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auilix: rocket-prose: Classic animators doing reference poses...

Alice Walkington, Muffin MacGuffin — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 16:44:34 -0800

rocket-prose:

Classic animators doing reference poses for their own drawings. I’m in love with these images.

Part of the reason animators like to work alone, late at night when no one is watching.

kwebtv: TV Guide - August 30 - September 5, 1958Polly Bergen...

Alice Walkington, Muffin MacGuffin — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 08:29:10 -0700

kwebtv:

TV Guide - August 30 - September 5, 1958
Polly Bergen (born Nellie Paulina Burgin; July 14, 1930 – September 20, 2014) Actress, singer, television host, writer and entrepreneur.
She was a regular panelist on the CBS game show To Tell the Truth, during its original run. She was a panelist and Mystery Guest on CBS’ What’s My Line?. She also appeared on the NBC interview program Here’s Hollywood. (Wikipedia)

Bud Collyer (1908 - 1969) Radio actor/announcer who became one of the nation’s first major television game show stars. He is best remembered for his work as the first host of the TV game show “To Tell the Truth‘, but he was also famous in the roles of Clark Kent/Superman on radio and in animated shorts.
His other game shows included “Beat The Clock”, “Talent Jackpot“, “On Your Way“ and “Number Please“.

Kitty Carlisle (born Catherine Conn; also known as Kitty Carlisle Hart; September 3, 1910 – April 17, 2007) Singer, actress and spokeswoman for the arts. She is best remembered as a regular panelist on the television game show To Tell the Truth
Carlisle became a household name through To Tell the Truth, where she was a regular panelist from 1956 to 1978, and later appeared on revivals of the series in 1980, 1990–91 and one episode in 2000. (One of her most notable hallmarks was her writing of the number one: When she voted for the member of the team of challengers who occupied the number one seat, it was written with a Roman numeral I.) She was also a semi-regular panelist on Password, Match Game, Missing Links, and What’s My Line? (Wikipedia)

oldshowbiz: Bedrock City opens in Custer, South Dakota. 1966.

Alice Walkington, Muffin MacGuffin — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 18:01:53 -0700

oldshowbiz:

Bedrock City opens in Custer, South Dakota. 1966.

oldshowbiz: Dick Gregory for President

Alice Walkington, Muffin MacGuffin — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 10:36:27 -0700

oldshowbiz:

Dick Gregory for President

kwebtv: TV Westerns - 1957 - 1958

Alice Walkington, Muffin MacGuffin — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 10:33:05 -0700

kwebtv:

TV Westerns - 1957 - 1958

sweetener: So that isn’t true? You don’t get carried anywhere?

Alice Walkington, Muffin MacGuffin — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 10:32:47 -0700

sweetener:

So that isn’t true? You don’t get carried anywhere?

kwebtv: Survivor’s Remorse - Starz - 10/4/2014 - ...

Alice Walkington, Muffin MacGuffin — Sat, 14 Jul 2018 09:38:01 -0700

kwebtv:

Survivor’s Remorse - Starz - 10/4/2014 - 10/15/2017
Comedy (34 episodes)
Running Time: 30 minutes
Stars:
Jessie T. Usher as Cam Calloway

RonReaco Lee as Reggie Vaughn

Erica Ash as Mary Charles “M-Chuck” Calloway

Teyonah Parris as Missy Vaughn

Tichina Arnold as Cassie Calloway

Mike Epps as Uncle Julius (Seasons 1–2)

Photo

Alice Walkington, Muffin MacGuffin — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 07:14:40 -0700

Photo

Alice Walkington, Muffin MacGuffin — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 07:13:51 -0700

oldshowbiz: The Vinyl Side of Tony Randall

Alice Walkington, Muffin MacGuffin — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 15:24:16 -0700

oldshowbiz:

The Vinyl Side of Tony Randall

oldshowbiz: the stats that matter

Alice Walkington, Muffin MacGuffin — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 15:21:13 -0700

oldshowbiz:

the stats that matter

oldshowbiz: abandoned theme park

Alice Walkington, Muffin MacGuffin — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 09:46:35 -0700

oldshowbiz:

abandoned theme park

oldshowbiz: demanding sitcom fan

Alice Walkington, Muffin MacGuffin — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 09:38:24 -0700

oldshowbiz:

demanding sitcom fan

justsomeantifas: This secretly taken photo comes from a Texas...

