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is-the-battlemech-cool-or-not · 5 days

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Origin: Canopus IV

Destination: Terra / Islington

Subject: Deployment of Magistracy Armed Forces for Operation TOUCHDOWN

Message: ALCON, 1st Canopian Cuirassiers have arrived at Islington. Available for tasking at discretion of Local Force Commander. Glory to the Magistracy.

Commanding Officer: Colonel Inanna Allard-Liao (see attached personnel file)

TO&E: 1x BattleMech battalion - 36x BattleMechs [8x Assault, 24x Heavy, 4x Light] (1 CANOPIAN CUIR.) 1x AeroSpace group - 18x aerospace fighters (1 CANOPIAN AIR GUARD) 1x Armor battalion - 72x armored fighting vehicles (1 CANOPIAN ARM. GUARD) 1x Infantry battalion - 448x infantry (1 CANOPIAN INF. GUARD)

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INANNA ALLARD-LIAO

Rank: Colonel, Commanding Officer 1st Canopian Cuirassiers

Assigned Unit: Command Lance

Personal 'Mech: Yaguara 'Inanna' YGR-2D-IAL

Date of Birth: 3103-04-28

Parents: Melissa Allard-Liao & Fredrik Allard-Liao [Né Richardson]

Age: 50

Listed Gender: F

Physiological Details: Full genetic modification treatment [extreme; "Animalia conversion", subtype: snow leopard] - performed @ Ceres Station - Terran System - 3119-04-28

Height: 190cm

Weight: 97kg

Eye Color: Grey

Languages Known: English (First Language),

Organ Donor: Y

Dependents: none (5 adult children)

Current Location: [Redacted]

COMBAT EXPERIENCE

32 years enlisted in MAF

7 large operations

25 deployments

22 combat deployments

[Redacted] confirmed kills

102 battlemechs incapacitated/destroyed [ranged]

69 battlemechs incapacitated/destroyed [melee]

199 combat vehicles incapacitated/destroyed

10 aerospace craft downed [ranged]

3 aerospace crafted downed [melee]

1 dropship downed [ranged]

1 dropship downed [melee]

Areas Deployed: [Redacted]

Awards: Canopus Cluster [Platinum w/ Ruby], Fist of Raventhir [3152], Bravery Medal 1st class x12, Combat Excellence Ribbon x5

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Yaguara 'Inanna' YGR-2D-IAL

Manufacturer: Majesty Metals and Manufacturing Primary Factory: Unknown Communication System: Tek BattleCom Targeting & Tracking System: Tek Tru-Trak Introduction Year: 3146 Tech Rating/Availability: F/X-X-X-X Cost: 27,480,250 C-bills

Overview

Proposed as part of Project BIG CAT for the Magistracy of Canopus, the Yaguara was designed by Majesty Metals and Manufacturing in 3146 as a fast moving, hard-hitting heavy 'Mech.

This custom variant, built for Inanna Allard-Liao, possesses an extremely dangerous close combat weapon - a 'Mech vibroblade, mounted on a 'Mech-scale myomer tail, in addition to most of the weaponry of the base configuration.

Capabilities

The Yaguara was built from the ground up with speed and long-ranged engagement in mind. Built around a supercharged Vlar 300 XL engine, the 'Mech can sprint over 86 kph, allowing it to keep up with lances comprised of much lighter 'Mechs than itself. It complements this ground speed with four Rawlings Model 60 jump jets, granting it a jumping distance of 120 meters for an extra mobility boost. Its armament is built around a pair of Clan-spec ER Large Lasers, uncommon in the region, and a Class-2 Rotary Autocannon, with a pair of SRM 6s and medium pulse lasers as close-engagement backups. All of this, unfortunately, comes at the cost of heat - the Yaguara was designed with bracket fire in mind, and MechWarriors are advised not to alpha strike without due cause. This custom variant was built for Inanna Allard-Liao. It is a hybrid Clantech refit, using many experimental technologies, as well as the removal of the previously-mounted SRM 6s, to allow for the addition of a custom myomer armored tail, with a 'Mech scale vibroblade mounted to the end. Complimenting this weapon are Triple-Strength Myomer and a Supercharger, to allow the 'Mech to reach truly incredible speeds for its weight.

Controlled by Inanna using a salvaged Word of Blake Buffered VDNI system, the 'Mech moves with the same fluid grace as its pilot. Advances in Belter/Canopian hybrid medical science have extended Inanna's lifespan estimate from 15 years to 75, and are predicted to have significantly extended the initial onset period for the madness which often accompanies use of neural interface systems.

Type: Yaguara 'Inanna' Technology Base: Mixed (Experimental) Tonnage: 75 Battle Value: 3,768

Equipment Mass Internal Structure Endo Steel 4 Engine 300 XL 9.5 Walking MP: 4 Running MP: 6(8) Jumping MP: 4 Double Heat Sink 15 [30] 5 Compact Gyro 4.5 Interface Cockpit [VDNI] 4 Armor Factor (Ferro) 231 12.5

Internal Armor Structure Value

Head 3 9

Center Torso 23 35

Center Torso (rear) 11

R/L Torso 16 24

R/L Torso (rear) 8

R/L Arm 12 24

R/L Leg 16 32

Right Arm Actuators: Shoulder, Upper Arm, Lower Arm, Hand Left Arm Actuators: Shoulder, Upper Arm, Lower Arm, Hand

