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Argenis Montalvo | Compañía Nacional de Danza de México (National Dance Company of Mexico) | Photo by Wilfred Omar
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State Visit to Mexico
Their Majesties The King and Queen will pay a State Visit to Mexico on 12–14 March 2024 at the invitation of His Excellency President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
The Swedish Government will be represented by Minister for International Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade Johan Forssell. More than 25 Swedish companies will take part in the business delegation arranged by Business Sweden.
The aim of the State Visit is to consolidate the good relations between Sweden and Mexico and strengthen economic and political ties, focusing on innovation, partnership, trade and investment.
Mexico is Latin America’s second-largest market and the world’s fifteenth-largest economy. Many Swedish businesses have been operating in Mexico for decades, and with its young population and dynamic economy, there are good opportunities to deepen and broaden trade. Mexico is a prominent multilateral actor with which Sweden enjoys close cooperation. The State Visit will provide an opportunity to develop this cooperation.
Previous State Visits to Mexico took place in 1982 and 2002.
The three-day programme of the State Visit will take place in Mexico City and Mérida, in the state of Yucatán.
The programme in brief
The first day of the State Visit will begin with a wreath-laying and official welcome ceremony, at which Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his wife Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller will welcome The King and Queen to the National Palace. This will be followed by a bilateral meeting with the President and his wife. The King and Queen will also visit the Mexican Senate. The day will conclude with a dinner hosted by The King and Queen.
Business issues and children’s rights will be the focus of the second day. In the morning, The King will open the Mexico-Sweden Business Forum, where discussion topics will include sustainable transport solutions, sustainable mining, the telecommunications industry and health. The King and Queen will then visit SOS Children’s Villages and the large public National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). After a lunch with business sector representatives, The King will inaugurate Ericsson’s new offices in Mexico City. The King and Queen will then meet with Swedes residing in the country. The day will conclude with a performance of traditional Mexican dances at the Palace of Fine Arts.
The third day will continue in the city of Mérida. The King and Queen will travel on the recently launched Tren Maya train to the pre-Columbian ruined city of Uxmal, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, where they will meet representatives of the Maya and Yaqui indigenous peoples. Later in the day, the King and Queen will meet with the Governor of Yucatán.
The State Visit will conclude the following day, when the King and Queen leave Mexico.
Mr Forssell will take part in the programme and will also have bilateral meetings with representatives of the Mexican Government.
A more detailed programme will be published closer to the date of the Visit.
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Ballerina Greta Elizondo- Mexico national dance company Photography Carlos Quezada
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National Anthem
Chapter 5
Cw: pregnancy, drinking, mentions of past alcohol abuse, casual mentions of sex and misogyny
Taglist: @thegreatdragonfruta @cljordan-imperium @zablife @call-sign-shark
The first day of prohibition finds Eva remembering an old parlor trick that led to a drinking problem when she learned it at seventeen.
They had gotten rid of their stash after some jackass claimed Eva was a communist and their house was raided in search of proof.
No one was getting rid of their liquor yet expecting the temperance movement to die out sooner rather than later, but Eva knew this well-intended bullshit was to last decades.
So when she greets Jack with a hair of the dog she learned in Mexico City, he asks how she got a perfectly aged bottle of Bushmills for it.
“I can turn certain drinks into alcohol.” She admits to Jack who claims his hair of the dog is much more efficient than the honey and milk drink Eva presented him with it.
“Bullshit.” He downed the tulip glass and admitted it tasted better than the prairie oyster he makes himself.
“How did you think I got the good shit last night?”
It had been a party like the ones she used to go to get so fucked up she couldn’t remember anything; this time she drank in moderation despite the temptation to lose herself.
She was a wife and a mother now, she had to keep herself upright for them if not for herself.
“Money, like everything else.” Jack answered wincing from his hangover.
He had drunk enough to kill an elephant to show that this tiger has not changed his stripes.
“That too, the wine from the year 1775 cost quite a bit.”
They had danced, they had fucked, and it took two men to help him into the cab to take them home. All the while he went on and on about how he hates the English, how he could fix someone’s film company with a snap of his fingers and at some point, proclaimed he was King fucking Midas and Eva was Aphro-fucking-dite.
“To think I drank from the wine George fucking Washington drank when they banned alcohol in America.” He says with a groan and pulls her back to bed looking to be coddled in his time of need.
“No better way to end the era of the God-given right of inebriation, if you ask me.” The witch swallowed the sudden nausea she got from the stink of her hungover husband.
The myth of breastfeeding decreasing the chances of pregnancy is proven false as February rolls around and Eva finds herself sobbing violently.
All Jack had said was that he was needed at the Wall Street office and the next moment Eva was crying because he was leaving.
The witch and mother to the nine-month-old boys knew it was what she had feared most.
Eva was pregnant for a second time.
She had been completely blindsided by this as only her figure was getting back into order after the birth of the boys some seven months ago. Her monthlies had yet to be regular and on Christmas Eve she goaded him into playing the piano for her.
Jack’s mother used to play it, he’d learned some and claimed to have forgotten but had bought a piano in case Eva did.
No one had given it as much use as they did that night.
“Jesus, Evie, I’ll be back on Saturday.” Jack thinks it’s an overreaction, having forgotten when she berated him last year around this time for some reason as stupid as this one.
“No, I don’t think it’s that.” Eva still let him dry her tears and promise her things like something nice from the city and a good fuck before and after the trip. “I think I’m pregnant.”
Jack, much like the first time, personally drove her to the doctor to confirm it.
Not all men went, and Jack only claimed he went because Eva couldn’t exactly drive herself nor did he trust the doctor to keep his hands off his woman.
And sure, enough he hovers there as Eva is subjected to rather embarrassing tests, they are told the results of the urine will be back in a week or less and Eva is given instructions she will promptly ignore.
“What do you think it’s gonna be this time?” he asks looking so proud of himself for getting her knocked up again. As if they hadn’t had to pull over because lunch was repeating itself thanks to their sweet little baby.
“Girl, was thinking Rosemary for your mother.”
The twins’ first birthday finds them celebrating more than the boys’ first year of life.
Alvaro Obregon had taken Mexico City and Venustiano Carranza, the President who had declared her and her then living brothers traitors and ordered her arrest after returning to Mexico City in 1918, had been forced to flee.
