tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16833289941179916012024-03-17T16:42:15.693-07:00CryptoscatologyRobert Guffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14616036869555457620noreply@blogger.comBlogger1595125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683328994117991601.post-65926541916474064652024-03-17T11:11:00.000-07:002024-03-17T14:39:29.882-07:00Robert Anton Wilson △ Ireland & Irish Poetry (1988)<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghOkmlUKTA4QSKwa6qtnz5f9WQ0BZpIOMidTEjvqOhgnE-ZwY8x5ODqpW5atw3Q89wrwjjLOZs_hyqMSfdzSG5Y8zVtk2Y8pMSYI0roR_nxToXHH3NIiThFOLn0Kpy2DLs9H8xWlAP09Y1GHEJ96TT5Rk1v3RVB_wjlLgOi8sGhjvHftXxV_UphSgDAGB_/s1280/IMG_5149.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghOkmlUKTA4QSKwa6qtnz5f9WQ0BZpIOMidTEjvqOhgnE-ZwY8x5ODqpW5atw3Q89wrwjjLOZs_hyqMSfdzSG5Y8zVtk2Y8pMSYI0roR_nxToXHH3NIiThFOLn0Kpy2DLs9H8xWlAP09Y1GHEJ96TT5Rk1v3RVB_wjlLgOi8sGhjvHftXxV_UphSgDAGB_/w400-h640/IMG_5149.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;">St. Patrick's Day might be an appropriate time to listen to <a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Robert-Anton-Wilson/author/B000AP6Z8G?pd_rd_w=NUeID&content-id=amzn1.sym.a36c3969-f821-4d5b-a8e8-be129cf4aa4a:amzn1.sym.a36c3969-f821-4d5b-a8e8-be129cf4aa4a&pf_rd_p=a36c3969-f821-4d5b-a8e8-be129cf4aa4a&pf_rd_r=1QVTPFKJSBPSEV41KDMN&pd_rd_wg=sWhmU&pd_rd_r=c3c758d9-4c5d-47ef-974e-4c211ed8f4db&qid=1710698736&cv_ct_cx=robert+anton+wilson&ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true">Robert Anton Wilson</a> discussing Ireland and Irish Poetry. The following lecture was recorded in Santa Monica in 1988....</span><p></p><p></p><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="-moz-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #0f0f0f; display: -webkit-box; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px; max-height: 5.6rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-break: break-word; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Robert Anton Wilson △ Ireland & Irish Poetry (1988)</span></h1><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/af_pD-351ns" width="320" youtube-src-id="af_pD-351ns"></iframe></div>Robert Guffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14616036869555457620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683328994117991601.post-43618422304349089412024-03-16T12:33:00.000-07:002024-03-16T12:33:18.135-07:00RONDO REMINDER!<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIs6lOq-uERgx5pR1Bs2nFRVK67LS1pYTyGTUKmtndfSvXAh4PpzaoYxbw2UwU8_sIQcAt9GHVD8ClzgFng1sSSQv8B-NQkRqmnBSA0S8TobLlcmsNVy_K898Xs-4QYBDXVh8LpT9xSFbA_Pq97NaiwF7qhQcviab-GfjIRivYh3AAUp_DWn8vRfzV2l-8/s990/398913109_350434740846327_1939784532763015594_n.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="990" height="496" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIs6lOq-uERgx5pR1Bs2nFRVK67LS1pYTyGTUKmtndfSvXAh4PpzaoYxbw2UwU8_sIQcAt9GHVD8ClzgFng1sSSQv8B-NQkRqmnBSA0S8TobLlcmsNVy_K898Xs-4QYBDXVh8LpT9xSFbA_Pq97NaiwF7qhQcviab-GfjIRivYh3AAUp_DWn8vRfzV2l-8/w640-h496/398913109_350434740846327_1939784532763015594_n.jpg" width="640" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Here's a gentle reminder to vote for Yours Truly in the <a href="https://rondoaward.com/rondoaward.com/blog/?p=1548">22nd Annual Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards</a>! 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vote in the Rondo Awards? Shocking but true! My latest novel, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Monkey-Rum-Robert-Guffey/dp/1915546001/ref=sr_1_1?crid=LJZ6HZ7NXO7R&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.2jFiThOcEIcGQqZu8spo9Q.cplCBZ9XBL0CYKZHXW_VQopqPzIxsT98wX_KBadDjWg&dib_tag=se&keywords=dead+monkey+rum&qid=1710553756&s=books&sprefix=dead+monkey+rum%2Cstripbooks%2C147&sr=1-1">DEAD MONKEY RUM</a>, has been nominated for "Best Classic Monster Fiction." YOU CAN VOTE FOR DEAD MONKEY RUM IN 3 EASY STEPS....</span></span><br /><p></p><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>1. Copy-and-paste the ballot below into an e-mail.</b></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b> </b><br /><b>2. Choose DEAD MONKEY RUM in the BEST CLASSIC MONSTER FICTION category.</b></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b> </b><br /><b>3. Then email to David Colton (</b></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1648280589209000&usg=AOvVaw0mcBmlwm_6NQzukktOCNX_" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">taraco@aol.com</a>) by midnight on April 16th, 2024</b></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>.</b></span></span></b></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Don’t forget to include your name in the e-mail!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">--START COPYING--</span></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>BEST CLASSIC MONSTER FICTION:</b></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Lora, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">— </b></span></b><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Lora, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">DEAD MONKEY RUM</b><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Lora, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>,</b> <b>by Robert Guffey (Planet Bizarro, softcover, 192 pages, $12.99). Cryptozoic beasts race adventurers in Los Angeles.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">--END COPYING--</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">MAHALO, FRIENDS!!!<br /></span></span></p></div></div>Robert Guffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14616036869555457620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683328994117991601.post-27182563025108298502024-03-15T18:33:00.000-07:002024-03-15T20:07:57.605-07:00The Octopus & the Night Vision Goggles<p><span style="font-size: large;">I recommend checking out Zachary Treitz's new Netflix documentary, AMERICAN CONSPIRACY: THE OCTOPUS MURDERS, the official trailer for which can be seen below.... </span></p><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="-moz-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #0f0f0f; display: -webkit-box; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px; max-height: 5.6rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-break: break-word; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders </span></h1><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mHcBh4EBudk" width="320" youtube-src-id="mHcBh4EBudk"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Chameleo-Robert-Guffey/dp/1939293693/ref=sr_1_1?crid=25MNZJNLF2XEA&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.RbRylk5CugeU8YxeZ0cYTw2z4pDUJKDNN9Dlpf2qIx7GjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.JAZtWTXJvNSQPZQczxa7Rw5G7ONHh_TnhGWEYwdjykU&dib_tag=se&keywords=chameleo+robert+guffey&qid=1710551399&s=books&sprefix=chameleo+robert%2Cstripbooks%2C137&sr=1-1">CHAMELEO</a> readers might want to pay special attention to the 40:00 minute mark in Episode Two when we hear the late Dr. John Philip Nichols state that, at some point during the early 1980s, the infamous private security firm Wackenhut expressed interest in helping Michael Riconosciuto develop night vision goggles that worked "with microprocessors." </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Directly below is an excerpt from David Smith's 3-5-24 GUARDIAN article entitled "'Extreme Power and Secrecy': Inside Shocking Netflix Hit <i>The Octopus Murders</i>": </span></p>In [Danny] Casolaro’s telling, the Octopus is a network of mostly former intelligence officers who used their contacts not only within the intelligence sphere but the criminal underworld – a credible scenario given that intelligence operatives often have to use criminal networks to accomplish covert goals.<br /><br />[Christian] Hansen comments: “When I got into this story, it quickly led to allegations of the intelligence community’s involvement in trafficking in illegal drugs in the 1970s and 1980s and actually how critical that was to for them to execute whatever kind of agenda they had during the cold war.<br /><br />“I was so physically disgusted that was happening in my name and that the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/17/when-crack-was-king-donovan-x-ramsey">drugs were coming to the United States</a> and largely affecting people that needed a hand up not to totally have their head pushed down and then filtered into the prison industrial complex. It was so hypocritical to have this war on drugs but also covertly bringing them here. It’s infuriating.<br /><br />“That was something that surprised and shocked me and actually kind of blew my head off. At that point, what is real and what isn’t and what conspiracy theory is actually a conspiracy that happened or is happening. That was what made me go a little bit insane for a little while.”<br /><br />Treitz offers his summary of the Octopus theory: “These people are essentially trying to, in his view, suck up as much money and power as they possibly can using their own resources which they’ve developed, which conveniently happen to be people who are in places of both extreme power and extreme secrecy that allows them to get away with a lot of different things.<br /><br />“Whether that Octopus is as organised or as sentient as maybe the metaphor goes I’m not sure, but a lot of the stuff that he reported on or that he was talking about is not that far fetched if you just look at the intelligence side of how things worked, especially in the 80s and 70s.”