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halfpastdead · 2 years

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In The Flesh by Dominic Mitchell (2013), script to screen -> Series 1, Episode 1 (pt. 1 / ?)

Marie Critchley - Sue Walker Steve Cooper - Steve Walker Luke Newberry - Kieren Walker

INT. FAMILY LIAISON BUILDING - GREETING ROOM - DAY 2

SUE and STEVE are anxiously waiting in a Greeting Room that’s supposed to promote a feeling of calm and tranquility. On the walls there are big government issue posters of happy families welcoming back their partially deceased sons / daughters / dads / mums / grandparents.

Steve and Sue see their son. Their partially deceased son. Last time they saw him in the flesh was in a coffin. Sue stops. She breaks down. Not in that movie romantic way, but in the real way, a painful primal way. Steve holds his wife.

Kieren stands there. Seeing his mother like this (he’s never seen her this upset before) it hits home what his leaving must have done to them both. To his whole family. How can he ever make it up to them. He can’t. Not with words anyhow. After a moment. Sue composes herself and her and Steve move a bit closer. Steve doesn’t break down. He’s holding it together. When emotions are high Steve blabbers.

STEVE

You look - Doesn’t he look -? I was expecting - well I don’t know what I was - I suppose you hear stories - I mean yer doctors had said, you know, be prepared - but - you know - you look well. He looks well. Even caught some sun I see.

KIEREN

It’s, uh, it’s the cover up mousse. Makes me look -

(going to say human)

...better.

EXT. FAMILY LIAISON BUILDING - GREETING ROOM - DAY 2

SUE and STEVE are sitting with KEITH and KIEREN.

KEITH

It’s going to take some time for everyone to adjust. That’s normal.

#in the flesh #bbc in the flesh #kieren walker #script to screen #zombies #itf #bbc #bbc3 #hulu #queer tv #itfs2s

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acollectionofpotentialdrawings · 2 years

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Research Notes

Artists to research:

Marina Abramovic

Joseph Beuys

Chris Burden

David Critchley

Nan Goldin

Hilma af Klint

Bruce Nauman

Barnett Newman

Nam June Paik

Mark Rothko

Martha Rosler

Richard Serra

David Wojnarowicz

Research Interests:

Psychology of, neuroscience of, philosophy of, psychedelics and, the religious experience

Religious Studies, specifically arguments for the existence of God

The Sublime/The Divine/The Vast etc.

Psychology of Trauma/Generational Trauma

Ritual and Performance Art

Sadomasochism and Endurance

Sensory Deprivation

Hallucinations and Schizophrenia/Bipolar Disorder

Catatonia, excited and stupor

Ecstasy

Political Philosophy

Protest Art

Western Philosophy vs. Eastern Philosophy

Kundalini Yoga and Tantric Sexuality/Energy orgasms

The Gnostic Gospels

Religions of the Book vs. Eastern Religions, esp. Hinduism and Taosim

Taichi Ch’uan and Taosim

Bible History

Existentialism & English and Russian literature

Horror and horror film theory

Meditation and Mindfulness

Art Education

Books:

Alberti, Leon Battista, On Painting. London: Penguin Books, 1972.

Allegra, John M., The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross: A study of the nature and origins of Christianity within the fertility cults of the ancient Near East

Bachelard, Gaston, The Poetics of Space. New York: Peguin Books, 1964.

Barthes, Roland, Mythologies. New York: Hill and Wang, 1972.

Bryant, Edwin F., The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. New York: North Point Press, 2009.

Camus, Albert, The Myth of Sisyphus. New York: Vintage Books, 1955.

Cavendish, Richard, The Black Arts. New York: Tarcher Perigee, 2017.

Deleuze, Gilles, and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

Eliade, Mircea, The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion. Orlando, Austin, New York, San Diego, Toronto, London: Harcourt, Inc., 1957.

Elkins, James, Why Art Cannot Be Taught

Foucault, Michel, The Birth of the Clinic: An Archeology of Medical Perception. New York: Vintage Books, 1975.

Foucoult, Michel, The History of Sexuality Vol. 1-3

Furlons, Monica, Visions and Longings: Medieval Women Mystics. Shambala: Boston, 1996.

