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Chris Isaak photographed by Bruce Weber (late 1980s)

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Paramount+ Presents: "Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies" Official Trailer

Hey there greasers, I’m back with another post about the upcoming Paramount+ Original Series “Grease: Rise Of The Pink Ladies” and if you missed my share of the Official Teaser clip just click HERE to be up to speed. The full on Official Trailer just recently dropped and can be reviewed down below along with the premise, casting and updated artwork. Take a look. The Premise: The series takes…

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US Vogue December 1991

A Fashion Fairy-Tale Extravaganza: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Photographer: Bruce Weber

Fashion Editor: Grace Coddington

Hair Styling: Didier Malige

Makeup: Denise Markey, Lanier Long

Cast: Beverly Peele, Aretha Franklin, Romell Chapman, Demetrius Pugh, Marliss Pugh, Chris Sellers, David Shelton, Adrian Witcher and LL Cool J

The Master Chief: Part One

The Master Chief: Part One (2023) #ChrisSoriano #HaleyWeber #GeorginaTolentino #RyanBarrier #RobMoore #KodySeewald Mehr auf:

Jahr: 2023 (November) Genre: Action / Abenteuer / Drama Regie: Chris Soriano Hauptrollen: Chris Soriano, Haley Weber, Georgina Tolentino, Ryan Barrier, Rob Moore, Kody Seewald, Jonel Awit, Hillary Soriano, Rhandy Torres, Peter Laboy, Warren Mitchell, Mikaylee Mina … Filmbeschreibung: Ein junger philippinischer Matrose wird mit der harten Realität der Rassenspannungen an Bord eines…

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i have watched like 15 years’ worth of bachelor franchise shows and i don’t think i’ve ever seen a lead choose to participate in an uncomfortable or embarrassing challenge alongside the contestants before. so weird to root for a man. idk if i’ve ever rly liked a bachelor lead this much before. but joey honestly seems really fuckin nice.

God is one

To worship any other god than the one God is considered idolatry. Of course, we have seen throughout history the promise of worshipping many gods. This is the curse of the secular age. Most people don't consider the question of Gods oneness to be very interesting. The just accept the stories from the priests that we ought to worship Christ and think critically of sinners and fools. However, it seems there isn't that much to the Christian religion. The Christian religion is based on repentence, and they are less inclined to familiarize themselves with scripture, the ways Jews do. Then there is Islam. Islam has very powerful clergies, but they are marked by a humility, treating God as someone who is just really confoundly good. The best in fact.

Today, many people hate religion, because they believe that there's a lot of trouble in the world, and religion does nothing to help those. However, this is only natural. Religion isn't meant to solve the world's problems: it is meant to solve spiritual problems. Still, there are religions that work to make the world a better place, albeit in a religious way; I am thinking mostly of Buddhism. Buddhism is a religion that suffers greatly under its own creeds. I mean that in a very Zen way. I want to tell people that the world is an evil place, and that we should seek enlightenment; but I don't know what enlightenment is, and the more I think about it, the more I am thankful that the Dharma exists, to pull me towards the simple things in life. In this way, Buddhism also strengthens itself. But I think we'll see that many people are dissatisfied with Buddhism's internal inconsistencies and for this reason seek salvation elsewhere.

I suppose this is why many people will find China's religions to be the best. In China, Confucianism satisfies the spiritual needs for people who are curious and independent minded; Daoism fulfills the needs of those who are basically doing fine and don't really need anything more than than to live up their lives. Nonetheless, Daoism can be confusing. After all, many things in life are worth striving for: we can desire things in a way that makes us want to put in great effort (Kung fu) and Daoism detracts from this by putting us in the role of loafers and men of leisure. Really, Daoism isn't that profound. It seeks to point our soul towards an obscurantist metaphysical principle, but we only call it metaphysical because it is unfathomable, and this is what Daoism does. it tells us to stop acting "because". Still, the principle of non-intervention that underlies Daoism has religious merit. It can be fulfilling to take it easy just because. Why work harder than you need to? Of course, one might say it is because we want things, and here is the confusing part of Daoism, the foundations are self-denial. Here is where I see the promise of Judaic religion. It believes in duty. Judaism transcends apathy by allowing people to act and to speak.