In about a day he would be killed with the same number of bullets Francisco Madero had been assassinated with in 1913.
Even if she could be legally allowed to drink, she couldn’t do so due to her pregnancy.
It is not as horrible as she recalls her late sister’s pregnancy had been. Felicidad had endured so much only to die because the midwife and the doctor couldn’t come soon enough.
She has fears it will happen to her and while Jack did understand her fears somewhat, he didn’t think that sort of thing happens in America.
He forgets she lived in a city and had everything they could ever possibly want.
“I’m thinking we’re gonna need a bigger place.” He says stroking her belly, it is smaller thanks to Rosie just being one baby and she’s only begun to truly show. And Jack is still affectionate, but things have not been going good lately.
“Mhm, do you have a place in mind already or do I get to have a say in it?” Eva knows he likes to be in charge, from his office to the bedroom, everything must be how John Fitzgerald Nelson wants it.
It was the way things were, but not the way she wanted to live.
And he knows Eva makes her displeasure known when he overrides her decisions or doesn’t bother telling her something and she must find out a different way.
“Have a list of houses, we’ll see which one we like, and you get full control of the necessary changes to it and the decorating. It’s the wife’s job to do that, you know.” It is a pointed reminder, one that tells her this won’t be the end of it.
They’d never even had a squabble; everything ran smoothly and now her moods are in disarray and he is no longer as willing to let her have her way knowing she’s not made of glass.
He had not intervened at all in what he viewed as a woman’s things, but the moment Eva reminded him she was also member of her family’s company and his equal, Jack would sideline her. Especially if he was in company with other men.
It was fucking annoying.
Never mind the secretary he’d hired in New York who was too pretty to stay his secretary. Fucking Grace Burgess with her thing for gangsters.
She had married Clive MacMillan, a friend of Jack’s who had moved to Poughkeepsie, but something about this stranger just made her want to throttle her.
Perhaps they were enemies in a past life or their auras clashed, whatever it was made it impossible for her to even be civil to her. Perhaps it was the stench of death that only she seemed to smell on her like perfume.
“Don’t tell me you’re threatened by Grace, Evie. She’s not my type and I wouldn’t do that to Clive.” He assured her and the hand on her stomach went to her shoulders, holding her close as if to restrain her.
“I know, she’s too boring for your tastes, but it was a blonde and bland woman like her who got Anne Boleyn short of a head.” The witch pointed out as she smiled and pretended everything was fine to their guests.
Had they been Anne and Jane in their past lives? Is that why they hated each other instantly? Perhaps the smell of death was Jane’s ill luck passing onto her reincarnation?
Jack chuckled at her words, “And what a fucking fool Henry VIII was, if Queen Anne was anything like you, I wouldn’t have let her go.”
And yet King Henry did because Anne couldn’t give him more children, her miscarriages proved it.
Jack wouldn’t divorce her, Catholics like Jack don’t believe in it while Eva doesn’t really care as the Pope is her godfather, but he could take whores.
He’s tried before, but unlike then their marriage was still in the honeymoon phase and pregnancy made her ravenous. This time around, Eva couldn’t get her sexual drive to stay the same in the span of a fucking minute.
“That’s because you are Irish, if you were English, you’d be thinking she’s the one.”
All the houses so far have not spoken to her.
Jack is losing his patience with her. “This is exactly like the one we just saw, doll.”
As much as he loves his wife, she can be a pain in the ass.
They agree often; her job is to climb the ladders of society and he the ones in business. She’s done a stellar job, and he knows better than to interfere in her work, but she also wants to muscle into the business world.
It’s not that she wasn’t capable, he couldn’t manipulate the markets without her nor win over investors of little faith, its just this was a man’s world.
One day women will be welcome into their world, but it wasn’t this day.
Doesn’t help that he hired an attractive secretary to replace Grace because he needs something to dangle in front of those looking to take the crown he works so hard to have. If Eva knew Pamela was into women and knew him since he was Kennedy’s errand boy and her mother the cook, she wouldn’t be so quick to judge her.
The new house would keep her busy, distract her from the shit moods the baby gave her and when Jack comes home from Eva will be as she was before.
And if not, it should buy them some time until Rosemary is born and see what happens then.
“It’s not, the other one had a smaller veranda nor a garage like this one.” The witch countered as she led him to something better than the maids’ rooms being far from their room.
Jack could only whistle in approval.
The garage was definitely something, large for two or more vehicles and a built to perfection workshop. Connected to the house so they won’t have to brave the elements coming in and out of it, had its own washroom to clean himself up and the master bedroom directly above it.
Could fix up his roadster for a race or two rain or shine while keeping the Rolls Royce as good as new.
He could also fuck Eva without thinking Alice and Mary can hear them and the boys will need the space to run around.
If Eva said no, he’ll be buying it anyways.
“See, I told you.” The witch takes in his delight at the garage to prove her point. “I need a sitting room for myself, and you need this car enthusiast’s dream.”
“Could’ve saved us the time by seeing this beauty first.” He points out.
First thing he’d do was fuck Eva in the Rolls Royce before taking her up to the bedroom. Maybe punish her for wasting his fucking time looking at the six other houses.
“You’re hardly home these days, needed an excuse to have you all to myself.” Eva admitted with a sly grin.
With a garage like this, he’s gonna have a hard time leaving.
#eva x jack#jack nelson#jack nelson fanfic#jack nelson x oc#national anthem fic#peaky blinders fanfiction#evacore
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DISNEY STUDIO AU: Panchito Pistoles
Full Name: Panchito Romero Miguel Junipero Franciso Quintero Gonzalez
Other Names: Panchito Pistoles (stage name), A Mad Mariachi
Schools: Local Santa Cecilia High School (graduated), Walt Disney University of Performing Arts (graduated)
Occuaption(s): Lead Vocalist of the Three Caballeros, Mariachi, Mexican-pop singer
Residence: Santa Cecilia, Mexico
Family: Miguel Gonzalez (father), Maria Morales (mother), Paulo & Pablo (nephews), Junipero Morales (maternal-uncle), Abuelo Morales (grandfather), Abuela Maria Morales (grandmother), Michelle Alaez (great-aunt), Señor Martinez (pet horse)
Relationships: Donald Fauntleroy Duck (best friend; fellow member of the Three Caballeros), José Carioca (best friend; fellow member of the Three Caballeros)
Likes: Mexican cultures, Latin music & dances, parties, dancing, singing, Tequila, Selena Quintanilla Pérez (favorite singer; celebrity crush)
Dislikes: His pet horse harmed, derogatory words, malicious comments against Donald or José, Yolanda Saldivar
Panchito Pistoles is a Lead Vocalist of the Three Caballeros, the Latin-pop boy band, the Mariachi and Mexican-pop singer. Attended same college with José and Donald, the three are friends and members of the said group. Despite being a leader of Latin-pop boy band, Panchito is a bombastic, unpredictable party animal with immense love for parties, tequila, and women. The only individual of the group who would handle his antics is Donald.
