B. Clay Moore

I don't fly at all compared to years past, but I have to say the TSA at KCI were exceedingly polite and helpful today.

I'm enjoying watching Harrison Butker a lot more this year.

Way to hand the Jags a short field, haircut.

Let me know!

Whoa

Digging through old files, found a scan of old business cards, from maybe 15-20 years ago?

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I just want to be this guy until I die.

Y'all can have everything else.

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Two weeks ago Liverpool led the Prem by a "country mile," and woe is Arsenal.

Today sour-faced pundits begrudgingly admit Arsenal is the class of the league.

Football pundits are almost always somehow reflections of either the clubs they played for, or grew up rooting for.

That show is the best

screenshot from robertbloch.net (Audience question regarding the aspects of the Ed Gein murder case as they have supposedly, "historically" applied to Psycho. This otherwise cliched question rates inclusion here because of the breadth of Bob's definitive answer.) BOB: First of all, I didn't know anything about those aspects when I wrote Psycho. I did not use Ed Gein as a basis for Norman Bates at all; I used the circumstances, which were: somebody could live in a small town, where everybody knows everybody else's business, and conduct a series of murders without anyone suspecting. But people don't like this. They like to believe the legend. When you get right down to it, Ed Gein did not run a motel. He killed nobody in the shower. He did not preserve the body of his mother. None of those things were part of Mr. Gein's background. I invented a character at the time which, not having read the details, which were not being printed initially or immediately, because they were very prudish in most cases. Life magazine and a few other publications later came out with a great deal of stuff, but I would not have used it even if it had been available, because it didn't meet with my particular plot requirements. But the legend persists, and will continue to persist. A little over two weeks ago, I think, a network show called Hard Copy asked if they could interview me regarding Psycho. I said I did not want to be interviewed; I didn't want to go down to a studio. They said, "We'll send a crew out." I said to myself, well, if it's good enough for Ackerman, it's good enough for me...

screenshot continued They came, and throughout this interview they kept asking, "Didn't you think of Norman Bates because of Ed Gein?" Didn't Ed Gein inspire the characterization, and blah-blah-blah. I kept telling them what I just told you, and the interviewer and crew kept looking sadder. And sadder. I said to myself this isn't going to happen. Sure enough, the show came on, and they'd gone to Plainfield, which had been Gein's home town, and they did a very nice broadcast regarding the case, and they used some dramatization footage which I swear was probably part of a documentary that had been made at the time, because it was in black and white instead of color, and was not aired because it was undoubtedly too strong for audiences then. They salvaged that and put together this program. And I was a non-person. I didn't exist. My name wasn't mentioned, and I certainly did not appear onscreen. Obviously, if I had, they would not have had a program, because their title was The Inside Story: The Truth About the Ed Gein Murders! And my denials were the exact antithesis. This is a horrible lesson in how easy it is for media, today, to distort by omission, or by any kind of editing, what actually happened, what occurred. What I'm citing is trivial; it doesn't mean anything one way or the other. But think of the implications-how this sort of censorship and willful distortion affects so called "news" reporting, and so-called documentaries, on various topics that are of social or historical importance to an audience. And that's something that scares me far more than the activities of Mr. Gein.

all the press around the Ed Gein show seems to insist that Robert Bloch used Gein as the inspiration for Norman Bates - it’s become the accepted narrative - but here’s the thing: he didn’t!

It's cute that you think there will be an America in 2029.

They won't.

America isn't built for courage, conflict, or accepting that the nation isn't infallible.

The Kyren Lacy story isn't surprising. Police manipulated facts to pin blame on him. That's what police and prosecutors do more often than not.

Now that proof has come out that he wasn't to blame, they're lying in an effort to back up their original bullshit.

That's the other thing they do.

Well, also. I don't think it's a very good movie. But it's visually exciting, and the world is fascinating. And, yeah, the *tone* was almost overwhelming when I was a kid. The vibe. It was a lot to process.

TRON fascinates me, because it was a commercial and critical flop, but the SFX and designs were strong enough to keep it active enough in people's imaginations to eventually see it resurrected.

I would have done the same.

But as a pragmatist, I'd like to see anyone figure out how to do anything that has any impact.

Man, Doja Cat live is pretty fucking awesome. As an old man, I can say she reminds me of early 80s new wave. Performance art.

Her shows must be the bee's knees.

Please do. And those are two excellent choices!

At this point, I feel badly for always calling Stephen Miller a Nazi.

I owe the Nazis an apology.

Yep! I'm in Western Johnson County. Prepping for my daughter's wedding (in Vegas) and then NYCC, so probably won't make it out, but report back on where you went!

Are you in town? Chappel Roan?

"Reslonse." Nice job, Clay.

He's elated with the Brewers' offense.

Well, yeah, your right. I would definitely draw that line, it's true. The shrug from the Trump administration over Khashoggi's brutal murder is a thing I'll never get over.

What sucks is that our government won't ever push for change, and that's where differences can actually be made.

The batshit reslonse from the fascists over Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl is a clear indication of how far off the rails we are.

At any other time in the past 50 years, this would have been met with mild conversation.

We're now in a Civil War, and one side's entire ideology revolves around racism.

Sure. But I'm not sure it does any good to do so, or harm to not do so when it comes to things like performing comedy.

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Can I point out that as obviously unconstitutional and authoritarian this is, if also does not appear to have been written by Trump.

Where he be?

Kash Patel's challenge coins! You know you want one to prove you're a wicked badass!

I felt that way, I guess, but then I read an interview with him and listened to the perspectives of people who'd lived there, and the pragmatic side of me reconsidered.

I'm not sure how to parse the country from its leadership.

YouTube video by Cinema Hotel Studios Ennio Morricone - My Name is Nobody - Main Theme - (High Quality Audio) HD

Somehow I'd never watched the BBC's dark comedy NIGHTY NIGHT before, but using Morricone's theme from MY NAME IS NOBODY as incidental music is brilliant.

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