“JUST IN: 🇬🇧 Petition calling for an immediate General Election in the UK surpasses 2,300,000 signatures within 48 hours.”
AND–
“India saved $25,000,000,000 by importing discounted Russian crude oil.”
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I saw this from il donaldo trumpoyet again, and thought: hmmmm.…..now what?? [FYI: Popcorn is Q-related, meaning this is all scripted; we’re watching a movie.]
Nick Cave sent out a great Red Hand File the other day, regarding Bob Dylan mentioning Nick and the Bad Seeds’ Paris show in a tweet. (I thought it was posted to Threads, but apparently it was on X.)
Nick said, in part:
“Sitting in bed with Susie in a post-tour stupor, watching ‘Carry On Up the Khyber’ and eating Belgian chocolates (gift from a fan), my phone suddenly lit up as excited friends started sending me Bob Dylan’s tweet–…”
Also, Cave Things has a Black Friday sale going on from now until December 6th!!
“70% off all Notebooks and Stickers
50% off the Suck My Dick Collection
30% off all Charms
50% off Silkscreen Prints
40% off T-shirts
50% off Happy Tea Set
40% off all Tiles
AND MUCH MORE”
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And in my own life…
Well, a few of you guys either have a dark sense of humor or want to encourage me to become a stalker!
I think about 10 of you actually voted in my opinion poll the other day (!!)(see post here) and it was a tie between:
“Drive to his house and park across the street and stare at everything that goes on there”
and
“All of the above”
And even though I wasn’t actually going to do any of the options, and I was going to leave him the fuck alone…
I did actually join his Youtube channel. Even though there are tons of videos of him in concert all over the internet, his personal YT channel only has one video posted on it and that was posted about 3 years ago.
Didn’t seem like an active channel, really. But I could not help myself. I posted a comment and asked him a question that could, you know, be read by anyone in the world and not sound salacious or offensive or anything.
And I figured that maybe some day, a couple years from now, I might get some sort of response.
Well. Try a couple of hours later (!!!)
Holy cow.
I was astounded! But it was a very cheerful reply. This whole thing has really just blown me away, gang. In the last 50 years he has lived all over the place. And I have lived mostly in NYC, but also in Pennsylvania, and several places in Ohio… And now we live 30 miles away from each other? In the middle of nowhere?
And why did I even think to google him in the first place? So weird.
Anyway.
There’s even more good news — I seem to be past the notes and research phase, and I believe the actual memoir is getting ready to come through, gang.
And if you’re keeping track — Valerie and I have been doing our “creativity schedule-thing” for over a week now! Without missing a day. And she has almost completed a new painting!!
And here’s a little more research for the memoir–
Keith Richards remembers John Lennon (1 minute):
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And that is it.
Yoga awaits. And then dinner and a rerun of “Mrs. Brown’s Boys” and then collapse in bed!! And get ready for a double shift tomorrow!!
But it’s all good, gang, because I am excited about going back to NYC…
Okay. Enjoy what’s left of your Monday, wherever you are in the world.
Thanks for visiting.
I love you guys. See ya!
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I leave you with this!! Enjoy, gang!!
Keith Richards – The Interview You’ve Never Seen Before – Restored From 1988 (33 mins):
As of right now, I’m better today! That could change at a moment’s notice, but for now, on we go.
Mostly, I have discovered that my PTSD gets triggered by all these Leftist neo-Liberal Marxist people having indescribably insane meltdowns on social media.
A lot of the truther channels are laughing at these meltdowns, or making fun of these people — aside from the ones who actually work in MSM, I think it’s really sad to see the results of so much mind control. These people are literally terrified of Trump.
It’s easy to forget that at one time or another, all of us had to wake up to the fact that we were mind-controlled for decades. MK Ultra, Operation Mockingbird, Illuminati/Deep State, etc.
But we woke up — either gradually, or all at once. So I’m not able to find it funny — these meltdowns. These poor people, human beings like us, are literally losing their minds simply because they haven’t woken up yet. They don’t know how.
Anyway. I think it’s sad, but the fact that they are so out of control and hysterical, triggers my PTSD.
