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theskywaslookingback · 3 years

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Martin has the TV set to a low murmur, letting Bake Off reruns play in the background as he combs his fingers through Gerry’s hair. It’s warm in the flat, the summer worming its way in through the cracks of the place and turning everything hot and tight. The fan is louder than the TV, oscillating back and forth between the two bodies slumped on the sofa and the one on the chair.

Jon grumbles as the movement rustles his papers, his glasses low on his nose and gaze intent on the paper he’s reading.

“You know,” Gerry says from his comfortable position on Martin’s lap, “if you didn’t assign so much work, you wouldn’t have so much to grade.”

Martin pinches Gerry’s ear in admonishment as Jon makes a noise of protest from his comfortable perch on the arm chair. Gerry yelps and then laughs, swatting at Martin’s hand.

“I’m just saying, you do this to yourself.”

“Hush,” Martin says, tugging gently on a lock of black hair, “It’s too hot to deal with you.”

Gerry hums, picking his head up enough to wink at Jon who just sighs in reply. Gerry settles back in and Martin resumes his petting. It’s nice, despite the heat, one of the very few days they have to spend together. Jon had offered to help out with a summer class at the university that had been overbooked and Gerry had recently been promoted to manager at the bar he’d been working for, which was all phenomenal and Martin was so proud of them both, but it left them all with shockingly little time together.

Martin’s thumb strokes down Gerry’s neck, rubbing over an old tattoo of an eye, pressing down slightly at the pupil. Gerry huffs a breath into his lap and turns just enough to look at him. “Hi,” Martin says.

“Hey.” Comes the soft reply, warm and fond.

Martin would very much like to kiss him, but that would require a level of flexibility he’s never possessed, so he settles for bringing his own hand up to his palm and kissing the center of it before setting it back down lightly over Gerry’s mouth. He can feel the smile tugging at Gerry’s lips before his palm is being kissed in return and Martin brings it back up to his mouth. “Tea?” He asks after finishing the ritual.

“Christ,” Jon says, letting his papers and pen fall onto the small table at his side. The pen jumps at the small shock and rolls off onto the floor. “Please? If I don’t take a break I may actually start pulling my hair out.”

“Well we wouldn’t want that.” Martin says.

“Mmm, I don’t know.” Gerry says, tapping his finger to his chin as if in indecision, “Bald can be sexy. I seem to recall a time when you shaved your head and it didn’t look that bad.”

“Oh?” Delight suffuses through Martin like honeyed sunshine, “Now that’s something I would have loved to have seen.”

Gerry’s face lights up and he sits bolt upright. “Wait here a second,” he says before hopping off the couch and bounding toward the bedroom. There’s a loud crack, like the door has banged off a wall, and then the sound of things hitting the floor in a hurry.

Martin looks over at Jon, bewildered, but Jon just gives a helpless shrug, looking just as lost as he feels. He’s about to get up and go see just what the hell Gerry is doing when he comes tearing back into the room, clutching something in his hands.

“Look!” He crows, clearly pleased with himself, and hands out a book to Martin.

It’s not very large, about the size of a standard journal, and bound in worn, brown leather. The front of it is scuffed, the top corner bent inward like it’d been stepped on or stuffed somewhere and left like that for a long time, forgotten. “What is-“

From the chair he hears Jon say, “Is that-“

But Gerry drowns them both out with his plea of, “Open it!”

So Martin does.

Inside the front cover is a mess of pen drawings and doodles. A stylized eye, a moth, an anarchy symbol, a middle finger, half of them overlapping and the lines blurring. There’s a burst of black in the top right, a dark blot like a burst pen. In the center of the mess are big blocky letters, all caps.

PROPERTY OF GERRY KEAY

Below that, in a much smaller font that Martin can only decipher from years of recognition and practice.

and Jon Sims.

Martin looks up at Gerry who just grins and flops back down on the couch next to him, pressing hard up against his side like he’s eager to watch. Martin flips to the next page.

There’s a polaroid taped to the center, two young boys staring up at him with twin grins of mischief and joy. The boy on the left has chestnut brown hair cropped short. His mouth and hands look sticky and stained a bright red, the likely cause of which being the ice lolly stick still clutched in his right hand. The boy on the right is much smaller, with unruly black hair and red stains on his button down shirt and a matching red mouth. At the bottom someone had written in a tight, cursive script ‘Gerard and Jonathan, August 1999.’ Someone had drawn an ice cream van on the bottom of the page. At the top, in Gerry’s capital letter font, were the words PARTNERS IN CRIME.

The following pages are similar, photos taped onto the pages, sometimes overlapping each other. Some were clearly taken by Jon’s grandmother - the two of them dressed in suits for some function, the two of them sitting at a table and studying, the two of them asleep in the backyard. Others were clearly taken by the two themselves - Gerry smoking a cigarette and flipping off the camera, Jon holding a bottle of beer, Jon reaching for the camera and looking angry, Gerry riding a skateboard, Gerry on the ground with his skateboard upside down next to him. Some of them held commentary - WE LOOKED LIKE TWATS we were eleven!, Gerry has never once landed a kick flip HEY!!!!, we stayed up waiting for the meteor shower, BEST MATES FOR LIFE. Even more held doodles - ocean waves crashing against a rock, a pair of doves, zig zag mazes and tic tac toe, a lit cigarette and a bottle of beer.

“Ah-ha!” Gerry exclaims when Martin is more than halfway through the book, jamming his finger down at the picture taped there.

Martin jumps and looks at him.

“I knew it was in here,” Gerry says smugly.

By this point it looked as if Gerry had already started dying his hair black and growing it long, almost past his shoulders. His eyes were rimmed in black eyeliner and he had at least two piercings that Martin knew hadn’t come with parental permission. Next to him was Jon, hair buzzed down to his scalp and scowling impressively at the camera, wearing a too large leather jacket and a t-shirt for a band Martin had never heard of.

