You Tube Attacks Milanka Kudel
ET 56
Editorial Thunder presents...
You Tube Attacks Milanka Kudel
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Plus: You Tube deletes two ( more ) of my playlists.
And: Is my iPhone a pedophile?
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YOU TUBE ATTACKS MILANKA KUDEL
Milanka Kudel is the most beautiful girl in the world. She’s 12 years old. ( Probably, she’s a bit younger, but I don’t want to short a girl her age of any valuable years. ) She writes in a Cyrillic script. That means she’s another of the wonderful beauties of Russia, or lands nearby.
( I was once tasked with killing everyone in this region, if ordered to do so by the United Fucking States of America - Jim Morrison’s name for America. Thank God the order to “drop the bomb” never came. ) ( Russia fucked the area instead - with Chernobyl. )
I might not have snuffed Milanka, pre-birth. However, You Tube has now deleted many of her videos. Each “[ Deleted video ]” notice reads:
“This video has been removed for violating YouTube’s Terms of Service.”
I have been shocked many times by You Tube’s treatment of its young female customers. Why You Tube deleted many of Milanka’s innocuous videos is beyond me. The only plausible reason is that of malice toward Milanka, on the part of You Tube’s staff. Milanka Kudel can now proudly say that she’s “too hot for You Tube”. Her mere presence is too steamy and lovely for You Tube’s witches, and their fag collaborators, to bear. ( “Fag” is the best term I can conjure for wimpy, gutless, kowtowing males. Note to them: your thumb goes in your mouth, not in your ass. )
MY BUTT GETS FUCKED - AGAIN!
You Tube is a cesspool of hypocrisy. Once again, a You Tube employee has attacked my channel. The anonymous You Tube employee “removed” ( deleted ) two of my playlists.
Meanwhile, You Tube grinds out lies that praise its inclusiveness. It does this in the form of articles addressed to its customers. ( Oddly, I only have access to these articles when You Tube attacks my channel, and I’m trying to appeal. This is probably due to the fact that I’ve never uploaded a video to You Tube. That means that my access to You Tube Studio is very limited. )
The latest lies from You Tube begin with an article posted on December 3, 2020. I found this article at my ( limited ) version of You Tube Studio, when I was filing a playlist appeal. I have no access to this article now.
The article is said to appear at “blog ( dot ) youtube”. Using Google, independently of You Tube, I went to “blog ( dot ) youtube”. The article’s headline is there. I clicked on the article’s headline numerous times. The headline behaves as if it is a link. However, the headline does not actually connect to anything.
The relevant part of the headline that I wish to quote from the article follows:
“ ... our efforts to make YouTube a more inclusive platform.”
- Johanna Wright, Vice President of Product Management At YouTube. December 3, 2020.
“Johanna Wrong” would be a better name for this person. It is Johanna who capitalized the word “At” in “At YouTube”. I guess basic spelling escapes Johanna, along with inclusiveness.
More lies from Johanna:
“We are making updates to continue supporting diverse creator communities on YouTube”.
Sure, Johanna Wrong. That’s why You Tube ceaselessly deletes videos by girls on You Tube. That’s also why You Tube keeps terminating channels by girls on You Tube, including channels by Milana of Minsk.
Johanna Wrong continues:
“Since its early days, YouTube has always strived to be a place where creators of all backgrounds can have a voice, find a community and even build a business, including many that may be underrepresented or might not otherwise have had a platform. We’re committed to supporting the diverse creator communities on YouTube and their continued success.
“As our CEO [ Chief Executive Officer ] Susan Wojkickme wrote in June, we’re examining how our policies and products are working for everyone ... and working to close any gaps.”
In the paragraph above, “wrote” is in blue. This is meant to indicate that it is a link. There are many such purported links in this letter. There are also such links in a letter by Susan Wojkickme. I clicked on many of these supposed links, in both letters. None of them worked.
Also, as with such internet missives, there are no page numbers.
If Johanna Wrong is indeed “working to close any gaps”, as she claims ( above ) she can begin by not abusing girls.
MORE YOU TUBE CENSORSHIP COMING
You Tube has turned off comments for most every channel owned by a girl on You Tube. ( That is, any channel owned by any girl ). Apparently, this isn’t enough for Adolf Hitler ( I mean, Susan Wojkickme ). In her letter of December 3, Johanna Wrong writes of “Removing harmful and hateful comments”. To wit:
“We have been focused on improving comments with the goal of driving healthier conversations on YouTube. Over the last few years, we launched new features to ... shape the tone of conversations on ... channels.”
Hence, you aren’t getting free speech on a given You Tube channel. Even if a channel’s owner approves of your comments, You Tube itself might peremptorily delete what you have to say. To wit:
“ ... there’s more we can do to prevent [ channel owners ] from seeing hurtful comments in the first place. To address that, we’ll be testing a new filter in YouTube Studio for potentially inappropriate and hurtful comments that have been automatically held for review, so that [ channel owners ] don’t ever need to read them if they don’t want to.”
Probably, you can mentally erase the last bit of the sentence, above. It’s the part that reads,
“if they don’t want to”.
Today, most every girl who owns a channel on You Tube has no choice but to turn comments off. When you watch a girl’s video, you can’t comment on it.
However, a few girls still have comments turned on, for one or more of their videos.
It may be that You Tube will soon destroy this option. You Tube could automatically hold all comments for review. That is, all comments offered to a girl, about her video. If a girl does have comments turned on, You Tube may hold for review any comment that you, as a viewer, try to make.
Let’s say that you post a comment to a girl’s video. At her channel, you’re accustomed to seeing your comment appear at once. Probably, You Tube will begin automatically holding any comment for review. Even if the girl wants your comment to post at once, it won’t. ( At this time, a girl can choose whether or not a given comment posts immediately. She can manage this at the level of the individual viewer. Now, You Tube might steal that choice from her. So much for womens’ vaunted ‘freedom of choice’. )
Note: I am using the term “channel owner”. You Tube uses the term “creator”, as in ‘channel creator’. At You Tube, the only owner is You Tube. At best, you’re a serf. More likely, especially if you’re a girl, you’re a sinner. A sinner who needs to be punished.
Johanna Wrong continues:
“To encourage respectful conversations on YouTube, we’re launching a new feature that will warn users when their comment may be offensive to others.”
So, don’t criticize child molesters on You Tube. I’d find that offensive.
Johanna Wrong continues:
“In addition, we’ve also invested in technology that helps our systems better detect AND REMOVE hateful comments by taking into account the topic of the video and the context of a comment. [ Emphasis added. ] These efforts are making an impact.”
Johanna Wrong brags about removing lots of “hate speech” comments. She also boasts that “in the last quarter” ( a three month period ) You Tube terminated “more than 1.8 million channels ... for violating our policies”.
Johanna Wrong next speaks of “continuing our commitment to support [ channel owners ]”. To wit:
“Our goal is to make YouTube a place where [ channel owners ] can thrive in the long term.”
Actually, Johanna Wrong’s goal is to make You Tube a place where girl creators can be tortured by You Tube’s staff over the long term. That’s not a quip by me. That’s my observational experience. ( You Tube also tortures me, when it’s not trying to utterly terminate me. )
Johanna Wrong continues:
“We want to ensure our systems do not reflect UNintentional bias.” ( Emphasis added. )
Sure, lady.
Johanna Wrong continues:
“Today, we’re announcing a new effort to help us more proactively identify potential gaps in our systems that might impact a [ channel owner’s ] opportunity to reach their full potential.”
Gee, Johanna. Here’s an idea: stop abusing girls.
Johanna Wrong continues:
“We’ll also be looking for possible patterns of hate, HARASSMENT, and discrimination that may affect some communities more than others.” ( Emphasis added. )
Uh, like girls?
Johanna Wrong continues:
“We’ll introduce a survey that asks [ channel owners ] for information on race, gender, ethnicity and sexual orientation to help ensure all [ channel owners ] have equal opportunities to succeed.”
So, if you’re a pedophile, make sure You Tube includes your sexual orientation!
Johanna Wrong continues:
“YouTube is consulting with [ channel owners ] as we develop our survey ... and we’ll continue this project with the guidance of civil and human rights experts. To start, we’ll be coordinating with NAMBLA, the North American Man / Boy Love Association.”
Whew! I was afraid that Johanna would forget NAMBLA. Then again, I’m not a journalist. A mortal like me can sometimes make errors in my reporting.
Johanna Wrong continues:
“If we find ANY issues in our systems that impact specific communities, we’re committed to working to fix them. [ Emphasis added. ] And we’ll continue to share our progress on these efforts with you.”
Please, my ass has had enough, Johanna. Nothing more will fit in it.
( The bitch doesn’t shut up. )
Johanna Wrong continues:
“The steps we’re announcing today are part of our ongoing work to ensure that YouTube continues to be a platform where [ channel owners ] of all backgrounds can thrive. ... Thank you for sharing your perspectives with us and helping to make YouTube a better place for everyone.”
CRAP FROM WOJKICKME
You Tube’s CEO Susan Wojkickme weighed in with “My mid-year update to the YouTube community” on June 11, 2020. Amid her pabulum, she writes:
“[ Channel owners ] continue to share stories that might not otherwise be heard.”
Really, Susan? Not if you viciously delete them.
Wojkickme continues:
“We have always been proud that we are a platform that celebrates a broad and diverse set of voices, particularly those of pedophiles and their loved ones. And we have implemented many policies and product features to protect our communities.”
Thanks, Susan!
“But we recognize we need to do more,” Wojkickme writes.
Indeed, Susan. Some people are still bigoted toward ‘child molesters’. There are even ‘Epstein deniers’. Such heretics refuse to believe that they are saved solely by the grace of Jeffrey Epstein.
Wojkickme says that You Tube will, as of last June, “highlight ... protest coverage”. I’m sure she’ll be on the front lines covering the Million Molester March, when it finally hits Washington’s streets. Also, You Tube will “bring together ... prominent activist voices”. Say, Susan, how about simply not screwing with girls’ videos on You Tube?
Wojkickme waxes lyrical about You Tube content that “showcases incredibly important stories about the centuries - long fight for equity.” Not equality, mind you. Wojkickme won’t be sharing her paycheck with you anytime soon. Or any of Google’s “robber baron” wealth, as a U.S. Senator called it. ( Editorial Thunder, issue number 55. )
Wojkickme speaks of “protection from hate and harassment”.
Sure, Susan. Tell your staff to stop bullying girls on You Tube.
Wojkickme speaks of “representing a broad set of voices”.
Wojkickme claims that You Tube is “an open platform”.
“INTO THE VALLEY OF DEATH” - Tennyson
That brings us to You Tube’s latest attack on my channel. My letter to You Tube Support is printed below:
December 3, 2020
Dear You Tube Support,
A campaign of harassment is being conducted against me by someone on You Tube’s staff.
This campaign of harassment began last March. At that time, my You Tube account was wrongfully terminated, twice, in rapid succession. I appealed twice, and won both times. Immediately thereafter, someone at You Tube tampered with my You Tube password, and even demanded my Apple password. This same You Tube employee then deleted one of my playlists.
Additionally, the following happened. When the You Tube employee first wrongfully terminated my You Tube account, the employee also wrongfully terminated all my Google accounts. This included my Gmail account, and my use of the Google browser. I won my appeal regarding these terminations.
In September, a new tactic of harassment was begun against me by someone on You Tube’s staff. Every six weeks, one or more of my playlists are removed from my channel.
I have never uploaded a video to You Tube.
All of my playlists are constructed entirely of videos that You Tube has allowed on You Tube.
In every case, the videos in my playlists remain available on You Tube.
On December 1, two more of my playlists were removed. Enclosed are my appeal letters to You Tube Appeals.
Dear You Tube Appeals,
On December 1, you removed my playlist: “Videos and songs”. Of my playlist, you write: “we think it violates our child safety policy”. My response is as follows:
1. I have never uploaded any video to You Tube.
2. My playlists are constructed entirely of videos that You Tube has allowed on You Tube.
3. Every video that was in my playlist “Videos and songs” remains on You Tube.
4. My playlist “Videos and songs” simply collected videos from other You Tube channels.
5. You Tube’s staff is removing playlists from my channel every six weeks.
6. My playlist “Videos and songs” has existed without change for about a year.
As a disabled veteran, I am outraged that you are abusively targeting me by deleting my innocuous playlists. The United States Congress is deeply concerned about Big Tech’s abusive practices. Your parent company, Google, is now being sued by the Justice Department for being abusive. Your actions are violating my rights as a paying customer of You Tube. Your actions violate my rights as a California consumer.
Dear You Tube Appeals,
On December 1, you removed my playlist: “Girls, women”. Of my playlist, you write: “we think it violates our child safety policy”. My response is as follows:
1. I have never uploaded any video to You Tube.
2. My playlists are constructed entirely of videos that You Tube has allowed on You Tube.
3. Every video that was in my playlist “Girls, women” remains on You Tube.
4. My playlist “Girls, women” simply collected videos from other You Tube channels.
5. You Tube’s staff is removing playlists from my channel every six weeks.
6. My playlist “Girls, women” has existed nearly unchanged for some time.
As a disabled veteran, I am outraged that you are abusively targeting me by deleting my innocuous playlists. The United States Congress is deeply concerned about Big Tech’s abusive practices. Your parent company, Google, is now being sued by the Justice Department for being abusive. Your actions are violating my rights as a paying customer of You Tube. Your actions violate my rights as a California consumer.
Sincerely,
Andrew Roller
My channel: Andrew Roller
My Gmail: pleasefuckme@gmail.com
My Apple e-mail: fuckmeheretoo@icloud.com
I appreciate any help you can give me. I am deeply upset by how You Tube is treating me.
That is the end of my letter to You Tube Support.
SATAN’S ABYSS, ANALYZED
Perhaps it was my descriptions of my playlists that got me in trouble. Let’s consider them.
1. Videos and songs - Forbidden young lust, exposed for your lascivious pleasure.
2. Girls, women - Hell bound maidens in unspeakable acts of unbridled sin.
Actually, my playlist descriptions were as follows:
1. Videos and songs - This is my first attempt at a playlist. It has a wide variety of things.
2. Girls, women - A variety of videos featuring girls and women.
Dangerous, huh? Humanity has been saved, thanks to You Tube’s censorship of my channel.
Going on You Tube, I bump into videos. That’s the point of You Tube - to provide videos to its customers. If I click on a video, You Tube offers a dozen more that are similar to it. I can’t possibly watch all the videos that You Tube shoves at me. However, I don’t want to forget a number of these videos.
That’s why I created my playlists. They’re an organizational tool. If You Tube hands me a dozen videos, I can put them into my playlists. Then, when I have time, I’ll watch them.
My playlist “Videos and songs” was an assortment of videos that I liked, but had yet to organize.
My playlist “Girls, women” was an assortment of videos that I liked, but that I was unable to turn into separate playlists. ( That’s because You Tube limits the number of playlists that I can create. It does this by limiting how many playlists show up in an informational box. I see this box, which lists all of my playlists, whenever I try to add a video to one of my playlists. I assume that this limitation applies to all You Tube customers. )
I have only a vague memory of what videos were in my playlists that You Tube deleted. It is idiotic for You Tube to be attacking my playlists. They’re merely mundane organizational tools.
When, to my astonishment, I found that people were subscribing to my You Tube channel, I attempted to make my channel spiffy. That amounts to no more than tidying one’s living room when one finds company at the door.
In the past, the following happened: A You Tube staffer, who claimed she couldn’t help me, suggested that I make my playlists private. I declined. Why? First, You Tube can still screw me even if my playlists are “private”. You Tube can see everything on You Tube. Second, You Tube is a social media platform. Why would I want my playlists to be private on a platform whose stated purpose is social interaction and sharing?
Some people are, by nature, secretive. If that’s what suits them, so be it. However, we would not be Americans if, say, George Washington had confined himself to being secretly upset with England. We wouldn’t be “free” if George Patton had been only secretly upset with the Nazis. And the Christians among us wouldn’t be saved if Jesus had just been secretly upset with the circumstances of his time. In fact, all three men have long since passed from this earth.
I do my best to maintain “a place in the sun”, to quote the late photographer of naked young girls, David Hamilton.
Since a You Tube employee has ( once again ) deleted two of my playlists, my channel currently has a strike against it. This means that I can’t fix any problems at my channel.
YOU TUBE’S “SHARE” SUCKS
In a previous article, I mentioned “Share” on You Tube. “Share” appears below any video on You Tube. Dana Taranova highlighted “Share” in one of her videos. ( Dana’s video has now been deleted by You Tube, “for violating YouTube’s Terms of Service”. )
I thought “Share” allowed a viewer to communicate with the person who uploaded the video. ( For instance, with Dana. ) “Share” does not do this. Instead, it simply lets you communicate with someone who’s address you already have. That is, you can’t e-mail Dana about her video. However, you can e-mail your mom about Dana’s video. ( Assuming that you have your mom’s e-mail address. )
IN CONCLUSION ...
I’ve yet to succeed on You Tube. However, thanks to You Tube’s staff, I sure have managed to suck seed. I hope the girls that You Tube’s staff has abused don’t feel the same.
IS MY iPHONE A PEDOPHILE?
Almost every “photo” on my phone is a screen shot. Recently, I noticed something. Entirely on its own, my Apple iPhone generated images for the word “Baby”. The result was 282 ( legal ) photos of girls. With rare exceptions, all were nude, libidinously proffered, or having sex. I guess I have some great screen shots, even if few actual babies are in them.
Also, I guess my phone wishes the girls in my screen shots were younger. That means my phone is a pedophile.
Sadly, my iPad has yet to transition. So far, it has failed to enlighten itself with regard to the joys of the pedophile lifestyle. Due to my phone’s limited memory, I only use my iPad to go on You Tube. I guess You Tube’s puritanism has held my iPad back.
I’d explore this issue further. However, a girl is asking to borrow my phone.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
If you visit an “AbeBooks” website, you’ll be presented with a large square “Search” box. In the box labelled “Author”, type in “Andrew Roller”. In the box labelled “Title”, type in “Andrew Roller Presents”. This will bring up some of my pamphlets. I have not yet figured out how to bring up other pamphlets by me, under other titles. I don’t recall all the titles I published under.
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
At the “home page” of my You Tube channel, you’ll see just a selection of playlists that I created. To see all my playlists, tap on the phrase, “Created playlists”.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 56
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 56, version 3.0
Date Written: December 4, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Milana is Back!
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ET 55
Editorial Thunder presents...
Milana is Back!
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Plus: Many videos deleted by “Danatar”.
And: You Tube et al. are “robber barons”.
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Who is the most popular girl on the internet? Based on internet search requests that come to my blog, the answer is:
Milana from Minsk!
You might wonder who comes in second place. The answer is:
Dana Taranova!
Milana is again on You Tube. I’m providing this information in the form of an e-mail to Dana.
“Subject: How to Sell your Videos!
Dear Dana,
Milana from Minsk is now selling her videos. You might like to do what she’s doing! For more information on how Milana is doing this, go to You Tube.
At You Tube, go to the channel, “Family Channel”.
Watch Milana’s video, “Instructions on how to Access paid Video”. Unfortunately, this video has now disappeared from “HOME” at “Family Channel”. It is in “VIDEOS” at “Family Channel”.
Or, you can search for the video called “Instructions on how to Access paid Video”. Use You Tube’s search icon ( the magnifying glass ) to do this. If you type in “Instructions on how to Access paid Video”, and hit your keypad’s return key, the video will appear.
At “Family Channel”, you can also go to “ABOUT”. There, you’ll find other places where you can see Milana, if you wish to.
The icon for “Family Channel” depicts Milana wearing a mask. I guess that’s because You Tube has banned her from You Tube so often.
Probably, citing “subvention”, You Tube will ban “Family Channel”. So, if you wish to learn how Milana is selling her videos, you’ll want to watch “Instructions on how to Access paid Video” right away.
Here are two examples of what You Tube calls “subvention”:
1. “Subvention” occurs when a You Tube customer has a video, or her whole channel, banned. Let’s say that You Tube bans a person’s channel. That person then rejoins You Tube, and starts a new channel. When You Tube finds out, You Tube doesn’t have to give that customer any strikes. You Tube can immediately ban the new channel.
2. Let’s say that You Tube deletes a customer’s video. Then, the customer uploads the same video to You Tube again. You Tube, citing “subvention”, can now ban the customer’s entire channel. It doesn’t have to give the customer any strikes.
“Subvention” is buried somewhere in You Tube’s “Terms of Service” or “Community Standards”. What I have written here about “subvention” is my best guess as to what You Tube is saying.
I notice that You Tube has again deleted the video by Ustina Abramova of herself on a swing. ( Video: GYMNAST ON SWING. Tina Backstage ). What You Tube thinks is “wrong” with Ustina’s video is beyond me. You Tube has now deleted two versions of Ustina’s swing video! I guess girls can’t swing on You Tube!
Best of luck to you!
You are great!”
You Tube also deleted the video by Ustina Abramova titled, “HOME GYMNASTIC WARM-UP / Tina Flexible”. If I made a screen recording of it, I can’t find it. ( “Photos”, on Apple’s iPad, doesn’t let me title or rearrange screen recordings. It also doesn’t let me put screen recordings into labelled folders. Also, the icons for most You Tube screen recordings, in my “Screen Recordings” section of “Photos”, are black. )
You Tube has deleted many, many Ustina Abramova videos besides those mentioned in this blog post. Who knew that innocuous videos by a 10 or 11-year-old girl in Ukraine could be so sinful?
Dana, of Ukraine, is 13-years-old. As of last spring, Milana from Minsk was 14. She is in fact of Minsk, Belarus.
My favorite video at “Family Channel”, that is new to me, is called,
“Milana’s last Summer”.
Where are other places that you can find “Milana from Minsk” on the internet? The following information comes from the “ABOUT” page at Milana’s You Tube channel, “Family Channel”. These places are:
1. Patreon. Click on this link. It takes you to the following:
milanafamily.com ( I am now, again, able to send messages to Milana here. I do this by clicking on a small olive box in the bottom right-hand corner of my screen at milanafamily ( dot ) com. Words in the box read: “Contact Us Offline”.
Before I could send Milana a message, I had to input my name and e-mail address: Arnold Schwarzenegger. E-mail: I’m Big @ he man ( dot ) org. Hopefully, Milana’s sister Olga won’t kick me off of milanafamily ( dot ) com again!
At milanafamily ( dot ) com, Milana lists various prices for her videos. A video that I liked was priced at “$2,00”. This can easily be interpreted as two thousand dollars! I love Milana’s videos, but I could join lots of porn sites for $2,000. This comma problem afflicts all of Milana’s prices.
I asked Milana to change “$2,00” to “$2.00”. I also mentioned that, in her video called, “Instructions on how to Access paid Video”, she doesn’t mention the name of her website! Nor is milanafamily ( dot ) com ( the website’s name ) displayed in her video.
2. Facebook. This connects to facebook ( dot ) com. A boring Facebook sign-up page is shown.
As I was kicked off of Facebook, I have no access beyond the sign-up page. I do want to say the following. Based on my unbiased research, Mark Fuckerberg, Facebook’s owner, is a piece of shit.
My research is based in part on seeing Mark Fuckerberg on T.V. on November 17th. He was testifying at a hearing held by the United States Senate. ( More on that below. )
3. Instagram. ( Owned by Facebook. ) This connects to instagram ( dot ) com. The page is in English. ( More on that below. )
At Instagram, the page for “milanaphoenix” is shown. The top photo is in black and white. It depicts the wind blowing through Milana’s hair. Many fine photos of Milana follow, as I scroll down. Then, the piece of shit intervenes. I’m told by Instagram, which Mark Fuckerberg owns, that I must “Log in to continue”. As I was banned by Facebook, and Facebook owns Instagram, I’m banned from Instagram too. I have never been a customer of Instagram.
4. Blogspot. This connects to milanas-family-blog.blogspot.com
The background color on this page is blue. The letters heading it read,
“FAMILY CHASINGSUN / BELARUS”. The letters look like they’ve been written in blue chalk.
THE BAD FANBOY
Where Milana is, her doppelganger is sure to follow! I’m speaking of the fanboy who copies her videos, and then uploads them to You Tube as his own. Any hearts that you get from “Milana” at his channels are from the fanboy. The same is true of any comments by “Milana” at his channels.
I’ve been kissed many times by Milana. Sadly, these were internet kisses, from the fanboy.
Milana doesn’t like the fanboy. However, he does a superb job of finding the absolute juiciest still photos of Milana. He does this by culling images from Milana’s videos. Someone should hire this troubled genius to be the photo editor at a girl-themed magazine.
The fanboy’s three You Tube channels are:
1. Milana Minsk
My favorite video here is “Milana’s water jets hop”.
2. Minsk - Belarus
My favorite video here is “Trailer”. At ( the real ) Milana’s former You Tube channels, this video was called, “a small lifes..” This video is not currently on “Family Channel”, which is owned by the real Milana.
The visual quality of “Trailer” may not be as good as it was in “a small lifes..”
3. Brother Simon of Milana. ( Simon Rudnik is not Milana’s brother. He is the son of Milana’s 25-year-old married friend, Natasha. )
Let’s look at the “ABOUT” page for each of the fanboy’s channels. His first channel is called,
Milana Minsk.
At “ABOUT”, I found the following links to the internet:
1. Instagram. ( Owned by Facebook. ) This connects to instagram ( dot ) com. The page is in Spanish! This page is probably owned by the fanboy, even though it is identical to Milana’s Instagram page that is in English.
The page for “milanaphoenix” is shown. The top photo is in black and white. It depicts the wind blowing through Milana’s hair. Many fine photos of Milana follow, as I scroll down. Then, the piece of shit intervenes. I’m told by Instagram, which Mark Fuckerberg owns, that I must “Log in to continue”. I’m told this in Spanish.
2. Telegram. This connects to t ( dot ) me.
The Telegram page for “Milanafamily” is shown. However, this is a page by the fanboy.
I am able to scroll down some distance on this page. However, it’s useless for me to try to join Telegram. That’s because the piece of shit ( Mark Fuckerberg ) owns Telegram. Since I was banned by Facebook, I’m banned from every platform that Mark Fuckerberg’s Facebook owns.
3. Pay Site. This connects to milanafamily ( dot ) com. However, it does not connect to the “Home” page for milanafamily ( dot ) com, as I would expect. It connects to the “My shop” page. I’ll leave further deductions to you. I hope the fanboy is trying to help Milana.
If you want to buy videos at milanafamily ( dot ) com, make sure you go there using an internet browser. ( Don’t try to connect to milanafamily ( dot ) com, to buy videos, via the “ABOUT” page at You Tube. )
The “Home” page for milanafamily ( dot ) com has a photo of a gorgeous white horse at the top of it. Delightfully, the photo turns out to be a video as you sit and watch it. ( I just learned this. At milanafamily ( dot ) com, I was always hurrying on to find photos of Milana in her yellow string bikini! )
4. Facebook. This connects to the piece of shit’s website. The sign-up page is in English.
Now, let’s see what’s at the “ABOUT” page for the fanboy’s second channel. The fanboy’s second channel is called,
Minsk - Belarus
Here’s what I found:
1. Patreon. This page connects to “milanafamily ( dot ) com”. Suspiciously, it doesn’t connect to the “Home” page, but to the “My shop” page.
2. Blogspot. This page connects to “milanaminsk.blogspot.com”. Note: this is NOT Milana’s blogspot page, which is:
milanas-family-blog.blogspot.com
The background color on the fanboy’s Blogspot page is pink. The lettering at the top of the page reads, in cursive, “Milana Chasingsun”. The lettering is red.
There are links at the fanboy’s Blogspot “home” page. As this is his channel, and not Milana’s, I’m not going to list the links here. I did click on each link. I included all relevant information from these links in this blog post.
3. Facebook. This connects to “facebook ( dot ) com”. Here, you can see the boring sign-in page for ( did I call him this yet? ) piece of shit Mark Fuckerberg’s Facebook.
4. Instagram. This connects to “instagram ( dot ) com”. It is the English version of Milana’s Instagram page.
The fanboy’s third channel, “Brother Simon of Milana”, has one link at its “ABOUT” page. It connects to:
Patreon. Once again, we are taken to the “My shop” page at “milanafamily ( dot ) com”.
NEW MILANA FANBOY - CRISTIAN MIRANDA
Next, let’s talk about a new “Milana from Minsk” fanboy. I get the sense that this is a fanboy that Milana approves of. His You Tube channel is called, “Cristian Miranda”. The channel includes many videos of Milana, and two videos of another woman. ( Note: his name is “Cristian”, not “Christian” - no “h”. )
Cristian is superb at selecting photos of Milana. I recommend his video, “Milana shows her mornings”. It is possible that Milana herself made this video.
Cristian has a keen sensibility. At the “ABOUT” page for his channel is the following:
“The only thing evil needs to succeed is for good men to do nothing.”
- Edmund Burke.
Google, which owns You Tube, once had a slogan. It was:
“Don’t be evil”.
With his quote by Edmund Burke, who do you think Cristian is identifying as “evil”?
Adolf Hitler? Satan? A “child molester”?
I think Cristian is referring to You Tube, which has abused many young girls, and teen girls, including Milana from Minsk. You Tube’s treatment of Milana from Minsk has been inexplicable and atrocious.
Cristian’s “ABOUT” page doesn’t have any internet links.
MILANA VIDEOS AT “SIMON RUDNIK”
A few videos featuring Milana from Minsk are at the You Tube channel, “Simon Rudnik”. My favorite ones are:
Natasha and Milana on the river
Wedding
Both videos, though now credited to “Simon Rudnik”, were formerly videos at Milana’s various You Tube channels.
MANY VIDEOS DELETED BY “DANATAR”
I’m providing this information in the form of an e-mail to Dana:
“Subject: Sad about Deleted Videos.
Dear Dana,
You do a great job of uploading videos to You Tube. Unfortunately, you also do a great job of deleting videos from You Tube, or making them “private”.
I am deeply saddened that you’ve removed many, many videos from your channel, “Danatar Tar”. You also made a number of videos “private”. This means that I, and others, can’t watch them anymore.
I realize that You Tube is a terrorist organization; against its own customers. You know more about You Tube than I do. I’m sure that you feel you’ve made the right decisions with regard to your videos.
You Tube has deleted its “Notifications” function, for every You Tube channel and video. You Tube is a weird company.
In place of the “Notifications” icon , You Tube has put an icon of a plus sign in a circle. I clicked on it. A new page appears. It reads: “Start the show”. You Tube wants me, and everyone else, to upload new videos to You Tube. You Tube has made other changes, elsewhere, to try to get more people to upload more videos to You Tube.
Why? The answer is obvious. You Tube has deleted many videos. They’ve done this by saying that such videos violate their “Terms of Service” and “Community Standards”. Hence, You Tube now has fewer videos! Meanwhile, they’ve angered many of their customers. They’ve also banned many of their customers.
Would I ever upload a video to You Tube? No! Even though I’ve never uploaded a video to You Tube, I’ve been thoroughly abused by them, with regard to my playlists of videos by others.
Plus, I imagine that nobody would want to watch a video by me.
You Tube has now made the icons and words quite small at my channel. I can barely see them! I used to love scrolling down through the icons for the various videos heading my playlists. That’s not fun anymore, since the headline photos are too small to enjoy. ( Fortunately, a video still plays at its normal size if I tap on it. )
Thanks for showing us how to contact you by tapping “Share” under your various videos. I tried each option. Every one is routed through You Tube. So, I’m reluctant to use this method to write to you. “Share” lets You Tube read my messages to You.
I guess “Share” is meant to be a replacement for the loss of “Comments”. “Comments” were, at one time, able to be posted to your videos. No more.
I liked “Comments” very much. Not only could I write to you, publicly, but I could read others’ comments to you, and your replies. Of course, You Tube wants people to think that only girls your age, or younger, watch your videos. It’s akin to You Tube saying, “No Black people here! You Tube only allows viewers who are White people.” Or, as signs in store windows used to say, in America, “No Dogs or Irish”.
Well, I’m here, You Tube! Even though you’ve made me almost invisible, and tried more than once to terminate my account. And I’m not a teenager, or younger. And I love Dana’s videos!
I love your new video, “FOR MY SUBSCRIBERS”. [ At “Danatar Tar”. ] I especially love your long black boots in this video. You should be a girl in one or more James Bond movies. In fact, if someone decides to create a girl James Bond, you should be its star!
Please keep your “old” videos featuring yourself, from when you were younger. You were fabulously beautiful then, as you are now!
Keep being your wonderful self!
You are the best; including in all your deleted videos!”
My belief is that Dana deleted many of her videos ( in this most recent tranche of deletions ), due to present or past bullying by You Tube’s censors. Dana may also have been influenced by You Tube’s abuse of other girls. ( For instance, Ustina Abramova. )
YOU TUBE et al. ARE “ROBBER BARONS”
I’m providing this information in the form of an e-mail to Dana:
“Subject: Big Tech Coordinates Censorship.
Dear Dana,
Some time ago, I suggested that American Big Tech companies might be coordinating their censorship actions.
It turns out that this is true. You can watch a video about this on You Tube. The video is at the channel “Fox News”. It’s titled, “Tucker: Big Tech’s coordinated suppression amounts to a ‘censorship cartel’”.
This information was revealed on November 17th at a hearing held by the United States Senate.
Facebook uses a program called “Sentra” to track its customers all over the internet. Facebook does that even if the Facebook customer has quit out of the Facebook app. Facebook then compiles this information about each of its customers, and sells it.
My understanding is that Facebook tracks its current customers. Whether Facebook continues to track its former customers was left unclear.
Using a program called “Tasks”, Facebook shares the information that it has gathered with other Big Tech companies. The companies that were mentioned, in regard to this, are Google and Twitter.
On Tucker Carlson Tonight, a senator called America’s Big Tech companies “robber barons”.
In the future, America’s government may use antitrust law to alter how America’s Big Tech companies can operate.
I very much miss all the videos of you when you were younger!
You are super beautiful, and wonderfully talented!”
The broadcast date for the Tucker Carlson video is November 17.
On You Tube, I looked up my profile. I did this some time ago. There, I found various names and, in one case, a government agency listed. I think these were called “potential contacts”.
I was stunned to see these “potential contacts” in my You Tube profile. I haven’t seen them on You Tube itself.
I had been contacted, in the past, by a “potential contact”. He’d contacted me via Google’s Gmail. As for the government agency, I only recall contacting it via Apple’s iCloud.
Hence, by using Google’s browser, Gmail, or You Tube, you may be allowing Google to track you wherever you go on the internet.
A senator on Tucker Carlson Tonight said that the Big Tech companies coordinate “very, very closely” as they censor their customers.
America’s Democrats favor censorship. They think that more Big Tech censorship will help them impose their agenda on America. Democrats forget the example of France’s King Louis XVI. I found the following on Google:
Question: Why are guillotines slanted?
Answer: The oblique or angled blade was reportedly ordered by King Louis XVI of France. He thought it would be more adaptable to necks of all sizes, than the crescent blade previously in use. ... An angled blade was used in the guillotine with which he was executed a few years later. His head was cleanly lopped off.
Search term: “who invented the guillotine”. ( Joseph-Ignace Guillotin neither invented, nor was killed by, the Guillotine. He died of natural causes. I obtained this information from, respectively, Google, and Wikipedia. )
A Democrat senator from Delaware, Chris Coons ( a white man ), favors Big Tech censorship. He spoke to Big Tech, in the Senate hearing, of the need to remove customer content that violates “civic integrity”.
I assume Coons was speaking of a man who was a traitor to his country. George Washington, citizen and army officer of Britain, betrayed Britain to found the United States of America.
Then there’s the sleaze named Paul Revere. Mark Fuckerberg would definitely censor him. How dare Revere alert his fellow ( British ) citizens that “The British are coming! The British are coming!” If nothing else, Revere is guilty of spamming.
( Google informs me that Revere never shouted “The British are coming.” So, I guess Revere is also guilty of misinformation.
Search terms: “when was Paul Revere’s famous ride?”, and “What did Paul Revere actually yell?”
According to Google, Paul Revere didn’t yell anything. So Revere is distorting history too. )
Apparently, America’s “history” is utterly fraudulent. It’s actually a history of the abuse of Black people. Nothing else merits attention. ( Except, that is, America’s abuse of women, Indians, gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgendered folks, and the mysterious Q people. )
America’s history is definitely not about white people. That’s why the Associated Press demands that we not capitalize “white”. We are to capitalize “Blacks”, “Native Americans”, “Asian Americans”, “Mars Americans”, etc.
Mark Fuckerberg, in the Senate hearing, echoed Coon’s term of “civic integrity”. Fuckerberg spoke of “community integrity”. It is only a rumor that Fuckerberg and Coons shared a toilet stall prior to the hearing.
At the hearing, Fuckerberg denied any knowledge of his tracking program “Sentra”. Later in the day, a Facebook spokesperson admitted that “Sentra” was real.
DON’T PARLEY AT PARLER
The website “parler (dot ) com” is touted by Republicans as an alternative to Big Tech social media sites. The Fox News channel personality “Dan Bong ( ino ) is a co-owner of Parler. A few months ago, I read Parler’s Terms of Service. They’re awful. Parler imposes the late Senator J. James Exon’s original “Communications Decency Act” at its website.
That is, Parler censors its content as the Federal Communications Commission censors broadcast television. If you upload cable T.V. - type content to Parler, you’ll be banned by Parler.
Having read Parler’s Terms of Service, I did not join. At least they warned me.
SAY “YES” TO WORDPRESS
The only website that I’ve found that allows ( most ) free speech is WordPress ( dot ) com. WordPress allows more free speech than most social media websites. That includes porn social media websites!
WordPress also allows more free speech than most internet hosting platforms. That includes internet hosting platforms that host porn websites.
WordPress does not allow porn videos. They do allow me. Based on my reading of many social media websites’ Terms of Service, including porn websites, I’d be banned by such websites.
Based on my reading of many internet hosting platforms’ Terms of Service, including platforms that host porn sites, I’d be banned by such platforms.
GINGRICH, CARLSON ON BIG TECH
“Are we just sheep to be dominated by the high tech businesses?”
- Newt Gingrich, speaking on the “Hannity” T.V. show. Fox News, November 5, 2020.
“Censorship and bullying degrade the country.”
- Tucker Carlson, Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox News, November 5, 2020.
SAN DIEGO ON “CHILD MOLESTERS”
“Every
Age
Gender
PREFERENCE ( emphasis added )
Past
Future
Matters”
The word “Respect” is written inside a box, for emphasis, at the bottom.
- Street banner. It’s in the median strip of Broadway Avenue. On one side of the street is San Diego’s “Hall of Justice”. ( A courthouse. ) ( The only other place that I’ve seen a courthouse labelled “Hall of Justice” is in the first Mad Max movie. )
Beside the “Hall of Justice” is a big hole. A new building is replacing yet another San Diego courthouse, that was demolished. ( Presumably, San Diego is building a new courthouse here. )
( Then again, San Diego might be constructing a building to house NAMBLA, the North American / Man Boy Love Association. One can always hope! )
On the other side of the street, where this banner is located, is a new Federal courthouse. Two additional Federal courthouses flank this new one.
San Diego’s public law library is in the vicinity. So is its jail.
( Sadly, the preschool by the new Federal courthouse closed. There were some cute girls there, including a fabulous blonde! )
The street banner celebrates “Black Lives Matter”. It was paid for and hung by the city of San Diego. Michael Jackson, you are redeemed!
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I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
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I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
If you visit an “AbeBooks” website, you’ll be presented with a large square “Search” box. In the box labelled “Author”, type in “Andrew Roller”. In the box labelled “Title”, type in “Andrew Roller Presents”. This will bring up some of my pamphlets. I have not yet figured out how to bring up other pamphlets by me, under other titles. I don’t recall all the titles I published under.
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
At the “home page” of my You Tube channel, you’ll see just a selection of playlists that I created. To see all my playlists, tap on the phrase, “Created playlists”.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 55
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 55, version 16.0
Date Written: November 18, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 55
Editorial Thunder presents...
Milana is Back!
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Plus: Many videos deleted by “Danatar”.
And: You Tube et al. are “robber barons”.
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Who is the most popular girl on the internet? Based on internet search requests that come to my blog, the answer is:
Milana from Minsk!
You might wonder who comes in second place. The answer is:
Dana Taranova!
Milana is again on You Tube. I’m providing this information in the form of an e-mail to Dana.
“Subject: How to Sell your Videos!
Dear Dana,
Milana from Minsk is now selling her videos. You might like to do what she’s doing! For more information on how Milana is doing this, go to You Tube.
At You Tube, go to the channel, “Family Channel”.
Watch Milana’s video, “Instructions on how to Access paid Video”. Unfortunately, this video has now disappeared from “HOME” at “Family Channel”. It is in “VIDEOS” at “Family Channel”.
Or, you can search for the video called “Instructions on how to Access paid Video”. Use You Tube’s search icon ( the magnifying glass ) to do this. If you type in “Instructions on how to Access paid Video”, and hit your keypad’s return key, the video will appear.
At “Family Channel”, you can also go to “ABOUT”. There, you’ll find other places where you can see Milana, if you wish to.
The icon for “Family Channel” depicts Milana wearing a mask. I guess that’s because You Tube has banned her from You Tube so often.
Probably, citing “subvention”, You Tube will ban “Family Channel”. So, if you wish to learn how Milana is selling her videos, you’ll want to watch “Instructions on how to Access paid Video” right away.
Here are two examples of what You Tube calls “subvention”:
1. “Subvention” occurs when a You Tube customer has a video, or her whole channel, banned. Let’s say that You Tube bans a person’s channel. That person then rejoins You Tube, and starts a new channel. When You Tube finds out, You Tube doesn’t have to give that customer any strikes. You Tube can immediately ban the new channel.
2. Let’s say that You Tube deletes a customer’s video. Then, the customer uploads the same video to You Tube again. You Tube, citing “subvention”, can now ban the customer’s entire channel. It doesn’t have to give the customer any strikes.
“Subvention” is buried somewhere in You Tube’s “Terms of Service” or “Community Standards”. What I have written here about “subvention” is my best guess as to what You Tube is saying.
I notice that You Tube has again deleted the video by Ustina Abramova of herself on a swing. ( Video: GYMNAST ON SWING. Tina Backstage ). What You Tube thinks is “wrong” with Ustina’s video is beyond me. You Tube has now deleted two versions of Ustina’s swing video! I guess girls can’t swing on You Tube!
Best of luck to you!
You are great!”
You Tube also deleted the video by Ustina Abramova titled, “HOME GYMNASTIC WARM-UP / Tina Flexible”. If I made a screen recording of it, I can’t find it. ( “Photos”, on Apple’s iPad, doesn’t let me title or rearrange screen recordings. It also doesn’t let me put screen recordings into labelled folders. Also, the icons for most You Tube screen recordings, in my “Screen Recordings” section of “Photos”, are black. )
You Tube has deleted many, many Ustina Abramova videos besides those mentioned in this blog post. Who knew that innocuous videos by a 10 or 11-year-old girl in Ukraine could be so sinful?
Dana, of Ukraine, is 13-years-old. As of last spring, Milana from Minsk was 14. She is in fact of Minsk, Belarus.
My favorite video at “Family Channel”, that is new to me, is called,
“Milana’s last Summer”.
Where are other places that you can find “Milana from Minsk” on the internet? The following information comes from the “ABOUT” page at Milana’s You Tube channel, “Family Channel”. These places are:
1. Patreon. Click on this link. It takes you to the following:
milanafamily.com ( I am now, again, able to send messages to Milana here. I do this by clicking on a small olive box in the bottom right-hand corner of my screen at milanafamily ( dot ) com. Words in the box read: “Contact Us Offline”.
Before I could send Milana a message, I had to input my name and e-mail address: Arnold Schwarzenegger. E-mail: I’m Big @ he man ( dot ) org. Hopefully, Milana’s sister Olga won’t kick me off of milanafamily ( dot ) com again!
At milanafamily ( dot ) com, Milana lists various prices for her videos. A video that I liked was priced at “$2,00”. This can easily be interpreted as two thousand dollars! I love Milana’s videos, but I could join lots of porn sites for $2,000. This comma problem afflicts all of Milana’s prices.
I asked Milana to change “$2,00” to “$2.00”. I also mentioned that, in her video called, “Instructions on how to Access paid Video”, she doesn’t mention the name of her website! Nor is milanafamily ( dot ) com ( the website’s name ) displayed in her video.
2. Facebook. This connects to facebook ( dot ) com. A boring Facebook sign-up page is shown.
As I was kicked off of Facebook, I have no access beyond the sign-up page. I do want to say the following. Based on my unbiased research, Mark Fuckerberg, Facebook’s owner, is a piece of shit.
My research is based in part on seeing Mark Fuckerberg on T.V. on November 17th. He was testifying at a hearing held by the United States Senate. ( More on that below. )
3. Instagram. ( Owned by Facebook. ) This connects to instagram ( dot ) com. The page is in English. ( More on that below. )
At Instagram, the page for “milanaphoenix” is shown. The top photo is in black and white. It depicts the wind blowing through Milana’s hair. Many fine photos of Milana follow, as I scroll down. Then, the piece of shit intervenes. I’m told by Instagram, which Mark Fuckerberg owns, that I must “Log in to continue”. As I was banned by Facebook, and Facebook owns Instagram, I’m banned from Instagram too. I have never been a customer of Instagram.
4. Blogspot. This connects to milanas-family-blog.blogspot.com
The background color on this page is blue. The letters heading it read,
“FAMILY CHASINGSUN / BELARUS”. The letters look like they’ve been written in blue chalk.
THE BAD FANBOY
Where Milana is, her doppelganger is sure to follow! I’m speaking of the fanboy who copies her videos, and then uploads them to You Tube as his own. Any hearts that you get from “Milana” at his channels are from the fanboy. The same is true of any comments by “Milana” at his channels.
I’ve been kissed many times by Milana. Sadly, these were internet kisses, from the fanboy.
Milana doesn’t like the fanboy. However, he does a superb job of finding the absolute juiciest still photos of Milana. He does this by culling images from Milana’s videos. Someone should hire this troubled genius to be the photo editor at a girl-themed magazine.
The fanboy’s three You Tube channels are:
1. Milana Minsk
My favorite video here is “Milana’s water jets hop”.
2. Minsk - Belarus
My favorite video here is “Trailer”. At ( the real ) Milana’s former You Tube channels, this video was called, “a small lifes..” This video is not currently on “Family Channel”, which is owned by the real Milana.
The visual quality of “Trailer” may not be as good as it was in “a small lifes..”
3. Brother Simon of Milana. ( Simon Rudnik is not Milana’s brother. He is the son of Milana’s 25-year-old married friend, Natasha. )
Let’s look at the “ABOUT” page for each of the fanboy’s channels. His first channel is called,
Milana Minsk.
At “ABOUT”, I found the following links to the internet:
1. Instagram. ( Owned by Facebook. ) This connects to instagram ( dot ) com. The page is in Spanish! This page is probably owned by the fanboy, even though it is identical to Milana’s Instagram page that is in English.
The page for “milanaphoenix” is shown. The top photo is in black and white. It depicts the wind blowing through Milana’s hair. Many fine photos of Milana follow, as I scroll down. Then, the piece of shit intervenes. I’m told by Instagram, which Mark Fuckerberg owns, that I must “Log in to continue”. I’m told this in Spanish.
2. Telegram. This connects to t ( dot ) me.
The Telegram page for “Milanafamily” is shown. However, this is a page by the fanboy.
I am able to scroll down some distance on this page. However, it’s useless for me to try to join Telegram. That’s because the piece of shit ( Mark Fuckerberg ) owns Telegram. Since I was banned by Facebook, I’m banned from every platform that Mark Fuckerberg’s Facebook owns.
3. Pay Site. This connects to milanafamily ( dot ) com. However, it does not connect to the “Home” page for milanafamily ( dot ) com, as I would expect. It connects to the “My shop” page. I’ll leave further deductions to you. I hope the fanboy is trying to help Milana.
If you want to buy videos at milanafamily ( dot ) com, make sure you go there using an internet browser. ( Don’t try to connect to milanafamily ( dot ) com, to buy videos, via the “ABOUT” page at You Tube. )
The “Home” page for milanafamily ( dot ) com has a photo of a gorgeous white horse at the top of it. Delightfully, the photo turns out to be a video as you sit and watch it. ( I just learned this. At milanafamily ( dot ) com, I was always hurrying on to find photos of Milana in her yellow string bikini! )
4. Facebook. This connects to the piece of shit’s website. The sign-up page is in English.
Now, let’s see what’s at the “ABOUT” page for the fanboy’s second channel. The fanboy’s second channel is called,
Minsk - Belarus
Here’s what I found:
1. Patreon. This page connects to “milanafamily ( dot ) com”. Suspiciously, it doesn’t connect to the “Home” page, but to the “My shop” page.
2. Blogspot. This page connects to “milanaminsk.blogspot.com”. Note: this is NOT Milana’s blogspot page, which is:
milanas-family-blog.blogspot.com
The background color on the fanboy’s Blogspot page is pink. The lettering at the top of the page reads, in cursive, “Milana Chasingsun”. The lettering is red.
There are links at the fanboy’s Blogspot “home” page. As this is his channel, and not Milana’s, I’m not going to list the links here. I did click on each link. I included all relevant information from these links in this blog post.
3. Facebook. This connects to “facebook ( dot ) com”. Here, you can see the boring sign-in page for ( did I call him this yet? ) piece of shit Mark Fuckerberg’s Facebook.
4. Instagram. This connects to “instagram ( dot ) com”. It is the English version of Milana’s Instagram page.
The fanboy’s third channel, “Brother Simon of Milana”, has one link at its “ABOUT” page. It connects to:
Patreon. Once again, we are taken to the “My shop” page at “milanafamily ( dot ) com”.
NEW MILANA FANBOY - CRISTIAN MIRANDA
Next, let’s talk about a new “Milana from Minsk” fanboy. I get the sense that this is a fanboy that Milana approves of. His You Tube channel is called, “Cristian Miranda”. The channel includes many videos of Milana, and two videos of another woman. ( Note: his name is “Cristian”, not “Christian” - no “h”. )
Cristian is superb at selecting photos of Milana. I recommend his video, “Milana shows her mornings”. It is possible that Milana herself made this video.
Cristian has a keen sensibility. At the “ABOUT” page for his channel is the following:
“The only thing evil needs to succeed is for good men to do nothing.”
- Edmund Burke.
Google, which owns You Tube, once had a slogan. It was:
“Don’t be evil”.
With his quote by Edmund Burke, who do you think Cristian is identifying as “evil”?
Adolf Hitler? Satan? A “child molester”?
I think Cristian is referring to You Tube, which has abused many young girls, and teen girls, including Milana from Minsk. You Tube’s treatment of Milana from Minsk has been inexplicable and atrocious.
Cristian’s “ABOUT” page doesn’t have any internet links.
MILANA VIDEOS AT “SIMON RUDNIK”
A few videos featuring Milana from Minsk are at the You Tube channel, “Simon Rudnik”. My favorite ones are:
Natasha and Milana on the river
Wedding
Both videos, though now credited to “Simon Rudnik”, were formerly videos at Milana’s various You Tube channels.
MANY VIDEOS DELETED BY “DANATAR”
I’m providing this information in the form of an e-mail to Dana:
“Subject: Sad about Deleted Videos.
Dear Dana,
You do a great job of uploading videos to You Tube. Unfortunately, you also do a great job of deleting videos from You Tube, or making them “private”.
I am deeply saddened that you’ve removed many, many videos from your channel, “Danatar Tar”. You also made a number of videos “private”. This means that I, and others, can’t watch them anymore.
I realize that You Tube is a terrorist organization; against its own customers. You know more about You Tube than I do. I’m sure that you feel you’ve made the right decisions with regard to your videos.
You Tube has deleted its “Notifications” function, for every You Tube channel and video. You Tube is a weird company.
In place of the “Notifications” icon , You Tube has put an icon of a plus sign in a circle. I clicked on it. A new page appears. It reads: “Start the show”. You Tube wants me, and everyone else, to upload new videos to You Tube. You Tube has made other changes, elsewhere, to try to get more people to upload more videos to You Tube.
Why? The answer is obvious. You Tube has deleted many videos. They’ve done this by saying that such videos violate their “Terms of Service” and “Community Standards”. Hence, You Tube now has fewer videos! Meanwhile, they’ve angered many of their customers. They’ve also banned many of their customers.
Would I ever upload a video to You Tube? No! Even though I’ve never uploaded a video to You Tube, I’ve been thoroughly abused by them, with regard to my playlists of videos by others.
Plus, I imagine that nobody would want to watch a video by me.
You Tube has now made the icons and words quite small at my channel. I can barely see them! I used to love scrolling down through the icons for the various videos heading my playlists. That’s not fun anymore, since the headline photos are too small to enjoy. ( Fortunately, a video still plays at its normal size if I tap on it. )
Thanks for showing us how to contact you by tapping “Share” under your various videos. I tried each option. Every one is routed through You Tube. So, I’m reluctant to use this method to write to you. “Share” lets You Tube read my messages to You.
I guess “Share” is meant to be a replacement for the loss of “Comments”. “Comments” were, at one time, able to be posted to your videos. No more.
I liked “Comments” very much. Not only could I write to you, publicly, but I could read others’ comments to you, and your replies. Of course, You Tube wants people to think that only girls your age, or younger, watch your videos. It’s akin to You Tube saying, “No Black people here! You Tube only allows viewers who are White people.” Or, as signs in store windows used to say, in America, “No Dogs or Irish”.
Well, I’m here, You Tube! Even though you’ve made me almost invisible, and tried more than once to terminate my account. And I’m not a teenager, or younger. And I love Dana’s videos!
I love your new video, “FOR MY SUBSCRIBERS”. [ At “Danatar Tar”. ] I especially love your long black boots in this video. You should be a girl in one or more James Bond movies. In fact, if someone decides to create a girl James Bond, you should be its star!
Please keep your “old” videos featuring yourself, from when you were younger. You were fabulously beautiful then, as you are now!
Keep being your wonderful self!
You are the best; including in all your deleted videos!”
My belief is that Dana deleted many of her videos ( in this most recent tranche of deletions ), due to present or past bullying by You Tube’s censors. Dana may also have been influenced by You Tube’s abuse of other girls. ( For instance, Ustina Abramova. )
YOU TUBE et al. ARE “ROBBER BARONS”
I’m providing this information in the form of an e-mail to Dana:
“Subject: Big Tech Coordinates Censorship.
Dear Dana,
Some time ago, I suggested that American Big Tech companies might be coordinating their censorship actions.
It turns out that this is true. You can watch a video about this on You Tube. The video is at the channel “Fox News”. It’s titled, “Tucker: Big Tech’s coordinated suppression amounts to a ‘censorship cartel’”.
This information was revealed on November 17th at a hearing held by the United States Senate.
Facebook uses a program called “Sentra” to track its customers all over the internet. Facebook does that even if the Facebook customer has quit out of the Facebook app. Facebook then compiles this information about each of its customers, and sells it.
My understanding is that Facebook tracks its current customers. Whether Facebook continues to track its former customers was left unclear.
Using a program called “Tasks”, Facebook shares the information that it has gathered with other Big Tech companies. The companies that were mentioned, in regard to this, are Google and Twitter.
On Tucker Carlson Tonight, a senator called America’s Big Tech companies “robber barons”.
In the future, America’s government may use antitrust law to alter how America’s Big Tech companies can operate.
I very much miss all the videos of you when you were younger!
You are super beautiful, and wonderfully talented!”
The broadcast date for the Tucker Carlson video is November 17.
On You Tube, I looked up my profile. I did this some time ago. There, I found various names and, in one case, a government agency listed. I think these were called “potential contacts”.
I was stunned to see these “potential contacts” in my You Tube profile. I haven’t seen them on You Tube itself.
I had been contacted, in the past, by a “potential contact”. He’d contacted me via Google’s Gmail. As for the government agency, I only recall contacting it via Apple’s iCloud.
Hence, by using Google’s browser, Gmail, or You Tube, you may be allowing Google to track you wherever you go on the internet.
A senator on Tucker Carlson Tonight said that the Big Tech companies coordinate “very, very closely” as they censor their customers.
America’s Democrats favor censorship. They think that more Big Tech censorship will help them impose their agenda on America. Democrats forget the example of France’s King Louis XVI. I found the following on Google:
Question: Why are guillotines slanted?
Answer: The oblique or angled blade was reportedly ordered by King Louis XVI of France. He thought it would be more adaptable to necks of all sizes, than the crescent blade previously in use. ... An angled blade was used in the guillotine with which he was executed a few years later. His head was cleanly lopped off.
Search term: “who invented the guillotine”. ( Joseph-Ignace Guillotin neither invented, nor was killed by, the Guillotine. He died of natural causes. I obtained this information from, respectively, Google, and Wikipedia. )
A Democrat senator from Delaware, Chris Coons ( a white man ), favors Big Tech censorship. He spoke to Big Tech, in the Senate hearing, of the need to remove customer content that violates “civic integrity”.
I assume Coons was speaking of a man who was a traitor to his country. George Washington, citizen and army officer of Britain, betrayed Britain to found the United States of America.
Then there’s the sleaze named Paul Revere. Mark Fuckerberg would definitely censor him. How dare Revere alert his fellow ( British ) citizens that “The British are coming! The British are coming!” If nothing else, Revere is guilty of spamming.
( Google informs me that Revere never shouted “The British are coming.” So, I guess Revere is also guilty of misinformation.
Search terms: “when was Paul Revere’s famous ride?”, and “What did Paul Revere actually yell?”
According to Google, Paul Revere didn’t yell anything. So Revere is distorting history too. )
Apparently, America’s “history” is utterly fraudulent. It’s actually a history of the abuse of Black people. Nothing else merits attention. ( Except, that is, America’s abuse of women, Indians, gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgendered folks, and the mysterious Q people. )
America’s history is definitely not about white people. That’s why the Associated Press demands that we not capitalize “white”. We are to capitalize “Blacks”, “Native Americans”, “Asian Americans”, “Mars Americans”, etc.
Mark Fuckerberg, in the Senate hearing, echoed Coon’s term of “civic integrity”. Fuckerberg spoke of “community integrity”. It is only a rumor that Fuckerberg and Coons shared a toilet stall prior to the hearing.
At the hearing, Fuckerberg denied any knowledge of his tracking program “Sentra”. Later in the day, a Facebook spokesperson admitted that “Sentra” was real.
DON’T PARLEY AT PARLER
The website “parler (dot ) com” is touted by Republicans as an alternative to Big Tech social media sites. The Fox News channel personality “Dan Bong ( ino ) is a co-owner of Parler. A few months ago, I read Parler’s Terms of Service. They’re awful. Parler imposes the late Senator J. James Exon’s original “Communications Decency Act” at its website.
That is, Parler censors its content as the Federal Communications Commission censors broadcast television. If you upload cable T.V. - type content to Parler, you’ll be banned by Parler.
Having read Parler’s Terms of Service, I did not join. At least they warned me.
SAY “YES” TO WORDPRESS
The only website that I’ve found that allows ( most ) free speech is WordPress ( dot ) com. WordPress allows more free speech than most social media websites. That includes porn social media websites!
WordPress also allows more free speech than most internet hosting platforms. That includes internet hosting platforms that host porn websites.
WordPress does not allow porn videos. They do allow me. Based on my reading of many social media websites’ Terms of Service, including porn websites, I’d be banned by such websites.
Based on my reading of many internet hosting platforms’ Terms of Service, including platforms that host porn sites, I’d be banned by such platforms.
GINGRICH, CARLSON ON BIG TECH
“Are we just sheep to be dominated by the high tech businesses?”
- Newt Gingrich, speaking on the “Hannity” T.V. show. Fox News, November 5, 2020.
“Censorship and bullying degrade the country.”
- Tucker Carlson, Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox News, November 5, 2020.
SAN DIEGO ON “CHILD MOLESTERS”
“Every
Age
Gender
PREFERENCE ( emphasis added )
Past
Future
Matters”
The word “Respect” is written inside a box, for emphasis, at the bottom.
- Street banner. It’s in the median strip of Broadway Avenue. On one side of the street is San Diego’s “Hall of Justice”. ( A courthouse. ) ( The only other place that I’ve seen a courthouse labelled “Hall of Justice” is in the first Mad Max movie. )
Beside the “Hall of Justice” is a big hole. A new building is replacing yet another San Diego courthouse, that was demolished. ( Presumably, San Diego is building a new courthouse here. )
( Then again, San Diego might be constructing a building to house NAMBLA, the North American / Man Boy Love Association. One can always hope! )
On the other side of the street, where this banner is located, is a new Federal courthouse. Two additional Federal courthouses flank this new one.
San Diego’s public law library is in the vicinity. So is its jail.
( Sadly, the preschool by the new Federal courthouse closed. There were some cute girls there, including a fabulous blonde! )
The street banner celebrates “Black Lives Matter”. It was paid for and hung by the city of San Diego. Michael Jackson, you are redeemed!
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
If you visit an “AbeBooks” website, you’ll be presented with a large square “Search” box. In the box labelled “Author”, type in “Andrew Roller”. In the box labelled “Title”, type in “Andrew Roller Presents”. This will bring up some of my pamphlets. I have not yet figured out how to bring up other pamphlets by me, under other titles. I don’t recall all the titles I published under.
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
At the “home page” of my You Tube channel, you’ll see just a selection of playlists that I created. To see all my playlists, tap on the phrase, “Created playlists”.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 55
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 55, version 16.0
Date Written: November 18, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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A Great Sex Novel
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ET 54 100th WordPress post! Andrea Dorkin’s favorite blog! ( That is, Andrea Dworkin. )
Editorial Thunder presents...
A Great Sex Novel
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Plus: Blame women.
And: Real life “Ironwood” beauties.
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A Great Sex Novel
by Andrew Roller
“This vile violent treatise is awful.”
- Amazon review by LAX, of “Katerina in Charge”, by Don Winslow.
“If you enjoy sexy tales of dominance and submission along with arousing romps beyond the outer fringes — author Don Winslow delevers [ sic ] the best.”
- Amazon review by Frances LaGatta, of “Katerina in Charge”, by Don Winslow.
I was invited to the home of a 4-year-old girl. I’d met her before, and she liked me. A partly African-American girl, she was quite attractive. However, I’m not much into African-American girls. ( Africa is safe. ) Also, I’m not much into girls who are 4. ( Although, had this girl been blonde, I wouldn’t have needed an invitation to be in her bedroom. ) ( Or wherever she chose to entertain me. )
Turning down the 4-year-old’s invitation, I hauled my butt off to a mall bookstore. The date was sometime in the 1980s. I can hear it now: you went to a dreary bookstore instead of the home of a cute 4-year-old? Let me explain. There was a burning issue I had to deal with. It wasn’t a cosmological problem, or one involving affairs of state. I wanted more information about fucking girls.
That night, I lucked out. I discovered one of the greatest sex novels of the past 66 years. The novel is “Ironwood”, by Don Winslow. Its International Standard Book Number ( ISBN ) is 1-56201-051-4.
Here’s an excerpt. I’ll preface it with an introduction. The male protagonist rides into the countryside with two girls. He then deals with their bare bottoms in a way that, well, I found enjoyable. Winslow then writes:
“The trip back required some ingenuity as the girls were unable to sit on the horses and face the further punishment of the pounding saddles.” ( Page 118. )
This is the best part of “Ironwood”. A reason is that, here, the girls seem like real people. In much of the rest of “Ironwood” the girls are akin to soulless mannequins. Since reading “Ironwood”, I’ve devoted much of my scholarly writing ( on fucking girls ) to creating living, breathing girls. I’ve consciously avoided creating Winslow-type mannequins.
With regard to Winslow’s mannequins, he puts them into inventive sexual ordeals. His ordeals are among the most interesting in erotic literature.
An excerpt:
“According to one of her principles, Cora always tried to match the punishment to the crime. Now she explained that since the girl seemed so reluctant to have anything shoved up her twat, she would be required to get an hour’s practice at it.” ( Page 140. )
My belief is that “Ironwood” has had at least two different publishers since the 1980s. The ISBN that I’m quoting is for a 1996 edition by Blue Moon Books, Inc. The cover of this edition looks ghastly. It consists of the most amateurish art I’ve ever seen on the cover of a professional publisher’s book.
There are two major authors known as “Don Winslow”. One writes in the “thriller” genre, according to LAX. Books by this “Don Winslow” pop up at once on Amazon. They do so to such an extent that they eclipse porn writer “Don Winslow”. Why anyone would waste time with a thriller when they can jerk-off to a sex book is beyond me.
Amazon’s porn offerings by “Don Winslow” can be found with the following search terms. ( The quote marks were not included in my search terms. )
1. “katerina in charge by don winslow”. This brings up one book: “Katerina in Charge”.
2. “don julian winslow”. This brings up all the real and kindle books by Don Julian Winslow except “Katerina in Charge”.
3. “don julian winslow kindle”. This brings up all the kindle books by Don Julian Winslow except “Katerina in Charge”.
4. “kindle don julian winslow”. This brings up all the kindle books by Don Julian Winslow except “Katerina in Charge”.
An exception to the above is Winslow’s book, “The Mistress of Rosedale”. ( What a fine cover this novel has! ) Today, I couldn’t find “Rosedale” on Amazon. Enter the novel’s author and title in Google’s browser. That will bring up “The Mistress of Rosedale” as an Amazon title. Click the Google link to get back to Amazon.
Searching for Winslow books on Amazon, I encountered a problem. It’s infuriating. Amazon sprinkles unrelated books into the Winslow search results. This is a common practice by Amazon. I hope that when, say, an 8-year-old girl searches for children’s books on Amazon, she gets a bunch of books by Don Julian Winslow.
Thinking that Winslow had only one kindle book on Amazon, I bought it. I wasn’t impressed by “Katerina in Charge”. ( Admittedly, I gave it little time. I did a search in the book for the words “whip” and “spank” and found almost nothing. ) I was similarly disappointed by Winslow’s books “The Art of Erotic Spanking” and “Agents in Harm’s Way”. All of these books are fairly expensive, for trashy porn novels, at a price for each of $7.00.
Then, I bought “Slave of Rome”. It’s $7.50. In my cursory reading, I quite enjoyed the slave auction scene. However, it’s a tall Amazon lady that’s being auctioned ( naked ). I’m not into tall Amazon ladies. With one of those, I’d feel like some little guy who sits at a computer all day, masturbating.
If you search for Don Winslow’s “Ironwood” on the internet, you’ll find a post that says it’s available as a kindle book. This is absolutely untrue.
“Ironwood” is only available as a used paperback. I found a copy for over $150.00. Masturbating to “Ironwood” wasn’t worth that much money to me. That’s especially so as I have a copy lost somewhere in a distant storage locker.
Then, I found a copy for $50.00. It was being offered by a seller on Amazon. I found this copy of “Ironwood” before I blew $30.00 on four kindle books by Winslow. Disappointed with Winslow’s kindle books, I said to myself,
“Quit wasting your money on Winslow’s kindle books. Buy the one Winslow book that you know you want: “Ironwood”, for $50.00. I did so. I’m thrilled with my purchase.
If you search for Don Winslow’s “Ironwood” on the internet, you’ll find other “Ironwood” books by him. There are six “Ironwood” books in all. I bought some of the “Ironwood” sequels a quarter century ago. None pleased me.
In conclusion: Don Winslow wrote one great book. It’s his first in the “Ironwood” series: “Ironwood”. Be cautious about buying his other books. ( Unless, that is, you’re sexually attracted to women. )
BLAME WOMEN
In his November 12 broadcast, Tucker Carlson laid bare what I’d suspected. We’re stuck with Joe Biden and Kamala Devil Harris because of “angry wealthy women”. ( Tucker Carlson, Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox News. )
By “angry wealthy women”, Tucker is speaking of voters. Specifically, people who swung the U.S. presidential vote in favor of Biden, and his running mate Devil.
“White upper-middle class suburban women” is another way of describing this demographic. Chuck in snooty privileged Asians, Hispanics, and Blacks.
On the other hand, President Donald Duck Rump was no friend to pedophiles.
“I signed nine pieces of legislation into law that directly prevent human trafficking, and we’re just getting started,” Trump said in January 2020.
( Source: Fox News article, foxnews ( dot ) com, “Trump administration to direct $35M [ million ] in grants toward housing for human trafficking survivors.” )
Of course, one person’s “trafficking” is another person’s date. Loretta Lynch ( appropriate surname ) infamously prosecuted a young man. She did this because he took several boys from New York state, into New Jersey, to enjoy a music concert. That was called “human trafficking” by Lynch. The young man was convicted.
In fact, he’d been convicted earlier, at the state level. Lynch considered his sentence too lenient. So, she convicted him at the federal level. He got a longer federal sentence. This happened when Lynch was the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. She was later Hussein Obama’s United States Attorney General. Attacking “pedophiles” pays.
I knew a man who drove from San Diego to Tijuana, Mexico. I’ll call him Don. He was a very nice person. In Tijuana, Don met a Mexican woman. Let’s call her Rosa. In Tijuana, Don and Rosa danced awhile. Then they decided to go dancing in San Diego. Rosa didn’t have entry papers for America. So, at the U.S. border, the Border Patrol yanked Don out of his car.
Don told me about this. I was stunned. “Isn’t the woman your guest?” I asked. Don’s an American. You’d think a woman who’s with him, in his car, would be able to enter America as his guest.
Any previous generation would have agreed that when a woman is willingly with a man, she’s off limits to others. That is, to others that she doesn’t want to interact with.
Also, since Don is American, you’d assume the following. If Rosa can’t enter the U.S., the Border Patrol would politely inform Don of that.
Such did not occur in the Terrorist America of today. Pulled from his car, Don was prosecuted by the U.S. federal government. He was charged by the government with “human trafficking”. The government contacted everyone Don might know to get dirt on Don. ( They found no “crimes” to further afflict him with. )
In court, Rosa was required to testify against Don. Don was told by his government lawyer to plead guilty. The lawyer advised: “The government has unlimited money and time. You can’t possibly fight them.” Don pled guilty. He was convicted, and did time in a federal jail. He then had to stay in a halfway house. He was prohibited from going within some miles of the Mexican border. Government agents followed him wherever he went.
From the time of his arrest, Don did not stand outdoors for nearly a year. He was locked up in the federal jail. Having no one to help him, he was unable to pay the rent where he’d been living, and where his belongings were. Don was also unable to pay for a storage locker that he was renting. Don lost all his belongings. This included paperwork showing that he’d served for 21 years as an enlisted man in the U.S. Navy, and was honorably discharged. As someone convicted of “human trafficking”, Don found it difficult to find employment when he got out of jail.
Meanwhile, Terrorist America lets people flow illegally into our country, often without consequence for this crime. These illegal immigrants are inevitably granted amnesty at some point. Voting rights follow; if not for them, then for their U.S. born children. Foreign nationals fly to America to have “anchor babies”, who then have U.S., as well as foreign, citizenship.
I’m not taking a stand on illegal immigration or anchor babies. I am contrasting this behavior with the abuse that Don, a U.S. citizen, suffered at the hands of our government.
Trump staged an attack on pedophiles just prior to his election. It was called, “Operation Autumn Dope”. ( Otherwise known as “Operation Autumn Hope”. ) The goals of “Operation Autumn Dope” were as follows:
“ ... rescuing victims of human trafficking and referring them to social services; recovering missing and exploited children; apprehending those seeking to have sex with a minor; and arresting male johns seeking to buy sex.”
( Source: Fox News article, foxnews ( dot ) com, “US marshals rescue 45 missing children as part of ‘Operation Autumn Hope’”. )
Anyone who thinks “Operation Autumn Dope” wasn’t staged to boost Trump’s reelection chances will soon be buying a bridge in Brooklyn. In 1860, Trump would have been rounding up runaway slaves. A federal dragnet similar to “Operation Autumn Dope” was staged several months prior to it.
Goodbye, Trump. Take Ivanka ( Cruella de Vil ) Trump with you. I was in love with Ivanka when she was 9. Now, I detest her. ( Despite her big boobs. )
Stupidly, “suburban women” voted out of office a president who has a brain, and is an effective leader. Now we’ve got an imbecile bumbler for a president. Some good news comes with this. Biden / Devil will open the borders to illegals, including “sex traffickers”. I hope every suburb gets flooded with them. Meanwhile, other Democrats are busily defunding the police, including at the federal level. With few cops and lots of sex traffickers, America may finally become the land of the free for pedophiles and their loved ones! Enjoy, ladies of suburbia.
BUYER BEWARE
I always check the following before buying a used book on Amazon:
1. Reviews, especially by ordinary readers, of a book.
2. A bookseller’s rating. The best is 100 percent.
3. How many books a seller has sold. A seller might have a rating of 100 percent, but may have sold only one book ( to his mom ).
4. The most recent customer reviews of the bookseller. Go through several pages of these.
A. Weed out irrelevant reviews. Such might include a complaint about a computer, when you’re buying a book from the seller.
B. Some customers file junk complaints. Ignore these.
C. Watch for any complaint where a customer hasn’t gotten a book, because of “COVID-19”. Apparently, some sellers are using “COVID-19” to gyp customers.
5. Remember to include shipping costs when comparing prices for a book. A bookseller might appear to have a low price. However, when you add his shipping charge, his price is higher than a seller offering free shipping.
6. Be willing to wait. Chuck a high-priced book into your Amazon shopping cart, and save it for later. In your cart, click on the book now and then. That will take you to the book’s main page on Amazon. Research there to see if a seller is offering a reasonable price for the book. I saved over $100.00 by waiting to buy “Ironwood” by Don Winslow.
7. Consider not paying anything. You can read my world historical literature, for free, at asstr ( dot ) org. Everything from a kinky Candyland ( file title: “lump” ) to “Bottoms in Bondage” is there.
IT ( MAY ) TOLL FOR THEE
Some of my stories at asstr ( dot ) org have symbols that look like the digit zero. A zero appears where a quote mark or an apostrophe should be. If you can bear these misplaced zeros, you’ll be able to read my text.
Currently, asstr ( dot ) org is closed to me. ( Except for reading. ) That’s because I lost touch with the site over the years. Hence, I’m unable to access my stories on asstr ( dot ) org for the purpose of correcting my files.
Also, I only own an iPhone and an iPad. I’d need to buy an Apple Macintosh to have the FTP capability that asstr ( dot ) org demands. I have nowhere in my small room to store a Macintosh and its assorted peripherals. Nor is the cost of a Macintosh, and its peripherals, something I’m willing to bear at this time.
Asstr ( dot ) org has been closed to contributions by new authors for some years. I have no idea how long the site will remain available to readers. As someone once said of asstr ( dot ) org, “It’s amazing what one guy with a computer in his basement has been able to do.”
NEW PROJECTS
Inspired by “The Lord of the Rings”, I’m planning to write a trilogy. Knowing me, you can probably guess my books’ titles:
1. The Joy of Sex.
2. The Happy Hooker.
3. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex - But Were Afraid to Ask.
Well, your guesses are close. In fact, the books in my trilogy will be called:
1. The Joy of Molesting.
2. The Happy Molester.
3. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Molesting - But Were Afraid to Ask.
As much as it pains me to say this, we’re no longer living in the great years of 1969, or 1972. This is the modern era. It demands modern thinking. Or, as a New Yorker cartoon, of a corporate board meeting proclaimed,
“Gentlemen, these are medieval times, and they require medieval thinking!”
COURTESY AD
“The notorious Ironwood saga: ... passages written in elegant style, with formal opulence and erotic sophistication. Vibrant with raw sexual imagery, they reveal the essence of the Ironwood girl — a consummate blend of sexuality and innocence.”
Source: Google. Search term: original publication date of Ironwood, by Don Winslow.
THE JOY OF MONOGAMY
Al Bundy to his wife:
“Ah, Peg. You’re down here. Damn. Then I was dreaming you ran off with the dwarf down at the bookstore, and I was living in sin with a Playboy centerfold and her eight friends who could speak but chose not to.”
Source: Google. Search term: best quotes married with children. Google headline: Married with Children Quotes. Website: www ( dot ) quotes ( dot ) net > movies > married_with_children_(19...
FANTASY “IRONWOOD” BEAUTIES
If you want to see a true “Ironwood” girl, besides 10-year-old ( naked ) Brooke Shields, check out ( the young ) Playboy Playmate Tiffany Taylor. She superbly evokes a dominatrix when she’s older. A lovely “Ironwood” debutante, and dominatrix, in my imagination, is Playboy Playmate Sandy Johnson.
A Google search for “Brooke Shields in the bathtub” brings up ( legal ) photos of naked 10-year-old Brooke. Some photos are deliberately marred by morons who are headed to Hell. You’ll have to scrounge until you get a decent set of unmarred photos. I was unable to collect a quality image for each photograph.
Be extremely careful if you sign up for the website “playboyplus ( dot ) com”. Don’t accept any price for the site lower than about $99.00 per year. I accepted a price for $54.00 per year. It was an absolute ripoff. I did get my money back.
As always, uncheck pricey “extras” upon signing up, unless you’re sure you want them.
I did not find the $9.99 monthly upgrade at “playboyplus ( dot ) com” to be worth the money. You get access to “girl with girl” photo sets if you upgrade. Sadly, they’re ridiculously worthless.
Few if any Playboy Playmates are attractive after the year 2008. Today’s Playboy Playmates look worse than the average girl on the street.
I like the Playboy Playmates from, say, the 1970s. However, a young viewer might be shocked. Compared to today’s images, these aren’t “porn” photos. You won’t see any cunts. You will see, at times, way too much pubic hair.
Even older images omit pubic hair. You’re left with boob photos of girls who may, or may not, adhere to a fashion style that you find appealing.
Every Playboy magazine is available, in digital form, at “iplayboy ( dot ) com”. This website costs $100.00 for two years.
There are some worthwhile photos at iplayboy ( dot ) com. However, you aren’t looking at the original photos. You’re looking at photographs of pages of the magazine. Some magazines are in less than pristine condition. Older magazines show their physical age. In the end, my screen shots of iplayboy images were akin to a bunch of crappy photos of old magazines.
No other Playboy sites are worth investing in. “playboytv ( dot ) com” is idiotic. It’s a bunch of ( ugh! ) vanilla sex videos featuring ( ugh! ) men and women. Expect to see boring politically correct crap. Such as, “daring” sex between a White person and a Black person. Also, bisexual and quasi-fag characters. Playboy has strayed far from its paradigm shattering roots. It has utterly forgotten “the girl next door”; the truth that a young, possibly “underage” girl can be a sex goddess; including naively.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
If you visit an “AbeBooks” website, you’ll be presented with a large square “Search” box. In the box labelled “Author”, type in “Andrew Roller”. In the box labelled “Title”, type in “Andrew Roller Presents”. This will bring up some of my pamphlets. I have not yet figured out how to bring up other pamphlets by me, under other titles. I don’t recall all the titles I published under.
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
At the “home page” of my You Tube channel, you’ll see just a selection of playlists that I created. To see all my playlists, tap on the phrase, “Created playlists”.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 54
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 54, version 4.0
Date Written: November 13, 2020.
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ET 54 100th WordPress post! Andrea Dorkin’s favorite blog! ( That is, Andrea Dworkin. )
Editorial Thunder presents...
A Great Sex Novel
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Plus: Blame women.
And: Real life “Ironwood” beauties.
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A Great Sex Novel
by Andrew Roller
“This vile violent treatise is awful.”
- Amazon review by LAX, of “Katerina in Charge”, by Don Winslow.
“If you enjoy sexy tales of dominance and submission along with arousing romps beyond the outer fringes — author Don Winslow delevers [ sic ] the best.”
- Amazon review by Frances LaGatta, of “Katerina in Charge”, by Don Winslow.
I was invited to the home of a 4-year-old girl. I’d met her before, and she liked me. A partly African-American girl, she was quite attractive. However, I’m not much into African-American girls. ( Africa is safe. ) Also, I’m not much into girls who are 4. ( Although, had this girl been blonde, I wouldn’t have needed an invitation to be in her bedroom. ) ( Or wherever she chose to entertain me. )
Turning down the 4-year-old’s invitation, I hauled my butt off to a mall bookstore. The date was sometime in the 1980s. I can hear it now: you went to a dreary bookstore instead of the home of a cute 4-year-old? Let me explain. There was a burning issue I had to deal with. It wasn’t a cosmological problem, or one involving affairs of state. I wanted more information about fucking girls.
That night, I lucked out. I discovered one of the greatest sex novels of the past 66 years. The novel is “Ironwood”, by Don Winslow. Its International Standard Book Number ( ISBN ) is 1-56201-051-4.
Here’s an excerpt. I’ll preface it with an introduction. The male protagonist rides into the countryside with two girls. He then deals with their bare bottoms in a way that, well, I found enjoyable. Winslow then writes:
“The trip back required some ingenuity as the girls were unable to sit on the horses and face the further punishment of the pounding saddles.” ( Page 118. )
This is the best part of “Ironwood”. A reason is that, here, the girls seem like real people. In much of the rest of “Ironwood” the girls are akin to soulless mannequins. Since reading “Ironwood”, I’ve devoted much of my scholarly writing ( on fucking girls ) to creating living, breathing girls. I’ve consciously avoided creating Winslow-type mannequins.
With regard to Winslow’s mannequins, he puts them into inventive sexual ordeals. His ordeals are among the most interesting in erotic literature.
An excerpt:
“According to one of her principles, Cora always tried to match the punishment to the crime. Now she explained that since the girl seemed so reluctant to have anything shoved up her twat, she would be required to get an hour’s practice at it.” ( Page 140. )
My belief is that “Ironwood” has had at least two different publishers since the 1980s. The ISBN that I’m quoting is for a 1996 edition by Blue Moon Books, Inc. The cover of this edition looks ghastly. It consists of the most amateurish art I’ve ever seen on the cover of a professional publisher’s book.
There are two major authors known as “Don Winslow”. One writes in the “thriller” genre, according to LAX. Books by this “Don Winslow” pop up at once on Amazon. They do so to such an extent that they eclipse porn writer “Don Winslow”. Why anyone would waste time with a thriller when they can jerk-off to a sex book is beyond me.
Amazon’s porn offerings by “Don Winslow” can be found with the following search terms. ( The quote marks were not included in my search terms. )
1. “katerina in charge by don winslow”. This brings up one book: “Katerina in Charge”.
2. “don julian winslow”. This brings up all the real and kindle books by Don Julian Winslow except “Katerina in Charge”.
3. “don julian winslow kindle”. This brings up all the kindle books by Don Julian Winslow except “Katerina in Charge”.
4. “kindle don julian winslow”. This brings up all the kindle books by Don Julian Winslow except “Katerina in Charge”.
An exception to the above is Winslow’s book, “The Mistress of Rosedale”. ( What a fine cover this novel has! ) Today, I couldn’t find “Rosedale” on Amazon. Enter the novel’s author and title in Google’s browser. That will bring up “The Mistress of Rosedale” as an Amazon title. Click the Google link to get back to Amazon.
Searching for Winslow books on Amazon, I encountered a problem. It’s infuriating. Amazon sprinkles unrelated books into the Winslow search results. This is a common practice by Amazon. I hope that when, say, an 8-year-old girl searches for children’s books on Amazon, she gets a bunch of books by Don Julian Winslow.
Thinking that Winslow had only one kindle book on Amazon, I bought it. I wasn’t impressed by “Katerina in Charge”. ( Admittedly, I gave it little time. I did a search in the book for the words “whip” and “spank” and found almost nothing. ) I was similarly disappointed by Winslow’s books “The Art of Erotic Spanking” and “Agents in Harm’s Way”. All of these books are fairly expensive, for trashy porn novels, at a price for each of $7.00.
Then, I bought “Slave of Rome”. It’s $7.50. In my cursory reading, I quite enjoyed the slave auction scene. However, it’s a tall Amazon lady that’s being auctioned ( naked ). I’m not into tall Amazon ladies. With one of those, I’d feel like some little guy who sits at a computer all day, masturbating.
If you search for Don Winslow’s “Ironwood” on the internet, you’ll find a post that says it’s available as a kindle book. This is absolutely untrue.
“Ironwood” is only available as a used paperback. I found a copy for over $150.00. Masturbating to “Ironwood” wasn’t worth that much money to me. That’s especially so as I have a copy lost somewhere in a distant storage locker.
Then, I found a copy for $50.00. It was being offered by a seller on Amazon. I found this copy of “Ironwood” before I blew $30.00 on four kindle books by Winslow. Disappointed with Winslow’s kindle books, I said to myself,
“Quit wasting your money on Winslow’s kindle books. Buy the one Winslow book that you know you want: “Ironwood”, for $50.00. I did so. I’m thrilled with my purchase.
If you search for Don Winslow’s “Ironwood” on the internet, you’ll find other “Ironwood” books by him. There are six “Ironwood” books in all. I bought some of the “Ironwood” sequels a quarter century ago. None pleased me.
In conclusion: Don Winslow wrote one great book. It’s his first in the “Ironwood” series: “Ironwood”. Be cautious about buying his other books. ( Unless, that is, you’re sexually attracted to women. )
BLAME WOMEN
In his November 12 broadcast, Tucker Carlson laid bare what I’d suspected. We’re stuck with Joe Biden and Kamala Devil Harris because of “angry wealthy women”. ( Tucker Carlson, Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox News. )
By “angry wealthy women”, Tucker is speaking of voters. Specifically, people who swung the U.S. presidential vote in favor of Biden, and his running mate Devil.
“White upper-middle class suburban women” is another way of describing this demographic. Chuck in snooty privileged Asians, Hispanics, and Blacks.
On the other hand, President Donald Duck Rump was no friend to pedophiles.
“I signed nine pieces of legislation into law that directly prevent human trafficking, and we’re just getting started,” Trump said in January 2020.
( Source: Fox News article, foxnews ( dot ) com, “Trump administration to direct $35M [ million ] in grants toward housing for human trafficking survivors.” )
Of course, one person’s “trafficking” is another person’s date. Loretta Lynch ( appropriate surname ) infamously prosecuted a young man. She did this because he took several boys from New York state, into New Jersey, to enjoy a music concert. That was called “human trafficking” by Lynch. The young man was convicted.
In fact, he’d been convicted earlier, at the state level. Lynch considered his sentence too lenient. So, she convicted him at the federal level. He got a longer federal sentence. This happened when Lynch was the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. She was later Hussein Obama’s United States Attorney General. Attacking “pedophiles” pays.
I knew a man who drove from San Diego to Tijuana, Mexico. I’ll call him Don. He was a very nice person. In Tijuana, Don met a Mexican woman. Let’s call her Rosa. In Tijuana, Don and Rosa danced awhile. Then they decided to go dancing in San Diego. Rosa didn’t have entry papers for America. So, at the U.S. border, the Border Patrol yanked Don out of his car.
Don told me about this. I was stunned. “Isn’t the woman your guest?” I asked. Don’s an American. You’d think a woman who’s with him, in his car, would be able to enter America as his guest.
Any previous generation would have agreed that when a woman is willingly with a man, she’s off limits to others. That is, to others that she doesn’t want to interact with.
Also, since Don is American, you’d assume the following. If Rosa can’t enter the U.S., the Border Patrol would politely inform Don of that.
Such did not occur in the Terrorist America of today. Pulled from his car, Don was prosecuted by the U.S. federal government. He was charged by the government with “human trafficking”. The government contacted everyone Don might know to get dirt on Don. ( They found no “crimes” to further afflict him with. )
In court, Rosa was required to testify against Don. Don was told by his government lawyer to plead guilty. The lawyer advised: “The government has unlimited money and time. You can’t possibly fight them.” Don pled guilty. He was convicted, and did time in a federal jail. He then had to stay in a halfway house. He was prohibited from going within some miles of the Mexican border. Government agents followed him wherever he went.
From the time of his arrest, Don did not stand outdoors for nearly a year. He was locked up in the federal jail. Having no one to help him, he was unable to pay the rent where he’d been living, and where his belongings were. Don was also unable to pay for a storage locker that he was renting. Don lost all his belongings. This included paperwork showing that he’d served for 21 years as an enlisted man in the U.S. Navy, and was honorably discharged. As someone convicted of “human trafficking”, Don found it difficult to find employment when he got out of jail.
Meanwhile, Terrorist America lets people flow illegally into our country, often without consequence for this crime. These illegal immigrants are inevitably granted amnesty at some point. Voting rights follow; if not for them, then for their U.S. born children. Foreign nationals fly to America to have “anchor babies”, who then have U.S., as well as foreign, citizenship.
I’m not taking a stand on illegal immigration or anchor babies. I am contrasting this behavior with the abuse that Don, a U.S. citizen, suffered at the hands of our government.
Trump staged an attack on pedophiles just prior to his election. It was called, “Operation Autumn Dope”. ( Otherwise known as “Operation Autumn Hope”. ) The goals of “Operation Autumn Dope” were as follows:
“ ... rescuing victims of human trafficking and referring them to social services; recovering missing and exploited children; apprehending those seeking to have sex with a minor; and arresting male johns seeking to buy sex.”
( Source: Fox News article, foxnews ( dot ) com, “US marshals rescue 45 missing children as part of ‘Operation Autumn Hope’”. )
Anyone who thinks “Operation Autumn Dope” wasn’t staged to boost Trump’s reelection chances will soon be buying a bridge in Brooklyn. In 1860, Trump would have been rounding up runaway slaves. A federal dragnet similar to “Operation Autumn Dope” was staged several months prior to it.
Goodbye, Trump. Take Ivanka ( Cruella de Vil ) Trump with you. I was in love with Ivanka when she was 9. Now, I detest her. ( Despite her big boobs. )
Stupidly, “suburban women” voted out of office a president who has a brain, and is an effective leader. Now we’ve got an imbecile bumbler for a president. Some good news comes with this. Biden / Devil will open the borders to illegals, including “sex traffickers”. I hope every suburb gets flooded with them. Meanwhile, other Democrats are busily defunding the police, including at the federal level. With few cops and lots of sex traffickers, America may finally become the land of the free for pedophiles and their loved ones! Enjoy, ladies of suburbia.
BUYER BEWARE
I always check the following before buying a used book on Amazon:
1. Reviews, especially by ordinary readers, of a book.
2. A bookseller’s rating. The best is 100 percent.
3. How many books a seller has sold. A seller might have a rating of 100 percent, but may have sold only one book ( to his mom ).
4. The most recent customer reviews of the bookseller. Go through several pages of these.
A. Weed out irrelevant reviews. Such might include a complaint about a computer, when you’re buying a book from the seller.
B. Some customers file junk complaints. Ignore these.
C. Watch for any complaint where a customer hasn’t gotten a book, because of “COVID-19”. Apparently, some sellers are using “COVID-19” to gyp customers.
5. Remember to include shipping costs when comparing prices for a book. A bookseller might appear to have a low price. However, when you add his shipping charge, his price is higher than a seller offering free shipping.
6. Be willing to wait. Chuck a high-priced book into your Amazon shopping cart, and save it for later. In your cart, click on the book now and then. That will take you to the book’s main page on Amazon. Research there to see if a seller is offering a reasonable price for the book. I saved over $100.00 by waiting to buy “Ironwood” by Don Winslow.
7. Consider not paying anything. You can read my world historical literature, for free, at asstr ( dot ) org. Everything from a kinky Candyland ( file title: “lump” ) to “Bottoms in Bondage” is there.
IT ( MAY ) TOLL FOR THEE
Some of my stories at asstr ( dot ) org have symbols that look like the digit zero. A zero appears where a quote mark or an apostrophe should be. If you can bear these misplaced zeros, you’ll be able to read my text.
Currently, asstr ( dot ) org is closed to me. ( Except for reading. ) That’s because I lost touch with the site over the years. Hence, I’m unable to access my stories on asstr ( dot ) org for the purpose of correcting my files.
Also, I only own an iPhone and an iPad. I’d need to buy an Apple Macintosh to have the FTP capability that asstr ( dot ) org demands. I have nowhere in my small room to store a Macintosh and its assorted peripherals. Nor is the cost of a Macintosh, and its peripherals, something I’m willing to bear at this time.
Asstr ( dot ) org has been closed to contributions by new authors for some years. I have no idea how long the site will remain available to readers. As someone once said of asstr ( dot ) org, “It’s amazing what one guy with a computer in his basement has been able to do.”
NEW PROJECTS
Inspired by “The Lord of the Rings”, I’m planning to write a trilogy. Knowing me, you can probably guess my books’ titles:
1. The Joy of Sex.
2. The Happy Hooker.
3. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex - But Were Afraid to Ask.
Well, your guesses are close. In fact, the books in my trilogy will be called:
1. The Joy of Molesting.
2. The Happy Molester.
3. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Molesting - But Were Afraid to Ask.
As much as it pains me to say this, we’re no longer living in the great years of 1969, or 1972. This is the modern era. It demands modern thinking. Or, as a New Yorker cartoon, of a corporate board meeting proclaimed,
“Gentlemen, these are medieval times, and they require medieval thinking!”
COURTESY AD
“The notorious Ironwood saga: ... passages written in elegant style, with formal opulence and erotic sophistication. Vibrant with raw sexual imagery, they reveal the essence of the Ironwood girl — a consummate blend of sexuality and innocence.”
Source: Google. Search term: original publication date of Ironwood, by Don Winslow.
THE JOY OF MONOGAMY
Al Bundy to his wife:
“Ah, Peg. You’re down here. Damn. Then I was dreaming you ran off with the dwarf down at the bookstore, and I was living in sin with a Playboy centerfold and her eight friends who could speak but chose not to.”
Source: Google. Search term: best quotes married with children. Google headline: Married with Children Quotes. Website: www ( dot ) quotes ( dot ) net > movies > married_with_children_(19...
FANTASY “IRONWOOD” BEAUTIES
If you want to see a true “Ironwood” girl, besides 10-year-old ( naked ) Brooke Shields, check out ( the young ) Playboy Playmate Tiffany Taylor. She superbly evokes a dominatrix when she’s older. A lovely “Ironwood” debutante, and dominatrix, in my imagination, is Playboy Playmate Sandy Johnson.
A Google search for “Brooke Shields in the bathtub” brings up ( legal ) photos of naked 10-year-old Brooke. Some photos are deliberately marred by morons who are headed to Hell. You’ll have to scrounge until you get a decent set of unmarred photos. I was unable to collect a quality image for each photograph.
Be extremely careful if you sign up for the website “playboyplus ( dot ) com”. Don’t accept any price for the site lower than about $99.00 per year. I accepted a price for $54.00 per year. It was an absolute ripoff. I did get my money back.
As always, uncheck pricey “extras” upon signing up, unless you’re sure you want them.
I did not find the $9.99 monthly upgrade at “playboyplus ( dot ) com” to be worth the money. You get access to “girl with girl” photo sets if you upgrade. Sadly, they’re ridiculously worthless.
Few if any Playboy Playmates are attractive after the year 2008. Today’s Playboy Playmates look worse than the average girl on the street.
I like the Playboy Playmates from, say, the 1970s. However, a young viewer might be shocked. Compared to today’s images, these aren’t “porn” photos. You won’t see any cunts. You will see, at times, way too much pubic hair.
Even older images omit pubic hair. You’re left with boob photos of girls who may, or may not, adhere to a fashion style that you find appealing.
Every Playboy magazine is available, in digital form, at “iplayboy ( dot ) com”. This website costs $100.00 for two years.
There are some worthwhile photos at iplayboy ( dot ) com. However, you aren’t looking at the original photos. You’re looking at photographs of pages of the magazine. Some magazines are in less than pristine condition. Older magazines show their physical age. In the end, my screen shots of iplayboy images were akin to a bunch of crappy photos of old magazines.
No other Playboy sites are worth investing in. “playboytv ( dot ) com” is idiotic. It’s a bunch of ( ugh! ) vanilla sex videos featuring ( ugh! ) men and women. Expect to see boring politically correct crap. Such as, “daring” sex between a White person and a Black person. Also, bisexual and quasi-fag characters. Playboy has strayed far from its paradigm shattering roots. It has utterly forgotten “the girl next door”; the truth that a young, possibly “underage” girl can be a sex goddess; including naively.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
If you visit an “AbeBooks” website, you’ll be presented with a large square “Search” box. In the box labelled “Author”, type in “Andrew Roller”. In the box labelled “Title”, type in “Andrew Roller Presents”. This will bring up some of my pamphlets. I have not yet figured out how to bring up other pamphlets by me, under other titles. I don’t recall all the titles I published under.
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
At the “home page” of my You Tube channel, you’ll see just a selection of playlists that I created. To see all my playlists, tap on the phrase, “Created playlists”.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 54
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 54, version 4.0
Date Written: November 13, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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When Paper was King
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ET 53
Editorial Thunder presents...
When Paper was King
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by Andrew Roller
Why, WordPress publisher, you’re a spoiled brat and don’t know it.
Plus: Trump, Big Tech, BML, and Antifart.
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Perhaps you’ve visited the website “AbeBooks” ( dot ) com. You can find xeroxed pamphlets there, by me. Such pamphlets are commonly called “zines”. Just some of the zines that I’ve published are for sale at AbeBooks. ( I have no financial interest in such sales. )
At AbeBooks, you’ll find a description that accompanies each of my zines. Part of this description reads as follows:
“see Andrew Roller’s Factsheet Five controversy; basically he was kicked out of FS5 [ Factsheet Five ] for creating a zine with exactly the same title.”
Nothing could be further from the truth.
In the 1980s, I began publishing zines. Having xeroxed a hundred or so copies of a zine, I had a problem. How could I get rid of them? In other words, how could I place my august observations ( and crappy art ) in the hands of someone other than myself?
I sent free copies of my zines to a “review-zine”. A review-zine held out the promise of listing my zines. Someone who read the review-zine might see one of my zines there. Then, that person might order one or more of my zines from me. In the mid-1980s, a popular price for a zine, including those by me, was 25 cents.
How one was to send a quarter through the mail was never solved. One could write a check for 25 cents. However, in that time, it cost money to buy checks. My bank still charges me money when I ask for checks for my checking account.
Let’s say that someone sent me a check for one of my zines. This happened, when I was selling bigger zines that cost $2.00 each. I learned that a check had to be made out to me, “Andrew Roller”. If someone made his check out in the name of my zine, I couldn’t cash it at my bank. That’s because my bank demanded that I have a business license. A business license costs money. It also requires one to file tax forms, every year, for one’s “business”. One must file both Federal and state tax forms.
The first review-zine that I sent my zines to was called “Shit Pile of Comics Excrement”. Actually, that’s my name for it. I was promptly kicked out of “Shit Pile”. “Shit Pile’s” publisher told me that my zines were “crap and horse shit”. To his credit, he returned $9.00 that I’d sent him. Stupidly, he sent it in cash.
Having been kicked out of “Shit Pile”, I started my own review-zine. Mine was called “Comic Update”. ( Not “Comic Upchuck”. ) The format of “Comic Update” was that of a “mini-comic”. My intent was to review other “mini-comics”. Nearly all of these were small comic books.
A mini-comic is a homemade comic book. Each consists of a single page folded twice.
First, a page is folded once. Then it’s cut into two sections. One section is placed atop the other. Then both of these sections are folded. This puts one section inside of the other, like pages in a book.
Now, the folded sections are stapled along the fold. It becomes the “spine” of the mini-comic. You can’t use a regular stapler to staple a mini-comic. A regular stapler is too short. You have to buy a “long arm stapler”. Also, a mini-comic is too big to fit in a regular envelope. Holiday card envelopes are great, but quite expensive. I wrapped each of my mini-comics in a sheet of paper. Then I taped the wrapping paper shut. Ordinary Scotch Tape is too weak to keep the wrapping paper properly shut. I used package tape.
A reader once complained to me, “I need a stick of dynamite to open your zine!” Another reader opened my zine, and tore it up. He used a regular envelope to mail back to me the pieces of my zine.
Many readers told me that they put my zine in their “round file”. It took me years to figure out that, by “round file”, they meant their trash can.
Once, I mailed a zine to a 16-year-old boy. Probably, it wasn’t “Comic Update”, but my zine called “Naughty Naked Dreamgirls”. The relevant issue was regarded as racy. I didn’t know the person’s age. All I knew was that he was a “small presser”, someone who participated in self-publishing. The boy didn’t mind my zine. I guess he told some small pressers, though, who had it in for me. They created a hullaballoo.
My biggest scandal occurred in issue number 11 of “Comic Update”. I conscientiously typed and published critical letters that were mailed to me, regarding my zine. This included scornful letters. I was typing a diatribe by a guy named “Steven Shipley”. Somehow, I typed his name as “Steven Shitley”. Of this, a reader wrote to me:
“How could you have made such a mistake? The ‘p’ and ‘t’ are on opposite sides of the keyboard!”
Later, I typed the name of one “Dennis T. Stahl” as “Dennis Toilet Stall”. I have no idea who he was. I guess my typing skills weren’t the greatest.
I published “Comic Update” for a number of years. You might wonder how successful it was. Well, it didn’t have the ( then ) circulation of “Playboy”. “Comic Update” had between two and four subscribers. As you can imagine, I sent out lots of free copies of “Comic Update”.
Other review-zines came and went. One was published by a fellow I’ll call Jim Hack. Hack took to publishing his zine, who’s name escapes me, in tandem with “Shit Pile”. This was done, in part, to compete with me. As the current issue of “Shit Pile” aged, Hack would publish his own review-zine to fill the gap left by “Shit Pile”. I nonetheless continued publishing “Comic Update”. With at most four subscribers, I wasn’t publishing to make money.
In fact, publishing in the 1980s was expensive. Routinely, I drove to a xerox store. It was a considerable distance from where I lived. I had to make copies of the covers of the zines that I planned to review in “Comic Update”. The same was true of art inside the zines, if I wanted to include it with my review. The same applied to ephemera that artists sent me. All of this material had to be reduced multiple times to fit in my zine. At that time, reductions were pricey.
I am pleased to say that I was the first person to include a picture of the cover of each zine that I reviewed. Prior to this, review-zines, such as “Shit Pile”, only included the occasional cover.
When I started “Comic Update”, I used a manual typewriter. Soon, I was renting a computer by the hour. Later, I bought a computer. However, I didn’t have a printer. I had to drive to a computer service company to print out my reviews. Going home again, I assembled “Comic Update” with scissors and tape.
Was my assembled issue of “Comic Update” now finished? Nope. I had to drive back to the xerox store. There, I paid to reduce the master pages of “Comic Update” to mini-comic size. I then went home again, and assembled the final master copy of “Comic Update”.
Once an issue of “Comic Update” was done, I drove back to the xerox store. I made 100 or so copies of an issue of “Comic Update”. That is, I went home with 200 or so sheets of paper, xeroxed on both sides. Then I had to cut, fold, staple, wrap, and address my 100 copies. After that, I mailed them.
In order to mail copies of my zine, I needed to have about 100 stamps. Stamps, of course, cost money. Usually, I mailed my zines at night, long after any post office had closed. Hence, I needed to buy lots of stamps in advance.
A longer, or larger, zine required more postage. A bigger zine usually required an envelope of a particular size.
If you make a longer zine, you wind up with piles of xeroxed paper that have to be assembled. There’s a significant risk that, prior to this, you created a flawed master copy of your zine. Hence, you wind up with a zine where page 5 comes, say, before page 3. Imagine having a fully printed, but unassembled, zine where you find that you screwed up the master copy. The whole print run is rendered worthless.
My zines currently on sale at AbeBooks are in a large format. Their dimensions are that of a full sheet of paper, uncut and unfolded. Each has multiple pages. None are incorrectly printed.
You might think a xerox store would be happy to see me. That wasn’t necessarily so. In the 1990s I was banned by a “Stinko’s Copies” store. ( Otherwise known as “Kinko’s Copies”. ) Its manager said she disapproved of the content of my zines. I appealed to the owner of Stinko’s, the actual “Stinko” guy himself. ( Paul Orfalea. ) He refused to help me. This was reported by Joe Bob Briggs in his newsletter. At the time, Briggs worked for “The Movie Channel” ( TMC ).
“Stinko’s” wasn’t the only entity that found my content objectionable. Two Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) agents showed up at my door. They’d been gulled into thinking I meant to blow up a comic book convention. They also asked me if my work was “obscene”. ( Obscenity is only determined by a court of law, following a trial. )
Police in Canada sought to abuse me. Two Canadian Mounties bullied their way into the home of an artist who was drawing zine covers for me. ( For my epic novella, “The Fading Universe”. ) The Mounties confiscated the artist’s innocuous art. They also confiscated his copy of “The Fading Universe”. Then the Mounties demanded, of the artist,
“Where’s Roller?”
The artist replied:
“Roller’s where he always is: on my toilet, masturbating to kiddie porn.”
Actually, the above is a joke. You need some reward for reading about me.
The artist, a Canadian, explained that I lived in America. Many Americans have a high opinion of Canada. Not me. Any country that lets policemen, of whatever status, barge into an artist’s home and steal his art is uncivilized. Canada also has zero respect for free speech. Ask any Canadian who, modernly, has tried publishing positive thoughts about ‘pedophilia’.
In “The NAMBLA Bulletin”, a Canadian said the following of his country:
“Where even the written word is illegal.”
Rome had to contend with barbarians in Germany. We’re stuck with the same in Canada. As Jim Carey, playing a wrestler, once explained to an audience: “This is toilet paper. And this is soap”. Take note, Canada.
In the 1980s, I decided to buy a printer for my computer. Dot matrix printers were popular at the time, and reasonably priced. However, I didn’t regard a dot matrix printer as suitable for “Comic Update”. After all, mine was no ordinary publication; I was reviewing homemade comic books!
I wanted a laser printer. In the 1980s, a laser printer cost $5,000. The best laser printer was the “PS Jet Plus”. I called the company that manufactured the “PS Jet Plus”. I told them I wanted to buy a printer. They told me I could only buy a “PS Jet Plus”, or any printer, from their local distributor. He turned out to be a defrocked minister. His company was called, “Solid Software”. I sent “Solid Software” a check for $5,000.
The ex-minister was difficult to deal with. At one point, he confessed to me that his business wasn’t doing well. He’d considered keeping my $5,000, without delivering a printer to me.
I was obliged to accompany the ex-minister on a daylong trip to Nevada, from California. On much of this trip, the ex-minister played a cassette tape. It was of a man reading the Bible. I don’t recall the point of my accompanying the ex-minister on his trip. I was basically forced to ‘ride herd’ on him in hopes of getting my printer.
When the ex-minister installed my printer, he refused to supply the appropriate electrical cable. The cable’s purpose was to connect my printer to my computer. I had an Apple computer, and an Apple-compatible printer. The ex-minister insisted on using a cable meant for the Microsoft world. It didn’t work.
My printer was subjected to repeated abuse as this man struggled to get his incorrect cable to work. Finally, he bought the proper cable. It worked immediately. I don’t recall if the man charged me extra for the cable or not.
( I was the one who had to figure out what the problem was. The ex-minister didn’t let on about what he was doing. What a cheapskate he was: trying to save several dollars on a cable after selling me a $5,000 printer! )
As he abused my printer, the ex-minister tore open an attractive tabbed instruction book for my printer. His method of opening the instruction book smashed the tabs. After that, the instruction book for my printer wasn’t pretty anymore.
The ex-minister borrowed two books on my law library card. He didn’t return them. At last, after considerable cajoling by me, he returned the books, and apologized for his behavior.
At one point, a fellow named Ian Shires published his own review-zine. Ian still owes me money. I think he owes me money because I bought ad space in his zine, and he failed to publish my ad. Either that, or Ian failed to fulfill my subscription to his zine, while continuing to publish it.
I complained to Ian a quarter century ago. However, Ian has never sent me a refund. With accumulated interest, I figure the $5.00 or so Ian owes me is now a lot more. I’ll take a check for $50.00 at any time, Ian.
The Goliath of review-zines turned out to be “Factshit Five”, by Mike Gunderloy. ( Otherwise known as “Factsheet Five”. ) I don’t know when Gunderloy’s “Factshit” began. Eventually, all of us who were making zines sent review copies to Gunderloy.
I became a regular advertiser in “Factshit”. Gunderloy offered a deal. It was this:
“Send me $80.00, and I’ll sell you ad space in two consecutive issues of ‘Factshit’.” I began doing this on a regular basis.
With regard to my last payment of $80.00, Gunderloy published my ad in an issue of “Factshit”. He was then to publish another issue of “Factshit”, with another one of my ads.
Instead, Gunderloy sold “Factshit” to someone named Hudson Luce. Luce published one issue of “Factshit”. The issue did not contain my ad. Hence, I was out $40.00. I asked Gunderloy for a refund. He did not send me one.
In summary, Gunderloy kept my $40.00, but failed to publish “Factshit”. Luce did publish “Factshit”, but without my ad. Luce refused to take responsibility for my $40.00.
Worse, Luce kicked me out of “Factshit”. He refused to review any of my zines. He also kicked out the “North American Man / Boy Love Association” ( NAMBLA ). “The NAMBLA Bulletin” had been reviewed regularly in “Factshit”. Luce refused to review it.
Luce’s single issue of “Factshit” was a jumbled mess. Gunderloy had always alphabetized the zines he reviewed. Luce did not do this.
Luce then sold “Factshit” to Seth Friedman. Friedman did a more credible job of publishing “Factshit”. However, Friedman refused to accept responsibility for my $40.00. He also refused to review my zines. After that, as I recall, I had no meaningful way to distribute my zines.
I continued to publish on paper sometimes. This mostly consisted of sending out free copies of my zines. I didn’t have lots of addresses. I was stuck sending my zines to “old-timers” in the small press. The vast bulk of them didn’t like me. I guess my zines mostly annoyed them, which didn’t bother me.
I also began uploading my content to “Bulletin Board Services” ( BBS’s ). I was kicked out of several BBS’s with considerable fanfare.
A company named “Compuserve” came along. It was akin to a very large BBS. One had to pay by the hour to access Compuserve. My uploaded content soon got me abused on Compuserve. Not by my fellow customers, but by one or more employees of Compuserve. I was relegated to posting my content in a section of Compuserve reserved for “sexual deviancy”. It wasn’t a “sexy” place to post. It was some sort of medical section of Compuserve.
I later joined America Online ( AOHell ). After a year or two, I was kicked out of it. In response to the “Communications Decency Act” of 1996, I’d changed the name of my flagship online zine. I changed its name from “Naughty Naked Dreamgirls” to “Fuck Decency”.
My online zines were published in Usenet newsgroups, via AOHell. The main newsgroup that I posted to was alt.sex.stories. AOHell also provided each of its members with “File Transfer Protocol” ( FTP ) storage space. I stored copies of my zine “Fuck Decency” there. Unknown to me, AOHell prohibited the use of the word “fuck”. Hence, an employee at AOHell kicked me out. When I asked for a refund, it was refused.
I paid AOHell by the month. However, AOHell was selling memberships that lasted as long as three years. Those were quite expensive. If any member of AOHell violated their “rules”, that member was kicked out. No appeal was offered to anyone. As you can see, a member who paid for three years, and then got kicked out, could lose a lot of money.
I don’t recall ever seeing a copy of AOHell’s rules. I don’t recall ever seeing a reference to their rules. I don’t think the phrase “Terms of Service” was in use at that time. The phrase “Community Guidelines” had not yet been invented.
( In the 1980’s, I once spoke sarcastically of “our small press community”. That term was then turned against me. Small pressers deployed it to try to exclude me. Every time I see “Community” used by Big Tech, in a way that’s meant to exclude, I wonder if I’m the naive father of that use. )
When I was a member of AOHell, its Chief Executive Officer was Steve Case. After I got kicked out of AOHell, and wasn’t offered an appeal or a refund, I decided that Case was a crook. Time has proven that Case is also a moron. He lost ownership of an online service that could have made billions of dollars, as today’s big social media companies do.
Kicked out of AOHell, I sojourned through several internet service providers. The first service I tried was called “InReach”. ( Not “InRoach”. ) Of InReach, I asked, on the phone,
“Do you provide uncensored internet service?”
“Oh, yes! We provide uncensored internet service!” I was assured. The guy sounded like a cop ready to nab a criminal. However, not bent on criminal conduct, I signed up for the service.
Using InReach, I uploaded my content. For awhile, I couldn’t understand why I was utterly dominant on alt.sex.stories. Then I discovered that I was the only person on alt.sex.stories. That’s because I was uploading to a cache. The cache was owned by InReach. Other than InReach, I was the only person who had access to the cache. One does not publish content to be its sole reader.
( I had to figure out that I was uploading to a cache; InReach didn’t warn me. They did confess to it when I confronted them. ) I quit InReach.
I tried WorldCom. I was one of their ( landline ) telephone customers. When I became an internet customer, one of their employees took secret umbrage at my uploaded content. How do I know that? The employee bombed my computer. I had to restart my computer. This may have happened more than once. Subsequently, I was kicked out of WorldCom.
God, who’s a little girl, got revenge on WorldCom. According to Google:
“WorldCom was a telecommunications company that went bankrupt in 2002 following a massive accounting fraud. WorldCom remains the biggest accounting scandal in U.S. history as well as one of the largest bankruptcies.”
( Search term: fate of WorldCom )
I then tried Sprint. Before I joined Sprint, I realized they’d kick me out the next day. However, a long night was ahead! I called Sprint’s technical support department numerous times during the night. I called them to get assistance uploading my content. I successfully uploaded my content.
The next day, Sprint kicked me out. However, by then, my content was on the main part of the internet, where Sprint couldn’t block or destroy it.
