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On December 12th, 1976, Elvis played his final ever Las Vegas show, ending a fifteen show engagement that had begun on December 2nd. The schedule was now a little easier than in previous years, with seven nights, including this one, consisting of one show instead of two. This is an audience recording, but the sound quality is very good. The position of the recording device also gives a great feel in terms of the audience's enthusiasm, excitement, and warmth.

Around five months later, The Nashville Banner, citing 'authoritative sources' in Nashville, Memphis and Los Angeles, claimed that Colonel Parker had decided to sell Elvis' contract for 'health and financial' reasons. The story claimed that Parker needed a fast million dollars to replace money lost gambling during the December '76 Las Vegas engagement.

Elvis biographer, Peter Guralnick, (Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley) points out that the paper's alleged sources were anonymous, and that the article contained factual inaccuracies, including the incorrect assertion that Elvis' Las Vegas Hilton contract had expired, leading to the reporter's conclusion that Parker would no longer be able to trade Elvis' services to pay off his debts, hence the sale. In reality, Elvis was booked to play his most significant engagement in Vegas since 1969 – the grand opening of the new 5 000 seat Hilton Pavilion showroom, scheduled for October, 1977.

When the story broke, Colonel Parker was on tour, one day ahead of Elvis and the band, in St Paul, Minnesota, and spoke to rival Nashville paper, The Nashville Tennessean, describing the Banner's story as a 'complete fabrication'. 'I'm here, I'm working with Elvis, I'm in good health, and I don’t have any debts – at least none that I can’t pay.'

Joe Esposito also weighed in, describing the relationship between Elvis and Colonel Parker as 'cordial' and stating that neither had any plans to break their long-standing agreement that had begun with a handshake. The 'consortium of West Coast businessmen' who were the alleged buyers never materialised, if they ever existed at all.

Having said this, Peter Guralnick concluded;

"… but it was apparent to anyone who knew anything about the recent history of their tangled relationship that the story was, in essence, true. Too many people had heard Colonel complaining that Elvis was more trouble than he was worth, that he was intractable and could no longer be effectively managed. And too many people were aware, as Elvis' Los Angeles lawyer Ed Hookstratten was inclined to put it, that Colonel was 'servicing a problem of his own.' Elvis had no doubt about the story in any case: he knew in his bones it was true. And while the consortium of 'West Coast businessmen' who were supposed to be buying his contract never surfaced, driven off presumably by the glare of publicity, Elvis had never felt more betrayed or more alone…"

#elvis history #elvis presley #elvis in the 70s #rock history #elvis fans #elvis #elvis 1970s #live music #musicians #1970s rock #las vegas #las vegas hilton #las vegas history #Youtube

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thislovintime · 5 months

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Peter and classmates at Carleton College, early 1960s.

“Can you find Peter in this Carleton College class photo? He’s near the upper right, in striped jacket and narrow tie. The girl with glasses sitting beside him was his ‘big romance.’ She’s married now but they are still friends.” - Catherine McGuire Straus, 16, April 1968

“I’ve broken my arm twice in the past. The first time I fell off of a bandstand when I was nine or ten years old and fractured my right wrist. Later, at Carleton College, I did a flip off the stage, and instead of landing graciously on two feet — as I had planned — I landed smack on my left wrist and fractured that one, too.” - Peter Tork, The Monkees: Here We Are (1967)

Speaking of Carleton...

Peter Tork: “Okay, this next song is a song about a lady love of mine that I, in a callow way, well, I — I didn’t handle it very well. If I, I mean, if I was gonna, like, look back and try to see where it was that I did the things that would make my life happier, there’s a lot of things I would do differently. On the other hand, I don’t know how much could make me happier than I am today just being here in front of you folks.” (applause) […] Anyway, this is a song about — I mean, I’m not gonna tell the whole story because…” Audience: “Awwwwwww. Please!”

