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A Terrific Tuesday in the Hinterlands!

Okay, gang.

We’ll start off with Charlie Ward’s daily news for this morning–

CHARLIE WARD DAILY NEWS WITH PAUL BROOKER & DREW DEMI – TUESDAY 30TH JANUARY 2024 (14 mins):

I’m guessing everyone heard already about Evergrande and Hong Kong. If you didn’t, you can listen to Charlie Ward’s daily news from yesterday (10 mins):

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Interesting.

The Imran Khan psyop continues! Just before elections in Pakistan… however, this will go to higher courts, so who knows how long this will take, right?

RT – IMRAN KHAN SENTENCED TO 10 YEARS FOR ‘LEAKING STATE SECRETS’ (2 mins):

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More RT –

FIRST MEETING OF BRICS SHERPAS AND SOUS-SHERPAS UNDER RUSSIAN CHAIRMANSHIP IN MOSCOW (1 hr):

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Matt Roeske – Censorship, Deleted on Tik tok, and How to be healthy in 2024 (53 mins):

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This one’s another great one. the archeological validity within the Book of John!

James Tabor – Jesus Archaeology # 8 Does the Gospel of John Have any Worthwhile Historical Evidence? (49 mins):

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And I think that’s it for now, gang.

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Things are going great over here. Waiting on some stuff from Sandra before I can continue the screenplay adaption for “The Guide to Being Fabulous,” so I am back to work on “Novitiate,” for now.

And also — yes! I’ve decided to begin studying Ancient Hebrew. I bought that course over a year ago, looked it over, and then immediately thought: No way do I have time to do this…

But since I am re-studying Biblical Hebrew now, I thought : Why not do it side by side?

By the way — I joined Ross K. Nichols’ Patreon group, in order to learn Biblical Hebrew by reading the Book of Genesis in Hebrew in a group-study setting. (I gave up on the YouTube course, which was all spoken Hebrew, and I went back to focusing on reading and writing it.)

So, anyway, now I’ve just added a column to write down the Ancient Hebrew letter along with the Biblical Aleph-Bet. (Ancient Hebrew is a paleo alphabet, sort of like hieroglyphics.) (And, interestingly enough, some of the letters remind me a lot of the Chinese characters, which I learned when I was studying Mandarin.)

Anyway! I’m doing all this because I have so much free time!!

And, yes, I’m still studying French!! Loyal readers of this lofty blog know by now that this is something I do eternally. Study French. I have literally been “studying French” since I was a wee bonny lass in Cleveland, in 1969.

Yesterday, a sentence came up that really amused me. The French lesson dealt with going to the zoo, and the sentence was (in French): “The zebras and gorillas are here.”

What a great sentence to know in French, right? Especially if you aren’t anywhere near a zoo… For instance, if the doorbell rings and when you answer the door…

Okay!

That’s it, gang.

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

Thanks for visiting. I love you guys, see ya!

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Here’s something terrific for Tuesday!

From Cleveland Live Music — A look back at Cleveland’s Scene magazine, for February, 12, 1981!!

Set to Jim Carroll Band’s “People Who Died”!! What could be better? Enjoy.

It Is Finally Sunday!!

Sunday is my favorite day of the week, gang, because it belongs entirely to me and my own work!!

I always wake-up happy on Sunday! So, yay.

Today, I will be mostly working with Sandra on the screen adaptation of our play, “The Guide to Being Fabulous.” And then catching up on the several (non-political) livestreams and zoom calls that I missed during the past few days.

I’m looking forward to having a really great day. I hope you are, too.

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Here’s what I have that I thought was of interest!

A great video chat with Ohio-based Sharry Edwards, explaining all about her Bioacoustics and frequency healing work. If you’re new to her work, please check this out.

Interview with Sharry Edwards, Bioacoustics & Sound Health (1 hr):

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From Friday night-

1.26.24 PATRIOT STREETFIGHTER EMERGENCY BROADCAST W/ ANN VANDERSTEEL & PETE SANTILLI (1 hr):

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Matt Roeske on Solutions and Abundance vs scarcity, Free Energy, Electroculture, and more! (1 hr):

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More great Dead Sea Scrolls stuff!