Weapons and Ammo Location Critical Heat Tonnage 2 Jump Jet LL 2 - 2.0 Nova Combined Electronic Warfare System CT 1 - 1.5 Supercharger CT 1 - 1.0 CASE II RT 1 - 0.5 Medium Pulse Laser RT 1 4 2.0 2 Double Heat Sink RT 4 - 2.0 Rotary AC/2 Ammo (90) RT 2 - 2.0 3 Triple Strength Myomer RA/LA 3/3 - 0.0 ER Large Laser LA 1 12 4.0 Vibroblade (Armored) LA 2 - 5.0 Medium Pulse Laser LT 1 4 2.0 Double Heat Sink LT 2 - 1.0 Rotary AC/2 LT 3 1 8.0 2 Jump Jet RL 2 - 2.0 3 Triple Strength Myomer RA/LA 3/3 - 0.0 ER Large Laser RA 1 12 4.0

Features the following Design Quirks: Animalistic Appearance, Battle Computer, Battle Fists, Battle Fists, Combat Computer, Directional Torso Mount (Vibroblade), Fine Manipulators, Hyper-Extending Actuators, Improved Communications, Improved Sensors, Multi-Trac, Nimble Jumper, Reinforced Legs, Rugged (1 Point), Difficult to Maintain

#battletech #mechwarrior #story event #oc lore #(OOC: new muse!)

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karriethemechtech · 9 days

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Yaguara YGR-2D

Mass: 75 tons Chassis: Earthwerks TDR IV Power Plant: Vlar 300 XL Cruising Speed: 43.2 kph Maximum Speed: 86.4 kph Jump Jets: Rawlings Model 60 Jump Capacity: 120 meters Armor: Hellespont Lite Armament: 1 Rotary AC/2 2 SRM 6 2 ER Large Laser 2 Medium Pulse Laser Manufacturer: Majesty Metals and Manufacturing Primary Factory: Unknown Communication System: Tek BattleCom Targeting & Tracking System: Tek Tru-Trak Introduction Year: 3146 Tech Rating/Availability: F/X-X-X-D Cost: 21,250,250 C-bills

Overview Proposed as part of Project: BIG CAT for the Magistracy of Canopus, the Yaguara was designed by Majesty Metals and Manufacturing in 3146 as a fast moving, hard-hitting heavy 'Mech.

Capabilities The Yaguara was built from the ground up with speed and long-ranged engagement in mind. Built around a supercharged Vlar 300 XL engine, the 'Mech can sprint over 86 kph, allowing it to keep up with lances comprised of much lighter 'Mechs than itself. It complements this ground speed with four Rawlings Model 60 jump jets, granting it a jumping distance of 120 meters for an extra mobility boost. Its armement is built around a pair of Clan-spec ER large lasers, uncommon in the region, and a class-2 Rotary Autocannon, with a pair of SRM-6's and medium pulse lasers as close-engagement backups. All of this, unfortunately, comes at the cost of heat: the Yaguara was designed with bracket fire in mind, and MechWarriors are advised not to alpha strike without due cause.

Type: Yaguara Technology Base: Mixed (Standard) Tonnage: 75 Battle Value: 2,201

Equipment Mass Internal Structure 7.5 Engine 300 XL 9.5 Walking MP: 4 Running MP: 6(8) Jumping MP: 4 Double Heat Sink 16 [32] 6 Gyro 3 Cockpit 3 Armor Factor (Light Ferro) 203 12 Internal Armor Structure Value Head 3 9 Center Torso 23 30 Center Torso (rear) 10 R/L Torso 16 24 R/L Torso (rear) 6 R/L Arm 12 20 R/L Leg 16 27

Right Arm Actuators: Shoulder, Upper Arm, Lower Arm, Hand Left Arm Actuators: Shoulder, Upper Arm, Lower Arm, Hand

Weapons and Ammo Location Critical Heat Tonnage 2 Jump Jet LL 2 - 2.0 Supercharger CT 1 - 1.0 Medium Pulse Laser RT 1 4 2.0 SRM 6 RT 2 4 3.0 Double Heat Sink RT 3 - 1.0 Rotary AC/2 RT 3 1 8.0 ER Large Laser LA 1 12 4.0 Double Heat Sink LA 3 - 1.0 Medium Pulse Laser LT 1 4 2.0 SRM 6 LT 2 4 3.0 Double Heat Sink LT 3 - 1.0 CASE II LT 1 - 1.0 Rotary AC/2 Ammo (45) LT 1 - 1.0 SRM 6 Ammo (15) LT 1 - 1.0 2 Jump Jet RL 2 - 2.0 ER Large Laser RA 1 12 4.0 Double Heat Sink RA 3 - 1.0

Features the following design quirks: Rugged (1 point)

I managed to get info on more of Project: BIG CAT! This one's a neat machine, too--though I do wonder where they got the cERLLs...

(OOC: I'm really enjoying designing a series/project of 'Mechs like this! The most fun part is probably deciding on what carries over within the 'Mech family--both on part manufacturers and general design trends. See if you can guess what they are!)

#battletech #mechwarrior #(OOC: I had to change the name from Jaguar since that is apparantly already a Clan quad mech #so I chose another name for the same animal)

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junkyard-gifs · 11 months

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The kittens of the City Springs 2023 production

(X X)

So, this production had four characters billed only as 'ensemble', played by musical theatre students. They were only in some numbers (notably the opening and the ball), though for a lot of therest of Act I they hung out around the edges to watch and interact in the best tradition of swing cats, and they went home at interval. (Munkustrap presumably found a babysitter for the kittens.) They also played with the audience in the auditorium before the show. Here they are!

(Note: all four are over 18. All images here are posted publically on their instas, or are part of official promomaterial from the theatre company.)

Elizabeth Windley, whose older sister played Sillabub, played a kitten who looks like a smaller version of Etcetera in the same production—though her muzzle and collar are reminiscent of a Jemima. She seems to refer to her kitten as 'Minnie'!

Here she is with Etcetera (Ryley Perry) and Sillabub (Olivia Windley) (X).

