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Garnet Essay

In the times of slavery, freedom was a thing many dreamed of but didn’t have much motivation to get, as the obstacles they knew they would face and possible punishment if caught. Some used their kids as motivation, others were simply fed up with the circumstances they were living in. Another factor that can be considered is religion, Christianity to be specific. Christianity was what many slaves believed in and the idea and concept of a better place and having someone watching over them motivated slaves to live daily and eventually push them to fight for their freedom.

One person who was able to put this idea into writing was Henry Garnett in his address to the slaves. Garnett speaks to the slaves in an attempt to rile them up to take their freedom. Using heavy diction and terms he is trying to motivate them to fight for their lives. How he does this by tying it back to religion, Christianity to be specific. Christianity is what slave masters and white people overall used to keep slaves in their place. By telling them this is what God intended for them and that they were doing this for the better of themselves; Which anyone who reads a history book would find out is incorrect. Christianity has had a strong grasp on the Black community since slavery, so Garnett using it against them to convince them to revolutionize is one of the smartest things he could’ve done. These are people who are going through unspeakable things and deal with the trauma that would be passed down through generations to come. The only thing that kept most of them breathing every day was Christianity; From gospel hymns to praying at night for salvation, slaves used Christianity as a tool in remaining alive and keeping the fire inside them for freedom burning greatly.

Garnett tells the slaves that slavery is not only a crime against humanity but also God himself, as he made all of his children equal but those very same humans decided that they were better than another group and enslaved them, “Nor has the one more right to the full enjoyment of his freedom than the other. In every man’s mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to make him contented with a condition of slavery, commits the highest crime against God and man. Brethren, your oppressors aim to do this. They endeavor to make you as much like brutes as possible.” (Garnett). Or when he uses God and Christianity to show disappointment in the slaves, the men to be specific. “Fellow-men! Patient sufferers! Behold your dearest rights crushed to the earth! See your sons murdered, and your wives, mothers and sisters doomed to prostitution. In the name of the merciful God, and by all that life is worth, let it no longer be a debatable question, whether it is better to choose Liberty or death.” (Garnett). Garnett does not beat around the bush in his choice of words and is passionate about this problem, he wants to make the men feel ashamed for letting all of this happen, not only to themselves but also to their children and life partners. He wants them to know there should be no questioning about their current state of life because God wouldn’t allow it nor would he be proud of it, even going to the extent to say it is either liberty or death. He is aggressive in his approach, as that is what he wants to fill the slaves with; Pure aggression to get them to fight for their freedom, even if it becomes physical which is encouraged because it is for their liberty. Although many may disagree or have opinions to say about Garnett’s approach and diction he utilized Christianity to compel and encourage the enslaved people to revolutionize and take their freedom.

Garnett received much backlash from scholars of his period and some even now criticize his work. As someone reading it in 2022 I can see both sides of the criticisms and the praise that comes along with it. One scholar James Jasinski addresses Garnett and tackles the topic of masculinity and the aspect of Christianity within it in his journal “Constituting Antebellum African American Identity: Resistance, Violence, and Masculinity in Henry Highland Garnet's (1843) “Address to the Slaves””. James addresses the time period and how it may have come off given the context of the time period and to whom it was addressed. This can also go back to the criticisms Garnett received when the address was published. This take on the address seems to fit more of mine, the usage of Christianity and God against the men in the slave community was greatly found in the address and the overall question of how Christianity can compel one to revolutionize for their freedom. The colored people convention did not want this address to be published under them nor representation of them due to the promotion of violence and overall diction of the address as many slaves did not know how to read.

Harry A Reed is another person who had a “rebuttal” to Garnett and his address to the slaves. In “Henry Highland Garnet's "Address to the Slaves of the United States of America" Reconsidered. The Western Journal of Black Studies; Pullman, Wash. Vol. 6, Iss. 4, (Winter 1982): 186.”, he focuses on the “rhetorical violence” (Reed) and “moral sin” of slavery and slaveholding. They left out more of the religious aspects of Garnett’s address and more so in the dialect and also the moral questioning that went into slavery. This is closer to a more modern take on it as many scholars look at slavery as a moral sin rather than a religious sin as how Garnett saw it. Personally, this take on the address didn’t focus on what I find the more “important” aspects of the address as a whole but it does focus on some other things that are also important and were focused on by others in the past such as the violent terms and aggression that comes off in the address.

In the grand scheme of things, both of the takes on Garnett are equally important as it sheds light on different interpretations and aspects of the address that people in different time periods may not be able to point out. Religion is close to people’s hearts (if they partake in it) and using it as a way to motivate people was clever in my opinion. When you can reach someone’s heart you can also reach their mind and convince and sway them to do something under the influence of your words. Garnett was passionate about the freedom of liberty of his people and that is very apparent in his work. He was also a follower of Christianity and had strong faith, which is seen in his references to the bible. Religion can be a powerful tool, as it is also what cults use to mold the minds of their followers and convince them to do things. They give someone the thought of a higher power who knows all and sees all, therefore telling them to do something and hiding it under the guise of what that God may have “wanted” them to do convinces them to do exactly what they want them to do; In Garnett’s case, this want was to revolutionize. Religion, especially Christianity is very compelling in the black community and in my perspective is one of the best ways to convince someone to do something.

Reed, H. A. (1982). Henry highland garnet's "address to the slaves of the united states of america" reconsidered. The Western Journal of Black Studies, 6(4), 186. Retrieved from http://proxyhu.wrlc.org/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/henry-highland-garnets-address-slaves-united/docview/1311803675/se-2

James Jasinski (2007) Constituting Antebellum African American Identity: Resistance, Violence, and Masculinity in Henry Highland Garnet's (1843) “Address to the Slaves”, Quarterly Journal of Speech, 93:1, 27-57, DOI: 10.1080/00335630701326878 "Home." Henry Highland Garnet’s “Address to the Slaves’” and its Colored Conventions Origins - October 12, 2022, https://coloredconventions.org/garnet-address-1843/

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Books suggestions for ages 12-13+, that are not of dubious content?