“Oh!” Martin says, grinning, “It looks so good!” He looks up to gauge Jon’s reaction, maybe even tease him a bit, but the words die quickly in his throat.

Jon’s looking right at Gerry, his face a mass of emotions that Martin is at a loss to try and describe. His eyes look wet.

“Jon?” Martin asks, concern tugging away his amusement and leaving it raw.

Gerry’s head snaps up, his own smile rapidly disappearing in the weight of Jon’s gaze.

There’s a long moment where none of them say anything and the room is stifling from the heat and tension. Martin looks between the two of them, trying to piece together what on earth could possibly be wrong, but he’s coming up short on pieces to work with.

It seems like forever before Jon finally says, “You kept it?” The tone of his voice is raw and brittle.

Martin very gently closes the book and sets in down on the coffee table.

Gerry’s mouth opens and closes a couple of times, confused noises eeking out like the squeaking of a rusted hinge. He seems almost as lost as Martin is. Finally his words take shape and land on, “Yes? Yeah, of course I did. Why wouldn’t I have?”

Jon’s eyes flicker away, to the oscillating fan and then to the TV kindly asking if they were still watching. He picks at a loose thread on the chair, fingers working anxiously. “I thought…after your mother- after you left- I thought that…”

Gerry’s eyebrows pull together, his lips tipping down into a frown. “What? Did you think I’d thrown it away?”

Jon shrugs, first one shoulder and then the other, like the collapse of a building. “Just kind of...assumed.” His hands were wringing together now, picking at the skin gently and scratching at his wrist. “After the...after the funeral we weren’t really talking, and then you were just...gone. Thought maybe…” Jon shrugs again, this time lower, hunching himself down smaller, “maybe you didn’t want to remember.”

Oh, Martin thought distantly. Gerry’s mother, Mary, had died when he was only 16, apparently by suicide. It had been a sudden, violent thing that had sent Gerry’s childhood spiraling in a direction he couldn’t control. Less than a week from the time his mother had died, Gerry had been uprooted from the home in Bournemouth he’d always lived in and made to move in with a distant relative named Gertrude up in London. He’d barely had time to process any of it, let alone let Jon know what was happening. It was over ten years before they’d seen each other again, and the gap had always been a sore spot for both Jon and Gerry.

Gerry makes a choked noise and crosses the room in quick strides to kneel in front of the chair. He gathers Jon’s hands in his own, cradling them together. “No,” he says, so softly Martin can barely hear him, “Not you.” He brings their hands up so he can kiss the backs of Jon’s hands, brush his lips over the knuckles. “I never wanted to forget you.”

Jon’s breath hitches.

Martin watches Gerry hold Jon’s hands to his face and mumble something that he can’t make out. Jon’s fingers twitch in response and he huffs out a breath. After a moment he gets up and goes into the kitchen to make them all some tea, flicking the switch on the electric kettle and rummaging through the pantry to find the container of lemongrass tea that he knows Jon likes and the mint tea that Gerry prefers. It doesn’t take long, but he likes the ritual of it anyway. He gathers their two mugs in one hand, and his own mug of a spicy black tea in the other and heads back into the sitting room.

Jon has moved over to the couch, tucked under Gerry’s arm with the book in his lap.

Martin smiles and sets their tea down.

When Jon looks up, Martin bends down and kisses his forehead and then grins wider when Jon’s nose and forehead scrunch up.

“Okay?” Martin asks.

Jon waves at him dismissively but makes a grab for his shirt when Martin turns like he’s going to take the chair. “Yes,” he says, exasperated, “come here, please.”

Gerry squishes himself into the corner and pulls Jon closer to make room, so Martin sighs and fits himself in next to them on the sofa. It’s a cramped fit, but ultimately worth it for the way Jon relaxes against him, flipping absently through the book of memories on his lap.

“Gerry had a point, at least.” Martin says.

“Hm?”

“You looked good with a shaved head,” Martin says too lightly, “might be a good summer to try it again.”

Jon’s protests are drowned out by Gerry’s instant and joyous peal of laughter.

Jon says something about ‘nothing being sacred’, the tips of his ears burning, while Martin tries to hide his grin in his cup of tea. He almost succeeds.

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International Peace Day

Today, September 21st, is International Peace Day and so we are highlighting books for all ages about peace and from some revered peace workers including Thich Nhat Hanh. Celebrated each year around the world, International Peace Day was declared by The United Nations as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, both within and among all nations and peoples. For more information visit http://www.un.org/en/events/peaceday/.

PRACTICING PEACE by Pema Chodron

Can there be hope for a peaceful future in times like these? How can we overcome our sense of helplessness when problems seem so big and tensions so strong? Pema Chödrön here shows us how to look deeply at the underlying causes of these tensions and how we really can create a more peaceful world—by starting right where we are and learning to see the seeds of hostility in our hearts. She draws on Buddhist teachings to explore the origins of anger, aggression, hatred, and war, and offers practical techniques all of us can use to work for genuine, lasting peace in our own lives and in whatever circumstances we find ourselves.

THE HEART OF THE BUDDHA’S TEACHING: TRANSFORMING SUFFERING INTO PEACE, JOY, AND LIBERATION by Thich Nhat Hanh

With poetry and clarity, Thich Nhat Hanh imparts comforting wisdom about the nature of suffering and its role in creating compassion, love, and joy – all qualities of enlightenment.

Covering such significant teachings as the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, the Three Doors of Liberation, the Three Dharma Seals, and the Seven Factors of Awakening, The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching is a radiant beacon on Buddhist thought for the initiated and uninitiated alike.

