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enron-intern-1998 · 5 years ago

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Every US Pres. and some of their crimes:

TW(sexual assault): #22

George Washington: power broker of the slavers. Owned hundreds of human beings over whom he held & exercised absolute power in life and death.

Adams: Made it illegal to criticize the government

Jefferson: owned & used people over whom he held & exercised absolute power in life and death.

Madison: owned other people over whom he held & exercised absolute power in life and death.

Monroe: owned people over whom he held & exercised absolute power in life and death.

Adams jr : slanderized Rachel Jackson with a nationwide smear campaign to the point that her mental & physical health became so deteriorated that she died.

Jackson: abolished the central bank and impoverished most Americans because of a power trip against Nicholas Biddle. Invaded the Floridian peninsula and committed genocidal terror campaigns against those who lived there.

Van Buren: oversaw the trail of tears

William Henry Harrison: built the political capital to become President as a savage murderer in the military

John Tyler: slaver, made the slavery caste system somehow even more intractable by coveting private ownership of land with a supposed mandate from a heavenly power.

James K. Polk: promised in his election campaign to murder as many people past the Rio Grande as it took to make it so human beings could be enslaved there, and followed through

Zachary Taylor: Polk’s butcher of humanity

Millard Fillmore: Sent commodore Perry across the Pacific Ocean, triggering a series of Imperialist wars which led to the second Great War.

Franklin Pierce: excused because he saw his son decapitated in a train accident on their way to his inauguration and was mentally shattered by the experience.

James Buchanen: actively moved weapons and military personnel/equipment to regions which would likely be seized by insurrection were a civil war to break out, in a time where it was likely that a civil war would break out. Generally incompetent.

Abraham Lincoln: suspended the rule of law and emancipated slaves while still buying into the concept of racial hierarchy, essentially repeating the mistakes the founding fathers made. Left a loophole allowing prisoners to be enslaved.

Andrew Johnson: during a speaking tour, one of his stops had grandstands built so poorly that they collapsed, causing death & injury. Refused to hold confederate criminals accountable and endorsed horrific violence

Grant: made government = naked corruption. Whiskey ring, postal ring, totally unable to manage a government or judge the character of people that were nice to him.

Hayes - abandoned hundreds of millions of people across generations to the horror of domination by a crushing racial hierarchy which continues to the present day, for the purpose of political expedience to be president for four insignificant years.

Garfield - excused for gruesome death and for doing his part in taking down corruption in DC on the way out.

Chet Arthur - signed the Chinese Exclusion Act into law.

Grover: raped a woman and threw her in a sanitarium against her will when she went public with her allegations during the election

Benjamin Harrison: the Wounded Knee massacre

Cleveland: refused to use the government to help people who were dying in the streets during an economic collapse and used Pinkertons to murder workers striking for bearable working conditions

McKinley: Genocide in the Phillipines

Roosevelt: Genocide in the Phillipines

Taft: announced in his inaugural address that he would use arbitrary judgments based on skin pigment as the criteria for how the civil service will be staffed

Wilson: screened the film which inspired the second iteration of the Ku Klux Klan, ‘Birth of a Nation’ at the White House.

(No shade to Edith Wilson)

Harding: a true modern ignoramous appointed criminals to his cabinet, cheated on his spouse repeatedly and unrepentantly

Coolidge: never saw an opportunity for cultural appropriation that he didn’t seize

Hoover: sent the military to attack a peaceful protest of world war 1 veterans seeking early payment of combat bonuses.

FDR: Japanese internment.

Truman: got the ball rolling on CIA skullduggery

Eisenhower: Denied history the opportunity to see Nikita Khrushchev in Disneyland. Overthrowing other government organizations caused people to die. passed the buck on the military industrial complex.

Kennedy: Ending all human life instantaneously and simultaneously because of a war becomes possible. Kennedy flirts with the opportunity on multiple occasions.

LBJ: staged a false flag attack to justify escalating a simmering conflict into a frenzy of human butchery

Nixon: sabotaging efforts to end the frenzy of human butchery so they could take credit for stopping it by adding to it a systematic airborne incineration campaign

Ford: Gave Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney their big breaks in politics.

Carter: withdrew some of the soldiers protecting people on the Korean Peninsula as part of political wrangling with Congress, leading to civilians dying violently.

Reagan: didn’t say the word “AIDS” for two years

Bush: covered up his own crimes with the help of his Attorney General, William Barr

Clinton: mass incarceration

Bush jr: war on terror

Obama: drones, deportation & disillusionment

Trump: yanking every loose thread to destabilize the society he ostensibly leads and instigating almost daily

Biden: coming soon????????????????

#politics #presidents #all the presidents #17th century #18th century #19th century #20th century #21st century #america #washington #adams #fuck I don’t want to write all these #so I won’t!#nobody can stop me!#i am invincible

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videokilledmystereo · 5 years ago

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Three 300 Word Iterations

For this round I copied my text for two of my pieces from a Reddit thread that asked the question “Use as many words as you need and don’t feel stupid... How does music make you feel?” I really liked how the creator frames the question and how varied the responses were. Some went into great detail while others expressed how music made them feel nothing at all. I don’t think I was able to express the emotions of the writers deeply through my designs however. I really don’t like my first iteration because the ideas are not very legible in a non pleasing way. I think if I were to redo the piece with the head I’d use a different thought or maybe not use that design of head at all. My second piece I like a little better because of the chaos in it. My third piece is a pictures of Ronald Reagan that I posterized and then added the words of Larry Kramer from when he wrote an open letter to Andrew Fauci during the AIDS/HIV epidemic. Even though the letter is not addressed to Reagan, he still was the president of the US at the time and was letting thousands of citizens die from a crippling disease without a sense of urgency. This is prevelant in the 80s, which is why I thought it would be fitting for the overall theme I’ve been adhering to so far. I like this piece the best and is one I would love a lot of critique on so I could go back and make it better for another iteration.

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leftpress · 8 years ago

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The Bizarre Far-Right Billionaire Behind Trump's Presidency

When all seemed to be falling apart for Trump this summer, one shadowy billionaire offered up his own massive political infrastructure, which included Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway, and saved Trump’s campaign from demise

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July, 2016 and a very disorganized Trump campaign is headed into an equally chaotic Republican National Convention. The latest fundraising numbers for June are dismal, and according to CNBC, Trump is second guessing his decision to make Mike Pence his running mate, making last minute phone calls to assess the pick just days before the event. Past GOP candidates John McCain and Mitt Romney have decided to skip the convention. So have both former Bush presidents. One day before the convention and there’s still no official list of speakers. Nevertheless, July 18th roles around and the GOP has to move forward with the show.

