Webster Hall, NYC // Oct 24th 2006 // sunnydlita on livejournal

Shooting a music video | Oct 20, 2006 | Source: Jake Davis

Pete & Patrick + Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your Boy, through the years

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bonus: so much for (tour) dust staging ver. (2023)

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On this day, October 23

In 2006: My Chemical Romance released their third studio album, "The Black Parade". (🖤)

Stream "The Black Parade" here!

Barney & little Dilly up on the Malvern Hills, on a glorious, breezy summer's day, back in early July of 2008.

PWI Oct 2006

obligatory the end posting on this friday the 13th also oct 13, happy 17th to the final book of asoue. pictured: the chinese translation i bought more than a decade ago

can't imagine what it would have been like to be a person into anime back in 2006 and watch death note and code geass simultaneously every week nothing would have come close

In his first year of vampirism, James McGuinty took a trip to his hometown. 

He hadn’t seen his mother since Christmas 2004. It was October 2006, when he finally made another pilgrimage home. He had moved all the way from Timmins to Montreal, another province over, and the drive was almost 10 hours. He had plenty of excuses prepared about why he hadn’t been visiting: he had been working two jobs then transitioned to a full time position that demanded a lot of his time, the drive was far and gas was expensive, he had been sick for a period of time just before Christmas 2005, etc etc. His mother didn’t love hearing him rattle off explanations for why he hadn’t visited or called in so long. All that mattered was that he came back. When he did, though, he was... different. He was pale, cold all the time, and slept all day. Still, he was in good spirits; he was the happiest he had been in quite some time. 

He spent three weeks at home before making a sudden rush back to Montreal. But before he left, someone else did too: Charlie Fletcher, failed minor league hockey player and highschool bully. Charlie had fallen from grace in the years before his disappearance. Once the most promising athlete in his highschool, Charlie had gotten into a pretty bad car accident just after graduation. The townsfolk rumoured that there was alcohol involved, but Charlie wouldn’t talk about it. His plans to go to Carleton University and play for the Ravens were squandered. Instead he stayed in Timmins, bought a gym, and eventually married his high school girlfriend. His failure to live out his dreams turned to bitterness and resentment, and his bully tactics got worse. With a few arrests under his belt by Thanksgiving of ‘06, mostly DUIs, a few bar fights, and a couple of domestic “disturbance” charges, Charlie was well on his way to becoming a mostly forgotten footnote in Timmins history and remembered as a frequent visitor to the local police lockup.

All of that changed a few days after Thanksgiving 2006. It was a mild October night, a Wednesday. October 11th, 2006. Rain and fog enveloped the town. James had gone to meet a few friends at a bar that night to catch up; to tell them how Montreal was, to tell them how his mom had been doing, to ask them how their families were, to ask how things had been since he’d seen them last. It was going well until Charlie walked into the bar, already belligerent. When he saw James and his friends, he had to hurl a few insults their way. It was a tradition that brought back some of the most painful memories of adolescence for the fledgling vampire: memories of a broken tooth, a broken arm, black eyes, heads shoved in toilets, bodies shoved in lockers, 4 years of torture and a hell of a lot of ice packs. It brought up a rage in him, and an idea, one he hadn’t considered until he realized that now he could take him. Now, he was strong enough to fight back. Now, he was devious enough to pretend to leave early, and lie in wait in the alley beside the bar until the moment was right. A few friends left with him, and told him how Charlie Fletcher had fared since high school. They told him of his bride Chantal and her broken, her black eyes, the ones she hid in the summer behind sunglasses and in the winter with cakey concealer. That sealed the decision for him; Charlie Fletcher had to die. So James walked off, far enough that everyone would think he left. Then, slowly, he made his way back to the bar. There, in the alley, he waited.

Just before closing time, Charlie Fletcher wandered out of the bar, drunk. It wasn’t hard to grab him from behind and drag him behind the bar. James wanted to draw things out, make him suffer, but he didn’t want to get caught. Charlie’s death was quick, but vicious. He tried to fight back. When the long sharp fangs in James’s mouth plunged into his neck, he thrashed. The teeth ripped through his skin, his veins. The scene was gruesome. Blood poured out of open wounds, chunks of flesh sat on the pavement, and James drank as much blood as he could manage in one sitting. When he was done, he dragged the body to a dumpster and shoved it inside. He snuck through the dark, as fast as he could manage, to the banks of the Mattagami River. He took a book of matches from his pocket and burned his clothes (save for his underwear) and dumped the remains in the water before rinsing the blood off of his skin. He headed home, lucky not to be spotted. It was quiet, and he knew the town well. He snuck in through the back door of his mother’s house, took a shower, and retired to bed as if nothing had occurred.