<figure class="dcr-173mewl" data-spacefinder-role="inline" data-spacefinder-type="model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement" id="31c7a6c1-6d88-482f-9653-6f2e96c49fad" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; display: block; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 12px 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="dcr-1t8m8f2" id="img-2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><picture class="dcr-evn1e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;"><source media="(min-width: 660px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 660px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source><source media="(min-width: 660px)" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source><source media="(min-width: 480px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source><source media="(min-width: 480px)" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source><source media="(min-width: 320px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 320px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source><source media="(min-width: 320px)" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source></picture></div></figure><p><span style="font-size: large;">To read the entire article, click <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/mar/05/the-octopus-murders-netflix">HERE</a>. </span><br /></p>Robert Guffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14616036869555457620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683328994117991601.post-84910283577051607612024-03-14T00:44:00.000-07:002024-03-14T00:44:35.173-07:00CRYPTOSCATOLOGY FLASHBACK: CHAMELEO ON WHERE DID THE ROAD GO?<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">In March of 2018, I appeared on two consecutive episodes of Seriah Azkath's WHERE DID THE ROAD GO? podcast to discuss my book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Chameleo-Robert-Guffey/dp/1939293693/ref=sr_1_1?crid=29RHNQHCEUMOV&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.RbRylk5CugeU8YxeZ0cYT00vvTh7SIryoK0vVSyA9_s.w2jQCSs6MYmjghqQg2KpR5eyODcpmyUvD8pD-A3M0NQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=chameleo+guffey&qid=1710402124&s=books&sprefix=chameleo+guffey%2Cstripbooks%2C214&sr=1-1">CHAMELEO: A STRANGE BUT TRUE STORY OF INVISIBLE SPIES, HEROIN ADDICTION, AND HOMELAND SECURITY</a>. You can hear this nearly three-hour interview on YouTube directly below....</span></p><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="text-align: center;">Robert Guffey on Chameleo - REDUX</h1><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/X23-7S32XzY" width="320" youtube-src-id="X23-7S32XzY"></iframe></span></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXFLaxmz7fOpXsIrqgmUxhsqdb_r8LXjjudGUh60EGbLClyFKhhgMG-JFoKCIQcJpj0QdDkRWa7zy-ufNBYB75K49HL6pcin1vwH0lKH9kZRFI1j2DY-Sl7MHySGQ-JXra_FgQTdnJA-JBASQcPEsBCMbTeFZnb0yqCkPS8mTSt3_a8Dgqb1CJKnWRs6Eh/s960/unnamed.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXFLaxmz7fOpXsIrqgmUxhsqdb_r8LXjjudGUh60EGbLClyFKhhgMG-JFoKCIQcJpj0QdDkRWa7zy-ufNBYB75K49HL6pcin1vwH0lKH9kZRFI1j2DY-Sl7MHySGQ-JXra_FgQTdnJA-JBASQcPEsBCMbTeFZnb0yqCkPS8mTSt3_a8Dgqb1CJKnWRs6Eh/s16000/unnamed.gif" /></a></div><br />Robert Guffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14616036869555457620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683328994117991601.post-61448374730462448112024-03-11T00:44:00.000-07:002024-03-11T00:44:56.566-07:00Roswell Police Patches<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">From Susan Montoya Bryan's 3-8-24 WASHINGTON POST article entitled "Roswell Police Have New Patches That Are Out of This World, With Flying Saucers and Alien Faces":</span></p>Famous for being the spot where a spacecraft purportedly crashed in 1947, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/roswell-ufo-museum-5241ad621f39c8283ac6073ca42ddaee">Roswell, New Mexico, has become a mecca</a> for people fascinated by extraterrestrial phenomenon. So it’s only fitting that the city’s police force has uniform patches that are out of this world.<br /><br />Unveiled on Friday, the new patches feature the official city logo of a flying saucer with a classic beam radiating downward to form the letter “R.” The words “Protect and Serve Those That Land Here” form a circle and are separated by two tiny alien faces with large eyes.<br /><br />Police Chief Lance Bateman said the department recently ordered an initial batch of 500, with the first ones being handed out just this week. The transition to the new patch is expected to be complete later this year.<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">To read the entire article, click <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2024/03/08/ufo-police-patch-roswell-new-mexico/86673208-ddb4-11ee-b5e9-ad4573c62315_story.html">HERE</a>. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgevVW2c21DWt4qDfAAEt5MMtUWrge6EuIq9N9nJp9ANRdnOMKAioHJG-_yCwNgJ-9UhXXwf3odlPpsToaqZ4zu9egf_t_e2-joLb5W1evA00sE2H75EsiHYnDZEYkFHlabKX06RbExPkKk4_VFAvD27s75wGkjZX-N0ESXMwI9Yc4bzs2-Wlh1MSHp18H_/s1000/download.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgevVW2c21DWt4qDfAAEt5MMtUWrge6EuIq9N9nJp9ANRdnOMKAioHJG-_yCwNgJ-9UhXXwf3odlPpsToaqZ4zu9egf_t_e2-joLb5W1evA00sE2H75EsiHYnDZEYkFHlabKX06RbExPkKk4_VFAvD27s75wGkjZX-N0ESXMwI9Yc4bzs2-Wlh1MSHp18H_/w400-h225/download.webp" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><p></p>Robert Guffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14616036869555457620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683328994117991601.post-65886588607950960602024-03-11T00:42:00.000-07:002024-03-11T00:42:29.990-07:00GREMLIN<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">From Oren Liebermann's 3-8-24 CNN report entitled "US Military Developing Portable UFO Detection Kits as Pentagon Says No Evidence of Alien Tech Found":</span></p><p>The US military is developing portable UFO detection kits to collect better data on <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/01/politics/pentagon-ufo-website/index.html">reports of sightings </a>as the Pentagon says there is no evidence of alien technology found in any government investigation.<br /><br />The new portable detection kits, consisting of an array of sensors that fit inside a protective case, are currently being tested at a range in Texas, said Timothy Phillips, the acting director of AARO, the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, which was set up in 2022 to catalog and investigate reports of unknown objects.<br /><br />“If we have a national security site and there are objects being reported that [are] within restricted airspace or within a maritime range or within the proximity of one of our spaceships, we need to understand what that is,” Phillips told reporters Wednesday. “And so that’s why we’re developing sensor capability that we can deploy in reaction to reports.”</p>The sensor and detection system is called Gremlin, Phillips said, and his office is looking to deploy it to a site with many reports of UAPs, or unidentified anomalous phenomena, which is the Pentagon’s term for what are commonly referred to as UFOs.<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">To read the entire article, click <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/08/politics/us-military-developing-ufo-detection-kits/index.html">HERE</a>. </span><br /></p>Robert Guffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14616036869555457620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683328994117991601.post-48599090679971452762024-03-04T18:58:00.000-08:002024-03-04T21:15:45.057-08:00CRYPTOPOLIS & OTHER STORIES on Ravenstar's Witching Hour!<div class="separator"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSFi9MPUlIzhd1u_neDf_CoFvZaZnJg45P9Fjoou4wqfkOmv16uhqEf07-EuE2ZJ2DRPCnp8fuZS4YD48OVwshpFvf2ZRjY021axbNfTd7oGVarhmFa1SNd5MTjG4RgEdm9jjomUBWPdQTAMytVPdIoqrakwXCc7Nu0YnHRAgK4LtYxtyUWaelMaKWsg6c/s1360/81KZ6LvyjIL.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9MkN2vBE6Y7g1GJv3XJaFSJibl6IS-Mu7Og2zKakWSCX6d_PJTL8NuJnVzvh1xFq51mMZ3hjlUtiw43Wv1ovdzU1WZku5NV9txpW3LjKwv8z2gBjTew57v46QMf4gky0LBgWNfYbZB8vIeg0n34aRQXpmuj_yRbXoqcJAzdcPc82vJnW4z3NhXI-6TIpB/s1360/61PT+4C24BL._SL1360_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1360" data-original-width="907" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9MkN2vBE6Y7g1GJv3XJaFSJibl6IS-Mu7Og2zKakWSCX6d_PJTL8NuJnVzvh1xFq51mMZ3hjlUtiw43Wv1ovdzU1WZku5NV9txpW3LjKwv8z2gBjTew57v46QMf4gky0LBgWNfYbZB8vIeg0n34aRQXpmuj_yRbXoqcJAzdcPc82vJnW4z3NhXI-6TIpB/w426-h640/61PT+4C24BL._SL1360_.jpg" width="426" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><span><br /><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span></span></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><span><span><span><span>This past Saturday night, Solaris Blue<span>Raven interviewed me on her podcast<span>, <i>Ravenstar's Witching Hour</i><span>. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><span><span><span>You can hear the entire show at the bottom of this post. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><span><span><span>For about two hours, we discuss my Rondo Award-nominated novel, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Monkey-Rum-Robert-Guffey/dp/1915546001/ref=sr_1_1?crid=XL0GKMD84QKR&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.2jFiThOcEIcGQqZu8spo9Q.cplCBZ9XBL0CYKZHXW_VQopqPzIxsT98wX_KBadDjWg&dib_tag=se&keywords=dead+monkey+rum&qid=1709601783&s=books&sprefix=dead+monkey+rum%2Cstripbooks%2C186&sr=1-1">DEAD MONKEY RUM</a>, as well as my latest book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cryptopolis-Other-Stories-Robert-Guffey/dp/1590217683/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1X9FG1K36FZRU&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Nam6djyx62pzNkapqpQ-Z5sphciRmzSPX51-iNUYlff4RNYo3SNn4FDR2kYNunw4rrbjmzVzJUJPh6wrSDl3eFWQfrzIAW6kw9UNGlG_D5c.lSceLlkkAJHdLBbmdRBt96u0asAcL7_jX7dfw-pkLK0&dib_tag=se&keywords=cryptopolis&qid=1709601866&s=books&sprefix=cryptopolis%2Cstripbooks%2C141&sr=1-1">CRYPTOPOLIS & OTHER STORIES</a>. We do a deep dive into the bizarre and esoteric origins of my short stories<span> "Cryptopolis," "Initiation," "Dr. Apocrypha's Manifesto," "The Sheet," "Adventures in the Head Wound," and "Bring Me the Head of Andre Breton!" We also discuss my latest article, "G-Bomb</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">: Masonic and Hermetic Symbo<span>lism in <i>The Incredible Hulk</i>" (published in <a href="https://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=98_57&products_id=1766&zenid=e3eb235ce17ef0090beda87f25b3e723"><i>The Jack Kirby Collector</i> #89</a>).