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miss-ellie-logan · 11 months
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The live show went really well today! I hope you enjoyed it if you tuned in.
My documentary is now live for you to hear!
Here it is on youtube: Link!
And here it is on spotify: Link!
I want to shout out everyone that took part and helped make my documentary work! It was a delight to complete, and I could not have done it without:
Maryam Matter - A neuroscience/mental health expert.
Karl Smallwood.
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raurackl · 1 year
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verityshush · 1 year
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I went to the second Fact Fiend live event, the Rock Band karaoke. I "sang" Still Alive from Portal & had Karl sign my oestrogen box.
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[Image 1: Verity & Sophie, who actually played Rock Band properly while I butchered Still Alive into a real mic]
[Image 2: Verity & Karl Smallwood]
[Image 3: Verity & Nisha Revill]
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kalianos · 2 months
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starlight-to-midnight · 7 months
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god it's so fuckin funny how the fbi is just sending temperance brennen on missions as a field trip to get her to socialise more. the fbi really saw doctor bones and said "this woman needs to touch grass". critical case of needing human interaction before she kills someone (probably seely booth).
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zwischenstadt · 2 years
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Commodification is always “a representational act,” as historian Stephanie Smallwood has put it. Commodifying involves “particular ways of seeing, evaluating, classifying, and representing.” It is, as Karl Marx put it, “an act which takes place entirely in the mind, and involves no physical transaction.” Indeed, this mental or representational act has to take place prior to actual acts of commerce. Smallwood has argued for applying “thick description” to practices of commodification: paying close attention to specific social practices at a relatively small scale to show the large-scale context and preconditions for those practices. Doing so can make visible what anthropologist Clifford Geertz has called “the socially established code” and “structures of signification” that form the “social ground” of the activities studied. Acts of commodification draw on specific forms of know-how. Commodification cannot occur without some relatively stable set of institutions and vocabularies through which people can do the mental work – perform the “representational acts,” in Smallwood’s words – required for commodification. This book treats employee injury law as regularly carrying out the commodification of working-class people, via conceptual tools present within legal doctrine and via borrowed tools like insurance tables. I call those conceptual tools by the term “commodifying knowledge.”
Over different times and places, commodification may be enacted in different ways. At the same time, all acts of commodification involve some common traits. Specifically, commodification involves abstracting away some particulars of what is commodified in order to compare and render similar. In this way, all acts of commodification render their objects comparable with other people or things “as magnitudes of the same denomination, qualitatively equal and quantitatively comparable,” in Karl Marx’s words. Commodification thus, when applied to people, requires overlooking the individuality, singularity, and, so to speak, infinitude of human persons. Commodified persons are in a sense always nameless and faceless, which is to say, unrecognized.
Nate Holdren, Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era
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occamyeggshells · 28 days
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Cabaret Made Eddie Redmayne Want to Be an Actor
The Tony and Olivier winner talks about bringing his Emcee to Broadway in the upcoming revival at the Kit Kat Club, née August Wilson Theatre.
BY LOGAN CULWELL-BLOCK
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
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Eddie Redmayne on Starring in Cabaret as The Emcee
Eddie Redmayne is getting ready to bring his Olivier-winning performance as The Emcee in Cabaret to Broadway. The starry revival begins performances at the Kit Kat Club (née August Wilson Theatre) April 1. Opening night has two parts, with a gala celebration set for April 20, and an official opening (including those all-important reviews) April 21.
And it turns out, Cabaret is the reason Redmayne is an actor at all.
"Cabaret, for me, was the one that made me want to be an actor, and The Emcee is one of the great characters of musical theatre," shares the Tony- and Olivier-winning stage and screen star. "You never know whether this character is grounded in a reality or floating in some puppet master place in the sky." See Redmayne speak more about the show and the role in the video above.
Directed by Rebecca Frecknall and choreographed by Julia Cheng, this revival originally opened at London's Playhouse Theatre, rechristened The Kit Kat Club, in 2021 with Redmayne and Jessie Buckley starring. The production went on to win seven 2022 Olivier Awards, the most of any production that season, including Best Musical Revival, and Best Actor and Actress in a Musical for Redmayne and Buckley.
Redmayne will be back for the upcoming Broadway bow as The Emcee, alongside Gayle Rankin (Glow) as Sally Bowles, Ato Blankson-Wood (Slave Play) as Cliff, Bebe Neuwirth as Fraulein Schneider, Steven Skybell as Herr Schultz, Natascia Diaz as Fraulein Kost and Fritzie, and Henry Gottfried (Waitress) as Ernst Ludwig.