I don’t know if your definition of dubious is the same as mine but here are some books I consider appropriate for middle school kids:

First, some classics, which are maybe a bit obvious but bear repeating:

The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis

The Sword in the Stone, by T.H. White

My Side of the Mountain, by Jean Craighead George

The Giver, by Lois Lowry (and its sequels)

The Shadow Children series, by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Holes, by Louis Sachar

Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes

Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain

Little House on the Prairie, by Laura Ingalls Wilder

A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle

And then some that are maybe less commonly recommended but which I like:

The Real Boy, by Anne Ursu

Crossbows and Crucifixes, by Henry Garnett

The Wingfeather Saga, by Andrew Peterson

Show Me a Sign, by Ann Clare LeZotte

So B. It, by Sarah Weeks

The Door in the Wall, by Marguerite de Angeli

The Shakespeare Stealer, by Gary Blackwood

Where the Lilies Bloom, by Vera and Bill Cleaver

A Night Divided, by Jennifer A. Nielsen

The Locket’s Secret, by K. Kelley Heyne

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State of the Reader: Audiobook Edition

Like pretty much everyone everywhere, I've had a hard time these last several months. Overall I've been very lucky, to be sure, and I am enormously grateful for everything I have, but being fortunate is not the same as being unscathed.

Among other effects, I've lost almost all ability to concentrate. I haven't been able to read. I haven't been able to write. I can barely listen to music or watch videos on YouTube.

Audiobooks have become my salvation. For whatever reason, I've been able to listen to audiobooks even while unable to read. I had begun Daphne du Maurier's novel Rebecca but floundered about halfway through. I abandoned the attempt for a few weeks then, on a whim, looked up audiobook versions and stumbled across Alex Kingston's abridged BBC reading. And I found, to my great relief and joy, that I was able to listen to the whole reading.

Most recently I've enjoyed Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, as read by Steven Garnett. I've been focusing on books that have entered the public domain so I can just find readings on YouTube, and I think The Turn of the Screw by Henry James might be next on the list.

I am also now remembering my aborted attempt to read House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski, and wondering how on Earth one might do an audiobook version. I'm not sure it's actually possible, given the nature and structure of the novel, but it would be fascinating to listen to an attempt that stayed true to what the book is.

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How All in the Family Changed the TV Landscape

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All in the Family is roundly considered a touchstone for television achievement now, but when it debuted 50 years ago, even the network carrying it hoped it would fizzle quickly and unnoticed. CBS put an army of operators at phone lines expecting a barrage of complaints from offended middle Americans demanding its cancellation. Those calls didn’t come. What came was a deluge of support from people hoping this mid-season replacement was a permanent addition to the network’s lineup. The premiere episode contained a considerable list of “television firsts.” One of these rarities continues to remain scarce on network TV: creator Norman Lear trusted the intelligence of the viewing audience. To celebrate All in the Family’s 50th anniversary, we look back at its journey from conception to broadcast, and how it continues to influence and inform entertainment and society today.

Actor Carroll O’Connor, who was a large part of the creative process of the series, consistently maintains he took the now-iconic role of Archie Bunker because All in the Family was a satire, not a sitcom. It was funny, but it wasn’t a lampoon. It was grounded in the most serious of realities, more than the generation gap which it openly showcased, but in the schism between progressive and conservative thinking. The divide goes beyond party, and is not delineated by age, wealth, or even class. The Bunkers were working class. The middle-aged bigot chomping on the cigar was played by an outspoken liberal who took the art of acting very seriously. The audience cared deeply, and laughed loudly, because they were never pandered to. They were as respected as the authenticity of the series characters’ parodies.

Even the laughs were genuine. All in the Family was the first major American series to be videotaped in front of a live audience. There was never a canned laugh added, even in the last season when reactions were captured by an audience viewing pre-taped episodes. Up to this time, sitcoms were taped without audiences in single-camera format and the laugh track was added later. Mary Tyler Moore shot live on film, but videotape helped give All in the Family the look of early live television, like the original live broadcasts of The Honeymooners. Lear wanted to shoot the series in black and white, the same as the British series, Till Death Us Do Part, it was based on. He settled for keeping the soundstage neutral, implying the sepia tones of an old family photograph album. The Astoria, Queens, row house living room was supposed to look comfortable but worn, old-fashioned and retrograde, mirroring Archie’s attitudes: A displaced white hourly wage earner left behind by the social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s.

“I think they invented good weather around 1940.”

American sitcoms began shortly after World War II, and primarily focused on the upper-middle class white families of Father Knows Best, Leave It to Beaver, and The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. I Love Lucy’s Ricky Ricardo, played by Cuban-American Desi Arnaz, ran a successful nightclub. The Honeymooners was a standout because Jackie Gleason’s Ralph Kramden was a bus driver from Bensonhurst (the actual address on that show, 328 Chauncey Street, is in the Bedford–Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn). American TV had little use for the working class until the 1970s. They’d only paid frightened lip service to the fights for civil rights and the women’s liberation movements, and when the postwar economy had to be divided to meet with more equalized opportunities there was no one to break it down in easy terms. The charitable and likable Flying Nun didn’t have the answer hidden under her cornette. It wasn’t even on the docket in Nancy, a 1970 sitcom about a first daughter. The first working family on TV competing in the new job market was the Bunkers, and they had something to say about the new competition.

Social commentary wasn’t new on television. Shows like The Twilight Zone and Star Trek routinely explored contemporary issues, including racism, corporate greed, and the military action in Vietnam, through the lens of fantasy and science fiction. The war and other unrest were coming into the people’s living rooms every night on the evening news. The times they were a-changing, but television answered to sponsors who feared offending consumers.

