#Saturday Review

[garadinervi]

James Baldwin, A Talk to Teachers, The «Saturday Review», December 21, 1963; in James Baldwin: Collected Essays, [ch. Other Essays], [note: «Toni Morrison selected the contents for this volume»], Library of America, New York, NY, 1998, pp. 678-686

#graphic design #newspaper #magazine #book #james baldwin #toni morrison #saturday review #library of america #1960s #1990s

[solarotters]

I found the crossword puzzle from 1934 (source) that the Baker Street Irregulars used as a test to determine if a person could join them or not lolol I will be doing this later

#sherlock holmes #baker street irregulars #saturday review #acd holmes #classic holmes #I already know I definitely would not be eligible for the bsi #but either way theres zero need to know these things this is just for funsies #john Watson #arthur conan doyle

[lisamarie-vee]

#vintage magazine #saturday review #1970s #mick jagger #rock and roll hall of fame

[obsob]

happy autumn!!!

#mine #original #heeheh ordered some new prints yesterday..... #i went to th library also! got a book ive already read to read again before reading th sequel #and also a new book...hehehe...... #ive been reading on my kindle so much it will be nice to read a real book #if anyone wants to send me £30 so i can buy th hands of the emperor by victoria goddard that would b great #why so. why costs so much money. relax #th second book comes out in nov heheheHEHEHE #book im reading rn is pretty good but also these guys are rock hard at like any given moment #theyre like we need to be sneaky...people cant know...anyway want 2 hve loud passionate sex behind this tree #which. i mean im not complaining. #th last book i read was pretty dull but all the reviews are like 5 STAR CHANGED MY LIFE did we read the same book #anyway. happy saturday! #also they updated how u do posts n i gotta say......being able 2 edit tags? godsend #gods know i cannot spell

[solar-sunnyside-up]

>> me crying over the tags in some of my posts.

Yall are beautiful ppl and I see how hard and how much every one of us want and fight for a kinder, more just world. I adore you and I see all the tiny things you all do.

#sleepover saturday #tags #peer reviewed and sobbing #solarpunk #hopepunk

[leonardlikesthissite]

This Saturday Leonard is trying tomato ketchup Let's chips! I've had these before, but we'll see...

Mmm! They're good! The flavor is good! You can really taste the ketchup!

Tomato ketchup Let's chips are good, and they're a buy!

#saturdays with leonard #leonard's reviews #community #nbc community #community leonard

[elennemigo]

Benedict Cumberbatch´s year in review ✧ 2022.

"... your support (Sophie's) , your honesty, searing at times as it is, your style, your grace, your beauty, your generosity, and your love are extraordinary. And I’m just, I’m really enjoying this, but it wouldn’t be half the ride if I was on my own without you, that it is with you together, we’ve created an amazing, amazing family of three extraordinary little human beings. ... they’re amazing. They’re amazing...So thank you for keeping me grounded boys. I love you so much... you are my little stars and I adore you... I should say thank you to the fans as well. I thank you all for following me on this journey.... Lots of love. Good night. Goodbye. Au revoir. “

#benedict cumberbatch #benedictcumberbatchedit #2022 review #the power of the dog #doctor strange in the multiverse of madness #the electrical life of Louis wain wain #Saturday Night live #baftas 2022 #Oscars 2022 #letters live2022 #choose love #marvelcastedit #dailymarvelkings #mcuchallenge #userbbelcher #userrobin #userelysia #userliliana #noalook #elegifs #HAPPY NEW YEAR!!🥂

[mediaconsumernightwriter]

The Rampant Success of boygenius

Finishing a sold out tour dressed as the literal Holy Trinity and now coming up to an SNL performance, it’s safe to say boygenius isn’t the underground indie supergroup that they once were. Due to the status of indie royalty that Phoebe Bridgers has acquired the past few years, the group grew in popularity with her.

I have to be honest, my introduction to them wasn’t successful. I first listened to their first project boygenius when I was doing a deep dive into Phoebe’s discography. I had no idea who the other two were and didn’t care much, since I didn’t love the ep. I have changed my mind on a good portion of these opinions.

