with him.

and then deadpool comes along.

the vigilante slash mercenary is just stopping by, purely coincidence. decided he wanted to see the place. kung lao, of course, was naturally curious, and approched to say hello. to his surprise, deadpool is fluent in mandarin, and they strike up a lengthy conversation about their different lives. at one point, deadpool mentions "his spider-monk back home". kung lao naturally asks about it.

deadpool pulls out his phone, and pulls up a selfie of him and spidey- spidey's mask is half- up his face, and he's in the middle of trying to eat a taquito. deadpool is going on about the selfie, but.. kung lao is focused on the face. the lips of this 'spidey'. they have the exact two matching scars that liu's lips have, from when they were 8 and had the brilliant idea to get into body modification. it's the same mouth kung lao has seen scarfing down soup after training that reaches for a bit of taquito in the picture.

deadpool realises after a few seconds of silence that kung lao is in shock. and then that kung lao is crying. oh, shit.

kung lao spills immediately. he's ranting. he's raving.

HOW could liu do this?? first, leave without a hint of remorse to america of all places, second, start taking up dangerous hobbies, and third, NEVER FUCKING TELL HIM????? what was he thinking!? the idiot will get himself killed doing stupid shit without kung lao there.

deadpool offers the condolence that "he's definitely guilty about it, and i know he misses you. assuming, here, that you're the 'other half' he's always waxing poetic about."

and then, because he's an agent of chaos, deadpool offers payback: a secret to keep from liu. that way they're even. deadpool can offer training. (aka, wade really likes this kid and wants an excuse to hang about)

lao accepts immediately.

it's the next month that sees good news finally arrive-- in the best decision he's made since the 18th century, raiden is sending kung lao overseas to be with liu kang.

kung lao moves in on liu's last day of school.

raiden never told liu that lao was coming. liu kang comes home to find lao standing in the flat, like an idiot, staring at the doorway.

hugs. embraces.

then kung lao gives liu the tongue-lashing of the century. liu, fully aware at this point he's been a dick, takes it. then they hug again.

they spend the entire summer break together causing chaos in NYC, finally back together again, the dynamic duo.

and then liu discovers kung lao's secret-

not only has kung lao been training with deadpool, he's started his own stint as a vigilante.

needless to say, the fight that ensues is a whirlwind of huge, horrible emotions, name-calling, blame-throwing, and hurtful words.

they've made up by the end of the night anyway, because they both get miserably sad when they're mad at each other. unfortunately, their solution to the newfound power imbalance they've correctly identified as the unfair factor is possibly the dumbest plan any teenage vigilante has EVER thought of.

they're going to infiltrate oscorp, steal one of those fancy spiders that bit liu, have it bite lao so he has powers too, and then be on their merry way.

and they do it. and it fucking works. by some miracle, it works. peter and ned, now in on the secret, are their guys in the chair. mj is their strategist. they infiltrate, they steal, they escape, and oscorp are none the wiser. and even more miraculous, the spider doesn't kill kung lao.

kung lao develops powers, though they're slightly different from liu's-- he can't stick to things, and he isn't quite as strong. however, his regeneration is more comparable to deadpool's than to liu's, and he's got bones of steel-- he's practically impossible to hurt now. fitting.

and so he takes his RIGHTFUL place at liu's side as an equal vigilante, and after they're out of their month-long grounding for pulling that stunt without telling matt anything, they're a veritable vigilante family. matt is trying to obtain legal guardianship over them, and they're fine with that.

(lao, as a vigilante, calls himself styx. he's visually not a successor to deadpool, but when you see him on the field, deadpool's humor and violent tendencies have very much rubbed off on him.)

[thoughtfulchaos773]

When will I be done posting? NEVER! Haha, I told everyone I'm aiming to go to season 3 premiere.

Okay, what's the ultimate twinflame energy between Sydney and Carmy? The shoulder tattoos! I've written a few theories on these tattoos, but I have another one, particularly for season 3.