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GOP Convention “Keep on singing […] USA, USA” The convention is considered a disaster. It exposes a party in disarray. Delegations from Iowa and Colorado stage a walkout over a critical rules vote. Delegates chanting, Denver 7 Broadcast “Roll call vote, roll call vote […] Right there in the top right you can actually see Kendal Unruh in blue. She’s one of the leaders of the never Trump or dump Trump movement, trying to get the rules changed at the start of the convention to let delegates vote their conscience.” Subsequent polls show Trump trailing Clinton in need-to-win swing states. Coupled with a string of bad press stories, including Trump’s fight with the family of a fallen Iraq vet, the Trump campaign seems to have lost its momentum. Joe Scarborough, MSNBC “Donald Trump is just not doing what is required to win.” In a surprise move, the Trump campaign shakes up it’s leadership at the eleventh hour, bringing on far-right editor in chief of Breitbart News Steve Bannon along with former Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway. Days later, David Bossie, head of the corporate advocacy group Citizens United, is brought on as deputy manager of the campaign. The campaign also hires the data mining firm Cambridge Anayltica tasked with probing the American voters mind. At a glance, these last-minute developments look desperate and disjointed. Dana Perino, FOX “I don’t know what they’re doing. I wish I could tell you.” But a closer look reveals something different. It reveals a hidden connection between these players, a thread between this seemingly random cast of actors. Enter billionaire hedge fund manager Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah. They’ve been eyeing Trump ever since their first choice, Ted Cruz, dropped out of the primaries back in May. SOT — Ted Cruz “We are suspending our campaign.” Robert Mercer is part of a new class of billionaires, along with the Koch brothers for example, who’ve used the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, which allows for unlimited amounts of cash contributions in US elections, to set up their own powerful political infrastructures that today they rival that of the two major parties. The fuel behind Mercer’s influence, along with most of the top activist billionaires in America, is the absurd sums of money he accrues at the investment company he runs, Renaissance Technologies, based on Long Island, New York. Its famed Medallion fund is one of the most successful hedge funds in investing history, averaging 72 percent returns before fees over more than 20 years, a statistic that baffles analysts, and outranks the profitability of other competing funds, like the ones George Soros and Warren Buffet run. In 2015, Mercer had single-handedly catapulted Cruz to the front of the Republican field, throwing more than $13 million into a super PAC he created for the now failed candidate. But with the Trump campaign faltering and struggling for support, there’s a second chance for the Mercers to make a big bet. The Trump campaign is well aware of this. In fact, sources within Mercer’s super PAC would later tell Bloomberg news that moments after Cruz drops out of the race, Ivanka Trump and her wealthy developer husband, Jared Kushner, approach the Mercers, asking if they’d be willing to shift their support behind Trump. The answer is an eventual but resounding yes. In the months leading up to Trump’s presidential win, the Mercers would prove a formidable force. Beginning after the disastrous Republican convention in July, they would furnish the Trump campaign not only with millions of dollars but with new leadership. But they would furnish him with something more: a vast network of non profits, strategists, media companies, research institutions and super PACs that they themselves funded, and largely controlled. Carrie Levine, Center for Public Integrity “I think what you’ve seen is a lot of these organizations in this network come out to play a role in the 2016 elections.” With the Mercer family in the picture, the post-convention shake-up starts to make sense. Take Steve Bannon. He and Robert Mercer have been close for years. And Mercer is a top investor in Breitbart news, where Bannon was chief editor. Mercer’s also funded a number of Bannon’s media projects. Kellyanne Conway also comes out of this network. Before becoming co manager of Trump’s campaign, she headed up operations for Robert Mercer’s super PAC when it was supporting Ted Cruz. Deputy campaign manager David Bossie was president of Citizens United before joining the campaign, an organization Mercer has heavily funded since at least 2010. Cambridge Analytica, the mysterious data mining firm that received grudging praise after predicting the race’s outcome more accurately than any other polling company, is also heavily funded by Robert Mercer, and was employed by the Cruz campaign before Mercer switched over to Trump. In fact, the Mercers’ political infrastructure is so entrenched, that Rebekah Mercer herself sits on the 16 person executive committee of Trump’s transition team. Mercer’s foray into the White House may seem to have been born partly out of luck, especially with Trump instead of Cruz as his stalking horse. But his rise to power was systematic, and it was years in the making. The web of connections Mercer’s built over the last decade is vast and complex. It includes efforts to dismantle tax law and weaken the IRS; it’s about funding quack scientists and conspiracy theorists who blame the government for, among other things, playing a role in the San Bernadino massacre and of colluding with the United Nations in using climate change as an excuse to implement environmental laws meant to depopulate America’s midwest. It’s about pouring money into the neoconservative John Bolton Super PAC, which props up candidates who ascribe to Bolton’s very hawkish foreign policy. But one of Mercer’s earliest activist ventures was financing a slew of fringe documentary projects that’ve helped raise the profiles of people like Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann and most notably, the director of those films, Steve Bannon. Bannon, who was previously a naval officer and Goldman Sachs investment banker, made his first documentary in 2004 about Ronald Reagan. It retold his biography using washed out, black and white archival footage of the Hollywood actor, painting him as brave protector of western democracy from the threat communism. In the Face of Evil “You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this the last best hope of man on earth or we’ll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.” The film wasn’t a commercial success. According to the reviews, it was a flop. But it developed a cult following. And it revealed that there was an untapped audience for this sort of film, which demonized America’s current establishment while lamenting the death of old-time conservatism under Reagan. In the Face of Evil would also connect Bannon to conservative author Peter Schweizer, who’s namesake book the film was based on. It would also connect him to another rising conservative figure Bannon met at a screening of his Reagan film in Beverly Hills, a man Bannon recalled in a Bloomberg piece who came up to him after the showing like a “bear,” he said “who’s squeezing me like my head’s going to blow up and saying how we’ve gotta take back the culture.” His name: Andrew Breitbart, a conservative commentator who for the next few years would join Bannon and Schweizer in their efforts to establish a fresh conservative narrative, with Breitbart himself focusing on an idea for a new media company, something partly inspired by a trip to Jerusalem and the need to create an outlet "that would be unapologetically pro-freedom and pro-Israel", something that would come to fruition in 2007 and that he would call breitbart.com. “One of the things I admired about [Breitbart],” Bannon said in that Bloomberg story, “was that the dirtiest word for him was ‘punditry’ […] Our vision—Andrew’s vision—was always to build a global, center-right, populist, anti-establishment news site.” But that wasn’t all. What Bannon, Schweizer and Breitbart really wanted to forge was a multi-teared effort to push their agenda. They wanted to fund Schweizer’s books and Bannon’s films. They wanted a research wing. Ultimately, they wanted to create a media infrastructure big enough to pump their ideology into America’s national discourse. But they needed more investors. And they needed large investors, people who could fund this giant operation for a sustained period of time, because what this right-wing trio had set out to do wasn’t to simply start a business. It was to transform America’s rage, it’s largely white, rural, working class discontent into a political movement that would storm Washington, first in the form of the Tea Party, and again six years later in the form of Trump. That influx of cash would come from the organization more famous now for the Supreme Court decision it inspired than for the media and political work it’s done for decades, thanks in part to funders like the Koch brothers and, of course, Robert Mercer. The pro-corporate advocacy group Citizens United was created in 1988, and for years it had pumped out television ads, films and other forms of media content that sought to put pressure both on Democrats as well as more moderate Republicans to embrace a far-right, corporate-friendly approach to politics. Citizens United Promo “Remember that the left controls Hollywood. They control entertainment. They control the movies. They control television. They control mass media. They control certainly journalism. And so, what Citizens United has figured out is that through the media, they can in fact move public opinion. They can shape America, and thereby shape Washington.” It was that effort that gave rise to the film Hillary: The Movie, which in turn lead to the supreme court case that changed the way politics is done in the United States. It’s worth noting that the Citizens United decision to allow for unlimited campaign contributions through super PACs didn’t originate from any billionaire or corporation directly complaining about contribution limits. It originated from this documentary, which Bannon directed, and which FEC rules barred from being shown because it fell under the category of “electioneering communications.” Essentially, union and corporate funded groups like Citizens United couldn’t air anything critical about a candidate within 30 days of the primaries, and 60 days of the general elections. The Supreme Court’s decision to strike down