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I think Dan Bongino was the only Truther out there yesterday who just wanted to take yesterday and celebrate the feeling of winning. Everyone else, to one degree or another, wanted to remind us: It isn’t over yet. We still have a couple of months to be vigilant before the good stuff finally begins. Or maybe I should say, begins in public. Because I believe a lot of the “good stuff” has already been happening behind the scenes for a while now.
My local Q-following friend from out here in the Hinterlands — we both have felt for awhile now that all these “wars” have kept raging in order for Trump to be back in office and be the one to negotiate the ceasefires.
Since I was raised in a conservative Jewish adoptive family, and then eventually went on to study for the Christian Ministry in Divinity School, not to mention all the studying I’ve done on my own on Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity for decades, literally, this topic was not new to me. However, it was interesting to realize that not everybody knows this stuff about the history of Israel, Judea, and Palestine! And yet so many modern wars have raged because of it.
Very educational.
Nigel Watson (Finland/UK) – AMAZING IGNORANCE – THE LIES REPEATED BY USEFUL IDIOTS (16 mins):
12 Lectures : The Quest for the Historical Paul:Apostle or Apostate
“… Join us on an exciting journey to uncover the real Paul of history in “The Quest for the Historical Paul: Apostle or Apostate?” In this fascinating course, you’ll explore the groundbreaking work of scholars who have sifted through centuries of texts to discover the true Paul behind the New Testament….”
[…] Trump’s resurrection saw fruition despite the Deep State’s covert efforts to steal the election as it had done successfully in 2020.
A source in General Eric M. Smith’s office told Real Raw News that White Hats, Red Hats, and civilian volunteers thwarted 27 instances of election fraud across nine states, including destroying trucks holding “tens of thousands” of fraudulent mail-in ballots in North Carolina, Georgia, and Pennsylvania and “remotely disabling” voting machines flipping ballots in Arizona, Nevada, and Wisconsin.
“This time we had the intelligence and manpower to prevent a repeat of 2020,” our source said, adding the White/Red Hat coalition also arrested over 200 election officials suspected of tampering with voting machines and suppressing Republican votes.
“This was our Normandy,” he said allegorically. “Fortunately, good intelligence meant we didn’t have to have a blood bath in the streets. Like Trump, we’re grateful a record number of patriots came out to vote; it made our job easier. The election’s in the bag, but the war isn’t over. […]”
“The three days I spent in Antwerp were very special. It is a city I have grown to love very much. The Bad Seeds performed two concerts, perhaps the best we’ve done. On a personal and utterly delightful note, my son Luke and his wife, Sasha, joined the tour with their little boy, Roman, my grandson.”
And Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds played Manchester last night, but I have been too comatose to save any photos, although I did look at them!
Friday & Saturday nights they play LONDON!!! I’m guessing it will be off the charts fantastic! You can still buy tickets here.
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In my own life….
Wow, gang. I wish I could post about it on the blog but I can’t yet because no contracts are in place. But it is sufficient to say that things with our play, “The Guide to Being Fabulous” are continuing to move quickly for Sandra and me in NYC, in a direction that is beyond my wildest dreams.
That is not an overstatement.
But it also requires that I do a TON of organizing of all the past versions of our script (11 years’ worth of scripts that I have to sort through BEFORE I leave for NYC on Tuesday morning…) (And I have to work back-to-back double shifts this weekend!)
So, that is also why I am just exhausted, gang. emotionally. Such incredibly GOOD stuff going on, but I feel a little overwhelmed.
In the meantime, tomorrow evening, Kara and I are going to dinner & a movie! And we have solemnly sworn to not discuss politics…. So here’s hoping we have a great time.
We are once again having Mexican food, and then returning to this theater that is about an hour away from me:
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Okay.
That’s it for now. We’ll return to the Daily Feature tomorrow.
Enjoy your Thursday, wherever you are in the world!
Thanks for visiting.
I love you guys. See ya!
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Oddly enough, I played this very intense song, loudly & nonstop, to and from town yesterday. It helped keep me out of my PTSD and also kept me from falling asleep.
“Goon Squad” by Elvis Costello & the Attractions, from the album Armed Forces, 1979. Play it loud and ENJOY!