“Thich Nhat Hanh shows us the connection between personal, inner peace, and peace on earth.” – His Holiness the Dalai Lama

PEACE IS EVERY STEP: THE PATH OF MINDFULNESS IN EVERYDAY LIFE by Thich Nhat Hanh

In the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available in each moment. World-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and author Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how to make positive use of the very situations that usually pressure and antagonize us. For him a ringing telephone can be a signal to call us back to our true selves. Lucidly and beautifully written, Peace Is Every Step contains commentaries and meditations, personal anecdotes and stories from Nhat Hanh’s experiences as a peace activist, teacher, and community leader.

30 DAYS TO PEACE: A ONE-MONTH CREATIVE JOURNAL

This interactive book pairs daily inspirational quotes together with creative writing or drawing prompts that inspire users to reflect on peace in their daily lives. Quotes are derived from the Bible and from inspirational contemporary and historical figures. Featuring lovely hand-drawn illustrations throughout, this journal makes a perfect impulse gift to give to others—or to buy for oneself.

PRAYER FOR THE DAY ON PEACE by Terry Waite/BBC Radio 4

This stunningly designed volume contains 40 moving and comforting prayers of peace, each with its own introduction that expands on the prayer’s themes. All these prayers and reflections were broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s much-loved, early-morning spiritual slot, Prayer for the Day, and each one is introduced by a well-known member of the faith communities. The book takes a multi-faith approach, with meditations on peace from the different Christian denominations, as well as from Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist contributors.

THE ANATOMY OF PEACE: RESOLVING THE HEART OF CONFLICTfrom The Arbinger Institute

From the authors of Leadership and Self-Deception comes an international bestseller that instills hope and inspires reconciliation. Through a moving story of parents who are struggling with their own children and with problems that have come to consume their lives, we learn from once-bitter enemies the way to transform personal, professional, and global conflicts, even when war is upon us.

PEACEFUL PARENT, HAPPY KIDS: HOW TO STOP YELLING AND START CONNECTING by Laura Markham

Based on the latest research on brain development and extensive clinical experience with parents, Dr. Laura Markham’s approach is as simple as it is effective. Her message: Fostering emotional connection with your child creates real and lasting change. When you have that vital connection, you don’t need to threaten, nag, plead, bribe—or even punish.

MINDFULNESS: AN EIGHT-WEEK PLAN FOR FINDING PEACE IN A FRANTIC WORLD by Mark Williams, Danny Penman, Jon Kabat-Zinn

This life-changing bestseller is based on Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT). MBCT revolves around a straightforward form of mindfulness meditation which takes just a few minutes a day for the full benefits to be revealed. MBCT has been clinically proven to be at least as effective as drugs for depression and is widely recommended by US physicians and the UK’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence—in other words, it works. More importantly it also works for people who are not depressed but who are struggling to keep up with the constant demands of the modern world.

FOR YOUNGER READERS

PUTTING PEACE FIRST: 7 COMMITMENTS TO CHANGE THE WORLD by Eric Dawson

When he was just eighteen, Eric David Dawson co-founded the non-profit Peace First based on the idea that young people can change the world for the better—not someday, but right now. Twenty-five years later, Peace First has reached millions worldwide, teaching young people how to become peacemakers and create real change. Now, Dawson has written PUTTING PEACE FIRST, the handbook every aspiring peacemaker needs.

PEACE IS AN OFFERING by Annette Lebox; Illustrated by Stephanie Graegin

A warm, comforting poem about finding peace in a community of neighbors

Peace is an offering. A muffin or a peach. A birthday invitation. A trip to the beach.

A LITTLE PEACE by Barbara Kerley, National Geographic Kids

The latest National Geographic Children’s Books title by Barbara Kerley, A Little Peace, gives a richly evocative and thought-provoking view of the world our children will inherit. Wise words and moving images offer a unique and enriching experience for every young reader. According to author Barbara Kerley, “I believe that peace doesn’t just rest in the hands of politicians and world leaders. We all have the power to make the world more peaceful.”

For more on these titles visit the collection International Peace Day

#international peace day #united nations #penguin random house #berrett-koehler #shambhala #viking books for children #rodale #watkins publishing #rodale publishing #waterbrook #watkins #tarcher #tarcher-perigee #viking books for young readers #national geographic kids #thich nhat hanh #friday reads #there's a book for that

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Watchmen: SDCC Trailer Breakdown and Analysis

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HBO brought a trailer for the Watchmen series to SDCC, and OH MY GOD.

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The world is full of Watchmen purists, people who believe the original comic is sacrosanct and inviolable, and that any attempt to follow it up is doomed to failure because it misses the point of the original. And then there are people like Damon Lindelof, who decided to make a Watchmen TV series for HBO because those people are clearly wrong and need to be shown the error of their ways.

Just in time for SDCC 2019, HBO has dropped a new Watchmen trailer, and it's our most revealing look at the mysterious show to date. It is also nuts you guys. There is so much in this that is shocking or gorgeous or incredible that we had to pick through it on your behalf, finding every easter egg or hint at the plot that we could dig up.

Did you miss the trailer? Here's your chance to watch it:

Video of Watchmen | Official Comic-Con Trailer | HBO

Okay, now that you're caught up, here we go!

THE BACKGROUND

Here's what we know about the world of HBO's Watchmen:

It takes place after the events of the original story. In it, Nixon never stopped being President, and by the 1986 of the comic, the world was about to catch fire. The doomsday clock, which counts down how close we are to nuclear annihilation, was inching closer to midnight. A confrontation between a super-powered United States and the nuclear-capable Soviet Union seeming inevitable.

