#Jim McCullough Jr.

[cinemaquiles]

Um pé grande em "Criatura do lago negro" (Creature from black lake, 1976)

[crimsonicarus]

@1016week

Quotes: "House of memories", Panic at the disco - "Estate 5", Toni Payne - "Les justes", Albert Camus - "A letter to Anatole", Marcel Proust - from the "Hush, my sweet" Haiku archives, WTM - "All things end", Hozier - twitter user, Apple green - unknown work, David McCullough Jr - "The ice palace", F. Scott Fitzgerald -unknown work, R.M Drake - ,"This is How You Lose the Time War", Amal El-Mohtar.

Paintings: "The longing to air trips", Artem Cheboka - "water light", Janet Reid Wilson - "Evening", Dmitry Oleyn -"sunset wave", Jim Mcconologue.

[darkmaga-retard]

Does the Ruling Elite Have an Extermination List?

Paul Craig Roberts

Look at the size of Tucker Carlson’s audience. It exceeds that of all Demorat politicians combined. https://x.com/JackPosobiec/status/1831526486584541421

Tucker is dangerous to the American gestapo establishment. That is why he and Elon Musk head my list of Americans who are likely to quietly disappear once the Kamala regime has been placed in power. Truth-tellers are dangerous to a tyranny. They will be picked up and disappeared, and there will be no news reports. Suddenly, they won’t be there.

A fantasy? Perhaps, but it is as likely as not. They just tried to kill Trump, a story that lasted only three weeks before ending in the Memory Hole.

A list of Americans who the ruling establishment finds inconvenient:

Tucker Carlson Elon Musk Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Ron Paul Scott Ritter Steve Kirsch Dr. Peter McCullough Dr. Joseph Mercola Rep. Thomas Massie Tulsi Gabbard

Should we add Alex Jones, or have they already done Jones in with punitive fines and settlements?

What about Mike Adams, Rand Paul, Jim Jordan?

Dear readers, who in your opinions are some of those too inconvenient for the Ruling Elite to be left at large?

[curator-on-ao3]

Nine Books

Big thanks to @northstarfan for tagging me! Nine of my favorite books, in no particular order and the list could well be different tomorrow:

Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

every book in the Drina series by Jean Estoril

The Ordinary Princess by M. M. Kaye

Lies My Teacher Taught Me by James Loewen

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley

Teacher Man by Frank McCourt

Jim the Boy by Tony Earley

anything by David McCullough

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Tagging anyone to wants to play! 💕📚🥳

[ulkaralakbarova]

An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: J.D. Vance: Gabriel Basso Beverly “Bev” Vance: Amy Adams Bonnie “Mamaw” Vance: Glenn Close Lindsay Vance: Haley Bennett Usha Chilukuri: Freida Pinto Papaw: Bo Hopkins Young J.D. Vance: Owen Asztalos Matt: Jesse C. Boyd Phillip Roseman: Stephen Kunken Ken: Keong Sim Travis: Morgan Gao Chris: Ethan Suess Kevin: Jono Mitchell Uncle Pat: Bill Kelly Uncle Arch: David Dwyer Lori: Sarah Hudson Jimmy (Bev’s Brother): Ted Huckabee Bill (Nurse): Nathan Hesse Cousin Nate: Max Barrow Bonnie (Mamaw, 30’s): Sunny Mabrey Jim (Papaw, 30’s): Brett Lorenzini Young Bev (6 years): Tierney Smith Cheryl: Helen LeRoy Emma: Kinsley Isla Dillon Adult Frank McFee: Ryan Homchick Chip: Joshua Stenvick Brooks Houghton: Bill Winkler Brett: Chase Anderson Pamela: Amy Parrish Rich: Ed Amatrudo Hiram Walcott: David de Vries Cocktailer #1: Holly Morris Cocktailer #2: Brandon Hirsch Server: David Alexander Obsequious Server: Alexander Baxter Waiter: Steven Reddington Wiry Law Partner: Angelo Reyes Stodgy Partner: John Rymer Young Bonnie (Mamaw 13 Years): Abigail Rose Cornell Adult Louis Zablocki: Lowrey Brown Young J.D. (4 years): Hunter James Evers Dane: Riley McNerney Pool Woman: Zele Avradopoulos Mr. Selby: David Jensen Holler Aunt: Skylar Denney Young Louis: John Whitley Doug: Zac Pullam Young Frank: Shane Donovan Lewis Officer #1: Mike Senior Officer #2: William Mark McCullough Kameron: Dylan Gage Katrina: Hannah Pniewski Doctor: David Marshall Silverman Dr. Newton: Jason Davis Davis: Joshua Brady Nasty Cashier: Cory Chapman Nurse: Tatom Pender Patient: Cathy Hope Ray: David Atkinson Salesperson: Adam Murray Scared Woman: Dianna Craig Meghan: Emery Mae Edgeman Young Jim (Papaw 16 Years): Rohan Myers Meals On Wheels Delivery Man: Matthew Alan Brady Young Lori (6 years): Lucy Capri Sally Coates: Déjá Dee Kyle: Daniel R. Hill Arguing Girlfriend: Jordan Trovillion Secretary at Club: Yossie Mulyadi ICU Nurse #1: Alisa Harris ICU Nurse #2: Tiger Dawn Rehab Mother: Darla Robinson Rehab Recepcionist: Belinda Keller Old Mamaw Blanton: Jessie Faye Shirley Nurse Vivian: Cheryl Howard Law Candidate Tim: Tim Abou-Nasr Curt: Leland Thomas Griffin Officer Connor: Drew Emerson Jones EMT #1: Justin P. Turner EMT #2: Joshua T. Schneider Marine Barber: Tony Ward Dining Hall Manager: Mara Hall Jill at Financial Aid Office: Tess Malis Kincaid Gas Station Attendant: Chris Charm Intake Receptionist: Mary Kraft Shoe Store Manager: Suehyla El-Attar Study Hall Friend #1: Matthew Withers Study Hall Friend #2: Jessica Miesel Study Hall Friend #3: Benjamin Rapsas Peter (uncredited): Ethan Levy Middletown Resident (uncredited): Bret Aaron Knower Film Crew: Original Music Composer: Hans Zimmer Producer: Brian Grazer Producer: Ron Howard Post Producer: William M. Connor Executive Producer: Diana Pokorny Production Design: Molly Hughes Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Robert Hein Director of Photography: Maryse Alberti Casting: Carmen Cuba Producer: Karen Lunder Stunt Coordinator: Monique Ganderton Writer: Vanessa Taylor Compositing Artist: Daniel L. Smith Camera Operator: Thomas Lappin Compositing Artist: Michael A. Martinez Supervising Art Director: Gregory A. Weimerskirch Costume Designer: Virginia B. Johnson Set Costumer: Bob Moore Jr. Makeup Department Head: Eryn Krueger Mekash Foley Artist: Heikki Kossi Art Direction: Shawn D. Bronson Rigging Grip: Gary Blair Makeup Artist: Erica Stewart Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Josh Berger Compositing Artist: Steve Dinozzi VFX Artist: Bryan Haines Visual Effects Producer: Chris LeDoux Original Music Composer: David Fleming Set Dresser: Aaron Robert Hall Assistant Art Director: Chris Yoo Costume Supervisor: Dana Pacheco Sound Designer: Grant Elder Makeup Artist: Jodi Byrne Set Costumer: Robin Fields Compositing Artist: Brad Lucas Set Dresser: Sam Carter Makeup Artist: Andrea Vieth Set Dresser: Maxfield Ladish Set Dresser: Natalie LeCompte Rigging ...

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CREATURE FROM BLACK LAKE (1976) – Episode 178 – Decades Of Horror 1970s

“Dang creature . . . I’m gonna get my shotgun and make a rug outta that damn thing!” And Jack Elam is just the one who can do it! Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they make a trip to the bayou to check out Creature from Black Lake (1976) and its new Synapse Films Blu-ray, released December 13, 2022. It’s a beauty!

Decades of Horror 1970s Episode 178 – Creature from Black Lake (1976)

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Two young students from the University of Chicago hear of the mysterious happenings at Black Lake and armed with a van packed with scientific equipment set out to solve the mystery.

  Director: Joy N. Houck Jr.

Writer: Jim McCullough Jr. 

Produced by: Jim McCullough (Sr.)

Production Company: Jim McCullough Productions

Distributors: Howco International Pictures (1976) (USA) (theatrical)

Music by: Jaime Mendoza-Nava

Cinematography by: Dean Cundey

Film Editing by: Robert Gordon

Sound: Thomas Causey

Creature design: Dean Cundey

Makeup Department: Charlene Cundey (makeup artist)

Poster Artist: Ralph McQuarrie

Selected cast:

Jack Elam as Joe Canton

Dub Taylor as Grandpaw Bridges

Dennis Fimple as Pahoo

John David Carson as Rives

Bill Thurman as Sheriff Billy Carter

Jim McCullough Jr. as Orville Bridges

Roy Tatum as Fred/Creature

Cathryn Hartt as Eve-Waitress (as Catherine McClenny)

Becky Smiser as Becky Carter

Michelle Willingham as Michelle

Evelyn Hindricks as Grandma Bridges

Roger Pancake as H.B.