“Goon Squad”
[Verse 1] Mother, father, I’m here in the zoo I can’t come home ’cause I’ve grown up too soon I got my sentence, I got my command They said they’d make me major if I met all their demands
[Pre-Chorus] I could be a corporal into corporal punishment Or the general manager of a large establishment They pat some good boys on the back and put some to the rod But I never thought they’d put me in the
[Chorus] Goon squad They’ve come to look you over and they’re giving you the eye Goon squad They want you to come out to play, you’d better say goodbye
[Verse 2] Some grow up just like their dads and some grow up too tall Some go drinking with the lads, some don’t grow up at all You must find the proper place for everything you see But you’ll never get to make a lampshade out of me
[Pre-Chorus] I could join a chain of males or be the missing link Looking for a lucky girl to put me in the pink They pat some good boys on the back and put some to the rod But I never thought they’d put me in the
[Chorus] Goon squad They’ve come to look you over and they’re giving you the eye Goon squad They want you to come out to play, you’d better say goodbye
[Verse 3] Mother, father, I’m doing so well I’m making such progress now that you can hardly tell I fit in a little dedication with one eye on the clock They caught you under medication, you could be in for a shock
[Pre-Chorus] Thinking up the alibis that everyone’s forgotten Just another Mummy’s boy gone to rotten They pat some good boys on the back and put some to the rod But I never thought they’d put me in the
[Chorus] Goon squad They’ve come to look you over and they’re giving you the eye Goon squad They want you to come out to play, you’d better say goodbye
Wow, what a privilege it was to be able to watch that incredible Trump rally at Madison Square Garden last night in the home of that husband & wife couple that I just adore (patients in my senior care job). They are both close to 90 and are serious Trump supporters, pro-America, level-headed, smart, funny people.
It was just a wonderful way to end the evening shift.
If you missed it, here is the replay (of the rally — not of my evening shift):
I ended the evening feeling really, really happy. I was coming off of 10 shifts in 6 days, the rally was exciting and it was so great to see a thing like that finally happen in NYC — my spiritual home. I just felt like this war is finally going to be over SOON. Wow.
But when I awoke to a text at 5AM from my dear friend Kara — she was confirming that we are doing dinner & a movie on November 8th (the Andrea Bocelli celebration film), but she also had a lengthy diatribe about why she hates Trump and fears that if he gets back in the White House he will end free speech entirely and the world will become Orwellian…
Good god, you know? Just when you think people are waking up.
Sadly, I’m used to (what’s left of) my family being against Trump, and most of my colleagues hating Trump, and some people who used to be among my dearest friends who now haven’t spoken to me in 4 years because they hate Trump… and now this thing from Kara at 5AM.
Just when you think people are awake and the war is almost over and that you’re not going to be alone anymore, and you’re going to have a place in the world again.
You know, it’s one thing to face this onslaught of the past 4 years by standing your ground and putting on the full armor of God every single fucking day — and watching your career disappear, your social life disappear, the world you thought you knew so well, disappear; even when Nick Cave, Keith Richards, and Bruce Springsteen publicly told people to get the vaccine, while here in the Hinterlands ,all around me, people of all ages were literally being killed by those shots — I still found a way to keep standing my ground, keep allowing myself to feel love for the world, keep getting up in the morning and fighting the fight.
But Kara?? My dear, unvaccinated, strong-willed, strong fighter Kara, absolutely hating Trump?? It was too much.
So I cried. And I texted her some links about MK Ultra, and Operation Mockingbird, and stuff about scientists being against the climate change agenda, and yet another link to a Phil video on rumble…
And then I tried to slog through my morning.
I’m really, really tired.
Anyway.
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Okay. This other sad news just in — I’m hoping it’s a hardcore psyop/optics thing, as we wait for someone/anyone to Make England Great Again:
“Nobel Prize winner Dr. John F. Clauser signs the Clintel World Climate Declaration
[…] Clauser has publicly distanced himself from climate alarmism and this year he also joined the Board of Directors of the CO2 Coalition. In the announcement by the CO2 Coalition, Clauser was quoted in the following way:
‘The popular narrative about climate change reflects a dangerous corruption of science that threatens the world’s economy and the well-being of billions of people. Misguided climate science has metastasized into massive shock-journalistic pseudoscience. In turn, the pseudoscience has become a scapegoat for a wide variety of other unrelated ills. It has been promoted and extended by similarly misguided business marketing agents, politicians, journalists, government agencies, and environmentalists. In my opinion, there is no real climate crisis. There is, however, a very real problem with providing a decent standard of living to the world’s large population and an associated energy crisis. The latter is being unnecessarily exacerbated by what, in my opinion, is incorrect climate science.'[…]
“NEW – Up to $41 billion in World Bank climate finance is unaccounted for: That is nearly 40% of all climate funds disbursed by the bank over the past 7 years, Oxfam says.”