The cast also includes Marty Lauter (AKA Marcia Marcia Marcia of RuPaul's Drag Race season 15) as Victor, Gabi Campo as Frenchie, Ayla Ciccone-Burton as Helga, Colin Cunliffe as Hans, Loren Lester as Herman/Max, David Merino as Lulu, Julian Ramos as Bobby, MiMi Scardulla as Texas, and Paige Smallwood as Rosie. Swings include Hannah Florence, Pedro Garza, Christian Kidd, Corinne Munsch, Chloé Nadon-Enriquez, and Karl Skyler Urban.
As in the production's West End run, the August Wilson will be transformed into an in-the-round Kit Kat Club. Ticket holders will receive a "club entry time" before their show date so that everyone's able to take in a pre-show featuring the Prologue Company. Some ticket levels even include a full dinner experience.
The Broadway prologue company will include dancers Alaïa, Will Ervin Jr., Sun Kim, Bryan Longchamp, and Deja McNair. The musicians include Brian Russell Carey on piano and bass, Francesca Dawis on violin, Maeve Stier on accordion, and Michael Winograd on clarinet. Rounding out the company are dancer swings Ida Saki and Spencer James Weidie, and dedicated substitute musician Keiji Ishiguri.
Based on Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin and John Van Druten's dramatization of it, I Am a Camera, Cabaret is set in Weimar-era Berlin as American writer Clifford Bradshaw arrives to work on his novel and soak up the debaucherous nightlife. He meets English cabaret performer Sally Bowles and a complex relationship develops, all as the Nazis ascend to power and the spectre of World War II and all its horrors loom on the horizon.
The upcoming revival will be the musical's first new staging on the Main Stem since the 1998 revival, which was also a London transfer. That 1998 production was revived in 2014. Revivals of previous stagings are not uncommon for Cabaret.
The oft-produced work premiered in 1966 with Harold Prince at the helm and Joel Grey starring (and winning a Tony Award) as The Emcee. The original staging (with some revisions) was brought back to Broadway, with Grey reprising his performance, in a 1987 revival. The 1998 version of Cabaret, a more dramatic revision of the work, starred Alan Cumming as the Emcee—Cumming won the Tony for his performance and came back with the production when it was revived in 2014.
The musical was famously adapted for the big screen by director-choreographer Bob Fosse, with Liza Minnelli starring as Sally Bowles. The film version, considerably darker and seedier than Prince's staging, won eight Academy Awards and is considered by many one of the best films ever made. Revisions to the stage work since the 1972 film have largely transplanted the film's energy into the script—along with some of its new songs, including "Mein Herr" and "Maybe This Time."
Much of the production's creative team will reprise their work for the Broadway bow, including club, set, and costume designer Tom Scutt, lighting designer Isabella Byrd, sound designer Nick Lidster (for Autograph), and music supervisor and director Jennifer Whyte. Hair and wig design will be by Sam Cox, and Guy Common will handle makeup design. Prologue composition and music direction will be by Angus MacRae. Casting is by The Telsey Office, with Thomas Recktenwald serving as production stage manager.
The Broadway transfer is being produced by Ambassador Theatre Group Productions, Underbelly, Gavin Kalin Productions, Hunter Arnold, Smith & Brant Theatricals, and Wessex Grove.
Visit KitKat.club.
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barbiegirldream · 2 years
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Obsessed with Karl Smallwood panicking about someone reposting a picture of him at 16 as a meme reply to him and forgetting he posted that picture on his Twitter last spring as a self roast
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stickthisbig · 1 year
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I watched the Fact Fiend video about the late unpleasantness with youtube sponsorships, and I enjoyed the injection of much-needed facts and nuance to a nasty situation. I also enjoyed Karl Smallwood as your buddy you're trying to keep from getting kicked out of the bar, in the back yelling "Tell him I said he's a racist too! You tell him I said that! I ain't afraid of him! He wants to go, we can go right now!"* while the other members of the channel try not to get sued
*not a real quote
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stressedlawsecretary · 4 months
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12.8.23 - Happy Friday! I'm giving myself a three-day-weekend and I'm putting up the tree so have a festive picture and one of the few poems I actually really like.
Work - Technically it's 'whatever comes in' because I started the day with a few press releases to read and not much else. However, by the time I sat down to this SJC had called and asked me to fiddle with a declaration according to the defendant's notes. Not something I have to do fast so we'll junebug around that document today.
