Company Name	Title	City
HelioHire	Sr. DevOps Engineer	Chicago
ABM Facility Services	Custodial Position	Edwardsville
ABM Facility Services	Custodian	Edwardsville
ABM Facility Services	Custodial Position	Troy
Bisco	Inside Sales Representative	Township Of Schaumburg
Deltrol Fluid Products	Set up and operate honing equipment	Bellwood
gpm truck center inc	Truck Mechanic	Crystal Lake
Dr. David Rice	Dental Hygienist	Elgin
Sharp Auto Body	Auto Detailer	Island Lake
Anderson Hospital	Sonographer	Maryville
Anderson Hospital	Physical Therapist	Maryville
Anderson Hospital	RN	Maryville
Advanced Moving & Storage	OTR - Class A CDL Driver	Wood Dale
AT&T	Shoe Salesperson	Aurora
Mount Carmel Health	LPN - Cardiac Progressive Care Unit	Aurora
Advanced Technology Services	Diemaker	Bellwood
Gordon Food Service	LTL Driver	Bolingbrook
Gordon Food Service	Pick Up and Delivery Driver	Bolingbrook
Arrowleaf	Intake Liaison	Cairo
McKesson	Warehouse Worker - Full Time	Chicago
Year Up	Internships in Information Technology (IT)	Chicago
Year Up	Entry - level Software Development Role	Chicago
Cielo Williams Lea Group Ltd	Hybrid Billing Analyst	Chicago
Wendy's	Grill Operator - Wendy's $16-$35/hr	Chicago
Gulfstream Logistics	Full Charge Bookkeeper	Des Plaines

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1. cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS: 3.784 cGPA, 3.730 sGPA
2. MCAT score(s) and breakdown: Second attempt - 514 (128/126/128/132), First attempt - 503 (126/127/124/126)
3. State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US): PA
4. Ethnicity and/or race: Asian; from a small country in Asia; immigrated to the US at age 9
5. Undergraduate institution or category: University of Pittsburgh
6. Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer): 350 hours working as a medical assistant; 70 hours volunteering in the hospital
7. Research experience and productivity: 650 hours in a clinical lab in undergrad with a mid-author pub in a decent journal (socioeconomic research in patients); 150 hours in a basic science lab in undergrad (animal research); 600 hours in another basic science lab in undergrad with a poster-presentation at my uni (animal research); 2100 hours in a clinical lab in my gap year and 2100 more anticipated during gap year #2 so 4200 total with 2 oral presentations, 1 poster, and 1 mid-author pub in a great journal (patient research)
8. Shadowing experience and specialties represented: 50 hours of shadowing family med, psychiatry, cardiology, dermatology, and otolaryngology (35 complete and 15 more anticipated)
9. Non-clinical volunteering: 1000 hours of covid relief to marginalized communities
10. Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc): Undergrad teaching assistant for bio (120 hours) and for organic chem (120 hours); resident assistant for 1 year (300 hours); started a prehealth club at my uni (300 hours)
11. Relevant honors or awards: summa cum laude (GPA of 3.75 or above), departmental honors, a team award for research, and a travel grant for an oral presentation, dean's list as a sophomore - senior
12. Anything else not listed you think might be important: refugee background; did random job after HS (not sure whether to include in application); hobbies include photo/videography singing, creative writing; got my emt certification before I did the MA job; LORs should be pretty good (from gap year physician supervisor, 2 science profs; 1 extracurricular supervisor; looking to get 1 from non science prof too); DREAM SCHOOL IS MY ALMA MATER***

School list so far (I know there are a lot which is why I need help narrowing it down):
Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Bronx, NY)
Boston University School of Medicine (Boston, MA)
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (Cleveland, OH)
Drexel University College of Medicine (Philadelphia, PA)
Duke University School of Medicine (Durham, NC)
Emory University School of Medicine (Atlanta, GA)
Florida Atlantic University Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine (Boca Raton, FL)
Geisinger Commonwealth Medical College (Scranton, PA)
George Washington University School of Medicine (Washington, D.C.)
Georgetown University School of Medicine (Washington, D.C.)
Hacksensack Meridian School of Medicine (Nutley, NJ)
Hofstra University Zucker School of Medicine (Hempstead, NY)
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York, NY)
Indiana University School of Medicine (Indianapolis, IN)
Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine (Maywood, IL)
Mayo Clinic School of Medicine (Rochester, MN)
Mayo Clinic School of Medicine (Scottsdale, AZ)
Medical College of Wisconsin (Milwaukee, WI)
North Dakota School of Medicine (Grand Forks, ND)
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (Chicago, IL)
Nova Southeastern University College of Allopathic Medicine (Davie, FL)
Ohio State University School of Medicine (Columbus, OH)
Penn State University College of Medicine (Hummelstown, PA)
Quinnipiac University School of Medicine (Hamden, CT)
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine (North Chicago, IL)
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (New Brunswick, NJ)
Saint Louis University School of Medicine (St. Louis, MO)
Stanford School of Medicine (Stanford, CA)
Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine (Philadelphia, PA)
Thomas Jefferson University Sidney Kimmel Medical College (Philadelphia, PA)
Tufts University School of Medicine (Boston, MA)
Tulane University School of Medicine (New Orleans, LA)
UC San Diego School of Medicine (San Diego, CA)
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine (Los Angeles, CA)
UCSF School of Medicine (San Francisco, CA)
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (Bethesda, MD)
University of Alabama School of Medicine (Birmingham, AL)
University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix (Phoenix, AZ)
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine (Cincinnati, OH)
University of Colorado School of Medicine (Aurora, CO)
University of Connecticut School of Medicine (Farmington, CT)
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine (Iowa City, IA)
University of Michigan Medical School (Ann Arbor, MI)
University of Minnesota Medical School (Minneapolis, MN)
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine (Philadelphia, PA)
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (Pittsburgh, PA)
University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine (Tampa, FL)
University of Toledo College of Medicine (Toledo, OH)
University of Utah School of Medicine (Salt Lake City, UT)
University of Vermont College of Medicine (Burlington, VT)
University of Virginia School of Medicine (Charlottesville, VA)
USC Keck School of Medicine (Los Angeles, CA)
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine (Richmond, VA)
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine (Roanoke, VA)
Wake Forest University School of Medicine (Winston-Salem, NC)
West Virginia University School of Medicine (Morgantown, WV)
Western Michigan Homer Stryker School of Medicine (Kalamazoo, MI)
Wright State Boonshoft School of Medicine (Dayton, OH)