There is a line in Knights of the Old Republic 2 by Chris Avellone that says "Apathy is death." Now Daoism doesn't necessarily inspire apathy, nor does Buddhism, but they all seem to point us towards confusion, and confusion can lead to apathy. Now I wish so bad to be a philosohoper, a metaphysicist in fact, who can tackle the most important problems of philosophy in a good way; but instead I am just a theologian, hell perhaps even a theologian of the nation, like Eugen Weber called it, because I also see myself as a historian of sorts; yes, history is the mistress of life, I really think so, and my days would be considerably more miserable if I didn't have history, but I am not sure how significant the difference would really be. But in any case, no matter how wholesome history is and how nourishing, and no matter how badly I want to be a philosopher, these things block us, and keep us from acting. But yeah, Daoism and Buddhism do seem oddly "philosophical" in some particular way, and this is probably why they can also paralyse us. Anyway, it seems we have to practice Judaim in some way - and I ain't even a Jew - to survive in the world, to write; because writing is the epitome of life, through writing we can give purpose to our whole day, and really support us in our horrors and terrors.

But anyway, metaphysics I suppose is a lot like telling jokes, you can't do it on command, yet we have to speak anyway. In history, religion has very often inspired metaphysics; in fact, metaphysics used to be a flourishing science in the days of Christianity, but since the days of secularism, it barely exists anymore; and the weird thing is, I can't think of a single metaphysical sentence, except maybe for Sartre's existence precedes essence, which I would only think of because Heidegger called it a metaphysical sentence. But I don't know any real metaphysics: it seems it doesn't even exist. All I can think of is a picture from a book by Thomas Carlyle of a blind man walking off the face of the Earth, subtitled "metaphysics". And they call Hegel metaphysics, but it is just misguided jabbering, even though it might be called good writing by wise fools.

Anyway, this is my new method for writing: I will be a Jew, and I will study the Bible and learn the language of the Bible, and I will hold sermons perhaps and theologize the nation if luck will have it, or something; but in the end metaphysical thoughts may flow out of it. In fact, my master is Robin Williams, because he probably couldn't make jokes on command either, but he was still great at improv; you know, improv is my passion, 'cept I ain't a comedian. I'd be a metaphysicist. You know, you may say something, and it may be funny, but afterwards, if you quote it out of context, it may not be so funny after all. Who knows, it might be also the case with metaphysics, that its metaphysical when you say it, but it ain't metaphysical anymore when you quote it out of context. You know, just now I am looking at the Wikipedia page of Duns Scotus, the English metaphysicist, and it has for example the following sentence: universalia exist. This is supposedly metaphysics. It sounds somewhat metaphysical, right? Because of the word "exist". You know, there's another metaphysical story from the oeuvre of Avicenna, that says that the soul must exist because if you imagine a floating man to come into existence who has no knowledge of his body he'll still have a consciousness. That's also metaphysical - or actually, it is a thought experiment that invites metaphysical speculation. But you have to admit, it's unclear to really pinpoint what kind of thoughts these are. What are we thinking about here? The relationship of mind and matter. Why is that metaphysical? I don't know, it really has nothing to do with any other philosophical problem. These kind of questions have a tendency to take on a life of their own. It seems that these are questions of a scholastic origin, predicating definitions on things that really mean something else entirely. I suppose that's where "ordinary language philosophy" comes from. But the problem with ordinary language is that there's nothing ordinary about ordinary language, it's just language. We see this most profoundly in John McDowell's work. The guy is unintelligible, but he speaks with words that sound very hands-on and actionable. That's what I am saying. Can we be metaphysical by accident? Is there metaphysics outside of scholasticism? Of course, some would say there is, in Kripke's work. But that stuff is too focussed on language. People shouldn't think philosophy is the study of language. There's nothing philosophical about language. As I said, my master is Robin Williams, I am more like Larry David than like Kripke (understand Larry David better than Kripke too, of course). This is what I am saying: you can't be metaphysical on cue, you can benefit from religion to get you out of your apathy. We might say, there ain't no metaphysics without religion, weird as it might be. We might say: Buddhist philosophy is more metaphysical than Kripke. Fulfilling your spiritual goals opens up your discourse for metaphysical philosophy. Metaphysics is the ultimate pastime. Of course, here we are reminded of that very true statement by Lipsius, that it is sad to do philosophy for merriment, when it is the most serious of fields. Still, his friend Montaigne said there wasn't much philosophy going down if people weren't laughing.