James Tabor & Myth Vision – Investigating the Messiah Before Jesus (39 mins):

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Ross K. Nichols’ deep dive into Exodus continues!

The Great Escape – Beshalach (Exodus 13:17 – 17:16) (1 hr 25 mins):

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And that is it for now.

Enjoy your Sunday, wherever you are in the world!!

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

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My driving-to-town music from yesterday — Best of Jimmy Reed. “Shame Shame Shame”, 1963. Enjoy!

A Fantastic Friday is Underway!

That’s right — no ice, no snow, no rain, no high winds, no freezing temperatures!

And, best yet, no FOG!!

I drove home from the train station last night in the worst fog I’d ever seen, and so I missed my freeway exit. Never did that before.

Luckily, one of my current houseguests was with me because he works at the train station, too. He turned on the GPS on his phone and even though it was pitch dark, and raining, with all that heavy fog, he was able to direct me to a road I actually recognized.

But it was like being in a dream sequence inside a movie. I kept saying, “Where are we?!” And he kept saying, “Just go straight. 3rd Street is right up there.”

“How can it be right up there?! I’ve never seen this road before! I’ve never seen these houses!” And then suddenly a bunch of deer appeared, strolling through the fog just up in front of me…like they had all the time in the world…

But my passenger was absolutely right. Suddenly, from out of the fog, appears the bright shining sign of my bank. It was too weird. Everything instantly became absolutely familiar, even in the fog! (We’d come up from behind my bank— a direction I’d never come from before.)

It was really too funny. And then, when I pulled up to the curb in front of my kitchen porch, KonTiki and Blackie-the-stray and one of the raccoons who lives in my barn were hanging out together on my porch, waiting to greet us — in the fog and the rain and the dark of night.

Yes, you’d think hillbillies live here!!!

Anyway. An enchanting evening was had by all.

And I am in good spirits despite the stress! Sandra’s initial response to the first draft of the first 5 pages of the screen adaptation of “The Guide to Being Fabulous” — “This is delightful!”

On Sunday, we will begin fleshing it out.

Okay.

Only a couple items today.

Charlie Ward’s daily news update (17 mins):

And another great Biblical archeological chat with Ross and Jono about the Shapira scrolls and the fascinating Mesha Stele (1 hr):

And that is it for today!!!

Enjoy your Friday, wherever you are in the world!

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

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Oh, and THIS craziness was playing while we were lost in the fog! “Jungle Fever” by Dick Dale and his Del-Tones! I really was losing my mind… Enjoy!❤️

Progress Underway!

Here’s Charlie’s daily news update for today. Some interesting stuff here. (Oh, and that Basel 4 compliant thing isn’t until July, not January… so we still have about 6 months to watch banks tumble and crash…)

CHARLIE WARD DAILY NEWS WITH PAUL BROOKER & DREW DEMI – THURSDAY 25TH JANUARY 2024 (17 mins):

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I love Sacha Stone. This is a great update, although it sometimes skates a really fine line between truth and optics, so just be discerning.

Arise Guerilla News! NEWS UPDATES JAN 21ST (1 hr 51 mins):

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And that’s all that really jumped out at me today.

Oh, and I also noticed there’s a whole lot of “John Lennon” bashing still going on all over YouTube. Trying to make it seem like he was absolutely evil. Wonder when they’re ever going to give that a rest? (Can’t imagine who was behind planting all those seeds in the first place….)

(KILL THE MESSENGER: The Murder of John Lennon by CIA Operation 40 – By Gualdo Hidalgo…)

Okay.

There is, in fact, a ton of other “stuff” going on, but most of it is that “looks like WWIII” type of stuff , which I don’t bother to post here, since you can get that kind of noise everywhere you look — and we still have optics galore out there, gang.

I really like what Charlie Ward is doing, by giving us a quick round-up of the items that are worth noting every morning.

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Around here —

Yesterday, afternoon, I finished the first draft of the screen adaptation of the opening pages of our play, “The Guide to being Fabulous” and sent it off to Sandra for her feedback. And then, of course, round 2.