</span><span> Freemasonry, surrealis<span>m, dreams, demons, Yetis, golems, gargoyles, Aleister Crowley, James Shelby Downard, Stanislaw Szukalski, the JFK assassination, and other forms of High Strangeness are put under the <i>Witching Hour</i> microscope. If you're interested in reading <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cryptopolis-Other-Stories-Robert-Guffey/dp/1590217683/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1X9FG1K36FZRU&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Nam6djyx62pzNkapqpQ-Z5sphciRmzSPX51-iNUYlff4RNYo3SNn4FDR2kYNunw4rrbjmzVzJUJPh6wrSDl3eFWQfrzIAW6kw9UNGlG_D5c.lSceLlkkAJHdLBbmdRBt96u0asAcL7_jX7dfw-pkLK0&dib_tag=se&keywords=cryptopolis&qid=1709601866&s=books&sprefix=cryptopolis%2Cstripbooks%2C141&sr=1-1">CRYPTOPOLIS & OTHER STORIES</a> after hearing the interview, you can purchase the eBook version from <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1486795?fbclid=IwAR3P8d00v8sXEIqbVDv9O_KHSLZT0bbfZz8KZkpJenAbErTyWEGdqgbjRnA">Smashwords</a> for 50% off (for one week only)! The print version is available right <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cryptopolis-Other-Stories-Robert-Guffey/dp/1590217683/ref=sr_1_1?crid=5OMUULRH9UCU&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Nam6djyx62pzNkapqpQ-Z5sphciRmzSPX51-iNUYlff4RNYo3SNn4FDR2kYNunw4rrbjmzVzJUJPh6wrSDl3eFWQfrzIAW6kw9UNGlG_D5c.lSceLlkkAJHdLBbmdRBt96u0asAcL7_jX7dfw-pkLK0&dib_tag=se&keywords=cryptopolis&qid=1709609693&s=books&sprefix=cryptopolis%2Cstripbooks%2C179&sr=1-1">HERE</a>.<br /></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>PRAISE FOR CRYPTOPOLIS:<br /></b></u></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">"The stories in <i><span style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.lethepressbooks.com/store/p692/Cryptopolis_%26_Other_Stories.html">Cryptopolis</a></span></i>
feel like the bloody, star-filled lovechildren of Burroughs and Delany,
with each tale ostensibly one part of a greater whole; abstract limbs
and organs tethered together by strained flesh. <span style="color: red;"><i><a href="https://www.lethepressbooks.com/store/p692/Cryptopolis_%26_Other_Stories.html">Cryptopolis</a></i></span>
will take readers on a hallucinogenic journey through worlds fractured
by time and place—slipping through liminal dimensions with seamless
abandon to unveil unsettling illusions and heartbreaking realities—and
totally worth the trip."</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">--Philip Fracassi, author of <i>Boys in the Valley</i></span> </p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span></p><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">"If
you're tired of the same wines and you're curious about the vintage
only just whispered about, have a deep draught of Robert Guffey's <i><span style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.lethepressbooks.com/store/p692/Cryptopolis_%26_Other_Stories.html"><span>Cryptopolis</span></a></span>. </i>You
don't have to descend with Fortunato to the deepest cellars to find
this bottle of Amontillado. Here it is! If Poe collaborated with Robert
Anton Wilson...if Borges had a lovechild with Lovecraft, which was
subsequently adopted by Kafka...you might get <i><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.lethepressbooks.com/store/p692/Cryptopolis_%26_Other_Stories.html">Cryptopolis</a></span></i>.
I think too that Clark Ashton Smith would admire this collection.
Written with the obsessive precision of a mysterious staircase
descending into the abyss,<span> </span><i><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.lethepressbooks.com/store/p692/Cryptopolis_%26_Other_Stories.html">Cryptopolis</a></span></i><span> </span>will take you to strange epiphanies..." </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">--John Shirley, author of <i>The Feverish Stars</i></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span></p><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">"Once
upon a time, weird and speculative fiction had an underground full of
stories that were not written as calling cards or as film treatments or
as extended internet memes. Guffey's tales resist genre gentrification;
they move into your mind to turn it into a punk house squat!" </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">--Nick Mamatas, author of <i>Move Under Ground</i> and <i>The Second Shooter</i></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><i> </i></span></div><span style="font-size: large;">"Guffey
brings together 25 horror shorts that swing wildly between terrifying
mindtrips and gritty realism. Throughout, Guffey’s blunt prose lends a
sense of normalcy to the fantastic as his cast of losers from all walks
of life face the cruelties of their existence—sexual violence, drugs,
war, parenthood, and poverty [...]. Though not for the faint of heart,
this bizarre and over-the-top collection is sure to thrill devotees of
weird fiction."</span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">--<i>Publishers Weekly</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i> </i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i></i></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><u>RAVENSTAR'S WITCHING HOUR (3-2-24):</u></b></span><br /></div><div><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i> </i></span></p>
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Robert Guffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14616036869555457620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683328994117991601.post-45770312505010544482024-03-01T18:00:00.000-08:002024-03-01T18:16:08.266-08:00DEAD MONKEY RUM Has Been Nominated For a Rondo Award!<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">The nominations for the <a href="https://rondoaward.com/rondoaward.com/blog/?p=1548">22nd Annual Rondo Awards</a> have now been announced! I'm honored to be included among the nominees for "Best Classic </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">Monster Fiction" (for my 2023 novel, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Monkey-Rum-Robert-Guffey/dp/1915546001/ref=sr_1_1?crid=LEM2P1LZK7HP&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.2jFiThOcEIcGQqZu8spo9Q.cplCBZ9XBL0CYKZHXW_VQopqPzIxsT98wX_KBadDjWg&dib_tag=se&keywords=dead+monkey+rum&qid=1709340030&s=books&sprefix=dead+monkey+rum%2Cstripbooks%2C170&sr=1-1">DEAD MONKEY RUM</a>)
alongside the likes of such luminaries as Tim Lucas (THE BOOK OF RENFIELD) and Craig Russell (THE DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND)!
Please consider voting for DEAD MONKEY RUM....</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSvUjqfXhPYni5898vIe5mTW2z9xx7XSyP1YwXlNKO2DM4vI4GLcpydJshR-vDx8rZ1-jh3HRaoU_YEgOj0AfnX7TuDHFrqygJXk2b35pS45eLARpPIEjYDA1fTJfoVVLbBGuBZM7Xh_av0Iy6Y2WWPb5bo3CgaCcsLfseVYL0OyEKa0BRjGatt_UPvcdg/s958/374943141_317268037496331_2735832228734021058_n%20(1).jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="958" height="361" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSvUjqfXhPYni5898vIe5mTW2z9xx7XSyP1YwXlNKO2DM4vI4GLcpydJshR-vDx8rZ1-jh3HRaoU_YEgOj0AfnX7TuDHFrqygJXk2b35pS45eLARpPIEjYDA1fTJfoVVLbBGuBZM7Xh_av0Iy6Y2WWPb5bo3CgaCcsLfseVYL0OyEKa0BRjGatt_UPvcdg/w640-h361/374943141_317268037496331_2735832228734021058_n%20(1).jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">YOU CAN VOTE FOR <b>DEAD</b> <b>MONKEY RUM</b> IN 3 EASY STEPS:</span></span>
<p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><b>1. Copy-and-paste the ballot below into an e-mail.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b> </b><br /><b>2. Choose DEAD MONKEY RUM in the BEST CLASSIC MONSTER FICTION category.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">--END COPYING--</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><u>UNBOXING DEAD MONKEY RUM</u>:</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dy4A7Xpa5IBfyODH0rfBa_rALCcYhTD6-vb0r0HW_zG059KoOJ4TLeybiP-M0G-K_hm79RD3T7dZPrEgwTg-Q' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><u>PRAISE FOR DEAD MONKEY RUM</u>: </b></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-large;">"A remarkable rush of entertainment and thrills."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;">--Alan Moore (<i>V for Vendetta </i>and <i>Watchmen</i>) </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">"Robert Guffey's
fantastic novel, DEAD MONKEY RUM, will at least bring your brain out of a
coma, if not get your imagination off the couch. This is a thinly
masked tribute/adventure to the late Stanislaw Szukalski and his
boundless imagination. This book is a mental gymnasium."</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br />-- Robert Williams (<i>Visual Addiction, Hysteria in Remission</i>, and <i>Through Prehensile Eyes</i>)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;">"A fantastically rich and entertaining piece of work with an original sharp edge."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;">-- Jim Woodring (writer/artist of <i>Weathercraft</i>, <i>The Frank Book</i>, and <i>One Beautiful Spring Day</i>)</span></span></div><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;">"Stanislaw
Szukalski would love DEAD MONKEY RUM. This novel is addictive like a
heavy drug. Make space in your calendar to read it all."</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;">-- Irek Dobrowolski (director of the Netflix documentary, <i>Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski</i>)</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;"></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;">"Yetis,
Tiki Gods, Cryptozoology, and rum-filled adventure! Sign me up and tell
me when the ship sails! I'm recommending this Robert Guffey novel to
all my friends, family, and foes to take their minds completely off
whatever they are thinking about. Wonderful."</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;">-- Loren Coleman (<i>Mysterious America, The Field Guide to Lake Monsters and Sea Serpents, The Field Guide to Bigfoot, </i></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Curious Encounters</i>, and 40 other books - Director of the International Cryptozoology Museum)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;">"DEAD
MONKEY RUM succeeds at being a pursuit thriller, with suspense and
tension as the monkey and Stephanie evade their cryptid enemies, and
comedy as the two exchange jabs at each other. It is cinematically fast.
