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Oh fuck no... Quinn Hughes is going to be on SNL this weekend, possibly with Jack.

This weekend is the one with Connor Storrie.

Some context: Some of what happened if Team USA won was honestly expected, but the Hughes brothers and the ongoing mess they've been in was a surprise to a lot of people. This is 100% a PR repair move, not just a celebration of Olympians. How is it obvious? Simple, fucker has a game the next day in a different city. Leagues spent millions to maximize player rest, and he's filming a midnight show the night before a game. That is beyond weird.

Not only that, he's flying back to NYC after the game to tape Fallon and then fly back for another game, and that game is against the Tampa Bay Lighting... possibly the toughest team in the league. That is an insane schedule. This is putting player PR above everything.

Also, the team with the most Team USA men's players? The Minnesota Wild. The home state of some who opted out from the White House BS? Minnesota. The person who let Patel into the Team USA locker room? Wild GM Bill Guerrin. I don't know how upset Minnesotans are, but I hope it's a lot.

But also, fucking hell, don't put Connor in the middle of this. Fucking hell, just don't.

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Amanda and I are traveling back to June 1997 to discuss:

Touring inside author’s homes and whether we think it’s kinda intrusive and uncomfortable
Neverending reader hate for “the F word”
The fans used to blow back cover models’ hair
And speaking of, what’s on the Cover Model Pageant contestant’s heads?

And more!

We DO have a video episode for this one with images – you can find it on our YouTube channel. And you can find the visual aids for this one below.

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Here are the books we discuss in this podcast:

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Mental Floss: The origin of “Live, Laugh, Love”
Janelle James and Connor Storrie on the red carpet (Reddit link with video)
Links from Steve Ammidown about Genesis Press:
- 1980-2000 Black Publishers – Black Romance Publishers: Representation vs. Exploitation by Sophie Kebret (Unsuitable/Duke University)
- Authors Cite Problems with Genesis Press by Calvin Reid | Sep 15, 2006, Publishers Weekly (Archive link)
One Perfect Rose hardcover – eBay
The Instagram account of Aureltattoo, who dances in front of a fan

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And, of course: VISUAL AIDS!

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Here is the cover, which could have shown off the books a LOT better.

The cover of the issue with Love Lust Laugh in big letters and two tiny book covers announcing the launch of Genesis

The full page ad for Connie Mason’s Shadow Walker on the inside cover:

And in case you were wondering: here is the HAUNCH-TASTIC COVER:

A blurry image of Shadow Walker by Connie Mason featuring John DeSalvo in a loincloth displaying a LOT of haunch, shirtless with dinner roll muscles, a bow and arrow, and feathers in his hair

There’s a LOT of wind in many of the DeSalvo pictures in this issue, and it is a blessing for him that no wind machine was present whilst he was wearing a loincloth.

Behold: Mustache.

Screenshot from the magazine: Model Joe Brown, Jessica Wulf, Julie Griffith and the incomparable illustrator Pino at the cover shoot for Jessica's March 98 release Joseph's Bride Joe is shirtless, has a long fluffly mullet and a MASSIVE mustache.

LOOK how uncomfortable that must be, and they have to act like they’re super into each other while perched on some stairs.

And then there was this discomfort from the I Can’t Believe it’s Not Butter launch party:

A black and white image from the cover shoot with the male model perched on the edge of a staircase with a blonde long haired model sort of woven between his legs so her head rests right on his chin. The mustache is mustaching.

The senior brand manager at Lipton dipping Susan Paul – this makes me so very uncomfortable on a professional level.

What is on John DeSalvo, and where is that wind coming from?

Close up of a cover with John DeSalvo's hair blowing backwards at a high velocity. DeSalvo is shirtless and covered with something drippy, wet, and shiny.

I LOVE THIS IMAGE OF JANE AUSTEN BY A POOL!

The Genius of Jane Austen - a color photograph of a model dressed as Austen in period garb and bonnet seated at a pool with a giant cell phone and copy of variety in her hand

Here is how it appeared in the magazine – inside a browser window!

Inside the magazine, Jane Austen by the Pool was featured inside an image of a browser window, possibly AOL. The buttons across the top read Back, forward, home, reload, images, open, print, find, and what's new, what's cool, destinations, people and software

Time for some 90s covers!

What’s going on with her neck? Is she ok?

From the Mist by Saranne Dawson - a man is embracing a woman who is below him, and her head is bent so far back it looks like her cranium is about to detach

That hair color is green, and that dog is very cute.

Best in Show - a blonde jaundice looking DeSalvo embraces a woman with clouds of dark hair. in the bottom right is a dog of indeterminate breed inside a show ribbon

WHENCE doth this WIND ARRIVE? Also, I’d like to know the conditioner regimen here.