Karen Brooks as Orville’s Mother

Chase Tatum as Baby Orville

Jim Garth as Willy (uncredited)

Bob Kyle as Rufus

Joy N. Houck Jr. as Prof. Burch (as J.N. Houck Jr.)

I.M. ‘Buddy’ Brumley Jr. as Barber (uncredited)

To begin with, your Decades of Horror 1970s Grue Crew are universally impressed with the quality in the look and sound of the new Synapse Films Blu-ray release of Creature from Black Lake. In the past, many of the crew had seen the film in a cropped, pan-and-scan version on TV or videotape. They discovered that Creature from Black Lake is an excellent movie that had been marred by the poor quality of many of the prints to which they had access. The Synapse Blu-ray release is a great showcase for Dean Cundy’s cinematography and facilitates a far more enjoyable viewing experience. As far as bigfoot movies of the era, Creature from Black Lake moves to the top among a select few. Synapse did a great service to horror fans in restoring Creature from Black Lake to this pristine, widescreen format.

After gushing over the Synapse Blu-ray, the Grue-Crew gushes equally over the movie itself. A great cast of character actors led by Jack Elam, Dub Taylor, Bill Thuman, Dennis Fimple, and John David Carson, supported by a well-cast group of locals, makes Creature from Black Lake a heck of a fun watch. In fact, they were having so much fun, they forgot to mention that Cathryn Hartt (credited as Catherine McClenny), who played Eve-the-waitress, is Morgan Fairchild’s sister. And be assured, there are plenty of creature shenanigans to supply the tension required in a good bigfoot film. 

The crew’s thanks go out to Synapse Films for supplying them with the Blu-ray screeners! The official release date is Tuesday, December 13, 2022. You can purchase your copy at Creature from Black Lake (1080p Blu-ray + Limited Edition Slipcover) – Synapse Films. You know you want it!

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror 1970s is part of the Decades of Horror two-week rotation with The Classic Era and the 1980s. In two weeks, the next episode in their very flexible schedule will be Count Dracula (1970), directed by Jesús “Jess” Franco and starring Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom, Klaus Kinski, Maria Rohm, and Soledad Miranda. Yes, Grue Believers, this is their first Jess Franco movie.

We want to hear from you – the coolest, grooviest fans: comment on the site or email the Decades of Horror 1970s podcast hosts at feedback@gruesomemagazine.com. 

Check out this episode!

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Mountaintop Motel Massacre is available now on Blu-ray/DVD combo pack via Vinegar Syndrome. Orders placed directly from Vinegar Syndrome ($24.49) will receive an embossed slipcover designed by Earl Kessler Jr., limited to 2,000.

The 1983 regional slasher film is written and directed by Jim McCullough Sr. (The Aurora Encounter). Bill Thurman, Anna Chappell, Will Mitchell, and Amy Hill star.

Mountaintop Motel Massacre has been newly restored in 2K from 35mm negative elements. It features reversible artwork. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Interview with assistant cameraman David Akin

Interview with production designer Drew Edward Hunter

Theatrical trailer

Stills gallery

Article gallery

Evelyn (Anna Chappell) runs the Mountaintop Motel, a cluster of ramshackle cabins nestled deep in the Texas countryside. But Evelyn isn't 'all there;' instead tormented by ghastly voices and visions which cause her to periodically lose her grip on reality, until one fateful day, lost in a bout of insanity, she unwittingly murders her young daughter.

Although the police rule it an accident, Evelyn's guilt soon overtakes her, plunging her deeper and deeper into a world of violent paranoia. When a group of travelers arrive to spend the night at the motel, Evelyn completely detaches from reality and, viewing her new guests as a threat, begins to terrorize and dispatch them one by one, with the help of her trusty sickle...

[skonnaris]

Books I’ve Read: 2006-2019

Alexie, Sherman - Flight

Anderson, Joan - A Second Journey

                          - An Unfinished Marriage

                          - A Walk on the Beach

                          - A Year By The Sea

Anshaw, Carol - Carry the One

Auden, W.H. - The Selected Poems of W.H. Auden

Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice

Bach, Richard - Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Bear, Donald R - Words Their Way

Berg, Elizabeth - Open House

Bly, Nellie - Ten Days in a Madhouse

Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451

                        - The Martian Chronicles

Brooks, David - The Road to Character

Brooks, Geraldine - Caleb’s Crossing

Brown, Dan - The Da Vinci Code

Bryson, Bill - The Lost Continent

Burnett, Frances Hodgson - The Secret Garden

Buscaglia, Leo - Bus 9 to Paradise

                         - Living, Loving & Learning

                         - Personhood

                         - Seven Stories of Christmas Love

Byrne, Rhonda - The Secret

Carlson, Richard - Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff

Carson, Rachel - The Sense of Wonder

                          - Silent Spring

Cervantes, Miguel de - Don Quixote

Cherry, Lynne - The Greek Kapok Tree

Chopin, Karen - The Awakening

Clurman, Harold - The Fervent Years: The Group Theatre & the 30s

Coelho, Paulo -  Adultery

                           The Alchemist

Conklin, Tara - The Last Romantics

Conroy, Pat - Beach Music

                    - The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son

                    - The Great Santini

                    - The Lords of Discipline

                    - The Prince of Tides

                    - The Water is Wide

Corelli, Marie - A Romance of Two Worlds

Delderfield, R.F. - To Serve Them All My Days

Dempsey, Janet - Washington’s Last Contonment: High Time for a Peace

Dewey, John - Experience and Education

Dickens, Charles - A Christmas Carol

                             - Great Expectations

                             - A Tale of Two Cities

Didion, Joan - The Year of Magical Thinking

Disraeli, Benjamin - Sybil

Doctorow, E.L. - Andrew’s Brain

                         - Ragtime

Doerr, Anthony - All the Light We Cannot See

Dreiser, Theodore - Sister Carrie 

Dyer, Wayne - Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life

                     - The Power of Intention

                     - Your Erroneous Zones

Edwards, Kim - The Memory Keeper’s Daughter

Ellis, Joseph J. - His Excellency: George Washington

Ellison, Ralph - The Invisible Man

Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Essays and Lectures

Felkner, Donald W. - Building Positive Self Concepts

Fergus, Jim - One Thousand White Women

Flynn, Gillian - Gone Girl

Follett, Ken - Pillars of the Earth

Frank, Anne - The Diary of a Young Girl

Freud, Sigmund - The Interpretation of Dreams

Frey, James - A Million Little Pieces

Fromm, Erich - The Art of Loving

                       - Escape from Freedom

Fulghum, Robert - All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Fuller, Alexandra - Leaving Before the Rains Come

Garield, David - The Actors Studion: A Player’s Place

Gates, Melinda - The Moment of Lift

Gibran, Kahlil - The Prophet

Gilbert, Elizabeth - Eat, Pray, Love

                            - The Last American Man

                            - The Signature of All Things

Ginsburg, Ruth Bader - My Own Words

Girzone, Joseph F, - Joshua

                               - Joshua and the Children

Gladwell, Malcom - Blink

                              - David and Goliath

                              - Outliers

                              - The Tipping Point

                              - Talking to Strangers

Glass, Julia - Three Junes

Goodall, Jane - Reason for Hope

Goodwin, Doris Kearnes - Team of Rivals

Graham, Steve - Best Practices in Writing Instruction

Gray, John - Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus

Groom, Winston - Forrest Gump

Gruen, Sarah - Water for Elephants

Hannah, Kristin - The Great Alone

                          - The Nightingale

Harvey, Stephanie and Anne Goudvis - Strategies That Work

Hawkins, Paula - The Girl on the Train

Hedges, Chris - Empire of Illusion

Hellman, Lillian - Maybe

                         - Pentimento

Hemingway - Ernest - A Moveable Feast

Hendrix, Harville - Getting the Love You Want

Hesse, Hermann - Demian

                            - Narcissus and Goldmund

                            - Peter Camenzind

                            - Siddhartha

                            - Steppenwolf

Hilderbrand, Elin - The Beach Club

Hitchens, Christopher - God is Not Great

Hoffman, Abbie - Soon to be a Major Motion Picture 

                          - Steal This Book

Holt, John - How Children Fail

                  - How Children Learn

                 - Learning All the Time

                 - Never Too Late

Hopkins, Joseph - The American Transcendentalist

Horney, Karen - Feminine Psychology

                        - Neurosis and Human Growth

                        - The Neurotic Personality of Our Time

                        - New Ways in Psychoanalysis

                        - Our Inner Conflicts

                        - Self Analysis

Hosseini, Khaled - The Kite Runner

Hoover, John J, Leonard M. Baca, Janette K. Klingner - Why Do English Learners Struggle with Reading?

