#GARRETT DAD ERA??;&(&(&;&

[nico-di-genova]

Things from Garrett’s panel at Megacon:

Said he crashes on Charlie’s Hunnam’s couch and that Charlie was the main motivator behind him starting to go to conventions.

Also explained he and Charlie are each others biggest supporters. Roles they audition for will usually come down to him, Charlie or some other guy. He said he and Charlie always hope one of them gets it, but it usually always ends up going to the other guy.

Joked about feeling inadequate compared to Charlie, because Charlie had shirtless photos at his booth that fans could get signed. Their booths were right next to each other too, so he said he was always looking over and just seeing the pictures.

Talked about filming Triple Frontier, and how the other guys would get to go out and relax on the beach (“Oscar Isaac is out there shirtless and sipping from a drink with a little umbrella in it”) while he was practicing three hours a day for a Benny fight scene that ultimately got cut.

Still expressed how much he loved filming Triple Frontier, and getting to work with Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac and Charlie.

Had the whole room laughing and giggling tbh, like he is actually so effortlessly funny.

Talked about how he’s fascinated by the beatnik generation, specifically Jack Kerouac and how he tried to get in character for his role in On the Road by road-tripping during his free time and trying to write in the beatnik style. He said he liked how freeing the writing from that era felt, like a free flow of thoughts. (So real for that tbh, I did like three presentations on the beatniks in high school because they are truly so intriguing)

Talked about Tim McGraw and how they met when Tim played his character’s dad in Friday Night Lights. Also talked about Rhodes (his son) a little bit and how Tim is Rhodes grandfather.

The last question of the Q&A portion was had he ever pulled from his own personal life in order to portray a character (specifically did him losing his father in real life impact how he portrayed Sam in Tron: Legacy). Garrett said no, that he tried to keep his personal life separate from the characters and tried not to entangle a role into personal matters. He also explained that Joseph Kosinski (Tron: Legacy director) fought Disney to keep Garrett’s contract open ended, so that he wouldn’t be tied down to filming while his father’s health was declining and could be with his family when he needed to be.

Stayed after a little bit, even when they were clearly trying to get him off the stage, to talk to fans and take pictures. He was like that all day tbh, very committed to giving each person their individual time and trying to connect with everyone.

#garrett hedlund #I was gonna film then got self conscious #so I took notes instead! #he talked about Charlie so much tbh #it was giving little brother looking up to his big brother energy

[artemiseamoon]

A Hermits Journey

1: This isn’t home

A oneshot slowly turning into a fic | revised 3.27.23

Words: 2,213

Week 22 @writer-wednesday

The Teller brothers

Au where Garrett Hedlund is Jackson’s younger brother, Noah Teller

This is a oneshot for now! Will be expanded at another time.

This is a preview * read in full on A03 * for now it’s just a oneshot since my plate is over full

Jax was out of places to look when the phone call came. It was just a few seconds long, brief and to the point. Noah was never one for words, not after dad's death at least. Everyone took it their own way, for Noah, he shut down and remained that way.

It didn’t matter he still had Jax, mom, the club if he wanted it; Noah didn’t want anything to do with any of it. He was known for packing up and vanishing for a long time, much to Gemma’s frustration. Sometimes it didn’t even feel like Jax had a brother left. Sometimes it felt like Noah died too.

Noah’s been gone for 11 months, the longest stint yet. Gemma was all worked up, sure her boy was dead. She was in a frenzy and looking into reports and John Doe’s. Jax had a bit more hope, he knew his brother, to an extent, and he knew Noah would pop up again at some point, especially if he got himself in a hole he couldn't charm his way out of.

Even so, understanding aside, Jax was pissed. He hated when Noah disappeared like this. As predicted, Noah eventually reached out, he used his one phone call to contact Jax.

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This place was in the middle of nowhere, all types of seedy with years of dirt and memories ground into the wood floor. Faded stickers and posters on the walls with a few vintage beer signs.

Motorhead blared from the speakers and the bar top was packed, shoulder to shoulder. The men looked the part for this place, and their sole focus was the busty bartender, thought they did eye up Jax's kutte when he walked in.

The bartender was older with a cute figure and confidence through the roof. Jax could tell she's been at this a long time, maybe even at this same bar for years. She used the moth to a flame effect she had on the men to her advantage; her tip jar was already overflowing, and she had a few bills tucked in the red lace of her bra.

As Jax observed her, she made eye contact and winked at him before going back to her task. Jax responded with a warm smile, then turned his attention back to his brother, seated directly across him in the booth.

Noah was doing that thing where he stares off at nothing, broody, full of angst. A 90s grunge icon in the wrong era dressed in all black and leather instead of flannel: eerily silent on the outside but a turbulent storm brewing on the inside. Noah looked the same, but different. His hair was longer than Jax's now, and he wore a similar kind of beard.

Continuing to say nothing, Noah brought his glass to his lips and took a drink.

“You lucked out brother, we have friends down here. Charges dropped.” Jax said, cutting into the sounds of the bar and thick silence between them.

Noah made eye contact, his expression remaining unchanged. “I didn’t ask you to do that.”

“Jesus Christ- " Jax sighed, then rested his arms on the table, "I know you didn’t, you're my fucking kid brother! Am I supposed to just let you rot in a cell?"

Noah shrugged, looking away as his jaw ticked.

"Look man, you can’t keep doing this shit. It’s killing mom.” Jax paused, waiting until his brother looked him in the eye to finish. “And me.”

Read more here (A03) ⬅️

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#writers Wednesday #Jax teller #SOA #sons of anarchy #Jax teller and Noah teller universe #charlie hunnam characters #garrett hedlund characters

[theheelerbooklifereads]

💭 𝘘𝘖𝘛𝘋: 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝟧-𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥?

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✨✨ Rating: ♾️ Stars ✨✨

The Graham Effect is a fun, grumpy x sunshine, enemies-to-lovers romance novel.

I'm currently in my sports romance era, and I've only read one other book by Elle Kennedy - The Chase from the Briar U series. I loved The Chase, and because of that, I expected to love The Graham Effect too.

Plot

The story is about Gigi Graham, the daughter of Garrett Graham from the Off-Campus series. Gigi wants to make her famous hockey dad proud by becoming one of the top female hockey players and making it to the Olympics. Luke Ryder wants to be chosen as one of the coaches for Garrett Graham's summer program. He offers to help Gigi improve her weak spots in hockey, and she agrees to help him get chosen as a coach. But to do that, they must overcome their disdain for each other, which stems from when they first met as teenagers.

As they help each other, sparks fly, and their chemistry becomes intense. They soon can't deny their attraction and let their passion consume them.

The Romance

The romance between Gigi and Ryder is both sweet and spicy. The book is not just a romance but also deals with the characters' trauma and anxiety. The character development is well done, and both Gigi and Ryder bring out the best in each other. Gigi helps Ryder open up about his feelings, and Ryder helps Gigi become moreso confident.

I couldn't put the book down and finished it in 3-4 days. The writing is gripping, and the story never lets you go. I appreciate that there's no third-act breakup scene, which is a common trope in romance novels.

Who will love this book

If you enjoy sweet/spicy romances, hockey, sports, fast-paced reads, and well-developed characters, you'll love The Graham Effect.

I can't wait to read the sequel, The Dixon Rule, coming out in May.

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[peantis]

Dream number ???: Prom

Holy fucking shit this one was long. I was trapped in this dream for what felt like weeks. First part, was that everyone was going to prom, and I didn’t have a dress. I find this sheer red dress that I could draw right now if I wanted to, and we go.

Prom is boring.

It cuts to us back at my moms house, with my dad there and alive. It changes from my current friends to a mix of a couple current ones and mostly middle school ones. We sit around and talk for EVER in our prom clothes, and discuss just like normal memories. The thing that gets me is that whenever I dream, my dreams give me memories inside of that dream world. I could so clearly remember things that happened in that life, and it felt so real.

We all go to sleep, and I have an IN DREAM dream sleep (about dinosaurs or something). I wake up on the floor of my mothers living room with some dude next to me (in dream he’s an old middle school friend, awake I don’t know him). There’s some sort of love triangle with me (who didn’t have any romantic feelings toward him in dream) him and this girl I used to know. He apparently wanted to go to prom with me, but asked the other girl?? Idk man.

Then, it takes a WEIRD TURN

We all sit around talking, enjoying breakfast, and it shifts to that god forsaken house I always dream about. It’s always a normal house, very large but nothing fancy. My mom says, “hey, remember when you guys built a giant goose to ride to prom last year?” (??????) and everyone is like omg yes!! And I remember the goddamn goose!

It’s this Jim Henson spooky fucker that was part boat so we could drive it. My mom sends a house keeper (never had one of those, her name was Isa in the dream) go down to the basement to look for parts of the goose.

While they’re doing that, my dad is chatting with some of the guys that stayed over after prom. He talks with this kid named Garrett that I used to know, and says, “aren’t you the kid that came back to life?” And I say, “I thought that was *other kid I knew*” and I get this wave of in dream memories about how multiple of my in dream friends have died and been brought back, or disappeared mysteriously and returned.