Heart's Magic by Flora Speer featuring DeSalvo yet again with long, luscious hair being blown backwards while a woman in a white nightgown looks like she's about the pass out. They're pictured inside a crystal ball or a snowglobe

Slightly blurry, but FULL O’ SMARM is Cleve.

No shirt, no idea on shoes, full mullet – I wouldn’t serve him.

The Mackenzies: CLEVE by Ana Leigh a showgirl in a corset, ruffled skirt and purple lace up boots is sitting on a bar while a man with no shirt a giant mullet and jeans has one hand on her knee and appears to be smarming all over her

Again with the conditioner, but ouch that tree bark.

Wild Irish Skies by Nancy Richards-Akers featuring a woman with long blonde hair in a cobalt gown being embraced by a shirtless DeSalvo with long hair, his back against a tree (ow). Behind them a horse looks bewildered.

That poor horse wants to be elsewhere.

I’m really not sure what this was all about, but you could buy these photos.

Stratos - you can buy images of this person but we're not sure why. Heavenly Bodies seems to be two pictures, one of him in some sweats shirtless and one of him entirely naked. The naked pic is weird - see next image

It looks like he was sawed in half, right? What is up with his mid-section?

A clsoe up of the naked photo of Stratos, in which it appears a portion of his midsection is missing. His torso is too short and his legs are too long

You can see why I thought at first glance that these were Indigenous American headdresses and was aghast. They’re mardi gras masks, which, thank heavens.

The cover model pageant contestants, all shirtless wearing jeans or sweats, most wearing feathered mardi gras masks there are a LOT of nipples

Also, all the pleated jeans and baggy sweats! Oh, my, the 90s were a time.

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mxcatmoon

This is why I watch this show.

Intense gazes, constant laughter, always in each other's personal space... When I say they don't have to be physically affectionate, I mean they don't have to. That's just icing on the cake.

Watch on YouTube

And this? I don't even know what to say.

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rattfan

I saw this on Facebook today: It's a bewildering concept. This may be my favourite boardgame, well, after Scrabble, but a movie? Of course, as a card carrying nerd [it's my library card] I would watch a movie of a bunch of people on an old style train, playing Ticket to Ride.

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One of today's garden crafts was making a worm bin. You can buy commercial ones, but they're expensive. All this took was a few minutes to set it up.

( Walk with me ... )

Current Mood: accomplished

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Today I took some pictures around the yard and did a couple of garden crafts. These are from the house yard and savanna.

( Walk with me ... )

Current Mood: accomplished

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JLA #36 had introduced the Scarlet Skier as herald to Mister Nebula, an obvious Galactus pastiche who brings his “gift” to all worlds. A “gift” not of death, but of decadent design. He hungers…for kitsch.

( Of course, one has to work extra hard to convey DELIBERATE kitschiness in superhero comic art. )

pauraque

This short memoir follows Jones' early life growing up as a gay Black kid in 1990s Texas, through his college years and young adulthood struggling with feelings of unbelonging and uncertain identity.

The core of the book is his relationship with his mother, who died of heart disease when he was 26. She was an iconoclast, breaking with her family's conservative Christianity to become a Buddhist, and insisted on doing things her own way, including raising her son on her own. The dynamic between them is complex; he loves and respects her, and in many ways they're close and protective of each other, yet he doesn't feel truly seen by her. His sexuality is part of the barrier—she doesn't reject him, but is resistant to talking about it—and I also got a sense of her as a person who held others at arm's length because intimacy scared her.

But Jones is not too afraid to write about his most vulnerable, self-destructive, and howlingly painful moments. ( cut for content: gay bashing ) It doesn't read like he's being too harsh on himself, and it doesn't read like he's trying to make himself look good. It reads like he's found a narrative arc in what really happened rather than editing events into artificial tidiness.

Jones is primarily a poet, and the book's emotional clarity and concise lyricism bears that out. The material is heavy, but I didn't find it depressing. Rather, I felt that the fact that he's now able to write so honestly about what he's been through demonstrates that he's achieved what he's been longing for: knowing and sharing who he really is. He doesn't need to spell out that this happened for him, because when you read the book you're holding the evidence of it in your hands.

hannah

This morning in the gym, a woman some decades my senior was doing a virtual training session with another woman in between our age brackets, though closer to her than me. I could hear and see them and they could see and hear me, but it wasn't an issue - I just grabbed a kettlebell and moved to the other side of the room.

The trainer let out a gasp and said, "Look at that girl's hair!" She'd seen my braid hanging down, and couldn't help but comment.

I won't lie: it's pretty wonderful to have something about myself that catches complete strangers' attention in a charming, positive way. And I won't lie: it was a superb moment to hear someone call me a girl. Affirming and euphoric.