Janouch, Gustav - Conversations with Kafka

Jefferson, Thomas - Crusade Against Ignorance

Jong, Erica - Fear of Dying

Joyce, Rachel - The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy

                       - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Kafka, Franz - Amerika

                      - Metamophosis

                      - The Trial     

Kallos, Stephanie - Broken For You  

Kazantzakis, Nikos - Zorba the Greek

Keaton, Diane - Then Again

Kelly, Martha Hall - The Lilac Girls

Keyes, Daniel - Flowers for Algernon

King, Steven - On Writing

Kornfield, Jack - Bringing Home the Dharma

Kraft, Herbert - The Indians of Lenapehoking - The Lenape or Delaware Indians: The Original People of NJ, Southeastern New York State, Eastern Pennsylvania, Northern Delaware and Parts of Western Connecticut

Kundera, Milan - The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Lacayo, Richard - Native Son

Lamott, Anne - Bird by Bird

                         Word by Word

L’Engle, Madeleine - A Wrinkle in Time

Lahiri, Jhumpa - The Namesake

Lappe, Frances Moore - Diet for a Small Planet

Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird

Lems, Kristin et al  - Building Literacy with English Language Learners

Lewis, Sinclair - Main Street

London, Jack - The Call of the Wild

Lowry, Lois - The Giver

Mander, Jerry - Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television

Marks, John D. - The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind         Control

Martel, Yann - Life of Pi

Maslow, Abraham - The Farther Reaches of Human Nature

                              - Motivation and Personality

                              - Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences

                             - Toward a Psychology of Being                            

Maugham. W. Somerset - Of Human Bondage

                                        - Christmas Holiday

Maurier, Daphne du - Rebecca

Mayes, Frances - Under the Tuscan Sun

Mayle, Peter - A Year in Provence

McCourt, Frank - Angela’s Ashes

                          - Teacher man

McCullough, David - 1776

                                - Brave Companions

McEwan, Ian - Atonement

                      - Saturday

McLaughlin, Emma - The Nanny Diaries

McLuhan, Marshall - Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

Meissner, Susan - The Fall of Marigolds

Millman, Dan - Way of the Peaceful Warrior

Moehringer, J.R. - The Tender Bar

Moon, Elizabeth - The Speed of Dark

Moriarty, Liane - The Husband’s Sister

                         - The Last Anniversary

                         - What Alice Forgot

Mortenson, Greg - Three Cups of Tea

Moyes, Jo Jo - One Plus One

                       - Me Before You 

Ng, Celeste - Little Fires Everywhere

Neill, A.S. - Summerhill

Noah, Trevor - Born a Crime

O’Dell, Scott - Island of the Blue Dolphins

Offerman, Nick - Gumption

O’Neill, Eugene - Long Day’s Journey Into Night

                            A Touch of the Poet

Orwell, George - Animal Farm

Owens, Delia - Where the Crawdads Sing

Paulus, Trina - Hope for the Flowers

Pausch, Randy - The Last Lecture

Patchett, Ann - The Dutch House

Peck, Scott M. - The Road Less Traveled

                         - The Road Less Traveled and Beyond

Paterson, Katherine - Bridge to Teribithia

Picoult, Jodi - My Sister’s Keeper

Pirsig, Robert - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Puzo, Mario - The Godfather

Quindlen, Anna - Black and Blue

Radish, Kris - Annie Freeman’s Fabulous Traveling Funeral

Redfield, James - The Celestine Prophecy

Rickert, Mary - The Memory Garden

Rogers, Carl - On Becoming a Person

Ruiz, Miguel - The Fifth Agreement

                     - The Four Agreements

                     - The Mastery of Love

Rum, Etaf - A Woman is No Man

Saint-Exupery, Antoine de - The Little Prince

Salinger, J.D. - Catcher in the Rye

Schumacher, E.F. - Small is Beautiful

Sebold, Alice - The Almost Moon

                       - The Lovely Bones

Shaffer, Mary Ann and Anne Barrows - The Gurnsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Shakespeare, William - Alls Well That Ends Well

                                   - Much Ado About Nothing

                                   - Romeo and Juliet

                                   - The Sonnets

                                   - The Taming of the Shrew

                                   - Twelfth Night

                                   - Two Gentlemen of Verona

Sides, Hampton - Hellhound on his Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin

Silverstein, Shel - The Giving Tree

Skinner, B.F. - About Behaviorism

Smith, Betty - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Snyder, Zilpha Keatley - The Velvet Room

Spinelli, Jerry - Loser

Spolin, Viola - Improvisation for the Theater

Stanislavski, Constantin - An Actor Prepares

Stedman, M.L. - The Light Between Oceans

Steinbeck, John - Travels with Charley

Steiner, Peter - The Terrorist

Stockett, Kathryn - The Help

Strayer, Cheryl - Wild

Streatfeild, Dominic - Brainwash

Strout, Elizabeth - My Name is Lucy Barton

Tartt, Donna - The Goldfinch

Taylor, Kathleen - Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control

Thomas, Matthew - We Are Not Ourselves

Thoreau, Henry David - Walden

Tolle, Eckhart - A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose

                      - The Power of Now

Towles, Amor - A Gentleman in Moscow

                       - Rules of Civility

Tracey, Diane and Lesley Morrow - Lenses on Reading

Traub, Nina - Recipe for Reading

Tzu, Lao - Tao Te Ching

United States Congress - Project MKULTRA, the CIA's program of research in behavioral modification: Joint hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence and the ... Congress, first session, August 3, 1977

Van Allsburg, Chris - Just a Dream

                                - Polar Express

                                - Sweet Dreams

                                - Stranger

                                - Two Bad Ants

Walker, Alice - The Color Purple

Waller, Robert James - Bridges of Madison County

Warren, Elizabeth - A Fighting Chance

Waugh, Evelyn - Brideshead Revisited

Weir, Andy - The Martian

Weinstein, Harvey M. - Father, Son and CIA

Welles, Rebecca - The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood

Westover, Tara - Educated

White, E.B. - Charlotte’s Web

Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorien Gray

Wolfe, Tom - I Am Charlotte Simmons

Wolitzer, Meg - The Female Persuasion

Woolf, Virginia - Mrs. Dalloway

Zevin, Gabrielle - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Zusak, Marcus - The Book Thief

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Artifact Series J

J. Allen Hynek's Telescope

J. Edgar Hoover's Tie

J. McCullough's Golf Ball

J. Templer's Wind-Up Tin Rooster *

J. C. Agajanian’s Stetson

J.T. Saylors's Overalls

J.M. Barrie’s Swiss Trychels

J.M.W. Turner's Rain, Steam and Speed-The Great Western Railway *

J.R.R. Tolken's Ring

Jack-in-the-Box

Jack's Magic Beanstalk

Jack Daniel's Original Whisky Bottle

Jack Dawson's Art Kit

Jack Duncan's Spur *

Jack Frost's Staff

Jack Kerouac's Typewriter

Jack Ketch's Axe

Jack LaLanne's Stationary Bike *

Jack London's Dog Collar

Jack Parson's Rocket Engine

Jack Sheppard's Hammer

Jack Sparrow's Compass

Jack Torrance's Croquet Mallet

Jack the Ripper's Lantern *

Jackie Robinson's Baseball

Jackson Pollock's "No. 5, 1948"

Jackson Pollock's Pack of Cigarettes

Jackson Pollock's Paint Cans

Jack's Regisword

Jack Vettriano's "The Singing Butler"

Jack's Wrench

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's Kinder- und Hausmarchen

Jacob "Jack" Kevorkian's Otoscope

Jacob Kurtzberg's Belt *

Jacqueline Cochran's Brooch

Jacques Aymar-Vernay’s Dowsing Rod

Jacques Cousteau's Goggles

Jacques Cousteau's Diving Suit

Jacques-Louis David's Napoleon Crossing the Alps *

Jade Butterfly

Jadeite Cabbage

Jalal-ud-Din Muhammad Akbar's Smoke Pipe

Jamaica Ginger Bottle

Jaleel White's Hosting Chair

James Abbot McNeill Whistler's Whistler's Mother *

James Allen's Memoir

James Bartley's Britches

James Ben Ali Haggin's Leaky Fountain Pen

James Bert Garner’s Gas Mask

James Bett's Cupboard Handle

James Braid's Chair *

James Brown's Shoes

James Bulger's Sweater

James Buzzanell's Painting "Grief and Pain"

