#Frank Whitten

[todaysdocument]

Indictment [p.1, 11], 7/31/1922, of Clure Isenhouer and others for the Green Corn Rebellion, an Oklahoma tenant farmers’ revolt against the WWI Draft.

File Unit: 1553: United States v. Clure Isenhouer, et. al., 1907 - 1981

Series: Criminal Case Files, 1907 - 1981

Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685 - 2009

Transcription:

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF OKLAHOMA.

United States of America, Plaintiff

vs.

Clue Isenhouer, Obe Isenhouer, Daniel Isenhouer, J.L. Bohannon, Tobe Simons, John Shirey, Walter Phillips, French, alias "Daddy" Henry, Frank [deleted] Defendant Banning, J. R. Sparkman, C. W. Morris, Earl Whitten, Clarence Roberts and William Ellis), John Snyder, Defendants.

INDICTMENT FOR VIOLATION OF SECTIONS

4 AND 6 OF THE FEDERAL PENAL CODE.

At a Special Term of the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Oklahoma, begun and held at the City of Oklahoma City, in said District, on the seventeen, the Grand Jurors of the United States of America, within and for said District, having been duly summoned, empanelled [sic], sworn and charged to inquire into and true presentment make of all public offenses against the laws of the United States of America, committed within said District, is said State of Oklahoma, upon their oaths aforesaid, in the name and by the authority of the United States of America, do find and present:

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of Congress approved May 18, 1917, and the said Proclamation and Regulations of the President of the United States, and [inserted: to] refuse obedience thereto, in that any person subject to military duty and service under the provisions of said Act of Congress approved May 18, 1917, and the said Proclamation and Regulations of the President of the United States, should resist the enforcement of said Act of Congress approved May 18, 1917, and the said Proclamation and Regulations of the President of the United States, and refuse obedience thereto, and that they, the said Clure Isenhouer, Obe Isenhouer, Daniel Isenhouer, J.L. Bohannon, Tobe Simons, John Shirey, [inserted, handwritten: John Snyder], Walter Phillips, (French, (alias "Daddy") Henry), Frank Banning, (J. R. Sparkman,) C. W. Morris, Earl Whitten, (Clarence Roberts and William Ellis) would aid and assist such persons by force of arms and by harboring such persons in so resisting the enforcement of said Act of Congress approved May 18, 1917, and the said Proclamation of the President of the United States and the Regulations prescribed by the President of the United States under the authority of said Act of Congressmen approved May 18, 1917, and in refusing obedience thereto.

And so the Grand Jurors aforesaid, upon their oaths aforesaid, do say that the said Clure Isenhouer, Obe Isenhouer, Daniel Isenhouer, J.L. Bohannon, Tobe Simons, John Shirey, [inserted, handwritten: John Snyder], Walter Phillips, (French, (alias "Daddy") Henry), Frank Banning, (J. R. Sparkman,) C. W. Morris, Earl Whitten, (Clarence Roberts and William Ellis) did, at the time and place and in the manner aforesaid, incite an insurrection against the authority and the laws of the United States, to-wit, the Act of Congress approved May 18, 1917, entitled "An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States", and the Proclamation of the President of the United States and the Regulations prescribed by the President of the United States under authority of the said Act of Congress

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#archivesgov #July 31 #1922 #1920s #World War I #WWI #the draft #insurrection #Oklahoma #Green Corn Rebellion

[redbelles]

tagged by: @neuxue

five songs on repeat this week:

i. trapped - bruce springsteen ii. gun shy (live) - natalie merchant iii. mary - patty griffin iv. guts - susumu hirasawa v. brilliant disguise - bruce springsteen

last movie i watched: the batman (2022)

currently watching: berserk (1997) yes i did just watch it yes i'm watching it again no i am not taking questions at this time

currently reading: berserk by kentaro miura, the foxglove king by hannah whitten, the lost ones by anita frank, and white cat, black dog by kelly link

tagging @sluttyhenley @majicmarker @littlelindentree @linearao3 @jacyevans @tomcriuse @hyperphonic and anyone else who wants a go ✨

#dash games

[kwebtv]

Mysterious Island - Family Channel - June 15, 1995 - November 9, 1995

Adventure (22 episodes)

Running Time: 60 minutes

Frank Whitten as Ayrton

Colette Stevenson as Joanna Pencroft

Alan Scarfe as Captain Cyrus Harding

C. David Johnson as Jack Pencroft

Stephen Lovatt as Gideon Spilett

Gordon Michael Woolvett as Herbert Pencroft

Andy Marshall as Neb Brown

John Bach as Captain Nemo

#Mysterious Island #TV #Family Channel #Adventure #1995 #1990's #Colette Stevenson #Alan Scarfe #C. David Johnson #Stephen Lovatt #Gordon Michael Woolvett #Andy Marshall #John Bach

[oldsalempost-blog]

The Old Salem Post

                   Our  Local Tamassee-Salem SC Area News each Monday except holidays                                          Contact: [email protected]                              Distributed to local businesses, town hall, library.                           

Volume 7 Issue 1                                                                                   Week of November 20, 2023                https://www.tumblr.com/settings/blog/oldsalempost-blog                                                         Lynne Martin Publishing

EDITOR: Happy Birthday to The Old Salem Post which began exactly 6 years ago today when I decided our town needed its own newspaper. The Town of Salem has supported every step of this endeavor.  Thank you to the Town of Salem, our readers, guest writers, and everyone who continues to encourage and enjoy this local paper. May you feel blessed and grateful this Thanksgiving. For, our blessings far out weigh our trials, as we will face trials. God’s promises can help us through the tough days. Yesterday I was thinking about the scriptures “ in all things give thanks…”  “ in prayer and supplication make your requests known...giving thanks…”  Now, who is grateful when they have to go through a trial?  I have silently said that to God.  But the answer returns, “ I am with you always…”  which is a sweet reminder to always nurture my relationship with Him, my Friend, Comforter, Strength, and Hope, no matter what the day brings. Give thanks in Everything! Lynne RMartin

TOWN of SALEM:  Town of Salem Christmas Parade will be Sunday, Dec 3, at 4pm. Theme:  The Spirit of Christmas.  Sign up  944-2819.  Line up at 3pm Eagles Nest Art Center, 4 Eagle Lane.  Judging will be held 3:15pm.  Overall Winner, Best Theme, Best Church, Best Organization Float, Best Dance, Best Band, with 1st and 2nd place awarded in each category.  We are collecting for Toys for Tots through end of November. Taking applications for anyone who needs Toys for Tots up to age 15.  Must come by the Town Hall by November 30th.        *Downtown Market every Sat 8am-12pm. *  

SALEM LIBRARY:  Located 5B Park Ave, Salem.  Regular hours: Monday 10am-6pm, Tues-Friday 9am-5pm Closed for Thanksgiving.  Don’t miss this opportunity: CHAIR YOGA on December 8th —-11am at the Salem Community Center. All ages and abilities. Wear comfy clothes and show up! Bring friends!

