#Bio-Terrorism as a Pandemic?

[msclaritea]

"What if Bill Gates tabled the idea to the CIA of Population Control? Not just the future management of Population Growth, but also the Control of the remaining Populations who would eventually realise what was going on. It involved the idea of Ethnically cleansing the Populations that hold most of the Land Assets the greedy 1% desire. The Populations of the USA, the UK, Australia, Canada & New Zealand predominantly. What if Bill Gates devised an Ethnicity Specific Weapon of Mass Destruction, mRNA Covid-19 injections, which he planned to use alongside the Poisoning of Water Supplies & the removal of Nutrient Rich Food by Genetically Modifying it? The Food looks great, but holds no Nutritional Value. What if Gates also Pollutes the Air we breathe with Chemtrails all leading to a shortening of Life? What if Gates was then given the role of Global Population Control on a limited contract, 2020-2030 along with a Licence to Kill? That he then publicly divorced in an attempt to shield his equally complicit wife & their Children from the dangers his new role would bring? His Licence to Kill allows him to target aircraft carrying individuals that could adversely effect his plans, like the Cancer specialists whose flight went down recently? What if he was gifted the contract to operate the new global digital currencies through Microsoft, meaning he earns with every single global transaction? What if the reason there are no "Property Of" signs on 5G towers are because they are Gates owned? And what if this ultimate salesmen managed to convince or blackmail the Leaders of our Nations that this was in fact a good & profitable idea?

Sell Eco-Terrorism as Geo-engineering?

Sell Death Jabs as Healthcare?

Sell Bio-Terrorism as a Pandemic?

Sell Financial Terrorism as Inflation?

Sell Digital Control Management Slave Systems as Convenient?

If the answer is Yes to any of the above.

Bill Gates is a Terrorist."

White Rabbit Podcast, Twitter

Who Is Bill Gates? (Full Documentary, 2020)

[rametarin]

I have some minor complaints about this

Firstly, the vast majority of the COVID deaths in the US were coming from people over the age of 60. And most of those, people in their 80s. And the obese. If you were old AND have pulmonary/respiratory problems, there's not really a whole lot that could be done to save you. That 3,000 deaths a day figure is misleading and uncharitable.

Secondly, the damage to infrastructure and personnel from targeted malicious explosions is worse and more intelligent and dynamic than dealing with a virus, and allowed to propagate on its own, Islamo-fascism does just that.

Thirdly, you can bomb mafioso estates and suddenly end targeted attacks and guerilla warfare for generations. As proof, I point to the fact there's no Nazi Germany anymore. You can't make viruses extinct so easily. Whatever ones feelings on Islamo-fundamentalist terror waging guerilla wars on southeast Asia and the rest of the Middle East, it is objectively true global jyhad was and still very much is a thing, and was not going away.

9/11 was not devastating solely because it killed a few thousand people and then the debris caused health issues. 9/11 was a problem because it was an organized terrorist attack against a structure that you aren't supposed to be big enough to antagonize like this without your entire culture and way of life vaporizing. It's one thing for a religious organization to sweep in and take over a sleepy little hamlet somewhere and subjugate the entire population to their religious authorities and organizational tyranny. It's another to do it to a society that has an organized military force and the right and means to turn your castle to glass and your very identity into a memory.

If it helps, imagine if an American megachurch decided to.. oh. I don't know.. carry out January 6th, but this time actually use weapons and actually had a ready made religious imperative and structure, rather than a flash mob, with the ACTUAL intent on taking over the country in their name of their god, culture and structure and social order. That's what the world was facing, at the time. A dirt poor initiative and will and determinism to impose their way of life and morals and the language of Islam on all that were not.

The US government can't do anything about people getting old, and has a very difficult time keeping them from getting obese if they're dead set on making themselves obese. It can, however, solve a problem of insurgency with a few well placed explosives and end ambitions of things like ISIS/ISIL from seizing and holding power for long.

People that have determined they want to kill you in an organized way because you won't carry their beliefs in your heart, subjugate your systems of government and supplant them with their own parallel governments based on their religious authorities, are a different enemy altogether from an illness you get by not social distancing and washing your hands. Which may or may not have been a targeted bio-terrorism weapon designed from the start to be a source of economic destruction. And just because you aren't seeing the deaths at home from Islamic religious terrorism quite the way it's happening across Asia and Africa, doesn't mean it isn't taking place and didn't deserve confronting.

Also that sneer towards oil companies; You know who consume petroleum products? People. You know who consume a lot of petroleum products? Sick people, old people. They need more things to continue existing. That means they need other people to provide those things. That means if there's a global pandemic, oil companies see to lose more in sales by loss of customers than they'd gain by whatever ventures they profitted from during Iraq and Afghanistan. This meme about how US oil companies just went in and slurped up or monopolized Iraqi oil is factually wrong. For some reason this meme about dirty capitalists and oil (which Soviet and then Russian chemical energy moguls seem to avoid stigma from, despite being the next biggest sources for these fuels) seems to suggest they're smart enough to take over and steal other peoples resources but somehow not intelligent enough to know pandemic deaths mean greater lost profits than the benefits of an illegal war. Suggesting mindless evil, solely by how much that doesn't make sense.

9/11 makes less sense if you think the tragic thing about it was just the thousands of people that died from the initial attack and ignore what the brazenness of running up to the biggest source of certain death and destruction for getting too uppity and tyrannical in the area and punching them in the face. That was a sign that absolutely no expense or pragmatic limit was considered by the Islamo-fascists. It meant they would not stop and were willing to carry out any kind of brutal inhumanity imaginable, regardless of whether they could be opposed and destroyed or not. That the enemy was not reasonable, and would not accept anything less than total victory at any acceptable loss.

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[meisteralready]

finding where things should live

Peter is a good friend; resourceful, dutiful

And when I am here, waiting in the family lounge where none of mine are present,

By design,

He is the closest thing I have to it.

He’s late, of course, as I wanted and expected,

Arriving early and being told elsewhere,

That where I was supposed to be 

Was not where they - the hospital at large -

Intended me to be,

So I was finding where I should live

For the next two hours and forty minutes,

Which is how long admittance, prep, procedure, post-op, and dismissal 

Should take.