Born in Santa Cecilia(close to Álvaro Obregón), the town in Michoacán, Mexico, he had great talent in music and in order to pursue the opportunity he moved away and lived in United States where his talent was recognized and offered to attend in Was Disney University of Performing Arts. He encountered Donald and José who were looking for one last member for their band, and he gladly accepted the offer when given. After graduation, the group "The Three Caballeros" moved from USA to Latin American nations as Latin-pop performers, popularity grown as several of their songs received award. Just when they were preparing for Europe tour, Donald's voice was damaged forcing him to leave the group and the tour cancelled. While Donald was serving in the Navy for four years, Panchito and José worked as Latin American duo singers. Struggling with conflict between them and the recording company's growing demand and irresponsible decisions the two eventually left and part their ways. Panchito became a Mariachi and Mexican-Pop singer by the time Donald started raising his nephews.
Years went by, he received a contact from Huey, Dewey and Louie learning they are planning to collect money for their uncle's vocal chord recovery. Panchito then immediately called José with the news and the two decided to do find ways to earn more as Panchito would perform his songs at every Quinceanera, the Day of the Dead, and other Mexican holidays. In some occasions, he starred in Mexican films and series. With José's and the triplets' money together, they successfully paid enough for Donald's voice recovery. And the Three Caballeros performed in House of Mouse, confirming their comeback. At the same time, he is training a newbie Mexican pop-singer, Miguel Rivera.
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Rodrigo Aryam of The National Dance Company of Mexico City.
Photo by Carlos Quezada.
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This political cartoon by Louis Dalrymple appeared in Judge magazine in 1903. It depicts European immigrants as rats. Nativism and anti-immigration have a long and sordid history in the United States.
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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN
March 28, 2024
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
MAR 29, 2024
Yesterday the National Economic Council called a meeting of the Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force, which the Biden-Harris administration launched in 2021, to discuss the impact of the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge and the partial closure of the Port of Baltimore on regional and national supply chains. The task force draws members from the White House and the departments of Transportation, Commerce, Agriculture, Defense, Labor, Health and Human Services, Energy, and Homeland Security. It is focused on coordinating efforts to divert ships to other ports and to minimize impacts to employers and workers, making sure, for example, that dock workers stay on payrolls.
Today, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg convened a meeting of port, labor, and industry partners—ocean carriers, truckers, local business owners, unions, railroads, and so on—to mitigate disruption from the bridge collapse. Representatives came from 40 organizations including American Roll-on Roll-off Carrier; the Georgia Ports Authority; the International Longshoremen’s Association, the International Organization of Masters, Mates and Pilots; John Deere; Maersk; Mercedes-Benz North America Operations; Seabulk Tankers; Under Armour; and the World Shipping Council.
Today the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration announced it would make $60 million available immediately to be used as a down payment toward initial costs. Already, though, some Republicans are balking at the idea of using new federal money to rebuild the bridge, saying that lawmakers should simply take the money that has been appropriated for things like electric vehicles, or wait until insurance money comes in from the shipping companies.
In 2007, when a bridge across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis suddenly collapsed, Congress passed funding to rebuild it in days and then-president George W. Bush signed the measure into law within a week of the accident.
In the past days, we have learned that the six maintenance workers killed when the bridge collapsed were all immigrants, natives of Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. Around 39% of the workforce in the construction industry around Baltimore and Washington, D.C., about 130,000 people, are immigrants, Scott Dance and María Luisa Paúl reported in the Washington Post yesterday.
Some of the men were undocumented, and all of them were family men who sent money back to their home countries, as well. From Honduras, the nephew of one of the men killed told the Associated Press, “The kind of work he did is what people born in the U.S. won’t do. People like him travel there with a dream. They don’t want to break anything or take anything.”
In the Philadelphia Inquirer today, journalist Will Bunch castigated the right-wing lawmakers and pundits who have whipped up native-born Americans over immigration, calling immigrants sex traffickers and fentanyl dealers, and even “animals.” Bunch illustrated that the reality of what was happening on the Francis Scott Key Bridge when it collapsed creates an opportunity to reframe the immigration debate in the United States.
Last month, Catherine Rampell of the Washington Post noted that immigration is a key reason that the United States experienced greater economic growth than any other nation in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The surge of immigration that began in 2022 brought to the U.S. working-age people who, Director Phill Swagel of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office wrote, are expected to make the U.S. gross domestic product about $7 trillion larger over the ten years from 2023 to 2034 than it would have been otherwise. Those workers will account for about $1 trillion dollars in revenues.
Curiously, while Republican leaders today are working to outdo each other in their harsh opposition to immigration, it was actually the leaders of the original Republican Party who recognized the power of immigrants to build the country and articulated an economic justification for increased immigration during the nation’s first major anti-immigrant period.
The United States had always been a nation of immigrants, but in the 1840s the failure of the potato crop in Ireland sent at least half a million Irish immigrants to the United States. As they moved into urban ports on the East Coast, especially in Massachusetts and New York, native-born Americans turned against them as competitors for jobs.
The 1850s saw a similar anti-immigrant fury in the new state of California. After the discovery of gold there in 1848, native-born Americans—the so-called Forty Niners—moved to the West Coast. They had no intention of sharing the riches they expected to find. The Indigenous people who lived there had no right to the land under which gold lay, native-born men thought; nor did the Mexicans whose government had sold the land to the U.S. in 1848; nor did the Chileans, who came with mining skills that made them powerful competitors. Above all, native-born Americans resented the Chinese miners who came to work in order to send money home to a land devastated by the first Opium War.
