Bathroom Misery
BO 19
Book Observations presents...
Bathroom Misery
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Plus: Gay at the YMCA.
And: Antony Abandoned.
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BATHROOM MISERY
A book review, plus ( alas! ) more.
by Andrew Roller
Relevant Quote:
“There are parts of the work that few readers, I suspect, will navigate without skipping.”
- Jan Morris ( on The Alexandria Quartet ).
Source: The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, and Clea. By Lawrence Durrell. ( New York, New York, United States of America. Open Road Integrated Media. 2012. Original publication dates for the consecutive volumes: 1957, 1958, 1958, and 1960. ) Page 7. Amazon Kindle.
Review: Twenty years ago, I lived in Sacramento. I was dying. I needed a kidney transplant, and was unable to get on the list for one.
In my life, I have dealt with numerous doctors. On rare occasions, I wind up with a doctor who is a jackass. That’s what happened to me in Sacramento. My doctor refused to put me on the transplant list.
While still living in Sacramento, I drove to San Diego. A doctor in San Diego agreed to put me on his transplant list. Provided, that is, that I moved to San Diego. Hence, I had to move from Sacramento to San Diego.
Financially, I was broke. I called my parents, who lived in Hawaii. I told them that I needed a modest amount of financial assistance to move.
For the first quarter century of my life, my parents were “helicopter” parents. A “helicopter” parent constantly hovers over his or her child. My parents were continually shoving “help” down my throat. It was always self-serving. Their “help” served their felt needs, not mine. Their “help” was usually the opposite of what I needed.
Then, when I actually needed help, to move, my parents refused to provide any. I had a “helicopter” aunt in San Diego. She provided no meaningful help to me.
But hey, it was no big deal. I was only dying. My father ordered me to remain in Sacramento. My aunt told me to sue my parents “for maintenance”. I didn’t need “maintenance”. ( A monthly allowance, ordered by the state. ) I just needed $500 to move.
From Sacramento, I drove ( again ) to San Diego. This time, I stayed.
( Foolishly, I did nothing about my mail. For a month, I lived in San Diego, but all my mail was going to Sacramento! I had to drive north, again, to settle that problem. )
My brother, who lived far away, mailed me a check for $500. He was paid back, promptly, with interest. ( The interest was my idea. )
Nonetheless, San Diego was more expensive than Sacramento. I quickly learned about the cost of moving to a new, more expensive location. Here’s what I found:
1. Everyone has their hand out for money. Someone who’s been a resident in a location for a long time has learned how to live cheaply there. As a new person, you haven’t learned this yet. Everything you need to get done costs more than it would cost for a local person to do the same thing.
2. You have no idea who the crooks are. Some businesses are crooked. As a new person, you won’t know which businesses to avoid.
An example: My Ford Bronco II, a sport utility truck, broke. It broke in the dead of night, in Los Angeles. It did not break down in Compton or Watts. Nonetheless, like Kurt Russell, I was eager to “Escape from L.A.” My escape began an hour after my truck broke.
I had my truck towed to San Diego. Since I was a “Premium” member of the American Automobile Association ( AAA ), the first 100 miles of the tow were free. During the ride, the tow truck’s driver spoke to me of his fondness for H. P. Lovecraft, a horror author.
Later, in the daytime, I had my truck towed again. This time, my driver was Persian. It was six months after 9/11. I got my driver to admit that, being Persian, he was in fact an Iranian. So, he wasn’t a horror fan, but he might have been a terrorist.
My truck was towed to a car repair shop. I requested an estimate from the shop, regarding the repairs that my truck would need. The repair shop said that they’d need time to inspect my truck. That was fine. I went home.
Some time later, the repair shop called me. They wanted $250 for having inspected my truck. That startled me. No mention had been made of money when I’d been in their shop. I asked them if $250 would fix my truck.
“No,” they answered. “After you pay us the $250, we’ll need $2,500 to BEGIN repairing your truck. More money may be needed after that, before it will actually run.” My truck was in beautiful condition. Even its tires were superb. However, its engine had been replaced some years before.
I had no way to pay them $250, let alone more. I politely offered them my truck as payment. They were furious.
These are guys who are experts in their trade. I’m sure they routinely get stuck with vehicles as payment, and routinely sell them at state auctions. They were unhappy because they couldn’t milk me for endless dollars. But, I had no dollars to give them. So, they kept ( and sold ) my truck. I’m sure they got more than $250 for it.
In San Diego, I stayed in a hotel called, “Madrid Suites”. The front rooms of the hotel had been pest controlled. The back rooms hadn’t been. They had roaches. When I returned to San Diego from Sacramento, with my mail, the manager of “Roach Suites” decided that I was a local resident. I guess he figured I was a step away from being homeless. He insisted that I be put in a back room.
The man who cleaned the rooms was from India. He was shocked to discover that I lived alone. He considered that immoral. As it happened, he had an ugly daughter. I think he was a “helicopter” parent. He’d “protected” his daughter from the opposite sex, only to discover that no men ( or boys ) wanted her. She was thoroughly miserable.
The man had a solution to his problem. He’d get me to marry his daughter! I didn’t take the bait.
This has happened to me a number of times. The girl in question isn’t always ugly. I can describe this situation as follows, as a warning to other men:
1. The girl is “too young”. She might even be a virgin. If you like her, you’re Satan.
2. The girl is now older. She’s probably had numerous boyfriends, plus an abortion. ( Her mother never told her father about the abortion. ) The girl has a child. She may well still be a teenager, and may be in community college.
Guess what? You are now Jesus. “Please, marry our daughter!” a girl’s parent will indicate to you. ( Plus, please engage in all the courtship rituals, with our daughter, that occur prior to marriage. )
My questions ( unstated ) to such parents are as follows:
1. What happened to all the other guys who fucked this girl?
2. What happened to the guy she lost her virginity to?
3. What happened to the guy that landed her in an abortionist’s clinic?
4. What happened to the guy that she had a child by?
The answer:
All those guys are long gone.
Are those guys Satan? Oh, no. They were “children”.
The first guy was 25 years old. However, Mom and Dad never found out about him.
The next guy was 19. He’d flunked a grade in school, so he was still in high school. Therefore, he was still nominally a “child”.
The third guy was 22. The girl was, by then, 17. However, this sexual relationship was exempt from prosecution under the state’s “Romeo and Juliet” law.
You, of course, are an “adult”. You’re older than 22. You’re even ( gasp! ) older than 25. Nonetheless, the girl’s parents now hope that you’ll pay their daughter’s bills for the rest of her life.
It wasn’t all bad, at “Roach Suites”. A little blonde girl lived a floor below me. This was at the back of the hotel. She left her wet swimsuit outside the door to her room. ( Which, whatever her purpose, was quite sexy! ) She was super cute, and she smiled at me!
Sadly, “Roach Suites” was too expensive for me. So, I moved again. I moved to downtown San Diego. There, I stayed at the YMCA.
At the time, the YMCA was not a luxury hotel. It was a dump. The building hadn’t been renovated since its construction in 1924.
It didn’t have private bathrooms. It had group bathrooms. The old-fashioned windows in the bathrooms were huge. It was the middle of winter, and it was cold. I couldn’t close any of the windows. I literally hung off of a window sill, putting my entire weight on the window. It didn’t budge.
I will say this for my fellow guests. They were strong. They could open and shut those windows without any problem. Sadly, none of them were from Guam, or from Hawaii, like me. I guess they liked the cold air, because the bathroom windows mostly stayed open.
The YMCA was centrally heated. The heating system was utterly inefficient. In the middle of winter, my room would be heated to an unbearable degree. I could get the big window in my room open and shut. I had to open my window at night. As I lay in my bed, my head was by the open window.
Every night, in the middle of the night, the YMCA would turn off the heat. Cold air flowed into the room as I slept. I always woke up with a cold.
Lying with my head by the window, I could watch my T.V. It belonged to the YMCA. It was mounted on the wall of my room.
I was mostly unable to sleep at night. All day long, people made noise at the YMCA, including with their televisions. I put up with this. However, if I tried to watch “Charlie Rose” at midnight, my neighbors would complain. This despite the fact that “Charlie Rose” was a talk show. A quiet, conversational talk show. That’s because the walls of the rooms at the YMCA were very thin.
The YMCA’s night watchman banged repeatedly on my door one night, due to a complaint about my T.V. I didn’t respond. The T.V. played on. The next day, I figured, “Well, I’m thrown out of here. The YMCA will be furious that I didn’t answer my door.”
Guess what? Nobody said a word to me. It was as if nothing had ever happened. From this, one derives the following rule:
Don’t answer your door, unless you want to. ( Don’t piss off the person who’s knocking. Just do nothing. If you’re talking, shut up. )
Adolf Hitler once said, “If you do nothing, nine out of ten problems will go away.”
( He didn’t take his advice. )
If you want to sleep, and have cable T.V., my advice is as follows:
Put the T.V. on “The Weather Channel”. As of 2002, I found it to be a very boring channel. “Locals on the Eights” is extremely boring. The same weather information for your local area is repeated every eight minutes.
A young guy got kicked out of the YMCA. He was a middle class White kid. He had nowhere to go. He did have his own television. This was the era of large, bulky old-fashioned televisions. The guy left the building. He refused, however, to leave the ( covered ) front steps of the building. There he sat, with his big T.V., refusing to move. My understanding is that the YMCA called the police to get rid of him.
Another middle class White guy had flunked out of law school. I found him, more than once, crying in the bathroom. In semi-mockery, he’d say, loudly, res ipsa loquitur, and other common ( to a law student ) phrases. I, too, had been unsuccessful in law school. However, I didn’t commiserate with the flunky. I’ve always seen myself as an artist. ( As did Adolf Hitler, and Nero. )
One day, a White guy got on the elevator with me. This was at the YMCA. I’m White, and we were the only people on the elevator. The man began spouting racist vocabulary. I was shocked. That was the only time in my life that I’ve heard such language. So, to those who say that America is inherently racist, as of 2002, I say: wrong.
I lived in the “penthouse” of the YMCA. That is, I lived on its highest inhabited floor: the sixth. Routinely, the sewer flooded the bathroom. It did this on the sixth floor. The sewer didn’t flood the whole bathroom, just some of it. I usually had to step around a large puddle of sewerage.
My room was directly across the hall from the bathroom. One night, the building lost its water. Guys went to the bathroom, only to find that it had no water. They turned the sinks’ taps all the way on. No water came out.
Later, water was restored to the building. This happened in the middle of the night. Everyone, including me, was asleep.
Some time after this, I awoke. Getting out of my bed, I stepped onto soggy carpeting. My room was flooded with water. The hallway was flooded. So was the bathroom.
The sinks’ taps, in the bathrooms, were gushing water. They were gushing it at full blast. These were old-fashioned sinks, so they could discharge quite a flow! ( Like my dick. ) I was the only person who was awake. I turned off the taps, used the toilet, and went back to bed.
I had, even then, books and magazines. There was little space in my room. My belongings, including valuable issues of “The New Yorker” magazine, were stacked on the floor. These absorbed the flood from the bathroom, as did the carpet. I had to throw out a lot of printed material. That was a sad day.
Fortunately, my ( super ) valuable masturbation magazines were safely stored in the drawers of a wooden desk. Always protect the porn!
Or, as holy joe would say:
Fuck the children. Protect the porn.
Especially if the children are in the porn.
In such a place, people try to steal your belongings. Don’t take any valuables with you to the shower. I had to strip to take a shower. People went through my belongings while I was showering. ( Including my towel. So much for having a clean towel. )
The shower consisted of an open space. Shower curtains sectioned the space into three shower stalls. Each stall had a steel shower head. One of the shower heads broke. It was replaced. The new shower head put out four thin, individual streams of water. That’s all!
You might recall my saying that my fellow guests were strong. Someone soon broke off the worthless shower head. They did it, of course, as an act of revenge against the YMCA. The hotel was forced to give us a better shower head.
My maxim for showering was as follows:
“The dead will arise in the dead of night.”
The only time that I could get a shower was at 3:00 A.M. That’s because one bathroom served many guys. These fellows weren’t shrinking violets. They were the sort of guys who wind up in bar fights, and like them.
Our bathroom was only for men. A women’s bathroom was down the hall. However, occasionally, a woman would use our bathroom. For some reason, this was allowed, provided that she let people know that she was using the bathroom.
The following spectacle would ensue:
A woman would enter the men’s bathroom. Then, at the top of her lungs, she’d call out, repeatedly, “There’s a woman in the bathroom! There’s a woman in the bathroom!” She’d do it in her most inviting voice. As the women who stayed at the YMCA were all aging dogs, I did wonder what such a woman’s true purpose was.
One night, I found the shower area flooded. The whole shower was flooded to at least ankle depth. The dudes who had showered earlier had managed to clog the shower drain.
The water was foul. Stepping into it, I sloshed my way to the drain. I reached down in the water and unclogged the drain.
One night, a fag kept peeking at me through his shower curtain. Several times, I gave him the finger, hoping he’d quit. He didn’t.
Another fag was a Mexican. He routinely let himself into my room! I always indicated that his presence was undesired, but he kept coming in anyway.
A third fag was some young guy. One day, the hotel’s maintenance man came by. He was an aging guy in his 50s. The young fag was instantly infatuated with him! It was quite hilarious to observe this. The young fag kept eagerly asking the maintenance man questions. The maintenance man didn’t realize the kid was a fag. He kept grudgingly answering the kid’s questions. He looked bewildered by the kid’s attention. I didn’t clue the maintenance man in as to what sort of “plumbing” the kid wanted worked on.
A guest asked me for money. I got out my change, and gave him a few coins. That was a big mistake. Day after day, he kept begging me for more money. I told him that I didn’t have any more money to give him. So, he hated me.
Male prostitution was common in San Diego in 2002. I’m speaking of gay prostitution. One night, I was on a bus with a gay prostitute. He was speaking to another rider. He admitted that he wasn’t gay, but, as he said,
“It ( gay sex ) puts a few dollars in your pocket.”
You’ll recall the guy ( above ) who got money from me. He was, in fact, hoping to be my ( paid ) gay lover. I had no interest in this. Subsequently, he did find employment for his mouth and his butthole. How do I know this? I was able to observe him ( involuntarily ) in the bathroom. He began brushing his teeth each morning with great vigor. In the shower, he took extreme care to clean out his butthole. I’m not joking about this. He wasn’t gay, but gay sex put a few dollars in his pocket.
At the YMCA, 15 cents was a fortune. That’s because, with 15 cents, you could buy a cigarette. ( From whichever guest had cigarettes. )
We had a professional beggar. He looked like a blonde Jesus. He asked everybody for money, all the time. Someone told him to get a job. He did, and reported the results.
“I worked!” he exclaimed, with pride. It wasn’t a real job. Someone who ran a sandwich shop let him put in a few hours of unpaid labor. He got a sandwich and soda out of the deal.
There were racial tensions. Making Ramen noodles was a nightly routine. The building had one microwave oven. It was in the lobby. There was always a line, at this hour, to use the microwave.
One night, armed with my Ramen noodles, to which I’d added water, I got into the line. A Black man was standing ahead of me. Suddenly, he turned around. He started screaming at me. He gave no reason for his ire. I guess, in his opinion, I was a privileged White person. As such, I wasn’t allowed to stand BEHIND him in the line!
My kidney utterly failed while I was at the YMCA. ( I was living with a second kidney transplant. ) I ceased to be able to eat. Anything I drank stayed in me. ( No kidney. ) I swelled with unspent fluid. ( No kidney means no pee. )
I could only sleep well during the day. Awaking, it would take me two hours to get out of my bed. That is, it would literally take me two hours to rise from my bed. This would happen when I needed to go to the bathroom.
I began to have lots of diarrhea. The nearest bathroom had three toilet stalls. They were usually dirty. The stalls themselves ( the enclosing walls ) were never cleaned.
One day, I needed to poop. Two of the three stalls were a disaster. I went into the third one. ( Note: the farthest stall is usually the cleanest one; people don’t want to have to walk the distance. )
My ass didn’t make it onto the toilet. I shitted all over the toilet. Somehow, I got out of the stall in a reasonably clean condition.
Then, I had to poop again! Which stall to use? I decided that sitting in my own filth was better than sitting in someone else’s filth. So, I returned to the stall where I’d made a mess. I sat on the shit-covered toilet. It was an awful experience.
A machine in the lobby sold “Brisk” iced tea. This is an excellent iced tea. The machine sold two flavors of “Brisk”. These were:
1. Lemon.
2. Raspberry.
There was a separate section for each flavor. However, the guy who stocked the machine didn’t give a damn about the flavor. He stocked the sections randomly. So, buying a Lemon Brisk, you might actually get a Raspberry Brisk. I hated Raspberry. Sometimes, I had to buy two or three Raspberry Brisks before I got one that was Lemon. ( I drank them all, but I wasn’t happy about it. )
I think the reason the guy paid no attention to how he stocked the machine was because of its location. This was the YMCA. Its guests didn’t merit a properly stocked machine.
To my parents, the YMCA was the organization that they’d known in their youth ( before World War II ). It was the “Young Men’s Christian Association”. My residing there, in my parents’ opinion, would improve my morals. My parents were bent on improving my morals from the day that I was conceived. I was, after all, “conceived in sin”, thanks to their fucking.
My fellow guests were not the cream of the moral crop. Many guests were awaiting trial, on criminal charges, or waiting to be taken to prison. ( Numerous local, state, and federal court buildings are in the vicinity of the YMCA. Today, there are three separate United States Federal Court buildings near the YMCA. )
A whole floor of the YMCA was devoted to housing the mentally ill. Many crippled people are poor. They stayed at the YMCA. One legless guy, in a wheelchair, begged every day from the median strip on Broadway. This is the name of the street that runs by the YMCA. It is San Diego’s “main drag”.
Fags, as mentioned above, stayed at the YMCA. I guess they hoped to live the dream that the “Village People” sang about in 1978. The YMCA had a gym in its basement. I was the only guest, that I know of, who joined the gym. In its bathrooms, there were big signs that said, in effect,
“No faggotry.”
In addition to the above, the YMCA housed the usual panoply of nuts, fruits, and flakes that can be found any day of the week in downtown San Diego. ( That’s why I live downtown. Here, I blend in. In suburbia, by contrast, I stick out like a sore thumb. )
In addition to the area’s courthouses, and bail bondsmen, there was a public law library. It was tiny compared to the one in California’s capital, Sacramento. However, it was peaceful. I could escape the nuts at the YMCA, and on the streets, at the law library. I was even able to pace back and forth in the library, reading books. I did this on the library’s upper floors. The library had a clean bathroom, and a clean drinking fountain. I spent many hours there.
They had computers. These didn’t amount to much, but they did give access to the internet. A sign warned users against using the computers to access porn on the internet.
One day, I decided to use a computer. I wanted to see if my stories were still at asstr ( dot ) org. ( The Alt.Sex.Stories Text Repository. ) I used the library’s computer to access porn. But it was my porn.
Finally, I moved to better quarters. I was no longer near the law library.
In the 1970s, I learned that I needed to stay away from bookstores. I spent too much money in them.
There was no internet in the 1970s. At a bookstore, I could buy:
1. Playboy magazine.
2. Anonymous sex novels.
3. Science fiction paperbacks.
4. Worthy tomes, like John Toland’s biography of Adolf Hitler, published in 1976.
5. Dictionaries, a thesaurus, and the ( then excellent ) book, “Writer’s Market”.
In the 1970s, “Writer’s Market” was a book that came out once a year. There was no “Writer’s Market” magazine. There weren’t an array of “Writer’s Market” books. There was one book. You bought it once a year, and you were ready to be a best-selling author.
In about 2005, I began getting mail from book companies. They didn’t want to hire me. They wanted to sell me books. A joke runs, “Never give anyone a book for a gift. He may already have one.” Sadly, this joke doesn’t apply to me. I could have a billion books, and I’d be sure that I needed another one. ( Which makes moving house a nightmare. )
I began buying books from the “Book Of The Month” club. I became an expert at working their system to get the maximum number of books, at the lowest prices.
In 2008, I began buying books from England. The company was called, then and now, The Folio Society. ( foliosociety ( dot ) com. ) I haven’t phoned them in years. However, it was fun to do so. The person who answered would say, in British English, “The Folio Society”. It sounded like I’d contacted the residence of the Queen.
In that era, The Folio Society was producing gorgeous books. Their prices were reasonable ( given the quality of their books ). They had regular sales.
I bought “The Alexandria Quartet” from The Folio Society. It wasn’t sold as a set, but in four separate volumes. I told myself not to buy the books. They struck me as romance novels for women. However, they weren’t garish “bodice ripper” paperbacks. They were stately hardcover books.
As is sometimes the case with a book from The Folio Society, one of the books arrived damaged. The book was Justine. The damage was slight, but it annoyed me. ( The Folio Society sent me a replacement volume. )
Since Justine was damaged, I figured I’d read it.
( Too often, I simply bought books and squirreled them away. That’s how I compensated, mentally, for not having much money. I might be ( almost ) broke, but I was a customer of The Folio Society! )
I began to read Justine. Almost at once, I was horrified. As an objet d’art, the book was fine. But its text was almost wholly narration!
I persevered. I finished “Justine”. My living quarters were tiny. I had tons of books, but they were all carefully stowed in boxes. That was to allow me to get from my chair to my toilet.
( Once, I was cleaning house. Having no extra space, I stacked lots of books in front of my toilet. Then, suddenly, I needed to use the toilet! That was not a happy day. )
Unable to get at my other books, I read Justine again. I read it a third time. On each reading, I liked it more. This brings up the quote by Jan Morris. ( Above. )
( By the way, Morris is a boring writer. )
Morris says that you’ll likely skip parts of Justine. If that’s the case, skip the whole book. Its quality is invariant.
There isn’t any plot in Justine. It doesn’t have any compelling characters. You won’t find a dashing good guy, a malevolent bad guy, or a winsome girl in need of a dick, to quote comedian Chris Rock.
All of the characters in Justine are relatively boring adults. A young ( adult ) prostitute figures in the story, but not to an interesting degree. She’s a hapless figure.
Yet, somehow, Durrell pulls off a masterpiece. I feel that, in the future, Durrell will join “the canon” of literature. Harold Bloom is a late expert on the canon. He includes a book in it if the book is “strange”. Justine qualifies.
I have yet to read the three remaining books in The Alexandria Quartet. I was so impressed by Justine that I feared the other books might spoil the magic. Plus, as best I can tell, Justine’s narrator, Darley, is closest in personality to myself. ( Darley is a colonialist; an expatriate British White male, living in an exotic locale. )
My understanding of The Alexandria Quartet is as follows:
Durrell wrote the same story four times. Darley tells his version in Justine. Other characters tell their versions in the subsequent books. To this you might say,
“Wow! That must be some story, to deserve four tellings!” Sorry. There is no story in Justine. It’s like real life: the people in the “story” change over time, and this is reported upon. But there’s no adventure. No lost child is pining for salvation from reprobates. ( To cite a current hysteria. You could sink the Titanic with the number of “books” on that topic. )
Like J. G. Ballard, Durrell is a “mood” writer. You go on a mental trip with him, without a need for Timothy Leary’s drugs. My understanding is that The Alexandria Quartet was highly appealing, in its day, to literate teenage girls. Apparently, they saw it as a source for dating and marital advice. ( I found none in Justine. But then, I’m viewing Justine from a “Playboy” perspective. )
Audible sells the audio books in The Alexandria Quartet separately. Three versions of each book are available. Since you’ll likely buy Justine first, I’ll deal solely with it:
1. Justine. Narrated by Jack Klaff.
This is an “Only from Audible” edition. As soon as I began playing it, I didn’t like Klaff’s voice. It didn’t suit the book. A reviewer on Audible writes:
“Ruined by the reader. … The reader is simply atrocious.” - Murasaki. Many other reviewers have the same complaint.
2. Justine. Narrated by Nigel Anthony.
Anthony is the best narrator of Justine. However, his version is “heavily abridged”, according to Patricia Valencia ( A nice name! ), and others. Nothing written by Amazon warns the purchaser that they’re buying an abridged version.
3. Justine. Narrated by Nicholas Boulton.
This is the version that I bought. It’s possible to describe Boulton’s narration as follows:
A. Read a line without much emotion.
B. Pause.
C. Read another line without much emotion.
D. Pause.
Repeat, ad nauseam.
I won’t say, “Buy this! It’s great!” This is a serviceable reading of a verbally rich “story”.
I bought Justine, as an audio book, to fall asleep at night. It does that as well as any other narrated text. If you’re having trouble sleeping, Justine may bring needed oblivion.
Further Quotes:
1. “The sulking bodies of the young begin to hunt for a fellow nakedness…
“The boys stir uneasily at their backgammon under the petrol-lamps: disturbed by this dry desert wind …
“And turn to watch every stranger.”
- Lawrence Durrell.
Source: The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, and Clea. By Lawrence Durrell. New York, New York, United States of America. Open Road Integrated Media. 2012. ( Original publication dates for the consecutive volumes: 1957, 1958, 1958, and 1960. ) Page 16. Amazon Kindle.
2. “You tell yourself: I’ll be gone
To some other land, some other sea,
To a city lovelier far than this …
There’s no new land, my friend, no
New sea; for the city will follow you, …
No ship exists
To take you from yourself.”
Source: Ibid., page 220. Poem: The City.
3. “When suddenly at darkest midnight heard,
The invisible company passing, the clear voices,
Ravishing music of invisible choirs —
Your fortunes having failed you now, …
Turn to the open window and look down
To drink past all deceiving
Your last dark rapture from the mystical throng
And say farewell, farewell to Alexandria leaving.”
Source: Ibid., page 221. Poem: The God Abandons Antony.
ARCANA
1. The article “Bathroom Misery” could be described as follows:
My Blog: I don’t like my parents.
Any prospective parent should be on their knees, praying, while earnestly awaiting the return of their Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. If they choose, instead, to fuck, it’s on them.
2. “Their” was a perfectly acceptable reference to an individual in prior centuries. It is grammarians who restricted the word’s use.
3. I deliberately omitted the period after “L.A.” The text looks a lot better without it.
Which raises this question: should you punctuate according to the rules of grammar, or in a way that the reader will find palatable? My answer: punctuate for the reader, not for the grammarians. One writes to be read.
4. Bloom on the canon: The Western Canon, page 2. ( You don’t have to read the whole book to look like you’re smart. )
5. I find the current method of book citation to be inadequate. My audience is global. It is not acceptable for me to state only the city where a book was published. This blog is not a publication of Yale or Harvard. It is a publication of ARSE, and will adhere to the standards thereof.
6. If you have e-mailed me, thank you! I’m still moving house. I’ll get to my mail when I can.
7. If it’s close to midnight in California, I now put the next day’s date on my article. That’s so news organizations will report on my article as “Breaking News”.
I can’t e-mail the Cunt News Network ( CNN ). As far as I know, I’ve never e-mailed them. One day, when I tried to, their e-mail system replied, “Access Denied”.
So, I’ve been “BANNED by CNN”.
Any news organization that refuses to accept e-mails is not a news organization. It may be a propaganda outfit, but it isn’t a news organization.
The paper rag, the San Diego Weeder ( Reader ) also refuses to accept e-mails from me. As best I can tell, they’ve deliberately excluded me. The best use of their newspaper is to roll joints.
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Copyright 2021 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
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.
The WordPress app is available for free at the Apple App Store.
This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 19
Arcana: This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 19, version 5.0
Date Written: August 12, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Meet Prasannapala!
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AR 1
Andrew Roller’s Art Review presents...
Meet Prasannapala!
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Plus: Sebastian’s amazing art.
And: Too hot for You Tube.
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MEET Prasannapala!
by Andrew Roller
I’m delighted to announce a new blogger! She is Prasannapala.
( The way I remember her name is by breaking it down: pras ann apa la ). So, if you think of “Ann”, and “L.A.” ( Los Angeles ), then you might remember the other letters too! )
I discovered Prasannapala when she “liked” a post on “Andrew Roller”. ( This blog. ) I wasn’t able to figure out how to “like” her posts, or those of a blogger mentioned below, but I enjoyed visiting her web site!
Prasannapala’s web site address is: http://se689568419 ( dot ) wordpress ( dot ) com. Broken down, it is:
se 68 95 68 419
I’d advise Prasannapala to choose a web site address that’s easier to remember. However, as best I can tell, she’s gotten 51 subscribers in under a month, so she’s doing well!
And yes, she’s cute! Her photo came with her “like”. Thank you, Prasannapala!
Prasannapala’s web site features poetry, a drawing, and two photos.
Her drawing of a girl is very professional! Prasannapala takes fine photos.
An excerpt from her poem, “A fault”:
the agony of mind …
blaming myself coldhearted …
Hurricanes and blizzards in the heart
It feels like blue everywhere.
An excerpt from her poem, “Love in a minute”:
The pain, The emptiness,
They all flew away.
Her poem, “What can we do?” is quite moving.
An e-mail from WordPress lists her “Blog Name” as “The Essence of you.” This is a very nice name! It appears near the top of each page of her web site.
MEET Sebastian!
I was amazed by Sebastian’s web site. It is relatocorto.com. Stepping into Sebastian’s web site is like being welcomed into a Star Wars movie.
However, when you arrive at Sebastian’s web site, you’ll be confronted with an advertisement. I was unable to get rid of the advertisement.
The answer is: scroll down! ( I have no objection to the ad, I just wanted it out of my way. )
The background of Sebastian’s web site is black. It features amazing artwork. Sadly, I was unable to see Sebastian’s artwork as well as I wanted to. The artwork doesn’t need to be changed. It just needs to be more brightly lit.
In addition to publishing art, Sebastian publishes stories.
Thank you to others who have “liked” posts on my blog. “Wandering Ambivert” comes to mind. I am still trying to remove my belongings from my old room, while renting a new room in a new building. I have to pay for both rooms. I’ll visit your web site when I can.
BEAUTIFUL screen bookmarks!
On my Apple iPad, I use the Apple “Safari” browser. It came with the Google browser preinstalled.
With my browser, I am able to make “screen bookmarks”. Here’s how:
1. Look to the upper right hand corner of your browser. Here, you’ll see an icon of a box. An arrow is sticking up out of the box.
2. Tap on this icon of a box.
3. An informational box appears. In the informational box is the following option:
“Add to Home Screen”.
4. Tap on “Add to Home Screen”. A new informational box appears. In the upper right hand corner of this box is the word “Add”.
5. Tap on “Add”.
6. Your browser quits. This is fine. A “screen bookmark” has been put on your iPad’s “Home” screen. ( Wherever there is room. ) Tap on this screen bookmark whenever you want to visit the web site that you have bookmarked.
7. If you can’t find your new screen bookmark anywhere, it is a ghost. You must combine some of your existing bookmarks into “bubble” folders, on your iPad’s screen, to give the ghost bookmark room to appear. It will appear on the very last “page” of your iPad’s “Home” screen.
8. If your browser just quit, and you want to return to the web page that you were on, launch your browser again. ( Tap on the icon for your browser. )
Or, tap on the new screen bookmark that you’ve just made.
Prasannapala‘s screen bookmark is lovely! It features a forest. Beyond the forest are several distant, overlapping hills and mountains, and the sky.
Sebastian’s screen bookmark is an awesome image of his face! It resembles a negative of a photograph. His hair, rendered in white, looks like it’s on fire.
HOW to FAST-Forward
You’re probably wondering, “Didn’t this dude ever own a VCR?” ( A video cassette recorder. )
Since 2019, I’ve been bedeviled by the following question:
How do I fast-forward a video ( or a screen recording ) in Apple’s “Photos” app?
1. Launch the “Photos” app.
2. Look to the left side of your iPad’s screen. There, you’ll see the word “Photos” at the top of a sidebar. ( A vertical column. )
3. Look down ( in the column ) to this subhead: “Media Types”.
4. Under “Media Types”, tap on “Videos”.
5. Tap on any video. The video expands to fill your iPad’s screen. It will begin to play.
6. If you want the video to play sound, look to the top right corner of your iPad’s screen. Tap on the blue icon of a bullhorn. ( Note: this icon will be gray, and inoperable, until the video is playing. )
7. ( The video is now playing. ) Look to the bottom of your iPad’s screen. Here, you’ll see a filmstrip. You’ll probably think that this filmstrip is displaying each frame of the video that is playing.
It is not. Each tall, vertical panel in the filmstrip is displaying a separate video. If you get bored with the video that you’re watching, you can tap any other panel in the filmstrip and a new video ( the one that you tapped ) will begin to play.
Note: you need more than one video in your “Photos” app to enjoy this option.
8. So, how do you fast-forward within the video that is playing?
A. Look to the bottom of your iPad’s screen.
B. Look at the middle of the film strip. If you look closely, you’ll see a white line. It is slightly thicker than the white lines that are used to separate each video in the filmstrip.
C. Tap on the thick white line. Here’s what happens:
To this line’s right, a new series of panels expands ( to the right ). Now, each panel to the right of the thick white line represents a different part of the video that you’re watching.
You cannot tap on a panel within the filmstrip ( of this video ) and jump to that part of the video.
However, if you put your finger anywhere to the right of the thick white line, you can fast-forward, or fast-rewind, the video that you’re watching.
HOW TO organize YOUR VIDEOS
In my “Photos” app, I have many videos. There isn’t any way to label a video. However, in “Photos”, you can create “Albums”. Once you’ve created an “Album”, you can then add a video to it.
Begin doing this as soon as you can. I didn’t. I have about 100,000 videos and photos. These are mostly screen recordings, and screenshots. Trying to put each of these into an album would be a nightmare.
TOO HOT for You Tube
Writing the above article, I tapped on a video. It is a video in my Apple “Photos” app.
By happenstance, I chose a video ( which is actually a screen recording ), that I recorded on September 7, 2019.
The video opens with a shot of a kitchen. For a moment, I thought that I’d somehow recorded my own kitchen. I thought,
“What a dumb fuck I am. I really need to clean out my ‘Photos’ app.”
Then, a super lovely 12-year-old girl sashayed into the kitchen! She is none other than Mari Kruchkova. This is an utterly innocuous video. It is also one of the earliest videos that You Tube’s pathological staff deleted. Why would they have abused Mari, by deleting her G-rated video? I will try to describe this video from a You Tube staffer’s point of view.
Staffer: Joe Lesbian.
Review: My clit is so big that I call it my “boner”. It’s swollen all day. That’s because, as a You Tube censor, I spend all day looking at videos by little girls.
Hmmm. This is a video of a kitchen. Damn. I was hoping for a video of a bedroom. Nobody gets naked in a video of a kitchen. I see kitchen cabinets, a kitchen counter…
Whoa! It’s a little girl! Who is that? Oh yeah, Mari Kruchkova. I love abusing her. Nobody should be so beautiful at such a young age.
Mari is wearing a little black tank top. I can see her belly button! Damn, it’s cute. And she’s so superbly slim. Not like me. People keep asking me when I’m going to have my baby, due to the gigantic size of my stomach.
Mari has gorgeous breast buds! They’re bigger than mine, and I’m 37 years old. I guess that’s why, when people aren’t asking me when I’m having my baby, they’re saying, “Could you please move your fat ass, sir?”
My God, Mari is wearing little denim cutoffs! She has such beautiful legs. They aren’t tree stumps like my legs. She’s wearing lovely white sandals. I can see her toes! We need to make that against our “Community Guidelines”, “Terms of Service”, and “Nazi Protocols”.
On the video’s soundtrack, trendy music is playing. A crowd cheers as Mari faces the camera, and gives her winning smile! Only a stadium full of perverts would cheer like that for a little girl. That makes this video not acceptable as “content for children”. ( Our new, appropriately denigrating term for a video by any girl under the age of 26. )
Mari is now taking yellow gloves out of a package. She keeps the gloves, but drops the package on the floor! That’s littering! That definitely violates our “Child Safety” policy. She might slip on the package later. And, she’s teaching other children ( and a million perverts ) bad values.
Now, she’s putting the gloves on. Now she’s dancing around! 12-year-olds aren’t allowed to dance on You Tube! What if a man sees this video?!?!
She’s climbing a ladder. She lifted her left leg high into the air! That’s a “bodily contortion”! That violates You Tube’s “Child Safety” policy! What if a You Tube censor gets off to it?
Now she climbs back down the ladder. Why did she climb up it, in the first place? To lift her leg?! This video is definitely getting deep-sixed.
Now she’s put two blue cloths into a tub of water. She’s taking them out! The cloths are dripping water! That is way too sexy in “content for children”.
Now she’s climbing up the other side of the ladder. Wow! She sure has a lovely bare waist.
She’s washing a window with both of the cloths, using both of her hands. Her arms are high in the air. I can see her boobies’ points in her shirt! She sure has mouth-watering boobies!
She’s doing rapid semi-squats as she washes the window. What is this, window washing, or an exercise video? I have trouble just squatting to sit on the toilet.
Aha! She rubbed both sides of her face with the cloths. That definitely violates some sort of policy.
Now she’s squirting Windex! On the window! Whew! That’s making me hot! What if she was squirting my “boner”?
Now she’s unrolling paper towels from a paper towel roll. She does it sooo sexily!
Now she’s wiping the window with the paper towels. She smiled at the camera, doing this! Even though the camera isn’t the window! That’s definitely sinful.
Cut to: Mari standing in the kitchen. She’s holding two bottles of Windex. She begins dancing around with them, and squirting them! Everywhere!
Eeyah! She squirted them at me! They got my “boner” all wet!
She’s turned around, she’s bent over backwards,
And squirted me again!
She’s squirting Windex everywhere!
Eeyah! I’m squirting! I’m having my tenth orgasm today! Eeyah!
Whew! What was this video called?
“Dancing at home”.
There. I’ve transferred it to my secret folder of pubescent videos. Of all the staffers at You Tube, I have the biggest one.
As for Mari:
[ This video has been removed for violating You Tube’s Community Guidelines. ]
AND IN THE END…
“Tolerance” in the Seventh Century:
“The 640s and 650s were marked by a reinforcement of persecution against everyone who did not accept the latest religious compromise of the Heraclian period, called Monotheletism.”
- Chris Dickham ( Wickham ). ( On Rome ( Byzantium ) in the seventh century A.D. )
Source: Medieval Europe. By Chris Dickham ( Wickham ). New Haven, Connecticut. United States of America. Yale University Press. 2016. Page 105. ( Amazon Kindle. )
( He’s a pedophile, and he’s not a Monotheletist! Execute him! )
ARCANA
I wanted to call this publication “Art Review”. However, I did a trademark search at tmsearch ( dot ) uspto ( dot ) gov. There are “live” trademarks for “California Art Review” and “American Art Review”. The bald term “Art Review” could, in theory, infringe on their trademarks. So my publication will be “Andrew Roller’s Art Review”.
This is known as “asserting trademark status” on a “first use” basis. Only the United States Patent and Trademark Office can issue a registered American trademark to an American. Their web site is uspto ( dot ) gov.
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Copyright 2021 by Andrew L. Roller. AR, Andrew Roller’s Art Review, 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.
The WordPress app is available for free at the Apple App Store.
This is AR, Art Review, issue number 1
Arcana: This is AR, Art Review, issue number 1, version 6.0
Date Written: August 10, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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AR 1
Andrew Roller’s Art Review presents...
Meet Prasannapala!
——————————————————————————————————————————
Plus: Sebastian’s amazing art.
And: Too hot for You Tube.
——————————————————————————————————————————
MEET Prasannapala!
by Andrew Roller
I’m delighted to announce a new blogger! She is Prasannapala.
( The way I remember her name is by breaking it down: pras ann apa la ). So, if you think of “Ann”, and “L.A.” ( Los Angeles ), then you might remember the other letters too! )
I discovered Prasannapala when she “liked” a post on “Andrew Roller”. ( This blog. ) I wasn’t able to figure out how to “like” her posts, or those of a blogger mentioned below, but I enjoyed visiting her web site!
Prasannapala’s web site address is: http://se689568419 ( dot ) wordpress ( dot ) com. Broken down, it is:
se 68 95 68 419
I’d advise Prasannapala to choose a web site address that’s easier to remember. However, as best I can tell, she’s gotten 51 subscribers in under a month, so she’s doing well!
And yes, she’s cute! Her photo came with her “like”. Thank you, Prasannapala!
Prasannapala’s web site features poetry, a drawing, and two photos.
Her drawing of a girl is very professional! Prasannapala takes fine photos.
An excerpt from her poem, “A fault”:
the agony of mind …
blaming myself coldhearted …
Hurricanes and blizzards in the heart
It feels like blue everywhere.
An excerpt from her poem, “Love in a minute”:
The pain, The emptiness,
They all flew away.
Her poem, “What can we do?” is quite moving.
An e-mail from WordPress lists her “Blog Name” as “The Essence of you.” This is a very nice name! It appears near the top of each page of her web site.
MEET Sebastian!
I was amazed by Sebastian’s web site. It is relatocorto.com. Stepping into Sebastian’s web site is like being welcomed into a Star Wars movie.
However, when you arrive at Sebastian’s web site, you’ll be confronted with an advertisement. I was unable to get rid of the advertisement.
The answer is: scroll down! ( I have no objection to the ad, I just wanted it out of my way. )
The background of Sebastian’s web site is black. It features amazing artwork. Sadly, I was unable to see Sebastian’s artwork as well as I wanted to. The artwork doesn’t need to be changed. It just needs to be more brightly lit.
In addition to publishing art, Sebastian publishes stories.
Thank you to others who have “liked” posts on my blog. “Wandering Ambivert” comes to mind. I am still trying to remove my belongings from my old room, while renting a new room in a new building. I have to pay for both rooms. I’ll visit your web site when I can.
BEAUTIFUL screen bookmarks!
On my Apple iPad, I use the Apple “Safari” browser. It came with the Google browser preinstalled.
With my browser, I am able to make “screen bookmarks”. Here’s how:
1. Look to the upper right hand corner of your browser. Here, you’ll see an icon of a box. An arrow is sticking up out of the box.
2. Tap on this icon of a box.
3. An informational box appears. In the informational box is the following option:
“Add to Home Screen”.
4. Tap on “Add to Home Screen”. A new informational box appears. In the upper right hand corner of this box is the word “Add”.
5. Tap on “Add”.
6. Your browser quits. This is fine. A “screen bookmark” has been put on your iPad’s “Home” screen. ( Wherever there is room. ) Tap on this screen bookmark whenever you want to visit the web site that you have bookmarked.
7. If you can’t find your new screen bookmark anywhere, it is a ghost. You must combine some of your existing bookmarks into “bubble” folders, on your iPad’s screen, to give the ghost bookmark room to appear. It will appear on the very last “page” of your iPad’s “Home” screen.
8. If your browser just quit, and you want to return to the web page that you were on, launch your browser again. ( Tap on the icon for your browser. )
Or, tap on the new screen bookmark that you’ve just made.
Prasannapala‘s screen bookmark is lovely! It features a forest. Beyond the forest are several distant, overlapping hills and mountains, and the sky.
Sebastian’s screen bookmark is an awesome image of his face! It resembles a negative of a photograph. His hair, rendered in white, looks like it’s on fire.
HOW to FAST-Forward
You’re probably wondering, “Didn’t this dude ever own a VCR?” ( A video cassette recorder. )
Since 2019, I’ve been bedeviled by the following question:
How do I fast-forward a video ( or a screen recording ) in Apple’s “Photos” app?
1. Launch the “Photos” app.
2. Look to the left side of your iPad’s screen. There, you’ll see the word “Photos” at the top of a sidebar. ( A vertical column. )
3. Look down ( in the column ) to this subhead: “Media Types”.
4. Under “Media Types”, tap on “Videos”.
5. Tap on any video. The video expands to fill your iPad’s screen. It will begin to play.
6. If you want the video to play sound, look to the top right corner of your iPad’s screen. Tap on the blue icon of a bullhorn. ( Note: this icon will be gray, and inoperable, until the video is playing. )
7. ( The video is now playing. ) Look to the bottom of your iPad’s screen. Here, you’ll see a filmstrip. You’ll probably think that this filmstrip is displaying each frame of the video that is playing.
It is not. Each tall, vertical panel in the filmstrip is displaying a separate video. If you get bored with the video that you’re watching, you can tap any other panel in the filmstrip and a new video ( the one that you tapped ) will begin to play.
Note: you need more than one video in your “Photos” app to enjoy this option.
8. So, how do you fast-forward within the video that is playing?
A. Look to the bottom of your iPad’s screen.
B. Look at the middle of the film strip. If you look closely, you’ll see a white line. It is slightly thicker than the white lines that are used to separate each video in the filmstrip.
C. Tap on the thick white line. Here’s what happens:
To this line’s right, a new series of panels expands ( to the right ). Now, each panel to the right of the thick white line represents a different part of the video that you’re watching.
You cannot tap on a panel within the filmstrip ( of this video ) and jump to that part of the video.
However, if you put your finger anywhere to the right of the thick white line, you can fast-forward, or fast-rewind, the video that you’re watching.
HOW TO organize YOUR VIDEOS
In my “Photos” app, I have many videos. There isn’t any way to label a video. However, in “Photos”, you can create “Albums”. Once you’ve created an “Album”, you can then add a video to it.
Begin doing this as soon as you can. I didn’t. I have about 100,000 videos and photos. These are mostly screen recordings, and screenshots. Trying to put each of these into an album would be a nightmare.
TOO HOT for You Tube
Writing the above article, I tapped on a video. It is a video in my Apple “Photos” app.
By happenstance, I chose a video ( which is actually a screen recording ), that I recorded on September 7, 2019.
The video opens with a shot of a kitchen. For a moment, I thought that I’d somehow recorded my own kitchen. I thought,
“What a dumb fuck I am. I really need to clean out my ‘Photos’ app.”
Then, a super lovely 12-year-old girl sashayed into the kitchen! She is none other than Mari Kruchkova. This is an utterly innocuous video. It is also one of the earliest videos that You Tube’s pathological staff deleted. Why would they have abused Mari, by deleting her G-rated video? I will try to describe this video from a You Tube staffer’s point of view.
Staffer: Joe Lesbian.
Review: My clit is so big that I call it my “boner”. It’s swollen all day. That’s because, as a You Tube censor, I spend all day looking at videos by little girls.
Hmmm. This is a video of a kitchen. Damn. I was hoping for a video of a bedroom. Nobody gets naked in a video of a kitchen. I see kitchen cabinets, a kitchen counter…
Whoa! It’s a little girl! Who is that? Oh yeah, Mari Kruchkova. I love abusing her. Nobody should be so beautiful at such a young age.
Mari is wearing a little black tank top. I can see her belly button! Damn, it’s cute. And she’s so superbly slim. Not like me. People keep asking me when I’m going to have my baby, due to the gigantic size of my stomach.
Mari has gorgeous breast buds! They’re bigger than mine, and I’m 37 years old. I guess that’s why, when people aren’t asking me when I’m having my baby, they’re saying, “Could you please move your fat ass, sir?”
My God, Mari is wearing little denim cutoffs! She has such beautiful legs. They aren’t tree stumps like my legs. She’s wearing lovely white sandals. I can see her toes! We need to make that against our “Community Guidelines”, “Terms of Service”, and “Nazi Protocols”.
On the video’s soundtrack, trendy music is playing. A crowd cheers as Mari faces the camera, and gives her winning smile! Only a stadium full of perverts would cheer like that for a little girl. That makes this video not acceptable as “content for children”. ( Our new, appropriately denigrating term for a video by any girl under the age of 26. )
Mari is now taking yellow gloves out of a package. She keeps the gloves, but drops the package on the floor! That’s littering! That definitely violates our “Child Safety” policy. She might slip on the package later. And, she’s teaching other children ( and a million perverts ) bad values.
Now, she’s putting the gloves on. Now she’s dancing around! 12-year-olds aren’t allowed to dance on You Tube! What if a man sees this video?!?!
She’s climbing a ladder. She lifted her left leg high into the air! That’s a “bodily contortion”! That violates You Tube’s “Child Safety” policy! What if a You Tube censor gets off to it?
Now she climbs back down the ladder. Why did she climb up it, in the first place? To lift her leg?! This video is definitely getting deep-sixed.
Now she’s put two blue cloths into a tub of water. She’s taking them out! The cloths are dripping water! That is way too sexy in “content for children”.
Now she’s climbing up the other side of the ladder. Wow! She sure has a lovely bare waist.
She’s washing a window with both of the cloths, using both of her hands. Her arms are high in the air. I can see her boobies’ points in her shirt! She sure has mouth-watering boobies!
She’s doing rapid semi-squats as she washes the window. What is this, window washing, or an exercise video? I have trouble just squatting to sit on the toilet.
Aha! She rubbed both sides of her face with the cloths. That definitely violates some sort of policy.
Now she’s squirting Windex! On the window! Whew! That’s making me hot! What if she was squirting my “boner”?
Now she’s unrolling paper towels from a paper towel roll. She does it sooo sexily!
Now she’s wiping the window with the paper towels. She smiled at the camera, doing this! Even though the camera isn’t the window! That’s definitely sinful.
Cut to: Mari standing in the kitchen. She’s holding two bottles of Windex. She begins dancing around with them, and squirting them! Everywhere!
Eeyah! She squirted them at me! They got my “boner” all wet!
She’s turned around, she’s bent over backwards,
And squirted me again!
She’s squirting Windex everywhere!
Eeyah! I’m squirting! I’m having my tenth orgasm today! Eeyah!
Whew! What was this video called?
“Dancing at home”.
There. I’ve transferred it to my secret folder of pubescent videos. Of all the staffers at You Tube, I have the biggest one.
As for Mari:
[ This video has been removed for violating You Tube’s Community Guidelines. ]
AND IN THE END…
“Tolerance” in the Seventh Century:
“The 640s and 650s were marked by a reinforcement of persecution against everyone who did not accept the latest religious compromise of the Heraclian period, called Monotheletism.”
- Chris Dickham ( Wickham ). ( On Rome ( Byzantium ) in the seventh century A.D. )
Source: Medieval Europe. By Chris Dickham ( Wickham ). New Haven, Connecticut. United States of America. Yale University Press. 2016. Page 105. ( Amazon Kindle. )
( He’s a pedophile, and he’s not a Monotheletist! Execute him! )
ARCANA
I wanted to call this publication “Art Review”. However, I did a trademark search at tmsearch ( dot ) uspto ( dot ) gov. There are “live” trademarks for “California Art Review” and “American Art Review”. The bald term “Art Review” could, in theory, infringe on their trademarks. So my publication will be “Andrew Roller’s Art Review”.
This is known as “asserting trademark status” on a “first use” basis. Only the United States Patent and Trademark Office can issue a registered American trademark to an American. Their web site is uspto ( dot ) gov.
——————————————————————————————————————————
Copyright 2021 by Andrew L. Roller. AR, Andrew Roller’s Art Review, 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.
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This is AR, Art Review, issue number 1
Arcana: This is AR, Art Review, issue number 1, version 6.0
Date Written: August 10, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Greatest of “the Great”
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Book Observations presents...
Greatest of “the Great”
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Plus: O.K. to hate.
And: King Philip II of Macedon, pedophile.
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GREATEST of “the GREAT”
An “Audible” Audio Book Review
by Andrew Roller
Relevant Quote:
“When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.”
- Plutarch, and / or Alan Rickman.
Source: Plutarch, and / or Alan Rickman as Hans [ Schickl ] Gruber [ i.e. Adolf Hitler ] in the 1988 film, “Die Hard”. ( Derived from various sources on Google. )
Alexander the Great and the Macedonian Empire. By Kenneth W. Hurl ( Harl ). The Great Courses.
Narrated by: Kenneth W. Hurl ( Harl ). Includes sound effects.
A PDF is included. ( Printed documentation. ) Date of publication: 2010.
Lecture series. Total length: 18 hours, 29 minutes.
Review: You Tube’s campaign of harassment, against its customers, did not at first include me. I wondered what other customers were complaining about. Then, You Tube’s staff targeted me. They did so in the most vicious way possible. In March of 2020, my You Tube account was terminated with no warning at all. My Google account was, simultaneously, terminated by You Tube’s staff with no warning at all.
You Tube’s staff had begun harassing Dana Taranova in October of 2019. That is by my reckoning. I’d only joined You Tube in September of 2019, so it is ( quite ) possible that You Tube’s staff was harassing Dana Taranova prior to October 2019. Dana is commonly known as “Danatar”.
I was able, like others, to communicate with Dana. She was 11 years old when I became aware of her. I recall writing to her:
“If You Tube kicks me out, I’ll take up the study of history.” ( Paraphrased. )
So, here we are. You Tube has kicked me out. I took up the study of history while still a customer of You Tube, due to their ceaseless harassment of me, as well as of other customers.
Alexander the Great was born in July of 356 B.C. In busts, he looks like a Rock ‘N’ Roll god. It is said that he wasn’t overly tall, but was strongly built. He strikes me as someone who was highly aggressive.
My understanding of Alexander the Great was that he was Greek. I held this opinion for 59 years. In fact, Alexander the Great was Macedonian. The ancient Kingdom of Macedon was to the northeast of Greece.
Alexander’s father was the King of Macedon. His name was Philip II. He conquered Greece.
In ancient times, Greece was considered as extending to the western coast of Turkey. There were Greek settlements in Turkey. However, they were owned by the Achaemenid Empire of Persia.
Philip longed to “liberate” the Greek colonies on the Turkish coast. He died before he could attempt this. Alexander, after cleaning up some troubles in Greece, headed off to accomplish his father’s ambition. Thus began the odyssey that would add “the Great” to Alexander’s name.
It is easy to get confused about the Persians. Persia is, basically, Iran. ( Plus extra territory, in ancient times. ) Of this land, one can create the following timeline of ownership:
1. Achaemenid Empire of Persia owned Iran ( plus extra territory ). This empire began in 550 B.C.
2. Macedonia owned Iran ( plus extra territory ).
3. The Parthian Empire owned Iran, while:
4. Rome owned the extra territory.
5. Persia owned Iran, while:
6. Rome owned the extra territory. Rome’s rule ended in 1453 A.D. This is known as “the fall of Constantinople”. Constantinople was in Turkey. It was on the European side of the Bosphorus Strait.
In ancient times, Turkey was called “Asia Minor”. The landmass itself is today called “Anatolia”. Milana from Minsk has vacationed on the southern coast of Turkey.
The above is a snapshot of history. It does not include a record of ownership prior to the Achaemenid Empire of Persia. It does not include a record of ownership after Rome lost control of the extra territory. ( In the latter case, Rome itself ended. By then, it was called “Byzantium”. )
I had thought that Alexander’s campaign of conquest occurred prior to the time of Socrates, and the Peloponnesian War. I was wrong. Socrates had been dead for about a half century when Alexander was born. The Peloponnesian War ended during Socrates’ lifetime.
A note on time: In A.D. one counts forward: 2000 is followed by 2001. In B.C. one counts backwards. Someone born in 400 B.C. is a year older than someone born in 399 B.C.
As for the lectures by Hurl, I found them rather hard to follow. I enjoy his enthusiasm for his subject matter. Sometimes, because of his enthusiasm, he makes minor errors. The ones I recall were directional and grammatical errors. Hurl has a strong, clear voice. His best strength, in this course, probably lies in his description of battles.
MORE on Philip and ALEXANDER
At age 15, Philip II, future father of Alexander, was sent by Macedonia’s royal court to Thebes. He was sent there as a political hostage. This wasn’t a dismal life for Philip II. Of his time in Thebes, Philip Freeman writes:
“While the other Macedonian hostages feasted and chased local girls, Philip spent every moment learning the latest techniques in warfare from the Theban generals.” [ Location 259. ]
However, note this:
“If Macedonia behaved itself, the hostages would be treated as honored guests. If not, they would be tortured and killed.” [ Location 256. ]
Based on his place in Macedon’s royal line, Philip II didn’t expect to become Macedon’s king. However, he did. Of this, Philip Freeman writes:
“[ He ] faced an almost hopeless situation. Macedonia was in chaos with the nobility pitted against each other in civil war, barbarians invading on all sides, and the Greeks, especially the Athenians, working tirelessly to … dominate … Macedonia.” [ Location 238. ]
In history, a number of men have been called “the great”. Of these, Alexander is considered to be the greatest. I have heard this from numerous sources over the years. It is Hurl’s view. Hurl would also call Philip II “the great”. Philip’s accomplishments were overshadowed by those of his son.
But what were Alexander’s accomplishments? He went on a murderous rampage. For that, he is called, “the great”.
On the other hand, those he conquered ( foreign rulers ) used violence to control others. So it was a case of one murderer going on a killing spree against other murderers, with a lot of civilians getting killed in the process.
Note that every modern state, including America, uses violence to control others.
Hurl is pro-Alexander. He is so much so that he glosses over a horrific crime by Alexander’s mother, Olympias. As was the Macedonian custom, Philip had a number of wives. One of these was Eurydice. When Philip met his end, Olympias murdered the children of Eurydice. She did this in front of Eurydice, who then took her own life.
My understanding is that the children of Eurydice were killed in a gruesome manner. However, I am unable to find my source for this.
I would write more on the end of Philip II, but that would give away too much of the story. Suffice it to say that Philip’s end does not improve Olympias’ reputation.
Further Quotes:
1. “Philip [ II ascended to the throne of ] a weak and threatened kingdom on the northern edge of civilization.” [ Macedon. ]
- Philip Freeman.
Source: Alexander the Great, by Philip Freeman. ( New York, United States. Simon and Schuster. January 4, 2011. ) Location 132. ( Amazon Kindle. )
2. “No longer would Macedonian nobles ride forth on their own in search of glory. In Philip’s army, the cavalry worked closely with the infantry.”
Source: Ibid., Location 304.
3. “[ The Macedonians ] saw the Greeks as feeble, effeminate, self-important snobs who had long since squandered whatever manliness and courage they had possessed.”
Source: Ibid., Location 183.
4. “[ Traditionally, the Macedonian court was a ] swirl of treachery, violence, and vicious love triangles, heterosexual and homosexual.”
Source: Ibid., Location 226.
Alexander packed these folks up and took them east, where they could kill Persians instead of each other.
5. “Euripides … wrote the Bacchae [ as a guest of the Macedonian court. It is ] a wild tale of sex, murder, and insanity that surely owes its inspiration to life among the Macedonian nobility.”
Source: Ibid., Location 230.
6. “He saw the grave weakness of a system in which every man could voice his opinion and vote.”
Source: Ibid., Location 272. ( On Philip II. )
Further Reference:
1. Alexander the Great, by Philip Freeman. ( New York, United States. Simon and Schuster. January 4, 2011. ) ( Amazon Kindle. )
2. Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors. By Adrian Goldsworthy. ( New York, United States. Basic Books, a division of Hachette Book Group. November 2020. ) ( Amazon Kindle. )
3. The Anabasis of Alexander. By Arrian of Nicomedia.
Translator: E. J. Chinnock ( ers )
Free at gutenberg ( dot ) org.
4. Plutarch: Complete Works. Delphi Classics 2013. Version 1.
Only one version is available. Delphi is reissuing its electronic books in new versions, called “Version 2”. A “Version 2” book is $2.99. A “Version 1” book is $1.99.
On another occasion, I had the option of choosing “Version 1” or “Version 2” of a Delphi book. I examined a free sample of each. I found no difference between the versions. On Amazon, the description for “Version 2” was a mess. So, I bought “Version 1”.
5. I looked up several individuals on Wikipedia, including:
Olympias. ( A wife of Philip II. Mother of Alexander the Great. )
Cleopatra Eurydice of Macedon. ( A wife of Philip II. )
Europa of Macedon. ( The murdered daughter of Philip II and Eurydice. )
O.K. TO HATE
The Art of War: A memoir of life in prison with the Mafia, serial killers, and sex offenders who get stabbed. By Glenn Langohr. ( Not Languor! )
Narrated by: Glenn Langohr.
Amazon “Audible” book. Total length: 1 hour, 30 minutes.
Summary:
Sex offenders who molest and rape children inflict damage upon them for life. Many victims become drug addicts and criminals who were never defended. [ “never” is italicized. ] In The Art of War: A Prison Memoir, best-selling author Glenn Langohr takes you inside a California prison where a guard worked with the inmates to have a notorious child molester stabbed. He furnished them with the court paperwork that exposed 44 convictions of rape. Where mobsters, serial killers, and gangs are all fighting to survive, this is The Art of War. [ The Art of War is, here, italicized. ]
Reviews:
1. Review by: Patrick Alan Sullivan
Headline: All true,
Thank God for stand up white men whom really deal out the justice these pieces of shit really deserve. I’ve been there and seen this with my own eyes. The thing that bothers me is how some of the others races run there programs, letting Co mos, rapes , other weirdos, punks walk the yard & eat chow with them?
2. Review by: Billy and Jennifer minshall
Headline: good n true
thank u for sharing can’t wait to read ur other stuff! will be adding you on Facebook and looking for your other books!
[ You can bet this couple will never get kicked out of Facebook. They’re good Christians. I mean, good haters! Heil Mark Fuckerberg! Kill them all! Let God sort them out! Auschwitz for pedophiles. And Jewish pedophiles! ]
3. Review by: VARGAS [ With the emphasis on “GAS”? ] 1
Headline: Awesone [ A new word for “awesome”, I guess. ]
Loved it Glenn Langohr is my new mentor! I cant wait to listen to another one !
[ The next one will be, “The Art of War: Lynching Niggers and Frying Fags.” ]
4. Review by: JC [ Jesus Christ. ]
Headline: Narration if horrible.
Being very interested in Gang life/ intel, I purchased the narration… heard to follow this story… it’s all over and the narration is horrible, sounds like he is in a well.
[ The story is this: you must cherish diversity, and be tolerant. But you must absolutely hate “child molesters”. ]
5. Review by: Gregory Snack, LITITZ, PA, US
Headline: Not good at all
This very short book was terrible, I’m so sorry that I ever got this one. Out of all the books that I have listened to, this was absolutely the worst. [ Really? I understand that You Tube’s staffers play it all day. ] Save your money and pass this one up
Editor’s Note: All the above comments were copied verbatim. I was unable to reproduce every instance of odd spacing. The bracketed comments [ ] are my own.
LIARS, Damn LIARS, and AMERICANS
A common conceit is that there were no pedophiles until yesterday morning. America was a morally healthy society in times gone by.
What happened since then? Let’s see: women’s liberation, Negro liberation, gay liberation, and liberal laws regarding abortion and divorce.
Strangely, no one ever suggests, in a serious way, that such liberations be reversed. America just wouldn’t be the same if it couldn’t kill its children. Hence, “child molesters” are to blame for America’s moral decline. Where did such “child molesters” come from? Probably, the sale of Playboy magazine at 7-Eleven spawned them.
ARSE ( Andrew Roller Stories and Essays ) has done its best to prove that, like gays, pedophiles have always been with us. They have been soldiers, doctors, lawyers, and every other sort of person. There have been good pedophiles, and bad ones. Here’s an example of some ordinary men that you might classify as bad pedophiles:
“During dinner the Persian ambassadors began shamelessly to fondle the wives and daughters of the royal family who were present.”
This story was told by the King of Macedon, Alexander I, to Herodotus. Herodotus is often called “the father of history”. He lived from 484 B.C. to 425 B.C. That was 2,500 years ago.
Here’s an example of an extraordinary man that you might classify as a good pedophile:
“Philip was a typical Macedonian nobleman—fiery in temperament, excessive in drink, and exceedingly fond of war, horses, beautiful women, and handsome young boys.”
This is a description of King Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great. ( Alexander the Great was, like his father, fond of young boys. )
The next time someone says that “child molesters” didn’t exist until now, tell them they’re lying.
Source for quotes:
1. “During dinner”: Alexander the Great, by Philip Freeman. ( New York, United States. Simon and Schuster. January 4, 2011. ) Location 210. ( Amazon Kindle. )
2. “Philip was”: Ibid., Location 250.
3. On Alexander: “According to Carystius ( as quoted by Athenaeus ) … Alexander praised the beauty of a boy at a gathering.” en ( dot ) wikipedia ( dot ) org. Article: “Personal relationships of Alexander the Great”.
SLEEP Well!
Finding a book that can put me to sleep is a challenge. I’m speaking, in this instance, of audio books. I’ve found a book that, so far, is getting me off to nightmareland. ( Or dreamland, or oblivion, as the case may be. ) It is:
West with the Night, by Beryl Markham. Narrated by Anna Fields. This book is free on Amazon’s “Audible” service.
A second version is also there, and also free:
West with the Night, by Beryl Markham. Narrated by Julie Harris. This edition touts itself as being, “Complete and Unabridged”. This is a lie. Play the beginning of each book and you’ll instantly see that preliminary material, read in the Fields version, is omitted from the Harris version. I feel that Fields is the better narrator.
I’m slow to take the advice of others. Hence, to “sell” this book, I’ll reference the following:
1. It begins with, apparently, the near rape of Beryl. ( Told in a wry way. )
2. Of Beryl’s book, Ernest Hemingway said, “She can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves as writers.”
Source: ( en ) wikipedia ( dot ) org. Article: “West with the Night”.
3. “Markham was the first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean from east to west in a non-stop solo flight. ( A westbound flight requires more endurance, fuel, and time than the eastward journey, because the craft must travel against the prevailing Atlantic winds ).”
Source: ibid.
JACKPOT!
Amazon’s “Audible” app provides audio books. You may be a subscriber to it. I am. Today, I used Audible’s search function. ( Its icon is a magnifying glass. ) In Audible’s search field, I entered this:
war memoirs
It returned 1,046 “Results”. ( Memoirs. ) Some of these are free. Many cost money.
Under “Results” is an unchecked box. Beside it is written, “Included in your membership(s)”.
I tapped the box. This put a checkmark in it. Now, 48 “Results” were returned. All of the memoirs in these “Results” are free. You can add them to your Audible library without downloading them. Only when you download an audio book does it eat up a meaningful ( but small ) amount of your iPad’s memory.
You can always un-download an audio book by choosing the option, “Remove from Device”. The audio book will remain in your library. However, it will no longer be downloaded to your iPad.
The 48 “Results” that Audible gave me represent a wide variety of authors, and points of view. Some examples:
1. Dutch ( not “Ditch”! ) Girl. This is about Audrey Hepburn in World War II.
2. Bloody Ridge and Beyond. This is about the World War II battle of Guadalcanal.
3. Horses Don’t Fly. This is about a World War I ace who had been a cowboy.
4. Spymistress. This is about a woman involved in espionage.
5. War Flower. This is about a woman in combat. From the synopsis: “… sex turns into secret affairs, the violence is turned up to 11”.
6. Soaring to Glory. This is about an African-American fighter pilot.
7. Mighty Be Our Powers. This is about a female Liberian political organizer. From the synopsis: “…launching protests and even a sex strike.”
8. Saigon Kids. This is about American young people ( civilians ) in Vietnam, during the Vietnam War.
9. Weird War One. This is about a blogger answering “intimate problems”, and more, from young people. His blog is “The Raccoon Society”.
10. The Notorious VIP. This is about Sean Combs. ( Puff Daddy. )
11. Jackpot. This is about drug smugglers.
Ben Franklin is also in the “Results”, as is General Sherman, Harriett Tubman, and a Holocaust survivor.
The only point of view ( besides that of a pedophile ) that was missing was this one:
A gay memoir.
Fags: you have your marching orders. Yell and scream! ( And they will; unlike heterosexual pedophiles, for whom the watchword is: submit, submit, submit. )
I have not listened to the above audio books. Nor would I necessarily agree with the points of view that are expressed. However, I found such an astonishing variety of voices that I felt I should mention this.
ARCANA
1. “Liars, Damn Liars, and Americans” riffs on the phrase, “Lies, damn lies, and statistics”.
2. Adolf Hitler, due to his family’s past, might easily have been named “Adolf Schicklgruber”. He may also, according to author John Toland, have been Jewish. This allows for several politically incorrect conclusions:
A. The Jews killed Christ ( a Jew ).
B. Hitler ( a Jew ) killed the Jews.
C. The German people ( a number of whom were unidentified Jews ) killed the Jews.
In earlier times, German Jews had been obliged, due to social and political pressures, to convert from Judaism to Christianity. Hence, a number of Germans, by the time of Hitler, were unidentified Jews.
Sources for the above:
a. Encyclopaedia Britannica, “9 Things You Might Not Know About Adolf Hitler”. https://www ( dot ) britannica ( dot ) com.
b. Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography, by John Toland. ( New York, United States. Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc. 1992. ( Originally published in 1976. )) Page 18. ( Amazon Kindle. )
c. A book that I read about, but didn’t buy. My recollection of the title is, “From Jews to Germans”. I was unable to find this book on Google. The time period covered by the book is prior to the 20th century.
Google is overwhelmed with books about the Holocaust. ( When one enters the search term, “from jews to germans”. ) Google is overwhelmed with books about early Christianity. ( When one enters the search term, “from jews to christians”. )
3. Playboy magazine began publication on October 1, 1953. 7-Eleven sold Playboy magazine throughout the magazine’s heyday:
A. “Playboy: 7-Eleven Franchises Selling Magazine in Defiance of Company Edict. CHICAGO (AP) _ As many as 3,000 franchised 7-Eleven convenience stores nationwide are selling Playboy magazine despite the chain's decision a year ago to discontinue selling the adult publication, magazine officials say. Apr 10, 1987”.
B. “7-Eleven’s Ban on Playboy Magazine - Los Angeles Times https://www (dot ) latimes ( dot ) com > archives > la-xpm-1986–04-…
Apr 19, 1986 - Nearby there was the news that 7-Eleven stores are no longer going to sell Playboy magazine because of “public concern over a possible link …”
( I was unable to access the Los Angeles Times web site. )
Google search term: does 7-eleven sell playboy? Search date: August 7, 2021.
4. The Los Angeles Times has a slogan. It is: The state of what’s next.
We can see what’s next at the Los Angeles Times: a blackout of information for the common man. The web site offers no access at all to non-paying guests of its web site.
Fortunately, you can read ARSE for free!
5. I apologize for continuing to use ( and cite ) Google.
My WordPress site tells me which browsers are used to access it. The browser Duck Duck Go is increasingly popular among users of ARSE. It is right behind Google, and sometimes ahead of it, in popularity. ( Google remains, overall, the most popular browser. ) Bing is the third most popular browser.
My WordPress site does not tell me who is using my web site. You can rest assured that I don’t know who you are. ( Unless you use Wordpress to contact me in some way. Then, I only know of that particular contact. You can use ARSE again, in the future, anonymously. )
6. In Amazon’s “Audible” app, I entered the search term “memoirs”. “Results” returned 1,186 audio books that were “Included” ( free ). Scrolling far down in this list, I came upon this book:
One Click. It is about “Jeff Bozo and the rise of amazon ( dot ) com”.
7. The podcast “The Seven Seas of Stories” is on Amazon’s “Audible” service. It consists of “Inspiring and entertaining stories for kids written and narrated by a middle-schooler.” The hostess is “Aarna Vachhrajani”. She has a nice voice!
8. Let us hope for a future that is free of discrimination, where all people can freely interact.
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This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 18
Arcana: This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 18, version 4.0
Date Written: August 8, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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BO 18
Book Observations presents...
Greatest of “the Great”
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Plus: O.K. to hate.
And: King Philip II of Macedon, pedophile.
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GREATEST of “the GREAT”
An “Audible” Audio Book Review
by Andrew Roller
Relevant Quote:
“When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.”
- Plutarch, and / or Alan Rickman.
Source: Plutarch, and / or Alan Rickman as Hans [ Schickl ] Gruber [ i.e. Adolf Hitler ] in the 1988 film, “Die Hard”. ( Derived from various sources on Google. )
Alexander the Great and the Macedonian Empire. By Kenneth W. Hurl ( Harl ). The Great Courses.
Narrated by: Kenneth W. Hurl ( Harl ). Includes sound effects.
A PDF is included. ( Printed documentation. ) Date of publication: 2010.
Lecture series. Total length: 18 hours, 29 minutes.
Review: You Tube’s campaign of harassment, against its customers, did not at first include me. I wondered what other customers were complaining about. Then, You Tube’s staff targeted me. They did so in the most vicious way possible. In March of 2020, my You Tube account was terminated with no warning at all. My Google account was, simultaneously, terminated by You Tube’s staff with no warning at all.
You Tube’s staff had begun harassing Dana Taranova in October of 2019. That is by my reckoning. I’d only joined You Tube in September of 2019, so it is ( quite ) possible that You Tube’s staff was harassing Dana Taranova prior to October 2019. Dana is commonly known as “Danatar”.
I was able, like others, to communicate with Dana. She was 11 years old when I became aware of her. I recall writing to her:
“If You Tube kicks me out, I’ll take up the study of history.” ( Paraphrased. )
So, here we are. You Tube has kicked me out. I took up the study of history while still a customer of You Tube, due to their ceaseless harassment of me, as well as of other customers.
Alexander the Great was born in July of 356 B.C. In busts, he looks like a Rock ‘N’ Roll god. It is said that he wasn’t overly tall, but was strongly built. He strikes me as someone who was highly aggressive.
My understanding of Alexander the Great was that he was Greek. I held this opinion for 59 years. In fact, Alexander the Great was Macedonian. The ancient Kingdom of Macedon was to the northeast of Greece.
Alexander’s father was the King of Macedon. His name was Philip II. He conquered Greece.
In ancient times, Greece was considered as extending to the western coast of Turkey. There were Greek settlements in Turkey. However, they were owned by the Achaemenid Empire of Persia.
Philip longed to “liberate” the Greek colonies on the Turkish coast. He died before he could attempt this. Alexander, after cleaning up some troubles in Greece, headed off to accomplish his father’s ambition. Thus began the odyssey that would add “the Great” to Alexander’s name.
It is easy to get confused about the Persians. Persia is, basically, Iran. ( Plus extra territory, in ancient times. ) Of this land, one can create the following timeline of ownership:
1. Achaemenid Empire of Persia owned Iran ( plus extra territory ). This empire began in 550 B.C.
2. Macedonia owned Iran ( plus extra territory ).
3. The Parthian Empire owned Iran, while:
4. Rome owned the extra territory.
5. Persia owned Iran, while:
6. Rome owned the extra territory. Rome’s rule ended in 1453 A.D. This is known as “the fall of Constantinople”. Constantinople was in Turkey. It was on the European side of the Bosphorus Strait.
In ancient times, Turkey was called “Asia Minor”. The landmass itself is today called “Anatolia”. Milana from Minsk has vacationed on the southern coast of Turkey.
The above is a snapshot of history. It does not include a record of ownership prior to the Achaemenid Empire of Persia. It does not include a record of ownership after Rome lost control of the extra territory. ( In the latter case, Rome itself ended. By then, it was called “Byzantium”. )
I had thought that Alexander’s campaign of conquest occurred prior to the time of Socrates, and the Peloponnesian War. I was wrong. Socrates had been dead for about a half century when Alexander was born. The Peloponnesian War ended during Socrates’ lifetime.
A note on time: In A.D. one counts forward: 2000 is followed by 2001. In B.C. one counts backwards. Someone born in 400 B.C. is a year older than someone born in 399 B.C.
As for the lectures by Hurl, I found them rather hard to follow. I enjoy his enthusiasm for his subject matter. Sometimes, because of his enthusiasm, he makes minor errors. The ones I recall were directional and grammatical errors. Hurl has a strong, clear voice. His best strength, in this course, probably lies in his description of battles.
MORE on Philip and ALEXANDER
At age 15, Philip II, future father of Alexander, was sent by Macedonia’s royal court to Thebes. He was sent there as a political hostage. This wasn’t a dismal life for Philip II. Of his time in Thebes, Philip Freeman writes:
“While the other Macedonian hostages feasted and chased local girls, Philip spent every moment learning the latest techniques in warfare from the Theban generals.” [ Location 259. ]
However, note this:
“If Macedonia behaved itself, the hostages would be treated as honored guests. If not, they would be tortured and killed.” [ Location 256. ]
Based on his place in Macedon’s royal line, Philip II didn’t expect to become Macedon’s king. However, he did. Of this, Philip Freeman writes:
“[ He ] faced an almost hopeless situation. Macedonia was in chaos with the nobility pitted against each other in civil war, barbarians invading on all sides, and the Greeks, especially the Athenians, working tirelessly to … dominate … Macedonia.” [ Location 238. ]
In history, a number of men have been called “the great”. Of these, Alexander is considered to be the greatest. I have heard this from numerous sources over the years. It is Hurl’s view. Hurl would also call Philip II “the great”. Philip’s accomplishments were overshadowed by those of his son.
But what were Alexander’s accomplishments? He went on a murderous rampage. For that, he is called, “the great”.
On the other hand, those he conquered ( foreign rulers ) used violence to control others. So it was a case of one murderer going on a killing spree against other murderers, with a lot of civilians getting killed in the process.
Note that every modern state, including America, uses violence to control others.
Hurl is pro-Alexander. He is so much so that he glosses over a horrific crime by Alexander’s mother, Olympias. As was the Macedonian custom, Philip had a number of wives. One of these was Eurydice. When Philip met his end, Olympias murdered the children of Eurydice. She did this in front of Eurydice, who then took her own life.
My understanding is that the children of Eurydice were killed in a gruesome manner. However, I am unable to find my source for this.
I would write more on the end of Philip II, but that would give away too much of the story. Suffice it to say that Philip’s end does not improve Olympias’ reputation.
Further Quotes:
1. “Philip [ II ascended to the throne of ] a weak and threatened kingdom on the northern edge of civilization.” [ Macedon. ]
- Philip Freeman.
Source: Alexander the Great, by Philip Freeman. ( New York, United States. Simon and Schuster. January 4, 2011. ) Location 132. ( Amazon Kindle. )
2. “No longer would Macedonian nobles ride forth on their own in search of glory. In Philip’s army, the cavalry worked closely with the infantry.”
Source: Ibid., Location 304.
3. “[ The Macedonians ] saw the Greeks as feeble, effeminate, self-important snobs who had long since squandered whatever manliness and courage they had possessed.”
Source: Ibid., Location 183.
4. “[ Traditionally, the Macedonian court was a ] swirl of treachery, violence, and vicious love triangles, heterosexual and homosexual.”
Source: Ibid., Location 226.
Alexander packed these folks up and took them east, where they could kill Persians instead of each other.
5. “Euripides … wrote the Bacchae [ as a guest of the Macedonian court. It is ] a wild tale of sex, murder, and insanity that surely owes its inspiration to life among the Macedonian nobility.”
Source: Ibid., Location 230.
6. “He saw the grave weakness of a system in which every man could voice his opinion and vote.”
Source: Ibid., Location 272. ( On Philip II. )
Further Reference:
1. Alexander the Great, by Philip Freeman. ( New York, United States. Simon and Schuster. January 4, 2011. ) ( Amazon Kindle. )
2. Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors. By Adrian Goldsworthy. ( New York, United States. Basic Books, a division of Hachette Book Group. November 2020. ) ( Amazon Kindle. )
3. The Anabasis of Alexander. By Arrian of Nicomedia.
Translator: E. J. Chinnock ( ers )
Free at gutenberg ( dot ) org.
4. Plutarch: Complete Works. Delphi Classics 2013. Version 1.
Only one version is available. Delphi is reissuing its electronic books in new versions, called “Version 2”. A “Version 2” book is $2.99. A “Version 1” book is $1.99.
On another occasion, I had the option of choosing “Version 1” or “Version 2” of a Delphi book. I examined a free sample of each. I found no difference between the versions. On Amazon, the description for “Version 2” was a mess. So, I bought “Version 1”.
5. I looked up several individuals on Wikipedia, including:
Olympias. ( A wife of Philip II. Mother of Alexander the Great. )
Cleopatra Eurydice of Macedon. ( A wife of Philip II. )
Europa of Macedon. ( The murdered daughter of Philip II and Eurydice. )
O.K. TO HATE
The Art of War: A memoir of life in prison with the Mafia, serial killers, and sex offenders who get stabbed. By Glenn Langohr. ( Not Languor! )
Narrated by: Glenn Langohr.
Amazon “Audible” book. Total length: 1 hour, 30 minutes.
Summary:
Sex offenders who molest and rape children inflict damage upon them for life. Many victims become drug addicts and criminals who were never defended. [ “never” is italicized. ] In The Art of War: A Prison Memoir, best-selling author Glenn Langohr takes you inside a California prison where a guard worked with the inmates to have a notorious child molester stabbed. He furnished them with the court paperwork that exposed 44 convictions of rape. Where mobsters, serial killers, and gangs are all fighting to survive, this is The Art of War. [ The Art of War is, here, italicized. ]
Reviews:
1. Review by: Patrick Alan Sullivan
Headline: All true,
Thank God for stand up white men whom really deal out the justice these pieces of shit really deserve. I’ve been there and seen this with my own eyes. The thing that bothers me is how some of the others races run there programs, letting Co mos, rapes , other weirdos, punks walk the yard & eat chow with them?
2. Review by: Billy and Jennifer minshall
Headline: good n true
thank u for sharing can’t wait to read ur other stuff! will be adding you on Facebook and looking for your other books!
[ You can bet this couple will never get kicked out of Facebook. They’re good Christians. I mean, good haters! Heil Mark Fuckerberg! Kill them all! Let God sort them out! Auschwitz for pedophiles. And Jewish pedophiles! ]
3. Review by: VARGAS [ With the emphasis on “GAS”? ] 1
Headline: Awesone [ A new word for “awesome”, I guess. ]
Loved it Glenn Langohr is my new mentor! I cant wait to listen to another one !
[ The next one will be, “The Art of War: Lynching Niggers and Frying Fags.” ]
4. Review by: JC [ Jesus Christ. ]
Headline: Narration if horrible.
Being very interested in Gang life/ intel, I purchased the narration… heard to follow this story… it’s all over and the narration is horrible, sounds like he is in a well.
[ The story is this: you must cherish diversity, and be tolerant. But you must absolutely hate “child molesters”. ]
5. Review by: Gregory Snack, LITITZ, PA, US
Headline: Not good at all
This very short book was terrible, I’m so sorry that I ever got this one. Out of all the books that I have listened to, this was absolutely the worst. [ Really? I understand that You Tube’s staffers play it all day. ] Save your money and pass this one up
Editor’s Note: All the above comments were copied verbatim. I was unable to reproduce every instance of odd spacing. The bracketed comments [ ] are my own.
LIARS, Damn LIARS, and AMERICANS
A common conceit is that there were no pedophiles until yesterday morning. America was a morally healthy society in times gone by.
What happened since then? Let’s see: women’s liberation, Negro liberation, gay liberation, and liberal laws regarding abortion and divorce.
Strangely, no one ever suggests, in a serious way, that such liberations be reversed. America just wouldn’t be the same if it couldn’t kill its children. Hence, “child molesters” are to blame for America’s moral decline. Where did such “child molesters” come from? Probably, the sale of Playboy magazine at 7-Eleven spawned them.
ARSE ( Andrew Roller Stories and Essays ) has done its best to prove that, like gays, pedophiles have always been with us. They have been soldiers, doctors, lawyers, and every other sort of person. There have been good pedophiles, and bad ones. Here’s an example of some ordinary men that you might classify as bad pedophiles:
“During dinner the Persian ambassadors began shamelessly to fondle the wives and daughters of the royal family who were present.”
This story was told by the King of Macedon, Alexander I, to Herodotus. Herodotus is often called “the father of history”. He lived from 484 B.C. to 425 B.C. That was 2,500 years ago.
Here’s an example of an extraordinary man that you might classify as a good pedophile:
“Philip was a typical Macedonian nobleman—fiery in temperament, excessive in drink, and exceedingly fond of war, horses, beautiful women, and handsome young boys.”
This is a description of King Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great. ( Alexander the Great was, like his father, fond of young boys. )
The next time someone says that “child molesters” didn’t exist until now, tell them they’re lying.
Source for quotes:
1. “During dinner”: Alexander the Great, by Philip Freeman. ( New York, United States. Simon and Schuster. January 4, 2011. ) Location 210. ( Amazon Kindle. )
2. “Philip was”: Ibid., Location 250.
3. On Alexander: “According to Carystius ( as quoted by Athenaeus ) … Alexander praised the beauty of a boy at a gathering.” en ( dot ) wikipedia ( dot ) org. Article: “Personal relationships of Alexander the Great”.
SLEEP Well!
Finding a book that can put me to sleep is a challenge. I’m speaking, in this instance, of audio books. I’ve found a book that, so far, is getting me off to nightmareland. ( Or dreamland, or oblivion, as the case may be. ) It is:
West with the Night, by Beryl Markham. Narrated by Anna Fields. This book is free on Amazon’s “Audible” service.
A second version is also there, and also free:
West with the Night, by Beryl Markham. Narrated by Julie Harris. This edition touts itself as being, “Complete and Unabridged”. This is a lie. Play the beginning of each book and you’ll instantly see that preliminary material, read in the Fields version, is omitted from the Harris version. I feel that Fields is the better narrator.
I’m slow to take the advice of others. Hence, to “sell” this book, I’ll reference the following:
1. It begins with, apparently, the near rape of Beryl. ( Told in a wry way. )
2. Of Beryl’s book, Ernest Hemingway said, “She can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves as writers.”
Source: ( en ) wikipedia ( dot ) org. Article: “West with the Night”.
3. “Markham was the first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean from east to west in a non-stop solo flight. ( A westbound flight requires more endurance, fuel, and time than the eastward journey, because the craft must travel against the prevailing Atlantic winds ).”
Source: ibid.
JACKPOT!
Amazon’s “Audible” app provides audio books. You may be a subscriber to it. I am. Today, I used Audible’s search function. ( Its icon is a magnifying glass. ) In Audible’s search field, I entered this:
war memoirs
It returned 1,046 “Results”. ( Memoirs. ) Some of these are free. Many cost money.
Under “Results” is an unchecked box. Beside it is written, “Included in your membership(s)”.
I tapped the box. This put a checkmark in it. Now, 48 “Results” were returned. All of the memoirs in these “Results” are free. You can add them to your Audible library without downloading them. Only when you download an audio book does it eat up a meaningful ( but small ) amount of your iPad’s memory.
You can always un-download an audio book by choosing the option, “Remove from Device”. The audio book will remain in your library. However, it will no longer be downloaded to your iPad.
The 48 “Results” that Audible gave me represent a wide variety of authors, and points of view. Some examples:
1. Dutch ( not “Ditch”! ) Girl. This is about Audrey Hepburn in World War II.
2. Bloody Ridge and Beyond. This is about the World War II battle of Guadalcanal.
3. Horses Don’t Fly. This is about a World War I ace who had been a cowboy.
4. Spymistress. This is about a woman involved in espionage.
5. War Flower. This is about a woman in combat. From the synopsis: “… sex turns into secret affairs, the violence is turned up to 11”.
6. Soaring to Glory. This is about an African-American fighter pilot.
7. Mighty Be Our Powers. This is about a female Liberian political organizer. From the synopsis: “…launching protests and even a sex strike.”
8. Saigon Kids. This is about American young people ( civilians ) in Vietnam, during the Vietnam War.
9. Weird War One. This is about a blogger answering “intimate problems”, and more, from young people. His blog is “The Raccoon Society”.
10. The Notorious VIP. This is about Sean Combs. ( Puff Daddy. )
11. Jackpot. This is about drug smugglers.
Ben Franklin is also in the “Results”, as is General Sherman, Harriett Tubman, and a Holocaust survivor.
The only point of view ( besides that of a pedophile ) that was missing was this one:
A gay memoir.
Fags: you have your marching orders. Yell and scream! ( And they will; unlike heterosexual pedophiles, for whom the watchword is: submit, submit, submit. )
I have not listened to the above audio books. Nor would I necessarily agree with the points of view that are expressed. However, I found such an astonishing variety of voices that I felt I should mention this.
ARCANA
1. “Liars, Damn Liars, and Americans” riffs on the phrase, “Lies, damn lies, and statistics”.
2. Adolf Hitler, due to his family’s past, might easily have been named “Adolf Schicklgruber”. He may also, according to author John Toland, have been Jewish. This allows for several politically incorrect conclusions:
A. The Jews killed Christ ( a Jew ).
B. Hitler ( a Jew ) killed the Jews.
C. The German people ( a number of whom were unidentified Jews ) killed the Jews.
In earlier times, German Jews had been obliged, due to social and political pressures, to convert from Judaism to Christianity. Hence, a number of Germans, by the time of Hitler, were unidentified Jews.
Sources for the above:
a. Encyclopaedia Britannica, “9 Things You Might Not Know About Adolf Hitler”. https://www ( dot ) britannica ( dot ) com.
b. Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography, by John Toland. ( New York, United States. Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc. 1992. ( Originally published in 1976. )) Page 18. ( Amazon Kindle. )
c. A book that I read about, but didn’t buy. My recollection of the title is, “From Jews to Germans”. I was unable to find this book on Google. The time period covered by the book is prior to the 20th century.
Google is overwhelmed with books about the Holocaust. ( When one enters the search term, “from jews to germans”. ) Google is overwhelmed with books about early Christianity. ( When one enters the search term, “from jews to christians”. )
3. Playboy magazine began publication on October 1, 1953. 7-Eleven sold Playboy magazine throughout the magazine’s heyday:
A. “Playboy: 7-Eleven Franchises Selling Magazine in Defiance of Company Edict. CHICAGO (AP) _ As many as 3,000 franchised 7-Eleven convenience stores nationwide are selling Playboy magazine despite the chain's decision a year ago to discontinue selling the adult publication, magazine officials say. Apr 10, 1987”.
B. “7-Eleven’s Ban on Playboy Magazine - Los Angeles Times https://www (dot ) latimes ( dot ) com > archives > la-xpm-1986–04-…
Apr 19, 1986 - Nearby there was the news that 7-Eleven stores are no longer going to sell Playboy magazine because of “public concern over a possible link …”
( I was unable to access the Los Angeles Times web site. )
Google search term: does 7-eleven sell playboy? Search date: August 7, 2021.
4. The Los Angeles Times has a slogan. It is: The state of what’s next.
We can see what’s next at the Los Angeles Times: a blackout of information for the common man. The web site offers no access at all to non-paying guests of its web site.
Fortunately, you can read ARSE for free!
5. I apologize for continuing to use ( and cite ) Google.
My WordPress site tells me which browsers are used to access it. The browser Duck Duck Go is increasingly popular among users of ARSE. It is right behind Google, and sometimes ahead of it, in popularity. ( Google remains, overall, the most popular browser. ) Bing is the third most popular browser.
My WordPress site does not tell me who is using my web site. You can rest assured that I don’t know who you are. ( Unless you use Wordpress to contact me in some way. Then, I only know of that particular contact. You can use ARSE again, in the future, anonymously. )
6. In Amazon’s “Audible” app, I entered the search term “memoirs”. “Results” returned 1,186 audio books that were “Included” ( free ). Scrolling far down in this list, I came upon this book:
One Click. It is about “Jeff Bozo and the rise of amazon ( dot ) com”.
7. The podcast “The Seven Seas of Stories” is on Amazon’s “Audible” service. It consists of “Inspiring and entertaining stories for kids written and narrated by a middle-schooler.” The hostess is “Aarna Vachhrajani”. She has a nice voice!
8. Let us hope for a future that is free of discrimination, where all people can freely interact.
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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.
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This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 18
Arcana: This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 18, version 4.0
Date Written: August 8, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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Children of the Steppes
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BO 17
Book Observations presents...
Children of the Steppes
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Plus: Parental warning!
And: When humanity was sane.
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CHILDREN of the STEPPES
An “Audible” Audio Book Review
by Andrew Roller
Relevant Quotes:
1. “Day-to-day life involved movement, as hordes rarely stayed long in one place.”
- Marie ( Faver ) eau de toilette.
Source: The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World. By Marie ( Faver ) eau de toilette. Page 9.
2. “The Jochids in many ways created Moscow’s authority, fundamentally altering the course of Russian history.”
- Source: ibid., page 16.
The Barbarian Empires of the Steppes. By Kenneth W. Hurl ( Harl ). The Great Courses.
Narrated by: Kenneth W. Hurl ( Harl ). Includes sound effects.
A PDF is included. ( Printed documentation. )
Lecture series. Total length: 18 hours, 16 minutes.
Review: A great summation for this course is:
“Devils rush in where angels fear to tread.”
You’re probably aware that America has an area of land known as “the great American plains”. A movie called “High Plains Drifter” stars Clint Eastwood. Eurasia has a similar geographic feature. Much of it is located in what we today call Russia, as well as Mongolia.
In earliest times, the movement of nomadic people across the Eurasian steppe was to the east. Forever after, their movement was in the opposite direction: to the west. A primary cause of the Roman Empire’s fall was this ceaseless western movement. Rome was attempting to maintain a static frontier against an endless inflow of people from the east. It didn’t help that the Barbarians saw Rome as a secular Heaven on earth, a place where all their needs and wants could be fulfilled. ( America is in the same situation today. It’s attempting to maintain a static border against a ceaseless inflow of people from regions to its south. )
Hurl begins his series with a dramatic moment: the Mongol conquest of Babylon. After this, he descends into lectures that are bewildering. Here are two facts that I learned:
1. Many people on Earth speak languages descended from an original language called Aryan. Hitler hijacked the name “Aryan”. Hence, this primal language is now known as PIE, or Proto-Indo-European. Perhaps Hitler should have hijacked more aspects of history. Then I might have understood more of this course’s lectures.
2. Hurl describes the Parthians as “children of the steppes”. ( Lecture 6. ) Parthia, located more or less in Iran, was a rival empire to that of the Romans’. The Romans couldn’t defeat Parthia, and Parthia couldn’t defeat the Romans. Later, Parthia would be replaced by the Persians. The Persian Empire proved to be a more formidable enemy to Rome than Parthia ever was.
Eau de toilette’s book, “The Horde”, is not a traditional nonfiction book. It reads like a PhD thesis. ( Bringing to mind the professor in the Beatles’ song, “Nowhere Man”, as featured in their film, “Yellow Submarine”. )
I thought “The Horde” was a general history of Mongol conquests. It isn’t. It’s a study of the khanate ruled by Jochi. Jochi was the eldest son of Genghis Khan. ( Genghis Khan is the conqueror who launched a thousand Mongolian BBQ restaurants. )
Eau de toilette’s writing style is “liberal academic”. For example:
“Scholars also have yet to fully grasp the nomads’ level of agency.”
And…
“This raises the question of the weight of the Horde’s agency on the global system.”
I’ll bet Will Durant, who wrote the mammoth book series, “The Story of Civilization”, never used “agency” as Eau de toilette does.
Conclusions:
1. Don’t buy “The Barbarian Empires of the Steppes”, by Kenneth W. Harl. It’s a history of a geographic location, the Eurasian steppe, rather than a people, or a state. The people who flowed through the Eurasian steppe are mostly unknown to Western listeners. You will have difficulty following Harl on a first listen. ( Obviously, if you listen to anything multiple times, you’ll eventually memorize the content. )
2. Don’t buy “The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World”, by Marie Favereau. It’s more of an academic paper than a nonfiction book.
3. Do buy The Mongols: A History, by Jeremiah Curtin. ( Discussed below. )
4. Do consider reading, or listening to, other works in “Further Reference”. ( Discussed below. )
Further Quotes:
1. “The Horde came to dominate the most lucrative trades of the Volga region: the fur, slave, and salt trades.”
- Marie ( Faver ) eau de toilette.
Source: The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World. By Marie ( Faver ) eau de toilette. Page 19.
2. “When Russian princes and boyars objected to granting foreign traders access to their territory, the Jochids forced the Russians to relent, a move that proved extremely valuable to Russian development.”
Source: ibid., page 9.
3. “The [ Russian Orthodox ] clergy affirmed Jochid sovereignty and in return received lucrative financial benefits that contributed to the church’s thriving.”
- Source: ibid., page 15.
4. “Islam, as practiced in the Horde after the mid-thirteenth century, was a unifying force in Central Asia.”
- Source: ibid., page 13.
5. “The key figure in the far west was Nogay.”
- Source: ibid., page 19.
Further Reference:
1. Ages of Conquest: a Kings and Generals podcast in the Apple “Podcasts” app.
I listened to this entire podcast series to its ( then ) end point. ( More episodes have, according to Google, since been added. My Apple “Podcasts” app no longer works. )
2. The Devil’s Horsemen. By James Chambers. ( Available solely as a book on paper. )
This book is cited as an inspiration by the makers of the “Ages of Conquest” podcast. It has apparently influenced many readers. I found it highly compelling to read.
3. The Steppe, a novella by Anton Chekhov.
This is an excellent story. It is akin, in its totality, to watching a fine film of the early moviegoing era.
4. The Mongols: A History. By Jeremiah Curtin.
I got this for free on Amazon. It now costs 99 cents. It is an Amazon Kindle book. It was written in 1908. It is not available at gutenberg ( dot ) org.
THE WORST friends of “CHILDREN”
I received an e-mail today. The relevant parts of it read as follows:
“Starting tomorrow … the Gaslamp Quarter premieres [ sic ] free weekly outdoor movie nights! …
“The following films are rated PG and PG-13. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 17 and requires [ sic ] adult supervision. …
“Ghostbuster [ sic ] 1984 …
“Anchorman: the Legend of Ron Burgundy.”
( The e-mail ends here. )
The first thing one notes is the writer’s clumsy knowledge of the English language. Whoever wrote this is probably employed. I’ve been unemployed for decades. I’m regarded as “unskilled labor”. Such is the state of America today.
The second thing one notes is the subjugation of young people, denigrated as “children”. The movie rating PG-13 means:
Parental guidance may be required for children UNDER the age of 13. Not 17!
The movie rating PG is a still more vanilla rating. No minimum age limit is suggested for a viewer of a PG rated movie.
Note that the writer of this e-mail states:
“Some material may be inappropriate for children under 17.”
Why not 18? The reason is this:
The movie rating system was imposed prior to the moral panic about the safety of “children”, which began in the late 1970s. A “child” who is 17 can enter a theater by herself and watch an R-rated movie. She doesn’t have to be 18.
The Gaslamp Quarter is in San Diego. San Diego is two hours south of Hollywood. Hence, the writer of the e-mail made sure that she bowed to Hollywood’s dictates, while otherwise denigrating “children”.
Which brings up the subject of “pedophiles”. ( So called. ) A pedophile treats a girl with respect. He doesn’t denigrate her. It is those who claim to “protect” children, for their “safety”, who are harmful to “children”. They enslave children in warehouses known as schools. They forbid them to work without state approval. They make sure to tax children who do work! They pass endless laws, against “pedophiles” and children, to enforce their regime of state terror.
Joe Bidet ( Biden ) is clearly senile. Yet he is America’s president. Meanwhile, people under the age of 18, who are clearly more mentally alert than Bidet, are forbidden to vote. Is that because they’d vote to be free?
America can hardly claim to be “the land of liberty”.
PARENTAL WARNING!
“Ideas mattered profoundly; they had an independent power of their own, and they could be corrosive and destructive. The most corrosive ideas of all were to be found in the Bible, an explosive, unpredictable force in every age.”
- ( Diar ) maid MacCulloch.
Source: The Reformation, by ( Diar ) maid MacCulloch. Page xxii. ( Amazon Kindle. )
WHEN HUMANITY was SANE
“Djogeon and his companion traveled on until they reached her mother’s lodge. When they stood at the door her mother saw the stranger with her daughter and cried out, ‘Welcome, son-in-law. I am glad you have come.’ Djogeon became the young woman’s husband, and they lived happily.”
- Jeremiah Curtin.
Source: Seneca Fiction, Legends, and Myths. By Jeremiah Curtin. Story number 3: Djogeon ( Dwarf-man ) and His Uncle. Published in 1918. Free at gutenberg ( dot ) org.
INSPIRING SONGS
1. Little Girls, by Oingo Boingo. Album: Only a Lad. Source: tablyricfm.com.
2. 17 and Under, by Psychefunkapus. ( Not Psychefuckapussy! ) Album: Psychefunkapus. Source: tablyricfm.com
3. Surfin’ on Jupiter, by Psychefunkapus. Album: Skin. Source: tablyricfm.com and Musixmatch, as presented by google ( dot ) com.
The video of “Surfin’ on Jupiter” is fabulous, as is the song, and its lyrics. Sadly, “Surfin’ on Jupiter” can only be viewed on You Tube. Apparently, no company is willing to meaningfully challenge You Tube.
The web site dailymotion ( dot ) com strikes me as a sorry step-child of You Tube. However, in 2019, the customer support staff of Dailymotion did write back to me. They hadn’t actually read what I’d written to them, so their answers were meaningless. But they did write back. ( Unlike the utter silence of You Tube’s customer support staff. )
“Dailymotion is a French video hosting website owned by Vivendi. …
“5 Best Websites like Dailymotion:
1. YouTube.
2. Vimeo.
3. Metacafe.
4. Dtube.
5. Vine.”
Source: moviemaker ( dot ) minitool ( dot ) com. “Is Dailymotion Safe and Legal to Watch Videos Online?” by Zoe. Date: November 25, 2020.
For whatever reason, Zoe does not mention TikTok or Likee. Zoe spares us any mention of Mark Fuckerberg’s companies.
AND IN THE END…
“They were the ideal subjects … because they lacked cohesion.”
- Kenneth W. Hurl ( Harl ).
Source: The Barbarian Empires of the Steppes. By Kenneth W. Hurl ( Harl ). Lecture 16: Avars, Bulgars, and Constantinople. ( Of the Slavs, subjects of the Avars. )
( Such could be said of today’s pedophiles. )
ARCANA
1. According to The Free Dictionary, “PG rated” lacks a dash. However, there is a dash in the term, “R-rated”.
2. Help for writers: The app “OfficeSuite” by MobiSystems, has a great typeface: Calibri. It is the default typeface for documents.
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Copyright 2021 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
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.
The WordPress app is available for free at the Apple App Store.
This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 17
Arcana: This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 17, version 6.0
Date Written: August 5, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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BO 17
Book Observations presents...
Children of the Steppes
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Plus: Parental warning!
And: When humanity was sane.
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CHILDREN of the STEPPES
An “Audible” Audio Book Review
by Andrew Roller
Relevant Quotes:
1. “Day-to-day life involved movement, as hordes rarely stayed long in one place.”
- Marie ( Faver ) eau de toilette.
Source: The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World. By Marie ( Faver ) eau de toilette. Page 9.
2. “The Jochids in many ways created Moscow’s authority, fundamentally altering the course of Russian history.”
- Source: ibid., page 16.
The Barbarian Empires of the Steppes. By Kenneth W. Hurl ( Harl ). The Great Courses.
Narrated by: Kenneth W. Hurl ( Harl ). Includes sound effects.
A PDF is included. ( Printed documentation. )
Lecture series. Total length: 18 hours, 16 minutes.
Review: A great summation for this course is:
“Devils rush in where angels fear to tread.”
You’re probably aware that America has an area of land known as “the great American plains”. A movie called “High Plains Drifter” stars Clint Eastwood. Eurasia has a similar geographic feature. Much of it is located in what we today call Russia, as well as Mongolia.
In earliest times, the movement of nomadic people across the Eurasian steppe was to the east. Forever after, their movement was in the opposite direction: to the west. A primary cause of the Roman Empire’s fall was this ceaseless western movement. Rome was attempting to maintain a static frontier against an endless inflow of people from the east. It didn’t help that the Barbarians saw Rome as a secular Heaven on earth, a place where all their needs and wants could be fulfilled. ( America is in the same situation today. It’s attempting to maintain a static border against a ceaseless inflow of people from regions to its south. )
Hurl begins his series with a dramatic moment: the Mongol conquest of Babylon. After this, he descends into lectures that are bewildering. Here are two facts that I learned:
1. Many people on Earth speak languages descended from an original language called Aryan. Hitler hijacked the name “Aryan”. Hence, this primal language is now known as PIE, or Proto-Indo-European. Perhaps Hitler should have hijacked more aspects of history. Then I might have understood more of this course’s lectures.
2. Hurl describes the Parthians as “children of the steppes”. ( Lecture 6. ) Parthia, located more or less in Iran, was a rival empire to that of the Romans’. The Romans couldn’t defeat Parthia, and Parthia couldn’t defeat the Romans. Later, Parthia would be replaced by the Persians. The Persian Empire proved to be a more formidable enemy to Rome than Parthia ever was.
Eau de toilette’s book, “The Horde”, is not a traditional nonfiction book. It reads like a PhD thesis. ( Bringing to mind the professor in the Beatles’ song, “Nowhere Man”, as featured in their film, “Yellow Submarine”. )
I thought “The Horde” was a general history of Mongol conquests. It isn’t. It’s a study of the khanate ruled by Jochi. Jochi was the eldest son of Genghis Khan. ( Genghis Khan is the conqueror who launched a thousand Mongolian BBQ restaurants. )
Eau de toilette’s writing style is “liberal academic”. For example:
“Scholars also have yet to fully grasp the nomads’ level of agency.”
And…
“This raises the question of the weight of the Horde’s agency on the global system.”
I’ll bet Will Durant, who wrote the mammoth book series, “The Story of Civilization”, never used “agency” as Eau de toilette does.
Conclusions:
1. Don’t buy “The Barbarian Empires of the Steppes”, by Kenneth W. Harl. It’s a history of a geographic location, the Eurasian steppe, rather than a people, or a state. The people who flowed through the Eurasian steppe are mostly unknown to Western listeners. You will have difficulty following Harl on a first listen. ( Obviously, if you listen to anything multiple times, you’ll eventually memorize the content. )
2. Don’t buy “The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World”, by Marie Favereau. It’s more of an academic paper than a nonfiction book.
3. Do buy The Mongols: A History, by Jeremiah Curtin. ( Discussed below. )
4. Do consider reading, or listening to, other works in “Further Reference”. ( Discussed below. )
Further Quotes:
1. “The Horde came to dominate the most lucrative trades of the Volga region: the fur, slave, and salt trades.”
- Marie ( Faver ) eau de toilette.
Source: The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World. By Marie ( Faver ) eau de toilette. Page 19.
2. “When Russian princes and boyars objected to granting foreign traders access to their territory, the Jochids forced the Russians to relent, a move that proved extremely valuable to Russian development.”
Source: ibid., page 9.
3. “The [ Russian Orthodox ] clergy affirmed Jochid sovereignty and in return received lucrative financial benefits that contributed to the church’s thriving.”
- Source: ibid., page 15.
4. “Islam, as practiced in the Horde after the mid-thirteenth century, was a unifying force in Central Asia.”
- Source: ibid., page 13.
5. “The key figure in the far west was Nogay.”
- Source: ibid., page 19.
Further Reference:
1. Ages of Conquest: a Kings and Generals podcast in the Apple “Podcasts” app.
I listened to this entire podcast series to its ( then ) end point. ( More episodes have, according to Google, since been added. My Apple “Podcasts” app no longer works. )
2. The Devil’s Horsemen. By James Chambers. ( Available solely as a book on paper. )
This book is cited as an inspiration by the makers of the “Ages of Conquest” podcast. It has apparently influenced many readers. I found it highly compelling to read.