You might wonder how I got kicked out so quickly by Sprint. I’d attracted a group of four idiots. One was a religious nut. He abbreviated everything he wrote, as in: “How R U?” Another of the idiots was a feminist. She quoted lines from Alanis Morissette’s album, “Jagged Little Pill”.
I never had any meaningful contact with these idiots. I have no idea who they were. They trailed after me, across the internet, getting me kicked out by internet service providers. Their iniquity began with my termination by AOHell.
I wondered how I could rid myself of these idiots. First, I joined “Earthlink”. ( Not “Earthstink”. ) Earthlink was based in Los Angeles. It was a long way from Sacratomato, where I then lived. Los Angeles is a big city. It isn’t some American version of Canada. I never had any trouble with Earthlink.
Second, I strove to write something that would horrify my tormentors. I published various essays. None worked. Finally, I wrote an essay called, “Saved by the Cross!” My character, holy joe, gets diarrhea. He stops it by sticking a cross up his ass. After I published that essay, I never heard from my tormentors again.
But back to “Factshit”. Having lost $40.00 to Gunderloy, I decided to start my own zine. It never pretended to be a review-zine. It was a parody zine. I called it “Fugitive Factsheet”. A fellow named “Wilhelm Dorkery” contributed his thoughts to “Fugitive Factsheet”. Actually, his name is William Dockery. I’ve never met him in person, but he proved to be an invaluable part of my life for a time.
“Fugitive Factsheet” is not “a zine with exactly the same title” as “Factsheet Five”. Its very name implies that it is conscious that its ‘ripping off’ ( as a parody ) “Factsheet Five”. It was my way, with Dockery’s help, of reclaiming the $40.00 that Gunderloy and his successors robbed me of.
After selling “Factshit Five”, Gunderloy wrote a book about his experience, and sold it to Penguin books. I’ve never read his book.
Gunderloy operated a BBS. I was briefly on it. His BBS had little content, and I wasn’t welcome. When I visited Gunderloy’s BBS, he was pondering something with his cohorts. Gunderloy wanted to accomplish something with his computer. He was using a Microsoft-type computer.
Gunderloy’s problem astonished me. Owning an Apple computer, I advised Gunderloy that his problem wasn’t one - if he used an Apple computer. An Apple computer could easily accomplish what his Microsoft-type computer couldn’t.
Gunderloy’s answer? “An Apple computer is a little toy, for a little boy.”
I don’t wish Gunderloy ill. I do hope he never bought Apple’s stock.
Truth be told, I didn’t buy Apple’s stock either. It languished at $20.00 a share in the 1990s. That was long before Apple’s numerous stock splits.
That’s what life was like before WordPress. I’d say “before the internet”, but that isn’t true, given how many online service providers kicked me out. Modernly, I’ve been kicked out by Facebook. Like many on You Tube, I’m often tormented by You Tube’s staff. Google’s modern “content boundaries” prevent me from publishing in “Google Groups”. “Google Groups” was once the uncensored “DejaNews”. Google should move to Canada, where it belongs.
ASK NOT FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
A main closing argument by the Rump campaign ( I mean, the Trump campaign! ) is internet freedom. That is, freedom of speech for the ordinary person on the internet. Other Republican politicians advance the same theme.
Mark Fuckerberg owns Facebook. I like calling it Fuckbook. However, here, I’ll call it Facebook.
Fuckerberg, of Facebook, apparently considers himself king of the world. The same hubris appears to afflict others, like those heading Twitter and Google. These morons failed to note that we still live in a world that has governments.
Regarding the pope, Stalin once asked, “How many ( army ) divisions does he have?” Crassus, of Rome, said, “No man can call himself rich unless he has his own army”. Governments have armies. Facebook, Twitter, and Google don’t. They also couldn’t survive a concerted boycott, or substantial vigilantism.
In America, we experienced vigilantism this year. It came in the form of riots, looting, arson, beatings, and murder. The cause for such behavior was said to be “social justice”. But “social justice” isn’t all that mobs can riot about.
It was stupid for Fuckerberg and his ilk to piss off America’s government. Sure, Big Tech has yet to piss off the whole American government. That’s because Democrats see Big Tech’s censorship as favoring them. However, given Big Tech’s clumsy, capricious, and malicious censoring, they’re bound to upset still more parts of the government soon.
America’s government could alter, or eliminate, section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The Act reads:
“No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.”
( Google search term: section 230 communications decency act )
In other words, Facebook is currently regarded as a neutral platform. It is not regarded as a publisher. The same is true of other Big Tech sites, like Twitter and You Tube. ( Google owns You Tube. )
As a neutral platform, Facebook isn’t liable for content posted on it. Were Facebook to be recategorized, in law, as a publisher, Facebook would be liable for every bit of content that it contains.
If America’s government alters section 230, the purpose would be to recategorize sites like Facebook. Then Facebook would be seen, in law, as a publisher, instead of as a neutral platform. Facebook would be liable for all its content.
If Big Tech becomes liable for everything posted on their sites, they’re doomed. Let’s say that change happens. Then, along comes June Joy. Joy publishes “child pornography” on Facebook. Fuckerberg, Facebook’s owner, now possesses Joy’s “child pornography”. Possession of “child pornography” is a strict liability crime. It doesn’t matter that Fuckerberg doesn’t know that “child pornography” is on his website. If he possesses it, he’s guilty. In many states, that makes him a sex offender. The website “www (dot ) swiftpassportservices (dot ) com” states the following:
“Crimes that can land you on a child sex offender registry include ... viewing or sharing child pornography ( whether inadvertently or on purpose ).”
Source: Swift’s article, “New Passport Rules for Sex Offenders”.
Let’s say Fuckerberg, as a publisher, decides to inspect Facebook. He wants to make sure there isn’t any “child pornography” on Facebook. Fuckerberg finds “child pornography” on Facebook. He finds it by, of course, viewing it. Bingo! Fuckerberg is now a sex offender. If Joy shares “child pornography” with James on Facebook, which Fuckerberg owns, that also makes Fuckerberg a sex offender.
( America’s laws on “child pornography” are idiotic. One can become a sex offender as a teen, by having sex with another teen. One can also become a sex offender as a child. That can happen if you post naked photos of yourself, as an “underage” person.
Source: Swift’s article, “New Passport Rules for Sex Offenders”.
Swift fails to note that nudity isn’t child pornography. Child pornography is the lascivious exhibition of the genitals, or images of “children” having sex. )
America no longer publishes a weekly newsmagazine worth reading. That’s been true for some time. The premiere newsmagazine in English is published in England. It’s called “The Economist”. I first started reading The Economist in the 1980s. The quality of the magazine has declined since the last century. However, this issue’s cover story caught my eye. It reads:
“Who controls the conversation? Social media and free speech”.
- The Economist, October 24TH - 30TH 2020.
Hence, it isn’t just some Republican politicians in America who are complaining about Big Tech’s censorship. The subject has made it to the cover of a foreign magazine whose writers, on America, are currently left-wing.
That is, the writers are left-wing as of the last time I read The Economist. When a writer in The Economist called traitor James Comey’s actions “heroic”, I lost interest in The Economist. Comey is a former director of the F.B.I. who attempted to overthrow the United States government; namely, President Donald J. Trump. As we now have one system of justice for “child molesters”, and another for traitors, Comey has never been arrested, charged, or prosecuted for his crimes. Nor have any of his collaborators, except for one lowly F.B.I. lawyer.
Fuckerberg and his ilk should have stuck to operating neutral platforms. Their censorship could lead them to lose much of what they possess.
TRUMP ON BIG TECH
“A vote for Joe Biden is a vote for ... wealthy hypocrites who want to silence, censor, and punish you.”
- United States President Donald J. Trump, Fayetteville, North Carolina, November 2, 2020. Source: Fox News Channel.
“CHILD MOLESTERS, THEY’RE THE WORST” - common 1990s saying.
“I hope all your children get raped and killed.”
- Spoken by a young woman. She was one of many ‘mostly peaceful’ protestors rioting on behalf of Bowel Movement Lives ( BML ), and Antifart. The riot occurred in New York City on November 1, 2020. Source: Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox News Channel, November 1, 2020.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
If you visit an “AbeBooks” website, you’ll be presented with a large square “Search” box. In the box labelled “Author”, type in “Andrew Roller”. In the box labelled “Title”, type in “Andrew Roller Presents”. This will bring up some of my pamphlets. I have not yet figured out how to bring up other pamphlets by me, under other titles. I don’t recall all the titles I published under.
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
At the “home page” of my You Tube channel, you’ll see just a selection of playlists that I created. To see all my playlists, tap on the phrase, “Created playlists”.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 53
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 53, version 8.0
Date Written: November 3, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 53
Editorial Thunder presents...
When Paper was King
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by Andrew Roller
Why, WordPress publisher, you’re a spoiled brat and don’t know it.
Plus: Trump, Big Tech, BML, and Antifart.
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Perhaps you’ve visited the website “AbeBooks” ( dot ) com. You can find xeroxed pamphlets there, by me. Such pamphlets are commonly called “zines”. Just some of the zines that I’ve published are for sale at AbeBooks. ( I have no financial interest in such sales. )
At AbeBooks, you’ll find a description that accompanies each of my zines. Part of this description reads as follows:
“see Andrew Roller’s Factsheet Five controversy; basically he was kicked out of FS5 [ Factsheet Five ] for creating a zine with exactly the same title.”
Nothing could be further from the truth.
In the 1980s, I began publishing zines. Having xeroxed a hundred or so copies of a zine, I had a problem. How could I get rid of them? In other words, how could I place my august observations ( and crappy art ) in the hands of someone other than myself?
I sent free copies of my zines to a “review-zine”. A review-zine held out the promise of listing my zines. Someone who read the review-zine might see one of my zines there. Then, that person might order one or more of my zines from me. In the mid-1980s, a popular price for a zine, including those by me, was 25 cents.
How one was to send a quarter through the mail was never solved. One could write a check for 25 cents. However, in that time, it cost money to buy checks. My bank still charges me money when I ask for checks for my checking account.
Let’s say that someone sent me a check for one of my zines. This happened, when I was selling bigger zines that cost $2.00 each. I learned that a check had to be made out to me, “Andrew Roller”. If someone made his check out in the name of my zine, I couldn’t cash it at my bank. That’s because my bank demanded that I have a business license. A business license costs money. It also requires one to file tax forms, every year, for one’s “business”. One must file both Federal and state tax forms.
The first review-zine that I sent my zines to was called “Shit Pile of Comics Excrement”. Actually, that’s my name for it. I was promptly kicked out of “Shit Pile”. “Shit Pile’s” publisher told me that my zines were “crap and horse shit”. To his credit, he returned $9.00 that I’d sent him. Stupidly, he sent it in cash.
Having been kicked out of “Shit Pile”, I started my own review-zine. Mine was called “Comic Update”. ( Not “Comic Upchuck”. ) The format of “Comic Update” was that of a “mini-comic”. My intent was to review other “mini-comics”. Nearly all of these were small comic books.
A mini-comic is a homemade comic book. Each consists of a single page folded twice.
First, a page is folded once. Then it’s cut into two sections. One section is placed atop the other. Then both of these sections are folded. This puts one section inside of the other, like pages in a book.
Now, the folded sections are stapled along the fold. It becomes the “spine” of the mini-comic. You can’t use a regular stapler to staple a mini-comic. A regular stapler is too short. You have to buy a “long arm stapler”. Also, a mini-comic is too big to fit in a regular envelope. Holiday card envelopes are great, but quite expensive. I wrapped each of my mini-comics in a sheet of paper. Then I taped the wrapping paper shut. Ordinary Scotch Tape is too weak to keep the wrapping paper properly shut. I used package tape.
A reader once complained to me, “I need a stick of dynamite to open your zine!” Another reader opened my zine, and tore it up. He used a regular envelope to mail back to me the pieces of my zine.
Many readers told me that they put my zine in their “round file”. It took me years to figure out that, by “round file”, they meant their trash can.
Once, I mailed a zine to a 16-year-old boy. Probably, it wasn’t “Comic Update”, but my zine called “Naughty Naked Dreamgirls”. The relevant issue was regarded as racy. I didn’t know the person’s age. All I knew was that he was a “small presser”, someone who participated in self-publishing. The boy didn’t mind my zine. I guess he told some small pressers, though, who had it in for me. They created a hullaballoo.
My biggest scandal occurred in issue number 11 of “Comic Update”. I conscientiously typed and published critical letters that were mailed to me, regarding my zine. This included scornful letters. I was typing a diatribe by a guy named “Steven Shipley”. Somehow, I typed his name as “Steven Shitley”. Of this, a reader wrote to me:
“How could you have made such a mistake? The ‘p’ and ‘t’ are on opposite sides of the keyboard!”
Later, I typed the name of one “Dennis T. Stahl” as “Dennis Toilet Stall”. I have no idea who he was. I guess my typing skills weren’t the greatest.
I published “Comic Update” for a number of years. You might wonder how successful it was. Well, it didn’t have the ( then ) circulation of “Playboy”. “Comic Update” had between two and four subscribers. As you can imagine, I sent out lots of free copies of “Comic Update”.
Other review-zines came and went. One was published by a fellow I’ll call Jim Hack. Hack took to publishing his zine, who’s name escapes me, in tandem with “Shit Pile”. This was done, in part, to compete with me. As the current issue of “Shit Pile” aged, Hack would publish his own review-zine to fill the gap left by “Shit Pile”. I nonetheless continued publishing “Comic Update”. With at most four subscribers, I wasn’t publishing to make money.
In fact, publishing in the 1980s was expensive. Routinely, I drove to a xerox store. It was a considerable distance from where I lived. I had to make copies of the covers of the zines that I planned to review in “Comic Update”. The same was true of art inside the zines, if I wanted to include it with my review. The same applied to ephemera that artists sent me. All of this material had to be reduced multiple times to fit in my zine. At that time, reductions were pricey.
I am pleased to say that I was the first person to include a picture of the cover of each zine that I reviewed. Prior to this, review-zines, such as “Shit Pile”, only included the occasional cover.
When I started “Comic Update”, I used a manual typewriter. Soon, I was renting a computer by the hour. Later, I bought a computer. However, I didn’t have a printer. I had to drive to a computer service company to print out my reviews. Going home again, I assembled “Comic Update” with scissors and tape.
Was my assembled issue of “Comic Update” now finished? Nope. I had to drive back to the xerox store. There, I paid to reduce the master pages of “Comic Update” to mini-comic size. I then went home again, and assembled the final master copy of “Comic Update”.
Once an issue of “Comic Update” was done, I drove back to the xerox store. I made 100 or so copies of an issue of “Comic Update”. That is, I went home with 200 or so sheets of paper, xeroxed on both sides. Then I had to cut, fold, staple, wrap, and address my 100 copies. After that, I mailed them.
In order to mail copies of my zine, I needed to have about 100 stamps. Stamps, of course, cost money. Usually, I mailed my zines at night, long after any post office had closed. Hence, I needed to buy lots of stamps in advance.
A longer, or larger, zine required more postage. A bigger zine usually required an envelope of a particular size.
If you make a longer zine, you wind up with piles of xeroxed paper that have to be assembled. There’s a significant risk that, prior to this, you created a flawed master copy of your zine. Hence, you wind up with a zine where page 5 comes, say, before page 3. Imagine having a fully printed, but unassembled, zine where you find that you screwed up the master copy. The whole print run is rendered worthless.
My zines currently on sale at AbeBooks are in a large format. Their dimensions are that of a full sheet of paper, uncut and unfolded. Each has multiple pages. None are incorrectly printed.
You might think a xerox store would be happy to see me. That wasn’t necessarily so. In the 1990s I was banned by a “Stinko’s Copies” store. ( Otherwise known as “Kinko’s Copies”. ) Its manager said she disapproved of the content of my zines. I appealed to the owner of Stinko’s, the actual “Stinko” guy himself. ( Paul Orfalea. ) He refused to help me. This was reported by Joe Bob Briggs in his newsletter. At the time, Briggs worked for “The Movie Channel” ( TMC ).
“Stinko’s” wasn’t the only entity that found my content objectionable. Two Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) agents showed up at my door. They’d been gulled into thinking I meant to blow up a comic book convention. They also asked me if my work was “obscene”. ( Obscenity is only determined by a court of law, following a trial. )
Police in Canada sought to abuse me. Two Canadian Mounties bullied their way into the home of an artist who was drawing zine covers for me. ( For my epic novella, “The Fading Universe”. ) The Mounties confiscated the artist’s innocuous art. They also confiscated his copy of “The Fading Universe”. Then the Mounties demanded, of the artist,
“Where’s Roller?”
The artist replied:
“Roller’s where he always is: on my toilet, masturbating to kiddie porn.”
Actually, the above is a joke. You need some reward for reading about me.
The artist, a Canadian, explained that I lived in America. Many Americans have a high opinion of Canada. Not me. Any country that lets policemen, of whatever status, barge into an artist’s home and steal his art is uncivilized. Canada also has zero respect for free speech. Ask any Canadian who, modernly, has tried publishing positive thoughts about ‘pedophilia’.
In “The NAMBLA Bulletin”, a Canadian said the following of his country:
“Where even the written word is illegal.”
Rome had to contend with barbarians in Germany. We’re stuck with the same in Canada. As Jim Carey, playing a wrestler, once explained to an audience: “This is toilet paper. And this is soap”. Take note, Canada.
In the 1980s, I decided to buy a printer for my computer. Dot matrix printers were popular at the time, and reasonably priced. However, I didn’t regard a dot matrix printer as suitable for “Comic Update”. After all, mine was no ordinary publication; I was reviewing homemade comic books!
I wanted a laser printer. In the 1980s, a laser printer cost $5,000. The best laser printer was the “PS Jet Plus”. I called the company that manufactured the “PS Jet Plus”. I told them I wanted to buy a printer. They told me I could only buy a “PS Jet Plus”, or any printer, from their local distributor. He turned out to be a defrocked minister. His company was called, “Solid Software”. I sent “Solid Software” a check for $5,000.
The ex-minister was difficult to deal with. At one point, he confessed to me that his business wasn’t doing well. He’d considered keeping my $5,000, without delivering a printer to me.
I was obliged to accompany the ex-minister on a daylong trip to Nevada, from California. On much of this trip, the ex-minister played a cassette tape. It was of a man reading the Bible. I don’t recall the point of my accompanying the ex-minister on his trip. I was basically forced to ‘ride herd’ on him in hopes of getting my printer.
When the ex-minister installed my printer, he refused to supply the appropriate electrical cable. The cable’s purpose was to connect my printer to my computer. I had an Apple computer, and an Apple-compatible printer. The ex-minister insisted on using a cable meant for the Microsoft world. It didn’t work.
My printer was subjected to repeated abuse as this man struggled to get his incorrect cable to work. Finally, he bought the proper cable. It worked immediately. I don’t recall if the man charged me extra for the cable or not.
( I was the one who had to figure out what the problem was. The ex-minister didn’t let on about what he was doing. What a cheapskate he was: trying to save several dollars on a cable after selling me a $5,000 printer! )
As he abused my printer, the ex-minister tore open an attractive tabbed instruction book for my printer. His method of opening the instruction book smashed the tabs. After that, the instruction book for my printer wasn’t pretty anymore.
The ex-minister borrowed two books on my law library card. He didn’t return them. At last, after considerable cajoling by me, he returned the books, and apologized for his behavior.
At one point, a fellow named Ian Shires published his own review-zine. Ian still owes me money. I think he owes me money because I bought ad space in his zine, and he failed to publish my ad. Either that, or Ian failed to fulfill my subscription to his zine, while continuing to publish it.
I complained to Ian a quarter century ago. However, Ian has never sent me a refund. With accumulated interest, I figure the $5.00 or so Ian owes me is now a lot more. I’ll take a check for $50.00 at any time, Ian.
The Goliath of review-zines turned out to be “Factshit Five”, by Mike Gunderloy. ( Otherwise known as “Factsheet Five”. ) I don’t know when Gunderloy’s “Factshit” began. Eventually, all of us who were making zines sent review copies to Gunderloy.
I became a regular advertiser in “Factshit”. Gunderloy offered a deal. It was this:
“Send me $80.00, and I’ll sell you ad space in two consecutive issues of ‘Factshit’.” I began doing this on a regular basis.
With regard to my last payment of $80.00, Gunderloy published my ad in an issue of “Factshit”. He was then to publish another issue of “Factshit”, with another one of my ads.
Instead, Gunderloy sold “Factshit” to someone named Hudson Luce. Luce published one issue of “Factshit”. The issue did not contain my ad. Hence, I was out $40.00. I asked Gunderloy for a refund. He did not send me one.
In summary, Gunderloy kept my $40.00, but failed to publish “Factshit”. Luce did publish “Factshit”, but without my ad. Luce refused to take responsibility for my $40.00.
Worse, Luce kicked me out of “Factshit”. He refused to review any of my zines. He also kicked out the “North American Man / Boy Love Association” ( NAMBLA ). “The NAMBLA Bulletin” had been reviewed regularly in “Factshit”. Luce refused to review it.
Luce’s single issue of “Factshit” was a jumbled mess. Gunderloy had always alphabetized the zines he reviewed. Luce did not do this.
Luce then sold “Factshit” to Seth Friedman. Friedman did a more credible job of publishing “Factshit”. However, Friedman refused to accept responsibility for my $40.00. He also refused to review my zines. After that, as I recall, I had no meaningful way to distribute my zines.
I continued to publish on paper sometimes. This mostly consisted of sending out free copies of my zines. I didn’t have lots of addresses. I was stuck sending my zines to “old-timers” in the small press. The vast bulk of them didn’t like me. I guess my zines mostly annoyed them, which didn’t bother me.
I also began uploading my content to “Bulletin Board Services” ( BBS’s ). I was kicked out of several BBS’s with considerable fanfare.
A company named “Compuserve” came along. It was akin to a very large BBS. One had to pay by the hour to access Compuserve. My uploaded content soon got me abused on Compuserve. Not by my fellow customers, but by one or more employees of Compuserve. I was relegated to posting my content in a section of Compuserve reserved for “sexual deviancy”. It wasn’t a “sexy” place to post. It was some sort of medical section of Compuserve.
I later joined America Online ( AOHell ). After a year or two, I was kicked out of it. In response to the “Communications Decency Act” of 1996, I’d changed the name of my flagship online zine. I changed its name from “Naughty Naked Dreamgirls” to “Fuck Decency”.
My online zines were published in Usenet newsgroups, via AOHell. The main newsgroup that I posted to was alt.sex.stories. AOHell also provided each of its members with “File Transfer Protocol” ( FTP ) storage space. I stored copies of my zine “Fuck Decency” there. Unknown to me, AOHell prohibited the use of the word “fuck”. Hence, an employee at AOHell kicked me out. When I asked for a refund, it was refused.
I paid AOHell by the month. However, AOHell was selling memberships that lasted as long as three years. Those were quite expensive. If any member of AOHell violated their “rules”, that member was kicked out. No appeal was offered to anyone. As you can see, a member who paid for three years, and then got kicked out, could lose a lot of money.
I don’t recall ever seeing a copy of AOHell’s rules. I don’t recall ever seeing a reference to their rules. I don’t think the phrase “Terms of Service” was in use at that time. The phrase “Community Guidelines” had not yet been invented.
( In the 1980’s, I once spoke sarcastically of “our small press community”. That term was then turned against me. Small pressers deployed it to try to exclude me. Every time I see “Community” used by Big Tech, in a way that’s meant to exclude, I wonder if I’m the naive father of that use. )
When I was a member of AOHell, its Chief Executive Officer was Steve Case. After I got kicked out of AOHell, and wasn’t offered an appeal or a refund, I decided that Case was a crook. Time has proven that Case is also a moron. He lost ownership of an online service that could have made billions of dollars, as today’s big social media companies do.
Kicked out of AOHell, I sojourned through several internet service providers. The first service I tried was called “InReach”. ( Not “InRoach”. ) Of InReach, I asked, on the phone,
“Do you provide uncensored internet service?”
“Oh, yes! We provide uncensored internet service!” I was assured. The guy sounded like a cop ready to nab a criminal. However, not bent on criminal conduct, I signed up for the service.
Using InReach, I uploaded my content. For awhile, I couldn’t understand why I was utterly dominant on alt.sex.stories. Then I discovered that I was the only person on alt.sex.stories. That’s because I was uploading to a cache. The cache was owned by InReach. Other than InReach, I was the only person who had access to the cache. One does not publish content to be its sole reader.
( I had to figure out that I was uploading to a cache; InReach didn’t warn me. They did confess to it when I confronted them. ) I quit InReach.
I tried WorldCom. I was one of their ( landline ) telephone customers. When I became an internet customer, one of their employees took secret umbrage at my uploaded content. How do I know that? The employee bombed my computer. I had to restart my computer. This may have happened more than once. Subsequently, I was kicked out of WorldCom.
God, who’s a little girl, got revenge on WorldCom. According to Google:
“WorldCom was a telecommunications company that went bankrupt in 2002 following a massive accounting fraud. WorldCom remains the biggest accounting scandal in U.S. history as well as one of the largest bankruptcies.”
( Search term: fate of WorldCom )
I then tried Sprint. Before I joined Sprint, I realized they’d kick me out the next day. However, a long night was ahead! I called Sprint’s technical support department numerous times during the night. I called them to get assistance uploading my content. I successfully uploaded my content.
The next day, Sprint kicked me out. However, by then, my content was on the main part of the internet, where Sprint couldn’t block or destroy it.
You might wonder how I got kicked out so quickly by Sprint. I’d attracted a group of four idiots. One was a religious nut. He abbreviated everything he wrote, as in: “How R U?” Another of the idiots was a feminist. She quoted lines from Alanis Morissette’s album, “Jagged Little Pill”.
I never had any meaningful contact with these idiots. I have no idea who they were. They trailed after me, across the internet, getting me kicked out by internet service providers. Their iniquity began with my termination by AOHell.
I wondered how I could rid myself of these idiots. First, I joined “Earthlink”. ( Not “Earthstink”. ) Earthlink was based in Los Angeles. It was a long way from Sacratomato, where I then lived. Los Angeles is a big city. It isn’t some American version of Canada. I never had any trouble with Earthlink.
Second, I strove to write something that would horrify my tormentors. I published various essays. None worked. Finally, I wrote an essay called, “Saved by the Cross!” My character, holy joe, gets diarrhea. He stops it by sticking a cross up his ass. After I published that essay, I never heard from my tormentors again.
But back to “Factshit”. Having lost $40.00 to Gunderloy, I decided to start my own zine. It never pretended to be a review-zine. It was a parody zine. I called it “Fugitive Factsheet”. A fellow named “Wilhelm Dorkery” contributed his thoughts to “Fugitive Factsheet”. Actually, his name is William Dockery. I’ve never met him in person, but he proved to be an invaluable part of my life for a time.
“Fugitive Factsheet” is not “a zine with exactly the same title” as “Factsheet Five”. Its very name implies that it is conscious that its ‘ripping off’ ( as a parody ) “Factsheet Five”. It was my way, with Dockery’s help, of reclaiming the $40.00 that Gunderloy and his successors robbed me of.
After selling “Factshit Five”, Gunderloy wrote a book about his experience, and sold it to Penguin books. I’ve never read his book.
Gunderloy operated a BBS. I was briefly on it. His BBS had little content, and I wasn’t welcome. When I visited Gunderloy’s BBS, he was pondering something with his cohorts. Gunderloy wanted to accomplish something with his computer. He was using a Microsoft-type computer.
Gunderloy’s problem astonished me. Owning an Apple computer, I advised Gunderloy that his problem wasn’t one - if he used an Apple computer. An Apple computer could easily accomplish what his Microsoft-type computer couldn’t.
Gunderloy’s answer? “An Apple computer is a little toy, for a little boy.”
I don’t wish Gunderloy ill. I do hope he never bought Apple’s stock.
Truth be told, I didn’t buy Apple’s stock either. It languished at $20.00 a share in the 1990s. That was long before Apple’s numerous stock splits.
That’s what life was like before WordPress. I’d say “before the internet”, but that isn’t true, given how many online service providers kicked me out. Modernly, I’ve been kicked out by Facebook. Like many on You Tube, I’m often tormented by You Tube’s staff. Google’s modern “content boundaries” prevent me from publishing in “Google Groups”. “Google Groups” was once the uncensored “DejaNews”. Google should move to Canada, where it belongs.
ASK NOT FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
A main closing argument by the Rump campaign ( I mean, the Trump campaign! ) is internet freedom. That is, freedom of speech for the ordinary person on the internet. Other Republican politicians advance the same theme.
Mark Fuckerberg owns Facebook. I like calling it Fuckbook. However, here, I’ll call it Facebook.
Fuckerberg, of Facebook, apparently considers himself king of the world. The same hubris appears to afflict others, like those heading Twitter and Google. These morons failed to note that we still live in a world that has governments.
Regarding the pope, Stalin once asked, “How many ( army ) divisions does he have?” Crassus, of Rome, said, “No man can call himself rich unless he has his own army”. Governments have armies. Facebook, Twitter, and Google don’t. They also couldn’t survive a concerted boycott, or substantial vigilantism.
In America, we experienced vigilantism this year. It came in the form of riots, looting, arson, beatings, and murder. The cause for such behavior was said to be “social justice”. But “social justice” isn’t all that mobs can riot about.
It was stupid for Fuckerberg and his ilk to piss off America’s government. Sure, Big Tech has yet to piss off the whole American government. That’s because Democrats see Big Tech’s censorship as favoring them. However, given Big Tech’s clumsy, capricious, and malicious censoring, they’re bound to upset still more parts of the government soon.
America’s government could alter, or eliminate, section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The Act reads:
“No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.”
( Google search term: section 230 communications decency act )
In other words, Facebook is currently regarded as a neutral platform. It is not regarded as a publisher. The same is true of other Big Tech sites, like Twitter and You Tube. ( Google owns You Tube. )
As a neutral platform, Facebook isn’t liable for content posted on it. Were Facebook to be recategorized, in law, as a publisher, Facebook would be liable for every bit of content that it contains.
If America’s government alters section 230, the purpose would be to recategorize sites like Facebook. Then Facebook would be seen, in law, as a publisher, instead of as a neutral platform. Facebook would be liable for all its content.
If Big Tech becomes liable for everything posted on their sites, they’re doomed. Let’s say that change happens. Then, along comes June Joy. Joy publishes “child pornography” on Facebook. Fuckerberg, Facebook’s owner, now possesses Joy’s “child pornography”. Possession of “child pornography” is a strict liability crime. It doesn’t matter that Fuckerberg doesn’t know that “child pornography” is on his website. If he possesses it, he’s guilty. In many states, that makes him a sex offender. The website “www (dot ) swiftpassportservices (dot ) com” states the following:
“Crimes that can land you on a child sex offender registry include ... viewing or sharing child pornography ( whether inadvertently or on purpose ).”
Source: Swift’s article, “New Passport Rules for Sex Offenders”.
Let’s say Fuckerberg, as a publisher, decides to inspect Facebook. He wants to make sure there isn’t any “child pornography” on Facebook. Fuckerberg finds “child pornography” on Facebook. He finds it by, of course, viewing it. Bingo! Fuckerberg is now a sex offender. If Joy shares “child pornography” with James on Facebook, which Fuckerberg owns, that also makes Fuckerberg a sex offender.
( America’s laws on “child pornography” are idiotic. One can become a sex offender as a teen, by having sex with another teen. One can also become a sex offender as a child. That can happen if you post naked photos of yourself, as an “underage” person.
Source: Swift’s article, “New Passport Rules for Sex Offenders”.
Swift fails to note that nudity isn’t child pornography. Child pornography is the lascivious exhibition of the genitals, or images of “children” having sex. )
America no longer publishes a weekly newsmagazine worth reading. That’s been true for some time. The premiere newsmagazine in English is published in England. It’s called “The Economist”. I first started reading The Economist in the 1980s. The quality of the magazine has declined since the last century. However, this issue’s cover story caught my eye. It reads:
“Who controls the conversation? Social media and free speech”.
- The Economist, October 24TH - 30TH 2020.
Hence, it isn’t just some Republican politicians in America who are complaining about Big Tech’s censorship. The subject has made it to the cover of a foreign magazine whose writers, on America, are currently left-wing.
That is, the writers are left-wing as of the last time I read The Economist. When a writer in The Economist called traitor James Comey’s actions “heroic”, I lost interest in The Economist. Comey is a former director of the F.B.I. who attempted to overthrow the United States government; namely, President Donald J. Trump. As we now have one system of justice for “child molesters”, and another for traitors, Comey has never been arrested, charged, or prosecuted for his crimes. Nor have any of his collaborators, except for one lowly F.B.I. lawyer.
Fuckerberg and his ilk should have stuck to operating neutral platforms. Their censorship could lead them to lose much of what they possess.
TRUMP ON BIG TECH
“A vote for Joe Biden is a vote for ... wealthy hypocrites who want to silence, censor, and punish you.”
- United States President Donald J. Trump, Fayetteville, North Carolina, November 2, 2020. Source: Fox News Channel.
“CHILD MOLESTERS, THEY’RE THE WORST” - common 1990s saying.
“I hope all your children get raped and killed.”
- Spoken by a young woman. She was one of many ‘mostly peaceful’ protestors rioting on behalf of Bowel Movement Lives ( BML ), and Antifart. The riot occurred in New York City on November 1, 2020. Source: Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox News Channel, November 1, 2020.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
If you visit an “AbeBooks” website, you’ll be presented with a large square “Search” box. In the box labelled “Author”, type in “Andrew Roller”. In the box labelled “Title”, type in “Andrew Roller Presents”. This will bring up some of my pamphlets. I have not yet figured out how to bring up other pamphlets by me, under other titles. I don’t recall all the titles I published under.
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
At the “home page” of my You Tube channel, you’ll see just a selection of playlists that I created. To see all my playlists, tap on the phrase, “Created playlists”.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 53
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 53, version 8.0
Date Written: November 3, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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A Holiday for Pedophiles
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ET 52
Editorial Thunder presents...
A Holiday for Pedophiles
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Why and how America should honor “child molesters”.
Plus: “Pedophilia” in the ancient world.
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Every year, I create a calendar for the upcoming year. I use a notebook for this. A notebook gives me plenty of space to write in.
In my calendar, I write in the holidays. I do this for federal holidays. This year, I remembered to do the same for California’s holidays. That’s so I don’t wind up standing outside a closed business because, say, Cesar Chavez is being honored.
California has a host of holidays. If you’re His( panic ), there’s Cesar’s holiday. Martin Luther King Jr.’s holiday honors Blacks, and there’s “Native American Day”. In California, George Washington is still honored by name. The 4th of July honors America. Jesus gets a holiday ( Christmas ), as does the new year. Veterans get two holidays, and laborers get one. California itself has a holiday, as do the Pilgrims ( Thanksgiving ). The federal government has a similar, if shorter, list of holidays.
I’m surprised to find that California has no “gay day”. Surely this must be rectumfied soon. Sodomy cannot remain without a holiday in its honor. Of course, the other groups sheltering under the gay umbrella will be honored by the same day: lesbians, bisexuals, transgendered, and the mysterious “Q” folks.
But what about “child molesters”? Surely pedophiles deserve a holiday. As with Hispanics, African-Americans, and Native-Americans, California has persecuted pedophiles. So has America. We “molesters” need a holiday to commemorate our suffering. The same is true of our loved ones, disparaged as our “victims”.
Frankly, “child molesters” should be given the right to open casinos. As with the Native-Americans, that would help repay the harm that’s been done to us. We need reparations too, as some African-Americans demand.
For now, I’ll settle for “molester day”. The next question is, what day should it be? My proposal: August 18th. There isn’t any federal or California holiday in August. The month is long and hot. It’s also a time that young girls flock to pools, lakes, rivers, and beaches, in their bikinis.
August 18th is the birthday of celebrated director Roman Polanski. Google describes him as a “French Polish director, scriptwriter, and actor who, through a variety of film genres, explored themes of isolation, desire, and absurdity.” ( Search term: birth date of roman polanski )
Polanski was persecuted in the 1970’s for having an affair with a 13-year-old girl. As a consequence, he was forced to leave California, and America. He has yet to be able to return. In our time, most pedophiles are familiar with the themes Polanski is credited with exploring: isolation, desire, and absurdity. The persecution of pedophiles by today’s society is as awful, unjust, and absurd as the persecution of Blacks, Hispanics, and Indians in earlier times.
‘PEDOPHILIA’ IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
“What we ... call ‘Pedophilia’ ... is widely practiced in antiquity. ...They [ our forebears ] would find it very hard to see why we [ have ] laws about it. ...
“We can anticipate that, for us, our morays will change.”
- Rhiannon Evans, Emperors of Rome, Episode XLIV, Roman Sexuality.
Despite her statement, above, Evans privileges non-pedophiles in her remarks. She also expresses a bias against pedophiles that evokes Adolf Hitler’s hatred of the Jews.
Paradoxically, any sexual orientation in our culture that’s legal, as of the year 2016, is fine by Evans. Such are the views of a coward who fails to understand the import of her research.
I otherwise recommend Evans and the podcast, “Emperors of Rome”.
ARCANA
The phrase, “so many girls, so little time” is not attributable to my need for a big calendar. ( Although I do have a big calendar. )
MORE ARCANA
Any irregularity with words or names, above, is due to Steve Scully’s nefarious fictional hacker. When in doubt, blame C-SPAM.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
At the “home page” of my You Tube channel, you’ll see just a selection of playlists that I created. To see all my playlists, tap on the phrase, “Created playlists”.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 52
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 52, version 2.0
Date Written: November 1, 2020.
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ET 52
Editorial Thunder presents...
A Holiday for Pedophiles
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Why and how America should honor “child molesters”.
Plus: “Pedophilia” in the ancient world.
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Every year, I create a calendar for the upcoming year. I use a notebook for this. A notebook gives me plenty of space to write in.
In my calendar, I write in the holidays. I do this for federal holidays. This year, I remembered to do the same for California’s holidays. That’s so I don’t wind up standing outside a closed business because, say, Cesar Chavez is being honored.
California has a host of holidays. If you’re His( panic ), there’s Cesar’s holiday. Martin Luther King Jr.’s holiday honors Blacks, and there’s “Native American Day”. In California, George Washington is still honored by name. The 4th of July honors America. Jesus gets a holiday ( Christmas ), as does the new year. Veterans get two holidays, and laborers get one. California itself has a holiday, as do the Pilgrims ( Thanksgiving ). The federal government has a similar, if shorter, list of holidays.
I’m surprised to find that California has no “gay day”. Surely this must be rectumfied soon. Sodomy cannot remain without a holiday in its honor. Of course, the other groups sheltering under the gay umbrella will be honored by the same day: lesbians, bisexuals, transgendered, and the mysterious “Q” folks.
But what about “child molesters”? Surely pedophiles deserve a holiday. As with Hispanics, African-Americans, and Native-Americans, California has persecuted pedophiles. So has America. We “molesters” need a holiday to commemorate our suffering. The same is true of our loved ones, disparaged as our “victims”.
Frankly, “child molesters” should be given the right to open casinos. As with the Native-Americans, that would help repay the harm that’s been done to us. We need reparations too, as some African-Americans demand.
For now, I’ll settle for “molester day”. The next question is, what day should it be? My proposal: August 18th. There isn’t any federal or California holiday in August. The month is long and hot. It’s also a time that young girls flock to pools, lakes, rivers, and beaches, in their bikinis.
August 18th is the birthday of celebrated director Roman Polanski. Google describes him as a “French Polish director, scriptwriter, and actor who, through a variety of film genres, explored themes of isolation, desire, and absurdity.” ( Search term: birth date of roman polanski )
Polanski was persecuted in the 1970’s for having an affair with a 13-year-old girl. As a consequence, he was forced to leave California, and America. He has yet to be able to return. In our time, most pedophiles are familiar with the themes Polanski is credited with exploring: isolation, desire, and absurdity. The persecution of pedophiles by today’s society is as awful, unjust, and absurd as the persecution of Blacks, Hispanics, and Indians in earlier times.
‘PEDOPHILIA’ IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
“What we ... call ‘Pedophilia’ ... is widely practiced in antiquity. ...They [ our forebears ] would find it very hard to see why we [ have ] laws about it. ...
“We can anticipate that, for us, our morays will change.”
- Rhiannon Evans, Emperors of Rome, Episode XLIV, Roman Sexuality.
Despite her statement, above, Evans privileges non-pedophiles in her remarks. She also expresses a bias against pedophiles that evokes Adolf Hitler’s hatred of the Jews.
Paradoxically, any sexual orientation in our culture that’s legal, as of the year 2016, is fine by Evans. Such are the views of a coward who fails to understand the import of her research.
I otherwise recommend Evans and the podcast, “Emperors of Rome”.
ARCANA
The phrase, “so many girls, so little time” is not attributable to my need for a big calendar. ( Although I do have a big calendar. )
MORE ARCANA
Any irregularity with words or names, above, is due to Steve Scully’s nefarious fictional hacker. When in doubt, blame C-SPAM.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
At the “home page” of my You Tube channel, you’ll see just a selection of playlists that I created. To see all my playlists, tap on the phrase, “Created playlists”.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 52
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 52, version 2.0
Date Written: November 1, 2020.
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TINA IN TROUBLE!
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Tina in Trouble! Breaking News. Scroll down for more.
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ET 51
Editorial Thunder presents...
Hypocritical You Tube
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You Tube kills my playlists, then offers the same content themselves.
Plus: “BEHIND the SCENES” with Danatar!
And: Cultural Suicide.
More breaking news: Sanity prevails.
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HYPOCRITICAL YOU TUBE
You Tube kills my playlists, then offers the same content themselves.
By Andrew Roller
I’ve noticed something. When You Tube kicks my ass, I publish more. I guess I should hope that You Tube keeps kicking my ass; they need the bad publicity.
In recent posts, I reported that You Tube removed two ( more ) of my playlists. The playlists that You Tube removed were called “Danatar Tar tribute” and “Mari Kruchkova tribute”. Now, I can report the following:
1. My playlists have not been returned to me.
2. I have heard nothing back from You Tube Appeals.
3. I have heard nothing back from You Tube Support.
4. For someone like myself, who has never uploaded a video to You Tube, I have no access to a “violation card” in “You Tube Studio”. The only time I have access to such a card is if I’m hit with a NEW violation, that I have NOT yet appealed.
My ability to access a “violation card” is new. I never saw it before this week. I have no access to such a card now.
5. I have heard back from Antoinnette B. On October 27, she answered my brief reply. You’ll recall that Antoinnette B. claimed ( again ) that she couldn’t help me. So what did Antoinnette B. tell me, when she wrote to me today?
“Hi Andrew,
“You’re very welcome! We’re always here to help. Don’t hesitate to reach out if anything else comes up.”
I’ve taken the liberty of putting two spaces at the end of Antoinnette B’s sentences, instead of just one space. When you’re a trillion dollar company like Google ( owner of You Tube ), you can’t waste space in a letter!
I don’t want to criticize Antoinnette B. However, as a factual matter, it is hypocritical for her to tell me ( above ) that she can help me, when in fact she can’t.
Sadly, hypocrisy abounds at You Tube. The company banned my playlist “Danatar Tar tribute”. Yet You Tube offers its own playlist for Dana’s videos!
Currently, You Tube offers the following playlist of Dana’s videos:
Mix - Danatar Backstage YouTube 50+ videos
You Tube has offered playlists for Dana’s other channels in the past.
In fact, I credit myself with inventing “girl pure” playlists on You Tube. When You Tube first started creating ( girl ) playlists, months ago, it would claim that a playlist was about a particular girl ( say, Dana ). However, the playlist would contain videos from a jumble of sources. Many of the videos would have nothing to do with Dana.
More recently, You Tube began offering “girl pure” playlists. A playlist tribute to Dana is now composed solely of videos featuring Dana.
You Tube banned my playlist “Mari Kruchkova tribute”. However, You Tube offers a playlist for Mari’s videos:
Mix - Mari Kruchkova YouTube 50+ videos
At my channel, “Andrew Roller”, I have playlists of a number of girls’ channels. I have playlists of Dana and Mari’s other channels. I also have playlists of assorted videos, each headlined by a video of a girl. ( Otherwise, most of my playlists would be represented by a man’s face. I don’t want a bunch of mens’ faces staring out at me from my channel. )
So why did You Tube remove my playlists “Danatar Tar tribute” and “Mari Kruchkova tribute”? The answer is simple. Removing my playlist meant that You Tube could hit me with another ( wrongful ) strike. Added to the previous ( wrongful ) strike they gave me a month ago, they’re plunging my channel, and my You Tube account, toward termination.
One or more You Tube employees are trying to ban my channel. In March, a You Tube employee tried twice to do this. Then, the employee’s tactics were so overtly malicious, and illegal, that the employee failed. ( The employee illegally tampered with my You Tube password, and demanded my Apple password. ) Now, I’m being terminated in the manner of “death by a thousand cuts”. Where a blunt termination failed ( thanks to my appeals ), this termination won’t.
You Tube has yet to hit me with an accusation of “subvention”. That’s a term buried in You Tube’s “Community Guidelines” ( also known as its “Terms of Service” ). I have seen several channels terminated by You Tube that apparently fell afoul of “subvention”. As best I can tell, Milana of Minsk was a victim of this.
“Subvention” allows You Tube to immediately terminate a channel. Let’s say You Tube deletes one of your videos, or a playlist, or your whole channel. If you then restore the video to You Tube, the company can claim that you’re guilty of “subvention”. You Tube can immediately terminate your channel. The same is true of a rebuilt playlist. If You Tube terminates your channel ( which terminates your You Tube account ), and you create a new one, that’s also “subvention”.
Under “subvention”, You Tube needn’t give you any strikes. You Tube can simply terminate your channel outright.
Of course, “subvention” is in the eye of the beholder. Is a new video so similar to a banned one that the new video constitutes “subvention”? After all, the girl in the new video is the same girl in the banned video. She lives in the same home, with the same rooms and furniture. She can’t buy new clothes every day. The same is true of a playlist. A new Dana Taranova playlist is still going to consist of videos featuring Dana Taranova.
What saddens me most about You Tube is its wanton destruction of art. The girls on You Tube make stunningly wonderful videos. Artifacts of the past are also on You Tube. I don’t know of another platform where one can find gems from prior decades, that one would have sworn were lost to time.
I liked a T.V. show in the 1960’s called “The Hardy Boys”. ( Not to be confused with a T.V. show of the same name starring Parker Stevenson. ) The show’s original opening music was on You Tube. I loved being able to watch it again. Then, the You Tube account of the person who’d uploaded the video was terminated by You Tube. That deleted his video. The original opening music ceased to be available on You Tube. After that, all I could find was a junky segment of opening music, which I attribute to a later season of the show. ( Although only 17 episodes aired, the show ran from 1969 to 1971 ).
Someone on You Tube made a video for the 1967 song “I feel free”, by the band “Cream”. Visually, the video was the work of the person who’d uploaded the video. It was an amazing psychedelic experience. You Tube terminated that person’s account. That deleted the person’s video. Sure, he may still have a copy of his video on his computer. However, what happens when he dies? His relatives will dump his computer, or repurpose it for themselves. There goes the video - lost for all time.
It gets worse. There was once a channel on You Tube called “Supper Gymnastic Angles”. ( “Super” was spelled “Supper”. ) The owner of “Supper Gymnastic Angles” posted a video of Dana Taranova. Called “Dana Taranova Fun Beach”, it remains my favorite Dana video.
You Tube terminated the channel “Supper Gymnastic Angles”. That deleted the video “Dana Taranova Fun Beach”. Later, I was able to contact the owner of “Supper Gymnastic Angles”. He no longer had the video “Dana Taranova Fun Beach”. Though he claimed he’d try to find it, I came to a tragic conclusion. Banned from You Tube, the man had been so upset that he’d destroyed all his videos, including “Dana Taranova Fun Beach”. All of his videos were utterly innocuous. I understood his response. In the past, I’ve destroyed my own content, or valued possessions, when I became upset with the world. Sadly, Dana Taranova didn’t have a copy of “Dana Taranova Fun Beach” either.
There needs to be a repository on the internet where people can put their art. I’m thinking mostly of videos. You Tube is not the place for such content. You Tube only cares about jacking up viewership - to attract ads. That’s the whole game. Get ad dollars for the trillion dollar company Google.
I’m currently listening to a fine podcast in Apple’s app “Podcasts”. The podcast, consisting of many episodes, is called “Emperors of Rome”. It discusses my imperial ancestors. Okay, maybe it doesn’t. The point is, “Emperors of Rome” can only discuss what remains of the ancient world. Much has been lost.
We face the same danger. What we fail to save, or deliberately destroy, won’t be available to our descendants. You Tube is gulling folks into uploading content to it, only to often destroy it. Let’s hope we’re bright enough to create a place where content can be held for the future. You Tube is akin to a library where the librarians hold nightly book burnings. Given how it’s run, you’d think Adolf Hitler owned the place.
“BEHIND the SCENES” with Danatar!
Dana Taranova’s latest video is reviewed below. I review it in the form of a letter to Dana. In my review, I mention one of her fabulous videos, “Me bought 11 iPhone. And I want to say thank you so much”.
I have no idea what the actual fate of “Me bought 11 iPhone” was. The video may have been deleted by You Tube at a point in time that coincided with the banning of my playlist. Ordinarily, if You Tube deletes a video, that deletes it from my playlist. I’m left with an icon that reads, “[ Deleted video ]”.
My playlists “Danatar Tar tribute” and “Mari Kruchkova tribute” had dozens of icons reading “[ Deleted video ]”. They were stark evidence of You Tube’s malice. All the videos were innocuous.
“Subject: BEHIND the SCENES and more!
Dear Dana,
I’m unable to find the following video on You Tube:
‘Me bought 11 iPhone. And I want to say thank you so much’.
This video was credited to your channel ‘Danatar Tar’. However, I can’t find it there now. I searched for your video on You Tube. I couldn’t find it.
The amazing thing is, ‘Me bought 11 iPhone’ was the headline video in my ( now banned ) playlist, ‘Danatar Tar tribute’. I guess that playlist held rare videos by you. The videos may have been ‘rare’ since they weren’t on You Tube anymore.
Thank you very much for whatever happened that let your videos remain in my playlist ( until it was banned ). I love every video you’ve ever made! I know many of your videos by heart.
I love your newest video, ‘BEHIND the SCENES VIDEO FILMING / Danatar Backstage’. You are so beautiful! I love how your long hair is loosely knotted into twin pigtails. Your snug pink ski cap and sweater are superb! I adore your red corset. When I first saw it, I was blown away. You’re so creative! I’m always amazed by how unique each of your videos is. You are a true artist!
Your rainbow-striped socks are cute. Thanks for wearing short pants that look short, at least when you’re sitting. I loathe long-legged ‘short’ pants.
You make marvelous facial expressions. I continue to be amazed by your stunning array of talents, from a lovely actress to a boxer!
The final shot in your video is thrilling!
Keep up your wonderful work!
You are the best!”
CULTURAL SUICIDE
I don’t know what the future holds. At present, You Tube’s attacks on, and terminations of, channels has caused incalculable losses. I can think of numerous videos by Dana Taranova that were fabulous, and that are now gone. The same is true of videos by Milana from Minsk, Mari Kruchkova, Ustina Abramova, Angelina Polikarpova, Julia Majewska, Daniela Lapovok, and more. Wonderful channels like “Youth & Art” have been annihilated.
Hopefully, all this lost material will one day be recovered, and stored on a platform that respects it. After all, this is our culture. The past owns the past, and the future will be created by others. What exists now is us.
SANITY PREVAILS
As I was proofreading this text for publication, You Tube returned my two playlists that it banned on October 22. That is, it returned my playlists “Danatar Tar tribute” and “Mari Kruchkova tribute”.
You Tube writes,
“Hi Andrew Roller,
Thank you for submitting your playlist appeal to YouTube.
After further review, we have determined that your playlist doesn’t violate our Community Guidelines.
- The YouTube Team”
IMPROVED VISUAL QUALITY
You Tube has improved the visual resolution of videos that I mentioned in a prior post.
“Do you want SEE MY DANCE? / Danatar BACKSTAGE” is now offered by You Tube at the visual resolution of 1440p60. No manual adjustment is necessary.
Mari Kruchkova’s video, “Vacation October 2020” is now offered at the visual resolution of 1080p60. No manual adjustment is necessary.
Just when I was trying to be positive about You Tube, I discovered the following:
TINA IN TROUBLE!
Much is made in America of “endangered” children. Governments at all levels busy themselves with destroying intergenerational relationships, much as they used to keep African-Americans in slavery, and slaughter Native-Americans. ( If you’ve wondered where Adolf Hitler got the idea to massacre Eastern Europeans, he got it from us. Hitler used America’s killing of Native-Americans as a template for his holocaust. )
Currently, my favorite girl on You Tube is Ustina Abramova! “Tina” is about 11 years old. On her channel “Tina”, she posted a 12 second video. The video is called, “FOR MY SUBSCRIBERS”. In English subtitles, Tina says,
“Hello friends. I fear that YouTube may close my channel. If you don’t want to lose me, follow the link to my other channels.”
By “close”, Tina means that her channel, “Tina”, may be terminated by You Tube. The reason is likely that she’s accumulated strikes. Those were imposed as her videos were deleted, over time, by You Tube. Staffers at You Tube have been capriciously and maliciously deleting her videos since she joined You Tube in April.
In her video, Tina speaks of following a “link”. Sensibly, Tina fails to provide a link. That would just lead You Tube’s censors to her remaining channels. They’d likely terminate those channels too.
Tina’s other channels are “Tina Backstage” and “Tina Flexible”.
All Tina’s videos are innocuous. You might wonder what You Tube’s beef is. Leaving aside the monstrous nature of You Tube’s censors, the problem is this: Tina is too hot for You Tube. Dana Taranova suffers from the same “problem”. Dana, like Tina, is gorgeous. Either girl could sit on ice in a parka and still be, well, sexy! The same applies to other You Tube beauties.
Since the inception of Tina’s channels, You Tube has forced her to keep comments turned off. I’ve yet to find a way to send her words of support. Perhaps a ruckus can be created on the internet to help her.
A quote attributed to Vladimir Lenin is:
“The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”
Besides owning You Tube, Google owns the Google browser. Perhaps you’ll be moved to post something on the internet about Tina. Then Google’s browser will reference what you’ve written. So will, of course, other browsers. I don’t know if that will save Tina’s flagship channel, but it definitely won’t hurt for Google to realize she has lots of fans.
The worst aspect of You Tube is the ongoing sense of dread that it instills in its customers. I just went through such emotions, with my two playlists banned by You Tube. Sure, I got my playlists back, but what’s next? Given You Tube’s history, they’re sure to declare some other aspect of my channel to be “unsafe”.
My returned playlists were among the oldest ones on my channel. They’d sat there for a year, and I was tardy about updating them. They’d been thoroughly gutted by You Tube’s censors. ( A video deleted from a host channel deletes that video from my playlist. ) You Tube’s censors had already inspected my channel, numerous times. ( In September, they actually sent me a notice that my channel had been inspected. ) So why, in October, did You Tube declare my playlists to be so awful that they had to be banned? One gets the impression that You Tube’s censors are censoring to justify their employment.
Many of Tina’s videos have been deleted by You Tube. All were innocuous. Now her oldest, most popular channel is under threat of termination. It’s horrific that Tina should undergo such stress as this causes. People complain about “child abuse”. You’re looking at it.
DESPERATELY SEEKING USTINA
I’ve just learned that Tina is on Instagram. She lists her web address there as:
https://www.instagram.com/ustinaabramova5/
Having been ( wrongfully ) banned from Facebook, I’m unable to contact Tina at Instagram. Facebook owns Instagram. Anyone banned from Facebook is banned from everything that Facebook owns.
I read that Facebook bought Instagram to destroy it, and is currently starving it of funds. I found Facebook to be a shitty platform, as I’ve reported here on my blog.
NEW “DANATAR” CHANNEL!
Dana Taranova’s newest channel is “Dana Best”. It appears to be a channel that Dana started with her mom. Mari Kruchkova has a channel with her mother called “Mom&Mari”.
Both Dana’s mom and Mari’s mom removed videos from You Tube when they ceased to associate with their husbands. The videos removed were, respectively, of Dana Taranova, and Mari Kruchkova. Mari’s most awesome video, “Back to school. Try on haul.” was pulled by her mom. In the past, parting couples split their possessions. Now they split their offsprings’ You Tube videos.
This fan would greatly appreciate it if the removed videos were restored to You Tube. ( Assuming, of course, that the videos can be gotten past You Tube’s increasingly iniquitous censors. )
MEET MILANKA KUDEL!
A link at Tina’s channel let me briefly sneak onto Instagram. At the bottom of Tina’s Instagram page, I found a link to Milanka Kudel’s page. It didn’t take me long to fall in love with her! As I’m banned from Instagram, I figured I’d look her up on You Tube. Yes! Milanka is there!
I guess Milanka is about 11 years old. She’s a petite lass, with long chocolate hair ( which she adds pink to in one of her videos). It was said of Brooke Shields at age 12 that she had “a woman’s beauty”. Milanka has that in spades. It’s rare to find such an amazingly lovely girl as her!
SAVOR “MODELO JULINHA”
I confess. I’m not like most guys. Most guys like watching hairy men play with their balls. That is, most guys like watching sports. I’m thrilled I’m not “normal” like them.
Here’s a comment from a guy who’s obviously “normal”:
“All these guys going crazy over a 13 yr old. Fellas there are older womens out there u know”
- Jonass bluntson, in the comments section of the video “Different types of planks!” Channel: TheAngelPoli.
I admire a man who conserves letters when he writes. Why spell out “you” when “u” is serviceable? Then again, Jonass wastes an “s” when he writes “womens”. I decided to waste an “s” on him, changing his name from “Jonas” to “Jonass”. Appropriately, his comment is at the very bottom of the comments section. I understand that Judas Iscariot has a comment from Hell posted somewhere above his.
TheAngelPoli, one of the most mesmerizing young girls on You Tube, is now, alas, older. She is still quite beautiful. She’s not 13 years old, but about 15 or 16.
If you want to see two young ladies who look like they’re straight out of Playboy ( when it was a great magazine ), look for this video:
Santa Catarina! Lagoa da Conceicao e praia da Joaquina (Parte 01) - Modelo Julinha
( Whew! When I become emperor, I’m going to rename every beach in the world. Each will simply be called, “Nude Beach”. Every beach will have a number, as in “Nude Beach 69”. )
“Santa Catarina! Lagoa da Conceicao e praia da Joaquina (Parte 01) - Modelo Julinha” is at the You Tube channel “Modelo Julinha”.
I’ll review this video in a way “normal” guys can relate to, in order of importance:
1. Bosoms! BIG bosoms!
2. Thong bikini! Great ass!
3. String bikini!
4. Striking natural scenery.
5. Probably, there are some hairy men in this video too, who surely have balls. I didn’t have time to watch the whole video.
One of the girls in the video is apparently named Isabelle. It’s either the girl with the big tits or the one with the great ass.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
At the “home page” of my You Tube channel, you’ll see just a selection of playlists that I created. To see all my playlists, tap on the phrase, “Created playlists”.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 51
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 51, version 6.0
Date Written: October 28, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Tina in Trouble! Breaking News. Scroll down for more.
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ET 51
Editorial Thunder presents...
Hypocritical You Tube
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You Tube kills my playlists, then offers the same content themselves.
Plus: “BEHIND the SCENES” with Danatar!
And: Cultural Suicide.
More breaking news: Sanity prevails.
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HYPOCRITICAL YOU TUBE
You Tube kills my playlists, then offers the same content themselves.
By Andrew Roller
I’ve noticed something. When You Tube kicks my ass, I publish more. I guess I should hope that You Tube keeps kicking my ass; they need the bad publicity.
In recent posts, I reported that You Tube removed two ( more ) of my playlists. The playlists that You Tube removed were called “Danatar Tar tribute” and “Mari Kruchkova tribute”. Now, I can report the following:
1. My playlists have not been returned to me.
2. I have heard nothing back from You Tube Appeals.
3. I have heard nothing back from You Tube Support.
4. For someone like myself, who has never uploaded a video to You Tube, I have no access to a “violation card” in “You Tube Studio”. The only time I have access to such a card is if I’m hit with a NEW violation, that I have NOT yet appealed.
My ability to access a “violation card” is new. I never saw it before this week. I have no access to such a card now.
5. I have heard back from Antoinnette B. On October 27, she answered my brief reply. You’ll recall that Antoinnette B. claimed ( again ) that she couldn’t help me. So what did Antoinnette B. tell me, when she wrote to me today?
“Hi Andrew,
“You’re very welcome! We’re always here to help. Don’t hesitate to reach out if anything else comes up.”
I’ve taken the liberty of putting two spaces at the end of Antoinnette B’s sentences, instead of just one space. When you’re a trillion dollar company like Google ( owner of You Tube ), you can’t waste space in a letter!
I don’t want to criticize Antoinnette B. However, as a factual matter, it is hypocritical for her to tell me ( above ) that she can help me, when in fact she can’t.
Sadly, hypocrisy abounds at You Tube. The company banned my playlist “Danatar Tar tribute”. Yet You Tube offers its own playlist for Dana’s videos!
Currently, You Tube offers the following playlist of Dana’s videos:
Mix - Danatar Backstage YouTube 50+ videos
You Tube has offered playlists for Dana’s other channels in the past.
In fact, I credit myself with inventing “girl pure” playlists on You Tube. When You Tube first started creating ( girl ) playlists, months ago, it would claim that a playlist was about a particular girl ( say, Dana ). However, the playlist would contain videos from a jumble of sources. Many of the videos would have nothing to do with Dana.
More recently, You Tube began offering “girl pure” playlists. A playlist tribute to Dana is now composed solely of videos featuring Dana.
You Tube banned my playlist “Mari Kruchkova tribute”. However, You Tube offers a playlist for Mari’s videos:
Mix - Mari Kruchkova YouTube 50+ videos
At my channel, “Andrew Roller”, I have playlists of a number of girls’ channels. I have playlists of Dana and Mari’s other channels. I also have playlists of assorted videos, each headlined by a video of a girl. ( Otherwise, most of my playlists would be represented by a man’s face. I don’t want a bunch of mens’ faces staring out at me from my channel. )
So why did You Tube remove my playlists “Danatar Tar tribute” and “Mari Kruchkova tribute”? The answer is simple. Removing my playlist meant that You Tube could hit me with another ( wrongful ) strike. Added to the previous ( wrongful ) strike they gave me a month ago, they’re plunging my channel, and my You Tube account, toward termination.
One or more You Tube employees are trying to ban my channel. In March, a You Tube employee tried twice to do this. Then, the employee’s tactics were so overtly malicious, and illegal, that the employee failed. ( The employee illegally tampered with my You Tube password, and demanded my Apple password. ) Now, I’m being terminated in the manner of “death by a thousand cuts”. Where a blunt termination failed ( thanks to my appeals ), this termination won’t.
You Tube has yet to hit me with an accusation of “subvention”. That’s a term buried in You Tube’s “Community Guidelines” ( also known as its “Terms of Service” ). I have seen several channels terminated by You Tube that apparently fell afoul of “subvention”. As best I can tell, Milana of Minsk was a victim of this.
“Subvention” allows You Tube to immediately terminate a channel. Let’s say You Tube deletes one of your videos, or a playlist, or your whole channel. If you then restore the video to You Tube, the company can claim that you’re guilty of “subvention”. You Tube can immediately terminate your channel. The same is true of a rebuilt playlist. If You Tube terminates your channel ( which terminates your You Tube account ), and you create a new one, that’s also “subvention”.
Under “subvention”, You Tube needn’t give you any strikes. You Tube can simply terminate your channel outright.
Of course, “subvention” is in the eye of the beholder. Is a new video so similar to a banned one that the new video constitutes “subvention”? After all, the girl in the new video is the same girl in the banned video. She lives in the same home, with the same rooms and furniture. She can’t buy new clothes every day. The same is true of a playlist. A new Dana Taranova playlist is still going to consist of videos featuring Dana Taranova.
What saddens me most about You Tube is its wanton destruction of art. The girls on You Tube make stunningly wonderful videos. Artifacts of the past are also on You Tube. I don’t know of another platform where one can find gems from prior decades, that one would have sworn were lost to time.
I liked a T.V. show in the 1960’s called “The Hardy Boys”. ( Not to be confused with a T.V. show of the same name starring Parker Stevenson. ) The show’s original opening music was on You Tube. I loved being able to watch it again. Then, the You Tube account of the person who’d uploaded the video was terminated by You Tube. That deleted his video. The original opening music ceased to be available on You Tube. After that, all I could find was a junky segment of opening music, which I attribute to a later season of the show. ( Although only 17 episodes aired, the show ran from 1969 to 1971 ).
Someone on You Tube made a video for the 1967 song “I feel free”, by the band “Cream”. Visually, the video was the work of the person who’d uploaded the video. It was an amazing psychedelic experience. You Tube terminated that person’s account. That deleted the person’s video. Sure, he may still have a copy of his video on his computer. However, what happens when he dies? His relatives will dump his computer, or repurpose it for themselves. There goes the video - lost for all time.
It gets worse. There was once a channel on You Tube called “Supper Gymnastic Angles”. ( “Super” was spelled “Supper”. ) The owner of “Supper Gymnastic Angles” posted a video of Dana Taranova. Called “Dana Taranova Fun Beach”, it remains my favorite Dana video.
You Tube terminated the channel “Supper Gymnastic Angles”. That deleted the video “Dana Taranova Fun Beach”. Later, I was able to contact the owner of “Supper Gymnastic Angles”. He no longer had the video “Dana Taranova Fun Beach”. Though he claimed he’d try to find it, I came to a tragic conclusion. Banned from You Tube, the man had been so upset that he’d destroyed all his videos, including “Dana Taranova Fun Beach”. All of his videos were utterly innocuous. I understood his response. In the past, I’ve destroyed my own content, or valued possessions, when I became upset with the world. Sadly, Dana Taranova didn’t have a copy of “Dana Taranova Fun Beach” either.
There needs to be a repository on the internet where people can put their art. I’m thinking mostly of videos. You Tube is not the place for such content. You Tube only cares about jacking up viewership - to attract ads. That’s the whole game. Get ad dollars for the trillion dollar company Google.
I’m currently listening to a fine podcast in Apple’s app “Podcasts”. The podcast, consisting of many episodes, is called “Emperors of Rome”. It discusses my imperial ancestors. Okay, maybe it doesn’t. The point is, “Emperors of Rome” can only discuss what remains of the ancient world. Much has been lost.
We face the same danger. What we fail to save, or deliberately destroy, won’t be available to our descendants. You Tube is gulling folks into uploading content to it, only to often destroy it. Let’s hope we’re bright enough to create a place where content can be held for the future. You Tube is akin to a library where the librarians hold nightly book burnings. Given how it’s run, you’d think Adolf Hitler owned the place.
“BEHIND the SCENES” with Danatar!
Dana Taranova’s latest video is reviewed below. I review it in the form of a letter to Dana. In my review, I mention one of her fabulous videos, “Me bought 11 iPhone. And I want to say thank you so much”.
I have no idea what the actual fate of “Me bought 11 iPhone” was. The video may have been deleted by You Tube at a point in time that coincided with the banning of my playlist. Ordinarily, if You Tube deletes a video, that deletes it from my playlist. I’m left with an icon that reads, “[ Deleted video ]”.
My playlists “Danatar Tar tribute” and “Mari Kruchkova tribute” had dozens of icons reading “[ Deleted video ]”. They were stark evidence of You Tube’s malice. All the videos were innocuous.
“Subject: BEHIND the SCENES and more!
Dear Dana,
I’m unable to find the following video on You Tube:
‘Me bought 11 iPhone. And I want to say thank you so much’.
This video was credited to your channel ‘Danatar Tar’. However, I can’t find it there now. I searched for your video on You Tube. I couldn’t find it.
The amazing thing is, ‘Me bought 11 iPhone’ was the headline video in my ( now banned ) playlist, ‘Danatar Tar tribute’. I guess that playlist held rare videos by you. The videos may have been ‘rare’ since they weren’t on You Tube anymore.
Thank you very much for whatever happened that let your videos remain in my playlist ( until it was banned ). I love every video you’ve ever made! I know many of your videos by heart.
I love your newest video, ‘BEHIND the SCENES VIDEO FILMING / Danatar Backstage’. You are so beautiful! I love how your long hair is loosely knotted into twin pigtails. Your snug pink ski cap and sweater are superb! I adore your red corset. When I first saw it, I was blown away. You’re so creative! I’m always amazed by how unique each of your videos is. You are a true artist!
Your rainbow-striped socks are cute. Thanks for wearing short pants that look short, at least when you’re sitting. I loathe long-legged ‘short’ pants.
You make marvelous facial expressions. I continue to be amazed by your stunning array of talents, from a lovely actress to a boxer!
The final shot in your video is thrilling!
Keep up your wonderful work!
You are the best!”
CULTURAL SUICIDE
I don’t know what the future holds. At present, You Tube’s attacks on, and terminations of, channels has caused incalculable losses. I can think of numerous videos by Dana Taranova that were fabulous, and that are now gone. The same is true of videos by Milana from Minsk, Mari Kruchkova, Ustina Abramova, Angelina Polikarpova, Julia Majewska, Daniela Lapovok, and more. Wonderful channels like “Youth & Art” have been annihilated.
Hopefully, all this lost material will one day be recovered, and stored on a platform that respects it. After all, this is our culture. The past owns the past, and the future will be created by others. What exists now is us.
SANITY PREVAILS
As I was proofreading this text for publication, You Tube returned my two playlists that it banned on October 22. That is, it returned my playlists “Danatar Tar tribute” and “Mari Kruchkova tribute”.
You Tube writes,
“Hi Andrew Roller,
Thank you for submitting your playlist appeal to YouTube.
After further review, we have determined that your playlist doesn’t violate our Community Guidelines.
- The YouTube Team”
IMPROVED VISUAL QUALITY
You Tube has improved the visual resolution of videos that I mentioned in a prior post.
“Do you want SEE MY DANCE? / Danatar BACKSTAGE” is now offered by You Tube at the visual resolution of 1440p60. No manual adjustment is necessary.
Mari Kruchkova’s video, “Vacation October 2020” is now offered at the visual resolution of 1080p60. No manual adjustment is necessary.
Just when I was trying to be positive about You Tube, I discovered the following:
TINA IN TROUBLE!
Much is made in America of “endangered” children. Governments at all levels busy themselves with destroying intergenerational relationships, much as they used to keep African-Americans in slavery, and slaughter Native-Americans. ( If you’ve wondered where Adolf Hitler got the idea to massacre Eastern Europeans, he got it from us. Hitler used America’s killing of Native-Americans as a template for his holocaust. )
Currently, my favorite girl on You Tube is Ustina Abramova! “Tina” is about 11 years old. On her channel “Tina”, she posted a 12 second video. The video is called, “FOR MY SUBSCRIBERS”. In English subtitles, Tina says,
“Hello friends. I fear that YouTube may close my channel. If you don’t want to lose me, follow the link to my other channels.”
By “close”, Tina means that her channel, “Tina”, may be terminated by You Tube. The reason is likely that she’s accumulated strikes. Those were imposed as her videos were deleted, over time, by You Tube. Staffers at You Tube have been capriciously and maliciously deleting her videos since she joined You Tube in April.
In her video, Tina speaks of following a “link”. Sensibly, Tina fails to provide a link. That would just lead You Tube’s censors to her remaining channels. They’d likely terminate those channels too.
Tina’s other channels are “Tina Backstage” and “Tina Flexible”.
All Tina’s videos are innocuous. You might wonder what You Tube’s beef is. Leaving aside the monstrous nature of You Tube’s censors, the problem is this: Tina is too hot for You Tube. Dana Taranova suffers from the same “problem”. Dana, like Tina, is gorgeous. Either girl could sit on ice in a parka and still be, well, sexy! The same applies to other You Tube beauties.
Since the inception of Tina’s channels, You Tube has forced her to keep comments turned off. I’ve yet to find a way to send her words of support. Perhaps a ruckus can be created on the internet to help her.
A quote attributed to Vladimir Lenin is:
“The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”
Besides owning You Tube, Google owns the Google browser. Perhaps you’ll be moved to post something on the internet about Tina. Then Google’s browser will reference what you’ve written. So will, of course, other browsers. I don’t know if that will save Tina’s flagship channel, but it definitely won’t hurt for Google to realize she has lots of fans.
The worst aspect of You Tube is the ongoing sense of dread that it instills in its customers. I just went through such emotions, with my two playlists banned by You Tube. Sure, I got my playlists back, but what’s next? Given You Tube’s history, they’re sure to declare some other aspect of my channel to be “unsafe”.
My returned playlists were among the oldest ones on my channel. They’d sat there for a year, and I was tardy about updating them. They’d been thoroughly gutted by You Tube’s censors. ( A video deleted from a host channel deletes that video from my playlist. ) You Tube’s censors had already inspected my channel, numerous times. ( In September, they actually sent me a notice that my channel had been inspected. ) So why, in October, did You Tube declare my playlists to be so awful that they had to be banned? One gets the impression that You Tube’s censors are censoring to justify their employment.
Many of Tina’s videos have been deleted by You Tube. All were innocuous. Now her oldest, most popular channel is under threat of termination. It’s horrific that Tina should undergo such stress as this causes. People complain about “child abuse”. You’re looking at it.
DESPERATELY SEEKING USTINA
I’ve just learned that Tina is on Instagram. She lists her web address there as:
https://www.instagram.com/ustinaabramova5/
Having been ( wrongfully ) banned from Facebook, I’m unable to contact Tina at Instagram. Facebook owns Instagram. Anyone banned from Facebook is banned from everything that Facebook owns.
I read that Facebook bought Instagram to destroy it, and is currently starving it of funds. I found Facebook to be a shitty platform, as I’ve reported here on my blog.
NEW “DANATAR” CHANNEL!
Dana Taranova’s newest channel is “Dana Best”. It appears to be a channel that Dana started with her mom. Mari Kruchkova has a channel with her mother called “Mom&Mari”.
Both Dana’s mom and Mari’s mom removed videos from You Tube when they ceased to associate with their husbands. The videos removed were, respectively, of Dana Taranova, and Mari Kruchkova. Mari’s most awesome video, “Back to school. Try on haul.” was pulled by her mom. In the past, parting couples split their possessions. Now they split their offsprings’ You Tube videos.
This fan would greatly appreciate it if the removed videos were restored to You Tube. ( Assuming, of course, that the videos can be gotten past You Tube’s increasingly iniquitous censors. )
MEET MILANKA KUDEL!
A link at Tina’s channel let me briefly sneak onto Instagram. At the bottom of Tina’s Instagram page, I found a link to Milanka Kudel’s page. It didn’t take me long to fall in love with her! As I’m banned from Instagram, I figured I’d look her up on You Tube. Yes! Milanka is there!
I guess Milanka is about 11 years old. She’s a petite lass, with long chocolate hair ( which she adds pink to in one of her videos). It was said of Brooke Shields at age 12 that she had “a woman’s beauty”. Milanka has that in spades. It’s rare to find such an amazingly lovely girl as her!
SAVOR “MODELO JULINHA”
I confess. I’m not like most guys. Most guys like watching hairy men play with their balls. That is, most guys like watching sports. I’m thrilled I’m not “normal” like them.
Here’s a comment from a guy who’s obviously “normal”:
“All these guys going crazy over a 13 yr old. Fellas there are older womens out there u know”
- Jonass bluntson, in the comments section of the video “Different types of planks!” Channel: TheAngelPoli.
I admire a man who conserves letters when he writes. Why spell out “you” when “u” is serviceable? Then again, Jonass wastes an “s” when he writes “womens”. I decided to waste an “s” on him, changing his name from “Jonas” to “Jonass”. Appropriately, his comment is at the very bottom of the comments section. I understand that Judas Iscariot has a comment from Hell posted somewhere above his.
TheAngelPoli, one of the most mesmerizing young girls on You Tube, is now, alas, older. She is still quite beautiful. She’s not 13 years old, but about 15 or 16.
If you want to see two young ladies who look like they’re straight out of Playboy ( when it was a great magazine ), look for this video:
Santa Catarina! Lagoa da Conceicao e praia da Joaquina (Parte 01) - Modelo Julinha
( Whew! When I become emperor, I’m going to rename every beach in the world. Each will simply be called, “Nude Beach”. Every beach will have a number, as in “Nude Beach 69”. )
“Santa Catarina! Lagoa da Conceicao e praia da Joaquina (Parte 01) - Modelo Julinha” is at the You Tube channel “Modelo Julinha”.
I’ll review this video in a way “normal” guys can relate to, in order of importance:
1. Bosoms! BIG bosoms!
2. Thong bikini! Great ass!
3. String bikini!
4. Striking natural scenery.
5. Probably, there are some hairy men in this video too, who surely have balls. I didn’t have time to watch the whole video.
One of the girls in the video is apparently named Isabelle. It’s either the girl with the big tits or the one with the great ass.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
At the “home page” of my You Tube channel, you’ll see just a selection of playlists that I created. To see all my playlists, tap on the phrase, “Created playlists”.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 51
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 51, version 6.0
Date Written: October 28, 2020.
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You Tube’s Poor Visual Quality
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ET 50
Editorial Thunder presents...
You Tube’s Poor Visual Quality
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by Andrew Roller
How to adjust the visual quality of videos at You Tube.
Plus: New revelations about God.
And: Good tidings for “child molesters”.
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You Tube used to provide the best visual quality for a video. That’s changed. Now, You Tube often tries to get away with the poorest visual quality.
On October 26, I watched Dana Taranova’s latest You Tube video. ( As of that date. ) It’s called: “Do you want SEE MY DANCE? / Danatar BACKSTAGE”. This video is at Dana’s channel, “Danatar Backstage”.
The video’s visual quality was awful. It was set by You Tube at 240p. I had to manually adjust the video’s visual quality to a higher level.
On October 26, I watched a You Tube video by Mari Kruchkova. She posted it a week ago. It’s called: “Vacation October 2020”. This video is at her channel “Mari Kruchkova”.
The video’s visual quality was awful. It was set by You Tube at 240p. I had to manually adjust the video’s visual quality to a higher level.
Here’s how I get the best visual quality for a video on any You Tube channel:
1. I am ready to watch ( and screen record ) a video.
2. Within the box meant to play the video, I tap the three vertical dots in the upper right corner of the screen.
3. An informational box appears.
4. In this box are the words, “Quality - Auto ( 240p )”. ( Or some similar setting. )
5. I tap “Quality - Auto ( 240p )”.
6. An informational box appears. The box gives various levels of visual quality.
7. The box may advise me what the “Upper limit” is. ( Such as, “Upper limit: 360p”. )
8. I ignore the “Upper limit” advice. ( It is not always correct. )
9. In the informational box, I tap the highest visual quality setting that is offered. ( Such as, “1080p”. )
10. I start the video.
Here’s a key point:
11. For several seconds after the video starts, it will play at the original ( low ) visual quality setting.
12. I let the video play for a few seconds.
13. I stop the video.
14. I rewind the video.
15. I ( again ) start the video. The video ( finally ) plays at the high visual quality setting!
NEW REVELATIONS!
I was not on the road to Damascus. I was ascending an outdoor stairway. The stairs rose from the bottom of a hill to its top. The following happened about a week ago, at 8 o’clock in the morning.
As I neared the stairs’ apex, a heavenly vision appeared. A young girl got out of a car. Wearing a mask, she waved goodbye to whomever was behind the wheel of the car. Then she approached me!
I’m not sure what the girl’s age was. She was probably 13 years old. A white girl, her long, loose, lank chocolate hair was swept back over one of her shoulders. She was wearing a white sweatshirt. Below her sweatshirt I saw nothing but her bare, filly long legs.
Doubtless, this girl was awed by my studly self. I’m sure she fell wildly in love with me as she saw me. Then, Satan proved he still exists in our world. I guess he was on break from his usual doings at You Tube.
Deterred by Satan, the girl passed me by. I was forced to resume my ordinary, miserable life. ( As a stud. )
Nonetheless, in the moment that I beheld the girl, I had revelations! My revelations were in regard to the newest ( soon to be ) global religion. I’m speaking, of course, of the religion called “Temple of Pan”. ( Founded by me. )
Here are my revelations:
1. God is a little girl.
2. Therefore, we must worship little girls.
3. Those who don’t worship little girls are sinners. They are going to Hell. I don’t like to stress this point. However, we live in a world where pedophiles and their loved ones are persecuted. Hence, it may help for those of us who are saved to remember where our oppressors are headed.
4. The girl I saw may have been an angel. I wish I’d stopped her and asked, “Are you an angel?” I’ll try to remember to do this next time.
GOOD TIDINGS FOR “CHILD MOLESTERS”
1. “I have never discriminated on the basis of sexual preference, and I never would discriminate on the basis of sexual preference.”
- United States Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Island Barrett. Source: Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox News Channel, October 14, 2020.
2. “Our society has come to respect people, whatever their sexual preference.”
- The late United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bad ( er ) Ginsburg. Source: Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox News Channel, October 14, 2020.
3. “You’re allowed to be attracted to anyone you want.”
- Sucker Carlson, Sucker Carlson Tonight, Fox News Channel, October 26, 2020. ( On the “sexual preference” remark by United States Senator Dazed Hirono. )
4. “The things they say you should be ashamed of are the things you should be proudest of.”
- Tucker Carlson, Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox News Channel, October 19, 2020.
Any tampering with the above names proves that Steve Scully’s fictional hacker is real.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
At the “home page” of my You Tube channel, you’ll see just a selection of playlists that I created. To see all my playlists, tap on the phrase, “Created playlists”.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 50
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 50, version 4.0
Date Written: October 27, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 50
Editorial Thunder presents...
You Tube’s Poor Visual Quality
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by Andrew Roller
How to adjust the visual quality of videos at You Tube.
Plus: New revelations about God.
And: Good tidings for “child molesters”.
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You Tube used to provide the best visual quality for a video. That’s changed. Now, You Tube often tries to get away with the poorest visual quality.
On October 26, I watched Dana Taranova’s latest You Tube video. ( As of that date. ) It’s called: “Do you want SEE MY DANCE? / Danatar BACKSTAGE”. This video is at Dana’s channel, “Danatar Backstage”.
The video’s visual quality was awful. It was set by You Tube at 240p. I had to manually adjust the video’s visual quality to a higher level.
On October 26, I watched a You Tube video by Mari Kruchkova. She posted it a week ago. It’s called: “Vacation October 2020”. This video is at her channel “Mari Kruchkova”.
The video’s visual quality was awful. It was set by You Tube at 240p. I had to manually adjust the video’s visual quality to a higher level.
Here’s how I get the best visual quality for a video on any You Tube channel:
1. I am ready to watch ( and screen record ) a video.
2. Within the box meant to play the video, I tap the three vertical dots in the upper right corner of the screen.
3. An informational box appears.
4. In this box are the words, “Quality - Auto ( 240p )”. ( Or some similar setting. )
5. I tap “Quality - Auto ( 240p )”.
6. An informational box appears. The box gives various levels of visual quality.
7. The box may advise me what the “Upper limit” is. ( Such as, “Upper limit: 360p”. )
8. I ignore the “Upper limit” advice. ( It is not always correct. )
9. In the informational box, I tap the highest visual quality setting that is offered. ( Such as, “1080p”. )
10. I start the video.
Here’s a key point:
11. For several seconds after the video starts, it will play at the original ( low ) visual quality setting.
12. I let the video play for a few seconds.
13. I stop the video.
14. I rewind the video.
15. I ( again ) start the video. The video ( finally ) plays at the high visual quality setting!
NEW REVELATIONS!
I was not on the road to Damascus. I was ascending an outdoor stairway. The stairs rose from the bottom of a hill to its top. The following happened about a week ago, at 8 o’clock in the morning.
As I neared the stairs’ apex, a heavenly vision appeared. A young girl got out of a car. Wearing a mask, she waved goodbye to whomever was behind the wheel of the car. Then she approached me!
I’m not sure what the girl’s age was. She was probably 13 years old. A white girl, her long, loose, lank chocolate hair was swept back over one of her shoulders. She was wearing a white sweatshirt. Below her sweatshirt I saw nothing but her bare, filly long legs.
Doubtless, this girl was awed by my studly self. I’m sure she fell wildly in love with me as she saw me. Then, Satan proved he still exists in our world. I guess he was on break from his usual doings at You Tube.
Deterred by Satan, the girl passed me by. I was forced to resume my ordinary, miserable life. ( As a stud. )
Nonetheless, in the moment that I beheld the girl, I had revelations! My revelations were in regard to the newest ( soon to be ) global religion. I’m speaking, of course, of the religion called “Temple of Pan”. ( Founded by me. )
Here are my revelations:
1. God is a little girl.
2. Therefore, we must worship little girls.
3. Those who don’t worship little girls are sinners. They are going to Hell. I don’t like to stress this point. However, we live in a world where pedophiles and their loved ones are persecuted. Hence, it may help for those of us who are saved to remember where our oppressors are headed.
4. The girl I saw may have been an angel. I wish I’d stopped her and asked, “Are you an angel?” I’ll try to remember to do this next time.
GOOD TIDINGS FOR “CHILD MOLESTERS”
1. “I have never discriminated on the basis of sexual preference, and I never would discriminate on the basis of sexual preference.”
- United States Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Island Barrett. Source: Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox News Channel, October 14, 2020.
2. “Our society has come to respect people, whatever their sexual preference.”
- The late United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bad ( er ) Ginsburg. Source: Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox News Channel, October 14, 2020.
3. “You’re allowed to be attracted to anyone you want.”
- Sucker Carlson, Sucker Carlson Tonight, Fox News Channel, October 26, 2020. ( On the “sexual preference” remark by United States Senator Dazed Hirono. )
4. “The things they say you should be ashamed of are the things you should be proudest of.”
- Tucker Carlson, Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox News Channel, October 19, 2020.
Any tampering with the above names proves that Steve Scully’s fictional hacker is real.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
At the “home page” of my You Tube channel, you’ll see just a selection of playlists that I created. To see all my playlists, tap on the phrase, “Created playlists”.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 50
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 50, version 4.0
Date Written: October 27, 2020.
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You Tube: “out of scope”
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ET 49
Editorial Thunder presents...
You Tube: “out of scope”
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by Andrew Roller
More evidence that You Tube is s**t.
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While my Apple iPad was broken, You Tube attacked my You Tube channel ( again ). This continues a series of attacks by You Tube on my channel. All of You Tube’s attacks on my channel have occurred as the Wuhan virus ( COVID-19 ) sends people to the hospital. Of course, someone who’s sick in the hospital can’t appeal You Tube’s attacks on, or terminations of, their channel.
My channel has been attacked and terminated on a number of occasions by You Tube. You Tube has terminated my channel twice, deleted four of my playlists, tampered with my You Tube password, and demanded my Apple password. All of the supposed “violations” that I committed were lies.
I never hear back from You Tube Appeals or You Tube Support. In the past, I’ve heard back from Antoinnette B. and Erika B. They have claimed at times to work for “YouTube and Google Play Music”. Although Antoinnette B. and Erika B. have written to me, they claim they can’t help me.
On October 26, I wrote to “Antoinnette B. and Erika B.” again. Antoinnette B. wrote back to me the same day. Unfortunately, she told me that she couldn’t help me. Her letter to me of October 26 is printed below. Quotation marks by me bracket the letter. I have not added quotation marks at the start of every paragraph in the letter, as one would do in, say, a college term paper.
“Hi Andrew,
This is Antoinette, still chiming in for my colleague, Erika, as she is still out of the office.
I’m sorry to hear your YouTube channel is being attacked. Unfortunately, this issue is out of scope for us since it is a YouTube channel creator issue. Our team is only able to answer users’ questions on their YouTube Premium membership, their show and movie purchases, or rentals or their other purchases on YouTube. I am therefore not able to help much with your question on your YouTube channel. Even if you are a YouTube Premium subscriber, we won’t be able to assist since the issue is not about the paid service.
But you can try out the following links” [ Presumably, this quotation mark was meant to be a colon. ]
[ Bullet ] Head to the YouTube Help Center [ a link ] or YouTube Help Channel [ a link ] to get answers to top Creator questions.
[ Bullet ] If you have an issue you want to report to the technical team, you can submit it right from youtube.com. [ a link ] Just go to the bottom of any screen and click Send feedback. [ a link ]
[ Bullet ] Appeal Community Guidelines actions [ a link ].
Thank you for your time and patience.
All the best,
Antoinnette B.”
I have several comments to make in regards to Antoinnette’s letter:
1. At the start of Antoinnette’s letter, she misspells her name. She gives it the letter “n” once, instead of twice.
2. The links that Antoinnette provides connect to articles on You Tube, or to the You Tube app. None of the links connect directly to a place where feedback can be sent to You Tube.
3. It is no longer possible to contact Antoinnette, Erika, or their associates. I’m only able to contact them because prior letters from them remain in my gmail mailbox. “Google Play Music”, which Antoinnette and Erika have, at times, claimed to work for, has been discontinued by You Tube.
4. Antoinnette writes: “[ Bullet ] If you have an issue you want to report to the technical team, you can submit it right from youtube.com. [ a link ] Just go to the bottom of any screen and click Send feedback. [ a link ]”.
The above ( 4. ) is not correct. I scrolled to the bottom of a page in the You Tube app. No link called “Send feedback” was there. In fact, no link of any kind was there.
You Tube has behaved capriciously and maliciously toward me. You Tube has behaved capriciously and maliciously toward others, especially young girls. Given this, it’s obvious that my You Tube channel is doomed. My channel already has two strikes against it ( out of a possible four ). One or more You Tube employees can easily hit my channel with two more ( wrongful ) strikes, terminating my channel. When my You Tube channel is terminated, that terminates my You Tube account.
I have tried my utmost to shield my You Tube channel from being attacked by You Tube’s staffers. If you go to my channel, called “Andrew Roller”, you’ll find videos that are obviously in the wrong playlist. That’s because the “right” playlist is headed by a video that I worry might attract the attention of You Tube’s censors.
When I add a video to a playlist, that playlist goes to the top of the facing page for my channel. There is nothing I can do to “hide” the playlist. It sits there, attracting attention. Hence, when I add a video to a playlist, I sometimes put it in the “wrong” playlist. The reason is that I consider the “wrong” playlist to have a video heading it that no one could complain about.
Here’s something else I’ve tried, to avoid attracting attention to my channel. I’ve added videos to such ( presumably ) uncontroversial playlists as “Danatar Tar tribute” and “Mari Kruchkova tribute”.
I only added videos of Dana Taranova to my “Danatar Tar tribute” playlist. I only added videos of Mari Kruchkova to my “Mari Kruchkova tribute” playlist. Doing so put those playlists at the top of the facing page for my channel. I regarded those playlists, and their headline videos, as utterly uncontroversial. Now that You Tube has deleted those playlists, I have no idea what You Tube regards as uncontroversial.
If you’re able to use You Tube and enjoy it, that’s great. I joined You Tube with high hopes. I’ve tried to stay positive about You Tube even as it abused me and others. Today, my opinion of You Tube has dropped to the proper level. You Tube is shit.
ARCANA
In my article ( above ) I used the word “their” in the modern singular, non-gender sense.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
At the “home page” of my You Tube channel, you’ll see just a selection of playlists that I created. To see all my playlists, tap on the phrase, “Created playlists”.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 49
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 49, version 2.0
Date Written: October 27, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 49
Editorial Thunder presents...
You Tube: “out of scope”
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by Andrew Roller
More evidence that You Tube is s**t.
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While my Apple iPad was broken, You Tube attacked my You Tube channel ( again ). This continues a series of attacks by You Tube on my channel. All of You Tube’s attacks on my channel have occurred as the Wuhan virus ( COVID-19 ) sends people to the hospital. Of course, someone who’s sick in the hospital can’t appeal You Tube’s attacks on, or terminations of, their channel.
My channel has been attacked and terminated on a number of occasions by You Tube. You Tube has terminated my channel twice, deleted four of my playlists, tampered with my You Tube password, and demanded my Apple password. All of the supposed “violations” that I committed were lies.
I never hear back from You Tube Appeals or You Tube Support. In the past, I’ve heard back from Antoinnette B. and Erika B. They have claimed at times to work for “YouTube and Google Play Music”. Although Antoinnette B. and Erika B. have written to me, they claim they can’t help me.
On October 26, I wrote to “Antoinnette B. and Erika B.” again. Antoinnette B. wrote back to me the same day. Unfortunately, she told me that she couldn’t help me. Her letter to me of October 26 is printed below. Quotation marks by me bracket the letter. I have not added quotation marks at the start of every paragraph in the letter, as one would do in, say, a college term paper.
“Hi Andrew,
This is Antoinette, still chiming in for my colleague, Erika, as she is still out of the office.
I’m sorry to hear your YouTube channel is being attacked. Unfortunately, this issue is out of scope for us since it is a YouTube channel creator issue. Our team is only able to answer users’ questions on their YouTube Premium membership, their show and movie purchases, or rentals or their other purchases on YouTube. I am therefore not able to help much with your question on your YouTube channel. Even if you are a YouTube Premium subscriber, we won’t be able to assist since the issue is not about the paid service.
But you can try out the following links” [ Presumably, this quotation mark was meant to be a colon. ]
[ Bullet ] Head to the YouTube Help Center [ a link ] or YouTube Help Channel [ a link ] to get answers to top Creator questions.
[ Bullet ] If you have an issue you want to report to the technical team, you can submit it right from youtube.com. [ a link ] Just go to the bottom of any screen and click Send feedback. [ a link ]
[ Bullet ] Appeal Community Guidelines actions [ a link ].
Thank you for your time and patience.
All the best,
Antoinnette B.”
I have several comments to make in regards to Antoinnette’s letter:
1. At the start of Antoinnette’s letter, she misspells her name. She gives it the letter “n” once, instead of twice.
2. The links that Antoinnette provides connect to articles on You Tube, or to the You Tube app. None of the links connect directly to a place where feedback can be sent to You Tube.
3. It is no longer possible to contact Antoinnette, Erika, or their associates. I’m only able to contact them because prior letters from them remain in my gmail mailbox. “Google Play Music”, which Antoinnette and Erika have, at times, claimed to work for, has been discontinued by You Tube.
4. Antoinnette writes: “[ Bullet ] If you have an issue you want to report to the technical team, you can submit it right from youtube.com. [ a link ] Just go to the bottom of any screen and click Send feedback. [ a link ]”.
The above ( 4. ) is not correct. I scrolled to the bottom of a page in the You Tube app. No link called “Send feedback” was there. In fact, no link of any kind was there.
You Tube has behaved capriciously and maliciously toward me. You Tube has behaved capriciously and maliciously toward others, especially young girls. Given this, it’s obvious that my You Tube channel is doomed. My channel already has two strikes against it ( out of a possible four ). One or more You Tube employees can easily hit my channel with two more ( wrongful ) strikes, terminating my channel. When my You Tube channel is terminated, that terminates my You Tube account.
I have tried my utmost to shield my You Tube channel from being attacked by You Tube’s staffers. If you go to my channel, called “Andrew Roller”, you’ll find videos that are obviously in the wrong playlist. That’s because the “right” playlist is headed by a video that I worry might attract the attention of You Tube’s censors.
When I add a video to a playlist, that playlist goes to the top of the facing page for my channel. There is nothing I can do to “hide” the playlist. It sits there, attracting attention. Hence, when I add a video to a playlist, I sometimes put it in the “wrong” playlist. The reason is that I consider the “wrong” playlist to have a video heading it that no one could complain about.
Here’s something else I’ve tried, to avoid attracting attention to my channel. I’ve added videos to such ( presumably ) uncontroversial playlists as “Danatar Tar tribute” and “Mari Kruchkova tribute”.
I only added videos of Dana Taranova to my “Danatar Tar tribute” playlist. I only added videos of Mari Kruchkova to my “Mari Kruchkova tribute” playlist. Doing so put those playlists at the top of the facing page for my channel. I regarded those playlists, and their headline videos, as utterly uncontroversial. Now that You Tube has deleted those playlists, I have no idea what You Tube regards as uncontroversial.
If you’re able to use You Tube and enjoy it, that’s great. I joined You Tube with high hopes. I’ve tried to stay positive about You Tube even as it abused me and others. Today, my opinion of You Tube has dropped to the proper level. You Tube is shit.
ARCANA
In my article ( above ) I used the word “their” in the modern singular, non-gender sense.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
At the “home page” of my You Tube channel, you’ll see just a selection of playlists that I created. To see all my playlists, tap on the phrase, “Created playlists”.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 49
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 49, version 2.0
Date Written: October 27, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Bizarre Abuse
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ET 48
Editorial Thunder presents...
Bizarre Abuse
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by Andrew Roller
You Tube deletes two more of my playlists.
Plus: Writing to Milana ( or not ).
And: The biggest threat to free speech.
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Big Tech is bad. That, anyway, is my verdict. It’s based on how I’ve been treated by Facebook and You Tube.
Facebook banned me. You Tube tried twice to ban me. ( I won my appeals. ) Now, You Tube is working on destroying my You Tube channel by deleting my playlists there.
Currently, my You Tube channel, “Andrew Roller”, has two strikes against it ( out of a possible four ). You Tube calls a first strike a “warning”. Three possible strikes follow.
Information about You Tube’s latest attack on me is below. It’s written in the form of a letter to 13-year-old Dana Taranova. Like many girls on You Tube, she’s been capriciously and maliciously abused by You Tube’s staffers.
My letter to Dana quotes my most recent appeal letters to You Tube. I have not tried to adjust the quotation marks to meet book publishing standards.
My letter to Dana follows:
“Dear Dana,
Something went wrong with my Apple iPad. Since I don’t have a computer, I had to go to the Apple store to get help. I’m now in the process of restoring my content to my iPad from Apple’s iCloud.
On October 22, a You Tube staffer again attacked my channel. Two of my playlists were “removed”. That means You Tube deleted them. The playlists were:
1. Danatar Tar tribute
2. Mari Kruchkova tribute
“Danatar Tar tribute” merely collected videos featuring you.
“Mari Kruchkova tribute” merely collected videos featuring Mari Kruchkova.
I have appealed to the following:
1. You Tube Appeals
2. You Tube Support
3. Erika B. and Antoinnette B. ( of “YouTube and Google Play Music” ).
You Tube Appeals never writes back to me.
You Tube Support never writes back to me.
Erika B. and Antoinnette B. have written back to me in the past. However, they claim that they can’t help me.
My letter to Erika B. and Antoinnette B. is below. It contains the full text of my various appeals.
It’s bizarre that You Tube deleted my playlists “Danatar Tar tribute” and “Mari Kruchkova tribute”. Here’s why:
1. I still have playlists of your other channels.
2. I have a playlist called “Victoria Baez tribute”. It holds videos from the second channel that Mari Kruchkova created on You Tube. When Mari created that channel, she called it “Mari Kruchkova”. ( The first channel that Mari created on You Tube is also called “Mari Kruchkova”. )
3. I still have other playlists which feature one or more of your videos.
4. I still have other playlists which feature one or more of Mari’s videos.
As of now, I am unable to create playlists on You Tube.
As of now, I am unable to add videos to my existing playlists on You Tube.
Here is my letter to Erika B. and Antoinnette B. of “YouTube and Google Play Music”.
October 26, 2020,
Dear Erika B. and Antoinnette B.,
Thank you for your kind words in September. In Erika’s last message to me, she wrote:
“We’re always here to help. Don’t hesitate to reach out if anything else comes up.”
I am once again being abused by a You Tube staffer. My complaints, as addressed to You Tube Support, are below:
“October 26, 2020
Dear You Tube Support,
I have never uploaded any video to You Tube. At my channel, I collect videos into playlists.
An anonymous staffer at You Tube is persistently attacking my You Tube channel. In March, my channel was wrongfully terminated. This happened twice, in rapid succession. My channel was wrongfully accused of “suspicious activity”, “severe or repeated violations of our Community Guidelines”, and “spam, scams or commercially deceptive content”.
I won both my appeals. As soon as I won my second appeal, one of my playlists was called “inappropriate”, and removed. I appealed. My playlist was not returned to me. At this same time, the anonymous staffer tampered with my You Tube password, and demanded my Apple password.
In September, another of my playlists was removed. The reasons given were that my playlist “violates our child safety policy”, is “unsafe for children”, “spam”, “a deceptive practice”, and “a copyright violation”. I appealed. My playlist was not returned to me. This playlist contained one video that remains available on You Tube. It is an innocuous 1960’s video of a band singing a song.
Now, two more of my playlists have been removed. My appeal to You Tube Appeals is below:
“Dear You Tube Appeals,
On October 22, you removed two of my playlists: “Danatar Tar tribute” and “Mari Kruchkova tribute”. Of each of my playlists, you write: “we think it violates our child safety policy”. My response is as follows:
1. I have never uploaded any video to You Tube.
2. My playlists are constructed entirely of videos that You Tube has allowed on You Tube.
3. Every video that was in my playlist “Danatar Tar tribute” remains on You Tube.
4. Every video that was in my playlist “Mari Kruchkova tribute” remains on You Tube.
4. My playlist “Danatar Tar tribute” simply collected videos by Dana Taranova.
5. My playlist “Mari Kruchkova tribute” simply collected videos by Mari Kruchkova.
As a disabled veteran, I am outraged that you are abusively targeting me by deleting my innocuous playlists. The United States Congress is deeply concerned about Big Tech’s abusive practices. Your parent company, Google, is now being sued by the United States Justice Department for being abusive. Your actions are violating my rights as a paying customer of You Tube. Your actions violate my rights as a California consumer.”
I appreciate any help you can give me. I am deeply upset by how You Tube is treating me.”
You ( Erika B. and Antoinnette B.) are the only folks at You Tube who have ever responded to my complaints. ( Other than two generic responses when my You Tube channel was restored, in late March and early April. )
Hence, I am again writing to you. I would appreciate any help that you can give me.
Sincerely,
Andrew Roller”
( That is the end of my letter to Erika B. and Antoinnette B. )
Thank you for persevering on You Tube.
You make wonderful videos!
Keep being your fabulous self!”
( That is the end of my letter to Dana Taranova. )
WRITING TO MILANA ( or not )
A reader of this blog wrote to me. He raised topics which are quite popular on this blog. Hence, I’m sharing my response to the reader here.
“Dear reader,
Thanks for your e-mail!
I don’t know of any direct way to contact Milana from Minsk, Belarus.
You might try this website:
milanafamily ( dot ) com
“milanafamily ( dot ) com” is run by Milana’s older sister, Olga. I’ve gotten hearts from Milana, when she was on You Tube. However, Olga has forbidden me to send letters at “milanafamily ( dot ) com”. I reported this to Milana herself when Milana was on YouTube. Milana says Olga’s intent is to reserve “milanafamily ( dot ) com” solely to family and ( close ) friends.
Hence, you can write once to Milana at “milanafamily ( dot ) com”. Then Olga will ban you. That, anyway, is my experience. ( You may be able to get off several letters, in quick succession, before Olga bans you. )
The channel “Simon Rudnik”, on You Tube, holds several videos by Milana. However, comments are turned off. ( Simon Rudnik is the child of Natasha, a married friend of Milana. )
Milana started a website at “boosty ( dot ) to”. It was called, “boosty ( dot ) to/milana”. I understand “boosty ( dot ) to” to be a Russian website. However, “boosty ( dot ) to” “suspended” ( terminated ) Milana’s website, “due to a violation of the terms of use”.”
( That is the end of my letter to the reader. )
ON BIG TECH
1. “Big Tech is the biggest threat to free speech and democracy in America.”
- United States Senator Ted Cruz of Texas. Fox News Channel, October 21, 2020, 6:12 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time.
2. “It’s Big Tech versus democracy.”
- United States Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut. The Ingraham Angle, Fox News Channel, October 14, 2020.
3. “These people are bad people.”
- United States President Donald J. Trump, on Big Tech. Fox News Channel, October 20, 2020, 5:45 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time.
4. “Big Tech is Big Brother.”
- Jeanine Pirro. Justice with Judge Jeanine, Fox News Channel, October 17, 2020. ( Possibly paraphrased. )
5. “Democracies only survive when information flows freely between individuals.”
- Tucker Carlson, Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox News Channel, October 14, 2020.
6. “Freedom is no more than one generation [ away ] from extinction.”
- United States President Ronald Reagan. Quoted by Jeanine Pirro on Justice with Judge Jeanine, Fox News Channel, October 17, 2020.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
At the “home page” of my You Tube channel, you’ll see just a selection of playlists that I created. To see all my playlists, tap on the phrase, “Created playlists”.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 48
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 48, version 4.0
Date Written: October 26, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 48
Editorial Thunder presents...
Bizarre Abuse
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by Andrew Roller
You Tube deletes two more of my playlists.
Plus: Writing to Milana ( or not ).
And: The biggest threat to free speech.
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Big Tech is bad. That, anyway, is my verdict. It’s based on how I’ve been treated by Facebook and You Tube.
Facebook banned me. You Tube tried twice to ban me. ( I won my appeals. ) Now, You Tube is working on destroying my You Tube channel by deleting my playlists there.
Currently, my You Tube channel, “Andrew Roller”, has two strikes against it ( out of a possible four ). You Tube calls a first strike a “warning”. Three possible strikes follow.
Information about You Tube’s latest attack on me is below. It’s written in the form of a letter to 13-year-old Dana Taranova. Like many girls on You Tube, she’s been capriciously and maliciously abused by You Tube’s staffers.
My letter to Dana quotes my most recent appeal letters to You Tube. I have not tried to adjust the quotation marks to meet book publishing standards.
My letter to Dana follows:
“Dear Dana,
Something went wrong with my Apple iPad. Since I don’t have a computer, I had to go to the Apple store to get help. I’m now in the process of restoring my content to my iPad from Apple’s iCloud.
On October 22, a You Tube staffer again attacked my channel. Two of my playlists were “removed”. That means You Tube deleted them. The playlists were:
1. Danatar Tar tribute
2. Mari Kruchkova tribute
“Danatar Tar tribute” merely collected videos featuring you.
“Mari Kruchkova tribute” merely collected videos featuring Mari Kruchkova.
I have appealed to the following:
1. You Tube Appeals
2. You Tube Support
3. Erika B. and Antoinnette B. ( of “YouTube and Google Play Music” ).
You Tube Appeals never writes back to me.
You Tube Support never writes back to me.
Erika B. and Antoinnette B. have written back to me in the past. However, they claim that they can’t help me.
My letter to Erika B. and Antoinnette B. is below. It contains the full text of my various appeals.
It’s bizarre that You Tube deleted my playlists “Danatar Tar tribute” and “Mari Kruchkova tribute”. Here’s why:
1. I still have playlists of your other channels.
2. I have a playlist called “Victoria Baez tribute”. It holds videos from the second channel that Mari Kruchkova created on You Tube. When Mari created that channel, she called it “Mari Kruchkova”. ( The first channel that Mari created on You Tube is also called “Mari Kruchkova”. )
3. I still have other playlists which feature one or more of your videos.
4. I still have other playlists which feature one or more of Mari’s videos.
As of now, I am unable to create playlists on You Tube.
As of now, I am unable to add videos to my existing playlists on You Tube.
Here is my letter to Erika B. and Antoinnette B. of “YouTube and Google Play Music”.
October 26, 2020,
Dear Erika B. and Antoinnette B.,
Thank you for your kind words in September. In Erika’s last message to me, she wrote:
“We’re always here to help. Don’t hesitate to reach out if anything else comes up.”
I am once again being abused by a You Tube staffer. My complaints, as addressed to You Tube Support, are below:
“October 26, 2020
Dear You Tube Support,
I have never uploaded any video to You Tube. At my channel, I collect videos into playlists.
An anonymous staffer at You Tube is persistently attacking my You Tube channel. In March, my channel was wrongfully terminated. This happened twice, in rapid succession. My channel was wrongfully accused of “suspicious activity”, “severe or repeated violations of our Community Guidelines”, and “spam, scams or commercially deceptive content”.
I won both my appeals. As soon as I won my second appeal, one of my playlists was called “inappropriate”, and removed. I appealed. My playlist was not returned to me. At this same time, the anonymous staffer tampered with my You Tube password, and demanded my Apple password.
In September, another of my playlists was removed. The reasons given were that my playlist “violates our child safety policy”, is “unsafe for children”, “spam”, “a deceptive practice”, and “a copyright violation”. I appealed. My playlist was not returned to me. This playlist contained one video that remains available on You Tube. It is an innocuous 1960’s video of a band singing a song.
Now, two more of my playlists have been removed. My appeal to You Tube Appeals is below:
“Dear You Tube Appeals,
On October 22, you removed two of my playlists: “Danatar Tar tribute” and “Mari Kruchkova tribute”. Of each of my playlists, you write: “we think it violates our child safety policy”. My response is as follows:
1. I have never uploaded any video to You Tube.
2. My playlists are constructed entirely of videos that You Tube has allowed on You Tube.
3. Every video that was in my playlist “Danatar Tar tribute” remains on You Tube.
4. Every video that was in my playlist “Mari Kruchkova tribute” remains on You Tube.
4. My playlist “Danatar Tar tribute” simply collected videos by Dana Taranova.
5. My playlist “Mari Kruchkova tribute” simply collected videos by Mari Kruchkova.
As a disabled veteran, I am outraged that you are abusively targeting me by deleting my innocuous playlists. The United States Congress is deeply concerned about Big Tech’s abusive practices. Your parent company, Google, is now being sued by the United States Justice Department for being abusive. Your actions are violating my rights as a paying customer of You Tube. Your actions violate my rights as a California consumer.”
I appreciate any help you can give me. I am deeply upset by how You Tube is treating me.”
You ( Erika B. and Antoinnette B.) are the only folks at You Tube who have ever responded to my complaints. ( Other than two generic responses when my You Tube channel was restored, in late March and early April. )
Hence, I am again writing to you. I would appreciate any help that you can give me.
Sincerely,
Andrew Roller”
( That is the end of my letter to Erika B. and Antoinnette B. )
Thank you for persevering on You Tube.
You make wonderful videos!
Keep being your fabulous self!”
( That is the end of my letter to Dana Taranova. )
WRITING TO MILANA ( or not )
A reader of this blog wrote to me. He raised topics which are quite popular on this blog. Hence, I’m sharing my response to the reader here.
“Dear reader,
Thanks for your e-mail!
I don’t know of any direct way to contact Milana from Minsk, Belarus.
You might try this website:
milanafamily ( dot ) com
“milanafamily ( dot ) com” is run by Milana’s older sister, Olga. I’ve gotten hearts from Milana, when she was on You Tube. However, Olga has forbidden me to send letters at “milanafamily ( dot ) com”. I reported this to Milana herself when Milana was on YouTube. Milana says Olga’s intent is to reserve “milanafamily ( dot ) com” solely to family and ( close ) friends.
Hence, you can write once to Milana at “milanafamily ( dot ) com”. Then Olga will ban you. That, anyway, is my experience. ( You may be able to get off several letters, in quick succession, before Olga bans you. )
The channel “Simon Rudnik”, on You Tube, holds several videos by Milana. However, comments are turned off. ( Simon Rudnik is the child of Natasha, a married friend of Milana. )
Milana started a website at “boosty ( dot ) to”. It was called, “boosty ( dot ) to/milana”. I understand “boosty ( dot ) to” to be a Russian website. However, “boosty ( dot ) to” “suspended” ( terminated ) Milana’s website, “due to a violation of the terms of use”.”
( That is the end of my letter to the reader. )
ON BIG TECH
1. “Big Tech is the biggest threat to free speech and democracy in America.”
- United States Senator Ted Cruz of Texas. Fox News Channel, October 21, 2020, 6:12 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time.
2. “It’s Big Tech versus democracy.”
- United States Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut. The Ingraham Angle, Fox News Channel, October 14, 2020.
3. “These people are bad people.”
- United States President Donald J. Trump, on Big Tech. Fox News Channel, October 20, 2020, 5:45 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time.
4. “Big Tech is Big Brother.”
- Jeanine Pirro. Justice with Judge Jeanine, Fox News Channel, October 17, 2020. ( Possibly paraphrased. )
5. “Democracies only survive when information flows freely between individuals.”
- Tucker Carlson, Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox News Channel, October 14, 2020.
6. “Freedom is no more than one generation [ away ] from extinction.”
- United States President Ronald Reagan. Quoted by Jeanine Pirro on Justice with Judge Jeanine, Fox News Channel, October 17, 2020.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
At the “home page” of my You Tube channel, you’ll see just a selection of playlists that I created. To see all my playlists, tap on the phrase, “Created playlists”.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 48
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 48, version 4.0
Date Written: October 26, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Facebook Exposed
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ET 47
Editorial Thunder presents...
Facebook Exposed
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by Andrew Roller
Why companies like Facebook and You Tube treat their customers so badly.
Plus: Pedophile and proud.
And: A religion for “child molesters”.
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Thirteen-year-old Dana Taranova has been an internet celebrity for some time. She was an internet celebrity before I knew anything about smart phones. A year ago, I watched ( live ) as one of Dana’s videos was destroyed by You Tube. It was the first time I saw You Tube delete one of Dana’s videos. My understanding is that this was the first time You Tube deleted one of her videos.
You Tube never gave a public reason for their action. You might wonder what Dana’s video was about. She went through an elaborate process of turning herself into a monster. Halloween was approaching.