Girardot, N.J., Myth and Meaning in Early Taoism. Berkley: University of California Press, 1983.

Hedges, Chris, War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning. New York: Anchor Books, 2003.

Jaynes, Julian, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Kentridge, William, Six Drawing Lessons

Kierkegarrd, Soren, The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin.

Kierkegarrd, Soren, Fear and Trembling

Kierkegarrd, Soren, The Sickness Unto Death. New York: Penguin Group, 2004.

Kushner, Lawrence, Honey from the Rock. Vermont: Jewish Lights Publishing, 1990.

Laski, Marghanita, Ecstasy in Secular and Religious Experience. Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tartcher, Inc., 1961.

Leary, Timothy, Ralph Metzner, and Richard Alpert, The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead

Leloup, Jean-Yves, The Gospel of Mary Magdalene. Vermont: Inner Traditions, 2002.

Man-ch'ing, Cheng, Master Cheng’s New Method of Taichi Ch’uan Self-Cultivation, Blue Snake Books: Berkley, 1999.

Martin, David. F., Art and the Religious Experience: the “Language of the Sacred.”

McKirahan Jr., Richard D., Philosophy Before Socrates. Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1994.

McNamara, Patrick, The Neuroscience of Religious Experience

McNamara, Patrick, Nightmares: The Science and Solution of Those Frightening Visions during Sleep

Narby, Jeremy, The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnma, 1998.

Pagels, Elaine, Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity. New York: Vintage Books, 1988.

Pagels, Elaine, The Origin of Satan. New York: First Vintage Books, 1996.

Pagels, Elaine, Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, & Politics in the Book of Revelation. New York, Penguin Group.

Perl, Eric D., Theophany: The Neoplatonic Philosophy of Dionysius the Aeropagite. New York: State University of New York Press, 2007.

Pinchbeck, Daniel, Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism

Radhakrishnan, S., Indian Philosophy, Vol. 1. India: Oxford University Press, 1940.

Raicovich, Laura, Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest

Richards, William A., Sacred Knowledge: Psychedelics and Religious Experiences

Rosler, Martha, Decoys and Disruptions. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2006.

Sacks, Oliver, Hallucinations. New York: First Vintage Books, 2012.

Saunders, Jason L., Greek and Roman Philosophy After Aristotle. New York, London, Tononto, Sydney: The Free Press, 1966.

Schlain, Leonard, Art & Physics, Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light. New York: Perennial, 2001.

Solomon, Andrew, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity.

Steiner, Rudolph, Colour, East Sussex: Rudolph Steiner Press, 1992.

Van Der Kolk, M.D., The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. New York: Penguin Books, 2014.

Vysheslavtsev, B. P., The Eternal in Russian Philosophy. Cambridge: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2002.

Winnicott, D. W., The Child, the Family, and the Outside World. Cambridge: Perseus Publishing, 1964.

Winnicott, D.W., Playing and Reality. London and New York: Tavistock Publications, 1982.

Wolynn, Mark, It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle.

Zee, A., Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics

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aleesblog · 11 months

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IN MEMORIAM

MACDONALD CRITCHLEY born Bristol 2nd January 1900 died Nether Stowey 15th October 1997

Ascetic yet charismatic, tall and always impeccably dressed Critchley cast an imposing and elegant figure on his visit to the bedside of the neurologically sick at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, London.

The son of a humble clerk at the Bristol Gas Works he was educated at the Christian Brothers College and gained a place at the University of Bristol at 15. Deemed too young to take it up, he taught himself ancient Greek at home and then studied Russian. His determined plans to join the Imperial Russian Army were, however, thwarted by the Bolshevik Revolution. His medical studies were interrupted by a chequered stint in the Wiltshire Military Regiment. Court-martialled on a charge of being late on parade he found himself ordered to decapitate and fillet 500 fish, a factor he later claimed influenced him to avoid becoming a surgeon. A second charge of going missing, led to a punishment of intensive gardening. He never gardened again! On resuming his medical career ha graduated with first class honours at the age of 21 years, was appointed to the staff of the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Maida Vale at 27 and perhaps most remarkably of all became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians at only 30.