We need to see the orgin episode of the creation of the shoulder tattoo. Because revealing sydney's tattoo episode 9 and the yet to be revealed carmy's? Oh, there's something here that needs to be explored!

This could give so much opportunity for flashback episodes so we can see how they belong together.

Here's my ultimate wish for a sydcarmy episode. Also, a spoiler on filming locations:

Since some of the filming locations are in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Thailand, there's going to be a flashback episode of Carmy traveling throughout those places, experiencing his own food tour and he gets the tattoo in Thailand. Remember, the tattoo 'certain of nothing' is dedicated to Bourdain, a zen philosphy Bourdain embrace, and who is Carmy's big inspiration. Anthony also had a home in thailand and in parts unknown. He recommended the buddhist practice of giving merits to the monks.

There has to be some philosophy here, this word 'Submit' reminds me of what they say in al-anon. That one must submit to a higher power as part of the healing. He could have possibly already submitted to a higher power before Al anon in the past and somehow reverted back to anxiousness once he took the job in New york, and it's gotten worse since Mikey's death.

Ultimately, my theory is that the travel East is a flashback for Carmy.

My theory with Sydney's tattoo:

She got it during her food tour in New York 2 years ago. There could be a flashback episode of Sydney touring New York and trying Carmy's dish. Unfortunately, there was a situation that led her to get the 3 sword tattoos in NYC. The tattoo serves as a reminder of grief and loss. She also embraces them as a part of life. In a way, she submits to it.

How cool would it be to see a flashback episode around 2-3 years ago where the two of them get shoulder tattoos relating to their own experience in life. Both separate experiences, but like twinflames- they're united through their souls.

[aleprouswitch]

Meredith Monk in her NYC apartment bedroom, 2018.

[nichecomicstournament]

propaganda under the cut

Samuel Chung: sammyyyyy

sam chung is an 'illegal' chinese immigrant living in china town, nyc, who was brought to the us as a younger child by his (later) neglectful and abusive mother. he has a younger sister, hannah, who is the only us citizen in the family and therefore is the only one able to hold a secure job. he works odd jobs until he uses old knowledge from his childhood in china to become a vigilante named blindspot. he's horrible at it at first until he meets daredevil, the hero he took inspiration from in the first place. the two work together while his mother grows more involved in a cult who had stolen power from an ancient cult with ancient magic. he works his way out of it, being the icon that he is and confronts his mother. he later loses his eyesight trying to protect civilians from his soon-to-be nemesis, muse, who plucks his eyes out when daredevil comes to save him. his character is cool as fuck in the sense that daredevil comics as a whole does not steer away from political topics and the significance of sam as an 'illegal' immigrant and a vigilante trying to make chinatown better in a comic which focuses on a disabled (blind) man who is both a lawyer and vigilante who swears to make his town better both through the law and outside of it is important. to me. if you don't vote for him you're shunning a very specific kind of representation both when it comes to race, immigrant culture and survivors of abusive parents.

Karl Valley: hes an assassin hes a monk his brother was the edgy 90s batman hes probably gay. what more do you want

[rodpower78]

John Coltrane, Shadow Wilson, Thelonious Monk and Ahmed Abdul-Malik at the Five Spot Café, NYC 1957

[taylorswiftstyle]

Out and about | New York City, NY | June 26, 2023

Patou 'Le Petit Patou Bag' - $795.00

I take joy, in equal measure, seeing Taylor rely on tried and true brand favourites as much as I do when she branches out to wear (or carry) new-to-her brands like this one by #Patou.

In terms of colour, I actually like the midtone balance this stone grey bag casts on the rest of her ‘fit (which is already receiving sandwich style coordination from her black baseball cap and black oxfords). Introducing a neutral to bridge the gap between her crisp white button down and other black accessories feels like a good balancing point.

Worn with: Catbird NYC necklace, The Row shirt, Free People skort, Malone Souliers oxfords

Get the look: Monk & Anna, $91.99

Photo by Gotham ℅ Getty