THE EXPECTANT MOTHER DISINFORMATION HANDBOOK REVIEWED IN DEAD RECKONINGS

Géza A. G. Reilly recently published a perceptive review of my latest book, THE EXPECTANT MOTHER DISINFORMATION HANDBOOK, in the final issue of DEAD RECKONINGS (#36). Entitled "When Everything Is Wrong and Nothing Is for Anyone," Reilly's four-page review encapsulates the HANDBOOK in this way:

We've got plenty of people who think that they know best--better even than a given pregnant woman. We don't need more of them, but we could damn well use more examples of them turned into buffoons just like we get to see in the Handbook [...]. [The Expectant Mother Disinformation Handbook] is often weird, often funny, frightfully well written, and it gives us that unique satisfaction that only fiction can provide by putting the bastards into a magic circle of their own disinformation and locking them away. Isn't it sweet to think that they'd stay there.

Here's another choice excerpt: 

Pregnancy, the alchemical miracle of the spontaneous generation of an actual, no kidding, for really real thinking and feeling human being is a wonderful thing that can be understood, be emphasized with, be witnessed with joy... but it isn't the domain of meddlers. It isn't supposed to be the space in the human experience where veritable Hall Monitors like the authors of the Handbook dip their beaks in and insist that pregnancy, fetuses, and mothers should be and behave in only the ways that they find acceptable. There is one road to righteousness, those authors suggest, and Guffey pulls a sorcerous spell by allowing us to understand just how delusional those with such presumptions are by the end of his text.

This issue also contains contributions by the likes of Ramsey Campbell, S.T. Joshi, and Darrell Schweitzer. If you want to buy a copy of DEAD RECKONINGS #36, click HERE.

 

PRAISE FOR THE EXPECTANT MOTHER DISINFORMATION HANDBOOK:

"Robert Guffey’s The Expectant Mother Disinformation Handbook is weirder than parthenogenesis, weirder than the Republican Party, weirder than the fetishizing of pregnancy that suffuses our culture, weirder than all the back issues of Weird Tales combined. You will laugh, gasp, and scratch your head in pleasurable bemusement. I can’t recommend this tongue-in-cheek tour de force too highly."

—JAMES MORROW, award-winning author of Only Begotten Daughter and Behold the Ape


"Here it is. THE perfect baby-shower/gender reveal party gift. Forget all the binkies, blankies, cute little onesies, and diaper-service subscriptions. Those are so overdone and boring. Want to make a REAL impact? This book. This book right here [...].

"Well-written, lively, engaging, easy to read, and tons of fun. If I were a truly evil imp with plenty of money, I’d sneak copies into every OB/GYN office and ‘Parenting and Family’ bookstore section in the country."

—CHRISTINE MORGAN, award-winning author of Spermjackers from Hell and Lakehouse Infernal 

 

18th Wedding Anniversary

This past Friday, Melissa and I celebrated our 18th wedding anniversary (!!!) by making a sacred pilgrimage to the Hollywood Forever Cemetery where we visited with some of the more colorful residents. Later, we ended the evening at Musso & Frank, the oldest restaurant in Los Angeles. Reportedly, TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN was born out of a conversation between Mark Frost and David Lynch in a booth at Musso & Frank back in 2012. Based on the fact that the High Weirdness vortex energy of Hollywood Blvd. and Las Palmas Ave. is definitely palpable, I can see why it was one of Lynch's favorite Hollywood hangouts... 

 

 

 

The Spanish Edition of CHAMELEO Is Nigh!

Reminder: This coming Friday, the new Spanish edition of CHAMELEO: A STRANGE BUT TRUE STORY OF INVISIBLE SPIES, HEROIN ADDICTION, AND HOMELAND SECURITY (translated by Elías Ortigosa Román) is being released in Spain courtesy of Yonki Books!!!