Everyone on TikTok freaks out about Phoebe (and Taylor Swift and Olivia Rodrigo, etc.) so obviously when the new songs came out, it was all I was getting on my fyp. It appealed to my curiosity. So when the record came out, I listened to it. I could give you a detailed list of thoughts on each song, since I wrote them down (just let me know if you’d like something like that for a post), but I won’t. What I will tell you is that after 7 months since the album came out, I sit here with a “always an angel, never a god” tattoo on my leg. How did this happen?

First, I fell in love with certain songs in the record, one of them being Not Strong Enough. I usually don’t listen to lyrics on the first listen but the lines I have tattooed resonated with me. Secondly, they’re sung by Lucy Dacus. A year ago, I wouldn’t be able to tell you who she was. But that’s the beauty of boygenius: I discovered a beautiful soul, singer, songwriter, woman, etc. and usually the gateway for boygenius is Phoebe, as I mentioned, but you end up falling in love with Lucy and Julien. I fell harder for Lucy, since she’s my favourite artist at the moment (and I shamefully haven't listened to Julien’s music).

I think the appeal of boygenius to the main public, even if it’s mostly lesbians in love with the singers in the group, is that they each have their own fanbase, sound, unique voice, and they all bring something different to the table. Every boygenius fan has a favourite “boy” (as with everything) but they support the band because they see how much love and respect the boys have for each other. If you’re wondering why I’m calling them “boys”, you’re just not in the fandom and that’s okay.

Also, the music is good. I haven’t talked much about it, but you put three talented songwriters together and you’ll obviously get good music. The instrumentations are also beautiful and so well put together with the lyrics and harmonies. One of my favourite songs is Without You Without Them and that’s an acapella opening to the record, starring stunning vocals and harmonies from the boys. I’d recommend it.

I’m excited about their performance on Saturday Night Live, since Phoebe’s sparked so much controversy last time. There’s also been a request for “real musicians” to perform on SNL again, whatever that means, but if there is such a thing as real musicians, the boys are it.

I will make a separate post on Lucy someday, maybe focusing on my favourite songs and lyrics, and maybe report to you when I listen to Julien’s music. For now, I leave you with another beautiful lyric that makes me hopeful to fall in love, if not in this life, in the next one. “If you rewrite your life, may I still play a part?”

#essay #writing #essay writing #creative writing #boygenius #phoebe bridgers #lucy dacus #julien baker #queer #gay #lesbian #sapphic #wlw #music #music review #indie music #snl #saturday night live

[oldshowbiz]

1985.

#snl #saturday night live #bad reviews #1980s

[solarsonicsoda]

Wrestlemania Main Event Reviews - Wrestlemania XXXIX (Saturday)

Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn def. The Usos (Jimmy Uso & Jey Uso) (c) for the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championships in 24:17

Oh my god what a promo package. As a longtime Zayn & Owens fan now, this hit different. Simply electric. Now, Lil Uzi Vert is out first with his hair styled like Batman’s head in a rather impressive look, and he's singing a song. He does this to welcome the champions, The Usos. Now here comes KO, main eventing Night One for a second consecutive time. I never noticed his homages to PWG and Super Dragon on his trunks! Now here's Sami Zayn! The crowd sing along to Worlds Apart as the challengers walk their way to the ring. Cole makes a great point, while The Usos are part of a famous wrestling family, here in their showy white gear, Zayn & Owens are down to Earth, blue collar, and they walk to the ring in plain black zip-up hoodies. The titles are raised and we’re ready to go. 