The world was seemingly saved by Adrian Veidt, also known as the hero Ozymandias, who had kidnapped a bunch of scientists, had them invent a telepathic monster AND teleportation technology that didn't really work, then dropped the monster in the middle of Times Square so that it could connect to seven million minds and explode from the failed teleport. His reasoning was that an alien menace would force the world to unite, rather than destroy itself.

This world had seen superheroes before - The Minutemen were a postwar superteam of mostly masked vigilantes who got together to fight crime. Eventually, masked vigilantism was outlawed, forcing the heroes to either operate illegally, become government stooges, or get out of the game.

Dr. Manhattan, the only actually superpowered one out of the group, decided to do a little stooging and a little retiring. After the events of the original story, he retired to Mars.

THE STORY

Here's what we can tell from the trailer regarding this sequel's story:

Rorschach died at the end of the original comic, killed by Dr. Manhattan because he was going to reveal the truth about Ozymandias's telepathic spaghetti monster to the world, nullifying its impact. In the new series, Rorschach is actually a bunch of people, reciting one of his most famous lines from the comics ("...they'll look up and shout 'Save Us' and we'll reply 'No.'").

Regina King is a Tulsa cop, and it looks like the Rorschachs break into her house and attack her family as part of what seems to be an anti-police wave of violence.

The Rorschach gang attacks the cops, and the cops decide to fight back with masks of their own. With official sanction from their leadership - Don Johnson is Tulsa Chief Judd, giving the masked police their marching orders. And Regina King puts on a mask and kicks a metric ton of ass.

Included in their number appears to be Tim Blake Nelson's Looking Glass, a new character for the show.

The world also looks like it's seriously unstable. This is a pretty radical redesign of the flag (though it has the same 50 stars on it - I checked), and you don't suddenly have a crazy libertarian militia group spring up if everybody's happy.

Contrary to reports, Veidt is still alive but is set apart from the other characters based on the trailer.

So is the Silk Spectre - Laurie Blake, taking her "father's" name and working for the FBI on the mask murders in Tulsa.

An amnesiac Hooded Justice, one of the original Minutemen who was widely regarded to be a Soviet spy before his death in the '50s, also appears in an in-show documentary.

WHAT REMAINS AN UTTER MYSTERY (and some conspiracy theories)

There is something else going on throughout this trailer. It seems like the bulk of the story is going to focus on the cops vs. Rorschachs, just based on the burn they get in the trailer, but there are two other stories floating around in the background: some ominous, looming, larger threat, and what the hell happened with Ozymandias and Dr. Manhattan.

At some point, Jon leaves Mars. He blows up his castle and disappears.

And Veidt (who was the character the pirate story in the comics was referring to) is on some sort of luxurious estate arrest?

There is a reference to a vast conspiracy made by this guy, who I can't identify, but miiiiiiiiiight be Rorschach's psychiatrist and therefore someone with access to his diaries and theories of what was going down at the end of the book.

Here's some other random stuff that looks awesome nonetheless:

The Owlship is back and firing beams of fire at drones.

Cops are dressed like Egyptian deities. Maybe they're working for Ozymandias?

Nite Owl is maybe back too?

But ultimately the best part of the trailer is the loading up of symbolism. Breaking eggs to look like the smiley face button is like a flashing neon sign.

If Rorschach represented the malleability of superheroes to be what you wanted them to be, I bet Looking Glass is their ability to reflect on you whatever you want them to. Rorschach was, in the comics, eating straight out of the can whenever he was shown eating, so this seems like a deliberate parallel.

"Raining squid" is very biblical and very out of line with the rest of the trailer, but it makes sense, preceding...

Dr. Manhattan's return!

Here's my theory: the show is a direct sequel to...the movie. That taxi ad looks a LOT like Matthew Goode's Ozymandias from the film version. Making it a sequel to the movie also makes it a sequel to the book because the movie could not have possibly been a more literal adaptation of the comic (making it both a faithful adaptation and the pinnacle of missing the point in human history).

The whole point of the book was to take apart superhero comics and poke at their absurdity as morality plays. That's what the end of the book is - Rorschach's journal gets sent to the New Frontiersman and picked up by a chunky dude dripping ketchup on his superhero shirt. Comic Book Guy is about to judge the hell out of the story (incidentally, has there ever been a time when Moore wasn't FULL of contempt for his readers? I don't think there was).

The greatest failure of the movie was to make itself a literal adaptation of the source material and not use it as an opportunity to provide the same commentary on the ballooning superhero film genre (only maybe without the contempt). Lindelof is really good at what he does, so I'm betting he's using this metaverse and these characters to tell a story that's as culturally relevant and blasphemous towards his medium as the comic was.

Watchmen premieres in October on HBO.

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Interview with Trevor Noah

What were your expectations when you took over as The Daily Show’s host right before the election?

I don't think I had much foresight into what it was going to be. I often said that I thought Donald Trump was winning but I don't think I had an idea of what that world would become. I didn't know what world I would be thrust into. If anything, I was spending more time focusing on getting used to the running of the ship, figuring out how to run a show, learning how to implement my ideas, figuring out what to keep from the old and what to create of the new. And that's really what I spent most of my time doing so essentially the campaign I've now come to realize was a lead-up to a real launch of the show from the conventions into the election and inauguration.

The thing Jon and I talked about: he knew more than most people that that's what the Daily Show needs. You need to start around an election because you begin a journey with an audience, you begin a story. And so a lot of people do it the other way around -- don't start something new during an election. But I guess Jon understanding from his past how the Daily Show kicked off during the conventions, how it started making a name for itself during that time. He knew better than anyone what space the show thrived within. That was me just trusting him. He said just take this and run with it, it may turn into something, it may not. This is the best shot you can have of creating something new and having a narrative that is truly yours to work within.

The Daily Show is a longtime institution. What do you feel like sets the Daily Show apart from other late night shows now that everyone has gotten political?

