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acquariusgb · 2 years

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From an interview with Nancy Bekavac, former Yale classmate of Bill’s and Hillary’s. Here are parts that talk more about them in Yale.

I want to talk first about your memories of that time period at Yale Law School. You knew Bill before you knew Hillary?

Bill and I came in in the same class, and first years take all their classes together, so you tend to know the people in your class best. Bill showed up at school in November and came up to me in the hall and asked to borrow notes, and I said, “For what?” He said, “For all your classes.” I said, “Why?” He said, “Well, I’m in all your classes.” I said, “No you aren’t.” He said: “Well, I’ve been busy. I was running Joe Duffy for the Senate and he just lost, so I need to borrow your notes.” And I said, “Well, I have to go through them first.” He said, “Why, do you have love letters in there?” I said, “No, I have really bad poetry, and I’m not going to let you see it.” He said, “Well, you could.” I said: “No. I’ll see you tomorrow at lunch.”

So I gave him the notes at lunch. We went through the lunch line, and the thing I realized was that he had been there not even a week and he knew the names of all the servers in the line. I knew the name of the lady at the end who took payment. He knew all their names. They were mostly black, male and female. [He] called them all by name, talked to them all. And I remember thinking, this is different. This has got to be the only law student at Yale who knows everybody’s name.

I didn’t meet Hillary until the spring. I think partly that’s because that fall she was mostly taking courses at the Gesell Institute. When Hillary came to Yale, she decided she wanted to get a master’s degree in child development, and to do that you took a year of courses in the psychology department. There was a specific institute that studies children. It’s very well known. That fall she was mostly there, because I don’t remember seeing her until spring semester.

You would have met Hillary about what time in this year?

January or February. Certainly it was second semester. I don’t specifically recall meeting her, but I remember asking Bob Reich if he knew this person, and he said: “Well, yeah, she is famous. She gave the big speech at Wellesley when she took on Sen. [Edward] Brooke [R-Mass.].” I said, “How do you know that?” And he said: “Hillary and I worked together on the McCarthy campaign up in New Hampshire. She came up with a bunch of Wellesley girls, and I’ve known her since then.” I said: “Oh. Well, that’s cool. What is she like?” And he said, “Well, she is pretty good.”

You go from first term, you’re in all the same classes with all the same people. Second semester you scatter to do all sorts of things, so I didn’t see nearly as much of Bill in the second semester. There was one class — I’m fairly certain that was second semester — and both Bill and Hillary were in it, and it was inescapable that they were, from my point of view, suddenly a couple, and he was —

I came to know her that spring. I didn’t know her very well that spring, although I think we were in the same constitutional law class.

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Let me go back a little bit in time, but pretty early on [in] the relationship between Bill and Hillary, your two friends, do you remember their dynamic?

What do you mean by that? Help me understand that.

There weren’t a lot of couples because there weren’t a lot of women. They were always together, and it was clear that there was a romantic relationship, not just a buddy relationship. That’s what I mean. And I knew that by spring break — and by that time I was in this house off campus, and Bob [Reich] was in that. Bob and Bill Clinton had been friends at Oxford; they were Rhodes [scholars] together. I had sort of seen it, and then Bob said, “Yes, that’s what is happening.” And I said, “Whoa.”

Why did you say, “Whoa”?

Because I can’t think of anyone else who had paired up first year. People had relationships, but they were off campus. They were with people they knew from college or whatever. That was the first that I remember of a relationship inside the law school.

You knew Bill; you knew what kind of student he was. He wasn’t necessarily going to class a lot. And suddenly he is with Hillary.

He started going to class a little more, started showing up. That was a good sign. We were in classes all the way through, and having Bill in a class was always fun. Interesting questions, interesting sort of pockets of knowledge, points of view, and a genial, “We can make this happen,” “If it’s too boring, let me tell you a story” sort of thing. So being in class with Bill was one experience. Being in class with Hillary was she had done the reading. You didn’t worry about that. She wasn’t reticent. Some — I would say a lot of people at Yale, especially in those days, I think, just sat back and let it flow. She was attentive. She was one of the active members of the class. I remember a bizarre round of discussions in one of my constitutional classes, and I know that Hillary was very active in it, and it went on long after class. We went out in the hall, and we were at it for, I don’t know, half an hour. And a professor came by and said, “Are you still talking about class?” And I said, “Yeah, we’re going to get it right.” And he said: “Well, you know, we’ve been at this for 200 years. It may take you a little longer than half an hour to figure it out.” It was some constitutional conundrum thing.

… How was Hillary fitting into the Yale Law atmosphere?

In every class there are people you listen to and people you don’t listen to. She was more active than the average law student in terms of class discussion — smart, reasonable, interesting. She played an important role. People liked her. She was very popular. She was very visible. Most people knew about the Wellesley speech. And because she had started a class ahead of us, she had a lot of friends in that class and our class as well through Bill, so she was extremely well known. I’ll just give you an example. In the third year of law school, she and Bill were in the moot [court], in the Barristers’ Union Prize Trial. That is where students play the role of lawyers, and someone writes a script, and you’ve got witnesses, and a real judge presides. It was extremely well attended, more than the average prize trial.

We stood in the back of the room and watched, and it was priceless. Bill is doing what became Matlock the character; that is, he is doing the Southern, charming, shaggy courtroom lawyer bit, and Hillary is trying to pay attention to the details, and she makes all of the objections, which are very technical, and Bill is waving his arms. It was fabulous. It was totally enjoyable. It really was. I’m trying to remember the two guys on the other side who were trying to deal with this. It was like corralling an elephant in the room. [Bill] would just wander off on topics, and it was wonderful. It was totally enjoyable. And she was holding him in check and doing all the — not that she was boring in any way, but you could see her sort of desperately trying to control the situation. Everyone in the room is grinning. Everyone is having a wonderful time. The people who were witnesses are hamming it up entirely. It was fabulous.

You’re in the room?

Oh, yeah.

Tell me about that. What is the room? What does it look like?

It’s one of the large classrooms at Yale. There is a dais, and where the teacher usually sits it looks like a bench. They sit a chair up a bit, so there is a witness box; there are two tables. It looks very much like a courtroom. And it’s paneled. It looks serious. And there is a real judge on the bench. I was late getting there, and I ran into Professor Burke Marshall. Burke Marshall had been the [head of the] civil rights division under President Kennedy and then Johnson, and I think he was associate dean or something like that, clearly one of the most popular and revered people at the law school. He was physically a rather slight man with a reedy voice, very self-effacing. And I remember thinking, if you cast a hero of the civil rights era, it would be a bit like if you could imagine a shy Dustin Hoffman, which you can’t imagine, but here is this small, shy fellow who is just a giant to all of us. And he came over to me, and he said, “Well, Ms. Bekavac, do you know what is going on here?” I said, “Oh, it’s the prize trial, and it’s based on Casablanca, so this is about the –” “What?” [he asked.] “The movie Casablanca. This is about the letters of transit that have been stolen and the murdered couriers.” I was trying to give a kind of quick preset to this giant of the civil rights era.

What about that moment teaches you everything you need to know about them?

It shows you their strengths, that they are very complementary. They’re both incredibly smart. He has emotional intelligence that is off the scale. He was charming this federal judge while he was obliterating the laws of evidence. It was a great thing to see. She was both enjoying the performance and trying to balance him out and get to the point of the Barristers’ Union Trial. She was organized, disciplined, resilient, unflappable. I think that expresses it.