3. The Steppe, a novella by Anton Chekhov.
This is an excellent story. It is akin, in its totality, to watching a fine film of the early moviegoing era.
4. The Mongols: A History. By Jeremiah Curtin.
I got this for free on Amazon. It now costs 99 cents. It is an Amazon Kindle book. It was written in 1908. It is not available at gutenberg ( dot ) org.
THE WORST friends of “CHILDREN”
I received an e-mail today. The relevant parts of it read as follows:
“Starting tomorrow … the Gaslamp Quarter premieres [ sic ] free weekly outdoor movie nights! …
“The following films are rated PG and PG-13. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 17 and requires [ sic ] adult supervision. …
“Ghostbuster [ sic ] 1984 …
“Anchorman: the Legend of Ron Burgundy.”
( The e-mail ends here. )
The first thing one notes is the writer’s clumsy knowledge of the English language. Whoever wrote this is probably employed. I’ve been unemployed for decades. I’m regarded as “unskilled labor”. Such is the state of America today.
The second thing one notes is the subjugation of young people, denigrated as “children”. The movie rating PG-13 means:
Parental guidance may be required for children UNDER the age of 13. Not 17!
The movie rating PG is a still more vanilla rating. No minimum age limit is suggested for a viewer of a PG rated movie.
Note that the writer of this e-mail states:
“Some material may be inappropriate for children under 17.”
Why not 18? The reason is this:
The movie rating system was imposed prior to the moral panic about the safety of “children”, which began in the late 1970s. A “child” who is 17 can enter a theater by herself and watch an R-rated movie. She doesn’t have to be 18.
The Gaslamp Quarter is in San Diego. San Diego is two hours south of Hollywood. Hence, the writer of the e-mail made sure that she bowed to Hollywood’s dictates, while otherwise denigrating “children”.
Which brings up the subject of “pedophiles”. ( So called. ) A pedophile treats a girl with respect. He doesn’t denigrate her. It is those who claim to “protect” children, for their “safety”, who are harmful to “children”. They enslave children in warehouses known as schools. They forbid them to work without state approval. They make sure to tax children who do work! They pass endless laws, against “pedophiles” and children, to enforce their regime of state terror.
Joe Bidet ( Biden ) is clearly senile. Yet he is America’s president. Meanwhile, people under the age of 18, who are clearly more mentally alert than Bidet, are forbidden to vote. Is that because they’d vote to be free?
America can hardly claim to be “the land of liberty”.
PARENTAL WARNING!
“Ideas mattered profoundly; they had an independent power of their own, and they could be corrosive and destructive. The most corrosive ideas of all were to be found in the Bible, an explosive, unpredictable force in every age.”
- ( Diar ) maid MacCulloch.
Source: The Reformation, by ( Diar ) maid MacCulloch. Page xxii. ( Amazon Kindle. )
WHEN HUMANITY was SANE
“Djogeon and his companion traveled on until they reached her mother’s lodge. When they stood at the door her mother saw the stranger with her daughter and cried out, ‘Welcome, son-in-law. I am glad you have come.’ Djogeon became the young woman’s husband, and they lived happily.”
- Jeremiah Curtin.
Source: Seneca Fiction, Legends, and Myths. By Jeremiah Curtin. Story number 3: Djogeon ( Dwarf-man ) and His Uncle. Published in 1918. Free at gutenberg ( dot ) org.
INSPIRING SONGS
1. Little Girls, by Oingo Boingo. Album: Only a Lad. Source: tablyricfm.com.
2. 17 and Under, by Psychefunkapus. ( Not Psychefuckapussy! ) Album: Psychefunkapus. Source: tablyricfm.com
3. Surfin’ on Jupiter, by Psychefunkapus. Album: Skin. Source: tablyricfm.com and Musixmatch, as presented by google ( dot ) com.
The video of “Surfin’ on Jupiter” is fabulous, as is the song, and its lyrics. Sadly, “Surfin’ on Jupiter” can only be viewed on You Tube. Apparently, no company is willing to meaningfully challenge You Tube.
The web site dailymotion ( dot ) com strikes me as a sorry step-child of You Tube. However, in 2019, the customer support staff of Dailymotion did write back to me. They hadn’t actually read what I’d written to them, so their answers were meaningless. But they did write back. ( Unlike the utter silence of You Tube’s customer support staff. )
“Dailymotion is a French video hosting website owned by Vivendi. …
“5 Best Websites like Dailymotion:
1. YouTube.
2. Vimeo.
3. Metacafe.
4. Dtube.
5. Vine.”
Source: moviemaker ( dot ) minitool ( dot ) com. “Is Dailymotion Safe and Legal to Watch Videos Online?” by Zoe. Date: November 25, 2020.
For whatever reason, Zoe does not mention TikTok or Likee. Zoe spares us any mention of Mark Fuckerberg’s companies.
AND IN THE END…
“They were the ideal subjects … because they lacked cohesion.”
- Kenneth W. Hurl ( Harl ).
Source: The Barbarian Empires of the Steppes. By Kenneth W. Hurl ( Harl ). Lecture 16: Avars, Bulgars, and Constantinople. ( Of the Slavs, subjects of the Avars. )
( Such could be said of today’s pedophiles. )
ARCANA
1. According to The Free Dictionary, “PG rated” lacks a dash. However, there is a dash in the term, “R-rated”.
2. Help for writers: The app “OfficeSuite” by MobiSystems, has a great typeface: Calibri. It is the default typeface for documents.
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Copyright 2021 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
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.
The WordPress app is available for free at the Apple App Store.
This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 17
Arcana: This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 17, version 6.0
Date Written: August 5, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Office Suite Plays Videos!
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AI 17
Apple Info presents...
Office Suite Plays Videos!
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Plus: A beauty ruined.
And: More abuse from You Tube.
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OFFICE SUITE Plays VIDEOS!
by Andrew Roller
A video was in my iPad’s “Downloads” folder. I was watching it. I decided to send it to the Apple app iMovie.
I stopped the video. I looked to the icon in the upper right corner of my iPad’s screen. This icon consists of a box. An arrow is sticking up out of the top of the box. I tapped on this icon.
An informational box appeared. Icons, representing various apps, were near the top of this box.
I scrolled to the right in this box. I came to the last icon. It consists of three vertical dots. Under this icon is the label, “More”.
I tapped on the icon with the three vertical dots.
A new informational box appeared. It had more icons in it. These icons represent various apps.
I scrolled down in the box. I came to the icon for iMovie. However, I was multi-tasking. One of my hands was tapping my iPad’s screen. For some reason, even though I was nowhere near a toilet, my other hand was on my dick. ( No, I was not in a video conference with employees of CNN. )
I attempted to tap on the icon for iMovie. My finger missed the icon. Instead, it hit the icon for the MobiSystems app called “OfficeSuite”.
My video went to “OfficeSuite”! I was able to play it. I was able to “scrub” it at a speed close to frame-by-frame slow motion!
The king of frame-by-frame slow motion is iMovie. “OfficeSuite” is almost as good as iMovie.
( “Documents”, by the company called “Readdle”, also scrubs movies. However, it does so by jumping ahead 10 seconds each time you move your finger. )
The viewing area in iMovie is small. A video’s image takes up only a fraction of my iPad’s screen.
However, in OfficeSuite, the viewing area is huge! It takes up almost all of my iPad’s screen!
You may wonder how to scrub a movie. In OfficeSuite, do the following:
1. Tap the “play” arrow. The movie plays.
2. Tap the “stop” button. The movie stops.
3. A horizontal line extends across the bottom of your iPad’s screen. A little ball is on this line. Put your finger on the ball. Advance the video by sliding your finger to the right. The point of this is, of course, to watch the video in slow motion.
If you wish to watch the video backwards, slide your finger to the left.
4. You will want to get rid of the horizontal line that has the ball on it. To do so, tap on your iPad’s screen. Specifically, tap on the video’s image. The line disappears. You can now take a screen shot of an image that you like! ( Without the horizontal line marring the image. )
5. In iMovie, you can stop a video at any time by tapping your iPad’s screen. That won’t work in OfficeSuite. You have to tap the video’s “stop” button.
Once the video is stopped, you can scrub it to any frame. The video will not start playing again. ( Which is good. ) The video will only start playing again if you press the “play” arrow.
I figured all this out with a free copy of OfficeSuite. I’d downloaded it some time ago, from Apple’s App Store.
Today, I subscribed to OfficeSuite Premium Yearly. It costs $29.99 per year. A yearly “Premium” subscription is the only option offered by OfficeSuite’s three day free trial.
I thought that, by subscribing, I’d be able to save any video that I imported to OfficeSuite. It turns out that I was wrong. As a subscriber, I can’t save videos that I import. Nor can I do this with a free copy of OfficeSuite.
I can only access my videos in OfficeSuite by tapping on “Recent Files” in the app. What happens when my imported videos are no longer recent? I wrote to MobiSystems about this. I haven’t heard back from them yet.
MobiSystems describes OfficeSuite as a “docs and PDF editor”. Nothing in their “literature” at Apple’s App Store talks about importing videos. It is possible that MobiSystems doesn’t realize that videos can be imported into their app.
In OfficeSuite, I can “Move” and “Rename” their “user manual” PDF. I cannot do this with any of my videos that are in OfficeSuite!
Hence, there are two ways to use OfficeSuite.
1. Use the free copy. Import videos into OfficeSuite. You won’t be able to save them. Access them by tapping on “Recent Files”.
2. Subscribe. Import videos into OfficeSuite. You won’t be able to save them. Access them by tapping on “Recent Files”.
I tapped “Add to Favorites” for videos that I liked best. I did this in the free version of OfficeSuite. I do it in OfficeSuite Premium. Even now, as a subscriber, I can only see a listing of these videos by tapping “Recent Files”.
Very quickly, I become confused as to which video is which in OfficeSuite. I can’t rename them. I can’t create folders to put them in. ( I can create folders, but only uselessly, in another part of the app! )
If I tap on “Recent Files”, most of my iPad’s screen is taken up by a section with this title: “Home”.
“Home” is divided into two sections. The upper section is titled, “Favorites”. Any time that I play a video, the listing of my videos is rearranged. This confuses me as to which video is which.
The lower section of “Home” is titled “Recent Files”. Any time that I play a video, the listing of my videos is rearranged. This confuses me as to which video is which.
I need to be able to save videos in OfficeSuite.
I need to be able to create and name folders, to hold my videos.
I would like to be able to rename my videos.
I need to be able to move my videos to “On my iPad” ( in the OfficeSuite app ).
I need to be able to move my videos to “MobiDrive”. ( Presumably, this is MobiSystems’ free 50 gigabytes of cloud storage. )
Here’s a copy of my letter of complaint to MobiSystems:
Subject: I can only access my Office Suite Premium videos in Office Suite’s “ Recent Files” section.
From: [ My e-mail address. ]
To: ios-helpdesk@mobisystems.com
I imported three videos into Office Suite Premium. I can only find them in Office Suite Premium by tapping “Recent Files”.
Your app will not let me save, rename, or move these videos! Those options are in light gray.
I subscribed to Office Suite Premium so I could save, rename, and move these videos. But your app refuses to make the options available!
When my videos are no longer recent, I won’t be able to see them at all!
Sincerely,
Andrew Roller
P.S. How do I upload my videos to your 50 gigabytes of cloud storage?
I use an Apple iPad Pro. It has the latest system software, and available memory.
( That ends my letter to MobiSystems. )
I’ve found two ways to contact MobiSystems.
1. E-mail them. See my letter, above, for their address.
2. Use the complaint form in the app. To access it, do the following:
A. Tap on “Recent Files”. This is near the top left corner of your iPad’s screen.
B. Look to the top right corner of your iPad’s screen. You’ll see an icon there. It is of a man’s head. Tap on the man’s head.
C. An informational box appears. At the top of it is written, “Account”. In this box, tap on “Help”.
D. An entirely new screen appears on your iPad. Scroll down on this screen. In the middle of it, you’ll find: “Contact Support”. This is written in white on a blue button. Tap on “Contact Support”.
E. An entirely new screen appears. It is titled, “Help”. The largest word on it is “Support”.
F. Fill out the form. The great thing about this form is that it lists, for MobiSystem’s reference, technical information about your computer. ( Or “device”. ) Submit the form.
G. At some point, MobiSystems asked me whether I wanted to hide my e-mail or not. I was forced to choose an option before I could proceed. I chose the option “hide e-mail”. I understand this to mean the following: e-mail that MobiSystems sends me is “forwarded” to my ordinary e-mail account.
I have no idea why this stupid question is asked at all.
In summary, you can now:
1. Watch videos in slow motion.
2. In a big viewing area! ( In the OfficeSuite app ).
FURTHER ISSUES
Here, I tell more about MobiSystems’ app “OfficeSuite”.
Often, a column runs down the left side of your iPad’s screen. ( In OfficeSuite. ) This column is titled “OfficeSuite”. Listed under this title are the following:
1. Recent Files. This is the whole reason for using, or subscribing to, this app. ( To watch imported videos in slow motion, on a big screen. )
2. On my iPad. This does not take me to my “Files” app on my iPad! Instead, it takes me to a worthless section of the OfficeSuite app.
3. MobiDrive. This also takes me to a worthless section of the OfficeSuite app.
4. Files App. This takes me to my Apple iCloud Drive! I can find a video here, and import it to OfficeSuite. However, I can’t save it! ( To view it later on, I have to tap “Recent Files” in the MobiSystems app. )
5. iCloud Drive. This is utterly worthless. It brings up a screen that says, “This folder is empty.”
I hope MobiSystems will improve their app called OfficeSuite. I do not need another PDF editor. ( I’m already subscribed to two other PDF editors. ) I don’t need a typing program. I use Apple’s “Pages” app. What I do need is to be able to watch videos in frame-by-frame slow motion, in a big viewing area!
A Beauty RUINED
It’s possible that the most beautiful girl in the past decade is “Gabbie Carter”. She is 18 years old, and older, in internet videos. ( The web site xvideos ( dot ) com has a number of her videos. ) Naturally, I’m most impressed by the videos of her when she was 18. I’ve found nude photos of her on the internet, at various web sites.
Gabby is a perfect “good girl” blonde who went a long way in ruining herself with tattoos. She got all her tattoos before she began her career as a nude model and porn actress. Probably, she would be a household name, and a superstar, if she hadn’t gotten herself tattooed. Instead, she’s a third string porn actress.
She gives excellent fellatio. ( Thanks, Gabbie! ) She’s also superbly childish and receptive during copulatory activities.
The best video that I’ve found, starring Gabbie, is at xvideos ( dot ) com. It’s titled, “The Controller”. It riffs on the “50 Shades of Grey” novel. Gabbie blindfolds herself and slips out of her dress ( boobs first ). She is then visited by her lover. They proceed to study the Bible. To commit its tenets to memory, they act it out, starting with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. ( Post apple. )
MORE ABUSE from YOU TUBE
On August 2, I went to You Tube. I accessed it from the web, and then from You Tube itself. My You Tube subscription, as a You Tube Premium member, was still paid for and valid. It was valid through August 3rd.
I found out that You Tube was, once again, violating the law. My You Tube subscription had been cancelled by You Tube. I was forced to watch commercials. I had no access to You Tube Music.
I checked my Google Gmail account. There was no e-mail from You Tube regarding my You Tube Premium account.
You Tube took my money, and failed to provide me ( yet again ) with the You Tube Premium service.
You Tube, based on my experience with the company, is a lunatic asylum, staffed by psychopaths. They abuse their customers, including preteen and teenage girls.
AND IN THE END…
Google, You Tube, et Facebook delenda est!
- Cato the Elder. ( Slightly modified. )
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Copyright 2021 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
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.
The WordPress app is available for free at the Apple App Store.
This is AI, Apple Info, issue number 17
Arcana: This is AI, Apple Info, issue number 17, version 4.0
Date Written: August 5, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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AI 17
Apple Info presents...
Office Suite Plays Videos!
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Plus: A beauty ruined.
And: More abuse from You Tube.
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OFFICE SUITE Plays VIDEOS!
by Andrew Roller
A video was in my iPad’s “Downloads” folder. I was watching it. I decided to send it to the Apple app iMovie.
I stopped the video. I looked to the icon in the upper right corner of my iPad’s screen. This icon consists of a box. An arrow is sticking up out of the top of the box. I tapped on this icon.
An informational box appeared. Icons, representing various apps, were near the top of this box.
I scrolled to the right in this box. I came to the last icon. It consists of three vertical dots. Under this icon is the label, “More”.
I tapped on the icon with the three vertical dots.
A new informational box appeared. It had more icons in it. These icons represent various apps.
I scrolled down in the box. I came to the icon for iMovie. However, I was multi-tasking. One of my hands was tapping my iPad’s screen. For some reason, even though I was nowhere near a toilet, my other hand was on my dick. ( No, I was not in a video conference with employees of CNN. )
I attempted to tap on the icon for iMovie. My finger missed the icon. Instead, it hit the icon for the MobiSystems app called “OfficeSuite”.
My video went to “OfficeSuite”! I was able to play it. I was able to “scrub” it at a speed close to frame-by-frame slow motion!
The king of frame-by-frame slow motion is iMovie. “OfficeSuite” is almost as good as iMovie.
( “Documents”, by the company called “Readdle”, also scrubs movies. However, it does so by jumping ahead 10 seconds each time you move your finger. )
The viewing area in iMovie is small. A video’s image takes up only a fraction of my iPad’s screen.
However, in OfficeSuite, the viewing area is huge! It takes up almost all of my iPad’s screen!
You may wonder how to scrub a movie. In OfficeSuite, do the following:
1. Tap the “play” arrow. The movie plays.
2. Tap the “stop” button. The movie stops.
3. A horizontal line extends across the bottom of your iPad’s screen. A little ball is on this line. Put your finger on the ball. Advance the video by sliding your finger to the right. The point of this is, of course, to watch the video in slow motion.
If you wish to watch the video backwards, slide your finger to the left.
4. You will want to get rid of the horizontal line that has the ball on it. To do so, tap on your iPad’s screen. Specifically, tap on the video’s image. The line disappears. You can now take a screen shot of an image that you like! ( Without the horizontal line marring the image. )
5. In iMovie, you can stop a video at any time by tapping your iPad’s screen. That won’t work in OfficeSuite. You have to tap the video’s “stop” button.
Once the video is stopped, you can scrub it to any frame. The video will not start playing again. ( Which is good. ) The video will only start playing again if you press the “play” arrow.
I figured all this out with a free copy of OfficeSuite. I’d downloaded it some time ago, from Apple’s App Store.
Today, I subscribed to OfficeSuite Premium Yearly. It costs $29.99 per year. A yearly “Premium” subscription is the only option offered by OfficeSuite’s three day free trial.
I thought that, by subscribing, I’d be able to save any video that I imported to OfficeSuite. It turns out that I was wrong. As a subscriber, I can’t save videos that I import. Nor can I do this with a free copy of OfficeSuite.
I can only access my videos in OfficeSuite by tapping on “Recent Files” in the app. What happens when my imported videos are no longer recent? I wrote to MobiSystems about this. I haven’t heard back from them yet.
MobiSystems describes OfficeSuite as a “docs and PDF editor”. Nothing in their “literature” at Apple’s App Store talks about importing videos. It is possible that MobiSystems doesn’t realize that videos can be imported into their app.
In OfficeSuite, I can “Move” and “Rename” their “user manual” PDF. I cannot do this with any of my videos that are in OfficeSuite!
Hence, there are two ways to use OfficeSuite.
1. Use the free copy. Import videos into OfficeSuite. You won’t be able to save them. Access them by tapping on “Recent Files”.
2. Subscribe. Import videos into OfficeSuite. You won’t be able to save them. Access them by tapping on “Recent Files”.
I tapped “Add to Favorites” for videos that I liked best. I did this in the free version of OfficeSuite. I do it in OfficeSuite Premium. Even now, as a subscriber, I can only see a listing of these videos by tapping “Recent Files”.
Very quickly, I become confused as to which video is which in OfficeSuite. I can’t rename them. I can’t create folders to put them in. ( I can create folders, but only uselessly, in another part of the app! )
If I tap on “Recent Files”, most of my iPad’s screen is taken up by a section with this title: “Home”.
“Home” is divided into two sections. The upper section is titled, “Favorites”. Any time that I play a video, the listing of my videos is rearranged. This confuses me as to which video is which.
The lower section of “Home” is titled “Recent Files”. Any time that I play a video, the listing of my videos is rearranged. This confuses me as to which video is which.
I need to be able to save videos in OfficeSuite.
I need to be able to create and name folders, to hold my videos.
I would like to be able to rename my videos.
I need to be able to move my videos to “On my iPad” ( in the OfficeSuite app ).
I need to be able to move my videos to “MobiDrive”. ( Presumably, this is MobiSystems’ free 50 gigabytes of cloud storage. )
Here’s a copy of my letter of complaint to MobiSystems:
Subject: I can only access my Office Suite Premium videos in Office Suite’s “ Recent Files” section.
From: [ My e-mail address. ]
To: ios-helpdesk@mobisystems.com
I imported three videos into Office Suite Premium. I can only find them in Office Suite Premium by tapping “Recent Files”.
Your app will not let me save, rename, or move these videos! Those options are in light gray.
I subscribed to Office Suite Premium so I could save, rename, and move these videos. But your app refuses to make the options available!
When my videos are no longer recent, I won’t be able to see them at all!
Sincerely,
Andrew Roller
P.S. How do I upload my videos to your 50 gigabytes of cloud storage?
I use an Apple iPad Pro. It has the latest system software, and available memory.
( That ends my letter to MobiSystems. )
I’ve found two ways to contact MobiSystems.
1. E-mail them. See my letter, above, for their address.
2. Use the complaint form in the app. To access it, do the following:
A. Tap on “Recent Files”. This is near the top left corner of your iPad’s screen.
B. Look to the top right corner of your iPad’s screen. You’ll see an icon there. It is of a man’s head. Tap on the man’s head.
C. An informational box appears. At the top of it is written, “Account”. In this box, tap on “Help”.
D. An entirely new screen appears on your iPad. Scroll down on this screen. In the middle of it, you’ll find: “Contact Support”. This is written in white on a blue button. Tap on “Contact Support”.
E. An entirely new screen appears. It is titled, “Help”. The largest word on it is “Support”.
F. Fill out the form. The great thing about this form is that it lists, for MobiSystem’s reference, technical information about your computer. ( Or “device”. ) Submit the form.
G. At some point, MobiSystems asked me whether I wanted to hide my e-mail or not. I was forced to choose an option before I could proceed. I chose the option “hide e-mail”. I understand this to mean the following: e-mail that MobiSystems sends me is “forwarded” to my ordinary e-mail account.
I have no idea why this stupid question is asked at all.
In summary, you can now:
1. Watch videos in slow motion.
2. In a big viewing area! ( In the OfficeSuite app ).
FURTHER ISSUES
Here, I tell more about MobiSystems’ app “OfficeSuite”.
Often, a column runs down the left side of your iPad’s screen. ( In OfficeSuite. ) This column is titled “OfficeSuite”. Listed under this title are the following:
1. Recent Files. This is the whole reason for using, or subscribing to, this app. ( To watch imported videos in slow motion, on a big screen. )
2. On my iPad. This does not take me to my “Files” app on my iPad! Instead, it takes me to a worthless section of the OfficeSuite app.
3. MobiDrive. This also takes me to a worthless section of the OfficeSuite app.
4. Files App. This takes me to my Apple iCloud Drive! I can find a video here, and import it to OfficeSuite. However, I can’t save it! ( To view it later on, I have to tap “Recent Files” in the MobiSystems app. )
5. iCloud Drive. This is utterly worthless. It brings up a screen that says, “This folder is empty.”
I hope MobiSystems will improve their app called OfficeSuite. I do not need another PDF editor. ( I’m already subscribed to two other PDF editors. ) I don’t need a typing program. I use Apple’s “Pages” app. What I do need is to be able to watch videos in frame-by-frame slow motion, in a big viewing area!
A Beauty RUINED
It’s possible that the most beautiful girl in the past decade is “Gabbie Carter”. She is 18 years old, and older, in internet videos. ( The web site xvideos ( dot ) com has a number of her videos. ) Naturally, I’m most impressed by the videos of her when she was 18. I’ve found nude photos of her on the internet, at various web sites.
Gabby is a perfect “good girl” blonde who went a long way in ruining herself with tattoos. She got all her tattoos before she began her career as a nude model and porn actress. Probably, she would be a household name, and a superstar, if she hadn’t gotten herself tattooed. Instead, she’s a third string porn actress.
She gives excellent fellatio. ( Thanks, Gabbie! ) She’s also superbly childish and receptive during copulatory activities.
The best video that I’ve found, starring Gabbie, is at xvideos ( dot ) com. It’s titled, “The Controller”. It riffs on the “50 Shades of Grey” novel. Gabbie blindfolds herself and slips out of her dress ( boobs first ). She is then visited by her lover. They proceed to study the Bible. To commit its tenets to memory, they act it out, starting with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. ( Post apple. )
MORE ABUSE from YOU TUBE
On August 2, I went to You Tube. I accessed it from the web, and then from You Tube itself. My You Tube subscription, as a You Tube Premium member, was still paid for and valid. It was valid through August 3rd.
I found out that You Tube was, once again, violating the law. My You Tube subscription had been cancelled by You Tube. I was forced to watch commercials. I had no access to You Tube Music.
I checked my Google Gmail account. There was no e-mail from You Tube regarding my You Tube Premium account.
You Tube took my money, and failed to provide me ( yet again ) with the You Tube Premium service.
You Tube, based on my experience with the company, is a lunatic asylum, staffed by psychopaths. They abuse their customers, including preteen and teenage girls.
AND IN THE END…
Google, You Tube, et Facebook delenda est!
- Cato the Elder. ( Slightly modified. )
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Copyright 2021 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
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.
The WordPress app is available for free at the Apple App Store.
This is AI, Apple Info, issue number 17
Arcana: This is AI, Apple Info, issue number 17, version 4.0
Date Written: August 5, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Primeval Man
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BO 16
Book Observations presents...
Primeval Man
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Plus: Cartoon salvation.
And: Too cold in Hawaii.
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PRIMEVAL Man
An “Audible” Audio Book Review
by Andrew Roller
Relevant Quotes:
1. “This was a world … where you were an adult by 12, and probably dead by the age of 25.”
- Brian Mammary Fag ( an ).
Source: Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations. By Brian Mammary Fag ( an ). Lecture 5: The First Europeans.
2. “Human genes have continued to evolve until the present day.”
- Nicholas Wade.
Source: Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors. By Nicholas Wade. Page 10. ( Amazon Kindle. )
Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations. By Brian Mammary Fag ( an ). The Great Courses.
Narrated by: Brian Mammary Fag ( an ). Includes quality sound effects.
A PDF is included. ( Printed documentation. )
Lecture series. Total length: 18 hours, 10 minutes.
Review: Above Guam’s capital of Agana is a naval air station. It is a United States military base. My father used to take our family there. We would go in the late afternoon so that he could jog in a field. If my father was jogging, that meant that I had to jog too. I had no choice in this.
Guam is an island in the Pacific. In the early 1970s, much of it was uncleared jungle. The base’s perimeter fence bordered one side of the field. Beyond it lay jungle. Across a lightly trafficked street was the base hospital. Inside a wing of the hospital, on its ground floor, was a rack of religious tracts. They were small comic books by Jack Chick. My younger brother and I were always happy to stock up on these comics. Once, after reading one, I committed my life to Christ. ( It didn’t stick. )
Chick’s comics were familiar to people that I knew. In junior high and high school, there was always at least one guy, in my everyday life, who held forth for creationism. I was obliged to argue for evolution. Chick’s comics, with their references to biblical verses, armed my opponents.
I do not agree with Chick’s views. However, I’m thrilled that I can read his comics online. They’re at chick ( dot ) com. I recommend using the web site’s “Search” function to look up the comic, “Somebody Goofed”. It’s my favorite one. ( Although, rereading it now, I’m a bit underwhelmed. I guess I’m not in junior high anymore. )
On page two of “Somebody Goofed” is a copyright date of 2002. My guess is that this is a copyright renewal date. U.S. copyright law was different before 1978. The online version of “Somebody Goofed” is the same comic that I read in the early 1970s.
According to Chick, I have no choice with regard to what to believe. Or, rather, I do, but if I choose incorrectly, I’m damned to Hell. Science, in regard to evolution, is the Devil’s lure. I once asked a schoolmate where dinosaur bones came from. ( He was a creationist. ) His answer:
“They were planted by Satan, to deceive man.”
Which then raises the question, why do humans have brains? Apparently, my brain isn’t to be used to reason. It’s simply a device that determines whether or not I go to Hell.
Other questions loom. Such as,
Why have humans? Are we God’s poodles?
In theory, Hell is for Satan. But why have Satan? Why have anything except perfect and eternal God?
Lastly, why have God? The Almighty’s best option might have been not to create, but to destroy. That is, to wipe himself out of existence. It would have spared countless souls a considerable amount of misery.
Or is God stuck with Himself? Are we, his poodles, here to keep him from being bored? But why would our predictable imperfections interest Him?
At this point, a reasoning human knows what to do. Throw God in your mental dumpster. He is a fiction, along with the rest of Chick’s cartoon universe.
END OF THE LINE
When we hear the word “human”, we think of ourselves. However, we’re the sole survivors of a host of humans who inhabited Earth.
Where did humans first appear? In Africa, below the Sahara. Probably, you’ve heard that humans migrated “out of Africa”. You might wonder how this happened. There’s a frickin’ desert between tropical Africa and the Eurasian landmass. Did an early human strike oil in Africa, load up his family, and decide to head for Paris, Sahara be damned?
Nope. The Sahara wasn’t always a desert. It was, at times, a lush area of shallow lakes, according to Fag. Animals moved into the lush Sahara. Humans, without a McDonald’s, followed the animals. They killed and ate them.
Then the Sahara dried out. The animals decamped to its edges. So did the humans. Or they travelled farther afield. Some animals, and humans, returned south. But some animals, and humans, headed north. That’s how humans came “out of Africa”.
The Sahara didn’t just go through one episode of being wet, and then dry. This happened multiple times. On each occasion, when the Sahara dried out, some animals and humans went north.
When I was young ( er ), evolution was thought to be a gradual process. Now, it’s thought that evolution consists of “punctuated equilibrium”. A long, slow period of evolution is followed by one of rapid change.
What causes this change? Stress. Climate change can cause stress. If you’re accustomed to dining in a lush Sahara, and it becomes a desert, that causes you stress.
An individual doesn’t evolve. You have the anatomy and the I.Q. that you were born with. If your job in an Amazon warehouse requires three arms, you’re not going to grow one. Similarly, not feeding your dog isn’t going to make him Einstein.
When does evolution occur? When a male and a female mate. Their offspring will be somewhat different from themselves. In other words, no fucking, no evolution. It’s thanks to sex that you don’t look and think like a monkey.
It’s fair to say that Christianity is an anti-sex religion. Its strictest adherents refuse to believe in evolution. Probably, they get a flu shot each year. Why do they need a flu shot? Because, every year, and sometimes more often, the flu evolves.
Note: Evolution is not a dogma of belief. It’s a product of science. If science demonstrates that God created the earth, then that will become part of science.
There may be aspects of our cosmos that science can’t capture. I agree with this “meta” view. I’ve always known that I’m God. However, as yet, this is unproven by science.
Fag SPEAKS in a DRAMATIC style. This is bearable for awhile. However, if you’re binging his lectures, it becomes a bit tiresome. One can say that he doesn’t regard his subject as boring.
Of my publishing, someone once said, “It’s like a Pop-Tart vending machine”. That was when I mostly published on paper. I continue that tradition here.
I’ve barely scratched the surface of Fag’s course. I’ve just started reading Wade’s book. However, I try to hold any given issue on ARSE to about 2,000 words. Otherwise, editing the document ( which works best online ) becomes an endless labor. ( Thank you, Sebastian, for your many “likes”. Note: I spared you an extra “s” in the center of your name. ) ( Sebastian is on WordPress. )
Fag’s course is an excellent value. “Before the Dawn” was a documentary on T.V. in about 2006. I found it highly informative. It’s also available as a quality Audible audio book.
Further Quotes:
1. “In Hebrew tradition … when a boy reaches the age of thirteen, he is considered … an adult Jew.”
- The Free Dictionary. By Farlex. Encyclopedia entry for: Bar Mitzva.
I had always heard the above point as follows: “A male Jew is an adult at age 12”. However, Farlex has carefully written their passage to comply with current dogma. In essence, Farlex says that a male ( at 13 ) might be a Jew in his religion, but he’s far from being an actual adult. Welcome to Orwell’s world of 1984.
2. Advice for creationists:
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”
- Charles Darwin.
Source: The Descent of Man, by Charles Darwin. ( Quoted in Before the Dawn, by Nicholas Wade. Page 5. Amazon Kindle. )
3. Inspiration for Bloggers:
A. “The Communist Party of China … gained significant influence among ordinary Chinese in the 1950s through the distribution of small comic books.”
- Wikipedia.
Source: “Jack Chick”, en ( dot ) wikipedia ( dot ) org.
B. “The multitudes of China were won to communism through cartoon booklets.”
- vox ( dot ) com. ( Quoting a 1992 letter from Chick Publications. )
C. “American evangelicals and fundamentalists have a long history of co-opting whatever popular culture and technology is available to spread the good news.”
- vox ( dot ) com.
Further Reading:
1. Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett. ( Not Bucket! ) ( Amazon Kindle. )
A college drama professor insisted to me that “Waiting for Godot” is a nonsense play. ( A 20th century genre. ) It stood for nothing. He is wrong. It grapples, in its way, with, as Douglas Adams put it, “Life, the universe, and everything.”
2. The Slit, the first essay in the book “The Immense Journey”, by Loren Eiseley. ( Amazon Kindle. )
Eiseley is a science writer of the 1940s and 1950s. His writing is breathtaking.
THE price of LIBERALty
Tonight, I realized that I hadn’t run my load of dirty dishes. I’m speaking of the dishes that I ate on last night. They were sitting in my dishwasher. As I was eating dinner again, I had more dirty dishes on the way. I got my dishwasher going.
Now, I’ve finished eating. I finished hours ago. My dirty dinner items, including a broiler pan, are sitting about in a soiled and smelly condition. I’m still waiting for my dishwasher to finish with yesterday’s dishes They have, apparently, been washed. They are now being dried by my dishwasher. This is taking a very long time.
Liberals preach to us that we need to “save energy”. They’ve been doing this for decades. They’ve been doing it since Vietnam ( a liberal debacle ), eroded America’s global power.
My dishwasher is new. ( I didn’t buy it, it came with my rented room. ) So, my dishwasher is “energy efficient”. But how is it “energy efficient”? It achieves this by lengthening the time that it would take a “normal” dishwasher to dry dishes.
Even so, my dishes come out wet. I have to dry them with a towel. I complained to my building’s manager about this. She said that her dishwasher works the same way.
I last had use of a dishwasher in 2002. It was new when I began using it, in 1988. That dishwasher had been manufactured in 1988. It did exactly what a dishwasher is supposed to do. I put my dirty dishes into it, and an hour later the machine was done. My dishes were washed and totally, absolutely dry.
I guess that dishwasher used more electricity than my current one. However, it - washed and dried dishes! In one hour! I wasn’t stuck waiting for hours for it to finish.
This is the price we pay for submitting to liberal dogma. They lose wars abroad, they forbid men from having girlfriends ( the operative word being “girl” ), and they force us to use dishwashers that finish the job in 3,000 A.D. ( By the liberal dating system, that’s 3,000 C3PO. )
ARCANA
1. Source of the quotes from vox ( dot ) com: “Satan, the pope, and Dungeons & Dragons: how Jack Chick’s Cartoons informed American fundamentalism. By Alissa Wilkinson.
In 1992, Village Voice reporter Pagan ( ahem! ) Kennedy wrote to Chick Publications, prompting their letter.
2. I’m using quotes around the titles of articles and books artistically. In a basic presentation like this, an artistic use seems preferable to a slavish adherence to a single rule. I’m unable to use italicization.
3. Vietnam’s Burden: U.S. President John Fucking Kennedy ( a Democrat ) got America into Vietnam. Lyndon Hanes Underwear Johnson ( a Democrat ) continued the Vietnam War. ( Nixon got stuck with their mess. )
If America had won the Vietnam War in the 1960s, or stayed out of it, there would have been no 1973 Arab oil embargo.
4. Date for the T.V. documentary, “Before the Dawn”. I tried to Google this. I kept running into anti-pedophile bile related to a student / teacher romance movie. ( The film does not, in fact, violate contemporary dogma. The female in the relationship is the teacher. But online reviewers complain anyway. As William Shatner ( not Shitner ) once said, “Get a life!” )
5. My broiler pan: I had steak for dinner. A cow died to feed a pedophile. I hope to eat more farting cows, who make our Earth warmer, in the near future. I’m also looking forward to boogie-boarding in Antarctica.
Modern America has lots of energy. The problem is getting it to where it needs to be. This is the purpose of the Keystone Pipeline. However, since building it would derail liberal dogma, liberals won’t let it be built.
So-called “child pornography” is illegal for the same reason. It would show that “children” enjoy sexual display and sexual intimacy like everyone else.
Global warming is good. The Arctic and Antarctic would be opened to sailing and habitation. I would no longer have to wear multiple layers of clothing in San Diego in July. ( Contrary to popular opinion, San Diego is cold throughout the year. Ask any Mexican. )
AND IN THE END…
“[ A ] man who had traveled to Hawaii returned complaining bitterly of the cold.”
- J ( erkoff ) Maarten ( T ) roost. ( On a tourist to Hawaii, from the island of Kiribati. )
Source: The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific. By J ( erkoff ) Maarten ( T ) roost. Page 256.
This is a great book. When I told my aunt that I’d read it, in about my 50th year, she was horrified. She hadn’t read the book. What upset her was the book’s title. She was not distraught by the word “cannibals”. The word “sex” upset her. Why, I’m not sure. She’s had three husbands.
My aunt rushed me a book on Mathematics. Math, of course, has no sex in it. Don’t worry, Auntie! If I masturbate less often, I might have time for your book. ( Of course, there’s no sex in masturbation… )
The Amazon Kindle version of Sex Lives, when booted up, lacks a cover. All that is present is a junk cover stating the book’s title. This is the second Kindle book that I’ve bought in several days that lacks a cover. I’m going to start calling books without covers “Bozo books”, since Amazon is owned by Jeff Bozo.
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Copyright 2021 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
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.
The WordPress app is available for free at the Apple App Store.
This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 16
Arcana: This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 16, version 5.0
Date Written: August 1, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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BO 16
Book Observations presents...
Primeval Man
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Plus: Cartoon salvation.
And: Too cold in Hawaii.
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PRIMEVAL Man
An “Audible” Audio Book Review
by Andrew Roller
Relevant Quotes:
1. “This was a world … where you were an adult by 12, and probably dead by the age of 25.”
- Brian Mammary Fag ( an ).
Source: Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations. By Brian Mammary Fag ( an ). Lecture 5: The First Europeans.
2. “Human genes have continued to evolve until the present day.”
- Nicholas Wade.
Source: Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors. By Nicholas Wade. Page 10. ( Amazon Kindle. )
Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations. By Brian Mammary Fag ( an ). The Great Courses.
Narrated by: Brian Mammary Fag ( an ). Includes quality sound effects.
A PDF is included. ( Printed documentation. )
Lecture series. Total length: 18 hours, 10 minutes.
Review: Above Guam’s capital of Agana is a naval air station. It is a United States military base. My father used to take our family there. We would go in the late afternoon so that he could jog in a field. If my father was jogging, that meant that I had to jog too. I had no choice in this.
Guam is an island in the Pacific. In the early 1970s, much of it was uncleared jungle. The base’s perimeter fence bordered one side of the field. Beyond it lay jungle. Across a lightly trafficked street was the base hospital. Inside a wing of the hospital, on its ground floor, was a rack of religious tracts. They were small comic books by Jack Chick. My younger brother and I were always happy to stock up on these comics. Once, after reading one, I committed my life to Christ. ( It didn’t stick. )
Chick’s comics were familiar to people that I knew. In junior high and high school, there was always at least one guy, in my everyday life, who held forth for creationism. I was obliged to argue for evolution. Chick’s comics, with their references to biblical verses, armed my opponents.
I do not agree with Chick’s views. However, I’m thrilled that I can read his comics online. They’re at chick ( dot ) com. I recommend using the web site’s “Search” function to look up the comic, “Somebody Goofed”. It’s my favorite one. ( Although, rereading it now, I’m a bit underwhelmed. I guess I’m not in junior high anymore. )
On page two of “Somebody Goofed” is a copyright date of 2002. My guess is that this is a copyright renewal date. U.S. copyright law was different before 1978. The online version of “Somebody Goofed” is the same comic that I read in the early 1970s.
According to Chick, I have no choice with regard to what to believe. Or, rather, I do, but if I choose incorrectly, I’m damned to Hell. Science, in regard to evolution, is the Devil’s lure. I once asked a schoolmate where dinosaur bones came from. ( He was a creationist. ) His answer:
“They were planted by Satan, to deceive man.”
Which then raises the question, why do humans have brains? Apparently, my brain isn’t to be used to reason. It’s simply a device that determines whether or not I go to Hell.
Other questions loom. Such as,
Why have humans? Are we God’s poodles?
In theory, Hell is for Satan. But why have Satan? Why have anything except perfect and eternal God?
Lastly, why have God? The Almighty’s best option might have been not to create, but to destroy. That is, to wipe himself out of existence. It would have spared countless souls a considerable amount of misery.
Or is God stuck with Himself? Are we, his poodles, here to keep him from being bored? But why would our predictable imperfections interest Him?
At this point, a reasoning human knows what to do. Throw God in your mental dumpster. He is a fiction, along with the rest of Chick’s cartoon universe.
END OF THE LINE
When we hear the word “human”, we think of ourselves. However, we’re the sole survivors of a host of humans who inhabited Earth.
Where did humans first appear? In Africa, below the Sahara. Probably, you’ve heard that humans migrated “out of Africa”. You might wonder how this happened. There’s a frickin’ desert between tropical Africa and the Eurasian landmass. Did an early human strike oil in Africa, load up his family, and decide to head for Paris, Sahara be damned?
Nope. The Sahara wasn’t always a desert. It was, at times, a lush area of shallow lakes, according to Fag. Animals moved into the lush Sahara. Humans, without a McDonald’s, followed the animals. They killed and ate them.
Then the Sahara dried out. The animals decamped to its edges. So did the humans. Or they travelled farther afield. Some animals, and humans, returned south. But some animals, and humans, headed north. That’s how humans came “out of Africa”.
The Sahara didn’t just go through one episode of being wet, and then dry. This happened multiple times. On each occasion, when the Sahara dried out, some animals and humans went north.
When I was young ( er ), evolution was thought to be a gradual process. Now, it’s thought that evolution consists of “punctuated equilibrium”. A long, slow period of evolution is followed by one of rapid change.
What causes this change? Stress. Climate change can cause stress. If you’re accustomed to dining in a lush Sahara, and it becomes a desert, that causes you stress.
An individual doesn’t evolve. You have the anatomy and the I.Q. that you were born with. If your job in an Amazon warehouse requires three arms, you’re not going to grow one. Similarly, not feeding your dog isn’t going to make him Einstein.
When does evolution occur? When a male and a female mate. Their offspring will be somewhat different from themselves. In other words, no fucking, no evolution. It’s thanks to sex that you don’t look and think like a monkey.
It’s fair to say that Christianity is an anti-sex religion. Its strictest adherents refuse to believe in evolution. Probably, they get a flu shot each year. Why do they need a flu shot? Because, every year, and sometimes more often, the flu evolves.
Note: Evolution is not a dogma of belief. It’s a product of science. If science demonstrates that God created the earth, then that will become part of science.
There may be aspects of our cosmos that science can’t capture. I agree with this “meta” view. I’ve always known that I’m God. However, as yet, this is unproven by science.
Fag SPEAKS in a DRAMATIC style. This is bearable for awhile. However, if you’re binging his lectures, it becomes a bit tiresome. One can say that he doesn’t regard his subject as boring.
Of my publishing, someone once said, “It’s like a Pop-Tart vending machine”. That was when I mostly published on paper. I continue that tradition here.
I’ve barely scratched the surface of Fag’s course. I’ve just started reading Wade’s book. However, I try to hold any given issue on ARSE to about 2,000 words. Otherwise, editing the document ( which works best online ) becomes an endless labor. ( Thank you, Sebastian, for your many “likes”. Note: I spared you an extra “s” in the center of your name. ) ( Sebastian is on WordPress. )
Fag’s course is an excellent value. “Before the Dawn” was a documentary on T.V. in about 2006. I found it highly informative. It’s also available as a quality Audible audio book.
Further Quotes:
1. “In Hebrew tradition … when a boy reaches the age of thirteen, he is considered … an adult Jew.”
- The Free Dictionary. By Farlex. Encyclopedia entry for: Bar Mitzva.
I had always heard the above point as follows: “A male Jew is an adult at age 12”. However, Farlex has carefully written their passage to comply with current dogma. In essence, Farlex says that a male ( at 13 ) might be a Jew in his religion, but he’s far from being an actual adult. Welcome to Orwell’s world of 1984.
2. Advice for creationists:
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”
- Charles Darwin.
Source: The Descent of Man, by Charles Darwin. ( Quoted in Before the Dawn, by Nicholas Wade. Page 5. Amazon Kindle. )
3. Inspiration for Bloggers:
A. “The Communist Party of China … gained significant influence among ordinary Chinese in the 1950s through the distribution of small comic books.”
- Wikipedia.
Source: “Jack Chick”, en ( dot ) wikipedia ( dot ) org.
B. “The multitudes of China were won to communism through cartoon booklets.”
- vox ( dot ) com. ( Quoting a 1992 letter from Chick Publications. )
C. “American evangelicals and fundamentalists have a long history of co-opting whatever popular culture and technology is available to spread the good news.”
- vox ( dot ) com.
Further Reading:
1. Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett. ( Not Bucket! ) ( Amazon Kindle. )
A college drama professor insisted to me that “Waiting for Godot” is a nonsense play. ( A 20th century genre. ) It stood for nothing. He is wrong. It grapples, in its way, with, as Douglas Adams put it, “Life, the universe, and everything.”
2. The Slit, the first essay in the book “The Immense Journey”, by Loren Eiseley. ( Amazon Kindle. )
Eiseley is a science writer of the 1940s and 1950s. His writing is breathtaking.
THE price of LIBERALty
Tonight, I realized that I hadn’t run my load of dirty dishes. I’m speaking of the dishes that I ate on last night. They were sitting in my dishwasher. As I was eating dinner again, I had more dirty dishes on the way. I got my dishwasher going.
Now, I’ve finished eating. I finished hours ago. My dirty dinner items, including a broiler pan, are sitting about in a soiled and smelly condition. I’m still waiting for my dishwasher to finish with yesterday’s dishes They have, apparently, been washed. They are now being dried by my dishwasher. This is taking a very long time.
Liberals preach to us that we need to “save energy”. They’ve been doing this for decades. They’ve been doing it since Vietnam ( a liberal debacle ), eroded America’s global power.
My dishwasher is new. ( I didn’t buy it, it came with my rented room. ) So, my dishwasher is “energy efficient”. But how is it “energy efficient”? It achieves this by lengthening the time that it would take a “normal” dishwasher to dry dishes.
Even so, my dishes come out wet. I have to dry them with a towel. I complained to my building’s manager about this. She said that her dishwasher works the same way.
I last had use of a dishwasher in 2002. It was new when I began using it, in 1988. That dishwasher had been manufactured in 1988. It did exactly what a dishwasher is supposed to do. I put my dirty dishes into it, and an hour later the machine was done. My dishes were washed and totally, absolutely dry.
I guess that dishwasher used more electricity than my current one. However, it - washed and dried dishes! In one hour! I wasn’t stuck waiting for hours for it to finish.
This is the price we pay for submitting to liberal dogma. They lose wars abroad, they forbid men from having girlfriends ( the operative word being “girl” ), and they force us to use dishwashers that finish the job in 3,000 A.D. ( By the liberal dating system, that’s 3,000 C3PO. )
ARCANA
1. Source of the quotes from vox ( dot ) com: “Satan, the pope, and Dungeons & Dragons: how Jack Chick’s Cartoons informed American fundamentalism. By Alissa Wilkinson.
In 1992, Village Voice reporter Pagan ( ahem! ) Kennedy wrote to Chick Publications, prompting their letter.
2. I’m using quotes around the titles of articles and books artistically. In a basic presentation like this, an artistic use seems preferable to a slavish adherence to a single rule. I’m unable to use italicization.
3. Vietnam’s Burden: U.S. President John Fucking Kennedy ( a Democrat ) got America into Vietnam. Lyndon Hanes Underwear Johnson ( a Democrat ) continued the Vietnam War. ( Nixon got stuck with their mess. )
If America had won the Vietnam War in the 1960s, or stayed out of it, there would have been no 1973 Arab oil embargo.
4. Date for the T.V. documentary, “Before the Dawn”. I tried to Google this. I kept running into anti-pedophile bile related to a student / teacher romance movie. ( The film does not, in fact, violate contemporary dogma. The female in the relationship is the teacher. But online reviewers complain anyway. As William Shatner ( not Shitner ) once said, “Get a life!” )
5. My broiler pan: I had steak for dinner. A cow died to feed a pedophile. I hope to eat more farting cows, who make our Earth warmer, in the near future. I’m also looking forward to boogie-boarding in Antarctica.
Modern America has lots of energy. The problem is getting it to where it needs to be. This is the purpose of the Keystone Pipeline. However, since building it would derail liberal dogma, liberals won’t let it be built.
So-called “child pornography” is illegal for the same reason. It would show that “children” enjoy sexual display and sexual intimacy like everyone else.
Global warming is good. The Arctic and Antarctic would be opened to sailing and habitation. I would no longer have to wear multiple layers of clothing in San Diego in July. ( Contrary to popular opinion, San Diego is cold throughout the year. Ask any Mexican. )
AND IN THE END…
“[ A ] man who had traveled to Hawaii returned complaining bitterly of the cold.”
- J ( erkoff ) Maarten ( T ) roost. ( On a tourist to Hawaii, from the island of Kiribati. )
Source: The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific. By J ( erkoff ) Maarten ( T ) roost. Page 256.
This is a great book. When I told my aunt that I’d read it, in about my 50th year, she was horrified. She hadn’t read the book. What upset her was the book’s title. She was not distraught by the word “cannibals”. The word “sex” upset her. Why, I’m not sure. She’s had three husbands.
My aunt rushed me a book on Mathematics. Math, of course, has no sex in it. Don’t worry, Auntie! If I masturbate less often, I might have time for your book. ( Of course, there’s no sex in masturbation… )
The Amazon Kindle version of Sex Lives, when booted up, lacks a cover. All that is present is a junk cover stating the book’s title. This is the second Kindle book that I’ve bought in several days that lacks a cover. I’m going to start calling books without covers “Bozo books”, since Amazon is owned by Jeff Bozo.
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Copyright 2021 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
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.
The WordPress app is available for free at the Apple App Store.
This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 16
Arcana: This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 16, version 5.0
Date Written: August 1, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Death of the Middle Ages
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BO 15
Book Observations presents...
Death of the Middle Ages
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Plus: Flagellant guilds.
And: Married at 13.
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DEATH of the MIDDLE AGES
An “Audible” Audio Book Review
by Andrew Roller
Relevant Quotes:
1. “The whole system imploded under the impact of Luther’s message.”
- ( Diar ) maid MacCulloch.
Source: The Reformation, by ( Diar ) maid MacCulloch. ( On Martin Luther vs. “the Purgatory industry” of the Catholic Church. Page 14. Amazon Kindle. )
2. “When Zwingli gets back to Switzerland … he’s ready to use force. … He’s become convinced that the only way he’s going to spread his ideas … will be through military conquest.”
- Andrew Cunt Fix.
Source: “The Renaissance, The Reformation, and the Rise of Nations”, by Andrew Cunt Fix. Lecture 21: The Reformation beyond Germany - Zwingli. ( On Protestant reformer Ulrich Zwingli. )
The Renaissance, The Reformation, and the Rise of Nations. By Andrew Cunt Fix. The Great Courses.
Narrated by: Andrew Cunt Fix. Includes quality sound effects.
A PDF is included. ( Printed documentation. )
Lecture series. Total length: 24 hours, 17 minutes.
Review: What is your opinion of human sacrifice? Probably, you’re against it. Being against it, you might head off to church. There, you take communion. Guess what? You’ve just participated in a human sacrifice.
Who was sacrificed? Jesus. You drank the blood of Jesus ( the wine ), and ate his body ( the wafer ). Fix does not say this explicitly in his course. However, he hints at it, using the word “sacrifice”, in one of his lectures. ( Lecture 17: The Reformation Begins ).
The notion of human sacrifice is also hinted at in MacCulloch’s book. ( Page 7 ).
Fix’s course was published in 2005. PDFs from that time, by “The Teaching Company”, aren’t very good. Instead of reading Fix’s PDF, I decided to buy a book on the subject. That’s why this review is led by a quote from the book by Maid MacCulloch.
In his book series, “The Story of Civilization”, Will Durant speaks of “The Age of Faith”. Durant dates this period as running from 325 A.D. to 1300 A.D. People’s passion for faith continued into the Reformation.
Why did the Reformation occur? People got smarter. They began to ask questions about the Catholic faith that they hadn’t considered before. One question regarded the morality of priests. Priests were known to be sinners. Yet a priest was the person empowered to forgive your sins. ‘How can a sinful priest forgive my sins?’ people wondered.
Literacy spread in Europe. People began to read the Bible for themselves. New translations of the Bible appeared. At the same time, ancient Roman and Greek authors were rediscovered, and retranslated.
Meanwhile, the Catholic Church went through a number of crises. For awhile, the Pope ceased to reside in Rome. He lived in France. Several men claimed to be Pope. Each had substantial authority behind his claim.
Priests ceased to be able to read Latin. They would perform the Catholic Mass speaking, literally, gibberish. Since their parishioners didn’t know Latin, the priests figured they could get away with this. But their parishioners divined that they were listening to verbal garbage.
Purgatory was invented during this period. The Bible makes no mention of Purgatory. The Church found that it could sell indulgences to the gullible to free their dead relatives, and friends, from Purgatory. The sales pitch for the sale of indulgences was,
“When the coin in the coffer rings, “The soul from Purgatory springs!”
The Church began to sell indulgences for future sins. If you bought, you could spend your days sinning, since your investment in indulgences would save you from God’s wrath.
It was the sale of indulgences that upset Catholic priest Martin Luther. He lived, and preached, in Germany. Luther believed that Man was saved solely by God’s grace. No amount of indulgences, or good works, could save any man.
As a result of Luther’s tenets, the Pope issued two decrees. They were as follows:
1. I am infallible. Whatever I say is true.
2. My word is true even if the Bible says otherwise. In a test between my truth and that of the Bible, I win; the Bible is wrong.
( Though this Pope’s mortal form has left the earth, it is said that he now works as a censor for Google’s You Tube. )
The Church was against its parishioners reading the Bible. I experienced this in my own life. My father was a Lutheran minister. He had strong opinions. His word was “the law” in our family, backed up by his use of physical violence.
What was my father’s justification for his “laws”, and his violence? He knew the Bible. As a teenager, I at last bestirred myself to slog through the Bible. This did not please my mother. She told me to stop reading the Bible!
“Your father reads the Bible, and then he tells us what to do,” was her opinion. My father is now dead. Given this, who is supposed to read the Bible for me, and tell me what to do?
My mother’s position on my reading the Bible was my parents’ position regarding my education. On another occasion, my mother told me that I wasn’t to be educated to a point of being “too smart”. I was only to be educated sufficiently to obey. Hence, if we’d lived in Nazi Germany, I wasn’t to be educated enough to know that slaughtering Jews was wrong. I was only to be educated enough to obey Hitler.
As you can see, this position of the Church doomed it. Some sort of reform was bound to happen. That such reform would end the Church’s dominance in Europe was inevitable.
In my own life, I found that my father’s knowledge of the Bible was limited. He was familiar with the New Testament. His knowledge of the Old Testament, beyond stories known to children, was poor. In fact, he once told me that he didn’t know the Bible as a means to salvation. Rather, he knew it as a means of earning money.
Fix’s lecture style is soft-spoken and conversational. It’s the equivalent of listening to a college roommate. However, he is thoroughly informed on his subject. He held my attention.
The early part of this series spends a great deal of time in Italian cities, particularly Florence. I was at risk of being bored by this. Fix spent so much time in Florence that I wondered if I’d taken up residence there. Fortunately, the Italian city-states engage in the occasional war. As a male, I need a reference to war, or lovely females, for my interest to remain engaged.
If I ever make a movie, it won’t be an intellectual foray. It will be titled, “Boobs, Bottoms, and Bombs!”
You’ve heard of the faithful going on pilgrimages. One or more people will proceed to a holy shrine. I never quite understood why people did this. Maid MacCulloch explains:
“[ It was so the faithful could ] offer their prayers in an especially powerful and effective setting.” ( Page 17. )
I had always thought of socialism and communism as being 20th century conceptions. ( Admittedly, Marx wrote in the 19th century. ) It turns out that the Reformation is brimming with socialist and communist ideas, and implementations.
Fix’s course contains 48 lectures. I’m about halfway through it. As for Maid MacCulloch’s book, I have about 800 more pages to read. Given what I’ve already quoted and written, you can see that both items ( Fix’s course, and Maid’s book ), are sound intellectual investments.
Further Quotes:
1. “His preaching on Mary set the tone for a genre of sermons which were an extravagant celebration of womanliness in all its fascination and dangerous power.”
- Maid MacCulloch.
Source: The Reformation, by Maid MacCulloch. ( On Italian Franciscan preacher Bernardino of Siena. Page 21. )
2. “Many gilds were linked with the flagellant movement, … solemnly and publicly beating themselves and each other.”
- Maid MacCulloch.
Source: Ibid., page 16.
3. “[ Across Europe, there was a ] popular hunger for the certainty of salvation; … through the Mass, the Cross, the Mother nursing her son at her breast, or passionately weeping over his crucified corpse.”
- Maid MacCulloch.
Source: Ibid., page 22.
4. “Christ-centred devotions … [ were ] promoted from the 1420s by the hugely popular Italian Franciscan preacher Bernardino of Siena.”
- Maid MacCulloch.
Source: Ibid., page 20.
Further Reading:
Dressing Renaissance Florence: Families, Fortunes, and Fine Clothing. By Carole Collie ( r ) Frick [ in’ ]. ( Amazon Kindle. )
Relevant Quotes:
1. “In the presence of his entire company … he had her stripped naked and the garments he had … prepared for her brought forward; then he immediately had her dress and put on her shoes, and upon her hair—as disheveled as it was— he had a crown placed. . . . The young bride seemed to have changed her soul and ways along with her garments: . . . so that she seemed to be not the shepherdess daughter of Giannucolo but rather the daughter of some noble lord.”
- Frickin’ Collie, page 11. ( Quoting “The story of the Patient Griselda, in Boccaccio, The Decameron”. )
Note to Alisin Wood, of the book, “Being Lolita [ not ]”. He was not marrying “a mature, sophisticated, powerful woman”. ( Thank God! )
2. “Like a sumptuous doll … one 13-year-old nubile noblewoman was so weighted down by her bridal attire that she could not walk, and a constable had to be called in to carry her into the wedding ceremony in his arms.”
- Ibid., page 88. ( On an era when men were men, women were women, and girls were nubile brides. ) ( And Arabs had harems. )
Brown Downpour
This is a story for anyone who doesn’t like me. I hope you enjoy it.
I was in the grocery store when it happened. My bowels told me that they needed to go. There is a single, unisex toilet in the grocery store. However, it’s frequented by the homeless.
I didn’t think I could make it home to my bathroom. But I figured I’d give it a try. It was better than getting cooties from a homeless woman.
I bought my groceries. I began walking home. I found that staring at the ground, just ahead of me, was the most effective way of restraining my shit.
I made it through the first traffic light. Diverting myself from my usual path, I avoided a second traffic light by taking an alternate route. Meantime, the state of my nether route was becoming more urgent.
I arrived at a restaurant. People were eating there, outdoors. I thought I saw a blonde little girl. That excited my bowels. The blonde turned out to be a woman. However, my poop was now on the point of coming out.
I walked on. I did so with increasing alacrity, dodging a car as I crossed another street. My bowels began to release. Shit started coming out. Another restaurant lay in my path. It’s not supposed to open until 4:00 P.M., but two people were standing outside it.
Shit filled my underpants. It began to escape my underpants to my trousers. It ran down the insides of the legs of my trousers. I began to smell myself.
Within seconds, I was reeking. I passed the two people outside the “closed” restaurant. Hopefully, they didn’t smell me.
I crossed two more streets. At one, a garbage truck hulked. The driver probably had the right to go ahead of me, but I didn’t care. Scuttling across the street, I could feel my shit reaching my shoes.
I smelled like a sewer as I entered my building. I don’t know if I left a trail of shit in the hallway. I got in my room and was soon in my shower. It’s a shower stall. I got into it with my clothes on.
My shower doesn’t put out a lot of water. This is so politicians can claim that they’re “saving water”. Shit got splattered all over the inside of my shower, as I stripped off my clothes. Since my shower puts out so little water, it took me quite awhile to rub away the shit from the walls of my shower.
After my shower, I did my laundry. If you should meet me, I will, hopefully, not have just pooped in my pants.
Recently, I pooped in my bed. I’ll save that story for later. I did what I could to clean up the mess. Two weeks later, I laundered my bedsheets.
I still consider myself to be a stud, for any especially lovely females who care to come by. I won’t hold it against you if you wet my bed.
AND IN THE END…
“The true Christian is not governed by ‘the law’”.
- Martin Luther.
Source: On Christian Freedom, by Martin Luther. Quoted in “The Renaissance, The Reformation, and the Rise of Nations”, by Andrew Cunt Fix. Lecture 18: The Progress of the Reformation in Germany.
ARCANA
1. This is about Amazon’s Kindle app. When I quote a phrase in a Kindle book, I put the phrase in the center of my iPad’s screen. I do this in the Kindle app. Then, I look to see what the book’s page number is.
Kindle itself puts a quoted phrase at the top of my iPad’s screen. Hence, there might be a slight variance between the page number that I cite, and the one that Kindle presents.
2. Two years ago, I viewed Amazon’s Kindle app, and e-books, with skepticism. Today, I find Kindle ( in particular ) essential. My reasons are these:
A. The “Search for a word or phrase” function. I can find a passage much more quickly in Kindle than in a real book. This includes using the word “pee” to find my favorite scene in the erotic novel “Arabella”.
B. The “ADD NOTE” function. I have many pages of scrap paper that I’ve written notes on. My notes pertain to various printed books that I’ve read. I scribbled these notes while reading the books, and eating. I have no way of ever incorporating such notes into the books. If I do, I’ll make the books look messy.
Kindle lets me make notes while I’m reading and eating. I only have to make sure that I don’t tip my glass of soda onto my iPad’s keyboard. ( I cover my keyboard with paper towels, unless I’m typing on it. I do this while I’m eating. )
C. The “highlight text” function. I can add highlighter marks and, just as important, erase ones that I don’t want anymore.
D. The “copy text” function. I can paste text from Kindle books directly into my documents.
E. The “SHARE QUOTE” function. I can use this to share the following with You Tube’s censors:
“One little girl was about ten, the other twelve. They were both beautiful, with huge velvet-black eyes, long silky hair and golden skin. They wore short white dresses and short white socks. Shrieking, the two little girls would run into the Baron’s room and playfully throw themselves over his big bed. …
“The little girls did not mind how their skirts flew upward and their slender dancer’s legs got tangled and fell over his penis …
“Laughing, they turned over on him, sat on him, treated him like a horse. …
“They would kiss him, pull at his hair, and have childish conversations.
“The Baron … pushed her body up, but she lay close to him, her little legs, her little panties, everything, rubbing against him …
“Then the second girl, wishing to even the strength of the game, sat astride [ the Baron ] …
“His penis … rose over and over again between the [ girls’ ] little legs, and it was like this that he came, with a strength he had rarely known, surrendering the battle, which the girls had won in a manner they never suspected.
“Another time when they came to play with him he put his hands under the quilt. Then he raised the quilt with his forefinger and dared them to catch it. So with great eagerness, they began to chase the finger, which disappeared and reappeared in different parts of the bed, catching it firmly in their hands. After a moment it was not the finger but the [ Baron’s ] penis [ that ] they caught over and over again. …
“He pretended to be an animal, sought to catch and bite them, sometimes quite near where he wanted to, and they took great delight in this. With the ‘animal’ they also played hide-and-seek. The ‘animal’ was to spring at them from some hidden corner. He hid in the closet on the floor. …
“One of the little girls opened the closet. He could see under her dress; he caught her and bit her playfully on the thighs. So heated were the games, so great were the confusion of the battle and the abandon of the little girls at play, that very often his hand went everywhere he wanted it to go.”
- Delta of Venus, by Anais Nin. Pages 4 - 5. ( Amazon Kindle ).
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Copyright 2021 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
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.
The WordPress app is available for free at the Apple App Store.
This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 15
Arcana: This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 15, version 6.0
Date Written: July 30, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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Now, no one can deny that I contributed to “the browning of America”.
This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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BO 15
Book Observations presents...
Death of the Middle Ages
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Plus: Flagellant guilds.
And: Married at 13.
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DEATH of the MIDDLE AGES
An “Audible” Audio Book Review
by Andrew Roller
Relevant Quotes:
1. “The whole system imploded under the impact of Luther’s message.”
- ( Diar ) maid MacCulloch.
Source: The Reformation, by ( Diar ) maid MacCulloch. ( On Martin Luther vs. “the Purgatory industry” of the Catholic Church. Page 14. Amazon Kindle. )
2. “When Zwingli gets back to Switzerland … he’s ready to use force. … He’s become convinced that the only way he’s going to spread his ideas … will be through military conquest.”
- Andrew Cunt Fix.
Source: “The Renaissance, The Reformation, and the Rise of Nations”, by Andrew Cunt Fix. Lecture 21: The Reformation beyond Germany - Zwingli. ( On Protestant reformer Ulrich Zwingli. )
The Renaissance, The Reformation, and the Rise of Nations. By Andrew Cunt Fix. The Great Courses.
Narrated by: Andrew Cunt Fix. Includes quality sound effects.
A PDF is included. ( Printed documentation. )
Lecture series. Total length: 24 hours, 17 minutes.
Review: What is your opinion of human sacrifice? Probably, you’re against it. Being against it, you might head off to church. There, you take communion. Guess what? You’ve just participated in a human sacrifice.
Who was sacrificed? Jesus. You drank the blood of Jesus ( the wine ), and ate his body ( the wafer ). Fix does not say this explicitly in his course. However, he hints at it, using the word “sacrifice”, in one of his lectures. ( Lecture 17: The Reformation Begins ).
The notion of human sacrifice is also hinted at in MacCulloch’s book. ( Page 7 ).
Fix’s course was published in 2005. PDFs from that time, by “The Teaching Company”, aren’t very good. Instead of reading Fix’s PDF, I decided to buy a book on the subject. That’s why this review is led by a quote from the book by Maid MacCulloch.
In his book series, “The Story of Civilization”, Will Durant speaks of “The Age of Faith”. Durant dates this period as running from 325 A.D. to 1300 A.D. People’s passion for faith continued into the Reformation.
Why did the Reformation occur? People got smarter. They began to ask questions about the Catholic faith that they hadn’t considered before. One question regarded the morality of priests. Priests were known to be sinners. Yet a priest was the person empowered to forgive your sins. ‘How can a sinful priest forgive my sins?’ people wondered.
Literacy spread in Europe. People began to read the Bible for themselves. New translations of the Bible appeared. At the same time, ancient Roman and Greek authors were rediscovered, and retranslated.
Meanwhile, the Catholic Church went through a number of crises. For awhile, the Pope ceased to reside in Rome. He lived in France. Several men claimed to be Pope. Each had substantial authority behind his claim.
Priests ceased to be able to read Latin. They would perform the Catholic Mass speaking, literally, gibberish. Since their parishioners didn’t know Latin, the priests figured they could get away with this. But their parishioners divined that they were listening to verbal garbage.
Purgatory was invented during this period. The Bible makes no mention of Purgatory. The Church found that it could sell indulgences to the gullible to free their dead relatives, and friends, from Purgatory. The sales pitch for the sale of indulgences was,
“When the coin in the coffer rings, “The soul from Purgatory springs!”
The Church began to sell indulgences for future sins. If you bought, you could spend your days sinning, since your investment in indulgences would save you from God’s wrath.
It was the sale of indulgences that upset Catholic priest Martin Luther. He lived, and preached, in Germany. Luther believed that Man was saved solely by God’s grace. No amount of indulgences, or good works, could save any man.
As a result of Luther’s tenets, the Pope issued two decrees. They were as follows:
1. I am infallible. Whatever I say is true.
2. My word is true even if the Bible says otherwise. In a test between my truth and that of the Bible, I win; the Bible is wrong.
( Though this Pope’s mortal form has left the earth, it is said that he now works as a censor for Google’s You Tube. )
The Church was against its parishioners reading the Bible. I experienced this in my own life. My father was a Lutheran minister. He had strong opinions. His word was “the law” in our family, backed up by his use of physical violence.
What was my father’s justification for his “laws”, and his violence? He knew the Bible. As a teenager, I at last bestirred myself to slog through the Bible. This did not please my mother. She told me to stop reading the Bible!
“Your father reads the Bible, and then he tells us what to do,” was her opinion. My father is now dead. Given this, who is supposed to read the Bible for me, and tell me what to do?
My mother’s position on my reading the Bible was my parents’ position regarding my education. On another occasion, my mother told me that I wasn’t to be educated to a point of being “too smart”. I was only to be educated sufficiently to obey. Hence, if we’d lived in Nazi Germany, I wasn’t to be educated enough to know that slaughtering Jews was wrong. I was only to be educated enough to obey Hitler.
As you can see, this position of the Church doomed it. Some sort of reform was bound to happen. That such reform would end the Church’s dominance in Europe was inevitable.
In my own life, I found that my father’s knowledge of the Bible was limited. He was familiar with the New Testament. His knowledge of the Old Testament, beyond stories known to children, was poor. In fact, he once told me that he didn’t know the Bible as a means to salvation. Rather, he knew it as a means of earning money.
Fix’s lecture style is soft-spoken and conversational. It’s the equivalent of listening to a college roommate. However, he is thoroughly informed on his subject. He held my attention.
The early part of this series spends a great deal of time in Italian cities, particularly Florence. I was at risk of being bored by this. Fix spent so much time in Florence that I wondered if I’d taken up residence there. Fortunately, the Italian city-states engage in the occasional war. As a male, I need a reference to war, or lovely females, for my interest to remain engaged.
If I ever make a movie, it won’t be an intellectual foray. It will be titled, “Boobs, Bottoms, and Bombs!”
You’ve heard of the faithful going on pilgrimages. One or more people will proceed to a holy shrine. I never quite understood why people did this. Maid MacCulloch explains:
“[ It was so the faithful could ] offer their prayers in an especially powerful and effective setting.” ( Page 17. )
I had always thought of socialism and communism as being 20th century conceptions. ( Admittedly, Marx wrote in the 19th century. ) It turns out that the Reformation is brimming with socialist and communist ideas, and implementations.
Fix’s course contains 48 lectures. I’m about halfway through it. As for Maid MacCulloch’s book, I have about 800 more pages to read. Given what I’ve already quoted and written, you can see that both items ( Fix’s course, and Maid’s book ), are sound intellectual investments.
Further Quotes:
1. “His preaching on Mary set the tone for a genre of sermons which were an extravagant celebration of womanliness in all its fascination and dangerous power.”
- Maid MacCulloch.
Source: The Reformation, by Maid MacCulloch. ( On Italian Franciscan preacher Bernardino of Siena. Page 21. )
2. “Many gilds were linked with the flagellant movement, … solemnly and publicly beating themselves and each other.”
- Maid MacCulloch.
Source: Ibid., page 16.
3. “[ Across Europe, there was a ] popular hunger for the certainty of salvation; … through the Mass, the Cross, the Mother nursing her son at her breast, or passionately weeping over his crucified corpse.”
- Maid MacCulloch.
Source: Ibid., page 22.
4. “Christ-centred devotions … [ were ] promoted from the 1420s by the hugely popular Italian Franciscan preacher Bernardino of Siena.”
- Maid MacCulloch.
Source: Ibid., page 20.
Further Reading:
Dressing Renaissance Florence: Families, Fortunes, and Fine Clothing. By Carole Collie ( r ) Frick [ in’ ]. ( Amazon Kindle. )
Relevant Quotes:
1. “In the presence of his entire company … he had her stripped naked and the garments he had … prepared for her brought forward; then he immediately had her dress and put on her shoes, and upon her hair—as disheveled as it was— he had a crown placed. . . . The young bride seemed to have changed her soul and ways along with her garments: . . . so that she seemed to be not the shepherdess daughter of Giannucolo but rather the daughter of some noble lord.”
- Frickin’ Collie, page 11. ( Quoting “The story of the Patient Griselda, in Boccaccio, The Decameron”. )
Note to Alisin Wood, of the book, “Being Lolita [ not ]”. He was not marrying “a mature, sophisticated, powerful woman”. ( Thank God! )
2. “Like a sumptuous doll … one 13-year-old nubile noblewoman was so weighted down by her bridal attire that she could not walk, and a constable had to be called in to carry her into the wedding ceremony in his arms.”
- Ibid., page 88. ( On an era when men were men, women were women, and girls were nubile brides. ) ( And Arabs had harems. )
Brown Downpour
This is a story for anyone who doesn’t like me. I hope you enjoy it.
I was in the grocery store when it happened. My bowels told me that they needed to go. There is a single, unisex toilet in the grocery store. However, it’s frequented by the homeless.
I didn’t think I could make it home to my bathroom. But I figured I’d give it a try. It was better than getting cooties from a homeless woman.
I bought my groceries. I began walking home. I found that staring at the ground, just ahead of me, was the most effective way of restraining my shit.
I made it through the first traffic light. Diverting myself from my usual path, I avoided a second traffic light by taking an alternate route. Meantime, the state of my nether route was becoming more urgent.
I arrived at a restaurant. People were eating there, outdoors. I thought I saw a blonde little girl. That excited my bowels. The blonde turned out to be a woman. However, my poop was now on the point of coming out.
I walked on. I did so with increasing alacrity, dodging a car as I crossed another street. My bowels began to release. Shit started coming out. Another restaurant lay in my path. It’s not supposed to open until 4:00 P.M., but two people were standing outside it.
Shit filled my underpants. It began to escape my underpants to my trousers. It ran down the insides of the legs of my trousers. I began to smell myself.
Within seconds, I was reeking. I passed the two people outside the “closed” restaurant. Hopefully, they didn’t smell me.
I crossed two more streets. At one, a garbage truck hulked. The driver probably had the right to go ahead of me, but I didn’t care. Scuttling across the street, I could feel my shit reaching my shoes.
I smelled like a sewer as I entered my building. I don’t know if I left a trail of shit in the hallway. I got in my room and was soon in my shower. It’s a shower stall. I got into it with my clothes on.
My shower doesn’t put out a lot of water. This is so politicians can claim that they’re “saving water”. Shit got splattered all over the inside of my shower, as I stripped off my clothes. Since my shower puts out so little water, it took me quite awhile to rub away the shit from the walls of my shower.
After my shower, I did my laundry. If you should meet me, I will, hopefully, not have just pooped in my pants.
Recently, I pooped in my bed. I’ll save that story for later. I did what I could to clean up the mess. Two weeks later, I laundered my bedsheets.
I still consider myself to be a stud, for any especially lovely females who care to come by. I won’t hold it against you if you wet my bed.
AND IN THE END…
“The true Christian is not governed by ‘the law’”.
- Martin Luther.
Source: On Christian Freedom, by Martin Luther. Quoted in “The Renaissance, The Reformation, and the Rise of Nations”, by Andrew Cunt Fix. Lecture 18: The Progress of the Reformation in Germany.
ARCANA
1. This is about Amazon’s Kindle app. When I quote a phrase in a Kindle book, I put the phrase in the center of my iPad’s screen. I do this in the Kindle app. Then, I look to see what the book’s page number is.
Kindle itself puts a quoted phrase at the top of my iPad’s screen. Hence, there might be a slight variance between the page number that I cite, and the one that Kindle presents.
2. Two years ago, I viewed Amazon’s Kindle app, and e-books, with skepticism. Today, I find Kindle ( in particular ) essential. My reasons are these:
A. The “Search for a word or phrase” function. I can find a passage much more quickly in Kindle than in a real book. This includes using the word “pee” to find my favorite scene in the erotic novel “Arabella”.
B. The “ADD NOTE” function. I have many pages of scrap paper that I’ve written notes on. My notes pertain to various printed books that I’ve read. I scribbled these notes while reading the books, and eating. I have no way of ever incorporating such notes into the books. If I do, I’ll make the books look messy.
Kindle lets me make notes while I’m reading and eating. I only have to make sure that I don’t tip my glass of soda onto my iPad’s keyboard. ( I cover my keyboard with paper towels, unless I’m typing on it. I do this while I’m eating. )
C. The “highlight text” function. I can add highlighter marks and, just as important, erase ones that I don’t want anymore.
D. The “copy text” function. I can paste text from Kindle books directly into my documents.
E. The “SHARE QUOTE” function. I can use this to share the following with You Tube’s censors:
“One little girl was about ten, the other twelve. They were both beautiful, with huge velvet-black eyes, long silky hair and golden skin. They wore short white dresses and short white socks. Shrieking, the two little girls would run into the Baron’s room and playfully throw themselves over his big bed. …
“The little girls did not mind how their skirts flew upward and their slender dancer’s legs got tangled and fell over his penis …
“Laughing, they turned over on him, sat on him, treated him like a horse. …
“They would kiss him, pull at his hair, and have childish conversations.
“The Baron … pushed her body up, but she lay close to him, her little legs, her little panties, everything, rubbing against him …
“Then the second girl, wishing to even the strength of the game, sat astride [ the Baron ] …
“His penis … rose over and over again between the [ girls’ ] little legs, and it was like this that he came, with a strength he had rarely known, surrendering the battle, which the girls had won in a manner they never suspected.
“Another time when they came to play with him he put his hands under the quilt. Then he raised the quilt with his forefinger and dared them to catch it. So with great eagerness, they began to chase the finger, which disappeared and reappeared in different parts of the bed, catching it firmly in their hands. After a moment it was not the finger but the [ Baron’s ] penis [ that ] they caught over and over again. …
“He pretended to be an animal, sought to catch and bite them, sometimes quite near where he wanted to, and they took great delight in this. With the ‘animal’ they also played hide-and-seek. The ‘animal’ was to spring at them from some hidden corner. He hid in the closet on the floor. …
“One of the little girls opened the closet. He could see under her dress; he caught her and bit her playfully on the thighs. So heated were the games, so great were the confusion of the battle and the abandon of the little girls at play, that very often his hand went everywhere he wanted it to go.”
- Delta of Venus, by Anais Nin. Pages 4 - 5. ( Amazon Kindle ).
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Copyright 2021 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
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.
The WordPress app is available for free at the Apple App Store.
This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 15
Arcana: This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 15, version 6.0
Date Written: July 30, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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Now, no one can deny that I contributed to “the browning of America”.
This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Me Tart Trouble
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ET 95
Editorial Thunder presents...
Me Tart Trouble
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Plus: Lunatic You Tube.
And: Cousins of “Molester”.
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ME TART Trouble
by Andrew Roller
I am a member of the following “porn” web site:
metartnetwork ( dot ) com
I joined the Met Art Network on April 20, 2021.
I have spoken well of this web site in previous articles. ( Here on ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays. )
However, I have encountered some problems with this web site. They are as follows:
1. The Met Art Network has apparently sold more memberships than it has servers to handle their traffic. I tried, repeatedly, to access this web site on July 26, 2021. I was mostly unsuccessful.
On one occasion, my browser reported:
503 Service Unavailable
No server is available to handle this request.
2. If you join the Met Art Network, you will be told to create a password. However, this password will not work.
Instead, in your e-mail, you’ll receive a new password from the Met Art Network.
Amazingly, this password will not work!
On July 26, 2021, I called my biller for the Met Art Network. My biller is Epoch ( dot ) com. Epoch confirmed that my Met Art Network password is correct.
Nonetheless, whenever I try to log in to the Met Art Network, I’m told the following:
“Invalid credentials. Please try again” [ No period. ]
You might wonder how I have been using the Met Art Network, as a customer, if my password doesn’t work. The web site lets me in. I think the web site is recognizing my iPad as valid. Hence, it admits my iPad to the site, not me.
If I were to buy a Macintosh, I would be unable to access the Met Art Network web site. That’s because:
A. My Macintosh would be a different “device”.
B. My Met Art Network password ( which is correct ) doesn’t work.
3. The Met Art Network has a hidden download limit. I am only able to download a certain number of photo galleries, or videos. Then the hidden download limit kicks in. It lasts for some length of time. ( I don’t know how long. )
4. For any given model, the Met Art Network rearranges her photo galleries and videos.
When you find a model, you will see a certain arrangement of her photo galleries and videos.
It is very easy to disorder this arrangement. This happens if you do the following:
A. Click on one of the model’s previous pages.
B. Leave the model.
C. Leave the web site.
When you return to the model, you’ll find that her photo galleries and videos are in a different order. This makes downloading each of her photo galleries and videos nearly impossible.
To solve this problem, take a screen shot of each photo gallery and video PRIOR to downloading it. Download the item. Then, go to the “Downloads” folder, in your iCloud Drive, and make sure that the downloaded item actually arrived.
You will not be able to download all the photo galleries and videos for a given model in one sitting. That’s because the Met Art Network’s hidden download limit will kick in as you’re working. ( When you return, later, the model’s photo galleries and videos will be in a different, confusing order. )
5. For any given model, the Met Art Network duplicates her photo galleries and videos.
On a model’s first page, you’ll see a variety of photo galleries and videos. When you click to a subsequent page for this model, you’ll encounter some of the SAME photo galleries and videos.
To solve this problem, take a screen shot of each photo gallery and video PRIOR to downloading it. Download the item. Then, go to the “Downloads” folder, in your iCloud Drive, and make sure that the downloaded item actually arrived.
You will not be able to download all the photo galleries and videos for a given model in one sitting. That’s because the Met Art Network’s hidden download limit will kick in as you’re working. ( When you return, later, the model’s photo galleries and videos will be in a different, confusing order. )
6. The following photo gallery will crash your iPad. It is:
Web site: metartnetwork ( dot ) com
Model: Alisa Amore.
Photo Gallery: Alisa Amore in Presenting Alisa Amore.
A. This photo gallery downloads correctly. It downloads to the folder called “Downloads” in your iCloud Drive.
B. This photo gallery “unzips” correctly.
C. The first half of the photos in this photo gallery can be viewed.
D. However, in the latter half of the photos, the following happens:
a. You can tap on and look at ONE photo.
b. When you tap on a second photo, the photo gallery freezes. ( Assuming the second photo is in the LATTER half of the photos in the photo gallery. )
c. Next, the photo gallery crashes your iPad.
d. This happened to me several times on July 26, 2021. ( Each time I tried to look at the photos in the latter half of the gallery. )
e. This happened to me in April 2021. It happened every time that I tried to look at the photos in the latter half of the photo gallery.
I found a way to look at all the photos in this photo gallery. It is the following:
I put the zip file of “Alisa Amore in Presenting Alisa Amore” in the app “Documents”, by the company called “Readdle”. I was able to view ALL the photos there.
HOWEVER, I am unable to view all the photos in this photo gallery in my “Downloads” folder in iCloud Drive.
I CAN view all of the Met Art Network’s other photo galleries in my “Downloads” folder, in iCloud Drive.
( Obviously, there are many photo galleries on the Met Art Network that I’ve never viewed or downloaded. )
7. The Met Art Network responds to complaints. However, their responses are pat answers. They’ll tell you the following:
A. Use another browser.
I use Apple’s “Safari” browser. The Google browser is what “Safari” has installed.
With the Google browser installed, I’m able to download photo galleries, and videos, at any porn web site that I have access to. If I were to uninstall the Google browser, and install another browser, I have no idea what functionality it would have.
Once, I accidentally uninstalled the Google browser. I was unable to reinstall it. By some miracle, it eventually reinstalled itself.
In the meantime, I had Microsoft’s Bing browser installed. Bing is unable to access newer web sites. It took Bing many months to realize that I had a web site.
I hate Google. I don’t ever want to “sign in” to Google again. Google is simply the browser that’s installed in my “Safari” browser on my iPad. It works whether I’m “signed in” to Google or not.
( The only time it didn’t work was when You Tube’s staff terminated my Google account, as well as my You Tube account. That was part of their campaign of abuse against me. )
There is nothing wrong with my browser. The reason I can’t download, at times, from the Met Art Network is because of their hidden download limit.
B. Clear your cookies.
Sure. Then I can’t access ANY web site, without laboriously signing up again at each one.
There is nothing wrong with my cookies. The reason I can’t download, at times, from the Met Art Network is because of their hidden download limit.
Hopefully, the Met Art Network will do the following:
1. Buy more servers.
2. Update the “credentials” for all of their customers.
3. Remove their hidden download limit.
4. Stop rearranging each model’s photo galleries and videos.
5. Stop duplicating each model’s photo galleries and videos.
6. Fix the photo gallery: Alisa Amore in Presenting Alisa Amore.
7. Stop issuing pat answers to customer complaints.
LUNATIC You Tube
I have been a You Tube Premium member since September 2019. I have paid my bill every month.
You Tube Premium includes access to You Tube Music.
A You Tube Premium member does not have to watch commercials on You Tube. You simply click on a video, and watch it.
Beginning in March 2020, You Tube’s staff began a campaign of persecution against me. This is detailed in my previous articles. ( Here on ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays. )
I have never uploaded a video to You Tube.
I did make about 200 playlists on You Tube. I made these playlists as ( name ) @Gmail.com.
In December of 2020, I ceased using You Tube. This was because of You Tube’s ongoing abuse of myself. You Tube was also abusing many of its other customers, including preteen and teenage girls.
I kept paying my You Tube bill.
On July 1, 2021, I launched the You Tube app. My You Tube account of ( name ) @Gmail.com had once again been wrongfully terminated. This despite the fact that my You Tube account of ( name ) @Gmail.com is in good standing. It has always been in good standing. ( Even counting wrongful “strikes” against it. A “strike” expires after three months. )
I complained to You Tube Support. You Tube Support never answers me. They send my complaint to You Tube’s anonymous censors.
Throughout July, You Tube’s anonymous censors have abused me in various ways. Every time I complain about this abuse to You Tube Support, You Tube’s censors abuse me again.
I last reported ( to you, my reader ) that I’d been banned entirely from You Tube.
Since I was banned from You Tube, I was unable to complain about this to You Tube Support. That’s because I had no access to You Tube.
I have been complaining, by e-mail, to others. I complained to California’s Attorney General. I complained to the Federal Trade Commission. I also complained to my federal, state, and local representatives.
I unsubscribed from You Tube. I did this in the “Settings” app, on my Apple iPad. The “Settings” app is often described as subscribing ( or unsubscribing ) through iTunes.
Unsubscribing from You Tube does not automatically cancel my access to You Tube. My paid access remains through my next payment due date of August 3, 2021.
On July 26, 2021, I launched the You Tube app.
The “free trial” screen for You Tube Music was gone.
A You Tube screen was present.
However, the You Tube screen does not give me access to my account of ( name ) @Gmail.com.
The You Tube screen does not give me access to You Tube Music.
If I click on a video, I’m forced to watch a commercial.
To continue to quarrel with You Tube, I have to do the following:
1. Resubscribe to You Tube.
2. Write ( yet again ) to You Tube Support.
The result would be as follows:
1. You Tube Support would ignore me.
2. You Tube Support would, however, send my complaint to You Tube’s anonymous censors.
Then, the merry-go-round of abuse of myself, by You Tube’s staff, would begin again.
Meanwhile, my credit card would get charged $15.99 on August 3, 2021.
In other words, I’d pay $15.99 to be abused ( yet again ) by You Tube’s staff.
I am not resubscribing to You Tube.
I am not paying $15.99 for more abuse from You Tube’s staff.
You Tube, thanks to its staff, is a vile nuthouse.
AND IN THE END…
Cousins of “Molester”
“‘Calvinist’ was at first a term of abuse to describe those who believed more or less what John Calvin believed. …
“No Anabaptists ever described themselves as Anabaptist, since ‘Anabaptist’ means ‘rebaptizer’, and these radical folk believed that their adult baptism was the only authentic Christian initiation, with infant baptism signifying nothing. …
“‘Anglican’ appears to have been first spoken with disapproval by King James VI of Scotland.”
- ( Diar ) maid MacCulloch.
Source: The Reformation, by ( Diar ) maid MacCulloch. Page xix. ( Amazon Kindle. )
Cosmology’s term of the “Big Bang” was originally meant as a term of derision.
ARCANA
The antics of You Tube’s staff no longer gets them top billing on my web site.
( Even the most obnoxious act eventually wears out its welcome. )
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Copyright 2021 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.
The WordPress app is available for free at the Apple App Store.
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 95
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 95, version 5.0
Date Written: July 27, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 95
Editorial Thunder presents...
Me Tart Trouble
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Plus: Lunatic You Tube.
And: Cousins of “Molester”.
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ME TART Trouble
by Andrew Roller
I am a member of the following “porn” web site:
metartnetwork ( dot ) com
I joined the Met Art Network on April 20, 2021.
I have spoken well of this web site in previous articles. ( Here on ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays. )
However, I have encountered some problems with this web site. They are as follows:
1. The Met Art Network has apparently sold more memberships than it has servers to handle their traffic. I tried, repeatedly, to access this web site on July 26, 2021. I was mostly unsuccessful.
On one occasion, my browser reported:
503 Service Unavailable
No server is available to handle this request.
2. If you join the Met Art Network, you will be told to create a password. However, this password will not work.
Instead, in your e-mail, you’ll receive a new password from the Met Art Network.
Amazingly, this password will not work!
On July 26, 2021, I called my biller for the Met Art Network. My biller is Epoch ( dot ) com. Epoch confirmed that my Met Art Network password is correct.
Nonetheless, whenever I try to log in to the Met Art Network, I’m told the following:
“Invalid credentials. Please try again” [ No period. ]
You might wonder how I have been using the Met Art Network, as a customer, if my password doesn’t work. The web site lets me in. I think the web site is recognizing my iPad as valid. Hence, it admits my iPad to the site, not me.
If I were to buy a Macintosh, I would be unable to access the Met Art Network web site. That’s because:
A. My Macintosh would be a different “device”.
B. My Met Art Network password ( which is correct ) doesn’t work.
3. The Met Art Network has a hidden download limit. I am only able to download a certain number of photo galleries, or videos. Then the hidden download limit kicks in. It lasts for some length of time. ( I don’t know how long. )
4. For any given model, the Met Art Network rearranges her photo galleries and videos.
When you find a model, you will see a certain arrangement of her photo galleries and videos.
It is very easy to disorder this arrangement. This happens if you do the following:
A. Click on one of the model’s previous pages.
B. Leave the model.
C. Leave the web site.
When you return to the model, you’ll find that her photo galleries and videos are in a different order. This makes downloading each of her photo galleries and videos nearly impossible.
To solve this problem, take a screen shot of each photo gallery and video PRIOR to downloading it. Download the item. Then, go to the “Downloads” folder, in your iCloud Drive, and make sure that the downloaded item actually arrived.
You will not be able to download all the photo galleries and videos for a given model in one sitting. That’s because the Met Art Network’s hidden download limit will kick in as you’re working. ( When you return, later, the model’s photo galleries and videos will be in a different, confusing order. )
5. For any given model, the Met Art Network duplicates her photo galleries and videos.
On a model’s first page, you’ll see a variety of photo galleries and videos. When you click to a subsequent page for this model, you’ll encounter some of the SAME photo galleries and videos.
To solve this problem, take a screen shot of each photo gallery and video PRIOR to downloading it. Download the item. Then, go to the “Downloads” folder, in your iCloud Drive, and make sure that the downloaded item actually arrived.
You will not be able to download all the photo galleries and videos for a given model in one sitting. That’s because the Met Art Network’s hidden download limit will kick in as you’re working. ( When you return, later, the model’s photo galleries and videos will be in a different, confusing order. )
6. The following photo gallery will crash your iPad. It is:
Web site: metartnetwork ( dot ) com
Model: Alisa Amore.
Photo Gallery: Alisa Amore in Presenting Alisa Amore.
A. This photo gallery downloads correctly. It downloads to the folder called “Downloads” in your iCloud Drive.
B. This photo gallery “unzips” correctly.
C. The first half of the photos in this photo gallery can be viewed.
D. However, in the latter half of the photos, the following happens:
a. You can tap on and look at ONE photo.
b. When you tap on a second photo, the photo gallery freezes. ( Assuming the second photo is in the LATTER half of the photos in the photo gallery. )
c. Next, the photo gallery crashes your iPad.
d. This happened to me several times on July 26, 2021. ( Each time I tried to look at the photos in the latter half of the gallery. )
e. This happened to me in April 2021. It happened every time that I tried to look at the photos in the latter half of the photo gallery.
I found a way to look at all the photos in this photo gallery. It is the following:
I put the zip file of “Alisa Amore in Presenting Alisa Amore” in the app “Documents”, by the company called “Readdle”. I was able to view ALL the photos there.
HOWEVER, I am unable to view all the photos in this photo gallery in my “Downloads” folder in iCloud Drive.
I CAN view all of the Met Art Network’s other photo galleries in my “Downloads” folder, in iCloud Drive.
( Obviously, there are many photo galleries on the Met Art Network that I’ve never viewed or downloaded. )
7. The Met Art Network responds to complaints. However, their responses are pat answers. They’ll tell you the following:
A. Use another browser.
I use Apple’s “Safari” browser. The Google browser is what “Safari” has installed.
With the Google browser installed, I’m able to download photo galleries, and videos, at any porn web site that I have access to. If I were to uninstall the Google browser, and install another browser, I have no idea what functionality it would have.
Once, I accidentally uninstalled the Google browser. I was unable to reinstall it. By some miracle, it eventually reinstalled itself.
In the meantime, I had Microsoft’s Bing browser installed. Bing is unable to access newer web sites. It took Bing many months to realize that I had a web site.
I hate Google. I don’t ever want to “sign in” to Google again. Google is simply the browser that’s installed in my “Safari” browser on my iPad. It works whether I’m “signed in” to Google or not.
( The only time it didn’t work was when You Tube’s staff terminated my Google account, as well as my You Tube account. That was part of their campaign of abuse against me. )
There is nothing wrong with my browser. The reason I can’t download, at times, from the Met Art Network is because of their hidden download limit.
B. Clear your cookies.
Sure. Then I can’t access ANY web site, without laboriously signing up again at each one.
There is nothing wrong with my cookies. The reason I can’t download, at times, from the Met Art Network is because of their hidden download limit.
Hopefully, the Met Art Network will do the following:
1. Buy more servers.
2. Update the “credentials” for all of their customers.
3. Remove their hidden download limit.
4. Stop rearranging each model’s photo galleries and videos.
5. Stop duplicating each model’s photo galleries and videos.
6. Fix the photo gallery: Alisa Amore in Presenting Alisa Amore.
7. Stop issuing pat answers to customer complaints.
LUNATIC You Tube
I have been a You Tube Premium member since September 2019. I have paid my bill every month.
You Tube Premium includes access to You Tube Music.
A You Tube Premium member does not have to watch commercials on You Tube. You simply click on a video, and watch it.
Beginning in March 2020, You Tube’s staff began a campaign of persecution against me. This is detailed in my previous articles. ( Here on ARSE, Andrew Roller Stories and Essays. )
I have never uploaded a video to You Tube.
I did make about 200 playlists on You Tube. I made these playlists as ( name ) @Gmail.com.
In December of 2020, I ceased using You Tube. This was because of You Tube’s ongoing abuse of myself. You Tube was also abusing many of its other customers, including preteen and teenage girls.
I kept paying my You Tube bill.
On July 1, 2021, I launched the You Tube app. My You Tube account of ( name ) @Gmail.com had once again been wrongfully terminated. This despite the fact that my You Tube account of ( name ) @Gmail.com is in good standing. It has always been in good standing. ( Even counting wrongful “strikes” against it. A “strike” expires after three months. )
I complained to You Tube Support. You Tube Support never answers me. They send my complaint to You Tube’s anonymous censors.
Throughout July, You Tube’s anonymous censors have abused me in various ways. Every time I complain about this abuse to You Tube Support, You Tube’s censors abuse me again.
I last reported ( to you, my reader ) that I’d been banned entirely from You Tube.
Since I was banned from You Tube, I was unable to complain about this to You Tube Support. That’s because I had no access to You Tube.
I have been complaining, by e-mail, to others. I complained to California’s Attorney General. I complained to the Federal Trade Commission. I also complained to my federal, state, and local representatives.
I unsubscribed from You Tube. I did this in the “Settings” app, on my Apple iPad. The “Settings” app is often described as subscribing ( or unsubscribing ) through iTunes.
Unsubscribing from You Tube does not automatically cancel my access to You Tube. My paid access remains through my next payment due date of August 3, 2021.
On July 26, 2021, I launched the You Tube app.
The “free trial” screen for You Tube Music was gone.
A You Tube screen was present.
However, the You Tube screen does not give me access to my account of ( name ) @Gmail.com.
The You Tube screen does not give me access to You Tube Music.
If I click on a video, I’m forced to watch a commercial.
To continue to quarrel with You Tube, I have to do the following:
1. Resubscribe to You Tube.
2. Write ( yet again ) to You Tube Support.
The result would be as follows:
1. You Tube Support would ignore me.
2. You Tube Support would, however, send my complaint to You Tube’s anonymous censors.
Then, the merry-go-round of abuse of myself, by You Tube’s staff, would begin again.
Meanwhile, my credit card would get charged $15.99 on August 3, 2021.
In other words, I’d pay $15.99 to be abused ( yet again ) by You Tube’s staff.
I am not resubscribing to You Tube.
I am not paying $15.99 for more abuse from You Tube’s staff.
You Tube, thanks to its staff, is a vile nuthouse.
AND IN THE END…
Cousins of “Molester”
“‘Calvinist’ was at first a term of abuse to describe those who believed more or less what John Calvin believed. …
“No Anabaptists ever described themselves as Anabaptist, since ‘Anabaptist’ means ‘rebaptizer’, and these radical folk believed that their adult baptism was the only authentic Christian initiation, with infant baptism signifying nothing. …
“‘Anglican’ appears to have been first spoken with disapproval by King James VI of Scotland.”
- ( Diar ) maid MacCulloch.
Source: The Reformation, by ( Diar ) maid MacCulloch. Page xix. ( Amazon Kindle. )
Cosmology’s term of the “Big Bang” was originally meant as a term of derision.
ARCANA
The antics of You Tube’s staff no longer gets them top billing on my web site.
( Even the most obnoxious act eventually wears out its welcome. )
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Copyright 2021 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.
The WordPress app is available for free at the Apple App Store.
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 95
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 95, version 5.0
Date Written: July 27, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Dawn of the City
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BO 14
Book Observations presents...
Dawn of the City
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Plus: Men at Big Tech.
And: A crappy flush.
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DAWN of the CITY
An “Audible” Audio Book Review
by Andrew Roller
Origins of Great Ancient Civilizations. By Kenneth Wonk Hurl ( Harl ). The Great Courses.
Narrated by: Kenneth Wonk Hurl. Includes quality sound effects.
A PDF is included. ( Printed documentation. )
Lecture series. Total length: 6 hours, 1 minute.
Review: Given the brief length of this course, I wondered if I should buy it. Good news! This is not a six hour course. It’s at least a 12 hour course. It may be a course that you’ll need to spend 18 hours with. That’s because it’s rich with content.
Hurl ( not Vomit! ) lectures in a manner that I’m accustomed to. He speaks quickly, and apparently extemporaneously. It’s your job to keep up.
This course begins with the stone age. It’s actually called “the neolithic”, which means, “the new stone age”. The neolithic begins in 8,000 B.C.
It may help to step a bit farther back in time, for a moment. 12,000 years ago, or in 10,000 B.C., humans began to farm the earth. They also began to domesticate animals. Before 10,000 B.C., humans were hunter-gatherers. They hunted and killed animals, but didn’t domesticate them. They gathered food, but didn’t plant it. Basically, they lived like Adam and Eve, with spears. They used sharpened rocks to cut and stab. That’s why this era is called, “the stone age”.
By the neolithic, humans were farming and domesticating animals. They still used sharpened rocks to cut and stab. They were very, very good at using these sharpened rocks. You would not have wanted to call a neolithic man a “child molester”, even if he had a 10-year-old wife.
In the neolithic, humans lived in small villages. They farmed in the mountains. It was here that the soil was easiest to “plow” ( scrape with rocks ), using their primitive tools.
Hurl says that river valleys are not easy to farm. It’s harder to work the soil. Eventually, however, humans migrated from the mountains to the river valleys. They farmed the river valleys.
At this point, you probably have two questions. I’ll try to answer them.
1. Why did people move from the mountains to the valleys?
A. There were more people. I guess the old ladies of the neolithic were fertile. Or, perhaps, your ancestors were fucking preteen and teenage girls.
B. Our child rapist ( ? ) ancestors invented better technology for farming. I guess God was favoring them.
C. Our ancestors domesticated oxen.
2. Dude, ever hear of the Nile, in Egypt? That’s a river, and it’s easy to farm.
You’re correct. However, the Sahara desert wasn’t as we know it today. It was wetter. The Nile was like the region in Sudan that we call “the Sudd”.
“The Sudd” isn’t a bubble bath with naked 10-year-old girls in it. It’s a swamp. So, the Nile was a swamp. However, once the Sahara dried out, the Nile became a river that winds through a canyon.
The Nile became the river we know today AFTER humans began settling in the river valleys in Southern Iraq. Probably, you think of civilization as beginning in Egypt. It did not. It began in Southern Iraq, along the Euphrates and Tigris rivers.
I always remember the Euphrates and Tigris rivers by this abbreviation: ET. Going east, you come upon the Euphrates first, and then the Tigris. In ancient times, Southern Iraq was called Mesopotamia. It was not called, “The Mess in Potamia”, even though you wouldn’t want to go boating there on the 4th of July, with your American flag.
Humans farmed and domesticated animals in the river valleys of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. The first city that we know of in this area had a complicated name. It was called, “Uruk”. Actually, the people who lived there called it “Ur”. However, people who visited it sometimes didn’t like the place, so they called it, “Ur Yuck!” Eventually, everyone settled on “Uruk” as the name of the city.
I hope this gives you a flavor of this course. I would like to recommend sources for further reading:
1. Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman’s Skiff. By Rosemary ( Ma ) honey. Amazon Kindle.
This is a superb book. It even briefly stars an Egyptian girl:
“The two Colossi of Memnon rose up on my left. …
“A big-eyed eleven-year-old girl hugging a wooden doll in her arms … walked along with me for a while, and we had … a brief conversation in Arabic. …
“She asked me my name.
“I said, ‘I am Rose.’
“She nodded … and asked where I was from. I told her I was from America. …
“‘And I,’ she offered with one hand pressed to her heart, ‘am Aida!’ Then, lest there be any confusion as to her provenance, she added regally, ‘From here’ and pointed at the cracked black earth beneath her bare feet — eight thousand years’ accumulation of Nile silt.
“Aida wore a yellow robe and a purple scarf tied tight against her head, like a pirate. She had enormous golden eyes and a dainty little mouth. I gave her a piece of candy, and she offered me her wooden doll in exchange. I declined the doll as too extravagant a gift; instead she gave me the pink ribbon that held the doll’s hair in place. We said good-bye by very formally shaking hands.”
Page 178.
2. Gilgamesh: The New Translation. By Gerald J. Davis. Amazon Kindle.
“Great translation, meager analysis,” writes Dan Queer, on Amazon. ( He writes his last name as “Q”. Now you know why. )
( Prior generations stormed the beaches of Normandy. Today’s men are afraid to write their last names in book reviews! )
One can obtain explanatory apparatus for Gilgamesh by downloading a free sample of the following Amazon Kindle book:
3. The Epic of Gilgamesh. Edited by Andrew George.
4. Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature. By Angus Filcher ( Fletcher ). Amazon Kindle.
“Enheduanna’s journey … began when, barely older than a girl, she was sent south to a … city on the willowed mouth of the Euphrates. The city was Ur.”
Filcher begins his book with a lovely, and informative, description of Earth’s first city. You can read all he’s written on this by getting the free sample.
And remember: Your ancestors were not child rapists! ( You hope. )
JERK-OFF audio books
“Audible” Audio Books Reviewed
Femdom: Making Him Into My Sissy Slave, Erotica Sex Stories, BDSM Forced Feminization and Sissification. By Riley Anderson.
Narrated by: Nikie Monroe.
Length: 3 hours, 5 minutes.
Review: Ustina Abramova ( Tina ) remains one of my favorite girls. When I was able to watch her, on You Tube, she was about 10 years old. You Tube had forced girls her age to “turn off comments”. So I was only able to call her “the little girl with the big smile” in my mind. A friend of Danatar, Tina was fabulous.
My understanding is that Tina is no longer on You Tube. You Tube’s staff terminated all of her channels in May of 2021. At this time, You Tube’s staff terminated all of Danatar’s You Tube channels as well, according to reports that I’ve received.
Tina was persecuted by You Tube’s staff from the first month that she joined You Tube. I witnessed this abuse myself. It went on for at least a year. It was so persistent that I finally stopped using You Tube, even though I continued to pay my You Tube bill. In the last months that I watched her videos, Tina was reduced to doing nothing at all in her videos. She, literally, could barely move.
Many other preteen and young teenage girls were persecuted by You Tube’s staff. I witnessed this abuse myself. Fans of the girls, and fans of girls generally, were also abused by You Tube’s staff. It became difficult for me to monitor the abuse by You Tube’s staff, because I myself was being repeatedly persecuted by You Tube’s staff.
Much of the abuse by You Tube’s staff can be categorized as follows. It was “feminism”, taken to a pathological extreme. It was not Camille Paglia feminism, such as I understand it. You Tube’s actions were the sort of “feminism” that Adolf Hitler would have engaged in, had he been born a woman.
