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octuscle · 3 months

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I like the work the Chronivac did to “assist” that office. I definitely wouldn’t mind if my 9-5 colleagues were as inspired to hit the gym, instead. Maybe there’s a training video I can share with them?

Strictly speaking, you're not exactly a sporting ace… Okay, you go swimming twice a week. You eat a reasonably healthy diet. You're one of the fitter ones in the company. But you're also one of the youngest. You have advantages there… In any case, you've already submitted a proposal for a fitness program to the internal suggestion scheme. Let's see what effect that will have. But now you have to get on with your work.

After a few days, you will receive a parcel by internal mail. "Stephen, is that you?" you ask in amazement. Stephen is your age and has been in the post office for ages. He's actually a skinny, pimply guy who you've always felt sorry for. But now you're looking at a muscular jock who smells of sweat and musk. "My name is Steve, are you Robert Hitch?" "Dude, we've known each other for five years, you should know my name is Mike." Steve grins, shrugs his shoulders, puts the package on your desk, takes a deep breath from his armpit and says he doesn't give a shit.

Robert Hitch is your boss. Steve should have known that. The package is from Chronivac Inc. Doesn't tell you anything. But it's personally addressed to Robert. Although you actually have better things to do, you drop the package off at Robert's. He looks a little horrified. As if you had caught a child reaching into the candy drawer. He asks who the parcel is from. You shrug your shoulders. He wipes a little sweat from his forehead. But that's nothing special. The fat pig sweats all the time.

You forget the story after a few minutes. The stock markets are going crazy, you have your hands full. At some point during the evening, you receive an e-mail from Robert. It goes to the whole department. Subject: Mens sana in corpore sano. It's actually about promoting physical fitness. There is a link to a piece of software that you should download. You do that and go back to the risk profile of your bond portfolio.

Frederique and Jean-Paul are the two stars of your investment banking. Both have a knack for making quick and correct decisions. They are among the few people who are still at the bank at this time of day. You drop by for a chat with them. As usual, they are hardly distracted by the screens. When you ask them if they have downloaded the software, they just nod their heads. Have they looked at it yet? A shake of the head. Okay, you're not going to get into a conversation here.

When you come into the office the next morning, you see Marcus and James sitting spellbound in front of their screens. The two of them are staring at pictures of fitness models doing strength exercises. You ask if this has anything to do with the link from yesterday. James says he has no idea what that shit is about. He's here to work, not to exercise. Marcus nods. But neither of them turn their heads away from the screen for a second.

You ask if you should bring them a coffee. They both shake their heads. Marcus mumbles something about whether there are protein shakes in the coffee kitchen. You think it's a joke.

There are actually canisters of protein powder in the coffee kitchen. You think for a moment about whether you should really bring Marcus a shake. But why would he drink a protein shake? You regularly go out for lunch together. You've already talked about God and the world. But never about food supplements.

As you're on your way back to work with your coffee, it almost falls out of your hand. Marcus and James are sitting over their work again. So presumably. There are definitely two men sitting in their seats, working. But neither of them looks like Marcus. Or like James. They're both talking and every other word is "bro" or "fuck". But they're obviously working on the quarterly report again. Something is strange. Very strange.

As you pass Mr. Hitch's office, your coffee falls out of your hand. You stare at the person who sounds so much like Robert. As if Robert spoke a deep, well-trained bass. But the man looks different. "Shit, bruhs, we have to change da dress code. Shoulder coverings only optional from now on. Shit, bruhs! sun's out, guns out!"

Your productivity is limited. In the department chat, people who have never been interested in sport exchange tips on how to gain mass as quickly as possible. Steve drops off the mail and asks you if you know what a protein fart is. You shake your head and Steve shows you. Shit, that stinks unnaturally. Roaring laughter from the surrounding tables. Someone shouts "Attention, en voici un autre!" And shortly afterwards you hear the incredible sound of a fart. You get up and see who it came from. At Frederique and Jean-Paul's desk, two giants are having a lively discussion. Your French is not very good. But they're obviously arguing about whether the current share price of Chronivac Inc. is undervalued. The one you think is Frederique is flexing his tattooed biceps. And the other one laughs and says "Acheter! Acheter!"

You've never wanted an individual office so much. The air is cutting. Sweat, musk, protein farts. You take another look at Robert's email from last night. You open the link. And you can't take your eyes off the screen. You feel the urge to wank your boner. A wet spot forms on your pants… You take off your jacket with some difficulty. Phew, you stink of sweat. Ads for tank tops appear on the screen. Shit, if you don't go straight to the toilet and jerk off now, you're going to cum in your pants.

The toilet is very busy. You see how Robert has put one of his department heads against the wall and is shagging him. You stand at a urinal and take out your hard-on. Steve approaches from behind. You don't have to jerk off on your own, he is happy to help you.

#male tf #muscle tf #reality change #chronivac #inked man #tank top #ai image

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world-cinema-research · 1 month

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A Hard Day's Night (1964)

"Aye, but don't rush. None of your "Five bar gates and over" sort of stuff.

What's that supposed to mean?

I don't know. I thought it just sounded distinguished-like"

This exchange between George Harrison and Paul McCartney stood out just from how mundane it seemed. The Beatles' as of now, are one of the most famous and influential bands.. Seeing how they're portrayed in this film as down-to-earth and even immature, was pretty unique. There's almost no prestige here and it's almost kitschy in execution, and the Beatles have a good deal of jokes made at their expense.

"Now you'll like these. You'll really dig them. They're fab and all the other pimply hyperboles."

This line was mostly just funny to me. I think how 'fab' and 'I dig it' were seen as trendy teen slang at some point just puts into perspective the time difference between then and now and how much has changed. The use of 'pimply in this line also made me laugh, and I was surprised how successful a lot of this film's comedic delivery and timing is.