PT: “(jokingly) You guys are just gonna mess it up by reading all the cues off. You guys can’t be trusted, you know that. Anyway, so I’m just… suffice it to say that the song was inspired by a woman whose name was actually Peggy, and it’s a song that I, well… Oh, my God, there’s somebody by that name here?! Oh, no! You know what the chances are that the two of you have the same birthday? About 50:1 in favor, so… Anyway, this song is about Peggy and… (mimes crying) You really need me to tell the story? Yeah, okay, all right. But you have to go right to bed afterwards. Oh, you guys are gonna make tapioca out of this thing. Okay, anyway, alright. Once upon a time, in the land of Minnesota, where I went to school, Carleton College…” Audience: “Which time?” PT: “Which what?! Time? I told you guys, don’t tell my story, I’ll tell my own story. Why do I get the feeling I’m losing control of my audience? Alright, I went to school in Minnesota, and I went around with a girl named Peggy, who was a wonderful… she was just all tender and sensitive and humorous and wonderful. But being the callow —” Audience member: “Shallow.” PT: “Shallow means callow — I thought you were gonna leave me alone! (laughs) Being the callow fellow that I was, I didn’t behave very well with her and she drifted away as any self-respecting woman would under the circumstances. Later on, I was living in New York and I heard this voice in my ear: ‘Go west, young man.’ I heeded that voice and went west. On the way there, I stopped in St. Louis, where Peggy lived, and asked her if, you know, me and the guys I was traveling with could, like, crash on her floor. And there she was, just as cute and sensitive and tender and funny as ever, and she was still going with a guy that she’d gone with, Stuart or something. And so I went out west to seek my fame and fortune and found it, as some of you know. And the first thing I did with this newfound fortune anyway, I mean, fame doesn’t help you on the telephone, but with fortune, you can make long-distance phone calls. So I made the long-distance call, and I called Peggy. I called everybody I know. ‘Peggy, how are you doing?’ ‘I’m fine.’ ‘How’s Stuart?’ ‘Oh, well, I don’t know, we don’t see each other very much anymore,’ she said, ‘We’re not going together.’ And I went, oooh. I thought, my goodness, here’s the chance to make up for the awfulness that I was before. So, ‘Listen, I want to tell you something, but I can’t tell you over the phone. Let me write you a letter. You call me when you get the letter, okay?’ And what I did, I wrote her a letter saying, ‘Listen, I behaved very badly,’ and I talked, you know, really from the heart and tried to say that I would really do my best to pay attention and to be the kind of a man that a woman deserves, and would she like to come out and be my guest under whatever circumstances were suitable. And I sent her a round-trip ticket, and if she didn’t like the way things were, she could always go home. I really wanted to see her, just to see how things would work out. Would you, would you come out?’ And I waited a week, and there was no answer.” Audience: “Awwwwww.” PT: “Now, I know she got the letter because I sent it registered, returned, receipt requested, certified, insured, with a bodyguard. So I gave her three more days, and I called her up, and I said, ‘Hi, Peggy.’ And she said, ‘Oh. Peter.’ I said, ‘What — what’s the story?’ She said, ‘Well, I got your wonderful letter, Peter, and I was just walking down the street the other day, and I met that man, and we’re going to be married.’” Audience: “Awwwwwww.” PT: “I must have written a hell of a letter, that’s all I can say. And I got a song out of it.” - Speakeasy, November 1988

#Peter Tork #early 1960s #Tork quotes #1960s #The Monkees #Monkees #Tork songs #<3 #long read #recurring theme w/ Peter seems to be that he remained friends with most if not all of his ex-girlfriends #anyway... back to the regular tags #Carleton College #1980s #can you queue it

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readersmagnet · 10 days

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Asylum Scandals is the story of abuse, torture, corruption, and murder. This book explores the history of Minnesota's two oldest state hospitals, St. Peter, which opened in 1866, and Rochester, which opened in 1879. In the past, rules allowed families to commit their wives, relatives, or friends without much proof.

Grab a copy now and visit https://www.plubeck.com/ to learn more about its history.

#PatriciaLubeck #AsylumScandals #ReadersMagnet #DarkSecrets #MentalIllness

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fragwuerdiger-episodenguide · 11 months

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(038) Die drei ??? und der unsichtbare Gegner

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Ben Peck, Peters Großvater, hat eine Reihe von Erfindungen gemacht und jetzt will er eine davon in New York verkaufen. Aber er hat ständig Angst, dass man ihm sein geistiges Eigentum stiehlt. Da ist vor allem Ed Snabel. Was hat dieser Mann vor? Warum verfolgt er Ben Peck? Die drei Detektive erleben eine atemberaubende Jagd quer durch Amerika ...