Things are signs to me of where I should be,

Of steps I should take,

Fo where I should be in my debt recover, glucose levels, writing habits,

Self-help mantras and self-help groups,

Of where I should be to let her be and give her-space,

Of simply asking where my flesh-and-blood 

Is setting her flesh, unfurling her blood,

Where she should be going and letting out her passionate demons 

And applying her somewhat blunted heart

If only she’d let the way happen, let her imagination

-which most like her make living from-

Subside a bit and let nature

Take it’s course.

It should all work out,

Her and I

should work out, love has a way 

Of “shouldering” itself to work out,

Should, should,

Should.

Fuck all this ambiguity

And the prep nurse comes in and tells Peter and I

That its actually a colonoscopy and bio

AND an endo and bio,

“They got you coming and going,” she jokingly says outloud to us, but mostly her chart.

Peter laughs, I do not.

“And apparently taking a piece of me with it.”

That my joke, it bombs.

AT this point we are back in the labyrinth of pre-and-post-op,

The snagging trails of outpatient care,

And even though these procedures pay the bills,

They aren’t the glitz, the money, the Hollywood

Of heavily-sedated, grueling 7 hour surgeries

Or the expectant terror of an ED,

Its the sausage-making

Of mild hospitalization.

Barbie, the nurse intaking,

Tells us she is from North Carolina

Who moved here during the pandemic

To be closer to her friend

(That she is obviously in love with, but what kind of love eludes me, perhaps Peter knows),

But that friend, last fall, 

knee deep in Year 2 of their migrated friendship, 

Moved to New Hampshire

For a can’t-miss opportunity,

Leaving Barbie,

Who does not like snow,

Somewhat in a lurch deep in the medicalness

And grey winters 

That Chicago is so apt to offer,

“But I like it here” she adds with a fake, heaving happythought,

“I’ve made some new friends.  Here.  At work.”

“That’s good,” I am moved to say, but don’t.  It just sits, like the rest of this morning, in my mind.  

Peter is checking his phone and asks,

“Does the family lounge have good wi-fi”

Barbie looks up, finally, and answers resolutely,

“It does.  It really does.”

She announces she’ll be back and that afterwards I can have some water with a straw.

She knows and I know that I haven’t eaten anything solid for 48 hours.

Peter does not.  

Dutiful friendship has it’s limits

On what information is need

And what’s wanted.

I need to change into my gown

And Peter grabs his bag to leave, but not before

Slamming down on the movable cart

A brand-new set of D-n-D dice.

He picks up the 20-sided and planningly states,

“ROLL FOR INITIATIVE.”

I can see it in his eyes,

The expectation of my memory of this,

That when I recount this day,

Like I verywell am now,

That this will be glory of it,

The day we battled back cancerous polyps and mysterious esophageal spots harboring danger,

That with this one act,

I made the skillful quest to forge ahead,

Past peril and monsters,

And triumph, sorry, TRIUMPH

Over the odds and ill will

And this gesture

(Which is kind and positive, I admit)

Was the key root,

The heels dug in,

And is a palpable, tactile measurement of his undying

Devotion to friends.

“Bless his heart”

Again this is thought and not said.  

In fact, I’ve said nothing for a while now,

Perhaps resting my about-to-be-invaded vocal cords

Or to not give him the pleasure of his calculated move, 

A move that I have no doubt he has played before with family and friends

Attempting to overcome odds and predicaments,

That his simple allegorical motion 

Of rolling a game of fucking chance, 

Made definite change

And turned everything

For the better.

I pick up the multihued 20-sided and imbibe in his indulgence.

Today, this all I can muster to give,

It will have to fill 

Any satisfaction.

Peter smiles and it seems to do so.

Wrist flicked, not thinking.

The die flips a bit on the cart’s simulated woodgrain.

19.

We bought adjust.  Peter lets a “woo”

I crinkle a “not too shabby”.

19 is not a 20, thank god, that is too fake of assurance.

19 is not a zero, a critical fail.

Not is it a 5 or 11 or 13,

Which are empty forgotten lobs,

Odds that no one remembers,

Especially when the scale is only twenty

And today is the first 

Or last day

Beginning a long journey.

I’ll take 19.  It’s something I never seem to roll in a real game.

I always roll low, usually sealing fate,

Not just for me, but the entire group.

Perhaps for me, alone, 19 is a winner,

But a part of feels that I’ll always find the path of failure,

That that 1 is somewhere,

Waiting for me.

“Gotta return some emails” he says, pulling back my cubical curtain a bit,

He looks me dead in the eye, 

In a way that feels honest and unplotted, 

and plainly states,

“You got this, Haus.”

Before I can answer, he flashes away, 

the curtain mildly flapping,

In his breeze.

Maybe I do.

Maybe I have better friends than I have forgotten,

Maybe I am old enough to know what I am getting into, 

But young enough to beat.

Maybe she will come back to me

And the love I have for her is realized and validated,

Maybe my Dad and I will realize

For whatever we don’t know of each other actually makes us stronger,

Makes the lineage we share more direct,

Maybe he will see that I am not only a continuance of him in this world, 

But a true part of it,

And he and I and my girl will all come to an understanding.

In these thoughts, I have changed, been IV’d and wheeled into the OR,

Its smaller and looks to be a converted room of sorts, 

None of the lights or equipment are mounted into the space,

They looked to have been wheeled in

For these outpatients

On simlulated woodgrain carts.

I am a little lightheaded as the propofol begins to take effect,

“Twilight”, they call it,

Not heavy anesthesia,

“It’ll all work out,” I attempt to say and cannot,

Not because I don’t want to, 

But because they have surgically-taped a open-hole mouthpiece to me

For the endoscopy, rendering me 

a guttural, messy animal,

Muttering its way through heavy sedation.

I sleep.  And its a sleep; a passage of time,

Not the instantaneous blip

I experienced

In heavier surgery and thicker medicines.

I am given a diagnosis of multiple 12mm polyps, resected and retrieved.

A salmon colored bulb in the esophagus, suggestive of Barrett’s and maybe more,

Biopsied, and with the hot snared colon piece, taken to pathology.

The doctor, whose names escapes me in my clouded awakening from anesthesia, 

only says, “We have to wait on that. If anything, we’ll have to keep monitoring this and do it again.

In another two years.”

She walks out before I can answer which is fine,

For I have nothing to say.

I am alone and get up to dress.

After such, I sling my shoulder bag up and in my coat pocket, find the dice set.

I take out the 20-sided.

I leave it on the cart.  The simulated-wood grained cart.  It is a thing that should live here now.

“For the next person..” 

I say this outloud.