James Buzzanell’s Survey Books

James C. McReynolds’ Judicial Robe

James Chadwick's Nobel Prize

James Clerk Maxwell's Camera Lens

James Colnett's Otter Pelt

James Condliff's Skeleton Clock

James Cook's Mahiole and Feather Cloak

James Craik's Spring Lancet

James Dean's 1955 Prosche 550 Spyder, aka "Little Bastard"

James Dean's UCLA Varsity Jacket

James Dinsmoor's Dinner Bell

James Eads How’s Bindle

James Earl Ray's Rifle

James Fenimore Cooper's Arrow Heads

James Gandolfini's Jukebox

James Hadfield’s Glass Bottle of Water

James Hall III’s Shopping Bags

James Henry Atkinson's Mouse Trap

James Henry Pullen’s Mannequin

James Hoban's Drawing Utensils

James Holman’s Cane

James Hutton's Overcoat

James Joyce’s Eyepatch

James M. Barrie's Grandfather Clock

James M. Barrie's Suitcase

James Murrell's Witch Bottle

James Philip’s Riata

James Prescott Joule's Thermodynamic Generator

James Smithson's Money

James Tilly Matthews’ Air Loom

James Warren and Willoughby Monzani's Piece of Wood

James Watt's Steam Condenser

James Watt's Weather Vane

James W. Marshall’s Jar

Jan Baalsrud’s Stretcher

Jan Baptist van Helmont's Willow Tree

Jane Austen's Carriage

Jane Austen's Gloves

Jane Austen's Quill

Jane Bartholomew's "Lady Columbia" Torch

Jane Pierce's Veil

Janet Leigh's Shower Curtain

Janine Charrat's Ballet Slippers

Jan Janzoon's Boomerang *

Janis Joplin's Backstage Pass from Woodstock *

Jan Karski's Passport

Janus Coin *

Jan van Eyck’s Chaperon

Jan van Speyk's Flag of the Netherlands

Jan Wnęk's Angel Figurine

Jan Žižka's Wagenburg Wagons

The Japanese Nightingale

Jar of Dust from the Mount Asama Eruption

Jar of Greek Funeral Beans

Jar of Marbles

Jar of Molasses from The Boston Molasses Disaster

Jar of Sand

Jar of Semper Augustus Bulbs

Jar of Shiva

Jar of Sugar Plums

Jascha Heifetz's Violin Bow

Jason Voorhese's Machete

Javed Iqbal's Barrel of Acid

Jay Maynard's Tron Suit

Jean II Le Maingre's Gauntlets

Jean Baptiste Charbonneau’s Cradleboard

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin's Bubble Pipe

Jean Chastel's Silver Gun

Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin's Pocket Watch

Jean Fleury's Aztec Gold Coins

Jean-François Champollion’s Ideographic Dictionary

Jean Froissart's Mirror *

Jean-Frédéric Peugeot's Pepper Mill

Jean Hilliard’s Earmuffs

Jean Parisot de Valette’s Sword Sheath

Jean-Paul Marat's Bathtub

Jean Paul-Satre’s Paper Cutter

Jean-Pierre Christin's Thermometer

Jean Senebier's Bundle of Swiss Alpine Flowers

Jean Valnet's Aromatherapy Statue

Jean Vrolicq’s Scrimshaw

Jeanne Baret's Hat

Jeanne de Clisson's Black Fleet

Jeanne Villepreux-Power's Aquarium

Jeannette Piccard's Sandbag

Jeff Dunham's First Ventriloquist Box

Jefferson Davis' Boots

Jefferson Randolph Smith's Soap Bar

Jeffrey Dahmer's Handkerchief

Jeffrey Dahmer's Pick-Up Sticks

Jemmy Hirst's Carriage Wheel

Jenny Lind's Stage Makeup

Jeopardy! Contestant Podiums

Jerome Monroe Smucker's Canning Jars

Jerry Andrus’ Organ

Jerry Garcia's Blackbulb *

Jerry Siegel's Sketchbook

Jesse James' Saddle

Jesse James' Pistol

Jesse Owens' Hitler Oak

Jesse Owens' Running Shoes

Jesse Pomeroy's Ribbon and Spool

Jester's Mask

Jesus of Nazareth's Whip

Jesús García's Brake Wheel

Jet Engine from the Gimli Glider

Jet Glass Cicada Button

Jethro Tull's Hoe

Jeweled Scabbard of Sforza

Jiang Shunfu’s Mandarin Square

Jim Davis' Pet Carrier

Jim Fixx's Shorts

Jim Henson's Talking Food Muppets

Jim Jones' Sunglasses

Jim Londos' Overalls

Jim Robinson's Army Bag

Jim Thorpe's Shoulder Pads

Jim Ward's Piercing Samples

Jimi Hendrix's Bandana

Jimi Hendrix's Bong

Jimi Hendrix's Guitars *

Jimmie Rodgers Rail Brake

Jimmy Durante's Cigar

Jimmy Gibb Jr's Stock Car

Jimmy Hoffa's Comb

Jin Dynasty Chainwhip

Jingle Harness

Joan II, Duchess of Berry's Dress

Joan of Arc's Chain Mail

Joan of Arc's Helmet (canon)

Joan Feynman's Ski Pole

Joanna of Castile's Vase

Joan Rivers' Carpet Steamer

Joan Rivers' Red Carpet

Joe Ades's Potato Peeler

Joe Girard’s Keys

Joe Rosenthal's Camera Lens

Joel Brand's Playing Cards

Joséphine de Beauharnais' Engagement Ring

Johan Alfred Ander’s Piece of Porcelain

Johann Baptist Isenring’s Acacia Tree

Johann Bartholomaeus Adam Beringer's Lying Stones

Johann Blumhardt's Rosary

Johann Dzierzon’s Beehive Frame

Johann Georg Elser's Postcard

Johann Maelzel's Metronome *

Johann Rall's Poker Cards

Johann Tetzel's Indulgence

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Prism

Johannes Brahms' Coffee Creamer

Johannes Diderik van der Waals' Gloves

Johannes Fabricius' Camera Obscura

Johannes Gutenburg's Memory Paper *

Johannes Gutenburg's Printing Press *

Johannes Gutenberg's Printing Press Keys

Johannes Kepler's Planetary Model

Johannes Kepler's Telescope Lense

Johannes Kjarval’s Landscape Painting

John A. Macready's Ray-Bans *

John A. Roebling's Steel Cable

John A.F. Maitland's Musical Brainnumber *

John André’s Stocking

John Anthony Walker's Minox

John Axon's Footplate

John Babbacombe Lee’s Trapdoor

John Bardeen's Radio

John Bodkin Adams’ Stethoscope

John Brown's Body *

John Brown's Machete

John C. Koss SP3 Stereophones

John C. Lilly's Isolation Tank Valve

John Cabot's Map

John Carl Wilcke's Rug *

John Crawley's Painting

John Croghan's Limestone Brick

John Dalton's Weather Vane

John Dee's Golden Talisman

John Dee's Obsidian Crystal Ball

John Dee’s Seal of God

John DeLorean's Drawing Table

John Dickson Carr's Driving Gloves

John Dillinger's Pistol *

John D. Grady’s Satchel

John D. Rockefeller's Bible

John D. Rockefeller, Sr. and Jr.'s Top Hats

John Dwight's Hammer

John F. Kennedy's Coconut

John F. Kennedy's Presidental Limousine

John F. Kennedy's Tie Clip *

John Flaxman's Casting Molds

Sir John Franklin's Scarf

John Gay's Shilling

John Gillespie Magee, Jr.'s Pen

John H. Kellogg's Bowl

John H. Kellogg's Corn Flakes

John H. Lawrence's Pacifier

John Hancock's Quill

John Harrison’s Longcase Clock

John Hawkwood’s Lance

John Hendrix's Bible

John Henry Moore's White Banner

John Henry's Sledge Hammer

John Hetherington's Top Hat

John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter's Torture Rack

John Holmes Pump *

John Hopoate's Cleats

John Howard Griffin's Bus Fare

John Hunter's Stitching Wire

John Hunter's Surgical Sutures

John J. Pershing's Boots

John Jacob Astor's Beaver Pelt

John Jervis’ Ship

John Joshua Webb’s Rock Chippings

John Kay's Needle

John Keat's Grecian Urn *

John, King of England's Throne

John L. Sullivan's Boots

John Langdon Down's Stencils

John Lawson's Mannequin Legs

John Lennon's Glasses

John "Liver-Eating" Johnson's Axe

John Logie Baird's Scanning Disk *

John M. Allegro's Fly Amanita

John Macpherson's Ladle

John Malcolm's Chunk of Skin

John Malcolm's Skin Wallet

John McEnroe's Tennis Racket *

John Milner's Yellow '32 Ford Deuce Coupe

John Moore-Brabazon’s Waste Basket

John Morales' McGruff Suit

John Mytton’s Carriage

John Pasche's Rolling Stones Poster Design

John Paul Jones's Sword

John Pemberton's Tasting Spoon

John Philip Sousa's Sousaphone

John Rambo's Composite Bow

John Rykener's Ring

John Shore's Tuning Fork

John Simon's Mouthwash

John Simon Ritchie's Padlock Necklace

John Smith of Jamestown's Sword

John Snow's Dot Map

John Snow’s Pump Handle

John Stapp’s Rocket Sled

John Steinbeck's Luger

John Sutcliffe's Camera

John Sutter's Pickaxe

John Tunstall's Horse Saddle

John Trumbull's "Painting of George Washington"