that rule opened up the floodgates for unlimited campaign spending, which Citizens United and its billionaire and corporate donors seized upon. Citizens United has been heavily funded by the Koch Brothers and their network of donors, which Mercer joined early on. But in 2010, Mercer decides to extend his reach and influence beyond the confines of that network, beginning first with Breitbart News, which at the time had hit a bit of a rough patch. Andrew Breitbart had put out a misleading video that showed a Department of Agriculture official, Shirley Sherrod, making what people characterized as racist remarks towards white people. Sherrod was fired, and when it came out afterwards that the clip had been manipulated, Sherrod sued Andrew Breitbart. The lawsuit fell on the heels of another false video exposé Breitbart had done a year earlier involving the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as ACORN, which had resulted in their loss of private and government funding. After the Sherrod video, the media virtually blacklisted him along with his site from mainstream. The hiccup prompted Mercer to capitalize on the event. According to Bloomberg news, he puts upwards of $10 million in the company later that year, making him a top investor. The next two years are spent expanding and sharpening these media connections. Bannon continues to produce documentaries, including The Undefeated, featuring the rise of Sarah Palin, as well as Occupy Unmasked, which aimed to discredit the 2011 protest movement. Occupy Unmasked (Breitbart): “These people feel morally justified to commit crimes.” Schweizer continues publishing his books, most notably Clinton Cash in 2015, which Bannon adapted into a documentary and which fueled the right’s obsession with Hillary Clinton and the sources for her foundation. Meanwhile, Mercer is quietly lubricating his political and financial empire, doling out money to a whole slew of conservative non profits such as the Heartland Institute, the Heritage Foundation, the CATO Institute, Citizens United and many more. Then, in 2012, Andrew Breitbart dies suddenly from a heart attack. Wolf Blitzer, CNN “[…] dead at the age of 43. Breitbart was certainly a driving force in the Tea Party movement as well as a very influential political voice on the internet.” Mercer and Bannon, who was a board member at Breitbart, quickly rearrange leadership roles in an effort to not lose any momentum. In fact, Breitbart’s death seemed to have been a morbid blessing for the group. Breitbart, unlike his compatriots, had always been more of an old-school, more moderate conservative. He’d worked at the Drudge Report, which many saw as a bullhorn for the Bush administration. More surprisingly, he’d been a researcher for Arianna Huffington, and helped create an early model for what would become the liberal Huffington Post. So: Mercer, Bannon and Schwiezer crank up the heat. In the months after Breitbart dies, Bannon is made executive chairman of breitbart.com. Schweizer, meanwhile, founds a new research group that focuses on feeding content to Breitbart news and Citizens United for their documentary projects called the Government Accountability Institute, where Mercer is a top funder while Bannon sits on the board. These shifts are all taking place in the shadows of the presidential race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Romney epitomized the GOP establishment, and Mercer must have been reluctant to give to his campaign: he ended up throwing about a million dollars into a super PAC supporting Romney, a paltry number compared to the $15 million he spent on Trump, and the $13 million he spent on Cruz. Romney’s loss was a heavy defeat for Republican voters around the country. With so many Americans still struggling to get back on their feet after the 2008 economic crisis, his defeat angered many GOP voters. Some blamed Obama and the Democrats. Others blamed the Republican establishment, including Romney himself. But at the NYU Club in New York, moments after the news of Obama’s reelection, one unsuspecting voice would take a small group of wealthy donors by storm, blasting the Romney team for dropping the ball on their data mining and canvassing operations. That woman was Rebekah Mercer, Robert Mercer’s daughter. After Romney, Rebekah became her father’s right hand. Before that, Robert Mercer’s role in his political dealings was to supply money to the people he admired and trusted, people like Bannon, Schweizer and Breitbart. Rebekah wanted to change that. She wanted accountability over the money her father spent. And Romney’s failure provided an opportunity to step into the republican arena and assert her and her father’s agenda. Between 2012 and 2016, she would take formal leadership positions at the think tanks and non profits her father funded. She became a director at Peter Schweizer’s Government Accountability Institute. She took over the Mercer Family Foundation. And more recently, she managed her father’s super PAC, alongside Kellyanne Conway. She and her father began to engage more in what you might call a kind of sniper fire politics, investing money in very specific races and causes. Carrie Levine “We’ve seen Robert Mercer put money into super pacs in races that have something to do with often tax. This cycle he gave money to a super pac backing a primary challenger to senator John McCain in Arizona. McCain is a Republican and he was the cochair of the senate committee that investigated Renaissance’s tax strategies.” McCain would later say he thought Mercer was doing this because of that investigation, which was looking into whether RenTec had avoided more than $6 billion in taxes over the course of 14 years. For the 2016 Republican primaries, Robert Mercer decided to put his support behind Ted Cruz and so did Bannon. But as Cruz faltered and took positions that ran counter to Bannon’s conservative agenda, like supporting the TPP, Mercer and Bannon began questioning their support of a candidate who was too obviously trying to appease both the disgruntled American voter as well as corporate interests in Washington. In the end, Cruz’s evangelical christian persona failed to cover up his true identity, which was as a Harvard-educated lawyer who’d worked for years in Washington including as a young clerk in the Supreme Court. Robert Mercer seldom makes public appearances and he never talks to the press. The only time he’s spoken publicly was in 2014, after he received a lifetime achievement award from the Association for Computational Linguistics. In the hour-long acceptance speech he gives in Baltimore, Maryland, Mercer spends almost all of his time talking about his passion for computers. Robert Mercer “I loved everything about computers. I loved the solitude of the computer lab late at night. I loved the air-conditioned smell of the place. I loved the sound of the discs whirring and the printers clacking.” None of his remarks are political, except for one comment he makes, when he’s talking about the time he worked at the Air Force weapons lab in New Mexico, and the one day he discovered how to make their computers run 100 times faster. Robert Mercer “A strange thing happened. Instead of running the old computations in 1/100 of the time, the powers that be at the lab ran computations that were 100 times bigger. I took this as an indication that one of the most important goals of government-financed research is not so much to get answers as it is to consume the computer budget. Which has left me ever since with a jaundiced view of government-financed research.” Mercer doesn’t quite fit into an established upper class. He isn’t exactly a Wall Street type, and neither are the 300 employees, many of whom are, like him, advanced mathematicians and physicists, who work at Renaissance Technologies’ brainchild, the Medallion fund. Carrie Levine “I think it’s interesting to note that this is a guy who has a programming background, a coding background who didn’t start out on Wall Street and so he’s come to this through sort of a different route […] He’s spoken very little about his political giving and so we can’t say a lot about his motives, at least not [from] what he’s said.” The fund is known for its secrecy. It’s been closed to outside investors since 2005, and what exactly they trade isn’t fully understood. What is known is that what Mercer along with retired Renaissance Technologies founder James Simons and co CEO Peter Brown have done is master the math behind something called quantitative trading, which involves gaming the stock market using advanced algorithms and data analysis to create unprecedented profits. Bill Black, former bank regulator “All they do is make one group of literally billionaires slightly richer than another group of billionaires […] but they add absolutely nothing to the economy or the world effectively.” 2016’s list of biggest political donors is stacked with billionaires who’ve made their money by engaging in what amount to different forms of gambling. The largest donor of the cycle, Tom Steyer is a hedge fund manager. The second, Sheldon Adelson, is a casino magnate. The third, Donald Sussman, is a quant fund manager. Strangely enough, founder of Renaissance Technologies James Simons, who’s one the Democrats’ largest donors, is number 5 on the list, while his colleague and Republican counterpart Robert Mercer is number 7. Bill Black “It’s not a coincidence that the enormous amounts of wealth go to people who are connected with gambling, but recall that they don’t gamble. Adelson is the House. The House, mathematically, is going to win. And the idea at the hedge fund is that is, again, to have better math than the other billionaires so that you have — statistically you’re going to win.” Casino capitalism has given people like Robert and Rebekah Mercer riches and power beyond most people’s imagination. But the role of activist billionaires in American politics isn’t new. It’s just become stronger as wealth is concentrated in fewer hands, with the top 1 percent of Americans today holding on to 40 percent of the country’s wealth, and with much of that increase taking place in the finance and energy sectors of the economy. The rise of people like Robert Mercer and the Koch brothers reflects how billionaires have gradually taken more direct control over politicians and the state. Bill Black “One of the things that is really useful if you’re a billionaire and that you get your money by doing nothing socially useful, is to valorize what you’re doing and to demonize anyone that might actually restrict it by law, regulation even social mores. And propaganda is historically, the answer to that.”