Today, I head back to the train station, but this is my first week of having my hours cut back, so I actually have a little bit more time to myself today. I’m going to try to focus on “Novitiate,” until I get Sandra’s comments about the script.

Enjoy your day, everybody, wherever you are in the world.

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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I guess you really gotta hate a guy who writes a song like this one, right?

OR — OOPS!

Maybe it was because of songs like this…. (fake McCartney, anyone?)

“How Do You Sleep?”

So sgt. pepper took you by surprise
You better see right through that mother’s eyes
Those freaks was right when they said you was dead
The one mistake you made was in your head
How do you sleep?
Ah how do you sleep at night?

You live with straights who tell you “you was king”
Jump when your mamma tell you anything
The only thing you done was yesterday
And since you’ve gone you’re just another day
How do you sleep?
Ah how do you sleep at night?

A pretty face may last a year or two
But pretty soon they’ll see what you can do
The sound you make is muzak to my ears
You must have learned something all those years
How do you sleep?
Ah how do you sleep at night?

c – 1971 John Lennon

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“Mind Games”

We’re playing those mind games together
Pushing the barriers planting seeds
Playing the mind guerrilla
Chanting the Mantra peace on earth
We all been playing those mind games forever
Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil
Doing the mind guerrilla
Some call it magic the search for the grail

Love is the answer and you know that for sure
Love is a flower you got to let it grow

So keep on playing those mind games together
Faith in the future out of the now
You just can’t beat on those mind guerrillas
Absolute elsewhere in the stones of your mind
Yeah we’re playing those mind games forever
Projecting our images in space and in time

Yes is the answer and you know that for sure
Yes is surrender you got to let it go

So keep on playing those mind games together
Doing the ritual dance in the sun
Millions of mind guerrillas
Putting their soul power to the karmic wheel
Keep on playing those mind games forever
Raising the spirit of peace and love
(I want you to make love, not war
I know you’ve heard it before)

c – 1973 John Lennon


My Two Favorite Guys on Earth!!

Yes, my neighbors!! The two guys who cheerfully drive me town and back whenever I need them to!! I love them so much!!!

I only wish that they actually existed….

Anyway.

Yes. I’m off to town today, to run my usual errands.

The snow & ice are finally gone and temperatures are back to a very reasonable 40 degrees Fahrenheit. So I’m actually okay with making that 50-mile trip today.

I think I wrote 3 more paragraphs of ‘Novitiate” yesterday (the new erotic novella that takes place in the truly sinister summer of 1966). And then I spent the rest of the day, working on the screenplay adaptation for our play “The Guide to Being Fabulous.” (See post from Monday.)

But I have come to the conclusion that, for now, I have to focus strictly on the screenplay adaptation because we need to do that promo package ASAP, and I can’t easily switch gears between both projects. So, “Novitiate,” once again, has to go on the back burner for a few days.

Other than that–

This is sort of thought-provoking. A 4-minute look at the history of the Illuminati.

Secrets (4 mins):

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Here’s Charlie Ward’s daily news update.

CHARLIE WARD DAILY NEWS WITH PAUL BROOKER & DREW DEMI – WEDNESDAY 24TH JANUARY 2024 (13 mins):

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It seems like, behind the scenes right now, lots of people, worldwide, are coming over to the side of the White Hats, and tons of other people are getting arrested now and taken to Gitmo.

I don’t always post them here, but here’s the latest arrest.

From Real Raw News yesterday:

Marines Arrest Former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly

[…] Kelly is a U.S. Marine who entered the political arena in 2017, serving as the 5th United States director of Homeland Security and, later, chief of staff between July 31, 2017, and January 2, 2019. Before that, he served as commander of U.S. Southern Command under Barack Hussein Obama, also known as Barry Soetoro. Kelly is a decorated Marine; he joined the Corps during the Vietnam War and quickly rose through the ranks, eventually serving as a four-star general in his last military post from 2012 to 2016. […]

[full article here]

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Phil’s presentation of the Lands Beyond continued last night (he lost his connection, so he had to do it in 2 parts).