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dollarbin · 9 months

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Dollar Bin #3:

Fairport Convention's Angel Delight

This album has never looked promising. John, Paul and George didn't break up and then let Ringo call himself The Beatles; Lou, Cale, Sterling and Mo didn't want what's his name to make a record and claim it was by the Velvet Undergound. And Dave Swarbrick had about as much of a right to lead Fairport Convention in 1970 as Lepidus had to lead the Roman Empire in 48 BCE. Right?

Well, let's dive back into the dollar bin and find out.

A year earlier, when Sandy Denny left Fairport to form Fotheringay with her loser boyfriend and Ashley Hutchinson beat his own retreat to assemble the first and greatest incarnation of Steeleye Span, there was still plenty to love about Fairport Convention. Richard Thompson, the band's gawky genius, was writing increasingly uncanny and harrowing songs. Now Be Thankful and Farewell, Farewell are so good that it seems like the band's pimply medieval apprentice had snuck off with the spell books and everyone's maidenhead. He was even learning, reluctantly, to sing.

What's more, the band's producer, Joe Boyd, was still firmly in the mix. Boyd had already played a role in many of the greatest records from the whole wonderful era, from The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter to Five Leaves Left. Thompson and Boyd made the band still vital.

What's even more, Fairport had already shown it could weather change. Two lead singers had already come and gone prior to Denny decamping. And, just before she left, they turned a fatal car crash into Liege and Leif, the founding, and greatest, record in the history of Folk Rock.

But in 1971, after a solid and occasionally brilliant 5th record and a (retrospectively anyway) historic tour of the US that saw Fairport blowing away Linda Ronstadt before inviting her on stage to play whatever she wanted with them, Thompson followed his muse right out of the convention's Full House and left Swarb in charge. Boyd was no fool; he hightailed it out of there as well. Dave Swarbrick, a homely but masterful fiddle player hooked on "diet pills" (as in Speed), was now the front man of one of the greatest rock bands in history. Uh-oh.

The cover for the next record, Angel Delight, is fitting: there they are, (see above), the lads left behind by everyone important, grinning savant-like midst the remains of a burnt out house. The joke is apt but discouraging: see here, the cover declares, the losers left behind in the wreckage.

And just take a look at these hobbits !

Seriously, doesn't this look like a Multiverse alternative of Aragorn (that's Thompson, in the middle) with Tolkien's plucky halflings? Moving right to left we've got the drummer, Dave Mattacks, standing in for Merry: Mattacks is the awkward, moody one in the fellowship with a forever kink in his neck, too shy to take off his looking glasses or his granddad's coat. Next up it's Dave Pegg, oddly tall for a hobbit, whose grandfather, legend has it, once rode a horse.

Beside Aragorn/Thompson we've got Swarb himself. Forever enveloped pipe smoke, he's a merry trickster whose sideburns run all the way down his four foot frame to his giant, hairy feet.

Finally, there's Simon Nicol at furthest left. After Thompson leaves he's the only guy not named Dave in the band, and they all lived together! Just imagine the conversation at dinner.

Nicol, looking up from his kippers on toast: "Dave?"

All three Daves, eagerly: "Yes Simon?"

Nicol: "Never feckin' mind."

Though Nicol was the only founding member left at this point, he was just 20, a young Took still not old enough for pipe weed. Clearly he's the only guy in the band with a chance of one day getting himself an elf wife.

Without Thompson, Denny, Boyd, Hutchings or even Ian Matthews, there's none of Frodo's constipational anxiety, let alone Gandalf's enormous eyebrows, left to be found in this band. If there's a ring of power to protect they've already lost it.

But drop the needle on side 1 and Angel Delight sounds instantly promising. Swarb's has clearly learned to sing and we bounce along merrily to the opening track, Lord Marlborough. Perhaps these hobbits know the way to Mordor after all!

Don't get too excited. Track 2, Sir William Gower, finds them playing like Fatty Bolger. The song surely records the exploits of yet another British miscreant, war hero or goofball but it's hard to care when the noodling melody sounds like the band is sitting in an 80's middle school circle at midnight, crank calling confused old ladies who happen to answer the seven digit meandering melodies the boys are making up on their parents' push-button phone. Swarb calls out the numbers while the other boys cackle and chase: 7! 8! 3! 4568! "Hello!" Swarb hollers into the phone. "Sorry to call so late mam. May I speak with a Sir William Gower please? What's that now? Wrong number? Well, what about a Mr. Head? First name Dick?"

The boys may fall over laughing but the song is a plodding bummer. So let's skip ahead to some greatness. Wizard of the Worldly Game isn't a dollar store tabletop Harry Potter knock off for 2-4 players that currently ranks last on Board Game Geek. It's a downright magestic song. Youtube contains zero tracks from this entire album (perhaps Muggles are forbidden to hear Angels Delight unless they brave the dollar bin) so I can't play it for you here. But it's lovely, with Swarb's tenor rising from tender to belting as the boys emerge from their respective holes on Bagshot Row to encircle him in stately harmony. Nicol is no Thompson on the electric guitar, but he knows it, and his solos here are patient and wonderful.

Journeyman's Grace, one of several songs co-written by Thompson before his departure, wraps up side 1 and it's a barnburner, with lyrics that are as oddly captivating and ineffable as anything Thompson would go on to write in his prestigious career:

Leave my weary flesh and bone to a circle made of stone Take me to the mountains for my pleasure. And if the dead man won't depart, drive a stake into his heart And let me ere deliver him his leisure.

The band hands the song's lead vocals back and forth like a hot tater, and listen to Swarb on the final chorus, hitting a high note and holding on like a puffed up Disney rooster.

Let's wrap up this visit to the dollar bin with a concert performance of the song from this era. Watch Swarb shuffle! Turns out the guy's yet another Fairport genius, and the band is in good hands after all.