That intellect, that focus, that drive sounds like the kind of partner that is pulling Bill into going back to class.

I wouldn’t say no to that. I don’t mean to make her sound grim, because I can see her sitting there grinning at him while he is doing this, and I can see her saying to herself, we went over this; we’re not supposed to do this. I remember thinking it showed an incredible amount of strength in their relationship to do something as important as a Barristers’ Union Trial together. Most couples wouldn’t try that, and they did. And it was wonderful.

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silkfyre · 10 months

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The following content does not limit the type of requests I accept. If there is a topic or character that is not listed, but you wish to have included feel free to ask! If I’m ever uncomfortable with something I will simply deny the request.

HIGHLIGHTED names are my personal favorite characters.

WRITING

Fluff

Smut

Angst

Yandere

Violence

Dub-Con

Polyamory

OTHER

Fancasts

Writing Tips

Script Creation

Character Building

CHARACTERS

HORROR

The Boy

Brahms Heelshire

The Quarry

Abigail Blyg

Emma Mountebank

Jacob Custos

Laura Kearney

Max Brinley

Ryan Erzahler

Travis Hackett

The Lost Boys

David

Dwayne

Marko

Michael

Paul

House of Wax

Bo Sinclair

Lester Sinclair

Vincent Sinclair

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Thomas Hewitt (Leatherface)

Halloween

Michael Myers

Scream

Billy Loomis

Randy Meeks

Stu Macher

American Horror Story

James Patrick March

Jimmy Darling

Yellowjackets

Lottie Matthews

Misty Quigley

Natalie Scatorccio

Shauna Sadecki

Taissa Turner

Van Palmer

SCI-FI

The Boys

A-Train

Billy Butcher

Black Noir

Frenchie

Homelander

Hughie Campbell

Kimiko Miyashiro

Mother's Milk

Queen Maeve

Soldier Boy

Starlight

Fallout

Fallout 4

Deacon

John Hancock

Nick Valentine

Paladin Danse

Piper Shaw

Preston Garvey

Robert MacCready

Fallout (series)

Aspirant Dane

Chet

Cooper Howard (The Ghoul)

Knight Maximus

Lucy MacLean

Norm MacLean

Alien vs Predator

coming soon!

Stranger Things

Steve Harrington

The Walking Dead

Daryl Dixon

Eugene Porter

James Cameron’s Avatar

Eetu

Lyle Wainfleet

Mansk

Miles "Spider" Socorro

Miles Quaritch

Nor

So’lek

Teylan

Tsu’tey te Rongloa Ateyitan

SUPERNATURAL

TVD Verse

Bonnie Bennett

Caroline Forbes

Damon Salvatore

Elena Gilbert

Elijah Mikaelson

Finn Mikaelson

Jeremy Gilbert

Katherine Pierce

Kol Mikaelson

Niklaus Mikaelson

Rebekah Mikaelson

Stefan Salvatore

FANTASY

Baldur’s Gate 3

Astarion Ancunín

Dammon

Gale Dekarios

Halsin

Karlach Cliffgate

Lae’zel

Raphael

Rolan

Shadowheart

Wyll Ravengard

Zevlor

REALISM

Red Dead Redemption II

Albert Mason

Arthur Morgan

Charles Smith

Dutch Van Der Linde

Flaco Hernández

Javier Escuella

John Marston

Kieran Duffy

Sadie Adler

Call of Duty

John Price

John “Soap” MacTavish

Kyle “Gaz” Garrick

König

Simon “Ghost” Riley

Grand Theft Auto

Franklin Clinton

Michael De Santa

Trevor Philips

Outer Banks

Pope Heyward

Rafe Cameron

Sarah Cameron

Topper Thornton

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Notes :: There may be some things on these lists that are debatable. If they are something I’m willing to write under certain circumstances then it will be ITALICEZED.

WRITING

Racism

Ableism

Ageplay

Underage

Homophobia

Transphobia

Character x Character (w/o reader)

CHARACTERS

Bubba Sawyer

Freddy Krueger

Pennywise

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irvinenewshq · 1 year

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Elon Musk tweets a conspiracy concept about assault on Paul Pelosi

CNN — Elon Musk on Sunday gave credence to a fringe conspiracy concept concerning the violent assault on Paul Pelosi. The brand new Twitter proprietor tweeted a hyperlink to an article stuffed with baseless claims about Pelosi. The article was posted on an internet site that purports to be a information outlet. Musk, who has 112 million followers on the platform he now owns, posted the baseless story about Pelosi in response to a tweet from Hilary Clinton at 8:15 am ET. He later deleted the tweet round 2 pm, however not earlier than racking up greater than 28,000 retweets and 100,000 likes. Linking to a Los Angeles Occasions story about Pelosi’s alleged attacker, Clinton wrote, “The Republican Get together and its mouthpieces now recurrently unfold hate and deranged conspiracy theories. It’s surprising, however not stunning, that violence is the end result. As residents, we should maintain them accountable for his or her phrases and the actions that observe.” In response, Musk linked to the baseless story, and wrote, “There’s a tiny chance there could be extra to this story than meets the attention.” In 2016 the identical web site falsely claimed that Clinton had died and that the individual on the presidential marketing campaign path was not Clinton however her physique double. Musk’s submit comes amid issues about how the billionaire will run Twitter and if misinformation and hate will probably be given a much bigger platform on the location. A Twitter spokesperson didn’t instantly return a CNN request for remark. Musk’s takeover — which was finalized Thursday evening, a supply conversant in the matter advised CNN — not solely has the potential to create upheaval for Twitter (TWTR) staff but additionally for the a whole lot of tens of millions of individuals around the globe who use the platform day by day. It may additionally influence the upcoming US midterm elections, if Musk makes good on his promise to revive the accounts of customers who had been beforehand banned from the platform, most notably former US President Donald Trump, and restrict the corporate’s content material restrictions. Within the first weeks after agreeing to purchase the corporate in April, and earlier than his preliminary transfer to bail on the deal, Musk repeatedly harassed that his objective was to bolster “free speech” on the platform and work to “unlock” Twitter’s “extraordinary potential.” The Tesla CEO recommended he would rethink Twitter’s method to content material moderation and everlasting bans, with potential impacts on civil discourse and the political panorama. He additionally talked about his want to rid the platform of bots, at the same time as he later made the variety of bots central to his argument to desert the deal. CNN’s Clare Duffy contributed to this report Originally published at Irvine News HQ

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nofatclips · 6 years

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Kowalski by Primal Scream from the album Vanishing Point - Samples drums from Halleluhwah by CAN and interpolates bass from Get Off Your Ass and Jam by Funkadelic - Video directed by Steve Hanft, starring Kate Moss and Devon Aoki

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 3 years

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Early Tuesday morning, dozens of mineworkers from Alabama’s Warrior Met Coal Mine headed to New York City’s financial district. There, they protested outside the Wall Street firms that own controlling shares of their employer, including BlackRock, the world’s largest asset management firm.

Here was a scene made for TV: Burly miners that so often formed the backdrop for former President Donald Trump’s environmental rollback announcements standing up to rapacious firms that populist Republicans have railed against. And yet the supposed right-wing populist media figures and politicians who claim to love coal and have trotted out former miners and guys in hard hats have been conspicuously absent from Tuesday’s media-friendly action.