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Police in Maryland are asking for any possible victims to come forward after a man accused his middle school teacher of sexually assaulting him multiple times in 2015.

The alleged victim claims Melissa Marie Curtis, 31, engaged in sex acts with him when he was a minor. He claims the abuse started when Curtis was 22 and he was a 14-year-old eighth grade student at Montgomery Village Middle School in Montgomery County.

Charging documents allege the abuse lasted for several months, from January to May 2015. The man says all the sex acts happened within Montgomery County, but in different locations, such as a school classroom, a movie theater, multiple homes, and Curtis’ car. He claims the two had sex more than 20 times.

Curtis turned herself in on Nov. 7 after the Montgomery County Police Department’s Special Victims Investigations Division issued an arrest warrant. She is charged with sexual abuse of a minor, as well as multiple counts of third- and fourth-degree sex offenses.

According to police, Curtis was a teacher in Montgomery County for approximately two years, working at Montgomery Village Middle School and Lakelands Park Middle School.

Jesse Weber spoke with renowned journalist and founder of the TruBlu streaming service Chris Hansen about the ongoing investigation for Law&Crime’s Sidebar podcast.

“At least anecdotally, to me, it seems like we’re seeing more survivors, victims coming forward. People are starting to feel more comfortable,” Hansen told Weber.

“It also speaks to this notion about some people saying, ‘oh, well, it’s a young adolescent boy’s dream come true to have a sexual liaison with an older woman.’ But at that age, it causes a lot of damage,” Hansen said. “And obviously, in this case, you had a boy who was 14 years old at the time of the offense, who all these years later has come forward, because it would seem to me that he’s suffering from what happened, that it impacted him in a negative way. And that’s why it’s a crime.” “If it was something that was harmless or purely sexual in nature for him, you would likely let it pass,” Hansen continued. “But he felt compelled to come forward and report a crime that happened, you know, eight, nine years ago. And this is significant because somebody in the position of trust like a teacher, should not be able to get away with this. And it’s not a harmless fantasy. It causes damage.”

Investigators believe there could be other students who were victims of Curtis. Anyone with information is asked to call 240-773-5400.

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Three portraits of singer Chris Isaak by Bruce Weber (circa 1988)

Axl Roses first ever band!!This was his project before starting Hollywood Rose with Chris Weber & Izzy Stradlin!!! :33 The band was called Rapidfire, started sometime in 83 before June! The line up consisted of (Left to right) Chuck Gordon on drums, Axl Rose (who at the time in the band was going by his real name 'Bill Bailey') on lead vocals, Kevin Lawrence on guitar, and finally Mike Hamerik on bass! The band had only ever released two EPs , said two EPs being named 'Ready to Rumble' and 'Afterburner'. Ready to Rumble was their first ever EP released. The EP was released on May 15th 1983, 3 days before May 28th when the band broke up. The thing was that it wasn't commerically released until November 15th of 2014 due to complications with Axl's legal team. The Ready to Rumble EP had five tracks being:

#1. Ready to Rumble

#2. All Night Long

#3. The Prowler

#4. On The Run

#5. Closure

Ready to Rumble spans about 14 minutes and 32 seconds. This EP also served as the bands last EP with Axl before he went onto start Hollywood Rose with the aforementioned Weber and Stradlin. When it comes to their second EP 'Afterburner', since Axl left Kevin Lawrence had gone onto take the role of lead vocals. When it comes to listening to this EP i think it might be impossible to find considering that it was never released publicly but only sent via email to fans who wanted to listen to the EP. Afterburner had one less track then Ready to Rumble only containing four tracks:

#1.Ready to Rumble(new version)

#2.Nothing Left to Say

#3. Don't Walk Away

#4.When the Lights Goes Out

This was all the information I could find on Rapifire before i stopped myself from nerding out and deep diving into it!! :3

If there's anything that's wrong or misspelled pls correct me! English isn't my first language so yk!! Thx 4 listening 2 my yap!! :D