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#sandy denny #fairport convention #richard thompson #disney rooster #fatty bolger #david swarkbrick #Youtube

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beatles-slash-fiction · 3 years

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We didn't get mcharrison for a long time. Can I get even pre Hamburg Geogre falling in love with Paul but he doesn't feel the same? Poor George tries to kiss him but he's like "umm no sorry" and so poor boy has to see how his crush falls in love with John and all but he still loves him and he's happy for him but still hurts and aaah angst angst angst andhwknshsj

Sometimes George wonders if things might have been different if they had never met John.

When he musters the courage to kiss Paul when they’re on a hitchhiking holiday when he’s sixteen, only to be very gently and kindly rejected, George clings to the hope that maybe Paul’s feelings might change.

Maybe Paul still sees him as a bit of a baby brother, and once George gets past his pimply post-pubescent phase, things might change.

But the only thing that changes is Paul’s feelings towards John.

George can’t exactly resent John. John is handsome and funny and a talented songwriter; everything George is not.

But that doesn’t make it any less painful when he sees John and Paul holding hands, or when he catches them snogging after rehearsals. If there’s anything he can take comfort from, it’s that Paul is happy at least.

But George knows he’ll always be Paul’s baby brother, and he just has to accept that.

#mcharrison

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boneswriteswords · 4 years

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the lost boys meeting their s/o was so good! can you please do a continuation??

Hi! I’m glad you liked the original. I wasn’t a fan of how it turned out but I’m glad someone did enjoy it.

Here is a part two. Not gonna lie, I had no idea how to approach a continuation so I just did a bunch of head canons of what happens in the next few months after you met them, before you know they are vampires and before you know that you are their mate.

Hope you enjoy it!

- After that night in the store, you found yourself surrounded by four needy bois most nights. The only nights where you didn’t see them where the nights you had off and decided to chill at home, doing whatever it is that you do.

- This quickly changed because they found out where you lived and if you weren’t at the store when they came around, they’d show up at your home. You don’t know how they found out where you lived but you couldn’t be too mad at them, especially when they brought you dinner.

- They invite you to their lair after the first week but, as a smart, sensible person, you don’t. You literally just met these dudes and they wanna take you somewhere private? Nah. David isn’t sure how to respond to the rejection because he and his boys share a single brain cell so he doesn’t know what to do when confronted with someone who has more than that.

- Lowkey, he takes it as a challenge. You want safety? You recognize your own vulnerability? You know how dangerous the world is? Guess what you cute ass bitch, he is gonna establish the biggest trust bond with you. He’s gonna make sure that you find comfort in him. He. IS. GONNA. MAKE. YOU. FEEL. SAFE. WITH. HIM. IF. IT. KILLS. HIM.

- When you do finally visit their cave, he is the proudest he has ever been and fucking preens while you explore.

- They take you on motorcycle rides and you quickly decide that Dwayne is one you like to drive with most. He keeps pace with the others but he doesn’t do stupid tricks with his bike that could send you flying. Like, none of them would ever let you get hurt - they panic at the idea of you being hurt - but they like to get your adrenaline pumping. (Remember how I said that your blood sings to them? B i t c h it calls to them like a siren calls to a pirate when your heart is beating fast.)

- Dwayne is also a physical person. He doesn’t speak much so he relies on physical touch and affection to get his point across. He also uses it to determine how people feel about him and their moods. Body language speaks a lot louder than words and he uses it as a guide to determine what to do next. Feeling you press against him, gripping onto him and not being afraid of squeezing or touching his skin lets him know that you find him to be safe. You trust him. There isn’t a social barrier that makes contact awkward and IT MAKES HIM SMILE SO WIDE.

- You quickly realize that Paul’s chaotic energy is his default setting and adjust to either match it or diffuse it, depending on the fuckery he is trying to get you to do. A lot of the time, its simple things - pranks, tricks, general mischief - and as long as no one gets hurt, you are down to be his partner in crime (and you know for a fact his selective hearing only picked up the word PARTNER). There have been times where he’s been downright feral and you’ve had to talk him down from doing something insane (which, I mean, you think they are human so you think they have the same limitations that you do and he thinks it so cute that you want him to be safe).

- He is also shook at how easy it is for him to calm down when you tell him too. He finds himself looking to you to see your reactions to things he is doing and curbs his impulses if he sees you are uncomfortable or disapproving. He wants you to be happy with him. Paul usually does not give a fuck about what people think of him but YOU? His actual mate? The actual living embodiment of love? Yeah, he gives a fuck. He wants you to love him.

- Marko is the most sensitive about you and your presence. He gets overwhelmed by you. He is the youngest of these feral bat babies. Compared to the others, he is a baby bat. The intensity of connection is still foreign to him and he still has nights where he needs to adjust to the connection he has to the other bois. Its why he feels the need to fight, he needs to get some of the energy out. You existing near him is a lot for him and he is the neediest when it comes to your attention.

- You don’t know how much pull you have on him and it is hard for him to not show you. David said they needed to be patient. You needed to be wooed. You needed to trust them. You needed to want them as much as they wanted you. This was an endgame. They couldn’t fuck this up. Marko understands but he has no patience.

- He gets by with doing things with you. Walking together to get food. Doing separate hobbies but together in the same space. Dancing together during concerts. It helps him cope.

- Jackets. You end up not ever needing a jacket ever again. The moment it gets the slightest bit chilly or if they see you getting all goose pimply, you are given one of their jackets. They alternate which nights they give you their jacket because once they all handed you a jacket and your cute ass thought they wanted you to carry them so you did.

- They end up having long conversations about you on the rare night where they aren’t going to spend a lot of time with you. Most of it is making plans for when you join them (because make no mistake, you will) and getting the cave cleaned up to give you spaces for the parts of your old life you want to bring into your new life.

- However, they do open up about their fears, their desires, their wants and needs, to each other. They’ve always been pretty good with talking with each other but this is a whole new ballgame and they aren’t sure how to play.

