From the opening narration of dead matriarch Phoebe Martin giving the back story of her deranged family, “The Unknown” is several notches above the usual programmer.
Part of the “I Love a Mystery” series done briefly at Columbia in the mid 40’s, this one is the best, although the first one is pretty neat, too. However, for the most part, this one is unrelated to the first two. They had a bit of a comic overtone, while this one has a gothic feel to it, something like “Rebecca”. If not as well known or as polished as that film, it is equally as spooky.
The opening segment dramatizes the accidental death of the family patriarch which ultimately leads to the family’s desolation into being reduced to being totally reclusive from once the cream of society. When a young girl named Nina (Jeff Donnell) arrives after the death of Grandmother Martin, she quickly discovers her mentally disturbed mother (Karen Morley) who was driven to insanity by being forced to give up her husband, Nina’s father.
Soon, it’s apparent that someone is trying to get Nina out of the way and her attorneys must help her find out who the culprit is before it’s too late. This is where a lot of ingenious surprises come in, and there are lots of them.
(0856) Went back to bed, didn’t I, after Sun 1 to 3 and must have fallen asleep. (1043)
10. Moosh corner
9. Autopen
8. DAD at 1112
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5. Gremlins
Awoke from a second sleep and saw this:
Why two screenshots instead of one? Because the details in the left column include email and IP.
Right … I’ve been through and those two comments are certainly not there, which suggests it was targetted. So, let’s look at possible culprits. It does look like someone who likes mischief and is trying to drive a wedge between us all while all seemed calm and full speed ahead. Plus, has anything unusual happened since yesterday? Let’s start with that latter point.
Anything unusual?
Yes, as Julia could confirm. Ggl sent a letter to my main email about the OoL email not having been used for eight months. My question is … why eight months? Who would have gone into it eight months ago, when it was attached to the old, now removed (by ggl) OoL site (blgr)? When it was around since 2013?
Short answer is ggl itself, blgr, spammers or hackers. Yesterday, I recovered that email and Julia and I spoke of it. I can’t see it being Julia but it might be a hacker wanting to get at her or at me for something at OoL, or even our connection on X.
Also, I deleted some DM accounts yesterday, inc. tech people attached to Nole.
Lil ole me
Well, we’re down to bona fides or history, also psychology … why on earth would I choose IYE and Toodles? Esp. as I’m delighted Toods is in action and that was a nice exchange. Same with DAD, Andy or Steve.
Yes, obviously I could delete but when have I ever done that without making a song and dance about it? And why Toods and IYE, two key people at this site? On the other hand, what if someone were wanting to cause a rift there?
Toods or IYE themselves
… or someone technically close to or attached to either of them … and remember that both are in countries other than in the UK.
Quite a possibility but again … look at history … why has the sort of thing not happened before?
The Backend Man
This is the engineer who set up this site, HQ … some sort of fun or mischief? Quite possible, has the temperament … but again … why? We’re both pleased how HQ is operating.
Something within the backend itself, within our set up? Possible … tech glitches are always possible, esp. with hackers on himself trying to get at him with attacks.
The spam system here
Far from allaying IYE’s concern, this would add to it. Already not happy with the comments system, there are all sorts of factors affecting both his and her commenting, esp. within his and her own country.
There is WP itself too
… possibly unhappy I have not gone premium.
Plus, the way it works is that I’m hit every hour with up to twenty spam. I click individual comments, bulk label them spam and they go. But I have seen glitches where there were, say ten spam, then maybe three good comments, then maybe another five spam … and so on. Just why it would be Toods and IYE I can see is possible by sod’s law but I’m fairly careful what I click, which is one reason I do not blog mid to late evening … too tired and that gets dangerous.
The answer there is again attitude and history … has it been an issue before? And the reply is … before what? Yes indeed. Before what? What changed?
Plus one more thing … with the old N.O., some tech toerag was going through old posts for months, note that, and removing them. It did not stop us, so they stole the whole blog last July, around about now.
Now look again at the second screenshot above here, over to the right … 6:47 a.m. is one thing … but look also at the Tuesday [6 to 10]. Also, the question to me by Redacted was under a Wednesday post. Think on that one … old posts, now off the front page. 🤔
EE, WP, Apple, ggl, other providers?
Certainly it could … but why now? And why specifically Toods and IYE? The ipads are both playing up, that’s for sure, I’m having to constantly refresh. Plus, around 7 a.m., our time, is peak time, then late afternoon.
Redacted himself
Who. Bleedin’. Knows. Seriously. I’ll explore this, and shall report back if anything crops up.
Jewish or Jihadi reasons?
Possible. But why Toods and IYE? Just general mischief making? Who. Bleedin’. Knows.
Right, need to get going with Steve’s drops last evening.
My last thoughts on’t?
