#CHICAGO DAILY CHRONICLE

[tomorrowusa]

What Russia can't win on the battlefield it will try to accomplish with disinformation, propaganda, and plain old bribery.

A Russian cabal operated a propaganda site masquerading as a news site called the Voice of Europe. In addition to publishing items designed to undermine confidence in various European governments, it outright made payoffs to various EU politicians.

Investigators claimed it used the popular Voice of Europe website as a vehicle to pay politicians. The Czech Republic and Poland said the network aimed to influence European politics. Voice of Europe did not respond to the BBC's request for comment. Czech media, citing intelligence sources, reported that politicians from Germany, France, Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands and Hungary were paid by Voice of Europe in order to influence upcoming elections for the European Parliament. The German newspaper Der Spiegel said the money was either handed over in cash in covert meetings in Prague or through cryptocurrency exchanges. Pro-Russian Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk is alleged by the Czech Republic to be behind the network. Mr Medvedchuk was arrested in Ukraine soon after the Russian invasion, but later transferred to Russia with about 50 prisoners of war in exchange for 215 Ukrainians. ' Czech authorities also named Artyom Marchevsky, alleging he managed the day-to-day business of the website. Both men were sanctioned by Czech authorities. Poland's intelligence agency said it had conducted searches in the Warsaw and Tychy regions and seized €48,500 (£41,500) and $36,000 (£28,500).

"Money from Moscow has been used to pay some political actors who spread Russian propaganda," BIS said in a statement. It added that the sums amounted to "millions" of Czech crowns (tens of thousands of pounds).

I went looking for the Voice of Europe site but it is now missing (Hmm. We’re having trouble finding that site). So I held my nose and visited their Twitter account and nothing new has been posted since the scandal broke.

We need to be careful when looking at news online. Recently a series of fake sites pretending to be legit US news sources was uncovered.

Russia-Backed ‘Fake News Organizations’ Revealed Across the U.S. in Bombshell New York Times Report

The fake news sites have names that sound like they are legit but aren't. Examples: D.C. Weekly, the New York News Daily, the Chicago Chronicle, and the Miami Chronicle. There is a legit New York Daily News – note the different word order from the fake. There once was a newspaper called the Chicago Chronicle but it folded during the Theodore Roosevelt administration.

Google News searches spew a lot of crap. In a lot of cases the "news" sources on Google are just the proverbial guy in his underwear in his mom's basement posting bullshit. They may not be Russian but they are often dubious.

It's best to create a bookmark folder of known legit news sources. There are still numerous good sources not behind paywalls. And many countries have public broadcasters who post news in English. Just a few: NPR, BBC, DW, CBC, ABC (Australia), RFI, YLE, Radio Sweden | Sveriges Radio, NHK-World, and even EER in Estonia.

When running across a news story which sounds peculiar, check to see if it's being reported in known legit media before posting or sharing it.

There are national elections this year in a number of countries including India, the US, and (probably) the UK. Don't inadvertently assist Putin's effort to spread disinformation and sow chaos.

[intelligentchristianlady]

PSA

“Into the depleted field of journalism in America, a handful of websites have appeared in recent weeks with names suggesting a focus on news close to home: D.C. Weekly, the New York News Daily, the Chicago Chronicle and a newer sister publication, the Miami Chronicle. In fact, they are not local news organizations at all. They are Russian creations, researchers and government officials say, meant to mimic actual news organizations to push Kremlin propaganda by interspersing it among an at-times odd mix of stories about crime, politics and culture.”

(From the NYT; behind a paywall)

[paulinedorchester]

Passover, 1945: There are still troops serving in England, and they still need your support

(Above, from The Jewish Chronicle, February 23rd.)

And they received support across the country:

(From the March 2nd, 9th, and 16th issues of The JC.)

There was also much coverage in the general press (the following 6 images are ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved.) From the Bury Free Press, April 6th:

And from the Market Harborough Advertiser, April 8th:

(Rabbi Louis Milgrom was born in Poland in 1909 and came to the U.S. in 1921. In 1930 he graduated from the Lewis Institute, in Chicago (which merged with the Armour Institute in 1941 to form the Illinois Institute of Technology, where my father taught for nearly three decades). He received his ordination four years later from Hebrew Theological College, which at that time was also located in Chicago and is now in Skokie. This, combined with his wartime membership in the Rabbinical Council of America, tells us that he was Orthodox. Prior to joining up in 1943 he worked for the Joliet Jewish Federation, in Chicago's southwest suburbs. After the war he directed the Hillel chapter serving the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and later taught at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He also seems to have undergone a change in his theological outlook: when he died in 2004, the Conservative movement's Rabbinical Assembly took out an obituary for him. Such a shift was fairly unusual then and even more so now.)

The time lag in the reporting above can probably be attributed to a weekly publication schedule. In Plymouth, the Western Morning News was on top of things on March 29th:

And events in Birmingham received up-to-the-minute attention from three local dailies (top to bottom, the Birmingham Post, March 27th, the Evening Despatch, March 28th, and the Birmingham Gazette, March 29th):

Meanwhile, The Jewish Chronicle published the following letter of thanks on March 23rd:

[mental-mona]

Um. Wow. Just wow.

Excerpt:

A new study points to a disturbing connection between menstruation and suicide risk.

Researchers from the University of Illinois-Chicago have discovered that mental health complications as severe as suicidal thoughts, plans or actions were most frequently reported right before or as bleeding began, by a group of 119 participants who filled out daily surveys chronicling their thoughts and feelings.

And, researchers add, premenstrual dysphoric disorder – a more severe form of premenstrual syndrome, or PMS, which causes significant mood swings – was not a factor in about 60% of cases involving suicidal thoughts or acts. 

[ostensiblynone]

September 2023 books

In 1954, Mike Connolly, the gay gossip columnist for the Hollywood Reporter from 1951 to 1966, was described by Newsweek as “probably the most influential columnist inside the movie colony,” the one writer “who gets the pick of trade items, the industry rumors, the policy and casting switches.” He was indeed one of the most talented and influential members of the Hollywood press of his time, and his column, for those who could read between the lines, was a daily chronicle of gay goings-on. Fifty years later, his cumulative output is a virtually untapped lode of gay Hollywood history.

