Behind the Bastards

I have a book called After the Revolution. You can find it anywhere you want to. You can find it on Amazon. You can find it on the AK Press website. You can find links there to a bunch of local indie book dealers where you can buy it. So go to Google AK Press After the Revolution or get it literally anywhere else.

It's that guy terraform in action by Scott Winkler, which has what looks like an Ottoman Janissary on the front.

I have a book called After the Revolution if you want to buy it and you're looking where you can get it in an indie bookstore in your area. You can check out this thing. I just learned about called bookshop.org.

It's sort of a series of interviews with folks. And, you know, I mean, I just asked them like about their lives and what it was like to be trans and what it was like to be autistic and what it's like to, you know, try to transition as an autistic person.

So I'm looking specifically at how trans autistic community groups or grassroots group formations are forming and what their goals are.

I always like to plug Rupe's Walsh's work, which looks at, you know, they do a lot of work in trans autistic stuff too. And they kind of look at why more people may be Trans and Autistic. And one of the things they've found is that it may be that autistic people are both less capable of hiding the fact that they're trans and less capable of caring or caring about hiding it.

Trans and Autistic Stories from Life at the Intersection by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. It was out in 2020, I think. People can find it on Amazon or wherever you buy books. I'm sure Powell's Bookstore over there in Portland has it.

It's a series of interviews with folks who are Trans and Autistic. I sat down with folks and asked them about their life and what's going on and what that looks like. And then I sort of, you know, tried to transcribe that into a text, into a narrative form and put that in a book and here we are.

He claims to have an engaged from an early age in elaborate nightmare acts of child sacrifice to gain powers.

He claims that at age 11, he becomes a priest and learns human visits by the devil and start sacrificing people.

He would get involved as a high priest of a secret cult that practiced black magic human sacrificed and worshipped a god called Nyanbe Awe who he believed was actually the devil during this time.

He just made himself into like a superhero villain.

Not since the conversion of Saul of Tarsus on the road to Damascus, have I ever heard a conversation a conversion story more radically compelling.

True Grit being maybe the most the one that's most famous today.

A drunken hard-nosed US Marshal and Texas Ranger helps a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer.

He was drunken and hard-nosed.

two of his very best performances in his career were filmed really late in it when he's an old guy, the shootest and true grit,

the basic plot of The Shootist is there's this old gunfighter who's dying of cancer, like Wayne was kind of at the time.

And he wants to engineer a last gunfight to kill himself.

And instead he gets shot in the back and killed, which is like a weirdly, like suggests a weird amount of self-knowledge for John Wayne that like, that's the movie he goes out in

gave him various Indian remedies for diarrhea.

puking and crapping blood for a week

He had to show these self-important actors that he was as manly as they were he drank like crazy which prolonged his dysentery

He demanded his children profess their love to him on a daily basis barely able to sleep Duke awoke every day before dawn and demanded the entire house rise with him. Even if it was a day off for family and friends. He had a litany of rules based upon superstitions, which were a result of a childhood of poverty and emotional abuse by his mother ever convinced that he was destined for ruin Duke insisted that the superstitions be followed or his life would collapse into abject failure.

an underaged prostitute with a smoking body and amazing good looks.

Biographer Richard Douglas Jensen describes Marion's mother is straight up abusive, probably physically abusive and definitely mentally abusive.

Marion became a neurotic kid, unable to sleep normally without nightmares.

Like all children growing up in a household filled with abuse, he internalized the strain of the abuse and blamed himself for their unhappiness.

The movies were his respite from reality.

Duke was a rambunctious kid, athletic and imaginative. He was also restless.

And I think that also was at the centralization of agriculture was like a pockle disaster in a lot of ways that took like decades to recover from.

In her book Reality Bites Back, Jennifer Posner describes it this way: this special which predated the game-changing Survivor was a hybrid of Miss America and mail order bride parade with executive producer Mike Fleiss of next Entertainment.

Inside the letter, it was specifically targeted towards Maya Kobe's book, Gender Queer, a memoir, which is a Gender Queer graphic novel kind of detailing what it's like to be Gender Queer.

It's definitely popular among kind of the adult, like a young adult kind of age range and is a good resource for kind of gender bending type stuff.

It also it includes in this list like titles like The Legal Atlas of the United States teen legal rights.

In The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Christopher Hitchens writes, quote, from his seat in the Pentagon, Clifford, who's again the secretary of defense, had actually been able to read the intelligence transcripts that picked up and recorded what he terms a secret personal channel between President Thieu in Saigon and the Nixon campaign.

It was more unusual even that he than he acknowledged. Kissinger had until then been a devoted partisan of Nelson Rockefeller, the matchless, the wealthy prince of liberal republicanism. His contempt for the person and policies of Richard Nixon was undisguised.

He had made himself helpful as Rockefeller's cheap foreign policy advisor by supplying French intermediaries with their own contacts in Hanoi.