Alice Walkington, Muffin MacGuffin — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 09:36:15 -0700

justsomeantifas:

This secretly taken photo comes from a Texas courtroom during mass trial where dozens of immigrants are chained and tried all at once. Here’s what’s happening:

· Lawyers Are Representing Dozens of People At Once (Literally)

What you see is somewhere between 20 and 40-something people, all triple-shackled, not to each other but individually, their hands in handcuffs chained to their waists, and their feet shackled. And they clunk and clang into court. I mean, there’s this clanging sound of chains. And they go through these mass processes in less than an hour, usually. And they often—they are instructed to answer in groups or answer en masse. So you’ll hear like 40 people being asked a question, and they’ll say, ”Sí,” all at once, or they’ll say, “No.” And it’s just—it’s really uncanny. It’s shocking. It doesn’t feel like due process. One after one after one after one after one, with only one lawyer, they plead guilty: ”Culpable,” ”culpable,” ”culpable,” ”culpable.”

They’re getting somewhere between seven and 10 minutes of counsel right before the proceedings.

…

There were 60 defendants, and they were split into 20—into three groups of 20. And so, each group of 20 had a lawyer. And I interviewed one lawyer who told me that, of his 20, not one of them had been separated from a child, and not one of them had an asylum claim or a credible fear claim. So, then, in the third group, I was able to interview the attorney, who spoke Spanish, unlike the first one, and seemed very concerned about the immigration issues. And he told me that, of the 20 that I saw him representing, 10 of them had been separated from a total of 15 children, including one woman who was separated from three children. And, you know, he obtained that information by just really speaking with these people.

· International Law is Being Broken

Denying people the right to request asylum:

Traditionally, you go to the port of entry, and you—which is this big building at the bottom, you know, in Brownsville. It’s the big curved bridge. You go to the bottom of the bridge to the U.S. side, to the port of entry, and you tell the agents that want to request asylum. And that is your legal right. You’re in the United States at that point, and you request asylum.

So, what’s been happening up and down the border is—and this has been going on probably for at least a year and a half, that I’m aware of, anyway—is that they’re putting agents up at the top of the bridge, because, you know, there’s sort of an invisible line, which is often marked with a plaque, but there’s a line dividing the United States and Mexico. So, they want—what the government wants at this point is for people not to be able to step into the United States at that invisible line, because then they can’t apply for asylum. And so they’ve got these agents at the top of the bridge, and they’re standing there. And they’re asking everybody who they’re suspicious about—you know, and suspicious of not—you know, of maybe they’re going to apply for asylum, but asking people for their documents. And then they won’t let people go into the United States. So, I mean, it’s almost like they’re not even in Mexico. Technically, they’re in Mexico, but they’re like six inches from the United States. And that’s illegal. I mean, that’s against American law, and it’s against international law. But that’s what’s happening up and down the border.

Separating families:

Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas director at Amnesty International, said in a statement that the U.S. government’s separating children from their parents as they seek asylum is “a flagrant violation of their human rights. Doing so in order to push asylum seekers back into dangerous situations where they may face persecution is also a violation of U.S. obligations under refugee law.”

· Border Patrol is Lying About Violence

Multiplying the number of assaults:

CBP claimed that there were 454 assaults on agents nationwide in 2016, a 20 percent increase from the previous year. In 2017, according to CBP, there were 786 assaults, a 73 percent spike from the previous year. But The Intercept obtained data from CBP showing that the agency was using an unconventional method to count assaults.

I started investigating the claims the Border Patrol has been making for about, oh, the past several months, that it’s a very dangerous job and that their assault statistics were way, way up from last year. And I got data from the Border Patrol which showed that, in fact, assaults were down and injuries are down, but they were using this accounting method—they were counting in this very strange, unconventional way.

And, for example, what I was told from law enforcement people is that, you know, police and law enforcement officials usually—like, if somebody is assaulted, that’s considered one assault. I mean, somebody could throw seven rocks at you, and that would be—and you’re one agent, so that’s counted as one assault. But the Border Patrol was—or still is, I guess—multiplying the number of agents assaulted—and, by the way, an assault doesn’t necessarily cause an injury, and in most cases with the Border Patrol it doesn’t—but multiplying the number of agents assaulted by the number of perpetrators and the number of weapons.