John von Neumann's Abacus

John Walker's Walking Stick

John Wayne Gacy's Clown Painting *

John Wayne Gacy's Facepaint

John Wesley Hardin's Rosewood Grip Pistol

John Wesley Powell's Canoe

John Wesley Powell’s Canteen

John Wilkes Booth's Boot *

John Wilkes Booth Wanted Poster

John William Polidori's Bookcase

Johnny Ace's Gun

Johnny Appleseed's Tin Pot *

Johnny Campbell's University of Minnesota Sweater

Johnny Depp's Scissor Gloves

Johnny Smith's Steering Wheel

Johnny Weismuller's Loincloth *

Joker's BANG! Revolver

Jon Stewart's Tie

Jonathan Coulton's Guitar

Jonathan R. Davis' Bowie Knife

Jonathan Shay's Copy of Iliad/Odyssey

Jonestown Water Cooler

Jorge Luis Borges' Scrapbook

José Abad Santos' Pebble

José Delgado’s Transmitter

Jose Enrique de la Pena's Chest Piece

Jōsei Toda’s Gohonzon Butsudan

Josef Frings’ Ferraiolo

Josef Mengele's Scalpel

Josef Stefan's Light Bulbs

Joseph of Arimathea's Tomb Rock

Joseph of Cupertino's Medallion *

Joseph Day's Sickle

Joseph Ducreux's Cane

Joseph Dunninger's Pocket Watch

Joseph Dunningers’ Props

Joseph E. Johnston Confederate Flag

Joseph Force Crater's Briefcases

Joseph Fourier's Pocket Knife

Joseph Glidden’s Barbed Wire

Joseph Goebbels' Radio *

Joseph Jacquard's Analytical Loom

Joseph Bolitho Johns’ Axe

Joseph Kittinger's Parachute

Joseph Lister's Padding

Joseph McCarthy's List of Communists

Joseph Merrick's Hood

Joseph-Michel Montgolfier's Wicker Basket

Joseph Moir’s Token

Joseph Pilate's Resistance Bands *

Joseph Polchinski’s Billiard Ball

Joseph Stalin's Gold Star Medal *

Joseph Stalin's Sleep Mask *

Joseph Swan's Electric Light

Joseph Vacher's Accordion

Joseph Vacher's Dog Skull

Joseph Valachi's '58 Chevrolet Impala

Josephus' Papyrus

Joseph Wolpe's Glasses

Josephine Cochrane's Dishwasher

Joshua's Trumpet *

Josiah S. Carberry's Cracked Pot

Joshua Vicks' Original Batch of Vicks Vapor Rub

Josiah Wedgewood's Medallion

Jost Burgi's Armillary Sphere *

Jovan Vladimir's Cross

Juana the Mad of Castiles' Crown

Juan Luis Vives' Quill Set

Juan Moreira’s Facón

Juan Pounce de Leon's Chalice

Juan Ponce de León's Helmet

Juan Seguin's Bandolier

Jubilee Grand Poker Chip *

Judah Loew ben Belazel's Amulet *

Judas Iscariot’s Thirty Silver Coins

Judson Laipply's Shoes

Jules Baillarger's Decanter

Jules Leotard's Trapeze Net

Jules Verne's Original Manuscripts

Julia Agrippa's Chalice

Julia Child's Apron *

Julia Child's Whisk

Julian Assange’s Flash Drive

Julie d’Aubigny's Sabre

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg's Wedding Rings

Julius Asclepiodotus’ Shield Boss

Julius Caesar's Wreath

Julius Wilbrand's Lab Coat Buttons *

Jumanji

Jumper Cables

Junji Koyama’s Vegetables

Jure Sterk's Ballpoint Pen

Jürgen Wattenberg's Leather Provision Bag

Justa Grata Honoria’s Engagement Ring

Justin Bieber's Guitar

Justinian I's Chariot Wheel

Justin O. Schmidt's Wasp Mask

Justus von Liebig's Fertilizer Sack

Justus von Liebig's Mirror

[bountyofbeads]

Legal Team Says It Represents a Second Whistle-Blower https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/06/us/politics/second-whistleblower-trump-ukraine.html

Legal Team Says It Represents a Second Whistle-Blower Over Trump and Ukraine

By Annie Karni and Nicholas Fandos |

Published Oct. 6, 2019 Updated 4:22 PM ET | New York Times | Posted October 6, 2019 6:20 PM ET |

WASHINGTON — A lawyer for the whistle-blower whose complaint set off an impeachment inquiry of President Trump said Sunday that the same legal team was now representing a second whistle-blower, an intelligence official with firsthand knowledge of the president’s interactions with Ukraine.

The new whistle-blower “made a protected disclosure under the law and cannot be retaliated against,” Mark S. Zaid, one of the lawyers, said on Twitter.

Mr. Zaid confirmed a report by the ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos on his show, “This Week,” which said the new whistle-blower had already been interviewed by the intelligence community’s inspector general’s office, but had not yet communicated with any congressional committees.

Another member of the legal team confirmed on Twitter that the firm was now representing “multiple whistleblowers” but declined to comment further.

It was not clear if the new whistle-blower would file a formal complaint. Mr. Zaid said the second whistle-blower’s act of coming forward to the inspector general had already secured whistle-blower protections.

The New York Times reported on Friday that an intelligence official with more direct knowledge of Mr. Trump’s dealing with Ukraine than the first whistle-blower, and who had grown alarmed by the president’s behavior, was weighing whether to come forward. The second official was among those interviewed by the intelligence community inspector general to corroborate the allegations of the original whistle-blower, one of the people briefed on the matter said.

The new whistle-blower matches the description of the official that The Times reported on last week. Mr. Zaid said he did not know whether the individual was the same person.

The first whistle-blower, a C.I.A. officer who was detailed to the National Security Council, filed a complaint in August outlining how Mr. Trump used his power to push Ukraine to investigate his domestic political rivals.

Mr. Trump has tried to undermine the credibility of the first whistle-blower, whose identity is not publicly known, by saying that the individual was trading on secondhand information. On Sunday, White House officials said information from a second whistle-blower would make no difference.

“It doesn’t matter how many people decide to call themselves whistle-blowers about the same telephone call — a call the president already made public — it doesn’t change the fact that he has done nothing wrong,” said Stephanie Grisham, the White House press secretary.

Anticipating the news, Mr. Trump pre-emptively went on the attack on Saturday night.

“The first so-called second hand information ‘Whistleblower’ got my phone conversation almost completely wrong, so now word is they are going to the bench and another ‘Whistleblower’ is coming in from the Deep State, also with second hand info,” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter on Saturday, referring to his now-infamous July 25 phone call with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, in which he leaned on Mr. Zelensky to investigate Joseph R. Biden Jr., the former vice president and current presidential candidate, as well as his son Hunter Biden. “Keep them coming!”

Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, framed the news of the new whistle-blower on Sunday as a political hit on the president. “SURPRISE Democrat lawyer has other secret sources,” Mr. Giuliani wrote on Twitter. He added that the bottom line was that there was “no quid pro quo” attached to Mr. Trump’s pressure on Ukrainian officials to investigate his political rivals, and called the story an “ORCHESTRATED DEM CAMPAIGN LIKE KAVANAUGH,” referring to the sexual misconduct allegations against Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing.

Mr. Zaid works for Compass Rose Legal Group, a law firm that specializes in representing whistle-blowers. He is part of the legal team that is now representing both individuals who have come forward. The team also includes Andrew P. Bakaj, the lead lawyer, and I. Charles McCullough III.

“I can confirm that my firm and my team represent multiple whistleblowers in connection to the underlying August 12, 2019, disclosure to the Intelligence Community Inspector General,” Mr. Bakaj said on Twitter. “No further comment at this time.”

Democrats who are building the impeachment case against Mr. Trump sought to paint the accumulation of evidence against him as inevitable on Sunday. Meanwhile, the White House had few allies on the Sunday show circuit who strongly defended the president’s actions.

Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut, the second-ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said his panel had not yet heard from a second whistle-blower as of Sunday morning. But he hastened to argue that the speed with which details of the case were becoming public was itself a strong sign of wrongdoing.

