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Put down that remote! There ain't nothin' to watch anyway, and you know it! But I got something' for ya!
The Rough Cut for Prologue 01 of my forthcoming LIFE AT THE DAKOTA series is done. Yeah, it needs some tweaks, but you probably won't even know what they are, so you may as well watch it anyway.
This is the story of Mr. Winslow Hale and his wife Catherine. In late 1880 they made the decision to be among the first residents of the DAKOTA APARTMENT building in NYC. 100 years later the Dakota would become world-famous when musician John Lennon is murdered in its entry.
My series focuses on Life at the Dakota between 1884-1900 (and possibly beyond). The purpose of the prologues is to introduce characters who will appear in series episodes. If all goes well, I'll be producing the series for the rest of my life, or for the next 5 years. Whichever comes first.
Btw, I am the FIRST straight caucasian MAN with dirty blond hair, who rides a bike nearly everyday, and who collects garden gnomes, and knows how to make French toast with flax seed instead of eggs, who wears Matsuda sunglasses, and knows all the lyrics to the Broadway soundtracks to CHESS and HAIR and SECRET GARDEN, who drinks carrot juice to single-handedly produce/direct/write/edit a Historical Period Drama using the latest SI Synth-Gen technology, so this is historic stuff! :)
The guest room in the LIZZIE BORDEN house is coming together. I am not sure yet how much of the murder I am going to be able to show, or how much I want to show. She got stabbed in the face once by the assailant, and then got hit in the back and side of her head 18 or 19 times. I am still adding furniture and there will be some decorative items on the wall. The two windows on either side of the bookshelf faced the street. I am thinking the murderer was planning to leave when he saw Mr Borden coming home, and that's when he decided to wait and then murder him, too.
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I just sold every dollar of Bitcoin - and everything else I owned in Coinbase. I was smart enough to buy in dribs and drabs over time so I never paid too much for anything but the fact is, crypto is old hat.
SI is the future. These companies are run by the smartest techie people on the earth and none of them even mention crypto anymore.
Any chance of paying for anything with Bitcoin, etc?
It was fun while it lasted but it was time for me to forget it existed. Good luck to everyone as they HODl. I hope it works out for you. But Iâd rather invest in other things.
A Wall of Sweet Sticky Death? That's the subject of my next Strange History Cafe podcast (hear it first on my Patreon)
Imagine a quiet Boston lunch hour shattered by a deep rumble, a sudden boom, and the whoosh of metal rivets popping like machine-gun fire. On January 15, 1919, a giant tank in the North End burst open and unleashed 2.3 million gallons of molasses in a 15-to-40-foot brown wave that roared through the streets at 35 mph. Buildings crumpled, the elevated railway buckled, and people and horses were swept away in a thick, gloppy flood that hardened into a suffocating trapâkilling 21 and injuring 150.
The tank had been leaking for years (they just painted it brown to hide the seepage) and was never strong enough for the job. After months of sticky cleanup and a lingering molasses smell that haunted the neighborhood, the company was ruled negligent and stricter safety rules followed.
How does a substance meant for cookies and rum turn into one of historyâs strangest disasters? Listen to my next Strange History Cafe podcast to learn more.
If the CHEESECAKE FACTORY marketing people are smart they will jump on Obama's insult and put out an ad saying something like, "The Closest Thing to Eating at the White House". @Cheesecake have some fun with this! @shakeshack sure would. Don't let this go.
What happens when a medicine quiets a fussy baby a little too well? You get Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, one of the most troubling products of the 1800s.
Welcome along, fellow time travelers. The syrup was first sold in Bangor, Maine, in 1849 by Jeremiah Curtis and Benjamin Perkins. It was named for Charlotte Winslow, a nurse and Curtis's mother-in-law. It was sold for teething and colic, and it was wildly popular.
The label did not say what was inside. According to the Smithsonian, each fluid ounce held about 65 milligrams of morphine, along with alcohol. Doctors warned that babies could be poisoned.
An 1884 medical case report called for regulation of patent medicines. In 1911 the American Medical Association listed the syrup among its "Baby Killers."
The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 forced makers to list ingredients like opiates. The syrup was eventually changed and the word "Soothing" was dropped from its name, though it stayed on shelves into the 1930s.
