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The Merstham Tunnel Murder Mystery

EDWARDIAN TRUE CRIME: In 1905, Mary Money was found dead in the Merstham Tunnel believed murdered but events suggested otherwise!

One of the greatest unsolved English murder cases is The Merstham Tunnel Mystery taking place in the year, 1905. The body of 22-year-old Mary Sophia Money, aged 22, was found in a railway tunnel on the South-Eastern Railway line south of London. She was a bookkeeper employed at a dairy in Lavender Hill where she lived with the owner Mr Bridger and his family. Her body was so badly mutilated that…

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The Merstham Tunnel Murder Mystery

EDWARDIAN TRUE CRIME: In 1905, Mary Money was found dead in the Merstham Tunnel believed murdered but events suggested otherwise!

One of the greatest unsolved English murder cases is The Merstham Tunnel Mystery taking place in the year, 1905. The body of 22-year-old Mary Sophia Money, aged 22, was found in a railway tunnel on the South-Eastern Railway line south of London. She was a bookkeeper employed at a dairy in Lavender Hill where she lived with the owner Mr Bridger and his family. Her body was so badly mutilated that…

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me if serving too hard was a crime

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"I hadn't heard of Downhill Racer before but I need to find out where the costume department got the sunglasses, I want them desperately"

Frederick Sinclair is a really interesting foil to Mr. House. I mean you start digging into this and it's just parallel after parallel after parallel. Start at the high level. House sinks inordinate amounts of resources into saving the city of Las Vegas - not the people, but the city- from nuclear destruction; as long as the stage endures, he can get anyone to wear the costumes. Sinclair sets up an entirely new "community" totally off-the-grid for the sake of protecting one woman, plasters that place with her likeness. House is a visionary with a 200-year action plan to rebuild society in his image, bootstrap space exploration, and construct an interplanetary empire; Sinclair sank everything he had into building the most secure facility possible for a woman who he knew was terminally ill anyway, just to ensure that her last few years lived in the aftermath of the nuclear apocalypse would be as comfortable as possible- there's a fundamental pessimism baked into what he was doing. Both House and Sinclair relied heavily on automated defensive systems and cutting-edge, esoteric technologies to accomplish their ends, but House built his power base on proprietary robotics and computing technology, much of which he personally designed- an outgrowth of his policy of never widening his circle any more than he absolutely has to. Sinclair, in his naive techno-optimism, outsourced his utopia, grabbing flashy third-party technologies like a kid in a candy store- opening a backdoor for the Think Tank to poison his city and ultimately getting everyone at the Gala Event killed when the holograms malfunctioned and went berserk.

Their management styles are inverse. House allows countless abuses to occur under his aegis because he subscribes to a libertarian-when-convenient philosophy where he doesn't much care what the little people do as long as he gets his cut and they don't rock the boat too much- a hands-off approach that fosters resentment amongst his subordinates, lets the White Gloves and Omertas get up to untold levels of fuckery while Freeside languishes and Benny conspires against him. Sinclair, by contrast, had a sincerely-held utopian-straight-edge safety-first micromanagement approach built into the very bones of the casino, he appeared to genuinely give a shit about the safety of the construction crew on the villa, and he was well-liked by nearly everyone who had any direct contact with him- and yet untold horrors also went down under his aegis, because his myopic focus on building the vault for Vera let Dean Domino and the Think Tank run circles around him, good intentions be damned. Their respective interpersonal dispassion and obsession are on display in how they react to betrayal. House's tone never rises above exasperation when it comes time to clean house of Benny, the Omerta Leadership and the White gloves; he treats them as problems to be solved, gears that are slightly out of alignment; By contrast, when Sinclair learns that Dean and Vera have been playing him, he channels the monomaniacal energy he previously directed towards protecting Vera towards the goal of building the perfect poetic-ironic death trap for her and Dean.