“We’re sort of sitting here watching the information flow out of the White House, damning information, facts that are undisputed,” Mr. Himes said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “What’s happening is that people around the president, professionals, who are in the Oval Office, who are in the Situation Room, are watching what is happening and are finally saying, ‘my God, this cannot happen anymore,’ and they are coming forward.”

The intelligence panel is still working with the first whistle-blower and the director of national intelligence to arrange a private interview. With information evolving unusually quickly, few senior congressional Republicans or White House officials have been willing to step out publicly to defend Mr. Trump’s actions. The White House, which has been riven internally about how to handle impeachment proceedings, with no one clearly in charge, did not have any senior officials making the case to defend Mr. Trump on Sunday.

And those congressional allies who did make public comments on Sunday either focused on attacking Democrats’ handling of the case or said they would reserve judgment until they saw more facts.

Senator Roy Blunt, Republican of Missouri and a key member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he was interested to learn more about the new whistle-blower and offered no defense of Mr. Trump’s actions toward Ukraine. Instead, he said he first wanted to see the results of the Senate’s bipartisan investigation of the matter before making a judgment.

“You have to assume if it is essentially a partisan vote in the House, that that sets the stage for likely the same kind of vote in the Senate,” Mr. Blunt said on CBS. “But let’s see what the facts are.”

Others were more squarely behind the president.

Representative Chris Stewart, Republican of Utah and a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said on “Fox News Sunday” that he was “not at all” concerned by the emergence of another whistle-blower because he had already seen a transcript of Mr. Trump’s July call with Ukraine’s president that, in his view, was not problematic.

On ABC’s “This Week,” Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, one of Mr. Trump’s most steadfast defenders, said the president was merely interested in rooting out legitimate accusations of corruption and that Democrats were unfairly vilifying him for it.

But pressed a half-dozen times to say where he approved of Mr. Trump’s public remarks this week calling on China to investigate the Bidens, Mr. Jordan would not answer.

“I think he has you guys all spun up,” he said, repeating a line frequently used by Republicans in recent days. “I don’t think he really meant go investigate. Do you think China is really going to investigate?”

Senator Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin, said in a heated exchange on “Meet the Press” that Mr. Trump had “vehemently, angrily denied” to him withholding aid for Ukraine in exchange for investigating his political rivals.

“Unlike the narrative of the press that President Trump wants to dig up dirt on his 2020 opponent, what he wants is an accounting of what happened in 2016,” Mr. Johnson said.

[natehoodreviews]

2018 Year End Compilation

BOOK LIST: DANCING WITH A DOZEN DOORSTOPS

My goal for 2018 was a simple one: read twelve of the great literary doorstops of world literature. You know what I mean by doorstops: those intimidating tomes that take up their own shelves in bookstores and private libraries, the ones that are less books than literary challenges for readers. What I wanted to do this year was read one of these doorstops a month--and I succeeded! I succeeded so well, in fact, that I actually finished my self-assigned twelve in early November. Go figure. Anyhow, here is the list of the books I read this past year, with the twelve doorstops in bold.

1 — Cathedral, Nelson DeMille (January 1 - January 9) 2 — Why Sinatra Matters, Pete Hamill (January 10 - January 11) 3 — The Kid Stays in the Picture, Robert Evans (January 11 - January 15) 4 — How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization, Thomas E. Woods Jr. (January 15 - January 17) 5 — TV (The Book), Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz (January 18 - January 24) 6 — Moby Dick, Herman Melville (January 1 - January 24) 7 — The Sorrows of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (January 24 - January 25) 8 — 11 Herbs & Spices, Nicholas Gentile (January 25 - January 27) 9 — Dubliners, James Joyce (January 26 - January 30) 10 — The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami (January 31 - February 14) 11 — The American Spirit, David McCullough (February 14 - February 16) 12 — A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson (February 19 - February 22) 13 — Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy (January 29 - February 25) 14 — Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls, David Sedaris (February 22 - February 26) 15 — The Land That Time Forgot, Edgar Rice Burroughs (February 26 - February 27) 16 — The Lottery and Other Stories, Shirley Jackson (February 27 - March 5) 17 — Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America, John Waters (March 5 - March 8) 18 — Ready Player One, Ernest Cline (March 4, 2018 - March 9) 19 — Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks (March 8 - March 17) 20 — Food: A Love Story, Jim Gaffigan (March 18 - March 24) 21 — Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham (March 10 - April 4) 22 — Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman (March 31 - April 9) 23 — Ararat, Christopher Golden (April 10 - April 12) 24 — Marcel Perez: The International Mirth-Maker, Steve Massa (April 19) 25 — Unfinished Easter: Sermons on the Ministry, David H. C. Read (April 8 - April 22) 26 — The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky (April 12 - May 2) 27 — The High Crusade, Poul Anderson (April 27 - May 3) 28 — Slan, A. E. van Vogt (May 2 - May 7) 29 — Out of the Silent Planet, C. S. Lewis (May 7 - May 9) 30 — Portnoy’s Complaint, Philip Roth (May 3 - May 9) 31 — Perelandra, C. S. Lewis (May 9 - May 11) 32 — Orbit Unlimited, Poul Anderson (May 9 - May 15) 33 — That Hideous Strength, C. S. Lewis (May 14 - May 20) 34 — The Ballad of Peckham Rye, Muriel Spark (May 15 - May 20) 35 — Genesis, Poul Anderson (May 21 - May 24) 36 — Paperbacks from Hell, Grady Hendrix (May 25 - May 29) 37 — I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, Michelle McNamara (May 29 - June 1) 38 — Dopefiend, Donald Goines (June 4 - June 5) 39 — All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren (May 21 - June 8) 40 — Cujo, Stephen King (June 5 - June 11) 41 — The Drowner, John D. MacDonald (June 8 - June 13) 42 — Rosemary’s Baby (June 14 - June 17) 43 — An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser (June 12 - June 22) 44 — To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf (June 18 - June 25) 45 — The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty (June 22 - June 27) 46 — The Wall Street Journal: Complete Money & investing Guidebook, Dave Kansas (June 26 - June 29) 47 — I Know What You Did Last Summer, Lois Duncan (June 29 - July 2) 48 — Apostle, Tom Bissell (June 27 - July 3) 49 — Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk (July 3 - July 6) 50 — The Lady in the Lake, Raymond Chandler (July 3 - July 9) 51 — Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad (July 6 - July 11) 52 — Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev (July 9 - July 17) 53 — The Case for God, Karen Armstrong (July 11 - July 17) 54 — The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 18 - July 20) 55 — Villa Incognito, Tom Robbins (July 17 - July 22) 56 — The King in Yellow, Robert W. Chambers (July 22 - July 23) 57 — The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Dante Alighieri (July 22 - July 27) 58 — The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio, Dante Alighieri (July 27 - July 31) 59 — The Divine Comedy: Paradiso, Dante Alighieri (July 31 - August 4) 60 — La Vita Nuova, Dante Alighieri (August 4) 61 — The Witch, Ronald Hutton (July 24 - August 7) 62 — Ironweed, William Kennedy (August 5? - 11) 63 — The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Laurence Sterne (August 11 - August 24) 64 — Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett (August 17 - 24) 65 — Psycho, Robert Bloch (August 25) 66 — Why Bob Dylan Matters, Richard F. Thomas (August 27 - 29) 67 — Herzog, Saul Bellow (August 30 - September 4) 68 — David Copperfield, Charles Dickens (August 27 - September 17) 69 — Lead The Field, Earl Nightingale (September 18 - 20) 70 — If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin (September 20 - 23) 71 — The Rainbow, D. H. Lawrence (September 23 - October 4) 72 — Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming, Roger Zelazny, Robert Sheckley (October 4 - 8) 73 — The Epistle to the Romans, Karl Barth (November 25, 2017 - October 10, 2018) 74 — Praying the Psalms, Walter Brueggemann (October 12 - 13) 75 — The Body Artist, Don DeLillo (October 15) 76 — Hide and Seek, Jack Ketchum (October 24 - October 31) 77 — The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann (October 9 - November 9) 78 — The Natural, Bernard Malamud (November 9 - November 16) 79 — Going Postal, Terry Pratchett (November 11 - November 18) 80 — Mildred Pierce, James M. Cain (November 19 - November 24) 81 — A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess (November 24 - November 27) 82 — A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro (November 28 - November 29) 83 — Making Money, Terry Pratchett (November 30 - December 6) 84 — Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky (November 12 - December 6) 85 — Raising Steam, Terry Pratchett (December 6 - December 10) 86 — Brightside Crossing, Alan E. Nourse (December 13) 87 — Small Gods, Terry Pratchett (December 10 - 16) 88 — The Sharing of Flesh, Poul Anderson (December 17) 89 — This Moment of the Storm, Roger Zelazny (December 17 - December 19) 90 — Pyramids, Terry Pratchett (December 16 - 21) 91 — Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett (December 21 - December 26) 92 — The Bible (2nd Time, Various Translations, Chronological) (January 1, 2018 - December 30) 93 — The Brass Cupcake, John D. McDonald (December 23 - December 31)