I experienced ( what I suppose was ) pathological feminism at Facebook. ( Where I was kicked out, without meaningful cause, after a week and a half as a customer. )
One is left to wonder: how could any man work at Facebook? I’m exempting from this question such jackasses as Facebook’s owner, Mark Fuckerberg. He is one of a handful of men who have twisted a public resource, the internet, to fund his lifestyle. The internet was invented and paid for by your tax dollars. The profits from its use should be distributed to all. However, Fuckerberg, and Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin, have manipulated the internet to fund themselves. These people are a blight on our world.
How does the average man exist at Big Tech companies like Facebook, Google, and Google-owned You Tube? Here’s the answer:
Every male employee at Facebook, Google, and You Tube is required to take a daily “jerk-off break”. Guys proceed, a dozen at a time, to the office of their female supervisor. Here, they’re required to masturbate to the following audio book:
Femdom: Making Him Into My Sissy Slave, Erotica Sex Stories, BDSM Forced Feminization and Sissification.
A guy who orgasms to this keeps his job. He also gets a big dildo shoved up his ass, by his female supervisor. He must wear this for the rest of the day.
A guy who is unable to orgasm to the audio book loses his job. The slogan at You Tube for men is, “Lose your load, or lose your job”. He doesn’t get to have a big dildo up his ass for the rest of the day, unless he buys one somewhere.
Once, a female supervisor played the wrong audio book. Instead of the one mentioned above, she played this audio book:
Sex Slaves. By Candace Smith, SJ Lewis Carroll, Charles Kenneth Graham, and Alexander Kelly.
I guess the supervisor didn’t see this audio book’s superb cover. Every man in the room shot off on that day. However, when the supervisor found out what they’d masturbated to, she fired them.
Fox News’ Laura Ingrate once called the book, “50 Shades of Grey”, by E. L. James, “mommy porn”. I flipped through the paperback, “50 Shades Darker”, at the grocery store. It was tripe.
I guess the public, or at least females, don’t share my taste. The “50 Shades” series, as books and films, have made lots of money. A throng of authors are scurrying along in “50 Shades’” wake. This includes the authors of audio books.
I did not find “Sex Slaves” impressive. Admittedly, I didn’t listen to it much. It’s the usual story: some “liberated” woman meets some “liberated” man, and they go at it. “Sex Slaves” is a collection of short stories. Each one is a clone of the next. The subject is vanilla sex, with some “whips and chains” thrown in, usually inexpertly.
Ernest Greene knows about “S & M”. I don’t trust too many other authors on the subject. The ones who seem to know the most are all fags. ( Amazon Kindle is replete with nonfiction fag books on “S & M”. )
For whatever reason, “S & M” is now usually written as “BDSM”. Every generation reclaims a traditional topic with its own language.
Many erotic audio books are available on Amazon’s “Audible” service.
Once you’re done reading about willingly abused women, you can then read about “unwillingly” “abused” girls under the age of 18. That’s as big an industry as S & M books. Some “abused” girls go on to “sexually adventurous” lives. The spankings, or whatever, continue, but now the female is an old lady.
A CRAPPY Flush
A Toilet Review
I am now employed. Every day, I’m forced to scrub my toilet. It’s manufactured by “Toto”. ( The name of Dorothy’s dog, in “The Wizard of Oz”. )
I do not own my toilet. It’s part of the room that I recently rented.
My toilet has very little water in the bottom of its bowl. When I poop, some of my poop sticks to the inside of my toilet’s bowl. It doesn’t go into the water.
When I flush my toilet, no water runs down the inside of my toilet’s bowl. Hence, the poop that’s sticking to the inside of my toilet remains there.
I once saw a T.V. commercial that portrayed a toilet’s handle as being icky. I guess the ad was for a self-flushing toilet. ( In my experience, such a toilet usually doesn’t flush, or flushes when you least want it to. )
If you think a toilet’s handle is icky, try scrubbing out your toilet’s bowl with a brush. I lost the brush that I bought for my toilet. The only other brush that I have is my toothbrush. Needless to say, I don’t enjoy brushing my toilet. Brushing my teeth is now even worse than brushing my toilet.
Don’t buy a “Toto” toilet. Politicians in San Diego, where I live, claim that they’re intent on “saving water”. However, we host conventions all year here, including Comic-Con. ( When there’s no Wuhan virus. ) How much toilet water gets flushed during each year’s conventions? More than my toilet could ever flush.
AND IN THE END…
“Aesthetic value … cannot be conveyed to those who are incapable of grasping its sensations and perceptions.”
- Harold Bloom.
Source: The Western Canon, by Harold Bloom. Page 17. ( Amazon Kindle. )
ARCANA
1. I do not use the “modern” dating system of CE, BCE, and C3P0. The drug-addled ex-hippies boast that,
“We changed everything!”
Not here.
2. The narrators of “Sex Slaves”, William Reid and ( Nata ) lie Bernadette, are talented.
Update: Any good pervert knows to flip past an erotic novel’s opening chapters. That’s what I did, reviewing “Sex Slaves”. I’ve now listened to some of “Chapter 1”. It is very well written.
The individual stories in “Sex Slaves” are not identified in the “Chapters” section. The audio book simply runs from “Chapter 1” to “Chapter 51”.
3. The Wuhan virus is also known as “COVID-19”. COVID-19 stands for: “Communist Originated Virus, ID ( identification number ) 19”.
4. Had You Tube not become an abusive Hell, thanks to its staff, I would have kept the You Tube app booted up continuously on my iPad. In the past, I practically lived in then 12-year-old Dana Taranova’s You Tube channels. ( At the time, she had two You Tube channels. )
Today, I keep Amazon’s “Audible” app booted up continuously. Amazon’s “Kindle” app is usually booted up on my iPad as well.
I pay much more each month to Amazon than I ever did to You Tube.
I’ve never paid any money to Google or Facebook.
Which Big Tech stock do you think you should own?
( Note that Amazon also sells toothbrushes. I’m planning to order one soon. If, that is, I don’t buy yet another book on “Audible” or Kindle. )
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Copyright 2021 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
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.
The WordPress app is available for free at the Apple App Store.
This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 14
Arcana: This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 14, version 6.0
Date Written: July 24, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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BO 14
Book Observations presents...
Dawn of the City
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Plus: Men at Big Tech.
And: A crappy flush.
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DAWN of the CITY
An “Audible” Audio Book Review
by Andrew Roller
Origins of Great Ancient Civilizations. By Kenneth Wonk Hurl ( Harl ). The Great Courses.
Narrated by: Kenneth Wonk Hurl. Includes quality sound effects.
A PDF is included. ( Printed documentation. )
Lecture series. Total length: 6 hours, 1 minute.
Review: Given the brief length of this course, I wondered if I should buy it. Good news! This is not a six hour course. It’s at least a 12 hour course. It may be a course that you’ll need to spend 18 hours with. That’s because it’s rich with content.
Hurl ( not Vomit! ) lectures in a manner that I’m accustomed to. He speaks quickly, and apparently extemporaneously. It’s your job to keep up.
This course begins with the stone age. It’s actually called “the neolithic”, which means, “the new stone age”. The neolithic begins in 8,000 B.C.
It may help to step a bit farther back in time, for a moment. 12,000 years ago, or in 10,000 B.C., humans began to farm the earth. They also began to domesticate animals. Before 10,000 B.C., humans were hunter-gatherers. They hunted and killed animals, but didn’t domesticate them. They gathered food, but didn’t plant it. Basically, they lived like Adam and Eve, with spears. They used sharpened rocks to cut and stab. That’s why this era is called, “the stone age”.
By the neolithic, humans were farming and domesticating animals. They still used sharpened rocks to cut and stab. They were very, very good at using these sharpened rocks. You would not have wanted to call a neolithic man a “child molester”, even if he had a 10-year-old wife.
In the neolithic, humans lived in small villages. They farmed in the mountains. It was here that the soil was easiest to “plow” ( scrape with rocks ), using their primitive tools.
Hurl says that river valleys are not easy to farm. It’s harder to work the soil. Eventually, however, humans migrated from the mountains to the river valleys. They farmed the river valleys.
At this point, you probably have two questions. I’ll try to answer them.
1. Why did people move from the mountains to the valleys?
A. There were more people. I guess the old ladies of the neolithic were fertile. Or, perhaps, your ancestors were fucking preteen and teenage girls.
B. Our child rapist ( ? ) ancestors invented better technology for farming. I guess God was favoring them.
C. Our ancestors domesticated oxen.
2. Dude, ever hear of the Nile, in Egypt? That’s a river, and it’s easy to farm.
You’re correct. However, the Sahara desert wasn’t as we know it today. It was wetter. The Nile was like the region in Sudan that we call “the Sudd”.
“The Sudd” isn’t a bubble bath with naked 10-year-old girls in it. It’s a swamp. So, the Nile was a swamp. However, once the Sahara dried out, the Nile became a river that winds through a canyon.
The Nile became the river we know today AFTER humans began settling in the river valleys in Southern Iraq. Probably, you think of civilization as beginning in Egypt. It did not. It began in Southern Iraq, along the Euphrates and Tigris rivers.
I always remember the Euphrates and Tigris rivers by this abbreviation: ET. Going east, you come upon the Euphrates first, and then the Tigris. In ancient times, Southern Iraq was called Mesopotamia. It was not called, “The Mess in Potamia”, even though you wouldn’t want to go boating there on the 4th of July, with your American flag.
Humans farmed and domesticated animals in the river valleys of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. The first city that we know of in this area had a complicated name. It was called, “Uruk”. Actually, the people who lived there called it “Ur”. However, people who visited it sometimes didn’t like the place, so they called it, “Ur Yuck!” Eventually, everyone settled on “Uruk” as the name of the city.
I hope this gives you a flavor of this course. I would like to recommend sources for further reading:
1. Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman’s Skiff. By Rosemary ( Ma ) honey. Amazon Kindle.
This is a superb book. It even briefly stars an Egyptian girl:
“The two Colossi of Memnon rose up on my left. …
“A big-eyed eleven-year-old girl hugging a wooden doll in her arms … walked along with me for a while, and we had … a brief conversation in Arabic. …
“She asked me my name.
“I said, ‘I am Rose.’
“She nodded … and asked where I was from. I told her I was from America. …
“‘And I,’ she offered with one hand pressed to her heart, ‘am Aida!’ Then, lest there be any confusion as to her provenance, she added regally, ‘From here’ and pointed at the cracked black earth beneath her bare feet — eight thousand years’ accumulation of Nile silt.
“Aida wore a yellow robe and a purple scarf tied tight against her head, like a pirate. She had enormous golden eyes and a dainty little mouth. I gave her a piece of candy, and she offered me her wooden doll in exchange. I declined the doll as too extravagant a gift; instead she gave me the pink ribbon that held the doll’s hair in place. We said good-bye by very formally shaking hands.”
Page 178.
2. Gilgamesh: The New Translation. By Gerald J. Davis. Amazon Kindle.
“Great translation, meager analysis,” writes Dan Queer, on Amazon. ( He writes his last name as “Q”. Now you know why. )
( Prior generations stormed the beaches of Normandy. Today’s men are afraid to write their last names in book reviews! )
One can obtain explanatory apparatus for Gilgamesh by downloading a free sample of the following Amazon Kindle book:
3. The Epic of Gilgamesh. Edited by Andrew George.
4. Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature. By Angus Filcher ( Fletcher ). Amazon Kindle.
“Enheduanna’s journey … began when, barely older than a girl, she was sent south to a … city on the willowed mouth of the Euphrates. The city was Ur.”
Filcher begins his book with a lovely, and informative, description of Earth’s first city. You can read all he’s written on this by getting the free sample.
And remember: Your ancestors were not child rapists! ( You hope. )
JERK-OFF audio books
“Audible” Audio Books Reviewed
Femdom: Making Him Into My Sissy Slave, Erotica Sex Stories, BDSM Forced Feminization and Sissification. By Riley Anderson.
Narrated by: Nikie Monroe.
Length: 3 hours, 5 minutes.
Review: Ustina Abramova ( Tina ) remains one of my favorite girls. When I was able to watch her, on You Tube, she was about 10 years old. You Tube had forced girls her age to “turn off comments”. So I was only able to call her “the little girl with the big smile” in my mind. A friend of Danatar, Tina was fabulous.
My understanding is that Tina is no longer on You Tube. You Tube’s staff terminated all of her channels in May of 2021. At this time, You Tube’s staff terminated all of Danatar’s You Tube channels as well, according to reports that I’ve received.
Tina was persecuted by You Tube’s staff from the first month that she joined You Tube. I witnessed this abuse myself. It went on for at least a year. It was so persistent that I finally stopped using You Tube, even though I continued to pay my You Tube bill. In the last months that I watched her videos, Tina was reduced to doing nothing at all in her videos. She, literally, could barely move.
Many other preteen and young teenage girls were persecuted by You Tube’s staff. I witnessed this abuse myself. Fans of the girls, and fans of girls generally, were also abused by You Tube’s staff. It became difficult for me to monitor the abuse by You Tube’s staff, because I myself was being repeatedly persecuted by You Tube’s staff.
Much of the abuse by You Tube’s staff can be categorized as follows. It was “feminism”, taken to a pathological extreme. It was not Camille Paglia feminism, such as I understand it. You Tube’s actions were the sort of “feminism” that Adolf Hitler would have engaged in, had he been born a woman.
I experienced ( what I suppose was ) pathological feminism at Facebook. ( Where I was kicked out, without meaningful cause, after a week and a half as a customer. )
One is left to wonder: how could any man work at Facebook? I’m exempting from this question such jackasses as Facebook’s owner, Mark Fuckerberg. He is one of a handful of men who have twisted a public resource, the internet, to fund his lifestyle. The internet was invented and paid for by your tax dollars. The profits from its use should be distributed to all. However, Fuckerberg, and Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin, have manipulated the internet to fund themselves. These people are a blight on our world.
How does the average man exist at Big Tech companies like Facebook, Google, and Google-owned You Tube? Here’s the answer:
Every male employee at Facebook, Google, and You Tube is required to take a daily “jerk-off break”. Guys proceed, a dozen at a time, to the office of their female supervisor. Here, they’re required to masturbate to the following audio book:
Femdom: Making Him Into My Sissy Slave, Erotica Sex Stories, BDSM Forced Feminization and Sissification.
A guy who orgasms to this keeps his job. He also gets a big dildo shoved up his ass, by his female supervisor. He must wear this for the rest of the day.
A guy who is unable to orgasm to the audio book loses his job. The slogan at You Tube for men is, “Lose your load, or lose your job”. He doesn’t get to have a big dildo up his ass for the rest of the day, unless he buys one somewhere.
Once, a female supervisor played the wrong audio book. Instead of the one mentioned above, she played this audio book:
Sex Slaves. By Candace Smith, SJ Lewis Carroll, Charles Kenneth Graham, and Alexander Kelly.
I guess the supervisor didn’t see this audio book’s superb cover. Every man in the room shot off on that day. However, when the supervisor found out what they’d masturbated to, she fired them.
Fox News’ Laura Ingrate once called the book, “50 Shades of Grey”, by E. L. James, “mommy porn”. I flipped through the paperback, “50 Shades Darker”, at the grocery store. It was tripe.
I guess the public, or at least females, don’t share my taste. The “50 Shades” series, as books and films, have made lots of money. A throng of authors are scurrying along in “50 Shades’” wake. This includes the authors of audio books.
I did not find “Sex Slaves” impressive. Admittedly, I didn’t listen to it much. It’s the usual story: some “liberated” woman meets some “liberated” man, and they go at it. “Sex Slaves” is a collection of short stories. Each one is a clone of the next. The subject is vanilla sex, with some “whips and chains” thrown in, usually inexpertly.
Ernest Greene knows about “S & M”. I don’t trust too many other authors on the subject. The ones who seem to know the most are all fags. ( Amazon Kindle is replete with nonfiction fag books on “S & M”. )
For whatever reason, “S & M” is now usually written as “BDSM”. Every generation reclaims a traditional topic with its own language.
Many erotic audio books are available on Amazon’s “Audible” service.
Once you’re done reading about willingly abused women, you can then read about “unwillingly” “abused” girls under the age of 18. That’s as big an industry as S & M books. Some “abused” girls go on to “sexually adventurous” lives. The spankings, or whatever, continue, but now the female is an old lady.
A CRAPPY Flush
A Toilet Review
I am now employed. Every day, I’m forced to scrub my toilet. It’s manufactured by “Toto”. ( The name of Dorothy’s dog, in “The Wizard of Oz”. )
I do not own my toilet. It’s part of the room that I recently rented.
My toilet has very little water in the bottom of its bowl. When I poop, some of my poop sticks to the inside of my toilet’s bowl. It doesn’t go into the water.
When I flush my toilet, no water runs down the inside of my toilet’s bowl. Hence, the poop that’s sticking to the inside of my toilet remains there.
I once saw a T.V. commercial that portrayed a toilet’s handle as being icky. I guess the ad was for a self-flushing toilet. ( In my experience, such a toilet usually doesn’t flush, or flushes when you least want it to. )
If you think a toilet’s handle is icky, try scrubbing out your toilet’s bowl with a brush. I lost the brush that I bought for my toilet. The only other brush that I have is my toothbrush. Needless to say, I don’t enjoy brushing my toilet. Brushing my teeth is now even worse than brushing my toilet.
Don’t buy a “Toto” toilet. Politicians in San Diego, where I live, claim that they’re intent on “saving water”. However, we host conventions all year here, including Comic-Con. ( When there’s no Wuhan virus. ) How much toilet water gets flushed during each year’s conventions? More than my toilet could ever flush.
AND IN THE END…
“Aesthetic value … cannot be conveyed to those who are incapable of grasping its sensations and perceptions.”
- Harold Bloom.
Source: The Western Canon, by Harold Bloom. Page 17. ( Amazon Kindle. )
ARCANA
1. I do not use the “modern” dating system of CE, BCE, and C3P0. The drug-addled ex-hippies boast that,
“We changed everything!”
Not here.
2. The narrators of “Sex Slaves”, William Reid and ( Nata ) lie Bernadette, are talented.
Update: Any good pervert knows to flip past an erotic novel’s opening chapters. That’s what I did, reviewing “Sex Slaves”. I’ve now listened to some of “Chapter 1”. It is very well written.
The individual stories in “Sex Slaves” are not identified in the “Chapters” section. The audio book simply runs from “Chapter 1” to “Chapter 51”.
3. The Wuhan virus is also known as “COVID-19”. COVID-19 stands for: “Communist Originated Virus, ID ( identification number ) 19”.
4. Had You Tube not become an abusive Hell, thanks to its staff, I would have kept the You Tube app booted up continuously on my iPad. In the past, I practically lived in then 12-year-old Dana Taranova’s You Tube channels. ( At the time, she had two You Tube channels. )
Today, I keep Amazon’s “Audible” app booted up continuously. Amazon’s “Kindle” app is usually booted up on my iPad as well.
I pay much more each month to Amazon than I ever did to You Tube.
I’ve never paid any money to Google or Facebook.
Which Big Tech stock do you think you should own?
( Note that Amazon also sells toothbrushes. I’m planning to order one soon. If, that is, I don’t buy yet another book on “Audible” or Kindle. )
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Copyright 2021 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
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.
The WordPress app is available for free at the Apple App Store.
This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 14
Arcana: This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 14, version 6.0
Date Written: July 24, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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BANNED from You Tube
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ET 94
Editorial Thunder presents...
BANNED from You Tube
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Plus: Complicit in crime.
And: A victim empowered.
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BANNED from YOU TUBE
by Andrew Roller
I checked my Gmail account on July 22, 2021. You Tube’s staff has not sent me any e-mails since February 2021.
On February 25, 2021, You Tube told me ( again ) that they’d deleted my playlist called “kids area”. You Tube had deleted this playlist in September 2020. My playlist “kids area” was a tribute playlist for another person’s ( innocuous, but banned ) You Tube channel. My playlist contained one video. It was a music video, from the 1960s, called,
“For What It’s Worth”, by Buffalo Springfield.
This video remains on You Tube. ( As of December 2020, when I last used You Tube. I have been paying You Tube, but not using it, since December 2020. I stopped using You Tube because of its persistent abuse of myself, as well as its abuse of other customers. )
( “For What It’s Worth”, by Buffalo Springfield, was uploaded by a You Tube customer. )
I have never uploaded a video to You Tube.
On February 18, 2021, You Tube told me that they’d reinstated my playlist called, “Best Songs! ( Part Unnumbered )”.
My You Tube account is in good standing. It only ever had one ( wrongful ) strike against it. As of July 2021, this strike has long since expired. Therefore, my You Tube account has no strikes against it.
A You Tube account is “terminated” if it gets three strikes.
I launched the You Tube app on July 22, 2021. I was not allowed to access You Tube. This despite the fact that I paid You Tube $15.99 for access to You Tube through August 3, 2021.
I have been a You Tube Premium member since September 2019.
When I launched the You Tube app on July 22, 2021, I was presented with a “free trial” screen for You Tube Music.
I should not have to pay anything for You Tube Music. Access to You Tube Music is INCLUDED with my You Tube Premium membership.
You Tube took my money, and then banned me from You Tube for no reason.
Since I cannot access You Tube, I can’t file a complaint with You Tube Support.
The following points can be made regarding You Tube:
1. You Tube does not follow its own rules.
2. You Tube’s “rules” are vaguely written.
3. You Tube lets its staff abuse its customers. I am not the only victim of You Tube’s abuse. I’ve seen You Tube maliciously and capriciously persecute many of its customers, including preteen and teenage girls.
I unsubscribed from You Tube.
COMPLICIT in CRIME
In September 2019, I joined You Tube. I became a You Tube Premium member. I have been paying for my You Tube Premium membership every month, without interruption. My credit card is charged $15.99 every month. You Tube has never failed to charge my credit card.
However, they have stolen my money. You Tube has done this on a number of occasions.
In March of 2020, You Tube charged my credit card. They failed to provide me with You Tube Premium access. They failed to provide me with access for a number of days.
In April of 2020, You Tube charged my credit card. They failed to provide me with You Tube Premium access. They failed to provide me with access for a number of days.
In July of 2021, You Tube charged my credit card. They failed to provide me with You Tube Premium access. They failed to provide me with access for a number of days.
I now have no access to You Tube at all.
I can only access You Tube Music if I sign up for a “free trial”.
You Tube bills me through Apple. On my iPad, I’m billed by Apple in the “Settings” app. I have heard this called, “billed through iTunes”. However, I do not have any relationship with iTunes. I have never had any relationship with iTunes.
Why is Apple collaborating with You Tube, by providing billing services for You Tube?
You Tube is selling a service, You Tube Premium, that it then fails to provide. This is fraud. It is a crime.
Apple’s collaboration in this crime makes Apple an accessory to the crime.
You Tube is owned by Google. Google is owned by Alphabet. Alphabet is responsible for You Tube’s actions. You Tube’s crimes make Alphabet, which is a global organization, a global criminal enterprise. Apple’s collaboration with You Tube causes Apple to be a criminal enterprise.
We are told by American politicians that they are “against crime”. Yet they allow American criminal technology enterprises to continue to operate. They take campaign donations from these entities. This makes America’s politicians accessories to crime.
AND IN THE END…
“Through writing, he entered the White world not just as [ a ] victim, but as [ a ] witness and [ an ] activist.”
- Susan Wise Bauer, on Frederick Douglass.
Source: The Well-Educated Mind, page 126.
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Copyright 2021 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.
My You Tube account of “Andrew Roller” has ( once again ) been wrongfully terminated by You Tube. This time, I have no way to restore it. I have unsubscribed from You Tube.
The WordPress app is available for free at the Apple App Store.
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 94
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 94, version 4.0
Date Written: July 22, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 94
Editorial Thunder presents...
BANNED from You Tube
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Plus: Complicit in crime.
And: A victim empowered.
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BANNED from YOU TUBE
by Andrew Roller
I checked my Gmail account on July 22, 2021. You Tube’s staff has not sent me any e-mails since February 2021.
On February 25, 2021, You Tube told me ( again ) that they’d deleted my playlist called “kids area”. You Tube had deleted this playlist in September 2020. My playlist “kids area” was a tribute playlist for another person’s ( innocuous, but banned ) You Tube channel. My playlist contained one video. It was a music video, from the 1960s, called,
“For What It’s Worth”, by Buffalo Springfield.
This video remains on You Tube. ( As of December 2020, when I last used You Tube. I have been paying You Tube, but not using it, since December 2020. I stopped using You Tube because of its persistent abuse of myself, as well as its abuse of other customers. )
( “For What It’s Worth”, by Buffalo Springfield, was uploaded by a You Tube customer. )
I have never uploaded a video to You Tube.
On February 18, 2021, You Tube told me that they’d reinstated my playlist called, “Best Songs! ( Part Unnumbered )”.
My You Tube account is in good standing. It only ever had one ( wrongful ) strike against it. As of July 2021, this strike has long since expired. Therefore, my You Tube account has no strikes against it.
A You Tube account is “terminated” if it gets three strikes.
I launched the You Tube app on July 22, 2021. I was not allowed to access You Tube. This despite the fact that I paid You Tube $15.99 for access to You Tube through August 3, 2021.
I have been a You Tube Premium member since September 2019.
When I launched the You Tube app on July 22, 2021, I was presented with a “free trial” screen for You Tube Music.
I should not have to pay anything for You Tube Music. Access to You Tube Music is INCLUDED with my You Tube Premium membership.
You Tube took my money, and then banned me from You Tube for no reason.
Since I cannot access You Tube, I can’t file a complaint with You Tube Support.
The following points can be made regarding You Tube:
1. You Tube does not follow its own rules.
2. You Tube’s “rules” are vaguely written.
3. You Tube lets its staff abuse its customers. I am not the only victim of You Tube’s abuse. I’ve seen You Tube maliciously and capriciously persecute many of its customers, including preteen and teenage girls.
I unsubscribed from You Tube.
COMPLICIT in CRIME
In September 2019, I joined You Tube. I became a You Tube Premium member. I have been paying for my You Tube Premium membership every month, without interruption. My credit card is charged $15.99 every month. You Tube has never failed to charge my credit card.
However, they have stolen my money. You Tube has done this on a number of occasions.
In March of 2020, You Tube charged my credit card. They failed to provide me with You Tube Premium access. They failed to provide me with access for a number of days.
In April of 2020, You Tube charged my credit card. They failed to provide me with You Tube Premium access. They failed to provide me with access for a number of days.
In July of 2021, You Tube charged my credit card. They failed to provide me with You Tube Premium access. They failed to provide me with access for a number of days.
I now have no access to You Tube at all.
I can only access You Tube Music if I sign up for a “free trial”.
You Tube bills me through Apple. On my iPad, I’m billed by Apple in the “Settings” app. I have heard this called, “billed through iTunes”. However, I do not have any relationship with iTunes. I have never had any relationship with iTunes.
Why is Apple collaborating with You Tube, by providing billing services for You Tube?
You Tube is selling a service, You Tube Premium, that it then fails to provide. This is fraud. It is a crime.
Apple’s collaboration in this crime makes Apple an accessory to the crime.
You Tube is owned by Google. Google is owned by Alphabet. Alphabet is responsible for You Tube’s actions. You Tube’s crimes make Alphabet, which is a global organization, a global criminal enterprise. Apple’s collaboration with You Tube causes Apple to be a criminal enterprise.
We are told by American politicians that they are “against crime”. Yet they allow American criminal technology enterprises to continue to operate. They take campaign donations from these entities. This makes America’s politicians accessories to crime.
AND IN THE END…
“Through writing, he entered the White world not just as [ a ] victim, but as [ a ] witness and [ an ] activist.”
- Susan Wise Bauer, on Frederick Douglass.
Source: The Well-Educated Mind, page 126.
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Copyright 2021 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.
My You Tube account of “Andrew Roller” has ( once again ) been wrongfully terminated by You Tube. This time, I have no way to restore it. I have unsubscribed from You Tube.
The WordPress app is available for free at the Apple App Store.
This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 94
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 94, version 4.0
Date Written: July 22, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Rome’s Rise
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BO 13
Book Observations presents...
Rome’s Rise
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Plus: Sleep well!
And: Utilitarian poetry.
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ROME’S Rise
An “Audible” Audio Book Review
by Andrew Roller
Quotes from the book:
1. “Most aristocratic women were probably married off around their mid-teens.”
2. “From the early empire on, uncles could … marry their nieces.”
3. “In order to be engaged [ for marriage ], the two people had to be at least 7 years old.”
4. “Girls who were married at 12 or 13 gave birth five or six times … before they reached the age of 20.”
5. “Frequently, there was a vast age difference between [ spouses ].”
- Gregory Sin Aldrete The Rise of Rome. Lecture 13: Roman Women and Marriage.
6. “Every girl who survived until adolescence then had to successfully give birth four times just to break even, and keep the population stable.” ( Due to infant mortality and childhood diseases. )
- Gregory Sin Aldrete The Rise of Rome. Lecture 14: Roman Children, Education, and Timekeeping.
The Rise of Rome. By Gregory Sin Aldrete. The Great Courses. “Only from Audible”.
Narrated by: Gregory Sin Aldrete. Includes quality sound effects.
A PDF is included. ( Printed documentation. ) Page numbers, below, refer to the PDF. In the PDF, look to the bottom of each page for its page number.
Lecture series. Total length: 12 hours, 16 minutes.
Review: Once upon a time, there was a professor. Like all men, he resorted, at times, to his toilet. There, he wrote an audio script. It was an Important Script. Or, to tell it as he does, it was an Important Script? It was about Rome?
Aldrete pronounces each of his words very slowly and carefully. You’d think English was a language that he’d just mastered. In fact, he’s a native speaker of English. But, since he’s reading from his Important Script? About Rome? he wants to ensure that you properly hear each of his words.
Aldrete may know English, but I guess he had trouble with English in the first grade. He definitely learned about the question mark. He seems to have missed the concept, or at least the point, of that grammatical mark known as the period.
Who can you thank for “the law”? You can thank men who kidnapped and raped children. You can thank these same men for “religion, science, philosophy … culture … language … art, [ and ] architecture”. ( Page 1. )
All of the above, from law to architecture, are contributions that Ancient Rome has made to our modern world. Rome’s earliest inhabitants were nearly all men. They needed wives. The Romans invited a neighboring tribe, the Sabines, to a feast. The Sabines came.
You would think that the Romans would have been normal. That is, they would have been seeking wives who were, in the words of Alisson Wood, “Mature, sophisticated, powerful women.” That is, you’d think the Roman men would have desired to commit adultery with women who were emotionally devoted to their husbands. Women who were used up hags, who could produce few, if any, additional children. Women who were stretched to the limit and likely to die soon. Not to mention, women who weren’t virgins.
Sadly, Roman men were not pussy licking saps like today’s American men. Roman men wanted Lolitas to fuck. That is, they wanted children, who themselves yearned to be liberated from Mom and Dad. Tight virgins. Girls who, once opened and pumped, would birth many wonderful offspring.
The feast proceeded. At a signal among the Romans, each man grabbed a Sabine girl. Having kidnapped her, he ran off with her and raped her.
A war ensued between the Sabines and the Romans. Who stopped the war? The raped children. They pleaded with their fathers and brothers to not kill their “husbands” ( the kidnappers who’d raped them ). The children pleaded with their husbands to not kill their fathers and brothers. ( Page 16. )
Peace ensued. The Sabines, not being insane, like Americans, formed an alliance with the Romans. This alliance lasted forever. Romans and Sabines became one.
The next time that a policewoman, prosecutor, or judge wants to discuss “the law” with you, tell her that she can thank child rapists for her job. She can thank Rome for the language that she’s speaking. Many languages, including English, are based on Rome’s language of Latin. Such a person can also thank Rome for her religion, if she’s a Christian. The pope lives in Rome.
“The world’s legal systems are based on Roman law.” ( Page 8. )
“Our calendar is almost identical to the one developed by the Romans.” ( Page 8. )
Aldrete mentions the Roman diet. Romans ate mostly wheat, olive oil, and wine. Enormous effort was required to take wheat from its state as a seed to an edible product. This included tossing the wheat in the air, to separate it from its inedible parts. Each grain of wheat then had to be picked up by hand.
I adjusted to Aldrete’s manner of speaking. What I found myself unable to tolerate was his blatant omission of drama in late Republican Rome. He says little about Octavian’s victory at Actium. Aldrete barely mentions the end of Anthony and Cleopatra. I can imagine Aldrete summing up the movie “Jaws”:
“Some guys went to sea in a boat, and had to swim back to shore.”
Perhaps Aldrete felt pressed for time in his course. If so, he should have left out his lecture on Roman women. They mostly stayed home. Aldrete should have skipped his lecture on Roman slaves. They mostly did what they were told.
Our history was shaped by Roman men. ( Plus Cleopatra. ) They were men of action, whether marching troops or speaking with vigor. These are the figures who continue to influence our lives. Their stories should be told in detail.
AUDIBLE TIPS
Reading the PDF
A number of audio books come with an accompanying PDF. ( Printed documentation. ) If you try reading the PDF in the Audible app, you’ll find that its type is tiny. What to do?
1. You are viewing the audio book in Audible’s “Library”. The audio book takes up your iPad’s entire screen. ( Read my earlier articles for more information about using Audible. )
2. Look to the top right corner of your iPad’s screen. There, you’ll see an icon. It consists of three vertical dots. Click on the three vertical dots.
3. An informational box opens. A number of options are listed here. Click on the option that reads, “Accompanying PDF”.
4. The PDF for your audio book opens! Look to the top right corner of your iPad’s screen. There, you’ll see an icon. It consists of a box. An arrow is sticking out of the top of the box. Click on this icon.
5. An informational box opens. A number of options are listed here. For instance, you’ll see “Copy to Documents”. This is the app “Documents”, by the company called Readdle. This app is free.
I pay for a subscription version of “Documents”. It’s called, “Professional PDF Editor”. I pay $49.99 per year for this. It lets me edit PDF files, which I’ve never done.
I was happy with the free version of “Documents”. However, Readdle was having a sale, so I subscribed to “Professional PDF Editor”.
I don’t know anything about Readdle’s “Documents Plus” app, which costs $89.99 per year.
In the past, Apple prohibited the iPhone from downloading anything. The same prohibition applied to the iPad.
Most iPhones did not have much memory. The same was true of some iPads. Apple was afraid that a masturbator would buy an iPhone. He’d download a bunch of porn videos, and then his iPhone ( or his iPad ) would run out of memory.
In that era, I used a ( broken ) downloading program to download videos of pastors’ sermons from religious web sites. I also downloaded nude photos of my favorite ministers. I was obliged to put this edifying material into “Documents”. I was using a free version of “Documents”.
Continuing:
6. We are still in Audible’s informational box. Let’s keep exploring it. Scroll down in the informational box. You’ll see this option: “Copy to PDF Expert”. This is the app, “PDF Expert”, by the company called Readdle. This app is free.
I pay for a subscription version of “PDF Expert”. It’s called, “PDF Expert PRO”. I pay $49.99 per year for this. It lets me edit PDF files, which I’ve never done.
I had the free version of “PDF Expert”. I was trying to obtain free photos ( of nude ministers ) on the internet. Some of the photos were larger than my iPad’s screen. This meant that, for such a photo, I was unable to take a screen shot of it.
I tried saving the big photos to the app “Documents”. Sometimes, this worked. Sometimes, it didn’t. I tried saving the big photos to the app “PDF Expert”. Sometimes, this worked. However, I was unable to open the photos. I was told by “PDF Expert” that I had to pay for a subscription to open the photos. So, I subscribed.
There is an arms race on the internet. It’s between ordinary users ( who want photos of nude ministers ) and the various internet providers ( of whatever ilk ). I don’t understand this arms race. If you’re providing a free photo, then provide it! Don’t make the user jump through hoops to obtain a copy.
I use both “Documents” and “PDF Expert” to yank free photos off the internet. If I’m unsuccessful with “Documents”, I try using “PDF Expert”. Sometimes, neither program works. That is, neither program is successful in yanking a photo off the internet. Both programs work superbly if you’re not trying to yank photos off the internet.
By “yank”, I’m referring to making a copy of a photo. This process can be sufficiently onerous to warrant the term “yank”.
Continuing:
7. I have a lot of nude photos of ministers in the app “Documents”. Hence, I put all my Audible PDFs into “PDF Expert”.
8. We are still in Audible’s informational box. Tap on “Copy to PDF Expert”.
9. A small box appears in the middle of your iPad’s screen. In this small box, you’ll see the word “Done!” It’s accompanied by a green circle that contains a checkmark.
( You will be successful in making this copy, since it’s not an internet photo of a nude minister. )
( You may have to buy a subscription to “PDF Expert” to open the PDF. If you don’t want to pay for a subscription, then save the PDF to the app called “Documents”. )
Continuing:
10. You are automatically transferred from the Audible app to the “PDF Expert” app. You’ll find yourself staring at a big version of the Audible PDF. It’s very easy to read.
11. Look to the top left of your iPad’s screen. There, you’ll see an icon. It is an arrow that points left: <
12. Tap on the arrow that points left: <
13. The PDF disappears! You are now inside the app, “PDF Expert”. “My Files” appears near the top of your iPad’s screen. Somewhere on your screen, you’ll see an icon of the PDF that you just imported from the Audible app.
14. To get out of the app called “PDF Expert”, swipe your finger up. Do this from the bottom of your iPad’s screen.
15. Return to the Audible app. Here, you’ll find that you’re still looking at the PDF. To get out of this part of the Audible app, look to the top left of your iPad’s screen. You’ll see an icon. It is an X.
16. Click on the X. You are returned to your audio book.
SLEEP Well!
An “Audible” Audio Book Review
Yellowstone National Park in Winter. Captured by Gordon Hemp ( ton ). ( Who does not sell hemp by the ton! ) Soundscape. Audible Original. This audio book is “included” with your Audible membership; it’s free.
No PDF is included. ( Printed documentation. )
Total length: 2 hours.
Review: If you look up the “Title Details” for this audio book, you will find an error. Audible writes: “Narrated by Gordon Hempton. Speech.”
There is no speech in this audio book. It’s a recording of various sounds. The first hour of “Yellowstone” is rich with the sounds of rain and wind. In the second hour, the rain continues, with less wind.
Guam is not Yellowstone in winter. It’s a tropical island. On my first day of school in Guam, the sun didn’t shine. The day was Stygian black. It was pouring rain. The rain continued for a long time. “Yellowstone’s” second hour reminds me of this day on Guam.
Sometimes, going about in San Diego, I encounter females who are young and attractive. They are presumably “of legal age”. That means they’ve been regularly engaging in sex for at least half a decade. ( Using Lolita, who lost her virginity at age 12 to a boy, as my guide. )
Such females are not attracted to me. They weren’t when I was their age, and they aren’t now. Recently, I encountered such a female on the street. She was a stranger. She didn’t merely look away from me. She wrenched her head, violently, to her left. I’m surprised that she didn’t break her neck. She did this the moment she saw me. I have been getting this sort of reaction from females for decades.
( Unless, that is, they’re 12 years old, or younger. And I’m considerably older. )
Such non-virgin swines do not sit at home on Friday and Saturday nights. Oh, no! They venture forth to get fucked. I do not go out on Friday and Saturday nights, especially now. That’s because I’m trying to get my possessions out of my former room, while I can still afford to rent it. ( Along with renting the room that I now occupy. )
In my old room, I lived on a building’s third floor. This meant that, on Friday and Saturday nights, the non-virgin swines passed by three floors below me. In my new room, I live on a building’s ground floor. Now, the non-virgin swines go right by my room! Only large windows separate me from them. ( When I’m not masturbating, I keep my blinds closed. )
I need something to block out the sound of the non-virgin swines, as they go forth to get fucked. “Yellowstone” works superbly. Instead of hearing tramps go by, I hear the pristine, natural sounds of rain and wind. Sometimes, in “Yellowstone”, a branch breaks from a tree. One did so with such a loud noise that I flinched in my “bed”. ( A “topper” on my room’s floor. )
Whatever the night, “Yellowstone” works well in helping me go to sleep. It’s the best audio book that I’ve found for this purpose.
I have neighbors. ( People who live in the rooms adjacent to mine. ) As a result, I can’t turn up a narrated audio book too loud. However, “Yellowstone” is just rain and wind. I’m able to blast my iPad’s sound, of rain and wind, at full volume. This is very helpful, since the acoustics in my room are poor. ( A narrating voice echoes. )
When I put “Yellowstone” on to sleep, I don’t set Audible’s “Sleep” timer. If I did, I’d lie awake waiting for the timer to expire. Instead, I let “Yellowstone” run its full length.
Often, as I’m trying to fall asleep, my dishwasher is running. “Yellowstone” blots out its sound. If you sleep fine, but need “white noise” in your life, “Yellowstone” is a perfect companion.
On Audible, I did a search for “Gordon Hempton”. Audible returned no results. I did a search for “Soundscape”. Audible returned no results. However, “Yellowstone” isn’t the only Gordon Hempton title that’s “included”. Play the tape through to its end. ( Or fast-forward it through to its end. ) There, Audible will display additional icons of audio books. These will be by Gordon Hempton. Some are not free. Add them to your “wish list”. Some are free! Add them to your “Library”.
Counting “Yellowstone”, I found six “included” audio books by Gordon Hempton.
Did Gordon stand out in nature for two hours to record “Yellowstone”? I doubt it. I think he captured a variety of natural sounds over time. Then, in a studio, he fabricated a recording. I say this because, in “Yellowstone”, I tend to hear the same sounds recur. Also, we don’t experience one “storm”. It doesn’t rise to a pitch and recede. Rather, it seems to artfully reappear, with wind joining the rain, when Gordon thinks this sounds good. So, “Yellowstone” is less an experience of the natural world than a “Soylent Green” excursion. The good news is that you don’t have to die to obtain it. And, it lasts longer than twenty minutes.
AND IN THE END…
“The attack on poetry either exiles it for being destructive of social well-being or allows it sufferance if it will assume the work of social catharsis under the banners of the new multiCULTuralism.”
- Harold Bloom, 1994 A.D. ( Emphasis added. )
Source: The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages, by Harold Bloom. Page 17. ( Amazon Kindle. )
ARCANA
The Alisson Wood quote is from her book, “Be ( ing ) Lolita, pg. 264.
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Copyright 2021 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
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.
Currently, my You Tube account ( mentioned below ) has once again been wrongfully terminated by You Tube.
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 BO, Book Observations, issue number 13
Arcana: This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 13, version 4.0
Date Written: July 20, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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BO 13
Book Observations presents...
Rome’s Rise
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Plus: Sleep well!
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ROME’S Rise
An “Audible” Audio Book Review
by Andrew Roller
Quotes from the book:
1. “Most aristocratic women were probably married off around their mid-teens.”
2. “From the early empire on, uncles could … marry their nieces.”
3. “In order to be engaged [ for marriage ], the two people had to be at least 7 years old.”
4. “Girls who were married at 12 or 13 gave birth five or six times … before they reached the age of 20.”
5. “Frequently, there was a vast age difference between [ spouses ].”
- Gregory Sin Aldrete The Rise of Rome. Lecture 13: Roman Women and Marriage.
6. “Every girl who survived until adolescence then had to successfully give birth four times just to break even, and keep the population stable.” ( Due to infant mortality and childhood diseases. )
- Gregory Sin Aldrete The Rise of Rome. Lecture 14: Roman Children, Education, and Timekeeping.
The Rise of Rome. By Gregory Sin Aldrete. The Great Courses. “Only from Audible”.
Narrated by: Gregory Sin Aldrete. Includes quality sound effects.
A PDF is included. ( Printed documentation. ) Page numbers, below, refer to the PDF. In the PDF, look to the bottom of each page for its page number.
Lecture series. Total length: 12 hours, 16 minutes.
Review: Once upon a time, there was a professor. Like all men, he resorted, at times, to his toilet. There, he wrote an audio script. It was an Important Script. Or, to tell it as he does, it was an Important Script? It was about Rome?
Aldrete pronounces each of his words very slowly and carefully. You’d think English was a language that he’d just mastered. In fact, he’s a native speaker of English. But, since he’s reading from his Important Script? About Rome? he wants to ensure that you properly hear each of his words.
Aldrete may know English, but I guess he had trouble with English in the first grade. He definitely learned about the question mark. He seems to have missed the concept, or at least the point, of that grammatical mark known as the period.
Who can you thank for “the law”? You can thank men who kidnapped and raped children. You can thank these same men for “religion, science, philosophy … culture … language … art, [ and ] architecture”. ( Page 1. )
All of the above, from law to architecture, are contributions that Ancient Rome has made to our modern world. Rome’s earliest inhabitants were nearly all men. They needed wives. The Romans invited a neighboring tribe, the Sabines, to a feast. The Sabines came.
You would think that the Romans would have been normal. That is, they would have been seeking wives who were, in the words of Alisson Wood, “Mature, sophisticated, powerful women.” That is, you’d think the Roman men would have desired to commit adultery with women who were emotionally devoted to their husbands. Women who were used up hags, who could produce few, if any, additional children. Women who were stretched to the limit and likely to die soon. Not to mention, women who weren’t virgins.
Sadly, Roman men were not pussy licking saps like today’s American men. Roman men wanted Lolitas to fuck. That is, they wanted children, who themselves yearned to be liberated from Mom and Dad. Tight virgins. Girls who, once opened and pumped, would birth many wonderful offspring.
The feast proceeded. At a signal among the Romans, each man grabbed a Sabine girl. Having kidnapped her, he ran off with her and raped her.
A war ensued between the Sabines and the Romans. Who stopped the war? The raped children. They pleaded with their fathers and brothers to not kill their “husbands” ( the kidnappers who’d raped them ). The children pleaded with their husbands to not kill their fathers and brothers. ( Page 16. )
Peace ensued. The Sabines, not being insane, like Americans, formed an alliance with the Romans. This alliance lasted forever. Romans and Sabines became one.
The next time that a policewoman, prosecutor, or judge wants to discuss “the law” with you, tell her that she can thank child rapists for her job. She can thank Rome for the language that she’s speaking. Many languages, including English, are based on Rome’s language of Latin. Such a person can also thank Rome for her religion, if she’s a Christian. The pope lives in Rome.
“The world’s legal systems are based on Roman law.” ( Page 8. )
“Our calendar is almost identical to the one developed by the Romans.” ( Page 8. )
Aldrete mentions the Roman diet. Romans ate mostly wheat, olive oil, and wine. Enormous effort was required to take wheat from its state as a seed to an edible product. This included tossing the wheat in the air, to separate it from its inedible parts. Each grain of wheat then had to be picked up by hand.
I adjusted to Aldrete’s manner of speaking. What I found myself unable to tolerate was his blatant omission of drama in late Republican Rome. He says little about Octavian’s victory at Actium. Aldrete barely mentions the end of Anthony and Cleopatra. I can imagine Aldrete summing up the movie “Jaws”:
“Some guys went to sea in a boat, and had to swim back to shore.”
Perhaps Aldrete felt pressed for time in his course. If so, he should have left out his lecture on Roman women. They mostly stayed home. Aldrete should have skipped his lecture on Roman slaves. They mostly did what they were told.
Our history was shaped by Roman men. ( Plus Cleopatra. ) They were men of action, whether marching troops or speaking with vigor. These are the figures who continue to influence our lives. Their stories should be told in detail.
AUDIBLE TIPS
Reading the PDF
A number of audio books come with an accompanying PDF. ( Printed documentation. ) If you try reading the PDF in the Audible app, you’ll find that its type is tiny. What to do?
1. You are viewing the audio book in Audible’s “Library”. The audio book takes up your iPad’s entire screen. ( Read my earlier articles for more information about using Audible. )
2. Look to the top right corner of your iPad’s screen. There, you’ll see an icon. It consists of three vertical dots. Click on the three vertical dots.
3. An informational box opens. A number of options are listed here. Click on the option that reads, “Accompanying PDF”.
4. The PDF for your audio book opens! Look to the top right corner of your iPad’s screen. There, you’ll see an icon. It consists of a box. An arrow is sticking out of the top of the box. Click on this icon.
5. An informational box opens. A number of options are listed here. For instance, you’ll see “Copy to Documents”. This is the app “Documents”, by the company called Readdle. This app is free.
I pay for a subscription version of “Documents”. It’s called, “Professional PDF Editor”. I pay $49.99 per year for this. It lets me edit PDF files, which I’ve never done.
I was happy with the free version of “Documents”. However, Readdle was having a sale, so I subscribed to “Professional PDF Editor”.
I don’t know anything about Readdle’s “Documents Plus” app, which costs $89.99 per year.
In the past, Apple prohibited the iPhone from downloading anything. The same prohibition applied to the iPad.
Most iPhones did not have much memory. The same was true of some iPads. Apple was afraid that a masturbator would buy an iPhone. He’d download a bunch of porn videos, and then his iPhone ( or his iPad ) would run out of memory.
In that era, I used a ( broken ) downloading program to download videos of pastors’ sermons from religious web sites. I also downloaded nude photos of my favorite ministers. I was obliged to put this edifying material into “Documents”. I was using a free version of “Documents”.
Continuing:
6. We are still in Audible’s informational box. Let’s keep exploring it. Scroll down in the informational box. You’ll see this option: “Copy to PDF Expert”. This is the app, “PDF Expert”, by the company called Readdle. This app is free.
I pay for a subscription version of “PDF Expert”. It’s called, “PDF Expert PRO”. I pay $49.99 per year for this. It lets me edit PDF files, which I’ve never done.
I had the free version of “PDF Expert”. I was trying to obtain free photos ( of nude ministers ) on the internet. Some of the photos were larger than my iPad’s screen. This meant that, for such a photo, I was unable to take a screen shot of it.
I tried saving the big photos to the app “Documents”. Sometimes, this worked. Sometimes, it didn’t. I tried saving the big photos to the app “PDF Expert”. Sometimes, this worked. However, I was unable to open the photos. I was told by “PDF Expert” that I had to pay for a subscription to open the photos. So, I subscribed.
There is an arms race on the internet. It’s between ordinary users ( who want photos of nude ministers ) and the various internet providers ( of whatever ilk ). I don’t understand this arms race. If you’re providing a free photo, then provide it! Don’t make the user jump through hoops to obtain a copy.
I use both “Documents” and “PDF Expert” to yank free photos off the internet. If I’m unsuccessful with “Documents”, I try using “PDF Expert”. Sometimes, neither program works. That is, neither program is successful in yanking a photo off the internet. Both programs work superbly if you’re not trying to yank photos off the internet.
By “yank”, I’m referring to making a copy of a photo. This process can be sufficiently onerous to warrant the term “yank”.
Continuing:
7. I have a lot of nude photos of ministers in the app “Documents”. Hence, I put all my Audible PDFs into “PDF Expert”.
8. We are still in Audible’s informational box. Tap on “Copy to PDF Expert”.
9. A small box appears in the middle of your iPad’s screen. In this small box, you’ll see the word “Done!” It’s accompanied by a green circle that contains a checkmark.
( You will be successful in making this copy, since it’s not an internet photo of a nude minister. )
( You may have to buy a subscription to “PDF Expert” to open the PDF. If you don’t want to pay for a subscription, then save the PDF to the app called “Documents”. )
Continuing:
10. You are automatically transferred from the Audible app to the “PDF Expert” app. You’ll find yourself staring at a big version of the Audible PDF. It’s very easy to read.
11. Look to the top left of your iPad’s screen. There, you’ll see an icon. It is an arrow that points left: <
12. Tap on the arrow that points left: <
13. The PDF disappears! You are now inside the app, “PDF Expert”. “My Files” appears near the top of your iPad’s screen. Somewhere on your screen, you’ll see an icon of the PDF that you just imported from the Audible app.
14. To get out of the app called “PDF Expert”, swipe your finger up. Do this from the bottom of your iPad’s screen.
15. Return to the Audible app. Here, you’ll find that you’re still looking at the PDF. To get out of this part of the Audible app, look to the top left of your iPad’s screen. You’ll see an icon. It is an X.
16. Click on the X. You are returned to your audio book.
SLEEP Well!
An “Audible” Audio Book Review
Yellowstone National Park in Winter. Captured by Gordon Hemp ( ton ). ( Who does not sell hemp by the ton! ) Soundscape. Audible Original. This audio book is “included” with your Audible membership; it’s free.
No PDF is included. ( Printed documentation. )
Total length: 2 hours.
Review: If you look up the “Title Details” for this audio book, you will find an error. Audible writes: “Narrated by Gordon Hempton. Speech.”
There is no speech in this audio book. It’s a recording of various sounds. The first hour of “Yellowstone” is rich with the sounds of rain and wind. In the second hour, the rain continues, with less wind.
Guam is not Yellowstone in winter. It’s a tropical island. On my first day of school in Guam, the sun didn’t shine. The day was Stygian black. It was pouring rain. The rain continued for a long time. “Yellowstone’s” second hour reminds me of this day on Guam.
Sometimes, going about in San Diego, I encounter females who are young and attractive. They are presumably “of legal age”. That means they’ve been regularly engaging in sex for at least half a decade. ( Using Lolita, who lost her virginity at age 12 to a boy, as my guide. )
Such females are not attracted to me. They weren’t when I was their age, and they aren’t now. Recently, I encountered such a female on the street. She was a stranger. She didn’t merely look away from me. She wrenched her head, violently, to her left. I’m surprised that she didn’t break her neck. She did this the moment she saw me. I have been getting this sort of reaction from females for decades.
( Unless, that is, they’re 12 years old, or younger. And I’m considerably older. )
Such non-virgin swines do not sit at home on Friday and Saturday nights. Oh, no! They venture forth to get fucked. I do not go out on Friday and Saturday nights, especially now. That’s because I’m trying to get my possessions out of my former room, while I can still afford to rent it. ( Along with renting the room that I now occupy. )
In my old room, I lived on a building’s third floor. This meant that, on Friday and Saturday nights, the non-virgin swines passed by three floors below me. In my new room, I live on a building’s ground floor. Now, the non-virgin swines go right by my room! Only large windows separate me from them. ( When I’m not masturbating, I keep my blinds closed. )
I need something to block out the sound of the non-virgin swines, as they go forth to get fucked. “Yellowstone” works superbly. Instead of hearing tramps go by, I hear the pristine, natural sounds of rain and wind. Sometimes, in “Yellowstone”, a branch breaks from a tree. One did so with such a loud noise that I flinched in my “bed”. ( A “topper” on my room’s floor. )
Whatever the night, “Yellowstone” works well in helping me go to sleep. It’s the best audio book that I’ve found for this purpose.
I have neighbors. ( People who live in the rooms adjacent to mine. ) As a result, I can’t turn up a narrated audio book too loud. However, “Yellowstone” is just rain and wind. I’m able to blast my iPad’s sound, of rain and wind, at full volume. This is very helpful, since the acoustics in my room are poor. ( A narrating voice echoes. )
When I put “Yellowstone” on to sleep, I don’t set Audible’s “Sleep” timer. If I did, I’d lie awake waiting for the timer to expire. Instead, I let “Yellowstone” run its full length.
Often, as I’m trying to fall asleep, my dishwasher is running. “Yellowstone” blots out its sound. If you sleep fine, but need “white noise” in your life, “Yellowstone” is a perfect companion.
On Audible, I did a search for “Gordon Hempton”. Audible returned no results. I did a search for “Soundscape”. Audible returned no results. However, “Yellowstone” isn’t the only Gordon Hempton title that’s “included”. Play the tape through to its end. ( Or fast-forward it through to its end. ) There, Audible will display additional icons of audio books. These will be by Gordon Hempton. Some are not free. Add them to your “wish list”. Some are free! Add them to your “Library”.
Counting “Yellowstone”, I found six “included” audio books by Gordon Hempton.
Did Gordon stand out in nature for two hours to record “Yellowstone”? I doubt it. I think he captured a variety of natural sounds over time. Then, in a studio, he fabricated a recording. I say this because, in “Yellowstone”, I tend to hear the same sounds recur. Also, we don’t experience one “storm”. It doesn’t rise to a pitch and recede. Rather, it seems to artfully reappear, with wind joining the rain, when Gordon thinks this sounds good. So, “Yellowstone” is less an experience of the natural world than a “Soylent Green” excursion. The good news is that you don’t have to die to obtain it. And, it lasts longer than twenty minutes.
AND IN THE END…
“The attack on poetry either exiles it for being destructive of social well-being or allows it sufferance if it will assume the work of social catharsis under the banners of the new multiCULTuralism.”
- Harold Bloom, 1994 A.D. ( Emphasis added. )
Source: The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages, by Harold Bloom. Page 17. ( Amazon Kindle. )
ARCANA
The Alisson Wood quote is from her book, “Be ( ing ) Lolita, pg. 264.
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Copyright 2021 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
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.
Currently, my You Tube account ( mentioned below ) has once again been wrongfully terminated by You Tube.
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 BO, Book Observations, issue number 13
Arcana: This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 13, version 4.0
Date Written: July 20, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Apple Censors “Favorites”
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AI 16
Apple Info presents...
Apple Censors “Favorites”
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Plus: Rome’s Republic.
And: Hell in the wild.
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APPLE CENSORS “Favorites”
by Andrew Roller
My iPhone has a “Photos” app. So does my iPad. In this app, there is a section titled, “For You”.
In “For You”, there is a section titled, “Featured Photos”. You’re probably aware that Apple has total control over the images in “Featured Photos”. Only Apple can put an image in “Featured Photos”. Also, Apple removes images from “Featured Photos”. I’ve seen an image of a nude girl vanish from “Featured Photos”. Apple doesn’t just eliminate nudity. I have a photo of a girl in pajamas. I captured her image by photographing a page in a men’s magazine. She wound up in “Featured Photos”. But, even though she’s not naked, Apple deleted her from “Featured Photos”.
Today, I was stunned to find that Apple does more than censor “Featured Photos”. In my Photos app, there is a section titled, “Favorites”. For a photo to wind up in “Favorites”, I have to put it there.
My favorite photo of all time is of a mature, sophisticated, powerful woman. She isn’t nude, because that would objectify her. The photo is of former United States Attorney General Janet Reno.
I love masturbating to Janet Reno. That’s because she protected many young girls from sexual abuse. Janet was especially effective at doing this in Waco, Texas. Specifically, at the living quarters of the Branch Davidians, in 1993. Janet didn’t fool around there. She had the government kill the girls. Those that didn’t burn up in the fire were, presumably, safely buried beyond the reach of any “molester”.
My second favorite photo is of Brooke Shields. In this image, she’s 10 years old. Brooke is kneeling, nude, in a bathtub. Her bare bottom is pointed toward me. This photo has been in the “Favorites” section of my “Photos” app for a year. I look at it often.
I’ve been tardy in having Apple “scan” my photos. For this to happen, I have to plug in my iPhone, and enter a passcode. Lately, I’ve been doing this. Apple was scanning my photos.
Today, I was masturbating to Janet Reno ( and Brooke ). Apple scanned my photo of Brooke. I know this because my photo of Brooke showed up in the “Months” section of “Photos”. ( Access this on your iPhone by tapping “Photos” > “Library” > “Months”. )
I soon clicked on “Favorites”. To my horror, Brooke was gone from “Favorites”! I did a thorough search for her image in “Favorites” on both my iPhone and iPad. She was utterly gone from “Favorites” on both devices!
I have investigated this matter further. As best I can tell, Brooke’s photo was not eliminated from other sections of “Photos”.
The legality of her image was litigated decades ago. Brooke, and her adorable nude bottom, are legal. So why is Apple deleting her from the “Favorites” section of “Photos”? What other photos has Apple deleted from “Favorites”?
I’m astonished that Apple would tamper in any way with my photos. I managed to get revenge on Apple for its censorship of “Featured Photos”. Apple News used to be in the “Today View” in my iPad’s “Dock”. ( The sidebar on my “Home Screen”. ) You’ve likely noticed that Apple News is rank propaganda for the political left. I deleted “Featured Photos” from my iPad’s “Dock”, along with Apple News.
ROME’S Republic
An “Audible” Audio Book Review
“Marriages, when they took place, were often between a mature man … and a young girl. … Girls of 14, 15, and 16 often found themselves married to men 35 and older.”
- Garrett Gay Fag ( an ). The History of Ancient Rome. Lecture 39: The Family.
The History of Ancient Rome. By Garrett Gay Fag ( an ). The Great Courses. “Only from Audible”.
Narrated by: Garrett Gay Fag ( an ). Includes quality sound effects. A PDF is included. ( Printed documentation. ) NOTE: The PDF is NOT a verbatim transcript of the professor’s lecture.
Lecture series. Total length: 22 hours, 40 minutes.
Review: This audio book has three parts. The first part is a history of Rome’s Republic. Garrett tells of Rome’s birth through the death of its first ( official ) Caesar, Augustus. Garrett does a fine job presenting this history.
He then claims that it would be “tedious” to continue his “narrative”. He switches to a “thematic” approach. Instead of telling us much about Rome’s emperors, he switches to themes: “Roman Slavery”. “Women in Roman Society”. “Great Pedophile Lovers”.
However, Garrett sells, separately, this lecture series: Emperors of Rome. That’s like saying it would be “tedious” for you to have a Coke with your hamburger. However, I’ll sell you a Coke for an additional charge!
Garrett omits dramatic moments from his lectures. He tells us that Crassus died, but not how he died. That’s like my telling you that U.S. President John F. Kennedy died. There’s a bit more to the story.
Garrett has an excellent voice. I found his lectures compelling. His talks on Rome’s earliest days go into considerable detail. Be prepared for content that you might consider trivial. Ultimately, nothing is trivial if you know it well enough.
Garrett concludes this course by resuming his “narrative” approach. He assigns Rome’s fall to systemic factors. Rome didn’t fall. Rather, it evolved from a single entity into multiple states.
Garrett examines more than the systemic theory for Rome’s “fall”. One of these is that Rome, specifically its men, were consumed by decadence. Instead of fucking women, the men spent all their time masturbating to 10-year-old Brooke Shields’ bare bottom.
HELL in the WILD
An “Audible” Audio Book Review
“Steaming rivers, stone forests, and bubbling lava.”
- iMINDS, on Yellowstone.
Yellowstone National Park. By iMINDS.
Narrated by: Jude Beaumont. Includes quality sound effects. No PDF is included. ( Printed documentation. )
Total length: Eight minutes.
Review: This audio book is free to Audible members. Yellowstone was once a standard volcano. It collapsed onto itself. This created a caldera. What lies beneath is a large, but hidden, volcano.
The volcano of Yellowstone isn’t dead. In the last two million years, it’s erupted more than once. Each time, according to Wikipedia, it did so with “tremendous force”. Yellowstone last erupted before humans existed; 640,000 years ago. Yellowstone is expected to erupt again. Probably, it will do so when Jesus returns to earth, to save anyone who isn’t a pedophile.
Yellowstone is a large plateau. On average, its height is 8,000 feet above sea level. Its petrified forests are the result of ancient woods being inundated by ash and volcanic debris. Eventually, these woods became covered by soil. ( The result, I suppose, of the endless, imperceptible dust that descends from the air, plus windblown dirt. )
I toured Yellowstone with my family in the 1960s. My most vivid memory is of a wooden walkway. It wound around various steaming hot springs. The rocks in the pools of steaming water were oddly colored; orange was the most vivid hue. Being small, I was anxious. I feared the pools. However, I also felt a desire to dare them; to plunge in one and survive. There was also the lure of trespassing on the forbidden. Nobody was permitted to leave the path. Unlike Bradbury’s protagonist in “A Sound of Thunder”, I stayed on the path.
Supplemented by Wikipedia ( if you wish ), iMINDS provides a satisfactory summary of Yellowstone. Unfortunately, it’s probably too short to use to go to sleep.
AUDIBLE TIPS
“Remove from Device”
It was with great trepidation that I attempted this. I used “Yellowstone National Park” as my guinea pig. Good news! Tapping on “Remove from Device” does NOT remove your audio book from your Audible library. The book remains, ready to be downloaded again.
I had, by accident, downloaded “Yellowstone National Park” as a “High” quality download. Audible warns: “High quality downloads require more space on your device.”
Having removed “Yellowstone National Park” from my library, I tapped on “Profile” > “Settings”. In “Settings”, I switched from the “High” quality download option to the “Standard” quality download option.
I didn’t actually download “Yellowstone National Park” again. I’d just listened to it. It remains in my library.
Now, if I find more internet photos of 10-year-old Brooke Shields in the nude, I’ll have space for them on my iPad!
WANTED: Pedophile INTELLECTUALS!
“The rise of the secular intellectual has been a key factor in shaping the modern world.”
- Paul Johnson.
Source: Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky, by Paul Johnson. Location 94. ( Amazon Kindle. )
ARCANA
1. “Girls … found themselves married.” Fag ( an )’s use of “found themselves” is feminist propaganda. The girls married men. The girls were not foundlings in bulrushes.
2. “A Sound of Thunder”, by Ray Bradbury. Available in, among other books, his collection of short stories titled, “The Golden Apples of the Sun”. I’m amazed to see Wikipedia articles on individual short stories by Ray Bradbury. Prior to Star Wars, science fiction had limited appeal. I read most of Bradbury’s stories before Star Wars’ debut in 1977.
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Copyright 2021 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
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.
Currently, my You Tube account ( mentioned below ) has once again been wrongfully terminated by You Tube.
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 AI, Apple Info, issue number 16
Arcana: This is AI, Apple Info, issue number 16, version 7.0
Date Written: July 15, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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AI 16
Apple Info presents...
Apple Censors “Favorites”
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Plus: Rome’s Republic.
And: Hell in the wild.
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APPLE CENSORS “Favorites”
by Andrew Roller
My iPhone has a “Photos” app. So does my iPad. In this app, there is a section titled, “For You”.
In “For You”, there is a section titled, “Featured Photos”. You’re probably aware that Apple has total control over the images in “Featured Photos”. Only Apple can put an image in “Featured Photos”. Also, Apple removes images from “Featured Photos”. I’ve seen an image of a nude girl vanish from “Featured Photos”. Apple doesn’t just eliminate nudity. I have a photo of a girl in pajamas. I captured her image by photographing a page in a men’s magazine. She wound up in “Featured Photos”. But, even though she’s not naked, Apple deleted her from “Featured Photos”.
Today, I was stunned to find that Apple does more than censor “Featured Photos”. In my Photos app, there is a section titled, “Favorites”. For a photo to wind up in “Favorites”, I have to put it there.
My favorite photo of all time is of a mature, sophisticated, powerful woman. She isn’t nude, because that would objectify her. The photo is of former United States Attorney General Janet Reno.
I love masturbating to Janet Reno. That’s because she protected many young girls from sexual abuse. Janet was especially effective at doing this in Waco, Texas. Specifically, at the living quarters of the Branch Davidians, in 1993. Janet didn’t fool around there. She had the government kill the girls. Those that didn’t burn up in the fire were, presumably, safely buried beyond the reach of any “molester”.
My second favorite photo is of Brooke Shields. In this image, she’s 10 years old. Brooke is kneeling, nude, in a bathtub. Her bare bottom is pointed toward me. This photo has been in the “Favorites” section of my “Photos” app for a year. I look at it often.
I’ve been tardy in having Apple “scan” my photos. For this to happen, I have to plug in my iPhone, and enter a passcode. Lately, I’ve been doing this. Apple was scanning my photos.
Today, I was masturbating to Janet Reno ( and Brooke ). Apple scanned my photo of Brooke. I know this because my photo of Brooke showed up in the “Months” section of “Photos”. ( Access this on your iPhone by tapping “Photos” > “Library” > “Months”. )
I soon clicked on “Favorites”. To my horror, Brooke was gone from “Favorites”! I did a thorough search for her image in “Favorites” on both my iPhone and iPad. She was utterly gone from “Favorites” on both devices!
I have investigated this matter further. As best I can tell, Brooke’s photo was not eliminated from other sections of “Photos”.
The legality of her image was litigated decades ago. Brooke, and her adorable nude bottom, are legal. So why is Apple deleting her from the “Favorites” section of “Photos”? What other photos has Apple deleted from “Favorites”?
I’m astonished that Apple would tamper in any way with my photos. I managed to get revenge on Apple for its censorship of “Featured Photos”. Apple News used to be in the “Today View” in my iPad’s “Dock”. ( The sidebar on my “Home Screen”. ) You’ve likely noticed that Apple News is rank propaganda for the political left. I deleted “Featured Photos” from my iPad’s “Dock”, along with Apple News.
ROME’S Republic
An “Audible” Audio Book Review
“Marriages, when they took place, were often between a mature man … and a young girl. … Girls of 14, 15, and 16 often found themselves married to men 35 and older.”
- Garrett Gay Fag ( an ). The History of Ancient Rome. Lecture 39: The Family.
The History of Ancient Rome. By Garrett Gay Fag ( an ). The Great Courses. “Only from Audible”.
Narrated by: Garrett Gay Fag ( an ). Includes quality sound effects. A PDF is included. ( Printed documentation. ) NOTE: The PDF is NOT a verbatim transcript of the professor’s lecture.
Lecture series. Total length: 22 hours, 40 minutes.
Review: This audio book has three parts. The first part is a history of Rome’s Republic. Garrett tells of Rome’s birth through the death of its first ( official ) Caesar, Augustus. Garrett does a fine job presenting this history.
He then claims that it would be “tedious” to continue his “narrative”. He switches to a “thematic” approach. Instead of telling us much about Rome’s emperors, he switches to themes: “Roman Slavery”. “Women in Roman Society”. “Great Pedophile Lovers”.
However, Garrett sells, separately, this lecture series: Emperors of Rome. That’s like saying it would be “tedious” for you to have a Coke with your hamburger. However, I’ll sell you a Coke for an additional charge!
Garrett omits dramatic moments from his lectures. He tells us that Crassus died, but not how he died. That’s like my telling you that U.S. President John F. Kennedy died. There’s a bit more to the story.
Garrett has an excellent voice. I found his lectures compelling. His talks on Rome’s earliest days go into considerable detail. Be prepared for content that you might consider trivial. Ultimately, nothing is trivial if you know it well enough.
Garrett concludes this course by resuming his “narrative” approach. He assigns Rome’s fall to systemic factors. Rome didn’t fall. Rather, it evolved from a single entity into multiple states.
Garrett examines more than the systemic theory for Rome’s “fall”. One of these is that Rome, specifically its men, were consumed by decadence. Instead of fucking women, the men spent all their time masturbating to 10-year-old Brooke Shields’ bare bottom.
HELL in the WILD
An “Audible” Audio Book Review
“Steaming rivers, stone forests, and bubbling lava.”
- iMINDS, on Yellowstone.
Yellowstone National Park. By iMINDS.
Narrated by: Jude Beaumont. Includes quality sound effects. No PDF is included. ( Printed documentation. )
Total length: Eight minutes.
Review: This audio book is free to Audible members. Yellowstone was once a standard volcano. It collapsed onto itself. This created a caldera. What lies beneath is a large, but hidden, volcano.
The volcano of Yellowstone isn’t dead. In the last two million years, it’s erupted more than once. Each time, according to Wikipedia, it did so with “tremendous force”. Yellowstone last erupted before humans existed; 640,000 years ago. Yellowstone is expected to erupt again. Probably, it will do so when Jesus returns to earth, to save anyone who isn’t a pedophile.
Yellowstone is a large plateau. On average, its height is 8,000 feet above sea level. Its petrified forests are the result of ancient woods being inundated by ash and volcanic debris. Eventually, these woods became covered by soil. ( The result, I suppose, of the endless, imperceptible dust that descends from the air, plus windblown dirt. )
I toured Yellowstone with my family in the 1960s. My most vivid memory is of a wooden walkway. It wound around various steaming hot springs. The rocks in the pools of steaming water were oddly colored; orange was the most vivid hue. Being small, I was anxious. I feared the pools. However, I also felt a desire to dare them; to plunge in one and survive. There was also the lure of trespassing on the forbidden. Nobody was permitted to leave the path. Unlike Bradbury’s protagonist in “A Sound of Thunder”, I stayed on the path.
Supplemented by Wikipedia ( if you wish ), iMINDS provides a satisfactory summary of Yellowstone. Unfortunately, it’s probably too short to use to go to sleep.
AUDIBLE TIPS
“Remove from Device”
It was with great trepidation that I attempted this. I used “Yellowstone National Park” as my guinea pig. Good news! Tapping on “Remove from Device” does NOT remove your audio book from your Audible library. The book remains, ready to be downloaded again.
I had, by accident, downloaded “Yellowstone National Park” as a “High” quality download. Audible warns: “High quality downloads require more space on your device.”
Having removed “Yellowstone National Park” from my library, I tapped on “Profile” > “Settings”. In “Settings”, I switched from the “High” quality download option to the “Standard” quality download option.
I didn’t actually download “Yellowstone National Park” again. I’d just listened to it. It remains in my library.
Now, if I find more internet photos of 10-year-old Brooke Shields in the nude, I’ll have space for them on my iPad!
WANTED: Pedophile INTELLECTUALS!
“The rise of the secular intellectual has been a key factor in shaping the modern world.”
- Paul Johnson.
Source: Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky, by Paul Johnson. Location 94. ( Amazon Kindle. )
ARCANA
1. “Girls … found themselves married.” Fag ( an )’s use of “found themselves” is feminist propaganda. The girls married men. The girls were not foundlings in bulrushes.
2. “A Sound of Thunder”, by Ray Bradbury. Available in, among other books, his collection of short stories titled, “The Golden Apples of the Sun”. I’m amazed to see Wikipedia articles on individual short stories by Ray Bradbury. Prior to Star Wars, science fiction had limited appeal. I read most of Bradbury’s stories before Star Wars’ debut in 1977.
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Copyright 2021 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
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.
Currently, my You Tube account ( mentioned below ) has once again been wrongfully terminated by You Tube.
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 AI, Apple Info, issue number 16
Arcana: This is AI, Apple Info, issue number 16, version 7.0
Date Written: July 15, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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You Tube Engaging in Criminal Fraud
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ET 93
Editorial Thunder presents...
You Tube Engaging in Criminal Fraud
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Plus: The Birth of God.
And: Clothes, or books?
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YOU TUBE Engaging in CRIMINAL FRAUD
Again!
by Andrew Roller
You Tube is defrauding me. This isn’t the first time. You Tube defrauded me in March, and April, of 2020. They did so by denying me access to You Tube Premium, even though I was paying for it.
I’m shocked by the level of misconduct by You Tube. Here’s my complaint to You Tube Support. It’s the only entity on You Tube that I can complain to. They never answer me.
July 11, 2021
Dear You Tube Support,
I have been a paying You Tube Premium member for nearly two years. On July 1, 2021, I discovered the following:
1. You wrongfully terminated my You Tube account.
2. You gave me no notification of this termination, or any reason for it. I have not violated your rules. Why did you terminate my account?
3. You stuck me with a new You Tube account. It does not include my comments, playlists, notifications, subscriptions, and “Library” information.
I have complained to you about this numerous times. You have never responded.
On July 11, 2021, I discovered the following:
1. If I try to watch a video on You Tube, you oblige me to watch an advertisement. I am not supposed to be shown ads as a paying You Tube Premium member.
2. I have no access to You Tube Music. You Tube Music is part of my You Tube Premium membership.
3. By forcing me to watch ads, and denying me access to You Tube Music, you are engaging in criminal fraud.
I expect you to do the following, immediately:
1. Restore my You Tube account. My account must include my comments, playlists, notifications, subscriptions, and “Library” information.
This account is known as “[ name@ ] gmail”.
Do not expect me to be satisfied with the wrongful “[ name@ ] icloud” account that you imposed on me, without my permission.
2. Do not force me to watch advertisements.
3. Restore my access to You Tube Music.
Again, I am a paying You Tube Premium member. I have been so for nearly two years.
You have been engaging in false, deceptive, and wrongful practices against me since March of 2020. I have witnessed you engaging in such conduct against other You Tube customers. Stop running a criminal enterprise that abuses and defrauds the public!
Sincerely,
Andrew L. Roller
That concludes my letter to You Tube Support. You Tube is owned by Google. Google is owned by Alphabet.
The persons primarily responsible for the conduct of Alphabet, Google, and You Tube are:
1. Larry Page. Owner of Alphabet, founder of Google.
2. Sergey Brin. Owner of Alphabet, founder of Google.
3. Sundar ( Not Sunday! ) Pichai, Chief Executive Officer of Alphabet.
4. Susan Wojcicki ( Not Wojkickme! ), Chief Executive Officer of You Tube.
I am a 60 year old disabled veteran with a failing kidney transplant.
The BIRTH of GOD
An “Audible” Audio Book Review
by Andrew Roller
“It was to the Sun that he now especially paid his devotion, and in his hour of need the Sun had sent him a sign; and that sign was the Cross, the symbol of the Christians. …
“It was not the Cross which Constantine used as the emblem of his new patron god, but a monogram composed of the first two Greek letters of the word Christos, Chi and Rho.”
- A. H. M. Jones. Constantine and the Conversion of Europe. Page 41. Published in 1948. Amazon Kindle edition published by CrossReach Publications. Price: $2.99.
Constantine and the Conversion of Europe, by A. Jones. ( Also listed as “Arnold Jones”. ) “Audio Connosewer.”
Narrated by: Charlton Griffin. No sound effects are included. No PDF is included. ( Printed documentation. )
Review: My father was a minister. He and my mother obliged me to attend church for the first quarter century of my life. As a result, I had many Sunday school teachers. The only one that I remember is Dale Eppen. A young U.S. Navy sailor on Guam, he was a Christian fundamentalist.
Eppen had no difficulty identifying who God was. He was God the Father. Exactly how Jesus fit into the picture, in relation to God, Eppen never explained. But given that he was a 70s era Jesus freak, Jesus loomed larger in Eppen’s mind than God did. In Lutheranism, of which Eppen was nominally a member, the Holy Ghost has always been an unexplained irrelevance.
“Constantine and the Conversion of Europe” is mainly concerned with the conquest of Rome, and its empire, by Christianity. The Roman state retained the monopoly on violence throughout this period. The difficulty that the state faced was that, though conquered by Christianity, it was unfamiliar with the Christian cult’s God. Constantine worships the sun. That’s why, if you’re a practicing Christian, you attend church on Sunday. You do so to honor the Sun, not the Christian God. ( Page 42. )
It’s hilarious to read pronouncements by the Roman state during the period that this book covers. The state refers to God in various ways. None of them would have pleased Dale Eppen. Though God, and Jesus, were obvious to him, such entities were not obvious to the state that shoved Christianity down the throats of its subjects.
Some examples:
1. God is referred to as “the Divinity”. ( Page 36 ).
2. He is called “the Supreme Divinity.” ( Page 41 ).
3. He is called “the Highest Divinity”. ( Page 46 ).
4. He is called “the Highest God”. ( Page 46 ).
For a Christian like Eppen, there is only one God. God the Father isn’t “the Highest God”, he’s the sole God.
Constantine was born a pagan in a pagan Roman Empire. However, Jones argues that paganism had ceased to move men’s hearts. The Roman elite publicly genuflected to paganism. They found intellectual sustenance in philosophy.
Philosophical reflections have never been popular with the masses. They need a Good Guy and, in the words of former President George W. Bush, “bad guys”. A plague struck the Roman Empire in the 300s. The masses engaged in pagan worship to rid themselves of the plague. The plague remained.
Much as America currently persecutes “pedophiles”, Rome had been busily persecuting Christians. The cult of Christianity was, therefore, vividly present in the minds of the Roman masses. Stuck with the plague, the masses decided to worship Christ. ( By whatever name. ) Of course, any plague eventually dies out. That’s what happened in the 300s. Not being biologists, the Roman masses credited their worship of Christ as ridding them of the plague.
Meanwhile, Constantine was scoring numerous victories by conquering on behalf of Christ. ( By whatever name. ) Constantine decided that Christ was the god for him. At the same time, Constantine continued the ways of his pagan youth. He continued to venerate the Sun.
Jones describes Rome’s last efforts to persecute Christians. The people of Egypt were not, at the time, rabid Moslems. Allah had yet to be born. The people of Egypt were rabid Christians! In Jones’ telling, Egyptians were the most devoted to sacrificing their lives for Christ. From this, I conclude: “The Arabs have always been nuts. It’s just a question of what, at any given moment, they’re being nuts about.”
In any event, had he known of it, Dale Eppen would doubtless have thanked the Egyptians for their sacrifices for Christ.
The first chapters of “Constantine and the Conversion of Europe” are standard history. It’s exciting to read about Constantine’s conquests. Rome’s persecutions of Christians are moving.
However, Jones then delves, very deeply, into religious disputes in newly Christianized Rome. Christians divide themselves into factions. They persecute each other. This is not standard history. It is minutiae. I can only recommend it because it deals with the formation of Christianity as we know it today. In church, I was required, weekly, to recite the Nicene Creed. According to “The Free Dictionary”, the Nicene Creed is:
“A formal statement of doctrine of the Christian faith adopted at the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D.”
To the extent that the Nicene Creed’s origins were explained to me in church, the explanation was as follows:
“Very holy men, their minds forever devoid of sex, met to formalize the doctrines of the Christian faith. It was all very dispassionate and holy, and guided by God.”
That’s bullshit. The crazy Arabs, namely the Egyptians, were quarreling with each other. The entire Western half of Christianity failed to attend the Council of Nicaea. The Egyptians’ doctrinal disputes were of no interest to them. Hence, the Council of Nicaea was a partisan exercise in which one side defeated the other.
The central question at Nicaea regarded Jesus. Did Jesus come into being after God the Father, or at the same time as God the Father? I recall such debates in my Christian youth. So, Nicaea settled nothing. It did let one group of Christians screw another group of Christians.
Constantine believed that he was responsible to the Christian God ( of whatever name ) for the condition of Rome. He feared punishment from God if Rome was in religious disorder. Hence, he spent decades dealing with various disputant Church fathers, urging them to cooperate. They never did. Frankly, the Church fathers, all of whom had a hotline to Constantine, acted like spoiled brats.
I found “Constantine and the Conversion of Europe” to be compulsive to listen to. I’m not sure why. I’m attempting to learn the broad sweep of history, from the origin of the cosmos. Disputes among early Christians aren’t of much interest to me. Nonetheless, if you want to plug yourself into an audio book that won’t bore you, this one may work. If it doesn’t, you can always use it to fall asleep in bed.
I hope I’ve represented the historical events ( above ) accurately. My purpose in doing so is to aid you in buying audio books. I don’t claim to be a historian.
More than one edition of “Constantine and the Conversion of Europe” is available on Amazon, as a Kindle book. I think I found the one that’s the least expensive. The text is free of errors.
“Constantine and the Conversion of Europe” is rather densely written. I would never wade through the book as a reader. The audio book lets me zip through it. I recommend having the printed text available for your reference. It’s easy to read the printed text once you’ve heard the audio version.
AND IN THE END…
“Wear the old coat and buy the new book.”
- Austin P ( helps ).
Source: I’d RATHER BE Reading: a library of art for book lovers. By Guinevere De La Mare. Page 55.
ARCANA
1. Moslem: I’m sticking to the vocabulary that I learned in the 1960s and 1970s, before America went nuts. In my day, “Moslem” was in use. I only heard “Muslim” from Blacks who were promoting social change in America.
2. “The Arabs have always been nuts”. Obviously, this is a cartoonish summary, on the level of “Audio Connosewer”. I’ve met just a few Arabs in my life, and no Egyptians. I like “Audio Connoisseur” books a lot.
3. The address for Alphabet is:
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043, United States of America. The “Googleplex” is located here.
Another address for Google is:
111 Eighth Avenue, New York, New York 10011. This is known as the “Google Building”.
The address for You Tube is:
901 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, California 94066, United States of America.
The phone number for Alphabet, Google, and You Tube is: 1 ( 650 ) 253-0000.
The fax number for Alphabet, Google, and You Tube is: 1 ( 302 ) 636-5454.
( “1” is the country code for the United States of America. If you live in America, you do not have to dial “1”. )
The Alphabet web site is: http://abc.xyz
If you go to the Alphabet web site, you’re presented with a signed statement by Larry Page. It reads:
“G is for Google
“As Sergey and I wrote in the original founders letter 11 years ago, ‘Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one.’”
Google is a global criminal enterprise. It abuses its customers, including preteen girls. ( As detailed here on my blog. ) Google engages in criminal fraud.
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Copyright 2021 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 93
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 93, version 7.0
Date Written: July 11, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 93
Editorial Thunder presents...
You Tube Engaging in Criminal Fraud
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Plus: The Birth of God.
And: Clothes, or books?
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YOU TUBE Engaging in CRIMINAL FRAUD
Again!
by Andrew Roller
You Tube is defrauding me. This isn’t the first time. You Tube defrauded me in March, and April, of 2020. They did so by denying me access to You Tube Premium, even though I was paying for it.
I’m shocked by the level of misconduct by You Tube. Here’s my complaint to You Tube Support. It’s the only entity on You Tube that I can complain to. They never answer me.
July 11, 2021
Dear You Tube Support,
I have been a paying You Tube Premium member for nearly two years. On July 1, 2021, I discovered the following:
1. You wrongfully terminated my You Tube account.
2. You gave me no notification of this termination, or any reason for it. I have not violated your rules. Why did you terminate my account?
3. You stuck me with a new You Tube account. It does not include my comments, playlists, notifications, subscriptions, and “Library” information.
I have complained to you about this numerous times. You have never responded.
On July 11, 2021, I discovered the following:
1. If I try to watch a video on You Tube, you oblige me to watch an advertisement. I am not supposed to be shown ads as a paying You Tube Premium member.
2. I have no access to You Tube Music. You Tube Music is part of my You Tube Premium membership.
3. By forcing me to watch ads, and denying me access to You Tube Music, you are engaging in criminal fraud.
I expect you to do the following, immediately:
1. Restore my You Tube account. My account must include my comments, playlists, notifications, subscriptions, and “Library” information.
This account is known as “[ name@ ] gmail”.
Do not expect me to be satisfied with the wrongful “[ name@ ] icloud” account that you imposed on me, without my permission.
2. Do not force me to watch advertisements.
3. Restore my access to You Tube Music.
Again, I am a paying You Tube Premium member. I have been so for nearly two years.
You have been engaging in false, deceptive, and wrongful practices against me since March of 2020. I have witnessed you engaging in such conduct against other You Tube customers. Stop running a criminal enterprise that abuses and defrauds the public!
Sincerely,
Andrew L. Roller
That concludes my letter to You Tube Support. You Tube is owned by Google. Google is owned by Alphabet.
The persons primarily responsible for the conduct of Alphabet, Google, and You Tube are:
1. Larry Page. Owner of Alphabet, founder of Google.
2. Sergey Brin. Owner of Alphabet, founder of Google.
3. Sundar ( Not Sunday! ) Pichai, Chief Executive Officer of Alphabet.
4. Susan Wojcicki ( Not Wojkickme! ), Chief Executive Officer of You Tube.
I am a 60 year old disabled veteran with a failing kidney transplant.
The BIRTH of GOD
An “Audible” Audio Book Review
by Andrew Roller
“It was to the Sun that he now especially paid his devotion, and in his hour of need the Sun had sent him a sign; and that sign was the Cross, the symbol of the Christians. …
“It was not the Cross which Constantine used as the emblem of his new patron god, but a monogram composed of the first two Greek letters of the word Christos, Chi and Rho.”
- A. H. M. Jones. Constantine and the Conversion of Europe. Page 41. Published in 1948. Amazon Kindle edition published by CrossReach Publications. Price: $2.99.
Constantine and the Conversion of Europe, by A. Jones. ( Also listed as “Arnold Jones”. ) “Audio Connosewer.”
Narrated by: Charlton Griffin. No sound effects are included. No PDF is included. ( Printed documentation. )
Review: My father was a minister. He and my mother obliged me to attend church for the first quarter century of my life. As a result, I had many Sunday school teachers. The only one that I remember is Dale Eppen. A young U.S. Navy sailor on Guam, he was a Christian fundamentalist.
Eppen had no difficulty identifying who God was. He was God the Father. Exactly how Jesus fit into the picture, in relation to God, Eppen never explained. But given that he was a 70s era Jesus freak, Jesus loomed larger in Eppen’s mind than God did. In Lutheranism, of which Eppen was nominally a member, the Holy Ghost has always been an unexplained irrelevance.
“Constantine and the Conversion of Europe” is mainly concerned with the conquest of Rome, and its empire, by Christianity. The Roman state retained the monopoly on violence throughout this period. The difficulty that the state faced was that, though conquered by Christianity, it was unfamiliar with the Christian cult’s God. Constantine worships the sun. That’s why, if you’re a practicing Christian, you attend church on Sunday. You do so to honor the Sun, not the Christian God. ( Page 42. )
It’s hilarious to read pronouncements by the Roman state during the period that this book covers. The state refers to God in various ways. None of them would have pleased Dale Eppen. Though God, and Jesus, were obvious to him, such entities were not obvious to the state that shoved Christianity down the throats of its subjects.
Some examples:
1. God is referred to as “the Divinity”. ( Page 36 ).
2. He is called “the Supreme Divinity.” ( Page 41 ).
3. He is called “the Highest Divinity”. ( Page 46 ).
4. He is called “the Highest God”. ( Page 46 ).
For a Christian like Eppen, there is only one God. God the Father isn’t “the Highest God”, he’s the sole God.
Constantine was born a pagan in a pagan Roman Empire. However, Jones argues that paganism had ceased to move men’s hearts. The Roman elite publicly genuflected to paganism. They found intellectual sustenance in philosophy.
Philosophical reflections have never been popular with the masses. They need a Good Guy and, in the words of former President George W. Bush, “bad guys”. A plague struck the Roman Empire in the 300s. The masses engaged in pagan worship to rid themselves of the plague. The plague remained.
Much as America currently persecutes “pedophiles”, Rome had been busily persecuting Christians. The cult of Christianity was, therefore, vividly present in the minds of the Roman masses. Stuck with the plague, the masses decided to worship Christ. ( By whatever name. ) Of course, any plague eventually dies out. That’s what happened in the 300s. Not being biologists, the Roman masses credited their worship of Christ as ridding them of the plague.
Meanwhile, Constantine was scoring numerous victories by conquering on behalf of Christ. ( By whatever name. ) Constantine decided that Christ was the god for him. At the same time, Constantine continued the ways of his pagan youth. He continued to venerate the Sun.
Jones describes Rome’s last efforts to persecute Christians. The people of Egypt were not, at the time, rabid Moslems. Allah had yet to be born. The people of Egypt were rabid Christians! In Jones’ telling, Egyptians were the most devoted to sacrificing their lives for Christ. From this, I conclude: “The Arabs have always been nuts. It’s just a question of what, at any given moment, they’re being nuts about.”
In any event, had he known of it, Dale Eppen would doubtless have thanked the Egyptians for their sacrifices for Christ.
The first chapters of “Constantine and the Conversion of Europe” are standard history. It’s exciting to read about Constantine’s conquests. Rome’s persecutions of Christians are moving.
However, Jones then delves, very deeply, into religious disputes in newly Christianized Rome. Christians divide themselves into factions. They persecute each other. This is not standard history. It is minutiae. I can only recommend it because it deals with the formation of Christianity as we know it today. In church, I was required, weekly, to recite the Nicene Creed. According to “The Free Dictionary”, the Nicene Creed is:
“A formal statement of doctrine of the Christian faith adopted at the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D.”
To the extent that the Nicene Creed’s origins were explained to me in church, the explanation was as follows:
“Very holy men, their minds forever devoid of sex, met to formalize the doctrines of the Christian faith. It was all very dispassionate and holy, and guided by God.”
That’s bullshit. The crazy Arabs, namely the Egyptians, were quarreling with each other. The entire Western half of Christianity failed to attend the Council of Nicaea. The Egyptians’ doctrinal disputes were of no interest to them. Hence, the Council of Nicaea was a partisan exercise in which one side defeated the other.
The central question at Nicaea regarded Jesus. Did Jesus come into being after God the Father, or at the same time as God the Father? I recall such debates in my Christian youth. So, Nicaea settled nothing. It did let one group of Christians screw another group of Christians.
Constantine believed that he was responsible to the Christian God ( of whatever name ) for the condition of Rome. He feared punishment from God if Rome was in religious disorder. Hence, he spent decades dealing with various disputant Church fathers, urging them to cooperate. They never did. Frankly, the Church fathers, all of whom had a hotline to Constantine, acted like spoiled brats.
I found “Constantine and the Conversion of Europe” to be compulsive to listen to. I’m not sure why. I’m attempting to learn the broad sweep of history, from the origin of the cosmos. Disputes among early Christians aren’t of much interest to me. Nonetheless, if you want to plug yourself into an audio book that won’t bore you, this one may work. If it doesn’t, you can always use it to fall asleep in bed.
I hope I’ve represented the historical events ( above ) accurately. My purpose in doing so is to aid you in buying audio books. I don’t claim to be a historian.
More than one edition of “Constantine and the Conversion of Europe” is available on Amazon, as a Kindle book. I think I found the one that’s the least expensive. The text is free of errors.
“Constantine and the Conversion of Europe” is rather densely written. I would never wade through the book as a reader. The audio book lets me zip through it. I recommend having the printed text available for your reference. It’s easy to read the printed text once you’ve heard the audio version.
AND IN THE END…
“Wear the old coat and buy the new book.”
- Austin P ( helps ).
Source: I’d RATHER BE Reading: a library of art for book lovers. By Guinevere De La Mare. Page 55.
ARCANA
1. Moslem: I’m sticking to the vocabulary that I learned in the 1960s and 1970s, before America went nuts. In my day, “Moslem” was in use. I only heard “Muslim” from Blacks who were promoting social change in America.
2. “The Arabs have always been nuts”. Obviously, this is a cartoonish summary, on the level of “Audio Connosewer”. I’ve met just a few Arabs in my life, and no Egyptians. I like “Audio Connoisseur” books a lot.
3. The address for Alphabet is:
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043, United States of America. The “Googleplex” is located here.
Another address for Google is:
111 Eighth Avenue, New York, New York 10011. This is known as the “Google Building”.
The address for You Tube is:
901 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, California 94066, United States of America.
The phone number for Alphabet, Google, and You Tube is: 1 ( 650 ) 253-0000.
The fax number for Alphabet, Google, and You Tube is: 1 ( 302 ) 636-5454.
( “1” is the country code for the United States of America. If you live in America, you do not have to dial “1”. )
The Alphabet web site is: http://abc.xyz
If you go to the Alphabet web site, you’re presented with a signed statement by Larry Page. It reads:
“G is for Google
“As Sergey and I wrote in the original founders letter 11 years ago, ‘Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one.’”
Google is a global criminal enterprise. It abuses its customers, including preteen girls. ( As detailed here on my blog. ) Google engages in criminal fraud.
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Copyright 2021 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 93
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 93, version 7.0
Date Written: July 11, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Be ( ing ) Lolita
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BO 12
Book Observations presents...
Be ( ing ) Lolita
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Plus: Poe, child rapist.
And: Legal “rape”.
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BE ( ing ) LOLITA
A book review.
by Andrew Roller
1. “I had slept with all three of my serious boyfriends in high school.”
- Page 14.
2. “The first thing I did when I got to college was fuck a stranger.”
- Page 185.
3. “I still wonder if I have just exaggerated things.”
- Page 273.
Be ( ing ) Lolita. By ( Ali ) sin ( Alisson ) Wood. ( Hey, Beavis. She said “Wood”. ) A memoir. Published in 2020. ( Amazon Kindle. )
Review: Let’s say that you’re a writer. You’re a good writer. That, and $5.99, will get you a cup of coffee.
Unless…
You were “sexually abused” by a pedophile! Then the money rolls in, along with the feminist plaudits.
At age 17, Alisson Wood had a high school teacher. He was ( Omigod! ) 26 years old. How he managed to get out of a senior home is beyond me.
Nick North, Alisson’s teacher, liked her. A romance blossomed between them. They had sex. Nick was Alisson’s fourth sexual partner. Alisson doesn’t say how many times she screwed her prior partners. Once? Twice? 500 times?
Alisson was not 12 year old Lolita. As for Lolita, she lost her virginity to a boy at summer camp. This happened before she and her “adult” lover, Humbert Humbert, had sex.
Alisson, at 17, was a mature, sexually experienced woman. In Roman times, she’d have been married by age 12. In the era of Christ, she’d likely have had several children by age 17.
Alisson is 17 during the “aught” decade in America ( 2000 - 2010 ). That means she isn’t a woman. She’s a child! As Alisson writes,
“Like all pupils my age, I wore diapers to school.”
We’re living in an America that forces children to “shut up and obey”. Those who can’t, or won’t, are diagnosed as having mental disorders. This happened to Alisson. She lays claim to garden-variety mental disorders. They’re the sort that are fashionable with girls.
“I had been a cutter,” Alison writes. ( Page 14. ) ( Prior to meeting Nick. )
“I was already a well-documented depressed, self-mutilating, insomniac adolescent.” ( Page 15. ) ( Prior to meeting Nick. )
“I was in a lot of therapists’ offices and on a lot of psychiatric medication over the years since middle school. And I had electroconvulsive therapy, ECT, one summer.” ( Page 14. ) ( Prior to meeting Nick. )
Alisson’s romance with Nick improves her life. As she admits:
“I wasn’t suicidal anymore. I seemed to be doing better in so many ways.” ( Page 35. )
Sadly, that doesn’t sell books.
Nick North befriended her, and gave her love. Their ( long ) relationship had its ups and downs, as any relationship does.
Alisson could have ended her relationship with Nick at any time. As she admits, Nick said to her,
“Right now you could go to the principal and I’d be fired in a minute. … It’s your word against mine.” ( Page 97. )
This is, of course, the era of “believe all women”. And, we’re told, a “child” doesn’t lie about sexual “abuse”.
Time passes. Alisson turns 18. Nick turns 27. Yet, as Alisson writes,
“We had never kissed.” ( Page 118. )
Wow! That fucking Nick is a horrible predator, huh?
Alisson admits to her sexual experience ( yet again ):
“I wasn’t a virgin. … [ Nick ] knew about my high school boyfriends, high school heartbreaks, high school firsts.” ( Page 119. )
At least one of Alisson’s prior sexual partners had been 19 years old. ( Page 119. )
This, potentially, wrecks Alisson’s claim to being a “victim” of Nick. So she calls her prior sexual partner a “crush”. The context, however, makes clear that the 19-year-old adult was her sexual partner. Alisson doesn’t say how old she was at that time. Most “children” enter high school at age 14; I was 13.
It is Alisson, at age 18, who wants to fuck Nick. She writes:
“I didn’t understand why we had to wait.” ( Page 119. )
It is Nick who refuses:
““Not until you graduate.” ( Page 119. )
So, Alisson gets ready to fuck Nick. She lays the drama on thick:
“I worried [ that ] I wasn’t prepared for the discrepancies between an adolescent boy and a man’s body. But I … tried to ready myself. I got my first bikini wax. I don’t know why, there was barely anything to remove.” ( Page 119. )
Huh?! You’re 18-years-old, Alisson! Not 12!
Alisson orders lingerie from Victoria’s Secret. Donning it, she writes:
“I looked like a child in an inappropriate costume.” ( Page 121. )
That sells books!
Alisson graduates from high school. Of that day, she writes:
“All I could think about that day in the white cap and gown was how much I wanted that time, my time with the teacher, to start. It was all I wanted. Even though I didn’t know what that would mean.” ( Page 130. )
At this point in her book, Alisson has begun to dehumanize Nick. She does so by deliberately referring to him as “the teacher”. ( Not Nick. ) “The teacher”, after all, must not be in love with a “child” like Alisson. Which sells books.
Note that Alisson “didn’t know what that [ having sex ] would mean”, even though she’s had multiple prior sexual partners!
Alisson and Nick spend one night having sex. According to Alisson, she bled somewhat AFTER having sex. Here comes the drama:
I bled after sex with the teacher because I was a child. … I had been only with other teen boys, all of us children. I was eighteen, but that didn’t matter; for all intents and purposes I was still pubescent.” ( Page 142. )
Next, Alisson admits that bleeding is no big deal:
“Bleeding A LITTLE just happens sometimes after sex.” ( Page 143. Emphasis added. )
Note: It is Alisson who is saying that bleeding is no big deal. ( Not me. )
Next, Alisson ( yet again ) admits to her considerable prior sexual experiences:
“I was decidedly not a virgin.” ( Page 144. )
“I assure you, dear reader, he didn’t deflower me at all.” ( Page 147. )
Nonetheless, this whole book is about Nick the horrible predator.
Alisson lets slip the real thesis of her book:
“He makes me so happy, the only bad thing about it all is that no one no one can know.” ( Page 152. “no one” is repeated. )
Why can’t anyone know? Because this is contemporary America, where any “man” who likes a “child” is a criminal. And insane.
Except: Nick is no longer Alisson’s teacher. She’s graduated from high school. She’s 18 years old. Nick’s relationship with Alisson is legal!
But that doesn’t sell books.
Alisson continues to spend endless hours with Nick. They repeatedly have sex. ( Pages 168 and 170. )
The longevity of her relationship with Nick is testified to on page 209:
“When we would get to see each other, we’d have sex.” And what did Alisson tell Nick, on page 209, as they had sex?
“Don’t stop.”
Also:
“I love you.” ( Page 225. )
Of this period, Alisson writes:
“It seemed like every time I saw him was a celebration of me, of us.” ( Page 159. )
Any difficulties that Nick and Alisson had were due to America. They were trapped in a pedophobic society. As Alisson admits:
“Nick had made it clear, over and over, how screwed he would be if anyone found out, how he would not only get fired but never be able to get another job teaching again, how no one could understand us.” ( Page 192. )
However, Alisson doesn’t blame America. That doesn’t sell books. Alisson blames Nick.
Doing so, she admits:
“I am not suggesting I was a virgin plucking flowers from a meadow the day the teacher found me.” ( Page 163. )
No. You definitely weren’t, Alisson. But Nick was a horrible predator!
Because that sells books.
I hope America regains its sanity. Then Alisson’s memoir will be seen for what it is: opportunistic trash. According to the “Editorial Reviews” on Amazon, Alisson is now an exalted feminist goddess. Doubtless, she’s sold lots of books.
Alisson is a clever charlatan. She knows that “Lolita” is a popular search term. If I search for the famous novel “Lolita” on Amazon, “Being Lolita” pops up underneath it. The same thing happens on Amazon’s Audible app.
Alisson writes well. At times, she writes superbly. She weaves feminist propaganda into her narrative, in interesting and humorous ways. At the end of her book, she becomes militant:
“The teacher was a predator … he spent our school year grooming me to be the perfect subject for abuse”. ( Page 275. )
“I was a child being manipulated, being preyed upon. I was the victim of a predator.” ( Page 285. )
“‘Lolita’ isn’t about love.” ( Page 270. )
“ A [ girl who is ] a ‘Lolita’ is a victim of a sexual predator.” ( Page 272. )
That sells books!
“I survived. I survived.” ( Page 286. )
Yes, Alisson. You’re a survivor! ( That sells books! )
According to Alisson, a “man” is only permitted to have an interest in the following:
“Mature, sophisticated, powerful women.” ( Page 264. )
Otherwise, you’re a predator. Even if you lust after “mature, sophisticated, powerful women”, you’re probably still a predator. Men are accused every day by women, and by America, of being predators. No “child” need be involved.
Reader, it’s likely that you’re younger than I. This is the world that’s been dumped on you. If you’re a male, you’re a “predator”. Every year you get older. That means, every year, you’re more of a predator. Your advancing age increasingly restricts which females you can associate with, or even notice.
How do you feel about this? No generation of males has ever had to put up with this crap. Until the lives of males matter, as we’re told Black lives do, you’ll continue to be victimized by anti-pedophile bile, such as that which Alisson peddles. ( And profits from. )
My advice: Don’t be a victim. Be a man, as all other men before you have been.
GREAT pedophiles of HISTORY!
A. Edgar Allen Poe married his 13-year-old cousin Virgin ( ia ) Clemm ( not clam! ).
Source: en ( dot ) wikipedia ( dot ) org.
B. “Dante loved his Beatrice at nine years old.”
Source: Be Lolita, by Alisin Wood. Page 249.
C. “Petrarch was infatuated with a girl of twelve.”
Source: Be Lolita, by Alisin Wood. Page 249.
LEGAL “RAPE”
“The stipulation of the Roman law, according to which a girl may marry at twelve, was adopted by the Church, and is still preserved, rather tacitly, in some of the United States. And fifteen is lawful everywhere.”
- Vladimir Nabokov.
Source: Lolita. Page 135. ( “The Annotated Lolita, Revised and Updated.” By Vintage Books, a division of Random House. ) First published in 1955.
ARCANA
1. “Shut up and obey.” - Tucker Carlson, the Fox News Channel.
2. Alisson waxes lyrical over Nick to an extent that would have hijacked my review. Here’s more:
“Within a matter of weeks I went from feeling utterly alone to being cast as the lead in the school play; my writing not only encouraged but admired; having someone I knew I could turn to, someone who made me feel safe, even in the halls of my high school. And all of this was because of him. My teacher, my knight in shining armor, my secret admirer. Mr. North. Nick. Now I coasted along campus carefree. … I had never felt like that before in high school.” ( Page 55. )
And yet more:
“There were times we stayed up all night counting the stars we’d draw on paper and then in the sky, making up our own constellations. Or he’d play a song, sitting on the floor with his guitar on his lap, trying out lyrics, saying how this one was gonna be about me. He showed me how to make his grandmother’s chicken soup, the secret was a pinch of curry to give it color, and he fed it to me spoonful by spoonful. He’d say I was beautiful more than anyone ever had before. How I was worth the wait. Over and over. There were nights we spent with his voice as the only sound, him reading to me his favorite Dickens novels. His fingers trailing the waves in my Alice-in-Wonderland hair, calling me Dinah between slow kisses. Or fantasizing together how our future would unfold—the next year, him at Cornell, us together. Two college students in love. Then he could kiss me whenever, wherever I wanted, on the street, in a coffee shop, at the movies. Those times were so sweet and sincere. … Those times were why I loved him. … And … he said he loved me.” ( Page 183. )
3. Alisson does her best to paint Nick as controlling. Except, Nick proposes that she date others while she’s in high school. ( Page 71. ) Nick also suggests that Alisson date others while she’s in college. ( Page 187. )
Alisson fucks Ted, a stranger, as soon as she gets to college:
“The sex was fast but gentle. … It was like all my high school boyfriends.” ( Page 188. )
Predictably, Alisson does her best to paint Ted as a great lover, compared to Nick. Nick’s a bad lover because he’s a man ( in his 20s ). However, Alisson fucked big, bad Nick many times before fucking Ted.
4. Alisson is quite capable of turning males down.
A. When Alisson is in high school, a man named John likes her. She does her best to hide from us the fact that he’s an adult:
“John was a little older and should have been in college but wasn’t.” ( Page 72. )
Alisson attends a high school loaded with boys. But when she decides to date, it’s John, a man, that she wants. ( In addition to “the teacher”. )
Except, John likes Alisson too much. In a ‘nice guy’ way. Of this, Alisson writes:
“He liked to look at me, even though I kept my clothes on.” ( Page 74. )
Oh, wow! You kept your clothes on? Really? That’s great, Alisson.