The in dream memories treat this as normal, as if we’re all part of some resurrection secret society or something.

We’re eating breakfast when isa comes upstairs holding some pieces of the Goose, like the legs and the wings, but where’s the head?

I explain that my real life friend, Sid, must still have the head at their parents house. I’m dating this era to be around Junior year, since me and sid were friends then but I have no idea why all of these middle school friends are included.

We still just sit around and talk like everything is normal. I remember the conversations, but they weren’t that interesting.

I wake up in the middle of talking with someone about the goose head.

The thing that gets me so badly in these types of dreams are the memories. You know how when you’re thinking, you can tell the difference between imagining something and a memory? Well in my dreams, I have memories of whatever life I am living in them. Memories that make sense.

Whenever I wake up from one of these they still feel like memories for about an hour, and then they fade away a bit. It’s genuinely mind fucking, imagine having like false memories implanted. Or imagine your very real memories that FEEL real slowly fading away. Idk man

#dreamcore #Dream world #dreams

[fangsup-cobrastyle]

1. What is the first song you remember hearing?

I don’t have a memory of a particular song, but I have a vivid memory of sitting in the computer room while my dad was listening to some soft instrumental jazz. That, or the TV show theme songs my mom used to sing to me as a baby when I couldn’t sleep.

2. What is the first band you got into?

How lame does it make me sound if I say The Jonas Brothers?

3. Do you collect music on any physical format?

CDs, baby! They’re the superior form of recorded music, and I will die on that hill.

4. What is your favourite piece of music-related memorabilia/merchandise?

My mom recently got me a custom denim jacket with the Black Parade album cover on the back, and I think it’s the coolest thing in the world.

5. What is your favourite concert you've been to?

Taylor Swift :) I was lucky enough to see her back in the Fearless era

6. If you could see one artist (or band) who is no longer alive in concert, who would it be?

Probably Lou Reed, or The Beatles (I know 2 of them are still alive, but I can’t actually see The Beatles, you know?)

7. Have you met any musicians?

I mean, local musicians, all the time since I’m in that scene myself. I also met an Australian singer-songwriter named Garrett Kato after a concert. I think that’s about it.

8. What is your go-to song/album when feeling sad?

Figure 8 and Either/Or by Elliott Smith; literally anything Mal Blum or Modern Baseball have ever written

9. What is your go-to song/album when feeling happy?

thank u, next and sweetener by Ariana Grande; the Into the Spiderverse soundtrack; “You Get What You Give” by New Radicals

10. What is one music-related documentary you love?

I can’t think of one off the top of my head :/

11. What is one concert DVD that you love?

I don’t own any. Like, aside from my own concerts.

12. Do you prefer listening to playlists or full albums?

Depends on my mood. I’ve been really into the playlist thing lately since I’m trying to get the most out of my Spotify student plan.

13. Do you tend to listen to albums in order or on shuffle?

Both, but usually in order.

14. What is your favourite deep cut song by your favourite artist?

I’ll do one for each of my ultimate favorite artists:

Green Day - I don’t know that I’m familiar with any Green Day deep cuts... “Forever Now”?

My Chemical Romance - “The Five of Us Are Dying”

Left at London - There’s not too deep you can go, but I feel like “The Ballad of Marion Zioncheck” is underappreciated.

Mal Blum - “New Orleans”

15. What is your favorite CD/vinyl/cassette that you own in terms of packaging?

I’m a little bit obsessed with looking at the Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge booklet and case at the moment

I wasn’t tagged, I just stole it, but I’ll tag @robinruns and anyone else who wants to do it!

[aromanticbuck]

Aos?

blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most)

Leo! I stole his name and everything

scrunkly (my “baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped)

...Deke. that's a baby change my mind.

scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave)

dad Holden for sure.

glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week)

Agnes repping both parents with this one, yeah

poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave)

Aida but specifically in her Girl Boss™ Madame Hydra Era

horse plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason)

I project some shit onto Deke. sorry, baby, I have to process my trauma so I gotta drag you down with me

eeby deeby (character I would send to superhell)

Coulson or Garrett or Alistair. it's a toss up tonight. been cranky at all of them this week for some reason or another. just all of the Bad Dad figures. I hate them.

[ send me a fandom and i'll tell you my... ]

#answered #anon #alex says things #aos #agents of shield #marvel #mcu

[amandajoyce118]

Agents Of SHIELD S7E05 “A Trout In The Milk” Easter Eggs And References

The team heads to the 1970s where they discover that Hydra has received a hand up from the Chronicoms. 

You know the drill. If you’re reading this, I’m assuming you’ve already seen the episode. Especially since I’m watching the episode four days after it aired. So, yes. There are spoilers.

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Those Opening Credits

They are so very ‘70s. If you’ve ever watched a sitcom or a spy series from the era, you’ll see nods in the sequence.

Sousa Wonders About Ending Up In The Present

Perhaps Sousa’s questioning of Daisy and Coulson about ending up in their present time is a nod to the actor’s cameo in Avengers. Let’s hope the show actually ties those two together instead of just giving us an Easter egg or two.

Dooley’s Booth

Coulson talks about Dooley’s booth in the old bar that becomes a SHIELD meeting spot. Dooley was the chief of the New York office of the SSR, for those who didn’t watch Agent Carter.

Bendeery English Ale

Daisy drinks one of these in the SHIELD bar, and there’s also a poster for it in Malick’s office. It is the official unofficial beer of the show. It’s named for a friend of Nick Blood’s and first appeared back in season two.

You Always Bounce Back

Yeah, this is, what, the third time someone has referenced Elena’s first episode of the series and her powers. That feels like it’s not going to bode well for her, but not sure what to make of all the on the nose references just yet.

‘70s SHIELD Uniforms

Those blue and white jumpsuits are straight out of the comics of the same era. Yep. 

Project Insight

We all saw Captain America: The Winter Soldier, right? Project Insight is the big project created by Hydra that targets “threats” to the world in the form of Stephen Strange and Tony Stark. In other words, it calculates the probability that people will go against Hydra and advises on whether or not they should be eliminated.

The Episode Title

The phrase is, as Sousa points out, an “old timey one,” and it’s fun that it gets used repeatedly in the episode.

Coulson Is From Processing

When Malick asks Coulson where he’s from at the bar, Coulson says he’s from processing. That’s a callback to season five when the team ended up in the future. It’s what Deke told them to say when anyone asked where they were from so they wouldn’t give away that they were time travelers.

Come With Me If You Want To Continue To Exist

This show loves to nod to its sci-fi and action movies, right? While Elena talks about Bond movies early in the episode, this line is a nod to the Terminator franchise.

The Launch Hangar

Where the Insight rocket/satellite combo launches from in the middle of the lake is where the zephyr usually launches from in the future.

The Episode Tag

Nathaniel Malick isn’t even supposed to exist anymore, but he’s sure working on living up to the family name, huh? His wanting to talk to Daniel Whitehall about surgically transferring abilities should sound familiar. Whitehall lives for so long by surgically transferring Jiaying (Daisy’s mom, remember her?) to himself. 

The List Of SHIELD Assets/Hydra Threats

I saved this one for last because this is where the majority of the episode Easter eggs come from. When Daisy and Sousa get the list of “threats” for Project Insight in the ‘70s, the computer has a nice “Level 7 only” at the top of the screen. That’s a nod to how the show began, with Coulson as a Level 7 agent, welcoming Ward to his new status on the team.

Sousa and Daisy mention that Bruce Banner, Peggy Carter, and Nick Fury all show up on the list. The long list features some other names that should be familiar. There are actually two sets of lists, but it’s really hard to make out the first one, so help a girl out if I miss some names.

Roberto Gonzalez and Victoria Hand both show up. You might remember them from earlier seasons of the show. Vic is killed by Ward when he breaks Garrett out of SHIELD custody and Gonzalez is killed by Jiaying when he tries to have a meeting with her. I believe Isabel Hartley is also on the first page of the list, but not positive because her name is blurry. In the comics, she dated Vic, but she was killed in the first episode of season two.

Also on the list? Jim Morita and Gabe Jones. They’re both Howling Commandos. Gabe also happens to be Trip’s grandfather while Jim is grandfather to Peter Parker’s school principal.

Some more familiar names that appear are Nicole Amador, Susan Morse, and Nathan Bowen. The first is likely a relative of Akela Amador from season one, while Susan Morse is mother to Bobbi Morse in the comics. Nathan Bowen is the father of Tandy (from Cloak And Dagger) and a scientist who works for Roxxon.

Still with me? Good. Because there are even more.

Conrad Murphy is the father of Sandra Murphy in the comics. Sandra is one of the “Caterpillars” or Secret Warriors in the comics, though she’s not on Daisy’s team. She actually is on the team sent to spy on the Russian organization Leviathan (which was in Agent Carter) and her entire team ends up dead.

Andrew and Margaret Nelson appear - though on separate halves. I’m curious if they’re meant to be relatives of Foggy Nelson from Daredevil, though their names don’t ring any bells for me. It’s worth noting that the show has connected to Daredevil in the past with other Easter eggs and Skye and Matt both having a connection to St. Agnes.