DEAD MONKEY RUM should be adapted to a [...] Ralph Bakshiesque animated
film where both the zaniness of the narrative and the latent satire
would really flourish."</span></span></p><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">-- <i>Exotica Moderne</i></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i></span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For further DEAD MONKEY RUM related posts, see below....</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://cryptoscatology.blogspot.com/2023/09/dead-monkey-rum-play-list.html">DEAD MONKEY RUM PLAYLIST! (9-4-23)</a></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://cryptoscatology.blogspot.com/2023/10/dead-monkey-rum-on-hyperspace.html">DEAD MONKEY RUM ON HYPERSPACE! (10-21-23)</a></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://cryptoscatology.blogspot.com/2023/11/scenes-from-reading.html">SCENES FROM A READING (11-21-23)</a></span></span></div></div>Robert Guffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14616036869555457620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683328994117991601.post-17865661455523384592024-02-29T23:01:00.000-08:002024-02-29T23:01:02.198-08:00Ramona Fradon, R.I.P. (1926-2024)<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh75xGjQ3lUiEA7aLVdPBfFTl_EG6bvnfqqeoLKGHU2EwLDY3KPgLQy5p7ea4DuzjKEGnRRJW1jY_BqoBVKtaF5KwaIGSBY_NbOP3rBIwvDCt7xasToel5r7ZQpD1ZZ9CzKjvKftZEQ38yY-XF04XNNwm4ZvjItCaAGf8DeaF34eEk9yDmFo3nPGUM4Ci4J/s1095/IMG_3548-e1709004593412.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1095" data-original-width="753" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh75xGjQ3lUiEA7aLVdPBfFTl_EG6bvnfqqeoLKGHU2EwLDY3KPgLQy5p7ea4DuzjKEGnRRJW1jY_BqoBVKtaF5KwaIGSBY_NbOP3rBIwvDCt7xasToel5r7ZQpD1ZZ9CzKjvKftZEQ38yY-XF04XNNwm4ZvjItCaAGf8DeaF34eEk9yDmFo3nPGUM4Ci4J/w440-h640/IMG_3548-e1709004593412.jpeg" width="440" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;">From Steve Ringgenberg's 2-27-24 COMICS JOURNAL obituary for Ramona Fradon, co-creator of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Showcase-Presents-Metamorpho-Element-Man/dp/1401207626/ref=sr_1_1?crid=YRN7NFNYX4FV&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.1hfRWevQrPcV-pvqjefz7DvsU0iV8izR4fZO_-Hh4T53csM7CECHN_zg9PxReaGsqFolQOC_TkWadqjrBzhbXD2l1amPnhBKx4r3iIGeYG3UTnzQP0quKyKsaOYIyrrXNA2TJoWIOt1S-XB3cJJiyTcpgZL2J5T7ov_UEraBvIgZfdKN6PiqowzXf1j7MaZRVxzKaZEiHkqHpgh3DjxDxkddVipimm_zTgNni825yfw.VfS7xmdARzMcznddHcyaL2lZN3PA5BAsCVCNoHmjkxY&dib_tag=se&keywords=metamorpho&qid=1709276368&s=books&sprefix=metamorpho%2Cstripbooks%2C213&sr=1-1">METAMORPHO</a>:</span><p></p><p>Ramona Fradon, whose career of more than 75 years led the way for female artists in the comic book field, passed away February 24 at the age of 97. Before Fradon (and Barbara Hall, who drew the Black Cat feature for Harvey), there were no women drawing superheroes in comic books. She was especially known for her work on the DC characters Aquaman and Metamorpho, the latter of which she co-created with writer Bob Haney [...].</p><p>Fradon took a break from the business in the second half of the 1960s to raise her daughter, Amy. However, despite wanting to lessen her workload to focus on being a wife and mother, 1964 marked the debut of what is probably her best-known character: Metamorpho, the Element Man, who has long enjoyed a reputation as the strangest superhero in comics. Metamorpho originated with an idea from editor George Kashdan and was developed by writer Bob Haney and Fradon. “Metamorpho was George Kashdan's idea,” Fradon told Dueben. “He had studied science when he was in school and he thought of a character made of four elements who could change himself into different chemical compounds. He gave Bob Haney the idea, and Bob fleshed it out brilliantly. I believe George continued to supply the ‘scientific’ details for Bob to use throughout the life of the feature.”<br /><br />Originally appearing in <i>The Brave and the Bold</i> #57 and #58 (Dec./Jan. 1964-65 and Feb./Mar. 1965), Metamorpho made such an impression with fans that he was awarded his own title beginning in August 1965, running for 17 issues; Fradon drew the two <i>Brave and the Bold</i> stories, and then the first four issues of the <i>Metamorpho </i>solo title. After working with staid and conventional characters like Aquaman, Metamorpho was a breath of fresh air to Fradon. “He wasn’t your average superhero, so capes and masks didn’t suit him,” she told Dueben. “I tried a lot of those and finally decided that since he was always changing his shape, clothes would get in the way. So, I drew him in tights, with a body made up of four different colors and textures that were supposed to indicate the four elements. From the beginning, we had fun working on Metamorpho. The characters Bob invented were such deliciously overdrawn stereotypes that they were wonderful to design and animate. What I liked most about doing that feature was the freedom it gave me to exaggerate and be myself…. Drawing superheroes never came easily to me. I didn't have the mythic sensibility and could never really take them seriously” [...].</p>As the 1980s dawned, Fradon was happy to part company with superheroes, which she felt were evolving in a direction that did not lend itself to her own upbeat, heroic approach. “Aquaman is a good marker of what’s happening,” she told Watkins in 2018. “When I was drawing him in the '50s, he was nice and wholesome, with a nice haircut and pink cheeks. Very handsome. I had a crush on him. And then you can see what’s happened to him! It got more and more violent and then he lost his hand, then he had a beard and he looked psychotic. You know what? I don’t get it.” Fradon had returned to school by then, attending classes in psychology and ancient religions at New York University; decades later, she would author a prose book, <i>The Gnostic Faustus: The Secret Teachings Behind the Classic Text</i> (Inner Traditions, 2007), expanding on these studies.<p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">To read the entire obituary, click <a href="https://www.tcj.com/ramona-fradon-1926-2024/?fbclid=IwAR1XGk9Xt9DqmCflQr99xTog3Gsv9IuBisTvhUmPFRyzexlHpGFdex69luY">HERE</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">You can purchase a copy of Fradon's THE GNOSTIC FAUSTUS right <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Gnostic-Faustus-Secret-Teachings-Classic/dp/1594772045/ref=sr_1_1?crid=XGLLHQAA7QAI&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.K7g9Q9416tTptsIVZUdB2Wj-_ESIIIG0YRNZo7ugP9iL9hOXo5GXV9iIc2yeFSkRPRgnv9Js7qPY0jgMWlV7QeYn-JW9nTaUt3_ZgFN4d-xpg_vHL-3ZjEfWF_hn811F4X5c2ButW9OZNXOQZPDxi_TIMUz2zpm4l1XWrNCTkQr7JOYVfngNsEoi9btvLtKD.fbEuRmp0BsorbB9-UsFcUWdRxwf4SY03tx6uY-RaddA&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+gnostic+faustus&qid=1709260719&s=books&sprefix=the+gnostic+faustus%2Cstripbooks%2C226&sr=1-1">HERE</a>. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV5KXDS2Nw3i0MO1Ho4r5pGokKL4xh7QqTuoOAKU22YKCJxh1wRC0n-gwwZElwy6stU3WPspV1aRkQjzFIHN9GpeSASFx6sbBExe-cReVz4SnQCw_k0FqFve59QX5L_iILMDYsBUis0ORc1LAOArFL0hYI47OeCWxt-H0E8NvfjP31z30vs98xCBYi7VZI/s1000/91ijMokW0PL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="667" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV5KXDS2Nw3i0MO1Ho4r5pGokKL4xh7QqTuoOAKU22YKCJxh1wRC0n-gwwZElwy6stU3WPspV1aRkQjzFIHN9GpeSASFx6sbBExe-cReVz4SnQCw_k0FqFve59QX5L_iILMDYsBUis0ORc1LAOArFL0hYI47OeCWxt-H0E8NvfjP31z30vs98xCBYi7VZI/w427-h640/91ijMokW0PL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg" width="427" /></a></span></div><br /><p></p>Robert Guffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14616036869555457620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683328994117991601.post-66859164656915757602024-02-29T17:50:00.000-08:002024-02-29T17:50:52.509-08:00Terry Bisson, R.I.P. (1942-2024)<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">From LOCUS MAGAZINE'S 1-10-24 obituary for Nebula Award-winning writer, Terry Bisson:</span><br /><br />Author Terry Bisson, 81, died in the early hours of January 10, 2024 [...].<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></p><p>[Bisson's] first novel <i>Wyrldmaker</i> appeared in 1981, followed by World Fantasy finalist <i>Talking Man</i> (1986) and <i>Fire on the Mountain</i> (1988). Other novels include <i>Voyage to the Red Planet</i> (1990), <i>Pirates of the Universe</i> (1990), <i>The Pickup Artist</i> (2001), and <i>Any Day Now</i> (2012). He completed the late Walter M. Miller, Jr.’s <i>Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman</i> (1997), and has co-written YA novels with Stephanie Spinner, written children’s books about NASCAR racing as ‘‘T.B. Calhoun,’’ produced numerous film and TV novelizations and media tie-ins, and written non-fiction titles, notably <i>On A Move: The Story of Mumia Abu-Jamal</i> (2001).