Jayla Lopez plays a kitten who's black and white in a similar pattern to Cassandra's markings. (Her wig is essentially the same as Misto's ensemble wig. Casslonzo daughter? Cassoffelees? Alonzoffelees? Headcanons are free!)

Between Tantomile (Grace Arnold) and Victoria (Caitlin Bond) (X); and with Cassandra (Erin Rawlings) (X):

Zach Feeney's kitten has some resemblance to Mungojerrie, with the sharp blacks and oranges in the wig, and some to Electra with the floofy red fur on a dark-coloured unitard. Here behind Tugger (Spencer Dean) (X):

And Trevor Groce blessed us with many impish in-costume selfies of his little kitty! I'm honestly getting Tumblebrutus vibes so, since Tumble didn't exist in this production (Plato was a tumbler, though, so we got a very flippy Macavity), Trevor's kitten can be Tumblebrutus in my heart (X X).

Kittens in the pyramid: Elizabeth and Trevor, next to Jellylorum (Meredith Crain) (X)!

And bonus: here they all are with Jacob Brent (X)!

#c: ocs #c: swings #elizabeth windley #trevor groce #zach feeney #jayla lopez #jacob brent #2023 city springs #non-replica productions #cats the musical

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batmanonthecover · 5 months

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Brave & The Bold #79 - August 1968 (DC Comics - USA)

Cover Art: Neal Adams

THE TRACK OF THE HOOK

Script: Bob Haney

Art: Neal Adams (Pencils & Inks), Ben Oda (Letters)

Characters: Deadman [Boston Brand]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Hook; Commissioner Gordon; Whitey Marsh (Death); Carlton "Kubla" Kaine; Edward T. Weeks; Bill Rawls; Alfred; Tiny (Cameo, Flashback); Rama Kushna (Flashback); Willie Pigeon; Monk Manville [Max Chill]

Synopsis: Deadman goes to Batman for help finding his killer and ends up helping Batman track down a mysterious syndicate boss.

Batman story #1,243

#comics #dc comics #brave and the bold #batman #deadman #neal adams #bob haney #ben oda #1968

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popculturebuffet · 4 days

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Here Comes Garfield: Here Comes Garfield Review: Together Again (Patreon Review for Emma Fici)

Hello all you cool cats and nobody's fool cats and welcome back to here comes garfield, a look at garfield's fine history of specials.

Last time I took a look at his first apperance with the hourlong special the fantastic funnies which had Garfield's First animated apperance, some interviews with various comic strip creators.. and nothing else of value. Except maybe a possible doonesbury spinoff where micheal doonsebury and broom hilda become wacky roomates.

The Garfield Short itself however was fantastic, adapting a few great strips with Scott Beach doing a decent job in the roll and Thom Huge's first roll as john showoing what a naturual he was. The shorts were impressive enough that CBS ordered a full special.

So thus here came here comes Garfield. Both John and Garfield were recast from the fantastic funnies short: For Garfield they clearly had wide auditions.. but Lorenzo Music easily won after his first. Licking himself probably helped. Music was best known as the voice only character "Carlton, the Doorman" on Rhoda, and while he did some voice work here and there, Garfield was easily his biggest roll, with the second being Peter Venkman on the real ghostbusters, being just as good at the roll as Bill Murray and yes i'll stake my claim on that. He was also replaced by David Collier of Full House Infamy. I'm cursed with this knowledge and now so are you. And yes it was a massive downgrade.

For John they wanted an LA actor, so frequent guest actor Sandy Kenyon replaced Thom Huge. Thankfully Huge would be given the part back after auditoning for the next special when Kenyon wasn't avaliable and despite never leaving indiana, he was just THAT good. We also finally got a cast for Odie with Gregg Berger, who got cast because

I scraped the background info i got for this from wherever I could. Still Berger went on to be a longtime voice actor, being the only one of the big three's va's to still be at it. My faviorite roll of his is he, grimlock but berger has a staggering career I wasn't aware of.

The rest of our cast are: second fred flintstone Henry Collis as grouchy neighbor Huebert, Owl from Winnie the Pooh and frequent scooby doo guest voice actor hank garret as Huebert's wife Reba and pro wrestling hall of famer and sitcom starr, both entirely true I looked it up, Hank Garrett as vet inmates Fast Eddy and Fluffy.

Our final bit of casting wasn't for voice acting but for the Special's soundtrack, a person so integral to these specials I can't imagine them without him: Ladies, Gentlemen and that beautiful rainbow inbetween and outside, please welcome mr lou rawls!

Rawls is a legendary R and B artist, with "you'll never find" being his signature. He's been on the Muppet Show, the Proud Family, Sesame Street, and more. He was a legend and i'm very sad he's gone.

It's these specials that introduced me to rawls, though it took the muppet show to get me to look at more of his songs and he brought his a game. The reason? He saw the residuals sexual predator Bill Cosby was getting from Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids and had one thought when asked to do Garfield

Jim Davis would be proud.. because he was also in it for the money. And like the earlier years of Garfield, Lou Rawls didn't half ass it: the songs he performed for this special and later ones were truly fantastic and he always had a banger ready to open the special. I'm still baffled they were never put on a cd, with the only album relases being for here comes garfield and a mixtape from various r and b artists that includes shake a paw from Garfield Gets a Life. The specials would not be the same without Lou in them, and i'm happy he kept taking that check as he made them better each time he provided a silky opening song to kick off the hyjinks.

So with a bunch of vetran sitcom actors, the voice of an angel and a ton of strips, how was Here Comes Garfield? join me under the cut to find out.

We open the special with Garfield throwing his alarm clock through a window after rudely waking him up. A perfect intro: shows off he's cranky, sleepy and takes no shit.