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Sanity4Sweden – Trump – A Nazi or a Jew lover? Make up your minds! (4 mins):
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Andy the Gabby Cabby – Come Join Me LIVE This Sunday Where We Discuss ALL Things News (1 hr):
James Tabor – Is This Our Earliest Surviving Christian Text Opposing Paul’s Claims to be an Apostle? (29 mins):
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In other news!
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds played Lisbon last night, and I know I keep saying this, but it looks like the show was just seriously off the charts! Wow. here are some photos from Instagram, but there were TONS of them and tons of videos, too.
Next, they play 2 nights in Belgium — Weds & Thursday, Oct. 30th & 31st. Buy tickets here.
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Also, Nick Cave sent out a Red Hand File early this morning, wherein he explained what it takes for him to feel free — in art, faith, love. He said, in part:
As a songwriter, I am primarily concerned with artistic freedom – freedom of expression, belief and imagination. What it takes for me to pursue these freedoms – to feel genuinely free – has paradoxically something to do with order and constraint. I feel free to express myself and can access a greater quality of imagination when certain restrictions are put into place…
Once again, we find ourselves in the never-ending Chapter Five: Daily Affirmations. And quite fortuitously, the topic today is OTHER PEOPLE. How interesting, right?
Keith advises: “You learn to take people as they come. It doesn’t matter where they come from. So you learn to size up people really quickly. If you don’t you get into trouble.”
Need we say more???
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And that is it for today.
Enjoy your Monday, wherever you are in the world.
Thanks for visiting.
I love you guys. See ya!
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More breakfast-listening music from Elvis Costello & the Attractions! This one, from 1982, “Man Out of Time” from the album Imperial Bedroom. This one suited my really, really difficult mood this morning. Enjoy, gang.
Nino Rodriguez — Diddy Plot Thickens! Nobody Is Safe..Did Oprah Winfrey Help Take Down Michael Jackson? (40 mins):
The plot thickens as more names allegedly come to surface in one of the biggest scandals in entertainment history..Do they all link and connect together to even bigger scandals like Oprah Winfrey’s connection to the downfall of Michael Jackson? You decide..
I cannot embed the video because it is on Bitchute, but here is the link. Nino talks about all this with a producer from MTV:
Andy the Gabby Cabby (UK) – Starmer CONFIRMS NI Rise Coming (3 mins):
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And that is it for the “news” today. Between now and Election Day, I think I will tear my hair out… daily. We are drowning in optics right now, gang. I can barely stomach any of it. But onward.
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In other news!!!
Nick Cave sent out a greatRed Hand File yesterday!! Just confirming what we already know– the Wild God tour is incredible!
However, mostly he was talking about how he and the band are feeling about this incredible tour. He says, in part:
…The shows are outstanding, feel deeply musical, and we are enjoying them immensely. Those couple of hours on stage are intense and concentrated and there is a feeling of supreme metaphysical possibility where anything can happen, and frequently does. When performing, I experience an aliveness where I feel close to the living and to the dead. It seems that the show affords both band and audience moments of acute spiritual intimacy and communion, unlike anything that can be found outside of our own particular cathedrals – sex, nature, religion, identity, whatever. The new songs seem purpose-built for the live experience...
Some photos from Zagreb. The show seemed even more intense there, if that is even possible!
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds play Prague tomorrow night!! You can buy ticketshere.
The following night, they play Munich, but it is sold out.
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And here’s a new feature I’ve decided to add to the blog, at least for a little while!
Remember how it used to be popular to ask, “What would Jesus do?” when you were faced with some sort of moral or ethical question or dilemma?
in 2009, a really great book came out, called: What Would Keith Richards Do? Filled with actual quotes of things Keith Richards had said in random interviews over the span of about 4 decades, and presented as affirmative wise advice or affirmations to help guide you in your very complicated life. It is mostly incredibly funny.