Olé chants start things off as they take things in. Jey offers the tag and starts it off against Zayn. Lock up and Uso gains control. Lock up again and this time Zayn wins out from the rope rebound. Jimmy makes a secret tag and pulls the ropes to drop Zayn to the outside. A clothesline by Jimmy, a throw into the ringpost, then Jimmy tags Jey who hits a dive. Suplex and he takes it back in the ring. Attack in the ropes and Jimmy kicks Zayn as the referee is distracted. Tag again and Jimmy stomps Zayn. He strikes Owens and draws his ire. Tag again and a double team. Jey can't put Zayn away yet though, even if he's desperate for a tag. Zayn is able to fight back and drop both Usos to the outside and get the tag! From the top rope, cannonball! He takes both men out and hits Bullfrog Splashes on each Uso, Jimmy on the outside and Jey inside. No 3 though, and Jey is able to regain control with a neckbreaker. Owens put up top and Jimmy makes a tag but Owens fights back. Knees up by Jey from a Swanton though, then Himmy immediately follows with an Uso Splash for 2. Owens sodges the hip attack, two superkicks, then a Cannonball in the corner to Jimmy. He goes up top but Jey fights him. However, Zayn fights him off and hits a brainbuster on the apron! Swanton from Owens but no 3. Zayn is in and huts an Uso Splash but it's 2 again. Ole chants even louder now as Cole mentions El Generico on WWE TV! Graves says he’s glad that guy retired.

Jimmy fights back against a Blue Thunder Bomb and hits a superkick on Owens. Zayn is finally able to hit it but only after Jimmy tags Jey who immediately breaks the pin with a superkick. Some sort of flying superkick from Jey but Zayn kicks out. Superkick again from Jey and he tags Jimmy. They each hit one then a double superkick but Owens breaks up the pin. He gets his own superkick as the Usos tag again. They hound Sami and hit a double superkick to the back of the head of Zayn! He still won't stay down though. Tag again and double superkick again but Zayn kicks out. Tag again as they raise the ones and go for a 1D, but Owens pulls Jimmy from the ring. Jey kicks out of the roll up as Owens bounces Jimmy off of the announce table, He looks for a move through it but Jey runs in and helps his brother, as they drive him through an announce table. 1D on Zayn back in the ring, but kick out! Great reaction and the commentary sells it well. Jey begs Zayn to quit and beats him down in the corner. Zayn tries desperately to stand and Jey hits a Helluva Kick. Zayn falls into Jey as he mouths off again, but Exploder Suplex into the corner! Zayn tags Owens who hits pop-up powerbombs on both men. Owens screams “NOW” as Zayn hits a Helluva Kick on Jimmy, Owens hits a Stunner on Jey, but he kicks out at 2. Each team pull each other up on the mat and stare down as the crowd cheers. They start teeing off on each other. Superkick from Jimmy to Zayn, then one from Owens to Jimmy, then one to Jey. Pop-up powerbomb attempt but Jey vaults over after a secret tag by Jimmy. Superkicks each then a double superkick to Owens, and Zayn gets one on the apron too. Dragged over, tag, and Double Uso Splash. But Owens kicks out at two! Jey lifts up Owens in the corner, tags Jimmy, and double superkick in the corner. Tag again, and they put Owens up top. Jey has him superplex position but Zayn pulls out Jimmy and launches him over the announce table as Owens brings down Jey. Zayn runs to the corner and begs for the tag as the crowd goes wild. Jey is in the corner and Zayn hits the Helluva Kick! Jey falls into him, and after a moment he props him back up and hits another! But here comes Jimmy… but Owens is there with a Stunner. Zayn props Jey up once more, the crowd knows what's going to happen, and he hits one more Helluva Kick! 1, 2, 3! New champs as they quietly sit down and take it in. They embrace and get their titles, raising them as the fireworks go off. What a moment.

Pros: Emphatic victory, hot crowd, emotional moments, exciting action Cons: I can probably only wish I was more awake when I first saw it!

This is a pretty great match. Four awesome wrestlers, even if The Usos rely heavily on their superkicks throughout. Owens & Zayn getting this platform is absolutely awesome after all their years on the indies and work trying to get to this spot once in the WWE. It’s really less about the in-ring here and more about the moment, the energy, and the story. That's no knock on this match though, because it was all so good. A great pair of co-mains on this night for completely different reasons. But what a moment and the end of an always engaging match! 