Domestic honours included, Dean of the Institute of Neurology from 1948-1953, Neurologist to the Royal Navy from 1939-1977, Vice-President of the Royal College of Physicans. His Goulstonian, Harveian, Sherrington, Croonian and Hughlings Jackson lectures were meticulously prepared and captivatingly delivered. He was particularly proud of his appointment as Master of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries and in 1983 with Princess Margaret he presided at a sumptuous banquet for his many friends from the five continents. He was awarded a Commander of the British Empire but his distinguished contemporaries at Queen Square, Walshe and Symonds both became knights. When asked about his relative lack of honours Critchley stated it was because he had once driven the wrong way up a one way street in Portugal.

His academic achievements were acknowledged internationally by his Presidency of both the World Federation of Neurology and the International League of Epilepsy and in fulfilling his responsabilities in these roles he travelled and lectured all over the world. His interests in neurology were eclectic, although he is probably best remembered for his work on the parietal lobe and his interest in the then unfashionable field of dyslexia which he felt was inherited and if picked up early was amenable to remedial educational therapy. He explored unfashionable by-ways, writing on lightning injuries, the neurology of old age and the effects of boxing on the nervous system. In my own field of abnormal movement disorders he wrote extensively on the different causes of Parkinson’s syndrome and particularly reinforced Marie’s concepts of arteriosclerotic Parkinson’s Syndrome. His lecture on Huntington’s chorea which I was fortunate to hear twice, describing the arrival of the disease on East Coast of the U.S.A. with the Winthrop fleet of the Pilgrim Fathers, was enthralling. Tics and occupational cramps also fascinated him. His writings spanning six decades were so extensive with more than 300 single author papers that after his retirement I recall him browsing through the three box files containing his papers in the medical library at Queen Square and with a puzzled look asking the librarian “Did I really write that?” In neurology the only areas he left relatively unscathed for the next generation of Queen Square neurologists to attack were peripheral nerves and muscle, the latter he considered only good to eat not to study.

His restless mind could not be satisfied solely by neurology and essays such as ‘Tattooed Women’, ‘Oscar Wilde’s Death’, Man’s Attachement To His Nose’, ‘The Idea Of A Presence’, ‘The Survivors Of Shipwrecks’, ‘Sign Language’ and ‘Musical Timing’ can be found in his literary classics ‘The Black Hole and Other Essays’, ‘The Divine Banquet Of The Brain’, ‘The Citadel Of The Senses’, ‘Music And The Brain’ and ‘Silent Language’.

Critchley will be remembered for his silvery tongue, his elan and awe-inspiring erudition. He never made an unnecessary movement and frequently counselled patients against any form of exercise warning them it could seriously damage their health. His turn of phrase was both lucid and arresting and his prose polished and economical. In private he was relaxed, generous and always helpful and his mischievous wit enlivened many official banquets. His interest in body language led to his close friendship with Marcel Marceau, the French mimic. His Wednesday afternoon and Saturday morning clinical demonstrations at Queen Square were usually packed out and his controlled showmanship embellished his inspired and unforgettable presentations.

Critchley made two visits to Brazil the first in November 1958. He set off by plane from London, docking in Milano, Lisboa and Recife before arriving in Rio, to be met by Drs. Niemeyer and Akerman exactly 24 hours later. The next day he lectured on the Psychology of Pain and later gave talks on Reflex Epilepsy and the Parietal Lobe. In the visitors book at the Neurological Institute in Rio he wrote of its magnificence, its growing reputation in Europe and his impression that lively brains were at work. A week later he was in Sao Paulo and it was after this trip that the first Brazilian neurologists in training began to defect to Queen Square. Three years earlier he had published an article in Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria on a phantom supernumerary limb after a cervical root lesion. Professor Spina-Franca recalls Critchley’s impressive teaching style marked by its clarity of thought and in correspondence to me he wrote “ .... in brief he inspired me as a master for whom Shakespeare stated ‘I have what I gave’. “.