The Lands Beyond, Part 2 (1 hr 46 mins):

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James Tabor’s look at ancient Magdala (Migdal) was great!!

Jesus Archaeology #7 Excavating Magdala: Is this the 1st Century Town of Mary Magdalene? (42 mins):

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In other news–

Nick Cave sent out a really tragic Red Hand File today. Just heartbreaking. You can read it here.

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And now I’m going to head to town, then come back and work on the adaptation of “The Guide to Being Fabulous”.

Enjoy your Wednesday, wherever you are in the world!

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

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These were interesting.

This Video Will Leave You Speechless – George Harrison’s Search For A Higher Truth (12 mins):

This Is Priceless – George Harrison On What Lies Beyond The Mind (9 mins):

Plenty to Think About!

Charlie Ward’s daily news update from this morning:

CHARLIE WARD DAILY NEWS WITH PAUL BROOKER & DREW DEMI – TUESDAY 23RD JANUARY 2024 (7 mins):

Matt Roeske – False history, Evaluating the Truth, and the Full moon Energy (55 mins):

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Part Two will be tonight, at 7PM Eastern time! Meanwhile–

Part One of Phil’s look at the Lands Beyond (1hr 53 mins):

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And keep your eyes peeled on James Tabor’s YouTube channel because the lecture today, in his current Jesus Archeology series, should be great!! I think it’s going to be about the excavations at Migdal, and the discovery of 2 ancient synagogues there. Migdal is where Mary Magdalene was from and Jesus of Nazareth definitely preached in Migdal.

Anyway. I will post it here tomorrow, if you miss it today.

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I was planning to head into town today to run the errands, but I’ve decided to go tomorrow, instead.

My houseguests are gone for most of the day and I have a ton of intense focusing to do around here, so I think I’ll take advantage of a totally empty house! (Except for the many, many cats who currently call this crazy place home…)

Okay. I have decided to divide my days into two sections and work on two different projects at once.

Yesterday, I spent about 2 hours working on “Novitiate” , but I didn’t make much headway in it. (If I recall correctly, it yielded three paragraphs. But they are paragraphs worth keeping, so that’s saying something.)

I spent the rest of the day, preparing to adapt “The Guide to Being Fabulous” into a screenplay format. I only need a few pages of it to include in our promo package. (See yesterday’s post.) But I need to get this done right away.

Here are two interesting things, though: For some reason, Sandra asked me to use a version of the play that we wrote back in 2017. (I have every version of the play that we’ve worked on since 2014.) As I was reading over the 2017 version of it yesterday, I thought: Wow! This is fantastic!

(Loyal readers of this lofty blog know that I wasn’t 100% keen on the Toronto version of the play. But I’m not going to go into that.)

Anyway, so I was pleasantly surprised to go back in time and encounter an older version of “The Guide to Being Fabulous” that was, well — fabulous.

The next interesting thing — I have spent the past 4 years focusing on writing various plays, and plays and screenplays are written in different formats.

I hadn’t written a screenplay since the last time Peitor and I worked on Lita måste gå! (Lita’s Got to Go!), back in 2020. And I’m on my 3rd laptop since 2020.

Which meant I had to go find my last version of Final Draft (screenwriting software), back on my laptop from 2020. Which, allegedly, began to go wonky in 2020, but 2 laptops later, that first one suddenly works perfectly fine… hmmmmm.

And because of that cloud drive thingie, everything I have on my current laptop, suddenly popped up on the one from 2020….

Just so weird. But what an incredibly convenient thing! So I’m working on the screenplay on an entirely different (and really small) laptop. Which means it is less distracting and helps keep me focused.

I just found it really weird. But in a good way.

And on that note… I gotta get to work here.

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

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

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Doing-the-laundry-listening music!! “Learning to Fly” from Into the Great Wide Open, 1991. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. Enjoy!

Another Magnificent Monday!

Okay — a few news-related items today.

Phil is planning to do a livestream tonight at 7PM Eastern time — and I believe it is going to be about the lands beyond, which should be really interesting and thought-provoking! I can’t wait.

Be sure to confirm on his channel later, though.

