Yes, I sat at my desk for most of the day yesterday, with the Novitiate file open in front of me on my laptop.
And, yes! I did manage to edit two sentences the entire day!!!
But some days are just like that.
Perhaps today will yield something a little more fruitful, but two perfect sentences are still better than two sentences that were only okay…
I’m not going to tarry here today, gang. I want to make some progress on marilynsroombooks.com today, in addition to working some more on Novitiate. (There’s probably at least one sentence there that could be just a little bit better!!)
But before I go —
I thought this was very, very interesting, gang. I’m not supporting any candidates right now — everything is either optics or a psyop (or both?). But I did think Vivek Ramaswamy was a decent guy…. Oops! My mistake.
Nick Cave sent out a Red Hand File this morning that was full of his usual compassion and good advice. A reader wrote in wanting advice about how best to deal with the new responsibilities in his life after his father’s stroke.
“…I have found that embedded within these challenges there is almost always the opportunity for renewal or transformation. That is the plain but uncomfortable truth. I say this with a much conflicted heart, but it seems clear to me that the heartbreaks that routinely befall us – personally, societally or universally – are, in fact, the necessary gifts of change. These painful upheavals always provide us with the option for self-destruction or for transcendence. Heartbreak can be the engine of obliteration or growth. The choice is ours.[…]”
James Tabor — Jesus’ Empty Tomb? Just the Facts Please! (1 hr 12 mins):
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And that’s it for right now!
Enjoy your Monday, wherever you are in the world!!
Thanks for visiting.
I love you guys. See ya!
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Oh yes! My lying-in-bed-with-my-cup-of-coffee-listening music from this morning!!
Rod Stewart’s classic “Maggie May,” from Every Picture Tells A Story, 1971. (Yes, this means that I was eleven years old when I first fell in love with this song! And NOW, sadly, I’m older than Maggie May…) Okay, gang! Enjoy!!
Wow, I awoke to the most amazing weather that we’ve had so far this summer.
Just one of those awe-inspiring, great days.
No fog, no haze, ho humidity. Not too hot but warm enough to still have all the windows open. A very light breeze. The sun coming up in a perfectly blue sky. Birds singing, everywhere.
That alone made me decide to skip the L-Theanine this morning and just see how the day goes without it.
So, we shall see!
There really isn’t anything I wanted to post about today — except for Nick Cave’s Red Hand File from yesterday!!
He recently did a podcast with Louis Theroux, but it was on Sportify, which I no longer have so I haven’t heard the interview. But, apparently, it was a good interview because it seems a ton of new people discovered Nick Cave for the first time — from all over the world. And they wrote to him, via the Red Hand Files, wanting advice about how to get started listening to his 40+ years of recorded music…
He replied, in part:
“So, I wonder if those fans could help us out by writing in with a 15 song playlist of the Best of Nick Cave, and perhaps you could add your age, just for interest’s sake.[…]”
So, here is my list— and no way on Earth could I narrow it down to 15. That was just absolutely impossible. As it was, I had to include entire ALBUMS and count them as one song! And it still came to 23… (then I also added my favorite “official videos” at the end!!) (I forgot to add my age, though, which is soon to be 63!!!! I started listening to Nick Cave when I was 25. )
Tupelo Train Long Suffering Hard On for Love Up Jumped the Devil The Weeping Song The Ship Song The Witness Song Brother, My Cup is Empty Counts as “one” song: Do You Love Me? (Parts 1&2) Nobody’s Baby Now Crow Jane Into My Arms Lime Tree Arbor People Ain’t No Good Brompton Oratory Hallelujah Love Letter Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow Counts as “one” song: All of Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus, except for “Fable of the Brown Ape” Counts as “one” song: All of Disc 3 of B-Sides & Rarities, Vol. 1 Go Tell the Women Counts as “one” song: All of Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! Balcony Man
Favorite “Official Videos”: Stagger Lee Red Right Hand Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow
If you are a Nick Cave fan, you can probably see that after Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!, I don’t have a whole lot of favorites from the newer albums (in fact, just one song). It isn’t that I don’t like those albums, it’s just that I don’t play the hell out of them, as I did (and still do) with most of the older records.
Anyway.
It was fun making that list. For about half an hour, it took my mind off of everything else I constantly think of, so that was nice.
Other than that —
Indy, the visiting cat who has been hiding in my closet for 2 and a half months, wanted me to pet him again today. And this time, he actually came out of the storage closet and into the great wide open of the guest room to make that happen.
It was just so beautiful, gang. What a sweet cat he is. Just like his brother…
They will be here for about 3 more weeks.