Ah, but British TV, that’s where the action was. Lear read about a show called Till Death Us Do Part, a BBC1 television sitcom that aired from 1965 to 1975. Created by Johnny Speight, the show set its sights on a working-class East End family, spoofing the relationship between reactionary white head of the house Alf Garnett (Warren Mitchell), his wife Else (Dandy Nichols), daughter Rita (Una Stubbs), and her husband Mike Rawlins (Anthony Booth), a socialist from Liverpool. Lear recognized the relationship he had with his own father between the lines.

CBS wanted to buy the rights to the British show as a star vehicle for Gleason, Lear beat out CBS for the rights and personalized it. One of the reasons All in the Family works so well is because Lear wasn’t just putting a representative American family on the screen, he was putting his own family up there.

“If It’s Too Hot in The Kitchen, Stay Away from The Cook.”

Archie Bunker dubbed his son-in-law, Michael Stivic, played by Rob Reiner, a “Meathead, dead from the neck up.” This was the same dubious endearment Lear’s father Herman called him. The same man who routinely commanded Lear’s mother to “stifle herself.” Lear’s mother accused her husband, a “rascal” who was sent to jail for selling fake bonds of being “the laziest white man I ever saw,” according to his memoir Even This I Get to Experience All three lines made it into all three of the pilots taped for All In the Family. When Lear’s father got out of prison after a three-year stretch, the young budding writer sat through constant, heated, family discussions. “I used to sit at the kitchen table and I would score their arguments,” Lear remembers in his memoir. “I would give her points for this, him points for that, as a way of coping with it.”

All in the Family, season 1, episode 1, provides an almost greatest hits package of these terse and tense exchanges, which also taught Lear not to back away from the fray. He served as a radio operator and gunner in the U.S. Air Force during World War II, earning an Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters after flying 52 combat missions, and being among the crew members featured in the books Crew Umbriag and 772nd Bomb Squadron: The Men, The Memories. Lear partnered with Ed Simmons to write sketches for Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin’s first five appearances on the Colgate Comedy Hour in 1950. They remained as the head writers for three years. They also wrote for The Ford Star Revue, The George Gobel Show, and the comedy team Rowan and Martin, who would later headline Laugh-In.

Lear went solo to write opening monologues for The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show, and produce NBC’s sitcom The Martha Raye Show, before creating his first series in 1959, the western The Deputy, which starred Henry Fonda. To get Frank Sinatra to read Lear’s screenplay for the 1963 film Come Blow Your Horn, Lear went on a protracted aerial assault. Over the course of weeks, he had the script delivered while planes with banners flew over Sinatra’s home, or accompanied by a toy brass band or a gaggle of hens. Lear even assembled a “reading den” in Ol’ Blue Eyes’ driveway, complete with smoking jacket, an ashtray and a pipe, an easy chair, ottoman, lamp, and the Jackie Gleason Music to Read By album playing on a portable phonograph. After weeks of missed opportunities, Lear remembers Sinatra finally read the script and “bawled the shit out of me for not getting it to him sooner.”

The creative perseverance Lear showed just to get the right person for the right part is indicative of the lengths Lear would go for creative excellence. He would continue to fight for artistic integrity, transforming prime time comedy with shows like Good Times, One Day at a Time, and the first late-night soap opera Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. He brought legendary blue comedian Redd Foxx into homes with Sanford and Son, also based on a British sitcom, Steptoe and Son, which starred Harry H. Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell, best known for playing Paul McCartney’s grand-dad in A Hard Day’s Night. But before he could do these, and the successful and progressive All in the Family spinoffs The Jeffersons and Maude, he had to face battles, big and small, over the reluctantly changing face of television.

“Patience is a Virgin”

After Lear beat CBS to the rights to adapt Till Death Us Do Part he offered the show to ABC. When it was being developed for the television studio, the family in the original pilot were named the Justices, and the series was titled “Justice for All,” according to a 1991 “All in the Family 20th Anniversary Special.” They considered future Happy Days dad Tom Bosley, and acclaimed character actor Jack Warden for the lead part, before offering the role to Mickey Rooney. According to Even This I Get to Experience, Lear’s pitch to the veteran actor got to the words “You play a bigot” before Rooney stopped him. “Norm, they’re going to kill you, shoot you dead in the streets,” the Hollywood icon warned, asking if Lear might have a series about a blind detective with a big dog somewhere in the works.

Taped in New York on Sept. 3, 1968, the first pilot starred O’Connor and Jean Stapleton as Archie and Edith Justice. Stapleton, a stage-trained character actor who first worked as a stock player in 1941, was a consistent supporting player for playwright Horton Foote. Stapleton originated the role of Mrs. Strakosh in the 1964 Broadway production of Funny Girl, which starred Barbra Streisand. Lear considered her after seeing her performance in Damn Yankees. She’d made guest appearances on TV series like Dr. Kildare and The Defenders.

O’Connor was born in Manhattan but grew up in Queens, the same borough as the Bunker household with the external living room window which wasn’t visible from the interior. O’Connor acted steadily in theaters in Dublin, Ireland, and New York until director Burgess Meredith, assisted by The Addams Family’s John Astin, cast him in the Broadway adaptation of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses. O’Connor had roles in major motion pictures, including Lonely Are the Brave (1962), Cleopatra (1963), Point Blank (1967), The Devil’s Brigade (1968), Death of a Gunfighter (1969), Marlowe (1969), and Kelly’s Heroes (1970). O’Connor appeared on television series like Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Fugitive, The Wild Wild West, The Outer Limits, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., I Spy, That Girl, and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. He’d guest starred as a villain in a season 1 episode of Mission Impossible, and was up for the parts the Skipper on Gilligan’s Island and Dr. Smith on Lost in Space.

The first pilot also starred Kelly Jean Peters as Gloria and Tim McIntire as her husband Richard. ABC liked it enough to fund a second pilot, “Those Were the Days,” which shot in Los Angeles on Feb. 10, 1969. Richard was played by Chip Oliver, and Gloria Justice was played by Candice Azzara, who would go on to play Rodney Dangerfield’s wife in Easy Money, and make numerous, memorable guest appearances on Barney Miller. D’Urville Martin played Lionel Jefferson in both pilots. ABC cancelled it after one episode, worried about a show with a foul-mouthed, bigoted character as the lead.