Our Virgin Mary “Victim” dumps John:
“He … hugged me … and I realized he was maybe going to cry. … And he wasn’t who I wanted at all.” ( Page 174. )
Of course! Because that doesn’t sell books.
B. Alisson thinks that an “older boy” ( an adult ) named Shane is proposing that she have sex with him. Of this, she writes:
“He was cute, but not that cute.” ( Page 186. )
C. Of Ted, whom she’s fucked, Alisson says:
“I don’t think it’s going to work out. Like, he’s just not my type.” ( Page 190. ) Alisson declares this to her college girlfriends. To which they reply:
“There’s so many cute guys here—you don’t want to stick with the first one you meet.”
Definitely not, ladies. Fuck every guy. Hell, fuck your teacher!
D. After fucking Nick a gazillion times, Alisson breaks up with him:
“I broke up with him.” ( Page 227. )
“I had broken up with him.” ( Page 247. )
Why did Alisson break up with Nick? Was she escaping a horrible predator? Nope. Here’s Alisson’s reason:
“I was bored.” ( Page 230. )
“I was as bored as Lolita was.” ( Page 230 ).
5. Lolita’s sex before meeting Humbert:
A. “Lolita … confessed her previous copulatory entanglements with a boy, slightly older from summer camp, to Humbert.” ( Page 119 of “Be ( ing ) Lolita”. )
B. “Humbert realizes she had been with another boy that summer, another camper named Charlie. Dolores [ Lolita ] is coy, playful about her fling with Charlie when retelling it to Humbert, even offering to show him what she learned.” ( Page 144 of “Be ( ing ) Lolita”. )
C. In “Lolita”: page 133.
6. Searching for “Lolita”: The search terms that I used were as follows:
A. On Amazon: kindle lolita.
B. On Audible: lolita.
( Ignore the period after “lolita”. )
7. You might wonder what Alisson did in her 20s. There’s one thing she definitely had experience in, and it happened multiple times, before she met Nick. Alisson had experience having sex as a “child” in high school. So, to earn money, Alisson did the following:
“I taught sex education in public high schools.” ( Page 259. )
But Alisson didn’t stop there. She took her message of kids having sex to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. She writes:
“I had been leading a weekly girls-only comprehensive sex education and leadership program for more than two months, covering it all: how to put on a condom, HIV and STI information, how to negotiate safe sex and no sex, the works.” ( Page 263. )
Note how Alisson chucks in the words “and leadership” to excuse her behavior. She teaches “the works” to children: eight high school girls.
8. Here’s Alisson’s verdict on her relationship with Nick:
“I wanted it as much as he did. It was never abuse.” ( Page 259. )
But that doesn’t sell books. So Alisson writes, or rather, prevaricates on.
AND IN THE END…
“What young girl would not be flushed and pleased to know that a handsome, older man fancied her?”
- Alisson Wood.
Source: Being Lolita, by Alisson Wood. Page 252. ( Amazon Kindle. )
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Copyright 2021 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
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.
Currently, my You Tube account ( mentioned below ) has once again been wrongfully terminated by You Tube.
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 BO, Book Observations, issue number 12
Arcana: This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 12, version 4.0
Date Written: July 8, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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BO 12
Book Observations presents...
Be ( ing ) Lolita
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Plus: Poe, child rapist.
And: Legal “rape”.
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BE ( ing ) LOLITA
A book review.
by Andrew Roller
1. “I had slept with all three of my serious boyfriends in high school.”
- Page 14.
2. “The first thing I did when I got to college was fuck a stranger.”
- Page 185.
3. “I still wonder if I have just exaggerated things.”
- Page 273.
Be ( ing ) Lolita. By ( Ali ) sin ( Alisson ) Wood. ( Hey, Beavis. She said “Wood”. ) A memoir. Published in 2020. ( Amazon Kindle. )
Review: Let’s say that you’re a writer. You’re a good writer. That, and $5.99, will get you a cup of coffee.
Unless…
You were “sexually abused” by a pedophile! Then the money rolls in, along with the feminist plaudits.
At age 17, Alisson Wood had a high school teacher. He was ( Omigod! ) 26 years old. How he managed to get out of a senior home is beyond me.
Nick North, Alisson’s teacher, liked her. A romance blossomed between them. They had sex. Nick was Alisson’s fourth sexual partner. Alisson doesn’t say how many times she screwed her prior partners. Once? Twice? 500 times?
Alisson was not 12 year old Lolita. As for Lolita, she lost her virginity to a boy at summer camp. This happened before she and her “adult” lover, Humbert Humbert, had sex.
Alisson, at 17, was a mature, sexually experienced woman. In Roman times, she’d have been married by age 12. In the era of Christ, she’d likely have had several children by age 17.
Alisson is 17 during the “aught” decade in America ( 2000 - 2010 ). That means she isn’t a woman. She’s a child! As Alisson writes,
“Like all pupils my age, I wore diapers to school.”
We’re living in an America that forces children to “shut up and obey”. Those who can’t, or won’t, are diagnosed as having mental disorders. This happened to Alisson. She lays claim to garden-variety mental disorders. They’re the sort that are fashionable with girls.
“I had been a cutter,” Alison writes. ( Page 14. ) ( Prior to meeting Nick. )
“I was already a well-documented depressed, self-mutilating, insomniac adolescent.” ( Page 15. ) ( Prior to meeting Nick. )
“I was in a lot of therapists’ offices and on a lot of psychiatric medication over the years since middle school. And I had electroconvulsive therapy, ECT, one summer.” ( Page 14. ) ( Prior to meeting Nick. )
Alisson’s romance with Nick improves her life. As she admits:
“I wasn’t suicidal anymore. I seemed to be doing better in so many ways.” ( Page 35. )
Sadly, that doesn’t sell books.
Nick North befriended her, and gave her love. Their ( long ) relationship had its ups and downs, as any relationship does.
Alisson could have ended her relationship with Nick at any time. As she admits, Nick said to her,
“Right now you could go to the principal and I’d be fired in a minute. … It’s your word against mine.” ( Page 97. )
This is, of course, the era of “believe all women”. And, we’re told, a “child” doesn’t lie about sexual “abuse”.
Time passes. Alisson turns 18. Nick turns 27. Yet, as Alisson writes,
“We had never kissed.” ( Page 118. )
Wow! That fucking Nick is a horrible predator, huh?
Alisson admits to her sexual experience ( yet again ):
“I wasn’t a virgin. … [ Nick ] knew about my high school boyfriends, high school heartbreaks, high school firsts.” ( Page 119. )
At least one of Alisson’s prior sexual partners had been 19 years old. ( Page 119. )
This, potentially, wrecks Alisson’s claim to being a “victim” of Nick. So she calls her prior sexual partner a “crush”. The context, however, makes clear that the 19-year-old adult was her sexual partner. Alisson doesn’t say how old she was at that time. Most “children” enter high school at age 14; I was 13.
It is Alisson, at age 18, who wants to fuck Nick. She writes:
“I didn’t understand why we had to wait.” ( Page 119. )
It is Nick who refuses:
““Not until you graduate.” ( Page 119. )
So, Alisson gets ready to fuck Nick. She lays the drama on thick:
“I worried [ that ] I wasn’t prepared for the discrepancies between an adolescent boy and a man’s body. But I … tried to ready myself. I got my first bikini wax. I don’t know why, there was barely anything to remove.” ( Page 119. )
Huh?! You’re 18-years-old, Alisson! Not 12!
Alisson orders lingerie from Victoria’s Secret. Donning it, she writes:
“I looked like a child in an inappropriate costume.” ( Page 121. )
That sells books!
Alisson graduates from high school. Of that day, she writes:
“All I could think about that day in the white cap and gown was how much I wanted that time, my time with the teacher, to start. It was all I wanted. Even though I didn’t know what that would mean.” ( Page 130. )
At this point in her book, Alisson has begun to dehumanize Nick. She does so by deliberately referring to him as “the teacher”. ( Not Nick. ) “The teacher”, after all, must not be in love with a “child” like Alisson. Which sells books.
Note that Alisson “didn’t know what that [ having sex ] would mean”, even though she’s had multiple prior sexual partners!
Alisson and Nick spend one night having sex. According to Alisson, she bled somewhat AFTER having sex. Here comes the drama:
I bled after sex with the teacher because I was a child. … I had been only with other teen boys, all of us children. I was eighteen, but that didn’t matter; for all intents and purposes I was still pubescent.” ( Page 142. )
Next, Alisson admits that bleeding is no big deal:
“Bleeding A LITTLE just happens sometimes after sex.” ( Page 143. Emphasis added. )
Note: It is Alisson who is saying that bleeding is no big deal. ( Not me. )
Next, Alisson ( yet again ) admits to her considerable prior sexual experiences:
“I was decidedly not a virgin.” ( Page 144. )
“I assure you, dear reader, he didn’t deflower me at all.” ( Page 147. )
Nonetheless, this whole book is about Nick the horrible predator.
Alisson lets slip the real thesis of her book:
“He makes me so happy, the only bad thing about it all is that no one no one can know.” ( Page 152. “no one” is repeated. )
Why can’t anyone know? Because this is contemporary America, where any “man” who likes a “child” is a criminal. And insane.
Except: Nick is no longer Alisson’s teacher. She’s graduated from high school. She’s 18 years old. Nick’s relationship with Alisson is legal!
But that doesn’t sell books.
Alisson continues to spend endless hours with Nick. They repeatedly have sex. ( Pages 168 and 170. )
The longevity of her relationship with Nick is testified to on page 209:
“When we would get to see each other, we’d have sex.” And what did Alisson tell Nick, on page 209, as they had sex?
“Don’t stop.”
Also:
“I love you.” ( Page 225. )
Of this period, Alisson writes:
“It seemed like every time I saw him was a celebration of me, of us.” ( Page 159. )
Any difficulties that Nick and Alisson had were due to America. They were trapped in a pedophobic society. As Alisson admits:
“Nick had made it clear, over and over, how screwed he would be if anyone found out, how he would not only get fired but never be able to get another job teaching again, how no one could understand us.” ( Page 192. )
However, Alisson doesn’t blame America. That doesn’t sell books. Alisson blames Nick.
Doing so, she admits:
“I am not suggesting I was a virgin plucking flowers from a meadow the day the teacher found me.” ( Page 163. )
No. You definitely weren’t, Alisson. But Nick was a horrible predator!
Because that sells books.
I hope America regains its sanity. Then Alisson’s memoir will be seen for what it is: opportunistic trash. According to the “Editorial Reviews” on Amazon, Alisson is now an exalted feminist goddess. Doubtless, she’s sold lots of books.
Alisson is a clever charlatan. She knows that “Lolita” is a popular search term. If I search for the famous novel “Lolita” on Amazon, “Being Lolita” pops up underneath it. The same thing happens on Amazon’s Audible app.
Alisson writes well. At times, she writes superbly. She weaves feminist propaganda into her narrative, in interesting and humorous ways. At the end of her book, she becomes militant:
“The teacher was a predator … he spent our school year grooming me to be the perfect subject for abuse”. ( Page 275. )
“I was a child being manipulated, being preyed upon. I was the victim of a predator.” ( Page 285. )
“‘Lolita’ isn’t about love.” ( Page 270. )
“ A [ girl who is ] a ‘Lolita’ is a victim of a sexual predator.” ( Page 272. )
That sells books!
“I survived. I survived.” ( Page 286. )
Yes, Alisson. You’re a survivor! ( That sells books! )
According to Alisson, a “man” is only permitted to have an interest in the following:
“Mature, sophisticated, powerful women.” ( Page 264. )
Otherwise, you’re a predator. Even if you lust after “mature, sophisticated, powerful women”, you’re probably still a predator. Men are accused every day by women, and by America, of being predators. No “child” need be involved.
Reader, it’s likely that you’re younger than I. This is the world that’s been dumped on you. If you’re a male, you’re a “predator”. Every year you get older. That means, every year, you’re more of a predator. Your advancing age increasingly restricts which females you can associate with, or even notice.
How do you feel about this? No generation of males has ever had to put up with this crap. Until the lives of males matter, as we’re told Black lives do, you’ll continue to be victimized by anti-pedophile bile, such as that which Alisson peddles. ( And profits from. )
My advice: Don’t be a victim. Be a man, as all other men before you have been.
GREAT pedophiles of HISTORY!
A. Edgar Allen Poe married his 13-year-old cousin Virgin ( ia ) Clemm ( not clam! ).
Source: en ( dot ) wikipedia ( dot ) org.
B. “Dante loved his Beatrice at nine years old.”
Source: Be Lolita, by Alisin Wood. Page 249.
C. “Petrarch was infatuated with a girl of twelve.”
Source: Be Lolita, by Alisin Wood. Page 249.
LEGAL “RAPE”
“The stipulation of the Roman law, according to which a girl may marry at twelve, was adopted by the Church, and is still preserved, rather tacitly, in some of the United States. And fifteen is lawful everywhere.”
- Vladimir Nabokov.
Source: Lolita. Page 135. ( “The Annotated Lolita, Revised and Updated.” By Vintage Books, a division of Random House. ) First published in 1955.
ARCANA
1. “Shut up and obey.” - Tucker Carlson, the Fox News Channel.
2. Alisson waxes lyrical over Nick to an extent that would have hijacked my review. Here’s more:
“Within a matter of weeks I went from feeling utterly alone to being cast as the lead in the school play; my writing not only encouraged but admired; having someone I knew I could turn to, someone who made me feel safe, even in the halls of my high school. And all of this was because of him. My teacher, my knight in shining armor, my secret admirer. Mr. North. Nick. Now I coasted along campus carefree. … I had never felt like that before in high school.” ( Page 55. )
And yet more:
“There were times we stayed up all night counting the stars we’d draw on paper and then in the sky, making up our own constellations. Or he’d play a song, sitting on the floor with his guitar on his lap, trying out lyrics, saying how this one was gonna be about me. He showed me how to make his grandmother’s chicken soup, the secret was a pinch of curry to give it color, and he fed it to me spoonful by spoonful. He’d say I was beautiful more than anyone ever had before. How I was worth the wait. Over and over. There were nights we spent with his voice as the only sound, him reading to me his favorite Dickens novels. His fingers trailing the waves in my Alice-in-Wonderland hair, calling me Dinah between slow kisses. Or fantasizing together how our future would unfold—the next year, him at Cornell, us together. Two college students in love. Then he could kiss me whenever, wherever I wanted, on the street, in a coffee shop, at the movies. Those times were so sweet and sincere. … Those times were why I loved him. … And … he said he loved me.” ( Page 183. )
3. Alisson does her best to paint Nick as controlling. Except, Nick proposes that she date others while she’s in high school. ( Page 71. ) Nick also suggests that Alisson date others while she’s in college. ( Page 187. )
Alisson fucks Ted, a stranger, as soon as she gets to college:
“The sex was fast but gentle. … It was like all my high school boyfriends.” ( Page 188. )
Predictably, Alisson does her best to paint Ted as a great lover, compared to Nick. Nick’s a bad lover because he’s a man ( in his 20s ). However, Alisson fucked big, bad Nick many times before fucking Ted.
4. Alisson is quite capable of turning males down.
A. When Alisson is in high school, a man named John likes her. She does her best to hide from us the fact that he’s an adult:
“John was a little older and should have been in college but wasn’t.” ( Page 72. )
Alisson attends a high school loaded with boys. But when she decides to date, it’s John, a man, that she wants. ( In addition to “the teacher”. )
Except, John likes Alisson too much. In a ‘nice guy’ way. Of this, Alisson writes:
“He liked to look at me, even though I kept my clothes on.” ( Page 74. )
Oh, wow! You kept your clothes on? Really? That’s great, Alisson.
Our Virgin Mary “Victim” dumps John:
“He … hugged me … and I realized he was maybe going to cry. … And he wasn’t who I wanted at all.” ( Page 174. )
Of course! Because that doesn’t sell books.
B. Alisson thinks that an “older boy” ( an adult ) named Shane is proposing that she have sex with him. Of this, she writes:
“He was cute, but not that cute.” ( Page 186. )
C. Of Ted, whom she’s fucked, Alisson says:
“I don’t think it’s going to work out. Like, he’s just not my type.” ( Page 190. ) Alisson declares this to her college girlfriends. To which they reply:
“There’s so many cute guys here—you don’t want to stick with the first one you meet.”
Definitely not, ladies. Fuck every guy. Hell, fuck your teacher!
D. After fucking Nick a gazillion times, Alisson breaks up with him:
“I broke up with him.” ( Page 227. )
“I had broken up with him.” ( Page 247. )
Why did Alisson break up with Nick? Was she escaping a horrible predator? Nope. Here’s Alisson’s reason:
“I was bored.” ( Page 230. )
“I was as bored as Lolita was.” ( Page 230 ).
5. Lolita’s sex before meeting Humbert:
A. “Lolita … confessed her previous copulatory entanglements with a boy, slightly older from summer camp, to Humbert.” ( Page 119 of “Be ( ing ) Lolita”. )
B. “Humbert realizes she had been with another boy that summer, another camper named Charlie. Dolores [ Lolita ] is coy, playful about her fling with Charlie when retelling it to Humbert, even offering to show him what she learned.” ( Page 144 of “Be ( ing ) Lolita”. )
C. In “Lolita”: page 133.
6. Searching for “Lolita”: The search terms that I used were as follows:
A. On Amazon: kindle lolita.
B. On Audible: lolita.
( Ignore the period after “lolita”. )
7. You might wonder what Alisson did in her 20s. There’s one thing she definitely had experience in, and it happened multiple times, before she met Nick. Alisson had experience having sex as a “child” in high school. So, to earn money, Alisson did the following:
“I taught sex education in public high schools.” ( Page 259. )
But Alisson didn’t stop there. She took her message of kids having sex to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. She writes:
“I had been leading a weekly girls-only comprehensive sex education and leadership program for more than two months, covering it all: how to put on a condom, HIV and STI information, how to negotiate safe sex and no sex, the works.” ( Page 263. )
Note how Alisson chucks in the words “and leadership” to excuse her behavior. She teaches “the works” to children: eight high school girls.
8. Here’s Alisson’s verdict on her relationship with Nick:
“I wanted it as much as he did. It was never abuse.” ( Page 259. )
But that doesn’t sell books. So Alisson writes, or rather, prevaricates on.
AND IN THE END…
“What young girl would not be flushed and pleased to know that a handsome, older man fancied her?”
- Alisson Wood.
Source: Being Lolita, by Alisson Wood. Page 252. ( Amazon Kindle. )
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Copyright 2021 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
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.
Currently, my You Tube account ( mentioned below ) has once again been wrongfully terminated by You Tube.
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 BO, Book Observations, issue number 12
Arcana: This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 12, version 4.0
Date Written: July 8, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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Dupes in Paradise
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BO 11
Book Observations presents...
Dupes in Paradise
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Plus: Anatomy of a millennium.
And: Time for a new Knights Templar.
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DUPES in PARADISE
An “Audible” Audio Book Review
by Andrew Roller
“To obey is best.”
- Adam.
Source: Paradise Lost, by John Wiltin’ ( Milton ). Book 12, Line 561.
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, by John Milton. “Only from Audible.”
Narrated by: Charlton Griffin. Various ( quality ) sound effects are included. No PDF is included. ( Printed documentation. )
In the rock opera “Jesus Christ Superstar”, the central character is Judas. In both “Paradise Lost” and “Paradise Regained”, the central character is Satan. Indeed, the Audible cover has a compelling image of Satan, against a cosmic backdrop.
I’ve read and listened to much of “Paradise Lost”. I’ve begun listening to “Paradise Regained”. In “Paradise Lost”, Satan harries Adam. In “Paradise Regained”, Satan harries Jesus.
“Paradise Lost” is best seen as an allegory of human development. I’ll have to amend that to, “an allegory of alleged human development”, as my experience doesn’t include what “Paradise Lost” details. In sum:
Kids must not do what their parents do every night. That is, fuck. Having fucked, “kid” Adam, and “kid” Eve, are kicked out of the house ( Eden ) by their parent ( God ).
( Sorry, ladies, you may ( allegedly ) have wombs, but God the Father didn’t need a woman to spawn life. I guess that’s why God is perfect. )
Griffin reserves his deepest voice for God. His version of Adam sounds like a milquetoast. According to Milton, I’m to aspire to be ( chastened ) Adam. However, I don’t want to be a milquetoast.
Too many people, especially females, already see me as a milquetoast. I’d love to be mistaken for the historical man known as Bohemond. ( Bohemond I of Antioch. ) The guy’s name resembles that of He-Man. Sadly, I don’t resemble a tall version of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Using “Madam Trout’s Suction Device”, I did manage to add a foot or so in length to my dick. However, it did nothing to increase my height.
Milton’s Adam and Eve amount to little more than spanked preschoolers. Punished, they promise to behave. God’s rule amounts to the phrase:
“Because I’m the Mom, that’s why.”
Put another way, God’s in charge because God has a paddle, and Adam doesn’t. ( Eve is supposed to obey Adam, at least in the Bible. )
God’s right to rule is based on the fact that he’s the creator. His creation includes Hell, and all the travails that have beset Man. Given that God is perfect, God knew, beforehand, what a big mess he’d make. Spanking Adam and Eve, in my view, doesn’t improve things. It reinforces my notion that God is as much a sadist as a “creator”.
In the beginning, or rather, before it, why wasn’t God satisfied with himself? What’s the point of his creation? In the end, the Bible predicts, he destroys it. All that’s left after that is himself. I guess a few dupes become, at that point, “one with God”. Besides God and his dupes, all that’s left is Hell. ( Which God created. ) Satan, spawned by God, lives on in Hell.
Is Satan merely an amped-up version of God?
Milton posits that Adam and Eve could have, in fact, fucked in Eden. So long as they did so with love, instead of with lust, God would have allowed it. Milton is rewriting the Bible. In the Bible, fucking isn’t allowed in Eden. Milton is lost in idiocy on this point. The essence of fucking is lust. It is central to all sexually gendered life. The fact that humans happened to evolve higher consciousness doesn’t change this.
Such lust is best summed up in the novel “Arabella”. The following reflection, on copulation, is offered by Arabella:
“Naught was said. … I was nameless as was Elaine. … The art of it was in the comparative silence, for the [ anonymous ] males were merged with us as surely as we were bound to the posts.”
( Location 1952. )
In “Paradise Lost”, God doesn’t just limit Adam’s use of his dick. Adam isn’t supposed to think much, either. The Arch-Angel Michael warns Adam,
“This having learned [ to obey God ], thou hast attained the sum of wisdom; hope no higher.”
Book 12, Lines 575 - 576.
Adam, ejected from Eden for using his dick ( lustily, in Milton’s view ), is warned to circumscribe his curiosity.
I admire Milton’s use of words. The beauty of his writing is most evident when he’s writing of Satan. Indeed, Satan is the only worthwhile character in “Paradise Lost”. As best I can tell, Satan outshines Jesus in “Paradise Regained”.
Similarly, Judas is the most compelling character in “Jesus Christ Superstar”. He’s our vector into “Superstar”, as Satan is our vector into “Paradise Lost”, and “Paradise Regained”.
This likely confirms Yuval Harari’s view of humans in his book, “Sapiens”. According to Harari, humans are neurotic predators. I wonder if the creature in the “Alien” films is merely a heightened version of ourselves.
ANATOMY of a MILLENNIUM
An “Audible” Audio Book Review
A History of the Middle Ages. By Crane Brinton, John Christopher, and Robert Wolff. “Audio Connoisseur”.
Narrated by: Charlton Griffin. Various ( quality ) sound effects are included. No PDF is included. ( Printed documentation. )
As a reader, I have a rule: don’t read textbooks. It’s said that “too many cooks ruin the soup.” That’s my opinion of textbooks. Too often, they debase themselves into narratives that hew to whatever political correctness obtains at the moment. What ought to be a rich soup becomes a thin gruel. My bias against reading textbooks extends to listening to them.
I made an exception for this audio book. What attracted me to it was its narrator: Charlton Griffin. Some reviewers on Amazon’s Audible service complain that Griffin sounds pompous. To those reviewers, I say, “Listen to audio books known as ‘The Great Courses’.” Each of “The Great Courses” is spoken from a lectern, in a conversational style.
Griffin is a voice actor. He does a superb job of holding my interest. I would never have waded through “A History of the Middle Ages” on my own, as a reader. Griffin breathes life into an otherwise boring textbook.
I love this book’s sound effects. They clinched my decision to buy. Clips of lovely holy music, spanning a thousand years, are played, intermittently, as the narrative progresses.
The book is generous in regard to the span of time that it covers. It begins not with the Dark Ages, but the earliest days of the Roman Empire. Its story extends into the 20th century.
However, it skims like a hovercraft over such eras as the Crusades. If you want more than a skeletal outline of the Crusades, you’ll have to consult other sources. I had formerly listened to a number of podcasts in my Apple “Podcasts” app. These proved invaluable as I listened to “A History of the Middle Ages”. My memory of the podcasts’ contents allowed me to stay interested in what Griffin was saying. ( Read prior articles, here on my blog, for information about the podcasts that I liked. )
I’ve become a fan of “Audio Connoisseur” books. If you want to go beyond “The Great Courses”, your next best choice is “Audio Connoisseur”. Both brands are available in your Audible app.
“A History of the Middle Ages” is not politically correct. It appears to have been written prior to the degradation of academia by the insane. My guess is that “A History of the Middle Ages” was written sometime between 1950 and 1980. I don’t trust much scholarship in the humanities produced after that.
An Audible reviewer tried to find the textbook in print, but was unable to. Perhaps Google got hold of the last copies of this book and destroyed them.
THE VERDICT on YOU TUBE
I’m poised to unsubscribe from You Tube. I’ll do this in the next week or so, if I don’t hear back from You Tube Support. ( They never write back to me. ) I haven’t used You Tube since early December of 2020. That’s when I found the abuse by You Tube’s staff, of myself and others, including preteen girls, to be overwhelming.
I’m quitting You Tube because their staff banned my account. Maliciously, You Tube’s staff imposed a new account on me. It lacks my comments, playlists, subscriptions, and “Library” information. It also lacks any notifications. My understanding is that You Tube deleted notifications from all accounts some months ago.
In a prior article, I described You Tube’s staff as feminist zealots. Unfortunately, their actions go beyond the fanatical. You Tube’s staff is pathological. Their attacks on their customers are capricious and malevolent. Their prime target is preteen and young teenage girls. Fans of the girls, and of young girls in general, are also targeted.
I’ve never seen anything on You Tube that was objectionable. Once, someone wrote a public comment, to Dana Taranova, that read,
“I hate you Danatar”.
That was, very likely, a comment by a girl who was Dana’s age. Probably, she was a bit younger than Dana. Her comment amounted to a back-handed compliment. Among a host of highly talented girls on You Tube, “Danatar” was the most compelling. Her beauty, and the range of her creativity, was amazing.
Reports are that Dana has been banned by You Tube. You Tube’s staff spent nearly two years attacking her. They began attacking her when she turned 12 years old. They may have been attacking her before then. However, I wasn’t on You Tube to witness it.
You Tube banned one or more of Dana’s You Tube channels prior to banning her completely. There were weeks when they attacked her videos on a daily basis. Often, they attacked two of her videos at a time. ( You Tube’s staff, attacking me, often deleted two of my playlists at a time. )
Ustina Abramova ( Tina ) was often attacked by You Tube’s staff. She was about 10 years old, and new to You Tube, when You Tube’s staff began attacking her. You Tube’s staff deleted her videos, and threatened her You Tube channels. I was boycotting You Tube by the time that You Tube’s staff began, according to reports, systematically banning Tina’s You Tube channels.
Such behavior by You Tube’s staff is outrageous. That a trillion dollar company would treat young girls this way makes it worse. In internet terms, it’s akin to Hitler’s genocides.
In the Middle Ages, Europeans made pilgrimages to the Holy Land. They were, at times, preyed upon during their journey. In the year 1118, the Knights Templar erected itself to protect such pilgrims. A millennium later, the need for such protection has arisen again. You Tube’s staff, and the employees of other such companies, should never be attacking girls like Tina or Dana. Reportedly, people have made tribute videos of Dana. Thank you!
Can we do more? Can a modern Knights Templar be created? “Black Lives Matter” has certainly made its presence known. I’d like to see effort, by a new Knights Templar, to protect girls like Tina and Dana. You Tube’s psychopaths must not be allowed to abuse young girls! Other companies that engage in such behavior must also be held to account.
A DISSECTION OF MODERN TYRANNY
“The Inquisition failed, but then the Inquisition had not the resources of the modern state. The radio, press censorship, standardized education, and the secret police have altered everything. Mass-suggestion is a science of the last twenty years, and we do not yet know how successful it will be.”
- George Orwell.
Source: Masters of the Word: How media shaped history, from the alphabet to the internet. By William J. Bernstein. Page 8.
MAN’S FATE?
“By the middle of the twentieth century, advances in telecommunications had decisively tipped the balance of power between the ruler and the ruled toward the former, and [ Orwell’s ] miserable characters could not hope to escape the malevolent new electronic media technologies.”
- William J. Bernstein.
Source: Masters of the Word: How media shaped history, from the alphabet to the internet. By William J. Bernstein. Page 8. Bernstein is speaking of characters in George Orwell’s novel, “1984”.
AND IN THE END…
RESURRECT the TEMPLARS
“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.”
- The Holy Bible ( The Book of Psalms, 23: 4. )
ARCANA
1. “Gendered”, stripped of its modern baggage, is equivalent to the word “engendered”.
The definition of “gendered” in The Free Dictionary, by Farlex, includes only the modern use: “belonging to one sex rather than another”. However, its text references include the traditional use: “him who gendered me”, from Oedipus the King, page 3.
The Oxford English Dictionary provides all definitions of “gendered”. My use is labelled “Now rare”.
A note to Farlex: instead of writing, for “gendered”, “belonging to one sex rather than another”, you should write:
“Belonging to one sex rather than THE OTHER.” Despite claims by fags, there are only two genders.
2. Arabella, by Anonymous. Published in 1890. Amazon Kindle edition by Locus Elm Press.
3. The essence of chivalry is to fight for a female that one may, or may not, get to know well. Since most of the internet beauties that I adore live on the far side of the world, I’ll probably never meet them. But I feel obliged to do what I can for them.
4. “Man’s Fate” is a book by Andre Malraux.
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Copyright 2021 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
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.
Currently, my You Tube account ( mentioned below ) has once again been wrongfully terminated by You Tube.
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 BO, Book Observations, issue number 11
Arcana: This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 11, version 6.0
Date Written: July 7, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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BO 11
Book Observations presents...
Dupes in Paradise
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Plus: Anatomy of a millennium.
And: Time for a new Knights Templar.
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DUPES in PARADISE
An “Audible” Audio Book Review
by Andrew Roller
“To obey is best.”
- Adam.
Source: Paradise Lost, by John Wiltin’ ( Milton ). Book 12, Line 561.
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, by John Milton. “Only from Audible.”
Narrated by: Charlton Griffin. Various ( quality ) sound effects are included. No PDF is included. ( Printed documentation. )
In the rock opera “Jesus Christ Superstar”, the central character is Judas. In both “Paradise Lost” and “Paradise Regained”, the central character is Satan. Indeed, the Audible cover has a compelling image of Satan, against a cosmic backdrop.
I’ve read and listened to much of “Paradise Lost”. I’ve begun listening to “Paradise Regained”. In “Paradise Lost”, Satan harries Adam. In “Paradise Regained”, Satan harries Jesus.
“Paradise Lost” is best seen as an allegory of human development. I’ll have to amend that to, “an allegory of alleged human development”, as my experience doesn’t include what “Paradise Lost” details. In sum:
Kids must not do what their parents do every night. That is, fuck. Having fucked, “kid” Adam, and “kid” Eve, are kicked out of the house ( Eden ) by their parent ( God ).
( Sorry, ladies, you may ( allegedly ) have wombs, but God the Father didn’t need a woman to spawn life. I guess that’s why God is perfect. )
Griffin reserves his deepest voice for God. His version of Adam sounds like a milquetoast. According to Milton, I’m to aspire to be ( chastened ) Adam. However, I don’t want to be a milquetoast.
Too many people, especially females, already see me as a milquetoast. I’d love to be mistaken for the historical man known as Bohemond. ( Bohemond I of Antioch. ) The guy’s name resembles that of He-Man. Sadly, I don’t resemble a tall version of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Using “Madam Trout’s Suction Device”, I did manage to add a foot or so in length to my dick. However, it did nothing to increase my height.
Milton’s Adam and Eve amount to little more than spanked preschoolers. Punished, they promise to behave. God’s rule amounts to the phrase:
“Because I’m the Mom, that’s why.”
Put another way, God’s in charge because God has a paddle, and Adam doesn’t. ( Eve is supposed to obey Adam, at least in the Bible. )
God’s right to rule is based on the fact that he’s the creator. His creation includes Hell, and all the travails that have beset Man. Given that God is perfect, God knew, beforehand, what a big mess he’d make. Spanking Adam and Eve, in my view, doesn’t improve things. It reinforces my notion that God is as much a sadist as a “creator”.
In the beginning, or rather, before it, why wasn’t God satisfied with himself? What’s the point of his creation? In the end, the Bible predicts, he destroys it. All that’s left after that is himself. I guess a few dupes become, at that point, “one with God”. Besides God and his dupes, all that’s left is Hell. ( Which God created. ) Satan, spawned by God, lives on in Hell.
Is Satan merely an amped-up version of God?
Milton posits that Adam and Eve could have, in fact, fucked in Eden. So long as they did so with love, instead of with lust, God would have allowed it. Milton is rewriting the Bible. In the Bible, fucking isn’t allowed in Eden. Milton is lost in idiocy on this point. The essence of fucking is lust. It is central to all sexually gendered life. The fact that humans happened to evolve higher consciousness doesn’t change this.
Such lust is best summed up in the novel “Arabella”. The following reflection, on copulation, is offered by Arabella:
“Naught was said. … I was nameless as was Elaine. … The art of it was in the comparative silence, for the [ anonymous ] males were merged with us as surely as we were bound to the posts.”
( Location 1952. )
In “Paradise Lost”, God doesn’t just limit Adam’s use of his dick. Adam isn’t supposed to think much, either. The Arch-Angel Michael warns Adam,
“This having learned [ to obey God ], thou hast attained the sum of wisdom; hope no higher.”
Book 12, Lines 575 - 576.
Adam, ejected from Eden for using his dick ( lustily, in Milton’s view ), is warned to circumscribe his curiosity.
I admire Milton’s use of words. The beauty of his writing is most evident when he’s writing of Satan. Indeed, Satan is the only worthwhile character in “Paradise Lost”. As best I can tell, Satan outshines Jesus in “Paradise Regained”.
Similarly, Judas is the most compelling character in “Jesus Christ Superstar”. He’s our vector into “Superstar”, as Satan is our vector into “Paradise Lost”, and “Paradise Regained”.
This likely confirms Yuval Harari’s view of humans in his book, “Sapiens”. According to Harari, humans are neurotic predators. I wonder if the creature in the “Alien” films is merely a heightened version of ourselves.
ANATOMY of a MILLENNIUM
An “Audible” Audio Book Review
A History of the Middle Ages. By Crane Brinton, John Christopher, and Robert Wolff. “Audio Connoisseur”.
Narrated by: Charlton Griffin. Various ( quality ) sound effects are included. No PDF is included. ( Printed documentation. )
As a reader, I have a rule: don’t read textbooks. It’s said that “too many cooks ruin the soup.” That’s my opinion of textbooks. Too often, they debase themselves into narratives that hew to whatever political correctness obtains at the moment. What ought to be a rich soup becomes a thin gruel. My bias against reading textbooks extends to listening to them.
I made an exception for this audio book. What attracted me to it was its narrator: Charlton Griffin. Some reviewers on Amazon’s Audible service complain that Griffin sounds pompous. To those reviewers, I say, “Listen to audio books known as ‘The Great Courses’.” Each of “The Great Courses” is spoken from a lectern, in a conversational style.
Griffin is a voice actor. He does a superb job of holding my interest. I would never have waded through “A History of the Middle Ages” on my own, as a reader. Griffin breathes life into an otherwise boring textbook.
I love this book’s sound effects. They clinched my decision to buy. Clips of lovely holy music, spanning a thousand years, are played, intermittently, as the narrative progresses.
The book is generous in regard to the span of time that it covers. It begins not with the Dark Ages, but the earliest days of the Roman Empire. Its story extends into the 20th century.
However, it skims like a hovercraft over such eras as the Crusades. If you want more than a skeletal outline of the Crusades, you’ll have to consult other sources. I had formerly listened to a number of podcasts in my Apple “Podcasts” app. These proved invaluable as I listened to “A History of the Middle Ages”. My memory of the podcasts’ contents allowed me to stay interested in what Griffin was saying. ( Read prior articles, here on my blog, for information about the podcasts that I liked. )
I’ve become a fan of “Audio Connoisseur” books. If you want to go beyond “The Great Courses”, your next best choice is “Audio Connoisseur”. Both brands are available in your Audible app.
“A History of the Middle Ages” is not politically correct. It appears to have been written prior to the degradation of academia by the insane. My guess is that “A History of the Middle Ages” was written sometime between 1950 and 1980. I don’t trust much scholarship in the humanities produced after that.
An Audible reviewer tried to find the textbook in print, but was unable to. Perhaps Google got hold of the last copies of this book and destroyed them.
THE VERDICT on YOU TUBE
I’m poised to unsubscribe from You Tube. I’ll do this in the next week or so, if I don’t hear back from You Tube Support. ( They never write back to me. ) I haven’t used You Tube since early December of 2020. That’s when I found the abuse by You Tube’s staff, of myself and others, including preteen girls, to be overwhelming.
I’m quitting You Tube because their staff banned my account. Maliciously, You Tube’s staff imposed a new account on me. It lacks my comments, playlists, subscriptions, and “Library” information. It also lacks any notifications. My understanding is that You Tube deleted notifications from all accounts some months ago.
In a prior article, I described You Tube’s staff as feminist zealots. Unfortunately, their actions go beyond the fanatical. You Tube’s staff is pathological. Their attacks on their customers are capricious and malevolent. Their prime target is preteen and young teenage girls. Fans of the girls, and of young girls in general, are also targeted.
I’ve never seen anything on You Tube that was objectionable. Once, someone wrote a public comment, to Dana Taranova, that read,
“I hate you Danatar”.
That was, very likely, a comment by a girl who was Dana’s age. Probably, she was a bit younger than Dana. Her comment amounted to a back-handed compliment. Among a host of highly talented girls on You Tube, “Danatar” was the most compelling. Her beauty, and the range of her creativity, was amazing.
Reports are that Dana has been banned by You Tube. You Tube’s staff spent nearly two years attacking her. They began attacking her when she turned 12 years old. They may have been attacking her before then. However, I wasn’t on You Tube to witness it.
You Tube banned one or more of Dana’s You Tube channels prior to banning her completely. There were weeks when they attacked her videos on a daily basis. Often, they attacked two of her videos at a time. ( You Tube’s staff, attacking me, often deleted two of my playlists at a time. )
Ustina Abramova ( Tina ) was often attacked by You Tube’s staff. She was about 10 years old, and new to You Tube, when You Tube’s staff began attacking her. You Tube’s staff deleted her videos, and threatened her You Tube channels. I was boycotting You Tube by the time that You Tube’s staff began, according to reports, systematically banning Tina’s You Tube channels.
Such behavior by You Tube’s staff is outrageous. That a trillion dollar company would treat young girls this way makes it worse. In internet terms, it’s akin to Hitler’s genocides.
In the Middle Ages, Europeans made pilgrimages to the Holy Land. They were, at times, preyed upon during their journey. In the year 1118, the Knights Templar erected itself to protect such pilgrims. A millennium later, the need for such protection has arisen again. You Tube’s staff, and the employees of other such companies, should never be attacking girls like Tina or Dana. Reportedly, people have made tribute videos of Dana. Thank you!
Can we do more? Can a modern Knights Templar be created? “Black Lives Matter” has certainly made its presence known. I’d like to see effort, by a new Knights Templar, to protect girls like Tina and Dana. You Tube’s psychopaths must not be allowed to abuse young girls! Other companies that engage in such behavior must also be held to account.
A DISSECTION OF MODERN TYRANNY
“The Inquisition failed, but then the Inquisition had not the resources of the modern state. The radio, press censorship, standardized education, and the secret police have altered everything. Mass-suggestion is a science of the last twenty years, and we do not yet know how successful it will be.”
- George Orwell.
Source: Masters of the Word: How media shaped history, from the alphabet to the internet. By William J. Bernstein. Page 8.
MAN’S FATE?
“By the middle of the twentieth century, advances in telecommunications had decisively tipped the balance of power between the ruler and the ruled toward the former, and [ Orwell’s ] miserable characters could not hope to escape the malevolent new electronic media technologies.”
- William J. Bernstein.
Source: Masters of the Word: How media shaped history, from the alphabet to the internet. By William J. Bernstein. Page 8. Bernstein is speaking of characters in George Orwell’s novel, “1984”.
AND IN THE END…
RESURRECT the TEMPLARS
“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.”
- The Holy Bible ( The Book of Psalms, 23: 4. )
ARCANA
1. “Gendered”, stripped of its modern baggage, is equivalent to the word “engendered”.
The definition of “gendered” in The Free Dictionary, by Farlex, includes only the modern use: “belonging to one sex rather than another”. However, its text references include the traditional use: “him who gendered me”, from Oedipus the King, page 3.
The Oxford English Dictionary provides all definitions of “gendered”. My use is labelled “Now rare”.
A note to Farlex: instead of writing, for “gendered”, “belonging to one sex rather than another”, you should write:
“Belonging to one sex rather than THE OTHER.” Despite claims by fags, there are only two genders.
2. Arabella, by Anonymous. Published in 1890. Amazon Kindle edition by Locus Elm Press.
3. The essence of chivalry is to fight for a female that one may, or may not, get to know well. Since most of the internet beauties that I adore live on the far side of the world, I’ll probably never meet them. But I feel obliged to do what I can for them.
4. “Man’s Fate” is a book by Andre Malraux.
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Copyright 2021 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
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.
Currently, my You Tube account ( mentioned below ) has once again been wrongfully terminated by You Tube.
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 BO, Book Observations, issue number 11
Arcana: This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 11, version 6.0
Date Written: July 7, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Nude Art
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BO 10
Book Observations presents...
Nude Art
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Plus: The real “Heart of Darkness”.
And: Bizarre Gmail.
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NUDE Art
Book reviews.
by Andrew Roller
1. 1001 Femjoy.com Girls. Pure nude art. Collected and edited by Tom Cherry. Published by “Edition Skylight” of Switzerland.
web site: www ( dot ) edition-skylight ( dot ) com.
e-mail: info@edition-skylight ( dot ) com.
Copyright 2015. ( I bought this on Amazon. )
Review: This book is worthless. All that’s in it is photos of nude women. As in, ladies who are 21 years old, or older. Worse, they’re not creatively photographed. Imagine “Playboy” without the guiding hand of Hugh Hefner. ( When he cared about “Playboy”. )
Many of the photos in this book are woefully small. When I want to see, for instance, an ass, I want it shoved in my face. I want to feel like I’m there! That isn’t possible with many of the book’s photos. Then again, I don’t want a tour of the asses of occupants of Senior homes.
Alisa I. is my favorite Femjoy model. However, she isn’t in this book. That’s because she didn’t begin modeling until 2017. ( When she was 20 years old. )
Amazon’s Jeff Bozo should be arrested for selling naked ladies, when there are so many young girls who like being photographed.
This book has “modern gloss” on its pages. That is, the pages aren’t as glossy as they were in 20th century books. Maybe the Swiss are running out of money.
2. MeTart.com. Where flawless beauty meets art. World’s top models. Collected and edited by Alexandria Haig. Published by “Edition Skylight” of Switzerland.
web site: www ( dot ) edition-skylight ( dot ) com.
e-mail: info@edition-skylight ( dot ) com.
Copyright 2019. ( I bought this on Amazon. )
Review: Call the F.B.I. ( Fraud Buster Investigators. ) I’ve been ripped off by Jeff Bozo again! This book is full of naked ladies. ( Not, say, 18-year-old girls with “kid” beauty. )
Fortunately, there are no tiny photos in this book. All the images are reasonably sized.
This book is printed with “modern” gloss. The photos are acceptable, but lack the vivid brightness that photo books, and magazines, had in the prior century. ( God knows what Captain Kirk, in the 23rd century, will be stuck with. )
I did find photos that wowed me in this book. They’re on pages 12 and 13. They feature two lovely girls: one 12, one 13. Actually, they depict Alisa Amore! ( Alisa I. ) These photos have earned the Andrew Roller Jerk-off Seal of Approval. You’ll enjoy them many times! Alisa also appears on pages 14 and 15. Unfortunately, despite her “wide open” pose, I found this photo boring.
There’s a slut in this book. Fortunately, she’s a delightful slut: Nancy A. I looked at some of her photos and videos on the Me Tart Network. Sadly, more eroticism is promised by “Me Tart” than is actually delivered. In this book, I give my Jerk-off Seal to one of Nancy’s photos.
Thumbing through this book, I have to admit, it has younger models than those in “1001 Femjoy.com Girls”. If you don’t wear adult diapers, like me, you may succeed in enjoying more of these girls than I did.
I’m disappointed by the lack of creativity in these photos. Here’s an idea: get a pervert to take photographs! ( Also, get younger girls. ) Then a future such book might be explosively enjoyable.
LETTERS
Edited for clarity ( where necessary ) and length. I have to hand-type these letters into my blog.
From: Stafford James
Date: February 3, 2021.
Larry, Sergi, and Mark are Cunts. [ Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Also, Facebook’s founder Mark Fuckerberg. ]
I love watching Ustina [ Abramova ] videos ( I could be watching hardcore kiddie porn ) but a lot of “Tina’s” videos get deleted. Why? The backlash in 2018 over paedophiles messaging kids on their channels led to the big Overhaul of YouTube: “comments are turned off”, “this video has been deleted”, “this video is private” ( whatever the fuck that means, private for who? Nobody can see them! )
Anyway, I enjoy reading your blogs about YouTube and its determination in deleting channels and videos of beautiful young girls. Keep it up!
PS: The Age of Consent in Portugal is 14 and there incidences of rape and sexual assault are almost non-existent. Why? Because once something becomes mainstream it becomes banal, boring even. Nobody cares if a 13-year-old girl swims topless at a beach because they see it all the time. The WEST’S obsession with paedophilia and “protecting” children is creating a Prohibition style underground. Everybody wants what they can’t have. Johann Hari covers addiction brilliantly in his book “Chasing the Scream”. I recommend it to you.
Cheers mate! Stafford James from Australia.
My reply: I’ll tell you what the real problem was on You Tube. It was this: Nigger men messaging White women on their channels.
Does such language bother you, reader? Stafford James just said exactly the same thing, above. Did his use of the words “paedophiles” and “children” trouble you? Were you outraged then, or just now?
This is the problem with America. It’s also the problem with the Anglo-Saxon countries, according to the late photographer David Hamilton. Besides America, the Anglo-Saxon countries are Canada, England, Australia, and New Zealand. These are the “Heart of Darkness” in terms of bigotry against ( so-called ) pedophiles.
You Tube is staffed by pedophobic zealots who are determined to impose their “norms” on the world. Another writer, here on ARSE, guessed that these zealots are mostly women. They’re women who are jealous of the popularity of young girls on the internet. I agree.
Another reason that You Tube is terminating the accounts of young girls, and their fans, is that You Tube has gone into the business of selling “cable” T.V. When I moved, I had two ( meaningful ) choices for “cable” T.V. over the internet: You Tube, and Disney. In the end, I chose neither. I went with Amazon’s Audible book service. I’m thrilled that I did. Instead of monitoring Fox News, I now learn about cosmology, history, and literature.
In my opinion, a social media platform is worthless if I can’t message the young female creators. I loved getting the occasional heart from Dana! Mari Kruchkova, at age 12 or 13, peppered me with “thumbs up” notices. She did this to ensure that I commented on her videos. ( In the form of a thorough review. ) Commenting on each of Mari’s videos became quite a chore for me. But I persisted, because I love Mari Kruchkova! Also, I felt needed. That was important to me. I have no fucking need for a feminist zealot.
Perhaps you recall the film, “Underpants”. That’s my name for “Underworld”, due to Kate Beckinsale’s high, tight shorts. “Viktor” is played by “Bill Nighy”. In a film of his that I found unwatchable, he has a great opening line:
“What do men want most? What they cannot have.” I agree with you that, by viciously persecuting “pedophilia”, bigots are, in fact, promoting it! Guys adore watching “forbidden” young girls. Young girls love being admired by a “forbidden” audience.
Historically, men and young girls have always happily associated with each other. One has only to consult the “List of child brides” on wikipedophilia. However, today’s Nazi-like oppression of “pedophilia” only heightens the yearning of men and girls.
Recently, I was flipping through a copy of Barely Legal magazine that was published two decades ago. I was gazing at a girl who’s 18, but who looks considerably younger. I’ve always enjoyed seeing her.
I’d just been ( yet again ) kicked off of You Tube. I’ve never been given a credible reason by You Tube for why they abuse me. Perhaps it’s because I’m a fan of young girls who, at one time, were on You Tube. The notions of You Tube, young girls, and forbidden content were in my head; so much so that I, uh, lost myself. I knew at once why this had happened. Thanks to You Tube’s abusive staff, my arousal at the “too young” girl in Barely Legal was heightened. Explosively. ( Thanks, You Tube! )
BIZARRE!
I’ve found a quirk in Google’s Gmail. Let’s say that someone sends me an e-mail. Later, I reply to the person’s e-mail. If my e-mail “bounces”, Gmail deletes the sender’s original e-mail! ( From my Gmail account. )
( A “bounce” occurs when an e-mail is returned, for whatever reason. So far, all the bounces that I’ve seen in my Gmail account have been technical. That is, the sender of the original e-mail did NOT later block me. )
OFF TOPIC
“Timeline of Star Trek” at wikipedia ( dot ) org. The fictional date of every part of the Star Trek franchise is listed.
ARCANA
1. I’m not up to date on how You Tube currently operates. In the past, a viewer could discover if a “thumbs up” notice came from the channel’s owner. Let’s say that Mari Kruchkova sent me four “thumbs up” notices. She would do this for a prior comment that I’d made, on one of her previous videos.
I’d look at my comment for that video. I’d see how many PUBLIC “thumbs up” notices my comment had gotten. Likely, it had zero public “thumbs up” notices. So, where did my four “thumbs up” notices for that comment come from? The only answer: Mari. ( This happened many times, so I’m sure of my facts. )
I was extremely frustrated by my inability to comment on “Tina’s” videos. By the time she joined You Tube, You Tube’s staff had forced young girls to turn comments off on their channels. ( If the girl didn’t, You Tube did, and punished the girl. )
How is a girl going to know if viewers like her videos, if viewers can’t comment on them? The answer: nobody is supposed to watch her videos, except the odd “child”. In the past, it was said, “Children are to be seen but not heard.” On You Tube, “children” are to be neither seen nor heard.
2. If you live in downtown San Diego, July 4th is the worst day of the year. We get flooded with people from the rest of the city. They cram themselves in to watch fireworks above San Diego Bay. So, I’m stuck in my room. Happy New Year, or whatever fucking holiday this is.
AND IN THE END…
“Devote yourself to thought, rather than to activity.”
( Plus jerking-off. )
- Susan Wise Bauer.
Source: The Well-Educated Mind, by Susan Wise Bauer. Page 22. ( Amazon Kindle. )
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Copyright 2021 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
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.
Currently, my You Tube account ( mentioned below ) has once again been wrongfully terminated by You Tube.
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 BO, Book Observations, issue number 10
Arcana: This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 10, version 3.0
Date Written: July 4, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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BO 10
Book Observations presents...
Nude Art
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Plus: The real “Heart of Darkness”.
And: Bizarre Gmail.
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NUDE Art
Book reviews.
by Andrew Roller
1. 1001 Femjoy.com Girls. Pure nude art. Collected and edited by Tom Cherry. Published by “Edition Skylight” of Switzerland.
web site: www ( dot ) edition-skylight ( dot ) com.
e-mail: info@edition-skylight ( dot ) com.
Copyright 2015. ( I bought this on Amazon. )
Review: This book is worthless. All that’s in it is photos of nude women. As in, ladies who are 21 years old, or older. Worse, they’re not creatively photographed. Imagine “Playboy” without the guiding hand of Hugh Hefner. ( When he cared about “Playboy”. )
Many of the photos in this book are woefully small. When I want to see, for instance, an ass, I want it shoved in my face. I want to feel like I’m there! That isn’t possible with many of the book’s photos. Then again, I don’t want a tour of the asses of occupants of Senior homes.
Alisa I. is my favorite Femjoy model. However, she isn’t in this book. That’s because she didn’t begin modeling until 2017. ( When she was 20 years old. )
Amazon’s Jeff Bozo should be arrested for selling naked ladies, when there are so many young girls who like being photographed.
This book has “modern gloss” on its pages. That is, the pages aren’t as glossy as they were in 20th century books. Maybe the Swiss are running out of money.
2. MeTart.com. Where flawless beauty meets art. World’s top models. Collected and edited by Alexandria Haig. Published by “Edition Skylight” of Switzerland.
web site: www ( dot ) edition-skylight ( dot ) com.
e-mail: info@edition-skylight ( dot ) com.
Copyright 2019. ( I bought this on Amazon. )
Review: Call the F.B.I. ( Fraud Buster Investigators. ) I’ve been ripped off by Jeff Bozo again! This book is full of naked ladies. ( Not, say, 18-year-old girls with “kid” beauty. )
Fortunately, there are no tiny photos in this book. All the images are reasonably sized.
This book is printed with “modern” gloss. The photos are acceptable, but lack the vivid brightness that photo books, and magazines, had in the prior century. ( God knows what Captain Kirk, in the 23rd century, will be stuck with. )
I did find photos that wowed me in this book. They’re on pages 12 and 13. They feature two lovely girls: one 12, one 13. Actually, they depict Alisa Amore! ( Alisa I. ) These photos have earned the Andrew Roller Jerk-off Seal of Approval. You’ll enjoy them many times! Alisa also appears on pages 14 and 15. Unfortunately, despite her “wide open” pose, I found this photo boring.
There’s a slut in this book. Fortunately, she’s a delightful slut: Nancy A. I looked at some of her photos and videos on the Me Tart Network. Sadly, more eroticism is promised by “Me Tart” than is actually delivered. In this book, I give my Jerk-off Seal to one of Nancy’s photos.
Thumbing through this book, I have to admit, it has younger models than those in “1001 Femjoy.com Girls”. If you don’t wear adult diapers, like me, you may succeed in enjoying more of these girls than I did.
I’m disappointed by the lack of creativity in these photos. Here’s an idea: get a pervert to take photographs! ( Also, get younger girls. ) Then a future such book might be explosively enjoyable.
LETTERS
Edited for clarity ( where necessary ) and length. I have to hand-type these letters into my blog.
From: Stafford James
Date: February 3, 2021.
Larry, Sergi, and Mark are Cunts. [ Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Also, Facebook’s founder Mark Fuckerberg. ]
I love watching Ustina [ Abramova ] videos ( I could be watching hardcore kiddie porn ) but a lot of “Tina’s” videos get deleted. Why? The backlash in 2018 over paedophiles messaging kids on their channels led to the big Overhaul of YouTube: “comments are turned off”, “this video has been deleted”, “this video is private” ( whatever the fuck that means, private for who? Nobody can see them! )
Anyway, I enjoy reading your blogs about YouTube and its determination in deleting channels and videos of beautiful young girls. Keep it up!
PS: The Age of Consent in Portugal is 14 and there incidences of rape and sexual assault are almost non-existent. Why? Because once something becomes mainstream it becomes banal, boring even. Nobody cares if a 13-year-old girl swims topless at a beach because they see it all the time. The WEST’S obsession with paedophilia and “protecting” children is creating a Prohibition style underground. Everybody wants what they can’t have. Johann Hari covers addiction brilliantly in his book “Chasing the Scream”. I recommend it to you.
Cheers mate! Stafford James from Australia.
My reply: I’ll tell you what the real problem was on You Tube. It was this: Nigger men messaging White women on their channels.
Does such language bother you, reader? Stafford James just said exactly the same thing, above. Did his use of the words “paedophiles” and “children” trouble you? Were you outraged then, or just now?
This is the problem with America. It’s also the problem with the Anglo-Saxon countries, according to the late photographer David Hamilton. Besides America, the Anglo-Saxon countries are Canada, England, Australia, and New Zealand. These are the “Heart of Darkness” in terms of bigotry against ( so-called ) pedophiles.
You Tube is staffed by pedophobic zealots who are determined to impose their “norms” on the world. Another writer, here on ARSE, guessed that these zealots are mostly women. They’re women who are jealous of the popularity of young girls on the internet. I agree.
Another reason that You Tube is terminating the accounts of young girls, and their fans, is that You Tube has gone into the business of selling “cable” T.V. When I moved, I had two ( meaningful ) choices for “cable” T.V. over the internet: You Tube, and Disney. In the end, I chose neither. I went with Amazon’s Audible book service. I’m thrilled that I did. Instead of monitoring Fox News, I now learn about cosmology, history, and literature.
In my opinion, a social media platform is worthless if I can’t message the young female creators. I loved getting the occasional heart from Dana! Mari Kruchkova, at age 12 or 13, peppered me with “thumbs up” notices. She did this to ensure that I commented on her videos. ( In the form of a thorough review. ) Commenting on each of Mari’s videos became quite a chore for me. But I persisted, because I love Mari Kruchkova! Also, I felt needed. That was important to me. I have no fucking need for a feminist zealot.
Perhaps you recall the film, “Underpants”. That’s my name for “Underworld”, due to Kate Beckinsale’s high, tight shorts. “Viktor” is played by “Bill Nighy”. In a film of his that I found unwatchable, he has a great opening line:
“What do men want most? What they cannot have.” I agree with you that, by viciously persecuting “pedophilia”, bigots are, in fact, promoting it! Guys adore watching “forbidden” young girls. Young girls love being admired by a “forbidden” audience.
Historically, men and young girls have always happily associated with each other. One has only to consult the “List of child brides” on wikipedophilia. However, today’s Nazi-like oppression of “pedophilia” only heightens the yearning of men and girls.
Recently, I was flipping through a copy of Barely Legal magazine that was published two decades ago. I was gazing at a girl who’s 18, but who looks considerably younger. I’ve always enjoyed seeing her.
I’d just been ( yet again ) kicked off of You Tube. I’ve never been given a credible reason by You Tube for why they abuse me. Perhaps it’s because I’m a fan of young girls who, at one time, were on You Tube. The notions of You Tube, young girls, and forbidden content were in my head; so much so that I, uh, lost myself. I knew at once why this had happened. Thanks to You Tube’s abusive staff, my arousal at the “too young” girl in Barely Legal was heightened. Explosively. ( Thanks, You Tube! )
BIZARRE!
I’ve found a quirk in Google’s Gmail. Let’s say that someone sends me an e-mail. Later, I reply to the person’s e-mail. If my e-mail “bounces”, Gmail deletes the sender’s original e-mail! ( From my Gmail account. )
( A “bounce” occurs when an e-mail is returned, for whatever reason. So far, all the bounces that I’ve seen in my Gmail account have been technical. That is, the sender of the original e-mail did NOT later block me. )
OFF TOPIC
“Timeline of Star Trek” at wikipedia ( dot ) org. The fictional date of every part of the Star Trek franchise is listed.
ARCANA
1. I’m not up to date on how You Tube currently operates. In the past, a viewer could discover if a “thumbs up” notice came from the channel’s owner. Let’s say that Mari Kruchkova sent me four “thumbs up” notices. She would do this for a prior comment that I’d made, on one of her previous videos.
I’d look at my comment for that video. I’d see how many PUBLIC “thumbs up” notices my comment had gotten. Likely, it had zero public “thumbs up” notices. So, where did my four “thumbs up” notices for that comment come from? The only answer: Mari. ( This happened many times, so I’m sure of my facts. )
I was extremely frustrated by my inability to comment on “Tina’s” videos. By the time she joined You Tube, You Tube’s staff had forced young girls to turn comments off on their channels. ( If the girl didn’t, You Tube did, and punished the girl. )
How is a girl going to know if viewers like her videos, if viewers can’t comment on them? The answer: nobody is supposed to watch her videos, except the odd “child”. In the past, it was said, “Children are to be seen but not heard.” On You Tube, “children” are to be neither seen nor heard.
2. If you live in downtown San Diego, July 4th is the worst day of the year. We get flooded with people from the rest of the city. They cram themselves in to watch fireworks above San Diego Bay. So, I’m stuck in my room. Happy New Year, or whatever fucking holiday this is.
AND IN THE END…
“Devote yourself to thought, rather than to activity.”
( Plus jerking-off. )
- Susan Wise Bauer.
Source: The Well-Educated Mind, by Susan Wise Bauer. Page 22. ( Amazon Kindle. )
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Copyright 2021 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
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.
Currently, my You Tube account ( mentioned below ) has once again been wrongfully terminated by You Tube.
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 BO, Book Observations, issue number 10
Arcana: This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 10, version 3.0
Date Written: July 4, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Speed Demons
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BO 9
Book Observations presents...
Speed Demons
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Plus: “Danatar” on Telegram!
And: Subversive writers.
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SPEED Demons
A book review.
by Andrew Roller
“I just want to get there faster.”
- Smashing Pumpkins, Siva.
Tau Zero, by Poul Anderson. Publication date: 1970. ( Amazon Kindle. )
Review: “Tau Zero” was a prominent book in the 1970s. I finally read it about a year ago. At the time, I was busy creating playlists on You Tube, and my WordPress blog had almost no readers.
This novel begins with a blasphemy, for an American. Earth is controlled by Sweden! I’m sure the residents of Harlem would love taking orders from Germany’s neighbors. So would Africa.
Swedes board the spaceship “Leonora Christine”. Earth isn’t enough for them. They now plan to dominate another planet! They’ll do that by colonizing it. The planet orbits a distant star.
Unfortunately for the Swedes, “Leonora Christine” becomes a flying coffin. All that its crew can do is increase the ship’s speed. Increasing one’s speed diminishes the passage of time. Hence, the wider universe ages, while the women aboard “Leonora Christine” hope for a world where they can ( at last! ) get pregnant.
The Swedish proclivity for loose sexual morals is prevalent on “Leonora Christine”. While Anderson pulls his punches in this matter, I didn’t. “Tau Zero” fueled a number of sex stories that I wrote ( which are trapped in paper notebooks ).
This is a “masterwork” sci-fi novel, in the opinion of an internet jerkoff. At the time that I read it, I didn’t know how to highlight passages in Amazon’s Kindle app. I took screen shots of many pages in Tau Zero. I did this because of the book’s compelling prose. ( Hoping, of course, to incorporate such words into my own writing! )
I highly recommend this novel. You’ll traverse space, time, and more than I can reveal, without being a spoiler. The ending is a useful one if you’re a writer. Anderson does a fine job of concluding his novel swiftly. And he didn’t beleaguer us with sequels, as modern authors do.
LETTERS
Edited for clarity ( where necessary ) and length. I have to hand-type these letters into my blog.
You Tube destroyed my account sometime in 2021. In December of 2020, I began boycotting You Tube. I did this because of unending harassment of girls on You Tube, by You Tube’s staff. You Tube’s staff also harassed the girls’ fans, other customers of You Tube, and I.
For reasons Facebook has never made clear, Facebook banned me from all of their social media platforms in 2019. Facebook also stole my content. ( Mark Fuckerberg is probably still jerking-off to it. )
1. From: RussRu
Date: May 17, 2021.
What happened to Tina backstage, etc? She was in with [ close friends with ] Danatar [ Dana Taranova ] and now completely gone! Any other channels? Tiktok? Anything?
My reply:
You Tube’s staff frequently harassed Tina. She was harassed from the first month or so that she joined You Tube! At the time, Tina was about 10 years old. The abuse by You Tube’s staff became so vicious that Tina could barely do anything at all in her videos.
Sometimes, when a person is treated badly, she ( or he ) withdraws completely from public life. This is especially true if the person ( like Tina ) has invested a large amount of labor in building her presence.
The You Tube channel “Supper Gymnastic Angles” was a fine channel owned by a man. When You Tube terminated his account, he erased all of his videos.
Later, he managed to return to You Tube as “Fantastic Gymnastic”. Once again, You Tube’s staff harassed him. Then You Tube’s staff terminated his account. Since then, I’ve not seen him on the internet. He uploaded many fine videos that were sent to him by lovely young girls. He may also have filmed some videos. His “Supper Gymnastic Angles” videos included my favorite “Danatar” video: “Dana Taranova Fun Beach”.
2. From: ivanka Stephanie
Date: May 7, 2021.
Did you see that all channels from Dana got deleted? Luckily I have them all! @ivankastuff on telegram if you need them.
My reply: Thank you so much for your hard work! Sadly, I created “Danatar” playlists on You Tube, which You Tube’s staff destroyed. You wisely transferred the content elsewhere.
( I hope to have time, in the future, to visit ivanka. )
3. From: Steven Jenkins ( not Jinxins! )
Date: April 18, 2021.
Hello Andrew. I just found your site while searching for additional material from a young youtube star I had recently seen called Danatar Taranova. The fact that I am in my late 50’s and driven by my excitement for Dana … probably says more about me than anyone could. Perhaps I should forgive myself and be unapologetic? Interesting reading on your site Andrew. Thank you.
My reply: You should damn yourself to Hell. That is, you should damn yourself to Hell under the following conditions:
A. When Devil Harris, America’s Vice President, publicly proclaims the following:
“I’m damned to Hell, because I’m a Negro! I’m also damned to Hell because I’m a woman.”
B. When the owners of Facebook and You Tube proclaim, “We’re damned to Hell because we’re sodomites!” ( Or sodomite apologists. )
C. When Joke Biden, America’s President, admits that he’s an imbecile.
What burns me up about You Tube is the following: You Tube eagerly promotes every sort of “minority”, while damning young girls and their fans. You Tube kept promoting videos to me of a young man who’s a transvestite. ( His name escapes me. It’s something akin to the 1980s name of “Boy George”. )
I enjoyed Boy George in the 1980s. I was a member of NAMBLA, the North American Man / Boy Love Association, for a quarter of a century.
I bought the Kindle and Audible versions of “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”.
I’ve read books by brilliant women. So, I have nothing against so-called “minorities”. I use the rhetoric above to show how biased this world is against young girls and their fans. Big Tech is the most visible bully of young girls and their fans.
“Danatar Taranova” is actually Dana Taranova. “Danatar” is a wonderful name that she invented for her original You Tube channel.
I recommended to Dana that she assert trademark status for “Danatar”. Last I saw, she’d taken to using a copyright notice for “Danatar”. ( Which doesn’t actually work. You can’t copyright a name. If I want to call my next book “Star Wars”, I can; provided it isn’t about the Darth Vader cosmos. )
“Danatar” is a combination of her first and last names: “Dana” plus “Tar”.
“50’s” does not require an apostrophe. I’ve made this mistake, regarding the apostrophe, until this year.
I’m 60 years old. Thankfully, I was consciously alive in the 1960s. That’s the last decade in which Americans had balls. )
4. From: bernd
Date: June 6, 2021.
Please help Tori get more subscribers! ( On You Tube. )
My reply: I assume that Tori is a young girl. If so, thank you for your recommendation!
In the future, please provide more information about the person that you’re promoting. If You Tube’s staff doesn’t restore my account, I’m never visiting You Tube again.
I’m always happy to pass along legitimate recommendations regarding young girls on the internet.
THE crucial ROLE of CHILDREN
“The art and passion of reading well and deeply … depended upon people who were fanatical readers when they were still small children.”
- Harold Bloom.
Source: The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages, by Harold Bloom. Page 16. ( Amazon Kindle. )
AND IN THE END…
“The West’s greatest writers are subversive of all values.”
- Harold Bloom.
Source: The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages, by Harold Bloom. Page 28. ( Amazon Kindle. )
ARCANA
1. Originally, I intended for each of my blog posts to consist of a single article. Hence, any book review would go into my “zine” called “Book Observations”. Information regarding how to use Apple products would go into my “zine” called “Apple Info”. When I got kicked out of Facebook, my “zine” called “Editorial Thunder” was born.
Events have overwhelmed my tidy distribution of articles. There’s no longer a difference between an issue of “Book Observations”, and one of “Editorial Thunder”.
However, I might post an article that consists of a lengthy book review. My review might not be scathing. If the post’s header is “Editorial Thunder”, a reader might be disappointed.
2. “Supper Gymnastic Angles” is verbatim. English wasn’t the first language of its owner.
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Copyright 2021 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
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.
Currently, my You Tube account ( mentioned below ) has once again been wrongfully terminated by You Tube.
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 BO, Book Observations, issue number 9
Arcana: This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 9, version 4.0
Date Written: July 4, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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BO 9
Book Observations presents...
Speed Demons
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Plus: “Danatar” on Telegram!
And: Subversive writers.
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SPEED Demons
A book review.
by Andrew Roller
“I just want to get there faster.”
- Smashing Pumpkins, Siva.
Tau Zero, by Poul Anderson. Publication date: 1970. ( Amazon Kindle. )
Review: “Tau Zero” was a prominent book in the 1970s. I finally read it about a year ago. At the time, I was busy creating playlists on You Tube, and my WordPress blog had almost no readers.
This novel begins with a blasphemy, for an American. Earth is controlled by Sweden! I’m sure the residents of Harlem would love taking orders from Germany’s neighbors. So would Africa.
Swedes board the spaceship “Leonora Christine”. Earth isn’t enough for them. They now plan to dominate another planet! They’ll do that by colonizing it. The planet orbits a distant star.
Unfortunately for the Swedes, “Leonora Christine” becomes a flying coffin. All that its crew can do is increase the ship’s speed. Increasing one’s speed diminishes the passage of time. Hence, the wider universe ages, while the women aboard “Leonora Christine” hope for a world where they can ( at last! ) get pregnant.
The Swedish proclivity for loose sexual morals is prevalent on “Leonora Christine”. While Anderson pulls his punches in this matter, I didn’t. “Tau Zero” fueled a number of sex stories that I wrote ( which are trapped in paper notebooks ).
This is a “masterwork” sci-fi novel, in the opinion of an internet jerkoff. At the time that I read it, I didn’t know how to highlight passages in Amazon’s Kindle app. I took screen shots of many pages in Tau Zero. I did this because of the book’s compelling prose. ( Hoping, of course, to incorporate such words into my own writing! )
I highly recommend this novel. You’ll traverse space, time, and more than I can reveal, without being a spoiler. The ending is a useful one if you’re a writer. Anderson does a fine job of concluding his novel swiftly. And he didn’t beleaguer us with sequels, as modern authors do.
LETTERS
Edited for clarity ( where necessary ) and length. I have to hand-type these letters into my blog.
You Tube destroyed my account sometime in 2021. In December of 2020, I began boycotting You Tube. I did this because of unending harassment of girls on You Tube, by You Tube’s staff. You Tube’s staff also harassed the girls’ fans, other customers of You Tube, and I.
For reasons Facebook has never made clear, Facebook banned me from all of their social media platforms in 2019. Facebook also stole my content. ( Mark Fuckerberg is probably still jerking-off to it. )
1. From: RussRu
Date: May 17, 2021.
What happened to Tina backstage, etc? She was in with [ close friends with ] Danatar [ Dana Taranova ] and now completely gone! Any other channels? Tiktok? Anything?
My reply:
You Tube’s staff frequently harassed Tina. She was harassed from the first month or so that she joined You Tube! At the time, Tina was about 10 years old. The abuse by You Tube’s staff became so vicious that Tina could barely do anything at all in her videos.
Sometimes, when a person is treated badly, she ( or he ) withdraws completely from public life. This is especially true if the person ( like Tina ) has invested a large amount of labor in building her presence.
The You Tube channel “Supper Gymnastic Angles” was a fine channel owned by a man. When You Tube terminated his account, he erased all of his videos.
Later, he managed to return to You Tube as “Fantastic Gymnastic”. Once again, You Tube’s staff harassed him. Then You Tube’s staff terminated his account. Since then, I’ve not seen him on the internet. He uploaded many fine videos that were sent to him by lovely young girls. He may also have filmed some videos. His “Supper Gymnastic Angles” videos included my favorite “Danatar” video: “Dana Taranova Fun Beach”.
2. From: ivanka Stephanie
Date: May 7, 2021.
Did you see that all channels from Dana got deleted? Luckily I have them all! @ivankastuff on telegram if you need them.
My reply: Thank you so much for your hard work! Sadly, I created “Danatar” playlists on You Tube, which You Tube’s staff destroyed. You wisely transferred the content elsewhere.
( I hope to have time, in the future, to visit ivanka. )
3. From: Steven Jenkins ( not Jinxins! )
Date: April 18, 2021.
Hello Andrew. I just found your site while searching for additional material from a young youtube star I had recently seen called Danatar Taranova. The fact that I am in my late 50’s and driven by my excitement for Dana … probably says more about me than anyone could. Perhaps I should forgive myself and be unapologetic? Interesting reading on your site Andrew. Thank you.
My reply: You should damn yourself to Hell. That is, you should damn yourself to Hell under the following conditions:
A. When Devil Harris, America’s Vice President, publicly proclaims the following:
“I’m damned to Hell, because I’m a Negro! I’m also damned to Hell because I’m a woman.”
B. When the owners of Facebook and You Tube proclaim, “We’re damned to Hell because we’re sodomites!” ( Or sodomite apologists. )
C. When Joke Biden, America’s President, admits that he’s an imbecile.
What burns me up about You Tube is the following: You Tube eagerly promotes every sort of “minority”, while damning young girls and their fans. You Tube kept promoting videos to me of a young man who’s a transvestite. ( His name escapes me. It’s something akin to the 1980s name of “Boy George”. )
I enjoyed Boy George in the 1980s. I was a member of NAMBLA, the North American Man / Boy Love Association, for a quarter of a century.
I bought the Kindle and Audible versions of “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”.
I’ve read books by brilliant women. So, I have nothing against so-called “minorities”. I use the rhetoric above to show how biased this world is against young girls and their fans. Big Tech is the most visible bully of young girls and their fans.
“Danatar Taranova” is actually Dana Taranova. “Danatar” is a wonderful name that she invented for her original You Tube channel.
I recommended to Dana that she assert trademark status for “Danatar”. Last I saw, she’d taken to using a copyright notice for “Danatar”. ( Which doesn’t actually work. You can’t copyright a name. If I want to call my next book “Star Wars”, I can; provided it isn’t about the Darth Vader cosmos. )
“Danatar” is a combination of her first and last names: “Dana” plus “Tar”.
“50’s” does not require an apostrophe. I’ve made this mistake, regarding the apostrophe, until this year.
I’m 60 years old. Thankfully, I was consciously alive in the 1960s. That’s the last decade in which Americans had balls. )
4. From: bernd
Date: June 6, 2021.
Please help Tori get more subscribers! ( On You Tube. )
My reply: I assume that Tori is a young girl. If so, thank you for your recommendation!
In the future, please provide more information about the person that you’re promoting. If You Tube’s staff doesn’t restore my account, I’m never visiting You Tube again.
I’m always happy to pass along legitimate recommendations regarding young girls on the internet.
THE crucial ROLE of CHILDREN
“The art and passion of reading well and deeply … depended upon people who were fanatical readers when they were still small children.”
- Harold Bloom.
Source: The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages, by Harold Bloom. Page 16. ( Amazon Kindle. )
AND IN THE END…
“The West’s greatest writers are subversive of all values.”
- Harold Bloom.
Source: The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages, by Harold Bloom. Page 28. ( Amazon Kindle. )
ARCANA
1. Originally, I intended for each of my blog posts to consist of a single article. Hence, any book review would go into my “zine” called “Book Observations”. Information regarding how to use Apple products would go into my “zine” called “Apple Info”. When I got kicked out of Facebook, my “zine” called “Editorial Thunder” was born.
Events have overwhelmed my tidy distribution of articles. There’s no longer a difference between an issue of “Book Observations”, and one of “Editorial Thunder”.
However, I might post an article that consists of a lengthy book review. My review might not be scathing. If the post’s header is “Editorial Thunder”, a reader might be disappointed.
2. “Supper Gymnastic Angles” is verbatim. English wasn’t the first language of its owner.
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Copyright 2021 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
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.
Currently, my You Tube account ( mentioned below ) has once again been wrongfully terminated by You Tube.
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 BO, Book Observations, issue number 9
Arcana: This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 9, version 4.0
Date Written: July 4, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Death Clash
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ET 92
Editorial Thunder presents...
Death Clash
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Plus: The last days of Danatar.
And: Samuel Johnson on writers.
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DEATH Clash
An “Audible” Audio Book Review
by Andrew Roller
The Long Road to Gettysburg, by Jim Murphy. “The golden kite award book.”
Narrated by: Ray Child ( s ), Terry Bregy, William Doofus ( Dufris ). Various ( quality ) sound effects are included.
Review: I’m pleased to say that I fought in the Civil War, also known as the “war between the States”. Or, anyway, I tried to fight in it. I was born in Gettysburg. As soon as I got out of my mother, I demanded a rifle. I was saddened to learn that the aforementioned conflict had ended. Even World War 1 and World War 2 were done! Bummer. I’m stuck with fighting Fuckbook and Boob Tube. ( Facebook and You Tube. ) As Americans once said of Vietnam, “it’s not much of a war, but it’ll have to do”.
“The Long Road to Gettysburg” is stated, on Amazon, as having a “Reading age” of 10 - 12 years. It’s given a “Grade level” of 5 - 7. Don’t let this deter you from listening. The book is excellent. Those who narrate the book do a superb job.
It’s based on several Civil War diaries. The diaries are from soldiers on both sides of the war. Their lives are followed from a time before Gettysburg, and on through the battle, or until they die.
At the book’s end, the lives of two diarists are followed beyond their time in the war. Each of these diarists’ postwar lives are moving, and interesting.
LETTERS
( Edited for clarity ( where necessary ) and length. I have to hand-type these letters into my blog. )
1. From: Mereningen
Date: June 26, 2021.
“Hi I m new to your works and I want to read honey heaven NNd I read it some part in asstr [ https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/ ] and want to know the rest, any chance you willing to share the rest of them? I really like the story but can’t find it anywhere.”
My reply:
I’m not a professional writer. In fact, I wouldn’t want someone to see me as I write my erotic stories. I write them to discharge procreative stress, not to sell them. Nonetheless, I assure you that I pay close attention to what I write. I’m not the Marquis de Sade, writing with his own feces on a wall. ( Admittedly, he was in prison. )
My writings have an unfortunate history. In the 1980s, I wrote a number of stories. Then, my hard disk crashed. I called Seagate, the disk’s manufacturer. They assured me that my disk’s contents could be recovered. All I had to do was mail my disk to them. I did.
Later, I called Seagate. They told me that they would replace my disk ( perhaps for a fee ). I was instantly suspicious. Had they read my stories, and decided to trash my disk? I was forced to accept the receipt of a new disk. I never saw my stories again.
Currently, all of my extant stories, that I wrote through 2002, are moldering on two or three hard disks. I haven’t seen these disks since 2002. They’re in a storage locker that is 700 miles from my current location. I don’t have a car. Whether I’ll ever see these disks again is questionable.
My disks are only usable if I connect them to a 1990s era Apple Macintosh computer. I still have the computer. Next, I’m faced with this problem: how do I get my stories off of the Macintosh? I used a dialup modem to connect to the internet in 2002. I doubt that such a method would work today.
I have a PS Jet + printer that connects to my Macintosh. However, it was printing pages lined by excess ink when I last used it, in 2002. Also, I have many stories, that consist of many pages. Printing all of them would take considerable time. Would my machines last through such a process? Would they work at all? My Macintosh has a dead ( ordinary ) battery inside of it. That battery has surely leaked, creating a mess.
My only access to these stories is via the Alt Sex Stories Text Repository ( asstr ( dot ) org ). For whatever reason, I’m forced to access my stories as a reader, not as an author. I have no way to communicate with asstr ( dot ) org.
My understanding is that asstr ( dot ) org is the sole property of someone named Rey Del Sexo. The day that he decides to shut down his web site, or dies, all of the stories at asstr ( dot ) org will vanish. No one will be able to read them again.
You’re in the position of being what Ray Bradbury called, “a reliquary of lost time”. ( I prefer the title, “a guardian of lost time”. ) It is yourself who is saving my stories. Thank you! As to any continuation of “honey heaven”, I would have to reread my story, and then write more.
Currently, I have many notebooks that I’ve written stories in. I have a tendency to start a story, go a decent way with it, and then drop it. That’s likely the fate of “honey heaven”. I do tend to revisit the same themes. So, to guess what might have happened in “honey heaven”, I can only advise you to read more of my stories! I likely revisited the same ideas in another tale.
I write each tale fresh; I don’t copy what I’ve previously written. Often, I lose access to what I’ve penned on a previous day. A notebook that’s full of stories gets added to a pile of other such notebooks.
Right now, I’m writing ( yet another ) story ( in a notebook ) that I hope to complete. Whether I’ll ever type this story’s many pages, and get them online, is questionable. The most likely fate for every story that I’ve written since 2002 is to land in a dumpster.
2. From: John William Alvarez
Date: June 10, 2021.
I came to your blog by chance, I was looking for the videos of Stefania Deriabina. [ A pretty name! Ed. ] [ Alvarez mentions You Tube. ]
I was also looking for videos by Mari Kruchkova. [ A truly gorgeous girl, now about 15 years old. I recall when she was 11 or 12! Ed. ]
I began to read what you wrote, and what I can tell you: I am very interested. Everything you have written about Mari and about Dana [ Taranova ] is true … in one video she looks super young and in others she looks like a teenager. I think that’s what I like the most about her videos. I also like some of the other girls that you mention in your article, “The HOTTEST Girls on You Tube”. Greetings of a fan of the young models and of the gymnasts.
My reply: Thank you!
You Tube destroyed my account sometime in 2021. I complained to them on July 1, but I haven’t heard back. I’m banned from Facebook, and from any Facebook owned platform.
( That’s what I get for answering Facebook’s question: “What’s on your mind?” Perhaps I should have limited the expression of my opinions to emojis. )
I hope to continue this blog’s primary beat: beautiful young girls! Don’t be distressed by America’s damnation of young girls and their fans. America did the same to women, Blacks, gays, lesbians, transvestites, the Irish, Asians, and many others. Sadly, such discrimination isn’t limited to America. If we surrender, that’s akin to death. However, if we persevere, we live as the free men with free minds that we’re meant to be.
3. From: Augustine Rincon III
Date: May 22, 2021.
Thanks for the piece on what YouTube did to Danatar. [ Dana Taranova. ] It took me a week to notice that she was not posting, then I saw the tribute videos for her, and saying goodbye, or that it was her last video. It’s been like 2.5 years that I have seen her page grow into pages and her popularity skyrocket.
I have noticed that YouTube or its Bots, or its employees are getting a little too trigger happy and cancelling creators by the thousands. It sure has changed since I started using YouTube back in 2005. Thanks for the info. Keep up the great work.
My reply:
You Tube had, as best I can tell, killed my account by the time that you mention. My essays regarded earlier abuse of Dana by You Tube’s staff. Thanks for your reporting on this topic!
The world let Adolf Hitler get away with a lot before it took action. By then, millions were dead. You Tube, in its aims, is no better than Hitler. Facebook is guilty of the same aims. Will we submit, or take action?
AND IN THE END…
“No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.”
- Dr. Samuel Johnson.
Source: The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages, by Harold Bloom. Page 23. ( Amazon Kindle. )
( I guess all those Civil War diaries, which are valuable primary sources for the conflict, were written by blockheads. )
ARCANA
1. In the 1980s, I published a number of xeroxed pamphlets. The one that I published most was called “Comic Update”. As is the case today, I wound up being a war reporter. Conflict afflicted what was known as “the small press”.
Sometimes, I published letters from fellow small pressers. This left some letter writers aghast. “Omigod! Roller published my letter!” the letter writer would cry. He feared retribution from small press’ equivalent of Satan, and his minions.
I’ve omitted the e-mail addresses of those who wrote to me. However, I have not omitted the writers’ names. If you insist on being anonymous, say so. Otherwise, I’ll use your name. For the record, “Andrew Roller” is my real name. So, my ass is on the line too.
If you send me a letter, it goes into my Google Gmail account. Unfortunately, You Tube’s employees use my Gmail account to abuse me. I open my Gmail account with caution. That’s because I’m still trying to evacuate my belongings from a nearby storage locker, and from my former room.
Thank you very much for your letters and “Likes!”
2. God help the men who work at You Tube and Facebook. What butt wipes they must be!
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Copyright 2021 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 92
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 92, version 2.0
Date Written: July 4, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 92
Editorial Thunder presents...
Death Clash
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Plus: The last days of Danatar.
And: Samuel Johnson on writers.
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DEATH Clash
An “Audible” Audio Book Review
by Andrew Roller
The Long Road to Gettysburg, by Jim Murphy. “The golden kite award book.”
Narrated by: Ray Child ( s ), Terry Bregy, William Doofus ( Dufris ). Various ( quality ) sound effects are included.
Review: I’m pleased to say that I fought in the Civil War, also known as the “war between the States”. Or, anyway, I tried to fight in it. I was born in Gettysburg. As soon as I got out of my mother, I demanded a rifle. I was saddened to learn that the aforementioned conflict had ended. Even World War 1 and World War 2 were done! Bummer. I’m stuck with fighting Fuckbook and Boob Tube. ( Facebook and You Tube. ) As Americans once said of Vietnam, “it’s not much of a war, but it’ll have to do”.
“The Long Road to Gettysburg” is stated, on Amazon, as having a “Reading age” of 10 - 12 years. It’s given a “Grade level” of 5 - 7. Don’t let this deter you from listening. The book is excellent. Those who narrate the book do a superb job.
It’s based on several Civil War diaries. The diaries are from soldiers on both sides of the war. Their lives are followed from a time before Gettysburg, and on through the battle, or until they die.
At the book’s end, the lives of two diarists are followed beyond their time in the war. Each of these diarists’ postwar lives are moving, and interesting.
LETTERS
( Edited for clarity ( where necessary ) and length. I have to hand-type these letters into my blog. )
1. From: Mereningen
Date: June 26, 2021.
“Hi I m new to your works and I want to read honey heaven NNd I read it some part in asstr [ https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/ ] and want to know the rest, any chance you willing to share the rest of them? I really like the story but can’t find it anywhere.”
My reply:
I’m not a professional writer. In fact, I wouldn’t want someone to see me as I write my erotic stories. I write them to discharge procreative stress, not to sell them. Nonetheless, I assure you that I pay close attention to what I write. I’m not the Marquis de Sade, writing with his own feces on a wall. ( Admittedly, he was in prison. )
My writings have an unfortunate history. In the 1980s, I wrote a number of stories. Then, my hard disk crashed. I called Seagate, the disk’s manufacturer. They assured me that my disk’s contents could be recovered. All I had to do was mail my disk to them. I did.
Later, I called Seagate. They told me that they would replace my disk ( perhaps for a fee ). I was instantly suspicious. Had they read my stories, and decided to trash my disk? I was forced to accept the receipt of a new disk. I never saw my stories again.
Currently, all of my extant stories, that I wrote through 2002, are moldering on two or three hard disks. I haven’t seen these disks since 2002. They’re in a storage locker that is 700 miles from my current location. I don’t have a car. Whether I’ll ever see these disks again is questionable.
My disks are only usable if I connect them to a 1990s era Apple Macintosh computer. I still have the computer. Next, I’m faced with this problem: how do I get my stories off of the Macintosh? I used a dialup modem to connect to the internet in 2002. I doubt that such a method would work today.
I have a PS Jet + printer that connects to my Macintosh. However, it was printing pages lined by excess ink when I last used it, in 2002. Also, I have many stories, that consist of many pages. Printing all of them would take considerable time. Would my machines last through such a process? Would they work at all? My Macintosh has a dead ( ordinary ) battery inside of it. That battery has surely leaked, creating a mess.
My only access to these stories is via the Alt Sex Stories Text Repository ( asstr ( dot ) org ). For whatever reason, I’m forced to access my stories as a reader, not as an author. I have no way to communicate with asstr ( dot ) org.
My understanding is that asstr ( dot ) org is the sole property of someone named Rey Del Sexo. The day that he decides to shut down his web site, or dies, all of the stories at asstr ( dot ) org will vanish. No one will be able to read them again.
You’re in the position of being what Ray Bradbury called, “a reliquary of lost time”. ( I prefer the title, “a guardian of lost time”. ) It is yourself who is saving my stories. Thank you! As to any continuation of “honey heaven”, I would have to reread my story, and then write more.
Currently, I have many notebooks that I’ve written stories in. I have a tendency to start a story, go a decent way with it, and then drop it. That’s likely the fate of “honey heaven”. I do tend to revisit the same themes. So, to guess what might have happened in “honey heaven”, I can only advise you to read more of my stories! I likely revisited the same ideas in another tale.
I write each tale fresh; I don’t copy what I’ve previously written. Often, I lose access to what I’ve penned on a previous day. A notebook that’s full of stories gets added to a pile of other such notebooks.
Right now, I’m writing ( yet another ) story ( in a notebook ) that I hope to complete. Whether I’ll ever type this story’s many pages, and get them online, is questionable. The most likely fate for every story that I’ve written since 2002 is to land in a dumpster.
2. From: John William Alvarez
Date: June 10, 2021.
I came to your blog by chance, I was looking for the videos of Stefania Deriabina. [ A pretty name! Ed. ] [ Alvarez mentions You Tube. ]
I was also looking for videos by Mari Kruchkova. [ A truly gorgeous girl, now about 15 years old. I recall when she was 11 or 12! Ed. ]
I began to read what you wrote, and what I can tell you: I am very interested. Everything you have written about Mari and about Dana [ Taranova ] is true … in one video she looks super young and in others she looks like a teenager. I think that’s what I like the most about her videos. I also like some of the other girls that you mention in your article, “The HOTTEST Girls on You Tube”. Greetings of a fan of the young models and of the gymnasts.
My reply: Thank you!
You Tube destroyed my account sometime in 2021. I complained to them on July 1, but I haven’t heard back. I’m banned from Facebook, and from any Facebook owned platform.
( That’s what I get for answering Facebook’s question: “What’s on your mind?” Perhaps I should have limited the expression of my opinions to emojis. )
I hope to continue this blog’s primary beat: beautiful young girls! Don’t be distressed by America’s damnation of young girls and their fans. America did the same to women, Blacks, gays, lesbians, transvestites, the Irish, Asians, and many others. Sadly, such discrimination isn’t limited to America. If we surrender, that’s akin to death. However, if we persevere, we live as the free men with free minds that we’re meant to be.
3. From: Augustine Rincon III
Date: May 22, 2021.
Thanks for the piece on what YouTube did to Danatar. [ Dana Taranova. ] It took me a week to notice that she was not posting, then I saw the tribute videos for her, and saying goodbye, or that it was her last video. It’s been like 2.5 years that I have seen her page grow into pages and her popularity skyrocket.
I have noticed that YouTube or its Bots, or its employees are getting a little too trigger happy and cancelling creators by the thousands. It sure has changed since I started using YouTube back in 2005. Thanks for the info. Keep up the great work.
My reply:
You Tube had, as best I can tell, killed my account by the time that you mention. My essays regarded earlier abuse of Dana by You Tube’s staff. Thanks for your reporting on this topic!
The world let Adolf Hitler get away with a lot before it took action. By then, millions were dead. You Tube, in its aims, is no better than Hitler. Facebook is guilty of the same aims. Will we submit, or take action?
AND IN THE END…
“No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.”
- Dr. Samuel Johnson.
Source: The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages, by Harold Bloom. Page 23. ( Amazon Kindle. )
( I guess all those Civil War diaries, which are valuable primary sources for the conflict, were written by blockheads. )
ARCANA
1. In the 1980s, I published a number of xeroxed pamphlets. The one that I published most was called “Comic Update”. As is the case today, I wound up being a war reporter. Conflict afflicted what was known as “the small press”.
Sometimes, I published letters from fellow small pressers. This left some letter writers aghast. “Omigod! Roller published my letter!” the letter writer would cry. He feared retribution from small press’ equivalent of Satan, and his minions.
I’ve omitted the e-mail addresses of those who wrote to me. However, I have not omitted the writers’ names. If you insist on being anonymous, say so. Otherwise, I’ll use your name. For the record, “Andrew Roller” is my real name. So, my ass is on the line too.
If you send me a letter, it goes into my Google Gmail account. Unfortunately, You Tube’s employees use my Gmail account to abuse me. I open my Gmail account with caution. That’s because I’m still trying to evacuate my belongings from a nearby storage locker, and from my former room.
Thank you very much for your letters and “Likes!”
2. God help the men who work at You Tube and Facebook. What butt wipes they must be!
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Copyright 2021 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 92
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 92, version 2.0
Date Written: July 4, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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BANNED by You Tube
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ET 91
Editorial Thunder presents...
BANNED by You Tube
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Plus: Brodsky on censorship.
And: Cicero’s legacy.
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BANNED by You Tube
by Andrew Roller
I have been banned by You Tube. I discovered this on July 1, 2021. You Tube never sent me ANY notice that my account was banned.
You Tube, or a rogue member of its staff, has been attacking my You Tube account for over a year.
My account was first banned in March of 2020. When this happened, You Tube created a new account for me. This was done maliciously. That’s because my new account lacked my playlists, subscriptions, notifications, and “Library” information. Also, all the comments that I’d posted to You Tube were gone.
I appealed the March 2020 ban of my You Tube account. I won my appeal. My account was summarily banned a second time. I won my appeal again. You Tube then deleted one of my playlists, screwed with my You Tube password, and demanded ( and got ) my Apple password.
It was illegal for You Tube to demand my Apple password.
These events happened in rapid succession, between late March 2020 and early April of 2020. You might reply,
“Gee, it looks like a number of days passed.” That’s because, for most of these days, I was waiting for my appeals to be considered.
Starting in September of 2020, You Tube deleted more of my playlists. This happened a number of times, between September 2020 and December 2020. I appealed every deletion. I won some appeals, and lost some.
Because prior strikes expire on You Tube, I only had one strike in December of 2020.
An account must have three strikes against it to be “terminated” ( banned ).
In early December of 2020, I ceased using You Tube. I did this after You Tube arbitrarily deleted all of Milanka Kudel’s videos, except for one.
Milanka Kudel was, at the time, no more than 12 years old. Probably, she was a year or two younger. All of her videos were utterly innocuous.
On February 18, 2021, You Tube told me that I had won my appeal with regard to a playlist. It was called, “Best Songs! ( Part Unnumbered )”. This playlist had been deleted in 2020. I had lost my appeal regarding it in 2020.
On February 25, 2021, You Tube told me that they had rejected my appeal for the playlist “kids area”. You Tube had ALREADY rejected my appeal regarding the playlist “kids area” in September of 2020.
“kids area” was a tribute playlist, for someone else’s banned You Tube channel. It contained one video. The video was a 1960s music video by the band Buffalo Springfield: “For What It’s Worth”.
With regard to the messages from You Tube in February 2021, I found them ( as e-mails ) in my Gmail account. There are no further messages from You Tube in my Gmail account.
Hence, my You Tube account did not violate any of You Tube’s rules. By February of 2021, the one strike against my You Tube account was about to expire.
I went onto You Tube, using Gmail and the “new” ( maliciously created ) account. There were no messages from You Tube for me.
I have not been given any ability to appeal the banning of my You Tube account. All I can do is use the “new” ( maliciously created ) You Tube account to send “feedback”. This “feedback” goes to You Tube Support. You Tube Support has never answered any “feedback” that I have sent them. “Feedback” does not go to the You Tube department that considers appeals.
I have nothing to appeal. That’s because my You Tube account was not legitimately banned. It was summarily banned, with no notification or explanation.
At least in March of 2020, You Tube lied about why my account was banned. They did this both times that my account was banned.
This time, there are no lies. My account has simply ceased to exist.
I have never uploaded a video to You Tube. My playlists consist entirely of other people’s videos. All of these videos are approved by You Tube. Otherwise, they would not be on You Tube, for me to put in my playlists.
I am still a paying You Tube Premium member.
Full details of You Tube’s prior attacks on me are available at my web site:
https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
You Tube has wrongfully terminated many accounts. Often, You Tube’s staff has targeted preteen girls. Based on search queries at my web site, Dana Taranova ( Danatar ) has been banned from You Tube. You Tube’s staff had been maliciously attacking her since 2019. Dana is currently 13 years old.
It’s possible that Dana is now on Facebook.
When I joined You Tube in August of 2019, it was great. However, it quickly became Hell. It was tragic to watch You Tube’s staff attack so many of its young female customers. You Tube’s staff also attacked the girls’ fans, and other members.
During my time on You Tube, I managed to document many of the abuses by You Tube’s staff of its young female customers. I also documented abuses by You Tube’s staff of other customers. This documentation is at my web site.
I will not be using the “new” You Tube account that You Tube maliciously created for me. If my real You Tube account isn’t restored, I will never use You Tube again.
I will remain active regarding Big Tech. You Tube, and its owner Google, must reform or cease to exist.
You Tube is a vicious company that is a blight on our global community. Google is wholly responsible for the behavior of You Tube’s staff.
BRODSKY on CENSORSHIP
“We … condemn … acts of censorship.”
- Joseph Brodsky.
Source: I’d RATHER BE Reading: a library of art for book lovers. By Guinevere De La Mare. Page 34.
AND IN THE END…
“… he spent his time writing. And this is his greatest legacy to the world.”
Garrett Gay Fag ( an ), on the Roman lawyer, politician, and writer Marcus Tullius Cicero.
Source: The Great Courses: The History of Ancient Rome. By Garrett Gay Fag ( an ). Lecture 28: Social and Cultural Life in the Late Republic.
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Copyright 2021 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 91
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 91, version 3.0
Date Written: July 1, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 91
Editorial Thunder presents...
BANNED by You Tube
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Plus: Brodsky on censorship.
And: Cicero’s legacy.
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BANNED by You Tube
by Andrew Roller
I have been banned by You Tube. I discovered this on July 1, 2021. You Tube never sent me ANY notice that my account was banned.
You Tube, or a rogue member of its staff, has been attacking my You Tube account for over a year.
My account was first banned in March of 2020. When this happened, You Tube created a new account for me. This was done maliciously. That’s because my new account lacked my playlists, subscriptions, notifications, and “Library” information. Also, all the comments that I’d posted to You Tube were gone.
I appealed the March 2020 ban of my You Tube account. I won my appeal. My account was summarily banned a second time. I won my appeal again. You Tube then deleted one of my playlists, screwed with my You Tube password, and demanded ( and got ) my Apple password.
It was illegal for You Tube to demand my Apple password.
These events happened in rapid succession, between late March 2020 and early April of 2020. You might reply,
“Gee, it looks like a number of days passed.” That’s because, for most of these days, I was waiting for my appeals to be considered.
Starting in September of 2020, You Tube deleted more of my playlists. This happened a number of times, between September 2020 and December 2020. I appealed every deletion. I won some appeals, and lost some.
Because prior strikes expire on You Tube, I only had one strike in December of 2020.
An account must have three strikes against it to be “terminated” ( banned ).
In early December of 2020, I ceased using You Tube. I did this after You Tube arbitrarily deleted all of Milanka Kudel’s videos, except for one.
Milanka Kudel was, at the time, no more than 12 years old. Probably, she was a year or two younger. All of her videos were utterly innocuous.
On February 18, 2021, You Tube told me that I had won my appeal with regard to a playlist. It was called, “Best Songs! ( Part Unnumbered )”. This playlist had been deleted in 2020. I had lost my appeal regarding it in 2020.
On February 25, 2021, You Tube told me that they had rejected my appeal for the playlist “kids area”. You Tube had ALREADY rejected my appeal regarding the playlist “kids area” in September of 2020.
“kids area” was a tribute playlist, for someone else’s banned You Tube channel. It contained one video. The video was a 1960s music video by the band Buffalo Springfield: “For What It’s Worth”.
With regard to the messages from You Tube in February 2021, I found them ( as e-mails ) in my Gmail account. There are no further messages from You Tube in my Gmail account.
Hence, my You Tube account did not violate any of You Tube’s rules. By February of 2021, the one strike against my You Tube account was about to expire.
I went onto You Tube, using Gmail and the “new” ( maliciously created ) account. There were no messages from You Tube for me.
I have not been given any ability to appeal the banning of my You Tube account. All I can do is use the “new” ( maliciously created ) You Tube account to send “feedback”. This “feedback” goes to You Tube Support. You Tube Support has never answered any “feedback” that I have sent them. “Feedback” does not go to the You Tube department that considers appeals.
I have nothing to appeal. That’s because my You Tube account was not legitimately banned. It was summarily banned, with no notification or explanation.
At least in March of 2020, You Tube lied about why my account was banned. They did this both times that my account was banned.
This time, there are no lies. My account has simply ceased to exist.
I have never uploaded a video to You Tube. My playlists consist entirely of other people’s videos. All of these videos are approved by You Tube. Otherwise, they would not be on You Tube, for me to put in my playlists.
I am still a paying You Tube Premium member.
Full details of You Tube’s prior attacks on me are available at my web site:
https://andrewroller.wordpress.com
You Tube has wrongfully terminated many accounts. Often, You Tube’s staff has targeted preteen girls. Based on search queries at my web site, Dana Taranova ( Danatar ) has been banned from You Tube. You Tube’s staff had been maliciously attacking her since 2019. Dana is currently 13 years old.
It’s possible that Dana is now on Facebook.
When I joined You Tube in August of 2019, it was great. However, it quickly became Hell. It was tragic to watch You Tube’s staff attack so many of its young female customers. You Tube’s staff also attacked the girls’ fans, and other members.
During my time on You Tube, I managed to document many of the abuses by You Tube’s staff of its young female customers. I also documented abuses by You Tube’s staff of other customers. This documentation is at my web site.
I will not be using the “new” You Tube account that You Tube maliciously created for me. If my real You Tube account isn’t restored, I will never use You Tube again.
I will remain active regarding Big Tech. You Tube, and its owner Google, must reform or cease to exist.
You Tube is a vicious company that is a blight on our global community. Google is wholly responsible for the behavior of You Tube’s staff.
BRODSKY on CENSORSHIP
“We … condemn … acts of censorship.”
- Joseph Brodsky.
Source: I’d RATHER BE Reading: a library of art for book lovers. By Guinevere De La Mare. Page 34.
AND IN THE END…
“… he spent his time writing. And this is his greatest legacy to the world.”
Garrett Gay Fag ( an ), on the Roman lawyer, politician, and writer Marcus Tullius Cicero.
Source: The Great Courses: The History of Ancient Rome. By Garrett Gay Fag ( an ). Lecture 28: Social and Cultural Life in the Late Republic.
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Copyright 2021 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 91
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 91, version 3.0
Date Written: July 1, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Young Girl Fantasies
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Young Girl Fantasies
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Plus: How to buy Audible credits.
And: The best Audible books.
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YOUNG girl FANTASIES
A book review.
by Andrew Roller
I’d RATHER BE Reading: a library of art for book lovers. By Guinevere De La Mare. With essays by Maura Kelly, Ann Patch ( ett ), and Gretchen Rubin. Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 2017. ( Amazon Kindle. )
Review: Ladies, if you want equal rights with men, you gotta write good.
Put another way, I never thought I’d get ripped off by a book for bibliophiles.
The only essay worth reading in this book is by its editor: Guinevere De La Mare. Hers is the first essay. I guess she’s lazy. Instead of including more of her writing, she dumps in filler. The filler consists of essays by others, plus “art”. Nearly all the “art” is garbage.
De La Mare’s essay details her life in Hawaii. Specifically, her life as a reader. To my pedophile delight, De La Mare begins by describing herself as a girl in kindergarten. She proceeds to describe her passions at various ages. She’s a 10 year old bibliophile. Then she’s a young teen, an older teen, a newlywed, and a new mother.
The cartoon that immediately follows De La Mare’s essay is great. This book should have ended there. Perhaps De La Mere could have credibly sold it for 49 cents on Amazon.
But she doesn’t. She insists on getting $8.49 for her reflections.
Ann Patch ( ett ) contributes an essay called “Cheating”. That’s what she’s doing here. Her contribution consists of a form that she filled out for a newspaper in Australia. The newspaper wanted to know what books Patch ( ett ) likes.
What books do you think a liberal White lady reads? Why, she reads books that, whatever their authors’ intent, appeal to liberal White ladies! Patch ( ett ) cruelly omits her grocery list from this volume.
Up next is Gretchen ( not Retchin’ ) Rubin. In her essay, she advises us to “quit reading”. Rest assured, Ms. Rubin, I won’t be reading any more of your tripe.
Having soldiered through the above, I was desperate for something worthwhile to read. The ladies had let me down. I figured, “Why not try an odious older white male? A conservative white male.”
I retreated to the following book:
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages, by Harold Bloom. ( Amazon Kindle. )
I was picking up where I’d left off in this book. Here is the first sentence of Bloom’s that I encountered:
“Canonical strangeness can exist without the shock of such audacity, but the tang of originality must always hover in an inaugural aspect of any work that incontestably wins the agon with tradition and joins the Canon.”
( Page 5. )
That’s writing! Does Bloom write well because he’s a privileged White male? Or are the airhead ladies in De La Mare’s book the ones who are privileged?
Audible PITFALL
You may find that you want to buy more Audible credits. However, it’s possible to waste money doing so. Let’s look at several ways to buy more Audible credits.
1. Buy credits in the Audible app. In the Audible app, you’re staring at an audio book that you want to buy. Good news! A bright orange line on your iPad’s screen reads,
“Buy more credits”.
Audible will sell you three credits for $39.99.
$39.99 divided by 3 credits equals $13.33 per credit. This is the most expensive way to buy more credits. At this price, each audio book that you acquire costs $13.33.
2. Renew early. This is an option offered at audible ( dot ) com. Here’s how to access it:
A. Using your browser, go to audible ( dot ) com. Look to the top right of your iPad’s screen. Since I’m Andrew, it says “Hi, Andrew!” Tap on “Hi, Andrew!”
B. An informational box appears. Tap on “Account Details”.
C. Everything vanishes, except an informational box. It reads,
“Audible. Sign in with your Amazon account”. Do this.
D. A new informational box appears. In the center of your iPad’s screen, you’ll see:
“Your membership”. To the lower right of this, you’ll see,
“Renew membership”.
I have the “Discount Audible Premium Plus Annual” plan. It gives me 12 credits each year, for $149.50.
$149.50 divided by 12 credits equals $12.46 per credit.
