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lazyrants · 5 days

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Happy Brush Day (prod 110)

BoredJedi (youtube.com/user/LazyBlueHaze) gave me an .iso of the “Superhero” Australian DVD from 2008. To finally put the .iso to use, I decided to take all the screenshots in this episode myself. I also watched it using VLC.

Original airdate: August 25, 2004

Story by Magnus Scheving

Written by Noah Zachary, Cole Louie, Mo Williem, Magnus Scheving

Directed by Magnus Scheving

Executive producers - Magnus Scheving, Ragnheidur Melsted, Raymond P. Le Gue, Mark Read, Brown Johnson, Kay Wilson Stallings

Starring Magnus Scheving, Stefan Karl Steffanson, Julianna Rose Mauriello

Puppeteers - Ronald Binion, Gudmondor Thor Karason, Jodi Eichelberger, David Matthew Feldman, Julie Westwood, Amanda Maddock

Happy Brush Day is the first of two episodes focusing on Ziggy's birthday (not to mention the spinoff where he is the main star), so I guess the producers finally realized that Ziggy has some story potential.

The episode begins with some foreshadowing - Sportacus brushing his teeth in his airship. I call this foreshadowing because the episode is about brushing your teeth (kinda). Anyways, the citizens in LazyTown have just woken up happily (excluding Robbie who hilariously uses packing peanuts to drown the noise of his alarm).

Stingy is admiring his collection of four toothbrushes (Is it really necessary to own more than one toothbrush..??). Pixel is using one of his gadgets to brush his teeth (later on in the episode he has completely forgotten what it is) and Stingy keeps his in a lock. Meanwhile, Ziggy is still asleep using his lollipop as a cushion.

Anyways, Robbie is eating his scrumdiddlyumptious creamy cake (My god, I just want a bite of that), and Pixel walks over to Ziggy's to tell him it's his seventh birthday. This just aggravates me, WHO NEEDS TO BE WOKEN UP ON THEIR BIRTHDAY?! My birthday is in one of those 2 week school breaks, and in one of those days you couldn't blow a horn to get me to wake up before 11am. But on my birthday I wake up at 7am with no problem. Anyways, Ziggy is mailing a letter to Sportacus while eating taffy.

Anyways, when Ziggy mentions his birthday, Robbie spits out his cake. He has another devious plan. In my opinion, I never really liked the idea of ruining Ziggy's birthday. His plan was to make a machine that spewed taffy all over the place. 1 - Ziggy loves taffy. 2 - It's his birthday. 3 - Ziggy loves taffy. Meanwhile, the kids are deciding what to get him for his birthday.

Anyways, when Stingy mentions all he wants is taffy every year, he pops up looking for taffy. Now, forgive me, since Taffy was invented in the US, but, it is really that good??

Also, if you didn't notice (SOMEONE must have noticed), the background music for when he walks out the shot is a reprise of 'Siggi' from Afram Latibaer. Anyways, Robbie does his classic disguise time (I think this is the funniest of the first season).

Robbie decides that to accompany his outfit (that looks like something a fairy from a 2000s 3D animated straight-to-VHS movie classified "G" by the Australian Classification Board would wear) with a gift. Off camera he thinks up the perfect thing. Meanwhile, Sportacus has gotten Ziggy's letter, which is one of those cards that plays an undeniably catchy tune when you open it.

Sportacus is having some trouble deciding what to give Ziggy as a gift (his first two choices being balls). Anyways, the camera cuts off to Milford putting up the birthday stage for Ziggy. Everyone is excited for the party until Bessie comes with her birthday speech for little 'Wiggie', then everyone is seriously dreading it. (judging from a transcription Chris Crow made on the GL forums, Bessie possibly just wrote down random words on a piece of paper and lied to herself.)

Anyways, after a bit of begging, Milford is convinced to start the party with the presents. Very surprisingly, Stingy decides to go first. His gift is a quarter-bitten piece of taffy. A single one. You can see from the box there were supposed to be nine pieces.

Anyways, Stingy takes back the box & the lid. I don't know why it's so funny. "Happy birthday, here's my gift, gimme the packaging." So anyways, Trixie goes next, and HER gift is a jack in the box. (If I was Ziggy, personally I wouldn't take that kinda disrespect.) So anyways, Pixel gives him his gift which is in an envelope. Ziggy is thankful enough for the envelope (what a pure soul), until Pixel tells him to OPEN the envelope.

In the envelope is a piece of paper that reads "www.taffy.com" (it's a real website and is still up to this day, it's just not related to LazyTown at all). It turns out to be a website Pixel has made consisting of "jpegs of every taffy ever made!" I get this was written in 2004, but why JPEGS? PNG for the wiiiin!! (I'd geniunely enjoy that gift, but maybe with something else like LazyTown screenshots or old 80s action movie posters.)

So, anyways, Ziggy wants to eat the taffy and is kinda annoyed when Pixel says it isn't possible. Anyways, when Bessie announces she has added five more extra minutes to her speech, Milford gives HIS gift, which is a huge square of taffy flavoured taffy.

Stephanie's gift is her very own choreographed 'Taffy Cheer!' and everyone likes it so much Ziggy even says he could taste the victory taffy. Coming from a boy whose whole diet consists of candy, that is the highest compliment you can receive.

Anyways, Sportacus does a frontflip into the scene right about when Bessie is about to start her speech. (Is it just me or do the events if this show have TOO many coincidences some times?)

Sportacus is hyping his gift up very much. Ziggy guesses a truckload of different candies twice, but Sportacus does an amazing flip (he doesn't have the box in his hand in this shot), lands on his feet and shows Ziggy the toothbrush (now he is holding the toothbrush but there is no box to be seen?).