By the time Charlie’s body was found two days later, the cause of death was hard to determine. Nobody figured that a human could’ve done such damage. It looked like he had been attacked by an animal, and in the intervening days had been snacked on by rats and maggots, further complicating matters. Although everyone in town had suspicions about who or what killed Charlie Fletcher, he was buried without anyone ever knowing the truth.

James left town a few days later so as to not leave too quickly and raise suspicions. After all, his friends saw him leave. They walked with him down the street. He was never brought in for questioning, nor was James, inches shorter and many pounds lighter than Charlie, ever a suspect.

For a while, the guilt bothered him. But this was the life he had chosen. It wasn’t pointless, either; he had feasted on his blood. He needed blood to keep on living, and Charlie had proven himself to be a real waste of space. A bully. An abuser. Still, a life had been taken, and with it a sense of peace and innocence.

James McGuinty continued to carry that burden. Gerard de Noailles did not.

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[Oct 4, 2023]

KERRANG! #1130 - Oct 21, 2006

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In just one month, approximately 462 hectares (4.6 million m²) of woodland, "notably pines and oaks, as well as around 20 hectares of centuries-old olive groves," have been destroyed by Israeli airstrikes, said Georges Mitri, Director of the Land and Natural Resources Programme at Balamand University. Since the escalation of tensions between Hezbollah and the Israeli army on Oct. 8, the latter has used white phosphorus to set fire to forests and fields in border areas. The 1980 Geneva Convention, which Israel has not signed, prohibits the use of white phosphorous on civilians and in civilian areas due to its devastating effects on humans, animals and the environment.

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Amid the ongoing economic crisis, the attacks targeting olive groves ahead of harvest season have a major negative impact on the local economy in the area. "Traditionally, people gather around the olive trees, harvest their crops, press their oil together... A big part of their lives is being lost," lamented Younes. “The olive trees being burned are centuries old," he pointed out. “If we were to replant them today, how long would it be before these fields became productive?” Giving an estimate of the economic losses attributed to the daily fires in the South, Mitri put the figure at nearly 20 million dollars. In the long term, Younes is particularly concerned about the environmental impact of the phosphorus bombs. "We have no choice but to wait until the end of hostilities before assessing the situation on the ground," he said. In Younes’ view, the greater the rate of absorption of phosphorus into the soil and water, the greater the risk of dramatic long-term consequences on Lebanon’s environment.

I'll add here that southern Lebanon has never fully recovered from 2006. There are still unexploded cluster bombs in the ground, killing and maiming people. There is still chemical contamination. The economic impact on agriculture has never been fully recouped. The cancer rates are still elevated and unaddressed. The labor structure and which crops are grown changed after 2006 and have never reverted. I remember weeping watching the bombing of Gaza in 2021 as I was in the middle of writing a paper about the long term legacies of the July War in Lebanon, with these additional long-term violences of the bombing at the forefront of my mind along with the immediate deaths and tragedies. This is a horrifying compounding of an existing injury, at a time when Lebanon is in economic free fall and (as the article also explains) in the middle of fire season, and with firefighters unable to do much because the area is. being bombed.

[VOA is US State Media]

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in a phone call Saturday with Israel Defense Minister Yoav Gallant promised "his ironclad support" for the Israeli Defense Forces, or IDF, according to a Pentagon readout.[...] What shape the U.S. support will take, though, is unclear. The U.S. maintains a weapons and ammunition stockpile in Israel and has made its contents available to Israel on at least two occasions. In 2006, the U.S. granted Israel access to precision guided munitions during its war with Hezbollah. And in 2014, the U.S. gave Israel access to tank rounds and other ammunition to support operations against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. U.S. officials have declined to say, however, whether using the stockpile will be an option this time around.[...] There also are concerns about the stockpile itself. The U.S. pulled 300,000 artillery shells from the stockpile late last year and early this year to give to Ukraine. And the types of armaments and equipment in the stockpile may not be of immediate use in pushing back Hamas fighters. "My initial impression is that the things that Israel needs most right now are not in there," said Bradley Bowman, senior director of the Center on Military and Political Power at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.[...]

In addition, the U.S. maintains some military personnel in Israel, and U.S. forces periodically conduct exercises with Israeli troops — most recently this past July. The U.S. military official said all U.S. personnel "are safe and accounted for," without elaborating on how many are currently in the country.