I wasn’t fond of Dana’s deleted video. I prefer seeing her stunningly lovely self in a bikini. However, I respected the hard work Dana put into her video. She was shocked when her video was destroyed by You Tube. I got the impression that her family was shocked. Both Dana and her family felt chastened.
Today, one can conclude that Dana and her family were duped. I have long suspected the following: companies like You Tube and Facebook harbor “content moderators” who operate with few restraints. In other words, they harbor employees who are bullies. The bullies’ actions are deceitful and malicious.
An article by The New Yorker reveals more. The New Yorker’s article is about Facebook. Specifically, Facebook’s content moderators. You might be surprised to learn that you’ve been censored or banned by a sleep-deprived contract employee who can’t speak your language. My summary of the article by The New Yorker follows.
“Frederick Douglass once called free expression ‘the great moral renovator of society’.”
- Mark Fuckerberg, Censor in Chief of Earth. Fuckerberg is also the co-founder, chairman, chief executive officer, and controlling shareholder of Facebook, which owns Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger. Fuckerberg spoke the above line at Georgetown University in October 2019.
Source: The New Yorker, The Daily, Why Facebook Can’t Fix Itself, by Andrew Marantz, October 12, 2020. This article is also titled, “Explicit Content”. It’s in the October 19, 2020 issue of The New Yorker magazine.
According to the article, most of Facebook’s content moderators are “contract workers in cities around the world”. They often “work at odd hours”, are “sleep-deprived”, and “do not speak English as a first language”.
Chris Gray and his wife live in Ireland. They were hired to do content moderation on Facebook as contract workers. The Grays tell about content moderation. Their first example is about how content moderators are trained:
“For the first few days after content moderators are hired, a trainer guides them through the [ training ] materials. ‘The documents are full of technical jargon, not presented in any logical order,’ Chris Gray recalled. ‘I’m looking around, going, Most of the people in this room do not speak English as a first language. How in the hell is this supposed to work?’ Mildka, who is from Indonesia and whose first language is Bahasa Indonesia, agreed: ‘In the training room, you just nod, Yes, yes. Then you walk out of the room and ask your friend, “Did you understand? Can you explain it in our language?”
“Unlike Facebook’s earliest moderators, who were told to use their discretion and moral intuition, the Grays were often encouraged to ignore the context in which an utterance was made.”
About being hired, Chris Gray says,
“‘They were just hiring anybody.’”
The New Yorker goes on to say, “Some of them [ the contract workers ] were under the impression that, should they pass a Facebook employee in the hall, they were to stay silent.”
The New Yorker article raises the possibility of a Facebook content moderator “going rogue”.
“There is a logic to the argument that moderators should not be allowed to use too much individual discretion. As Chris Gray put it, ‘You don’t want people going rogue, marking pictures as porn because someone is wearing a skirt above the knee or something.’ Nor would it make sense to have Raphael’s paintings of cherubs scrubbed from Facebook for violating child-nudity guidelines.”
I have reported on my own experiences as a customer of Facebook. To recap:
I was on Facebook for about a week and a half. Then, Facebook deceptively and maliciously banned me, and destroyed my posted content. As a result, I am unable to open an account on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger. The only Facebook platform I was ever on was Facebook. Facebook never gave me any meaningful reason why I was banned. Facebook offered no appeal.
The New Yorker writes:
“Normally, after a Facebook page violates the rules multiple times, the page is banned.”
That was not my experience on Facebook. I was banned peremptorily. The content that got me banned from Facebook, and which Facebook destroyed, has been on WordPress for over a year. I have some popular articles on WordPress. My “banned” content is not, as best I can tell, among the popular content. It has slumbered on WordPress mostly unread, and wholly unremarked upon.
( My references to my WordPress content are to this blog site. )
( The New Yorker, The Daily, Why Facebook Can’t Fix Itself, does not provide page numbers. )
I have also reported on my experiences as a customer of You Tube. To recap:
1. In March, my You Tube account was terminated twice in rapid succession, with no prior warnings. My Google account was terminated at the same time. All charges against me were lies. One of my playlists was deleted. The You Tube employee who did these things also tampered with my You Tube password, and demanded my Apple password.
2. In September, one of my You Tube playlists was deleted. All charges against me were false.
Neither of my playlists were ever returned. You Tube Appeals never replied to my complaints. No apology was ever offered for the horrendous treatment toward me in March.
What can we do about bad actors like Facebook and You Tube? My proposals:
1. Break up Big Tech.
2. Clarify antitrust law to prevent Big Tech companies from acquiring competitors.
3. Especially, prevent Big Tech companies from acquiring competitors to crush them. ( As Mark Fuckerberg is said to be doing with Instagram. )
4. Impose a “windfall profits tax” on Big Tech, as was imposed on American oil companies in the 1970s.
5. Impose a wealth tax on individuals ( as in, Big Tech billionaires ). Mark Fuckerberg did not create the internet. The United States government did, with taxpayers’ dollars. It’s time to return America’s wealth to the American people.
PEDOPHILE AND PROUD!
In the past, Charlie Sheen used drugs. In the past, I published paper pamphlets and distributed them through the mail. Some people who asked for my pamphlets were probably government agents, wishing me ill. They would write about being sexually attracted to “underage” girls, adding, “which I know is wrong”.
Today, Hawaii’s Senator Mazie Hirono refuted such nonsense. Addressing U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Island Barrett, Hirono said the following.
“Sexual preference is an offensive and outdated term. It is used ... to suggest that sexual orientation is a choice. It is not. Sexual orientation is a key part of a person’s identity. That sexual orientation is both a normal expression of human sexuality and immutable was a key part of the majority’s opinion in Obergefell.” ( A 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing same - sex marriage. )
Yesterday, at the Coney Island hearings, a Republican senator reminded all present that there is no religious test for becoming a Supreme Court Justice. This is the case, he said, “no matter how weird” the nominee’s religion may seem. I’ll add that, under the First Amendment, religious speech is highly protected.
A RELIGION FOR “CHILD MOLESTERS”
If you’ve been to college, and studied the liberal arts, you probably ran across Ovid. He was an author in ancient Rome. In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, you can read about the god Pan. He loves nymphs. In a modern introduction to the Metamorphoses, the translator spoke of the nymphs as being “women”. Huh? In my reading of Ovid, the nymphs were obviously girls. As in, “underage” girls.
Some years ago, I founded a religion in honor of those nymphs, and their living equivalents. My religion, which can be yours, is called, “Temple of Pan”.
You don’t need to mail me an application to join “Temple of Pan”. There’s no collection plate that circulates. To be an adherent of “Temple of Pan”, you need only love “little” girls. And remember, should you be nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, no one can hold your religion against you.
If you’re wondering, the position of Pope in Temple of Pan is currently occupied, by me. ( I am the rock on which I am building my church. ) However, many positions of Cardinal are available. If you’re a Cardinal in Temple of Pan, as in the Catholic church, people must address you as, “Your Eminence”.
If you have a beloved, she gets to be a “Goddess” in Temple of Pan. ( Or a princess, a unicorn, a butterfly, a rainbow, or whatever her mood dictates. )
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
At the “home page” of my You Tube channel, you’ll see just a selection of playlists that I created. To see all my playlists, tap on the phrase, “Created playlists”.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 47
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 47, version 1.0
Date Written: October 13, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 47
Editorial Thunder presents...
Facebook Exposed
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by Andrew Roller
Why companies like Facebook and You Tube treat their customers so badly.
Plus: Pedophile and proud.
And: A religion for “child molesters”.
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Thirteen-year-old Dana Taranova has been an internet celebrity for some time. She was an internet celebrity before I knew anything about smart phones. A year ago, I watched ( live ) as one of Dana’s videos was destroyed by You Tube. It was the first time I saw You Tube delete one of Dana’s videos. My understanding is that this was the first time You Tube deleted one of her videos.
You Tube never gave a public reason for their action. You might wonder what Dana’s video was about. She went through an elaborate process of turning herself into a monster. Halloween was approaching.
I wasn’t fond of Dana’s deleted video. I prefer seeing her stunningly lovely self in a bikini. However, I respected the hard work Dana put into her video. She was shocked when her video was destroyed by You Tube. I got the impression that her family was shocked. Both Dana and her family felt chastened.
Today, one can conclude that Dana and her family were duped. I have long suspected the following: companies like You Tube and Facebook harbor “content moderators” who operate with few restraints. In other words, they harbor employees who are bullies. The bullies’ actions are deceitful and malicious.
An article by The New Yorker reveals more. The New Yorker’s article is about Facebook. Specifically, Facebook’s content moderators. You might be surprised to learn that you’ve been censored or banned by a sleep-deprived contract employee who can’t speak your language. My summary of the article by The New Yorker follows.
“Frederick Douglass once called free expression ‘the great moral renovator of society’.”
- Mark Fuckerberg, Censor in Chief of Earth. Fuckerberg is also the co-founder, chairman, chief executive officer, and controlling shareholder of Facebook, which owns Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger. Fuckerberg spoke the above line at Georgetown University in October 2019.
Source: The New Yorker, The Daily, Why Facebook Can’t Fix Itself, by Andrew Marantz, October 12, 2020. This article is also titled, “Explicit Content”. It’s in the October 19, 2020 issue of The New Yorker magazine.
According to the article, most of Facebook’s content moderators are “contract workers in cities around the world”. They often “work at odd hours”, are “sleep-deprived”, and “do not speak English as a first language”.
Chris Gray and his wife live in Ireland. They were hired to do content moderation on Facebook as contract workers. The Grays tell about content moderation. Their first example is about how content moderators are trained:
“For the first few days after content moderators are hired, a trainer guides them through the [ training ] materials. ‘The documents are full of technical jargon, not presented in any logical order,’ Chris Gray recalled. ‘I’m looking around, going, Most of the people in this room do not speak English as a first language. How in the hell is this supposed to work?’ Mildka, who is from Indonesia and whose first language is Bahasa Indonesia, agreed: ‘In the training room, you just nod, Yes, yes. Then you walk out of the room and ask your friend, “Did you understand? Can you explain it in our language?”
“Unlike Facebook’s earliest moderators, who were told to use their discretion and moral intuition, the Grays were often encouraged to ignore the context in which an utterance was made.”
About being hired, Chris Gray says,
“‘They were just hiring anybody.’”
The New Yorker goes on to say, “Some of them [ the contract workers ] were under the impression that, should they pass a Facebook employee in the hall, they were to stay silent.”
The New Yorker article raises the possibility of a Facebook content moderator “going rogue”.
“There is a logic to the argument that moderators should not be allowed to use too much individual discretion. As Chris Gray put it, ‘You don’t want people going rogue, marking pictures as porn because someone is wearing a skirt above the knee or something.’ Nor would it make sense to have Raphael’s paintings of cherubs scrubbed from Facebook for violating child-nudity guidelines.”
I have reported on my own experiences as a customer of Facebook. To recap:
I was on Facebook for about a week and a half. Then, Facebook deceptively and maliciously banned me, and destroyed my posted content. As a result, I am unable to open an account on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger. The only Facebook platform I was ever on was Facebook. Facebook never gave me any meaningful reason why I was banned. Facebook offered no appeal.
The New Yorker writes:
“Normally, after a Facebook page violates the rules multiple times, the page is banned.”
That was not my experience on Facebook. I was banned peremptorily. The content that got me banned from Facebook, and which Facebook destroyed, has been on WordPress for over a year. I have some popular articles on WordPress. My “banned” content is not, as best I can tell, among the popular content. It has slumbered on WordPress mostly unread, and wholly unremarked upon.
( My references to my WordPress content are to this blog site. )
( The New Yorker, The Daily, Why Facebook Can’t Fix Itself, does not provide page numbers. )
I have also reported on my experiences as a customer of You Tube. To recap:
1. In March, my You Tube account was terminated twice in rapid succession, with no prior warnings. My Google account was terminated at the same time. All charges against me were lies. One of my playlists was deleted. The You Tube employee who did these things also tampered with my You Tube password, and demanded my Apple password.
2. In September, one of my You Tube playlists was deleted. All charges against me were false.
Neither of my playlists were ever returned. You Tube Appeals never replied to my complaints. No apology was ever offered for the horrendous treatment toward me in March.
What can we do about bad actors like Facebook and You Tube? My proposals:
1. Break up Big Tech.
2. Clarify antitrust law to prevent Big Tech companies from acquiring competitors.
3. Especially, prevent Big Tech companies from acquiring competitors to crush them. ( As Mark Fuckerberg is said to be doing with Instagram. )
4. Impose a “windfall profits tax” on Big Tech, as was imposed on American oil companies in the 1970s.
5. Impose a wealth tax on individuals ( as in, Big Tech billionaires ). Mark Fuckerberg did not create the internet. The United States government did, with taxpayers’ dollars. It’s time to return America’s wealth to the American people.
PEDOPHILE AND PROUD!
In the past, Charlie Sheen used drugs. In the past, I published paper pamphlets and distributed them through the mail. Some people who asked for my pamphlets were probably government agents, wishing me ill. They would write about being sexually attracted to “underage” girls, adding, “which I know is wrong”.
Today, Hawaii’s Senator Mazie Hirono refuted such nonsense. Addressing U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Island Barrett, Hirono said the following.
“Sexual preference is an offensive and outdated term. It is used ... to suggest that sexual orientation is a choice. It is not. Sexual orientation is a key part of a person’s identity. That sexual orientation is both a normal expression of human sexuality and immutable was a key part of the majority’s opinion in Obergefell.” ( A 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing same - sex marriage. )
Yesterday, at the Coney Island hearings, a Republican senator reminded all present that there is no religious test for becoming a Supreme Court Justice. This is the case, he said, “no matter how weird” the nominee’s religion may seem. I’ll add that, under the First Amendment, religious speech is highly protected.
A RELIGION FOR “CHILD MOLESTERS”
If you’ve been to college, and studied the liberal arts, you probably ran across Ovid. He was an author in ancient Rome. In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, you can read about the god Pan. He loves nymphs. In a modern introduction to the Metamorphoses, the translator spoke of the nymphs as being “women”. Huh? In my reading of Ovid, the nymphs were obviously girls. As in, “underage” girls.
Some years ago, I founded a religion in honor of those nymphs, and their living equivalents. My religion, which can be yours, is called, “Temple of Pan”.
You don’t need to mail me an application to join “Temple of Pan”. There’s no collection plate that circulates. To be an adherent of “Temple of Pan”, you need only love “little” girls. And remember, should you be nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, no one can hold your religion against you.
If you’re wondering, the position of Pope in Temple of Pan is currently occupied, by me. ( I am the rock on which I am building my church. ) However, many positions of Cardinal are available. If you’re a Cardinal in Temple of Pan, as in the Catholic church, people must address you as, “Your Eminence”.
If you have a beloved, she gets to be a “Goddess” in Temple of Pan. ( Or a princess, a unicorn, a butterfly, a rainbow, or whatever her mood dictates. )
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
At the “home page” of my You Tube channel, you’ll see just a selection of playlists that I created. To see all my playlists, tap on the phrase, “Created playlists”.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 47
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 47, version 1.0
Date Written: October 13, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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You Tube’s “Child Safety” Scam
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ET 46
Editorial Thunder presents...
You Tube’s “Child Safety” Scam
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by Andrew Roller
Why You Tube is deleting so many girls’ videos.
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The Beatles sang,
“If you want it, here it is Come and get it ... But you’d better hurry ‘Cause it may not last”
That’s certainly true on Google’s You Tube. You Tube has deleted many videos by girls on You Tube. The company has also terminated girls’ channels, or bullied girls into removing their videos, making their videos private, or ceasing to be active on You Tube. The examples range from Julia Majewska ( account terminated ) to My_ Home ( bullied into inactivity ).
Lately, You Tube has deleted a number of videos by Dana Taranova, from her You Tube channel, “Danatar Backstage”. This isn’t the first time that You Tube has abused Dana. Many of her videos have been deleted, from her various channels, by You Tube. You Tube terminated her channel “Danatar2” last spring.
I may have discovered the reason for You Tube’s abuse of its young female customers ( and others ). I express this in the form of a letter to Dana Taranova. It follows:
“Subject: Magical!
Dear Dana,
Thank you very much for your wonderful video, ‘BACKSTAGE VIDEO from Dana’ on your channel, ‘Danatar Backstage’. You are fabulously compelling to watch.
I recorded ‘BACKSTAGE VIDEO’ at the regular speed. Then, I recorded close-ups of your beautiful self, during this video, in slow motion.
It’s fun when, in this video, you make the lights magically turn on! ( And off. And on again! )
You are a very skillful dancer. I love your long, long hair!
Your outfit of a leopard print top and long, flowery skirt are superb.
In You Tube’s ‘Community Guidelines’, they have a chart. The chart shows their reasons for deleting videos. The biggest reason in this chart is labelled, ‘Child Safety.’ ‘Child Safety’ refers to any video, featuring someone under age 18, that You Tube has deleted.
I think You Tube is deleting innocent videos by girls like yourself to drive up its ‘Child Safety’ numbers, in their chart. They think more companies will advertise with You Tube if You Tube has high ‘child safety’ numbers.
I am sad to see that You Tube has ( once again ) deleted one of your Danatar Backstage videos. That video came and went so quickly that I never got to watch it. From its preview photo, it looked to be another wonderful, and quite innocent, Danatar video.
Thank you for persevering on You Tube.
You are super lovely and talented!
Chart reference: ‘YouTube > PROGRESS AND IMPACT > Progress on managing harmful content > Removal reason > Videos removed, by removal reason > ...This exhibit shows the volume of videos removed by YouTube by the reason a video was removed.’ >
The chart depicts ‘33.5 percent Child Safety’.
The next highest category listed is ‘28.3 percent Spam, Misleading and Scams’. More than once, I’ve been falsely accused by You Tube of ‘Spam, Misleading and Scams’. This despite the fact that I have nothing to ‘spam, mislead, and scam’ about, and abhor such conduct.”
( The > sign means: go on to the next item. )
Quoted lyrics are from the song by The Beatles titled: Come and Get It. Source: Google.
I have to praise Google for helping me find the quoted lyrics by The Beatles. I failed to find these lyrics at Genius dot com and at azlyrics dot com.
If Google’s You Tube would return to the way it was in August 2019, before its latest censorship rampage began, I would have few, if any, complaints about You Tube.
The more You Tube deletes videos by beautiful young girls, the more I value them.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
At the “home page” of my You Tube channel, you’ll see just a selection of playlists that I created. To see all my playlists, tap on the phrase, “Created playlists”.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 46
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 46, version 1.0
Date Written: October 11, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 46
Editorial Thunder presents...
You Tube’s “Child Safety” Scam
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by Andrew Roller
Why You Tube is deleting so many girls’ videos.
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The Beatles sang,
“If you want it, here it is Come and get it ... But you’d better hurry ‘Cause it may not last”
That’s certainly true on Google’s You Tube. You Tube has deleted many videos by girls on You Tube. The company has also terminated girls’ channels, or bullied girls into removing their videos, making their videos private, or ceasing to be active on You Tube. The examples range from Julia Majewska ( account terminated ) to My_ Home ( bullied into inactivity ).
Lately, You Tube has deleted a number of videos by Dana Taranova, from her You Tube channel, “Danatar Backstage”. This isn’t the first time that You Tube has abused Dana. Many of her videos have been deleted, from her various channels, by You Tube. You Tube terminated her channel “Danatar2” last spring.
I may have discovered the reason for You Tube’s abuse of its young female customers ( and others ). I express this in the form of a letter to Dana Taranova. It follows:
“Subject: Magical!
Dear Dana,
Thank you very much for your wonderful video, ‘BACKSTAGE VIDEO from Dana’ on your channel, ‘Danatar Backstage’. You are fabulously compelling to watch.
I recorded ‘BACKSTAGE VIDEO’ at the regular speed. Then, I recorded close-ups of your beautiful self, during this video, in slow motion.
It’s fun when, in this video, you make the lights magically turn on! ( And off. And on again! )
You are a very skillful dancer. I love your long, long hair!
Your outfit of a leopard print top and long, flowery skirt are superb.
In You Tube’s ‘Community Guidelines’, they have a chart. The chart shows their reasons for deleting videos. The biggest reason in this chart is labelled, ‘Child Safety.’ ‘Child Safety’ refers to any video, featuring someone under age 18, that You Tube has deleted.
I think You Tube is deleting innocent videos by girls like yourself to drive up its ‘Child Safety’ numbers, in their chart. They think more companies will advertise with You Tube if You Tube has high ‘child safety’ numbers.
I am sad to see that You Tube has ( once again ) deleted one of your Danatar Backstage videos. That video came and went so quickly that I never got to watch it. From its preview photo, it looked to be another wonderful, and quite innocent, Danatar video.
Thank you for persevering on You Tube.
You are super lovely and talented!
Chart reference: ‘YouTube > PROGRESS AND IMPACT > Progress on managing harmful content > Removal reason > Videos removed, by removal reason > ...This exhibit shows the volume of videos removed by YouTube by the reason a video was removed.’ >
The chart depicts ‘33.5 percent Child Safety’.
The next highest category listed is ‘28.3 percent Spam, Misleading and Scams’. More than once, I’ve been falsely accused by You Tube of ‘Spam, Misleading and Scams’. This despite the fact that I have nothing to ‘spam, mislead, and scam’ about, and abhor such conduct.”
( The > sign means: go on to the next item. )
Quoted lyrics are from the song by The Beatles titled: Come and Get It. Source: Google.
I have to praise Google for helping me find the quoted lyrics by The Beatles. I failed to find these lyrics at Genius dot com and at azlyrics dot com.
If Google’s You Tube would return to the way it was in August 2019, before its latest censorship rampage began, I would have few, if any, complaints about You Tube.
The more You Tube deletes videos by beautiful young girls, the more I value them.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
At the “home page” of my You Tube channel, you’ll see just a selection of playlists that I created. To see all my playlists, tap on the phrase, “Created playlists”.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 46
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 46, version 1.0
Date Written: October 11, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Investigating You Tube
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ET 45
Editorial Thunder presents...
Investigating You Tube
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by Andrew Roller
A new book reveals Big Tech’s censorship secrets.
Plus: When silence isn’t golden.
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You’ve probably faced this conundrum: you like someone, but passionately disagree with one or more things that person says. What to do? I’m a pedophile. Tucker Carlson, of the FOX news channel, hates pedophiles. However, he is an excellent source on the subject of Big Tech censorship. This was the case again today, on Carlson’s show, “Tucker Carlson Tonight”.
I’m sharing Tucker’s latest information in the form of a letter to 13-year-old internet celebrity Dana Taranova. You can read my letter below.
Dear Dana,
More of your videos have been deleted by You Tube. Also, more videos by Ustina Abramova have been deleted by You Tube. In each case, the You Tube deletion notice reads as follows:
“[ Deleted video ] This video has been removed for violating YouTube’s Terms of Service.”
Your videos, and those by Ustina were, of course, innocuous. It saddens me to see you and Ustina abused yet again, as so many girls have been by You Tube.
I’ve learned of a new book about Big Tech censorship. The book is:
“#DELETED: Big Tech’s battle to erase the Trump movement and steal the election”, by Allum Bokhari.
The publisher describes this book as follows:
“[ Bokhari’s ] network of whistleblowers inside Google, Facebook and other companies explain how the tech giants now see themselves as ‘good censors’, benevolent commissars controlling the information we receive to ‘protect’ us from ‘dangerous’ speech.
“[ Bokhari ] has spent four years investigating the tech giants that dominate the Internet: Google, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter”.
The book looks very good. I bought it as an Amazon Kindle book. It is available in other formats.
Thank you for persevering on You Tube despite its capricious, mean-spirited censorship. Both you and Ustina make wonderful videos!
Keep being your super fabulous self!
AND IN THE END...
When Silence Isn’t Golden
“You are not alone. You may feel like you are. Suddenly, your opinions qualify as crimes. Dare to say what you think at work and you’ll be fired in the middle of a recession. Write what you think online and you’ll be silenced by the Big Tech companies.
So you keep your views to yourself. You have no choice. A lot of Americans are doing that right now, they’re staying quiet. And of course that’s the point of censorship, to keep people isolated and alone. To prevent a consensus from forming that challenges those in charge. If you’re forced to shut up, they can do what they want to you and your country. That’s why they do it.
But last night’s show suggested they have not yet succeeded, though they’re trying. Millions and millions of Americans agree with you. You are not crazy. Your views are not evil.
What is happening to this country right now is completely and totally wrong, and that will be obvious to everyone someday, when our French Revolution has ended. For now, most are too afraid to say that.”
- Tucker Carlson, on Tucker Carlson Tonight, FOX news channel, 2020. Available as a You Tube video with the title, “Tucker: Google tries to censor content it disagrees with [ no period ].” Subject: the group “Black Lives Matter”.
I was alive in the 1960s and 1970s. I remember that era clearly. Then, pedophiles and their loved ones could live like every other American. To borrow a phrase, they were “pedophile and proud”. America is a long way from being “the land of the free” today.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
At the “home page” of my You Tube channel, you’ll see just a selection of playlists that I created. To see all my playlists, tap on the phrase, “Created playlists”.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 45
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 45, version 1.0
Date Written: October 1, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 45
Editorial Thunder presents...
Investigating You Tube
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by Andrew Roller
A new book reveals Big Tech’s censorship secrets.
Plus: When silence isn’t golden.
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You’ve probably faced this conundrum: you like someone, but passionately disagree with one or more things that person says. What to do? I’m a pedophile. Tucker Carlson, of the FOX news channel, hates pedophiles. However, he is an excellent source on the subject of Big Tech censorship. This was the case again today, on Carlson’s show, “Tucker Carlson Tonight”.
I’m sharing Tucker’s latest information in the form of a letter to 13-year-old internet celebrity Dana Taranova. You can read my letter below.
Dear Dana,
More of your videos have been deleted by You Tube. Also, more videos by Ustina Abramova have been deleted by You Tube. In each case, the You Tube deletion notice reads as follows:
“[ Deleted video ] This video has been removed for violating YouTube’s Terms of Service.”
Your videos, and those by Ustina were, of course, innocuous. It saddens me to see you and Ustina abused yet again, as so many girls have been by You Tube.
I’ve learned of a new book about Big Tech censorship. The book is:
“#DELETED: Big Tech’s battle to erase the Trump movement and steal the election”, by Allum Bokhari.
The publisher describes this book as follows:
“[ Bokhari’s ] network of whistleblowers inside Google, Facebook and other companies explain how the tech giants now see themselves as ‘good censors’, benevolent commissars controlling the information we receive to ‘protect’ us from ‘dangerous’ speech.
“[ Bokhari ] has spent four years investigating the tech giants that dominate the Internet: Google, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter”.
The book looks very good. I bought it as an Amazon Kindle book. It is available in other formats.
Thank you for persevering on You Tube despite its capricious, mean-spirited censorship. Both you and Ustina make wonderful videos!
Keep being your super fabulous self!
AND IN THE END...
When Silence Isn’t Golden
“You are not alone. You may feel like you are. Suddenly, your opinions qualify as crimes. Dare to say what you think at work and you’ll be fired in the middle of a recession. Write what you think online and you’ll be silenced by the Big Tech companies.
So you keep your views to yourself. You have no choice. A lot of Americans are doing that right now, they’re staying quiet. And of course that’s the point of censorship, to keep people isolated and alone. To prevent a consensus from forming that challenges those in charge. If you’re forced to shut up, they can do what they want to you and your country. That’s why they do it.
But last night’s show suggested they have not yet succeeded, though they’re trying. Millions and millions of Americans agree with you. You are not crazy. Your views are not evil.
What is happening to this country right now is completely and totally wrong, and that will be obvious to everyone someday, when our French Revolution has ended. For now, most are too afraid to say that.”
- Tucker Carlson, on Tucker Carlson Tonight, FOX news channel, 2020. Available as a You Tube video with the title, “Tucker: Google tries to censor content it disagrees with [ no period ].” Subject: the group “Black Lives Matter”.
I was alive in the 1960s and 1970s. I remember that era clearly. Then, pedophiles and their loved ones could live like every other American. To borrow a phrase, they were “pedophile and proud”. America is a long way from being “the land of the free” today.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
At the “home page” of my You Tube channel, you’ll see just a selection of playlists that I created. To see all my playlists, tap on the phrase, “Created playlists”.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 45
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 45, version 1.0
Date Written: October 1, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Milana is HERE
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ET 44
Editorial Thunder presents...
Milana is HERE
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by Andrew Roller
Where to find videos by, and about, Milana from Minsk.
Plus: Popular “Danatar”.
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Recently, You Tube terminated the channel “Milana Chasingsun”. This wasn’t the first time You Tube terminated a channel by Milana from Minsk. You Tube has terminated every channel Milana has created on You Tube. Every channel by a member of Milana’s family has also been terminated by You Tube.
Milana is 14 years old. Her videos are innocuous. She and her family have been making videos since 1989. It’s a family hobby.
You Tube has never publicly said why they treat Milana so atrociously. I can only assume it’s because Milana wears a bikini in some of her videos. Milana looks fabulous, including in her bikini.
You Tube’s horrific treatment of Milana has benefited my WordPress site. That’s because many people on the internet love Milana. They are searching for her on the internet. Their searches lead them to articles about Milana that I have written. Articles about Milana are, by far, the most popular ones on my WordPress site.
You might be wondering how to boost traffic on your internet site. The answer is: write articles about Milana from Minsk. You Tube’s content keeps me extraordinarily busy. So do You Tube’s arbitrary and capricious deletions of videos, and terminations of channels. With regard to beautiful girls, I am, so far, only able to cover girls on You Tube. That leaves the rest of the internet for you to write about.
When Milana was on You Tube, I went to the “HOME” page of one of her channels. There, I checked the “ABOUT” section of her “HOME” page. According to that page, Milana is on several internet sites. If you do a search on the internet, you may find other sites featuring Milana.
Don’t hesitate to write about girls on You Tube. As one person, with many obligations, I am, sadly, limiting my exposure to You Tube’s content. There are only so many girls I can keep up with there.
On my WordPress site, my articles about Dana Taranova ( Danatar ) are quite popular. Dana is 12-years-old. If you write about Dana, you’ll attract readers to your internet site.
Currently, there are two sources of videos by, and about, Milana on You Tube. Descriptions of these channels follow.
1. Simon Rudnik. Milana has a friend named Natasha. Natasha is married, and now has a child. The name of her child is “Simon Rudnik”. This channel has six videos. Several are ones by Milana, or that feature Milana. These are:
A. Natasha and Milana on the river
B. Wedding
C. Walk Stepan, Milan, Natasha and Seeds
All titles are written verbatim. My favorite videos of these three are “Natasha and Milana on the river”, and “Wedding”.
2. “Milana Mermaid”. This is a fanboy channel.
I viewed a video by Milana at the “Milana Mermaid” channel today. It is:
“Milana strolls on the beach”.
As best I can tell, I hadn’t seen this video before. Milana is in Egypt, in her marvelous yellow string bikini. I made a screen recording of this video. It’s a great video. I’m wondering if I should record it again, in slow motion.
( See my earlier articles to learn how to record videos on You Tube in slow motion. I also have information, in earlier articles, about how to send screen recordings to Apple’s app iMovie. This is an app on Apple’s iPad and iPhone. )
You Tube has forced the channel “Milana Mermaid” to turn comments off for the video, “Milana strolls on the beach”. It’s possible that comments are turned off for every video at the “Milana Mermaid” channel.
Many You Tube channels that feature lovely young girls now have comments forcibly turned off by You Tube. This is the case for the various You Tube channels by Dana Taranova. This being You Tube, of course, other You Tube channels featuring lovely young girls have comments turned on. You Tube is an arbitrary and capricious beast. This being 2020, You Tube’s censorship is ridiculous. Most lovely young girls on the internet are on various platforms. My understanding is that Dana answers comments on Instagram. ( I was banned from Facebook a year ago. Since Facebook owns Instagram, I’m banned from Instagram too. I’ve never been on Instagram. )
I reviewed a new video by Dana today. The video is “OAECCA ( etc. ) / Danatar Life”. It’s not possible for me to render the video’s long Cyrillic title in English. Hence, go to the You Tube channel “Dana Tar Life”. There, look for her video with the title that begins: OAECCA.
My review of “OAECCA” is below. In my review, I mention two other videos by Dana. The first is her tour of Kiev, Ukraine. It’s called, “Bnor ( etc. )”. It’s at her channel “Dana Tar Life”. Dana filmed this video when she was 11 years old.
The second video is called “Dance trends Likee”. It’s at Dana’s You Tube channel “Danatar Tar”.
( Dana’s Likee ID is: danatar )
Subject: Your Fabulous Fair!
Dear Dana,
Thank you for your video, “OAECCA ( etc. ) / Danatar Life”.
It amazes me how superb your videos are. They are very high quality films. I loved going with you ( via your video ) to the amusement park.
Of all the wonderful things to look upon at an amusement park, you are the star attraction! You are so beautiful! I continue to worship your very long hair. Your fingernails are amazingly long! They look very pretty. Thanks for wearing a super cute outfit! Your legs are fabulously long.
You might wonder if I have any criticisms. I do. I realize that girls your age love using makeup. However, you don’t actually need makeup. Your unadorned self is lovely. You have big, beautiful eyes. My criticism is this: don’t wear too much eye makeup. In my opinion, you were wearing a bit too much eye makeup in this video.
Watching “OAECCA”, and listening to its soundtrack, I was fooled by you. Your soundtrack was a song about California. I live in California, in San Diego. We have several amusement parks here. Most are by the ocean. As you rose high in the air on various rides, I thought you were in San Diego! I figured the big, broad stretch of blue behind you was the Pacific Ocean. Finally, I noticed a thin ribbon of green on the horizon. I decided your backdrop must be the Dnieper River. That’s a big river! It’s also famous. I read books about the Eastern Front in World War II. Your area played a crucial role in that world-changing conflict.
I loved watching the sun set in “OAECCA”. The night scenes are magical!
This video reminds me of your wonderful tour of Kiev, which you provided last summer. You’ve grown a lot since then!
I very much enjoyed your video that compiles your various “Likee” dance videos. Thanks! You are super beautiful in that compilation!
I used to visit something called “The California State Fair”. It’s held every August, for a month. At that time, I lived within driving distance of that fair. Daytime at the fair was dreary, but the nighttime was great. I went at night. Every night ended with fireworks. I must say, if I’d seen you at the fair, as a girl I didn’t know, I’d have been blown away! “Who’s that superb beauty?” I’d have wondered. It’s fabulous that I can enjoy the illusion of being with you at a fair, for the whole day. It sure beats trailing you as a lurking “stranger”. ( On the assumption that I’m “too old” to visibly notice that you exist. )
Thanks for being your stunningly wonderful self!”
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 44
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 44, version 6.0
Dates Written: September 21 and 25, 2020.
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ET 44
Editorial Thunder presents...
Milana is HERE
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by Andrew Roller
Where to find videos by, and about, Milana from Minsk.
Plus: Popular “Danatar”.
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Recently, You Tube terminated the channel “Milana Chasingsun”. This wasn’t the first time You Tube terminated a channel by Milana from Minsk. You Tube has terminated every channel Milana has created on You Tube. Every channel by a member of Milana’s family has also been terminated by You Tube.
Milana is 14 years old. Her videos are innocuous. She and her family have been making videos since 1989. It’s a family hobby.
You Tube has never publicly said why they treat Milana so atrociously. I can only assume it’s because Milana wears a bikini in some of her videos. Milana looks fabulous, including in her bikini.
You Tube’s horrific treatment of Milana has benefited my WordPress site. That’s because many people on the internet love Milana. They are searching for her on the internet. Their searches lead them to articles about Milana that I have written. Articles about Milana are, by far, the most popular ones on my WordPress site.
You might be wondering how to boost traffic on your internet site. The answer is: write articles about Milana from Minsk. You Tube’s content keeps me extraordinarily busy. So do You Tube’s arbitrary and capricious deletions of videos, and terminations of channels. With regard to beautiful girls, I am, so far, only able to cover girls on You Tube. That leaves the rest of the internet for you to write about.
When Milana was on You Tube, I went to the “HOME” page of one of her channels. There, I checked the “ABOUT” section of her “HOME” page. According to that page, Milana is on several internet sites. If you do a search on the internet, you may find other sites featuring Milana.
Don’t hesitate to write about girls on You Tube. As one person, with many obligations, I am, sadly, limiting my exposure to You Tube’s content. There are only so many girls I can keep up with there.
On my WordPress site, my articles about Dana Taranova ( Danatar ) are quite popular. Dana is 12-years-old. If you write about Dana, you’ll attract readers to your internet site.
Currently, there are two sources of videos by, and about, Milana on You Tube. Descriptions of these channels follow.
1. Simon Rudnik. Milana has a friend named Natasha. Natasha is married, and now has a child. The name of her child is “Simon Rudnik”. This channel has six videos. Several are ones by Milana, or that feature Milana. These are:
A. Natasha and Milana on the river
B. Wedding
C. Walk Stepan, Milan, Natasha and Seeds
All titles are written verbatim. My favorite videos of these three are “Natasha and Milana on the river”, and “Wedding”.
2. “Milana Mermaid”. This is a fanboy channel.
I viewed a video by Milana at the “Milana Mermaid” channel today. It is:
“Milana strolls on the beach”.
As best I can tell, I hadn’t seen this video before. Milana is in Egypt, in her marvelous yellow string bikini. I made a screen recording of this video. It’s a great video. I’m wondering if I should record it again, in slow motion.
( See my earlier articles to learn how to record videos on You Tube in slow motion. I also have information, in earlier articles, about how to send screen recordings to Apple’s app iMovie. This is an app on Apple’s iPad and iPhone. )
You Tube has forced the channel “Milana Mermaid” to turn comments off for the video, “Milana strolls on the beach”. It’s possible that comments are turned off for every video at the “Milana Mermaid” channel.
Many You Tube channels that feature lovely young girls now have comments forcibly turned off by You Tube. This is the case for the various You Tube channels by Dana Taranova. This being You Tube, of course, other You Tube channels featuring lovely young girls have comments turned on. You Tube is an arbitrary and capricious beast. This being 2020, You Tube’s censorship is ridiculous. Most lovely young girls on the internet are on various platforms. My understanding is that Dana answers comments on Instagram. ( I was banned from Facebook a year ago. Since Facebook owns Instagram, I’m banned from Instagram too. I’ve never been on Instagram. )
I reviewed a new video by Dana today. The video is “OAECCA ( etc. ) / Danatar Life”. It’s not possible for me to render the video’s long Cyrillic title in English. Hence, go to the You Tube channel “Dana Tar Life”. There, look for her video with the title that begins: OAECCA.
My review of “OAECCA” is below. In my review, I mention two other videos by Dana. The first is her tour of Kiev, Ukraine. It’s called, “Bnor ( etc. )”. It’s at her channel “Dana Tar Life”. Dana filmed this video when she was 11 years old.
The second video is called “Dance trends Likee”. It’s at Dana’s You Tube channel “Danatar Tar”.
( Dana’s Likee ID is: danatar )
Subject: Your Fabulous Fair!
Dear Dana,
Thank you for your video, “OAECCA ( etc. ) / Danatar Life”.
It amazes me how superb your videos are. They are very high quality films. I loved going with you ( via your video ) to the amusement park.
Of all the wonderful things to look upon at an amusement park, you are the star attraction! You are so beautiful! I continue to worship your very long hair. Your fingernails are amazingly long! They look very pretty. Thanks for wearing a super cute outfit! Your legs are fabulously long.
You might wonder if I have any criticisms. I do. I realize that girls your age love using makeup. However, you don’t actually need makeup. Your unadorned self is lovely. You have big, beautiful eyes. My criticism is this: don’t wear too much eye makeup. In my opinion, you were wearing a bit too much eye makeup in this video.
Watching “OAECCA”, and listening to its soundtrack, I was fooled by you. Your soundtrack was a song about California. I live in California, in San Diego. We have several amusement parks here. Most are by the ocean. As you rose high in the air on various rides, I thought you were in San Diego! I figured the big, broad stretch of blue behind you was the Pacific Ocean. Finally, I noticed a thin ribbon of green on the horizon. I decided your backdrop must be the Dnieper River. That’s a big river! It’s also famous. I read books about the Eastern Front in World War II. Your area played a crucial role in that world-changing conflict.
I loved watching the sun set in “OAECCA”. The night scenes are magical!
This video reminds me of your wonderful tour of Kiev, which you provided last summer. You’ve grown a lot since then!
I very much enjoyed your video that compiles your various “Likee” dance videos. Thanks! You are super beautiful in that compilation!
I used to visit something called “The California State Fair”. It’s held every August, for a month. At that time, I lived within driving distance of that fair. Daytime at the fair was dreary, but the nighttime was great. I went at night. Every night ended with fireworks. I must say, if I’d seen you at the fair, as a girl I didn’t know, I’d have been blown away! “Who’s that superb beauty?” I’d have wondered. It’s fabulous that I can enjoy the illusion of being with you at a fair, for the whole day. It sure beats trailing you as a lurking “stranger”. ( On the assumption that I’m “too old” to visibly notice that you exist. )
Thanks for being your stunningly wonderful self!”
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 44
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 44, version 6.0
Dates Written: September 21 and 25, 2020.
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Enslaved to Abuse
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ET 43 Boner-fide double issue. Collector’s edition!
Editorial Thunder presents...
Enslaved to Abuse
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by Andrew Roller
You Tube lies about its appeal process. Worse, it demands that its customers collaborate in its abuse.
Plus: A true beauty, gone!
And: Advice for girls: turn on, tune in, drop out.
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On September 10, You Tube removed my playlist called “kids area”. On September 11, I appealed You Tube’s removal of my playlist. An article on You Tube, written by You Tube, states:
“After you submit an appeal.
“You’ll get an email from YouTube letting you know the result of your appeal request.”
( Page title: “Appeal Community Guidelines actions”. )
This is a lie. On September 10, You Tube removed my playlist called “kids area”. You Tube put a “warning” ( a pre-“strike” ) against my You Tube account, “Andrew Roller”.
I appealed the removal of my playlist, and the “warning”, on September 11. I have never heard anything back from the You Tube Appeals department.
In March, You Tube removed my playlist called “part unnumbered”. You Tube put a “warning” ( a pre-“strike” ) against my You Tube account, “Andrew Roller.”
I appealed the removal of my playlist, and the “warning” at that time. I never heard anything back from the You Tube Appeals department.
On September 16, I received another letter from “Antoinnette”. She identified herself as working for “the YouTube team”. By this, I assume she means she’s an employee of “The YouTube and Play Music Team”. She has always maintained that, by writing to her, I was writing to the wrong You Tube department. Hence, Antoinnette does not work for You Tube Appeals.
On September 16, Antoinnette wrote the following to me:
“If you haven’t done so, I would recommend that you appeal the community guideline strike using this article [ a link ] as a guide. I apologize as I can’t do this on your behalf.” Hence, Antoinnette is unable to forward my complaint to You Tube Appeals.
As noted above, I complained to You Tube Appeals about the removal of my playlists. I did this in March, and in September. I never heard anything back from You Tube Appeals.
In the article ( mentioned by Antoinnette ), You Tube writes:
“You may appeal each strike only once.”
( Page title: “Appeal Community Guidelines actions”. )
In my experience, the ability to write to You Tube Appeals vanishes once you submit an appeal. It is physically impossible to contact You Tube Appeals a second time, regarding the strike that has been issued.
The “article” ( mentioned by Antoinnette ) follows You Tube’s usual practice. The “article” is, in fact, a maze of linked web pages. Each page has multiple web links. Many of these pages are new to me. This is the case despite the fact that I’ve roamed through You Tube’s “guidelines” many times. My only sure path back into these pages is via Antoinnette’s link. However, as usual, her e-mail to me keeps disappearing in Google’s Gmail app.
Many pages in this maze of an “article” CANNOT be converted to PDF files. This, again, is the usual situation with You Tube’s “guidelines”. I don’t think this is sloppy work on You Tube’s part. In You Tube’s “guidelines”, a page that looks important is usually a page that one can’t PDF. Perhaps You Tube feels ashamed of its “guidelines”, as it should. An inability to PDF You Tube’s pages of “guidelines” makes my job of reporting on them harder.
If you have an Apple iPad, capture pages in You Tube’s “article” by converting them into “Web Archive” documents. You’ll need the free app “Documents”, by the “Readdle” company, to open a “Web Archive” document. “Documents” by “Readdle” is available at the Apple App Store.
It is more cumbersome to deal with a “Web Archive” document than a PDF file. That’s because you have to send a Web Archive document to “Files”, on your iPad. Then, you have to send the Web Archive document from “Files” to “Documents” by “Readdle”. The Web Archive document will automatically open there.
However, in “Documents” by “Readdle”, it’s best to save your Web Archive document. Follow the steps to do this.
Once you’ve saved the Web Archive document in “Documents”, it’s best to create a folder in “Documents” to hold your Web Archive document. Follow the steps to do this.
Here’s more from the “article” that Antoinnette referred me to. It reads:
“Don’t post playlists on YouTube if they fit any of the descriptions noted below. ...
“Playlists that include multiple videos that have been removed for violating our guidelines. If you notice that multiple videos in your public playlists have been removed or deleted, please take some time to remove those videos from your playlists as well.”
Huh? The following questions are raised:
1. Is You Tube speaking of actual videos? Or is You Tube speaking of icons that read, “[ Deleted video ]”. A “[ Deleted video ]” icon isn’t a video. It’s an icon.
2. If You Tube is speaking of icons that read, “[ Deleted video ]”, why would You Tube fear people finding out what it’s done? For instance, You Tube gutted Mari Kruchkova’s channels. It deleted many of her ( utterly innocuous ) videos. Presumably, You Tube attacked Mari’s channels to “protect” her, as a 14 year old “child”. Why would You Tube want to hide the fact that it is “protecting” Mari?
You Tube terminated every one of Milana’s You Tube accounts. ( I’m speaking of Milana from Minsk. ) You Tube terminated every You Tube account by members of Milana’s family. As this must have been done to “protect” 14-year-old Milana, why wouldn’t You Tube want this known?
I’ll tell you why. Because every video by Milana, like those by Mari, Danatar, and so many others, were innocuous. You Tube’s employees are capricious hypocrites. You Tube deleted a one minute video of Milana, fully clothed, playing a piano. You Tube deletes bikini videos ( and much else ) by one girl, but leaves similar videos by other girls untouched.
More questions arise, in regard to You Tube’s playlist “guideline” ( shown above ). The questions are these:
3. A creator can upload videos, and then put those videos into a playlist. Is this the sort of playlist that You Tube is speaking of?
Or
4. A fan of videos can put videos into a playlist. I do this all the time. None are videos that I’ve uploaded. I’ve never uploaded any videos to You Tube.
You Tube is constantly attacking the videos in my playlists. You Tube does this by attacking the You Tube accounts of others. That is, You Tube attacks the creators who uploaded the videos. You Tube’s attacks are reflected in my playlists. How in God’s name am I supposed to clear all the “[ Deleted video ]” icons from my 200-odd playlists?
One can’t do a wholesale removal of “[ Deleted video ]” icons. Each icon must be discovered and removed in turn.
5. Apparently, You Tube wants me to conceal their abuse of their customers. You Tube wants me to do this by constantly digging through my playlists to find “[ Deleted video ]” icons.
6. Recently, You Tube changed its software. A playlist used to display 1,000 videos. That is, if you scrolled down a playlist, you would see 1,000 icons representing 1,000 videos.
Now, a playlist only displays 500 videos, or less.
If you scroll down a playlist now, the playlist begins to “stall” at somewhere around the 200 video mark. A little wheel spins on your screen as You Tube’s software labors to display more video icons.
7. A “[ Deleted video ]” icon can mean any number of things. You have to click on the “[ Deleted video ]” icon to find out what it represents. For instance, “[ Deleted video ]” could mean:
A. The video violated You Tube’s Community Guidelines.
B. The video violated You Tube’s Terms of Service.
C. Someone filed a copyright claim against the video.
D. The video is private.
E. The video was removed by the uploader.
F. The You Tube account was closed by the ( now former ) You Tube customer.
In my experience, “[ Deleted video ]” always means You Tube’s goons attacked a You Tube account. The only exception is a copyright violation filed by a stated entity.
For instance, Sony asserted its copyright over a video that someone had uploaded to You Tube. Two recent, separate, marital disputes resulted in videos being removed over asserted copyright claims. That is, dad and mom broke up. Each claimed their share of the videos starring their lovely daughter.
8. If I click on the same “[ Deleted video ]” icon twice, I get shut out of You Tube. In order to get back on You Tube, I have to quit the You Tube app. Then I have to reboot the You Tube app. This slows any attempt to remove “[ Deleted video ]” icons in playlists.
9. My playlist, “Milana from Minsk memorial”, once held 425 videos. Since You Tube terminated every account by Milana from Minsk, my playlist now holds 425 “[ Deleted video ]” icons. Imagine trying to rid yourself of all those icons! My oldest playlists, with videos on various subjects, are marred by numerous “[ Deleted video ]” icons. It’s as if You Tube’s staff fired at my playlists with a shotgun.
10. Why shouldn’t I honor a You Tube account that’s been terminated? I don’t agree with You Tube’s actions. The terminated You Tube channel’s videos are gone. I’m stuck with “[ Deleted video ]” icons. By keeping my playlist, I’m commemorating a You Tube channel that I feel You Tube treated unfairly. Even the Nazis let their military foes honor their dead. The Nazis didn’t let slaughtered civilians, like Jews, honor their dead. Is You Tube an internet platform, or a death camp?
11. Perhaps, in the past, the following was possible. You, or I, would create a playlist. If set to “public”, the playlist would circulate on You Tube. Other people would encounter it.
Not any more. You Tube has hard-wired its own playlists to most every video on You Tube. If you watch a Danatar video, you’ll see an advertisement for a playlist that has been created by You Tube. The playlist holds Danatar videos. The advertisement appears as a still photo to the right of the Danatar video that you summoned.
What you won’t see is an advertisement for my Danatar playlist. Or yours, if you’ve made one. The same result occurs for nearly every video on You Tube.
To see a playlist of mine, a person has to search for my playlist by name. Do this using the “Search” function on You Tube. Hence, a playlist riddled with “[ Deleted video ]” icons ( which You Tube imposed ) shouldn’t be regarded as “not ready for prime time”. That’s because no one on You Tube will randomly encounter my playlist.
The notion that You Tube doesn’t want, say, “unprofessional” playlists circulating on You Tube is nonsense. Such playlists don’t circulate. So why does You Tube complain about playlists with lots of “[ Deleted video ]” icons? The answer is: to destroy the evidence of their abuse of girls. By this I mean: the evidence that You Tube abuses girls by deleting the girls’ videos, and terminating the girls’ accounts.
( You Tube often uses the word “channel” interchangeably with the word “account”. If you’re an average person like me, and You Tube terminates your account, You Tube has terminated your channel. Only true You Tube pros, like Danatar, can survive endless attacks by You Tube, yet maintain multiple You Tube channels. Milana ( from Minsk ) was another such pro. Now, of course, Milana has been annihilated ( yet again ) from You Tube, by You Tube.
( You can always enjoy my extant playlists by visiting my You Tube channel, “Andrew Roller”. Due to the damage my channel sustains, on a regular basis, I often hide from my channel! I don’t want to get snared into blowing endless hours fixing what You Tube has wrecked. There are only so many hours per day that a guy can occupy himself on the toilet. ) ( I’ll buy a chair someday. )
( In this era of the Wuhan virus ( COVID-19 ), I do occasionally leave my room. That doesn’t mean I escape the work my You Tube channel requires. Have you ever visited a public toilet, with a need to relieve yourself, only to find some jerk locked in the sole stall? Consider the sacrifice of your dignity as a contribution to my art. You don’t need to donate money to support art like mine. Just keep a pair of spare underwear handy. )
The section of You Tube’s “article” on playlists ends with the following statement:
“Please note this is not a complete list.” ( Of playlist “violations”. )
( Page title: “Policy on playlists”. )
Recently, I got a pamphlet from the ( United States ) Social Security Administration. Written on the first page is this:
“Follow the Social Security Administration at these social media sites.” The icons for Facebook, Twitter, and You Tube are displayed.
I’m banned from Facebook. As Twitter is censorious, I’ve never bothered to join it. Apparently, if I don’t spend hundreds of hours finding and removing “[ Deleted video ]” icons in my playlists, I’ll be banned from You Tube. I’ve already been attacked numerous times by You Tube’s employees, for false and malicious reasons.
I’m a veteran. I get literature from “The Navy Exchange”. The literature invites me to view entertainment for U.S. soldiers, and veterans, on Facebook. Being banned from Facebook, I can’t enjoy any of this.
Facebook never gave me any clear reason why they banned me. I can, however, guess why Facebook banned me. An ( anonymous ) Facebook employee didn’t like something I wrote on Facebook, on my own Facebook page.
Note that a Facebook page always asks, “What’s on your mind?” It asks this of the owner of the Facebook page. I told Facebook what was on my mind, on my Facebook page, and got kicked out.
I’m deeply concerned that Facebook, Twitter, and You Tube are going to become quasi-governmental agencies in America. Once, I called “TRICARE”. It is a medical service for soldiers, their families, and veterans. I didn’t understand something about my medical care. What did the clerk at TRICARE tell me? “Look it up on You Tube. We have videos there.” ( By Tricare. ) I didn’t understand something about my Apple iPad. I called Apple. What did the clerk at Apple tell me? “Look it up on You Tube. We have videos there.” ( By Apple. )
Milana from Minsk may own Apple products. Since she and her family have been banned from You Tube, they can’t view You Tube videos. Nor will I be able to, if I refuse to collaborate in You Tube’s abuse of girls, by removing “[ Deleted video ]” icons.
Richard Trumka is a union leader. He is the president of the AFL-CIO. ( The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations ). Trumka once made a remark about Scott Walker. Walker had just ceased to be the governor of Wisconsin.
Of Walker, Trumka said,
“Scott Walker is still a disgrace, just no longer national.”
( Source: “thehill.com”, via Google. )
My opinion is similar, with regard to You Tube. Based on my experience of its conduct, You Tube isn’t a company. It’s a disgrace. But not a national one. You Tube is a global disgrace.
THE CYBER-UNION MAKES US STRONG
Unions used to be illegal. Workers had to fight to gain the rights that some may now take for granted.
As customers of Big Tech, we should form a union. Let’s call it a cyber-union. Our union will then negotiate with various Big Tech platforms, with regard to what rights we’ll have on those platforms.
You Tube must not be allowed to abuse its customers, as it is doing. Rights like the First Amendment aren’t worth a damn when it comes to You Tube. That’s because courts have decided that the First Amendment only prevents abuse by the government. You Tube, under this interpretation, can deny its customers the right to speak as much as it pleases.
I feel You Tube’s abuse goes beyond denying its customers’ speech rights. If I were an attorney, I’d pursue claims against You Tube for inflicting emotional distress on its customers. However, my experience of lawyers is this: the average lawyer only takes a case that is a sure bet to win.
Let’s not wait for lawyers to act. Let’s not assume that politicians will help us, either. Big Tech showers politicians with money, in the form of campaign contributions. So waiting for politicians to help us is like waiting for the next ice age.
Customers of Big Tech need to engage in collective bargaining. Then, You Tube’s vague, ever-malleable “Community Standards” won’t be just what You Tube decrees. You Tube’s “Community Standards” will reflect an agreement reached by mutual consent. If You Tube fails to bargain with our cyber-union, we’ll go on strike. You Tube will be stuck with a platform that has advertisers, but no viewers. You Tube will cease receiving monthly fees from its customers.
The same will be true if Facebook, Twitter, and other Big Tech platforms fail to negotiate with our cyber-union.
When the Declaration of Independence was signed, Benjamin Franklin said this:
“We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”
Without a cyber-union, we’ll continue to suffer at the hands of the “Tech Gods”, and their jackals, for decades to come.
AND IN THE END...
“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.”
- Thomas Paine
Source: A letter from “The Future of Freedom Foundation”. “fff.org”
NEWS KEEPS BREAKING! ( below )
MY FIRST COMMENT!
My WordPress site received its first comment today. Instantly, I was seized with the notion of referring to myself by “the royal we”. That is, calling myself “we” instead of “I”. Tucker Carlson does this all the time on T.V. He does it on his Fox News channel show, “Tucker Carlson Tonight”.
In response to the comment I got, I penned an article. It’s titled:
Why I’ll probably love your comment, but keep it private.
The comment for my WordPress site came in the form of an e-mail. The e-mail was from WordPress itself. Their e-mail said the following:
“[ Andrew Roller ] Please moderate: “Danatar2 BANNED”
“New comment waiting approval on Andrew Roller
“Niles commented on Danatar2 BANNED
“I think some YouTube employee is extortion Dana and she rejected [ no period ].”
I take this comment to mean:
1. A You Tube employee attempted to extort money from Dana Taranova.
2. Dana Taranova ( at age 12 ) refused to pay money to the You Tube employee.
3. Hence, the You Tube employee terminated ( some of ) Dana’s You Tube channels, and deleted ( many of ) Dana’s You Tube videos.
My response:
1. I don’t agree with you. How do you account for the fact that so many other girls have been abused on You Tube, by You Tube? Did the employee attempt to extort money from 14-year-old Milana from Minsk? From 14-year-old Mari Kruchkova? From 10 or 11-year-old Ustina Abramova? From 15 or 16-year-old Anghelina Policarpova? From the 11-year-old owner of the channel “My_ Home?” From 10 or 11-year-old Daniela Lapovok? All of these girls have had videos deleted by You Tube, or worse.
I think You Tube’s abuse stems from bile. It disturbs some women to have to “compete” with “little” girls. These witches don’t want “men” paying attention to “little” girls. They want men chasing after them ( the witches ). Hence, some women on You Tube abuse girls by deleting the girls’ videos, and terminating the girls’ channels. I can’t imagine the trauma this causes each individual girl. These witches also do their utmost to screw guys like me, plus many others, for whatever reason. I imagine some male staffers collaborate with You Tube’s witches. I’d call these prudes “bitches and fags”, but I don’t want to unfairly tarnish lesbians and gays. I try always to remember the following maxim. Don’t shoot someone ( metaphorically ) who might agree with you. Also, don’t shoot someone who’s persuadable. And, don’t shoot someone who’s just trying to stay out of the way.
2. Thank you, Niles, for sending your comment to me!
3. I wish WordPress allowed comments on my blog site to be unmoderated. Unfortunately, WordPress doesn’t. WordPress is requiring me to decide whether or not a comment that is sent to me, via my WordPress site, will be publicly posted.
4. When I write, I try to adhere to an old-fashioned standard of journalism. I’m happy to receive any comment. However, many comments that I see, on the internet, consist of little more than a sentence. The sentence doesn’t always adhere to the best grammatical standards. I realize I have many readers for whom English isn’t a first language. Poor English doesn’t concern me. I’ll post a comment that is written poorly in English. However, I’m not going to take responsibility for a comment that is vague, and that makes assertions that I feel aren’t adequately supported. Niles’ comment, much as I welcome it, is that sort of comment. It is a single sentence, does not adhere to the best grammatical standards, is vague, and makes a potentially libellous claim. I’m happy to read it. I don’t want to take responsibility for posting it, publicly, on my WordPress site.
5. Send me any comment you like. However, in most cases, I’ll probably just enjoy your comment as a private one. I won’t be posting it publicly.
6. In the United States, rules governing the internet are likely to change in the future. Libel law may well apply to internet platforms. It’s best if I apply an old-fashioned journalistic standard now. I’ll probably have to apply such a standard in the future.
ALERT!
A True Beauty, GONE!
Who is the loveliest 12-year-old girl to ever grace Earth? In my opinion, it’s “La princesse Didi”. She joined You Tube on April 2, 2016. Didi is now about 16 or 17 years old. In the past year, Didi posted few, if any, videos to You Tube. Now every video in her You Tube channel has been relabeled “[ Private video ]”. The lone exception is a video which “contains content from SME, who has blocked it in your country [ the USA ] on copyright grounds.”
A “[ Private video ]” cannot be viewed by most, if any, You Tube customers. I visited Didi’s You Tube channel. It has no videos. All that remains at her channel is a handful of commercial videos, like music videos, under the heading “PLAYLISTS”.
My experience with regard to “private” videos, on You Tube, is the following. In every instance, the owner of the video didn’t want to make her video private. You Tube forced her to. I’ve learned this by following other girls on You Tube.
Some months ago, You Tube’s censors attacked Didi’s channel. Clumsily, they forced some of Didi’s videos into the kids’ section of You Tube. These videos remained on Didi’s channel. However, it was no longer possible to put these videos into a playlist.
Or so You Tube wants you to think. To get around this:
Method 1. Go to your “Subscriptions” page. To the left, you’ll see an icon for each channel that you’re subscribed to. Tap on the relevant channel icon. This brings up a list of that channel’s videos. On the right side of your “Subscriptions” page, you’ll see three vertical dots. Tap on the dots. That brings up an informational box. In the box, you’ll see “Save to playlist”. Tap on “Save to playlist” to add the video to one of your own existing playlists.
NOTE: Usually, the “Subscriptions” page does not have every video by a particular channel. Some videos are missing. To see those, look to the top of your “Subscriptions” page. Here, you’ll see “[ channel name ] View channel”.
The second method of adding a “forbidden” video to your playlist follows.
Method 2. On your “Subscriptions” page, you’ll see an icon for each channel that you’re subscribed to. Tap on the relevant channel icon. This brings up a list of that channel’s videos. It also displays “[ channel name ] View channel” at the top of your “Subscriptions” page. Tap on “[ channel name ] View channel”. That will take you to the home page of the relevant channel. There, find the video that you want to add to your own playlist. Watch the video. You only need to watch a few seconds of it. Now, go to your “Library” page. Here, tap “New playlist”. Follow the steps to create a new playlist. If you want your playlist to be available to the public, make sure you choose that option. You won’t be able to switch a “private” playlist to “public” later. ( If you screw this up, start over. )
You will now have a new playlist containing the “forbidden” video, the one that wan’t supposed to be put into a playlist. From this point, you can swap the “forbidden” video to any playlist that you’ve already created.
By prohibiting some videos from being added to playlists, You Tube is pandering to the prudes of this world. They are catering to people who insist that some girls are “too young” to have their videos added to playlists. You Tube implemented this prohibition some months ago, as its censorship rampage intensified.
As a result, some of Didi’s videos, that she’d made at age 11 or 12, were forced into the kids’ section of You Tube. These were videos that she’d had on You Tube for years, for the public to view, comment on, and add to playlists.
As mentioned above, You Tube’s attack on Didi’s channel was meant to deprive others of adding some of her videos to playlists. For these videos, You Tube turned comments off. ( One could no longer comment on her videos. ) Furthermore, You Tube bullied Didi into turning comments off for many videos at her channel.
However, after You Tube’s attack, some videos by Didi, that she’d made when she was 11 or 12, remained unmolested. These videos were not forced into the kids’ area of You Tube. Anyone could add the videos to a playlist. That is why I say You Tube’s attack on Didi’s channel was clumsy.
This returns us to the subject of Didi rendering all her videos “private”. Probably, this week, You Tube made new demands of Didi, regarding her videos. For instance, You Tube now prohibits any video that is filmed in a bedroom. Of course, any “little” girl joining You Tube is going to make a bedroom video right away. The only space that she ( nominally ) controls in a home is her room; that is, her bedroom.
Didi had a number of videos on You Tube that she’d filmed in her bedroom. They were the usual fare that girls on You Tube create. In one or more of these videos, Didi gave a tour of her room. ( The appearance of her room changed over time. ) In other videos, Didi spoke intimately into the camera, on issues that mattered to her. Or she’d answer fan mail, or do various girl activities.
I loved having Didi speak directly to me from her bedroom. Sure, her video was, in fact, several years old. Didi herself was off doing whatever. But the illusion that her video birthed was fabulous. It remained fabulous even though she speaks French, a language I don’t understand.
In the past year, Didi “aged out” of her infatuation with You Tube. She didn’t post anything new. She merely left her videos available for public viewing, commenting, and adding to playlists.
If You Tube made new demands of Didi, the following might have happened. Didi was no longer an active creator on You Tube. She may have said “fuck it” ( in French ) and rendered every video that she’d made private.
Didi’s videos were utterly innocuous. She didn’t shoot swimsuit videos. I don’t recall any “try on haul” videos by her. She was simply a stunningly beautiful 12 year old, who remained a great beauty in her elder years. Now, her You Tube channel is effectively terminated.
NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED
Don’t give up on You Tube yet. Despite horrendous censorship by You Tube, girls on You Tube continue to upload wonderful videos. Laura Ingrate, of the Fox News channel, spent the week damning the movie “Cuties”. She did this on her cable T.V. show, “The Ingrate Angle”.
I couldn’t care less about “Cuties”. I haven’t watched the film, but it looks to be a boring movie about a girl’s relationship with her mother. As best I can tell, two of the young female stars of “Cuties” aren’t attractive. The girls’ dancewear is boring.
Head to You Tube to see beautiful young girls, and their fabulous videos.
You Tube has “Comments” turned off for every video on Dana Taranova’s ( Danatar’s ) channels. I guess the geniuses who work at You Tube have never heard of the internet. Here’s my review of Dana’s latest video.
“Subject: ‘HILARIOUS’ is OMIGOD!
Dear Dana,
Thank you very much for your video, ‘HILARIOUS VIDEO CLIP / Danatar Backstage’.
‘HILARIOUS’ is utterly riveting. It is a marvelous work of art. The part of this video where you pull the record out of its sleeve is, well, sexy. That’s the only way I can describe it. That includes the sound of the record as it exits the sleeve.
The part of the video where your shadow dances on the wall is very creative.
I love your beauty, your long hair, and your outfit in ‘HILARIOUS’. Dana, your dancing in this video is mesmerizing. You are so lovely! Truly, you are a living goddess.
I recorded ‘HILARIOUS’ in super slow motion, so I can savor your every dance move.
I like Lenny Kravitz very much. Guess what? Lenny was born just four years after me.
On You Tube, ‘La princesse Didi’ just made all her videos ‘private’. That upset me quite a lot. I imagine You Tube did something that caused her to render her videos private.
Fortunately, you are still posting public videos on You Tube. Thank you so much!
I was, truly, blown away by ‘HILARIOUS’. I will treasure it forever. Your beauty and talent equals that of every angel in Heaven.”
If you want to watch “HILARIOUS”, go to the channel “Danatar Backstage” on You Tube. Find the video:
HILARIOUS VIDEO CLIP / Danatar Backstage
In the past day, I’ve found other great videos by girls on You Tube. They are:
1. A video by Ustina Abramova, on her channel “Tina”. It is:
HOW GYMNAST IMPROVISES / Tina
2. A video by Ustina Abramova, on her channel “Tina”. It is:
HOW I MADE a MOVIE for Likee / Tina
3. A video by HaRLi Queen, on her channel “HaRLi Queen”. It is:
Kak R cnnIO
The full name of HaRLi Queen’s channel is:
[ Unintelligible Cyrillic ( to me ) ] HaRLi Queen
If you have trouble finding these videos on You Tube, search in my You Tube channel, “Andrew Roller”. I’ve tried to give a prominent place to each of these videos. You Tube could, of course, strike at any time, deleting these videos. Make a screen recording of videos that you cherish.
For decades, life in America has been awful for so-called “pedophiles”. I sense the same is true of other parts of the world. Thankfully, “the times they are a-changin’”, as Bob Dylan sang. The 1960s were sometimes called “The Age of Aquarius”. This decade, that of the 2020s, may be one of “little” girl overload! Girls, perhaps “Cuties” inspired, will upload ever more videos to platforms on the internet.
The 2020s may rekindle 1960s attitudes of free love and youth liberation. You Tube can censoriously abuse some girls. You Tube cannot censor every girl in the world.
My advice for today’s girls updates that given by Timothy Leary, in 1966. It is:
Turn on ( your camera ).
Tune in ( by uploading your video ).
Drop out ( of restrictive mores ).
AND IN THE END...
“I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together ...
“Boy, you’ve been a naughty girl, you let your knickers down”
- The Beatles, I Am The Walrus ( LOVE Version )
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I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 43
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 43, version 2.0
Date Written: September 18, 2020.
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Enslaved to Abuse
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by Andrew Roller
You Tube lies about its appeal process. Worse, it demands that its customers collaborate in its abuse.
Plus: A true beauty, gone!
And: Advice for girls: turn on, tune in, drop out.
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On September 10, You Tube removed my playlist called “kids area”. On September 11, I appealed You Tube’s removal of my playlist. An article on You Tube, written by You Tube, states:
“After you submit an appeal.
“You’ll get an email from YouTube letting you know the result of your appeal request.”
( Page title: “Appeal Community Guidelines actions”. )
This is a lie. On September 10, You Tube removed my playlist called “kids area”. You Tube put a “warning” ( a pre-“strike” ) against my You Tube account, “Andrew Roller”.
I appealed the removal of my playlist, and the “warning”, on September 11. I have never heard anything back from the You Tube Appeals department.
In March, You Tube removed my playlist called “part unnumbered”. You Tube put a “warning” ( a pre-“strike” ) against my You Tube account, “Andrew Roller.”
I appealed the removal of my playlist, and the “warning” at that time. I never heard anything back from the You Tube Appeals department.
On September 16, I received another letter from “Antoinnette”. She identified herself as working for “the YouTube team”. By this, I assume she means she’s an employee of “The YouTube and Play Music Team”. She has always maintained that, by writing to her, I was writing to the wrong You Tube department. Hence, Antoinnette does not work for You Tube Appeals.
On September 16, Antoinnette wrote the following to me:
“If you haven’t done so, I would recommend that you appeal the community guideline strike using this article [ a link ] as a guide. I apologize as I can’t do this on your behalf.” Hence, Antoinnette is unable to forward my complaint to You Tube Appeals.
As noted above, I complained to You Tube Appeals about the removal of my playlists. I did this in March, and in September. I never heard anything back from You Tube Appeals.
In the article ( mentioned by Antoinnette ), You Tube writes:
“You may appeal each strike only once.”
( Page title: “Appeal Community Guidelines actions”. )
In my experience, the ability to write to You Tube Appeals vanishes once you submit an appeal. It is physically impossible to contact You Tube Appeals a second time, regarding the strike that has been issued.
The “article” ( mentioned by Antoinnette ) follows You Tube’s usual practice. The “article” is, in fact, a maze of linked web pages. Each page has multiple web links. Many of these pages are new to me. This is the case despite the fact that I’ve roamed through You Tube’s “guidelines” many times. My only sure path back into these pages is via Antoinnette’s link. However, as usual, her e-mail to me keeps disappearing in Google’s Gmail app.
Many pages in this maze of an “article” CANNOT be converted to PDF files. This, again, is the usual situation with You Tube’s “guidelines”. I don’t think this is sloppy work on You Tube’s part. In You Tube’s “guidelines”, a page that looks important is usually a page that one can’t PDF. Perhaps You Tube feels ashamed of its “guidelines”, as it should. An inability to PDF You Tube’s pages of “guidelines” makes my job of reporting on them harder.
If you have an Apple iPad, capture pages in You Tube’s “article” by converting them into “Web Archive” documents. You’ll need the free app “Documents”, by the “Readdle” company, to open a “Web Archive” document. “Documents” by “Readdle” is available at the Apple App Store.
It is more cumbersome to deal with a “Web Archive” document than a PDF file. That’s because you have to send a Web Archive document to “Files”, on your iPad. Then, you have to send the Web Archive document from “Files” to “Documents” by “Readdle”. The Web Archive document will automatically open there.
However, in “Documents” by “Readdle”, it’s best to save your Web Archive document. Follow the steps to do this.
Once you’ve saved the Web Archive document in “Documents”, it’s best to create a folder in “Documents” to hold your Web Archive document. Follow the steps to do this.
Here’s more from the “article” that Antoinnette referred me to. It reads:
“Don’t post playlists on YouTube if they fit any of the descriptions noted below. ...
“Playlists that include multiple videos that have been removed for violating our guidelines. If you notice that multiple videos in your public playlists have been removed or deleted, please take some time to remove those videos from your playlists as well.”
Huh? The following questions are raised:
1. Is You Tube speaking of actual videos? Or is You Tube speaking of icons that read, “[ Deleted video ]”. A “[ Deleted video ]” icon isn’t a video. It’s an icon.
2. If You Tube is speaking of icons that read, “[ Deleted video ]”, why would You Tube fear people finding out what it’s done? For instance, You Tube gutted Mari Kruchkova’s channels. It deleted many of her ( utterly innocuous ) videos. Presumably, You Tube attacked Mari’s channels to “protect” her, as a 14 year old “child”. Why would You Tube want to hide the fact that it is “protecting” Mari?
You Tube terminated every one of Milana’s You Tube accounts. ( I’m speaking of Milana from Minsk. ) You Tube terminated every You Tube account by members of Milana’s family. As this must have been done to “protect” 14-year-old Milana, why wouldn’t You Tube want this known?
I’ll tell you why. Because every video by Milana, like those by Mari, Danatar, and so many others, were innocuous. You Tube’s employees are capricious hypocrites. You Tube deleted a one minute video of Milana, fully clothed, playing a piano. You Tube deletes bikini videos ( and much else ) by one girl, but leaves similar videos by other girls untouched.
More questions arise, in regard to You Tube’s playlist “guideline” ( shown above ). The questions are these:
3. A creator can upload videos, and then put those videos into a playlist. Is this the sort of playlist that You Tube is speaking of?
Or
4. A fan of videos can put videos into a playlist. I do this all the time. None are videos that I’ve uploaded. I’ve never uploaded any videos to You Tube.
You Tube is constantly attacking the videos in my playlists. You Tube does this by attacking the You Tube accounts of others. That is, You Tube attacks the creators who uploaded the videos. You Tube’s attacks are reflected in my playlists. How in God’s name am I supposed to clear all the “[ Deleted video ]” icons from my 200-odd playlists?
One can’t do a wholesale removal of “[ Deleted video ]” icons. Each icon must be discovered and removed in turn.
5. Apparently, You Tube wants me to conceal their abuse of their customers. You Tube wants me to do this by constantly digging through my playlists to find “[ Deleted video ]” icons.
6. Recently, You Tube changed its software. A playlist used to display 1,000 videos. That is, if you scrolled down a playlist, you would see 1,000 icons representing 1,000 videos.
Now, a playlist only displays 500 videos, or less.
If you scroll down a playlist now, the playlist begins to “stall” at somewhere around the 200 video mark. A little wheel spins on your screen as You Tube’s software labors to display more video icons.
7. A “[ Deleted video ]” icon can mean any number of things. You have to click on the “[ Deleted video ]” icon to find out what it represents. For instance, “[ Deleted video ]” could mean:
A. The video violated You Tube’s Community Guidelines.
B. The video violated You Tube’s Terms of Service.
C. Someone filed a copyright claim against the video.
D. The video is private.
E. The video was removed by the uploader.
F. The You Tube account was closed by the ( now former ) You Tube customer.
In my experience, “[ Deleted video ]” always means You Tube’s goons attacked a You Tube account. The only exception is a copyright violation filed by a stated entity.
For instance, Sony asserted its copyright over a video that someone had uploaded to You Tube. Two recent, separate, marital disputes resulted in videos being removed over asserted copyright claims. That is, dad and mom broke up. Each claimed their share of the videos starring their lovely daughter.
8. If I click on the same “[ Deleted video ]” icon twice, I get shut out of You Tube. In order to get back on You Tube, I have to quit the You Tube app. Then I have to reboot the You Tube app. This slows any attempt to remove “[ Deleted video ]” icons in playlists.
9. My playlist, “Milana from Minsk memorial”, once held 425 videos. Since You Tube terminated every account by Milana from Minsk, my playlist now holds 425 “[ Deleted video ]” icons. Imagine trying to rid yourself of all those icons! My oldest playlists, with videos on various subjects, are marred by numerous “[ Deleted video ]” icons. It’s as if You Tube’s staff fired at my playlists with a shotgun.
10. Why shouldn’t I honor a You Tube account that’s been terminated? I don’t agree with You Tube’s actions. The terminated You Tube channel’s videos are gone. I’m stuck with “[ Deleted video ]” icons. By keeping my playlist, I’m commemorating a You Tube channel that I feel You Tube treated unfairly. Even the Nazis let their military foes honor their dead. The Nazis didn’t let slaughtered civilians, like Jews, honor their dead. Is You Tube an internet platform, or a death camp?
11. Perhaps, in the past, the following was possible. You, or I, would create a playlist. If set to “public”, the playlist would circulate on You Tube. Other people would encounter it.
Not any more. You Tube has hard-wired its own playlists to most every video on You Tube. If you watch a Danatar video, you’ll see an advertisement for a playlist that has been created by You Tube. The playlist holds Danatar videos. The advertisement appears as a still photo to the right of the Danatar video that you summoned.
What you won’t see is an advertisement for my Danatar playlist. Or yours, if you’ve made one. The same result occurs for nearly every video on You Tube.
To see a playlist of mine, a person has to search for my playlist by name. Do this using the “Search” function on You Tube. Hence, a playlist riddled with “[ Deleted video ]” icons ( which You Tube imposed ) shouldn’t be regarded as “not ready for prime time”. That’s because no one on You Tube will randomly encounter my playlist.
The notion that You Tube doesn’t want, say, “unprofessional” playlists circulating on You Tube is nonsense. Such playlists don’t circulate. So why does You Tube complain about playlists with lots of “[ Deleted video ]” icons? The answer is: to destroy the evidence of their abuse of girls. By this I mean: the evidence that You Tube abuses girls by deleting the girls’ videos, and terminating the girls’ accounts.
( You Tube often uses the word “channel” interchangeably with the word “account”. If you’re an average person like me, and You Tube terminates your account, You Tube has terminated your channel. Only true You Tube pros, like Danatar, can survive endless attacks by You Tube, yet maintain multiple You Tube channels. Milana ( from Minsk ) was another such pro. Now, of course, Milana has been annihilated ( yet again ) from You Tube, by You Tube.
( You can always enjoy my extant playlists by visiting my You Tube channel, “Andrew Roller”. Due to the damage my channel sustains, on a regular basis, I often hide from my channel! I don’t want to get snared into blowing endless hours fixing what You Tube has wrecked. There are only so many hours per day that a guy can occupy himself on the toilet. ) ( I’ll buy a chair someday. )
( In this era of the Wuhan virus ( COVID-19 ), I do occasionally leave my room. That doesn’t mean I escape the work my You Tube channel requires. Have you ever visited a public toilet, with a need to relieve yourself, only to find some jerk locked in the sole stall? Consider the sacrifice of your dignity as a contribution to my art. You don’t need to donate money to support art like mine. Just keep a pair of spare underwear handy. )
The section of You Tube’s “article” on playlists ends with the following statement:
“Please note this is not a complete list.” ( Of playlist “violations”. )
( Page title: “Policy on playlists”. )
Recently, I got a pamphlet from the ( United States ) Social Security Administration. Written on the first page is this:
“Follow the Social Security Administration at these social media sites.” The icons for Facebook, Twitter, and You Tube are displayed.
I’m banned from Facebook. As Twitter is censorious, I’ve never bothered to join it. Apparently, if I don’t spend hundreds of hours finding and removing “[ Deleted video ]” icons in my playlists, I’ll be banned from You Tube. I’ve already been attacked numerous times by You Tube’s employees, for false and malicious reasons.
I’m a veteran. I get literature from “The Navy Exchange”. The literature invites me to view entertainment for U.S. soldiers, and veterans, on Facebook. Being banned from Facebook, I can’t enjoy any of this.
Facebook never gave me any clear reason why they banned me. I can, however, guess why Facebook banned me. An ( anonymous ) Facebook employee didn’t like something I wrote on Facebook, on my own Facebook page.
Note that a Facebook page always asks, “What’s on your mind?” It asks this of the owner of the Facebook page. I told Facebook what was on my mind, on my Facebook page, and got kicked out.
I’m deeply concerned that Facebook, Twitter, and You Tube are going to become quasi-governmental agencies in America. Once, I called “TRICARE”. It is a medical service for soldiers, their families, and veterans. I didn’t understand something about my medical care. What did the clerk at TRICARE tell me? “Look it up on You Tube. We have videos there.” ( By Tricare. ) I didn’t understand something about my Apple iPad. I called Apple. What did the clerk at Apple tell me? “Look it up on You Tube. We have videos there.” ( By Apple. )
Milana from Minsk may own Apple products. Since she and her family have been banned from You Tube, they can’t view You Tube videos. Nor will I be able to, if I refuse to collaborate in You Tube’s abuse of girls, by removing “[ Deleted video ]” icons.
Richard Trumka is a union leader. He is the president of the AFL-CIO. ( The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations ). Trumka once made a remark about Scott Walker. Walker had just ceased to be the governor of Wisconsin.
Of Walker, Trumka said,
“Scott Walker is still a disgrace, just no longer national.”
( Source: “thehill.com”, via Google. )
My opinion is similar, with regard to You Tube. Based on my experience of its conduct, You Tube isn’t a company. It’s a disgrace. But not a national one. You Tube is a global disgrace.
THE CYBER-UNION MAKES US STRONG
Unions used to be illegal. Workers had to fight to gain the rights that some may now take for granted.
As customers of Big Tech, we should form a union. Let’s call it a cyber-union. Our union will then negotiate with various Big Tech platforms, with regard to what rights we’ll have on those platforms.
You Tube must not be allowed to abuse its customers, as it is doing. Rights like the First Amendment aren’t worth a damn when it comes to You Tube. That’s because courts have decided that the First Amendment only prevents abuse by the government. You Tube, under this interpretation, can deny its customers the right to speak as much as it pleases.
I feel You Tube’s abuse goes beyond denying its customers’ speech rights. If I were an attorney, I’d pursue claims against You Tube for inflicting emotional distress on its customers. However, my experience of lawyers is this: the average lawyer only takes a case that is a sure bet to win.
Let’s not wait for lawyers to act. Let’s not assume that politicians will help us, either. Big Tech showers politicians with money, in the form of campaign contributions. So waiting for politicians to help us is like waiting for the next ice age.
Customers of Big Tech need to engage in collective bargaining. Then, You Tube’s vague, ever-malleable “Community Standards” won’t be just what You Tube decrees. You Tube’s “Community Standards” will reflect an agreement reached by mutual consent. If You Tube fails to bargain with our cyber-union, we’ll go on strike. You Tube will be stuck with a platform that has advertisers, but no viewers. You Tube will cease receiving monthly fees from its customers.
The same will be true if Facebook, Twitter, and other Big Tech platforms fail to negotiate with our cyber-union.
When the Declaration of Independence was signed, Benjamin Franklin said this:
“We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”
Without a cyber-union, we’ll continue to suffer at the hands of the “Tech Gods”, and their jackals, for decades to come.
AND IN THE END...
“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.”
- Thomas Paine
Source: A letter from “The Future of Freedom Foundation”. “fff.org”
NEWS KEEPS BREAKING! ( below )
MY FIRST COMMENT!
My WordPress site received its first comment today. Instantly, I was seized with the notion of referring to myself by “the royal we”. That is, calling myself “we” instead of “I”. Tucker Carlson does this all the time on T.V. He does it on his Fox News channel show, “Tucker Carlson Tonight”.
In response to the comment I got, I penned an article. It’s titled:
Why I’ll probably love your comment, but keep it private.
The comment for my WordPress site came in the form of an e-mail. The e-mail was from WordPress itself. Their e-mail said the following:
“[ Andrew Roller ] Please moderate: “Danatar2 BANNED”
“New comment waiting approval on Andrew Roller
“Niles commented on Danatar2 BANNED
“I think some YouTube employee is extortion Dana and she rejected [ no period ].”
I take this comment to mean:
1. A You Tube employee attempted to extort money from Dana Taranova.
2. Dana Taranova ( at age 12 ) refused to pay money to the You Tube employee.
3. Hence, the You Tube employee terminated ( some of ) Dana’s You Tube channels, and deleted ( many of ) Dana’s You Tube videos.
My response:
1. I don’t agree with you. How do you account for the fact that so many other girls have been abused on You Tube, by You Tube? Did the employee attempt to extort money from 14-year-old Milana from Minsk? From 14-year-old Mari Kruchkova? From 10 or 11-year-old Ustina Abramova? From 15 or 16-year-old Anghelina Policarpova? From the 11-year-old owner of the channel “My_ Home?” From 10 or 11-year-old Daniela Lapovok? All of these girls have had videos deleted by You Tube, or worse.
I think You Tube’s abuse stems from bile. It disturbs some women to have to “compete” with “little” girls. These witches don’t want “men” paying attention to “little” girls. They want men chasing after them ( the witches ). Hence, some women on You Tube abuse girls by deleting the girls’ videos, and terminating the girls’ channels. I can’t imagine the trauma this causes each individual girl. These witches also do their utmost to screw guys like me, plus many others, for whatever reason. I imagine some male staffers collaborate with You Tube’s witches. I’d call these prudes “bitches and fags”, but I don’t want to unfairly tarnish lesbians and gays. I try always to remember the following maxim. Don’t shoot someone ( metaphorically ) who might agree with you. Also, don’t shoot someone who’s persuadable. And, don’t shoot someone who’s just trying to stay out of the way.
2. Thank you, Niles, for sending your comment to me!
3. I wish WordPress allowed comments on my blog site to be unmoderated. Unfortunately, WordPress doesn’t. WordPress is requiring me to decide whether or not a comment that is sent to me, via my WordPress site, will be publicly posted.
4. When I write, I try to adhere to an old-fashioned standard of journalism. I’m happy to receive any comment. However, many comments that I see, on the internet, consist of little more than a sentence. The sentence doesn’t always adhere to the best grammatical standards. I realize I have many readers for whom English isn’t a first language. Poor English doesn’t concern me. I’ll post a comment that is written poorly in English. However, I’m not going to take responsibility for a comment that is vague, and that makes assertions that I feel aren’t adequately supported. Niles’ comment, much as I welcome it, is that sort of comment. It is a single sentence, does not adhere to the best grammatical standards, is vague, and makes a potentially libellous claim. I’m happy to read it. I don’t want to take responsibility for posting it, publicly, on my WordPress site.
5. Send me any comment you like. However, in most cases, I’ll probably just enjoy your comment as a private one. I won’t be posting it publicly.
6. In the United States, rules governing the internet are likely to change in the future. Libel law may well apply to internet platforms. It’s best if I apply an old-fashioned journalistic standard now. I’ll probably have to apply such a standard in the future.
ALERT!
A True Beauty, GONE!
Who is the loveliest 12-year-old girl to ever grace Earth? In my opinion, it’s “La princesse Didi”. She joined You Tube on April 2, 2016. Didi is now about 16 or 17 years old. In the past year, Didi posted few, if any, videos to You Tube. Now every video in her You Tube channel has been relabeled “[ Private video ]”. The lone exception is a video which “contains content from SME, who has blocked it in your country [ the USA ] on copyright grounds.”
A “[ Private video ]” cannot be viewed by most, if any, You Tube customers. I visited Didi’s You Tube channel. It has no videos. All that remains at her channel is a handful of commercial videos, like music videos, under the heading “PLAYLISTS”.
My experience with regard to “private” videos, on You Tube, is the following. In every instance, the owner of the video didn’t want to make her video private. You Tube forced her to. I’ve learned this by following other girls on You Tube.
Some months ago, You Tube’s censors attacked Didi’s channel. Clumsily, they forced some of Didi’s videos into the kids’ section of You Tube. These videos remained on Didi’s channel. However, it was no longer possible to put these videos into a playlist.
Or so You Tube wants you to think. To get around this:
Method 1. Go to your “Subscriptions” page. To the left, you’ll see an icon for each channel that you’re subscribed to. Tap on the relevant channel icon. This brings up a list of that channel’s videos. On the right side of your “Subscriptions” page, you’ll see three vertical dots. Tap on the dots. That brings up an informational box. In the box, you’ll see “Save to playlist”. Tap on “Save to playlist” to add the video to one of your own existing playlists.
NOTE: Usually, the “Subscriptions” page does not have every video by a particular channel. Some videos are missing. To see those, look to the top of your “Subscriptions” page. Here, you’ll see “[ channel name ] View channel”.
The second method of adding a “forbidden” video to your playlist follows.
Method 2. On your “Subscriptions” page, you’ll see an icon for each channel that you’re subscribed to. Tap on the relevant channel icon. This brings up a list of that channel’s videos. It also displays “[ channel name ] View channel” at the top of your “Subscriptions” page. Tap on “[ channel name ] View channel”. That will take you to the home page of the relevant channel. There, find the video that you want to add to your own playlist. Watch the video. You only need to watch a few seconds of it. Now, go to your “Library” page. Here, tap “New playlist”. Follow the steps to create a new playlist. If you want your playlist to be available to the public, make sure you choose that option. You won’t be able to switch a “private” playlist to “public” later. ( If you screw this up, start over. )
You will now have a new playlist containing the “forbidden” video, the one that wan’t supposed to be put into a playlist. From this point, you can swap the “forbidden” video to any playlist that you’ve already created.
By prohibiting some videos from being added to playlists, You Tube is pandering to the prudes of this world. They are catering to people who insist that some girls are “too young” to have their videos added to playlists. You Tube implemented this prohibition some months ago, as its censorship rampage intensified.
As a result, some of Didi’s videos, that she’d made at age 11 or 12, were forced into the kids’ section of You Tube. These were videos that she’d had on You Tube for years, for the public to view, comment on, and add to playlists.
As mentioned above, You Tube’s attack on Didi’s channel was meant to deprive others of adding some of her videos to playlists. For these videos, You Tube turned comments off. ( One could no longer comment on her videos. ) Furthermore, You Tube bullied Didi into turning comments off for many videos at her channel.
However, after You Tube’s attack, some videos by Didi, that she’d made when she was 11 or 12, remained unmolested. These videos were not forced into the kids’ area of You Tube. Anyone could add the videos to a playlist. That is why I say You Tube’s attack on Didi’s channel was clumsy.
This returns us to the subject of Didi rendering all her videos “private”. Probably, this week, You Tube made new demands of Didi, regarding her videos. For instance, You Tube now prohibits any video that is filmed in a bedroom. Of course, any “little” girl joining You Tube is going to make a bedroom video right away. The only space that she ( nominally ) controls in a home is her room; that is, her bedroom.
Didi had a number of videos on You Tube that she’d filmed in her bedroom. They were the usual fare that girls on You Tube create. In one or more of these videos, Didi gave a tour of her room. ( The appearance of her room changed over time. ) In other videos, Didi spoke intimately into the camera, on issues that mattered to her. Or she’d answer fan mail, or do various girl activities.
I loved having Didi speak directly to me from her bedroom. Sure, her video was, in fact, several years old. Didi herself was off doing whatever. But the illusion that her video birthed was fabulous. It remained fabulous even though she speaks French, a language I don’t understand.
In the past year, Didi “aged out” of her infatuation with You Tube. She didn’t post anything new. She merely left her videos available for public viewing, commenting, and adding to playlists.
If You Tube made new demands of Didi, the following might have happened. Didi was no longer an active creator on You Tube. She may have said “fuck it” ( in French ) and rendered every video that she’d made private.
Didi’s videos were utterly innocuous. She didn’t shoot swimsuit videos. I don’t recall any “try on haul” videos by her. She was simply a stunningly beautiful 12 year old, who remained a great beauty in her elder years. Now, her You Tube channel is effectively terminated.
NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED
Don’t give up on You Tube yet. Despite horrendous censorship by You Tube, girls on You Tube continue to upload wonderful videos. Laura Ingrate, of the Fox News channel, spent the week damning the movie “Cuties”. She did this on her cable T.V. show, “The Ingrate Angle”.
I couldn’t care less about “Cuties”. I haven’t watched the film, but it looks to be a boring movie about a girl’s relationship with her mother. As best I can tell, two of the young female stars of “Cuties” aren’t attractive. The girls’ dancewear is boring.
Head to You Tube to see beautiful young girls, and their fabulous videos.
You Tube has “Comments” turned off for every video on Dana Taranova’s ( Danatar’s ) channels. I guess the geniuses who work at You Tube have never heard of the internet. Here’s my review of Dana’s latest video.
“Subject: ‘HILARIOUS’ is OMIGOD!
Dear Dana,
Thank you very much for your video, ‘HILARIOUS VIDEO CLIP / Danatar Backstage’.
‘HILARIOUS’ is utterly riveting. It is a marvelous work of art. The part of this video where you pull the record out of its sleeve is, well, sexy. That’s the only way I can describe it. That includes the sound of the record as it exits the sleeve.
The part of the video where your shadow dances on the wall is very creative.
I love your beauty, your long hair, and your outfit in ‘HILARIOUS’. Dana, your dancing in this video is mesmerizing. You are so lovely! Truly, you are a living goddess.
I recorded ‘HILARIOUS’ in super slow motion, so I can savor your every dance move.
I like Lenny Kravitz very much. Guess what? Lenny was born just four years after me.
On You Tube, ‘La princesse Didi’ just made all her videos ‘private’. That upset me quite a lot. I imagine You Tube did something that caused her to render her videos private.
Fortunately, you are still posting public videos on You Tube. Thank you so much!
I was, truly, blown away by ‘HILARIOUS’. I will treasure it forever. Your beauty and talent equals that of every angel in Heaven.”
If you want to watch “HILARIOUS”, go to the channel “Danatar Backstage” on You Tube. Find the video:
HILARIOUS VIDEO CLIP / Danatar Backstage
In the past day, I’ve found other great videos by girls on You Tube. They are:
1. A video by Ustina Abramova, on her channel “Tina”. It is:
HOW GYMNAST IMPROVISES / Tina
2. A video by Ustina Abramova, on her channel “Tina”. It is:
HOW I MADE a MOVIE for Likee / Tina
3. A video by HaRLi Queen, on her channel “HaRLi Queen”. It is:
Kak R cnnIO
The full name of HaRLi Queen’s channel is:
[ Unintelligible Cyrillic ( to me ) ] HaRLi Queen
If you have trouble finding these videos on You Tube, search in my You Tube channel, “Andrew Roller”. I’ve tried to give a prominent place to each of these videos. You Tube could, of course, strike at any time, deleting these videos. Make a screen recording of videos that you cherish.
For decades, life in America has been awful for so-called “pedophiles”. I sense the same is true of other parts of the world. Thankfully, “the times they are a-changin’”, as Bob Dylan sang. The 1960s were sometimes called “The Age of Aquarius”. This decade, that of the 2020s, may be one of “little” girl overload! Girls, perhaps “Cuties” inspired, will upload ever more videos to platforms on the internet.
The 2020s may rekindle 1960s attitudes of free love and youth liberation. You Tube can censoriously abuse some girls. You Tube cannot censor every girl in the world.
My advice for today’s girls updates that given by Timothy Leary, in 1966. It is:
Turn on ( your camera ).
Tune in ( by uploading your video ).
Drop out ( of restrictive mores ).
AND IN THE END...
“I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together ...
“Boy, you’ve been a naughty girl, you let your knickers down”
- The Beatles, I Am The Walrus ( LOVE Version )
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
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and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 43
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 43, version 2.0
Date Written: September 18, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Down the Rabbit Hole
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ET 42
Editorial Thunder presents...
Down the Rabbit Hole
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by Andrew Roller
A lone You Tube staffer answers for You Tube’s abuse.
Plus: California Attorney General and Federal Trade Commission complaint forms.
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The Wuhan virus ( COVID-19 ) continues. Are you stuck at home, feeling bored? Friend, I have help. You can stop feeling bored by joining Google’s You Tube. The videos on You Tube may interest you, or they may not. Don’t worry! You’ll be kept busy by You Tube. That’s because, in my experience, everyone who joins You Tube gets hazed. This is especially true of “children”, girls who are preteens and teens.
You may think I’m speaking of bullying. That is, bullying of one You Tube customer by another You Tube customer. In my experience, that does not happen on You Tube. Girls do get abused on You Tube. You Tube’s staff abuses them. The girls are bullied by You Tube’s staff for any number of reasons, none of which make sense.
I, born when Eisenhower was president, have been ruthlessly hazed and bullied by You Tube’s staff. Much of this happened in March. I’ve seen others like me bullied by You Tube’s staff too.
I have written, here on my blog site, about You Tube’s abuse of its customers. You’re free to read as much of this as you like, in the form of past articles.
On September 10, You Tube “removed” ( deleted ) my playlist “kids area”. I’ve written about this on my blog site.
With regard to the removal of my “kids area” playlist, I complained to the following:
1. You Tube Appeals.
2. You Tube Support.
3. The YouTube and Play Music Team. Unfortunately, I can no longer find this department on the You Tube platform.
My sole means of communicating with “The YouTube and Play Music Team” is by replying to their existing e-mails in my Google Gmail app. There, letters from “Erika B.” and “Antoinnette B.”, of “The YouTube and Play Music Team”, keep disappearing. They also wind up in the “Trash” file on Gmail.
You might wonder what You Tube did in response to my complaint, sent to their various departments.
1. I’ve heard nothing back from You Tube Appeals. They have not returned my “kids area” playlist.
2. I’ve heard nothing back from You Tube Support.
3. “Erika B.” told me she was unable to read what I wrote to “The YouTube and Play Music Team”.
“Antoinnette B.”, of the “The YouTube and Play Music Team”, has written to me twice. Her first letter follows:
“Hi Andrew,
This is Antoinnette with the YouTube Team.
I’m chiming in for Erika, who’s currently out of the office. I just want to let you know that you’ve contacted the support team for watching and purchasing paid content and subscriptions on YouTube ( like movies or YouTube Premium ).
Unfortunately, I’m not able to help with the community guideline violation strike that you received. However, I found this page [ a link ] on our Help Center that explains how you can appeal the community guideline strike, if you feel that it is not justified.
Please let me know if you have any other questions or concerns about YouTube or Play Music paid content and I’ll be happy to help. Take care!
All the best,
Antoinnette B. The YouTube Team”
All writing in this article by others is printed verbatim.
Note that in her letter, above, Antoinnette B. identifies herself as being a member of “The YouTube Team”. In her second letter to me, Antoinnette B. identifies herself as being a member of “The YouTube and Play Music Team”.
Note that “Erika B.” and “Antoinnette B.” both claim to have surnames that start with “B.” This raises the possibility that the claimed surnames are fake. I’m not trying to insult these employees. I’m attempting to divine how You Tube, the company, interacts with its customers.
I replied to Erika B. and Antoinnette B. on September 13. Excerpts from my letter follow:
“Dear Erika and Antoinnette,
Thank you very much for writing to me.
In Gmail, your messages to me keep disappearing. They also wind up in the “Trash” folder. Hence, I’m writing to both of you with the same letter, because I’m concerned that I’ll lose my ability to write to you at all.
The only You Tube staff people who have replied to me are yourselves.
Antoinnette writes: “ ... you’ve contacted the support team for ... subscriptions on You Tube ( like... YouTube Premium ).” I am a You Tube Premium member.
Here is a summary of what you can read below:
1. I was bullied by an anonymous You Tube employee in March.
2. I was bullied by an anonymous You Tube employee on September 10.
3. The bullying event of September 10 is in regard to my playlist titled, “kids area”.
4. The playlist “kids area” once held videos that were uploaded by the You Tube channel “kids area”.
5. The “kids area” channel was terminated by You Tube’s staff some months ago.
6. I was left with a playlist titled “kids area” that contained no videos. Instead of videos, there was a list of icons. Each icon read, “[ Deleted video ]”.
7. In my “kids area” playlist description, I wrote: “Update: ‘kids area’ has been terminated by You Tube.”
8. On You Tube, I found the following video: “Buffalo Springfield-For What It’s Worth 1967”. It is a 1960’s video of a band singing on a stage. The clean-cut lead singer wears a cowboy hat.
9. I put “Buffalo Springfield-For What It’s Worth 1967” into my “kids area” playlist.
10. When You Tube deleted my “kids area” playlist on September 10, it held one video. The video was “Buffalo Springfield-For What It’s Worth 1967”. My playlist also held a number of icons reading, “[ Deleted video ]”.
11. The video “Buffalo Springfield-For What It’s Worth 1967” remains on You Tube. Anyone can view it, download it, and put it in a playlist.
12. When a You Tube staffer deleted my “kids area” playlist on September 10, the staffer accused my playlist of the following violations:
A. Violates copyright law.
B. Constitutes a deceptive practice.
C. Constitutes spam.
D. Endangers children.
As you can readily see, this is rubbish.
“You Tube Appeals” limits the length of what I can write to them. I sent them the following message on September 11:
“I have never uploaded any content to You Tube. My playlist “kids area” contained one video. The video was “Buffalo Springfield-For What It’s Worth 1967”. This music video remains on You Tube. I am ( once again ) being bullied by someone on your staff. As a disabled veteran, I am outraged by your staffer’s conduct. Your staffer is accusing my ( one video ) playlist of being “unsafe for children”, “spam”, “a deceptive practice”, and “a copyright violation”. This is rubbish. ...”
I also wrote to You Tube Support. I would like to add the following, to clarify certain points in this letter.
1. The bullying You Tube employee that I speak of in this letter didn’t just terminate my You Tube account twice. He, or she, also generated a new You Tube account to replace it. What was wrong with that? The new account did not have any of my subscriptions, notifications, Library information, comments, or playlists. This event occurred in March.
2. That same employee also terminated my Google account. I had no access to Gmail or my Google browser. This event occurred in March.
3. That same employee, in addition to tampering with my You Tube password, demanded my Apple password. The employee did this using the You Tube platform. This event occurred in March.
4. That same employee also deleted one of my playlists, calling it “inappropriate”. The playlist held 1960s songs. This event occurred in March.
5. I know all the bullying, in March, was done by a single You Tube employee. That’s because of how the events occurred in time, and the grossly unethical, and illegal, nature of the employee’s actions. ...
6. My current concern is in regard to what occurred on September 10.
7. I have never uploaded any content to You Tube.
I sent the following letter to You Tube Support on September 11:
“Dear You Tube Support,
First, I’d like to thank you for your assistance. Last March, one of your staffers wrongfully terminated my You Tube account twice, and then tampered with my password. When I wrote to you, this bullying stopped.
I have a new problem. I had a playlist labelled “kids area”. It merely held videos from a You Tube channel, called “kids area”, that has long since ceased to exist.
My playlist did not hold the actual “kids area” videos, once the “kids area” channel was terminated. My playlist held icons reading, “[ Deleted video ]”.
For many months, my “kids area” playlist has held one video. It is a music video that remains on YouTube. The video is “Buffalo Springfield - For What It’s Worth 1967”.
Today, I was notified that my “kids area” playlist has been removed. My account is charged with a “warning”. The accusations made against my playlist are varied. All are false. My playlist is accused of being “unsafe for children”, “spam”, “a deceptive practice”, and “a copyright violation”. This is rubbish. There is nothing unsafe about this 1967 music video. It isn’t spam, or a deceptive practice. It isn’t a copyright violation, as I simply added it to my playlist. You continue to offer this music video.
I have never uploaded ANY content to You Tube. I merely watch videos, comment occasionally, and make playlists. ... I also maintain a WordPress blog where I report on issues of concern. As an unobtrusive customer of YouTube I am, frankly, outraged by how YouTube is treating me. ...”
... I sent a copy of my ( latest ) article on WordPress, about You Tube’s actions, to You Tube Support. I preface my article with a comment.
“Dear You Tube Support,
As promised, I have now written an article on WordPress about my current experience with You Tube. I respect whoever at You Tube is reading this. I hope you don’t take my comments personally.
As with my other articles, I expect it will outlive me. My articles regarding how America Online abused me, posted to the internet in the 1990’s, remain available to the public. ...
Thank you for reading my message.
[ Editorial Thunder issue number 41 is reproduced at this point. ]
I would like to enclose my letter to You Tube regarding the bullying, by a You Tube staffer, that I experienced in March. It is below.
“Dear Google,
My You Tube account is [ Andrew Roller at Gmail ]. In the early morning of March 24 I got knocked off of You Tube. When I tried to get back on to You Tube, I was presented with two accounts.
The icon for [ Andrew Roller at Gmail ] had a line crossed through it, and was white. The second account was [ Andrew Roller at iCloud ]. This is my Apple e-mail address. I provided it to You Tube when I signed up to You Tube last year. To my knowledge, [ Andrew Roller at iCloud ] was not a You Tube account.
Since [ Andrew Roller at Gmail ] had a line through it, I clicked on the account [ Andrew Roller at iCloud ]. This proved to be a new You Tube account. It did not have any of my subscriptions, notifications, Library information, comments, or playlists.
I soon discovered that all my Google services had been terminated ( except for the You Tube account [ Andrew Roller at iCloud ] ).
When I went to Google.com with my Safari browser, I was told to create a new Google.com account. I could not do searches at Google.com.
I had no access to my Google Gmail account. I was told by the Gmail app to create a new Gmail account.
My Apple e-mail still worked. An e-mail there told me, of [ Andrew Roller at Gmail ], that “It looks like it was being used in a way that violated Google’s policies”. I investigated this in the You Tube app. Information there said, of [ Andrew Roller at Gmail ], that “We’ve detected unusual activity on this account.”
I have never shared my Google password, or any Google products, including You Tube, with anyone.
I received a new e-mail in my Apple e-mail account. This e-mail said, of my [ Andrew Roller at Gmail ] account, the following: “Account recovered successfully”.
( I received the same e-mail regarding my ( new ) You Tube account of [ Andrew Roller at iCloud ]. )
I tried to get into my Gmail account again. I was able to get into my Gmail account as [ Andrew Roller at Gmail ]. There, I was told of [ Andrew Roller at Gmail ], “Account recovered successfully.”
Prior to the time of this e-mail, there was another e-mail. This e-mail predates the “Account recovery” e-mail. I will quote the relevant portions of this prior e-mail ( from my Gmail account ):
“ ... due to repeated or severe violations of our Community Guidelines your YouTube account Andrew Roller has been suspended.”
I have never received any word from You Tube that I had violated You Tube’s Community Guidelines. The notion that I committed “repeated or severe violations” is nonsense. I have never uploaded a video to You Tube. I rarely comment on videos.
The e-mail continues: “ ... we determined that activity in your account violated our Community Guidelines, which prohibit spam, scams or commercially deceptive content.”
I have no idea how someone would “spam” on You Tube. I have never engaged in spam on any platform, or by using e-mail. I have nothing to spam about.
A scam is a crime. I have never engaged in scamming, and never would. If you think someone has scammed people, you should report that to the police.
Commercially deceptive content is probably also a crime. I do not have a business. I loathe any commercial deception. Right now, I’d say, with respect, that it is You Tube that is engaging in commercial deception, with me. You sold me an account, [ Andrew Roller at Gmail ], and now you are blocking me from using it. You are making false accusations against me.
Please restore my You Tube account of [ Andrew Roller at Gmail ].
Thank you very much for your attention to my message.
Sincerely,
Andrew Roller”
Thank you for reading my e-mail. It is easy to dismiss one person’s complaint. However, in my experience, You Tube’s staff is abusing many You Tube customers. This does not bode well for You Tube’s future.
I was once a customer of Compuserve. I survived there, despite some abuse by its staff. Compuserve is dead.
I was once a customer of America Online. I was summarily banned from America Online, for a spurious reason. America Online is dead.
You Tube is in danger of going the way of Compuserve and America Online. In their time, both of those companies were, like You Tube, dominant platforms. That did not prevent their demise.
Sincerely,
Andrew Roller”
On September 14, Antoinnette B. wrote to me a second time. Her letter follows:
“Hi Andrew,
This is Antoinnette chiming in for Erika as she is currently out of the office. I hope this email finds you well.
I understand that you have received violations or warning from YouTube which you are not intended to do. I also understand that you are a YouTube Premium subscriber, however, this violation is beyond our scope of support since this is not included on your subscription’s features.
To my understanding, your playlist “kids area” ( if set to public ) can be misleading as this does not contain kid’s videos or contents. You might want to rename your playlist. Also, the videos that have been deleted is not within our control as they might have also violated the community guidelines which we can’t check as we are only limited to what we can do.
One more thing, your account could have been hacked by someone which caused this trouble. You may want to check our YouTube’s community guidelines through this link [ a link ] in order for you to know how the YouTube community works.
I wish we can have your channel restored, however, we only support paid contents on YouTube such as subscription’s billing and features, movies and channel memberships ( monthly subscription ).
Thank you so much for understanding and feel free to reach out to us again if you have any other questions or concerns.
All the best,
Antoinnette B. The YouTube and Play Music Team”
I replied to Antoinnette B. today ( September 15 ). Excerpts follow:
“Dear Antoinnette,
Thank you for your letter to me of September 14, 2020. ... My responses follow.
1. You write: “I understand that you have received violations or warning from YouTube.”
My response: A You Tube employee wrongfully and repeatedly terminated, and attacked, my You Tube account in March 2020. However, from a functional standpoint, I consider that matter resolved. I have access to my You Tube account.
My current concern is with:
A. The removal of my playlist “kids area”.
B. The wrongful charges made by You Tube against me regarding this playlist. You Tube’s charges are that my “kids area” playlist:
a. Violated copyright law.
b. Constituted a deceptive practice.
c. Constituted spam.
d. Endangered children.
My response to these charges are:
a. I have never uploaded any content to You Tube. My “kids area” playlist contained one video. This video was:
“Buffalo Springfield - For What It’s Worth 1967”. This innocuous video, from the 1960s, features young men singing a song. The clean-cut lead singer wears a cowboy hat.
This video remains on You Tube. Anyone can view this video, download it, or add it to a playlist.
b. This music video is not “a deceptive practice”. It is a music video.
c. This music video is not “spam”. It is a music video.
d. This music video does not “endanger children”. As mentioned above, it shows young men singing a song, on a stage.
2. You write: “I also understand that you are a YouTube Premium subscriber, however, this violation is beyond our scope of support since this is not included on your subscription’s features.”
My response: If the violation is not included in my subscription’s features, then I should not be getting the violation! It should be removed at once.
3. You write: “To my understanding, your playlist “kids area” ( if set to public ) can be misleading as this does not contain kid’s videos or contents.”
My response: Here are the lyrics from “Buffalo Springfield - For What It’s Worth 1967”:
[ Verse 1 ]
There’s something happening here But what it is ain’t exactly clear There’s a man with a gun over there A - telling me, I got to beware
[ Chorus ]
I think it’s time we stop Children, what’s that sound? Everybody look what’s going down
[ Verse 2 ]
There’s battle lines being drawn And nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong Young people speaking their minds Are gettin’ so much resistance from behind
[ Chorus ]
It’s time we stop Hey, what’s that sound? Everybody look what’s going down
[ Verse 3 ]
What a field day for the heat ( Ooo - ooo - ooo ) A thousand people in the street ( Ooo - ooo - ooo ) Singing songs and a - carryin’ signs ( Ooo - ooo - ooo ) Mostly say, “Hooray for our side” ( Ooo - ooo - ooo )
Note the following in the lyrics:
“Children, what’s that sound?”
“Young people speaking their minds”
Hence, obviously, the music video is addressing “children” and “young people”.
Also, note the following in the lyrics:
“A thousand people in the street”
“Singing songs and a - carryin’ signs”
These lines don’t just speak to events in the 1960s. They address what is happening in America’s streets right now. Young people are “in the street” and “a - carryin’ signs” in, we are told, pursuit of racial and social justice.
Hence, the music video “Buffalo Springfield - For What It’s Worth 1967” speaks to “children” and addresses the concerns of “young people” today.
I was alive in the 1960’s. My age in that decade ranged from 0 to 9. All children and young people like myself were highly interested in music by bands like Buffalo Springfield. Buffalo Springfield was a youth band, like the Beatles, the Monkees, the Rolling Stones, and countless other bands of that era. My parents were absolutely opposed to such bands. They were not the audience for such bands. I was.
4. You write: “You might want to rename your playlist.”
My response:
A. I no longer have my “kids area” playlist. It was “removed” ( deleted ) by You Tube. Please return it to me.
B. If my “kids area” playlist is returned to me, I will rename it. The playlist will be called “kids area memorial”. That’s because it was once a playlist that held videos uploaded by the You Tube channel “kids area”. When that channel was terminated by You Tube, I was left with a playlist called “kids area” that held no videos. At that point, my “kids area” playlist only held a list of icons. Each icon read, “[ Deleted video ]”. Hence, I did the following:
a. In the description for my “kids area” playlist, I wrote: “Update: ‘kids area’ has been terminated by You Tube.”
b. I put the following into my “kids area” playlist:
“Buffalo Springfield - For What It’s Worth 1967”. ( The music video. )
I have no relationship with the former You Tube channel “kids area”. It is simply one of many You Tube channels that You Tube has terminated.
5. You write: “Also, the videos that have been deleted is not within our control as they might have also violated the community guidelines which we can’t check as we are only limited to what we can do.”
My response: I appreciate the fact that you wrote to me. Apparently, you feel that You Tube’s “removal” of my “kids area” playlist is outside your area of jurisdiction.
You Tube Appeals never writes back to me, despite publicly promising that they will do so. Nor do they return my “removed” playlists. One of my playlists, containing 1960s music videos, was removed in March. It was never returned to me. My “kids area” playlist, containing one 1960s music video, was removed on September 10. It has not been returned to me, and I have heard nothing from You Tube Appeals.
You Tube Support never writes back to me. I was being bullied by a You Tube staffer in March. You Tube Support never wrote to me, but my assumption is that they were the ones who stopped the bullying by the You Tube staffer.