Anyways, everyone has some questions. Pixel wants to know where the remote control is and if you have to plug it in. Eventually he searches it up in his database, but Ziggy still has no idea what it is. Then he reveals that he keeps some of his favourite foods in his food. Everyone is disgusted. Including me.

Anyways, they sing a whole two minute (recommended length for brushing your teeth) song about brushing your teeth the Twenty Times way. After it's finished, Ziggy shows more interest in brushing his teeth until The Birthday Fairy (a disguised Robbie) shows up. Trixie makes fun of him, indirectly insulting Stephanie (you're girlier then she is, and that is saying a lot!)

Anyways, Robbie (or Pixel) introduces his (honestly really cool) gift, the Electro Ultra Voice Activated Candy Matic! Robbie then reveals that Ziggy and only Ziggy can tell it what to do which is a pretty dumb thing. What if Ziggy falls asleep and while he does he says that his friends can have some of his taffy?

Anyways, Ziggy throws Sportacus' gift on the floor, and I'm surprised Sportacus didn't get mad. You know how bratty you have to be to throw your birthday gift away in front of the gifter? Anyways, Ziggy calls for taffy a bunch of times and he catches most of it in his mouth. Stingy is kinda annoyed.

Or as the subtitles say.. (SEETHING WITH RAGE). Anyways, Stingy climbs right up to the thing and yells TAFFY as loud as he can. Then his face gets splattered. Robbie, the liar! Anyways, while nobody is looking, Robbie deviously puts the level of taffy up to 'red', and taffy starts flying all over the place.. really fast! However, Ziggy can't yell 'stop' because his mouth is full of yellow taffy.

Anyways, it's not long before the stage becomes a sea of taffy, Sportacus goes up to his airship to get some sports equipment to stop the machine and Robbie's advice is to just eat the candy. Milford announces it and everyone starts eating.

Anyways, Robbie quickly gets tired of the taffy and he decides to go back to his car, but unfortunately he cannot drive away. Totally your fault, dude. You started this by putting it on RED. Anyways, his car is basically underwater, except the taffy is the water.

Meanwhile, Sportacus is in his airship, carrying some tennis rackets in his shirt (some of the frames are slowed down, possibly to meet the 24:42 time limit or just look cooler), and the taffy is up to the chins of the puppets. So Bessie grabs onto the birthday banner (in real life that would've just ripped off). Anyways, Sportacus has arrived and he starts hitting every single piece of taffy that comes his way, and for a few seconds the machine stops working.

Sportacus puts on his goggles (it's taffy, not salty ass water) and he dives in to find Ziggy's toothbrush. He doesn't move for a few seconds and everyone thinks he's dead (I don't blame them) until he pops up with the toothbrush!

Stingy throws the toothbrush to Ziggy and he brushes his teeth the Twenty Times way. Finally, he gets the taffy out his mouth and yells STOP!!!

Finally! (: Anyways, Robbie puts his arm through the door and waves it out frantically so Sportacus notices him. Sportacus pulls off his hat and everybody realizes that it was Robbie all along!

Anyways, they sing the Bing Bang song while Bessie does her speech. Now this is the part I don't like because it just scraps what Bessie and the kids said earlier in the episode - the speech goes on and on and on (and this year she added five more minutes), but the Bing Bang song is only 53 seconds and somehow she finishes her speech in the span of the whole Bing Bang song. Anyways, good episode.

THE END.

So kids, what did we learn in this episode of LazyTown? Brush your teeth every day and night or a bunch of taffy will come flying out of nowhere and nearly drown you.

7/10

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hayleylwong · 1 year

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reflection 05-02-2023 9:15pm

9:15 - today i am annoyed and frustrated. my roommates have been getting bolder and i am still unable to confront them. today i returned to my dorm and found the fairy lights from my box from angie turned off. i thought this was odd bc they dont turn off bc the switch is broken and u have to use a safety pin or something similar. anyways after inspection it appeared that the battery case of the lights had been broken into and a battery taken out so that the lights would turn off. theyre not even that bright and ive seen my roommates literally sleep with their laptops on playing shows out loud all night. anyways the battery thing was extra annoying bc the panel that comes off to change the batteries was missing the little pieces that keep it attached so they literally broke it im very upset. also i only ate like ten caramel things from the bag that was in there and now its a lot less full. i am very upset but i dont know how to confront them. i also think they ate the rest of my trader joe takis idk why they think i wont notice if they just leave a few left. there were like ten left in there when i brought it back and then i opened it again and there were two. who is such a glutton that they go through someones stuff just to take like eight pieces. i have begun to take before and after pictures of all my stuff so i will know if they have gone through it. i think they also ate my granola bc the bag was resealed differently than how i do it. i would never clip it back so ugly. i also think they ate my pretzels and peanut butter cups and i know they ate my chocolate pretzels last week. and they definitely ate my chips too i dont understand why they dont just go buy it themselves theyre literally all international and out of state and have expensive unnecessary products. my tissue box that i only used three tissues from was empty too do they really think if they leave two left that i will gaslight myself into thinking i used a hundred tissues in half a week when i literally wasnt even in the dorm for more than like an hour total. also i started to feel a pimple forming on my nose so i went to get one of my pimple patches and the box that i know there were at least 12 left an entire whole sheet was left and it was just the packaging i am very upset especially because they are twice as expensive at the westwood target. whose disgusting face needs to use that many pimple patches i am very upset. i am going to start using their olaplex and kerastase hair products in the shower and using their expensive face products i do not care anymore. i am very upset. i am going to ask my ra friend for advice and tell him that next time they throw in the dorm he should go yell at them. he should also tell them that youre violating our roommate agreement by having unannounced guests over half the week sleeping in the living room. i want to start leaving my food to spoil on purpose so that when they eat it they get food poisoning or something i am very upset. i dont understand why they feel the need to take my stuff im literally going to keep a log of everything missing and charge them at the end of the quarter. they broke my fridge and the freezer part has no door anymore and is covered in like an inch of ice. and i swear i had another two bags of frozen stuff in there that is now gone so they probably ate that too. literally whenever i open anything they take it upon themselves to eat half of whatevers in there and leave like a tiny bit left wtf. but i am very bad at confrontation but i prob need to try by myself before going to the ra. i am very upset. literally what did i do to them. i am very upset. oh yeah today i got like six hours of sleep and ate grilled cheese and tomato soup from kerckhoff cafe and then got boba from sharetea and then i had ramen from feast for dinner and i got cafe 1919 for dessert. everything was so good. after my laundry which i have time to do for the first time in three weeks ! after i finish i am going on a topgolf date w my friend lol. hes paying ahaha. i hope i still have time to meet my club friends after.

