The script centers on a man (Pena) who is investigating a woman’s death set in the notorious and infamous Cecil Hotel. Brandon and Phillip Murphy wrote the initial script, which landed on the 2014 Black List and 2014 Blood List. Evan Dickson also worked on the project with the most recent draft being written by Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer, the duo behind the 2014 horror thriller Starry Eyes.
Matt Tolmach is producing as is Daniela Cristina Cretu. David Manpearl is also producing. Matt Milam and Dan Kagan is overseeing for the studio.
This show has been on for as long as I have been alive. When I was young, my mom and dad loved politics. They debated at the dinner table—those old adages of religion and politics not being discussed was certainly not true in my family..
And from an early age in life, I recall the voice of John McLaughlin signing off the weekly Sunday show with a “bye bye”… As I turned 13, this show featuring old farts bantering about presidents and Congress became one of the chief reasons I eventually got interested in politics and current events…
I even vividly recall one hot summer morning when I was out riding bikes with friends. . looking at my watch and realizing it was 11:25 am.. And I burned two-wheeled rubber just to make it home in time for the half hour dedication to the absurdity that is American politics..
The show was a must see every week. As tech roared in and time wore out, I normally caught the show on Monday, after Sunday, online…
But the impact is clear. On my life and so many others.
John McLaughlin was a lighthouse during turblent times. He made sense of nonsense and political intrigue. He wore bow ties on New Years and had one of the quickest and yet most amazing shows I have ever seen.
If you wanted to know anyting about politics, the McLaughlin Group outlived them all. Outlived the Capitol Gang. Outlived Brinkley.. Russert.. it was a perplexing thing to understand for some new to it.. but after a few weeks, it all made perfect sense.
This Sunday will be the last day. The final show.. And without John McLaughlin, no more “bye byes” … or Gobble Gobbles on Thanksgiving..
The surveillance video from Duffy’s Sports Grill in Jupiter has been released Friday, giving new insight into what led up to the deadly cannibal attack near Tequesta.
It’s at that restaurant where investigators say 19-year-old
Austin Harrouff
had dinner with relatives and stormed out following an argument with his father.
This is the second cannibal attack in Florida in just a few years..
There are people blaming this on drugs. But .. what if it’s not..
This is a naked sculpture of Donald Trump. I am saving your eyes and only showcasing the top up. A Google search can provide you with the REST of the story down below. This is a protest sculpture that has been popping up throughout the country..
The reason I show it: It gave me and my computer an interesting twist in life tonight…
While combing through news articles I stumbled across a Huffington Post story about how seeing that can force one to not unsee it.. it’s forever imprinted into your brain.
For me, it froze the computer immediately. The screen actually froze–embarassing I know–on the Full Monty version of the Trump statue. And then to complicate matters further, the computer actually is not even turning on now!
It is the curse of the Trump package, perhaps.
I broadcast this short dispatch with a warning: Avoid looking at the images at all costs! Your computer hardware may depend on it.
Brazil captain Neymar was in tears after he delivered the country’s first Olympic men’s soccer gold medal with the winning penalty in a 5-4 shootout victory over Germany in a thrilling final at the Maracana stadium on Saturday.
They lost a few times before during the games, mostly in the 80s …
You may have to indulge me a bit over the next few weeks.. Or longer.
Tonight my son Ayden began to swim on his own, without fear, at the tender age of 5.. he had his floaties, but still realized the proper way to move his arms and legs. He was confident and sure of himself.. It was a growing moment.
Next week will be the same. He begins kindergarten. Unfortunately I cannot bring myself to realize that truly, just yet. The idea has not reached fruition in my mind.
Kindergarten.. My God.. Five years .. all gone.
The emotions are going to run high. And there will be lows.. Growing pains. For children. And parents all the same.
This is a screen grab from a video that many believe shows an either REAL or staged human sacrifice on the capus of CERN!
Conspiracy theories rage in the night..
The video appeared on August 11th on YouTube and on the Facebook page ofStranger Than Fiction News. It shows what appears to be a staged human sacrifice ritual performed on CERN grounds at night. Most of the people are in black cloaks and a woman appears to be stabbed. The French news agency AFP reports that it contacted CERN about the video and an unnamed official confirms some aspects of it..