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hermanwatts · 5 years ago

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Bio-Bibliographies: The Louis L’Amour Companion

Louis L’Amour (1908-1988) may be the most popular western fiction writer of the Twentieth Century. He was the second western writer to read. The first was Robert E. Howard’s westerns. L’amour is not my favorite western writer, I like Gordon D. Shirreffs, T. V. Olsen, and Elmer Kelton more. L’Amour did write some classic novels including The Daybreakers and Last Stand at Papago Wells that I enjoyed quite a bit. The Daybreakers is an epic western. When L’Amour was on, he was on. There are also novels that were dialed in and in need of some editing.

I really like L’Amour’s pulp magazine adventure fiction. I can still remember buying both Night Over the Solomons and West From Singapore from spinner racks at the mini-mart up the street from my apartment.

L’Amour has been an inspiration. President Ronald Reagan was a big fan. Fantasy writer David Gemmell has mentioned his indebtedness to L’amour.

The Louis L’Amour Companion (Andrews and McMeel, 1992) by Robert Weinberg was needed at least for me to pin-point where the shorter fiction first appeared.

The first edition was a trade paperback, 307 pages, that sold for $12.95. A mass market paperback edition from Bantam was released May 1, 1994. And that is still available on Amazon!

Contents

Introduction

Part 1: His Life and Times

Introduction

Chronology of Louis L’Amour’s Life

Louis L’Amour – All-American Author

Meet Louis L’Amour by Walker A. Tompkins

Louis L’Amour: Man of the West by Harold Keith

Louis L’Amour – The Man Behind the Myth

Louis L’Amour and Bill Tilghman – An interview

L’Amour at War: Selected Letters by Louis L’Amour to Script Magazine edited by Stefan Dziemanianowicz

In Profile: Tracking Down Louis L’Amour by Jean Mead

A Visit with Louis L’amour by Jon Tuska

Lunch with Louis ‘n’ Me: A Few Casuals by Way of Reminiscence by Harlan Ellison

“L’Amour Receives Congressional Medal” from Publishers Weekly

L’Amour Receives the Medal of Freedom

Part 2: Before the Novels

Introduction

Louis L’Amour and Poetry

“The Chap Worth While” by Louis L’Amour

“Poetry and Propaganda” by Louis L’Amour

“A Thread of Realism” by Louis L’Amour

Louis L’Amour’s Early Writings: An Annotated Checklist

“The Lost Golden City” by Louis L’Amour

The Pulp Magazines

An Excerpt from “The Blank Page” by Kenneth Fowler

Louis L’Amour on the Pulps– An Interview by Lawrence Davidson. Richard Lupoff, and Richard Wolinsky

“Anything for a Pal” by Louis L’Amour

Men of Action: Louis L’Amour’s stories in Thrilling Adventures

Death in Cold, Hard Light: The Mystery Fiction of Louis L’Amour by Robert Sampson

L’Amour’s Short Story Collections: A Checklist

Writing for the Brand– An interview with Kent Carroll by Stefan Dziemianowicz

L’Amour’s Short Stories: An Annotated Checklist

L’Amour’s Uncollected Stories: A Checklist

Part 3: The Novelist

Introduction

The Best-Selling Western Author of All Time

The Novels of Louis L’Amour– The Fifties: An Annotated Checklist

Louis L’Amour’s Hopalong Cassidy by Bernard A. Drew

Louis L’Amour on His Hopalong Cassidy novels by Jon Tuska

Hondo Land and Louis L’amour by Scott A. Cupp

Hondo – Novel or Novelization? By Jon Tuska

L’Amour and Gold Medal by Ed Gorman

The Twenty-Five Best Western Novels of All Time

The Novels of Louis L’Amour – The Sixties: An Annotated Checklist

An Open Letter to the Old Bookaroos by Louis L’Amour

The Novels of Louis L’Amour – The Seventies: An Annotated Checklist

Louis L’Amour by Barbara A. Bannon

The Mix Master – L’Amour’s Crossover Novels by R. Jeff Banks

The Novels of Louis L’Amour – The Eighties: An Annotated Checklist

“Bantam Announces Plans for the Louis L’Amour Overland Express” from Publisher’s Weekly

Louis L’Amour on The Walking Drum – An Interview by Lawrence Davidson, Richard Lupoff, and Richard Wolinsky

Striding Toward Byzantium: Louis L’Amour’s The Walking Drum by Judith Tarr

The Contemporary Authors Interview by Mary Scott Dye

Louis L’Amour’s Nonfiction Books

Part 4: Audio and Video

Introduction

“The Outlaw Rides Again” by Louis L’Amour

From Fiction into Film by Jim Hitt

Louis L’Amour’s Films – An Interview by Lawrence Davidson, Richard Lupoff, and Richard Wolinsky

L’Amour on Film: A Checklist of His Movies and Television Adaptations by Hal Hall and Robert Weinberg

L’Amour Audiotape Adaptations: A Checklist by Hall Hall and Robert Weinberg

Appendices

Appendix 1: Collecting Louis L’Amour: Hardcovers, Paperbacks, Magazines, Esoterica

Appendix 2: Suggestions for Further reading

So The Louis L’Amour Companion hits all the right buttons with interviews, biography, bibliography, and even a few works by L’Amour. This is the only mass-market paperback bio-bibliography that I can think of.

Bio-Bibliographies: The Louis L’Amour Companion published first on https://sixchexus.weebly.com/

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seldo · 6 years ago

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Biographies of every US president as audiobooks

I enjoy reading history, especially in the form of historical biographies. Over the years I've picked up books about several of the founding fathers of the USA, plus major historical figures like FDR, and eventually I realized that I'd covered a big chunk of all the presidents of the USA. So then I went back and decided to fill in all the gaps. I'm currently on president number 37, and will be stopping at number 41.

As I've been reading I started tweeting about fun facts about the presidents as I encountered them. Slowly that evolved into longer and longer threads about each president, and some of those threads were quite popular.

So here for ease of consumption is the full list of presidents I've read, which biography I read, a single sentence on what I thought about that biography and if I recommend it, as well as (where available) a link to the tweet or thread about that president.

If this list format doesn't grab you, it's also available as a spreadsheet. I'll update the sheet and this post as I finish the remaining bios.

#1: George Washington

Washington: A Life, Ron Chernow

Recommended? Yes

Fantastic. Deeply researched, engaging, readable, well paced.

#2: John Adams

John Adams, David McCullough

Recommended? Yes

Does its very best with a dull as dishwater subject. Detailed and well-written but a slog.

#3: Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, Jon Meacham

Recommended? Yes

Brilliantly written, full of great detail, pulls its punches on some of his darker aspects but doesn't ignore them.