1599 book ban
In 1599, the Archbishop of Canterbury John Whitgift and the Bishop of London Richard Bancroft, whose offices had the function of licensing books for publication in England, issued a decree banning verse satire. The decree, now known as the Bishops' Ban of 1599, ordered the burning of certain volumes of satire by John Marston, Thomas Middleton, Joseph Hall, and others; it also required histories and plays to be specially approved by a member of the Queen's Privy Council, and it prohibited the future printing of satire in verse.[138]
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The motives for the ban are obscure, particularly since some of the books banned had been licensed by the same authorities less than a year earlier. Various scholars have argued that the target was obscenity, libel, or sedition. It seems likely that lingering anxiety about the Martin Marprelate controversy, in which the bishops themselves had employed satirists, played a role; both Thomas Nashe and Gabriel Harvey, two of the key figures in that controversy, suffered a complete ban on all their works. In the event, though, the ban was little enforced, even by the licensing authority itself.
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21st-century polemics
In 2005, the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy caused global protests by offended Muslims and violent attacks with many fatalities in the Near East. It was not the first case of Muslim protests against criticism in the form of satire, but the Western world was surprised by the hostility of the reaction: Any country's flag in which a newspaper chose to publish the parodies was being burnt in a Near East country, then embassies were attacked, killing 139 people in mainly four countries; politicians throughout Europe agreed that satire was an aspect of the freedom of speech, and therefore to be a protected means of dialogue. Iran threatened to start an International Holocaust Cartoon Competition, which was immediately responded to by Jews with an Israeli Anti-Semitic Cartoons Contest.
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In 2006 British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen released Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, a "mockumentary" that satirized everyone, from high society to frat boys. The film was criticized by many. Although Baron Cohen is Jewish, some complained that it was antisemitic, and the government of Kazakhstan boycotted the film. The film itself had been a reaction to a longer quarrel between the government and the comedian.
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In 2008, popular South African cartoonist and satirist Jonathan Shapiro (who is published under the pen name Zapiro) came under fire for depicting then-president of the ANC Jacob Zuma in the act of undressing in preparation for the implied rape of 'Lady Justice' which is held down by Zuma loyalists.[139] The cartoon was drawn in response to Zuma's efforts to duck corruption charges, and the controversy was heightened by the fact that Zuma was himself acquitted of rape in May 2006. In February 2009, the South African Broadcasting Corporation, viewed by some opposition parties as the mouthpiece of the governing ANC,[140] shelved a satirical TV show created by Shapiro,[141] and in May 2009 the broadcaster pulled a documentary about political satire (featuring Shapiro among others) for the second time, hours before scheduled broadcast.[142] Apartheid South Africa also had a long history of censorship.
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On December 29, 2009, Samsung sued Mike Breen, and the Korea Times for $1 million, claiming criminal defamation over a satirical column published on Christmas Day, 2009.[143][144]
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On April 29, 2015, the UK Independence Party (UKIP) requested Kent Police investigate the BBC, claiming that comments made about Party leader Nigel Farage by a panelist on the comedy show Have I Got News For You might hinder his chances of success in the general election (which would take place a week later), and claimed the BBC breached the Representation of the People Act.[145] Kent Police rebuffed the request to open an investigation, and the BBC released a statement, "Britain has a proud tradition of satire, and everyone knows that the contributors on Have I Got News for You regularly make jokes at the expense of politicians of all parties."[145]
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Satirical prophecy
Satire is occasionally prophetic: the jokes precede actual events.[146][147] Among the eminent examples are:
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The 1784 presaging of modern daylight saving time, later actually proposed in 1907. While an American envoy to France, Benjamin Franklin anonymously published a letter in 1784 suggesting that Parisians economise on candles by arising earlier to use morning sunlight.[148]
In the 1920s, an English cartoonist imagined a laughable thing for the time: a hotel for cars. He drew a multi-story car park.[147]
The second episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, which debuted in 1969, featured a sketch entitled "The Mouse Problem" (meant to satirize contemporary media exposés on homosexuality), which depicted a cultural phenomenon similar to some aspects of the modern furry fandom (which did not become widespread until the 1980s, over a decade after the sketch was first aired).
The comedy film Americathon, released in 1979 and set in the United States of 1998, predicted a number of trends and events that would eventually unfold in the near future, including an American debt crisis, Chinese capitalism, the fall of the Soviet Union, terrorism aimed at the civilian population, a presidential sex scandal, and the popularity of reality shows.
In January 2001, a satirical news article in The Onion, entitled "Our Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity Is Finally Over"[149] had newly elected President George Bush vowing to "develop new and expensive weapons technologies" and to "engage in at least one Gulf War-level armed conflict in the next four years". Furthermore, he would "bring back economic stagnation by implementing substantial tax cuts, which would lead to a recession". This prophesied the Iraq War, the Bush tax cuts, and the Great Recession.
In 1975, the first episode of Saturday Night Live included an ad for a triple blade razor called the Triple-Trac; in 2001, Gillette introduced the Mach3. In 2004, The Onion satirized Schick and Gillette's marketing of ever-increasingly multi-blade razors with a mock article proclaiming Gillette will now introduce a five-blade razor.[150] In 2006, Gillette released the Gillette Fusion, a five-blade razor.
After the Iran nuclear deal in 2015, The Onion ran an article with the headline "U.S. Soothes Upset Netanyahu With Shipment Of Ballistic Missiles". Sure enough, reports broke the next day of the Obama administration offering military upgrades to Israel in the wake of the deal.[151]
In July 2016, The Simpsons released the most recent in a string of satirical references to a potential Donald Trump presidency (although the first was made back in a 2000 episode.) Other media sources, including the popular film Back to the Future Part II have also made similar satirical references.[152]
Satire celebration
In June 2019, Punocracy, Nigeria's foremost satire platform organised a nationwide writing competition for youth in the country with the objective to make satire a widely accepted and understood tool of socio-political commentary.[153] Some of the entries addressed issues like gender violence, political corruption, religious hypocrisy, internet fraud, educational decay and so on.[154] The group also declared November 9 as World Satire Day with the idea of "trying to fight against the ills in the society not by ammunition but by humour, sarcasm etcetera".[155]
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See also
Cringe comedy
Culture jamming
Freedom of the press
List of satirists and satires
Mockumentary
News satire
Onomasti komodein
Parody religion
Stupidedia
Satiric misspellings
Satires (disambiguation)
Notes
The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London, the censors of the press, issued Orders to the Stationers' Company on June 1 and 4, 1599, prohibiting the further printing of satires—the so-called 'Bishop's Ban'.[85][page needed]
References
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Frye, Northrup (1957). Anatomy of Criticism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP. p. 222. ISBN 0-691-06004-5.
Claridge, Claudia (2010) Hyperbole in English: A Corpus-based Study of Exaggeration p.257
Kharpertian, Theodore D (1990), "Thomas Pynchon and Postmodern American Satire", in Kharpertian (ed.), A hand to turn the time: the Menippean satires of Thomas Pynchon, pp. 25–7, ISBN 9780838633618
Branham 1997, p. xxiv.
Ullman, BL (1913), "Satura and Satire", Classical Philology, 8 (2): 172–194, doi:10.1086/359771, JSTOR 262450, The Renaissance confusion of the two origins encouraged a satire more aggressive than that of its Roman forebearers
Antonia Szabari (2009) Less Rightly Said: Scandals and Readers in Sixteenth-Century France p.2
"Forecast". Galaxy Science Fiction. June 1968. p. 113.
Corum 2002, p. 175.
"Ig", Improbable
Rosenberg, Harold (1960), "Community, Values, Comedy", Commentary, The American Jewish Committee, 30: 155, the oldest form of social study is comedy... If the comedian, from Aristophanes to Joyce, does not solve sociology's problem of "the participant observer", he does demonstrate his objectivity by capturing behavior in its most intimate aspects yet in its widest typicality. Comic irony sets whole cultures side by side in a multiple exposure (e.g., Don Quixote, Ulysses), causing valuation to spring out of the recital of facts alone, in contrast to the hidden editorializing of tongue-in-cheek ideologists.
Deloria, Vine (1969), "Indian humor", Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto, p. 146, Irony and satire provide much keener insights into a group's collective psyche and values than do years of [conventional] research as quoted in Ryan, Allan J (1999), The trickster shift: humour and irony in contemporary native art, p. 9, ISBN 9780774807043
Nash, Roderick Frazier (1970), "21. The New Humor", The Call of the Wild: 1900–1916, p. 203, Humor is one of the best indicators of popular thought. To ask what strikes a period as funny is to probe its deepest values and tastes.
Babcock, Barbara A. (1984), "Arrange Me Into Disorder: Fragments and Reflections on Ritual Clowning", in MacAloon (ed.), Rite, Drama, Festival, Spectacle. Also collected as Babcock, Barbara A Grimes (1996), Ronald, L (ed.), Readings in ritual studies, p. 5, Harold Rosenberg has asserted that sociology needs to bring comedy into the foreground, including "an awareness of the comedy of sociology with its disguises", and, like Burke and Duncan, he has argued that comedy provides "the radical effect of self- knowledge which the anthropological bias excludes.
Coppola, Jo (1958), "An Angry Young Magazine ...", The Realist (1), Good comedy is social criticism—although you might find that hard to believe if all you ever saw were some of the so-called clowns of videoland.... Comedy is dying today because criticism is on its deathbed... because telecasters, frightened by the threats and pressure of sponsors, blacklists and viewers, helped introduce conformity to this age... In such a climate, comedy cannot flourish. For comedy is, after all, a look at ourselves, not as we pretend to be when we look in the mirror of our imagination, but as we really are. Look at the comedy of any age and you will know volumes about that period and its people which neither historian nor anthropologist can tell you.
Coppola, Jo (December 12, 1958). Comedy on Television. Commonweal. p. 288.
Willi, Andreas (2003), The Languages of Aristophanes: Aspects of Linguistic Variation in Classical Attic Greek, Oxford University Press, pp. 1–2, ISBN 9780199262649
Ehrenberg, Victor (1962), The people of Aristophanes: a sociology of old Attic comedy, p. 39
Bevere, Antonio and Cerri, Augusto (2006) Il Diritto di informazione e i diritti della persona pp.265–6 quotation:
nella storia della nostra cultura, la satira ha realizzato il bisogno popolare di irridere e dissacrare il gotha politico ed economico, le cui reazioni punitive non sono certo state condizionate da critiche estetiche, ma dalla tolleranza o intolleranza caratterizzanti in quel momento storico la società e i suoi governanti. (...) la reale esistenza della satira in una società deriva, (...) dal margine di tolleranza espresso dai poteri punitivi dello Stato.
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Amy Wiese Forbes (2010) The Satiric Decade: Satire and the Rise of Republicanism in France, 1830–1840 p.xv, quotation:
a critical public discourse (...) Satire rose the daunting question of what role public opinion would play in government. (...) satirists criticized government activities, exposed ambiguities, and forced administrators to clarify or establish policies. Not surprisingly, heated public controversy surrounded satiric commentary, resulting in an outright ban on political satire in 1835 (...) Government officials cracked down on their humorous public criticism that challenged state authority through both its form and content. Satire had been a political resource in France for a long time, but the anxious political context of the July Monarchy had unlocked its political power. Satire also taught lessons in democracy. It fit into the July Monarchy's tense political context as a voice in favor of public political debate. Satiric expression took place in the public sphere and spoke from a position of public opinion-that is, from a position of the nation’s expressing a political voice and making claims on its government representatives and leadership. Beyond mere entertainment, satire's humor appealed to and exercised public opinion, drawing audiences into new practices of representative government.
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Knight, Charles A. (2004) Literature of Satire p.254
Test (1991) p.9 quotation:
A surprising variety of societies have allowed certain persons the freedom to mock other individuals and social institutions in rituals. From the earliest times the same freedom has been claimed by and granted to social groups at certain times of the year, as can be seen in such festivals as the Saturnalia, the Feast of Fools, Carnival, and similar folk festivals in India, nineteenth-century Newfoundland, and the ancient Mediterranean world.