The money quote:
“These scenes were filmed on our premises, but without official permission or knowledge,” a CERN spokeswoman told AFP in an email.
“CERN does not condone this type of spoof, which can give rise to misunderstandings about the scientific nature of our work,” she added.
The “investigation” under way was an “internal matter”, she said.
The video has raised questions about security on CERN’s campus.
Asked to detail the security procedures surrounding access to the campus, the CERN spokeswoman said: “CERN IDs are checked systematically at each entry to the CERN site whether it is night or day.”
She further indicated that those responsible for the prank had access badges.
We had a rough one today for the 5 year olds.. Four of our players did not make it.. The three that remained played the entire game without too many breaks. Ayden, my son, had a run in with his child crush.. And her kept allowing her to steal the ball from him without figthing back much. But my team perservered.. the they not give up.. they kept strong and they ended up on the losing end of the goal race but victorious in their ablity to work together and be a team. Loved seeing it, and my wife and I especially had some pride knowing that the weeks of coaching may be paying off..
Metallica released a new song.. and is releasing a brand new album..
The listing:
Disc One Hardwired Atlas, Rise! Now That We’re Dead Moth Into Flame Am I Savage? Halo On Fire
Disc Two Confusion Dream No More ManUNkind Here Comes Revenge Murder One Spit Out The Bone
Metallica always had and always will have a special place in my heart. There were some people from my past who I shared memories with over a song or two.. and even today there are times my son jams out to songs from last century when he hears them..
Pre-orders for Hardwired…To Self Destruct are available through Metallica.com.
This is the GFS model *(run today)* for 276 hours from now.. it shows a pretty substantial tropical system developing along the East Coast of the United States.
If this holds true, get ready.. An early warning for weather watchers along he coast.. There is lots of time for this to change. Or for you to get ready.
There have been a ton of opinions about what should happened to the shuttered and sad former high school Cardinal Brennan (my alma mater in the coal region of the Eastern mines) .. North Schuylkill school district purchased it, auctioned off the internals.. The building is vacant. Some believe it should be knocked down, others say keep it.
Some encouraging news took place recently from the camp keep it..
Substantial optimism was expressed at the latest North Schuylkill School Board meeting for the possibility of saving the main Cardinal Brennan High School building–built in 1926.. an all girl’s school then that eventually become an integrated Catholic high school that closed in the mid 2000s..
During a presentation to the board, a professional expert advised he believed the building is structurally sound and can be rehabilitated much more inexpensively than if it were razed and replaced by a new school building.
A decision is still to come. But this is giving many hope that the building which once houses voices and laughter of children will once again do the same..
A blast from the coal region past.. The “Ashland Daily News” doesn’t exist anymore.. but in 1949 it reported that homes were demolished – homes in the path of proposed stripping.. The road mentioned in the brief snippet is what is now called “Snake road” that ties together Ashland and Mt Carmel..
All the stripping left the landscape vanquished. What exists now? Dirt, rubbish, couches, and just about any piece of garbage people can dump along a highway.
Now that the flood waters ravaging Louisiana are receding, it’s time for President Barack Obama to visit the most anguished state in the union.
Last week, as torrential rains brought death, destruction and misery to Louisiana, the president continued his vacation at Martha’s Vineyard, a playground for the posh and well-connected.
We’ve seen this story before in Louisiana, and we don’t deserve a sequel. In 2005, a fly-over by a vacationing President George W. Bush became a symbol of official neglect for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The current president was among those making political hay out of Bush’s aloofness.
I feel like a certain new chapter in life has just started.. But I can’t yet close the old one. I need the right line to finish this current states before moving on.. But time doesn’t wait for an author to create the perfect word. And if I don’t finish the book, someone else will.. The beat goes on.
Florida: Martin County Sheriff William Snyder told reporters that Austin Harrouff may have been on hallucinogenic drugs when he attacked Michelle Mishcon, 53, and John Stevens III, 59, at their Tequesta, Florida, home.
Militi insists his replies are a cross-section of voters in age, gender and geography. “These are the same results we saw when he (Trump) was in the primaries,” he says. He contends that most media polls are just flat-out wrong and that smartphone answers are the future.