It’s not just that Fox News neglected to cover the action—in three months, it’s failed even mention the ongoing strike that it’s a part of. More than 1,000 Warrior Met coal workers have been on strike since early April, first over unfair labor practices and then fighting for fair terms on a union contract. The story is a real scandal: After the mine’s previous ownership declared bankruptcy in 2015, Wall Street firms bought it up and substantially lowered workers’ pay and benefits. It’s a clear assault on coal miners’ jobs, and yet Fox News has ignored it completely.

When now-President Biden made campaign promises to shut down coal plants in an effort to address pollution and climate change, the network slammed him for threatening coal workers’ jobs. It did the same when he canceled the Keystone XL pipeline. For that segment, Fox anchor Carley Shimkus spoke with a former coal miner who addressed Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election about her comments on coal. Shimkus tossed a few softballs and then ended by noting “we can see that American flag behind you, we know that you’re a patriotic guy, and we’re so happy that you landed on your feet.” When Biden made out of touch remarks about how coal miners should learn to code, Fox and Friends’ Rachel Campos-Duffy called it Biden’s “‘deplorable’ moment,” referencing comments by Hillary Clinton in 2016 because the network can only relitigate past grievances. (The network also went after Clinton repeatedly for her insensitive comments that she’d “put a lot of coal miners out of business.”) And when Trump falsely promised he’d save coal, the network fawned over his promises.

At first blush, it might seem the Warrior Met strike would fit perfectly into Fox’s narrative, what with working class miners from a Republican state heading into the big liberal city of New York to confront the people who screwed them over. But now that coal miners actually need support, Fox News has given them nary a mention.

There’s a major difference between the climate plans Fox’s hosts have decried and this strike: The former threaten coal bosses. After all, though Warrior Met has left workers with worse health care and a lack of overtime pay, it’s awarded company executives bwith bonuses of up to $35,000.

That’s also why the channel never seems to report on how coal’s pollution harms miners—something clean energy policies and a just transition could stop—or how amid the pandemic, coal companies have been laying off workers in droves while protecting shareholders’ profits. It seems Fox News and Republican politicians themselves aren’t really all that concerned about coal miners whose livelihoods are under siege. It’s the bosses, not the workers, who it wants to protect.

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unknown-songs · 4 years

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BLACK LIVES MATTER

A list with black artists who have a song in the Unknown Songs That Should Be Known-playlist (Can be a black artist in a band or just solo-artist) (no specific genre)

Bull’s Eye - Blacknuss, Prince Prime - Funk Aftershow - Joe Fox - Alternative Hip-hop Strangers in the Night - Ben L’Oncle Soul - Soul Explore - Mack Wilds - R&B Something To Do - IGBO - Funk

Down With The Trumpets - Rizzle Kicks - Pop Dans ta ville - Dub Inc. - Reggae Dance or Die - Brooklyn Funk Essentials - Funk FACELESS - The PLAYlist, Glenn Lewis - R&B Tell Me Father - Jeangu Macrooy - Soul

Southern Boy - John The Conquerer - Blues Hard Rock Savannah Grass - Kes - Dancehall Dr. Funk - The Main Squeeze - Funk Seems I’m Never Tired of Loving You - Lizz Wright - Jazz Out of My Hands - TheColorGrey, Oddisee - Hip-Hop/Pop

Raised Up in Arkansas - Michael Burks - Blues Black Times - Sean Kuti, Egypt 80, Carlos Santana - Afrobeat Cornerstone - Benjamin Clementine - Indie Shine On - R.I.O., Madcon - Electronic Pop Bass On The Line - Bernie Worrell - Funk

When We Love - Jhené Aiko - R&B Need Your Love - Curtis Harding - Soul Too Dry to Cry - Willis Earl Beal - Folk Your House - Steel Pulse - Reggae Power - Moon Boots, Black Gatsby - Deep House

Vinyl Is My Bible - Brother Strut - Funk Diamond - Izzy Biu - R&B Elusive - blackwave., David Ngyah - Hip-hop Don’t Ever Let Nobody Drag Your Spirit Down - Heritage Blues Orchestra - Blues Sastanàqqàm - Tinariwen - Psychedelic Rock

Disco To Go - Brides of Funkenstein - Funk/Soul Circles - Durand Jones & The Indications - Retro Pop Cheesin’ - Cautious Clay, Remi Wolf, sophie meiers - R&B Changes - Charles Bradley - Soul The Sweetest Sin - RAEVE - House

Gyae Su - Pat Thomas, Kwashibu Area Band - Funk What Am I to Do - Ezra Collective, Loyle Carner - Hip-hop Get Your Groove On - Cedric Burnside - Blues Old Enough To Know Better - Steffen Morrisson - Soul Wassiye - Habib Koité - Khassonke musique

Dance Floor - Zapp - Funk Wake Up - Brass Against, Sophia Urista - Brass Hard-Rock BIG LOVE - Black Eyed Peas - Pop The Greatest - Raleigh Ritchie - R&B DYSFUNCTIONAL - KAYTRANADA, VanJess - Soul

See You Leave - RJD2, STS, Khari Mateen - Hip-hop Sing A Simple Song - Maceo Parker - Jazz/Funk Have Mercy - Eryn Allen Kane - Soul Homenage - Brownout - Latin Funk Can’t Sleep - Gary Clark Jr. - Blues Rock

Toast - Koffee - Dancehall Freedom - Ester Dean - R&B Iskaba - Wande Coal, DJ Tunez - Afropop High Road - Anthony Riley - Alternative Christian Sunny Days - Sabrina Starke - Soul

The Talking Fish - Ibibio Sound Machine - Funk Paralyzed - KWAYE - Indie Purple Heart Blvd - Sebastian Kole - Pop WORSHIP - The Knocks, MNEK - Deep House BMO - Ari Lennox - R&B

Promises - Myles Sanko - Soul .img - Brother Theodore - Funk Singing the Blues - Ruthie Foster, Meshell Ndegeocello - Blues Nobody Like You - Amartey, SBMG, The Livingtons - Hip-hop Starship - Afriquoi, Shabaka Hutchings, Moussa Dembele - Deep House

Lay My Troubles Down - Aaron Taylor - Funk Bloodstream - Tokio Myers - Classic Sticky - Ravyn Lenae - R&B Why I Try - Jalen N’Gonda - Soul Motivation - Benjamin Booker - Folk

quand c’est - Stromae - Pop Let Me Down (Shy FX Remix) - Jorja Smith, Stormzy, SHY FX - Reggae Funny - Gerald Levert - R&B Salt in my Wounds - Shemekia Copeland - Blues Our Love - Samm Henshaw - Soul

Make You Feel That Way - Blackalicious - Jazz Hip-hop Knock Me Out - Vintage Trouble - Funk Take the Time - Ronald Bruner, Jr., Thundercat - Alternative Thru The Night - Phonte, Eric Roberson - R&B Keep Marchin’ - Raphael Saadiq - Soul

Shake Me In Your Arms - Taj Mahal, Keb’ Mo’ - Blues Meet Me In The Middle - Jodie Abascus - Pop Raise Hell - Sir the Baptist, ChurchPpl - Gospel Pop Mogoya - Oumou Sangaré - Wassoulou Where’s Yesterday - Slakah The Beatchild - Hip-hop

Lose My Cool - Amber Mark - R&B New Funk - Big Sam’s Funky Nation - Funk I Got Love - Nate Dogg - Hip-hop Nothing’s Real But Love - Rebecca Ferguson - Soul Crazy Race - The RH Factor - Jazz