JOCASSEE VALLEY BREWING COMPANY,(JVBC) & COFFEE SHOP* 13412 N Hwy 11 Open  Wed–Sat 9am-9pm and Sunday 2pm-7pm.  Events this week: Wed: open Thurs: CLOSED for THANKSGIVING  Fri: Food:  WING WAGON SOUTH 5pm  Music:  SPALDING McINTOSH  6:30pm  Sat- Food: PaChuy Street Tacos  Music:  Steve McGaha at 6:30pm  Sunday 2pm-7pm.       864-873-0048.  

ASHTON RECALLS:  by Ashton Hester

SALEM SCHOOL NEWS, OCTOBER 16, 1963 - Following are some of the items that were in the "Salem School News" column in the October 16, 1963 Keowee Courier. . .To the 25 seniors flashing those brightly colored blue set rings which arrived last week, we salute you! You have earned them through 11 years of hard work. . .Believe it or not, statistically speaking, we have 88 boys and 88 girls in our high school this year. . .We are offering three new courses in our curriculum this year--German, taught by Frank Richardson; business law, taught by Mrs. Rochester; and speech, taught by Mrs. Whitten. . .The seniors have already sold over $500 in ads for their yearbook. They hope to have the biggest one yet. . .Our bus drivers this year are Ruth Childress, Mary Littleton, Larry Jones, Milton Campbell, Marshall Redman and Max Littleton. . .We welcome Mrs. Ernest Riley of Seneca to our school staff. She is teaching a combination grade in the elementary school and also teaches 7th grade science and has a 9th grade study hall. . .Our first grade has 36 energetic, enthusiastic and eager-to-learn boys and girls. We commend Mrs. Elrod for the learning these children receive every day. . .The 25 girls and 21 boys who are out for the basketball teams this year are practicing hard with Coach Frank Richardson. . .The superintendent's house is being renovated, which is appreciated by him and his family

Jottings from Miz Jeannie  by Jeannie Barnwell                                                                    Reflections on Emily Bronte's LAST LINES   "Though  Earth and Man were gone,  And sun and universe ceased to be,  And Thou, Divine Creator, were left alone,  Every existence would exist in thee."                                                                                                                    Remember the COLD WAR? For most of our lives, it seemed a real possibility that a nuclear Holocaust loomed on the horizon.   Friends, it's getting ugly and hateful again.  I offer you this gemlike gift of poetry to commit to memory and tuck away in your heart... Whatever lies ahead, GOD'S GOT THIS...  Happy Thanksgiving! We can all feel blessed that providence brought us to dwell in Oconee County!  Love, Miz Jeannie

*Listen to your local Sony 107.9 radio. You will love it. Thanks to Jazzy Jeff for supporting local. LRM  

UPCOMING EVENTS!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Christmas Talent Showcase: Dec 2  6pm-8:00pm. Tickets $5  Showcase your Christmas talent.  Don your Christmas attire and be a part of bringing Christmas Spirit to our community.  Email [email protected] or call 864-888-5663   We still need more acts. Call to share your excitement and blessings of the Christmas with our community! 864-280-1258              Drive Through Living Nativity Dec 8,9,10 from 6pm-8pm   Drive through 4 Eagle Lane and revisit the birth of Christ.

Christmas  with the Johnson Edition:  Dec 16 at  7pm    Tickets $10  Reserve your seats and  Bring your family to enjoy delightful time together for the holidays with this talented local family, rising in the ranks of the music world. They stay booked with events, churches, Dollywood, and beyond.                                       Visit our website at Eaglesnestartcenter.org for events and ticket information.                                                               

GIFT IDEA:   Name a seat at ENAC! A single name is $200 and a couple or family  is $250.  This makes a wonderful gift to support this special community venue.   Please call Darlene at  864 710-8758.

                                                                    CHURCH NEWS                                                                                                                                                            Bethel Presbyterian Church (PCUSA), 580 Bethel Church Rd Walhalla, 29691, worships at 10:30 a.m. November Schedule: November 26, Mel Davis. Love to sing?  Join us! Love to be in charge? Come lead! All worshipers are welcome.  

INVITATION TO ALL CHURCHES:  The Eagles Nest Art Center needs your help in spreading the Spirit of Christmas which is the theme of the Salem Christmas Parade.  On Saturday night, December 2 at 6pm the ENAC needs the community and all churches to share the Spirit of Christmas, in all forms of art:  instrumental, song, dance, skits, poetry, and more.  Come showcase your church and share the message of Christmas.  Free admission for performers.   Contact 864-280-1258                                                                                                                         

HoneyComb Project  Ministry of Martha Loftis Watson, friend and former teacher of Tamassee-Salem Hish School.  Join Zoom Meeting  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3202681443?pwd=SFl6YkJ3Qk1POTJwNUgwcWFUeU9QZz09  Meeting ID: 320 268 1443   Passcode: r395tb

* FRIENDSGIVING:  Palmetto Spoon and Twice a Town Taproom  will be  serving FriendsGiving ,Free Thanksgiving Dinner plates while they last beginning at 12pm.  If you know someone who needs a plate delivered call the Town Hall up until Wednesday before 12pm.  (Salem Town Hall will close for Thanksgiving.)