Mike Connolly’s life and work are the focus of this book. It considers his formative years, his pre-World War II life at the University of Illinois and in Chicago, and the ways in which the homosexual community in Hollywood lived lives both secretive and open in the forties, fifties and sixties. It also examines the literary merit, power and newsworthiness of Connolly’s “Rambling Reporter” column in the Hollywood Reporter and its significance as a chronicle of gay Hollywood life; the previously unexplored role of Connolly’s column in the Hollywood blacklist and how his anti-Communist crusade was rooted in his earlier campaign to close down the brothels in his college town; and how his life informed his column and his column shaped his life.

source: [McFarland Books]

[theimperiumchronicles]

Happy WBW! What bit of world building is most exciting or giving you the most fits right now?

Hi!! I know I'm a day late...my new meds are giving me fits and I'm going to bed uber early...so I'm combining this with Blorbo Blubrsday because I'm excited about my Blorbos and their World Building both, so you're so in for a treat babes!! <3 I am SOOO glad you asked sweetie!! Hope you're up for some reading <3

THE IMPERIUM CHRONICLES

So, Korben has his new ward, Princess Seren. Soon they will be going to his manor house that is closer to the Mage Consortium that she will be attending. I am busy picking out pictures of the Consortium and the manor, making up the layout of the house and the feel of it to use. In all this too you will get a better feeling for Korben and Seren, along with his valet, Hendrick. There is also other characters that Seren will meet along the way at the Consortium that will add to and somewhat complicate things. How? Well, that I cannot share. The Consortium is like a college on Earth. There are different buildings, there will be different classes in those buildings for various skills that mages need. There are also some students who will live in dormitories on campus, some who will live in apartments off campus, and then there are aristocrats like Princess Seren who will live in mansions/manors. Social standing does not matter at the Consortium, it is by your talents you received at birth. Seren's were that of a mage. Korben's will be revealed later.

Korben's curse will be revealed, along with how and why he received it. Also, it will explain what happened with Seren's mother and lead into how he has now found himself in this position and what it means for Seren, Hendrick, and himself...and maybe others.

BENDING THE LAW

This story is just starting so there is a lot to build up here as I rewrite it. I'm realizing as I'm going back into it that I had not been as descriptive as I should have in some places, about people or places. Thankfully, it is set in Chicago, so I don't have to describe a totally made up world. I can say Navy Pier, and it is a place that people can know or look up, as opposed to any place in Imperium, Caligo, or Uffern over in The Imperium Chronicles. However, details of Colin's office, Sorena's lab, or the station where Karsten works are going to need to be filled in at some point. I prever in bits and pieces where necessary. Information dumps bore the piss out of me as a reader, so I don't do that if I can avoid it as a writer. I'm also trying to expound some more on the personalities of all of the characters.

This started out as a project for just me from a plot bunny that wouldn't stop hopping in my brain. So now that I am getting it ready to be read by others, I am having to put in the parts that make it make more sense to someone that doesn't live in my head and hasn't been to Chicago and know the landscape and how things can be up there. Also how the characters are in my head needs to be expounded upon.

So their Chicago is being drawn as I go through and edit before posting so that the reader is drawn into their city and how things are being laid out. What it's like to live their daily life, and how everything is happening in their world.

BOMBS, BODYGUARDS, & BROKEN ARTIFACTS

Unlike the other two stories, this one has been read before, just not here. Many of these chapters were read somewhere else where I was also involved in roleplay. I had put them up to a certain part before the atmosphere became too toxic. HOWEVER, I have made some changes in the story since then because I didn't like how one of my plot points went. So I went back and un-killed someone, and no, they are not a zombie. I may have voodoo in my story, but we are NOT going to have zombies. FUCK...plot bunny produced. *facepalm* I hate this.....

ANYWAY...*shoves plot bunny in a box* Because of that change, I have to remove some of the foreshadowing I did in the beginning. While readers who didn't know what was going to happen might not have picked up on it, I catch every one of the little cookie crumbs that I threw in along the way. I'm going to have to do some bigger edits in the future; right now at the beginning, they are small. I'm also adding more in because readers now have not seen any of these characters as roleplay characters so I need to fluff them out more so you can see their personalities. My babies need loooooove.

Also, while the story will be set in real locations, there are fictional place names also thrown in the way authors do and I'm going to have to describe those better than I did in the past so that you can picture them in your mind. I'm working on that, and not info dumping. Again, I hate that, so trying to drop tiny bits of information as I go along.

Thank you for asking this and hope I didn't overwhelm you! <3

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#Amreading #Newrelease: The Transit Chronicles: Uniting Lives in a Connected World by Marvin Merritt II

In a world transformed by the Global Unified Network Treaty (GUNT) and the advent of the Social Media Credit (SMC) system, value is no longer determined by traditional means. Instead, the power lies in human connection, creativity, and influence. Jimmy, an unexpected figure in this new era, is a bus driver from Chicago who captures the hearts and minds of his followers with his daily live stream, "The Transit Chronicles." Jimmy turns his daily route into an international sensation through LifeShare, an immersive live-streaming platform. His unique approach to his job by transforming his bus, named the Performance Express, into a mobile stage for Chicago's diverse and talented performers gains him millions of viewers globally. As Jimmy navigates the city streets, his live streams offer a unique window into the world of a city bus. Passengers, random acts of kindness, disputes, and humorous moments are all part of the tapestry that captivates his viewers. Despite not conforming to the typical social media star archetype, Jimmy's genuine charm and relatable persona make him a beloved figure in the digital landscape. However, the excitement takes a dark turn when a series of murders rock the community, leaving Jimmy and his viewers in shock and fear. Determined to uncover the truth, Jimmy embarks on his own investigation, seeking the help of his loyal viewers, his friend Monica, Derrick, and the relentless Detective Rodriguez. "The Transit Chronicles: Uniting Lives in a Connected World" is more than a murder mystery. It's a testament to the power of community in the face of adversity and a futuristic take on how technology could reshape our approach towards combating crime, pushing the boundaries of what's possible in a digitized world. The journey our protagonists embark on is a testament to resilience, innovation, and the unyielding human spirit's pursuit of justice. As the mystery unfolds, readers are kept on the edge of their seats, anxiously awaiting the revelation of the stagecoach coin's significance and the identity of the murderer haunting the city of Chicago.