The Sandown Clown

The Strange Tale of the Sandown Clown, which took place on the Isle of Wight in May of 1973, is probably one of my favorite Fortean incidents. If you're not familiar with this story, you can get a fair synopsis of the alleged encounter from the following video (courtesy of the Shrouded Hand YouTube channel):

 

The Sandown Clown Incident - A Creepy Encounter With An Unknown Entity

 

After you've watched the brief rundown above, I suggest checking out the latest episode of THE AP STRANGE SHOW which features an interview with folklorist Paul A. T. Wilson who presents several intriguing updates to the peculiar saga of the Sandown Clown. To hear the entire interview, click HERE.

If you want to dive deeper into the story, you can read the original 1978 BUFORA (British UFO Research Association) article about the Sandown Clown incident right HERE. 

Trump Riviera

From Ben Quinn's 7-7-25 GUARDIAN article entitled "Tony Blair Thinktank Worked with Project Developing ‘Trump Riviera’ Gaza Plan":

Tony Blair’s thinktank worked with a project developing a postwar Gaza plan that included the creation of a “Trump Riviera” and a manufacturing zone named after Elon Musk.

The project, led by Israeli business people and using financial models developed by the US consulting firm Boston Consulting Group (BCG), was developed against the backdrop of Donald Trump’s vision of taking over the Palestinian territory and transforming it into a resort.

While the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) said it was not involved in the authorship of the plan, two staff took part in calls as the project evolved.

The staff also took part in a message group used for the project, along with figures from BCG and the Israeli business people, while a TBI document titled “Gaza Economic Blueprint” was shared within it, the Financial Times reported [...].

The institute denied it was involved in the preparation of a slide deck, which the FT reported had been developed by the Israeli business people using BCG’s financial models and was said to have proposed paying half a million Palestinians to leave the area.

The slides reportedly outlined a plan called the “Great Trust” and was shared with the Trump administration. It envisaged that private investors would have been attracted to Gaza once many of the inhabitants had been paid to leave.

To read the entire article, click HERE. 

MAGA MELTDOWN

1) From Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling's 7-8-25 NEW REPUBLIC article entitled "Alex Jones Breaks Down in Tears Over Trump’s Final Epstein Report":

Even Donald Trump’s most sycophantic followers are turning on him over his administration’s handling of the Epstein files.

Against the expertise of individuals who had worked on the case for decades, Attorney General Pam Bondi suggested in January that the pedophilic sex trafficker had maintained a “client list,” supercharging ideas and theories about which high-powered individuals could have been involved in Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes.

But the administration’s language changed abruptly on Monday, when the Department of Justice posted a memo confirming that no such “incriminating client list” existed, undercutting Bondi’s language. Far-right influencers who had absorbed themselves into the details of the case refused to believe that Bondi had misstepped—instead, they interpreted the sudden reversal as an administration cover-up.

“So I’m going to go throw up, actually,” said Alex Jones, the Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist. “Because I have integrity, and I just really need the Trump administration to succeed and to save this country, and they were doing so much good, and then for them to do something like this, it tears my guts out.”

To read the entire article, click HERE. 

2) From Justin Baragona's 7-8-25 INDEPENDENT article entitled "Tucker Carlson Says It’s ‘Obvious’ Why Pam Bondi Is ‘Covering Up’ Epstein Client List":

Adding his name to the growing list of MAGA luminaries who are irate over the Department of Justice concluding that Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide, Tucker Carlson insisted there was an “obvious” reason why Attorney General Pam Bondi was “covering up” the so-called “client list” of the deceased sex offender.

Knocking down a host of conspiracy theories that had become an article of faith in the right-wing media ecosystem, the DOJ and FBI determined in a two-page memo released this week that there was no proof that Epstein was engaged in a vast blackmail operation, adding that no one else would be criminally charged in the case [...].

“The current DOJ under Pam Bondi is covering up crimes, very serious crimes by their own description. Why are they doing that?” Carlson wondered during his most recent podcast, which featured Breaking Points host Sagaar Enjeti.

Insisting that there were “really only two potential explanations” he could think of, Carlson immediately dismissed the first option, which is that President Donald Trump “was on the list” and involved in Epstein’s illicit sexual activities.