School District of Oconee County:  The next public meeting is Monday, December 11 at 6pm. We need support to protest the closing of our Tamassee-Salem Elementary School.  Send each board member an email, found on the Oconee County School District website,  with valid reasons to protect our school, and our tax-payer dollars invested on Highway 11.  The 20 acres of land and building will return to the Tamassee DAR if they close T-S El.  How will that save tax payers money when the school board will need to purchase more land in the future at who knows the cost of future land.  T-S El is an asset now as well an investment for the future already  in our possession.  School Administration wants to give away this valuable asset. I believe without a doubt the scriptures of Mark 9:23  when Jesus said,  “All things are possible to him that believes.”  I am holding on to that promise!  Please join me and pray for hearts to open, ears to hear, and eyes to see.  We can save this school if everyone with help speak up, and send the message.   LRMartin

Printing by the Town of Salem    Blessings of Thanksgiving! LRM 

[onthemerits]

what consumes my brain

** = not finished with it

books/audiobooks

The Bone Season (Anniversary Edition) by Samantha Shannon ** Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon ** Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchet ** Bunny by Mona Awad** The Bone Orchard by Sara A Mueller** For the Wolf by Hannah Whitten** Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia** Juniper and Thorn by Ava Reid Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid Half-Light by Frank Bidart Scholomance Series by Naomi Novik Hell Bent (Ninth House) by Leigh Bardugo All of Our Demise (All of Us Villains) by Amanda Foody & Christine Lynn Herman The Mask Falling (Bone Season) by Samantha Shannon

tv/movies

buffy the vampire slayer

music

#current rotation #if things just disappear its bc i finished them and am not going to be obsessed with them #currently consuming is in large font #intro #about me #book recs

[ohjohnno]

Outrageous Fortune Reviewcap: S1E09 (”When The Blood Burns”)

I’ve been demurring on this one, partly because of real life shit (well, mostly that to be honest) but also because this episode isn’t all that good. It’s an episode entirely centering around Antony Starr’s characters, and I sure hope they paid him double, cos the range he needed for it was tremendous. But, unfortunately, one of those characters (Van) just isn’t all that interesting yet, and the other (Jethro) is ill-served by one of the dumbest and most unfortunate sideplots the show has yet had. So, without further ado, we’ll get this one out of the way, and I’ll try and keep it short. 

We open with a dual appearance from the two most irritating characters in the show: Tracy and Suzy Hong, their differences now thoroughly mended and united in enjoying themselves by tormenting Van.

Yeah, it’s as insufferable as it looks. An incensed Van finally snaps and threatens to quit; Mr. Hong overhears, but Van finally manages to stand up for himself and it pays off: Mr. Hong makes him manager of one of his local little stores, which seems to sell mostly cheap novelty junk. I’m not entirely sure why he does this, honestly, but it’s a mildly important character moment for Van, so okay, I guess?

Meanwhile, in the West household, things are getting a little crazy.

Cheryl and Kacey are promoting their new underwear business with a sorta quasi-striptease party, hosted by and for middle-aged women. It’s one of the aspects of the episode I like best, not because the women are sexy but more because they really aren’t; they’re a bunch of trashy fortysomething women, reminding the world that it isn’t just model-type people who like having sex, or who know how to have fun with it. Kacey makes this explicit with a little barb at the morbidly fascinated Pascalle, telling her they didn’t offer to use her as a model because they wanted to use “real women”, which is a nice reminder that toxic standards of femininity cut cruelly in both directions. So, yeah, good segment - made all the better by the horror of the younger girls who’ve been dragged along.

Van returns, utterly nonplussed at the scene before him, and they all retreat to the bedroom. Antony Starr’s comic acting here is great, actually - he follows the others to the room and finds them using his drugs with an indignant and confused response of “well... don’t!”, and it makes me laugh every time. Draska expresses some clear interest in him, which he once again ignores, as usual. The next scene is where the plot properly begins.

The gist of it is this: the Hongs’ local store has their goods transported from warehouse to shelf by Draska’s clan, the Doslics. Van discovers that there’s a discrepancy between the number of trading cards he was meant to be shipped and the number he actually received; he goes and politely asks the Doslics about it, and they do not take that well.

   I come from good people - HONEST people! Made strong by our troubles!

Naturally, they think he’s accusing them of thievery. Naturally, this makes Van pretty sure they really are committing thievery, and a raging Mr. Hong agrees. The two proceed to keep escalating tensions, and the rest of the Wests get caught in the crossfire; mama Doslic gets into a fight with Cheryl in a supermarket car park, Pascalle finds her old tyre-modelling photos all defaced with violent graffiti, and it’s all mildly funny but also kinda dull. Eventually, it turns out that Van’s mate Munter has been stealing the cards from the warehouse all along, using the keys Van gave him for safekeeping. This is not the last time Van will find himself victimized by the consequences of his own actions.

I’m blasting through *a lot* of this plot here really quickly, and that’s cos it just isn’t very interesting for the most part. It’s trying to be a farce, mostly, and it sometimes succeeds; Van’s initial confrontation with the Doslics is really quite funny, and his steadily increasing panic as the situation just goes more and more wrong isn’t bad either. But it’s all a bit too by-the-numbers and predictable, and in the end none of the stakes feel real; we all know that in an episode like this, the Hongs and the Doslics were never really gonna properly come to blows, and they don’t. Van confesses a lot of stuff to Draska in a couple of secret meetings, and while he’s initially paranoid about her loyalty, she proves herself by finding a way to fix the issue; she places all the blame for the break-ins on Eric (who was selling the stolen cards anyway, after buying them from Munter) and the two families come together to absolutely motherfucking whoop the guy’s ass, leaving him looking rather worse for wear. 

      ...next thing I know I’m getting the shit kicked out of me by half the West                                                   Auckland United Nations!

If I have a favorite moment in this plot, it’s probably near the beginning, when the elder Doslic is first bringing in what he believes to be the full shipment of cards. He’s ranting and raving, the whole time he does it, about how much he just damn well hates the “chinks” and their terrible language skills, not to mention their driving - all while speaking in a heavy Croatian accent himself and also, oh yeah, taking their money. This show really does get quite a lot of comedy out of the idea that solidarity between marginalized groups really just doesn’t exist.