<br /><br />Bisson rose to prominence in the SF field with Hugo, Sturgeon, Locus, and Nebula Award winning story ‘‘Bears Discover Fire’’ (1990). Other notable short stories include Hugo finalists ‘‘Press Ann’’ (1991), ‘‘The Shadow Knows’’ (1993), ‘‘Dead Man’s Curve’’ (1994), ‘‘Get Me to the Church on Time’’ (1998); Nebula Award nominees ‘‘They’re Made out of Meat’’ (1991) and ‘‘Necronauts’’ (1995); Hugo, World Fantasy, and Nebula Award finalist ‘‘England Underway’’ (1993); Nebula Award winner and Hugo and Sturgeon finalist ‘‘macs’’ (1999); and novellas <i>Dear Abbey</i> (2003) and <i>Planet of Mystery</i> (2008). His short fiction has been collected in <i>Bears Discover Fire</i> (1993), <i>In the Upper Room and Other Likely Stories</i> (2000), <i>Numbers Don’t Lie</i> (2003), <i>Greetings & Other Stories</i> (2005), <i>Billy’s Book</i> (2009), and <i>TVA Baby</i> (2011). <i>The Left Left Behind</i> (2009) includes the title story, a play, and an interview and autobiography.<br /><br />Bisson also wrote the long-running <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/terry-bissons-history-of-the-future">“This Month in History”</a> series for <i>Locus</i>, recently profiled by the <i>New Yorker</i>. The micro-fiction series has run in the magazine for over 20 years. We will deeply miss his creativity, wry humor, and friendship. The field is lesser without him.</p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">To read the entire obituary, click <a href="https://locusmag.com/2024/01/terry-bisson-1942-2024/">HERE</a>. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">I recommend reading Bisson's </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">award-winning 1990 short story, "Bears Discover Fire," at <a href="https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/bears-discover-fire/">LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE</a>. Read his </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">1991 short story, "They're Made Out of Meat," at his official website, <a href="http://www.terrybisson.com/theyre-made-out-of-meat-2/">TERRY BISSON OF THE UNIVERSE</a>. Read his 2009 short story, "Billy and the Flying Saucer," at Rudy Rucker's <a href="https://www.rudyrucker.com/flurb/7/7bisson.htm">FLURB #7</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi34eo02p3iVfpn3tU1mlfbBWBuWHfAo6nTUyYkUjCT4x1xGU7-oidKd74tRlZ5vAOJfuf-QCUnQyvytoeijvZ6Br43SSCtf58zoN7gMKLuqLU5pMMPNWFce4afWlJTR0XILzPJ46VDXX8tlFhkMxkLwmW6Zb-glfTmfXkywMJIU9GKKEI9iBcYgjYmdXFv/s445/51aKIk+vXKL._SY445_SX342_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="445" data-original-width="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi34eo02p3iVfpn3tU1mlfbBWBuWHfAo6nTUyYkUjCT4x1xGU7-oidKd74tRlZ5vAOJfuf-QCUnQyvytoeijvZ6Br43SSCtf58zoN7gMKLuqLU5pMMPNWFce4afWlJTR0XILzPJ46VDXX8tlFhkMxkLwmW6Zb-glfTmfXkywMJIU9GKKEI9iBcYgjYmdXFv/s16000/51aKIk+vXKL._SY445_SX342_.jpg" /></a></span></div><p></p>Robert Guffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14616036869555457620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683328994117991601.post-31975530721463780612024-02-25T23:22:00.000-08:002024-02-25T23:22:54.471-08:00The Conservative Political Action Conference and the "End of Democracy"<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">From Tori Otten's 2-23-24 NEW REPUBLIC article entitled "MAGA Republican Pledges 'End of Democracy' to Rabid Cheers at CPAC":</span></p>Conservative activist Jack Posobiec joyfully hailed the “end of democracy” at the Conservative Political Action Conference, further emphasizing Republicans’ apparent desire to completely <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/178442/republicans-rewrite-constitution-radicalism-beyond-trump">overthrow America</a> as we know it.<br /><br />Posobiec, who helped popularize the “<a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/177055/guess-just-brought-back-pizzagate">Pizzagate</a>” conspiracy theory, appeared at CPAC’s opening day on Wednesday. He spoke during a panel moderated by former White House adviser and white supremacist <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/173250/said-it-steve-bannon-jack-donaghy">Steve Bannon</a>.<br /><br />“Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely,” Posobiec said as the event began.“We didn’t get all the way there on January 6, but we will endeavor to get rid of it and replace it with this, right here,” he said, gesturing to the crowd and holding up his fist.<br /><br />As he spoke, Bannon laughed and said, “Amen!”<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">To read the entire article, click <a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/179247/jack-posobiec-democracy-cpac-2024">HERE</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">From Ben Goggin's 2-24-24 NBC NEWS report entitled "Nazis Mingle Openly at CPAC, Spreading Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories and Finding Allies":</span></p>Nazis appeared to find a friendly reception at the Conservative Political Action Conference this year.<br /><br />Throughout the conference, racist extremists, some of whom had secured official CPAC badges, openly mingled with conference attendees and espoused antisemitic conspiracy theories.<br /><br />The presence of these individuals has been a persistent issue at CPAC. In previous years, conference organizers have ejected well-known Nazis and white supremacists such as Nick Fuentes.<br /><br />But this year, racist conspiracy theorists didn’t meet any perceptible resistance at the conference where Donald Trump has been the keynote speaker since 2017.<br /><br />At the Young Republican mixer Friday evening, a group of Nazis who openly identified as national socialists mingled with mainstream conservative personalities, including some from Turning Point USA, and discussed so-called “race science” and antisemitic conspiracy theories.<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">To read the entire article, click <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nazis-mingle-openly-cpac-spreading-antisemitic-conspiracy-theories-fin-rcna140335">HERE</a>. </span><br /></p>Robert Guffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14616036869555457620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683328994117991601.post-80680826637289989652024-02-24T18:33:00.000-08:002024-02-24T18:33:17.385-08:00Twin Peaks Day<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Since it's Twin Peaks Day, I'd like to take this opportunity to suggest that if you're a <i>Twin Peaks</i> fan, you might very well enjoy the wonderfully strange tales collected in my latest book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cryptopolis-Other-Stories-Robert-Guffey/dp/1590217683/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3EP8A7V2977PC&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9._seGVpUDn_M9jU2UFumQzQ.bXUkVSEfE_1AScp1TXrHLarkIdhkcKW7fzI7hk8FLHk&dib_tag=se&keywords=cryptopolis+and+other+stories&qid=1708825431&s=books&sprefix=cryptopolis+%2Cstripbooks%2C175&sr=1-1">CRYPTOPOLIS & OTHER STORIES</a>. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfGGcFg3iRkC8o60rFmUwGjSTxibewvKdc2p870fnUY4_P_pll8LUKtl1yR7Uzv-7t7RkkF6UQ0lW80U6ZLnK1ADqTXiNWhZHMHeczDBQJQtwA8hYcNpQ-sIv_M4p_6kdICRgVwcxEjzN3KVIlufYWoWy1dddkzkpfv-_iVE62p3BZG2YOABT7_NBdEURX/s2016/5DDA765F-05BB-45CE-8DF0-FCFDF096C97A.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfGGcFg3iRkC8o60rFmUwGjSTxibewvKdc2p870fnUY4_P_pll8LUKtl1yR7Uzv-7t7RkkF6UQ0lW80U6ZLnK1ADqTXiNWhZHMHeczDBQJQtwA8hYcNpQ-sIv_M4p_6kdICRgVwcxEjzN3KVIlufYWoWy1dddkzkpfv-_iVE62p3BZG2YOABT7_NBdEURX/w480-h640/5DDA765F-05BB-45CE-8DF0-FCFDF096C97A.JPG" width="480" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">"The stories in <i><span style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.lethepressbooks.com/store/p692/Cryptopolis_%26_Other_Stories.html">Cryptopolis</a></span></i>
feel like the bloody, star-filled lovechildren of Burroughs and Delany,
with each tale ostensibly one part of a greater whole; abstract limbs
and organs tethered together by strained flesh. <span style="color: red;"><i><a href="https://www.lethepressbooks.com/store/p692/Cryptopolis_%26_Other_Stories.html">Cryptopolis</a></i></span>
will take readers on a hallucinogenic journey through worlds fractured
by time and place—slipping through liminal dimensions with seamless
abandon to unveil unsettling illusions and heartbreaking realities—and
totally worth the trip."</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">--Philip Fracassi, author of <i>Boys in the Valley</i></span> </p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span></p><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">"If
you're tired of the same wines and you're curious about the vintage
only just whispered about, have a deep draught of Robert Guffey's <i><span style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.lethepressbooks.com/store/p692/Cryptopolis_%26_Other_Stories.html"><span>Cryptopolis</span></a></span>. </i>You
don't have to descend with Fortunato to the deepest cellars to find
this bottle of Amontillado. Here it is! If Poe collaborated with Robert
Anton Wilson...if Borges had a lovechild with Lovecraft, which was
subsequently adopted by Kafka...you might get <i><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.lethepressbooks.com/store/p692/Cryptopolis_%26_Other_Stories.html">Cryptopolis</a></span></i>.
I think too that Clark Ashton Smith would admire this collection.