- You meet Max. Max heard through the grapevine that his boys were hanging around a human and he was curious. Why were they playing with their food this time? He sends the boys off to do some bullshit errand and ‘runs’ into you at the boardwalk. He draws you into a conversation and five minutes in, he knows. You are his boys’ mate. He can feel it on you and he approves. You are none the wiser.

- The bois are high-key angry and annoyed that he interfered but they don’t say anything. He is their sire and he didn’t scare you away and him knowing does help them keep other supernatural creatures away from you.

- HIGH KEY PROTECTIVE. They do not like others hanging around you too long. You are unclaimed which means that someone could ask you out. You could go on a date. You could fall in love with someone. They are already needy with your attention and if they catch anyone sniffing around you in any sort of interested manner, they get irritated. If they catch anyone sniffing around you with harmful intentions, they get murderous.

- This will decrease in intensity when you are one of them and have accepted their bond. Much of their behavior is mate-guarding. They cool down quite a bit once they are secure that you are theirs and have no intention of leaving them.

- Love when you get dressed up. They like to help you with your looks (with them sneaking their own shit into your wardrobe) because they love seeing you comfortable in yourself. If you say something makes you feel good or makes you feel attractive, they encourage it completely. They want you to love yourself.

- They will steal things for you so don’t look at something for too long or mention that you want something because they will snatch it for you and you cannot stop them.

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#the lost boys #the lost boys imagine #the lost boys headcanon #poly!lost boys #lost boys david #lost boys dwayne #lost boys paul #lost boys marko #ask #My writing

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likesomekindofcheese · 4 years

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Can I get paul x reader on her period ❤️

Sure thing! Thanks for being so patient with me for getting to this~

So Paul has a little gift of intuition when it comes to you. So when you are on your period, you have this dark look on your face and he just knows.

“Y/N, are you feeling okay?”

And at that moment a huge cramp hits you, it feels as if you have swallowed a sharp rock and it’s poking around your guts, stabbing your insides trying to burst out.

And you say “no, I...I don’t it’s my...my stomach.”

“Y/N...are you on your period! Don’t be shy, you can tell me!” he says, leaning closer to you.

“I...I do...and they tend to get really...uhm, uncomfortable and unheavy” you add on, wiggling in your seat.

Immediately Paul sets out to the store and returns with all of the things you know you would need.

He buys you beautiful roses and sets it up in a vase in your room. Usually, he finds a place where as soon as you wake up it will be the first thing you see.

He also adds painkillers, pads/tampons, and pieces of chocolate. As a wave hits you, you lay back on your bed, admiring your flowers and waiting for the painkillers to kick in.

But as soon as you wander in the kitchen when you get hungry for something more filling than chocolate, you are surprised to see Paul donned in your pink apron.

But your nose is filled with the scent of oregano, onion, and garlic.

“Paul...are you...are you cooking!” you gasp wandering closer.

“Yes, it’s pasta so it’s not too hard, just add a few spices to the sauce and you got something really special,” he says with one of his cheeky winks.

So you get out some red wine. He says it’s the best one that goes with Italian foods and although you were saving this bottle for a special occasion, he said you might as well open it now.

So you eat your delicious dinner, nearly crying from how good it is and sipping your wine while watching comedy tv shows. Paul at one point almost snorts sauce out his nose from a funny line and catches it with it napkin, which makes you laugh.

But in a few seconds you tear up a little bit and Paul pauses the television asking immediately what’s wrong.

“Is it the food, baby?” he asks.

“I’m...my face, it’s all oily and pimply and gross, how can you look at me!” you blurt.

So he grabs you close and says “like this’ with a smile and starts kissing on you.

“Yer still me pretty girl, pimples or not,” he says, even kissing each spot on your face.

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dontbehorridhenry95 · 1 year

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i really wanna know who runs the horrid henry wiki because they said that in later episodes paul acts like a father figure to henry

....literally where dose he do that

sure he's more friendly given that he doesn't call him bratface anymore but still

he's still somewhat of an asshole in my eyes

#horrid henry #pimply paul #horrid henry (character)#no seriously where do people get the idea that paul is a father figure to henry??#like i get it i do he's a bit better then in the first two series and half of series 3 but other then that?? no no he's not #i will hunt him for sport damn it!!#t thanks for reading!!#again thanks!!

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paulbenedictblog · 4 years

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News Trump lawyer Pat Cipollone was a camera-shy Washington Everyman — until impeachment made him a star - The Washington Post

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“No person knew who he change into,” mentioned a individual shut to Cipollone, speaking on the condition of anonymity to command a closed-door campaign gathering.

Right here change into a Washington Everyman, regarded as one of the most indispensable faceless masters of the universe within the capital metropolis who quietly flip the wheels of energy, affect, the law and alternate — pointedly, and by assemble, with out ever producing a headline.

That temporary stumble upon would self-discipline in trail regarded as one of the most indispensable extra outlandish pairings in novel American politics, one thing drawing reach the knitting of a sinner and a saint. A twice-divorced president with a penchant for extramarital dalliances, title-calling and celeb journal spreads aligned with a preternaturally non-public father of 10 whose gigantic passions pattern extra to devotional journeys to the Vatican and Catholic charitable endeavors.

The affect Cipollone made on the day of Trump’s debate prep — the future president and his crew considered this unknown quantity as a individual of discretion, of “judgment, mind and modesty, no longer a leaker,” as one attendee set aside it — would linger. Virtually 2½ years later, Trump would steal out Cipollone as his White House counsel and extra these days as the lead felony professional within the impeachment trial that has performed out for the past two weeks within the Senate chamber.