The rest of it, though? I mean, it does contain a couple of important moments, I guess. Van, after initially lying to protect Munter and only making everything worse, is genuinely willing to offer himself up, blame himself entirely, and essentially sacrifice himself in order to save everyone’s hides, and only doesn’t end up doing it because Draska fixes it all before he has to. That’s a nice reminder that Van, at his core, really is a genuinely good person, and that his internal conflict as a character all comes from the tension between that and the toxic masculinity he’s had indoctrinated deep within him by his father and the culture he’s grown up in. Cheryl demonstrates where her loyalties lie and takes Van’s side without a second’s hesitation after mama Doslic shows up with complaints; for all her problems with Van, she really does love him unconditionally. But there’s also too much stuff that doesn’t come off, like Van’s boring interactions with a mildly delinquent kid who likes the trading cards, or Tracy’s ever-one-dimensional mistreatment of Van. 

Still, at least it’s better than Jethro’s plot.

Remember how Tracy knows now about Jethro’s little rape-by-deception thing a few episodes ago? Well, she still doesn’t seem to be thinking of it as rape, but she is trying to get him to apologize for it nonetheless. Jethro, meanwhile, wants to root her again, and he knows he can’t do that without apologizing. So Jethro’s plot this episode is several scenes in a row of him miserably failing to pull off a convincing apology, and... that’s it, really. Hugh’s back, being annoying as usual (though it’s intentional enough that it doesn’t bother me too much), and Loretta briefly shows up to mock him for how bad he is at apologizing (talk about the pot calling the kettle black!), but for the most part this is all really redundant and dull. The only interesting part comes in Loretta’s video shack, where Jethro straight up lies to Caroline’s face, right in front of Loretta, in order to make himself some free time to go and keep trying it with Tracy. Loretta, of course, is too sociopathic to feel sorry for her, and we all knew a couple of episodes ago that Jethro wasn’t gonna be able to maintain it with her as a regular relationship, but the beginnings of heartbreak on Caroline’s face as she begins to get an inkling, in her subconscious, of what’s going on is genuinely sad.

But the ending of this plot? It’s awful, and in a really unfortunate way. In the end, see, it turns out Tracy never really wanted an apology; she likes Jethro, doesn’t really care about the fact that he deceived her in such an intimate way, and wants it with him again. She decides he’s ready when... he just refuses to apologize one time, admitting he isn’t sorry because (and this is possibly the worst line of dialogue in the whole show, so brace yourselves): “why would I be, when it was the best fuck I’ve ever had?” 

Eugh.

So they start having an affair, and that’ll stay important. Meanwhile, Van’s plot ends similarly, in the superficial respect: Draska finally convinces him to have sex with her, as a celebration for the two of them getting out of that little escapade with everything intact, and it’s also the start of a relationship. Her toxicity, of course, has been evident the whole time from her unhealthy fixation on him, but if she demonstrated anything in this episode it was her intelligence and resourcefulness, so one suspects bad things on the horizon for Van. Nothing much happens with the rest of the characters - Loretta doesn’t do much other than the aforementioned mockery of Jethro and some mildly funny jabs at Pascalle’s choice of career, and Pascalle doesn’t do much other than get all horrified by what’s been done to her poster. On the whole, then, this is a disappointing episode, and maybe the worst one so far. Van will get good, I promise - the potential is all there already. But we’ve still gotta wait for now. Until next time.

#Antonia Prebble #Siobhan Marshall #antony starr #Robyn Malcolm #grant bowler #television #outrageous fortune #Frank Whitten #rachel lang #Gutter Black #nz

[allaroundjejje]

#outrageous fortune #ngaire munroe #ted west #cheryl west #elena #aaron spiller #hayden peters #loretta west #pascalle west #Elizabeth Hawthorne #frank whitten #robyn malcolm #brooke williams #wesley dowdell #shane cortese #antonia prebble #siobhan marshall #allaroundjejje

[geekcavepodcast]

Transformers: War For Cybertron Trilogy: Siege New York Toy Fair Trailer

Netflix and Hasbro have released the first trailer for Transformers: War For Cybertron Trilogy: Siege, coming soon to Netflix. The first chapter of the trilogy, Siege, will contain six 22-minute episodes. The series stars the voice talents of Jake Foushee as Optimus Prime, Jason Marnocha as Megatron, Linsay Rousseau as Elita-1, Joe Zieja as Bumblebee, Frank Todaro as Starscream, Rafael Goldstein as Ratchet, Keith Silverstein as Jetfire, Todd Haberkorn as Shockwave and Red Alert, Edward Bosco as Ultra Magnus and Soundwave, Bill Rogers as Wheeljack, Sophia Isabella as Arcee, Brook Chalmers as Impactor, Shawn Hawkins as Mirage, Kaiser Johnson as Ironhide, Miles Luna as Teletraan I and Cliffjumper, and Mark Whitten as Sideswipe and Skywarp.

#transformers #transformers war for cybertron #netflix #hasbro #jake foushee #jason marnocha #linsay rousseau #joe zieja #frank todaro #rafael goldstein #keith silverstein #todd haberkorn #edward bosco #bill rogers #sophia isabella #brook chalmers #shawn hawkins #kaiser johnson #miles luna #mark whitten #TGCLiz

[graphicpolicy]

Baltimore Welcomes Russ Braun, Frank Cho, Garth Ennis, Scott Hanna, Emily Whitten, and Thom Zahler

Baltimore Welcomes Russ Braun, Frank Cho, Garth Ennis, Scott Hanna, Emily Whitten, and Thom Zahler #BaltimoreComicCon #BCC #BCC2021 #BCC21

Don’t miss Baltimore Comic-Con, taking place the weekend of October 22-24, 2021 at the Inner Harbor’s Baltimore Convention Center. The Baltimore Comic-Con is thrilled to announce the appearances of Russ Braun, Frank Cho, Garth Ennis (Friday and Saturday only), Scott Hanna, Emily Whitten, and Thom Zahler at the 2021 event. You can get your tickets online now! Russ Braun has been drawing comics…

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#baltimore comic con #emily whitten #frank cho #garth ennis #russ braun #scott hanna #thom zahler

[dailyunsolvedmysteries]

Karina Holmer; The Unsolved Murder Of 20-Year-Old Swedish Nanny

Karina Holmer, 19, was overjoyed after winning a $1500 lottery ticket in Sweden. She used the money to relocate to the United States, where she found work as an au pair in Boston. In the meantime, she started working as a nanny in Dover, Massachusetts for Frank Rapp and Susan Nichter. Karina had a likable personality, was intelligent, and beautiful, all of which helped her make new friends quickly. 