Grab YOUR Copy NOW: https://amzn.to/45XuGZ5 via @amazon 

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[arthuriouslife]

11 TV Shows that just won Golden Globes that you may have missed

Severance (2022)

Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives; when a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.

Watch on Apple TV

2. The Old Man (2022)

Dan Chase absconded from the CIA and lives off the grid. When an assassin arrives and tries to take Chase out, the old operative learns that to ensure his future he now must reconcile his past.

Watch on Hulu

3. Yellowstone (Started 2018)

Oscar and Emmy winner Kevin Costner is the marquee attraction of the ensemble cast in this drama series, starring as the patriarch of a powerful, complicated family of ranchers. A sixth-generation homesteader and devoted father, John Dutton controls the largest contiguous ranch in the United States. 

Watch on Paramount

4. Alaska Daily (2022)

Recently disgraced reporter Eileen Fitzgerald leaves her high-profile New York life behind to join a daily metro newspaper in Anchorage, Alaska, on a journey to find both personal and professional redemption.

Watch on ABC

5. Abbott Elementary (2021)

A group of dedicated, passionate teachers -- and a slightly tone-deaf principal -- find themselves thrown together in a Philadelphia public school where, despite the odds stacked against them, they are determined to help their students succeed in life. Though these incredible public servants may be outnumbered and underfunded, they love what they do -- even if they don't love the school district's less-than-stellar attitude toward educating children.

Watch on ABC

6. The Bear (2022)

A young chef from the fine dining world comes home to Chicago to run his family sandwich shop after a heartbreaking death in his family. A world away from what he's used to, Carmy must balance the soul-crushing realities of small business ownership, his strong-willed and recalcitrant kitchen staff and his strained familial relationships, all while grappling with the impact of his brother's suicide.

Watch on HULU

7. Black Bird (2022)

As Jimmy Keene begins a 10-year prison sentence, he gets an incredible offer: if he can elicit a confession from suspected killer Larry Hall, he will be freed; completing this mission becomes the challenge of a lifetime.

Watch on Apple TV

8. The Staircase (2022)

Exploring the life of Michael Peterson, his sprawling N.C. family, and the suspicious death of his wife, Kathleen Peterson; based on a true story.

Watch on HBO Max

9. Under the Banner of Heaven (2022)

As Detective Jeb Pyre investigates the murder of Brenda Wright Lafferty and her baby daughter in a suburb in the Salt Lake Valley, he uncovers buried truths about the origins of the LDS religion and the violent consequences of unyielding faith.

Watch on HULU

10. George & Tammy (2022)

A chronicle of the country music power couple, Tammy Wynette and George Jones, whose complicated-but-enduring relationship inspired some of the most iconic music of all time.

Watch on Youtube

11. Gaslit (2022)

A modern take on the 1970s political Watergate scandal centreing on untold stories and forgotten characters of the time.

Watch on Roku

[impressivepress]

The Story of Vivian Maier, a Legendary Photographer We Almost Never Knew

If you haven’t heard of Vivian Maier, you're hardly alone. It's something of a miracle that anyone has, even though she stands among the best street photographers of the 20th century.

Maier made tens of thousands of intimate, humorous, and powerful portraits over the course of her life, and shoved them all into boxes that went undiscovered until a serendipitous $300 bid at an auction in 2007. It was only after Maier's death in 2009 that people recognized the genius of her photos, which can hang alongside those of Robert Frank, Dianne Arbus, or Henri Cartier Bresson.

Finding Vivian Maier tells the story of her long life (she died at 83) and exquisite work, and chronicles the immense task of piecing the story together from the clues she left behind. No less fascinating is the story of the film's co-director, John Maloof, who placed that winning bid and worked hard to bring Maier's work the global recognition he’s certain it deserves.

Maloof purchased a box containing 40,000 negatives of photos Maier made in the 1960s. He hoped to use them to illustrate Portage Park, a book he co-authored about life on the city’s northwest side. The photos didn't suit his needs, but Maloof grew so obsessed by them that he left real estate to take up photography. Unsure what else to do with the pictures, he posted a selection of them online and created a Flickr thread asking, "what do I do with this stuff?" The thread blew up, and Maloof realized just what he’d stumbled on: A one-of-a-kind historical document and trove of unseen world-class art.

Maier’s photos, snapped mostly with the boxy Rolleiflex camera perpetually dangling from her neck, are clever, idiosyncratic, and sensitive to the absurd nuances of daily life--qualities of a great street photographer. But her talent, sense of humor, and physical appearance (Maier took her share of selfies) are all we learn about her from the pictures alone. Maloof needed to dig for everything else.

One of the great achievements of this documentary is the DIY detective work Maloof and fellow filmmaker Charlie Siskel did in piecing together the narrative of a deliberately mysterious woman. Using every resource he could think of--including scouring Google images to match the steeples seen in some of Maier's photos with those seen in the French countryside-–the sudden documentarian guides us through the story of Maier’s life. His passion for telling the story is contagious, and it's easy to share his excitement over each new tidbit of information. The picture that emerges is, like her work, sometimes charming, and sometimes all too real.

Maier was born in New York and made her living as a nanny there and in Chicago, probably because the job allowed her time to make pictures. The children, now grown, that she cared for and many of their parents provide the most insight. They describe Maier as intelligent, adventurous, and intensely private. She had also mastered the photographer's balance of being curious and bold while remaining aloof and removed. She also could be irritable and temperamental, prone to strange (even violent) outbursts that sometimes cost her jobs. Through it all, she never quit taking photos, even if meant bringing her young charges to the shopping center, slum or slaughterhouse she felt like shooting that day.

Her compulsive chronicling of the world around her expanded to include color photography and film; reels and reels of audio tape feature guerrilla interviews conducted in supermarket lines. Maier also was a bona fide hoarder, stacking newspapers in her rooms until the floors literally sagged. Early in the film Maloof lays out artifacts, acquired from storage lockers and other buyers at the 2007 auction, and they cover the entire floor. The material includes more than 100,000 negatives; thousands of notes, receipts, newspaper clippings; and countless marginalia. There was a lot to unravel, let alone weave into a coherent story, and the filmmakers do a great job bringing it all together.