This is a photo of them that their “mom” sent me, when they were still kittens:
Indy, behind; Alan, in front.
And that’s it!!
Oh! Except for this photo from Johnny Depp on Instagram yesterday. He was visiting the Dylan Thomas birthplace:
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The Ten Commandments series with Ross K. Nichols and Jono continues with Thou Shalt Not Steal!
Theft – The Ten Words with Ross and Jono (49 mins):
If you’re curious, I have managed (quite easily, in fact) to not break 5 of the 10 Commandments throughout 63 years of living…
I won’t tell you which five I have broken (or maybe continue to break) quite as easily as the ones I didn’t break.
And to refresh your memory, here is an original list of the Biblical “10” Commandments (depending on how you write them out, there were 11):
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Okay, enjoy your Saturday, wherever you are in the world!! (I’m guessing that if you’re in the DC area and need to score some coke, the White House would be your best bet.)
Time is just flying, gang. Most days, I cannot keep up.
For this entire week, I did not even know what day it was. On Wednesday, I spoke with my dad and he was talking about “tomorrow is Friday…” And even though he was wrong, what I said, was: “Dad. Tomorrow’s Monday!”
And then we both realized we were both wrong… Anyway. What a weird week.
I’ve had a little bit of a schedule change at the train station (my part-time job, which looks like this:)
And between that and having to take 7 pages of resume notes for Sandra (40 years’ worth of her work in theater, TV, and movies) and turn it into an amazing one-page bio for her, I didn’t have time to get here yesterday.
And even today — I can’t stay here long because I’m nowhere near done on the bio. And I have to go to work today, when I used to have Fridays off. So that’s a little frustrating…
The really nice thing, though, is that I now get 4 days off for the 4th of July!!
The bad thing about that, though, is that it’s supposed to RAIN the entire time!!! (What’s going to happen to the fireworks??!!) (Plus, I was planning to FINALLY get that weeding done out in my yard.)
Here’s hoping that the weather report is simply wrong and that everything will blow over and be beautiful. Because it has been forever since I had 4 days off in a row, entirely to myself. So we’ll see.
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I have been meaning to mention this for a few months already and I keep forgetting — if you have cats or dogs who spend a lot of time outdoors, and you don’t want to give them pharmaceutical flea meds, this is what I use for Kon Tiki of the Great Outdoors (my Maine Coon cat who, as the name implies, likes to stay outside) and it works great: Vitamin B1 and Apple Cider Vinegar (powder form).
It keeps away fleas, ticks, and mosquitoes.
You want to get good quality capsules, and then it depends on the weight of your pet. Kon Tiki is under 10 pounds, so I give her about 50 mgs. of B1 and a dash of Apple Cider Vinegar powder. I open up the capsules and sprinkle the powders over her canned food and then mix iti in real good. I do this once a day.
You need to make sure they are good quality supplements. Such as:
And the even better news is that it also works on PEOPLE!
I take 100 mgs of B1 a day, and 2 ounces of liquid organic Apple Cider Vinegar. (You must give it 2 weeks to begin working.)
I no longer get mosquito bites!! Mosquitoes won’t even land on me anymore.
Also, if you like to spend time outdoors at night, try putting dried sage and dried rosemary into your campfire, fire pit or bonfire and it also helps keep mosquitoes away. (If you wrap the dried stalks in foil and then poke holes in the foil, it will burn longer.)
Anyway!! It really helps make summer evenings nicer.
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Nick Cave sent out a really wonderful Red Hand File on Wednesday. It was sort of a follow-up to the interview that he did with the Archbishop on the BBC over the weekend (I posted a link for that podcast the other day).
I just loved what he had to say in his Red Hand File (but I have to add that I find it absolutely amazing that so many people are so reluctant to believe in God nowadays. Like, it makes them stupid to fall for something like that and that to doubt the existence of God (or whatever label you want to give to Source or All That Is) makes you, I don’t know — reasonable, rational, smart? In my opinion, doubt is just resistance that wastes your time; it’s a bunch of clunky furniture you throw in your own way on the path to the river on an otherwise beautiful day. We are all — every one of us — miracle workers and all it takes is to align with the frequency of God and affirm it. And of course, I think this was done purposely — this indoctrination to get people to believe they are smarter than the idea of God. Keeps them full of obstacles of their own making, and keeps them from working miracles every day.)
Anyway — from the Red Hand File:
“[…] I live for the moments my disbelief loosens its hold and allows me to experience that lovely lightness of spirit – that elevated oneness with things, that feels like God, that feels like love.[…]”
Here we go!! That moment we’ve been waiting for, for 9 weeks!! Ross K. Nichols and Jono continue to tackle the Ten Commandments!! This week, it’s Adultery!!!