Audible will NOT renew your membership for another whole year. Let’s say that you joined Audible on May 22, 2021. You renew on July 1, 2021. Your new renewal date will be July 1, 2022. Hence, you’ll have to renew again a year from now.
3. Buy credits at audible ( dot ) com.
A. Using your browser, go to audible ( dot ) com. In the upper right of my iPad’s screen is the following:
“3 Credits Available”. However, if I were out of credits, it would read:
“Buy 3 extra credits”.
Let’s say I do. Audible will charge me $29.90.
$29.90 divided by 3 credits equals $9.97 per credit. This is the least expensive price that I’ve found for Audible members.
If you’re not an Audible member, you can add an Audible audio book to the purchase of a book on Amazon for $7.49. However,
A. You must first buy the book on Amazon.
B. You don’t get access Audible’s many free audio books. ( These free audio books can be listened to for as long as you’re an Audible member. ) ( Any Audible audio book that you pay for is yours to keep forever. This is true whether you’re an Audible member or not. )
If you can afford to, join Audible as a yearly member. Other Audible membership plans, such as the monthly plan, cost more.
Audible SALES
In my experience, Audible holds a sale every month. The invitation to the sale arrives in my e-mail.
The Audible sales that I’ve seen restrict what books are on sale.
The sales are “staged” in various ways. One sale that I was invited to was a 2-for-1 sale. I could acquire two Audible books for one Audible credit.
Another sale sold books for cash. The cash price was charged to my credit card.
In the cash sale, not every book was priced at less than $9.97. I ( stupidly ) bought a book that cost $10.43. In this instance, Audible did me a favor. Its computer didn’t charge my credit card. Instead, it deducted one of my Audible credits. ( I had some Audible credits available in my Audible account. )
Quality books are offered during these sales. I’ve bought some. However, I find that the books I buy in these sales aren’t really ones that I want to listen to.
I’m trying to answer a question. It’s this: how did humans wind up in the circumstances they’re in today? For instance, why is being a sodomite celebrated, but liking girls damned as “pedophilia”? The books that I buy on sale at Audible don’t help me answer this question.
The best books for answering my question are labelled, “The Great Courses”. These are audio versions of videos that are available elsewhere. However, I have no time to sit and watch videos.
“The Great Courses” are, apparently, offered as a paid extra on Amazon Prime. However, I can’t join Amazon Prime. ( Amazon wrongfully shoved me into their “Amazon Business” web site. )
“The Great Courses” are available as a subscription service from wondrium ( dot ) com. However, when “The Great Courses” was at its former web site, I read customer complaints about the service. Customers loved the courses, but not the means by which they were provided.
Hence, Amazon’s Audible service is, for me, the best way to access “The Great Courses”.
It’s also possible to find books that address my question. However, a book is read by a narrator. It isn’t the same as someone who’s speaking from a lectern. I prefer the informality of a lecture over narration. I have found some quality narrated books on Audible.
Audible’s search function is finicky. I entered the author name “Theodor Mommsen” in it. Perhaps I misspelled the name slightly. I got no results.
Later, I entered the name of a narrator in Audible’s search function. The name is “Charlton Griffin”. This brought up loads of history books that Audible had kept hidden from me. Included among these books, all narrated by Charlton Griffin, were books by Theodor Mommsen.
Another way to access history books, including free Audible books, is to enter the search term “biography”. Scrolling down in this list, I encountered more than biographies. I found books about various cities, and even ones about historical eras.
You’re doubtless familiar with these search terms:
cosmology, astronomy, prehistory, ancient Egypt, ancient Mesopotamia, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, the Dark Ages, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Reformation, modernity, and the names of various wars.
I was highly disappointed by Audible when I first joined. I found no books that I wanted to hear, except ones that cost money. Now, I’ve acquired 953 Audible books. Most of these were free. Nearly all of them are books that I want to listen to. ( Occasionally, I download a book, or a podcast, for the purpose of “opposition research”: access to a view that enrages me. )
Even though most of my Audible books are free, it wasn’t easy to get them. I’ve spent hours entering search terms in Audible, and then acquiring books that look good. I can’t download all the books I’ve acquired. That would use up all the memory on my iPad. Nonetheless, the books sit in my library, where I can ( hopefully ) find them.
( If you’re done with a book, “Archive” it. Your “Archive” can be accessed in your Audible “Library”. Tap on “Collections”. To put an archived book back in your library, choose “Remove from Archive”.
If a book costs money, add it to your “Wish List”. To see your wish list, click on “Home” in the Audible app. Scroll down to “From your wish list”.
Many listeners, including me, use audio books to go to sleep. The best book that I’ve found for this is, “Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained”, by John Milton. It’s narrated by Charlton Griffin. Amazingly, Satan puts me to sleep.
AND IN THE END…
“Slow Books will have standards about what kinds of reading materials count toward your daily quota. Blog posts won’t, of course.”
- Maura Kelly.
Source: I’d RATHER BE Reading: a library of art for book lovers. By Guinevere De La Mare. Page 33. ( Counting all the pages of garbage “art”. )
ARCANA
Google describes Guinevere De La Mare as a “content strategist”. Given that Shakespeare, Milton, and Chaucer were also content strategists, I may be underestimating De La Mare.
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Copyright 2021 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 90
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 90, version 4.0
Date Written: July 1, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 90
Editorial Thunder presents...
Young Girl Fantasies
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Plus: How to buy Audible credits.
And: The best Audible books.
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YOUNG girl FANTASIES
A book review.
by Andrew Roller
I’d RATHER BE Reading: a library of art for book lovers. By Guinevere De La Mare. With essays by Maura Kelly, Ann Patch ( ett ), and Gretchen Rubin. Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 2017. ( Amazon Kindle. )
Review: Ladies, if you want equal rights with men, you gotta write good.
Put another way, I never thought I’d get ripped off by a book for bibliophiles.
The only essay worth reading in this book is by its editor: Guinevere De La Mare. Hers is the first essay. I guess she’s lazy. Instead of including more of her writing, she dumps in filler. The filler consists of essays by others, plus “art”. Nearly all the “art” is garbage.
De La Mare’s essay details her life in Hawaii. Specifically, her life as a reader. To my pedophile delight, De La Mare begins by describing herself as a girl in kindergarten. She proceeds to describe her passions at various ages. She’s a 10 year old bibliophile. Then she’s a young teen, an older teen, a newlywed, and a new mother.
The cartoon that immediately follows De La Mare’s essay is great. This book should have ended there. Perhaps De La Mere could have credibly sold it for 49 cents on Amazon.
But she doesn’t. She insists on getting $8.49 for her reflections.
Ann Patch ( ett ) contributes an essay called “Cheating”. That’s what she’s doing here. Her contribution consists of a form that she filled out for a newspaper in Australia. The newspaper wanted to know what books Patch ( ett ) likes.
What books do you think a liberal White lady reads? Why, she reads books that, whatever their authors’ intent, appeal to liberal White ladies! Patch ( ett ) cruelly omits her grocery list from this volume.
Up next is Gretchen ( not Retchin’ ) Rubin. In her essay, she advises us to “quit reading”. Rest assured, Ms. Rubin, I won’t be reading any more of your tripe.
Having soldiered through the above, I was desperate for something worthwhile to read. The ladies had let me down. I figured, “Why not try an odious older white male? A conservative white male.”
I retreated to the following book:
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages, by Harold Bloom. ( Amazon Kindle. )
I was picking up where I’d left off in this book. Here is the first sentence of Bloom’s that I encountered:
“Canonical strangeness can exist without the shock of such audacity, but the tang of originality must always hover in an inaugural aspect of any work that incontestably wins the agon with tradition and joins the Canon.”
( Page 5. )
That’s writing! Does Bloom write well because he’s a privileged White male? Or are the airhead ladies in De La Mare’s book the ones who are privileged?
Audible PITFALL
You may find that you want to buy more Audible credits. However, it’s possible to waste money doing so. Let’s look at several ways to buy more Audible credits.
1. Buy credits in the Audible app. In the Audible app, you’re staring at an audio book that you want to buy. Good news! A bright orange line on your iPad’s screen reads,
“Buy more credits”.
Audible will sell you three credits for $39.99.
$39.99 divided by 3 credits equals $13.33 per credit. This is the most expensive way to buy more credits. At this price, each audio book that you acquire costs $13.33.
2. Renew early. This is an option offered at audible ( dot ) com. Here’s how to access it:
A. Using your browser, go to audible ( dot ) com. Look to the top right of your iPad’s screen. Since I’m Andrew, it says “Hi, Andrew!” Tap on “Hi, Andrew!”
B. An informational box appears. Tap on “Account Details”.
C. Everything vanishes, except an informational box. It reads,
“Audible. Sign in with your Amazon account”. Do this.
D. A new informational box appears. In the center of your iPad’s screen, you’ll see:
“Your membership”. To the lower right of this, you’ll see,
“Renew membership”.
I have the “Discount Audible Premium Plus Annual” plan. It gives me 12 credits each year, for $149.50.
$149.50 divided by 12 credits equals $12.46 per credit.
Audible will NOT renew your membership for another whole year. Let’s say that you joined Audible on May 22, 2021. You renew on July 1, 2021. Your new renewal date will be July 1, 2022. Hence, you’ll have to renew again a year from now.
3. Buy credits at audible ( dot ) com.
A. Using your browser, go to audible ( dot ) com. In the upper right of my iPad’s screen is the following:
“3 Credits Available”. However, if I were out of credits, it would read:
“Buy 3 extra credits”.
Let’s say I do. Audible will charge me $29.90.
$29.90 divided by 3 credits equals $9.97 per credit. This is the least expensive price that I’ve found for Audible members.
If you’re not an Audible member, you can add an Audible audio book to the purchase of a book on Amazon for $7.49. However,
A. You must first buy the book on Amazon.
B. You don’t get access Audible’s many free audio books. ( These free audio books can be listened to for as long as you’re an Audible member. ) ( Any Audible audio book that you pay for is yours to keep forever. This is true whether you’re an Audible member or not. )
If you can afford to, join Audible as a yearly member. Other Audible membership plans, such as the monthly plan, cost more.
Audible SALES
In my experience, Audible holds a sale every month. The invitation to the sale arrives in my e-mail.
The Audible sales that I’ve seen restrict what books are on sale.
The sales are “staged” in various ways. One sale that I was invited to was a 2-for-1 sale. I could acquire two Audible books for one Audible credit.
Another sale sold books for cash. The cash price was charged to my credit card.
In the cash sale, not every book was priced at less than $9.97. I ( stupidly ) bought a book that cost $10.43. In this instance, Audible did me a favor. Its computer didn’t charge my credit card. Instead, it deducted one of my Audible credits. ( I had some Audible credits available in my Audible account. )
Quality books are offered during these sales. I’ve bought some. However, I find that the books I buy in these sales aren’t really ones that I want to listen to.
I’m trying to answer a question. It’s this: how did humans wind up in the circumstances they’re in today? For instance, why is being a sodomite celebrated, but liking girls damned as “pedophilia”? The books that I buy on sale at Audible don’t help me answer this question.
The best books for answering my question are labelled, “The Great Courses”. These are audio versions of videos that are available elsewhere. However, I have no time to sit and watch videos.
“The Great Courses” are, apparently, offered as a paid extra on Amazon Prime. However, I can’t join Amazon Prime. ( Amazon wrongfully shoved me into their “Amazon Business” web site. )
“The Great Courses” are available as a subscription service from wondrium ( dot ) com. However, when “The Great Courses” was at its former web site, I read customer complaints about the service. Customers loved the courses, but not the means by which they were provided.
Hence, Amazon’s Audible service is, for me, the best way to access “The Great Courses”.
It’s also possible to find books that address my question. However, a book is read by a narrator. It isn’t the same as someone who’s speaking from a lectern. I prefer the informality of a lecture over narration. I have found some quality narrated books on Audible.
Audible’s search function is finicky. I entered the author name “Theodor Mommsen” in it. Perhaps I misspelled the name slightly. I got no results.
Later, I entered the name of a narrator in Audible’s search function. The name is “Charlton Griffin”. This brought up loads of history books that Audible had kept hidden from me. Included among these books, all narrated by Charlton Griffin, were books by Theodor Mommsen.
Another way to access history books, including free Audible books, is to enter the search term “biography”. Scrolling down in this list, I encountered more than biographies. I found books about various cities, and even ones about historical eras.
You’re doubtless familiar with these search terms:
cosmology, astronomy, prehistory, ancient Egypt, ancient Mesopotamia, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, the Dark Ages, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Reformation, modernity, and the names of various wars.
I was highly disappointed by Audible when I first joined. I found no books that I wanted to hear, except ones that cost money. Now, I’ve acquired 953 Audible books. Most of these were free. Nearly all of them are books that I want to listen to. ( Occasionally, I download a book, or a podcast, for the purpose of “opposition research”: access to a view that enrages me. )
Even though most of my Audible books are free, it wasn’t easy to get them. I’ve spent hours entering search terms in Audible, and then acquiring books that look good. I can’t download all the books I’ve acquired. That would use up all the memory on my iPad. Nonetheless, the books sit in my library, where I can ( hopefully ) find them.
( If you’re done with a book, “Archive” it. Your “Archive” can be accessed in your Audible “Library”. Tap on “Collections”. To put an archived book back in your library, choose “Remove from Archive”.
If a book costs money, add it to your “Wish List”. To see your wish list, click on “Home” in the Audible app. Scroll down to “From your wish list”.
Many listeners, including me, use audio books to go to sleep. The best book that I’ve found for this is, “Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained”, by John Milton. It’s narrated by Charlton Griffin. Amazingly, Satan puts me to sleep.
AND IN THE END…
“Slow Books will have standards about what kinds of reading materials count toward your daily quota. Blog posts won’t, of course.”
- Maura Kelly.
Source: I’d RATHER BE Reading: a library of art for book lovers. By Guinevere De La Mare. Page 33. ( Counting all the pages of garbage “art”. )
ARCANA
Google describes Guinevere De La Mare as a “content strategist”. Given that Shakespeare, Milton, and Chaucer were also content strategists, I may be underestimating De La Mare.
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Copyright 2021 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 90
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 90, version 4.0
Date Written: July 1, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Racial Discrimination by MTS
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ET 89
Editorial Thunder presents...
Racial Discrimination by MTS
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Plus: Great girl photos.
And: Milton, child rapist.
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RACIAL Discrimination by MTS
by Andrew Roller
Today, I was subjected to racism. Here’s how:
June 28, 2021
Dear MTS,
I am writing to complain about a trolley driver.
I am a White man. The trolley driver is an African-American man. He engaged in an act of racial discrimination against me.
I have been riding the trolley in San Diego since 1980.
I have been riding the trolley regularly in San Diego since 2002. ( For 19 years. )
Today, I arrived early at the Green Line trolley station at Santa Fe Depot. I arrived at about 5:08 p.m.
I always wait at the end of the trolley station, in the last shelter. That’s because the trolley always stops there. As a disabled veteran, and a kidney transplant patient, I want to be sure that I can board the trolley.
At 5:15 p.m., the trolley approached the trolley station. As I saw it approach, I rose to board it. I stood and waited. The trolley arrived at Santa Fe Depot at 5:15 p.m.
The trolley did not stop in its normal location. The driver stopped the trolley far short of where I was standing. I barely had enough time to board the trolley before it left.
I figured the trolley driver may have had an unusual way of operating his trolley. So, I watched where he stopped at Seaport Village, and then at the Convention Center.
The trolley driver stopped at the proper location. He stopped at the end of the trolley station, by the last shelter.
Hence, the trolley driver did not have an unusual way of operating his trolley.
The trolley driver intentionally stopped his trolley far short of me, at Santa Fe Depot, in an attempt to prevent me from boarding the trolley.
Your trolley driver engaged in a deliberate act of racial discrimination against me.
This society is no better if ( historic ) racial discrimination against African-Americans is replaced by present discrimination against Whites.
As a kidney transplant patient, and a disabled veteran, who is 60 years old, I WILL NOT TOLERATE racism.
I expect you to train your trolley drivers to operate their trolleys in a NON-discriminatory manner.
Sincerely,
Andrew L. Roller
That concludes my report.
GREAT girl PHOTOS
In Amazon Audible:
It’s said that you can’t tell a book by its cover. Nonetheless, there are some great book covers! Here are two featuring lovely young girls:
1. The Girl in the Locked Room, by Mary Downing ( not Downer! ) Hahn.
2. Deep and Dark and Dangerous, by Mary Downing Hahn.
Which girl do you like best? I like “The Girl in the Locked Room” best.
And Elsewhere:
An advertisement at foxnews ( dot ) com featured a gorgeous blonde girl. She looked about 11 years old, and was smoking a cigarette. Clicking on her photo got me nowhere. Her photo was credited to “History Daily”, as “Chilling Historic Photos”.
I visited historydaily ( dot ) org. However, the web site lacks a search field ( except for their sponsoring advertiser ). Also, there is no category called “Chilling Historic Photos”.
The category “Historical Photos” did not lead to the girl’s photo.
MILTON, child RAPIST
Mary, the mother of Jesus, was likely no more than 12 years old when she was inseminated by God ( via whatever “holy” medium you prefer ).
Do you wish to argue this point? I hope not. In the T.V. series “Rome”, its protagonist seeks to marry off his 12 year old daughter, before she gets “too old”. He hopes to marry her to “a rich old man”.
Professor Garrett Gay Fag ( an ) mentions the age of majority for a male in Roman society. It was “14 or 15 years old”. Source: The Great Courses: The History of Ancient Rome. ( Amazon Audible ).
One of God’s most famous mortal servants was John Milton. His works include “Paradise Lost”. Milton wrote it to explain God to Man. Of “Paradise Lost”, Wikipedia says,
“Paradise Lost is widely considered to be one of the greatest works of literature ever written”.
When Milton was 35 years old, he raped a 16 year old child. An apologist for this act will say, “Oh well, they were married”. Indeed, they were. But under the modern view, an “adult” man must be revolted by the idea of raping a 16 year old child. To marry someone of such a tender age is equally revolting. Indeed, rather than living on to compose poetry, Milton would be, in modern America, imprisoned for life.
How many John Miltons languish in America’s gulag? When will Americans realize that they’ve replaced Negro slavery with the enslavement and abuse, and even the murder, of so-called “pedophiles”?
BOSOM Heaven
For the Desperate
I suppose that we’re all fated to get packages in the mail. A well packed shipment will often include bubble wrap. I recall a video in which Dana Taranova, then age 12, covered a floor with bubble wrap. She proceeded to merrily pop the bubbles.
Recently, I was about to throw away a length of pillowy bubbles. I gathered the big bubbles in my hand and squeezed them. Collectively, they sort of felt like a bosom! I was thrilled.
If you’re seeking the same experience, keep watch for these pillowy bubbles in your arriving packages. They are, specifically, the following:
“Airspace Polyair air pillows”. A warning stamped on them reads, “Do not use as a toy, pillow, or floatation device, including on the Titanic.”
The pillows don’t prohibit their use as a boob. Happy squeezing!
ARCANA
1. MTS stands for the “San Diego Metropolitan Transit System”. It is a California public agency comprised of the following:
A. San Diego Transit Corp.
B. San Diego Trolley, Inc.
C. San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway Company.
D. San Diego Vintage Trolley, Inc.
Under the law, any transit company owes its customers “the highest standard of care”.
2. Fag ( an ). The relevant lecture is “Lecture 19: The Pressures of Empire”.
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Copyright 2021 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 89
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 89, version 3.0
Date Written: June 28, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 89
Editorial Thunder presents...
Racial Discrimination by MTS
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Plus: Great girl photos.
And: Milton, child rapist.
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RACIAL Discrimination by MTS
by Andrew Roller
Today, I was subjected to racism. Here’s how:
June 28, 2021
Dear MTS,
I am writing to complain about a trolley driver.
I am a White man. The trolley driver is an African-American man. He engaged in an act of racial discrimination against me.
I have been riding the trolley in San Diego since 1980.
I have been riding the trolley regularly in San Diego since 2002. ( For 19 years. )
Today, I arrived early at the Green Line trolley station at Santa Fe Depot. I arrived at about 5:08 p.m.
I always wait at the end of the trolley station, in the last shelter. That’s because the trolley always stops there. As a disabled veteran, and a kidney transplant patient, I want to be sure that I can board the trolley.
At 5:15 p.m., the trolley approached the trolley station. As I saw it approach, I rose to board it. I stood and waited. The trolley arrived at Santa Fe Depot at 5:15 p.m.
The trolley did not stop in its normal location. The driver stopped the trolley far short of where I was standing. I barely had enough time to board the trolley before it left.
I figured the trolley driver may have had an unusual way of operating his trolley. So, I watched where he stopped at Seaport Village, and then at the Convention Center.
The trolley driver stopped at the proper location. He stopped at the end of the trolley station, by the last shelter.
Hence, the trolley driver did not have an unusual way of operating his trolley.
The trolley driver intentionally stopped his trolley far short of me, at Santa Fe Depot, in an attempt to prevent me from boarding the trolley.
Your trolley driver engaged in a deliberate act of racial discrimination against me.
This society is no better if ( historic ) racial discrimination against African-Americans is replaced by present discrimination against Whites.
As a kidney transplant patient, and a disabled veteran, who is 60 years old, I WILL NOT TOLERATE racism.
I expect you to train your trolley drivers to operate their trolleys in a NON-discriminatory manner.
Sincerely,
Andrew L. Roller
That concludes my report.
GREAT girl PHOTOS
In Amazon Audible:
It’s said that you can’t tell a book by its cover. Nonetheless, there are some great book covers! Here are two featuring lovely young girls:
1. The Girl in the Locked Room, by Mary Downing ( not Downer! ) Hahn.
2. Deep and Dark and Dangerous, by Mary Downing Hahn.
Which girl do you like best? I like “The Girl in the Locked Room” best.
And Elsewhere:
An advertisement at foxnews ( dot ) com featured a gorgeous blonde girl. She looked about 11 years old, and was smoking a cigarette. Clicking on her photo got me nowhere. Her photo was credited to “History Daily”, as “Chilling Historic Photos”.
I visited historydaily ( dot ) org. However, the web site lacks a search field ( except for their sponsoring advertiser ). Also, there is no category called “Chilling Historic Photos”.
The category “Historical Photos” did not lead to the girl’s photo.
MILTON, child RAPIST
Mary, the mother of Jesus, was likely no more than 12 years old when she was inseminated by God ( via whatever “holy” medium you prefer ).
Do you wish to argue this point? I hope not. In the T.V. series “Rome”, its protagonist seeks to marry off his 12 year old daughter, before she gets “too old”. He hopes to marry her to “a rich old man”.
Professor Garrett Gay Fag ( an ) mentions the age of majority for a male in Roman society. It was “14 or 15 years old”. Source: The Great Courses: The History of Ancient Rome. ( Amazon Audible ).
One of God’s most famous mortal servants was John Milton. His works include “Paradise Lost”. Milton wrote it to explain God to Man. Of “Paradise Lost”, Wikipedia says,
“Paradise Lost is widely considered to be one of the greatest works of literature ever written”.
When Milton was 35 years old, he raped a 16 year old child. An apologist for this act will say, “Oh well, they were married”. Indeed, they were. But under the modern view, an “adult” man must be revolted by the idea of raping a 16 year old child. To marry someone of such a tender age is equally revolting. Indeed, rather than living on to compose poetry, Milton would be, in modern America, imprisoned for life.
How many John Miltons languish in America’s gulag? When will Americans realize that they’ve replaced Negro slavery with the enslavement and abuse, and even the murder, of so-called “pedophiles”?
BOSOM Heaven
For the Desperate
I suppose that we’re all fated to get packages in the mail. A well packed shipment will often include bubble wrap. I recall a video in which Dana Taranova, then age 12, covered a floor with bubble wrap. She proceeded to merrily pop the bubbles.
Recently, I was about to throw away a length of pillowy bubbles. I gathered the big bubbles in my hand and squeezed them. Collectively, they sort of felt like a bosom! I was thrilled.
If you’re seeking the same experience, keep watch for these pillowy bubbles in your arriving packages. They are, specifically, the following:
“Airspace Polyair air pillows”. A warning stamped on them reads, “Do not use as a toy, pillow, or floatation device, including on the Titanic.”
The pillows don’t prohibit their use as a boob. Happy squeezing!
ARCANA
1. MTS stands for the “San Diego Metropolitan Transit System”. It is a California public agency comprised of the following:
A. San Diego Transit Corp.
B. San Diego Trolley, Inc.
C. San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway Company.
D. San Diego Vintage Trolley, Inc.
Under the law, any transit company owes its customers “the highest standard of care”.
2. Fag ( an ). The relevant lecture is “Lecture 19: The Pressures of Empire”.
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Copyright 2021 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 89
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 89, version 3.0
Date Written: June 28, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Asimov’s Successor
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ET 88
Editorial Thunder presents...
Asimov’s Successor
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Plus: Sleeping with “Audible”.
And: Self-improvement’s best path.
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Asimov’s Successor
An “Audible” Audio Book Review
by Andrew Roller
The End of Everything ( Astrophysically Speaking ). By Katie Mack Truck. Read by Gabra Zackman with the author.
Review: Of life, the universe, and everything, you might sometimes ask, “What does it all mean?” ( Probably, nothing. ) You might also ask, “How does it all end?” ( Probably, with nothing. )
However, if you have nothing, for long enough, in an era with no time, you might get a new universe! This is an insight I’ve had for some time. Katie Mack explains it more clearly than any other author I’ve read.
When I was nine, I moved to Guam. My father became the pastor of the Lutheran Church of Guam. The first Sunday school teacher that I recall having there was Dale Eppen. You can tell that Dale was young. That’s because I wasn’t required to call him “Mr”.
Nonetheless, as a sailor in the U.S. Navy, Dale knew everything. He knew how the world began, and how it ended. He also knew that he was ordained by God, though not ecclesiastically, to order the world according to God’s principles.
What were God’s principles? They were whatever happened to be in Dale Eppen’s head.
In my first Sunday school class with Dale there were about eight pupils. Dale began the class by asking a question.
“Who here believes in evolution?” Dale asked. He gave no hint as to his own opinion of evolution. I was a regular reader of books. I replied that I believed in evolution.
Dale was shocked. He was soon racing about the church, telling everyone he could find, “The pastor’s son believes in evolution!” It turned out that Dale was the sort of man who attended the film, “Planet of the Apes”, to disrupt viewers’ experience of the film.
Obviously, I was wrong about evolution. Scientists now agree that the Eppen view of the universe is correct. God created our universe about 6,000 years ago. It will end soon. Dale Eppen will be the first person that God whisks to Heaven before punishing sinners like me.
As a sinner, I didn’t stop reading books. The best science author in the 1970s was Isaac Asimov. I’m pleased to report that a new sinner has replaced Asimov. Her name is Katie Mack.
“The End of Everything” tells how the universe began. Since Mack is a scientist, not a Sunday school teacher, she can’t say for certain what happened. She reports on various theories of the origin of the cosmos.
Then Mack moves on to her main topic: various ways that the universe will end. One of these is that the universe may collapse back onto itself. This theory was popular in the past, among scientists. Later, it was discredited. Now, it’s popular again! It’s thought that our universe may be the result of a prior cosmos’ collapse. That cosmos then bounced outward again, creating Dale Eppen.
Mack also posits that Dale Eppen may be eternal. So are you, and I. Quantum fluctuations, over a lengthy enough period, may recreate prior universes.
Or they may create just you. It’s possible that you’re a “Boltzmann” brain. Only your brain exists, and it’s imagining that you have a body. In fact, your brain is imagining the whole cosmos, including that Devil Harris is our president of vice. Don’t worry! In this theory, your brain will soon vanish, along with Devil Harris.
Mack provides other views on how the universe will end. I thought I’d kept up, over the years, with this subject. However, despite Mack’s clarity, it’s difficult for me to retain all that I’ve heard in this audio book.
Note: Mack often mentions the word “brane”. That’s another word for the universe that we inhabit. In this theory, our “brane” is just one of many “branes”. All the “branes” live in something called “the bulk”. Don’t confuse the word “brane” with the word “brain”; your mind.
Of course, if you’re a “Boltzmann” brain, you’re a universe unto yourself. In that case, your brain is a brane.
Mack’s scariest scenario regards the energy state of our universe. It’s stuck at the wrong level. Imagine that the energy state of our cosmos is a ball. The ball has rolled partway downhill.
The ball has been stopped by a pebble. However, if there should be an earthquake, the pebble will be dislodged. Then the ball will roll to the bottom of the hill.
If the energy state of our universe collapses, our universe ends. The point of collapse will be a lower energy state. It will be akin to a bubble in our cosmos. The rest of the universe, at a higher energy state, will whoosh into the lower energy state.
An analogy: Let’s say that you have a warm, heated home on a winter day. Then you open your front door. Where does the warm air go? It slips outside, into the cold outdoor air. The inside of your house becomes cold.
Here’s another way to look at the low-energy bubble: it expands outward, into the rest of our universe. It expands at the speed of light. Since nothing travels faster than light, you won’t see it coming. One moment, you’re telling your Sunday school class that God controls the universe. The next moment, you’re consumed by the bubble, along with your Sunday school class.
“Pray for that pebble!” you might say. That is, pray for whatever is keeping the cosmos from falling to a lower energy state. Except, quantum mechanics also plays a role. The energy state of our universe could tunnel, in the quantum sense, through the “pebble”. That would result in our universe undergoing a collapse to a lower energy state.
( If quantum tunneling was impossible, your iPhone wouldn’t work. )
I highly recommend “The End of Everything”. You’ll definitely get your money’s worth from this audio book. That’s because you’ll need to listen to it more than once to learn all that it has to offer.
If this subject is new to you, you may want to start your learning journey elsewhere. I recommend listening to the audio book, “A Question of Time”, by Scientific American. Its last chapter covers theories on how the universe will end.
So far, I’m extremely pleased with Amazon “Audible” books. I recommend that you throw away your television. ( I don’t have one. ) Buy a pair of wireless headphones, and sign up for “Audible” books.
MORE on AUDIBLE
Let’s look more deeply into the “Audible” app:
You don’t have to listen to an “Audible” book from beginning to end. You can decide where, in your book, to listen. Here’s how:
1. Launch the “Audible” app.
2. ( The “Audible” app launches. ) At the bottom of your iPad’s screen is a status bar. In it, you’ll see four icons. They are:
A. Home
B. Library
C. Discover
D. Profile
3. Tap on “Library”.
4. Look to the top left corner of your iPad’s screen. Tap on the box marked, “All Titles”.
5. ( All the books in your library are displayed. ) Scroll down the list of your books to the one that you want to hear. Tap on it.
6. A new status bar appears on your iPad’s screen. This status bar is ABOVE the one that holds the icon marked “Library”.
In the new status bar is an icon of your book. Your book is playing. To stop this, look to the far right on the new status bar. A stop button is there. Tap it.
7. Next, tap on any blank area in the new status bar. Whoa! The bar expands, filling your iPad’s screen. At the bottom of this expanded status bar are four icons. They are:
A. Speed
B. Chapters
C. Sleep
D. + Clip
I’ll explain these:
A. Speed. “1.0X” is the normal listening speed. However, if you’re a genius like me, thanks to “Audible”, you can increase the speed at which an audio book plays. Today, I was listening to the audio book, “Inscrutable Aspects of Quantum Gravity”. I had to increase the speed of this book to “3.5X” to keep from being bored.
B. Chapters. Tap on this icon. An informational box appears. It lists all the book’s chapters. Scroll down in the box until you find the chapter that you want. Tap on it. The book will begin playing that chapter.
To get out of the informational box, look to its top left corner. Tap on the “X”.
C. Sleep. This is a fabulous function! I use it every night. I sleep on the floor, on a narrow mattress topper. Previously, I used to lie on the topper, thinking, “Dale Eppen probably sleeps in a bed. That’s because he doesn’t believe in evolution.”
Now, I head straight for sin. I tap on the “Sleep” icon. An informational box appears. It lists various lengths of time. I like the time of “45 Mins”. ( 45 minutes. )
I tap on “45 Mins” to get my book playing. Then, I realize I need to go to the bathroom. The informational box has disappeared! What to do?
You’ll find that you’re in the expanded status bar. Hit its stop button. Your book will stop playing. Now, you can use the toilet, brush your teeth, start your dishwasher, and do the many other things that you’d forgotten about.
Meanwhile, your “Sleep” timer is ticking down. By the time you’re actually in bed ( or on the floor), you’ll have about 30 minutes left to listen to your book.
Don’t listen to something that will upset you. You’re trying to sleep, not wage war with the world at 11:49 p.m. I listen to “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”. Edward Gibbon wrote this book in the year 1776. As best I can tell, it’s suitably colonialist and patriarchal. Women are bearers of sin. Men only run about as women if they’re sinners too. So, I don’t wind up in mental battles with Gibbon. He quickly puts me to sleep. I like the version read by Charlton Griffin.
D. + Clip. I’ve only read about this function. It lets you create clips of your favorite passages in “Audible” books. If you create such a passage, this uses up additional memory on your iPad.
AND IN THE END…
“Reading is the most important method of self-improvement.”
- Isaac Watts
Source: The Well-Educated Mind, by Susan Wise Bauer. Page 16. ( Amazon Kindle. )
ARCANA
I obtained two benefits from Dale Eppen. First, by humiliating me, and my father, he reinforced my determination to read books. These included books on evolution. I spent my years in secular schools arguing with Bible-thumping students like Eppen.
Second, I credit Eppen with saving my life. He wasn’t just my Sunday school teacher. He was also, for a time, the church youth group advisor. He took the youth group on several field trips.
( On these trips, Dale required us to sing such songs as “Kumbaya My Lord”. )
All the trips involved “getting back to nature”. We youth went to various jungle-laden places on Guam. At one, there was a pond. A waterfall that was about 12 feet high tumbled into the pond. Where the falls hit the pond, there was an underwater shelf of rock. The shelf extended some distance into the pond. Beyond this shelf was deep water.
Dale led our youth group on a climb to the top of the waterfall. I recall crouching there with Dale and the others. In our group was a blonde girl. I liked her but, for some reason, she failed to realize that I would one day be worth marrying, as a 60 year old “child molester”. So she didn’t like me.
I wanted to impress her. I figured I could dive, headfirst, into the pond, and clear the shelf. Maybe I could have. Then Dale, out of the blue, said,
“Don’t jump, Andrew.” So, I didn’t. God forbid if I had. I might have slammed headfirst into the shelf. If so, I’d be a retard today, who thinks that God created the earth.
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Copyright 2021 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 88
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 88, version 5.0
Date Written: June 25, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 88
Editorial Thunder presents...
Asimov’s Successor
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Plus: Sleeping with “Audible”.
And: Self-improvement’s best path.
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Asimov’s Successor
An “Audible” Audio Book Review
by Andrew Roller
The End of Everything ( Astrophysically Speaking ). By Katie Mack Truck. Read by Gabra Zackman with the author.
Review: Of life, the universe, and everything, you might sometimes ask, “What does it all mean?” ( Probably, nothing. ) You might also ask, “How does it all end?” ( Probably, with nothing. )
However, if you have nothing, for long enough, in an era with no time, you might get a new universe! This is an insight I’ve had for some time. Katie Mack explains it more clearly than any other author I’ve read.
When I was nine, I moved to Guam. My father became the pastor of the Lutheran Church of Guam. The first Sunday school teacher that I recall having there was Dale Eppen. You can tell that Dale was young. That’s because I wasn’t required to call him “Mr”.
Nonetheless, as a sailor in the U.S. Navy, Dale knew everything. He knew how the world began, and how it ended. He also knew that he was ordained by God, though not ecclesiastically, to order the world according to God’s principles.
What were God’s principles? They were whatever happened to be in Dale Eppen’s head.
In my first Sunday school class with Dale there were about eight pupils. Dale began the class by asking a question.
“Who here believes in evolution?” Dale asked. He gave no hint as to his own opinion of evolution. I was a regular reader of books. I replied that I believed in evolution.
Dale was shocked. He was soon racing about the church, telling everyone he could find, “The pastor’s son believes in evolution!” It turned out that Dale was the sort of man who attended the film, “Planet of the Apes”, to disrupt viewers’ experience of the film.
Obviously, I was wrong about evolution. Scientists now agree that the Eppen view of the universe is correct. God created our universe about 6,000 years ago. It will end soon. Dale Eppen will be the first person that God whisks to Heaven before punishing sinners like me.
As a sinner, I didn’t stop reading books. The best science author in the 1970s was Isaac Asimov. I’m pleased to report that a new sinner has replaced Asimov. Her name is Katie Mack.
“The End of Everything” tells how the universe began. Since Mack is a scientist, not a Sunday school teacher, she can’t say for certain what happened. She reports on various theories of the origin of the cosmos.
Then Mack moves on to her main topic: various ways that the universe will end. One of these is that the universe may collapse back onto itself. This theory was popular in the past, among scientists. Later, it was discredited. Now, it’s popular again! It’s thought that our universe may be the result of a prior cosmos’ collapse. That cosmos then bounced outward again, creating Dale Eppen.
Mack also posits that Dale Eppen may be eternal. So are you, and I. Quantum fluctuations, over a lengthy enough period, may recreate prior universes.
Or they may create just you. It’s possible that you’re a “Boltzmann” brain. Only your brain exists, and it’s imagining that you have a body. In fact, your brain is imagining the whole cosmos, including that Devil Harris is our president of vice. Don’t worry! In this theory, your brain will soon vanish, along with Devil Harris.
Mack provides other views on how the universe will end. I thought I’d kept up, over the years, with this subject. However, despite Mack’s clarity, it’s difficult for me to retain all that I’ve heard in this audio book.
Note: Mack often mentions the word “brane”. That’s another word for the universe that we inhabit. In this theory, our “brane” is just one of many “branes”. All the “branes” live in something called “the bulk”. Don’t confuse the word “brane” with the word “brain”; your mind.
Of course, if you’re a “Boltzmann” brain, you’re a universe unto yourself. In that case, your brain is a brane.
Mack’s scariest scenario regards the energy state of our universe. It’s stuck at the wrong level. Imagine that the energy state of our cosmos is a ball. The ball has rolled partway downhill.
The ball has been stopped by a pebble. However, if there should be an earthquake, the pebble will be dislodged. Then the ball will roll to the bottom of the hill.
If the energy state of our universe collapses, our universe ends. The point of collapse will be a lower energy state. It will be akin to a bubble in our cosmos. The rest of the universe, at a higher energy state, will whoosh into the lower energy state.
An analogy: Let’s say that you have a warm, heated home on a winter day. Then you open your front door. Where does the warm air go? It slips outside, into the cold outdoor air. The inside of your house becomes cold.
Here’s another way to look at the low-energy bubble: it expands outward, into the rest of our universe. It expands at the speed of light. Since nothing travels faster than light, you won’t see it coming. One moment, you’re telling your Sunday school class that God controls the universe. The next moment, you’re consumed by the bubble, along with your Sunday school class.
“Pray for that pebble!” you might say. That is, pray for whatever is keeping the cosmos from falling to a lower energy state. Except, quantum mechanics also plays a role. The energy state of our universe could tunnel, in the quantum sense, through the “pebble”. That would result in our universe undergoing a collapse to a lower energy state.
( If quantum tunneling was impossible, your iPhone wouldn’t work. )
I highly recommend “The End of Everything”. You’ll definitely get your money’s worth from this audio book. That’s because you’ll need to listen to it more than once to learn all that it has to offer.
If this subject is new to you, you may want to start your learning journey elsewhere. I recommend listening to the audio book, “A Question of Time”, by Scientific American. Its last chapter covers theories on how the universe will end.
So far, I’m extremely pleased with Amazon “Audible” books. I recommend that you throw away your television. ( I don’t have one. ) Buy a pair of wireless headphones, and sign up for “Audible” books.
MORE on AUDIBLE
Let’s look more deeply into the “Audible” app:
You don’t have to listen to an “Audible” book from beginning to end. You can decide where, in your book, to listen. Here’s how:
1. Launch the “Audible” app.
2. ( The “Audible” app launches. ) At the bottom of your iPad’s screen is a status bar. In it, you’ll see four icons. They are:
A. Home
B. Library
C. Discover
D. Profile
3. Tap on “Library”.
4. Look to the top left corner of your iPad’s screen. Tap on the box marked, “All Titles”.
5. ( All the books in your library are displayed. ) Scroll down the list of your books to the one that you want to hear. Tap on it.
6. A new status bar appears on your iPad’s screen. This status bar is ABOVE the one that holds the icon marked “Library”.
In the new status bar is an icon of your book. Your book is playing. To stop this, look to the far right on the new status bar. A stop button is there. Tap it.
7. Next, tap on any blank area in the new status bar. Whoa! The bar expands, filling your iPad’s screen. At the bottom of this expanded status bar are four icons. They are:
A. Speed
B. Chapters
C. Sleep
D. + Clip
I’ll explain these:
A. Speed. “1.0X” is the normal listening speed. However, if you’re a genius like me, thanks to “Audible”, you can increase the speed at which an audio book plays. Today, I was listening to the audio book, “Inscrutable Aspects of Quantum Gravity”. I had to increase the speed of this book to “3.5X” to keep from being bored.
B. Chapters. Tap on this icon. An informational box appears. It lists all the book’s chapters. Scroll down in the box until you find the chapter that you want. Tap on it. The book will begin playing that chapter.
To get out of the informational box, look to its top left corner. Tap on the “X”.
C. Sleep. This is a fabulous function! I use it every night. I sleep on the floor, on a narrow mattress topper. Previously, I used to lie on the topper, thinking, “Dale Eppen probably sleeps in a bed. That’s because he doesn’t believe in evolution.”
Now, I head straight for sin. I tap on the “Sleep” icon. An informational box appears. It lists various lengths of time. I like the time of “45 Mins”. ( 45 minutes. )
I tap on “45 Mins” to get my book playing. Then, I realize I need to go to the bathroom. The informational box has disappeared! What to do?
You’ll find that you’re in the expanded status bar. Hit its stop button. Your book will stop playing. Now, you can use the toilet, brush your teeth, start your dishwasher, and do the many other things that you’d forgotten about.
Meanwhile, your “Sleep” timer is ticking down. By the time you’re actually in bed ( or on the floor), you’ll have about 30 minutes left to listen to your book.
Don’t listen to something that will upset you. You’re trying to sleep, not wage war with the world at 11:49 p.m. I listen to “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”. Edward Gibbon wrote this book in the year 1776. As best I can tell, it’s suitably colonialist and patriarchal. Women are bearers of sin. Men only run about as women if they’re sinners too. So, I don’t wind up in mental battles with Gibbon. He quickly puts me to sleep. I like the version read by Charlton Griffin.
D. + Clip. I’ve only read about this function. It lets you create clips of your favorite passages in “Audible” books. If you create such a passage, this uses up additional memory on your iPad.
AND IN THE END…
“Reading is the most important method of self-improvement.”
- Isaac Watts
Source: The Well-Educated Mind, by Susan Wise Bauer. Page 16. ( Amazon Kindle. )
ARCANA
I obtained two benefits from Dale Eppen. First, by humiliating me, and my father, he reinforced my determination to read books. These included books on evolution. I spent my years in secular schools arguing with Bible-thumping students like Eppen.
Second, I credit Eppen with saving my life. He wasn’t just my Sunday school teacher. He was also, for a time, the church youth group advisor. He took the youth group on several field trips.
( On these trips, Dale required us to sing such songs as “Kumbaya My Lord”. )
All the trips involved “getting back to nature”. We youth went to various jungle-laden places on Guam. At one, there was a pond. A waterfall that was about 12 feet high tumbled into the pond. Where the falls hit the pond, there was an underwater shelf of rock. The shelf extended some distance into the pond. Beyond this shelf was deep water.
Dale led our youth group on a climb to the top of the waterfall. I recall crouching there with Dale and the others. In our group was a blonde girl. I liked her but, for some reason, she failed to realize that I would one day be worth marrying, as a 60 year old “child molester”. So she didn’t like me.
I wanted to impress her. I figured I could dive, headfirst, into the pond, and clear the shelf. Maybe I could have. Then Dale, out of the blue, said,
“Don’t jump, Andrew.” So, I didn’t. God forbid if I had. I might have slammed headfirst into the shelf. If so, I’d be a retard today, who thinks that God created the earth.
——————————————————————————————————————————
Copyright 2021 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 88
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 88, version 5.0
Date Written: June 25, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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Stories of Guam
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ET 87
Editorial Thunder presents...
Stories of Guam
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Plus: The antidote to pedophobia.
And: From “Niggers” to “child molesters”.
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STORIES of GUAM
King Kong, ‘Nam, and “spaghetti night’s” stinky finale.
by Andrew Roller
I heard this today, in San Diego: “I grew up in Arizona.” It was spoken by a young woman. She clerks at a local pharmacy. Our laws are based on the notion that someone who is above a chronological age, say age 21, “grew up”.
I didn’t “grow up” anywhere. I spent my “formative years” years living between an automobile dealership and a local grocery on Guam. “Grocery” is the best term I can come up with for the dingy, ramshackle store. It had a blaring jukebox inside the front door. Candy was sold at its front counter. Issues of the magazine “Sex to Sexty” were displayed on shelves. ( I never got my hands on “Sex to Sexty”. The clerks, Guamanian women, went nuts every time I went near the pathetic rag. )
As for the automobile dealership, it had a bar. The bar was next to the church that I lived on top of, with my family. One night, doing his part to fight White privilege, a drunk pounded on our family’s door. He spewed the usual local epithets against White people.
My father was the pastor of the church. Its name is, as it was in the 1970s, the Lutheran Church of Guam.
One afternoon, I was driven to Andersen Air Force Base. I spent several hours with a boy my age. I guess we were both about 10 years old. In the evening, the boy and I went to a movie. Perhaps a brother or sister of the boy came along. In that era, what theaters that Andersen Air Force Base had were outdoors. The theater was loaded with children. I doubt there was anyone in it that was over age 12. We watched the movie “King Kong”. It was rated G.
Another movie followed. Everyone stayed to watch it. A Western, it was rated GP. This rating is known today as PG.
After the two films, I went home with the boy. My father soon picked me up in his car. A man was sitting next to Dad in our car. I was in the car’s back seat.
Until the last day that I saw him, my father was always an inquisitorial moralist. He asked me what movie I’d seen. I let it slip that I’d seen not one movie, but two.
“What was the second movie rated?” my father demanded. I revealed that it was rated GP. My father exploded.
“GP?! GP?!” my father screamed ( more than twice ). He became so unhinged that I felt sorry for the man sitting beside him.
The main road in Guam is called “Marine Drive”. Bearing this name, it runs the length of the island. ( “Google Maps”, in 2021, shows some modest alterations to the road’s name. ) “Marine Drive” could be deadly. A parishioner and his son, and a friend, were killed on “Marine Drive”. They were driving home from Guam’s sole roller skating rink. A oncoming car crossed the median strip, on “Marine Drive”, and hit them in a head-on collision.
“Marine Drive” went straight from our church to Andersen Air Force Base. However, to avoid being killed on it, my parents soon were taking “the back way” to Andersen Air Force Base. The road was longer, but it had no traffic at all.
Like all military bases, Andersen Air Force Base had an Officers’ Club. Once a week, “spaghetti night” was held at the Officers’ Club. This was an all-you-can-eat affair. It came with all-you-can-drink iced tea. The Officers’ Club was spacious and uncrowded. A band, consisting of Filipinos, sang popular American songs from a stage during the meal.
A side note: During nearly all of my time on Guam, America was at war in Vietnam. At times, the war effort peaked. When it did, the Officers’ Club at Andersen Air Force Base was open 24 hours a day. I came to love the notion of a club that was open all hours of the day.
After our meal, my father drove us home. Except: he didn’t drive us home right away. Nothing “pleasurable” could occur in our family, without an accompanying work experience. Dad would always stop and make house calls. He called on people to try to get them to join our church.
In that era, the Lutheran Church of Guam was part of the Division of Service to Military Personnel ( DSMP ). ( A civilian Lutheran Church organization. ) Most people in the U.S. military at that time were White. In addition, White civilians came to Guam, on two year contracts, to teach in the local schools. So my father called on White people. Our congregation was, as I recall, 100 percent White.
In addition to the categories of parishioners mentioned above, there was one White person who lived permanently on Guam. His name was “Mr. Timmerman”. He spent a number of years in jail, during my time on Guam. “Mr. Timmerman” was jailed for attempting to remove Guamanian squatters from his land on Guam. To his misfortune, he’d brought a machete with him when he attempted to evict the squatters.
When my father made house calls, I was left sitting in our car. So was Mom, and my brother Pierre. We sat in our dark car with absolutely nothing to do. We didn’t run the car radio. That would have drained the car battery. Also, Guam only had one radio station.
( A second radio station was eventually started by White people. They were unable to obtain advertisers; Guamanian businessmen refused to advertise on a White-owned station. )
Dad didn’t make short house calls. We could count on about an hour of utter boredom whenever Dad made a house call.
My grandfather lived in New Jersey. Herbert was my father’s Dad. He decided to visit Guam. He went in our car to “spaghetti night”. Afterwards, Herbert got stuck sitting in our dark car with Mom, Pierre, and I.
Herbert was irreligious. There was always a simmering quarrel going on between Dad and Herbert. I never saw it break into open argument. But it was there, like a bed of glowing coals. Herbert was, I suppose, incensed at being stuck in our car after “spaghetti night”.
He decided to pass the time by telling a story. Herbert was a liquor salesman. He serviced various bars in New Jersey, taking their orders for liquor.
( This didn’t please Mom. She loathed salesmen. Also, to her, a man who sold liquor was akin to a man who sold sin. )
Here’s Herberts story:
Herbert: “Andrew, did you ever drink prune juice?”
Me: “No.”
Herbert: “At a bar, where I sold liquor, the bartender served me prune juice.
“Soon, I was driving home on the turnpike. I realized I had to go to the bathroom.” ( Any Mom’s favorite part of a story. )
“I pulled my car onto the road’s shoulder. I went, hurriedly, into the woods. I squatted down. As I began relieving myself, I felt a sharp sting on my bottom. I was relieving myself on a bee’s nest!
“I ran out of the woods. I had no time to pull up my pants. The bees were chasing me! They were stinging my bare bottom!”
Herbert’s story caused Pierre and I to laugh. However, I laughed uproariously. I remained quite full of spaghetti. Suddenly, I threw up in the family car. I didn’t throw up a little. My whole all-you-can-eat dinner, and the all-you-can-drink iced tea, vomited out of me. Our car was now a stinking mess.
Dad learned his lesson that night. Don’t leave Herbert stuck in a dark car with the family. I recall Dad, ashen, bringing paper towels out of the home he was visiting to clean our car. I’m not sure how Dad’s sales pitch for our church went after that. I guess he assured his potential parishioners that his son didn’t vomit during communion.
CELEBRATION and Remembrance
Please join in honoring pedophiles, and their loved ones, on August 18, 2021. ( Film director Roman Polanski’s birthday. )
Many pedophile lives have been lost, through imprisonment or murder, to societal injustice. Systemic pedophobia hasn’t just harmed “child molesters”. It has also harmed their loved ones, which this pedophobic society calls their “victims”.
END pedophobia NOW!
Attendance at a location isn’t necessary. Celebrate International Pedophile Day as you please.
AMERICA’S SOCIAL and LEGAL Evolution:
FROM “Niggers” TO “child molesters”.
1. “Clennon King, a black student who applied to the University of Mississippi in 1958, was forcefully committed to a mental asylum. The presiding judge ruled that a black person must surely be insane to think that he could be admitted to the University of Mississippi.”
- Yuval Noah Harari. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, page 112. ( Amazon Kindle. )
2. “Nothing was as revolting to American southerners (and many northerners) as sexual relations and marriage between black men and white women. Sex between the races became the greatest taboo and any violation, or suspected violation, was viewed as deserving immediate and summary punishment in the form of lynching. The Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist secret society, perpetrated many such killings.”
- Ibid., 112.
3. “Most sociopolitical hierarchies lack a logical or biological basis – they are nothing but … myths.
Ibid., 113.
4. “‘Biology enables, Culture forbids.’ Biology is willing to tolerate a very wide spectrum of possibilities. It’s culture that obliges people to realise some possibilities while forbidding others.”
- Ibid., 115.
AND IN THE END…
“The exercise of your OWN reason and judgment upon all you read . . . gives good sense.”
- Isaac Watts
Source: The Well-Educated Mind, by Susan Wise Bauer. Page 16. ( Emphasis added. ) ( Amazon Kindle. )
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Copyright 2021 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 87
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 87, version 7.0
Date Written: June 24, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 87
Editorial Thunder presents...
Stories of Guam
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Plus: The antidote to pedophobia.
And: From “Niggers” to “child molesters”.
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STORIES of GUAM
King Kong, ‘Nam, and “spaghetti night’s” stinky finale.
by Andrew Roller
I heard this today, in San Diego: “I grew up in Arizona.” It was spoken by a young woman. She clerks at a local pharmacy. Our laws are based on the notion that someone who is above a chronological age, say age 21, “grew up”.
I didn’t “grow up” anywhere. I spent my “formative years” years living between an automobile dealership and a local grocery on Guam. “Grocery” is the best term I can come up with for the dingy, ramshackle store. It had a blaring jukebox inside the front door. Candy was sold at its front counter. Issues of the magazine “Sex to Sexty” were displayed on shelves. ( I never got my hands on “Sex to Sexty”. The clerks, Guamanian women, went nuts every time I went near the pathetic rag. )
As for the automobile dealership, it had a bar. The bar was next to the church that I lived on top of, with my family. One night, doing his part to fight White privilege, a drunk pounded on our family’s door. He spewed the usual local epithets against White people.
My father was the pastor of the church. Its name is, as it was in the 1970s, the Lutheran Church of Guam.
One afternoon, I was driven to Andersen Air Force Base. I spent several hours with a boy my age. I guess we were both about 10 years old. In the evening, the boy and I went to a movie. Perhaps a brother or sister of the boy came along. In that era, what theaters that Andersen Air Force Base had were outdoors. The theater was loaded with children. I doubt there was anyone in it that was over age 12. We watched the movie “King Kong”. It was rated G.
Another movie followed. Everyone stayed to watch it. A Western, it was rated GP. This rating is known today as PG.
After the two films, I went home with the boy. My father soon picked me up in his car. A man was sitting next to Dad in our car. I was in the car’s back seat.
Until the last day that I saw him, my father was always an inquisitorial moralist. He asked me what movie I’d seen. I let it slip that I’d seen not one movie, but two.
“What was the second movie rated?” my father demanded. I revealed that it was rated GP. My father exploded.
“GP?! GP?!” my father screamed ( more than twice ). He became so unhinged that I felt sorry for the man sitting beside him.
The main road in Guam is called “Marine Drive”. Bearing this name, it runs the length of the island. ( “Google Maps”, in 2021, shows some modest alterations to the road’s name. ) “Marine Drive” could be deadly. A parishioner and his son, and a friend, were killed on “Marine Drive”. They were driving home from Guam’s sole roller skating rink. A oncoming car crossed the median strip, on “Marine Drive”, and hit them in a head-on collision.
“Marine Drive” went straight from our church to Andersen Air Force Base. However, to avoid being killed on it, my parents soon were taking “the back way” to Andersen Air Force Base. The road was longer, but it had no traffic at all.
Like all military bases, Andersen Air Force Base had an Officers’ Club. Once a week, “spaghetti night” was held at the Officers’ Club. This was an all-you-can-eat affair. It came with all-you-can-drink iced tea. The Officers’ Club was spacious and uncrowded. A band, consisting of Filipinos, sang popular American songs from a stage during the meal.
A side note: During nearly all of my time on Guam, America was at war in Vietnam. At times, the war effort peaked. When it did, the Officers’ Club at Andersen Air Force Base was open 24 hours a day. I came to love the notion of a club that was open all hours of the day.
After our meal, my father drove us home. Except: he didn’t drive us home right away. Nothing “pleasurable” could occur in our family, without an accompanying work experience. Dad would always stop and make house calls. He called on people to try to get them to join our church.
In that era, the Lutheran Church of Guam was part of the Division of Service to Military Personnel ( DSMP ). ( A civilian Lutheran Church organization. ) Most people in the U.S. military at that time were White. In addition, White civilians came to Guam, on two year contracts, to teach in the local schools. So my father called on White people. Our congregation was, as I recall, 100 percent White.
In addition to the categories of parishioners mentioned above, there was one White person who lived permanently on Guam. His name was “Mr. Timmerman”. He spent a number of years in jail, during my time on Guam. “Mr. Timmerman” was jailed for attempting to remove Guamanian squatters from his land on Guam. To his misfortune, he’d brought a machete with him when he attempted to evict the squatters.
When my father made house calls, I was left sitting in our car. So was Mom, and my brother Pierre. We sat in our dark car with absolutely nothing to do. We didn’t run the car radio. That would have drained the car battery. Also, Guam only had one radio station.
( A second radio station was eventually started by White people. They were unable to obtain advertisers; Guamanian businessmen refused to advertise on a White-owned station. )
Dad didn’t make short house calls. We could count on about an hour of utter boredom whenever Dad made a house call.
My grandfather lived in New Jersey. Herbert was my father’s Dad. He decided to visit Guam. He went in our car to “spaghetti night”. Afterwards, Herbert got stuck sitting in our dark car with Mom, Pierre, and I.
Herbert was irreligious. There was always a simmering quarrel going on between Dad and Herbert. I never saw it break into open argument. But it was there, like a bed of glowing coals. Herbert was, I suppose, incensed at being stuck in our car after “spaghetti night”.
He decided to pass the time by telling a story. Herbert was a liquor salesman. He serviced various bars in New Jersey, taking their orders for liquor.
( This didn’t please Mom. She loathed salesmen. Also, to her, a man who sold liquor was akin to a man who sold sin. )
Here’s Herberts story:
Herbert: “Andrew, did you ever drink prune juice?”
Me: “No.”
Herbert: “At a bar, where I sold liquor, the bartender served me prune juice.
“Soon, I was driving home on the turnpike. I realized I had to go to the bathroom.” ( Any Mom’s favorite part of a story. )
“I pulled my car onto the road’s shoulder. I went, hurriedly, into the woods. I squatted down. As I began relieving myself, I felt a sharp sting on my bottom. I was relieving myself on a bee’s nest!
“I ran out of the woods. I had no time to pull up my pants. The bees were chasing me! They were stinging my bare bottom!”
Herbert’s story caused Pierre and I to laugh. However, I laughed uproariously. I remained quite full of spaghetti. Suddenly, I threw up in the family car. I didn’t throw up a little. My whole all-you-can-eat dinner, and the all-you-can-drink iced tea, vomited out of me. Our car was now a stinking mess.
Dad learned his lesson that night. Don’t leave Herbert stuck in a dark car with the family. I recall Dad, ashen, bringing paper towels out of the home he was visiting to clean our car. I’m not sure how Dad’s sales pitch for our church went after that. I guess he assured his potential parishioners that his son didn’t vomit during communion.
CELEBRATION and Remembrance
Please join in honoring pedophiles, and their loved ones, on August 18, 2021. ( Film director Roman Polanski’s birthday. )
Many pedophile lives have been lost, through imprisonment or murder, to societal injustice. Systemic pedophobia hasn’t just harmed “child molesters”. It has also harmed their loved ones, which this pedophobic society calls their “victims”.
END pedophobia NOW!
Attendance at a location isn’t necessary. Celebrate International Pedophile Day as you please.
AMERICA’S SOCIAL and LEGAL Evolution:
FROM “Niggers” TO “child molesters”.
1. “Clennon King, a black student who applied to the University of Mississippi in 1958, was forcefully committed to a mental asylum. The presiding judge ruled that a black person must surely be insane to think that he could be admitted to the University of Mississippi.”
- Yuval Noah Harari. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, page 112. ( Amazon Kindle. )
2. “Nothing was as revolting to American southerners (and many northerners) as sexual relations and marriage between black men and white women. Sex between the races became the greatest taboo and any violation, or suspected violation, was viewed as deserving immediate and summary punishment in the form of lynching. The Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist secret society, perpetrated many such killings.”
- Ibid., 112.
3. “Most sociopolitical hierarchies lack a logical or biological basis – they are nothing but … myths.
Ibid., 113.
4. “‘Biology enables, Culture forbids.’ Biology is willing to tolerate a very wide spectrum of possibilities. It’s culture that obliges people to realise some possibilities while forbidding others.”
- Ibid., 115.
AND IN THE END…
“The exercise of your OWN reason and judgment upon all you read . . . gives good sense.”
- Isaac Watts
Source: The Well-Educated Mind, by Susan Wise Bauer. Page 16. ( Emphasis added. ) ( Amazon Kindle. )
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Copyright 2021 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 87
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 87, version 7.0
Date Written: June 24, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Censoring Kilpatrick
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ET 86
Editorial Thunder presents...
Censoring Kilpatrick
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Plus: It’s about time.
And: LGBTQIA+ but no P
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CENSORING Kilpatrick
A book by Kilpatrick vanishes.
by Andrew Roller
This year, it was discovered that the T.V. show, “60 Minutes”, was lying about Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida. “60 Minutes” falsely alleged that DeSantis was distributing the Covid-19 vaccine in a corrupt manner. “60 Minutes” knowingly lied. When it was pointed out to “60 Minutes” that they were lying, “60 Minutes” refused to apologize.
“60 Minutes” is a weekly show. It has been on T.V. for decades. In its prime, which lasted for decades, it was the premiere newsmagazine in America.
For years, a conservative commentator appeared on “60 Minutes”. His name was James J. Kilpatrick. He wrote a number of books. One of his books is titled, “Salesman for Segregation”. Kilpatrick, as best I can gather, argued for keeping Whites and Blacks separate.
Within the last two years, I bought two of Kilpatrick’s books on Amazon. They had nothing to do with segregation. Kilpatrick wrote on a variety of topics.
A book that I saw on Amazon, by Kilpatrick, but didn’t buy, was “Salesman for Segregation”.
“Salesman for Segregation” is now gone from Amazon. I did a search on the internet for this book. It has utterly disappeared. It isn’t for sale anywhere.
A book that is available is a critique of “Salesman for Segregation”. It’s called, “James J. Kilpatrick: Salesman for Segregation”, by William Pee Hustler ( wit ). I feel no need to read this book. I can sum it up in one sentence: “Bad White man no like Negroes”. Of course, it’s plastered all over Google.
My complaint is this: what happened to the ACTUAL book, “Salesman for Segregation”? Kilpatrick was a famous author. He was on my T.V. every week, for years, on CBS’ “60 Minutes”! I generally agreed with his opinions.
Apparently, our mortal enemies, the Russians, believe in free speech more than we do. The only copy of “Salesman for Segregation” that I could find is at a Russian web site. However, the site operates in a way that I find to be unusual. I’m concerned that, by attempting to access “Salesman for Segregation”, I might get a virus.
Here is the web site address:
pi.autosteklo67.ru
Here are some comments that are posted on the site:
Jack Member: Hey there! “James J. Kilpatrick: Salesman for Segregation” searched all the web couldn’t find anywhere.
Harry Senior Member: Here is the link, was searching for this myself for a long time, found only on this fileshare. [ sic ]
Jack Member: But it requires CC. [ A credit card? ]
Oscar Junior Member: Yes, just fill it in, its [ sic ] trusted site.
The conversation continues. What’s unclear is which book is being discussed. Is it “Salesman for Segregation”, by James J. Kilpatrick? Or is it “James J. Kilpatrick: Salesman for Segregation”, by William Pee Hustler ( wit )?
If it’s the latter book, then “Salesman for Segregation”, by James J. Kilpatrick, isn’t available anywhere. I find this highly troubling. If Kilpatrick’s book can be eliminated from our society, what’s next?
Please don’t answer, “Well, Kilpatrick favors segregation. Segregation is wrong. So his book must be eliminated.”
America, today, is a highly segregated society. It’s no longer as segregated by race as it once was. Instead, it’s segregated by age. Have you ever heard of these social imperatives?
“We must protect the children.”
or
“To prevent access to children.”
America is a society that’s Hell-bent on segregation, on behalf of the mental disorder that I call “pedophobia”.
The world that’s depicted in George Orwell’s novel, “1984”, is increasingly the one that we’re living in.
Kilpatrick’s book, “The Smut Peddlers”, was published in 1960. It was published before I was born. Nonetheless, it remains available on Amazon, in multiple formats. ( Hardcover, Paperback, and Mass Market Paperback. )
IT’S about TIME
or: Time waits for no man.
Except: There’s no time.
An “Audible” Audio Book Review
A Question of Time. Scientific American. Amazon Audible. ( This is an “included” title. It is free to Audible subscribers. )
Review: George Lucas, of “Star Wars”, made the film “American Graffiti”. The poster for this film asks, “Where were you in ’62?”
In 1962, I was shitting in my diapers. However, by 1975, I was reading the magazine “Scientific American”.
For six years, I went to school in Guam. Its junior and high schools were disordered. I spent long hours in the library of both my junior and high schools. My high school library had special issues of “Scientific American”. Each special issue collected articles from past issues of the magazine into a single volume, on a single topic. I read the volume on the topic of time. It was fabulous.
Recently, I found this very volume, about time, on the web site of “Scientific American”. It had been published around 1968. I’d love to have reread this volume. However, I only got to view a sample of it. “Scientific American” wanted $100.00 per year for access to its back issues, including this volume.
Now, I’ve found a similar volume on Audible. It appears to have been published around 2018. The year 1968 may seem, to some, long ago. However, what I read in that era, plus other books, gave me a firm grounding to plunge into “A Question of Time”.
WHAT’S “Time” ABOUT?
This is often said: “Time is money.”
I have a secret to tell you. Money doesn’t exist. Protesting, you show me a dollar bill. It’s definitely real. But what is a dollar bill? It’s a piece of paper that’s printed with ink. We agree to use money as a placeholder. Using money as a placeholder in a transaction is preferable to bartering for goods and services.
I have another secret to tell you. Time doesn’t exist. Protesting, you show me your ticking watch. It’s definitely real. But what is a watch? It’s a mechanical, or electronic, device. We agree to use time as a placeholder. Using time as a placeholder is preferable to judging change in the world, on a day to day basis, to determine when we’ll have our next prearranged meeting.
So, time isn’t money. Time is no more real than money is.
That’s an interpretation of our universe in “A Question of Time”. Another interpretation is this:
A black hole’s interior exists outside of our “time”. That is, it exists outside of all change that can ever be observed in our universe. The black hole’s interior exists beyond the “end” of “time”. That is, it exists beyond the conclusion of all observable change in our universe.
I haven’t finished listening to “A Question of Time”. Sadly, the audio book has ceased examining time from the perspective of physics. Several articles covered biological time, including the timing of bowel movements. Now, I’m listening to articles that cover the history of clocks. As in: sundials, water clocks, and pendulums. That’s hardly what I wanted when I began listening to this audio book.
Scientific American’s study of time, in 1968, remains the gold standard on this topic. The author Martin ( not Martian! ) Gardner helped author the 1968 volume. I guess humans don’t know much more about time today, from a physics perspective, than they did over a half century ago.
GETTING the Audible PDF
Sometimes, when I’m listening to an “Audible” audio book, mention is made of a “portable document format” ( PDF ) file. I had no idea where to find this PDF.
Now, I do. IF your audio book comes with a PDF, here’s how to find it:
1. Launch the “Audible” app.
2. In the “Audible” app, look to the very bottom of your iPad’s screen. You’ll see a horizontal bar there. It has four icons. Tap on the icon labelled “Library”.
3. In “Library”, look to the top left of your iPad’s screen. Tap on the small box labelled, “All Titles”. All of the audio books in your library are displayed. They’re in a vertical line that runs down the left side of your iPad’s screen.
4. Scrolling down through your audio books, find the one titled, “A Question of Time”. I have 380 audio books in my library. Most are free; they’re “included” with my “Audible” membership.
In both my “Audible” app, and Amazon’s “Kindle” app, I have too many books in my library to find the title I want. ( I have a lot of free samples in my “Kindle” library, plus free Gutenberg books, and PDFs. )
To find books in my “Kindle” library, I use its “Search” function. In the “Audible” library, look to the top right of your iPad’s screen. An icon of a magnifying glass is there. Tap on it to search for an audio book.
5. Tap on the audio book, “A Question of Time”. It will appear as a horizontal bar. This bar will be ABOVE the horizontal bar that holds the icon labelled “Library”.
6. Tap on the horizontal bar that holds the audio book, “A Question of Time”. Whoa! The horizontal bar expands into a full page. It fills your iPad’s screen.
7. The audio book will be playing. Tap the stop button if this clouds your thinking.
8. Look to the top right corner of your iPad’s screen. An icon is there. It consists of three vertical dots. Tap on the three vertical dots.
9. An informational box appears. Within this box, at the top, is:
“Accompanying PDF”. Tap on it.
10. Wow! The PDF opens. It fills your iPad’s screen. You swipe left in this PDF to read it. This PDF holds the entire script of the audio book “A Question of Time”. It includes illustrations.
A number of audio books do not come with a PDF file. In that case, you’ll have to buy the printed version of the book elsewhere ( if you want it ). Usually, I buy the printed version on Amazon, as a “Kindle” book. The book may also be for sale in Apple’s “Books” app.
If the book is older, look for it at gutenberg ( dot ) org. Every book at Gutenberg is free.
( Instructions for downloading Gutenberg books are here on “Andrew Roller Stories and Essays” ( ARSE ) ).
11. To get out of the PDF, look to the top left of your iPad’s screen. You’ll see an icon that looks like the letter “X”. Tap on the “X”.
PLEASE, sir, I want some MORE
When I joined Amazon’s “Audible” app, they gave me 12 credits. You can judge my interest in books by this fact: I used my 12 credits quickly. In terms of frugality, it didn’t help that “Audible” had a 2-for-1 sale. ( Two books for the price of one credit. )
I’ve now figured out two things.
1. I searched for a way to buy more “Audible” credits on amazon ( dot ) com. I was informed, by Amazon, that this was next to impossible. Perhaps someday, after the next Ice Age, if the moon is blue, Amazon might sell me more “Audible” credits.
This is a lie. If you run out of credits, it’s actually quite easy to buy more. Go to this website:
audible ( dot ) com
They’re always eager to sell me more credits, when I run low. I bought three credits today. “Audible” credits, bought in batches of three, are $9.97 each.
I got an e-mail from “Audible”. It reads,
“As a member you can stock up on credits whenever you’re running low. You’ll see the offer to ‘Buy 3 extra credits’ at the top of our site.”
Here’s the key. The web site audible ( dot ) com is NOT the “Audible” app. The “Audible” app is where you listen to your audio books. The audible ( dot ) com web site is, among other things, where you buy extra credits.
2. Let’s say that you run out of credits. You don’t buy more at audible ( dot ) com. You buy a “Kindle” book on Amazon. When you do, Amazon, as I recall, says this:
“Add Audible narration for $7.49.”
The amount $7.49 is LESS than the cost of a new “Audible” credit, as sold in batches of three. That amount is $9.97. So, if you know that you want to buy “Kindle” books, plus their “Audible” counterparts, DON’T buy more “Audible” credits! Then you’ll get the lowest price possible for ( adding ) “Audible” narration.
Make sure you’re signed up for the least expensive “Audible” plan. It’s the “Discount Audible Premium Plus Annual Sockittome” plan. This is an annual plan. Its credits are bought in batches of 12 for $149.50. That means each credit costs $12.46.
By starting, or renewing, a plan, you’ll get access to lots of free ( quality ) “Audible” audio books. You’ll also get access to an enormous load of crappy, but allegedly trendy, audio books. “Audible” also offers some podcasts.
AND IN THE END…
Amazon’s Audible app has a section marked “Discover”. Today, I was looking at books in “Discover”. Here’s what I found:
“LGBTQIA+ Authors in Audible Plus”. Look how many letters that is! What began as “gay” ( “G” ) soon had “L”, for “lesbian”, put in front of it. ( To be politically correct. ) Now this acronym has expanded beyond all reasonable measure.
Yet, you can readily see that a letter is missing: P. Not pee as in piss, but P as in pedophile. I guess pedophiles don’t exist, except to be arrested, prosecuted, and imprisoned, often for life.
ARCANA
I can hear it now: where are the fucking young girls in this issue? Sorry, guys. I’m busy cleaning out a storage locker. Then, I have to clean out the room where I formerly lived. In the meantime, while I’m occupied as a human donkey, I continue to pay for these spaces, and they aren’t cheap.
I’m mostly moving printed matter. That is, books and magazines. Observers tell me to throw this stuff out. However, given what’s happened to “Salesman for Segregation”, by James J. Kilpatrick, I may be rescuing literature for future minds. I also have printed matter in storage that’s 700 miles from my current location. When I’ll move that literature is unknown.
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Copyright 2021 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 86
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 86, version 5.0
Date Written: June 20, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 86
Editorial Thunder presents...
Censoring Kilpatrick
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Plus: It’s about time.
And: LGBTQIA+ but no P
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CENSORING Kilpatrick
A book by Kilpatrick vanishes.
by Andrew Roller
This year, it was discovered that the T.V. show, “60 Minutes”, was lying about Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida. “60 Minutes” falsely alleged that DeSantis was distributing the Covid-19 vaccine in a corrupt manner. “60 Minutes” knowingly lied. When it was pointed out to “60 Minutes” that they were lying, “60 Minutes” refused to apologize.
“60 Minutes” is a weekly show. It has been on T.V. for decades. In its prime, which lasted for decades, it was the premiere newsmagazine in America.
For years, a conservative commentator appeared on “60 Minutes”. His name was James J. Kilpatrick. He wrote a number of books. One of his books is titled, “Salesman for Segregation”. Kilpatrick, as best I can gather, argued for keeping Whites and Blacks separate.
Within the last two years, I bought two of Kilpatrick’s books on Amazon. They had nothing to do with segregation. Kilpatrick wrote on a variety of topics.
A book that I saw on Amazon, by Kilpatrick, but didn’t buy, was “Salesman for Segregation”.
“Salesman for Segregation” is now gone from Amazon. I did a search on the internet for this book. It has utterly disappeared. It isn’t for sale anywhere.
A book that is available is a critique of “Salesman for Segregation”. It’s called, “James J. Kilpatrick: Salesman for Segregation”, by William Pee Hustler ( wit ). I feel no need to read this book. I can sum it up in one sentence: “Bad White man no like Negroes”. Of course, it’s plastered all over Google.
My complaint is this: what happened to the ACTUAL book, “Salesman for Segregation”? Kilpatrick was a famous author. He was on my T.V. every week, for years, on CBS’ “60 Minutes”! I generally agreed with his opinions.
Apparently, our mortal enemies, the Russians, believe in free speech more than we do. The only copy of “Salesman for Segregation” that I could find is at a Russian web site. However, the site operates in a way that I find to be unusual. I’m concerned that, by attempting to access “Salesman for Segregation”, I might get a virus.
Here is the web site address:
pi.autosteklo67.ru
Here are some comments that are posted on the site:
Jack Member: Hey there! “James J. Kilpatrick: Salesman for Segregation” searched all the web couldn’t find anywhere.
Harry Senior Member: Here is the link, was searching for this myself for a long time, found only on this fileshare. [ sic ]
Jack Member: But it requires CC. [ A credit card? ]
Oscar Junior Member: Yes, just fill it in, its [ sic ] trusted site.
The conversation continues. What’s unclear is which book is being discussed. Is it “Salesman for Segregation”, by James J. Kilpatrick? Or is it “James J. Kilpatrick: Salesman for Segregation”, by William Pee Hustler ( wit )?
If it’s the latter book, then “Salesman for Segregation”, by James J. Kilpatrick, isn’t available anywhere. I find this highly troubling. If Kilpatrick’s book can be eliminated from our society, what’s next?
Please don’t answer, “Well, Kilpatrick favors segregation. Segregation is wrong. So his book must be eliminated.”
America, today, is a highly segregated society. It’s no longer as segregated by race as it once was. Instead, it’s segregated by age. Have you ever heard of these social imperatives?
“We must protect the children.”
or
“To prevent access to children.”
America is a society that’s Hell-bent on segregation, on behalf of the mental disorder that I call “pedophobia”.
The world that’s depicted in George Orwell’s novel, “1984”, is increasingly the one that we’re living in.
Kilpatrick’s book, “The Smut Peddlers”, was published in 1960. It was published before I was born. Nonetheless, it remains available on Amazon, in multiple formats. ( Hardcover, Paperback, and Mass Market Paperback. )
IT’S about TIME
or: Time waits for no man.
Except: There’s no time.
An “Audible” Audio Book Review
A Question of Time. Scientific American. Amazon Audible. ( This is an “included” title. It is free to Audible subscribers. )
Review: George Lucas, of “Star Wars”, made the film “American Graffiti”. The poster for this film asks, “Where were you in ’62?”
In 1962, I was shitting in my diapers. However, by 1975, I was reading the magazine “Scientific American”.
For six years, I went to school in Guam. Its junior and high schools were disordered. I spent long hours in the library of both my junior and high schools. My high school library had special issues of “Scientific American”. Each special issue collected articles from past issues of the magazine into a single volume, on a single topic. I read the volume on the topic of time. It was fabulous.
Recently, I found this very volume, about time, on the web site of “Scientific American”. It had been published around 1968. I’d love to have reread this volume. However, I only got to view a sample of it. “Scientific American” wanted $100.00 per year for access to its back issues, including this volume.
Now, I’ve found a similar volume on Audible. It appears to have been published around 2018. The year 1968 may seem, to some, long ago. However, what I read in that era, plus other books, gave me a firm grounding to plunge into “A Question of Time”.
WHAT’S “Time” ABOUT?
This is often said: “Time is money.”
I have a secret to tell you. Money doesn’t exist. Protesting, you show me a dollar bill. It’s definitely real. But what is a dollar bill? It’s a piece of paper that’s printed with ink. We agree to use money as a placeholder. Using money as a placeholder in a transaction is preferable to bartering for goods and services.
I have another secret to tell you. Time doesn’t exist. Protesting, you show me your ticking watch. It’s definitely real. But what is a watch? It’s a mechanical, or electronic, device. We agree to use time as a placeholder. Using time as a placeholder is preferable to judging change in the world, on a day to day basis, to determine when we’ll have our next prearranged meeting.
So, time isn’t money. Time is no more real than money is.
That’s an interpretation of our universe in “A Question of Time”. Another interpretation is this:
A black hole’s interior exists outside of our “time”. That is, it exists outside of all change that can ever be observed in our universe. The black hole’s interior exists beyond the “end” of “time”. That is, it exists beyond the conclusion of all observable change in our universe.
I haven’t finished listening to “A Question of Time”. Sadly, the audio book has ceased examining time from the perspective of physics. Several articles covered biological time, including the timing of bowel movements. Now, I’m listening to articles that cover the history of clocks. As in: sundials, water clocks, and pendulums. That’s hardly what I wanted when I began listening to this audio book.
Scientific American’s study of time, in 1968, remains the gold standard on this topic. The author Martin ( not Martian! ) Gardner helped author the 1968 volume. I guess humans don’t know much more about time today, from a physics perspective, than they did over a half century ago.
GETTING the Audible PDF
Sometimes, when I’m listening to an “Audible” audio book, mention is made of a “portable document format” ( PDF ) file. I had no idea where to find this PDF.
Now, I do. IF your audio book comes with a PDF, here’s how to find it:
1. Launch the “Audible” app.
2. In the “Audible” app, look to the very bottom of your iPad’s screen. You’ll see a horizontal bar there. It has four icons. Tap on the icon labelled “Library”.
3. In “Library”, look to the top left of your iPad’s screen. Tap on the small box labelled, “All Titles”. All of the audio books in your library are displayed. They’re in a vertical line that runs down the left side of your iPad’s screen.
4. Scrolling down through your audio books, find the one titled, “A Question of Time”. I have 380 audio books in my library. Most are free; they’re “included” with my “Audible” membership.
In both my “Audible” app, and Amazon’s “Kindle” app, I have too many books in my library to find the title I want. ( I have a lot of free samples in my “Kindle” library, plus free Gutenberg books, and PDFs. )
To find books in my “Kindle” library, I use its “Search” function. In the “Audible” library, look to the top right of your iPad’s screen. An icon of a magnifying glass is there. Tap on it to search for an audio book.
5. Tap on the audio book, “A Question of Time”. It will appear as a horizontal bar. This bar will be ABOVE the horizontal bar that holds the icon labelled “Library”.
6. Tap on the horizontal bar that holds the audio book, “A Question of Time”. Whoa! The horizontal bar expands into a full page. It fills your iPad’s screen.
7. The audio book will be playing. Tap the stop button if this clouds your thinking.
8. Look to the top right corner of your iPad’s screen. An icon is there. It consists of three vertical dots. Tap on the three vertical dots.
9. An informational box appears. Within this box, at the top, is:
“Accompanying PDF”. Tap on it.
10. Wow! The PDF opens. It fills your iPad’s screen. You swipe left in this PDF to read it. This PDF holds the entire script of the audio book “A Question of Time”. It includes illustrations.
A number of audio books do not come with a PDF file. In that case, you’ll have to buy the printed version of the book elsewhere ( if you want it ). Usually, I buy the printed version on Amazon, as a “Kindle” book. The book may also be for sale in Apple’s “Books” app.
If the book is older, look for it at gutenberg ( dot ) org. Every book at Gutenberg is free.
( Instructions for downloading Gutenberg books are here on “Andrew Roller Stories and Essays” ( ARSE ) ).
11. To get out of the PDF, look to the top left of your iPad’s screen. You’ll see an icon that looks like the letter “X”. Tap on the “X”.
PLEASE, sir, I want some MORE
When I joined Amazon’s “Audible” app, they gave me 12 credits. You can judge my interest in books by this fact: I used my 12 credits quickly. In terms of frugality, it didn’t help that “Audible” had a 2-for-1 sale. ( Two books for the price of one credit. )
I’ve now figured out two things.
1. I searched for a way to buy more “Audible” credits on amazon ( dot ) com. I was informed, by Amazon, that this was next to impossible. Perhaps someday, after the next Ice Age, if the moon is blue, Amazon might sell me more “Audible” credits.
This is a lie. If you run out of credits, it’s actually quite easy to buy more. Go to this website:
audible ( dot ) com
They’re always eager to sell me more credits, when I run low. I bought three credits today. “Audible” credits, bought in batches of three, are $9.97 each.
I got an e-mail from “Audible”. It reads,
“As a member you can stock up on credits whenever you’re running low. You’ll see the offer to ‘Buy 3 extra credits’ at the top of our site.”
Here’s the key. The web site audible ( dot ) com is NOT the “Audible” app. The “Audible” app is where you listen to your audio books. The audible ( dot ) com web site is, among other things, where you buy extra credits.
2. Let’s say that you run out of credits. You don’t buy more at audible ( dot ) com. You buy a “Kindle” book on Amazon. When you do, Amazon, as I recall, says this:
“Add Audible narration for $7.49.”
The amount $7.49 is LESS than the cost of a new “Audible” credit, as sold in batches of three. That amount is $9.97. So, if you know that you want to buy “Kindle” books, plus their “Audible” counterparts, DON’T buy more “Audible” credits! Then you’ll get the lowest price possible for ( adding ) “Audible” narration.
Make sure you’re signed up for the least expensive “Audible” plan. It’s the “Discount Audible Premium Plus Annual Sockittome” plan. This is an annual plan. Its credits are bought in batches of 12 for $149.50. That means each credit costs $12.46.
By starting, or renewing, a plan, you’ll get access to lots of free ( quality ) “Audible” audio books. You’ll also get access to an enormous load of crappy, but allegedly trendy, audio books. “Audible” also offers some podcasts.
AND IN THE END…
Amazon’s Audible app has a section marked “Discover”. Today, I was looking at books in “Discover”. Here’s what I found:
“LGBTQIA+ Authors in Audible Plus”. Look how many letters that is! What began as “gay” ( “G” ) soon had “L”, for “lesbian”, put in front of it. ( To be politically correct. ) Now this acronym has expanded beyond all reasonable measure.
Yet, you can readily see that a letter is missing: P. Not pee as in piss, but P as in pedophile. I guess pedophiles don’t exist, except to be arrested, prosecuted, and imprisoned, often for life.
ARCANA
I can hear it now: where are the fucking young girls in this issue? Sorry, guys. I’m busy cleaning out a storage locker. Then, I have to clean out the room where I formerly lived. In the meantime, while I’m occupied as a human donkey, I continue to pay for these spaces, and they aren’t cheap.
I’m mostly moving printed matter. That is, books and magazines. Observers tell me to throw this stuff out. However, given what’s happened to “Salesman for Segregation”, by James J. Kilpatrick, I may be rescuing literature for future minds. I also have printed matter in storage that’s 700 miles from my current location. When I’ll move that literature is unknown.
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Copyright 2021 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 86
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 86, version 5.0
Date Written: June 20, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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How to Write a Blog
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ET 85
Editorial Thunder presents...
How to Write a Blog
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Plus: Our past futures.
And: Aspects of systemic pedophobia.
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How to WRITE a BLOG
You need the right web site, the right topic, and the right format.
by Andrew Roller
This article is based on my own experiences.
1. Pick the right web site. By “web site”, I include the terms “social media platform”, and “company”. Even if you have your own web site, it will be hosted by someone’s company.
I researched the topic of web hosting in 2019. Many web hosting companies prohibit “any content that is harmful to minors”. So, if you write supportively of the Second Amendment ( the right to bear arms ), the hosting company might ban your web site. Their excuse might be to prevent school shootings. You Tube banned videos that questioned the scientific validity of wearing a mask to prevent Covid-19.
I joined Facebook in 2019. There, over the course of a week and a half, I posted six typewritten articles by me. Facebook banned me. Facebook gave me no meaningful explanation for why they banned me. They stole my content. I am banned for life from Facebook, and from all of Facebook’s companies. ( You can read my banned articles here on ARSE. Most slumber unread. )
I am a member of You Tube. I have never uploaded a video to You Tube. I have created playlists on You Tube. You Tube’s staff has attacked my You Tube account numerous times. They maliciously and capriciously delete my playlists. It’s impossible for me to do meaningful work on You Tube.
I’ve been posting articles on WordPress since 2019. I’ve never had any problems with WordPress. Hence, I recommend that you write your blog on WordPress. I use WordPress at the basic ( free ) level.
2. Don’t pick a company that poses as being “exclusive”. Facebook and You Tube are notorious for attacking innocent users. A reader can’t read your blog if he’s banned from the web site that you post to. Post your blog where anyone can read it.
3. Don’t pick a company that charges your readers money. You want as many readers as possible. Don’t force them to pay to read what you have to say.
Did Jesus charge listeners money to hear him? No. In at least one instance, Christ’s disciples distributed food to listeners who were hungry. So, the listeners got paid, not Jesus.
You either have something important to say, or you don’t.
You can always charge money for “extras”, like books that you publish on Amazon, or in Apple’s “Books” app.
4. Pick the right topic. I get the feeling that some “blogs” are an exercise in virtue signaling. The “blogger” writes a few articles, or less, in which he agrees with the status quo. “I’m against racism.” “I support women’s rights.”
I guess such a “blogger” is hoping for a promotion at work. Or perhaps the blogger wants his neighbors to pray to him, daily, for redemption.
Many of your readers are going to come from internet search engines. Frankly, you’ll get most of your readers from Google.
Let’s say you decide to write about golf. You don’t know anyone who likes golf, but you like golf. So, as an unknown writer, you start a blog about golf. How many golfing articles do you think there are on the internet? Probably millions. You may write fine articles about golf, but your search engine ranking, for your articles, will be number one million. No one will ever find your articles on Google, let alone read them.
Write on a topic that nobody else is writing about. In my case, I liked watching videos by preteen girls on You Tube. So I wrote about such girls.
Last I checked, in 2019, I’m the only person who writes about preteen girls on You Tube. A number of guys steal photos by such girls. The guy will then post the girl’s photos in a “fan” photo gallery on the internet. If the girl doesn’t object, that’s fine. However, creating a photo gallery, featuring stolen content, isn’t what I’m doing. I write about the girls, from the perspective of a viewer.
The most popular articles on my blog are about preteen girls on You Tube. It’s the gift that keeps on giving. Without these articles, my blog would have very few readers.
5. Focus, or not? Once, I imagined that I’d upload videos to You Tube. My videos would be posted to my You Tube channel. I researched this possibility. The advice I got was this:
Don’t make videos about any subject. Concentrate on a single subject.
This is fine advice. My intention is to keep my blog’s focus on preteen girls who upload videos to the internet. However, I’ve been self-publishing all of my life. I don’t publish to make money. I don’t publish to serve just one audience. My blog is an integral part of my existence. Hence, my blog covers a wide range of subjects. Most of these subjects will forever have a search engine ranking of one million; no one will find them.
Decide whether you want to focus, or “go wide”. I say, “go wide”. In this way, you’ll be updating your blog more often. Readers like that. Also, someday you’ll be dead. You won’t be able to say anything then. My father had strong opinions. He felt that the universe should duplicate his mental state. My father is now dead. He wrote nothing, other than what his occupation demanded. The universe seems to be managing alright despite not being a mirror of the mind of Lawrence Herbert Roller.
Always remember that our era is passing away. Some scholars say the following: chance has determined what written work has been saved from antiquity. So, your words have as much chance of being important 2,000 years from now as anyone else’s. If, that is, you write them down. Few people will probably care, in the future, which preteen girl was posting videos to the internet in 2021. But your observations on America may be seen as having value.
6. Pick the right format. My life has been spent reading. I understand the format for comic books, magazines, and books. My blog’s format is that of a magazine. It’s what I understand. Decide on a format for your blog, and follow it.
7. Your blog must be readable. Writing a blog, you’ll find yourself facing frequent decisions regarding which words to use. Always pick the words that most clearly convey your point.
8. Don’t obsess over grammar. I do, but that’s because I’ve mastered everything else involved with writing and publishing a ( basic ) blog. Most people will figure out what you’re saying. Strive to be concise. Write your article to whatever length is necessary. Cut out redundancies, be they unneeded words or repetitive thoughts.
9. Write short paragraphs. In earlier centuries, reading was one of the few ways that a person had to entertain himself. A writer didn’t have to compete with, say, television. Television hadn’t been invented.
You’ll read famous writers, from earlier centuries, who write long paragraphs. Don’t do that, unless you specifically want to. Use short paragraphs. Most of your readers want one answer. ( As in, “How old is Dana Taranova?” Answer: age 13. ) Then your reader is gone. However, if you were able to help your reader, he might return later.
10. Write “sexy” headlines. I’m speaking of the headline that will appear in, say, the WordPress “Reader”. You want to capture attention. However, don’t be obnoxious. For instance, I was upset with Facebook. I wanted to write the headline, “Fuck Facebook”. However, I didn’t. Instead, my headline was, “Why Facebook will Die”. ( You can read my reasons here on ARSE. )
( This is my own opinion on how to write headlines that will top your article in WordPress “Reader”. )
Once someone is scrolling down in my article, I feel that they’re fair game for whatever secondary headline I write. I still try to avoid “obnoxious” headlines. However, if I feel the need to write “Fuck Facebook”, I do.
11. Don’t clutter your blog with graphics. I once followed a young woman’s blog on WordPress. Her blog had the appearance of an album of stickers, with written words filling in the empty space. If you like that, so be it. But the woman ultimately decided to declutter her blog. She dropped a lot of the graphics.
12. Don’t post comments by readers. I feel that posting comments by readers clutters my blog. I include a ( magazine-style ) “letters” section in an issue now and then. It features comments by readers. The “letters” section fits neatly within my issue.
I don’t know of any way to copy, by computer, my readers’ comments. I type them by hand.
13. Don’t announce a publishing schedule. New podcasters often fall prey to this. A podcaster will tell his audience, “I’m publishing a new podcast each week!” This quickly becomes a chore for the podcaster. If he sticks with his schedule, the quality of his podcast suffers. If he dallies, listeners ( may ) be upset that he didn’t keep to his schedule.
I never know when I’ll publish a new issue on ARSE. Sadly, I have much else that I must do in life.
14. Type your thoughts immediately. I try to have at least three topics in every issue of my blog. I used to do nothing until I felt moved to write a new issue. Then, I had to scramble. I had to find things that I’d read, and liked, to include in my blog. Putting out an issue of my blog took many hours.
Not any more. When I find something I like, I type it up, as best as I can, at once. I do my utmost to finish it. Then, I simply add it to a new issue of my blog when I’m ready to publish.
15. Your blog won’t show up in a variety of search engines for awhile. Duck Duck Go might be the first search engine to list your blog. It’s faster than Google. On the heels of Duck Duck Go comes Google. Microsoft’s Bing is very slow. Months will pass before Bing knows you exist. Bing feeds off Yahoo, so Yahoo will be just as slow.
16. Despite my diligent blogging, I had no readers for about a year. Someone would arrive at my blog about once every two weeks. I got the feeling that the reader arrived at my blog by mistake. That’s because another two weeks would pass before anyone read my blog again.
Keep writing and posting! If you follow my advice ( above ), you’ll eventually garner some readers.
WordPress will tell you, in “Stats”, which of your articles are the most popular.
On my blog, the exact same articles have shown up in “Stats”, as being the most popular, for a very long time. They even show up in ( almost ) the exact same order, every single day.
( “Danatar2 BANNED” is consistently the most popular article on my blog in 2021. It was the second most popular article on my blog in 2020. )
“Stats” will tell you what readers want you to write about. If you have the time, and the interest, keep writing more on the topics topping your list in “Stats”.
17. Don’t write, and publish, unless you like doing so. It’s highly unlikely that you’ll be able to pay your rent with your blog. I “blogged”, before it was a word, for decades. As best I can tell, there is little interest in what I “blogged” about in the past.
Perhaps my words will be treasured in 4,000 A.R. ( The future, celebrated, era of “After Roller”. ) But I won’t be here to know that. If you find blogging to be tiresome, let yourself tell you that. We try many things in life. Some work, and some are just flings. It’s okay to have a fling with blogging and move on to something else.
OUR past FUTURES
How Great Science Fiction Works, by Professor Gary K. Wolfe. The Great Courses. “Only from Audible”. Amazon Audible.
Review: This is a survey of science fiction literature. Science Fiction movies and T.V. shows are sometimes mentioned.
Buying this course, I was concerned that Wolfe would give away the endings to books that I haven’t yet read. That’s exactly what happened. Wolfe gratuitously reveals the endings of many fine science fiction books. The result is that I can no longer look forward to reading these books.
Fortunately, over 60 years, I’ve managed to read most of the science fiction books that appeal to me. Wolfe betrays the endings of these books; but I’d already read them.
Wolfe never mentions texts that I found to be seminal: Poul Anderson’s “Brain Wave”, and Pierre Boulle’s “Planet of the Apes”. Nevil Shute is mentioned, but not the name of his relevant book: “On the Beach”.
Wolfe’s approach to his subject is the usual one for this era. Having ignored important texts like “Brain Wave”, he then gushes, at length, over the following:
1. Environmentalism in Science Fiction.
2. Gender Questions and Feminist Science Fiction.
3. Science Fiction written by God knows whom, in God knows what country. I realize I have many foreign readers. I’m not attempting to slight your country. However, Science Fiction, as an American ( and British ) art form, needs to be covered thoroughly before one includes texts from foreign countries. This is especially so of an American course, by an American professor, that is sold by an American company, to an audience of largely American listeners.
Wolfe waxes lyrical on the fluidity of gender. In fact, there is no fluidity to gender. Nature provides two genders: male, and female. Bruce Jenner is a man who likes presenting himself to the world as a woman. He is, nonetheless, a man.
Wolfe makes no mention of pedophile science fiction. Every other sort of science fiction exists for Wolfe, but not pedophile science fiction.
Listening to this course, you’ll likely want to back the tape up now and then. Don’t press the button marked “( reverse ) 30”. If you do, you’ll have a problem. When you press play, the tape will skip one or more times as it plays forward.
To back up the tape, slide the little black ball ( above the controls ) to the left. Then, press play. The tape won’t skip as it plays forward.
Wolfe is enjoyable to listen to. I ditched, temporarily, my courses on ancient ( foreign ) cultures to hear Wolfe lecture on science fiction. I blasted through Wolfe’s course in under two weeks. What hooked me was Wolfe’s claim that science fiction was invented by a teenage bride. That’s Mary Shelley who, at age 18, graced the world with “Frankenstein”.
A note to prudes: The next time you write off an 18-year-old as a mere “child”, call to mind Mary Shelley. She gave the world much more than you ever will.
OUR hierarchical WORLD
Or: Aspects of systemic pedophobia.
1. “Every imagined hierarchy disavows its fictional origins and claims to be natural and inevitable.”
- Yuval Noah Harari. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, page 106. ( Amazon Kindle. )
2. “Human laws and norms have turned some people into slaves and others into masters.”
- Ibid., 108
3. “Most people claim that their social hierarchy is natural and just, while those of other societies are based on false and ridiculous criteria.”
- Ibid., 108
4. “Unfortunately, complex human societies seem to require imagined hierarchies and unjust discrimination.”
- Ibid., 108
5. “Throughout history, and in almost all societies, concepts of pollution and purity have played a leading role in enforcing social and political divisions and have been exploited by numerous ruling classes to maintain their privileges.”
- Ibid., 109
ARCANA
I haven’t listened to the last 20 minutes of Wolfe’s course, “How Great Science Fiction Works”. However, my maxim with regard to publishing is:
Shoot Now
Perhaps Wolfe proves himself innocent of my criticisms in his last 20 minutes. Probably, he doesn’t. However, my Apple iPad has proven that it can crash at any time. Then I have to spend two weeks restoring it, and its contents. ( I don’t have a computer. ) So I’m sharing my thoughts with you now.
ADDENDUM
“Only scattered and fragmentary remnants of the writing of the people of the Earth have been excavated—indeed, this volume is the only coherent work extant.”
- The Martian Institute for Archaeological Excavations in the Solar System.
Source: Level 7, by Moredick (ai ) Gushwald. Location 777. ( Amazon Kindle. )
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Copyright 2021 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 85
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 85, version 7.0
Date Written: June 17, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 85
Editorial Thunder presents...
How to Write a Blog
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Plus: Our past futures.
And: Aspects of systemic pedophobia.
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How to WRITE a BLOG
You need the right web site, the right topic, and the right format.
by Andrew Roller
This article is based on my own experiences.
1. Pick the right web site. By “web site”, I include the terms “social media platform”, and “company”. Even if you have your own web site, it will be hosted by someone’s company.
I researched the topic of web hosting in 2019. Many web hosting companies prohibit “any content that is harmful to minors”. So, if you write supportively of the Second Amendment ( the right to bear arms ), the hosting company might ban your web site. Their excuse might be to prevent school shootings. You Tube banned videos that questioned the scientific validity of wearing a mask to prevent Covid-19.
I joined Facebook in 2019. There, over the course of a week and a half, I posted six typewritten articles by me. Facebook banned me. Facebook gave me no meaningful explanation for why they banned me. They stole my content. I am banned for life from Facebook, and from all of Facebook’s companies. ( You can read my banned articles here on ARSE. Most slumber unread. )
I am a member of You Tube. I have never uploaded a video to You Tube. I have created playlists on You Tube. You Tube’s staff has attacked my You Tube account numerous times. They maliciously and capriciously delete my playlists. It’s impossible for me to do meaningful work on You Tube.
I’ve been posting articles on WordPress since 2019. I’ve never had any problems with WordPress. Hence, I recommend that you write your blog on WordPress. I use WordPress at the basic ( free ) level.
2. Don’t pick a company that poses as being “exclusive”. Facebook and You Tube are notorious for attacking innocent users. A reader can’t read your blog if he’s banned from the web site that you post to. Post your blog where anyone can read it.
3. Don’t pick a company that charges your readers money. You want as many readers as possible. Don’t force them to pay to read what you have to say.
Did Jesus charge listeners money to hear him? No. In at least one instance, Christ’s disciples distributed food to listeners who were hungry. So, the listeners got paid, not Jesus.
You either have something important to say, or you don’t.
You can always charge money for “extras”, like books that you publish on Amazon, or in Apple’s “Books” app.
4. Pick the right topic. I get the feeling that some “blogs” are an exercise in virtue signaling. The “blogger” writes a few articles, or less, in which he agrees with the status quo. “I’m against racism.” “I support women’s rights.”
I guess such a “blogger” is hoping for a promotion at work. Or perhaps the blogger wants his neighbors to pray to him, daily, for redemption.
Many of your readers are going to come from internet search engines. Frankly, you’ll get most of your readers from Google.
Let’s say you decide to write about golf. You don’t know anyone who likes golf, but you like golf. So, as an unknown writer, you start a blog about golf. How many golfing articles do you think there are on the internet? Probably millions. You may write fine articles about golf, but your search engine ranking, for your articles, will be number one million. No one will ever find your articles on Google, let alone read them.
Write on a topic that nobody else is writing about. In my case, I liked watching videos by preteen girls on You Tube. So I wrote about such girls.
Last I checked, in 2019, I’m the only person who writes about preteen girls on You Tube. A number of guys steal photos by such girls. The guy will then post the girl’s photos in a “fan” photo gallery on the internet. If the girl doesn’t object, that’s fine. However, creating a photo gallery, featuring stolen content, isn’t what I’m doing. I write about the girls, from the perspective of a viewer.
The most popular articles on my blog are about preteen girls on You Tube. It’s the gift that keeps on giving. Without these articles, my blog would have very few readers.
5. Focus, or not? Once, I imagined that I’d upload videos to You Tube. My videos would be posted to my You Tube channel. I researched this possibility. The advice I got was this:
Don’t make videos about any subject. Concentrate on a single subject.
This is fine advice. My intention is to keep my blog’s focus on preteen girls who upload videos to the internet. However, I’ve been self-publishing all of my life. I don’t publish to make money. I don’t publish to serve just one audience. My blog is an integral part of my existence. Hence, my blog covers a wide range of subjects. Most of these subjects will forever have a search engine ranking of one million; no one will find them.
Decide whether you want to focus, or “go wide”. I say, “go wide”. In this way, you’ll be updating your blog more often. Readers like that. Also, someday you’ll be dead. You won’t be able to say anything then. My father had strong opinions. He felt that the universe should duplicate his mental state. My father is now dead. He wrote nothing, other than what his occupation demanded. The universe seems to be managing alright despite not being a mirror of the mind of Lawrence Herbert Roller.
Always remember that our era is passing away. Some scholars say the following: chance has determined what written work has been saved from antiquity. So, your words have as much chance of being important 2,000 years from now as anyone else’s. If, that is, you write them down. Few people will probably care, in the future, which preteen girl was posting videos to the internet in 2021. But your observations on America may be seen as having value.
6. Pick the right format. My life has been spent reading. I understand the format for comic books, magazines, and books. My blog’s format is that of a magazine. It’s what I understand. Decide on a format for your blog, and follow it.
7. Your blog must be readable. Writing a blog, you’ll find yourself facing frequent decisions regarding which words to use. Always pick the words that most clearly convey your point.
8. Don’t obsess over grammar. I do, but that’s because I’ve mastered everything else involved with writing and publishing a ( basic ) blog. Most people will figure out what you’re saying. Strive to be concise. Write your article to whatever length is necessary. Cut out redundancies, be they unneeded words or repetitive thoughts.
9. Write short paragraphs. In earlier centuries, reading was one of the few ways that a person had to entertain himself. A writer didn’t have to compete with, say, television. Television hadn’t been invented.
You’ll read famous writers, from earlier centuries, who write long paragraphs. Don’t do that, unless you specifically want to. Use short paragraphs. Most of your readers want one answer. ( As in, “How old is Dana Taranova?” Answer: age 13. ) Then your reader is gone. However, if you were able to help your reader, he might return later.
10. Write “sexy” headlines. I’m speaking of the headline that will appear in, say, the WordPress “Reader”. You want to capture attention. However, don’t be obnoxious. For instance, I was upset with Facebook. I wanted to write the headline, “Fuck Facebook”. However, I didn’t. Instead, my headline was, “Why Facebook will Die”. ( You can read my reasons here on ARSE. )
( This is my own opinion on how to write headlines that will top your article in WordPress “Reader”. )
Once someone is scrolling down in my article, I feel that they’re fair game for whatever secondary headline I write. I still try to avoid “obnoxious” headlines. However, if I feel the need to write “Fuck Facebook”, I do.
11. Don’t clutter your blog with graphics. I once followed a young woman’s blog on WordPress. Her blog had the appearance of an album of stickers, with written words filling in the empty space. If you like that, so be it. But the woman ultimately decided to declutter her blog. She dropped a lot of the graphics.
12. Don’t post comments by readers. I feel that posting comments by readers clutters my blog. I include a ( magazine-style ) “letters” section in an issue now and then. It features comments by readers. The “letters” section fits neatly within my issue.
I don’t know of any way to copy, by computer, my readers’ comments. I type them by hand.
13. Don’t announce a publishing schedule. New podcasters often fall prey to this. A podcaster will tell his audience, “I’m publishing a new podcast each week!” This quickly becomes a chore for the podcaster. If he sticks with his schedule, the quality of his podcast suffers. If he dallies, listeners ( may ) be upset that he didn’t keep to his schedule.
I never know when I’ll publish a new issue on ARSE. Sadly, I have much else that I must do in life.
14. Type your thoughts immediately. I try to have at least three topics in every issue of my blog. I used to do nothing until I felt moved to write a new issue. Then, I had to scramble. I had to find things that I’d read, and liked, to include in my blog. Putting out an issue of my blog took many hours.
Not any more. When I find something I like, I type it up, as best as I can, at once. I do my utmost to finish it. Then, I simply add it to a new issue of my blog when I’m ready to publish.
15. Your blog won’t show up in a variety of search engines for awhile. Duck Duck Go might be the first search engine to list your blog. It’s faster than Google. On the heels of Duck Duck Go comes Google. Microsoft’s Bing is very slow. Months will pass before Bing knows you exist. Bing feeds off Yahoo, so Yahoo will be just as slow.
16. Despite my diligent blogging, I had no readers for about a year. Someone would arrive at my blog about once every two weeks. I got the feeling that the reader arrived at my blog by mistake. That’s because another two weeks would pass before anyone read my blog again.
Keep writing and posting! If you follow my advice ( above ), you’ll eventually garner some readers.
WordPress will tell you, in “Stats”, which of your articles are the most popular.
On my blog, the exact same articles have shown up in “Stats”, as being the most popular, for a very long time. They even show up in ( almost ) the exact same order, every single day.
( “Danatar2 BANNED” is consistently the most popular article on my blog in 2021. It was the second most popular article on my blog in 2020. )
“Stats” will tell you what readers want you to write about. If you have the time, and the interest, keep writing more on the topics topping your list in “Stats”.
17. Don’t write, and publish, unless you like doing so. It’s highly unlikely that you’ll be able to pay your rent with your blog. I “blogged”, before it was a word, for decades. As best I can tell, there is little interest in what I “blogged” about in the past.