CBS, which was trying to veer away from rural shows like Mayberry R.F.D., The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction and Green Acres, bought the rights to the urban comedy and renamed it All in the Family. When Gleason’s contract to CBS ran out, Lear was allowed to keep O’Connor on as the main character.

Sally Struthers was one of the young actors featured in Five Easy Pieces, the 1970 counterculture classic starring Jack Nicholson. She’d also recently finished shooting a memorable part in the 1972 Steve McQueen hit The Getaway. Struthers had just been fired from The Tim Conway Comedy Hour because executives thought she made the show look cheap, which was her job. The premise of the show was it was so low-budget it could only afford one musician, who had to hum the theme song because they couldn’t afford an instrument, and one dancer, as opposed to a line of dancers like they had on The Jackie Gleason Show. Lear noticed her as a dancer on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, a counterculture variety show which Rob Reiner wrote for with Steve Martin as a writing partner. Reiner’s then-fiancée, the director Penny Marshall, was also up for the role of Gloria, but in an interview for The Television Academy, Reiner recalls that, while Marshall could pass as Stapleton’s daughter, Struthers was obviously the one who looked like Archie’s “little girl.”

Reiner, the son of comedy legend Carl Reiner, was discovered in a guest acting role on the Andy Griffith vehicle series Headmaster, a show he wrote for, but had also played bit roles in Batman, The Andy Griffith Show, Room 222, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., The Beverly Hillbillies and The Odd Couple. Reportedly, Richard Dreyfuss campaigned for the role of Michael, and Harrison Ford turned it down. Mike Evans was cast as Lionel Jefferson, the Bunkers’ young Black next-door neighbor who sugar-coated nonviolent protests with subtle and subversive twists on “giving people what they want.”

“We’re just sweeping dirty dishes under the rug.”

The very first episode tackled multiple issues right away. It discussed atheism, with Michael and Gloria explaining they have found no evidence of god. The family dissects affirmative action, with Archie asserting everyone has an equal chance to advance if they “hustle for it like I done.” He says he didn’t have millions of people marching for him to get his job, like Black Americans. “His uncle got it for him,” Edith explains, with an off-the-cuff delivery exemplifying why Stapleton is one of the all-time great comic character actors. The family argues socialism, anti-Semitism, sausage links and sausage patties. The generation gap widens as Archie wonders why men’s hair is now down to there, while Gloria’s skirt got so high “all the mystery disappears” when she sits down.

All in the Family would continue to deal with taboo topics like the gay rights movement, divorce, breast cancer, and rape. Future episodes would question why presidential campaign funds are unequal, how tax breaks for corporations kill the middle class, and weigh the personal price of serving in an unpopular war as opposed to dodging the draft. When Archie goes to a female doctor for emergency surgery a few seasons in, All in the Family points out she is most certainly paid less than a male doctor. When skyjackings were a persistent domestic threat in the 1970s, Archie suggested airlines should “arm the passengers.” It is very prescient of the NRA’s suggestion of arming teachers to combat school shootings.

But the first showdown between Lear and the network was fought for the sexual revolution. The first episode’s action begins when Edith and Archie come home early from church and interrupt Michael and Gloria as they’re about to take advantage of having the house to themselves. Gloria’s got her legs wrapped around Michael as he is walking them toward the stairs, and the bed. “At 11:10 on a Sunday,” Archie wants to know as he makes himself known. According to Lear’s memoir, CBS President William Paley objected, saying the line suggested sex. “And the network wants that out even though they’re married–I mean, it was plain silly,” he writes. “My script could have lived without the line, but somehow I understood that if I give on that moment, I’m going to give on silly things forever. So, I had to have that showdown.”

The standoff continued until 25 minutes before air time. CBS broadcast the episode, but put a disclaimer before the opening credits rolled, which Reiner later described as saying “Nothing you’re about to see has anything that we want to have anything to do with. As far as we’re concerned, if you don’t watch the next half hour, it’s okay with us.” Lear knew, with what he was doing, this was going to be the first of many battles, because this was the first show of its kind. Television families didn’t even flush toilets, much less bring unmentionables to the table. “The biggest problem a family might face would have been that the roast was ruined when the boss was coming over to dinner,” Lear writes. “There were no women or their problems in American life on television. There were no health issues. There were no abortions. There were no economic problems. The worst thing that could happen was the roast would be ruined. I realized that was a giant statement — that we weren’t making any statements.”

“What I say ain’t got nothing to do with what I think.”

Politicians and pundits worried about how the series might affect racial relations. The country had experienced inner city riots, battle lines were drawn over school desegregation, busing children to schools was met with violent resistance. Did All In the Family undermine bigotry or reinforce racism? Were people laughing at Archie or with him? Was it okay to like Archie more than Mike?

Lear believed humor would be cathartic, eroding bigotry. Bigots found a relief valve. Lear always insisted Archie was a satirically exaggerated parody to make racism and sexism look foolish. Liberals protested the character came across as a “loveable bigot,” because satire only works if the audience is in on the joke. Bigoted viewers didn’t see the show as satire. They identified with Archie and saw nothing wrong with ethnic slurs. Mike and Gloria come off like preachy, bleeding-heart liberal, hippie leeches. Lionel handled Archie better than Michael did.

O’Connor humanized Archie as an old-fashioned guy trying to make sense of a rapidly changing world. Bunker gave bigotry a human face and, because he hated everyone, he was written off as an “equal-opportunity bigot.” Not quite a defensible title. Archie was the most liked character on the show, and the most disliked. Most people saw him as a likable loser, so identifiable he was able to change attitudes. In a 1972 interview, O’Connor explained white fans would “tell me, ‘Archie was my father; Archie was my uncle.’ It is always was, was, was. It’s not now. I have an impression that most white people are, in some halting way, trying to reach out, or they’re thinking about it.” It sometimes worked against O’Connor the activist, however. When he backed New York Mayor John Lindsay’s 1972 anti-war nomination for the Democratic presidential nomination, Archie Bunker’s shadow distanced progressives.