A car burns after violence erupted during a standoff between police and an angry crowd near N. 44th St. and W. Auer Ave.(Photo: Calvin Mattheis / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
A standoff between police and an angry crowd turned violent Saturday night in the hours after a Milwaukee police officer shot and killed an armed suspect during a foot chase.
After an hours-long confrontation with officers, police reported at 10:15 p.m. CT that a gas station was set on fire. Police said firefighters could not get close to the blaze because of gunshots.
The incident started in the afternoon when two officers stopped two people in a car in the city’s north side, according to the Milwaukee Police Department.
Shortly after, both occupants fled on foot and officers pursued them, police said. During the chase, one officer shot a 23-year-old man who was armed, according to authorities.“He (officer) ordered that individual to drop his gun, the individual did not drop his gun,” Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said. “He had the gun with him and the officer fired several times."The man died at the scene.
Saturday nights are made for fighting.. But this is no way to handle anything..
In a post to his WordPress blog, the vandal–who previously provided nearly 20,000 Democratic National Committee e-mails to Wikileaks–uploaded an Excel file that includes the cell phone numbers and private e-mail addresses of nearly every Democratic member of the House of Representatives.
The Excel file also includes similar contact information for hundreds of congressional staff members (chiefs of staff, press secretaries, legislative directors, schedulers) and campaign personnel.
In announcing the leak of the document, “Guccifer 2.0” reported that the spreadsheet was stolen during a hack of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “As you see I wasn’t wasting my time! It was even easier than in the case of the DNC breach,” the hacker wrote.
Scenes from America during an election.. Anger during a political campaign.. And a sudden burst of anti CNN furor over their coverage of the election of 2016..
The United States’s women’s soccer team lost at the Rio games today.. penalty kicks.. it was intense.
After the match remained tied at 1-1 through 120 minutes, it went to penalty kicks for the first time in Olympic women’s soccer ..
Victory parties were already planned back stateside.. but the anti-US Olympics fans, most yelling “ZIKA” at Hope Solo for the duration of the games so far, seemingly had the last laugh..
The aftermath seems more brutal than other Olympics losses..
HOPE SOLO garnered the most attention post loss.. she called Sweden cowards.. explaining why:
“Sweden dropped off. They didn’t want to open play. They didn’t want to play great soccer. It was a combative game, a physical game. Exactly what they wanted and exactly what their game-plan was. They dropped into a 50. They didn’t try and press. They didn’t want to open the game. And they tried to counter with long balls. We had that style of play when Pia [Sundhage] was our coach. I don’t think they’re going make it far in the tournament. I think it was very cowardly. But they won. They’re moving on, and we’re going home.”
The conviction of Brendan Dassey, a Wisconsin man who appeared in the documentary “Making a Murderer,” has been overturned by a federal judge in Milwaukee, according to court documents obtained by CNN…
Austerity has eroded young men’s traditional means of value-creation so they have become increasingly reliant on their bodies as a means of feeling valuable in society,” said study author Jamie Hakim, a professor at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. “In theoretical terms, so-called ‘spornosexuality’ is an embodied response to material changes brought about by neoliberal austerity.”
The study found that the most significant increase for gym attendance from 2006 to 2013 was among 16- to 25-year-old men. Hakim denied the growing interest in bodybuilding simply reflects a new craze.
As reported during the attempted coup in Turkey.. my home state is making international news .. This from CNN:
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave the United States “an ultimatum,” demanding the extradition of the cleric he believes is behind the failed July 15 coup attempt.
The state-run Anadolu news agency reported that Erdogan had said the US had to choose between its relationship with Turkey and Fethullah Gulen, a former Erdogan ally who has been in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania for decades.
The Fountain Springs Country Club and Golf Links in Ashland PA as it once was.. Way way back.. before it closed.. before it turned into a public restaurant (and the place I worked for some time and got married at in October 2007) ..
The golf course is now gone as well.. so is the tennis course. In place of it, a new housing community …
This is as big an election scandal if ever heard.. Wikileaks is not only saying that they’ll give $20,000 to anyone with I formation about the murder of Seth Rich but that Rich was also the source of the emails from inside the DNC.. Shattering rumors it was Russia .. And raising a whole whole whole bunch of new one..
Another interesting tidbit reported late evening yesterday: Roger Stone appears to be in touch with Wikileaks… We will watch where that goes..