Spies Are Watching Me - Voilaaa, Sir Jean - Funk The Leaders - Boka de Banjul - Afrobeat Fast Lane - Rationale - House Conundrum - Hak Baker - Folk Don’t Make It Harder On Me - Chloe x Halle - R&B

Plastic Hamburgers - Fantastic Negrito - Hardrock Beyond - Leon Bridges - Pop God Knows - Dornik - Soul Soleil de volt - Baloji - Afrofunk Do You Remember - Darryl Williams, Michael Lington - Jazz Get Back - McClenney - Alternative Three Words - Aaron Marcellus - Soul

Spotify playlist

In memory of:

Aaron Bailey Adam Addie Mae Collins Ahmaud Arbery Aiyana Stanley Jones Akai Gurley Alberta Odell Jones Alexia Christian Alfonso Ferguson Alteria Woods Alton Sterling Amadou Diallo Amos Miller Anarcha Westcott Anton de Kom Anthony Hill Antonio Martin Antronie Scott Antwon Rose Jr. Arthur St. Clair Atatiana Jefferson Aubrey Pollard Aura Rosser Bennie Simons Berry Washington Bert Dennis Bettie Jones Betsey Billy Ray Davis Bobby Russ Botham Jean Brandon Jones Breffu Brendon Glenn Breonna Taylor Bud Johnson Bussa

Calin Roquemore Calvin McDowell Calvin Mike and his family Carl Cooper Carlos Carson Carlotta Lucumi Carol Denise McNair Carol Jenkins Carole Robertson Charles Curry Charles Ferguson Charles Lewis Charles Wright Charly Leundeu Keunang Chime Riley Christian Taylor Christopher Sheels Claude Neal Clementa Pickney Clifford Glover Clifton Walker Clinton Briggs Clinton R. Allen Cordella Stevenson Corey Carter Corey Jones Cynthia Marie Graham Hurd Cynthia Wesley

Daniel L. Simmons Danny Bryant Darius Randell Robinson Darius Tarver Darrien Hunt Darrius Stewart David Felix David Joseph David McAtee David Walker and his family Deandre Brunston Deborah Danner Delano Herman Middleton Demarcus Semer Demetrius DuBose Depayne Middleton-Doctor Dion Johnson Dominique Clayton Dontre Hamilton Dred Scott

Edmund Scott Ejaz Choudry Elbert Williams Eleanor Bumpurs Elias Clayton Elijah McClain Eliza Woods Elizabeth Lawrence Elliot Brooks Ellis Hudson Elmer Jackson Elmore Bolling Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr. Emmett Till Eric Garner Eric Harris Eric Reason Ernest Lacy Ernest Thomas Ervin Jones Eugene Rice Eugene Williams Ethel Lee Lance Ezell Ford

Felix Kumi Frank Livingston Frank Morris Frank Smart Frazier B. Baker Fred Hampton Fred Rochelle Fred Temple Freddie Carlos Gray Jr.

George Floyd George Grant George Junius Stinney Jr. George Meadows George Waddell George Washington Lee Gregory Gunn

Harriette Vyda Simms Moore Harry Tyson Moore Hazel “Hayes” Turner Henry Ezekial Smith Henry Lowery Henry Ruffin Henry Scott Hosea W. Allen

India Kager Isaac McGhie Isadore Banks Italia Marie Kelly

Jack Turner Jamar Clark Jamel Floyd James Byrd Jr. James Craig Anderson James Earl Chaney James Powell James Ramseur James Tolliver James T. Scott Janet Wilson Jason Harrison Javier Ambler J.C. Farmer Jemel Roberson Jerame Reid Jesse Thornton Jessie Jefferson Jim Eastman Joe Nathan Roberts John Cecil Jones John Crawford III John J. Gilbert John Ruffin John Taylor Johnny Robinson Jonathan Ferrell Jonathan Sanders Jordan Edwards Joseph Mann Julia Baker Julius Jones July Perry Junior Prosper

Kalief Browder Karvas Gamble Jr. Keith Childress, Jr. Kelly Gist Kelso Benjamin Cochrane Kendrick Johnson Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. Kenny Long Kevin Hicks Kevin Matthews Kiwane Albert Carrington

Lacy Mitchell Lamar Smith Laquan McDonald Laura Nelson Laura Wood L.B. Reed L.D. Nelson Lemuel Penn Lemuel Walters Leonard Deadwyler Leroy Foley Levi Harrington Lila Bella Carter Lloyd Clay Louis Allen Lucy

M.A. Santa Cruz Maceo Snipes Malcom X Malice Green Malissa Williams Manuel Ellis Marcus Deon Smith Marcus Foster Marielle Franco Mark Clark Maria Martin Lee Anderson Martin Luther King Jr. Matthew Avery Mary Dennis Mary Turner Matthew Ajibade May Noyes Mckenzie Adams Medgar Wiley Evers Michael Brown Michael Donald Michael Griffith Michael Lee Marshall Michael Lorenzo Dean Michael Noel Michael Sabbie Michael Stewart Michelle Cusseaux Miles Hall Moses Green Mya Hall Myra Thompson

Nathaniel Harris Pickett Jr. Natasha McKenna Nicey Brown Nicholas Heyward Jr.

O’Day Short family Orion Anderson Oscar Grant III Otis Newsom

Pamela Turner Paterson Brown Jr. Patrick Dorismond Philando Castile Phillip Pannell Phillip White Phinizee Summerour

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Ramarley Graham Randy Nelson Raymond Couser Raymond Gunn Regis Korchinski-Paquet Rekia Boyd Renisha McBride Riah Milton Robert Hicks Robert Mallard Robert Truett Rodney King Roe Nathan Roberts Roger Malcolm and his wife Roger Owensby Jr. Ronell Foster Roy Cyril Brooks Rumain Brisbon Ryan Matthew Smith

Sam Carter Sam McFadden Samuel DuBose Samuel Ephesians Hammond Jr. Samuel Hammond Jr. Samuel Leamon Younge Jr. Sandra Bland Sean Bell Shali Tilson Sharonda Coleman-Singleton Shukri Abdi Simon Schuman Slab Pitts Stella Young Stephon Clark Susie Jackson

T.A. Allen Tamir Rice Tamla Horsford Tanisha Anderson Timothy Caughman Timothy Hood Timothy Russell Timothy Stansbury Jr. Timothy Thomas Terrence Crutcher Terrill Thomas Tom Jones Tom Moss Tony McDade Tony Terrell Robinson Jr. Trayvon Martin Troy Hodge Troy Robinson Tula Tyler Gerth Tyre King Tywanza Sanders

Victor Duffy Jr. Victor White III

Walter Lamar Scott Wayne Arnold Jones Wesley Thomas Wilbert Cohen Wilbur Bundley Will Brown Will Head Will Stanley Will Stewart Will Thompson Willie James Howard Willie Johnson Willie McCoy Willie Palmer Willie Turks William Brooks William Butler William Daniels William Fambro William Green William L. Chapman II William Miller William Pittman Wyatt Outlaw

Yusef Kirriem Hawkins

The victims of LaLaurie (1830s) The black victims of the Opelousas massacre (1868) The black victims of the Thibodaux massacre (1887) The black victims of the Wilmington insurrection (1898) The black victims of the Johnson-Jeffries riots (1910) The black victims of the Red summer (1919) The black victims of the Elaine massacre (1919) The black victims of the Ocoee massacre (1920) The victims of the MOVE bombing (1985)

All the people who died during the Atlantic slave trade, be it due to abuse or disease.

All the unnamed victims of mass-incarceration, who were put into jail without the committing of a crime and died while in jail or died after due to mental illness.