There’s a Susan Parker on the list, who could be related to Peter Parker, or she could be a really random reference to a character that appeared in one comic book in the ‘40s? Likewise, Michael Phillips is a name that is connected to a mercenary who worked with the Punisher in the comics who used to be a CIA agent, but that feels like too common of a name. (There’s also an assistant director with the name who works on the show, so he could just be a nod to him.)

Betty Wright is a famous singer who actually rose to fame in the ‘70s. She died this year. She wrote the original “Where Is The Love” and has been sampled on tons of R&B tracks. Likewise, Mark Roberts might be another pop culture nod since he was an actor who started working in the ‘30s, though that was just his stage name, so who knows?

I’ve got nothing on Ben Taylor, Ben Harris, James Cook (unless they’re talking about the British explorer who would have already been dead), Ronald Collins, Roger Stewart, Leonard Torres, Robert Moore (though I did think initially that it said Morse and wondered if Bobbi was named after her dad), and David Robinson. I also didn’t catch the last name for the entry that starts with Theresa. But that’s - a lot. So, some of the names are presumably filler names, entered just because they were ones the team could use, and they could also be nods to people the VFX team knows in real life.

Edited to add:

Chastity McBride

I completely forgot to note that May’s alias in this episode is a real SHIELD agent in the comics. She’s only appeared in a handful of comics and her main mission was stopping John Garrett and Elektra from an assassination plot.

I think this is the longest list I’ve done in a while, so no speculation this time. Until next week. Or, I guess, later this week!

#agents of shield #aos season 7 #aos easter eggs #aos spoilers #mcu

[letscuttothefeeling]

season three episode three

Let me start off by congratulating the producers – not you Ish – on this great episode. I finally feel like we’re back to THE SHOW. Not a weird Bachelor spin-off with minimal drama and blatantly horrible editing (see: Juliette’s grad party scene, where Chloe’s nails change color DURING THE PARTY.) Nope, we’re done with that and back to the good stuff, so on that note, let’s cut to the feeling.

Come ON MTV it’s like you weren’t even trying. And yes, I created this, and no, I don’t have a life.

I know I’m going to like an episode when it starts off with the angelic sounds of my lord and savior, Ariana Grande. As break up with ur girlfriend, i’m bored plays, we zoom into Cara’s house. Personally, I’m hoping to see Victoria. Alas – it’s just Cara…and Garrett. God, Garrett STOP. Your ex-girlfriend has already outlined exactly how Cara is using you – since she did the exact same thing - and you’re still asking Cara on dates? This is so cringe. Where’s Victoria?!

Even though Garrett can’t score a date, Brandon can! Maybe instead of asking Cara to go look at babies, you should ask her to rollerblade, G Baby. As Amanda and Brandon glide around the Key, we learn that Brandon is celebrating his 24th birthday on Friday! And it’s “24, Like, Karat Gold Slash, Like, Pirate, Sort Of” themed, of course! He debates whether or not to invite Juliette while giving us viewers amazing helmet safety tips. Meanwhile, after Cara has removed G Baby from her property, she makes her way to Chloe’s to checkuppé on her. This is where we learn that Chloe has officially called the cops and filed a police report. I have a lot of opinions, but more on this later.

Okay, something I haven’t touched on because I wish it wasn’t happening I haven’t had time is that Kelsey and Jared have sparked a little romance. If you don’t remember, while Kelsey was dating her random LA boyfriend, Jared was the 86th person she cheated on him with. I see this going well! I mean, it always works out when you leave someone you cheated on for the person you cheated with. Right? Plus, there’s Twisted Tea and mudding involved, so Kelsey can rest assured she’ll be going on sophisticated and expensive dates instead of the shitty and poor dates that Garrett used to take her on.

FINALLY, the C + V scene I need and deserve. Donning a black one-piece that contrasts perfectly with her frozen fruity pink drink, Victoria is effortlessly exuding two polar opposite, chaotic energies. I’m getting “sassy”, but I’m also getting “I’ll fuck you up if you insult my 90’s Quiksilver skater shoes.” AKA, I’m getting Avril during the Girlfriend era. And I love it. As she floats next to Cara in the pool and shockingly proclaims that she’s not into guys, (what?!) I’m on my knees praying to God himself that she become a main cast member vis-à-vis a relationship with Cara. It’s Victoria’s show, and we’re all just living in it, baby. After Cara’s bizarre comment about how her parents punish her by locking her in their wine cellar (weird flex, but okay) Victoria giggles about how dumb Garrett is and we move on.

We leave C and V for a Madisson and Kelsey reunion, but it’s not a happy one. Madisson delivers the unfortunate news that Chloe may be pressing charges. Oh no! I would be really upset by this, but I can’t focus on the content of Madisson’s words because of how she’s delivering them. Madisson, we fully understand that you’ve been to an acting class in LA because you won’t shuttupé about it, so you can stop over-enunciating everything that comes out of your mouth. Thanks!

After Kelsey tells Juliette about her impending stint in Florida prison, she gets understandably upset. Luckily, Boring Robby is there to teach Juliette how to apologize. Don’t say he never did anything for her! I want to point out that Kelsey truly has been redeeming herself this season. She’s been pretty level headed and a very good friend. If only Boring Robby could do the same… Later in the day, Kelsey confronts Robby about another thing Madisson spilled during their meetup. Apparently, while Juliette was fighting everyone last week, Boring Robby had the audacity to applaud her! How gauche. Boring Robby vehemently denies these claims, saying, “Always take the high road, because the low road is way too crowded,” and, “Silence is the best way to react to a fool, and happiness is the best revenge.” First of all, stop lying about things that were FILMED on national television. You’re now Boring Robby: The Liar. Second of all, why are you the human embodiment of my ninth grade Pinterest quotes board?

Grab your pillows and sleeping bags because we are heading to a SLUMBER PARTY! But before anyone can start braiding each other’s hair, Chloe begins to stir the pot, yet again. She delights in bringing up Brandon and Amanda’s new relationship right in front of Madisson. But to distract from the awkwardness, Amanda changes the subject to her missing phone. After the fight, she lost her phone and no one has been able to find it. She starts to give us a play-by-play analysis of why and how she thinks Boring Robby: The Liar stole it. I’m sorry, am I watching Joe Goldberg on You, or am I watching Amanda on Siesta Key? 

It’s the day of the BG’s bday, and I’m so excited to see everyone’s 24 Karat Gold Slash Like Pirate themed outfits! They don’t disappoint - G Baby and Victoria are even matching!! I’ve never screamed so loudly in my life. Garrett obviously refuses to drink, and we’re off to the party. But first, there’s one guest who needs to arrive.

As Alex descends from his family’s PJ strapped with Louis luggage, a BEER, and fresh digs straight from the Siesta Key mall, I can feel the blood coming back into my body. I can feel individual atoms multiplying. I can feel my soul re-entering my empty, hollow frame. I feel exactly like Bella in the fourth Twilight novel, Breaking Dawn. After her half-human, half-vampire baby has eaten its way out of her uterine lining, Edward is forced to do the unthinkable: steal Bella’s mortal soul by turning her into a vampire so she has a shot to survive. (It’s the second time in the series that vampire Edward is forced to resist sucking all of Bella’s enticing blood to save her – that’s true love.) As she starts to respond to his venom, each and every one of her cells begins to freeze over and restore life to her body. Suddenly, she is awake. Her vision is sharp, her mind is clear, and she’s never looked better. And that’s EXACTLY how I felt as Alex exited his plane.

I expect nothing less than for Alex to arrive at BG’s party with three underage Ukrainian mail-order brides. And he doesn’t disappoint. Unfortunately for the brides, he immediately begins discussing relationships with Cara. It’s fun to see Cara pride herself in not cheating on people for the past year. I kind of feel like that should be a given, but okay. As they’re undressing each other with their eyes talking, Garrett is having an interesting convo of his own. Classic Chloe starts stirring the pot AGAIN by telling Garrett that Cara is using him. Really Chloe? Cara is supposed to be your best friend. What’s more shocking is that VICTORIA starts to betray Cara as well. This causes an immediate fight between Carrett. They leave the party and start screaming at each other in the jungle. I’m so enraptured by the fight that I momentarily forget they’re at a themed party and fixate on Garrett’s outfit. Why am I watching Garrett Miller scream in a jungle dressed as a pirate? Oh, right. Anyways.

Even though Cara and G Baby are scream fighting, the party continues to rage on. And everyone is makingoutté. Kelsey and Jared, Amanda and Brandon... something is in the air! It must be the pirate theme. #LetsGetScurvy. But one person isn’t feeling the love – Madisson. With Dad gone, she has no one to kish. Clearly bothered by watching her friend and ex-boyfriend eat each other’s faces, Madisson decides to give Brandon the sad news that Amanda is using him. Whether or not she is, Madisson has no right to give her opinion on the matter. And BG says exactly that. Good for him! Another person surprisingly not making out with someone is Alex. He’s too busy being an asshole to Kelsey and telling anyone who will listen that Boring Robby is bad news. Probably true, but literally no one can be worse than he is, except maybe Pauly Paul. In other news, WHERE IS PAUL.