Adultery – The Ten Words with Ross and Jono (1 hr):
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And I think that’s it for now!! I gotta scoot!
I hope you have a lovely Friday, wherever you are in the world. Try not to cry for me having to work today and all that. I will rise to the challenge!!
Likely the best news of all — for all of us — is that Real Raw News is reporting that Whitmer’s gonna hang. (If she hasn’t already….)
“Yes, sir, she and Garlin were discussing how Covid was fake and how the lockdowns were a social experiment to see if people obeyed orders,” Robert said.
“I want to be clear. You personally heard the defendant say Covid is fake,” the admiral said.
“I did,” Robert said. “She said it’s no different from seasonal flu.”
“Hunter Biden to plead guilty to three federal charges Breaking news from around the world.“
(My guess is that we need to read this story with many grains of salt, gang. No way has Hunter been out, roaming the world as a free agent all this time. I don’t think he’s been executed — maybe he has — but he has definitely been under arrest for a really long time. And there’s, of course, something way, way, WAY fishy about why his laptop ended up in that pawn shop to begin with. However, this story is likely optics, but optics that will lead to something very, very positive. We’ll wait and see!)
Meanwhile.
All other good news is basically in my own world–
Sandra and I have begun the line-by-line read-through of Act One of “The Guide To Being Fabulous” and I have to say yet again, gang — this show is incredible!! It is just so good.
It is a one-woman musical; Sandra’s life story — with all original songs written by her and composer, James Dower. Not only is her life incredible, but the songs are, too.
I’m not just saying this because I’m helping her write it. I’m saying this because, when she first showed me her script in 2015 and asked me to help her with it — I thought that the potential of it was incredible, way back then.
And now it is really coming to fruition.
We worked on the first half of Act One yesterday and after we were done for the day, we were both kind of speechless, going, “Wow. It’s really there. It’s finally all on the page!”
Sandra Caldwell, circa 1990s
It made me want to start drinking again; to go to the corner gas station and buy a bottle of red wine to celebrate!!
Yes! That is my life out here in the Hinterlands! Gone are the days when every celebration called for a fine bottle of Saint–Émilion from the wine shop on the corner of Broadway and W. 97th Street — and nothing less!
And now that I live in an area of the world where nary a bottle of Saint–Émilion is offered for sale, at any price —
I have learned to settle for a bottle of wine from the gas station!!
BTW, I no longer drink because, nowadays, I have such a clean diet that even half of a glass of wine gets me drunk, immediately. It is absolutely not enjoyable.
“[Art] insists that we retract our ego, our sense of self, the cosmetics of identity and let it do its thing. We are in service to art, not the other way around.[…]“
Wow, did it resonate with me, gang. Readers here know that I have been struggling, lately, to find my writer’s voice again, to make my way back into any of the many works-in-progress that are sitting here on my desk — and have been since the Fall of 2020.
It was getting frustrating, depressing, debilitating.
But that Red Hand File yesterday was so intense, it sort of blew me away. And then I was suddenly back at it. I just went right into creativity mode.
One of the first things I did was re-link my blog to my “In the Shadow of Narcissa” memoir-in-progress. I was kind of stunned to discover that the website was still there. I thought I had deleted it (only because it was getting pirated by a site in China). But I hadn’t deleted it. It was all still there; I had only unlinked it.
So I re-linked it. (There is nothing new there yet. And you can only access the link if you visit my website from a laptop or desktop. You can’t find that part of my website viewing it on a cellphone.)
And then — wow.
I cannot even recall how it started, but I was suddenly working on notes for Novitiate, an erotic novella that has also been in progress since before the war.
And the notes took me to a much deeper place — I saw that the story had to really expand, and I saw how to do that. And the whole rest of my evening — about 5 hours — was spent on making more and more notes, and suddenly having all these amazing ideas, and realizations, come to me.
Wow.
And then this morning, while I was shaving my legs (!!), I suddenly further realized that Novitiate, which takes place in 1966, and 1954 Powder Blue Pickup, which obviously takes place in 1954, were going to be part of a sort of erotic series, and that there was going to be another erotic novella after Novitiate, that was going to be about the 1970s!
Jeez. Yay. Talk about flowing…
Anyway. You can read Nick Cave’s Red Hand Filehere.
And I have to add, that this photo he included really nailed it for me: a photo of the chaos of Giacometti’s studio, an artist that I love. It just sort of sang out to me, really loudly, that I just have to get back in there and keep on working. So I did.
Okay. I think that’s it for now, gang.
Have a terrific Tuesday, wherever you are in the world!