Cipollone’s central feature within the protection has positioned him on televisions shows across The US, even when he would personal most neatly-most authorized it change into no longer so. He’d argued earlier than the trial that cameras may maybe presumably maybe serene be banned from the chamber. He believed that Trump’s case shall be broken by the re-airing of comments made by the president and performing chief of crew Mick Mulvaney, who’d mentioned at a news conference that the media may maybe presumably maybe serene “gather over it” on sage of quid pro quos “happen the total time” in U.S. international policy, in accordance to of us accustomed to Cipollone’s pondering who spoke on the condition of anonymity to focus on confidential approach sessions. But preserving cameras out additionally would personal had the assemble of affirming his fastidiously nurtured under-the-radar profile.

Unless Jan. 21 at 1: 27 p.m., when Cipollone stepped onto the podium on the second day of Trump’s trial and mentioned, “Thanks, Mr. Chief Justice,” he had by no formulation uttered a be conscious recorded by C-SPAN’s ubiquitous cameras. As if to underscore his reach-anonymity in Washington, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on the initiating mispronounced Cipollone’s title — as, at numerous instances, would House impeachment managers Adam B. Schiff, (D-Calif.), Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) and Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.). (It’s SIP-uh-loan-ee.) Earlier than Cipollone’s title rising as a contender for Trump’s White House counsel job, he’d by no formulation even seemed within the news pages of his hometown newspaper — The Washington Put up.

But, he change into now The US’s most considered felony professional.

“Pat Cipollone is doing a in fact perfect making an try job, made more uncomplicated by the truth that the opposite facet has no case — and it is a Whole Hoax,” Trump mentioned Thursday in a electronic mail to The Put up. “He has been a Mighty White House counsel.”

'Biblical views'

Cipollone, who did no longer answer to interview requests, and Trump came from rather just a few universes. The president change into born into privilege, the scion of a valid estate empire. Cipollone, whose given title is Pasquale, is the son of Italian immigrants of modest formulation. While Trump change into the product of an uncommon Jap boarding college, Cipollone had attended a conservative establishment removed from the energy facilities on the East Flit, Covington Catholic High College in Kentucky. His household had moved to the train from the Bronx when his father transferred to Kentucky for his manufacturing facility job. (A Covington student is now embroiled in a lawsuit in opposition to The Put up in accordance to the newspaper’s coverage of his feature in a confrontation all the plot by technique of last year’s March for Life.)

In temperament and class, Cipollone seemed as if it may maybe be the president’s reverse. At the College of Chicago law college, he’d been is believed as the indifferent one, “no longer the model to steal in just a few gigantic Socratic debate. Not an extraordinarily outspoken individual,” mentioned Melanie Sloan, a classmate.

Early on, he worked on the orderly firm Kirkland & Ellis, nonetheless he took a detour to become a high attorney on the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal group, where he held the title supreme advocate. While there, he filed a temporary in a Supreme Court docket abortion case in strengthen of a Nebraska law that outlawed a plot dubbed by critics “partial initiating” abortion.

The be conscious, he wrote, amounts to “the killing of a human child all the plot by technique of an already going down dwell initiating.” The excessive court indirectly struck down the law.

Later, he became a title accomplice within the D.C. firm Stein, Mitchell, Cipollone, Beato & Missner — which made him a neatly off man. Cipollone earned extra than $6.7 million in 2017 and 2018, in accordance to a financial disclosure assemble filed when he took the White House job.

His recent client record has included the enchancment big Bechtel, Sony Leisure Crew and the Recording Industrial of The US. He additionally as soon as served on a factual crew for Johnny Depp in a lawsuit in opposition to regarded as one of the most indispensable actor’s outdated attorneys.

Through the years, Cipollone naturally fell in with the metropolis’s circle of neatly-connected Catholics, love-minded influencers with firm positions on disorders such as abortion and related-sex marriage.

“Pat puts biblical views on all the pieces,” mentioned worn senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.). Both males personal teenagers who attended the Heights College in Potomac, Md., which is affiliated with Opus Dei, an ultraconservative Catholic establishment.

He additionally solid a deep bond with Leonard Leo, then the vp of the Federalist Society, the influential conservative factual neighborhood that has performed a most indispensable feature in shaping the judiciary. Alongside with Leo, Cipollone change into regarded as one of the most indispensable founders of the Nationwide Catholic Prayer Breakfast, shaped in 2004 “in accordance to Saint John Paul II’s name for a Contemporary Evangelization,” in accordance to its internet sites.

The chums traveled to Rome together two summers ago and visited the Vatican with a priest from the Catholic Data Heart, a D.C.-essentially based academic group on whose board Leo and Cipollone personal both served. Cipollone has additionally served on the board of the Cohesion Association, a corporation that helps Catholic evangelization and schooling.

Cipollone cares about “non secular freedom, the tradition of life,” Leo mentioned in an interview.

Leo and Cipollone are shut with William P. Barr, who served as President George H.W. Bush’s felony professional frequent and now holds the same put up within the Trump administration. Cipollone worked for a time as a speechwriter under Barr in Bush’s Justice Department.

“Pat and Invoice reach from the college that believes executive energy is mainly most indispensable to the preservation of particular individual freedom, since the branch that is most inclined to abusing the public is the legislative branch,” Leo mentioned. “Since the legislative branch by a long way is mainly the most noteworthy of the three branches, there have to be a take a look at from both other branches.”

Cipollone has generally avoided electoral politics, nonetheless in 2012 he jumped in to relieve Santorum’s presidential campaign, flying on diminutive planes with the candidate and one other volunteer. The operation change into so stripped down that the excessive-powered attorney ended up doing projects in total dealt with by pimply interns — grabbing coffee or lunches for Santorum or doing reach work.

“Nothing change into under him,” mentioned David Metropolis, a specialist and Republican campaign operative who change into the third member of the diminutive campaign crew.

In an interview, Santorum mentioned he and Cipollone meshed on most disorders nonetheless “didn’t consistently explore sight to sight on immigration.” Cipollone told him to sensible his demanding-line tone, hewing to Catholic tenets about serving to the heart-broken.