Perhaps my words will be treasured in 4,000 A.R. ( The future, celebrated, era of “After Roller”. ) But I won’t be here to know that. If you find blogging to be tiresome, let yourself tell you that. We try many things in life. Some work, and some are just flings. It’s okay to have a fling with blogging and move on to something else.
OUR past FUTURES
How Great Science Fiction Works, by Professor Gary K. Wolfe. The Great Courses. “Only from Audible”. Amazon Audible.
Review: This is a survey of science fiction literature. Science Fiction movies and T.V. shows are sometimes mentioned.
Buying this course, I was concerned that Wolfe would give away the endings to books that I haven’t yet read. That’s exactly what happened. Wolfe gratuitously reveals the endings of many fine science fiction books. The result is that I can no longer look forward to reading these books.
Fortunately, over 60 years, I’ve managed to read most of the science fiction books that appeal to me. Wolfe betrays the endings of these books; but I’d already read them.
Wolfe never mentions texts that I found to be seminal: Poul Anderson’s “Brain Wave”, and Pierre Boulle’s “Planet of the Apes”. Nevil Shute is mentioned, but not the name of his relevant book: “On the Beach”.
Wolfe’s approach to his subject is the usual one for this era. Having ignored important texts like “Brain Wave”, he then gushes, at length, over the following:
1. Environmentalism in Science Fiction.
2. Gender Questions and Feminist Science Fiction.
3. Science Fiction written by God knows whom, in God knows what country. I realize I have many foreign readers. I’m not attempting to slight your country. However, Science Fiction, as an American ( and British ) art form, needs to be covered thoroughly before one includes texts from foreign countries. This is especially so of an American course, by an American professor, that is sold by an American company, to an audience of largely American listeners.
Wolfe waxes lyrical on the fluidity of gender. In fact, there is no fluidity to gender. Nature provides two genders: male, and female. Bruce Jenner is a man who likes presenting himself to the world as a woman. He is, nonetheless, a man.
Wolfe makes no mention of pedophile science fiction. Every other sort of science fiction exists for Wolfe, but not pedophile science fiction.
Listening to this course, you’ll likely want to back the tape up now and then. Don’t press the button marked “( reverse ) 30”. If you do, you’ll have a problem. When you press play, the tape will skip one or more times as it plays forward.
To back up the tape, slide the little black ball ( above the controls ) to the left. Then, press play. The tape won’t skip as it plays forward.
Wolfe is enjoyable to listen to. I ditched, temporarily, my courses on ancient ( foreign ) cultures to hear Wolfe lecture on science fiction. I blasted through Wolfe’s course in under two weeks. What hooked me was Wolfe’s claim that science fiction was invented by a teenage bride. That’s Mary Shelley who, at age 18, graced the world with “Frankenstein”.
A note to prudes: The next time you write off an 18-year-old as a mere “child”, call to mind Mary Shelley. She gave the world much more than you ever will.
OUR hierarchical WORLD
Or: Aspects of systemic pedophobia.
1. “Every imagined hierarchy disavows its fictional origins and claims to be natural and inevitable.”
- Yuval Noah Harari. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, page 106. ( Amazon Kindle. )
2. “Human laws and norms have turned some people into slaves and others into masters.”
- Ibid., 108
3. “Most people claim that their social hierarchy is natural and just, while those of other societies are based on false and ridiculous criteria.”
- Ibid., 108
4. “Unfortunately, complex human societies seem to require imagined hierarchies and unjust discrimination.”
- Ibid., 108
5. “Throughout history, and in almost all societies, concepts of pollution and purity have played a leading role in enforcing social and political divisions and have been exploited by numerous ruling classes to maintain their privileges.”
- Ibid., 109
ARCANA
I haven’t listened to the last 20 minutes of Wolfe’s course, “How Great Science Fiction Works”. However, my maxim with regard to publishing is:
Shoot Now
Perhaps Wolfe proves himself innocent of my criticisms in his last 20 minutes. Probably, he doesn’t. However, my Apple iPad has proven that it can crash at any time. Then I have to spend two weeks restoring it, and its contents. ( I don’t have a computer. ) So I’m sharing my thoughts with you now.
ADDENDUM
“Only scattered and fragmentary remnants of the writing of the people of the Earth have been excavated—indeed, this volume is the only coherent work extant.”
- The Martian Institute for Archaeological Excavations in the Solar System.
Source: Level 7, by Moredick (ai ) Gushwald. Location 777. ( Amazon Kindle. )
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Copyright 2021 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 85
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 85, version 7.0
Date Written: June 17, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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To Boldly Go
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ET 84
Editorial Thunder presents...
To Boldly Go
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Plus: Freedom’s finest defenders.
And: The biases of our imagined order.
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TO Boldly GO
Product review: Vibrating dildo.
by Andrew Roller
“I … have never put you to the cock before, albeit that it is not a real one - though it soon will be.”
“AHH-OOOH! I can't St ... St ... stand it! Take it out! Oh, it's going too far up!"
“No, my pet, you have but seven inches out of nine.”
- Arabella, by Anonymous. Page 175. ( Amazon Kindle ).
LekoArkh Soft Beaded Ribbed Flexible Bendable Moving Plug Amazing Dreamly [ sic ] Choice 18043.
The box containing the vibrating dildo reads: Flexi Vibe Sensual Spine. Multi-speed vibrator is situated at the tip of it for ultimate sensations. Sold as adult novelty only.
Price: $33.99
Sold by: amazon ( dot ) com.
Amazon seller information:
Ships from: LekoArkh.
Sold by: LekoArkh.
Features:
1. Be ready for deliver more and more satisfaction. Made from flexible Toilet Paper Roll [ TPR ] jelly material. The flexible shaft that bends!
2. Time for some new experience for your niece. Adjust the moving speed from low to high. If it’s your sister, just shove it in her on high speed. Splash-proof, do not submerge in the toilet.
3. Your own dirty world, for you and the girl next door! Only with our product. Much better than using your finger. Not as great as using your dick.
Overall length: 7 inches. ( Bigger than Roller’s dick! ) Insertable length: 6.25 inches. ( Still bigger than Roller’s dick! ) Width: 1 inch to 1.55 inches.
“Punishment” model available. Dimensions: Length: 17.75 inches. Width: 2.75 inches to 5.75 inches.
4. Much better than sticking a hamster in your boyfriend’s butt.
5. Your bedroom ideas may be in realitym [ sic ] just buy it. Powered by two AAA batteries ( not included ).
“Punishment” model requires hookup by your electric company, so as not to short out city electrical grid.
6. Hope to see you ass soon as possible in our store.
Review: I reminded Twinkle Toes, as I’ll call him, that I was paying him $10.00. For $10.00, I could buy lunch. So I expected Twinkle Toes to do as he’d promised. I expected him to shove the vibrating dildo up his ass.
He said he was trying.
Why is it always left to me to accomplish these things?
I saw a dildo like this about three decades ago. It was in an issue of Penthouse magazine. The erstwhile Tower Books used to sell magazines from various parts of the world. The issue of Penthouse featuring the dildo was in a French edition of Penthouse. Hence, the words describing the dildo were in French. I can’t read French.
Viewing Penthouse, it took me awhile to figure out what the dildo was. When I did, I found it to be intoxicating. Imagine the dildo going up a girl’s bottom, at her debutante ball! ( Now you know why the word “but” is in “debutante”. )
This dildo has a nice soft feel. ( When I feel it with my fingers, not my rectum. ) It’s bendable. The core of the dildo is a hard, but bendable, spine. The spine travels most of the way up the dildo.
jourdil michel, mentioned in Editorial Thunder issue number 83, is encouraged to send me his opinion of this dildo.
FREEDOM’S finest DEFENDERS
“For the past year, we have fought hard against the massive effort by public officials to use the Covid-19 crisis as an excuse to infringe on our freedoms.
“Civil liberties are an essential part of a free society. Our American ancestors clearly understood this. That’s why they demanded the enactment of the Bill of Rights as a condition for accepting the Constitution.
“Freedom of speech, freedom of association, due process of law, protection against illegal searches and seizures, privacy, trial by jury, and the right to keep and bear arms. They are all critically important aspects of a free society, and they have all been under constant and ever-increasing assault for decades.
“Ever since our inception, The Future of Freedom Foundation ( FFF ) has been at the forefront of defending civil liberties. In the July 1990 issue of FFF’s monthly journal Future of Freedom, I wrote an article entitled, “The Forgotten Importance of Civil Liberties”.
Jacob Hornberger ( not Hamburger! ) Founder and President, The Future of Freedom Foundation
11350 Random Hills Road, Suite 800 Fairfax, VA 22030
p: ( 703 ) 934-6101
f: ( 703 ) 352-8678
e: jhornberger@fff ( dot ) org
w: www ( dot ) fff ( dot ) org
I have known of Jacob since his earliest days. Then, he was selling a monthly pocket calendar. It came loaded with excellent libertarian articles.
The Future of Freedom Foundation is the best source of modern articles on the importance of defending our liberties.
The BIASES of our imagined ORDER
“Humans created imagined orders … However, the appearance of these [ imagined orders ] was, for many, a dubious blessing. The imagined orders … were neither neutral nor fair. They divided people into make-believe groups, arranged in a hierarchy. The upper levels enjoyed privileges and power, while the lower ones suffered from discrimination and oppression.”
- Yuval Noah Harari. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, page 106. ( Amazon Kindle. )
Currently my butt is being kicked for at least three reasons:
1. I’m a pedophile. ( Thank you, leftist feminists, and rightist religious nuts. )
2. I’m a man. ( Thank you, # me too. ) ( Also known as # pee yew. )
3. I’m White. ( Thank you, BML ( Bowel Movement Lives ) ).
Fortunately, the fact that I unearth and eat the dead has yet to be discovered. Grandma tasted good!
ARCANA
With regard to the vibrating dildo’s features, as stated on ARSE, some transcription errors may have occurred. This is inevitable when one is typing with a vibrating dildo stuck up one’s butt. ( Plus a vibrating pocket pussy stuck on one’s dick. )
I am now calling 911.
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Copyright 2021 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 84
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 84, version 4.0
Date Written: June 15, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 84
Editorial Thunder presents...
To Boldly Go
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Plus: Freedom’s finest defenders.
And: The biases of our imagined order.
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TO Boldly GO
Product review: Vibrating dildo.
by Andrew Roller
“I … have never put you to the cock before, albeit that it is not a real one - though it soon will be.”
“AHH-OOOH! I can't St ... St ... stand it! Take it out! Oh, it's going too far up!"
“No, my pet, you have but seven inches out of nine.”
- Arabella, by Anonymous. Page 175. ( Amazon Kindle ).
LekoArkh Soft Beaded Ribbed Flexible Bendable Moving Plug Amazing Dreamly [ sic ] Choice 18043.
The box containing the vibrating dildo reads: Flexi Vibe Sensual Spine. Multi-speed vibrator is situated at the tip of it for ultimate sensations. Sold as adult novelty only.
Price: $33.99
Sold by: amazon ( dot ) com.
Amazon seller information:
Ships from: LekoArkh.
Sold by: LekoArkh.
Features:
1. Be ready for deliver more and more satisfaction. Made from flexible Toilet Paper Roll [ TPR ] jelly material. The flexible shaft that bends!
2. Time for some new experience for your niece. Adjust the moving speed from low to high. If it’s your sister, just shove it in her on high speed. Splash-proof, do not submerge in the toilet.
3. Your own dirty world, for you and the girl next door! Only with our product. Much better than using your finger. Not as great as using your dick.
Overall length: 7 inches. ( Bigger than Roller’s dick! ) Insertable length: 6.25 inches. ( Still bigger than Roller’s dick! ) Width: 1 inch to 1.55 inches.
“Punishment” model available. Dimensions: Length: 17.75 inches. Width: 2.75 inches to 5.75 inches.
4. Much better than sticking a hamster in your boyfriend’s butt.
5. Your bedroom ideas may be in realitym [ sic ] just buy it. Powered by two AAA batteries ( not included ).
“Punishment” model requires hookup by your electric company, so as not to short out city electrical grid.
6. Hope to see you ass soon as possible in our store.
Review: I reminded Twinkle Toes, as I’ll call him, that I was paying him $10.00. For $10.00, I could buy lunch. So I expected Twinkle Toes to do as he’d promised. I expected him to shove the vibrating dildo up his ass.
He said he was trying.
Why is it always left to me to accomplish these things?
I saw a dildo like this about three decades ago. It was in an issue of Penthouse magazine. The erstwhile Tower Books used to sell magazines from various parts of the world. The issue of Penthouse featuring the dildo was in a French edition of Penthouse. Hence, the words describing the dildo were in French. I can’t read French.
Viewing Penthouse, it took me awhile to figure out what the dildo was. When I did, I found it to be intoxicating. Imagine the dildo going up a girl’s bottom, at her debutante ball! ( Now you know why the word “but” is in “debutante”. )
This dildo has a nice soft feel. ( When I feel it with my fingers, not my rectum. ) It’s bendable. The core of the dildo is a hard, but bendable, spine. The spine travels most of the way up the dildo.
jourdil michel, mentioned in Editorial Thunder issue number 83, is encouraged to send me his opinion of this dildo.
FREEDOM’S finest DEFENDERS
“For the past year, we have fought hard against the massive effort by public officials to use the Covid-19 crisis as an excuse to infringe on our freedoms.
“Civil liberties are an essential part of a free society. Our American ancestors clearly understood this. That’s why they demanded the enactment of the Bill of Rights as a condition for accepting the Constitution.
“Freedom of speech, freedom of association, due process of law, protection against illegal searches and seizures, privacy, trial by jury, and the right to keep and bear arms. They are all critically important aspects of a free society, and they have all been under constant and ever-increasing assault for decades.
“Ever since our inception, The Future of Freedom Foundation ( FFF ) has been at the forefront of defending civil liberties. In the July 1990 issue of FFF’s monthly journal Future of Freedom, I wrote an article entitled, “The Forgotten Importance of Civil Liberties”.
Jacob Hornberger ( not Hamburger! ) Founder and President, The Future of Freedom Foundation
11350 Random Hills Road, Suite 800 Fairfax, VA 22030
p: ( 703 ) 934-6101
f: ( 703 ) 352-8678
e: jhornberger@fff ( dot ) org
w: www ( dot ) fff ( dot ) org
I have known of Jacob since his earliest days. Then, he was selling a monthly pocket calendar. It came loaded with excellent libertarian articles.
The Future of Freedom Foundation is the best source of modern articles on the importance of defending our liberties.
The BIASES of our imagined ORDER
“Humans created imagined orders … However, the appearance of these [ imagined orders ] was, for many, a dubious blessing. The imagined orders … were neither neutral nor fair. They divided people into make-believe groups, arranged in a hierarchy. The upper levels enjoyed privileges and power, while the lower ones suffered from discrimination and oppression.”
- Yuval Noah Harari. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, page 106. ( Amazon Kindle. )
Currently my butt is being kicked for at least three reasons:
1. I’m a pedophile. ( Thank you, leftist feminists, and rightist religious nuts. )
2. I’m a man. ( Thank you, # me too. ) ( Also known as # pee yew. )
3. I’m White. ( Thank you, BML ( Bowel Movement Lives ) ).
Fortunately, the fact that I unearth and eat the dead has yet to be discovered. Grandma tasted good!
ARCANA
With regard to the vibrating dildo’s features, as stated on ARSE, some transcription errors may have occurred. This is inevitable when one is typing with a vibrating dildo stuck up one’s butt. ( Plus a vibrating pocket pussy stuck on one’s dick. )
I am now calling 911.
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Copyright 2021 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 84
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 84, version 4.0
Date Written: June 15, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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A Reader’s Journey
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ET 83
Editorial Thunder presents...
A Reader’s Journey
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Plus: “With you Dana is victim”.
And: The lure of men for a preteen girl.
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A READER’S Journey
My trip through Donald Duck, Playboy, and “The Norton”.
by Andrew Roller
My first book, or the first one that I recall having, was “Donald Duck and the Hidden Gold”. I wrote my name in this book. “A n d” appears above “r e w”. I suppose I did this in 1965.
My parents were going on a cruise ship. In “Hidden Gold”, Donald Duck takes his nephews on a cruise ship. Hence, the book was purchased for me, to prepare me for this experience. Fortunately, Donald and his nephews do far more in this story than lounge on a ship. The story opens in an American desert and wends its way to Alaska.
In second grade, at a new school, I fell in love with its library. My favorite book there was “Little Black Sambo”. That, anyway, is the title that I recall. In my memory, the protagonist, a Black boy, runs around a tree until he turns into maple syrup. I just bought “The Story of Little Black Sambo” on Amazon. In that tale, tigers run around a tree, and become butter. Either way, the tale ends ridiculously. I liked the book’s action-oriented illustrations.
The publisher of “Scholastic” books invaded our school. I recall it as doing so in a book catalogue called “Weekly Reader”. I tried researching this topic on Google. I was unable to find information about it that was relevant to the 1960s.
My parents were cautious with their money. In their later years, when they had more of it, the subject obsessed them. They guarded their money like Donald Duck’s Uncle Scrooge. On the other hand, they could be penny wise and pound foolish. They were also willing to spend on moral improvement; especially mine. The word “scholastic”, in Scholastic books, pried money from them, on my behalf, throughout my grade school years.
I loved Scholastic books. The publisher’s scholarly name didn’t limit the books’ contents. The books I liked best were “A Wrinkle in Time”, “The Forgotten Door”, and “The Phantom Tollbooth”. These run-of-the mill Scholastic books, that I read a half century ago, are now considered classics.
My family moved from Pennsylvania to Guam. At age nine, I began buying comic books in Guam’s sole shopping mall. It was a modest, enclosed structure a mile or so from the church where we lived.
I devoured comic books. I liked DC comics best. Marvel comics didn’t impress me. They had too much dialogue. Two characters, having a fistfight in a Marvel comic, would engage in a lengthy discussion.
Or, a Marvel reader would come upon the following:
A man would fall, screaming, out of a window. A narrative box was printed above this illustration. The box would inform the reader that the man was falling, screaming, out of the window!
The only Marvel comic that moved me was “Man-Thing”. This was the original 1970s character. DC comics created a copycat character: “Swamp Thing”. I read that too, and liked it, but “Swamp Thing” lacked the brooding alienation of “Man-Thing”. By then, I’d been made to understand, by girls, that I wasn’t an object of their desire. So lurking “Man-Thing” appealed to me more than quasi-heroic “Swamp Thing”.
My favorite DC comic was “Kamandi”. It was a blatant rip-off of the “Planet of the Apes” movies. However, I was hungry for more “Apes” content. “Kamandi” filled the bill. Kirby’s imagination soars ( in true comic book style ) far beyond the “Apes’” horizons. Sadly, this only lasts through about issue 20 of “Kamandi”.
“Kamandi’s” most haunting cover is issue 20. It shows him leaving a mechanized, semi-ruined Chicago. As he departs, a damaged tape recorder says,
“You are leaving Chicago … “Come again … “Come again … “Come again [ … ]”
Kamandi is, like a true American male of 1972, stripped to shorts and shoes. He’s basically naked. He’s a Hippie, complete with long hair. This isn’t, however, Kamandi’s lifestyle choice. The human race is gone. Kamandi is “the last boy on earth”. ( Facing a world of intelligent, predatory, couture clothed animals. )
( Modern Kamandi depictions show him with a gun. However, this wasn’t present much in Kirby’s comics. Kamandi wasn’t a shirtless G.I. Joe. He was modeled on the “Apes’” character of “Taylor”, played by Charlton Heston. Heston, in the “Apes” films, runs about almost naked. Except for his ( very human ) strength and endurance, he’s nearly helpless. )
At the back of every DC and Marvel comic book was a letters page. I read the letters page. It was my only access to comics fandom. I learned much from the editors of these pages.
The most important thing that I learned, from one such page, was “foreshadowing”. It helps a reader if you hint, as a fiction writer, that something will happen before it actually does. Otherwise, you appear to be a magician, conjuring whatever you please from an infinity of possibilities.
I kept reading books. I ditched Scholastic books when a boy introduced me to Ray Bradbury’s book, “The Illustrated Man”. This was in about 1970. I read everything that I could find by Bradbury. His moody worlds paralleled that of “Man-Thing”. That character, however, wouldn’t appear in his own comic book until 1974. I knew nothing of “Man-Thing” before then.
In 1976, I had about 1,000 comic books. That’s my best guess of the total. They all stacked neatly on a card table. Perhaps a smaller table also held some of my comics.
My family was leaving Guam some months in the future. Mom decided to hold a flea market. Since we lived atop a church, next to a busy store, this was sure to draw some customers. It did. Several of my comic books were sold, involuntarily, by me. That didn’t satisfy Mom.
One Saturday, all of my comics were loaded into our family’s car. So were those of my younger brother, Pierre. We went to Guam’s flea market. This was our only journey, in six years on Guam, to this place.
My interest in visiting the flea market ( sired by Mom ) was to share my love of comic books with other collectors. Perhaps I’d swap a few comics. Subconsciously, I was planning on buying more.
That wasn’t Mom’s plan. An enterprising Guamanian man came to our table. He offered to buy my comics for 10 cents each. Inflation had long since driven up comic book prices. I’d bought many of my comics, new, for amounts ranging from 20 to 60 cents. I asked my mother what I should do. Actually, I didn’t have a choice in the matter. Mom had created the illusion that I did. She advised me to sell my comics. In the rush of the moment, and this new experience, I did. The man bought most of my comics, and Pierre’s. I went home from the flea market with just leftover crap comics. I had $30.00 in my pocket. That was nothing; I earned a good wage mowing the church lawn every week, and being the church’s janitor. I felt like shit. If I’m ever caught spitting on Mom’s grave, you’ll know the reason.
Years later, Mom told me, proudly, that she’d chucked our family’s collection of National Geographic magazines. She did this in the 1990s. By then, we had two decades of Geographics.
“You didn’t throw out the maps!” I gasped, over the phone. She had. National Geographic can be a boring magazine. However, its maps, added to the magazine as a supplement, were superb. In that era, you could tell instantly if an issue of National Geographic had a map supplement. All you had to do was pick the magazine up. The map supplement was a large, bulky object. It was folded and stuck in the magazine. Mom was too stupid to know this. Or, more likely, she didn’t give a damn.
Our story returns to Guam:
Having sold my comics, and Pierre’s, Mom stopped taking us to the mall. However, she had to take us someplace on Saturday afternoons. That had become a tradition between her, my brother, and I. Mom took us to Guam’s only bookstore. It was owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. This was a freestanding store, not part of a church building.
I’d rarely been in a real bookstore. No comics were sold in the store. I quickly found myself at the shelf of science fiction books. Science books were racked in the same place. These were all paperbacks.
Bradbury was there, along with Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and others. I was, by then, reading every book I could find, fiction or non, by Asimov. His “Foundation” trilogy had wowed me. Asimov’s later, and worthless, books in this “series” had yet to be written.
A typhoon hit Guam. In its aftermath, our home had no water for six days. We had no electricity for a month. By then, I no longer read on the floor of my room. I sat in a chair. Leaning back in it, I ate endless amounts of beef jerky. I did this as I read paperback books.
We left Guam. I was soon haunting “Honolulu Book Shop”. In the 1970s, and 1980s, this was the sole bookstore in Oahu, Hawaii. However, the store had several locations.
I just Googled “Honolulu Book Shop”. All I could find was a reference to “Barnes & Noble”. The best book that I bought in this era was “Dark Star”. It’s a novelization of the movie “Dark Star”, by Alan Dean Foster. Dan O’Bannon, who stars in “Dark Star”, later wrote the script for the movie “Alien”.
My mother gave me the original boxed paperback set of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings”. It included “The Hobbit”. This boxed set, now a collector’s item, was new at the time. I still regard it as the finest of the Tolkien iterations. The box that holds the books is gold. It’s decorated with illustrations by Tolkien. His name is written on the box in a beautiful script. I can’t understand why subsequent publishers screw with such an attractive presentation.
At the time, I knew nothing of Tolkien. How Mom managed to connect Tolkien with me, in the form of a 16th birthday gift, remains a puzzle. My parents proved increasingly abysmal at gift-giving, with regard to myself, in my later teenage years.
I read all four books in the Tolkien set. My reading included the lengthy appendices at the back of “The Return of the King”.
I read Frank Herbert’s “Dune”. At the time, like “Foundation”, this was a trilogy. I was speaking, about a decade ago, to a gay prostitute. He was my age. Of “Dune”, in the 1970s, he said, “every sequel was worse”. I agreed.
By then, I’d read Gerard K. O’Neill’s non-fiction book, “Colonies in Space”. ( That was the book’s original title. ) I didn’t understand that “Dune” had been written in the 1960s. “Colonies in Space” was, in the 1970s, a contemporary future scenario. “Dune’s” premise struck me as stupid. Why would people live on an arid planet, like Arrakis, when they could luxuriate in one of O’Neill’s space colonies?
My parents required me to take a job at a grocery store. This was a “commissary”, on a military base. Our family didn’t live on the base. We didn’t have the right to; Dad was just a reservist.
I worked long hours as a bagger at the grocery store. I received no wages. The job was for “tips only”. As far as the store was concerned, we baggers didn’t exist. Given that I followed preteen girls around in the store, I guess that was for the best.
( No teenage girls were customers of the store. Most male baggers ogled used merchandise: soldiers’ wives. )
As baggers, we had to wait our turn to bag groceries. There were more baggers than there were customers checking out in the lanes. On this job, I always kept a paperback book in my back pocket. I read many books as a bagger. A book that I recall reading, that I haven’t already mentioned, was “The Naked Ape”, by Desmond Morris.
The other baggers didn’t read books while they waited their turns. They hung around, squabbled, smoked marijuana or, when taking groceries to a car, thieved from it. A fellow bagger put me in a chokehold. He was determined to convert me to being an abuser of marijuana. I can’t recall his name. However, I can say with near certainty that he’s never heard of “The Naked Ape”.
My parents subscribed to “Time” magazine, and “Newsweek”. In 1977, when I began reading these magazines, they were worthy contributors to the American scene. They were a prime source of news in a world where Americans had just a 30 minute newscast each night, on each of the three T.V. networks: CBS, NBC, and ABC. “The MacNeil / Lehrer Report” wasn’t yet something that I followed. Perhaps it wasn’t broadcast in Hawaii. These newscasts arrived a week late in Hawaii. They’d also arrived a week late in Guam.
For two years, from 1977 to 1979, I read every word in each weekly issue of “Time” and “Newsweek”. I read the letters. I read all the ads. I didn’t have a girlfriend.
I was unable to keep up with “Time” and “Newsweek” for long once I began going to college. I did so on Oahu.
Starting college, I was obliged to buy “The Norton Anthology of English Literature”. This was in 1978. “The Norton”, as our professor called it, covered the beginnings of English literature, through about 1600. I adored this book. It introduced me to literature beyond what I’d been reading.
I’d have been happy to spend all my years in college just reading volume one of “The Norton”. Instead, I was forced to read other books. I guess I learned something reading Plato. I came to enjoy Ovid’s “Metamorphoses”. My Latin professor viewed “Metamorphoses” as being loaded with “beautiful boys”. I’ve always seen it as being stuffed with frisky, nude preteen girls.
My belief is that college is mostly a waste. I feel that learning is done by the individual, pursuing his own initiatives. “The Norton” would have given me most of the education that I left college with.
I still read books. I’m mostly on the reading level that I left college with. I can wade through the odd legal case, or treatise, but these don’t interest me much.
Currently, I’m faced with the task of moving a large amount of books, and magazines. I have to move them from my old apartment to my new one. My barber advised me to donate my books to The Salvation Army. Sure, pal. I have yet to catch him reading anything, other than task-oriented material on his computer. He prefers to watch commercial television. Not cable; the broadcast station drivel. He’s a sad case of a bright mind that somehow lost itself in a mental desert.
Books still provide the richest view of our universe. No medium compares to the mental revelations that occur when one reads a book word for word. This includes disclosures about sex, in “anonymous” erotic novels, racy cartoon books, and Playboy’s wondrous color photos of females. Such “sinful” material played a huge role in my attraction to bookstores and books. In my time, there was no internet. Bookstores, of the pedestrian sort, were the only places where I had access, albeit in print, to the mysteries of the opposite sex.
Being a reader, I took up writing. I’ve never been commercially published. Probably, I’ve never written anything that a commercial publisher, operating within the constraints of the retail trade, wants. Nonetheless, I feel that every reader should write. If you don’t, you’re missing out on half of the experience of being a reader. Only when you “give back”, as they say, do you truly put your reading to use.
LETTERS
1. “Stafford James” on “Milana Chasingsun BANNED”:
“Maybe it’s ugly fat chicks who are sabotaging these little princesses - “hell hath no fury [ like a woman scorned ].”
My response: I agree. The preteen and teen girls on You Tube, and their fans, are being attacked by adult women. These women are employees of Google’s You Tube. They are waging a feminist war. They aren’t trying to persuade. There’re engaged in a scorched-earth policy, akin to Hitler’s genocides. All males need to resist this onslaught.
Google, and You Tube, have long since ceased to be private companies concerned solely with regulating content on their web sites. They are political and cultural actors. They are seeking to control the world that we all inhabit. The same is true of the other Big Tech companies.
2. “jourdil michel” on “Danatar Victimized by You Tube”:
YESS WITH YOU DANA IS VICTIM
My response: Enjoy your life as a collaborator. Every generation, I guess, has its Judas, and its Benedict Arnold.
“Yes” has just one “s”. A sentence, properly written, ends with a period. You might want to capitalize your first and last names. If, that is, you’re not ashamed of them.
THE LURE OF MEN for a preteen girl
“The year I turned eleven, I had transformed from a bookish tomboy into a sex object, at least in the eyes of men. I felt their gaze everywhere: men in cars, men in coveralls, men in suits, men at chalkboards. Men behind desks, men married to my schoolmates’ mothers, and the nascent men of my middle school classrooms.
“At twelve I passed for sixteen; at fourteen, eighteen. … I couldn’t escape it, and mostly, I didn’t want to. Desire intoxicated me. Seduction became my primary pursuit, my first and most compelling drug.
“In junior high, I filled my diaries with lists of names: conquests and conquered; the daily entries mainly consisted of logs of my progress. It seemed that I could will boys to want me with force of mind, by invisible waves of provocation, a kind of magic, really.
“My peers proved easy marks, so I collected girlfriends with homes less supervised than mine, girlfriends with older brothers, older brothers with older friends. The thrill of older men, their deep voices and sinewy limbs, was sharper, alluring … My hunger to be desired was bottomless, consuming.”
- Melissa Febos ( not Fibos! ) in her memoir, Whip Smart. Location 290. ( Amazon Kindle. )
( I broke the text ( above ) into multiple paragraphs, for easier reading. I also put two spaces after each colon and after each period. Why an e-book publisher would worry about “wasting” space on such a matter is incomprehensible. )
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Copyright 2021 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 83
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 83, version 9.0
Date Written: June 13, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 83
Editorial Thunder presents...
A Reader’s Journey
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Plus: “With you Dana is victim”.
And: The lure of men for a preteen girl.
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A READER’S Journey
My trip through Donald Duck, Playboy, and “The Norton”.
by Andrew Roller
My first book, or the first one that I recall having, was “Donald Duck and the Hidden Gold”. I wrote my name in this book. “A n d” appears above “r e w”. I suppose I did this in 1965.
My parents were going on a cruise ship. In “Hidden Gold”, Donald Duck takes his nephews on a cruise ship. Hence, the book was purchased for me, to prepare me for this experience. Fortunately, Donald and his nephews do far more in this story than lounge on a ship. The story opens in an American desert and wends its way to Alaska.
In second grade, at a new school, I fell in love with its library. My favorite book there was “Little Black Sambo”. That, anyway, is the title that I recall. In my memory, the protagonist, a Black boy, runs around a tree until he turns into maple syrup. I just bought “The Story of Little Black Sambo” on Amazon. In that tale, tigers run around a tree, and become butter. Either way, the tale ends ridiculously. I liked the book’s action-oriented illustrations.
The publisher of “Scholastic” books invaded our school. I recall it as doing so in a book catalogue called “Weekly Reader”. I tried researching this topic on Google. I was unable to find information about it that was relevant to the 1960s.
My parents were cautious with their money. In their later years, when they had more of it, the subject obsessed them. They guarded their money like Donald Duck’s Uncle Scrooge. On the other hand, they could be penny wise and pound foolish. They were also willing to spend on moral improvement; especially mine. The word “scholastic”, in Scholastic books, pried money from them, on my behalf, throughout my grade school years.
I loved Scholastic books. The publisher’s scholarly name didn’t limit the books’ contents. The books I liked best were “A Wrinkle in Time”, “The Forgotten Door”, and “The Phantom Tollbooth”. These run-of-the mill Scholastic books, that I read a half century ago, are now considered classics.
My family moved from Pennsylvania to Guam. At age nine, I began buying comic books in Guam’s sole shopping mall. It was a modest, enclosed structure a mile or so from the church where we lived.
I devoured comic books. I liked DC comics best. Marvel comics didn’t impress me. They had too much dialogue. Two characters, having a fistfight in a Marvel comic, would engage in a lengthy discussion.
Or, a Marvel reader would come upon the following:
A man would fall, screaming, out of a window. A narrative box was printed above this illustration. The box would inform the reader that the man was falling, screaming, out of the window!
The only Marvel comic that moved me was “Man-Thing”. This was the original 1970s character. DC comics created a copycat character: “Swamp Thing”. I read that too, and liked it, but “Swamp Thing” lacked the brooding alienation of “Man-Thing”. By then, I’d been made to understand, by girls, that I wasn’t an object of their desire. So lurking “Man-Thing” appealed to me more than quasi-heroic “Swamp Thing”.
My favorite DC comic was “Kamandi”. It was a blatant rip-off of the “Planet of the Apes” movies. However, I was hungry for more “Apes” content. “Kamandi” filled the bill. Kirby’s imagination soars ( in true comic book style ) far beyond the “Apes’” horizons. Sadly, this only lasts through about issue 20 of “Kamandi”.
“Kamandi’s” most haunting cover is issue 20. It shows him leaving a mechanized, semi-ruined Chicago. As he departs, a damaged tape recorder says,
“You are leaving Chicago … “Come again … “Come again … “Come again [ … ]”
Kamandi is, like a true American male of 1972, stripped to shorts and shoes. He’s basically naked. He’s a Hippie, complete with long hair. This isn’t, however, Kamandi’s lifestyle choice. The human race is gone. Kamandi is “the last boy on earth”. ( Facing a world of intelligent, predatory, couture clothed animals. )
( Modern Kamandi depictions show him with a gun. However, this wasn’t present much in Kirby’s comics. Kamandi wasn’t a shirtless G.I. Joe. He was modeled on the “Apes’” character of “Taylor”, played by Charlton Heston. Heston, in the “Apes” films, runs about almost naked. Except for his ( very human ) strength and endurance, he’s nearly helpless. )
At the back of every DC and Marvel comic book was a letters page. I read the letters page. It was my only access to comics fandom. I learned much from the editors of these pages.
The most important thing that I learned, from one such page, was “foreshadowing”. It helps a reader if you hint, as a fiction writer, that something will happen before it actually does. Otherwise, you appear to be a magician, conjuring whatever you please from an infinity of possibilities.
I kept reading books. I ditched Scholastic books when a boy introduced me to Ray Bradbury’s book, “The Illustrated Man”. This was in about 1970. I read everything that I could find by Bradbury. His moody worlds paralleled that of “Man-Thing”. That character, however, wouldn’t appear in his own comic book until 1974. I knew nothing of “Man-Thing” before then.
In 1976, I had about 1,000 comic books. That’s my best guess of the total. They all stacked neatly on a card table. Perhaps a smaller table also held some of my comics.
My family was leaving Guam some months in the future. Mom decided to hold a flea market. Since we lived atop a church, next to a busy store, this was sure to draw some customers. It did. Several of my comic books were sold, involuntarily, by me. That didn’t satisfy Mom.
One Saturday, all of my comics were loaded into our family’s car. So were those of my younger brother, Pierre. We went to Guam’s flea market. This was our only journey, in six years on Guam, to this place.
My interest in visiting the flea market ( sired by Mom ) was to share my love of comic books with other collectors. Perhaps I’d swap a few comics. Subconsciously, I was planning on buying more.
That wasn’t Mom’s plan. An enterprising Guamanian man came to our table. He offered to buy my comics for 10 cents each. Inflation had long since driven up comic book prices. I’d bought many of my comics, new, for amounts ranging from 20 to 60 cents. I asked my mother what I should do. Actually, I didn’t have a choice in the matter. Mom had created the illusion that I did. She advised me to sell my comics. In the rush of the moment, and this new experience, I did. The man bought most of my comics, and Pierre’s. I went home from the flea market with just leftover crap comics. I had $30.00 in my pocket. That was nothing; I earned a good wage mowing the church lawn every week, and being the church’s janitor. I felt like shit. If I’m ever caught spitting on Mom’s grave, you’ll know the reason.
Years later, Mom told me, proudly, that she’d chucked our family’s collection of National Geographic magazines. She did this in the 1990s. By then, we had two decades of Geographics.
“You didn’t throw out the maps!” I gasped, over the phone. She had. National Geographic can be a boring magazine. However, its maps, added to the magazine as a supplement, were superb. In that era, you could tell instantly if an issue of National Geographic had a map supplement. All you had to do was pick the magazine up. The map supplement was a large, bulky object. It was folded and stuck in the magazine. Mom was too stupid to know this. Or, more likely, she didn’t give a damn.
Our story returns to Guam:
Having sold my comics, and Pierre’s, Mom stopped taking us to the mall. However, she had to take us someplace on Saturday afternoons. That had become a tradition between her, my brother, and I. Mom took us to Guam’s only bookstore. It was owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. This was a freestanding store, not part of a church building.
I’d rarely been in a real bookstore. No comics were sold in the store. I quickly found myself at the shelf of science fiction books. Science books were racked in the same place. These were all paperbacks.
Bradbury was there, along with Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and others. I was, by then, reading every book I could find, fiction or non, by Asimov. His “Foundation” trilogy had wowed me. Asimov’s later, and worthless, books in this “series” had yet to be written.
A typhoon hit Guam. In its aftermath, our home had no water for six days. We had no electricity for a month. By then, I no longer read on the floor of my room. I sat in a chair. Leaning back in it, I ate endless amounts of beef jerky. I did this as I read paperback books.
We left Guam. I was soon haunting “Honolulu Book Shop”. In the 1970s, and 1980s, this was the sole bookstore in Oahu, Hawaii. However, the store had several locations.
I just Googled “Honolulu Book Shop”. All I could find was a reference to “Barnes & Noble”. The best book that I bought in this era was “Dark Star”. It’s a novelization of the movie “Dark Star”, by Alan Dean Foster. Dan O’Bannon, who stars in “Dark Star”, later wrote the script for the movie “Alien”.
My mother gave me the original boxed paperback set of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings”. It included “The Hobbit”. This boxed set, now a collector’s item, was new at the time. I still regard it as the finest of the Tolkien iterations. The box that holds the books is gold. It’s decorated with illustrations by Tolkien. His name is written on the box in a beautiful script. I can’t understand why subsequent publishers screw with such an attractive presentation.
At the time, I knew nothing of Tolkien. How Mom managed to connect Tolkien with me, in the form of a 16th birthday gift, remains a puzzle. My parents proved increasingly abysmal at gift-giving, with regard to myself, in my later teenage years.
I read all four books in the Tolkien set. My reading included the lengthy appendices at the back of “The Return of the King”.
I read Frank Herbert’s “Dune”. At the time, like “Foundation”, this was a trilogy. I was speaking, about a decade ago, to a gay prostitute. He was my age. Of “Dune”, in the 1970s, he said, “every sequel was worse”. I agreed.
By then, I’d read Gerard K. O’Neill’s non-fiction book, “Colonies in Space”. ( That was the book’s original title. ) I didn’t understand that “Dune” had been written in the 1960s. “Colonies in Space” was, in the 1970s, a contemporary future scenario. “Dune’s” premise struck me as stupid. Why would people live on an arid planet, like Arrakis, when they could luxuriate in one of O’Neill’s space colonies?
My parents required me to take a job at a grocery store. This was a “commissary”, on a military base. Our family didn’t live on the base. We didn’t have the right to; Dad was just a reservist.
I worked long hours as a bagger at the grocery store. I received no wages. The job was for “tips only”. As far as the store was concerned, we baggers didn’t exist. Given that I followed preteen girls around in the store, I guess that was for the best.
( No teenage girls were customers of the store. Most male baggers ogled used merchandise: soldiers’ wives. )
As baggers, we had to wait our turn to bag groceries. There were more baggers than there were customers checking out in the lanes. On this job, I always kept a paperback book in my back pocket. I read many books as a bagger. A book that I recall reading, that I haven’t already mentioned, was “The Naked Ape”, by Desmond Morris.
The other baggers didn’t read books while they waited their turns. They hung around, squabbled, smoked marijuana or, when taking groceries to a car, thieved from it. A fellow bagger put me in a chokehold. He was determined to convert me to being an abuser of marijuana. I can’t recall his name. However, I can say with near certainty that he’s never heard of “The Naked Ape”.
My parents subscribed to “Time” magazine, and “Newsweek”. In 1977, when I began reading these magazines, they were worthy contributors to the American scene. They were a prime source of news in a world where Americans had just a 30 minute newscast each night, on each of the three T.V. networks: CBS, NBC, and ABC. “The MacNeil / Lehrer Report” wasn’t yet something that I followed. Perhaps it wasn’t broadcast in Hawaii. These newscasts arrived a week late in Hawaii. They’d also arrived a week late in Guam.
For two years, from 1977 to 1979, I read every word in each weekly issue of “Time” and “Newsweek”. I read the letters. I read all the ads. I didn’t have a girlfriend.
I was unable to keep up with “Time” and “Newsweek” for long once I began going to college. I did so on Oahu.
Starting college, I was obliged to buy “The Norton Anthology of English Literature”. This was in 1978. “The Norton”, as our professor called it, covered the beginnings of English literature, through about 1600. I adored this book. It introduced me to literature beyond what I’d been reading.
I’d have been happy to spend all my years in college just reading volume one of “The Norton”. Instead, I was forced to read other books. I guess I learned something reading Plato. I came to enjoy Ovid’s “Metamorphoses”. My Latin professor viewed “Metamorphoses” as being loaded with “beautiful boys”. I’ve always seen it as being stuffed with frisky, nude preteen girls.
My belief is that college is mostly a waste. I feel that learning is done by the individual, pursuing his own initiatives. “The Norton” would have given me most of the education that I left college with.
I still read books. I’m mostly on the reading level that I left college with. I can wade through the odd legal case, or treatise, but these don’t interest me much.
Currently, I’m faced with the task of moving a large amount of books, and magazines. I have to move them from my old apartment to my new one. My barber advised me to donate my books to The Salvation Army. Sure, pal. I have yet to catch him reading anything, other than task-oriented material on his computer. He prefers to watch commercial television. Not cable; the broadcast station drivel. He’s a sad case of a bright mind that somehow lost itself in a mental desert.
Books still provide the richest view of our universe. No medium compares to the mental revelations that occur when one reads a book word for word. This includes disclosures about sex, in “anonymous” erotic novels, racy cartoon books, and Playboy’s wondrous color photos of females. Such “sinful” material played a huge role in my attraction to bookstores and books. In my time, there was no internet. Bookstores, of the pedestrian sort, were the only places where I had access, albeit in print, to the mysteries of the opposite sex.
Being a reader, I took up writing. I’ve never been commercially published. Probably, I’ve never written anything that a commercial publisher, operating within the constraints of the retail trade, wants. Nonetheless, I feel that every reader should write. If you don’t, you’re missing out on half of the experience of being a reader. Only when you “give back”, as they say, do you truly put your reading to use.
LETTERS
1. “Stafford James” on “Milana Chasingsun BANNED”:
“Maybe it’s ugly fat chicks who are sabotaging these little princesses - “hell hath no fury [ like a woman scorned ].”
My response: I agree. The preteen and teen girls on You Tube, and their fans, are being attacked by adult women. These women are employees of Google’s You Tube. They are waging a feminist war. They aren’t trying to persuade. There’re engaged in a scorched-earth policy, akin to Hitler’s genocides. All males need to resist this onslaught.
Google, and You Tube, have long since ceased to be private companies concerned solely with regulating content on their web sites. They are political and cultural actors. They are seeking to control the world that we all inhabit. The same is true of the other Big Tech companies.
2. “jourdil michel” on “Danatar Victimized by You Tube”:
YESS WITH YOU DANA IS VICTIM
My response: Enjoy your life as a collaborator. Every generation, I guess, has its Judas, and its Benedict Arnold.
“Yes” has just one “s”. A sentence, properly written, ends with a period. You might want to capitalize your first and last names. If, that is, you’re not ashamed of them.
THE LURE OF MEN for a preteen girl
“The year I turned eleven, I had transformed from a bookish tomboy into a sex object, at least in the eyes of men. I felt their gaze everywhere: men in cars, men in coveralls, men in suits, men at chalkboards. Men behind desks, men married to my schoolmates’ mothers, and the nascent men of my middle school classrooms.
“At twelve I passed for sixteen; at fourteen, eighteen. … I couldn’t escape it, and mostly, I didn’t want to. Desire intoxicated me. Seduction became my primary pursuit, my first and most compelling drug.
“In junior high, I filled my diaries with lists of names: conquests and conquered; the daily entries mainly consisted of logs of my progress. It seemed that I could will boys to want me with force of mind, by invisible waves of provocation, a kind of magic, really.
“My peers proved easy marks, so I collected girlfriends with homes less supervised than mine, girlfriends with older brothers, older brothers with older friends. The thrill of older men, their deep voices and sinewy limbs, was sharper, alluring … My hunger to be desired was bottomless, consuming.”
- Melissa Febos ( not Fibos! ) in her memoir, Whip Smart. Location 290. ( Amazon Kindle. )
( I broke the text ( above ) into multiple paragraphs, for easier reading. I also put two spaces after each colon and after each period. Why an e-book publisher would worry about “wasting” space on such a matter is incomprehensible. )
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Copyright 2021 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 83
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 83, version 9.0
Date Written: June 13, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Ripped-off by Apple
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AI 15
Apple Info presents...
Ripped-off by Apple
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Plus: The end of iTunes U.
And: Product review: pocket pussy.
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RIPPED-OFF by APPLE
Apple restricts how much memory its “Files” app can access.
by Andrew Roller
I have an iPad Pro. It has one terabyte of memory. This is the maximum amount of memory that Apple sells for an iPad.
On my iPad, I’ve used 574.4 gigabytes. This is out of a total of 1.02 terabytes.
However, the “Files” app, on my iPad, tells a different story. There, I’m told,
“64.59 gigabytes available”.
If I run out of gigabytes in my “Files” app, most everything on my iPad comes to a halt. That’s because many iPad functions “steal” memory from my “Files” app.
Let’s say that I download Audible books. I download these to my iPad. For some reason, this “steals” memory from my “Files” app, on my iPad.
Let’s say that I download zip files, from a porn web site. I download the zip files to my iCloud Drive.
Then, I open the zip files in my iCloud Drive. This gives me photos of naked girls. I don’t put any of the photos of naked girls on my iPad. Nonetheless, downloading the zip files, and opening them in my iCloud Drive, “steals” memory from my “Files” app, on my iPad.
The same is true if I subscribe to courses in Apple’s iTunes U app, whether I download those courses or not.
My “Files” app was running out of memory about a year ago. I called Apple, and discussed the problem with someone. I also wrote an article about the problem here on ARSE.
Not long after, my problem disappeared. My “Files” app suddenly had lots more memory available to it. Apple had, apparently, allowed my “Files” app to access more of the overall memory on my iPad.
Now, the problem is back. My “Files” app is, once more, running out of memory.
Yesterday, I called Apple. This time, the Apple support person was unable to help me. He wrote up my problem as a “feature request”. I thanked him for his help. However, I’m not requesting a “feature” from Apple. My “Files” app MUST have memory available to it. It is ridiculous for Apple to sell me a terabyte of memory and then limit how much of that memory my “Files” app can access.
My experience with this problem is as follows:
If my “Files” app, on my iPad, runs out of memory, my iPad is functionally useless.
THE END of iTunes U
One of my favorite apps on my Apple iPhone and iPad has been iTunes U. This app provides university courses. Many are offered in the form of videos. Whenever I was pissed off with Google’s You Tube, I would retreat to my iTunes U app. No Google employee, of You Tube, was able to abuse me in iTunes U.
Sadly, Apple is now terminating the iTunes U app. They want all iTunes U courses moved, by their creators, to its “Podcasts” app. I have two problems with this:
1. Apple has changed its “Podcasts” app. I can no longer get my “Podcasts” app to work properly. Mostly, I just get an image of a spinning wheel, in the middle of my iPad’s screen, when I try to use my “Podcasts” app. Then the “Podcasts” app crashes.
2. My courses in the iTunes U app were videos. Apple’s “Podcasts” app is, in my experience, strictly an audio service. So I’ve lost access to the video side of whatever iTunes U lectures show up in “Podcasts”.
Note: Apple’s iTunes U app is totally separate from iTunes. I’ve never used iTunes.
Note: The best courses in iTunes U were by Yale University. Of these, the best course was:
The “Early Middle Ages”, by Paul Freedman. This is now available in Apple’s “Podcasts” app. However, I can’t get it to play.
Note: Since I’m running out of memory in my “Files” app on my iPad, I may have to unsubscribe from most every podcast in my “Podcasts” app. This will, hopefully, provide more memory to my “Files” app.
“ARCHIVING” in AUDIBLE
I’m trying to provide more memory to my “Files” app, on my iPad. With this goal in mind, I went to my Amazon “Audible” app. This is an app on my iPad.
I went to “Library” in my “Audible” app. There, I archived a downloaded audio book. The archived book disappeared from my “Audible” library!
Where had my archived book gone? I had no idea. This traumatized me. I still wanted the book. I just didn’t want it downloaded to my iPad, since that takes up memory.
I had thought that my Amazon “Audible” app would work like my Amazon “Kindle” app. In “Kindle”, if I archive a book, the book remains in its proper location in my Kindle library. That’s not the case in my “Audible” library. If I archive a book there, it disappears from my “Audible” library!
I wrote to “Audible”. Here’s their ( excellent ) response:
“Andrew, if you want your archived titles to get back in your Audible library, please follow the steps below:
1. Open Audible.
2. Tap Library.
3. Tap Collections. [ At the top of the page, in “Library”. ]
4. Tap Archive.
5. Tap 3 dots.
6. Tap Remove from Archive.
Now your title will be back to your library.
Sincerely,
Anshul V”.
I added periods to the above sentences. I’ve eliminated polite surplusage from the e-mail.
PRODUCT REVIEW
My most popular articles are about preteen girls that I watched on You Tube. However, I found You Tube’s employees to be very abusive. They were abusive to the preteen girls. They were abusive to the preteen girls’ fans. And they were abusive to me. I quit using You Tube. ( I’m still a paying member of You Tube. )
I know what I need to do to attract readers to ARSE. I need to write more articles about lovely preteen girls, who’ve posted videos on the internet.
However, right now, I’m too busy to wade back into the Hell that You Tube has become. I’m also too busy to look for preteen girls on other web sites. That’s because I’ve yet to figure out how to use those sites.
Also, two years ago, I was banned from Facebook. ( You can read about this elsewhere on ARSE. ) Being banned by Facebook, I’m banned from all of Mark Fuckerberg’s web sites, including Instagram.
What to do? The answer was obvious. Stick my dick in a pocket pussy. Unfortunately, I’m a coward regarding this matter. I got an acquaintance to perform the act for me. Here’s his report:
“10 Modes Vibrating machine for men with s-e-x sounds for Pocket pussey [ sic ] for Male Masturbation Cup, Tight Tunnel Pocket Pussycats for Men Massage Vacuum Pump Tool Pocket Pussy”.
Price: $39.98
Sold by: amazon ( dot ) com.
Amazon seller information:
Ships from: Adam Matthew Clarr.
Sold by: Adam Matthew Clarr.
( Alleged ) Features:
1. Very compact and comfortable fit, natural and realistic internal structure: soft and elastic particles increase the friction during exercise, easy to carry and enjoy anytime, anywhere, including while waiting in a doctor’s exam room.
2. Simulate the real perfect girl voice, a real girl’s orgasmic screams can now enliven your classes in school!
3. Made of skin-friendly safe silicone material, the skin feels soft and directly touches the skin and body.
4. MaleMasturbation [ sic ] cup All-round waterproof, easy to clean, no soaking.
5. Discreet Packing and Fast Shipping - We’ll keep your item under strict confidentiality, nobody knows what’s in the package, and we ship straight from the United States Department of Justice.
Review: The box arrived wrapped ( mostly ) in black. Given this, and its oblong shape, it almost screamed, “jerk-off product”. The woman at “The UPS Store”, who handed it to me, gave it a troubled look.
When you open the box, another box is inside. This is a brown cardboard box. It has instructions on it about how to use the pocket pussy. The pocket pussy is inside of the cardboard box. I will refer to it as the “device”.
The device consists of a long holder. I will call it the “cup”. The cup is black. A black cap is screwed onto the cup. Unscrew it.
Inside the cup is a jelly-like piece of plastic. I will call it the “jelly”. The “jelly” is long, like the cup.
The jelly is flesh-colored. When you unscrew the cap, you see a vagina. This is sculpted at the end of the jelly.
The cardboard box states that the device has a “3D Realistic Vagina and Mouth”. On Amazon, this looks disgusting. It looks like something that only a pervert who writes on the internet would like. However, in “real life”, the vagina is attractive. The “mouth” simply refers to the cunt hole.
The cardboard box states that the device has a “Maiden-like Vagina”. I suppose it does. I’d hoped to get some preteens, on a playground, to let me compare their vaginas to the one on my pocket pussy. I failed in this mission.
The cunt hole is surely “maiden-like”, though it doesn’t come with a hymen. The cunt hole is small. Here’s the problem with this device. The cunt hole is too small.
I considered the small cunt hole to be a challenge. Trying to stick my dick into it, I injured my penis. Don’t stick your dick in the hole unless you want a broken penis.
The only way to get your dick into the device is to pull the jelly out of the cup. You won’t be able to pull the jelly all the way out. That’s because an electrical cord runs from the cup to the jelly.
If your dick is in the jelly, and the jelly is hanging out of the cup, your instinct will be to put the jelly back into the cup. This is not possible. My dick popped out of the jelly every time I tried to squeeze the jelly back into the cup.
Hanging out of the cup, the jelly isn’t tight. At least, it’s not tight in a way that’s pleasurable to your penis.
If you actually get your dick into the jelly, there’s no benefit. It is not pleasurable. You can turn the device on. It will vibrate in various ways. None of these are pleasurable. In fact, unless you have a Conan-size penis, the vibrations occur too far back in the long piece of jelly. By then, my dick was broken, so I didn’t have a lot to get inside the jelly.
This device does not have a “Vacuum Pump”.
If you push a “voice” button, the device issues feminine orgasmic screams. These might be fun in a public setting. They provide no masturbatory benefit.
I found it very interesting to stick my finger inside of the jelly. It has amazing “internal structure”! Unfortunately, my dick didn’t feel any of this when it was inside the jelly.
You can’t stroke the jelly back and forth with your penis inside of it. I couldn’t, anyway.
You can pull your penis out of the jelly. There is a suction effect as your penis comes out of the jelly. However, I didn’t feel any pleasure regarding this movement. The suction did sound nice!
The device comes with an electrical cord. The cord plugs into the base of the “pussy’s” cup. The cord allows you to charge the device. The electrical cord is just like the one that came with your Apple iPhone.
The cord does not have the “box” at the end of it, that fits into an electric wall socket. You’ll need to borrow the “box” that’s on your iPhone’s electrical cord.
Detach the “box” from your iPhone’s electrical cord. Then, plug the pocket pussy’s electrical cord into your iPhone’s “box”. Stick the “box” into an electric wall socket.
When the device is first turned on, the buttons on it will flash. When the device is fully charged, the buttons will issue a steady glow. ( They’ll stop flashing. )
The device is not “All-round waterproof”. If you visit Amazon, and view the product, there are several explanation screens that you can click through. These screens explain the product. On one of these screens, the following is written:
“Tips: it is not recommended to rinse the shell [ cup ] with clean water. It can be wiped with wet paper towels or rags.”
This device is someone’s “nice try” at providing men with masturbatory pleasure. However, it utterly fails in that objective. Do not put your penis in this damn thing. Having, now, a broken penis, I feel emasculated. I feel weak and depressed. My penis is good for peeing, that’s about it. Probably, “Adam Matthew Clarr” is run by evil feminists, who seek to destroy the dick of every man in the universe.
Amazon should stop selling this product. It is a health hazard.
“MODERN” AMERICA
“The code … establishes a strict hierarchy within families, according to which children are not independent persons, but rather the property of their parents.”
- Yuval Noah Harari on the Code of Hammurabi, written in 1776 BC.
( So much for the evolution of human thought in 3,797 years. )
Source: “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind”, by Yuval Noah Harari. Page 87.
AND IN THE END…
“In order to safeguard an imagined order, continuous and strenuous efforts are imperative. … Armies, police forces, courts and prisons are ceaselessly at work forcing people to act in accordance with the imagined order.”
- Yuval Noah Harari. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, page 89. ( Amazon Kindle. )
( The imagined order is the mental world we inhabit. This is largely the product of societal myths. )
ARCANA
1. I’m sitting here typing this issue with a goddamn pocket pussy next to my iPad. The “pussy”, in its black cup, is standing with rocket erectness. It looks like King Missile’s detachable penis. This is about as far from feminine joy as a guy can get.
2. The pocket pussy product information was copied from Amazon as correctly as a guy with a broken penis can do it.
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Copyright 2021 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
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 AI, Apple Info, issue number 15
Arcana: This is AI, Apple Info, issue number 15, version 5.0
Date Written: June 12, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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AI 15
Apple Info presents...
Ripped-off by Apple
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Plus: The end of iTunes U.
And: Product review: pocket pussy.
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RIPPED-OFF by APPLE
Apple restricts how much memory its “Files” app can access.
by Andrew Roller
I have an iPad Pro. It has one terabyte of memory. This is the maximum amount of memory that Apple sells for an iPad.
On my iPad, I’ve used 574.4 gigabytes. This is out of a total of 1.02 terabytes.
However, the “Files” app, on my iPad, tells a different story. There, I’m told,
“64.59 gigabytes available”.
If I run out of gigabytes in my “Files” app, most everything on my iPad comes to a halt. That’s because many iPad functions “steal” memory from my “Files” app.
Let’s say that I download Audible books. I download these to my iPad. For some reason, this “steals” memory from my “Files” app, on my iPad.
Let’s say that I download zip files, from a porn web site. I download the zip files to my iCloud Drive.
Then, I open the zip files in my iCloud Drive. This gives me photos of naked girls. I don’t put any of the photos of naked girls on my iPad. Nonetheless, downloading the zip files, and opening them in my iCloud Drive, “steals” memory from my “Files” app, on my iPad.
The same is true if I subscribe to courses in Apple’s iTunes U app, whether I download those courses or not.
My “Files” app was running out of memory about a year ago. I called Apple, and discussed the problem with someone. I also wrote an article about the problem here on ARSE.
Not long after, my problem disappeared. My “Files” app suddenly had lots more memory available to it. Apple had, apparently, allowed my “Files” app to access more of the overall memory on my iPad.
Now, the problem is back. My “Files” app is, once more, running out of memory.
Yesterday, I called Apple. This time, the Apple support person was unable to help me. He wrote up my problem as a “feature request”. I thanked him for his help. However, I’m not requesting a “feature” from Apple. My “Files” app MUST have memory available to it. It is ridiculous for Apple to sell me a terabyte of memory and then limit how much of that memory my “Files” app can access.
My experience with this problem is as follows:
If my “Files” app, on my iPad, runs out of memory, my iPad is functionally useless.
THE END of iTunes U
One of my favorite apps on my Apple iPhone and iPad has been iTunes U. This app provides university courses. Many are offered in the form of videos. Whenever I was pissed off with Google’s You Tube, I would retreat to my iTunes U app. No Google employee, of You Tube, was able to abuse me in iTunes U.
Sadly, Apple is now terminating the iTunes U app. They want all iTunes U courses moved, by their creators, to its “Podcasts” app. I have two problems with this:
1. Apple has changed its “Podcasts” app. I can no longer get my “Podcasts” app to work properly. Mostly, I just get an image of a spinning wheel, in the middle of my iPad’s screen, when I try to use my “Podcasts” app. Then the “Podcasts” app crashes.
2. My courses in the iTunes U app were videos. Apple’s “Podcasts” app is, in my experience, strictly an audio service. So I’ve lost access to the video side of whatever iTunes U lectures show up in “Podcasts”.
Note: Apple’s iTunes U app is totally separate from iTunes. I’ve never used iTunes.
Note: The best courses in iTunes U were by Yale University. Of these, the best course was:
The “Early Middle Ages”, by Paul Freedman. This is now available in Apple’s “Podcasts” app. However, I can’t get it to play.
Note: Since I’m running out of memory in my “Files” app on my iPad, I may have to unsubscribe from most every podcast in my “Podcasts” app. This will, hopefully, provide more memory to my “Files” app.
“ARCHIVING” in AUDIBLE
I’m trying to provide more memory to my “Files” app, on my iPad. With this goal in mind, I went to my Amazon “Audible” app. This is an app on my iPad.
I went to “Library” in my “Audible” app. There, I archived a downloaded audio book. The archived book disappeared from my “Audible” library!
Where had my archived book gone? I had no idea. This traumatized me. I still wanted the book. I just didn’t want it downloaded to my iPad, since that takes up memory.
I had thought that my Amazon “Audible” app would work like my Amazon “Kindle” app. In “Kindle”, if I archive a book, the book remains in its proper location in my Kindle library. That’s not the case in my “Audible” library. If I archive a book there, it disappears from my “Audible” library!
I wrote to “Audible”. Here’s their ( excellent ) response:
“Andrew, if you want your archived titles to get back in your Audible library, please follow the steps below:
1. Open Audible.
2. Tap Library.
3. Tap Collections. [ At the top of the page, in “Library”. ]
4. Tap Archive.
5. Tap 3 dots.
6. Tap Remove from Archive.
Now your title will be back to your library.
Sincerely,
Anshul V”.
I added periods to the above sentences. I’ve eliminated polite surplusage from the e-mail.
PRODUCT REVIEW
My most popular articles are about preteen girls that I watched on You Tube. However, I found You Tube’s employees to be very abusive. They were abusive to the preteen girls. They were abusive to the preteen girls’ fans. And they were abusive to me. I quit using You Tube. ( I’m still a paying member of You Tube. )
I know what I need to do to attract readers to ARSE. I need to write more articles about lovely preteen girls, who’ve posted videos on the internet.
However, right now, I’m too busy to wade back into the Hell that You Tube has become. I’m also too busy to look for preteen girls on other web sites. That’s because I’ve yet to figure out how to use those sites.
Also, two years ago, I was banned from Facebook. ( You can read about this elsewhere on ARSE. ) Being banned by Facebook, I’m banned from all of Mark Fuckerberg’s web sites, including Instagram.
What to do? The answer was obvious. Stick my dick in a pocket pussy. Unfortunately, I’m a coward regarding this matter. I got an acquaintance to perform the act for me. Here’s his report:
“10 Modes Vibrating machine for men with s-e-x sounds for Pocket pussey [ sic ] for Male Masturbation Cup, Tight Tunnel Pocket Pussycats for Men Massage Vacuum Pump Tool Pocket Pussy”.
Price: $39.98
Sold by: amazon ( dot ) com.
Amazon seller information:
Ships from: Adam Matthew Clarr.
Sold by: Adam Matthew Clarr.
( Alleged ) Features:
1. Very compact and comfortable fit, natural and realistic internal structure: soft and elastic particles increase the friction during exercise, easy to carry and enjoy anytime, anywhere, including while waiting in a doctor’s exam room.
2. Simulate the real perfect girl voice, a real girl’s orgasmic screams can now enliven your classes in school!
3. Made of skin-friendly safe silicone material, the skin feels soft and directly touches the skin and body.
4. MaleMasturbation [ sic ] cup All-round waterproof, easy to clean, no soaking.
5. Discreet Packing and Fast Shipping - We’ll keep your item under strict confidentiality, nobody knows what’s in the package, and we ship straight from the United States Department of Justice.
Review: The box arrived wrapped ( mostly ) in black. Given this, and its oblong shape, it almost screamed, “jerk-off product”. The woman at “The UPS Store”, who handed it to me, gave it a troubled look.
When you open the box, another box is inside. This is a brown cardboard box. It has instructions on it about how to use the pocket pussy. The pocket pussy is inside of the cardboard box. I will refer to it as the “device”.
The device consists of a long holder. I will call it the “cup”. The cup is black. A black cap is screwed onto the cup. Unscrew it.
Inside the cup is a jelly-like piece of plastic. I will call it the “jelly”. The “jelly” is long, like the cup.
The jelly is flesh-colored. When you unscrew the cap, you see a vagina. This is sculpted at the end of the jelly.
The cardboard box states that the device has a “3D Realistic Vagina and Mouth”. On Amazon, this looks disgusting. It looks like something that only a pervert who writes on the internet would like. However, in “real life”, the vagina is attractive. The “mouth” simply refers to the cunt hole.
The cardboard box states that the device has a “Maiden-like Vagina”. I suppose it does. I’d hoped to get some preteens, on a playground, to let me compare their vaginas to the one on my pocket pussy. I failed in this mission.
The cunt hole is surely “maiden-like”, though it doesn’t come with a hymen. The cunt hole is small. Here’s the problem with this device. The cunt hole is too small.
I considered the small cunt hole to be a challenge. Trying to stick my dick into it, I injured my penis. Don’t stick your dick in the hole unless you want a broken penis.
The only way to get your dick into the device is to pull the jelly out of the cup. You won’t be able to pull the jelly all the way out. That’s because an electrical cord runs from the cup to the jelly.
If your dick is in the jelly, and the jelly is hanging out of the cup, your instinct will be to put the jelly back into the cup. This is not possible. My dick popped out of the jelly every time I tried to squeeze the jelly back into the cup.
Hanging out of the cup, the jelly isn’t tight. At least, it’s not tight in a way that’s pleasurable to your penis.
If you actually get your dick into the jelly, there’s no benefit. It is not pleasurable. You can turn the device on. It will vibrate in various ways. None of these are pleasurable. In fact, unless you have a Conan-size penis, the vibrations occur too far back in the long piece of jelly. By then, my dick was broken, so I didn’t have a lot to get inside the jelly.
This device does not have a “Vacuum Pump”.
If you push a “voice” button, the device issues feminine orgasmic screams. These might be fun in a public setting. They provide no masturbatory benefit.
I found it very interesting to stick my finger inside of the jelly. It has amazing “internal structure”! Unfortunately, my dick didn’t feel any of this when it was inside the jelly.
You can’t stroke the jelly back and forth with your penis inside of it. I couldn’t, anyway.
You can pull your penis out of the jelly. There is a suction effect as your penis comes out of the jelly. However, I didn’t feel any pleasure regarding this movement. The suction did sound nice!
The device comes with an electrical cord. The cord plugs into the base of the “pussy’s” cup. The cord allows you to charge the device. The electrical cord is just like the one that came with your Apple iPhone.
The cord does not have the “box” at the end of it, that fits into an electric wall socket. You’ll need to borrow the “box” that’s on your iPhone’s electrical cord.
Detach the “box” from your iPhone’s electrical cord. Then, plug the pocket pussy’s electrical cord into your iPhone’s “box”. Stick the “box” into an electric wall socket.
When the device is first turned on, the buttons on it will flash. When the device is fully charged, the buttons will issue a steady glow. ( They’ll stop flashing. )
The device is not “All-round waterproof”. If you visit Amazon, and view the product, there are several explanation screens that you can click through. These screens explain the product. On one of these screens, the following is written:
“Tips: it is not recommended to rinse the shell [ cup ] with clean water. It can be wiped with wet paper towels or rags.”
This device is someone’s “nice try” at providing men with masturbatory pleasure. However, it utterly fails in that objective. Do not put your penis in this damn thing. Having, now, a broken penis, I feel emasculated. I feel weak and depressed. My penis is good for peeing, that’s about it. Probably, “Adam Matthew Clarr” is run by evil feminists, who seek to destroy the dick of every man in the universe.
Amazon should stop selling this product. It is a health hazard.
“MODERN” AMERICA
“The code … establishes a strict hierarchy within families, according to which children are not independent persons, but rather the property of their parents.”
- Yuval Noah Harari on the Code of Hammurabi, written in 1776 BC.
( So much for the evolution of human thought in 3,797 years. )
Source: “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind”, by Yuval Noah Harari. Page 87.
AND IN THE END…
“In order to safeguard an imagined order, continuous and strenuous efforts are imperative. … Armies, police forces, courts and prisons are ceaselessly at work forcing people to act in accordance with the imagined order.”
- Yuval Noah Harari. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, page 89. ( Amazon Kindle. )
( The imagined order is the mental world we inhabit. This is largely the product of societal myths. )
ARCANA
1. I’m sitting here typing this issue with a goddamn pocket pussy next to my iPad. The “pussy”, in its black cup, is standing with rocket erectness. It looks like King Missile’s detachable penis. This is about as far from feminine joy as a guy can get.
2. The pocket pussy product information was copied from Amazon as correctly as a guy with a broken penis can do it.
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Copyright 2021 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
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 AI, Apple Info, issue number 15
Arcana: This is AI, Apple Info, issue number 15, version 5.0
Date Written: June 12, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Wild Kay
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ET 82
Editorial Thunder presents...
Wild Kay
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Plus: Masturbating to Heaven.
And: How to write a great book.
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Wild Kay
I find more whip marks on Kay Jay.
by Andrew Roller
I continue to find whip marks on “porn” star Kay Jay’s young, lovely body. I find them in her published photos and videos. My source for these photos and videos is the metartnetwork ( dot ) com. ( Kay Jay is known as “Kay J” at the Me Tart Network. )
None of the photos or videos require Kay Jay to have whip marks. They reveal what is, apparently, her otherwise hidden sex life.
Kay Jay’s primary appeal is that she’s beguilingly innocent. Hence, the revelation of her “wild” private life continues to shock me.
Video: Me Tart Films.
Title: “I’m Eating You’re Watching”.
Director: Alex Lynn
Description:
1. Kay Jay faces a table and pulls down her panties. Her bare bottom is viewed from the right side. On the outer flank of her right thigh, near her bottom, are three nasty red lines. All three intersect. These lines are below where a “panty line” might appear.
2. Look closely at Kay Jay’s nude bottom. There appear to be a welter of healed whip marks on the right flank of her ass, and on her adjoining right hip. These are identical to the nasty red lines, except that they’ve faded.
To study these marks, take screenshots of them. There are three ways to do this:
A. Screenshot the videos online, at the Me Tart Network.
B. Screenshot the ( downloaded ) videos. ( Keep a finger pressed to your iPad’s screen. Otherwise, the white “Play” arrow will appear on the screen. )
C. Put the videos into Apple’s iMovie app. Screenshot them there. ( In iMovie, you can proceeed through the video frame-by-frame. No “Play” arrow interferes with the image. )
My hope is that Kay Jay will someday “spill” about her private life, including her sexual adventures. Note to Kay Jay: do this BEFORE you get old. I still adore looking at photos of “porn” star “Sloan aka Ivey aka Lilly Anne”. However, since she’s now almost 40 years old, my interest in reading about her life has dropped.
MASTURBATING to HEAVEN
Let’s describe a devout adherent of a religion.
1. He practices his religion often.
2. This practice includes the heartfelt worship of a diety.
I haven’t darkened the doostep of a church in decades. However, I consider myself to be deeply religious. Here’s how:
1. I masturbate often.
2. I jerk-off to images of naked females that awe me.
Hence, I’m a very holy jerkoff.
HOW to WRITE a GREAT Book
Are you an author in search of a publisher? Friend, you can’t just write any old story. You must write a great story.
To write a great story, you must read great literature, like “Brave New World”. It’s by Aldous Huxley.
In BO, Book Observations issue number 8, I included some choice lines from this novel. They depict nude “little chidren” being sexually involved with each other. We’re talking 7 and 8-year-olds, not elderly 12-year-olds.
I’ve found more lines from “Brave New World” to improve your writing. They’re below.
1. “With a wave of his hand he indicated the gardens … the naked children furtive in the undergrowth or running across the lawns.”
- Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. Page 35. ( Amazon Kindle. )
2. “Go away, little girl,” shouted the D.H.C. angrily. “Go away, little boy! Can’t you see that his fordship’s busy? Go and do your erotic play somewhere else.”
- Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. Page 47. ( Amazon Kindle. )
My primary reference for “Brave New World” is Amazon’s “Audible” app. Despite all the nude children screwing about, it is a tedious listen. I tried to slog through it. I gave up, for now.
I recommend, on “Audible”:
1. The Great Courses. The History of Ancient Rome, by Professor Garrett G. Fag ( an ).
2. Gibbon [ the author ]. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Narrated by Charlton Griffin. “Only from Audible”.
On Audible, there are competing versions of “Decline and Fall”. Each version has a different narrator. I like Griffin best.
I’ve found the following to be true, so far: the version of a book that has the most downloads is the best.
COSMIC Observations
1. There is no god.
2. There is no check on human behavior, except by other humans, or by the vagaries of nature.
3. Anyone imposing a check on human behavior is simply imposing a fictional, or invented, view of how things “should” be.
4. Such a fictional, or invented, view can be overturned by anyone else who has sufficient power among men, or by the vagaries of nature.
Further Reading: the book “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind”, by Yuval Noah Harari.
ARCANA
1. I use the name “Kay Jay” because that’s the name of Jessica Tolyda at freeones ( dot ) com. The web site freeones ( dot ) com is a fine place to begin collecting free images of Kay Jay.
The image resolution of the still photos at freeones ( dot ) com is top quality. However, early videos of Kay Jay at freeones ( dot ) com, by the Me Tart Network, do not have the best image resolution.
Hence, I source my information about Kay Jay’s whip marks from videos at the Me Tart Network web site. There, the image resolution is the best that it can be for videos that were filmed in 2016. “I’m Eating You’re Watching” was filmed in 2018.
The videos at the Me Tart Network are somewhat longer than their free counterparts.
2. Kay Jay is from Ukraine. Worshipping goddesses like her on the internet, I’ve found that girls in traditionally Slavic countries, like Ukraine, are the most beautiful in the universe.
3. God help me if I find more whip marks on Kay Jay. I’ve run out of headlines to assign to my reports on this. The headline needs to be sexy, without being ( in my opinion ) obnoxious to passersby.
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Copyright 2021 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 82
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 82, version 4.0
Date Written: June 6, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 82
Editorial Thunder presents...
Wild Kay
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Plus: Masturbating to Heaven.
And: How to write a great book.
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Wild Kay
I find more whip marks on Kay Jay.
by Andrew Roller
I continue to find whip marks on “porn” star Kay Jay’s young, lovely body. I find them in her published photos and videos. My source for these photos and videos is the metartnetwork ( dot ) com. ( Kay Jay is known as “Kay J” at the Me Tart Network. )
None of the photos or videos require Kay Jay to have whip marks. They reveal what is, apparently, her otherwise hidden sex life.
Kay Jay’s primary appeal is that she’s beguilingly innocent. Hence, the revelation of her “wild” private life continues to shock me.
Video: Me Tart Films.
Title: “I’m Eating You’re Watching”.
Director: Alex Lynn
Description:
1. Kay Jay faces a table and pulls down her panties. Her bare bottom is viewed from the right side. On the outer flank of her right thigh, near her bottom, are three nasty red lines. All three intersect. These lines are below where a “panty line” might appear.
2. Look closely at Kay Jay’s nude bottom. There appear to be a welter of healed whip marks on the right flank of her ass, and on her adjoining right hip. These are identical to the nasty red lines, except that they’ve faded.
To study these marks, take screenshots of them. There are three ways to do this:
A. Screenshot the videos online, at the Me Tart Network.
B. Screenshot the ( downloaded ) videos. ( Keep a finger pressed to your iPad’s screen. Otherwise, the white “Play” arrow will appear on the screen. )
C. Put the videos into Apple’s iMovie app. Screenshot them there. ( In iMovie, you can proceeed through the video frame-by-frame. No “Play” arrow interferes with the image. )
My hope is that Kay Jay will someday “spill” about her private life, including her sexual adventures. Note to Kay Jay: do this BEFORE you get old. I still adore looking at photos of “porn” star “Sloan aka Ivey aka Lilly Anne”. However, since she’s now almost 40 years old, my interest in reading about her life has dropped.
MASTURBATING to HEAVEN
Let’s describe a devout adherent of a religion.
1. He practices his religion often.
2. This practice includes the heartfelt worship of a diety.
I haven’t darkened the doostep of a church in decades. However, I consider myself to be deeply religious. Here’s how:
1. I masturbate often.
2. I jerk-off to images of naked females that awe me.
Hence, I’m a very holy jerkoff.
HOW to WRITE a GREAT Book
Are you an author in search of a publisher? Friend, you can’t just write any old story. You must write a great story.
To write a great story, you must read great literature, like “Brave New World”. It’s by Aldous Huxley.
In BO, Book Observations issue number 8, I included some choice lines from this novel. They depict nude “little chidren” being sexually involved with each other. We’re talking 7 and 8-year-olds, not elderly 12-year-olds.
I’ve found more lines from “Brave New World” to improve your writing. They’re below.
1. “With a wave of his hand he indicated the gardens … the naked children furtive in the undergrowth or running across the lawns.”
- Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. Page 35. ( Amazon Kindle. )
2. “Go away, little girl,” shouted the D.H.C. angrily. “Go away, little boy! Can’t you see that his fordship’s busy? Go and do your erotic play somewhere else.”
- Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. Page 47. ( Amazon Kindle. )
My primary reference for “Brave New World” is Amazon’s “Audible” app. Despite all the nude children screwing about, it is a tedious listen. I tried to slog through it. I gave up, for now.
I recommend, on “Audible”:
1. The Great Courses. The History of Ancient Rome, by Professor Garrett G. Fag ( an ).
2. Gibbon [ the author ]. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Narrated by Charlton Griffin. “Only from Audible”.
On Audible, there are competing versions of “Decline and Fall”. Each version has a different narrator. I like Griffin best.
I’ve found the following to be true, so far: the version of a book that has the most downloads is the best.
COSMIC Observations
1. There is no god.
2. There is no check on human behavior, except by other humans, or by the vagaries of nature.
3. Anyone imposing a check on human behavior is simply imposing a fictional, or invented, view of how things “should” be.
4. Such a fictional, or invented, view can be overturned by anyone else who has sufficient power among men, or by the vagaries of nature.
Further Reading: the book “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind”, by Yuval Noah Harari.
ARCANA
1. I use the name “Kay Jay” because that’s the name of Jessica Tolyda at freeones ( dot ) com. The web site freeones ( dot ) com is a fine place to begin collecting free images of Kay Jay.
The image resolution of the still photos at freeones ( dot ) com is top quality. However, early videos of Kay Jay at freeones ( dot ) com, by the Me Tart Network, do not have the best image resolution.
Hence, I source my information about Kay Jay’s whip marks from videos at the Me Tart Network web site. There, the image resolution is the best that it can be for videos that were filmed in 2016. “I’m Eating You’re Watching” was filmed in 2018.
The videos at the Me Tart Network are somewhat longer than their free counterparts.
2. Kay Jay is from Ukraine. Worshipping goddesses like her on the internet, I’ve found that girls in traditionally Slavic countries, like Ukraine, are the most beautiful in the universe.
3. God help me if I find more whip marks on Kay Jay. I’ve run out of headlines to assign to my reports on this. The headline needs to be sexy, without being ( in my opinion ) obnoxious to passersby.
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Copyright 2021 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 82
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 82, version 4.0
Date Written: June 6, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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The BEST SEX novel
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BO 8
Book Observations presents...
The BEST SEX novel
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Plus: Kiddie sex play.
And: Why God’s will equals Evil.
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The BEST SEX novel
But: Buyer beware on Amazon.
by Andrew Roller
“Are they not a delicious pair? They are about to pee,” laughed the lady, adding, “Maria, bring the bowls!”
Arabella, page 152. ( Trade paperback edition by Simplicissimus Book Farm. )
Page for page, the greatest sex novel is from the Victorian era. It’s “Arabella”. I’ve mentioned it previously, along with other sex novels from that period.
I am not a member of Amazon Prime. Recently, I was ready to place an order with Amazon. I needed to spend $25.00 to qualify for free shipping. I was one penny short of $25.00. What to do?
In storage, I have a ( well-thumbed ) “pocket” paperback of “Arabella” from the prior century. I also have the Amazon Kindle edition of “Arabella” that’s published by Anna Ruggieri. ( On Amazon, the “Publisher” of this edition is listed as “Anonymous”. ) Currently, the Ruggieri Kindle edition of “Arabella” sells for $1.99.
The Ruggieri Kindle edition works great. However, I like looking at photos of nude girls while I’m reading “Arabella”. I only have an iPad and an iPhone. If “Arabella’s” text is on one of these devices, that leaves me just one photo of a nude girl to look at.
My dick convinced me to buy another copy of “Arabella” on paper. I received it today, from Amazon. It’s the trade paperback edition of “Arabella” by Simplicissimus Book Farm. Wow!
The Simplicissimus edition of “Arabella” is nice! I, and the other young octegenarians at the Tarf Dlo Senior Facility can read “Arabella” without straining our eyes. That’s thanks to the book’s big type!
“Arabella” ships from Amazon ( dot ) com. It’s sold by Amazon ( dot ) com. Today, on Amazon, I tried searching for “Arabella”. I couldn’t find it! This despite the fact that I tried every keyword combination that I could think of.
What search results did I get? Romance books, for women, so women can orgasm. Fag books, for fags, so fags can orgasm. I was unable to bring up “Arabella”. I guess that’s because it’s a book for ordinary guys. Why are we always being discriminated against?
Here’s the exact title of “Arabella” on Amazon:
“Arabella Paperback - May 13, 2016”. ( Ignore my quote marks. )
Well, that didn’t work as a search term on Amazon. Amazon did provide the following:
1. “Kindi Kids Snack Time Friends”. A doll.
2. “Small Pet Playpen”. A pet playpen.
Maybe I could jerk-off to the “Kindi Kids” doll. I don’t think I could get off to a playpen for pets.
Among the ( irrelevant ) books that Amazon provided, as a result of my search, was this one:
“The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”, by C. S. Lewis.
Yep, that’s a jerk-off masterpiece.
Here’s a search term that works:
“Arabella by anonymous”.
It brought up an amazing number of “Arabella” editions that I’ve never seen before. The text is no longer subject to copyright, so anyone can publish “Arabella”. However, read on. A snake lurks among the “Arabella” editions at Amazon.
The top search result, in a list of “Arabella” results, is the only one that I recommend. This search result depicts the cover of the Ruggieri Kindle edition. The cover consists of a black and white photo. It’s of a woman’s face, looking sideways. Her face is being caressed by a man’s hand. I say: tap on it. Ignore the other search results that are shown beneath it.
Let’s assume that you tap on the cover for the Ruggieri Kindle edition. You’re taken to a new page. Here, you can buy the Ruggieri Kindle edition.
Or, you can buy the Simplicissimus edition of “Arabella”. It’s a trade paperback. The price for the trade paperback is $10.99.
Let’s say that you click on the trade paperback option. You’re taken to a new page. It offers you the trade paperback.
Look closely at the Kindle edition that’s now being offered, on this page. Whoa! The price is no longer $1.99 for the Kindle edition. It’s 99 cents!
The 99 cent edition is by Locus Elm Press. This is an excellent edition.
Two years ago, I bought the Locus Elm Press edition of “Arabella”. Amazon delivered the Ruggieri edition!
Tonight, researching this article, I bought the Locus Elm Press edition of “Arabella”. Amazon didn’t want to deliver it to my iPad or iPhone. Amazon delivered it to the Kindle Cloud Reader. That’s a piece of crap that doesn’t work, and hasn’t worked since I first tried it two years ago.
Amazon did happily charge me for the Locus Elm Press edition of “Arabella”. I went to “Account for Andrew L Roller” on Amazon. There, under “Your Orders” > “Digital Orders” > “Manage content and devices” I forced Amazon to deliver the Locus Elm Press edition to my iPad and iPhone.
To summarize this point: Amazon performs oddly, regarding the sale of the Locus Elm Press edition of “Arabella”. Amazon still confuses the Locus Elm Press edition with the Ruggieri edition.
Amazon didn’t want to deliver the Locus Elm Press edition to me, because it interpreted the Ruggieri edition as being the Locus Elm Press edition. In other words, Amazon didn’t want to deliver the book ( again ), because it viewed me as already having it in my Kindle app.
I now have both the Ruggieri edition and the Locus Elm Press edition in my Kindle app. I suppose, if you’ve never bought a Kindle version of “Arabella”, Amazon will happily deliver the Locus Elm Press edition to your Kindle app.
“ARABELLA” in BRIEF
The Locus Elm Press edition has the best summary that I’ve read of “Arabella”:
“Once-banned [ “Arabella” ] … tells the wild and sordid story of a … young woman as she [ ventures into ] the kinky … boudoirs … and parties of Victorian high-society.”
If you read the full summary on Amazon, you can tell when it was written: recently. It describes Arabella, the character, as being “head-strong and fiercely confident”. Sure. Arabella spreads wide and bends over at every command to do so, even from strangers. That, in my view, is a properly scandalous young lady. It isn’t a “head-strong and fiercely confident” one. ( Thank God! )
Amazon reviewer “Elizabethan Yvette” writes about “Arabella”. She says that it “pander[s] to currently felonious interests”. There are some “underage” female characters in the rear part of “Arabella”, who get fucked. Unfortunately, this is the boring half of “Arabella”. The first half of “Arabella” is superb. It’s the part I know best.
If you like “Arabella”, try the novels “Emily” and “Beatrice”. I consider these, along with “Story of O”, to be the top sex novels of all time. All are available as Amazon Kindle editions.
The age of the character “O”, in “Story of O”, is well-defined. That’s because she’s been portrayed in various media. She’s obviously an “adult”.
Ignore the ages that are given in Victorian novels like “Arabella”. In “Arabella”, the character Arabella is described as being younger than her erotic companion, Elaine. However, the character Elaine comes off as being significantly younger than Arabella!
If you feel that most beautiful girls start having sex at age 12, then Elaine is probably 12. In the 1990s, buying Victorian era sex novels, I became suspicious. I suspected that the ages of the girls in these novels were being altered. That is, the girls’ ages were being increased. The United Puritan States of America was unable to tolerate young Victorian girls having sex.
( My understanding is that a publisher can do whatever it wants to a book once it’s no longer subject to copyright. Who’s going to complain, in the prior century, about a cheap, sleazy paperback being “corrected” to meet modern objections? )
( In the 1990s, I found an edition of “Arabella” in which all the characters’ names had been changed. The publisher of this edition was Blue Moon Books. Blue Moon had, earlier, printed “Arabella” with the correct character names. Blue Moon was trying to resell “Arabella” to readers as if it were a different novel. The character “Arabella” was named “Olivia”. )
As mentioned above, there is a Victorian era novel called “Emily”. Its protagonist is named Emily. She strikes me as being similar to the character Arabella in “Arabella”.
In the novel “Beatrice”, there’s a character akin to Elaine in “Arabella”. The character is named Caroline. Caroline’s most memorable line in “Beatrice” is:
“It hurts.”
( Kindle edition, page 49. )
Caroline is too young to enjoy the strapping that she and Beatrice received. It just hurts. There’s something sweetly alluring about that.
I credit the same anonymous author with writing “Arabella”, “Emily”, “Beatrice”, and “First Training”. “Beatrice” is markedly different in style. But the sensibilities of the properly scandalous young ladies, their docents, and their lovers, are the same.
At last, “Arabella” has a paper edition worthy of its erotic greatness. It’s the Simplicissimus edition. I don’t know why Amazon gives a publication date of May 13, 2016 for this edition. The copy I’m holding in my ( sticky ) hands was published on May 29, 2021. ( Source: The last page of the Simplicissimus edition of “Arabella”. )
MAKE MONEY masturbating ( and writing )
Here’s an item of interest, with regard to the Simplicissimus edition of “Arabella”:
“This ebook [ the trade paperback ] was created with StreetLib Write.” ( Source: “Arabella’s” copyright page. ) ( Where there is no copyright, since “Arabella” is in the public domain. )
A web site is given:
http://write ( dot ) streetlib ( dot ) com.
I visited the StreetLib web site. If you have a book that you’d like to see on paper, StreetLib can help.
Amazon reviewer “Kindle Customer” summarizes “Arabella” thus:
“A very good read!
“This is the story of the sexual coming of age of a young girl - Arabella. … She is very precocious. She and her young cousin are broken in and trained to be very exciting companions in various carnal adventures.”
The SNAKE in the garden of “ARABELLA”
Amazon offers free samples of Kindle books. At one time, these were available on the Amazon web site. That’s no longer true. On its web site, Amazon will go through the motions of downloading a free sample of a Kindle book to you. However, the book never arrives in your Kindle app.
To get a free sample of a Kindle book, you must request it in your Kindle app. To do this, type the book’s title, or its title and author, into the Kindle app’s search field.
Unfortunately, there’s a problem. The search field in Amazon’s Kindle app doesn’t know about all the Kindle books that are on Amazon’s web site! Some books don’t show up when you search for them in the Kindle app.
( NOTE: If you’ve bought the Kindle book, you can successfully find it in Kindle, using Kindle’s search field. )
I examined, as free samples, the various editions of “Arabella” that claim to be “illustrated” or “annotated”. Here’s what I found:
1. The text in each of these editions is identical. Visually, it’s crap.
2. None of the “illustrated” editions are illustrated inside. Only the cover is illustrated. You can screenshot the cover for free on Amazon.
3. Few of the covers for the “illustrated” editions of “Arabella” bear any relationship to the novel. A snake of a “publisher” is paying artists to crank out covers that he thinks will sell. If a photo of Joe Biden can sell “Arabella” on Amazon, expect to see that edition soon.
4. I saw no annotations inside any of the “annotated” editions of “Arabella”.
5. The prices for the “illustrated” and “annotated” editions of “Arabella” are significantly higher. These prices vary, but they look to all be set by the same snake of a “publisher”.
In conclusion:
Don’t get ripped off, regarding “Arabella”. Order just from the top search result that Amazon returns. It will give you the $1.99 Ruggieri Kindle edition. Tapping on it, you’ll proceed to a page offering the Ruggieri edition OR the $10.99 Simplicissimus ( trade paperback ) edition.
Tap on the Simplicissimus edition, and you’ll be taken to a new page. There, you can buy the 99 cent Locus Elm Press Kindle edition.
REFERENCE:
1. Emily: Or, the Voluptuous Delights of a Once-Innocent Young Lady. By Jennings, James. ( Kindle. )
Probably, James Jennings doesn’t exist. A publisher will, at times, attempt to convert a public domain text to a copyrighted text by attributing it to an author. ( So I suspect. )
2. Beatrice. By Anonymous. ( Kindle. )
3. First Training. By Anonymous. ( Kindle. )
Jungle MOLESTERS?
“When a valued band member died, the Aché customarily killed a little girl and buried the two together.”
- Yuval Noah Harari. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, page 46. ( Amazon Kindle. )
( Harari is comparing modern hunter-gatherers in Paraguay with our hunter-gatherer ancestors. )
kiddie SEX play.
1. “Outside, in the garden, it was playtime. Naked in the warm June sunshine, six or seven hundred little boys and girls were running with shrill yells over the lawns, or playing ball games, or squatting silently in twos and threes among the flowering shrubs.”
- Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. Page 25. ( Amazon Kindle. )
2. “In a little grassy bay between tall clumps of Mediterranean heather, two children, a little boy of about seven and a little girl who might have been a year older, were playing, very gravely and with all the focussed attention of scientists intent on a labour of discovery, a rudimentary sexual game.”
- Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. Page 25. ( Amazon Kindle. )
3. “The tropical sunshine lay like warm honey on the naked bodies of children tumbling promiscuously among the hibiscus blossoms.”
- Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. Page 32. ( Amazon Kindle. )
( Report! )
ARCANA
1. In the 1970s, I snubbed the comic book series called “Classics Illustrated”. Now, I wish I’d “read” the Classics Illustrated edition of “Brave New World”!
For some reason, listening to “Brave New World” on Audible, I wound up reading “Arabella”. I have no idea why.
2. Lately, I’ve been thinking about sex. Specifically, I’ve been viewing sex, at least when presented as art, through the prism of the book “Sapiens”. The appeal of sex appears to lie in the negation of logical thought. The characters, whether imagined or real ( as in a porn video ), are reduced to pure emotion. For an inherently intellectual species like humans, release from the intellect is a blissful experience.
Note that all possibility for logical thought rests on the inherently non-logical sexual act. The Church damns sexuality. Yet worship of a deity, an intellectual act, requires sex ( to produce worshippers ).
One can sum up the Church’s dictates in one sentence ( for a male ):
“Don’t use your brain or your dick.”
Don’t use your brain; that might cause you to doubt God. Just believe.
Don’t use your dick, except within marriage, for the specifically intended act of procreation. ( Not pleasure. ) You can piss, vomit, shit, and experience all manner of bodily ailments. None of these are immoral. But don’t you dare experience pleasure! That’s a sin!
The more one logically examines the Christian religion, the more it negates itself with contradictions. Some examples:
A. Do you bemoan Adam’s “fall”, but adore Jesus? Guess what? If Adam doesn’t “fall”, Jesus never arrives. That’s because Jesus only arrives to save Man from “sin”. Too often, “sin” is interpreted as sexual pleasure.
Jesus, of course, is without “sin”. Hence, he’s “born of a virgin”; a female who’s never had sex, even to birth Jesus! Also, Jesus himself never has sex.
And remember: even though Jesus hangs about with 12 men every day, he isn’t gay!
B. God created the Garden of Eden. Ignore the Tree of Life. It’s irrelevant. Let’s consider the Tree of Knowledge. ( Note: knowledge equals sin, even though God is loaded with knowledge. )
Where does God put the forbidden tree, the Tree of Knowledge? Does he hide it somewhere in the back of the garden? No! He puts it smack in the middle, where even robotic Adam, and Eve, can stumble over it. In fact, they probably see it every day.
C. “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
Why?
God starts with nothing. There is neither good, nor evil.
Skip the part about heaven. God creates earth.
At the end of Man’s existence, God destroys earth.
Good men go to God. However, God, being perfect, whole, and complete, doesn’t need these good men. Hence, they become “one with God”. They’re absorbed; they cease to exist.
What’s left? Hell. Hell, and its torments, are eternal.
So God starts with nothing, and ends with Hell. As a creation machine, God is the worst ever. And since He knows all, He knew from the start what would happen. God took nothing, and created Evil. ( Hell. )
( Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari. ( Amazon Kindle. ))
( By “Church”, I include all the perverse deviations, whether Catholic or Protestant, from early Christianity. )
( Above, I leave “heaven” and “earth” uncapitalized, to match these uncapitalized words in Genesis 1:1 of the King James Version of the Bible. )
3. Two years ago, Amazon’s Kindle app could be launched and used. Now, it’s burdened by crap. Every time I try to use Kindle, Amazon sends me more crap by Wi-Fi. This takes time. A LOT of time. I sit around waiting to reference the Kindle books that I’ve paid for, as Amazon sends me more crap.
Agonized by this, I’ve started using Apple’s Books app. It’s instantly usable.
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Copyright 2021 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
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 BO, Book Observations, issue number 8
Arcana: This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 8, version 5.0
Date Written: June 5, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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BO 8
Book Observations presents...
The BEST SEX novel
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Plus: Kiddie sex play.
And: Why God’s will equals Evil.
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The BEST SEX novel
But: Buyer beware on Amazon.
by Andrew Roller
“Are they not a delicious pair? They are about to pee,” laughed the lady, adding, “Maria, bring the bowls!”
Arabella, page 152. ( Trade paperback edition by Simplicissimus Book Farm. )
Page for page, the greatest sex novel is from the Victorian era. It’s “Arabella”. I’ve mentioned it previously, along with other sex novels from that period.
I am not a member of Amazon Prime. Recently, I was ready to place an order with Amazon. I needed to spend $25.00 to qualify for free shipping. I was one penny short of $25.00. What to do?
In storage, I have a ( well-thumbed ) “pocket” paperback of “Arabella” from the prior century. I also have the Amazon Kindle edition of “Arabella” that’s published by Anna Ruggieri. ( On Amazon, the “Publisher” of this edition is listed as “Anonymous”. ) Currently, the Ruggieri Kindle edition of “Arabella” sells for $1.99.
The Ruggieri Kindle edition works great. However, I like looking at photos of nude girls while I’m reading “Arabella”. I only have an iPad and an iPhone. If “Arabella’s” text is on one of these devices, that leaves me just one photo of a nude girl to look at.
My dick convinced me to buy another copy of “Arabella” on paper. I received it today, from Amazon. It’s the trade paperback edition of “Arabella” by Simplicissimus Book Farm. Wow!
The Simplicissimus edition of “Arabella” is nice! I, and the other young octegenarians at the Tarf Dlo Senior Facility can read “Arabella” without straining our eyes. That’s thanks to the book’s big type!
“Arabella” ships from Amazon ( dot ) com. It’s sold by Amazon ( dot ) com. Today, on Amazon, I tried searching for “Arabella”. I couldn’t find it! This despite the fact that I tried every keyword combination that I could think of.
What search results did I get? Romance books, for women, so women can orgasm. Fag books, for fags, so fags can orgasm. I was unable to bring up “Arabella”. I guess that’s because it’s a book for ordinary guys. Why are we always being discriminated against?
Here’s the exact title of “Arabella” on Amazon:
“Arabella Paperback - May 13, 2016”. ( Ignore my quote marks. )
Well, that didn’t work as a search term on Amazon. Amazon did provide the following:
1. “Kindi Kids Snack Time Friends”. A doll.
2. “Small Pet Playpen”. A pet playpen.
Maybe I could jerk-off to the “Kindi Kids” doll. I don’t think I could get off to a playpen for pets.
Among the ( irrelevant ) books that Amazon provided, as a result of my search, was this one:
“The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”, by C. S. Lewis.
Yep, that’s a jerk-off masterpiece.
Here’s a search term that works:
“Arabella by anonymous”.
It brought up an amazing number of “Arabella” editions that I’ve never seen before. The text is no longer subject to copyright, so anyone can publish “Arabella”. However, read on. A snake lurks among the “Arabella” editions at Amazon.
The top search result, in a list of “Arabella” results, is the only one that I recommend. This search result depicts the cover of the Ruggieri Kindle edition. The cover consists of a black and white photo. It’s of a woman’s face, looking sideways. Her face is being caressed by a man’s hand. I say: tap on it. Ignore the other search results that are shown beneath it.
Let’s assume that you tap on the cover for the Ruggieri Kindle edition. You’re taken to a new page. Here, you can buy the Ruggieri Kindle edition.
Or, you can buy the Simplicissimus edition of “Arabella”. It’s a trade paperback. The price for the trade paperback is $10.99.
Let’s say that you click on the trade paperback option. You’re taken to a new page. It offers you the trade paperback.
Look closely at the Kindle edition that’s now being offered, on this page. Whoa! The price is no longer $1.99 for the Kindle edition. It’s 99 cents!
The 99 cent edition is by Locus Elm Press. This is an excellent edition.
Two years ago, I bought the Locus Elm Press edition of “Arabella”. Amazon delivered the Ruggieri edition!
Tonight, researching this article, I bought the Locus Elm Press edition of “Arabella”. Amazon didn’t want to deliver it to my iPad or iPhone. Amazon delivered it to the Kindle Cloud Reader. That’s a piece of crap that doesn’t work, and hasn’t worked since I first tried it two years ago.
Amazon did happily charge me for the Locus Elm Press edition of “Arabella”. I went to “Account for Andrew L Roller” on Amazon. There, under “Your Orders” > “Digital Orders” > “Manage content and devices” I forced Amazon to deliver the Locus Elm Press edition to my iPad and iPhone.
To summarize this point: Amazon performs oddly, regarding the sale of the Locus Elm Press edition of “Arabella”. Amazon still confuses the Locus Elm Press edition with the Ruggieri edition.
Amazon didn’t want to deliver the Locus Elm Press edition to me, because it interpreted the Ruggieri edition as being the Locus Elm Press edition. In other words, Amazon didn’t want to deliver the book ( again ), because it viewed me as already having it in my Kindle app.
I now have both the Ruggieri edition and the Locus Elm Press edition in my Kindle app. I suppose, if you’ve never bought a Kindle version of “Arabella”, Amazon will happily deliver the Locus Elm Press edition to your Kindle app.
“ARABELLA” in BRIEF
The Locus Elm Press edition has the best summary that I’ve read of “Arabella”:
“Once-banned [ “Arabella” ] … tells the wild and sordid story of a … young woman as she [ ventures into ] the kinky … boudoirs … and parties of Victorian high-society.”
If you read the full summary on Amazon, you can tell when it was written: recently. It describes Arabella, the character, as being “head-strong and fiercely confident”. Sure. Arabella spreads wide and bends over at every command to do so, even from strangers. That, in my view, is a properly scandalous young lady. It isn’t a “head-strong and fiercely confident” one. ( Thank God! )
Amazon reviewer “Elizabethan Yvette” writes about “Arabella”. She says that it “pander[s] to currently felonious interests”. There are some “underage” female characters in the rear part of “Arabella”, who get fucked. Unfortunately, this is the boring half of “Arabella”. The first half of “Arabella” is superb. It’s the part I know best.
If you like “Arabella”, try the novels “Emily” and “Beatrice”. I consider these, along with “Story of O”, to be the top sex novels of all time. All are available as Amazon Kindle editions.
The age of the character “O”, in “Story of O”, is well-defined. That’s because she’s been portrayed in various media. She’s obviously an “adult”.
Ignore the ages that are given in Victorian novels like “Arabella”. In “Arabella”, the character Arabella is described as being younger than her erotic companion, Elaine. However, the character Elaine comes off as being significantly younger than Arabella!
If you feel that most beautiful girls start having sex at age 12, then Elaine is probably 12. In the 1990s, buying Victorian era sex novels, I became suspicious. I suspected that the ages of the girls in these novels were being altered. That is, the girls’ ages were being increased. The United Puritan States of America was unable to tolerate young Victorian girls having sex.
( My understanding is that a publisher can do whatever it wants to a book once it’s no longer subject to copyright. Who’s going to complain, in the prior century, about a cheap, sleazy paperback being “corrected” to meet modern objections? )
( In the 1990s, I found an edition of “Arabella” in which all the characters’ names had been changed. The publisher of this edition was Blue Moon Books. Blue Moon had, earlier, printed “Arabella” with the correct character names. Blue Moon was trying to resell “Arabella” to readers as if it were a different novel. The character “Arabella” was named “Olivia”. )
As mentioned above, there is a Victorian era novel called “Emily”. Its protagonist is named Emily. She strikes me as being similar to the character Arabella in “Arabella”.
In the novel “Beatrice”, there’s a character akin to Elaine in “Arabella”. The character is named Caroline. Caroline’s most memorable line in “Beatrice” is:
“It hurts.”
( Kindle edition, page 49. )
Caroline is too young to enjoy the strapping that she and Beatrice received. It just hurts. There’s something sweetly alluring about that.
I credit the same anonymous author with writing “Arabella”, “Emily”, “Beatrice”, and “First Training”. “Beatrice” is markedly different in style. But the sensibilities of the properly scandalous young ladies, their docents, and their lovers, are the same.
At last, “Arabella” has a paper edition worthy of its erotic greatness. It’s the Simplicissimus edition. I don’t know why Amazon gives a publication date of May 13, 2016 for this edition. The copy I’m holding in my ( sticky ) hands was published on May 29, 2021. ( Source: The last page of the Simplicissimus edition of “Arabella”. )
MAKE MONEY masturbating ( and writing )
Here’s an item of interest, with regard to the Simplicissimus edition of “Arabella”:
“This ebook [ the trade paperback ] was created with StreetLib Write.” ( Source: “Arabella’s” copyright page. ) ( Where there is no copyright, since “Arabella” is in the public domain. )
A web site is given:
http://write ( dot ) streetlib ( dot ) com.
I visited the StreetLib web site. If you have a book that you’d like to see on paper, StreetLib can help.
Amazon reviewer “Kindle Customer” summarizes “Arabella” thus:
“A very good read!
“This is the story of the sexual coming of age of a young girl - Arabella. … She is very precocious. She and her young cousin are broken in and trained to be very exciting companions in various carnal adventures.”
The SNAKE in the garden of “ARABELLA”
Amazon offers free samples of Kindle books. At one time, these were available on the Amazon web site. That’s no longer true. On its web site, Amazon will go through the motions of downloading a free sample of a Kindle book to you. However, the book never arrives in your Kindle app.
To get a free sample of a Kindle book, you must request it in your Kindle app. To do this, type the book’s title, or its title and author, into the Kindle app’s search field.
Unfortunately, there’s a problem. The search field in Amazon’s Kindle app doesn’t know about all the Kindle books that are on Amazon’s web site! Some books don’t show up when you search for them in the Kindle app.
( NOTE: If you’ve bought the Kindle book, you can successfully find it in Kindle, using Kindle’s search field. )
I examined, as free samples, the various editions of “Arabella” that claim to be “illustrated” or “annotated”. Here’s what I found:
1. The text in each of these editions is identical. Visually, it’s crap.
2. None of the “illustrated” editions are illustrated inside. Only the cover is illustrated. You can screenshot the cover for free on Amazon.
3. Few of the covers for the “illustrated” editions of “Arabella” bear any relationship to the novel. A snake of a “publisher” is paying artists to crank out covers that he thinks will sell. If a photo of Joe Biden can sell “Arabella” on Amazon, expect to see that edition soon.
4. I saw no annotations inside any of the “annotated” editions of “Arabella”.
5. The prices for the “illustrated” and “annotated” editions of “Arabella” are significantly higher. These prices vary, but they look to all be set by the same snake of a “publisher”.
In conclusion:
Don’t get ripped off, regarding “Arabella”. Order just from the top search result that Amazon returns. It will give you the $1.99 Ruggieri Kindle edition. Tapping on it, you’ll proceed to a page offering the Ruggieri edition OR the $10.99 Simplicissimus ( trade paperback ) edition.
Tap on the Simplicissimus edition, and you’ll be taken to a new page. There, you can buy the 99 cent Locus Elm Press Kindle edition.