Thanks for visiting.
I love you guys. See ya!
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A little bit of the “soundtrack” for Novitiate— enjoy!
It’s not yet working on my new TV, but I wasn’t down in the kitchen; I was already up in my bed, perusing the lineup of channels offered on Cue (because it works on my iPhone and on my laptop) and it was the same old, same old as ever before — the reason I canceled cable years ago. There was never anything I wanted to watch and I was always watching Amazon Prime instead.
So I canceled Cue Streaming last night and then immediately went back over to Amazon Prime and watched another episode of “The Avengers” from 1966 on the tiny yet beguiling screen of my iPhone…
I used to love “The Avengers,” back when I was a little girl, growing up in Cleveland. I wouldn’t say that I love it now, but I do like to watch Emma Peel and marvel at all her many amazing outfits and remember fondly how awesome fashions were in London in the 1960s.
If you have no idea what I’m talking about, no worries! There is absolutely no need to waste a moment, stepping back in time. Diana Rigg, the actress who played Emma Peel, is no longer even alive. And she died from old age, not because she skipped outside one merry morning and got hit by a bus while still in the bloom of youth or anything. It is sufficient to just post this photo and move ever onward into that great unknown expanse called Life:
Emma Peel, The Avengers, 1966
Of course, rumor has it among Truthers that Amazon Prime will disappear once the new Internet is up and running, but I’m willing to risk it! We’ll just have to see. If I’m left with no technology whatsoever, perhaps just a pen and some paper — that might end up being the best life yet… Creativity, without the siren call of black & white reruns.
Okay!
Today is once again wide open.
I am off work. Sandra has that meeting with the (DORA-nominated) director of our play — so no more re-writes just yet. I will still have a slew of them once we undertake Act Two.
But today (!!) — laundry is almost done, I do not have to drive to town & back for anything at all; it’s going to just be all about me and my desk and a bunch of thoughts that are in my head. (And, with luck, putting the thoughts down on paper or onto a screen of some sort.)
I’m looking forward to it.
In other news!!!
Nick Cave sent out a Red Hand File this morning. In it, he tackles the pesky problem plaguing truckloads of American families right now — “non-binary,” “trans,” “gender fluidity,” “pronoun problems.” He doesn’t go into the Neo-Marxist Indoctrination at the heart of the current Color Revolution that is hoping to upend whatever is left of the nuclear family here in America by ripping it to smithereens…
Instead, he opted to aim for the simple human heart: parents and children and unconditional love. And how the situation is always basically the same, regardless of the topic and the times. Love and acceptance are at the core of surviving it and always have been.
Just normal people living in hell.
And there was also beautiful stuff about his music…
As always, James Tabor brings up a lot of points about the early Jesus Movement that are well worth pondering.
John, Jesus, Peter, Paul, and James–Sorting out the First Forty Years! (1 hr 20 mins):
That’s probably it for right now. I’m going to get started on stuff here and see where the day leads.
Enjoy your Monday, wherever you are in the world! (And yes, I am still keeping up on the war and things are absolutely horrific and more chaotic than ever. But on we go,)
Thanks for visiting, gang.
I love you guys. See ya!
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A song from yesteryear that was curiously on my mind this morning and so I share it with you! Enjoy, gang.
I’m just waiting for Sandra to call so that we can go over the final revisions (for now) on Act One of the play before she heads back to Toronto tomorrow.
So here is a quick, “hi!’
Phil and Keri tied the knot yesterday!! Yay!!! Second marriages for both — I hope this one lasts a lifetime.
Nick Cave sent out a sort of strange Red Hand File this morning. But he did offer further proof that his mind is absolutely overrun by the Devil!!! (I’m just kidding but — hmmmm…..) (Illustration is from his Red Hand File)
This was fantastic. I love when James Tabor talks about Jesus’ possible birth father — or who they thought it was in antiquity — before Christianity was born and they began believing that Jesus had no biological father.
In the interview below, he recommends these two books, one of which I bought, the other is a little pricey…
$30.95
USED – $102
Anyway. I’m saving up for the more expensive one… If you are unfamiliar with Jesus son of Pantera, who is written about in First Century CE Jewish documents —
James Tabor – Jesus son of Pantera: Ancient Slander or Historical Probability? (1 hr 22 mins):
Wayne texted me something beautiful last night about the song “Unwed Fathers,” from John Prine’s 1984 album, Aimless Love.
For me, this song hits a little too close to home, so I have trouble listening to it. Although my birth father did not know that I’d even been born until I was 28 years old. So I don’t believe he’s the type of guy written about in this song. He was only 14 when I was conceived, but he claimed later that if he’d known I’d been born, he never would have let me get out of his life.