Next, Phil re-posted this from Lin Wood’s channel. (I believe, 43 has been in Gitmo for years already. Why bring him up now, I wonder?)

“Where is George 43???

Just askin.’”

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Interesting MSM update from Real Raw News:

JAG Claims 97 ‘Media’ Arrests in Last Two Months

On Thursday a Judge Advocate General’s Corps source in Pensacola told Real Raw News that JAG and Army CID investigators have arrested nearly one hundred media criminals in the last two months. However, the incarcerated are not the glamorized, limelight-hogging faces and figures that each day fulfill a collective thirst for (dis)information; they are not all Rachel Maddows, Anderson Coopers, or Robert Costas. Instead, they make up an equally dangerous ilk—the behind-the-scenes curators and custodians who decide what’s shown on air and published on internet white space. […]”

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Charlie Ward’s “daily news” update today is primarily about the worldwide banks that are not expected to be basel 3 or 4 compliant and what that could mean.

CHARLIE WARD DAILY NEWS WITH PAUL BROOKER & DREW DEMI – MONDAY 22ND JANUARY 2024 (6 mins):

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Benjamin Fulford — as always, be discerning regarding optics:

MOST RECENT WEEKLY GEO-POLITICAL UPDATE. BF GOES OFF. DROPS F-BOMBS TY JGANON (19 mins):

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Ross K. Nichols – The Final Plague – Bo (Exodus 10:1 – 13:16) (1 hr 18 mins):

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Matt Roeske – “Mercury, The Pyramids, and Dreamstates” featuring Quite Frankly and Matt (2 hrs):

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And that is it for now.

In personal news–

Sandra and I officially got back to work yesterday on our play, “The Guide to Being Fabulous”, and our plans for launching it off-Broadway in NYC. We are planning for it to be a basic staged reading, first. So keep your eyes peeled on this blog for when/where and how you, too, can attend!!

However, the other big news regarding the play — unfortunately, I can’t be too specific on the blog yet, but we are putting together a brief synopsis, sample script, promo package, for her agent to send to a production company at a specific cable movie streamer (think: most popular super neo-Marxist Leftist movie streamer on cable!!).

That’s right! Time to turn Sandra’s amazing life story into a bio-pic for cable!! Yay!

I will keep you posted…

Also — stay tuned for details on my possible trip this June to Villefranche-sur-mer, in the South of France, to hook up with Wayne (my ex-husband in NYC), and take a trip together into Italy and the Alps!!

Our main reason for meeting in Villefranche-sur-mer, is because he will already be there and I want to visit the front gates of Nellcôte and stare at those gates and marvel — and I really want to do all that staring and marveling with Wayne!!

Nellcôte was where Keith Richards lived in 1971 and where the Rolling Stones recorded their utterly amazing classic double-album, Exile On Main St.

Here are the gates of Nellcôte that you can now stand in front of:

Above: Keith and his son Marlon at Nellcôte in 1971.

Oh, and how about this photo to make you feel indescribably old??? Marlon Richards is now 54 years old!!

Anyway.

I’m excited!! And I will keep you posted!!

That’s it for this marvelous Monday, gang. Enjoy yourselves, wherever you are in the world!

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys! See ya!

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A favorite song from when I was almost twelve years old!! “Rip this Joint” from Exile on Main St. Enjoy!!

Me, that same summer (I know — I don’t look “almost 12,” which kind of explains a whole lot about my “childhood”…)

Some items of interest!

I’m wondering if maybe Charlie Ward’s “daily news” is only posted on weekdays? There is nothing posted yet for today.

If you listened yesterday, though, you heard that JP Morgan is allegedly bankrupt and will not be “basel 4 compliant” on Monday. That all their recent “cyber attacks” are a smoke screen.

Phil re-posted something on his channel yesterday from a truther in Britain, which is along the same lines — that JP Morgan will announce it is bankrupt this coming week, along with many other banks . You can view it here.

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I believe this is a case of a psy-op finally coming to a close. (Allegedly, Alec Baldwin was taken out a long time ago for High Treason and the whole “movie shoot” shooting was faked.)