Current Mood: chipper
Current Music: nothing now

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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Thursday, February 26, to midnight on Friday, February 27 (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #34295 Daily check-in poll

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 15

How are you doing?

I am OK
9 (60.0%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now
6 (40.0%)

I could use some help
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How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
5 (33.3%)

One other person
7 (46.7%)

More than one other person
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Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

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sovay

I hope Rob Grant would take it in the intended spirit that when I heard the news of his sudden death, all I could think was "All most of us get is 'Mind that bus!' 'What bus?' Splat!" The first six and a half series of original flavor Red Dwarf (1988–99) were a social staple of my sophomore year of college, watched primarily in my case from the top half of a bunk bed occupied by a structurally unwise number of students who would shortly branch out into whatever British television comedy we could get hold of the tapes for. It became an immediate and ineradicable part of our language. Decades later, the number of quotations from especially the first three series that have worked themselves into my present household lingo would be difficult to estimate without a rewatch. In storage with the rest of my library, I still have some of the tie-in novels, including at least one of the separately authored parallel continuations, which unfortunately for this memoriam may have been Doug Naylor's. I cannot find that I ever saw another project of Grant's except for the first series of The 10%ers (1993–96) and I am still stricken to lose yet another artist while Kissinger's heirs don't even seem to be in this machine. Not everybody has to be dead, Dave.

Current Music: Jenna Russell, "Red Dwarf"

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Have you already decided what fandom(s) to write for? If so, how about doing a little promoting? :D

We've all chosen tiny obscure canons, needless to say. But by posting here you might be able to entice someone else to give it a try — or perhaps you'll even run into a fellow fan, who can't wait to read your coming fic.

Your promo can be long or short, and contain whatever you feel like. Want to post a couple of intriguing screencaps from a movie? Quote a few paragraphs from a book? Rec the best episode of an anime or a TV series? Talk about why you love your favorite character and/or pairing from your fandom? It's all good; anything goes!

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tielan

So, I was reading a Thread where a guy was warning about old drives, and how they might not last very long anymore because of degradation of the components used in them.

So, while looking for a mouse this morning, I dug up 2 old HDs (circa 2010?) and two external HDs and figured I'd kick them started and see if they worked.

And I just found the MOTHERLODE of photos!

Dating back to 2011! Including ones of my old cat, and the parentals' old cat, and friends' children as babies! WOW.

And old trips! Including a few that I thought I'd lost forever!

(Apparently, I have always taken lots of photos of builidngs!.)

Also, boy was I skinny!! Either that, or the camera made me look skinny. Oh, younger me, why did you not realise? XD

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forestofglory

I’ve gotten back into the habit of going to the library once a week on the same day (Monday) to return stuff and pick up my holds. (This is also the best way I’ve found to get myself to return my books on time now that the library got rid of late fees) I keep thinking “this week the stack of new things will be smaller” but it never is. Surely I’ll run out of graphic novels I want to read that the library has at some point? But I’m glad it's not yet.

In other news I have now read more books this year than I did all of last year, which is pretty wild! Like sure they are all short things but I’m just reading so much more than I was few months ago and it’s really nice.

Red Threads by Ila Nguyen-Hayama—A graphic novel about a 15 year old girl in Tokyo who is invited to attend a magical school. This was very cute and charming if a little heavy on the info dumping about Japanese folklore. I really liked the main character's friendship with another girl at school.

Lumberjanes, Vol. 8-14 by N.D. Stevenson and Shannon Watters, et al.— I’d read up through Vol 10 years ago, but now I’m at stuff I haven’t read before. Still very fun!

Lumberjanes/Gotham Academy by Chynna Clugston Flores et al. —A crossover between two very fun comics both featuring teams of teens who deal with supernatural mysteries – I enjoyed it a lot! I wish there was more time for cross team interactions but it would be hard to fit in and keep focus on the story

Animated Batman—It’s nice to be into media that my kid also is interested in. She doesn’t watch anything with subtitles, but she likes Batman. So I’ve watched a handful of episodes of the 90’s animated Batman with her. (I started from where she’s gotten to before so not at the beginning) In terms of Bat-fam its not doing a lot, most of the kids/sidekicks aren’t in this and those that are aren’t around much (though I’m told they show up more frequently latter on) However the show itself is very well crafted! I’m impressed with both the animation (the style! The attention to detail) and the storytelling

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The eyes are windows to the soul

There are never enough trains

Photos: Worm Bin

Photos: House Yard

Schlock and Awe: JUSTICE LEAGUE QUARTERLY #2 (JLI 62)

How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones (2019)

Notes from the gym.

Daily Check-In

Thursday shenanigans

There's no kind of atmosphere

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Oh my fucking God

Fandom Promos

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The Walking Dead Deluxe #130

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Media Roundup: Onward!

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