after the murder spree and before Amazon yanked it, I got SANCTION bc I had a vague image of the author as stuck at a certain tier in the wannabe macho grifter scene but wanted a sense of the kind of freak he was
and
“have you ever considered that maybe you’re the asshole”
the dude’s main ideology is that Real Men should be able to murder people bc nobody who ever screwed over him, a Real Man, would’ve done it if they had actually thought he might murder them
that if murder were legal one of them might have just murdered HIM never crosses his mind
also, given that the novel dropped names and locations and methodology for his actual murders it could be taken as a guide to how he thought things would go
if so, his plan was to murder forty-six people, survive, go to prison, and murder black inmates until he was killed
if that was the plan, then he reached only ten percent of his murder goals before being shot and killed by a female cop
turned out he was not the unstoppable alpha high-body-count mass murderer in real life that he was in his head
who could possibly have guessed
the other thing I noted before I got bored and stopped was the drugs
I had heard something about the author popping lots of opiates and sure enough, his alter ego(es) do too
one character introduced banging two meth-head girls is the rich alpha male governor of Colorado
in one podcast interview the host expressed surprise about how long the books were and yet how quickly they were written
I would not be surprised in the slightest to learn that the answer to that conundrum was spelled “methamphetamine”
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The thing about rolling with a broad range of tweeps is that you see a broad range of takes on stuff
like Patriot Front‘s little parade
Righties:
a) “They’re all feds and it’s an op”
b) “I shall ostentatiously refuse to denounce peacefully protesting Nazis”
c) “Surprisingly they prevented a big countermobilization”
d) “Who?”
Lefties:
a) “OMG NAZIS!!!!”
b) “meh, these guys again”
c) “Who?”
FWIW, my take:
a) yes, they are indeed a real thing; antifa keeps infiltrating them successfully and doxxing their guys
b) despite fedjacketing rumors, they’re probably not any more undercover cops and snitches than any other white nationalist group (say, one-third, tops)
Here is the offensive op-ed; it is kinda cringe and boomerish in its tone and style but it is also not offensive in the slightest phillytrib.com/the-best-path-…
if you read between the lines of one of the articles there it’s pretty clear that he was either a jerk or an obstacle to black women in the workplace, at least some of whom know their way around the activist toolkit
THE ROCKFORD FILES is streaming free with ads on the Roku channel, if you need some old-school TV that just settles over you like a warm blanket
I watch THE ROCKFORD FILES with an eye for what makes a show of its era different from a show today
especially with regard to questions like “how did they not kill James Garner, who is in literally every scene, from overwork”
Things I have noticed about THE ROCKFORD FILES, from a production standpoint compared to today:
* more varied pacing of cuts
* shots go on longer
* fewer variations in angles
* a lot of the times their location shoots use sublocations at one main location — 3 or 4 little scenes
We are now at the phase where journos and authorities know goddamn well if the Waukesha parade was an ideological attack or not.
It is also the phase where, thanks to the Pulse Nightclub shooting, we know they will lie if there definitely is one.
Many looking to hang Waukesha on BLM for political reasons, but while the perp posted about it and his support for “knokkin white ppl TF out,” the really notable thing from his social media for me was a Black Israelite-style Hitler meme about how black people are the *real* Jews.
It may come out in law enforcement investigations, but the big question that journos are running from as fast as possible is
THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY (1978) is free on Prime, and if you’ve never seen it you should treat yourself, because it is a joy.
Michael Crichton, a clunky filmmaker, is downright sprightly writing and directing this period caper flick with a delightful Jerry Goldsmith score.
Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, and Lesley-Anne Down are all marvelous, and every dollar of the budget is up on the screen — great costuming, sets, an antique train, tons of extras when they’re called for.
One challenge the film rises to: making its very simple action sequence visually exciting.
The sequence: Sean Connery has to make his way over the length of several cars of a moving train.
Something we have seen people do many, many, many times before.
This rumor was flying around Twitter yesterday; while all options are open, I have to say desperate flight strikes me as very unlikely. There’s video of the guy entering the parade at low speed, swerving around the blocker at rear, and speeding up to hit people.
Sped up, slowed down, hit people, sped up, hit more people. Graphic videos included, so be cautioned, but this really doesn’t look like a guy in desperate flight.
Bunch of black radical and BLM stuff on circulating screenshots of suspect’s purported social media, but from a posturing more than activist perspective, if that makes sense
ie, not so much “here’s me at this protest,” more “Fred Hampton was awesome”