All the unnamed victims of racial violence and discrimination.

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My apologies for all the people missing on this list. Feel free to add more names and stories.

Listen, learn and read about discrimination, racism and black history: (feel free to add more) Documentaries: 13th (Netflix) The Innocence Files (Netflix) Who Killed Malcolm X? (Netflix) Time: The Kalief Browder Story (Netflix) I Am Not Your Negro

YouTube videos: We Cannot Stay Silent about George Floyd Waarom ook Nederlanders de straat op gaan tegen racisme (Dutch) Wit is ook een kleur (Dutch) (documentaire)

Books: Biased by Jennifer Eberhardt Don’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri Freedom Is A Constant Struggle by Angela Davis How To Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery White Fragility by Robin Deangelo Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge Woman, Race and Class by Angela Davis

Websites: https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/report/ https://museumandmemorial.eji.org/ https://archive.org/details/thirtyyearsoflyn00nati/page/n11/mode/2up https://lab.nos.nl/projects/slavernij/index-english.html https://blacklivesmatter.com/ https://www.zinnedproject.org/

#black lives matter #blm #racism #george floyd #breonna taylor #mlk #black history

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Rudolph Wright, last to die in California for a crime other than murder.

It was January 11, 1962 on San Quentin Prison’s notorious ‘Condemned Row’ on the top floor of North Block. Caryl Chessman, California’s notorious ‘Red Light Bandit,’ was long gone. Executed on May 2, 1960, he was a mere memory. An enduring memory, granted, but dead and gone all the same. Merle Haggard, in for robbery on a three-to-fifteen-year sentence, was paroled just over two years previously.…

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Primal Scream: Give Out But Don’t Give Up

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Read Like a Gilmore

All 339 Books Referenced In “Gilmore Girls”

Not my original list, but thought it’d be fun to go through and see which one’s I’ve actually read :P If it’s in bold, I’ve got it, and if it’s struck through, I’ve read it. I’ve put a ‘read more’ because it ended up being an insanely long post, and I’m now very sad at how many of these I haven’t read. (I’ve spaced them into groups of ten to make it easier to read)

1. 1984 by George Orwell 2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 3. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 5. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser 6. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt 7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 8. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 9. The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan 10. The Art of Fiction by Henry James

11. The Art of War by Sun Tzu 12. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 13. Atonement by Ian McEwan 14. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy 15. The Awakening by Kate Chopin 16. Babe by Dick King-Smith 17. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi 18. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie 19. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett 20. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 21. Beloved by Toni Morrison 22. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney 23. The Bhagava Gita 24. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy 25. Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel 26. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy 27. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 28. Brick Lane by Monica Ali 29. Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner 30. Candide by Voltaire 31. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer 32. Carrie by Stephen King 33. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 34. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger 35. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White 36. The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman 37. Christine by Stephen King 38. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 39. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 40. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse 41. The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty 42. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare 43. Complete Novels by Dawn Powell 44. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton 45. Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker 46. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 47. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 48. Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac 49. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 50. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber 51. The Crucible by Arthur Miller 52. Cujo by Stephen King 53. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon 54. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende 55. David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D 56. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 57. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown 58. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol 59. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 60. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller 61. Deenie by Judy Blume 62. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson 63. The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx 64. The Divine Comedy by Dante 65. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells 66. Don Quixote by Cervantes 67. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv 68. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 69. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe 70. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook 71. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe 72. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn 73. Eloise by Kay Thompson 74. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger 75. Emma by Jane Austen 76. Empire Falls by Richard Russo 77. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol 78. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 79. Ethics by Spinoza 80. Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves

81. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende 82. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer 83. Extravagance by Gary Krist 84. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 85. Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore 86. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan 87. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser 88. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson 89. The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien 90. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein 91. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom 92. Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce 93. Fletch by Gregory McDonald 94. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 95. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem 96. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand 97. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 98. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger 99. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers 100. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut 101. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler 102. George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg 103. Gidget by Fredrick Kohner 104. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen 105. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels 106. The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo 107. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 108. Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky 109. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 110. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford

111. The Gospel According to Judy Bloom 112. The Graduate by Charles Webb 113. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 114. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 115. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 116. The Group by Mary McCarthy 117. Hamlet by William Shakespeare 118. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling 119. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling 120. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers 121. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 122. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry 123. Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare 124. Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare 125. Henry V by William Shakespeare 126. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby 127. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon 128. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris 129. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton 130. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III 131. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende 132. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer 133. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss 134. How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland 135. Howl by Allen Ginsberg 136. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo 137. The Iliad by Homer 138. I’m With the Band by Pamela des Barres 139. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 140. Inferno by Dante

141. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee 142. Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy 143. It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton 144. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 145. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan 146. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare 147. The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain 148. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 149. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito 150. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander 151. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain 152. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 153. Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence 154. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal 155. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 156. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield 157. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis 158. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke 159. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken 160. Life of Pi by Yann Martel

161. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens 162. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway 163. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen 164. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 165. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton 166. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 167. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson 168. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 169. The Love Story by Erich Segal 170. Macbeth by William Shakespeare 171. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 172. The Manticore by Robertson Davies 173. Marathon Man by William Goldman 174. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 175. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir 176. Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman 177. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris 178. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer 179. Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken 180. The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare 181. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 182. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 183. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson 184. Moby Dick by Herman Melville 185. The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin 186. Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor 187. A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman 188. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret 189. A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars 190. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

191. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 192. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall 193. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh 194. My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken 195. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest 196. Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo 197. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult 198. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer 199. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 200. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri 201. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin 202. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen 203. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson 204. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay 205. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich 206. Night by Elie Wiesel 207. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 208. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan 209. Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell 210. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski

211. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (will NEVER read again) 212. Old School by Tobias Wolff 213. On the Road by Jack Kerouac 214. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey 215. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 216. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan 217. Oracle Night by Paul Auster 218. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 219. Othello by Shakespeare 220. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens 221. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan 222. Out of Africa by Isac Dineson 223. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton 224. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster 225. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan 226. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 227. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious 228. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 229. Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington 230. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi 231. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain 232. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby 233. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker 234. The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche 235. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind 236. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 237. Property by Valerie Martin 238. Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon 239. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw 240. Quattrocento by James Mckean

241. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall 242. Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers 243. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe 244. The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham 245. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi 246. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 247. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin 248. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant 249. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman 250. The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien 251. R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton 252. Rita Hayworth by Stephen King 253. Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert 254. Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton 255. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 256. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf 257. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster 258. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin 259. The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition 260. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi 261. Sanctuary by William Faulkner 262. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford 263. Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James 264. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum 265. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 266. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand 267. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir 268. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 269. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman 270. Selected Hotels of Europe

271. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell 272. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 273. A Separate Peace by John Knowles 274. Several Biographies of Winston Churchill 275. Sexus by Henry Miller 276. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon 277. Shane by Jack Shaefer 278. The Shining by Stephen King 279. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 280. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton 281. Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut 282. Small Island by Andrea Levy 283. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway 284. Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers 285. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore 286. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht 287. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos 288. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker 289. Songbook by Nick Hornby 290. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare 291. Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 292. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron 293. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 294. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov 295. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach 296. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller 297. A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams 298. Stuart Little by E. B. White 299. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 300. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

301. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett 302. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber 303. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 304. Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 305. Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry 306. Time and Again by Jack Finney 307. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 308. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway 309. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 310. The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare 311. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 312. The Trial by Franz Kafka 313. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson 314. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett 315. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom 316. Ulysses by James Joyce 317. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath 318. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 319. Unless by Carol Shields 320. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

321. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers 322. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 323. Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard 324. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides 325. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett 326. Walden by Henry David Thoreau 327. Walt Disney’s Bambi by Felix Salten 328. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 329. We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker 330. What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles 331. What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell 332. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka 333. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson 334. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee 335. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire 336. The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum 337. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 338. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 339. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

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Rory Gilmore Book List:

- [ ] 1984 by George Orwell

- [ ] The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

- [ ] Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

- [ ] The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

- [ ] An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

- [ ] Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

- [ ] Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

- [ ] Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

- [ ] Archidamian War by Donald Kagan

- [ ] The Art of Fiction by Henry James

- [ ] The Art of War by Sun Tzu

- [ ] As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

- [ ] Atonement by Ian McEwan

- [ ] Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

- [ ] The Awakening by Kate Chopin

- [ ] Babe by Dick King-Smith

- [ ] Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi

- [ ] Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

- [ ] Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

- [ ] The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

- [ ] Beloved by Toni Morrison

- [ ] Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney

- [ ] The Bhagava Gita

- [ ] The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy

- [ ] Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel

- [ ] A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy

- [ ] Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

- [ ] Brick Lane by Monica Ali

- [ ] Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner

- [ ] Candide by Voltaire

- [ ] The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer - well some of it

- [ ] Carrie by Stephen King

- [ ] Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

- [ ] The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

- [ ] Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White

- [ ] The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman

- [ ] Christine by Stephen King

- [ ] A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

- [ ] A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

- [ ] The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse

- [ ] The Collected Short Stories by Eudora Welty - some

- [ ] The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty

- [ ] A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

- [ ] Complete Novels by Dawn Powell

- [ ] The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton

- [ ] Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker

- [ ] A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

- [ ] The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père

- [ ] Cousin Bette by Honor’e de Balzac

- [ ] Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

- [ ] The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber

- [ ] The Crucible by Arthur Miller

- [ ] Cujo by Stephen King

- [ ] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

- [ ] Daisy Miller by Henry James

- [ ] Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

- [ ] David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D

- [ ] David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

- [ ] The Da Vinci -Code by Dan Brown

- [ ] Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

- [ ] Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

- [ ] Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

- [ ] Deenie by Judy Blume

- [ ] The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson

- [ ] The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx

- [ ] The Divine Comedy by Dante

- [ ] The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

- [ ] Don Quijote by Cervantes

- [ ] Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv

- [ ] Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

- [ ] Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe - again some

- [ ] Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook

- [ ] The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

- [ ] Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn

- [ ] Eloise by Kay Thompson

- [ ] Emily the Strange by Roger Reger

- [ ] Emma by Jane Austen

- [ ] Empire Falls by Richard Russo

- [ ] Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol

- [ ] Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

- [ ] Ethics by Spinoza

- [ ] Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves

- [ ] Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

- [ ] Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

- [ ] Extravagance by Gary Krist

- [ ] Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

- [ ] Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore

- [ ] The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan

- [ ] Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser

- [ ] Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

- [ ] The Fellowship of the Ring: Book 1 of The Lord of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien

- [ ] Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein

- [ ] The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

- [ ] Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce

- [ ] Fletch by Gregory McDonald

- [ ] Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

- [ ] The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

- [ ] The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

- [ ] Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - never finished

- [ ] Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger

- [ ] Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers

- [ ] Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

- [ ] Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

- [ ] George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg

- [ ] Gidget by Fredrick Kohner

- [ ] Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

- [ ] The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

- [ ] The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo

- [ ] The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy – started and not finished

- [ ] Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky

- [ ] Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

- [ ] The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford

- [ ] The Gospel According to Judy Bloom - this isn’t a real book!

- [ ] The Graduate by Charles Webb

- [ ] The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

- [ ] The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

- [ ] Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

- [ ] The Group by Mary McCarthy

- [ ] Hamlet by William Shakespeare

- [ ] Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling

- [ ] Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling

- [ ] A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

- [ ] Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

- [ ] Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry

- [ ] Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare

- [ ] Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare

- [ ] Henry V by William Shakespeare

- [ ] High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

- [ ] The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

- [ ] Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris

- [ ] The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton

- [ ] House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III (Lpr)

- [ ] The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

- [ ] How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer

- [ ] How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss

- [ ] How the Light Gets in by M. J. Hyland

- [ ] Howl by Allen Gingsburg

- [ ] The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

- [ ] The Iliad by Homer

- [ ] I’m with the Band by Pamela des Barres

- [ ] In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

- [ ] Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

- [ ] Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy

- [ ] It Takes a Village by Hillary Clinton

- [ ] Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

- [ ] The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

- [ ] Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

- [ ] The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain

- [ ] The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

- [ ] Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito

- [ ] The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander

- [ ] The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

- [ ] Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence

- [ ] The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal

- [ ] Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

- [ ] The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield

- [ ] Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

- [ ] Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

- [ ] Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken

- [ ] Life of Pi by Yann Martel

- [ ] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

- [ ] Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

- [ ] The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway

- [ ] The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen

- [ ] Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

- [ ] Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton

- [ ] Lord of the Flies by William Golding

- [ ] The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

- [ ] The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

- [ ] The Love Story by Erich Segal

- [ ] Macbeth by William Shakespeare

- [ ] Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

- [ ] The Manticore by Robertson Davies

- [ ] Marathon Man by William Goldman

- [ ] The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

- [ ] Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir

- [ ] Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman

- [ ] Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

- [ ] The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer

- [ ] Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken

- [ ] The Merry Wives of Windsro by William Shakespeare

- [ ] The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

- [ ] Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

- [ ] The Miracle Worker by William Gibson

- [ ] Moby Dick by Herman Melville

- [ ] The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin

- [ ] Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor

- [ ] A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman

- [ ] Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret

- [ ] A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars

- [ ] A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

- [ ] Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

- [ ] Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall

- [ ] My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh

- [ ] My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken

- [ ] My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest

- [ ] My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

- [ ] The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

- [ ] The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

- [ ] The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

- [ ] The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin

- [ ] Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen

- [ ] New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

- [ ] The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay

- [ ] Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

- [ ] Night by Elie Wiesel

- [ ] Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

- [ ] The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan

- [ ] Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell

- [ ] Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski

- [ ] Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

- [ ] Old School by Tobias Wolff

- [ ] Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

- [ ] On the Road by Jack Kerouac

- [ ] One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

- [ ] One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

- [ ] One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

- [ ] The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan

- [ ] Oracle Night by Paul Auster

- [ ] Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

- [ ] Othello by Shakespeare

- [ ] Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

- [ ] The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan

- [ ] Out of Africa by Isac Dineson

- [ ] The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

- [ ] A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

- [ ] The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan

- [ ] The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

- [ ] Peyton Place by Grace Metalious

- [ ] The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

- [ ] Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington

- [ ] Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

- [ ] Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain

- [ ] The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby

- [ ] The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker

- [ ] The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche

- [ ] The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind

- [ ] Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

- [ ] Property by Valerie Martin

- [ ] Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon

- [ ] Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

- [ ] Quattrocento by James Mckean

- [ ] A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall

- [ ] Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers

- [ ] The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

- [ ] The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

- [ ] Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

- [ ] Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

- [ ] Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin

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I'm so fucking angry

I'm 16, so I can't vote

I'm living in my parents' house, so I can't go out and protest

I have signed so many petitions, but I still feel like I should be doing more

I just learned about the steps to fascism in school, and I see the signs

I can't tell my parents this is happening because it's "fake news"

My healthcare rights as a trans person just got taken away, but "just stop being trans it won't affect you"

I want to take a bigger stand on social issues happening, but I can't

The only fucking things I can do is try and help save the fucking bees, because that's not a matter of human rights so for some fucking reason I'm allowed to talk about it without getting yelled at

https://blacklivesmatter.com/petitions/

So go and sign some of those petitions maybe?