There's a distinction between them saying something about politics and them becoming political. That's a broad line that many people don't cross. I don't think Corden sees himself as political at all, I don't think he's trying to be political; but when you have a President who is as pervasive as Donald Trump is everyone's going to speak about him the same way everyone made jokes about George Bush. But the level of joke and level of discussion changes from show to show and the perspective changes as well. So what separates our show from other shows is what we're doing and how we're doing it and why we're doing it. John Oliver may touch on a Donald Trump story but I know he's gonna go into dialysis and he'll talk about what's wrong with the blood transfusion industry and then he's going to tell me about insurance providers because that's what John Oliver does. But he understands that he's in the world and so he'll comment on it. The same thing goes for Stephen Colbert; he'll do a monologue on the news, he may dabble in that, but looking at what we can and cannot say is also what separates us. Colbert has limits because he's on network, we have fewer because we're on cable. So how we break it down, why we break it down, becomes what separates us. And that's essentially business at the end of the day. Your product offering. Anyone can sell phones, the question is why do you want someone to buy your brand over somebody else's?

How do you cope with such an intense, pervasive news cycle – where everything is a joke?

I don’t. I enjoy it and I use it as the propellant for the rest of the headline. I see this as a gift. If DT gives you the joke, you get to spend your time on the policy. If it were all policy, you’d have to spend your time finding the joke. Because DT gives you all the jokes and the administration is such a comedic affair with Sean Spicer and Kelly Ann Conway and all the characters we’ve grown accustomed to. We dig into it. We give an opinion on it. We put our flag in the stand and say “this is where we stand on this issue.”

Do you consider yourself more of comedian or journalist or both? I don’t consider myself a journalist because that for me minimizes what a good journalist does. I rely on journalists to do my show; I’m reading the work of David Fahrentold and Maggie Haberman. I’m reading and I’m learning from that world. If it weren’t for them I wouldn’t know anything. Journalists are doing the work of journalism. There’s confusion sometimes between punditry and journalism; a pundit is willing to parrot an opinion on the news. I don’t see myself as a journalist because they put in hard work on a story and develop sources and figure out what the narrative is. We break a story down and interpret it. We’re comedians who work in the space of news and politics.

Do you think comedians keep politicians honest?

I don’t know if we keep them honest; I think that’s changed. I think shame is gone and hypocrisy is no longer a tool that has the same effect. It used to be that if you showed a politician they said something in 1999 and then said the complete opposite now, it used to be strong enough to make them hang their head. Now, many politicians are coming to understand that if they act with impunity no one holds them accountable. A lot of their voters have shown they care more for the end result than for the pageantry and illusion of pride.

What do you think about the collapse of that decorum?

It’s a horrible thing. That used to be one of the tools you could use. You could say “this is what you said; can we hold you accountable?” Now they just say “don’t worry about it.” With Trump’s tweets, they say “don’t worry about what he says, worry about what he does.” They’ve gotten to a place where they realize they don’t have to answer for anything, they just have to dig in behind Donald Trump and let everything fly over their heads. A lot of people say that this political uncertainty is good for comedy.

I’m always wary when people say it’s good for comedy. I existed before Donald Trump and will exist long after he’s gone. It may be good for late night satire and political commentary. The focus shifts. People watch for different reasons. Right now if you are someone who is political, then this is a time when you have a lot to chew. There’s al ot to say something about. It’s more that people are now interested in it. People were talking about income inequality before Donald Trump, but there may not have been a villain to focus on. It’s good for activism.

How does your childhood in South Africa influence your perspective?

It’s always been part of my comedy. I’ve always enjoyed providing context for my life. It’s more apparent because I come from Africa. Jon Stewart used to always joke about coming from a Jewish family and no one ever said “you tell a lot of jokes about that.” But I come from the land of Mufasa so it sticks out if I make an Africa joke.

I’ve always enjoyed it as a competitive edge. It goes back to the question: what separates us? As a show, we try to be as authentically open to the genuine experiences of the people that are being most affected by what is happening. So when I see something happening affecting Muslims, I don’t guess or project or try to imagine how it must feel. I ask my friend Hasan – as a Muslim person, how does it feel? Then we talk about that as people. When I’m watching footage of black men being shot down in American, I can to a certain extent understand it but I still turn to Roy on the show and go “hey man, what’s it like for you?” The same thing goes for women’s issues. It’s not tokenism, it’s genuinely asking. The same way we look to Senators reforming healthcare and ask “where are the women?”

I think that’s what separates us. The show doesn’t have one voice. The show has an anchor that guides the voice in certain directions, but the show has multiple voices that use it as a platform. That’s what I enjoy about it.

You seem to have a calm wisdom about all this – while a lot of other hosts like John Oliver and Stephen Colbert seem to be freaking out. Do you get fatigued by all the coverage? It’s #WhitePeopleProblems. I think for a white person Donald Trump coming into power is such a shift in their world and thinking of how safe they feel. I hate to say this but as a person of color this is not a big jump in comfort. After the election, Roy and myself and all the other black people in the building were like “are you afraid? Well no, it’s kind of the same.” There hasn’t really been a seismic shift for us as it has been for many liberal white people in America.

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The Onion's chief: Nothing funny about taking away kids from parents

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The Onion's chief: Nothing funny about taking away kids from parents

Over the past 20 years, Chad Nackers has seen the rise of hypocritical statements, those irony-free assertions in which the entire universe yells, “That sounds like a headline from ‘The Onion’” — but isn’t.

The Onion’s editor-in-chief has always tried to mix the straight yuks with the knowing punch of satire, a similar challenge to the nation’s editorial cartoonists.

“We haven’t really changed anything we do,” Nackers said in an interview Monday, “but the world has been much crazier and absurd, and that’s what people should be worried about.”