Background Noise - I start the day with 91 on the Watch Later, but it's Friday and I'm remote so I'll be doing more DVR stuff today (this should include a bonus, because I got two-and-a-half hours off yesterday surprisingly, and I want to do a couple extra hours of cartoons on there with my hunny.)
I managed to get through like 11 videos yesterday, including a random one on Biographics because I saw it autoplay and realized Simon Whistler wasn't hosting it - Karl Smallwood from Fact Fiend was. So I had to figure out what was up.
Study - No idea what I'm going to be able to do today, but it's Wikipedia day so I'll try.
At least three (3) environmental conservation articles
At least three (3) saved back Wiki pages
At least three (3) horror movie Wiki pages
At leas three (3) of the open Wikipedia articles on my phone
I did awful yesterday; I managed to read three (3) press releases, three (3) environmental conservation articles, and the FBI synopsis of Emmett Till's murder - and that was it. Oh well.
Extras - I have to scoop the cats, and vacuum so that the tree can go up on clean carpet. But that's like it for chores since it's takeout night, so I want to write a bunch. I have Rant 1 to type/post, Rants 2 & 3 to finish, Fic 1 to continue, and Fic 2 to properly start at a minimum.
Yay for giving myself stuff to do that isn't mindlessly playing around on my phone (exception here: I do a lot of reading [wikis and webcomics] along with games on my phone and these are not all bad but too much screentime isn't good in general so we're trying to limit even the 'good' stuff.)
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miss-ellie-logan · 1 year
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I got the amazing opportunity to interview Karl Smallwood from Fact Fiend for my college documentary on Parasocial relationships and Stan accounts.
Here is a sneak peek.
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violet-rose-95 · 9 months
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"'Why is this option in the game?'" Well, it's for people who need it, OBVIOUSLY not you!"
Karl Smallwood, 2023
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What’s the best part about flying? the view
Who did you last have a deep and meaningful conversation with? my fiance about several things
Any vacations planned? I wish man! we can’t afford it right now, plus he’s too booked for jobs coming up through work so he can’t take off anytime soon :(
Which friend have you known the longest? Jake (all my life literally, mom went to school with his dad) and Collin (since I was 8 in 2000)
Do you have a Facebook? yep
What do you want for Christmas? not sure yet, too far down the line .
How many people have you liked this year? like, like like? only my fiance
Do you have any celebrity crushes? yeah a few lol
Is it okay to kiss people when you’re single? in certain circumstances yeah, but it depends on the situation and the person. 
Do you have a secret that no one knows but you? many...
How many email accounts do you have? several, most of which I can’t login to anymore so it’s just my main Yahoo one, my Google, and my Apple ones
Who is the best cook in your family? mom first for sure, but my dad and stepmom are real good too
Which baby animal is your favorite? oh god...definitely puppies with the puppy breath and their little yips, kittens with the little high pitched mews! most animals are adorable as babies!
Twitter or Tumblr? Tumblr! 
Favorite YouTuber? ooooh Markiplier, AmaLee, LayedBakDFR, Harry Mack, MissLDN, Knox Hill, Karl Smallwood, Chris Ramsay to name some
Have you ever had a controlling boyfriend/girlfriend? no thank god, I have enough trauma of what I grew up with and I pray to god I never fall into that same pattern...thankfully my fiance is nothing like that
Was your first kiss romantic? meh it was alright 
Who was the last person to sleep over at your house? mom back in 2019 on a two month visit from CO
What would you think if you found out your ex was gay? I’d be shocked but fully supportive 
How many people has your best friend had sex with? ummm I don’t know? I never thought to ask lol
When was the last time you had a conversation with an ex? about a month or two ago just checkin in on him, we’re still friends 
Are you currently “appearing offline” to anybody? no
Do your siblings text you? every now and then my stepsister and I text just to catch up and check in
Did your last kiss end up with you and the person doing anything sexual? yeah
Who is your ex dating/talking to? he’s married and has a stepdaughter (her daughter from previous relationship)
Who did you last pinky promise with? no idea, haven’t done that since I was a kid
Did you ever have to share a room with one of your siblings? I’m an only child so no
What happened at the last party you went to? I can’t remember the last time I was at a party other than holiday get togethers
Are you attracted to the last person you Facebook messaged? no
In your life, who is the person that seems to understand you the most? that’s complicated...
Are you afraid of losing the person you like right now? unimaginably terrified, yes...