10:53 - we are not going to topgolf anymore bc the waitlist is full. oh well lol i feel like he did this on purpose so that i would have to pay for it next time bc we agreed to alternate paying for dates. we are still going somewhere though i guess.

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demonbanger · 2 years

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Hullo !! 😁 How go your design projects ?? Hope you’re having a great Monday, and a lovely rest of your week !! ☀️💞

HIIIIII my projects are going well :3 I’m making 20 diff designs and have to get them done and digitized by Thursday, I chose Vivienne Westwood as my brand to make a portfolio for their fall 2023 collection. ITS A LOT!! And I have to go sample shopping for fabric interfacing , a snap button, and a zipper. Currently eating peanut butter and fried rice before I have a big leg day 😈😈😈😈 my coworker wants to see my big leg pump when I lift some weights. We GO JIM 💪🏽💪🏽🔱✨

I hope you are doing super and have a wonderful day and start of your week. What are your plans?!

#🔮—ask demon daddy #caught me monologuing over here #meowzfordayz 💕🐱#lovely mutuals #ask demon daddy

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vanadiumwang23 · 3 years

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april 25, 2021

sleep: 8 hours (4 + 4, sleeping at work is not it)

food: half a peanut butter jelly sandwich, breakfast burrito, chocolate chip w/ walnut cookie mocha almond fudge ice cream sandwich, keema noodle (curry, pico de gallo, green onion, corn, and shredded chili peppers) from Menya Tigre

plan: work, send out emails, drive to ww, study, ice cream w mk (got to ride in the Tesla 😎), meeting, dinner w friend, study

reflection: i have to stop sleeping at work it feels so bad, need to focus in more, going to westwood is fun getting to see friends and eating good food :)

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michaeljacksoncaptaineo · 3 years

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Michael Jackson & Lisa Marie Presley (1994-1996)

7-A Michael Jackson Family Friend Orders a wedding Chocolate for the newlyweds – August 2, 1994:

The following day after Lisa Marie’s confirmation of her and Michael’s wedding, an anonymous who introduced himself as a Jackson family friend called Frank Sheftel , a candy maker, and ordered 1,000 chocolate bars about the size of a business card, with raised letters that say, “Lisa Marie and Michael.”

LA Times:

Jackson-Presley Order Is Sweet for Candy Maker

By VIVIEN LOU CHENAUG. 9, 199412 AM

The man on the phone was mysterious, identifying himself only as a friend of Michael Jackson’s family.

But what he wanted from Frank Sheftel, a San Fernando Valley candy maker, was absolutely clear: 1,000 chocolate bars about the size of a business card, with raised letters that say, “Lisa Marie and Michael.”

A heart and a musical note were also to appear somewhere on the bars.

“At first, I’m thinking nothing,” said Sheftel, 33, a fast-talking chocolate lover who has owned the Candy Factory in Sherman Village since 1990.

Then I’m thinking, ‘Lisa Marie and Michael. . . .’ And then he’s telling me where he wants them delivered and I’m thinking, ‘Oh wow. Big wow.’ ”

The Jackson family friend ordered the sweets last Monday, when Lisa Marie Presley confirmed the previously doubted rumors of her marriage to the pop superstar.

In a polite and straightforward manner, the unidentified man told Sheftel to deliver the chocolates to four places: the Jackson family estate in Encino, Michael Jackson’s production company in Westwood, Graceland–the Elvis Presley mansion–in Memphis, Tenn., and the Trump Tower in New York, where the couple were honeymooning.

The reaction of co-workers at the candy store was initially one of disbelief. “With them making it public, then obviously it’s true,” said Sheftel’s mother, Gloria, who helped prepare the chocolates.

Within hours after the order was placed, a courier arrived at the Candy Factory carrying a sealed envelope with $100 bills in it, Frank Sheftel said.

The candy maker declined to reveal how much the order cost, but said such work typically runs as high as $3,000.

It took a team of five people to prepare the 1,000 bars, pouring melted Nestle’s chocolate into plastic molds they made from a master mold prepared by an outside firm, and wrapping them in gold foil. Half of the bars were delivered last week, while the other half will be shipped today by express mail.

This brush with fame is nothing unusual for Sheftel. In March, the candy maker created 300 10-inch-tall chocolates shaped like the Oscar statuette for a party hosted by studio executive Mark Canton. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences sued Sheftel, saying it was trying to protect Oscar’s image.

The two sides recently settled out of court, with Sheftel paying the academy $1,500 and turning over many of the Oscar-shaped candy he used.

Last year, the entertainment industry turned to Sheftel for the movie “Forrest Gump.” In it, Tom Hanks’ character eats a box of chocolates while sitting on a bus bench and telling his life story to strangers. Sheftel says he made the chocolates Hanks eats in the film because Hanks is partial to certain types of chocolates, including a special variety with centers of Rice Krispies and marshmallow.

“I thought it was very weird,” said Sheftel–who himself eats two chocolate bars a day and sells chocolate-coated potato chips. “I thought, ‘Why can’t they go to a store and buy assorted chocolates?’ They said, ‘No, no, no. It’s got to be something Tom Hanks would like to eat.’ All I knew was it was a movie called ‘Forrest Gump.’ I thought it was about a park ranger.”

