In case you didn’t know yet, Phil will be doing a livestream tomorrow, Tuesday, Oct. 24th, the time has not been announced yet, though. Check here to confirm. He says that the “intel will rock our world.” (Hopefully he means in a good way…)

A very great update: BENJAMIN FULFORD UPDATE TODAY OCTOBER 23, 2023 (19 mins):

Also, tonight — Nick Cave in Austin!! But it is SOLD OUT!

And tomorrow at noon, Central Daylight Time, he’ll be doing an instore book signing at BookPeople.

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And I can’t wait to read this! It comes out tomorrow, on Bill Wyman’s birthday — Billy in the Wars:

“Billy in the Wars is the illustrated memoir of ex-Rolling Stone Bill Wyman, recalling his experiences as a young boy growing up in wartime Britain. Bill brings history to life through the personal lens of his childhood memories, where grim anecdotes of war are punctuated by moving moments of childhood innocence and joy. […]”

I won’t be buying it until I get back from Canada, but the excerpts I’ve seen so far have been just wonderful.

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From James Tabor – Bible Prophecy #13–Floating Prophecies and Israel’s Future (32 mins):

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That’s it for now!

I hope you’re enjoying your Monday, wherever you are in the world!!

Thanks for visiting. I love you guys. See ya!

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One of the best songs to listen to while driving on the backroads during this glorious autumn! I almost, you know, left my body in joy, while driving to town for the groceries this morning. Unbelievably beautiful. Try it soon!! Okay. Enjoy.

This was interesting. It’s a long article, but if you have a strong stomach, you should read the whole thing.

From Real Raw News:

“Special Forces-Spetznas Team Crushes Adrenochrome Cartel in Ukraine

[…] According to sources in Gen. Smith’s offices and at the FSB, Russia’s Federal Security Service, the joint unit capsized a multi-billion-dollar Adrenochrome cartel that had been operating with impunity along the Ukraine-Poland border. Sources said the unit spent the first half of October dismantling the Radchenko Cartel, which kidnapped countless children, sucked their adrenal glands dry, and, after nourishing them back to reasonable health, sold them to pedophiles and into sex slavery. Reportedly, children can be drained several times before adrenal fluid becomes inert.[…]

[…] Special Forces/Spetznas surveilled the building and saw no bubblegum or tattoos, and whoever had occupied the warehouse appeared to have departed hastily, leaving behind three dozen medical-grade refrigerators, often used to chill Adrenochrome, and 6,000 grams of fentanyl, one of several synthetic opioids common in Adrenochrome formulations. They also found the decomposed remains of a man with a bullet in his head and whose identification and cell phone the killers had conveniently left at the scene. Spetznas knew him as Sergei Nicholas, a prolific Ukrainian drug trafficker with a penchant for peddling drugs to school kids. For reasons unknown, the cartel had apparently whacked its henchman.

The Special Forces-Spetznas team set explosive charges and destroyed the building.[…]

[…] Her information brought the unit back to Ukraine, where they split into two tactical teams. One penetrated the Deep State coven of Kyiv and put surveillance on Radchenko’s lavish townhouse in the wealthy Pecherskyi District, along the Dnipro River, a region magically unscathed after two years of alleged unremitting hostilities.

“We do not bomb civilians like your media says,” a Spetznas told his Special Forces associate. “We do like you. We attack only the Deep State.” […]

[…] As the missiles showered the park, the Kyiv team raided Radchenko’s villa, killing him, his mistress, two dozen armed guards, and, unfortunately, the 9-year-old boy Radchenko had been raping.

“The innocent sometime get caught in the fog of war. There’s no such thing as a perfect plan; it’s a myth,” our source in Gen. Smith’s office said. “This should put big dent in the Adrenochrome trade, but there’s so many kids unaccounted for still.”[…]”

[full article here]

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We are also being told to watch Putin and Xi, instead of Israel and Gaza. I can only imagine it has something to do, ultimately, with BRICS, but I don’t know for certain. However.

