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Music is an Essential Verb: Derek Taylor 2023

Music remains, along with family, friends, and a select few venial vices, my primary daily defense against the mental erosions of spiritual malaise and existential dread. Being a humanist also means being a realist, and little looks to be different on that score in the year ahead as we continue to careen toward a bleak and self-defeating dénouement. The veil of uncertainty around what ultimately feels like inevitability redoubles the need to remain thankful for and supportive of those who devote themselves to art. Summary capsules below describe some of the sounds that kept me going in 2023.

Peter Brötzmann, Wayne Shorter, Kidd Jordan, & Charles Gayle

“The trauma of my generation was what our fathers had done to the rest of the world, and so we said, ‘never again,’ and that was the whole impetus through all my life, and it still is.” ~ Brötzmann (2018)

Musician attrition and demise are dispiriting aspects of every annum, but the departure of four disparate octogenarian reedists exacted an especially steep emotional and cultural toll this year. Shorter and Jordan passed away in March, each of them leaving a rich legacy as indefatigable improviser and altruistic educator that continue influence and inspire. Brötzmann exited in June after the return of a protracted respiratory illness. Few if any can match the magnitude of his mileage and six-decade itinerary as an irrepressible, obstinately adventurous world traveler. Gayle ascended in September, an ardent, uncompromising eremite to the end. All four men left behind discographies and concert/interview footage that will leave the faithful and curious listening and marveling in perpetuity, but their collective absence still aches.

Kirk Knuffke & Joe McPhee Quartet + 1 – Keep the Dream Up (Fundacja Sluchaj)

One of the manifold joys of following the output of Kirk Knuffke is anticipating who he’ll collaborate with next. The cornetist’s ears and imagination are as huge as his heart, a trait he has in common with the equally equanimous Joe McPhee. They’ve known each other for years but Keep the Dream Up is their first released collaboration and it’s an affirming alloy of their complementary creative temperaments. Longtime McPhee comrades Michael Bisio and Jay Rosen complete the quartet with bass clarinetist Christof Knoche comprising the additive on a Brooklyn studio session that captures collective creative lightning in a digital bottle. My album of the year for these reasons and more, although hopefully Joe will bring his brass to a follow-up conclave soon.

Don Byas – Classic Sessions 1944-1946 (Mosaic)

Saxophonist Don Byas recorded prolifically during the 1940s. His porous sound and popular style bridged the schools of swing and bop through prowess and panache aligned with the most esteemed of post-WII tone scientists. That sustained industriousness hasn’t reflected in reliable access to his works, primarily because they’re spread across a plethora of independent labels and competing copyrights. Leave it to Mosaic Records to rectify the longstanding reissue lacuna. This long gestating collection corrals and sequences the bulk of them across ten discs, scrubbing their sound, and adding an expansive cache of rarified verité concert recordings made in a Swedish jazz fan’s residence. Indulging in one’s Byas bias has never been easier or as edifying.

Fred Anderson – The Milwaukee Tapes Vol. 2 (Corbett vs Dempsey)

Patience and long-game aptitude are among music producer/archivist/advocate John Corbett’s virtues. This unexpected, but abundantly welcome sequel to an archival Anderson collection on Corbett’s long defunct Unheard Music Series took 23 years to secure commercial circulation and offers an additional hour-plus from the same gig in improved sound. Fellow AACMers Billy Brimfield and Hamid (nee Hank) Drake join bassist Larry Hayrod in bringing vibrant, detailed life to the Lone Prophet of the Prairie’s (as Anderson was affectionately known) serpentine, cerulean melodies. Corbett’s current label released a plenitude of music in 2023 (see also below) but the uncommon opportunity to hear more Anderson of any vintage makes this release worthy of independent mention.

Jason Adasiewicz

Corbett vs. Dempsey also had a welcome role in Jason Adasiewicz’s return to record with two different projects. On vinyl, Roy’s World documents a 2017 Chicago studio session by the vibraphonist’s quintet originally intended as the soundtrack to a film based on neo-noir novelist Barry Gifford’s short stories. Chicago stalwarts Josh Berman, Joshua Abrams, Hamid Drake, join saxophonist Jonathan Doyle in the ensemble for a program that sounds at once fresh and nostalgic while always vital. On CD, Roscoe’s Village dispenses with band for a solo selective foray through the songbook of Roscoe Mitchell including evocative renderings of “Congliptious” and “A Jackson in Your House” that retain the composer’s essence while striking out in bold new directions.

Natural Information Society

Grounded as it is in core voices of guembri, frame drum and harmonium, codification of Josh Abrams’ NIS as a jazz ensemble immediately feels reductively incomplete. All participating instruments can be active architects in the undulating, melody-laced drones that frequently form the basis of the band’s gradual, granulated improvisations. Performances are more akin to collective expeditions where a galvanizing gestalt effect is afoot; one where earned communal peaks preserve the individual power and agency of the interlocking parts. Since Time is Gravity augments this already catalytic template by incorporating a larger contingent of Chicago colleagues including tenorist Ari Brown to the equation.

Abdul Wadud

A jazz-based improviser on the cello who didn’t double on other stringed instruments, Wadud was also a consummate collaborator and sideman. Magnanimity in lending his substantial talents to the projects of others resulted in a paucity of albums under his own name. By Myself from 1977 on the Bisharra label is a revelatory anomaly on that self-effacing resume. Wadud approaches the instrument as a multifaceted sound factory, plucking, strumming, and bowing, often simultaneously, to create solo tone poems steeped in personal poignancy. Gotta Groove’s vinyl reissue is a beautiful facsimile of the original album object in faithfully reconstructed fidelity.

Marion Brown

Georgia-born altoist Marion Brown had a lengthy, storied career but the body of recorded work that he left behind can present difficulties in terms of ingress to its totality. Scattered across labels, years, and circumstances, much of it is either out of print or commercially unreleased. That collective relative obscurity makes a trio of releases, two on the German Moosicus label, and a third Record Store Day viny reissue of Brown’s 1970 studio duets with Wadada Leo Smith under the shared sobriquet Creative Improvisation Ensemble even more valuable. Of the former two, Mary Ann presents concert material by Brown’s quartet from a 1969 Bremen club gig in soundboard fidelity. Gesprächsfetzen & In Sommerhausen combines two more German concert snapshots, quintet, and sextet, from 1968 & 1969 with Gunter Hampel originally released on the Calig imprint. Steve McCall is a boon on drums in all three contexts.