For the Jackson-Presley order, the Sherman Oaks native turned to the tabloid media to cash in on the celebrity sweets. The National Enquirer was willing to pay thousands of dollars for the story, Sheftel said, but it wanted exclusive rights for three weeks.

So he went to the television program “Hard Copy,” which broadcast his story Friday, demanding only that he not talk to other TV reporters. He says he was paid “thousands of dollars” by the program–he will not say how much–but the show’s producers will not confirm that.

Sheftel makes no apologies for his decision to go public.

“It’s a fun story,” he said. “It’s not like I’m showing a picture of them on their honeymoon.

This is a sweet story, no pun intended,” he said.

Sun Sentinel:

ELVIS WOULD HAVE BEEN PROUD

LEAH GARCHIK San Francisco Chronicle

SUN-SENTINEL

Frank Sheftel, owner of the Candy Factory in Los Angeles, has revealed that on the day he learned of the marriage of Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson, he got an order for 1,000 candy bars reading "Lisa Marie and Michael" decorated with a musical note and a heart.

No dummy he, "I'm thinking, 'Oh, wow,'" Sheftel told the Associated Press. The order was broken up for delivery to the Jackson family estate, Graceland, Trump Tower and Jackson's production company in Los Angeles. He was paid in cash by a courier.

Note to the newlyweds: The candy bars were each the size of a business card; according to our calculations, they must contain at least 50 calories each.

That's a total of 50,000 calories, for which you could have consumed at least 125 peanut butter and banana sandwiches, a more fitting tribute to the late father of the bride.

#mj mjj mjlegacy mjiisthebestofthebest michaeljackson moonwalker applehead mjisinnocent mjfanandproudofit #neverland #mjthehusband #chocolate

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adelaideoldburg · 4 years

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SSO Name: Bigdream

Name: Westwood Betty (Betty)

Clydesdale Mare

Story:

Betty is a prized young show mare that resides in Fort Pinta. Her stunning coloration makes her a popular horse for visitors. So to exploit that, James had a wonderful idea of establishing parades that would go through Fort Pinta, Moorland, and Silverglade where she would be the star of the show (along with Mayor Peanut of course). Adelaide met the outgoing mare when helping James set up the parade.

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formeryelpers · 4 years

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Penguin’s Place, 2180 Westwood Blvd., Ste 1A, Los Angeles (West Los Angeles), CA 90025

Fro-yo girl here. Penguin’s has been serving froyo from this strip mall spot since 1989. It’s right across the street from another old school froyo shop, The Bigg Chill. I visited during the coronavirus restrictions and was impressed with the cleanliness, customer service, and variety.

They offer 14 flavors of froyo a day (not self-serve), McConnell’s Fine Ice Creams of Santa Barbara (good ice cream), smoothies, shakes, sundaes, and froyo cakes and pies. Custom orders are available. For froyo/soft serve, they have no sugar added, low carb, and non-dairy options. Samples were placed on a tray by a gloved employee. I didn’t think they would even offer samples because of the virus.

Froyo flavors of the day:

Ghirardelli chocolate

Vanilla classic

Peanut butter

Original tart: okay, standard

Caffe latte

Creamy mint

Greek honey

Mountain blackberry

Chocolate butter brickle NSA

Carbolite tart

Carbolite oatmeal cookie

Carbolite malted chocolate

Dream Delite nutty nut

Vegan pina colada

The containers of toppings were full and attractive looking. Toppings include candies, cookies, sprinkles, different types of chocolate chips, cookie dough (not tiny pieces, but the real dough), marshmallows, sauces, fruit, jellies, nuts, granola, etc. I spotted Hello Panda cookies, which I rarely see.

Froyo prices: Small $4/ Regular $4.50/ Large $5.25/ Pint $6/ Quart $8

Oatmeal cookie Carbolite (small with topping, $4 + $1.25): A small was a good size and came with lots of Hello Panda cookies. The yogurt was smooth and creamy. The flavor was pleasant and somewhat resembled oatmeal cookie, but it was a weak resemblance. I’d say the yogurt was on the bland side but pleasant.

I noticed that they have Electro Freeze soft serve machines and I was impressed with the texture of their froyo. They must be maintaining those machines well. The interior had old signs but it looked very clean.

The froyo flavors of the day are listed on their website. You can also sign up for weekly flavor updates via email. Credit cards are accepted and they offer contactless payment. You can order delivery via Postmates on their website. Parking is surprisingly easy because they have their own shared lot and parking structure.

Long live Penguin’s Place!

You know you love me. X0 X0, fro-yo girl.

4 out of 5 stars.

By Lolia S.

#Penguin's Place #Penguin's Frozen Yogurt #froyo #frozen yogurt #Westwood Village #Los Angeles froyo #Carbolite #froyo shop review #Electro Freeze

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christsbride · 4 years

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A Step at a Time

1 Kings 17:4

God's direction includes God's provision. God says, "Go to the brook. I will provide." Vance Havner, in his book, It Is Toward Evening, tells the story of a group of farmers who were raising cotton in the Deep South when the devastating boll weevil invaded the crops. These men had put all of their savings, dedicated all of their fields, set all of their hopes in cotton. Then the boll weevil came. Before long, it looked as if they were headed for the poorhouse.

But farmers, being the determined and ingenious people they are, decided, "Well, we can't plant cotton, so let's plant peanuts." Amazingly, those peanuts brought them more money than they would have ever made raising cotton. When the farmers realized that what had seemed like a disaster had actually proved to be a boon, they erected a large and impressive monument to the boll weevil—a monument to the very thing they once thought would destroy them.

