#ken maynard

[citizenscreen]

Westerns veterans Ken Maynard and Hoot Gibson visiting Anthony Perkins on set of Anthony Mann’s THE TIN STAR (1957)

#anthony perkins #hoot gibson #ken maynard #westerns #old hollywood #behind the scenes

[pulpsandcomics2]

Western movie posters

#movie posters #b western movies #buck jones #ken maynard

[gatutor]

Dorothy Dix-Ken Maynard "Drum taps" 1933, de J. P. McGowan.

#Dorothy Dix #Ken Maynard #J. P. McGowan

[frenchcurious]

Ken Maynard, sur une Indian Motorcycle 1934. - source Cars & Motorbikes Stars of the Golden era.

#ken maynard #indian

[formlines]

Zek 

Ken Mowatt

#Ken Mowatt #Gitxsan #Maynards

[bignaz8]

THE MOST AUTHENTIC GHOST HUNTERS ON TV!

On September 13, 1969, the first episode of SCOOBY DOO, WHERE ARE YOU? premiered on CBS Television and changed the lives of thousands of kids who'd grow up wishing for their own version of the Mystery Machine.

The series was created for Hanna-Barbera Productions by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears, loosely basing the original episodes on the old "I Love A Mystery" radio show. The Saturday morning cartoon show featured four teenagers—Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, and Norville "Shaggy" Rogers (based on beatnik Maynard G. Krebs from "Dobie Gillis")—and their talking Great Dane named Scooby-Doo, who solved what seemed to be supernatural mysteries through a series of mishaps. In the end, they always found out that the real monsters were people, which is a statement on society that hasn't really changed in 50 years.

Those "meddling kids" became a huge success and the show featured guest voices that ranged from Batman and Robin (Adam West and Burt Ward), Vincent Price, Sandy Duncan, the Addams Family, Phyllis Diller, Don Knotts, and "Mama" Cass Elliot. It would later change networks, change formats, and become feature films.

The characters have become a part of America's cultural history and, to this day, are more believable than any of the other ghost hunters that have appeared on our TV screens.

[oldguydoesstuff]

CEO Ken Olsen in the early 90s in front of 'The Mill' in Maynard, Massachusetts - headquarters of his company, Digital Equipment Corporation. Although Digital has vanished completely now, in the 1980s and 90s it was the second largest computer company in the world, only IBM being bigger.

I had the privilege of working for Digital for 11 years, 5 of which were here at The Mill, designing Alpha workstations. Digital's computers were commonly used by engineers designing newer machines, so you can probably trace the ancestry of whatever you are reading this on now back through this company, even if you have never heard of it!

#computers #geek history #retro computing #digitalequipmentcorp #oldguyisold

[midnightcowboy1969]

Ken Maynard's ego showing here, he's not in this image

[innovacancy]

Failure The Sinclair, Cambridge, MA 25 June 2022 Click below to read all about the show!

It’s Failure and a movie in Boston and across America as the legendary space-rock artists cross the continent in support of their latest record, Wild Type Droid. With the 25-year anniversary of the seminal Fantastic Planet having arrived during the pandemic, it’s their first excursion in wake of the milestone, and the occasion has spawned a documentary film, due in 2023, that focuses on the band’s living legacy.  A truncated, 30-minute edit of the doc plays before Failure takes the stage on each night of this tour, and the pared-down version focuses on interviews with actors, comedians, and of course other musicians who found themselves drawn to the band’s singular sound.  There’s some unsurprising faces in the doc, including Tommy Lee and Maynard James Keenan, but also a few more left-field appearances such as Jason Schwartzman and Hayley Williams of Paramore, the latter of whom describes receiving a burnt copy of Fantastic Planet from a future bandmate when they were high school students.  The film also highlights how, through sheer individuality, the band beat the curse of the comeback record when they reemerged after a fifteen-year hiatus with The Heart Is a Monster, picking up where they left off as if the better part of two decades hadn’t passed in the interim.