So, the example that they gave me was six agents assaulted by seven perpetrators who used a water bottle, a rock and a tree branch. So, when you multiply and multiply and multiply, you get 126 assaults. Conventionally, that would be counted as six assaults.

Immigrants who are tried and acquitted for assault are also included in these inflated statistics:

A recent trial in south Texas provides a good case in point. In November, Border Patrol agent Steven Yackanin chased Eliseo Luis García, a young Guatemalan migrant, through a field near the Rio Grande. The area was only about a mile from where Claudia Patricia Gómez González would later be shot to death.

After Luis was apprehended and taken to lockup, another immigrant there noticed that Luis had blood coming out of his ear. Luis explained that he had been trying to escape and that, as a result, Yackanin and some other agents beat him up.

Yackanin claimed it was he who was assaulted by Luis, and he filled out a Department of Labor form to authorize medical care. He was diagnosed with an elbow sprain and a bruise.

Luis was charged with assault and went to trial. His public defender attorney introduced into evidence photographs of the immigrant and the Border Patrol agent, each standing next to a door with markings. The markings suggest that the Guatemalan immigrant stood about 5 feet tall and weighed perhaps 100 pounds. Yackanin was a full head taller and appeared 60 pounds heavier. The jury apparently believed Luis. He was acquitted.

Even so, the Border Patrol will likely fold the charges against Luis into its fiscal year 2018 assault statistics. Likewise for Claudia Patricia Gómez González, the young Guatemalan woman shot last week. Her death will probably be analyzed as the outcome of a purported assault against a Border Patrol agent.

· Parents and Children are Being Separated

Public defenders unable to find their defendant’s children:

One woman who spoke about her children in open court was from Honduras. “Is my little girl going to go with me when I get deported?” she asked Morgan.

“Your Honor,” interjected Jeff Wilde, director of the Federal Public Defender’s office in Brownsville, “both she and the man next to her have their children with them. They had a credible fear claim [for asylum]. … Their children have been separated from them, and I’ve been unable to figure out where their children are at this point.”

A young father then said he’d been separated from his 6-year-old and was very worried.

Threats and taking children away:

Another parent who appeared in Morgan’s court was from a Central American country that provides no meaningful protection to women and children who are victims of homicidal domestic violence. She asked for her identity to be concealed, because she fears retaliation by the U.S. government. We will call her Delia. Before fleeing her country, she was for years beaten up, cut, assaulted with guns, and threatened with death by her partner. He also threatened to kill their young child. When she hid in another city, he found her and dragged her home.

Delia said she fled her country weeks ago and went on the road to Mexico, eventually crossing the Rio Grande with her child on an inner tube. She saw three Border Patrol agents watching her and floated in their direction, so she could turn herself in.

Delia said that when she arrived later that night at the hielera — the Border Patrol processing office — she told the officers that she and her child needed asylum. She described the beatings and assaults and death threats. “Oh, come on!” she said the officers snickered. “You and everyone else with that old story!”

“You’re going to be deported,” she remembers them telling her. “And your child will stay here.” The next morning, the child was taken. Delia fell on her knees during the removal, wailing and begging not to be separated. Officials looked on indifferently, she said, as her child screamed incessantly.

Uncertainty of policy:

In Brownsville, Judge Morgan also started alluding to biblical matters. It was Thursday, the fourth day of “zero tolerance” in his court, and defendants were telling their stories. The judge had just asked Holly D’Andrea, the assistant U.S. attorney handling illegal entry prosecutions that day, if it were true that families were being reunited in detention. D’Andrea sounded uncertain, but answered that she thought it was true.

“Tell you what,” the judge said slowly, with a hard edge in his voice, “if it’s not, then there are a lot of folks that have some answering to do.

· Sources

I’d suggest reading these in full:

Hidden Horrors of “Zero Tolerance” - Mass Trials and Children Taken From Their Parents

Border Patrol Continues to Exaggerate Danger to Agents to Justify Violence Against Immigrants

“Hidden Horrors”: Reporter Debbie Nathan on Mass Trials & Kids Separated from Parents at the Border

historicaltimes: Country singer Johnny Cash posing outside...