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Test (1991) pp.8–9
Cazeneuve (1957) p.244-5 quotation:
Ils constituent donc pour la tribu un moyen de donner une satisfaction symbolique aux tendances anti-sociales. Les Zunis, précisément parce qu'ils sont un peuple apollinien [où la règle prédomine], avaient besoin de cette soupape de sûreté. Les Koyemshis représentent ce que M. Caillois nomme le « Sacré de transgression ».
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Durand (1984) p.106 quotation:
Déjà Cazeneuve (2) [Les dieux dansent à Cibola] avait mis auparavant en relief, dans la Société « apollinienne » des Zuñi, l'institution et le symbolisme saturnal des clowns Koyemshis, véritable soupape de sûreté « dionysienne ».
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Yatsko, V, Russian folk funny stories
Corum (2002) p.163
David Worcester (1968) The Art of Satire p.16
Müller, Rolf Arnold (1973). Komik und Satire (in German). Zürich: Juris-Verlag. p. 92. ISBN 978-3-260-03570-8.
"What Is Horatian Satire?". wiseGEEK.
"Satire Terms". nku.edu.
Sharma, Raja (2011). "Comedy" in New Light-Literary Studies.
Patricia, Green. "The Golden Age of Satire: Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift" (PDF).
"What Is Juvenalian Satire?". wiseGEEK.
"Satire Examples and Definition". Literary Devices.
"Satire in Literature: Definition, Types & Examples". Education Portal.
Fo (1990) p.9 quotation:
Nella storia del teatro si ritrova sempre questo conflitto in cui si scontrano impegno e disimpegno ... grottesco, satirico e lazzo con sfottò. E spesso vince lo sfotto. tanto amato dal potere. Quando si dice che il potere ama la satira
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Eastman, Max (1936), "IV. Degrees of Biting", Enjoyment of Laughter, pp. 236–43
Fo, Dario; Lorch, Jennifer (1997), Dario Fo, p. 128, ISBN 9780719038488, In other writings Fo makes an important distinction between sfottò and satire.
Fo (1990) pp.2–3
... Una caricatura che, è ovvio, risulta del tutto bonaria, del tutto epidermica, che indica, come dicevo prima, soltanto la parte più esteriore del loro carattere, i tic la cui messa in risalto non lede assolutamente l'operato, l'ideologia, la morale e la dimensione culturale di questi personaggi. ... ricordando che i politici provano un enorme piacere nel sentirsi presi in giro; è quasi un premio che si elargisce loro, nel momento stesso in cui li si sceglie per essere sottoposti alla caricatura, a quella caricatura. ... Di fatto questa è una forma di comicità che non si può chiamare satira, ma solo sfottò. ... Pensa quanti pretesti satirici si offrirebbero se solo quei comici del "Biberon" volessero prendere in esame il modo in cui questi personaggi gestiscono il potere e lo mantengono, o si decidessero a gettare l'occhio sulle vere magagne di questa gente, le loro violenze più o meno mascherate, le loro arroganze e soprattutto le loro ipocrisie. ...un teatro cabaret capostipite: il Bagaglino, un teatro romano che, già vent'anni fa, si metteva in una bella chiave politica dichiaratamente di estrema destra, destra spudoratamente reazionaria, scopertamente fascista. Nelle pieghe del gruppo del Bagaglino e del suo lavoro c'era sempre la caricatura feroce dell'operaio, del sindacalista, del comunista, dell'uomo di sinistra, e una caricatura bonacciona invece, e ammiccante, accattivante, degli uomini e della cultura al potere
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Fo (1990) quotation:
L'ironia fatta sui tic, sulla caricatura dei connotati più o meno grotteschi dei politici presi di mira, dei loro eventuali difetti fisici, della loro particolare pronuncia, dei loro vezzi, del loro modo di vestire, del loro modo di camminare, delle frasi tipiche che vanno ripetendo. ...[lo sfottò è] una chiave buffonesca molto antica, che viene di lontano, quella di giocherellare con gli attributi esteriori e non toccare mai il problema di fondo di una critica seria che è l'analisi messa in grottesco del comportamento, la valutazione ironica della posizione, dell'ideologia del personaggio.
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Arroyo, José Luís Blas; Casanova, Mónica Velando (2006), Discurso y sociedad: contribuciones al estudio de la lengua en..., 1, pp. 303–4, ISBN 9788480215381
Morson, Gary Saul (1988), Boundaries of Genre, p. 114, ISBN 9780810108110, second, that parodies can be, as Bakhtin observes, "shallow" as well as "deep" (Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics, 160), which is to say, directed at superficial as well as fundamental faults of the original. [...] the distinction between shallow and deep [...] [is] helpful in understanding the complex ways in which parodies are used. For instance, shallow parody is sometimes used to pay an author an indirect compliment. The opposite of damning with faint praise, this parody with faint criticism may be designed to show that no more fundamental criticism could be made.
Luttazzi, Daniele (2005), Matrix, IT, archived from the original on December 25, 2005, Dario Fo disse a Satyricon: —La satira vera si vede dalla reazione che suscita.
Luttazzi, Daniele (October 2003), Fracassi, Federica; Guerriero, Jacopo (eds.), "State a casa a fare i compiti" (interview), Nazione Indiana (in Italian), Lo sfottò è reazionario. Non cambia le carte in tavola, anzi, rende simpatica la persona presa di mira. La Russa, oggi, è quel personaggio simpatico, con la voce cavernosa, il doppiatore dei Simpson di cui Fiorello fa l’imitazione. Nessuno ricorda più il La Russa picchiatore fascista. Nessuno ricorda gli atti fascisti e reazionari di questo governo in televisione.
Kremer, S Lillian (2003), Holocaust Literature: Agosín to Lentin, p. 100, ISBN 9780415929837
Lipman, Stephen ‘Steve’ (1991), Laughter in hell: the use of humour during the Holocaust, Northvale, NJ: J Aronson, p. 40
Clark (1991) pp.116–8 quotation:
...religion, politics, and sexuality are the primary stuff of literary satire. Among these sacret targets, matters costive and defecatory play an important part. ... from the earliest times, satirists have utilized scatological and bathroom humor. Aristophanes, always livid and nearly scandalous in his religious, political, and sexual references...
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Clark, John R; Motto, Anna Lydia (1973), Satire–that blasted art, p. 20
Clark, John R; Motto, Anna Lydia (1980), "Menippeans & Their Satire: Concerning Monstrous Leamed Old Dogs and Hippocentaurs", Scholia Satyrica, 6 (3/4): 45, [Chapple's book Soviet satire of the twenties]... classifying the very topics his satirists satirized: housing, food, and fuel supplies, poverty, inflation, "hooliganism", public services, religion, stereotypes of nationals (the Englishman, German, &c), &c. Yet the truth of the matter is that no satirist worth his salt (Petronius, Chaucer, Rabelais, Swift, Leskov, Grass) ever avoids man's habits and living standards, or scants those delicate desiderata: religion, politics, and sex.
Ferdie Addis (2012) Qual è il tuo "tallone da killer"? p.20
Hodgart (2009) ch 2 The topics of satire: politics p.33
The most pressing of the problems that face us when we close the book or leave the theatre are ultimately political ones; and so politics is the pre-eminent topic of satire. ...to some degree public affairs vex every man, if he pays taxes, does military service or even objects to the way his neighbour is behaving. There is no escape from politics where more than a dozen people are living together.
There is an essential connection between satire and politics in the widest sense: satire is not only the commonest form of political literature, but, insofar as it tries to influence public behaviours, it is the most political part of all literature.
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BRAINY QUOTES
SATIRE
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
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Voltaire
Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.
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Molly Ivins
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
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James Thurber
The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
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Anthony Trollope
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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Alexander Pope
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Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.
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Lenny Bruce
Satire doesn't effect change.
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P. J. O'Rourke
I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar.
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Molly Ivins
Rush Limbaugh's pathetic abuse of logic, his absurd pomposity, his relentless self-promotion, his ridiculous ego - now those, friends, are appropriate targets for satire.
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Molly Ivins
Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel.
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Molly Ivins
You can't debate satire. Either you get it or you don't.
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Michael Moore
It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.
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John Oliver
When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar.
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Molly Ivins
Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy.
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Stephen Colbert
I started off at the Second City in Chicago... It's an improvisational theater that ostensibly does social and political satire, but when I was there, we generally didn't. We did character work, and we did just the silliest things we could think of. We weren't all that concerned with, you know, changing the world through mime.
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Stephen Colbert
I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin. If that ever happens, it's only because something happened during the interview that got me going, and then I had to translate my feelings to the mouth of the character.
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Stephen Colbert
I have never knowingly, I swear to God, written satire. The word connotes exaggeration of the foibles of mankind. To me, mankind just has foibles. You don't have to push it!
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Tom Wolfe
We never dealt with satire or suggestive material. Although some of our films were broad parodies or burlesques of popular dramatic themes, there was no conscious attempt at being either sarcastic or offensive.
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Stan Laurel
If you're going to give people 20 minutes of news satire, you've also got to give them Tiffani-Amber Thiessen or you're going to have rioting in the streets.
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Jon Stewart
The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
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Anthony Trollope
When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever.
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Dita Von Teese
The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.
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I. F. Stone
You know what my earliest memories are? Going from one burlesque town to another. My father was in burlesque.
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Alan Alda
Every one of my products - my lingerie, my perfume, and everything that I do beauty-related with regard to building my burlesque shows - is just me.
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Dita Von Teese
The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion.
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Pedro Almodovar
Me personally, I want to entertain people above all. When you look back at burlesque in history and the real golden age of burlesque, those entertainers were there to entertain, and there wasn't usually some big political message behind what they were doing.
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Dita Von Teese
Bip is the romantic and burlesque hero for our time. Bip is a modern-day Don Quixote.
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Marcel Marceau
In the early '90s, it was grunge; everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the biggest artists in the world, never wore makeup, wearing Doc Marten boots, and then the Spice Girls turn up, and suddenly it all looks a bit burlesque; suddenly they're the biggest band in the world.
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Caitlin Moran
I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.
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Christina Aguilera
Objectivity is almost a choice you make. As a burlesque performer, I didn't choose to be objectified.
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Esme Bianco
Burlesque girls were alchemists. They were steel-tough performers who were willing to use kitchens as dressing rooms, haul their costume bags through the snow, and go into debt over fake diamonds, all for the five minutes onstage when they were goddesses.
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Molly Crabapple
I was performing in this burlesque group, and we would go to dance rehearsals every day. You'd use every part of your body. Even though some of it is slow, it takes a lot of muscle to be able to dip down and come back up.
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Carmen Electra
Burlesque dancing didn't solve all my post-divorce problems, but what it did do was force me to court myself for a little while.
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Emily V. Gordon
Some of the pictures I must say every now and then I just think are going to be funny. When it gets that much, you might as well just pull out all the stops and make it more of a burlesque.
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Martin Mull
The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy.
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Dawn Powell
I've always had a love affair with New York City, and I've threatened to get an apartment there one day. But it just made sense for me to set 'Burlesque' on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. It's a place I know intimately well and love, and I think there's a great story to be told with L.A.
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Steve Antin