"Sometimes we settle into a humdrum routine as monotonous as growing cotton year after year," says Havner, himself a seasoned old saint of God at the time he wrote these words. "Then God sends the boll weevil; He jolts us out of our groove, and we must find new ways to live. Financial reverses, great bereavement, physical infirmity, loss of position—how many have been driven by trouble to be better husbandmen and to bring forth far finer fruit from their souls! The best thing that ever happened to some of us was the coming of our 'boll weevil.'"1

When God directs, God provides. That's what sustained Elijah during his boot camp experience.

We have to learn to trust God one day at a time. Did you notice that God never told Elijah what the second step would be until he had taken the first step? God told His prophet to go to Ahab. When Elijah got to the palace, God told him what to say. After he said it, God told him, "Now, go to the brook." He didn't tell Elijah what was going to happen at Cherith; He just said, "Go to the brook and hide yourself." Elijah didn't know the future, but he did have God's promise: "I'll provide for you there." And God didn't tell him the next step until the brook had dried up.

Vance Havner, It Is Toward Evening (Westwood, N.J.: Fleming Revell, a division of Baker Books, 1968), 39-40.

from Chuck Swindoll's Daily Devotional https://ift.tt/37Wtc2A via IFTTT

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laughingatmynightmare · 5 years

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What Made Me Smile This Week:

Monday 2/18: During the day, while I’m working and writing, I like to snack on mini Ritz peanut butter sandwiches. Recently, I decided to experiment and try a cheaper off-brand. The experiment failed. The off-brand version tasted like mini cardboard pellets. What makes me smile is that Hannah keeps trying to sneak a few of these disgusting abominations into my bowl of regular Ritz crackers, so as to use up the off-brand supply without wasting. Her attempts are cute and noble, but she hasn’t tricked me yet.

Tuesday 2/19: Hannah and I visited WestWood Elementary in Minnesota this morning, where we read my children’s book to a group of kindergarteners. One of the students lives with SMA, and it made me smile to meet his friends and compare wheelchairs with him.

Wednesday 2/20: A glass of Chardonnay while watching House Hunters International made me smile tonight. Oh god, I’m becoming such an adult!

Thursday 2/21: I did a Virtual Visit for a group of students in Canada this afternoon! One of the students asked me what the best part is of being disabled, which made me smile. My answer was learning how to adapt as my disease makes things challenging at times.

Friday 2/22: Hannah’s mom made us a delicious homemade meal of Parmesan chicken and pasta, which tasted so good after a few weeks of scrounging for food in our apartment. It made me smile, and full.

Saturday 2/23: Hannah and I arrived at our apartment (after spending a night at her parents’ house) to discover 8 inches of snow covering our front walkway. There was no way for me to get inside. It was painfully cold and windy, but my actual goddess of a girlfriend grabbed the shovel and dug me a path to the door. I love you, Hannah, and you make me smile.

Sunday 2/24: Tonight we began filming a very exciting project with our friend Chris from Special Books by Special Kids. It makes me smile that we’re creating something really cool together!

What made you smile this week?

#wmms

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Thanks to her family connections, she was seen for a number of jobs in the late 90s and became a bit of a favourite of Vivienne Westwood. Westwood's team used to make a point of letting the models pick the music they put on in the studio as a way of helping them to relax and feel comfortable on a shoot.

Ivanka's choice of music, every single time? Jamiroquai. Which she would then sing along to.

Peanut from the Kaiser Chiefs is preparing to run his 100th park run over the Christmas holidays.

>> Bah humbug <<More drama at the BBC

The BBC is going heavy on trailing their version of A Christmas Carol this year, making a big song and dance out of the fact it stars Guy Pearce, is written by Peaky Blinders' Steven Knight and has been exec produced by Tom Hardy. One person who's been a little left out in the cold though is director Nick Murphy.

Poor Nick was so miffed that the BBC didn't invite him to take part in a special Q&A event about the show that he ended up turning up anyway to rage at the head of BBC Drama there. His ire hasn't just been reserved for TV execs either as he's started taking pot shots at Tom Hardy on Twitter too, claiming that the catering department was more involved in production than Hardy.

There may be some lingering resentment there, as Hardy was set to star in A Christmas Carol (as well as produce) until he suddenly decided to bail out. But if you ask us, Nick, you had a lucky escape.

On set at Hardy and Knight's previous BBC1 collab, Taboo, crew members reported that Hardy wasn't shy about staying in character, stark-bollock naked, for much of the time. And we can only imagine what it would have been like trying to direct with the Ghost of Christmas Past's dick and balls wafting all around.

Nick Cave Watch: Everyone's favourite goth dad was spotted at an Elton John concert in Melbourne this week.

>> Picture this <<More corporate creepiness

One of Jeffrey Epstein's former employees claims that Epstein kept a 6ft portrait of his mysterious 'fixer' Ghislaine Maxwell above the pool in his sprawling New Mexico mansion. Not just any old portrait though. One of her naked and "posing provocatively".

He wouldn't be the first icky businessman to have had a life-size nudey portrait of a close associate on their wall though. West Ham's porn-purveying chairman, David Sullivan, was once well known in the football world for having a huge painting hung in his basement office.

Of his now Vice-Chairman at West Ham FC, Dame Karren Brady.Andy Coulson has been advised by friends that having his own name in his new PR firm (Coulson Partners) is enough to stop most major organisations from hiring them. So far it's advice that he (and his ego) seem unwilling to take.

>> Shaky casting <<Merry Christmas everyone!

This year's bleak seasonal murder drama, Responsible Child (based on the real life story of a 14 year-old killer who was tried as an adult and jailed) has been getting rave reviews.

Whether it was the shocking nature of the story, or the impressive performance of the child actor who inhabited the role, we couldn't tell you, but for some reason most of the reviews have failed to mention the most important thing about the production.

The kid who plays the murderer is the grandson of Shakin' Stevens.