Democrats and the new anti-immigrant American Party (more popularly known as the “Know Nothings” because members claimed to know nothing about the party) turned against the new immigrants, seeing them as competition that would drive down wages. In the 1850s, Know Nothing officials in Massachusetts persecuted Catholics and deported Irish immigrants they believed were paupers. In California the state legislature placed a monthly tax on Mexican and Chinese miners, made unemployment a crime, took from Chinese men the right to testify in court, and finally tried to stop Chinese immigration altogether by taxing shipmasters $50 for each Chinese immigrant they brought.
When the Republicans organized in the 1850s, they saw society differently than the Democrats and the Know Nothings. They argued that society was not made up of a struggle over a limited economic pie, but rather that hardworking individuals would create more than they could consume, thus producing capital that would make the economy grow. The more people a nation had, the stronger it would be.
In 1860 the new party took a stand against the new laws that discriminated against immigrants. Immigrants’ rights should not be “abridged or impaired,” the delegates to its convention declared, adding that they were “in favor of giving a full and efficient protection to the rights of all classes of citizens, whether native or naturalized, both at home and abroad.”
Republicans’ support for immigration only increased during the Civil War. In contrast to the southern enslavers, they wanted to fill the land with people who supported freedom. As one poorly educated man wrote to his senator, “Protect Emegration and that will protect the Territories to Freedom.”
Republicans also wanted to bring as many workers to the country as possible to increase economic development. The war created a huge demand for agricultural products to feed the troops. At the same time, a terrible drought in Europe meant there was money to be made exporting grain. But the war was draining men to the battlefields of Stones River and Gettysburg and to the growing U.S. Navy, leaving farmers with fewer and fewer hands to work the land.
By 1864, Republicans were so strongly in favor of immigration that Congress passed “an Act to Encourage Immigration.” The law permitted immigrants to borrow against future homesteads to fund their voyage to the U.S., appropriated money to provide for impoverished immigrants upon their arrival, and, to undercut Democrats’ accusations that they were simply trying to find men to throw into the grinding war, guaranteed that no immigrant could be drafted until he announced his intention of becoming a citizen.
Support for immigration has waxed and waned repeatedly since then, but as recently as 1989, Republican president Ronald Reagan said: “We lead the world because, unique among nations, we draw our people—our strength—from every country and every corner of the world. And by doing so we continuously renew and enrich our nation…. Thanks to each wave of new arrivals to this land of opportunity, we're a nation forever young, forever bursting with energy and new ideas, and always on the cutting edge, always leading the world to the next frontier. This quality is vital to our future as a nation. If we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost.”
The workers who died in the bridge collapse on Tuesday “were not ‘poisoning the blood of our country,’” Will Bunch wrote, quoting Trump; “they were replenishing it…. They may have been born all over the continent, but when these men plunged into our waters on Tuesday, they died as Americans.”
LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
#immigration#history#Letters From An American#Heather Cox Richardson#Know Nothings#supply chains#economic growth
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Please welcome Metzeri Mandujano Delgadillo as the voice of the Young Pitáo in THE ORTIZ TWINS ARE COMING HOME. Metzeri is a Mexican scenic artist. Her work has focused on creation connected with the social environment. Exploring the communication and expression of the body, in relation with imagination and the sound. She had offered dance and theater workshops for artist and for segregated communities in Mexico, Colombia, Argentina and Central America. She is a Co-founder of the companies Arto Arte Escénico and Raíz Encendida Teatro. She has directed "The hive" (2018-2022) "Ladradora-The woman who barks" (2016),"The bird of the desires" (2014),"Fando y lis" (2010). She has participated as an actres-dancer in a big number of professional plays, like "Altazores" (2017), "Dirección gritadero"(2016), Mexico-Colombia, by Felipe Caicedo, "Existencia", "Taboo", "Muses and daggers" by Abraham Oceransky. In 2013 she collaborated as a dancer with Yumiko Yoshioka in the piece "Hybrido". She has participated in national and international festivals, including the ITI UNESCO Theatre Festival (Beijing, China) and “Evigado hacia el teatro” (Colombia). #voiceactor #audiodrama #fictionpodcast #ortiztwins
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i was thinking...
...Silent zone Independence Day Welcome home AU. just another to add to the list.
if you aren't sure what silent Zone is, here; Silent Zone Independence Day is a novel by Stephen Molstad in 1997 - 1998 (i think?) as a prequel to the 1996 film "Independence Day". its set in the late 1960s and early 1970s and details the early career of Dr. Brackish Okun. it has Aliens, Some horror-ish elements, of sorts.
Anyhow. I was reading it and thought of a mix of welcome home with it too. I got a rough idea of which characters I'd put where, so I'll start with that introduction to the cast.
Wally Darling As Dr. Sam Dworkin.
Julie Joyful as [Undetermined].
Sally Starlet as [undetermined].
Barnaby b. beagle As Chibatutto.
Frank Frankly as Dr. Freiling.
Poppy partridge as [undetermined]
Eddie Dear as [undetermined.]
Howdy Caterpillar as Dr. Lenel.
Y/N as Brackish Okun.
Home as Radecker.
there are some blanks in characters being I'm only on... Chapter four page 106? so, do forgive me. I'm trying to make connections everywhere. here's a page or two with the cast as the characters, edited to fit... somewhat. Dialogues might be mixed to fit cast members and who they are connected to.
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Life seemed to get sweeter and sweeter for Y/N. when Home - a strange name for a guy, - told you where they were headed, you had prepared for a long, uninteresting car ride in the musky jeep they were in, which would've been a living nightmare. but instead, you and home - still a strange name, - went to Welcomes' Airport and signed in at the small cargo transport company, SwiftAir. You'd only flown twice in your lifetime, once when you had won the Westinghouse competition, and once to New York, for a whirlwind of a vacation in the big apple.
Today, they lifted off in a small - cramped - twin-engine Cessna. Once they were out, over the Sea of dry, hot desert, the captain invited you into the cockpit of the aircraft. it was a warmer spring day, and, as soon as you left LA's smog behind - in your dust, literally - the view was superb. you couldn't help yourself but to give into your childish urge and shove you face against the glass and imagine seeing a crashed UFO, your breath and palms smudging the clear glass. you felt lucky. Mr. Home had told you that they were heading for "A very important laboratory near Las Vegas." based on what the short, tanned guy with blue hair curled - somehow - into a spiral had told you three weeks earlier in your college dorm room, you assumed it was one of the National Labs in Mexico.