6. You write: “... your account could have been hacked by someone which caused this trouble.”
My response:
A. The issuance of the “warning” ( a pre-“strike” ) looked very official to me. I was unable to access the You Tube platform until I acknowledged the warning.
B. It is You Tube’s responsibility to prevent hacking of You Tube accounts. If you honestly feel that a hacker is operating within the You Tube platform, you should report this.
7. You write: “You may want to check our YouTube’s community guidelines through this link in order for you to know how the YouTube community works.”
My response:
A. I have read You Tube’s “Community Guidelines” and “Terms of Service” many times.
B. You Tube’s “Community Guidelines” and “Terms of Service” amount to a maze, consisting of numerous pages. Many pages are structured so that they cannot be converted into a PDF file. This is a non-standard practice. With regard to such pages, I am forced to scroll down them, taking multiple screen shots. Some links on the pages don’t work.
C. You Tube uses the phrase “Terms of Service” and “Community Guidelines” interchangeably. It should stop doing that.
D. If You Tube truly wanted its customers to access and understand its “Terms of “Service” and “Community Guidelines” it would put each on a single page, of whatever length, so that one can simply read down the page.
Since You Tube uses the phrases “Terms of Service” and “Community Guidelines” interchangeably, You Tube should combine both on a single page. The page could extend to whatever length is necessary. A customer could then simply read down the page.
E. You Tube needs to begin acting in an ethical manner toward its customers. It must stop randomly terminating channels, deleting videos, and removing playlists.
When You Tube terminates a channel, deletes a video, or removes a playlist, it should provide an adequate public reason for doing so. Merely claiming that a channel or video violated You Tube’s “Terms of Service” or “Community Guidelines” is not informative. That’s because You Tube uses the phrase “Terms of Service” and “Community Guidelines” interchangeably. Also, You Tube’s “Terms of Service” and “Community Guidelines” extend over many links and multiple pages. Some links don’t work.
8. You write: “I wish we can have your channel restored.”
My response: I assume you are speaking of my “kids area” playlist. At this moment, there is not a problem with my You Tube channel.
9. You write: “... we only support paid contents on YouTube such as subscription’s billing and features, movies and channel memberships ( monthly subscription ).“
My response:
A. I have a You Tube Premium membership. I pay for it monthly, as a subscription, through “Apple iTunes”.
B. Some months ago, two separate You Tube Chat staffers told me that my You Tube Premium account did not include the “Comments” feature. ( The ability to comment on a video. ) They were wrong.
Please be careful when telling a You Tube customer that you can’t help him. If you feel that a customer’s complaint is not within your jurisdiction, you might want to forward that complaint to the correct You Tube department.
10. You write: “... feel free to reach out to us again if you have any other questions or concerns.”
My response: Google’s Gmail is awful. In Gmail, your current letter keeps disappearing. That also happened with a previous letter of yours. In the case of that letter, it also wound up in Gmail’s “Trash” folder. I had to fetch it back.
If you write to me again, you might want to send a copy of your letter to:
[ Andrew Roller at iCloud ]
That is my Apple e-mail. Apple’s e-mail app works much better than Gmail.
If you write to me again, please send a copy of your letter to my Gmail account, as you are doing. I check my Gmail account for mail from You Tube. It is not a pleasant experience. Except for your letters, I get nothing but abuse from You Tube. I once loved Google and You Tube. Sadly, I now loathe both. Google and You Tube need to embrace their customers and free speech.
Conclusion:
My concerns with regard to my “kids area” playlist follow.
1. My “kids area” playlist was removed for reasons that do not apply. My playlist did not:
a. Violate copyright law.
b. Constitute a deceptive practice.
c. Constitute spam.
d. Endanger children.
2. I am concerned that the wrongful removal of my “kids area” playlist was the first in a series of invented “strikes” against my channel, “Andrew Roller”. A You Tube staffer can issue a “warning”, followed by three “strikes”, in a short period of time. Then the You Tube customer’s account is terminated.
In March, a You Tube staffer terminated my channel, “Andrew Roller”. My channel “Andrew Roller” had never been given any warnings or strikes. My channel “Andrew Roller” was terminated twice in this way, in March. My Google account was terminated by this same employee. When my channel “Andrew Roller” was restored, in March, the You Tube staffer then did the following. He, or she, tampered with my You Tube password. He, or she, demanded my Apple password, which is a crime. He, or she, removed one of my playlists, calling it “inappropriate”. The playlist contained 1960s songs. As it was a work in progress, its title was “part unnumbered”.
I have seen other You Tube channels attacked by multiple strikes which soon resulted in their termination. The strikes You Tube issued were, in my opinion, unethical and wrong.
I am not wedded to my ( now former ) “kids area” playlist. My concern is not with the playlist itself, but with the fact that I stand accused of violating copyright law, engaging in a deceptive practice, engaging in spam, and endangering children. I have done none of this.
As mentioned before, I maintain a WordPress site. You Tube can act wrongfully against me. However, I will report You Tube’s actions toward me, and others, on my WordPress site.
If You Tube did not treat me, and its other customers, in such a disgusting manner, I would stay “logged in” to You Tube continuously. However, I mostly stay off You Tube, despite paying for it. That’s because, on You Tube, it is an ongoing ordeal to find myself, and other customers, abused by You Tube’s staff.
Thank you for writing to me. Except for Erika’s brief letter, saying that she was unable to access what I wrote to her, you are the only You Tube staffer who has taken an interest in my complaint.”
A summary of my experience with regard to the removal of my “kids area” playlist follows.
1. You Tube wrongfully removed my playlist and made false accusations against me.
2. By removing my playlist, You Tube has made my You Tube account more vulnerable to being terminated by You Tube.
3. No relevant person has responded to my complaints about the removal of my playlist.
4. You Tube employee Erika B. said she was unable to access my complaint.
5. You Tube employee Antoinnette B., claiming to act on behalf of Erika B., says that she can’t help me. She says I have written to the wrong You Tube department. She has failed to forward my complaint to the correct You Tube department.
6. Antoinnette B., claiming to act on behalf of Erika B., says that my You Tube account might have been hacked. This is rubbish.
HELP ( or not )
You Tube, and its parent company Google, are located in California. This means that their conduct is regulated by the State of California Department of Justice. As United States companies, You Tube and Google are also regulated by the United States Federal Trade Commission.
The website “oag.ca.gov” is operated by the State of California Department of Justice. California’s current attorney general is Xavier Becerra. The website’s title page reads, “Consumer Complaint Against A Business / Company”. A complaint form is here.
The website “ftc.gov” is operated by the United States Federal Trade Commission. A column on the right side of its title page reads, “TAKE ACTION File a Consumer Complaint”. When clicked on, that link takes you here: “ftccomplaintassistant.gov”.
In a column on the left side of “ftccomplaintassistant.gov”, you’ll find, “Internet Services, Online Shopping, or Computers”. This is a link. Click on it. An informational box appears. Click on “Internet Services”.
An informational box appears. A link titled “Social Networking Services” is here. Click on this link to go along a path that eventually results in a complaint form.
Unfortunately, both the California website and the United States website are structured to help people who have lost money. Much of You Tube’s abuse escapes liability under this view of wrongdoing.
INFLICTION OF EMOTIONAL DISTRESS
Is You Tube guilty of inflicting emotional distress on its customers? ( A criminal offense. )
Is You Tube liable for inflicting emotional distress on its customers? ( A civil wrong. )
“Infliction of emotional distress” is categorized in various ways. These are:
1. Criminal. A crime can be defined by the “common law”. America inherited the common law from England. Or, a crime can be defined by statute. A statute is a law passed by a legislature.
A crime has parts, or “elements”. A person, or company, that deliberately inflicts emotional distress on someone can be found guilty if it “meets” all the elements of the crime.
2. Civil. This is categorized in two ways.
A. Intentional. It must be proven in court that the person, or company, intended for their conduct to inflict emotional distress on someone.
B. Negligence. Here, emotional distress is inflicted on someone by accident. However, the person, or company, that inflicts the distress should have foreseen that their conduct would have that result.
Negligent infliction of emotional distress is difficult to pin on You Tube. That’s because:
1. Negligent infliction of emotional distress is a new legal concept. At the time I attended law school, decades ago, the wrong of “negligent infliction of emotional distress” was viewed with suspicion by many jurisdictions.
2. “Negligent infliction of emotional distress” is an “add-on” wrong. It requires, first, that a victim suffer a physical impact. Second, those seeing the impact cannot, generally, recover. An award for infliction of emotional distress is limited to those in a close family relationship with the victim. Those in a close family relationship with the victim must have witnessed the physical impact.
Example: A mother sees her daughter hit by a car.
I am not a lawyer. I am unable to keep abreast of all legal changes that continue to occur.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
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I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 42
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 42, version 9.0
Date Written: September 15, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 42
Editorial Thunder presents...
Down the Rabbit Hole
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by Andrew Roller
A lone You Tube staffer answers for You Tube’s abuse.
Plus: California Attorney General and Federal Trade Commission complaint forms.
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The Wuhan virus ( COVID-19 ) continues. Are you stuck at home, feeling bored? Friend, I have help. You can stop feeling bored by joining Google’s You Tube. The videos on You Tube may interest you, or they may not. Don’t worry! You’ll be kept busy by You Tube. That’s because, in my experience, everyone who joins You Tube gets hazed. This is especially true of “children”, girls who are preteens and teens.
You may think I’m speaking of bullying. That is, bullying of one You Tube customer by another You Tube customer. In my experience, that does not happen on You Tube. Girls do get abused on You Tube. You Tube’s staff abuses them. The girls are bullied by You Tube’s staff for any number of reasons, none of which make sense.
I, born when Eisenhower was president, have been ruthlessly hazed and bullied by You Tube’s staff. Much of this happened in March. I’ve seen others like me bullied by You Tube’s staff too.
I have written, here on my blog site, about You Tube’s abuse of its customers. You’re free to read as much of this as you like, in the form of past articles.
On September 10, You Tube “removed” ( deleted ) my playlist “kids area”. I’ve written about this on my blog site.
With regard to the removal of my “kids area” playlist, I complained to the following:
1. You Tube Appeals.
2. You Tube Support.
3. The YouTube and Play Music Team. Unfortunately, I can no longer find this department on the You Tube platform.
My sole means of communicating with “The YouTube and Play Music Team” is by replying to their existing e-mails in my Google Gmail app. There, letters from “Erika B.” and “Antoinnette B.”, of “The YouTube and Play Music Team”, keep disappearing. They also wind up in the “Trash” file on Gmail.
You might wonder what You Tube did in response to my complaint, sent to their various departments.
1. I’ve heard nothing back from You Tube Appeals. They have not returned my “kids area” playlist.
2. I’ve heard nothing back from You Tube Support.
3. “Erika B.” told me she was unable to read what I wrote to “The YouTube and Play Music Team”.
“Antoinnette B.”, of the “The YouTube and Play Music Team”, has written to me twice. Her first letter follows:
“Hi Andrew,
This is Antoinnette with the YouTube Team.
I’m chiming in for Erika, who’s currently out of the office. I just want to let you know that you’ve contacted the support team for watching and purchasing paid content and subscriptions on YouTube ( like movies or YouTube Premium ).
Unfortunately, I’m not able to help with the community guideline violation strike that you received. However, I found this page [ a link ] on our Help Center that explains how you can appeal the community guideline strike, if you feel that it is not justified.
Please let me know if you have any other questions or concerns about YouTube or Play Music paid content and I’ll be happy to help. Take care!
All the best,
Antoinnette B. The YouTube Team”
All writing in this article by others is printed verbatim.
Note that in her letter, above, Antoinnette B. identifies herself as being a member of “The YouTube Team”. In her second letter to me, Antoinnette B. identifies herself as being a member of “The YouTube and Play Music Team”.
Note that “Erika B.” and “Antoinnette B.” both claim to have surnames that start with “B.” This raises the possibility that the claimed surnames are fake. I’m not trying to insult these employees. I’m attempting to divine how You Tube, the company, interacts with its customers.
I replied to Erika B. and Antoinnette B. on September 13. Excerpts from my letter follow:
“Dear Erika and Antoinnette,
Thank you very much for writing to me.
In Gmail, your messages to me keep disappearing. They also wind up in the “Trash” folder. Hence, I’m writing to both of you with the same letter, because I’m concerned that I’ll lose my ability to write to you at all.
The only You Tube staff people who have replied to me are yourselves.
Antoinnette writes: “ ... you’ve contacted the support team for ... subscriptions on You Tube ( like... YouTube Premium ).” I am a You Tube Premium member.
Here is a summary of what you can read below:
1. I was bullied by an anonymous You Tube employee in March.
2. I was bullied by an anonymous You Tube employee on September 10.
3. The bullying event of September 10 is in regard to my playlist titled, “kids area”.
4. The playlist “kids area” once held videos that were uploaded by the You Tube channel “kids area”.
5. The “kids area” channel was terminated by You Tube’s staff some months ago.
6. I was left with a playlist titled “kids area” that contained no videos. Instead of videos, there was a list of icons. Each icon read, “[ Deleted video ]”.
7. In my “kids area” playlist description, I wrote: “Update: ‘kids area’ has been terminated by You Tube.”
8. On You Tube, I found the following video: “Buffalo Springfield-For What It’s Worth 1967”. It is a 1960’s video of a band singing on a stage. The clean-cut lead singer wears a cowboy hat.
9. I put “Buffalo Springfield-For What It’s Worth 1967” into my “kids area” playlist.
10. When You Tube deleted my “kids area” playlist on September 10, it held one video. The video was “Buffalo Springfield-For What It’s Worth 1967”. My playlist also held a number of icons reading, “[ Deleted video ]”.
11. The video “Buffalo Springfield-For What It’s Worth 1967” remains on You Tube. Anyone can view it, download it, and put it in a playlist.
12. When a You Tube staffer deleted my “kids area” playlist on September 10, the staffer accused my playlist of the following violations:
A. Violates copyright law.
B. Constitutes a deceptive practice.
C. Constitutes spam.
D. Endangers children.
As you can readily see, this is rubbish.
“You Tube Appeals” limits the length of what I can write to them. I sent them the following message on September 11:
“I have never uploaded any content to You Tube. My playlist “kids area” contained one video. The video was “Buffalo Springfield-For What It’s Worth 1967”. This music video remains on You Tube. I am ( once again ) being bullied by someone on your staff. As a disabled veteran, I am outraged by your staffer’s conduct. Your staffer is accusing my ( one video ) playlist of being “unsafe for children”, “spam”, “a deceptive practice”, and “a copyright violation”. This is rubbish. ...”
I also wrote to You Tube Support. I would like to add the following, to clarify certain points in this letter.
1. The bullying You Tube employee that I speak of in this letter didn’t just terminate my You Tube account twice. He, or she, also generated a new You Tube account to replace it. What was wrong with that? The new account did not have any of my subscriptions, notifications, Library information, comments, or playlists. This event occurred in March.
2. That same employee also terminated my Google account. I had no access to Gmail or my Google browser. This event occurred in March.
3. That same employee, in addition to tampering with my You Tube password, demanded my Apple password. The employee did this using the You Tube platform. This event occurred in March.
4. That same employee also deleted one of my playlists, calling it “inappropriate”. The playlist held 1960s songs. This event occurred in March.
5. I know all the bullying, in March, was done by a single You Tube employee. That’s because of how the events occurred in time, and the grossly unethical, and illegal, nature of the employee’s actions. ...
6. My current concern is in regard to what occurred on September 10.
7. I have never uploaded any content to You Tube.
I sent the following letter to You Tube Support on September 11:
“Dear You Tube Support,
First, I’d like to thank you for your assistance. Last March, one of your staffers wrongfully terminated my You Tube account twice, and then tampered with my password. When I wrote to you, this bullying stopped.
I have a new problem. I had a playlist labelled “kids area”. It merely held videos from a You Tube channel, called “kids area”, that has long since ceased to exist.
My playlist did not hold the actual “kids area” videos, once the “kids area” channel was terminated. My playlist held icons reading, “[ Deleted video ]”.
For many months, my “kids area” playlist has held one video. It is a music video that remains on YouTube. The video is “Buffalo Springfield - For What It’s Worth 1967”.
Today, I was notified that my “kids area” playlist has been removed. My account is charged with a “warning”. The accusations made against my playlist are varied. All are false. My playlist is accused of being “unsafe for children”, “spam”, “a deceptive practice”, and “a copyright violation”. This is rubbish. There is nothing unsafe about this 1967 music video. It isn’t spam, or a deceptive practice. It isn’t a copyright violation, as I simply added it to my playlist. You continue to offer this music video.
I have never uploaded ANY content to You Tube. I merely watch videos, comment occasionally, and make playlists. ... I also maintain a WordPress blog where I report on issues of concern. As an unobtrusive customer of YouTube I am, frankly, outraged by how YouTube is treating me. ...”
... I sent a copy of my ( latest ) article on WordPress, about You Tube’s actions, to You Tube Support. I preface my article with a comment.
“Dear You Tube Support,
As promised, I have now written an article on WordPress about my current experience with You Tube. I respect whoever at You Tube is reading this. I hope you don’t take my comments personally.
As with my other articles, I expect it will outlive me. My articles regarding how America Online abused me, posted to the internet in the 1990’s, remain available to the public. ...
Thank you for reading my message.
[ Editorial Thunder issue number 41 is reproduced at this point. ]
I would like to enclose my letter to You Tube regarding the bullying, by a You Tube staffer, that I experienced in March. It is below.
“Dear Google,
My You Tube account is [ Andrew Roller at Gmail ]. In the early morning of March 24 I got knocked off of You Tube. When I tried to get back on to You Tube, I was presented with two accounts.
The icon for [ Andrew Roller at Gmail ] had a line crossed through it, and was white. The second account was [ Andrew Roller at iCloud ]. This is my Apple e-mail address. I provided it to You Tube when I signed up to You Tube last year. To my knowledge, [ Andrew Roller at iCloud ] was not a You Tube account.
Since [ Andrew Roller at Gmail ] had a line through it, I clicked on the account [ Andrew Roller at iCloud ]. This proved to be a new You Tube account. It did not have any of my subscriptions, notifications, Library information, comments, or playlists.
I soon discovered that all my Google services had been terminated ( except for the You Tube account [ Andrew Roller at iCloud ] ).
When I went to Google.com with my Safari browser, I was told to create a new Google.com account. I could not do searches at Google.com.
I had no access to my Google Gmail account. I was told by the Gmail app to create a new Gmail account.
My Apple e-mail still worked. An e-mail there told me, of [ Andrew Roller at Gmail ], that “It looks like it was being used in a way that violated Google’s policies”. I investigated this in the You Tube app. Information there said, of [ Andrew Roller at Gmail ], that “We’ve detected unusual activity on this account.”
I have never shared my Google password, or any Google products, including You Tube, with anyone.
I received a new e-mail in my Apple e-mail account. This e-mail said, of my [ Andrew Roller at Gmail ] account, the following: “Account recovered successfully”.
( I received the same e-mail regarding my ( new ) You Tube account of [ Andrew Roller at iCloud ]. )
I tried to get into my Gmail account again. I was able to get into my Gmail account as [ Andrew Roller at Gmail ]. There, I was told of [ Andrew Roller at Gmail ], “Account recovered successfully.”
Prior to the time of this e-mail, there was another e-mail. This e-mail predates the “Account recovery” e-mail. I will quote the relevant portions of this prior e-mail ( from my Gmail account ):
“ ... due to repeated or severe violations of our Community Guidelines your YouTube account Andrew Roller has been suspended.”
I have never received any word from You Tube that I had violated You Tube’s Community Guidelines. The notion that I committed “repeated or severe violations” is nonsense. I have never uploaded a video to You Tube. I rarely comment on videos.
The e-mail continues: “ ... we determined that activity in your account violated our Community Guidelines, which prohibit spam, scams or commercially deceptive content.”
I have no idea how someone would “spam” on You Tube. I have never engaged in spam on any platform, or by using e-mail. I have nothing to spam about.
A scam is a crime. I have never engaged in scamming, and never would. If you think someone has scammed people, you should report that to the police.
Commercially deceptive content is probably also a crime. I do not have a business. I loathe any commercial deception. Right now, I’d say, with respect, that it is You Tube that is engaging in commercial deception, with me. You sold me an account, [ Andrew Roller at Gmail ], and now you are blocking me from using it. You are making false accusations against me.
Please restore my You Tube account of [ Andrew Roller at Gmail ].
Thank you very much for your attention to my message.
Sincerely,
Andrew Roller”
Thank you for reading my e-mail. It is easy to dismiss one person’s complaint. However, in my experience, You Tube’s staff is abusing many You Tube customers. This does not bode well for You Tube’s future.
I was once a customer of Compuserve. I survived there, despite some abuse by its staff. Compuserve is dead.
I was once a customer of America Online. I was summarily banned from America Online, for a spurious reason. America Online is dead.
You Tube is in danger of going the way of Compuserve and America Online. In their time, both of those companies were, like You Tube, dominant platforms. That did not prevent their demise.
Sincerely,
Andrew Roller”
On September 14, Antoinnette B. wrote to me a second time. Her letter follows:
“Hi Andrew,
This is Antoinnette chiming in for Erika as she is currently out of the office. I hope this email finds you well.
I understand that you have received violations or warning from YouTube which you are not intended to do. I also understand that you are a YouTube Premium subscriber, however, this violation is beyond our scope of support since this is not included on your subscription’s features.
To my understanding, your playlist “kids area” ( if set to public ) can be misleading as this does not contain kid’s videos or contents. You might want to rename your playlist. Also, the videos that have been deleted is not within our control as they might have also violated the community guidelines which we can’t check as we are only limited to what we can do.
One more thing, your account could have been hacked by someone which caused this trouble. You may want to check our YouTube’s community guidelines through this link [ a link ] in order for you to know how the YouTube community works.
I wish we can have your channel restored, however, we only support paid contents on YouTube such as subscription’s billing and features, movies and channel memberships ( monthly subscription ).
Thank you so much for understanding and feel free to reach out to us again if you have any other questions or concerns.
All the best,
Antoinnette B. The YouTube and Play Music Team”
I replied to Antoinnette B. today ( September 15 ). Excerpts follow:
“Dear Antoinnette,
Thank you for your letter to me of September 14, 2020. ... My responses follow.
1. You write: “I understand that you have received violations or warning from YouTube.”
My response: A You Tube employee wrongfully and repeatedly terminated, and attacked, my You Tube account in March 2020. However, from a functional standpoint, I consider that matter resolved. I have access to my You Tube account.
My current concern is with:
A. The removal of my playlist “kids area”.
B. The wrongful charges made by You Tube against me regarding this playlist. You Tube’s charges are that my “kids area” playlist:
a. Violated copyright law.
b. Constituted a deceptive practice.
c. Constituted spam.
d. Endangered children.
My response to these charges are:
a. I have never uploaded any content to You Tube. My “kids area” playlist contained one video. This video was:
“Buffalo Springfield - For What It’s Worth 1967”. This innocuous video, from the 1960s, features young men singing a song. The clean-cut lead singer wears a cowboy hat.
This video remains on You Tube. Anyone can view this video, download it, or add it to a playlist.
b. This music video is not “a deceptive practice”. It is a music video.
c. This music video is not “spam”. It is a music video.
d. This music video does not “endanger children”. As mentioned above, it shows young men singing a song, on a stage.
2. You write: “I also understand that you are a YouTube Premium subscriber, however, this violation is beyond our scope of support since this is not included on your subscription’s features.”
My response: If the violation is not included in my subscription’s features, then I should not be getting the violation! It should be removed at once.
3. You write: “To my understanding, your playlist “kids area” ( if set to public ) can be misleading as this does not contain kid’s videos or contents.”
My response: Here are the lyrics from “Buffalo Springfield - For What It’s Worth 1967”:
[ Verse 1 ]
There’s something happening here But what it is ain’t exactly clear There’s a man with a gun over there A - telling me, I got to beware
[ Chorus ]
I think it’s time we stop Children, what’s that sound? Everybody look what’s going down
[ Verse 2 ]
There’s battle lines being drawn And nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong Young people speaking their minds Are gettin’ so much resistance from behind
[ Chorus ]
It’s time we stop Hey, what’s that sound? Everybody look what’s going down
[ Verse 3 ]
What a field day for the heat ( Ooo - ooo - ooo ) A thousand people in the street ( Ooo - ooo - ooo ) Singing songs and a - carryin’ signs ( Ooo - ooo - ooo ) Mostly say, “Hooray for our side” ( Ooo - ooo - ooo )
Note the following in the lyrics:
“Children, what’s that sound?”
“Young people speaking their minds”
Hence, obviously, the music video is addressing “children” and “young people”.
Also, note the following in the lyrics:
“A thousand people in the street”
“Singing songs and a - carryin’ signs”
These lines don’t just speak to events in the 1960s. They address what is happening in America’s streets right now. Young people are “in the street” and “a - carryin’ signs” in, we are told, pursuit of racial and social justice.
Hence, the music video “Buffalo Springfield - For What It’s Worth 1967” speaks to “children” and addresses the concerns of “young people” today.
I was alive in the 1960’s. My age in that decade ranged from 0 to 9. All children and young people like myself were highly interested in music by bands like Buffalo Springfield. Buffalo Springfield was a youth band, like the Beatles, the Monkees, the Rolling Stones, and countless other bands of that era. My parents were absolutely opposed to such bands. They were not the audience for such bands. I was.
4. You write: “You might want to rename your playlist.”
My response:
A. I no longer have my “kids area” playlist. It was “removed” ( deleted ) by You Tube. Please return it to me.
B. If my “kids area” playlist is returned to me, I will rename it. The playlist will be called “kids area memorial”. That’s because it was once a playlist that held videos uploaded by the You Tube channel “kids area”. When that channel was terminated by You Tube, I was left with a playlist called “kids area” that held no videos. At that point, my “kids area” playlist only held a list of icons. Each icon read, “[ Deleted video ]”. Hence, I did the following:
a. In the description for my “kids area” playlist, I wrote: “Update: ‘kids area’ has been terminated by You Tube.”
b. I put the following into my “kids area” playlist:
“Buffalo Springfield - For What It’s Worth 1967”. ( The music video. )
I have no relationship with the former You Tube channel “kids area”. It is simply one of many You Tube channels that You Tube has terminated.
5. You write: “Also, the videos that have been deleted is not within our control as they might have also violated the community guidelines which we can’t check as we are only limited to what we can do.”
My response: I appreciate the fact that you wrote to me. Apparently, you feel that You Tube’s “removal” of my “kids area” playlist is outside your area of jurisdiction.
You Tube Appeals never writes back to me, despite publicly promising that they will do so. Nor do they return my “removed” playlists. One of my playlists, containing 1960s music videos, was removed in March. It was never returned to me. My “kids area” playlist, containing one 1960s music video, was removed on September 10. It has not been returned to me, and I have heard nothing from You Tube Appeals.
You Tube Support never writes back to me. I was being bullied by a You Tube staffer in March. You Tube Support never wrote to me, but my assumption is that they were the ones who stopped the bullying by the You Tube staffer.
6. You write: “... your account could have been hacked by someone which caused this trouble.”
My response:
A. The issuance of the “warning” ( a pre-“strike” ) looked very official to me. I was unable to access the You Tube platform until I acknowledged the warning.
B. It is You Tube’s responsibility to prevent hacking of You Tube accounts. If you honestly feel that a hacker is operating within the You Tube platform, you should report this.
7. You write: “You may want to check our YouTube’s community guidelines through this link in order for you to know how the YouTube community works.”
My response:
A. I have read You Tube’s “Community Guidelines” and “Terms of Service” many times.
B. You Tube’s “Community Guidelines” and “Terms of Service” amount to a maze, consisting of numerous pages. Many pages are structured so that they cannot be converted into a PDF file. This is a non-standard practice. With regard to such pages, I am forced to scroll down them, taking multiple screen shots. Some links on the pages don’t work.
C. You Tube uses the phrase “Terms of Service” and “Community Guidelines” interchangeably. It should stop doing that.
D. If You Tube truly wanted its customers to access and understand its “Terms of “Service” and “Community Guidelines” it would put each on a single page, of whatever length, so that one can simply read down the page.
Since You Tube uses the phrases “Terms of Service” and “Community Guidelines” interchangeably, You Tube should combine both on a single page. The page could extend to whatever length is necessary. A customer could then simply read down the page.
E. You Tube needs to begin acting in an ethical manner toward its customers. It must stop randomly terminating channels, deleting videos, and removing playlists.
When You Tube terminates a channel, deletes a video, or removes a playlist, it should provide an adequate public reason for doing so. Merely claiming that a channel or video violated You Tube’s “Terms of Service” or “Community Guidelines” is not informative. That’s because You Tube uses the phrase “Terms of Service” and “Community Guidelines” interchangeably. Also, You Tube’s “Terms of Service” and “Community Guidelines” extend over many links and multiple pages. Some links don’t work.
8. You write: “I wish we can have your channel restored.”
My response: I assume you are speaking of my “kids area” playlist. At this moment, there is not a problem with my You Tube channel.
9. You write: “... we only support paid contents on YouTube such as subscription’s billing and features, movies and channel memberships ( monthly subscription ).“
My response:
A. I have a You Tube Premium membership. I pay for it monthly, as a subscription, through “Apple iTunes”.
B. Some months ago, two separate You Tube Chat staffers told me that my You Tube Premium account did not include the “Comments” feature. ( The ability to comment on a video. ) They were wrong.
Please be careful when telling a You Tube customer that you can’t help him. If you feel that a customer’s complaint is not within your jurisdiction, you might want to forward that complaint to the correct You Tube department.
10. You write: “... feel free to reach out to us again if you have any other questions or concerns.”
My response: Google’s Gmail is awful. In Gmail, your current letter keeps disappearing. That also happened with a previous letter of yours. In the case of that letter, it also wound up in Gmail’s “Trash” folder. I had to fetch it back.
If you write to me again, you might want to send a copy of your letter to:
[ Andrew Roller at iCloud ]
That is my Apple e-mail. Apple’s e-mail app works much better than Gmail.
If you write to me again, please send a copy of your letter to my Gmail account, as you are doing. I check my Gmail account for mail from You Tube. It is not a pleasant experience. Except for your letters, I get nothing but abuse from You Tube. I once loved Google and You Tube. Sadly, I now loathe both. Google and You Tube need to embrace their customers and free speech.
Conclusion:
My concerns with regard to my “kids area” playlist follow.
1. My “kids area” playlist was removed for reasons that do not apply. My playlist did not:
a. Violate copyright law.
b. Constitute a deceptive practice.
c. Constitute spam.
d. Endanger children.
2. I am concerned that the wrongful removal of my “kids area” playlist was the first in a series of invented “strikes” against my channel, “Andrew Roller”. A You Tube staffer can issue a “warning”, followed by three “strikes”, in a short period of time. Then the You Tube customer’s account is terminated.
In March, a You Tube staffer terminated my channel, “Andrew Roller”. My channel “Andrew Roller” had never been given any warnings or strikes. My channel “Andrew Roller” was terminated twice in this way, in March. My Google account was terminated by this same employee. When my channel “Andrew Roller” was restored, in March, the You Tube staffer then did the following. He, or she, tampered with my You Tube password. He, or she, demanded my Apple password, which is a crime. He, or she, removed one of my playlists, calling it “inappropriate”. The playlist contained 1960s songs. As it was a work in progress, its title was “part unnumbered”.
I have seen other You Tube channels attacked by multiple strikes which soon resulted in their termination. The strikes You Tube issued were, in my opinion, unethical and wrong.
I am not wedded to my ( now former ) “kids area” playlist. My concern is not with the playlist itself, but with the fact that I stand accused of violating copyright law, engaging in a deceptive practice, engaging in spam, and endangering children. I have done none of this.
As mentioned before, I maintain a WordPress site. You Tube can act wrongfully against me. However, I will report You Tube’s actions toward me, and others, on my WordPress site.
If You Tube did not treat me, and its other customers, in such a disgusting manner, I would stay “logged in” to You Tube continuously. However, I mostly stay off You Tube, despite paying for it. That’s because, on You Tube, it is an ongoing ordeal to find myself, and other customers, abused by You Tube’s staff.
Thank you for writing to me. Except for Erika’s brief letter, saying that she was unable to access what I wrote to her, you are the only You Tube staffer who has taken an interest in my complaint.”
A summary of my experience with regard to the removal of my “kids area” playlist follows.
1. You Tube wrongfully removed my playlist and made false accusations against me.
2. By removing my playlist, You Tube has made my You Tube account more vulnerable to being terminated by You Tube.
3. No relevant person has responded to my complaints about the removal of my playlist.
4. You Tube employee Erika B. said she was unable to access my complaint.
5. You Tube employee Antoinnette B., claiming to act on behalf of Erika B., says that she can’t help me. She says I have written to the wrong You Tube department. She has failed to forward my complaint to the correct You Tube department.
6. Antoinnette B., claiming to act on behalf of Erika B., says that my You Tube account might have been hacked. This is rubbish.
HELP ( or not )
You Tube, and its parent company Google, are located in California. This means that their conduct is regulated by the State of California Department of Justice. As United States companies, You Tube and Google are also regulated by the United States Federal Trade Commission.
The website “oag.ca.gov” is operated by the State of California Department of Justice. California’s current attorney general is Xavier Becerra. The website’s title page reads, “Consumer Complaint Against A Business / Company”. A complaint form is here.
The website “ftc.gov” is operated by the United States Federal Trade Commission. A column on the right side of its title page reads, “TAKE ACTION File a Consumer Complaint”. When clicked on, that link takes you here: “ftccomplaintassistant.gov”.
In a column on the left side of “ftccomplaintassistant.gov”, you’ll find, “Internet Services, Online Shopping, or Computers”. This is a link. Click on it. An informational box appears. Click on “Internet Services”.
An informational box appears. A link titled “Social Networking Services” is here. Click on this link to go along a path that eventually results in a complaint form.
Unfortunately, both the California website and the United States website are structured to help people who have lost money. Much of You Tube’s abuse escapes liability under this view of wrongdoing.
INFLICTION OF EMOTIONAL DISTRESS
Is You Tube guilty of inflicting emotional distress on its customers? ( A criminal offense. )
Is You Tube liable for inflicting emotional distress on its customers? ( A civil wrong. )
“Infliction of emotional distress” is categorized in various ways. These are:
1. Criminal. A crime can be defined by the “common law”. America inherited the common law from England. Or, a crime can be defined by statute. A statute is a law passed by a legislature.
A crime has parts, or “elements”. A person, or company, that deliberately inflicts emotional distress on someone can be found guilty if it “meets” all the elements of the crime.
2. Civil. This is categorized in two ways.
A. Intentional. It must be proven in court that the person, or company, intended for their conduct to inflict emotional distress on someone.
B. Negligence. Here, emotional distress is inflicted on someone by accident. However, the person, or company, that inflicts the distress should have foreseen that their conduct would have that result.
Negligent infliction of emotional distress is difficult to pin on You Tube. That’s because:
1. Negligent infliction of emotional distress is a new legal concept. At the time I attended law school, decades ago, the wrong of “negligent infliction of emotional distress” was viewed with suspicion by many jurisdictions.
2. “Negligent infliction of emotional distress” is an “add-on” wrong. It requires, first, that a victim suffer a physical impact. Second, those seeing the impact cannot, generally, recover. An award for infliction of emotional distress is limited to those in a close family relationship with the victim. Those in a close family relationship with the victim must have witnessed the physical impact.
Example: A mother sees her daughter hit by a car.
I am not a lawyer. I am unable to keep abreast of all legal changes that continue to occur.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 42
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 42, version 9.0
Date Written: September 15, 2020.
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ET 41
Editorial Thunder presents...
Screwed Again!
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by Andrew Roller
I am once more bullied by a lying You Tube employee.
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Some months ago, a new channel appeared on You Tube. It was called “kids area”. The channel’s owner uploaded videos that showcased still photos of girls. The photos were innocuous. As best I could tell, the girls featured in the videos liked them.
I liked “kids area”. On You Tube, I made a playlist that contained some of its videos.
Giving no public reason ( as usual ), You Tube terminated the channel “kids area”. This happened awhile ago. Every video in my “kids area” playlist was replaced by a gray icon. This read, “[ Deleted video ]”.
I have a practice of honoring channels that You Tube has terminated. At that time, my playlist’s description read as follows. “The lovely girls of ‘kids area’. I am not responsible for deleted videos. All views are credited to the channel ‘kids area’.”
To the above, I added this: “Update: ‘kids area’ has been terminated by You Tube.”
Then I added a music video. I did not upload this video. It was, and is, posted on You Tube. The video is:
“Buffalo Springfield - For What It’s Worth 1967”. This innocuous video, from the 1960’s, features young men singing a song. The clean-cut lead singer wears a cowboy hat.
On September 10, You Tube informed me that my channel had been hit with a “warning”. A “warning” precedes three possible “strikes” that lead to a channel being terminated. At my channel, my “kids area” playlist had been “removed”. That means You Tube deleted it.
On the You Tube platform, I was given the following notices:
1. “Your content was removed due to a violation of our Community Guidelines.”
2. “Channel violations [ no period ].
“0 of 3 Copyright strikes [ no period ].
“Your copyright violations are listed below.”
No violations were listed. The number zero, above, is there because a “warning” precedes a channel being hit with a strike.
“0 of 3 Community Guidelines strikes [ no period ].
“Your community guidelines violations are listed below.”
Again, no violations were listed. However, next to the sentence directly above was a clickable link. It read, “See details [ no period ]”. I clicked on the link. It took me to a new page. Here, I read the following. It detailed my supposed “violation”.
3. “Reason: Violation of You Tube’s policy on spam and deceptive practices.”
In my Gmail account, I found the following:
4. “Andrew Roller, your content violated YouTube’s Community Guidelines and has been removed [ no period ].
“Hi Andrew Roller,
“Our team has reviewed your content and, unfortunately, we think it violates our child safety policy. We’ve removed the following content from YouTube:
“Playlist: kids area
“We know that this might be disappointing, but it’s important to us that YouTube is a safe place for all. If content breaks our rules, we remove it. If you think we’ve made a mistake, you can appeal and we’ll take another look.”
In March, a bullying You Tube employee deleted one of my playlists. He, or she, did this after failing, twice, to terminate my You Tube channel. I appealed my deleted playlist. Despite a publicly posted notice by You Tube, that they’d respond quickly to my appeal, I never heard back from them. Nor did I get my playlist back.
The notice of September 10 continues:
“How your content violated the policy [ no period ].
“All content that depicts physical, sexual, or emotional mistreatment of minors, or that contains titles, descriptions or other metadata of this nature, including aggregation within a playlist, is prohibited on YouTube. This may include, but is not limited to, content featuring minors engaging in provocative dancing, dares, challenges, and harmful or dangerous activities, such as fighting, child abuse, or inappropriate content targeted at minors.”
Huh? How does a video of a 1960’s group singing on a stage do any of that?
How does my playlist, with its one video, do the following:
1. Violate copyright law.
2. Constitute a deceptive practice.
3. Constitute spam.
4. Endanger children.
Obviously, a You Tube staffer is trying to hit me with a warning followed by three strikes. Then my channel will be terminated. As occurred in March, the charges against me are lies.
I have never uploaded any content to You Tube. Nor do I plan to. Note the first message that I received on September 10. You Tube tells me, “Your content was removed”. I have no content on You Tube. I simply use playlists to organize videos that I like. Doing this, I found that people were subscribing to my channel. So, like one finding visitors at one’s door, I’ve worked hard to make my channel presentable. But I’m working solely with content by others, that they’ve posted to You Tube, that You Tube allows.
I don’t like being lied about. I don’t like being bullied. In March, among other bullying tactics, You Tube’s staffer screwed with my You Tube password. This included demanding my Apple password! That’s a crime.
I’m deeply disappointed by You Tube. I’ve seen many innocent You Tube customers bullied by You Tube, including children that You Tube claims to protect. My opinion of You Tube continues to decline. I’m ceasing to regard the company as bad. Rather, its vile.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 41
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 41, version 7.0
Date Written: September 11, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 41
Editorial Thunder presents...
Screwed Again!
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by Andrew Roller
I am once more bullied by a lying You Tube employee.
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Some months ago, a new channel appeared on You Tube. It was called “kids area”. The channel’s owner uploaded videos that showcased still photos of girls. The photos were innocuous. As best I could tell, the girls featured in the videos liked them.
I liked “kids area”. On You Tube, I made a playlist that contained some of its videos.
Giving no public reason ( as usual ), You Tube terminated the channel “kids area”. This happened awhile ago. Every video in my “kids area” playlist was replaced by a gray icon. This read, “[ Deleted video ]”.
I have a practice of honoring channels that You Tube has terminated. At that time, my playlist’s description read as follows. “The lovely girls of ‘kids area’. I am not responsible for deleted videos. All views are credited to the channel ‘kids area’.”
To the above, I added this: “Update: ‘kids area’ has been terminated by You Tube.”
Then I added a music video. I did not upload this video. It was, and is, posted on You Tube. The video is:
“Buffalo Springfield - For What It’s Worth 1967”. This innocuous video, from the 1960’s, features young men singing a song. The clean-cut lead singer wears a cowboy hat.
On September 10, You Tube informed me that my channel had been hit with a “warning”. A “warning” precedes three possible “strikes” that lead to a channel being terminated. At my channel, my “kids area” playlist had been “removed”. That means You Tube deleted it.
On the You Tube platform, I was given the following notices:
1. “Your content was removed due to a violation of our Community Guidelines.”
2. “Channel violations [ no period ].
“0 of 3 Copyright strikes [ no period ].
“Your copyright violations are listed below.”
No violations were listed. The number zero, above, is there because a “warning” precedes a channel being hit with a strike.
“0 of 3 Community Guidelines strikes [ no period ].
“Your community guidelines violations are listed below.”
Again, no violations were listed. However, next to the sentence directly above was a clickable link. It read, “See details [ no period ]”. I clicked on the link. It took me to a new page. Here, I read the following. It detailed my supposed “violation”.
3. “Reason: Violation of You Tube’s policy on spam and deceptive practices.”
In my Gmail account, I found the following:
4. “Andrew Roller, your content violated YouTube’s Community Guidelines and has been removed [ no period ].
“Hi Andrew Roller,
“Our team has reviewed your content and, unfortunately, we think it violates our child safety policy. We’ve removed the following content from YouTube:
“Playlist: kids area
“We know that this might be disappointing, but it’s important to us that YouTube is a safe place for all. If content breaks our rules, we remove it. If you think we’ve made a mistake, you can appeal and we’ll take another look.”
In March, a bullying You Tube employee deleted one of my playlists. He, or she, did this after failing, twice, to terminate my You Tube channel. I appealed my deleted playlist. Despite a publicly posted notice by You Tube, that they’d respond quickly to my appeal, I never heard back from them. Nor did I get my playlist back.
The notice of September 10 continues:
“How your content violated the policy [ no period ].
“All content that depicts physical, sexual, or emotional mistreatment of minors, or that contains titles, descriptions or other metadata of this nature, including aggregation within a playlist, is prohibited on YouTube. This may include, but is not limited to, content featuring minors engaging in provocative dancing, dares, challenges, and harmful or dangerous activities, such as fighting, child abuse, or inappropriate content targeted at minors.”
Huh? How does a video of a 1960’s group singing on a stage do any of that?
How does my playlist, with its one video, do the following:
1. Violate copyright law.
2. Constitute a deceptive practice.
3. Constitute spam.
4. Endanger children.
Obviously, a You Tube staffer is trying to hit me with a warning followed by three strikes. Then my channel will be terminated. As occurred in March, the charges against me are lies.
I have never uploaded any content to You Tube. Nor do I plan to. Note the first message that I received on September 10. You Tube tells me, “Your content was removed”. I have no content on You Tube. I simply use playlists to organize videos that I like. Doing this, I found that people were subscribing to my channel. So, like one finding visitors at one’s door, I’ve worked hard to make my channel presentable. But I’m working solely with content by others, that they’ve posted to You Tube, that You Tube allows.
I don’t like being lied about. I don’t like being bullied. In March, among other bullying tactics, You Tube’s staffer screwed with my You Tube password. This included demanding my Apple password! That’s a crime.
I’m deeply disappointed by You Tube. I’ve seen many innocent You Tube customers bullied by You Tube, including children that You Tube claims to protect. My opinion of You Tube continues to decline. I’m ceasing to regard the company as bad. Rather, its vile.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 41
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 41, version 7.0
Date Written: September 11, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Milana Chasingsun BANNED
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ET 40
Editorial Thunder presents...
Milana Chasingsun BANNED
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by Andrew Roller
You Tube’s atrocities against art continue.
Plus: Danatar’s “Official site”!
And: Bikini videos by Danatar and Nastasya Lebedeva.
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“... have you ... no sense of decency?” a critic once asked Senator Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy made his name staging witch hunts in 1950’s America in search of communists.
Modernly, I want to ask You Tube what the critic asked McCarthy. You Tube, owned by Google, continues to bully children. It specifically targets young girls. In each instance, the only information that You Tube provides, to the public, is that it has “deleted” a video, or “terminated” a channel.
When my You Tube channel was terminated, twice, by You Tube, I got little relevant information from them. The same was true when You Tube deleted one of my playlists. What You Tube said about its playlist appeal process turned out to be a lie. I never heard back from the playlist people. This despite a publicly posted promise by them to answer appeals quickly. Nor did I get my deleted playlist back.
The channel “Milana Chasingsun” was the latest attempt by Milana ( from Minsk ) to establish a presence on You Tube. She has been trying to do this for longer than I’ve known about her. All her videos are, as she says, “normal family videos”. Nonetheless, You Tube’s staff has terminated every one of Milana’s channels. They also have terminated channels by members of her family.
Sadly, Milana sometimes feels America, the country, is attacking her. She figures Americans are prejudiced against the people of Belarus, where she proudly lives. According to ( American ) political theorists, a strength of America is its “soft power”. Folks abroad may feel threatened by America’s “hard power”. That is, by its huge military. Yet foreigners like American culture. Who doesn’t feel affection for Coca-Cola, Disneyland, and Hollywood?
Or You Tube? Nope. I’ve watched, shocked, as You Tube has tormented many girls on its platform. Dana Taranova, Mari Kruchkova, Ustina Abramova, Daniela Lapovok, and Milana ( from Minsk ) are among You Tube’s many young victims. You Tube isn’t just psychologically abusing girls. It is gutting the goodwill that America is said to have built in the world. “Fuck You, America” gets very easy to say if You Tube keeps screwing you.
YOU TUBE - HIDING THE TRUTH
I have been on You Tube for a year. In the past, when You Tube terminated a channel, that channel’s icon would linger in a list of channels on my “Subscriptions” page. No longer. Now, when You Tube terminates a channel, such as “Milana Chasingsun”, that channel’s icon vanishes from my “Subscriptions” page. It is as if “Milana Chasingsun” never existed.
The same is true on my “Library” page. Today, You Tube deleted a Mari Kruchkova video. The “cover photo” ( only ) for this video remained on my “Library” page for a little while. ( Under “Search watch history”. ) Then it was gone.
Obviously, You Tube wouldn’t be hiding their actions if they felt proud about them. Some idiot staffers at You Tube are probably proud of their censorship. After all, Nazis proudly killed Jews. However, the people who manage You Tube’s operating system must feel ashamed of what is happening. That’s because You Tube is inflicting psychological harm on girls. This abuse surely has a physiological impact. If nothing else, some girls must cry about this abuse. Hence, just as the Nazis tried to erase all evidence of the Holocaust, You Tube is hiding its tracks as it abuses girls, and its other customers.
BAD CHANGES AT YOU TUBE
Recently, You Tube changed the function and design of its operating system. When I saw this, I said, “Uh oh”. I was pretty sure a bad organization like You Tube would make changes that are bad. They did. The changes follow:
1. The playlist limit has been reduced. Formerly, I could put 1,000 videos in a playlist. That is now cut to somewhere under 600 videos. I trusted You Tube to maintain the 1,000 limit. Now, although my playlists might have 1,000 videos in them, I can only access several hundred videos. The remaining videos exist as “ghost” videos. They are present, but I can’t see them. I will only be able to access them when I get rid of the videos that I can see.
Is there a nefarious reason for this change to the playlist limit? As Sarah Impalin’ would say, “You betcha!” When You Tube deletes a video, I leave the “[ Deleted video ]” notice in my playlist. Soon, it becomes glaringly obvious to anyone looking at my playlist how cruel You Tube is. My playlists of Mari Kruchkova videos have been gutted by You Tube. The gutting continues. You’d think Mari was a fish, and You Tube a seafood butcher. ( You Tube deletes the videos from Mari’s channels. My playlists reflect the damage. )
Now, with the lower limit on how many videos a playlist can hold, I’ll have to delete all the “[ Deleted video ]” notices. ( Numerically, a “[ Deleted video ]” notice counts the same as a video that hasn’t been deleted. )
You might suggest that I simply put the “excess” videos into a new playlist. That would show you’re at the “grasshopper” level in divining You Tube’s deviltry. That’s because:
2. The number of allowable playlists has been reduced. It is still possible, over time, to create as many playlists as you want. Until, that is, it comes to putting videos into your playlists. To add a video to a playlist, you click open an informational box. That box holds the name of every one of your playlists.
Until, that is, you have “too many” playlists. ( Whatever that number is. You Tube doesn’t say, and I haven’t tried counting up all my playlists. ) When you have “too many” playlists, the informational box won’t hold the name of every one of your playlists. If you can’t see the name of a playlist, you can’t add any videos to it.
( Technically, you can still put a video into a playlist. However, you can’t do it by using the informational box. If you want to arrange your videos among playlists, it is essential to be able to swap them between your playlists, by using the informational box. )
Given the limit on playlists, guess what you have to do? Get rid of playlists! Only then will you be able to see the name of every one of your playlists in the informational box.
I just spent many hours getting rid of playlists from my channel. I dumped a number of disparate playlists into a single playlist. I did this for a number of my once ( tidily separate ) playlists. Videos about the movie “Planet of the Apes” now reside in the same playlist as videos about the movie “The Terminator”. Videos about “Star Trek, The Starlost, and Star Wars” are now all smooshed into the same playlist. How many videos a playlist can hold has been drastically reduced.
Hence, the upshot is this:
A. You Tube hides the evidence of its censorship rampage.
B. You are reduced to a consumer. You Tube wants you to binge on videos. Don’t think! Just gorge. Can’t recall what you watched when your binge is over? That’s great! Just consume, consume, consume, and pay You Tube its monthly fee, or watch lots of ads. You Tube, used as Google intends it to be, is the new opiate of the people.
IS YOU TUBE SPYING ON YOU?
If you own an iPad ( or, likely, an iPhone ) I’d like you to try something.
1. On your iPad’s home screen, tap on “Settings”.
2. In “Settings”, look to the list on the left side of your screen. I am speaking of the list under the word, “Settings”.
3. Scroll to the bottom of this list.
4. Here, you’ll likely see:
A. YouTube.
B. YouTube Music.
C. YouTube TV.
D. YT Kids.
5. Tap on “YouTube”.
6. A large informational box opens to the right. It is titled, “YouTube”.
7. Under “YouTube” is written: “ALLOW YOUTUBE TO ACCESS”.
8. Under this is written: “Photos”. Tap on “Photos”.
9. This takes you to a second informational box. It is titled, “Photos”. Under “Photos” is written: “ALLOW PHOTOS ACCESS”. Note that the word “TO” is conveniently omitted. This obscures what You Tube is up to.
10. Under “ALLOW PHOTOS ACCESS” is written:
Never
Read and Write
Guess what the default position is? Yep! I discovered that You Tube, owned by Google, has been secretly filching every photo and video I’ve ever made, with my iPhone and iPad. ( As best I can tell. If the situation is otherwise, You Tube can supply me with an instruction manual for their service, for which I am paying a monthly fee. )
Fortunately, I don’t have any photos of, say, Brooke Shields naked at age 10. I only have photos of Kamala Devil Harris.
11. Tap on “Never” to stop You Tube from stealing your photos and videos.
HOT OFF THE PRESS
You Tube’s ongoing censorship rampage is so fierce that it’s running ahead of my ability to report on it. However, I have some changes to report that aren’t directly related to You Tube’s Prude Blitzkrieg. They follow.
Dana Taranova now has an “Official site”. It is:
www dot danatar dot best
Dana’s current You Tube channels are:
1. Danatar Tar ( formerly Danatar ).
2. Danatar Backstage
3. Dana Tar Life
4. Danatar Gym ( formerly Dana Tar Gym ).
Mari Kruchkova’s current You Tube channels are:
1. Mari Kruchkova
2. Victoria Baez ( formerly Mari Kruchkova [ 2 ] ). I added the [ 2 ] for my own use.
None of the “Mari Kruchkova [ 2 ]” videos are at the channel “Victoria Baez”. They linger in a “Mari Kruchkova [ 2 ]” playlist that I made some time ago. I have no idea how this is possible. I retitled my “Mari Kruchkova [ 2 ]” playlist as “Victoria Baez”. You Tube censorship probably caused this odd situation.
My “Victoria Baez” playlist is at my channel, “Andrew Roller”. Today, You Tube deleted ( yet another ) Mari Kruchkova video from the channel “Victoria Baez” ( somehow ). This deleted Mari’s video from my “Victoria Baez” playlist.
3. Mom&Mari.
Ustina Abramova’s current You Tube channels are:
1. Tina
2. Tina Backstage.
HELP WITH FOREIGN NAMES
Do you have difficulty remembering foreign names? I do. My suggestion: deconstruct a foreign name into English cues. With regard to Ustina, one can do the following:
1. Ustina equals the words “Us” plus “tina”.
2. Abramova equals the words “A” plus “bra” plus “mova”. “Mova” reminds me of pidgin English in Hawaii. If I were considered speedy there, someone might say, “Andrew Roller is a fast mova”. The ‘word’ “mova” would be meant as an equivalent for “mover” in English.
NEW GIRLS!
New girls continue to appear on You Tube. I’ve added a few of these to my You Tube channel, “Andrew Roller”. I’ve added them as “mirror” playlists. That is, I hope to one day collect all that channel’s videos. ( Any playlist credits views of a given video to the channel’s creator; that is, the girl. ) As yet, my new playlists function as bookmarks. They contain just one video each. If you see a girl you like, head from my channel to hers to enjoy all her videos.
Update: You Tube now limits the number of playlists that one can create. As a result, I had to destroy a number of my “bookmark” playlists, that I mention above. I had to dump most of the new girls into my playlist titled, “Girls, women”.
With regard to any girl’s channel, You Tube now routinely makes its own “Mix” playlists of such. Formerly, You Tube’s playlists were a jumble of allegedly related videos from various channels. Now, probably due to me, such “Mix” playlists are pure. That is, a “Mix” playlist of Ustina Abramova videos contains 50 or so videos featuring ( only ) Ustina Abramova.
As far as I know, I was the first person to create “pure” mirror playlists on You Tube. At least, I was the first to do so for the channels of beautiful young girls!
WHEN THEFT IS OK
I have a playlist called “My_ Home”. It is a tribute playlist to the benighted girl who owns the “My_ Home” channel. You Tube’s censorship rampage brutalized this 11 or 12-year-old girl a number of times. ( As of today, she’s about 12-years-old. )
Logging onto You Tube one day, I saw my “My_ Home” playlist on You Tube’s “Home” page. Every video I’d put in my playlist was there, in the order I’d chosen. Except, the playlist was credited to You Tube! A few days later, You Tube rearranged the videos I’d chosen, and added their own choices.
My own “My_ Home” playlist was not tampered with by You Tube. They simply stole it, and gave themselves credit for it. I took their theft as a compliment. I didn’t complain about it.
This act gave me an insight into You Tube. Some people who work there are artists like myself, and other creators. They admire what You Tube’s customers are able to do. These are the folks who looked at what I’d done with my “My_ Home” tribute playlist, and copied it.
Then there is a different group of people who work at You Tube. They are You Tube’s censors, led by You Tube’s CEO Susan Woj-kickme. These folks are straight out of Hell. They are the Nazis of the modern art world. They’ve caused an untold amount of emotional distress to bright, productive ( and beautiful ) young girls. It’s a shame that a bucket of water can’t rid us of this gang of witches. Perhaps their innate evil will cause them to melt, like Oz’s Wicked Witch of the West. These folks might want to remember that every day they get older. So do their victims. The girls Susan Woj-kickme is abusing are her future medical care team.
NEW FROM “DANATAR”
“OTAbIX ( etc. )” is a new video from Dana Taranova. The video is on You Tube. It is impossible for me to render this video’s lengthy Cyrillic title in English.
You might wonder why Dana ( and other girls, like Mari ) write their titles in Cyrillic. Each is a native speaker of a Cyrillic language. However, Dana and Mari were giving their videos English titles until a year ago. That’s when You Tube’s latest censorship rampage began. Hoping to avoid You Tube’s ire, girls like Dana and Mari began giving their videos Cyrillic titles.
Go to Dana’s You Tube channel “Dana Tar Life”. Look for the following video ( cover image ) of Dana. She’s in a bikini, sitting on an inflatable unicorn, in a pool. This is just one of Dana’s awesome new videos. You’ll want to move fast. You Tube’s censorship prudes will likely delete Dana’s video, give her channel ( another ) “strike”, or terminate her whole channel.
Dana’s video is, of course, innocuous.
Dana’s “unicorn/bikini” video has a watermark on it, throughout the entire video. The watermark is smack in the middle of the screen. It reads, “www.danatar.best”. I complained to Dana about the watermark. However, the watermark does put You Tube on notice. Now, however much they abuse her, they can’t terminate her “Official site”.
Currently, “www.danatar.best” appears to be akin to a “billboard” site. My hope is that it will one day hold all of Dana’s videos.
A WONDERFUL VIDEO!
I just discovered a new girl on You Tube. She is:
Nastasya Lebedeva - HaCTaCbR Ne6eAeBa. This is also the name of her channel. The latter part of her name, and channel, was rendered from Cyrillic into English by me, on an English language keyboard.
Nastasya is blonde. About 13-years-old, she’s another lovely ambassador from Cyrillic lands. I adore Nastasya’s video, “TRY ON HAUL MY FAVORITE SWIMSUITS”. Catch this video while you can. Given You Tube’s nuthouse censorship campaign, this video won’t be on You Tube for long. Make a screen recording of Nastasya’s video to save it for your later viewing. See my earlier blog posts for information on how to make a screen recording.
WHOM TO HATE
1. Child Molesters.
2. Police Officers.
3. White People
4. Etc.
This constitutes “the pursuit of happiness” in America in 2020.
AND IN THE END...
“If you want to control a population, use fear.”
- Adam Carolla, Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox News Channel, September 8, 2020.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 40
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 40, version 3.0
Date Written: September 10, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 40
Editorial Thunder presents...
Milana Chasingsun BANNED
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by Andrew Roller
You Tube’s atrocities against art continue.
Plus: Danatar’s “Official site”!
And: Bikini videos by Danatar and Nastasya Lebedeva.
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“... have you ... no sense of decency?” a critic once asked Senator Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy made his name staging witch hunts in 1950’s America in search of communists.
Modernly, I want to ask You Tube what the critic asked McCarthy. You Tube, owned by Google, continues to bully children. It specifically targets young girls. In each instance, the only information that You Tube provides, to the public, is that it has “deleted” a video, or “terminated” a channel.
When my You Tube channel was terminated, twice, by You Tube, I got little relevant information from them. The same was true when You Tube deleted one of my playlists. What You Tube said about its playlist appeal process turned out to be a lie. I never heard back from the playlist people. This despite a publicly posted promise by them to answer appeals quickly. Nor did I get my deleted playlist back.
The channel “Milana Chasingsun” was the latest attempt by Milana ( from Minsk ) to establish a presence on You Tube. She has been trying to do this for longer than I’ve known about her. All her videos are, as she says, “normal family videos”. Nonetheless, You Tube’s staff has terminated every one of Milana’s channels. They also have terminated channels by members of her family.
Sadly, Milana sometimes feels America, the country, is attacking her. She figures Americans are prejudiced against the people of Belarus, where she proudly lives. According to ( American ) political theorists, a strength of America is its “soft power”. Folks abroad may feel threatened by America’s “hard power”. That is, by its huge military. Yet foreigners like American culture. Who doesn’t feel affection for Coca-Cola, Disneyland, and Hollywood?
Or You Tube? Nope. I’ve watched, shocked, as You Tube has tormented many girls on its platform. Dana Taranova, Mari Kruchkova, Ustina Abramova, Daniela Lapovok, and Milana ( from Minsk ) are among You Tube’s many young victims. You Tube isn’t just psychologically abusing girls. It is gutting the goodwill that America is said to have built in the world. “Fuck You, America” gets very easy to say if You Tube keeps screwing you.
YOU TUBE - HIDING THE TRUTH
I have been on You Tube for a year. In the past, when You Tube terminated a channel, that channel’s icon would linger in a list of channels on my “Subscriptions” page. No longer. Now, when You Tube terminates a channel, such as “Milana Chasingsun”, that channel’s icon vanishes from my “Subscriptions” page. It is as if “Milana Chasingsun” never existed.
The same is true on my “Library” page. Today, You Tube deleted a Mari Kruchkova video. The “cover photo” ( only ) for this video remained on my “Library” page for a little while. ( Under “Search watch history”. ) Then it was gone.
Obviously, You Tube wouldn’t be hiding their actions if they felt proud about them. Some idiot staffers at You Tube are probably proud of their censorship. After all, Nazis proudly killed Jews. However, the people who manage You Tube’s operating system must feel ashamed of what is happening. That’s because You Tube is inflicting psychological harm on girls. This abuse surely has a physiological impact. If nothing else, some girls must cry about this abuse. Hence, just as the Nazis tried to erase all evidence of the Holocaust, You Tube is hiding its tracks as it abuses girls, and its other customers.
BAD CHANGES AT YOU TUBE
Recently, You Tube changed the function and design of its operating system. When I saw this, I said, “Uh oh”. I was pretty sure a bad organization like You Tube would make changes that are bad. They did. The changes follow:
1. The playlist limit has been reduced. Formerly, I could put 1,000 videos in a playlist. That is now cut to somewhere under 600 videos. I trusted You Tube to maintain the 1,000 limit. Now, although my playlists might have 1,000 videos in them, I can only access several hundred videos. The remaining videos exist as “ghost” videos. They are present, but I can’t see them. I will only be able to access them when I get rid of the videos that I can see.
Is there a nefarious reason for this change to the playlist limit? As Sarah Impalin’ would say, “You betcha!” When You Tube deletes a video, I leave the “[ Deleted video ]” notice in my playlist. Soon, it becomes glaringly obvious to anyone looking at my playlist how cruel You Tube is. My playlists of Mari Kruchkova videos have been gutted by You Tube. The gutting continues. You’d think Mari was a fish, and You Tube a seafood butcher. ( You Tube deletes the videos from Mari’s channels. My playlists reflect the damage. )
Now, with the lower limit on how many videos a playlist can hold, I’ll have to delete all the “[ Deleted video ]” notices. ( Numerically, a “[ Deleted video ]” notice counts the same as a video that hasn’t been deleted. )
You might suggest that I simply put the “excess” videos into a new playlist. That would show you’re at the “grasshopper” level in divining You Tube’s deviltry. That’s because:
2. The number of allowable playlists has been reduced. It is still possible, over time, to create as many playlists as you want. Until, that is, it comes to putting videos into your playlists. To add a video to a playlist, you click open an informational box. That box holds the name of every one of your playlists.
Until, that is, you have “too many” playlists. ( Whatever that number is. You Tube doesn’t say, and I haven’t tried counting up all my playlists. ) When you have “too many” playlists, the informational box won’t hold the name of every one of your playlists. If you can’t see the name of a playlist, you can’t add any videos to it.
( Technically, you can still put a video into a playlist. However, you can’t do it by using the informational box. If you want to arrange your videos among playlists, it is essential to be able to swap them between your playlists, by using the informational box. )
Given the limit on playlists, guess what you have to do? Get rid of playlists! Only then will you be able to see the name of every one of your playlists in the informational box.
I just spent many hours getting rid of playlists from my channel. I dumped a number of disparate playlists into a single playlist. I did this for a number of my once ( tidily separate ) playlists. Videos about the movie “Planet of the Apes” now reside in the same playlist as videos about the movie “The Terminator”. Videos about “Star Trek, The Starlost, and Star Wars” are now all smooshed into the same playlist. How many videos a playlist can hold has been drastically reduced.
Hence, the upshot is this:
A. You Tube hides the evidence of its censorship rampage.
B. You are reduced to a consumer. You Tube wants you to binge on videos. Don’t think! Just gorge. Can’t recall what you watched when your binge is over? That’s great! Just consume, consume, consume, and pay You Tube its monthly fee, or watch lots of ads. You Tube, used as Google intends it to be, is the new opiate of the people.
IS YOU TUBE SPYING ON YOU?
If you own an iPad ( or, likely, an iPhone ) I’d like you to try something.
1. On your iPad’s home screen, tap on “Settings”.
2. In “Settings”, look to the list on the left side of your screen. I am speaking of the list under the word, “Settings”.
3. Scroll to the bottom of this list.
4. Here, you’ll likely see:
A. YouTube.
B. YouTube Music.
C. YouTube TV.
D. YT Kids.
5. Tap on “YouTube”.
6. A large informational box opens to the right. It is titled, “YouTube”.
7. Under “YouTube” is written: “ALLOW YOUTUBE TO ACCESS”.
8. Under this is written: “Photos”. Tap on “Photos”.
9. This takes you to a second informational box. It is titled, “Photos”. Under “Photos” is written: “ALLOW PHOTOS ACCESS”. Note that the word “TO” is conveniently omitted. This obscures what You Tube is up to.
10. Under “ALLOW PHOTOS ACCESS” is written:
Never
Read and Write
Guess what the default position is? Yep! I discovered that You Tube, owned by Google, has been secretly filching every photo and video I’ve ever made, with my iPhone and iPad. ( As best I can tell. If the situation is otherwise, You Tube can supply me with an instruction manual for their service, for which I am paying a monthly fee. )
Fortunately, I don’t have any photos of, say, Brooke Shields naked at age 10. I only have photos of Kamala Devil Harris.
11. Tap on “Never” to stop You Tube from stealing your photos and videos.
HOT OFF THE PRESS
You Tube’s ongoing censorship rampage is so fierce that it’s running ahead of my ability to report on it. However, I have some changes to report that aren’t directly related to You Tube’s Prude Blitzkrieg. They follow.
Dana Taranova now has an “Official site”. It is:
www dot danatar dot best
Dana’s current You Tube channels are:
1. Danatar Tar ( formerly Danatar ).
2. Danatar Backstage
3. Dana Tar Life
4. Danatar Gym ( formerly Dana Tar Gym ).
Mari Kruchkova’s current You Tube channels are:
1. Mari Kruchkova
2. Victoria Baez ( formerly Mari Kruchkova [ 2 ] ). I added the [ 2 ] for my own use.
None of the “Mari Kruchkova [ 2 ]” videos are at the channel “Victoria Baez”. They linger in a “Mari Kruchkova [ 2 ]” playlist that I made some time ago. I have no idea how this is possible. I retitled my “Mari Kruchkova [ 2 ]” playlist as “Victoria Baez”. You Tube censorship probably caused this odd situation.
My “Victoria Baez” playlist is at my channel, “Andrew Roller”. Today, You Tube deleted ( yet another ) Mari Kruchkova video from the channel “Victoria Baez” ( somehow ). This deleted Mari’s video from my “Victoria Baez” playlist.
3. Mom&Mari.
Ustina Abramova’s current You Tube channels are:
1. Tina
2. Tina Backstage.
HELP WITH FOREIGN NAMES
Do you have difficulty remembering foreign names? I do. My suggestion: deconstruct a foreign name into English cues. With regard to Ustina, one can do the following:
1. Ustina equals the words “Us” plus “tina”.
2. Abramova equals the words “A” plus “bra” plus “mova”. “Mova” reminds me of pidgin English in Hawaii. If I were considered speedy there, someone might say, “Andrew Roller is a fast mova”. The ‘word’ “mova” would be meant as an equivalent for “mover” in English.
NEW GIRLS!
New girls continue to appear on You Tube. I’ve added a few of these to my You Tube channel, “Andrew Roller”. I’ve added them as “mirror” playlists. That is, I hope to one day collect all that channel’s videos. ( Any playlist credits views of a given video to the channel’s creator; that is, the girl. ) As yet, my new playlists function as bookmarks. They contain just one video each. If you see a girl you like, head from my channel to hers to enjoy all her videos.
Update: You Tube now limits the number of playlists that one can create. As a result, I had to destroy a number of my “bookmark” playlists, that I mention above. I had to dump most of the new girls into my playlist titled, “Girls, women”.
With regard to any girl’s channel, You Tube now routinely makes its own “Mix” playlists of such. Formerly, You Tube’s playlists were a jumble of allegedly related videos from various channels. Now, probably due to me, such “Mix” playlists are pure. That is, a “Mix” playlist of Ustina Abramova videos contains 50 or so videos featuring ( only ) Ustina Abramova.
As far as I know, I was the first person to create “pure” mirror playlists on You Tube. At least, I was the first to do so for the channels of beautiful young girls!
WHEN THEFT IS OK
I have a playlist called “My_ Home”. It is a tribute playlist to the benighted girl who owns the “My_ Home” channel. You Tube’s censorship rampage brutalized this 11 or 12-year-old girl a number of times. ( As of today, she’s about 12-years-old. )
Logging onto You Tube one day, I saw my “My_ Home” playlist on You Tube’s “Home” page. Every video I’d put in my playlist was there, in the order I’d chosen. Except, the playlist was credited to You Tube! A few days later, You Tube rearranged the videos I’d chosen, and added their own choices.
My own “My_ Home” playlist was not tampered with by You Tube. They simply stole it, and gave themselves credit for it. I took their theft as a compliment. I didn’t complain about it.
This act gave me an insight into You Tube. Some people who work there are artists like myself, and other creators. They admire what You Tube’s customers are able to do. These are the folks who looked at what I’d done with my “My_ Home” tribute playlist, and copied it.
Then there is a different group of people who work at You Tube. They are You Tube’s censors, led by You Tube’s CEO Susan Woj-kickme. These folks are straight out of Hell. They are the Nazis of the modern art world. They’ve caused an untold amount of emotional distress to bright, productive ( and beautiful ) young girls. It’s a shame that a bucket of water can’t rid us of this gang of witches. Perhaps their innate evil will cause them to melt, like Oz’s Wicked Witch of the West. These folks might want to remember that every day they get older. So do their victims. The girls Susan Woj-kickme is abusing are her future medical care team.
NEW FROM “DANATAR”
“OTAbIX ( etc. )” is a new video from Dana Taranova. The video is on You Tube. It is impossible for me to render this video’s lengthy Cyrillic title in English.
You might wonder why Dana ( and other girls, like Mari ) write their titles in Cyrillic. Each is a native speaker of a Cyrillic language. However, Dana and Mari were giving their videos English titles until a year ago. That’s when You Tube’s latest censorship rampage began. Hoping to avoid You Tube’s ire, girls like Dana and Mari began giving their videos Cyrillic titles.
Go to Dana’s You Tube channel “Dana Tar Life”. Look for the following video ( cover image ) of Dana. She’s in a bikini, sitting on an inflatable unicorn, in a pool. This is just one of Dana’s awesome new videos. You’ll want to move fast. You Tube’s censorship prudes will likely delete Dana’s video, give her channel ( another ) “strike”, or terminate her whole channel.
Dana’s video is, of course, innocuous.
Dana’s “unicorn/bikini” video has a watermark on it, throughout the entire video. The watermark is smack in the middle of the screen. It reads, “www.danatar.best”. I complained to Dana about the watermark. However, the watermark does put You Tube on notice. Now, however much they abuse her, they can’t terminate her “Official site”.
Currently, “www.danatar.best” appears to be akin to a “billboard” site. My hope is that it will one day hold all of Dana’s videos.
A WONDERFUL VIDEO!
I just discovered a new girl on You Tube. She is:
Nastasya Lebedeva - HaCTaCbR Ne6eAeBa. This is also the name of her channel. The latter part of her name, and channel, was rendered from Cyrillic into English by me, on an English language keyboard.
Nastasya is blonde. About 13-years-old, she’s another lovely ambassador from Cyrillic lands. I adore Nastasya’s video, “TRY ON HAUL MY FAVORITE SWIMSUITS”. Catch this video while you can. Given You Tube’s nuthouse censorship campaign, this video won’t be on You Tube for long. Make a screen recording of Nastasya’s video to save it for your later viewing. See my earlier blog posts for information on how to make a screen recording.
WHOM TO HATE
1. Child Molesters.
2. Police Officers.
3. White People
4. Etc.
This constitutes “the pursuit of happiness” in America in 2020.
AND IN THE END...
“If you want to control a population, use fear.”
- Adam Carolla, Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox News Channel, September 8, 2020.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 40
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 40, version 3.0
Date Written: September 10, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Damage Report
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ET 39
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Damage Report
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by Andrew Roller
You Tube terminates more channels, deletes more videos.
Plus: Fourteen-year-old Mari does “the toilet roll challenge”.
And: YouTube policies > Child Safety on YouTube, The Parody.
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“Unfortunately, I have to file a complaint with practically every newly posted Video after a short time so that it is reactivated because the Videos never violate the Guidelines as YT first claims, the whole Game is slowly becoming too tedious for me ..!”
- Milana of Minsk, Belarus. Posted on her You Tube channel “Milana Chasingsun” at her video, “a small Lifes”. This is a new “Milana Chasingsun” You Tube channel. You Tube terminated the old “Milana Chasingsun” channel.
I’d been away from You Tube for awhile. Now, I’m back. It appalls me to report that, in my absence of several months, You Tube has annihilated more art.
It is only possible for me to report what I know. Below, I tell what is gone. Also, I share what replacements are available on You Tube, if any. A “replacement” may be little more than a video or two posted by someone, for whatever reason, to You Tube.
1. The channel “Milana Chasingsun” was terminated. A new “Milana Chasingsun” channel is now available. Most of its content consists of new videos. Milana’s old videos are, apparently, lost from You Tube forever.
2. The channel “Milana from Minsk” was terminated.
3. The channel “Milana - Minsk - benapycb” was terminated.
4. The channel “Milana Phoenix” was terminated. This was a fanboy channel. The channel “Milana Mermaid” is now available. My assessment of “Milana Mermaid” is that it is owned by the same fanboy who owned the “Milana Phoenix” channel.
I do not know anything about the fanboy, including his gender. I can provide a theory, based on my research. This theory is prefaced by the word, “allegedly”.
The fanboy makes screen recordings of Milana’s videos. Then, he posts Milana’s videos to his own You Tube channel. ( Allegedly, his theft is widespread, covering many girls and internet sites. )
Milana is infuriated by the fanboy’s actions. So are some other girls who post videos, on You Tube or elsewhere.
However, some videos that the fanboy posts appear to be ones that he put together himself. The images that he uses, of Milana, are stolen. However, he is a brilliant compiler of photos of Milana. If you are in need of a photo editor for a website featuring young, beautiful girls, you should hire this fanboy right away.
My great fear with regard to this fanboy is that he will come to some sort of tragic end. Such is often the case for troubled geniuses who fail to find proper appreciation in life.
5. The channel “867-5309” was terminated. Prior to his termination, the owner of “867-5309” invited viewers to join him on “Mega”. I tried finding this site. All I located was “mega-millions dot com”, a gambling site. I asked “867-5309” for information about “Mega”. He did not provide me with further guidance.
Searching today, I brought up this:
“MEGA is a secure, user-controlled end-to-end encrypted cloud storage and communication service with 50 GB* free storage space. This extension will allow you to install MEGA into your browser to reduce loading times, improve download performance and strengthen security”.
The star ( * ) in the above paragraph was not inserted by me. Google search term: mega.
Pursuing “MEGA” further is beyond my ability at this time.
I do not know anything about the fanboy, including his gender. However, “867-5309” strikes me as quite a confident fellow. He is a genius at commenting on girls’ videos. If you’re looking to hire someone with a choice sense of humor, this is your man.
6. The channel “Julia Majewska” was terminated. A replacement is the channel “Javier Flores”.
7. Every video in Dana Taranova’s channel, “Danatar Backstage”, was deleted by You Tube. “Danatar Backstage” continues with new videos. In addition, many other Dana Taranova videos, on her various channels, were deleted by You Tube. In the case of a number of videos, You Tube forced Dana to relabel them as private. Such a once public video is now called a “[ Private video ]”. Many of Dana’s terminated and “private” videos had existed on You Tube for years.
Dana’s channel “Dana Tar” no longer exists on You Tube. Given You Tube’s ongoing censorship rampage, which has lasted for over a year, a reasonable conclusion is this: You Tube terminated “Dana Tar”.
Dana’s channel “Danatar” has been renamed “Danatar Tar”.
8. Mari Kruchkova’s channel, “Mari Kruchkova [ 2 ]”, has been, in effect, terminated. It was probably terminated by You Tube’s staff. If you created a playlist of this channel, you have its extant videos. These are now credited to the channel Victoria Baez. If you did not create a playlist of “Mari Kruchkova [ 2 ]”, you do not have access to its extant videos. That’s because none of the videos are, in fact, available at the channel Victoria Baez.
NOTE: The “[ 2 ]” in “Mari Kruchkova [ 2 ]” is something that I inserted in my own playlist’s title of “Mari Kruchkova [ 2 ]”.
NOTE: My playlist “Mari Kruchkova [ 2 ]”, now called “Victoria Baez”, is available at my You Tube channel of “Andrew Roller”.
NOTE: As I was working on my You Tube channel today, You Tube deleted ( yet another ) video from my playlist of “Mari Kruchkova [ 2 ]” videos. That is, You Tube deleted it from my playlist that is now called “Victoria Baez”. You Tube claimed Mari’s innocuous video violated their “Terms of Service”. In her video, Mari sat on a sofa in a dress. She unwrapped a package. Then she displayed and discussed the packages’s contents, which consisted of girl-themed items.
NOTE: You Tube did not delete Mari’s video from my channel of “Andrew Roller”. You Tube deleted it from the channel “Victoria Baez”.
9. “Tina” ( Ustina Abramova ) had at least one video deleted by You Tube. It is important for me to point something out. A “[ Deleted video ]” notice only remains for so long. Then it disappears.
10. “Daniela Lapovok” had at least one video deleted by You Tube.
I’ve learned several lessons researching this article. They are:
1. You Tube is horribly prudish. Someone needs to tell its vandals of culture that this is the 21st century. We aren’t living in the Victorian era. Also, You Tube, and its parent company Google, are American companies. They are not located in a theocracy like Iran.
2. You Tube’s censorship is arbitrary. A Milana ( from Minsk ) video that was deleted featured her, fully clothed, sitting at a piano in her home. She played the piano for one minute. Then the video ended. In that instance, the video itself was deleted. Later, it was deleted again, when her entire channel was terminated.
A video featuring Dana Taranova in a blouse and long pants was deleted. In the video, Dana performed innocuous gym exercises. In another deleted video, Dana was wearing a knee-length skirt. She did a brief dance routine in a store, before browsing the store’s merchandise, and buying some clothes.
Videos of Dana in various two-piece outfits were deleted. Other similar videos remain. The same is true of Dana’s bikini videos.
A video of Ustina Abramova, in a knee-length dress on a swing, was deleted yet again, this time for good. ( A new video of Tina on a swing has now been posted. I suppose this is due to the fact that Tina remains Tina, and the swing remains in her home. )
You Tube claims that it is enforcing its “Community Guidelines”. It isn’t. Which video is deleted is determined by which bullying You Tube staffer is on the job.
Writing this article, I felt like an idiot. I should not have to waste my time parsing which innocuous video ( or channel ) dies, and which lives.
3. You Tube’s censorship regime is bound to fail. Prudery on the scale that You Tube is practicing it never works. It collapses from its own hypocrisy, while inviting its demise.
4. You can’t stop a preteen or teenage girl. I get the sense that girls who’ve been active on You Tube age out of it by about 16 years old. However, until then, such girls are very determined to maintain, and expand, their social media platforms. This includes clawing their way back into You Tube no matter how abusively the company treats them. Much is said about “Girl Power”. I have never seen girls practice it so vociferously as they do on You Tube. Such willpower would have confined Hitler to Munich, and would have kept Attila the Hun beyond the Danube.
THE BEAT THAT BEATS THEM ALL
Many professional journalists occupy themselves with a “political beat”. At the pinnacle of this beat, a journalist covers Donald Trump, or Joe Biden. But ask yourself this. Would you want to see Trump or Biden in a bikini? I shudder at the thought.
That’s why, as an unlearned “journalist”, I prefer the “girl beat”. Sure, I’m unpaid, but I get to pursue, I mean, cover beautiful young girls. Girls in bikinis! I even get You Tube hearts from them sometimes. I’ll take a heart from a lovely girl over a politician’s autograph any day!
Mostly, You Tube hearts are no longer available. That’s because You Tube has turned off the ability to post “Comments” on girls’ channels. However, You Tube is not the internet. Most girls on You Tube have a variety of social media platforms.
Working alone, I am unable to keep up with, or even know about, all the beautiful girls on all the internet platforms. For no reason Facebook ever explained, I was banned from Facebook a year ago. This also banned me from Instagram, where I’ve never been, since Facebook owns Instagram.
That’s where you come in. We are told today that many journalists are unemployed. Also, I hope I’ve shown that one doesn’t need much talent to be a self-styled journalist. Indeed, working for a propaganda outfit like CNN or MSNBC doesn’t make one a journalist. Also, I’ve seen instances where Fox News hosts are ignorant. A space probe recently left our solar system. A published, venerable Fox News host claimed, on air, that the space probe had “left our galaxy”.
Many more reporters are needed on the “girl beat”.
ROLLER’S STYLEBOOK
A person is “on” a television channel.
A person is “in” a You Tube channel.
Speaking generally, one should say, Dana Taranova is “on” You Tube.
However, I’ve often found it best to say that someone is “in” a particular You Tube channel.
Let’s say I’m creating a playlist of a channel. I start on the page called “Subscriptions”. There, I tap on a channel’s icon to call it up. I add that channel’s videos to my playlist. I am still on the page called “Subscriptions”.
Have I added all that channel’s videos to my playlist? Nope. Still on the “Subscriptions” page, I then tap on “View channel” at the top of the page. That takes me to the channel’s home page. There, I tap on “VIDEOS”. This is at the top of the page. I then have to go through the entire list of videos again. Inevitably, there will be videos here that weren’t on the “Subscriptions” page.
Am I done now? Nope. Next, I must tap on “PLAYLIST”. This is at the top of the channel’s home page. Now, I have to go through every video in every playlist. I usually add more videos to my own playlist here.
As you can see, I was not interacting with the videos of someone “on” You Tube. I had to dig through multiple layers of a single You Tube channel to find all the relevant videos. That’s why, on You Tube, I say that someone is “in” a particular You Tube channel.
AND IN THE END...
The bikini is an old-fashioned swimsuit. It was invented in 1960. That was six decades ago. Every day, weather permitting, girls wear bikinis.
Traditionally, Milana ( of Minsk ) wears bikinis in her water-themed videos. However, in a recent video, she’s wearing a one-piece swimsuit. It has vertical black and white stripes. She looks like a zebra. I can’t stand seeing her that way. I don’t think she likes it, either. She’s bowing to the sexually frustrated ladies, and their male collaborators, who run You Tube. ( And who are running it into the ground. )
Many of Dana Taranova’s videos featuring her femininity were deleted by You Tube. At least one of her channels was terminated. In the wake of that, Dana mostly uploaded gym videos. Instead of her usual feminine gym outfits, she wore boyish clothing. In essence, You Tube was forcing her to dress and act like a boy.
On the channel 867-5309, Mari Kruchkova was uploading ballet videos, and other such modest fare. ( She was nonetheless repeatedly attacked by You Tube’s staff. ) Mari’s “generic” videos are OK. However, after I’d seen a billion of these, I was wearying of them.
Then I saw a Mari video on the ( now banned ) channel 867-5309. I call this video “the toilet roll challenge”. It begins with Mari holding a roll of toilet paper. She takes it in both her hands. Holding the roll, she stretches her arms straight above her head. Then, she drops the toilet roll, and hopes to catch it by stooping and reaching for it between her legs. The result? Her bottom strikes the toilet roll.
You’d think that Mari would accept this as a fact of nature. If you stoop and reach between your legs, your bottom is going to jut backward. It will strike the toilet roll before it ever falls to the level of your hands.
Mari refused to accept this fact. She kept repeating the challenge. It was hilarious to watch her become angrily dismayed every time she failed to catch the toilet roll.
However, Mari is 14 years old. A persistent girl might overcome Nature at that age.
In her video, an interlude follows. Here, Mari puts the toilet roll on top of her head. With it there, she does a short, benignly sexy dance.
A God somewhere must have noticed. The next time Mari tried to catch the toilet roll, she succeeded! Thrilled with her success, Mari celebrated by strutting out of the room. ( Looking incredibly beautiful. )
Mari’s video, as posted, ran at a ‘fast forward’ speed. However, using an option on You Tube, I ran Mari’s video at 0.25 speed. At that speed, I was able to study and ( greatly ) enjoy her video.
Mari’s toilet roll video reoriented my view of You Tube. “No more ballet videos”, I told myself. “I want to see these girls as they really are, not Victorian era versions of them that You Tube mandates.” That’s the main reason I quit following girls on You Tube.
After a few months, I began to feel lonely. I started to wonder if I should relieve my loneliness by using “race” as a cover to rob, loot, steal, burn buildings, and shoot the odd Trump supporter. Plus meet future rape victims in a “CHOP zone”.
So, I’ll be watching more of Mari’s videos, and those of other girls on You Tube. It irks me to be stuck with prude videos from girls who can be, well, super hot. Nothing any of these girls are doing is remotely illegal, when shown in a video. It would be nice if the girls had an internet platform where they could express their true selves. I have trouble lighting a building on fire when Mari is dancing on my iPhone.
You Tube isn’t the only internet platform that abusively censors. Milana ( of Minsk ) was terminated by an outfit called “boosty dot to”. A “boosty” site is, at best, functional in a rudimentary way. Yet their employees lord themselves over their customers, in an abusive manner, like You Tube.
Facebook was reprehensively abusive toward me. As of the time Facebook kicked me out, they had no appeal process at all. Apparently, they still don’t. Instagram exists solely at Mark Fuckerberg’s whim. I heard that Fuckerberg is attempting to financially starve Instagram. Fuckerberg doesn’t buy companies to help them grow. He buys them to kill them, so that Facebook will dominate the internet.
Hence, an internet platform is needed where people can communicate without censorship. If it’s a company located in America, the only limitations should be those of the First Amendment.
Sadly, internet censorship extends beyond internet platforms. One must find an internet host on which to build a platform. I researched this about a year ago. Many internet hosts ban anything that is “harmful to minors”. None of them define what that means. I could post a video about the Second Amendment, and an internet host might ban it as “harmful to minors”. Or, I could post a video about race, and find that banned as “harmful to minors”.
Hence, one needs both an internet host and an internet platform that don’t censor.
A POSTSCRIPT...
( A parody of “YouTube policies > Child Safety on YouTube” )
You Tube’s Rules for Girls’ Videos:
1. Don’t film anything in a bedroom. Any bedroom. Sit on mommy’s lap, in your formal dining room, and tell us a Bible story. ( Not Adam and Eve. )
2. Be safe! Wear a potato sack. Better yet, wear a burka. After all, children are made to be seen and not heard. Except on You Tube. There, girls are made to be unseen and unheard.
3. Don’t perform any “bodily contortions” ( gymnast moves ). Don’t do ASMR. ( ASMR entails listening to natural sounds, like birds chirping. ) Sit as still as possible. In your world, only mommy’s voice matters. Ignore everything else.
4. Repeat after me. “I am not a girl. I am a boy.” Always strive to be as much like a boy as possible. You might wonder who gets to act like a girl. Well, boys, of course! This is modern America.
5. Love Google. Since Google owns You Tube, Love You Tube. Don’t ask for presents for Christmas. Only rich white men like Larry Page and Sergey Brin need ( yet more ) presents, like multiple private jets. Susan Woj-kickme needs presents too. Tell mommy, “I want Google stock for Christmas”. ( Called “Alphabet” by stock brokers. )
( I’ve been on You Tube for a year. While one’s imagination can run wild with supposed “dangers” to children, I’ve never seen anything on You Tube that is the least bit objectionable. You Tube is vociferously “policing” a problem that doesn’t exist. What does exist is the ongoing glorification of the egos of You Tube’s staff, at the expense of its customers. )
ABBREVIATIONS
1. YT. To the uninformed, this stands for “You Tube”. To the enlightened ( and abused ), this stands for “Yuck, Totally!”
2. CHOP zone. This does not stand for “Colored Haters of Police”. Nor does it stand for “Caucasian Haters of Police”. Though, by the conduct of those involved, one might think that CHOP does stand for hating police.
When it ceased being the CHAZ zone, whatever that was, CHOP meant, “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone”.
I’m still waiting for a zone called the Pedophile Utopian Kollective Environment.
3. ASMR. “Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response”. Right after famine, disease, and war, comes Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. That’s why girls can’t do it on You Tube, but women can.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 39
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 39, version 2.0
Date Written: September 10, 2020.
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ET 39
Editorial Thunder presents...
Damage Report
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by Andrew Roller
You Tube terminates more channels, deletes more videos.
Plus: Fourteen-year-old Mari does “the toilet roll challenge”.
And: YouTube policies > Child Safety on YouTube, The Parody.
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“Unfortunately, I have to file a complaint with practically every newly posted Video after a short time so that it is reactivated because the Videos never violate the Guidelines as YT first claims, the whole Game is slowly becoming too tedious for me ..!”
- Milana of Minsk, Belarus. Posted on her You Tube channel “Milana Chasingsun” at her video, “a small Lifes”. This is a new “Milana Chasingsun” You Tube channel. You Tube terminated the old “Milana Chasingsun” channel.
I’d been away from You Tube for awhile. Now, I’m back. It appalls me to report that, in my absence of several months, You Tube has annihilated more art.
It is only possible for me to report what I know. Below, I tell what is gone. Also, I share what replacements are available on You Tube, if any. A “replacement” may be little more than a video or two posted by someone, for whatever reason, to You Tube.
1. The channel “Milana Chasingsun” was terminated. A new “Milana Chasingsun” channel is now available. Most of its content consists of new videos. Milana’s old videos are, apparently, lost from You Tube forever.
2. The channel “Milana from Minsk” was terminated.
3. The channel “Milana - Minsk - benapycb” was terminated.
4. The channel “Milana Phoenix” was terminated. This was a fanboy channel. The channel “Milana Mermaid” is now available. My assessment of “Milana Mermaid” is that it is owned by the same fanboy who owned the “Milana Phoenix” channel.
I do not know anything about the fanboy, including his gender. I can provide a theory, based on my research. This theory is prefaced by the word, “allegedly”.
The fanboy makes screen recordings of Milana’s videos. Then, he posts Milana’s videos to his own You Tube channel. ( Allegedly, his theft is widespread, covering many girls and internet sites. )
Milana is infuriated by the fanboy’s actions. So are some other girls who post videos, on You Tube or elsewhere.
However, some videos that the fanboy posts appear to be ones that he put together himself. The images that he uses, of Milana, are stolen. However, he is a brilliant compiler of photos of Milana. If you are in need of a photo editor for a website featuring young, beautiful girls, you should hire this fanboy right away.
My great fear with regard to this fanboy is that he will come to some sort of tragic end. Such is often the case for troubled geniuses who fail to find proper appreciation in life.
5. The channel “867-5309” was terminated. Prior to his termination, the owner of “867-5309” invited viewers to join him on “Mega”. I tried finding this site. All I located was “mega-millions dot com”, a gambling site. I asked “867-5309” for information about “Mega”. He did not provide me with further guidance.
Searching today, I brought up this:
“MEGA is a secure, user-controlled end-to-end encrypted cloud storage and communication service with 50 GB* free storage space. This extension will allow you to install MEGA into your browser to reduce loading times, improve download performance and strengthen security”.
The star ( * ) in the above paragraph was not inserted by me. Google search term: mega.
Pursuing “MEGA” further is beyond my ability at this time.
I do not know anything about the fanboy, including his gender. However, “867-5309” strikes me as quite a confident fellow. He is a genius at commenting on girls’ videos. If you’re looking to hire someone with a choice sense of humor, this is your man.
6. The channel “Julia Majewska” was terminated. A replacement is the channel “Javier Flores”.
7. Every video in Dana Taranova’s channel, “Danatar Backstage”, was deleted by You Tube. “Danatar Backstage” continues with new videos. In addition, many other Dana Taranova videos, on her various channels, were deleted by You Tube. In the case of a number of videos, You Tube forced Dana to relabel them as private. Such a once public video is now called a “[ Private video ]”. Many of Dana’s terminated and “private” videos had existed on You Tube for years.
Dana’s channel “Dana Tar” no longer exists on You Tube. Given You Tube’s ongoing censorship rampage, which has lasted for over a year, a reasonable conclusion is this: You Tube terminated “Dana Tar”.
Dana’s channel “Danatar” has been renamed “Danatar Tar”.
8. Mari Kruchkova’s channel, “Mari Kruchkova [ 2 ]”, has been, in effect, terminated. It was probably terminated by You Tube’s staff. If you created a playlist of this channel, you have its extant videos. These are now credited to the channel Victoria Baez. If you did not create a playlist of “Mari Kruchkova [ 2 ]”, you do not have access to its extant videos. That’s because none of the videos are, in fact, available at the channel Victoria Baez.
NOTE: The “[ 2 ]” in “Mari Kruchkova [ 2 ]” is something that I inserted in my own playlist’s title of “Mari Kruchkova [ 2 ]”.
NOTE: My playlist “Mari Kruchkova [ 2 ]”, now called “Victoria Baez”, is available at my You Tube channel of “Andrew Roller”.
NOTE: As I was working on my You Tube channel today, You Tube deleted ( yet another ) video from my playlist of “Mari Kruchkova [ 2 ]” videos. That is, You Tube deleted it from my playlist that is now called “Victoria Baez”. You Tube claimed Mari’s innocuous video violated their “Terms of Service”. In her video, Mari sat on a sofa in a dress. She unwrapped a package. Then she displayed and discussed the packages’s contents, which consisted of girl-themed items.
NOTE: You Tube did not delete Mari’s video from my channel of “Andrew Roller”. You Tube deleted it from the channel “Victoria Baez”.
9. “Tina” ( Ustina Abramova ) had at least one video deleted by You Tube. It is important for me to point something out. A “[ Deleted video ]” notice only remains for so long. Then it disappears.
10. “Daniela Lapovok” had at least one video deleted by You Tube.
I’ve learned several lessons researching this article. They are:
1. You Tube is horribly prudish. Someone needs to tell its vandals of culture that this is the 21st century. We aren’t living in the Victorian era. Also, You Tube, and its parent company Google, are American companies. They are not located in a theocracy like Iran.
2. You Tube’s censorship is arbitrary. A Milana ( from Minsk ) video that was deleted featured her, fully clothed, sitting at a piano in her home. She played the piano for one minute. Then the video ended. In that instance, the video itself was deleted. Later, it was deleted again, when her entire channel was terminated.
A video featuring Dana Taranova in a blouse and long pants was deleted. In the video, Dana performed innocuous gym exercises. In another deleted video, Dana was wearing a knee-length skirt. She did a brief dance routine in a store, before browsing the store’s merchandise, and buying some clothes.
Videos of Dana in various two-piece outfits were deleted. Other similar videos remain. The same is true of Dana’s bikini videos.
A video of Ustina Abramova, in a knee-length dress on a swing, was deleted yet again, this time for good. ( A new video of Tina on a swing has now been posted. I suppose this is due to the fact that Tina remains Tina, and the swing remains in her home. )
You Tube claims that it is enforcing its “Community Guidelines”. It isn’t. Which video is deleted is determined by which bullying You Tube staffer is on the job.
Writing this article, I felt like an idiot. I should not have to waste my time parsing which innocuous video ( or channel ) dies, and which lives.
3. You Tube’s censorship regime is bound to fail. Prudery on the scale that You Tube is practicing it never works. It collapses from its own hypocrisy, while inviting its demise.
4. You can’t stop a preteen or teenage girl. I get the sense that girls who’ve been active on You Tube age out of it by about 16 years old. However, until then, such girls are very determined to maintain, and expand, their social media platforms. This includes clawing their way back into You Tube no matter how abusively the company treats them. Much is said about “Girl Power”. I have never seen girls practice it so vociferously as they do on You Tube. Such willpower would have confined Hitler to Munich, and would have kept Attila the Hun beyond the Danube.
THE BEAT THAT BEATS THEM ALL
Many professional journalists occupy themselves with a “political beat”. At the pinnacle of this beat, a journalist covers Donald Trump, or Joe Biden. But ask yourself this. Would you want to see Trump or Biden in a bikini? I shudder at the thought.
That’s why, as an unlearned “journalist”, I prefer the “girl beat”. Sure, I’m unpaid, but I get to pursue, I mean, cover beautiful young girls. Girls in bikinis! I even get You Tube hearts from them sometimes. I’ll take a heart from a lovely girl over a politician’s autograph any day!
Mostly, You Tube hearts are no longer available. That’s because You Tube has turned off the ability to post “Comments” on girls’ channels. However, You Tube is not the internet. Most girls on You Tube have a variety of social media platforms.
Working alone, I am unable to keep up with, or even know about, all the beautiful girls on all the internet platforms. For no reason Facebook ever explained, I was banned from Facebook a year ago. This also banned me from Instagram, where I’ve never been, since Facebook owns Instagram.
That’s where you come in. We are told today that many journalists are unemployed. Also, I hope I’ve shown that one doesn’t need much talent to be a self-styled journalist. Indeed, working for a propaganda outfit like CNN or MSNBC doesn’t make one a journalist. Also, I’ve seen instances where Fox News hosts are ignorant. A space probe recently left our solar system. A published, venerable Fox News host claimed, on air, that the space probe had “left our galaxy”.
Many more reporters are needed on the “girl beat”.
ROLLER’S STYLEBOOK
A person is “on” a television channel.
A person is “in” a You Tube channel.
Speaking generally, one should say, Dana Taranova is “on” You Tube.
However, I’ve often found it best to say that someone is “in” a particular You Tube channel.
Let’s say I’m creating a playlist of a channel. I start on the page called “Subscriptions”. There, I tap on a channel’s icon to call it up. I add that channel’s videos to my playlist. I am still on the page called “Subscriptions”.
Have I added all that channel’s videos to my playlist? Nope. Still on the “Subscriptions” page, I then tap on “View channel” at the top of the page. That takes me to the channel’s home page. There, I tap on “VIDEOS”. This is at the top of the page. I then have to go through the entire list of videos again. Inevitably, there will be videos here that weren’t on the “Subscriptions” page.
Am I done now? Nope. Next, I must tap on “PLAYLIST”. This is at the top of the channel’s home page. Now, I have to go through every video in every playlist. I usually add more videos to my own playlist here.
As you can see, I was not interacting with the videos of someone “on” You Tube. I had to dig through multiple layers of a single You Tube channel to find all the relevant videos. That’s why, on You Tube, I say that someone is “in” a particular You Tube channel.
AND IN THE END...
The bikini is an old-fashioned swimsuit. It was invented in 1960. That was six decades ago. Every day, weather permitting, girls wear bikinis.
Traditionally, Milana ( of Minsk ) wears bikinis in her water-themed videos. However, in a recent video, she’s wearing a one-piece swimsuit. It has vertical black and white stripes. She looks like a zebra. I can’t stand seeing her that way. I don’t think she likes it, either. She’s bowing to the sexually frustrated ladies, and their male collaborators, who run You Tube. ( And who are running it into the ground. )
Many of Dana Taranova’s videos featuring her femininity were deleted by You Tube. At least one of her channels was terminated. In the wake of that, Dana mostly uploaded gym videos. Instead of her usual feminine gym outfits, she wore boyish clothing. In essence, You Tube was forcing her to dress and act like a boy.
On the channel 867-5309, Mari Kruchkova was uploading ballet videos, and other such modest fare. ( She was nonetheless repeatedly attacked by You Tube’s staff. ) Mari’s “generic” videos are OK. However, after I’d seen a billion of these, I was wearying of them.
Then I saw a Mari video on the ( now banned ) channel 867-5309. I call this video “the toilet roll challenge”. It begins with Mari holding a roll of toilet paper. She takes it in both her hands. Holding the roll, she stretches her arms straight above her head. Then, she drops the toilet roll, and hopes to catch it by stooping and reaching for it between her legs. The result? Her bottom strikes the toilet roll.
You’d think that Mari would accept this as a fact of nature. If you stoop and reach between your legs, your bottom is going to jut backward. It will strike the toilet roll before it ever falls to the level of your hands.
Mari refused to accept this fact. She kept repeating the challenge. It was hilarious to watch her become angrily dismayed every time she failed to catch the toilet roll.
However, Mari is 14 years old. A persistent girl might overcome Nature at that age.
In her video, an interlude follows. Here, Mari puts the toilet roll on top of her head. With it there, she does a short, benignly sexy dance.
A God somewhere must have noticed. The next time Mari tried to catch the toilet roll, she succeeded! Thrilled with her success, Mari celebrated by strutting out of the room. ( Looking incredibly beautiful. )
Mari’s video, as posted, ran at a ‘fast forward’ speed. However, using an option on You Tube, I ran Mari’s video at 0.25 speed. At that speed, I was able to study and ( greatly ) enjoy her video.
Mari’s toilet roll video reoriented my view of You Tube. “No more ballet videos”, I told myself. “I want to see these girls as they really are, not Victorian era versions of them that You Tube mandates.” That’s the main reason I quit following girls on You Tube.
After a few months, I began to feel lonely. I started to wonder if I should relieve my loneliness by using “race” as a cover to rob, loot, steal, burn buildings, and shoot the odd Trump supporter. Plus meet future rape victims in a “CHOP zone”.
So, I’ll be watching more of Mari’s videos, and those of other girls on You Tube. It irks me to be stuck with prude videos from girls who can be, well, super hot. Nothing any of these girls are doing is remotely illegal, when shown in a video. It would be nice if the girls had an internet platform where they could express their true selves. I have trouble lighting a building on fire when Mari is dancing on my iPhone.
You Tube isn’t the only internet platform that abusively censors. Milana ( of Minsk ) was terminated by an outfit called “boosty dot to”. A “boosty” site is, at best, functional in a rudimentary way. Yet their employees lord themselves over their customers, in an abusive manner, like You Tube.
Facebook was reprehensively abusive toward me. As of the time Facebook kicked me out, they had no appeal process at all. Apparently, they still don’t. Instagram exists solely at Mark Fuckerberg’s whim. I heard that Fuckerberg is attempting to financially starve Instagram. Fuckerberg doesn’t buy companies to help them grow. He buys them to kill them, so that Facebook will dominate the internet.
Hence, an internet platform is needed where people can communicate without censorship. If it’s a company located in America, the only limitations should be those of the First Amendment.
Sadly, internet censorship extends beyond internet platforms. One must find an internet host on which to build a platform. I researched this about a year ago. Many internet hosts ban anything that is “harmful to minors”. None of them define what that means. I could post a video about the Second Amendment, and an internet host might ban it as “harmful to minors”. Or, I could post a video about race, and find that banned as “harmful to minors”.
Hence, one needs both an internet host and an internet platform that don’t censor.
A POSTSCRIPT...
( A parody of “YouTube policies > Child Safety on YouTube” )
You Tube’s Rules for Girls’ Videos:
1. Don’t film anything in a bedroom. Any bedroom. Sit on mommy’s lap, in your formal dining room, and tell us a Bible story. ( Not Adam and Eve. )
2. Be safe! Wear a potato sack. Better yet, wear a burka. After all, children are made to be seen and not heard. Except on You Tube. There, girls are made to be unseen and unheard.
3. Don’t perform any “bodily contortions” ( gymnast moves ). Don’t do ASMR. ( ASMR entails listening to natural sounds, like birds chirping. ) Sit as still as possible. In your world, only mommy’s voice matters. Ignore everything else.
4. Repeat after me. “I am not a girl. I am a boy.” Always strive to be as much like a boy as possible. You might wonder who gets to act like a girl. Well, boys, of course! This is modern America.
5. Love Google. Since Google owns You Tube, Love You Tube. Don’t ask for presents for Christmas. Only rich white men like Larry Page and Sergey Brin need ( yet more ) presents, like multiple private jets. Susan Woj-kickme needs presents too. Tell mommy, “I want Google stock for Christmas”. ( Called “Alphabet” by stock brokers. )
( I’ve been on You Tube for a year. While one’s imagination can run wild with supposed “dangers” to children, I’ve never seen anything on You Tube that is the least bit objectionable. You Tube is vociferously “policing” a problem that doesn’t exist. What does exist is the ongoing glorification of the egos of You Tube’s staff, at the expense of its customers. )
ABBREVIATIONS
1. YT. To the uninformed, this stands for “You Tube”. To the enlightened ( and abused ), this stands for “Yuck, Totally!”
2. CHOP zone. This does not stand for “Colored Haters of Police”. Nor does it stand for “Caucasian Haters of Police”. Though, by the conduct of those involved, one might think that CHOP does stand for hating police.
When it ceased being the CHAZ zone, whatever that was, CHOP meant, “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone”.
I’m still waiting for a zone called the Pedophile Utopian Kollective Environment.
3. ASMR. “Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response”. Right after famine, disease, and war, comes Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. That’s why girls can’t do it on You Tube, but women can.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 39
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 39, version 2.0
Date Written: September 10, 2020.
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Nevertheless, She Persisted. Until Terminated.
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ET 38
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Nevertheless, She Persisted. Until Terminated.
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by Andrew Roller
You Tube kills two more channels.
Plus: “Googled” or “googled”?
And: Does America have “law”?
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President Ronald Reagan once said, to an opponent, “There you go again.” Work on my WordPress site has kept me from spending much time on my You Tube channel.
Another reason I haven’t spent much time on my You Tube channel is this: You Tube is constantly bullying creators. I add a creator’s video to my You Tube channel. Later, I find that the video has been deleted by You Tube. If a You Tube employee can delete three videos from a channel, that channel is terminated. This isn’t difficult for a bullying employee to achieve.
My You Tube channel is up to date as of the end of May 2020. Now, I’m afraid to visit it. I look at the facing page, but don’t venture far inside. I know that a number of deleted videos and terminated channels await me. ( One can create a “mirror” of a channel by putting its videos in a Playlist. The channel’s creator is credited with all views of her videos. )
Peeking into my channel, I immediately ran into two terminated channels. They are: 867-5309, and Julia Majewska.
867-5309 was a variety channel. It featured videos of various girls on You Tube. A girl might contribute a video, or have a video contributed on her behalf. The owner of 867-5309 might do a screen recording of a girl’s video, and re-work it a bit. From my perspective, 867-5309 was a huge success with girl creators and the channel’s fans.
867-5309 was attacked by You Tube. All its videos were summarily deleted. The owner persevered. Now 867-5309 has been terminated.
Julia Majewska is an 18-year-old girl who lives in Poland. She posted videos of herself as a child model. Photos of her, as a child model, are available on a number of You Tube channels. Julia also posted videos of herself at age 18. Her videos mostly celebrated the area in which she lives. They were utterly innocuous.
You Tube attacked Julia’s channel. Many of her videos were summarily deleted. Julia persisted. Now, Julia’s You Tube channel is terminated.
Google owns You Tube. Both companies are extremely wealthy, and getting more so by the day. Their power likewise increases. Sadly, that didn’t stop them from attacking a ( possibly ) impoverished girl living in a ( possibly ) impoverished area of Poland. Nor did it stop them from terminating a channel that celebrated work by various girl creators.
A POSTSCRIPT
On You Tube, you might see a video labelled, “[ Private video ]”. Amazingly, this might not represent a choice by the creator who posted the video. Sometimes, You Tube forces a publicly posted video to be relabelled “private”. The alternative is to have the video deleted, and a “strike” leveled against the channel. Three “strikes” causes a channel to be terminated.
SECOND POSTSCRIPT
I continue to add videos to my You Tube channel. Mostly, I’m adding music videos. I put a lot of videos into my “Disney girls” Playlist today.
ROLLER’S STYLEBOOK
“Google” if speaking of the company.
“google” if speaking of locating something on the internet by using Google.
The problem with using “Google” as a verb is the following. Capitalized, “Googled” attracts too much attention to the act of finding. What matters is what is being found.
AND IN THE END...
“To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censored, commanded by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be governed at every operation at every transaction, noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished, under the pretext of public utility in the name of the general interest to be placed under taxes, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, poached, and robbed. At the slightest resistance or the first word of complaint to be repressed, fired, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed, and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government. That is its justice. That is its morality.”
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.
Source: “Radicals” lecture by John Merriman. Course: European Civilization, 1648 - 1945. Yale University. Apple iTunes U.
MY OBSERVATION
In America, there is no “law”. There is only the ruling class. This consists of the Democratic and Republican parties. Until now, both parties saw the looting, rioting, and arson happening in America as being in their favor. The liberal media called such activity “mostly peaceful protests”.
Democrats figured the “protests” would oust Donald Trump from office. ( Possibly in a mass-induced coup. ) Republicans figured the “protests” would spur voters to vote Republican. Only now do both parties see the threat of summary mob violence as a problem that must be stopped.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 38
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 38, version 3.0
Date Written: August 30, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 38
Editorial Thunder presents...
Nevertheless, She Persisted. Until Terminated.
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by Andrew Roller
You Tube kills two more channels.
Plus: “Googled” or “googled”?
And: Does America have “law”?
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President Ronald Reagan once said, to an opponent, “There you go again.” Work on my WordPress site has kept me from spending much time on my You Tube channel.
Another reason I haven’t spent much time on my You Tube channel is this: You Tube is constantly bullying creators. I add a creator’s video to my You Tube channel. Later, I find that the video has been deleted by You Tube. If a You Tube employee can delete three videos from a channel, that channel is terminated. This isn’t difficult for a bullying employee to achieve.
My You Tube channel is up to date as of the end of May 2020. Now, I’m afraid to visit it. I look at the facing page, but don’t venture far inside. I know that a number of deleted videos and terminated channels await me. ( One can create a “mirror” of a channel by putting its videos in a Playlist. The channel’s creator is credited with all views of her videos. )
Peeking into my channel, I immediately ran into two terminated channels. They are: 867-5309, and Julia Majewska.
867-5309 was a variety channel. It featured videos of various girls on You Tube. A girl might contribute a video, or have a video contributed on her behalf. The owner of 867-5309 might do a screen recording of a girl’s video, and re-work it a bit. From my perspective, 867-5309 was a huge success with girl creators and the channel’s fans.
867-5309 was attacked by You Tube. All its videos were summarily deleted. The owner persevered. Now 867-5309 has been terminated.
Julia Majewska is an 18-year-old girl who lives in Poland. She posted videos of herself as a child model. Photos of her, as a child model, are available on a number of You Tube channels. Julia also posted videos of herself at age 18. Her videos mostly celebrated the area in which she lives. They were utterly innocuous.
You Tube attacked Julia’s channel. Many of her videos were summarily deleted. Julia persisted. Now, Julia’s You Tube channel is terminated.
Google owns You Tube. Both companies are extremely wealthy, and getting more so by the day. Their power likewise increases. Sadly, that didn’t stop them from attacking a ( possibly ) impoverished girl living in a ( possibly ) impoverished area of Poland. Nor did it stop them from terminating a channel that celebrated work by various girl creators.
A POSTSCRIPT
On You Tube, you might see a video labelled, “[ Private video ]”. Amazingly, this might not represent a choice by the creator who posted the video. Sometimes, You Tube forces a publicly posted video to be relabelled “private”. The alternative is to have the video deleted, and a “strike” leveled against the channel. Three “strikes” causes a channel to be terminated.
SECOND POSTSCRIPT
I continue to add videos to my You Tube channel. Mostly, I’m adding music videos. I put a lot of videos into my “Disney girls” Playlist today.
ROLLER’S STYLEBOOK
“Google” if speaking of the company.
“google” if speaking of locating something on the internet by using Google.
The problem with using “Google” as a verb is the following. Capitalized, “Googled” attracts too much attention to the act of finding. What matters is what is being found.
AND IN THE END...
“To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censored, commanded by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be governed at every operation at every transaction, noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished, under the pretext of public utility in the name of the general interest to be placed under taxes, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, poached, and robbed. At the slightest resistance or the first word of complaint to be repressed, fired, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed, and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government. That is its justice. That is its morality.”
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.
Source: “Radicals” lecture by John Merriman. Course: European Civilization, 1648 - 1945. Yale University. Apple iTunes U.
MY OBSERVATION
In America, there is no “law”. There is only the ruling class. This consists of the Democratic and Republican parties. Until now, both parties saw the looting, rioting, and arson happening in America as being in their favor. The liberal media called such activity “mostly peaceful protests”.
Democrats figured the “protests” would oust Donald Trump from office. ( Possibly in a mass-induced coup. ) Republicans figured the “protests” would spur voters to vote Republican. Only now do both parties see the threat of summary mob violence as a problem that must be stopped.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 38
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 38, version 3.0
Date Written: August 30, 2020.