The influence of Italian families and syndicates affiliated with organised crime is said to have been entrenched in the underworld of Australia's east coast since the 1930's.
The Australian based group of Mafia-style Italian criminals is known as the Honoured Society.
Other names bestowed on them have included the 'Black Hand'.
In Calabrian parlance, the Honoured Society was referred to as L'Onorata or N'Dranghita.
Mob related extortion in Queenslands cane fields in the 1930's is generally seen as the birth of Mafia style corruption in Australia.
Within the fruit and vegetable industry, Calabrian immigrants had received considerable assistance from the Honoured Society. In turn they were indebted, often for life.
While drugs, particularly marijuana, have become a huge money spinner for the Society, its role in primary production is very strong.
Society members have been able to use their agricultural skills to grow crops as well as using their place in the fruit and vegetable industry to transport and distribute the drug.
In Victoria, the Society moved heavily into the production and distribution of fruit and vegetables.
The Society had the huge Queen Victoria Market, known as the "Melbourne Market", sown up.
Outsiders had very little chance of getting a in whole those of Calabrian, and more generally, Italian extraction were given help getting started, provided they obeyed the Society's rules.
American organised crime investigator John. T. Cusack was summoned to Australia by local police to see if he could help them improve their insight into the Honoured society.
Before returning to the US on August 11, 1964, he reported, among other things, that there were five established rules within the Society.
Aid was to be extended to a member no matter what the circumstances.
There was to be absolute obedience to the officers of the society.
An offence against an an individual member was an attack on the Society and must be avenged.
No member will turn to a government agency for justice.
Omerta, the code of silence, must always be obeyed. No member was to reveal any of the organisations secrets. 'They realise in silence there is security while testimony against a Society member can bring death', Cusack said.
Domenico Italiano (Godfather died December 1962) Domenico was known as 'Il Papa', or 'the Pope' and was the Godfather of Melbourne's Honoured Society.
He was the father in law of notorious hit-man, Michele Scriva, Vincenzo Muratore was his trusted lieutenant and Antonio Barbara, his right hand man.
Domenico Italiano died peacefully of old age in his West Melbourne home in December 1962.
His funeral was held at St. Mary's Star, of the Sea.
Antonio Barbara (Died 1963) 'The Toad', as Antonio Barbara was known, had served five years jail for killing a woman near Queen Victoria market in 1936. Soon after the December 1962 death of Domenico Italiano, Barbara, another senior member of the society died.
He was Italiano's right hand man and was well known for violence.
His death, on the heels of Italiano's, left a huge hole in the upper echelons of the Honoured Society.
Vincenzo Angiletta (Shot dead April 1963) Angiletta was a gunman who migrated to Australia in 1951.
He became a producer of fruit and vegetables for the Society.
Angiletta wanted the Society to be like the Sicilian Mafia in the United States and called for extortion rackets to include non- Italians.
This was rejected by Domenico Demarte (below) and other Society elders.
Angiletta reacted to this snub by refusing to sell his produce to designated wholesalers and going direct to the public. He was warned but refused to conform.
Angiletta was stabbed once on Society orders but still refused to return to the fold. He was then kidnapped and covered in excrement at Woodend.
He vowed revenge and began his own group called La Bastarda- the Bastard Society and recruited 300 members.
Angiletta sold his market garden in Kew to a Greek family rather than a designated Calabrian Family. It is believed that Angiletta then became a marked man and he carrying a pistol.
In the early hours of April 4, 1963, Angiletta, by then employed as a cleaner, was hit twice in the head by shotgun fire as he parked his car in the garage of his Stafford Street, Northcote home at 2.30am.
Friends of Angletta blamed Demarte and Vincenzo Muratore.
Domenico Demarte (Shot November 1963) In 1963, Demarte became head of the Society after Domenico Italliano died. Demarte, notorious hitman Michele Scriva and Domenico Pezzimenti were charged with the murder of Giuseppe "Fat Joe" Versace in what was probably Victoria's first Mafia hit.
Versace was stabbed 91 times in Fitzroy.
The trio were acquitted.
A market commission agent, Demarte experienced problems when a rival faction emerged within the Society.
This was led by Vincenzo Angiletta who was shot dead soon after.
A close associate of Liborio Benvenuto's, Rosario "Ross" Gangemi served alongside Liborio Benvenuto from the 1960s to the 1980s, possibly as his deputy.
He was named by Italian police as ordering the Angiletta murder.
Among the international experts brought to Victoria to help investigate the killings was Italian police assistant commissioner Dr Ugo Macera.
He produced a still-secret report implicating Gangemi in the death of Angilletta.
The Macera Report, which has been seen by the Herald Sun, said: "Vincenzo Angilletta's murder is the classic example of a killing decided by the mafia."
Canberra mafia cell boss Pasquale "Il Principale" Barbaro, who became a police informer in 1989 and was murdered the following year, was secretly taped by detectives naming Gangemi as one of Melbourne's Calabrian mafia bosses.
A confidential 1991 Victoria Police report named Gangemi as one of the top 10 mafiosi in the state.
That same year, the Australian Bureau of Criminal Intelligence identified Gangemi as one of the top 30 Italian organised crime bosses in the country.
Police intelligence files show he remained a respected and influential member until his death.
On June 28, 2008, Gangemi died of natural causes, aged 86, in Coburg's John Fawkner Hospital.
His death enabled the Herald Sun to finally reveal Gangemi's high standing in the mafia.
Angiletta's allies blamed Demarte and Alfonse Muratore.
Demarte was shot at and wounded by a shotgun blast while leaving his Chapman Street, North Melbourne home to go to market at 3.30am on November 26, 1963.
The shooters were believed to have been two relatives of Angiletta.
Demarte survived but decided to forgo his position in the Honoured Society.
Vincenzo Muratore (Shot dead January 1964) Vincenzo had been a trusted lieutenant of 'Godfather' Domenico Italiano.
He was Domenico Demarte's financial advisor when Demarte took over as Melbourne's 'Godfather' after the deaths of Domenico Italiano and Antonio Barbara in 1962 and 1963.
Vince was a prominent market merchant and commission agent and the father of Alfonso Muratore, shot dead in 1992.
Vincenzo was killed with a shotgun outside his Avondale Street, Hampton home on the way to a supermarket at 2.30am on January 16, 1964.
This was allegedly a payback for the Vincenzo Angiletta murder in April 1963.
He was said to have been killed by two male relatives of Angilletta, one who escaped to Italy after the killing.
Antonio Monaco (Shot dead January 1964) Monaco was a market seller.
He was shot dead on January 18, 1964, two days after Vincenzo Muratore's murder.
Monaco was leaving his Dandenong Road, Braeside home at about 2.30am.
The attack allegedly involved three men as a payback over a domestic dispute.
Domenico Cirillo (Shot February 1964) Cirillo was a fruit and vegetable retailer.
He was wounded with a shotgun blast when leaving his Ardmillan Road, Moonee Pond home for market at 4.30am on February 6, 1964.
Two people are said to have been involved in the attack which came about as the result of domestic and financial dispute.
Rocco Medici - Giuseppe Furina (Found dead May 1984) Medici (left) was a close associate of godfather Liborio Benvenuto.
He was found tortured near the Murrumbidgee River with brother in law Giuseppe Furina on May 6, 1984.
Medici and Furina (left) were both from the Melbourne suburb of East Keilor and were associates of Laurence Sumner, one of Victoria's most notorious criminals. Sumner was said to have supplied the bomb which took out Liborio Benvenuto's land cruiser and it has been alleged that Medici and Furina were killed as payback for the explosion.
One of the men had his ear sliced off, a supposed mafia warning to others that the victim had "heard too much".
Liborio Benvenuto was godfather to one of the Medici family and was a close friend of Furina.
The murders were never solved.
Sumner was an associate of several Italian crime figures and a close friend of "The Friendly Godfather" Giuseppe 'Joe' Arena.
He was gunned down in his Bayswater home in 1988.
Giuseppe Sofra (Shot June 1985) Soffra was a green grocer
He was shot three times in the back of his legs at his Springvale Road fruit shop on June 19, 1985.
The shop was owned by Anotonio Madafferi.
The shootings were said to have been related to a price cutting war in the area and a warning to the two men.
Liborio Benvenuto (Godfather died - May 1988) Liborio was born in Calabria on December 15, 1927.
Involved in the fruit and vegetable industry, he was the son of a man reputed to be 'in charge' of several Calabrian villages.
Benvenuto has been described as a small and dapper fellow.
He was a close associate of Joe Arena who was shot dead in 1988 and the father of Frank Benvenuto, shot dead on May 8, 2000.
Liborio rose to prominence following the 1963-64 market murders of Muratore and Angiletta and became the undisputed Godfather of Melbourne.
Benvenuto's right hand man was Michele Scriva.
He was married to a daughter of Domenico Italiano.
Scriva'a son, Tom, married one of Benvenuto's daughters.
Benvenuto was the father-in-law of Vincenzo Muratore (killed during the wars in 1964).
His daughter was married to Vincenzo's son, Alfonso (killed in 1992), until he left her.
Police at one stage investigated allegations that Benvenuto was involved in moving marijuana from Griffith to Melbourne.
A truck had been driven from Griffith with fruit and vegetables concealing the marijuana.
The truck would be parked in Carlton and the key left above the front tyre.
A second driver would drive the truck to a secret spot, remove the marijuana and return the vehicle.
The original driver would then take it to the market.
On May 10, 1983, Benvenuto's four wheel drive was blown up at the market. No one was hurt. A shotgun was found in the car.
Benvenuto said at the time: "I have no enemies, only friends at the market. "I don't know why anyone would do this at all. "I have never done anyone any harm."
In 1984, the bodies of close-associates Rocco Medici and Giuseppe Furina were found in the Murrumbidgee River, believed by some to be a payback for the bomb.
One of the men had his ear sliced off, a supposed mafia warning to others that the victim had "heard too much".
Benvenuto was godfather to one of the Medici family and was a close friend of Furina.
The murders were never solved.
An astute and experienced criminal, Laurence Joseph Sumner, is rumoured to have helped plant the bomb.
Sumner was also believed to have supplied the gun which was used to kill Joe Arena although it has also been said the pair were close friends.
Sumner was later involved in amphetamines and caught in a speed lab at his home in 1991.
He then became an informant into one of Melbourne's biggest drug cartels.
Liborio Benvenuto died of natural causes in May 1988.
He had not considered son Frank a worthy successor and close associate Giuseppe "Joe" Arena" was summonsed to Benvenuto's Beaumauris home where discussions were held about him becoming head of the organization.
But on his death bed Liborio Benvenuto anointed son-in-law, Alfonso Muratore as Godfather.
After the death of Benvenuto some merchants decided they had had enough of 'paying'.
Some even employed Australian gangsters as a show of strength.
In a shock move however Muratore declined the offer and the next year left his wife, Liborio's daughter, Angela, for mistress Karen Mansfield.
Muratore was shot dead outside his Hampton home it 1992.
An inquest heard allegations that Frank Benvenuto (left) took out a contract of Muratore's life for snubbing the Honoured Society and his family but was never charged.
Frank Benvenuto was shot dead in May 2000.
Giuseppe "Joe" Arena's ascension never came to pass and a rival faction murdered him outside his Bona Vista Rd, Bayswater, home on August 1, 1988, six weeks after Benvenuto had died.
Arena was shot from behind with a shotgun, the traditional Honoured Society method of death with dishonour. The killing happened shortly after he and his wife came home from a wedding in Footscray.
Dominic "Mick" Gatto was considered a prime suspect but later spoke out and denied the allegations vehemently.
Giuseppe 'Joe' Arena (Shot dead August 1988) Joe was known as the friendly Godfather.
He was a close associate of Liborio Benvenuto, undisputed Godfather of Melbourne.
It had been suggested by Liborio that Arena would take over after his impending death.
This never came to pass.
Arena was murdered in the backyard of his Bayswater home on August 1, 1988, a few months after Liborio had died.
