#Origin - USA

[brookbee]

is this too niche

#explanation: #revolution meant that desi arnaz had to escape to USA #where desi met lucille ball #and they wanted to work/stay together which meant creation of I love Lucy #as well as desilu productions #which then produced Star Trek #and Star Trek fans are then credited for inventing slash fiction #Star Trek tos #the original series #spirk #trekposting

[honeyrosepetals]

american summers

#mine #DO NOT REUPLOAD #photography #rural #southern gothic #country aesthetic #america #usa #small town america #american gothic #regional gothic #american aesthetic #ruralcore #rural gothic #rural aesthetic #summer #summer aesthetic #summercore #nostalgia #fireworks #fish #fishing #river #lake #original photography #lensblr #photographers on tumblr #american teenager

[sherrylephotography]

My photography @sherrylephotography

April 2024

Crow photo taken in the Everglades Florida USA

American Crows in Florida are small with large feet. Crows in the Pacific Northwest were formerly known as the Northwestern Crow and considered to be a separate species until 2021. They are slightly smaller and have a deeper voice.

Information from allaboutbirds.org

#original photography on tumblr #midweek murder #crow #birding #florida #usa #landscape photography #Florida vacation

[coochiequeens]

An update to an older story that’s goods news!

When Jenny Nguyen signed the lease to create her dream bar, she wasn’t sure it would stay open for more than a few months.

But earlier this month, 43-year-old Nguyen’s first-of-its-kind establishment in Portland, Oregon, celebrated its one-year anniversary. Aptly named The Sports Bra, it’s a sports bar where only women athletes appear on the TVs.

Business has been good, despite the niche business model and record inflation sending food and beverage prices soaring. The Sports Bra brought in $944,000 in revenue in the eight months it was open in 2022, according to documents reviewed by CNBC Make It.

It was profitable in that first year of business, Nguyen adds.

“It turns out, it’s pretty universal — that feeling of being a women’s sports fan and going into a public place, like a sports bar, and having a difficult time finding a place to show a [women’s] game, especially when there are other men’s sports playing,” Nguyen says.

Initially, she wasn’t sure the idea would work at all. The vast majority of money and attention historically goes to men’s sports only — a big reason why The Sports Bra was reportedly the country’s first bar to only play women’s sports on TV.

It’s also not the kind of thing Nguyen would ordinarily do: She describes herself as “very cautious, risk averse.” But her obsession with women’s sports and frustration with its lack of representation on television screens drove her to empty her life savings — about $27,000 — and give it a try.

“Me, personally, I thought the idea was brilliant and that [it was] what the world needs,” Nguyen says. “But I had no idea that the world would want it. I just wanted to give it a shot.”

How The Sports Bra went from running joke to reality

Nguyen is a lifelong basketball fan who played the sport at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington, before tearing her ACL. She’s also a longtime restaurant worker who spent three years as Reed College’s executive chef.

In 2018, Nguyen and a group of friends wanted to watch the NCAA women’s basketball championship game. They went to a mostly empty sports bar and still had to plead with a bartender to switch one of the smallest TVs — which played without sound — from a men’s sport to the women’s championship game, she recalls.

Together, they jumped up and down celebrating “one of the best games I’ve ever seen,” Nguyen says, as a buzzer-beating three-point shot sealed the championship title for Notre Dame. Afterward, she was struck by the normalcy of her situation.

″[We’d] gotten so used to watching a game like that in the way that we did,” she says, adding that they’d only find better viewing conditions “if we had our own place.”

Days later, she channeled her disappointment into a hypothetical: What would she name her bar? “The very first thing that came into my mind was The Sports Bra,” Nguyen says. “And once I thought it, I couldn’t un-think it, you know? It was catchy. I thought it was hilarious.”

For years, she joked about it. Then, the fallout from social justice movements like #MeToo and the country’s racial reckoning after George Floyd’s murder left her wanting to make a meaningful impact on the world and her community.

Nguyen, who came out as a lesbian at age 17, says she doesn’t always feel welcome at most traditional sports bars. The Sports Bra could help her, and anyone else who’d rarely felt accepted in other sports establishments, feel like she belonged.

“I thought about, if we can even get one kid in here and have them feel like they belong in sports, it’d be worth it,” she says.

Helping other women’s sports bars get started

At first, Nguyen had her savings, and $40,000 in loans cobbled together from friends and family. That would keep The Sports Bra afloat for three months, based on her cost estimates for labor, inventory and other overhead.