4.5 STARS OUT OF 5

#wrestlemania main event reviews #wrestlemania xxxix #wrestlemania xxxix saturday #wrestlemania xxxix night one #wrestlemania xxxix night 1 #wrestlemania 39 #wrestlemania 39 saturday #wrestlemania 39 night one #wrestlemania night 1 #wrestlemania #wwe #wrestling #pro wrestling #kevin owens #sami zayn #the usos #jey uso #jimmy uso #the bloodline

[thecomicsnexus]

TMNT: SATURDAY MORNING ADVENTURES #3

JULY 2023

BY ERIK BURNHAM, DAN SCHOENING, LUIS ANTONIO DELGADO AND ED DUKESHIRE

The turtles help TCRI retrieve a missing probe from the ocean, but they end up discovering the mysterious city of Turtlantis.

SCORE: 9

If you thought Tim Lattie was doing an impressive job with these turtles, wait until you see what Dan Schoening is doing here.

It's odd, isn't it? I've seen Dan draw the turtles before, and wasn't anything like this (they looked awesome, but his style sometimes exaggerated their shells too much). but here, they look just in the style of their first 5 cartoon episodes. The whole thing felt surreal, I felt like I was looking at HD screenshots from the show.

And there is another secret ingredient here... Luis Antonio Delgado is using the right colors, at least for the characters. The palette is a little broader than in the cartoon for the backgrounds, but it all looks so clean and perfect, it's really impressive.

If anything (and this didn't really affect the score), I think sometimes the artist is leaving too much space for dialogues, which makes me wonder if these comics are being done in the "marvel way" (drawing a plot, and creating the dialogues later).

Burnham is also having a lot of fun here, adding elements from other iterations (last ronin, the turtles' nicknames), and also playing with the established canon (the Turtles already knowing about Atlantis).

The only thing I feel the comic needs to figure out, is how complicated stories should be.

Technically speaking, this could be a comic for all ages, but the plot of this story was a little too simple. This is where the comic will need to figure out what it takes from the cartoon and what it doesn't. The plots in the cartoon were sometimes too complicated (especially in the later seasons), but only because they had twenty-something minutes to fill. Here, they only have 20 pages. So pacing should be king. I see the intention was there, and to be honest, I understand is a hard job to make a story like this in just one issue (especially considering this was a Slash episode, but he barely did anything).

To me, one artists that perfected pacing in standalone stories with a larger continuity was John Byrne. Yes, say what you will about him, but his craft was something to imitate. It will take some time for writers to return to that kind of compressed storytelling, but for a series like this one, it could very beneficial. Unless the comic starts selling too well, and the book can afford to go fortnightly, but that's just wishful thinking.

#comics #review #tmnt #teenage mutant ninja turtles #post modern age #idw publishing #idw comics #dan schoening #2023 #saturday morning adventures

[recurring-polynya]

Mods are asleep, post Akon gree cards

#akon bleach #mr regular voice: rare! RARE! ULTRA RARE! #(this is a joke from a corvette show review youtube video that my husband and i yell at each other all the time sorry to subject you to it) #why does everyone else get cards where they are dressed like clowns or toddlers or Santa Claus? #and akon only gets Dramatic Lab Power Poses? #i imagine he threatened to quit otherwise #oh man you know what would be great? Gotei stock photography #random collections of too many captains and lieutenants standing around a laptop showing a ppt about Valley of Screams situations #Yamamoto pretending to fire the kidou cannon #looks it's 10am on a Saturday this joke is very funny in my head #anyway i need to figure out how to make my own gree cards this man deserves to get silly. for a treat

[todayisafridaynight]

getting wigs for characters with the same hair color as myself make me feel like the biggest dumbass around but youd have me fucked thinking im burdening myself with daigos 2000's emo cut just for a weekend