He had two older, married sisters — my Aunt Jo and my Aunt Bobbie Jean — who also claimed, when they found out that I existed, that they would have done all they could to keep me in the family and not let my birth mom’s father put me up for adoption, had they only known. I often wonder what that would have been like for me, since I was writing songs and teaching myself how to play the guitar by the time I was 9 years old. And my entire family, on my birth father’s side, were musical, wrote songs, played guitars — and a couple of them did it professionally in Nashville.
However, my birth mom was 13 when I was born, and so for me, this song is just too sad.
It is beautiful, though, so I share it:
And just to follow up on something I posted the other day, on Wayne’s birthday —
Here’s another one of the CDs we listened to nonstop on our honeymoon, as we drove cross-country:
And, in particular, this song. “Picture Show” — we played it over and over and sang along at the top of our happy voices — I think it’s interesting that Tom Petty wound up in the official video for it:
(As an aside — I was a HUGE James Dean fan back then. Also, John Garfield, the actor that James Dean was so fond of, was my grandma’s first cousin.)
And that is kind of it for now, gang.
I’m just kind of waiting for my iPhone to ping! Just breathing, looking at the beautiful world of summer outside my house, before I have to dive into another flurry of typing.
Enjoy your Monday, wherever you are in the world!!
Thanks for visting.
I love you guys. See ya!
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The song that was in my head first thing this morning!! So I sat in bed, drank my coffee, listened to it many times (and you know who you are !!!!!), while drinking my coffee and hanging out with Al the cat… (btw, that’s A L, not A I). Enjoy!
And in my own personal opinion, I think this weird “Elon stepping down from twitter and being replaced by an alleged lunatic” — that’s some weird White Hat psy-op. We’ll have to see if it makes whatever is left of the normies go absolutely nuts…
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I also think that Trump being on CNN was a weird White Hat psy-op, designed to make whatever was left of the normies go absolutely nuts…
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Ditto the thousands of migrants allegedly storming the open borders (many of them grown men — YES! — identifying as women and children…)
(You can’t make this stuff up, gang, which is why I think these are White Hat psy-ops, designed to make whatever is left of the normies go absolutely nuts.)
Luckily, I don’t have children who could feel threatened by my constant Q-related blogging these last 3 years. It’s been scary enough just trying to protect myself, without worrying about the safety of others.
From “Nancy Drew” over the weekend — visit link for complete post:
In this episode of ICIC, Dr. Reiner Fuellmich talks with Karen Kingston, a former Pfizer employee and current analyst for the pharmaceutical and medical device industries and Hedley Rees, managing consultant of PharmaFlow in the pharmaceutical supply chain industry, about the unconventional manufacturing processes of the genetically engineered covid injections sold by the pharmaceutical industry as ‘vaccines.'” (1 hr 40 mins):
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Due to bad weather and tornado warnings, President Trump had to cancel his appearance in Iowa over the weekend.
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Sadly, according to SG Anon on Truth Social, children are still being trafficked for sex online through places like eBay.
The fact that there is still not much real news, and basically no intel at all– I think this is a really good sign.
On the personal front — I have the next THREE days off! Then I also have FRIDAY off! At some point this week, the official final rewrites on the play begins. In the meantime, I’m undertaking a new short memoir. I’m so excited to finally have some serious time to myself!! Yay.
Enjoy your Monday, wherever you are in the world.
Thanks for visiting!
I love you guys. See ya!
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This morning, Bill Wyman’s official Instagram page recommended listening to this cover version of one of his songs. I really love it!
Jeffrey Halford and the Healers – Mississippi Flyer
Yes, until Sunday, I had 8 cats around here. 7 rescued ferals, living indoors with me now for all 11 years of their wee bonny lives. And a huge, gorgeous, stray Maine Coon Cat who has made this her home for the last year (she comes and goes all day long, and she’s really, really feisty).
Sunday, however, one of my co-workers dropped off her two rescued cats temporarily — full grown, but still only about a year old. Also indoor cats, one of which is also really, really feisty and delights in chasing all 7 of my ferals…
Not only am I constantly distracted by cats suddenly running for their lives at any given moment, but I’m also really wiped out from the constant distraction. If I leave my laptop unattended while in use, I could come back to find that what I had just written has suddenly been turned into a mysterious code, full of numbers and odd dots and dashes and random capital letters… tiny cat feet, walking upon the keys.
And don’t turn on the shower without checking behind the shower curtain first. Visiting cats could be happily lounging in there and suddenly become not-so-happy…
And don’t start the laundry without first checking that a visiting cat isn’t hiding behind the washer or dryer. A suddenly bolting cat might suddenly scare the bejeezus out of you.