Art Pepper – Complete Maiden Voyage Recordings (Omnivore)

Art Pepper was an inveterate rake for most of his life, magnifying destructive interpersonal tendencies with drugs and frustratingly frequent acts of self-sabotage. That star-crossed propensity makes the fact that he left so much magnificent music even more miraculous. This lavish box is a fascinating compendium of the constantly competing artistic contradictions at his center, collecting a quartet gig across three nights and seven club sets in Pepper’s native Los Angeles, ten months prior to his premature passing at 56. Over half of the music is previously unreleased and the rhythm section, led by the impeccable and implacable pianistics of George Cables, gives Pepper a cumulative confidence boost that keeps him on the rails. None of it has ever sounded better.

Pan Afrikan People’s Arkestra

Los Angeles of the late-1970s was an unforgiving environment for the economic necessities of orchestral jazz. The Pan Afrikan People’s Arkestra, under the nominal leadership of pianist/composer/community organizer Horace Tapscott, was a tenaciously subversive force in the face of that ruinous rule. Adopting the Immanuel United Church of Christ as an informal base of operations, the large ensemble resourcefully engaged in an ambitious series of concerts in 1979. The Nimbus label, long a Tapscott exponent and repository, released the first three entries this year in an archival subscription series collecting the voluminous results. Titles are also available individually and present the pivotal band at a performative peak with star soloists Sabir Mateen, Billy Harris, Jesse Sharps, and Robert Miranda shining just as bright as their fearless foreman.

Alan Skidmore – A Supreme Love

Unexpectedly issued on Mark Wastell’s Confront label, an imprint better known for its fealty to free improvisation, this six-disc archival tribute to Alan Skidmore’s 70+ year career in music launches with the saxophonist’s 1961 radio debut and lands some seven-hours later with his intimate 2019 rendering of John Coltrane’s “Psalm.” The aural expanse between is brimming with bright moments and luminary collaborators the likes of which include Tony Oxley, Kenny Wheeler, Wayne Shorter, Dave Holland, Mike Osborne, Elvin Jones, and another dozen name drops from the top tier of improvised music. It’s a wild, illuminating ride and a sterling example of a musical memorial done right.

The Jazz Doctors – Intensive Care/Prescriptions Filled: The Billy Bang Quartet Sessions 1983/1984 (Cadillac)

Billy Bang and Frank Lowe shared a bottomless fraternal bond forged through parallel traumas internalized in Vietnam and expressed by the subsequent embrace of the restorative power of improvised music. The pair of sessions (one reissued, one archival) collected on this disc epitomize their deep attachment arguably as well as any of their other numerous collaborations. Outside the cardinal duo, the Jazz Doctors never really had a stable lineup, but the quartets here embody two of their best. Both programs are loosely adherent to freebop conventions with violin and tenor saxophone combining over contrabass and drums for a potent front line. Bang and Lowe are long gone now, their shared absence making the availability of this music even more precious.

Attila Zoller & Jimmy Raney

Hungarian guitarist Attila Zoller had selective affinity for other artists on the instrument, so much so that his mid-career period is seeded by fateful encounters with plectrist peers. Most prolific among these partnerships was his prudent pairing with Jimmy Raney. A popular proponent of bop-based jazz, Raney was in a similar exploratory headspace when the two joined forces on a trio of recordings for the German L + R label over a seven-year span. Concert dates from Frankfurt (’80) and Berlin (’86) find the duo spooling out lengthy dialogues that dabble in free improvisation while keeping codified melodies within reach. An earlier New York encounter (’79) explores their rapport in a studio. All three reissues on the Japanese Ultra-Vybe imprint are aces.

Steve Swell’s Fire Into Music

Simultaneously emblematic of NYC free jazz in the early aughts and fiercely dedicated to resisting pitfalls of provincialism by touring generously and rigorously, trombonist Steve Swell’s Fire into Music was one of the finest quartets of its kind. Posthumously dedicated to the late altoist Moondoc, this three CD set collects a trio of small venue concerts by the band from gigs in Texas and Ontario. As with the horns, William Parker and Hamid Drake are ideally suited to the extended, expository freebop safaris that formed the ensemble’s flexible repertoire. Swell’s the leader on paper but sagely embraces musical communalism without fail.

Intakt

Running a physical media imprint in the 21st century is an inherently parlous enterprise, but this steadfast Swiss label continues to evidence how it’s done. This year’s standout catalog entries include Andrew Cyrille’s Music Delivery/Percussion, the octogenarian drummer’s third solo album and first in 45-years; bassist Jöelle Leandré’s solo Zurich Concert; pianist Aruán Ortiz’s Serranías Sketchbook for Piano Trio; Beyond Dragons by the trio of saxophonist Angelika Niescier, cellist Tomeka Reid, and drummer Savannah Harris, and Ohad Talmor’s Back to the Land, a quartet-plus-guests survey that takes its compositional focus an archival workshop date by Ornette Coleman and Lee Konitz.

Ezz-thetics

The appearance of the Swiss Ezz-thetics imprint four years ago raised both eyebrows and ire. Lacking access to master tapes, veteran free jazz and new music producer Werner Uehlinger sourced commercially released editions instead, employing ace audio engineer Peter Pfister succeeded by Michael Brandli to rejuvenate and refurbish the recordings, stateside copyright considerations be damned. Reaction was expeditious and polemical, but proof is in the hearing as most of the label’s dozens of releases sound better than their original incarnations. Catalog highlights this year include another round of Albert Ayler airshots including his pivotal meeting with the Cecil Tayor Trio in 1962 on More Lost Performances, Charles Mingus’ At Antibes 1960, and Ornette Coleman’s At the Golden Circle.