On policy, “Pat’s valid no longer a heavy hand,” mentioned Santorum, who has been a client of Cipollone’s to handle contracts within the years for the reason that campaign. “By plot of factual [strategizing], he generally is a very heavy hand.”

'Sturdy, soundless model'

When Trump change into elected, Cipollone all as soon as more took a step toward politics, angling to become deputy felony professional frequent within the Justice Department headed by then-Attorney Total Jeff Sessions. Barr — then in non-public be conscious — change into among those that instructed Cipollone, in accordance to a individual who is shut to both males. Santorum and Leo additionally instructed him.

Cipollone didn’t gather the job, a flip of events that irked Barr and other supporters. But he remained on the president’s radar, and in 2018 his title surfaced as possible White House counsel. He wasn’t the supreme finalist, in accordance to an exterior adviser who change into consulted on a contest that he described as a photo enact.

“There change into a orderly amount of self belief in both his ability as an felony professional and that he brought loads to the table as somebody who understood the increased conservative mission,” the outside adviser mentioned.

Having secured the job, he sought enter from Melanie Sloan, his College of Chicago classmate.

“I expressed my surprise that he would have to work in this White House. He valid doesn’t explore the president as I carry out,” mentioned Sloan, who is a senior adviser to American Oversight, a nonpartisan ethics watchdog that has been most indispensable of Trump. “I imagine Pat as a really ethical and ethical man and a actual household man. All of those values appear at odds with the president.”

At a White House tournament the month after Cipollone took the job, Trump told the viewers that his new high felony professional change into the “strong, soundless model.”

But last autumn, Cipollone — the individual who doesn’t assemble headlines — spoke loudly, blasting out an almost Trumpian whisk that dominated the news cycle. In a brusquely worded, eight-internet page letter to House leaders, he declared that the White House would no longer cooperate with the House impeachment inquiry. The inquiry change into precipitated by allegations of a quid pro quo in which Trump threatened to withhold protection drive relieve to Ukraine except it announced an investigation of a number one political rival, worn vp Joe Biden, and his son Hunter, who held a lucrative seat on the board of a Ukrainian oil and gasoline firm.

“By no formulation earlier than in our history has the House of Representatives — under the regulate of either political occasion — taken the American of us down the harmful path you appear certain to pursue,” Cipollone wrote. “Set simply, you explore to overturn the outcomes of the 2016 election and deprive the American of us of the President they've freely chosen.”

The defiant plot change into cheered by conservative tastemakers.

Two days later, 21 of Cipollone’s worn law college classmates, who mentioned they represented a wide quantity of political affairs, requested him to withdraw the letter, arguing that it “flouts the traditions of rigor and mental honesty that we realized together” and that it “distorts the law and the Constitution for other functions, including cable news consumption.”

But those that are shut to Cipollone were no longer surprised on the allege material or tenor. Cipollone has a visceral disdain for this House and how it basically works, in accordance to of us who know him neatly nonetheless spoke on the condition of anonymity to command non-public conversations.

Internally, Cipollone’s arrival within the White House has, at instances, precipitated friction. He has complained generally about Mulvaney and puzzled his efficiency as chief of crew, in accordance to a pair of officers who spoke on the condition of anonymity to focus on non-public conversations.

Political instincts puzzled

Even just a few of his allies negate he does no longer part ample records with someone as antagonistic to the president, on sage of he is too terrified of leaks to the media. All the plot by technique of meetings, he in total has mentioned he needs to talk with Trump one-on-one after the neighborhood leaves, a behavior that some White House advisers negate has left them out of the loop on what he believes is the ethical route of action. White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham has complained many instances that he doesn’t maintain the communications crew instructed.

But publicly the White House has most effective correct things to negate about the counsel. “Pat Cipollone has carried out a masterful job leading the president’s protection crew on impeachment and he has frequent strengthen in the end of the White House,” Grisham mentioned in a press originate emailed to The Put up. “The president trusts his counsel on a wide quantity of disorders and counts him as regarded as one of his closest advisers.”

Cipollone has proved to be a deft infighter. His powers of persuasion were examined all the plot by technique of a fierce debate about whether or no longer Trump may maybe presumably maybe serene originate the rough transcript of the phone name with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Communications aides told him it would assemble things worse for Trump, in accordance to officers pondering about the discussions. But Cipollone prevailed.

Even then, it wasn’t a straightforward path. Cipollone tried to organize the media approach for the transcript originate with out appealing the communications put of work, arguing that he would provide the supreme briefings for journalists and lawmakers. He ended up doing the briefings.

The internecine squabbles did no longer subside. Some within the White House considered him as lacking political instincts and heaps instances giving Trump rosier predictions than other advisers. Loads of days earlier than the impeachment vote, Cipollone change into serene telling the president that the House may maybe presumably maybe no longer vote to impeach him, in accordance to advisers who listened in on the discussions. Others told Trump, “Listen, you’re going to assemble impeached.” They told the president no longer to put stock in Cipollone’s evaluation.

The others were ethical. On Dec. 18, a House vote made Trump valid the third president in American history to be impeached.

Cipollone change into in line to take care of the lead on the Senate impeachment trial that all people knew change into coming. But with a client as snappy as the president, he wasn’t going to assemble to assemble the total decisions about who else would be on the protection table.

On Christmas Eve, Trump approached Alan Dershowitz, the infamous O.J. Simpson protection felony professional and emeritus Harvard law professor, within the buffet line on the president’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Seashore, Fla. Trump told Dershowitz that he wanted him to affix the impeachment protection crew, Dershowitz mentioned in a recent interview.

Dershowitz demurred, telling the president that his spouse, Carolyn Cohen, would no longer be cosy. That despatched Trump off to search out Dershowitz’s spouse in other locations within the room. The president convinced her, and valid love that, Trump had added some neatly-known individual energy to his protection crew.