I'm so fucking sorry to everyone that has to deal with this first hand, but I know that the most important thing for me right now is staying alive so I can help make more changes later

EMMETT TILL - MEDGAR EVERS - GEORGE JUNIUS STINNEY JR. - DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR - HENRY SMITH - JOHN CRAWFORD III - MICHAEL BROWN - EZELL FORD - DANTE PARKER - MICHELLE CUSSEAUX - MARY TURNER - LAQUAN MCDONALD - MALCOLM X - TANISHA ANDERSON - AKAI GURLEY - TAMIR RICE - RUMAIN BRISBON - JERAME REID - MATTHEW AJIBADE - JAMES N. POWELL JR. - FRANK SMART - ERNEST LACY - NATASHA MCKENNA - TONY ROBINSON - ANTHONY HILL - MYA HALL - PHILLIP WHITE - ERIC HARRIS - WALTER SCOTT - WILLIAM CHAPMAN II - ALEXIA CHRISTIAN - BRENDON GLENN - VICTOR MANUEL LAROSA - JONATHAN SANDERS - FREDDIE CARLOS GRAY JR. - JOSEPH MANN - SALVADO ELLSWOOD - SANDRA BLAND - ALBERT JOSEPH DAVIS - DARRIUS STEWART - BILLY RAY DAVIS - SAMUEL DUBOSE - MICHAEL SABBIE - BRIAN KEITH DAY - CHRISTIAN TAYLOR - TROY ROBINSON - ASSHAMS PHAROAH MANLEY - MICHAEL STEWART - FELIX KUMI - KEITH HARRISON MCLEOD - JUNIOR PROSPER - LAMONTEZ JONES - PATERSON BROWN - DOMINIC HUTCHINSON - ANTHONY ASHFORD - ALONZO SMITH - TYREE CRAWFORD - INDIA KAGER - LA?VANTE BIGGS - MICHAEL LEE MARSHALL - JAMAR CLARK - RICHARD PERKINS - PHILLIP PANNELL - NATHANIEL HARRIS PICKETT - BENNI LEE TIGNOR - MIGUEL ESPINAL - MICHAEL NOEL - KEVIN MATTHEWS - BETTIE JONES - QUINTONIO LEGRIER - KEITH CHILDRESS JR. - JANET WILSON - RANDY NELSON - ANTRONIE SCOTT - WENDELL CELESTINE - DAVID JOSEPH - CALIN ROQUEMORE - DYZHAWN PERKINS - CHRISTOPHER DAVIS - MARCO LOUD - JAMES BYRD JR. - PETER GAINES - TORREY ROBINSON - DARIUS ROBINSON - KEVIN HICKS - MARY TRUXILLO - DEMARCUS SEMER - AMADOU DIALLO - WILLIE TILLMAN - TERRILL THOMAS - DEMETRIUS DUBOSE - ALTON STERLING - PHILANDO CASTILE - TERENCE CRUTCHER - PAUL O?NEAL - ALTERIA WOODS - BOBBY RUSS - JORDAN EDWARDS - AARON BAILEY - RONELL FOSTER - STEPHON CLARK - COREY CARTER - ANTWON ROSE II - TAYLER ROCK - MALICE GREEN - RAMARLEY GRAHAM - ELIJAH MCCLAIN - AIYANA STANLEY JONES - BOTHAM JEAN - PAMELA TURNER - DOMINIQUE CLAYTON - SEAN BELL - ATATIANA JEFFERSON - JEMEL ROBERSON - JAMES LEE ALEXANDER - RYAN MATTHEW SMITH - DERRICK AMBROSE JR. - ADDIE MAE COLLINS - CAROL DENISE MCNAIR - CAROLE ROBERTSON - CYNTHIA WESLEY - NICHOLAS HEYWARD JR. - CHRISTOPHER WHITFIELD - WILLIE MCCOY - VICTOR WHITE III - MARCUS DEON SMITH - CHAVIS CARTER - MARTIN LEE ANDERSON - CHRISTOPHER MCCORVEY - BRADLEY BLACKSHIRE - TIMOTHY THOMAS - REGINALD DOUCET JR. - DANROY "DJ" HENRY JR. - KARVAS GAMBLE JR. - ERIC REASON - KORRYN GAINES - REKIA BOYD - KIONTE SPENCER - DARIUS TARVER - WAYNE ARNOLD JONES - MANUEL ELLIS - VICTOR DUFFY JR. - KOBE DIMOCK-HEISLER - CLINTON R. ALLEN - DONTRE HAMILTON - TIMOTHY CAUGHMAN - SYLVILLE SMITH - COREY JONES - TYRE KING - ERIC GARNER - MILES HALL - KENDRICK JOHNSON - CHARLEENA LYLES - MICHAEL LORENZO DEAN - TRAYVON MARTIN - RENISHA MCBRIDE - KIMONI DAVIS - KIWANE CARRINGTON - OSCAR GRANT III - BREONNA TAYLOR - KALIEF BROWDER - DARRIEN HUNT - TROY HODGE - WILLIAM GREEN - AHMAUD ARBERY - DION JOHNSON - TONY MCDADE - ANDREW KEARSE - JAMEL FLOYD - GEORGE FLOYD - RAYSHARD BROOKS - ITALIA MARIE KELLY - DAVID MCATEE - CHRIS BEATY

I got this list from

I'm so fucking sorry to every single one of you

I'll make sure things change, or die trying

I promise

#not all lives matter until black lives matter #petitions

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30 Rock’s Best Running Jokes

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When 30 Rock drew its final breath in 2013, yards of column inches were devoted – deservedly so – to praising the work of creator Tina Fey. Article upon article applauded the characters, cast, performances and seven seasons of energetic, inventive, satirical comedy.

More than anything else though, 30 Rock was always about the gags. It was fruitcake-dense with jokes, regularly fitting in more quotable laughs before its opening credits than many shows manage in a full half-hour. As it returns for a one-off reunion special, join us in celebrating the many, many running gags of its seven-season history, from the fake movies, to the terrible yet incredibly catchy songs, Frank’s hats, and those godawful TGS sketches…

The fake movies

The presence of Tracy Jordan (a bonafide Martin Lawrence meets the Wayans Brothers-style movie star) in the TGS cast opened up the world of film parody to 30 Rock.

Admittedly Jenna Maloney also enjoyed a movie career of sorts, but while she was being offered the part of “any blonde actress” in torture porn flicks by the producers who watched and rented Saw, Tracy was turning down the lead in Garfield 3: Feline Groovy to pursue his serious acting career. The latter climaxed with the release of spot-on Precious parody Hard To Watch (Based on the novel Stone Cold Bummer by Manipulate), for which Tracy received the O in his EGOT plan. Sheer class.