Veröffentlichungshistorie

Buch (Random House): 039, 1984, M. V. Carey, The Mystery of the Trail of Terror Buch (Kosmos): 037, 1986, Leonore Puschert (aus dem Amerikanischen übertragen) Hörspiel (Europa): 038, 1986

⁉️ Allgemein

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(Siehe Orte)

Kategorie

Betrug

Figuren

Justus Jonas

Peter Shaw

Bob Andrews

Mrs. Shaw, Mutter von Peter

Ben Peck, Großvater von Peter

Mr. Ed Snabel, Nachbar von Ben Peck und Spion (😈)

Bartlett (😈)

Passant (kein Name genannt)

Mr. Anderson, FBI Agent

🏖 Rocky Beach Universum

Orte

Pismo Beach, Stadt in Kalifornien

Monterey, Stadt in Kalifornien

San Francisco, Stadt in Kalifornien

Coeur D'Alene, Stadt in Idaho (?)

Mount St. Helens, aktiver Vulkan in Washington State

Rochester, Stadt in Minnesota

La Crosse, Stadt in Wisconsin

New York, Stadt in New York

Einrichtungen

Staedler Royal, Hotel in New York

Sonstiges

Fat shaming Justus wird beleidigt

🛼 Sonstiges

Lustige Dialoge

Justus: "Ach, ich müsste wirklich mal abnehmen."

Passant: "Gibt es Ärger mein Herr?" Bartlett: "Mein Junge ist nur manchmal etwas.... schwierig." Bob: "Das ist eine Entführung! Holen Sie die Polizei, Mister! Der Kerl ist nicht mein Vater! Ich kenn ihn überhaupt nicht!" [...] Bob: "So, Ralph so mein Name sein? Hier, hier, hier ist mein Schülerausweis, Sir – mit Bild – und da steht Bob Andrews drin!"

Phrasenschwein

🏳️‍🌈 Queer/diversity read

Shippy moments

Justus: "Und es ist für uns ein Privileg, mit dem FBI zusammenzuarbeiten–" Bob: "Bla, bla, bla ..." Peter: "Pummelchen, komm zur Sache. Das interessiert Mr. Anderson nicht."

Diversity, Political Correctness and Feminism

#die drei fragezeichen #die drei ???#und der unsichtbare Gegner #folge 038 #038 #M. V. Carey #betrug #fatshaming #not kansas anymore

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midwestphotography · 1 year

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Turn Turn Turn live at Minnesota Square Park (Part of Rock Bend Folk Festival) in St. Peter, MN- 9/11/22

#2022 #americana #americana music #capture minnesota #concert #concert photography #explore minnesota #live music #live music photography #minnesota #minnesota square park #rock bend folk festival #st. peter #st. peter minnesota #turn turn turn

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trivialbob · 1 year

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Today was nice.

It started at the ridiculous hour of 4:30 AM. I woke feeling rested, and couldn’t fall back asleep. So I got up, put on my thickest wool socks, made a hot breakfast sandwich and coffee, then read for a while. I adore the peace and quiet of the house when I’m the only one awake. Super warm feet help too.

The dogs had come downstairs with me, albeit briefly. These canine idiots can’t read a clock or a thermometer. Like there’s any way we’re going to the dog park three hours before sunrise and in -1°F weather. Eventually they sauntered back upstairs to snuggle with still sleeping Sheila.

Around 10:00 AM I got tired. So I took an hour long nap. Delightful. When I woke for the second time today I began to get ready for the day’s mission.

This week Sheila and I got a new sectional couch. It’s dog friendly, with stronger and washable fabric. @littlerunnergurl has the same brand and recommended it to Sheila. I like the new furniture, denying me a chance to say something awful about LRG’s taste or LRG in general, though she could check with me too and not just my wife.

Jack claimed our outgoing sectional, to replace his conventional couch (also something we gave him). Our BFF neighbors have a daughter moving back to Minnesota next week. She wants some furniture for her new apartment in St. Paul, so we brought that couch back for her.

In other words, planets had aligned.

The only downside to all this is that Sheila would not let me charge Jack or our neighbors’ daughter for the furniture. My thinking is these “kids” are adults and should pay for stuff. I was outvoted 1 to 1 though. Poor Bob, always giving, never profiting.

Sheila, her brother, and I loaded the sectional into my truck. My BIL left and our neighbors joined us for a trip to Jack’s house (75 minutes away). The four of us had fun talking and stopping for lunch.

At Jack’s house we brought the sectional inside, then loaded the outgoing couch into my truck. On the way back to the Twin Cities we stopped at a cool winery and distillery outside of St. Peter, MN. I tried a flight of three red wines that I enjoyed. The others tried different things too. We weren’t hungry but the pizzas made there were tempting.