Those comments have certainly disappeared, I can’t find them anywhere … my feeling is it’s one of two reasons … one is sod’s law glitch, there are plenty of those. The other is that someone targetted HQ, looking for max mayhem, max fallout between contributors. So the question is … who would have a vested interest in that?
(0403) Redacted has asked me a question, so I’m going to answer it below but it also applies, that answer, in general. (0552)
3. In answer to a fair question
Redacted asks Toodles and I do we consider him a troll? I do vaguely recall recently using the word “troll” but it was not in connection with him, nor with any of our chaps and chapesses. However, it’s certainly a bit mongrel, us (plural) … someone once asked me to call off the “rottweilers”, which was a very left liberal mindset … I have zero influence over our lot, inc. Redacted. Unherdable Cats we are.
Every single reader who sticks it out here, unblocked, is a bit of a dangerous character in him/herself, is resourceful … in short, is a curmudgeon to a point, so niceties are what I do here in a Teddy R manner. “Keeping the peace” does not describe it, as I have very little influence … more it’s trying to keep this show on the road afap, dealing with this or that. That’s about it.
I’m loathe to enter disputes but again … no you’re not a troll … sometimes you can flood the comments thread (my problem mainly) but so can any here … observe Steve, DAD, IYE now and then. Talk about disparate tavern of patrons though … I hesitate to say “dirty dozen”, so let’s just say there are very few beg pardons.
The link in the sidebar called “Your Longer Pieces” is still useful though, in case you have some highly sensitive links … it gives a measure of protection, not being strictly front page … my job then is to signpost. Also, in a while, I’m going to shift that link to just below the “Succinct Words of Wisdom”.
Lastly, I have to come back to that Reagan comment, over and over:
2. Intriguing Xer I’ve seen around on X
Goes by the moniker Rus Garbage Human@RusGarbageHuman and his blurb goes: “Culturally English, Ethnically Russian. You cannot coexist with people who want you dead and your children sent to re-education camps. NEVER give up your guns.”
Given my own years spent in Russia, plus the way the ptb vilify anything and anyone Russian here, in the EU and in the US, plus being metaphysically Christian myself, I’m used to being vilified because I (sort of) do go looking for danger but not foolhardiness.
The vilified Baden-Powell (only of late have I been told why) nevertheless said some wise things and one was that “a good bushman never tries to rough it”. That is, he sees his situation at that moment, e.g. on bivouac on the side of a hill near, but not quite on the ridge, as what it is, he adapts to it and makes it as comfortable as humanly possible.
As a soldier, I was strategically bad in that my fellow squaddie and I used to spend half an hour of our allotted sleep gathering bracken to put under our ponchos, to act as palliases. Which got us into trouble with the sarge next morn, rested, as the whole idea of bivouac was to leave the surrounds as undisturbed as possible.
As I pointed out … we were on exercise, not for real, so we’d prefer to be in trouble and do the fatigues later back in camp, but gain valuable sleep for now … a habit not broken to this very day. Robert Baden-Powell’s point had been just that … create order out of chaos wherever you find yourself, create comfort out of hardship, be eternally aware, protect your fellow soldier or traveller, plus the Khalil Gibran maxim of “if possible, be at peace with the other person” … but I’d add the Teddy Roosevelt “speak softly but carry a big stick”. Also learn to blend into the background when required.
This Russian guy on X is quite adept … I’m still observing for now … what I like is his uncompromising way of telling it as it is … a bit like Redacted’s manner in his question … but Russkies are survivors in harsh conditions, so as far as I’m concerned, he’s welcome … I’ll drop something on him later in Russian. This is one of his tweets:
“Why was a white girl in the car with three blacks?” That was his comment on the news headline: “Drunk driver was speeding at 94mph before crash that killed four Essex university students – inquest”.
I’m going to reply to him: “Привет! Почему она вообще была с ними в машине? Почему в парке в пять утра нашли ещё одну мёртвую девочку? Интересная демографическая группа. Девочки никогда, никогда не учатся, особенно девушки из Эссекса и леволибералы, так почему же мы вообще о них заботимся? Древний вопрос, нет, уходящий корнями в глубокую древность?”
1. DAD
a) Arrested in 2017 for large-scale cannabis trafficking and finally sentenced two years later on appeal in Versailles (Yvelines) to eight and five years’ imprisonment, the B. brothers clearly didn’t take long to return to action.
b) Marine Le Pen announces her intention to bring down the government and stands ready in case of snap elections.
c) There is a massive misconception that All Epstein Victims were Teens. This is Far from the Truth.
d) In the chic 6th arrondissement of Paris, residents of the Vavin and Bréa streets neighborhood—backed by several celebrities—are opposing the opening of a Carrefour City – a cheap mini-supermarket.
Then we have those who call themselves “true MAGA” … what’s true MAGA? Is it not wanting America great again, which involves “draining the swamp”? And does that not involve charging perps, removing them? If removing the rot is not MAGA, then what is Tom Homan about? Tulsi?