Karina and her friends visited Zanzibar Nightclub, their favorite nightclub. Karina, who was 20 at the time, used a fake ID to fool the guards into believing she was 21. Karina went to the loft with her friends; she was last seen near the intersection of Boylston and Tremont, shortly after closing time, and most of her friends had left before her. Karina was dating a local police officer at the time of her death.

Nobody knows what happened to Karina after she entered the club; she left around 3 a.m. It’s unclear whether she left the club by herself or with another person. Karina allegedly became quite drunk and attempted to locate her friends in the club, but when she couldn’t, she stepped outside and promptly vanished.

On June 23, 1996, the top half of Karina Holmer’s torso was discovered in a trash bin behind an apartment building at 1091 Boylston Street. Her body might not have been discovered if it hadn’t been for a homeless man digging through the trash for bottles and cans. When he touched the bag, he realized it contained a person, and while digging through the garbage, he discovered the severed torso of Karina Holmer, 20.

According to the investigators, Karina’s body was cut in half, and it appeared to be the work of an expert. Only one bone, her spine, had to be severed to separate the bodies. The most heart-breaking aspect of Karina’s heinous murder is that her lower half has never been found. It’s still missing after two decades, and it’s very unlikely that it’ll ever be found, and even if it is, it won’t be able to collect any evidence.  The main reason no one has been charged in the murder is that there was no crime scene.

The little evidence recovered from the scene was a partial fingerprint found in the garbage bag in which Karina’s body was discovered, as well as rope marks on her neck, indicating that she was strangled to death before being dismembered.

After determining that the girl was Karina, police arrived at Rapp and Nichter’s home in Dover and discovered that their trash bin was on fire. They took the ashes from the trash to the Boston police for analysis, but there was no sign of Karina’s remains, blood, or anything else in the trash that could help the investigation.

Prior to her murder, she also spoke with Herb Whitten, a 48-year-old man from Andover who would drive to the city on weekends with his dog, dressed in Superman T-shirts. Whitten was arrested by police the day after Karina’s body was discovered; he had received a speeding ticket while driving back to Andover early that morning, providing him with an alibi despite the fact that he committed suicide a year later.

She also wrote to family and friends at home a few weeks before her death that “something terrible had happened” and that she would reveal more when she comes home.

#Karina Holmer #unsolved mysteries #cold cases #unsolved #true crime

[celestialmazer]

Julie Mehretu, Untitled 2, 1999. Private collection. Courtesy of White Cube. © Julie Mehretu

Julie Mehretu, Hineni (E. 3:4), 2018. Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée national d’art moderne/Centre de création industrielle; gift of George Economou, 2019. © Julie Mehretu. Photography:Tom Powel Imaging

Julie Mehretu, Mind-Wind Field Drawings (quarantine studio, d.h.) #1, 2019-2020. Private collection, courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery New York/Paris. © Julie Mehretu. Photography courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery

Julie Mehretu, Mogamma (A Painting in Four Parts) Part 1, 2012. Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. © Julie Mehretu. Photography: White Cube, Ben Westoby

Julie Mehretu, Conjured Parts (eye), Ferguson, 2016. The Broad Art Foundation, Los Angeles. © Julie Mehretu. Photography: Cathy Carver

Julie Mehretu, Migration Direction Map (large), 1996. Private collection. © Julie Mehretu. Photography: Tom Powel Imaging

At home with artist Julie Mehretu

CAMILLE OKHIO - 25 MAR 2021

Julie Mehretu speaks with the joy and conviction of someone who has had the freedom to investigate all their interests. Curiosity has led her to the myriad topics, objects and moments that inform her work, among them cartography, archaeology, the birth of civilisation and mycology. Since the 1990s, her practice has expanded outwardly in all directions like a spider web. A lack of understanding and preconceived notions among reviewers have often led to her work being flattened – simplified so that it is easily digestible – but in reality, her work is far from a simplistic investigation of any one topic. It encompasses multitudes.

The artist’s recent paintings are mostly large scale, but her early works on paper (often created with multiple layers – one sheet of Mylar on top of another) are as small as a six-inch square. The works often comprise innumerable minuscule markings – tremendous force and knowledge communicated through delicate inkings and streaks. Their layers reveal, rather than obfuscate. And though Mehretu’s creative process springs from a desire to understand herself better, the work itself is in no way autobiographical. 

Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on the tails of a continental rejection of colonialism, and raised there, then in Michigan, Mehretu has a flexible and full-hearted understanding of home. It is not one physical place, but many, all holding equal importance. On 25 March, Mehretu will present her first major retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, with works spanning 1996 to 2019. The institution is an important one for Mehretu, as it played host to several pivotal shows in her youth.

Her exhibition has served as an impetus for Mehretu to look back at her already prolific career, observing and organising the thoughts, questions and answers she has put forth for over two decades. The six years it took to bring this exhibition together proved an incredibly valuable time of reflection, fatefully dovetailing with a year of quarantine. 

Wallpaper*: Where are you as we speak?

Julie Mehretu: I’m in my studio on 26th Street, right on the West Side Highway. I’ve worked here for 11 years.

W*: Are there any artists, writers or thinkers that have had a meaningful impact on you?

JM: I don’t know how to answer that because there are literally so many! It’s constantly changing. Right now, Kara Walker, David Hammons, William Pope.L, and younger artists like Jason Moran (who has made amazing work around abstraction). There are so many artists that have been informative and important to me: Frank Bowling, Jack Whitten, Caravaggio.

I also look at a lot of prehistoric work, from as far back as 60,000 years ago, as well as cave paintings from 6th century China and early prehistoric drawings in the caves of Australia. 

W*: What’s the most interesting thing you have read, watched or listened to recently?

JM: For the last few weeks I’ve been immersed in Steve McQueen films. I’ve been bingeing on lovers rock music. And a TV show that really moved me was [Michaela Cole’s] I May Destroy You. It’s difficult, but it was really well done and powerful. 