They’re staying with us until July 1st.
I’m hoping things will calm down around here before the week is out. We shall see.
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Okay, so Phil did his live yesterday afternoon — and while he did give some updates on Tucker and Bongino, it was primarily about the bank crashes that are in full swing now. He essentially implored us to make a run on the banks. Get our money out of the banks and into precious metals ASAP, while there was still time… (and I’m thinking that bank runs also help the WHs crash the economy, while helping us get a higher value for our precious metals really quickly). If you missed it:
REPLAY – RUN ’em- May 2nd, 2023 (1 hr 23 mins):
Also, from Phil’s channel — a great tiktok video. I can’t embed it here, but you must watch it. Regarding Covfefe and 5G. (I have posted here in the past that Covfefe –cobalt and iron x 2 — somehow removed the harm from 5G, but I didn’t understand how it worked until I saw this video today). A must watch.
Dan Bongino – An Interesting Turn in the Tucker Story (Ep. 2002) (55 mins):
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I wish more people spoke like this today. I love this guy!
WHY WE KNOW FOR A FACT THE OCEAN LEVEL IS NOT GOING TO RISE EVEN A FEW INCHES… (52 seconds):
On a related personal note — loyal readers of this lofty blog know that I spent a lot of years (decades) studying the writings of Jane Roberts and the SETH material and then after Jane died, the Abraham Hicks material.
In those writings, both Seth and “Abraham” maintained that there were no such things as aliens from outer space, no such thing as anything being shipped to planet Earth from some other planet, no such thing as climate catastrophes. (A lot of other interesting stuff, too, about vibrational frequencies, but the climate stuff is my main point here. Interesting, indeed.)
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NAOMI WOLF – PFIZER & FDA KNEW BABIES DIED; WALENSKY SAID VACCINATE PREGNANT WOMEN ANYWAY (20 mins):
Sanity4Sweden – SWEDISH MIGRANT UPSET. UK SECRETS. FAST MOVING US GOV (8 mins):
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Medical issues answered — MAHONEY LIVE WITH CORI STERN (1 hr):
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X22 Report – PATRIOTS NEEDED A SPARK TO RE-IGNITE THE ENGINE,PUBLIC INTEREST FORCES THE SUN TO SHINE (52 mins):
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Babylon Bee (satire) – Is The FBI Listening To Your Phone Calls? (4 mins):
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From Stew Peters — (I really LOVED this song when I was 14, gang!! He didn’t write the song, Paul Anka did, but he sure did sing it!!):
“I wonder what Tom Jones thinks about today’s society. He’s 82.”
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In other news–
Nick Cave is attending King Charles’ upcoming coronation ceremony, as part of the Australian delegation. (Nick Cave is allegedly an Order of Australia Officer, “AO” — General Division – “Distinguished service of a high degree to Australia or to humanity at large”.)
Some fans are upset that he’s attending the ceremony (but, in my Q-related opinion, upset for all the wrong reasons.) Anyway!! Nick Cave replied, in part:
“I am not a monarchist, nor am I a royalist, nor am I an ardent republican for that matter; what I am also not is so spectacularly incurious about the world and the way it works, so ideologically captured, so damn grouchy, as to refuse an invitation to what will more than likely be the most important historical event in the UK of our age. Not just the most important, but the strangest, the weirdest.”
You can read his full reply here. And it is quite charitable to humankind (if you include the British royals as in any way connected to humanity). Still, it is charitable and even sweet.
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And that is it for today!
Enjoy your Wednesday, wherever you are in the world. If you haven’t already done it, get your cash out of the bank — leave only enough to pay bills. Invest what you can afford in precious metals. (Visit goldquiz.com to get started.) Keep the rest at home for now.
Well, the good news is that they’ve hired someone now to open the train station sandwich shop every morning, so I don’t have to be out the door at 6am anymore and then drive 25 miles and then work for 9 hours and then drive 25 more miles back out to the Hinterlands… what a week!
I am exhausted.
BUT — I’m not in excruciating pain anymore, so that’s exciting. I’m really really glad I went back to the train station. (See a bunch of previous posts if you have no idea what I’m talking about.)
And starting this weekend, evening hours get underway again, so I should be back to working part-time there in the early evenings and I should have a reasonably predictable schedule again very soon. Which means I can be back on the blog again pretty much every morning.
Phil has had a ton of posts since I last updated the blog, but here is one from this morning:
“Loses track?
Nah.