Fresh Sound

Jordi Pujol is akin to Uehlinger in that he refuses to let his vision and ambitions as a producer be abbreviated by external opinion. In Pujol’s case it’s yielded a bountiful inventory of antiquarian titles that rights holders have shown little to zero interest in restoring to begin with. Cases in point for this year include a definitive collection of obscurando saxophonist Boots Mussulli’s works; concert and studio collections by the Count Basie alumni tandem of Al Grey and Billy Mitchell; hens’ teeth rare leader sessions by Arthur Lyman vibraphonist Julius Wechter; and a two-fer of Julliard-trained Ellingtonian Cass Harrison piano trio albums. Exciting guilty pleasures all around.

Playing for the Man at the Door

As complex as he was controversial, Robert “Mack” McCormick deserves consideration in the esteemed company of other maverick cultural archivists like Alan Lomax, George Mitchell, and Harry Smith. With a preservationist purview mostly comprising Texas and bordering states, McCormick spent much of his adult life obsessively documenting and disentangling the cultural capital of the region through recordings, photography, interviews, essays, and research. Smithsonian Folkways became repository for the massive reservoir after his passing and this box is the first in what will hopefully be multiple dispatches from the same. Unreleased field recordings of Mance Lipscomb and Lightnin’ Hopkins represent the big names, but works by the likes of Hop Wilson, Cedell Davis, Robert Shaw, and a handful of others are just as persuasive. Bongo Joe Coleman’s impassioned presidential pitch closing the set will have listeners pining for a time when third party Executive Branch candidacy didn’t seem so fraught.

Joni Mitchell Archives - Vol. 3, The Asylum Years 1972 to 1975

Mitchell’s continuing project corollary to her old friend Neil Young’s analogously exhaustive retrospective enterprise, this third entry in the series finds her 30-something-self further broadening the lens of her art beyond the solo concert music that dominated the first two boxes. There are stirring solitary shows here, too, but it’s the band offerings that prove most revealing, particularly in the company of reedist Tom Scott’s fusion group L.A. Express. James Taylor, Graham Nash, and David Crosby lend contributory hands, and there’s a brief but intriguing collaboration with Young alongside a trove of demos and workshop versions of songs from her first three albums for Asylum.

Martin Davidson

In closing, another memorial. Martin Davidson wasn’t a musician, but European free improvisation as an art and archive would be a fraction of what it is without his copious and enduring work. As steadfast proprietor of the Emanem label he put his resources into musicians whose efforts frequently fell outside the probability of consistent commercial remuneration. Under his aegis, influential improvisers like Steve Lacy, Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, and Paul Rutherford gained robust catalogs alongside other aspiring artists who never garnered even niche cachet. Davidson was a curmudgeon and an anachronism, trusting his ears implicitly, suffering the indignities of inquiries from strangers seeking audience with the hip hop icon who shared the phonetics of his imprint’s name, and advancing the pleasures of physical media well past their purported expiration date. He was also a talented writer, adding invaluable context to his releases through first-person testimony and critique. Martin will be missed.

And as is tradition in this 20th iteration of this year-end exercise, 25 more titles in stochastic order. Thanks to all for reading, and gratitude to Jennifer Kelly for providing the forum and formatting.

Rodrigo Amado’s The Bridge – Beyond the Margins (Trost)

James Brandon Lewis – For Mahalia with Love (Tao Forms)

Henry Threadgill – The Other One (Pi)

Guillermo Gregorio – Two Trios (ESP)

Rob Brown – Oceanic (RogueArt)

Rich Halley Quintet – Fire Within (Pine Eagle)

Milford Graves w/ Arthur Doyle & Hugh Glover – Children of the Forest (Black Editions)

Mike Osborne – Starting Fires: Live at the 100 Club 1970 (British Progressive Jazz)

Jim Hall – Uniquities Vol 1 + 2 (ArtistShare)

Madhuvanti Pal – The Holy Mother (Sublime Frequencies)

V/A – On the Honky Tonk Highway with Augie Meyers & the Texas Re-Cord Company (Bear Family)

Mal Waldron & Terumasa Hino – Reminiscent Suite (Victor/BBE)

Oum Kalsoum – L’Astre D’Orient 1926-1937 (Fremeaux & Associates)

Sonny Rollins w/ the Heikki Sarmanto Trio – Live at Finlandia Hall Helsinki 1972 (Svart)

V/A – Equatoriana: El Universo Paralelo de Polibio Mayorga (Analog Africa)

Evan Parker – NYC 1978 (Relative Pitch)

V/A – If There’s a Hell Below (Numero Group)

John Coltrane – Evenings at the Village Gate (Impulse)

Derek Bailey & Paul Motian – Duo in Concert (Frozen Reeds)

Peter Brötzmann/Fred Van Hove/Han Bennink/Albert Mangelsdorff – Outspan 1 & 2 (FMP/Cien Fuegos)

Hasaan Ibn Ali – Reaching for the Stars: Trios/Duos/Solos (Omnivore)

Mark Dresser – Tines of Change (Pyroclastic)

Steve Millhouse – The Unwinding (Steeplechase)

Myra Melford’s Fire and Water Quintet – Hear the Light Singing (RogueArt)

V/A – Destination Desert: 33 Oriental Rock & Roll Treasures (Bear Family)

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demigoddessqueens · 2 years

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Be at peace Ms Lansbury 😢

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mydeadmanstale · 2 years

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Made this awhile ago but Night at The Museum as Sonic Fandub moments

#night at the museum #natm #natm nicky #natm larry #natm teddy roosevelt #natm rexy #natm ahkmenrah #natm Rebecca #natm kahmunrah #natm tilly #natm jedediah #natm don #natm atilla #natm mcphee #natm lancelot #natm octavius #natm brendon #natm cecil

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paolo-streito-1264 · 5 months

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Don McPhee. Kissing Donkeys, Peak District, England.

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CAN WE GIVE SOME LOVE TO OTHER CHARACTERS THAT AREN'T JEDTAVIUS!?!?

Don't get me wrong I love Jed and oct but every time I go to the natm tag on Tumblr, it's JUST jedtavius.

There are other characters that are just as good as them that just get completely forgotten by like everyone.

Here's my list of characters that shouldn't be forgotten cause they are fucking awesome:

(who in my opinion hardly get ANY recognition)

Atilla

Lancelot

Custer

Sacagawea

Al Capone, Napoleon, Ivan, Kah (my faves 💕)

Ahk's parents (come on they could be such gold in fanfics)

Laa

McPhee (!!!!!!!!!!)