Are they not “true MAGA” in your eyes? Oh, I see … “true MAGA” is doing the same as the cognitively dissonant left? That is … seeing something very wrong but then happy to have all investigations stopped, suppressed, all because this lot calling themselves “true MAGA” have decided that for us to continue to call for something obviously in existence is not “true MAGA”? That it’s treasonous to find out? Where do these people get off?
Ok, here’s something treasonous … I too called out the ridiculous WSJ birthday card BS … any BS I call out, so do these people:
Are Harmeet and JD and I traitors to America for calling it BS? A clear beat up? Now look at the linked YT … is that BS? If it certainly existed, then why not call for names? Since when is calling for that not “true MAGA”? By whose definition?
It’s insane not to drain the swamp when that was one key reason DJT was relected. Who exactly are the real traitors here?
… but not on all things. She said herself that she did not roam far and wide, which is fine … those across the pond are descendants of those who did … and the societies are more similar than the stay at homes often admit. Similar foundations at least.
Even within France, the difference between Gay Paree and the provinces and towns is quite marked, even for an English speaker to pick up on. Even between Brummieland here and the Black Country, there were marked differences … also between Lancs and Yorks. I’m in “enemy” territory over here right now.
Then comes the politics … Wokery and antiWokery … I can’t see how the two can reconcile. Once the conflagration with the fighting invaders starts though … what then? Sometimes it’s just attitude … fighter versus treehuggers.
Check out these accents … I adore both:
West Country:
Southern US:
Was just thinking though … the female holding it that way has less o shoot off than the male.
(i) Usually allegations about Rishi’s extreme wealth have proved to be false – they have treated his wife’s money as his own. Could this be an exception?
(ii) The “Blind Trust”: aha! Joe Bloggs might assume that the phrase implies a trust fund where the trustees decide on the investments and the settler of the money is kept in ignorance. Wonderful if true. But we learned from Toni Blair’s blind trust adventure that Cherie Blair was instructing the trustees what to invest in. So I now assume that all purported Blind Trusts are fake.
Maybe, just to be sure that Joe Bloggs understands the corruption involved we should refer to them as “Blair Trusts”.
13. Redacted come home, all is forgiven ☺️
Seriously though … look at that song in Sat 10 again … whatever your view of the song, the genre … every one of those guys and one gal were musos, adept at what they did, the result was not a cacophony but a blend of elements.
We need the angles, the links, even the remonstrances of each of us to jog along, to get there in the end. Toodles and I were talking about Long Tall Texans with six guns or whatever … we even have a France based contingent here … if we’re westwide, we’re getting a mix of approaches … there’s a connection with Mandy Gall with info from Eire … whowoodathunk it even a decade ago … she detests Sinn Fein … now tell me that all these angles are bad … dot dot dot.
At the same time, my job, “editingly”, is to watch flooding when the levy breaks … maybe we need an overflow channel for that … dead easy for me to create an “overflow page” for “longs” or long rants. Idea would be that if you feel a long rant coming on, drop it there, I see it, signpost here in big letters, just as I’d do for NOWP, OoL, for any of our drops. That Overflow link would be in HQ sidebar near the top, rather than in the navbar, which serves all sites.
You might ask why not just use the underused UHCWP? Cough, how can I put this … HQ is unique in that it has this extra freedom and self-control, you see, to the other sites, with bags of disk space … best to keep long rants within HQ itself. Were I to have some sort of index, table of contents at the top of that page, you could find the particular piece easily enough.
Let’s try that anyway … give me an hour or so to set it up.
12. IMHO, the purtiest gal in Congress, on digital currency
(0526) Grey bleah rises out there, low Gates cloud. (0606)
10. Was she pushed into it?
Plus Donny and Pammy? Or was it all part of the cunning plan?
Living on Tulsi time … with apologies to Eric, Sheryl, Don and Tulsi G
9. Uh huh … Fraser Nelson?
Anything to say, former Spectator editor?
8. DAD at 1110
a) Nice. The statue of Joan of Arc in Nice will not be removed. The Marseille Administrative Court of Appeal ruled Thursday in favor of the Nice municipality…
b) A far-left LGBTQ+ activist in France is alleged to have been at the heart of an underground pedophile network that drugged and raped children as young as three years old…
c) As the government seeks to save on healthcare spending, the French National Authority for Health (HAS) has unveiled recommendations aimed at “guaranteeing safe and high-quality care” for adult gender transition requests.…
d) ‘The situation has become intolerable!’ Nice is restricting access to city center streets due to spiraling drug crisis…
7. I just turned 60 today, yay! Razmatazz!
Translated, it just means that for 60 days straight, I’ve posted “Reader drops” … which in turn means our boys/lads/chaps have been doin’ their thang at NOWP … which in turn means that it’s running nicely, touch wood and/or thank the Lord.