WH [white hats] got them though 💯”
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From 3 days ago, over at Real Raw News:
“Liz Cheney Hanged at GITMO
[…] “This isn’t personal; I take no enjoyment in my responsibilities,” Vice Adm. Crandall said. “You took an oath to our country—let me correct myself. It’s not your country. It stopped being your country the moment you betrayed the Constitution. You’re un-American. You, your people, you stand up there holding yourself blameless, no misgivings for what you’ve done. I pity you; I really do.”
The admiral seemed uncharacteristically patient. He gave Cheney more latitude than he had previous Deep Staters on the gallows… […]
[…] A Navy physician affirmed Cheney’s death and noted the time: 9:30 a.m., Monday, April 24.
Adm. Crandall had a busy schedule. He still had to oversee the hanging of two corrupt feds and then board one of several flights that would eventually carry him to Guam, where tribunals would be held for the foreseeable future.”
Regarding Issue 7 of the new GEORGE Magazine — the issue that features the interview with Phil — it had 2.3 million views in the first 5 hours that it was available online. You can still view it online or purchase it in print HERE.
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Just FYI, gang — when you’re found dead by “an apparent suicide” and hanging from a belt or scarf around your doorknob, you were in fact an illuminati hit…
A new installment of “Elegantly Wasted” from Good Lion TV — episode 20:
“Elegantly Wasted 20: The Murder of Michael Hutchence
If Colin Diamond, John Ibrahim, and others were to profit from the Michael Hutchence brand, the best way they could go about it was with the singer dead. And since they had the South Wales police in their pockets, don’t you think it’s relevant the INXS leader was murdered in that jurisdiction? The main suspects in this crime are reduced to three names: Colin Diamond, John Ibrahim, and Bob Geldof.”
Peter Sweden interview – BOMBSHELL: Contaminants in mRNA shots | Sasha Latypova (12 mins):
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Dan Bongino – The New Media Era Has Begun (Ep. 2000) (54 mins):
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The Ohio Connecting Consciousness group (Simon Parkes’ organization) sent out a great link –
Hyperbaric Therapy –
How do you know if hyperbaric therapy is right for you? Oxygenation under pressure, besides the obvious benefits of delivering oxygen, also stimulates the immune system, accelerates your body’s injury recovery mechanism, and blocks the cytotoxic effect of some dangerous toxins. Internationally used indications include but are not limited to:
Nick Cave sent out another really great Red Hand File the other day, wherein he dispels the myth that the suffering of addiction makes for better art…
“We often hear the grandiose presumption that the artist-addict experiences a kind of ‘holy ’suffering, that their struggle is special or somehow elevated beyond the ordinary heartache of the world. This is simply not the case and indicates little understanding of the nature of suffering or addiction or, indeed, art…”
Wayne called to remind me that it was 30 years ago, today, that we got married!! We are no longer married, but we remain extremely good friends… (yes, we got married on Elvis Presley’s wedding day!)
May 1, 1993
May 1, 1967
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And that is kind of it for now, gang. It has been really hard to stay on top of things and work all those insane hours the last 3 days.
I hope Phil really does do his livestream tonight, it would be good to get an update.
Meanwhile, enjoy your Monday, wherever you are in the world!
Thanks for visiting.
I love you guys. See ya!
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Yes, Wayne & I really did walk down the aisle to “The Hawaiian Wedding Song” from Elvis’ film, Blue Hawaii!!
Well, I was so disappointed that Phil was not able to do his livestream last night because I have today off. He is supposed to do it tonight, instead, at 9PM Eastern. I will have to listen in the morning, though, because I have to be up at 4AM tomorrow.
Reminder — on days when I don’t post here, it is because I have to be gone very early in the mornings now and then work all day.
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From Shadow of Ezra — the war in Sudan is starting to make sense now:
“JUST IN – Biden (80) announces 2024 reelection bid despite concerns over his health and age and his propensity to misspeak on the world stage.”
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Here in Ohio– (this Bill was co-sponsored by my Representative out here in the Hinterlands; the first time he’s done anything that I actually agree with. Hopefully, this is now because our beloved Governor, who was up to his eyeballs in child sex trafficking, is wearing a boot now and/or already at Gitmo):
House Bill 68: Enact Ohio Saving Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act
Sec. 3109.054. When allocating parental rights and responsibilities or parenting time, a court shall not consider a parent’s decision to do any of the following: (A) Refer to and raise the child in a manner consistent with the child’s biological sex; (B) Decline to consent to the child receiving gender transition services as defined in section 3129.01 of the Revised Code; (C) Decline to consent to the child receiving counseling or other mental health services for the purpose of affirming the child’s perception of the child’s gender or sex, if the child’s perception is inconsistent with the child’s biological sex.