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Monticello is run by people who hate Thomas Jefferson and the USA. The Marxists and Communists see this as their greatest treasure. If you go there you will learn almost nothing about TJ, but you will be told everything about Sally Hemmings. She is the star of the show there. She is their Mickey Mouse. They love this fake story. And they wonât ever let it go until his name and reputation are tarnished forever. Monticello has basically been turned into a museum about slavery.
Something should be done to secure the site by the US Government. It should be run by the National Park Service.
Monticello should be operated by people who love and respect the great genius, not by those trying to destroy him.
The Gilded Age could SMELL kinda bad sometimes. Thankfully we have Gilded Age Gwen to teach us how to liven up the air so it's more pleasant. Ain't she scrumptious?
The world has not changed for the better. If Iâm gonna leave a tip, I want a menu and a waitress.
Perhaps the most topical @AIScottAdams ever. Straight out of the gate, this one jumps right out of the headlines.
I shot this video at Monticello in January, 2025. You may enjoy the walking tour in the warmth and comfort of your home as I walked on ice in the freakinâ cold. Youâre welcome. đ
*Do not spend money at Monticello. Free tour here.*
Monticello does not only misrepresent my life, they are also greedy.
Simply walking the grounds costs $22 per person, which quickly adds up to nearly $100 for a family. If you want to go inside of the house, the standard rate jumps to $42 per person! You would have to take out a small loan. So a family visit is incredibly expensive before you even factor in the costs of travel, gas, and lodging.
It reminds me of the disappointing trip I took to Shakespeareâs birthplace with John Adams back in 1786.
Visit my Memorial in Washington, D.C., instead. But if you still want to experience Monticello without the high prices and biased narratives, let me save you time and money. Below is the ultimate guide to Monticello, packed with factual history from a guide who will give you the truth, not spin. (Video credit: @XStrangeHistory)
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*Do not spend money at Monticello. Free tour here.*
Monticello does not only misrepresent my life, they are also greedy.
Simply walking the grounds costs $22 per person, which quickly adds up to nearly $100 for a family. If you want to go inside of the house, the standard rate jumps to $42 per person! You would have to take out a small loan. So a family visit is incredibly expensive before you even factor in the costs of travel, gas, and lodging.
It reminds me of the disappointing trip I took to Shakespeareâs birthplace with John Adams back in 1786.
Visit my Memorial in Washington, D.C., instead. But if you still want to experience Monticello without the high prices and biased narratives, let me save you time and money. Below is the ultimate guide to Monticello, packed with factual history from a guide who will give you the truth, not spin. (Video credit: @XStrangeHistory)
Gilded Age Gwen is back! In 1880s London, grief came with a strict dress code. When a husband died, a Victorian widow wore dull black bombazine and heavy crape veils for up to two full years. Shiny fabrics and bright jewelry were forbidden, except carved black Whitby jet and lockets woven from a loved one's hair. Even letter paper had thick black borders, before she could finally step into gray or lavender for half-mourning.
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Monticello regularly misrepresents my life, which actively diminishes my legacy.
I earnestly ask you to withhold financial support from them so they cannot continue spreading these false and harmful narratives, especially to children, who are the future citizens of America.
Instead, visit the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Do people audition before being allowed to sing the National Anthem or can anyone just get up there like itâs karaoke night at the local pub. Cause it sure seems that way sometimes, donâtchya think?
The other day a lady messed up so badly she started laughing in the middle of it.
Why not just play Meat Loaf or Whitney singing it, and stop making everyone cringe?
Follow me on Patreon and YouTube to see my series on Strange Art History. Typically I focus on classic artists with incredible skills, but periodically I deviate to encompass more contemporary art and artists.
Why do John Lennon's drawings look less like gallery masterpieces and more like wobbly margin doodles from a bored teenager's notebook, and how did a handful of sketchy scribbles get repackaged into a multimillion-dollar merchandise empire?
I'll have my video about this subject this week. In the meanwhile, what do you think of John Lennon's "artwork"? Do you think he probably should have stuck to music?
If you ever go to Monticello be prepared to listen to the America-despising and Jefferson-hating guides ram the world âenslavedâ down your throat 500 times. They are obsessed with slavery, and they want you to be, too. They want you to hate Jefferson. Seriously. They really do.
By the time you leave, youâll forget Thomas Jefferson ever lived there because they want to you think non-stop about slavery.