[currentworldevents]

2017 | Klaus Schwab | World Economic Forum "Young Global Leaders" Have Been Installed Within Governments

[kingcristobalofcanarias]

Killin’ in the name of…. (Part 2)

“He was here and I stood there. Only when I moved away so that they would have a clear shot, then the shot rang out.” - Rev. Billy Kyles

According to a Memphis jury’s verdict on December 8,1999, in the wrongful death lawsuit of the King family versus Loyd Jowers “and other unknown co-conspirators,” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by a conspiracy that included agencies of his own government. Almost 32 years after King’s murder at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis on April 4, 1968, a court extended the circle of responsibility for the assassination beyond the late scapegoat James Earl Ray to the United States government. We can also thank the Loyd Jowers for providing a way into that truth. Jowers said the man who asked him to help in the murder was a Mafia-connected produce dealer named Frank Liberto. Liberto, now deceased, had a courier deliver $l00,000 for Jowers to hold at his restaurant, Jim’s Grill, the back door of which opened onto the dense bushes across from the Lorraine Motel. Jowers said he was visited the day before the murder by a man named Raul, who brought a rifle in a box. As Mike Vinson reported in the March-April Probe, other witnesses testified to their knowledge of Liberto’s involvement in King’s slaying. Store-owner John McFerren said he arrived around 5:l5 pm, April 4, 1968, for a produce pick-up at Frank Liberto’s warehouse in Memphis. (King would be shot at 6:0l pm.) When he approached the warehouse office, McFerren overheard Liberto on the phone inside saying, “Shoot the son-of-a-bitch on the balcony.” Café-owner Lavada Addison, a friend of Liberto’s in the late 1970’s, testified that Liberto had told her he “had Martin Luther King killed.” Addison’s son, Nathan Whitlock, said when he learned of this conversation he asked Liberto point-blank if he had killed King. “[Liberto] said, ‘I didn’t kill the nigger but I had it done.’ I said, ‘What about that other son-of-a-bitch taking credit for it?’ He says, ‘Ahh, he wasn’t nothing but a troublemaker from Missouri. He was a front man…a setup man.’”

who were the invaders… and who is merrell mccullough? McCullough was one of the informants masquerading as an Invader. Secretly, he was a police informant who was also connected to the FBI. It turns out that, before the murder, Merrell was introduced to Jowers as a policeman. Right before the assassination, McCullough had been in Jim’s Grill meeting with four other men. One of whom was another member of the police force named Lt. Zachery. One of the extraordinary disclosures made at the trial concerned Sam Donaldson, the reporter who originally broadcast Jowers revelations in 1993. We also know from a famous photograph that McCullough immediately ran up to the balcony after King was hit. In that picture, while others are pointing to where they think the shot came from, McCullough appears to be calmly checking King for vital signs while looking across the way. According to what Donaldson told Young, McCullough was on the balcony to check King’s pulse and make sure he was dead and signal the military sniper team that no second shot was needed. merle mcullough was actually an undercover cop who WAS SO DEEP UNDERCOVER… he didn’t even get paid by the police department. dude got all his checks from the utility company of memphis. Now on the day MLK was shot, he had 2 jobs: 1. point everyone in the wrong direction (as evidenced by this famous picture)

2. make sure that MLK was dead.

and for his efforts, guess where McCullough is now? he’s a CIA agent.

On each previous visit to Memphis, King has his own personal security detail. Which was made up of black detectives. Security expert Jerry Williams headed it up. On April 3rd, Williams was told not to form this regular unit. He was told that a group of white officers would protect King this time around. Williams testified that he would never had let King stay at the Lorraine overnight. They felt it was too dangerous. One reason was because of the thicket of bushes below, which provided good cover for a sniper. At least four witnesses saw a man or smoke in those bushes either during or right after the shooting. Including New York Times reporter Earl Caldwell. At 7 AM on the morning after the murder, those bushes, which provided such excellent cover, were ordered cut down. The late Professor Philip Melanson testified to another part of this security collapse. Melanson had interviewed a policeman named Sam Evans. Evans was in charge of what was called the police Tactical Units, these were automobile units designed to be used as riot control agents. There were four of them stationed at the firehouse near the Lorraine. The morning of the murder, they were told to disperse. In one of the more troubling pieces of testimony presented at the trial, Evans told Melanson that it was Memphis Reverend Billy Kyles who told him they were not needed. Kyles was a friend of King’s who had been a pastor at the Monumental Baptist Church since 1959. He was part of the local contingent who persuaded King’s advisors to help the sanitation workers. Kyles helped arrange the venue for King’s great “Been to the Mountaintop” speech on the evening of April 3rd. The next day, Kyles had arranged for King and his closest advisers to dine on a home-cooked meal at his home. Kyles’ story has been that he was in the room with King and Ralph Abernathy from 5 PM. The three preachers just talked for an hour. Abernathy then went into the bathroom to shave, and then Kyles left the room for his car, telling everyone to hurry up. Now Willie B. Richmond was part of a police surveillance team on King, which was not his actual security detail. He was stationed across the street from the Lorraine at a firehouse. When King’s entourage arrived at the airport, Richmond recalled Kyles telling his partner that King did not want any security protection this time. As Pepper commented, what made this so odd is that Kyles had no real position in King’s hierarchy at that time. Although Richmond’s partner, Ed Redditt, was called back to headquarters on a phony pretense, Richmond stayed behind and kept notes on what he observed at the Lorraine. The notes recorded that at 5:50 PM several members of the Invaders opened the door of their room, gathered their belongings, walked downstairs, and placed them in the trunk of their car. His notes then read as follows: “Immediately after the Invaders left, the Reverend Kyles came out of room 312 and went to the room where Martin Luther King was living. He knocked on the door and Martin Luther King came to the door. They said a few words between each other and Reverend Martin Luther King went back into his room closing the door behind him, and the Reverend Kyles remained on the porch.” This contradicts the story that Kyles has told for decades. According to the surveillance notes, Kyles was not in King’s room for a continuous hour prior to the shooting. He was in a different room, emerged, went to King’s door and knocked for him at 5:50 PM. He did this right after the Invaders left. And after King answered, Kyles did not saunter downstairs to his car. He waited for him to return. the next entry in the notes state this: “At this time, Reverend Martin Luther King returned from his room to the gallery and walked up to the handrail. The Reverend Kyles was standing off to his right. This was approximately 6 PM. At this time I heard a loud sound as if it was a shot and saw Doctor Martin Luther King fall back on the handrail and put his hand up to his head.” According to these surveillance notes, Kyles was not in the room from 5 to 6 PM; and he did not go downstairs after he notified King they were leaving. He was on the balcony for the full ten minutes up to the time of the shooting.

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Creature from Black Lake will be released on Blu-ray on December 13 via Synapse Films. Also known as Demon of the Lake, the 1976 Bigfoot movie features cinematography by Dean Cundey (Halloween, Jurassic Park).

Joy N. Houck Jr. directs from a script by Jim McCullough Jr. (Mountaintop Motel Massacre). Jack Elam, Dub Taylor, Dennis Fimple, John David Carson, and Bill Thurman star.

Creature from Black Lake has been newly restored in 4K from the original 35mm camera negative. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary by film historians Michael Gingold and Chris Poggiali (new)

Interview with cinematographer Dean Cundey (new)

Theatrical trailer

Radio spot

There's a hairy humanoid beast lurking in the Louisiana swamps, but only trapper Joe Canton (Jack Elam) has seen it and lived to tell the tale, and the other residents of Oil City, Louisiana don't talk about it. But that's not about to stop intrepid grad students Pahoo (Dennis Fimple) and Rives (John David Carson), who are determined to track down the Bigfoot-like creature. Defying local sheriff Billy Carter (Bill Thurman), the duo trek deep into the wilds of Black Lake, and a series of frightening encounters make it clear the monster is no mere legend.

Pre-order Creature from Black Lake.

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Los premios Grammy, si bien no son conocidos por recavar información de los recovecos de la música y quedarse con los nombres pesados o lo que los especialistas (algunos) musicales han plasmado como lo mejor, tienen un gran lugar mediático y contribuyen en como puede moverse el mercado musical.

Hoy tenemos la lista de los nominados en todas sus categorías para 2018 y no hay muchas sorpresas; como ya dijimos, anuncios básicos y fáciles, mientras que otros parecieran que obedecen favores o inercia de años pasados aunque los materiales no sean los mejores.