Ocean Vuong’s novel On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous is amazing. The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is a really incredible book too – she studies this mushroom that became a delicacy in Japan in the 7th century. It started growing in deforested areas – it’s in these places destroyed by human beings that these mushrooms survive. [I find it interesting] that this mushroom grows on the edge of precarity and destruction. Like with Black folks, there is a constant aspect of insisting on yourself and reinventing yourself in the midst of constant effort of destruction. 

W*: What was the first piece of art you remember seeing? How did you feel about it?

JM: One of the first times I remember being moved by a work of art was looking through my mother’s Rembrandt book. We brought so few things back from Ethiopia and that was one of them. [Particularly] Rembrandt’s The Sacrifice of Isaac. That story is so intense. I was so moved by the light and the skin and the way the paint made light and skin. 

W*: Do you travel? If so, what does travel afford you, and what have you missed about it during Covid-19?

JM: I travel a lot, but I haven’t travelled this year. There has been this amazing sense of suspension and a pause in that. I miss travelling, but going to look at art, watching films, reading novels and listening to music is the way I travel now. For instance, I’ve been listening to Afro-Peruvian music and now I want to go to Peru.

Before I know it we will be back in this fast-paced, zooming-around environment – there is something I want to savour by staying here, now, in this time and absorbing as much as I can.

W*: You are said to have a vast collection of objects and images. Walk me through your collection – what areas, materials, makers and things have the largest presence and why?

JM: When you enter our home there is this long hallway. Framed along the wall we have around 20 fluorescent Daniel Joseph Martinez block-printed posters he made with words – almost poems. Our kids grew up reading those. One says ‘Sometimes I can’t breathe’ and another one says ‘Don’t work’, while some are really long.

We also have a great Paul Pfeiffer photograph of one from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse series. We have a group of Richard Tuttle etchings right over our dining table. We have an amazing David Hammons body print as well, and my kids’ work is all over the house.

W*: As the daughter of immigrants and an immigrant yourself – how do you conceptualise home and how do you create it?

JM: There were a lot of times I felt very transient – as a student and a young adult, going in and out of school and residency programmes. It always came back to music and food. There are certain flavours, foods, music, smells that you take wherever you go. Also as a mother, I’m building a home for my children. Home becomes something else because of them. They are the core of home now. 

W* How has motherhood affected your practice?

JM: I became much more productive when I had kids for several reasons – one is that I felt a lot of pressure to make [work] in the time I wasn’t with them, which of course is unsustainable. A large part of making is not making – thinking and searching. 

When I got to work I could get into it much more quickly. Kids grow and change so fast, you feel time is passing so you need to use it. I wasn’t going to stop working, that’s for sure. All women who are pushing in their lives make that choice. 

W*: What is your favourite myth and why does it hold importance for you?

JM: Right now I’m reading Greek myths to my ten-year-old. We’ve read them before, but he wanted to read them again. I still read to him at night even though he’s a voracious reader himself.

The myths I remember the most are myths I’ve come across in visual works. Titian’s Diana and Actaeon – I know that myth so well because of his painting. Bernini’s mesmerising sculpture of Apollo and Daphne I saw in Rome, where her body becomes a tree. The leaves are so delicately carved into the marble, it’s a work of incredible beauty. I’ve been considering this deconstructionist approach to mythology. Storytelling becomes this place to interrogate propositions, which is what I think mythology does.

W*: Have you experienced a flattening of your work?

JM: I’m always concerned with flattening and pigeonholing. That is something that happens to artists like us all the time. When I first was working and showing there was a bit of that happening with my work. It was put into the space of cartography or an architectural analysis of it. It was said to be autobiographical work.

The art world tries to consume. There is this desire to flatten and the desire for Black artists to be a reflection of their experience. I don’t think any artist is like that at all. In reality, none of us are flat. We all contain multitudes and are complicated – that has always been the core of the Black radical tradition.

#julie mehretu #art #abstract art #abstract #mark making #history #geography #nature

[ninewheels]

MR. ROBOT Actors By Screen Time (because defining distinct “characters” is a little more confusing in this show)

Rami Malek as Elliot Alderson - 744:30 minutes Carly Chaikin as Darlene Alderson - 268:15 minutes Christian Slater as Mr. Robot / Edward Alderson - 213:45 minutes Portia Doubleday as Angela Moss - 200:30 minutes Grace Gummer as Agent Dominique DiPierro - 152:45 minutes Martin Wallström as Tyrell Wellick - 130:15 minutes Michael Cristofer as Philip Price - 76:30 minutes BD Wong as Whiterose/Minister Zhang Zhi - 60:45 minutes Elliot Villar as Fernando Vera - 55:45 minutes

Gloria Reuben as Dr. Krista Gordon - 54:30 minutes Stephanie Corneliussen as Joanna Wellick - 44:45 minutes Azhar Khan as Sunil “Mobley” Markesh - 44:30 minutes Bobby Cannavale as Irving - 37:30 minutes Sunita Mani as Shama “Trenton” Biswas - 32:30 minutes Michael Drayer as Francis “Cisco” Shaw - 30 minutes Michel Gill as Gideon Goddard - 26:15 minutes Omar Metwally as Agent Ernesto Santiago - 24:30 minutes Joey Bad@$$ as Leon - 23:15 minutes Vaishnavi Sharma as Magda Alderson - 23 minutes Craig Robinson as Ray Heyworth - 22 minutes Ron Cephas Jones as Leslie Romero - 18:30 minutes Ben Rappaport as Ollie Parker - 18:30 minutes Dominik Garcia as Olivia Cortez - 18:30 minutes Frankie Shaw as Shayla Nico - 17:45 minutes Ashlie Atkinson as Janice - 17:30 minutes Brian Stokes Mitchell as Scott Knowles - 17:15 minutes Grant Chang as Grant - 14 minutes Bruce Altman as Terry Colby - 12:30 minutes Jeremy Holm as Mr. Sutherland - 10:30 minutes Sakina Jaffrey as Antara Nayar - 10:15 minutes Young M.A as Peanuts - 10:15 minutes Elisha Henig as Mohammed Biswas - 10:15 minutes Sandrine Holt as Susan Jacobs - 10 minutes Evan Whitten as young Elliot Alderson - 9:30 minutes Michele Hicks as Sharon Knowles - 9 minutes Jake Busey as Freddy Lomax - 9 minutes Ross Kurt Le as young Zhang Zhi - 8:45 minutes Eugene Shaw as Chen - 8:30 minutes Chris Conroy as Derek - 8:15 minutes Aidan Liebman as young Elliot Alderson - 8 minutes Rick Gonzalez as Isaac Vera - 7:30 minutes Jon Glaser as Tobias - 7 minutes Jahneer E. Williams as Javi - 6:30 minutes Jing Xu as Wang Shu - 5:30 minutes Armand Schultz as Michael Hansen - 5:30 minutes Julia Crockett as Emily Moss - 4:30 minutes Aaron Takahashi as Lloyd Chung - 4:30 minutes Rizwan Manji as Norm - 4:15 minutes Don Sparks as Don Moss - 3:30 minutes Erik Jensen as Frank Cody - 3:15 minutes Eva Jette Putrello as young Angela - 2:30 minutes

