#Business Thriller

[kdramaxoxo]

'The Impossible Heir' has everyone I want to see, in a kdrama that doesn't feature a single genre I'd want to watch. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[mikesfilmtalk]

The Company Called Glitch That Nobody and Everybody Wanted (2024)

All photography courtesy of Nick Wilson The Company Called Glitch That Nobody and Everybody Wanted (2024) is the brainchild of SAG wunderkind Graham Holliday. This chap has been one busy bee in terms of pollenating fresh ideas and filming eight short features. ‘Glitch is his first feature length film. It is, presumably, a follow-on of his 5 minute feature Glitch in 2020. Holliday’s film is…

[sarcasmandships]

fall out boy tarot cards

the lovers | love from the other side

death | thriller

the moon | get busy living or get busy dying

the devil | my songs know what you did in the dark

the sun | love from the other side

the stars | so much for stardust

[nonconstories]

Someone pissed me off a couple of days ago

So! Below are several links to programs and foundations that promote adult literacy! Hundreds of millions of adults world wide were failed by their education system and now must fend for themselves while trying to read contracts and hospital bills and infographics from the CDC. But they don't have to be alone, and it is never too late to learn!

ProLiteracy: A network of educators, researchers, and advocates which provides research reports, learning materials, and other support to adult education programs. They assist with connecting volunteers to local programs and provide guidance and support to community leaders trying to use their programs' findings to advocate for social and political change.

Adult Literacy League: An adult education program in Central Florida, which aims to provide students with one on one attention to foster growth and confidence. It also offers English Second Language courses and job skills training, and each new student receives a comprehensive assessment to determine the best plan for them.

Saint Vincent and Sarah Fisher Center's Foundational Skills Program: A 100% free adult education program aimed at adults reading below a fifth grade level. It operates year round and is either in person or remote, and they now have a GED testing center that is open to students and the public alike.

Washtenaw Literacy: A free network of trained tutors for adults in Washtenaw County, Michigan.

Adult Learning Program (Las Vegas/Clark County): Free education classes to those lacking a high school diploma, those seeking to learn ESL, and adults who read below an eighth grade level. Also assists in students' search for gainful employment. Nevada got so fucked by COVID and the education/literacy numbers in the South West are grim. Please help these guys.

Hawaii Literacy: In addition to helping adult residents of Hawaii Island learn to read and write AND bridging the education gap in Hawaii's underserved children, they offer computer literacy classes, ESL classes, and a bookmobile. 1 in 6 Hawaiian adults struggle to read and write.

[naksushadows]

The drama was bad but at least they served acting, chemistry, beauty and charisma.

[dumblr]

"You're so quiet" you want me to bark or something?

[movingdayy]

they cannot keep getting away with these setlists that feel specifically designed to personally make me lose my personal marbles

[eorzeashan]

Eight: you know I miss having a regular job

Theron: really? what did you do at your old one?

Eight: eh, eliminate people. cover it up. submit the report. rinse and repeat. it was easy, none of this saving the galaxy stuff

Theron, leaning over to Lana: ...I think we've made a mistake

[ashleybenlove]

I'm reading Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson and Fred (an American guy who works in Switzerland but is on the run in China) is like... I wanna contact my parents and brother!!! They must be worried!!! And eventually tells his co-on-the-runee, "Actually, I miss my cat in Basel."

Yeah, that's fair.

[threepenstyle]

thriller bark people inks

[michellesmusing]

Risky Business - Chapter 1

The Accomplice

She was still late for work, and her uncle sighed when he didn’t see her at the office of his garage.

“Where the hell is she again??” He asked one of his mechanics. The man shrugged his shoulders.

“Haven’t seen her!!” Just as her uncle was getting furious and certainly impatient with her, Taylor was seen arriving at the garage with her 2006 Red Subaru WRX STI.

“Great! Here you are, late again!!” Her uncle Thomas was growing tired of her lateness.

“What's your excuse this time, Taylor?” The young woman got out of the car and looked up at her uncle, not really in the mood to be lectured by him.

“Hmm, let me think about one!!” As Taylor showed up to work with a sarcastic attitude, Thomas rapidly grew furious with her and seized her upper arm with his right hand.