Visions of sparkling equipment and gleaming multi-story buildings danced at the forefront of your mind.
it was a Thursday, and Y/N wondered what the Set Offs - your group of misfit geniuses named after the band Set It Off - sitting in Professor Rain's Class, were thinking of your sudden disappearance. You would see if there was a way to sneak a postcard to them when you got settled. You were snapped out of your Daze as the Pilot announced,
"There She is, Lost Wages, Nevada." Y/N only had a moment to study the narrow build up alongside both sides of highway before the plane suddenly banked north. A few minutes later, the pilot turned and called back to Home over the noise of the roaring engines, "We're coming up to the Nellis Range perimeter, Sir."
Y/N looked down and saw they were flying over a double fence, one inside the other. I hope this isn't where we're headed.
#welcome home#opposite wally#wally darling#poppy partridge#eddie dear#Wally Darling's home#Howdy Caterpillar#y/n#wally darling x y/n#Silent Zone AU#Silent Zone independence day#Julie Joyful#sally starlet#frank frankly#barnaby b. beagle#Non-binary Y/N
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Erick Rodríguez | Compañía Nacional de Danza de México (National Dance Company of Mexico)
#erick rodriguez#national dance company of mexico#compañía nacional de danza de méxico#balletphotography#ballet stage boots#stage boots
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For decades now, Ticketmaster has engendered bad blood from concertgoers angry over its fees but has managed to shake it off, growing into the largest ticketing company in America. But after crossing Taylor Swift fans, parent company Live Nation faced a Senate panel Tuesday intent on getting the company to admit, “It’s me, hi, I’m the problem, it’s me.”
Live Nation drew the ire of thousands of Swift fans in the fall, after its website crashed when tickets for Swift’s “Eras” tour went on sale. Swifties also decried huge swings in the tickets’ prices and painfully long wait times. A similar debacle afflicted ticket sales for a Bad Bunny concert in Mexico City. As Swift apologized to fans, Congress swore to hold hearings, and on Tuesday the Senate Judiciary Committee held the first.
Ticketmaster merged with Live Nation, a concert venue and promotions company, in 2010, creating a live events behemoth that controls nearly every aspect of putting on a show short of the singing and dancing. On Tuesday, Senators criticized how that vertical integration created a market-dominating powerhouse with little concern for average fans.
“In an ode to Taylor Swift, I will say, ‘We know all too well,’” said Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., who chairs the Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust and Consumer Rights. “Live Nation doesn’t just dominate the ticketing — about 70% of the big concert market — but also they own many of the major venues, and for the venues that they don’t own, they tend to lock in on three-, five-, seven-year agreements, which means that the competitors that are out there aren’t able to even compete when it comes to the ticketing.”
Subcommittee ranking member Mike Lee, R-Utah, also couldn’t resist the siren’s call of a Swift allusion, prefacing his remarks by thanking Klobuchar for pushing for the hearing. “I had hoped, as of a few months ago, to get the chair back,” he said. “But once again, ‘she’s cheer captain and I’m on the bleachers.’”
The business of hosting, promoting, and selling tickets to concerts and other live events — Ticketmaster dominates pro sports ticketing, as well — is an odd one. According to the Los Angeles Times, Ticketmaster controls nearly 80% of the ticket market in the U.S., bringing in $750 million in annual profits. It seems like just a middleman between the musician and the concertgoer. But Ticketmaster’s real customers aren’t fans — who have little choice in how to buy their tickets — but the venues (often owned by Live Nation) and the musicians. And as some of those customers, including Garth Brooks and the Atlanta Braves, attested in written testimony, Ticketmaster has treated them extremely well.
“What I witnessed [working with Ticketmaster] was a true concern and care for ticket buyers,” wrote Brooks.
As some of Swift’s exes can attest, a tongue lashing may sting in the moment but leaves few lasting scars. Live Nation and Ticketmaster have a long history of essentially selling themselves as the bad guy to the public, allowing bands and arenas to scapegoat the company for their own greedy pricing decisions. Tuesday was more of the same, albeit under the glare of a congressional spotlight.
“Primary ticketing companies, including Ticketmaster, do not set ticket prices. We do not decide how many tickets go on sale and when. And we do not set service fees. Pricing and distribution strategies are determined by artists and their teams. Service fees, even if called ticketing fees, are retained mainly by venues,” said Live Nation President Joe Berchtold.
Berchtold does face a more tangible risk than just the verbal berating he received, however, if the Senators decide to do more than take advantage of the extra media attention to get themselves on TV and instead turn to legislating.
After nearly 50 years of Congress and the courts endorsing a laissez-faire approach to the antitrust regime, one ostensibly couched in terms of maximizing consumer welfare by permitting efficiency-driving mergers, members of both parties now are questioning the concentration of corporate power that has resulted. President Joe Biden’s picks to run the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division — Lina Khan and Jonathan Kanter, respectively — have been far more aggressive in challenging mergers and enforcing consent decrees than their predecessors from both Republican and Democratic administrations.
As part of the 2010 merger, Live Nation entered a consent decree with the DOJ to refrain from retaliating against musicians who didn’t use its venues and pay $1 million for each violation. The DOJ and Live Nation extended that decree in 2020. The DOJ also reportedly opened a separate investigation into Live Nation in November, following the Swift ticket fiasco.
In recent years, bipartisan legislation aimed at creating a more hawkish competition policy has been brewing in both chambers, with Klobuchar working closely with Lee and Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa. Congress passed a bill last year increasing the fees that large companies proposing mergers must pay, but more aggressive measures did not reach the president’s desk. Similar bills passed the House last year but ran out of time in the Senate, despite Grassley’s insistence that they had enough Republican votes to defeat a filibuster.
The hopes of passing stronger antitrust laws dimmed after the midterm elections. While some Republicans, including deeply conservative House Freedom Caucus members like Ken Buck of Colorado, support tougher measures, most of the party remains skeptical, including House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio and Speaker Kevin McCarthy of California.
COMPETITORS PILE ON
Live Nation’s competitors seized their chance to pile on Tuesday, calling for its breakup. “As long as Live Nation remains both the dominant concert promoter and ticketer of major venues in the U.S., the industry will continue to lack competition and struggle,” said Jack Groetzinger, CEO of SeatGeek, a ticketing company.