We then follow it up with an elaborate dance number from Garfield, as he's known for, set to our title theme tune, here comes garfield. It's Rawls first crack at the character.. and it's a gorgeous, catchy song that sums up everything from Garfield's love of lasanga to his laziness. Is it weird to juxtopose that with an elaborate rotoscoped dance? yes yes it is. Is the animation and song so smooth it dosen't matter? Yup.

The dancing was modeled after Desirée Goyette, who also wrote the songs and sung the final one with Rawls, and also presented an issue as it didn't look quite right at first as Garfield to this point mostly stood like a blob. Since it was done at the Mendelsons where Peanuts was done, Sparky Schultz ended up providing the answer: the feet were too small and it's where Garfield got his big feet and smaller legs. They weren't to the degree they'd grow later, for better and for worse, but it's neat to know this evolution in garfield's appearance came from Sparky.

After this Garfield does some of his usual stuff: He threatens Odie, in his first animated appearance, wants a big breakfast then gets pissy when John won't give him the big breakfast and reacts entirely normally.

Several of the bits from this special were taken directly from the strip. Sadly unlike with the Fantastic Funnies, most aren't bookmarked, but thanks to google I was able to find a few i'll highlight. If I missed one or two, feel free to point them out, as there's a lot. Like the peanuts specials these earlier garfield ones tend to adapt a few one off bits for scenes and weave them into the plot.

Mid Breakfast, cat food as John hasn't yet had his spirit entirley broken, Odie startles Garrfield, a fight insues, and Jon throws his pets outside. Before we join them i'd like to talk about Sandy Kenyon's john.. and how he really dosen't work in the roll. What Huge got and what Wally Wingert and, at least judging from trailers, Nicholas Hoult get as John is that ballance: of put upon weary looser and optimstic dork. The latter part wasn't as prominent yet, but Huge would slide into it effortlessly.

Kenyon's John feels more like we're in a cat themed version of the stepfather and at any moment he's going to kill both pets, change his name and be on to another town. He feels like he's going to put down some plastic sheeting, throw on some huey lewis and get the axe out. He feels like he's one setback away from putting on a mask and going after some teenage cats. John is just too course here, too angry. Kenyon's trying to be deadpan but unlike other Jons, it comes off more threatening. And John CAN be threatning to his cat when he wants to be, but it comes off more like an angry dad, which is what he is, instead of an angry serial killer dad.

So our heroes go out and frolic in the flowers before a dog bites Garfield

And then another dog bites garfiled, Fluffy, the weird looking dog owned by Garfield's next door neighbor Huebert.

I'm so happy to get to talk about Huebert. As you may know, Garfield.. dosen't have the biggest bench of side characters in the strip itself. garfield and friends added a few paticuarlly binky (who went from a one off character in the strip and specials to one of the series best character) and the garfield show did the same, but in the strip it's kept to, outside our three person main cast, Liz, Nermal, Arlene, John's Parents, Doc Boy, Irma, Lyman early on and in more recent decades, the Big Vicious Dog. It's not a bad bench to pull from and some can go out of focus for a while if Jim Davis and his merry band of ghost writers runs out of ideas, but it works. Some strips have massive spraling casts like breaking cat news, some just need a few main characters and a few side cast to function. It didn't mean there were NO other characters or no guest characters, the 80's in paticular has some bangers and two of them even show up in this special, but in terms of recurring cast Jim Davis and Co kept it light.

Huebert and Reba are part of that cast and while not used these days, still made an impression when they were around. They were one note mostly being there to either gape in horror at John and Garfield's nonsense or be a victim of it. It did work though. They mostly stuck to sundays as it gave the gags enough room to work them in.

Huebert here assumes Garfield attacked Muffin unprovoked.. which isn't that unfair if you've known garfield formore than a single minute. Garfield and Odie don't help matters by trolling the guy. Hueburt dosen't help matters by trying to whollop them with his stick.

When that fails, he decides to call animal control. And in the garfield unvierse the city pound is apparnetly fucking psychotic as they not only just. manifest instantly, but don't ask any followup questions such as "are these somebody's pets", "Why do you want these animals removed" and "Whats your offer." They jsut show up to swoop our guys up.

Garfield hides but Odie, befitting his nature, is too stupid to and gets nabbed. Garfield seems genuinely sorry about it.. before griping, reminding us he's nature's perfect asshole. he does try to tell john about it with some fun patnomime.. but all john gets is Garfield might have fleas, a bit I really like.

Garfield gives up to watch some tv, then sleeps, thinking back to him and Odie as puppies.. before seeing the net come in and tkae the boy. And honestly this setup, Garfield feeling guilt one of his only friend sin the world is absent but taking his sweet time to do anything because he's that stubborn and selfish that he can't ADMIT it, works really well.

Eventually Garfield wakes up and needs to feed lest his hunger consume him then us all. So we get our second song, Long About Midnight, a fun jazz number from Rawls about Garfield's appitite. I also say Rawl's r and b style REALLY fits garfield well Rawls music tends to be laid back and jovial, talking about romancin and relaxin, and that fits garfield just fine. He can get it and he's ntohing but relaxed.

We get some food shenanigans during it recycled from a sunday, minus john for plot purposes

Thanks to Alyssabeth on Goodreads for putting this tsrip in her review, I wouldn't of remembered this refrence without it. Though I will say the gags are made better thans to Music's delivery. He just.. fits garfield so perfectly, having that nice combination of sardonic and laid back. There's a reason voices after him.. just haven't quite felt right. Bill Murray did a great job despite terrible material, and Frank Welker is decent, but Music just set an impossibly high bar that's yet to be cleared. He was garfield and elevated the character from great to god tier.

It's telling that for once food can't fill the void inside: Garfield misses his dog/punching bag/brother and decides to go free him. he NEARLY does.. only for the creepy watch men to catch him.

