The Revised Boy Scout Manual

A Review of “The Revised Boy Scout Manual”: An Electronic Revolution, edited by Geoffrey D. Smith and John M. Bennett, forthcoming from the Ohio State University Press.

A download link to William S. Burroughs’ “The revised boy scout manual” : an electronic revolution

Salvador Dalí’s obscure psychedelic film, “Impressions de la Haute Mongolie – Hommage á Raymond Roussel” (1976)

Video: http://ubu.com/film/dali_impressions.html

Salvador Dalí’s romance with film and the visual arts is a relatively well-known chapter in the life of the original and controversial Spanish (Catalan) artist (1904-1989). His collaboration with Luis Buñuel in the writing of Un Chien Andalou (1929) and L’Age D’Or (1930) has been extensively examined and documented. However, his explorations of video art with the production of the “documentary” Impressions de la haute Mongolie. Hommage a Raymond Roussel (1974-75) remain an episode of his long and successful creative career only acknowledged by the specialist. The fact that the video production has not been commercialized by, more or less, vague reasons related to copyright disputes did not help to make this innovative work better known. The “videografía”, written in collaboration with its director José Montes Baquer and produced with Sony-Cologne and WDR, narrates the exploration of Dalí to the remote land of Mongolia in search of the Great White Mushroom. Salvador Dalí, a consummate expert in media manipulation, invites the spectator to become his accomplice and partner in what it seems a drug-induced “trip” to a faraway and distant land where wonderful treasures are hidden. By means of advanced technology in film and the visual arts of the time (video, electronics, macro photography), Dalí strives to reveal optically the metamorphoses of matter with the purpose of revealing a new artistic reality. The journey –inspired by the psychedelic aesthetic of the seventies and narrated by Dalí in Catalan, with French subtitles that roughly translates his words– will offer the possibility of exploring the cosmos through the observation of a small metal piece magically transformed by Dalí’s secret techniques. The adventure concludes in a Catalan town where the crowd participates in a public ceremony of communal painting (a true “happening”) conducted and directed by Dalí. The multitude will worship him as a king (or so he intends) who does not shy away from acting as a clown.

The homage that Dalí pays to himself in the film is made extensive to the figure of his beloved Raymond Roussel (1877-1933), the author of Locus Solus (1914) and Nouvelle Impressions d’Afrique (1932) whose homonymic puns where so celebrated by the Surrealists, and are the base for Dali’s explorations of the double-image and the macro/micro reality on which his own impressions are based.

(Source: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~lhc/////////institutes/fall2007/roussel.html)

Ruined home of real-life Wicker Man and notorious Satanist Aleister Crowley is torched by arsonists just three months after it was put up for sale for £500,000

(Note: Crowley wasn’t a Satanist, but what can you expect from the Daily Mail?)

  • Derelict home of Satanist has been torched near shores of Loch Ness, Scotland
  • Aleister Crowley reportedly practised black magic there between 1899 and 1933
  • The main property has been destroyed in a fire ‘deliberately started by arsonists’
  • Estate agents had just found a buyer for the derelict property a week ago 

Link: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7311265/Ruined-home-Satanist-Aleister-Crowley-torched-arsonists.html?fbclid=IwAR1B4sTihOCyBKnzz05HmjDyAJ204t5_G5aBm-WQLO1g_kV6pSTs7uCLDBg

Video shows moment cops kill Connor Betts during Dayton massacre

Video captures the moment hero cops shoot and kill Connor Betts during his murderous rampage in Dayton, Ohio — with him collapsing just steps from the front door of a packed bar.

Surveillance footage shows dozens of joyful revelers, some hugging warmly, forced to suddenly flee for their lives as the masked 24-year-old starts firing his legally purchased AR-15-style rifle with magazines capable of holding at least 100 rounds of ammunition.

Betts can be seen wearing a bulletproof vest as he races toward a bar with his rifle raised.

But he collapses just steps from the front door as cops gun him down.

Another angle shows at least six officers rushing forward with guns drawn, with officials saying they were able to stop Betts just 30 seconds after the massacre started.

He was still able to kill nine people — including his own sister — and wound 27 more in his rampage just after 1 a.m. in Dayton’s popular nightlife district.

“We will never know how many lives were saved,” Gov. Mike DeWine said at a Sunday afternoon press conference. “The assailant was obviously very, very close to being able to kill dozens and dozens more people.”

LINK: https://nypost.com/2019/08/05/video-shows-moment-cops-kill-connor-betts-during-dayton-massacre/

Russian Tactical Lessons Learned Fighting Chechen Separatists

Russian Tactical Lessons Learned Fighting Chechen
Separatists
Timothy L. Thomas
To cite this article: Timothy L. Thomas (2005) Russian Tactical Lessons Learned
Fighting Chechen Separatists, Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 18:4, 731-766,

DOI: 10.1080/13518040500355015
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/13518040500355015

 Russian Tactical Lessons Learned Fighting Chechen Separatists

Here’s the True Story Behind Lena Dunham’s Unnerving Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Character

Catherine Share, who inspired Gypsy in the film, is speaking out about Manson in the upcoming special “Manson: The Women.”

In Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, a fictionalized version of Charles Manson and his followers play a supporting role to the story of two fictional characters (Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt) in the entertainment industry. Quentin Tarantino took a lot of liberties with the story of the so-called Manson Family, some of whom ultimately carried out the murders of actress Sharon Tate and four others the night of August 8, 1969. But many of the characters in the movie are based on real people.

LINK: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a28471942/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-catherine-gypsy-share-lena-dunham-charles-manson/

FBI says ‘Pink Lady Bandit,’ who robbed multiple banks along the East Coast, has been arrested

Police in Charlotte arrested 35-year-old Circe Baez and her suspected accomplice, 38-year-old Alexis Morales, on Sunday, the FBI said. (Pitt County Sheriff’s Office)

She robbed multiple banks in several states along the East Coast, armed with notes demanding money from tellers — and, the authorities say, a “distinctive pink handbag.”

And now, the FBI says, the woman whom the bureau nicknamed the “Pink Lady Bandit” has been captured.

LINK: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/07/29/pink-lady-bandit-bank-robber-wanted-fbi/?utm_term=.8de20a6eaefc

Armed men steal $40 million of gold, metals from Brazil airport

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Armed men stole $40 million of gold and other precious metals on Thursday from a Sao Paulo cargo terminal at South America’s busiest airport, taking two hostages, police said.

LINK: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-crime/armed-men-steal-40-million-of-gold-metals-from-brazil-airport-idUSKCN1UK35P

The coming deepfakes threat to businesses

Oh, yes. Bwahahahahahahahaha!

In the first signs of a mounting threat, criminals are starting to use deepfakes — starting with AI-generated audio — to impersonate CEOs and steal millions from companies, which are largely unprepared to combat them.

LINK: https://www.axios.com/the-coming-deepfakes-threat-to-businesses-308432e8-f1d8-465e-b628-07498a7c1e2a.html