As the campaign turns. The wildest election in modern history continues..
An old postcard of Immaculate Heart Academy. Which then turned into Cardinal Brennan high school, my Alma mater.. which now sits dormant and vacant. Purchased by North Schuylkill school district, no plans have yet been announced for the building. But everything in it was sold at a public auction earlier in 2016..
The once famed Loeper Hotel in Ashland PA .. I have heard some rumors from old timers of how amazing the restaurant and bar were in the heyday of coal..
Now the building is the site of a senior citizen high rise …
This is a PBS documentary on the Centralia mine fire from 1982.. and these images, the smoke and houses and end of times feel, is exactly what I remember from my very early youth..
These are scenes from the 1980s SEARS Christmas catalog … The catalog was normally sent to houses around this time of year through September in the mail.
My wife and I were trying to tell my son today that this is how we used to do Christmas toys.. just get the book and circle what we wanted..
Ayden actually has already begun his summer list. Sure it’s early August, but why not..
And after looking through image searches for old nostalgic toy ads from paper books, I miss it…
Despite dismal reviews, Warner Bros. “Suicide Squad” is heading for an impressive $140 million opening weekend at the North American box office, early estimates showed Friday. The supervillain tentpole, playing at 4,255 locations, will wind up in the top 20 domestic launches of all time.
It is having an enormous box office weekend.. And doing very well in Mexico and the UK along with the United States..
Critics be damned.. this movie is huge. Perhaps a strike back against movie reviewers in a big way: With dollars.
About 42 percent of likely voters favored Clinton, to Trump’s 39 percent, according to the July 31-Aug. 4 online poll of 1,154 likely voters. The poll had a credibility interval of plus or minus 3 percentage points, meaning that the results suggest the race is roughly even.
Among registered voters over the same period, Clinton held a lead of five percentage points, down from eight percentage points on Monday, according to the poll.
KDKA received some calls into our newsroom about it, starting around 8 p.m.
People reported seeing a shiny, silver object in the sky. The reports were coming from areas west of downtown.
“Around 8 p.m., we were looking up into the northern sky and saw what looked like just to be a bright, silver object in the sky, and then after we got a telescope on it, it looked like it was a clear balloon that was catching the light as it moved from west to east,” said Russ Moll, of McKees Rocks.
Moll says it was it a very odd sight in the evening sky.
“It stood out because it was before dusk and so the stars weren’t out yet, so it just really caught our eye,” Moll said. “You noticed it as being something out of the ordinary.”
And this..
The National Weather Service sends balloons up to measure atmospheric conditions; however, they said they had no issues Thursday night.
In a statement, they say: “We’ve had no issues with the launch this evening or any calls about objects floating/glowing in the sky.”
Look to the sky! You’ll never know what you will see..
The Post is using homegrown software to automatically produce hundreds of real-time news reports about the Olympics. Starting tomorrow morning, those items will appear, without human intervention, on the Post’s website, as well as in outside channels like its Twitter account.
The idea is to use artificial intelligence to quickly create simple but useful reports on scores, medal counts and other data-centric news bits — so that the Post’s human journalists can work on more interesting and complex work, says Jeremy Gilbert, who heads up new digital projects for the paper.
“We’re not trying to replace reporters,” he said. “We’re trying to free them up.”
Gilbert and Sam Han, the paper’s head of data science, have a team of three engineers working full-time on Heliograf, the Post’s AI software. A few more product analysts are spending about half of their time on the project, and four or five newsroom staffers are also spending time shaping the software.
This is what a STRANGER THINGS VHS cover art box would have looked like if it would have been released in the 1980s.. And since the show is based with the 80s as the setting, the cover art and photo just feel right. Like it WAS made in the Reagan era..
Critics have lambasted the film.. some have called for the website ROTTEN TOMATOES to actually be shut down because of the negative press that has been linked on the SUICIDE SQUAD page..
What is noteworthy about the aforementioned article linked here: My friend Anghus Houvouras from Flickering Myth got quoted by CNBC about the movie and controversy:
“I think they believe the potential is there. Take (2016’s) ‘Ghostbusters’ which pushed a very strong misogynist narrative. It became less about the quality of the film and more about the 'importance’ of a blockbuster with an all-female leading cast,” Anghus Houvouras, movie maker and writer for the pop culture website Flickering Myth, told CNBC via email.