It's in Stir garfield meets two of his cell mates: Fast Eddie and Fluffy. Fast Eddie and Fluffy are actuallyt aken from a January 1981 arc I remember vividly as I had the book it was in as a kid.

The special changed the two slightly changing Eddie's name, Fluffy into a dog, and making both more realistically colored, though the latter's a bit more understandable on Fast Eddie/Guido, as we didn't have a color fo rhim. Fluffy on the other hand was on the back of the book he was in, so I don't know what the excuse there was.

I also admit I prefer Fluffy's original design, the big blue dopey look versus a more generic dog in the special.

The arc they were in was fairly short, with almost none of it really adapted for the special, just taking the characters and the situation of garfield in the pound, but they were still a great take. I may not like the change in fluffy but the two are a lot of fun and help speed along expositoin.

Eddie sticks up for Odie when Garfield gripes at him for getting him thrown in jail, only for Eddie to reveal that Odie is to be PUT DOWN TOMMOROW.

Yes. I wasn't kidding about how.. weirdly sadistic the pound is in this universe. Granted it COULD'VE been this weirdly sadistic in the 80's too but yes, despite having been here for less than a day they already plan to MURDER ODIE to make room. Whose running this pound?

Yeah that tracks. So Garfield tries to figure out a way to savd Odie from death and comforts his best friend on his last night. It's a genuinely heartbreaking scene, not helped by our third song "So Long Old Friend" If you can listen to this song without tearing up, you have no soul and i'm pretty sure even that's sketchy as vampires would cry tears of blood over this.

Garfield vows to save odie but Eddie holds Garfield back as they'll "take you too"

Thankfully Garfield gets an out: a little girl comes by to adopt a pet and all the cats and dogs line up. I also like all the various cats and dogs here, who Eddie outlined earlier my faviorites being Rocky, a nermal sized cat who beat up a neigherbood dog, Charlotte, a lovely kitty who simply scratched up some royal drapes, and Weird Larny who got arrested for impersonating a moose. Garfield gets picked because of plot convience.. but bolts to rescue Odie from certain death...

The other pets join him in booking it the hell out of deathland and overun the one guy trying to stop them. It's here we get our final number, and my faviorite, Together Again, with rawls and goytte combinging vocals. It's a joyful, triumphant song of renuinon as our heroes finally escape and go home.

Jon.. is a bit of a passive agressive dick, assuming they were partying whihle he was worried sick.. even though he clearly didn't you know CHECK THE POUND or do any work whatsoever. They quickly butter him up, he "forgives them" and we get one last gag taken directly from a strip I coudln't find to close things out

Here comes garfield is a great start to the specials. The stakes are high but still grounded enough for early garfield. While the timeline of thigns is a bit sped up, it's anchored by a belivieble yet touching arc from garfield, confromation that while he may bully odie and be annoyed by his existance.. he can't live without the guy and it's a fitting thing to get him off his fuzzy butt to do something. The jokes are fairly funny, the music is top notch. It's an excellent special and only seems lacking.. because they mostly get BETTER from here, with Here Comes Being a good start.. but most of the others take that foundation to new heights. Still it's a fantastic start and well worth checking out.

And like with my monthly muppets reviews, i'll be ranking these as I go and since I already covered babes and bullets and the fabulous funnies, that gives us two to start. I'll also be adding the garfield films to the ranking if I ever do them, and would be happy to do those on comission if anyone's intrested. Anyways here's our current ranking

This ranking probably won't move much at first, but we shall see

next time: In honor of the movie's launch we're looking at this special's followup, Garfield On the Town. With the new movie finally introducing us to Garfield's Father, it's only fair to look back at how we met his mother in one of the best of the specials. Tears will be shed, weird musical numbers will happen and you will be moved> yes you. in the front there.

Thanks for reading.

#garfield #here comes garfield #jon arbuckle #odie #lou rawls #animation #comics trips #comics

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mathhombre · 4 months

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Your top 5 music and/or stand-up comedy albums?

Remember, I'm old... and I think about this stuff too much. And can't follow directions.

Doobie Brothers - Minute by Minute Ani Difranco - Out of Range *Prince - Sign of the Times Pretenders - Learning to Crawl ZZ Top - Deguello

Horace Silver - Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers *Lee Morgan - Blue Breakbeats Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain Charles Mingus - Tijuana Moods Dave Brubeck - Take Five

*Ella Fitzgerald - Cole Porter Songbook Billie Holliday - Billie Holliday (Commodore) Sarah Vaughn - Swingin' Easy Nat King Cole - The Nat King Cole Story *Mose Allison - I Don't Worry 'Bout a Thing

Steve Martin - Let's Get Small Bob Newhart - The Button Down Comedian Richard Pryor - Richard Pryor George Carlin - Toledo Window Box Bill Cosby - I Started Out as a Child

Celia Cruz - Tu Voz Tito Puente - Para los Rumberos Silvio Rodriguez - Canciones Urgentes Carlos Montoya - La Guitarra Flamenca Los Pleneros de la 21 - Puerto Rico Mi Tierra Natal *Lou Rawls - Tobacco Road Koko Taylor - The Earthshaker B.B. King - Live in Cook County Jail Albert Collins - Cold Snap John Lee Hooker - Live at Newport Not mentioned above somehow: Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Peter Gabriel, Tom Waits ... maybe they transcend genres? Also left off Detroit Cobras, whom I listened to every day this semester.

Somehow stopped myself from doing a hip hop list, punk list, classical list and celtic list

* if I was picking 5 this morning.