Unfortunately, the next scene doesn’t involve Pauly or Victoria – just Chloe and Juliette. Juliette shows up after Chloe gets out of work to hopefully avoid jailtime hash things out. Now strap in because I’m about to explain exactly where I stand with the Chloe/Juliette drama, and if you aren’t completely focused, please take a 10mg Adderall, wait ten minutes, and check back in.

Okay, hopefully, you’ve taken amphetamines and can really dial in. Here goes: I realize that Chloe is a necessary evil - it’s an indisputable fact that there would be no show without her antics. No one is as shameless when it comes to talking shit and completely ruining their friendships for the sake of television. And for that, I deeply respect Chloe. (I realize that sounds sarcastic but I am dead serious. Thank you for taking one for the team, Chloe.) But I simply cannot stand when she gets what’s coming to her then plays the innocent victim. Obviously, violence is not cool, and Juliette should be embarrassed by her behavior. But Chloe knew exactly what the outcome of that conversation would be. She was banking on a wasted Juliette reacting horribly. With Chloe, you simply cannot win. Earlier in this episode, Chloe verbatim says to Madisson and Cara, “If the roles were reversed, I would have shown up at her house, apologizing.”

Now cut to this scene, where Chloe verbatim says to Juliette (after Juliette shows up at her workplace) “I really don’t know why you’re here, so if you can please leave and leave me alone.”

Juliette said it best herself – “Chloe is my best friend when I’m miserable. When I’m actually thriving…this type of stuff happens.” Let’s take a moment to analyze the similarities and differences of how Chloe and the rest of the cast handled Chloe’s altercation with Amanda during season one, in which Amanda broke Chloe’s nose and sent her to surgery. After sending Chloe to the hospital, Amanda justifies her actions by saying that Chloe started it first. So everyone is okay with Amanda decking Chloe. The fact is, Chloe started it first here, too. Chloe swatted at Juliette’s hand first. So why did everyone grab coffee with Amanda, but ostracize Juliette? Amanda even had a sit-down conversation with Chloe after her surgery expecting Chloe to apologize. The inconsistencies and hypocrisy present…I CANNOT.

Chloe acts like everyone’s best friend to stay relevant and betrays them the second it benefits her. While I do agree that Juliette is only apologizing because she’s scared Chloe will press charges, I think people who talk shit, unfortunately, get hit, on occasion. Until next week!

[wutbju]

Several years ago, my family and I were guests for Fourth of July services at a New Hampshire church. As I am sure was the case at many other services elsewhere that Sunday, the fusion of American democratic, patriotic, and religious values was alive and well. The front of the sanctuary was a sea of red, white, and blue bunting and banners. As the service began, congregants proudly bellowed “God Bless America” as the Bible was paraded forward behind the Christian and United States flags. Following behind them was the guest speaker Garrett Lear, who refers to himself as “The Patriot Pastor.” Dressed in a colonial era costume and carrying what I assume was a functioning flintlock musket, the pastor walked to the front to lead worshipers in pledging allegiance to the American and Christian flags, as well as the Bible. My son, ten at the time, whispered to me, “Dad, they sure pledge a lot of things at this church.”

#Bob Jones University #Righting America #White Nationalism #Klandamentalism #God and Country

[csnews]

From pest to pet to icon: Our evolving relationship with orcas

Evan Thompson - November 4, 2018

Orca researcher Jason Colby’s family has a dark history with the marine mammals. Colby’s father, John Colby, who worked for the now-closed Seattle Marine Aquarium and SeaWorld, was involved in the 1970s with the now-infamous capture of killer whales in local waters.

It wasn’t until “Blackfish,” a 2013 documentary that stoked controversy about the treatment of orcas at SeaWorld, that his dad’s internal conflict about the captures surfaced. Colby watched his father wrestle with guilt over rounding up and confining the animals.

A historian and professor, Colby, 44, will share his research Nov. 13 at Marysville’s Outdoor Adventure Speaker Series at the Marysville Opera House. His talk will explore humanity’s transformed relationship with the ocean’s apex predator — the orca — and what it means for the future of our local environment.

“There’s a tendency with people to assume that we’ve always loved them and we’ve always had this close connection to them,” Colby said of killer whales. “It was actually a recent development. It was extraordinarily common for fishermen and scientists to kill them up until the late ‘60s.”

In the 1950s, orcas were perceived as pests and threats to the economically valuable salmon fishery, Colby explained. They were killed by the thousands. The National Oceanic Atmospheric Association killed them in the name of science — to study their stomach contents — which is ironic, considering how the agency is a steward for the species today.

Colby, author of “Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean’s Greatest Predator,” credits Edward “Ted” Griffin with turning things around.

Griffin, now 83, is the former owner of Seattle Marine Aquarium, which closed in 1977. He is best known for capturing, performing with, and selling a number of orcas during the late 1960s and early ’70s.

In 1965, a 22-foot male orca was accidentally caught by a fisherman in Namu, British Columbia. Griffin purchased the whale for $8,000 for his aquarium.

Named after the place he was captured, Namu made world headlines as he made his way from from B.C. waters to the Seattle waterfront in a pen. Thousands lined up along the Deception Pass Bridge to watch Namu, surrounded by an escort of Coast Guard and police boats, go by. The mayor of Langley on Whidbey Island motored out to give Namu a key to the city. Everett’s mayor paid Griffin $10,000 for Namu to visit the city’s waterfront.

Thousands more greeted Namu when he arrived at the Seattle waterfront.

“It gives you a sense of the excitement,” said Colby, who grew up on Bainbridge Island. “It was an extraordinary moment. Namu became this celebrity animal and started this process of reframing the perception.”

More than 100,000 people paid to see Namu perform with Griffin in his first month at the aquarium. Visitors witnessed not only Namu’s size, power and grace, but also his energetic, jovial personality and cute, panda-like appearance.

Namu died from an infection in 1966 — just a year into his captivity — but aquarium operators came to local waters to capture more orcas. In one much-publicized event in 1970, during a roundup of Southern Resident killer whales in Penn Cove, four babies and a mother drowned when they were caught in a net.

Over time, public perception turned against capturing orcas and making them tourist attractions.

“Blackfish,” the documentary, focused on Tilikum, an orca who killed three of his handlers, and the extreme stress orcas can experience when separated from their families.

By then, Colby was already years into research for his book. He conducted many interviews, scoured archives and found old newspaper clippings in his quest to provide a chronicle of humanity’s up-and-down relationship with the marine mammals.

Howard Garrett, co-founder of the Orca Network on Whidbey Island, said Colby’s book, published this year, is an informative read.

“It’s a good overview,” Garrett said. “He’s got the best interest of the whales at heart. It’s pretty upfront that this was an era of exploitation.”

Many of Colby’s interviewees who had encounters with orcas — with either a rifle, harpoon or net in their hand — had conflicted feelings about their time in the captive killer whale industry, just like his own father, who eventually turned against the practice.

Griffin was among them.

“Ted Griffin, like so many other people I interviewed, is a complicated person,” said Colby, an associate professor at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. “He certainly has regrets.”

It’s easy to judge Griffin and others for fueling the now ill-perceived industry, especially when stacking their choices against today’s values. But Colby calls that unfair.

“At the time, live-capturing orcas was the most progressive thing to do,” he said. “The argument was between whale-catching and whale-killing. (Griffin) has a good point.”

While some may still hold grudges, Puget Sound’s orcas are even more endangered today — not from capture, but by hunger. Dams on rivers have severely depleted chinook salmon, the resident orcas’ food supply.

Colby said if people want to help preserve orcas, it starts in the grocery store.

“We talk about Southern Residents starving, and I can still go to the supermarket and find locally caught chinook salmon,” Colby said. “Over a million chinook salmon are caught commercially a year. It’s politically difficult to restrict fishing because fishermen vote.

“Killer whales don’t vote.”

#news #wild #cetacean #orca #killer whale #captivity #srkw #whale #dolphin #history

[emphasis-all-mine]

Paper Skin Trivia/Headcanons

Well, here’s my (abbreviated) Paper Skin headcanon/trivia lists for the main characters. Let me know if you have any questions or want me to expand any more?

Lance

Cuban and Spanish, raised by his Mom and Grandma, came to US when he was 4.

06/21 ETA: Born a werewolf, as were his brothers and sister (werewolf bloodlines in this AU are Matrilineal and he's descended of only wolfmothers, more on that soooooon).

Refers to Cindy as Mama Garrett and Henry by his first name because he is still a little detached (was raised without his dad present in Cuba so it feels weird)

Loves to climb trees and go up high, instinctively longs to climb mountains.

Didn't do that great at school so he decided to put off college and wound up becoming a jack-of-all-trades and a self-taught chef.

Cooking helps him remember his mother, makes him feel closer to her.

Is a cat person, doesn't like dogs and especially hates coyotes and jackals instinctively. (Will try to maul a jackal on sight. Coyotes just get angry growls.)

LOVES cats of all kinds. Will befriend mountain lions during full moon much to their surprise, or break into a zoo and make nice with all the big cats if left unattended.