From RT this morning:

‘US GLOBALIZATION TYPE BASED ON ZERO-SUM GAME, CHINESE ON MUTUAL BENEFIT’ – ZHANG WEIWEI (1 minute):

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Other than that, it is an unbelievably stunning autumn day here in the Hinterlands! For the next few days, I’ll be doing laundry, cleaning the house, getting the yard ready for winter and bringing the plants indoors, going into town to run all my errands before my birth mom arrives to look after my cats while I’m in Toronto.

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All right. Well.

Yesterday, I began posting to my new free substack account. I did not announce it at all, and yet 35 people went there anyway. And a few more have already been there this morning. I don’t know where these readers are coming from, but since everyone already seems to be there…

Here’s the official announcement!

If you’re on your computer, the link to my substack is at the top left corner of this page.

If you’re on your phone, in the drop-down menu at the top right, scroll all the way down to the bottom link, and the substack link is there.

Erotic stories & brief memoirs, excerpts from new published works, and excerpts from works-in-progress will be posted there (and not here) from now on.

But please keep in mind, all of the projects from Marilyn’s Room Books are intended for adults only. Thank you.

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And tonight! In Dallas! As far as I know, tickets are still available. After that, only 4 more shows before Nick Cave’s Solo Tour/with bass player is over, and the remaining shows, after tonight, are sold out!

Plus, Nick Cave will be doing two more in-store book signings this coming week. One in Austin, and one in LA:

Okay.

I’m off to finish the laundry!! And get more coffee!!

Enjoy this wonderful Sunday, wherever you are in the world!

Thanks for visiting. I love you guys. See ya!

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More from the “soundtrack” of my novella-in-progress, “Novitiate”!

July of 1966, Tommy James & the Shondells, “Hanky Panky”. Enjoy!

The only news, really — aside from the chaos that is utterly taking over the world — is this idea of Italy and Obama.

If you follow Phil, he’s allegedly in Italy.

But now there is a post on his channel from this morning — a tiktok video featuring a girl who absolutely looks like she was generated by A.I., but that’s sort of how young women want to look these days.

Anyway. Watch the tiktok video. It is very interesting, indeed.

Wherever he really is right now, he is posting from somewhere that doesn’t allow me to copy & paste his posts, so I can only paste the links. But please read them if you haven’t already.

And in other Italy news — on Charlie Ward’s channel there is a tiktok video regarding Italy being the first country in the world to outlaw synthetic meats and synthetic foods of all kinds. The video is HERE.

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I am in a high level of anxiety these days. I am pretty much staying off the internet and trying to focus on my writing. Making good progress on the novella, “Novitiate.” So that’s good. It helps me ignore the anxiety.

Today I go back to the train station for the next few days. And as luck would have it — we are expecting rain for the next few days! I guess we’ll see how that goes. But this will be my last week at work before I go to Toronto for the opening of our play, “The Guide to being Fabulous.”

If I don’t make it to the blog tomorrow:

Nick Cave will be in Atlanta!! But it is sold out…

And tomorrow is the heavenly birthday of my beloved Tom Petty! He would have been 73, which I find utterly impossible to wrap my mind around….here he was at age 27, one of my favorite photos of him:

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That’s it, gang.

Enjoy your Thursday, wherever you are in the world.

Thanks for visiting. I love you guys. See ya!

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Simon Parkes had a great update yesterday. It was balanced and insightful about both Israel and the RV.

If you aren’t a member of Connecting Consciousness, you won’t be able to watch the video. But joining is free and you can join HERE. (It can take a while to be approved, though.) (Briefly, regarding Israel: he says that there is indeed “a war” of sorts going on there, but it is not what it seems, and that the images you are being shown on MSM and even in Alt media are purposely misleading and intended to upset you.)

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Unfortunately, since I don’t speak German, I didn’t understand that Dr. Reiner Fuellmich was actually arrested the other day and is now in jail.

This just sickens me, gang. Even this late in the game, they are still going to arrest Truthers? I have no clue if this is optics, or what it is. But you can send postcards to him here:

JVA Rosdorf
Dr. Reiner Füllmich
Am Großen Sieke 8
37124 Rosdorf

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Yesterday, I had to write up a brief note “from Sandra” that will go in the show’s program at Soulpepper when our play opens there next week. In going over my files from 2014 (!!), I found this photo that I just love — the women in Sandra’s family. They were all very supportive of her throughout her life, including during her transition:

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Today at noon in Nashville, TN! Nick Cave will be doing an in-store signing of his book, Faith, Hope & Carnage, at Parnassus Books.