7 Oct 23

Update post:

The biggest thing everyone's talking about on the news in Israel right now is the finding of a MASSIVE Hamas compound underneath UNRWA's main headquarters in Gaza, and finding proof that UNRWA were supplying the compound with electricity and internet services, supply which allowed Hamas to develop their intelligence, used during the Hamas massacre among other things. When Israel published the finding of the compound, the head of UNRWA claimed they found nothing up until October, and weren't able to check anything since. Israel responded by pointing out that a compound so developed most likely took no less than ten years to dig and build, and that UNRWA was repeatedly told that Hamas is operating under its headquarters, but chose to ignore this. What I think is most telling is a tour taken by an Israeli journalist in the compound, where they showed him that the server farm in the Hamas compound is found directly under the server farm of UNRWA, and that cables from the latter were running down into the terror tunnel compound directly beneath it (source in Hebrew, here's a vid in English giving viewers a tour of the compound, I'll attach the vid itself below, too). Something like that doesn't happen by coincidence, and without the knowledge of those in the server farm above groud. Some of the cables were also cut in the UNRWA server farm, like someone realized the IDF was coming, and tried to hide the link between the two server farms. As one officer pointed out, if you're an innoncent, interenational humanitarian aid organization, you have no reason to cut the cables of your own server farm, or remove the name tags from the doors of the rooms inside your headquarters. You only do that if you have something to hide.

Israel's army has been fighting Hamas in all of Gaza, except the southern city of Rafiach (Rafah in English). There are a lot of Gazans there, who have been evacuated from other zones. There's also 4 Hamas regiments there, which means Israel will have no choice but to fight there. So the only question is how to fight in that city, in order to minimize the harm to the civilian population. There are reports that Israel's Prime Minister has asked the IDF to present plans both on how to fight Hamas in Rafah, and how to evacuate the civilians.

In that context, I got to hear a radio interview with an Israeli minister, who used to be the head of Shabak (Israel's equivalent of the FBI). When asked about the US warning for Israel not to fight in Rafah during the upcoming month of Ramadan, Avi Dichter said that it has never been a month during which Muslims have not fought in wars. In fact, in 1973 the Egyptians and Syrians (with soldiers from even more Arab countries fighting alongside them) chose to attack Israel on Oct 6, despite Ramadan that year starting on Oct 4, causing the war to be known in the Arab world as "The Ramadan War." More than that, in Israel Ramadan is always a time of peak alert, because so many terrorist attacks are carried out during it (here's an example from Mar 2023, when Hamas was encouraging individuals to carry out terrorist attacks during Ramadan, and here's another from 2022). Dichter suggested that if Muslims can carry out terrorist attacks during Ramadan (and it has happened outside Israel, too), the war in Gaza which was started by Hamas can continue during it.

On an Israeli TV news panel, someone shared the estimate that over 100,000,000 dollars (one hundred million dollars!) is the sum of money that Hamas made just since the start of the war from selling to the civilian population the humanitarian aid that was allowed into Gaza, and which Hamas stole from the Gazans (more than once, by using violence).

This is Chagit Rein.

She lost her son Benaya in the Second Lebanon War, back in 2006. I got to hear an interview with her following the fact that during this war, she decided she would try to visit the shiva (the mourning week following a burial) of every fallen soldier. According to her, she has so far visited the families of 400 soldiers killed on Oct 7 or since. "If they see me, then it's living proof that there can be a life alongside the loss. That was our kids' last will and testament. They died so we could live. So we have to live." When asked what she's asked most often when she visits the families, she said it was what she did first after her son's shiva. "My other son was being drafted into the army, so the first thing I did was to accompany him in that." She was asked whether there were moments when she was overwhelmed herself. She replied that she's seen wounded soldiers making incredible effortrs to come to the shiva of others who were killed, to offer their families some comfort. In one case, an injured soldier recognized her, and told her that it was thanks to her son Benaya that he was an officer in the armored forced. He tried to hug her, but was at first unable to get up or reach her from the stretcher he was on. Chagit recounted that she tries to make sure her visits would be about the families she's conmforting, not about herself, but that's when she broke down and cried.

This is Doctor Elai Chogeg-Golan with her husband Ariel and their baby daughter, Yael. On the right, their house in kibbutz Kfar Azza.

On Oct 7, due to Hamas' massive rocket attack, Elai was inside the bomb shelter in her home with her family from 6:30 in the morning, when Gazan civilians got in at around 1 in the afternoon. The Gazans tried to get the family to come out, but it wouldn't. Then, those invaders set the house on fire, probably thinking that would force the family out. Instead, Elai and the family tried to keep themselves safe using water. At some point, she recounts they even fought face to face with the Gazans, who tried to beat them with sticks from the outside. She said she managed to grab a stick, and beat them back. These Gazans then threw in two gas balloons into the burning house. Elai says that most of the burns she sustained were from the fire ball that that created. At some point, the Gazans moved on, and that's when the family got out, because the whole place was on fire, they were choking from the smoke, and even the roof collapsed. They hid nearby, but then baby Yael lost consciousness, and the parents decided to try and get out of the kibbutz. At the entrance, they met soldiers who helped get them to a hospital. Elai had severe burns on over 60% of her body. She was in a coma for 53 days, but incredibly, they all survived.

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