En fin. Aquí las nominaciones:

Album of the Year

Childish Gambino - "Awaken, My Love!" JAY-Z - 4:44 Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. Lorde - Melodrama Bruno Mars - 24K Magic

Record of the Year

Childish Gambino - Redbone Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee ft. Justin Bieber - Despacito JAY-Z - The Story of O.J. Kendrick Lamar - HUMBLE Bruno Mars - 24K Magic

Song of the Year

Ramón Ayala, Justin Bieber, Jason “Poo Bear” Boyd, Erika Ender, Luis Fonsi & Marty James Garton - Despacito (Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee ft. Justin Bieber) Shawn Carter & Dion Wilson - 4:44 (JAY-Z) Benny Blanco, Mikkel Storleer Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen, Julia Michaels & Justin Drew Tranter - Issues (Julia Michaels) Alessia Caracciolo, Sir Robert Bryson Hall II, Arjun Ivatury & Khalid Robinson - 1-800-273-8255 (Logic ft. Alessia Cara, Khalid) Christopher Brody Brown, James Fauntleroy, Philip Lawrence, Bruno Mars, Ray Charles McCullough II, Jeremy Reeves, Ray Romulus & Jonathan Yip - That’s What I Like (Bruno Mars)

Best New Artist

Alessia Cara Khalid Lil Uzi Vert Julia Michaels SZA

Pop

Best Pop Solo Performance

Kelly Clarkson - Love So Soft Kesha - Praying Lady Gaga - Million Reasons Pink - What About Us Ed Sheeran - Shape of You

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

The Chainsmokers & Coldplay - Something Just Like This Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee ft. Justin Bieber - Despacito Imagine Dragons - Thunder Portugal. The Man - Feel It Still Zedd & Alessia Cara - Stay

Best Pop Vocal Album

Coldplay - Kaleidoscope EP Lana Del Rey - Lust for Life Imagine Dragons - Evolve Kesha - Rainbow Lady Gaga - Joanne Ed Sheeran - ÷ (Divide)

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

Michael Bublé - Nobody But Me (Deluxe Version) Bob Dylan - Triplicate Seth MacFarlane - In Full Swing Sarah McLachlan - Wonderland Various Artists - Tony Bennett Celebrates 90

Rap

Best Rap Performance

Big Sean - Bounce Back Cardi B - Bodak Yellow JAY-Z - 4:44 Kendrick Lamar - HUMBLE. Migos - Bad and Boujee

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration

6LACK - PRBLMS Goldlink ft. Brent Faiyaz, Shy Glizzy - Crew JAY-Z ft. Beyoncé - Family Feud Kendrick Lamar ft. Rihanna - LOYALTY. SZA ft. Travis Scott - Love Galore

Best Rap Song

Dieuson Octave, Klenord Raphael, Shaftizm, Jordan Thorpe, Washpoppin & J White - Bodak Yellow (Cardi B) Judah Bauer, Brian Burton, Hector Delgado, Jaime Meline, Antwan Patton, Michael Render, Russell Simins & Jon Spencer - Chase Me (Danger Mouse ft. Run the Jewels, Big Boi) Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, Asheton Hogan & M. Williams II - HUMBLE. (Kendrick Lamar) Gabouer & M. Evans - Sassy (Rapsody) Shawn Carter & Dion Wilson - The Story of O.J. (JAY-Z)

Best Rap Album

Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. JAY-Z - 4:44 Migos - Culture Rapsody - Laila’s Wisdom Tyler, the Creator - Flower Boy

Rock

Best Rock Performance

Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker Chris Cornell - The Promise Foo Fighters - Run Kaleo - No Good Nothing More - Go to War

Best Metal Performance

August Burns Red - Invisible Enemy Body Count - Black Hoodie Mastodon - Sultan’s Curse Meshuggah - Clockworks Code Orange - Forever

Best Rock Song

James Hetfield & Lars Ulrich - Atlas, Rise! (Metallica) JT Daly & Kristine Flaherty - Blood in the Cut (K. Flay) Ben Anderson, Jonny Hawkins, Will Hoffman, Daniel Oliver, David Pramik & Mark Vollelunga - Go to War (Nothing More) Foo Fighters - Run Zachary Baker, Brian Haner, Matthew Sanders, Jonathan Seward & Brooks Wackerman - The Stage (Avenged Sevenfold)

Best Rock Album

Mastodon - Emperor of Sand Metallica - Hardwired... to Self-Destruct Nothing More - The Stories We Tell Ourselves Queens of the Stone Age - Villains The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding

Alternative

Best Alternative Music Album

Arcade Fire - Everything Now Gorillaz - Humanz LCD Soundsystem - American Dream Father John Misty - Pure Comedy The National - Sleep Well Beast

R&B

Best R&B Performance

Daniel Caesar ft. Kali Uchis - Get You Kehlani - Distraction Ledisi - High Bruno Mars - That’s What I Like SZA - The Weekend

Best Traditional R&B Performance

The Baylor Project - Laugh and Move On Childish Gambino - Redbone Anthony Hamilton ft. The HamilTones - What I’m Feelin’ Ledisi - All the Way Mali Music - Still

Best R&B Song

PJ Morton - First Began Alfredo Gonzalez, Olatunji Ige, Samuel David Jiminez, Christopher McClenney, Khalid Robinson & Joshua Scruggs - Location (Khalid) Donald Glover & Ludwig Goransson - Redbone (Childish Gambino) Tyran Donaldson, Terrence Henderson, Greg Landfair Jr., Solana Rowe & Pharrell Williams - Supermodel (SZA) Christopher Brody Brown, James Fauntleroy, Philip Lawrence, Bruno Mars, Ray Charles McCullough II, Jeremy Reeves, Ray Romulus & Jonathan Yip - That’s What I Like (Bruno Mars)

Best Urban Contemporary Album

6LACK - Free 6LACK Childish Gambino - “Awaken, My Love!” Khalid - American Teen SZA - CTRL The Weeknd - Starboy

Best R&B Album

Daniel Caesar - Freudian Ledisi - Let Love Rule Bruno Mars - 24K Magic PJ Morton - Gumbo Musiq Soulchild - Feel the Real

Dance

Best Dance Recording

Bonobo - Bambro Koyo Ganda Camelphat & Elderbrook - Cola Gorillaz - Andromeda [ft. DRAM] LCD Soundsystem - Tonite Odesza - Line of Sight

Best Dance/Electronic Album

Bonobo - Migration Kraftwerk - 3-D the Catalogue Mura Masa - Mura Masa Odesza - A Moment Apart Sylvan Esso - What Now

Comedy

Best Comedy Album

Dave Chappelle - The Age of Spin & Deep in the Heart of Texas Jim Gaffigan - Cinco Jerry Seinfeld - Jerry Before Seinfeld Sarah Silverman - A Speck of Dust Kevin Hart - What Now?

Remix

Best Remixed Recording

Loleatta Holloway - Can’t Let You Go (Louie Vega Roots Mix) Bobby Rush - Funk O’ De Funk (SMLE Remix) Kehlani - Undercover (Adventure Club Remix) The xx - A Violent Noise (Four Tet Remix) Depeche Mode - You Move Me (Latriot Remix)

Music for Visual Media

Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media

Various Artists - Baby Driver Various Artists - Guardians of the Galaxy Various Artists - Hidden Figures: The Album Various Artists - La La Land Various Artists - Moana: The Songs

Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media

Jóhann Jóhannsson - Arrival Hans Zimmer - Dunkirk Ramin Djawadi - Game of Thrones: Season 7 Hans Zimmer - Hidden Figures Justin Hurwitz - La La Land

Best Song Written For Visual Media:

Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek & Justin Paul - City of Stars Lin-Manuel Miranda - How Far I’ll Go Jack Antonoff, Sam Dew & Taylor Swift - I Don’t Wanna Live Forever (‘Fifty Shades Darker’) Sia Furler & Greg Kurstin - Never Give Up Common & Diane Warren - Stand Up For Something

Packaging

Best Recording Package

Magin Diaz - El Orisha De La Rosa Mura Masa  - Mura Masa Father John Misty - Pure Comedy The National - Sleep Well Beast Jonathan Coulton - Solid State

Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package

Various Artists - Bobo Yeye: Belle Epoque in Upper Volta Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (1984 - 2014) The Grateful Dead - May 1977: Get Shown the Light Various Artists: The Voyager Golden Record: 40th Anniversary Edition Various Artists: Warfaring Strangers: Acid Nightmares

Producer

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical

Calvin Harris Greg Kurstin Blake Mills No I.D. The Stereotypes

Music Video/Film

Best Music Video

Beck - Up All Night Jain - Makeba JAY-Z - The Story of O.J. Kendrick - HUMBLE. Logic - 1-800-273-8255

Best Music Film

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - One More Time With Feeling The Grateful Dead - Long Strange Trip Various Artists - The Defiant Ones Various Artists - Soundbreaking Various Artists - Two Trains Runnin’