The warmth of the spotlight

Going into the trial, Cipollone additionally told officers on the White House that he did no longer have to appear on television news programs and focus on shows all the plot by technique of impeachment. As an different, he mentioned, he most neatly-most authorized to defer that project to others, including Pam Bondi, a staunch Trump supporter who these days left put of work as Florida’s felony professional frequent.

“I consistently hoped that he would carry out press,” mentioned Ingraham, who has hosted a Fox Data Channel program since 2017. “Many instances along the plot it change into definite to me he had no favor to be a television attorney. He likes to assemble his job carried out within the back of closed doors.”

But there change into no avoiding television last week when Cipollone change into the significant felony professional to take care of the podium to debate the proposed suggestions for the trial. He adjusted the microphone. A slim man with graying, exquisitely parted hair, he wore a sad suit and a straightforward purple, striped tie. The Washington Everyman in uniform.

His train dripping with disdain, Cipollone flung many of his remarks on the president’s significant antagonist, Schiff, the California Democrat and lead House supervisor who had valid completed his presentation.

“It’s too a lot to hear to almost,” Cipollone mentioned, “the hypocrisy of the total thing.”

He invoked the nation’s founders, saying the trial change into “their worst nightmare.”

“It’s a partisan impeachment that they dropped at your step,” he mentioned.

“They’re no longer here to purchase one election,” he mentioned. ‘They’re here to purchase two elections.”

He closed by urging senators to “discontinuance this ridiculous charade” so “we can trot personal an election.” With that he clapped his folder shut, punctuating the second, and walked back to his seat.

Cipollone’s client change into an ocean away, communing with just a few of the enviornment’s richest of us on the World Financial Summit in Davos, Switzerland. But Trump change into paying attention and wanted a fiery efficiency, of us accustomed to the president’s pondering mentioned. Trump had hoped for even extra of a flamethrower — somebody extra love himself.

Within the past year, the unassuming attorney now arguing to retain Trump in put of work had ensconced himself deep into the perilous president’s inner sanctum.

And not utilizing a doubt one of Cipollone’s two predecessors, Donald McGahn, change into known for staying in his lane, steerage definite of the staffer risk zone that surrounds Trump and that has been a component in so many White House departures.

“Don change into a good deal pondering about the judicial endeavor and deregulation,” mentioned Leo, Cipollone’s perfect friend. “Pat has focused some time on that, nonetheless he has broadened his passion areas. He will get himself pondering about other things within the building with better depth than Don may maybe presumably maybe need.”

Inserting himself in policy matters and palace intrigue carries risk. But Cipollone, who has traveled with Trump extra than his predecessors, had staked floor as reach as possible to the president.

His chums anguish he is having fun with a runt bit too shut to the fire.

Alice Crites contributed to this file.

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Paul: 'Astrid was a photographer and took really nice photos of us. And Jurgen was a photographer, brilliant photos. They were more interested in Stuart and John, they had the more teddy-boy faces. I was a little bit too baby-faced and didn't attract them as much.' [...] Unfortunately for Paul, the Exis were not all that interested in him. PAUL: They had a particular love for Stu; John was number two, which is understandable. George was number three, which was a little bit miffing, because I had expected at least to get third… Life is very like that. I came fourth, just before Pete Best. Stuart was entering the good-looking period. Earlier than that he looked a bit pimply and art-studenty. He had never been number one in our pecking order. Pimply and small, but onstage in Hamburg his stature grew. He wore his James Dean glasses, a nice pair of RayBans, and he looked groovy with his tight jeans and his big bass. Suddenly there was this transformation, and with his shades and haircut Stu became a complete dude. It was great. It was inevitable that there should be a mutual attraction between the Beatles and the Exis. Of all the British rock 'n' roll bands of the time, the Beatles were the most intellectually inclined and appreciative of art. The Exis seemed like an extension of a scene with which they were already familiar. PAUL: So we were very into them and they were very artsy. They were not the first artsy people we'd seen, but they were the first unique artsy people we'd seen. The rest seemed like students copying each other and just doing paintings. Astrid fell in love with Stuart. He and I used to have a deadly rivalry. I don't know why. He was older and a strong friend of John's. When I look back on it I think we were probably fighting for John's attention. He was older and John was a year older than me, and that year makes a hell of a lot of difference at the age of eighteen. So I wasn't such a big friend of Stuart's. I was always practical, thinking our band could be great, but with him on bass there was always something holding us back.

paul mccartney: many years from now, barry miles

#mclennon #p: paul mccartney #p: john lennon #p: stuart sutcliffe #p: astrid kirchherr #the early days #mach schau #i just wanted to post the full quote #i think the last bit is v well-known already #but #i like the context it gives

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Our pilot this time is Small Town Love by Sarah Haskins and Emily Halpern (Trophy Wife, Booksmart). Small Town Love is about a sparring mother and daughter in rural Michigan who are forced to lean on each other when they become pregnant at the same time. Listen to Andrew’s interview with Sarah and Emily to hear about how the first script they wrote together, Booksmart, took eleven years to reach the screen; what Emily learned from working with David Mamet; why they made the transition from film to TV; and how you can tell when an idea will actually make a good TV show. Enjoy!

CAST INCLUDES: Busy Phillips as Annette, Shannon Woodward as Fanny, Asif Ali as Curtis, Rob Huebel as John, Paul Adelstein as George, Parvesh Cheena as Mr. Karr, Nicole Sullivan as Reality Woman/Ruthie, Liz Jenkins as Beth, Ali Ghandour as Pimply Teen Manager, Greg Santos as Rude Customer ,Syd Steinberg as Waiter/Bartender/Store Manager, and Andrew Reich with stage directions.

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New top story from Time: Beastie Boys Story Tells It Like It Was—But You Can’t Help Missing Yauch

If you were around and into music circa 1987, your feelings about the Beastie Boys may have depended on your tolerance for obnoxious, sexist, hard-partying dude bros. That’s how they presented themselves as performers, and that’s largely the fan base they attracted. Which is not to say women didn’t sometimes love them—their pimply machismo was its own kind of rascally energy. Plus, they were just kids, being ridiculous. Sample lyric: “Girls! To do the dishes/Girls! To clean up my room/Girls! To do the laundry/Girls! And in the bathroom/Girls! That’s all I really want is girls.” Going all schoolmarm on them was a waste of energy.

