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yourdailyqueer · 6 months

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Jason Jones

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 5 September 1964

Ethnicity: Afro Caribbean - Trinidad and Tobago

Occupation: Activist

Note: Successfully challenged the constitutionality of Sections 13 and 16 of the Sexual Offenses Act prohibiting consensual adult intercourse per anum and sexual acts between consenting same-sex adults. By winning he got those clauses marked as unconstitutional and null and void

#Jason Jones #homosexuality #bipoc #lgbt rights #gay pride #male #gay #1964 #black #afro caribbean #poc #caribbean #activist

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oldshowbiz · 8 days

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1996.

The Canadian National Exhibition presented a live action Sailor Moon show on its C.N.E. Kids World Feature Stage all summer long, twice a day at 12:30pm and 3:30pm, for the duration of the fair.

Samantha Bee was a struggling Canadian actor when she was hired to star as Sailor Moon in the summer of 1996.

Aside from lip syncing songs and dancing in costume, Bee was obligated to sign autographs and pose for photos with the kids.

#before they were stars #anime #sailor moon #samantha bee #jason jones #history of canadian comedy #toronto #ontario #canada

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lastweeksshirttonight · 1 year

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My Daily Show merch pile has grown again, with something very odd and unique.

This is a pitch book for bringing a syndicated weekend version of The Daily Show to terrestrial television channels. This is something that, to my knowledge, never ended up happening - the Global Editions made for overseas channels are close to what it seems like this Syndicated Daily Show wanted to do.

This book is VERY Marketing-focused, therefore making it easily the Daily Show thing I understand the least on a factual level, but they worked to sell the SHIT out of this idea.

I remember when TDS was on virtually every platform and their website was an ingenious, easily navigable tag-based wonderland of clips [/bitter]

I also remember watching it on my iPod. Don't get old kids.

It's honestly cool to know just how successful some of these omnipresent shows were at the time. I don't think I would have guessed this.

If you love numbers, btw, this is the Daily Show product for you -

Rob and Sam ❤️

At the risk of alienating whoever has made this middle-aged man their emotional support blorbo... who the fuck is the dude on the far left? I thought I knew every correspondent from this era but like truly, who IS that guy?? This has managed to distract me from Beatles Bangs era John Oliver, WHO THE HELL IS THAT

YOU HAVE A HUGE OPPORTUNITY COMEDY CENTRAL!

What IS genuinely intriguing to me is that CC ISN'T the commissioner of this. I've never thought much about syndication but I always assumed it was driven by parent companies of shows. The fact that, at least here, that wasn't the case is fascinating.

I have a lot of other photos but there's a ten-pic limit, so I will end with this delightful Smart Art:

"Comedy Central receives big check (Finance $$$)" made me fucking laugh out loud. I love this page.

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- I did not take pictures of the multiple pages on a case study about the syndication performance of a show called "Girls Behaving Badly", but if that's of interest to someone, I'll snap some pics.

- This book is HEFTY for a spiral bound thing. I could probably knock someone out with it.

#the daily show with jon stewart #the daily show #jon stewart #rob corddry #samantha bee #jason jones #rob riggle #john oliver #syndication #marketing #pitch book #weird 2000s ephemera

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1stprototype · 2 years

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Jason Jones is standing at the gates of Hell

Jason: "NO! I don't understand! what did I do to deserv-"

Satan: "Colony Ship For Sale, Cheap."

Jason: "Fair enough."

#Jason jones #bungie #marathon #video games

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kp777 · 1 year

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#tennessee three #jason jones #jason pearson #tennessee state house

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griseldabanks · 1 month

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Jason Jones

#a name like his feels too good to waste on such a small-time character XD #captain america #whole shards #take me in #jason jones #meet my ocs

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victusinveritas · 5 months

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Photography by Jason Jones. Statement by Jon Norris:

What We Leave Behind

I follow several British and Canadian landscape photographers on YouTube. Their channels are a never ending source of wonder and pleasure for me. I so admire their enthusiasm and energy to travel to remote places where Earth's natural beauty has survived the degradation of humanity. They get up at 3:00 in the morning and set up their cameras on some freezing hilltop to catch the rising sun coming over the horizon. I was like that in my youth. I had my mornings on those freezing hilltops!