For years, I kept this book in the guest room, but yesterday, I moved it into my room — on my night table, to be exact. I decided to randomly choose a topic each morning and share the result with you here!
This morning’s entry [drum roll]: From Chapter 5, “Daily Affirmations on Society”. Keith’s response on being a bad example for society:
“If they [the police] hadn’t come smashing through my front door, no one would’ve known what example I was setting.”
So now, I guess, just sort of meditate on that and enjoy your day!!
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All righty!
Also —
If you want to donate to the Lambda Literary Writer’s Retreat, you can do so below! The donation helps make the cost of attending the retreat more affordable for emerging LGBTQ writers.
Okay!! Have a happy Wednesday, wherever you are in the world!
Thanks for visiting.
I love you guys. See ya!
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Yes, I’m currently in a Goat’s Head Soup phase, after my friend sent me that video the other day of the backing tracks to “Angie”. And I am finding the album to be an uncanny inspiration for both the memoir I am working on (covering 1971-1980), as well as a screenplay I’m developing that is a subsection of the memoir!
Today, it’s the actual full song, “Angie,” from 1973. Iconic. Enjoy!
That rally in Long Island last night was terrific!
The energy was fantastic and the crowd was fantastic, And it seemed to me like it was the absolutely 100% actual Trump. No body doubles last night.
Phil had told us to “listen closely”. In particular, I noticed one Q connection — when Trump said that the illegal migrants were on the “17th floor” of the hotel, while homeless US veterans were sleeping on the sidewalk outside the hotel.
Other people in Phil’s chat caught a couple of air-Q’s.
Oddly enough, I found the aria so creepy that I had shut it off at that point. The rally was over anyway. And I was disappointed that he didn’t use the usual “YMCA” by the Village People to end his rally in NY!!
But it seems like the aria was used for a specific reason and it totally went over my head.
If you missed the rally, here is the replay (check out the size of that crowd! 20K people, with more thousands outside, watching the jumbo screens. Here’s praying Trump is right when said he will make NY great again in about 4 weeks after his next inauguration!!!!!):
LIVE: President Trump in Uniondale, NY (1hr 29 mins):
[…] As reported previously, JAG convicted Bragg of treason on September 3 and imposed maximum punishment, a death sentence conducted on the 17th. Following his tribunal, Bragg had been held in isolation and had no access to news of the outside world, no internet, naturally, and no newspapers or magazines. […]”
Sanity4Sweden – Norwegian sheep can no longer trust their God (4mins):
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Andy the Gabby Cabby (UK) – What I Said About Farage And Tommy (5 mins):
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CHARLIE WARD DAILY NEWS WITH PAUL BROOKER & DREW DEMI -THURSDAY 19TH SEPTEMBER 2024 (21 mins):
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Part 1 of a great new interview with James Tabor:
How Habermas Arguments for Jesus’ Resurrection Contradict our Earliest Testimony! Part 1 (21 mins):
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In other news —
Nick Cave sent out a Red Hand File yesterday, wherein he posted his readers replies to his recent question: “Where or how do you find joy?” He also noted that the Red Hand Files had officially turned 6 years old!
He said, in part:
“I was entirely unprepared for the response. Over 2,000 letters arrived in the first few days and they are still pouring in. So many of your answers are extraordinarily moving, from thoughtful and eloquent treatises on the nature of joy, to a tiny voice from Limerick, Ireland, saying simply, ‘Golf’ – a response that, for some inexplicable reason, reduced me to tears. …“
The replies from his readers about JOY are here. Frankly, the replies are so numerous, that I just sort of glazed over after reading the first few. But Nick maintains that he was read every one of them (and more — because these are not all of the replies he received).
Enjoy your Thursday, wherever you are in the world.
Thanks for visiting!
I love you guys. See ya!
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I leave you with this!! Because I missed it so much last night!!
(You know, even though I’ve been gone from NYC for a really long time now — after 9/11 everything changed there for me — I still consider NYC my real home. It truly would make me so happy to see NY become great again.)
The training for the new job yesterday was really long and there was a ton of information. I was a little wiped out by the end of the day, but wow, gang.