Some reviews have panned Finding Vivian Maier for being little more than an advertisement for the publishing business Maloof has built upon her photos. He briefly addresses this in the documentary, arguing that with Maier dead and no estate to represent her, there is no one else to champion her work. In the film, he reads the rejection letter the MoMA sent him early in his project. Whether the project is driven by duty or profit ultimately doesn't matter, because it's a fascinating story told well, and we're lucky Maier's photos fell into the hands of someone with the will and the means to ensure people saw them.

Another relevant question is whether Maier would wanted the attention. The film makes abundantly clear just how obsessed she was with privacy. Maloof acknowledges this conundrum, but finds justification with the discovery (accompanied in the film by a soaring string section soundtrack) of a single note to a small photo printing shop in a tiny village in France. In it, Maier suggests going into business with the printmaker to create postcards from some of her photos. Her humble proposal may not indicate anything akin to interest in the vast publicity campaign that's made her posthumously popular, with her likeness and photos circulating the globe under the Maloof Collection emblem.

Still, without Maloof's work, the odds that Maier's amazing body of work would ever be widely seen are miniscule. It isn't easy getting people to notice, much less celebrate, a new name in the arts. The photographers so often invoked to describe Maier's work had time to define their era and influence later generations of photographers. Her work has the legitimacy to be no less influential, but lacks the cultural currency. That is changing, however, with the reach of the internet. Finding Vivian Maier is therefore not just an account of a gifted photographer's life, but a call for the art establishment to take her work seriously.

In that way, it has a chance of adding a name to the canon of great street photographers. That is an achievement worth celebrating.

~ Doug Bierend · July, 2014.

[lboogie1906]

The Chicago Defender was founded (1905) by Robert Sengstacke Abbott. He published the first issue, a run of 300 copies, on May 6, 1905. The Defender began as a four-page weekly handbill filled with local news and reproductions of clippings from other newspapers. He sold both subscriptions and advertising for the paper by going door-to-door throughout Chicago.

He used the Defender as a forum to attack racial injustice from the outset, and included a front-page heading on every issue that read, “American Race Justice Must Be Destroyed”. The Defender was a leading advocate in the fight against racial, economic, and social discrimination. It championed equal employment and fair housing for Blacks, and boldly reported on lynchings, rapes, and Black disfranchisement. By 1915 the local newspaper had a weekly circulation of 16,000.

The Defender saw its major growth during the Great Migration and is credited as being a major catalyst for that movement of half a million Blacks from the South to the North (1915-20). He used Black Pullman Porters and entertainers to transport his paper across the Mason-Dixon Line. He printed copies of train schedules and job listings to entice southern Blacks to relocate. The Black population of Chicago increased by 148 percent with plenty of support and encouragement from the Defender.

It became the first African American paper to reach a circulation of 100,000 copies and to achieve national circulation. Its circulation reached 230,000 copies per week. The Defender had many notable columnists, including Walter White and Langston Hughes. It published the early works of poet Gwendolyn Brooks. As a result of the Defender’ssuccess, he became one of the first African American millionaires.

Upon his death, John H. Sengstacke, his nephew, assumed control of the Defender. The Defender became a daily and was renamed the Chicago Daily Defender. It was the largest Black-owned daily newspaper in the world. He purchased a long-time rival newspaper The Pittsburgh Courier and added it to his chain of papers which includes The Michigan Chronicle, and The Tri-State Defender. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[pscottm]

Spate of Mock News Sites With Russian Ties Pop Up in U.S. - The New York Times

Into the depleted field of journalism in America, a handful of websites have appeared in recent weeks with names suggesting a focus on news close to home: D.C. Weekly, the New York News Daily, the Chicago Chronicle and a newer sister publication, the Miami Chronicle,” the New York Times reports.

“In fact, they are not local news organizations at all. They are Russian creations, researchers and government officials say, meant to mimic actual news organizations to push Kremlin propaganda by interspersing it among an at-times odd mix of stories about crime, politics and culture.”

“While Russia has long sought ways to influence public discourse in the United States, the fake news organizations — at least five, so far — represent a technological leap in its efforts to find new platforms to dupe unsuspecting American readers. The sites, the researchers and officials said, could well be the foundations of an online network primed to surface disinformation ahead of the American presidential election in November.”

[journalismjpg]

Into the depleted field of journalism in America, a handful of websites have appeared in recent weeks with names suggesting a focus on news close to home: D.C. Weekly, the New York News Daily, the Chicago Chronicle and a newer sister publication, the Miami Chronicle.

While Russia has long sought ways to influence public discourse in the United States, the fake news organizations — at least five, so far — represent a technological leap in its efforts to find new platforms to dupe unsuspecting American readers. The sites, the researchers and officials said, could well be the foundations of an online network primed to surface disinformation ahead of the American presidential election in November.

[afr0-thunder]

[Poor Chronicles Pt. 41]

Topics: Work (Vacation)/Chicago vs. CPD/Photography/Vocabulary/Girls/Super Bowl/SEXI (Final Update Pt. 2)/Phoenix “Theory”

Week 1 of my work “vacation” is complete. I am not scheduled for this entire holiday season. This may have been one of the only weeks I’ve had off since I had started.

I was almost murdered by the police for ignoring their “greeting” and being identified as someone holding a firearm. It was a visual misunderstanding. Still, he pulled his gun on me and I was not entertained. Will not elaborate any further.

I took some more pictures, my Ralph Lauren Polo sweater is actually more intriguing than I had initially thought.

