I’ve lost track at this point, but this one was in the New York Times:
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Just look up Nxivm branding photos. They’re not hard to find, and they were in one of the news articles I stumbled across at some point over the past month since the first round of branding news blew up. (Cults are one of my extreme fascinations, and I will read pretty much anything I find on one. I blame growing up…
Blackmail in case they try to get away. It sounds like the photos are extremely explicit Hustler-esque poses. And how they’re convinced to do it: Sleep deprivation and ultra-low-calorie diets, just like every other cult.
Whoever wrote that saw that she did voice work on an Emmy-winning show and conflated that award given to the show (Lost in Oz, for sound editing for animation) with Mack herself.
Gah, yeah, that makes more sense. I’m going to blame Sunday-before-coffee-kicked-in brain.
The impression I get is that all of the followers are female.
On the Allison Mack story, it’s worth noting a few interesting things:
Missha Perfect Cover bb cream in #21. Love that stuff. Also Notoriously Morbid Mystic Mattes. They are so much better than even Kat Von D’s liquid lipsticks as far as I’m concerned, and her stuff seems to be the gold standard for everyone else.
There are many things I want to buy during the sale, but I’m broke until Friday! I *really* don’t need any more makeup, though. Okay, I do kind of need one brown eyeliner (I use this particular shade almost every single day, and the one I am currently using is almost gone), but I will just deal with paying full price…
Wrapping up the second season of The Americans, getting ready to start the third season of Orphan Black and the first season of Vikings, catching up on Gotham, and trying to decide whether I’m up to The Path or National Treasure.
Here’s something tangentially relevant to this story that I was going to post on SNS: There’s a line in the trailer The Man Who Invented Christmas that has a whole new meaning after this week: The basic concept behind the movie is, hey, this is Charles Dickens writing A Christmas Carol! And he’s scrambling for ideas,…
After Anthony Edwards’ bombshell yesterday, I’m thinking the Ashmores will be featured in quite a few photos and articles in the near future.
Don Cheadle seems to pop up in blind item reveals all the fucking time for doing things like working on keeping kids in school, hunger relief, and kids’ literacy. It’s pretty much the only time I see him on gossip blogs. Well, that and for ripping a certain game show host up one side and down the other, which I also…
They did this about the whole cult (not about Mack’s involvement specifically) last month, and then there was a story earlier this week (yesterday? This morning? It’s all a blur at this point) about Catherine Oxenburg trying to get her daughter out of it:
I have two words for you: Hard Candy.
And he won an Eisner for this particular title in 2008.
If you dig into this, you will find her linked to this cult going back *years*. I found one a few weeks ago dated 2012, and it sounded like she had been involved for a while even prior to that.
One of my favorite episodes was the one about the Venus flytrap theft rings. Also the one about the bourbon. I listen to a lot of dark true crime podcasts, so it’s nice to have a lighter one for days when I need a mental breather.