#woodys

[outfitsinspiration]

Who: Olivia Minns from oliviaandalice

What: Woodys Neret 03 Sunglasses (169.00€) When: Instagram - May 16, 2024

Worn with: Damson Madder. blouse and bag, Agolde jeans, River Island pumps,

[possession]

“His first question was: 'Who's your favourite philosopher?' My heart sank. I wanted to run off and burst into tears. I didn't know any philosophers. And he probably knew I didn't. When I said so, he replied, 'Oh come on, everyone has a favourite philosopher.' It was such a cruel thing to do to a young girl.” “I was desperate and trying not to cry, but I turned the tables on him and asked him to come up with some names – but he couldn't think of any either! Then he said to me, 'I suppose you've read Dickens,' thinking I hadn't. So I said, 'Yeah, I read him at school.' In the end he said, 'Oh, I can't interview her,' and left the stage.”

TWIGGY & WOODY ALLEN My Generation (2017) dir. David Batty

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btw the meme in question:

and the song:

[paddy-garcia-70]

[unidentifiedprimate]

Shawn and Gus happy dances

[filmreveries]

“I don’t like this place. Nothing grows in the right direction.”

True Detective (2014) dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga

[dramatic-long-coats]

Rest In Peace dearest Andre Braugher. You will be terribly missed. 😭♥️

[odinsblog]

Patrick Braxton became the first Black mayor of Newbern, Alabama, when he was elected in 2020, but since then he has fought with the previous administration to actually serve in office. (Aallyah Wright/Capital B)

NEWBERN, Ala. — There’s a power struggle in Newbern, Alabama, and the rural town’s first Black mayor is at war with the previous administration who he says locked him out of Town Hall.

After years of racist harassment and intimidation, Patrick Braxton is fed up, and in a federal civil rights lawsuit he is accusing town officials of conspiring to deny his civil rights and his position because of his race.

“When I first became mayor, [a white woman told me] the town was not ready for a Black mayor,” Braxton recalls.

The town is 85% Black, and 29% of Black people here live below the poverty line.

“What did she mean by the town wasn’t ready for a Black mayor? They, meaning white people?” Capital B asked.

“Yes. No change,” Braxton says.

Decades removed from a seemingly Jim Crow South, white people continue to thwart Black political progress by refusing to allow them to govern themselves or participate in the country’s democracy, several residents told Capital B. While litigation may take months or years to resolve, Braxton and community members are working to organize voter education, registration, and transportation ahead of the 2024 general election.

But the tension has been brewing for years.

Two years ago, Braxton says he was the only volunteer firefighter in his department to respond to a tree fire near a Black person’s home in the town of 275 people. As Braxton, 57, actively worked to put out the fire, he says, one of his white colleagues tried to take the keys to his fire truck to keep him from using it.

In another incident, Braxton, who was off duty at the time, overheard an emergency dispatch call for a Black woman experiencing a heart attack. He drove to the fire station to retrieve the automated external defibrillator, or AED machine, but the locks were changed, so he couldn’t get into the facility. He raced back to his house, grabbed his personal machine, and drove over to the house, but he didn’t make it in time to save her. Braxton wasn’t able to gain access to the building or equipment until the Hale County Emergency Management Agency director intervened, the lawsuit said.

“I have been on several house fires by myself,” Braxton says. “They hear the radio and wouldn’t come. I know they hear it because I called dispatch, and dispatch set the tone call three or four times for Newbern because we got a certain tone.”

This has become the new norm for Braxton ever since he became the first Black mayor of his hometown in 2020. For the past three years, he’s been fighting to serve and hold on to the title of mayor, first reported by Lee Hedgepeth, a freelance journalist based in Alabama.

Incorporated in 1854, Newbern, Alabama, today has a population of 275 people — 85% of whom are Black. (Aallyah Wright/Capital B)

Not only has he been locked out of the town hall and fought fires alone, but he’s been followed by a drone and unable to retrieve the town’s mail and financial accounts, he says. Rather than concede, Haywood “Woody” Stokes III, the former white mayor, along with his council members, reappointed themselves to their positions after ordering a special election that no one knew about.

Braxton is suing them, the People’s Bank of Greensboro, and the postmaster at the U.S. Post Office.

For at least 60 years, there’s never been an election in the town. Instead, the mantle has been treated as a “hand me down” by the small percentage of white residents, according to several residents Capital B interviewed. After being the only one to submit qualifying paperwork and statement of economic interests, Braxton became the mayor.

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[bluesandbbq]

Hanging out with my son, Chef J-Biscuit, at his new gig. He is chef and apprentice pitmaster at the recently opened Woody's Bar & Grill in Oak Ridge, TN. Lots of great BBQ on the menu and daily dessert specials. The BBQ Pulled Pork Sammy is the best I have had in a long time. Killer smoker that the crew built too. Love those hatchet handles. • Very proud of Josh. He has followed his passions and dreams, and he's damn good at it. • 💨🐖🪓 • #BBQ #bbqtour #BBQLou #woodys #tourdebbq #tennessee #oakridge #smoke https://www.instagram.com/p/ClTusCLuEZM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[dopescissorscashwagon]

So Beautiful! ❤️

📸 by Nikole Woody

[outfitsinspiration]

Who: Alice Minns from oliviaandalice

What: Woodys Neret 03 Sunglasses (169.00€) When: Instagram - May 16, 2024

Worn with: Agolde jacket, Dawn & Dare vest, Damson Madder. shorts, Topshop cap, River Island pumps, Ganni bag

[zegalba]

Andy Goldsworthy: Woody Creek, Colorado (2006)

Curved sticks laid around a river boulder. Took longer to find the sticks than to make the work.

[kweerfish]

publicity stills from True Detective: Season One (2014). starring Matthew McConaughey (Rust Cohle) and Woody Harrelson (Marty Hart).

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True Detective//1x01

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1988

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and now… chaos

BONUS