Archie was relatable beyond his bigotry. He spoke to the anxieties of working- and middle-class families. Archie was a dock worker in the Corona section of Queens, who had to drive a cab as a second job, with little hope of upward mobility. He didn’t get political correctness. The character’s ideological quips were transformed into the bestselling paperback mock manifesto The Wit and Wisdom of Archie Bunker. White conservative viewers bought “Archie for President” buttons.

“If you call me Cute one more time, I swear I’ll open a vein.”

As cannot be overstated, All in the Family set many precedents, both socially and artistically. The Bunker family is an icon on many levels, Archie and Edith’s chairs are at the Smithsonian. But Archie Bunker is also the Mother Courage of TV. The antithesis of the bland sitcom characters of the time, he also wasn’t the character we hated to love, or loved to hate. Archie was the first character we weren’t supposed to like, but couldn’t help it. This phenomenon continues. The next TV character to take on the iconic mantle was probably Louis De Palma on Taxi. Audiences should have wanted to take a lug wrench to his head, but Danny De Vito brought such a diverse range of rage and vulnerability to that part it was named TV Guide’s most beloved character for years.

We shouldn’t like Walter White, especially when he doffs that pretentious Heisenberg hat, on Breaking Bad. And let’s face it, Slipping Jimmy on Better Call Saul isn’t really the kind of guy you want to leave alone in your living room while you grab a drink. Families across the United States and abroad sat down to an Italian-style family dinner with Tony Soprano and The Sopranos every Sunday night. But on Monday mornings, most of us would have ducked him, especially if we owed him money. Even the advanced model of the Terminator guy was scared of Tony.

The best example of this is South Park’s Eric Cartman. While we don’t know who his father is on the series, he’s got Bunker DNA all over him. He’s even gotten into squabbles with Sally Struthers and Rob Reiner. This wasn’t lost on Lear, who contacted creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone to say he loved the show in 2003. Lear wound up writing for South Park’s seventh season. “They invited me to a party and we’re partying,” Lear told USA Today at the time. “There’s no way to overstate the kick of being welcomed by this group.”

“I hate entertainment. Entertainment is a thing of the past, now we got television.”

Television can educate as much as it wants to entertain, and All in the Family taught the viewing audience a whole new vocabulary. The casual epithets thrown on the show were unheard of in broadcast programming, no matter how commonplace they might have been in the homes of the people watching. When Sammy Davis Jr. comes to Bunker house in the first season, every ethnic and racial slur ever thrown is exchanged. In another first season episode, and both the unaired pilots, Archie breaks down the curse word “Goddamn.” But a large segment of the more socially conservative, and religious, audience thought All in the Family said whatever they wanted just because they could get away with it.

All in the Family debuted to low viewership, but rose to be ranked number one in the Nielsen ratings for five years. The show undermined the perception of the homogeneous middle-class demographic allowing shows like M*A*S*H to comment on contemporary events.

All in the Family represented the changing American neighborhood. The show opened the door for the working poor to join situation comedies as much as when the Bunkers welcomed Lionel, Louise (Isabel Sanford), and George Jefferson (Sherman Hemsley) when they moved into Archie’s neighborhood. Lear reportedly was challenged by the Black Panther Party to expand the range of black characters on his shows. He took the challenge seriously and added subversive humor. Sanford and Son was set in a junkyard in Watts. Foxx’s Fred Sanford rebelled against the middle-class aspirations of his son, Lamont (Demond Wilson). Good Times was set in the projects of Chicago, and took on issues like street gangs, evictions and poor public schools.

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Married With Children, The Simpsons, and King of the Hill continued to explore the comic possibilities of working class drama. Mary Richards on The Mary Tyler Moore Show was a successful, upwardly mobile television producer. Working-class women were represented on sitcoms like Alice, but didn’t have a central voice until 1988 when Roseanne debuted on ABC, and Roseanne Barr ushered in her brand of proletarian feminism. All in the Family’s legacy includes Black-ish, as creator Kenya Barris continues to mine serious and controversial subject matter for cathartic and educational laughter. Tim Allen covets the conservative crown, and is currently the Last Man Standing in for Archie. But as reality gets more exaggerated than any satire can capture, All in the Family remains and retains its most authentic achievement.

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edwardgoreyelephanthouse · 5 years

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The Edward Gorey Personal Library at San Diego State University library comprises 26,000 books collected by Edward St. John Gorey (1924-2000). Over 9,000 catalogued volumes, or 35% of the collection are searchable at the link at the top of this page. If you find a book you would like to examine from this collection, please contact Special Collections and University Archives at [email protected], or at 619-594-6791 or visit their service desk on the 4th floor of the Library Addition. Books may only be viewed in the Special Collections area.

The SDSU Library acquired the Edward Gorey Personal Library (EGPL) in 2009. Edward Gorey collaborated with Professor Emeritus Peter Neumeyer who founded the Children's Literature Program at San Diego State University. In the 1960s and 1970s Neumeyer co-authored books with Gorey, including Why We Have Day and Night (1970),Donald and the... (1969) and Donald Has a Difficulty (1970). In Neumeyer's groundbreaking 2011 book, Floating Worlds. The Letters of Edward Gorey & Peter F. Neumeyer, Neumeyer shares and annotates letters exchanged by the two men during the years they worked together, and his book includes never before published original envelope art by Gorey.

SDSU Notable Alumnus Andreas Brown envisioned that the SDSU Library's Edward Gorey Collection could be unique and distinctive collection on the West Coast. Once the owner of New York City's Gotham Book Mart, Brown was Gorey's friend in books. To hear more about this connection to SDSU, listen to A talk given by Andreas Brown.