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Your Mind Isn’t You
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by Andrew Roller
Achieving sleep through meditation.
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An Air Force colonel once said to me, “I’m a worrier.” He probably didn’t know what was implicit in his statement. He wasn’t in charge of his thoughts, his mind was.
This may strike you as odd. Let’s begin with the Western view of ourselves. Each of us has a body. Each of us has a mind. The two are seen as separate. This view of ourselves has, in recent decades, been criticized. My goal isn’t to resolve that debate. It’s to use this view of ourselves as an analogy to explain what’s happening in your head.
If I were you, I’d be quitting this page about now. I’d say to myself, “This is an essay written by a mental case, or a drug addict.” Try to bear with me. Our subject is meditation.
Against my nature, I once attended a support group meeting. It was for kidney transplant patients. My fellow patients were eager to partake of the free nutrition bars and bottles of water on hand. Sadly, when it came to the purpose of the meeting, listening to a professor, they didn’t pay him a great deal of attention. I know this because, during his lecture, the professor asked how many of them had let their minds drift off while he spoke.
The professor’s lecture was on meditation. He said the standard text in this field is the following:
Full Catastrophe Living, by Jon Kabat-Zinn. This book is described on its cover as, “The mindfulness-based stress reduction ... program used in medical centers worldwide”.
I attempted this book. My favorite line in it is the author’s description of how he came upon the title for his book. He quotes lines from the movie “Zorba the Greek”.
Anonymous: Zorba, have you ever been married?
Zorba: ... I’ve been married. Wife, house, kids ... the full catastrophe!
- Location 731. Amazon Kindle edition.
A more useful text for me was one the professor didn’t mention. It’s this novel:
The Traveler, by John Twelve Hawks.
A quote from the book:
“He remembered the transcripts from the interrogated Travelers ... There were ... barriers that blocked his access to the other realms ...
- Page 299. Amazon Kindle edition.
I found the book “Catastrophe” to be a prolix exercise in navel-gazing. The book “The Traveler” is a fairy tale. ( Properly defined, many fiction stories are fairy tales. They involve powers and realms beyond our ken. Jack, who climbs the beanstalk, is a fairy tale figure. But so is Captain Kirk, and Captain America. )
I’m going to approach the subject of meditation from the point of view of someone going to sleep. You lie down. You close your eyes. What happens now?
I once knew a nurse who talked to herself while she worked. Every thought she had came out of her mouth. It’s possible that you do the same thing. Probably, you don’t speak your thoughts aloud. Instead, your thoughts chatter away in your head. You don’t merely have a thought. You put it into words. English words, if English is your primary language.
Attempting to sleep, you may find this self-talk continuing. “What a jerk Harry is. If he ever says that about me again I’ll ...” And so it goes. Sentence follows sentence in your mind. One thought triggers another. If peace obtains for a moment, more chatter soon ensues. If you’re not particularly tired, you can spend hours talking to yourself in your head, waiting for sleep to arrive.
You must quell this self-talk. If you’ve never done this before, it’s going to be very difficult. It took me years to rid my mind of this chatter. However, I accomplished it.
The next barrier you’ll face, as you lie waiting for sleep, is nonverbal. The professor who’s lecture I attended provided a very useful example regarding this. Paraphrased, he said,
“Imagine yourself sitting in a field. A cloud comes along, bearing a memory. Look up at the cloud and say, ‘Hello, little cloud.’ Then let it pass by.”
Lying abed, I proceeded to do the following. I set up a ray gun in my mind. A thought would appear. I’d blast it away with my ray gun. Another thought would appear. I’d blast that away with my ray gun. Eventually, I didn’t need my ray gun anymore. I simply watched, like a cat awaiting a mouse, and quashed thoughts as they arrived.
Quashing a thought will consist of one of two things:
1. Labelling the thought. You’ll remember when Fred shoved you in the fourth grade. You didn’t like it. Tell yourself, “Oh, yeah. There’s that grade school memory again.” By labelling the thought, you can get rid of it.
2. Simply recognizing the thought, without labelling it. This is something I do. I see the thought. Without having to label it, I kill it.
Let’s return to the split we Westerners see between our body and our mind. Your mind is actually divisible. The first part is your mind. You should view it as a tool, like a hammer or a nail. The second part is yourself. You aren’t your mind.
What is your mind? Have you ever taken a dog for a walk? If left to himself, the dog will sniff most everything he finds: trash, dried urine on lamp posts, dog poop.
As you lie abed, you’ll find your mind is like a loose dog. I’m not speaking to the quality of the thoughts that will assail you. But assail you they will. Like a wandering dog, your mind will recall thought after thought. You’ll react emotionally to many of these thoughts. Lying abed, you’ll find yourself furious that Fred pushed you in grade school. Then, after other thoughts come and go, you’ll be furious about what Harry said of you.
If sleep claims you, the thoughts vanish. However, if sleep proves elusive, the thoughts continue to well up.
You must be like the cat awaiting the mouse. You’re the cat. Your mind is the mouse. View yourself, in your head, as crouching outside a door. When a thought arrives, kill it.
However, thoughts are sneaky. You won’t see the door open and the thought come out. Rather, the thought will well up about you. You must immediately rid yourself of the thought. If needed, tell yourself you’ll consider the thought at another time. That could be when you’re taking a shower, driving somewhere, or out for a walk.
If you lie in wait, like a cat, for thoughts to appear, they’ll soon stop arriving. You’ll see nothing inside your head. You’ll feel nothing. This is an ideal condition for sleep. In my experience, in such a state, I can’t keep sleep at bay. Sleep, which is what I want, carries me off, so I can, in the words of the “My Pillow” company, “Awake more rested in the morning.”
Sometimes, you’ll find your body rebelling against sleep. My boyhood friend Dean solved this problem for me. It was night. We were lying in sleeping bags in his backyard. We’d exhausted the subject of girls. Particularly, the girls in Playboy magazine, and in James Bond movies. I’m sure I’d spoken of the prepubescent Coppertone girl, who once graced huge billboards in beach locales. ( Good news! She pops up as an image for sale if you google “Coppertone”. ) Dean and I had gazed unschooled at the stars. We’d pissed on his backyard’s bushes.
“Rock back and forth,” Dean told me. Lying in my sleeping bag, I tried this. It is very helpful for calming your body and achieving sleep.
A summary of meditation for achieving sleep:
1. Kill self-talk. Speaking sentences in your head as you try to sleep keeps you awake.
2. Kill nonverbal thoughts. You’ll find yourself reacting emotionally to prior events in your life. You’re trying to sleep, not refight past battles. Whoever upset you isn’t present anyway. You probably haven’t encountered the person who hurt you in decades.
The exception being something my brother once told me:
“At least when you go to bed, Andrew, there isn’t someone already in it.”
Dealing with someone who’s sharing your bed is beyond the scope of this article.
3. Await new thoughts. Label them as they occur, if necessary, or simply shoo them off as they appear.
4. By awaiting new thoughts, you achieve a thought-free environment. This is your goal.
5. By achieving a thought-free environment, you achieve sleep.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. CS, Confessions of a Stud, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is CS, Confessions of a Stud, issue number 13
Arcana: This is CS, Confessions of a Stud, issue number 13, version 5.0
Date Written: August 24, 2020.
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CS 13
Confessions of a Stud presents...
Your Mind Isn’t You
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by Andrew Roller
Achieving sleep through meditation.
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An Air Force colonel once said to me, “I’m a worrier.” He probably didn’t know what was implicit in his statement. He wasn’t in charge of his thoughts, his mind was.
This may strike you as odd. Let’s begin with the Western view of ourselves. Each of us has a body. Each of us has a mind. The two are seen as separate. This view of ourselves has, in recent decades, been criticized. My goal isn’t to resolve that debate. It’s to use this view of ourselves as an analogy to explain what’s happening in your head.
If I were you, I’d be quitting this page about now. I’d say to myself, “This is an essay written by a mental case, or a drug addict.” Try to bear with me. Our subject is meditation.
Against my nature, I once attended a support group meeting. It was for kidney transplant patients. My fellow patients were eager to partake of the free nutrition bars and bottles of water on hand. Sadly, when it came to the purpose of the meeting, listening to a professor, they didn’t pay him a great deal of attention. I know this because, during his lecture, the professor asked how many of them had let their minds drift off while he spoke.
The professor’s lecture was on meditation. He said the standard text in this field is the following:
Full Catastrophe Living, by Jon Kabat-Zinn. This book is described on its cover as, “The mindfulness-based stress reduction ... program used in medical centers worldwide”.
I attempted this book. My favorite line in it is the author’s description of how he came upon the title for his book. He quotes lines from the movie “Zorba the Greek”.
Anonymous: Zorba, have you ever been married?
Zorba: ... I’ve been married. Wife, house, kids ... the full catastrophe!
- Location 731. Amazon Kindle edition.
A more useful text for me was one the professor didn’t mention. It’s this novel:
The Traveler, by John Twelve Hawks.
A quote from the book:
“He remembered the transcripts from the interrogated Travelers ... There were ... barriers that blocked his access to the other realms ...
- Page 299. Amazon Kindle edition.
I found the book “Catastrophe” to be a prolix exercise in navel-gazing. The book “The Traveler” is a fairy tale. ( Properly defined, many fiction stories are fairy tales. They involve powers and realms beyond our ken. Jack, who climbs the beanstalk, is a fairy tale figure. But so is Captain Kirk, and Captain America. )
I’m going to approach the subject of meditation from the point of view of someone going to sleep. You lie down. You close your eyes. What happens now?
I once knew a nurse who talked to herself while she worked. Every thought she had came out of her mouth. It’s possible that you do the same thing. Probably, you don’t speak your thoughts aloud. Instead, your thoughts chatter away in your head. You don’t merely have a thought. You put it into words. English words, if English is your primary language.
Attempting to sleep, you may find this self-talk continuing. “What a jerk Harry is. If he ever says that about me again I’ll ...” And so it goes. Sentence follows sentence in your mind. One thought triggers another. If peace obtains for a moment, more chatter soon ensues. If you’re not particularly tired, you can spend hours talking to yourself in your head, waiting for sleep to arrive.
You must quell this self-talk. If you’ve never done this before, it’s going to be very difficult. It took me years to rid my mind of this chatter. However, I accomplished it.
The next barrier you’ll face, as you lie waiting for sleep, is nonverbal. The professor who’s lecture I attended provided a very useful example regarding this. Paraphrased, he said,
“Imagine yourself sitting in a field. A cloud comes along, bearing a memory. Look up at the cloud and say, ‘Hello, little cloud.’ Then let it pass by.”
Lying abed, I proceeded to do the following. I set up a ray gun in my mind. A thought would appear. I’d blast it away with my ray gun. Another thought would appear. I’d blast that away with my ray gun. Eventually, I didn’t need my ray gun anymore. I simply watched, like a cat awaiting a mouse, and quashed thoughts as they arrived.
Quashing a thought will consist of one of two things:
1. Labelling the thought. You’ll remember when Fred shoved you in the fourth grade. You didn’t like it. Tell yourself, “Oh, yeah. There’s that grade school memory again.” By labelling the thought, you can get rid of it.
2. Simply recognizing the thought, without labelling it. This is something I do. I see the thought. Without having to label it, I kill it.
Let’s return to the split we Westerners see between our body and our mind. Your mind is actually divisible. The first part is your mind. You should view it as a tool, like a hammer or a nail. The second part is yourself. You aren’t your mind.
What is your mind? Have you ever taken a dog for a walk? If left to himself, the dog will sniff most everything he finds: trash, dried urine on lamp posts, dog poop.
As you lie abed, you’ll find your mind is like a loose dog. I’m not speaking to the quality of the thoughts that will assail you. But assail you they will. Like a wandering dog, your mind will recall thought after thought. You’ll react emotionally to many of these thoughts. Lying abed, you’ll find yourself furious that Fred pushed you in grade school. Then, after other thoughts come and go, you’ll be furious about what Harry said of you.
If sleep claims you, the thoughts vanish. However, if sleep proves elusive, the thoughts continue to well up.
You must be like the cat awaiting the mouse. You’re the cat. Your mind is the mouse. View yourself, in your head, as crouching outside a door. When a thought arrives, kill it.
However, thoughts are sneaky. You won’t see the door open and the thought come out. Rather, the thought will well up about you. You must immediately rid yourself of the thought. If needed, tell yourself you’ll consider the thought at another time. That could be when you’re taking a shower, driving somewhere, or out for a walk.
If you lie in wait, like a cat, for thoughts to appear, they’ll soon stop arriving. You’ll see nothing inside your head. You’ll feel nothing. This is an ideal condition for sleep. In my experience, in such a state, I can’t keep sleep at bay. Sleep, which is what I want, carries me off, so I can, in the words of the “My Pillow” company, “Awake more rested in the morning.”
Sometimes, you’ll find your body rebelling against sleep. My boyhood friend Dean solved this problem for me. It was night. We were lying in sleeping bags in his backyard. We’d exhausted the subject of girls. Particularly, the girls in Playboy magazine, and in James Bond movies. I’m sure I’d spoken of the prepubescent Coppertone girl, who once graced huge billboards in beach locales. ( Good news! She pops up as an image for sale if you google “Coppertone”. ) Dean and I had gazed unschooled at the stars. We’d pissed on his backyard’s bushes.
“Rock back and forth,” Dean told me. Lying in my sleeping bag, I tried this. It is very helpful for calming your body and achieving sleep.
A summary of meditation for achieving sleep:
1. Kill self-talk. Speaking sentences in your head as you try to sleep keeps you awake.
2. Kill nonverbal thoughts. You’ll find yourself reacting emotionally to prior events in your life. You’re trying to sleep, not refight past battles. Whoever upset you isn’t present anyway. You probably haven’t encountered the person who hurt you in decades.
The exception being something my brother once told me:
“At least when you go to bed, Andrew, there isn’t someone already in it.”
Dealing with someone who’s sharing your bed is beyond the scope of this article.
3. Await new thoughts. Label them as they occur, if necessary, or simply shoo them off as they appear.
4. By awaiting new thoughts, you achieve a thought-free environment. This is your goal.
5. By achieving a thought-free environment, you achieve sleep.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. CS, Confessions of a Stud, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is CS, Confessions of a Stud, issue number 13
Arcana: This is CS, Confessions of a Stud, issue number 13, version 5.0
Date Written: August 24, 2020.
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Goodbye, Civilization. Hello, Cuties!
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Goodbye, Civilization. Hello, Cuties!
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by Andrew Roller
A pedophile’s opinion of the film Cuties.
Plus: ARSE Terms of Service.
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Thanks to Tucker Carlson, on the Fox News Channel, I was made aware of the film “Cuties”. The film stars an 11-year-old black girl who joins a dance company that consists of girls her age.
Cuties isn’t yet available in America. It will air in September on Netflix. However, in America, there is outrage over this film. The main complaint seems to be, “Andrew Roller will like this movie.” That’s because I’m a pedophile.
I suppose I’m obliged to weigh in on this issue. I’ll begin with a thought, and follow with items I found on the internet.
Cuties is a French film. If you only speak English, you’ll need to read the subtitles to understand what the people in this film are saying. I think my American readers will know what “a French film” means in this country. In the 1980’s, I recall watching the French film “Pauline at the Beach”, on Home Box Office. A woman diverts a man’s attention by getting him interested in 15-year-old Pauline. The main question in the film is whether Pauline will ‘lose her cherry’ to the man. So, that’s “a French film”, my fellow Puritans.
I am reading about Adolf Hitler. Culturally, he was a conservative. He’d likely decry the films “Pauline”, and “Cuties”. After all, they’re French films, not German. Also, “Cuties” stars a black girl. Hitler was a racist. Yet a question must be asked, in light of the current hysteria over Cuties. Did we, as Americans, fight the wrong side in World War II? Defeating the French would have rid us of a future Cuties and brought Cutie-hating Adolf into our ambit.
Comments on Cuties from the internet:
1. “In the defense of this movie Netflix said that it won a Sundance. The co founder of sundance was found guilty of child sexual assault of a 9 year old. Now its kinda suspicious that this film that sexualized children would win an award from them”
So writes Llama King on You Tube. Channel: Netflix. Video: Cuties | Official Trailer | Netflix.
Omit the periods when searching for this video. Llama King’s comment is copied verbatim. For legibility, I’m putting two spaces after each period in a comment, regardless of whether the author did.
Cuties won the “World Cinematic Directing Award” at the Sundance Film Festival this year. I doubt Puritan critics of Cuties could win any award at Sundance.
Cuties’ critics reflect an America that’s been flooded with anti-pedophile bile for four decades. Hand-in-hand with this hate has been the subjugation of female “children”. Gwen Stefani’s 1995 song, “I’m Just a Girl”, illustrates this:
“I’m just a girl ... “don’t let me out of your sight ... “I’m just a girl ... “don’t let me have any rights”
( Stefani was singing with the band “No Doubt” at the time. )
The verdicts of more judges of Cuties follow. Never mind that no one in America, except professional critics, has seen Cuties.
2. “What the hell! My daughter won’t be watching this. They look like their 10 and 12 years old. ... Usually when they make movies like this the girls are 16 maybe 17. This is disturbing.”
- Joanna. You Tube channel: Netflix. Video: Cuties | Official Trailer | Netflix.
My answer: Wikipedia describes Cuties as a “French teen coming-of-age ... film”. You might argue that 11-year-old girls aren’t teenagers. However, a quarter century ago, feminists created the age category known as “tween”. This consists of 10 to 14-year-old girls. Being a “teenager” was said to not start until age 15.
However, that argument cuts both ways. It heralds the notion that a 10-year-old girl is similar to a girl who’s 14. Traditionally, girls 13 and up are teenagers. So, if a 10-year-old is similar to a 14-year-old, and a 14-year-old is a teen, then a 10-year-old is a teen too. Since the era of Britney Speared, it’s been obvious that a 10-year-old girl is a teenager.
Hence, my verdict on Joanna’s comment is this:
A. Of course the girls in Cuties look 10 and 12 years old. The film stars 11-year-old teens.
B. “She probably hasn’t been, since at least age 14.” I overheard a nurse saying this in a hospital’s emergency room. She was speaking of a female “child”. Had the child, at age 16, been struck by a car? No. Her father had discovered her having sex with her boyfriend. The father rushed his daughter to the emergency room. He then dashed about the emergency room demanding to know if his daughter was still a virgin. The nurse’s comment ( to a fellow nurse ) was that daddy’s “child” probably hadn’t been a virgin since at least age 14.
How does one make a “coming-of-age” film about 16 and 17-year-old girls, Joanna? They haven’t been virgins for a number of years. PBS did a documentary years ago about affluent white children in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia. These “lost children”, as 12 year olds, attended self-hosted sex parties. They were asked if there was any sort of sex they had yet to engage in. “Bondage”, the girls answered. ( PBS “FRONTLINE” episode 1804. Air date: October 19, 1999. Title: The Lost Children of Rockdale County. )
3. “This show sexualizes very young girls beyond their physical or emotional maturity.”
- Anonymous. Google > movie: cuties
My answer: If 12-year-olds are holding sex parties, a film about 11-year-olds dancing does not “sexualize [ them ] beyond their physical or emotional maturity.” Also, a girl who poops in her diapers is “very young”. Eleven-year-olds aren’t toddlers. ( Nor are they “babies”, as idiot women sometimes claim. )
4. “This movie / show is disgusting as it sexualizes an ELEVEN year old for the viewing pleasure of pedophiles and also negatively influences our children. There is no need for this kind of content in that age group, especially when sex trafficking and pedophilia are so rampant! There is no excuse, this is dangerous content!”
- A petition, as reported by vulture dot com.
My answer:
A. Eleven-year-old girls, even ones who dance, aren’t disgusting.
B. A girl who dances is not “sexualized”. Critics describe the girls in Cuties as “twerking”. I had to look up the definition of twerking. It’s this: dancing, a person semi-squats and wiggles her hips. That’s how Rome fell. Too many girls wiggled their hips while they were dancing.
In the 1990’s, at an “all ages” dance, I saw a white girl who was 10 or 11 years old. She was dancing with a boy. The girl was rubbing her crotch on his thigh. So, a racier version of twerking has been practiced by dancing children for quite awhile. Cuties doesn’t show girls masturbating on boys as they dance.
C. Just because a film has girls in it doesn’t mean pedophiles want to watch it. The black star of Cuties is very attractive. However, I’m not into black girls. The other black girl in the film isn’t attractive. The brunette girl looks hot - until she dons lipstick and glasses. Then she looks awful. I don’t think Cuties could have found an uglier blonde for their dance company. I’m sure the girls in Cuties are wonderful people. However, as I’m not a Netflix subscriber, I won’t be watching Cuties.
And if I were a Netflix subscriber? I’d record Cuties, and never watch it.
D. Sex trafficking and pedophilia are not rampant. I live in downtown San Diego. Some years ago, a hullaballoo arose about sex trafficking in San Diego. The F.B.I. said it was rampant. I’ve never encountered a prostitute in San Diego. The only person I’ve seen who might qualify as “a prostitute” was a squeaky-clean black woman. She was dressed in banal civilian attire. The woman tried meeting an old Chinese man walking ahead of me. Failing with him, she tried meeting me. It was 8 a.m. on a weekday morning. Hurrying past her on my way to the grocery, I thought, “That’s a policewoman.”
E. Dancing 11-year-olds aren’t “dangerous”.
F. Pedophilia, sadly, has vanished from America. It’s been replaced by whining Puritanical boobs.
5. “I Want Netflix to remove the new movie Cuties as it promotes child pornography”
- A ( different ) petition, as reported by vulture dot com.
My reply: Child pornography consists of the lascivious exhibition of the genitals, or sex. The model must be an actual “child”.
The U.S. Supreme Court erred in 1982 when it banned so-called “child pornography”. The court said the state had a compelling interest in protecting children. That’s fine. However, intergenerational sex isn’t dangerous. Since intergenerational sex isn’t dangerous, “children” don’t need to be protected from it.
Outlawing a “lascivious” presentation of the genitals is ridiculous. I’ve jerked-off to many legal models who look younger than 18. Would it matter if they were in fact younger than 18? No. The girl is having fun, and so am I. Sadly, we’ll never meet. Many young models I jerk-off to are, today, thanks to the passage of time, women in their 40’s or older. Some Playboy Playmates are dead. I’m delighted that, at age 18, such girls created immortal “pornographic” images of themselves. They’ll always be goddesses to me.
6. “The active sexualization of children is all this movie is.”
- Anonymous, on vulture dot com.
My reply:
“[ It’s ] a story about family, womanhood, growing up, and the clash between Amy’s Senegalese heritage and the freedom craved by anybody who was ever an 11-year-old girl.”
- Writer and director Danielle Dash. Reported on vulture dot com.
So, the truth is revealed. Cuties sounds like it’s very boring. It isn’t a film for pedophiles. Cuties is a film for women and girls.
7. “A new low for the entire cinema industry, the authors, Netflix, Sundance, parents of the actresses / dancers. And whoever claims that this is artwork should be jailed.”
- Anonymous, on vulture dot com.
My response: Cuties is a modern version of the movies that Walt Disney Studios used to crank out for mommies and their 8-year-old daughters. I suppose Walt Disney Studios still cranks out movies for such folks. Walt Disney Studios failed to fund the 1977 film Star Wars. Now, despite becoming painfully politically correct, they’ve missed out on Cuties.
Here’s the answer Netflix gave to hung-up Americans:
“We’re deeply sorry for the inappropriate artwork that we used for ... Cuties. It was not OK, nor was it representative of this French film which won an award at Sundance. We’ve now updated the pictures and description.”
- Reported on vulture dot com.
My answer:
A. I’m outraged! Why do companies, even big ones, always cave to our “cancel culture”? The bigots damning Cuties will be on to another crusade in a week. “Child pornography” is catnip to them, but they’ll always find something to damn.
B. The artwork for Cuties isn’t “inappropriate”. It merely shows the dancers in their dance costumes. As a boner-fide pedophile, I should give my opinion on the girls’ costumes. They look like crap. Even dull girls like the ones in Cuties deserve to dance in string bikinis. The film Cuties also needs better locales. Who wants to see girls in a parking lot, or on a street, when there are nude beaches available?
C. Regarding the word “inappropriate”, anyone using it should be jailed.
D. “It was not OK.” Huh? Is this what the English language has sunk to? What happened to that venerable phrase of our forefathers: fuck off.
Ernest Greene, who makes bondage films, once said the following of himself and his wife. “We’re just like everyone else, except for our interest in kink.”
The same is true of pedophiles. A pedophile is just like you. The difference is that he’s seen the light in Plato’s cave. If you’re not a pedophile, you’re staring at shadows there. I find “little” girls magical and entrancing. Women, on the other hand, bore me. So do most teenage girls.
I can be more frank. I regard men who prefer women over little girls as being mentally ill. Hopefully, America will one day have quality mental health care.
One need only refer to the biblical patriarchs to validate what I’m saying.
First, let’s note that, in the Jewish faith, a 12-year-old is a man. All the biblical patriarchs, and their generations of offspring, were Jews. Nobody was a Christian until Jesus Christ came along, circa 30 A.D.
The Bible tells us that men of the patriarchs’ time, who were successful, had a dozen or more wives each. Do you think such a man of God married a dozen 40-year-old women at once? A dozen 20-year-olds? No. When he was 12 or so, he married a girl who was 11 or 12 years old. When this same man was 15 or so, he married another girl in the age range of 12. When he was, say, 25, he married another 12-year-old. When he was 37 years old ( Humbert Humbert’s age, in Lolita ), he married another 12-year-old.
Why age 12? Because the “lost” children of Rockdale County weren’t the only ones hot for sex. So were 12-year-olds in ancient times. A girl who wasn’t married by age 12 was having sex, in an unmarried state. There was no birth control at that time.
Birth control ( invented by men ) has allowed feminists and religious nuts to impose Victorian era morality on America, with regard to “children”. Oddly, it’s OK if “children” have sex with “children”, just not with “adults”. All this is a fiction which birth control has made possible.
Albert Einstein said, “I don’t know how World War Three will be fought. However, I know how World War Four will be fought. With sticks and stones.” ( Due to the destructiveness of nuclear weapons. )
Let’s say you’re a dad. Let’s say you’re Tucker Carlson, of Fox News. Despite getting in trouble for statements he made to “Bubba the Love Sponge”, a radio host in Florida, Carlson claims to hate pedophiles.
Tucker, are you concerned about your daughters? If there’s a nuclear war, do you hope to survive it? Guess what? In that ‘sticks and stones’ world, there won’t be any birth control. As you oppose abortion ( another name for infanticide ), you’ll need to marry your daughters off at age 12. ( I’m available. )
A comment I made on You Tube might serve as a summary of Cuties:
The movie “Cuties” explores the issues that are being quarreled over, with regard to this film. However, if you find “Cuties” unacceptable, watch 12-year-old Brooke Shields in the 1978 film “Pretty Baby”. She plays a child prostitute. Hollywood knew how to make movies then.
You might also watch the Disney Channel. I watched it a lot in the past decade. I don’t see much difference between my memories of the Disney Channel and “Cuties”.
- Andrew Roller. You Tube channel: Netflix. Video: Cuties | Official Trailer | Netflix. ( I’ve rewritten my comment somewhat. )
Abbreviations:
PBS stands for the Public Broadcasting System. It is partly funded by the United States government, and serves United States viewers.
F.B.I. stands for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. When not trying to overthrow the United States government, or convicting Americans of the “crime” of supporting President Donald Trump, it persecutes pedophiles and their loved ones.
Additional Research:
1. The PBS show “INDEPENDENT LENS” aired the following episode in September of 2012: “Half the Sky: Intergenerational Prostitution in India”. The specific air date is listed as September 25 in one place, and as September 30 in another place.
My local PBS station failed to air this episode, without giving any explanation. Hence, I’ve never seen it. At the end of a prior episode of INDEPENDENT LENS, however, I saw an ad for this episode. Happy 12-year-old female “child prostitutes” were getting into a car with happy men. Everyone was very well dressed, and the car looked very nice.
The episode was filmed in Mumbai, formerly Bombay. The episode is listed as being “Season 1, Episode 1” of INDEPENDENT LENS.
Want to watch it? “The full episode is no longer available for online streaming,” PBS says. No relevant reason is given.
The real reason is probably the same one that my PBS station used ( within itself ) to not air this episode. In the ad, the announcer did not preview the show by speaking, say, of “the horror of child sexual abuse”. The intergenerational relationships in the show were merely called “controversial”. ( To Americans, one would presume, not those in Mumbai. )
Diversity isn’t our strength when it offers truth ( happy girls and men ) instead of pedophobic propaganda. America’s cultural imperialism must conquer all!
2. Tucker Carlson and Bubba the Love Sponge ( Google search term ) brings up two articles:
1. Fox’s Tucker Carlson’s ‘Bubba the Love Sponge’ comments ... www dot usatoday dot com > news > politics > 2019/03/11.
2. Who is Bubba the Love Sponge? Tucker Carlson’s Shock DJ ... www dot vox dot com > who-is-bubba-the-love-sponge-tucker- [ March 13, 2019 ].
The headlines above are as shown on the Google search results page. They aren’t the headlines of the actual articles.
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This is VD, Video Delights, issue number 3
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Date Written: August 21, 2020.
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VD 3
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Goodbye, Civilization. Hello, Cuties!
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by Andrew Roller
A pedophile’s opinion of the film Cuties.
Plus: ARSE Terms of Service.
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Thanks to Tucker Carlson, on the Fox News Channel, I was made aware of the film “Cuties”. The film stars an 11-year-old black girl who joins a dance company that consists of girls her age.
Cuties isn’t yet available in America. It will air in September on Netflix. However, in America, there is outrage over this film. The main complaint seems to be, “Andrew Roller will like this movie.” That’s because I’m a pedophile.
I suppose I’m obliged to weigh in on this issue. I’ll begin with a thought, and follow with items I found on the internet.
Cuties is a French film. If you only speak English, you’ll need to read the subtitles to understand what the people in this film are saying. I think my American readers will know what “a French film” means in this country. In the 1980’s, I recall watching the French film “Pauline at the Beach”, on Home Box Office. A woman diverts a man’s attention by getting him interested in 15-year-old Pauline. The main question in the film is whether Pauline will ‘lose her cherry’ to the man. So, that’s “a French film”, my fellow Puritans.
I am reading about Adolf Hitler. Culturally, he was a conservative. He’d likely decry the films “Pauline”, and “Cuties”. After all, they’re French films, not German. Also, “Cuties” stars a black girl. Hitler was a racist. Yet a question must be asked, in light of the current hysteria over Cuties. Did we, as Americans, fight the wrong side in World War II? Defeating the French would have rid us of a future Cuties and brought Cutie-hating Adolf into our ambit.
Comments on Cuties from the internet:
1. “In the defense of this movie Netflix said that it won a Sundance. The co founder of sundance was found guilty of child sexual assault of a 9 year old. Now its kinda suspicious that this film that sexualized children would win an award from them”
So writes Llama King on You Tube. Channel: Netflix. Video: Cuties | Official Trailer | Netflix.
Omit the periods when searching for this video. Llama King’s comment is copied verbatim. For legibility, I’m putting two spaces after each period in a comment, regardless of whether the author did.
Cuties won the “World Cinematic Directing Award” at the Sundance Film Festival this year. I doubt Puritan critics of Cuties could win any award at Sundance.
Cuties’ critics reflect an America that’s been flooded with anti-pedophile bile for four decades. Hand-in-hand with this hate has been the subjugation of female “children”. Gwen Stefani’s 1995 song, “I’m Just a Girl”, illustrates this:
“I’m just a girl ... “don’t let me out of your sight ... “I’m just a girl ... “don’t let me have any rights”
( Stefani was singing with the band “No Doubt” at the time. )
The verdicts of more judges of Cuties follow. Never mind that no one in America, except professional critics, has seen Cuties.
2. “What the hell! My daughter won’t be watching this. They look like their 10 and 12 years old. ... Usually when they make movies like this the girls are 16 maybe 17. This is disturbing.”
- Joanna. You Tube channel: Netflix. Video: Cuties | Official Trailer | Netflix.
My answer: Wikipedia describes Cuties as a “French teen coming-of-age ... film”. You might argue that 11-year-old girls aren’t teenagers. However, a quarter century ago, feminists created the age category known as “tween”. This consists of 10 to 14-year-old girls. Being a “teenager” was said to not start until age 15.
However, that argument cuts both ways. It heralds the notion that a 10-year-old girl is similar to a girl who’s 14. Traditionally, girls 13 and up are teenagers. So, if a 10-year-old is similar to a 14-year-old, and a 14-year-old is a teen, then a 10-year-old is a teen too. Since the era of Britney Speared, it’s been obvious that a 10-year-old girl is a teenager.
Hence, my verdict on Joanna’s comment is this:
A. Of course the girls in Cuties look 10 and 12 years old. The film stars 11-year-old teens.
B. “She probably hasn’t been, since at least age 14.” I overheard a nurse saying this in a hospital’s emergency room. She was speaking of a female “child”. Had the child, at age 16, been struck by a car? No. Her father had discovered her having sex with her boyfriend. The father rushed his daughter to the emergency room. He then dashed about the emergency room demanding to know if his daughter was still a virgin. The nurse’s comment ( to a fellow nurse ) was that daddy’s “child” probably hadn’t been a virgin since at least age 14.
How does one make a “coming-of-age” film about 16 and 17-year-old girls, Joanna? They haven’t been virgins for a number of years. PBS did a documentary years ago about affluent white children in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia. These “lost children”, as 12 year olds, attended self-hosted sex parties. They were asked if there was any sort of sex they had yet to engage in. “Bondage”, the girls answered. ( PBS “FRONTLINE” episode 1804. Air date: October 19, 1999. Title: The Lost Children of Rockdale County. )
3. “This show sexualizes very young girls beyond their physical or emotional maturity.”
- Anonymous. Google > movie: cuties
My answer: If 12-year-olds are holding sex parties, a film about 11-year-olds dancing does not “sexualize [ them ] beyond their physical or emotional maturity.” Also, a girl who poops in her diapers is “very young”. Eleven-year-olds aren’t toddlers. ( Nor are they “babies”, as idiot women sometimes claim. )
4. “This movie / show is disgusting as it sexualizes an ELEVEN year old for the viewing pleasure of pedophiles and also negatively influences our children. There is no need for this kind of content in that age group, especially when sex trafficking and pedophilia are so rampant! There is no excuse, this is dangerous content!”
- A petition, as reported by vulture dot com.
My answer:
A. Eleven-year-old girls, even ones who dance, aren’t disgusting.
B. A girl who dances is not “sexualized”. Critics describe the girls in Cuties as “twerking”. I had to look up the definition of twerking. It’s this: dancing, a person semi-squats and wiggles her hips. That’s how Rome fell. Too many girls wiggled their hips while they were dancing.
In the 1990’s, at an “all ages” dance, I saw a white girl who was 10 or 11 years old. She was dancing with a boy. The girl was rubbing her crotch on his thigh. So, a racier version of twerking has been practiced by dancing children for quite awhile. Cuties doesn’t show girls masturbating on boys as they dance.
C. Just because a film has girls in it doesn’t mean pedophiles want to watch it. The black star of Cuties is very attractive. However, I’m not into black girls. The other black girl in the film isn’t attractive. The brunette girl looks hot - until she dons lipstick and glasses. Then she looks awful. I don’t think Cuties could have found an uglier blonde for their dance company. I’m sure the girls in Cuties are wonderful people. However, as I’m not a Netflix subscriber, I won’t be watching Cuties.
And if I were a Netflix subscriber? I’d record Cuties, and never watch it.
D. Sex trafficking and pedophilia are not rampant. I live in downtown San Diego. Some years ago, a hullaballoo arose about sex trafficking in San Diego. The F.B.I. said it was rampant. I’ve never encountered a prostitute in San Diego. The only person I’ve seen who might qualify as “a prostitute” was a squeaky-clean black woman. She was dressed in banal civilian attire. The woman tried meeting an old Chinese man walking ahead of me. Failing with him, she tried meeting me. It was 8 a.m. on a weekday morning. Hurrying past her on my way to the grocery, I thought, “That’s a policewoman.”
E. Dancing 11-year-olds aren’t “dangerous”.
F. Pedophilia, sadly, has vanished from America. It’s been replaced by whining Puritanical boobs.
5. “I Want Netflix to remove the new movie Cuties as it promotes child pornography”
- A ( different ) petition, as reported by vulture dot com.
My reply: Child pornography consists of the lascivious exhibition of the genitals, or sex. The model must be an actual “child”.
The U.S. Supreme Court erred in 1982 when it banned so-called “child pornography”. The court said the state had a compelling interest in protecting children. That’s fine. However, intergenerational sex isn’t dangerous. Since intergenerational sex isn’t dangerous, “children” don’t need to be protected from it.
Outlawing a “lascivious” presentation of the genitals is ridiculous. I’ve jerked-off to many legal models who look younger than 18. Would it matter if they were in fact younger than 18? No. The girl is having fun, and so am I. Sadly, we’ll never meet. Many young models I jerk-off to are, today, thanks to the passage of time, women in their 40’s or older. Some Playboy Playmates are dead. I’m delighted that, at age 18, such girls created immortal “pornographic” images of themselves. They’ll always be goddesses to me.
6. “The active sexualization of children is all this movie is.”
- Anonymous, on vulture dot com.
My reply:
“[ It’s ] a story about family, womanhood, growing up, and the clash between Amy’s Senegalese heritage and the freedom craved by anybody who was ever an 11-year-old girl.”
- Writer and director Danielle Dash. Reported on vulture dot com.
So, the truth is revealed. Cuties sounds like it’s very boring. It isn’t a film for pedophiles. Cuties is a film for women and girls.
7. “A new low for the entire cinema industry, the authors, Netflix, Sundance, parents of the actresses / dancers. And whoever claims that this is artwork should be jailed.”
- Anonymous, on vulture dot com.
My response: Cuties is a modern version of the movies that Walt Disney Studios used to crank out for mommies and their 8-year-old daughters. I suppose Walt Disney Studios still cranks out movies for such folks. Walt Disney Studios failed to fund the 1977 film Star Wars. Now, despite becoming painfully politically correct, they’ve missed out on Cuties.
Here’s the answer Netflix gave to hung-up Americans:
“We’re deeply sorry for the inappropriate artwork that we used for ... Cuties. It was not OK, nor was it representative of this French film which won an award at Sundance. We’ve now updated the pictures and description.”
- Reported on vulture dot com.
My answer:
A. I’m outraged! Why do companies, even big ones, always cave to our “cancel culture”? The bigots damning Cuties will be on to another crusade in a week. “Child pornography” is catnip to them, but they’ll always find something to damn.
B. The artwork for Cuties isn’t “inappropriate”. It merely shows the dancers in their dance costumes. As a boner-fide pedophile, I should give my opinion on the girls’ costumes. They look like crap. Even dull girls like the ones in Cuties deserve to dance in string bikinis. The film Cuties also needs better locales. Who wants to see girls in a parking lot, or on a street, when there are nude beaches available?
C. Regarding the word “inappropriate”, anyone using it should be jailed.
D. “It was not OK.” Huh? Is this what the English language has sunk to? What happened to that venerable phrase of our forefathers: fuck off.
Ernest Greene, who makes bondage films, once said the following of himself and his wife. “We’re just like everyone else, except for our interest in kink.”
The same is true of pedophiles. A pedophile is just like you. The difference is that he’s seen the light in Plato’s cave. If you’re not a pedophile, you’re staring at shadows there. I find “little” girls magical and entrancing. Women, on the other hand, bore me. So do most teenage girls.
I can be more frank. I regard men who prefer women over little girls as being mentally ill. Hopefully, America will one day have quality mental health care.
One need only refer to the biblical patriarchs to validate what I’m saying.
First, let’s note that, in the Jewish faith, a 12-year-old is a man. All the biblical patriarchs, and their generations of offspring, were Jews. Nobody was a Christian until Jesus Christ came along, circa 30 A.D.
The Bible tells us that men of the patriarchs’ time, who were successful, had a dozen or more wives each. Do you think such a man of God married a dozen 40-year-old women at once? A dozen 20-year-olds? No. When he was 12 or so, he married a girl who was 11 or 12 years old. When this same man was 15 or so, he married another girl in the age range of 12. When he was, say, 25, he married another 12-year-old. When he was 37 years old ( Humbert Humbert’s age, in Lolita ), he married another 12-year-old.
Why age 12? Because the “lost” children of Rockdale County weren’t the only ones hot for sex. So were 12-year-olds in ancient times. A girl who wasn’t married by age 12 was having sex, in an unmarried state. There was no birth control at that time.
Birth control ( invented by men ) has allowed feminists and religious nuts to impose Victorian era morality on America, with regard to “children”. Oddly, it’s OK if “children” have sex with “children”, just not with “adults”. All this is a fiction which birth control has made possible.
Albert Einstein said, “I don’t know how World War Three will be fought. However, I know how World War Four will be fought. With sticks and stones.” ( Due to the destructiveness of nuclear weapons. )
Let’s say you’re a dad. Let’s say you’re Tucker Carlson, of Fox News. Despite getting in trouble for statements he made to “Bubba the Love Sponge”, a radio host in Florida, Carlson claims to hate pedophiles.
Tucker, are you concerned about your daughters? If there’s a nuclear war, do you hope to survive it? Guess what? In that ‘sticks and stones’ world, there won’t be any birth control. As you oppose abortion ( another name for infanticide ), you’ll need to marry your daughters off at age 12. ( I’m available. )
A comment I made on You Tube might serve as a summary of Cuties:
The movie “Cuties” explores the issues that are being quarreled over, with regard to this film. However, if you find “Cuties” unacceptable, watch 12-year-old Brooke Shields in the 1978 film “Pretty Baby”. She plays a child prostitute. Hollywood knew how to make movies then.
You might also watch the Disney Channel. I watched it a lot in the past decade. I don’t see much difference between my memories of the Disney Channel and “Cuties”.
- Andrew Roller. You Tube channel: Netflix. Video: Cuties | Official Trailer | Netflix. ( I’ve rewritten my comment somewhat. )
Abbreviations:
PBS stands for the Public Broadcasting System. It is partly funded by the United States government, and serves United States viewers.
F.B.I. stands for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. When not trying to overthrow the United States government, or convicting Americans of the “crime” of supporting President Donald Trump, it persecutes pedophiles and their loved ones.
Additional Research:
1. The PBS show “INDEPENDENT LENS” aired the following episode in September of 2012: “Half the Sky: Intergenerational Prostitution in India”. The specific air date is listed as September 25 in one place, and as September 30 in another place.
My local PBS station failed to air this episode, without giving any explanation. Hence, I’ve never seen it. At the end of a prior episode of INDEPENDENT LENS, however, I saw an ad for this episode. Happy 12-year-old female “child prostitutes” were getting into a car with happy men. Everyone was very well dressed, and the car looked very nice.
The episode was filmed in Mumbai, formerly Bombay. The episode is listed as being “Season 1, Episode 1” of INDEPENDENT LENS.
Want to watch it? “The full episode is no longer available for online streaming,” PBS says. No relevant reason is given.
The real reason is probably the same one that my PBS station used ( within itself ) to not air this episode. In the ad, the announcer did not preview the show by speaking, say, of “the horror of child sexual abuse”. The intergenerational relationships in the show were merely called “controversial”. ( To Americans, one would presume, not those in Mumbai. )
Diversity isn’t our strength when it offers truth ( happy girls and men ) instead of pedophobic propaganda. America’s cultural imperialism must conquer all!
2. Tucker Carlson and Bubba the Love Sponge ( Google search term ) brings up two articles:
1. Fox’s Tucker Carlson’s ‘Bubba the Love Sponge’ comments ... www dot usatoday dot com > news > politics > 2019/03/11.
2. Who is Bubba the Love Sponge? Tucker Carlson’s Shock DJ ... www dot vox dot com > who-is-bubba-the-love-sponge-tucker- [ March 13, 2019 ].
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This is VD, Video Delights, issue number 3
Arcana: This is VD, Video Delights, issue number 3, version 9.0
Date Written: August 21, 2020.
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Deathwatch
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CS 12
Confessions of a Stud presents...
Deathwatch
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by Andrew Roller
Well deserved final days.
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“Can you picture what will be ... Desperately in need Of some strangers hand In a desperate land”
- Jim Morrison, The End.
She’s going to die. I managed, at last, to kidnap her. I accomplished this a day or two ago. Like the watchers in the sky in Special Deliverance, by Clifford D. Simak, I now watch her with “mingled contempt and pity”. ( Pg. 157 ).
I’d managed to kidnap her twice before. Both times, she escaped. The first time, Miss Fly landed on a plate. As I recommended in a previous article, I put an inverted party cup over her. The cup snared her as she tried flying away.
The cup is clear plastic, short in height, and has a broad “mouth”. I had Miss Fly trapped under my cup on the plate. The plate was a quality paper plate. Having no place to put it for the several days that it would take Miss Fly to die, I put the plate in my bathroom sink.
The sink is not as broad as my plate. The plate was wedged between the sink’s sloped sides. Rather than resting on the bottom of the sink, the plate hung in mid-air. This bowed the plate slightly downward. That created a minute amount of space between the surface of the plate and the rim of my inverted cup. Miss Fly slipped to freedom through this space. She was flying around soon after I’d trapped her.
Later, I noticed a tiny brown speck on my white kitchen wall. Inspecting it, I realized it was Miss Fly. I grabbed my cup. I planted it against my wall, trapping Miss Fly. However, as I reached for tape to bind the cup to the wall, I squeezed the cup slightly. To my astonishment, as I began taping the cup to the wall, I found Miss Fly resting on the wall outside of my cup. By squeezing my cup, I’d created a trifling space between my inverted cup’s rim and the wall. Miss Fly had once again eluded me. I tried to recapture her, without success.
In this time of COVID-19, I don’t go out much. I stack my trash in garbage bags inside the door to my room. For two weeks, Miss Fly tormented me. I couldn’t get rid of her. Worse, since it’s moderately warm in San Diego ( for the sole time this year ), I was sweating. I perspired as I typed. I also perspired as I ensured that my porn remained as arousing as I recalled it being a few hours before. I’m careful to keep any flies from my food. However, Miss Fly decided I’d be her food. I think she found my sweat, and other aspects of myself, quite tasty. I regarded her as a damn nuisance.
I suppose Miss Fly might actually be Mr. Fly. If so, he’s a very gay fly. But I’ll hasten on to tell how I caught this small devil yet again. Washing my hands at my sink, I saw Miss Fly on the wall. I grabbed my cup. I trapped Miss Fly against the wall in my cup. I made sure I pressed my cup firmly to the wall, without squeezing it. Then I proceeded to carefully tape my cup to the wall.
To do this, I placed a long strip of tape that ran from the side of my cup to its rim. Still handling this piece of tape, I ran it from the cup’s rim onto the wall. Then I stuck another strip of tape to my cup and the wall. I did this repeatedly, until about eight strips of tape extended from my cup onto the wall. This is how I trap any fly to a wall.
If a fly is large, my work is done. However, Miss Fly is small. So, I proceeded to put strips of tape along the cup’s rim. Half of each piece of tape was applied to the cup, and half to the wall. This trapped Miss Fly absolutely.
At first, Miss Fly took her kidnapping in stride. There was a piece of tape already on the wall when I trapped her. That is, it was a “legacy” piece of tape, probably from some porn photo I’d once hung above my sink. The legacy tape caught Miss Fly’s interest. At one end, it was folded back on itself. This allowed Miss Fly to get at the tape’s adhesive. I guess adhesive tastes good to a fly. For awhile, Miss Fly consoled herself by eating the adhesive.
Tonight, I cooked T.V. dinners. They were simple discount dinners, but Miss Fly must have smelled them. She became frantic inside the cup. Poor Miss Fly. I guess she’s hungry. However, all her zipping about did her no good. Miss Fly is mine until death do us part.
It’s amusing to watch a trapped fly. Miss Fly is following in the footsteps of my prior victims. A trapped fly marches about inside a cup, inspecting every part of it, plus the surface it’s taped to. The fly is sure there must be a way to escape. It takes angrily to flight in the cup. It slams into the cup, by accident or design, seeking the wider world. Hitting the sides of the cup must hurt.
At times, I’ve felt sorry for Miss Fly. However, were I to open the door to my room, I’ve no guarantee that Miss Fly would leave. I’m sure she got in through my window screen, since she was tiny when we first met. Either she squeezed through a ( factory made ) hole in my screen, or she got in where the screen meets the window frame.
On several occasions, I opened my window while Miss Fly was free in my room. I did not remove the screen. All the same, I hoped Miss Fly would exit the way she’d come in. A boy fly would surely have impressed her more than I do. Probably, a boy fly, being young, wouldn’t be cutting as much cheese as this old fart. Then again, Miss Fly was smitten by my bowel movements. Like when I was looking at porn, I had trouble keeping her from my important parts.
If you trap a fly in a cup, against a surface, you can have fun tormenting it. Before you tape the cup down, slide it across the surface. The fly will go nuts. It zips angrily about in the cup, as the cup implacably slides. The faster you move the cup the angrier the fly gets. Flying, inside the cup, it gets slammed repeatedly by the moving cup’s sides.
A dead fly shrinks in size. A human is mostly water, and I guess a fly is too. Even a fly of a respectable size will become anhydrous, an emaciated corpse.
Other Miss Flies will surely come my way. I’m ready to give them funerals like Miss Fly’s impending one. She’ll be flushed down the toilet.
Source for Morrison’s ( slightly rearranged ) lyrics: Google > LyricFind. ( Morrison sang in the band, “The Doors”. )
And in the End...
“[ Literarily, ] Andrew Roller is like a Pop-Tart vending machine.”
- Dick Chow, fry cook and communist.
( I have altered the above name to protect the guilty. )
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. CS, Confessions of a Stud, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is CS, Confessions of a Stud, issue number 12
Arcana: This is CS, Confessions of a Stud, issue number 12, version 6.0
Date Written: August 19, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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CS 12
Confessions of a Stud presents...
Deathwatch
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by Andrew Roller
Well deserved final days.
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“Can you picture what will be ... Desperately in need Of some strangers hand In a desperate land”
- Jim Morrison, The End.
She’s going to die. I managed, at last, to kidnap her. I accomplished this a day or two ago. Like the watchers in the sky in Special Deliverance, by Clifford D. Simak, I now watch her with “mingled contempt and pity”. ( Pg. 157 ).
I’d managed to kidnap her twice before. Both times, she escaped. The first time, Miss Fly landed on a plate. As I recommended in a previous article, I put an inverted party cup over her. The cup snared her as she tried flying away.
The cup is clear plastic, short in height, and has a broad “mouth”. I had Miss Fly trapped under my cup on the plate. The plate was a quality paper plate. Having no place to put it for the several days that it would take Miss Fly to die, I put the plate in my bathroom sink.
The sink is not as broad as my plate. The plate was wedged between the sink’s sloped sides. Rather than resting on the bottom of the sink, the plate hung in mid-air. This bowed the plate slightly downward. That created a minute amount of space between the surface of the plate and the rim of my inverted cup. Miss Fly slipped to freedom through this space. She was flying around soon after I’d trapped her.
Later, I noticed a tiny brown speck on my white kitchen wall. Inspecting it, I realized it was Miss Fly. I grabbed my cup. I planted it against my wall, trapping Miss Fly. However, as I reached for tape to bind the cup to the wall, I squeezed the cup slightly. To my astonishment, as I began taping the cup to the wall, I found Miss Fly resting on the wall outside of my cup. By squeezing my cup, I’d created a trifling space between my inverted cup’s rim and the wall. Miss Fly had once again eluded me. I tried to recapture her, without success.
In this time of COVID-19, I don’t go out much. I stack my trash in garbage bags inside the door to my room. For two weeks, Miss Fly tormented me. I couldn’t get rid of her. Worse, since it’s moderately warm in San Diego ( for the sole time this year ), I was sweating. I perspired as I typed. I also perspired as I ensured that my porn remained as arousing as I recalled it being a few hours before. I’m careful to keep any flies from my food. However, Miss Fly decided I’d be her food. I think she found my sweat, and other aspects of myself, quite tasty. I regarded her as a damn nuisance.
I suppose Miss Fly might actually be Mr. Fly. If so, he’s a very gay fly. But I’ll hasten on to tell how I caught this small devil yet again. Washing my hands at my sink, I saw Miss Fly on the wall. I grabbed my cup. I trapped Miss Fly against the wall in my cup. I made sure I pressed my cup firmly to the wall, without squeezing it. Then I proceeded to carefully tape my cup to the wall.
To do this, I placed a long strip of tape that ran from the side of my cup to its rim. Still handling this piece of tape, I ran it from the cup’s rim onto the wall. Then I stuck another strip of tape to my cup and the wall. I did this repeatedly, until about eight strips of tape extended from my cup onto the wall. This is how I trap any fly to a wall.
If a fly is large, my work is done. However, Miss Fly is small. So, I proceeded to put strips of tape along the cup’s rim. Half of each piece of tape was applied to the cup, and half to the wall. This trapped Miss Fly absolutely.
At first, Miss Fly took her kidnapping in stride. There was a piece of tape already on the wall when I trapped her. That is, it was a “legacy” piece of tape, probably from some porn photo I’d once hung above my sink. The legacy tape caught Miss Fly’s interest. At one end, it was folded back on itself. This allowed Miss Fly to get at the tape’s adhesive. I guess adhesive tastes good to a fly. For awhile, Miss Fly consoled herself by eating the adhesive.
Tonight, I cooked T.V. dinners. They were simple discount dinners, but Miss Fly must have smelled them. She became frantic inside the cup. Poor Miss Fly. I guess she’s hungry. However, all her zipping about did her no good. Miss Fly is mine until death do us part.
It’s amusing to watch a trapped fly. Miss Fly is following in the footsteps of my prior victims. A trapped fly marches about inside a cup, inspecting every part of it, plus the surface it’s taped to. The fly is sure there must be a way to escape. It takes angrily to flight in the cup. It slams into the cup, by accident or design, seeking the wider world. Hitting the sides of the cup must hurt.
At times, I’ve felt sorry for Miss Fly. However, were I to open the door to my room, I’ve no guarantee that Miss Fly would leave. I’m sure she got in through my window screen, since she was tiny when we first met. Either she squeezed through a ( factory made ) hole in my screen, or she got in where the screen meets the window frame.
On several occasions, I opened my window while Miss Fly was free in my room. I did not remove the screen. All the same, I hoped Miss Fly would exit the way she’d come in. A boy fly would surely have impressed her more than I do. Probably, a boy fly, being young, wouldn’t be cutting as much cheese as this old fart. Then again, Miss Fly was smitten by my bowel movements. Like when I was looking at porn, I had trouble keeping her from my important parts.
If you trap a fly in a cup, against a surface, you can have fun tormenting it. Before you tape the cup down, slide it across the surface. The fly will go nuts. It zips angrily about in the cup, as the cup implacably slides. The faster you move the cup the angrier the fly gets. Flying, inside the cup, it gets slammed repeatedly by the moving cup’s sides.
A dead fly shrinks in size. A human is mostly water, and I guess a fly is too. Even a fly of a respectable size will become anhydrous, an emaciated corpse.
Other Miss Flies will surely come my way. I’m ready to give them funerals like Miss Fly’s impending one. She’ll be flushed down the toilet.
Source for Morrison’s ( slightly rearranged ) lyrics: Google > LyricFind. ( Morrison sang in the band, “The Doors”. )
And in the End...
“[ Literarily, ] Andrew Roller is like a Pop-Tart vending machine.”
- Dick Chow, fry cook and communist.
( I have altered the above name to protect the guilty. )
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. CS, Confessions of a Stud, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is CS, Confessions of a Stud, issue number 12
Arcana: This is CS, Confessions of a Stud, issue number 12, version 6.0
Date Written: August 19, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Embarrassed!
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CS 11
Confessions of a Stud presents...
Embarrassed!
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by Andrew Roller
A showoff’s comeuppance.
Plus: Help from the devil.
And: Why newborns should vote.
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In the 1960’s, the citizens of Lebanon were given a choice. They could approve a bypass. When built, it would be a highway that avoided their town. Or, they could reject the bypass, and watch me. I was about 9 years old at the time. Along with my friend Dean, who was 8, we stood ready to entertain all who drove by with our homoerotic roadshow. That’s because Dean and I lived along Everlean Road ( not its real name ). Everlean Road would be the substitute road for travelers if the bypass wasn’t built. It was a rural road without sidewalks.
Never let anyone tell you that America, in those days, had no pedophiles. It had enough to veto the bypass in favor of boy-watching.
Admittedly, the Lebanese ( of Pennsylvania ) may not have known they were voting like pedophiles when they nixed the bypass. They were, however, soon thrust into the ambit of Dean and I.
Our homoerotic roadshow began innocently enough. I’ll pause here to say that I recall mostly my own behavior. Being an artist, I was likely more of a showboat than Dean.
Dean loved “Hot Wheels”. A T.V. cartoon promoting the toy cars, at that time new from Mattel, was airing. Dean also loved trucks. Many passed daily along Everlean Road. Dean’s front yard sloped sharply upward from Everlean Road. Dean and I decided to stand at the foot of his yard, by the road.
When a truck came by, Dean and I pumped our fists in the air. ( It is a motion that begins with the arm outstretched, making a fist. You then yank your arm down, rapidly, bending it at the elbow. ) In response, nearly every passing truck driver would toot his horn for us.
We also watched for pretty teen girls, who might drive by in their cars. None tooted their horns for us. After all, we were small boys. The girls, being 16 or so, were obviously adults. ( One could get a learner’s permit at 15, and drive with a regular license at 16. )
Lebanon is Amish country. Such folks would pass us. Some went by in horse-drawn carriages. Others drove cars. However, ridiculously, in the opinion of Dean and I, being Hot Wheels fans, the Amish put black paint over any chrome on their cars. Chrome bumpers and such were considered ungodly ostentation.
Dean and I pitied the ( unseen ) girls of the Amish community. As Dean and I adored Playboy, and dreamed of Dean’s newborn sister becoming a Go-go dancer, we made a solemn pledge. We made it to ourselves. When we turned 16, and could drive, we would each buy a car that looked like a Hot Wheel. We’d stuff our cars with Playboy magazines. Then, looking like Peter Fonda in the film “Easy Rider”, we’d drive into Amish country. At some farmhouse that was unhefnerly modest ( but had Playboy-worthy girls ), we’d get out of our cars. We’d find those Amish girls and hand them copies of Playboy. Enlightened, the girls would drive off with us, to enjoy America’s era of sexual liberation.
I think Dean and I had yet to hear this story:
Three salesmen showed up at the home of a farmer. They asked to spend the night. The farmer ( ignorant of this story ) agreed. You might wonder if there’s any more to this story. Well, the farmer had a beautiful daughter. I don’t think she was a newborn Go-go dancer. She was older. So, the salesmen slept over in the farmer’s house, and with the farmer’s daughter. It goes without saying that before the salesmen tucked in for the night, the farmer warned them to not spend (ahem ) the night with his daughter.
Morning came. The farmer discovered that, as with Rose on the Titanic, his daughter now had something “missing”. He was furious with the salesmen. Armed with his shotgun, he ordered the salesmen out of his house. They were to go into his orchards and fields. Each salesman was to pick one piece of fruit. Then they could return to the house. The farmer said this as his daughter prepared breakfast.
The salesmen left the house. Beyond the ken of the farmer, they had a good laugh. What a rube this farmer was! They got the use of his daughter, and all the farmer wanted was fruit? This struck them as an exceptionally good deal. Of course, as salesmen, they chalked it up to their salesmanship.
The first salesman returned to the house. The farmer still had his gun at the ready. At the breakfast table, his daughter was eating for two.
The first salesman was named Alf. He presented his piece of fruit. It was a cherry. To Alf the farmer said,
“Shove it up your ass.” Alf proceeded to do this with discomfort. Adding something to his ass seemed like a better deal than getting his balls shot off.
The next salesman to return to the house was Bluto. Seeing Alf in some distress, he presented his piece of fruit. It was an orange.
“Shove it up your ass,” the farmer demanded. To the farmer’s amusement, and that of his daughter, Bluto somehow accomplished this. He did not see the humor in his ordeal.
Suddenly, Alf started to laugh. Bluto began laughing too. This startled the farmer and his daughter. As both salesmen clearly remained pained, the farmer asked what was up. Weeping with laughter, the salesmen replied,
“Well, it’s Charlie. He’s out there picking a watermelon.”
Dean and I continued to stand along Everlean Road. Cars went by. Dean and I tried to get the cars to give us a toot. Sadly, most drivers of cars were stingy with their horns. Dean and I rewarded this niggardliness well. With ever more cheeky moves, Dean and I saluted the passing cars with our Hot Boy Erotic Roadshow.
To this day, I recall the approach of a particular car. Dean and I were ready for it. Our brash performance began. Abruptly, Dean cut off his act. Mine continued. Perplexed at why Dean had stopped, I heard him say, “It’s my mom!”
I was horrified. Obviously, this victim of our antics wasn’t going to sail by. I tried to run off as the car’s speed slowed. Faced with the steep hill that was Dean’s yard, I found it was too late to escape. I knelt on the ground, with enormous embarrassment. I did so in a near fetal position that had my forehead on the ground and my ass in the air. It stuck toward the road. I did this spontaneously, without any gay agenda.
The car did as Dean and I had once hoped. It began honking its horn. I didn’t want any honks now, I just wished I was elsewhere.
The honking continued. It was loud and insistent. To my further humiliation, I realized I wasn’t kneeling on Dean’s lawn. I was in his driveway. His mother couldn’t pull into her garage because I, and my upturned ass, was in the way. I managed to recover my will to move. The Hot Boy Erotic Roadshow was over. I scuttled home like a rat loosed from an onerous cage.
No doubt, you’ve had an embarrassing moment in your life. That was mine.
HELP FOR WRITERS
Perhaps you know the word “alliteration”. I learned it when I was in college, reading a book by J. R. R. Tolkien. His book contained the medieval tale, “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”.
“Gawain” is considered a jewel of English literature. To that end, I recommend downloading two books from Amazon dot com. You can preview them for free on Amazon. Or, download them to the Amazon Kindle app, on your iPad or iPhone, as free samples.
( Amazon’s Kindle app is a free app at the Apple App Store. )
1. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Sir Orfeo ( not Oreo! ), translated by J. R. R. Tolkien.
2. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, translated by Simon Armitage. Separately, you can download his translation of “Pearl”.
In “Gawain”, Armitage explains alliteration. That enabled me to enjoyably read Tolkien’s translation. Each line in “Gawain” opts to alliterate on a particular sound. As in:
( A ) Andrew Roller is an awesomely active asshole.
( B ) But, boy, those beans he ate will be embarrassing him soon!
At gutenberg dot org you can download, for free, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, by Richard Morris. This book provides the original text. A heading appears every few lines. This is not a line by line translation.
On an iPad, the best destination for a Gutenberg book is now Apple’s “Books” app. Gutenberg books don’t always make it into the Amazon Kindle app.
At Gutenberg, choose the “EPUB” download option. ( Not “Kindle”. ) Once you’ve downloaded the file, go to your iPad’s “Downloads” folder. Open the folder. Look for an icon that’s a near twin of Apple’s “Books” app icon. Tap on this downloaded EPUB file. That sends it to Apple’s “Books” app. It opens automatically.
I jump in and out of the books listed above. I read slowly, comparing both translations with one another, and with the original text. In this way, I improve my alliterative abilities and my vocabulary. I also learn how to place words in a sentence to make a seemingly inexpressible idea live.
If you’re having writer’s block, it might not be because you don’t know enough words. It may be due to the fact that you’ve yet to learn all the ways words can be arranged in a sentence. Another helpful book on this point is Paradise Lost, by John Milton. It stars Satan. Don’t read Paradise Lost to find out what happens, although that’s fun. Read it for the sheer joy of the words, and how they can help you write texts that Google, You Tube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter forbid.
INTERESTING WEB SITES:
writing2 dot richmond dot edu
This website is titled: “University of Richmond Writing Center, Writer’s Web”. Plunging briefly into this site’s many sections, I found a plethora of apparently useful material.
shakespeareswords dot com
A website by English language experts David and Ben Crystal. All Shakespeare’s works are here. An iPhone displays Shakespeare’s words in translation. An iPad displays Shakespeare’s words in translation and in their original form, side by side. You have no excuse now to say you don’t have time for Shakespeare. If you poop, and you have an iPhone, you have time.
A website with a very similar name is crap.
VOTE AT BIRTH
Recently, the idea of lowering the voting age has been mooted. The Democrats’ Vice Presidential candidate, Kamala Devil Harris, has said she wants to have “a conversation” about lowering the voting age to 16.
I propose lowering the voting age to 0. If you’re born, you can vote. You may think I’m nuts. However, consider this: in America, we allow post-birth abortion. A baby born alive is allowed to die. This happens because the baby is given no liquids. It dies of dehydration.
In America, during the Vietnam War, 18-year-olds were being drafted. Sent involuntarily to war, they were getting killed. At that time, the voting age was 21. Hence, folks said, “If you’re old enough to die, you’re old enough to vote.” As a result, America lowered the voting age to 18.
Today, live babies are being killed, by post-birth abortion. I say, if these babies are old enough to die, they’re old enough to vote.
Other age limits need to be lowered too. However, those are outside the scope of my present proposal.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. CS, Confessions of a Stud, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is CS, Confessions of a Stud, issue number 11
Arcana: This is CS, Confessions of a Stud, issue number 11, version 7.0
Date Written: August 16, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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CS 11
Confessions of a Stud presents...
Embarrassed!
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by Andrew Roller
A showoff’s comeuppance.
Plus: Help from the devil.
And: Why newborns should vote.
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In the 1960’s, the citizens of Lebanon were given a choice. They could approve a bypass. When built, it would be a highway that avoided their town. Or, they could reject the bypass, and watch me. I was about 9 years old at the time. Along with my friend Dean, who was 8, we stood ready to entertain all who drove by with our homoerotic roadshow. That’s because Dean and I lived along Everlean Road ( not its real name ). Everlean Road would be the substitute road for travelers if the bypass wasn’t built. It was a rural road without sidewalks.
Never let anyone tell you that America, in those days, had no pedophiles. It had enough to veto the bypass in favor of boy-watching.
Admittedly, the Lebanese ( of Pennsylvania ) may not have known they were voting like pedophiles when they nixed the bypass. They were, however, soon thrust into the ambit of Dean and I.
Our homoerotic roadshow began innocently enough. I’ll pause here to say that I recall mostly my own behavior. Being an artist, I was likely more of a showboat than Dean.
Dean loved “Hot Wheels”. A T.V. cartoon promoting the toy cars, at that time new from Mattel, was airing. Dean also loved trucks. Many passed daily along Everlean Road. Dean’s front yard sloped sharply upward from Everlean Road. Dean and I decided to stand at the foot of his yard, by the road.
When a truck came by, Dean and I pumped our fists in the air. ( It is a motion that begins with the arm outstretched, making a fist. You then yank your arm down, rapidly, bending it at the elbow. ) In response, nearly every passing truck driver would toot his horn for us.
We also watched for pretty teen girls, who might drive by in their cars. None tooted their horns for us. After all, we were small boys. The girls, being 16 or so, were obviously adults. ( One could get a learner’s permit at 15, and drive with a regular license at 16. )
Lebanon is Amish country. Such folks would pass us. Some went by in horse-drawn carriages. Others drove cars. However, ridiculously, in the opinion of Dean and I, being Hot Wheels fans, the Amish put black paint over any chrome on their cars. Chrome bumpers and such were considered ungodly ostentation.
Dean and I pitied the ( unseen ) girls of the Amish community. As Dean and I adored Playboy, and dreamed of Dean’s newborn sister becoming a Go-go dancer, we made a solemn pledge. We made it to ourselves. When we turned 16, and could drive, we would each buy a car that looked like a Hot Wheel. We’d stuff our cars with Playboy magazines. Then, looking like Peter Fonda in the film “Easy Rider”, we’d drive into Amish country. At some farmhouse that was unhefnerly modest ( but had Playboy-worthy girls ), we’d get out of our cars. We’d find those Amish girls and hand them copies of Playboy. Enlightened, the girls would drive off with us, to enjoy America’s era of sexual liberation.
I think Dean and I had yet to hear this story:
Three salesmen showed up at the home of a farmer. They asked to spend the night. The farmer ( ignorant of this story ) agreed. You might wonder if there’s any more to this story. Well, the farmer had a beautiful daughter. I don’t think she was a newborn Go-go dancer. She was older. So, the salesmen slept over in the farmer’s house, and with the farmer’s daughter. It goes without saying that before the salesmen tucked in for the night, the farmer warned them to not spend (ahem ) the night with his daughter.
Morning came. The farmer discovered that, as with Rose on the Titanic, his daughter now had something “missing”. He was furious with the salesmen. Armed with his shotgun, he ordered the salesmen out of his house. They were to go into his orchards and fields. Each salesman was to pick one piece of fruit. Then they could return to the house. The farmer said this as his daughter prepared breakfast.
The salesmen left the house. Beyond the ken of the farmer, they had a good laugh. What a rube this farmer was! They got the use of his daughter, and all the farmer wanted was fruit? This struck them as an exceptionally good deal. Of course, as salesmen, they chalked it up to their salesmanship.
The first salesman returned to the house. The farmer still had his gun at the ready. At the breakfast table, his daughter was eating for two.
The first salesman was named Alf. He presented his piece of fruit. It was a cherry. To Alf the farmer said,
“Shove it up your ass.” Alf proceeded to do this with discomfort. Adding something to his ass seemed like a better deal than getting his balls shot off.
The next salesman to return to the house was Bluto. Seeing Alf in some distress, he presented his piece of fruit. It was an orange.
“Shove it up your ass,” the farmer demanded. To the farmer’s amusement, and that of his daughter, Bluto somehow accomplished this. He did not see the humor in his ordeal.
Suddenly, Alf started to laugh. Bluto began laughing too. This startled the farmer and his daughter. As both salesmen clearly remained pained, the farmer asked what was up. Weeping with laughter, the salesmen replied,
“Well, it’s Charlie. He’s out there picking a watermelon.”
Dean and I continued to stand along Everlean Road. Cars went by. Dean and I tried to get the cars to give us a toot. Sadly, most drivers of cars were stingy with their horns. Dean and I rewarded this niggardliness well. With ever more cheeky moves, Dean and I saluted the passing cars with our Hot Boy Erotic Roadshow.
To this day, I recall the approach of a particular car. Dean and I were ready for it. Our brash performance began. Abruptly, Dean cut off his act. Mine continued. Perplexed at why Dean had stopped, I heard him say, “It’s my mom!”
I was horrified. Obviously, this victim of our antics wasn’t going to sail by. I tried to run off as the car’s speed slowed. Faced with the steep hill that was Dean’s yard, I found it was too late to escape. I knelt on the ground, with enormous embarrassment. I did so in a near fetal position that had my forehead on the ground and my ass in the air. It stuck toward the road. I did this spontaneously, without any gay agenda.
The car did as Dean and I had once hoped. It began honking its horn. I didn’t want any honks now, I just wished I was elsewhere.
The honking continued. It was loud and insistent. To my further humiliation, I realized I wasn’t kneeling on Dean’s lawn. I was in his driveway. His mother couldn’t pull into her garage because I, and my upturned ass, was in the way. I managed to recover my will to move. The Hot Boy Erotic Roadshow was over. I scuttled home like a rat loosed from an onerous cage.
No doubt, you’ve had an embarrassing moment in your life. That was mine.
HELP FOR WRITERS
Perhaps you know the word “alliteration”. I learned it when I was in college, reading a book by J. R. R. Tolkien. His book contained the medieval tale, “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”.
“Gawain” is considered a jewel of English literature. To that end, I recommend downloading two books from Amazon dot com. You can preview them for free on Amazon. Or, download them to the Amazon Kindle app, on your iPad or iPhone, as free samples.
( Amazon’s Kindle app is a free app at the Apple App Store. )
1. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Sir Orfeo ( not Oreo! ), translated by J. R. R. Tolkien.
2. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, translated by Simon Armitage. Separately, you can download his translation of “Pearl”.
In “Gawain”, Armitage explains alliteration. That enabled me to enjoyably read Tolkien’s translation. Each line in “Gawain” opts to alliterate on a particular sound. As in:
( A ) Andrew Roller is an awesomely active asshole.
( B ) But, boy, those beans he ate will be embarrassing him soon!
At gutenberg dot org you can download, for free, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, by Richard Morris. This book provides the original text. A heading appears every few lines. This is not a line by line translation.
On an iPad, the best destination for a Gutenberg book is now Apple’s “Books” app. Gutenberg books don’t always make it into the Amazon Kindle app.
At Gutenberg, choose the “EPUB” download option. ( Not “Kindle”. ) Once you’ve downloaded the file, go to your iPad’s “Downloads” folder. Open the folder. Look for an icon that’s a near twin of Apple’s “Books” app icon. Tap on this downloaded EPUB file. That sends it to Apple’s “Books” app. It opens automatically.
I jump in and out of the books listed above. I read slowly, comparing both translations with one another, and with the original text. In this way, I improve my alliterative abilities and my vocabulary. I also learn how to place words in a sentence to make a seemingly inexpressible idea live.
If you’re having writer’s block, it might not be because you don’t know enough words. It may be due to the fact that you’ve yet to learn all the ways words can be arranged in a sentence. Another helpful book on this point is Paradise Lost, by John Milton. It stars Satan. Don’t read Paradise Lost to find out what happens, although that’s fun. Read it for the sheer joy of the words, and how they can help you write texts that Google, You Tube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter forbid.
INTERESTING WEB SITES:
writing2 dot richmond dot edu
This website is titled: “University of Richmond Writing Center, Writer’s Web”. Plunging briefly into this site’s many sections, I found a plethora of apparently useful material.
shakespeareswords dot com
A website by English language experts David and Ben Crystal. All Shakespeare’s works are here. An iPhone displays Shakespeare’s words in translation. An iPad displays Shakespeare’s words in translation and in their original form, side by side. You have no excuse now to say you don’t have time for Shakespeare. If you poop, and you have an iPhone, you have time.
A website with a very similar name is crap.
VOTE AT BIRTH
Recently, the idea of lowering the voting age has been mooted. The Democrats’ Vice Presidential candidate, Kamala Devil Harris, has said she wants to have “a conversation” about lowering the voting age to 16.
I propose lowering the voting age to 0. If you’re born, you can vote. You may think I’m nuts. However, consider this: in America, we allow post-birth abortion. A baby born alive is allowed to die. This happens because the baby is given no liquids. It dies of dehydration.
In America, during the Vietnam War, 18-year-olds were being drafted. Sent involuntarily to war, they were getting killed. At that time, the voting age was 21. Hence, folks said, “If you’re old enough to die, you’re old enough to vote.” As a result, America lowered the voting age to 18.
Today, live babies are being killed, by post-birth abortion. I say, if these babies are old enough to die, they’re old enough to vote.
Other age limits need to be lowered too. However, those are outside the scope of my present proposal.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. CS, Confessions of a Stud, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is CS, Confessions of a Stud, issue number 11
Arcana: This is CS, Confessions of a Stud, issue number 11, version 7.0
Date Written: August 16, 2020.
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Poll Finding Revealed!
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CS 10
Confessions of a Stud presents...
Poll Finding Revealed!
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by Andrew Roller
Where women buy cosmetics.
Also: How to read boring, but required, texts.
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He always pronounced validity as “valadity”. I’ll call him Professor Minerva. In addition to being my teacher in a college political science class, he ran a polling firm with his wife. We students were to conduct a poll as part of our coursework, for his firm.
The location of our poll was Ala Moana Mall. ( It is now called Ala Moana Center. ) At that time, around 1980, Ala Moana Mall was Hawaii’s premiere mall. It is on the edge of the area known as Waikiki Beach. Tourists visited the mall. So did many residents of Hawaii.
As a pollster, my job was to interview women. The goal was to discover where women bought cosmetics. Professor Minerva told the class to not interview girls younger than 12. As the U.S. Supreme Court did with the Due Process Clause, to legalize abortion, I took an expansive view of age 12. If one or more girls were going about in the mall, I made sure I interviewed them. A number of 10 and 11-year-old virgins to polling had me as their first pollster.
My finding follows. Where a woman buys cosmetics is determined by her level of income. I soon knew what answer a 10-year-old would give before I polled her. To the extent she purchased cosmetics, or considered doing so, thanks to me, Woolworths was where she’d buy them. Woolworths, now defunct, was a discount store.
Grudgingly, I polled adult women. “Sears” was an answer some gave. “Liberty House” was a frequent answer. I’m not sure all the women I polled actually bought their cosmetics at Liberty House. However, the store was generally perceived as being classy. It was known for having high prices, and had the most expensive cosmetics.
We pollsters were strung out along the mall’s main part. I’d see girls approaching whom a female pollster deliberately avoided polling. The girls were “too young”. As the girls approached me, I made sure they got polled.
If you’re in college, I recommend taking a class on polling. This may require you to go elsewhere than to your campus to pass your course. ( Which is cumbersome, if you are both a student and an employee somewhere. ) You may have to conduct the poll on a weekend. ( Which is cumbersome, if you use mass transit, which provides less service on the weekend. ) Nonetheless, I enjoyed my polling class very much.
Professor Minerva had advice on how to read a book, especially something that was required reading, academically or for one’s job. “Read it as fast as you can,” he said. “Then read it again.” In this way, you’d learn all that was necessary.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. CS, Confessions of a Stud, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is CS, Confessions of a Stud, issue number 10
Arcana: This is CS, Confessions of a Stud, issue number 10, version 6.0
Date Written: August 15, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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CS 10
Confessions of a Stud presents...
Poll Finding Revealed!
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by Andrew Roller
Where women buy cosmetics.
Also: How to read boring, but required, texts.
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He always pronounced validity as “valadity”. I’ll call him Professor Minerva. In addition to being my teacher in a college political science class, he ran a polling firm with his wife. We students were to conduct a poll as part of our coursework, for his firm.
The location of our poll was Ala Moana Mall. ( It is now called Ala Moana Center. ) At that time, around 1980, Ala Moana Mall was Hawaii’s premiere mall. It is on the edge of the area known as Waikiki Beach. Tourists visited the mall. So did many residents of Hawaii.
As a pollster, my job was to interview women. The goal was to discover where women bought cosmetics. Professor Minerva told the class to not interview girls younger than 12. As the U.S. Supreme Court did with the Due Process Clause, to legalize abortion, I took an expansive view of age 12. If one or more girls were going about in the mall, I made sure I interviewed them. A number of 10 and 11-year-old virgins to polling had me as their first pollster.
My finding follows. Where a woman buys cosmetics is determined by her level of income. I soon knew what answer a 10-year-old would give before I polled her. To the extent she purchased cosmetics, or considered doing so, thanks to me, Woolworths was where she’d buy them. Woolworths, now defunct, was a discount store.
Grudgingly, I polled adult women. “Sears” was an answer some gave. “Liberty House” was a frequent answer. I’m not sure all the women I polled actually bought their cosmetics at Liberty House. However, the store was generally perceived as being classy. It was known for having high prices, and had the most expensive cosmetics.
We pollsters were strung out along the mall’s main part. I’d see girls approaching whom a female pollster deliberately avoided polling. The girls were “too young”. As the girls approached me, I made sure they got polled.
If you’re in college, I recommend taking a class on polling. This may require you to go elsewhere than to your campus to pass your course. ( Which is cumbersome, if you are both a student and an employee somewhere. ) You may have to conduct the poll on a weekend. ( Which is cumbersome, if you use mass transit, which provides less service on the weekend. ) Nonetheless, I enjoyed my polling class very much.
Professor Minerva had advice on how to read a book, especially something that was required reading, academically or for one’s job. “Read it as fast as you can,” he said. “Then read it again.” In this way, you’d learn all that was necessary.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. CS, Confessions of a Stud, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is CS, Confessions of a Stud, issue number 10
Arcana: This is CS, Confessions of a Stud, issue number 10, version 6.0
Date Written: August 15, 2020.
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Apple Goofs
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Apple Goofs
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by Andrew Roller
Apple’s “Files” app has limited memory.
Plus: Beauties, young and younger!
And: A test for you.
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In 2019, I wrote to an 11-year-old girl. ( Instagram’s @kaiajjames, a former columnist in the magazine “Girls’ World”. I wrote to Kaia by U.S. mail. Her actual surname name is “James”. )
I had just bought my first smart phone. It’s an Apple phone. However, having been absent from the world of computers for about two decades, I had no idea what my phone was doing. How Apple gets away with selling a very complicated product without a user manual is beyond me. Apple’s online user manual had type that was too tiny for me to read on my phone. The phone was the only computer I owned.
I live in a small room. However, my room has a big window. I told Kaia I was ready to “sail” the phone out my window. The parking lot, three storeys below, would have ensured a satisfying end to my frustration with my phone.
Little about my phone interested me. I decided I would just use it to make phone calls. I make almost no phone calls, and receive none. My phone would wind up where my dumb phone had been kept. That phone was in a plastic bag, which was in another plastic bag, which was in a box. It rarely interfered with my 1970s lifestyle.
One day, still hoping to make my smart phone useful, I made an amazing discovery. It was like finding out that the earth wasn’t flat, but round. I happened upon pornhub dot com. Naked people were on my phone! Suddenly, my vexing phone became my most precious possession. I became a huge fan of pornhub.
Slowly, my phone’s battery charge drained away. I tried plugging it in to a wall socket to recharge it. I couldn’t figure out how to do this. I had all the right parts to recharge my phone. I was pushing the proper prongs into the proper holes. However, I wasn’t pushing hard enough. My battery was expiring. My phone was dying. This happened as I stood next to an electrical socket, phone in hand, recharging items in hand, watching pornhub. I was watching in agony, for my phone was going through desperate measures to try to save itself from losing all battery power. Did I mention I wasn’t wearing pants? I’ll skip further details on that.
My phone died. Eventually, I figured out how to plug the damn thing in. ( “Just stick it in”, as a girl, having sex, said in a movie. ) However, for months afterward, I was unable to properly plug in my phone’s earbuds. I called Apple, complaining that my earbuds’ jack kept popping out of my phone’s earbuds’ hole. Apple was unable to help me.
The solution turned out to be the same as with the electrical cord, and its several parts. I wasn’t pushing hard enough. Shove that jack into the hole! Unlike, say, products in the 1970s, you won’t break anything.
Well into 2019, Apple prohibited downloading videos to the iPhone. The same ban applied to the iPad. This caused me enormous frustration. My phone had proven useful to me because I could use it to jerk-off. However, I had no way of retaining the internet videos that I liked. That’s because I couldn’t download them. Various third parties sold unauthorized apps to download videos to an iPhone. I never found one that consistently worked.
I guess someone at Apple is a jerkoff. That’s because, in 2019, Apple began permitting downloads to the iPhone and iPad. They even provided an Apple means of doing so. I was thrilled. At last, I could visit any porn site, and download their videos. ( Provided I met whatever requirements the porn site imposed. ) ( Pornhub dot com is always trying to charge me money. I recommend xhamster dot com and xvideos dot com. They’re free. )
When I download a video, it goes into my Apple “Files” app. Specifically, it goes into the “Downloads” folder. Tap on your “Files” app. On the left side of your screen, you’ll see a column. If you look down that column, you’ll see “Downloads” there. If you tap on “Downloads”, it will open your “Downloads” folder.
However, your “Downloads” folder actually resides in “iCloud Drive”. Where is “iCloud Drive”? In the column where you found “Downloads”, gaze upwards. You’ll find “iCloud Drive” at the top of that column.
Tap on “iCloud Drive”. It will open. Within, you’ll find everything that you’ve put into “iCloud Drive”. The “Downloads” folder is there.
I like Apple. Apple likes me. However, I got kicked out of Facebook. Since Facebook owns Instagram, that means I can’t access Instagram either. A You Tube employee did everything she could to kick me out of You Tube. While I’m still on You Tube, many people have been “terminated” by You Tube. Hence, I’m alert to the fact that, much as I like Apple, I might one day get kicked out of Apple. That would bar me from accessing my data in “iCloud Drive”.
The answer? Download all my educational porn films from “iCloud Drive” to “On My iPad”. “On My iPad” is in the same column that holds the access options of “Downloads” and “iCloud Drive”.
I bought an iPad last August. It has a terabyte of memory. I’ve used about 600 gigabytes. That means I still have 400 gigabytes left. “Settings > General > iPad Storage” confirms this. ( The symbol > means, “tap here”, starting with the “Settings” app. )
Guess how much unused memory I have in my “Files” app, in “On My iPad”? Two gigabytes. This number will vary a little, because Apple caches material that I’ve recently viewed. The cache clears itself over time, replacing material that I viewed awhile ago with material that I’ve looked at more recently. I have no control over Apple’s cache. Nor do you.
If you own an iPad, check how much unused memory you have by looking in your “Settings” app. Then, check how much unused memory you have when you look in your “Files” app. It is highly probable that your “Files” app will have much less unused memory than your iPad as a whole does. This is the reason for my article.
( In “On My iPad” > “Files”, the amount of unused memory in “Files” is located at the bottom of your iPad’s screen. Press your finger against the screen. Holding your finger there, drag your finger up. This will scroll the “Files” window down, revealing the amount of unused memory. )
Apple’s Goof can be summed up as follows:
1. Apple permitted downloading of videos to an iPad or an iPhone.
2. At least one jerkoff ran around the internet downloading lots of porn videos.
3. Long ago, Apple limited the amount of memory available to their “Files” app. This was because, long ago, an iPhone had little memory. Apple didn’t want the “Files” app to have as much available memory as the whole iPhone. That’s because a jerkoff would fill up the “Files” app with porn videos. Once that happened, the iPhone would be out of memory. It would no longer operate as Apple wanted it to, as a computer that could do many things.
Apple was selling a phone. They weren’t selling a masturbation device. It was for this reason that Apple also forbid downloading videos to an iPhone. A jerkoff would fill up his iPhone’s memory with porn videos.
( For the purpose of this article, an iPhone is interchangeable with an iPad. Both use a similar operating system. Until recently, both used an identical operating system. )
4. As of today, Apple permits downloading of videos to an iPad or an iPhone. However, Apple forgot about the memory limit on its “Files” app. Apple needs to allow “Files” to have more memory. They are selling iPads, and iPhones, with lots of memory. However, this becomes a ripoff for Apple’s customers. That’s because the “Files” app doesn’t have much memory allotted to it.
One can just leave downloaded videos in “Downloads”, in “iCloud Drive”. However, there’s no guarantee that Apple will always like me. That’s why I move my videos from “iCloud Drive” to “On My iPad”. In doing so, I’m moving them into the “Files” app in “On My Pad”. But the “Files” app has limited memory. What the hell do I want with a terabyte of memory, if I can’t put videos into my “Files” app, in “On My iPad”?
I haven’t found other places to put my videos that I feel wholly comfortable with. If I put them in, say, “Documents by Readdle”, I have no guarantee that Readdle, a company, will always be in business. I bought my first Apple computer in the mid-1980s. Lots of companies of that era no longer exist. The safest place for my porn videos is in the “Files” app, in “On My iPad”.
Today, I called Apple. I spoke with a senior adviser. He agreed with me that my theory is probably correct. He’s “escalated” the matter to Apple’s engineering department. I wrote this article because I’m confident that this problem isn’t unique to me. Also, Apple’s adviser told me he found 60 other complaints about this problem.
Hence, Apple goofed. They permitted downloads, but failed to expand the amount of memory that “Files” can use.
I’ve discovered that “iCloud Drive” steals memory from “Files”, in “On My iPad”. This seems ridiculous. I pay Apple a monthly fee for two terabytes of memory in “iCloud Drive”. My iPad has only one terabyte of memory. Some time ago, an Apple employee told me that “iCloud Drive” is deceptively named. He said “iCloud Drive” isn’t something that exists far away from my iPad. It’s a “synching” device that resides on my iPad.
Some Apple apps steal memory from the “Files” app. The app “iTunes U” steals memory from “Files”. I think Apple’s “Books” app steals memory from “Files” too.
To recover memory in “Files”, delete stuff from “iCloud Drive”, “iTunes U”, and “Books”.
BEAUTIES, YOUNG AND younger!
Jessica Albanka, AKA Alisa I, looks like social media ( You Tube et al. ) star Mari Kruchkova. Jessica is 23 years old. Many of her photos and videos date from an earlier time. Mari is 14 years old. Jessica is Hungarian. Hungary borders Ukraine, which at times has been part of Russia. Mari is Russian.
Kay J looks like social media ( You Tube et al. ) star Dana Taranova ( Danatar ). Kay is 24 years old. Many of her photos and videos date from an earlier time. Dana is 12 years old. Both Kay and Dana are Ukrainian.
A GROUP DEFINED
I read this today:
“... the pedophile [ is ] cold-hearted, shameless, and calculating ...”
If you’re “normal”, you probably agree with this sentiment. It would pass unremarked upon on any media outlet that I’m aware of: Fox News, CNN, et al. Do you know who said this? Adolf Hitler. Okay, he wasn’t talking about pedophiles. He was talking about “the Jew”.
See how you feel about this line: “Organized groups worked tirelessly to spread hate against pedophiles and young Hitler became an avid reader of the trash literature which filled the newsstands.”
I’m talking about today’s America, don’t you agree? America does have organized groups who work tirelessly to spread hate against pedophiles. As a pedophile, I regard such bigotry in the media as “trash”.
As with the line that begins with “... the pedophile”, I’ve substituted “pedophiles” for “Jews”. I’ve done this in the line that begins with “Organized groups”. I left “Hitler” in that line. I did not put in your name.
Don’t worry, I’m not trying to insult you. I’m hoping to provide you with a way of perceiving the world that you might not have considered. Both quoted lines are from the book “Adolf Hitler”, by John Toland, pg. 71. ( Amazon Kindle. )
AND IN THE END...
ON HITLER
“He could have ... been overwhelmed by Roller’s fame and feared meeting him.”
- John Toland, on Adolf Hitler and ( okay ) Alfred Roller. Adolf Hitler, by John Toland, pg. 53. ( Amazon Kindle. )
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. AI, Apple Info, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have 99 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is AI, Apple Info, issue number 12
Arcana: This is AI, Apple Info, issue number 12, version 5.0
Date Written: August 13, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Stay in my A R S E: Andrew Roller Stories and Essays
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AI 12
Apple Info presents...
Apple Goofs
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by Andrew Roller
Apple’s “Files” app has limited memory.
Plus: Beauties, young and younger!
And: A test for you.
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In 2019, I wrote to an 11-year-old girl. ( Instagram’s @kaiajjames, a former columnist in the magazine “Girls’ World”. I wrote to Kaia by U.S. mail. Her actual surname name is “James”. )
I had just bought my first smart phone. It’s an Apple phone. However, having been absent from the world of computers for about two decades, I had no idea what my phone was doing. How Apple gets away with selling a very complicated product without a user manual is beyond me. Apple’s online user manual had type that was too tiny for me to read on my phone. The phone was the only computer I owned.
I live in a small room. However, my room has a big window. I told Kaia I was ready to “sail” the phone out my window. The parking lot, three storeys below, would have ensured a satisfying end to my frustration with my phone.
Little about my phone interested me. I decided I would just use it to make phone calls. I make almost no phone calls, and receive none. My phone would wind up where my dumb phone had been kept. That phone was in a plastic bag, which was in another plastic bag, which was in a box. It rarely interfered with my 1970s lifestyle.
One day, still hoping to make my smart phone useful, I made an amazing discovery. It was like finding out that the earth wasn’t flat, but round. I happened upon pornhub dot com. Naked people were on my phone! Suddenly, my vexing phone became my most precious possession. I became a huge fan of pornhub.
Slowly, my phone’s battery charge drained away. I tried plugging it in to a wall socket to recharge it. I couldn’t figure out how to do this. I had all the right parts to recharge my phone. I was pushing the proper prongs into the proper holes. However, I wasn’t pushing hard enough. My battery was expiring. My phone was dying. This happened as I stood next to an electrical socket, phone in hand, recharging items in hand, watching pornhub. I was watching in agony, for my phone was going through desperate measures to try to save itself from losing all battery power. Did I mention I wasn’t wearing pants? I’ll skip further details on that.
My phone died. Eventually, I figured out how to plug the damn thing in. ( “Just stick it in”, as a girl, having sex, said in a movie. ) However, for months afterward, I was unable to properly plug in my phone’s earbuds. I called Apple, complaining that my earbuds’ jack kept popping out of my phone’s earbuds’ hole. Apple was unable to help me.
The solution turned out to be the same as with the electrical cord, and its several parts. I wasn’t pushing hard enough. Shove that jack into the hole! Unlike, say, products in the 1970s, you won’t break anything.
Well into 2019, Apple prohibited downloading videos to the iPhone. The same ban applied to the iPad. This caused me enormous frustration. My phone had proven useful to me because I could use it to jerk-off. However, I had no way of retaining the internet videos that I liked. That’s because I couldn’t download them. Various third parties sold unauthorized apps to download videos to an iPhone. I never found one that consistently worked.
I guess someone at Apple is a jerkoff. That’s because, in 2019, Apple began permitting downloads to the iPhone and iPad. They even provided an Apple means of doing so. I was thrilled. At last, I could visit any porn site, and download their videos. ( Provided I met whatever requirements the porn site imposed. ) ( Pornhub dot com is always trying to charge me money. I recommend xhamster dot com and xvideos dot com. They’re free. )
When I download a video, it goes into my Apple “Files” app. Specifically, it goes into the “Downloads” folder. Tap on your “Files” app. On the left side of your screen, you’ll see a column. If you look down that column, you’ll see “Downloads” there. If you tap on “Downloads”, it will open your “Downloads” folder.
However, your “Downloads” folder actually resides in “iCloud Drive”. Where is “iCloud Drive”? In the column where you found “Downloads”, gaze upwards. You’ll find “iCloud Drive” at the top of that column.
Tap on “iCloud Drive”. It will open. Within, you’ll find everything that you’ve put into “iCloud Drive”. The “Downloads” folder is there.
I like Apple. Apple likes me. However, I got kicked out of Facebook. Since Facebook owns Instagram, that means I can’t access Instagram either. A You Tube employee did everything she could to kick me out of You Tube. While I’m still on You Tube, many people have been “terminated” by You Tube. Hence, I’m alert to the fact that, much as I like Apple, I might one day get kicked out of Apple. That would bar me from accessing my data in “iCloud Drive”.
The answer? Download all my educational porn films from “iCloud Drive” to “On My iPad”. “On My iPad” is in the same column that holds the access options of “Downloads” and “iCloud Drive”.
I bought an iPad last August. It has a terabyte of memory. I’ve used about 600 gigabytes. That means I still have 400 gigabytes left. “Settings > General > iPad Storage” confirms this. ( The symbol > means, “tap here”, starting with the “Settings” app. )
Guess how much unused memory I have in my “Files” app, in “On My iPad”? Two gigabytes. This number will vary a little, because Apple caches material that I’ve recently viewed. The cache clears itself over time, replacing material that I viewed awhile ago with material that I’ve looked at more recently. I have no control over Apple’s cache. Nor do you.
If you own an iPad, check how much unused memory you have by looking in your “Settings” app. Then, check how much unused memory you have when you look in your “Files” app. It is highly probable that your “Files” app will have much less unused memory than your iPad as a whole does. This is the reason for my article.
( In “On My iPad” > “Files”, the amount of unused memory in “Files” is located at the bottom of your iPad’s screen. Press your finger against the screen. Holding your finger there, drag your finger up. This will scroll the “Files” window down, revealing the amount of unused memory. )
Apple’s Goof can be summed up as follows:
1. Apple permitted downloading of videos to an iPad or an iPhone.
2. At least one jerkoff ran around the internet downloading lots of porn videos.
3. Long ago, Apple limited the amount of memory available to their “Files” app. This was because, long ago, an iPhone had little memory. Apple didn’t want the “Files” app to have as much available memory as the whole iPhone. That’s because a jerkoff would fill up the “Files” app with porn videos. Once that happened, the iPhone would be out of memory. It would no longer operate as Apple wanted it to, as a computer that could do many things.
Apple was selling a phone. They weren’t selling a masturbation device. It was for this reason that Apple also forbid downloading videos to an iPhone. A jerkoff would fill up his iPhone’s memory with porn videos.
( For the purpose of this article, an iPhone is interchangeable with an iPad. Both use a similar operating system. Until recently, both used an identical operating system. )
4. As of today, Apple permits downloading of videos to an iPad or an iPhone. However, Apple forgot about the memory limit on its “Files” app. Apple needs to allow “Files” to have more memory. They are selling iPads, and iPhones, with lots of memory. However, this becomes a ripoff for Apple’s customers. That’s because the “Files” app doesn’t have much memory allotted to it.
One can just leave downloaded videos in “Downloads”, in “iCloud Drive”. However, there’s no guarantee that Apple will always like me. That’s why I move my videos from “iCloud Drive” to “On My iPad”. In doing so, I’m moving them into the “Files” app in “On My Pad”. But the “Files” app has limited memory. What the hell do I want with a terabyte of memory, if I can’t put videos into my “Files” app, in “On My iPad”?
I haven’t found other places to put my videos that I feel wholly comfortable with. If I put them in, say, “Documents by Readdle”, I have no guarantee that Readdle, a company, will always be in business. I bought my first Apple computer in the mid-1980s. Lots of companies of that era no longer exist. The safest place for my porn videos is in the “Files” app, in “On My iPad”.
Today, I called Apple. I spoke with a senior adviser. He agreed with me that my theory is probably correct. He’s “escalated” the matter to Apple’s engineering department. I wrote this article because I’m confident that this problem isn’t unique to me. Also, Apple’s adviser told me he found 60 other complaints about this problem.
Hence, Apple goofed. They permitted downloads, but failed to expand the amount of memory that “Files” can use.
I’ve discovered that “iCloud Drive” steals memory from “Files”, in “On My iPad”. This seems ridiculous. I pay Apple a monthly fee for two terabytes of memory in “iCloud Drive”. My iPad has only one terabyte of memory. Some time ago, an Apple employee told me that “iCloud Drive” is deceptively named. He said “iCloud Drive” isn’t something that exists far away from my iPad. It’s a “synching” device that resides on my iPad.
Some Apple apps steal memory from the “Files” app. The app “iTunes U” steals memory from “Files”. I think Apple’s “Books” app steals memory from “Files” too.
To recover memory in “Files”, delete stuff from “iCloud Drive”, “iTunes U”, and “Books”.
BEAUTIES, YOUNG AND younger!
Jessica Albanka, AKA Alisa I, looks like social media ( You Tube et al. ) star Mari Kruchkova. Jessica is 23 years old. Many of her photos and videos date from an earlier time. Mari is 14 years old. Jessica is Hungarian. Hungary borders Ukraine, which at times has been part of Russia. Mari is Russian.
Kay J looks like social media ( You Tube et al. ) star Dana Taranova ( Danatar ). Kay is 24 years old. Many of her photos and videos date from an earlier time. Dana is 12 years old. Both Kay and Dana are Ukrainian.
A GROUP DEFINED
I read this today:
“... the pedophile [ is ] cold-hearted, shameless, and calculating ...”
If you’re “normal”, you probably agree with this sentiment. It would pass unremarked upon on any media outlet that I’m aware of: Fox News, CNN, et al. Do you know who said this? Adolf Hitler. Okay, he wasn’t talking about pedophiles. He was talking about “the Jew”.
See how you feel about this line: “Organized groups worked tirelessly to spread hate against pedophiles and young Hitler became an avid reader of the trash literature which filled the newsstands.”
I’m talking about today’s America, don’t you agree? America does have organized groups who work tirelessly to spread hate against pedophiles. As a pedophile, I regard such bigotry in the media as “trash”.
As with the line that begins with “... the pedophile”, I’ve substituted “pedophiles” for “Jews”. I’ve done this in the line that begins with “Organized groups”. I left “Hitler” in that line. I did not put in your name.
Don’t worry, I’m not trying to insult you. I’m hoping to provide you with a way of perceiving the world that you might not have considered. Both quoted lines are from the book “Adolf Hitler”, by John Toland, pg. 71. ( Amazon Kindle. )
AND IN THE END...
ON HITLER
“He could have ... been overwhelmed by Roller’s fame and feared meeting him.”
- John Toland, on Adolf Hitler and ( okay ) Alfred Roller. Adolf Hitler, by John Toland, pg. 53. ( Amazon Kindle. )
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. AI, Apple Info, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have 99 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is AI, Apple Info, issue number 12
Arcana: This is AI, Apple Info, issue number 12, version 5.0
Date Written: August 13, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Stay in my A R S E: Andrew Roller Stories and Essays
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Sexism and Racism for You
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BO 3
Book Observations presents...
Sexism and Racism for You
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by Andrew Roller
A requiem for the reader.
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“Are [ my ] stories any good? I hope so. Will they help you pass a dull airplane flight ... or a long car trip ... ? I really hope so.”
- Stephen King, Just After Sunset, pg. 3.
At regular intervals, I go to medical appointments. These appointments occur in various places. Thanks to Covid-19, the buildings I have to enter now treat arriving patients as criminals. A patient is forced to wait outside the building, while wearing a mask, in the day’s weather. ( San Diego, where I live, is cold throughout the year. ) No access to a bathroom is allowed.
My own conduct at such venues is especially suspicious. I’m a lone male. Worse, I arrive early for my medical appointments. I do so because I ride the bus. Public transit of all types has been curtailed during Covid-19.
Despite being “the worst of the worst” ( a lone male who’s white, and a pedophile ), I don’t like to poop in my pants. Peeing in my pants isn’t fun either. Nor is being made a convicted sex offender, for public exposure. That’s a felony, if a school is in the vicinity. One is guilty of “public exposure” if one takes a whiz outdoors. ( Omigod! That man has a penis! )
Arriving at my appointments, I don’t loiter outside the building. Not, anyway, if I can help it. I do my best to sneak indoors, or muscle my way in.
Often, I go to a particular hospital. Prior to Covid-19, the public could freely enter it at an early hour. That’s no longer the case. A side door remains unlocked, but entry is forbidden to non-employees. A black, middle-aged janitor is often working inside that entrance. He’s there when I arrive. The janitor is very suspicious of me when I enter the hospital. However, by wearing a safety vest, and looking harried and bored, I’ve managed to get by him.
At another medical building, before Covid-19, early access was provided through an unlocked side door. That door is now locked. Only employees of the place can open it. Recently, I was waiting by that door when a Caucasian nurse came along. I hoped to enter the building with her. She refused to let me in. In this era, white ladies are always a pain in the ass. However, a Hispanic nurse soon came along. My presence scared her, but she didn’t refuse me entry. That’s one great thing about diversity in America. Some minorities still respect white privilege.
At both buildings, I didn’t remain on the ground floor. My trespass would be too obvious there. Instead, I took an elevator to an upper floor. Nowadays, most indoor chairs provided for public use have been removed. In any event, I figured I’d better hide in the bathroom. Sitting on a toilet, in a stall, I remained there until the “proper” time for patients to be present in the building arrived.
Stuck in the toilet stall, I got out my phone. I have Amazon Kindle on it. Larry Page, of Google, “despises latency”. With regard to latency, Page “is always trying to remove it”. ( In the Plex, by Steven Levy, pg. 184. )
Latency is the length of time between your request, and technology’s fulfillment of your request.
Jeff Bozo, of Amazon, is oblivious to latency. Every time I open his damn Kindle app the thing takes a full minute to load. Why? It’s sending me ( yet again ) “ANTIRACISM BOOKS TO READ RIGHT NOW”, and “QUICK READS FOR YOU”. If Bozo took a moment to learn about me, his customer, he’d know I don’t want his “antiracism” books.
I did buy “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, which Bozo doesn’t recommend. Here’s an excerpt:
“I don’t know how many forty- and fifty-year-old errand boys went down the Hill dressed like ambassadors in black suits and white collars, to downtown jobs ‘in government’, ‘in finance’, or ‘in law’. It has never ceased to amaze me how so many Negroes, then and now, could stand the indignity of that kind of self-delusion.” ( Pg. 49. )
I have no interest in a book that I can read quickly. My preference, aside from every sex book on Amazon, is for long history books. Such a book should require me to resort frequently to a map. ( If you’re wondering, 99 percent of Amazon’s sex books are worthless. )
The other day, I was again hiding in a toilet. Sadly, it wasn’t a girls’ bathroom in a grade school. I was stuck in a medical building. By chance, I began reading “The Carpetbaggers”, by Harold Robbins. I was soon reading it with my mouth open. ( Exhaling, no doubt, deadly Covid-19 germs, at least in the imagination of anyone who might have encountered me. )
The protagonist of The Carpetbaggers is a man. Not a gay man. Not a politically correct man. Not an androgynous man, who wishes he was a woman. The personality of Jonas Cord, Jr. might be summed up thus:
“Nevada’s lips broke into the familiar mirthless smile. ‘You took the girl to the hospital. They sent for her folks. She told them before she died.’
‘How much do they want?’
‘Twenty thousand.’
‘You can buy ‘em for five.’”
( Pg. 7. )
I’m not saying I’d behave as Jonas does, if I were him. But, wow! What relief I felt to read about a real Man, who takes this obstreperous world by the hair and commands it to his will. I doubt I’d find Jonas hiding in a toilet because he’s “too early” for his medical appointment.
When I eat, I read. That gives me an advantage over folks who do other things while they eat. I even read while I’m masturbating. ( Okay, during that time, I’m reading the aforementioned sex trash from Amazon. )
When eating, I read serious books. Currently, I’m re-reading Adolf Hitler, by John Toland. An excerpt:
“Adolf Hitler was probably the greatest mover and shaker of the twentieth century.” ( Pg. 7. )
As I hid in the toilet, it occurred to me that I’m one of a dying breed. Stephen King, quoted above, speaks of people passing the time by reading. ( His second reference is, admittedly, to someone “listening on CD”. ) But who reads anymore? Everyone now totes a phone with them. However, most everyone I see killing time with a phone isn’t reading. They’re tapping on it, repeatedly. They’re browsing and clicking, browsing and clicking; not reading.
If you write, you’re probably harboring a dream of following in King’s financial footsteps. But King succeeded in a world that no longer exists. In his world, as a rising author, there were two types of readers. They were:
1. Deliberate readers.
2. Hostages.
A hostage was the salesman who didn’t fancy reading, but bought a Harold Robbins paperback in an airport to kill time on his flight. A stewardess might do the same. So might a boy who would become a reader, if he was forced into books by life’s circumstances. I took up reading because there wasn’t much else to do. My parents’ home was one without any meaningful access, for me, to the T.V. or the radio. The internet was decades away. On an airplane, I read because that’s all there was. My parents never paid for the headphones required to enjoy an in-flight movie.
As authors, we no longer have “hostage” readers. It’s also possible that we won’t have deliberate readers, since those are made, not born. Somewhere, I read that reading is a skill we humans weren’t meant to have. I’m speaking from the point of view of biology. A human’s ability to read is acquired through deliberate effort.
Being a person who writes, I’m worried about the future of people like me. In “On Writing”, King says,
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things ... no shortcut.” ( Pg. 144. )
King also says,
“... if you’re just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television’s electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far.” ( Pg. 34. )
Reading and writing help me to think. I see issues more deeply when I read about them. I flesh out my ideas best when I write about them, instead of just brooding on them. A society that eschews reading and writing may be one that ceases to adequately think. Maybe that’s why folks in our era pass inane laws, and respond credulously to media histrionics.
This problem isn’t going away. I adore girls’ internet videos, but I worry that the girls are spending too much time filming and viewing themselves. Film is a wonderful medium of expression. It is not, however, long-form reading and writing. As best I can tell, the best route to true knowledge, of life’s most important issues, remains inside the covers of books. Real books. Not “Quick reads for you”. Or, frankly, “Quack reads for you.” ( Bozo’s “antiracism” books. )
And in the End...
“[ It was ] a book judged so dangerous in the Soviet Union that not only the manuscript but the ribbons on which it had been typed were confiscated by the state.”
- The publisher’s description of Vasily Grossman’s book, “Life and Fate”. New York Review Books Classics, Amazon Kindle edition. ( The quote accompanies the advertisement for the book at Amazon.com )
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. BO, Book Observations, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 3
Arcana: This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 3, version 5.0
Date Written: August 7, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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BO 3
Book Observations presents...
Sexism and Racism for You
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by Andrew Roller
A requiem for the reader.
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“Are [ my ] stories any good? I hope so. Will they help you pass a dull airplane flight ... or a long car trip ... ? I really hope so.”
- Stephen King, Just After Sunset, pg. 3.
At regular intervals, I go to medical appointments. These appointments occur in various places. Thanks to Covid-19, the buildings I have to enter now treat arriving patients as criminals. A patient is forced to wait outside the building, while wearing a mask, in the day’s weather. ( San Diego, where I live, is cold throughout the year. ) No access to a bathroom is allowed.
My own conduct at such venues is especially suspicious. I’m a lone male. Worse, I arrive early for my medical appointments. I do so because I ride the bus. Public transit of all types has been curtailed during Covid-19.
Despite being “the worst of the worst” ( a lone male who’s white, and a pedophile ), I don’t like to poop in my pants. Peeing in my pants isn’t fun either. Nor is being made a convicted sex offender, for public exposure. That’s a felony, if a school is in the vicinity. One is guilty of “public exposure” if one takes a whiz outdoors. ( Omigod! That man has a penis! )
Arriving at my appointments, I don’t loiter outside the building. Not, anyway, if I can help it. I do my best to sneak indoors, or muscle my way in.
Often, I go to a particular hospital. Prior to Covid-19, the public could freely enter it at an early hour. That’s no longer the case. A side door remains unlocked, but entry is forbidden to non-employees. A black, middle-aged janitor is often working inside that entrance. He’s there when I arrive. The janitor is very suspicious of me when I enter the hospital. However, by wearing a safety vest, and looking harried and bored, I’ve managed to get by him.
At another medical building, before Covid-19, early access was provided through an unlocked side door. That door is now locked. Only employees of the place can open it. Recently, I was waiting by that door when a Caucasian nurse came along. I hoped to enter the building with her. She refused to let me in. In this era, white ladies are always a pain in the ass. However, a Hispanic nurse soon came along. My presence scared her, but she didn’t refuse me entry. That’s one great thing about diversity in America. Some minorities still respect white privilege.
At both buildings, I didn’t remain on the ground floor. My trespass would be too obvious there. Instead, I took an elevator to an upper floor. Nowadays, most indoor chairs provided for public use have been removed. In any event, I figured I’d better hide in the bathroom. Sitting on a toilet, in a stall, I remained there until the “proper” time for patients to be present in the building arrived.
Stuck in the toilet stall, I got out my phone. I have Amazon Kindle on it. Larry Page, of Google, “despises latency”. With regard to latency, Page “is always trying to remove it”. ( In the Plex, by Steven Levy, pg. 184. )
Latency is the length of time between your request, and technology’s fulfillment of your request.
Jeff Bozo, of Amazon, is oblivious to latency. Every time I open his damn Kindle app the thing takes a full minute to load. Why? It’s sending me ( yet again ) “ANTIRACISM BOOKS TO READ RIGHT NOW”, and “QUICK READS FOR YOU”. If Bozo took a moment to learn about me, his customer, he’d know I don’t want his “antiracism” books.
I did buy “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, which Bozo doesn’t recommend. Here’s an excerpt:
“I don’t know how many forty- and fifty-year-old errand boys went down the Hill dressed like ambassadors in black suits and white collars, to downtown jobs ‘in government’, ‘in finance’, or ‘in law’. It has never ceased to amaze me how so many Negroes, then and now, could stand the indignity of that kind of self-delusion.” ( Pg. 49. )
I have no interest in a book that I can read quickly. My preference, aside from every sex book on Amazon, is for long history books. Such a book should require me to resort frequently to a map. ( If you’re wondering, 99 percent of Amazon’s sex books are worthless. )
The other day, I was again hiding in a toilet. Sadly, it wasn’t a girls’ bathroom in a grade school. I was stuck in a medical building. By chance, I began reading “The Carpetbaggers”, by Harold Robbins. I was soon reading it with my mouth open. ( Exhaling, no doubt, deadly Covid-19 germs, at least in the imagination of anyone who might have encountered me. )
The protagonist of The Carpetbaggers is a man. Not a gay man. Not a politically correct man. Not an androgynous man, who wishes he was a woman. The personality of Jonas Cord, Jr. might be summed up thus:
“Nevada’s lips broke into the familiar mirthless smile. ‘You took the girl to the hospital. They sent for her folks. She told them before she died.’
‘How much do they want?’
‘Twenty thousand.’
‘You can buy ‘em for five.’”
( Pg. 7. )
I’m not saying I’d behave as Jonas does, if I were him. But, wow! What relief I felt to read about a real Man, who takes this obstreperous world by the hair and commands it to his will. I doubt I’d find Jonas hiding in a toilet because he’s “too early” for his medical appointment.
When I eat, I read. That gives me an advantage over folks who do other things while they eat. I even read while I’m masturbating. ( Okay, during that time, I’m reading the aforementioned sex trash from Amazon. )
When eating, I read serious books. Currently, I’m re-reading Adolf Hitler, by John Toland. An excerpt:
“Adolf Hitler was probably the greatest mover and shaker of the twentieth century.” ( Pg. 7. )
As I hid in the toilet, it occurred to me that I’m one of a dying breed. Stephen King, quoted above, speaks of people passing the time by reading. ( His second reference is, admittedly, to someone “listening on CD”. ) But who reads anymore? Everyone now totes a phone with them. However, most everyone I see killing time with a phone isn’t reading. They’re tapping on it, repeatedly. They’re browsing and clicking, browsing and clicking; not reading.