In 1980, to celebrate his eightieth birthday, a festschrift was held in London at the Medical Society under the aegis of the World Federation of Neurology. It was a fitting tribute to one of the ‘grand seigneurs’ of the British Neurology and a direct link to the founders, Jackson, Gowers and Ferrier. At that time Critchley was still seeing a few patients and lecturing at Queen Square. In the same year he talked at an International Symposium on Parkinson’s Disease about his 60 page article in the 1929 edition of Brain on arteriosclerotic Parkinson’s syndrome. He concluded his paper as follows: ‘ .... in self-defence I will concede that it would have been appropriate to speak of arteriosclerotic pseudo-Parkinsonian but no other disclaimer will I make.’

Five years later I accompanied him and his second wife Eileen to L’Hospital Salpetriere in Paris for the Centenary celebrations of Gilles de la Tourette’s description of maladie des tics confulsifs. Although his vision was failing and he was frailer physically his indomitable joie de vivre and resilience were undinted. The journey passed quickly with his gossipy asides and anecdotes of bygone days at the National Hospital.

His final years were spent in his home called Hughlings House in his beloved West Country where he belied Samuel Johnson’s aphorism that once a man is tired of London he has tired of life. He continued his correspondence with friends and students using a felt pen and magnifying glass to help his failing sight. Shortly before his death he completed his biography with his wife on John Hughlings Jackson, contesting vehemently the heretical grammatical and spelling changes enforced by his publishers with their commercial eye on the American market. His indefatigable iron will had a dictionary planned as the next project.

Despite the lure of molecular biology and functional imaging Critchley’s watchful gaze from his portrait in the Queen Square lecture theatre ensures that the relevance and importance of classical clinical investigation will be preserved by his successors on the staff of the National Hospital. His example is an inspiration rather than a burden, and his maxims will be transmitted by direct leneage to successive generations of students.

He is survived by Eileen his second wife and loyal partner and collaborator, and by two sons Sir Julian, a former Member of Parliament and Nicholas by his first wife Edna.

Andrew Lees

Arq Neuropsiquiatr 1998;56(4):865-867

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i-dream-of-emus · 3 years

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Nico Mirallegro in a new ep of Jimmy McGovern's 'Moving On'

Nico Mirallegro was back on the box on 8 March, in an episode of BBC's long-running series of one-off dramas, Moving On (which Nico last starred in in 2010!):

'...Jimmy McGovern’s new series begins with a groom pacing up and down outside a church on his wedding day, anxiously calling his best man who’s late and not picking up. But a missing best man becomes the least of his worries when an unexpected guest arrives and turns the lives of groom Ben (Nico Mirallegro) and his mum Lucy (Marie Critchley) upside down. Mark Womack (Emmerdale’s DI Malone) plays Ian, the father that Ben never knew… As always with this series it’s a fab cast telling emotional stories that are brilliantly written...' X

Here's Nico in the 2010 episode (three years before My Mad Fat Diary began)...

...and over a decade later!

Our beautiful man has just turned *30*, and is as handsome and talented as ever. 😍

Watch Moving On: Wedding Day on iPlayer.

#nico mirallegro #jimmy mcgovern #bbc #moving on #drama #iPlayer #2010 #2021 #mymadfatdiary #my mad fat diary #finn nelson #mmfd #mmfd cast

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book-warehouse-broadway · 4 years

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Can you hear that? It’s us screaming in excitement about March’s releases!

