Damn it. Slate says it is, other places say it’s not. I don’t know. I do know that it’s made well enough that I can’t clearly say *of course* it’s fiction (unlike The Black Tapes or TANIS), and it would not surprise me to find someone like Bobby here. I’m in Portland, and I grew up here in the ‘80s. This guy’s story…
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He’s in Massachusetts. I have a reason to be familiar with Stonybrook, aka the company whose name is on the sticker on the front of that machine.
I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the Polybius Conspiracy series, part of Showcase from Radiotopia. It is absolutely batshit. Even if you’re already extremely familiar with the Polybius video game urban legend, this will cover entirely new ground because it’s about a guy who claims to have played the game.…
I highly recommend the series he wrote about the Orange County couple who framed a PTA mom at their son’s school for drugs because she did something so benign I can’t even remember what it was. It’s absolutley bonkers (and it’s just text, not a podcast):
I have a friend who feels the same way about Jonathan Pryce — who is also in this! I think he plays Dickens’ father.
I’m going to go ahead and call it now: Christopher Plummer is going to be known as The Man Who Saved Christmas in certain circles. Between The Sound of Music being a holiday classic, him playing Ebeneezer Scrooge in The Man Who Invented Christmas, and him replacing Spacey in Sony’s holiday film, there’s really no…
Parlato’s blog — where pretty much everything else on various news sites seems to be coming from — has the Kreuk link.
I’ve lost track at this point, but this one was in the New York Times:
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,…