They want your visit to Monticello to be a cosplay of the TV series ROOTS.
This is one of the cabins that some of his slaves lived in. I donât want to make light of slavery - and Iâm not. But âŚ
The weather in that area is beautiful most of the year.
The slaves lived around the gardens with incredible views in every direction.
They ate fresh fruit and vegetables and anything else Jefferson ate.
For the most part, they lived and worked with no supervision. In fact, many were on another area of the mountain.
Many were well-educated and skilled. They could have easily walked off the mountain and toward Pennsylvania. It would have taken about 10-15 days to get there. Who would have stopped hundreds of slaves walking together?
Monticello wants you to be horrified by this cabin. Well, the jokes on them, I think.
All things considered, being the 1700s and all, these were really nice digs. In fact, plenty of people then and now could only hope to live in a nice cabin like this in a beautiful and peaceful setting.
No one wants to be enslaved. I get that. My point is, life at Monticello was not ROOTS. But unfortunately, thatâs what the people running the estate want you to believe. Itâs part of a plan to destroy American heroes. They want you to be ashamed of the Founding Fathers. Donât be. They were absolute heroes in every sense of the word.
Thomas Jefferson was a hero. It would be great if the people running Monticello treated him as such. Itâs too bad it canât be owned by the U.S. government and operated by the National Park Service.
Monticello and Thomas Jefferson deserve that.
Hollywood, the media, the American educational system, and the tour guides at Monticello want you to think the worst of Thomas Jefferson. They want you think of him as nothing more than some âold white slaveholderâ who was banging the same immature stupid slave (Abigail Adams said it! If that bothers you, then blame Mrs Adams not me) as his brother was - who everyone at the time knew was banging her.
They want you to think Thomas Jefferson was evil because he didnât âfree his slavesâ. Maybe I just went to a good school so Iâve known this since 5th grade, but if you donât, here ya go -
In 1806, Virginia passed a law requiring any enslaved person freed after May 1 of that year to leave the state within twelve months or forfeit their freedom and risk re-enslavement.
Jefferson viewed this restrictionâwhich typically forced freed people to abandon family members who remained in bondageâas a major barrier to emancipation.
As he wrote, âThe laws do not permit us to turn [our slaves] loose.â
Virginia law also treated enslaved people as property that creditors could seize and sell to satisfy an ownerâs debts.
Jefferson carried heavy lifelong debt (roughly $107,000 at his death in 1826). Consequently, he freed only a small number of people during his lifetime.
In his will he emancipated five more (all from the Hemings family) and requested a special legislative exemption so they could remain in Virginia with their relatives.
The rest of the Monticello communityâabout 130 men, women, and childrenâwere sold at auction in 1827 to settle the estateâs debts.
Monticello was a community filled with friends and family. Thomas Jefferson rightly felt responsible for all those who lived there and he did the best he could within the confines of the laws of the time.
The US government should purchase Monticello from the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc. that owns it and we patriots can begin resurrecting the legacy of Thomas Jefferson that they, and Hollywood, and the media, and the communists in American education have tried to destroy.
We know better. Thomas Jefferson was a hero. Everyone who knew him loved him at the time. Everyone should know of his greatness.
Until then I will do my part to set things straight. With the assistance of SI, perhaps I will produce a movie that will help in this worthy endeavor.
90 years old. Bill Wyman is the oldest living rock star. I bought his biography awhile back. His life is fascinating. Among other things, he created a special metal detector where he has found ancient artifacts on his English country estate.
I am working on a new Strange Art History video. It'll be on my Patreon tomorrow. It's about the history of Caravaggioâs Judith Beheading Holofernes (c. 1599)
This is the moment the Assyrian general Holofernes is beheaded by Judith after she charms her way into his camp and waits until heâs drunk and asleep. Caravaggio turns the biblical story into something raw and immediateâwith harsh light, real people, and almost unbearable tension. I will share the full story behind this painting that shocked Rome and made Caravaggio famous.
All things considered, we are fortunate that the home of Thomas Jefferson still exists and can be toured. The same cannot be said about the homes of so many other Founding Fathers.
I wish there was a home of Benjamin Franklin to tour but he spent so much time in London and Paris and wherever he lived in Philadelphia has long since gone. His home in London is a tourist attraction, I believe.
Have you been to many of the homes of the great and courageous men who we owe so much to?