It has been said he was killed on the instructions of a rival as he was seen as a possible successor as Honoured Society leader.
Former boxer and current building industry identity, Dominic "Mick" Gatto was considered a prime suspect but later spoke out and denied the allegations vehemently.
Michele Scriva Michele was born in Reggio Calabria on June 19, 1919 and migrated to Australia in 1936.
Scriva, a notorious hit-man, was the right hand man for Liborio Benvenuto.
The pair were related through marriage. Michele was married to a daughter of Domenico Italiano and his son Tom married one of Benvenuto's daughters.
Scriva was a stall holder at Melbourne's fruit and vegetable markets and in 1945 was acquitted of murdering Giuseppe "Fat Joe" Versace in what was probably Victoria's first Mafia hit.
Versace was stabbed 91 times in Fitzroy.
Scriva was charged with murder and stood trial along with Domenico Demarte and Domenico Pezzimenti.
They were all acquitted.
Scriva was later sentenced to hang for murdering Frederick John Duffy to death in North Melbourne in 1950.
Duffy, 36, attempted to intervene in a fight and was stabbed to death.
Scriva's sentence was subsequently commuted to life imprisonment but he only served 10 years.
In May 1989, Michele Scriva died a respected elderly Italian gentleman.
Deaths lead to changing of the guard The deaths of Scriva, Arena and Benvenuto left a power vacuum.
The job of running the Honoured Society in Victoria was given to three men.
They were a retailer, who ran a successful inner suburban business, a fruiterer, who was also a property developer, and the son of a man connected with the 1963-64 Market Wars.
John Vasilopolous (Shot December 1990) In 1989 a senior executive with retailer Coles-Myer called for an investigation into the mafia-style kick backs which seemed to becoming more prevalent at the fruit and vegetable market.
He employed John Vasilopolous to head an internal investigation.
Vasipolous severely rocked the system that the Honoured society had in place. He refused to pay bribes and also deemed some of the fruit to be of an unacceptable quality.
While this was happening, Coles manager Robert Desfosses was seriously assaulted by two men in the carpark of the Sunshine Fruit and Vegetable Distribution Centre on June 18, 1990.
In the same month the wife of Coles fruit and vegetable buyer Terry Hoskin received a call at her home claiming she would be going to her husband's funeral within a week.
Then in August 1990 Coles buyer Paul Rizza received an STD call at his home warning him, "You better watch your back."
The motive for this was aid to have been a direct attack on the efforts of Coles-Myer to clean up "corrupt market practices."
Then in November 1990, internal investigator John Vasilopolous received a number of threatening phone calls.
More of these calls were made to other investigators and Coles management in early December.
John Vasilopolous was blasted by a shotgun as he answered a knock at the door of his Ivanhoe home on December 19, 1990.
A man with an Australian accent who claimed to be 'Tony' shot him in the stomach.
Vasilopolous survived but resigned from his position.
Trouble continues for fruiterers (1991) On March 26, 1991, Cheltenham fruiterer, Armedeo Di Gregorio was ambushed and robbed of $4000.
On May 16, 1991, another Cheltenham fruiter, Jack Degillio was ambushed and robbed of $1000 outside his home.
On June 8, 1991, arson caused $100,000 damage to Central Fruit Market in Bentleigh. The premises was doused with kerosene and set alight.
Antonio Peluso (Shot dead June 1991) Peluso was a Glen Waverly Fruiterer.
He was ambushed and shot several times as he left his home on the way to the market. He died on the veranda of his home.
Peluso was robbed of $4000 but said to be carrying $7000.
More trouble for fruiterers (1991)
On June 27, 1991, East Doncaster Fruiterer, Tabaret Louey was bashed by two men and robbed of $2000 on the way to the market.
On July 3, 1991, Wantirna South fruiterer, Phillip Strati, was bashed and robbed of $5000 outside his home.
On August 5 1991, there was an attempt to blow up the Central Fruit Market after explosives were planted on the roof.
Petrol was added but failed to ignite.
On November 20, 1991 a similar attempt on the Central Market also failed.
Santo Ippolito (Beaten to death December 1991) Ippolito was a retired fruiterer.
He was battered to death by a man who smashed his was into the victim's Springvale home on Christman Eve in 1991.
Ippolito and his wife were in bed after a family barbeque.
There were no demands and nothing was stolen.
A man had broken down Ippolito's front door, entered the bedroom and began beating him with an iron bar.
Ippolito's wife turned the light on but did not recognise the killer. She too was bashed.
Ippolito died in hospital the next day.
The 71 year-old, was president of an RSL club and it was said that a dispute there lead to a hitman being paid to kill Ippolito.
On February 29, 1992 a Melbourne market fruiterer and his wife were pistol whipped and robbed of $5000 at their Wandin home by two masked men.
Robert Nancarrow (Beaten to death March 1992) Robert was the founder of the Nancarrow supermarket chain.
He was beaten to death in his Northcote shop and drowned in his own blood on March 2, 1992. The motive was assumed to be robbery.
Costa rings in It was then that big-time Geelong fruiterer Costa's Pty Ltd was called in by Coles-Myer.
They were seen as very trustworthy and reputable.
This was successful to a degree with company head and now Geelong Football Club President Frank Costa, appearing on ABC-TV's Four Corners program.
He spoke out against the corruption and spoke of the fear many fruiterers had for their lives.
On July 19, 1992, Alfonso Muratore and Orlando Luciano met with Coles-Myer executives in an attempt to smooth things over and to advise them of some of the questionable schemes that had operated at the market.
The meeting was highly secret and the city venue was checked extensively for bugs.
The two were believed to be making a solid sales pitch to the executives, ensuring them that they could do a better and 'cleaner job'.
In the weeks following the meeting, Muratore had acid poured over his car and he was assaulted at the market, leaving him with a blackened eye.
He was soon dead.
Alfonso Muratore (Shot dead August 1992) On August 4, 1992, Alfonso, then 39, was shot dead in Hampton as his father Vincenzo had been 28 years before.
He had left his Storey Avenue house at 1.30am to drive to the market with friend, and workmate Ron Lever, the step father of his de facto wife.
A hooded gunman fired at close range as Muratore was about to climb into his car.
Lever was shot in the legs to immobilise him but Muratore was shot twice in the head and died instantly.
At least three other major fruit and vegetable merchants immediately employed armed security guards after the murder because they were told their names were on a death list.
A relative of Muratore received death threats and eventually moved after his house was vandalised.
A 1995 inquest heard allegations that Frank Benvenuto took out a contract on Muratore's life for snubbing the Honoured Society and his family but was never charged.
Benvenuto took over Muratore's fruit stall at the market after Alfonso was shot dead.
Ms Mansfield said at the inquest that Frank Benvenuto had tried to hire someone to kill Muratore.
He had been trying to regain control of the market stall when he was shot dead.
He had also told investigators about corruption involving supermarket buyers and fruit and vegetable wholesalers only two weeks before being executed.
Frank Benvenuto told the inquest he had no idea who had murdered Muratore.
Another man police saw as a suspect in Muratore's death was truck-driving fruiterer, Guiseppe 'Joe' Quadara.
Represented by jailed criminal lawyer, Andrew Fraser, it was speculated that Quadara eluded a payback hit when a man of the same name was shot dead in Toorak on Friday 28 May 1999.
Frank Benvenuto (Shot dead May 2000) Frank was the son of former Melbourne Godfather, Liborio, who became Honoured Society crime boss after winning the bloody market wars of the 1960's. Frank was related to Michele and Tom Scriva through marriage.
Frank was a known associate of the notorious Moran family.
Liborio Benvenuto, who died of natural causes in 1988, did not consider Frank a worthy successor.
At the time Benvenuto senior was critically ill, it was also thought son-in-law, Alfonso Muratore was not ready to take over the running of his empire.
Giuseppe "Joe'' Arena was summonsed by Benvenuto senior and discussions were held about him becoming head of the organisation.
But it never came to pass because a rival faction murdered Arena outside his Bayswater home shortly after.
Then, on his death bed, Liborio anointed his son-in-law, Alfonso Muratore.
But in a shock move, Muratore declined the offer and the next year left his wife Angela, and Frank's sister, for a mistress.
Muratore was shot dead outside his Hampton home in 1992.
An inquest heard allegations Benvenuto took out a contract of Muratore's life for snubbing the Honoured Society and his family but was never charged.
Benvenuto had no criminal record and detectives could not link him to Muratore's murder.
Benvenuto took over Muratore's fruit stall at the market after the killing.
Frank Benvenuto was shot in the chest at the wheel of his Holden Statesman outside his Beaumaris home at about 3pm on May 8, 2000.
He was on his way to the tip.
His falling out with Alfonso Muratore after Muratore left Angela Benvenuto for lover Karen Mansfield in 1989 is one avenue homicide detectives followed in trying to identify a motive for the murder.
Karen Mansfield said at Muratore's 1995 inquest that Frank Benvenuto had tried to hire someone to kill Muratore.
He had been trying to regain control of the market stall when he was shot dead.
He had also told investigators about corruption involving supermarket buyers and fruit and vegetable wholesalers only two weeks before being executed.
Frank Benvenuto told the inquest he had no idea who had murdered Muratore.
Victor Peirce, one of the men acquitted of the 1988 Walsh St police shootings and a member of the Pettingill crime family, was also believed to be linked the murder.
Police said Pierce worked as "hired muscle" for Benvenuto both before and after a six-year jail sentence for drug trafficking between 1992-98.
Detectives said the circumstances suggested Mr Benvenuto knew his killer, who shot him in the chest through the car window.
Peirce was interviewed over the killing, but said he was working on the docks at the time and is believed to have had an unshakeable alibi.
Before his conviction for drug trafficking, he was reported to have fired a machinegun inside the wholesale fruit and vegetable market at Footscray early one morning.
He was working for Mr Benvenuto then, during a period when price fixing, extortion, standover tactics and drug trafficking were reported to be rife at the market.
Some detectives believed the circumstances of his murder -- shot in daylight as he sat in his car -- may be seen as a public warning to his supporters and family.
They expected there will be revenge killings as a result.
"The best indication of which faction killed Frank will be the identity of the next body that turns up,'' a source said.
Drug dealer and stand over man Richard Mlandenich was shot dead at a St Kilda flat on May 16.
He had been released from jail a month before and had shared a room with Chopper Read whilst inside.
He was said to be a giant of a man as well as being extremely violent. Had a criminal record of more than nine pages with most charges relating to street violence.
He also had 24 aliases including John Mancini and RIchard Mantello.
Mark Moran was murdered five weeks later outside his luxury home in Combermere St, Aberfeldie, near Essendon, on June 15, 2000.
Victor Pierce was shot dead on May 1, 2002. In turn, it was also alleged that the Moran's were involved in the Peirce shooting.
Frank Benvenuto had a habit of saying "God bless you'' at the end of most conversations.
On November 15, 2001, police offered a $100,000 reward for information leading to finding Benvenuto's killer.
Police said that they believe a woman walking her dog in Dalgety Rd could possibly help them with their investigations.
Homicide squad detective-Insprctor Brian Rix said police had no proof linking Mr Benvenuto to the underworld.
He appealed for the public to solve the murder of the highly respected member of the Italian community.
Detective Rix said police wanted to hear from the fruiterers associates at the Footscray Market and the Italian community.
Det-Insp Rix said he had spoken to Mr Benvenuto while investigating past market-related crimes and he was "always a very pleasant, well mannered and polite person."
Gantanol 'Tom' Scriva (1945-2000) Born 1945, the son of notorious hit man Michele Scriva, Tom married Rose Benvenuto, daughter of Melbourne Godfather Liborio and sister of Alfonse Muratore's wife Angela.
Tom Scriva was a disgraced lawyer for suspected Melbourne mafia and underworld figures including Victor Peirce and those accused of the Russell Street bombing.
He was involved in underworld rip-offs and scams worth millions of dollars.
On July 13, 2000, Tom Scriva died after suffering a heart attack at Frank Benvenuto Junior's wedding.