#4: James Madison

The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President, Noah Feldman

Recommended? Yes

Detailed and engaging, a little longer than its subject deserves.

#5: James Monroe

The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness, Harlow Giles Unger

Recommended? Yes

Concise, about as long as this shitty dude deserved, but too nice to him.

#6: John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit, James Traub

Recommended? Yes

JQA was even duller than his dad. The bio is workmanlike with much less of the color of other bios.

#7: Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times, H W Brands

Recommended? Yes

Military-focused, containing less personal detail than is probably warranted, but very readable.

#8: Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren: A Captivating Guide to the Man Who Served as the Eighth President of the United States , Captivating History

Recommended? No

Short and cliff notes-y but with some fun details, and very engaging. Best of the cliff-notes bios.

#9: William Henry Harrison

William Henry Harrison: The Life and Legacy of the First American President to Die in Office, Charles River Editors

Recommended? No

Just under 2 hours long, a cliff-notes bio. Not great.

#10: John Tyler

John Tyler, Robert J Spitzer

Recommended? No

28 minutes long, a shitty all-the-presidents entry.

#11: James K Polk

Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America, Walter R Borneman

Recommended? Yes

Author wanted to write about Jackson and sort of accidentally wrote about Polk. Not good.

#12: Zachary Taylor

Zachary Taylor, Paul Finkelman

Recommended? No

A 24-minute all-the-presidents entry. Taylor sucked but so does this bio.

(No tweet for this one)

#13: Millard Fillmore

Millard Fillmore, Joseph F Rishel

Recommended? No

17 minutes long! The shortest bio yet, a worthless all-the-presidents entry.

#14: Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce, Paul Finkelman

Recommended? No

Another all-the-presidents entry. A few fun tidbits.

#15: James Buchanan

Worst. President. Ever. James Buchanan, the POTUS Rating Game, and the Legacy of the Least of the Lesser Presidents, Robert Strauss

Recommended? Yes

A delightful treatment of a shitty subject, light-hearted but well researched, very engaging.

#16: Abraham Lincoln

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Doris Kearns Goodwin

Recommended? Yes

DKG has a well-earned reputation as an excellent biographer and Lincoln is an amazing subject. 42 hours of material fly by.

#17: Andrew Johnson

After Lincoln: How the North Won the Civil War and Lost the Peace , A J Langguth

Recommended? No

Not really a bio of Johnson, but covers the aftermath of Lincoln so mostly about Johnson. Good but little personal detail about Johnson for that reason.

#18: Ulysses S Grant

American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant, Ronald C White

Recommended? Yes

Fantastic book of a truly great and under-rated president. Great details.

#19: Rutherford B Hayes

Rutherford B Hayes, Hans L Trefousse

Recommended? No

5 hours long which is 4 hours long than its subject deserved. Yawnfest.

#20: James A Garfield

James A Garfield: The 20th President's 200 Days in Office, in60Learning

Recommended? Yes

An hour long but left me wanting much more.

#21: Chester A Arthur

The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur, Scott S Greenberger

Recommended? Yes

Recommended only for the excellent details of Julia Sand's letters.

#22: Grover Cleveland

An Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of Grover Cleveland, H Paul Jeffers

Recommended? No

A mediocre bio of a mediocre guy.

#23: Benjamin Harrison

Benjamin Harrison, Allan B Spetter

Recommended? No

An all-the-presidents series entry, just 22 minutes long, barely worth it.

#24: Cleveland again.

#25: William McKinley

William McKinley, Kevin Phillips, Arthur M Schlesinger

Recommended? No

An all-the-presidents entry much longer than it needed to be.

#26: Theodore Roosevelt

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Morris

Recommended? Yes

The first of an epic 3-book series on TR of which I read 2. Definitive and captivating.

#27: William Howard Taft

William Howard Taft: The American Presidents Series: The 27th President, 1909-1913, Jeffrey Rosen, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Sean Wilentz

Recommended? No

Lacks compelling personal details that could have fit in 5 hours. Not compelling.

#28: Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson: A Biography, John Milton Cooper

Recommended? Yes

Way too long given how dull Wilson is but well-written.

#29: Warren G Harding

Warren G Harding, James D Robenalt

Recommended? No

Short and dull but still not as bad as The Bloviator, which is awful and nobody should read.

#30: Calvin Coolidge

Coolidge, Amity Shlaes

Recommended? Yes

A concise and insightful look at an important transitional president.

#31: Herbert Hoover

Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times , Kenneth Whyte

Recommended? Yes

I could have read another 50% of this 27-hour book. Fascinating.

#32: Franklin D Roosevelt

FDR, Jean Edward Smith

Recommended? Yes

A gem of a book, full of amazing details, and a wonderful subject.

#33: Harry S Truman

Harry S Truman: A Life, Robert H Ferrell

Recommended? Yes

Well-written and detailed but insufficiently critical of its surprisingly crooked subject.

#34: Dwight D Eisenhower

Eisenhower in War and Peace, Jean Edward Smith

Recommended? Yes

Sort of a side-effect of the FDR bio but well-written and workable.

#35: John F Kennedy

An Unfinished Life: John F Kennedy, 1917-1963,

Recommended? Yes

A good book but cruelly, pointlessly abridged, please release the full thing.

#36: Lyndon B Johnson

Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream: The Most Revealing Portrait of a President and Presidential Power Ever Written, Doris Kearns Goodwin

Recommended? Yes

A mind-blowing book of amazing depth and quality of writing from an author incredibly close to her subject. Unmissable.

Still to come: Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and George H W Bush.

I will not be doing: Bill Clinton, George W Bush, Barack Obama or Trump, as they are all still too recent for biographies to have all the facts.

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demitgibbs · 8 years ago

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Native Engager: Tori Amos Talks Gay Mentors, Gets Political

Tori Amos’ mind is one of the greatest wonders of the music world. For over three decades, via an oeuvre as unpredictable as the muses that guide her, that very mind has been a trove of lyrical salvation and a divine mélange of eccentricities, insight, imagination and, as I discovered during our illuminating exchange, even Mean Girls references.

Before last year’s political turn of events, the piano virtuoso took a summer road trip through North Carolina’s Smoky Mountains to reconnect to her familial roots, setting into motion her nature-influenced 15th studio album, Native Invader. Featuring some of her best music in years, as influenced by these divisive times and a speech-crippling stroke her mother suffered in January, the album’s emotional core is resilient and healing despite “a cluster of hostile humans who side with their warlords of hate,” as she brazenly sings, calling for us to “rehumanize.”

Amos, 54, took me to every remote corner of her meandering mind during our recent interview, name-dropping everyone from Persephone to Regina George and the two gay men who helped transform her into the Tori Amos. But there’s more: “the new invasion of the body snatchers,” exercising to rap, being postmenopausal in 2017 America, the prospect of a Vegas show with hot male dancers and also Washington D.C., the “underworld” where she launched her career, unknowingly performing for political players who would set the stage for crucial issues Amos and the entire country are now facing.

I am feeling grateful to have gone to bed the last few nights with Native Invader being the last thing I heard.

Oh, good. I’m glad it took you to dreamland.

And it’s very possible it will be taking me to dreamland for the next few years, if you know what I’m saying.

(Laughs) Well, the “Dream King” is on there too in “Mary’s Eyes,” so everybody can go to dreamland.

You talk about being a “safe place” on the album’s comforting second song, “Wings,” and since the beginning of your career, you have been that safe place for many gay men, myself included.