March 1

Magnolia Kitchen - Bernadette Gee

My Art Is Killing Me and Other Poems - Amber Dawn

March 3

Actress - Anne Enright

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Shoshana Zuboff

The Kingdom of Back - Marie Lu

How a Woman Becomes a Lake - Marjorie Celona

Machines Like Me - Ian McEwan

Madame Fourcade's Secret War - Lynne Olson

Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee - Jeff Zentner

The River - Peter Heller

Sissy - Jacob Tobia

Skeleton Keys - Brian Switek

Victim 2117 - Jussi Adler-Olsen

Witches of Ash and Ruin - E Latimer

March 10

Fight Like a Girl - Sheena Kamal

The Mirror & the Light - Hilary Mantel

Recollections of My Nonexistence - Rebecca Solnit

Recursion - Blake Crouch

Undercover Bromance - Lyssa Kay Adams

March 17

The Boy from the Woods - Harlan Coben

Funny Man - Patrick McGilligan

I Am Scary - Elise Gravel

Immigrant City - David Bezmozgis

This Is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar

Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us - Simon Critchley

The Weight of the Stars - K Ancrum

March 24

Autumn Light - Pico Iyer

The City We Became - N K Jemisin

The Glass Hotel - Emily St John Mandel

Grown-Up Pose - Sonya Lalli

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference - Greta Thunberg

March 27

Europe - Tim Flannery

The Last Stone - Mark Bowden

March 31

21 Lessons for the 21st Century - Yuval Noah Harari

Bina - Anakana Schofield

Design Your Next Chapter - Debbie Travis

Everything in Its Place - Oliver Sacks

Memories of the Future - Siri Hustvedt

The NRA - Frank Smyth

Overdose - Benjamin Perrin

A Silent Death - Peter May

We Are Totally Normal - Rahul Kanakia

White - Bret Easton Ellis

Wow, No Thank You. - Samantha Irby

#books #bookstore #bookstores #new releases #upcoming releases #Bookstore life

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hatingwithfears · 4 years

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List of books read in 2019

Another year is almost over, and here’s the list of all the books I read. 119 books. 31,512 pages.

David Adam- The Man Who Couldn’t Stop: OCD and The True Story of a Life Lost in Thought

Kurt Anderson- Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire

Julian Barnes- The Only Story

Rob Bell- What Is The Bible?

Roberto Bolano- The Spirit of Science Fiction

Charles Brandt- I Heard You Paint Houses

William S Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg- Don’t Hide The Madness

Ernest Callenbach- Ecotopia

Stephen Chbosky- Imaginary Friend

Leonard Cohen- The Favorite Game

Phil Collins- Not Dead Yet

Francis Ford Coppola- Live Cinema and It’s Techniques

JM Coetzee- The Schooldays of Jesus

His Holiness The Dalai Lama- An Appeal To The World

Stephanie Danler- Sweetbitter

Michelle Dean- Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

Anthony DeCurtis- Lou Reed: A Life

Lean Dieterich- Vanishing Twins: A Marriage

Nick Drnaso- Sabrina

Bret Easton Ellis- White

Dave Eggers- The Parade

Bart D Ehrman- The Triumph of Christianity

Nathan Englander- Kaddish.com

Mark Epstein- Psychotherapy Without The Self: A Buddhist Perspective

Mark Fainaru-Wada, Steve Fainaru- League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions, and the Battle for the Truth

Laurence Ferlinghetti- Little Boy

Pope Francis- The Name of God is Mercy

Pope Francis- Our Father

Mary Gordon- On Thomas Merton

Andrew Grant Jackson- 1965: The Most Revolutionary Year in Music

Allen Ginsberg- Journals: Early Fifties Early Sixties

Laurence Grobel- Al Pacino in Conversation with Laurence Grobel

John Green- Turtles All The Way Down

Edward L. Greenstein- Job: A New Translation

Rita M Gross- Buddhism Beyond Gender

Thich Nhat Hanh- Living Buddha, Living Christ

Joy Harjo- An American Sunrise

Jason Heller- Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded

Don Hertzfeldt- The End of The World

Nathan Hill- The Nix

John Hodgman- Medallion Status

Jessica Hopper- Night Moves

Elton John- Me

Han Kang- Human Acts

Han Kang- The White Book

Chuck Klosterman- Raised in Captivity

Karl Ove Knausgaard- So Much Longing in so Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch

Herman Koch- The Ditch

David Koepp- Cold Storage

Robert Kolker- A Cinema of Loneliness

Ann Lamott- Stitches

Ann Lamott- Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

Ursula K. Le Guin- So Far So Good: Final Poems 2014-2018

Mark Leibovich- Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times

Jill Lepore- The Secret History Of Wonder Woman

Jill Lepore- These Truths: A History of The United States

Jill Lepore- This America: The Case For The Nation

Greil Marcus- The Manchurian Candidate

Anthony McCarten- The Pope

Gretchen McCulloch- Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules Of Language