Tilly

Don (I just love him okay)

Old fuckers in natm 1 ( Fredericks, Regenald and Gus)

#natm #night at the museum #natm jedtavius #jedediah and octavius #natm attila #natm 1 #natm 2 #natm 3 #natm lancelot #natm george custer #natm sacagawea #natm kahmunrah #natm ivan the terrible #natm napoleon #natm al capone #natm laa #natm don #natm Tilly

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PBS MASCULINOS POR EDAD

Hola personitas. Venimos con un aporte que nos ha costado un tiempito reunir. Es posible que algunos PB tengan 1 añito más de lo que pone, porque igual cumplieron recién. Esperamos les guste ^^

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DAME ANGELA LANSBURY (1925-Died October 11th 2022,at 96). British American actress and singer who played many film, theatre and television roles. With one of the longest careers in the entertainment industry, her career spanned over 80 years, much of it in the United States; her work also received much international attention. Upon the death of Olivia de Havilland in July 2020, Lansbury became the earliest surviving Academy Award nominee and one of the last stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.Lansbury was born to an upper-middle-class family in central London, the daughter of Irish actress Moyna Macgill and English politician Edgar Lansbury. To escape the Blitz, in 1940 she moved to the United States, there studying acting in New York City. Proceeding to Hollywood in 1942, she signed to MGM and obtained her first film roles, in Gaslight (1944) and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), earning her two Oscar nominations and a Golden Globe Award. She appeared in 11 further MGM films, mostly in minor roles, and after her contract ended in 1952 she began supplementing her cinematic work with theatrical appearances. Although largely seen as a B-list star during this period, her appearance in the film The Manchurian Candidate (1962) received widespread acclaim and is cited as being one of her finer performances leading her to her third Academy Award nomination. Moving into musical theatre, Lansbury finally gained stardom for playing the leading role in the Broadway musical Mame (1966), which earned her her first Tony Award and established her as a gay icon.Amid difficulties in her personal life, Lansbury moved from California to County Cork, Ireland in 1970, and continued with a variety of theatrical and cinematic appearances throughout that decade. These included leading roles in the stage musicals Gypsy, Sweeney Todd, and The King and I, as well as in the hit Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971). Moving into television in 1984, she achieved worldwide fame as fictional writer and sleuth Jessica Fletcher in the American whodunit series Murder, She Wrote, which ran for 12 seasons until 1996, becoming one of the longest-running and most popular detective drama series in television history. Through Corymore Productions, a company that she co-owned with her husband Peter Shaw, Lansbury assumed ownership of the series and was its executive producer for the final four seasons. She also moved into voice work, contributing to animated films like Disney's Beauty and the Beast (1991) and Don Bluth's Anastasia (1997). She toured in a variety of international productions and continued to make occasional film appearances such as Nanny McPhee (2005) and Mary Poppins Returns (2018).Lansbury received an Honorary Academy Award, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the BAFTA, a Lifetime Achievement Tony Award and five additional Tony Awards, six Golden Globes, and an Olivier Award. She also was nominated for numerous other industry awards, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress on three occasions, and various Primetime Emmy Awards on 18 occasions, and a Grammy Award. In 2014, Lansbury was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II. Her Murder,She Wrote,co star,Ron Masak,who played the cadillac driving sheriff of Cabot Cove, Mort Metzger,died just nine days later,on October 20th. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Lansbury

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So...

Is Night at the Museum 4: Kahmunrah Rises Again being classed as cannon by people, or...?

Besides the insulting lack of Jedtavius, (and lack of the ongoing gag of “small men do something that’s horrifying to them, yet nothing to us (i.e. the car tire, the squirrel, and the vent), this isn’t what the post is about... it’s about the inconsistencies.

Like, yeah sure there were a few in the original three, but they weren’t show stopping, or ruining the magic, or even confusing things, such as; Cecil Fredrick’s implying that he only found out about the magic of the tablet when he took the job as a Night Guard, and then enjoyed the magic. But, in the third movie it’s as if he knew ALL ALONG. No mention of Rebecca in the second movie, none of the “Amelia Earhart Look-Alike” in the third. Or, Kahmunrah being wax rather than being a mummy. But, I can overlook that...

HOWEVER!

I will not overlook the magnitude in NATM 4.

Let’s talk inconsistencies.

There was no Joan of Arc in the original 3. Yes, I understand WHY they did this, but still, it was never even mentioned there was an exhibit dedicated to her. (Did they get a section for her between films?)

There was a severe lack of Teddy/Sacagawea, as if it was forgotten. (As there was of Jedtavius, but I can see why they cut that out.)

Larry has meant to have moved on, went to college, got a degree, and gone into teaching, yet he’s back at the museum??? Working as a night guard??? NATM 3 is about moving on, and letting go, but... now he’s back...

Where was Don??? Y’know? Erica’s boyfriend??? Don is never really brought up again in the next two films after the first, but they were dating, enough that Nicky sorta looked up to him and Erica trusted him to pick up Nicky. Did they break up, and it was never mentioned???? Ever...

And that’s another thing, Nicky’s meant to be in college at this point. To reiterate, that was the point of the third film, moving on and becoming better. Remember, one of the conflicts was Nicky had no idea what he wanted to do, he wanted to go DJ and Larry wanted him to go to college. He should not in High School. Not to mention, Nicky was flirting with that girl in the third movie at the very beginning, and didn’t appear to have a girlfriend, and the way NATM 4 implies that he’s TOTALLY gone for Mia, it would seem that they would be a “power couple”.

ANOTHER THING! Dr. McPhee is let on in the secret at the end of NATM 3. He is made aware that everything in the museum comes to life at night, and he sees it, and he’s amazed, he even finds it rather funny. Yet in NATM 4, he has no idea they come to life, and Nicky is trying to usher him out the door. And, McPhee seems to hate Nicky and Larry, despite in the end rather liking Larry and being thankful to him for taking the fall for the entire situation with the exhibits attacking.

ALSO, where is Ahkmenrah??? Did he just... vanish? Does he no longer exist??? Did he go back to England???