After that brief taste of the film, there’s time for one more interlude before the band arrives, and, perhaps surprisingly, it’s a projection of the Ren and Stimpy episode, ‘Space Madness’.  The band have always had a sense of humor about their perennial fascination with the cosmic; even on Fantastic Planet they were already titling tracks like ‘Another Space Song’ in self-aware acknowledgment of their obsession.  But while the film regaled us with stories of the past, the baker’s dozen songs in the band’s main set centered primarily on Wild Type Droid, including an unlikely seamless segue from Ren and Stimpy into ‘Submarines’.  Like nearly all of the band’s discography, you won’t find WTD on Spotify – the band was one of many high-profile expats from the platform in the wake of controversy surrounding the company’s inaction on vaccine misinformation, taking a principled position on an issue that directly affects musicians’ ability to keep touring safely.

While once a four-piece including A Perfect Circle guitarist Troy van Leeuwen, since their reformation in 2014 Failure have perhaps become the platonic embodiment of a power trio. It’s become nigh impossible to envision Failure as anything other than the union of Ken Andrews, Greg Edwards, and Kellii Scott, each a multi-faceted and virtuosic player in their own right. Through their collaboration they have always triangulated the iconic Failure sound across the years, like finding a signal among the stars, as much an act of divination as it is one of creation.  Few bands play so deftly with the occasional detuned guitar and vocal as Failure. While many a fan of the band was probably introduced to Fantastic Planet by way of A Perfect Circle’s high-profile cover of ‘The Nurse Who Loved Me’, upon listening to the original you’ll notice little deflections in the chords that Keenan and company smoothed out.  While Keenan’s gorgeous delivery would probably score higher with a vocal instructor, alternating the two and highlighting the differences in Andrews’ vocal, as well as the guitar track, slowly reveals the true genius of the original.

The band’s unique dynamic also makes it so hard to pick a favorite album of theirs; while hardly a necessary exercise, it can be fun – and I’d wager Failure fans run one of the widest temporal gamuts when it comes to their favorites. Fantastic Planet looms large in the hearts and eardrums of many, but any of their three post-resurgence albums delights with how they each skirt the border between the band’s evergreen songwriting techniques and modern sonic advancements.  Keen to acknowledge the quarter-century of FP before the night concludes, the band returns to the stage after their encore break to play a sequence of tracks therefrom, an absolute hit parade that moves from the iconic ‘Nurse’, through the huge power riffs of ‘Stuck on You’, into the interminable groove of ‘Heliotropic’, and finally concludes in the haunting final refrain of ‘Daylight’.  Andrews holds out a finger and traces the outline of the room as the final chord fades into the air, and each of the band members lingers a bit and waves to the eager crowd, visibly humbled by and grateful to each of the folks who’s helped pack the room at The Sinclair for the evening.  Be they newcomers or fans of nearly 30 years, whether they arrived with Wild Type Droid or the first notes of Comfort, it’s safe to say that listening to Failure has shifted each attendee’s musical journey for the better.

#failure #fantastic planet #wild type droid #ken andrews #greg edwards #kellii scott

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I tagged 273 of my posts in 2022

#high rollers - 43 posts

#rollonsunday - 37 posts

#lucius virion-elluin elenasto - 18 posts

#qillek ad khollar - 13 posts

#chalet school - 11 posts

#fanfiction - 11 posts

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#quillucius - 7 posts

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Longest Tag: 129 characters

#... that said it does make sense quill will consider any and all options to minimise the chance he gets struck by lightning again

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Modern writers: is this name with an allusive meaning too on the nose?

The author of this high school series from the 1910s I'm reading on project Gutenberg: the school dandy is called Prettyman Sweet

11 notes - Posted April 28, 2022

#4

More Chalet School thoughts - I wonder if Joey’s obsession with having ALL the kids* is linked to her having kind of been an only child, in a way? Madge had to be as much mother as sister to her, and I doubt she saw all that much of Dick if he was in India from the start of his career - she’d only have been six when Dick and Madge turned eighteen. Maybe she at least subconsciously wished her parents had had more children in between the twins and her? She definitely goes all in on adopting the Robin as a sister, and Juliet too in the Tirol books at least (poor Juliet gets quite abandoned by EBD after her marriage).