Okay so one time when he was a teenager he got into the Bronx Zoo and first tried to chill with the leopards/black panther in the jungle exhibit but it was closed, then he tried to go see the snow leopards & the tigers but couldn't get into their enclosures. Somehow figured out how to get to the Lions.

He mauled a rare deer and dragged it into the Lion enclosure to present to them and become an honorary member of the pride. 

The Garretts and some other members of their pack had to break in and drag him away

The Lions were not happy that they lost their new pack member but got over it.

Whenever he visits the zoo as a guest you could SWEAR they recognize him and call out to him.

When he's a wolf he prefers deer or other hoofed mammals and second favorite is rodents. (Ends up eating birds just because of his natural tree-climbing instincts. Also he knows Hunk likes them so he brings him pigeons and quails.)

All time favorite thing he's eaten as a wolf was a Moose that he caught for Keith (will explain in a future chapter) with a very lost and confused Caribou as a runner up.

Least favorite is crow or birds of prey but he gets short-sighted when he's wolfy and sometimes just hunts for the thrill of it. He's taken down a red-tailed hawk and an Eagle owl.

Favorite music: Shakira (prefers her ¿Dónde Están Los Ladrones?-era stuff), Gorillaz, TV on the Radio, Robyn, Rihanna

Keith

Was brought into the Shirogane clan at around age 12/13.

Identifies as Asian-American since his Dad was part Korean but does not know where his mom came from. Assumes she was of a mixed background as well.

His dad was sired by Akira Kogane, who was of Chinese and Japanese descent so he wonders if that filters down with vampire progeny?

Speaks very little Japanese, enough to answer Shiro if he uses a well-known phrase but not enough to converse

Has a recurring nightmare where tree branches start growing out of his throat and choke him

Really wants a motorcycle but will settle for a car of his own. Doesn't want Shiro to buy it, he's saving his own money.

He's actually a very good driver and Shiro will let him drive his vehicles.

Studied outside of school with help from coven members that were teachers as also some help from Pidge and the Holts so he was able to get his GED at 19

Very glad he has Umbra for a pet because she is very good at helping him figure out the time of day based on her behavior and feeding habits (yes he forgets that his phone will tell him the time and weather conditions because he is so used to living completely indoors)

Has a bug-out room in the apartment he shares with Lance. It's much bigger than the closet corner and has room for some emergency supplies and he's put up some corkboards on the walls.

Prefers type O blood and tries to avoid AB because it's like OJ with pulp (there's too much extra antigens in it). Loves pork blood when it's Lance's recipe.

Favorite music: Dolly Parton, The Cure, MCR, Siouxsie & the Banshees and PJ Harvey

Hunk

Born a werewolf, mostly Grey wolf but there's some Asian/Japanese wolf ancestry

Full name is Tsuyoshi Garrett (born Tsuyoshi Seido but had it legally changed when Henry Garrett adopted him)

His mom is Cynthia Tsukiyama-Garrett, and birth father is Tsutomo "Tommy" Seido

He considers Henry Garrett his Dad, hence why he took his last name instead of going by Seido or changing it to Tsukiyama

Henry gave Hunk his nickname after his half-brothers teased him about being a "runt"

Was great at school and did some undergrad at Hunter, then left to go to culinary school.

He finished culinary school and worked at his Mom's bar while trying to figure out if he really wanted to work in a fancy restaurant that wouldn't give him time away for full moon stuff

First time he met Shay he choked on his own spit because his mouth went dry and he nearly passed out

Second time was a better impression, his little sisters both caught the flu and were in wolf-form and was finally able to be his sweet charming self because he was so focused on his sisters' well-being that he forgot to freak out that the pretty veterinarian was smiling at him.

Had a full blown panic attack when he cooked for Shay without knowing she was a vegetarian and inadvertently won her heart with how caring and concerned he was.

Is practicing making Kushari because Shay's family is Egyptian and he wants to impress them. He already makes fantastic hummus.

His preferred food as a wolf is any kind of fowl (sparrow, chicken, turkey, etc.) Secretly loves peacock, but resists the urge to break back into St. John the Divine's Cathedral to snarf one up.

Least favorite food as a wolf is any kind of seafood or fish. Loves them as a human but finds them too bony and briny when wolfed-out.

Favorite music: Matt and Kim, LCD Soundsystem, Beck, The Hold Steady, Broken Social Scene

Pidge

Irish-Italian, her parents are very lapsed Catholics

Currently in High School and will end up at Columbia after timeskip

Needs to study an animal before trying to shift. Often pictures or online video is enough but really does prefer to be up close and personal so she can nail any vocalizations that the audio distorts or doesn't quite catch.

Her dad has a mastery of most animal forms and also can do inanimate objects. Pidge will work on that next. It takes a lot of concentration and holding her breath 

Keith is her favorite because he'll support her delinquency (he doesn't realize it) and she likes helping him figure societal conventions out. They talk or visit at least once a week if not more.

Pidge would make Keith do her homework as a way of home-schooling him (and it also reinforced whatever she was learning, meaning she'd ace every subject and test), it dropped off after Keith got his GED and started working. Schoolwork still is rather easy for her after so many years of teaching herself good study habits by tutoring Keith.

Shiro being ageless is a stable presence in her life, but she thinks of him as more of her brother's friend or like an eccentric uncle

(Pidge has many eccentric uncles and aunts due to her family being half fae descendants, and half metahumans)

Her favorite food is pancakes. Least favorite is eggplant.

Favorite music: Zoë Keating, Tricky, Portishead, Massive Attack, Modest Mouse 

Allura

Was introduced to the underground supernatural community of NYC by her godfather, Coran.

Born and raised in London. Westbourne Gardens area.

Came to the US on student visa and goes to grad school for biochem. Phlebotomy is a way for her to make money and help out Shiro, as Coran's family has known of his for years

No, she doesn't know why Coran has that accent even though he's lived in Brooklyn for as long as she knows

Her pet "mice" are actually Degus. She likes carrying them around in her pockets or purse, they are very well-behaved.

She's never going to bring them NEAR Lance because she knows how much he loves eating fuzzy little rodents

Her favorite food is Candy Floss, least favorite is tomatoes.

Favorite music: Nina Simone, Lana Del Rey, anything Stevie Nicks has done, Ms. Dynamite and Kylie Minogue

Shiro

Names all his businesses after vampire things because he believes in hiding in plain sight (Shuten-dōji was the yokai/vampire that turned him)

Didn't return to his hometown after being turned into a vampire. Was too ashamed and scared he would hurt them. His neighbors and friends assumed he died in the Great Tenmei famine.

Despite his issues with aging, he's tried dying his hair but it looks awful so he just leaves the white streak

Was a very good horseback rider in his youth. Joined the military and was a skilled fighter.

It took a while for him to adjust to motor vehicles. He hit Hunk's grandmother with his car, (but that's how he found the Tsukiyama pack so it worked out and she was fine.)

First cat was named Bobō, a calico. Current cat is Kikō, a tabby.

Prefers type B blood but will settle for O or AB. Type A makes him sneeze after he eats.

Not really a music fan, prefers quiet. He really liked jazz when he first heard it so he sometimes puts on very old, worn-out LPs.

He answers to Takashi or Shiro. Shi-kun or Shi-chan to friends that use his honorifics, later Shiro-kun or Shiro-chan, when he took the nickname referring to the white streak in his hair.

He still has a bad habit of not responding if people address him by Shirogane alone.

(Because "Shirogane-san" was his twin's preferred name)

#em rambles #Paper Skin #paper skin lore #fic: paper skin #klance #vampire keith #werewolf lance #em answers #anonymous

[qveenpoppy]

fall tv preview review: abc edition

the kids are alright - never underestimate the quality of abc comedies. reading the synopsis for this show and looking at the trailer thumbnail (aka series poster), i thought it sounded cheesy and looked awful. the poster is lame. but of course, don't judge a book by its cover, so i watched the trailer. it looks really good! VERY reminiscent of the wonder years. it feels almost like the same show but with a different family, like the series could easily have a crossover. especially the long-haired hippie brother. but it's still good. not hilarious, but fun. especially when the narrator explained the difference of the 70s to now in terms of children and parenting - very funny! the lead is a cute kid, very endearing. the parents are funny. the nixon era setting will create for plenty of interesting modern comparisons - we already have one, with the dad talking about "phony news". i don't remember where this show is in abc's fall schedule, but i'm hoping it's at least on the same night as the goldbergs - the shows can easily go hand-in-hand.

grand hotel - it's the lodge, minus the music and for adults! at first, i thought "oh yay, another prime time soap, how wonderful" (being sarcastic, of course), before they got into the story and i'm like "this is... literally the lodge". from the male lead just being hired, to the hotel being a family business on the verge of being bought by someone else (and the dead mother), to the business heir falling for the new staff boy? it's the same show, just with more drama and sex. oh, and a more plastic-looking cast. the lodge cast is obnoxiously pretty, but this cast just looks like pure photoshop. that one male lead looks like every hollywood male hunk all rolled into one, and this other white guy in the trailer - i kept confusing the two at first bc i swear they look like brothers - is like some cross between matt lanter and armie hammer. i hope these pretty people can act, 'cause i'm not buying it in this trailer. still here for the to-be romance, though. like a reverse cinderella (they already made a cinderella reference in the trailer, so it's a valid comparison!). also, eva longoria is trying to be the new shonda rhymes. good for her! wonder if this show will be successful enough. (probably will be - how many seasons was mistresses on, again?)