REFERENCE:
1. Emily: Or, the Voluptuous Delights of a Once-Innocent Young Lady. By Jennings, James. ( Kindle. )
Probably, James Jennings doesn’t exist. A publisher will, at times, attempt to convert a public domain text to a copyrighted text by attributing it to an author. ( So I suspect. )
2. Beatrice. By Anonymous. ( Kindle. )
3. First Training. By Anonymous. ( Kindle. )
Jungle MOLESTERS?
“When a valued band member died, the Aché customarily killed a little girl and buried the two together.”
- Yuval Noah Harari. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, page 46. ( Amazon Kindle. )
( Harari is comparing modern hunter-gatherers in Paraguay with our hunter-gatherer ancestors. )
kiddie SEX play.
1. “Outside, in the garden, it was playtime. Naked in the warm June sunshine, six or seven hundred little boys and girls were running with shrill yells over the lawns, or playing ball games, or squatting silently in twos and threes among the flowering shrubs.”
- Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. Page 25. ( Amazon Kindle. )
2. “In a little grassy bay between tall clumps of Mediterranean heather, two children, a little boy of about seven and a little girl who might have been a year older, were playing, very gravely and with all the focussed attention of scientists intent on a labour of discovery, a rudimentary sexual game.”
- Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. Page 25. ( Amazon Kindle. )
3. “The tropical sunshine lay like warm honey on the naked bodies of children tumbling promiscuously among the hibiscus blossoms.”
- Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. Page 32. ( Amazon Kindle. )
( Report! )
ARCANA
1. In the 1970s, I snubbed the comic book series called “Classics Illustrated”. Now, I wish I’d “read” the Classics Illustrated edition of “Brave New World”!
For some reason, listening to “Brave New World” on Audible, I wound up reading “Arabella”. I have no idea why.
2. Lately, I’ve been thinking about sex. Specifically, I’ve been viewing sex, at least when presented as art, through the prism of the book “Sapiens”. The appeal of sex appears to lie in the negation of logical thought. The characters, whether imagined or real ( as in a porn video ), are reduced to pure emotion. For an inherently intellectual species like humans, release from the intellect is a blissful experience.
Note that all possibility for logical thought rests on the inherently non-logical sexual act. The Church damns sexuality. Yet worship of a deity, an intellectual act, requires sex ( to produce worshippers ).
One can sum up the Church’s dictates in one sentence ( for a male ):
“Don’t use your brain or your dick.”
Don’t use your brain; that might cause you to doubt God. Just believe.
Don’t use your dick, except within marriage, for the specifically intended act of procreation. ( Not pleasure. ) You can piss, vomit, shit, and experience all manner of bodily ailments. None of these are immoral. But don’t you dare experience pleasure! That’s a sin!
The more one logically examines the Christian religion, the more it negates itself with contradictions. Some examples:
A. Do you bemoan Adam’s “fall”, but adore Jesus? Guess what? If Adam doesn’t “fall”, Jesus never arrives. That’s because Jesus only arrives to save Man from “sin”. Too often, “sin” is interpreted as sexual pleasure.
Jesus, of course, is without “sin”. Hence, he’s “born of a virgin”; a female who’s never had sex, even to birth Jesus! Also, Jesus himself never has sex.
And remember: even though Jesus hangs about with 12 men every day, he isn’t gay!
B. God created the Garden of Eden. Ignore the Tree of Life. It’s irrelevant. Let’s consider the Tree of Knowledge. ( Note: knowledge equals sin, even though God is loaded with knowledge. )
Where does God put the forbidden tree, the Tree of Knowledge? Does he hide it somewhere in the back of the garden? No! He puts it smack in the middle, where even robotic Adam, and Eve, can stumble over it. In fact, they probably see it every day.
C. “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
Why?
God starts with nothing. There is neither good, nor evil.
Skip the part about heaven. God creates earth.
At the end of Man’s existence, God destroys earth.
Good men go to God. However, God, being perfect, whole, and complete, doesn’t need these good men. Hence, they become “one with God”. They’re absorbed; they cease to exist.
What’s left? Hell. Hell, and its torments, are eternal.
So God starts with nothing, and ends with Hell. As a creation machine, God is the worst ever. And since He knows all, He knew from the start what would happen. God took nothing, and created Evil. ( Hell. )
( Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari. ( Amazon Kindle. ))
( By “Church”, I include all the perverse deviations, whether Catholic or Protestant, from early Christianity. )
( Above, I leave “heaven” and “earth” uncapitalized, to match these uncapitalized words in Genesis 1:1 of the King James Version of the Bible. )
3. Two years ago, Amazon’s Kindle app could be launched and used. Now, it’s burdened by crap. Every time I try to use Kindle, Amazon sends me more crap by Wi-Fi. This takes time. A LOT of time. I sit around waiting to reference the Kindle books that I’ve paid for, as Amazon sends me more crap.
Agonized by this, I’ve started using Apple’s Books app. It’s instantly usable.
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Copyright 2021 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
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 BO, Book Observations, issue number 8
Arcana: This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 8, version 5.0
Date Written: June 5, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Primal Explorers
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BO 7
Book Observations presents...
Primal Explorers
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Plus: Why little girls have big boobs.
And: The deadliest species.
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PRIMAL EXPLORERS
Honkey meet Black folk.
by Andrew Roller
Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Performed by Kenneth Branagh. Amazon Audible.
Review: “This is racist!” I can hear America’s Red Guards of 2020 crying, regarding Conrad’s story. In his book Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari tells us how intolerant we humans often are. Ignorant youths handed a license to kill, burn, rob, and brutalize, as some Americans were in 2020, are especially intolerant.
Conrad is not Malcolm X. “Heart of Darkness” wasn’t written to give us an ethnographic study of 18th century Africans. Probably, Conrad couldn’t have written such a study if he’d tried. He’s a White man, writing mostly for White Europeans.
However, he has strong doubts regarding the then celebrated ( among Whites ) “civilizing” of Africa. I commend “Heart of Darkness” to any reader. Even a Black Nationalist would enjoy this book, if mostly to use as a rhetorical punching bag.
By accident, I saw the ending of one of the “Taken” films. The protagonist, as expected, is returned to the world of “normality”. We see suburban America, complete with a yellow school bus. That’s just the sort of place that any American who’s suspected of being a “child molester”, by anyone, is physically attacked in, and arrested in. So much for “normality”.
Conrad’s “normality” is England’s River Thames. Of course, if you’re an 18th century Black African, whom Whites are exploiting, England’s River Thames is the “heart of darkness”.
The best lines, for me, in this story are the following:
“Once, I remember, we came upon a man-of-war anchored off the coast. There wasn’t even a shed there, and she was shelling the bush. It appears the French had one of their wars going on thereabouts. … In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech—and nothing happened. Nothing could happen. There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding, … and it was not dissipated by somebody on board assuring me earnestly there was a camp of natives—he called them enemies!—hidden out of sight somewhere.”
I feel that the above lines sum up America’s Vietnam War. I imagine they inspired film director Francis Ford Coppola to turn “Heart of Darkness” into a movie: “Apocalypse Now”.
I recommend watching “Apocalypse Now” before reading “Heart of Darkness”. Watching the film won’t spoil the book for you.
“Heart of Darkness” is a ( fictional ) slice-of-life story. It’s a lengthy account, but it’s compact enough to remain akin to, say, “my trip to the grocery store”. ( Or “my trip to Harlem”. )
If you require a “good guy”, a “bad guy”, a coveted female, and multiple plot twists ( with an “abused” child chucked in ), don’t read “Heart of Darkness”.
Years ago, I learned to respect, and enjoy, gorgeous prose. I consider this the primary reason to read “Heart of Darkness”. The writing is fabulous! Branagh’s performance of the story is brilliant.
The plot is simple. I give nothing away by a brief summary. Our protagonist, a White man, leaves “normality”. His journey takes him from England to Africa. Marlow travels, amid ever dwindling numbers of Whites, into an area of the Earth that’s mostly unknown to Whites. Hence, despite the bright African sunshine, the jungle setting is “black”. It’s inhabited by mysterious Black people. Their way of life hearkens back to a “savage” past shared by us all.
Conrad captures the enervation that stalks the tropics. I discovered it in Guam, a tropical island far from Africa. Pacific Islanders succumb to this languor; so do Whites. It afflicts the Whites in Conrad’s Africa.
Having lived in Guam, I’d far prefer the climate of Conrad’s Africa to that of England. I’d acclimate quickly to Africa’s way of life. Except, if I were sailing there, I’d tow the island of Iceland with me. Perhaps because my mother is a brunette, I prefer blondes. As is said,
“Gentlemen pedophiles prefer blondes.”
WHY Little Girls Have Big Boobs
“Humans, like many mammals, have hormonal and genetic mechanisms that help control procreation. In good times females reach puberty earlier, and their chances of getting pregnant are a bit higher. In bad times puberty is late and fertility decreases.”
- Yuval Noah Harari. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, page 68. ( Amazon Kindle. )
( Hence, you don’t need to drug your 9-year-old daughter with menarche blockers. Just stop feeding her. )
( Say what you will about Adolf Hitler; he did wonders for the “problem” of precocious puberty. )
ON the Beach
“The moment the first hunter-gatherer set foot on an Australian beach was the moment that Homo sapiens climbed to the top rung in the food chain and became the deadliest species ever in the four-billion-year history of life on Earth.”
- Yuval Noah Harari. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, page 55. ( Amazon Kindle. )
ARCANA
1. Some time ago, I listened to a podcast on Pandora. The two reviewers asked each other where they’d seen the film, “Apocalypse Now”. I’m pleased to say that, unlike the reviewers, I watched “Apocalypse Now” in a theater, when it was released in 1979.
At the film’s end, as the credits rolled, Coppola blew up the jungle. This was presented in psychedelic colors.
I’ve seen “Apocalypse Now” since then. Each time, at the end, the screen goes to all black as the credits roll. This totally pisses me off! Has Coppola become a tree hugger? It’s a bit late, Coppola. You blew up the jungle, for real. You may as well show it. Otherwise, all that wildlife died for nothing.
2. Note to feminists: the word “menarche” has “men” in it! Just so you know.
3. My title, above, of “On the Beach” deliberately references Nevil Shute’s book, about mankind’s last days.
( Our greatest enemy is ourselves. )
( Plus Mark Fuckerberg. )
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Copyright 2021 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
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 BO, Book Observations, issue number 7
Arcana: This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 7, version 3.0
Date Written: June 1, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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BO 7
Book Observations presents...
Primal Explorers
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Plus: Why little girls have big boobs.
And: The deadliest species.
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PRIMAL EXPLORERS
Honkey meet Black folk.
by Andrew Roller
Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Performed by Kenneth Branagh. Amazon Audible.
Review: “This is racist!” I can hear America’s Red Guards of 2020 crying, regarding Conrad’s story. In his book Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari tells us how intolerant we humans often are. Ignorant youths handed a license to kill, burn, rob, and brutalize, as some Americans were in 2020, are especially intolerant.
Conrad is not Malcolm X. “Heart of Darkness” wasn’t written to give us an ethnographic study of 18th century Africans. Probably, Conrad couldn’t have written such a study if he’d tried. He’s a White man, writing mostly for White Europeans.
However, he has strong doubts regarding the then celebrated ( among Whites ) “civilizing” of Africa. I commend “Heart of Darkness” to any reader. Even a Black Nationalist would enjoy this book, if mostly to use as a rhetorical punching bag.
By accident, I saw the ending of one of the “Taken” films. The protagonist, as expected, is returned to the world of “normality”. We see suburban America, complete with a yellow school bus. That’s just the sort of place that any American who’s suspected of being a “child molester”, by anyone, is physically attacked in, and arrested in. So much for “normality”.
Conrad’s “normality” is England’s River Thames. Of course, if you’re an 18th century Black African, whom Whites are exploiting, England’s River Thames is the “heart of darkness”.
The best lines, for me, in this story are the following:
“Once, I remember, we came upon a man-of-war anchored off the coast. There wasn’t even a shed there, and she was shelling the bush. It appears the French had one of their wars going on thereabouts. … In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech—and nothing happened. Nothing could happen. There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding, … and it was not dissipated by somebody on board assuring me earnestly there was a camp of natives—he called them enemies!—hidden out of sight somewhere.”
I feel that the above lines sum up America’s Vietnam War. I imagine they inspired film director Francis Ford Coppola to turn “Heart of Darkness” into a movie: “Apocalypse Now”.
I recommend watching “Apocalypse Now” before reading “Heart of Darkness”. Watching the film won’t spoil the book for you.
“Heart of Darkness” is a ( fictional ) slice-of-life story. It’s a lengthy account, but it’s compact enough to remain akin to, say, “my trip to the grocery store”. ( Or “my trip to Harlem”. )
If you require a “good guy”, a “bad guy”, a coveted female, and multiple plot twists ( with an “abused” child chucked in ), don’t read “Heart of Darkness”.
Years ago, I learned to respect, and enjoy, gorgeous prose. I consider this the primary reason to read “Heart of Darkness”. The writing is fabulous! Branagh’s performance of the story is brilliant.
The plot is simple. I give nothing away by a brief summary. Our protagonist, a White man, leaves “normality”. His journey takes him from England to Africa. Marlow travels, amid ever dwindling numbers of Whites, into an area of the Earth that’s mostly unknown to Whites. Hence, despite the bright African sunshine, the jungle setting is “black”. It’s inhabited by mysterious Black people. Their way of life hearkens back to a “savage” past shared by us all.
Conrad captures the enervation that stalks the tropics. I discovered it in Guam, a tropical island far from Africa. Pacific Islanders succumb to this languor; so do Whites. It afflicts the Whites in Conrad’s Africa.
Having lived in Guam, I’d far prefer the climate of Conrad’s Africa to that of England. I’d acclimate quickly to Africa’s way of life. Except, if I were sailing there, I’d tow the island of Iceland with me. Perhaps because my mother is a brunette, I prefer blondes. As is said,
“Gentlemen pedophiles prefer blondes.”
WHY Little Girls Have Big Boobs
“Humans, like many mammals, have hormonal and genetic mechanisms that help control procreation. In good times females reach puberty earlier, and their chances of getting pregnant are a bit higher. In bad times puberty is late and fertility decreases.”
- Yuval Noah Harari. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, page 68. ( Amazon Kindle. )
( Hence, you don’t need to drug your 9-year-old daughter with menarche blockers. Just stop feeding her. )
( Say what you will about Adolf Hitler; he did wonders for the “problem” of precocious puberty. )
ON the Beach
“The moment the first hunter-gatherer set foot on an Australian beach was the moment that Homo sapiens climbed to the top rung in the food chain and became the deadliest species ever in the four-billion-year history of life on Earth.”
- Yuval Noah Harari. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, page 55. ( Amazon Kindle. )
ARCANA
1. Some time ago, I listened to a podcast on Pandora. The two reviewers asked each other where they’d seen the film, “Apocalypse Now”. I’m pleased to say that, unlike the reviewers, I watched “Apocalypse Now” in a theater, when it was released in 1979.
At the film’s end, as the credits rolled, Coppola blew up the jungle. This was presented in psychedelic colors.
I’ve seen “Apocalypse Now” since then. Each time, at the end, the screen goes to all black as the credits roll. This totally pisses me off! Has Coppola become a tree hugger? It’s a bit late, Coppola. You blew up the jungle, for real. You may as well show it. Otherwise, all that wildlife died for nothing.
2. Note to feminists: the word “menarche” has “men” in it! Just so you know.
3. My title, above, of “On the Beach” deliberately references Nevil Shute’s book, about mankind’s last days.
( Our greatest enemy is ourselves. )
( Plus Mark Fuckerberg. )
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Copyright 2021 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
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 BO, Book Observations, issue number 7
Arcana: This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 7, version 3.0
Date Written: June 1, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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Summer “Fun”
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ET 81
Editorial Thunder presents...
Summer “Fun”
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Plus: Childhood ditties.
And: The illusion of “normal”.
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SUMMER “FUN”
by Andrew Roller
“Get in the car, Andrew! We’re leaving!” It was either my mother calling me, or my father. As usual, I had no idea that we were going anywhere. In my parent’s command was an implicit accusation. Dad and Mom always withheld as much information from me as possible. Nonetheless, my clueless self was guilty of slowing them down.
It was 1968. I was seven years old. As my father drove us across Pennsylvania, in our station wagon, I realized that our drive was becoming a long one. Where, exactly, were we going? I asked. It turned out that “we” weren’t going anywhere. Only I was going somewhere. I was being taken to “Camp Sequenoia”.
That’s how I’ve pronounced the camp’s name for six decades. Tonight, thanks to Google, my pronunciation of the camp’s name has been corrected. It’s called “Camp Sequoia”. To my amazement, the shit-hole still exists. Of it, Google writes:
“Camp Sequoia is a residential [ summer ] camp for young men ages 7-17”.
Read: no girls. That’s exactly the sort of place my parents adored. Of the several camps I was forcibly enrolled in as a boy, all were strictly for “young men”.
Camp Sequoia is located in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania. In the several photos at its web site, the terrain looks exactly as I recall it. The difference is most apparent when using Google Maps and Google Earth. In nearly 60 years, Camp Sequoia has acquired a number of large buildings. When I visited, the camp only had small buildings, plus some sort of excuse for a cafeteria.
“Is Pierre coming with me to camp?” I asked my parents. Pierre, my brother, was two years old.
“No. Just you,” my parents answered.
“How long will I be at camp?”
“For a week,” my parents replied. A whole week? I was horrified.
My father drove our station wagon into Camp Sequoia. It was, as best I could tell, a trackless forest. I recall us pulling up before a ramshackle building. A bunch of boys were sitting around in its semi-shade. Some were whittling with knives. Others were indulging in a big jug of colored fluid. Out of the car, I asked a boy what the fluid was.
“Bug juice,” he answered. The jug was open on top. Several dead bugs were floating in the fluid. Pennsylvania is a fecund place. I imbibed some of the juice. It was warm. The juice tasted about as bad as its name.
My next memory is of the late afternoon. My father obliged me to hike with him through the woods of Camp Sequoia. We didn’t go far. As we passed among trees, we came upon the camp’s excuse for a cafeteria. The sound of boys’ chanting voices was coming from it.
The cafeteria was partly open to the outside. I could see into it. Boys, standing erectly, were reciting America’s Pledge of Allegiance. They were doing it for some man. He was the first and last adult I saw in the shit-hole. My father, witnessing imprisoned boys forced to regurgitate doggerel, was thrilled.
My parents departed. I trooped along with other boys to a collection of wooden cabins. These stood amid trees. The cabins were built in a straight line. Several feet separated each cabin.
What was in each cabin? Nothing. Every one had a bare floor, and a peaked roof. I was assigned, with a dozen other boys, to a cabin. I slept in my sleeping bag.
A large outhouse was nearby. I soon found myself in it. The outhouse was of the same make as the cabins. So were the toilets. Each toilet was a round hole cut into a wooden cabinet. There were a number of holes in the cabinet. They were closely spaced. Sitting my little bare ass on the cabinet, over the dangerously big toilet hole, I pooped. I pooped into poop. A smelly cesspool was visibly below the holes that served as toilets. I was horrified.
I recall no bathing facilities at all. Camp Shit-hole was so traumatizing for me that I never changed my socks. We boys did nothing productive all week. All I remember is a daily walnut fight. The place was loaded with fallen walnuts. We boys were bored. Our “camp counselors” were themselves boys, about 17 years old.
Fortunately, I was too young to be a target in the walnut fights. They took place in the area by our cabins. We boys split into two opposing teams. We hurled walnuts at one another. This would continue until a boy was, inevitably, hit in the eye. This happened every day.
Sometimes we went to a small cabin that was a store. It was a crappy wooden building like every other one in the camp. My father had given me a $5.00 bill to use in an emergency. I recall coveting a box of cinnamon “fireballs” in the store. The “fireballs” were jawbreakers, and the box that they came in was big. It cost $2.50. However, heeding my father’s warning to use the $5.00 only in an emergency, I hung on to the $5.00. Those were the last days in my life that I was deliberately thrifty.
One day, a camp counselor asked me to take a walk with him. Just us. No one else. I guess I’d made an impression on him, though his request caught me by surprise. We went off to a meadow. Though Camp Sequoia was mostly forest, Pennsylvania is farming country.
As we walked, the counselor told me, “I’ve been drafted. They’re sending me to Vietnam.” I had no idea what he was talking about. He, probably distraught under his calm demeanor, explained to me what he faced. I was unable to advise him on his situation. However, I’m glad he confided in me. It was better than getting hit in the eye with a walnut. Our walk ended. As abruptly as I recall him stepping into my life, he stepped out of it again.
At least one counselor slept in each cabin. The counselor, or a boy, would lie in the dark telling stories. Someone would often shine a flashlight at the cabin’s ceiling, for no obvious reason. The stories were always pointless.
Here’s one:
“It’s a coming. It’s a coming. It’s a coming,” a boy would say. The center of our attention, he would drag out his “story” as long as possible. This was an era long before iPhones. No one in the cabin had a radio. So, we listened.
Writing this, I get the sense that this “story” once ended with the protagonist declaring that he was stuck on the toilet with constipation. However, this was a Christian camp. The story ended with,
“I have come to wash your windows.” The boy would say this, for some reason, in a foreign accent. That was the story. I heard it every night at Camp Sequoia. It greatly improved my grades in school.
Another story was no better. In it, someone was being chased. Their pursuer would hound them wherever they fled. The protagonist, when at last caught, was told,
“Tag. You’re it.” Christian camps are great for your creativity.
The ghastly week at Camp Shit-hole finally ended. I was now a God-loving patriot, who would never again masturbate. Girls were definitely not of interest to me. At age seven, I was a Christian young man!
My parents arrived. My father took me to the camp store. I was eager to, at last, buy the box of “fireballs”. After all, I still had the $5.00. I hadn’t blown it on an emergency. I figured, for my suffering, my father would split the $5.00 with me. I’d get the box of “fireballs” for $2.50, and he’d keep the change.
That wasn’t my father’s thinking.
“Do you have the $5.00?” he asked me.
“Yes.”
“Give me the $5.00.”
I gave him the $5.00. Maybe, you know, there was a family emergency, and Dad needed the money.
Right in front of me, my father blew the $5.00. He bought a Camp Shit-hole T-shirt. For God knows how long afterward, the Camp Shit-hole T-shirt was a garment in my regular clothing rotation.
The T-shirt cost $3.50. What did Dad do with the change? He kept it. I didn’t get a penny. I didn’t get any “fireballs”.
That ended my life as a thrifty person. Too often since, I’ve blown every dollar in my possession. I figure, if I have any money, someone will take it. But they can’t take what’s gone.
CAMP GAY Curious
The following year, I was “drafted” into attending another camp, by my parents. Its name was Camp Miller. It was a larger camp than Camp Sequoia. Camp Miller was in a wooded area on the bank of Pennsylvania’s Susquehanna River.
Once more, It was an all-boys’ camp. It was a Christian camp. I hated it. However, it did have adult male counselors. It had reasonable facilities, for a fucking camp ( in 1969 ). It wasn’t a shit-hole like Camp Sequoia.
The reason Camp Sequoia survives is probably because Camp Miller died. Some years after my stay at Camp Miller, the state deliberately flooded the area. Camp Miller is now in the Susquehanna River. ( Both Camp Sequoia and Camp Miller served the same area of Pennsylvania. )
I stayed for two weeks at Camp Miller. So did Dad. He’d gone to Camp Miller for many years as a boy. He’d also gone as an adult. I don’t recall seeing my father much during my time at Camp Miller. Probably, I saw him every day.
I was put into Cabin #1. It had bunks. There were about 20 boys in the cabin, along with a young male counselor. The cabin had a real toilet. However, there was just one toilet for all of us males. I was horrified.
The great enemy of Cabin #1 was Cabin #2. Much hostility was exchanged between these cabins, all of it theatrical. If you knew my father, you’d know what happened when my second week at Camp Miller arrived. Dad switched me from Cabin #1 to Cabin #2. I was horrified.
You might think that my father was teaching me tolerance. That, in my experience, is a 21st century affectation, among certain males. My father wasn’t one of those males. Dad was always angling for a monetary discount. Somehow, switching me from Cabin #1 to Cabin #2 saved him money.
I didn’t like Cabin #2, and its boys, as much as I’d liked Cabin #1, and its boys. Being a “traitor”, I was gently ostracized by the boys in both cabins.
I guess it’s a sin that will send me to Hell, but I like girls. I like girls now, and I liked girls when I was 8 years old, at Camp Miller. I remained friends with a boy in Cabin #1. He had an upper bunk. There were no girls at Camp Miller, but my friend in Cabin #1 had a Peter Pan toy. It was a “Colorforms” toy. It consisted of small vinyl sheets that were akin to stickers. They could be stuck on a picturesque glossy paperboard. The vinyl sheets could be endlessly repositioned.
All of the Peter Pan characters were present, in the form of small vinyl sheets. One of them was a mermaid. A girl mermaid. God, how I loved her! I spent many hours in my friend’s bunk, ogling his mermaid.
Camp Miller had a variety of activities. They were the usual sort of things that boys did in that era, at a well-run camp. The oldest boys, who were age 15 to 17, didn’t have to participate in the regimen of activities. As the 1960s were by then in full swing, even at a Christian camp, the older boys spent most days tanning outdoors, by their cabins. They did so in the nude, with erections. It was a jarring contrast to the sexless aura that otherwise forcibly pervaded the camp.
Other than Dad, I recall one of the adult men at the camp. He was very persistent in desiring my attention. For whatever reason, I didn’t like him. Probably, he was in love with me; I tend to attract gay attention.
We bathed at Camp Miller. Our bathing facility was the river. Thanks in part to my father, who led the bathing, this was a strictly regulated affair. I guess that was to prevent the boys, and adult men, from becoming homosexually aroused by lots of naked male bodies.
I’ve never been much of a conformist. I got hold of two magic markers. Before trooping off to the river, I put them to use. Down at the river, we boys stripped. I pulled my shirt off. Lo and behold, one of my nipples was bright blue! ( Thanks to a blue magic marker. ) My other nipple had suffered similarly, it was bright red! All the boys roared with laughter. My success as a comedian was assured.
Then Dad intervened. Thanks to his angry scolding, I ceased to be the life our bath party. I became the butt, as I anxiously tried to get the marker ink off of my nipples, in the river. So much for being the next Woody Allen.
I’ll spare myself a recital of my most embarrassing Camp Miller story. I will say: had I been made to stay long there, or attend every year, I’d be a homosexual. Fortunately, other obsessions soon caught my parents’ interest. They took our family to another part of the globe.
I would have liked Camp Sequoia and Camp Miller much better if girls had been present. But then I wouldn’t be a pedophile activist on the internet.
CHILDHOOD Ditties
The songs written below are ones that I learned in my early grade school years. I learned the speech ( at the end ) when I was in middle school. I’ll probably still know these ditties on my deathbed, despite forgetting much else.
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Hi Ho! Hi Ho! It’s off to school we go! We learn some junk, And then we flunk. Hi Ho! Hi Ho!
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There’s a place in France Where the women wear no pants. But the men don’t care ‘Cause they got no underwear.
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( Sung to the tune of “Frere Jacques”. )
Marijuana. Marijuana. LSD. LSD. Scientists make it. Teachers take it. Why can’t we? Why can’t we?
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Holy! Holy! Holy! Lord God Almighty! In his socks, and in his pants, And in his underwear.
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Hello, ladies and gentlemen! I come before you, To stand behind you! To tell you something, Of which I know nothing about. Next Thursday, Which is Good Friday, There will be a women’s meeting For men only. Please take a seat, And sit on the floor.
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AND IN THE END…
“Ever since the Cognitive Revolution, there hasn’t been a single natural way of life for Sapiens. There are only cultural choices, from among a bewildering palette of possibilities.”
- Yuval Noah Harari. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, page 41. ( Amazon Kindle. )
( Proving that there is no superior “moral” lifestyle, as the “nuclear family” is sometimes said to be. )
ARCANA
1. The web site for Camp Sequoia is https://www ( dot ) camp-sequoia ( dot ) com.
2. Harvesting the fields of memory takes time. This is a correction to “Summer ‘Fun’”. My father was present at Camp Miller during my first week there. He was absent the second week. I can date this latter week precisely. In it, America landed men on the Moon for the very first time. Being stuck at Camp Miller, I missed this monumental event.
3. The one benefit I’ll attribute to my stay at Camp Miller is this: I got to hear ( then current ) 1960s music. I heard it several times as I walked by a cabin of older boys. They were playing a radio.
Ever since, I’ve liked 1960s music. My parents loathe American culture past 1950 or so. That’s about when they got married. ( They’ve never told me what year they married. )
4. Every day at Camp Miller, I got a bug stuck in my right ear. This forced me to report to the infirmary. There, several older boys diligently washed the bug out of my ear. This is why no sensible boy should ever go to summer camp, when he can read books in bed. ( Unless the camp includes girls. )
5. We wore uniforms at Camp Miller. The uniform consisted of a white T-shirt and elastic blue shorts. A white stripe ran up each side of the shorts.
The legs of the shorts were enormous. I suppose the intent was to provide sufficient leg-room for Christian-minded athletic activities. My parents, sure that such shorts would keep girls far from me, even at a camp with no girls, adored the shorts.
6. A camp for girls was near Camp Miller. I never saw, or heard, the girls there. The name of the girls’ camp was Camp Hagan. Its nickname was Camp Hag.
7. Our family returned to Camp Miller before it was flooded. The camp was closed, but we were able to enter the grounds. No one was there.
My father, who was avid in maintaining an ( otherwise useless ) lawn, was distressed by the state of the camp. The landscaping wasn’t being maintained! The experience was a poignant one. I’m glad my father got to see Camp Miller before it passed. Now he has passed too.
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Copyright 2021 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 81
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 81, version 8.0
Date Written: May 31, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 81
Editorial Thunder presents...
Summer “Fun”
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Plus: Childhood ditties.
And: The illusion of “normal”.
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SUMMER “FUN”
by Andrew Roller
“Get in the car, Andrew! We’re leaving!” It was either my mother calling me, or my father. As usual, I had no idea that we were going anywhere. In my parent’s command was an implicit accusation. Dad and Mom always withheld as much information from me as possible. Nonetheless, my clueless self was guilty of slowing them down.
It was 1968. I was seven years old. As my father drove us across Pennsylvania, in our station wagon, I realized that our drive was becoming a long one. Where, exactly, were we going? I asked. It turned out that “we” weren’t going anywhere. Only I was going somewhere. I was being taken to “Camp Sequenoia”.
That’s how I’ve pronounced the camp’s name for six decades. Tonight, thanks to Google, my pronunciation of the camp’s name has been corrected. It’s called “Camp Sequoia”. To my amazement, the shit-hole still exists. Of it, Google writes:
“Camp Sequoia is a residential [ summer ] camp for young men ages 7-17”.
Read: no girls. That’s exactly the sort of place my parents adored. Of the several camps I was forcibly enrolled in as a boy, all were strictly for “young men”.
Camp Sequoia is located in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania. In the several photos at its web site, the terrain looks exactly as I recall it. The difference is most apparent when using Google Maps and Google Earth. In nearly 60 years, Camp Sequoia has acquired a number of large buildings. When I visited, the camp only had small buildings, plus some sort of excuse for a cafeteria.
“Is Pierre coming with me to camp?” I asked my parents. Pierre, my brother, was two years old.
“No. Just you,” my parents answered.
“How long will I be at camp?”
“For a week,” my parents replied. A whole week? I was horrified.
My father drove our station wagon into Camp Sequoia. It was, as best I could tell, a trackless forest. I recall us pulling up before a ramshackle building. A bunch of boys were sitting around in its semi-shade. Some were whittling with knives. Others were indulging in a big jug of colored fluid. Out of the car, I asked a boy what the fluid was.
“Bug juice,” he answered. The jug was open on top. Several dead bugs were floating in the fluid. Pennsylvania is a fecund place. I imbibed some of the juice. It was warm. The juice tasted about as bad as its name.
My next memory is of the late afternoon. My father obliged me to hike with him through the woods of Camp Sequoia. We didn’t go far. As we passed among trees, we came upon the camp’s excuse for a cafeteria. The sound of boys’ chanting voices was coming from it.
The cafeteria was partly open to the outside. I could see into it. Boys, standing erectly, were reciting America’s Pledge of Allegiance. They were doing it for some man. He was the first and last adult I saw in the shit-hole. My father, witnessing imprisoned boys forced to regurgitate doggerel, was thrilled.
My parents departed. I trooped along with other boys to a collection of wooden cabins. These stood amid trees. The cabins were built in a straight line. Several feet separated each cabin.
What was in each cabin? Nothing. Every one had a bare floor, and a peaked roof. I was assigned, with a dozen other boys, to a cabin. I slept in my sleeping bag.
A large outhouse was nearby. I soon found myself in it. The outhouse was of the same make as the cabins. So were the toilets. Each toilet was a round hole cut into a wooden cabinet. There were a number of holes in the cabinet. They were closely spaced. Sitting my little bare ass on the cabinet, over the dangerously big toilet hole, I pooped. I pooped into poop. A smelly cesspool was visibly below the holes that served as toilets. I was horrified.
I recall no bathing facilities at all. Camp Shit-hole was so traumatizing for me that I never changed my socks. We boys did nothing productive all week. All I remember is a daily walnut fight. The place was loaded with fallen walnuts. We boys were bored. Our “camp counselors” were themselves boys, about 17 years old.
Fortunately, I was too young to be a target in the walnut fights. They took place in the area by our cabins. We boys split into two opposing teams. We hurled walnuts at one another. This would continue until a boy was, inevitably, hit in the eye. This happened every day.
Sometimes we went to a small cabin that was a store. It was a crappy wooden building like every other one in the camp. My father had given me a $5.00 bill to use in an emergency. I recall coveting a box of cinnamon “fireballs” in the store. The “fireballs” were jawbreakers, and the box that they came in was big. It cost $2.50. However, heeding my father’s warning to use the $5.00 only in an emergency, I hung on to the $5.00. Those were the last days in my life that I was deliberately thrifty.
One day, a camp counselor asked me to take a walk with him. Just us. No one else. I guess I’d made an impression on him, though his request caught me by surprise. We went off to a meadow. Though Camp Sequoia was mostly forest, Pennsylvania is farming country.
As we walked, the counselor told me, “I’ve been drafted. They’re sending me to Vietnam.” I had no idea what he was talking about. He, probably distraught under his calm demeanor, explained to me what he faced. I was unable to advise him on his situation. However, I’m glad he confided in me. It was better than getting hit in the eye with a walnut. Our walk ended. As abruptly as I recall him stepping into my life, he stepped out of it again.
At least one counselor slept in each cabin. The counselor, or a boy, would lie in the dark telling stories. Someone would often shine a flashlight at the cabin’s ceiling, for no obvious reason. The stories were always pointless.
Here’s one:
“It’s a coming. It’s a coming. It’s a coming,” a boy would say. The center of our attention, he would drag out his “story” as long as possible. This was an era long before iPhones. No one in the cabin had a radio. So, we listened.
Writing this, I get the sense that this “story” once ended with the protagonist declaring that he was stuck on the toilet with constipation. However, this was a Christian camp. The story ended with,
“I have come to wash your windows.” The boy would say this, for some reason, in a foreign accent. That was the story. I heard it every night at Camp Sequoia. It greatly improved my grades in school.
Another story was no better. In it, someone was being chased. Their pursuer would hound them wherever they fled. The protagonist, when at last caught, was told,
“Tag. You’re it.” Christian camps are great for your creativity.
The ghastly week at Camp Shit-hole finally ended. I was now a God-loving patriot, who would never again masturbate. Girls were definitely not of interest to me. At age seven, I was a Christian young man!
My parents arrived. My father took me to the camp store. I was eager to, at last, buy the box of “fireballs”. After all, I still had the $5.00. I hadn’t blown it on an emergency. I figured, for my suffering, my father would split the $5.00 with me. I’d get the box of “fireballs” for $2.50, and he’d keep the change.
That wasn’t my father’s thinking.
“Do you have the $5.00?” he asked me.
“Yes.”
“Give me the $5.00.”
I gave him the $5.00. Maybe, you know, there was a family emergency, and Dad needed the money.
Right in front of me, my father blew the $5.00. He bought a Camp Shit-hole T-shirt. For God knows how long afterward, the Camp Shit-hole T-shirt was a garment in my regular clothing rotation.
The T-shirt cost $3.50. What did Dad do with the change? He kept it. I didn’t get a penny. I didn’t get any “fireballs”.
That ended my life as a thrifty person. Too often since, I’ve blown every dollar in my possession. I figure, if I have any money, someone will take it. But they can’t take what’s gone.
CAMP GAY Curious
The following year, I was “drafted” into attending another camp, by my parents. Its name was Camp Miller. It was a larger camp than Camp Sequoia. Camp Miller was in a wooded area on the bank of Pennsylvania’s Susquehanna River.
Once more, It was an all-boys’ camp. It was a Christian camp. I hated it. However, it did have adult male counselors. It had reasonable facilities, for a fucking camp ( in 1969 ). It wasn’t a shit-hole like Camp Sequoia.
The reason Camp Sequoia survives is probably because Camp Miller died. Some years after my stay at Camp Miller, the state deliberately flooded the area. Camp Miller is now in the Susquehanna River. ( Both Camp Sequoia and Camp Miller served the same area of Pennsylvania. )
I stayed for two weeks at Camp Miller. So did Dad. He’d gone to Camp Miller for many years as a boy. He’d also gone as an adult. I don’t recall seeing my father much during my time at Camp Miller. Probably, I saw him every day.
I was put into Cabin #1. It had bunks. There were about 20 boys in the cabin, along with a young male counselor. The cabin had a real toilet. However, there was just one toilet for all of us males. I was horrified.
The great enemy of Cabin #1 was Cabin #2. Much hostility was exchanged between these cabins, all of it theatrical. If you knew my father, you’d know what happened when my second week at Camp Miller arrived. Dad switched me from Cabin #1 to Cabin #2. I was horrified.
You might think that my father was teaching me tolerance. That, in my experience, is a 21st century affectation, among certain males. My father wasn’t one of those males. Dad was always angling for a monetary discount. Somehow, switching me from Cabin #1 to Cabin #2 saved him money.
I didn’t like Cabin #2, and its boys, as much as I’d liked Cabin #1, and its boys. Being a “traitor”, I was gently ostracized by the boys in both cabins.
I guess it’s a sin that will send me to Hell, but I like girls. I like girls now, and I liked girls when I was 8 years old, at Camp Miller. I remained friends with a boy in Cabin #1. He had an upper bunk. There were no girls at Camp Miller, but my friend in Cabin #1 had a Peter Pan toy. It was a “Colorforms” toy. It consisted of small vinyl sheets that were akin to stickers. They could be stuck on a picturesque glossy paperboard. The vinyl sheets could be endlessly repositioned.
All of the Peter Pan characters were present, in the form of small vinyl sheets. One of them was a mermaid. A girl mermaid. God, how I loved her! I spent many hours in my friend’s bunk, ogling his mermaid.
Camp Miller had a variety of activities. They were the usual sort of things that boys did in that era, at a well-run camp. The oldest boys, who were age 15 to 17, didn’t have to participate in the regimen of activities. As the 1960s were by then in full swing, even at a Christian camp, the older boys spent most days tanning outdoors, by their cabins. They did so in the nude, with erections. It was a jarring contrast to the sexless aura that otherwise forcibly pervaded the camp.
Other than Dad, I recall one of the adult men at the camp. He was very persistent in desiring my attention. For whatever reason, I didn’t like him. Probably, he was in love with me; I tend to attract gay attention.
We bathed at Camp Miller. Our bathing facility was the river. Thanks in part to my father, who led the bathing, this was a strictly regulated affair. I guess that was to prevent the boys, and adult men, from becoming homosexually aroused by lots of naked male bodies.
I’ve never been much of a conformist. I got hold of two magic markers. Before trooping off to the river, I put them to use. Down at the river, we boys stripped. I pulled my shirt off. Lo and behold, one of my nipples was bright blue! ( Thanks to a blue magic marker. ) My other nipple had suffered similarly, it was bright red! All the boys roared with laughter. My success as a comedian was assured.
Then Dad intervened. Thanks to his angry scolding, I ceased to be the life our bath party. I became the butt, as I anxiously tried to get the marker ink off of my nipples, in the river. So much for being the next Woody Allen.
I’ll spare myself a recital of my most embarrassing Camp Miller story. I will say: had I been made to stay long there, or attend every year, I’d be a homosexual. Fortunately, other obsessions soon caught my parents’ interest. They took our family to another part of the globe.
I would have liked Camp Sequoia and Camp Miller much better if girls had been present. But then I wouldn’t be a pedophile activist on the internet.
CHILDHOOD Ditties
The songs written below are ones that I learned in my early grade school years. I learned the speech ( at the end ) when I was in middle school. I’ll probably still know these ditties on my deathbed, despite forgetting much else.
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Hi Ho! Hi Ho! It’s off to school we go! We learn some junk, And then we flunk. Hi Ho! Hi Ho!
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There’s a place in France Where the women wear no pants. But the men don’t care ‘Cause they got no underwear.
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( Sung to the tune of “Frere Jacques”. )
Marijuana. Marijuana. LSD. LSD. Scientists make it. Teachers take it. Why can’t we? Why can’t we?
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Holy! Holy! Holy! Lord God Almighty! In his socks, and in his pants, And in his underwear.
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Hello, ladies and gentlemen! I come before you, To stand behind you! To tell you something, Of which I know nothing about. Next Thursday, Which is Good Friday, There will be a women’s meeting For men only. Please take a seat, And sit on the floor.
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AND IN THE END…
“Ever since the Cognitive Revolution, there hasn’t been a single natural way of life for Sapiens. There are only cultural choices, from among a bewildering palette of possibilities.”
- Yuval Noah Harari. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, page 41. ( Amazon Kindle. )
( Proving that there is no superior “moral” lifestyle, as the “nuclear family” is sometimes said to be. )
ARCANA
1. The web site for Camp Sequoia is https://www ( dot ) camp-sequoia ( dot ) com.
2. Harvesting the fields of memory takes time. This is a correction to “Summer ‘Fun’”. My father was present at Camp Miller during my first week there. He was absent the second week. I can date this latter week precisely. In it, America landed men on the Moon for the very first time. Being stuck at Camp Miller, I missed this monumental event.
3. The one benefit I’ll attribute to my stay at Camp Miller is this: I got to hear ( then current ) 1960s music. I heard it several times as I walked by a cabin of older boys. They were playing a radio.
Ever since, I’ve liked 1960s music. My parents loathe American culture past 1950 or so. That’s about when they got married. ( They’ve never told me what year they married. )
4. Every day at Camp Miller, I got a bug stuck in my right ear. This forced me to report to the infirmary. There, several older boys diligently washed the bug out of my ear. This is why no sensible boy should ever go to summer camp, when he can read books in bed. ( Unless the camp includes girls. )
5. We wore uniforms at Camp Miller. The uniform consisted of a white T-shirt and elastic blue shorts. A white stripe ran up each side of the shorts.
The legs of the shorts were enormous. I suppose the intent was to provide sufficient leg-room for Christian-minded athletic activities. My parents, sure that such shorts would keep girls far from me, even at a camp with no girls, adored the shorts.
6. A camp for girls was near Camp Miller. I never saw, or heard, the girls there. The name of the girls’ camp was Camp Hagan. Its nickname was Camp Hag.
7. Our family returned to Camp Miller before it was flooded. The camp was closed, but we were able to enter the grounds. No one was there.
My father, who was avid in maintaining an ( otherwise useless ) lawn, was distressed by the state of the camp. The landscaping wasn’t being maintained! The experience was a poignant one. I’m glad my father got to see Camp Miller before it passed. Now he has passed too.
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Copyright 2021 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 81
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 81, version 8.0
Date Written: May 31, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Auditioning Audible
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ET 80
Editorial Thunder presents...
Auditioning Audible
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Plus: All we have is words.
And: My Amazon life.
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Auditioning AUDIBLE
by Andrew Roller
Neil Eckart, of the podcast “War And Conquest”, mentions Amazon’s Audible app a lot. For whatever reason, Eckart chose to loathe me. He sells at least two episodes on patreon ( dot ) com that allegedly detail my sins: “March OTR [ Off The Rails ]”, and “Andrew strikes again”.
I switched from listening to Eckart’s podcast to listening to a podcast by Carl Rylett. It’s called, “A History of Europe”. Like Eckart, Rylett is highly informed about history. Unfortunately, it’s difficult to binge Rylett. His smooth, professional voice becomes boring. Also, Rylett lets advertisements interrupt his podcast. His soft voice gets cut off, mid-sentence, by a loud ad.
Exasperated, I recalled Eckart’s numerous mentions of Audible. “Why the fuck am I listening to these amateurs?” I asked myself. I decided that, instead of listening to podcasts, I’d listen to books on Audible.
I had previously downloaded the Audible app. One free book was downloaded into it: “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce.” ( The author’s name is, in my opinion, part of the book’s title on Audible. That’s because this is an audio file. It’s “performed” by Colin Farrell. )
“Artist”, by Joyce, is a worthy, but boring book. The same is true of Colin Farrell’s performance.
In the Audible app, I searched for books that I might like. These are divided into “Genres”. I searched in the genre called, “History”.
Wow! I found lots of history books that I’d love to listen to. What I didn’t realize was that all of these books came with a big catch, which I’ll detail below.
I decided to join Audible. I meant to do this in the Audible app. It’s an app on my Apple iPad.
In the Audible app, Audible’s terms were as follows:
$7.99 per month, with no free trial period. In this plan, you do NOT get one free Audible book credit per month.
$15.99 per month, with no free trail period. In this plan, you DO get one free Audible book credit per month.
I went to amazon ( dot ) com. I guess I typed “audible” into the search field there. Amazon offered me the following:
$14.99 per month, with a 30 day free trial period. In this plan, you DO get one free Audible book credit per month.
I signed up at amazon ( dot ) com for Audible, at $14.99 per month.
I got an e-mail from Amazon, on behalf of Audible. That e-mail turned out, at the time, to be my only way of accessing Audible’s “Plus Catalog” of books.
I went to Audible’s “Plus Catalog” of books. The usual trash showed up. There were numerous books by Michelle Obama, or whomever.
( My opinion of Michelle is poor. However, I was greatly impressed by her youngest daughter, Natasha ( nicknamed Sasha ) in 2008. Sasha was, at the time, 7 or 8 years old. )
In Audible’s “Plus Catalog” of books, I looked for the genre called “History”. Guess what? In Audible’s “Plus Catalog”, there’s no genre called “History”.
Let me explain. Audible’s “Plus Catalog” only has books that can be downloaded for free. ( Assuming that you’re an Audible member. )
Let’s say that you signed up for Audible under the following plan:
$7.99 per month, with no free trial period. In this plan, you do NOT get one free Audible book credit per month.
You can download and listen to numerous Audible books ( by people like Michelle Obama ). However, since you don’t get any Audible credits in this plan, you can’t “buy” any Audible books. Specifically, you can’t buy any Audible history books.
You can always pay cash for Audible history books. Just go to amazon ( dot ) com and pay around $28.00 for an Audible history book. ( You’ll actually be paying with your credit card. )
I’ll summarize this point:
There aren’t any good books in Audible’s “Plus Catalog”. All that’s present is trash.
I’ll conclude this point:
Make sure that you sign up for an Audible plan that gives you credits!
With credits, you can buy many good Audible books, like history books. Without them, you’re stuck listening to Michelle Obama.
As stated above, I signed up at amazon ( dot ) com for $14.99 per month. Staring into the Audible “Plus Catalog”, I found nothing of interest. The best that I could come up with were books in a genre marked “Literature and Fiction”.
I scoff at modern fiction. From what I’ve seen at the grocery store, modern fiction continues to feed off of bigotry against so-called “pedophiles”. That meant I was stuck listening to literature. In other words, all Amazon’s “Plus Catalog” had for me were audio files of stale texts by dead writers.
Reluctantly, I downloaded several of these. I’d read Joseph Conrad’s book, “Heart of Darkness”. The book hadn’t impressed me much.
I decided to listen to “Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad”, as “performed” by Kenneth Branagh.
Wow! I was swept up in Branagh’s performance at once! His rendering of “Heart of Darkness” is marvelous. Sadly, since this book is in Audible’s “Plus Catalog”, I can’t buy it, with a credit. That means I can’t keep it forever. If I cancel my Audible membership, I lose this Audible book.
Branagh is a famous actor. His performance of “Heart of Darkness” is labelled as “INCLUDED” in Audible’s “Plus Catalog”. That means you can download it, and listen to it, as long as you’re an Audible member.
Let’s say that you cancel your Audible membership. Is anything left in your “Library” in your Audible app? Yes. Any Audible book that you buy with a credit will remain. Also, any book that you paid cash for ( using a credit card ) will remain.
Sometimes, my iPad goes bad. I take it to the Apple store at the mall. They erase my iPad. Then, taking my iPad home, I spend the next week restoring my iPad from a backup at Apple’s iCloud.
Next, I have to re-download all of my Amazon Kindle books. ( This is a lengthy, tedious task. ) My understanding is that I’ll be re-downloading my Amazon Audible books the same way.
Presumably, I can re-download Audible books that I’ve bought ( with an Audible credit, or cash ) even if I’m no longer an Audible member.
AUDIBLE’S BEST Plan
When I signed up for Audible at amazon ( dot ) com, I read about another Audible membership plan. It’s billed yearly, at $149.50. In this plan, you get 12 free Audible book credits right away.
( NOTE: any Audible book credit expires after one year. Be sure to spend your credits before they expire! )
As stated above, I signed up at amazon ( dot ) com for $14.99 per month. $14.99 times 12 months equals $179.88.
I called Audible today about their yearly $149.50 plan.
Audible’s phone numbers are:
1-888-283-5051
and
1-877-467-7562
I spoke to an employee named Maria. I asked Maria about the Audible membership plan that’s billed yearly at $149.50. Maria agreed to sign me up right away. ( NOTE: this erased my 30 day free trial period. )
Maria said that the first year of my membership would be billed at just $99.50. ( It would automatically renew at $149.50. )
My credit card was billed $99.50. ( State sales tax may be added to this. ) I got 12 free Audible book credits right away.
An e-mail from Maria speaks of a “30 percent discount off additional audio books”. I looked up an Audible book on amazon ( dot ) com. The price was about 30 percent lower than what I expected.
Audible’s yearly plan is called, “Audible Premium Plus Annual”. You can read about it on amazon ( dot ) com. However, you can’t sign up for it ( anywhere ). You must first join Audible, at whichever ( lower ) plan you prefer. Then call Audible and upgrade.
MORE Audible BOOKS!
1. Decades ago, I rented a cassette tape and carried it around with me, listening. The tape was:
The Gulag Archipelago, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
It was fabulous. It held many relevant observations about our modern world.
Amazon is readying The Gulag Archipelago for release as an Audible book. ( In fact, due to its length, it will be three books. ) ( Amazon isn’t cheating us. The Gulag Archipelago was originally published in three volumes. )
On Audible, I listened to a sample of The Gulag Archipelago. It was great! I highly recommend it.
NOTE: The Gulag Archipelago is available now, on Audible, in an abridged version. I’m waiting to buy, and listen to, the three volume UNabridged version. ( I found the announcer for the abridged version to be boring. )
2. “Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley”, is narrated by Michael York. I guess he got this gig because he starred in the 1976 film “Logan’s Run”. I’m looking forward to trying this Audible book.
USING AUDIBLE
Let’s explore more in Audible. In the Audible app, look at the very bottom of your screen. You’ll see a horizontal bar. It holds four icons. They are labelled as follows:
Home
Library
Discover
Profile
In “Library”, look at the bottom of your screen. There, you’ll see the book that’s currently playing. Tap on this book.
Wow! It expands to a whole page. The page fills your entire screen. You can now move the recording of the book back 30 seconds, or more. This is very helpful if you stop listening, and rejoin the book later. ( You can also move the recording of the book forward 30 seconds, or more. You can fast-forward and rewind too. )
How do you get out of this page? Look to the top left corner of your screen. A black arrow is there. It points down. Tap on the black arrow. You’re returned to the main “Library” page.
Let’s learn more. Tap on “Profile”.
On the “Profile” page, look to the top right of your screen. A “gear” icon is there. Tap on the gear icon.
A new page opens. The main part of this page is titled, “Data and Storage”. Below this is written, “Download By Quality”.
Below “Download By Quality” is written:
1. Standard ( A checkmark is by this ).
2. High.
Under “High” is written:
Higher quality will result in bigger file size.
I’ve found the audio quality of a “Standard” file to be superb. However, you have the option of downloading “High” quality audio files.
What if you’ve already downloaded an Audible book?
1. Go to the “Library” section of your Audible app. Here, each book that you’ve downloaded is represented by an icon.
2. Find the Audible book that you’d like to remove. Put your finger to the right of this book’s icon. That is, put your finger on the far right of your screen. Drag your finger to the left.
3. Your book will be “archived”. ( Just like in Amazon’s Kindle app. ) The icon of the book remains in the “Library” section of your Audible app.
4. Go to “Profile” > “gear” icon. Under “Download By Quality”, switch from “Standard” to “High”.
5. Go back to “Library”. To re-download the book that you archived, tap the book’s icon. The book will immediately re-download. ( This may take some seconds. ) You’ll now have a “High” quality audio recording, instead of a “Standard” quality audio recording. It will take up more memory on your iPad.
NOTE: I haven’t tested archiving books in Audible, or re-downloading them. I called Audible about this. I spoke to an employee at Audible named Shenae. She sent me an e-mail. It reads:
1. Open the Audible app and tap the “My Library” tab.
2. Swipe your finger from right to left on the audio book to reveal the “Delete” option.
3. Tap on “Delete from device”.
Alternatively, you can also:
1. Tap “Select” from the Library tab. [ This is an icon. It consists of three vertical dots. These dots are on the far right of your screen. Each book’s icon has an accompanying icon of three vertical dots. ]
2. Tap the title(s) you want to delete.
3. Tap “Remove from device”.
All WE have is WORDS
The playwright Tom Stop ( pard ) once said, “All we have is words!” That’s especially true of a blogger.
Of his magazine, Hugh Hefner once said, to his Playmates,
“Without you, I’d be the publisher of a literary magazine”.
Sadly, ARSE isn’t yet Playboy ( Junior ). I don’t have, say, a nude photo of Brooke Shields, and her adorable 10 year old bottom, to share with you. ( It is available by searching for “brooke shields in the bathtub” on Google. )
So, I’m stuck with just words.
For decades, I’ve wanted to access what is, allegedly, the best source for words, in English. It is:
OED, the Oxford English Dictionary. The internet version is at oed ( dot ) com. It’s a duplicate of the unabridged OED on paper.
I joined OED on a Sunday morning. The information that OED gave me indicated that I might have to wait 24 hours for my membership to be activated.
That’s not true of porn sites. So, within seconds, I was eagerly anticipating my “user name”, so I could read the dictionary!
I waited all day. It was early Monday when OED finally sent me my “user name”. ( It was my e-mail address that I’d given them when I signed up. )
From there, everything on OED has worked smoothly. I subsequently received several e-mails from OED’s customer support department.
To conclude, regarding signing up at oed ( dot ) com: They do not work on weekends! Don’t sign up over a long weekend. You could wait “forever” to gain access to oed ( dot ) com.
Let’s work with OED.
1. When you arrive at oed ( dot ) com, bookmark this page. To do this, look to the upper right corner of your iPad’s screen. You’ll see an icon there. It consists of a box. The box has an arrow sticking up from its top.
Tap on the icon of the box with the arrow. An informational box appears, on the right side of your iPad’s screen. In this box, tap on “Add to Home Screen”.
The informational box changes. Tap “Add” in the top right corner of this new informational box.
( Your browser will quit when you tap “Add”. To return to the page that you were on in your browser, relaunch it. No information will be lost because your browser quit. ( In regards to making a bookmark. ) ) ( I am using Apple’s Safari browser. It has Google’s search engine installed in it. )
2. Once you’ve signed in to OED, you’ll remain signed in for a number of hours. If you come back another day, you’ll have to sign in again.
3. Once you’ve signed in to OED, you’ll be at a page titled, “Welcome”. Below “Welcome”, you’ll see a search field. It’s titled,
“Quick search:”
4. Type the word you want to find into “Quick search:”
5. A new page opens. It’s titled,
“Quick search results”.
6. Huh? Thinking of 10-year-old Brooke, I typed “bottom” into “Quick search:”. So where is the photo of her nude bottom? Furthermore, where is the definition for “bottom”?
7. Put two fingers on your iPad’s screen. As the boyfriend of “Sloan” says to her, in a porn film I’ve mentioned elsewhere, “spread ‘em”! This enlarges OED’s page on your iPad’s screen. ( Just do this if you feel that OED’s screen is hard to read. )
8. Continuing with “bottom”:
Under “Quick search results”, you’ll see the word “bottom”.
In OED, you’ll soon find yourself paying attention to whether a definition is for a noun, verb, adjective, etc. I was never taught the difference between these. I do my best to distinguish between them.
9. “bottom” has two definitions. To the right of each is written, “View full entry”.
10. Tap on “View full entry”. A new page appears. “Bottom” is defined. The best part of this page are the many quotes, using the word “bottom”, that it contains. These are quotes from real sources. They date from the earliest use of English, to the present day.
“BROWSING” the OED
If you wish to read, or “browse” the OED, you can do so. Here’s how:
1. Tap on the word “Dictionary”, under “Quick search:”. “Dictionary” is in red.
2. A new page opens. It’s titled, “Browse dictionary”. Nearby on this page, you’ll find, “Jump to alphabetical point:”. A search field is here. Type in the letter or word that you wish to begin browsing from.
OED versus THE FREE DICTIONARY
I have a feeling that the OED is a bit dated. “Dictionary”, by TheFreeDictionary ( dot ) com, is the other dictionary that I regularly use. It’s your best source for modern usage. This dictionary is available at the Apple App Store. I recommend buying the “Ad-free upgrade” for $1.99.
If you’re not obsessed with words, TheFreeDictionary (dot ) com will serve you well. It is, however, somewhat politically correct. Consider this word:
catcall
Here’s the definition that TheFreeDictionary gives: Any of various derisive sounds of disapproval. ( Scroll down to see this definition. )
TheFreeDictionary’s definition is feminist garbage. If a woman walks by a construction site, some of the men on the site may catcall her. Under a feminist view of the world, the men can only insult the woman. That’s because a number of feminists in the late 20th century were lesbians. They redefined English words, and invented others ( like “child molester” ).
Here’s the definition that the OED gives: A whistle, cry, or suggestive comment intended to express sexual attraction or admiration ( but usually regarded as an annoyance ), typically made by a man to a female passerby. ( Scroll down to see this definition. )
A synonym of “wolf-whistle” is given by the OED.
You might wonder at the relevance of this. I was writing a sex story. A 14-year-old girl was dancing naked, onstage, at a party. I wanted to say that the ( mostly male ) audience was catcalling her. According to TheFreeDictionary, that could only mean that the men were insulting her.
Of course, the men weren’t insulting her. They all wanted to fuck her! Some of the men expressed this, in part, by making lewd comments as the girl danced.
In my story, I refused to use the word “catcall”. I didn’t want to assign a new meaning to the word, or use the word incorrectly. When I found out that TheFreeDictionary was serving me politically correct lies, I was incensed!
My AMAZON Life
Recently, I moved. I lost access to cable T.V. Since I had too many boxes in my old room, I was only able to tune the T.V. there to one channel. I kept it on the Fox News Channel.
I don’t own a T.V. All I have is an iPhone and an iPad. In my new room, I can access some videos from The Fox News Channel at their app: foxnews ( dot ) com. So far, I haven’t bothered. I’ve found myself totally occupied by Amazon’s Audible app. Also, I’ve begun reading the Amazon Kindle version of the book:
Sapiens and Homo Deus: The e-book Collection.
Sapiens is compulsive reading. ( Homo Deus is the sequel to it. )
Meanwhile, I’m still hauling my belongings from my old room to my new one. Since I’ve moved into an unfurnished room, I’ve had to buy a number of items. This includes cookware for my new room’s oven. This is the first time that I’ve had a real oven in two decades.
I’ve bought nearly all of my new items at Amazon ( dot ) com.
Let’s say you buy stocks, on the stock market. There are a number of stocks to choose from. They include Big Tech stocks, like Amazon. Which stocks should you buy?
Consider my life. I buy physical goods from Amazon. If Amazon hadn’t enrolled me in Amazon Business, I’d be buying groceries from Amazon. ( As a ( regular ) Amazon Prime member. )
When I’m doing chores, like shaving or dressing ( or undressing ), I listen to Amazon’s Audible app. When I’m eating dinner, I read. I read books in Amazon’s Kindle app.
Hence, my daily life revolves around Amazon. My advice is, if you want to buy a good stock, buy Amazon.
Apple is another good stock. I use an Apple iPhone and an Apple iPad. My life would abruptly halt if I lost access to either device.
Let’s consider some Big Tech competitors.
1. Facebook.
I got kicked off of Facebook a week and a half after I joined. Facebook failed to provide me with any meaningful explanation for why they terminated my ( free ) Facebook account. Facebook stole my content.
Being banned from Facebook, I’m also banned from Instagram, and every other company that Facebook owns. Facebook, owned by Mark Fuckerberg, failed to make a single penny off me.
I am determined to take whatever legal action is available, now or in the future, to put Fuckerberg, and his Fakebook, in the gutter. Fuckerberg belongs in Hell.
2. Google, and its You Tube.
You Tube still manages to extract $15.99 from me every month. I haven’t used You Tube since early December. I only retain my account on You Tube because many young girls, at one time, liked putting their videos on You Tube.
You Tube greatly offended me by its repeated abuse of my You Tube account. Many others have been abused by You Tube, as detailed in previous articles here on ARSE. You Tube’s abuse didn’t spare preteen girls. It targeted them.
Lately, I’ve seen a small car parked around downtown San Diego. It’s “wrapped” in Google insignia. I’ve never firebombed a car. However, should I choose to imitate America’s rioters of 2020, Google’s car will be the first on my list to be firebombed.
I greatly dislike Google, and its You Tube. Since You Tube abuses foreign preteens who are its customers, You Tube is a blight on America’s reputation.
Hence, don’t buy stock in Facebook or Google. Buy stock in Amazon and Apple.
ARCANA
1. I am not a member of Amazon Prime. My understanding is that if you are an Amazon Prime member, you get access to Audible. However, you don’t get any free Audible book credits. Hence, you can’t buy any history books with Audible book credits.
2. On Google, I read about a secret “Audible Silver” plan. This cuts your membership price in Audible. It gives you a free Audible book credit every two months, instead of every month. You have to contact Audible, or Amazon, and request the “Audible Silver” plan.
3. Today, I learned about the web site called audible ( dot ) com. The Audible “Plus Catalog” is there. It has a section, or “Genre”, marked “History”, with good history books. Some are labelled as “INCLUDED”. This means that, as an Audible member, you can listen to them for free. None of this was available to me when I joined Audible.
4. Audible’s genre: “Literature and Fiction”.
I translate typographical symbols into words. That’s because I still recall the poor quality of the 1990s internet. Here, the ampersand is replaced by “and”. I do the same when quoting other parts of Audible’s app.
5. Regarding re-downloads, Amazon doesn’t treat its Kindle books like its Audible books.
When you buy an Amazon Kindle book, you’re allowed to put it on six devices. I called Amazon about a book I couldn’t re-download. You can guess what the Amazon clerk said.
“You must have already downloaded this book to six devices. You can’t download it to a seventh device.”
I’ve only dowloaded any Amazon Kindle book to two devices, my iPad and my iPhone.
My conversation with this clerk ended when he hung up on me. However, an Amazon employee, working behind the scenes, must have intervened. Later, I was able to re-download the troublesome books.
6. Maria’s e-mail speaks of “audiobooks”. ( No space. ) Being profligate, I put a space between “audio” and “books” when quoting her. I did the same when quoting Shenae.
7. Sloan: https://www ( dot ) tube8 ( dot ) com > teen > Sloan aka Ivey aka Lilly Anne Porn Video - Tube 8
This link no longer works.
Using Safari with Google installed, I visited:
https://www ( dot ) tube8 ( dot ) com
I searched for “Sloan”. Nothing relevant appeared.
I launched my Firefox browser. Using a pre-existing “Sloan” tab in Firefox, I went to the “Sloan” page at tube8 ( dot ) com. There, a notice reads, of “Sloan”:
“This video has been flagged for verification according to our Trust and Safety update.”
Tube8’s notice is rank puritanism. “Sloan aka Ivey aka Lilly Anne” is a famous “porn” actress and model. Her video was made by the reputable porn site cumfiesta ( dot ) com. ( Now owned by the reputable porn site realitykings ( dot ) com. ) Sloan discusses her age ( then 18 ) at the video’s start.
I use the term “reputable” in its conventional sense. If cumfiesta ( dot ) com were legally able to offer “porn” videos of girls who were, say, 17, I’d celebrate the fact.
I put “porn” in quotes because I don’t consider “porn” to be porn. Some “porn” isn’t worth watching. Sloan’s video is delightful. I also found it to be educational. I say, chuck the Mona Lisa, and replace it with Sloan’s video!
If you search elsewhere for “Sloan”, make sure you download the 480p version. That’s the best version available. ( The video was filmed in either 2001 or 2002. ) ( “Sloan”, whose real name is Ashley Nichole Ames, was born on August 15, 1983. )
An image of Ashley, as a “porn” model, serves as the wallpaper for my iPhone. Smiling, Ashley shows off her kiddie-style mushroom T-shirt.
I use a similar photo of Ashley as the wallpaper for my iPad. When my iPad is sideways, which is its usual position, Ashley gazes primly from my iPad. However, if anyone should turn my iPad upright, Ashley shows off her naked bosoms!
( My iPad’s wallpaper photo crops itself when it’s turned sideways. That is, when my iPad is sideways, you can’t see the lower part of the photo. That’s where Ashely’s naked bosoms are. )
8. The “Oxford Dictionary of English” is at the Apple App Store. This is a version by MobiSystems, Inc. I bought it, but prefer TheFreeDictionary ( dot ) com.
The “Oxford Dictionary of English”, at the Apple App Store, is not a substitute for the internet version of the OED.
You’ll encounter the same situation if you go to lexico ( dot ) com. It’s not a substitute for the internet version of the OED.
9. I have nothing against lesbians. I greatly dislike the politically correct lesbians of the prior century who, teaming up with religious nuts, destroyed parts of our English language. They also emasculated America. Due to America’s cultural influence, the world at large is also being emasculated.
10. I’m not annoying myself by looking up the etymology of “child molester” in the OED. In the first decades of my life, I never heard the term “child molester”. In about 1980, a woman referred to a radio disc jockey that she worked with. Of him, she said, “He’s a young girl lover”.
In the America of the 1960s and 1970s, men and young girls associated freely with one another. There was no enforced legal sanction against this. ( Sadly, I was too young to enjoy such a relationship. )
A side note: America was called “America” until 1980. That’s when America’s hockey team unexpectedly beat Russia’s hockey team at the Winter Olympics. “USA” was printed on the American team’s jerseys. From then on, “America” became “USA” or, alternatively, “the United States”. That’s my memory of everyday English usage.
11. To purveyors of gossip, innuendo, and ill will, a politician once said, “Write whatever you like about me. Just be sure to spell my name correctly.”
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Copyright 2021 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 80
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 80, version 3.0
Date Written: May 27, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 80
Editorial Thunder presents...
Auditioning Audible
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Plus: All we have is words.
And: My Amazon life.
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Auditioning AUDIBLE
by Andrew Roller
Neil Eckart, of the podcast “War And Conquest”, mentions Amazon’s Audible app a lot. For whatever reason, Eckart chose to loathe me. He sells at least two episodes on patreon ( dot ) com that allegedly detail my sins: “March OTR [ Off The Rails ]”, and “Andrew strikes again”.
I switched from listening to Eckart’s podcast to listening to a podcast by Carl Rylett. It’s called, “A History of Europe”. Like Eckart, Rylett is highly informed about history. Unfortunately, it’s difficult to binge Rylett. His smooth, professional voice becomes boring. Also, Rylett lets advertisements interrupt his podcast. His soft voice gets cut off, mid-sentence, by a loud ad.
Exasperated, I recalled Eckart’s numerous mentions of Audible. “Why the fuck am I listening to these amateurs?” I asked myself. I decided that, instead of listening to podcasts, I’d listen to books on Audible.
I had previously downloaded the Audible app. One free book was downloaded into it: “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce.” ( The author’s name is, in my opinion, part of the book’s title on Audible. That’s because this is an audio file. It’s “performed” by Colin Farrell. )
“Artist”, by Joyce, is a worthy, but boring book. The same is true of Colin Farrell’s performance.
In the Audible app, I searched for books that I might like. These are divided into “Genres”. I searched in the genre called, “History”.
Wow! I found lots of history books that I’d love to listen to. What I didn’t realize was that all of these books came with a big catch, which I’ll detail below.
I decided to join Audible. I meant to do this in the Audible app. It’s an app on my Apple iPad.
In the Audible app, Audible’s terms were as follows:
$7.99 per month, with no free trial period. In this plan, you do NOT get one free Audible book credit per month.
$15.99 per month, with no free trail period. In this plan, you DO get one free Audible book credit per month.
I went to amazon ( dot ) com. I guess I typed “audible” into the search field there. Amazon offered me the following:
$14.99 per month, with a 30 day free trial period. In this plan, you DO get one free Audible book credit per month.
I signed up at amazon ( dot ) com for Audible, at $14.99 per month.
I got an e-mail from Amazon, on behalf of Audible. That e-mail turned out, at the time, to be my only way of accessing Audible’s “Plus Catalog” of books.
I went to Audible’s “Plus Catalog” of books. The usual trash showed up. There were numerous books by Michelle Obama, or whomever.
( My opinion of Michelle is poor. However, I was greatly impressed by her youngest daughter, Natasha ( nicknamed Sasha ) in 2008. Sasha was, at the time, 7 or 8 years old. )
In Audible’s “Plus Catalog” of books, I looked for the genre called “History”. Guess what? In Audible’s “Plus Catalog”, there’s no genre called “History”.
Let me explain. Audible’s “Plus Catalog” only has books that can be downloaded for free. ( Assuming that you’re an Audible member. )
Let’s say that you signed up for Audible under the following plan:
$7.99 per month, with no free trial period. In this plan, you do NOT get one free Audible book credit per month.
You can download and listen to numerous Audible books ( by people like Michelle Obama ). However, since you don’t get any Audible credits in this plan, you can’t “buy” any Audible books. Specifically, you can’t buy any Audible history books.
You can always pay cash for Audible history books. Just go to amazon ( dot ) com and pay around $28.00 for an Audible history book. ( You’ll actually be paying with your credit card. )
I’ll summarize this point:
There aren’t any good books in Audible’s “Plus Catalog”. All that’s present is trash.
I’ll conclude this point:
Make sure that you sign up for an Audible plan that gives you credits!
With credits, you can buy many good Audible books, like history books. Without them, you’re stuck listening to Michelle Obama.
As stated above, I signed up at amazon ( dot ) com for $14.99 per month. Staring into the Audible “Plus Catalog”, I found nothing of interest. The best that I could come up with were books in a genre marked “Literature and Fiction”.
I scoff at modern fiction. From what I’ve seen at the grocery store, modern fiction continues to feed off of bigotry against so-called “pedophiles”. That meant I was stuck listening to literature. In other words, all Amazon’s “Plus Catalog” had for me were audio files of stale texts by dead writers.
Reluctantly, I downloaded several of these. I’d read Joseph Conrad’s book, “Heart of Darkness”. The book hadn’t impressed me much.
I decided to listen to “Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad”, as “performed” by Kenneth Branagh.
Wow! I was swept up in Branagh’s performance at once! His rendering of “Heart of Darkness” is marvelous. Sadly, since this book is in Audible’s “Plus Catalog”, I can’t buy it, with a credit. That means I can’t keep it forever. If I cancel my Audible membership, I lose this Audible book.
Branagh is a famous actor. His performance of “Heart of Darkness” is labelled as “INCLUDED” in Audible’s “Plus Catalog”. That means you can download it, and listen to it, as long as you’re an Audible member.
Let’s say that you cancel your Audible membership. Is anything left in your “Library” in your Audible app? Yes. Any Audible book that you buy with a credit will remain. Also, any book that you paid cash for ( using a credit card ) will remain.
Sometimes, my iPad goes bad. I take it to the Apple store at the mall. They erase my iPad. Then, taking my iPad home, I spend the next week restoring my iPad from a backup at Apple’s iCloud.
Next, I have to re-download all of my Amazon Kindle books. ( This is a lengthy, tedious task. ) My understanding is that I’ll be re-downloading my Amazon Audible books the same way.
Presumably, I can re-download Audible books that I’ve bought ( with an Audible credit, or cash ) even if I’m no longer an Audible member.
AUDIBLE’S BEST Plan
When I signed up for Audible at amazon ( dot ) com, I read about another Audible membership plan. It’s billed yearly, at $149.50. In this plan, you get 12 free Audible book credits right away.
( NOTE: any Audible book credit expires after one year. Be sure to spend your credits before they expire! )
As stated above, I signed up at amazon ( dot ) com for $14.99 per month. $14.99 times 12 months equals $179.88.
I called Audible today about their yearly $149.50 plan.
Audible’s phone numbers are:
1-888-283-5051
and
1-877-467-7562
I spoke to an employee named Maria. I asked Maria about the Audible membership plan that’s billed yearly at $149.50. Maria agreed to sign me up right away. ( NOTE: this erased my 30 day free trial period. )
Maria said that the first year of my membership would be billed at just $99.50. ( It would automatically renew at $149.50. )
My credit card was billed $99.50. ( State sales tax may be added to this. ) I got 12 free Audible book credits right away.
An e-mail from Maria speaks of a “30 percent discount off additional audio books”. I looked up an Audible book on amazon ( dot ) com. The price was about 30 percent lower than what I expected.
Audible’s yearly plan is called, “Audible Premium Plus Annual”. You can read about it on amazon ( dot ) com. However, you can’t sign up for it ( anywhere ). You must first join Audible, at whichever ( lower ) plan you prefer. Then call Audible and upgrade.
MORE Audible BOOKS!
1. Decades ago, I rented a cassette tape and carried it around with me, listening. The tape was:
The Gulag Archipelago, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
It was fabulous. It held many relevant observations about our modern world.
Amazon is readying The Gulag Archipelago for release as an Audible book. ( In fact, due to its length, it will be three books. ) ( Amazon isn’t cheating us. The Gulag Archipelago was originally published in three volumes. )
On Audible, I listened to a sample of The Gulag Archipelago. It was great! I highly recommend it.
NOTE: The Gulag Archipelago is available now, on Audible, in an abridged version. I’m waiting to buy, and listen to, the three volume UNabridged version. ( I found the announcer for the abridged version to be boring. )
2. “Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley”, is narrated by Michael York. I guess he got this gig because he starred in the 1976 film “Logan’s Run”. I’m looking forward to trying this Audible book.
USING AUDIBLE
Let’s explore more in Audible. In the Audible app, look at the very bottom of your screen. You’ll see a horizontal bar. It holds four icons. They are labelled as follows:
Home
Library
Discover
Profile
In “Library”, look at the bottom of your screen. There, you’ll see the book that’s currently playing. Tap on this book.
Wow! It expands to a whole page. The page fills your entire screen. You can now move the recording of the book back 30 seconds, or more. This is very helpful if you stop listening, and rejoin the book later. ( You can also move the recording of the book forward 30 seconds, or more. You can fast-forward and rewind too. )
How do you get out of this page? Look to the top left corner of your screen. A black arrow is there. It points down. Tap on the black arrow. You’re returned to the main “Library” page.
Let’s learn more. Tap on “Profile”.
On the “Profile” page, look to the top right of your screen. A “gear” icon is there. Tap on the gear icon.
A new page opens. The main part of this page is titled, “Data and Storage”. Below this is written, “Download By Quality”.
Below “Download By Quality” is written:
1. Standard ( A checkmark is by this ).
2. High.
Under “High” is written:
Higher quality will result in bigger file size.
I’ve found the audio quality of a “Standard” file to be superb. However, you have the option of downloading “High” quality audio files.
What if you’ve already downloaded an Audible book?
1. Go to the “Library” section of your Audible app. Here, each book that you’ve downloaded is represented by an icon.
2. Find the Audible book that you’d like to remove. Put your finger to the right of this book’s icon. That is, put your finger on the far right of your screen. Drag your finger to the left.
3. Your book will be “archived”. ( Just like in Amazon’s Kindle app. ) The icon of the book remains in the “Library” section of your Audible app.
4. Go to “Profile” > “gear” icon. Under “Download By Quality”, switch from “Standard” to “High”.
5. Go back to “Library”. To re-download the book that you archived, tap the book’s icon. The book will immediately re-download. ( This may take some seconds. ) You’ll now have a “High” quality audio recording, instead of a “Standard” quality audio recording. It will take up more memory on your iPad.
NOTE: I haven’t tested archiving books in Audible, or re-downloading them. I called Audible about this. I spoke to an employee at Audible named Shenae. She sent me an e-mail. It reads:
1. Open the Audible app and tap the “My Library” tab.
2. Swipe your finger from right to left on the audio book to reveal the “Delete” option.
3. Tap on “Delete from device”.
Alternatively, you can also:
1. Tap “Select” from the Library tab. [ This is an icon. It consists of three vertical dots. These dots are on the far right of your screen. Each book’s icon has an accompanying icon of three vertical dots. ]
2. Tap the title(s) you want to delete.
3. Tap “Remove from device”.
All WE have is WORDS
The playwright Tom Stop ( pard ) once said, “All we have is words!” That’s especially true of a blogger.
Of his magazine, Hugh Hefner once said, to his Playmates,
“Without you, I’d be the publisher of a literary magazine”.
Sadly, ARSE isn’t yet Playboy ( Junior ). I don’t have, say, a nude photo of Brooke Shields, and her adorable 10 year old bottom, to share with you. ( It is available by searching for “brooke shields in the bathtub” on Google. )
So, I’m stuck with just words.
For decades, I’ve wanted to access what is, allegedly, the best source for words, in English. It is:
OED, the Oxford English Dictionary. The internet version is at oed ( dot ) com. It’s a duplicate of the unabridged OED on paper.
I joined OED on a Sunday morning. The information that OED gave me indicated that I might have to wait 24 hours for my membership to be activated.
That’s not true of porn sites. So, within seconds, I was eagerly anticipating my “user name”, so I could read the dictionary!
I waited all day. It was early Monday when OED finally sent me my “user name”. ( It was my e-mail address that I’d given them when I signed up. )
From there, everything on OED has worked smoothly. I subsequently received several e-mails from OED’s customer support department.
To conclude, regarding signing up at oed ( dot ) com: They do not work on weekends! Don’t sign up over a long weekend. You could wait “forever” to gain access to oed ( dot ) com.
Let’s work with OED.
1. When you arrive at oed ( dot ) com, bookmark this page. To do this, look to the upper right corner of your iPad’s screen. You’ll see an icon there. It consists of a box. The box has an arrow sticking up from its top.
Tap on the icon of the box with the arrow. An informational box appears, on the right side of your iPad’s screen. In this box, tap on “Add to Home Screen”.
The informational box changes. Tap “Add” in the top right corner of this new informational box.
( Your browser will quit when you tap “Add”. To return to the page that you were on in your browser, relaunch it. No information will be lost because your browser quit. ( In regards to making a bookmark. ) ) ( I am using Apple’s Safari browser. It has Google’s search engine installed in it. )
2. Once you’ve signed in to OED, you’ll remain signed in for a number of hours. If you come back another day, you’ll have to sign in again.
3. Once you’ve signed in to OED, you’ll be at a page titled, “Welcome”. Below “Welcome”, you’ll see a search field. It’s titled,
“Quick search:”
4. Type the word you want to find into “Quick search:”
5. A new page opens. It’s titled,
“Quick search results”.
6. Huh? Thinking of 10-year-old Brooke, I typed “bottom” into “Quick search:”. So where is the photo of her nude bottom? Furthermore, where is the definition for “bottom”?
7. Put two fingers on your iPad’s screen. As the boyfriend of “Sloan” says to her, in a porn film I’ve mentioned elsewhere, “spread ‘em”! This enlarges OED’s page on your iPad’s screen. ( Just do this if you feel that OED’s screen is hard to read. )
8. Continuing with “bottom”:
Under “Quick search results”, you’ll see the word “bottom”.
In OED, you’ll soon find yourself paying attention to whether a definition is for a noun, verb, adjective, etc. I was never taught the difference between these. I do my best to distinguish between them.
9. “bottom” has two definitions. To the right of each is written, “View full entry”.
10. Tap on “View full entry”. A new page appears. “Bottom” is defined. The best part of this page are the many quotes, using the word “bottom”, that it contains. These are quotes from real sources. They date from the earliest use of English, to the present day.
“BROWSING” the OED
If you wish to read, or “browse” the OED, you can do so. Here’s how:
1. Tap on the word “Dictionary”, under “Quick search:”. “Dictionary” is in red.
2. A new page opens. It’s titled, “Browse dictionary”. Nearby on this page, you’ll find, “Jump to alphabetical point:”. A search field is here. Type in the letter or word that you wish to begin browsing from.
OED versus THE FREE DICTIONARY
I have a feeling that the OED is a bit dated. “Dictionary”, by TheFreeDictionary ( dot ) com, is the other dictionary that I regularly use. It’s your best source for modern usage. This dictionary is available at the Apple App Store. I recommend buying the “Ad-free upgrade” for $1.99.
If you’re not obsessed with words, TheFreeDictionary (dot ) com will serve you well. It is, however, somewhat politically correct. Consider this word:
catcall
Here’s the definition that TheFreeDictionary gives: Any of various derisive sounds of disapproval. ( Scroll down to see this definition. )
TheFreeDictionary’s definition is feminist garbage. If a woman walks by a construction site, some of the men on the site may catcall her. Under a feminist view of the world, the men can only insult the woman. That’s because a number of feminists in the late 20th century were lesbians. They redefined English words, and invented others ( like “child molester” ).
Here’s the definition that the OED gives: A whistle, cry, or suggestive comment intended to express sexual attraction or admiration ( but usually regarded as an annoyance ), typically made by a man to a female passerby. ( Scroll down to see this definition. )
A synonym of “wolf-whistle” is given by the OED.
You might wonder at the relevance of this. I was writing a sex story. A 14-year-old girl was dancing naked, onstage, at a party. I wanted to say that the ( mostly male ) audience was catcalling her. According to TheFreeDictionary, that could only mean that the men were insulting her.
Of course, the men weren’t insulting her. They all wanted to fuck her! Some of the men expressed this, in part, by making lewd comments as the girl danced.
In my story, I refused to use the word “catcall”. I didn’t want to assign a new meaning to the word, or use the word incorrectly. When I found out that TheFreeDictionary was serving me politically correct lies, I was incensed!
My AMAZON Life
Recently, I moved. I lost access to cable T.V. Since I had too many boxes in my old room, I was only able to tune the T.V. there to one channel. I kept it on the Fox News Channel.
I don’t own a T.V. All I have is an iPhone and an iPad. In my new room, I can access some videos from The Fox News Channel at their app: foxnews ( dot ) com. So far, I haven’t bothered. I’ve found myself totally occupied by Amazon’s Audible app. Also, I’ve begun reading the Amazon Kindle version of the book:
Sapiens and Homo Deus: The e-book Collection.
Sapiens is compulsive reading. ( Homo Deus is the sequel to it. )
Meanwhile, I’m still hauling my belongings from my old room to my new one. Since I’ve moved into an unfurnished room, I’ve had to buy a number of items. This includes cookware for my new room’s oven. This is the first time that I’ve had a real oven in two decades.
I’ve bought nearly all of my new items at Amazon ( dot ) com.
Let’s say you buy stocks, on the stock market. There are a number of stocks to choose from. They include Big Tech stocks, like Amazon. Which stocks should you buy?
Consider my life. I buy physical goods from Amazon. If Amazon hadn’t enrolled me in Amazon Business, I’d be buying groceries from Amazon. ( As a ( regular ) Amazon Prime member. )
When I’m doing chores, like shaving or dressing ( or undressing ), I listen to Amazon’s Audible app. When I’m eating dinner, I read. I read books in Amazon’s Kindle app.
Hence, my daily life revolves around Amazon. My advice is, if you want to buy a good stock, buy Amazon.
Apple is another good stock. I use an Apple iPhone and an Apple iPad. My life would abruptly halt if I lost access to either device.
Let’s consider some Big Tech competitors.
1. Facebook.
I got kicked off of Facebook a week and a half after I joined. Facebook failed to provide me with any meaningful explanation for why they terminated my ( free ) Facebook account. Facebook stole my content.
Being banned from Facebook, I’m also banned from Instagram, and every other company that Facebook owns. Facebook, owned by Mark Fuckerberg, failed to make a single penny off me.
I am determined to take whatever legal action is available, now or in the future, to put Fuckerberg, and his Fakebook, in the gutter. Fuckerberg belongs in Hell.
2. Google, and its You Tube.
You Tube still manages to extract $15.99 from me every month. I haven’t used You Tube since early December. I only retain my account on You Tube because many young girls, at one time, liked putting their videos on You Tube.
You Tube greatly offended me by its repeated abuse of my You Tube account. Many others have been abused by You Tube, as detailed in previous articles here on ARSE. You Tube’s abuse didn’t spare preteen girls. It targeted them.
Lately, I’ve seen a small car parked around downtown San Diego. It’s “wrapped” in Google insignia. I’ve never firebombed a car. However, should I choose to imitate America’s rioters of 2020, Google’s car will be the first on my list to be firebombed.
I greatly dislike Google, and its You Tube. Since You Tube abuses foreign preteens who are its customers, You Tube is a blight on America’s reputation.
Hence, don’t buy stock in Facebook or Google. Buy stock in Amazon and Apple.
ARCANA
1. I am not a member of Amazon Prime. My understanding is that if you are an Amazon Prime member, you get access to Audible. However, you don’t get any free Audible book credits. Hence, you can’t buy any history books with Audible book credits.
2. On Google, I read about a secret “Audible Silver” plan. This cuts your membership price in Audible. It gives you a free Audible book credit every two months, instead of every month. You have to contact Audible, or Amazon, and request the “Audible Silver” plan.
3. Today, I learned about the web site called audible ( dot ) com. The Audible “Plus Catalog” is there. It has a section, or “Genre”, marked “History”, with good history books. Some are labelled as “INCLUDED”. This means that, as an Audible member, you can listen to them for free. None of this was available to me when I joined Audible.
4. Audible’s genre: “Literature and Fiction”.
I translate typographical symbols into words. That’s because I still recall the poor quality of the 1990s internet. Here, the ampersand is replaced by “and”. I do the same when quoting other parts of Audible’s app.
5. Regarding re-downloads, Amazon doesn’t treat its Kindle books like its Audible books.
When you buy an Amazon Kindle book, you’re allowed to put it on six devices. I called Amazon about a book I couldn’t re-download. You can guess what the Amazon clerk said.
“You must have already downloaded this book to six devices. You can’t download it to a seventh device.”
I’ve only dowloaded any Amazon Kindle book to two devices, my iPad and my iPhone.
My conversation with this clerk ended when he hung up on me. However, an Amazon employee, working behind the scenes, must have intervened. Later, I was able to re-download the troublesome books.
6. Maria’s e-mail speaks of “audiobooks”. ( No space. ) Being profligate, I put a space between “audio” and “books” when quoting her. I did the same when quoting Shenae.
7. Sloan: https://www ( dot ) tube8 ( dot ) com > teen > Sloan aka Ivey aka Lilly Anne Porn Video - Tube 8
This link no longer works.
Using Safari with Google installed, I visited:
https://www ( dot ) tube8 ( dot ) com
I searched for “Sloan”. Nothing relevant appeared.
I launched my Firefox browser. Using a pre-existing “Sloan” tab in Firefox, I went to the “Sloan” page at tube8 ( dot ) com. There, a notice reads, of “Sloan”:
“This video has been flagged for verification according to our Trust and Safety update.”
Tube8’s notice is rank puritanism. “Sloan aka Ivey aka Lilly Anne” is a famous “porn” actress and model. Her video was made by the reputable porn site cumfiesta ( dot ) com. ( Now owned by the reputable porn site realitykings ( dot ) com. ) Sloan discusses her age ( then 18 ) at the video’s start.
I use the term “reputable” in its conventional sense. If cumfiesta ( dot ) com were legally able to offer “porn” videos of girls who were, say, 17, I’d celebrate the fact.
I put “porn” in quotes because I don’t consider “porn” to be porn. Some “porn” isn’t worth watching. Sloan’s video is delightful. I also found it to be educational. I say, chuck the Mona Lisa, and replace it with Sloan’s video!
If you search elsewhere for “Sloan”, make sure you download the 480p version. That’s the best version available. ( The video was filmed in either 2001 or 2002. ) ( “Sloan”, whose real name is Ashley Nichole Ames, was born on August 15, 1983. )
An image of Ashley, as a “porn” model, serves as the wallpaper for my iPhone. Smiling, Ashley shows off her kiddie-style mushroom T-shirt.
I use a similar photo of Ashley as the wallpaper for my iPad. When my iPad is sideways, which is its usual position, Ashley gazes primly from my iPad. However, if anyone should turn my iPad upright, Ashley shows off her naked bosoms!
( My iPad’s wallpaper photo crops itself when it’s turned sideways. That is, when my iPad is sideways, you can’t see the lower part of the photo. That’s where Ashely’s naked bosoms are. )
8. The “Oxford Dictionary of English” is at the Apple App Store. This is a version by MobiSystems, Inc. I bought it, but prefer TheFreeDictionary ( dot ) com.
The “Oxford Dictionary of English”, at the Apple App Store, is not a substitute for the internet version of the OED.
You’ll encounter the same situation if you go to lexico ( dot ) com. It’s not a substitute for the internet version of the OED.
9. I have nothing against lesbians. I greatly dislike the politically correct lesbians of the prior century who, teaming up with religious nuts, destroyed parts of our English language. They also emasculated America. Due to America’s cultural influence, the world at large is also being emasculated.
10. I’m not annoying myself by looking up the etymology of “child molester” in the OED. In the first decades of my life, I never heard the term “child molester”. In about 1980, a woman referred to a radio disc jockey that she worked with. Of him, she said, “He’s a young girl lover”.
In the America of the 1960s and 1970s, men and young girls associated freely with one another. There was no enforced legal sanction against this. ( Sadly, I was too young to enjoy such a relationship. )
A side note: America was called “America” until 1980. That’s when America’s hockey team unexpectedly beat Russia’s hockey team at the Winter Olympics. “USA” was printed on the American team’s jerseys. From then on, “America” became “USA” or, alternatively, “the United States”. That’s my memory of everyday English usage.
11. To purveyors of gossip, innuendo, and ill will, a politician once said, “Write whatever you like about me. Just be sure to spell my name correctly.”
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Copyright 2021 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 80
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 80, version 3.0
Date Written: May 27, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Keep YOUR Mask ON!
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ET 79
Editorial Thunder presents...
Keep YOUR Mask ON!
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Plus: On perversion.
And: Guilt-free reading.
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Keep YOUR Mask ON!
by Andrew Roller
Recently, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) announced that every fully vaccinated American no longer needs to wear a mask. A mask was no longer required to protect such an individual from the COVID-19 virus. Vaccinated Americans could go mask-free indoors and out.
I live in downtown San Diego. Here, everyone is still wearing a mask. I tried going mask-free when the mask requirement was rescinded. However, I’m still obliged to wear a mask whenever I enter any building. This includes “my” grocery, bank, apartment building, and storage locker facility.
Today, I watched a T.V. segment at foxnews ( dot ) com. The segment is from the nightly T.V. show, Tucker Carlson Tonight. It’s titled, “Tucker: Many Americans too scared to ditch their masks”.
Tucker’s right-wing diatribe changed my opinion about Americans wearing masks. I now realize that many Americans must continue to remain masked. Who?
1. Women. Anyone who reads the Holy Bible knows that women are sinful. They cause men to stray from God’s will. Women must remain masked.
2. Black people. Let’s face it. Blacks may be wonderful, but they aren’t White. Therefore, White people should not have to put up with looking at Black people.
Some Black people are drug dealers. Only a drug dealer who’s a moron would go about unmasked. That just makes it easier for the cops to identify you. Hence, Blacks must remain masked.
3. Homosexuals. If you’re a guy, and like getting it up the ass, you shouldn’t be showing your face in public. This is especially true if you voted senile Joe Biden into the presidency. When he mistakes the nuclear button for his pacifier, we’re doomed.
4. Child molesters. This is a no-brainer. Do you want to be recognized as the Hymen Bandit? Of course not! You’ll especially want to stay masked if you’re a convicted sex offender, whose face shows up on sex offender web sites. The woman next door doesn’t need to know the real reason why you babysit her daughter.
5. Terrorists. If you’re on your way to blow up a building, you don’t want to be recognized as “that guy” on “America’s Most Wanted”.
6. Bank robbers. When the CDC lifted its mask mandate, I got into trouble for not wearing a mask. I got into trouble at my bank. The bank told me that I wasn’t allowed to be in their bank unless I wore a mask. Since I was planning to stick the place up, I thank my bank for reminding me to wear a mask.
The list of people who should remain masked is lengthy. Take the Irish, for instance. Ireland had a potato famine in the 1800s. What happened? Lots of fucking Irish showed up in our country. Even my grandmother came over from Ireland.
The Irish may be wonderful, but they’re not from the best parts of Western Europe. Compared to Sweden, the Ireland of the 1800s was a shit-hole. So anyone with Irish blood should wear a mask. That’s especially true if he’s a “child molester” who writes shit on the internet.
ON PERVERSION
“No healthy person, it appears, can fail to make some addition that might be called perverse to the normal sexual aim; and the universality of this finding is in itself enough to show how inappropriate it is to use the word perversion as a term of reproach.”
- Sigmund Freud
Source: The Mistress of Rosedale, by Don Julian Winslow. ( Amazon Kindle. )
Guilt-FREE Reading!
from holy joe
You don’t need to tell me. I know how you feel. You’ve decolonized your bookshelves. You’ve publicly burned every book that’s anti-Black, anti-Woman, Anti-Gay, Anti-Lesbian, Anti-Bisexual, Anti-Transvestite, Anti-Abortion, Anti-Indian, Anti-Irish, Anti-Dog, and Anti-Anti.
But what about books that demean and dehumanize pedophiles? If you get rid of those, you might not have any books at all! What to do?
I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be publishing pro-pedophile books soon. The company name will be Pedophile Educational Treatises ( PET ). Each book by PET can be had at the low price of only $999.99. However, just for you, I’m offering each book for $99.99!
Fill your library shelves with guilt-free reading. You know that when you’re reading PET, all your sins are forgiven! Plus, you and all your relations ( except Uncle Jack, who’s a pervert ) get into Heaven!
ARCANA
This information is for customers of Pedophile Educational Treatises ( PET ). If you’re dead, and not in Heaven, you may apply for a refund by calling 1-800-I FUCKED.
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Copyright 2021 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 79
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 79, version 4.0
Date Written: May 18, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 79
Editorial Thunder presents...
Keep YOUR Mask ON!
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Plus: On perversion.
And: Guilt-free reading.
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Keep YOUR Mask ON!
by Andrew Roller
Recently, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) announced that every fully vaccinated American no longer needs to wear a mask. A mask was no longer required to protect such an individual from the COVID-19 virus. Vaccinated Americans could go mask-free indoors and out.
I live in downtown San Diego. Here, everyone is still wearing a mask. I tried going mask-free when the mask requirement was rescinded. However, I’m still obliged to wear a mask whenever I enter any building. This includes “my” grocery, bank, apartment building, and storage locker facility.
Today, I watched a T.V. segment at foxnews ( dot ) com. The segment is from the nightly T.V. show, Tucker Carlson Tonight. It’s titled, “Tucker: Many Americans too scared to ditch their masks”.
Tucker’s right-wing diatribe changed my opinion about Americans wearing masks. I now realize that many Americans must continue to remain masked. Who?
1. Women. Anyone who reads the Holy Bible knows that women are sinful. They cause men to stray from God’s will. Women must remain masked.
2. Black people. Let’s face it. Blacks may be wonderful, but they aren’t White. Therefore, White people should not have to put up with looking at Black people.
Some Black people are drug dealers. Only a drug dealer who’s a moron would go about unmasked. That just makes it easier for the cops to identify you. Hence, Blacks must remain masked.
3. Homosexuals. If you’re a guy, and like getting it up the ass, you shouldn’t be showing your face in public. This is especially true if you voted senile Joe Biden into the presidency. When he mistakes the nuclear button for his pacifier, we’re doomed.
4. Child molesters. This is a no-brainer. Do you want to be recognized as the Hymen Bandit? Of course not! You’ll especially want to stay masked if you’re a convicted sex offender, whose face shows up on sex offender web sites. The woman next door doesn’t need to know the real reason why you babysit her daughter.
5. Terrorists. If you’re on your way to blow up a building, you don’t want to be recognized as “that guy” on “America’s Most Wanted”.
6. Bank robbers. When the CDC lifted its mask mandate, I got into trouble for not wearing a mask. I got into trouble at my bank. The bank told me that I wasn’t allowed to be in their bank unless I wore a mask. Since I was planning to stick the place up, I thank my bank for reminding me to wear a mask.
The list of people who should remain masked is lengthy. Take the Irish, for instance. Ireland had a potato famine in the 1800s. What happened? Lots of fucking Irish showed up in our country. Even my grandmother came over from Ireland.
The Irish may be wonderful, but they’re not from the best parts of Western Europe. Compared to Sweden, the Ireland of the 1800s was a shit-hole. So anyone with Irish blood should wear a mask. That’s especially true if he’s a “child molester” who writes shit on the internet.
ON PERVERSION
“No healthy person, it appears, can fail to make some addition that might be called perverse to the normal sexual aim; and the universality of this finding is in itself enough to show how inappropriate it is to use the word perversion as a term of reproach.”
- Sigmund Freud
Source: The Mistress of Rosedale, by Don Julian Winslow. ( Amazon Kindle. )
Guilt-FREE Reading!
from holy joe
You don’t need to tell me. I know how you feel. You’ve decolonized your bookshelves. You’ve publicly burned every book that’s anti-Black, anti-Woman, Anti-Gay, Anti-Lesbian, Anti-Bisexual, Anti-Transvestite, Anti-Abortion, Anti-Indian, Anti-Irish, Anti-Dog, and Anti-Anti.
But what about books that demean and dehumanize pedophiles? If you get rid of those, you might not have any books at all! What to do?
I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be publishing pro-pedophile books soon. The company name will be Pedophile Educational Treatises ( PET ). Each book by PET can be had at the low price of only $999.99. However, just for you, I’m offering each book for $99.99!
Fill your library shelves with guilt-free reading. You know that when you’re reading PET, all your sins are forgiven! Plus, you and all your relations ( except Uncle Jack, who’s a pervert ) get into Heaven!
ARCANA
This information is for customers of Pedophile Educational Treatises ( PET ). If you’re dead, and not in Heaven, you may apply for a refund by calling 1-800-I FUCKED.
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Copyright 2021 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 79
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 79, version 4.0
Date Written: May 18, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Water, Water, Nowhere
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BO 6
Book Observations presents...
Water, Water, Nowhere
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Plus: More girls!
And: The illusion of “movement”.
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WATER, water, NOWHERE
A journey into the End, and the psyche.
by Andrew Roller
NOTE: This book review references the following novels by J.G. Ballard:
1. “The Drought”.
2. An earlier version of “The Drought”, called “The Burning World”.
3. An earlier novel by Ballard: “The Drowned World”.
In “The Drought”, earth has too little water. In “The Drowned World”, earth has too much water.
The Drought, by J.G. Ballard. A novel. Published as “The Burning World” in 1964. Published, in an expanded edition, as “The Drought” in 1965. Sources: Copyright page for the “Liveright / W.W. Norton” edition. ( Amazon Kindle. ) Also: Google, and Wikipedia.
As always, I strive to avoid “spoilers”. This can result in lines that veer toward the inscrutable. Such nebulosity will vanish if you read the book.
REVIEW: Of water, The Economist magazine once wrote, “There’s no imaginable substitute.” The title of J.G. Ballard’s novel, “The Drought”, is self-explanatory. What if the world ran out of water? Ballard’s novel begins after this disaster has arrived. It details the life of a protagonist, Dr. Charles Ransom. There are several other characters of note, seen through Ransom’s eyes.
The book’s original title, “The Burning World”, should have been retained. That’s because this novel is part narrative, and part enigmatic poetry. I’ve moved house a number of times. Never have I taken my unwanted belongings outdoors and burned them. Yet Ballard refers often to “refuse fires”. These are left behind by people leaving the area where Ransom lives.
Worse, the fires burn unattended in a sere environment. Living in California, I can tell you that fire in a dry landscape doesn’t stay put. It soon sweeps across the earth, burning everything in its path. Yet “The Burning World” never burns in any significant way. A lot of fires arise during the course of this novel. However, they’re always at a distance, poetry as much as reality.
SUBSET: “The Drought” compared to “The Drowned World”.
Ballard wrote his novel, “The Drowned World”, in 1962. That’s an excellent novel. I highly recommend it. On Amazon, reviewers moan that Ballard spends too much time writing descriptions: style over substance. However, with Ballard, the style IS the substance. Ballard isn’t writing a script for a ( pointless ) Marvel movie.
His works are as much a meditation on human existence as plot-driven narratives. Indeed, when Ballard attempts a plot, his novel can crater. I hate the “plot” part of “The Drowned World”. That’s where honkey shows up with his alligators. In that novel, the first half of the book, and its ending, are great. Honkey, and his predations, descend to puerile depths.
“The Drought” isn’t in the same league as “The Drowned World”. My opinion may be colored by my own life experience. In Guam and Hawaii, I existed in environments similar to that in “The Drowned World”. I’ve never lived in a desert. ( San Diego is built on a coastal desert, but the concrete towers surrounding me make that a notional concept. )
An Amazon reviewer complains about the passivity of the protagonist in “The Drowned World”. However, such a personality fits a world saturated by humid heat. It’s said of Guam that residents there get “island fever”. Stay awhile, and you’ll turn native in the heat. “We’ll do it tomorrow” becomes the answer to any desire for action. When tomorrow comes, nothing happens. That’s because another tomorrow, when action will at last occur, beckons. Another tomorrow eternally holds forth its empty promise.
Ransom, of the “The Drought”, is far more passive than than the protagonist of “The Drowned World”. At times, I got angry with Ransom’s passivity. However, Ransom is as much a cipher to Ballard’s described environment as he is a ‘real’ person. Ransom exists in Ballard’s world so that we can be in it. We’re there to meditate, not to change it.
MORE on “The Drought”:
At times, I found “The Drought” to be boring. I struggled on, as Ransom increasingly does. If you make it to “Part Two” ( page 140 ), the novel assumes the comfortable aspects of a post-apocalyptic narrative. We’re done with civilization as we know it. Sci-fi prevails, in a land with an ever-receding, ever-diminishing sea.
Ballard gives a plausible reason for why water is vanishing from the earth. Amazon reviewers, in reference to “The Drowned World”, complained about Ballard’s science in that novel. I say, if you want science, Princeton sells fine science books to lay readers. ( AT: press ( dot ) princeton ( dot ) edu. ) Ballard isn’t a science writer! His topic is people, and how they navigate the setting that he creates. A part of any Ballard “trip” that his characters take is mental. Indeed, his landscapes often appear to be on a psychological sojourn.
The real “trip”, of course, is the author’s. There are similarities between characters in “The Drought” and “The Drowned World”. In these novels, we’re not really exploring characters or a landscape. We’re touring Ballard’s mind.
If you stick with “The Drought” to its end, you’ll be satisfied. The ending is suitably poignant. It’s a dual ending. Within the book’s denouement lies a new beginning.
MORE girls!
I am enjoying nude photos of “Alisa Amore” and “Mila Azul” on the metartnetwork ( dot ) com.
“Alisa Amore” is also known as “Alisa I” or “Jessica Albanka”. You can find all iterations of her, and other “porn” models, at the website indexxx ( dot ) com. It’s an invaluable resource.
One photo gallery of “Alisa Amore” fails to properly download from the Me Tart Network. I dragged the ( downloaded ) zip file of this gallery from my iPad’s “Downloads” folder into another app.
That app is “Documents” by “Readdle”. A free version is at the Apple App Store. I highly recommend “Documents” by “Readdle”.
A sister program, “PDF Expert”, by “Readdle”, isn’t as useful.
If you get both “Documents” and “PDF Expert”, it can be easier to pry photos off the internet. However, the most useful of the two apps is definitely “Documents”.
You can also ( hope to ) “Save to Files” from your Safari browser.
( In your browser:
1. Tap the icon of the box with the arrow that points up.
2. Tap “Options”.
3. Tap “PDF” ( or “Web Archive”).
4. Tap “< Search results”.
5. Tap “Save to Files”. )
“Mila Azul” is totally new to me. Her best asset is her large, plump bosoms. They’re set on a frail, fuck-me-now frame.
Free photos of many “porn” stars are available on the internet. The best place to start is at Google. Type in a search term like “( name of girl ) naked”.
You’ll get search results. Beware: the deeper you go in such results, when ferreting out nude photos, the more likely you are to run into viruses.
Close your browser if you see anything that looks like a virus. Don’t panic. Just close your browser. Do not click on anything in the virus box!
The most likely notice of an ( impending ) virus is a box that tells you to:
1. Call Apple right now or you’ll lose all your photos. ( If shit was on your computer, and people valued it, the box would warn you that you were about to lose all your shit. )
2. Download a “Flash” player.
The “notice” box will always look odd. Even using your computer cursorily, you’ll soon know what an odd box looks like.
If you do get a virus, the next update to Apple’s iOS should rid you of it. I don’t know of any useful virus program for iOS. ( iOS is Apple’s mobile operating system for its iPhone and iPad. )
( Settings > General > Software Update )
I wish I could credit other web browsers than Google. However, a browser like “Duck Duck Go” doesn’t have the flexibility of my ( installed ) Google browser. Hence, I haven’t used it to hunt for nude photos.
“Duck Duck Go” updates its results faster than “Google”. I use it all the time to read ARSE. ( Andrew Roller Stories and Essays. )
( TECH ) THOT FOR THE DAY
by holy joe
“Movement” on a screen is simply pixels changing color.
( “Wolframism” strikes again! )
ARCANA:
1. My reading of Ballard is, so far, limited to “The Drought”, “The Drowned World”, and some of his short stories.
2. It was the 1980s. I was sitting in a mall, eating. I was also reading a paperback book. It was “The Drowned World”, by J.G. Ballard.