From Shadow of Ezra yesterday:

And from Disclose.tv yesterday:

“JUST IN – Alec Baldwin has been indicted on a manslaughter charge in the fatal shooting on the “Rust” movie set.”

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And also from Disclose.tv yesterday:

“JUST IN – Sports Illustrated‘s entire staff has reportedly been told they are being laid off in an email on Friday.”

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Phil posted this tik-tok video this morning of Michael Moore. It is from 2016. Very interesting, coming from Michael Moore.

FLASH BACK 2016: THE OTHER BIG MIKE EXPLAINS WHY MI, OH, PA WORKING FOLKS SUPPORT PRESIDENT TRUMP (1 min):

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A new interview with James Tabor from MythVision.

If you are into the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Teacher of Righteousness is a very interesting topic.

What Do We Really Know About the “Teacher of Righteousness” in the Dead Sea Scrolls? (45 mins):

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By the way, I am up to Lesson 4 in the free Biblical Hebrew lessons on YouTube and I must say, I am utterly lost! Primarily because in all the years I studied it in the past, I always studied how to read and write it. To hear it “spoken only” is, well, let’s just say it: “It’s Greek to me!”

Hebrew – Subject Pronouns – Free Biblical Hebrew – Lesson 4 ( 5mins):

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Okay, I think that’s it for today!

I now need to rest up for my evening shift at the train station… as a personal aside:

For, literally, the last 9 months, I have been asking the Management of the train station (as politely as possible, which sometimes isn’t saying a whole lot) if they would be more diligent about posting to social media that there is even an evening shift at all, let alone what our hours are, that we have a liquor license, etc.

Maybe once or twice a month, the PR-social media person would throw us a bone and post something, but, sure enough, then we would be really busy that night.

Well, now that they have cut back my hours, I got pretty angry and I once again said sort of “firmly” that they have to do something about posting to social media, etc. etc., before they get rid of our shift entirely. We are located at the edge of a very small town, just over the hill from the ancient graveyard, tucked between the lumberyard, the mill, an old abandoned refinery of some kind, a gas station and a small general store. About 5 people in town know that we’re even open at night. But it is my firm conviction that we are sitting on a proverbial GOLD mine on the evening shift….

Long story short, they FINALLY listened to me. They gave me (I’m the evening supervisor) the password to Instagram and said that I could be responsible for the social media posts for the evening shifts…

Yesterday was my first day doing that. And yesterday evening was well below freezing with snow and high winds. Still, I thought the Instagram post would help….and we got slammed. The entire place was filled with happy drinkers & merry diners. And a few minutes before closing, I was turning away a party of 9 because we had no tables left.

We got out of there last night an hour and a half later than we usually do, and I’m very tired this morning.

But what’s really scaring me…

On Thursday, I asked the Management if maybe we could offer specials on house wines one night a week… that could help bring in customers on cold winter nights…

Yesterday at the start of the evening shift, they told me: “Okay, Marilyn! Starting tomorrow, you’re gonna have Happy Hour from 4 – 6 every evening!”

Well, yay! But, oh fuck…. something tells me I am going to be indescribably exhausted by tomorrow. (Ad infinitum for the rest of the winter…)

We shall see.

And, speaking of tomorrow — Sandra and I get back to work on our play, “The Guide to Being Fabulous” as we get it ready for New York!

So, on that happy note — enjoy your Saturday, wherever you are in the world.

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

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All of us, last night…

Holy Moly, Gang!

If you missed Phil’s intel and rapid fire Q&A last night, you will want to hear the replay ASAP.

I did not get to listen to it last night because there were glitches getting it off the ground and I fell asleep!!!

But I listened as soon as I woke up.

I do not want to spoil the whole thing for you, but I want to at least point out a couple of items:

He continued the intel on the (fake) King Charles — that they will announce soon that he’s dead. The body double who has been playing King Charles apparently actually died around the New Year…

Also — Baron Trump is not only adopted, but he is also Diana’s son….

He also said that Sydney Powell betrayed Trump. I haven’t even thought about Sydney Powell in about 2 years, but that bit of news really surprised me.