single parents - favorite trailer so far for abc! i absolutely love it. i've been a fan of taran's all throughout his time on snl (and even back when he was in stuck in the suburbs - anyone remember that movie?), so i was really happy to see him here. this show looks hilarious! falls right in step with the rest of abc's comedies. very funny. taran's character is adorable. i already love this single parent crew. brad garrett's line about losing his 27-year-old exotic dancer wife made me laugh out loud. can't wait for this show!

the fix - executive produced by marcia clark. good god, is it obvious. wasn't people v. o.j. already an emmy-winning series? this is just a fictionalized version. it's just so familiar a story, even down to him being accused of another crime several years later. we all know how that turned out. i'm sure there's an audience for this show, i can easily see my parents wanting to tune in. i'll pass. if i want a crime series, i've got proven innocent.

a million little things - oh my god, these trailers don't end! i was about to click on the one for nathan fillion's new series, but then i saw this and ahhh, so many trailers! okay, first off, music and graphics. what kind of this is us rip-off bullshit? i know the plots are different, but the formula feels the same. especially with that one character who, spoilers, like jack, will appear in the show posthumously in flashbacks and whatnot. on the bright side, this show could open up a conversation about depression and suicide. the guys saying that they didn't know their friend was depressed felt all too familiar. but the gut punch of the suicide reveal - god, did that hurt. am i watching a pixar movie? it feels like that same formula, like "if we make you cry, it means our stuff is good", but... no? that's not true. i'm sure the show has potential, but like i said about new amsterdam being nbc's response to the good doctor, this feels like abc's response to this is us. come on, guys, can't we all just get along and not copy each other's work in the hopes of more attention? ugh!

whiskey cavalier - these trailers really are never-ending. i appreciate that abc gives us trailers for both fall and midseason shows, but there are SO many this year. i hardly remember anything else i've watched! what was that first show called, again? anyway, this show... not bad. kinda funny for a spy show (right? cia/fbi agents are spies? i don't know the official terminology). in all honesty, what made this trailer more enjoyable for me was seeing two of my favorite musical characters - phil and rita from groundhog day - in the leads. but it's still a fun show! feels more like it should be a movie rather than a series, but maybe that's because i'm not used to seeing a show in this genre, with mission: impossible and kingsman being film series in my time. also funny how scott foley already has a new series just as scandal ends. he really plans ahead!

the rookie - last but not least (oh thank god we're at the end), it's nathan fillion's new show. hi sterling (his character from cars 3)! i love the song choice! the score is awesome. otherwise, kind of a medium trailer? nathan fillion is very much name talent, but for whatever reason, i just wish someone else had taken on his role. maybe it's because he spent so many years on castle. i never watched it, and yet i almost exclusively associate him with that show. the premise is interesting - gives me zootopia flashbacks, really, with all the prejudice - but there are so many cop shows. how many do we need? i like the incorporation of body cams, that makes it feel a little fresh. but otherwise? hard pass. i hoped this trailer would be good, since i saved it for last, but i'm kind of let down.

will i watch?

the kids are alright: yes!

grand hotel: nah

single parents: yes!

the fix: no

a million little things: probably not

whiskey cavalier: maybe

the rookie: no

#tv #abc #the kids are alright #grand hotel #single parents #the fix #a million little things #whiskey cavalier #the rookie #reviews

[bonediddy]

What dead musicians you’d like to see perform live if you could?

By: Bonaventure A. Akinlosotu II

A few months ago, I asked some of my friends to send me their top 5 artist they’d like to see live in their prime, that are are already dead and gone.  This conversation started with my dad and I a of couple weeks prior when he posed the question to me.  Immediately, I thought of Mike Jack and Jimi Hendrix. I feel like every living being should have Mike on their list or they don’t deserve to have a music opinion. Ha!  He changed a lot for music and became someone beyond what you call a MEGA STAR.  In my opinion, he’s the greatest entertainer EVER.

Amongst my friends’ list, Michael was the most common person named, of course, or else I wouldn’t have respected their opinions enough to ask Lol……. but “no Lol”.  Other common artists mentioned by my friends, but not on my list, were Prince, Luther Vandross, Aaliyah, Miles Davis, Tupac and Whitney Houston. So without further adieu, below are my top 5 artist that I’d like to see perform live in their prime…

1.  Michael Jackson

I think this goes without saying. He’s the greatest entertainer of our lifetime.  Right before his death, he was embarking on the “This Is It” tour and I for sure was gonna make that happen.

Venue: {The Rose Bowl} A California outdoor stadium that seats nearly 100K.  His performances perfectly fit a stadium vibe.  In this very venue, he headlined the halftime show for Super Bowl XXVII.  His halftime show greatly increased the overall ratings and this changed how the NFL booked their Super Bowl halftime performances going forward. 

2.  Jimi Hendrix

He is the star of all stars that influenced the lives of many artists not only with his music but his style as well. He was in, arguably, the greatest Rock ‘N’ Roll band of all time, The Band of Gypsys. He headlined Woodstock, the festivals of all festivals, and showed what it meant to be a “rockstar”.

Venue: {Woodstock} Billed as “3 Days of Music & Peace,” was the largest and most popular festival of its time.  It was said that 500,000+ showed up for the festivities with Jimi Hendrix closing the once in a lifetime festival.

3.  Bob Marley

Honestly, Bob can be number one on my list. I can imagine the euphoric feeling of being out in the grass chillin’, and vibin’ to his music. There may not be a better musical experience out there. He made worldly and conscious music for all.

Venue: {Coachella Valley Music Festival} Another California outdoor experience with it being today’s miniature version of Woodstock.  The artsy and laid back atmosphere in California would be perfect for a Marley experience 😏.

4.  Marvin Gaye

Marvin Gaye, in my opinion, was one of the best male vocalist of his time, and not to mention created perfect love making music. If I was making a “Top 5 date’s night” list, this would surely be number 1 on the list.

Venue: {Carnegie Hall} One of the most prestigious venues in the world with the main hall seating about 3,000 people. The five levels and auditorium seating makes for a good view from every seat in the room.

5.  James Brown

Before Michael Jackson, he held the title as “the greatest entertainer in show business”.  Without him, it wouldn’t be a Michael Jackson, Prince, or the genre “Funk” at all. He also had the courage to front the black struggle in America in the 60s. His electric shows blurred the color lines in the Civil Rights era.  What do they say? “Music is the one thing that could bring all races together?” Ehhhh

Venue: {Apollo Theater} James Brown actually recorded one of the most critically acclaimed albums ever here. Live At The Apollo Ranked 25th on Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Albums Of All Time” list as well as being inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame. With its historical significance, it was easy to choose this venue.

So that’s my top 5.  Weeks after I posed this question, I thought of other ways I could’ve asked for their list to make this broader. We could’ve included artists in general who were no longer in their prime but still alive.  A few that came to mind were Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, Earth Wind and Fire, The Isley Brothers, and Diana Ross.  Did we miss any that were on obvious choices to be in the top 5? Also, what live show have you seen that you will always remember?!?!?!

-Bonaventure A. Akinlosotu II

Contributions:

Larry Eatmon|William Garrett|Travis Wheeler|Joseph Bradley|Jasmine Pittman|Stanley Phillips|Cambrin Daniel|Raymond Dawkins|Dequaris Reed|

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Upfronts 2019 (NBC): Nuevas series, renovaciones y cancelaciones

NBC pretende seguir con la buena racha, y podría ser su sexta temporada como número uno. Los miércoles le funcionan muy bien con el bloque Chicago, pero necesitan urgentemente más comedias de éxito para emparejarlas con Superstore y The Good Place. De momento, ya han retrasado la vuelta de Manifest y quieren ser flexibles e ir viendo cuántos episodios encargan de cada serie.

Bluff City Law

Drama legal que sigue a los abogados de una firma de Memphis especializada en los casos de derechos civiles más controvertidos. El legendario Elijah Strait (Jimmy Smits; The West Wing, Sons of Anarchy) y su brillante hija Sydney (Caitlin McGee; The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Shades of Blue) lideran un equipo que toma los casos más duros mientras lidian con su complicada relación, inexistente durante años pero retomada tras la inesperada muerte de la madre de Sydney. Completan el reparto Scott Shepherd (True Detective, The Young Pope), Barry Sloane (Revenge, Six), Michael Luwoye (The Gifted, She's Gotta Have It), MaameYaa Boafo (Thru 25), Stony Blyden (Hunter Street) y Jayne Atkinson (House of Cards, Madam Secretary). Escrita y producida por Dean Georgaris (The Brave, The Baker and the Beauty).