Then we motored back to the Twin Cities, with another hour long ride of good conversation. Now I’m home, trying to type this while Sulley dogs demands attention.

#That’s a small Hudson Bay wool blanket I’m sitting on #Those things are awesome #They are so heavy they're like the original weighted blankets #My neighbor closed her eyes on purpose for this picture I am certain

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homomenhommes · 7 months

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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more …

c.500 – Today the Christian church honours the feast day of St Galla (d.550), a Roman nun of the turn of the 6th century. What makes her of particular interest to gay people today, is her intimate friendship and devoted attention to her colleague, the nun Benedicta. This devotion was so intense, that according to legend, in answer to prayer, they were permitted to die together, so as to avoid being separated even for a moment of eternity.

In his Dialogues, Pope Saint Gregory the Great speaks of a holy woman of Rome named Galla, who had been married for less than a year when her husband died. Refusing to remarry, the young widow resolved to devote the rest of her life to God. To protect her beauty againt men's attention, it is said she disguised herself as a man and God gave her a beard.

Joining with a community of women living near St. Peter's Basilica, caring for the poor and sick, this wealthy and pious woman founded a convent and a hospital. She is reputed to have once healed a young deaf and mute girl by blessing some water, and having the girl drink from it.

As she lay stricken with breast cancer, Galla kept two candles burning each night at the foot of her bed, for Gregory explains, "She hated darkness, being a friend of light, physical as well as spiritual light."

It was between these two candles that one night the Apostle Saint Peter appeared in a vision to Galla. The dying woman asked him: "Have my sins been forgiven?"

Smiling, Peter nodded yes and answered, "They are forgiven. Come."

But Saint Galla now requested, "I beg you to let Sister Benedicta come with me."

Peter told her, "Sister Benedicta will follow you in thirty days." Three days later, Galla died, and a month later, Benedicta.

Their story (or myth) is an important reminder that for all the modern Church's opposition to homosexuality, the record shows that same-sex couples and queer saints, nuns, priests, bishops, and popes have always been present, throughout Church history.

1984 – Odin Biron is an American actor living in Moscow and Minneapolis. While not well-known in the United States, he is best-known in Russia for playing the character Dr Phil Richards in the popular medical sitcom, Interns.

Born in Duluth, Minnesota, Biron grew up nearby in rural Minnesota, moving to Ann Arbor, Michigan, with his mother after his parents' divorce. While studying at the University of Michigan, he studied at the Moscow Art Theatre on student exchange and was, unusually, invited to stay and join the incoming Russian class. In one of his final student roles, he won an award for his portrayal of Hamlet in a production that toured to New York's Baryshnikov Arts Center.

Landing a role in Interns, a top-rated Russian medical sitcom, in 2006 raised Biron's profile substantially and he has spoken about being recognised in nightclubs and avoiding "celebrity events" as a result. In a country where a large majority of the population view the United States "badly" or "very badly", Biron is one of a few Americans in the public eye, yet the success of Interns has led to Biron being considered a heartthrob and very popular.

Biron came out to his parents as a teenager and made no big secret of his homosexuality, but Russia is very socially conservative on LGBT rights, with hostility towards legal recognition of same-sex marriage and support for laws discriminating against LGBT people. His character on Interns was raised by two gay fathers, though the treatment of the issue of sexuality on the show has been described as reinforcing the Soviet idea that homosexuality is a product of Western moral decay, rather than being used to promote more liberal values.

It is very common for LGBT performers in Russia to avoid coming out, with an unspoken don't ask, don't tell arrangement between the entertainment industry and the mainstream press. After the passage of 2013's Russian LGBT propaganda law, Biron's Interns co-star and former Orthodox priest Ivan Okhlobystin made international news with genocidally homophobic remarks made in a December 2013 talk in Novosibirsk, leading Biron to consider leaving the show and Russian TV altogether. As a result, he came out in an interview with New York magazine in early 2015, to mixed reactions, reported in the Russian press accompanied by mentions of Okhlobystin's remarks. After an initial reaction leaving Biron with "a sense of physical danger, political danger", he initially left Russia. He returned later without any apparent negative effect on his career, though his friendship with Okhlobystin had become untenable after the former priest's reaction describing him as a "pervert" and a "sodomite".

Biron lived in Moscow with his boyfriend, a Kazakh film director. In an interview with Minnesota's Star Tribune in May 2015, however, he mentioned that he was back in the United States permanently and, as well as acting, was pursuing a Le Cordon Bleu culinary degree.