Major Subjects Collected African art, art, art history, ballet, biography, British novels, children’s literature, detective fiction, fiction, general literature, games, garden, gothic literature, history, hymns, illustration, India Japan, mystery, poetry, France and culture, France and history, French literature and novels,

Predominant Authors and Artists Collected Jacob Abbott; J.R. Ackerly; Harold Acton; Louisa May Alcott; Hans Christian Andersen; Victor Appleton; Gillian Avery; Helen Bannerman; Djuna Barnes; Nina Bawden; Arnold Bennett; E.F. Benson; James Blish; Guy Boothby; Lucy M. Boston; Charlotte Bronte; Wilhelm Busch, Randalf Caldecott; Italo Calvino; Lewis Carroll; Willa Cather; Agatha Christie; Wilkie Collins; Maurice Stewart Collis; Water Crane; Franklin W. Dixon; Theodore Dreiser; Maria Edgeworth; Juliana Horatia Ewing; Eleanor Farjeon; J.S. Fletcher; Ronald Fraser; David Garnett; Stella Gibbons; Michael Francis Gilbert; George Gissing; Rumer Godden; Kenneth Grahame; Grahame Greene; Donald Hamilton; Patrick Hamilton; L.P. Hartley; Herge; Inez Haynes Irwin; Erich Kastner; Carolyn Keene; Andrew Lang; Edward Lear; William LeQueux; Gason LeRoux; E.V. Lucas; Walter de la Mare; Louis Marlow; Richard Marsh; William Mayne; Herman Melville (sets); Leonard Merrick; Mrs. Molesworth; M. Pardoe; Eden Phillpotts; Beatrix Potter Anthony Powell; John Rhodes; Edward and Vita Sackville-West; Walter Scott; Mary Sinclair; Robert Lewis Stevenson; Margaret Sutton; Sylvia Townsend Warner; Anthony Trollope; Henry Williamson; E. H. Young.

#edward gorey #bibliophilia #bibliomania #shelfie #goodreads #librarything #reading #books #book collection #library

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byneddiedingo · 2 years

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Clark Gable and Jean Harlow in China Seas (Tay Garnett, 1935) Cast: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Rosalind Russell, Lewis Stone, C. Aubrey Smith, Dudley Digges, Robert Benchley, William Henry, Hattie McDaniel, Liev De Maigret, Lilian Bond, Edward Brophy, Soo Yong, Akim Tamiroff, Ivan Lebedeff. Screenplay: Jules Furthman, James Kevin McGuinness, based on a novel by Crosbie Garstin. Cinematography: Ray June. Art direction: Cedric Gibbons. Film editing: William LeVanway. Music: Herbert Stothart. China Seas is a pretty good romantic adventure that seems to have been pieced together from better movies. Its romantic triangle of Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, and Rosalind Russell mimics that of Gable, Harlow, and Mary Astor in Red Dust (Victor Fleming, 1932). Harlow and Wallace Beery have a relationship that echoes the one their characters had in Dinner at Eight (George Cukor, 1933). And the byplay between Harlow's character and her maid (Hattie McDaniel, of course) is a lot like the banter between Mae West and her maids in She Done Him Wrong (Lowell Sherman, 1933) and I'm No Angel (Wesley Ruggles, 1933). China Seas has a few standout moments of its own: There's a terrific typhoon sequence involving a runaway steamroller on the deck of the tramp steamer captained by Gable's Alan Gaskell, and Robert Benchley has some funny bits as an alcoholic writer who's usually too drunk to know where he is or to respond to other people with anything more than non sequiturs. There's a kind of uptightness to the movie that reminds us that the Production Code censors were breathing down people's necks, whereas all of those better movies mentioned above were pre-Code. But Gable and Harlow are in fine form. She's Dolly Portland, aka "China Doll," the shady lady (sometimes introduced as "an entertainer") who used to be involved with Capt. Gaskell and has now booked passage on his steamer from Hong Kong to Singapore in an effort to win him back. Russell plays Sybil Barclay, a high-class English lady who also has a past with the captain and nearly does succeed in recapturing him. Russell seems to be trying too hard at the role, slipping into stiff-upper-lip mannerisms and becoming rather arch, so there's no real heat between her character and Gable's. Another old flame of Dolly's, Jamesy McArdle (Beery), is also on board, and he's in cahoots with Malaysian pirates to board the ship and steal the gold it's carrying. Rejected by the captain, who decides to marry Sybil, Dolly joins forces with McArdle, though she doesn't really mean to. You've seen this sort of thing before, so there are no surprises, but relax and be entertained.

#China Doll #Tay Garnett #Clark Gable #Jean Harlow

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elliotthezubat · 7 years

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MY LIST OF BSD SHIPS (as of November 4 2017)

includes canon x canon, canon x oc, oc x oc, m/f, m/m, f/f, and ships with nonbinary people

Mizuki Tsujimura X Yukito Ayatsuji [I know nothing about the gaiden novel, but I'm shipping it purely on fan art lol]

Kyusaku ‘Q’ Yumeno -> Aya Koda [I have mixed feelings on this one.]

Naoya Shiga (OC) X Kafu Nagai ( @crystal-doll‘s OC) [7w7]

Child!Ougai Mori X Elise [rintarou did nothing wrong]

John Steinbeck X H P Lovecraft [I'm slowly sinking into the ship halp]

John Steinbeck X Mark Twain [one of my weird rare pairs]

John Steinbeck X Emily Dickenson (OC) [who knows~? idk\]

Doppo Kunikida X Kanae Minato (OC) [an almost ship that ended tragically] ((based of an RP with my friend @soul-dwelling ))

Lydia Zinovieva Annibal (OC) X Natalia (OC) [canon lesbianssss~<3 hell, lydia’s whole reason for joining the rats was for her girlfriend’s sake, hoping to use the book to save her from a coma]

Mark Twain X Edgar Allan Poe [another of my rare pairs]

Ryunosuke Akutagawa -> Atsushi Nakajima [you remember Helga and Arnold from hey Arnold? its exactly like that. sorta]

Alice Arisugawa (OC) X Rowena Poe (OC) [occult club shipping! plus I think alice does have a crush on Rowena in the canon story]

Miyoshi Tatsuji (OC) X Sakutaro Hagiwara (OC) [cheer up miyoshi! one day sakutaro will notice you!]