Like Rob Rogers, the well-respected Pittsburgh Post-Gazette cartoonist fired after criticizing Trump, Nackers sees little humor in the Trump administration’s separation of children from their parents along the border. (Editors’ note: The Monday afternoon effort just hurts).

“There’s nothing funny about what’s going on,” Nackers says. For The Onion, that means “it’s a satirical commentary on things, rather than ‘let’s laugh about it.’”

One of its most cited examples of such biting commentary is the headline (below) that The Onion has used after every school schooling since 2014.

“Part of the reason for the repetition,” Nackers says, is that “nothing is changing, so you’re getting the same headline.”

God forbid if you are in The Onion’s sights.

Last week, Nackers loosed the hounds on Facebook, with which The Onion built an audience of 6.5 million — now only actually accessible if The Onion pays Facebook to send it to The Onion’s fans, Nackers says. That “betrayal” of loyal customers, Nackers says, comes as Facebook sold out America in the 2016 elections to the Russians “for such little money, in Facebook terms.”

On Thursday and Friday, the site published about a dozen “articles” about Facebook, including one written in the perspective of Mark Zuckerberg’s daughter:

On Monday, Nackers launched an interactive piece called OnionSocial.com, with requisite articles touting the site’s world-leading popularity, genital recognition software and a 15-year-old MIT dropout CEO who, The Onion claims, is now dating Zuckerberg’s wife.

Nackers says he has not heard from Facebook. Frankly, he said, he’d rather train users to go to theonion.com or subscribe to its newsletter.

The newsletter can give you the latest headlines and presents it like a mini-publication, he said. Upon reflection, he added: “I’d rather just put five of them out every day.”

Quick hits

IT’S HIS: Billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong spoke to the Los Angeles Times newsroom after the deal with Tronc closed on Monday, announcing that Norman Pearlstine would be the executive editor. Pearlstine, a former top editor at Time Inc., Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal, had been consulting with Soon-Shiong since April, researching the paper and meeting 70-some current and former staffers. The previous editor, Tronc’s Jim Kirk, chose to leave rather than take a lesser job at the paper. Jeff Light will remain publisher and editor of The San Diego Union-Tribune.

TRONC FINALLY REALIZES IT HAS A STUPID NAME: That’s the New York Post headline on the company’s decision to return to its previous name, Tribune Publishing. (At least it’s not IHOB.)

BACK ON AIR: At first his voice diminished to a squeak. Then it was gone entirely. Cox reporter Jamie Dupree had been working on the radio since the Reagan administration but suddenly couldn’t speak. A text-to-speech technology company crafted a new voice for Dupree: software that turns his typed sentences into spoken words. And it’s similar to his old voice; the company used audio recordings of his work to create it, the Associated Press’ Brinley Hineman reports.

BOOST OR BOOSTED?: CJR reports some complaints about Facebook’s Community Boost conferences.

BETTER LIFE LAB: Economists say the way we work has become so stressful it’s the fifth leading cause of death. How do we get better? That’s the purpose of a new Slate podcast by Brigid Schulte, the author of “Overwhelmed,” a former Washington Post reporter and now director of the New America’s Better Life Lab. Although work is so stressful and conditions are often hazardous, few want to change it and “no one wants to quit,” James Pfeffer, a Stanford business professor, says in the first episode, which came out Friday.

WHY SO WHITE?: A review has found 750 charter schools with a pupil population that is far whiter than the district itself. Loose laws, writes Emmanuel Felton of the Hechinger Report, let scores of the publicly-funded charters create policies that favor white students. Those policies include items as prosaic as only allowing for bus transportation from white neighborhoods, Felton found. Editors: Is that the case in districts in your area?

What we’re reading

BOB DOLE’S FINAL MISSION: On Saturdays, the 94-year-old former senator travels to his usual spot: a shady place just outside the main entrance to the World War II National Memorial in Washington. From there, settled into his wheelchair, the recognition of him — and his service to the public — begins. By Steve Hendrix for The Washington Post.

VOTING FOR A CHANGE: Sick of corruption and sick of Donald Trump, Mexico turns its presidential hopes toward Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a leftist maverick. Former U.S. Ambassador Roberta Jacobson says she is unclear what type of policy changes he will make, but his economic circumstances stand apart from his rich predecessor. After she was appointed in 2016, she first met him at his unremarkable two-story townhouse in Tlalpan, a middle-class district in Mexico City. “If part of the point was to show me how modestly he lived, he succeeded,” she told The New Yorker’s Jon Lee Anderson.

THE PHOTO THAT BROKE HIS HEART: Photographer John Moore is a veteran journalist, but still had to catch his breath after a moment when a Border Patrol agent moved his hands across a 2-year-old Honduran girl’s mom, who the U.S. would separate from her. The girl immediately began screaming. “I wanted to stop her crying,” The Washington Post quoted Moore as saying.

What we’re hearing

THE VOICES OF THE CHILDREN AT THE BORDER: This audio recording catches the sobs and cries of kids who have had their parents taken away in what Laura Bush has called President Trump’s cruel, immoral, heart-breaking policy. The children inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility are 4 to 10 years old. The person who recorded it “heard the children’s weeping and crying, and was devastated by it,” Ginger Thompson and ProPublica reported.