1840 – John Addington Symonds (d.1893) was an English poet and literary critic. Although he married and had a family, he was an early advocate of male love (homosexuality), which he believed could include pederastic as well as egalitarian relationships. He referred to it as l'amour de l'impossible (love of the impossible). A cultural historian, he was known for his work on the Renaissance, as well as numerous biographies about writers and artists. He also wrote much poetry inspired by his homosexual affairs.

John Symonds was born at Bristol, England in 1840. Considered delicate, the younger Symonds did not take part in games after age 14 at Harrow School, and he showed no particular promise as a scholar.

In January 1858 Symonds received a letter from his friend Alfred Pretor, telling of Pretor's affair with their headmaster, Charles John Vaughan. Symonds was shocked and disgusted, feelings complicated by his growing awareness of his own homosexuality. He did not mention the incident for more than a year until, in 1859 and a student at Oxford University, he told the story to John Conington, the Latin professor. Conington encouraged Symonds to tell his father about his friend's affair, and the senior Symonds forced Vaughan to resign from Harrow. Pretor was angered by the younger man's part and never spoke to Symonds again.

In the fall of 1858, Symonds went to Balliol College, Oxford. In spring of that same year, he fell in love with Willie Dyer, a Bristol choirboy three years younger. They engaged in a chaste love affair that lasted a year, until broken up by the senior Symonds. The friendship continued for several years afterward, until at least 1864. Dyer became organist and choirmaster of St Nicholas' Church, Bristol.

In 1862, an accusation of misconduct caused a nervous breakdown and a rest trip to Switzerland where he met his wife to be, whom he married in 1864.

In 1868, Symonds met and fell in love with Norman Moor, a youth about to go up to Oxford, who became his pupil. Their affair, erotic and sensual but kept short of coitus, lasted four years. According to Symonds' diary of 28 January 1870, "I stripped him naked and fed sight, touch and mouth on these things." The relationship occupied a good part of his time. (On one occasion he left his family and travelled to Italy and Switzerland with Moor.) It also inspired his most productive period of writing poetry, published in 1880 as New and Old: A Volume of Verse.

While the taboos of Victorian England prevented Symonds from speaking openly about homosexuality, his works published for a general audience contained strong implications and some of the first direct references to male-male sexual love in English literature. For example, in "The Meeting of David and Jonathan", from 1878, Jonathan takes David "In his arms of strength / [and] in that kiss / Soul into soul was knit and bliss to bliss".

The same year, his translations of Michelangelo's sonnets to the painter's beloved Tommaso Cavalieri restore the male pronouns which had been made female by previous editors. By the end of his life, Symonds' homosexuality had become an open secret in Victorian literary and cultural circles.

Simultaneously to these widely available works, Symonds was writing, privately publishing and distributing more candid writings about homosexuality. As well as a large number of poems written throughout the 1860s and 1870s, Symonds wrote one of the first essays in defense of homosexuality in the English language, A Problem in Greek Ethics, in 1883. A follow-up essay from 1891, A Problem in Modern Ethics, includes proposals for reforming anti-homosexual legislation.

1924 – On this date the Chilean writer Jose Donoso was born (d.1996). He lived most of his life in Chile, although he spent some years in self-imposed exile in Mexico, the United States (Iowa) and Spain. After 1973, he claimed his exile was a form of protest against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

Donoso was the author of a number of remarkable stories and novels, which contributed greatly to the Latin American literary boom and the foundation of the literary movement known as Magical Realism. His best known works include the novels Coronación, El lugar sin límites (The Place Without Limits) and El obsceno pájaro de la noche (The Obscene Bird of Night). His works deal with a number of themes, including sexuality and psychology, and are often darkly humorous. He is also considered an innovative stylist.

After his death his personal papers at the Iowa Writers' Workshop revealed an active sex life and the fact of Donoso's homosexuality. It came as a shock to some in Latin America's intelligentsia that one of the great writers of the 20th century was in fact Gay.

1513 – Spanish conquistador Vasco Nunez de Balboa discovered what he claimed was a colony of cross-dressing males in present day Panama. It was reported that he massacred them.

1659 – Richard Berry is banished from Plymouth Colony, after his third arrest on various homosexual sex charges.

1969 – The Washington Blade publishes its first issue. At that time it was called The Gay Blade and contained hard hitting journalism and gay activism.

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