And tonight, he’ll be live at the Ryman!!!! Tickets are still available.

A fan took this photo of Nick Cave outside the theater in Detroit Sunday night. I think it’s so funny! Probably the worst photo of him that I have ever seen. (It was really windy and he was in a hurry to get into the theater…):

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That’s kind of it.

I’ll close with this today: Over the weekend, I happened upon an old Randy Travis CD, Storms of Life, from 1986. I used to love Randy Travis, but at some point, he just slipped out of my consciousness.

I immediately remembered that the song “Storms Of Life” was a song that was sort of my anthem to my birth father, but I didn’t remember why. So I put the CD into the CD player in my kitchen and took quite a trip down Memory Lane!! Even though my birth dad has been dead now since 1999, that song still reminds me of the (really complicated) man I knew so briefly.

And then I remembered that there was some other song of Randy Travis’s that I really loved but I couldn’t remember what it was, so I started hunting for other Randy Travis CDs, and I found the song. A huge hit from 1987, “Forever and Ever, Amen.”

I took that out, too, and played it and suddenly recalled how that was the song that played right after Wayne & I said “I do” at our wedding and then turned to go up the aisle as married people!! (Yes, I am incredibly romantic.) (We walked down the aisle to “The Hawaiian Wedding Song,” from Elvis’ movie Blue Hawaii, and then up the aisle to “Forever and Ever, Amen.”)

So I’ll leave you with both of those great Randy Travis songs below!

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Have a terrific Tuesday, wherever you are in the world.

Thanks for visiting. I love you guys. See ya!

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“Storms of Life”

“The Storms Of Life”

There’s a dirty piece of cardboard
That reads Montgomery Ward
Taped across the window of my old Ford.
A six-pack on the front seat and a box of chicken wings,
I’m dialin’ ‘cross the radio for a song that I can sing

I’d better change my wandrin ways,
I know I’ve seen my better days,
Always gettin’ high when I get low.
Well, I left my soul out in the rain,
Lord, what a price I’ve had to pay.
The storms of life are washin’ me away.

An old mail pouch, tobacco sign
Fadin’ on the barn,
Bringin’ back sweet memories of Mama’s farm
When love was just a country girl that lived on down the road.
[Spoken:] you know, she almost had me turned around,
But that was years ago.

I’d better change my wandrin ways,
I know I’ve seen my better days,
Always gettin’ high when I get low.
Well, I left my soul out in the rain,
Lord, what a price I’ve had to pay.
The storms of life are washin’ me away.
Yeah, the storms of life are washin’ me away.

C 1986 – Max Barnes, Troy Seals

“Forever and Ever, Amen”

“Forever and Ever, Amen”

You may think that I’m talkin’ foolish
You’ve heard that I’m wild and I’m free
You may wonder how I can promise you now
This love that I feel for you always will be

But you’re not just time that I’m killin’
I’m no longer one of those guys
As sure as I live, this love that I give
Is gonna be yours until the day that I die

Oh, baby, I’m gonna love you forever
Forever and ever amen
As long as old men sit and talk about the weather
As long as old women sit and talk about old men
If you wonder how long I’ll be faithful
I’ll be happy to tell you again
I’m gonna love you forever and ever
Forever and ever, amen

They say time takes its toll on a body
Makes the young girls brown hair turn gray
But honey, I don’t care, I ain’t in love with your hair
And if it all fell out, well, I’d love you anyway

They say time can play tricks on a memory
Make people forget things they knew
Well, it’s easy to see, it’s happenin’ to me
I’ve already forgotten every woman but you

Oh, darlin’, I’m gonna love you forever
Forever and ever amen
As long as old men sit and talk about the weather
As long as old women sit and talk about old men
If you wonder how long I’ll be faithful
Well, just listen to how this song ends
I’m gonna love you forever and ever
Forever and ever, amen

I’m gonna love you forever and ever
Forever and ever, forever and ever
Forever and ever, amen

c 1987 – Paul Overstreet / Don Schlitz