This week's Media Masters podcast is a chat with historian and broadcaster David Starkey. His outspoken, unforgiving style and trenchant opinions have earned him a reputation as being "the rudest man in Britain". In this in-depth interview he explains the impact it's had over his career.

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>> One love <<The race for Xmas No.1

Now that The X Factor is an utterly spent force, and December streaming is dominated by seasonal classics, the annual race for Christmas No.1 has become a much more unpredictable beast.

Re-releases are subjected to permanent ACR restrictions ('Accelerated Chart Ratio') with streaming, which basically means that old, established classics have to generate twice the number of streams as new tracks in order to compete. (Without this, three of the top four last Friday would have been Mariah Carey, Wham! and The Pogues.)

So who's in the running this year? There's another tedious song about sausage rolls from Ladbaby (hideous; but for a good cause). There's the inevitable Ed Sheeran (this year on Stormzy's record). And of course, there's the now traditional Facebook campaign choice.

Facebook campaigns are a bit of a lost cause but it has to be said: of all the songs that the British public could have picked to champion this year, Jarvis Cocker's "(Cunts Are Still) Running The World", is a pretty good one.

[Join the campaign]

REO Speedwagon's original of Can't Fight This Feeling has been streamed more than Bastille's John Lewis ad cover since its release in mid-November.

>> Electile dysfunction <<Another cock up on the Beeb

On election day, there are very strict rules in the UK which forbid news organisations from discussing politics until polling is closed. Which means that news teams have to ignore the biggest story of the day and compile their news bulletins from whatever innocuous filler they can drum up instead.

As part of their non-political Six O'Clock News broadcast last Thursday, BBC1 chose to air an item about the postal service and people sending tiny items in oversized parcels. Alas, it seems there was a very good reason that the Six O'Clock News hadn't touched that story previously.

One of the parcels that was prominently displayed as part of the pre-watershed segment clearly showed a cock ring.Nominative Determinism of the Week: The Senior doorkeeper of the House of Commons... Phil Howse!

>> 2019: The Annual <<A last little gift from us

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It's totally free, and features some of our favourite stories of the year. Print it off at work! Use it as last-minute wrapping paper! Give a copy to your most corruptible niece or nephew!

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Rowan Atkinson deepfaked Dior advert

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The reviews of Cats are restoring our faith and trust in journalism

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Need to stock up on wine before the holidays kick off? Naked Wines is offering Popbitch readers the chance to get a case of six sumptuous bottles, plus free delivery, for just £19.99.

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40 years since the Muppets/John Denver Christmas special

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A crash course in the 100 most memorable memes of the decade

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Dr. Rottenstein (prod 116)

Original airdate: September 27, 2004

Story by Rocky Garibaldi, Tom K. Mason, Dan Danko, Magnus Scheving

Written by Noah Zachary, Cole Louie, Magnus Scheving

Directed by Magnus Scheving

Executive producers - Magnus Scheving, Ragnheidur Melsted, Raymond P. Le Gue, Mark Read, Brown Johnson, Kay Wilson Stallings

Starring Magnus Scheving, Stefan Karl Steffanson, Julianna Rose Mauriello

Puppeteers - Ronald Binion, Gudmondor Thor Karason, Jodi Eichelberger, David Matthew Feldman, Julie Westwood, Amanda Maddock

Rottenstein is one of the most recognized episodes of the show. So today I'm going to be revisiting it.

The episode begins with an awesome Sportacus move that was taken from the pilot in 2003 - he throws a watermelon in the air, does a cartwheel, jumps in the air and does a handstand on the watermelon. Then he stands up, kicks the watermelon and then does the power jump. Then he eats the watermelon. Not only is it the best trick he's ever done but the melon doesn't break!

The episode begins with the LazyTown kids growing some sports candy in their.. well.. gardening clothes. Stingy has marked everything he's grown with a sign that says 'Mine' (A lil bit excessive) Ziggy attempts to carry a box full of tomatoes because he's the world's strongest hero.

However he manages to carry it.. actually Sportacus does. Ziggy ponders about how Sportacus is so strong and then he says he gets it from Sports Candy (a carrot). But Robbie is eavesdropping. We all know where this'll go, right..?

He then does a cool flip to demonstrate. However, his crystal beeps and he frontflips over Robbie out of the screen. Robbie then asks himself about 'HOW HE DOES THAT?!?!' when Sportacus literally just explained it. Everyone tells Ziggy to EAT THE CARROT but Robbie stops him.

Robbie asks Ziggy how Sportacus gets his strength and Ziggy says 'this'. Robbie mistakes the carrot for a box. LOL! Might be the funniest moment in the episode. Ziggy starts talking about how he is going to eat them for the rest of his life, then Robbie leaves. Ziggy then forgets everything he just said and decides to have it later.

Meanwhile in his lair, Robbie Rotten, the man that despises health, fruits, vegetables, exercise and sports-candy, is examining his very own sports candy. A carrot. He then realises that if anyone has sports-candy that they will be moving around and healthy, like a sickness.

Then he has the great idea to make Sportscandy sound like a sickness, which will mean the kids won't eat Sports Candy. He decides it is disguise time and he walks through the wardrobe, shaking his head and blubbering (LOL) until he gets a doctor outfit.

So, anyways, they sing 'Good Stuff' (I used to be obsessed with this song) and in between moves Robbie is seen sprinkling dots onto the food that the kids are growing. Ziggy gets some spots on his 'sick' lollipop and him too. Everyone has some spots and they don't know. Once again a really smart plan (but didn't last long)

Dr. Rottenstein "examines" them and he says that it is a rare case off the spotty vegititius - the rarest disease in the entire world. Then he announces that to cure it they must eat junk food.

He also says that the person whose name starts with S and flippity flops around a lot (it took them about 6 guesses, even when Robbie said 'a name starting with S', someone guessed Pixel) must stay away from LazyTown forever.

