In The Shadow Of Mt Hollywood

A Florida man found a legal loophole to block a Flock surveillance camera using a 12-foot-tall protest sign. 77-year-old Carl Gunn legally blocks a Flock license plate camera in St. Petersburg, Florida, by sitting on a public sidewalk and holding a 12-foot pool skimmer pole with… pic.twitter.com/x3iMcU37RZ — Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) August 19, 2026 If this guy ever finds out about cell phone tracking, he'll need to cover his umbrella with tinfoil. I'm amazed at the level of paranoia about automated license plate readers, especially Flock cameras, since all they do is trace the location of automobiles. Your cell phone can trace where you are, in a car or not, and GPS is only one way it does this. Nevertheless , A Wisconsin woman was pulled over at gunpoint twice in one week after Milwaukee Police Department staff failed to remove a vehicle alert from the Flock license plate camera system. TWICE it happened. Years ago, in the NCIC(National Crime Information Cen...

We last checked in on Kevin Morris more than two years ago, when I posted , But I can't resist posting on one footnote. Kevin Morris, Hunter's "sugar bro", attended at least the first day of Hunter's trial on Monday to support him, although as I posted here, after spending at least $6.5 million to pay Hunter's lawyers and fund his lifestyle, he's said to be out of money. I've been increasingly skeptical of the conventional Morris narrative -- he's a "Hollywood lawyer" who stopped practicing law 15 years ago, and he's a "novelist" who was never able to sell a blockbuster despite his wife being one of the most powerful agents in the industry. In other words, he's basically been just a dilettante living off his wife for more than a decade. And his wife is probably key to the most recent development in the story. In my post two weeks ago, I concluded, "It looks like Mrs Kevin has staged an intervention, and she...

It's mid-August, everyone's on vacation or wishes he was, nothing's new, so we get a Hunter Biden rerun, even in the Wall Street Journal . The piece is over 1000 words, has three bylines, and manages to convey absolutely no new information: Those who have spent time with him say the public is now meeting the Hunter Biden they have known for a long time: a sharp observer of politics and media who has had his own life dragged through the mud. . . . Former Biden White House aides said that Hunter was kept quiet in the White House because he was under federal investigation for much of his father’s time in the presidency. Former aides are now abuzz about what they considered to be a strong showing, and there is some regret they didn’t unleash him earlier, some said. . . . After Hunter Biden’s laptop was found and its contents leaked, his online history was made public, including nude photos of himself doing illicit drugs. The scandal prompted years of investigations and ...

One version of the transatlantic ruling class's response to the Arday scandal is this piece at The Atlantic . The author, Tyler Austin Harper, represents himself as capital-B Black, but looking at photos, it seems he could easily pass for white. Still, let's grant that he's a descendant, however distant, of African slaves -- he's nevertheless of a distinctly different class from Jason Arday, who was a member of an entirely new socially engineered class of UK immigrants from former British colonies created by the postwar Labour government. So about the only thing Harper has in common with Arday is that they share a certain amount of African DNA, but they're from two entirely different classes in two different countries. Nevertheless, Harper sees himself in precisely Arday's situation: I will confess that, until yesterday, I had watched the Arday saga unfold with some combination of amusement and distress. Amusement because of the undeniable comic ab...

As part of restarting my literary career, I just had a story published at Twist & Twain, Don't Worry, te Fix is In .

I suppose it's just as well Simon & Schuster decided not to pulp Arday's memoir, Great and Unfortunate Things , because it raises questions that go beyond just plagiarism or even conventional DEI. Via the Washington Free Beacon, The Free Beacon 's findings include the fact that pivotal dialogue in the memoir's prologue is similar to lines spoken by a Thracian prophetess in the pulpy Starz series Spartacus: Blood and San d, which was known for sex, violence, and bad writing. Just the News first reported last week that the seventh episode of the show, which aired in 2010, shared its title, "Great and Unfortunate Things," with Arday's book. In the show's pilot, Spartacus's wife utters a prophecy to him: "That you are destined for great and unfortunate things, if you go to war." Similarly, per Arday's telling in the uncannily cinematic prologue to his memoir, the midwife at his birth insists to his mother, "This boy is d...

One of the more thoughtful reactions from UK commentators is in the YouTube video embedded above. At 0:53, he says, It should be a reminder that many people who do act in bizarre ways in public normally are quite fragile beneath that, maybe quite unwell. We can forget that sometimes, perhaps, maybe forget that with everyone. But that said, I think the inquest will now begin. And by inquest, I mean the liberals reworking the narrative to suit them. And I daresay it will be something like, you know, innocent black man hounded by vicious anti-white right-wing media. I'm expecting that line from everyome from the BBC to the Guardian to James O'Brien as well as Owen Jones and every academic and wokey from SOAS to Berkeley. Won't be much #bekind and tolerance from them. Anywayh, the central question here is who is responsible for this man's death, cause it's an interesting question of paternity, of course. Now as I said at the top, you know, I'm sure many peop...