Anyway. Here it is (1 hr 53 mins):

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I haven’t had a chance to listen to this yet, but here is the “daily news” for today:

CHARLIE WARD DAILY NEWS WITH PAUL BROOKER & DREW DEMI – THURSDAY 18TH JANUARY 2024 (12 mins):

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This is amazing — White Hats in control!

Dinesh D’Souza – JP MORGAN CEO WARNS LEFTISTS TO STOP DEMONIZING MAGA PATRIOTS (1 min):

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And on another topic–

I no longer attend my church because it is now 2 hours’ worth of driving from the Hinterlands, but I do sort of “spiritually” consider it my church.

On Monday — Martin Luther King Day — the church began a new book in their monthly book club. It was apparently Martin Luther King’s favorite book. It looked interesting to me, so I went ahead and bought it. And, wow, gang! What an incredible book!!!

Written in 1948, by Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited.

If you are in the clergy in any way, or you study Jesus of Nazareth in some capacity, you will likely really enjoy this book — if you haven’t read it already.

“In this classic theological treatise, the acclaimed theologian and religious leader Howard Thurman (1900-1981) demonstrates how the gospel may be read as a manual of resistance for the poor and disenfranchised. Jesus is a partner in the pain of the oppressed and the example of His life offers a solution to ending the descent into moral nihilism. Hatred does not empower–it decays. Only through self-love and love of one another can God’s justice prevail.You can purchase it here. $12.99

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That’s kind of it for right now, since I spent the first part of my morning catching up on Phil’s Q&A. I haven’t really looked at anything else yet.

I will say that I’m really over this freezing weather around here. Yesterday, I had to be the “woman homesteader” and unfreeze the pipes and drains and toilet in the upstairs bathroom, especially since that is the bathroom that my houseguests use. (My house is 123 years old and the upstairs bathroom was added a few decades after the house was built. It has no heating duct in there and gets really cold.)

That only took about 2 hours….but I did it. And now I have a milkhouse heater running in there nonstop for the next few days. (Can’t wait to see that electric bill….)

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And I am happy to report — on another topic — that I am making good progress with the new novella, “Novitiate.”

If you are a writer, too, you likely know the feeling when a book or story is “writing itself” and just using you as the medium to get itself onto the paper.

“Novitiate” is like that for me. I have all these disturbing notes from 1966, and I have no clue how they will fit themselves into the deceptively simple erotic story I thought I was telling. But, little by little, it’s happening. However, yesterday, after working on the manuscript for about 3 hours, when “the bikers” (as in motorcycles) suddenly showed up at the campsite, I stopped for the day!

[Where the heck did these bikers come from??!! This can’t be good!!!}

Anyway. Onward.

Enjoy your Thursday, wherever you are in the world.

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

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I thought this was really cool. Wow, did it take me back.

The contents of the March 13th 1980 issue of SCENE (Cleveland’s long running alternative weekly) are set to I THINK WE’RE ALONE NOW + LUCKY NUMBER by LENE LOVICH. Contents of the issue include: articles/pics/blurbs: Dead Boys, Lene Lovich. Jane Fonda, Charlie Wiener…”

Cleveland Live Music – Lene Lovich – I Think Were Alone Now + Lucky Number – Scene Cleveland OH 3/13/80 (6 mins):

So, Here’s Wednesday!

Okay. Welcome to Wednesday. No more snow here but it is still very cold!!

For whatever reason, Charlie Ward’s “daily news” from yesterday, disappeared but then, indeed, reappeared.

I did find it an interesting update yesterday. I have no idea if something was edited out, because I didn’t re-listen to it, but here it is (17 mins):

CHARLIE WARD DAILY NEWS WITH PAUL BROOKER & DREW DEMI – TUESDAY16TH JANUARY 2024

And here is the “daily news” from this morning, which I didn’t find as interesting as yesterday’s. It’s mostly DAVOS stuff, which I believe is now fake (or as Charlie always says “it’s all pantomime”), but here it is–

CHARLIE WARD DAILY NEWS WITH PAUL BROOKER & DREW DEMI – WEDNESDAY 17TH JANUARY 2024 (13 mins):

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From Real Raw News yesterday:

White Hats Confirm Lloyd Austin Killed in Ukraine

The White Hat coalition has confirmed that the criminal Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was killed in Ukraine on January 3 by a Russian cruise missile strike that annihilated a command post where Austin and a high-ranking Ukrainian military commander, Lieutenant General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, were scheming to overthrow Vladimir Putin, a source in General Eric M. Smith’s office told Real Raw News.