Everyone is devastated (I would be too) but Sportacus knows something is wrong. He writes letters to Stephanie, Ziggy and Pixel. Meanwhile, Stephanie is lazing around in bed while Milford has given her a tray full of.. peanut butter, marshmallows, chocolate, fries, burgers, butterscotch, chocolate syrup, soda and shakes. I am just surprised nothing fell off. Props to the producers.

Sportacus does his usual routine to send letters (he sends Stephanie's first.. hinty hint?), but Ziggy is the only one who actually knows he got a letter (he was also super excited to dig in until he realized the dots were fake). Maybe it's just me, or does Ziggy progressively become a better character over episode? But at the start of a new season he's back to square one.

Meanwhile, Robbie is enjoying his life. Junk food and television. He couldn't be happier! Ya do realize where this is going, right? He's the villian, he will never ever ever EVER EVER EVER!! catch a break.

Anyways, during a ridiculous use of metaphors (It's not like sports candy just comes from the air!), he realizes Sportacus has a bunch of sportscandy and sports equipment in his airship. He has a plan to make a small visit to the airship once Sportacus leaves.

Sportacus has still left his ladder up while meeting Ziggy. Ziggy tells Sportacus about how the disease was fake and that they were actually getting worse from their junk food. Meanwhile, Sportacus' airship flies away and he has to go get it back.

Robbie is in the airship and this is just so shocking to me. I'm just used to seeing Robbie in dark places with inventions and gadgets, but now he is in his worst enemies' airship. The following sequence is pretty funny. He messes with buttons and manages to get himself hurt.

Anyways, he messes with this pedal looking thing and the airship goes cuckoo thanks to Sportacus fighting the ladder. He looks completely crazy while doing it, but it's kinda cool he can basically carry an entire airship.

Ziggy is going to his friends' houses and begging for their help but they are too weak and lazy thanks to the junk food. So Ziggy decides to finally eat that carrot he was supposed to and he throws some carrots through his friend's windows. Character development is awesome!

He becomes determined and cool in a circling shot and acts like a ninja throwing stars. Everyone takes a bite of the carrots he gave them and they all become strong enough to help Sportacus. They hold the ladder for him while he goes to save Rottenstein.

So anyways, Sportacus connects Rottenstein to a rope and pushes him off that little piece of floor that comes with the pole (what is that CALLED?!). He makes it safe. Then comes an awesome sequence when Sportacus stops the ship from crashing into Milford's house.

Milford didn't really care about potentially dying, but more about his new paint job nearly being ruined. Anyways, they all sing Bing Bang and the episode ends with Robbie sitting on that carrot he was examining. He throws it, but it bounces off the walls and woulda hit his face if he didn't block it with a plate (the carrot was actually already on the plate).

This ending scene wouldn't be as funny without Stefan Karl's hilarious acting.

In all honestly - good morale, good song, good climax, and episode.

8.5/10

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MA Fashion and Textile Practices Major Project Path - 3rd September

Punk and Vivienne Westwood

One of those New York emerging bands was The New York Dolls. They were struggling musicians who also designed and made their own clothes to make extra cash. Founder of the band Sylvain Slyvain and his high school friends Billy Mercier and Giovanni Genzale (aka Johnny Thunders) took inspiration from Marc Bolan, make up from their girlfriends bags and the clothes from their wardrobes to create the unique look of the Dolls. Slyvain would travel to the UK to buy items from Kensington Market and the Kings Road to form their androgynous look.

Proto Punk Apothecary, n.d. (2016). The New York Dolls - Live at the The Boston Armory [Photograph]. Retrieved from https://protopunkapothecary.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-new-york-dolls-live-at-bottom-line.html.

The image was to prove attention seeking in all wrong (right!) ways. The band were asked of the were homosexual or bi-sexual, but insisted they were try-sexual, they’d try anything! They did upset the gay liberation community who called them transvestites, something which was somewhat of an insult at the time. You’ll notice in the video how lead singer David Johansen is clearly influenced by the Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger.

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The New York Dolls [TheNewYorkDollsVEVO]. (2016, Mar 29). New York Dolls - Personality Crisis [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aQTGqqXHw4

A similar band at the time were Wayne County & The Electric Chairs, lead singer Wayne (aka Jayne) used to wear almost full drag on stage with a huge plastic dildo which squirted milk at the audience. Wayne was also a DJ at a club in where other aspiring musicians would hang out. One day a certain Marky Ramone (aka Mark Steven Bell) walked in and liked what he heard, some of the Electric Chairs had heard Marky play and recommended him to join the band, they then became Wayne County and The Backstreet Boys.

Gruen, B. (1974). Jayne County, NYC, 1974. [Photograph]. Retrieved from https://www.morrisonhotelgallery.com/photographs/1lkaV5/Jayne-County-NYC-1974.

Wayne County & The Electric Chairs had been inspired by The Stooges early on. Iggy didn’t care, he had a devil may care attitude when he performed and they connected with that. Iggy (2019) said of the way he felt back then:

“I sort of started to see things a different way. There was this feeling something had to happen that was more amazing to look at, more aggressive to listen to. It wasn’t some sort of marketing plan or something, it was just what I felt inside, how I wanted to be. Look out, watch this!”

Danny Fields - A&R man at Elektra records, was to become a confidant and ‘babysitter’ for Iggy whilst on tour. Iggy became increasingly more extreme in his performances and Fields felt the need to be at their gigs to keep an eye on him, or the audience for safety’s sake. Iggy would pour hot wax on his body, slash his chest with broken glass, smear peanut butter on himself and jump into the audience, nobody did stage diving back then.

Rolling Stone, n.d. (2016). Iggy Pop, in Cincinatti, the night he whipped peanut butter at the crowd.. [Photograph]. Retrieved from https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/20-wildest-iggy-pop-moments-72545/first-eyewitness-account-of-iggy-slicing-up-his-torso-may-23-1969-24964/.