“Pepsi doesn’t earn money from Coke, but our competitor, Live Nation, makes money from selling tickets to our concerts,” said Jerry Mickelson, CEO of Jam Productions, which runs concert venues in Chicago. Mickelson described how Live Nation used its market dominance to push his company out of the arena concert business using allegedly monopolistic tactics.
Antitrust policy fans hoping the hearing might draw Swift’s star power had to settle for Clyde Lawrence, singer for the band Lawrence, which included the lyric “Live Nation is a monopoly” on one of its latest releases.
Lawrence countered some of Live Nation’s claims of being just an agent of the artists, alleging the company dictates fees and terms for smaller acts like them — in effect, creating a two-tier system for musicians in which smaller bands can’t negotiate the way bigger acts can.
Bands set the ticket price while the venues set the fees, Berchtold said in response. That didn’t sit well with Judiciary Chair Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill.
“You control the venue, do you not?” he asked.
Ticketmaster’s practices have long irked fans and bands alike. Pearl Jam launched a campaign against Ticketmaster in the ’90s, testifying before a House panel against the company’s price-stoking strategies.
Not every Senator on Tuesday’s panel joined in the Ticketmaster bashing. Louisiana Republican John Kennedy rolled his eyes at the witnesses attacking the company’s practices. “If you care about the consumer, cap the price, cut out the bots, cut out the middle people,” said Kennedy. “And if you really care about the consumer, give the consumer a break. Not every kid can afford, whatever it is, $500 to see Taylor Swift.”
#us politics#news#roll call#music#celebs#celebrities#taylor swift#ticketmaster#concert tickets#live nation#corporate monopolies#Senate Judiciary Committee#us senate#Sen. Amy Klobuchar#Subcommittee on Competition Policy Antitrust and Consumer Rights#sen. mike lee#Joe Berchtold#sen. chuck grassley#rep. Ken Buck#rep. kevin mccarthy#rep. jim jordan#Jerry Mickelson#Jack Groetzinger#seatgeek#jam productions#Clyde Lawrence#sen. dick durbin#sen. john kennedy#2023
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July 4, 2023 - Day 190
Hubbard’s Glacier, Alaska
In the comments section “easyasgoingtothedentist” asked the following question so I thought I would try and answer. My response is probably too long but I wanted to give it a go so here it is.
Question = “It’s hard to believe you have been on this journey for half a year now. With one month remaining, would you reflect on your favorite places and where you would return to? Any comments on the world atmosphere post-Covid which you have experienced? How about any interesting people you have met on the ship? Which ports did they embark? What nationality were they? It has been really fun to read of your escapades. Thank you. Oh- and could you please post a map of the rest of your ports-o-call?”
Thank you for your note. I appreciate that someone is actually looking at this. It is hard to answer your first question because there have been so many but let me give you a few statistics before I try.
On this trip we have visited 44 countries with 117 stops in different cities. I keep track of how far we go each day and the two screenshots below show my mileage markers. To date we have traveled 51,430 miles and have 7,195 miles to go for a total voyage of 58,625 miles. As far as the rest of the voyage we will be visiting Sitka, Ketchikan, Prince Rupert, Victoria, Astoria, San Francisco, Cabo San Lucas, Zihuatanejo, Puerto Quetzal, Puentarenas, Cartagena and Great Stirrup Bay in that order. We weren’t allowed to land in Peru or Myanmar because of political unrest and missed Kodiak Island and Hubbard’s Glacier because of weather. Because of CoVid we were the first cruise ship to return to many of the ports and there were extremely happy to see us. Bands, dancing and big welcome signs were common. Many of these places depend on the tourist business and there were many closed businesses and restaurants that didn’t survive.
The average age of people on the ship is 72, the oldest is 92 and the youngest is 23. Five people have died during the voyage, there was one helicopter evacuation because of a heart attack, there have been 8 people that have broken arms, legs and wrists because of falls and 2 couples have been kicked off the ship because of misbehavior. The ship doesn’t advertise these events so there may have been more but these are the ones I know about.
Three hundred and fifty of the Around The World passengers got on and will get off in San Francisco. Fifty seven got on and off in Miami and NewYork. Half the passengers are from the US, 25 % from Canada and the rest from other countries including Switzerland, Germany, UK, New Zealand, Australia, Holland, Israel, Mexico, Columbia, Turkey and two Ukrainians. The passengers are fairly affluent with representation from all races, colors and nationalities. Most are retired but some still working a little. The professions include medical Doctors, lawyers, engineers, book authors, a retired bus driver, a police detective, a tobacco factory owner, university professors, bed and breakfast owners, medical laboratory technicians, the owner of a Canadian lumber company, the chief architect for Home Depot, high school superintendents, a physiologist and many more that I don’t know.
The crew is even more diverse. The Captain is from Croatia and most of the officers from Eastern Europe. There are only about 8 of the crew that actually work for the cruise line the rest work through a contract company and are mostly Indian, Philippino and Indonesian. The chef and ship manager are French.
As far as places I would like to go back to there are many so let me just pick one or two from each continent. The highlight of the trip was Antartica. Amazing scenery, amazing animals and absolute desolation. In South America it would be Punta de Este, Uruguay followed by Puerto Monty, Chile and Recife, Brazil. In Africa it would be the Seychelles followed by Cape Town, South Africa and Walvus Bay, Namibia. In the Middle East it would be Muscat,Oman. Dubai, of course, is great but it is just a big international city. In South Asia it would be Columbo, Sri Lanka. In the Far East all of Japan was great but if I had to pick it would be Hakodate and Kobe, Japan followed by Ha Long Bay, Vietnam and Singapore.
Politically my biggest surprise was how strong the Chinese influence is in many of the countries especially West Africa. The situation in these countries is very sad. It is to much to discuss here but basically the vast majority of people live in extreme poverty with the few people in power selling off the resources of the country to China to enrich themselves. The Chinese then move their people in to gain land and resources at the expense of the local population.
Another surprise and disappointment was what I saw in San Diego and San Francisco. The downtown streets are lined with tents and cardboard boxes housing the homeless. There were many many more than I saw in even the poorest countries we visited. I am not going to get into the reasons I think this is happening but there is definitely something wrong in these cities and it needs to be fixed.