[wanderingandfound]

Me, watching episode 14 of Korean Leverage: Wait the big bads were weaponizing the flu? And this aired in the months before COVID-19 hit South Korea?

Me, 0.5 seconds later: Oh wait yeah that was the plot of the OT3 episode in US Leverage. They even found the body murdered in the exact same way which you noticed not even ten minutes ago. Calm down.

[prolifeproliberty]

*sigh*

Here it comes.

ICYMI:

- Bill Gates says we need “germ games” to prepare for “the next pandemic” and suggests the possibility of smallpox being released as a bio terror attack through airports, mentions two vials of the virus known to exist in highly secure labs

- U.S. and Canada buy millions of dollars worth of TPOXX, the smallpox treatment approved by the FDA.

- Reports of “surprise” vials of the smallpox virus found while cleaning out random old refrigerators in random labs. (NOTE: reporting now says these vials labeled smallpox did not in fact contain smallpox - not sure what to believe on that one)

- And now monkey pox randomly showing, which is a milder version of smallpox. News outlets are quick to say that spread was unlikely because everyone was definitely wearing their masks on the plane, since those are the rules.

We said they would take everything they implemented for COVID and apply it for every virus ever going forward. Looks like they’re getting ready to start.

[literaticat]

What are your thoughts on not including a bio paragraph in a query letter? I don’t have any notable writing credentials or a relevant degree or day job. I’m not really sure what there is to say about myself and would rather use the space to talk about the book. Do agents care if there’s no bio para?

We do care! That's why we ask for it. Please include it, even if it is short. :-)

After all - we aren't JUST repping the book. We are also repping YOU. This is a small opportunity to give us SOME kind of sense of who you are, where you come from, what your deal is. You have presumably looked US up and read OUR bio.... why would we not want to know who you are?

You don't need "credentials" or a relevant degree or a day job. What DO you have? A personality of any kind? I hope so! Give a taste of it. Maybe tell us why you are even writing this, or what it means to you, or SOMETHING.

I'm Eleanor Whipplestiff. I live in Switzerland, where I've been a professional goatherd for 15 years, which has given me a unique perspective on nature in the Alpine region that I hope to bring to my picture books. GOATS ON A SLOPE is my first manuscript, I hope you enjoy!

A bit about me - I'm Catalina Pfinch (the P is silent), and I live in Oregon with a bevy of small rescue cats and one very large koi fish who terrorizes them all. KING KOI is loosely based on this monster.

I'm Jasmine Quirrelle and I live in Manhattan. I love to escape from the stress of my day job by getting lost in the YA fantasy worlds of authors like Leigh Bardugo and Cassandra Clare, and since the pandemic I've been inspired to create my own such world.

[catdotjpeg]

Karapatan and various progressive groups [gathered] along the Quezon Memorial Circle to start today’s mass action to mark the last #HumanRightsDay under the murderous Duterte regime.

[Image ID: 1. A large papier-mache model of Duterte as a demon with large horns. One of his wings has the Chinese flag; the other wing has the U.S. flag. 

2. Members of the organizations Karapatan, Hustisya, Selda, and Desaparecidos gathered along the side of the road with banners and placards. The banners read “Junk terror law” and “Junk E.O. No. 70! Abolish NTF-ELCAC!” 

3. Members of the organization Kapatid hold a large white banner which reads “Free All Political Prisoners”. 

4. A member of the organization Rise Up holds a small white banner which reads “Hustisya sa lahat ng biktima ng pamamaslang! Panagutin si Duterte! No to Duterte-Marcos 2022.” They are also holding a placard with a picture of Bernard Nonay, a martyr, and a small bio about him. End ID.] 

In today’s #HumanRightsDay protest, Johanna Abua reasserts the call to surface her husband, abducted peasant organizer Steve Abua. 

Casey Cruz of Bayan - Southern Tagalog calls to #AbolishNTFELCAC as she demands justice for the victims of the Bloody Sunday raids and all victims of human rights violations in the Southern Tagalog region. 

Albert Pascual, Health Alliance for Democracy secretary general, lambasts the Duterte administration’s criminal neglect of the people’s welfare and and right to health amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prof. Gerry Lanuza of @CONTEND_UP asserts the call #NoToMarcosDuterte2022 in the upcoming 2022 elections. 

-- Karapatan, 9 Dec 2021 

[doomedandstoned]

Betelzeus and Ockultist Share Harrowing New ‘Split From The Isolation’

~Doomed & Stoned Debuts~

Review by Billy Goate

Art by Niku Arima

I've been warning you Doomers & Stoners that it was coming. A treasure trove of content from those boredom-driven collaborations of the Great Lockdown opened up for the world to see and hear. As one who is endlessly fascinated by the creative process, I'm especially interested in music borne of struggle -- especially an experience so many of us have shared. Isolation is a real son of a bitch and it can easily drive a person to languor, restlessness, self-loathing, even madness...or it can inspire some fantastic inventiveness and innovation.

You're about to be treated to a massive effort between two bands that labored through the fear, uncertainty, and grief of the 2020 pandemic and bared their soul in the process. It's a record that's vicious to the core, yet brilliant in its own right. Doomed & Stoned is pleased to give the world premiere of this 'Split From The Isolation' (2021) by Betlezeus and Ockultist from neighboring Sweden and Finland. For those of you who have been starving from lack of sludge in your diet, have I got a smorgasbord of wicked nourishment for you!

BETELZEUS

BETELZEUS emerged from Lahti in 2014. Their first album 'Congolese Sterilization' (2019) was released as a DIY cassette. It contained some original sounding sludge doom with a small twist of post rock soundscapes. Later the album was reissued on cassette (Kohina Records) and on CD and LP (Interstellar Smoke Records). Read the Doomed & Stoned review.

It's good to have Betelzeus back with brand new material. In fact, Split From The Isolation is just the first of the three records the Finnish foursome is planning for the remainder of the year.

Joonas (vox), Jirko (guitar, noise), Toni (bass), and Efe (drums) dish out a heaping helping of bruising doom, beginning with "Shitborn," a caustic number underscored by the apocalyptic chords, sawing riffs with sharp dissonance, and Jirko's acid-spewing vocals, which echo into the long, dark night. This sludgy number is one that'll be circulating in my playlist for some time.