Quite often the landscapes they photograph contain ruins of old castles, cathedrals, ancient walls, and viaducts... remnants of vanished empires being reclaimed by nature's genius... what Capability Brown would have called 'the spirit of the place' (genius loci)... or what Trungpa Rinpoche would have called 'the dralas'... that unspoken something that we perceive as picturesque and makes the hair stand up on our necks. I think what we are really seeing in those pictures is our impermanence... our death... we just find other words to say it.

One of my favorite YouTube photographers is Jason Jones who lives in Wales, and if ever there was a place on the planet that bears the scars of humankind, it has to be Wales! Recently Jason took some pictures in the Cwmorthin Slate Quarry west of the village of Tanygrisiau in north Wales. It wasn't a good day. His camera lens wouldn't focus and the sunlight wouldn't cooperate, but he took some pictures anyway. In case you don't know, there are quarries all over Wales. That place has been supplying Europe with minerals since the Stone Age. Hardly a hill exists that isn't topped with an iron age hill fort or an industrial age mine shaft.

But on this particular day, Jason found an old abandoned church and farm house. [I attached some stills below.] These buildings had never been grand things... they were made of rough stones that were now falling down. And yet as I looked at the walls of that empty church, I could almost hear the people reciting their psalms and singing their hymns in those excellent Welsh voices. I could see those poor people barely scraping a living out of that remote valley. Poor people christening their babies and marrying their neighbors and burying their parents generation after generation. Minister after minister trying to preserve a foreign faith that had been imported from Rome, where it had been imported from Constantinople, where it had been imported from Jerusalem. Ministers wrestling with the remnants of Paganism, and Catholic conversion, and plague, and the Norman Conquest, and Henry VIII's Act of Supremacy, and on and on.

Somehow I could see those people sitting in their rough-hewn pews back when the arched windows still had stained glass images of the four apostles glowing red and gold in the sunlight. It must have been so comforting. And yet I have to wonder... was any of it real? Was there anything more to it than a convocation of souls helping each other to maintain the illusion for one more day? And imagine their grief when it all came to an end. Where was their foreign god then?

In the picture of the farmhouse you can see a mountainous slag heap from the slate mine piled high in the background. And when that mine shut down, the valley literally died. It stands empty to this day. There must have been a last sermon and a last prayer and a last hymn, and finally the last minster locked the door. How could those people bear it?

And the same for the farm houses, when the last farmer led the last cow away, and then the valley had no more voices... only the sound of the wind in the grass. And then... and then... many years later... Jason Jones got up early one morning and walked up that lonely road for miles with his camera. He took his pictures, and then he edited his video for YouTube and posted it in Wales. And I watched it in bed this morning in Maine, and shared the experience on Facebook. And you found it here in your news feed. And all of this madness arose in primordial consciousness like an infinity mirror that has no beginning and no end. Oh yes... those landscape photographers are a different breed!

All who wander are not lost.

#jason jones #ruins #holy ground #meanwhile in wales #landscape #grave goods #archaeology

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rickchung · 7 months

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I Used to Be Funny (dir. Ally Pankiw) x VIFF 2023.

Rachel Sennott continues a streak of interesting roles suited to her endearingly chaotic screen presence. She shows her wide range of acting skills as an aspiring Toronto stand-up comedian and full-time nanny dealing with PTSD after a traumatic event. Her central performance and chemistry with supporting characters captivates but the back-and-forth timeline of unfortunate events in the past and present clunkily unfold and feel overly ambitious for the relatively straightforwars story of overcoming trauma.

Screening at the 2023 Vancouver International Film Festival as part of the Northern Lights series at the Rio Theatre on Oct. 3 and International Village on Oct. 5.