I worked for this same company several years ago, and it was a good company to work for, but they have since been taken over by a different franchise and these new people are incredible. Such joyful, happy, helpful, kind people. (This is a non-medical in-home senior caregiver job.)
And God is all over that place. For instance, when you don’t hear the staff talk about “being lucky,” but instead they talk about being blessed, you know you’re in the right place.
Today I have a ton of training videos to watch here at home, and then some quizzes. That will likely take all day. Then tomorrow, half a day of training. And then I officially start.
I am so glad I chose to get back into this work part-time. What an incredible company to be connected to right now.
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Okay.
Phil was live last night and what an unusual live it was. Complete with several “blackouts”. And some Q & A stuff that left Phil speechless on 2 occasions.
His main intel is that the new money (rainbow currency?) is in the works.
CHARLIE WARD DAILY NEWS WITH CHARLIE WARD, PAUL BROOKER & DREW DEMI WEDNESDAY 4TH SEPT 2024 (12 mins):
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This was intense. From Monday.
Tucker Carlson – Darryl Cooper: The True History of the Jonestown Cult, WWII, and How Winston Churchill Ruined Europe (2 hrs 18 mins):
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Sanity4Sweden – Keir Starmer Surprised People don’t like him? Starmer and Trudeau Chatting (4 mins):
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Nigel Watson – PERSECUTED AND MURDERED FOR HATE SPEECH (14 mins):
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Ross & Jono have a new video series starting up soon. I don’t know yet what it is, but I can’t wait! I miss those guys. Ross still does his Saturday morning Bible studies, but the two of them together are such a joy to listen to.
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In other news —
Nick Cave sent out an unusual Red Hand File this morning. It has not been uploaded to the website yet. However, in today’s letter, a reader wrote in asking Nick to ask his readers a question and have them answer him, for a change.
So here is the question Nick asked his readers to answer:
“I have a full life. A privileged life. An unendangered life. But sometimes the simple joys escape me. Joy is not always a feeling that is freely bestowed upon us, often it is something we must actively seek. In a way, joy is a decision, an action, even a practised method of being. It is an earned thing brought into focus by what we have lost – at least, it can seem that way. My question is, where or how do you find your joy?“
He also added that rehearsals for the upcoming Bad Seeds tour are getting underway, so he won’t be back with the readers’ replies for a few weeks.
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And that is it for today. I have to run some quick errands before I get down to the training videos.
Enjoy your Wednesday, wherever you are in the world!
Thanks for visiting.
I love you guys. See ya!
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Tom Petty’s estate is getting ready to re-release Straight Into Darkness, with about 12 new, never-released songs added to it. A 3-CD set. I can’t wait!
About the video below:
“Music video for the French TV version of ‘Straight Into Darkness’ performed by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers. Directed by Alan Bibby. Featuring newly remastered footage of the band performing at the Record Plant in 1982”
Here is Tom and the band in their early 30s. Enjoy!!
“Straight Into Darkness”
There was a little girl, I used to know her I still think about her time to time There was a moment when I really loved her Then one day the feeling just died
We went straight into darkness Out over the line Yeah straight into darkness Straight into night
I remember flying out to London I remember the feeling at the time Out the window of the 747 Man, there was nothing, only black sky
We went straight into darkness Out over the line Yeah straight into darkness Straight into night
Oh give it up to me, I need it Girl, I know a good thing when I see it Baby, wrong or right, I mean it
I don’t believe the good times are over I don’t believe the thrill is all gone Real love is a man’s salvation The weak ones fall, the strong carry on
Straight into darkness Out over the line Yeah straight into darkness Straight into night
We went straight into darkness Out over the line We went straight into darkness Straight into night
But so far, the humidity has not been bad, which makes all the difference.
Well, Phil’s live last night was interesting. Apparently, we should soon be hearing Trump speak publicly about the PEAD (Presidential Emergency Action Documents). Which means we are really coming to the end of this war. Finally. If you missed it, here’s the replay.
P.E.A.D. – August 26th – 2024 (1 hr 38 mins):
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And this was curious, indeed. You just can’t trust this woman, gang. But it was sad to think that some of her kids had to watch her go out in handcuffs.
AG rearrested Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett Saturday night, a day after she sided with the Court’s liberal minority about whether to allow Arizona election officials to reject new voter registration forms that do not include proof of citizenship, such as a birth certificate or a passport.