Thomas Merton- The Seven Storey Mountain

Thomas Merton- Life and Holiness

Thomas Merton- Dialogues with Silence: Prayers and Drawings

Stephen Mitchell- Joseph and The Way Of Forgiveness

Sarah Moss- Ghost Wall

Flannery O’Connor- A Prayer Journal

Mary Oliver- Devotions

Robert Olmstead- Far Bright Star

Michael Ondaatje- The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film

Elaine Pagels- The Gnostic Gospels

Elaine Pagels, Karen L King- Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and The Shaping of Christianity

Elaine Pagels- Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, & Politics in the Book of Revelation

Elaine Pagels- Why Religion?: A Personal Story

Maria Popova- Figuring

J.R. Porter- The Lost Bible: Forgotten Scriptures Revealed

Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman- Good Omens

Casey Rae- William S. Burroughs and The Cult Of Rock N Roll

Brian Raftery- Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew up The Big Screen

Robert Reich- The Common Good

Jerry Roberts- The Complete History Of Film Criticism

Richard Rohr- The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation

Bill Romanowski- Romo: My Life on The Edge

George Saunders- Fox 8

Peter Schjeldahl- Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light,: 100 Art Writings 1988-2018

Shea Serrano- Movies (and Other Things)

William H. Shannon- Thomas Merton: An Introduction

David Shields- The Thing about Life is that One Day You’ll be Dead

David Shields- Nobody Hates Trump more than Trump: An Intervention

David Shields- The Trouble With Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power

David Small- Home After Dark

Charles Simic- The Lunatic

Charles Simic- Scribbled in the Dark

Danez Smith- Don’t Call Us Dead

Patti Smith- Auguries of Innocence

Patti Smith- Year of The Monkey

Rebecca Solnit- Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

Rebecca Solnit- The Mother of All Questions

Rebecca Solnit- Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)

Jill Soloway- She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling The Patriarchy

Nic Stone- Dear Martin

Donna Tart- The Goldfinch

Tegan and Sara- High School

David Thomson- Sleeping With Strangers

Chogyam Trungpa- The Path of Individual Liberation

Jeff Tweedy- Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back)

Loudon Wainwright III- Liner Notes

Ossian Ward- Look Again: How to Experience the Old Masters

John Williams- Stoner

Damon Young- What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker

Ed. Marcus Borg- Jesus and Buddha: The Parallel Saying

Ed. Peter Catapano, Simon Critchley- Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments

Ed. Jonathan Weinberg- Art After Stonewall

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ademocrat · 4 years

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NJ politicians charged in 'old-school' corruption case make first court appearance

A former Morris County freeholder, Jersey City's ex-school board president and two other politicians made their first state court appearances in Morristown on Monday, facing charges of accepting bribes for political favors as part of a sweeping state corruption investigation.

Three of the defendants — John Cesaro, the former freeholder; Mary Dougherty, the wife of Morristown Mayor Tim Dougherty; and John Windish, a former Mount Arlington council member — appeared briefly before Judge Thomas Critchley with their attorneys and did not speak.

Sudhan Thomas, former president of the Jersey City Board of Education, told the judge he is searching for an attorney after one dropped his case due to a conflict of interest.

The four politicians were charged in December with accepting bribes in exchange for promising to steer government contracts to a tax attorney working as a confidential informant for the state Attorney General’s Office. A fifth politician charged in the case, former state Assemblyman and Bayonne mayoral hopeful Jason O'Donnell, is scheduled to appear in a Hudson County court on Friday.

The informant, believed to be former Morristown tax attorney Matthew O'Donnell, allegedly gave $74,900 in bribes to the defendants in the form of campaign donations. O'Donnell is not related to defendant Jason O'Donnell.

Thomas said he had a “strong” attorney-client relationship with Matthew O’Donnell, with whom he worked during his 2016 campaign for the Jersey City board. Thomas is accused of promising the cooperating witness a job as the school district’s special counsel in exchange for $35,000 in contributions.

“I’m going to be vigorously fighting to defend myself and prove my innocence,” Thomas said outside the courtroom Monday.