I will be referring to my housing design as an “assortment”. I want a 50-story assortment so that my promiscuous wenches must go through multiple levels of physical activity before fucking me. Showers on the 47th floor. For example, “wife” #1 must complete a video of 10 three point shots, 1 min of jump role (freestyling), obstacle course with barbed wire (Jokes. Possibly. I like crazy women). First woman to the top, no reward. Just fucking. I don’t want the others to get jealous, but she was first and this ideally shouldn’t take the same amount of time for them all, so it shouldn’t even be an issue on finishing first (for them). Not like if I did…sexually. Like who makes it to me first…because it’s not a race, so they won’t finish near eachother in time, as I only have one dick in my arsenal. How would I start fucking 50 bitches at once? A bit of a friendly fire on myself for the “finishing first” originally. But nonetheless (anyways), unless I make my room door transparent… should I just make them come join? Do I make them edit it and put it all together. If they have time. DON’T. BE. LATE! Class is in session *yard stick slam on the desk* (All jokes). Timed? 30 mins or less, if task based not speed based. Effort based? Like “punitive” measures for intentional slacking/decrease in quality? I will obviously do mine as well. I may do timed 30 minute sessions for myself as well for hobbies such as sketching to say sharp. There may be a hot tub or even a pool on my level. A large TV! First done can pick today’s show or movie. Watch whatever show in the meantime. Or update others as they come if you don’t choose an [appetizer show]. Paused? Or maybe it’d just keep getting stopped from someone new always entering the room and become a big group discussion. Once a week. I forgot they’d have to have jobs and have to travel a lot so I can’t make them do it ALL week. Can I? They may have time. It depends. Can’t complete a level? That’s okay. Ends at 2:00pm. We’ll have those digital clocks with the red numbers, so everybody knows what floor and hour they are on. Make it tomorrow’s whole day goal. If met early, complete other tasks from previous day (for daily fitness/exercise). Until you can complete the circuit by 2:00pm, don’t set a new goal. (This would be a great reality show, but I don’t want cameramen, have any interest in entertainment as far as movies/television and I could potentially do this naked. Why would I record obstacle course porn?).

The Ravens continue to reign dominant. Lamar Jackson is a spectacular Super Bowl champion versus the Dallas Cowboys. The Philadelphia Eagles will be there though. Obliterated the Dolphins for that 28 point comeback last year. I like Tua, but damn Lamar did him dirty.

I have decided to reduce the number of baby mommas. I said I would never speak to SEXI again, last year in 2022, for my own personal reasons. She responded to the direct message from the other day and said “Thanks” with a crying laughing emoji. I said she looked “sexy”. I’m about to leave this bitch on read for life. I, however, elect to resume fucking up people’s lives. I will not fuck up hers in any fashion. As long as she holds this fumble in. Otherwise, they will make fun of her.

Your pathways from birth until death carrying every breath you take, following your every step. New cells are created, hair sheds, skin sheds, blood, sweat and tears, saliva shed. One day, they will all follow along the same path as the airways and in the perfect moment will all come together and you will rise again as phoenixes do. Everything you once were will all come back together long after your death and you will rise once more. If you hate your being, you will continue to pollute the airways and deteriorate your natural being through practices such as drug consumption and heavy eating.

I have more thoughts, but time to smoke.

- MH (2023)

[12/31/2023 - 7:59PM]

[mccfilm]

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Tel Aviv University:

B.A. Theoretical Track

M.A. Theoretical Track

University of Tennessee, Knoxville:

PGC Cinematic Studies

Part II:

My only reason for applying is to seek PRE-QUALIFICATION, NOT QUALIFICATION, for the PARADISE CINEMA. I had been associating myself with FIFTY-TWO NEWS REPORTS of a very long time to the brink of DOUBLE CYRILLIC and the recollective SINGULAR SLAVIC. To ensure ENERGETIC RHETORIC, I may have to SINGLE OUT EITHER THE DOUBLE CYRILLIC OR INDIVIDUAL SLAVIC depending on the EXPONENTIAL LINGUISTICS. The EXPONENTIAL LINGUISTICS is that of FOUR HEMISPHERICAL SELECTIONS in place of BOTH THE MULTILINGUAL AND THE BILINGUAL. My preferred SINGULAR LANGUAGE OF VARIABLE FORMAT IS ENGLISH. In place of BOTH THE MULTILINGUAL AND THE BILINGUAL, you expect of my SINGULAR LANGUAGE to stay VARIABLY FORMATTED. To PREQUALIFY for the PARADISE CINEMA, you expect of me to stay SCRIPTED AND NOTHING BUT SCRIPTED. Each QUALITY DESCRIPTION has to extract PREDECEASING FEATURE FILMS. To stay SCRIPTED, I may turn to DOUBLE CYRILLIC AND INDIVIDUAL SLAVIC SPECIALTY.

In order to seek PREQUALIFICATION, DOUBLE CYRILLIC AND INDIVIDUAL SLAVIC SPECIALTY is my CALLING CARD. Italian is my most DESELECTED language. To EXCEL my level of caliber OF AND BEYOND FIFTY-TWO NEWS REPORTS, I may have to get over with SINGULAR SLAVIC AND DOUBLE CYRILLIC INDIVIDUALIZATION AND COLLECTION. Each SINGULAR SLAVIC AND DOUBLE CYRILLIC INDIVIDUALIZATION AND COLLECTION ranges across SINGULAR TO EXPONENTIAL LINGUISTICS. The range across SINGULAR TO EXPONENTIAL LINGUISTICS are of a PARADISE CINEMA SCRIPTED MODE. Each PARADISE CINEMA SCRIPTED MODE demands THREE SELECTIVE TRANSLATED WRITTEN MODES. Each SINGULAR TO EXPONENTIAL LINGUISTICS carry their OWN HANDHELD OR PORTABLE VIDEO RECORDING. To transition into HANDHELD OR PORTABLE VIDEO RECORDING, I am INCLINED to stay INFREQUENT AND OCCASIONAL. To seek PREQUALIFICATION, I am inclined to seek INFREQUENT AND OCCASIONAL VIDEO RECORDING; my preferred screen exposure is the purple screen.

My FIFTY-TWO NEWS REPORTS are: Atlanta Daily World, Atlanta Journal-Constitute, Austin Chronicle, The Australian, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Bakersfield Californian, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Brisbane Times, British Broadcasting Corporation, Canberra Times, Chicago Sun Times, Chicago Tribune, Chattanooga Times Free Press, The Commercial Appeal, Daily Herald, Dallas Observer, Dallas Times, El Paso Times, Galveston Daily News, The Guardian, The Guardian Weekly, Houston Chronicle, The Independent, Knoxville News Sentinel, London Enquirer, Long Beach Post, Los Angeles Daily News, Los Angeles Times, Miami Times, The New Yorker, New York Daily News, New York Post, New York Times, New Zealand Herald, Oxford Times, Philadelphia Enquirer, San Antonio Express-News, San Diego Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle Times, State Journal Register, The Sun, Sydney Times, Tallahassee Democrat, Tampa Bay Times, The Tennessean, Texas Tribune, USA Today, Washington Examiner, and Washington Post. Of these, you expect of my CORRESPONDENT to stay true to the CHICAGO SUN TIMES AND CHICAGO TRIBUNE; I look forward to application results AND resultants.

