[tang-soo]

Another story that has been out there for years is about Johnny Gosch, a young boy from Iowa who was kidnapped and thought to have been trafficked while working his paper route.

Here is the main documentary about Johnny Gosch. There are other videos about his story - followups with his mother, interviews, and I think an interview with Ted Gunderson, the former FBI field office director who spent the latter years of his life investigating occult/satanic crimes. WHERE IS Johnny Gosch?! Why Johnny CAN'T Come Home.

[Melian]

Anyone good at puzzles, linguistics, Arabic, or pattern:

I am looking at this site on creative Arabic calligraphy and trying to compare it to the pattern on the tiles of the Epstein temple:

https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/creative-arabic-calligraphy-square-kufic—cms-23012

Square Kufic (kufi mrabba’), sometimes known as bannâ’i (”masonry script”) is a particular style of Kufic that is going to allow us to create composition using the basic structural forms of the letters. Indeed, Square Kufic (abbreviated SK) is the barest of all Arabic writing styles, and an interesting precursor to pixel art, although it was originally made up of bricks and tiles and used on a large scale in architecture.

This style is absolutely not concerned with legibility: it is understood that the message, the Word, is there, and gazing upon it is enough to receive its blessing. Literacy may have been limited in the past, but beauty was always accessible to all, and it is the beauty of the pattern that matters. In its simplest form, SK is austere, and derives its beauty from the purity of its austerity; but it lends itself to clever, even playful variations only limited by one’s creativity. More than any other calligraphic practice, creating in SK feels very much like solving a puzzle, giving it particular appeal for problem-solvers.

There are examples at the site that are tantalizingly similar to Epstein’s!

[pgkdan]

Bkmk

[defconw]

This is interdasting!