Written with the obsessive precision of a mysterious staircase
descending into the abyss,<span> </span><i><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.lethepressbooks.com/store/p692/Cryptopolis_%26_Other_Stories.html">Cryptopolis</a></span></i><span> </span>will take you to strange epiphanies..." </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">--John Shirley, author of <i>The Feverish Stars</i></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span></p><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">"Once
upon a time, weird and speculative fiction had an underground full of
stories that were not written as calling cards or as film treatments or
as extended internet memes. Guffey's tales resist genre gentrification;
they move into your mind to turn it into a punk house squat!" </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">--Nick Mamatas, author of <i>Move Under Ground</i> and <i>The Second Shooter</i></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><i> </i></span></div><span style="font-size: large;">"Guffey
brings together 25 horror shorts that swing wildly between terrifying
mindtrips and gritty realism. Throughout, Guffey’s blunt prose lends a
sense of normalcy to the fantastic as his cast of losers from all walks
of life face the cruelties of their existence—sexual violence, drugs,
war, parenthood, and poverty [...]. Though not for the faint of heart,
this bizarre and over-the-top collection is sure to thrill devotees of
weird fiction."</span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">--<i>Publishers Weekly</i></span></p>Robert Guffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14616036869555457620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683328994117991601.post-11194517044806320672024-02-24T00:23:00.000-08:002024-02-24T00:23:36.807-08:00TWIN PEAKS SEASON 23!<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">In honor of the 35th anniversary of Special Agent Dale Cooper arriving in the town of Twin Peaks on February 24, 1989, I present to you my favorite scene from <i>Twin Peaks</i> Season 23....</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/buFYViE-JBk" width="320" youtube-src-id="buFYViE-JBk"></iframe></span></div><p></p>Robert Guffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14616036869555457620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683328994117991601.post-88667767406474026912024-02-23T22:14:00.000-08:002024-02-23T22:14:02.791-08:00MARKETWATCH: "DWAC Updates SEC Filings"<p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">From Ciara Linnane's 2-23-24 MARKETWATCH article entitled "DWAC Updates SEC Filings to Reflect New Risk Factors in Plan to Buy Trump Media & Technology Group":</span></p>Digital World Acquisition Corp. said Friday it has updated its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding its planned merger with Trump Media and Technology Group, former President Donald Trump’s social-media company, to reflect new risk factors [...].<br /><br />Trump “is the subject of numerous legal proceedings, the scope and scale of which are unprecedented for a former President of the United States and current candidate for that office,” said the update.<br /><br />DWAC said it cannot guarantee that opponents of Trump may make moves aimed at preventing the deal from closing.<br /><br />“We cannot assure you that the claims asserted against TMTG or Digital World are without the financial and/or human capital resources of operatives representing the interests of political opponents of President Trump focused on thwarting the business combination to prevent President Trump’s potential financial gain, which focus could further delay, or prevent, the completion of the business combination,” DWAC said in the update.<br /><br />The update also cautioned that the deal could be delayed by Trump Media’s co-founders, Andy Litinsky and Wes Moss, whose investment company, United Atlantic Ventures, has threatened to block the deal.<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">To read the entire article, click <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/dwac-updates-sec-filings-to-reflect-new-risk-factors-in-plan-to-buy-trump-media-technology-group-d2871cb6?mod=newsviewer_click">HERE</a>. </span><br /></p>Robert Guffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14616036869555457620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683328994117991601.post-53837939589876869802024-02-23T13:23:00.000-08:002024-02-23T13:23:28.866-08:00Mark Epstein on Donald Trump<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">From Natalie Korach's 1-10-24 THE WRAP article entitled "Jeffrey Epstein Shunned Donald Trump ‘When He Realized He Was a Crook,’ Disgraced Financier’s Brother Tells Piers Morgan":</span></p>Jeffrey Epstein’s brother Mark Epstein joined “Piers Morgan Uncensored” to discuss his suspicions surrounding his brother’s death, telling the British TV host that Epstein halted his relationship with Donald Trump once he “realized he was a crook” [...].<br /><br />Morgan [...] pivoted the conversation to Jeffrey Epstein’s powerful and wealthy friends, asking whether “one of those people who may have had a vested interest in shutting him up and not talking about what he knew about them potentially may have played a part in his death?”<br /><br />“Yes, that’s what I think happened,” Epstein replied with confidence.<br /><br />Morgan also asked about whether Epstein possibly had information on Donald Trump and Bill Clinton “that was so incendiary that the 2016 election would have been canceled if that information had come out.”<br /><br />Epstein corrected Morgan, saying that his brother was referencing Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, not Bill Clinton.<br /><br />“I never heard Jeffrey say anything bad about Bill Clinton,” Epstein said. “Jeffrey always liked Bill Clinton.”<br /><br />“What information do you think he had on Donald Trump, for example, that could have disqualified him?” Morgan asked.<br /><br />“I don’t know any specific information,” Epstein responded. “But I’ve also heard Jeffrey say that he stopped hanging out with Donald Trump when he realized Trump was a crook.”<br /><br />Epstein noted that his brother’s statement of that nature is on videotape, which he has seen.<p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">To read the entire article, click <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jeffrey-epstein-shunned-donald-trump-172038679.html">HERE</a>. </span><br /></p>Robert Guffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14616036869555457620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683328994117991601.post-68818211264176395302024-02-21T23:00:00.000-08:002024-02-21T23:00:17.215-08:00MARKETWATCH: "Cha-ching!"<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">From Brett Arends' 2-17-24 MARKETWATCH article entitled "Cha-ching! How Trump Is Making $4 Billion from His 2024 Campaign for President.":</span></p><p>Away from the legal headlines, Donald Trump has just made a staggering amount of money, all of it driven by the publicity from his campaign for the White House. (A terribly, terribly cynical person might even suggest that is part of the point.)</p><p>How much? Forget these fines, which add up to less than $500 million. Trump is suddenly on track for a windfall of nearly $4 billion. And he has made most of it just in the five weeks since his big win in the Iowa caucus put him in pole position for the Republican nomination.</p><p>The windfall is from the forthcoming IPO of his social media platform, “Truth Social,” which he launched – amid massive derision from the liberal media, I might add – in 2021 after he got kicked off Twitter.<br /><br />Truth Social got approval for its IPO from the Securities and Exchange Commission this week.<br /><br />It will come to the stock market through a merger with a so-called blank check or “shell” company known as Digital World Acquisition Corp [DWAC, -4.00%]. (Bank check companies are paper companies that list on the stock market first, then find a business to buy or merge with).<br /><br />Under the terms of the deal, which has been in the pipelines since 2021, Trump personally will end up with 79 million shares in the company when the deal is complete, possibly as soon as this quarter.<br /><br />Or so reports this SEC company filing, on page 309.<br /><br />The value of those shares today: $48. They dropped $2 on Friday, but only after a phenomenal run that has taken them from just $17 in early January, just before the Iowa caucus.<br /><br />That makes Trump’s personal stake valued at $3.8 billion: A rise of $2.5 billion just since winning the Iowa caucus. Who says it costs money to run for president?</p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">To read the entire article, click <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/cha-ching-trump-makes-4-billion-from-his-re-election-campaign-5fb87700?mod=MW_article_top_stories">HERE</a>. </span><br /></p>Robert Guffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14616036869555457620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683328994117991601.post-3388558321541504952024-02-21T19:23:00.000-08:002024-02-21T19:23:24.293-08:00NPR: Christianity in Crisis<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">From Scott Detrow, Gabriel J. Sánchez, and Sarah Handel's 8-8-23 NPR report entitled "He Was a Top Church Official Who Criticized Trump. He Says Christianity Is in Crisis" (h</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">at tip to <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@conspirinormalpodcast5023/videos">Conspirinormal's</a></i> Adam Sayne for bringing this article to my attention)</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">[Russell Moore] criticized Donald Trump and the Southern Baptist Convention's response to a sexual abuse crisis. Then he found himself on the outside [...]. Moore was one of the top officials in the Southern Baptist Convention. When Donald Trump came on the scene, Moore criticized him publicly and found himself ostracized by many other evangelical leaders who embraced the former president [...].<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">Moore spoke to<i> All Things Considered's</i> Scott Detrow about what he thinks the path forward is for evangelicalism in America.<br /><br />On why he thinks Christianity is in crisis:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.36px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">It was the result of having multiple pastors tell me, essentially, the same story about quoting the Sermon on the Mount, parenthetically, in their preaching — "turn the other cheek" — [and] to have someone come up after to say, "Where did you get those liberal talking points?" And what was alarming to me is that in most of these scenarios, when the pastor would say, "I'm literally quoting Jesus Christ," the response would not be, "I apologize." The response would be, "Yes, but that doesn't work anymore. That's weak." And when we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, then we're in a crisis.