Which is also ANOTHER point. The reason at the end of NATM 3 everything came to life, was because it is a moving exhibit and was visiting New York. It doesn’t stay in one place for a long time, so it seems to have moved on from The Museum of Natural History, so... why does The Museum of Natural History STILL have the tablet? It should have gone with Ahkmenrah and the English Exhibit, and if it didn’t, Dr. McPhee would have probably been arrested. And, that’s what the exhibits wanted in NATM 3, for Ahkmenrah to have the tablet, and to be with his family.

Maybe the moving exhibit is still there? If so, what about Tilly??? She should still be there too, and I don’t think she would leave Laa, nor would Laa leave Tilly again. And if they did stay, Tilly would have been a good Night Guard rather than Nicky. And if they’re still there, where is Lancelot??? Where is Merenkahre and Shepseheret??? Where is Trixie??? (Therefore, it’s my belief that the moving exhibit is no longer there.)

Not finished yet! Another thing to note is... Kahmunrah is meant to be dead. Remember, he was pushed into the Afterlife through the Gate to the Underworld, right? Well, why and how is he back? “But OP, it’s another wax figure” I can hear some of you yelling; then why does he know what happened? If it’s a different wax figure, he shouldn’t know. Remember in NATM 2, when Larry found a bust of Teddy and Teddy had no idea who Larry was??? I do! So... it’s CLEARLY meant to be the same Kahmunrah.

Maybe it takes place between NATM 2 and 3??? But, it can’t! Because, Laa is there, and Laa was only introduced at the beginning of NATM 3. If Laa wasn’t there, I would have rather easily been able to say “it takes place between NATM 2 and 3″, but because he is, it means it’s MEANT to be after 4.

Maybe it takes place DAYS after the end of NATM 3??? Again, Larry and Nicky shouldn’t be there, the English Exhibits and Tilly should still be there, McPhee should know what’s going on, and Kahmunrah still shouldn’t remember/should not be alive and Akhmenrah should have been there.

There’s probably more, such as posters and pictures shouldn’t be moving in the Museum of Natural History, which is why Larry found the Smithsonian so cool, because the pictures moved unlike theirs, and they shouldn’t be used as portals as it was NEVER referenced before.

Also, the fact Joan had powers and Seth was a real God which should be impossible, given the fact everything else in the museum’s don’t work like that. Like sure, things like volcanoes blowing up is a thing, but like... besides things directly tied to the Tablet, things so as magic, permanent damage and stuff isn’t real.

Joan had hallucinations and more than likely a mental illness, so to see it used like THAT was just so not good. (A way with words I know) Yes, she had visions and later they came true, but the way it was used was wrong. As if what Joan saw was fact, rather than Joan having a mental illness, and trying to fulfill it. (There is nothing wrong with having mental health issues, or anything like that. I just believe the way they used her mental health and her hallucinations was wrong.)

And Seth... while I can see something like this being done, it was the fact it was done with laser eyes, like... THAT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN! The tablet doesn’t seem to let that sort of thing happen. (But, then again actually; given that Seth is more tied to the tablet I think it could. I think my main issue with that is; the laser eyes. I think it angered me more than I thought it did.)

So, yeah take this rant... I clearly didn’t like NATM 4... oops

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Film, Stage, and Television actress Angela Lansbury has passed away at age 96.

She’s best known for her role as Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote TV series and the voice of Mrs. Potts in the Disney’s Beauty and the Beast 1991 animated film. Some of her other notable film roles include Gaslight, The Mirror Crack’d, The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Death on the Nile (1978), Don Bluth's Anastasia, Nanny McPhee, and Mary Poppins Returns. Some of her broadway roles include Hotel Paradiso, Mame, Gypsy, Sweeney Todd and The King and I.

#Angela Lansbury #Murder She Wrote #Beauty and the Beast #Bedknobs and Broomsticks #Gaslight #The Manchurian Candidate #Anastasia #film #broadway #television #obituary #R.I.P.

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Don McPhee. Abandoned car. Peak District, Derbyshire, England, January 1979

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So, I’ve been SUPER hyperfixated on Night at the Museum lately, and as a result I have watched every film multiple times in the last two or three weeks except for the last one bc it’s really bad. This was going to be a post about how shitty Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again really is, but I got carried away with my analysis of the first film, so I’ll have to come back to it later and talk about how perfect Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb was to bookend the original trilogy and how well it shows the growth of Larry and Nick, but for now have this analysis of the original Night at the Museum.

The first film, Night at the Museum is a really nice opening film for the franchise, and even a great standalone! The film starts with an uncertain Larry Daley, unemployed and on the verge of another eviction (This is implied when his ex-wife, Erica, asks, “You didn’t get evicted again, did you?” and Larry responds, “I didnt...get evicted. I didn’t get evicted, no. I mean, I didn’t... No, I didn’t get evicted, yet.”), whose ten-year-old son, Nick, is so used to his father’s instability that he’s already making his own backup plan. Following his peewee hockey game, he tells Larry that he wants to be a bond trader because that’s what Erica’s fiance, Don, does. When Larry protests with, “But you love hockey!” Nick replies, “Yeah, but bond trading is my fallback.”

to Nick, Don is stable. Don is safe. What Don does makes his mom happy. Larry is always on the verge of some sort of collapse, and he sees his mom stress about it every single day. Nick loves his father very, very much, but he’s getting to an age where some things are starting to click for him. It’s not normal to have to move every few months. It’s not normal for his dad to have a different career every time he sees him. It’s not normal for him to be constantly worried about whether or not his dad will have a job tomorrow.

Nick is a very realistic depiction of a ten-year-old boy, in my opinion, and I think his actor did an amazing job portraying the emotions the script calls for. We only see Nick laugh in the movie one time, and it’s when Larry is teasing him about becoming a bond trading robot. This is immediately juxtaposed by Nick telling Larry that Don is stable, that bond trading is his backup plan, that he is making a Plan B before he’s even had time to think about Plan A. Larry asks Nick where he even heard the term “fallback” and Nick reveals that it came from his mother, who has apparently vented enough about Larry’s, quote, “crazy schemes,” that it has stuck as something important in Nick’s mind.