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“Nieves Paniagua. A trajectory of dance and life" was presented at the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City, Mexico by the National Dance Coordination, starring the National Folkloric Dance Company, a group founded and directed by Nieves Paniagua, renowned dancer, choreographer and teacher since 1984. The spectators enjoyed indigenous dances, as well as traditional folkloric Mexican numbers focused from all over the country’s rich tradition of dance from the states of Chiapas to Baja California on Saturday, July 16, 2022. Photos for @zumapress — #mexicocity #cdmx #mexico #dance #folklore #folklorico #balletfolklorico #mexicanculture #culture #dancephotography #photojournalism #fotoperiodismo #documentaryphotography #reportagespotlight #everydaymexico #everydaylatinamerica #everydayeverywhere #myfeatureshoot #travel #travelphotography (at Palacio de Bellas Artes) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgQOzIUpWCK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Josie's Lonely Hearts Club: A Semi-improvised Audio Drama You'll Love
Have you ever seen a Russian nesting doll? Remove one and there is another underneath. That's how the new audio-drama podcast Josie’s Lonely Hearts Club unfolds for listeners. It's a captivating drama with layers upon layers -- all of which will fascinate and enthrall.
Here's the premise. Josie’s Lonely Hearts Club is a semi-improvised audio drama set in the studio of New Mexico’s third-best romantic advice call-in show.
On-air, listeners eavesdrop as Josie (Rachel Music of How Do They
Bone?) squares off against top improvisers and her engineer Frank
(Maximilian Clark of Superhuman Public Radio). In reality, Josie, the romance advice DJ, is melancholy Joanne Holtzinger. Each episode has off-air vignettes that chart Joanne's journey to nationally syndicated sensation Josie Heller, and then back again when the mics are off.
I listened to the first episode and was fascinated and wildly entertained. The episode begins with Josie discussing first impressions on dates with her listeners, and then encouraging callers to discuss that topic. Josie's voice is faintly Southern - Western and has a breathless quality to it.
For those who know radio, Josie's voice and demeanor reminds me of Delilah, who is a well-known American radio personality. Her show -- on the air since 1996 -- perfected the format for call-in romantic advice radio shows and has an estimated eight million listeners.
Then the call-ins to the radio station begin. These calls are improvised by professionals, and Josie (Rachel Music) has to respond. The callers include a bouncer for the nu metal band Korn, who doesn't know how to talk to women and a man who recounts a tender slow dance with a woman, who abruptly walks out, leaving a shoe behind a la Cinderella.
Then, on a commercial break, we meet "Joanne," who is the real person behind Josie. We discover that unlike Josie, who dispenses advice on life and romance, Joanne needs support and guidance about her seemingly despairing life.
The calls are fascinating, funny, odd, weird, yet strangely touching.
"What results is an often hilarious and surprisingly human show
exploring the risks we idiots take every time we fall in or out of love."
The character Josie Heller was born in 2021 while Rachel Music drove from New York to LA with all of her possessions, her boyfriend, and her dog -- hopefully no in that order.
"The week-long road trip was full of colorful characters and long stints of AM radio on old Route 66. The germ of a great idea took root...and like most great ideas, the first iteration was crap, and it sat on her desktop."
Around this time, Rachel Music was picked to help write and voice season two of Superhuman Public Radio by its showrunner, Maximilian Clark, and the two clicked like Lois and Clark or Cagney And Lacey.
A few months later, when Rachel co-founded Good Story Guild, a
puzzle emerged: a show as nimble to produce as an unscripted podcast, but with arcs that deepen an audience’s connection to a flawed, vulnerable character. Together, puzzlers Maximilian and Rachel developed an ingenious hybrid– half-improv Olympics,
half writers room.
An ongoing experiment in creativity, Josie’s Lonely Hearts Club is designed to surprise:a living, breathing show with a narrative spine.
Rachel Music (co-creator, Josie) is a full-time artist and road-tested in New York's cabaret and cirque scene. She hosted and produced burlesque and circus revues as airborne, opera-singing Mistress
of Ceremonies Kittyhawk Boone before stepping into a production role. Her work spans theater, music and new media, including GUNS, A CABARET, the award-winning short WENDY/GIGI, and the TikTok series EAVESDROPPERS. Now in Los Angeles, Rachel is the co-founder of the Good Story Guild and executive director of the company's audio drama and podcast slate.
According to Rachel, she has lent her voice to children’s toys, rodeo commercials, and a lot of alien-on-human erotica.
Maximilian Clark (co-creator/showrunner, Frank) has written and/or directed festival winning films, web series, and audio dramas that provide insightful commentary on the human experience interspersed with slapstick and fart jokes. He’s largely responsible for the Starz digital series Llama Cop, and the audio drama Superhuman Public Radio on the Fable & Folly network. He’s been invited to the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal three times, and has been temporarily banned from the Podcast Movement festival in Denver for six months.
When he’s not being a creative menace in the world of fiction, he spends his time going undercover at Qanon rallies, producing content with Walter Masterson that exposes far right extremism through comedy and trolling. You can hear about their experiences on their politics podcast We Are Not Journalis.
Good Story Guild apparently birthed Jose's Lonely Hearts Club and when I googled the company this is what came up: "It is a time of crisis in the realm of storytelling: the barriers to entry are getting smaller, new technology continues to disrupt business models and power has consolidated into the hands of a few empires. Storytelling needs a new wave of heroes to usher in the next era. Instead, they got us - a guild of industry veterans, rogues and outsiders alike, brought together through a little serendipity and a passion for great story hooks. GSG is on a journey to bring back a little risk and danger to our beloved art form. Will you join us?"
I really have no idea what all that meant, but their manifesto is weird, intriguing, and I think we need a new true-crime podcast to investigate these people.
That said, this show is a rule breaker, a genre mash up of epic proportions, a half-scripted, half-improv Jekyll Hyde creation, and 30 minutes of all-out fun, genius, humanity exposed, and as outrageous as detective Benoit Blanc in Knives Out and Glass Onion.
Check out Josie’s Lonely Hearts Club. Even if you don't love it (which you will), you can get some romantic advice or insights on alien on human erotica.