In February 2022, she launched a Kickstarter to raise $48,000 — enough money for an extra six-month financial cushion, to build up the sort of regular clientele any bar or restaurant needs to survive long-term.

To Nguyen’s surprise, the campaign raised more than $105,000 in just 30 days, thanks to a viral article in online food publication Eater. “At that moment, when I was looking at that Kickstarter graph, I thought to myself, ‘This might work,’” she says.

But the money, which came from around the country and world, was no guarantee of success. Actual people in Portland still needed to frequent the bar.

Today, there’s often a line out the door. Women’s basketball icons like Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi showed up, for an event sponsored by Buick, earlier this month. Ginny Gilder, co-owner of the WNBA’s Seattle Storm, has even waited in line to watch her team play on The Sports Bra’s TVs, Nguyen says.

That’s a far cry from the Kickstarter days, which Nguyen says only happened after she was denied business loans by multiple banks and small business associations. The denials commonly cited the high risk of a unique concept run by a first-time entrepreneur during a pandemic, she adds.

Even the bar’s core concept is a struggle: It’s hard to find enough women’s sporting events to fill up the televisions. Only about 5% of all TV sports coverage focuses on female athletes, according to a 2021 University of Southern California study.

Nguyen says she’s taken to reaching out directly to sports networks and streaming services, some of which have hooked her up with access to more women’s sports content. She also spends an inordinate amount of time “scouring” TV listings, a process she likens to “taking a machete and chopping through a jungle.”

But she’s no longer alone. Another bar specializing in women’s sports has opened in nearby Seattle, and Nguyen says she’s in touch with a handful of other prospective entrepreneurs asking her for advice on opening similar visions in other cities.

“I would love to have as many people experience the feeling people experience when they walk through these doors,” she says. “It feels very selfish to keep it to this one building that holds 40 people at a time.”

#USA #oregon #Portland #jenny nguyen #The Sports Bra #A sports bar for women and women’s sports #She was originally denied business loans

[gean-grey-blog]

What makes White Collar hold up so much better than other police procedurals:

It was part of the "pretty happy shows with gorgeous ensemble casts and a charismatic weird guy" USA network era but it somehow used that to be about stuff that is so REAL

What is justice? Is our system fair? Can you be a criminal and still be a good man? Can you be a good man and still work for the system?

The bad guys are rich assholes, and people defrauding families out of their homes, and unethical pharmaceutical companies. People manipulating energy supply out of greed resulting in blackouts which are showing *harming a dog,* aka how to show something is monstrous in a pg show written by a white person. Class exists in this universe in more ways than having a cardboard concept of a "rich guy."

The bad guys include police, FBI agents, prison staff, judges, senators. Those people cause real harm, obstruct justice, plant evidence, kill people. It's shown how the system protects them and harms regular people.

The harm that causes the main character to go from wanting to be part of the system, to subverting and working against it, is him finding out about an act of police corruption, brutality, and murder--and what's more, that if he became a cop, that's what he could become.

The harm that causes the main character to be outside the white picket fence is that the system failed his family after that act. What happened to Neal's mom? Why did nobody besides Helen step in? They had to check in with US Marshals, did nobody notice this kid didn't have an adult fit to parent?

So Neal turns to found family. And let's be real, heavily polyamory coded found family at that. But he keeps chasing the idea of a girl who will be everything. But he's got all this attachment trauma so he never does. But because found family is real family, even the people who freaking played the characters are still connected a decade later

#white collar tv show #white collar #neal caffrey #white collar usa #white collar (2009) #white collar meta #also like #not to mention the cast was relatively diverse #there was actual queer representation #and i see so many people coming back to it for comfort who loved it originally #it was fun exciting pretty crime show when I was 18 #32 year old polyam person taking care of and being taken care of by found family #living in 2024 #after living through 201620202023 that slide of years #it hits #uh #different

[arrowheadedbitch]

We're always talking about the 57 jobs but that's only including the jobs between high school and right before Psych, so how many jobs total has he had by the end of the show 🤔

Bc like, he gets other jobs while doing Psych, mostly to solve cases, but like, Planetarium Worker, Bartender, Stunt Tester, etc., like, WHAT IS THAT NUMBER AT NOW????