White Hats allege Barrett’s vote on the matter was unconstitutional and violated an agreement she and President Trump had etched in stone following her first arrest in May 2021 […]
As reported then, Navy JAG and Army CID investigators detained Barrett for recusing herself from a pivotal vote that could’ve exposed widespread election fraud in Pennsylvania. Her silence was a massive blow to the faith President Trump had placed in her and enraged conservatives nationwide. Her wanton betrayal had almost merited a trip to GITMO, but President Trump instead requested she be confined to house arrest and fitted with an ankle bracelet, which she has worn like an indelible tattoo ever since. […]
And just FYI — the new album Wild God, by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, will be released this Friday, August 30th!!
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Here on the home front…
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the death of someone who, in hindsight, probably mattered more to me than anyone else on the planet. It is hard to believe he has been dead for 50 years.
Greg was killed in a motorcycle accident in 1974, the summer I turned 14, and my life was absolutely never the same after that.
I went to visit his grave a few days ago and was sad to discover that no one is maintaining it anymore. It was overgrown with weeds that I tried to tidy up. But the plaque is faded and the whole thing was just really difficult to process.
50 years is a really long time. A lot of the people who knew him are likely not even still alive. Others, obviously, moved on with the business of living their lives. 50 years. To me, his death was yesterday.
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Okay. Take care of yourselves, wherever you are in the world.
And, thanks to taking a higher dose of CBD oil last night, I slept for almost NINE hours!!! Yay!!! So much better than the 5 or 6 that I was consistently getting, night after night after night; always waking with my thoughts chasing themselves.
So I finally feel really rested. And — no fleas on me!! And– beautiful weather! Slightly chilly again, and sunny.
Okay.
This rally last night was a good one. Here’s the replay if you missed it.
LIVE: President Trump in Asheboro, NC (1 hr 11 mins):
And this happened at the rally– (I’m not sure if this was optics, gang, because the fake Kamala went on to copy what Trump did at her own rally last night. Hmmm.)
RT – Trump leaves bulletproof glass behind to aid sick woman (1 min):
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Sanity4Sweden – UN Surprised about Swedish Migration. Oh No! Kamala backed out from debating Trump! (5 mins):
“NEW – U.S. Department of Health and Human Services links fluoridated drinking water to a 2-5 point IQ drop in children.
The report concludes that drinking water containing more than 1.5 milligrams of fluoride per liter is “consistently associated with lower IQs in kids.”
The World Health Organization considers 1.5 milligrams a ‘safe limit.'”
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In other news!
Nick Cave sent out another Red Hand File yesterday, wherein he explains why he doesn’t think that songs come from God (personally, I disagree — I believe it’s a matter of allowing the flow or not). Nick says, in part:
“…We exert poetic order upon the turmoil and chaos. We hew and hone and bring structure to the stricken heart; we codify our weary souls, giving form to the blues.…Eventually, if we are lucky, our songs emerge from this grim business, and we send those winged and singing things to draw God forth and attempt to animate His presence in the world…”
Yes, please create your own title for this post today, because I’m drawing a blank…
The blessings that are happening around here today:
1. A very nice break from the extreme heat.
2. ALL 723 of my cats are currently flea-free…and so far, no fleas have jumped on me since early yesterday morning. [UPDATE: A flea just jumped on me; it was living in my desk drawer!]
3.After today, I’m pretty sure I have an entire week off from the train station. We’ll see how that pans out as the week goes on.
“An Ohio judge upheld a law that bans medical and surgical transgender procedures for minors in the state. Ohio’s AG applauded the decision. ” [more]
“The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has taken emergency action to halt the use of a common pesticide it deems dangerous—DCPA, also known as Dacthal. This is the first time the EPA has used its emergency suspension authority in 40 years. ” [more] (pregnant women should stay away from Dacthal.)
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Another cool short from Matt Roeske;
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Nigel Watson – TWO TIER POLICING – DOES IT EXIST IN BRITAIN? (20 mins):
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Sanity4Sweden – Fascists, Russia and Musk are driving the riots in the UK? (5 mins):
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News roundup.