Sunnyside

Garrett Modi (Kal Penn; House M.D., Designated Survivor) fue el concejal más joven de Nueva York. Se codeó con la élite política, acudió a las mejores fiestas y fue el orgullo de Queens, pero perdió su camino entre tanto poder y glamour y un escándalo acabó con su carrera. Ahora, un grupo de inmigrantes le contratan para que les ayude a conseguir la nacionalidad y le dan un nuevo sentido a su vida. Participan también Diana María Riva (Dead to Me, Telenovela), Joel Kim Booster (Shrill), Kiran Deol, Poppy Liu (Mercy Mistress), Moses Storm (Youth & Consequences, Arrested Development) y Samba Schutte. Escrita y producida por Penn y Matt Murray (Parks and Recreation, The Good Place). Producida también por Michael Schur (The Good Place, Parks and Recreation).

Perfect Harmony

Un antiguo profesor de música de Princeton (Bradley Whitford; The West Wing, Studio 60) acaba en un coro de la iglesia de un pequeño pueblo y se encuentra con un grupo de cantantes que están fuera de tono en varios ámbitos de la vida. Pero puede que formen una mezcla perfecta para reinventarse y redescubrir la felicidad cuando más la necesitan. Con Anna Camp (Pitch Perfect, True Blood), Tymberlee Hill (Search Party, Grey's Anatomy), Rizwan Manji (The Magicians, Schitt's Creek), Will Greenberg (Wrecked, Halt and Catch Fire), Geno Segers (Banshee, Pair of Kings) y Spencer Allport. Escrita y producida por Lesley Wake Webster (Life in Pieces, Go On) y dirigida por Jason Winer (Life in Pieces, Modern Family). Producida por Bradley Whitford.

Council of Dads (MIDSEASON)

Drama escrito por Joan Rater y Tony Phelan, guionistas de Grey's Anatomy y Doubt; producido por Jerry Bruckheimer (CSI, Lucifer) e inspirado en las memorias de Bruce Feiler (2010) que cuenta la historia de Scott (Tom Everett Scott; I'm Sorry, 13 Reasons Why), su esposa Robin (Sarah Wayne Callies; Prison Break, The Walking Dead) y sus cuatro hijos tras su diagnóstico de cáncer terminal, el cual le lleva a formar un grupo de amigos -incluidos su mejor amigo (Clive Standen; Vikings, Taken), su sponsor de alcohólicos anónimos (Michael O'Neill; Rectify, Bates Motel) y su cirujano (J. August Richards; Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Angel)- para que actúen como padres de refuerzo y puedan apoyar y guiar a la familia con sus altibajos y dudas cuando él no esté. Completan el reparto Blue Chapman, Emjay Anthony (Bad Moms, Chef). Michele Weaver (Love Is___), Thalia Tran y Steven Silver (13 Reasons Why). FOX encargó y rechazó un piloto de comedia con Kyle Bornheimer basado en estas mismas memorias hace ocho años.

Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist (MIDSEASON)

Zoey Clarke (Jane Levy; Suburgatory, Castle Rock) es una programadora informática que vive en San Francisco y, a partir de un acontecimiento inusual, comienza a escuchar a través de canciones los deseos y necesidades de la gente que le rodea. Al principio se cuestiona su cordura, pero pronto se da cuenta del maravilloso regalo que ha recibido. También cantarán Skylar Astin (Pitch Perfect, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Peter Gallagher (The O.C., Covert Affairs), Alex Newell (Glee), John Clarence Stewart (Luke Cage, What/If), Carmen Cusack (Sorry for Your Loss) y Mary Steenburgen (Back to the Future, Last Man on Earth). Drama musical escrito por Austin Winsberg (Gossip Girl, 9JKL), dirigido por Richard Shepard (Girls) y producido por Paul Feig (A Simple Favor, The Office).

The Kenan Show (MIDSEASON)

Comedia familiar sobre un padre (Kenan Thompson; Saturday Night Live, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) que acaba de enviudar y está decidido a serlo todo para sus dos hijas (Dani y Dannah Lockett), aunque no le quede más remedio que dejar a su suegro (Andy García; The Godfather Part III, Ocean's Eleven) involucrarse más en sus vidas. Participa también Punam Patel (Special, The Cool Kids). Escrita y producida por Thompson, Jackie Clarke (Happy Endings, Superstore), Lorne Michaels (Saturday Night Live) y Andrew Singer (30 Rock, The Other Two). Dirigida y producida por Chris Rock (I Think I Love My Wife, Head of State). Thompson seguirá en Saturday Night Live, así que la serie será redesarrollada y se espera que se emita en 2020 después de los Juegos Olímpicos de verano.

Lincoln (MIDSEASON)

Inspirada en la novela 'The Bone Collector' (1997) y en la película de 1999, sigue a Lincoln Rhyme (Russell Hornsby; Grimm, Proven Innocent), un antiguo detective de la policía de Nueva York y genio forense que tuvo que retirarse tras el ataque de un asesino en serie. Amelia Sachs (Arielle Kebbel; Midnight, Texas, Ballers) es una joven oficial que sigue el rastro del criminal y se alía con Rhyme para atraparlo. Completan el cast Brían F. O'Byrne (Aquarius, FlashForward), Tate Ellington (Quantico, The Brave), Courtney Grosbeck (Parenthood, Homeland), Ramses Jimenez (Vida, Fear The Walking Dead), Brooke Lyons (The Affair, Life Sentence), Roslyn Ruff (Divorce, Godfather of Harlem) y Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos, Mad Dogs). Escrita y producida por VJ Boyd (Justified, SWAT) y Mark Bianculli y dirigida por Seth Gordon (The Goldbergs, Atypical).

Indebted (MIDSEASON)

Dave (Adam Pally; Happy Endings, The Mindy Project) y Rebecca (Abby Elliott; Odd Mom Out, How I Met Your Mother) están listos para recuperar su vida tras años de pañales y noches sin dormir, pero los padres de Dave, Linda (Fran Drescher; The Nanny, Happily Divorced) y Stew (Steven Weber; Studio 60, 13 Reasons Why), se presentan sin avisar. Y arruinados. A Dave no le queda más remedio que acogerlos, y a partir de ese momento no queda claro quién debe criar a quién. Escrita y producida por Dan Levy (Schitt's Creek).

Law & Order: Hate Crimes (¿MIDSEASON?)

En septiembre, la cadena encargó trece episodios de un nuevo spin-off creado por Dick Wolf y Warren Leight (Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: Criminal Intent) y basado en la unidad de Nueva York con una tolerancia cero a la discriminación. No tenemos claro si se estrenará en la próxima temporada.

Por último, ¿qué pilotos no se han convertido en serie?

Emergence, con Allison Tolman, Zabryna Guevara y Donald Faison (encargada por ABC)

Prism, Mykelti Williamson, Malin Ackerman y Sara Rue

Friends-in-Law, con Michael Urie

Like Magic, con Freddie Stroma y French Stewart

Village Gazette

Renovaciones

Lo que teníamos más claro era la renovación de This Is Us, y aun así, se hizo esperar. La cadena no ha cancelado ni renovado Abby's, The Village, The Enemy Within y A.P. Bio y quiere esperar a configurar toda la temporada. Habrá que esperar para saber el resultado.

Law & Order: SVU (21ª temporada)

Will & Grace (11ª temporada)

Chicago Fire (8ª temporada)

Chicago PD (7ª temporada)

Brooklyn Nine-Nine (7ª temporada)

The Blacklist (7ª temporada)

Chicago Med (5ª temporada)

Blindspot (5ª y última temporada)

Superstore (5ª temporada)

This Is Us (4ª, 5ª y 6ª temporada)

The Good Place (4ª temporada)

Good Girls (3ª temporada)

Manifest (2ª temporada)

New Amsterdam (2ª temporada)

Cancelaciones

Marlon (2ª temporada)

Trial & Error (2ª temporada)

Midgnight, Texas (2ª temporada)

Timeless (2ª temporada)

Champions (1ª temporada)

Reverie (1ª temporada)

I Feel Bad (1ª temporada)

The Gilded Age (pasa a HBO)

Aún por estrenar

The InBetween (29 de mayo)

Agenda semanal

De nuevo, como el año pasado, solo tres series nuevas se estrenarán en otoño. El hueco de Manifest en los lunes pasa a ser de Bluff City Law, el único drama nuevo que se estrenará en septiembre. Los martes y los miércoles quedan intactos. Los viernes solo habrá una hora de ficción. En los jueves, entran dos nuevas comedias, lo que obliga a retrasar Will & Grace a la midseason junto a Manifest y el resto de novedades. Brooklyn Nine-Nine también volverá en la midseason, como el año pasado.

Lunes: 8-10 p.m. — The Voice 10-11 p.m. — Bluff City Law Martes: 8-9 p.m. — The Voice 9-9:30 p.m. — This Is Us 10-11 p.m. — New Amsterdam Miércoles: 8-9 p.m. — Chicago Med 9-10 p.m. — Chicago Fire 10-11 p.m. — Chicago PD Jueves: 8-8:30 p.m. — Superstore 8:30-9 p.m. — Perfect Harmony 9-10 p.m. — The Good Place 9:30-10 p.m. — Sunnyside 10-11 p.m. — Law & Order: SVU Viernes: 8-9 p.m. — The Blacklist 9-11 p.m. — Dateline NBC Sábado: 8-10 p.m. — Dateline Saturday Night Mystery 10-11 p.m. — Saturday Night Live Domingo: 7-8:20 p.m. — Football Night in America 8:20-11 p.m. — NBC Sunday Night Football

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Lucy and the Scout Trip

S2;E26 ~ March 30, 1964

Synopsis

When one of the dads can't go on the Cub Scout camping trip, Lucy and Viv step in. Unfortunately, they lose the canoe, topple the tee-pee, and get lost in the wilderness as well!  