Thanks, @vacuouslytrue

#music #top 5 #ask

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randomvarious · 6 months

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Motown Returns to the Apollo (Live in New York, NY) 1985 Soul / R&B / Pop / Tap Dance

Harlem's Apollo Theater is, hands-down, the single most important institution in the history of black American performing arts. It was first built in 1913 as a burlesque venue for only white patrons, but by 1934, its white owners transformed it into a space to showcase black performers. And from that year on, and into the mid-70s, it played a decisive role as a launching pad for an abundance of highly successful careers, from music, to dance, to comedy.

However, after having rode its high throughout the 60s, the Apollo would find itself in dire financial straits, and for a multitude of different reasons, its doors were shuttered in 1976. There were then a whole bunch of fits and starts to have it reopened, and eventually, after a thorough, years-long renovation process, it sprang back to life in 1985, and a legendary concert called Motown Returns to the Apollo would mark its long-awaited grand reopening.

So, take a look at some of this incredible concert bill, folks, which simultaneously celebrates The Apollo's past, while also showcasing a mid-80s present: DeBarge, George Michael, Smokey Robinson, The Manhattans, The Drifters, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Mary Wells, Martha Reeves, Stevie Wonder, Rod Stewart, Nile Rodgers, Billy Preston, Joe Cocker, Patti Labelle, Jennifer Holliday, Thelma Houston, Marilyn McCoo, Vanessa Williams, Debbie Allen, New Edition, Boy George, Wilson Pickett, Chuck Johnson, Little Richard, Mavis Staples, Al Green, Sarah Vaughan, Billy Eckstine, James Brown, Luther Vandross, The Commodores, Lou Rawls, and Diana Ross. Such a magnificent concert for the ages, but unfortunately, it was hosted by Bill Cosby 😫.

Now, something that particularly struck me about this whole production is what they ended up deciding to call it—Motown Returns to the Apollo—because there's a whole bunch of people on this bill that were never actually on Motown itself. But I guess the sound of soul and R&B from the 60s to mid-80s had just become synonymous with the name of the label anyway, even if they'd never actually released a lot of the music that came out of it. And when someone's describing their taste in music, and they say that they like Motown, they're probably actually referring to more than just that one powerhouse label, and more so the type of music that they and a whole lot of other outfits were putting out. But it's still interesting to refer to it that way when naming a concert, though.

Anyway, you should definitely try to fully immerse yourself in this whole show, but I'm gonna timestamp some of my absolute favorite performances here, a few of which include some truly incredible belting feats from Patti Labelle, whose every appearance on this one night was pure magic; especially with the gospel tune, "You'll Never Walk Alone," which she delivered with the help of Little Richard, Mavis Staples, Billy Preston, Al Green, and the New Jersey Mass Choir. I'm not even a remotely religious person, but that's probably one of the most powerful performances that I've ever seen in my life. Good lord 🤯.

Sam Harris - "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" Stevie Wonder - "Sir Duke" Billy Preston, Joe Cocker, & Patti Labelle - "You Are So Beautiful" Little Richard, Mavis Staples, Billy Preston, Al Green, Patti Labelle, & the New Jersey Mass Choir - "Joy Joy Joy Down in My Heart"/"You'll Never Walk Alone" James Brown - "Please Please Please" Diana Ross with everyone - "I Want to Know What Love Is"

And the show wasn't limited to strictly music, either. There was some amazing tap dancing too!

Gregory Hines - "Tribute to Teddy Hale" Tap Dancing Showcase, with Bunny Briggs, Chuck Green, Gregg Burge, Ludie Jones, Jimmy Slyde, Sandman Sims, Harold Nicholas, & Sammy Davis, Jr.

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"HUNGER STRIKE ENDS AT PEN IN ITS 111TH HOUR," Baltimore Sun. May 21, 1933. Page 20. ---- Prison Gandhis Finally Yield To Call Of Empty Stomachs --- 'ACE CRIMINALS GO FOR MILK TOAST ---- Group Still Kept Segregated After Wage Protest Collapses --- The hunger strike in which fourteen prisoners at the Maryland Penitentiary united Tuesday morning ended in its one hundred and eleventh hour at 9.45 o'clock last night, Warden Patrick J. Brady announced.

At that hour, he said, the fourteen recalcitrants, whose names read like a "Who's Who in Maryland Crime." sent word to him that they were ready to eat.

As soon as the message was received, the warden said he had set before the strikers a meal of soup, milk and toast, specially prepared in the diet kitchen of the prison hospital, the regular penitentiary kitchen being closed at night. They will stay where they are however -and this may be for a long time - until it has been decided what to do with them, and whether to risk letting them mingle with other prisoners.

Fourteen Capitulate As One The fourteen capitulated as one to the pangs of hunger, according to Warden Brady, who added that throughout the day in the cells where the fourteen were segregated there had been an intermittent hum of surrender talk.

Eighteen men have been living in that west-wing special segregation tier on the fifth floor ever since the prison wage strike last December, but only fourteen of them decided to emulate Gandhi and let their stomachs be their instruments of protest.

Those Who Gave Up The names of the fourteen, nearly all of whom are serving long terms for crimes ranging from burglary, robbery and assault to murder, follow: RAWLINGS WHITTEMORE LEO MERCER, JAMES MCCLOSKEY, JOHN KELLER, AUGUST BEYERS, JOHN RYAN, ROBERT MINNERS, RAYMOND HILL, EDWARD WEST, CHARLES KRAMER, HUNTER LEWIS, JERRY OFFEREDA, FRANK CAMPBELL, EDWARD HARLING One Negro In Group Campbell is the only Negro in the group, which began its strike five days ago by refusing breakfast Tuesday morning.

Warden Brady said that during the final twenty-four hours of the strike he had instructed the guards watching the strikers to tell them they would "gain nothing by refusing to eat and merely save the State money on its food bill." During the day, he said, several strikers were heard from time to time urging their colleagues to answer their stomachs' call, but unity did not come until nearly 10 o'clock.