And from an outside-the-books perspective, I was also trying to figure out when EBD’s obsession with large families started - in the Tirol years, I don’t remember more than three or four siblings at most generally (three Mensches, three Burnetts, four von Eschenaus I think?). There are plenty of pairs too (like the Maranis and the Stevenses and the Lecoutiers), and only children - a lot of whom are a problem in some way, like Grizel and Eustacia and Corney, but I don’t recall their problem-ness being linked to their being onlies at all like is often done in the later years with people like Emerence (generally by Joey). I think the large-family-madness might start with the Bettanys, perhaps? And then of course it spread to the Russells and Maynards, and other favourite families like the Lucys and Chesters.

*side thought, what is with EBD/Joey’s insistence on calling them “brats” rather than kids?! Was it actually a thing at the time, or just EBD being weird? It sounds so mean!

12 notes - Posted March 2, 2022

#3

I can’t stop thinking about Lucius’s dream with Siaska, and just the love and care and thought Mark obviously put into it... Under the cut for discussion of Lucius’s suicidal thoughts.

So back in Ep. 116, when Lucius encountered Hadar so directly, we had that discussion from Trott on how at some level, Hadar seemed like an option to Lucius, like giving up would be easier than fighting - and I wonder if Mark’s been waiting ever since for the opportunity to bring it up within the narrative? Or if he just remembered it when planning these dream sequences? Either way, he did it so well, every little detail!

The way at first, only Lucius can see the darkness and the red light, how everyone else is happy but he’s suffering and in pain... How it calls out to him - and Trott was so good here too, with Lucius admitting that it would be easy, but knowing that the void isn’t an answer (I wonder, did Mark have a plan for if Lucius had said yes? Or is this one of those instances of Mark knowing Trott so well he knew he wouldn’t?) - And then! When Lucius rejects it, how he doesn’t have to fight it off alone! The echoes of the Titans in Siaska, his own prismatic magic, and above all his friends, driving it back... How his friends are shining lights holding the darkness away... 

Then there’s Siaska’s speech, which is so so good - Lucius has felt himself less important than his friends with their responsibilities and destinies, but here Siaska (who he’s probably the most devoted to out of the party?) is telling him that every minute he tries is important, that he doesn’t have to be a leader or a warrior, that his artist’s soul, the way he sees beauty, they matter! And his family surrounding him, his father being proud of him...

It was all so perfect and beautiful, and it made me cry, and I love it so much.

24 notes - Posted May 27, 2022

#2

There is no peace in the void. There is no relief for those who are consumed by it. Those are things only the living and the ascended can have.  Battles fought and lost, great accomplishments, grand adventure, jokes with friends, the comfort of a lover, small joys, frivolous pleasures. Every second we live is defiant against the power of time itself. Every minute we say 'I will try' is something to be proud of. We do not need to all be great leaders or warriors, oracles, or scholars; art, words, music, they hold a power all their own. Artists can see the beauty in things others do not. Musicians can change a heart when words and spells cannot. Without these things, the heart of a world is lost.

Mark Hulmes as Siaska, High Rollers: Aerois #147

107 notes - Posted May 23, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

"Characters in Dracula don't know they're in Dracula" actually just statistical error. Most character in Dracula know they are in Dracula. Jonathan Harker, who ignores five hundred warning signs a day, is an outlier and should not have been counted.

470 notes - Posted May 8, 2022

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[dihalect]

actually heres the reading list for the artificial life class i mentioned in the tags a couple posts ago. if anyone wants a pdf of one/some of these and can't find it elsewhere, just hmu

(and if you're interested in this sort of thing, i also recommend taking a look at other papers in these publications, including other issues/years)

David Goldberg, Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine Learning, Addison-Wesley, 1989

John R Koza, INTRODUCTION TO GENETIC PROGRAMMING TUTORIAL GECCO-2004—SEATTLE

Joel Schiff: Cellular Automata, A discrete view of the world (2008) Addison Wesley.