To reach out to me, EITHER E-MAIL OR FACEBOOK ITSELF OR SOCIAL CORRESPONDENCE AND EITHER NUMERICAL, PNEUMATICAL, OR NUMERIC MODALITIES, EITHER TRANSPORTABLE, HANDHELD, OR PORTABLE, AND OPTIONAL TIKTOK.

Part III:

As an individual born on and after 1990, I demand RESPECT and DISCLAIMER to all POST-1960s CINEMATOGRAPHY. While there are COLOR RESOLUTION FILM ARTS < 1960, each NEWER TREND may lead to POST-1960s CINEMATOGRAPHY more so often. To strive towards GREATER RHETORIC, I may have to PINPOINT the POST-1960s CINEMATOGRAPHY in order to determine NEWER TRENDS. In order to determine NEWER TRENDS, the RESPECTABLENESS towards all PARADISE CINEMA begins with POST-1960s CINEMATOGRAPHY. To strive towards all PARADISE CINEMA, each NEWER TREND may lead to SELECTED NEW RELEASES OR RERELEASES. In HOMAGE AND REMINISCENCE of the ITALIANO CINEMATICO, I demand RESPECT to each DAILY EXPENSE AND COSTLY EXPENSE INDIVIDUALIZATION AND COLLECTION. Each DAILY EXPENSE AND COSTLY EXPENSE INDIVIDUALIZATION AND COLLECTION may or may not turn to INVESTMENTS, but the BANK MANAGEMENT with or without CONTAINMENT has to afford the best INDIVIDUALITY AND COLLECTIVITY. Each DAILY EXPENSE AND COSTLY EXPENSE amongst each other are of a PARADISE CINEMA. Ever since those days, I demand RESPECT to the ORIGINS OF WESTERN CINEMA. My preferred CAMERA ORIENTATION is the RIGHT SIDE.

Part IV:

Ever since the 1973 feature film was released to the public, William Freidkin’s film adaptation of the original novel by William Peter Blatty was an immediate ban from Christianity and every other monotheistic status. The long lost prequel of semi-centennial timespan apart may lead to lifting the ban and tolerating the looks of crucifixion dramatization. To establish and reestablish the looks of crucifixion dramatization and every other consolation dramatization, December 1973 in a semi-centennial apart may lead to < December 2023, in which the consolation dramatization is of a Religious Studies WITHOUT Divinity, and the study of the crucifix and every other pendant are widely consolable THEMSELVES. Each Religious Studies WITHOUT Divinity demand LIBERAL MONOTHEISM MORE THAN CONSERVATIVE MONOTHEISM. Willingness to SET ASIDE ONE PENDANT FOR ANOTHER is the EXACT OPEN-MINDEDNESS bound to seek SPIRITUAL SUPPORT. The RESPECTABLENESS should ought to be RIGHT-SIDE UP POSTURE AT ALL TIMES. It is EXACTLY UPSIDE-DOWN POSTURE that thoroughly explains the CRUCIFIX AND EVERY OTHER CONSOLATION DRAMATIZATION. To REORIENT the CRUCIFIX AND EVERY OTHER PENDANT, REORIENTATION may VARY, but the NUMERIC POSTURE has to stay RIGHTSIDE-UP AT ALL TIMES. The RESPECTABLE spiritual being has to stay RIGHTSIDE-UP. The DRAMA is deeply embedded within the ATROCITY that threatens to OVERTHROW ALL TRINITY.

To DISSOLVE AND RECONCILE ALL ATROCITY, REDEMPTION could be seen as PARTIALLY RELEVANT. In order for NATURAL AND SUPERNATURAL EFFECTS to stay NORMAL, the TRINITY has to RECOLLECT OLD AND NEW DISSOLUTION AND REVIVAL. Each OLD AND NEW DISSOLUTION AND REVIVAL is that of SPIRITUAL ROOTS AND BEGINNINGS. To establish AND reestablish each SPIRITUAL ROOT AND BEGINNING, NATURAL AND SUPERNATURAL EFFECTS are of an ENTIRELY HUMAN EXPERIENCE, in which the TRANSMITTED MODE may turn to ATROCITY. To put a HOLD on each ATROCITY, the TRANSMITTED MODE immediately ENCAPSULATES THREE-DIMENSIONAL HUMANITY. Each THREE-DIMENSIONAL HUMANITY TRINITY may OR may not need the RELIGIOUS STUDIES, but the FOUR DIMENSIONS AHEAD are indeed SURPASSED to each TRINITY. To SURPASS each TRINITY, the FOUR DIMENSIONS AHEAD are of a SPIRITUAL ROOT AND BEGINNING. It is EXACTLY that that leads to BREAKING THE MOLD amongst each RENEWAL. To BREAK THE MOLD amongst each RENEWAL, IRRELIGIOUS PREDOMINANCE is of a DOMINION OF THE PAST. It is EXACTLY that that thoroughly explains the DISASTROUS tendencies of an ATROCITY.

When the ideology of EXORCISM began for the FIRST COUPLE OF TIMES, it was an immediate MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SPIRITUALITY. To CAST OUT DEMONS, the IRRELIGIOUS PREDOMINANCE strives to LEAD PASS PREDECEASING DOMINION. The BASIC RELIGIOUS STUDIES to extract is that of DOMINION OF THE PAST staying true to the PAST, IRRELIGIOUS PREDOMINANCE would always be PREDOMINANT. In the days that come AFTER DOMINION, MONOTHEISTIC STATUS could be seen as SUB-DENOMINATIONAL, NOT ONLY CHRISTIAN. Each PENDANT that seeks REORIENTATION typically begins with FOUR-DIMENSIONAL ADJUSTMENTS. Each FOUR-DIMENSIONAL ADJUSTMENT is its OWN ADAPTABILITY. The more the FOUR-DIMENSIONAL ADJUSTMENT AND ADAPTABILITY, the more the PENDANT IN PLACE OF SHILLING. The BASIC RELIGIOUS STUDIES demands SHILLING OVER PENDANT to shape up IRRELIGIOUS PREDOMINANCE leading pass the DOMINION OF THE PAST. It is EXACTLY PENDANT OVER SHILLING that immediately spells IMPOSITION. IMPOSE the BELIEF SYSTEM, NO MONEY MANAGEMENT.