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The scene where Kristoff rips Anna’s dress off and forcefully throws it off stage, while telling her how stupid she is, was very triggering for me, especially after seeing it twice.* When I was young, I stupidly got into a car with two young men. One of them tried to rape me in the back seat. After several minutes, I was able to physically fight him off, but only because he was very drunk. The other man sat and watched. After I fought (and I do mean FOUGHT) the attempted rapist off, his brother took pity on me and dropped me at a pay phone. It never occurred to me to contact the police, because I knew that I had asked for this to happen to me by getting into the car in the first place, even though all I had been offered was a ride home. Notice I still think of myself as stupid for being trusting, rather than blaming them for being the violent criminal and his co-conspirator that they were. More than 30 years of the women’s movement later, this is what society still teaches women. 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Let me tell you My GCSE results day brought that halcyon 1992 summer of lazy days and crazy nights to a crashing halt. I failed my GCSEs. So many of them, in fact, that if I wanted to continue my education I would have to spend a whole year doing GCSE retakes. Man who killed his son after Disneyland trip sentenced to life in prison A whole year. I’d only had 15 full years up to that point and now I was going… Read the full story VisitAdam Smith, 3h ago National Burger Day: 10 burgers ranked from worst to best Burger lovers rejoice, because today is your day. Anthony Joshua backs Floyd Mayweather to beat McGregor because ‘he’s never lost’ While the origins of National Burger Day aren’t very clear, we’re just glad of it’s existence, because after all it’s a great excuse to stuff our faces with our favourite burgers. Burgers are one of the greatest things invented by humans. Fact. They come in a variety of types, and go perfectly well with a whole host of cheeses, fries and different sauces. VisitTaran Bassi, 3h ago RECOMMENDED POSTS Upper West Media Upperwestmedia.Net Wa Municipal: GH¢224K siphoned into private pocket at Births and Deaths Over GH¢224, 000 has been siphoned into private pockets at the Births and Deaths Registry in Wa, the capital of Upper West, investigations have… Imam Salim Chishti Islam From The Heart 1 Dhul Hijjah 1438 – Making The Most of These Blessed Days The first 10 days of Dhul Hijjah is the time those who have been blessed to appear in Mecca for this year’s Hajj have arrived and started their practices at… Metro 8 posts Do universities actually look at your GCSE results? Students of a certain age have spent the last year worrying about (and occasionally revising for) their GCSEs. While the horror of exams ended a few months ago, tomorrow will hold a whole new type of terror for year 11 pupils – results day. But how important are these results? Sure, they might make or break your chances of getting into a sixth-form college, but do they matter when it comes to university applications? Will universities look at my GCSE grades? VisitOliver Wheaton, 3h ago What is the acceptable amount to give your children for passing their GCSEs? GCSE results are released today. While some children may be nervous, others could be feeling excited – and not just because they’re heading into their next stage of life. Firefighters battle huge blaze at east London Poundland No, for some lucky teenagers they could be about to come into a bit of money. Visitgeorgiadiebelius1, 3h ago What to do if you don’t get the GCSE grades you were expecting Not getting the grades you’ve been hoping for is a real bummer. It can be a disappointment and it might end up altering your path. That said, it’s worth realising it’s merely a bump in the road and not a dead end. Men just can’t help themselves from branding wanted woman ‘Britain’s sexiest crook’ VisitNicole Morley, 3h ago Emmerdale spoilers: Emma Barton cracks as Laurel Thomas ups the pressure Emma Barton is struggling to hold it together as more and more of the Emmerdale villagers are starting to get an insight into her true colours. With Ross suspicious and Finn knowing that she was on the bridge on the day that James died, the pressure is overwhelming the killer nurse. One person that has had Emma bang to rights for a long time now is Laurel Thomas and as Emma tries to return to normality and keep up an innocent front, she is having none of it and reminds Emma that she is watching her, waiting for her to slip up. Knowing that her own downfall could be imminent, Emma tries… Read the full story VisitDuncan Lindsay, 3h ago Disturbing rise in sprawling US-style ‘megafarms’ operating in Britain There has been a disturbing increase in the number of US-style ‘megafarms’ operating in the UK, selling factory-farmed meat to major supermarkets. An investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has found that there are now 1,674 factory farms in Britain, with at least 789 ‘megafarms’ that are as big as those in North America. The number of such farms has increased by more than a quarter in just the last six years, TBIJ said. Visitashithanagesh, 3h ago Monaco accept £138m player-plus-cash offer for Kylian Mbappe from PSG Kylian Mbappe looks set to join Paris Saint-Germain in the coming days with reports in France claiming the big-spending Ligue 1 giants have agreed a player-plus-cash deal for the teenager. Men just can’t help themselves from branding wanted woman ‘Britain’s sexiest crook’ Mbappe had a stunning breakout campaign last season in which he bagged 15 league goals and became the youngest ever scorer in a Champions League final. His exploits attracted most of Europe’s biggest clubs, with both Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola and Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger reportedly… Read the full story VisitEwan Roberts, 3h ago Celebrity Big Brother: Sarah Harding’s boyfriend ‘plans to confront Chad Johnson’ at the after-party Sarah Harding’s boyfriend Aaron Lacey is reportedly planning to confront Chad Johnson at the Celebrity Big Brother after-party. Heart-stopping moment toddler is rescued from middle of busy road junction The former Girls Aloud singer has caused quite a stir with Chad Johnson in Celebrity Big Brother, having shared many snogs and even a sex act while sharing a bed together. Sarah’s outside boyfriend Aaron Lacey, 33, however who was deemed ‘heartbroken’ by the betrayal, is now reportedly going to confront Chad at the after-party following this Friday’s… Read the full story VisitAdam Starkey, 3h ago Arsene Wenger could be tempted by Manchester City’s