Well, they were a safe place for me when I was 13. Then, when I was 16 I just happened to work at a place not far from the White House, which is very core to Native Invader because I cut my teeth professionally playing in the belly of the beast in Washington, if you see what I mean. Lobbyists, people in different departments; it was the Department of the Interior, Department of Agriculture, and so on and so forth. You gotta figure that anybody in Congress might have been rolling through those doors. That’s just the establishments that I was working in when I was 16. But anyway, my point to you is… there was a point. What were we talking about?

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You were talking about safe places, and you said that as a teenager the gay community was your safe place.

Yes, there was one waiter that was a bit of a… I won’t say a bully, but he was one of those guys at the time, because you’ve gotta imagine I was 16, so what was that, 1979? So, you know, longer hair, mustache. He was always pushing me to think about all the bad things that could happen and his foil was this beautiful gay man called Joey. Joey was just the most supportive kind, and he would admonish Ray and Ray was macho. He was a macho gay guy, but probably in very protective mode.

So did Joey make you feel special?

Joey taught me how to sit. Joey taught me how to walk. Joey walked me through my crushes. And Ray would be chiding all the time and explaining why I would never get that guy. Ray made Regina George look like Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music.

What song did your gay audiences most connect with then?

They would ask me for all kinds of things. It was more about them realizing I needed training. Not with Joey and Ray. I was kind of a pro by then. But at 13, when I was in (a gay bar called) Mr. Henry’s in Georgetown, which was across town, that was sacred. That wasn’t the Congress set, although you have to figure some head of something was sneaking in there (laughs). [But the gay community] was more about, “Oh, you need to learn this song. You need to learn that.” They would say, “OK, learn these songs and come back next week,” because they were helping me fill out my repertoire. They were really pushing me on more popular songs. I had Joni Mitchell covered. I had Elton John covered. I had The Beatles covered. So, they were asking me for things that I didn’t have in my repertoire. I can’t remember now (which songs), but I do remember them giving me loads of requests for the next week and then I would go and learn them all and then they’d give me more.

And not much has changed in that regard.

(Laughs) Yes, yes. Nothing has changed!

Can you tell me about the conversations you were having with people in the LGBTQ community that led to the songs on Native Invader?

I will tell you specifically what was going on with the people that I know who are a part of the LGBTQ community, but there were messages coming through friends of friends – acquaintances and then friends – because Putin is not the only one with a back channel on planet Earth. You with me? So, that means somebody who might be a civil servant or somebody who might be working in the intelligence community or somebody who might be a part of the science community will get to somebody who will get to somebody whose mother will then get to somebody who gets to me. So that’s how it works. Does Tori understand that this is going on? Does she understand the super PACs? Does she understand that this movement has been going on since 1980 when one of the Koch brothers was running on a ticket as a vice president against Reagan and then clearly the penny dropped that one doesn’t need to be president to be one of the American oligarchs that is possibly running Washington? I didn’t come up with this myself! I’m a piano player! I mean, come on, everybody knows, I’m a conduit. (Laughs)

Going back to the messages from people in the LGBTQ community: How did those influence Native Invader?

One of the things that I was being told by somebody who is very much in that community was that (he was being) consumed by the energy that was out there – an attacking, bullying energy. And the news cycle. This person got to me personally and sat me down and said, “I’m losing friends.” I said, “To what?” This was a specific person, a gay man, and he said to me, “I’m losing them to a force. It’s terrifying because it’s zombie-like.” And it wasn’t funny. There were tears in the eyes. It wasn’t a zombie joke. You know, everybody likes a good zombie joke. (My daughter) Tash being one of them. But this wasn’t funny. And I said, “OK, this is fascinating, this is a different invasion of the body snatchers.” And there were, again, tears rolling down his face. He said, “I can’t explain it.” I said, “It’s like they’re being emotionally cannibalized – is that correct?” He said, “OK, keep going.”

How did that particular conversation work itself into the album?

It’s a thread, not a song, through the album.

Had you ever considered a more direct approach to the current political landscape you’re addressing on this album, perhaps in the same vein as “Yo George” from American Doll Posse? Why not just call this album or a song on the album “Yo Donald”?

No, because that would be weak. Let’s walk this through. The great thing about being non-reactive, postmenopausal, which cannot be possessed until you have experienced it, you absolutely cannot get this one thing; all the younger women cannot have this with all the money in the world, do you know why? Because they bleed. When you sit at the metaphorical fire, Chris, and you don’t bleed, what is it? It’s called containment. That is the state of being.

The issues are not about one name. The issues are about a movement and the master showman is a distraction. Don’t give it the energy. There are no conundrums there. You don’t need quantum physics, which I don’t know, but I like the phrase. “Alice In Quantumland” this is not. There is no mystery.

The best thing that the community can do: treat it with neutrality. Don’t give it energy. Apply your energy elsewhere and do your research, because there are things going on around us with Democracy. You have to ask yourself, little by little, what’s going on at the EPA, what’s going on at the Department of the Interior – that’s far more interesting.

You offer far more light than one might imagine from an album that’s rooted in the chaos of our current political climate. I wonder how the overall mood of the album took shape and whether you ever felt like you had to stop yourself from going too dark.

I think “Climb” is dark. “Climb” is probably the darkest place, and that is a very dark place.

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What do you think an album about this past election would’ve sounded like if Tori of Boys for Pele or From the Choirgirl Hotel wrote it?

Well, look, those albums can be played and are relevant now. Pele is relevant now because Pele is railing against the patriarchy, but Native Invader is invading concepts like freedom that have been hijacked by some of these super PACs, by these think tanks. Again, don’t get distracted by people who are mainly in the news cycle all the time. You’ve gotta understand, if for some reason they walked away and decided to just not be in that position anymore, you still have a movement to deal with. These seeds go back. (Supreme Court Justice Neil) Gorsuch’s mother was head of the EPA in the ’80s. Not that he can’t be a fair judge, not that he didn’t learn, not that he doesn’t have integrity – he might have integrity. But what we have to understand is the EPA was big corp in the ’80s. I was playing piano bar for those people as a teenager and Joey and Ray would say, “Do you know who so and so is?” And I’d say, “What? What are you talking about?” I didn’t know at the time that I was playing for some of these players that planted that seed. I was right in the middle of it all. It’s sort of like Persephone. I was living the Persephone myth. I had no idea I was in the underworld.

Switching gears to your tour in support of Native Invader, which of the rare “girls” are itching to be played this go ’round?

Yeah, that’s fair enough. I haven’t figured it out yet, and if you guys and ladies have any ideas then it’s always welcome, because I think it’s gonna be very collaborative this tour. I think it’ll be an exchange of ideas and building. Every night will be different. When I’m alone I can really do that; there’s flexibility to it. Also, I really don’t know for how much longer I can hold a one-woman show. It’s really demanding. The physicality is beyond explaining, to myself. But it gives me a flexibility. And these times – things are happening every day that I need to be able to throw out a whole show and do a whole different one, if need must.

No more one-woman shows?

I’m talking about a one-woman show. I’m not talking about not performing. I would love to have, you know, hot male dancers.

Ha! I would love for you to have hot male dancers.

Maybe that’s the Vegas show.

You’ve been known to cover some classics on tour but also some modern pop, like Rihanna’s “We Found Love.” Are there any pop songs from the last few years you think might fit the vibe of this tour?

Yeah, maybe. And maybe I need to look at some rap. It’s my niece – my niece is Kelsey (Dobyns) and any time we do a little work out she makes me do it to rap. I have no idea what any of the rap is that I’ve heard. I’ve heard all kinds of rap. She’s throwing these beats down and I don’t know what I’m listening to.