To EXTERMINATE the TEMPER of the RIOT, a RIOT should NOT be mistaken for OUTRAGE BUT RITUALS OF BELIEF SYSTEMS. Any RITUAL OF BELIEF SYSTEMS having turned PAGAN would only be a SETUP for EXORCISM amongst INDUSTRIAL AGES. It is due to EXORCISM amongst INDUSTRIAL AGES that LINGUISTICS WITHOUT SOCIOLOGICAL INFLUENCES are bound to seek RESTORATION AND RESTORATIVE PROCESS. To seek RESTORATION AND RESTORATIVE PROCESS, LINGUISTICS WITHOUT SOCIOLOGICAL INFLUENCES lead pass each INDUSTRIAL AGE AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES SEPARATION OF INTERESTS. Ext. 1 - 9 w/ wo ext. 0 may turn to DECTUPLE LINGUISTICS depending on the WIRED AND WIRELESS ACCESS. Each HUMANITARIAN OBJECTIVE should ought to be CUTTING THROUGH FUTURE INDUSTRIES through the LINGUISTICS WITHOUT SOCIOLOGICAL INFLUENCES. When seeing into a PAGEANTRY MIMICRY, while it is true MOCKERY would only turn CONSEQUENTIAL, the MIMICRY is that of EXORCISM. While it is true MOCKERY would only turn CONSEQUENTIAL, the ANTECEDENTS are of a SOCIOLOGICAL PAST AND FUTURE ALTERNATION. Each SOCIOLOGICAL PRESENT TENSE is that of SOCIALIST VALUES. SOCIOLOGICAL PAST AND FUTURE ALTERNATION are ENTIRELY LINGUISTIC OR ENTREPRENEURIAL WITHOUT THE SOCIOLOGICAL.

Each SOCIOLOGICAL PAST AND FUTURE ALTERNATION are often MISTAKEN for some ALTERNATE UNIVERSE AND ALTERNATE REALITY when the UNIVERSAL REALITY should ought to REMAIN SURREAL. One may even go so far as to insisting the EARLY SURREALISM apart from all the REST OF SURREALISM had all begun with the ORIGINAL NOVEL AND 1973 FILM ADAPTATION. Indeed, the ORIGINAL NOVEL AND 1973 FILM ADAPTATION have all turned SURREAL. Each PENDANT AND ELECTRIC SEPARATIST ACTIVITY has to stay RIGHTSIDE-UP AT ALL TIMES. An UPSIDE-DOWN PENDANT could be seen as some INTENTIONAL OPPOSITION TO COMMON SENSE. This kind of TILTING AND CROOKEDNESS could be seen as OBVIOUS to the brink of REACTANTS AND DETRACTANTS. Each REACTANT AND DETRACTANT have to hold true to their REACTION AND DETRACTION. The BEHAVIORAL PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE is entirely SEPARATE from each SOCIALIST VALUE. This is where the SOCIALISM on its OWN is that of HUMAN FORM. SUBDIVIDENDS are bound to seek TRANSMITTED MODE.

To seek SOCIALISM WITH OR WITHOUT SUBDIVIDENDS, the ORIGINAL FORM is ENTIRELY HUMAN. The SUBDIVIDENDS are of TRANSMITTED FORM. BOTH THE ORIGINAL NOVEL AND 1973 FILM ADAPTATION are of SOCIALISM WITH OR WITHOUT SUBDIVIDENDS. The more BOTH THE ORIGINAL NOVEL AND 1973 FILM ADAPTATION are taken OUT-OF-CONTEXT, the more the COMPLETE SOCIALIST HUMANITARIAN AND HUMANITY as well as SUB-SOCIALIST TRANSMITTED MODES. The COMPLETE SOCIALIST HUMANITARIAN AND HUMANITY is all wounded up in SIX DIMENSIONS WITHOUT ADDITIONAL SENSORS AND NOTHING BUT SIX DIMENSIONS WITHOUT ADDITIONAL SENSORS. The OUT-OF-CONTEXT has proven to be of GREATER APPEAL than the FOOTAGE ITSELF. The GREATER APPEAL has served as a CULTURAL INFLUENCE to the brink of SOCIALIST PAST AND FUTURE. Each SOCIALIST PAST AND FUTURE is indeed SIX DIMENSIONS WITHOUT ADDITIONAL SENSORS AND NOTHING BUT SIX DIMENSIONS WITHOUT ADDITIONAL SENSORS. The COMPLETE SOCIALIST HUMANITARIAN AND HUMANITY is where the OUT-OF-CONTEXT begins to apply. Each ONE-DIMENSIONAL HUMANITY has to seek SEVENTH-DAY MODERATION AND IMMODERATE RESTORATION TO BIWEEKLY AND ADDITIONAL WEEKLY BASES.

The OUT-OF-CONTEXT to the ORIGINAL NOVEL AND 1973 FILM ADAPTATION are of GREATER APPEAL indeed. In light of having entered through the American Film Institute (AFI), the ORIGINAL NOVEL AND 1973 FILM ADAPTATION present the HUMANITARIAN AND STORAGE SEPARATION OF INTERESTS. Ever since the days of the 1973 AFI, the 1973 FILM ADAPTATION has reached #1 on the BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR. The TACTICS that have been applied were of a RIOTING EFFECT in DISFIGURED MODE. The DISFIGURED RIOT has all turned to CAPACITY ISSUES that are of a POPULATION CENSUS, CENSURE, AND CENSOR. To RESOLVE each CAPACITY ISSUE, CAPACITATION comes with each POPULATION CENSUS, CENSURE, AND CENSOR. It is EXACTLY the CENSUS, CENSURE, AND CENSOR that demand SOCIALIST PRESENT TENSE AT ALL TIMES. Each SOCIALIST PRESENT TENSE seeks SUBDIVIDENDS stretching into each PAST AND FUTURE. The more the PAST AND FUTURE SUBDIVIDENDS, the more the SOCIALIST PRESENT TENSE. That by ITSELF is where the RIOTING MIMICRY begins to apply; the more COMING AROUND AND GOING AROUND, the more LEADING AWAY AND SEPARATE WAYS.