“Sony and Paul Feig got on board and beat that horse to death. But it didn’t end up resulting in the kind of cultural zeitgeist they were hoping for. Those who benefit from feuds are the media and websites that proliferate a binary narrative. Conflict breeds clicks,” he said.
On Friday, the FDA released a final environmental assessment of the trial, finding that it “will not have significant impacts on the environment.” The project, led by Oxitec, a biotech company that focuses on insect control, calls for the release of thousands of genetically engineered male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. The lab insects are bred so that over time they could kill off much of the local mosquito population by passing on a gene fatal to any offspring they have with wild females.
“NEWS ACCESS RULES APPLICABLE FOR THE BROADCAST OF THE GAMES OF THE XXXI OLYMPIAD, RIO DE JANEIRO, 5-21 AUGUST 2016”
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The title of the document from the
International Olympic Committee that is prohibiting without exception the use of GIFs of memorable Olympics moments..
The full text reads:
“Internet and Mobile Platforms Notwithstanding any other applicable limitation included in these NARs, Olympic Material must not be broadcast on interactive services such as “news active” or “sports active” or any other related Video on Demand services, which would allow the viewer to make a viewing choice within a channel and to thereby view Olympic Material at times and programs other than when broadcast as part of a News Program as set out in Clause 1 above. Additionally, the use of Olympic Material transformed into graphic animated formats such as animated GIFs (i.e. GIFV), GFY, WebM, or short video formats such as Vines and others, is expressly prohibited.”
and with that.. the GIFs are banned.. Done. Edited out. Down the memory hole. Nonexistent.
The summer Olympics are set.. Brazil is ready? Maybe.. The opening ceremonies begin tonight even if there are still pollutants in water and mosquitoes on the loose.
Zika was the big fear.. other fears have come since.
A sampling for some headlines potentially paints a not so rosy scenario concerning the Rio Games …
Americans are getting heavier and heavier. But new U.S. estimates may still come as a shock – since the late 1980s and early 1990s, the average American has put on 15 or more additional pounds without getting any taller.
As expected, David Paulides dropped new stories during his appearance last night on Coast to Coast AM.. Stories of hunters. Weird tales of people who know the forest, people who utilize various forms of instrumentation to find directions, people who carry weapons, all vanishing without a trace. In some instances, traces are found. In one specific story, one man was found after being dead for two weeks. But he wasn’t dead the whole time.. the coroner’s report in that instance said he was dead for only four days. The weird anomaly: His feet were literally worn down to the bone—literally the bottoms of his feet were worn away.
These are the types of stories that David Paulides tells George Knapp, the occasional host of the macabre airwaves under the cover of moonlight..
There was a new bombshell dropped last night during the program. Paulides described a bow hunter in the forest with her Blackberry—before the bankruptcy of the company, obviously. She noticed how the forest seemed to stop dead—no noise, no sound. Just silence. It felt strange. She went on to describe what really makes little sense: Just like in the movie PREDATOR, fuzzy saran-wrap-like figures jumping from one tree to the next.. She even snapped a photo of what appeared to be a mostly fuzzy landscape with a hairlike structure near the edge of the picture. The amazing story aside, the bow hunter’s husband is Dr. Bruce Maccabee—a very well known UFO expert..
It’s all so weird, so bizarre.
Paulides went on last night to also remind listeners of some prior cases where people came back from being missing. Those people describe having fuzzy memories, people looking at them from behind shrubs in the woods, or not even recall being last. Almost like walking into another reality, as George Knapp pointed out during the show. I have been an avid reader of Paulides books. I also spoke to George Knapp about this very topic a bit ago…
It fascinates me and scares me alike. I live near the woods in Pennsylvania. And I also had me own experience that I wrote about in May 2014.