Thank God, though, they didn’t go on that way forever: The follow-up to the Beasties’ 1986 hit album License to Ill was 1989 Paul’s Boutique, a much better, more adventurous work that sold many fewer copies, though it’s now considered a modern classic. In Beastie Boys Story—which airs on Apple TV+ beginning April 24—surviving members Adam Horowitz and Michael Diamond (a.k.a. Ad-Rock and Mike D) take to the stage, turning the Beasties’ story into an oral history, enhanced with sound and video clips, concert footage and general archival stuff. Adam Yauch, known as MCA, was both the founder of the group and guy whose vision helped hold it together for more than 20 years; he died in 2012, from parotid cancer, and though he’s present in spirit in Beastie Boys Story, you can’t help feeling that the whole thing would be a lot more fun, and smarter, if he were around. Horowitz and Diamond seem to feel that way too. At times their reflections have a settin’ on the front porch wistfulness, a mood that hits almost all hell-raisers at some point. There are moments when Beastie Boys Story has the aura of a heavy sigh, laden with the knowledge that the skateboard long ago skidded off the half pipe.

Still, if you’ve ever felt even a scrap of affection for the band, Beastie Boys Story has its charms. In 2018 Horowitz and Diamond released a book detailing the group’s history—it was called, with typical forthrightness, Beastie Boys Book—and devised a stage show to promote it. Beastie Boys Story, directed by longtime Beasties collaborator Spike Jonze, is a revised version of that show, filmed at the Kings Theatre in Brooklyn. Horowitz and Diamond, looking more hip dad than hip hop in their chinos and zip-up jackets, relay the story from day one, describing themselves, circa the early 1980s, as hardcore-obsessed New York City high schoolers whose lives revolved around Bad Brains, Misfits and Circle Jerks concerts. It was at one of these shows that Diamond and Horowitz met Yauch. Around this point in the film, two vintage photographs flash on the screen: One shows Yauch at 16, looking tough yet adorable in a thrift-shop raincoat, its lapels dotted with home-made badges; in the other, there’s a rat perched on his head.

Beastie Boys Story covers both the high and the many low points of the band’s career. They started out as an intensely amateur hardcore band before being transformed, by producer and Def Jam founder Russell Simmons, into a novelty: A trio of white rappers barely out of high school. Horowitz and Diamond explain that the Beasties started writing songs and raps as a goof, starting out with dumb phrases that they’d use to try to crack each other up. (The song that put them on the map with New York DJs was the kooky-raucous “Cooky Puss,” an ode to a particular style of Carvel ice-cream cake advertised on television.) They also liked to make fun of drunken white frat-boy types—until, when they were given the chance to open for Madonna on tour, they decided their strategy for getting noticed was to, as Diamond puts it, be “as rude and as awful as possible on-stage.” They went from being guys who made fun of party bros “to actually being those dudes,” he says.

After months of grueling touring—and partying—the group took a breather, eventually breaking with Simmons and regrouping in Los Angeles to try something new. From there, they continued to reinvent themselves, gradually, as they became full-fledged adults. Onstage, Diamond and Horowitz reckon with some of their brattier material. Diamond tells a story about how around the time of the band’s fifth album, Hello Nasty (1998), a journalist was grilling Horowitz about his claim that the band had grown up over the years, reminding him of how long it took for the Beasties to finally shed their sexist vibe. As Diamond recalls, Horowitz said, “I’d rather be a hypocrite than the same person forever.”

The Beasties had to change, and Beastie Boys Story charts that long, winding trek. Yauch was always the Beastie with the wildest ideas and the most effortless talent: When the trio decided they needed to become real musicians who could actually play instruments, Yauch picked up the double bass as if it were nothing. After visiting Tibet, he became involved in the Tibetan independence movement, organizing the Tibetan Freedom Concert, a series of festivals whose proceeds were used to support the cause. A clip from one of the events shows him greeting young monks in training one by one, clasping their hands in his, his face radiating pure joy. As Diamond puts it in the movie’s press notes, “Yauch made everything more interesting.”

Maybe that’s why, even though Yauch feels present in spirit, his physical absence burrows a hole in Beastie Boys Story. In 2004 I was assigned by the New York Times to review the Beasties’ video for “Ch-Check It Out.” I liked the song; I thought the video, directed by Yauch’s alter ego Nathanial Hornblower, was lame. A month after the review ran, the Times received a letter from Hornblower himself, which began like this:

To the Editor:

I had the great pleasure of reading your unsolicited critique of the ”Ch-Check It Out” music video [”Licensed to Stand Still” by Stephanie Zacharek, May 16]. It took some time to get to me, as it had to be curried (sp?) on goatback through the fjords of my homeland, the Oppenzell. And in the process the goat died, and then I had to give the mailman one of my goats, so remember, you owe me a goat.

The letter went on to detail the numerous ways in which Hornblower’s work would stand the test of time, despite the opinion of the “so-call New York Times smarties,” and ended thus:

In concluding, ”Ch-Check It Out” is the always best music film and you will be realizing this too far passing. As ever I now wrap my dead goat carcass in the soiled New York Times—and you are not forgetting to buy me a replacement! Please send that one more goat to me now!

Watching Beastie Boys Story reminded me of the genius of that crazy, not to mention 100 percent correct, letter. Horowitz and Diamond all but come out and say that Yauch was the best of them—the guy who first brought them together and then held them together, always coming up with new ideas they never would have dreamed of. He’s the missing ingredient from this documentary, as Horowitz and Diamond know all too well.

And I’m sorry I never got to send that goat.

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To the Editor:

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