A young guy, accompanied by a buddy, walked by me. He glanced at the cover of my book. I guess it looked like what it was, a sci-fi novel.
“Haw! Haw! Haw!” the passerby laughed, of my book. “That’s a real best-seller!” Meaning: it wasn’t.
Let’s examine his statement:
1. In my experience, any novel that’s a best-seller is garbage. ( With the possible exception of novels by writers like Stephen King. ) If Michelle Obama writes a “novel”, it will be a best-seller. That doesn’t mean it will be any good.
2. I once read how a best-selling novelist began his career. I think the guy was a doctor. Quitting medicine, he read 100 best-selling novels. Then, he launched his own successful career as a best-selling novelist.
I tried his method in the 1990s. I’d gotten a novel by James Patterson, by accident, from a book club. It was a big hardback. I tasked myself with reading it. The novel was so awful that I didn’t get far.
That doesn’t mean that I can’t tell you the entire story.
A. There’s a little boy. He’s apparently a woebegone victim of so-called “child sexual abuse”, or whatever “crime” was panicking public morality at that moment.
B. There’s a an older White man who’s rich. He’s obviously the villain.
C. There’s a young woman who ditched her husband. A policewoman ( of course! ) she’s the novel’s hero.
D. The woman saves the little boy and imprisons the White man. I didn’t get far enough in the book to read this, but I divined that it was coming.
E. The little boy, saved by the policewoman, grows up to be a pedophile. He runs a girl-laden religious commune in Waco. To hasten the Biblically predicted “end times”, he blows up the Oklahomo Federal Building. Patterson didn’t write this, but it would make the book worth reading!
3. In other articles ( here on ARSE ), I go through procedures like “Save to Files” in excruciating detail. That’s because, in 2019, I was an utter moron when it came to using my iPhone. I did manage to get myself kicked out of Facebook in a week and a half.
4. “Wolframism”. In 2002 Stephen Wolfram published a book titled, “A New Kind of Science”. His thesis was that complexity ( our universe ) can arise from simplicity. ( A single, undifferentiated particle, that triggered “The Big Bang”. ) ( Not the T.V. show. )
The complaint against Wolfram is that he wrote, and then verbally expounded upon, a topic that everybody already knew about. His book was hardly a “new” kind of science.
I may be suffering the same fate by equating “movement” with pixels changing color. However, like Charles Darwin, I’m withholding my findings regarding quantum gravity. I’m not yet ready to be declared God and get besieged by the world’s virgins, all hoping to bear my offspring. My observations on pixels will have to suffice for now.
I have installed a “take a number” dispenser outside my door, for the virgins.
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Copyright 2021 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
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 BO, Book Observations, issue number 6
Arcana: This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 6, version 6.0
Date Written: May 15, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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BO 6
Book Observations presents...
Water, Water, Nowhere
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Plus: More girls!
And: The illusion of “movement”.
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WATER, water, NOWHERE
A journey into the End, and the psyche.
by Andrew Roller
NOTE: This book review references the following novels by J.G. Ballard:
1. “The Drought”.
2. An earlier version of “The Drought”, called “The Burning World”.
3. An earlier novel by Ballard: “The Drowned World”.
In “The Drought”, earth has too little water. In “The Drowned World”, earth has too much water.
The Drought, by J.G. Ballard. A novel. Published as “The Burning World” in 1964. Published, in an expanded edition, as “The Drought” in 1965. Sources: Copyright page for the “Liveright / W.W. Norton” edition. ( Amazon Kindle. ) Also: Google, and Wikipedia.
As always, I strive to avoid “spoilers”. This can result in lines that veer toward the inscrutable. Such nebulosity will vanish if you read the book.
REVIEW: Of water, The Economist magazine once wrote, “There’s no imaginable substitute.” The title of J.G. Ballard’s novel, “The Drought”, is self-explanatory. What if the world ran out of water? Ballard’s novel begins after this disaster has arrived. It details the life of a protagonist, Dr. Charles Ransom. There are several other characters of note, seen through Ransom’s eyes.
The book’s original title, “The Burning World”, should have been retained. That’s because this novel is part narrative, and part enigmatic poetry. I’ve moved house a number of times. Never have I taken my unwanted belongings outdoors and burned them. Yet Ballard refers often to “refuse fires”. These are left behind by people leaving the area where Ransom lives.
Worse, the fires burn unattended in a sere environment. Living in California, I can tell you that fire in a dry landscape doesn’t stay put. It soon sweeps across the earth, burning everything in its path. Yet “The Burning World” never burns in any significant way. A lot of fires arise during the course of this novel. However, they’re always at a distance, poetry as much as reality.
SUBSET: “The Drought” compared to “The Drowned World”.
Ballard wrote his novel, “The Drowned World”, in 1962. That’s an excellent novel. I highly recommend it. On Amazon, reviewers moan that Ballard spends too much time writing descriptions: style over substance. However, with Ballard, the style IS the substance. Ballard isn’t writing a script for a ( pointless ) Marvel movie.
His works are as much a meditation on human existence as plot-driven narratives. Indeed, when Ballard attempts a plot, his novel can crater. I hate the “plot” part of “The Drowned World”. That’s where honkey shows up with his alligators. In that novel, the first half of the book, and its ending, are great. Honkey, and his predations, descend to puerile depths.
“The Drought” isn’t in the same league as “The Drowned World”. My opinion may be colored by my own life experience. In Guam and Hawaii, I existed in environments similar to that in “The Drowned World”. I’ve never lived in a desert. ( San Diego is built on a coastal desert, but the concrete towers surrounding me make that a notional concept. )
An Amazon reviewer complains about the passivity of the protagonist in “The Drowned World”. However, such a personality fits a world saturated by humid heat. It’s said of Guam that residents there get “island fever”. Stay awhile, and you’ll turn native in the heat. “We’ll do it tomorrow” becomes the answer to any desire for action. When tomorrow comes, nothing happens. That’s because another tomorrow, when action will at last occur, beckons. Another tomorrow eternally holds forth its empty promise.
Ransom, of the “The Drought”, is far more passive than than the protagonist of “The Drowned World”. At times, I got angry with Ransom’s passivity. However, Ransom is as much a cipher to Ballard’s described environment as he is a ‘real’ person. Ransom exists in Ballard’s world so that we can be in it. We’re there to meditate, not to change it.
MORE on “The Drought”:
At times, I found “The Drought” to be boring. I struggled on, as Ransom increasingly does. If you make it to “Part Two” ( page 140 ), the novel assumes the comfortable aspects of a post-apocalyptic narrative. We’re done with civilization as we know it. Sci-fi prevails, in a land with an ever-receding, ever-diminishing sea.
Ballard gives a plausible reason for why water is vanishing from the earth. Amazon reviewers, in reference to “The Drowned World”, complained about Ballard’s science in that novel. I say, if you want science, Princeton sells fine science books to lay readers. ( AT: press ( dot ) princeton ( dot ) edu. ) Ballard isn’t a science writer! His topic is people, and how they navigate the setting that he creates. A part of any Ballard “trip” that his characters take is mental. Indeed, his landscapes often appear to be on a psychological sojourn.
The real “trip”, of course, is the author’s. There are similarities between characters in “The Drought” and “The Drowned World”. In these novels, we’re not really exploring characters or a landscape. We’re touring Ballard’s mind.
If you stick with “The Drought” to its end, you’ll be satisfied. The ending is suitably poignant. It’s a dual ending. Within the book’s denouement lies a new beginning.
MORE girls!
I am enjoying nude photos of “Alisa Amore” and “Mila Azul” on the metartnetwork ( dot ) com.
“Alisa Amore” is also known as “Alisa I” or “Jessica Albanka”. You can find all iterations of her, and other “porn” models, at the website indexxx ( dot ) com. It’s an invaluable resource.
One photo gallery of “Alisa Amore” fails to properly download from the Me Tart Network. I dragged the ( downloaded ) zip file of this gallery from my iPad’s “Downloads” folder into another app.
That app is “Documents” by “Readdle”. A free version is at the Apple App Store. I highly recommend “Documents” by “Readdle”.
A sister program, “PDF Expert”, by “Readdle”, isn’t as useful.
If you get both “Documents” and “PDF Expert”, it can be easier to pry photos off the internet. However, the most useful of the two apps is definitely “Documents”.
You can also ( hope to ) “Save to Files” from your Safari browser.
( In your browser:
1. Tap the icon of the box with the arrow that points up.
2. Tap “Options”.
3. Tap “PDF” ( or “Web Archive”).
4. Tap “< Search results”.
5. Tap “Save to Files”. )
“Mila Azul” is totally new to me. Her best asset is her large, plump bosoms. They’re set on a frail, fuck-me-now frame.
Free photos of many “porn” stars are available on the internet. The best place to start is at Google. Type in a search term like “( name of girl ) naked”.
You’ll get search results. Beware: the deeper you go in such results, when ferreting out nude photos, the more likely you are to run into viruses.
Close your browser if you see anything that looks like a virus. Don’t panic. Just close your browser. Do not click on anything in the virus box!
The most likely notice of an ( impending ) virus is a box that tells you to:
1. Call Apple right now or you’ll lose all your photos. ( If shit was on your computer, and people valued it, the box would warn you that you were about to lose all your shit. )
2. Download a “Flash” player.
The “notice” box will always look odd. Even using your computer cursorily, you’ll soon know what an odd box looks like.
If you do get a virus, the next update to Apple’s iOS should rid you of it. I don’t know of any useful virus program for iOS. ( iOS is Apple’s mobile operating system for its iPhone and iPad. )
( Settings > General > Software Update )
I wish I could credit other web browsers than Google. However, a browser like “Duck Duck Go” doesn’t have the flexibility of my ( installed ) Google browser. Hence, I haven’t used it to hunt for nude photos.
“Duck Duck Go” updates its results faster than “Google”. I use it all the time to read ARSE. ( Andrew Roller Stories and Essays. )
( TECH ) THOT FOR THE DAY
by holy joe
“Movement” on a screen is simply pixels changing color.
( “Wolframism” strikes again! )
ARCANA:
1. My reading of Ballard is, so far, limited to “The Drought”, “The Drowned World”, and some of his short stories.
2. It was the 1980s. I was sitting in a mall, eating. I was also reading a paperback book. It was “The Drowned World”, by J.G. Ballard.
A young guy, accompanied by a buddy, walked by me. He glanced at the cover of my book. I guess it looked like what it was, a sci-fi novel.
“Haw! Haw! Haw!” the passerby laughed, of my book. “That’s a real best-seller!” Meaning: it wasn’t.
Let’s examine his statement:
1. In my experience, any novel that’s a best-seller is garbage. ( With the possible exception of novels by writers like Stephen King. ) If Michelle Obama writes a “novel”, it will be a best-seller. That doesn’t mean it will be any good.
2. I once read how a best-selling novelist began his career. I think the guy was a doctor. Quitting medicine, he read 100 best-selling novels. Then, he launched his own successful career as a best-selling novelist.
I tried his method in the 1990s. I’d gotten a novel by James Patterson, by accident, from a book club. It was a big hardback. I tasked myself with reading it. The novel was so awful that I didn’t get far.
That doesn’t mean that I can’t tell you the entire story.
A. There’s a little boy. He’s apparently a woebegone victim of so-called “child sexual abuse”, or whatever “crime” was panicking public morality at that moment.
B. There’s a an older White man who’s rich. He’s obviously the villain.
C. There’s a young woman who ditched her husband. A policewoman ( of course! ) she’s the novel’s hero.
D. The woman saves the little boy and imprisons the White man. I didn’t get far enough in the book to read this, but I divined that it was coming.
E. The little boy, saved by the policewoman, grows up to be a pedophile. He runs a girl-laden religious commune in Waco. To hasten the Biblically predicted “end times”, he blows up the Oklahomo Federal Building. Patterson didn’t write this, but it would make the book worth reading!
3. In other articles ( here on ARSE ), I go through procedures like “Save to Files” in excruciating detail. That’s because, in 2019, I was an utter moron when it came to using my iPhone. I did manage to get myself kicked out of Facebook in a week and a half.
4. “Wolframism”. In 2002 Stephen Wolfram published a book titled, “A New Kind of Science”. His thesis was that complexity ( our universe ) can arise from simplicity. ( A single, undifferentiated particle, that triggered “The Big Bang”. ) ( Not the T.V. show. )
The complaint against Wolfram is that he wrote, and then verbally expounded upon, a topic that everybody already knew about. His book was hardly a “new” kind of science.
I may be suffering the same fate by equating “movement” with pixels changing color. However, like Charles Darwin, I’m withholding my findings regarding quantum gravity. I’m not yet ready to be declared God and get besieged by the world’s virgins, all hoping to bear my offspring. My observations on pixels will have to suffice for now.
I have installed a “take a number” dispenser outside my door, for the virgins.
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Copyright 2021 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
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 BO, Book Observations, issue number 6
Arcana: This is BO, Book Observations, issue number 6, version 6.0
Date Written: May 15, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Amazon Lies
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ET 78
Editorial Thunder presents...
Amazon Lies
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Plus: Guinea pig kids.
And: Social media strictures.
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Amazon LIES
by Andrew Roller
Recently, amazon ( dot ) com sent me an e-mail. They invited me to join their discount program called “Amazon Move”. You can read about this program at:
http://www (dot ) amazon ( dot ) com/move
The terms of the program are as follows:
“Amazon Move Offer FAQs
How does Amazon Move discount work? The discount is auto-applied at checkout and must be used within 90 days after a profile setup.
Who is eligible for the discount? The Amazon Move discount can only be availed once per Amazon account within 365 days.
What is the value of the discount? The Amazon Move discount can be applied to multiple orders for 10 percent off purchases up to $200 ( $20 max discount ).
What products are eligible for the discount? The discount only applies to products shipped and sold by amazon ( dot ) com.”
I joined “Amazon Move” on April 30 , 2021. I placed an order for several items. One item was sold and shipped by Amazon:
1001 Femjoy Girls: Pure Nude Art. ( A book. )
I got an “Amazon Move” discount of $6.00 for buying this book.
I bought more items.
On May 3, 2021 my order again included two items that were sold and shipped by Amazon. I bought them with items that weren’t sold and shipped by Amazon.
The items that were sold and shipped by Amazon were:
Whirlpool 4396923 Porcelain Broiler Pan and Grid, Black
Airbake Nonstick Pizza Pan, 15.75 in.
Amazon gave me a $2.00 “Amazon Move” discount for the pizza pan.
Amazon failed to give me an “Amazon Move” discount for the broiler pan. ( I didn’t notice this until now. )
On May 12, 2021, I again placed an order. It was for three items. Two were sold and shipped by Amazon. They were:
The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure. ( A book. )
Actually, this book was sold on Amazon some years ago. It was a book written from a conservative perspective. However, when politicans and media figures complained, Amazon caved. They banned the book.
What I actually bought, that was sold and shippped by Amazon, were:
Anolon Advanced Hard Anodized Nonstick Sauce Pan / Saucepan with Straining and Lid, 2 Quart, Indigo Blue.
madesmart Classic Large Silverware Tray - Granite | CLASSSIC COLLECTION | 6-Compartments | Kitchen Drawer Organizer | Soft-Grip Lining and Non-Slip Rubber Feet | BPA-free. ( A plastic silverware tray. )
I examined my order before pressing Amazon’s “Place your order” button. I saw that I wasn’t getting my “Amazon Move” discount.
Scrolling to the bottom of a page at Amazon ( most any page will do ), I clicked on “Contact Us”. A new page opened. It let me start a “chat” with an employee.
Here’s the good news. Someone answered quickly. You can guess what the bad news was. “Ben”, of Amazon, was a moron. ( This is a common attribute of “help” clerks throughout Big Tech. They know nothing, and have even less power to help you. )
I complained to Ben. Guess what his answer was?
“The Amazon Move discount can only be availed once per Amazon account within 365 days.”
Ben was misinterpreting the above sentence, quoted from the “Amazon Move” web page. What the sentence means is that you can only join “Amazon Move”, the program, once a year. In theory, a hobo might “move” every week, and attempt to re-join “Amazon Move”. The quoted sentence prevents that.
My answer to Ben was as follows:
“The Amazon Move discount can be applied to multiple orders.” ( Quoting from the “Amazon Move” web page. )
Ben told me to delete an item from my ( impending ) order that wasn’t sold and shipped by Amazon. That was the end of our conversation.
Ben’s advice was, of course, stupid. I’d told him that I’d previously bought, in a single order, items that were, and were not, shipped and sold by Amazon. I’d gotten the “Amazon Move” dicount on the qualifying items.
( However, as mentioned above, I didn’t get the “Amazon Move” discount on the broiler pan. )
I tried Ben’s strategy. It failed. So, I again sought to “chat” with an Amazon employee.
This time, I didn’t get a moron. I got a sub-moron. Maybe he was an idiot. His advice was so worthless that I failed to screenshot any of it. The idiot kept demanding a link from a product’s web page. ( For instance, from Amazon’s web page that shows the saucepan. ) I kept telling him that there was no link, other than the one reading “amazon ( dot ) com”. Being sane, I finally quit conversing with the idiot.
So far, Amazon has only given me $8.00 out of a possible “Amazon Move” discount of $20.00.
Amazon has cheated me out of my “Amazon Move” discount on three items:
1. The broiler pan.
2. The saucepan.
3. The silverware tray.
It gets worse.
In 2019, I was a satisfied, and brand new, customer of ( regular ) Amazon. One day, I got an offer from Amazon to upgrade ( for free ) to Amazon Business. I filled out PART of the application they sent me. Then, I decided that Amazon Business wasn’t for me. I didn’t complete the application. I didn’t submit it to Amazon.
Nonetheless, Amazon signed me up for Amazon Business. As a member of Amazon Business, I’m prohibited by Amazon from joining ( regular ) Amazon. I can’t even vist the website, unless I sneak in, using a different browser.
At the time this occurred, I complained to several Amazon employees. My complaint went nowhere. All the clerks were powerless morons.
Some months ago, using a different browser, I created a ( regular ) Amazon account. Yesterday, I tried visiting my ( regular ) Amazon account. Amazon told me that my ( legitimate ) password was bad.
I discovered that, to create a ( regular ) Amazon account, I would now need a new e-mail address. I got a new e-mail address. Then Amazon told me that I needed a new phone number. I am one person! What would I do with two phones? Put one to each of my ears, and call myself?
I am unable to create a ( regular ) Amazon account. That means I can never join ( regular ) Amazon Prime, for $119 per year. I can only join Amazon Business Prime, for $179 per year.
Amazon Business Prime is a piece of shit. It’s for people who own a business! I don’t own a business. I rent a room with a toilet, and sleep on a topper. I don’t have a bed.
Amazon Business has no free movies or T.V. shows. None. It has no free music. It has no free books, comic books, or magazines.
Here’s the sort of thing that Amazon Business has:
“Guided Buying. Create policy rules that guide employees to approved products and help prevent procurement violations.”
Wow. I was hoping that “Guided Buying” came with a nametag that read, “Mark Fuckerberg”. Plus, a dildo that I could shove up my butt, as I bossed around the cockroaches in my room. It doesn’t.
Because Amazon forced me into Amazon Business, I can never join ( regular ) Amazon Prime. Or even ( regular ) Amazon.
I can’t buy groceries from Amazon, unless I pay them a membership fee ( for Amazon Business Prime ) of $179.00 per year. This totally pisses me off.
It’s not all bad being an Amazon Business customer. When I sneak onto ( regular ) Amazon, I’m revolted. I see nothing but “woke” culture. Frankly, none of Amazon’s movies or T.V. shows interest me. As for their music, they only have 2 million songs. Spotify has 70 million songs. ( Source: Google. Search term: “how many songs on spotify”. )
Tucker Carlson, of the Fox News Channel, reports the following: Jeffrey Preston Bozo, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Amazon, has bought a gigantic, and very expensive, yacht. There’s one sure way that Bozo can sink his access to his yacht: cheat people.
Guinea Pig KIDS
“[ In California ], schools are a laboratory for ‘woke’ education.”
- Dana Perino. The Five, Fox News Channel, May 6, 2021.
ONE size FITS ALL
“You have to agree to a core set of beliefs, or you can’t be on social media.”
- Raymond Arroyo. The Ingrate Angle, Fox News Channel, May 5, 2021.
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Copyright 2021 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 78
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 78, version 4.0
Date Written: May 12, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 78
Editorial Thunder presents...
Amazon Lies
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Plus: Guinea pig kids.
And: Social media strictures.
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Amazon LIES
by Andrew Roller
Recently, amazon ( dot ) com sent me an e-mail. They invited me to join their discount program called “Amazon Move”. You can read about this program at:
http://www (dot ) amazon ( dot ) com/move
The terms of the program are as follows:
“Amazon Move Offer FAQs
How does Amazon Move discount work? The discount is auto-applied at checkout and must be used within 90 days after a profile setup.
Who is eligible for the discount? The Amazon Move discount can only be availed once per Amazon account within 365 days.
What is the value of the discount? The Amazon Move discount can be applied to multiple orders for 10 percent off purchases up to $200 ( $20 max discount ).
What products are eligible for the discount? The discount only applies to products shipped and sold by amazon ( dot ) com.”
I joined “Amazon Move” on April 30 , 2021. I placed an order for several items. One item was sold and shipped by Amazon:
1001 Femjoy Girls: Pure Nude Art. ( A book. )
I got an “Amazon Move” discount of $6.00 for buying this book.
I bought more items.
On May 3, 2021 my order again included two items that were sold and shipped by Amazon. I bought them with items that weren’t sold and shipped by Amazon.
The items that were sold and shipped by Amazon were:
Whirlpool 4396923 Porcelain Broiler Pan and Grid, Black
Airbake Nonstick Pizza Pan, 15.75 in.
Amazon gave me a $2.00 “Amazon Move” discount for the pizza pan.
Amazon failed to give me an “Amazon Move” discount for the broiler pan. ( I didn’t notice this until now. )
On May 12, 2021, I again placed an order. It was for three items. Two were sold and shipped by Amazon. They were:
The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure. ( A book. )
Actually, this book was sold on Amazon some years ago. It was a book written from a conservative perspective. However, when politicans and media figures complained, Amazon caved. They banned the book.
What I actually bought, that was sold and shippped by Amazon, were:
Anolon Advanced Hard Anodized Nonstick Sauce Pan / Saucepan with Straining and Lid, 2 Quart, Indigo Blue.
madesmart Classic Large Silverware Tray - Granite | CLASSSIC COLLECTION | 6-Compartments | Kitchen Drawer Organizer | Soft-Grip Lining and Non-Slip Rubber Feet | BPA-free. ( A plastic silverware tray. )
I examined my order before pressing Amazon’s “Place your order” button. I saw that I wasn’t getting my “Amazon Move” discount.
Scrolling to the bottom of a page at Amazon ( most any page will do ), I clicked on “Contact Us”. A new page opened. It let me start a “chat” with an employee.
Here’s the good news. Someone answered quickly. You can guess what the bad news was. “Ben”, of Amazon, was a moron. ( This is a common attribute of “help” clerks throughout Big Tech. They know nothing, and have even less power to help you. )
I complained to Ben. Guess what his answer was?
“The Amazon Move discount can only be availed once per Amazon account within 365 days.”
Ben was misinterpreting the above sentence, quoted from the “Amazon Move” web page. What the sentence means is that you can only join “Amazon Move”, the program, once a year. In theory, a hobo might “move” every week, and attempt to re-join “Amazon Move”. The quoted sentence prevents that.
My answer to Ben was as follows:
“The Amazon Move discount can be applied to multiple orders.” ( Quoting from the “Amazon Move” web page. )
Ben told me to delete an item from my ( impending ) order that wasn’t sold and shipped by Amazon. That was the end of our conversation.
Ben’s advice was, of course, stupid. I’d told him that I’d previously bought, in a single order, items that were, and were not, shipped and sold by Amazon. I’d gotten the “Amazon Move” dicount on the qualifying items.
( However, as mentioned above, I didn’t get the “Amazon Move” discount on the broiler pan. )
I tried Ben’s strategy. It failed. So, I again sought to “chat” with an Amazon employee.
This time, I didn’t get a moron. I got a sub-moron. Maybe he was an idiot. His advice was so worthless that I failed to screenshot any of it. The idiot kept demanding a link from a product’s web page. ( For instance, from Amazon’s web page that shows the saucepan. ) I kept telling him that there was no link, other than the one reading “amazon ( dot ) com”. Being sane, I finally quit conversing with the idiot.
So far, Amazon has only given me $8.00 out of a possible “Amazon Move” discount of $20.00.
Amazon has cheated me out of my “Amazon Move” discount on three items:
1. The broiler pan.
2. The saucepan.
3. The silverware tray.
It gets worse.
In 2019, I was a satisfied, and brand new, customer of ( regular ) Amazon. One day, I got an offer from Amazon to upgrade ( for free ) to Amazon Business. I filled out PART of the application they sent me. Then, I decided that Amazon Business wasn’t for me. I didn’t complete the application. I didn’t submit it to Amazon.
Nonetheless, Amazon signed me up for Amazon Business. As a member of Amazon Business, I’m prohibited by Amazon from joining ( regular ) Amazon. I can’t even vist the website, unless I sneak in, using a different browser.
At the time this occurred, I complained to several Amazon employees. My complaint went nowhere. All the clerks were powerless morons.
Some months ago, using a different browser, I created a ( regular ) Amazon account. Yesterday, I tried visiting my ( regular ) Amazon account. Amazon told me that my ( legitimate ) password was bad.
I discovered that, to create a ( regular ) Amazon account, I would now need a new e-mail address. I got a new e-mail address. Then Amazon told me that I needed a new phone number. I am one person! What would I do with two phones? Put one to each of my ears, and call myself?
I am unable to create a ( regular ) Amazon account. That means I can never join ( regular ) Amazon Prime, for $119 per year. I can only join Amazon Business Prime, for $179 per year.
Amazon Business Prime is a piece of shit. It’s for people who own a business! I don’t own a business. I rent a room with a toilet, and sleep on a topper. I don’t have a bed.
Amazon Business has no free movies or T.V. shows. None. It has no free music. It has no free books, comic books, or magazines.
Here’s the sort of thing that Amazon Business has:
“Guided Buying. Create policy rules that guide employees to approved products and help prevent procurement violations.”
Wow. I was hoping that “Guided Buying” came with a nametag that read, “Mark Fuckerberg”. Plus, a dildo that I could shove up my butt, as I bossed around the cockroaches in my room. It doesn’t.
Because Amazon forced me into Amazon Business, I can never join ( regular ) Amazon Prime. Or even ( regular ) Amazon.
I can’t buy groceries from Amazon, unless I pay them a membership fee ( for Amazon Business Prime ) of $179.00 per year. This totally pisses me off.
It’s not all bad being an Amazon Business customer. When I sneak onto ( regular ) Amazon, I’m revolted. I see nothing but “woke” culture. Frankly, none of Amazon’s movies or T.V. shows interest me. As for their music, they only have 2 million songs. Spotify has 70 million songs. ( Source: Google. Search term: “how many songs on spotify”. )
Tucker Carlson, of the Fox News Channel, reports the following: Jeffrey Preston Bozo, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Amazon, has bought a gigantic, and very expensive, yacht. There’s one sure way that Bozo can sink his access to his yacht: cheat people.
Guinea Pig KIDS
“[ In California ], schools are a laboratory for ‘woke’ education.”
- Dana Perino. The Five, Fox News Channel, May 6, 2021.
ONE size FITS ALL
“You have to agree to a core set of beliefs, or you can’t be on social media.”
- Raymond Arroyo. The Ingrate Angle, Fox News Channel, May 5, 2021.
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Copyright 2021 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 78
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 78, version 4.0
Date Written: May 12, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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The Gravy Train
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ET 77
Editorial Thunder presents...
The Gravy Train
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Plus: Sex at age 2.
And: Scott on Big Tech.
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THE gravy TRAIN
by Andrew Roller
His name was Sammy Dung. Since I was hoping he’d hire me, I called him “Mr. Dung”. The man was the top civilian employee in a large office. The office was run by the United States Coast Guard.
It was the last good year in America: 1979. The season was spring, but that hardly mattered, because this was Honolulu, Hawaii. Except in the winter, when you might have to don a light jacket, it’s always warm in Hawaii.
As Mr. Dung spoke to me, he kept looking down. Modesty is an important virtue in Hawaii. ( The bulk of its population is, ancestrally, Japanese. ) I decided to copy Mr. Dung. Whenever it was my turn to speak, I looked down. I got hired.
I was now a civilian employee of the United States Federal Government. This being the government, my job title was lengthy: Student Aid Draftsman Trainee. I worked for minimum wage. That was $2.90. Though I was employed by the federal government for four years, I never got a raise. The minimum wage rose, due to inflation, but I was always paid the minimum wage. When I complained, I was told that, as a Student Aid Draftsman Trainee, I was only entitled to minimum wage. The wage came with the job title.
I worked in Honolulu’s United States Federal Building. At the time, the building was nearly brand new. It’s in Honolulu’s business district. The building has nine floors. The Coast Guard occupies floors eight and nine. I worked on the eighth floor. Our office was called “Civil Engineering”. My desk was some steps from an interior wall. It faced the far side of our large office. There, picture windows gave a view of Aloha tower, Honolulu Harbor, and the Pacific Ocean. ( From my desk, I could mostly just see the sky. )
My desk was an angled draftsman’s table. An adjustable light, attached to my desk, arched over the table. If you’re wondering how much drafting I did at the table, over four years, the answer is, a modest amount. Although I like cartooning, I found drafting to be tedious.
My desk was one of four in the office’s drafting section. All the desks in the drafting section were draftsman’s tables. Three of the employees in this section were civilians. One employee was a coastguardsman with the rank of Seaman. For whatever shit reason, any Seaman who took the draftsman’s job in our section was booted out of the Coast Guard when his four year obligation was up. The requirement of separation from the Coast Guard went with the job. ( Like minimum wage went with my job. )
Our drafting section was bordered on two sides by filing cabinets. These consisted of drawers that were very wide, and very long, but not very deep. Large sheets of paper were stored in these drawers. Each sheet of paper was somewhat thicker than tracing paper. Whenever a drawing was made, it was drawn on these sheets of paper.
For instance, Hawaii’s Coast Guard Admiral had a government home. If you wanted to know where the bathrooms were in his home, or where his living room was, you went to the appropriate drawer. You pulled out the relevant sheet of paper, and looked at it.
Every new Coast Guard Admiral who came to Hawaii had the right to expand his home. The standard method of doing this was as follows:
1. The Admiral would have a porch built onto his home.
2. The next Admiral would have the porch enclosed, and turn it into part of his home.
3. The next Admiral would have a porch built onto his home.
4. The next Admiral would have the porch enclosed, and turn it into part of his home.
Viewing the drawings of the Admiral’s home, one was struck by the ( legal ) waste and abuse of government funds. Why was the initial plush home fine for the first Admiral, but not for the next one? Why did every new Admiral need ( yet more ) space? Were Admirals getting fatter?
Our drafting section was required to waste government funds. Let’s say we were given $200.00 to spend on supplies, over a given period of time. ( A lot of money in the 1970s. )
Let’s say we spent $180.00. Our drafting section then had to give $20.00 back to the government. Worse, when we got funded again, we’d only get $180.00 to spend, not $200.00. That was because, previously, we hadn’t needed $200.00. We’d only spent $180.00. If we kept saving money, we’d soon be getting no money at all! So, we spent our money with a “use it or lose it” philosophy. We always made sure that we spent everything we were given.
At the time I was hired, Jimmy Carter was America’s president. He was an early version of today’s “woke” kooks. To save energy, Carter eliminated our five day work week, as government employees. Instead of working for eight hours a day, Monday through Friday, we worked just four days.
We worked ten hour days, from Monday thru Thursday. If you think you can get federal employees to do actual work for ten hours straight ( with a lunch break ), you’re crazy. We inhabited the building for ten hours. But we quit work at our usual time.
The cleaning ladies came by at their usual hour in the late afternoon. They were startled to see us still “working”. My immediate boss, Harold Yamaha, had a long conversation with the cleaning ladies. This happened every day. I sat at my desk reading J.R.R. Tolkien, and eating pretzels.
My ten hour workday started at 7 a.m. I didn’t live near where I worked. I had to take a long bus ride to Honolulu. When I arrived at work, I turned on the light over my desk. This counted as being “at work”. Then, going downstairs to the cafeteria, on the federal building’s fifth floor, I had a leisurely breakfast - on government time.
Today’s federal buildings are secure as bank vaults. When I began as a federal employee, our building had no security. None. No guards, no cameras. Several years later, guards were added at one entrance, but not at a second entrance. Nobody who looked “normal”, as I did, interacted with the guards. I simply came and went. For all the guards knew, I was Tim McVeigh. But he was in junior high then.
( My opinion on McVeigh is: someone had to do something about the government’s horrific crimes at Waco. )
A room of modest size was near our drafting section. In it was an Ozalid machine. Let’s say that you pulled out a drawing of the Admiral’s home. You wanted a copy of it. Did you take it to a xerox machine? No. The drawing of the Admiral’s home was much bigger than the glass platen on a xerox machine. You passed the drawing through the Ozalid machine. This was called “making a print” of the drawing.
Two people were responsible for making prints. The Student Aid Draftsman Trainee, or the Seaman. As a rule, both people hated making prints. They preferred sitting at their desks, ( ostensibly ) drawing.
I wasn’t like that. I hated sitting at my desk. Occasionally, Harold Yamaha marooned me there. A clock hung on a nearby pillar. This pillar was in front of my desk, some feet away. Stuck at my desk, I glanced at it often: 10:02 a.m. 10:04 a.m. 10:30 a.m.! Lunch was only an hour away! 10:31 a.m. …
I thought lunch would never arrive.
In that era, a problem bedeviled writers and artists. There was almost no way to distribute what you wrote or drew. Even though the Ozalid machine made prints of civil engineering drawings, it fascinated me. I enjoyed leaving my desk and making prints. I prided myself on delivering prints quickly to the engineers in our office who requested them.
If a “set” of prints was needed, I took care to “bind” them with a paper wrapper along the drawings’ left side. I folded a long strip of paper several times and then stapled it onto the drawings. ( This may sound hilarious in the current computer era. However, the manner in which one stapled something mattered in 1979. )
Offices of the federal government had once occupied a privately-owned building in Honolulu. This included our office of “Civil Engineering”. The privately owned building was called the Gold Bond Building. It stood near the federal building. I visited it once, and looked at Playboy magazine in a convenience store there.
When “Civil Engineering” moved to the federal building, they brought their filing cabinets from the Gold Bond Building. What I found in the filing cabinets was a mess. The drawers didn’t just have drawings, like those of the Admiral’s home. They had stacks of old prints. Whenever an engineer asked for a print, it would take me an hour to find the relevant drawing.
I had no authority. I was only to respond to orders from others. If it took me an hour to find a drawing, nobody cared. Except, that is, for the engineer who’d made the request for a print. And me. I hate wasting time.
Disorganization is another way that government funds get wasted. Why does this happen? Government employees, like people everywhere, can be lazy.
But here’s the real reason: Government employees exist to maintain the presence of the federal government. The fact that it takes Andrew Roller an hour to find a drawing is irrelevant. If it took me three days to find the drawing, the government would pay me to take three days.
You can guess what happened. Over a number of months, I reorganized all the filing cabinets. The room that held the Ozalid machine was also a mess. I reorganized that. You may have heard the story of Cortes and Montezuma. They lived in the days of actual “white privilege”.
Cortes was from Spain. He had no business being in Mexico. Montezuma was the ruler of Mexico. Cortes, conquering Mexico, told Montezuma, “Bring me gold”. Cortes made Montezuma fill an entire room with gold. I won’t spoil the ending for you. I’ll just note that Spanish is now the language of Mexico.
On the federal building’s eighth floor, there was a large room. A service elevator opened onto the room. Cleaning out the filing cabinets, and the room that held the Ozalid machine, I filled the elevator room with trash. Not once, not twice, but many times.
I was about 19 years old. Having watched The Monkees on T.V. in the 1960s, I considered myself a modern guy. It was now ( about ) 1980. The Vietnam War had ended long ago, for a teenager. It had ended five years before.
In the room that held the Ozalid machine, I found drawings of American Coast Guard bases in Vietnam. They were engineering drawings of the buildings on the bases. “What the hell are these doing here?” I wondered. I threw them out. If you’re a historian, don’t waste your time filing “Freedom of Information Act” requests for these drawings. They no longer exist. I now regard this as a great tragedy. That’s because I’m now a Vietnam War buff, at an amateur level.
Once I organized the filing cabinets and the room containing the Ozalid machine, I could fill requests for prints in an efficient and speedy manner.
If you run a government office, make sure you send historical documents to someplace like the Library of Congress. Don’t leave them for a teenager to deal with.
A free-standing cabinet was at the back of our drafting section. On top of it were various items; I can’t recall what. Inside the cabinet was a big stack of Playboy magazines.
Our office had about 30 people in it. Proper gender roles were followed. Our handful of secretaries, in our secretarial pool, were all women. Everyone else in the office was a man.
A few steps from our office was a bathroom. There was a men’s bathroom, and a women’s. Both were tiny. ( Unlike Bruce Jenner, I was never actually in the women’s bathroom; I’m speculating on its size. )
Here’s how men in our office went to the bathroom:
1. Go to the cabinet in the drafting section.
2. Take out a Playboy magazine.
3. Go sit in one of the two narrow stalls in the bathroom. ( No handicap stalls existed. )
4. “Read” Playboy.
An engineer named Benny used the bathroom. He was big and fat. Benny stank up the bathroom. Whenever Benny was sitting on a toilet, someone in the bathroom would yell,
“Benny! How about a mercy flush?” Benny would flush the toilet as he sat “reading” Playboy.
I soon discovered a bathroom one floor below. It was on the federal building’s seventh floor. Engineers couldn’t use it. They were real federal employees. However, nobody paid attention if a Student Aid Draftsman Trainee left the eighth floor during working hours.
The bathroom on the seventh floor was huge. I called it the “FAA bathroom”. That’s because the Federal Aviation Administration’s office was next to the bathroom. However, the FAA got transferred elsewhere. No one ever replaced them. I had the seventh floor bathroom all to myself. I used it about once an hour, for four years. I also had the drinking fountains by that bathroom to myself.
( Always squirt a drinking fountain for a few moments before drinking from it. If it’s been cleaned, and no one has used it, you’ll wind up with a mouthful of cleaning fluid. )
I lived at home with my parents. I’d missed Playboy’s best issues. A number of these now sat in the cabinet in the drafting section. Harold Yamaha said that I could take them home and look at them, provided I brought them back. I took them home.
I brought them back. Soon, an uproar ensued in our office, among several men ( especially Benny ). The Playboys were in the cabinet. However, none of them had the centerfold, or its associated pictorial. What had happened?
Harold Yamaha said that he’d let me take the Playboys home. What did I know about the missing centerfolds? I was asked. I admitted that I’d carefully removed every centerfold from every Playboy, and its associated pictorial. To the complaining men I said,
“Why do you care about the centerfold? You’re married.”
Perhaps you feel that I don’t respect women. However, as you can see, I helped the wives of the engineers in “Civil Engineering”. They no longer had to worry about their husbands jerking-off to Playboy in the bathroom. That’s because I considerately removed all the centerfolds from the Playboys.
SEX at AGE 2
Here’s a fact from “Tucker Carlson Tonight”:
‘Gender reassignment surgery is being done in America on 2-year-olds.’
- Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox News Channel. May 7, 2021.
My understanding is that gender reassignment surgery is performed on those who consent to it. So, if a 2-year-old can consent to being sexually mutilated, a 2-year-old can obviously consent to the natural and necessary act of sexual intercourse. America must lower its age of consent to age 2 at once. Also, 2 year olds should be given the right to vote.
T.V. problem SOLVED!
Elsewhere, I wrote that I’m moving. When I do, I’ll lose access to the Fox News Channel. What to do? I may have come up with a solution. It involves going to the website economist ( dot ) com.
Currently, I’m a subscriber to “The Economist” magazine. It’s a weekly magazine like “TIME”. I was going to let my subscription to “The Economist” lapse. In recent years, I haven’t had time to read it. However, I finally understand how to listen to podcasts.
Each week, “The Economist” converts some or all of its magazine into podcasts. I’ll probably renew my subscription to “The Economist” and listen to their podcasts.
When I began reading “The Economist” in 1985, it was a conservative magazine. Now, the “United States” section of “The Economist” is, like too much else in this world, “woke”. My hope is that some residue of the old “Economist” lingers in the magazine’s other sections.
The intellectual level of “The Economist” is considerably above that of Fox News. “TIME” has varied in quality in the past two decades. Currently, it’s another outlet for ( blatant ) left-wing propaganda.
AND IN THE END…
“Americans are fed up with Big Tech ... censoring certain people and not others.”
- United States Senator Rick Scott ( Republican; Florida ). The Fox News Rundown Podcast. May 7, 2021.
ARCANA
1. Names in the article “The Gravy Train” have been altered to a modest extent.
2. When I worked for the Coast Guard, it was under the Department of Transportation. Now, it’s under the Department of Homeland Security.
That’s not an improvement. The Coast Guard has gone from being an agency that helps floundering yachtsmen, who are citizens of a powerful, globe-spanning nation, to being part of a frightened police state. A state that spends as much time persecuting its own citizens as it does protecting itself from other state actors.
3. Although Benny was married, I now consider him, in retrospect, to be bisexual. He gave me a ride home one day. Doing so, he jarred me when he remarked on a boy who was standing by the side of the road. Benny said that the boy looked like he was masturbating.
Another time, early in my “career” at the federal building, Benny showed me a porn magazine. He kept it in his desk. I was crazy for Playboy. Benny didn’t show me Playboy. He showed me a lavishly published color magazine. The entire magazine consisted of close-up photos of men’s penises. That really jarred me. I mean, if I wanted to see a penis, all I had to do was look straight down at myself.
4. Earl Ho was Chinese. He died, abruptly, in 1980. In that era, one could smoke at work. Earl Ho chain-smoked. He was about the only person in our office who smoked.
Guess where Earl’s fellow employees put his desk? Right next to the office where our Coast Guard boss worked. ( A Coast Guard officer. ) I guess the theory was, if Earl’s going to smoke, let him kill the “howlie” from “the mainland” with his second-hand smoke.
Earl liked to wander around the office ( smoking ). He annoyed everyone with irrelevant conversation. One day, I was eating cookies at my desk. Earl Ho bellied up to my desk. Some women came by. ( An unusual event. ) Earl, to impress the women, offered them cookies - mine.
This irked me. I told Earl so. I guess Earl was embarrassed. Every single day after that, he brought a box of cookies to work. He proceeded to annoy everyone in the office by offering them cookies.
Harold Yamaha, of Japanese ancestry, was a Christian. When Earl died, Harold gave me a wide-eyed look. “Do you realize where Earl is now?” he asked. The answer, of course, was “In Hell”. Harold truly believed that Earl was, at that moment, being roasted by Satan in Hell.
5. Every August, I was obliged to attend a ceremony. Young civilian employees of the federal government gathered in a room. ( I knew none of them. ) A coastguardsman entered the room. A mid-level officer, he thanked us for working for the Coast Guard. This was because the young civilian employees had been hired for the summer. The summer was now over. So were the employees’ jobs.
Except mine. I’d been hired to work during my entire time as a college undergraduate. I worked part-time on school days, and full-time during vacation periods, like Christmas and summer. After the ceremony, I went back to work in “Civil Engineering”.
I got hired to work for the Coast Guard as a college sophomore. Under their rules, I was obliged to leave my employment upon graduating from college.
I graduated from college. Then, I went on to get a master’s degree in a year ( in political science ). Doing so, I continued to work for the Coast Guard. You might wonder how I got away with this. Simple: I didn’t tell them I’d graduated from college.
6. I don’t know which federal agencies occupy floors eight and nine of the Honolulu Federal Building today. However, given the view of the harbor from those floors, it may well still be the Coast Guard.
7. According to Google Maps, the Honolulu Federal Building is known as “Prince Kuhio Federal Building”. In my day, nobody called it that. Not me, and not my fellow civilian employees, most of whom were of Japanese ancestry. We called it “the Federal Building”.
I’m from Pennsylvania. I’m proud to say that, though I’ve lived in Guam and elsewhere, I’ve borne “The White Man’s Burden” wherever I’ve gone. I’ve maintained a proper colonialist’s view of the world. Since I now hail from islands in the Pacific, my colonialist view extends to such dreary places as San Diego.
It’s unlikely that I’ll live again in Pennsylvania. Hence, I suffer the fate of the colonialist. I wind up being from nowhere, and belonging nowhere.
Or, as The Chambers Brothers sing,
“I have no home”.
- Song: Time Has Come Today. ( Source: genius ( dot ) com. )
8. Civilian employees called federal employment “the gravy train”. Federal employment is good. In addition to a wage, you get federal ( but not state ) holidays off, with pay. You get “annual leave”, otherwise known as paid vacation leave. You get paid sick leave. There’s also “administrative leave”. I never got it, but real federal employees did.
You get access to a federal credit union. It pays higher rates of interest than a normal bank. My understanding is that it also gives lower-interest loans.
If you get injured anywhere on the federal property that’s your workplace, the government pays all of your medical bills. As long as I was somewhere on the lot that held the federal builiding, I was covered. When I stepped off the sidewalk into the street, I wasn’t.
I once went to a private engineering office in Honolulu. It stank. They had an Ozalid machine. However, the office had failed to properly ventilate the machine, so the whole place was full of Ozalid fumes.
9. When you take a job, save your pay stubs. Pay attention to your wages, sick leave, and other information on these stubs. Early in my “career” at the federal building, I got screwed regarding what I’d earned. When I tried to argue about this, I lost. That’s because I hadn’t saved my pay stubs.
10. Even if you work as a teenager, you’re earning points toward Social Security. You’re also earning points toward Medicare. If you later get sick, you may qualify for money from Social Security, even though you’re young. You may also qualify for Medicare, even though you’re young. ( For instance, if you get kidney disease. )
“If you ever need a job, Andrew, come and see me.” Those were the last words, to me, of the head of the federal employment agency on the eighth floor. ( In Honolulu’s Federal Building. ) The man offered me this in 1983.
I never got such employment. Why? Because of my fucking parents. They were determined to send me in various other directions. They even failed to inform me that I qualified for Social Security payments, and Medicare, when I got kidney disease.
As a result, I’m not a retired federal employee who owns a home in Hawaii. I’ve been unemployed for decades. I can’t afford to live anywhere decent. I’m usually mistaken for a homeless bum. ( Including by intrusive police. )
My motto is: Parents should be banned. My parents only ever had their own interest in mind. At some point, while I was still young, they decided that I wasn’t me. I was a stand-in for the real Andrew Roller, who would, one day, magically appear and replace me. That Andrew Roller would be the child that my parents had wanted.
Here’s some advice from a pedophile: Don’t smoke, and don’t drink. Don’t get tattoos or piercings. Don’t gamble. However, you can own a casino if you wish. Don’t steal. And don’t trust your parents. As Playboy’s Hugh Hefner said,
“Life is too short to be living somebody else’s dream.”
Source: ( fucking ) Google.
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Copyright 2021 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 77
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 77, version 10.0
Date Written: May 8, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 77
Editorial Thunder presents...
The Gravy Train
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Plus: Sex at age 2.
And: Scott on Big Tech.
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THE gravy TRAIN
by Andrew Roller
His name was Sammy Dung. Since I was hoping he’d hire me, I called him “Mr. Dung”. The man was the top civilian employee in a large office. The office was run by the United States Coast Guard.
It was the last good year in America: 1979. The season was spring, but that hardly mattered, because this was Honolulu, Hawaii. Except in the winter, when you might have to don a light jacket, it’s always warm in Hawaii.
As Mr. Dung spoke to me, he kept looking down. Modesty is an important virtue in Hawaii. ( The bulk of its population is, ancestrally, Japanese. ) I decided to copy Mr. Dung. Whenever it was my turn to speak, I looked down. I got hired.
I was now a civilian employee of the United States Federal Government. This being the government, my job title was lengthy: Student Aid Draftsman Trainee. I worked for minimum wage. That was $2.90. Though I was employed by the federal government for four years, I never got a raise. The minimum wage rose, due to inflation, but I was always paid the minimum wage. When I complained, I was told that, as a Student Aid Draftsman Trainee, I was only entitled to minimum wage. The wage came with the job title.
I worked in Honolulu’s United States Federal Building. At the time, the building was nearly brand new. It’s in Honolulu’s business district. The building has nine floors. The Coast Guard occupies floors eight and nine. I worked on the eighth floor. Our office was called “Civil Engineering”. My desk was some steps from an interior wall. It faced the far side of our large office. There, picture windows gave a view of Aloha tower, Honolulu Harbor, and the Pacific Ocean. ( From my desk, I could mostly just see the sky. )
My desk was an angled draftsman’s table. An adjustable light, attached to my desk, arched over the table. If you’re wondering how much drafting I did at the table, over four years, the answer is, a modest amount. Although I like cartooning, I found drafting to be tedious.
My desk was one of four in the office’s drafting section. All the desks in the drafting section were draftsman’s tables. Three of the employees in this section were civilians. One employee was a coastguardsman with the rank of Seaman. For whatever shit reason, any Seaman who took the draftsman’s job in our section was booted out of the Coast Guard when his four year obligation was up. The requirement of separation from the Coast Guard went with the job. ( Like minimum wage went with my job. )
Our drafting section was bordered on two sides by filing cabinets. These consisted of drawers that were very wide, and very long, but not very deep. Large sheets of paper were stored in these drawers. Each sheet of paper was somewhat thicker than tracing paper. Whenever a drawing was made, it was drawn on these sheets of paper.
For instance, Hawaii’s Coast Guard Admiral had a government home. If you wanted to know where the bathrooms were in his home, or where his living room was, you went to the appropriate drawer. You pulled out the relevant sheet of paper, and looked at it.
Every new Coast Guard Admiral who came to Hawaii had the right to expand his home. The standard method of doing this was as follows:
1. The Admiral would have a porch built onto his home.
2. The next Admiral would have the porch enclosed, and turn it into part of his home.
3. The next Admiral would have a porch built onto his home.
4. The next Admiral would have the porch enclosed, and turn it into part of his home.
Viewing the drawings of the Admiral’s home, one was struck by the ( legal ) waste and abuse of government funds. Why was the initial plush home fine for the first Admiral, but not for the next one? Why did every new Admiral need ( yet more ) space? Were Admirals getting fatter?
Our drafting section was required to waste government funds. Let’s say we were given $200.00 to spend on supplies, over a given period of time. ( A lot of money in the 1970s. )
Let’s say we spent $180.00. Our drafting section then had to give $20.00 back to the government. Worse, when we got funded again, we’d only get $180.00 to spend, not $200.00. That was because, previously, we hadn’t needed $200.00. We’d only spent $180.00. If we kept saving money, we’d soon be getting no money at all! So, we spent our money with a “use it or lose it” philosophy. We always made sure that we spent everything we were given.
At the time I was hired, Jimmy Carter was America’s president. He was an early version of today’s “woke” kooks. To save energy, Carter eliminated our five day work week, as government employees. Instead of working for eight hours a day, Monday through Friday, we worked just four days.
We worked ten hour days, from Monday thru Thursday. If you think you can get federal employees to do actual work for ten hours straight ( with a lunch break ), you’re crazy. We inhabited the building for ten hours. But we quit work at our usual time.
The cleaning ladies came by at their usual hour in the late afternoon. They were startled to see us still “working”. My immediate boss, Harold Yamaha, had a long conversation with the cleaning ladies. This happened every day. I sat at my desk reading J.R.R. Tolkien, and eating pretzels.
My ten hour workday started at 7 a.m. I didn’t live near where I worked. I had to take a long bus ride to Honolulu. When I arrived at work, I turned on the light over my desk. This counted as being “at work”. Then, going downstairs to the cafeteria, on the federal building’s fifth floor, I had a leisurely breakfast - on government time.
Today’s federal buildings are secure as bank vaults. When I began as a federal employee, our building had no security. None. No guards, no cameras. Several years later, guards were added at one entrance, but not at a second entrance. Nobody who looked “normal”, as I did, interacted with the guards. I simply came and went. For all the guards knew, I was Tim McVeigh. But he was in junior high then.
( My opinion on McVeigh is: someone had to do something about the government’s horrific crimes at Waco. )
A room of modest size was near our drafting section. In it was an Ozalid machine. Let’s say that you pulled out a drawing of the Admiral’s home. You wanted a copy of it. Did you take it to a xerox machine? No. The drawing of the Admiral’s home was much bigger than the glass platen on a xerox machine. You passed the drawing through the Ozalid machine. This was called “making a print” of the drawing.
Two people were responsible for making prints. The Student Aid Draftsman Trainee, or the Seaman. As a rule, both people hated making prints. They preferred sitting at their desks, ( ostensibly ) drawing.
I wasn’t like that. I hated sitting at my desk. Occasionally, Harold Yamaha marooned me there. A clock hung on a nearby pillar. This pillar was in front of my desk, some feet away. Stuck at my desk, I glanced at it often: 10:02 a.m. 10:04 a.m. 10:30 a.m.! Lunch was only an hour away! 10:31 a.m. …
I thought lunch would never arrive.
In that era, a problem bedeviled writers and artists. There was almost no way to distribute what you wrote or drew. Even though the Ozalid machine made prints of civil engineering drawings, it fascinated me. I enjoyed leaving my desk and making prints. I prided myself on delivering prints quickly to the engineers in our office who requested them.
If a “set” of prints was needed, I took care to “bind” them with a paper wrapper along the drawings’ left side. I folded a long strip of paper several times and then stapled it onto the drawings. ( This may sound hilarious in the current computer era. However, the manner in which one stapled something mattered in 1979. )
Offices of the federal government had once occupied a privately-owned building in Honolulu. This included our office of “Civil Engineering”. The privately owned building was called the Gold Bond Building. It stood near the federal building. I visited it once, and looked at Playboy magazine in a convenience store there.
When “Civil Engineering” moved to the federal building, they brought their filing cabinets from the Gold Bond Building. What I found in the filing cabinets was a mess. The drawers didn’t just have drawings, like those of the Admiral’s home. They had stacks of old prints. Whenever an engineer asked for a print, it would take me an hour to find the relevant drawing.
I had no authority. I was only to respond to orders from others. If it took me an hour to find a drawing, nobody cared. Except, that is, for the engineer who’d made the request for a print. And me. I hate wasting time.
Disorganization is another way that government funds get wasted. Why does this happen? Government employees, like people everywhere, can be lazy.
But here’s the real reason: Government employees exist to maintain the presence of the federal government. The fact that it takes Andrew Roller an hour to find a drawing is irrelevant. If it took me three days to find the drawing, the government would pay me to take three days.
You can guess what happened. Over a number of months, I reorganized all the filing cabinets. The room that held the Ozalid machine was also a mess. I reorganized that. You may have heard the story of Cortes and Montezuma. They lived in the days of actual “white privilege”.
Cortes was from Spain. He had no business being in Mexico. Montezuma was the ruler of Mexico. Cortes, conquering Mexico, told Montezuma, “Bring me gold”. Cortes made Montezuma fill an entire room with gold. I won’t spoil the ending for you. I’ll just note that Spanish is now the language of Mexico.
On the federal building’s eighth floor, there was a large room. A service elevator opened onto the room. Cleaning out the filing cabinets, and the room that held the Ozalid machine, I filled the elevator room with trash. Not once, not twice, but many times.
I was about 19 years old. Having watched The Monkees on T.V. in the 1960s, I considered myself a modern guy. It was now ( about ) 1980. The Vietnam War had ended long ago, for a teenager. It had ended five years before.
In the room that held the Ozalid machine, I found drawings of American Coast Guard bases in Vietnam. They were engineering drawings of the buildings on the bases. “What the hell are these doing here?” I wondered. I threw them out. If you’re a historian, don’t waste your time filing “Freedom of Information Act” requests for these drawings. They no longer exist. I now regard this as a great tragedy. That’s because I’m now a Vietnam War buff, at an amateur level.
Once I organized the filing cabinets and the room containing the Ozalid machine, I could fill requests for prints in an efficient and speedy manner.
If you run a government office, make sure you send historical documents to someplace like the Library of Congress. Don’t leave them for a teenager to deal with.
A free-standing cabinet was at the back of our drafting section. On top of it were various items; I can’t recall what. Inside the cabinet was a big stack of Playboy magazines.
Our office had about 30 people in it. Proper gender roles were followed. Our handful of secretaries, in our secretarial pool, were all women. Everyone else in the office was a man.
A few steps from our office was a bathroom. There was a men’s bathroom, and a women’s. Both were tiny. ( Unlike Bruce Jenner, I was never actually in the women’s bathroom; I’m speculating on its size. )
Here’s how men in our office went to the bathroom:
1. Go to the cabinet in the drafting section.
2. Take out a Playboy magazine.
3. Go sit in one of the two narrow stalls in the bathroom. ( No handicap stalls existed. )
4. “Read” Playboy.
An engineer named Benny used the bathroom. He was big and fat. Benny stank up the bathroom. Whenever Benny was sitting on a toilet, someone in the bathroom would yell,
“Benny! How about a mercy flush?” Benny would flush the toilet as he sat “reading” Playboy.
I soon discovered a bathroom one floor below. It was on the federal building’s seventh floor. Engineers couldn’t use it. They were real federal employees. However, nobody paid attention if a Student Aid Draftsman Trainee left the eighth floor during working hours.
The bathroom on the seventh floor was huge. I called it the “FAA bathroom”. That’s because the Federal Aviation Administration’s office was next to the bathroom. However, the FAA got transferred elsewhere. No one ever replaced them. I had the seventh floor bathroom all to myself. I used it about once an hour, for four years. I also had the drinking fountains by that bathroom to myself.
( Always squirt a drinking fountain for a few moments before drinking from it. If it’s been cleaned, and no one has used it, you’ll wind up with a mouthful of cleaning fluid. )
I lived at home with my parents. I’d missed Playboy’s best issues. A number of these now sat in the cabinet in the drafting section. Harold Yamaha said that I could take them home and look at them, provided I brought them back. I took them home.
I brought them back. Soon, an uproar ensued in our office, among several men ( especially Benny ). The Playboys were in the cabinet. However, none of them had the centerfold, or its associated pictorial. What had happened?
Harold Yamaha said that he’d let me take the Playboys home. What did I know about the missing centerfolds? I was asked. I admitted that I’d carefully removed every centerfold from every Playboy, and its associated pictorial. To the complaining men I said,
“Why do you care about the centerfold? You’re married.”
Perhaps you feel that I don’t respect women. However, as you can see, I helped the wives of the engineers in “Civil Engineering”. They no longer had to worry about their husbands jerking-off to Playboy in the bathroom. That’s because I considerately removed all the centerfolds from the Playboys.
SEX at AGE 2
Here’s a fact from “Tucker Carlson Tonight”:
‘Gender reassignment surgery is being done in America on 2-year-olds.’
- Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox News Channel. May 7, 2021.
My understanding is that gender reassignment surgery is performed on those who consent to it. So, if a 2-year-old can consent to being sexually mutilated, a 2-year-old can obviously consent to the natural and necessary act of sexual intercourse. America must lower its age of consent to age 2 at once. Also, 2 year olds should be given the right to vote.
T.V. problem SOLVED!
Elsewhere, I wrote that I’m moving. When I do, I’ll lose access to the Fox News Channel. What to do? I may have come up with a solution. It involves going to the website economist ( dot ) com.
Currently, I’m a subscriber to “The Economist” magazine. It’s a weekly magazine like “TIME”. I was going to let my subscription to “The Economist” lapse. In recent years, I haven’t had time to read it. However, I finally understand how to listen to podcasts.
Each week, “The Economist” converts some or all of its magazine into podcasts. I’ll probably renew my subscription to “The Economist” and listen to their podcasts.
When I began reading “The Economist” in 1985, it was a conservative magazine. Now, the “United States” section of “The Economist” is, like too much else in this world, “woke”. My hope is that some residue of the old “Economist” lingers in the magazine’s other sections.
The intellectual level of “The Economist” is considerably above that of Fox News. “TIME” has varied in quality in the past two decades. Currently, it’s another outlet for ( blatant ) left-wing propaganda.
AND IN THE END…
“Americans are fed up with Big Tech ... censoring certain people and not others.”
- United States Senator Rick Scott ( Republican; Florida ). The Fox News Rundown Podcast. May 7, 2021.
ARCANA
1. Names in the article “The Gravy Train” have been altered to a modest extent.
2. When I worked for the Coast Guard, it was under the Department of Transportation. Now, it’s under the Department of Homeland Security.
That’s not an improvement. The Coast Guard has gone from being an agency that helps floundering yachtsmen, who are citizens of a powerful, globe-spanning nation, to being part of a frightened police state. A state that spends as much time persecuting its own citizens as it does protecting itself from other state actors.
3. Although Benny was married, I now consider him, in retrospect, to be bisexual. He gave me a ride home one day. Doing so, he jarred me when he remarked on a boy who was standing by the side of the road. Benny said that the boy looked like he was masturbating.
Another time, early in my “career” at the federal building, Benny showed me a porn magazine. He kept it in his desk. I was crazy for Playboy. Benny didn’t show me Playboy. He showed me a lavishly published color magazine. The entire magazine consisted of close-up photos of men’s penises. That really jarred me. I mean, if I wanted to see a penis, all I had to do was look straight down at myself.
4. Earl Ho was Chinese. He died, abruptly, in 1980. In that era, one could smoke at work. Earl Ho chain-smoked. He was about the only person in our office who smoked.
Guess where Earl’s fellow employees put his desk? Right next to the office where our Coast Guard boss worked. ( A Coast Guard officer. ) I guess the theory was, if Earl’s going to smoke, let him kill the “howlie” from “the mainland” with his second-hand smoke.
Earl liked to wander around the office ( smoking ). He annoyed everyone with irrelevant conversation. One day, I was eating cookies at my desk. Earl Ho bellied up to my desk. Some women came by. ( An unusual event. ) Earl, to impress the women, offered them cookies - mine.
This irked me. I told Earl so. I guess Earl was embarrassed. Every single day after that, he brought a box of cookies to work. He proceeded to annoy everyone in the office by offering them cookies.
Harold Yamaha, of Japanese ancestry, was a Christian. When Earl died, Harold gave me a wide-eyed look. “Do you realize where Earl is now?” he asked. The answer, of course, was “In Hell”. Harold truly believed that Earl was, at that moment, being roasted by Satan in Hell.
5. Every August, I was obliged to attend a ceremony. Young civilian employees of the federal government gathered in a room. ( I knew none of them. ) A coastguardsman entered the room. A mid-level officer, he thanked us for working for the Coast Guard. This was because the young civilian employees had been hired for the summer. The summer was now over. So were the employees’ jobs.
Except mine. I’d been hired to work during my entire time as a college undergraduate. I worked part-time on school days, and full-time during vacation periods, like Christmas and summer. After the ceremony, I went back to work in “Civil Engineering”.
I got hired to work for the Coast Guard as a college sophomore. Under their rules, I was obliged to leave my employment upon graduating from college.
I graduated from college. Then, I went on to get a master’s degree in a year ( in political science ). Doing so, I continued to work for the Coast Guard. You might wonder how I got away with this. Simple: I didn’t tell them I’d graduated from college.
6. I don’t know which federal agencies occupy floors eight and nine of the Honolulu Federal Building today. However, given the view of the harbor from those floors, it may well still be the Coast Guard.
7. According to Google Maps, the Honolulu Federal Building is known as “Prince Kuhio Federal Building”. In my day, nobody called it that. Not me, and not my fellow civilian employees, most of whom were of Japanese ancestry. We called it “the Federal Building”.
I’m from Pennsylvania. I’m proud to say that, though I’ve lived in Guam and elsewhere, I’ve borne “The White Man’s Burden” wherever I’ve gone. I’ve maintained a proper colonialist’s view of the world. Since I now hail from islands in the Pacific, my colonialist view extends to such dreary places as San Diego.
It’s unlikely that I’ll live again in Pennsylvania. Hence, I suffer the fate of the colonialist. I wind up being from nowhere, and belonging nowhere.
Or, as The Chambers Brothers sing,
“I have no home”.
- Song: Time Has Come Today. ( Source: genius ( dot ) com. )
8. Civilian employees called federal employment “the gravy train”. Federal employment is good. In addition to a wage, you get federal ( but not state ) holidays off, with pay. You get “annual leave”, otherwise known as paid vacation leave. You get paid sick leave. There’s also “administrative leave”. I never got it, but real federal employees did.
You get access to a federal credit union. It pays higher rates of interest than a normal bank. My understanding is that it also gives lower-interest loans.
If you get injured anywhere on the federal property that’s your workplace, the government pays all of your medical bills. As long as I was somewhere on the lot that held the federal builiding, I was covered. When I stepped off the sidewalk into the street, I wasn’t.
I once went to a private engineering office in Honolulu. It stank. They had an Ozalid machine. However, the office had failed to properly ventilate the machine, so the whole place was full of Ozalid fumes.
9. When you take a job, save your pay stubs. Pay attention to your wages, sick leave, and other information on these stubs. Early in my “career” at the federal building, I got screwed regarding what I’d earned. When I tried to argue about this, I lost. That’s because I hadn’t saved my pay stubs.
10. Even if you work as a teenager, you’re earning points toward Social Security. You’re also earning points toward Medicare. If you later get sick, you may qualify for money from Social Security, even though you’re young. You may also qualify for Medicare, even though you’re young. ( For instance, if you get kidney disease. )
“If you ever need a job, Andrew, come and see me.” Those were the last words, to me, of the head of the federal employment agency on the eighth floor. ( In Honolulu’s Federal Building. ) The man offered me this in 1983.
I never got such employment. Why? Because of my fucking parents. They were determined to send me in various other directions. They even failed to inform me that I qualified for Social Security payments, and Medicare, when I got kidney disease.
As a result, I’m not a retired federal employee who owns a home in Hawaii. I’ve been unemployed for decades. I can’t afford to live anywhere decent. I’m usually mistaken for a homeless bum. ( Including by intrusive police. )
My motto is: Parents should be banned. My parents only ever had their own interest in mind. At some point, while I was still young, they decided that I wasn’t me. I was a stand-in for the real Andrew Roller, who would, one day, magically appear and replace me. That Andrew Roller would be the child that my parents had wanted.
Here’s some advice from a pedophile: Don’t smoke, and don’t drink. Don’t get tattoos or piercings. Don’t gamble. However, you can own a casino if you wish. Don’t steal. And don’t trust your parents. As Playboy’s Hugh Hefner said,
“Life is too short to be living somebody else’s dream.”
Source: ( fucking ) Google.
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Copyright 2021 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 77
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 77, version 10.0
Date Written: May 8, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Free Tucker!
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ET 76
Editorial Thunder presents...
Free Tucker!
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Plus: A cannibal’s opinion.
And: Young Brigitte.
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FREE TUCKER!
by Andrew Roller
I’m moving. Where I live now, I have free cable T.V. in my room. The television set in my room, which belongs to the building, is also free.
In the building where I’ll be a new tenant, there isn’t a television set in my room. If I want cable T.V. in my room, I’ll have to buy it.
In San Diego, our local cable provider is Cox. T.V. service from Cox is very expensive. I investigated buying T.V. service from AT&T, but got nowhere. I’ve never liked AT&T’s channel lineup, compared to that on Cox.
I looked at various live T.V. streaming services on the internet. It became obvious to me that there will soon be just two providers in this market. They’ll be:
1. You Tube. Google, which owns You Tube, can lavish as much money as it likes on gaining a monopoly position in T.V. streaming.
2. Disney ( soon to be the majority owner of Hulu ). Disney doesn’t have as much money as Google, but it has a formidable library of content. Google lacks Disney’s creativity.
I investigated streaming live T.V. via Disney+ ( using the Hulu app, as Disney+ requires ). When I added up all the ( pedestrian ) features I’d need, the bill was $100.00 per month. That’s too expensive for me.
YouTube TV is, apparently, less expensive than Disney+. However, You Tube has been brutal toward its customers on ( ordinary ) You Tube. Girls who are 12 years old or younger have been frequently targeted by You Tube’s capriciously abusive staff. I won’t stand for that. I’m not going to let You Tube destroy videos by, say, Dana Taranova, and then sell me You Tube T.V. That would be like buying rides in Hitlerland, after he finished gassing the Jews.
In my ( current, old ) room, I have many boxes of books. They block my television. As a result, I can’t watch my T.V. I use it as a radio. You might wonder how I use my T.V. remote. A very narrow gap exists between my boxes of books. I aim my T.V. remote at my T.V. through the gap. This lets me adjust my T.V.’s sound, or turn my T.V. off.
I long ago lost the ability to change my T.V.’s channel. That’s because I can barely see my T.V., since my books block it. I can switch what channel my T.V. is on. However, I soon lose track of what channel my T.V. is airing.
I’ve kept my T.V. on one channel for about a decade. That channel is “Fox News Channel”. I use Fox News to wake up, and I listen to it while eating my dinner. I have an uncanny sense of time. I can often nail the top of any hour with little resort to a clock. At the top of any hour, Fox quits showing its endless ads, and broadcasts the most important news stories.
I like the Fox News show called, “Tucker Carlson Tonight”. It stars Tucker Carlson. What attracts me to his show is his nightly sermon. He delivers it at the start of his show. As you might imagine, leaving my ( current, old ) room put me in an existential crisis. How was I going to survive without Fox News? Most of all, how was I going to survive without Tucker?
I realize that Tucker is on the app, “Fox Nation”. However, I have no interest in Tucker’s shows on Fox Nation. Also, Fox Nation has a number of anti-pedophile hatemongers, like Nancy Grace.
( I recall when Grace was on the cable channel “Court TV”. Of her coverage there, T.V. Guide magazine wrote, “The defendant on Court TV is always guilty”. )
Tonight, to my delight, I found out how to watch Tucker’s sermons for free. Here’s how:
1. Using your web browser, go to foxnews ( dot ) com.
2. You arrive at foxnews ( dot ) com.
3. Scroll to the bottom of the page. You will arrive at a broad, horizontal blue stripe.
4. The blue stripe lists a number of categories. These are listed in two horizontal rows. The category at the top left reads, “U.S.” A category in the middle of your screen is titled, “TV”. Under “TV” is written, “Shows”. Tap on “Shows”.
5. You are taken to a new page. Here, a number of Fox News Channel shows are listed. In the middle of your screen is the show, “Tucker ( not Fucker ! ) Carlson Tonight”. ( Though, undoubtedly, Tucker has fucked, since he has four daughters. ) Tap on “Fucker Carlson Tonight.”
6. You are taken to a new page. It’s titled, “Tucker Carlson Tonight”. The video at the top of the page is contained in a large box. The video is an interview from “Tucker Carlson Tonight”. Scroll down.
7. Under the big box at the top of the page are three small boxes. The one in the center is Tucker’s sermon that he gave tonight! Tap on this box.
8. The big box at the top of the page, containing the interview, disappears! It’s replaced by a new big box. This box holds Tucker’s sermon. Tucker’s face is in the box. A “play” arrow is in the middle of Tucker’s face. Tap on the “play” arrow.
9. The first time I did this, an advertisement played. For some reason, the ad had no sound. Tucker’s sermon followed the ad.
Later, I tapped this box again, as I wrote this article. This time, there was no ad. Tucker began to speak!
10. Let’s examine this box, in which Tucker is speaking. Tap the video to stop it. Tap it again to restart it.
I sometimes had trouble getting the video to restart. If necessary, quit your browser and then come back.
I didn’t have to do that. I fixed the problem by “scrubbing” the video. When you’ve stopped the video, look at the white horizontal line near the bottom of the box. A white ball sits on this line. Move the ball back and forth. ( This advances or rewinds the video, or “scrubs” it. ) By moving this ball, I got the video to start playing again. I was even able to slide the ball all the way to the left. This let me restart the video from the beginning.
In the bottom right corner of the box is a pair of arrows. Tap them to make the box, holding Tucker, fill your iPad’s screen. Tap the arrows again to shrink the box to its original size.
11. Look below the big box. Three little boxes are there. You can slide this row of boxes to the left. This will allow more little boxes to appear at the right of your screen. Each box holds a video.
More boxes are still farther down on the page. Recent “Full Episodes” are available. I tapped one of these. It was in a little box. When I tapped the box, a green label appeared on it. The label read, “Loading”. It was still loading when I decided to quit waiting.
On the far right of my screen was a box containing a video. Tucker’s face was prominently displayed in the box. I tapped the box. Guess where it took me? To the Twitter app! I’ve never joined, or been on, Twitter. I’ve heard that Twitter contains lots of child pornography. I thought Tucker was against child pornography. I guess he isn’t, when it comes to selling Tucker!
Personally, I have nothing against so-called “child pornography”. I’m in favor of it. I’ll have to join Tucker on Twitter and begin enjoying child pornography.
The reason I’ve never joined Twitter is because I’ve heard that it’s as censorious as Facebook, Google, and Google’s You Tube.
Back to the page titled, “Tucker Carlson Tonight”. Let’s find out about Fox News podcasts.
1. Scroll to the bottom of the page.
2. Once more, you’ll be at the broad, horizontal blue stripe. The category at the bottom right reads, “Other”. Under “Other” is “Podcasts”. Tap on “Podcasts”.
3. You’re taken to a new page. It’s titled, “Stay in the Know with our Podcasts” ( in all caps ). A number of Podcasts are listed here. Some, like the grody-looking “Derby City Betrayal”, are old. It dates from 2019. I learned this by looking up “Derby City Betrayal” in Apple’s “Podcasts” app. Many podcasts at foxnews ( dot ) com are also in Apple’s “Podcasts” app.
4. Tucker has a podcast here. It’s in the “Premium Podcasts” section, so it costs money. Tucker’s “Premium Podcasts” are audio-only episodes of “Tucker Carlson Tonight”.
I have yet to decide if I want to pay for Tucker’s “Premium Podcast”. I’m scared that something won’t work. Subscribing to paid content on the internet is always a pain. A number of steps are involved, and something usually goes wrong. Even signing up for You Tube, in 2019, was a pain.
That’s why I don’t charge you money to access my content. I’m not Tucker Carlson. I’m Jesus Christ. My intent isn’t to make a profit off you. I want to save your soul from the gravest of sins: disliking “child molesters”.
AND IN THE END...
“Of course child molesters can riot. It will help rectify past injustices against them.”
- An anonymous “PAnon” supporter. Spoken during a Satan worshipping ritual, as he ate human remains and took international phone calls.
ARCANA
1. If you Google, “Who owns Hulu?” the answer is, “Disney”. However, read on. I found this:
“It should be noted that Disney will likely have to finish buying out current co-owner Comcast before such a merger can be done.”
Source: “Will Hulu Merge With Disney+? Here’s What Could Happen”. insidethemagic ( dot ) net.
That is, Hulu would be folded into Disney+. However, “Disney” is a name people associate with “wholesome” content. The name “Hulu” can embrace “mature” content that Disney wouldn’t want “polluting” its brand. It was for this reason that Disney made films under the “Touchstone Pictures” brand.
I didn’t sign up for the T.V. streaming service Disney+, via the live T.V. option on Hulu. The service struck me as complicated. Disney’s young girls are beautiful. However, it’s much more fun to watch young girls on You Tube. ( Before, that is, You Tube ruined its platform with cruel censorship. )
2. If a term, like “Fox News Channel”, is relatively familiar, I’ll put it in quote marks the first time that I type it. After that, I drop the quote marks.
I don’t italicize words in my blog. That’s because I self-published in the Bulletin Board Service ( BBS ) era, and during the early days of the internet. Italicization was impossible then. Even quote marks were troublesome. You can see evidence of that if you visit me at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
( I was only ever a user at asstr ( dot ) org. I have no connection with the current site, except as a reader. )
3. When you arrive at the Fox News Channel podcast page, you’re actually at radio ( dot ) foxnews ( dot ) com.
4. If you’ve attended church, you’ve heard a sermon about “The Good Samaritan”. Old ladies, listening, nod pleasantly at the facts in this tale. Parents approve.
What few know is that, in Christ’s time, Samaritans were despised. A modern version of Christ’s parable would be “the good child molester”. Now you know why Christ was crucified. He wasn’t out to please. He was, for whatever reason, an incendiary figure. Reading Bede, one realizes that Christianity ditched the real Jesus many centuries ago. It did so in favor of power and wealth.
5. “The Venerable Bede” wrote a number of books. His most famous is the “Ecclesiastical History of the English People”. It’s an enjoyable and insightful read. Bede was born in 673 A.D., and died in 735 A.D.. Source: en ( dot ) wikipedia ( dot ) org.
6. Do you have any trouble telling the difference between B.C. and A.D.? I don’t. Now try distinguishing between the Yuppie-invented B.C.E. and C.E.
B.C.E. and C.E. are the Yuppies’ second choice for how to structure time. Their original idea was to divide time between Pre-1950 and Post 1950. That’s because 1950 A.D. is a date at which many Yuppies were born ( give or take a few years ).
B.C. and A.D. are my second choice for how to structure time. I was born in 1960. So, clearly, we should divide time between Pre-1960 and Post 1960. Also, The Flintstones began airing on T.V. in 1960.
ARSE+
Google “Brigitte Bardot”. Yes, I’d heard the name many times, but never seen photos of her. ( In any meaningful way. ) Brigitte is a stunning beauty! Look for her most youthful photos.
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Copyright 2021 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 76
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 76, version 6.0
Date Written: May 6, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 76
Editorial Thunder presents...
Free Tucker!
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Plus: A cannibal’s opinion.
And: Young Brigitte.
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FREE TUCKER!
by Andrew Roller
I’m moving. Where I live now, I have free cable T.V. in my room. The television set in my room, which belongs to the building, is also free.
In the building where I’ll be a new tenant, there isn’t a television set in my room. If I want cable T.V. in my room, I’ll have to buy it.
In San Diego, our local cable provider is Cox. T.V. service from Cox is very expensive. I investigated buying T.V. service from AT&T, but got nowhere. I’ve never liked AT&T’s channel lineup, compared to that on Cox.
I looked at various live T.V. streaming services on the internet. It became obvious to me that there will soon be just two providers in this market. They’ll be:
1. You Tube. Google, which owns You Tube, can lavish as much money as it likes on gaining a monopoly position in T.V. streaming.
2. Disney ( soon to be the majority owner of Hulu ). Disney doesn’t have as much money as Google, but it has a formidable library of content. Google lacks Disney’s creativity.
I investigated streaming live T.V. via Disney+ ( using the Hulu app, as Disney+ requires ). When I added up all the ( pedestrian ) features I’d need, the bill was $100.00 per month. That’s too expensive for me.
YouTube TV is, apparently, less expensive than Disney+. However, You Tube has been brutal toward its customers on ( ordinary ) You Tube. Girls who are 12 years old or younger have been frequently targeted by You Tube’s capriciously abusive staff. I won’t stand for that. I’m not going to let You Tube destroy videos by, say, Dana Taranova, and then sell me You Tube T.V. That would be like buying rides in Hitlerland, after he finished gassing the Jews.
In my ( current, old ) room, I have many boxes of books. They block my television. As a result, I can’t watch my T.V. I use it as a radio. You might wonder how I use my T.V. remote. A very narrow gap exists between my boxes of books. I aim my T.V. remote at my T.V. through the gap. This lets me adjust my T.V.’s sound, or turn my T.V. off.
I long ago lost the ability to change my T.V.’s channel. That’s because I can barely see my T.V., since my books block it. I can switch what channel my T.V. is on. However, I soon lose track of what channel my T.V. is airing.
I’ve kept my T.V. on one channel for about a decade. That channel is “Fox News Channel”. I use Fox News to wake up, and I listen to it while eating my dinner. I have an uncanny sense of time. I can often nail the top of any hour with little resort to a clock. At the top of any hour, Fox quits showing its endless ads, and broadcasts the most important news stories.
I like the Fox News show called, “Tucker Carlson Tonight”. It stars Tucker Carlson. What attracts me to his show is his nightly sermon. He delivers it at the start of his show. As you might imagine, leaving my ( current, old ) room put me in an existential crisis. How was I going to survive without Fox News? Most of all, how was I going to survive without Tucker?
I realize that Tucker is on the app, “Fox Nation”. However, I have no interest in Tucker’s shows on Fox Nation. Also, Fox Nation has a number of anti-pedophile hatemongers, like Nancy Grace.
( I recall when Grace was on the cable channel “Court TV”. Of her coverage there, T.V. Guide magazine wrote, “The defendant on Court TV is always guilty”. )
Tonight, to my delight, I found out how to watch Tucker’s sermons for free. Here’s how:
1. Using your web browser, go to foxnews ( dot ) com.
2. You arrive at foxnews ( dot ) com.
3. Scroll to the bottom of the page. You will arrive at a broad, horizontal blue stripe.
4. The blue stripe lists a number of categories. These are listed in two horizontal rows. The category at the top left reads, “U.S.” A category in the middle of your screen is titled, “TV”. Under “TV” is written, “Shows”. Tap on “Shows”.
5. You are taken to a new page. Here, a number of Fox News Channel shows are listed. In the middle of your screen is the show, “Tucker ( not Fucker ! ) Carlson Tonight”. ( Though, undoubtedly, Tucker has fucked, since he has four daughters. ) Tap on “Fucker Carlson Tonight.”
6. You are taken to a new page. It’s titled, “Tucker Carlson Tonight”. The video at the top of the page is contained in a large box. The video is an interview from “Tucker Carlson Tonight”. Scroll down.
7. Under the big box at the top of the page are three small boxes. The one in the center is Tucker’s sermon that he gave tonight! Tap on this box.
8. The big box at the top of the page, containing the interview, disappears! It’s replaced by a new big box. This box holds Tucker’s sermon. Tucker’s face is in the box. A “play” arrow is in the middle of Tucker’s face. Tap on the “play” arrow.
9. The first time I did this, an advertisement played. For some reason, the ad had no sound. Tucker’s sermon followed the ad.
Later, I tapped this box again, as I wrote this article. This time, there was no ad. Tucker began to speak!
10. Let’s examine this box, in which Tucker is speaking. Tap the video to stop it. Tap it again to restart it.
I sometimes had trouble getting the video to restart. If necessary, quit your browser and then come back.
I didn’t have to do that. I fixed the problem by “scrubbing” the video. When you’ve stopped the video, look at the white horizontal line near the bottom of the box. A white ball sits on this line. Move the ball back and forth. ( This advances or rewinds the video, or “scrubs” it. ) By moving this ball, I got the video to start playing again. I was even able to slide the ball all the way to the left. This let me restart the video from the beginning.
In the bottom right corner of the box is a pair of arrows. Tap them to make the box, holding Tucker, fill your iPad’s screen. Tap the arrows again to shrink the box to its original size.
11. Look below the big box. Three little boxes are there. You can slide this row of boxes to the left. This will allow more little boxes to appear at the right of your screen. Each box holds a video.
More boxes are still farther down on the page. Recent “Full Episodes” are available. I tapped one of these. It was in a little box. When I tapped the box, a green label appeared on it. The label read, “Loading”. It was still loading when I decided to quit waiting.
On the far right of my screen was a box containing a video. Tucker’s face was prominently displayed in the box. I tapped the box. Guess where it took me? To the Twitter app! I’ve never joined, or been on, Twitter. I’ve heard that Twitter contains lots of child pornography. I thought Tucker was against child pornography. I guess he isn’t, when it comes to selling Tucker!
Personally, I have nothing against so-called “child pornography”. I’m in favor of it. I’ll have to join Tucker on Twitter and begin enjoying child pornography.
The reason I’ve never joined Twitter is because I’ve heard that it’s as censorious as Facebook, Google, and Google’s You Tube.
Back to the page titled, “Tucker Carlson Tonight”. Let’s find out about Fox News podcasts.
1. Scroll to the bottom of the page.
2. Once more, you’ll be at the broad, horizontal blue stripe. The category at the bottom right reads, “Other”. Under “Other” is “Podcasts”. Tap on “Podcasts”.
3. You’re taken to a new page. It’s titled, “Stay in the Know with our Podcasts” ( in all caps ). A number of Podcasts are listed here. Some, like the grody-looking “Derby City Betrayal”, are old. It dates from 2019. I learned this by looking up “Derby City Betrayal” in Apple’s “Podcasts” app. Many podcasts at foxnews ( dot ) com are also in Apple’s “Podcasts” app.
4. Tucker has a podcast here. It’s in the “Premium Podcasts” section, so it costs money. Tucker’s “Premium Podcasts” are audio-only episodes of “Tucker Carlson Tonight”.
I have yet to decide if I want to pay for Tucker’s “Premium Podcast”. I’m scared that something won’t work. Subscribing to paid content on the internet is always a pain. A number of steps are involved, and something usually goes wrong. Even signing up for You Tube, in 2019, was a pain.
That’s why I don’t charge you money to access my content. I’m not Tucker Carlson. I’m Jesus Christ. My intent isn’t to make a profit off you. I want to save your soul from the gravest of sins: disliking “child molesters”.
AND IN THE END...
“Of course child molesters can riot. It will help rectify past injustices against them.”
- An anonymous “PAnon” supporter. Spoken during a Satan worshipping ritual, as he ate human remains and took international phone calls.
ARCANA
1. If you Google, “Who owns Hulu?” the answer is, “Disney”. However, read on. I found this:
“It should be noted that Disney will likely have to finish buying out current co-owner Comcast before such a merger can be done.”
Source: “Will Hulu Merge With Disney+? Here’s What Could Happen”. insidethemagic ( dot ) net.
That is, Hulu would be folded into Disney+. However, “Disney” is a name people associate with “wholesome” content. The name “Hulu” can embrace “mature” content that Disney wouldn’t want “polluting” its brand. It was for this reason that Disney made films under the “Touchstone Pictures” brand.
I didn’t sign up for the T.V. streaming service Disney+, via the live T.V. option on Hulu. The service struck me as complicated. Disney’s young girls are beautiful. However, it’s much more fun to watch young girls on You Tube. ( Before, that is, You Tube ruined its platform with cruel censorship. )
2. If a term, like “Fox News Channel”, is relatively familiar, I’ll put it in quote marks the first time that I type it. After that, I drop the quote marks.
I don’t italicize words in my blog. That’s because I self-published in the Bulletin Board Service ( BBS ) era, and during the early days of the internet. Italicization was impossible then. Even quote marks were troublesome. You can see evidence of that if you visit me at https://asstr.org/files/Authors/Roller/
( I was only ever a user at asstr ( dot ) org. I have no connection with the current site, except as a reader. )
3. When you arrive at the Fox News Channel podcast page, you’re actually at radio ( dot ) foxnews ( dot ) com.
4. If you’ve attended church, you’ve heard a sermon about “The Good Samaritan”. Old ladies, listening, nod pleasantly at the facts in this tale. Parents approve.
What few know is that, in Christ’s time, Samaritans were despised. A modern version of Christ’s parable would be “the good child molester”. Now you know why Christ was crucified. He wasn’t out to please. He was, for whatever reason, an incendiary figure. Reading Bede, one realizes that Christianity ditched the real Jesus many centuries ago. It did so in favor of power and wealth.
5. “The Venerable Bede” wrote a number of books. His most famous is the “Ecclesiastical History of the English People”. It’s an enjoyable and insightful read. Bede was born in 673 A.D., and died in 735 A.D.. Source: en ( dot ) wikipedia ( dot ) org.
6. Do you have any trouble telling the difference between B.C. and A.D.? I don’t. Now try distinguishing between the Yuppie-invented B.C.E. and C.E.
B.C.E. and C.E. are the Yuppies’ second choice for how to structure time. Their original idea was to divide time between Pre-1950 and Post 1950. That’s because 1950 A.D. is a date at which many Yuppies were born ( give or take a few years ).
B.C. and A.D. are my second choice for how to structure time. I was born in 1960. So, clearly, we should divide time between Pre-1960 and Post 1960. Also, The Flintstones began airing on T.V. in 1960.
ARSE+
Google “Brigitte Bardot”. Yes, I’d heard the name many times, but never seen photos of her. ( In any meaningful way. ) Brigitte is a stunning beauty! Look for her most youthful photos.
——————————————————————————————————————————
Copyright 2021 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 76
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 76, version 6.0
Date Written: May 6, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Is Tucker Carlson Creepy?
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ET 75
Editorial Thunder presents...
Is Tucker Carlson Creepy?
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Plus: On free speech.
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IS TUCKER CARLSON “creepy”?
by Andrew Roller
Much is made these days, on the Fox News Channel, of the term “projection”.
Here’s an example of this concept:
If I call you a “pedophile”, it’s quite likely that I, myself, am the pedophile. I’m projecting this aspect of myself onto you.
On the May 3, 2021 episode of “Tucker Carlson Tonight”, on the Fox News Channel, Tucker Carlson called former United States President Barack Hussein Obama “a creepy old man”. Carlson called Obama a creepy old man because Obama appeared in an ad promoting the various COVID-19 vaccines. Obama was targeting 16 and 17-year-olds with his message.
Obama oversaw the most corrupt presidency in my lifetime. Obama wasn’t personally corrupt. He wasn’t taking bribes. Obama was corrupt in the way that he, and his cronies, promoted the Democratic Party, and the liberal agenda. Doing this, Obama went far beyond the bounds of what is permissible.
However, Obama is not “a creepy old man”.
Carlson proceeded to classify 16 and 17-year-olds as “little children”. This isn’t the first time he’s labelled teens as “little children”. He called two black teens who murdered an Uber driver, by trying to hijack his car, “little girls”.
In Carlson’s worldview, a 17-year-old male is a “little boy”. Then, at age 18, by some supernatural transformation, this “little boy” is suddenly an adult. He’s able to head off to Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, or wherever, to kill in the name of America’s “national interest”. I’ve never heard Carlson oppose 18-year-olds as soldiers. Carlson merely quibbles with the goals of certain American wars.
Modernly, of course, 18-year-old girls can go off and kill too, as patriotic American soldiers.
Obama is 59-years-old. Carlson is 51-years-old. Their ages are similar. If Obama is, in Carlson’s projection, “a creepy old man”, could the real “creepy old man” be Carlson?
AND IN THE END...
“The undying and essential right of freedom of speech.”
- Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox News Channel, May 3, 2021.
( Carlson does get some things right. )
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Copyright 2021 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 75
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 75, version 2.0
Date Written: May 4, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 75
Editorial Thunder presents...
Is Tucker Carlson Creepy?
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Plus: On free speech.
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IS TUCKER CARLSON “creepy”?
by Andrew Roller
Much is made these days, on the Fox News Channel, of the term “projection”.
Here’s an example of this concept:
If I call you a “pedophile”, it’s quite likely that I, myself, am the pedophile. I’m projecting this aspect of myself onto you.
On the May 3, 2021 episode of “Tucker Carlson Tonight”, on the Fox News Channel, Tucker Carlson called former United States President Barack Hussein Obama “a creepy old man”. Carlson called Obama a creepy old man because Obama appeared in an ad promoting the various COVID-19 vaccines. Obama was targeting 16 and 17-year-olds with his message.
Obama oversaw the most corrupt presidency in my lifetime. Obama wasn’t personally corrupt. He wasn’t taking bribes. Obama was corrupt in the way that he, and his cronies, promoted the Democratic Party, and the liberal agenda. Doing this, Obama went far beyond the bounds of what is permissible.
However, Obama is not “a creepy old man”.
Carlson proceeded to classify 16 and 17-year-olds as “little children”. This isn’t the first time he’s labelled teens as “little children”. He called two black teens who murdered an Uber driver, by trying to hijack his car, “little girls”.
In Carlson’s worldview, a 17-year-old male is a “little boy”. Then, at age 18, by some supernatural transformation, this “little boy” is suddenly an adult. He’s able to head off to Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, or wherever, to kill in the name of America’s “national interest”. I’ve never heard Carlson oppose 18-year-olds as soldiers. Carlson merely quibbles with the goals of certain American wars.
Modernly, of course, 18-year-old girls can go off and kill too, as patriotic American soldiers.
Obama is 59-years-old. Carlson is 51-years-old. Their ages are similar. If Obama is, in Carlson’s projection, “a creepy old man”, could the real “creepy old man” be Carlson?
AND IN THE END...
“The undying and essential right of freedom of speech.”
- Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox News Channel, May 3, 2021.
( Carlson does get some things right. )
——————————————————————————————————————————
Copyright 2021 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 75
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 75, version 2.0
Date Written: May 4, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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Gardens of Kay Jay
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ET 74
Editorial Thunder presents...
Gardens of Kay Jay
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Plus: On Religion.
And: Advice for You Tube.
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GARDENS OF Kay Jay
I find more whip marks on Kay Jay.
by Andrew Roller
I work as a detective. I don’t get paid money, but my “job” does come with benefits:
1. No commute. I can sleuth in bed.
2. No pants.
3. Only one hand required. ( Though my “free” hand keeps itself busy. )
4. I examine, very carefully, female pulchritude. Specifically, the breasts, ass, and other aspects of Kay Jay’s young, lovely, naked body.
I’ve been doing this since discovering the following videos on freeones ( dot ) com:
1. “Young Kay Jay enjoys posing naked in her Bedroom”. Real title: “Wet Dreams”.
2. “Kay Jay gives Upskirt View before getting naked”. Real title: “Dreaming”.
Later, I joined the metartnetwork ( dot ) com. This gave me higher resolution, and somewhat longer, versions of the above videos. At the Me Tart Network, “Kay Jay” is called “Kay J”.
( Above, I listed the FreeOnes title, followed by the Me Tart Network title. )
The dates of production of the above videos are as follows:
“Wet Dreams” was filmed on September 20, 2016.
“Dreaming” was filmed on December 25, 2016. ( Ukraine’s Christmas is on January 7. )
I’ve now found a third video that shows whip marks on Kay J. This video, at the Me Tart Network, was filmed on July 25, 2017. It’s titled, “My Channel”.
All of Kay J’s videos are an expression of innocent sexuality. She isn’t supposed to have whip marks in any of them.
In “Wet Dreams”, Kay J bears many whip marks. These include marks on sensitive places, like her right breast and right ass cheek.
In “Dreaming”, Kay J has less whip marks. They’re on her right breast and right ass cheek.
In “My Channel”, Kay J has fading whip marks on her right ass cheek.
You might wonder if, being repeatedly whipped, Kay J wound up with scars on her body. The answer is yes. In a past article, I wrote of whip marks on her right hip. They’re present in the film “Wet Dreams”. None of these marks, however, cross her right hip bone.
There is a Me Tart Network photo gallery of Kay J called “Rough Touch”. It was created on October 20, 2016. Kay J has a whip scar on her right hip bone. Another whip scar is slightly farther back from it, in the direction of her bottom.
There is a Me Tart Network photo gallery of Kay J called “Cyma”. It was created on January 31, 2017. Kay J has the same whip scar on her right hip bone. As in “Rough Touch”, a whip scar is slightly farther back from it, in the direction of her bottom.
There is a Me Tart Network photo gallery of Kay J called “Heni”. ( Not “Hiney”! ) It was created on July 23, 2018. The same scars are present, but faded.
There is a Me Tart Network video of Kay J called, “Model Test: Episode 4”. It was filmed on June 18, 2017. Two white lines are on Kay J’s right hip. They are some distance below her hip bone. Their location is similar to that of vivid whip marks on Kay J’s right hip in “Wet Dreams”. Perhaps those marks faded to white scars.
In its description of the film “My Channel”, the Me Tart Network describes Kay J as having “silky smooth, pale skin”. This is true. Kay J’s body, at age 20, was flawless. She’s Ukrainian. While Ukrainians enjoy a Western standard of living, they’re not regarded as having much money. Kay J’s modeling seems to have been her sole source of income. Yet she chose to play a dangerous game, submitting to whippings that might disfigure her perfection.
The paradox of Kay J is that, photographically, she’s the epitome of innocence. Even today, having had a baby ( named “Mark” ), she still appears naive and sweet. However, lurking in her is a true “wild child”.
Kay J is a highly erotic model. As a viewer, I’ve found that discovering whip marks on her increases her eroticism. The duality of Kay J’s personality will have me gawking at her for decades to cum.
ON RELIGION
“Religion is an attempt to control the uncontrollable.”
- Written by a guy who counts the whip marks on Kay J.
ADVICE FOR YOU TUBE
“We come to work each day to publish, not to cancel.”
- Jonathan Karp, Chief Executive Officer of Simon and Schuster, to cancel-obsessed members of his staff.
Source: Media Buzz, by Howard Kurtz. Fox News Channel, May 2, 2021.
ARCANA:
1. My headline, “Gardens of Kay Jay”, riffs on the book title, “Gardens of the Night”. This book, which I suspect was written anonymously, is credited to “Felicia Plessey”. The novel is available solely on paper. It’s a valuable erotic text.
A prequel to “Gardens of the Night” is “The Days at Florville, or the Ravishing of Lesley”. It’s by Anonymous. Available as an e-book from Amazon, it’s not worth buying.
If you’re interested in “Gardens of the Night”, enter your search term in Google as follows:
book: gardens of the night.
Make sure you spell each word correctly. Here’s the problem: if you misspell this search term, or enter just “gardens of the night”, you’ll bring up a 2008 Hollywood film titled, “Gardens of the Night”. It stars a character named “Leslie”.
The search term “gardens of the night” will give you page after page regarding the film. If you want a shitload of information demonizing so-called “pedophiles”, indulge. You’ll have to wade through many pages of this to find the book, “Gardens of the Night”, by “Felicia Plessey”. The anti-pedophile film “Gardens of the Night” also spawned a book by the same name.
I haven’t watched the film “Gardens of the Night”. I try to avoid hate speech.
2. The Me Tart Network video, “Model Test: Episode 4” is the only one that stars Kay J. I have no idea if other “Model Test” videos exist. None would star Kay Jay. ( Or they’d be on the Me Tart Network under “Kay J”. )
3. I’m still hoping that Kay J will join my harem. She would be the first member. ( My castle and sultanate are on order from Amazon. ) The whip marks on Kay J in the video “Wet Dreams” are very similar to the whip marks on her in the video “Dreaming”. However, the whip marks on her in the video “My Channel” appear to be different.
It’s possible that the whip marks on Kay J in “Wet Dreams” and “Dreaming” are from the same whipping. However, Kay J does look a bit older in “Dreaming”.
I have tried to excuse Kay J’s whip marks as being, say, panty lines. However, I’ve been forced to conclude that these are, indeed, whip marks. The whip seared and cut into her skin. Her marks are both appalling and lovely.
Part of me is pissed off at Kay J for letting herself be whipped. ( Not to mention: fucked. ) As with the porn star “Sloan aka Ivey aka Lilly Anne”, I’d created a fantasy that Kay J was a total sexual innocent. She was supposed to remain so until I someday met her.
4. Kay J did herself a favor, of sorts, by sneaking whippings into her life. I don’t just look at videos and photos of her. Like an angry parent ( without pants ), I zoom in on every frame in her videos where I suspect that a whip mark might be present. I scrutinize her every photo the same way. My er, hard work continues.
5. To my readers: Thank you for your “likes”! I thought the “like” button on my WordPress site was broken. Actually, it changed so little, and I had so few likes, that I rarely noticed it. Now, I’m suddenly getting likes!
At my end, I remain committed to a clean, ad-free blog of substance, focused on girls. ( Limited by my ability to productively access girls’ web sites. ) I don’t mind WordPress’ ads on my blog. However, I don’t get paid for the ads, or have any control over them. I supply ad-free text.
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Copyright 2021 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 74
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 74, version 5.0
Date Written: May 2, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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This has been a presentation of A R S E news.
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ET 74
Editorial Thunder presents...
Gardens of Kay Jay
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Plus: On Religion.
And: Advice for You Tube.
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GARDENS OF Kay Jay
I find more whip marks on Kay Jay.
by Andrew Roller
I work as a detective. I don’t get paid money, but my “job” does come with benefits:
1. No commute. I can sleuth in bed.
2. No pants.
3. Only one hand required. ( Though my “free” hand keeps itself busy. )
4. I examine, very carefully, female pulchritude. Specifically, the breasts, ass, and other aspects of Kay Jay’s young, lovely, naked body.
I’ve been doing this since discovering the following videos on freeones ( dot ) com:
1. “Young Kay Jay enjoys posing naked in her Bedroom”. Real title: “Wet Dreams”.
2. “Kay Jay gives Upskirt View before getting naked”. Real title: “Dreaming”.
Later, I joined the metartnetwork ( dot ) com. This gave me higher resolution, and somewhat longer, versions of the above videos. At the Me Tart Network, “Kay Jay” is called “Kay J”.
( Above, I listed the FreeOnes title, followed by the Me Tart Network title. )
The dates of production of the above videos are as follows:
“Wet Dreams” was filmed on September 20, 2016.
“Dreaming” was filmed on December 25, 2016. ( Ukraine’s Christmas is on January 7. )
I’ve now found a third video that shows whip marks on Kay J. This video, at the Me Tart Network, was filmed on July 25, 2017. It’s titled, “My Channel”.
All of Kay J’s videos are an expression of innocent sexuality. She isn’t supposed to have whip marks in any of them.
In “Wet Dreams”, Kay J bears many whip marks. These include marks on sensitive places, like her right breast and right ass cheek.
In “Dreaming”, Kay J has less whip marks. They’re on her right breast and right ass cheek.
In “My Channel”, Kay J has fading whip marks on her right ass cheek.
You might wonder if, being repeatedly whipped, Kay J wound up with scars on her body. The answer is yes. In a past article, I wrote of whip marks on her right hip. They’re present in the film “Wet Dreams”. None of these marks, however, cross her right hip bone.
There is a Me Tart Network photo gallery of Kay J called “Rough Touch”. It was created on October 20, 2016. Kay J has a whip scar on her right hip bone. Another whip scar is slightly farther back from it, in the direction of her bottom.
There is a Me Tart Network photo gallery of Kay J called “Cyma”. It was created on January 31, 2017. Kay J has the same whip scar on her right hip bone. As in “Rough Touch”, a whip scar is slightly farther back from it, in the direction of her bottom.
There is a Me Tart Network photo gallery of Kay J called “Heni”. ( Not “Hiney”! ) It was created on July 23, 2018. The same scars are present, but faded.
There is a Me Tart Network video of Kay J called, “Model Test: Episode 4”. It was filmed on June 18, 2017. Two white lines are on Kay J’s right hip. They are some distance below her hip bone. Their location is similar to that of vivid whip marks on Kay J’s right hip in “Wet Dreams”. Perhaps those marks faded to white scars.
In its description of the film “My Channel”, the Me Tart Network describes Kay J as having “silky smooth, pale skin”. This is true. Kay J’s body, at age 20, was flawless. She’s Ukrainian. While Ukrainians enjoy a Western standard of living, they’re not regarded as having much money. Kay J’s modeling seems to have been her sole source of income. Yet she chose to play a dangerous game, submitting to whippings that might disfigure her perfection.
The paradox of Kay J is that, photographically, she’s the epitome of innocence. Even today, having had a baby ( named “Mark” ), she still appears naive and sweet. However, lurking in her is a true “wild child”.
Kay J is a highly erotic model. As a viewer, I’ve found that discovering whip marks on her increases her eroticism. The duality of Kay J’s personality will have me gawking at her for decades to cum.
ON RELIGION
“Religion is an attempt to control the uncontrollable.”
- Written by a guy who counts the whip marks on Kay J.
ADVICE FOR YOU TUBE
“We come to work each day to publish, not to cancel.”
- Jonathan Karp, Chief Executive Officer of Simon and Schuster, to cancel-obsessed members of his staff.
Source: Media Buzz, by Howard Kurtz. Fox News Channel, May 2, 2021.
ARCANA:
1. My headline, “Gardens of Kay Jay”, riffs on the book title, “Gardens of the Night”. This book, which I suspect was written anonymously, is credited to “Felicia Plessey”. The novel is available solely on paper. It’s a valuable erotic text.
A prequel to “Gardens of the Night” is “The Days at Florville, or the Ravishing of Lesley”. It’s by Anonymous. Available as an e-book from Amazon, it’s not worth buying.
If you’re interested in “Gardens of the Night”, enter your search term in Google as follows:
book: gardens of the night.
Make sure you spell each word correctly. Here’s the problem: if you misspell this search term, or enter just “gardens of the night”, you’ll bring up a 2008 Hollywood film titled, “Gardens of the Night”. It stars a character named “Leslie”.
The search term “gardens of the night” will give you page after page regarding the film. If you want a shitload of information demonizing so-called “pedophiles”, indulge. You’ll have to wade through many pages of this to find the book, “Gardens of the Night”, by “Felicia Plessey”. The anti-pedophile film “Gardens of the Night” also spawned a book by the same name.
I haven’t watched the film “Gardens of the Night”. I try to avoid hate speech.
2. The Me Tart Network video, “Model Test: Episode 4” is the only one that stars Kay J. I have no idea if other “Model Test” videos exist. None would star Kay Jay. ( Or they’d be on the Me Tart Network under “Kay J”. )
3. I’m still hoping that Kay J will join my harem. She would be the first member. ( My castle and sultanate are on order from Amazon. ) The whip marks on Kay J in the video “Wet Dreams” are very similar to the whip marks on her in the video “Dreaming”. However, the whip marks on her in the video “My Channel” appear to be different.
It’s possible that the whip marks on Kay J in “Wet Dreams” and “Dreaming” are from the same whipping. However, Kay J does look a bit older in “Dreaming”.
I have tried to excuse Kay J’s whip marks as being, say, panty lines. However, I’ve been forced to conclude that these are, indeed, whip marks. The whip seared and cut into her skin. Her marks are both appalling and lovely.
Part of me is pissed off at Kay J for letting herself be whipped. ( Not to mention: fucked. ) As with the porn star “Sloan aka Ivey aka Lilly Anne”, I’d created a fantasy that Kay J was a total sexual innocent. She was supposed to remain so until I someday met her.
4. Kay J did herself a favor, of sorts, by sneaking whippings into her life. I don’t just look at videos and photos of her. Like an angry parent ( without pants ), I zoom in on every frame in her videos where I suspect that a whip mark might be present. I scrutinize her every photo the same way. My er, hard work continues.
5. To my readers: Thank you for your “likes”! I thought the “like” button on my WordPress site was broken. Actually, it changed so little, and I had so few likes, that I rarely noticed it. Now, I’m suddenly getting likes!
At my end, I remain committed to a clean, ad-free blog of substance, focused on girls. ( Limited by my ability to productively access girls’ web sites. ) I don’t mind WordPress’ ads on my blog. However, I don’t get paid for the ads, or have any control over them. I supply ad-free text.
——————————————————————————————————————————
Copyright 2021 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 74
Arcana: This is ET, Editorial Thunder, issue number 74, version 5.0
Date Written: May 2, 2021. Live for the day that censorious Big Tech is dead.
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