This seems to be the kick in the pants that Larry really really needed to find and stick with a job: the fact that his ten-year-old is stressed about his own future to the point of pre-planning for failure of a dream he hasn’t even cemented yet. It clicks for Larry that, because he has put so much into chasing his dreams, his own son thinks that dreaming is essentially a waste of time.

We see instances of this sort of reoccuring to Larry throughout the film each time he goes to quit. He has the most insane, unstable job he could possibly have, but it is still more sane and stable than what he has now. Because what he has now is nothing. What he has now is a failed attempt at cheating a parking meter and a boot on his car. What he has now is a son who is so embarrassed by him that he won’t even tell him about Parent Career Day. What he has now is an ex-wife who is also his best friend who cannot, in good conscience, let him take his own son for the night. What he has now is a kid who is trying to be an adult when he should be focusing on doing literally whatever he wants.

The first time Larry tries to quit, he runs into Nick and Don as he’s exiting the building, and seeing his son with such a stable father figure makes him turn around and try again. It makes him beg Dr. McPhee for a second chance. It gives him new resolve to try and do this right this time.

The second time, when Dr. McPhee fires him, it’s that same desire for stability that drives him to fight for one more chance at this job. It’s seeing Nick not believe him about getting his job back that makes him the most eager to prove himself. Hell--he even tries to prove himself to Rebecca that night! When nothing comes to life at dusk, Nick once again assumes his father is just..unstable. And Larry is desperate to disprove that. Nick takes off, and when Larry asks where he’s going, he insists that he’s going home. His trust in his father has been betrayed for the last time.

And then they run into the old Night Guards, and Larry pleads with Nick to believe him one more time. To just turn the middle piece of the tablet, and the whole museum will come to life, and he’ll be just that much less insane in the eyes of his own child. And Nick does. And it works! and they have a wild adventure of a night! And Larry saves the day! And he doesn’t lose his job! And everything works out!

And then, at the end of the film, we have a Larry who, in all his instability, manages to balance the impossible task of getting an entire museum to live together in harmony. We have a Nick who can let loose, who can allow himself to ride on the back of a T-Rex, and who can be proud enough of his father to bring him to Career Day, and whose belief in the dreams and magic of the world has been restored because his father refused to let them die. And when Larry asks if Nick is ready to go home, he says a casual, smiley, “Nope.”

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Historical/Fairytale AU prompts for Tenoch part 2! Pls tag me if you’re inspired by any of these, I’d love to read it! 💜

18. The duke has decided to make you, the youngest servant in his household, into his heir. As such you are forced into noble society as the 2nd most powerful heir in the kingdom, much to the surprise of the other nobles who now either vie for your support or demise. You often don your old raggedy servant clothes to get away for a few hours of respite. Tenoch, A bachelor prince or king, spends every weekend disguised as a beggar at town square. Like you, he desires to get away from the stuffiness and monotony of court. He’s tired of the sycophants and countless overly dressed and made-up vain women who scheme to catch his eye. He intends to pick the most selfless woman as his wife. Someone who can engage him in stimulating thought-provoking conversation instead of the shallow pleasantries of the weather or fashion. Imagine it, a country girl made princess or queen. You first run into each other in the market, and since both of you are dressed as peasants, neither of you recognize the other. How long until you meet again at a ball and/or discover each other’s identities?

19. Princess and the Pauper-esque AU: You, a mere pauper who was orphaned as a child, were so grateful when the royal family took you in. You chose to be handmaid to the princess and grew up almost like sisters. Now adults, you hear of invaders demanding the princess be handed to them, more specifically in marriage to their king. You tell your family that they can hand you over instead, as if you were the princess. The resemblance between you and the princess is so striking, you’re practically identical and the invaders would be none the wiser. You have to keep up the facade out of fear of prison or worse. Not just for you, but your adoptive family. You hadn’t even met King Tenoch, your husband, before you stepped in front of the priest. But you were pleasantly surprised when he seemed to be a good dancer. It was not a marriage for love, but political gain. Now that he’s married the “princess”, he’s not an enemy but an ally, with increased power and resources due to the alliance. While lonely and unhappy in your new home, you consider the silver linings of your situation.

The last thing you expected to happen in a marriage as complicated as this was for you to fall in love with Tenoch, and he with you. He wasn’t intended for you, but your doppelgänger. And yet, underneath his fearsome reputation and cold exterior, you’ve found something good in him. You’ve found a best friend, someone who makes you laugh. One year later, you’re with child. You and Tenoch are so elated, but the king’s men discover you’re not the true princess and burst your happiness. Now you have to confess to your husband who you really are and what’s going on. You have to implore him to listen to you, that your feelings are true and you never lied about your love for him. Not just for your sake, but your child’s. But will he find it in his heart to be merciful and spare your life, or will he only grant you a stay of execution until the child is born? Can he be forgiving through the harsh sting of your betrayal and deception, or will the emotional walls he lowered for you come surging back up?

20. Nanny McPhee/Bridgerton-esque AU: It’s the 19th century and you’re the scullery maid to Tenoch, the patriarch of an upper class family. He’s a widowed man with many unruly children he can’t seem to manage since his wife died. You’re uneducated so one of his children help teach you how to read in private when the day’s work is done. But Tenoch needs to remarry by the season’s end if he’s to get much needed monetary support from his late wife’s aunt. He’s been attending balls and other social events to look for a wife, but is struggling to find one suitable. When his aunt “offers” to take away one of his daughters so she may receive private tuition in literature, history, deportment, and elocution, you go instead. The siblings don’t have to be separated and you can get your much desired education, even if it’s repetitive and monotonous lessons in how to be a proper lady. After all, Tenoch wouldn’t love you if you couldn’t read. He’d think you stupid, uneducated, and beneath him.

You meet again at a ball and underneath the fancy dress and sparkling jewelry, Tenoch recognizes you. Even when you were working as a kitchen mouse, he always thought you were beautiful. You dance together. You’ve been in love for such a long time, but are too blind to see it. Weeks later, it’s Tenoch’s wedding and due to desperation and crunched time, he’s marrying an odious woman who’s only after his aunt’s money. But after the schemes and brilliant thinking of his children, he sabotages his own wedding until the bride gets so angry she calls it off, not caring how much the “old hag” is giving him. You and Tenoch get married after confessing your love for each other, which satisfies the agreement with his aunt and ensures the allowance will keep coming. You and Tenoch are happy as husband and wife, and the children love you as their new mother.