Does anyone know your Facebook password? no
Would you ever consider getting a piercing in your septum? not septum but I have wanted a nose ring before like the little stud or ring on the side, not the middle
What’re some unspeakable subjects for you? the abuse I witnessed and endured all my life growing up with my parents, along with continued abuse just less physical with my dad and stepmom, anything self harm or suicide cause it’s severely triggering for me given my history of both, certain past fuck ups I’ve made that ended up very bad, anything regarding animal or child abuse breaks my heart.
What was the last thing you cleaned? filled several trash bags and took em out
What’s something you have been putting off? getting this basal cell looked at before it got to this point. I put it off for years and now I’m really paying the price for it with an upcoming surgery, which will need additionally surgeries after for skin grafts due to the size of it, the spot it’s at, and depending how deep they’re gonna have to go to get all of it...
What restaurants do you frequently eat at? mostly fast food, Wawa, and a few local restaurants mostly Italian
Do you like banana pudding with a lot of bananas or more vanilla wafers? love anything banana! I love more bananas than the wafers
How many books would you guess you’ve read in the last 5 years? none, I’ve gotten several but would just start it and leave it without finishing...I gotta get back into reading
What was the last message you sent? ‘Kk’ to my fiance yesterday when he told me he’d be a bit late coming home from work cause he was in a meeting
Is it currently warm where you are? yeah it reached 90 degrees today woohoo!
Have you ever fallen out of bed? not that I remember
What do you like on your hot dogs or burgers? burgers - cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, ketchup, bacon. I’ll occasionally have em with mustard on it if it comes like that.
hot dogs - ketchup, chopped onions, sauerkraut 
Are you currently listening to anything? yeah I have ID on in the background and I’m jamming to music
What’s something you like that is blue? a bright sunny sky, the ocean especially where the water’s crystal clear blue, sapphires, blue eyes like mine but I love people who have those ice blue eyes that are so light 
Have you ever traveled alone? yeah many times
Would you say you are toxic in any way? I don’t want to be but everything I touch, everywhere I go, everyone I meet or love goes to shit in pieces and the more I try to fix the pieces, they shatter more and get worse...so yeah, I’d say so...
What’s one of your favorite memories from the past year? this past year has been absolute fucking hell so can’t really think of any...
What are some books you’d recommend to someone? Willow by Julia Hoban, The Fault In Our Stars by John Green, Harry Potter series by JK Rowling, The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, It’s Kind Of A Funny Story by Ned Vizzini, Speak by Laurie Anderson, Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher...
Are you a gold digger? hell no
Describe the last dream you had: I can’t really...this past three weeks I’ve had such the most vivid and terrifying nightmares that felt so real it’s terrifying me to death because I can feel it during and when I jump awake that they mean something and I can’t figure out what but I know it’s gonna be bad...
Have you ever been screwed over relationship-wise? Explain: I’d rather not explain because it’s too triggering for me and I’m not spending the last night with my fiance before he has to go back to this job in New Zealand tomorrow until a week into May in that mindset...but yes. it took years to be able to even function normally from it, and almost cost me my life cause I got real close to suicide...that enough?
Have you ever danced in the moonlight? not that I remember
Have you ever been with someone but wanted to be with someone else? yeah
What did you do last night? just hung home with my fiance, DoorDashed dinner from Chili’s, had some ‘quality time’ and went to sleep eventually
Do you have a significant other? If you do, are you kind of crushing on someone else? yes, my fiance Zach and hell no he’s my one and only
Have you ever had a threesome? no, don’t feel comfortable with that
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icarusthelunarguard · 2 years
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This Week’s Horrible-Scopes
It’s time for this week’s Horrible-Scopes! So for those of you that know your Astrological Signs, cool! If not, just pick one, roll a D12, or just make it up as you go along. It really doesn’t matter.
Aries  
Take a day off this week to do something fun. Drive to a local train station and take a day trip somewhere. It’s relatively inexpensive and could be massively entertaining. This suggestion is void in Buffalo, where the 6 mile end-to-end “Railway to Nowhere” doesn’t do squat for you. Start with Toronto’s 48 Miles of rail service, move up to Calgary’s 60 Miles, Tokyo clocks in with 189 Miles, And of course the Big Daddy of them all, NYC has 665 Miles of rail. Good luck navigating that spaghetti map, though. 