#someone get a reading on this #also that original 57 is just what people know aboy #who knows if he did more shit #psych #psych usa #shawn spencer #jobs #🍍

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Type O Negative - Cassette Θ

#Type O Negative #Slow #Deep and Hard #The Origin of the Feces (Not Live at Brighton Beach) #Bloody Kisses #October Rust #World Coming Down #Life Is Killing Me #Dead Again #Genre: #Gothic/Doom Metal #Themes: #Depression #Death #Relationships #Love #Dark humour #USA #Cassette #k7

[heartshapedcaskett]

Parkton, NC August 2016

#wow the resolution on this is ASSS transferring it over between devices really did kill it #my photography #photography #original photographers #abandoned #abandoned places #abandoned home #abandoned house #abandoned buildings #rural #rural gothic #rural places #small town USA #small town gothic #southern gothic #rural decay #regional gothic

[blogboestbelle]

Crumbs&Whiskers, Georgetown Washington D.C

How lucky I am, cats let me put their paws on my face😍💗😻

#photographers on tumblr #original photographers #original photography #nature #animals #kitty #neko #cats #neighbor's cat #caturday #georgetown #washington dc #usa #cat cafe

[heavenskiriot]

Sabbaday Falls, New Hampshire

Tumblr | Instagram | Society6

#sabbaday falls #new hampshire #white mountains #nature #waterfalls #vertical #scenery #beautiful places #landscape #travel #road trip #canon photos #photographers on tumblr #original photography #original photographers #lensblr #USA #summer

[rabbitcruiser]

Radio City Music Hall, “Showplace of the Nation”, opened in New York City on December 27, 1932.  

#Radio City Music Hall #Showplace of the Nation #opened #27 December 1932 #anniversary #US history #Art Deco #Midtown Manhattan #architecture #New York City #summer 2018 #2019 #original photography #exterior #USA #1260 Avenue of the Americas #6th Avenue #Edward Durell Stone #landmark #Donald Deskey #tourist attraction #neon sign #marquee #night shot #travel #vacation #cityscape

[ilovematsunos]

Im sorry im not so active on tumblr aa

#osomatsu san #artwork #drawing #ososan #fypシ #original art #fanart #osomatsu fanart #art #swap au #ososan swap au #my pronouns are usa

[sherrylephotography]

My photography @sherrylephotography

April 2024

Pickerel weed (Pontederia cordata) is an aquatic native plant found throughout Florida. Picture taken in the Everglades in Florida USA We have a plant in our pond that is very similar to this.

Information from : Florida University gardening solutions

#original photography on tumblr #landscape photography #flowers #Florida #flower #pickerel weed #usa #Florida vacation

[newestcool]

"Naomi Campbell, Shalom Harlow, Marie-Sophie Wilson-Carr & Karen Elson for Vogue January 1998 Photographer Peter Lindbergh Fashion Editor/Stylist Alice Gentilucci Makeup Artist Fulvia Farolfi Hair Stylist Odile Gilbert  Newest Cool

#newestcool #newest cool #Naomi Campbell #shalom harlow #marie-sophie wilson-carr #marie-shophie wilson #marie-shophie carr #karen elson #vogue america #vogue usa #vogue us #american vogue #Peter lindbergh #vogue magazine #vogue editorial #vogue cover #90s vogue #90s runway #90s look #90s model #90s editorial #supermodel era #supermodel status #original supermodel #peter lindbergh #peter lindbergh photography #peter lindbergh style #Alice Gentilucci

[magavont]

Aph America Fanart

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#procreate #artists on tumblr #my art #original art #portrait #aesthetic #digital illustration #fanart #magavontart #ヘタリア world stars #aph hetalia #hws america #alfred f jones #usa #aph america #country roooooaaaadddss take me hoooooommmmeee to the placeeeeeee i belllllllooooooongggggg #kachow

[iww-gnv]

Help fight for Florida abortion access!

Attention, fellow workers of Florida! Florida has a chance to help defend healthcare and bodily autonomy, but the organizers of this petition need your help!

From the website for Floridians Protecting Freedom:

"Floridians Protecting Freedom (FPF) is a statewide campaign of allied organizations and concerned citizens working together to protect Floridians’ access to abortion as reproductive health care and defend the right to bodily autonomy. FPF recognizes that all Floridians deserve the freedom to make personal medical decisions, including about abortion, free of government intrusion."

Learn more and sign the petition at their website here:

#originals #florida #abortion #reproductive justice #social justice #florida abortion #florida news #news #usa news #reproductive rights #pro choice