"Paradise/Parasite" crawls forth next, with a solitary statement of the theme in guitar, accompanied by swirling pedal effects that summon a huge wall of noise. Drums and bass join in, and it feels like we might just have been abducted by UOFs while sound asleep, lounging on a hammock tucked away between two palm trees somewhere in the Carribean Islands. Now, we've become the parasite strapped down for probing and dissection by the Roswell Greys. I'm totally making that up, of course. It could have a higher-minded meaning, like how we're all sucking the life out of this blue planet of ours. That while we're fighting off bugs and slugs, mosquitos and worms, that we're the real parasite on Mother Earth. You decide (or make no decision at all).

The last track on the A-side is a cover of "Deathcrush" by Norwegian black metal gods MAYHEM, which the band quips "shows what happens when you strip tremolo-picking guitars and blast beats off the black metal classic." Hell yeah! And we're not even through with this sludge feast, either.

OCKULTIST

Are you ready for the B-side of the split? I don't think you're even ready, bro. I'm looking at you sitting there with your shoulders hunched over, snacking on your Doritos, and I just don't think your heart can take it. Well, ready or not, you're about to be pummeled by OCKULTIST.

The Stockholm outfit arose, as so many great bands do, from the ashes of an old D-beat band with, their bio states, "the goal of crushing themselves with the slowest and filthiest music their minds could create."

After the release of several demos, Ockultist gave us 'Present Day Neglect' (2017), followed by the LP 'Festering Wounds' (2020) on Sludgelord Records. One could sense each release pushing the band further and further in a heavier, angrier, filthier direction.

Ockultist's contribution to Split From The Isolation sees the band stomping through even muddier territory, seeping with vile death, crust, and black metal along the sludgy way. This is what rises to the surface when Christopher (guitar, vox), Joachim (bass), and Clarence (drums) join forces.

You can feel it in the raw first track, with it's earthshaking footprint. I'm trying to imagine a more ominous motif than this one, and I can't. There's enough rumbling riffage here to wake the goddamn dead (or maybe a Jackass-style rude awakening of Bam's dad). Go ahead, crank it high and offend your neighbors! This is, after all, "Contempt."

"Ulcerous" heaves guttural bile as it drags its weighty iron chains with each step. The heavy laden soul summons more and more strength with every drumbeat, it's race providing it with one last burst of hatred with which to inflame humanity, Primitive Man style.

And wow, what a finish! Sweden covers Sweden in this case, with the younger Ockultist taking on the great Örebro band NASUM, whose name was derived from the 1973 film Flesh For Frankenstein. You can hear the underlying insanity of the original "Fight Terror With Terror" in this monstrosity, which seemed ideal for Ockultist to cover.

Look for the full release of Split From The Isolation by Betelzeus and Ockultist on May 30th (pre-order Side A, pre-order Side B). Each of these heft tracks is dense with doom and slithering with sludge making it a real feast for your jaded eardrums.

Stream it all right here, right now as Doomed & Stoned presents the world premiere of this six-legged Scandinavian beast! The album premier also includes the vinyl bonus tracks. After the stream ends they will only be available on the LP version (ETA: Summer 2021). If you dig the tunes as much as I know you will, remember to show the bands some love!

Give ear...

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[liesmyteachertoldme]

How globalists convinced billions of people to exterminate themselves

It's all now incredibly clear. Everything we've been watching over the last 20 months has been a globalist-led effort to convince billions of people to exterminate themselves without them knowing it.

Now it's confirmed: The goal really is global depopulation, and the effort is being rapidly accelerated to achieve the maximum die-off in 2022.

They figured out how to achieve it in a few simple steps:

   First, build a toxic nanoparticle weapon system (the spike protein) and mass produce it in labs run by the Chinese and US military.    

  Fake an outbreak in China along with “leaked” scary videos of Chinese people falling over dead in mere seconds after breathing in the “virus.” Cue media frenzy. 

  Rename the flu Covid-19, then call everything Covid to enhance phony numbers  via fake PCR tests, which is actually an amplification procedure and not a diagnostic test.

  Unleash mass media propaganda, claiming everybody will die unless they take vaccines and wear worthless masks.

  Call the mRNA bio-medical device a vaccine to fool the already gullible public even further. Unleash mass injections of the population with the spike protein bioweapons, fraudulently labeled “vaccines.”

   As people get injected with the bioweapons, they start shedding the toxic nanoparticles, making others sick around them. Frame this as a “worsening pandemic” to spread more fear and drive more people into the spike protein injections.

   Censor anyone talking about vaccine injuries or deaths. Pay off hospital administrators to wildly exaggerate Covid-19 numbers to keep the phony pandemic going

  That’s how they did it. Notice there was never a real pandemic to start with. The prior phony pandemics were just trial runs even though the virus was real, just not at pandemic levels.  2003 SARS; 2005 Avian Flu; 2009 Swine Flu; 2012 West Nile Virus; 2014 Ebola;  2016 Zika.  All they needed was a spike protein nanoparticle weapon system combined with media collusion and Big Tech censorship.

From the globalist point of view, the real genius in all this is how they’ve managed to get people to beg for their own vaccine death shots. Never before in human history have the masses been manipulated into lining up and demanding their own deaths. The vaccine holocaust is a stealth operation, requiring no bullets, bombs or missiles. It only needs censorship, journo-terrorism and a toxic nanoparticle bioweapon combined with a fraudulent PCR protocol authorized by the criminal CDC, The Center for Disease Creation and Promotion.

[postalpundit]

United States Postal Service - it needs your help!

You may have heard the USPS is in dire financial straits due to the downturn in business from the corona virus pandemic. Why should you care?

Back in July 1885, it cost 2 cents to mail a 1 oz letter.  Today it costs 55 cents.  The cost of mailing a letter has increased 53 cents in the past 115 years.  Can you think of any other service that has increased so little?

Think about it: the USPS will take your 1 oz. letter, sort it, transport it, and deliver it to wherever it is going in the country.  For one stamp.

Delivery points are how many addresses the USPS delivers to. By 1985 the USPS serviced 92 MILLION addresses. Now in 2020 they are servicing over 160 MILLION addresses.  No other company has that reach.

The Federal Government has tried to dismantle the USPS for several decades.  If the USPS were privatized, it would be chopped up, sold off to investors (who would make a tidy profit), and largely cease to exist as a national service.  

Since 1972, and the postal reorganization act passed that year, the USPS has been financially independent. USPS does not use any tax money. 

But the USPS has had a series of challenges.

2001: 9/11. After that disaster, the USPS stopped moving its mail on commercial aircraft, for security reasons. The costs of transporting the mail increased tremendously.