Regular Cast

Lucille Ball (Lucy Carmichael), Vivian Vance (Vivian Bagley), Gale Gordon (Theodore J. Mooney), Jimmy Garrett (Jerry Carmichael), Ralph Hart (Sherman Bagley)

Candy Moore (Chris Carmichael) does not appear in this episode.

Guest Cast

Barry Livingston (Arnold Mooney, left) is probably best remembered as Ernie, the adopted son on “My Three Sons.” His first appearance on that series was just one week after he first played Arnold Mooney in “Lucy Gets Locked in the Vault” (S2;E4). Unlike most child stars of the era, Livingston is still acting today.

Arnold's mother is named Irma. He has two brothers (Bob and Ted Jr.) and an older sister who lives in Trenton, New Jersey.  

Desi Arnaz Jr. (Billy Simmons, center) is the real-life son of Lucille Ball. His 1953 birth was worked into the plot of “I Love Lucy” although Desi Jr. never played the role of Little Ricky Ricardo. He did, however, appear on the final half-hour episode of the series “The Ricardos Dedicate a Statue” (ILL S6;E27) in a crowd scene. His first series appearance was as one of the pee-wee football players in “Lucy is a Referee (S1;E3). Here he plays Billy Simmons for the last time, although he will return in the background of the season four opener. Desi Jr. also appeared with his mother and sister on “Here’s Lucy.”

Billy is the son of Audrey and Harvey Simmons.

A dozen other uncredited young boys play the cub scout troupe.

This episode was filmed in color but first aired in black and white. CBS aired repeats for the next two Mondays before airing the final two episodes of the season.

The morning this episode originally aired (March 30, 1964), the game show “Jeopardy” premiered with Art Fleming as host. The quiz show, now airing evenings, is still on the air today. 

The Cub Scouts have to perform a number of Indian lore activities to win tickets to the World's Fair. The New York World's Fair was held in Flushing Meadow, Queens, New York, opening on April 22, 1964, just three weeks after this episode first aired. It closed on October 17, 1965, although it was not open during the winter months of 1964/65.  A 12-story-high, stainless-steel model of the earth called the Unisphere is all that remains on the site today.  The Boy Scouts of America presented “The Wonderful World of Scouting” at the Fair.  

Monday, August 31, 1964 was “Lucy Day” at the World’s Fair! 

The boys are members of Pack 57, Den 8. Lucy and Viv are their Den Mothers. This was established in “Lucy Visits the White House” (S1;E25). Desi Arnaz Jr. (Billy Simmons) is also in that episode, although Barry Livingston (Arnold Mooney) is not. 

According to his wife, Margaret, Joe Davis could come on the trip because he had to have his appendix out. Lucy and Viv come in his place. Writer Madelyn Martin's first husband was named Davis, so it is possible these names refer to members of her extended family.  

Lucy calls Mr. Mooney “sagamore” which she says is Indian for “leader of the clan.” Lucy later shouts “Akela!”  This is the scouting term for the den leader. Akela is a symbol of wisdom, authority, and leadership. The founder of the Scouting movement chose Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1894) as a source of symbolism and allegorical framework for the cub scouts.

When dressed in his 'Indian’ regalia, Mooney compares himself to a cigar store Indian. In the 18th and 19th centuries, life-size wooden representations of Native American chiefs were used as advertising symbols for tobacconists, often erected just outside the door for easy identification. The Native Americans are credited with the first use of tobacco products for smoking. Lucy says Mr. Mooney could have modeled for the nickel. The Indian Head Nickel coin was currency for five cents from 1913 to 1938.  The reverse side featured an American Buffalo. It was preceded by the Liberty Head nickel and succeeded by the Jefferson Nickle still in circulation today.  

Each time Lucy, Viv and Mr. Mooney appear in their ‘Indian’ costumes, the studio audience greets them with a round of applause.

Mr. Mooney demonstrates for the boys the Indian Stride, walking heel to toe. In reality, Native Americans perfected the technique of walking toe to heel to pursue their prey stealthily without excessive noise. They also used this skill for working on high rise skyscrapers in order to keep their footing on narrow beams.

Mr. Mooney compares his tracking skills to that of Daniel Boone. After following him around in circles, Lucy says they would have been better off with Pat Boone! Daniel Boone (1734-1820) was an American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman, whose exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. He was immortalized in books, films, radio, and television. Six months after this episode aired, the TV series “Daniel Boone” starring Fess Parker began airing on NBC. Daniel Boone was also mentioned on “The Matchmaker” (ILL S4;E4). 

Pat Boone is a successful pop singer during the 1950s and early 1960s. He sold over 45 million records, had 38 top-40 hits, and appeared in more than 12 Hollywood films. Pat Boone was also mentioned in “Country Club Dance” (ILL S6;E25) and “Harrison Carter, Male Nurse” (HL S5;E3). 

Callbacks!

The outfit and wig that Lucy wears in this episode is the same one she wore on "The Indian Show" (ILL S2;E24).

When Lucy, Viv and Mr. Mooney are lost, hungry, and feeling that the end may be near, the episode feels very much like “Lucy in the Swiss Alps” (ILL S5;E21) where they go through pretty much the same range of emotions while trapped in a mountain cabin after an avalanche. 

This is the second time Lucy Carmichael has had to be both mother and father to Jerry. The first time was when she became referee of his football team in “Lucy is a Referee” (S1;E3).

This is the third episode to be centered on the activities of Jerry and Sherman's cub scout troupe. The first was “Lucy Visits the White House” (S1;E25) and the second was “Ethel Merman and the Boy Scout Show” (S2;E19).  

Blooper Alerts!

Stool Tosser! While the scouts are all giving Mr. Mooney the ‘grand howl’, Lucille Ball suddenly feels a camp stool is in her way so she picks it up and tosses it aside without much regard for where it lands!

Sitcom Logic Alert! When Mr. Mooney comes up with the idea to draw straws to determine who gets to take the canoe back to camp and who stays behind, Viv is first to pick. She immediately exclaims “I got a long one!” without seeing the size of the other two straws!  How does she know the one she is holding is a long one?   

WTF Happened? Lucy doesn’t trust that Viv and Mr. Mooney will return for her so she jumps in the water, capsizing the canoe - end of episode!  We never discover how they were rescued. From the time Lucy leaves to find the canoe, the episode is basically about three adults getting lost - not once, but twice - while a dozen scouts fend for themselves unbothered. Thirteen minutes of screen time is dedicated to Lucy, Viv, and Mr. Mooney walking in circles and splashing around in water! 

Fast Forward! 

The plot of “Lucy and the Scout Trip” was pretty much recycled eight months later (minus the scouting theme) for “Lucy Becomes a Father” (S3;E9) in which Lucy takes the place of Jerry’s dead dad on a father / son camping trip. While Gale Gordon comes along as Mr. Mooney, there is no sign of Barry Livingston who played his son Arnold. In November 1964 Livingston had already joined the cast of “My Three Sons”. If one of the five uncredited boys playing the sons is supposed to be Arnold (Mr. Mooney’s other two sons Ted and Bob would have been older) he is never identified as such.

Lucy Carter dons Native American regalia (this time in her favorite color, blue), in “Lucy, The Rain Goddess” (HL S4;E15). She even got her face on a totem pole!

Lucy, Kim and Craig Carter all dressed to blend in with the Navajo Tribe, when they filmed “Lucy and the Indian Chief” (HL S2;E3) on location in Arizona in 1969, the first television sitcom to film on Native American land. 

“Lucy and the Scout Trip” rates 3 Paper Hearts out of 5

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How I would tie this whole season together:

So you know how Ernst Stavro Blofeld was the villain that connected all the Daniel Craig-era Bond villains together? That’s what Fitz’s dad should be. 

He’s the true head of Momentum Labs and oversaw Eli Morrow’s work.

The Superior is a false Big Bad, kinda like how the first Clairvoyant was a decoy for John Garrett. 

Radcliffe even says he knew Fitz’s dad and is possibly working for him.

So in the third arc, Fitz’s dad reveals himself as this shadowy mad scientist who has been behind every major incident that has happened in season 4. This also opens up several reasons why he was so hard on Fitz in his childhood.

1) He wants an heir to his criminal empire

2) He has a superiority complex 

3) He’s been preparing Fitz for something great, something along the lines of the greater good 

4) He wants Fitz to finish his work

And so on. 

Which brings me to my next point...who really is Fitz’s dad? If I had to pick, one comic villain stands out; Andrew Forson a.k.a. the Scientist Supreme of Advanced Idea Mechanics.

It’d be easy to work A.I.M. back into the MCU. Just say that A.I.M. quietly retreated into the shadows after Aldrich Killian died and was taken over by Forson, who left his family to run the organization. 

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