take it or leave it Alexis Sanchez offer Manchester City are preparing to make a final take it or leave it offer of £70million for Alexis Sanchez and it could be enough to tempt Arsene Wenger into selling, according to reports. The Chile international has entered the final 12 months of his contract and looks destined to leave on a free transfer next summer. Five ‘slaves’ rescued from cramped back room in Chinese restaurant Wenger has conceded it is unlikely the 28-year-old will agree to signing an extension but is prepared to let… Read the full story Visitjsgoldman, 4h ago finleyd, NYC DEL NETWORK 4h ago NYT News Business Day ESPN Pulls Announcer Robert Lee From Virginia Game Because of His Name by MATTHEW HAAG The network said Mr. Lee, who shares a name with a Confederate general, would cover another football game on Sept. 2 instead of the University of Virginia game.. via NYT Business Day http://nyti.ms/2xdKLJB Visit Metro 2 posts Mass Effect is not dead hints EA exec EA has given the clearest hint so far that Mass Effect: Andromeda will not be the end of the series for long. After a very mixed critical reception, and disappointing sales, many fans have been worrying that Mass Effect: Andromeda may spell the end for the entire franchise – but not according to comments this week from EA executive vice president Patrick Söderlund. ‘My personal opinion is, I think that the game… I usually don’t do this, but this is one of those places where I feel like the game got… Read the full story Visitdavidjenkins2012, 4h ago Lionel Messi’s dad begins talks with Manchester City over free transfer Lionel Messi is seriously contemplating quitting Barcelona next summer and his dad has already spoken to Manchester City about making a sensational switch to the Etihad. Massive landslide destroys buildings after hitting village in Switzerland The Argentine – who is considering his options – is yet to sign a new contract with Barca despite his current deal expiring in 2018, meaning he could leave the club as a free agent and freely talk to potential suitors in January. Now… Read the full story VisitEwan Roberts, 4h ago RECOMMENDED POSTS Zal Asrar Great secret of quran It is one of his secrets may Allah be pleased with him to spend the needs and bring good or push evilGod willing: 1- astagfirou allah allazi la’ilah ila Hwa al… Freeheel Vegan Evening at White Heron Cellars (Quincy, WA) WHITE HERON CELLARS AUGUST 19, 2017 White Heron Cellars (in Quincy, WA), is definitely one of our favorite places to spend a relaxing summer evening. Imagine: a… Harley Tamplin for Metro.co.uk, Metro 4h ago Men just can’t help themselves from branding wanted woman ‘Britain’s sexiest crook’ This woman is wanted by police in connection with a serious crime. However, once this e-fit started doing the rounds on social media, many people couldn’t care less about the alleged incident – as she was dubbed ‘Britain’s sexiest crook’. This is why we can’t have nice things. Massive landslide destroys buildings after hitting village in Switzerland Visit millardayo.com 4h ago Haruna Niyonzima, Okwi na Haji Manara baada ya ushindi vs Yanga Uwanja wa Taifa Dar es Salaam game ya ngao ya hisani ya Simba vs Yanga imechezwa na Simba kufanikiwa kupata ushindi kwa penati 5-4, Yanga wao walikosa penati mbili zilizopigwa na Juma Mahadhi na Kelvini Yondani wakati penati ya Simba ilikoswa na Mohammed Hussein Tshabalala. Baada ya ushindi Haruna Niyonzima aliyejiunga na Simba akitokea Yanga […] Visit Metro 6 posts Check out this gnarly lightning bolt striking the One World Trade Sometimes Mother Nature likes to let you know she’s still there and is the most powerful thing on the planet. Yesterday was one of those times. Heart-stopping moment toddler is rescued from middle of busy road junction People in New York City caught the incredible moment a huge lightning bolt struck the One World Trade. VisitOliver McAteer, 4h ago Cuphead hands-on preview and interview – ‘We were self-taught through the game!’ One of the best games at Gamescom is an Xbox One exclusive, but its stunning visuals having nothing to do with the Xbox One X… The big news for Microsoft at Gamescom this week is the Xbox One X, with European fans getting their chance to play the new console for the first time. But as some have had occasion to point out, there is a surprising lack of any new games to take advantage of it; especially after Crackdown 3 was delayed into next year. We have seen a number of games that look very impressive on Xbox… Read the full story Visitdavidjenkins2012, 4h ago Five ‘slaves’ rescued from cramped back room in Chinese restaurant Five people thought to be slaves were rescued from a Chinese restaurant in an early morning raid. Officers dressed in protective head gear used a battering ram to force their way into Ming Moon in Wolverhampton, at around 8am on Tuesday. They said the men were living in ‘cramped’ and unsuitable conditions with 15 other people, mainly from Slovakia and Romania. Visitashithanagesh, 4h ago Massive landslide destroys buildings after hitting village in Switzerland Dramatic images show the debris left behind by a massive landslide that caused a village to be evacuated. Two barns in the Swiss village of Bondo were destroyed but it is believed no one was killed or injured in the landslide. One in four Brits think our trains should have women-only carriages Before it reached the area, 100 people had been evacuated from their homes, Swiss Info reported. VisitHarley Tamplin for Metro.co.uk, 4h ago Interviewer shocks Paul Pogba with Wayne Rooney retirement news as he sends class message Paul Pogba was caught off guard when it was revealed to him that his former Manchester United skipper, Wayne Rooney, has retired from international duty. Five ‘slaves’ rescued from cramped back room in Chinese restaurant The French midfielder was at the launch of UEFA’s new Respect campaign, #equalgame, and had totally missed the news that England’s most prolific striker had hung up his international boots to focus on Everton. And after overcoming his surprise at the news, Pogba gave a glowing… Read the full story VisitEwan Roberts, 5h ago Zlatan Ibrahimovic targeting incredible early return for second Manchester United debut Zlatan Ibrahimovic believes he can be back in a Manchester United shirt by the end of October as the Red Devils look set to announce his new deal this week. Five ‘slaves’ rescued from cramped back room in Chinese restaurant The Swedish striker has been sidelined since April with an ACL knee injury that ended his season and denied him the opportunity to play at the Friends Arena in his native Stockholm when United won the Europa League. 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