#snap chats #a weekend is generous im only going to the con on saturday #i like how im making it sound like anime nyc is this weekend when its at the end of august LMAO BUT NO LISTEN #unfortunately beauty influencers have finally done their job right and this one guy was reviewing an eyebrow pencil #but the twist is that this pencil was like. SUPPPER STUPID FINE im talkin .08mm and he demonstrated how it could imitate stubble #SO OF COURSE. my ass wanted to see for myself cause as much as i like my sponge-stippling method its not super precise #and that shit gets annoying when most of it looks fine but then i press too hard or i angle the sponge wrong and now i gotta start over #In Any Case the pencil i got did exactly as i hoped and its actually p fun putting on LMAO. i prefer how it looks too #anyway how this all relates to this post. im probably gonna go as y2 daigo again for anime nyc in august #and I Repeat im not cutting my hair for that LMAO so. Wig 😩 #i like it when i cosplay him cause i just go by his actual design cause if i even breathe near skinny jeans ill wanna kms #also i just like to be as accurate as i can be yk. plus the leather pants i have are cozy and theyre one of my fave pairs of pants 🤤 #in any case. whenever that wig comes in ermmmmm i dont trust myself to take pictures 😞 my selfie game is dick #maybe ill stream yk2 LMAO but anyway. good night i think im gonna force myself to sleep now #i got back to my dorm like four hours ago or whatever and i am not looking forward to doing school shit again. alongside comm shit #OH WELL we ball good night #wait before i Good Night cackling as i have my meds next to my aoki tablet and plush #great reminder honestly. Take Your Meds Or You'l Convince Yourself To Be A Republican #ok goodnight fr now im gonna giggle and kick my feet thinking of cosplay

[animenostalgia]

The Anime Nostalgia Podcast - ep 121: ReView: Project A-ko Versus

This month’s episode is another short ReView! What is a “ReView” episode, you might ask? Well, it’s my highly-clever (ok not really) name for episodes where I go back and revisit an older title I haven’t seen in a long time, and see if what I remember (and what my opinions on it) are still the same now that some time’s gone by. This month, I’m going back in time to revisit a Saturday Anime title that I only ever watched once before, and never again, until now--it’s Project A-ko VERSUS! ....y’know, that official Project A-ko AU? Where A-ko & B-ko are bounty hunters? And they live together?.........no, really, that actually happened! I’m serious!! THEY WERE ROOMMATES!!! 

Stream the episode above or [Direct Download] Subscribe on apple podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify

Relevant links:

Buy the out-of-print Project A-ko: Uncivil Wars DVD on Amazon

Buy the original Project A-ko on bluray at Rightstuf or Amazon

Visit Project A-ko.com, probably the biggest Project A-ko fansite still active!

Other anime mentioned in this episode: Dirty Pair, Bubblegum Crisis, Maris the Chojo, Fight! Iczer One, Dangaioh, Queen Emeraldas

Big thanks to the Shoujo Sundae Podcast for sponsoring this episode! They just recently celebrated their podcast anniversary this month, so if you love shoujo or want to learn more about it, check them out!

My theme song music was done by Kerobit! You can find more about them on their website!

Support the work I do on this podcast by leaving me a tip on Ko-fi! Want to have your name read in the special thanks segment on the next episode? All you need to do is buy me 2 or more “coffees” on Ko-fi!As always, feel free to leave me your thoughts on this episode or ideas for future episodes here—or email me directly at [email protected].

Thanks for listening!

#The Anime Nostalgia Podcast #Project A-ko #Project A-ko Versus #90s anime #ReView #dubbed anime #Saturday Anime #Sci-fi channel #affiliate links

[leonardlikesthissite]

This Saturday Leonard is trying the chicken club sandwich Let's chips at the request of @askingrayla-leone and this is a first for Leonard's reviews: I haven't tried this before!

Let's see...little trouble getting this sucker open, but that's usual with Let's...oh, it's good! Tastes like chicken, haha! Nice and crunchy as usual...yeah that was good!

Chicken club sandwich flavor Let's chips are good, and they're a buy!

#saturdays with leonard #leonard's reviews #community #nbc community #community leonard

[leonsleftbicep]

i watched all two of the silent hill movies with my mum these past two days (we are both sick so we have been watching movies)

and omg, the first one was great for the actual movie, the second movie was good just to see pyramid head and not actually the movie

also

WHY WAS HE FUCKING ASS OUT ALL MOVIE???? BOY WAS LETTING THEM AIR OUT OMG

#the duck has thoughts #movie review #slasher saturday #? #unofficial slasher saturday #silent hill #silent hill films #pyramid head