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DISNEY STUDIO AU: José Carioca
Full Name: José Carioca
Other Names: Zé Carioca, Joe Carioca
Schools: Xurupita High School (graduated), Walt Disney University of Performing Arts (graduated)
Occuaption(s): Sub-Vocalist and Dancer of the Three Caballeros, Samba pop/jazz singer
Residence: Xurupita Village, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Family: Zico and Zeca Carioca (nephews), 6 cousins
Relationships: Rosinha Vaz (ex-girlfriend), Donald Fauntleroy Duck (best friend; fellow member of the Three Caballeros), Panchito Pistoles (best friend; fellow member of the Three Caballeros), Nestor (childhood friend), Afonsinho (childhood friend), Pedrão (childhood friend), Galdino “Zé Galo” Chaves (rival->occasional friend->???)
Likes: Brazilian music (especially Samba), Latin Music & Dances, drinking, traveling, parties, singing, dancing, foreign cultures & music, telenovela
Dislikes: Malicious comments against Donald or Panchito
José Carioca is a sub-vocalist and dancer of the Three Caballeros, the latin-pop boy band. He is also a Samba pop/jazz singer in Brazil. From same university with his two friends Panchito and Donald, the group was formed sharing same passion and pursuit for music career. In most of their songs, José takes control in dance break to rile up the fans at concert. The most calm and polite individual, he is the peacemaker between his team and other rivaling musicians in a middle of intense rivalry. Among the trio, José is most known for having great counts of scandal (with men, women, non-binary, etc).
Born in Xurupita village since childhood, he usually hang out with his childhood friends Nestor, Afonsinho and Pedrão. It is known he has six cousins who live in separate states within Brazil. While he loved to sing, he began to fear of losing his singing voice as he entered puberty. Believing that changing his male reproductive organ to female's would solve his fear, he used all his part-time job money to pay for the surgery, which miraculously, he was able to retain his androgynous singing voice. With his natural talents in dancing and singing, he decided to move to United States in order to learn performing arts as soon as he graduated high school. At one point, he struggled to carry his musical instruments and was about to fall until Donald caught him and his instruments safely. Impressed, José quickly befriended him. When hearing of forming a band, José offered his idea of having three in a group as both scouted Panchito, the Mexican student. Since then, the three friends wrote songs and performed from USA to other Latin American nations. When he confessed to them of his past of surgery, the two nonetheless accepted José. When they were preparing for Europe Tour, Donald's neck was injured causing him to unable to sing. José was seen tearfully bidding goodbye to Donald who left for his 4 years of service in the Navy. Due to the recording company's high demanding and irresponsible supervisions/control, both José and Panchito left the company. While Panchito became a mariachi and Mexican pop singer in Mexico, José returned to Brazil where he became a Samba pop/jazz singer under the stage name Zé. He reunited with his childhood friends and encountered Rosinha Vaz, beginning his relationship with her.
At some point, he thought of marrying Rosinha but was harshly scorned by her father Rocha Vaz who have already planned to set her up with Galdino “Zé Galo” Chaves, the Top1 wealthiest in Brazil. José was unfairly scorned by Rosinha's father, calling him "Castrato Tranny", mocking Panchito and Donald and insulted his family. In anger for the first time, José warned him to never mock his family, friends and their dream, adding that the old man had jinxed himself and would die someday with all money useless to him. While dated Rosinha, he felt as if she was putting him and Zé Galo on the hook, growing less confident of himself. Yet, he find himself occasionally befriend his love rival. One day, he received a call from Panchito about the plan to restore Donald's singing voice. Understanding Donald's wish to comeback as "Three Caballeros", he put his friend's dream first as he broke up with Rosinha and agreed to perform in the hotel owned by Chaves family. With enough money earned, he left Brazil and moved back to USA. When Donald's voice was finally cured, the three made their comeback in House of Mouse, confirming their return and continuing their careers together.
Because of his experience in raising two nephews before Donald's surgery, José is one of very few who is able to handle Huey, Dewey and Louie's antics. Being a member representing LGBTQ+, majority of his fans are of same community and often perform songs in Pride Parades/Carnivals. He has a somewhat naive side when advised by Donald in writing songs through expressing or telling stories genuinely, José released his single song "Amazonian Cuckhold" based on the legend of Encantado/the Amazonian Pink Dolphin, adding spice with story in a song; in a POV of Encantado who found the lonely girl in a party as her boyfriend stood her up with other girls, so Encantado wooed/seduced the girl while insulting her boyfriend. Despite the censorship, the song has become a cautionary tale to never take the received love for granted or someone better would steal their lover away.
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Reflecting on my top 10 things of the year, but every item has to involve both a best part and a silly part:
Hiking to lake garibaldi, but taking a red-eye back to the east coast and driving home to start my first day of work after sleeping in my car, hiking 13 miles and 6000 feet, sleeping in a tent, and hiking another 8 miles or so. plus some driving. and also nearly leaving my phone with the tent rental people (thanks to the guy at vancouver rent-a-tent for driving back after they'd closed to look for my phone)
Feeling the history of humanity at Teotihuacan, but getting so miserably sunburnt that I couldn't lift my arms without wincing. right before I met all my coworkers for the first time. while looking like a lobster.
flying over the mountains near Vancouver and seeing a bear next to the runway in Pemberton
Successfully navigating Mexico City's transit to visit some churches, but confidently walking into a men's restroom
Kayaking in Lagos but getting miserably seasick when we sat out in the open waves for a while
hiking and kayaking and concerting through the northeast (hey New Hampshire & Connecticut) but arriving 2 hours ahead at newark instead of laguardia and SPRINTING across the city, cutting lines in the airport, and arriving at my gate shortly before last call
Eating the tastiest cardamom pistachio rosewater waffle in Chatham NJ after a hike but getting the migraine of the century while stuck in traffic 3+ hours from home
e'last attempt except then the concert was cancelled so instead we just invited random strangers to come hang out with us in a karaoke room
Going to a great concert in belmont but still being fucked up afterwards, dozing in a sedan directly in front of a house in a random neighborhood, and then deciding at 3am that I was good to drive to a state park an hour away so that I could sleep in my car in peace. removing myself from my car at 5am to sleep on the pavement in more comfort, but being woken up by crows at 6am and going back in my car. proceeding to go see Crystal Pite and David Dawson's amazing works by National Ballet of Canada and then sleeping in a different random park in NJ where it was Very Wet and I couldn't leave the car.
Visits to friends in Wisconsin and Nashville! The dance was terrible but the art and the company were top tier.
(honorable mention) getting a job and then proceeding to leave 'FOR FUCKS SAKE' in my submitted code where my bosses could see it because debugging got very frustrating
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