He is also facing federal charges for allegedly embezzling more than $45,000 from a Jersey City jobs program he once directed.

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kwebtv · 3 years

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The Secret Agent - BBC One - July 17-31, 2016

Drama (3 episodes)

Running Time: 60 minutes

Stars:

Toby Jones as Mr Anton Verloc

Vicky McClure as Winnie

Charlie Hamblett as Stevie

Marie Critchley as Jessie

Stephen Graham as Chief Inspector Heat

Ian Hart as The Professor

Tom Goodman-Hill as Assistant Commissioner Stone of Scotland Yard

David Dawson as Vladimir

George Costigan as Sir Ethelred

Ash Hunter as Hedges

Raphael Acloque as Ossipon

Penny Downie as Lady Blackwood

Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as Michaelis

Christopher Fairbank as Yundt

#The Secret Agent #TV #Drama #BBC One #2000's #Title #Toby Jones #Vicky McClure #Charlie Hamblett #Marie Critchley #Ian Hart #Stephen Graham #Tom Goodman-Hill #David Dawson #Raphael Aclogue

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maxwellyjordan · 4 years

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A “view” from the courtroom: The bridge-and-tunnel crowd

Politics is in the air at the Supreme Court today. Not the looming impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, which will be drawing Chief Justice John Roberts across the street to the Senate in a matter of days, but the “Bridgegate” affair out of New Jersey.

In 2013, three New Jersey officials schemed to close two of three access lanes normally dedicated to rush hour traffic from Fort Lee, N.J., onto the George Washington Bridge to New York City. (The other two lanes were shifted to join the eight used by interstate traffic approaching the toll plaza, a not insignificant fact when it comes to the legal theories in the case.)

The plan was payback against the Democratic mayor of Fort Lee for refusing to endorse New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for reelection that year. The plan caused massive traffic headaches in Fort Lee for several days as well as longer-term political and legal fallout for all involved.

Chris Christie and his wife, seated in front of Bridget Kelly and her lawyer, Michael Critchley Sr. (Art Lien)

At the court today, it seems as if there is a dedicated lane at the security checkpoint for residents of New Jersey.

Two of the three officials involved in the scheme are here today: Bridget Anne Kelly, a former Christie aide, and William Baroni, a former deputy executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. While Kelly’s appeal of her conviction on federal fraud and conspiracy charges is the cert petition explicitly before the court, Baroni’s conviction came in the same trial and his lawyer has been granted argument time today.

The third official, former Port Authority aide David Wildstein, pleaded guilty in the federal case and testified for the government. He is now the editor of a website that covers New Jersey politics and is evidently busy covering the New Jersey legislature today.

There are, by my quick count, at least 30 Amtrak trains each weekday from northern New Jersey to Union Station in Washington. On Monday, Kelly boarded one to come to the argument and found Christie on the same train, headed for the same destination.

The two are not exactly on friendly terms. Kelly testified in her own defense that Christie was aware of the Fort Lee plan, but he has denied that and was not charged in the federal prosecution.

Kelly is seated in the second row of the public gallery with Michael Critchley Sr., her trial attorney. Soon after Kelly and Critchley take their seats, court personnel escort Christie and his wife, Mary Pat, to seats in the front row of the public section, directly in front of Kelly. (Later, addressing reporters on the plaza, Kelly will make clear that she and Christie did not speak to each other, on the train or in the courtroom. “It’s been a long six years,” Kelly will say. “I hope he has a harder time seeing me than I have seeing him.”)

The numerous New Jersey reporters who have come down for the argument seem astounded by Christie’s presence, suggesting the former governor, whose 2016 presidential bid was hampered if not undone by the Bridgegate scandal, is demonstrating quite a bit of chutzpah by showing up. Christie, now an ABC News political commentator, has probably never been accused of lacking that trait.

Meanwhile, Baroni is on the opposite side of the public gallery, in the third row. He will tilt his head to get a better view and maintain a serious expression, as his name will be mentioned about three times as often as Kelly’s.