“Don’t play this game with me Taylor! Don’t forget that you still owe money. Get your ass at the reception right away and better put up a smile on that face of yours!!” The young woman pulled her arm away from her uncle’s grip and displayed a fake smile on her lips.

“Happy now!!?” Thomas sighed in despair at her and placed his hands on his hips.

“Damn Brat!” He said as he watched her getting inside the garage's reception.

Taylor took place on the chair at the desk and turned on the computer to check the appointments for the day. She caught one of the mechanics that was working on the car of Ms. Flanerty.

“I called her last night, she said we can change all the brakes…” The mechanic nodded at Taylor. The young woman passed a hand in her short pale blonde hair and logged into her facebook account, making sure her uncle wasn’t near her… He was still outside, speaking with someone. Probably trying to sell one of his shitboxes with some crazy high interest.

Facebook reminded her that it was Megan’s birthday today. Taylor rolled her eyes and decided to delete that woman from her Facebook.

“Cunt!” She whispered as she pressed on the delete button… Which reminded her that it was her birthday as well in a few weeks, she dreaded turning 25, knowing well she was reaching half of her twenties by now.

When her blue eyes spotted the silhouette of her uncle approaching the reception with the guy, Taylor quickly closed the browser page of her Facebook page.

“That will be a good car for you Sir, my men did a complete inspection of this Toyota RAV4 and you’re good to go for many years…” Taylor listened to her uncle’s conversation while she pretended to have her blue eyes glued on the computer screen. Another line of bullshit coming out of her uncle’s mouth.

The mechanics had inspected the car rapidly, and they had only changed the brake pads, not even the discs, and they had patched the muffler so it wouldn’t be noisy, but it was just a matter of time until the muffler would become noisy and the customer would need to change the whole thing… Which would cost around 2000$

Taylor looked up at her uncle while he was speaking with the man. She caught the piercing look in his eyes, meaning that she was better to keep her lil mouth shut. Thomas then entered his office with the man and he closed the door.

Taylor shook her head, knowing well that this poor man was getting screwed. There’s nothing she could do about it, but she hated it, cause she felt like she was part of the game as well, since she was aware that this SUV was just a rolling garbage. Few hours passed until it was her break for lunch time. Taylor sat outside and ate her chicken wrap with her co-workers.

Everything was going fine until her uncle showed up.

“Come inside Taylor, I’d like to speak to you!” The young woman rolled her eyes again at her uncle and as he was running short of patience, he grabbed Taylor by her upper arm and lifted her up on her feet. She wasn’t very tall and was quite easy to control.

“Don’t start me up Taylor Bradley!!! You come right away with me in my office!!” Thomas hated to be taken for a clown, especially in front of his employees. He especially hated when Taylor was rolling her eyes. She was being arrogant and he didn’t know what was up with her, well, he kinda had an idea but he preferred to stay out of her love life.

“Let go of me!!!” Taylor clenched her teeth and demanded her uncle to let go of her. He did once they were in his office.

“Now, you sit down on this chair and you’ll listen to me carefully young lady!!” Taylor sat down on the chair and crossed her arms while displaying this angry look on her face.

“You arrived late 3 times this week!! You either arrive a few minutes before the opening or I’m going to send you home for a week and this without being paid!! Is that what you want?”

Taylor sighed loudly at her uncle

“No, that’s not what I want!!” She gulped, feeling at the mercy of her uncle again. She was only dreaming of leaving Las Vegas for good, but she knew that her past was still following her, and she’d only be allowed to leave Vegas, once she’d be done reimbursing that money she was owing her uncle.

“Tomorrow morning, I want you to be there at 7: 15 and not at 8 O' clock!! Did I make myself clear?” When he saw that she wasn’t answering his question, he slapped the back of her head.

“Are you deaf for christ sake??” She then answered him a big yes, and returned to work, angry toward her uncle. When 5 PM arrived, Taylor left in a hurry in her Red Subie, only to realize once she was home that she had forgotten her Iphone.