During that time, I had a similar experience where the ‘forest went silent.’ Though my moment of silence was even weirder because, at midnight when it occurred, one lone songbird actually began to sing in the middle of the night. I saw a meteor or something streak across the sky, and then immediately began hearing what sounded, for lack of any better explanation, a chain-like noise. Almost like something being drug across the forest floor. But I did not hear footsteps. My dog Mutley heard it too and got into an attack formation, coupled with the hair on his spine rising as high as I ever saw it.. The noise continued to get louder and louder until it seemed like it was literally on top of me. I grew very cold and afraid. Despite turning on a spotlight on the side of the house, I saw nothing at all.. The noise dissipated after a few minutes. It felt like I was in the middle of a recording, or endless loop of some other reality..
The most troubling aspect of my personal tale is this: I had this foreboding sense about the whole thing. While I wanted to go about 15 more feet and step into the forest, I had some weird notion that whatever it was making this noise WANTED me to walk into the woods.. almost like it was tempting me to enter its territory and terrain, as though there was some weird boundary that it could not cross… Equally strange was a conversation I had with a deer hunter a few months ago. Given my interest I the unusual, I asked him if he ever had a ‘dead forest’ moment when he hunted. He said he did.. but it did not last long. He was deer hunting at a camp with several other hunters. While outside for a cigarette, he said the woods literally went dead and lifeless for about ten or so seconds. And then the noises of the forest came back again.
All so weird.. so strange. So peculiar.
The complex mystery continues. There seems to be no sound answer to the lost and unfound. David Paulides offered no reasonable explanation, as he purposely does not. George Knapp described it all as best he could: Like a harvest.
The harvest idea may be the most frightening of all to contemplate.
Apparently he is planning to have 3d holograms and a solar paneled tombstone that will constantly play his music.. He is also reportedly very serious about the funeral plans despite some early laughs from those close to him.
It is a little bizarre perhaps.. But Biebs is 22.. he saw some pretty amazing people die young this year, like Prince.. And maybe he is also aware of the dreaded ‘27 club’ that so many stars have found themselves become the victim of..
After all… we all have something dark and menacing tagging behind us until the end..
It’s curious to ponder.. What should athletes fear the most? Zika? Dirty bombs? Or those warnings not to ingest water during certain games because of pollution and dead bodies. Anyone wondering like me if Rio is even ready?
The 2100s are going to be troublesome… A giant asteroid is set then to pass between the earth and the moon. Chances are the media will only start reporting about it a few days prior. Nothing changes.
My son’s first soccer game is quickly approaching.. my wife and I as coaches has been pretty cool to be honest. The kids are amazing, funny, and filled with life and energy. A lot of energy.. so much so that we are winded after practices a lot more than the four and five year olds we are attempting to form into a cohesive set of players ..
But what is strange, and perhaps somehow due to my son’s seemingly honest love of the game of soccer, is how many times in the past few days he watched the movie UNDERDOGS. MY wife wathced it alone with him twice.. I did twice too.. and we as a family watched it a number of times.
As a matter of fact, as I type this post, he is watching it again. I lost count. It is great, though.. the movie i wonderful and has an excellent lesson about how victory is not everything..
Truly an amazing movie. UNDERDOGS is a good movie.. even if your child is not a soccer fan.
I love Infinite Waters and have really come to love an respect Ralph Smart. I have followed for years, but lately his message and the overall goal of Ralph seems to be really resonating with a lot of amazing people .. Kudos to him.
And kudos on this infographic..
For anyone who has either cut back on meat or cut it out completely, you know what stark and dire warnings you have been given by meat eaters.. you have been told you will be unhealthy and die early.. you have also been asked the dreaded question: Where do YOU get your protein from!
I often ask back, where do YOU get your fiber from? Since meat does not contain any bit of it… But it surely has cholesterol..
That being said, there also are some vegans who have come to truly get under my skin and make me boil with anger.. if they want to convince someone to go veg, being vindictive on YouTube is not the approach.. they just fall into the normal talking point people say about them. Perception is reality. Reality is also perception…
But if you have it in your heart, your private heart, to ponder a reduction in meat.. and you fear protein loss? Just look at that infographic here.. just realize you have plenty of sources.
Vitamin B12 and Iron may be a necessary concern for supplementation, but not protein if you have an overall whole foods planet based source of protein..
I think as he gets older he will fully accept the terms and conditions of life with the reading of this mag monthly..
Alfred E. Neuman is back in my life.. instead of hiding MAD behind other rags, I can now leave it proudly on top of the stack and simply say it’s my son’s magazine. Wink wink.