Amy Howe has this blog’s main account of the argument. Jacob Roth, Kelly’s lawyer, stresses that “the government is trying to use the open-ended federal fraud statutes to enforce honest government at the state and local levels. Its theory this time is that the defendants committed property fraud by reallocating two traffic lanes from one public road to another without disclosing their real political reason for doing so.”

“This theory turns the integrity of every official action at every level of government into a potential federal fraud investigation,” he adds during his 20 minutes of time. Roth gets some intense questioning, but he manages to squeeze in a point about the unseemliness of the whole affair.

“I’m not trying to suggest that this is okay. Okay?” Roth says. “We don’t want public officials acting for personal reasons. We don’t want them acting necessarily for partisan or political reasons. But what I’m saying is the remedy for that is not the federal property fraud statutes. We have certainly political remedies that … had pretty substantial repercussions here.”

Michael Levy has 10 minutes to argue for Baroni. It turns out he and Baroni attended law school together at the University of Virginia.

One of Levy’s main points is that the government proved that Baroni, despite nominally being the No. 2 official at the Port Authority, was the co-head of the agency and had the authority to shift traffic lanes. That undercuts Baroni’s conviction, Levy says.

Trial testimony showed that “within the Port Authority structure, the deputy executive director and the executive director had a 50/50 split in terms of power sharing; that the deputy executive director was not the Number 2 position within the Port Authority,” Levy says.

This appears to have troublesome implications to Justice Samuel Alito, a native of Trenton and the former U.S. attorney for New Jersey.

“The arrangement is always that there’s a New York representative who’s the executive director and the New Jersey representative who’s the deputy, is that right?” Alito asks, and Levy confirms the arrangement.

“This is a bi-state agency,” Alito says. Why would New Jersey agree to an arrangement like that where its representative is always in the second seat, at least nominally? Just the big brother across the river.”

For the federal government, Deputy Solicitor General Eric Feigin defends the prosecutions. Solicitor General Noel Francisco is evidently recused from the case. As a private lawyer, he successfully represented former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonell in the last major public misconduct case before the court, and his former firm, Jones Day, represents Kelly.

“The defendants in this case committed fraud by telling a lie to take control over the physical access lanes to the George Washington Bridge and the employee resources necessary to realign them,” Feigin says. “Unless they lied about the existence of a Port Authority traffic study, none of them had the power to direct those resources and realign the lanes.”

The defendants “don’t get a free pass simply because their motive happened to be political,” he adds.

Feigin gets immediate pushback from Justice Stephen Breyer, who suggests the government’s theory would restore a broad definition of honest-services fraud that the court has trimmed back in recent cases.

Feigin says the case about a particular type of fraud that is indeed illegal — “commandeering fraud.”

“It is when the defendant tries to take over property that is in the hands of the victim and manage it as if it is his own property,” he says.

Justice Elena Kagan asks Feigin whether the case would have been the same if the shifting of traffic lanes had not caused massive backups in Fort Lee, or even “maybe improved” traffic.

Yes, he says. “It’s not about the effect although the effect was catastrophic and that was a reason why the prosecution was brought, because of the incredible danger in which they put the citizens and commuters of Fort Lee, but they would still have committed the same crime.”

After the argument, Kelly and her lawyers address the news media on the court’s plaza, as a light rain falls. She has been free on bond, with a 13-month prison sentence in the balance.

Baroni, surrounded by a large entourage of his lawyers and supporters, waits for Kelly and her pack to move away from the press area before descending the court’s steps to give an emotional statement. He had begun serving his 18-month sentence and was freed on bail after the Supreme Court granted Kelly’s cert petition.

“A year ago, I walked into federal prison, and I never dreamed that the Supreme Court of the United States would agree to hear our case,” Baroni says. He thanks Levy, his family members, friends here, friends in Ireland.

“There’s one other group I want to thank,” he says. “Those are the guys that I was in prison with. For every day I was there, [they] never let me stop believing, and never let me give up. Sometimes people forget them. But they are not forgotten today. So now we wait.”

Reporters wait a few more minutes in the rain for Christie, who is seldom shy about appearing before cameras. In fact, he rushed to appear before them after the oral argument in a New Jersey sports-betting case in 2018. But he doesn’t show. Maybe he has a train to catch.

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