Katai Tayama X His Futon [do I need to say anything?]

Motojiro Kajii X Leo Tolstoy (OC) [one of those unexpected ships that turns out to be really really cute.]

Yana (OC) X Anya Hepburn (soul eater not) [if you’ve read death city days, you’ll understand]

Kirako Haruno X Osamu Dazai [another rare pair/friends with benefits sort of thing]

Chuuya Nakahara X Rain (OC) [THE MEGA ONE! IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ONE SIDED ON RAIN’S PART BUT THE RP WITH @soul-dwelling CHANGED THAT AND IM IN TOO DEEP WITH FLUFF AND ANGST AND SCREAMING I LOVE IT]

Osamu Dazai -> Sakunosuke ‘Odasaku’ Oda [I think dazai had a slight crush on oda, don't lie]

Osamu Dazai X Doppo Kunikida [another ship I have started shipping recently]

Nathaniel Hawthorn X Margaret Mitchell [the canon source material does give evidence to the ship, so... yeah]

Edgar Allan Poe X Ranpo Edogawa

Edgar Allan Poe X Louisa May Alcott [in this ships timeline, louisa is aged up. I am still not over her canon age fam]

Edgar Allan Poe X Lana Shephard (OC) [blame @soul-dwelling]

Henry Poe (OC) X Molly Poe (OC) [poe’s brother and sister-in-law, they’re so cute and have a daughter~!]

Shousaku Katsura X Kiku ‘KEEK’ Harue (OC) [another ship spawned from the RP between me and @soul-dwelling]

Hans Christian Anderson (Collab OC) X Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (Collab OC) [one of the ships with me and @soul-dwelling‘s collab OCs]

Ranpo Edogawa X Snacks [aroace ranpo FTW]

Gin Akutagawa X Ichiyo Higuchi [so cute~]

Ango Sakaguchi -> Sakunosuke ‘Odasaku’ Oda [ango was totally in love with oda. feels man]

Elizabeth Poe (OC) X Roderick Poe (OC) [poe’s parents. they are precious old people]

Lucy Maud Montgomery X Atsushi Nakajima [I really love these two a lot ok?]

Kenji Miyazawa X Kyouka Izumi [perhaps when they are older~]

Etta Hoffman (Collab OC) X Franz Kafka (Collab OC) [another collab OC ship with me and @soul-dwelling. kafka y u so tsundere]

Sakunosuke ‘Odasaku’ Oda X Andre Gide [blame the translator of the dark era light novel, who’s username escapes me]

Andre Gide X Colette (OC) [so many feels]

Sakunosuke ‘Odasaku’ Oda X Andre Gide X Colette (OC) [when in doubt, polyship]

Gaston Leroux (OC) X Christine Daae (OC) [QuQ]

F. Scott Fitzgerald X Zelda Fitzgerald [REMINDER THAT HE IS MARRIED IN CANON AND LOVES HIS WIFE SO FUCKING MUCH IM CRYING]

Mushitaro Oguri X Yokomizo/Kindaichi [this ship fucking killed me man Q___Q]

Nikolai Gogol X Tatsuhiko Shibusawa [ @chris-phd LOOK WHAT YOU HAVE DONE TO ME THEY ARE PRECIOUS WITH THEIR TWO DAUGHTERS I CANT EVEN]

Ace X getting tossed out a fucking window [I still fucking hate this guy so much]

Topaz X Garnette (OC) [these kids deserved better Q__Q]

Fyodor Dostoyevsky X Ivan Goncharov [my favorite Fyodor ship. vanya loves him so much~]

Doppo Kunikida X Nobuko Sasaki [I might dislike sasaki, but I feel bad for doppo Q_Q]

Alexander Pushkin X Katya Makarov (OC) [one of those ships that can be interpreted as either platonic or romantic. I'm down for either tbh]

#bungou stray dogs #BSD #ships #ship list #ocs #canon x canon #canon x oc #oc x oc #M/F #M/M #F/F #M/NB #[in the case of gogol x shibusawa. as I headcanon shibusawa as agender]

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gayhardmens82 · 4 years

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berlynn-wohl · 7 years

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Sharing some T.E. Lawrence stuff

Over the past several years, I’ve collected a bunch of T.E Lawrence materials which I’d like to share with my fellow enthusiasts. All of the items below are freely available elsewhere on the internet; I’ve just collected them all in a few convenient .rar files.

1. Books By Or About Lawrence [link]

A zip file containing PDFs, EPUBs, and/or MOBIs of these out-of-print books:

Leonard Wooley - Dead Towns and Living Men Victoria Ocampo - 338171 (T.E.) Basil Lidell Hart - Lawrence In Arabia And After David Garnett - Letters of T.E. Lawrence Edward Robinson - Lawrence - The Story of His Life T.E. Lawrence - Evolution of a Revolt T.E. Lawrence - Oriental Assembly Henry Williamson - The Genius of Friendship Ronald Storrs - Lawrence of Arabia, Zionism, and Palestine

2. Essays and Miscellany About Lawrence [link]

Freely available PDFs of essays about Lawrence that I’ve downloaded.

3. Terence Rattigan’s Ross [link]

A radio performance of Rattigan’s play about Lawrence, and a PDF of the play itself.

Happy reading!

#t.e. lawrence #lawrence of arabia

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biggoonie · 7 years

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NEIL GAIMAN PRESENTS: THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS AND OTHER TALES

Richard Garnett (W) and Henry Keen (A)

On sale June 10 b&w, 288 pages $12.95 Novel, 5 ¼" x 8"

The Twilight of the Gods and Other Tales captures, in twenty-eight breathtaking stories, an epic range of adventures. From “Madam Lucifer,” in which the fallen angel Lucifer plays a fateful game of chess for the soul of Man, to the title story of the collection, which details what might have become of Prometheus–chained to the rocky crags of the Caucasus for the theft of the knowledge of fire from Zeus–if he were to be freed from his eternal prison, the stories here are ones of tragedy, humor, and magic.