Also 2001 - letters containing anthrax were mailed. 5 people died, including 2 USPS employees. USPS spent millions changing how the mail was processed at its facilities. In 2009, President Obama signed an executive order utilizing the USPS as an option to distribute needed medications in the event of a large bio-terror attack, stating:  “The U.S. Postal Service has the capacity for rapid residential delivery of medical countermeasures for self-administration across all communities in the United States.”

2006 -  The Republican-led Congress passed a regulation requiring the USPS to PRE-PAY all its pensions for the next 75 years. No other corporation or governmental agency is required to do this. Just the USPS. Without the financial burden imposed by this regulation the USPS would be making a profit.

Still unimpressed? Consider:

Who’s delivering financial assistance checks from the US Government?

Who delivers your birthday cards, fan mail?

And a question for the politicians who refuse to help the USPS - Who do you think is going to mail all those political ads you want to send out come November?

The USPS is an American tradition dating back to 1775, when Benjamin Franklin was appointed the first Postmaster General.

How to help? Write your Congressional representatives. And please, use a stamp!

Send out a spring letter to your Christmas list to check in with loved ones during this hard time. USPS will appreciate the business, and many of us have too much time on our hands at the moment.

You don’t even have to lick the stamps anymore! And you can buy them online!

[kailasanithyanandagurukulsea]

MORE PHOTOS... GLIMPSES OF MAHA MAHESHWARA PUJA (DAY 3) || 13 APRIL 2021 THE VISION OF BRINGING GLOBAL PEACE AS DECLAR...

MORE PHOTOS... GLIMPSES OF MAHA MAHESHWARA PUJA (DAY 3) || 13 APRIL 2021 THE VISION OF BRINGING GLOBAL PEACE AS DECLARED ON JAN 1ST, 2021 IS INDEED A RESPONSIBILITY THAT CAN BE ENVISIONED AND EXECUTED IN LIVING REALITY WORLDWIDE ONLY BY THE LIVING INCARNATION OF PARAMASHIVA HIMSELF. THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM GRACIOUSLY ACCEPTED THE REQUEST OF KAILASA'S DEPARTMENT OF RELIGION IN COLLABORATION WITH DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICE OF A SPECIAL MAHA MAHESHWARA PUJA THAT WOULD BE HAPPENING ON 11TH, 12TH AND 13TH OF APRIL 2021. OVER 500 LIVES WERE OFFERED AT THE FEET OF THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM DURING MAHESHWARA PUJA. MAHESHWARA PUJA IS HINDUISM'S PRESCRIPTION IN LIBERATION OF THE DEPARTED SOUL. KARMA, AS DEFINED BY THE SPH IS THE CYCLE OF CHOOSING IMPOSSIBILITY OVER POSSIBILITY. KARMA , AS SUCH CARRIED BY ANCESTORS FOR GENERATIONS DOES INFLUENCE THE SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE OF ONE'S LIFE. MAHESHWARA PUJA IS HINDUISM IN ITS FINEST TO LIBERATE YOUR ANCESTORS FROM THEIR KARMAS AND FREE YOURSELF ONCE FOR ALL FROM THE EFFECTS OF THEIR KARMA ON YOU. OFFERING MAHESHWARA PUJA FOR YOURSELF WHILE LIVING ASSURES MUKTHI FOR YOU, AND IMMENSELY SUPPORTS YOU IN LIVING ENLIGHTENMENT (JEEVAN MUKTHI). CONSIDERING THESE COUPLE YEARS HAVE BEEN THE TIPPING POINT FOR A NEW WORLD ORDER, WHEREIN MANKIND AT LARGE ARE FORCED INTO TERROR PHYSICALLY, MENTALLY, PSYCHOLOGICALLY AND CONSCIOUSLY, WHEREIN LOSING LIVES DUE TO PANDEMIC AND ITS EFFECTS, LOSING LIVELIHOOD, THREATENED WITH BIO WAR, ETC - SPIRITUAL HEALING IS A DIRE NEED! HINDUISM PRESCRIBES VARIOUS METHODS FOR GLOBAL HEALING - ONE SUCH IS MAHESHWARA PUJA. NULLIFYING COLLECTIVE NEGATIVITY SIMPLY THROUGH THE PRESENCE OF THE AVATAR AND HIS ORDER OF MONKS. THE SOMASAMBHU PATATI SAYS, IT IS THOUSAND TIMES MORE GREATER THAN OFFERING ANY “SHRAADDHA”, ANY “PINDA”, IN ANY RIVER, ANY WATER-BODY, ANY LAKE, ANY HOLY LAND, ANY HOLY PLACE. OFFERING IT IN THE STOMACH OF THE LIVING INCARNATION OF PARAMASHIVA IS THE BEST FORM OF “PINDA THARPANA” AND 'SHRAADDHA'. IN HINDUISM, SHRAADHHA WHEREIN FOOD IS OFFERED TO SANYASIS FOR THE COMPLETION WITH THE DEPARTED SOULS, IS CALLED MAHESHWARA PUJA. IN THE SOMASHAMBHU PADDHATI, SHRAADHHA VIDHI,SLOKA 3 लिङ्गिनो ब्राह्मणाद्याश्च श्राद्धीयाः शिवदीक्षिताः । LIṄGINO BRĀHMAṆĀDYĀŚCA ŚRĀDDHĪY��Ḥ ŚIVADĪKṢITĀḤ । THE TRANSLATION GOES “THE SANNYASIS AND BRAHMANAS WHO HAVE BEEN INITIATED INTO THE SHIVA DEEKSHA ARE ELIGIBLE TO BE APPOINTED AS THE REPRESENTATIVES OF PITRUS IN THE SHRAADHHA.” REGARDLESS OF THE NUMBER OF BIRTHS THE SOUL WOULD HAVE TAKEN, REGARDLESS OF THE SOUL, WHILE EMBODIED HAVING BEEN INITIATED BY THE MASTER OR NOT IN HIS LIFETIME - THE MASTER CAN INTERVENE AND MAKE HIS PRESENCE AVAILABLE IN THE DEPARTED SOUL’S LIFE AND LEAD IT TO ENLIGHTENMENT! THIS IS POSSIBLE ONLY THROUGH MAHESHWARA PUJA! MAHA MAHESHWARA PUJA TODAY WAS OFFERED FOR : Aarav Shah Aaron Abhimanyu Dange Adam Awan "Aditya Nambiar" Ai Ying Huang Alfiya Polesskaya Alicia Morrissey Alka Chawla (Alive And Doing It For Myself) Alkesh Patel Amit Rastogi Ammanta Shah Ramson Anand Kumar "Anatha Rao Jaganadarau" Andrea Hendricks Ang Shi Xian Angela Anirudh Singh Anirudh Singh Gaur Anita Torger Anja Anja Dekkers Anja Matschuck Anjana Lal Anjana Parvathy Annie Bidlenova Antoinette B Anu Chawla (Alive And Doing It For Myself) Anurag Verma Anutosh Biswas Anyan Aravind Narayanan Aravind Sarva Bhowman Archanaa Ananda Arlene Blackman "Arun Kumar" Arun Rathod Ashu "Ashu Goswami" Ashwini Kumar Vij Asit Deshpande Ayodhya L Batajoo B Amutha Batumalai Babita Gaur Barbara Hock Barbara Kužić Bhavna Parmar Bhuvaneshwaran Krishnamoorthy Bhuvaneshwari Prabakar Bin Kai, Ng Bin Yang, Ng Bobbi Ablan Bolatbej Jaxymbetov Bolatbek Jax Bolatbek Jaxymbetov Bowling Lai Bryanne Noritsky Caio Watthier Fernandes Carole Evrard-Bourdon Carrie Chow Li Mei Carrie Li Mei Cătălin Silaghi Dumitrescu Célia Parreira Chan Tsui Wai Jolly (Chan Cheuk Wing Jolly) "Chandra Mohan Singaravelu" Cheang Bee Wah Chellappan.C.V Chen Weiliang Chen Xiu Hua Chenruzhen Chenwanzhen Christian Dubois Christina James Chuan Dong Huang Claudio Sanches Cristina Neira Flores Da Wei Chen Dai Hui "Damir Zeric" Deepak Kumar Deepan Prabhu Babu Devaki Thapaliya Devikarani "Diana Sullivan" Dineshwaran Dixuan Dixuan Chen Donatien Rongemaille Dynatec Australia Pty Ltd E.K.Lim Eddy Faisans Elena Reutova Elizabeth Allen Elizabeth Ware Ellyse Davis Emmanuel Clavreul Eng Keong Lim Erina Marino Eugénie Thérèse Dixit Evelyne Telchid Ewa Andersson Ezequiel Franco Miranda "Fabio Cheung Lim Yem" Fangyu Shi Fatima Ibrahim Felipe Madrigal Francelise Gene Fu Wu Fung Yin Lai Gayathri Mohan Geetanjali Padayachi Geetha Parameshwar Hai Rong Yu Hansa Vaghjiani Hari Chand Balasubramaniam Hariharakrishnan Kr Harini Sivaramakrishnan Harshul Bhatt Heidi Coolen Hejuan Hiranyavarna Nithya Ananda Hong Ling Zhang 张红玲 Hua Li Li Huangxiuhua Hubert Girard Hui Chieh Chen Huijuan Itani Humadevi Sivasamy Hung Li Hui Hung Lin Sheng Hungmui Long Idar Conley Indrani Chatterjee Ines Zimmermann Ivana Cendic Ivana Grebenar Jamie Patel Janarthan Rama Murti Jeanne Lavital Jessica Marie Altamirano Jia Wei Jia Yan Bing Jianxi Sun Jiaxin Xue Jing Guo Jinghua Chi - M Jitka Sotonová Jolanta Pawelec Josiele Watthier Jozef Homola Juan Quiñonez Franco Kanika Vij (Alive And Doing It For Myself) "Karen Ramjohn" Karen Burlingham Karn Inc Kathryn Kern Scholl Kenneth Nelson Kim Emons Kim Yiew Lee Kouxiaolan Krishnavi Potula "Kristijan Baran" Kristijan Baran Kritika Vij (Alive And Doing It For Myself) Lai Tee, Chia Lalita Tatarie Laurent Ngnazo Nolak Lenka Hukalukova Li Mengyao Licheng Lin YANG Lina Forbin Linxiaoming Lixia Hua Lu Chen Lu Yeya "Lucia Samano" Lúcia Kröger Lucia Samano Ma Dhurjati Nithyananda Ma Nithya Maha Adbhutacharitrananda Ma Nithya Maha Buddhananda Ma Nithya Premasindoori Ma Nithya Saralananda Magalie Caron Mahajaya Creations Mahesha Ananda Mahinder Chawla (Alive And Doing It For Myself) Mahitha Reddy Mala Patel Manish Bajpai Manoj Chawla (Alive And Doing It For Myself) Maria Ligia Parise Penteado Maria Lígia Penteado Mariana Maritato Marianne Croisier Marie Marie Anne