If you write, you’re probably harboring a dream of following in King’s financial footsteps. But King succeeded in a world that no longer exists. In his world, as a rising author, there were two types of readers. They were:
1. Deliberate readers.
2. Hostages.
A hostage was the salesman who didn’t fancy reading, but bought a Harold Robbins paperback in an airport to kill time on his flight. A stewardess might do the same. So might a boy who would become a reader, if he was forced into books by life’s circumstances. I took up reading because there wasn’t much else to do. My parents’ home was one without any meaningful access, for me, to the T.V. or the radio. The internet was decades away. On an airplane, I read because that’s all there was. My parents never paid for the headphones required to enjoy an in-flight movie.
As authors, we no longer have “hostage” readers. It’s also possible that we won’t have deliberate readers, since those are made, not born. Somewhere, I read that reading is a skill we humans weren’t meant to have. I’m speaking from the point of view of biology. A human’s ability to read is acquired through deliberate effort.
Being a person who writes, I’m worried about the future of people like me. In “On Writing”, King says,
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things ... no shortcut.” ( Pg. 144. )
King also says,
“... if you’re just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television’s electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far.” ( Pg. 34. )
Reading and writing help me to think. I see issues more deeply when I read about them. I flesh out my ideas best when I write about them, instead of just brooding on them. A society that eschews reading and writing may be one that ceases to adequately think. Maybe that’s why folks in our era pass inane laws, and respond credulously to media histrionics.
This problem isn’t going away. I adore girls’ internet videos, but I worry that the girls are spending too much time filming and viewing themselves. Film is a wonderful medium of expression. It is not, however, long-form reading and writing. As best I can tell, the best route to true knowledge, of life’s most important issues, remains inside the covers of books. Real books. Not “Quick reads for you”. Or, frankly, “Quack reads for you.” ( Bozo’s “antiracism” books. )
And in the End...
“[ It was ] a book judged so dangerous in the Soviet Union that not only the manuscript but the ribbons on which it had been typed were confiscated by the state.”
- The publisher’s description of Vasily Grossman’s book, “Life and Fate”. New York Review Books Classics, Amazon Kindle edition. ( The quote accompanies the advertisement for the book at Amazon.com )
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The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
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If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 3
Arcana: This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 3, version 5.0
Date Written: August 7, 2020.
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Age 10 and Naked
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AI 11
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Age 10 and Naked
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by Andrew Roller
Brooke Shields in the bathtub.
Plus: Stephen King’s best for free.
And: Effective killing.
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I continue to be struck by life as it is presented in the media, and as I experience it. For instance, in the media, high school is a sex-besotted version of Archie comics. I did not experience high school that way.
I attended plenty of them. I did so in two widely separated locations: Guam, and later Hawaii. In total, counting a semester when I attended college as a high schooler, I went to four high schools.
For me, high school was a wasteland. I recall riding my bicycle in the Hawaii community of Manana Town. ( Not its real name. ) I was looking for children, especially girls. There was no one around. I don’t know what Manana Town is like today. However, in 1976, and for at least a decade thereafter, Manana Town was a bedroom community. Adults slept in Manana Town, but they commuted to Honolulu to work. Honolulu is a city that sprawls along the southern coast of Hawaii’s island of Oahu. Manana Town, a considerable distance away, is located in the mountains. It was being constructed amid sugar cane and pineapple fields.
At that time, I didn’t have a job. This was okay with me, but not with my parents. They got me a job at a military base north of Manana Town. Soon, I was commuting there each afternoon, and every Saturday, courtesy of my mother.
The job involved bagging groceries. It was unpaid. We baggers worked for tips only. This eventually became a problem for me. I would diligently pack numerous grocery bags for soldiers shopping as a group. I would transport these bags in a grocery cart to the soldiers’ car. I would load them into their car. The soldiers would ignore the fact that I had labored for them. I would remind them that we baggers worked for tips only. The soldiers would say,
“If you want money, join the Army like we did.” I was too young to join the Army. My understanding is that the soldiers tipped the teenage girl baggers quite well.
Probably, you’re accustomed to plastic grocery bags. Those didn’t exist in the 1970s. Our grocery bags were the traditional kind, made of heavy brown paper. If you’ve ever worked with these bags in quantity, you’ll soon notice how much paper dust gets in your eyes. It isn’t pleasant.
Nonetheless, I worked at the Army Commissary ( a grocery store ) for several years. We baggers consisted mostly of teenage males. I soon learned a sad fact about grocery stores, which still holds true today. Teenage girls don’t shop at grocery stores. Young women shop at grocery stores. At the Army Commissary, this meant mens’ wives. Little girls shop at grocery stores. At the Army Commissary, this meant girls from about age 6 to 11.
Hence, I had a choice. Working at the Army Commissary, I could gawk at mens’ wives. Or, I could gawk at little girls. Most of my fellow baggers chose to gawk at mens’ wives. However, my father was a pastor. This meant that I never missed a church service. I had been warned by the Lutheran religion, innumerable times, to never covet mens’ wives. I decided to gawk at little girls.
Mostly, I never saw a girl more than two or three times. The vast majority of girls arrived in cars, with their parents. A car has a license plate. In Hawaii, on an Army base, such information is relatively useless. Many military cars have out-of-state license plates. Furthermore, license plate information did me no good in this pre-internet era.
Nonetheless, I began recording the license plates of the prettiest girls. To this day, I still know the license plates of the three girls I liked best. I have their license plates memorized.
High school wasn’t the only wasteland experience of my life. College turned out to be the same. At that time, at the University of Hawaii, there were no fraternities or sororities. I doubt such groups improve a college. However, to illustrate the wasteland nature of the University of Hawaii, I point this fact out. By 1 p.m. at the university, on any school day, the place was devoid of life. It remained so until the following morning.
The University of Hawaii is located at the far end of Honolulu. That is, it’s at the far end of Honolulu if you’re me, traveling there from Manana Town. I went by city bus. Such were not the epitome of timeliness in 1970s ( and 1980s ) Hawaii. I was always puzzled by Scholastic Aptitude Tests that asked,
“If the bus leaves at 7:05 a.m., and travels south at 53 miles per hour, against a breeze blowing at 9 miles per hour, when will the bus arrive?” Implicit in the question was the notion of a timetable. A Hawaii city bus often ignored timetables. It arrived when it arrived.
At the Pearl Ridge Mall, there were two bus stops. There was a bus stop by the Sears store. White people like me, including tourists, tended to frequent this stop. A second bus stop serving the mall was frequented by locals. Many times, a city bus would zip right by the first bus stop. It would not stop to pick up a “fucking howlie” ( white person ) like me. The city bus would always stop to pick up locals at the “local” bus stop. This problem wasn’t confined to the Pearl Ridge Mall.
I eventually learned to favor bus stops used by locals. Much as a driver might curse my existence, he couldn’t let a bunch of locals onto his bus and exclude the “fucking howlie”. ( Me. ) I will tell you a secret about how to catch the bus in Hawaii. First, figure out where you’re going. Then figure out how many bus lines go in that direction. For instance, I needed the number 55 bus to get from Honolulu to Manana Town. This did not mean that I got on the number 55 bus in Honolulu. I got on any bus that went to the “local” bus stop at Pearl Ridge Mall. ( Say, the number 52 bus. ) At the “local” bus stop at Pearl Ridge Mall, I got off. There, I waited for the number 55 bus. That bus then took me to Manana Town.
In fact, I didn’t have much trouble catching a Manana Town bus from Honolulu. I had a great problem catching a Manana Town bus at intermediate points along its route. For instance, on Sundays, near my father’s church, it was useless to wait for a number 55 bus. Most any driver of a number 55 bus would zip right by me, based on the notion that his bus was too full of people to pick anyone up. I had to resort to boarding whatever bus came along that would get me to the “local” bus stop at Pearl Ridge Mall.
When in doubt, in Honolulu, make your way to Ala Moana Mall. It serves as the terminal for many buses in Hawaii. ( At least, it did in the 1970s, and 1980s. )
At that time, it cost a child 10 cents to ride the city bus. An adult paid 25 cents. As high school was a wasteland, I started college early. One day, not near the college, I boarded a city bus. Being 17-years-old, I put in my dime. The driver told me to put in a quarter. I was, in his opinion, an adult.
One night, I decided to see the film “Pretty Baby”. It stars Brooke Shields at age 12. She plays a child prostitute. “Pretty Baby” was rated R, and I was 17 years old. You only need to be 17 to see an R-rated movie. Guess what? The lady who sold the theater’s tickets told me I couldn’t see “Pretty Baby”. I was obviously a child, and too young.
On that night, I discovered the worth of a college education. I got the clerk to sell me a ticket. I watched “Pretty Baby”. When the movie ended, I wanted to see it again. I had a plan to do this. It didn’t involve buying another ticket from the fucking lady.
I went to the theater’s bathroom. In a toilet stall, I stood on a toilet. I stooped, so my head wouldn’t stick out of the top of the stall.
Soon, a theater employee came into the bathroom. He wasn’t there to “void”, as the doctors say, or defecate.
“Halooo!” he yelled, in a surly manner. “Is anyone in here?” A local, he made some effort to inspect the bathroom, to ensure no one was robbing the theater of its admission fee. However, he did not inspect the bathroom adequately to find a “fucking howlie”. Especially one who was in college.
I returned to the viewing section of the theater. For free, I educated myself once more on the benefits of a pedophile lifestyle, by watching “Pretty Baby”.
Sometime thereafter, I bought “The Brooke Book by Brooke Shields”. It’s primarily a collection of photos from her ( then ) youthful career. Sadly, I wasn’t yet a boner-fide pedophile. I later threw away “The Brooke Book”. A used copy of this now sells for close to $1,000.
For decades since, I’ve pined for “The Brooke Book”. However, buying a “Used, Good” copy for $1,000 does not strike me as wise. That’s because I want the book for its photos of Brooke. If any photo is marred, that means I have to buy a second copy. So I’d be shelling out $2,000 for two copies of the same book. When I bought my copy, in the 1970s, I did so from a pile of them on a discount table. The copies were new, but being sold at a sale price because not enough people wanted them.
This was not due to the fact that nobody was a pedophile in the 1970s. Then, men could date 12-year-old girls. Also, in that era, 12-year-old girls could go to “adult” nightclubs. Such clubs even had areas for coital enjoyment. Naturally, being a nerd, I missed out on all this. Also, the farther one travels from regions of the world that are traditionally caucasian, the less one finds girls who resemble Brooke Shields.
“The Brooke Book by Brooke Shields” was first published in 1978. I have seen different versions of its publication information. One seller dates the book to January 1, 1978. Another seller dates the book to August 1, 1978. A seller lists the publisher as “Pocket Books”. Another seller lists the publisher as “Wallaby”. I don’t have the book. I don’t want this article to devolve into research on the topic, since I have something more fun to share. Here’s my understanding of “The Brooke Book”:
1. The first version was published in 1978. A paperback, it’s about the size of a standard magazine. It’s thicker than a magazine. This is called “perfect bound”.
2. A second version was published in the early 1980s. A paperback, it’s about the size of a standard magazine. It’s thicker than a magazine, and “perfect bound”.
By the 1980s, pedophobia was sweeping America. ( Apple’s “Pages” app regards the term “pedophobia” as a mispelling. However, perhaps because Apple’s Chief Executive Officer, Tim Cook, is gay, “Pages” has no problem with the word “homophobia”. “Pages” refuses to learn the spelling of pedophobia. )
In the second version of “The Brooke Book by Brooke Shields” all the raciest photos of her, as a little girl, were removed. These were replaced by boring photos of her as a teenager. I’m not saying any photo of a teenager is boring. However, I didn’t like the ones the publisher chose, given what they were replacing.
In theory, much of the second version of “The Brooke Book” is unchanged from the first. However, much of the first version may be only so-so in terms of photographic interest.
The problem of two different versions of “The Brooke Book” is detailed by an anonymous “Thriftbooks dot com User”. He writes:
“A Highly Sought After Collectible.
“The Brooke Book is one of the most popular Brooke Shields memorabilia items. I own one myself. But mine is the ( I suppose you could call it the “revised” edition ) second edition book. On my edition there is a headshot photo of brooke from around the early 1980’s. The 1978 Edition shows her sitting on a floor.”
You might guess what happened to me, in the 1990s. I bought “The Brooke Book” for $300.00. I bought the wrong copy. That is, I bought the 1980s version. The mistake was mine.
However, tonight I was reading about a seller offering the 1978 edition of “The Brooke Book” on Amazon. In reviews of this seller, a customer complains that he was sent the wrong edition of a particular book. My fear is that this seller will send me the 1980s “Brooke Book”, even though the seller is offering the 1978 “Brooke Book”.
Amazon has a photo of the 1978 “Brooke Book”. In places, the cover is slightly marred. I’ve seen this exact same photo attached to copies of “The Brooke Book” offered by sellers at abebooks dot com. Their copies of the 1978 “Brooke Book” are listed as “new”. So why do their “new” copies show Amazon’s photo?
The 1978 “Brooke Book” is pricey but a good value. The 1980s “Brooke Book” is nearly worthless. The prices on the used book market reflect this difference.
Some photos from “The Brooke Book” are available on the internet.
A fine photo of Brooke, from the 1978 “Brooke Book”, is available from Amazon dot com. I bought a copy of this photo. It’s great, and arrived in excellent, new condition. Look for:
“Brooke Shields 8 X 10 GLOSSY Photo Picture IMAGE #8”. The photo rates as five ( out of five ) stars. Its price is “$9.95 & FREE shipping”. If you want this photo for free, simply tap on it at Amazon. The photo will enlarge. Take a screen shot of it.
The above photo is an example of those deemed too racy for the second version of “The Brooke Book”.
The July 1978 issue of “Photo Magazine” features Brooke on its cover. The photo of her is from 1975. Brooke, at age 10, is posing nude in a bathtub. I don’t know if the issue contains more photos of Brooke.
Brooke’s bathtub photos were taken with her mother’s permission. Brooke was photographed by Garry Gross, who was often her photographer. You can read more about this at the website: iconicphotos dot wordpress dot com. Tag: Brooke Shields. Here, you’ll find photos of Brooke nude in a bathtub at age 10. However, this site has only a few of her photos from this session with Gross.
The writing is nice: Brooke is described as “bejeweled”, “glistening”, and “oiled ... in a steaming, ornate bathtub”. In some photos, Brooke is wearing a god-awful amount of makeup. I could have done with less of that.
Using the search term “brooke shields in bathtub”, you can Google more of her bathtub photos. They are legal under United States law. ( They were litigated some decades ago. )
If you’ve ever wondered if morons exist, you’ll find proof Googling these photos. Morons have marred these photos, eliminating Brooke’s anatomical charms, and then uploaded them to Google. Fortunately, if you keep looking, you can collect a set of unmarred Brooke bathtub photos. The rarest seem to be those of her facing the camera nude, and one with her ( adorable ) nude bottom toward the camera. ( By “nude”, I mean without soap bubbles and water in the way. Whoever heard of ruining a girl’s bath with soap bubbles and water? )
My advice is to skip paying money for “The Brooke Book”, especially as you may wind up with the wrong edition. Brooke is not nude in “The Brooke Book”. It doesn’t seem worthwhile to track down “Photo” magazine. This is an instance where the internet does truly offer the best of something for free. You’ll want to take a screen shot of the photos of Brooke that you like. ( Each screen shot will consist of multiple photos of Brooke on a single browser page. ) Then, expand the part of each screen shot featuring Brooke naked until it’s a respectable size. To do this, put your fingers against your iPad’s screen. Then, as they say in a porn film, “spread ‘em”.
Googling Brooke, you’ll find photos of other nude girls. All the girls I saw were caucasian. The girls may or may not be under age 18. As best I can tell, none of the photos meet a United States definition of “child pornography”. That’s because none of the girls are lasciviously displaying their genitals. Also, none of them are having sex. Unfortunately, none of these girls are as beautiful as Brooke Shields. Of the few that I saw, all were older than age 10.
Bear in mind that it’s not uncommon for a girl who is 18 years old to look younger. I have old ( legal ) porn magazines with sting ads for child pornography. The photos of the girls in these ads look “too young”. However, I have pictorials of the same girls, at the same age, nude in ( legal ) porn magazines. So yes, I’ve happily jerked off to “child pornography” which was, properly speaking, legal.
In my opinion, the word “porn” is a misnomer. I regard “porn” as being a truly marvelous form of art. It is sad that this society values “fine art” more highly than photos of beautiful naked girls. Of course, as with anything, quality varies. There can be great porn, and porn that amounts to little. Also, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
In the 1970s, the word “children” had been banished from everyday usage. There were no “children”. People below an unspecified age were “young people”. This term included anyone below, say, age 30. It could include older people who shared young people’s values.
Hence, “little girls” weren't called such. Most any girl, of whatever age, was a young woman.
Somewhere, I read an interesting item about race in America. The author said that white and black people, especially those who were poor, once got along fine in America. Rich white people didn’t like this state of affairs. So they introduced racism, to separate poor whites and blacks. This meant that rich whites could retain their control on society.
My view of pedophobia follows this logic. Pedophobia was imposed on America to drive a wedge between like-minded people of diverse ages. Hence, “young people” could no longer form a unified group. They were to be divided between “children” and “adults”. Any “adult” associating with a “child” without a parent’s permission was a “molester”. Furthermore, a parent allowing a child to associate with an adult could be jailed for “child endangerment”, or worse.
Abraham Lincoln said, “A house divided ... cannot stand.” Hence, “young people”, as a unified group seeking political change, was destroyed. Nobody wanted to be a “molester”. “Molesters” were sent to prison, usually for life, and with lifelong civic impairments, including the loss of the right to vote.
My use of the term “the 1970s” can include the latter part of the 1960s. In total, this free-spirited era lasted from the 1960s into the early 1990s. Imposing a Soviet Gulag on America, in the name of age segregation, has not improved this country.
STEPHEN KING’S BEST FOR FREE
The last time I mentioned author Stephen King in an article, the number of visitors to my blog post site exploded. Hence, I’m not shy about mentioning Stephen King again. In fact, I’m thinking of changing my name to Stephen Ring. My first book will be, “Carrion”. Successor novels will be, “The Shitting”, and “Salem’s Blot”.
As a reader, I’m not a horror fan. However, I adore King’s short story, “Willa”. ( First published in “Playboy” magazine. I’ve jerked off to the issue many times. However, I’ve never read “Willa” in Playboy. )
King’s short story collection “Just After Sunset” contains the story “Willa”. It’s the first story in the book. The Amazon Kindle version of “Just After Sunset” costs money. However, at Amazon, you can download a free sample of the book. The free sample contains all of “Willa”. In fact, “Willa” is the sole story that’s worth reading in the book.
EFFECTIVE KILLING
Summer is here, and with it comes flies. Gnats, too. Sitting here on my toilet, typing, I was plagued by two gnats. It did not please me to contemplate that they were likely having sex, while I was stuck jerking off.
However, I have a method for killing flies and gnats. Years ago, I lost my fly swatter. ( No, I didn’t lose it while perverting it to an S&M use. ) I don’t have much money. To compensate for this, emotionally, I drink out of party cups. Such a cup is clear. It is a reasonable size, but short in height. ( Like me. ) It has a broad “mouth”.
To kill a fly or a gnat, put a party cup over him. A fly or a gnat is very quick to launch into flight. However, it’s nearly impossible for such an insect to evade a party cup. You will capture the insect inside your inverted ( not perverted! ) cup.
If you’re lucky, you’ll trap the insect on a table. With a small insect, you needn’t do anything more. Just slide the cup to one side. The insect won’t be able to displace the cup to escape. I live alone ( sadly ), so I don’t have to worry about beautiful naked little girls investigating my cup, and releasing the trapped insect.
You might trap the insect against an interior wall of your abode. If so, have tape handy. A roll of Scotch tape works fine. Make sure the tape is on an office dispenser, so you can access it one-handed. Having trapped an insect to your wall in a cup, tape the cup to the wall. Leave the cup taped to the wall until the insect dies. This will take several days. ( If you have visitors, your party cup, taped to your wall with a fly inside, should make for an interesting conversation. I’ve had several cups taped to my walls during a single period of time. ) ( I’m not eccentric, I just like little girls and hate flies. )
AND IN THE END...
Real Stickers ( Improved by me )
“WARNING
“Age roles are an outdated and damaging social construct.”
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“WARNING
“Your perception of reality may be distorted by pedophobic social conditioning.”
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. AI, Apple Info, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
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The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
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My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have 99 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is AI, Apple Info, issue number 11
Arcana: This is AI, Apple Info, issue number 11, version 6.0
Date Written: August 3, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Stay in my A R S E: Andrew Roller Stories and Essays
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AI 11
Apple Info presents...
Age 10 and Naked
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by Andrew Roller
Brooke Shields in the bathtub.
Plus: Stephen King’s best for free.
And: Effective killing.
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I continue to be struck by life as it is presented in the media, and as I experience it. For instance, in the media, high school is a sex-besotted version of Archie comics. I did not experience high school that way.
I attended plenty of them. I did so in two widely separated locations: Guam, and later Hawaii. In total, counting a semester when I attended college as a high schooler, I went to four high schools.
For me, high school was a wasteland. I recall riding my bicycle in the Hawaii community of Manana Town. ( Not its real name. ) I was looking for children, especially girls. There was no one around. I don’t know what Manana Town is like today. However, in 1976, and for at least a decade thereafter, Manana Town was a bedroom community. Adults slept in Manana Town, but they commuted to Honolulu to work. Honolulu is a city that sprawls along the southern coast of Hawaii’s island of Oahu. Manana Town, a considerable distance away, is located in the mountains. It was being constructed amid sugar cane and pineapple fields.
At that time, I didn’t have a job. This was okay with me, but not with my parents. They got me a job at a military base north of Manana Town. Soon, I was commuting there each afternoon, and every Saturday, courtesy of my mother.
The job involved bagging groceries. It was unpaid. We baggers worked for tips only. This eventually became a problem for me. I would diligently pack numerous grocery bags for soldiers shopping as a group. I would transport these bags in a grocery cart to the soldiers’ car. I would load them into their car. The soldiers would ignore the fact that I had labored for them. I would remind them that we baggers worked for tips only. The soldiers would say,
“If you want money, join the Army like we did.” I was too young to join the Army. My understanding is that the soldiers tipped the teenage girl baggers quite well.
Probably, you’re accustomed to plastic grocery bags. Those didn’t exist in the 1970s. Our grocery bags were the traditional kind, made of heavy brown paper. If you’ve ever worked with these bags in quantity, you’ll soon notice how much paper dust gets in your eyes. It isn’t pleasant.
Nonetheless, I worked at the Army Commissary ( a grocery store ) for several years. We baggers consisted mostly of teenage males. I soon learned a sad fact about grocery stores, which still holds true today. Teenage girls don’t shop at grocery stores. Young women shop at grocery stores. At the Army Commissary, this meant mens’ wives. Little girls shop at grocery stores. At the Army Commissary, this meant girls from about age 6 to 11.
Hence, I had a choice. Working at the Army Commissary, I could gawk at mens’ wives. Or, I could gawk at little girls. Most of my fellow baggers chose to gawk at mens’ wives. However, my father was a pastor. This meant that I never missed a church service. I had been warned by the Lutheran religion, innumerable times, to never covet mens’ wives. I decided to gawk at little girls.
Mostly, I never saw a girl more than two or three times. The vast majority of girls arrived in cars, with their parents. A car has a license plate. In Hawaii, on an Army base, such information is relatively useless. Many military cars have out-of-state license plates. Furthermore, license plate information did me no good in this pre-internet era.
Nonetheless, I began recording the license plates of the prettiest girls. To this day, I still know the license plates of the three girls I liked best. I have their license plates memorized.
High school wasn’t the only wasteland experience of my life. College turned out to be the same. At that time, at the University of Hawaii, there were no fraternities or sororities. I doubt such groups improve a college. However, to illustrate the wasteland nature of the University of Hawaii, I point this fact out. By 1 p.m. at the university, on any school day, the place was devoid of life. It remained so until the following morning.
The University of Hawaii is located at the far end of Honolulu. That is, it’s at the far end of Honolulu if you’re me, traveling there from Manana Town. I went by city bus. Such were not the epitome of timeliness in 1970s ( and 1980s ) Hawaii. I was always puzzled by Scholastic Aptitude Tests that asked,
“If the bus leaves at 7:05 a.m., and travels south at 53 miles per hour, against a breeze blowing at 9 miles per hour, when will the bus arrive?” Implicit in the question was the notion of a timetable. A Hawaii city bus often ignored timetables. It arrived when it arrived.
At the Pearl Ridge Mall, there were two bus stops. There was a bus stop by the Sears store. White people like me, including tourists, tended to frequent this stop. A second bus stop serving the mall was frequented by locals. Many times, a city bus would zip right by the first bus stop. It would not stop to pick up a “fucking howlie” ( white person ) like me. The city bus would always stop to pick up locals at the “local” bus stop. This problem wasn’t confined to the Pearl Ridge Mall.
I eventually learned to favor bus stops used by locals. Much as a driver might curse my existence, he couldn’t let a bunch of locals onto his bus and exclude the “fucking howlie”. ( Me. ) I will tell you a secret about how to catch the bus in Hawaii. First, figure out where you’re going. Then figure out how many bus lines go in that direction. For instance, I needed the number 55 bus to get from Honolulu to Manana Town. This did not mean that I got on the number 55 bus in Honolulu. I got on any bus that went to the “local” bus stop at Pearl Ridge Mall. ( Say, the number 52 bus. ) At the “local” bus stop at Pearl Ridge Mall, I got off. There, I waited for the number 55 bus. That bus then took me to Manana Town.
In fact, I didn’t have much trouble catching a Manana Town bus from Honolulu. I had a great problem catching a Manana Town bus at intermediate points along its route. For instance, on Sundays, near my father’s church, it was useless to wait for a number 55 bus. Most any driver of a number 55 bus would zip right by me, based on the notion that his bus was too full of people to pick anyone up. I had to resort to boarding whatever bus came along that would get me to the “local” bus stop at Pearl Ridge Mall.
When in doubt, in Honolulu, make your way to Ala Moana Mall. It serves as the terminal for many buses in Hawaii. ( At least, it did in the 1970s, and 1980s. )
At that time, it cost a child 10 cents to ride the city bus. An adult paid 25 cents. As high school was a wasteland, I started college early. One day, not near the college, I boarded a city bus. Being 17-years-old, I put in my dime. The driver told me to put in a quarter. I was, in his opinion, an adult.
One night, I decided to see the film “Pretty Baby”. It stars Brooke Shields at age 12. She plays a child prostitute. “Pretty Baby” was rated R, and I was 17 years old. You only need to be 17 to see an R-rated movie. Guess what? The lady who sold the theater’s tickets told me I couldn’t see “Pretty Baby”. I was obviously a child, and too young.
On that night, I discovered the worth of a college education. I got the clerk to sell me a ticket. I watched “Pretty Baby”. When the movie ended, I wanted to see it again. I had a plan to do this. It didn’t involve buying another ticket from the fucking lady.
I went to the theater’s bathroom. In a toilet stall, I stood on a toilet. I stooped, so my head wouldn’t stick out of the top of the stall.
Soon, a theater employee came into the bathroom. He wasn’t there to “void”, as the doctors say, or defecate.
“Halooo!” he yelled, in a surly manner. “Is anyone in here?” A local, he made some effort to inspect the bathroom, to ensure no one was robbing the theater of its admission fee. However, he did not inspect the bathroom adequately to find a “fucking howlie”. Especially one who was in college.
I returned to the viewing section of the theater. For free, I educated myself once more on the benefits of a pedophile lifestyle, by watching “Pretty Baby”.
Sometime thereafter, I bought “The Brooke Book by Brooke Shields”. It’s primarily a collection of photos from her ( then ) youthful career. Sadly, I wasn’t yet a boner-fide pedophile. I later threw away “The Brooke Book”. A used copy of this now sells for close to $1,000.
For decades since, I’ve pined for “The Brooke Book”. However, buying a “Used, Good” copy for $1,000 does not strike me as wise. That’s because I want the book for its photos of Brooke. If any photo is marred, that means I have to buy a second copy. So I’d be shelling out $2,000 for two copies of the same book. When I bought my copy, in the 1970s, I did so from a pile of them on a discount table. The copies were new, but being sold at a sale price because not enough people wanted them.
This was not due to the fact that nobody was a pedophile in the 1970s. Then, men could date 12-year-old girls. Also, in that era, 12-year-old girls could go to “adult” nightclubs. Such clubs even had areas for coital enjoyment. Naturally, being a nerd, I missed out on all this. Also, the farther one travels from regions of the world that are traditionally caucasian, the less one finds girls who resemble Brooke Shields.
“The Brooke Book by Brooke Shields” was first published in 1978. I have seen different versions of its publication information. One seller dates the book to January 1, 1978. Another seller dates the book to August 1, 1978. A seller lists the publisher as “Pocket Books”. Another seller lists the publisher as “Wallaby”. I don’t have the book. I don’t want this article to devolve into research on the topic, since I have something more fun to share. Here’s my understanding of “The Brooke Book”:
1. The first version was published in 1978. A paperback, it’s about the size of a standard magazine. It’s thicker than a magazine. This is called “perfect bound”.
2. A second version was published in the early 1980s. A paperback, it’s about the size of a standard magazine. It’s thicker than a magazine, and “perfect bound”.
By the 1980s, pedophobia was sweeping America. ( Apple’s “Pages” app regards the term “pedophobia” as a mispelling. However, perhaps because Apple’s Chief Executive Officer, Tim Cook, is gay, “Pages” has no problem with the word “homophobia”. “Pages” refuses to learn the spelling of pedophobia. )
In the second version of “The Brooke Book by Brooke Shields” all the raciest photos of her, as a little girl, were removed. These were replaced by boring photos of her as a teenager. I’m not saying any photo of a teenager is boring. However, I didn’t like the ones the publisher chose, given what they were replacing.
In theory, much of the second version of “The Brooke Book” is unchanged from the first. However, much of the first version may be only so-so in terms of photographic interest.
The problem of two different versions of “The Brooke Book” is detailed by an anonymous “Thriftbooks dot com User”. He writes:
“A Highly Sought After Collectible.
“The Brooke Book is one of the most popular Brooke Shields memorabilia items. I own one myself. But mine is the ( I suppose you could call it the “revised” edition ) second edition book. On my edition there is a headshot photo of brooke from around the early 1980’s. The 1978 Edition shows her sitting on a floor.”
You might guess what happened to me, in the 1990s. I bought “The Brooke Book” for $300.00. I bought the wrong copy. That is, I bought the 1980s version. The mistake was mine.
However, tonight I was reading about a seller offering the 1978 edition of “The Brooke Book” on Amazon. In reviews of this seller, a customer complains that he was sent the wrong edition of a particular book. My fear is that this seller will send me the 1980s “Brooke Book”, even though the seller is offering the 1978 “Brooke Book”.
Amazon has a photo of the 1978 “Brooke Book”. In places, the cover is slightly marred. I’ve seen this exact same photo attached to copies of “The Brooke Book” offered by sellers at abebooks dot com. Their copies of the 1978 “Brooke Book” are listed as “new”. So why do their “new” copies show Amazon’s photo?
The 1978 “Brooke Book” is pricey but a good value. The 1980s “Brooke Book” is nearly worthless. The prices on the used book market reflect this difference.
Some photos from “The Brooke Book” are available on the internet.
A fine photo of Brooke, from the 1978 “Brooke Book”, is available from Amazon dot com. I bought a copy of this photo. It’s great, and arrived in excellent, new condition. Look for:
“Brooke Shields 8 X 10 GLOSSY Photo Picture IMAGE #8”. The photo rates as five ( out of five ) stars. Its price is “$9.95 & FREE shipping”. If you want this photo for free, simply tap on it at Amazon. The photo will enlarge. Take a screen shot of it.
The above photo is an example of those deemed too racy for the second version of “The Brooke Book”.
The July 1978 issue of “Photo Magazine” features Brooke on its cover. The photo of her is from 1975. Brooke, at age 10, is posing nude in a bathtub. I don’t know if the issue contains more photos of Brooke.
Brooke’s bathtub photos were taken with her mother’s permission. Brooke was photographed by Garry Gross, who was often her photographer. You can read more about this at the website: iconicphotos dot wordpress dot com. Tag: Brooke Shields. Here, you’ll find photos of Brooke nude in a bathtub at age 10. However, this site has only a few of her photos from this session with Gross.
The writing is nice: Brooke is described as “bejeweled”, “glistening”, and “oiled ... in a steaming, ornate bathtub”. In some photos, Brooke is wearing a god-awful amount of makeup. I could have done with less of that.
Using the search term “brooke shields in bathtub”, you can Google more of her bathtub photos. They are legal under United States law. ( They were litigated some decades ago. )
If you’ve ever wondered if morons exist, you’ll find proof Googling these photos. Morons have marred these photos, eliminating Brooke’s anatomical charms, and then uploaded them to Google. Fortunately, if you keep looking, you can collect a set of unmarred Brooke bathtub photos. The rarest seem to be those of her facing the camera nude, and one with her ( adorable ) nude bottom toward the camera. ( By “nude”, I mean without soap bubbles and water in the way. Whoever heard of ruining a girl’s bath with soap bubbles and water? )
My advice is to skip paying money for “The Brooke Book”, especially as you may wind up with the wrong edition. Brooke is not nude in “The Brooke Book”. It doesn’t seem worthwhile to track down “Photo” magazine. This is an instance where the internet does truly offer the best of something for free. You’ll want to take a screen shot of the photos of Brooke that you like. ( Each screen shot will consist of multiple photos of Brooke on a single browser page. ) Then, expand the part of each screen shot featuring Brooke naked until it’s a respectable size. To do this, put your fingers against your iPad’s screen. Then, as they say in a porn film, “spread ‘em”.
Googling Brooke, you’ll find photos of other nude girls. All the girls I saw were caucasian. The girls may or may not be under age 18. As best I can tell, none of the photos meet a United States definition of “child pornography”. That’s because none of the girls are lasciviously displaying their genitals. Also, none of them are having sex. Unfortunately, none of these girls are as beautiful as Brooke Shields. Of the few that I saw, all were older than age 10.
Bear in mind that it’s not uncommon for a girl who is 18 years old to look younger. I have old ( legal ) porn magazines with sting ads for child pornography. The photos of the girls in these ads look “too young”. However, I have pictorials of the same girls, at the same age, nude in ( legal ) porn magazines. So yes, I’ve happily jerked off to “child pornography” which was, properly speaking, legal.
In my opinion, the word “porn” is a misnomer. I regard “porn” as being a truly marvelous form of art. It is sad that this society values “fine art” more highly than photos of beautiful naked girls. Of course, as with anything, quality varies. There can be great porn, and porn that amounts to little. Also, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
In the 1970s, the word “children” had been banished from everyday usage. There were no “children”. People below an unspecified age were “young people”. This term included anyone below, say, age 30. It could include older people who shared young people’s values.
Hence, “little girls” weren't called such. Most any girl, of whatever age, was a young woman.
Somewhere, I read an interesting item about race in America. The author said that white and black people, especially those who were poor, once got along fine in America. Rich white people didn’t like this state of affairs. So they introduced racism, to separate poor whites and blacks. This meant that rich whites could retain their control on society.
My view of pedophobia follows this logic. Pedophobia was imposed on America to drive a wedge between like-minded people of diverse ages. Hence, “young people” could no longer form a unified group. They were to be divided between “children” and “adults”. Any “adult” associating with a “child” without a parent’s permission was a “molester”. Furthermore, a parent allowing a child to associate with an adult could be jailed for “child endangerment”, or worse.
Abraham Lincoln said, “A house divided ... cannot stand.” Hence, “young people”, as a unified group seeking political change, was destroyed. Nobody wanted to be a “molester”. “Molesters” were sent to prison, usually for life, and with lifelong civic impairments, including the loss of the right to vote.
My use of the term “the 1970s” can include the latter part of the 1960s. In total, this free-spirited era lasted from the 1960s into the early 1990s. Imposing a Soviet Gulag on America, in the name of age segregation, has not improved this country.
STEPHEN KING’S BEST FOR FREE
The last time I mentioned author Stephen King in an article, the number of visitors to my blog post site exploded. Hence, I’m not shy about mentioning Stephen King again. In fact, I’m thinking of changing my name to Stephen Ring. My first book will be, “Carrion”. Successor novels will be, “The Shitting”, and “Salem’s Blot”.
As a reader, I’m not a horror fan. However, I adore King’s short story, “Willa”. ( First published in “Playboy” magazine. I’ve jerked off to the issue many times. However, I’ve never read “Willa” in Playboy. )
King’s short story collection “Just After Sunset” contains the story “Willa”. It’s the first story in the book. The Amazon Kindle version of “Just After Sunset” costs money. However, at Amazon, you can download a free sample of the book. The free sample contains all of “Willa”. In fact, “Willa” is the sole story that’s worth reading in the book.
EFFECTIVE KILLING
Summer is here, and with it comes flies. Gnats, too. Sitting here on my toilet, typing, I was plagued by two gnats. It did not please me to contemplate that they were likely having sex, while I was stuck jerking off.
However, I have a method for killing flies and gnats. Years ago, I lost my fly swatter. ( No, I didn’t lose it while perverting it to an S&M use. ) I don’t have much money. To compensate for this, emotionally, I drink out of party cups. Such a cup is clear. It is a reasonable size, but short in height. ( Like me. ) It has a broad “mouth”.
To kill a fly or a gnat, put a party cup over him. A fly or a gnat is very quick to launch into flight. However, it’s nearly impossible for such an insect to evade a party cup. You will capture the insect inside your inverted ( not perverted! ) cup.
If you’re lucky, you’ll trap the insect on a table. With a small insect, you needn’t do anything more. Just slide the cup to one side. The insect won’t be able to displace the cup to escape. I live alone ( sadly ), so I don’t have to worry about beautiful naked little girls investigating my cup, and releasing the trapped insect.
You might trap the insect against an interior wall of your abode. If so, have tape handy. A roll of Scotch tape works fine. Make sure the tape is on an office dispenser, so you can access it one-handed. Having trapped an insect to your wall in a cup, tape the cup to the wall. Leave the cup taped to the wall until the insect dies. This will take several days. ( If you have visitors, your party cup, taped to your wall with a fly inside, should make for an interesting conversation. I’ve had several cups taped to my walls during a single period of time. ) ( I’m not eccentric, I just like little girls and hate flies. )
AND IN THE END...
Real Stickers ( Improved by me )
“WARNING
“Age roles are an outdated and damaging social construct.”
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“WARNING
“Your perception of reality may be distorted by pedophobic social conditioning.”
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. AI, Apple Info, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have 99 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is AI, Apple Info, issue number 11
Arcana: This is AI, Apple Info, issue number 11, version 6.0
Date Written: August 3, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Stay in my A R S E: Andrew Roller Stories and Essays
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Goonish Google
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AI 10
Apple Info presents...
Goonish Google
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by Andrew Roller
How to steer clear of Google censorship.
Plus: Disposing of great but useless prose.
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I have a detractor. Recently, this person posted the following: “Be aware that Andrew Roller writes on the toilet.” I felt disgraced. Obviously, I’m not standing up while I’m typing on my iPad. What difference does it make where I sit?
Does my race matter? ( Honkey. ) My ethnic origin? ( German, not Nazi! ) My religion? ( Godless atheist. ) My disability? ( The boy can’t make it with girls. ) My age? ( Old fart. ) My nationality? ( Satan America. ) My veteran status? ( Couldn’t shoot straight. ) My sexual orientation? ( Pedophile. ) My gender? ( Patriarchal male. ) My gender identity? ( Huh? ) My other characteristics that are associated with systemic discrimination or marginalization? ( I’ll think of some soon. )
So, if I’m not a victim of discrimination, according to Google’s “Policies and Terms”, why should it matter if I’m writing to you from my toilet?
My detractor also said: “Roller sometimes runs out of toilet paper. That’s why some of his articles are so long.”
This really stung. If I’m sitting on the toilet waiting for toilet paper from Amazon, what am I supposed to do with myself? A guy can only jerk off to porn for so long. I figure, the rest of the time, while I’m on the toilet, I’ll write to you.
I’m a thoughtful person. I don’t just think of you when I’m plagued with diarrhea, or have constipation. I sometimes think of you while I’m looking at porn. Anyway, I think my detractor was most unkind. A guy has to do something while he’s stuck on the toilet.
My source for Google’s “Policies and Terms” is their “Google Photos” app. I finally managed to find, and read, their “Google Photos User Content and Conduct Policy”. Google doesn’t just prohibit illegal conduct, in the use of their “Google Photos” app. They impose their usual liberal-left agenda, intent on culturally engineering America. This from a company that, by law, is supposed to be a neutral platform.
The primary purpose of “Google Photos” is as a photo backup service. Nonetheless, Google trumpets their desire to police what is privately uploaded with the “Google Photos” app. They are very intent on regulating what is shared through “Google Photos”, even if it’s meant to be private.
Illegal activity is, of course, in a separate category. The government prosecutes illegal activity, as it reminds us every day. Generally, it does this as zealously as it once pursued runaway slaves.
Google is determined to impose its own views of content and “conduct” on each of its users, even those who mean to keep such things private.
Here was my problem with “Google Photos”. Every time I opened the app, it was backing up my photos from my Apple “Photos” app. Google was grabbing every one of my photos. I couldn’t figure out how to turn the damn thing off.
The way to turn “Google Photos” off follows:
1. Boot up “Google Photos”.
2. A page displays your latest photos. Google got these from your Apple “Photos” app. Scroll down to see more of your photos.
3. In the upper right corner of your iPad’s screen, you’ll see an icon. The icon represents you. ( In my case, the icon is of the sun, since I’m le Roi Soleil. )
4. Tap on your icon.
5. Now comes the tricky part. You’re taken to a new page. It’s blank. An image of a poorly formed circle spins and spins. You wait for the page to finish loading. You wait. And wait...
6. I did the above a number of times. Whatever was supposed to load never did. Finally, I noticed a “Settings” wheel icon in the upper right corner of my screen. It resides on this blank page that won’t load.
7. Tap the “Settings” wheel. You’re taken to another page. There, you’ll find a page titled, “Back up & sync”. The title is in the left hand corner of the page. The page is otherwise untitled. Deceptively, next to “Back up & sync” is a leftward pointing arrow. It tries to get you to return to where you came from.
8. Stay a moment, on that page. Far on the right, you’ll find a blue toggle. You’ll see that it’s in the “on” position. Tap it to turn it off. You have now stopped Google from grabbing each of your photos, so they can ban your Google account, or try to put you in jail.
The “Google Photos” app will continue to collect every photo from your Apple “Photos” app. However, it won’t be merrily sending them to Google’s staff so they can abuse you.
Like everyone, I used to love Google. In the 1990’s, Google was a great company. It wasn’t a great big company, as it is now. It was just great. Today, Google is infested with bullies who intend to impose their will on America. One way to avoid that is to limit your use of Google’s products.
To read my blog, I use the search engine “DuckDuckGo”. It’s owned by Gabriel Weinberg, age 36, who lives near Philadelphia. “DuckDuckGo” loads my blog post site faster than Google does.
My site, on the “DuckDuckGo” page, is easier to read than it is on my “WordPress” bookmark page.
( You can make a “WordPress” bookmark page by doing the following. In Safari, tap the box icon. I’m speaking of the box icon that has an arrow sticking out of its top. When you tap this, an informational box will appear. In it, tap the phrase “Add to Home Screen”. The informational box changes. Tap “Add” in its upper right. You’ll be returned to your iPad’s home screen. There ( somewhere ) you’ll find a WordPress bookmark icon. Whenever you tap it, you’ll be taken to your “WordPress” site.
Note: if every screen on your iPad is full, your icon will exist as a ghost beyond the final screen. Collect the icons you are able to see into folders. Do this until the ghost icon materializes as a visible icon on your iPad. )
I doubt Google will ever improve, in terms of their approach to their users. Sadly, we’ll have to wait until they go the way of such once dominant companies as CompuServe, and America Online.
HELP FOR WRITERS
As writers, we can spin some wonderful prose. However, sometimes the lines we write don’t work in the essay we’re typing. What to do?
I have a folder called “cut ends folder”. In this folder is a document. It’s titled, “cut ends”. When I cut immortal prose from one of my essays, I paste it into the “cut ends” document. You may think I sometimes consult this document for the brilliance of my former thoughts. Actually, I don’t. However, after I’m dead, humanity will probably cherish what I cut, and incorporate it into their holiest books.
Get rid of prose you adore, but that’s functionally worthless, in your own “cut ends” receptacle.
AND IN THE END...
“The eagle should permit the small birds to sing and care not wherefor they sang.”
- Winston Churchill.
- The Last 100 Days, by John Toland, pg. 89. ( Amazon Kindle. )
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. AI, Apple Info, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have 99 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is AI, Apple Info, issue number 10
Arcana: This is AI, Apple Info, issue number 10, version 2.0
Date Written: July 30, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Stay in my A R S E: Andrew Roller Stories and Essays
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AI 10
Apple Info presents...
Goonish Google
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by Andrew Roller
How to steer clear of Google censorship.
Plus: Disposing of great but useless prose.
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I have a detractor. Recently, this person posted the following: “Be aware that Andrew Roller writes on the toilet.” I felt disgraced. Obviously, I’m not standing up while I’m typing on my iPad. What difference does it make where I sit?
Does my race matter? ( Honkey. ) My ethnic origin? ( German, not Nazi! ) My religion? ( Godless atheist. ) My disability? ( The boy can’t make it with girls. ) My age? ( Old fart. ) My nationality? ( Satan America. ) My veteran status? ( Couldn’t shoot straight. ) My sexual orientation? ( Pedophile. ) My gender? ( Patriarchal male. ) My gender identity? ( Huh? ) My other characteristics that are associated with systemic discrimination or marginalization? ( I’ll think of some soon. )
So, if I’m not a victim of discrimination, according to Google’s “Policies and Terms”, why should it matter if I’m writing to you from my toilet?
My detractor also said: “Roller sometimes runs out of toilet paper. That’s why some of his articles are so long.”
This really stung. If I’m sitting on the toilet waiting for toilet paper from Amazon, what am I supposed to do with myself? A guy can only jerk off to porn for so long. I figure, the rest of the time, while I’m on the toilet, I’ll write to you.
I’m a thoughtful person. I don’t just think of you when I’m plagued with diarrhea, or have constipation. I sometimes think of you while I’m looking at porn. Anyway, I think my detractor was most unkind. A guy has to do something while he’s stuck on the toilet.
My source for Google’s “Policies and Terms” is their “Google Photos” app. I finally managed to find, and read, their “Google Photos User Content and Conduct Policy”. Google doesn’t just prohibit illegal conduct, in the use of their “Google Photos” app. They impose their usual liberal-left agenda, intent on culturally engineering America. This from a company that, by law, is supposed to be a neutral platform.
The primary purpose of “Google Photos” is as a photo backup service. Nonetheless, Google trumpets their desire to police what is privately uploaded with the “Google Photos” app. They are very intent on regulating what is shared through “Google Photos”, even if it’s meant to be private.
Illegal activity is, of course, in a separate category. The government prosecutes illegal activity, as it reminds us every day. Generally, it does this as zealously as it once pursued runaway slaves.
Google is determined to impose its own views of content and “conduct” on each of its users, even those who mean to keep such things private.
Here was my problem with “Google Photos”. Every time I opened the app, it was backing up my photos from my Apple “Photos” app. Google was grabbing every one of my photos. I couldn’t figure out how to turn the damn thing off.
The way to turn “Google Photos” off follows:
1. Boot up “Google Photos”.
2. A page displays your latest photos. Google got these from your Apple “Photos” app. Scroll down to see more of your photos.
3. In the upper right corner of your iPad’s screen, you’ll see an icon. The icon represents you. ( In my case, the icon is of the sun, since I’m le Roi Soleil. )
4. Tap on your icon.
5. Now comes the tricky part. You’re taken to a new page. It’s blank. An image of a poorly formed circle spins and spins. You wait for the page to finish loading. You wait. And wait...
6. I did the above a number of times. Whatever was supposed to load never did. Finally, I noticed a “Settings” wheel icon in the upper right corner of my screen. It resides on this blank page that won’t load.
7. Tap the “Settings” wheel. You’re taken to another page. There, you’ll find a page titled, “Back up & sync”. The title is in the left hand corner of the page. The page is otherwise untitled. Deceptively, next to “Back up & sync” is a leftward pointing arrow. It tries to get you to return to where you came from.
8. Stay a moment, on that page. Far on the right, you’ll find a blue toggle. You’ll see that it’s in the “on” position. Tap it to turn it off. You have now stopped Google from grabbing each of your photos, so they can ban your Google account, or try to put you in jail.
The “Google Photos” app will continue to collect every photo from your Apple “Photos” app. However, it won’t be merrily sending them to Google’s staff so they can abuse you.
Like everyone, I used to love Google. In the 1990’s, Google was a great company. It wasn’t a great big company, as it is now. It was just great. Today, Google is infested with bullies who intend to impose their will on America. One way to avoid that is to limit your use of Google’s products.
To read my blog, I use the search engine “DuckDuckGo”. It’s owned by Gabriel Weinberg, age 36, who lives near Philadelphia. “DuckDuckGo” loads my blog post site faster than Google does.
My site, on the “DuckDuckGo” page, is easier to read than it is on my “WordPress” bookmark page.
( You can make a “WordPress” bookmark page by doing the following. In Safari, tap the box icon. I’m speaking of the box icon that has an arrow sticking out of its top. When you tap this, an informational box will appear. In it, tap the phrase “Add to Home Screen”. The informational box changes. Tap “Add” in its upper right. You’ll be returned to your iPad’s home screen. There ( somewhere ) you’ll find a WordPress bookmark icon. Whenever you tap it, you’ll be taken to your “WordPress” site.
Note: if every screen on your iPad is full, your icon will exist as a ghost beyond the final screen. Collect the icons you are able to see into folders. Do this until the ghost icon materializes as a visible icon on your iPad. )
I doubt Google will ever improve, in terms of their approach to their users. Sadly, we’ll have to wait until they go the way of such once dominant companies as CompuServe, and America Online.
HELP FOR WRITERS
As writers, we can spin some wonderful prose. However, sometimes the lines we write don’t work in the essay we’re typing. What to do?
I have a folder called “cut ends folder”. In this folder is a document. It’s titled, “cut ends”. When I cut immortal prose from one of my essays, I paste it into the “cut ends” document. You may think I sometimes consult this document for the brilliance of my former thoughts. Actually, I don’t. However, after I’m dead, humanity will probably cherish what I cut, and incorporate it into their holiest books.
Get rid of prose you adore, but that’s functionally worthless, in your own “cut ends” receptacle.
AND IN THE END...
“The eagle should permit the small birds to sing and care not wherefor they sang.”
- Winston Churchill.
- The Last 100 Days, by John Toland, pg. 89. ( Amazon Kindle. )
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. AI, Apple Info, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have 99 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is AI, Apple Info, issue number 10
Arcana: This is AI, Apple Info, issue number 10, version 2.0
Date Written: July 30, 2020.
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Stay in my A R S E: Andrew Roller Stories and Essays
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Importing Porn
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AI 9
Apple Info presents...
Importing Porn
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by Andrew Roller
Send any screen recording to Apple’s “iMovie”.
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Do you like porn films? Perambulating on the internet, you’ve probably acquired two types of porn films. They are:
1. Sick porn films.
2. Illegal porn films.
Actually, I’m kidding. Let’s try again. You’ve acquired:
1. Porn films that are actual, downloaded videos.
2. Porn films that are screen recordings. These are stored in your Apple “Photos” app. ( I am writing from the perspective of someone who has an Apple iPad, an Apple iPhone, and nothing else. )
Let’s say you’re watching a downloaded video. You can send it to Apple’s “iMovie” app. ( See my earlier blog posts on how to do this. )
However, within Apple’s “Photos” app, you cannot send a screen recording to Apple’s “iMovie” app. ( In an earlier blog post, I explained how to send a screen recording to “Google Drive”, and then to “iMovie”. However, “Google Drive” refuses to do this for a screen recording of a You Tube video. ( Google owns You Tube )).
Today, I want to tell you how to do something within “iMovie”. Inside “iMovie”, it is possible to import any screen recording that’s in your Apple “Photos” app. This includes screen recordings of You Tube videos.
You will be copying your screen recording into “iMovie”. Your original screen recording will remain intact.
Stupidly, I once made a four hour long screen recording of a bunch of You Tube videos. I’m eager to import that screen recording into “iMovie” and get rid of the parts of it that I don’t want.
Also, I like watching porn films in slow motion. I can do that in “iMovie”.
Here’s a quick review of how to watch a porn film in “iMovie” in slow motion:
In “iMovie”, a film appears as a filmstrip. I put my finger against my iPad’s screen. Then I drag the filmstrip along at any speed that I wish.
Sometimes, the filmstrip “snaps back”. It jumps to its starting point without being asked to.
In an attempt to avoid this, I don’t put my finger right on the filmstrip to drag it. I put my finger in the black space below the filmstrip. However, the filmstrip still sometimes “snaps back”. I have no way to solve this problem. I called Apple about it, but they were unable to help me.
Let’s say you’re watching a filmstrip, by dragging it along with your finger. Your finger is on your filmstrip. Suddenly, your filmstrip is embraced by a gold border. That can be trouble, in this situation. Your filmstrip is now ready to be edited. Do you want to edit it? If not, tap the black space under your filmstrip. That will get rid of the gold border.
To deliberately trigger the gold border in this situation, double-tap it with your finger.
( Farther on in this article, a gold border turns out to be a wonderful thing. I’ll explain that soon. )
The “iMovie” app comes in three sections:
1. The “Projects” page. This page displays all your movies. Each movie appears as a square. These squares are akin to icons. Sadly, you can’t drag them around on your iPad’s screen. Also, over time, the squares rearrange themselves. Apparently, they rearrange themselves to give you ready access to the films you want to watch most. ( In Apple’s opinion. )
I find this “feature” irritating. I’d prefer it if each square remained where it belongs. The “iMovie” app assigns a number to each square. I feel each square ought to be in its numbered order, from 1 to 1,475,862.
Of course, in Apple’s opinion, you’re not using “iMovie” to watch movies. You’re especially not jerking off to them as you watch them in slow motion. You’re editing a movie you took of your grandmother’s 87th birthday, where her present was a new set of false teeth.
Here are the remaining sections of the “iMovie” app:
2. The “My Movie” page. When you tap a movie on the “Projects” page, you’re taken to this page. The word “Edit”, in a circle, appears near the bottom of this page.
3. The filmstrip page. When you tap “Edit” on the “My Movie” page, you’re taken to this page.
Let’s import a screen recording ( from Apple’s “Photos” app ) into “iMovie”.
1. Boot up the “iMovie” app. Probably, you’ll find yourself on the “Projects” page. If not, tap your way to it, inside “iMovie”.
2. You’re on the “Projects” page. At the upper left corner of this page is a black box. It has a plus sign ( + ) inside it.
3. Tap on the plus sign.
4. An informational box appears. It is labelled, “New Project”. Beneath “New Project” are two options:
A. Movie.
B. Trailer.
5. Tap on “Movie”.
6. Whoa! You’re taken to a big new page. At the top, in the center, it is labelled, “Moments”. On the left side is a column. It is labelled “Media”.
7. Under “Media” the following are listed:
A. Moments.
B. Video.
C. Photos.
D. Albums.
8. Tap on “Video”.
9. A new page appears. WAIT for it to finish loading all its data. At the top, in the center, it is labelled, “All”. Various screen recordings are present. Resembling filmstrips, they are stacked on top of each other.
10. Scroll down through the screen recordings until you find the one that you want.
11. Tap on the screen recording you want.
12. Wow! The screen recording you want ( of a girl orgasming? ) is now embraced in gold! A little informational box is now present just under this filmstrip. It features:
A. An arrow.
B. A checkmark, inside a circle.
13. Tap on the checkmark.
14. The checkmark turns light blue. At the bottom of your screen you see, written in light blue, “Create Movie”.
15. Tap “Create Movie”.
16. Wow! You’re taken to the filmstrip page in “iMovie”. The screen recording you chose is there! You can now watch it at any speed that you wish, by dragging it along with your finger. Or you can just watch it play through at its normal speed.
You can also edit the filmstrip. However, that’s beyond my level of knowledge.
17. In the upper left corner of your screen is the word “Done”. Tap “Done” to go to the “My Movie” page. There, the word “Projects” is in the upper left corner of your screen. Tap “Projects” to get back to the “Projects” page.
My first attempt to import a screen recording into “iMovie” failed. I didn’t tap the checkmark. I did tap “Create Movie”. That took me back to the filmstrip page in “iMovie”. The page was blank. No filmstrip was there. “Select media to insert in the timeline.” was written on the page.
Assume you wind up on this page. To succeed, do the following:
1. Look to the right of the page. A column there is labelled, “Media”. Under “Media” is written:
A. Moments.
B. Video.
C. Photos.
D. Albums.
E. Files. ( Note that “Files” is a new addition to the options listed under ( 7. Media ) above.
2. Tap “Video”.
3. You remain on the same page, but the column to the right changes! It is now titled, “Video”.
4. Various things are written under “Video”. The first thing written under “Video” is “All”.
5. Tap “All”.
6. WAIT as screen recordings appear under “All”. They resemble a stack of filmstrips.
7. Scroll down through the screen recordings until you find the one that you want.
8. Tap on the screen recording you want.
9. Wow! The filmstrip you want ( of a girl orgasming? ) is now embraced in gold! A little informational box is now present just under this filmstrip. It features:
A. A plus sign ( + ) inside a circle. ( No checkmark is present, this time. )
B. An arrow.
10. Tap on the plus sign.
11. The screen recording you want is now sent to “iMovie”. In this situation, you get to watch the screen recording fly across your screen and into “iMovie”.
12. In the upper right corner of your screen is an “X”. Tap this to get rid of the column of screen recordings that are on the right side of your screen.
13. In the upper left corner of your screen is the word “Done”. Tap “Done” to go to the “My Movie” page. There, the word “Projects” is in the upper left corner of your screen. Tap “Projects” to get back to the “Projects” page.
My “failure”, detailed directly above, has brought me enlightenment. When I “screw up”, the “iMovie” app presents me with more screen recordings! Apparently, the “correct” way of importing screen recordings into “iMovie” omits my most recent screen recordings.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. AI, Apple Info, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have 99 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is AI, Apple Info, issue number 9
Arcana: This is AI, Apple Info, issue number 9, version 5.0
Date Written: July 29, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Stay in my A R S E: Andrew Roller Stories and Essays
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AI 9
Apple Info presents...
Importing Porn
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by Andrew Roller
Send any screen recording to Apple’s “iMovie”.
——————————————————————————————————————————
Do you like porn films? Perambulating on the internet, you’ve probably acquired two types of porn films. They are:
1. Sick porn films.
2. Illegal porn films.
Actually, I’m kidding. Let’s try again. You’ve acquired:
1. Porn films that are actual, downloaded videos.
2. Porn films that are screen recordings. These are stored in your Apple “Photos” app. ( I am writing from the perspective of someone who has an Apple iPad, an Apple iPhone, and nothing else. )
Let’s say you’re watching a downloaded video. You can send it to Apple’s “iMovie” app. ( See my earlier blog posts on how to do this. )
However, within Apple’s “Photos” app, you cannot send a screen recording to Apple’s “iMovie” app. ( In an earlier blog post, I explained how to send a screen recording to “Google Drive”, and then to “iMovie”. However, “Google Drive” refuses to do this for a screen recording of a You Tube video. ( Google owns You Tube )).
Today, I want to tell you how to do something within “iMovie”. Inside “iMovie”, it is possible to import any screen recording that’s in your Apple “Photos” app. This includes screen recordings of You Tube videos.
You will be copying your screen recording into “iMovie”. Your original screen recording will remain intact.
Stupidly, I once made a four hour long screen recording of a bunch of You Tube videos. I’m eager to import that screen recording into “iMovie” and get rid of the parts of it that I don’t want.
Also, I like watching porn films in slow motion. I can do that in “iMovie”.
Here’s a quick review of how to watch a porn film in “iMovie” in slow motion:
In “iMovie”, a film appears as a filmstrip. I put my finger against my iPad’s screen. Then I drag the filmstrip along at any speed that I wish.
Sometimes, the filmstrip “snaps back”. It jumps to its starting point without being asked to.
In an attempt to avoid this, I don’t put my finger right on the filmstrip to drag it. I put my finger in the black space below the filmstrip. However, the filmstrip still sometimes “snaps back”. I have no way to solve this problem. I called Apple about it, but they were unable to help me.
Let’s say you’re watching a filmstrip, by dragging it along with your finger. Your finger is on your filmstrip. Suddenly, your filmstrip is embraced by a gold border. That can be trouble, in this situation. Your filmstrip is now ready to be edited. Do you want to edit it? If not, tap the black space under your filmstrip. That will get rid of the gold border.
To deliberately trigger the gold border in this situation, double-tap it with your finger.
( Farther on in this article, a gold border turns out to be a wonderful thing. I’ll explain that soon. )
The “iMovie” app comes in three sections:
1. The “Projects” page. This page displays all your movies. Each movie appears as a square. These squares are akin to icons. Sadly, you can’t drag them around on your iPad’s screen. Also, over time, the squares rearrange themselves. Apparently, they rearrange themselves to give you ready access to the films you want to watch most. ( In Apple’s opinion. )
I find this “feature” irritating. I’d prefer it if each square remained where it belongs. The “iMovie” app assigns a number to each square. I feel each square ought to be in its numbered order, from 1 to 1,475,862.
Of course, in Apple’s opinion, you’re not using “iMovie” to watch movies. You’re especially not jerking off to them as you watch them in slow motion. You’re editing a movie you took of your grandmother’s 87th birthday, where her present was a new set of false teeth.
Here are the remaining sections of the “iMovie” app:
2. The “My Movie” page. When you tap a movie on the “Projects” page, you’re taken to this page. The word “Edit”, in a circle, appears near the bottom of this page.
3. The filmstrip page. When you tap “Edit” on the “My Movie” page, you’re taken to this page.
Let’s import a screen recording ( from Apple’s “Photos” app ) into “iMovie”.
1. Boot up the “iMovie” app. Probably, you’ll find yourself on the “Projects” page. If not, tap your way to it, inside “iMovie”.
2. You’re on the “Projects” page. At the upper left corner of this page is a black box. It has a plus sign ( + ) inside it.
3. Tap on the plus sign.
4. An informational box appears. It is labelled, “New Project”. Beneath “New Project” are two options:
A. Movie.
B. Trailer.
5. Tap on “Movie”.
6. Whoa! You’re taken to a big new page. At the top, in the center, it is labelled, “Moments”. On the left side is a column. It is labelled “Media”.
7. Under “Media” the following are listed:
A. Moments.
B. Video.
C. Photos.
D. Albums.
8. Tap on “Video”.
9. A new page appears. WAIT for it to finish loading all its data. At the top, in the center, it is labelled, “All”. Various screen recordings are present. Resembling filmstrips, they are stacked on top of each other.
10. Scroll down through the screen recordings until you find the one that you want.
11. Tap on the screen recording you want.
12. Wow! The screen recording you want ( of a girl orgasming? ) is now embraced in gold! A little informational box is now present just under this filmstrip. It features:
A. An arrow.
B. A checkmark, inside a circle.
13. Tap on the checkmark.
14. The checkmark turns light blue. At the bottom of your screen you see, written in light blue, “Create Movie”.
15. Tap “Create Movie”.
16. Wow! You’re taken to the filmstrip page in “iMovie”. The screen recording you chose is there! You can now watch it at any speed that you wish, by dragging it along with your finger. Or you can just watch it play through at its normal speed.
You can also edit the filmstrip. However, that’s beyond my level of knowledge.
17. In the upper left corner of your screen is the word “Done”. Tap “Done” to go to the “My Movie” page. There, the word “Projects” is in the upper left corner of your screen. Tap “Projects” to get back to the “Projects” page.
My first attempt to import a screen recording into “iMovie” failed. I didn’t tap the checkmark. I did tap “Create Movie”. That took me back to the filmstrip page in “iMovie”. The page was blank. No filmstrip was there. “Select media to insert in the timeline.” was written on the page.
Assume you wind up on this page. To succeed, do the following:
1. Look to the right of the page. A column there is labelled, “Media”. Under “Media” is written:
A. Moments.
B. Video.
C. Photos.
D. Albums.
E. Files. ( Note that “Files” is a new addition to the options listed under ( 7. Media ) above.
2. Tap “Video”.
3. You remain on the same page, but the column to the right changes! It is now titled, “Video”.
4. Various things are written under “Video”. The first thing written under “Video” is “All”.
5. Tap “All”.
6. WAIT as screen recordings appear under “All”. They resemble a stack of filmstrips.
7. Scroll down through the screen recordings until you find the one that you want.
8. Tap on the screen recording you want.
9. Wow! The filmstrip you want ( of a girl orgasming? ) is now embraced in gold! A little informational box is now present just under this filmstrip. It features:
A. A plus sign ( + ) inside a circle. ( No checkmark is present, this time. )
B. An arrow.
10. Tap on the plus sign.
11. The screen recording you want is now sent to “iMovie”. In this situation, you get to watch the screen recording fly across your screen and into “iMovie”.
12. In the upper right corner of your screen is an “X”. Tap this to get rid of the column of screen recordings that are on the right side of your screen.
13. In the upper left corner of your screen is the word “Done”. Tap “Done” to go to the “My Movie” page. There, the word “Projects” is in the upper left corner of your screen. Tap “Projects” to get back to the “Projects” page.
My “failure”, detailed directly above, has brought me enlightenment. When I “screw up”, the “iMovie” app presents me with more screen recordings! Apparently, the “correct” way of importing screen recordings into “iMovie” omits my most recent screen recordings.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. AI, Apple Info, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have 99 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is AI, Apple Info, issue number 9
Arcana: This is AI, Apple Info, issue number 9, version 5.0
Date Written: July 29, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Stay in my A R S E: Andrew Roller Stories and Essays
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Sins of the Flesh
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CS 9
Confessions of a Stud presents...
Sins of the Flesh
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by Andrew Roller
My schoolboy pursuits of beautiful women.
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Visiting my WordPress site, I discovered something. My site is most popular at four o’clock in the morning. This puzzled me, until I found out who my vampire-like visitor is. It’s me.
And here I am, up after midnight, at a time Stephen King, in Lisey’s Story, writes off as null-time. Stephen gets up in the morning and goes to his barn to write. He even walks through snow to do this. I’m asleep when Stephen is writing. I would never go trekking through snow to write. Were I not condemned to write at hours frequented by the undead, I’d probably be a best-selling author.
Playboy magazine has ceased publication. Apparently, a digital version of the magazine continues, but the paper version is dead. In the 1960’s, Playboy was an international sensation. It wasn’t just a hot magazine. It was the hottest thing on the planet. Males adored Playboy. Females wanted to be in it. Given a choice, at 9-years-old, I’d have taken a Playboy over a Coke.
I was alive in the 1960’s. At age 9, I was living in Pennsylvania. My father was not a fan of Playboy. For him, America’s culture ended somewhere around the year 1950. Everything after that was an ever deepening spiral of decadence. My mother agreed with my father.
However, I had a friend. Dean was a year younger than me. Dean lived next door. Much to the delight of Dean and I, Dean’s dad subscribed to Playboy.
I found at age 9 that I make a poor conspirator. Julius Caesar would have survived an assassination attempt by Dean and I, thanks to me. I was, however, a clever plotter. One day, Dean and I were hard up for Playboy. ( Sorry, moralists, but even boys in grade school want what Adam desired. )
Doubtless, I was hungrier for Playboy than Dean. He had access to the magazine. I didn’t. We were outside in Dean’s yard on a cold winter day. The warmth of female flesh, even frozen on a magazine’s page, was distant indeed.
Like many homes in the area, Dean’s basement was carpeted and furnished. The family T.V. was there. On a low shelf in the basement, Dean’s dad kept a pile of Playboys. I suggested to Dean that he bring the Playboys outdoors.
“How can I?” Dean asked. “My mom will see me.” The steps from Dean’s basement ended, at his home’s first floor, in an open vestibule. ( It served as a mini hallway. ) If you continued straight on from the top of the stairs, you went outside. To the right ( indoors ) was the kitchen. To the left ( indoors ) was a bathroom.
Dean’s mom was always in the kitchen. She was there as I was hatching my plot. Being an intelligent masturbator, I conceived a good plan. Dean, like me, was wearing a winter coat. I told him to go indoors and down to his basement. “Stuff the Playboys under your coat.”
“What about when I come up the basement stairs?” Dean asked.
“Turn left into the bathroom,” I told him. “Stand on the toilet.” The toilet was by a high window. “Open the window. Chuck the Playboys out the window, and I’ll catch them.”
Dean did as I asked. Eagerly, I stood outside the bathroom window.
Sure enough, Dean soon appeared at the window. He was standing on the toilet. Sadly, I like cartooning. That proved my undoing. I beheld Dean, standing on the toilet, his face at the window. I started to laugh. Dean opened the window. He asked me if I was ready to catch the Playboys. I laughed harder.
Dean’s mom, alert to the machinations of Playboy-starved boys ( notably me ), quickly divined what was up. Dean was caught standing on the toilet with an armload of Playboys, about to toss them to me. It didn’t help that my father was a pastor at a big local church.
Time passed. I moved to Guam. I lived on Guam from 1970 - 1976. On Guam, I lived on a beach. It resembled the sort of beach one finds on a desert island, plus humanity’s detritus. Up the beach was a rusty crane. It stood beside a pair of big sewer pipes.
Joe Muffler was a boy my age. He lived some distance from my house. Sometimes, he visited me. We were playing on the crane one day when we came upon several Playboys. Their date was the relatively recent one of ( about ) 1970. Joe and I were thrilled. I still recall my favorite pictorial from our find. It was called, “Scuba Do”. I don’t know if I caught the title’s meaning, but the girls in the pictorial were worthy of masturbation. In fact, recently, I found photos from this pictorial on Playboy’s web site. One of the photos still ranks as 100 percent proof in terms of jerk-off quality.
My luck and Joe’s got better. At a later date, exploring farther, we snuck into someone’s home. It was a single storey building, with multiple rooms. It stood amid semi-cropped jungle. From the outside, the home and its surrounds were not atypical of this beach area.
The home would never have made the pages of “House Beautiful” magazine. Its prosaic amenities were spartan. There was little furniture. However, Joe and I were, uh, blown away by the home. Its entire interior was covered with Playboy centerfolds. Every wall had them in spades. Each centerfold was different. The centerfolds weren’t crammed together. Each was given its due space, as in a museum.
Much as Joe and I loved the house, we never returned there. It was obvious that someone lived in that den of self abuse. However, forever after, we’d say to each other, in awe,
“Remember that house?”
“Oh, yes!”
Joe and I agreed that, absent a harem, that jerkoff dungeon was about the best a guy could achieve.
Hungry for Playboy, I haunted stores on Guam in my later years there. I was often too fearful to look at the magazine. I was terrified to try buying it. I also feared purchasing paperbacks with girlie cartoons or narrative sex scenes. However, the paperbacks I looked at on Guam were racked among conventional books. I found that store clerks would let me browse their books for hours. I figured they didn’t know what I was looking at. I usually bought a G-rated paperback to cover my iniquity. I have always loved conventional books, magazines, and comics. ( Plus worthy sexual material. )
One day, I was in a little mall. I entered a store there. I often frequented this store with my mom and my ( then ) puritanical younger brother. That day, I was without my family. Sadly, I wasn’t with liberal-minded Joe Muffler. My companion in imminent sin was Mormon Shawn Lehman.
In this store, the Playboys were on a shelf that faced the shop’s big picture window. This area was considered by Shawn and I to be forbidden to boys our age. Nonetheless, feeling boldly mature, at about age 15, we went there. The clerk didn’t hassle us. Our backs were to the shop window. Shawn and I weren’t too worried about being noticed. Hardly anyone was in the mall. Our bodies blocked a ready view of the magazines we were “reading”.
By 1975, Playboy wasn’t the only men’s magazine that was available. Others were too. Shawn and I were devouring the still photos of pulchritude when Shawn’s conscience bit him. This wasn’t unusual for Shawn. Flinging down his magazine, he began yelling religious themed statements. He may even have sung them. As in:
“Lord of the Heavens, keep me free! “From sin and pornography!”
You get the idea. Already nerd-nervous about my porn viewing, I was humiliated. Also, Shawn had just clued in the store’s clerk to what we were doing. Both Shawn and I rushed out of the store. Shawn was still bleating his religious bromides as we passed through the mall.
I have been booted from stores for looking at porn. The first time, I was with Dean. We decided to ride our bicycles far from home. Our reasoning was this: at a store far from home, we’d get to “read” Playboy.
Consummating our manly ride, Dean and I entered a store. We did our best to resemble morally upright grade schoolers. Nonetheless, we proceeded directly to the magazine rack. Reaching high, we grabbed a Playboy.
The store’s clerk was an old hag. She probably waited all day, every day, for boys like Dean and me. The hag came running at us with Olympic speed. I don’t recall what she was screaming. It wasn’t pleasant. Dean and I were promptly ejected from the establishment.
I guess I should add a note here for younger readers. Until about 1985, no magazine was shrink-wrapped in plastic. If you were deemed to be a suitable age, you could flip through Playboy, or any sex magazine, as easily as you did TIME. Also, Playboy and its ilk were racked like normal magazines. They weren’t segregated from other publications.
Some stores continued this practice long after 1985. When I was living in the city of Sacratomato, I shopped at the ( now extinct ) Tower Books. Here, the magazines were segregated, but merely by subject matter. None were banished to a forbidden zone. The magazines weren’t shrink-wrapped.
Even as an alleged “adult”, I remained anxious about reading sex mags in public. I had, however, become more skilled in the art. I would put a sex mag inside an innocuous one. For instance, I’d put Playboy inside TIME. To the casual observer, I’d be reading about current affairs, not drooling over bosoms and butts.
I took another precaution. Instead of “reading” in the magazine area, I’d move to an adjacent part of the store. Next to the magazine area at Tower Books was the section that held children’s books. I read my smut there.
I was taking a further precaution. I shopped for smut at Tower Books during the workday, when decent Americans weren’t prowling bookstores for porn. Usually, I shopped in the afternoon.
In the kids’ area of the store, I’d decide which sex magazines suited me. I have good taste. If a magazine is pure filth, I won’t buy it.
I also like “giving back” to society. I haven’t forgotten my younger years. Any smut magazine I didn’t want I’d leave in the kids’ area of the bookstore. As the internet was still in its infancy, I’m sure a boy ( or “Sleeping Beauty” inspired girl ) was soon thrilled. If their Mom had parked them there and gone off, their good fortune was even greater. ( As to “Sleeping Beauty”, I’m speaking of Anne Rice’s version. )
In college, I was a federal employee. I worked at Honolulu’s United States Federal Building. We got an hour for lunch. Being federal employees, we could stretch this a bit. About the farthest I could walk from my job, at lunch, was to the Fort Street Mall. It was a broad sidewalk flanked by shops. At a store almost too distant to reach during my lunch break, I would browse smutty paperbacks.
Or, I’d try. Unfortunately, this stores’s clerk was a witch. The dirty books were racked among conventional ones. They were far from the store’s front. However, they remained in the line of sight of the clerk. She had supernatural smut radar. No sooner would I pick up a volume lacking serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value, than the bitch would be on me.
Dashing in my direction, she’d cry, “Are you old enough to read that?! Are you 21?!” I’d get kicked out of the store. A persistent perv, I made several visits there, over time. The result was always the same.
I tried eating outdoors at the Fort Street Mall. A bird pooped on me. Declaring the whole mall cursed, I ceased going there. Fortunately, a store well within my pedestrian range was Honolulu Book Shops ( a local chain ). The store didn’t sell pure smut paperbacks, but I did learn to appreciate Pauline Reage’s “Story of O” there.
At this store, I conceived a grand plan for myself. I’d heard tales of various men, in older times, reading every book in a library. I decided to do the same. Beginning with “A” in the fiction section of the Honolulu Book Shops, I would read every book. High-mindedly, I took the first book from the relevant shelf.
It was by “Anonymous”. Within moments, I’d discovered the world of Victorian era sex novels. I still read them. I’ve memorized large sections of the best ones. I have yet to execute my grand plan beyond the “Anonymous” part of “A” in the fiction section. I don’t think Honolulu Book Shops still exists. I now live far from Honolulu.
If you’re wondering, the best Victorian era sex novels are:
1. Arabella, by Anonymous.
2. Emily: Or, the Voluptuous Delights of a Once-Innocent Young Lady, by James Jennings.
3. First Training, by Anonymous.
I’m skeptical of the author attribution for “Emily”. My hunch is that all three of the above books were penned by the same anonymous person. Probably, it was a man.
4. Beatrice, by Anonymous.
All the above are available as Amazon Kindle books.
5. Gardens of the Night ( The Victorian Era ), by Felicia Plessey.
Again, I’m skeptical of the author attribution. Probably, the real author is an anonymous man. Gardens of the Night is available solely as an expensive, out of print paperback. Publisher: Blue Moon Books.
A 2008 film is titled “Gardens of the Night”. If you do a cursory search on the internet, you’ll get pages of crap on this piece of shit. ( I haven’t seen the film, so I shouldn’t judge it. However, as best I can tell, it reflects America’s hysteria over “protecting” children that has plagued the world for the past 40 years. A girl named “Leslie” is the film’s main character. “Lesley” is the main character in the Victorian era sex novel. )
As a book, Gardens of the Night has some beautifully written prose. I’m speaking of nonsexual passages. Of course, all the books I recommend have wonderful passages on sexual themes. Gardens of the Night is rather cruel. I find its cruel parts unsettling. However, one gets both the baby and the bathwater in any work of art.
A prequel to Gardens of the Night is “The Days at Florville, or the Ravishing of Lesley”, by Anonymous. I haven’t found this book to be worth reading. It is an Amazon Kindle book.
6. Ironwood, by Don Winslow. This is another expensive, out of print paperback. Publisher: Running Press. I recall buying this book in the 1980’s. I’m pretty sure the publisher at that time was Blue Moon Books. The paperback being offered on Amazon dot com is a later one than I own. ( Sadly, I don’t have access to my copy at this time. )
Don Winslow wrote in the 1980’s and 1990’s. He wrote several Ironwood novels, but I recall his first ( “Ironwood” ) as being the only one worth reading.
A more famous author named “Don Winslow” will confuse your search efforts. He writes conventional novels.
In Sacratomato, I once bought Playboy at a military base. This proved to be a tragic error. I became so excited, standing at the magazine rack, that I had diarrhea. I was now in a quandary. I didn’t want to buy the Playboy later. However, my briefs were diaper-full of shit.
I got in line at the Air Force Exchange. ( An Exchange is like Walmart. ) Did you know that prices at an Exchange are low? Well, everyone knew it that day. The line for each of the cash registers was long.
I waited in line. I began to smell myself, and not in a good way. Some of my poop had already seeped through my underwear. I could feel it staining my trousers. Glancing rearward, I saw that a gap had occurred in my line. There was a big space between my shit-laden self and the person behind me.
The gap grew.
I finally arrived at the cash register. I bought the Playboy. Going outside, I was confronted by the problem of my Eddie Bauer edition of Ford’s Bronco II. ( A truck. ) It had plush designer seats. How in hell was I going to drive home with shit in my pants? I took off my light jacket and my shirt. I laid them as liners on my Bronco’s seat. I drove home shirtless. Did you know that a shoulder-style seatbelt irritates bare skin? I found out on that day.
Arriving home, I would like to think that I took a shower before “reading” my Playboy. I’m not sure I did.
My base forays in stores are now history. Print magazines, and the stores that sell them, have mostly vanished. An Exchange no longer sells sex magazines. I find myself increasingly buying e-books instead of real ones. E-books are searchable. One can easily highlight them and, equally usefully, remove highlighting.
I bought my first Playboy when I was 16-years-old. At the time, I lived in Hawaii. Our high school “Current Affairs” class went to Hawaii’s Capitol building. There, my friend Gary lit a joint in the bathroom. As he did, a voice blared from a speaker in the bathroom. Shocked, Gary was sure he was caught. Actually, the voice was summoning Hawaii’s legislators to a vote.
In the basement, a blind woman sold magazines. She sold Playboy. Despite the fact that the woman was blind, I remained terrified to buy Playboy. I gave Gary money, and he bought a Playboy for me. I had to repay Gary for his effort, of course. Walking home with my Playboy ( and Gary ) I was desperate to “read” it. However, having braved the blind woman to buy Playboy for me, Gary insisted on his right to “read” it. I stood over him in a park while he sat on a bench. Gary enjoyed Playboy before we parted; he to his pot habit, me to my ( new, improved ) literary pursuits.
Today’s schoolboys live in a world far different from the one I endured. I find the excess of porn on the internet annoying. Not in the absolute sense, but in a practical one. For instance, I’ll like a “porn” actress. I’ll look her up on the internet. Might there be any photos of her there? Oh, yes. There are a jillion of them. I’ve spent many hours imaging what I’ve found. It is laborious. By the time I’ve captured many photos of a girl, I’m feeling jaded. It can be awhile before my former interest in her is restored.
And, searching too deeply on the internet for porn actress photos can give you viruses. Thanks, “Sloan aka Ivey aka Lilly Anne”. ( Every Eve, I suppose, has her apple. )
Arcana: Miss April 1977, Lisa Sohm, was the Playboy Playmate in the first Playboy I bought. ( Via Gary. ) In her pictorial, she poses in a bed that resembles an infant’s playpen. In April 1978, the film Pretty Baby was released, starring Brooke Shields. We didn’t have much in the 1970’s, compared to today, but it was America’s best era. That’s why I remain an adherent of “old fashioned” American values.
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This is CS, Confessions of a Stud, issue number 9
Arcana: This is CS, Confessions of a Stud, issue number 9, version 6.0
Date Written: July 25, 2020.
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CS 9
Confessions of a Stud presents...
Sins of the Flesh
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by Andrew Roller
My schoolboy pursuits of beautiful women.
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Visiting my WordPress site, I discovered something. My site is most popular at four o’clock in the morning. This puzzled me, until I found out who my vampire-like visitor is. It’s me.
And here I am, up after midnight, at a time Stephen King, in Lisey’s Story, writes off as null-time. Stephen gets up in the morning and goes to his barn to write. He even walks through snow to do this. I’m asleep when Stephen is writing. I would never go trekking through snow to write. Were I not condemned to write at hours frequented by the undead, I’d probably be a best-selling author.
Playboy magazine has ceased publication. Apparently, a digital version of the magazine continues, but the paper version is dead. In the 1960’s, Playboy was an international sensation. It wasn’t just a hot magazine. It was the hottest thing on the planet. Males adored Playboy. Females wanted to be in it. Given a choice, at 9-years-old, I’d have taken a Playboy over a Coke.
I was alive in the 1960’s. At age 9, I was living in Pennsylvania. My father was not a fan of Playboy. For him, America’s culture ended somewhere around the year 1950. Everything after that was an ever deepening spiral of decadence. My mother agreed with my father.
However, I had a friend. Dean was a year younger than me. Dean lived next door. Much to the delight of Dean and I, Dean’s dad subscribed to Playboy.
I found at age 9 that I make a poor conspirator. Julius Caesar would have survived an assassination attempt by Dean and I, thanks to me. I was, however, a clever plotter. One day, Dean and I were hard up for Playboy. ( Sorry, moralists, but even boys in grade school want what Adam desired. )
Doubtless, I was hungrier for Playboy than Dean. He had access to the magazine. I didn’t. We were outside in Dean’s yard on a cold winter day. The warmth of female flesh, even frozen on a magazine’s page, was distant indeed.
Like many homes in the area, Dean’s basement was carpeted and furnished. The family T.V. was there. On a low shelf in the basement, Dean’s dad kept a pile of Playboys. I suggested to Dean that he bring the Playboys outdoors.
“How can I?” Dean asked. “My mom will see me.” The steps from Dean’s basement ended, at his home’s first floor, in an open vestibule. ( It served as a mini hallway. ) If you continued straight on from the top of the stairs, you went outside. To the right ( indoors ) was the kitchen. To the left ( indoors ) was a bathroom.
Dean’s mom was always in the kitchen. She was there as I was hatching my plot. Being an intelligent masturbator, I conceived a good plan. Dean, like me, was wearing a winter coat. I told him to go indoors and down to his basement. “Stuff the Playboys under your coat.”
“What about when I come up the basement stairs?” Dean asked.
“Turn left into the bathroom,” I told him. “Stand on the toilet.” The toilet was by a high window. “Open the window. Chuck the Playboys out the window, and I’ll catch them.”
Dean did as I asked. Eagerly, I stood outside the bathroom window.
Sure enough, Dean soon appeared at the window. He was standing on the toilet. Sadly, I like cartooning. That proved my undoing. I beheld Dean, standing on the toilet, his face at the window. I started to laugh. Dean opened the window. He asked me if I was ready to catch the Playboys. I laughed harder.
Dean’s mom, alert to the machinations of Playboy-starved boys ( notably me ), quickly divined what was up. Dean was caught standing on the toilet with an armload of Playboys, about to toss them to me. It didn’t help that my father was a pastor at a big local church.
Time passed. I moved to Guam. I lived on Guam from 1970 - 1976. On Guam, I lived on a beach. It resembled the sort of beach one finds on a desert island, plus humanity’s detritus. Up the beach was a rusty crane. It stood beside a pair of big sewer pipes.
Joe Muffler was a boy my age. He lived some distance from my house. Sometimes, he visited me. We were playing on the crane one day when we came upon several Playboys. Their date was the relatively recent one of ( about ) 1970. Joe and I were thrilled. I still recall my favorite pictorial from our find. It was called, “Scuba Do”. I don’t know if I caught the title’s meaning, but the girls in the pictorial were worthy of masturbation. In fact, recently, I found photos from this pictorial on Playboy’s web site. One of the photos still ranks as 100 percent proof in terms of jerk-off quality.
My luck and Joe’s got better. At a later date, exploring farther, we snuck into someone’s home. It was a single storey building, with multiple rooms. It stood amid semi-cropped jungle. From the outside, the home and its surrounds were not atypical of this beach area.
The home would never have made the pages of “House Beautiful” magazine. Its prosaic amenities were spartan. There was little furniture. However, Joe and I were, uh, blown away by the home. Its entire interior was covered with Playboy centerfolds. Every wall had them in spades. Each centerfold was different. The centerfolds weren’t crammed together. Each was given its due space, as in a museum.
Much as Joe and I loved the house, we never returned there. It was obvious that someone lived in that den of self abuse. However, forever after, we’d say to each other, in awe,
“Remember that house?”
“Oh, yes!”
Joe and I agreed that, absent a harem, that jerkoff dungeon was about the best a guy could achieve.
Hungry for Playboy, I haunted stores on Guam in my later years there. I was often too fearful to look at the magazine. I was terrified to try buying it. I also feared purchasing paperbacks with girlie cartoons or narrative sex scenes. However, the paperbacks I looked at on Guam were racked among conventional books. I found that store clerks would let me browse their books for hours. I figured they didn’t know what I was looking at. I usually bought a G-rated paperback to cover my iniquity. I have always loved conventional books, magazines, and comics. ( Plus worthy sexual material. )
One day, I was in a little mall. I entered a store there. I often frequented this store with my mom and my ( then ) puritanical younger brother. That day, I was without my family. Sadly, I wasn’t with liberal-minded Joe Muffler. My companion in imminent sin was Mormon Shawn Lehman.
In this store, the Playboys were on a shelf that faced the shop’s big picture window. This area was considered by Shawn and I to be forbidden to boys our age. Nonetheless, feeling boldly mature, at about age 15, we went there. The clerk didn’t hassle us. Our backs were to the shop window. Shawn and I weren’t too worried about being noticed. Hardly anyone was in the mall. Our bodies blocked a ready view of the magazines we were “reading”.
By 1975, Playboy wasn’t the only men’s magazine that was available. Others were too. Shawn and I were devouring the still photos of pulchritude when Shawn’s conscience bit him. This wasn’t unusual for Shawn. Flinging down his magazine, he began yelling religious themed statements. He may even have sung them. As in:
“Lord of the Heavens, keep me free! “From sin and pornography!”
You get the idea. Already nerd-nervous about my porn viewing, I was humiliated. Also, Shawn had just clued in the store’s clerk to what we were doing. Both Shawn and I rushed out of the store. Shawn was still bleating his religious bromides as we passed through the mall.
I have been booted from stores for looking at porn. The first time, I was with Dean. We decided to ride our bicycles far from home. Our reasoning was this: at a store far from home, we’d get to “read” Playboy.
Consummating our manly ride, Dean and I entered a store. We did our best to resemble morally upright grade schoolers. Nonetheless, we proceeded directly to the magazine rack. Reaching high, we grabbed a Playboy.
The store’s clerk was an old hag. She probably waited all day, every day, for boys like Dean and me. The hag came running at us with Olympic speed. I don’t recall what she was screaming. It wasn’t pleasant. Dean and I were promptly ejected from the establishment.
I guess I should add a note here for younger readers. Until about 1985, no magazine was shrink-wrapped in plastic. If you were deemed to be a suitable age, you could flip through Playboy, or any sex magazine, as easily as you did TIME. Also, Playboy and its ilk were racked like normal magazines. They weren’t segregated from other publications.
Some stores continued this practice long after 1985. When I was living in the city of Sacratomato, I shopped at the ( now extinct ) Tower Books. Here, the magazines were segregated, but merely by subject matter. None were banished to a forbidden zone. The magazines weren’t shrink-wrapped.
Even as an alleged “adult”, I remained anxious about reading sex mags in public. I had, however, become more skilled in the art. I would put a sex mag inside an innocuous one. For instance, I’d put Playboy inside TIME. To the casual observer, I’d be reading about current affairs, not drooling over bosoms and butts.
I took another precaution. Instead of “reading” in the magazine area, I’d move to an adjacent part of the store. Next to the magazine area at Tower Books was the section that held children’s books. I read my smut there.
I was taking a further precaution. I shopped for smut at Tower Books during the workday, when decent Americans weren’t prowling bookstores for porn. Usually, I shopped in the afternoon.
In the kids’ area of the store, I’d decide which sex magazines suited me. I have good taste. If a magazine is pure filth, I won’t buy it.
I also like “giving back” to society. I haven’t forgotten my younger years. Any smut magazine I didn’t want I’d leave in the kids’ area of the bookstore. As the internet was still in its infancy, I’m sure a boy ( or “Sleeping Beauty” inspired girl ) was soon thrilled. If their Mom had parked them there and gone off, their good fortune was even greater. ( As to “Sleeping Beauty”, I’m speaking of Anne Rice’s version. )
In college, I was a federal employee. I worked at Honolulu’s United States Federal Building. We got an hour for lunch. Being federal employees, we could stretch this a bit. About the farthest I could walk from my job, at lunch, was to the Fort Street Mall. It was a broad sidewalk flanked by shops. At a store almost too distant to reach during my lunch break, I would browse smutty paperbacks.
Or, I’d try. Unfortunately, this stores’s clerk was a witch. The dirty books were racked among conventional ones. They were far from the store’s front. However, they remained in the line of sight of the clerk. She had supernatural smut radar. No sooner would I pick up a volume lacking serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value, than the bitch would be on me.
Dashing in my direction, she’d cry, “Are you old enough to read that?! Are you 21?!” I’d get kicked out of the store. A persistent perv, I made several visits there, over time. The result was always the same.
I tried eating outdoors at the Fort Street Mall. A bird pooped on me. Declaring the whole mall cursed, I ceased going there. Fortunately, a store well within my pedestrian range was Honolulu Book Shops ( a local chain ). The store didn’t sell pure smut paperbacks, but I did learn to appreciate Pauline Reage’s “Story of O” there.
At this store, I conceived a grand plan for myself. I’d heard tales of various men, in older times, reading every book in a library. I decided to do the same. Beginning with “A” in the fiction section of the Honolulu Book Shops, I would read every book. High-mindedly, I took the first book from the relevant shelf.
It was by “Anonymous”. Within moments, I’d discovered the world of Victorian era sex novels. I still read them. I’ve memorized large sections of the best ones. I have yet to execute my grand plan beyond the “Anonymous” part of “A” in the fiction section. I don’t think Honolulu Book Shops still exists. I now live far from Honolulu.
If you’re wondering, the best Victorian era sex novels are:
1. Arabella, by Anonymous.
2. Emily: Or, the Voluptuous Delights of a Once-Innocent Young Lady, by James Jennings.
3. First Training, by Anonymous.
I’m skeptical of the author attribution for “Emily”. My hunch is that all three of the above books were penned by the same anonymous person. Probably, it was a man.
4. Beatrice, by Anonymous.
All the above are available as Amazon Kindle books.
5. Gardens of the Night ( The Victorian Era ), by Felicia Plessey.
Again, I’m skeptical of the author attribution. Probably, the real author is an anonymous man. Gardens of the Night is available solely as an expensive, out of print paperback. Publisher: Blue Moon Books.
A 2008 film is titled “Gardens of the Night”. If you do a cursory search on the internet, you’ll get pages of crap on this piece of shit. ( I haven’t seen the film, so I shouldn’t judge it. However, as best I can tell, it reflects America’s hysteria over “protecting” children that has plagued the world for the past 40 years. A girl named “Leslie” is the film’s main character. “Lesley” is the main character in the Victorian era sex novel. )
As a book, Gardens of the Night has some beautifully written prose. I’m speaking of nonsexual passages. Of course, all the books I recommend have wonderful passages on sexual themes. Gardens of the Night is rather cruel. I find its cruel parts unsettling. However, one gets both the baby and the bathwater in any work of art.
A prequel to Gardens of the Night is “The Days at Florville, or the Ravishing of Lesley”, by Anonymous. I haven’t found this book to be worth reading. It is an Amazon Kindle book.
6. Ironwood, by Don Winslow. This is another expensive, out of print paperback. Publisher: Running Press. I recall buying this book in the 1980’s. I’m pretty sure the publisher at that time was Blue Moon Books. The paperback being offered on Amazon dot com is a later one than I own. ( Sadly, I don’t have access to my copy at this time. )
Don Winslow wrote in the 1980’s and 1990’s. He wrote several Ironwood novels, but I recall his first ( “Ironwood” ) as being the only one worth reading.
A more famous author named “Don Winslow” will confuse your search efforts. He writes conventional novels.
In Sacratomato, I once bought Playboy at a military base. This proved to be a tragic error. I became so excited, standing at the magazine rack, that I had diarrhea. I was now in a quandary. I didn’t want to buy the Playboy later. However, my briefs were diaper-full of shit.
I got in line at the Air Force Exchange. ( An Exchange is like Walmart. ) Did you know that prices at an Exchange are low? Well, everyone knew it that day. The line for each of the cash registers was long.
I waited in line. I began to smell myself, and not in a good way. Some of my poop had already seeped through my underwear. I could feel it staining my trousers. Glancing rearward, I saw that a gap had occurred in my line. There was a big space between my shit-laden self and the person behind me.
The gap grew.
I finally arrived at the cash register. I bought the Playboy. Going outside, I was confronted by the problem of my Eddie Bauer edition of Ford’s Bronco II. ( A truck. ) It had plush designer seats. How in hell was I going to drive home with shit in my pants? I took off my light jacket and my shirt. I laid them as liners on my Bronco’s seat. I drove home shirtless. Did you know that a shoulder-style seatbelt irritates bare skin? I found out on that day.
Arriving home, I would like to think that I took a shower before “reading” my Playboy. I’m not sure I did.
My base forays in stores are now history. Print magazines, and the stores that sell them, have mostly vanished. An Exchange no longer sells sex magazines. I find myself increasingly buying e-books instead of real ones. E-books are searchable. One can easily highlight them and, equally usefully, remove highlighting.
I bought my first Playboy when I was 16-years-old. At the time, I lived in Hawaii. Our high school “Current Affairs” class went to Hawaii’s Capitol building. There, my friend Gary lit a joint in the bathroom. As he did, a voice blared from a speaker in the bathroom. Shocked, Gary was sure he was caught. Actually, the voice was summoning Hawaii’s legislators to a vote.
In the basement, a blind woman sold magazines. She sold Playboy. Despite the fact that the woman was blind, I remained terrified to buy Playboy. I gave Gary money, and he bought a Playboy for me. I had to repay Gary for his effort, of course. Walking home with my Playboy ( and Gary ) I was desperate to “read” it. However, having braved the blind woman to buy Playboy for me, Gary insisted on his right to “read” it. I stood over him in a park while he sat on a bench. Gary enjoyed Playboy before we parted; he to his pot habit, me to my ( new, improved ) literary pursuits.
Today’s schoolboys live in a world far different from the one I endured. I find the excess of porn on the internet annoying. Not in the absolute sense, but in a practical one. For instance, I’ll like a “porn” actress. I’ll look her up on the internet. Might there be any photos of her there? Oh, yes. There are a jillion of them. I’ve spent many hours imaging what I’ve found. It is laborious. By the time I’ve captured many photos of a girl, I’m feeling jaded. It can be awhile before my former interest in her is restored.
And, searching too deeply on the internet for porn actress photos can give you viruses. Thanks, “Sloan aka Ivey aka Lilly Anne”. ( Every Eve, I suppose, has her apple. )
Arcana: Miss April 1977, Lisa Sohm, was the Playboy Playmate in the first Playboy I bought. ( Via Gary. ) In her pictorial, she poses in a bed that resembles an infant’s playpen. In April 1978, the film Pretty Baby was released, starring Brooke Shields. We didn’t have much in the 1970’s, compared to today, but it was America’s best era. That’s why I remain an adherent of “old fashioned” American values.
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This is CS, Confessions of a Stud, issue number 9
Arcana: This is CS, Confessions of a Stud, issue number 9, version 6.0
Date Written: July 25, 2020.
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by Andrew Roller
Typhoon Pamela strikes a balmy island.
Also: Why your writing disappears in Apple’s “Pages” app.
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I read somewhere that many white missionaries didn’t go forth to convert the natives in faraway lands. The missionaries’ job was to cater to the spiritual needs of those lands’ white colonizers. Such was the case with my father. In 1970, he moved our white family from rural Pennsylvania to Agana, capital of the Pacific island of Guam. We traded the cornfield in our backyard for a beach.
The beach had a rural aspect. Ocean life dwelled in the lagoon separating the beach from a reef. Such life included dangerous sea bottom creatures, akin to plants, that had long spikes. Similar denizens lurked there. A small submerged space abutting our beach was sandy. Beyond it, nature ruled, in all its perilous splendor. Big starfish were commonplace. So, along the strand, were little shell-dwelling crabs. Ocean waves met the reef at a distance. A bit down the beach, there was a tall rusting crane. It stood watch over two big sewer pipes that carved the beach with their occasional effluence.
Our back yard was flanked on the east by a car lot. There, behind an auto body shop, was some acreage that was overgrown with tall grass and weeds. To the west was a plot of land inhabited by natives. They lived in ramshackle wooden quarters, raised some feet off the ground to keep the sea from flooding their homes. The land that they lived on was owned by the state. So was our back yard. Many of the natives next door had been sired by a white serviceman. Marrying a Guamanian woman, he’d lingered on Guam after World War II. Their brood consisted of many children, and assorted relatives.
Our property had sea walls. Some of these were on state land. Although the land was the state’s, our sea walls separated this land, which was our back yard, from both our neighbors. That is, they ran from our ( legal ) property to the sea. Another sea wall ran across our rear property line. It divided our legal property from the state’s. This wall was in two sections. Between them, broad steps, facing east, gave access from the legal part of our yard to the state’s land. The legal part of our property was higher than the state land fronting the beach. If a kind of stately colonial dominance comes to mind, the yard’s arrangement was that.
We did not live in a house. We lived in a two storey concrete building. Our family inhabited the upper floor. At the rear of this floor was a veranda. Called a “lanai” on Guam, it was long and wide. Along the west side was a wall. It ran to the lanai’s concrete roof. The rest of the lanai was open to the gorgeous Pacific view. When it rained, which can happen daily on Guam, especially during its rainy season, water collected on our lanai’s concrete floor. This meant that, often, much of the lanai’s floor was covered with ineradicable green slime, known as “algae”. ( A Ghostbuster’s fan would have been thrilled. At least, until he slipped and fell on the concrete. The film Ghostbusters didn’t exist then. ) Standing water was often present on the lanai. The water and algae collected along the lanai where it abutted our living room. Broad floor-to-ceiling glass doors separated our living room from the lanai. Thus, from within the living room, we were continually graced with wide views of the sea.
The midsection of our yard was walled off from our neighbors. Our tall building’s western wall divided our property from the adjoining land. From the building’s northwest corner, to the connecting sea walls, was a high freestanding wall. To the east, a wall of some height separated us from the auto body shop.
Our front yard was a parking lot. A high firewall to the west divided our land from Jesse’s Store. This was a tatty, but quite popular, general store. Jesse was the name of the localized white owner.
“Diamond Jim’s” bar was to the east. It fronted the auto body shop. I guess that property had an auto showroom, but I don’t recall ever going inside. Ricardo “Ricky” Bordallo, who became Guam’s governor in 1975, owned the car lot. I recall him as being a localized white man. His life ended years after our departure from Guam. Bordallo, convicted of corruption, wrapped himself in Guam’s flag and shot himself.
In sum, the shape of our property was rectangular. So was the building on it. Our building bordered the western side of our property line. As for the lot, its north side abutted the sea. Its south side abutted a road. To the east was Bordallo, to the west natives. The last 50 or so feet of “our” property, leading to the sea, was state land. In theory, Guam’s government owns the last 50 feet of the entire island. That is, it owns the last bit of land before one is wading in seawater. What Guam’s government doesn’t own is owned by the United States government, on federal plots of land. An example of this is a military base.
My “missionary” father was in fact a Lutheran pastor. The building we inhabited had spent the post War War II years as a servicemens’ center. It ran from the parking lot to its north-facing beach view. Much of its lower floor was wrapped in floor-to-ceiling glass doors. An exception to this was the building’s western wall, which was solid concrete. It connected to the fire wall in the front yard and the sea wall in the back yard. All the walls, including the sea walls, were concrete. Like the building, they were painted white.
A spiral staircase ran up the north-facing end of the building. It did so from the yard to our lanai. A huge rubber tree held sway by the stairs. Left to itself, this spooky, spider-laden tree would have made the stairs impassible.
Upon our arrival on Guam, much of the yard had become a jungle. If one imagines Mowgli’s jungle, one wouldn’t be far off base. However, no charming megafauna graced our jungle. After my father managed to clear it, my brother was stung by a swarm of bees. They inhabited bushes alongside our building. The bees went unnoticed due to a concrete sidewalk. It surrounded our building on most sides, sheltered by the overhang of a roof. One could step off our lanai and walk on the sidewalk’s sheltering roof. That’s because it ( the roof, above the sidewalk ) jutted out of the building. It did so at the height of the first storey’s ceiling.
A big friendly tree grew in our front yard. It was on the eastern third of our front yard. This section of our yard was grass. “Marine Drive”, which I understand now to be called “Marine Corps Drive”, ran in front of our home, beyond the parking lot. Marine Drive was Guam’s main road. Running through our part of Agana, called Anigua, it joined the Air Force base at Guam’s north end to a Navy base farther south. On the opposite side of this wide road was cropped jungle and homes. Rising high to the south were cliffs. Ages past, the ocean had abutted the cliffs. At that time, our property was some 100 feet underwater.
Our family lived on Guam from 1970 until 1976. When we arrived, the servicemens’ center had just been converted to a church. It was converted without any change to the building. Then, as now, the place is known as The Lutheran Church of Guam.
A few years into our stay, a Sunday school building was added to the main structure. A high chainlink fence was also installed. Both were built in our yard’s midsection. The Sunday school building doubled as a kind of wall abutting our front yard. It, and and the connecting chainlink fence, divided the front yard from our yard’s midsection. One reason the Sunday school building was built was because my mother didn’t like people ignoring my father’s sermons. The existing building’s main part housed a library. It held well used paperback books. The library was paneled and enclosed by dark wood. It had some glass windows. This enclosed space was equipped with speakers that carried in sound from the church service. On Sundays, during the church service, the library served as a nursery. In my mother’s view, people, particularly teenage girls, sat in the library during the service. She imagined them making fun of what my father was saying. When the Sunday school building was built, its use included a nursery. The library was demolished.
Our church didn’t have pews. We sat on folding chairs. Before and after each church service, the chairs had to be dealt with. They were set out before a service, and put away afterward. Our altar was portable. It usually remained where it was. In my later years on Guam, I and another boy became the janitors of the church. It wasn’t a very enjoyable job. The church bathroom, in my view, was too small. I think space was taken up by a single-person shower. This dated from the building’s days as a servicemens’ center. The kitchen was always inhabited by roaches. You’ve surely seen a roach. However, you may not have seen a Guam roach. They’re big. One could not enter the kitchen, or an adjoining storeroom, at night, without encountering dozens of roaches. Our family attributed this to parishioners making use of the kitchen but not cleaning it well.
Throughout my six years on Guam, I was the church’s gardener. We had hired Guamanian help at the start. Their view of labor was not my father’s. Nonetheless, he got good use out of them, before letting them go. My father supervised my work. He also pitched in. My brother, who was 4 years old when we arrived on Guam, helped. So did my mother. I am pleased to say that I didn’t work for free. My father proposed the following to the church council: “My sons will do the work of the hired Guamanians, for half the money.” The church council agreed. My former allowance of 25 cents a week vanished. It was replaced with a sizable weekly sum. I was never short of comic books after that.
Guam’s climate can be divided into two six month seasons. It has a rainy season, followed by a dry one. Guam is not Africa. We don’t become parched during our dry season. Rain can come any time, often torrentially. Such a torrent can be brief. Rain-laden clouds, crossing the ocean, are surprised by Guam. Its modest height liberates the clouds of their rain.
Speaking of the sea, the Marianas Trench is Earth’s deepest point. It’s just north of Guam. As a child, I imagined that an island floats on the ocean. In fact, Guam is the top of a mountain. You’ve heard of landslides on mountain slopes. Part of Hawaii’s Big Island has, in the past, slid into the sea. More will do so in the future.
Guam’s average temperature is 89 degrees Fahrenheit. The humidity is high. Often, it rains every afternoon. Water is dumped from the sky. Locally, this is known as “liquid sunshine”. It is common for the sun to keep blazing away as it rains. One needn’t worry too much about getting soaked. At the time, I marveled how, ten minutes after a rainstorm, I was totally dry. Even the spaces between my toes, inside my sneakers and socks, were dry. Generally, on Guam, there is no noticeable wind. Such breezes as do exist are warm. At night, unless you’re wet, you feel like you’re wrapped in a warm blanket, while standing outside.
I am quite familiar with being wet on Guam at sunset. So is my brother. For some years, our parents dropped us off for daily swim team practice. This took place at a Navy swimming pool in Agana Heights. For some reason, my parents never provided my brother and I with towels. We were always the last children to be retrieved from the place. Standing outside a locked pool, my brother and I would freeze in the dusk. We would hug ourselves, with chattering teeth, in weather that must have been north of 80 degrees. Such is heat’s effect on the body. I read of sailors on U.S. Naval vessels in World War II. For security reasons, even at the equator, the vessels were kept sealed. These ships were not air conditioned. Inside, they were very hot. Sailors working inside them emerged topside into the equatorial heat. They complained of being cold on the ship’s exposed deck.
Arriving on Guam, I wasn’t acclimated to its heat. Our family was from Pennsylvania. There, I suffered from hay fever. ( I ditch this ailment west of Missouri. ) Summer was when I suffered from hay fever most. I was best acclimated to fall, winter, and spring. There are no four seasons on Guam. Imagine being stuck in an open boat, in the baking sun, on the ocean. Geologically, Guam is about the size of a lifeboat. Much of Guam, including all the schools I went to, weren’t air conditioned. Our church was. ( Both upstairs and down. ) For years on Guam, I suffered from massive headaches. I now attribute these, in part, to the heat. ( Racial violence at the schools I attended was another source. )
As our family continued living on Guam, we began to endure the weather well. Our church, and its upstairs quarters, had a single large air conditioning unit. It ran all the time. The Sunday school building had its own large air conditioner. Though the buildings were joined, it’s possible that the Sunday school building’s air conditioner was sometimes turned off.
Acclimating to Guam, our family eventually began opening the windows of our second floor residence. We did so to ameliorate the effects of the air conditioner, which stayed on. We would carry jackets with us when we left the church. “Take your jacket,” my mother would warn my brother and I. “The bank is air conditioned!” By “bank”, she meant just that, at a local one storey mall. When I speak of leaving the “church”, I mean where we lived. Most people don’t get to live above God, represented by our building’s downstairs altar. I did.
Googling The Lutheran Church of Guam in 2020, I find that its parishioners are mostly Guamanians. I regard this as a great success. In the 1970’s, the parishioners were all caucasians. In Guamanian terms, they were transients. They were civilians on short contracts from “the states”, as America is known on Guam. Or the caucasians came to church from various military bases. In that era, America’s military bases were inhabited mostly by white people. My father wasn’t indifferent to the Guamanians. Guam was Catholic. His job was to offer church services to those on Guam who were Lutherans. At that time, no Guamanians were Lutheran.
In that era, America’s Lutheran churches consisted of three synods. They were:
1. The American Lutheran Church ( ALC ).
2. The Lutheran Church in America ( LCA ).
3. The Missouri Synod.
All three synods owned my father’s employer. His employer was The Division of Service to Military Personnel ( DSMP ). Functionally, our church on Guam likely served people of various denominations. A religious service on a military base is short and generic. Our church offered an actual denominational service; Lutheran.
Our church, and its one Sunday service, encompassed the beliefs of all three synods. For a time, Jews rented the downstairs of our building on their Sabbath. I only glimpsed them. From what I saw, they were all caucasian.
The upshot is this: The Lutheran Church of Guam was a kind of “watering hole”, mostly on Sunday mornings, for Americans who regarded themselves as being far from their native land.
Governmentally, Guam was a trust territory of the United States. It had been liberated from occupying Japanese forces during World War II. When our family arrived, a Guamanian government had just been installed. Black pens bearing the phrase “Government of Guam” were everywhere. I don’t think I was ever without one, if I wished to use one of the government’s pens. Our family had no relationship with Guam’s government.
Typhoons ( known elsewhere as hurricanes ) assailed Guam at various times. I recall none of these. Until, that is, nearly the end of our family’s stay on Guam. It was late spring, and our time on the island had dwindled to a handful of months. We were to leave in August. In May, a typhoon approached. My father laboriously installed big aluminum storm shutters over all our buildings’ windows. ( By “windows”, I include here our many glass doors. ) Each shutter had to be put against the window and then affixed with aluminum pegs. Dad did this both upstairs and down. Upstairs, he stood on the roof that overhung the ground floor sidewalk. Also, he stood on the roof of the Sunday school building.
The typhoon proved ineffectual. It passed. Soon after, another typhoon barreled toward Guam. My father wondered whether it was worth the effort to protect our building from Typhoon Pamela. Unusually for him, he proved delinquent in doing so. We were, after all, becoming islanders. “I’ll do it tomorrow” is a common phrase on Guam. This is called a “manana” psychology.
Finally, when Pamela was proving to be dangerous, Dad undertook the task of installing the shutters. I recall the final hours of this. Age 15 at the time, I tried to help Dad. He refused. I will never forget the image of his tall figure standing on the roof, in a strong wind, trying to get the shutters installed. He stood on the roof overhanging the sidewalk, and that of the Sunday School building, as he installed shutters for our upstairs residence. Each shutter was, in that wind, akin to a sail.
My father likes to think of himself as a military man. He was in World War II. However, later on, he declined an offer to serve. This was when he was a pastor. Soon, Dad regarded this as his life’s greatest mistake. He made up for this, as best he could, by joining the Air Force Reserve. What military duty he got on Guam granted him occasional commissary privileges. ( A commissary is a grocery store on a military base. ) As Pamela approached, Dad was able to buy food at the commissary. This was before he knew what the storm would entail. Dad loaded up on steak. This was stored in the church’s big freezer downstairs.
Pamela neared. It became obvious that it was no ordinary typhoon. The last big typhoon to strike Guam, bearing immense wind and rain, was Typhoon Karen. That had stormed through in 1962. It was now 1976. Schools closed. This became the school year’s end. People fled to shelters. As our church was concrete, we remained there. With some insouciance, we heeded warnings to fill our bathtubs with fresh water. We filled some containers with the same.
Pamela arrived. I recall being on the floor of my bedroom at night. Our concrete building creaked under the force of Pamela’s winds. The next day, I went downstairs. Passing through the church, I went to its kitchen. This adjoined our family’s garage. A door opened from the kitchen into the garage. Looking through the length of the garage, and beyond a closed accordion gate made of iron, I watched the storm rage. Our church had erected a large metal sign. It was held aloft by flanking steel poles. During the storm’s course, the sign was blown all the way over. That is, its steel poles were bent by the wind until the top of the sign, and the tops of the poles, touched the ground. Pamela’s wind direction changed as it passed. The sign was blown entirely in the opposite direction, until it again touched the ground.