Is Gucci on the chopping block now? We saw this coming when (1) Alessandro Michele stepped down last fall, (2) right when that inter-family lawsuit was filed, charging child-rape and torture in the Gucci family, (3) just as Balenciaga ads were featuring kids in bondage.
“🇷🇺 Bloomberg writes that already 19 states want to join the BRICS. At the same time, 13 of them applied officially, and the remaining 6 – unofficially.
Which countries are in question is not reported. Right before our eyes, the largest association is being formed, which may well act as a real counterbalance to the traditional G7 coalition. In any case, China will remain the leader there, because the economy determines everything.
Obviously, the US, EU and UK will pretend that BRICS+ has absolutely no weight, so they will continue their usual policy due to high inertia, but this is not important. It is important to have an association that can form a collective agenda and implement it in its own interests.
However, there is no need to flatter yourself either, the process will not be fast. In addition, the presence of such a large number of member countries will require reform of the organization.”
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THE PUBLIC ARE IN THE DARK,BANKS ARE CLOSING EVERYDAY WITH GOLDBUSTERS, SIMON PARKES & CHARLIE WARD (46 mins):
The Truth About COVID-19 Death Certificates | Dr. Scott Jensen
In the beginning days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Scott Jensen recalls an email he received from the Department of Health with a link to the CDC that advised him they were going to adjust the way death certificates were completed. (9 mins):
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New music video from Mr. Goode:
‘Biblical’ by Mr Goode
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Dan Bongino — 60 Minutes Goes Full Pravda (Ep. 1997) (55 mins):
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AmericanEveryman – WITH AUNT BB: TALKING 9/11, TUCKER & DON, BOSTON BOMBING AND MORE (1 hr 28 mins):
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In other news–
SUCCESS! Johnny Depp’s ‘Jeanne du Barry’ Gets RAVES As Cannes Film Festival DEFENDS Depp & Maiwenn (10 mins):
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A spring sale is going on NOW at Cave Things!! (Shop Here)
And Nick Cave sent out a really moving Red Hand File yesterday, about the death of musician, Mark Stewart.
“When The Birthday Party moved from Australia to the UK in 1989, it was partly because of The Pop Group. We truly loved them, were mystified by them, playing their strange, utterly unique music non-stop, barely able to comprehend what it was we were actually listening to. For us, cut off from the world in Australia, The Pop Group embodied the wild and creative promise of the UK. If we could only get there, we thought, everything would be all right, because that’s where The Pop Group came from.” [Read more here]
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On a personal note —
An upcoming anniversary!
In May, my first book, the award-winning Neptune & Surf, will have officially remained in print (or in digital print) for 24 uninterrupted years! Yay!
You can find all sorts of print editions for sale online, in English and French. For instance, here, here, here, and even here! Just to name a few…
The eBook edition is here. Or here in non-Kindle options.
A couple of reader reviews of the original edition (1999):
“…Lewis’ work is characterized by hope; sexual instinct fuses with the life force, driving the characters, in an affirmation of life itself. Her message is ultimately positive, speaking to the human spirit…and the human flesh.”
“I adored this book. Marilyn Jaye Lewis is a first rate erotic writer. I read it more than once, bought copies to give to friends. Her characters are so human, their stories so well developed, and the eroticism is…well, truly erotic…”
A very brief excerpt suitable for all readers:
The love theme swelled and Nat felt a little caught up in the sexual undertones of the film, as corny as they were. He found himself wanting to kiss that skinny white girl on the Ferris wheel, up there on the screen; it reminded him of Coney Island, of being in love with Rosalie.
When the movie was over, Nat stepped back into the neon-lit crowd. There were many more people now, taking on the usual temperament of Times Square. The streets were crammed with cars and impatient taxis; amphetamine-riddled hustlers darted in and out among the boisterous, rum-soaked Puerto Rican men, while sailors clustered on street corners and whores slinked closer to unsuspecting tourists, trapped in the lure of the neon.
Nat bought himself another beer and slid it into his paper bag. He was frugal with money and kept clear of the bars, unless it had been a particularly trying ship he was leaving and he needed to go rutting. Even then, Nat had never spent fifty bucks on a whore in his life, and he was nearly twenty-five. Rosalie, or Gina—or whoever she was—was different; she was the proverbial rainy day for which he had always saved.”
from Neptune & Surf
c-1999, Marilyn Jaye Lewis
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And I think that is it for today! We shall see…
Have a terrific Tuesday, wherever you are in the world.
Thanks for visiting!
I love you guys. See ya!
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Morning-listening-music!!
Yes! The incredible classic from Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers!! “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around”!! Enjoy!