Marky Ramone left Wayne County and The Backstreet Boys when he met American singer and songwriter Richard Hell who formed Richard Hell & the Voidoids. After a 1977 UK tour with upcoming bands like The Clash they came back to New York where Marky went to the club CBGB in Manhattan's East Village. Here he met Dee Dee Ramone and was asked if he’d like to join the band. The Ramones were initially inspired by The New York Dolls but gradually formed their own aesthetic, unifying their look with skinny jeans, their own logo t-shirts and black biker jackets. Danny Fields was also the rock and roll columnist for the Soho News the the time and happen to see The Ramones at one of their early gigs. He was impressed and asked to be their manager, they said if you have $3,000 to buy new equipment then the job is yours. Fields clearly thought the band had promise, so asked his mother to lend him the $3,000 to give to the band

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The Ramones [Rhino]. (2018, Sept 12). Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated (Official Music Video) [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm51ihfi1p4

Many locations throughout the city weren’t suitable for the new wave of bands coming through, but one place that was accepting of this new sound was CBGB’s. The Ramones became regulars players at the club, with female lead Blondie as its warm up band. They were the warm up act for The Ramones for more than two years who just got better and better. I have always loved Blondie, my brother being a fan growing up I often heard their music coming from his bedroom. Debbie Harry was, and still is a real style icon, she was one of the few female performers who set the tone for women within the music industry.

Taylor, T. (2018). Debbie Harry. [Photograph]. Retrieved from https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/obvious-history-debbie-harry-near-fatal-brush-ted-bundy.

The music scene at CBGB’s was one of diversity. Not one band sounded like the other, that early New York music scene didn’t have one defining sound, they just had the attitude of experimentation and expression. The sound didn’t become punk until the authors of Punk Magazine used the phrase to describe it. Three young guys from Connecticut - John Holmstrom, Legs McNeil and Ged Dunn wanted to create a magazine based on their two loves, rock & roll music and cartoons. John had seen The New York Dolls play a song called ‘Teenage News’ and wanted the magazine to be called that, the other guys thought it was a little lame so Legs suggested Punk as a joke. He had seen kids called it on films and TV shows, and been called it a few times himself, so thought it fitting.

Vogue, n.d. (2016). Punk Magazine. [Illustration]. Retrieved from https://www.vogue.fr/culture/a-voir/diaporama/exposition-the-ramones-punk-new-york-queens-museum-groupe-rock/30884.

The term didn’t go down well with some of the bands at first. The term punk was also use for male prisoners who turned tricks in jail, so the connotations weren’t seen as complimentary. The more the term was used in media and television the more the term punk rock became the phrase used to define the scene, so it inevitably stuck. John Holmstrom (2019) explains what they were trying to do:

“What we were trying to do with Punk Magazine was to redefine Rock & Roll as Punk Rock. The original spirit and rebellion of the 50′s, it wasn’t safe, it wasn’t what your mother listened to, it wasn’t even what your big brother listened to. We wanted to wipe all that out and start over again.”

Drugs had started to become rife on the scene. Not just recreational drugs such as Marijuana and LSD, but hard drugs such as Heroin. President Nixon was very focused on the drugs influx into America’s towns and cities, but less focused on the amount of Vietnam vets coming back from the war addicted to Heroin and the sheer demand for hard drugs across the nation. With the use of hard drugs, creativity began to suffer and the scene began to diminish. One of the major bands to suffer was The New York Dolls, a few of the band were addicts or alcoholics and they had just been dropped my their management. They were on the verge of breaking up when Slyvain Slyvain was to by chance bump into someone who he had met a few years before; Malcolm McLaren.

Slyvain had met McLaren and his girlfriend Vivienne Westwood at an International Boutique Show in 1971 where they had discussed their shop ‘Let It Rock’. McLaren was a big fan of the Dolls and invited Sylvain to hang out with him. Seeing an opportunity McLaren got the band members into rehab and cleaned up long enough to wear his clothes to their next gig. McLaren had chance to see many of the bands perform at CBGB’s and noticed their clothing, which a lot of the bands had put together themselves. He met Richard Hell from the Voidoids and noticed he was wearing a T-shirt which had been ripped apart and then held together with safety pins, and the next thing he and Vivienne were selling clothes with rips and safety pins.

Gruen, B. (1977). The Voidoids, NYC, 1977. [Photograph]. Retrieved from http://www.bobgruen.com/richard-hell/.

Soon the band were kitted out head to toe in red - to fit in with the bands new song ‘Red Patent Leather’ - all designed by McLaren and Westwood. It was intended to be a new chapter for the band, under McLaren’s management he issued a manifesto stating that the band were no longer puppets of their last management and were free to be who they wanted to be, reminiscent of a communist manifesto. This new marketing ploy however was to fall flat, they weren’t taken seriously by the public or other bands, they had become a bit of a joke. Some of the band members resorted to taking drugs once more and the band split soon after. In Detroit Wayne Kramer from MC5 had become embroiled in the criminal underworld, and started selling drugs to support his new venture. He was caught selling cocaine to undercover federal agents and was sentenced to four years in prison.

The general consensus about punk rock was that it was on a slow decline in 1970′s America. Not many bands were being signed, and when new releases came out they were lost in the quagmire of Disco and Stadium Rock records. It was considered a niche sound that didn’t travel well outside its home turf. DJ’s on the usual stations didn’t want to play the records, America wasn’t ready for the type of sound punk was pushing. Danny Fields and Linda Stein - The Ramones then joint managers - suggested they introduce the Ramones sound to a UK audience, and McLaren had already suggested to Slyvain that he should come to England as there was a youth culture there which would possibly appreciate the Dolls sound....

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