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Are you a fan of any of it?

No. I’m not a fan of rap. All the rappers know I’m not a fan, however, I can look at the rap and say, “This is well produced,” and put my producer hat on and say, “I like the flow of this, the language; I like the rhythm. Yeah, I’m into it.” But I’m a melody person. So, I appreciate the form and I respect it, but I want Freddie (Mercury). I want a melody. I want “Killer Queen.” I want “Somebody to Love.”

And as we’ve established, hot male dancers.

And hot male dancers! I’m a flaming queen, what can I say?

As editor of Q Syndicate, the international LGBT wire service, Chris Azzopardi has interviewed a multitude of superstars, including Meryl Streep, Mariah Carey and Beyoncé. Reach him via his website at chris-azzopardi.com and on Twitter (@chrisazzopardi).

from Hotspots! Magazine https://hotspotsmagazine.com/2017/09/21/native-engager-tori-amos-talks-gay-mentors-gets-political/ from Hot Spots Magazine https://hotspotsmagazine.tumblr.com/post/165583506625

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cynthiajayusa · 8 years ago

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Native Engager: Tori Amos Talks Gay Mentors, Gets Political

I am feeling grateful to have gone to bed the last few nights with Native Invader being the last thing I heard.

Oh, good. I’m glad it took you to dreamland.

And it’s very possible it will be taking me to dreamland for the next few years, if you know what I’m saying.

(Laughs) Well, the “Dream King” is on there too in “Mary’s Eyes,” so everybody can go to dreamland.

You talk about being a “safe place” on the album’s comforting second song, “Wings,” and since the beginning of your career, you have been that safe place for many gay men, myself included.

WATCH:

youtube

You were talking about safe places, and you said that as a teenager the gay community was your safe place.

So did Joey make you feel special?

What song did your gay audiences most connect with then?

And not much has changed in that regard.

(Laughs) Yes, yes. Nothing has changed!

Can you tell me about the conversations you were having with people in the LGBTQ community that led to the songs on Native Invader?

Going back to the messages from people in the LGBTQ community: How did those influence Native Invader?

How did that particular conversation work itself into the album?

It’s a thread, not a song, through the album.

I think “Climb” is dark. “Climb” is probably the darkest place, and that is a very dark place.

WATCH:

youtube

What do you think an album about this past election would’ve sounded like if Tori of Boys for Pele or From the Choirgirl Hotel wrote it?

Switching gears to your tour in support of Native Invader, which of the rare “girls” are itching to be played this go ’round?

No more one-woman shows?

I’m talking about a one-woman show. I’m not talking about not performing. I would love to have, you know, hot male dancers.

Ha! I would love for you to have hot male dancers.

Maybe that’s the Vegas show.

WATCH:

youtube

Are you a fan of any of it?

And as we’ve established, hot male dancers.

And hot male dancers! I’m a flaming queen, what can I say?

source https://hotspotsmagazine.com/2017/09/21/native-engager-tori-amos-talks-gay-mentors-gets-political/ from Hot Spots Magazine http://hotspotsmagazin.blogspot.com/2017/09/native-engager-tori-amos-talks-gay.html

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ruinedsoulsrp · 3 months ago

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Hello lovelies! As Bella and I settle into a bit more a routine, and I'm becoming more comfortable with baby wearing (and we're working on bassinet training lol) I am going to slowly start coming back online and being active. For my own sanity, I have categorized all of my many many drafts into those I'm willing to keep, ones already in the queue, and ones I'm going to be dropping. If yours is one I'm dropping, and you'd like to start new things, just let me know, I'm happy to do so!

For any of the ones coming out of the queue or that I'm willing to keep, if you would prefer to drop them and start something new or take a break from them altogether, please let me know. I know it has been a while for some of these threads, so my feelings will not be hurt at all, just reach out! That being said, I will attempt to work on drafts in chronological order, but I'm also going to let my muse flow in bringing me back since it's been so long. Thank you all for your patience and understanding. I love you guys!

Categorized Threads are under the Read More!

Releasing from the Queue:

@willowswriting: Tony & Nadia

@huntrcssqueen: Allie & Grayson, Jake & Phoenix, Annie & Austin, Brooke & Ryker, Brock & Kaitlyn

Willing to Keep:

@huntrcssqueen: Kyle & Evie, Jack & Kassansdra

@dearxeden: Mark & Samantha, Britt & Harry, Mark & Lily, Brooke & Brody, Fletcher & Clair, Allie & Nikolai, Kevin & Amelia, Hailey & Brian, Annie & Lars, Tony & Allison,

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@beldcm: Addy & Alex

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Dropping:

@theknifeinyou: Mark & Jupiter,

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hotspotsmagazine · 8 years ago

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Native Engager: Tori Amos Talks Gay Mentors, Gets Political

I am feeling grateful to have gone to bed the last few nights with Native Invader being the last thing I heard.

Oh, good. I’m glad it took you to dreamland.

And it’s very possible it will be taking me to dreamland for the next few years, if you know what I’m saying.

(Laughs) Well, the “Dream King” is on there too in “Mary’s Eyes,” so everybody can go to dreamland.

You talk about being a “safe place” on the album’s comforting second song, “Wings,” and since the beginning of your career, you have been that safe place for many gay men, myself included.

WATCH:

youtube

You were talking about safe places, and you said that as a teenager the gay community was your safe place.

So did Joey make you feel special?

What song did your gay audiences most connect with then?

And not much has changed in that regard.

(Laughs) Yes, yes. Nothing has changed!

Can you tell me about the conversations you were having with people in the LGBTQ community that led to the songs on Native Invader?

Going back to the messages from people in the LGBTQ community: How did those influence Native Invader?

How did that particular conversation work itself into the album?

It’s a thread, not a song, through the album.

I think “Climb” is dark. “Climb” is probably the darkest place, and that is a very dark place.

WATCH:

youtube

What do you think an album about this past election would’ve sounded like if Tori of Boys for Pele or From the Choirgirl Hotel wrote it?

Switching gears to your tour in support of Native Invader, which of the rare “girls” are itching to be played this go ’round?

No more one-woman shows?

I’m talking about a one-woman show. I’m not talking about not performing. I would love to have, you know, hot male dancers.

Ha! I would love for you to have hot male dancers.

Maybe that’s the Vegas show.

WATCH:

youtube

Are you a fan of any of it?

And as we’ve established, hot male dancers.

And hot male dancers! I’m a flaming queen, what can I say?

from Hotspots! Magazine https://hotspotsmagazine.com/2017/09/21/native-engager-tori-amos-talks-gay-mentors-gets-political/

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hardworkingamericanimmigrant · 8 years ago

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"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do." Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie was a classic rags to riches immigrant American story. And the quote above has a lot to do with how he became famously rich, but also about how America became rich. And the quote has something to do with the White House...but, I will get to that at the end of this blog. Stay with me.

Andrew (change his name to Prakash or Natasha or Luis or Abdullah, in today's America) was the son of an impoverished Scottish family, who lived in a one-room house during the terrible years leading up to the full blown famines in England, Ireland, and Scotland, during the mid 1800's. His father, fed up with pestilence and doom, borrowed money to take the family to America in 1848 when Andrew was 13 years old. They settled in Allegheny, Pennsylvania which at that time was a growing industrial area that produced many products including wool and cotton cloth.