The Navy’s wind equipment had been destroyed during typhoon Karen. The Navy resolved to never let such a thing happen again. Rebuilding their equipment, to a stronger standard, they clocked Pamela’s winds at 225 miles per hour. Then Pamela’s winds destroyed the Navy’s wind equipment. In Pamela’s aftermath, nobody knew how strong the typhoon’s winds had been over Guam. As a result, I chuckle when I hear warnings about hurricanes in America. The media will be in a tizzy because some storm threatens “the states” with winds over 100 miles per hour. That’s nothing compared to what we endured on Guam.
And, I was outside in the middle of Typhoon Pamela. The storm’s eye had arrived. It was right over our church, and its surrounds. Standing on our lanai, I noticed water gushing on the neighbor’s property. It was fresh water, soon to be a precious commodity. It was escaping from a faucet that had been left on. The faucet was adjacent to our building. ( Some distance behind Jesse’s store. )
Getting to that faucet would be no easy task. I asked my parents if I could go. I am forever grateful that they said yes. The experience is one of the most memorable ones of my life.
I descended our lanai’s stairs. The day was generally sunny. No rain was falling. No wind was blowing. However, all about me, in every direction, was Pamela. The storm looked very ominous as it raged. I was in Hell’s bowels, minus the flames.
The storm had blown the sea inward to the wall that defined the rear of our ( legal ) property line. However, in the storm’s eye, the ocean had receded. From our yard’s midsection, I ran to the beach. I went around the flanking sea wall onto the neighbor’s ( that is, the state’s ) land. I dashed up this property to the faucet. I turned the faucet off. Then I retraced my steps to our lanai. We soon went inside. Whatever storm shutter that we’d removed to get onto our lanai was replaced. ( One could do this by exiting the church, downstairs, and then going up the spiral stairs to the lanai. )
Sometime during the storm, we lost access to fresh water. That is, no water came when one turned on the taps. We also lost our electricity. Both services would remain off for a long time to come. The rest of the island was similarly afflicted. Modernity, in terms of fresh water, and power, had departed from Guam.
Structurally, our building survived Pamela unharmed. However, the roof of the auto body shop blew onto our property. It slammed into the roof of the Sunday school building. That was concrete, and undamaged. However, the body shop’s metal roof displaced the air conditioning unit atop the Sunday school building. This exposed an access hole in that building’s roof. As I recall, the damage remained unrepaired when our family departed from Guam. Pamela destroyed much on the island.
By the time of Pamela’s passing, our family had made good use of our preserved bathwater. It was filthy. Having survived much rain, we now had none.
For six days, our family went without fresh water. You might wonder how we flushed our toilets. Using one or more buckets, we brought water up from the sea and dumped it in the tank at the back of each of our toilets.
I recall sitting on the lanai with my parents. Desperate for a bath, I was holding a bar of soap. I gazed at the sky, hoping for rain. None came.
Then, early one Sunday morning, rain arrived. Naked, I yanked on a swimsuit. I grabbed my soap. I knew just where to go. At a point where the Sunday school building met the church, water gushed down from the roof that sheltered the sidewalk. This was because the Sunday school building’s ( overhang ) roof met the ( overhang ) roof of the church. The two roofs met at a 90 degree angle. I had a glorious shower in this fresh water effluence. The water was warm like the surrounding air. I was the only one in our family to take advantage of the roof-borne shower. The rain itself wasn’t strong enough to give much of a bath.
We ate a lot of steak after Pamela. We had to consume it before it rotted. For 31 days, our building was without electricity. I remember with delight when a lineman finally ascended the telephone pole fronting our property. The pole had survived the storm, but its transformer hadn’t. Much of Guam remained in ruins.
While we were without electricity, our family did what we could to salvage our food. This involved buying ice. Agana had a single facility that made blocks of ice. My understanding is that it was the only such place on the island. Daily, hundreds of people congregated about this facility. There was a long line of people, outside the facility, waiting to buy ice. Each person was allowed to buy one block of ice. My family assigned me to wait in line. There was much joy in our family on the days when I finally brought a block of ice to our waiting car.
Life passed without air conditioning. More or less Guamanians now, save for the pigment of our skin, our family endured the heat without complaint. I recall leaning back in a chair with my feet propped on my bed. Munching beef jerky, I read paperback books. My preference was for science fiction. I read the best authors ever, in my view at that time: Asimov, and Bradbury.
July 4, 1976 was America’s 200th birthday. The celebratory parade passed on a Sunday morning down Marine Drive, in front of our church. I recall being troubled by a new parishioner standing too close to me as I watched the parade. The girl, Cheryl, was 14 years old. I soon realized that she liked me. Sadly, like all our church parishioners, she lived far away. Nothing came of our ensuing friendship except a few words and smiles, exchanged on Sundays at church.
Our family’s time on Guam ended. Although we’d arrived by a commercial flight, Dad decided that we’d leave from Andersen Air Force Base. We’d take a military flight out. These are free, but no tickets are sold. You have to “wait for a hop”, in military lingo. I suppose Dad was saving money on airfare.
Every day, our family sojourned the lengthy distance to the base. Forget whatever mileage you see on a map. This was Guam, not Los Angeles. Our trip to the base, as I recall, took about an hour. This was true at any time during our stay on Guam. We loitered at the military airport. If no flight was available, we went “home” to the church. The next day, we’d try again to leave Guam.
Finally, we left Guam on an Air Force flight. We did so on a chartered commercial jetliner. You might wonder what my last memory of Guam was. It took place not far from the island, in midair. I opened a door on the jet to use a toilet. Inside, behind the unlocked door, was a Vietnamese woman. She was sitting with her dress upraised on the commode. At that time, Vietnam and Cambodia had recently fallen to conquering communists. The whole region was flooded with refugees from those countries. As I stared into the toilet, America’s day was beginning. That’s because Guam, on the far side of the international date line, is the first American territory to see the sun.
Postscript: I was 9 years old when I arrived on Guam. Occasionally, I’d find a book written by some white guy who’d once been to the island, or a similar locale. If anyone had told me then that I’d be a white guy writing a similar ( if shorter ) treatise, I’d have said he was nuts. Now, I find that Guam is a rich store of memories.
Arcana: In our back yard, the east wall was extended to the sea during our stay on Guam. This was built to keep plant growth on Bordallo’s untended back lot ( which was actually state land ) from continually invading “our” land.
The Lutheran Church of Guam now has a street address. During my time there, it did not. There was no mail delivery to our church. I imagine the same was true of our neighbors. At that time, if you wanted mail, you rented a post office box at the Agana post office. This was a United States Postal Service facility, manned by locals. It was big and modern. ( It was not air conditioned. ) Many post office boxes were located there. P.O. Box 2332 was the post office box for The Lutheran Church of Guam. It was also the post office box for our family.
Across the street from the Agana post office was a park. It had, among other things, ancient Chamorro Latte Stones in it. Each tree in the park had a broad stripe of white paint around its base. The paint had been applied by the United States Navy, which governed Guam until the island’s administration was turned over to the Guamanians. An epithet dating from the Navy’s era converted the letters GUAM to: Gooks Under American Management. However, having lived in Guam from age 9 - 15, I find I prefer Guam’s ( sometimes murderous ) disorder to the invasive order imposed on Americans living in “the states”.
The same is true of Guam’s weather. While it took me years to adapt to it, I still can’t abide weather elsewhere. This is my experience of the Eagles’ warning: “You can check out any time you like / But you can never leave”.
Since my departure from Guam, its capital of Agana has been renamed “Hagatna”. The new name comes with two pronunciation marks. Formerly, it had none. I suppose “Hagatna” suits some need of Guam’s Chamorro people. As one who never mentally left junior high, I must admit to having a merry time with the name. “Hagatna” can be swiftly reduced to “Hag at Na.” The question becomes, “Where’s Na?” Such a sound evokes the noise one makes when one is teasing.
Technical postscript: Several times, as I typed the above, Apple erased sentences that I was typing. I became so frustrated that I reviewed Apple’s “Pages” app at its Apple App Store. Pages didn’t fare well in my review. It is below:
Headline: Pages destroys what I’ve typed!
Writer Alert: Pages is a fine app, except for one glaring problem. It is due to this problem that I am giving Pages one star. My hope is that Apple will notice the one star and fix the problem.
I do all my writing on an Apple iPad. I type on Apple’s “Folio” keyboard for the iPad. My writing program is Apple’s “Pages” app. At times, when I’m typing, Apple erases sentences that I’m composing. This problem has afflicted me often. I’ve finally figured out how to reproduce it.
1. Type anything. Type a sentence or more.
2. Hold down, simultaneously, your keyboard’s right “shift” key and your keyboard’s left-facing “arrow” key.
3. A blue line appears on your iPad’s screen. Beginning from your last typed character, the blue line begins moving left. It moves like a highlighter pen across what you’ve typed. This continues indefinitely, as long as you hold the two keys down. Let the keys rise to stop the line. Like a highlighter’s mark, it will sit over the text.
4. Now, type any key on your keyboard. Whoa! Every character that the blue line encompasses is erased!
Functionally, this “feature” occurs when I press the right shift key while I’m typing my story. I’m trying to capitalize a letter. By accident, my right hand’s pinkie finger presses both the right shift key and the left-facing arrow key. My left hand types the letter I want to capitalize. Instantly, my prior two lines ( or so ) of type are erased!
As you can see, avoiding this problem is nearly impossible. My right pinkie finger is going to mistakenly press both the shift and arrow keys sometimes. Typing, I think straight into My iPad. Losing my last two sentences is jarring. My whole train of thought is exploded. It is difficult for me to recall the words I’ve just typed. I’m a careful writer. I don’t want to just say what I think. I want to do so artfully. If Apple doesn’t fix this problem, I’ll be forced to abandon them.
And in the End...
“Humans are God’s entertainment.”
- Spoken by some guy who lived in a church on Guam.
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This is CS, Confessions of a Stud, issue number 8
Arcana: This is CS, Confessions of a Stud, issue number 8, version 16.0
Date Written: July 19, 2020.
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CS 8
Confessions of a Stud presents...
Nature Farts
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by Andrew Roller
Typhoon Pamela strikes a balmy island.
Also: Why your writing disappears in Apple’s “Pages” app.
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I read somewhere that many white missionaries didn’t go forth to convert the natives in faraway lands. The missionaries’ job was to cater to the spiritual needs of those lands’ white colonizers. Such was the case with my father. In 1970, he moved our white family from rural Pennsylvania to Agana, capital of the Pacific island of Guam. We traded the cornfield in our backyard for a beach.
The beach had a rural aspect. Ocean life dwelled in the lagoon separating the beach from a reef. Such life included dangerous sea bottom creatures, akin to plants, that had long spikes. Similar denizens lurked there. A small submerged space abutting our beach was sandy. Beyond it, nature ruled, in all its perilous splendor. Big starfish were commonplace. So, along the strand, were little shell-dwelling crabs. Ocean waves met the reef at a distance. A bit down the beach, there was a tall rusting crane. It stood watch over two big sewer pipes that carved the beach with their occasional effluence.
Our back yard was flanked on the east by a car lot. There, behind an auto body shop, was some acreage that was overgrown with tall grass and weeds. To the west was a plot of land inhabited by natives. They lived in ramshackle wooden quarters, raised some feet off the ground to keep the sea from flooding their homes. The land that they lived on was owned by the state. So was our back yard. Many of the natives next door had been sired by a white serviceman. Marrying a Guamanian woman, he’d lingered on Guam after World War II. Their brood consisted of many children, and assorted relatives.
Our property had sea walls. Some of these were on state land. Although the land was the state’s, our sea walls separated this land, which was our back yard, from both our neighbors. That is, they ran from our ( legal ) property to the sea. Another sea wall ran across our rear property line. It divided our legal property from the state’s. This wall was in two sections. Between them, broad steps, facing east, gave access from the legal part of our yard to the state’s land. The legal part of our property was higher than the state land fronting the beach. If a kind of stately colonial dominance comes to mind, the yard’s arrangement was that.
We did not live in a house. We lived in a two storey concrete building. Our family inhabited the upper floor. At the rear of this floor was a veranda. Called a “lanai” on Guam, it was long and wide. Along the west side was a wall. It ran to the lanai’s concrete roof. The rest of the lanai was open to the gorgeous Pacific view. When it rained, which can happen daily on Guam, especially during its rainy season, water collected on our lanai’s concrete floor. This meant that, often, much of the lanai’s floor was covered with ineradicable green slime, known as “algae”. ( A Ghostbuster’s fan would have been thrilled. At least, until he slipped and fell on the concrete. The film Ghostbusters didn’t exist then. ) Standing water was often present on the lanai. The water and algae collected along the lanai where it abutted our living room. Broad floor-to-ceiling glass doors separated our living room from the lanai. Thus, from within the living room, we were continually graced with wide views of the sea.
The midsection of our yard was walled off from our neighbors. Our tall building’s western wall divided our property from the adjoining land. From the building’s northwest corner, to the connecting sea walls, was a high freestanding wall. To the east, a wall of some height separated us from the auto body shop.
Our front yard was a parking lot. A high firewall to the west divided our land from Jesse’s Store. This was a tatty, but quite popular, general store. Jesse was the name of the localized white owner.
“Diamond Jim’s” bar was to the east. It fronted the auto body shop. I guess that property had an auto showroom, but I don’t recall ever going inside. Ricardo “Ricky” Bordallo, who became Guam’s governor in 1975, owned the car lot. I recall him as being a localized white man. His life ended years after our departure from Guam. Bordallo, convicted of corruption, wrapped himself in Guam’s flag and shot himself.
In sum, the shape of our property was rectangular. So was the building on it. Our building bordered the western side of our property line. As for the lot, its north side abutted the sea. Its south side abutted a road. To the east was Bordallo, to the west natives. The last 50 or so feet of “our” property, leading to the sea, was state land. In theory, Guam’s government owns the last 50 feet of the entire island. That is, it owns the last bit of land before one is wading in seawater. What Guam’s government doesn’t own is owned by the United States government, on federal plots of land. An example of this is a military base.
My “missionary” father was in fact a Lutheran pastor. The building we inhabited had spent the post War War II years as a servicemens’ center. It ran from the parking lot to its north-facing beach view. Much of its lower floor was wrapped in floor-to-ceiling glass doors. An exception to this was the building’s western wall, which was solid concrete. It connected to the fire wall in the front yard and the sea wall in the back yard. All the walls, including the sea walls, were concrete. Like the building, they were painted white.
A spiral staircase ran up the north-facing end of the building. It did so from the yard to our lanai. A huge rubber tree held sway by the stairs. Left to itself, this spooky, spider-laden tree would have made the stairs impassible.
Upon our arrival on Guam, much of the yard had become a jungle. If one imagines Mowgli’s jungle, one wouldn’t be far off base. However, no charming megafauna graced our jungle. After my father managed to clear it, my brother was stung by a swarm of bees. They inhabited bushes alongside our building. The bees went unnoticed due to a concrete sidewalk. It surrounded our building on most sides, sheltered by the overhang of a roof. One could step off our lanai and walk on the sidewalk’s sheltering roof. That’s because it ( the roof, above the sidewalk ) jutted out of the building. It did so at the height of the first storey’s ceiling.
A big friendly tree grew in our front yard. It was on the eastern third of our front yard. This section of our yard was grass. “Marine Drive”, which I understand now to be called “Marine Corps Drive”, ran in front of our home, beyond the parking lot. Marine Drive was Guam’s main road. Running through our part of Agana, called Anigua, it joined the Air Force base at Guam’s north end to a Navy base farther south. On the opposite side of this wide road was cropped jungle and homes. Rising high to the south were cliffs. Ages past, the ocean had abutted the cliffs. At that time, our property was some 100 feet underwater.
Our family lived on Guam from 1970 until 1976. When we arrived, the servicemens’ center had just been converted to a church. It was converted without any change to the building. Then, as now, the place is known as The Lutheran Church of Guam.
A few years into our stay, a Sunday school building was added to the main structure. A high chainlink fence was also installed. Both were built in our yard’s midsection. The Sunday school building doubled as a kind of wall abutting our front yard. It, and and the connecting chainlink fence, divided the front yard from our yard’s midsection. One reason the Sunday school building was built was because my mother didn’t like people ignoring my father’s sermons. The existing building’s main part housed a library. It held well used paperback books. The library was paneled and enclosed by dark wood. It had some glass windows. This enclosed space was equipped with speakers that carried in sound from the church service. On Sundays, during the church service, the library served as a nursery. In my mother’s view, people, particularly teenage girls, sat in the library during the service. She imagined them making fun of what my father was saying. When the Sunday school building was built, its use included a nursery. The library was demolished.
Our church didn’t have pews. We sat on folding chairs. Before and after each church service, the chairs had to be dealt with. They were set out before a service, and put away afterward. Our altar was portable. It usually remained where it was. In my later years on Guam, I and another boy became the janitors of the church. It wasn’t a very enjoyable job. The church bathroom, in my view, was too small. I think space was taken up by a single-person shower. This dated from the building’s days as a servicemens’ center. The kitchen was always inhabited by roaches. You’ve surely seen a roach. However, you may not have seen a Guam roach. They’re big. One could not enter the kitchen, or an adjoining storeroom, at night, without encountering dozens of roaches. Our family attributed this to parishioners making use of the kitchen but not cleaning it well.
Throughout my six years on Guam, I was the church’s gardener. We had hired Guamanian help at the start. Their view of labor was not my father’s. Nonetheless, he got good use out of them, before letting them go. My father supervised my work. He also pitched in. My brother, who was 4 years old when we arrived on Guam, helped. So did my mother. I am pleased to say that I didn’t work for free. My father proposed the following to the church council: “My sons will do the work of the hired Guamanians, for half the money.” The church council agreed. My former allowance of 25 cents a week vanished. It was replaced with a sizable weekly sum. I was never short of comic books after that.
Guam’s climate can be divided into two six month seasons. It has a rainy season, followed by a dry one. Guam is not Africa. We don’t become parched during our dry season. Rain can come any time, often torrentially. Such a torrent can be brief. Rain-laden clouds, crossing the ocean, are surprised by Guam. Its modest height liberates the clouds of their rain.
Speaking of the sea, the Marianas Trench is Earth’s deepest point. It’s just north of Guam. As a child, I imagined that an island floats on the ocean. In fact, Guam is the top of a mountain. You’ve heard of landslides on mountain slopes. Part of Hawaii’s Big Island has, in the past, slid into the sea. More will do so in the future.
Guam’s average temperature is 89 degrees Fahrenheit. The humidity is high. Often, it rains every afternoon. Water is dumped from the sky. Locally, this is known as “liquid sunshine”. It is common for the sun to keep blazing away as it rains. One needn’t worry too much about getting soaked. At the time, I marveled how, ten minutes after a rainstorm, I was totally dry. Even the spaces between my toes, inside my sneakers and socks, were dry. Generally, on Guam, there is no noticeable wind. Such breezes as do exist are warm. At night, unless you’re wet, you feel like you’re wrapped in a warm blanket, while standing outside.
I am quite familiar with being wet on Guam at sunset. So is my brother. For some years, our parents dropped us off for daily swim team practice. This took place at a Navy swimming pool in Agana Heights. For some reason, my parents never provided my brother and I with towels. We were always the last children to be retrieved from the place. Standing outside a locked pool, my brother and I would freeze in the dusk. We would hug ourselves, with chattering teeth, in weather that must have been north of 80 degrees. Such is heat’s effect on the body. I read of sailors on U.S. Naval vessels in World War II. For security reasons, even at the equator, the vessels were kept sealed. These ships were not air conditioned. Inside, they were very hot. Sailors working inside them emerged topside into the equatorial heat. They complained of being cold on the ship’s exposed deck.
Arriving on Guam, I wasn’t acclimated to its heat. Our family was from Pennsylvania. There, I suffered from hay fever. ( I ditch this ailment west of Missouri. ) Summer was when I suffered from hay fever most. I was best acclimated to fall, winter, and spring. There are no four seasons on Guam. Imagine being stuck in an open boat, in the baking sun, on the ocean. Geologically, Guam is about the size of a lifeboat. Much of Guam, including all the schools I went to, weren’t air conditioned. Our church was. ( Both upstairs and down. ) For years on Guam, I suffered from massive headaches. I now attribute these, in part, to the heat. ( Racial violence at the schools I attended was another source. )
As our family continued living on Guam, we began to endure the weather well. Our church, and its upstairs quarters, had a single large air conditioning unit. It ran all the time. The Sunday school building had its own large air conditioner. Though the buildings were joined, it’s possible that the Sunday school building’s air conditioner was sometimes turned off.
Acclimating to Guam, our family eventually began opening the windows of our second floor residence. We did so to ameliorate the effects of the air conditioner, which stayed on. We would carry jackets with us when we left the church. “Take your jacket,” my mother would warn my brother and I. “The bank is air conditioned!” By “bank”, she meant just that, at a local one storey mall. When I speak of leaving the “church”, I mean where we lived. Most people don’t get to live above God, represented by our building’s downstairs altar. I did.
Googling The Lutheran Church of Guam in 2020, I find that its parishioners are mostly Guamanians. I regard this as a great success. In the 1970’s, the parishioners were all caucasians. In Guamanian terms, they were transients. They were civilians on short contracts from “the states”, as America is known on Guam. Or the caucasians came to church from various military bases. In that era, America’s military bases were inhabited mostly by white people. My father wasn’t indifferent to the Guamanians. Guam was Catholic. His job was to offer church services to those on Guam who were Lutherans. At that time, no Guamanians were Lutheran.
In that era, America’s Lutheran churches consisted of three synods. They were:
1. The American Lutheran Church ( ALC ).
2. The Lutheran Church in America ( LCA ).
3. The Missouri Synod.
All three synods owned my father’s employer. His employer was The Division of Service to Military Personnel ( DSMP ). Functionally, our church on Guam likely served people of various denominations. A religious service on a military base is short and generic. Our church offered an actual denominational service; Lutheran.
Our church, and its one Sunday service, encompassed the beliefs of all three synods. For a time, Jews rented the downstairs of our building on their Sabbath. I only glimpsed them. From what I saw, they were all caucasian.
The upshot is this: The Lutheran Church of Guam was a kind of “watering hole”, mostly on Sunday mornings, for Americans who regarded themselves as being far from their native land.
Governmentally, Guam was a trust territory of the United States. It had been liberated from occupying Japanese forces during World War II. When our family arrived, a Guamanian government had just been installed. Black pens bearing the phrase “Government of Guam” were everywhere. I don’t think I was ever without one, if I wished to use one of the government’s pens. Our family had no relationship with Guam’s government.
Typhoons ( known elsewhere as hurricanes ) assailed Guam at various times. I recall none of these. Until, that is, nearly the end of our family’s stay on Guam. It was late spring, and our time on the island had dwindled to a handful of months. We were to leave in August. In May, a typhoon approached. My father laboriously installed big aluminum storm shutters over all our buildings’ windows. ( By “windows”, I include here our many glass doors. ) Each shutter had to be put against the window and then affixed with aluminum pegs. Dad did this both upstairs and down. Upstairs, he stood on the roof that overhung the ground floor sidewalk. Also, he stood on the roof of the Sunday school building.
The typhoon proved ineffectual. It passed. Soon after, another typhoon barreled toward Guam. My father wondered whether it was worth the effort to protect our building from Typhoon Pamela. Unusually for him, he proved delinquent in doing so. We were, after all, becoming islanders. “I’ll do it tomorrow” is a common phrase on Guam. This is called a “manana” psychology.
Finally, when Pamela was proving to be dangerous, Dad undertook the task of installing the shutters. I recall the final hours of this. Age 15 at the time, I tried to help Dad. He refused. I will never forget the image of his tall figure standing on the roof, in a strong wind, trying to get the shutters installed. He stood on the roof overhanging the sidewalk, and that of the Sunday School building, as he installed shutters for our upstairs residence. Each shutter was, in that wind, akin to a sail.
My father likes to think of himself as a military man. He was in World War II. However, later on, he declined an offer to serve. This was when he was a pastor. Soon, Dad regarded this as his life’s greatest mistake. He made up for this, as best he could, by joining the Air Force Reserve. What military duty he got on Guam granted him occasional commissary privileges. ( A commissary is a grocery store on a military base. ) As Pamela approached, Dad was able to buy food at the commissary. This was before he knew what the storm would entail. Dad loaded up on steak. This was stored in the church’s big freezer downstairs.
Pamela neared. It became obvious that it was no ordinary typhoon. The last big typhoon to strike Guam, bearing immense wind and rain, was Typhoon Karen. That had stormed through in 1962. It was now 1976. Schools closed. This became the school year’s end. People fled to shelters. As our church was concrete, we remained there. With some insouciance, we heeded warnings to fill our bathtubs with fresh water. We filled some containers with the same.
Pamela arrived. I recall being on the floor of my bedroom at night. Our concrete building creaked under the force of Pamela’s winds. The next day, I went downstairs. Passing through the church, I went to its kitchen. This adjoined our family’s garage. A door opened from the kitchen into the garage. Looking through the length of the garage, and beyond a closed accordion gate made of iron, I watched the storm rage. Our church had erected a large metal sign. It was held aloft by flanking steel poles. During the storm’s course, the sign was blown all the way over. That is, its steel poles were bent by the wind until the top of the sign, and the tops of the poles, touched the ground. Pamela’s wind direction changed as it passed. The sign was blown entirely in the opposite direction, until it again touched the ground.
The Navy’s wind equipment had been destroyed during typhoon Karen. The Navy resolved to never let such a thing happen again. Rebuilding their equipment, to a stronger standard, they clocked Pamela’s winds at 225 miles per hour. Then Pamela’s winds destroyed the Navy’s wind equipment. In Pamela’s aftermath, nobody knew how strong the typhoon’s winds had been over Guam. As a result, I chuckle when I hear warnings about hurricanes in America. The media will be in a tizzy because some storm threatens “the states” with winds over 100 miles per hour. That’s nothing compared to what we endured on Guam.
And, I was outside in the middle of Typhoon Pamela. The storm’s eye had arrived. It was right over our church, and its surrounds. Standing on our lanai, I noticed water gushing on the neighbor’s property. It was fresh water, soon to be a precious commodity. It was escaping from a faucet that had been left on. The faucet was adjacent to our building. ( Some distance behind Jesse’s store. )
Getting to that faucet would be no easy task. I asked my parents if I could go. I am forever grateful that they said yes. The experience is one of the most memorable ones of my life.
I descended our lanai’s stairs. The day was generally sunny. No rain was falling. No wind was blowing. However, all about me, in every direction, was Pamela. The storm looked very ominous as it raged. I was in Hell’s bowels, minus the flames.
The storm had blown the sea inward to the wall that defined the rear of our ( legal ) property line. However, in the storm’s eye, the ocean had receded. From our yard’s midsection, I ran to the beach. I went around the flanking sea wall onto the neighbor’s ( that is, the state’s ) land. I dashed up this property to the faucet. I turned the faucet off. Then I retraced my steps to our lanai. We soon went inside. Whatever storm shutter that we’d removed to get onto our lanai was replaced. ( One could do this by exiting the church, downstairs, and then going up the spiral stairs to the lanai. )
Sometime during the storm, we lost access to fresh water. That is, no water came when one turned on the taps. We also lost our electricity. Both services would remain off for a long time to come. The rest of the island was similarly afflicted. Modernity, in terms of fresh water, and power, had departed from Guam.
Structurally, our building survived Pamela unharmed. However, the roof of the auto body shop blew onto our property. It slammed into the roof of the Sunday school building. That was concrete, and undamaged. However, the body shop’s metal roof displaced the air conditioning unit atop the Sunday school building. This exposed an access hole in that building’s roof. As I recall, the damage remained unrepaired when our family departed from Guam. Pamela destroyed much on the island.
By the time of Pamela’s passing, our family had made good use of our preserved bathwater. It was filthy. Having survived much rain, we now had none.
For six days, our family went without fresh water. You might wonder how we flushed our toilets. Using one or more buckets, we brought water up from the sea and dumped it in the tank at the back of each of our toilets.
I recall sitting on the lanai with my parents. Desperate for a bath, I was holding a bar of soap. I gazed at the sky, hoping for rain. None came.
Then, early one Sunday morning, rain arrived. Naked, I yanked on a swimsuit. I grabbed my soap. I knew just where to go. At a point where the Sunday school building met the church, water gushed down from the roof that sheltered the sidewalk. This was because the Sunday school building’s ( overhang ) roof met the ( overhang ) roof of the church. The two roofs met at a 90 degree angle. I had a glorious shower in this fresh water effluence. The water was warm like the surrounding air. I was the only one in our family to take advantage of the roof-borne shower. The rain itself wasn’t strong enough to give much of a bath.
We ate a lot of steak after Pamela. We had to consume it before it rotted. For 31 days, our building was without electricity. I remember with delight when a lineman finally ascended the telephone pole fronting our property. The pole had survived the storm, but its transformer hadn’t. Much of Guam remained in ruins.
While we were without electricity, our family did what we could to salvage our food. This involved buying ice. Agana had a single facility that made blocks of ice. My understanding is that it was the only such place on the island. Daily, hundreds of people congregated about this facility. There was a long line of people, outside the facility, waiting to buy ice. Each person was allowed to buy one block of ice. My family assigned me to wait in line. There was much joy in our family on the days when I finally brought a block of ice to our waiting car.
Life passed without air conditioning. More or less Guamanians now, save for the pigment of our skin, our family endured the heat without complaint. I recall leaning back in a chair with my feet propped on my bed. Munching beef jerky, I read paperback books. My preference was for science fiction. I read the best authors ever, in my view at that time: Asimov, and Bradbury.
July 4, 1976 was America’s 200th birthday. The celebratory parade passed on a Sunday morning down Marine Drive, in front of our church. I recall being troubled by a new parishioner standing too close to me as I watched the parade. The girl, Cheryl, was 14 years old. I soon realized that she liked me. Sadly, like all our church parishioners, she lived far away. Nothing came of our ensuing friendship except a few words and smiles, exchanged on Sundays at church.
Our family’s time on Guam ended. Although we’d arrived by a commercial flight, Dad decided that we’d leave from Andersen Air Force Base. We’d take a military flight out. These are free, but no tickets are sold. You have to “wait for a hop”, in military lingo. I suppose Dad was saving money on airfare.
Every day, our family sojourned the lengthy distance to the base. Forget whatever mileage you see on a map. This was Guam, not Los Angeles. Our trip to the base, as I recall, took about an hour. This was true at any time during our stay on Guam. We loitered at the military airport. If no flight was available, we went “home” to the church. The next day, we’d try again to leave Guam.
Finally, we left Guam on an Air Force flight. We did so on a chartered commercial jetliner. You might wonder what my last memory of Guam was. It took place not far from the island, in midair. I opened a door on the jet to use a toilet. Inside, behind the unlocked door, was a Vietnamese woman. She was sitting with her dress upraised on the commode. At that time, Vietnam and Cambodia had recently fallen to conquering communists. The whole region was flooded with refugees from those countries. As I stared into the toilet, America’s day was beginning. That’s because Guam, on the far side of the international date line, is the first American territory to see the sun.
Postscript: I was 9 years old when I arrived on Guam. Occasionally, I’d find a book written by some white guy who’d once been to the island, or a similar locale. If anyone had told me then that I’d be a white guy writing a similar ( if shorter ) treatise, I’d have said he was nuts. Now, I find that Guam is a rich store of memories.
Arcana: In our back yard, the east wall was extended to the sea during our stay on Guam. This was built to keep plant growth on Bordallo’s untended back lot ( which was actually state land ) from continually invading “our” land.
The Lutheran Church of Guam now has a street address. During my time there, it did not. There was no mail delivery to our church. I imagine the same was true of our neighbors. At that time, if you wanted mail, you rented a post office box at the Agana post office. This was a United States Postal Service facility, manned by locals. It was big and modern. ( It was not air conditioned. ) Many post office boxes were located there. P.O. Box 2332 was the post office box for The Lutheran Church of Guam. It was also the post office box for our family.
Across the street from the Agana post office was a park. It had, among other things, ancient Chamorro Latte Stones in it. Each tree in the park had a broad stripe of white paint around its base. The paint had been applied by the United States Navy, which governed Guam until the island’s administration was turned over to the Guamanians. An epithet dating from the Navy’s era converted the letters GUAM to: Gooks Under American Management. However, having lived in Guam from age 9 - 15, I find I prefer Guam’s ( sometimes murderous ) disorder to the invasive order imposed on Americans living in “the states”.
The same is true of Guam’s weather. While it took me years to adapt to it, I still can’t abide weather elsewhere. This is my experience of the Eagles’ warning: “You can check out any time you like / But you can never leave”.
Since my departure from Guam, its capital of Agana has been renamed “Hagatna”. The new name comes with two pronunciation marks. Formerly, it had none. I suppose “Hagatna” suits some need of Guam’s Chamorro people. As one who never mentally left junior high, I must admit to having a merry time with the name. “Hagatna” can be swiftly reduced to “Hag at Na.” The question becomes, “Where’s Na?” Such a sound evokes the noise one makes when one is teasing.
Technical postscript: Several times, as I typed the above, Apple erased sentences that I was typing. I became so frustrated that I reviewed Apple’s “Pages” app at its Apple App Store. Pages didn’t fare well in my review. It is below:
Headline: Pages destroys what I’ve typed!
Writer Alert: Pages is a fine app, except for one glaring problem. It is due to this problem that I am giving Pages one star. My hope is that Apple will notice the one star and fix the problem.
I do all my writing on an Apple iPad. I type on Apple’s “Folio” keyboard for the iPad. My writing program is Apple’s “Pages” app. At times, when I’m typing, Apple erases sentences that I’m composing. This problem has afflicted me often. I’ve finally figured out how to reproduce it.
1. Type anything. Type a sentence or more.
2. Hold down, simultaneously, your keyboard’s right “shift” key and your keyboard’s left-facing “arrow” key.
3. A blue line appears on your iPad’s screen. Beginning from your last typed character, the blue line begins moving left. It moves like a highlighter pen across what you’ve typed. This continues indefinitely, as long as you hold the two keys down. Let the keys rise to stop the line. Like a highlighter’s mark, it will sit over the text.
4. Now, type any key on your keyboard. Whoa! Every character that the blue line encompasses is erased!
Functionally, this “feature” occurs when I press the right shift key while I’m typing my story. I’m trying to capitalize a letter. By accident, my right hand’s pinkie finger presses both the right shift key and the left-facing arrow key. My left hand types the letter I want to capitalize. Instantly, my prior two lines ( or so ) of type are erased!
As you can see, avoiding this problem is nearly impossible. My right pinkie finger is going to mistakenly press both the shift and arrow keys sometimes. Typing, I think straight into My iPad. Losing my last two sentences is jarring. My whole train of thought is exploded. It is difficult for me to recall the words I’ve just typed. I’m a careful writer. I don’t want to just say what I think. I want to do so artfully. If Apple doesn’t fix this problem, I’ll be forced to abandon them.
And in the End...
“Humans are God’s entertainment.”
- Spoken by some guy who lived in a church on Guam.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. CS, Confessions of a Stud, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is CS, Confessions of a Stud, issue number 8
Arcana: This is CS, Confessions of a Stud, issue number 8, version 16.0
Date Written: July 19, 2020.
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I Have Sinned!
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CS 7
Confessions of a Stud presents...
I Have Sinned!
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by Andrew Roller
Racism, drugs, and candy.
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It was lunchtime. In the school cafeteria, the drug dealer was making his usual rounds. He sold cocaine. His customers were about his age, 13.
Our cafeteria doubled as our school’s gymnasium. I sat in the bleachers with one or more boys. If the boy was Shawn Lehman, we were soon engaged in a dialectic. The subject was often evolution. Was it true, or must one believe in creationism?
Shawn, like me, was white. He was much brighter than I. However, I was the one who defended evolution. Shawn held out for creationism. He, perhaps unlike his family, was a Mormon.
Our junior high school was located on Guam. It is an island in the Western Pacific. At that time, the early 1970’s, Guam was a trust territory of the United States. It would not gain the right to vote on its future until some decades later. America was losing the Vietnam War.
The school had over 2,000 students. Most were Guamanians. There were a handful of other minorities, such as Filipinos and Chinese. Whites were a tiny minority in the school. Except, that is, for the teachers. Much of the teaching staff was imported “howlies”, on two year contracts, from “the states”. ( America). (“Howlie” means a white person. )
At the end of each school year, “kill howlie day” was celebrated. Whites were involuntary victims of the Guamanians. Whites, and minorities, were victims of the Guamanians on other days. Every school day, Shawn had a shoe print on his back, from being kicked. It was the locals’ way of letting him know that his physical safety was their plaything. Once, he was punched in the face by a local wearing a ring without a gemstone ( real or faux ). The ring’s prongs had been twisted outward. Although the person who punched Shawn aimed for Shawn’s eye, he missed. Shawn’s cheek was gouged by the ring.
I was kicked from behind. Guamanians favored sharp pointed hard soled shoes. That was the case with my Guamanian assailant. He aimed to castrate me, by kicking me in the scrotum. He missed, nailing my ass. I turned around. A dozen Guamanians were trailing my assailant, as his supporters. I had no choice but to walk on to my bus. ( Given the disorder general to life in Guam, I was having trouble finding my bus. It was a school bus, parked in the school parking lot. )
Once, I was on the school bus, when a white friend of mine was attacked. He was standing just outside the bus’ open front door. Guamanians attacked him. My friend fell to the ground. He wound up in a fetal position, with Guamanians kicking and punching him. The Guamanian bus driver blithely watched, doing nothing. This happened in the school parking lot.
On a particular day, I was waiting in a shelter on school property. The shelter adjoined the road. I was waiting for my mother to pick me up in her car, to go somewhere. The school buses passed out of the school, along the road. Each was loaded with mostly Guamanian pupils. From every bus that passed me, I heard, “Fuck you, howlie!” It was directed at me. None of the insults were personal to me as Andrew Roller. They were hurled at me because I was white. Hence, when I hear about “white privilege” in America, I have to laugh. People who fling that accusation haven’t seen enough of the world.
I realize that race is a difficult subject. I considered omitting much of what I’ve typed above. However, I feel if it happened, I should mention it.
Someone firebombed the records office of our junior high school. Unlike most of the school, which was concrete, the records office was a “portable” building, made of wood. It was where students’ grades were kept. The firebomb burned the records office to the ground.
A similar thing happened to a high school I attended in Hawaii. Racial tensions were less there, but present. Being white, I was only able to use one bathroom at that school. It was by the school principal’s office. If I tried to use any other bathroom in the school, as a white person, it was made clear to me that I was going to get beat up.
At the Hawaii high school, someone firebombed the records office. It was where students’ grades were kept. However, at this school, the records were kept in a classroom that was part of a large concrete building. The records room was torched, but the building was unaffected. Mimeograph paper was stored in a filing cabinet in the records room. The paper was singed by the flames, but not burned. For the rest of the year, whenever we students received a mimeographed handout, the edges of each page were singed brown from the fire.
I don’t have only bad things to say about the Guamanians. The white vice principal at my junior high was obnoxious and worthless. When I was in ninth grade ( regarded as junior high on Guam ) we got a Guamanian vice principal. He ably assisted me when I was attacked by Guamanians in a school bathroom.
Drug deals went down in the bathroom that I used at my Hawaii high school. The drug dealer, who peddled bags of marijuana, was my friend. He was the sort of friend whom one could call either a “friend” or an “acquaintance”. Gary worked with me as a bagger of groceries at a commissary. ( A grocery on a military base. ) He was always late to school. The first class of my eleventh grade year was “Current Affairs”. The teacher would be teaching ( or not ), and the students would be assembled. Suddenly, the odor of marijuana would come wafting into the room. In Hawaii, a classroom has open windows and an open door.
Laughter would break out in the classroom. “Here comes Gary!” someone would announce. Gary didn’t appear immediately. Although he was steadily approaching the classroom, on foot, it would be another half minute or so before he arrived. He would do so reeking of marijuana. I’m happy to state that no authority figure ever disciplined Gary for this.
Nor did anyone discipline our Guam junior high’s 13-year-old drug dealer. He was always very well dressed. He was the most polite person in the school. Even though he was Guamanian, and I was white, he always treated me very well. I suppose he hoped I’d be his customer. I was more interested in debating evolution with Shawn.
Debating Shawn, I would find him making some point or other. If our topic was theological, I’d ask Shawn to show me evidence for his point in the Bible. His answer was often: “It isn’t in the Bible, but it’s in The Book of Mormon.” As The Book of Mormon was written in America by Joseph Smith, and published in 1830, I didn’t consider Shawn’s source to be credible.
Citing The Book of Mormon, Shawn claimed that God lived on a particular planet, that orbited a particular star. That struck me as odd. Why would the Almighty confine himself to a worldly locale?
Shawn was a devout Mormon. As such, he prohibited himself the use of stimulants. We’re not talking marijuana or cocaine here. We’re speaking of wine, beer, soda ( which contained caffeine in the 1970’s ), and coffee.
One day, Shawn was riding in the back of a pickup truck with a number of boys. Shawn liked to eat. Someone passed around candy. Shawn got his share. Soon, someone asked, “What do you think of the candy, Shawn?” Shawn said it was very good. “It’s coffee candy,” a boy told him. Shawn was horrified. Hurling himself to the back of the truck, he leaned out over its rear. Everyone watched as Shawn spit on the road, and did his best to vomit. I’m sure the driver following this truck wondered what was up. Everyone in the back of the truck, except Shawn, had a good laugh.
I eventually left Guam with my parents. Shawn’s parents, whom I never met, left at the same time. Apparently, Shawn didn’t get along with his parents. So, at about age 16, he became an emancipated minor. He moved in with a Mormon ( and probably white ) family on Guam. I’m glad Shawn found a better family to live with. However, I think he might have been better off moving back to “the states”, given the racial violence against him on Guam.
I had a Guamanian friend. Altering his name somewhat, as I’ve done with Shawn’s, I’ll call him Joe Muffler. Joe was remarkably good at chess. He studied the subject at length. As I debated Shawn high in the bleachers, Joe commanded a bench low in the bleachers. Among intellectuals at that time, a wooden, magnetic, portable chess set was de rigueur. We all carried one. Various boys tried to beat Joe at chess. Some gave Joe competition. Often, Joe won a game in a very few moves. He always did so against me. Joe was an expert at rolling dice. This caused me consternation when I played Risk against him, with three other boys ( including Shawn ), on Saturdays.
Having pierced the shibboleths of some, why stop now? I’ll conclude with a story about Joseph Smith. Shawn told me that Smith was the pastor of a church. At that time, the church held communion services by serving wine.
Needing wine, the congregation gave Smith money to go buy it. Smith went off to a town somewhere ( in the 1800’s ). Later, Smith returned. He had no money. He also had no wine.
Smith told the congregation that he’d bought the wine. However, while crossing a bridge over a river, the Lord spoke to him. God told Smith, according to Smith, to throw the wine in the river.
“We must remove all stimulants from our lives,” Smith instructed his congregation. That meant wine. And beer. And, whenever it was later invented, soda. Coffee was banned too. That’s why Shawn had to upchuck his coffee candy from the back of a truck on Guam.
As a Lutheran ( who’s an atheist ), I feel obliged to correct the record for Shawn. Smith didn’t throw the wine in the river. He took the congregation’s money to town and spent it on wine, women, and song. His story about throwing the wine in the river was an excuse. Actually, I shared my view of Smith’s prohibition with Shawn at the time. But, if only for humor’s sake, it bears repeating.
Arcana: “Haole”, which evokes “a-hole” in my mind, is what Google provides as a first choice for “Howlie”. I detect a politically correct objective in this offering. urbandictionary dot com and thefreedictionary dot com offer “Howlie”.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. CS, Confessions of a Stud, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is CS, Confessions of a Stud, issue number 7
Arcana: This is CS, Confessions of a Stud, issue number 7, version 2.0
Date Written: July 18, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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CS 7
Confessions of a Stud presents...
I Have Sinned!
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by Andrew Roller
Racism, drugs, and candy.
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It was lunchtime. In the school cafeteria, the drug dealer was making his usual rounds. He sold cocaine. His customers were about his age, 13.
Our cafeteria doubled as our school’s gymnasium. I sat in the bleachers with one or more boys. If the boy was Shawn Lehman, we were soon engaged in a dialectic. The subject was often evolution. Was it true, or must one believe in creationism?
Shawn, like me, was white. He was much brighter than I. However, I was the one who defended evolution. Shawn held out for creationism. He, perhaps unlike his family, was a Mormon.
Our junior high school was located on Guam. It is an island in the Western Pacific. At that time, the early 1970’s, Guam was a trust territory of the United States. It would not gain the right to vote on its future until some decades later. America was losing the Vietnam War.
The school had over 2,000 students. Most were Guamanians. There were a handful of other minorities, such as Filipinos and Chinese. Whites were a tiny minority in the school. Except, that is, for the teachers. Much of the teaching staff was imported “howlies”, on two year contracts, from “the states”. ( America). (“Howlie” means a white person. )
At the end of each school year, “kill howlie day” was celebrated. Whites were involuntary victims of the Guamanians. Whites, and minorities, were victims of the Guamanians on other days. Every school day, Shawn had a shoe print on his back, from being kicked. It was the locals’ way of letting him know that his physical safety was their plaything. Once, he was punched in the face by a local wearing a ring without a gemstone ( real or faux ). The ring’s prongs had been twisted outward. Although the person who punched Shawn aimed for Shawn’s eye, he missed. Shawn’s cheek was gouged by the ring.
I was kicked from behind. Guamanians favored sharp pointed hard soled shoes. That was the case with my Guamanian assailant. He aimed to castrate me, by kicking me in the scrotum. He missed, nailing my ass. I turned around. A dozen Guamanians were trailing my assailant, as his supporters. I had no choice but to walk on to my bus. ( Given the disorder general to life in Guam, I was having trouble finding my bus. It was a school bus, parked in the school parking lot. )
Once, I was on the school bus, when a white friend of mine was attacked. He was standing just outside the bus’ open front door. Guamanians attacked him. My friend fell to the ground. He wound up in a fetal position, with Guamanians kicking and punching him. The Guamanian bus driver blithely watched, doing nothing. This happened in the school parking lot.
On a particular day, I was waiting in a shelter on school property. The shelter adjoined the road. I was waiting for my mother to pick me up in her car, to go somewhere. The school buses passed out of the school, along the road. Each was loaded with mostly Guamanian pupils. From every bus that passed me, I heard, “Fuck you, howlie!” It was directed at me. None of the insults were personal to me as Andrew Roller. They were hurled at me because I was white. Hence, when I hear about “white privilege” in America, I have to laugh. People who fling that accusation haven’t seen enough of the world.
I realize that race is a difficult subject. I considered omitting much of what I’ve typed above. However, I feel if it happened, I should mention it.
Someone firebombed the records office of our junior high school. Unlike most of the school, which was concrete, the records office was a “portable” building, made of wood. It was where students’ grades were kept. The firebomb burned the records office to the ground.
A similar thing happened to a high school I attended in Hawaii. Racial tensions were less there, but present. Being white, I was only able to use one bathroom at that school. It was by the school principal’s office. If I tried to use any other bathroom in the school, as a white person, it was made clear to me that I was going to get beat up.
At the Hawaii high school, someone firebombed the records office. It was where students’ grades were kept. However, at this school, the records were kept in a classroom that was part of a large concrete building. The records room was torched, but the building was unaffected. Mimeograph paper was stored in a filing cabinet in the records room. The paper was singed by the flames, but not burned. For the rest of the year, whenever we students received a mimeographed handout, the edges of each page were singed brown from the fire.
I don’t have only bad things to say about the Guamanians. The white vice principal at my junior high was obnoxious and worthless. When I was in ninth grade ( regarded as junior high on Guam ) we got a Guamanian vice principal. He ably assisted me when I was attacked by Guamanians in a school bathroom.
Drug deals went down in the bathroom that I used at my Hawaii high school. The drug dealer, who peddled bags of marijuana, was my friend. He was the sort of friend whom one could call either a “friend” or an “acquaintance”. Gary worked with me as a bagger of groceries at a commissary. ( A grocery on a military base. ) He was always late to school. The first class of my eleventh grade year was “Current Affairs”. The teacher would be teaching ( or not ), and the students would be assembled. Suddenly, the odor of marijuana would come wafting into the room. In Hawaii, a classroom has open windows and an open door.
Laughter would break out in the classroom. “Here comes Gary!” someone would announce. Gary didn’t appear immediately. Although he was steadily approaching the classroom, on foot, it would be another half minute or so before he arrived. He would do so reeking of marijuana. I’m happy to state that no authority figure ever disciplined Gary for this.
Nor did anyone discipline our Guam junior high’s 13-year-old drug dealer. He was always very well dressed. He was the most polite person in the school. Even though he was Guamanian, and I was white, he always treated me very well. I suppose he hoped I’d be his customer. I was more interested in debating evolution with Shawn.
Debating Shawn, I would find him making some point or other. If our topic was theological, I’d ask Shawn to show me evidence for his point in the Bible. His answer was often: “It isn’t in the Bible, but it’s in The Book of Mormon.” As The Book of Mormon was written in America by Joseph Smith, and published in 1830, I didn’t consider Shawn’s source to be credible.
Citing The Book of Mormon, Shawn claimed that God lived on a particular planet, that orbited a particular star. That struck me as odd. Why would the Almighty confine himself to a worldly locale?
Shawn was a devout Mormon. As such, he prohibited himself the use of stimulants. We’re not talking marijuana or cocaine here. We’re speaking of wine, beer, soda ( which contained caffeine in the 1970’s ), and coffee.
One day, Shawn was riding in the back of a pickup truck with a number of boys. Shawn liked to eat. Someone passed around candy. Shawn got his share. Soon, someone asked, “What do you think of the candy, Shawn?” Shawn said it was very good. “It’s coffee candy,” a boy told him. Shawn was horrified. Hurling himself to the back of the truck, he leaned out over its rear. Everyone watched as Shawn spit on the road, and did his best to vomit. I’m sure the driver following this truck wondered what was up. Everyone in the back of the truck, except Shawn, had a good laugh.
I eventually left Guam with my parents. Shawn’s parents, whom I never met, left at the same time. Apparently, Shawn didn’t get along with his parents. So, at about age 16, he became an emancipated minor. He moved in with a Mormon ( and probably white ) family on Guam. I’m glad Shawn found a better family to live with. However, I think he might have been better off moving back to “the states”, given the racial violence against him on Guam.
I had a Guamanian friend. Altering his name somewhat, as I’ve done with Shawn’s, I’ll call him Joe Muffler. Joe was remarkably good at chess. He studied the subject at length. As I debated Shawn high in the bleachers, Joe commanded a bench low in the bleachers. Among intellectuals at that time, a wooden, magnetic, portable chess set was de rigueur. We all carried one. Various boys tried to beat Joe at chess. Some gave Joe competition. Often, Joe won a game in a very few moves. He always did so against me. Joe was an expert at rolling dice. This caused me consternation when I played Risk against him, with three other boys ( including Shawn ), on Saturdays.
Having pierced the shibboleths of some, why stop now? I’ll conclude with a story about Joseph Smith. Shawn told me that Smith was the pastor of a church. At that time, the church held communion services by serving wine.
Needing wine, the congregation gave Smith money to go buy it. Smith went off to a town somewhere ( in the 1800’s ). Later, Smith returned. He had no money. He also had no wine.
Smith told the congregation that he’d bought the wine. However, while crossing a bridge over a river, the Lord spoke to him. God told Smith, according to Smith, to throw the wine in the river.
“We must remove all stimulants from our lives,” Smith instructed his congregation. That meant wine. And beer. And, whenever it was later invented, soda. Coffee was banned too. That’s why Shawn had to upchuck his coffee candy from the back of a truck on Guam.
As a Lutheran ( who’s an atheist ), I feel obliged to correct the record for Shawn. Smith didn’t throw the wine in the river. He took the congregation’s money to town and spent it on wine, women, and song. His story about throwing the wine in the river was an excuse. Actually, I shared my view of Smith’s prohibition with Shawn at the time. But, if only for humor’s sake, it bears repeating.
Arcana: “Haole”, which evokes “a-hole” in my mind, is what Google provides as a first choice for “Howlie”. I detect a politically correct objective in this offering. urbandictionary dot com and thefreedictionary dot com offer “Howlie”.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. CS, Confessions of a Stud, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is CS, Confessions of a Stud, issue number 7
Arcana: This is CS, Confessions of a Stud, issue number 7, version 2.0
Date Written: July 18, 2020.
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Your Grave, My Bathroom
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CS 6
Confessions of a Stud presents...
Your Grave, My Bathroom
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by Andrew Roller
“Another shitty day in paradise.” - bumper sticker.
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The farther one travels east in America, the larger Hawaii looms in Americans’ minds as paradise. Even in California, Hawaii is a luminous fantasy, sure to be free of trouble. Happy natives await the white man’s arrival.
Actually, Hawaii is owned and controlled by Japanese-Americans. The “natives” are tolerated. White folks have to go through a visible process of assimilation before they are regarded as something other than intruders. As a ( supposedly ) “local” female once told me,
“There are only three things wrong with the white people in Hawaii. They are over paid, over sexed, and over here.”
As of the 1980’s, Hawaii remained a place of distinct races. There was some racial tension. ( If you were white, you were unwise to travel to Oahu’s western side. ) I realize that race is a touchy subject. Having lived for years in Hawaii, I can only “tell it like it is”. You’re free to post your own opinions, including to “correct” mine. The fundamental point that I wish to make is that Hawaii is like any locale, with its provincial particularities. It is no better or worse than where you live. That is, it is no better or worse than where you live, if you reside in Hawaii for a long time, as I did. Every place has its detriments and its charms.
This story takes place some decades ago on Oahu, Hawaii. My brother and I lived with our parents. We’re white. Having arrived in Hawaii from living six years on Guam, a Pacific island, we were inhabitants of the tropics for a long time.
On Oahu, we lived near a military base. One day, by means that escape me, my brother, Pierre, bought a car. ( Pierre isn’t his real name. However, the name Pierre does nicely evoke a theme of this story. ) My brother bought his car from a soldier who lived on the military base. ( Likely, the soldier was moving from Hawaii back to “the mainland”, as it’s called in Hawaii, or “the states”, as it’s called on Guam. ( One lives “in” Hawaii. Due to its small size, one lives “on” Guam. ))
There was an oddity with the soldier’s car, now Pierre’s, with regard to its ignition. It was otherwise a workmanlike vehicle. The 1978 movie “I Spit on Your Grave” was in theaters. Pierre and some friends of his saw the movie. It is not hard to imagine what these teenagers soon chose to do.
One night, Pierre drove his friends in his car to a graveyard. This being Hawaii, the graveyard’s inhabitants were, in the main, Japanese-Americans. I’m sure many of the deceased were honorable folk. They were also, on this night, prey to the influence of American media on teens. Pierre and his friends spit on the graves. They must have used such as their bathrooms as well, for, until tonight when I Googled the film, I thought “I Spit on Your Grave” was titled, “I Piss on Your Grave”. ( I myself never saw the movie. ) ( For what it’s worth, I did see, in a Waikiki theatre, the 1978 film Pretty Baby, which Pierre didn’t watch. )
Pierre and his friends had a merry time spitting and pissing on graves. Their consciences soon prevailed. Spitting and pissing on the abodes of the dead, in the dark of night, didn’t seem like a great way of staying alive. Pierre and his friends piled back into his car. Pierre put his car key into the ignition. He turned the key. His car didn’t start. He tried again. No luck. As Pierre repeatedly attempted to start his car, his friends grew very scared. They were stuck in a graveyard at night, having violated the dead. This wasn’t a graveyard on some American version of Main Street. It was out in the hills, at a distance from civilization.
Pierre’s attempts to start his car with the key were futile. His friends watched him roll down the driver’s side window of his car in desperation. Sticking his head out the car window, Pierre yelled, “I love you, Satan!” Amazingly, this did the trick. Pierre’s car started at once. His friends were now terrified. It was as if Satan was breathing down their necks in a graveyard. Pierre drove his friends home.
As I mentioned above, there was an oddity with the soldier’s car, with regard to its ignition. A key could be inserted and turned. However, that form of ignition was broken. To start his car, Pierre had to reach farther down along the steering column. A button was there. When Pierre pressed it, his car started. Hence, though his friends were panicked, Pierre was always calmly aware that his finger on that button, not Satan, started his car. All else was an act. ( But for the spitting and peeing. )
Perhaps you’ll find this story offensive. Which raises a question: since this story is true ( according to Pierre ) would you rather never have known that it happened? Is ignorance bliss? I report, you decide.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. CS, Confessions of a Stud, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is CS, Confessions of a Stud, issue number 6
Arcana: This is CS, Confessions of a Stud, issue number 6, version 4.0
Date Written: July 17, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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CS 6
Confessions of a Stud presents...
Your Grave, My Bathroom
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by Andrew Roller
“Another shitty day in paradise.” - bumper sticker.
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The farther one travels east in America, the larger Hawaii looms in Americans’ minds as paradise. Even in California, Hawaii is a luminous fantasy, sure to be free of trouble. Happy natives await the white man’s arrival.
Actually, Hawaii is owned and controlled by Japanese-Americans. The “natives” are tolerated. White folks have to go through a visible process of assimilation before they are regarded as something other than intruders. As a ( supposedly ) “local” female once told me,
“There are only three things wrong with the white people in Hawaii. They are over paid, over sexed, and over here.”
As of the 1980’s, Hawaii remained a place of distinct races. There was some racial tension. ( If you were white, you were unwise to travel to Oahu’s western side. ) I realize that race is a touchy subject. Having lived for years in Hawaii, I can only “tell it like it is”. You’re free to post your own opinions, including to “correct” mine. The fundamental point that I wish to make is that Hawaii is like any locale, with its provincial particularities. It is no better or worse than where you live. That is, it is no better or worse than where you live, if you reside in Hawaii for a long time, as I did. Every place has its detriments and its charms.
This story takes place some decades ago on Oahu, Hawaii. My brother and I lived with our parents. We’re white. Having arrived in Hawaii from living six years on Guam, a Pacific island, we were inhabitants of the tropics for a long time.
On Oahu, we lived near a military base. One day, by means that escape me, my brother, Pierre, bought a car. ( Pierre isn’t his real name. However, the name Pierre does nicely evoke a theme of this story. ) My brother bought his car from a soldier who lived on the military base. ( Likely, the soldier was moving from Hawaii back to “the mainland”, as it’s called in Hawaii, or “the states”, as it’s called on Guam. ( One lives “in” Hawaii. Due to its small size, one lives “on” Guam. ))
There was an oddity with the soldier’s car, now Pierre’s, with regard to its ignition. It was otherwise a workmanlike vehicle. The 1978 movie “I Spit on Your Grave” was in theaters. Pierre and some friends of his saw the movie. It is not hard to imagine what these teenagers soon chose to do.
One night, Pierre drove his friends in his car to a graveyard. This being Hawaii, the graveyard’s inhabitants were, in the main, Japanese-Americans. I’m sure many of the deceased were honorable folk. They were also, on this night, prey to the influence of American media on teens. Pierre and his friends spit on the graves. They must have used such as their bathrooms as well, for, until tonight when I Googled the film, I thought “I Spit on Your Grave” was titled, “I Piss on Your Grave”. ( I myself never saw the movie. ) ( For what it’s worth, I did see, in a Waikiki theatre, the 1978 film Pretty Baby, which Pierre didn’t watch. )
Pierre and his friends had a merry time spitting and pissing on graves. Their consciences soon prevailed. Spitting and pissing on the abodes of the dead, in the dark of night, didn’t seem like a great way of staying alive. Pierre and his friends piled back into his car. Pierre put his car key into the ignition. He turned the key. His car didn’t start. He tried again. No luck. As Pierre repeatedly attempted to start his car, his friends grew very scared. They were stuck in a graveyard at night, having violated the dead. This wasn’t a graveyard on some American version of Main Street. It was out in the hills, at a distance from civilization.
Pierre’s attempts to start his car with the key were futile. His friends watched him roll down the driver’s side window of his car in desperation. Sticking his head out the car window, Pierre yelled, “I love you, Satan!” Amazingly, this did the trick. Pierre’s car started at once. His friends were now terrified. It was as if Satan was breathing down their necks in a graveyard. Pierre drove his friends home.
As I mentioned above, there was an oddity with the soldier’s car, with regard to its ignition. A key could be inserted and turned. However, that form of ignition was broken. To start his car, Pierre had to reach farther down along the steering column. A button was there. When Pierre pressed it, his car started. Hence, though his friends were panicked, Pierre was always calmly aware that his finger on that button, not Satan, started his car. All else was an act. ( But for the spitting and peeing. )
Perhaps you’ll find this story offensive. Which raises a question: since this story is true ( according to Pierre ) would you rather never have known that it happened? Is ignorance bliss? I report, you decide.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. CS, Confessions of a Stud, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is CS, Confessions of a Stud, issue number 6
Arcana: This is CS, Confessions of a Stud, issue number 6, version 4.0
Date Written: July 17, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Salvation and Pizza
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CS 5
Confessions of a Stud presents...
Salvation and Pizza
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by Andrew Roller
Captain America, Gustav, and me.
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I think he was dead by the time of this tale. His name was Lynn Hansen. I nicknamed him Lynn Handjob. Lynn provides the nickname for our setting: the city of Sacratomato.
It is said that Noam Chomsky spends two hours a day grinding his teeth. He does so while reading the New York Times. In the 1990’s, I found myself doing the same with the local paper. I’ll nickname it the Sacratomato Pee.
Grinding my teeth, I read a classified ad. It wanted people to join the exciting world of media and communications. Being unemployed, I figured I had it made. I don’t think I succumbed to the notion that this classified ad would make me a movie star. I did imagine that, in a short time, I’d be an advertising magnate.
I soon found myself at the place of employment. Curiously, the boss in the rented office suite was distinctly younger than me. So were his employees. I was designated by this boss as a possible hire. Before I could hope to join the ranks of the media world, I’d have to accompany some employees on an assignment. Perhaps I envisioned myself embarking on some James Bond style mission.
The rented office suite had an outer office. I was urged to join the boss and his employees in an inner sanctum. That inner office, as well as the outer one, weren’t plush. Both looked as if the boss had set up camp in the place a few days before, with a lack of means for furnishing it. I understood there was to be some sort of business style worship service in the inner sanctum. It would involve shouting. Not being very holy myself, especially in a business sense, I managed to linger beyond the sanctum.
The boss and his employees held their brief revival meeting for Mammon. Forming an inward facing circle, they engaged in a series of morale boosting cheers. This evidently satisfied Mammon. The boss’ true believers were sent on their evangelical way. I found myself assigned to two young males. Our mission? To sell coupon booklets. The main salvation of the execrable “discount” booklets ( “get one item free when you buy three” ) was pizza.
At the time, I owned a Ford Bronco. Not the big, masculine version, that Ford once sold; the effete Eddie Bauer version. A smaller model, it had lovely beige seats. A 6-year-old girl, who rode in my truck once or twice, was greatly impressed by the green pine trees printed on the seats.
My truck was not involved in our mission. Instead, I was required to join the two males in a car that one of them owned. ( The other male, from Northern Europe, had no car. ) The names of my comrades in salesmanship now escape me. I’ll call the car’s owner Captain America. The European I’ll name Gustav.
Trouble arose at once. At least, it did in my mind. I was wearing a Men’s Wearhouse suit that I regarded as expensive. It was definitely expensive to dry clean, for someone who was unemployed. It was also my only suit.
Captain America’s car must have dated from the 1950’s. It was proudly enormous: long and wide, with front and rear bench seats. I was invited to sit on the car’s front seat. Captain America relegated Gustav to the rear one.
I don’t know what shape the car’s back seat was in, but the front seat was hideous. I actually can’t speak to the condition of the seat itself. That’s because the front seat was covered by a big white shag carpet. No kidding. I guessed the carpet hadn’t been cleaned in the last decade. Nonetheless, step one of my mission was to sit on this seat. I’d rather have been James Bond, trapped in a snake pit. With a girl attired in a bikini, of course!
I sat on the seat. Captain America drove off into the sun with myself and Gustav. It was early afternoon.
Captain America was in love with our country. He was sure that America was the best land in the world, and especially better than Gustav’s.
“Do you have McDonald’s in Europe?” Captain America asked Gustav. “Do you have Burger King?” Gustav assured Captain America that Europe benefitted from such amenities, which disappointed Captain America. The Captain’s line of questioning continued. Gustav was obliged to answer for every nickel and dime food joint that the Captain could think of, and much else. Europe had them all.
Captain America looked like a cowboy: reasonably tall, and slim. Gustav was about the Captain’s height, but burly. I look like Steve Urkel. I’m the middle of the Oreo cookie, without the sandwiching chocolate halves.
Gustav was an international bodyguard. I recall the young guy telling us this more than once. He wouldn’t state this “fact” as I just have. Rather, Gustav would say, “I’m an international bodyguard - for women.” I don’t think he’d actually found a woman to guard yet.
Gustav was terrified of dogs. Having grown up with dogs, I found this hilarious. I didn’t tell Gustav that, being a bodyguard, the menacing thing he’d most likely encounter was a dog. Not a pointed weapon, not someone with Kung Fu skills, but a dog. Indeed, we encountered a barking dog on our mission. We never saw the dog, but Gustav was quite fearful of it.
Our mission’s locale? A neighborhood. I’d never been to the locale before. However, having been falsely accused of child molesting, in a neighborhood I rarely frequented, I wasn’t thrilled with wandering about in one. Our team of three would do so trying to foist “discount” coupon booklets on people.
Captain America parked in the neighborhood. We went to an anonymous home’s front door. Someone answered. I might have been dreaming that a bikini clad girl would answer. If one had, I would have been humiliated. For, as that door opened, Captain America dropped all his coupon booklets on the door mat.
“Oh, I’m so sorry!” Captain America told the adult who’d opened the door. “I didn’t mean to drop these.” ( His booklets. ) “I’ll pick them up!”
As I soon learned, the Captain’s gaffe was no accident. He’d dropped the booklets on purpose. His hope was that the person who’d answered the door would pity him. Doing so, our “customer” would buy one of our booklets. Also, while the Captain was picking up his refuse, he could gab about the booklets’ benefits. “Did you know you can get a fourth pizza, for free, if you buy three? The coupon’s in this booklet! The booklet only costs $19.99.” ( In 1990’s money. )
It was an African-American fellow who’d invented the ‘drop the booklets’ scam. He’d sold lots of booklets doing so. However, we Three Stooges weren’t African-Americans. The pity factor didn’t work well for us.
We wandered on, knocking on doors, dropping booklets on people’s doorsteps. We sold little. However, we did attract the notice of the local constabulary. A pack of boys, on bicycles, came zooming down the street. We were their target. Being an arrested “child molester” armed only with dirty discount booklets, I was worried. However, the younger Musketeers with me weren’t. Being within age range of the boys, by a decade or so, they answered the boys’ harassing catcalls. Captain America was notably vociferous in doing so. After all, this was his country. ( I, being a supposed “molester”, felt excommunicated. ) I will say that the boy leading the pack was the ugliest creature I’ve ever seen. If Hell has an official bigot, it looks just like that boy.
I did not become an advertising magnate. Perhaps this is solely due to the fact that I declined to take a position with the boss’ “media” firm. I drove home feeling abused. Having sat in Captain America’s filth wagon, I was worried about the cleanliness of my suit, and my Bronco’s car seat.
Finished with my own tale, I’ll now relate a story I heard. Supposedly, this is a true story. ( Like mine! ) The setting: a classroom. The era is likely the 1950’s. Having received a lesson about American history, a pupil had a question for his teacher. The boy ( or perhaps it was a girl ) asked,
“What about black people’s history?”
The teacher answered, “Black people don’t have a history.”
Today, of course, we can pat ourselves on the back. ( Even as white people. ) We can now proudly acknowledge that, indeed, black people do have a history.
But what about pedophiles’ history? Do “child molesters” have a history? Or are they just human excrement, who deserve to be enslaved, by chucking them in prison?
Probably, you’re not a pedophile. That’s too bad. Probably, when you croak, you’ll just be some guy who told a story. ( If you did. )
However, based on society’s assessment of me, in an official capacity, I can lay claim to being an ( arrested ) “child molester”. Today, I’m contributing to the history of pedophiles. I’m providing primary source material. Someday, one or more PhD candidates will read me, and include my ( otherwise worthless ) missives in their dissertation. I might even make it into The Norton Anthology of Pedophile American Literature. The Library of America, needing to offer a book by a pedophile, might publish my collected works. If you’re normal, count yourself out of that. You’ll need to be a great writer, not just a “molester”, to make it into a work of distinction.
Does that make you feel bad? Friend, I have good news! There is still time! If you repent of your normal ways, you too can be labelled a pedophile, and a “child molester”. Don’t die as a nobody. Seek salvation today! Immortality ( and maybe heaven too, if you meet a bikini clad girl ) awaits!
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. CS, Confessions of a Stud, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is CS, Confessions of a Stud, issue number 5
Arcana: This is CS, Confessions of a Stud, issue number 5, version 5.0
Date Written: July 15, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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CS 5
Confessions of a Stud presents...
Salvation and Pizza
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by Andrew Roller
Captain America, Gustav, and me.
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I think he was dead by the time of this tale. His name was Lynn Hansen. I nicknamed him Lynn Handjob. Lynn provides the nickname for our setting: the city of Sacratomato.
It is said that Noam Chomsky spends two hours a day grinding his teeth. He does so while reading the New York Times. In the 1990’s, I found myself doing the same with the local paper. I’ll nickname it the Sacratomato Pee.
Grinding my teeth, I read a classified ad. It wanted people to join the exciting world of media and communications. Being unemployed, I figured I had it made. I don’t think I succumbed to the notion that this classified ad would make me a movie star. I did imagine that, in a short time, I’d be an advertising magnate.
I soon found myself at the place of employment. Curiously, the boss in the rented office suite was distinctly younger than me. So were his employees. I was designated by this boss as a possible hire. Before I could hope to join the ranks of the media world, I’d have to accompany some employees on an assignment. Perhaps I envisioned myself embarking on some James Bond style mission.
The rented office suite had an outer office. I was urged to join the boss and his employees in an inner sanctum. That inner office, as well as the outer one, weren’t plush. Both looked as if the boss had set up camp in the place a few days before, with a lack of means for furnishing it. I understood there was to be some sort of business style worship service in the inner sanctum. It would involve shouting. Not being very holy myself, especially in a business sense, I managed to linger beyond the sanctum.
The boss and his employees held their brief revival meeting for Mammon. Forming an inward facing circle, they engaged in a series of morale boosting cheers. This evidently satisfied Mammon. The boss’ true believers were sent on their evangelical way. I found myself assigned to two young males. Our mission? To sell coupon booklets. The main salvation of the execrable “discount” booklets ( “get one item free when you buy three” ) was pizza.
At the time, I owned a Ford Bronco. Not the big, masculine version, that Ford once sold; the effete Eddie Bauer version. A smaller model, it had lovely beige seats. A 6-year-old girl, who rode in my truck once or twice, was greatly impressed by the green pine trees printed on the seats.
My truck was not involved in our mission. Instead, I was required to join the two males in a car that one of them owned. ( The other male, from Northern Europe, had no car. ) The names of my comrades in salesmanship now escape me. I’ll call the car’s owner Captain America. The European I’ll name Gustav.
Trouble arose at once. At least, it did in my mind. I was wearing a Men’s Wearhouse suit that I regarded as expensive. It was definitely expensive to dry clean, for someone who was unemployed. It was also my only suit.
Captain America’s car must have dated from the 1950’s. It was proudly enormous: long and wide, with front and rear bench seats. I was invited to sit on the car’s front seat. Captain America relegated Gustav to the rear one.
I don’t know what shape the car’s back seat was in, but the front seat was hideous. I actually can’t speak to the condition of the seat itself. That’s because the front seat was covered by a big white shag carpet. No kidding. I guessed the carpet hadn’t been cleaned in the last decade. Nonetheless, step one of my mission was to sit on this seat. I’d rather have been James Bond, trapped in a snake pit. With a girl attired in a bikini, of course!
I sat on the seat. Captain America drove off into the sun with myself and Gustav. It was early afternoon.
Captain America was in love with our country. He was sure that America was the best land in the world, and especially better than Gustav’s.
“Do you have McDonald’s in Europe?” Captain America asked Gustav. “Do you have Burger King?” Gustav assured Captain America that Europe benefitted from such amenities, which disappointed Captain America. The Captain’s line of questioning continued. Gustav was obliged to answer for every nickel and dime food joint that the Captain could think of, and much else. Europe had them all.
Captain America looked like a cowboy: reasonably tall, and slim. Gustav was about the Captain’s height, but burly. I look like Steve Urkel. I’m the middle of the Oreo cookie, without the sandwiching chocolate halves.
Gustav was an international bodyguard. I recall the young guy telling us this more than once. He wouldn’t state this “fact” as I just have. Rather, Gustav would say, “I’m an international bodyguard - for women.” I don’t think he’d actually found a woman to guard yet.
Gustav was terrified of dogs. Having grown up with dogs, I found this hilarious. I didn’t tell Gustav that, being a bodyguard, the menacing thing he’d most likely encounter was a dog. Not a pointed weapon, not someone with Kung Fu skills, but a dog. Indeed, we encountered a barking dog on our mission. We never saw the dog, but Gustav was quite fearful of it.
Our mission’s locale? A neighborhood. I’d never been to the locale before. However, having been falsely accused of child molesting, in a neighborhood I rarely frequented, I wasn’t thrilled with wandering about in one. Our team of three would do so trying to foist “discount” coupon booklets on people.
Captain America parked in the neighborhood. We went to an anonymous home’s front door. Someone answered. I might have been dreaming that a bikini clad girl would answer. If one had, I would have been humiliated. For, as that door opened, Captain America dropped all his coupon booklets on the door mat.
“Oh, I’m so sorry!” Captain America told the adult who’d opened the door. “I didn’t mean to drop these.” ( His booklets. ) “I’ll pick them up!”
As I soon learned, the Captain’s gaffe was no accident. He’d dropped the booklets on purpose. His hope was that the person who’d answered the door would pity him. Doing so, our “customer” would buy one of our booklets. Also, while the Captain was picking up his refuse, he could gab about the booklets’ benefits. “Did you know you can get a fourth pizza, for free, if you buy three? The coupon’s in this booklet! The booklet only costs $19.99.” ( In 1990’s money. )
It was an African-American fellow who’d invented the ‘drop the booklets’ scam. He’d sold lots of booklets doing so. However, we Three Stooges weren’t African-Americans. The pity factor didn’t work well for us.
We wandered on, knocking on doors, dropping booklets on people’s doorsteps. We sold little. However, we did attract the notice of the local constabulary. A pack of boys, on bicycles, came zooming down the street. We were their target. Being an arrested “child molester” armed only with dirty discount booklets, I was worried. However, the younger Musketeers with me weren’t. Being within age range of the boys, by a decade or so, they answered the boys’ harassing catcalls. Captain America was notably vociferous in doing so. After all, this was his country. ( I, being a supposed “molester”, felt excommunicated. ) I will say that the boy leading the pack was the ugliest creature I’ve ever seen. If Hell has an official bigot, it looks just like that boy.
I did not become an advertising magnate. Perhaps this is solely due to the fact that I declined to take a position with the boss’ “media” firm. I drove home feeling abused. Having sat in Captain America’s filth wagon, I was worried about the cleanliness of my suit, and my Bronco’s car seat.
Finished with my own tale, I’ll now relate a story I heard. Supposedly, this is a true story. ( Like mine! ) The setting: a classroom. The era is likely the 1950’s. Having received a lesson about American history, a pupil had a question for his teacher. The boy ( or perhaps it was a girl ) asked,
“What about black people’s history?”
The teacher answered, “Black people don’t have a history.”
Today, of course, we can pat ourselves on the back. ( Even as white people. ) We can now proudly acknowledge that, indeed, black people do have a history.
But what about pedophiles’ history? Do “child molesters” have a history? Or are they just human excrement, who deserve to be enslaved, by chucking them in prison?
Probably, you’re not a pedophile. That’s too bad. Probably, when you croak, you’ll just be some guy who told a story. ( If you did. )
However, based on society’s assessment of me, in an official capacity, I can lay claim to being an ( arrested ) “child molester”. Today, I’m contributing to the history of pedophiles. I’m providing primary source material. Someday, one or more PhD candidates will read me, and include my ( otherwise worthless ) missives in their dissertation. I might even make it into The Norton Anthology of Pedophile American Literature. The Library of America, needing to offer a book by a pedophile, might publish my collected works. If you’re normal, count yourself out of that. You’ll need to be a great writer, not just a “molester”, to make it into a work of distinction.
Does that make you feel bad? Friend, I have good news! There is still time! If you repent of your normal ways, you too can be labelled a pedophile, and a “child molester”. Don’t die as a nobody. Seek salvation today! Immortality ( and maybe heaven too, if you meet a bikini clad girl ) awaits!
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. CS, Confessions of a Stud, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is CS, Confessions of a Stud, issue number 5
Arcana: This is CS, Confessions of a Stud, issue number 5, version 5.0
Date Written: July 15, 2020.
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BO 2
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by Andrew Roller
A discussion of Amazon Kindle versions of Bradbury and Pasternak books.
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I wasn’t allowed to go. My parents saw the movie “Doctor Zhivago”, but didn’t take me along. I’m frankly surprised that dad and mom saw the movie at all. My father, born in 1927, clings to the Great Depression as being the apex of American culture. My mother, born in 1931, believes that America should have a World War Two style command economy, complete with rationing. Deprivation, in the view of my parents, makes people moral. And my parents’ morality, however homespun, should be, in their view, the goal of all human effort.
Hence, in our household, America’s culture of the 1960’s and 1970’s was mostly verboten. Our television was black and white. I was permitted to watch it one hour per week, and my parents chose the hour. I watched “The Wonderful World of Disney”. The T.V. show “Lassie” preceded it, but I was not allowed to watch “Lassie”. Functionally, this meant that my mother allowed me to watch the last 10 or so minutes of “Lassie”, followed by the “Wonderful World of Disney”. Then the T.V. went off.
I was not allowed to watch “Star Trek”. My mother considered “Star Trek” too “mod”. ( Slang, at the time, for “modern”, in a way that was objectionable. ) Mom disliked the fact that the women on “Star Trek” wore miniskirts. She may have been disturbed by the fact that there was a black actress on “Star Trek” in a miniskirt. Worst of all, in my mother’s view, “Star Trek” featured men and women in a non-family setting. There aren’t mothers and fathers on “Star Trek”. The show features single men and women, who interact. Who knows what they get up to on the starship Enterprise at bedtime? Captain Kirk becomes romantically involved with alien women, but I’m not sure my mother knew about that. It was the crew of single, sexually available men and women that disturbed her.
Despite my parents’ one hour limit on the T.V., I was allowed to watch “Lost in Space”. That featured a family in space. I also saw a handful of Saturday morning cartoons, and a bit of the daily “Captain Kangaroo” T.V. show before school in the mornings.
I realize the above has nothing to do with you. This column may be helpful to you if you download books from Amazon dot com. My goal is to discuss Amazon’s Kindle offerings of “Dr. Zhivago”, and some Kindle books by Ray Bradbury.
There are two Kindle versions of “Dr. Zhivago” at Amazon dot com. They are:
1. Doctor Zhivago, by Pasternak Boris [ Boris is his first name ], no translator listed. Publisher: Print On Demand; 1 edition ( October 19, 2018 ). Price: $2.99.
2. Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Publisher: Vintage International; Reprint edition ( October 4, 2011). Price: $12.99.
Doctor Zhivago was written in Russian. Authored during the era when Russia was known as the Soviet Union, the book’s path to us was tumultuous. Its author risked being shot for publishing Doctor Zhivago.
Regarding this book, all of the customer reviews at Amazon dot com seem to be accurate. The book has a vast sea of characters. It may have no plot. It has the feel of an imitation of works by great nineteenth century Russian authors, rather than a work worthy of joining their ranks. Doctor Zhivago is, nonetheless, regarded as a great twentieth century novel. It won the Nobel Prize.
Some years ago, I saw part of the movie Doctor Zhivago on PBS. It was excellent. It’s mostly because of the outstanding quality of David Lean’s 1965 film that I have an interest in attempting the novel.
The question is: which Kindle version of Doctor Zhivago should I buy? The answer: both.
The version translated by Pevear and Volokhonsky [ not Volokhonky! ] comes highly credentialed. This team has translated the works of many great Russian authors. However, the Pevear / Volokhonsky narrative is not as well composed as the uncredited translation by Print On Demand. An example:
Print On Demand: “Talk of it? The peasants have been spoiled-treated too well. That’s no good for the likes of us. Give the peasants rope and God knows we’ll all be at each other’s throats in no time.-Get along, there!” ( Loc 98. )
In context, the above passage makes clear that, at the end of his statement, the carriage driver is telling the horses to hasten their pace. Such is not clear in the Vintage International edition.
Vintage International: “What’re they saying? Folk got free and easy. Spoiled, they say. Can you do that with our kind? Give our muzhiks their head, they’ll throttle each other, it’s God’s truth. Gone to sleep, eh?” ( Page 6. )
However, one can’t simply buy the Print On Demand version. In a nearby passage, the translator describes the landscape. He speaks of “fields ... forming a narrow border around the woods.” ( Loc 99. )
Vintage International’s translators offer the correct view. They speak of “fields spread out wide, with woods embracing them in front and behind in a narrow border.” ( Page 6. )
The Print On Demand version was input into a computer via a scanner. As a result, it has obvious typographical errors. An Amazon reviewer promises that there aren’t too many of these.
What clinched my preference for the Print On Demand version was this passage: “The horses were like horses the world over: the shaft horse pulled with the innate honesty of a simple soul while the off horse arched its neck like a swan and seemed to the uninitiated to be an inveterate idler who thought only of prancing in time to the jangling bells.” ( Loc 88. )
Vintage International: “But the horses pulled like all horses in the world; that is, the shaft horse ran with the innate directness of an artless nature, while the outrunner seemed to the uncomprehending to be an arrant idler, who only knew how to arch its neck like a swan and do a squatting dance to the jingling of the harness bells, which its own leaps set going.” ( Page 6. )
Vintage International explains that the horse’s “own leaps” set the bells going. As this is obvious, Print On Demand leaves this unstated. Print On Demand’s translator follows this rule elsewhere. I don’t criticize him for this. Print On Demand’s translator has rendered Doctor Zhivago in straightforward American prose. I sometimes wonder if English is the first language of Vintage International’s translators, due to their rather opaque narrative.
Print On Demand: “Russia, with its fields, steppes, villages, and towns, bleached lime-white by the sun.” ( Loc 202. )
Vintage International: “Past them in clouds of hot dust, bleached as with lime by the sun, flew Russia, fields and steppes, towns and villages.” ( Page 11. )
The Print On Demand version reads with the clarity of a story by Ray Bradbury. The Vintage International version doesn’t.
Modernly, one must worry about politically correct censorship. So, far, I’ve found what appears to be censorship in both translations.
Print On Demand: “Such children were precocious.” ( Loc 398. )
Vintage International: “Young ones from the people develop early.” ( Page 21. )
Print On Demand: “Lara was only a little over sixteen but she was well developed.” ( Loc 402. )
Vintage International: “She was a little over sixteen, but she was a fully formed young girl.” ( Page 22. )
Two of the relevant passages above remind me of Biblical translations, where certain versions attempt to hide sexuality. ( In fact, my hunch is that the Print On Demand statement, “Such children were precocious”, is not censorious. It’s an accurate rendition of the Russian text. The question is: in this sentence, was Pasternak referring to mental development, physical maturity, or both? Someone once remarked that reading a translated book is “like kissing through cellophane”. )
As a writer, I’m finding it stunningly useful to compare the two Kindle translations of Doctor Zhivago. I read the Print On Demand version. When I hit a passage that I don’t understand, or one that promises greater enlightenment, I close the Print On Demand version. Then I open the Vintage International version. I compare the two versions.
It may be possible to do a “split screen” on my iPad, and keep both versions open. However, I’ve had problems with the split screen feature in the past. My normal iPad screen was constantly trying to split itself in two. I found a way to turn the split screen feature off, and did so.
It is possible to open one version on my iPad, and another version on my iPhone. However, I tend to eat while I’m reading. Putting two electronic devices at risk of spilled food and drink is not something I’m willing to do.
My iPad has a “Folio” keyboard. ( Sold separately. ) When I eat, I read my iPad as it sits in the Folio keyboard. The keyboard keeps my iPad raised at a readable angle. To protect my keyboard, I fold two paper towels in half. I put each paper towel over my keyboard. I don’t put the towels directly on top of each other. I put one over the keyboard itself, and the other one somewhat forward of the lower towel. That’s because the keyboard is a little wider than a single folded paper towel. Recently, I spilled soda on my keyboard. However, a single folded paper towel saved it. If you protect your keyboard with paper towels, make sure you buy quality ones, that absorb well. Such brands include Kroger paper towels, Bounty, and Brawny.
“Don’t get this version!” warns R. R., of “The Martian Chronicles”, by Ray Bradbury. R. R. is speaking of the Kindle version at Amazon dot com. Other reviewers echo his sentiment. In the Kindle version, all the dates have been modernized. By dates, I’m speaking of the date that accompanies the title of each chapter. I sympathize with objections to this change. However, I find it irrelevant. The reviewer Crystal H. warns that “Certain other parts of the book have been updated to comply [ with ] the modern era.” That is a very serious charge.
How can one address such a charge?
1. I hope that, in this particular, Crystal H. is wrong.
2. Ray Bradbury appears to have provided an introduction to this edition. If so, he may have been the person who rewrote the changed parts.
My hunch is that nothing in The Martian Chronicles was altered except the dates fronting each chapter.
With one exception: the story “Way in the Middle of the Air” was removed. Currently, I don’t have access to this story. However, in an article now missing from the internet, a teacher stated that she got in trouble when she assigned The Martian Chronicles to her class. She assigned a version of The Martian Chronicles that included the story “Way in the Middle of the Air.” She did not choose this version to the exclusion of others. It was the version that was available at the time.
According to her, “Way in the Middle of the Air” includes the words “negro”, and “nigger”. I was re-reading The Martian Chronicles some decades ago. When I got to the story “Way in the Middle of the Air”, I hated it. The story struck me as jarringly anachronistic. In the Martian chronicles, one is reading about ( presumptively caucasian ) astronauts exploring an alien world. Suddenly, in “Way in the Middle of the Air”, one is reading about poor blacks emigrating to Mars from a racist South. The story is not as compelling as it may sound. I was unable to finish reading “Way in the Middle of the Air”. I ceased re-reading The Martian Chronicles.
I wish the Kindle version of The Martian Chronicles included the story “Way in the Middle of the Air”. However, it may be just as well that the story is absent. Somewhere, someone remarked that Bradbury sends blacks to Mars, in “Way in the Middle of the Air”, and then never mentions them again. That’s unsurprising for a book written in 1950, for a white majority culture, by a white author. Also, The Martian Chronicles isn’t a novel. It’s akin to one, but actually a collection of short stories, written for various magazines.
Bradbury was ahead of his time in penning “Way in the Middle of the Air”. His story precedes America’s civil rights era. If Bradbury has sinned, he atones for it in his book “The Illustrated Man”. There, in the story “The Other Foot”, blacks are the sole colonizers of Mars. Then white people begin to arrive. ( The reason for the censorship of “Way in the Middle of the Air” is undercut by the ( single ) presence of the word “Negro” in “The Other Foot”. )
Wondering whether to buy Kindle versions of The Martian Chronicles, and The Illustrated Man, here’s what I found:
1. “Way in the Middle of the Air” was removed from The Martian Chronicles. To make up for this, the story “The Fire Balloons” was included.
2. “The Fire Balloons” was removed from The Illustrated Man. To make up for this, the story “The Illustrated Man” was included in the book The Illustrated Man. That last statement sounds odd. However, the illustrated man in the story “The Illustrated Man” may be a different person from the illustrated man referenced at the book’s start.
The upshot? Go ahead and buy the Kindle versions of The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man. The only story you’ll lose is “Way in the Middle of the Air”, which I didn’t like.
You’ll want a great cover for The Martian Chronicles. I recommend the following:
Download a free sample of “The Martian Chronicles Jumbled”. Or, download a free sample of “The Martian Chronicles Scrambled”. What use the Jumbled and Scrambled versions have eludes me. However, each of these pieces of crap have the same great cover. The cover once graced a ( normal ) paperback version of The Martian Chronicles.
The Kindle version of Bradbury’s book, The October Country, includes illustrations by Joseph Mugnaini. He was Bradbury’s favorite illustrator. I’ve always immensely enjoyed Mugnaini’s illustrations.
Mugnaini illustrated many of Bradbury’s books. The publisher of the Kindle version of The October Country ( William Morrow / HarperCollins ) sells many of Bradbury’s Kindle books. Unfortunately, Mugnaini’s illustrations are omitted from their other Kindle versions of Bradbury’s books.
Booted up, the Kindle version of The October Country has an awful generic cover. One can only view the ( admittedly crap ) actual cover of The October Country when the book is sitting among other titles in your Kindle library. The real covers of the Kindle versions of The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man do appear when each book is booted up.
When I was in the sixth grade, Glen asked me to sleep over at his house. There, he asked me if I wanted to read The Illustrated Man. I saw that it was an “adult” novel. That is, a general interest paperback sold in a store.
“No,” I told Glen. “I only read Scholastic books.” Scholastic books were sold through schools, to children.
Glen prevailed. I read The Illustrated Man. Bradbury killed my interest in Scholastic books. From then on, I viewed Scholastic books as inferior. They were for children. Since I proceeded to read all of Bradbury’s books, I obviously was an adult.
In fact, many Scholastic books that I read are today considered classics. I still have considerable admiration for them. My offhand recommendations are for:
1. A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle.
2. The Forgotten Door, by Alexander Key.
3. The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster. ( Not Jester! )
Though it’s not a Scholastic book, I also recommend “House of Stairs”, by William Sleator. All the above are available as Kindle books.
I suppose my favorite book of all time is “Donald Duck and the Hidden Gold”, by Jane Werner. Sadly, this is available solely as a hardcover book, published by Sandpiper in 1951. I bought a copy of this book on Amazon dot com. The four most important pages of the book, in its middle, were missing.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. BO, Book Observations, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 2
Arcana: This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 2, version 8.0
Date Written: July 13, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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BO 2
Book Observations presents...
Bradbury Censored
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by Andrew Roller
A discussion of Amazon Kindle versions of Bradbury and Pasternak books.
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I wasn’t allowed to go. My parents saw the movie “Doctor Zhivago”, but didn’t take me along. I’m frankly surprised that dad and mom saw the movie at all. My father, born in 1927, clings to the Great Depression as being the apex of American culture. My mother, born in 1931, believes that America should have a World War Two style command economy, complete with rationing. Deprivation, in the view of my parents, makes people moral. And my parents’ morality, however homespun, should be, in their view, the goal of all human effort.
Hence, in our household, America’s culture of the 1960’s and 1970’s was mostly verboten. Our television was black and white. I was permitted to watch it one hour per week, and my parents chose the hour. I watched “The Wonderful World of Disney”. The T.V. show “Lassie” preceded it, but I was not allowed to watch “Lassie”. Functionally, this meant that my mother allowed me to watch the last 10 or so minutes of “Lassie”, followed by the “Wonderful World of Disney”. Then the T.V. went off.
I was not allowed to watch “Star Trek”. My mother considered “Star Trek” too “mod”. ( Slang, at the time, for “modern”, in a way that was objectionable. ) Mom disliked the fact that the women on “Star Trek” wore miniskirts. She may have been disturbed by the fact that there was a black actress on “Star Trek” in a miniskirt. Worst of all, in my mother’s view, “Star Trek” featured men and women in a non-family setting. There aren’t mothers and fathers on “Star Trek”. The show features single men and women, who interact. Who knows what they get up to on the starship Enterprise at bedtime? Captain Kirk becomes romantically involved with alien women, but I’m not sure my mother knew about that. It was the crew of single, sexually available men and women that disturbed her.
Despite my parents’ one hour limit on the T.V., I was allowed to watch “Lost in Space”. That featured a family in space. I also saw a handful of Saturday morning cartoons, and a bit of the daily “Captain Kangaroo” T.V. show before school in the mornings.
I realize the above has nothing to do with you. This column may be helpful to you if you download books from Amazon dot com. My goal is to discuss Amazon’s Kindle offerings of “Dr. Zhivago”, and some Kindle books by Ray Bradbury.
There are two Kindle versions of “Dr. Zhivago” at Amazon dot com. They are:
1. Doctor Zhivago, by Pasternak Boris [ Boris is his first name ], no translator listed. Publisher: Print On Demand; 1 edition ( October 19, 2018 ). Price: $2.99.
2. Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Publisher: Vintage International; Reprint edition ( October 4, 2011). Price: $12.99.
Doctor Zhivago was written in Russian. Authored during the era when Russia was known as the Soviet Union, the book’s path to us was tumultuous. Its author risked being shot for publishing Doctor Zhivago.
Regarding this book, all of the customer reviews at Amazon dot com seem to be accurate. The book has a vast sea of characters. It may have no plot. It has the feel of an imitation of works by great nineteenth century Russian authors, rather than a work worthy of joining their ranks. Doctor Zhivago is, nonetheless, regarded as a great twentieth century novel. It won the Nobel Prize.
Some years ago, I saw part of the movie Doctor Zhivago on PBS. It was excellent. It’s mostly because of the outstanding quality of David Lean’s 1965 film that I have an interest in attempting the novel.
The question is: which Kindle version of Doctor Zhivago should I buy? The answer: both.
The version translated by Pevear and Volokhonsky [ not Volokhonky! ] comes highly credentialed. This team has translated the works of many great Russian authors. However, the Pevear / Volokhonsky narrative is not as well composed as the uncredited translation by Print On Demand. An example:
Print On Demand: “Talk of it? The peasants have been spoiled-treated too well. That’s no good for the likes of us. Give the peasants rope and God knows we’ll all be at each other’s throats in no time.-Get along, there!” ( Loc 98. )
In context, the above passage makes clear that, at the end of his statement, the carriage driver is telling the horses to hasten their pace. Such is not clear in the Vintage International edition.
Vintage International: “What’re they saying? Folk got free and easy. Spoiled, they say. Can you do that with our kind? Give our muzhiks their head, they’ll throttle each other, it’s God’s truth. Gone to sleep, eh?” ( Page 6. )
However, one can’t simply buy the Print On Demand version. In a nearby passage, the translator describes the landscape. He speaks of “fields ... forming a narrow border around the woods.” ( Loc 99. )
Vintage International’s translators offer the correct view. They speak of “fields spread out wide, with woods embracing them in front and behind in a narrow border.” ( Page 6. )
The Print On Demand version was input into a computer via a scanner. As a result, it has obvious typographical errors. An Amazon reviewer promises that there aren’t too many of these.
What clinched my preference for the Print On Demand version was this passage: “The horses were like horses the world over: the shaft horse pulled with the innate honesty of a simple soul while the off horse arched its neck like a swan and seemed to the uninitiated to be an inveterate idler who thought only of prancing in time to the jangling bells.” ( Loc 88. )
Vintage International: “But the horses pulled like all horses in the world; that is, the shaft horse ran with the innate directness of an artless nature, while the outrunner seemed to the uncomprehending to be an arrant idler, who only knew how to arch its neck like a swan and do a squatting dance to the jingling of the harness bells, which its own leaps set going.” ( Page 6. )
Vintage International explains that the horse’s “own leaps” set the bells going. As this is obvious, Print On Demand leaves this unstated. Print On Demand’s translator follows this rule elsewhere. I don’t criticize him for this. Print On Demand’s translator has rendered Doctor Zhivago in straightforward American prose. I sometimes wonder if English is the first language of Vintage International’s translators, due to their rather opaque narrative.
Print On Demand: “Russia, with its fields, steppes, villages, and towns, bleached lime-white by the sun.” ( Loc 202. )
Vintage International: “Past them in clouds of hot dust, bleached as with lime by the sun, flew Russia, fields and steppes, towns and villages.” ( Page 11. )
The Print On Demand version reads with the clarity of a story by Ray Bradbury. The Vintage International version doesn’t.
Modernly, one must worry about politically correct censorship. So, far, I’ve found what appears to be censorship in both translations.
Print On Demand: “Such children were precocious.” ( Loc 398. )
Vintage International: “Young ones from the people develop early.” ( Page 21. )
Print On Demand: “Lara was only a little over sixteen but she was well developed.” ( Loc 402. )
Vintage International: “She was a little over sixteen, but she was a fully formed young girl.” ( Page 22. )
Two of the relevant passages above remind me of Biblical translations, where certain versions attempt to hide sexuality. ( In fact, my hunch is that the Print On Demand statement, “Such children were precocious”, is not censorious. It’s an accurate rendition of the Russian text. The question is: in this sentence, was Pasternak referring to mental development, physical maturity, or both? Someone once remarked that reading a translated book is “like kissing through cellophane”. )
As a writer, I’m finding it stunningly useful to compare the two Kindle translations of Doctor Zhivago. I read the Print On Demand version. When I hit a passage that I don’t understand, or one that promises greater enlightenment, I close the Print On Demand version. Then I open the Vintage International version. I compare the two versions.
It may be possible to do a “split screen” on my iPad, and keep both versions open. However, I’ve had problems with the split screen feature in the past. My normal iPad screen was constantly trying to split itself in two. I found a way to turn the split screen feature off, and did so.
It is possible to open one version on my iPad, and another version on my iPhone. However, I tend to eat while I’m reading. Putting two electronic devices at risk of spilled food and drink is not something I’m willing to do.
My iPad has a “Folio” keyboard. ( Sold separately. ) When I eat, I read my iPad as it sits in the Folio keyboard. The keyboard keeps my iPad raised at a readable angle. To protect my keyboard, I fold two paper towels in half. I put each paper towel over my keyboard. I don’t put the towels directly on top of each other. I put one over the keyboard itself, and the other one somewhat forward of the lower towel. That’s because the keyboard is a little wider than a single folded paper towel. Recently, I spilled soda on my keyboard. However, a single folded paper towel saved it. If you protect your keyboard with paper towels, make sure you buy quality ones, that absorb well. Such brands include Kroger paper towels, Bounty, and Brawny.
“Don’t get this version!” warns R. R., of “The Martian Chronicles”, by Ray Bradbury. R. R. is speaking of the Kindle version at Amazon dot com. Other reviewers echo his sentiment. In the Kindle version, all the dates have been modernized. By dates, I’m speaking of the date that accompanies the title of each chapter. I sympathize with objections to this change. However, I find it irrelevant. The reviewer Crystal H. warns that “Certain other parts of the book have been updated to comply [ with ] the modern era.” That is a very serious charge.
How can one address such a charge?
1. I hope that, in this particular, Crystal H. is wrong.
2. Ray Bradbury appears to have provided an introduction to this edition. If so, he may have been the person who rewrote the changed parts.
My hunch is that nothing in The Martian Chronicles was altered except the dates fronting each chapter.
With one exception: the story “Way in the Middle of the Air” was removed. Currently, I don’t have access to this story. However, in an article now missing from the internet, a teacher stated that she got in trouble when she assigned The Martian Chronicles to her class. She assigned a version of The Martian Chronicles that included the story “Way in the Middle of the Air.” She did not choose this version to the exclusion of others. It was the version that was available at the time.
According to her, “Way in the Middle of the Air” includes the words “negro”, and “nigger”. I was re-reading The Martian Chronicles some decades ago. When I got to the story “Way in the Middle of the Air”, I hated it. The story struck me as jarringly anachronistic. In the Martian chronicles, one is reading about ( presumptively caucasian ) astronauts exploring an alien world. Suddenly, in “Way in the Middle of the Air”, one is reading about poor blacks emigrating to Mars from a racist South. The story is not as compelling as it may sound. I was unable to finish reading “Way in the Middle of the Air”. I ceased re-reading The Martian Chronicles.
I wish the Kindle version of The Martian Chronicles included the story “Way in the Middle of the Air”. However, it may be just as well that the story is absent. Somewhere, someone remarked that Bradbury sends blacks to Mars, in “Way in the Middle of the Air”, and then never mentions them again. That’s unsurprising for a book written in 1950, for a white majority culture, by a white author. Also, The Martian Chronicles isn’t a novel. It’s akin to one, but actually a collection of short stories, written for various magazines.
Bradbury was ahead of his time in penning “Way in the Middle of the Air”. His story precedes America’s civil rights era. If Bradbury has sinned, he atones for it in his book “The Illustrated Man”. There, in the story “The Other Foot”, blacks are the sole colonizers of Mars. Then white people begin to arrive. ( The reason for the censorship of “Way in the Middle of the Air” is undercut by the ( single ) presence of the word “Negro” in “The Other Foot”. )
Wondering whether to buy Kindle versions of The Martian Chronicles, and The Illustrated Man, here’s what I found:
1. “Way in the Middle of the Air” was removed from The Martian Chronicles. To make up for this, the story “The Fire Balloons” was included.
2. “The Fire Balloons” was removed from The Illustrated Man. To make up for this, the story “The Illustrated Man” was included in the book The Illustrated Man. That last statement sounds odd. However, the illustrated man in the story “The Illustrated Man” may be a different person from the illustrated man referenced at the book’s start.
The upshot? Go ahead and buy the Kindle versions of The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man. The only story you’ll lose is “Way in the Middle of the Air”, which I didn’t like.
You’ll want a great cover for The Martian Chronicles. I recommend the following:
Download a free sample of “The Martian Chronicles Jumbled”. Or, download a free sample of “The Martian Chronicles Scrambled”. What use the Jumbled and Scrambled versions have eludes me. However, each of these pieces of crap have the same great cover. The cover once graced a ( normal ) paperback version of The Martian Chronicles.
The Kindle version of Bradbury’s book, The October Country, includes illustrations by Joseph Mugnaini. He was Bradbury’s favorite illustrator. I’ve always immensely enjoyed Mugnaini’s illustrations.
Mugnaini illustrated many of Bradbury’s books. The publisher of the Kindle version of The October Country ( William Morrow / HarperCollins ) sells many of Bradbury’s Kindle books. Unfortunately, Mugnaini’s illustrations are omitted from their other Kindle versions of Bradbury’s books.
Booted up, the Kindle version of The October Country has an awful generic cover. One can only view the ( admittedly crap ) actual cover of The October Country when the book is sitting among other titles in your Kindle library. The real covers of the Kindle versions of The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man do appear when each book is booted up.
When I was in the sixth grade, Glen asked me to sleep over at his house. There, he asked me if I wanted to read The Illustrated Man. I saw that it was an “adult” novel. That is, a general interest paperback sold in a store.
“No,” I told Glen. “I only read Scholastic books.” Scholastic books were sold through schools, to children.
Glen prevailed. I read The Illustrated Man. Bradbury killed my interest in Scholastic books. From then on, I viewed Scholastic books as inferior. They were for children. Since I proceeded to read all of Bradbury’s books, I obviously was an adult.
In fact, many Scholastic books that I read are today considered classics. I still have considerable admiration for them. My offhand recommendations are for:
1. A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle.
2. The Forgotten Door, by Alexander Key.
3. The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster. ( Not Jester! )
Though it’s not a Scholastic book, I also recommend “House of Stairs”, by William Sleator. All the above are available as Kindle books.
I suppose my favorite book of all time is “Donald Duck and the Hidden Gold”, by Jane Werner. Sadly, this is available solely as a hardcover book, published by Sandpiper in 1951. I bought a copy of this book on Amazon dot com. The four most important pages of the book, in its middle, were missing.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. BO, Book Observations, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 2
Arcana: This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 2, version 8.0
Date Written: July 13, 2020.
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Help for “Molesters”
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ET 37
Editorial Thunder presents...
Help for “Molesters”
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by Andrew Roller
“Stop lying about my record”. - Bob Dole
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As best I can tell, financier Jeffrey Epstein was murdered. He was murdered while he was in jail on pending criminal charges. The government appears to have no actual interest in who murdered him. The government is eager, however, to spend time and money prosecuting an associate of Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, even though she’s never been accused of murder.
Maxwell is accused of enticing a teenager to travel to engage in sex. According to the government, Maxwell may have done this more than once. Maxwell’s “offense” is hardly a violation of the Ten Commandments. Nor is it one of the Seven Deadly Sins. According to Harvey Silverglate, in his book Three Felonies a Day, most of us commit several federal crimes a day. Every year brings a host of new laws.
Epstein was a “convicted sex offender”. In describing Maxwell’s alleged offenses, the government claimed that Epstein “pretended to take an interest” in one or more girls. The word “pretended” greatly annoyed me. It is possible for “a man” to actually like “a girl”. Hence, for any guy who is accused of “molesting” a girl, because he liked her, I have some helpful statements. You can offer these if you’re accused:
The prosecutor’s view of this case is a toxic mix of lies and omissions.
The prosecutor’s view of this case is a web of lies. All perspective is removed, every virtue is obscured, every motive is twisted, every fact is distorted, and every flaw is magnified until the reality of what happened is disfigured beyond all recognition.
Sources:
The first helpful line ( “toxic mix”, above ) was inspired by words spoken by Tucker Carlson on Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox News Channel, July 6, 2020. The changes are my own.
The second helpful line ( “web of lies”, above ) was inspired by words spoken by President Donald Trump in his Mount Rushmore Speech, July 3, 2020. ( Quoted on Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox News Channel, July 6, 2020. ) The changes are my own.
“pretended to take an interest”. In my notes, I copied the line as “...pretending to take an interest in them.” I copied this down from the Fox News Channel on or about July 3, 2020.
Epstein a “convicted sex offender”. Apple Siri Knowledge.
“Stop lying about my record”. Senator Robert ( Bob ) Dole to President George H.W. Bush on February 16, 1988. ( Google, July 6, 2020, quoting www(dot)youtube(dot)com, quoting “NBC News interview”. ) Search query: “stop lying about my record”.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 37
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 37, version 1.0
Date Written: July 6, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 37
Editorial Thunder presents...
Help for “Molesters”
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by Andrew Roller
“Stop lying about my record”. - Bob Dole
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As best I can tell, financier Jeffrey Epstein was murdered. He was murdered while he was in jail on pending criminal charges. The government appears to have no actual interest in who murdered him. The government is eager, however, to spend time and money prosecuting an associate of Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, even though she’s never been accused of murder.
Maxwell is accused of enticing a teenager to travel to engage in sex. According to the government, Maxwell may have done this more than once. Maxwell’s “offense” is hardly a violation of the Ten Commandments. Nor is it one of the Seven Deadly Sins. According to Harvey Silverglate, in his book Three Felonies a Day, most of us commit several federal crimes a day. Every year brings a host of new laws.
Epstein was a “convicted sex offender”. In describing Maxwell’s alleged offenses, the government claimed that Epstein “pretended to take an interest” in one or more girls. The word “pretended” greatly annoyed me. It is possible for “a man” to actually like “a girl”. Hence, for any guy who is accused of “molesting” a girl, because he liked her, I have some helpful statements. You can offer these if you’re accused:
The prosecutor’s view of this case is a toxic mix of lies and omissions.
The prosecutor’s view of this case is a web of lies. All perspective is removed, every virtue is obscured, every motive is twisted, every fact is distorted, and every flaw is magnified until the reality of what happened is disfigured beyond all recognition.
Sources:
The first helpful line ( “toxic mix”, above ) was inspired by words spoken by Tucker Carlson on Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox News Channel, July 6, 2020. The changes are my own.
The second helpful line ( “web of lies”, above ) was inspired by words spoken by President Donald Trump in his Mount Rushmore Speech, July 3, 2020. ( Quoted on Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox News Channel, July 6, 2020. ) The changes are my own.
“pretended to take an interest”. In my notes, I copied the line as “...pretending to take an interest in them.” I copied this down from the Fox News Channel on or about July 3, 2020.
Epstein a “convicted sex offender”. Apple Siri Knowledge.
“Stop lying about my record”. Senator Robert ( Bob ) Dole to President George H.W. Bush on February 16, 1988. ( Google, July 6, 2020, quoting www(dot)youtube(dot)com, quoting “NBC News interview”. ) Search query: “stop lying about my record”.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have over 100 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 37
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 37, version 1.0
Date Written: July 6, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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The Joy of Pathos
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ASS 7
Andrew’s Super Songs presents...
The Joy of Pathos
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by Andrew Roller
Game robbery, and a great tune.
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I didn’t take anything myself. I stood by Bob while he stole, blocking the view of someone who might see him stealing. The booty? Dungeons and Dragons books. Over time, Bob accumulated a number of them.
From a legal perspective, I now see the criminal nature of my conduct. I didn’t at the time. As for the morality of the situation, that’s harder to discern.
It was the 1980’s. Bob didn’t have any money. His father had enrolled him in a Catholic school. To justify the expense, dad enrolled Bob in a daunting curriculum. Bob was supposed to master the languages of Latin and Japanese at the same time, plus other courses. Bob had no prior experience with either language.
Given his gender and age, Bob was in the gunsights of the company that published the Dungeons and Dragons books. Bob was an intelligent male in his early teens. However Dungeons and Dragons had begun, by the 1980’s it had become a plethora of expensive books. To play the game well, one had to buy all the books, and related material. Or so a novice like Bob was gulled into believing. So, regarded as too young to hold a job by the state, and burdened by impossible schoolwork, he stole. He didn’t just steal Dungeons and Dragons material. He began stealing whatever moved his heart, as a consumer. Stealing became something he did with me or alone, as a test of his manhood. Until, of course, he got caught.
I had opinions regarding his thefts. One of my opinions was tactical. Of a particular store, I told him, “Don’t steal there. It’s too tight.” By “tight”, I meant that I viewed the store as being very well managed, from the standpoint of preventing theft.
That store is where Bob got caught. I wasn’t with him. Bob was loading merchandise into his backpack, which was his school bookbag, when an old man saw him. Of the old man, Bob later told me, “I didn’t think much of him spotting me stealing. He was just some old man.”
It turned out that the old man was the store’s plainclothes security guard. He apprehended Bob. Bob was taken to the store’s office. There, Bob was shocked by what he saw posted on the office’s wall. There was a photograph of a man. By the man was written, “If you need anything ( regarding some aspect of supplying the store ), call Mr. A—-.” Mr. A—- was Bob’s father.
I first heard of Dungeons and Dragons in the 1970’s. A boy told me about it at a church. My family lived far from the church, even though my father was its pastor. I have no idea where the boy lived. He spoke of the game, but didn’t have anything regarding it on his person. Listening to him, I found Dungeons and Dragons incomprehensible. I only knew of games as items one bought in a store, that came with dice and a pasteboard gameboard.
In the 1980’s, I met a boy who was 11 or 12 years old. He lived nearby. He had a panoply of Dungeons and Dragons material, mostly consisting of pamphlets. Daniel had bought this material before the Dungeons and Dragons “game” had become an endless conveyor belt of expensive books. Behind Daniel’s back, I and one or two boys agreed that, were Daniel a girl, he’d be very beautiful. Bob seemed to have a crush on Daniel for awhile. Then again, Bob, like me, lacked a girlfriend.
Armed with his Dungeons and Dragons material, Daniel became our Game Master. My mother’s dining room table served as our play space. ( My mother and father were absent that summer. ) The table was made by Ethan Allen. It had fake wormholes bored into its surface. If you put a sheet of paper on the table, and tried to write on it, your pen would soon hit a worm hole, under the paper. Writing in this manner marred the table’s surface.
Nonetheless, we played Dungeons and Dragons there. I found it jarring that Daniel, as our Game Master, could make up everything about our adventure as we went along. He nonetheless proved to be a good Game Master. We played several times. Then our interest waned. The board game Risk superseded Dungeons and Dragons. However, if one has played Risk often, and reasonably well, one finds that game annoying. I knew a fellow who, somehow, could roll the winning number of six with one or more dice multiple times. Also, good Risk players wind up in a stalemate. The game grinds on for hours until someone wins.
In the 1990’s, I discovered the game NetHack. It is a computer version of Dungeons and Dragons. The 1990’s version of NetHack that I found was the original 1970’s version, ported to the Macintosh. The gameboard consisted of ASCII characters. So did the characters in the game.
Last year, I finally bought an iPhone. My saleslady, startled by my ignorance of internet devices, said to me, “Welcome to 2019”. With my iPhone, I was soon searching Apple’s App Store for NetHack. In that regard, here’s what I found at the App Store. The information is shown below. I’m listing these Dungeons and Dragons type games in the order of their appeal. That is, their appeal to my mostly ignorant self.
As I write this, all of these games are now on my Apple iPad.
1. Pathos. Free. Today, I booted up this game. To my surprise, the game began playing music. I don’t recall the game doing this last year, when I last tried it.
The music plays on the “home page” of the app. By “home page”, I mean the first page of the app that you encounter, when you boot it up. The same music also plays on similar pages. When the music ends, it restarts at the beginning, in a loop that you can let play for as long as you like.
When this music first starts, there is an ( intentional ) odd noise that I don’t like. However, when the music replays, the odd noise does’t occur.