“Oh no, for real… Geez!!!” The young woman had to get back in her car and drove back to the garage. She didn’t call her uncle, because she had the keys to enter by the back door. Taylor arrived at the garage near 6:30 PM and parked her car behind the garage. She unlocked the back door and entered the garage… She stopped dead in her tracks when she heard the familiar voice of her uncle coming from his office. It did seem that he was with someone else.

“What do you mean you ain’t got my money?? You came all the way here, without my money??” She wasn’t sure if her uncle was speaking with someone over the phone, but Taylor got her answer when she heard the voice of another man coming from the office.

“I will have it soon, business sucks lately Thomas!” It was pitch dark in the garage, Taylor could only see a dim light coming from her uncle’s office.

“Do you think I’m some sort of an idiot Mark?? I can’t believe you’re coming here, to tell me that you don’t have my money!!” She could tell that her uncle was pissed off after this guy. There’s no way she was going to retrieve her Iphone at this point. Even though she knew that she should have left, Taylor couldn’t help listening to the conversation between both men.

“Come on, take it easy Thomas. In Two Weeks, I’ll get some money and I’ll give you part of it. You gotta trust me!” Taylor’s eyes widened as she listened to the stranger taking place in her uncle’s office.

“Trusting you? Are you out of your crazy mind?!!! I trusted you once, and look where it got me!! You know that I’ve warned you Mark! It was the last time that you took me for a clown!!” Taylor locked her eyes toward the hall leading to her uncle’s office and as the loud noise of a shotgun bullet echoed in the garage, the young woman jolted in place. Her blue eyes widened in shock, and she knew what her uncle had just done.

Her heart racing to the max in her chest, the young woman rapidly but quietly left the garage in a hurry, not wanting her uncle to spot her. She was so shocked by what had just happened at the garage, that Taylor almost stalled her manual car when she pressed on the gas pedal.

She quickly left the parking lot of the garage and that’s when Thomas heard the revving sound coming from the WRX STI and hurried outside, but didn’t have the time to catch sight of the car that had just left the place. The car had already turned right in another street, and Thomas sighed loudly.

He knew that sound well… But for now, he had bigger fish to fry!

Taylor was taking place in her red Subie, and she couldn’t stop looking up at the rearview mirror, afraid that her uncle would follow her. She drove back home with no trace of her uncle following her, but she was still without her Iphone. She tried to calm herself down when she got home by taking a warm bath. The young woman was sober for 3 years and wasn’t allowed any alcohol or drugs, so calming herself down would only be possible with a warm bath and a melatonin at this point.

She gulped down the Melatonin pills and headed to her bathroom where she ran herself a warm bath.

“Come on, calm yourself, you’ve seen nothing. You weren’t even there ok???” Taylor was relaxing in her bathtub, trying to convince herself of these little lies. The young woman was shaking and even believed for a moment that perhaps her uncle had just tried to scare this man by shooting a bullet… Nope, she had heard the man moaning in pain as the bullet hit him.

30 minutes later, the young woman got out of her bath and dressed for the night with just a white long night shirt and turned on the TV in her living room. She chose a music channel and “Informer” From Snow began playing through her speakers.

“Oh My God” Taylor couldn’t recall the last time she had heard that song… She wasn’t even born yet when this song came out during the early 90’s. Even though the song was kinda cheesy, she couldn’t help moving her head to the rap beat.

It was almost 10 PM when she began to fall asleep on her couch, and as she was on her way to go to her bedroom, a powerful knock on her door caught her by surprise and the young woman stood still in her living room.

“Who’s this?” She asked as she carefully approached her door and looked through the peephole. She immediately recognized her uncle standing on the other side of the door.

“It’s me, your uncle… You forgot your Iphone at the garage.” Taylor had to do as if she wasn’t aware of what her uncle had done and opened the door.

“Hi!” Her uncle looked down at her pale skin on her face when she greeted him.

“Damn, have you seen a ghost? He added, mocking his niece. The young woman extended her arm as she wanted to retrieve her brand new Iphone bought by her uncle.

“You forgot your precious Smartphone, the one that cost me a fortune!” He gave back the smartphone to his niece and noticed she was shaking. That’s when he pushed her a bit aside and entered her apartment.