Over the years though, who couldn’t not smile at Tracy’s blaxpoitation-filled back catalogue, from the timeless romance of A Blaffair to Rememblack, to Sherlock Homie, Who Dat Ninja?, The Chunks 2: A Very Chunky Christmas, and last but by no means least, Honky Grandma Be Trippin’. The man is a chameleon (in that he’s always a lizard).

Two of Jenna’s TGS projects however, bring back the fondest memories of 30 Rock’s stinging movie satire: small-town legal drama The Rural Juror (based on a Kevin Grisham novel), and her GE-produced life rights-avoiding Janis Joplin biopic, Sing Them Blues White Girl: The Jackie Jormp Jomp Story.

The TGS sketches

The quality of TGS’ output was never under question in 30 Rock; the sketch show was unremittingly bad (when the absence of their star meant a ‘Best of TGS’ series had to be run in lieu of live shows, Legal objected to their use of the word ‘Best’, and when a review dubbed it the worst comedy ever made, Liz was thrilled they’d defined it as a comedy). Liz Lemon’s opus was a fluorescent collection of fart gags, dodgy caricatures, Jenna’s songs, and misjudged celebrity impressions.

Beginning life as, in Kenneth’s words, “a real fun ladies comedy show for ladies”, TGS was Saturday Night Live’s idiot brother, the unsophisticated thorn in NBC’s side, under constant threat of controversy and cancellation. Forced to synergise backward overflow, advertise parent company products and promote GE interests, 30 Rock’s show-within-a-show satirised both the TV industry and tired trends in comedy (the always hilarious combination of a fat woman who’s sexually confident! Old ladies are crazy! Farts!).

Lemon may have seduced pilot Carol (Matt Damon) with her Fart Doctor skits, but TGS failed to win many hearts. With sketches like Pam the Overly Confident Morbidly Obese Woman, Ching-Chong Man Who Loves to Play Ping-Pong, Fat Hillary Clinton, Bear vs. Killer Robots, Me Want Food, and Gaybraham Lincoln, why it wasn’t more successful is a mystery.

Astronaut Mike Dexter

Lemon may have ended up with James Marsden’s Criss Chros, but fictional boyfriend Astronaut Mike Dexter will always hold a special place in her heart. Handsomer than Dr Drew, less British than Wesley Snipes, less living-in-Cleveland than Floyd, and a million times better than Dennis Duffy, Astronaut Mike Dexter had it all… except of course, a corporeal self.

The fake songs

Over the years, Jenna Maroney’s singing career has vomited up some truly dreadful creations, and topping the list has to be Muffin Top (a big hit in the king-making music markets of Israel and Belgium). Seguing from its pop insanity chorus “My muffin top is all that, wholegrain, low-fat” into a Madonna-style spoken-word rap “I’m an independent lady, so please don’t try to play me. I run a tidy bakery. The boys all want my cake for free”, the song is a battery assault on the senses.

But is it worse than Jenna’s summer dance jam, Balls, which earned her the princely sum of $50 in royalties? Or her computer generated, generic benefit song in aid of an unspecific natural disaster, which urged viewers to donate to “help the people the thing that happened, happened to”? How about the Jackie Jormp Jomp performance she gave of Chunk Of My Lung, written by Jack five minutes before the show, containing the classic line “You know you’ve bought it if life makes you sweet food”? Or Fart So Loud, the un-Weird Al-able song she and Tracy wrote after he parodied the theme to Avery Jessup TV movie Kidnapped? Such riches…

It’s not only Jenna who’s provided 30 Rock’s musical intervals of course. Season three finale Kidney Now! welcomed an eclectic collection of stars including Sheryl Crow, Mary J Blige, Elvis Costello, Moby, two of the Beastie Boys, Wyclef Jean, and Cyndi Lauper to perform a We Are The World-style anthem at the Milton Green benefit gig. Angie Jordan famously released a fifteen-second single My Single Is Dropping, to ride on the wave of her reality-show fame, Frank and Pete’s Sound Mound came up with unforgettable rock anthem Weekend Woman, and in the very same episode, even Tina Fey got in on the action by providing excellent Joni Mitchell parody, Paints and Brushes.

The legacy award though, as in the 30 Rock fake song that will continue to bring joy to the hearts of fans decades from now, has to go to one song, and one song only: Tracy Jordan’s Werewolf Bar Mitzvah.

Frank’s hat slogans

Off-set, stand-up Judah Friedlander favours his ‘World Champion’ trucker hat, the one he claims to have been awarded as the winner of the World Championships of pretty much all sports, martial arts, and that time he karate kicked Chuck Norris’ beard off his face and forced him to legally change his name to Charles.

On-set as Frank Rossitano though, Friedlander wears a series of self-designed trucker hats, each bearing a different gnomic slogan. Often incongruous, sometimes suggestive, and always odd, Frank’s hat slogans are part of the bricks and mortar of 30 Rock. In terms of favourites, we’re quite fond of ‘Alabama Legsweep’, or the laconic enigma of ‘And’, though ‘Shark Cop’, ‘Half Centaur’ and ‘Space Gravy’ also caught our eye over the seasons.

Jenna’s Mickey Rourke sex stories

Like Dot Com’s intellectualism, this running gag may have been introduced late into proceedings, but Jenna’s torrid sexual history with putty-faced beefcake Mickey Rourke gave J-Mo some of her best lines. Jenna’s allusions to Rourke’s sexually deviant and murderous attempts on her life paint a fascinating picture for 30 Rock fans. Here are some of the finest:

“Your new vibe is a double-edged sword, much like the kind Mickey Rourke tried to kill me with”, “Nice try Hazel, but you made the same mistake Mickey Rourke made on that catamaran. You didn’t kill me when you had the chance.”, “I’m going to have to reinvent you. Break you down completely and build you up from scratch. Just like Mickey Rourke did to me sexually.” “Next time you’ll tell me Mickey Rourke catapulted you into the Hollywood sign.” “You know what they say, if you can’t stand the heat, get off Mickey Rourke’s sex grill.” Wise words.

Kenneth the immortal page

To this day Kenneth Ellen Parcell remains something of an enigma to 30 Rock viewers. In later seasons, Jack McBrayer’s character went from being a simple country rube from Stone Mountain, Georgia to the flesh vessel for a mysterious immortal with no reflection, no age, and links to a world beyond our own.

Plenty of reference has been made to Kenneth’s ageless and supernatural state over the years, including the suggestion that not only is he unable to die, but he’s also an angel, sent to oversee the transition of souls from one world to the next.

The fake TV shows

It’s either a credit to the 30 Rock team or a condemnation of our times that Jack Donaghy’s hit reality viewer vote show, MILF Island, no longer feels like a parody. In generations to come, time will no doubt erode the boundaries between fact and fiction, and we 30 Rock fans will be telling our kids about the time we watched Deborah beat her competitors and claim MILF victory in the same breath as educating them about those people who ate kangaroo anuses for public approval.

MILF Island stands head and shoulders above the rest of 30 Rock’s fake TV shows (including TGS itself, lest we not forget), but that doesn’t mean that Gold Case, Los Amantes Clandestinos, Black Frasier, Homonym, or the inimitable Bitch Hunter deserve any less respect. Our fallen brothers, we salute you.

We could go on indefinitely listing the recurring jokes that made 30 Rock great, from Liz’s sandwich lust and desire to go to there, to Jack’s gloriously thatched head of hair and Republican conspiracies. As the show prepares to return, which of the above will live again?

30 Rock: A One-Time Special lands on NBC on Thursday July 16th at 8pm in the US.

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