* The Neil Gaiman Presents program will be devoted to returning to print long-unavailable works in affordable paperback editions personally selected by Gaiman. Each book will carry a new introduction by Gaiman, speaking to the reasons why he selected the book for this line, as well as how the book influenced him over the years.

* The initial six titles in the Neil Gaiman Presents line specifically deal with the subject of gods and mythology and brings back for today’s readers wonderful books that have drifted out of print or been overlooked or forgotten.

#richard garnet

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networkingdefinition · 4 years

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Reindeer Quotes

Official Website: Reindeer Quotes

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• All right, you’re a reindeer. Here’s your motivation: Your name is Rudolph, you’re a freak with a red nose, and no one likes you. Then, one day, Santa picks you and you save Christmas. No, forget that part. We’ll improvise. just keep it kind of loosey-goosey. You HATE Christmas! You’re gonna steal it. Saving Christmas is a lousy ending, way too commercial. ACTION! – Unknown • Americanomics works, and I won’t argue that is true. But if the economy is getting better, getting better for who? Well, if you ask me, I’m doing much worse than before, With the welfare cuts, I don’t eat no more. So if I did wanna go out, I couldn’t go nowhere, Cause I ate every last one of them reindeer. Rudolph first, I went down the list, I got so hungry, I just couldn’t resist. I ate Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Dixon, Fried them up and then started to mix them. And before you knew it, they were all gone, I wonder what y’all gonna do about my reindeer song! – Kool Moe Dee • Because we need Christmas we had better understand what it is and what it isn’t. Gifts, holly, mistletoe, and red-nosed reindeer are fun as traditions, but they are not what Christmas is really all about. Christmas pertains to that glorious moment when the Son of our Father joined his divinity to our imperfect humanity. – Hugh W. Pinnock • Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic– even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious. – Marianne Moore • From now on, gang, we won’t let Rudolph join in any reindeer games. – Unknown • Having to act like an adult because I was directing a big movie but also feeling like a child because we had reindeer and big cameras and they had fake snow. I just wanted to go play in the snow. – Todd Strauss-Schulson • Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss – W. H. Auden • I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights. – Steve Israel • I am always amazed by the novel angles that people come up with for kids’ Christmas books. Even if a family is not religious, who could resist, say, “Olive, the Other Reindeer,” about Olive the dog who thinks the song refers to her and heads for the North Pole to help Santa out? – Jabari Asim • I detest ‘Jingle Bells,’ ‘White Christmas,’ ‘Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,’ and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too. – Richard Dawkins • I don’t like reindeer. They seem like regular deer, only more dangerous. – John Green • I had to get a driver’s license and drive to St. Louis to find the punk-rock scene that was happening there. And there was a punk-rock scene. It was sweet. It was real. It was like everywhere else in the county. It was a handful of people who were feeling the same pull, and, of course, it was like the Island of Misfit Toys in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer [1964]. Just the freaks, the fags, the fat girls, the unbelievable eccentrics . – Michael Stipe • I love Christmas. Frosty the Snowman, peace on Earth and mangers, Salvation Army bell ringers and reindeer, the movie ‘Meet Me in St. Louis,’ office parties and cookies. – Mo Rocca • I thought of my mother as Queen Christina, cool and sad, eyes trained on some distant horizon. That was where she belonged, in furs and palaces of rare treasures, fireplaces large enough to roast a reindeer, ships of Swedish maple. – Janet Fitch • I wasn’t exposed to art as I was growing up, and can’t recall the first time I saw a work of art. However, I remember very clearly a vision I had of a little green reindeer when I was a child, and visions emanate from the same mythical area where painting resides. Whatever the reason, I immediately felt comfortable working with visual materials. – William S. Burroughs • If Mitt Romney was Santa Claus, he would fire the reindeer and outsource the elves. – Ted Strickland • If you look at Christmas movies, there are certain things in them that lend themselves to a ‘Harold & Kumar’ movie. In particular, the more out-of-this-world things like Santa Claus and flying reindeer. – Unknown • I’m like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. If I’m not ready, the sled isn’t going to go. – Kevin Garnett • I’m Santa Claus to these hoes without a reindeer. – Nicki Minaj • I’ve been very successful doing voices in movies. I did Olive, the Other Reindeer, with Drew Barrymore, and I did Cats and Dogs. My children came to some of the sessions. – Joe Pantoliano • Multiculturalism means your kid has to learn some wretched tribal dirge for the school holiday concert instead of getting to sing ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.’ – Henry Hazlitt • My favorite holiday memory was sitting at home all day in my pajamas during winter break for school watching a bunch of old Christmas movies like ‘Jack Frost’ and ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’ with my siblings and parents. – Unknown • Once upon a time, the Reindeer took a running leap and jumped over the Northern Lights. But he jumped too low, and the long fur of his beautiful flowing tail got singed by the rainbow fires of the aurora. To this day the reindeer has no tail to speak of. But he is too busy pulling the Important Sleigh to notice what is lost. And he certainly doesn’t complain. What’s your excuse? – Vera Nazarian • Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer, dead at 53. Over Barcelona today, the famed reindeer was hit by a flock of seagulls and a 747. Eyewitnesses report, that the reindeer in Spain was hit mainly by the plane. – Colin Mochrie • Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer, had a very shiny nose. And if you ever saw him, you would even say it glows. – Johnny Marks • Santa knows Physics: Of all colors, Red Light penetrates fog best. That’s why Benny the Blue-nosed reindeer never got the gig. – Neil deGrasse Tyson • Santa will be showing up with Rudolph the Red-Eyed Reindeer. – Conan O’Brien • The ones here know I own this place and they give it space. After all, unlike the Dark-Hunters, I’m not banned from hitting or killing them, and they know it. (Sin) You’re just such a sweetie pie. I can’t imagine why the other Dark-Hunters won’t let you play their reindeer games. Shame on them all. 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