Keyboard Operator – 8/7/2024 Another Squad member loses reelection (12 mins):
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CHARLIE WARD DAILY NEWS WITH PAUL BROOKER & DREW DEMI – WEDNESDAY 7TH AUGUST 2024 (9 mins):
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In other news!
Nick Cave sent out a Red Hand File this morning. A reader wrote in and asked him if he ever worried about being on the wrong side of history, and what his favorite podcast might be. Nick answered, in part:
“…Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook’s The Rest is History. This splendid podcast shows us that history is extraordinarily complicated and rarely draws a clean line between right and wrong, good and evil. Much of history seems to be a violent collision of good intentions, and sometimes what appears ethically obvious today has its way of turning tomorrow….”
No laundry, no housecleaning. At least, I don’t think so.
Sandra has to go to NYC today for a fitting for her upcoming role in HBO’s The Gilded Age, Season 3. So I’m just going to sit here at my desk and work on the screenplay today by myself. I think.
We shall see! You never know when those pesky fleas will suddenly make a return engagement and demand our complete attention.
I had a great surprise yesterday. My Q-following friend, who lives in town, was on her way to another friend’s house, who lives out in the country even farther than I do — and she stopped in to say “hi!” and to pick up a bottle of goldenseal because someone else she knows is struggling with a UTI.
Goldenseal is an INCREDIBLE all-natural antibiotic, gang. Use it for viruses and infections. I always have at least 2 bottles in the house — one, in case I need it, and another in case someone else needs it in a hurry and the local store is closed. This stuff literally saved my life 3 years ago, when 3 different prescription antibiotics only made me sicker and sicker and sicker and I was going into sepsis…
But it was so nice to have a friend stop by and say hi. It doesn’t often happen, since I live anywhere from 25, to 500, to 3000 miles away from everyone I know.
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Okay.
Phil is supposed to go live tonight at 8PM Eastern time. I really, really hope it happens this time. Check here later to confirm.
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Excluding all anti-Christian, Satanic, Olympic stuff, and anything/everything about the various and sundry “assassination- attempt shooters,” and all things (fake) Kamala…
“Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his political rival, Edmundo González, each claimed victory in the country’s presidential election, after Venezuelans took to the polls Sunday. Maduro has been in power since 2013. Exit polls had suggested that González would win. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States had “serious concerns that the result announced does not reflect the will or the votes of the Venezuelan people,” and called for a detailed tabulation of votes to be published.”
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News roundup –
Keyboard Operator – 7/28/2024 Google Censors Trump Assassination Attempt from Search (14 mins):
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Sanity4Sweden – All Purebloods died? Swedish Church People. Tommy documentary (5 mins):
“Recently Baluku our African Continental Coordinator attended the 10th Primakov Readings in Moscow.
During his discussions at the Conference table, and during the breaks, he was pleased to hear that the information coming from the delegates who represented a wide range of Countries matched very closely Simon’s intel.
What follows is a few lines from Baluku’s after-meeting report. I (Simon) wish to share this with you all. “
(It’s not letting me embed it, so click the link.)
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Proof that Johnny Depp exists. From late last week, in St. Tropez, I think — smoking. (Sort of an intense photo, isn’t it?)
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In other news!!
Nick Cave sent out a Red Hand File very early this morning, giving some beautiful advice to a seemingly happy woman who, nonetheless, struggles with loneliness. He says, in part:
“Personally, I find that feelings of loneliness dissipate when I take time to focus on the sacred, the imagination, beauty, nature, the soul – those unmeasurable and mysterious wellsprings of meaning that reside outside the scientistic and the rational. Here, I feel connected to something universal, eternal, truthful and righteous and, therefore, less alone….”
A friend sent me this photo the other day and I just love it, so I share it here:
Nick Cave in the Big Hair Days
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And I believe that is it for now, gang.
I seriously HOPE Phil goes live tonight, because I know he has something big to tell us….we shall see.
Enjoy your Monday, wherever you are in the world.
Thanks for visiting.
I love you guys, See ya!
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Music-listening from yesterday!!
This song always makes everything in life completely and 100% endurable!! (Seriously, try it sometime.)
I was listening to it while bathing 5 (FIVE) small and unhappy cats yesterday in the kitchen sink… It made the fleas a lot less annoying. Glenn Miller & his Orchestra, “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree,” 1942!! Enjoy, gang.
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