Stephen Wolfram, Cellular Automata, Los Alamos Science, Fall 1983

Christopher Langton, Self-Reproduction in Cellular Automata, Physica 10D (1984) 135-144

Thomas Ray, An approach to the synthesis of life (1991) Artificial Life II

Richard Lenski et al (2003) The evolutionary origin of complex features. Nature 423 8 May 2003

John Maynard-Smith (1982) Evolution and the Theory of Games, Cambridge Univ Press

Robert Axelrod (1980) Effective Choice in the Prisoner’s Dilemma, The Journal of Conflict Resolution Vol. 24, No. 1, Mar., 1980

Kristian Lindgren, 1992, Evolutionary Phenomena in Simple Dynamics, Artificial Life II and Nick Moran (2019) Appendix A of PhD Dissertation

P Prusinkiewicz et al. 1995 The Artificial Life of Plants, Siggraph 95 Tutorial

Gabriela Ochoa 1998 On genetic algorithms and lindenmayer systems, PPSN V.

Peter Angeline et al (1994) An evolutionary algorithm that constructs recurrent neural networks, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

Ken Stanley & Risto Miikkulainen (2002) Evolving neural networks throught augmenting topologies, Evolutionary Computation 10(2)99-127.

Frederic Gruau, 1993, Genetic synthesis of modular neural networks, ICGA 93

Richard Dawkins, 1986, The Blind Watchmaker, Norton.

Jimmy Secretan et al (2010) Picbreeder: A Case Study in Collaborative Evolutionary Exploration of Design Space, Evolutionary Computation

Jeff Clune and Hod Lipson, Evolving Three-Dimensional Objects with a Generative Encoding Inspired by Developmental Biology (2011) ECAL

Danny Hillis, Coevolving Parasites Improves Simulated Evolution as an optimization Procedure, 1990, Physica D 42, 228-234.

H. Juille and J. Pollack (1998) Coevolutionary Learning: A case study. Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Machine Learning.

Watson, R.A. and Pollack, J.B. (2001). Coevolutionary Dynamics in a Minimal Substrate. Proceedings of the 2001 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference.

Karl Sims, "Evolving 3D Morphology and Behavior by Competition" Artificial Life IV Proceedings, ed.by Brooks & Maes, MIT Press, 1994, pp.28-39.

Pollack, Jordan. B., Lipson, Hod, Hornby, Gregory S. and Funes, Pablo (2001). Three Generations of Automatically Designed Robots. Artificial Life, 7:3.

#txt #save #tech stuff

[pulpsandcomics2]

movie posters

#movie posters #b western movies #ken maynard

[gatutor]

Ken Maynard-Geneva Mitchell "The cattle thief" 1936, de Spencer Gordon Bennet.

#Geneva Mitchell #Ken Maynard #Spencer Gordon Bennet

[reading-plays-is-a-thing-we-do]

Fun story, I do some regional theatre and I knew a guy once who got asked to join the cast of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Chief Bromden. This guy, I'll just call him Maynard, is a kinophile and figured that playing the Chief would be easy since he's mostly mute in the movie. So he agrees to the role because he's thinking he'll just have to memorize some blocking and a few lines.

Thing is, that the novel was published in 1962 and the first adaptation made for the novel was the play, written by Dale Wasserman almost immediately after the success of the novel, so it was first performed in 1963, over a decade before the movie adaptation, which was released in 1975. And in the play, like the novel, Chief Bromden is the narrator, meaning he's basically got more lines than anyone else, lol.

The movie, which reduced the character to a mute role, was not especially liked by Ken Kesey for this exact reason. To him, making R.P. MacMurphy the lead instead of Chief Bromden missed the point.

So now Maynard tells that story as a warning to make sure you've actually read the script you've agreed to perform before making the agreement.