Alice Walkington, Muffin MacGuffin — Wed, 30 May 2018 07:53:34 -0700

historicaltimes:

Country singer Johnny Cash posing outside Folsom Prison before his performance on January 13, 1968

via reddit

jstor: words-writ-in-starlight: dukeofbookingham: jstor: enemy0gene: justsomeantifas: ughcentra...

Alice Walkington, Muffin MacGuffin — Mon, 28 May 2018 09:08:35 -0700

jstor:

words-writ-in-starlight:

dukeofbookingham:

jstor:

enemy0gene:

justsomeantifas:

ughcentral:

justsomeantifas:

funnyfoxes55:

justsomeantifas:

marquisnaberius:

justsomeantifas:

when you claim capitalism spreads knowledge but it throws everything in academic research behind a paywall

@jstor

@jstor

@jstor

@jstor

@jstor

@jstor

@jstor

We can address this! First, friendly reminder - JSTOR is not a publisher and is a non-profit organization. We work with publishers to digitize and make searchable their copyrighted work, so we do not own any of the content that is on JSTOR. But! did you know that JSTOR has worked with our publishing partners to make that content available in a variety of ways for those not at higher ed institutions?

1. Graduated? Graduating? Check to see if your uni offers alumni access here.

2. We offer free online reading programs. Sign up for a MyJSTOR account and you can read up to three articles online every two weeks. More info on how to register here.

3. Open Access content - everything published prior to 1925 in the U.S. and 1870 abroad is free to read and download. Additionally, there are more than 500 open access ebooks and a number of open access journal articles that publishers have made available. You can find these by performing a search and then, on the results page, in the left-hand side bar, scroll down and click “Read and Download” while you are not logged in.

4. Many public libraries offer access to JSTOR - check with yours. NYPL and BPL are two that do off the top of my head.

5. JSTOR Daily is our online magazine - outside authors write articles on a number of topics but must cite their sources from articles on JSTOR! And we link to and open the articled that are cited in each story. So, you can read the short version and explore the research that supports it.

I hope this is helpful!

Heads up, kids

This is excellent information but I’m dying to know….

Why is @jstor better about responding to complaints than @staff?

OH HEY, THIS AGAIN.

Update! Tech recently made a change where ALL OF THE OPEN ACCESS CONTENT ON JSTOR IS SEARCHABLE WITHOUT A LOGIN.

This now includes 2,700 ebooks (up from 500 when we originally reblogged this) and something like 500,000 open articles (keep in mind though, most of these are published pre-1925). There are 19 open access journals that are still posting their work on JSTOR too.

ANYWAY, this is all FREELY SEARCHABLE WITHOUT A LOGIN. GO HERE: http://www.jstor.org/open/

kwebtv: Scruples - CBS - 2/25/1980 - 2/28/1980 Drama (3...

Alice Walkington, Muffin MacGuffin — Mon, 28 May 2018 09:06:39 -0700

kwebtv:

Scruples - CBS - 2/25/1980 - 2/28/1980

Drama (3 episodes)

Running Time: 90 minutes (270 minutes total)

Stars:

Lindsay Wagner as Billy Ikehorn

Barry Bostwick as Spider Elliott

Marie-France Pisier as Valentine O'Neill

Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. as Ellis Ikehorn

Nick Mancuso as Vito Orsini

Connie Stevens as Maggie McGregor

Robert Reed as Josh Hilman

Kim Cattrall as Melanie Adams

Gavin MacLeod as Curt Arvey

Gary Graham as Jake Cassidy

Gene Tierney as Harriet Toppingham

Francoise Marie Bernard as Edouard

What the fuck was this show that lasted for three episodes, airing on three consecutive days, ninety minutes each?

lauradernface: gregorygalloway: It’s Laura Dern’s birthday...

Alice Walkington, Muffin MacGuffin — Sat, 10 Feb 2018 18:27:10 -0800

lauradernface:

gregorygalloway:

It’s Laura Dern’s birthday (born 10 February 1967)

Happy Birthday, Laura! 🎊

historicaltimes: A young Frank Sinatra takes a bathroom selfie,...

Alice Walkington, Muffin MacGuffin — Sat, 27 Jan 2018 08:29:58 -0800

historicaltimes:

A young Frank Sinatra takes a bathroom selfie, 1938.

via reddit

Photo

Alice Walkington, Muffin MacGuffin — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 07:49:23 -0800