“You know, for whatever his sins, I don’t think he’s that guy, actually. I don’t think he likes creepy sex stuff. That’s just my view,” the former Fox News star said. “But more convincing is that this is all information that the Biden administration had. And if there was evidence that Trump had been involved in illegal sexual activity, you think the people who made up Russiagate wouldn’t have leaked it? Come on now.”

Instead, according to Carlson, the government was actually hiding Epstein’s black book because it would reveal his involvement with American and Israeli spy agencies.

“The only other explanation that I can think of, again, maybe you’ve got another, is that intel services are at the very center of this story, U.S. and Israeli, and they’re being protected,” he exclaimed. “I think that seems like the most obvious.”

To read the entire article, click HERE. 

3) From John Bowden's 7-9-25 INDEPENDENT article entitled "JD Vance’s Old Tweets Show Why the ‘Epstein Client List’ Is Becoming Such a Problem for Trump":

President Donald Trump’s team spent a good deal of energy Monday in unfamiliar territory: on the wrong side of a losing battle against America’s extreme online conspiracy theorists.

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was the face of the effort at her daily news briefing. But if Leavitt is looking for who is fueling the speculation around the dead New York financier and sex criminal who appeared on camera yucking it up with her boss, she needs to remember: the call is coming from inside the (White) house [...].

Elon Musk, during his public falling-out with the president last month, tweeted and then deleted a message accusing Trump of being in “the Epstein Files”, and said it was the reason the list of Epstein’s famous clients was not being released. His opportunistic charge served to keep the story in the minds of many, and forced a denial from Vice President JD Vance. He renewed his efforts to push that connection after the administration’s announcement.

“First of all, absolutely not. Donald Trump didn't do anything wrong with Jeffrey Epstein,” Vance said on Theo Von’s podcast. “Whatever the Democrats and the media says about him, that's totally BS.”

On Monday, “Epstein” was the top trend on X/Twitter. Laura Loomer, one of Trump’s occasional White House guests and a semi-adviser responsible for a loyalty purge of the National Security Council, was in trademark venom-spitting mode as she accused Bondi of “incompetence”.

“@AGPamBondi should resign for lying to the American People,” tweeted Loomer Monday afternoon.

There’s no question: Trumpworld has lost the narrative on this one. But there’s a reason why: this is a beast (in part) of its own making.

While Vance is now in the uncomfortable spot of defending his boss from speculation, he was once one of the cheerleaders of the conspiracy himself, and not just as a one-off: it was during his previous appearance on Von’s podcast that the vice president, then a U.S. senator, told his host: “we need to release the Epstein [client] list”.

And on X, Vance was even more acerbic criticizing the Biden administration over the investigation. In late 2021, just months before he would go on to become the GOP nominee for Senate in Ohio, the Hillbilly Elegy writer retweeted a “Pizzagate” conspiracy theorist who has gone on to become a fixture inside Trumpworld, Jack Posobiec.

“What possible interest would the U.S. government have in keeping Epstein’s clients secret? Oh...” tweeted the nation’s future vice president.

In a second, longer rant aimed at another one of MAGA’s favorite targets, he then added: “If you’re a journalist and you’re not asking questions about this case you should be ashamed of yourself. What purpose do you even serve?”

To read the entire article, click HERE. 

Trump's Tariff War: The Real Fake News

From Will Neal's 7-5-25 DAILY BEAST article entitled "Trump Admin Insider Blows Lid Off Tariffs: ‘It’s All Fake’":

A source deeply embedded in the Trump administration’s ongoing trade talks accused the Republican president of waging a tariff war for TV ratings.

“[Donald] Trump knows the most interesting part of his presidency is the tariff conversation,” the White House insider, who chose to remain anonymous out of fear of reprisals, told Politico. “It’s all fake. There’s no deadline. It’s a self-imposed landmark in this theatrical show...”

To read the entire article, click HERE.