There are some other parallels in their personal lives. For one thing they both trusted a pastiche of a 40s lounge singer a lot more than they should have. They both tried to digitize, immortalize their girlfriends- and the discrepancy in how they went about it is telling. House's recreation of Jane isn't terribly robust, and in terms of House's overall project she's an afterthought. She's more a sock-puppet than a person, a sanded-down copy of a woman who died forever-and-a-half ago, forever agreeable, never saying no. Convenient. Only the most superficial visual elements preserved- an illustration of her face on a robotic chassis. Sinclair was obsessive in recreating Vera, preserving her likeness. It's all over the villa, her hologram is everywhere, her voice is everywhere. The terminal in the lightwave lab in Old World Blues reveals that he was still obsessed with getting her hologram right even after the love curdled into hate. All of it a monument to the real woman, and yet in all of it the real woman is still lost, buried under the mythologized projection. He didn't respect the real person enough to let her know that she was dying. A total failure of preservation from the opposite direction. (Except in the suites, where you can hear her very authentic dying pleas.)

You find both of them in their basements. House only looks a little better than Sinclair, but he's got much more of a voice in the narrative. He took steps to make sure he'd be around to tell you what he thinks about everything, fine-tuned the voice with which he speaks to the world, the face he presents. It matters to him that he gets to tell his own story. We find out a lot about House, from House; but for the kind of figure that he is, a shocking amount of what we learn about Sinclair comes from other people, people who knew him or wrote about him. The only image of him you can find is a downplayed element of a larger mosaic. The two documents you find that're written from his perspective have been buried for 200 years, and they're yards from his corpse. And the more recent of the two is an apology. I mean admittedly at the point where he wrote that apology Sinclair was personally turbofucked regardless. If the cloud didn't get him the holograms would have, or the radiation, or, or, or. You can read some level of ego into what he did in the face of that. But however futile it was, he died in the specific way that he did because he recognized that he'd done something awful, and he was trying everything he could think of to correct it. Somehow I find it very hard to imagine House doing either of those things- admitting fault or putting skin of his own in the game to make it right.

A Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973)

Sunset Strip - 1970s - Robert Landau

you can talk about kinning and what exactly it entails and if it's cringe all you want, but in reality noone will ever top robert redford exploring the outlaw trail on horseback to experience it exactly like his fave the sundance kid, moving to utah where they shot the movie and the outlaw trail crosses trough and then also naming everything from the resort he owns there, over his institute to a film festival after him. you cannot top this level of kinnie behaviour. like everytime you hear about a film being a Sundance winner I want you to remember that it's only bc robert redford loved some guy more than you will ever be able to love your particular some guy

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can you say more about moriah tax fraud i may be stupid

As supernatural went on the show got cheaper looking in part bc of lighting but in part bc the sfx were. Bad. With no discernible huge uptake in use that would explain the cost soaring. And no like. Huge sfx heavy scenes any more than usual that would lead to cost soaring. But the. Budget for supernatural continued to balloon. Which coincided with. Robert singer slipping on up the ranks to executive producer. There’s some ancient interview where jensen says that Robert singer saved the show with budgeting. Moriah is a fun example bc like. Well we’ve all seen moriah I’ve seen it I enjoyed it etc. but there is nothing in moriah that makes me go oh yeah there’s the scene that’s the one that made it the most expensive episode of supernatural. The particular post is juxtaposing the absurdity of the statement moriah is the most expensive episode with the. Practical effects in the episode of headstone out of fake material that’s easily cracked along a fault. Which is something Movies have been doing forever and not something that would explain the cost jump. Moriah is one specific example out of the years long slide of more expensive show / effects that don’t change in the slightest / Robert singer climbing the ladder. He gave his wife a nepotism job this is just a fact not even speculation. The money laundering is speculation but it’s speculation based on. Supernatural having a stupid budget. And believing a man in tv would embezzle if he could get away with it. That’s like saying someone in tv might get Botox or do drugs. In terms of plausibility.

At the end of Enchanted Giselle was the CEO of Andalasian dresses for little girls and had her own brick and mortar in NYC and in the sequel she is this depressed housewife? Did she lose her business to covid?!