“What are you doing?” She asked her uncle, she was clearly growing nervous as he made his way inside her place.

“What’s going on Taylor, you seem nervous?” He smirked at her and began rummaging through her apartment as if he wanted to find something specific.

“Still doing Drugs, Taylor? Don’t lie to me!!” Taylor crossed her arms and followed her uncle around her place.

“Nope, haven’t touched any of that crap for three years and you know it!!” Taylor knew she didn’t have a choice and admitted to her uncle that she had seen him tonight.

“I heard you getting into a fight with a guy named Mark tonight, I got the hell out of the place when I heard that gun shot…” She wanted to die, she didn’t know what would be her uncle’s reaction, but she didn’t have the choice, knowing well that she’d suck at lying to him.

“I knew you were there, I heard your precious car revving up!!” He narrowed his blue eyes at her and approached the young woman and trapped her between him and the kitchen wall.

“Now, listen to me carefully Taylor, I don’t want to hurt you… You’re a bit like my daughter, you know that, right? But if you do open up that mouth of yours to anyone, I won’t have many choices for you, do you understand this?” The young woman nodded her head, frightened by her uncle. All of sudden, she wasn’t the sarcastic lil brat she used to be…

“Good! I knew you’d cooperate!” He winked at her before grabbing the melatonin bottle on her kitchen counter.

“Better sleep well my dear, and I want you to be at work tomorrow morning, and not be late this time!!” He kissed the young woman on her forehead and left her apartment. Taylor let out a loud sigh of relief when her uncle quit her place. She locked her door and went back to her living room, unable to go to bed, knowing well that she was by now her uncle’s accomplice…

[memenewsdotcom]

Sony buys half of Michael Jackson's music

[bookguide]

Monkey Business

Author: LeDavid Dwight

Book: 1/1

Genre: sci-fi thriller, animal genetics thriller

Summary: David Nsengiyumva, an NYU accounting student and writer, travels to Kigali, Rawanda, in exploration of his family roots. As a new employee working for Elysimia, David discovers the company’s dark secrets and the reason for its immense profits. The Kigali police want him arrested for trying to report Elysimia’s operations, and Elysimia will do anything to keep their secrets hidden. Trapped inside Elysimia, David must take down the company from the inside- or die trying.

Review: This book was incredible, and even more impressive being written by a young author. This book easily outshines many works written by more mature authors, and I’m stating this because I firmly believe it, not just because the author is someone I know. I began this book with an open mind and without knowing anything about it, and the story exceeded my expectations. Dwight’s writing is clear, well-structured, and perfectly paced. There were never any slow points, the build-up to the plot was perfect, and the twists within the plot surprised me and added greater intensity and interest. The motif of animal rights is clearly expressed throughout the book, and the story was so enthralling that I forgot Dwight was teaching me something. David, the main character, is also written with intention and developed throughout the story. Though the book carried a heavy subject, our protagonist was never an afterthought. As a Christian, I loved that David prays about his situation and asks God for guidance; He is the inverse of the antagonist who uses religion to justify his malicious actions and I loved the contrasts between the two characters. This book was impossible to put down and was a quick read; while it teaches readers about animal rights, it also tells an amazing story. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in science fiction, animal rights, and a thrilling story.

Rating: 5/5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Keep reading🦧

[piratehunterxpiratethief]

bonus (more concern which is just **chefs kiss**):

[karloff-the-uncanny]

Photos of when I visited Boris Karloff’s memorial plaque in Gildford crematorium, Surrey in July 2022.

It was a very modest memorial, just the same as every other one in the garden of remembrance. I liked that there is a yellow rose growing over his plaque, as Karloff used to grow roses and I like to think of his ghost tending to the bushes there.

Unfortunately I can never confirm whether or not his ashes were actually spread in the crematorium or not. I have heard conflicting stories.

I was a little disappointed that Boris wasn't there to greet me like this...

but maybe he was sick of the living by the time I visited! Our conversation was pleasant, but rather one-sided.

I hope to visit again soon.

[sixofravens-reads]

good news: I might actually finish Hummingbird Salamander today