On second (or maybe fourth) viewing: Weeds, season 1 (created by Jenji Kohan, 2005)
Having technically known it by heart after several intense re-watchings back in the mid-2000s, I have recently had showed it to my boyfriend, who knew it only tangentially (generation gap!). I remember criticism that Weeds' later seasons (with the exception of 4 and 6) got lost in the re-invention need, with the location shifts camouflaging the storytelling staleness. It's a valid point, I re-watched chunks of seasons 7-8 last year, and cringed heavily at the stinky quality of everything that does not revolve around Mary Louise Parker's nuanced performance. The tenure of the series proved that Nealon and Gould are limited actors and that Parrish, when given a chance of emotionally complex characterization, can pull an interesting performance (season four's ending is his highlight). But it is Parker who remains amazing throughout. In those later seasons, she got a fantastic screen partner in Jennifer Jason Leigh, with whom she shared awesome, brittle, sexy, and extremely lively sisterly chemistry. In this opening season, her great partner is Perkins, whose role would become more of a nasty caricature in her last two seasons (the ones outside Agrestic). What surprised me this time though is how clumsily shot and badly written this season is, part of which points to its temporal situatedness: the characters of color are only drug dealers and maids. White guys (and Celia) throw homophobic and ableist slurs as joke punchlines. Suddenly, starting with episode four, there are weird fade-outs truncating the wobbly rhythm of the episodes. Regardless of that, I am looking forward to re-watching season two, which was my favorite back then: I never was a fan of Donovan, but his on-screen relationship with Nancy Botwin was a highlight.
Benvenuti o bentornati sul nostro blog. Nello scorso articolo abbiamo deciso di cambiare argomento, passando al mondo dei libri, e parlando non solo di un grande classico della letteratura ma anche di uno dei miei romanzi preferiti in assoluto ossia Frankenstein di Mary Shelley. La storia inizia con un giovane esploratore di nome Robert che si sta dirigendo al polo per fare alcune ricerche e…
supernatural actor who killed his mom this, supernatural (and home alone) actor who is an abusive asswipe that, supernatural actor who literally made capitalism a political party this,
enough talking about shitty excuses for human beings who were in supernatural
why don't we talk more about the supernatural actor WHO LITERALLY PLAYED NEMO FINDING NEMO
(also sorry if you had to learn from me that one of the few gay characters in supernatural was played by human trashcan buzz home alone)
Making twitch clips of Rusty Quill's TMA2 stream on the 30th and realized I have the power to do edits now.
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[ID: a clip from Rusty_Quill's "The Magnus Archives 2 Kickstarter Pre-Launch!" Twitch Livestream. On screen are Alexander J Newall, Helen Gould, and Jonny Sims.
Jonny: Incidentally- incidentally- I- there's- there's another thing that I'm gonna spoil.
The video zooms in on Alex's window and replays Jonny saying "that I'm gonna spoil" in slow motion. Alex's face drops as soon as Jonny says "spoil" and an eerie synth noise starts.
A screenshot of the twitch chat is overlaid:
SashaNoumann: Alex looks terrified
tirednwild: KSUDHGKUSG
interstieller: ALEX'S FACE
Text boxes appear one after the other on screen, getting progressively shakier:
"oh god, oh fuck."
"what's he going to say now?"
"Jonny, it doesn't have to be like this"
"should I get Martyn to cut stream?"
"or would the snipers be faster?"
The synth noise cuts off as the video reverts itself back to showing Alex, Helen, and Jonny again as the stream continues.
Helen: Oh?
Jonny: and it's that Alex- Alex is stopping me... From naming one of the protagonists "Alexander J Newall."
Helen: [laughing]
Alex: Why should I pay for YOUR mistakes, Jonny??
Alex: It would-it would- it would do SO much damage SO quickly... Oh god, Jonny. Don't you dare.
Jonny: Now, to be fair, we're- we are co- we are co-writing it. You are... Perfectly able - and have, on several occasions - simply delete it.
Helen: [laughing]
Alex, jokingly: Hah. "Hi, everyone. Yeah, The Magnus Archives 2 isn't happening." "Why." "'Cause Jonny doesn't know when to quit."
You know what. If the mechs gets to be Jon’s uni band, RQG is a podcast that Elias Bouchard (Ben Meredith), Melanie King (Lydia Nicholas), Martin Blackwood (Alexander J Newall), Melanie’s Therapist (Helen Gould), the random MAG 100 dude that was a conspiracy theorist (James Ross), and the other MAG 100 guy who got sent to the lonely (Bryn Monroe) played together before TMA canon
I don’t care that the ages don’t line up, i need this in my soul /lh
Look, I think everyone enjoyed Alasdair’s personal headcanon of how Peter survived the Eyepocalypse, and I just needed to capture and share. Screenshot of what Peter has on top of his umbrella, kindly demonstrated by Alasdair.
ada lovelace VS albert einstein VS amelia earheart VS amelie rose VS apophis VS ashen VS atsuanuub VS augusta leigh VS aziza hawaa al-tahan VS azu
WINNER: azu
POLL B:
barret racket VS bertus VS sir bertrand "bertie" macguffingham VS bi ming gusset VS bolla smok VS brock VS bronc VS celquinthion sidebottom VS charles babbagge VS chinua
WINNER: celquinthion sidebottom
POLL C:
cicero VS draal VS driak VS edward keystone VS eldarion VS elijah wormwood VS emeka VS eren fairhands VS eva van djik VS feryn smith
WINNER: edward keystone
POLL D:
figgis VS francois henri VS franz kafka VS friedrich (airship) VS friedrich (cult of apollo) VS gideon marsten-langdon VS gragg coulson VS grizzop drik acht amsterdam VS guivres VS hamid saleh haroun al-tahan
WINNER: grizzop drik acht amsterdam
POLL E:
harrison campbell VS hawaa layla halima VS hirald smith VS howard carter VS isaac newton VS jacques piaget VS james barnes VS jasper VS jean-luc bolieau VS jeremy
WINNER: james barnes
POLL F:
khantu VS kiko VS kondha VS la gourmande VS lady starling VS liliana beekos VS little VS maximus VS lord byron VS marie curie VS meerk
WINNER: kiko
POLL G:
mr ceiling VS natun VS nikola tesla VS oscar wilde VS paulette loup VS rakefine VS richard haringay VS sagax VS saira hawaa layla al-tahan VS saleh amoun al-tahan
WINNER: oscar wilde
POLL H:
saleh ibrahim al-tahan VS sasha racket VS sassraa VS selene souchet VS shoshva VS siggif VS skraark VS sohra VS sumutnyerl VS tadyka
WINNER: sasha racket
POLL I:
thomas edison VS vesseek VS vivianne messier VS yoshida shoin VS zolf smith
WINNER: zolf smith
ROUND TWO
POLL A:
azu VS celquinthion sidebottom VS edward keystone
WINNER: celquinthion sidebottom
POLL B:
grizzop drik acht amsterdam VS james barnes VS kiko
WINNER: james barnes
POLL C:
oscar wilde VS sasha racket VS zolf smith
WINNER: oscar wilde
ROUND THREE
celquinthion sidebottom VS james barnes VS oscar wilde
Above: Wooden Horses(detail) by Reginald Marsh, 1936. Marsh was a frequent visitor to Coney Island, a place that inspired numerous sketches and paintings. (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art)
We officially kick off the summer with a visit to Coney Island, where “The Talk of the Town” took in the latest sights and amusements.
June 16, 1934 cover by Constantin Alajalov.
This excerpted “Talk” piece,…