21. 12 Dancing Princesses-esque Bridgerton AU: It’s the event of the season, the wedding of the crown princess of the land. And the opportunity for the lower noblemen to have a dance with the younger sisters and the chance for a new title. Tenoch has been trying to dance with you at your eldest sister’s wedding all night, but your many sisters keep getting in his way. He’s not one to give up easily, however. When you and your sisters keep disappearing to who knows where, the king discovers shoes that have been worn through - as if his daughters had been dancing all night. He promises any of his 11 remaining daughters to the man who can discover the princesses’ midnight secret. After many princes and noblemen fail, Tenoch steps forward. He may be unkempt and not have a fancy status or title, but he’d like the chance to try. When it comes time for him to expose the princesses' secret, he goes before the king with evidence of where the princesses have been, telling him about all he has seen. The princesses know there’s no use in denying the truth. Tenoch chooses you as his bride because although all your sisters are lovely, he finds you to be the most beautiful and the wisest. He fell in love with you hopelessly the moment he laid eyes on you. But the matter of marriage isn’t quite settled. Tenoch declares it ultimately has to be your decision. To the surprise of the king and court, he doesn’t demand but asks you if you love him and if you’ll be his wife.

22. Princess Diaries-esque AU: Even though Reader and Tenoch hadn’t danced with each other yet nor even formally introduced themselves, they seem to end up in the refreshment room together. When they do learn each other’s names and reader stomps on Tenoch’s foot, they bicker until they end up in a broom closet together. No matter how many times they smack each other with a fan or rolled up paper and declare how much they loathe each other, they end up kissing in the garden.

23. Write an AU story with Tenoch using the Ever After quote: “I kneel before you not as a prince, but as a man in love. But I would feel like a king if you became my wife.”

24. Write an enemies to lovers Regency story with Tenoch, similar to the love story of Elizabeth and Darcy from Pride and Prejudice, or Colonel Brandon and Marianne from Sense and Sensibility, etc.

25. A Little Princess-esque AU: You’re short on money, and decide to get a job as a scullery maid at a boarding school for girls. The school is often a mess because of the children, and you work yourself to exhaustion cleaning up after them. You meet Tenoch, a wealthy but widowed man, when he comes to enroll his daughter. You’re such a hot mess that the first impression you make is less-than-ideal. He Instructs the headmistress to spare no expense for his daughter's comfort, and you befriend the girl when you take time out of your busy days to help her write to him. Unbeknownst to you and Tenoch, the child plots and schemes to play matchmaker between you and her father. He’s been so sad since mother died and needs a wife so he can be happy again. And she wants a sibling to play with. You don’t know why but letters suddenly come for you in the post, all from Tenoch. You’re soon pen pals and writing to him regularly. At first they’re very formal, asking about his daughter’s progress and wellbeing, etc. but over time they become much more personal and even intimate. Your first letters tell him of the fantastical stories you hear his daughter tell the other girls from your attic room, commending her on her imagination. The most recent letters are much more private and could be considered “love letters”.

Months later, all the parents and guardians come to see the girls’ progress. Tenoch’s daughter talks his ears off about you, but there’s no sign of you. He excuses himself so he may look for you. When he finally gets you alone (in a closet, empty room, your attic, etc.) it’s far from innocent as you give into your passions. He asks you to accompany him to his house, but you can’t. You’re bound here by your job and if the headmistress finds out you abandoned your post, she’d be furious and dismiss you. He corrects himself and gets on one knee: He doesn’t want you in his house for a tryst, he wants you in his house for forever.

26. Loosely A Little Princess/Ever After inspired AU: When an odious baroness discovers you know about her extortion scheme and possess incriminating evidence against her, she frames you for theft and summons the police. You narrowly escape by running down streets and alleyways, until you jump the large iron gate of an opulent manor. You make a perilous climb up the trellis to an open window on the second story, nearly slipping and falling due to rain. As the baroness and police search the grand house, you’re found by Tenoch, the Marquess/Duke who owns it. You don’t say a word, but your eyes tell enough of the story. When you’re dragged away by the police and panic, screaming for your ‘husband’, Tenoch plays along. “What is the meaning of this? What are you doing to my wife!?” He saves you from prison after the police and baroness become far too sheepish under his piercing gaze and much higher rank, especially when he calls out the baroness on her lies and exposes her misdeeds using the evidence you’ve gathered. But now it’s awkward because sooner or later society is gonna believe Tenoch and you to be married. What do you two do now?

27. Bridgerton-esque AU: You came from a family of humble wealth and small comforts, your parents merely a Lord and Lady. But when they discovered you were with child, they disowned you and sent you away to live off scraps, not caring to ask who the father is. You’re living in the slums, surrounded by and befriending hard-working people who weren't born as well as others. You’re often in the street, carrying a basket of beautiful flowers or laces and ribbons to sell. Or you’re sewing “piecework”. Nobody recognizes you underneath all the raggedy clothes or dirt and grime covering your face and hair. When your secret lover, Tenoch, a highly sought after Marquess or Duke, calls on you, your parents evade the truth of your predicament. They pretend you’re very ill and not taking visitors. No matter how often he comes by, he’s never permitted to see you. Your parents try to set him up with one of your sisters, after which he becomes suspicious and skeptical. It’s been so many months that your parents feign grief and claim you’ve succumbed to your long illness, and it doesn’t take long for Lady Whistledown to report on your “death”. Tenoch grieves, but not because he believes you dead. He believes you’re out there, scared and alone. That you’ve been out there all these months and he didn’t think to act sooner. He sets off across the country, searching for you.

When he finally finds you, you’re either heavily pregnant and ready to pop at any moment, or have had the child. Either way, he takes you back to his home to care for you and the baby. Tenoch and you marry. When it becomes public, your parents come crawling back, acting sickeningly sweet to you because of your husband. But neither you nor Tenoch are having any of their groveling and vulture-like behavior. Tenoch doesn't even let your parents step across the threshold, telling them in no uncertain terms that since they disowned you, they have no legal ties to you, him, nor your child. He’s not their son-in-law and owes them nothing. They ‘ll never lay eyes on your child, for he/she is not their grandchild. They don't have a claim to anything, and can either leave quietly or he’ll have the police escort them off his property. Is it any surprise your parents leave town so soon after Lady Whistledown prints her next issue?