Andrew began working at the age of 13 as a bobbin boy, changing spools of thread in a cotton mill 12 hours a day, 6 days a week in a Pittsburgh cotton factory. His starting wage was $1.20 per week ($36.36 per week in 2017 dollars, serious pocket change). Andrew's father, William Carnegie, started off working in a cotton mill but would then earn money weaving and peddling linens, often on the street. His mother, Margaret Morrison Carnegie, earned money by binding shoes and doing any household odd jobs.

His and his family's Scottish accent must have sounded pretty strange to some folks in Pennsylvania, maybe making folks a bit nasty and come uppity, a little mightier and better than thou, so to speak, which made the Carnegies bear down and work even harder. Sound familiar?

Well, let's make the long story short. Andrew worked like a dog for 50 years and became the richest person in America by merging his Carnegie Steel Corporation into the U.S. Steel Corporation conceived by J.P. Morgan. After becoming the richest man in America, he devoted the rest of his life to philanthropy, and created Carnegie libraries, the Carnegie Corporation, one of the largest nonprofits in America today, the Carnegie Endowment for Peace, the Carnegie Institution for Science, and Carnegie Mellon University.

By the time of the sale of his Carnegie Steel Corporation in 1901, Andrew's industrial assets were worth more than the entire economies of countries in Europe. Which of course means the United States of America had enriched itself by leaps and bounds by the fruits of the labor of one hard working immigrant "scum of the earth" of that time period.

So I promised you that this story had some connection to the White House also. My thought has actually nothing to do with wealth or power really. Yes, the man in the White House claims he is a wealthy man by 21st century American standards, and shows some incidental trappings of it. And we can all agree he has become overtly powerful.

Yet, my story here is about paying attention to Andrew Carnegie's quote with which I started. Maybe we should start paying attention to NOT what the man in the White House said for the past year and half, but watch what he does. Maybe we should remember that his father built buildings in Queens, New York, with the hard labor of immigrant Polish, Mexican, and Irish workers. And he did the same in Manhattan. Plus he married two immigrants. Perhaps he knows deep down how valuable immigrant labor has been to his own enrichment and to the enrichment of New York and countless other communities in America. And maybe, we can actually count on him to do what Ronald Reagan came to realize and do, to go where no man in the White House had gone before. Take a look at Reagan and the year 1986, in connection with the phrase "immigrant amnesty". That's where we are headed (I know, eyes rolling :)), make no mistake about it, mark these words. We will make it happen.

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Tech Upheaval Prediction Meets Reality — Skift Corporate Travel Innovation Report

A passenger uses the phone at Washington's Ronald Reagan National Airport. This year, technology in corporate travel is undergoing massive change. Susan Walsh / Associated Press

Skift Take: We've said we expect technology in the corporate travel space to undergo intense upheaval in the coming year, and that prediction is already coming true.

— Hannah Sampson

The Skift Corporate Travel Innovation Report is our weekly newsletter focused on the future of corporate travel, the big fault lines of disruption for travel managers and buyers, the innovations emerging from the sector, and the changing business traveler habits that are upending how corporate travel is packaged, bought, and sold.

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THE FUTURE OF CORPORATE + BUSINESS TRAVEL

In our annual list of Megatrends — the forces we expect to shape and define the travel industry in the coming year — one carried a bold statement about corporate travel: “Corporate travel tech is in upheaval.”

Accustomed to managing their own travel, often from a mobile device, business travelers are forcing their employers to provide more self-service options — or just allow the services like Uber that are used in everyday life. We said we expected more acquisitions, consolidation, technology development, and integration of consumer tools among corporate travel companies.

Already, we’re seeing that prediction bear out with stories about the fight among itinerary organizing tools to capture customers in the wake of WorldMate’s shuttering and the emergence of another startup that seeks to influence traveler bookings by giving incentives to save employers money.

We expect to see (and write!) a lot more headlines like these as the year progresses.

— Hannah Sampson, Skift

SOCIAL QUOTE OF THE DAY

Sitting next to the same guy, in same seat, as my flight to Minneapolis last week. Business travel isn’t w/o its own brand of excitement.— ‏@mikekhaley

BUSINESS OF BUYING

Business Travel Is Expected to Soar in India, Struggle in Brazil as Economies Diverge: Business travel spending has increased tremendously in India and Brazil since 2000 — but most of that money is spent domestically. As those and other markets continue to change — and global politics shift — will the future bring more or fewer international business trips? Read more at Skift

WorldMate’s Retreat Leaves Itinerary-Organizing Rivals in Dogfight: WorldMate suffered as many smartphones and other services added free travel notifications. But TripCase and TripIt still have fans among many frequent travelers. Read more at Skift

Comparing Basic Economy Fares Among American, Delta and United: With basic economy soon available on American, Delta, and United, it’s worth comparing the pros and cons of each fare. American’s may be good for elite travelers while Delta’s is best for those with baggage. Read more at Skift

Rock-Bottom Fares Are Forcing Some Business Travelers to Pay for Their Own Upgrades: As legacy carriers seek to compete with low-cost, no-frills airlines, corporate travel programs need to examine policies that force business travelers into the cheapest fares. Strict cancellation rules, extra fees, and maximum aggravation can all add up to unhappy employees (and higher-than-anticipated prices). Read more at The New York Times

Southwest Fares Rising on Stronger Business Travel Demand: In the latter half of 2016, there were signs that business travel was slowing but Southwest’s first quarter of 2017 results show that fares are rising because the purchase of last-minute flights, typically those booked by business travelers, are picking up. Read more at Skift

Safety and Security

Global Airline Safety Standards For Satellite Tracking Will Kick in Next Year: At the rate it currently takes airlines to receive and replace aircraft, it will take decades for some of these newer standards to be fully implemented, which means planes like Malaysia Airlines flight 370 could still vanish without a trace. Read more at Skift

Biometric Company Clear Wants to One-Up TSA PreCheck: Clear is promising something faster and more streamlined than TSA PreCheck, but PreCheck has already suffered from low enrollment. The public seems skeptical of paying to improve their airport security experience, but on the other hand, the public despises airport security and might welcome a better solution. If Clear gets into enough major airports, it could do well. Read more at Skift

DISRUPTION + INNOVATION

Travel Megatrends 2017: Corporate Travel Tech Is in Upheaval: Corporate travel is finally starting to learn lessons from the consumer travel space, mostly because business travelers have been trained by their leisure travel to expect robust booking tools and more control over their trips. The travel management companies that focus the most on improving their traveler-facing technology will win this battle, and improve their clients’ travel experience in the process. Read more at Skift

Six Takeaways About Airbnb’s Potential Impact on the Hotel Industry: The biggest conclusion here is that hoteliers can’t afford to dismiss the impact, however large or minuscule it may be, that Airbnb is having on the lodging industry, and on their bottom lines, too. Plenty of reports may tell us different things, but the universal thread is that Airbnb is here, and it can’t be ignored. Read more at Skift

What the UK Prime Minister’s Latest Brexit Speech Means for the Travel Industry: The Prime Minister’s speech was her most significant yet on the subject of Brexit. It gave a clear indication of how the UK would look to leave the European Union, allowing us to analyze how this might affect the travel and tourism industry. Read more at Skift

TripActions Has Launched the Latest Incentive-Based Booking App: Yet another startup is trying to get business travelers to save their employers money by offering rewards for budget-friendly choices. Will the push to influence travelers directly take power away from travel management companies, or are newcomers such as TripActions and Upside reaching entirely new audiences? Read more at VentureBeat

COMMENTS

The Skift Corporate Travel Innovation Report is curated by Skift editors Hannah Sampson [[email protected]] and Andrew Sheivachman [[email protected]]. The newsletter is emailed every Thursday.

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