#Mr. Robot #Mr Robot #Elliot Alderson #Darlene Alderson #Angela Moss #screen time stuff #experimenting with the format slightly #also this one's been sitting half finished in my drafts for over a year whoops!

[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

Nils Lofgren - The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

It's been a crazy year — but also a Crazy Horse year! For me, anyway. This spring, I got to interview the mighty Frank "Poncho" Sampedro. And a few weeks back, I got to interview the also-mighty Nils Lofgren. A lot of fun ... maybe it's time to interview the other guy who plays guitar in Crazy Horse. Neil Somebody? Anyway, Barn is out now, and I dig it — you can even read my Uncut review of the LP online now.

And how about some kind of Crazy Horse-related rarity? Sure. Here's Nils singing that classic Danny Whitten heartbreaker "I Don't Wanna Talk About It" back on the Trans tour in 1982. I think Ralph Molina is chiming in on backing vocals, making it a lovely tribute to their fallen comrade.

#nils lofgren #neil young and crazy horse

[figdays]

Soul of a Nation Book // goodeeworld

In the period of radical change that was 1963–83, young black artists at the beginning of their careers confronted difficult questions about art, politics and racial identity. How to make art that would stand as innovative, original, formally and materially complex, while also making work that reflected their concerns and experience as black Americans?Soul of a Nation surveys this crucial period in American art history, bringing to light previously neglected histories of 20th-century black artists, including Sam Gilliam, Melvin Edwards, Jack Whitten, William T. Williams, Howardina Pindell, Romare Bearden, David Hammons, Barkley L. Hendricks, Senga Nengudi, Noah Purifoy, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, Charles White and Frank Bowling.

#book #art #history #history book #black history #black owned

[artbookdap]

A few of the texts excerpted in 'The Soul of a Nation Reader,' a Staff Pick on Juneteenth and every day.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Conceived as a reader connected to the landmark exhibition 'Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power,' which shone a light on the vital contributions made by Black artists over two decades, this anthology published by @gregoryrmiller collects over 200 texts from the artists, critics, curators and others who sought to shape and define the art of their time.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Exhaustively researched and edited by exhibition curator @markgodfrey1973 — who provides the substantial introduction — and @vampirefriendly included are rare and out-of-print texts from artists and writers, as well as texts published for the first time ever. Afterword is by @zoe.whitley⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Contributors include: Emma Amos, Dore Ashton, Amiri Baraka, Romare Bearden, Dawoud Bey, Frank Bowling, Gwendolyn Brooks, Linda Goode Bryant, John Coplans, Hugh M. Davies, Melvin Dixon, Jeff Donaldson, Emory Douglas, David C. Driskell, Melvin Edwards, Ralph Ellison, Sam Gilliam, David Hammons, Napoleon Henderson, Jay Jacobs, Jae Jarrell, Wadsworth Jarrell, Daniel LaRue Johnson, Hilton Kramer, Jacob Lawrence, Al Loving, Evangeline J. Montgomery, Toni Morrison, Lorraine O'Grady, John Outterbridge, Joe Overstreet, Marion Perkins, Howardena Pindell, Noah Purifoy, Ishmael Reed, Faith Ringgold, Barbara Rose, Betye Saar, Jeanne Siegel, Lowery Stokes Sims, Beuford Smith, Alma Thomas, Ruth Waddy, Charles White, Jack Whitten, William T. Williams, Gerald Williams, Hale Woodruff and Cherilyn C. Wright, among dozens more.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ #soulofanationreader #soulofanation #juneteenth #blackpower https://www.instagram.com/p/CQTe6SljKcH/?utm_medium=tumblr

#soulofanationreader #soulofanation #juneteenth #blackpower

[ohjohnno]

Outrageous Fortune Reviewcap: S1E08 (”My Dearest Foe”)

Well, now I see why I didn’t remember what happened in this episode. The answer, it turns out, is nothing much. This isn’t technically a filler episode - a couple of important new characters are introduced, and a plot thread is introduced at the end that will continue through just about the whole rest of the show - but the actual events of the episode are mostly inconsequential. Accordingly, I won’t spend too much time on ‘em here.

The first plot concerns Cheryl, who has now taken up a job at an insurance company. Nobody except her is especially happy with this - insurance companies, we’re informed, are “the scum of the Earth” - but Cheryl seems to like it. 

Things, alas, are not as they seem. The branch Cheryl works for turns out to be running a neat little scam, the girls there all approving each others’ bogus insurance claims; the boss lady, Penny, has been overseeing it thus far, but is looking to move on and wants Cheryl to be her replacement. She only hired her, it turns out, because of who she was, and Cheryl is quietly exasperated; no matter how she tries, she can’t seem to outrun her past. Penny also suggests that another reason she hired her was because she thinks of her as a kindred spirit in having been victimized by a terrible man; Cheryl’s not overly enthused with that suggestion either.