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">To read the entire article, click <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/08/08/1192663920/southern-baptist-convention-donald-trump-christianity">HERE</a>. </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: none; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.36px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1.17647em; max-width: 680px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"></p>Robert Guffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14616036869555457620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683328994117991601.post-23788223865719284602024-02-20T19:00:00.000-08:002024-02-20T19:00:09.270-08:00Censorship Corner: The Hugo Awards Controversy<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">From Zoe Guy's 2-16-24 VULTURE article entitled "The Hugo Awards Scandal Is a Mess": </span></p>The Hugo Awards are facing a controversy of intergalactic proportions. According to <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_QqmsxQkACoYcxSx2LVqbxD39-DJI_gS/view">emails leaked</a> on February 14, the volunteer body that administered the 2023 Hugo Awards appeared to have directly engaged in self-censoring the nominees over political concerns about the host country, China. The emails allege members of the Hugo administration team succeeded in keeping certain books off-ballot because they wanted to operate under Chinese laws related to content and censorship, Hugo-nominated sci-fi author Jason Sanford and Hugo-winning fan writer Chris M. Barkley <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/98498779">wrote</a> in a special report on February 14. “In addition to the regular technical review, as we are happening in China and the *laws* we operate under are different … we need to highlight anything of a sensitive political nature in the work,” Dave McCarty, division head of the Hugo Awards Selection Executive Department, wrote in an email dated June 5, 2023. Talk about the call coming from inside the house. Following a round of voting that left four writers, including former Hugo Award winner Neil Gaiman and Babel’s R.F. Kuang, out of competition during the latest awards season, fans are accusing the Hugos of being book-award thieves [...].<br /><br />Speculation that the Chinese government played a role in censoring the votes grew. Comic-book writer Gaiman has previously voiced criticisms <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/21/neil-gaiman-authors-chinese-president-jailed-writers">of </a>the government for incarcerating writers. Both Kuang and Zhao were born in China and now live in the West, and their books tackle social issues in allegorical fantasy worlds. However, McCarty denied the notion in a Facebook post in the days following the release of the nominating-statistics release. “Nobody has ordered me to do anything …” he <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/jan/24/science-fiction-awards-held-in-china-under-fire-for-excluding-authors">wrote</a> per the Guardian on January 24. “There was no communication between the Hugo administration team and the Chinese government in any official manner.”<br /><br />Based on <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_QqmsxQkACoYcxSx2LVqbxD39-DJI_gS/view">leaked information</a> from committee member Diane Lacey obtained by Barkley and Sanford, the censorship occurred at the selection committee’s own behest.<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Miller Text", Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span> <br /></span></span><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">To read the entire article, click <a href="https://www.vulture.com/article/hugo-awards-china-censorship-controversy.html">HERE</a>.</span><br /></p>Robert Guffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14616036869555457620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683328994117991601.post-47495283641170336902024-02-20T18:33:00.000-08:002024-02-20T18:33:19.894-08:00Censorship Corner: "West Virginia House Passes Bill Allowing Prosecution of Librarians"<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">From Steven Allen Adams' 2-17-24 PARKERSBURG NEWS AND SENTINEL article entitled "West Virginia House Passes Bill Allowing Prosecution of Librarians":</span></p><p>The West Virginia House of Delegates debated the merits of removing protections for public librarians and school librarians from criminal prosecution in the off chance a minor encounters books and content some consider to be obscene.<br /><br />The House passed House Bill 4654 – removing bona fide schools, public libraries, and museums from the list of exemptions from criminal liability relating to distribution and display to a minor of obscene matter – in a 85-12 vote Friday, sending the bill to the state Senate.</p><p>HB 4654 would lift criminal liability exemptions from schools in the presentation of local or state-approved curriculum, and public libraries and museums displaying obscene matter to a minor when the child is not accompanied by a parent/guardian.<br /><br />State Code defines obscene matter as anything an average person believes depicts or describes sexually explicit conduct, nudity, sex or certain bodily functions; or anything a reasonable person would find lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value. According to State Code 61-8A-2, any adult who knowingly and intentionally displays obscene matter to a minor could be charged with a felony, fined up to $25,000 and face up to five years in prison if convicted [...].</p><p>Opponents of the bill said that while the bill does not ban books, the bill would have unintended consequences for public and school libraries, resulting in increases in challenges to even classic books and attempts to criminally charge librarians over books not pornographic in nature, but books that include descriptions of sex. They also said it could result in improper criminal charges against library staff.<br /><br />“It is going to cost our counties and our librarians when these matters go to the court system,” said House Minority Leader Sean Hornbuckle, D-Cabell. “Because this is still vague, I’m scared … This is a very dangerous bill” [...].</p><p>According to PEN America — a freedom of expression and 1st Amendment advocacy organization — several states are either removing criminal liability exemptions for public and school libraries, or expanding the definition of obscenity to capture a wider array of books that could potentially result in criminal charges for simply having them on a shelf. The most recent was Montana last year.</p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">To read the entire article, click <a href="https://www.newsandsentinel.com/news/local-news/2024/02/west-virginia-house-passes-bill-allowing-prosecution-of-librarians/">HERE</a>. </span><br /></p>Robert Guffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14616036869555457620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683328994117991601.post-76109660869453503022024-02-14T23:13:00.000-08:002024-02-14T23:13:22.379-08:00Dark Valentine<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="ejamg" data-offset-key="dtd1t-0-0" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="dtd1t-0-0" style="overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cryptopolis-Other-Stories-Robert-Guffey/dp/1590217683/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=AUTHOR&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.i2woBzvB59l_NiKH52e4G9mdZimxfg5Tf94wUd4YS0xKFiRUbHQ2OpelesElk1GX0_6qOYgGE_dm4Eeo7-yTMCmqxrVdSGZtjmP2mYqmQLwjeiviMJVaLh9yuxSrRAAGCKTtpAOKM1MJrEUTNXti8QOyLD1UzoFVc99oDKjfTpE9w-W_D3b3gqMy9bcoSYna4N7NXJRwjTf_6Vj7wCxd5ky-cLKn8tc2jnIMHumV2Bk.JOSoVEvHbO3If6xjdb7zsYJ0FB-NGIYBy8OujKGNjUI&qid=&sr=">"The stories in CRYPTOPOLIS feel like the bloody, star-filled lovechildren of Burroughs and Delany."</a> </span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="dtd1t-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: normal;"> </span></span></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">--Philip Fracassi, author of <i>Boys in the Valley<br /></i></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1960" data-original-width="1470" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuFvSAb5zh99bMADxu4LptMp00-_x2DRRIR5nbJhSHTFlD3m5XB0LpqahrdEaCK6insKM9R9nPdZ5hR4F6JyppfCPe-mZybZnLcCRDHX_oYH-FmCclSBwGB-SzK3cy9p1NLrq1UhHyo82BSVp1asoFK0MzQ-AHg5gsD1ofNyMBEaTQnUZHthMO1Ka7hq9X/w480-h640/1C46FFFA-C6F0-42D9-9FE0-5784139449CD.JPG" width="480" /></a></div></i></span></div>Robert Guffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14616036869555457620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683328994117991601.post-49024173109149024782024-02-12T23:11:00.000-08:002024-02-12T23:11:14.847-08:00Pulp Fiction, Velvet Revolutions & QAnonsense with Robert Guffey & Recluse!<p><span style="font-size: large;">Earlier today, <i>The Farm</i> podcast aired an interview with Yours Truly
(originally recorded by Recluse back on January 26). Over the course of
this two-hour-plus interview we discuss my new <i>Evergreen Review</i> article, "<a href="https://evergreenreview.com/read/the-silent-civil-war-the-radicalization-of-the-evangelical-right/">The Silent Civil War</a>," my 2022 book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Operation-Mindfuck-QAnon-Donald-Trump/dp/1682193314/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=">OPERATION MINDFUCK</a>, my 2015 book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Chameleo-Robert-Guffey/dp/1939293693/ref=sr_1_1?crid=15JLV7NLICAOE&keywords=chameleo+robert+guffey&qid=1707803637&s=books&sprefix=chameleo+robert+guffey%2Cstripbooks%2C254&sr=1-1">CHAMELEO</a>, </span><span style="font-size: large;">the continual growth of QAnonsense, <i>The Leech Woman</i>, <i>The Unearthly</i>, The Shadow, <i>Mystery Science Theater 3000</i>, Q as a culture vulture, Donald Trump, Q's role in the Republican nomination for Speaker of the House, the destruction of the Georgia Guidestones, the Guidestones as psychological warfare, the science fiction novels of John Shirley, Jan. 6 as a color revolution, Q in Ufology, Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), Michael Flynn, Christopher Mellon, Q's presence in the military and law enforcement, Skinwalker Ranch, Oath Keepers, Chris Marx, deep fake technology, AI, gangstalking, and non-lethal weapons</span><span style="font-size: large;">!!!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Listen to the entire episode right</span> <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/pulp-fiction-w-97335429?