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[ohmykittenholy]

announcement!!

(image description: A page parodying the Lumberjanes badgework clips before each chapter in the lumberjanes volumes. In the top corner it says “page one, Lumberjanes program fields” in italics and then closer to the middle of the page in black blocky letters it reads “Lumberjanes field manual; Adventures in the Arts”. Under that is a badge in a diamond shape showing a green three eyed monster with tentacles holding two paintbrushes, a notebook and a paint palette in dark greens, cream yellow and black. Under that badge, green block letters read “leave your trace” badge, a play on “leave no trace.” In italics under that reads “This is a pun. We will not be having a repeat of the mass tree carving incident of ‘01.” Under that is a text describing the series of badges to come from the grand lodge’s point of view, which says:As we approach the end of summer campers would be looking back and reflecting on the jeans that came before them. The final campfire would be lit and skirts with learn about the founders an influential call lady kites that made this organization what it is today. However, due to the pandemic, lumber Jean camps have been closed this year in order to protect scouts, and internally handle a series of resurrected Aldridge beings that seem to have found homes in the cabins during the spring. (They say they are following a stay at home order. We say, begone beasts of the fae realm, also this isn’t your home, Barthelomew the betrayer, what in the Dana Terrace are you doing with that bunkbed???)In the spirit of the summer is close the Grandlodge is releasing a new badge program field for scouts in locked in at home, called adventures in the arts. The program will have different badges each containing a short biography of the different influential lumber scout artist. While the eldritch beings have terrorized our mail person so much that they refused to send our badges to scouts who participate in the program field, because, quote, “Eyes.... too many eyes”, we appreciate the scouts who go above and beyond and read this new material and hopefully can “reblog” The new badge work with what this artist means to them, or any comic panels, issues, or character designs, etc. that stuck out for them. Because at the end of the day, our scouts have persisted through the strangest times in history and we have no doubts that our campers will approach this year with honesty, compassion, curiousity and bravery. (Also, salt to ward off the terrifying, many tentacled beasts. It’s very effective.) end image id.)