After a little deliberation, she turns down the offer. Penny didn’t expect that, and now fears that she’s told Cheryl enough to make her a threat; she tries to ship her off to a different branch in a place called “Pakuranga” (apparently way off elsewhere in Auckland). Cheryl, feeling betrayed, indulges in a bit of the old family tradition and steals her car, pawning it off to pay some maintenance bills; Penny fires her, and that, one might think, would be the end of it. But Penny, in a fit of pique, calls the cops on Cheryl over a stolen item she spotted in their house one time, and after an incredibly bored visit from Judd and Hickey (who have much better things to be doing), she pays Penny another visit, telling her in no uncertain terms to leave her the fuck alone before she has her friends rob the pants off her and everyone else in the office. Penny backs down.

“For your information, I’m nobody’s victim,” she tells her. Hmm. No comment.

The other main plot concerns Pascalle, and there’s barely anything there. She gets a call from the modeling agency she got registered at before she left the strip club, and they’re considering her for a charity shoot about animals. While in the waiting room, she bumps into a girl named Chantel Lazenby, a fellow model with the agency who also used to be a schoolmate. She used to be very fat, apparently, but she certainly isn’t anymore, and Van is of the belief that she’s “a dyke” (mostly because she rejected his advances once). What follows is an extremely low-stakes rivalry between the two as they both attempt to get the modelling job, mostly involving Pascalle and Chantel having a couple of glorified drinking contests and a few silly lesbian jokes. Eventually, Chantel is successful, and Pascalle is left in the dust, bitterly assuring herself that “Chantel was fat once, and you can’t escape genetics.”

That’s really it, as far as plots go. Doesn’t sound like enough to fill up an episode, does it? Well, it really isn’t - and it doesn’t. The rest of the episode is filled, mostly, with little things; interactions between various characters that have little plot significance but are fun to watch anyway. They’re the meat of this episode, and they make it a lot more likable than such an inconsequential episode really has any right to be.

For a start, Loretta - perhaps thanks to the success of her atrocity last episode - is in the very best mood we’ve ever seen her in the show so far; she’s bubbly and perky, grinning constantly, cracking jokes at everyone’s expense at the speed of light while making herself a constant nuisance for Cheryl, and, as much as I kinda hate to admit it considering what a monster she’s proven herself to be, she is absolutely delightful. We also learn that she’s one of those film nerds who considers Showgirls to be an underrated masterpiece, although she might just be teasing Van there.

There’s a running joke involving a big wooden cuckoo clock that Van (at Loretta’s behest) bought Cheryl for her birthday; it’s an ugly old thing, and it turns out to be stolen (not surprising, since Van bought it from Eric), and Cheryl hates it, which of course means Loretta completely loves it, repeatedly putting it back up on the wall every time Cheryl takes it down. “It’s a battle of wills,” she says, and it’s both hilarious and kind of oddly adorable. Also, lest we forget, Loretta having the idea to get Cheryl a present in the first place is significant - there’s a heart in there after all, it turns out, even if it behaves very strangely sometimes.

We also learn that she used to be great at Irish dancing, which will eventually be important (though not for a very long time). Elsewhere, we find Ted dealing with the fallout from last episode in his own way: poker, at the Wests’ dining table. He’s joined, over the course of the episode, by Munter (which is significant, since that makes this the first time he’s done anything plot-wise that isn’t related to Van), Eric (who’s still upset over Cheryl leaving the crime business), a new character called Falani (a very large, very crooked Samoan mechanic who will become a major supporting character eventually, and who also fixes Cheryl’s car this episode), and eventually Rochelle (who you may remember from episode four). It’s pretty high-stakes for them - they’re all playing for money - but it’s very low-stakes for the viewer, and it is also, possibly, the best part of the entire episode. 

Nothing much happens because nothing much needs to. It’s oddly relaxing to watch, actually; just a bunch of nice, simple jokes about an odd cast of various bogans playing poker against each other, subtly revealing things about themselves in the process. Falani goes on lengthy monologues about his skill at making love to his wife, but proves markedly less skilled at the patient, analytical art of the game; Munter is remarkably laid-back, enjoying softly making fun of Falani’s bad luck perhaps more than the game itself; Eric is perpetually grumpy, except when he disappears into the West bathroom and decides, for some reason, to try on some of Pascalle’s moisturizer (possibly thinking it’s Cheryl’s), which is hilarious; Rochelle is arrogant and remarkably skilled. But none of them are as good as Ted, who cleans them all out with aplomb, rarely speaking or changing his facial expression. “I feel much better now,” he says to Cheryl at one point; Cheryl isn’t so enthused with all these bums lazing around her house, but she can see his point.

Ted, at one point, has a one-on-one chat with Cheryl, noting with neither praise nor condemnation how the Wests “have never been much good at what you might call actual jobs”. We’ll see how that statement ages. Wolf turns up just long enough to justify Grant Bowler’s paycheck, his scene pretty much pointless except for how funny it is; he baked her a birthday cake, apparently, but when a car failure prevented her from arriving at the prison to pick it up “it got eaten”, and now he doesn’t want to talk about it, moping like a teenage boy behind the prison desk. 

There’s two sides to this show, basically, and this episode is the lighter one. It’s all very low-stakes and very whimsical, and if that means nothing much of consequence happens, well, that’s okay. We get to see the three West children who still live at home laughing and having fun with each other, their lives all mostly tranquil for once, giving us something of a control group for when things start to go wrong. We see the West household in a moment of peace, nothing particularly awful happening to it, nothing calamitous getting in the way of the atmosphere. It’s nice. I like it.

There’s one more thing. In this episode, we’re introduced to Kacey, an old friend of Cheryl’s with “shit taste in blokes” (her words) and a passion for designing undergarments. She talks, at first, of starting up a business, and eventually, having lost her latest job, Cheryl agrees to join her in her venture. The results from this pairing will last a very long time indeed, and Kacey will end up becoming an extremely significant character. That’s all yet to come, though.

This episode also has possibly my favorite ending to any of the less important Outrageous Fortune episodes ever. If you’ve seen it, you know what I’m talking about. Man, this show could be funny when it wanted to. And here, for the most part, that’s all it wants to do. There’s nothing wrong with that at all. After the last episode, it’s nice to have a breather. As I recall, actual important stuff kicks in again next episode. I will see you then.

#Antonia Prebble #Siobhan Marshall #antony starr #Robyn Malcolm #grant bowler #television #outrageous fortune #Frank Whitten #rachel lang #Gutter Black #nz