As reported on January 7, Russian FSB agent Andrei Zakharov told RRN that the criminal Biden regime’s claims about Austin being secretly hospitalized for a week were disinformation because Russian intelligence placed him in Kyiv at the time of his alleged hospitalization. He said 20 hypersonic cruise missiles destroyed a maze of subterranean chambers in which Austin and Zaluzhnyi plotted Putin’s demise. […]”

[full article here]

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Convention of States has an At Home webinar tonight, with Representative Chip Roy, Congressman from Texas. The call is free:

“…gain insights into the current state of Congress and discover why Rep. Roy decided to join the Convention of States movement.”

Register Here. 8 PM eastern time.

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And from Alan Sweeney in Ireland:

“‘The Irish People’ needs 160 candidates to run for June 2024 elections – Register your interest to run as an Independent with ‘The Irish People’ here – https://www.irishpeople.org
”The Irish People” is a fully registered technical political party, established to bring together individuals who would normally run as Independent candidates. By running under a common brand, logo and shared principles, our aim is to increase their electoral chances, starting with the Local and European elections next year. Rather than being bound by a strict party line, our members are encouraged to act, speak, and vote according to their own convictions once elected.
The Agenda will not be halted unless every one has a chance to express their opposition by voting for a real political opposition”

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Okay. I found this amusing.

This is just some of the stuff I have to wade through in order to find “real news”…. Unbelievable amount of optics out there, even down to the prostitutes. From the Durden Dispatch this morning:

Escort Services “Completely Booked” As WEF Begins

“But anyone who wants to book an escort via matching platform “Titt4Tat” in the Davos region, or even in eastern Switzerland […]

[…] Demand for sex workers by business tycoons and world leaders surges during the five-day summit. 

One escort named “Liana” told the German newspaper Bild that she dresses in business attire to blend into the crowd of elites while at the summit. She said her client is an American who attends the meeting. She charges 700 euros per hour and 2,300 euros for the whole night.  […]”

(I wonder how many times she has to put out for that American guy in order to pay her rent? Just curious…)

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Anyway.

Apparently, the Hollywood Vampires are back in Hollywood, making a documentary about the band.

Yes, I love Johnny Depp, but I have never really liked the Hollywood Vampires. Mostly because I cannot comfortably get past their constant use of bats, skulls, and Nosferatu imagery. It really bothers me, even though I do not believe any of them are evil. 

And I did really love their version of Jim Carroll’s song, “People Who Died” that I posted to the blog the other day. I bought the album and I now stream the song constantly. But the video was made at “Hellfest”. I knew that they played Hellfest, but I had zero interest in it. Subsequently, until the other day, I had no idea that amazing song came out on an album 6 years ago…

Anyway. From Instagram yesterday — Johnny, during the filming of the Hollywood Vampires documentary (and, yes, he is smoking, so this is verified!):

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And speaking of people I love who use imagery that I can’t stand!!!!

Nick Cave sent out a Red Hand File today , wherein he discusses how he feels about the various paths his life has taken. And he also talks about his new career as a ceramicist, mentioning the upcoming art exhibit in Brussels that I posted about here a couple weeks ago:

During lockdown I woke one morning with a desire to make something in clay, a bright red devil to be precise, it was an entirely random impulse. Now, three years on, I have two assistants, Liv and Dom, helping me with the monumental task of glazing the figurines in preparation for an exhibition in Brussels….”

You can read it in full here.

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And I guess that is it for now!!

Have a wonder-filled Wednesday, wherever you are in the world!

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

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I wonder if the Hollywood Vampires would ever do a version of this??? To be honest, if they did, I think they would come up with something unbelievably amazing!!

Anyway. Enjoy!