Taurus 
It’s almost Spring, meaning it’s the season of New Beginnings for you. Set a goal of learning something unusual before the end of the year, but make it esoteric enough that most normal folks wouldn’t easily be able to figure out if you’re BS’ing them or not. Take a deep dive into some atomic theory and learn how magnetic mono-poles are a thing. And for everyone else wondering, that means an atomic particle could have a North or South magnetic force ONLY. Yes, that really IS a thing… or IS it?
Gemini  
The recent storms have made the primary long-term storage in your house moist. You better check to be sure your Santa Suit hasn’t mildewed and there aren’t any bees nests being built there. If you’re going to take a spray can into the crawl space, make sure it’s not WD-40 or AquaNet. The insulation is rated as “Flame Retardant”, not “Fireproof”.
Cancer Moon-Child 
It’s safe to take your boat out of drydock and put it back into the water this week. Get it aired out, the battery charged, the radio and antenna calibrated and the cooler inspected for leaks. And, you know… maybe check the life vests to see if they’re still OK. It’s not like they have an expiration date on them, though, right? 
Leo 
You want to learn to play the drums. Hey, that’s cool! Just remember, you’re less a Neil Peart and more a Neil Patric Harris. You know. Less a Gene Krupa and more a Gene Siskel. Your style is more like Animal from the Muppets and less like Def Leppard’s Rick Allen… and he only had one arm! In other words Good Luck And Don’t Expect Miracles.  
Virgo 
Speaking of Def Lep, did you know that they’re releasing a new album next month and going on tour for it! They start Jun 16th in Atlanta, Georgia, finishing Sept 9 in Las Vegas… That’s 85 Days. If they just WALKED it would take them 28 days. Let that be a lesson to you - you didn’t do drugs in the 80’s and even YOU know the band is just wasting time with this tour.
Libra 
You remember the movie “Ralph Breaks the Internet” from 2018? It was a Disney movie that included a scene with all the Disney Princesses in it. But consider this: Disney, the company, exists in the Wreck-It Ralph Universe. And Wreck-It Ralph is a Disney Movie… and because of all this Wreck-It Ralph does NOT exist in the Wreck-It Ralph Universe. If you need help untangling this, go check “Fact Fiend with Karl Smallwood” on YouTube and search for the video titled, “That Time Disney Had To Figure Out What One Of Their Character’s Ears Looked Like.”
Scorpio 
You remember the Columbia House marketing of “Buy These Albums For One Penny…”? They went bankrupt in Canada in 2010 and two years later Canada stopped making pennies. So remember - the smallest sale you make might have lasting implications. By the way, the Columbia House brand is owned by Sony now. You don’t still owe them for those Casingles you bought in 1988, do you? 
Sagittarius 
Being an orchestra conductor is harder than you think it is. It is a serious upper body cardiovascular workout the likes of which you would not be able to keep up with. An average Mozart symphony runs over 90 minutes. Imagine yourself standing, waving your arms Down, In, Out, Up, keeping track of where you are in the music, how big or small to wave, for an hour, straight… in a wool tuxedo! Be glad you only conduct pop music from the 70’s in your car. 
Capricorn
Don’t admit to anything this week Capricorn. You didn’t burn the popcorn, you didn’t make kabobs without soaking the bamboo skewers, and you didn’t turn on the Roomba while your cat was sick. We’re not saying you did any of those things, just that they happened. Repeat after us, (*Col. Klink German Accent*) “I. Know. Nothink!”  
Aquarius 
One of the most famous jazz songs to come out of the 50’s was Dave Brubeck’s “Take Five”. The song was NOT written by Brubeck but by his saxophonist Paul Desmond because their drummer, Joe Morello, wanted a piece to show off on. It was so tough for them to record that after 20 attempts and 40 minutes they were told to just stop and pick it up again the next day… which worked, finally. So remember, Aquarius: If you run your mouth, be sure you can back it up.
Pisces 
There’s an expression from Letterkenny that says, “Well! If you can be one thing, you should be efficient.” That being said, there’s something to knowing the difference between being Efficient and being Pretentious. The theme song to “Deko Boko Friends” (2003) is about three seconds long and contains only the lyrics "Deko Boko Friends!". The intro to “The Prisoner” (1967) is a bit over 3 minutes, but gives the full backstory to the psychedelic hellscape prison you’ll find yourself in. So which is efficient and which is pretentious? Good luck figuring that out.
And THOSE are your Hobble-Scopes for this week! Remember if you liked what you got, we’re obviously not working hard enough at these. BUT! If you want a better or nastier one for your own sign or someone else’s, all you need to do to bribe me is just Let Me Know! These will be posted online at the end of each week via Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook and Discord.
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