28. A Little Princess/Bridgerton-esque AU: You’ve been the scullery maid of a widowed countess for many years, befriending the old woman. After her death, you receive a life-changing inheritance which draws you into the high society you’ve always admired. And into the affections of a young lord, much to the chagrin of Tenoch, the milkman who has secretly loved you for years. Every week he stopped by the countess’s estate to drop off fresh milk early in the morning, which allowed he and you to became friends. Sometimes Tenoch would get so lost in your eyes and sweet words that he’d become flustered and walk back out the door with the fresh bottles of milk he’d just delivered still in hand - only to come back and retrieve the basket of empty bottles from your waiting hands. He’d try not to embarrass himself further when your hands touched during the exchanging of the milk bottles. Now that you’ve been whisked away to the upper class, he’s kicking himself for being too cowardly to confess his love sooner. You try to be polite and adapt to being a lady of status, but you don’t feel anything for the noblemen who try to win your attentions - especially the much too insistent and entitled lord. Tenoch thinks your one-sided courtship is a mistake and tries to stop him, often intervening to come to your rescue in a myriad of ways. Even if it includes borrowing finer dress suits and attending a few fancy dress balls.

29. Mary Poppins-esque AU: Tenoch is a jack-of-all-trades. He never stays with one trade too long and adapts to current conditions to make his living - as a one man band, a street artist, selling hot chestnuts or kites, etc. He may live on the streets and be a drifter, but he’s happy. When he’s working as a chimney sweep, he watches in fascination from the sidelines as you, a new nanny with a suspiciously deep bag, manage to leave rooms cleaner by just seemingly walking through them. The family you’re currently working for loves you; you're practically perfect in every way. But this nanny might just steal his job (or his heart) if he doesn’t do something!

30. Mary Poppins-esque Bridgerton/Downton AU: You've always been average, rather Plain Jane compared to your sisters. Unlike your beautiful and talented sisters, you’ve no serious marriage prospects, so your parents often forget you. Classic middle child syndrome. Your family keeps asking you to run errands for them which means you can't focus on any one thing for a longer time, and you can’t say no to them. Tenoch is a jack of all trades whom you often run into on the street. Impressed by his talents, you always spare him a coin or two. Your family even sends you out on errands at night, without access to a horse or carriage. You’re left to walk, scared half to death by shady characters and wild dogs when you run into Tenoch, who’s covered head to toe in black soot from working as a chimneysweep. He accompanies you since he knows these streets like the back of his hand. It’s not safe for a woman like you to be out alone, especially with money in your purse. Soon you’re making excuses to your family so you can go out and see him during the day and night. They’re none the wiser, assuming you’re eager to get to your chores.

This turns into a forbidden/secret romance between you and Tenoch since you’re from different social classes. You’re a great lady and he’s just a street rat, but neither of you care. The secret places you meet at are far from glamorous, but you’ll take an abandoned shack with a leaky roof, a tent in the woods, or a makeshift home under a bridge any day. Just to spend hours in his arms. But your family starts to get suspicious, especially when they notice there’s money missing. Now you have a choice to make between your family and your heart. You can either give up Tenoch, or be disowned by your family and left with nothing.

31. A Little Princess-esque AU: You’ve been a long time neighbor and friend to Tenoch, a wealthy and widowed colonel. He leaves his daughter in your care after both he and your husband are called to fight. Tenoch writes to you and his daughter. You write to Tenoch and your husband, all while helping Tenoch’s daughter write her own letters to her father. The letters suddenly stop coming. For months, there’s no word from Tenoch nor your husband. Tenoch’s solicitor arrives with news that he has been KIA; the government has seized his assets, leaving his daughter penniless. You receive word that your husband has been declared MIA.

When Tenoch, wounded and suffering from amnesia, is found with your husband’s unsent letters to you on his person, he’s misidentified as your husband when brought to hospital. You’re so relieved he’s alive that you cry, especially when you’re given your husband’s final letters to you. When he’s well enough, you take him to your home to nurse him back to health and oversee his recovery. Tenoch’s daughter discovers the convalescing soldier is none other than her father, but he doesn’t recognize her. His daughter is just a child, too young to understand her father’s predicament. She’s desperately screaming and crying for her father, and it’s heartbreaking watching her beg him to remember. You do your best to comfort and care for both Tenoch and his child, but sometimes it’s overwhelming. Over time, you help Tenoch regain his memory, until he and his daughter are happily reunited. Sometime later, Tenoch’s property has been reverted back to him and you’ve found peace in knowing that he tried to save your husband. Gradually you and Tenoch fall in love until you decide to marry.

32. Bridgerton/Downton-esque AU where it’s a story similar to Theo and Eloise or Tom and Sybil. You’re the favorite daughter of a count, but you’re a free spirit who’s interested in political topics and have opinions. Tenoch is a hardworking printer's assistant, sometimes working as a newsie. He's not just a working class man. He's also an intellectual, a talented writer who’s quite political. He advocates and fights for the rights of others. He gives you some pamphlets he thinks might interest you about the vote, women’s rights, social reform, etc. You disobey your father in order to secretly attend assemblies, rallies, the counting of the votes, etc. in a part of town dangerous and most unfit for a lady such as you, but Tenoch protects you from trouble. You’ve begun thinking about him when you read things and ask if he thinks about you too. He brings out a stack of books he'd set aside for you to read and discuss with him. When you invite Tenoch to your home to announce your plans to marry, it takes a long time for your family to come around. Especially your father, who even tried to bribe Tenoch to leave town. He was so worried you were throwing away your life, but he shakes Tenoch’s hand and gives his blessing for the marriage. It’s an adjustment for both Tenoch and your family, but you never once regret your choice in a husband. You both make your own way in the world and he finds his place within your family.

33. Write something for Tenoch using the Princess Diaries quote: “Why me?”

“Because you saw me when I was invisible.”

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