#baltimore #maryland penitentiary #maryland history #hunger strike #prison hunger strike #solitary confinement #classification and segregation #prison strike #prison industries #the great depression #history of crime and punishment #prisoner protest #racism in america #african americans #passive resistance

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This is inspired by that one convo Soap and ghost had during the solo mission i believe.

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War.

The kind of thing no one wanted to talk about but everyone expected one side to be the "good" ones and the other the "bad" ones.

No one wanted to talk about it's real motivation or the selfish pricks who send young folks to the middle of the fucking desert. Or the scars you took home with you, physical and mental.

Frank can't blame people for it tho, if it was his choice he'd turn a blind eye to it as well. But he wasn't that kind of man and he held respect for his mates life's.

There was one, that Frank could pick up apart in the middle of a crowd. One with Wich Frank would feel like home even overseas.

Billy was Frank's last anchor and that was exactly why Castle couldn't just watch as his second in command slowly drifted to craziness.

A granade that made contact with the ground way too close to Billy left wounds in his face and chest.

Billy was stronger than most, sometimes, Frank would say that the pale skinned man was stronger than himself.

But that granade erased part of Billy's memories, among other things.

Like the trust in his team.

Frank won't lie and say that the fact of being Billy's first memory when he woke from the surgery wasn't the most chest warming thing that has ever happened to him.

But then, no one of their mates would be allowed to Billy's Recovery room.

Billy wouldn't dine with them as before, as a stray cat, he would get violent if anyone but Frank got too close for his taste.

They had to sedate him a few times.

Frank suspects, that Billy knew something. Something about operation Cerberus that made him the most dangerous man to Agent Orange.

He remembers Billy gaze when Rawlings send them to a mission that was a lost cause.

And Frank knows that Rawlings is capable of doing that and much more to one of his own. He saw the face that man made when the news of Billy’s survival were delivered to them.

So now, while Billy locked himself up in the storage room of the warehouse. Frank is thinking real hard about getting rid of Rawlings himself. Proof or not.

"I don't trust anyone" --Billy raspy voice came out of the walkie talkie-- "Anyone right now. Not even Rawlings"

-- We'll see about that. --Frank answered from the other side of the door--. Just make sure you can trust yourself, Billy. Start there.

"That's a really good piece of advice there, Lieutenant" --Frank could feel the smile on Russo's face-- "I wanna be like you when I grow up"

There he was, the Billy Frank loved above all the other people in the world.

--. Nah, You wanna be better than me, Billy boy. –Truth was, Frank wanted to see Billy be better than him. Even if he knew that they were the same.

There was no Frank without Billy, and the recent events showed him that there wasn’t Billy without him.

“I realized the way you look at me” –Billy started after a moment—“I know i can trust you because of that”

--. Yeah? How do I look at you Bill? –Frank ignored the weird looks that his mate’s were giving him. They could think whatever they wanted.

“Like you love me” –Frank swallowed, before the explosion, he and billy had never shared those words out loud. But it was clear as the stars in the desert night, Frank indeed loved him, more than he loved himself.

--. And that would make you come out without a sniper rifle in your hands? –Billy chuckled from the other side and Frank smiled too.

“Only if you promise me that we’ll end this and go home eat one of those horrible Burgers you like”

Yeah, Frank could do that. He will collect Rawlings head and bring it to Billy’s feet, he just needed time to put everything in order.

--. Sure Bill, we can have one last run. You and me.

The next thing Frank heard was the door being unlocked and Billy’s steady steps on the floor.

#frankenbilly #cod mw22 #little silly thoughts of mine #frank Castle #Billy Russo

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bananalan · 2 years

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Just the two of us song year

"Harlem," the stomping opener, was released as the first single, but radio DJs favored the mournful ballad on the B-side, "Ain't No Sunshine." Sussex responded with a pressing that switched designations, and the new A-side scaled to number three on the Hot 100 (and number six on the R&B chart). The album entered the Billboard's Top LP's chart in June 1971. Jones and most of the producer, keyboardist, and bandleader's partners in the M.G.'s, along with Stephen Stills (guitar), Jim Keltner (drums), and Chris Ethridge (bass), Withers cut Just as I Am, a 12-song set with ten originals. Physically moved by an original titled "Grandma's Hands," Avant signed Withers to Sussex. Rhythm Band's Ray Jackson, one of the musicians hired to help, took the tape to the Stax label's Forest Hamilton, who arranged to have Sussex Records' Clarence Avant meet Withers. A little later, having moved to Los Angeles and landed another aircraft mechanic job - more specifically as a toilet installer - Withers invested in recording a demo. Withers soon made his recorded debut with the self-composed "Three Nights and a Morning," an uptempo hardscrabble shouter produced, arranged, and released by Mort Garson, but the 1967 single was a one-off. While at an Oakland club to see Lou Rawls, Withers overheard how much the star would be profiting from the gig, and was consequently motivated to buy a guitar and develop his singing and writing skills. Discharged after nine years of service, Withers relocated to San Jose, where he worked as a milkman, made aircraft parts, and eventually worked on planes. Navy, where he served as an aircraft mechanic. Withers spent his late teens and most of his twenties in the U.S. He wrote his first song at the age of four, but his talent wouldn't truly manifest for another three decades. was born in Slab Fork, West Virginia on July 4, 1938, and was raised in nearby Beckley. The son of a maid and a coal miner, William Harrison Withers, Jr. Given his flowers before his death at the age of 81, Withers was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Early to leave, Withers made his last statement with Watching You Watching Me (1985), closing a songbook that has served as a bountiful resource for artists from a multitude of stylistic persuasions. He collected more gold singles with "Lean on Me" and "Use Me," both off the similarly successful Still Bill (1972), reached the same height with Menagerie (1977), led by "Lovely Day," and was handed a second Grammy for "Just the Two of Us" (1981), his collaboration with Grover Washington, Jr. Through the next ten years, Withers continued to meld soul, gospel, folk, and funk with rare finesse. Late to arrive, the everyman R&B paragon had just turned 33 when "Ain't No Sunshine," the unfading ballad off Just as I Am (1971), made him a sudden and unlikely success story, within one year an aircraft mechanic-turned-million-selling, Grammy-winning artist. Even smaller in number are the songwriters who have shared the West Virginian's natural ability to articulate a comprehensive range of emotions and perspectives - jubilation and gratitude, jealousy, and spite - with maximal levels of conviction and concision. Few singers have possessed a baritone as rich and comforting as that of Bill Withers.