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Battle At Rum Pointe

• Mar 25–26
• Rum Pointe Seaside Golf Links, Berlin, MD (Host: Iona [not located near the venue])
• States represented: New Hampshire, Massachusetts (2), Connecticut (3), New York (7), New Jersey (3), Maryland.
• Conferences: MAAC (7), NEC (3), Big Sky (2), CAA (2), Ivy (2), Patriot.
• Teams (17): Binghamton Colgate Dartmouth Fairfield Hartford Harvard Hofstra Iona Long Island Manhattan Merrimack Monmouth Mount St. Mary's Rider Sacred Heart St. Peter's Siena
• SGSRS: Harvard (125) and Long Island (195) are the only teams above 220th. Harvard's Brian Ma (388) is the highest-rated player.

Seahawk Intercollegiate

• Mar 26–27
• Country Club of Landfall (Dye Course), Wilmington, NC (Host: UNC Wilmington)
• States represented: Nebraska, Texas, Ohio (2), Maryland, DC, Virginia, North Carolina (4), South Carolina (5), Florida.
• Conferences: Big South (3), SBC (3), Big Ten (2), A-10, ACC, ASun, Big 12, Big East, CAA, Horizon, MAC, Southland.
• Teams (17): Appalachian State Campbell Charleston Southern Clemson Coastal Carolina Davidson Francis Marion Georgetown James Madison Maryland Nebraska Stetson TCU Toledo UNC Wilmington USC Upstate Wright State
• SGSRS: TCU (42) and Clemson (50) lead seven teams in the top 100. TCU's Gustav Frimodt (82) and Kent State's Tyler Goecke (127) are the highest-rated players.

Craft Farms Intercollegiate

• Mar 26–28
• Craft Farms Golf Club, Gulf Shores, AL (Host: South Alabama)
• States represented: Oklahoma, Texas (2), Michigan, Illinois (3), Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama (2), Georgia, Maryland.
• Conferences: SBC (3), C-USA (2), MVC (2), OVC (2), Big East, Horizon, Patriot, SoCon, Summit.
• Teams (14): Bradley DePaul Georgia State Illinois State Loyola (MD) Oakland Oral Roberts Rice Samford South Alabama Southern Indiana Tennessee Tech Texas State Western Kentucky
• SGSRS: Oral Roberts (98) is the highest-rated team; ten others are above 200th. The highest-rated players are Tennessee Tech's Jackson Skeen (270), Illinois State's Valentin Peugnet (278), and Rice's Henry Daly (279).