So, Vi, now that you’ve made me read through your lumberjane intern role play, what does that mean?

Thanks for that, by the way! So basically every two weeks I’m going to be sharing a little bio on one of the main Lumberjanes artists, in chronological-ish order (come on its Lumberjanes time doesn’t exist we all know this). This will be mostly artists who’ve illustrated a whole arc, and I’ll put things in like their other work, things I’ve noticed about their styles, etc. There’s so many different people working on Lumberjanes at once, and it’s kinda hard to keep it all straight (ha) so this is a good way to contextualize the artists in preparation for the end of summer and celebrate all the cool things they’ve done.

Yeah, okay. But what am I supposed to do again?

So if your heart desires, consider reblogging the posts I make on different artists every two weeks with your own comments, favorite panels, analysis, art in each style, really whatever you want!

It would be cool if people could post stuff with the tag for each badge, the next two weeks it’s the “leave your trace badge” but it changes by artist. For the whole thing you can use #lumberjanes artists or #adventures in the arts or honestly just #lumberdorks because, you know sometimes we should just claim it.

So, are you starting like, right now on Sunday?

That is the plan, that is the hope.

Are you gonna bother us with art puns the entire time?

It’s Lumberjanes, what am I supposed to do?

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Okay I need to stop talking to myself, please respond if you have questions or anything!

[securitymeetsscience]

Nipah virus (NiV) is a bat-borne zoonotic virus that affects humans with a high mortality rate of 40% to 75%. Outbreaks mostly happen in Southeast Asia. It transmits from animal to humans, contaminated food, and also person to person.

No treatment or vaccine is available for the Nipah virus. Although the risk of it becoming a pandemic spread is low, that still doesn’t decrease the fear that if landed into the wrong hands, NiV could be turned into a biological weapon. Hopefully, global defense entities continues to implant these possibilities at the forefront of their minds. After all, we weren’t ready for Covid.

[letterboxd]

How I Letterboxd #7: Cinemonster.

Hooptober’s head honcho opens up to Jack Moulton about his love for Texas-born horror director Tobe Hooper, the joys of running Letterboxd’s most beloved Hallowe’en community challenge, and the “terrifying, magical” experience of seeing Frankenstein at the age of four.

“You can’t spell October without Tobe.” —Cinemonster

Cinemonster, known to his family and friends as David Hood, is a restaurateur in Pittsburgh by day, and the head honcho of Hooptober by night. Now in its seventh year, the horror film challenge sees participants set their own 31-day viewing agenda of 31 films, curated according to a list of criteria set by its creator.

‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ (1974), directed by Tobe Hooper.

With over 5,000 films logged on Letterboxd and a growing collection of posters, DVDs, Blu-rays, laser discs and film memorabilia, Cinemonster is a literal monster of cinema. He has created more than 500 lists, including a ton of year, director, actor, actress, franchise and memoriam lists.

What brought you to Letterboxd? I found Letterboxd while I was doing a Google search for a horror film that I had forgotten the name of. I ran into a list that Hollie Horror had made and wound up starting a profile and it went from there. That would have been a little over seven years ago.

How freakin’ cool is last year’s Hallowe’en Easter egg with the dripping blood from our logo? [Pro members get this added to their pages by mentioning #horror in their bio.] I’m a fan.

Unfortunately I haven’t heard of a single one of your four profile favorites! What’s urging you to highlight these films? They are just lesser-seen and have something good or great about them. Eyeball is a great little underseen Umberto Lenzi film. Death Machines is an awkward, weird and wonderful film with kung fu and blood. Massacre at Central High is one of my favorite films and sadly lacking a disc release of any kind—anyone who has seen Heathers will recognize a couple of things if they watch it. Rituals is a criminally underseen stalked in the woods film from the ’70s.

In this this list description, you explain how the original Frankenstein (1931) hooked you into horror at four years old. Can you describe what you most remember about that life-changing experience? It was both magical and terrifying. The space, the creature, the little girl. I had trouble sleeping for weeks afterwards. No matter where I am in the world, if there is a screening of Frank, I’ll go. I watched most of the major universals by the time I was six or seven. I saw Alien and Jaws 2 with my folks and those stuck with me. Cable and a local UHF station showing Hammer films on Saturdays are what really allowed me to get sucked in.

‘Frankenstein’ (1931), directed by James Whale.

The horror films of 1980 and 1981 were the most impactful and are the ones that mean the most to me to this day; Fade to Black, Night School, Motel Hell, The Fog, Alligator, Altered States, Terror Train, Death Ship, Scanners, An American Werewolf in London, The Howling, The Funhouse, Dead & Buried, Hell Night, Wolfen, Ghost Story, The Pit and Evilspeak. I saw all of them five to ten-plus times on cable as a kid. They’re still all high on my list. I am glad that Fade to Black is on Shudder. People need to watch it. More relevant now than then.

What exactly provoked you to start Hooptober seven years ago? I moved into an old spooky house and had a backlog of Blu-rays to watch and the 4K of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was about to come out. I’d done some interactive stuff on Letterboxd previously and had a decent amount of people involved. I was also at a point in my life where 31 films in 31 days is tough, as it is for a lot of us now. So I thought ‘Why don’t I do something that starts a little early, clears some of my list out, and has some parameters that don’t feel like I am handing out an assignment?’ I grew up in Texas, Tobe [Hooper] is close to my heart, and with all the Hooper I owned and the 4K coming out, I decided to christen it with his name. You can’t spell October without Tobe.

What’s the most members that have participated in a Hooptober? The number of people who participated was a little more than I expected, but that wasn’t what I was surprised by. I never thought of it as a recurring event until I started to hear from people the following summer about ‘the next one’. I just kinda chuckled after about a dozen people had asked and I said out loud to no one, “I guess I’m doing another one of these”. We are well over 700 this year, and still climbing.

‘Fade to Black’ (1980), directed by Vernon Zimmerman.

Where do you get the ideas for the rules for films to consider watching? At this point, I look back at past years so that I don’t repeat myself. I look to the current year for inspiration. Is there a film from a sub-genre that was prominent? Was it a strong year for output from women, Mexico, Asia, Black filmmakers, something cultural, and so on? I may focus on effects creators, an actor or writer on a whim. I try to keep an eye out for blind spots I haven’t covered. Shudder, archive.org, the big streamers are all resources. Sadly, rarefilmm no longer exists.