The whole idea of basing a play on a movie is a relatively new thing. Theatre predates cinema by millennia and wasn't really usurped in cultural relevance until the 1970s or so when cinema really became a distinctly different art form from theatre. Before then, most movies were basically plays with a camera instead of a live audience.

#theatre #theater #history #one flew over the cuckoo's nest #literature #dramatic literature #ken kesey #dale wasserman

[stmichaeldeorleans]

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Michael Dean Duerksen age 2 was named Mara Silo Parmiese Devereaux by adopted parent surgeon Dr William or Walter Silo Parmiese Devereaux whom is believed to have performed comprehensive sex change surgery and other sex change methods on Michael, and taken to Devereaux Hastings New Orlean's Children's Home.  ....next:  Olympia Genetic Analysis company, Hollywood, California report on Mike D. Duerksen and done 1959 to 1967 and 1972, and the 1967 Crane, Tx..report value shows deviant twisting of his genes using inoriginate genes by Dean F. Duerksen using a gene sauce of non-Salicylic genes acid, which is detrimental to the target, then orange staple gun genes that provide a gunned like effect to genes, then green tea leaf genetic structure to damage or recleuse original genes by showing in part, Rothchild-Duerksen...and Fraley Duerksen Rothchild is an inserted value.  This report went to LAPD officer Gerald Shrimpton, also officer Gene Taylor Talasco ( and other Talascos: Jim, Susan ) and the conclusion was that Dean F. Duerksen was involved in criminal usage of Gene science on Michael Duerksen to alter behavior, murderous use of Gene science to murder personality or to cause the death of Michael Duerksen, then to get Dean past investigators whom are looking into his genetic tampering to hide normal genetic family values of Folgers- Rothchild -Degeneres. Dean used First Amendment Services, but was found guilty and judged by Charles Colman Halderman (?) with 25 harsh spankings and one year in Crane county Detention center which has extension services that allows inmates to go home once per week or so.    Next: 25 to 29 individual Illuminati members adopted Michael Dean Duerksen by McCall.  13 individual members of the Dallas Hilton family adopted Michael Duerksen.  3 to 4 we're Illuminati members. Some were part Italian and part Spanish. In Crane County, Crane, Tx between 1964 June and 1967 June, Crane authorities used disciplinary actions against Roman Polanski and V. Frykowski due to their decisions to do as they pleased since they had the money and didn't think it would matter in that small town of 3,000 or so.  Mike Dean F. Duerksen was not subjected to any disciplinary actions due to his status as a child abuse victim. Harrison and Sorrills, both from Poland and held to be worth a 20 to 40  billion dollars and understood to have made oil company purchases of a total of100 million and various real estate purchases due to the rich nature of the oil and gas discoveries in that county as part of the Permian Basin.  Purchases and investments appear to have included Dennis and Mildred Fisher Oil Company Ltd...   Other adopters of Mike Dean Duerksen appear to include T. D. Eason, a US Magistrate and county judge, giving him the name of Jim Roy Bean Duerksen Eason and Jim Bo Gordon Mangrove Rothchild Eason.  Also Dr. Paul Maynard M.D. a family physician, father of Tim, was an adopter whom was known to target Dean Duerksen with suspicions regarding Maynard's observations of his son Mike as a patient whom appeared to be a victim of Dean's abuse. Then Ken Spencer, attorney and overseer.  A Julia Crane Gantry Nelson was a county attorney.  Harrison and Sorrills had an unsuccessful adoption effort or relationship to Paul Dean Duerksen since they appear to have viewed Paul as a crick in the neck and a ratfink whom followed them around town and reported anything he saw.

[newstattoos]

They are two tiny tattoos that go a long way to explaining Brayden Maynard. Before the first bounce of Saturday's AFL grand final against the Brisbane Lions, as he does for every game, the Collingwood defender will look at the inside of his wrists and draw strength for what is to come. On one wrist is the signature of his paternal grand...

#Career #AFLGrandFinal #FamilyInspiration #StrengthSymbol #TattooedAthlete