#Just the two of us song year

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shirkers2018dirsanditan · 2 years

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i know bill rawls is ecstatic rn because he fucking hates mcnulty

#on the inside

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fuckyeahilike · 2 years

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Sword Master Rates 10 Sword Fights From Movies And TV | How Real Is It?

Professional swordsman Dave Rawlings broke down 10 sword fights in movies and TV, critiquing their realism and technique. Rawlings has over 15 years' experience teaching Western Swordsmanship. He has been featured in the documentary series "Warriors" and "Bloody Tales of the Tower." He advised the Wallace Collection on its exhibition "The Noble Art of the Sword," and he teaches longsword at the London Longsword Academy.

Rawlings looked at the skill of Henry Cavill in "The Witcher" and Dwayne Johnson in "The Scorpion King." He also critiqued the realism of historical and fantasy scenes from "The Mask Of Zorro," "Gladiator" and "The Princess Bride." He also rated sword fights in "Game of Thrones," including Brienne of Tarth and Arya Stark, and Ned Stark and Jamie Lannister. He rated the samurai-sword skill of Keanu Reeves in "47 Ronin" and Uma Thurman in "Kill Bill: Volume 1."He analyzed the principles of sword fighting in the "Die Another Day" fencing scene and the light saber fight in "Star Wars: The Last Jedi."

#David Rawlings #movies #videos #lol

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∀ Bill Mazeroski Signed Rawlings Official Major League Baseball (JSA) http://blog.collectingall.com/T4TCjk 📌 shrsl.com/4fuj5 📌

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Reborn Rawlsian

Sequel idea: Chaebol fiend 1-1 learns that his cruel son 1-1-1 has been reborn as a not only unnumbered but also unidentifiable underdog in his re-reseized conglomerate's vast network of stakeholders: employees, contractors, sub-contractors, vendors along the supply chain, small-time investors, retail customers, pollution sufferers, fellow taxpayers, public benefits recipients, etc. Nightmares of his underlings executing an accordingly uniformed or rags-draped version of his child on a desolate, roaring seaside cliff, the way an employee was killed under the instructions of someone in his family (spoiler-free description), recur until 1-1 successfully protects everyone in that stakeholder group.

Maximin and the Veil of Ignorance are two cornerstones of modern philosopher John Rawls' Original Position, from which he advocated deliberating among approaches to social justice. Found also in game theory, maximin refers to the highest value among the lowest possible outcomes, as its name suggests. Rawls argued that any social and economic inequalities must exist only if they lead us to a society which worst-off members fare better than the worst-off members of all other possible societies.*

The Veil of Ignorance is similarly common sense that has not translated to common reality. It says that decision makers in the above deliberation are to assume that they know nothing particular about themselves, such as their strengths, assets or specific interests.^ They only know broad facts applicable to most people like the need for income and opportunity.^ The possibility of being the worst-off person in any resulting society should then motivate each decision maker to secure the maximin.

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The natural question to ask is how to ensure decision makers live up to those ideals. Could possibility, as opposed to significant probability, be enough of a motivator even if one were willing to turn a blind eye to adverse consequences for her relatively privileged, actual tribe? The most disadvantaged people do not necessarily constitute the lowest yet broadest stratum of a pyramid. They could be individuals suffering rare, exceptionally debilitating diseases, for instance. Compounding the matter is the tendency for the different components of the deliberation and feedback processes to lie in different parties: Systematic insights into differing justice approaches are concentrated among intellectuals; the power to distribute social goods lies in economic and political elites, not all of whom care to be intellectuals; the richest wealth of granular knowledge about the suffering of the worst-off members of society probably lies in themselves.

For public pressure and monitoring to effectively push decision makers into the Original Position, there must be adequate sharing of facts and sentiments among the three groups. Voices in support of the worst off need meme power, whether in the form of compelling logic pitches or emotional appeal, to compensate for disadvantage in numbers in any non-pyramidal society. That is where arts can structure medical, financial and sociopolitical access for the better, saving lives and dignity with nary a stethoscope.

There is one other solution. Near the end of the last episode, 1-1 lies in exhaustion on the copper-hued sands of a valley in Nallıhan, where shady plans were carried out in Reborn Rich, after rescuing his son for good. The poignant portrait shots are intercut with extensive flashbacks to tribulations the duo has undergone at the hands of selfish, uncooperative fellow power holders. But before long, the smooth talker springs up with a wicked glint in his eyes. 1-1 rises to the seat of national president on the strength of his now-impressive civil reform records and galvanizes support (don't ask about his extortionary tactics) for a new bill that mandates all capable people of working age to take a gap month every year in the most miserable sectors in the country, unless they already work or live in any of the sectors. The economic impact on existing workers in those sectors will have to be ascertained, however. And 1-1 may well get voted out of office by the next term. For now, nevertheless, he shall have his own revenge.

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*Rawls, J. (2001) Justice as Fairness: A Restatement. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 59-60.

^Rawls, J. (1999) A Theory of Justice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 11, 53-54.

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