The Hootie

• Mar 26–28
• Bulls Bay Golf Club, Awendaw, SC (Host: South Carolina)
• States represented: New Mexico, Missouri, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky (2), West Virginia, Virginia (2), Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina (3).
• Conferences: SEC (3), ACC (2), Big Ten (2), SoCon (2), A-10, ASun, Big 12, CAA, MAC, MWC.
• Teams (15): College of Charleston East Tennessee State Eastern Kentucky Furman Kent State Kentucky Missouri NC State New Mexico Purdue South Carolina VCU Virginia Tech West Virginia Wisconsin
• SGSRS: East Tennessee State (35) and Purdue (39) lead eleven teams in the top 100. Purdue's Herman Sekne (30) is the highest-rated player.

Aggie Invitational

• Mar 27–28
• Bryan Park, Browns Summit, NC (Host: North Carolina A&T)
• States represented: Illinois, Maryland, Tennessee, North Carolina (3), Alabama (2).
• Conferences: CAA (2), NEC (2), SWAC (2), OVC, Ind.
• Teams (8): Alabama A&M Alabama State Chicago State Elon Maryland–Eastern Shore North Carolina A&T North Carolina Central Tennessee State
• SGSRS: Elon (124) is the only team above 270th. The five highest-rated players are all from Elon, led by Garrett Risner (367).

The Big Texan

• Mar 27–28
• Riverhill Country Club, Kerrville, TX (Host: UTRGV)
• States represented: Texas (7), Louisiana (2).
• Conferences: Southland (5), WAC (3), SWAC.
• Teams (9): Houston Christian Incarnate Word New Orleans Southeastern Louisiana Stephen F. Austin Tarleton State Texas A&M Commerce Texas Southern UTRGV
• SGSRS: Tarleton State (172) is the only team in the top 200. The highest-rated player is Southeastern Louisiana's Charlie Forster (439).

Don Benbow Butler Spring Invitational

• Mar 27–28
• Highland Golf and Country Club, Indianapolis, IN (Host: Butler)
• States represented: Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana (4), Ohio (2).
• Conferences: Horizon (6), Big East, MAC.
• Teams (8): Ball State Butler Cleveland State Detroit Mercy Green Bay IUPUI Purdue Fort Wayne Youngstown State
• SGSRS: Ball State (152) and Butler (181) are the only teams in the top 200. The highest-rated players are Ball State's Joey Ranieri and Kash Bellar (586/604) and Butler's Damon Dickey (659).

Duck Invitational

• Mar 27–28
• Eugene Country Club, Eugene, OR (Host: Oregon)
• States represented: Washington, Oregon (2), Idaho (2), California (4), Arizona, Colorado (2), Kansas, Texas.
• Conferences: MWC (3), Pac-12 (3), WCC (3), Big 12, Big Sky, Big West, C-USA, WAC.
• Teams (14): Boise State Cal Poly Colorado Colorado State Gonzaga Grand Canyon Idaho Kansas Oregon Oregon State Pacific San Jose State Santa Clara UTEP
• SGSRS: Colorado State (26) and Oregon (27) are the highest-rated teams; four others are in the top 100. Oregon's Owen Avrit (20) is the highest-rated player, followed by Colorado State's Connor Jones (58).

Golden Horseshoe Intercollegiate

• Mar 27–28
• Golden Horseshoe Golf Club (Gold Course), Williamsburg, VA (Host: William & Mary)
• States represented: New York, Pennsylvania (5), New Jersey (2), Maryland (2), DC, Virginia (2).
• Conferences: A-10 (3), CAA (2), Ivy (2), NEC (2), Patriot (2), Big East, Big South.
• Teams (13): Fairleigh Dickinson George Washington Lafayette Longwood Navy Pennsylvania Princeton St. Bonaventure St. Francis (PA) St. Joseph's Towson Villanova William & Mary
• SGSRS: Three teams are above 200th – George Washington (137), William & Mary (182), and Princeton (184). The highest-rated players are George Washington's Jakub Hrinda (285) and Princeton's Riccardo Fantinelli (343).

UC San Diego Invitational

• Mar 27–28
• Torrey Pines Golf Club (North Course), La Jolla, CA (Host: UC San Diego)
• States represented: Hawaii, Washington, California (6), Utah (3), Pennsylvania (2), Florida.
• Conferences: Big West (6), WAC (4), Patriot (2), MWC, SWAC.
• Teams (14): Bucknell Cal State Northridge California Baptist Florida A&M Hawaii Lehigh Seattle Southern Utah UC Irvine UC Riverside UC San Diego UCSB Utah State Utah Tech
• SGSRS: Seattle (131) and Cal State Northridge (139) are the highest-rated; half the remaining teams are above 200th. UC San Diego's Davis McDowell (289) is the highest-rated player, followed by UC Riverside's Josh Hu (369) and Seattle's Liam Gill (372).

Valspar Collegiate Invitational

• Mar 27–28
• Floridian National Golf Club, Palm City, FL (Host: Houston [not located near the venue])
• States represented: California, Arizona, Texas (5), Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, North Carolina (3), Florida.
• Conferences: ACC (4), Big Ten (3), Big 12 (2), AAC, Big East, Pac-12, SEC, Southland, WCC.
• Teams (15): Arizona State Duke Florida State Houston Lamar Marquette Minnesota North Carolina Northwestern Ohio State Pepperdine Texas Texas A&M Texas Tech Wake Forest
• SGSRS: Seven of the top 14 are in the field, led by Texas Tech (2), North Carolina (3), Arizona State (4), and Florida State (5); all but one of the remaining teams are above 100th. The individual field features nine of the top 16, led by Texas Tech's Ludvig Åberg (3) and North Carolina's David Ford (4).

Golfweek/Any Given Tuesday Intercollegiate

• Mar 27–29
• True Blue Golf Club, Pawleys Island, SC (Host: Golfweek)
• States represented: Colorado, Kansas, Illinois (3), Indiana (2), Ohio (2), West Virginia, Delaware, Connecticut, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina (2), Alabama (2), South Carolina.
• Conferences: ASun (3), Big South (3), MVC (3), Big East (2), SBC (2), A-10, AAC, Big Sky, CAA, MAC, Summit.
• Teams (19): Austin Peay Central Arkansas Connecticut Delaware Evansville Gardner–Webb High Point Jacksonville State Loyola (IL) Marshall Northern Colorado Ohio Southern Illinois Troy Valparaiso Western Illinois Wichita State Winthrop Xavier
• SGSRS: Troy (97) is the only team above 100th; half the rest are in the top 200. Troy's Brantley Scott (187) is the highest-rated player, followed by Valparaiso's Caleb VanArragon (206).

My and my partner's roommates that we sublet from dropped a bombshell on us that they're moving out at the end of April. We wanted to move out of Texas ASAP given how everything's been going politically, but we would have preferred a little more wiggle room than we're getting. We're taking this for an opportunity and we're washing our hands of this place given how hostile this shitstick town has been to us any time we ventured outside- and that was just with adhering to COVID masking. I haven't held my partner's hand in public in a long, long time.
More to my point, aside from asking general opinions on where to go, I wanted to ask everyone here if either they or someone they know is also planning on burning rubber out of the south. Truth be told we might end up selling all our bulky furniture and shipping the rest, but anything is possible at this point.
Due to having friends in all these locations as opposed to the zero support network here or just genuinely liking it there, I and my partner are eyeing:

• Seattle, WA (or rather, the outlying areas)
• Columbus, OH
• Anywhere in California
• Madison, WI
• Chicago, IL
• Ashland or Portland, OR
• Denver, CO
• More affordable areas around NYC (Possibly Jersey)

Where would YOU go as fellow LGBTQI+ people?

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I truly believe sport needs rivalry. Those are pationate games amoung rivals and are the most interresting games to watch. Montreal vs Boston was great yesterday despite the fact it was the 1st team vs a bottom team. It was intense and players were very into it. After the game, players also expressed their opinion saying it is lame Montreal and Boston are only playing 3 times this season. I would love to see smaller division and more games within that same divion. That's how I would organize it:
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North East division: Toronto / Montreal / Ottawa / Boston.
New-York division: Buffalo / Rangers / Islanders / New-Jersey
East Coast division: Pittsburgh / Philly / Washington / Columbus
South East: Tampa / Florida / Carolina / Dallas
Central East division: Detroit / Chicago / St-Louis / Nashville
Central West division: Winnipeg / Minnesota / Colorado / Arizona
North West division: Calgary / Edmonton / Vancouver / Seattle
California division: San Jose / LA / Anaheim / Las Vegas
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I know we cannot make everyone happy. I tried to put as many rival teams togheter. Each division can play 5 or 6 games against each other, and split the rest amoung other teams. You can easily imagine a system of the first of each division makes the playoffs with 8 wild cards.
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I just feel the actual system with 8 teams divion is too much and won't create much rivalries. The NHL clearly needs more interresting regular season games.