The more COMING AROUND AND GOING AROUND, the more LEADING AWAY AND SEPARATE WAYS. This is the ONLY REASON why COMPLETE REFLECTIONS OF THE SAME BELIEF SYSTEM the BELIEVER best ACCEPT. When the COMPLETE REFLECTIONS OF THE SAME BELIEF SYSTEM have all been TURNED AWAY, IRRELIGIOUS SOCIETY AWAITS. If COUNTER-REFLECTIONS OF THE SAME BELIEF SYSTEM were to stay COUNTER-REFLECTIVE, then the FORGIVENESS OF SINS would only turn to INDOCTRINATION AND A POTENTIAL AMENDMENT IN PLACE OF COMMANDMENT. An AMENDMENT is an AMENDMENT, a COMMANDMENT is a COMMANDMENT. While it is true AMENDMENTS are to the shaping of the CHOICES IN DAILY LIFE, COMMANDMENTS are to the CHOICES OF PENDANTS. This is where the RELIGIOUS SEPARATION OF INDOCTRINATION had all ORIGINATED. The more the AMENDMENTS, the more the CHOICES IN DAILY LIFE. The more the COMMANDMENTS, the more the CHOICES OF PENDANTS. When 1970s RELIGIOUS STUDIES AND EVERY OTHER CONSOLABLE GENERATION begun for the FIRST COUPLE OF TIMES, the CHOICES OF PENDANTS have had to be subject to FEATURE PRESENTATION SEPARATION OF INTERESTS.

When 1970s RELIGIOUS STUDIES AND EVERY OTHER CONSOLABLE GENERATION begun for the FIRST COUPLE OF TIMES, the CHOICES OF PENDANTS have had to be subject to FEATURE PRESENTATION SEPARATION OF INTERESTS. Each CHOICE OF PENDANT is what lead directly to RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND FREEDOM OF CHOICE. Those who THREATEN RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND FREEDOM OF CHOICE are subject to CONFISCATION OF FREE SPEECH. Each CHOICE OF PENDANT is its OWN SOLITARY FIGURE. This is where PROGRESSIVISM begs to differ. Whether liberal or conservative, each PENDANT REFERRAL belongs to the SAME AFFILIATE. The more the PENDANT REFERRAL belongs to the SAME AFFILIATE, the more the CARBON NEUTRAL WITHOUT SHREDDING. The more the CARBON NEUTRAL WITHOUT SHREDDING, the more the MODERN WITHOUT POSTMODERN may turn to SPLINTERS. Each SAME PENDANT SAME AFFILIATE are in need of MODERN SPLINTERS that are NOT LIKELY to turn POSTMODERN. In the art of RELIGIOUS STUDIES, CINEMATOGRAPHY could be seen as EITHER TOP PRIORITY OR BOTTOM PRIORITY depending on the RIGHTSIDE-UP PENDANT.

In the art of RELIGIOUS STUDIES, CINEMATOGRAPHY could be seen as EITHER TOP PRIORITY OR BOTTOM PRIORITY depending on the RIGHTSIDE-UP PENDANT. Each RIGHTSIDE-UP PENDANT is of a FULL ORIENTATION. Each FULL ORIENTATION strives towards FOUR-DIMENSIONAL HUMANITY AND HUMANITARIAN as to the EIGHT-DIMENSIONAL FUTURE INDUSTRY. The SIX-DIMENSIONAL HUMANITY AND HUMANITARIAN is to the SIX DIMENSIONS WITHOUT ADDITIONAL SENSORS AND NOTHING BUT SIX DIMENSIONS WITHOUT ADDITIONAL SENSORS. Each OUT-OF-CONTEXT has proven to be of GREATER APPEAL. The GREATER APPEAL may have had great amounts of DOWNSIDE as to the GAVE UP BELIEF SYSTEMS, but the ENVIRONMENTALIST GRASSROOTS is of relatively similar EIGHT-DIMENSIONAL FUTURE INDUSTRY. To RECONSIDER the COMPLETE ENVIRONMENTALISM OR COMPLETE GRASSROOTS, TURNING ON THE BACK OF RELIGION is of MORE-THAN-HALF POPULATION to the brink of ATHEIST SOVEREIGNTY. This is where the ATHEIST SOVEREIGN are of NUMERIC SOCIALISM. Whereas the PNEUMATICAL SOCIALISM are of PAST AND FUTURE, the NUMERIC SOCIALISM are of PRESENT RISE AND FALL. Ever since the 1973 feature film was released to the public, William Freidkin’s film adaptation of the original novel by William Peter Blatty was an immediate ban from Christianity and every other monotheistic status.

Sincerely,

Michael Chang

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When Dr. Alfred Kinsey embarked on his 1939 expedition to the gay neighborhoods of Chicago, prospecting for data he would include in his landmark Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, he was not prepared for the flourishing homosexual networks, customs, and haunts he would find. That such a world could have existed right under a researcher's nose astonished him. Writing to a colleague, he wondered, "Why has no one cracked this before?" A comparable degree of amazement could apply to the case of Mike Connolly, the brilliant gay gossip columnist of the Hollywood Reporter from 1951 to 1966. Even with a deluge in recent years of gay Hollywood studies, Connolly, the most talented and influential member of the Hollywood press of his time, has received only scant attention from gay historians. His column, for those who knew how to read between the lines, was a remarkable daily chronicle of gay goings-on, and half a century later his cumulative output is a priceless but virtually untapped lode of gay Hollywood history. Why has Mike Connolly not been cracked before? ... Mike Connolly is not easily pigeonholed into today's rigidly defined, black-and-white gay categories. If he was careful not to flaunt or write publicly about his sexual orientation, as proscribed by Hollywood protocol, he was candid in other ways about where his sexual interests lay. He lived openly with his partner, Joseph Russell Zappia, and put Zappia on his payroll as his legman. Everyone in Hollywood knew what his situation was. With few exceptions, most sources interviewed for this book would interject, after a minimum of small talk, "You know he was gay, don't you?'

—Mike Connolly and the Manly Art of Hollywood Gossip by Val Holley, published 2003