I’m writing this article because I love the music at the “home page” of Pathos. Someday, Pathos won’t exist. That’s too bad, because the music will then, presumably, vanish forever.
2. iNetHack2. Free. The “original” NetHack, updated to our modern computer environment. It is no longer an ASCII experience.
3. DungeonsLite. Free. A more in-depth version is available for a small one-time fee. At Apple’s App store, DungeonsLite is called “Dungeons & Such Lite”. The in-depth version is called “Dungeons & Such”.
4. Black Archery. Free. This has nothing to do with Dungeons and Dragons. However, it’s a fun way to waste a few minutes, trying to shoot an apple with a bow and arrow. At Apple’s App store, Black Archery is called “Archery Black”.
Perhaps you’ve tried the above games on your iPhone. Pathos and iNetHack2 require a keyboard that the iPhone doesn’t have. On the iPhone, the iPhone’s onscreen keyboard blocks a large part of the gameboard. You will need at least an iPad, preferably with the iPad Folio keyboard, to enjoyably play Pathos and iNetHack2.
For the purpose of this article, Apple’s new iPad “Magic” keyboard is functionally equivalent to its Folio keyboard. Or so I presume. Both keyboards lack “function” ( or “F” ) keys. That’s not a significant issue in Pathos. iNetHack2 doesn’t use function keys.
And now, afflicted with diarrhea, I’ve perhaps authored something of interest.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ASS, Andrew’s Super Songs, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
ASS, Andrew’s Super Songs, continues the former title, Super Songs.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have 99 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ASS, Andrew’s Super Songs, issue number 7
Arcana: ASS, Andrew’s Super Songs, issue number 7, version 6.0
Date Written: July 1, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Stay in my A R S E: Andrew Roller Stories and Essays
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ASS 7
Andrew’s Super Songs presents...
The Joy of Pathos
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by Andrew Roller
Game robbery, and a great tune.
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I didn’t take anything myself. I stood by Bob while he stole, blocking the view of someone who might see him stealing. The booty? Dungeons and Dragons books. Over time, Bob accumulated a number of them.
From a legal perspective, I now see the criminal nature of my conduct. I didn’t at the time. As for the morality of the situation, that’s harder to discern.
It was the 1980’s. Bob didn’t have any money. His father had enrolled him in a Catholic school. To justify the expense, dad enrolled Bob in a daunting curriculum. Bob was supposed to master the languages of Latin and Japanese at the same time, plus other courses. Bob had no prior experience with either language.
Given his gender and age, Bob was in the gunsights of the company that published the Dungeons and Dragons books. Bob was an intelligent male in his early teens. However Dungeons and Dragons had begun, by the 1980’s it had become a plethora of expensive books. To play the game well, one had to buy all the books, and related material. Or so a novice like Bob was gulled into believing. So, regarded as too young to hold a job by the state, and burdened by impossible schoolwork, he stole. He didn’t just steal Dungeons and Dragons material. He began stealing whatever moved his heart, as a consumer. Stealing became something he did with me or alone, as a test of his manhood. Until, of course, he got caught.
I had opinions regarding his thefts. One of my opinions was tactical. Of a particular store, I told him, “Don’t steal there. It’s too tight.” By “tight”, I meant that I viewed the store as being very well managed, from the standpoint of preventing theft.
That store is where Bob got caught. I wasn’t with him. Bob was loading merchandise into his backpack, which was his school bookbag, when an old man saw him. Of the old man, Bob later told me, “I didn’t think much of him spotting me stealing. He was just some old man.”
It turned out that the old man was the store’s plainclothes security guard. He apprehended Bob. Bob was taken to the store’s office. There, Bob was shocked by what he saw posted on the office’s wall. There was a photograph of a man. By the man was written, “If you need anything ( regarding some aspect of supplying the store ), call Mr. A—-.” Mr. A—- was Bob’s father.
I first heard of Dungeons and Dragons in the 1970’s. A boy told me about it at a church. My family lived far from the church, even though my father was its pastor. I have no idea where the boy lived. He spoke of the game, but didn’t have anything regarding it on his person. Listening to him, I found Dungeons and Dragons incomprehensible. I only knew of games as items one bought in a store, that came with dice and a pasteboard gameboard.
In the 1980’s, I met a boy who was 11 or 12 years old. He lived nearby. He had a panoply of Dungeons and Dragons material, mostly consisting of pamphlets. Daniel had bought this material before the Dungeons and Dragons “game” had become an endless conveyor belt of expensive books. Behind Daniel’s back, I and one or two boys agreed that, were Daniel a girl, he’d be very beautiful. Bob seemed to have a crush on Daniel for awhile. Then again, Bob, like me, lacked a girlfriend.
Armed with his Dungeons and Dragons material, Daniel became our Game Master. My mother’s dining room table served as our play space. ( My mother and father were absent that summer. ) The table was made by Ethan Allen. It had fake wormholes bored into its surface. If you put a sheet of paper on the table, and tried to write on it, your pen would soon hit a worm hole, under the paper. Writing in this manner marred the table’s surface.
Nonetheless, we played Dungeons and Dragons there. I found it jarring that Daniel, as our Game Master, could make up everything about our adventure as we went along. He nonetheless proved to be a good Game Master. We played several times. Then our interest waned. The board game Risk superseded Dungeons and Dragons. However, if one has played Risk often, and reasonably well, one finds that game annoying. I knew a fellow who, somehow, could roll the winning number of six with one or more dice multiple times. Also, good Risk players wind up in a stalemate. The game grinds on for hours until someone wins.
In the 1990’s, I discovered the game NetHack. It is a computer version of Dungeons and Dragons. The 1990’s version of NetHack that I found was the original 1970’s version, ported to the Macintosh. The gameboard consisted of ASCII characters. So did the characters in the game.
Last year, I finally bought an iPhone. My saleslady, startled by my ignorance of internet devices, said to me, “Welcome to 2019”. With my iPhone, I was soon searching Apple’s App Store for NetHack. In that regard, here’s what I found at the App Store. The information is shown below. I’m listing these Dungeons and Dragons type games in the order of their appeal. That is, their appeal to my mostly ignorant self.
As I write this, all of these games are now on my Apple iPad.
1. Pathos. Free. Today, I booted up this game. To my surprise, the game began playing music. I don’t recall the game doing this last year, when I last tried it.
The music plays on the “home page” of the app. By “home page”, I mean the first page of the app that you encounter, when you boot it up. The same music also plays on similar pages. When the music ends, it restarts at the beginning, in a loop that you can let play for as long as you like.
When this music first starts, there is an ( intentional ) odd noise that I don’t like. However, when the music replays, the odd noise does’t occur.
I’m writing this article because I love the music at the “home page” of Pathos. Someday, Pathos won’t exist. That’s too bad, because the music will then, presumably, vanish forever.
2. iNetHack2. Free. The “original” NetHack, updated to our modern computer environment. It is no longer an ASCII experience.
3. DungeonsLite. Free. A more in-depth version is available for a small one-time fee. At Apple’s App store, DungeonsLite is called “Dungeons & Such Lite”. The in-depth version is called “Dungeons & Such”.
4. Black Archery. Free. This has nothing to do with Dungeons and Dragons. However, it’s a fun way to waste a few minutes, trying to shoot an apple with a bow and arrow. At Apple’s App store, Black Archery is called “Archery Black”.
Perhaps you’ve tried the above games on your iPhone. Pathos and iNetHack2 require a keyboard that the iPhone doesn’t have. On the iPhone, the iPhone’s onscreen keyboard blocks a large part of the gameboard. You will need at least an iPad, preferably with the iPad Folio keyboard, to enjoyably play Pathos and iNetHack2.
For the purpose of this article, Apple’s new iPad “Magic” keyboard is functionally equivalent to its Folio keyboard. Or so I presume. Both keyboards lack “function” ( or “F” ) keys. That’s not a significant issue in Pathos. iNetHack2 doesn’t use function keys.
And now, afflicted with diarrhea, I’ve perhaps authored something of interest.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ASS, Andrew’s Super Songs, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
ASS, Andrew’s Super Songs, continues the former title, Super Songs.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have 99 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ASS, Andrew’s Super Songs, issue number 7
Arcana: ASS, Andrew’s Super Songs, issue number 7, version 6.0
Date Written: July 1, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Stay in my A R S E: Andrew Roller Stories and Essays
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Capeci on Race
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AI 8
Apple Info presents...
Capeci on Race
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by Andrew Roller
Learn about African American history, and more, enjoyably.
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Much is being said about race at the moment. Sadly, a lot of what is being spoken, or written, suffers from one or more flaws.
1. It is asserted for political advantage.
2. It is asserted for corporate advantage.
3. It’s dumb, boring, or both.
Is there any way an intelligent person can learn more about race in America? Yes! I recommend the following course on Apple’s “iTunes U”: “History of the US Since 1877”. This consists of lectures given by Dr. Dominic Capeci, Jr. The course is offered by Missouri State University’s Department of History. The university is located in Springfield, Missouri.
Capeci is caucasian, and proudly Italian. He lectures on more than just race. Capeci covers America’s history from 1877 through the early 2000’s. ( As best I can tell. I am still listening to his lectures. ) When Capeci asks, of a factory, “...who controls the plant floor?” he brings a canny view to his subject. One can imagine a character in “The Godfather” assessing the situation.
Apple’s “iTunes U” is a standalone app. It is not associated with Apple’s “Music” app, where “iTunes” resides. All the courses on iTunes U are free.
iTunes U is an app that comes preinstalled on Apple’s iPhone and iPad. ( In my case, my AT&T salesperson regarded me as an ignorant oldster. She “helped” me by deleting applications that I “wouldn’t need” from my iPhone. One of her victims was iTunes U. I had to boot up the Apple “App Store” app and redownload the iTunes U app.
In iTunes U, subscribe to as many courses as you like. However, be cautious about downloading lectures in the courses. The benefit of doing this is that you won’t have to stream lectures off the internet. If your Wi-Fi goes down, you’ll still be able to listen to lectures. ( And watch them. I mostly listen to them, with wireless headphones. I do this while I’m doing mundane chores, like folding laundry, or putting away my porn magazines. Who got my magazines out, and dumped them on my bed, eludes me. )
Also, once, one of my courses “got lost”. I was moving it on my iPad’s screen when it vanished. It vanished within the iTunes U app. I was only able to recover the course by searching for it by name, in the iTunes U app.
I had downloaded every lecture in the course that got lost. If I had forgotten the name of the course, it would still be lost. However, it would be occupying memory on my iPad’s hard disk.
That’s the detriment of downloading lectures. Every lecture you download occupies memory on your hard disk. Downloading lectures from iTunes U is a great way to occupy a lot of valuable memory on your hard disk. I now just stream courses off iTunes U. ( That is, over the internet, using Wi-Fi. )
Summary: You subscribe to a course. Having done this, you can stream individual lectures in the course from iTunes U. Or, you can download individual lectures within the course. To “undownload” lectures, you have to delete the entire course. You can then immediately resubscribe to the course, if it is still available on iTunes U. I will now explain how to do this.
Note: If you want to learn about iTunes U from a logical starting point, read my post, “AI 7: Yale is Free!”
Today, we’re going to delete a course that has downloaded lectures. We’re doing this to free memory on your hard disk. Then, we’ll resubscribe to that course, but not download its lectures. The result? You’ll enjoy lectures on iTunes U by streaming them. The courses, and their lectures, won’t take up any ( significant ) memory on your hard disk.
To quote 12-year-old internet star Dana Taranova, “Let’s go!”
1. Boot up iTunes U. The icon is orange. A white graduation cap is printed on it.
2. In iTunes U, tap “My Courses”. This is printed at the bottom of your iPad’s screen, on the left side. The accompanying icon is a graduation cap.
3. A new page appears. It contains every course that you’ve subscribed to. You won’t have to worry about courses with lectures that you haven’t downloaded. Those courses aren’t taking up memory on your hard disk. You will have to worry about courses with lectures that you’ve downloaded.
4. Find courses with lectures that you’ve downloaded. To do this, look at each course that you’ve subscribed to. Using your finger, or a cursor, tap your way into each course.
5. You’ve tapped your way into a course. Across the bottom of your screen, you’ll see four options: Info, Posts, Notes, and Materials. The only option that matters is “Materials”. Tap “Materials”.
The icon for “Materials” is a cardboard file box. It is at the bottom right of your screen. If your iPad gets a virus, “Materials” won’t open when you tap it. However, when Apple updates your system software, that will likely kill your virus.
6. You tap “Materials”. The “Materials” page appears. Here, every lecture is listed. To the right of each lecture you may see a thundercloud. If you do, that’s great! You have not dowloaded this lecture. It is not taking up memory on your hard disk. If you don’t see a thundercloud, that’s “bad”. It’s “bad” in the sense that this downloaded lecture is occupying memory on your hard disk.
Summary: A course that you’ve downloaded in its entirety won’t have any thunderclouds in the “Materials” section. You don’t have to download each lecture. You may have downloaded just some of them. Any lecture that you have not downloaded will have a thundercloud.
7. You have now found a course with lectures that you’ve downloaded. I’ll assume you’re in the “Materials” section of the course. Look to the top left of your screen. The word “Library” is there, printed in blue.
8. Tap “Library”. You’re now returned to the “My Courses” page.
9. Let’s make sure the course you intend to delete is still available on iTunes U. If it isn’t, and you delete your copy of this course, it will be gone from your life forever.
10. On the “My Courses” page, tap on “Featured”. This is printed at the bottom of your screen, in the center. The accompanying icon is a star.
NOTE: in the Apple world, there are usually several ways to do something. On the “My Courses” page, you could have tapped on “Top Charts”. This is printed at the bottom of your screen, on the right. The accompanying icon looks like an abacus.
On the “Top Charts” page, you can scroll to the bottom of the page. There, tap on “See All >”. That will display every course at iTunes U.
11. At the “My Courses” page, you’ve decided to tap on “Featured”. You are now on the “Featured” page. I’ll tell you a quick way to access the content on this page. First, know the name of the university sponsoring the course that you want to find. Next, look to the top right of your screen. A search field is there. The accompanying icon is a magnifying glass.
12. Type the name of the relevant university into the search field. Hit your keyboard’s “return” key.
13. Every course by that university is now displayed on the “Featured” page. Scroll through the course icons to find the course that you want. You won’t delete the course here. You’re simply checking that the course is still available from iTunes U.
14. Have you found the course? Great! America’s “cancel culture” hasn’t gotten the course removed. Nor has some misguided functionary removed it. We’ll now return to the “My Courses” page, and delete this course. Then we’ll resubscribe to the course.
15. Tap “My Courses”. You are returned to the “My Courses” page.
16. Find the course that you want to delete. With your finger, tap and hold that course’s icon. The course’s icon enlarges in size.
17. Slide the course to the top of your screen. Be careful: when I slid one of my courses into the top of the screen, it disappeared. I had to find the course by searching for it by name. It wasn’t on the screen anymore at the “My Courses” page. Even when I found the course, there wasn’t any way to return it to the “My Courses” page. I rid myself of the problem by deleting the course.
18. The course you want to delete is now among the courses in the top row of your “My Courses” page.
We have now reached a significant reason that I’m writing this post. You want to delete a course, but you can’t find any way to do that! Worse, this course is hogging memory on your hard disk!
19. Put your finger against your iPad’s screen. While pressing it there, pull down. ( Don’t worry! Illegal images of nude little girls won’t appear on your screen, unless you work for the F.B.I. ) The word “Edit” appears ( along with a search field). “Edit” is printed in blue at the top right of your screen.
20. Tap on “Edit”.
21. Now, tap on the course you want to delete. The course, represented by an icon, will turn gray. A blue circle will appear on this icon. The blue circle has a white checkmark in it.
22. “Delete”, written in red, now shows at the top left of your screen.
23. Tap “Delete” to get rid of the course. An informational box appears. Choose the option that suits you in this informational box. You are now rid of this course.
24. But wait! Let’s now get this course back! We’ll resubscribe to it. However, to save memory on your hard disk, we won’t download any lectures in this course.
25. You’re on the “My Courses” page. Tap “Featured”. You’re taken to the “Featured” page. Enter the relevant university’s name, in the search field on the “Featured” page. All the courses that university sponsors appear. You may have to scroll through these courses. Tap the course that you want to subscribe to. ( It’s the course that you just deleted. )
26. You tap the course. An informational box appears. On this page, a blue box contains this word, written in white: “SUBSCRIBE”.
27. Tap “SUBSCRIBE”. The blue box changes into a green box. The green box contains this phrase, “GET COURSE”.
28. Tap “GET COURSE”. If all goes well, the course you want now pops into your “My Courses” page. The “My Courses” page appears on your screen as this happens.
29. If the above doesn’t happen, do it again. Keep doing it until the course you want appears on your “My Courses” page.
Naturally, the most intellectual app in the Apple world isn’t perfect. I guess Apple doesn’t pay much attention to “iTunes U”. Who wants to be educated in America, especially about race? Racism is more fun. So is looting, rioting, and political and corporate pandering.
Some lectures, from various universities, won’t load properly in iTunes U. The problems include these:
1. The audio will play, but no picture appears.
2. A lecture you previously viewed, visually, with sound, may now only play sound.
3. A lecture will begin to play, and then stop. You won’t be able to see or hear the rest of the lecture.
4. If you call Apple, you’ll be directed to three different departments. The third department will be Apple’s “Education” department. They will refuse to help you unless you’re a professor, calling about your own course.
5. Some courses are screwed up. This is the case with an otherwise fine course from the University of Virginia. It is titled, “The Modern World: Global History since 1760.” This course has the problems listed above. ( However, every lecture in this course does play through, with at least the sound working. ) The lectures in this course are not in the right order. After months, I realized that the lectures are numbered. Start with the lecture numbered “1.1”. Its title is “The Study of History”.
There is no need to settle for junk on your television that purports to educate you about race. Try Capeci’s course at iTunes U. Then, explore more courses at iTunes U. Folding laundry ( and stowing porn magazines ) no longer needs to be boring.
And in the End...
Kristallnacht was bad. Rioting, looting, and arson in America in 2020 is good.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. AI, Apple Info, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have 99 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is AI, Apple Info, issue number 8
Arcana: This is AI, Apple Info, issue number 8, version 4.0
Date Written: June 15, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Stay in my A R S E: Andrew Roller Stories and Essays
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AI 8
Apple Info presents...
Capeci on Race
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by Andrew Roller
Learn about African American history, and more, enjoyably.
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Much is being said about race at the moment. Sadly, a lot of what is being spoken, or written, suffers from one or more flaws.
1. It is asserted for political advantage.
2. It is asserted for corporate advantage.
3. It’s dumb, boring, or both.
Is there any way an intelligent person can learn more about race in America? Yes! I recommend the following course on Apple’s “iTunes U”: “History of the US Since 1877”. This consists of lectures given by Dr. Dominic Capeci, Jr. The course is offered by Missouri State University’s Department of History. The university is located in Springfield, Missouri.
Capeci is caucasian, and proudly Italian. He lectures on more than just race. Capeci covers America’s history from 1877 through the early 2000’s. ( As best I can tell. I am still listening to his lectures. ) When Capeci asks, of a factory, “...who controls the plant floor?” he brings a canny view to his subject. One can imagine a character in “The Godfather” assessing the situation.
Apple’s “iTunes U” is a standalone app. It is not associated with Apple’s “Music” app, where “iTunes” resides. All the courses on iTunes U are free.
iTunes U is an app that comes preinstalled on Apple’s iPhone and iPad. ( In my case, my AT&T salesperson regarded me as an ignorant oldster. She “helped” me by deleting applications that I “wouldn’t need” from my iPhone. One of her victims was iTunes U. I had to boot up the Apple “App Store” app and redownload the iTunes U app.
In iTunes U, subscribe to as many courses as you like. However, be cautious about downloading lectures in the courses. The benefit of doing this is that you won’t have to stream lectures off the internet. If your Wi-Fi goes down, you’ll still be able to listen to lectures. ( And watch them. I mostly listen to them, with wireless headphones. I do this while I’m doing mundane chores, like folding laundry, or putting away my porn magazines. Who got my magazines out, and dumped them on my bed, eludes me. )
Also, once, one of my courses “got lost”. I was moving it on my iPad’s screen when it vanished. It vanished within the iTunes U app. I was only able to recover the course by searching for it by name, in the iTunes U app.
I had downloaded every lecture in the course that got lost. If I had forgotten the name of the course, it would still be lost. However, it would be occupying memory on my iPad’s hard disk.
That’s the detriment of downloading lectures. Every lecture you download occupies memory on your hard disk. Downloading lectures from iTunes U is a great way to occupy a lot of valuable memory on your hard disk. I now just stream courses off iTunes U. ( That is, over the internet, using Wi-Fi. )
Summary: You subscribe to a course. Having done this, you can stream individual lectures in the course from iTunes U. Or, you can download individual lectures within the course. To “undownload” lectures, you have to delete the entire course. You can then immediately resubscribe to the course, if it is still available on iTunes U. I will now explain how to do this.
Note: If you want to learn about iTunes U from a logical starting point, read my post, “AI 7: Yale is Free!”
Today, we’re going to delete a course that has downloaded lectures. We’re doing this to free memory on your hard disk. Then, we’ll resubscribe to that course, but not download its lectures. The result? You’ll enjoy lectures on iTunes U by streaming them. The courses, and their lectures, won’t take up any ( significant ) memory on your hard disk.
To quote 12-year-old internet star Dana Taranova, “Let’s go!”
1. Boot up iTunes U. The icon is orange. A white graduation cap is printed on it.
2. In iTunes U, tap “My Courses”. This is printed at the bottom of your iPad’s screen, on the left side. The accompanying icon is a graduation cap.
3. A new page appears. It contains every course that you’ve subscribed to. You won’t have to worry about courses with lectures that you haven’t downloaded. Those courses aren’t taking up memory on your hard disk. You will have to worry about courses with lectures that you’ve downloaded.
4. Find courses with lectures that you’ve downloaded. To do this, look at each course that you’ve subscribed to. Using your finger, or a cursor, tap your way into each course.
5. You’ve tapped your way into a course. Across the bottom of your screen, you’ll see four options: Info, Posts, Notes, and Materials. The only option that matters is “Materials”. Tap “Materials”.
The icon for “Materials” is a cardboard file box. It is at the bottom right of your screen. If your iPad gets a virus, “Materials” won’t open when you tap it. However, when Apple updates your system software, that will likely kill your virus.
6. You tap “Materials”. The “Materials” page appears. Here, every lecture is listed. To the right of each lecture you may see a thundercloud. If you do, that’s great! You have not dowloaded this lecture. It is not taking up memory on your hard disk. If you don’t see a thundercloud, that’s “bad”. It’s “bad” in the sense that this downloaded lecture is occupying memory on your hard disk.
Summary: A course that you’ve downloaded in its entirety won’t have any thunderclouds in the “Materials” section. You don’t have to download each lecture. You may have downloaded just some of them. Any lecture that you have not downloaded will have a thundercloud.
7. You have now found a course with lectures that you’ve downloaded. I’ll assume you’re in the “Materials” section of the course. Look to the top left of your screen. The word “Library” is there, printed in blue.
8. Tap “Library”. You’re now returned to the “My Courses” page.
9. Let’s make sure the course you intend to delete is still available on iTunes U. If it isn’t, and you delete your copy of this course, it will be gone from your life forever.
10. On the “My Courses” page, tap on “Featured”. This is printed at the bottom of your screen, in the center. The accompanying icon is a star.
NOTE: in the Apple world, there are usually several ways to do something. On the “My Courses” page, you could have tapped on “Top Charts”. This is printed at the bottom of your screen, on the right. The accompanying icon looks like an abacus.
On the “Top Charts” page, you can scroll to the bottom of the page. There, tap on “See All >”. That will display every course at iTunes U.
11. At the “My Courses” page, you’ve decided to tap on “Featured”. You are now on the “Featured” page. I’ll tell you a quick way to access the content on this page. First, know the name of the university sponsoring the course that you want to find. Next, look to the top right of your screen. A search field is there. The accompanying icon is a magnifying glass.
12. Type the name of the relevant university into the search field. Hit your keyboard’s “return” key.
13. Every course by that university is now displayed on the “Featured” page. Scroll through the course icons to find the course that you want. You won’t delete the course here. You’re simply checking that the course is still available from iTunes U.
14. Have you found the course? Great! America’s “cancel culture” hasn’t gotten the course removed. Nor has some misguided functionary removed it. We’ll now return to the “My Courses” page, and delete this course. Then we’ll resubscribe to the course.
15. Tap “My Courses”. You are returned to the “My Courses” page.
16. Find the course that you want to delete. With your finger, tap and hold that course’s icon. The course’s icon enlarges in size.
17. Slide the course to the top of your screen. Be careful: when I slid one of my courses into the top of the screen, it disappeared. I had to find the course by searching for it by name. It wasn’t on the screen anymore at the “My Courses” page. Even when I found the course, there wasn’t any way to return it to the “My Courses” page. I rid myself of the problem by deleting the course.
18. The course you want to delete is now among the courses in the top row of your “My Courses” page.
We have now reached a significant reason that I’m writing this post. You want to delete a course, but you can’t find any way to do that! Worse, this course is hogging memory on your hard disk!
19. Put your finger against your iPad’s screen. While pressing it there, pull down. ( Don’t worry! Illegal images of nude little girls won’t appear on your screen, unless you work for the F.B.I. ) The word “Edit” appears ( along with a search field). “Edit” is printed in blue at the top right of your screen.
20. Tap on “Edit”.
21. Now, tap on the course you want to delete. The course, represented by an icon, will turn gray. A blue circle will appear on this icon. The blue circle has a white checkmark in it.
22. “Delete”, written in red, now shows at the top left of your screen.
23. Tap “Delete” to get rid of the course. An informational box appears. Choose the option that suits you in this informational box. You are now rid of this course.
24. But wait! Let’s now get this course back! We’ll resubscribe to it. However, to save memory on your hard disk, we won’t download any lectures in this course.
25. You’re on the “My Courses” page. Tap “Featured”. You’re taken to the “Featured” page. Enter the relevant university’s name, in the search field on the “Featured” page. All the courses that university sponsors appear. You may have to scroll through these courses. Tap the course that you want to subscribe to. ( It’s the course that you just deleted. )
26. You tap the course. An informational box appears. On this page, a blue box contains this word, written in white: “SUBSCRIBE”.
27. Tap “SUBSCRIBE”. The blue box changes into a green box. The green box contains this phrase, “GET COURSE”.
28. Tap “GET COURSE”. If all goes well, the course you want now pops into your “My Courses” page. The “My Courses” page appears on your screen as this happens.
29. If the above doesn’t happen, do it again. Keep doing it until the course you want appears on your “My Courses” page.
Naturally, the most intellectual app in the Apple world isn’t perfect. I guess Apple doesn’t pay much attention to “iTunes U”. Who wants to be educated in America, especially about race? Racism is more fun. So is looting, rioting, and political and corporate pandering.
Some lectures, from various universities, won’t load properly in iTunes U. The problems include these:
1. The audio will play, but no picture appears.
2. A lecture you previously viewed, visually, with sound, may now only play sound.
3. A lecture will begin to play, and then stop. You won’t be able to see or hear the rest of the lecture.
4. If you call Apple, you’ll be directed to three different departments. The third department will be Apple’s “Education” department. They will refuse to help you unless you’re a professor, calling about your own course.
5. Some courses are screwed up. This is the case with an otherwise fine course from the University of Virginia. It is titled, “The Modern World: Global History since 1760.” This course has the problems listed above. ( However, every lecture in this course does play through, with at least the sound working. ) The lectures in this course are not in the right order. After months, I realized that the lectures are numbered. Start with the lecture numbered “1.1”. Its title is “The Study of History”.
There is no need to settle for junk on your television that purports to educate you about race. Try Capeci’s course at iTunes U. Then, explore more courses at iTunes U. Folding laundry ( and stowing porn magazines ) no longer needs to be boring.
And in the End...
Kristallnacht was bad. Rioting, looting, and arson in America in 2020 is good.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. AI, Apple Info, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have 99 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is AI, Apple Info, issue number 8
Arcana: This is AI, Apple Info, issue number 8, version 4.0
Date Written: June 15, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Stay in my A R S E: Andrew Roller Stories and Essays
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Bullied by You Tube
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ET 36
Editorial Thunder presents...
Bullied by You Tube
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by Andrew Roller
You Tube hides behind form letters, letting bullying employees flourish.
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It has become sadly obvious that Big Tech platforms aren’t neutral. Platforms like Facebook and Google censor their users. These platforms claim to do so for reasons that are altruistic. However, their interference in users’ lives is likely opprobrious. One reason these platforms censor is to advance their cultural agendas. They are, to poach a phrase from former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, engaged in “social engineering”.
It gets worse. Big Tech platforms likely harbor bad actors. Employees of such platforms bully users for reasons personal to themselves.
Take the case of Mari Kruchkova. Mari is Russian, and likely 14 years old. She has two eponymous channels on You Tube. Mari has suffered grievously at You Tube’s hands. You Tube has deleted many of her fine, unobjectionable videos. The reason given for this was that Mari’s videos violated You Tube’s “Terms of Service”.
Recently, You Tube deployed a new tactic against Mari. You Tube deleted one of her most popular videos. You Tube’s claim was the following:
“This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by a third party.”
I have seen copyright claims on You Tube before. In each case, the third party making the copyright claim was named. Hence, I have the following questions for You Tube:
1. Who made the copyright claim?
2. How do you ( You Tube ) know that the claim is valid?
Mari’s video was called, “Back to school.Try on haul”. You Tube had deleted this video before. However, Mari had apparently appealed her video’s deletion. Her video had been restored to her.
Now, her video is gone forever.
Mari’s video, “Back to school.Try on haul.” featured only herself. It was filmed in her home. Mari only uses free, generic music as the soundtracks to her videos. Hence, one must ask, how could You Tube delete Mari’s video due to “a copyright claim by a third party”?
I can answer that question. In my opinion, no one filed a copyright claim against Mari’s video. Someone who works at You Tube is bullying her. The bully used an invented excuse of a copyright claim to delete Mari’s video.
A person who has a presence on a social media platform is called a “user”. I detest the word “user”. Hence, I shall now speak of the next person that You Tube is bullying as what she really is: a customer.
The customer is Milana Chasingsun. She is 14 years old. Milana has been repeatedly bullied by You Tube. She states that, in the recent past, a number of channels that she created on You Tube were terminated. Milana says that, each time, You Tube claimed that her channel was terminated for violating You Tube’s “Community Guidelines”.
This week, You Tube terminated Milana’s channel “Milana’s Family Channel”. I was at once suspicious of this termination. A number of Milana’s videos, on her several channels, had been deleted by You Tube. However, Milana apparently appealed each deletion. Each time, she must have won her appeal, because You Tube restored each of her videos.
Why was I suspicious of You Tube’s termination of “Milana’s Family Channel”? Since she’d won her appeals, her channel couldn’t have had any strikes against it. A channel is supposed to have three strikes against it before it can be terminated.
Milana lives in Belarus. English is not her first language. When “Milana’s Family Channel” was terminated, Milana thought the reason was ( once again ) that she had ( allegedly ) violated You Tube’s “Community Guidelines”.
Milana and her family did their best to interpret what You Tube told them. They reached out to the company for an explanation. They got little back. My own experience in this regard is that You Tube barricades itself behind form letters. It is difficult to discern the reason for You Tube’s actions. ( This, of course, makes bullying by a You Tube employee all the easier. )
Milana was shocked by what amounted to You Tube’s answer. Her channel had not violated You Tube’s “Community Guidelines”. Apparently, “Milana’s Family Channel” was terminated for attempting to hack into You Tube, and tamper with You Tube’s equipment. Alternatively, her channel was accused of engaging in illicit activities, such as gambling, or selling narcotics. You Tube’s explanation is so vague that either interpretation is possible. ( Hacking, or illicit activity. )
Right away one senses injustice. “Milana’s Family Channel” had nothing but innocuous family videos, such as “Stefania and the Hamster”. Any comments consisted of praise from her fans. Big Tech loves to cite bullying by customers of other customers as a reason for censorship. I saw no bullying at all on any of Milana’s channels. Indeed, I’ve only seen one instance of bullying. Someone, probably someone quite young, once posted this to a Danatar video, “Danatar, I hate you.” That’s a commonplace playground-type insult.
Here’s Milana’s statement of what You Tube told her:
Quoting You Tube: “We have received a complaint about technical precautions by using your Milana Family Channel YouTube account. As part of the review, we found that certain activities in your account violated YouTube’s Terms of Service. As a result, your account has been closed”.
A link was included with this message. Milana provided the link in two separate places. She gave it at her brother’s channel, “Milana Chasingsun”, at the video titled, “Stefania and the Hamster”. ( It is in the “REPLIES”. ) Milana also gives the link at her father’s channel. Her father’s channel has a Russian name. I am only able to partially translate the name. It is, “Milana - Minsk - [ something ].” Once again, the link is in the replies. The video the link is posted to is titled, “Milana and Stefania - the Hamster”.
At both places, I clicked on the link. In each case, I was taken to a web page. The web page is titled “youtube.com” in my browser’s search field. On this page, there is a cartoon depiction of a monkey. Under the monkey is written: “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
Milana provided additional information about what You Tube told her. She writes, “‘Circumvention of technical Arrangements’ is simply a Standard Argument of Youtube for the blocking of an Account, which when we asked Today what that was supposed to be like only the answer how to complain the blocking could do that shows that Youtube can accuse us of no Violation of the Community Guidelines at all.”
There is the fact that is most telling. You Tube, or a bully who works there, was able to terminate “Milana’s Family Channel” abruptly. The bully had failed in her quest to delete a succession of Milana’s videos, and thus terminate her channel by giving it strikes. So the bully made a false accusation against Milana, and terminated her channel outright.
Milana has more to say: “... with baseless reasons, we are blocked again and again on Youtube as soon as we have posted a lot of Videos and [ have ] many 1000 Subscribers and Followers, even though we only ever post NORMAL Families and Vacation Videos, so NEVER against any Community Rule violated ..!” ( Source: the You Tube channel “Milana from Minsk”, in replies posted to the video “me.. and Stefania”.
Milana fears that she may be getting bullied by You Tube because she is Belarussian. She writes: “We simply suspect that Youtube has something against Belarusians.”
I follow a number of female You Tube creators. It is the citizens of “greater Russia” that I have seen suffer the most number of deleted videos, and channel terminations. The victims include:
Dana Taranova ( Danatar ). Many of Dana’s videos have been deleted by You Tube. Her channel “Danatar2”, formerly called “Dana Taranova”, was terminated. Dana resides in Ukraine.
Ustina Abramova ( Tina ). New to You Tube, Tina has already had a number of her videos deleted by You Tube. Ustina lives in Ukraine.
Mari Kruchkova. Mari, a Russian, has had a huge number of her videos deleted by You Tube.
Julia Majewska. An 18-year-old Polish girl, she has had many of her videos deleted by You Tube.
I have seen the vast bulk of videos produced by these girls. No video was illegal. No video was objectionable.
One must draw a conclusion regarding such facts. In doing so, I fall back on my own experience with You Tube. Twice, my You Tube channel was terminated. It never accumulated any strikes. My channel was abruptly terminated for “spamming”. Then it was abruptly terminated for “suspicious activity”.
I had to appeal each termination. The first time my channel was terminated, I lost all access to Google services. I had no Gmail. Even my Google browser was rendered inoperable. I had to regain access to my Gmail account before I could appeal my channel’s termination.
Of course, I had no experience with filing an appeal. The process is cumbersome. You Tube provides little space to make a statement on their appeal form.
In my case, I felt I had been bullied. I have no interest in spamming anyone. I don’t know how someone would do so on You Tube. Engaging in “suspicious activity” is equally uninteresting to me. That is something worth emphasizing. I don’t want to spam, or engage in suspicious activity. I never reach the moral aspect of the matter. I simply find such conduct boring, and not worth pursuing.
The same applies to the creators I follow on You Tube. Milana likes posting her videos. She has no interest in violating You Tube’s “Community Guidelines”. Of course, she isn’t hacking into You Tube, or selling drugs.
One wonders if You Tube’s censors are looking for a reason to justify their existence. In my perambulations on You Tube, I’ve found nothing remotely illegal. I haven’t even found anything offensive. Probably, You Tube is paying way too many employees to police a service that has no problems.
Or, You Tube is engaged in social engineering. Their self-made content strikes me as distinctly far left. It is “normal” content by the most recent standards. But it is only normal by the most recent standards. ( I myself have no objection to the content per se. )
My conclusion is that creators on You Tube are being bullied. I have noticed certain facts:
1. The bully who works at You Tube will never say that she ( the bully ) is the originator of the complaint. The bully always claims that an ( anonymous ) member of the You Tube community is the complainant.
2. The bully may cite a “review” of the ( baseless ) complaint. Likely, no review occurred. The bully was the channel’s judge, jury, and executioner.
( I have no fact regarding the gender of the bully. I can only conjecture. )
You Tube can take steps to resolve the issues discussed in this article.
1. By law, You Tube is required to be a neutral platform. You Tube should police its own conduct to ensure it is a neutral platform.
2. If You Tube wants to make its own content, it should confine its content to “You Tube TV”. You Tube itself, on the app and the web, should be for independent creators.
3. You Tube should not delete any video unless it is illegal. You Tube should fight any government order to delete a video in court.
4. You Tube should quit referring to people on its platform as “users”. Each “user” is a customer.
Two maxims apply to customers:
1. The customer is always right.
2. The customer is king.
Years ago, I was kicked out of America Online. I was kicked out for a spurious reason. Subsequent to that event, America Online proceeded to kick out many young customers of its service.
Today, America Online is dead. However, I am still here. So, presumably, are the ( once young ) customers that America Online kicked out. America Online assumed it was a company. Presumably, it made a profit, for awhile. Ultimately, it turned out that America Online wasn’t a company. It was a fad.
You Tube needs to heed this lesson of history. You Tube assumes that it is a company. However, it too may be a fad.
Twenty five years from now, Milana and other young customers of You Tube will still be here. Will You Tube?
UPDATE
Since writing the above, I have obtained more information on Milana’s plight. You Tube told Milana that “certain activities in your account violated YouTube’s Terms of Service”.
At her father’s channel, “Milana - Minsk - [ something ]”, “Mapko Pamnyc” ( a Cyrillic name, that I’ve rendered in English ) asked,
“Did they [ You Tube ] mention what ‘certain activities’ these [ violations ] are?”
Milana’s father replied:
“... no and YT [ You Tube ] does not answer either and only refers to the Community Guidelines !”
In the past, I “chatted” twice with You Tube’s support personnel. I found You Tube’s support personnel to be stupid. That’s not an insult. They were utterly uninformed.
One of the You Tube staffers went to the trouble of e-mailing me, later, with his wrong answer. The answer involved the simple matter of posting a comment to You Tube. Giving various false answers, the You Tube staffers told me that my Premium You Tube account did not have any ability to post comments to You Tube. This was, they said, something that all You Tube Premium accounts were denied. The You Tube staffers also claimed that their job did not cover the matter.
UPDATE #2
In the above article, I write: “My own experience ... is that You Tube barricades itself behind form letters.”
I can now offer a quote from a book on this matter. “Denise Griffin ... was the person charged with handling complaints [ at Google ].” Of these complaints, Griffin says, “‘We had a few different canned responses that we would send people, trying to explain, and when they would write back cursing, then we would try again with a slightly different version and then a slightly different version.’”
- In the Plex: how Google thinks, works, and shapes our lives, by Steven Levy, page 173. ( Amazon Kindle. ) Google owns You Tube.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have 99 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 36
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 36, version 4.0
Date Written: May 27, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 36
Editorial Thunder presents...
Bullied by You Tube
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by Andrew Roller
You Tube hides behind form letters, letting bullying employees flourish.
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It has become sadly obvious that Big Tech platforms aren’t neutral. Platforms like Facebook and Google censor their users. These platforms claim to do so for reasons that are altruistic. However, their interference in users’ lives is likely opprobrious. One reason these platforms censor is to advance their cultural agendas. They are, to poach a phrase from former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, engaged in “social engineering”.
It gets worse. Big Tech platforms likely harbor bad actors. Employees of such platforms bully users for reasons personal to themselves.
Take the case of Mari Kruchkova. Mari is Russian, and likely 14 years old. She has two eponymous channels on You Tube. Mari has suffered grievously at You Tube’s hands. You Tube has deleted many of her fine, unobjectionable videos. The reason given for this was that Mari’s videos violated You Tube’s “Terms of Service”.
Recently, You Tube deployed a new tactic against Mari. You Tube deleted one of her most popular videos. You Tube’s claim was the following:
“This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by a third party.”
I have seen copyright claims on You Tube before. In each case, the third party making the copyright claim was named. Hence, I have the following questions for You Tube:
1. Who made the copyright claim?
2. How do you ( You Tube ) know that the claim is valid?
Mari’s video was called, “Back to school.Try on haul”. You Tube had deleted this video before. However, Mari had apparently appealed her video’s deletion. Her video had been restored to her.
Now, her video is gone forever.
Mari’s video, “Back to school.Try on haul.” featured only herself. It was filmed in her home. Mari only uses free, generic music as the soundtracks to her videos. Hence, one must ask, how could You Tube delete Mari’s video due to “a copyright claim by a third party”?
I can answer that question. In my opinion, no one filed a copyright claim against Mari’s video. Someone who works at You Tube is bullying her. The bully used an invented excuse of a copyright claim to delete Mari’s video.
A person who has a presence on a social media platform is called a “user”. I detest the word “user”. Hence, I shall now speak of the next person that You Tube is bullying as what she really is: a customer.
The customer is Milana Chasingsun. She is 14 years old. Milana has been repeatedly bullied by You Tube. She states that, in the recent past, a number of channels that she created on You Tube were terminated. Milana says that, each time, You Tube claimed that her channel was terminated for violating You Tube’s “Community Guidelines”.
This week, You Tube terminated Milana’s channel “Milana’s Family Channel”. I was at once suspicious of this termination. A number of Milana’s videos, on her several channels, had been deleted by You Tube. However, Milana apparently appealed each deletion. Each time, she must have won her appeal, because You Tube restored each of her videos.
Why was I suspicious of You Tube’s termination of “Milana’s Family Channel”? Since she’d won her appeals, her channel couldn’t have had any strikes against it. A channel is supposed to have three strikes against it before it can be terminated.
Milana lives in Belarus. English is not her first language. When “Milana’s Family Channel” was terminated, Milana thought the reason was ( once again ) that she had ( allegedly ) violated You Tube’s “Community Guidelines”.
Milana and her family did their best to interpret what You Tube told them. They reached out to the company for an explanation. They got little back. My own experience in this regard is that You Tube barricades itself behind form letters. It is difficult to discern the reason for You Tube’s actions. ( This, of course, makes bullying by a You Tube employee all the easier. )
Milana was shocked by what amounted to You Tube’s answer. Her channel had not violated You Tube’s “Community Guidelines”. Apparently, “Milana’s Family Channel” was terminated for attempting to hack into You Tube, and tamper with You Tube’s equipment. Alternatively, her channel was accused of engaging in illicit activities, such as gambling, or selling narcotics. You Tube’s explanation is so vague that either interpretation is possible. ( Hacking, or illicit activity. )
Right away one senses injustice. “Milana’s Family Channel” had nothing but innocuous family videos, such as “Stefania and the Hamster”. Any comments consisted of praise from her fans. Big Tech loves to cite bullying by customers of other customers as a reason for censorship. I saw no bullying at all on any of Milana’s channels. Indeed, I’ve only seen one instance of bullying. Someone, probably someone quite young, once posted this to a Danatar video, “Danatar, I hate you.” That’s a commonplace playground-type insult.
Here’s Milana’s statement of what You Tube told her:
Quoting You Tube: “We have received a complaint about technical precautions by using your Milana Family Channel YouTube account. As part of the review, we found that certain activities in your account violated YouTube’s Terms of Service. As a result, your account has been closed”.
A link was included with this message. Milana provided the link in two separate places. She gave it at her brother’s channel, “Milana Chasingsun”, at the video titled, “Stefania and the Hamster”. ( It is in the “REPLIES”. ) Milana also gives the link at her father’s channel. Her father’s channel has a Russian name. I am only able to partially translate the name. It is, “Milana - Minsk - [ something ].” Once again, the link is in the replies. The video the link is posted to is titled, “Milana and Stefania - the Hamster”.
At both places, I clicked on the link. In each case, I was taken to a web page. The web page is titled “youtube.com” in my browser’s search field. On this page, there is a cartoon depiction of a monkey. Under the monkey is written: “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
Milana provided additional information about what You Tube told her. She writes, “‘Circumvention of technical Arrangements’ is simply a Standard Argument of Youtube for the blocking of an Account, which when we asked Today what that was supposed to be like only the answer how to complain the blocking could do that shows that Youtube can accuse us of no Violation of the Community Guidelines at all.”
There is the fact that is most telling. You Tube, or a bully who works there, was able to terminate “Milana’s Family Channel” abruptly. The bully had failed in her quest to delete a succession of Milana’s videos, and thus terminate her channel by giving it strikes. So the bully made a false accusation against Milana, and terminated her channel outright.
Milana has more to say: “... with baseless reasons, we are blocked again and again on Youtube as soon as we have posted a lot of Videos and [ have ] many 1000 Subscribers and Followers, even though we only ever post NORMAL Families and Vacation Videos, so NEVER against any Community Rule violated ..!” ( Source: the You Tube channel “Milana from Minsk”, in replies posted to the video “me.. and Stefania”.
Milana fears that she may be getting bullied by You Tube because she is Belarussian. She writes: “We simply suspect that Youtube has something against Belarusians.”
I follow a number of female You Tube creators. It is the citizens of “greater Russia” that I have seen suffer the most number of deleted videos, and channel terminations. The victims include:
Dana Taranova ( Danatar ). Many of Dana’s videos have been deleted by You Tube. Her channel “Danatar2”, formerly called “Dana Taranova”, was terminated. Dana resides in Ukraine.
Ustina Abramova ( Tina ). New to You Tube, Tina has already had a number of her videos deleted by You Tube. Ustina lives in Ukraine.
Mari Kruchkova. Mari, a Russian, has had a huge number of her videos deleted by You Tube.
Julia Majewska. An 18-year-old Polish girl, she has had many of her videos deleted by You Tube.
I have seen the vast bulk of videos produced by these girls. No video was illegal. No video was objectionable.
One must draw a conclusion regarding such facts. In doing so, I fall back on my own experience with You Tube. Twice, my You Tube channel was terminated. It never accumulated any strikes. My channel was abruptly terminated for “spamming”. Then it was abruptly terminated for “suspicious activity”.
I had to appeal each termination. The first time my channel was terminated, I lost all access to Google services. I had no Gmail. Even my Google browser was rendered inoperable. I had to regain access to my Gmail account before I could appeal my channel’s termination.
Of course, I had no experience with filing an appeal. The process is cumbersome. You Tube provides little space to make a statement on their appeal form.
In my case, I felt I had been bullied. I have no interest in spamming anyone. I don’t know how someone would do so on You Tube. Engaging in “suspicious activity” is equally uninteresting to me. That is something worth emphasizing. I don’t want to spam, or engage in suspicious activity. I never reach the moral aspect of the matter. I simply find such conduct boring, and not worth pursuing.
The same applies to the creators I follow on You Tube. Milana likes posting her videos. She has no interest in violating You Tube’s “Community Guidelines”. Of course, she isn’t hacking into You Tube, or selling drugs.
One wonders if You Tube’s censors are looking for a reason to justify their existence. In my perambulations on You Tube, I’ve found nothing remotely illegal. I haven’t even found anything offensive. Probably, You Tube is paying way too many employees to police a service that has no problems.
Or, You Tube is engaged in social engineering. Their self-made content strikes me as distinctly far left. It is “normal” content by the most recent standards. But it is only normal by the most recent standards. ( I myself have no objection to the content per se. )
My conclusion is that creators on You Tube are being bullied. I have noticed certain facts:
1. The bully who works at You Tube will never say that she ( the bully ) is the originator of the complaint. The bully always claims that an ( anonymous ) member of the You Tube community is the complainant.
2. The bully may cite a “review” of the ( baseless ) complaint. Likely, no review occurred. The bully was the channel’s judge, jury, and executioner.
( I have no fact regarding the gender of the bully. I can only conjecture. )
You Tube can take steps to resolve the issues discussed in this article.
1. By law, You Tube is required to be a neutral platform. You Tube should police its own conduct to ensure it is a neutral platform.
2. If You Tube wants to make its own content, it should confine its content to “You Tube TV”. You Tube itself, on the app and the web, should be for independent creators.
3. You Tube should not delete any video unless it is illegal. You Tube should fight any government order to delete a video in court.
4. You Tube should quit referring to people on its platform as “users”. Each “user” is a customer.
Two maxims apply to customers:
1. The customer is always right.
2. The customer is king.
Years ago, I was kicked out of America Online. I was kicked out for a spurious reason. Subsequent to that event, America Online proceeded to kick out many young customers of its service.
Today, America Online is dead. However, I am still here. So, presumably, are the ( once young ) customers that America Online kicked out. America Online assumed it was a company. Presumably, it made a profit, for awhile. Ultimately, it turned out that America Online wasn’t a company. It was a fad.
You Tube needs to heed this lesson of history. You Tube assumes that it is a company. However, it too may be a fad.
Twenty five years from now, Milana and other young customers of You Tube will still be here. Will You Tube?
UPDATE
Since writing the above, I have obtained more information on Milana’s plight. You Tube told Milana that “certain activities in your account violated YouTube’s Terms of Service”.
At her father’s channel, “Milana - Minsk - [ something ]”, “Mapko Pamnyc” ( a Cyrillic name, that I’ve rendered in English ) asked,
“Did they [ You Tube ] mention what ‘certain activities’ these [ violations ] are?”
Milana’s father replied:
“... no and YT [ You Tube ] does not answer either and only refers to the Community Guidelines !”
In the past, I “chatted” twice with You Tube’s support personnel. I found You Tube’s support personnel to be stupid. That’s not an insult. They were utterly uninformed.
One of the You Tube staffers went to the trouble of e-mailing me, later, with his wrong answer. The answer involved the simple matter of posting a comment to You Tube. Giving various false answers, the You Tube staffers told me that my Premium You Tube account did not have any ability to post comments to You Tube. This was, they said, something that all You Tube Premium accounts were denied. The You Tube staffers also claimed that their job did not cover the matter.
UPDATE #2
In the above article, I write: “My own experience ... is that You Tube barricades itself behind form letters.”
I can now offer a quote from a book on this matter. “Denise Griffin ... was the person charged with handling complaints [ at Google ].” Of these complaints, Griffin says, “‘We had a few different canned responses that we would send people, trying to explain, and when they would write back cursing, then we would try again with a slightly different version and then a slightly different version.’”
- In the Plex: how Google thinks, works, and shapes our lives, by Steven Levy, page 173. ( Amazon Kindle. ) Google owns You Tube.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have 99 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 36
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 36, version 4.0
Date Written: May 27, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Milana’s Family Channel BANNED
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ET 35
Editorial Thunder presents...
Milana’s Family Channel BANNED
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by Andrew Roller
Why Steve Jobs was right about Google.
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“Welcome to my new and last Channel on Youtube, I’m really tired of creating a new Channel again and again because Youtube deletes my Channel and claims that I would violate the Community Guidelines with normal Family Videos ..!” So wrote 14-year-old Milana of Minsk, Belarus on April 4, 2020. ( Source: the “ABOUT” page of her You Tube channel, “Milana from Minsk”. )
On May 26, 2020, You Tube struck again. You Tube terminated the channel “Milana’s Family Channel”. Perhaps you’re a subscriber to the channel “Milana’s Family Channel” on You Tube. There, at the page called “Subscriptions”, you might tap on the icon for “Milana’s Family Channel”. If you do this, one of two things will happen:
1. You get the listing of videos for “All channels” that you’re subscribed to.
2. You get a blank page.
So much for transparency by You Tube, regarding its actions.
You might have a Playlist that includes a video from “Milana’s Family Channel”. I do. Where Milana’s video should be, there is a grey rectangle. It reads, “[Deleted video]”. If you tap on the rectangle, an informational box appears. It reads, “This video is no longer available because the YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated.”
Milana comments on her channel’s termination at the You Tube channel “Milana Chasingsun”. Her comment is pinned to the video, “Stefania and the Hamster”. It reads, “Note: unfortunately YouTube hit again Today and blocked our Family Channel with the claim that we had violated the Community Guidelines and that with NORMAL Family Videos ..!!”
You Tube is owned by Google. I am reading a book about Google. The book is, In the Plex: how Google thinks, works, and shapes our lives, by Steven Levy. ( Amazon Kindle ) Quotes from the book follow:
1. Google’s most basic values
“Censorship [ is ] something that runs counter to Google’s most basic values and commitments as a company.” - Elliot Schrage, Google’s vice president of communications and policy. Schrage said this in sworn testimony before the United States Congress. He said it in regard to Google’s censorship of dissident views in China. - Ibid. page 286.
2. Leach on Google
“[ Google is ] the company that should symbolize the greatest freedom of information in the history of man.” - ( now former ) Iowa Congressman Jim Leach in a congressional hearing on Google’s censorship of dissident views in China. - Ibid. page 286.
3. Google on censorship
“Writing about Google’s views, author Steven Levy speaks of “the evil of censorship”, and “Google’s determination to eventually decrease censorship [ of its web site in China ]”. Levy writes: “Google had some ideas on mitigating the abhorrent practice of censorship.” Levy tells of a search result strategy that Google deployed. Of this strategy, Google supposed that “maybe rubbing the censorship in the faces of the Chinese users would make them so mad that they would no longer tolerate it.” Ibid. pages 279, 280, and 284.
4. Larry Page on users
“They teach you in human computer interaction, which is my branch, that the user is never wrong.” - Larry Page. Ibid. page 23. Larry Page is the co-founder of Google.
5. Sergey Brin on freedom
“His personal saga left him [ Brin ] with a visceral appreciation of... personal freedom... - and the burden suffered by those whose freedom was constrained.” - Ibid. page 274. Sergey Brin is the co-founder of Google.
6. Sergey Brin on beliefs
“I feel like I shouldn’t impose my beliefs on the world,” he [ Brin ] said. “It’s a bad technology practice.” - Ibid. page 275.
7. Craig Walker on Google
“We’re not going to screw you. We want to have a bunch of happy users. We want you to enjoy being on the Google properties and loving Google for it.” - Craig Walker of Google. Walker founded GrandCentral, which became Google Voice. Ibid. page 236.
8. Google on you
“We want to make you happy.” - Linus Upson, Google engineer. Ibid. page 211.
9. On users
“The user is always right.” - Donald Norman, in his book The Psychology of Everyday Things. “On [ the ] desk [ of Larry ] Page and permeating his conversations was ... Donald Norman’s classic tome The Psychology of Everyday Things.” - Ibid. page 12.
10. Author Steven Levy on Page, Brin
“Larry and Sergey’s mission to gather and organize *all* the world’s information - and the messianic buzz that came from making it happen - bound all Googlers together.” - Ibid. page 130. ( Emphasis added. )
11. The world’s knowledge
“Page and Brin [ wanted ]... Google... [ to ] instantly provide you with the world’s knowledge.” - Ibid. 232.
12. Vic Gundotra on Google
“It [ is ]... about... making the world’s information accessible and available.” - The head of Google’s mobile division Vic Gundotra. Ibid. 219.
13. Google on Google
“Making all the world’s information accessible was a fairly disruptive goal, with particularly low appeal to authoritarian regimes.” - Ibid. page 273.
14. Google and censorship
“[ Qiang ] Xiao told them [ Google ] that Google’s presence could help fight censorship.” Google’s Andrew McLaughlin to Google: “Don’t go into countries that are going to force you to censor.” - Ibid. pages 277, 279.
15. Google on cognitive heuristics
“‘Eric and Larry want *anybody* to be able to tell someone, “You’re wrong”, and give ten reasons why.’ Titles [ get ] in the way of that.” - Ibid. 259. ( Emphasis in original. ) Eric Schmidt was Google’s Chief Executive Officer from 2001 to 2011.
16. Mayer on Brin, Page
“Their attitude is just like, ‘We’re Montessori kids,’” said Mayer. “We’ve been trained and programmed to question authority.” Thus it wasn’t surprising to see that attitude as the foundation of Google’s culture.” - Ibid. page 122. Marissa Mayer once worked for Google.
17. Google’s key criterion
“To Brin and Page... all [ was ] secondary to what they saw as Google’s key criterion: benefit to the end user. Time and again... they would say that their yardstick was not revenues, advertisers, or even their own employees. ‘We started this company to bring this technology to the user,’ Brin said.” - Ibid. page 241.
18. Author Steven Levy on Google
“Google would be a shining beacon for the way corporations should operate: ...[ its ] workforce... lavish[ing] all its wit and wizardry on empowering users.” - Ibid. page 145.
19. Larry Page on pleasing users
How does Larry Page feel users should be treated? Here’s a clue: “With his obsession on pleasing users, Page was interested in people’s impressions about Google search.” - Ibid. page 76.
20. Google philanthropy
“Google... set aside 1 percent of its equity to philanthropy. ...About $918 million... spread over twenty years, would be devoted to its social goals. These would... include beneficiaries such as investments in ‘socially progressive corporations’ and money spent ‘influencing public policy’.” - Ibid. page 257.
21. Steve Jobs on Google
“[ Steve ] Jobs felt compelled to reveal his impression that Google itself was a fraud - that beneath the warm and fuzzy exterior was a company that could not be trusted. What’s more, he felt personally abused by what he considered its misbehavior.” - Ibid. page 237.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have 99 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 35
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 35, version 4.0
Date Written: May 26, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 35
Editorial Thunder presents...
Milana’s Family Channel BANNED
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by Andrew Roller
Why Steve Jobs was right about Google.
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“Welcome to my new and last Channel on Youtube, I’m really tired of creating a new Channel again and again because Youtube deletes my Channel and claims that I would violate the Community Guidelines with normal Family Videos ..!” So wrote 14-year-old Milana of Minsk, Belarus on April 4, 2020. ( Source: the “ABOUT” page of her You Tube channel, “Milana from Minsk”. )
On May 26, 2020, You Tube struck again. You Tube terminated the channel “Milana’s Family Channel”. Perhaps you’re a subscriber to the channel “Milana’s Family Channel” on You Tube. There, at the page called “Subscriptions”, you might tap on the icon for “Milana’s Family Channel”. If you do this, one of two things will happen:
1. You get the listing of videos for “All channels” that you’re subscribed to.
2. You get a blank page.
So much for transparency by You Tube, regarding its actions.
You might have a Playlist that includes a video from “Milana’s Family Channel”. I do. Where Milana’s video should be, there is a grey rectangle. It reads, “[Deleted video]”. If you tap on the rectangle, an informational box appears. It reads, “This video is no longer available because the YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated.”
Milana comments on her channel’s termination at the You Tube channel “Milana Chasingsun”. Her comment is pinned to the video, “Stefania and the Hamster”. It reads, “Note: unfortunately YouTube hit again Today and blocked our Family Channel with the claim that we had violated the Community Guidelines and that with NORMAL Family Videos ..!!”
You Tube is owned by Google. I am reading a book about Google. The book is, In the Plex: how Google thinks, works, and shapes our lives, by Steven Levy. ( Amazon Kindle ) Quotes from the book follow:
1. Google’s most basic values
“Censorship [ is ] something that runs counter to Google’s most basic values and commitments as a company.” - Elliot Schrage, Google’s vice president of communications and policy. Schrage said this in sworn testimony before the United States Congress. He said it in regard to Google’s censorship of dissident views in China. - Ibid. page 286.
2. Leach on Google
“[ Google is ] the company that should symbolize the greatest freedom of information in the history of man.” - ( now former ) Iowa Congressman Jim Leach in a congressional hearing on Google’s censorship of dissident views in China. - Ibid. page 286.
3. Google on censorship
“Writing about Google’s views, author Steven Levy speaks of “the evil of censorship”, and “Google’s determination to eventually decrease censorship [ of its web site in China ]”. Levy writes: “Google had some ideas on mitigating the abhorrent practice of censorship.” Levy tells of a search result strategy that Google deployed. Of this strategy, Google supposed that “maybe rubbing the censorship in the faces of the Chinese users would make them so mad that they would no longer tolerate it.” Ibid. pages 279, 280, and 284.
4. Larry Page on users
“They teach you in human computer interaction, which is my branch, that the user is never wrong.” - Larry Page. Ibid. page 23. Larry Page is the co-founder of Google.
5. Sergey Brin on freedom
“His personal saga left him [ Brin ] with a visceral appreciation of... personal freedom... - and the burden suffered by those whose freedom was constrained.” - Ibid. page 274. Sergey Brin is the co-founder of Google.
6. Sergey Brin on beliefs
“I feel like I shouldn’t impose my beliefs on the world,” he [ Brin ] said. “It’s a bad technology practice.” - Ibid. page 275.
7. Craig Walker on Google
“We’re not going to screw you. We want to have a bunch of happy users. We want you to enjoy being on the Google properties and loving Google for it.” - Craig Walker of Google. Walker founded GrandCentral, which became Google Voice. Ibid. page 236.
8. Google on you
“We want to make you happy.” - Linus Upson, Google engineer. Ibid. page 211.
9. On users
“The user is always right.” - Donald Norman, in his book The Psychology of Everyday Things. “On [ the ] desk [ of Larry ] Page and permeating his conversations was ... Donald Norman’s classic tome The Psychology of Everyday Things.” - Ibid. page 12.
10. Author Steven Levy on Page, Brin
“Larry and Sergey’s mission to gather and organize *all* the world’s information - and the messianic buzz that came from making it happen - bound all Googlers together.” - Ibid. page 130. ( Emphasis added. )
11. The world’s knowledge
“Page and Brin [ wanted ]... Google... [ to ] instantly provide you with the world’s knowledge.” - Ibid. 232.
12. Vic Gundotra on Google
“It [ is ]... about... making the world’s information accessible and available.” - The head of Google’s mobile division Vic Gundotra. Ibid. 219.
13. Google on Google
“Making all the world’s information accessible was a fairly disruptive goal, with particularly low appeal to authoritarian regimes.” - Ibid. page 273.
14. Google and censorship
“[ Qiang ] Xiao told them [ Google ] that Google’s presence could help fight censorship.” Google’s Andrew McLaughlin to Google: “Don’t go into countries that are going to force you to censor.” - Ibid. pages 277, 279.
15. Google on cognitive heuristics
“‘Eric and Larry want *anybody* to be able to tell someone, “You’re wrong”, and give ten reasons why.’ Titles [ get ] in the way of that.” - Ibid. 259. ( Emphasis in original. ) Eric Schmidt was Google’s Chief Executive Officer from 2001 to 2011.
16. Mayer on Brin, Page
“Their attitude is just like, ‘We’re Montessori kids,’” said Mayer. “We’ve been trained and programmed to question authority.” Thus it wasn’t surprising to see that attitude as the foundation of Google’s culture.” - Ibid. page 122. Marissa Mayer once worked for Google.
17. Google’s key criterion
“To Brin and Page... all [ was ] secondary to what they saw as Google’s key criterion: benefit to the end user. Time and again... they would say that their yardstick was not revenues, advertisers, or even their own employees. ‘We started this company to bring this technology to the user,’ Brin said.” - Ibid. page 241.
18. Author Steven Levy on Google
“Google would be a shining beacon for the way corporations should operate: ...[ its ] workforce... lavish[ing] all its wit and wizardry on empowering users.” - Ibid. page 145.
19. Larry Page on pleasing users
How does Larry Page feel users should be treated? Here’s a clue: “With his obsession on pleasing users, Page was interested in people’s impressions about Google search.” - Ibid. page 76.
20. Google philanthropy
“Google... set aside 1 percent of its equity to philanthropy. ...About $918 million... spread over twenty years, would be devoted to its social goals. These would... include beneficiaries such as investments in ‘socially progressive corporations’ and money spent ‘influencing public policy’.” - Ibid. page 257.
21. Steve Jobs on Google
“[ Steve ] Jobs felt compelled to reveal his impression that Google itself was a fraud - that beneath the warm and fuzzy exterior was a company that could not be trusted. What’s more, he felt personally abused by what he considered its misbehavior.” - Ibid. page 237.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have 99 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 35
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 35, version 4.0
Date Written: May 26, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Who is Milana?
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ET 34
Editorial Thunder presents...
Who is Milana?
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by Andrew Roller
Finding the real Milana of Minsk, Belarus.
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Fourteen-year-old Milana of Minsk, Belarus, is quite popular! She’s so popular that people pose as her on the internet. Folks make screen recordings of her videos. They then upload the videos as their own work. One website charges money to show you videos that, allegedly, are stolen ( via screen recording ) from Milana.
Here’s my understanding of which are the real, and the fake, Milana channels and websites:
( Every period that follows a channel or website name is my own punctuation. )
On You Tube:
Milana’s Family Channel. This is owned by Milana’s family. “Milana Chasingsun” is at the home page.
Milana from Minsk. This is owned by Milana herself. “Milana Chasingsun” is at the home page.
Milana Chasingsun. This is owned by Milana’s brother. “Milana Chasingsun” is at the home page.
MinaH - MiHCK - benapycb ( Milana - Minsk - untranslatable by me; written in Cyrillic. ) This is owned by Milana’s father.
Milana Phoenix. This is owned by a fanboy. Here, every video depicting Milana is, allegedly, stolen from the real Milana ( via screen recording ). All hearts, thumbs ups, and comments by Milana Phoenix are from the fanboy.
On Instagram:
Milana Phoenix. I am told by “Andrew Badart” that this is owned by the real Milana. ( I do not have access to Instagram, having been banned from Facebook. Facebook owns Instagram. )
On boosty.to:
boosty.to/milana. This is owned by the real Milana.
boosty.to/milanafan. This is owned by a fanboy. It is possible that Milana Phoenix, on You Tube, owns this website. This website charges money to view videos of Milana that have, allegedly, been stolen from the real Milana ( via screen recording ).
On the internet:
milanafamily.com. This is owned by Milana’s family.
Milana is beautiful, and a talented filmmaker. My favorite video by her is on You Tube, at the channel “Milana from Minsk”. ( You may find it on her other channels too. ) The video is: “a small lifes..”
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have 99 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 34
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 34, version 2.0
Date Written: May 18, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 34
Editorial Thunder presents...
Who is Milana?
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by Andrew Roller
Finding the real Milana of Minsk, Belarus.
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Fourteen-year-old Milana of Minsk, Belarus, is quite popular! She’s so popular that people pose as her on the internet. Folks make screen recordings of her videos. They then upload the videos as their own work. One website charges money to show you videos that, allegedly, are stolen ( via screen recording ) from Milana.
Here’s my understanding of which are the real, and the fake, Milana channels and websites:
( Every period that follows a channel or website name is my own punctuation. )
On You Tube:
Milana’s Family Channel. This is owned by Milana’s family. “Milana Chasingsun” is at the home page.
Milana from Minsk. This is owned by Milana herself. “Milana Chasingsun” is at the home page.
Milana Chasingsun. This is owned by Milana’s brother. “Milana Chasingsun” is at the home page.
MinaH - MiHCK - benapycb ( Milana - Minsk - untranslatable by me; written in Cyrillic. ) This is owned by Milana’s father.
Milana Phoenix. This is owned by a fanboy. Here, every video depicting Milana is, allegedly, stolen from the real Milana ( via screen recording ). All hearts, thumbs ups, and comments by Milana Phoenix are from the fanboy.
On Instagram:
Milana Phoenix. I am told by “Andrew Badart” that this is owned by the real Milana. ( I do not have access to Instagram, having been banned from Facebook. Facebook owns Instagram. )
On boosty.to:
boosty.to/milana. This is owned by the real Milana.
boosty.to/milanafan. This is owned by a fanboy. It is possible that Milana Phoenix, on You Tube, owns this website. This website charges money to view videos of Milana that have, allegedly, been stolen from the real Milana ( via screen recording ).
On the internet:
milanafamily.com. This is owned by Milana’s family.
Milana is beautiful, and a talented filmmaker. My favorite video by her is on You Tube, at the channel “Milana from Minsk”. ( You may find it on her other channels too. ) The video is: “a small lifes..”
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have 99 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 34
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 34, version 2.0
Date Written: May 18, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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You Tube Trouble
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ET 33
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You Tube Trouble
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by Andrew Roller
If You Tube is again blocking my comments, they’ve failed.
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Probably, you’ve heard of You Tube. Ten percent of all internet traffic goes there. And no wonder: You Tube is owned by Google. Probably, when you do a search on the internet, you use Google. I find that Google often recommends viewing a video on You Tube as the answer to my search.
But what is You Tube really like? Below, I detail the real You Tube. I wrote this to Milana Chasingsun of Belarus.
Dear Milana,
Please do what you can to ensure that I can post comments to your channels on You Tube.
I am having trouble posting comments to your channels on You Tube. I tried posting to:
Milana’s Family Channel
Milana From Minsk
Milana Chasingsun
In the past, I have been bullied by an unknown person who works at You Tube. This person:
1. Terminated my channel for “spamming”. ( I was not spamming. When I appealed, my account was restored. )
The bully then:
2. Terminated my channel for “suspicious activity”. ( I was not engaged in suspicious activity. When I appealed, my account was restored. )
Note: my channel was never given any “strikes”. It was simply terminated outright. The termination of my channel also terminated my You Tube account. Furthermore, the first time my channel was terminated, both my You Tube and Google accounts were terminated.
The bully then:
3. Deleted one of my Playlists. ( I appealed. I never got any answer from You Tube Appeals. )
The bully then:
4. Caused problems with my password. As I dealt with these problems, You Tube’s system demanded my Apple password! Eventually, my password problems disappeared.
Earlier, I was blocked by You Tube from posting to the channel “Danatar”. You Tube never told me that they had blocked me, they simply did it. Some days later, the block disappeared. I am able to communicate with “Danatar” outside of You Tube, so I know she didn’t block me.
If you don’t want me to leave comments on your You Tube channels, that’s fine. However, my hunch is that you don’t mind me leaving comments.
I realize that you hold comments in order to read them before they are posted. However, in the past, I was always able to read any comment I posted to your channels, as soon as I posted it. Later, after you approved my comment, it became available for the public to read.
That no longer happens. I post my comment to one of your channels. I quit You Tube. I reboot You Tube. My comment is gone!
I did manage to “Reply” to one of your replies to a comment. I call this “the Reply trick”. If I’m blocked by You Tube from posting new comments, it may be possible for me to stick a comment in as a “Reply” to someone else’s comment.
In the future, I may be limited to “the Reply trick”. If you wish to read my new thoughts, you may have to check the replies. I may have stuck my new thoughts in as a “Reply” to someone else’s comment.
Keep being your wonderful self!
That concludes what I wrote to Milana. You might wonder how I contacted her. I did so at the website milanafamily.com
Milana is also available at boosty.to/milana
If you wish to sign up at boosty.to/milana, you’ll need to do so through a social media platform. You’ll be given a choice of platforms, including Google and You Tube.
In the past, I’ve had extraordinary problems with my Google password. These problems were separate from those caused by a bully who works at You Tube.
Never take Google’s “security checkup”. It won’t check that your current Google password is valid. The “checkup” will invalidate your Google password, and force you to create a new one. Attempting to do this, I was told by Google that I wasn’t me.
My suggestion: at boosty.to/milana, choose to sign up via the social media platform vk.com
You won’t see the words, “vk.com”. You’ll be presented with a palette of social media platform icons. Pick the icon in the upper left hand corner of this palette. It is vk.com.
The vk.com icon is blue. It has “vk” written in it. However, the letters are stylized. This made them unintelligible to me. This was so since I had never heard of vk.com.
vk.com will want your phone number. Vk.com recognized me as being from the United States of America, and added the “1” country code for the United States of America in advance. Hence, I only had to type in my nine digit phone number, starting with my area code.
vk.com then called me. I received the call, but vk.com did not recognize that.
I had vk.com send me a text message. That worked.
Note: logging in to vk.com later, I had to input my “1” country code, for the United States of America. Vk.com did not add this code in advance, on this occasion. Hence, if you’re an American, you’ll need to enter:
1 ... area code ... your seven digit phone number.
Do not enter the little dots. I put those in to help you understand. Do not put in any spaces, parentheses, or dashes.
vk.com has my e-mail address. However, when I tried to log in with my e-mail address, vk.com refused to recognize it as valid.
Having signed up at vk.com, you’ll need to sign up at boosty.to. I don’t recall how I transitioned from vk.com to boosty.to, but I did.
boosty.to sent me an e-mail. The e-mail was in Russian. However, a bright button was present in the e-mail. I pressed the button. That made my sign up at boosty.to successful.
By now, you may have forgotten what this is all about. I was signing up at boosty.to/milana. My sign up there was at last complete.
With regard to “milanafamily.com”, I created an account there. However, I am now unable to log in there. Fortunately, any visitor to milanafamily.com can send them a message. At milanafamily.com, tap the “Contact Us” button in the lower right corner of your screen.
Sending a message via “Contact Us” is a fiddly experience. Hitting your keyboard’s “return” key will send a message. Hence, I wound up sending unfinished messages, when I tried to start a new paragraph as I typed.
My advice is to type your message in a writing program. Then paste it into “Contact Us” at milanafamily.com
If you can’t post comments to a channel on You Tube, try other platforms. This is more difficult if you’ve been banned from a platform like Facebook, as I have been. ( For no stated reason by Facebook. ) The problem is that Facebook owns Instagram. Being banned from Facebook causes one to be banned from Instagram too. ( I’ve never been on Instagram. )
America’s social media platforms act as if they are the world. They aren’t. Other social media platforms exist beyond the twisted, censorious worlds of Google, You Tube, and Mark Yuckerberg’s platforms. Explore them to the extent that you’re able to.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have 99 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 33
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 33, version 10.0
Date Written: May 18, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 33
Editorial Thunder presents...
You Tube Trouble
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by Andrew Roller
If You Tube is again blocking my comments, they’ve failed.
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Probably, you’ve heard of You Tube. Ten percent of all internet traffic goes there. And no wonder: You Tube is owned by Google. Probably, when you do a search on the internet, you use Google. I find that Google often recommends viewing a video on You Tube as the answer to my search.
But what is You Tube really like? Below, I detail the real You Tube. I wrote this to Milana Chasingsun of Belarus.
Dear Milana,
Please do what you can to ensure that I can post comments to your channels on You Tube.
I am having trouble posting comments to your channels on You Tube. I tried posting to:
Milana’s Family Channel
Milana From Minsk
Milana Chasingsun
In the past, I have been bullied by an unknown person who works at You Tube. This person:
1. Terminated my channel for “spamming”. ( I was not spamming. When I appealed, my account was restored. )
The bully then:
2. Terminated my channel for “suspicious activity”. ( I was not engaged in suspicious activity. When I appealed, my account was restored. )
Note: my channel was never given any “strikes”. It was simply terminated outright. The termination of my channel also terminated my You Tube account. Furthermore, the first time my channel was terminated, both my You Tube and Google accounts were terminated.
The bully then:
3. Deleted one of my Playlists. ( I appealed. I never got any answer from You Tube Appeals. )
The bully then:
4. Caused problems with my password. As I dealt with these problems, You Tube’s system demanded my Apple password! Eventually, my password problems disappeared.
Earlier, I was blocked by You Tube from posting to the channel “Danatar”. You Tube never told me that they had blocked me, they simply did it. Some days later, the block disappeared. I am able to communicate with “Danatar” outside of You Tube, so I know she didn’t block me.
If you don’t want me to leave comments on your You Tube channels, that’s fine. However, my hunch is that you don’t mind me leaving comments.
I realize that you hold comments in order to read them before they are posted. However, in the past, I was always able to read any comment I posted to your channels, as soon as I posted it. Later, after you approved my comment, it became available for the public to read.
That no longer happens. I post my comment to one of your channels. I quit You Tube. I reboot You Tube. My comment is gone!
I did manage to “Reply” to one of your replies to a comment. I call this “the Reply trick”. If I’m blocked by You Tube from posting new comments, it may be possible for me to stick a comment in as a “Reply” to someone else’s comment.
In the future, I may be limited to “the Reply trick”. If you wish to read my new thoughts, you may have to check the replies. I may have stuck my new thoughts in as a “Reply” to someone else’s comment.
Keep being your wonderful self!
That concludes what I wrote to Milana. You might wonder how I contacted her. I did so at the website milanafamily.com
Milana is also available at boosty.to/milana
If you wish to sign up at boosty.to/milana, you’ll need to do so through a social media platform. You’ll be given a choice of platforms, including Google and You Tube.
In the past, I’ve had extraordinary problems with my Google password. These problems were separate from those caused by a bully who works at You Tube.
Never take Google’s “security checkup”. It won’t check that your current Google password is valid. The “checkup” will invalidate your Google password, and force you to create a new one. Attempting to do this, I was told by Google that I wasn’t me.
My suggestion: at boosty.to/milana, choose to sign up via the social media platform vk.com
You won’t see the words, “vk.com”. You’ll be presented with a palette of social media platform icons. Pick the icon in the upper left hand corner of this palette. It is vk.com.
The vk.com icon is blue. It has “vk” written in it. However, the letters are stylized. This made them unintelligible to me. This was so since I had never heard of vk.com.
vk.com will want your phone number. Vk.com recognized me as being from the United States of America, and added the “1” country code for the United States of America in advance. Hence, I only had to type in my nine digit phone number, starting with my area code.
vk.com then called me. I received the call, but vk.com did not recognize that.
I had vk.com send me a text message. That worked.
Note: logging in to vk.com later, I had to input my “1” country code, for the United States of America. Vk.com did not add this code in advance, on this occasion. Hence, if you’re an American, you’ll need to enter:
1 ... area code ... your seven digit phone number.
Do not enter the little dots. I put those in to help you understand. Do not put in any spaces, parentheses, or dashes.
vk.com has my e-mail address. However, when I tried to log in with my e-mail address, vk.com refused to recognize it as valid.
Having signed up at vk.com, you’ll need to sign up at boosty.to. I don’t recall how I transitioned from vk.com to boosty.to, but I did.
boosty.to sent me an e-mail. The e-mail was in Russian. However, a bright button was present in the e-mail. I pressed the button. That made my sign up at boosty.to successful.
By now, you may have forgotten what this is all about. I was signing up at boosty.to/milana. My sign up there was at last complete.
With regard to “milanafamily.com”, I created an account there. However, I am now unable to log in there. Fortunately, any visitor to milanafamily.com can send them a message. At milanafamily.com, tap the “Contact Us” button in the lower right corner of your screen.
Sending a message via “Contact Us” is a fiddly experience. Hitting your keyboard’s “return” key will send a message. Hence, I wound up sending unfinished messages, when I tried to start a new paragraph as I typed.
My advice is to type your message in a writing program. Then paste it into “Contact Us” at milanafamily.com
If you can’t post comments to a channel on You Tube, try other platforms. This is more difficult if you’ve been banned from a platform like Facebook, as I have been. ( For no stated reason by Facebook. ) The problem is that Facebook owns Instagram. Being banned from Facebook causes one to be banned from Instagram too. ( I’ve never been on Instagram. )
America’s social media platforms act as if they are the world. They aren’t. Other social media platforms exist beyond the twisted, censorious worlds of Google, You Tube, and Mark Yuckerberg’s platforms. Explore them to the extent that you’re able to.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have 99 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 33
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 33, version 10.0
Date Written: May 18, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Litzy Mini Top Model BANNED
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ET 32
Editorial Thunder presents...
Litzy Mini Top Model BANNED
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by Andrew Roller
You Tube’s crimes against art continue.
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Perhaps you remember ISIS. Not the Egyptian goddess, but the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. ( A terrorist group. It briefly held land in Syria and Iraq. ) ISIS was famous for two things: killing people, and destroying ( invaluable ) art.
Thankfully, ISIS is gone now. But destroyers of art still exist. In fact, from my perspective, today’s terrorists of the art world take pride in “deleting” art, and “terminating” channels devoted to art.
I’m speaking of You Tube. Google owns You Tube. Google once sought to obtain, and save, all the world’s information. Based on how Google runs You Tube, those days are long gone.
“Litzy Mini Top Model” is the latest channel to be “terminated” by You Tube. ( You Tube’s term for killing a channel. ) I hadn’t visited “Litzy Mini Top Model” for some time. However, I had made a Playlist of some of their videos. My Playlist included videos by Dana Taranova ( Danatar ), and Mari Kruchkova.
I’ve only been on You Tube since September. However, in that time, I’ve seen You Tube delete many videos. I’ve watched as You Tube has terminated a number of channels. No video that You Tube deleted was illegal, or even objectionable. No channel that You Tube terminated was illegal, or even objectionable.
Who are the victims of You Tube’s deletions, and terminations?
1. Individual girls. The channel “Danatar2”, owned by 12-year-old Dana Taranova, was terminated by You Tube. So was the teenager owned channel “Kelly Kutie”. “My_ Home”, owned by a girl Dana’s age, was repeatedly bludgeoned into having no self-made videos.
2. Girl anthology channels. Such a channel works like this: a girl sends her video to an anthology channel. The channel’s owner then posts the girl’s video. Any number of girls send in their videos. Usually, such a girl also has a presence elsewhere on You Tube, or on the wider internet.
An anthology channel may also, at times, make its own videos.
“Litzy Mini Top Model” was an anthology channel. So were the channels “Teen Fashion Club”, “THE TTL MODELS”, and “MICRO BIKINI MODELS”. Other terminated anthology channels include “Fantastic Gymnastic” and “Supper Gymnastic Angles”. ( “Supper Gymnastic Angles” was spelled with two p’s. The creator of this channel apparently lived in Ukraine. English was not his ( or her ) native language. )
3. Girl tribute channels. Such a channel works like this: the owner obtains still photos of various girls, probably by watching their videos. ( One can take “screen shots” of videos. ) The owner then creates his own videos, using the still photos. The result is a video that resembles a slide show. Such a practice is common on You Tube. My understanding is that it is regarded as acceptable. That is, if you made a slide show video of transvestites, that in itself would not get your video deleted by You Tube. It would not get your channel terminated. ( More on transvestites below. )
The channel “kids area” was a “slide show” channel. So was the channel “Hrnydad13 Please”.
A person might post videos of girls that he fetched from various sources. In this case, I’m speaking of “videos” that have movement, as in a T.V. show. Such a channel was “Youth & Art”. Another was “Poringa error”.
( I’m speculating as to exactly how each channel worked. )
By law, You Tube is supposed to be a neutral platform. In fact, it is a political actor, with a social agenda. In 2016, Donald Trump won America’s election for President of the United States. A video has since surfaced of a meeting at Google. It featured Google’s top bosses, standing on a stage before Google’s employees. Google’s bosses were grief-stricken that Hillary Clinton had lost to Donald Trump. Two implications could be drawn from this video:
1. Google, as a company, had worked to promote Hillary’s campaign, at the expense of Trump’s.
2. Google, as a company, would continue to push Democratic party candidates, and causes, while proscribing Republican ones. ( Such a proscription might include libertarian or alt-left causes, like the campaign of Bernie Sanders. )
Some Republican office holders have reported being “shadow banned”. Conservative personalities have voiced the same complaint. Shadow banning is a method of reducing public access to a person. The shadow banning was done by Google and other Big Tech companies.
All shows by Alex Jones, of “Info Wars”, have been obliterated by Google and other Big Tech internet platforms. Alex Jones is a news personality. ( Source: various episodes of Tucker Carlson Tonight, on the Fox News Channel. )
Recently, You Tube has been deleting a number of videos about the COVID-19 virus. In these videos, people advocated for reductions in COVID-19 “shelter in place” restrictions. At least one video that You Tube deleted was by a pair of credible doctors, offering a scientific perspective. ( Source: three episodes of Tucker Carlson Tonight, on the Fox News Channel. )
One night, at a gym, I had a conversation with the desk clerk. I mentioned to the clerk that a certain customer looked awful. I wondered if the customer was ill. ( This was before COVID-19. ) The clerk assured me that the customer wasn’t ill. “He’s not wearing his eye makeup,” the clerk told me. We both agreed that the customer looked much more attractive when he wore his eye makeup. I say this by way of a preface. I don’t dislike gays, lesbians, bisexuals, or transvestites.
Here’s what I hate. I hate it when You Tube abuses girl creators. I hate it when You Tube then shoves down my throat its social agenda. Currently, You Tube’s social agenda is glorifying one “James Charles”. Described as a “makeup mogul”, James Charles is showing up constantly on You Tube. Here’s how: on You Tube, when I click on a video, advertisements for three other videos appear. They appear on the right side of my iPad’s screen. Inevitably, the top ad is for James Charles. Mr ( ? ) Charles is the host of a series on You Tube. It’s called, “Instant Influencer”.
“Instant Influenza” is described as a “You Tube Originals” series. Obviously, videos by James Charles won’t be deleted by You Tube. His channel won’t be terminated. In addition to all the ads I see for Mr. Charles, You Tube sent me an e-mail extolling him.
As far as I’m concerned, James Charles is either gay, or a transvestite. Probably, he’s both, and bisexual too. He may even be a lesbian. Perhaps he’s a woman who became a man, and then became a woman again. ( Or vice versa. )
That’s You Tube’s world. That’s the world they’re shoving down my throat, and yours. It’s a world where girls are bullied and terminated, but androgynous sexuality is exalted. In other words, as a man, I’m perverted if I watch videos of beautiful young girls. But if I castrate myself, wear womens’ clothing, and partake of the little girls’ bathroom, I’m normal. However, being “normal”, I shouldn’t define myself as “a man”. My sexual identity should be hermaphroditic. Because that’s what’s truly normal, meet, right, and salutary. Increasingly, at Google’s You Tube, that’s the law.
Don’t like it? You’re terminated.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have 99 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 32
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 32, version 8.0
Date Written: May 9, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 32
Editorial Thunder presents...
Litzy Mini Top Model BANNED
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by Andrew Roller
You Tube’s crimes against art continue.
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Perhaps you remember ISIS. Not the Egyptian goddess, but the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. ( A terrorist group. It briefly held land in Syria and Iraq. ) ISIS was famous for two things: killing people, and destroying ( invaluable ) art.
Thankfully, ISIS is gone now. But destroyers of art still exist. In fact, from my perspective, today’s terrorists of the art world take pride in “deleting” art, and “terminating” channels devoted to art.
I’m speaking of You Tube. Google owns You Tube. Google once sought to obtain, and save, all the world’s information. Based on how Google runs You Tube, those days are long gone.
“Litzy Mini Top Model” is the latest channel to be “terminated” by You Tube. ( You Tube’s term for killing a channel. ) I hadn’t visited “Litzy Mini Top Model” for some time. However, I had made a Playlist of some of their videos. My Playlist included videos by Dana Taranova ( Danatar ), and Mari Kruchkova.
I’ve only been on You Tube since September. However, in that time, I’ve seen You Tube delete many videos. I’ve watched as You Tube has terminated a number of channels. No video that You Tube deleted was illegal, or even objectionable. No channel that You Tube terminated was illegal, or even objectionable.
Who are the victims of You Tube’s deletions, and terminations?
1. Individual girls. The channel “Danatar2”, owned by 12-year-old Dana Taranova, was terminated by You Tube. So was the teenager owned channel “Kelly Kutie”. “My_ Home”, owned by a girl Dana’s age, was repeatedly bludgeoned into having no self-made videos.
2. Girl anthology channels. Such a channel works like this: a girl sends her video to an anthology channel. The channel’s owner then posts the girl’s video. Any number of girls send in their videos. Usually, such a girl also has a presence elsewhere on You Tube, or on the wider internet.
An anthology channel may also, at times, make its own videos.
“Litzy Mini Top Model” was an anthology channel. So were the channels “Teen Fashion Club”, “THE TTL MODELS”, and “MICRO BIKINI MODELS”. Other terminated anthology channels include “Fantastic Gymnastic” and “Supper Gymnastic Angles”. ( “Supper Gymnastic Angles” was spelled with two p’s. The creator of this channel apparently lived in Ukraine. English was not his ( or her ) native language. )
3. Girl tribute channels. Such a channel works like this: the owner obtains still photos of various girls, probably by watching their videos. ( One can take “screen shots” of videos. ) The owner then creates his own videos, using the still photos. The result is a video that resembles a slide show. Such a practice is common on You Tube. My understanding is that it is regarded as acceptable. That is, if you made a slide show video of transvestites, that in itself would not get your video deleted by You Tube. It would not get your channel terminated. ( More on transvestites below. )
The channel “kids area” was a “slide show” channel. So was the channel “Hrnydad13 Please”.
A person might post videos of girls that he fetched from various sources. In this case, I’m speaking of “videos” that have movement, as in a T.V. show. Such a channel was “Youth & Art”. Another was “Poringa error”.
( I’m speculating as to exactly how each channel worked. )
By law, You Tube is supposed to be a neutral platform. In fact, it is a political actor, with a social agenda. In 2016, Donald Trump won America’s election for President of the United States. A video has since surfaced of a meeting at Google. It featured Google’s top bosses, standing on a stage before Google’s employees. Google’s bosses were grief-stricken that Hillary Clinton had lost to Donald Trump. Two implications could be drawn from this video:
1. Google, as a company, had worked to promote Hillary’s campaign, at the expense of Trump’s.
2. Google, as a company, would continue to push Democratic party candidates, and causes, while proscribing Republican ones. ( Such a proscription might include libertarian or alt-left causes, like the campaign of Bernie Sanders. )
Some Republican office holders have reported being “shadow banned”. Conservative personalities have voiced the same complaint. Shadow banning is a method of reducing public access to a person. The shadow banning was done by Google and other Big Tech companies.
All shows by Alex Jones, of “Info Wars”, have been obliterated by Google and other Big Tech internet platforms. Alex Jones is a news personality. ( Source: various episodes of Tucker Carlson Tonight, on the Fox News Channel. )
Recently, You Tube has been deleting a number of videos about the COVID-19 virus. In these videos, people advocated for reductions in COVID-19 “shelter in place” restrictions. At least one video that You Tube deleted was by a pair of credible doctors, offering a scientific perspective. ( Source: three episodes of Tucker Carlson Tonight, on the Fox News Channel. )
One night, at a gym, I had a conversation with the desk clerk. I mentioned to the clerk that a certain customer looked awful. I wondered if the customer was ill. ( This was before COVID-19. ) The clerk assured me that the customer wasn’t ill. “He’s not wearing his eye makeup,” the clerk told me. We both agreed that the customer looked much more attractive when he wore his eye makeup. I say this by way of a preface. I don’t dislike gays, lesbians, bisexuals, or transvestites.
Here’s what I hate. I hate it when You Tube abuses girl creators. I hate it when You Tube then shoves down my throat its social agenda. Currently, You Tube’s social agenda is glorifying one “James Charles”. Described as a “makeup mogul”, James Charles is showing up constantly on You Tube. Here’s how: on You Tube, when I click on a video, advertisements for three other videos appear. They appear on the right side of my iPad’s screen. Inevitably, the top ad is for James Charles. Mr ( ? ) Charles is the host of a series on You Tube. It’s called, “Instant Influencer”.
“Instant Influenza” is described as a “You Tube Originals” series. Obviously, videos by James Charles won’t be deleted by You Tube. His channel won’t be terminated. In addition to all the ads I see for Mr. Charles, You Tube sent me an e-mail extolling him.
As far as I’m concerned, James Charles is either gay, or a transvestite. Probably, he’s both, and bisexual too. He may even be a lesbian. Perhaps he’s a woman who became a man, and then became a woman again. ( Or vice versa. )
That’s You Tube’s world. That’s the world they’re shoving down my throat, and yours. It’s a world where girls are bullied and terminated, but androgynous sexuality is exalted. In other words, as a man, I’m perverted if I watch videos of beautiful young girls. But if I castrate myself, wear womens’ clothing, and partake of the little girls’ bathroom, I’m normal. However, being “normal”, I shouldn’t define myself as “a man”. My sexual identity should be hermaphroditic. Because that’s what’s truly normal, meet, right, and salutary. Increasingly, at Google’s You Tube, that’s the law.
Don’t like it? You’re terminated.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. ET, Editorial Thunder, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have 99 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 32
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 32, version 8.0
Date Written: May 9, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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A Fabulous Video!
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BS 5
the Basement Stud news service presents...
A Fabulous Video!
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“a small lifes..” by Milana Chasingsun.
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Perhaps you thought it was dead. Probably, if you ever knew it existed, you’d long since forgotten it.
I’m speaking of my BS news service. The mission of this august news provider isn’t to cover Donald Trump or the Democrats. The Basement Stud news service is about beautiful girls.
Ten percent of the internet’s traffic goes to You Tube. Now I know why. I’ve discovered Milana Chasingsun there. Fourteen-year-old Milana lives by the Pripyat River, in Minsk, Belarus.
Milana Chasingsun has two You Tube channels. They are:
Milana from Minsk
Milana’s Family Channel
There is also a fake Milana You Tube channel. It’s called “Milana Phoenix”. The owner of Milana Phoenix ( apparently ) makes nice slide show videos of Milana. ( A video that shows images of still photos. ) Sadly, Milana Phoenix does more than than. His sins are detailed below.
Watching ( the real ) Milana, a thought occurred to me. On You Tube, guys send her comments. However, I wondered if Milana had ever received a comment from a paragon of rectitude. Unsure of this, I tasked myself with writing a comment to her. It follows:
Dear Milana,
Thank you for your video, “a small lifes..”
I have seen thousands of videos on You Tube. “a small lifes..” is the best ever! I’ve watched it many times over the last day or so. ( Sadly, I did this at the channel “Milana Phoenix”. I’ll watch “a small lifes..” on your channel now! )
I’m stunned by how fabulous “a small lifes..” is. You’ve spliced together clips from your life in a superb way! I’d like to go through your video step-by-step.
1. The opening shot, of yourself as a baby. ( With your mother and brother. ) Starting with a clip of yourself as a baby is excellent. What amazes me is that this is a clip of yourself in a cable car. You’re high in the air!
2. The shot of you at about age five, waving to the camera. Anyone can film a child waving. The wonderful aspect of this clip is that you’re seen from below, waving down from a bed.
3. The shot of you all grown up. You are so beautiful! I love your long golden hair, and white blouse.
4. Your look of shock. Wow! I don’t know what you encountered, or where you found it, but this makes for a fabulous clip. Thank you for sharing this ‘disaster’ with your fans!
5. The shot of you falling backwards onto the bed. This clip is amazing! Your already wonderful video kicks into high gear with this clip!
6. I love seeing you play the piano. You look lovely. Artwork is in the background. Is it by you? I’m impressed by the art depicting gnarled trees. If I had the space, I’d love to hang that art in my room! ( I live in a hotel room in San Diego. The building, once known as a hotel, is now called “an apartment complex”. In my opinion, it’s still a hotel. It just lacks certain services now. )
7. You’re drawing at an easel. Your drawing looks quite professional!
8. You’re atop a tank. I love your blue, star-adorned headband. Being a guy, I love the tank too, and its big gun.
I’m choosy about watching videos on You Tube. There are tons of videos. All of them are fine. However, I only have so much time.
I will speak of when I watched “a small lifes..” for the first time. I was at the Milana Phoenix channel. How did I get there? You, and the various channels featuring you, were discussed in the Comments section of a Dana Taranova ( Danatar ) video.
I knew nothing about you. I wound up at the Milana Phoenix channel by chance. His copy of your video, which he calls “Milana’s short report”, was the first time I’d seen you.
At the clip of you on the tank, I was thinking, “This is a very good video.” I wasn’t yet committed to watching all of it, since I didn’t know how long it would run.
I was about to be amazed beyond all expectation.
9. After the fine clip of you on a bicycle, I’m watching you on a boat. This is a superb shot of you as a tourist. You look so pretty and precious!
10. Next, you’re in the Egyptian temple. This is a fabulous shot. The age of the temple is deeply moving. So is its lingering beauty.
What blew me away was when the organ music cut in. My father is a pastor. I’ve spent a lot of time in churches. Organ music has a special attraction for me. ( As in the 1968 rock song, “IN-A-GADDA-DA-VITA”. )
Suddenly, in the temple with the organ music, I wasn’t watching another fine You Tube video. I was watching something very, very special! I was also eager to know everything I could about the wonderful person in this video ( you ).
11. Next, I’m watching you in the lobby of an Egyptian hotel.
Wow! What a superb clip this is! You’re gorgeous! You look like an Egyptian princess. The setting is fabulous, and I love your white dress. Your dress is simple yet elegant. I notice, on repeated viewings, that you’re wearing your bikini under your dress. That’s an excellent segue to the next clips!
12. You’re in your bikini, walking on the pier.
I love how you’re walking in the same direction as in the previous clip. You’re stunning to behold in your bikini!
13. You pass the two men, and look back.
Thank you so much for putting this clip in your video. It’s nice that you allow yourself to be seen looking vulnerable.
14. You walk farther out on the pier.
( wow ) You’re superbly fine to watch.
15. Next, you’re dancing in front of the fountains.
Here, your already fabulous video becomes yet more awesome. As you dance, the accompanying music is a counter-point to the organ’s magisterial sound. I love this clip very much! You are again in your white princess dress. The spurting fountains behind you, in this exotic locale, seem to be paying tribute to you.
16. You brave the sea, in your bikini and clutched-close princess dress.
17. You splash into the sea as cymbals crash on the soundtrack. That’s a wonderful touch.
18. You’re going down the waterslide.
I love your expression! Also, you’re in your wonderful yellow bikini. Of all your swimwear, I love your yellow bikini the best! If you’re wondering, a girl looks her finest in a drawstring bikini that is yellow or white.
19. I love the closeup shot of you by the waterfall!
This clip is especially nice because the waterfall is varied in its appearance. I like seeing the water gush over the waterfall’s jagged edge.
20. You’re bicycling to the river in your yellow bikini!
Sitting by the waterfall, you were looking toward the right of my screen. ( Before looking at me. ) Now, you’re bicycling to the right of my screen. That’s an excellent segue!
21. You’re running to the right of my screen, to jump in the river.
Again, your direction of motion segues superbly with the prior clips.
I notice that you always hold your nose when you jump into water. If you hold your breath, just prior to hitting the water, you won’t need to hold your nose. I simply pass this along as information.
22. Your video ends as you sail away on a zip line.
This is a wonderful ending.
However, I have a suggestion to improve it.
A. Freeze the final image. ( Make the last image a still photo. )
B. Film the still photo for about 30 seconds ( or more ).
C. Attach this still photo to the end of “a small lifes..”
D. Upon this still photo, you can place other, smaller still photos. These smaller still photos would be from your other videos. In this way, at the end of “a small lifes..”, you can advertise your other videos.
If you wish, each of these advertisements can be a clickable link to one of your other videos. I don’t know how to write the code to do this. However, Dana Taranova of Kiev, Ukraine, has clickable photos at the end of her videos.
Dana is a bit younger than you. Her You Tube channels are:
Danatar
Danatar Backstage ( This appears as “Danatar...” in a list of subscribed You Tube channels. )
Dana Tar Gym
Dana Tar Life
I’ve mentioned you, and your channels, to Dana Taranova.
New Subject:
I agree that “Milana Phoenix” shouldn’t be stealing your videos and uploading them to his own channel.
He should just make a Playlist of your videos. In a Playlist, you would get the views, and the money, every time someone watched one of your videos in his Playlist.
Milana Phoenix has made a Playlist at his channel. Unfortunately, it is a Playlist where every video is credited to “Milana Phoenix”! Hence, “Milana Phoenix” gets the views, and the money, when someone watches the videos.
You can file a copyright claim with You Tube. You Tube will then remove your videos from the channel Milana Phoenix.
The You Tube notice will read something like this:
“[Deleted video]. This video has been removed due to a copyright claim by Milana Chasingsun.”
New Subject:
I understand why you need to put notifications about “Milana Phoenix” into your videos. However, I have a request. When you’re no longer troubled by “Milana Phoenix”, would you please re-upload your videos? Upload them without the notifications. I hate seeing your wonderful videos marred by these notifications.
[ Milana runs notices about “Milana Phoenix” as her videos play. This is an attempt by her to prevent “Milana Phoenix” from poaching her videos. However, the notices mar her videos. ]
New Subject:
I thought I’d mention how a ( real, legal ) Playlist works on You Tube.
In a ( real, legal ) Playlist, a fan puts your videos into his Playlist. However, your videos in his Playlist remain credited to you.
You get every view when someone watches your videos.
You get the money when someone watches your videos.
Your videos remain credited to “Milana from Minsk”, or “Milana’s Family Channel”.
New Subject:
Yesterday, I noticed that some of your videos vanished from You Tube. Thankfully, all of your videos are now back on You Tube.
[ I’m being discreet. You Tube attacked both of Milana’s channels. You Tube removed a number of Milana’s videos. You can imagine which videos You Tube’s prudes targeted: the ones where she wears a bikini. And you thought You Tube was in America, not Iran ... ]
New Subject:
The song I mentioned above is available on You Tube. It is present in various versions. My favorite version is:
IRON BUTTERFLY IN- A-GADDA-DA-VITA IN HD BEST FULL VERSION posted by: joy laughter
New Subject:
I’m watching your other videos. They are very impressive. I love the videos of you swimming at night. The music in these videos is very nice. ( Some of the music is awesome! ) Your brother is handsome. ( He’s also lucky, to have you as his sister! )
Thank you for all your hard work making your videos. I cherish them! You’re a beautiful, talented, wonderful young lady!
And in the End...
Susan Wojcicki, Take Note!
“Larry and Sergey’s mission to gather and organize ALL the world’s information - and the messianic buzz that came from making it happen - bound all Googlers together.” - In the Plex: how Google thinks, works, and shapes our lives, by Steven Levy, page 130. ( Amazon Kindle. ) ( Emphasis added. ) Larry Page and Sergey Brin are the co-founders of Google, which owns You Tube.
Susan Wojcicki is the Chief Executive Officer of You Tube. Given You Tube’s propensity to destroy videos by young creators, and others, I call her “Susan Kickme”.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. BS, the Basement Stud news service, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have 99 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is BS, Basement Stud, issue number 5
Arcana: This is BS, Basement Stud, issue number 5, version 2.0
Date Written: May 1, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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BS 5
the Basement Stud news service presents...
A Fabulous Video!
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“a small lifes..” by Milana Chasingsun.
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Perhaps you thought it was dead. Probably, if you ever knew it existed, you’d long since forgotten it.
I’m speaking of my BS news service. The mission of this august news provider isn’t to cover Donald Trump or the Democrats. The Basement Stud news service is about beautiful girls.
Ten percent of the internet’s traffic goes to You Tube. Now I know why. I’ve discovered Milana Chasingsun there. Fourteen-year-old Milana lives by the Pripyat River, in Minsk, Belarus.
Milana Chasingsun has two You Tube channels. They are:
Milana from Minsk
Milana’s Family Channel
There is also a fake Milana You Tube channel. It’s called “Milana Phoenix”. The owner of Milana Phoenix ( apparently ) makes nice slide show videos of Milana. ( A video that shows images of still photos. ) Sadly, Milana Phoenix does more than than. His sins are detailed below.
Watching ( the real ) Milana, a thought occurred to me. On You Tube, guys send her comments. However, I wondered if Milana had ever received a comment from a paragon of rectitude. Unsure of this, I tasked myself with writing a comment to her. It follows:
Dear Milana,
Thank you for your video, “a small lifes..”
I have seen thousands of videos on You Tube. “a small lifes..” is the best ever! I’ve watched it many times over the last day or so. ( Sadly, I did this at the channel “Milana Phoenix”. I’ll watch “a small lifes..” on your channel now! )
I’m stunned by how fabulous “a small lifes..” is. You’ve spliced together clips from your life in a superb way! I’d like to go through your video step-by-step.
1. The opening shot, of yourself as a baby. ( With your mother and brother. ) Starting with a clip of yourself as a baby is excellent. What amazes me is that this is a clip of yourself in a cable car. You’re high in the air!
2. The shot of you at about age five, waving to the camera. Anyone can film a child waving. The wonderful aspect of this clip is that you’re seen from below, waving down from a bed.
3. The shot of you all grown up. You are so beautiful! I love your long golden hair, and white blouse.
4. Your look of shock. Wow! I don’t know what you encountered, or where you found it, but this makes for a fabulous clip. Thank you for sharing this ‘disaster’ with your fans!
5. The shot of you falling backwards onto the bed. This clip is amazing! Your already wonderful video kicks into high gear with this clip!
6. I love seeing you play the piano. You look lovely. Artwork is in the background. Is it by you? I’m impressed by the art depicting gnarled trees. If I had the space, I’d love to hang that art in my room! ( I live in a hotel room in San Diego. The building, once known as a hotel, is now called “an apartment complex”. In my opinion, it’s still a hotel. It just lacks certain services now. )
7. You’re drawing at an easel. Your drawing looks quite professional!
8. You’re atop a tank. I love your blue, star-adorned headband. Being a guy, I love the tank too, and its big gun.
I’m choosy about watching videos on You Tube. There are tons of videos. All of them are fine. However, I only have so much time.
I will speak of when I watched “a small lifes..” for the first time. I was at the Milana Phoenix channel. How did I get there? You, and the various channels featuring you, were discussed in the Comments section of a Dana Taranova ( Danatar ) video.
I knew nothing about you. I wound up at the Milana Phoenix channel by chance. His copy of your video, which he calls “Milana’s short report”, was the first time I’d seen you.
At the clip of you on the tank, I was thinking, “This is a very good video.” I wasn’t yet committed to watching all of it, since I didn’t know how long it would run.
I was about to be amazed beyond all expectation.
9. After the fine clip of you on a bicycle, I’m watching you on a boat. This is a superb shot of you as a tourist. You look so pretty and precious!
10. Next, you’re in the Egyptian temple. This is a fabulous shot. The age of the temple is deeply moving. So is its lingering beauty.
What blew me away was when the organ music cut in. My father is a pastor. I’ve spent a lot of time in churches. Organ music has a special attraction for me. ( As in the 1968 rock song, “IN-A-GADDA-DA-VITA”. )
Suddenly, in the temple with the organ music, I wasn’t watching another fine You Tube video. I was watching something very, very special! I was also eager to know everything I could about the wonderful person in this video ( you ).
11. Next, I’m watching you in the lobby of an Egyptian hotel.
Wow! What a superb clip this is! You’re gorgeous! You look like an Egyptian princess. The setting is fabulous, and I love your white dress. Your dress is simple yet elegant. I notice, on repeated viewings, that you’re wearing your bikini under your dress. That’s an excellent segue to the next clips!
12. You’re in your bikini, walking on the pier.
I love how you’re walking in the same direction as in the previous clip. You’re stunning to behold in your bikini!
13. You pass the two men, and look back.
Thank you so much for putting this clip in your video. It’s nice that you allow yourself to be seen looking vulnerable.
14. You walk farther out on the pier.
( wow ) You’re superbly fine to watch.
15. Next, you’re dancing in front of the fountains.
Here, your already fabulous video becomes yet more awesome. As you dance, the accompanying music is a counter-point to the organ’s magisterial sound. I love this clip very much! You are again in your white princess dress. The spurting fountains behind you, in this exotic locale, seem to be paying tribute to you.
16. You brave the sea, in your bikini and clutched-close princess dress.
17. You splash into the sea as cymbals crash on the soundtrack. That’s a wonderful touch.
18. You’re going down the waterslide.
I love your expression! Also, you’re in your wonderful yellow bikini. Of all your swimwear, I love your yellow bikini the best! If you’re wondering, a girl looks her finest in a drawstring bikini that is yellow or white.
19. I love the closeup shot of you by the waterfall!
This clip is especially nice because the waterfall is varied in its appearance. I like seeing the water gush over the waterfall’s jagged edge.
20. You’re bicycling to the river in your yellow bikini!
Sitting by the waterfall, you were looking toward the right of my screen. ( Before looking at me. ) Now, you’re bicycling to the right of my screen. That’s an excellent segue!
21. You’re running to the right of my screen, to jump in the river.
Again, your direction of motion segues superbly with the prior clips.
I notice that you always hold your nose when you jump into water. If you hold your breath, just prior to hitting the water, you won’t need to hold your nose. I simply pass this along as information.
22. Your video ends as you sail away on a zip line.
This is a wonderful ending.
However, I have a suggestion to improve it.
A. Freeze the final image. ( Make the last image a still photo. )
B. Film the still photo for about 30 seconds ( or more ).
C. Attach this still photo to the end of “a small lifes..”
D. Upon this still photo, you can place other, smaller still photos. These smaller still photos would be from your other videos. In this way, at the end of “a small lifes..”, you can advertise your other videos.
If you wish, each of these advertisements can be a clickable link to one of your other videos. I don’t know how to write the code to do this. However, Dana Taranova of Kiev, Ukraine, has clickable photos at the end of her videos.
Dana is a bit younger than you. Her You Tube channels are:
Danatar
Danatar Backstage ( This appears as “Danatar...” in a list of subscribed You Tube channels. )
Dana Tar Gym
Dana Tar Life
I’ve mentioned you, and your channels, to Dana Taranova.
New Subject:
I agree that “Milana Phoenix” shouldn’t be stealing your videos and uploading them to his own channel.
He should just make a Playlist of your videos. In a Playlist, you would get the views, and the money, every time someone watched one of your videos in his Playlist.
Milana Phoenix has made a Playlist at his channel. Unfortunately, it is a Playlist where every video is credited to “Milana Phoenix”! Hence, “Milana Phoenix” gets the views, and the money, when someone watches the videos.
You can file a copyright claim with You Tube. You Tube will then remove your videos from the channel Milana Phoenix.
The You Tube notice will read something like this:
“[Deleted video]. This video has been removed due to a copyright claim by Milana Chasingsun.”
New Subject:
I understand why you need to put notifications about “Milana Phoenix” into your videos. However, I have a request. When you’re no longer troubled by “Milana Phoenix”, would you please re-upload your videos? Upload them without the notifications. I hate seeing your wonderful videos marred by these notifications.
[ Milana runs notices about “Milana Phoenix” as her videos play. This is an attempt by her to prevent “Milana Phoenix” from poaching her videos. However, the notices mar her videos. ]
New Subject:
I thought I’d mention how a ( real, legal ) Playlist works on You Tube.
In a ( real, legal ) Playlist, a fan puts your videos into his Playlist. However, your videos in his Playlist remain credited to you.
You get every view when someone watches your videos.
You get the money when someone watches your videos.
Your videos remain credited to “Milana from Minsk”, or “Milana’s Family Channel”.
New Subject:
Yesterday, I noticed that some of your videos vanished from You Tube. Thankfully, all of your videos are now back on You Tube.
[ I’m being discreet. You Tube attacked both of Milana’s channels. You Tube removed a number of Milana’s videos. You can imagine which videos You Tube’s prudes targeted: the ones where she wears a bikini. And you thought You Tube was in America, not Iran ... ]
New Subject:
The song I mentioned above is available on You Tube. It is present in various versions. My favorite version is:
IRON BUTTERFLY IN- A-GADDA-DA-VITA IN HD BEST FULL VERSION posted by: joy laughter
New Subject:
I’m watching your other videos. They are very impressive. I love the videos of you swimming at night. The music in these videos is very nice. ( Some of the music is awesome! ) Your brother is handsome. ( He’s also lucky, to have you as his sister! )
Thank you for all your hard work making your videos. I cherish them! You’re a beautiful, talented, wonderful young lady!
And in the End...
Susan Wojcicki, Take Note!
“Larry and Sergey’s mission to gather and organize ALL the world’s information - and the messianic buzz that came from making it happen - bound all Googlers together.” - In the Plex: how Google thinks, works, and shapes our lives, by Steven Levy, page 130. ( Amazon Kindle. ) ( Emphasis added. ) Larry Page and Sergey Brin are the co-founders of Google, which owns You Tube.
Susan Wojcicki is the Chief Executive Officer of You Tube. Given You Tube’s propensity to destroy videos by young creators, and others, I call her “Susan Kickme”.
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Copyright 2020 by Andrew L. Roller. BS, the Basement Stud news service, and ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays, are trademarks of Andrew L. Roller.
I am https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
Earlier posts by me are at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
I’m on paper at: https://www.abebooks.com > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
and https://www.abebooks.co.uk > AbeBooks > Roller, Andrew
I have no financial involvement in these resale items.
I am on You Tube as “Andrew Roller”. Use You Tube’s magnifying glass icon to search for “Andrew Roller”. That will take you to my You Tube channel. Or, on You Tube, tap my sun icon, if you see it. That will also take you to my You Tube channel. There, you can see songs and films that I like.
The World Wide Web address for my You Tube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/andrewroller
If you click on this link, you’ll be taken to a World Wide Web You Tube page. Here, You Tube displays a cartoon image of a monkey. The page says, “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”
My advice: on this page, search for “andrew roller”. By doing so, you’ll get to my World Wide Web You Tube channel. However, I have 99 Playlists, that I created, at my You Tube app channel. The World Wide Web version of You Tube will only serve you 15 of my Playlists.
( Hence, access You Tube via its app. The You Tube app, like the WordPress app, is available for free at the Apple App Store. )
This is BS, Basement Stud, issue number 5
Arcana: This is BS, Basement Stud, issue number 5, version 2.0
Date Written: May 1, 2020.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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