I just finished replaying the games and couldn't stop thinking about where it could go after 2. I was listening to the X-Ray Vision podcast for Episode 9 of the show and one of their listeners wrote in with the idea that 3 should be about the emergence of Ellie as a leader and her redemption and that got my mind rolling on what that could look like. This is how I think it could go down:
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• 5-10 year time jump
• Somewhat like World War Z (the book) societies have reemerged out of the zombie apocalypse
  • Fireflies have grown Catalina into a massive democratic sanctuary
  • Seraphites have survived and expanded massively down the west coast creating a deeply religious, almost pilgrim/colonial, society
    • Eradicated slavers and raiders but created a theocracy
  • FEDRA has consolidated into a couple massive QZs in Atlanta/Chicago/maybe one more
    • New charismatic fascist leader
    • Core belief that there is no cure and that the only solution is to exterminate all the non-FEDRA “fuel” for the cordyceps
    • They are actively pushing west: hunting down settlements and destroying ones that don’t move into the QZs
  • Due to their secrecy and care Jackson has only grown slightly but is thriving

​

• Game starts with Ellie in the Jesse role as the scouting party leader
  • Amicable but not reunited with Dina
  • Has learned to play guitar lefty
    • PLEASE! it was too sad when she couldn't play anymore
  • Living in Joel’s house
  • They have some contact/trade with Catalina and other "free" sanctuaries
    • We get the vibe that some of the other sanctuaries have been "dissapearing"
• Returns one day to find Maria with an envoy from FEDRA
  • Some kind of “join or die” pitch
  • Split decision in the community but the "no we will not join" vote passes
    • I think some impassioned profanity filled speech from Ellie would be good here
• FEDRA attacks
  • Some "yes" voter lets them in (gotta be Seth)
  • Maria and Tommy Die
• Ellie has to lead the survivors south-west fleeing FEDRA and Avoiding Seraphites
  • Heading to Catalina
  • A cool game mechanic would be your actions determine the amount of survivors in the end
    • Think Mass Effect 2/XCOM but sadder and more traumatic
    • Could end up as Ellie and JJ as the only survivors if you play your cards wrong
• Insert lots and lots of sad and traumatic moments on this journey
• Over the course of the game a war breaks out between the Seraphites and FEDRA
  • Your group is often caught in the middle as you try to flee
• Make it to San Diego
• Dramatic battle, of course, where Abby and the fireflies come and rescue the survivors in the end
• When we get to the island we get a flashback to some mid point in the game
  • we find out Ellie called Abby and that the fireflies have an old neurosurgeon, the finished research, and a second chance at a cure, and Ellie promised to undergo the surgery in exchange for sanctuary
• Finale of her fading to black in a hospital bed and seeing Joel before she falls asleep
  • As she’s high as a kite she gets to talk briefly with imagined Joel and the last words of the game are Joel saying “okay” as Ellie falls asleep, accepting her decision
• Legendary hard mode ending Halo style
  • Credits end and we hear heartbeat monitors beeping.
  • Ellie survives the surgery cuz this crotchety old surgeon is dope
  • Can end it there or have Ellie wake up with a bandaged head and see Dina and JJ (if not dead)/Abby and JJ if Dina's dead
• I think despite the tone of the games they would want to end the series on a hopeful note
  • There have been really beautiful moments of humanity within these games even with all the dark so I hope they end that way

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Sorry for the long post but I found the exercise of writing this out really fun. I know whatever Neil comes up with will be far better. Can't come soon enough.

Around Town:

• Born With Teeth (Guthrie Theater - All Weekend)
• The Prom (Chanhassen Dinner Theater - All Weekend)
• Smelling Elon's Musk (Dudley Riggs Theatre - All Weekend)
• Diesel Heart (History Theatre - All Weekend)
• Maybe (Stages Theatre Company - All Weekend)
• The Wedding Singer (Lyric Arts - All Weekend)
• Sugar in Our Wounds (Penumbra Theatre - All Weekend)
• Misery (Yellow Tree Theatre - All Weekend)
• Mercy Unrelenting (Open Window Theater - All Weekend)
• Eurydice (Theater in the Round - All Weekend)
• Once on This Island, Jr. (Stages Theatre - All Weekend)
• What / Washed Ashore / Astray (Pillsbury Playhouse - All Weekend)
• SKOL! (Southern Theater - All Weekend)
• Osman Shrine Circus (FairGround - All Weekend)
• Minnesota RV Super Show (US Bank Stadium - All Weekend)
• Broken Clock Grand Opening (New Location on Marshall - All Weekend)
• My Fair Lady (Ordway - Fri & Sat)
• Minnesota State HS Basketball Tournament (Target Center - Fri & Sat)
• Kelsey Cook (ACME Comedy Club - Fri & Sat)
• Upper Midwest Scuba and Adventure Travel Show (Mermaid Event Center - Fri & Sat)
• Donnie Smith Bike Show (RiverCentre - Sat & Sun)
• The Joffrey Ballet (Northrup - Sat & Sun)

Friday

• The Magnolias (Brit's Pub 7pm)
• Oak Ridge Boys (Medina Entertainment Center 8pm)
• Lettuce (First Avenue 7pm)
• Hear Her Stories: A Celebration of Women’s History Month (Mill City Museum 6:30-8:30pm)
• Roots & Boots (Treasure Island 7pm)
• Willi Carlisle (7th Street Entry 7pm)
• Los Angeles Azules – De Iztapalapa Para El Mundo (Orpheum 7pm)
• Mae Simpson Band (Dakota Jazz Club 7pm)
• Made in Minnesota an Uptown Spirit Tasting (Granada Theater 5pm)
• Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers (Fine Line 7pm)
• Stages of Equity (North Hennepin Community College)
• The Usses (Playwrights' Center 6pm)
• JID & Smino (The Fillmore 7pm)
• Digital Romance (Day Block Brewing 7pm)
• Chicago Farmer & The Fieldnotes and Eleganza! (Turf Club 7pm)

Saturday

• Alphabet Jazz (Woman's Club of Minneapolis 7:30-9:30pm)
• March Mixtape ⏤ The Gay Agenda (Turf Club 7pm)
• Quincy Street Makers Market (Quincy Hall 11-4pm)
• Warrant & Lita Ford
• The Red Hot Chilli Pipers (Ordway 7:30-9:30pm)
• VIAL (7th Street Entry 7pm)
• Tiffany Day (Amsterdam Bar & Hall 7pm)
• An Evening with Janelle James (Coffman Memorial Union 7pm)
• Fleetwood Mac Tribute (Day Block Brewing 7pm)
• Punky Pet Party (Mortimer's Bar 12-8pm)
• Stay Blooming: A Women's Month Pop-up Market (Dripping Root 1-5pm)
• Charlie Parr (Dakota Jazz Club 7pm)
• Ingrid Andress (Fine Line 7pm)
• Chase Matthew (Varsity Theater 7pm)
• Upper Midwest Scuba and Adventure Travel Show (Mermaid Event Center )
• TORTanic (Theatre of the Relatively Talentless 6:30pm)
• Nowruz Spring Equinox Celebration (Arbeiter Brewing 4-9pm)
• Magnolia Park (The Cabooze 6pm)
• Women in Science (Bakken Museum 10-4pm)
• Vilification Tennis (Strike Theater9:30pm)
• Jake Wesley Rogers (Amsterdam Bar & Hall 7pm)
• Inhaler (First Avenue 7pm)
• weird stuff only: A Time-Based Carnival For Weirdos (Bryant Lake Bowl 7pm)
• Hot Dash - 5k, 10mile and Tator Trot (Boom Island Park)

Sunday

• Dessa Selects: 29:11 International Exchange Choir (Dakota Jazz Club 7pm)
• RedHanded (Varsity Theater 7pm)
• Sik-K (Amsterdam Bar & Hall 7pm)
• MapleFest Pancake Breakfast (Minnesota Landscape Arboretum 9am)
• Yo La Tengo (First Avenue 7pm)
• The Last Damn (Coffman Memorial Union 3-5pm)
• keshi (The Armory 7pm)

Sports:

• Chicago AT Wild (Sat 4pm)
• Vancouver AT Loons (Sat 7:30pm)
• Golden State VS Timberwolves (Sun 7:30pm)

I have had suggestions for a patreon or something of the sort in the past. I do this because I like to provide whatever tiny help I can to the community. BUT I also like to raise money for Gillette's Children Hospital every year. So if you have some virtual loose change you can help me help dem kids here: https://www.extra-life.org/participant/482633

Links

• Reddit - Twin Cities Social meet-ups - https://www.reddit.com/twincitiessocial/
• Minneapolis Park Events - https://www.minneapolisparks.org/event-calenda
• Secrets of the city - http://www.secretsofthecity.com/
• MPLS Art Events - https://www.mplsart.com/calendaupcoming
• Minnesota Monthly Event Calendar - http://www.minnesotamonthly.com/Calenda
• MSP Magazine Event Calendar - http://mspmag.com/search/event/events-calenda#page=1
• Minneapolis Northwest Event Calendar - https://www.minneapolisnorthwest.com/events/
• Minneapolis.Org Event Calendar - https://www.minneapolis.org/calenda
• Family Fun Twin Cities - https://www.familyfuntwincities.com/family-fun-events-calenda
• Racket MN Event Calendar - https://racketmn.com/category/events/

Be da real MVP and add anything I missed below.