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link&fbclid=IwAR0GnRVfVuBO3zYRoXDQlrN64e86d-8-jFUI4J43PlEan-97828xMvTkKfw">HERE</a>. <br /></span></p>Robert Guffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14616036869555457620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683328994117991601.post-22952817166279417462024-02-11T23:11:00.000-08:002024-02-11T23:11:12.771-08:00USA TODAY: "Goofy 'God's Army' Convoy"<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">From Rex Huppke's 2-5-24 USA TODAY article "Goofy 'God's Army' Convoy on Texas Border Shows Trump's MAGA Movement Is Just One Long Con":</span></p>The <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/supporters-far-right-convoy-headed-texas-border-are-calling-civil-war-rcna136058">“God’s Army” convoy was supposed to be</a> a mighty force of 700,000 or more people from every corner of America. It wound up being maybe a couple hundred vehicles parked at a rural ranch in Quemado, Texas – basically a Trump rally without a Trump, but with plenty of <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/convoy-rally-texas-mexico-border-attracts-trump-fans-decry-illegal-imm-rcna136967">hucksters selling MAGA merch</a> and grifting the easily grifted.<br /><br />Some actually visited the border in nearby Eagle Pass, Texas, and were surprised to not witness the invasion they had been promised.<br /><br />Convoy-goer <a href="https://x.com/cwebbonline/status/1753925483073507495?s=20">Misty Gregory told MSNBC</a>: “It’s not what I expected, but then again I don’t know what I expected. I can tell you it’s not as bad as what I thought, so that’s kind of eye-opening in itself.”<br /><br /><a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2024/02/04/abbott-defends-eagle-pass-tactics/">Abbott and about a dozen</a> other pro-razor-wire GOP governors were in Eagle Pass on Sunday, hollering and whatnot. Some residents said the recent invasion of Trump supporters from the convoy had been downright scary.<br /><br />“We are constantly being told that we’re being invaded, and that never felt true until today, when the convoy came to town in anticipation of the governors’ event,” <a href="https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/eagle-pass-community-expresses-concern-over-gods-army-convoys-impacts">Jessie F. Fuentes told WOAI NBC News Channel 4</a>. “This is political theater by outsiders. The reality is that it has brought dangerous, violent groups into our beautiful, peaceful city. Eagle Pass is safer than most cities in America if you look at crime statistics. This is just a fact. We don’t appreciate these staged events that dramatically misrepresent our reality on the border and that invite extremist groups that pose a real danger to people in our community.”<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">To read the entire article, click <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/02/05/take-back-border-convoy-texas-republican-immigration-invasion-act/72451333007/">HERE</a>. </span><br /></p>Robert Guffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14616036869555457620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683328994117991601.post-47403326257832986162024-02-09T23:54:00.000-08:002024-02-10T01:53:23.134-08:00CONSPIRINORMAL #471: Robert Guffey and Dr. Future ("The Silent Civil War")<p><span style="font-size: large;">The latest episode of <a href="https://player.fm/series/conspirinormal-podcast/conspirinormal-471-robert-guffey-and-dr-future-the-silent-civil-war">CONSPIRINORMAL</a> dropped earlier today. Using my recent <a href="https://evergreenreview.com/">EVERGREEN REVIEW</a> article, "<a href="https://evergreenreview.com/read/the-silent-civil-war-the-radicalization-of-the-evangelical-right/">The Silent Civil War</a>," as a jumping-off point, Episode #471 features a two-and-a-half-hour conversation between Yours Truly and Dr. J. Michael Bennet (AKA Dr. Future) about the radicalization of the evangelical right. Dr. Bennet is a Christian researcher and author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Two-Masters-Gospels-Teaching-Pharisees/dp/1952249007/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=">TWO MASTERS AND TWO GOSPELS</a> (2020), a book that explores the<span style="font-family: inherit;"> “cognitive dissonance” </span>that has run rampant throughout the evangelical community in recent years. I found this dialogue to be quite illuminating. I've lost count of how many times I've been a guest on CONSPIRINORMAL since 2016, but this is probably my favorite appearance (due primarily to the contributions of the inimitable Dr. Future). Kudos to Adam Sayne and his co-host, Serfiel Stevenson, for overseeing this sprawling conversation! Note: The original interview was actually about three hours long, but I believe the final half-hour (in which Dr. Future and I discuss the devolution of Bohemian Grove and related esoterica) is available via CONSPIRINORMAL'S <a href="https://www.patreon.com/conspirinormal">Patreon page</a>. You can listen to Episode #471 directly below!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Conspirinormal 471- Robert Guffey and Dr. Future ("The Silent Civil War")</b></span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/A5CNjIvlfoo" width="320" youtube-src-id="A5CNjIvlfoo"></iframe></span></div><br /><p></p>Robert Guffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14616036869555457620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683328994117991601.post-22177026555614074252024-02-08T16:33:00.000-08:002024-02-08T16:33:49.818-08:00NEW YORK POST: "Satan, Stalkers and Corrupt Presidential Candidates"<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">From Isabel Keane and Yaron Steinbuch's 1-31-24 NEW YORK POST article entitled</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> "Crazed Conspiracy Theorist Charged with Beheading Dad Wrote Books About Satan, Planned to Kill Family in ‘America’s Coming Bloody Revolution’":</span></span></p>The crazed Pennsylvania son charged with <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/01/30/news/pa-son-arrested-after-posting-video-of-fathers-severed-head-report/">decapitating his dad</a> and posting video of it online had previously published twisted songs and books about Satan, stalkers and corrupt presidential candidates — along with descriptions of killing his family in “America’s Coming Bloody Revolution.”<br /><br />Justin Mohn, 33, was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse after he was seen holding up the severed head of his dad, Michael Mohn, 68, in a disgusting video posted late Tuesday [...].<br /><br />Mohn had called his video a “call to arms for American patriots” — a theme the QAnon-aligned conspiracy theorist repeatedly shared in a number of self-published books [...].<br /><br />Mohn claims he is the commander of America’s network of militias as he rants against migrants, the Biden administration, the LBGTQ community, Black Lives Matter and “far-left woke mobs.”<br /><br />He calls for the slaughter and public execution of FBI agents, IRS employees, US Marshals, federal judges, border control officers and more “for betraying their country.”<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">To read the entire article, click <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/01/31/news/son-charged-with-decapitating-dad-wrote-about-killing-family-in-americas-coming-bloody-revolution/">HERE</a>. </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></p>Robert Guffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14616036869555457620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683328994117991601.post-50947614455805364602024-02-07T00:13:00.000-08:002024-02-07T00:14:13.787-08:00"G-Bomb" in THE JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR #89!<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The
latest issue of <a href="https://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=98_57&products_id=1766&zenid=e3eb235ce17ef0090beda87f25b3e723">THE JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR</a> (No. 89, Spring 2024) is being released on February 7 and includes my lengthy article entitled "G-Bomb: Masonic and Hermetic Symbolism in <i>The Incredible Hulk</i>,"
which examines </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">the often overlooked metaphysical aspects of Kirby's oeuvre, particularly with regard to<span> </span>esoteric <span class="il">symbolism</span><span> </span>in </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The<span> </span><span class="il">Incredible</span><span> </span><span class="il">Hulk</span></i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> and related comic book tales of the 1950s and '60s. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Fans of both Jack Kirby and James Shelby Downard (author of the posthumously released book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Stalking-Great-Whore-Writings-Downard/dp/B0BTRQ3GNZ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2YYZPZ82ZPATR&keywords=stalking+the+great+whore&qid=1707201884&s=books&sprefix=stalking+the+great+whore%2Cstripbooks%2C139&sr=1-1">STALKING THE GREAT WHORE</a> edited by Adam Gorightly) will definitely want to check out "G-Bomb"!</span></span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"> This
same issue also includes contributions by the likes of <a href="https://www.newsfromme.com/">Mark Evanier</a>, <a href="https://www.glendavidgold.com/">Glen David Gold</a>, and Will Murray. You can purchase a copy of THE JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR
#89 right <a href="https://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=98_57&products_id=1766&zenid=e3eb235ce17ef0090beda87f25b3e723">HERE</a> or at a well-stocked comic book store near you!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAFRicyHlK0jyazjSPACPkofZjvmJAf6IBTzDH5RhRAStPbDDZm9Z1-_t3M6kEvO1J6bYijyqM9FqMRdTw_xz49pEln7usjXY_tQK1uU6nsvJFIEDA3tQTCLIN62XbaPKNOH8OezyLT_KGQGEMLofHPsGhZQH215TqBpgsmbYufn9dm-OUAFP6Ofz8MZYo/s1632/IMG_9379.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1632" data-original-width="1224" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAFRicyHlK0jyazjSPACPkofZjvmJAf6IBTzDH5RhRAStPbDDZm9Z1-_t3M6kEvO1J6bYijyqM9FqMRdTw_xz49pEln7usjXY_tQK1uU6nsvJFIEDA3tQTCLIN62XbaPKNOH8OezyLT_KGQGEMLofHPsGhZQH215TqBpgsmbYufn9dm-OUAFP6Ofz8MZYo/w480-h640/IMG_9379.jpg" width="480" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixuPJs0v9qs11PLJCV6r7Be559-O3AN7sFs3HrAhBUyjYyORqJWQHeEwAenCxJ2rlTxtkqhegL40Y9VJUhX01mI4H4krkm-oqwAng_b_MDrbYervNfWvmtT-3V8wRr8Q6z6dZYzRcv3Qyhc1PijwpFsVrsjvokKi6P68kaYxOSx_nehwxyyHVd6jFLSgdu/s1632/IMG_9362.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1224" data-original-width="1632" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixuPJs0v9qs11PLJCV6r7Be559-O3AN7sFs3HrAhBUyjYyORqJWQHeEwAenCxJ2rlTxtkqhegL40Y9VJUhX01mI4H4krkm-oqwAng_b_MDrbYervNfWvmtT-3V8wRr8Q6z6dZYzRcv3Qyhc1PijwpFsVrsjvokKi6P68kaYxOSx_nehwxyyHVd6jFLSgdu/w640-h480/IMG_9362.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb-WxWsBoHZRUGIoMB1Up7UxeQFucbcBm8FOSMuQK7zGGrpBP4FmlRRFg-3YZVbGiZe2-cn1nZrVhE-ezFWNzskaCdkoYlFNOT4EHhcp8g0jyBsuSmYOzv0YXIUcbSR13u552KHY60lah6RQfvoUnmud6Xdr9QjlbuwauaZoaRV4FhJ98PaYelVRfzvj8v/s1838/IMG_4676.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1838" data-original-width="1436" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb-WxWsBoHZRUGIoMB1Up7UxeQFucbcBm8FOSMuQK7zGGrpBP4FmlRRFg-3YZVbGiZe2-cn1nZrVhE-ezFWNzskaCdkoYlFNOT4EHhcp8g0jyBsuSmYOzv0YXIUcbSR13u552KHY60lah6RQfvoUnmud6Xdr9QjlbuwauaZoaRV4FhJ98PaYelVRfzvj8v/w500-h640/IMG_4676.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p>Robert Guffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14616036869555457620noreply@blogger.com0