In last year’s interview with Merry-Go-Round magazine, you mentioned plans to turn Hooptober into a film festival. How’s that going? In a post-pandemic world, how can we keep independent niche film festivals thriving? The world has not been agreeable, obviously. I’m not even sure how viable something like that will be next year. I’ve been taking a look at streaming options. Post-pandemic will require more creativity and outside-the-box thinking, and will probably continue to feed some drive-ins. Been a while since more than a handful of people wanted to put money into a drive-in, which is nice to see.

I’m going to do a tweet along to The Witch Who Came From the Sea in October, and I’ll give you an exclusive here: The George Romero Foundation and I are doing online Horror Trivia on October 11. I had been doing it live with them here in Pittsburgh until the pandemic.

Based on this year’s rules and conditions, if there was one essential you-can’t-miss film you could force all your participants to add to their challenge, which film would it be? Demons, Eve’s Bayou or The Witch Who Came From the Sea.

‘The Witch Who Came from the Sea’ (1976), directed by Matt Cimber.

What have been your own greatest film discoveries through your Hooptober adventures? A Tale of Two Sisters, I Drink Your Blood, Blood Diner, and though it is a bit of a cheat to list this one, The Amusement Park. It’s cheating because it didn’t exist as something that I or anyone else could have watched, prior to when I saw it.

Do you have any acclaimed horror movies still lingering in your list of shame? Eyes Without a Face, Upgrade, Cure and Scream 4.

Have you ever completed one of your own Hooptober challenges yet? Errrrrrrrrr, one. I’m on track this year.

What about the participants over the years—any Letterboxd friends you’ve made who would you like to give a shout-out to? Aaron, Sarah Jane and Chris Duck are people that I talk to outside of Letterboxd. There have been a few others over the years. Slappy McGee has helped me with Hooptober the last two years. They are great. Javo and David Lawrence are pretty great, too.

Before Hooptober, many of your lists invited discussion with your followers. In what ways is Letterboxd the ideal forum to foster a community of film fans? Fans exercise their fandom in so many ways. The platform is so flexible that it allows you to utilize it in a small and personal way, in a promotional way, or to dive into the community pool and see who’s out there that shares something with you or can show you something. The more people that we are exposed to and listen to, we are all the better for.

Which of your review—from any genre—are you proudest of? The Invisible Man or The Hustler, probably. I have a capsule of Hud that I like.

So, you’re the horror guy. Nobody is denying that. You are Cinemonster, after all. But when I look at your top movies list and see that Singin’ in the Rain is your all-time number one, I’ll need you to explain yourself. I go back and forth between that and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. They are 1A and 1B in some order. Singin’ in the Rain is a perfect film and the studio system at its best. I will ignore your implied insult. ;)

‘Fear of a Black Hat’ (1993), directed by Rusty Cundieff.

It’s true, even a horror aficionado needs some levity in their life. What other comedies pick you up from a dark place? Fear of a Black Hat always does the trick. Same with The Awful Truth, Murder by Death, Hollywood Shuffle, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Blazing Saddles, Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Black Dynamite.

Who has been keeping you company during this tough year? I have watched thirteen Spike Lee films so far this year. I’ve taken a break the last few months, but I’ll probably knock out five or six more. With the exception of 25th Hour, everything is a revisit. It’s been a joy to go back through everything. Crooklyn is much stronger than I remembered, and Bamboozled just gets better and more impactful as time passes. I have loved Spike since the day I saw School Daze. His films have always connected with things that are important to me and to those that have been around me. Lee is still grossly under-appreciated as a narrative film director and a documentarian.

We’re bowing down to your epic Blu-ray and DVD collection. Which ones are your most prized possessions? Make us jealous. I have an Anchor Bay DVD of Dawn of the Dead signed by the cast and George A. Romero, a steelbook of Battle Royale, the first Slumber Party Massacre set before they had to reprint the box, the original Star Wars trilogy on Blu. I’m sure there are things I’m not thinking of. I have a lot of out-of-print and laser-only stuff. I’ll never get rid of my Holy Grail, Ghostbusters and Akira Criterion laser discs.

A selection of Cinemonster’s signed memorabilia.

I have a copy of Painting with Light signed by John Alton, John Waters and Steven Soderbergh I’ll send you a picture of. I used to collect movie posters, and I have the original Revenge of the Jedi one-sheet and the Drew Struzan Squirm poster. I do love those.

From your top directors list, let’s put one horror director on a pedestal. Who does the genre better than anyone else and why? George. They’re always topical, intelligent, thoughtful, personal and sometimes prescient. At their best they hold up both a mirror and a crystal ball. He was writing found-footage scripts in the early 70s, for god’s sake. Tobe is grossly under-appreciated. James Whale and Mario Bava could scare you in so many ways.

So, thinking beyond Ari Aster, Robert Eggers and Jordan Peele, which up-and-coming horror directors are you most excited about? Issa López, Gigi Saúl Guerrero, Benson and Moorhead, Shinichiro Ueda, Na Hong-jin, Julia Ducournau, Nia DaCosta, Jeremy Gardner and Leigh Whannell.

The 2010s were a great decade for horror. We have more money on-screen, moving away from the low-budget films of the 2000s. Which favorite horror film of the last decade inspired you the most? Get Out. What Jordan did for generations to come is unmatched in this century.

Chucky from ‘Child’s Play’ (1988).

Which probably-too-long horror franchise gets too much flak and is top-to-bottom a great time? Child’s Play. Chucky has always been treated generally as second tier. [That franchise] has tried a lot of interesting and out-there things during its lifespan that had no business working, but did.

I know it’s been a slow year but you haven’t logged many 2020 movies yet! Which is your most anticipated horror movie of 2020 or 2021? Peninsula, for sure; I love Train to Busan. Then Candyman, The Dark and the Wicked, Grizzly II: Revenge, Bad Hair, #Alive, After Midnight, The Platform, Bulbbul, Underwater, Shirley and Swallow.

Interview by Jack Moulton. Follow Jack on Letterboxd.

[first-sergeants-blog]

Very disappointing, I practiced for years with the military for a bio attack. What happened to the fucking plan?

#TrumpPandemic #FuckFatNixon #GOPbastards #MARINESagainstTrump