This Week: Jack The Ripper Revealed? A Trance Channeler Reveals All, Words of Encouragement for TDH! Adam Lambert’s Lewd Performance, ENVY The Steakhouse to Host South American Wine Event, Movies This Week, and more…

“99% of people are walking corpses animated by the parasites that direct their every desire.” —Master Wang www.medicinebuddhas.org/about.html.

Jack The Ripper Revealed? Discovery Channel’s Jack The Ripper In America recently aired. In 1888, a deranged killer stalked his prey on the streets of east London at night. After 110 years since the murder and mutilation of at least six prostitutes, the case remains unsolved and the true identity of Jack the Ripper has never been known.

The world’s greatest criminal investigators have focused on searching for answers in London. However, in the 1890s a series of horrific murders took place across the United States in New York, San Francisco, Galveston and Atlanta, that mirrored the attacks in the UK. Discovery World presented the new evidence with science and analytical techniques being used to reveal the true identity of Jack the Ripper. The man named was James Kelly.

Many thanks to trance channel Kevin Blackwell (kgblackwell@gmail.com) for kindly contacting JTR’s spirit. Here is his information:

• Jack the Ripper was not a local—he was a sailor or visiting merchant from the European mainland.
• 4 victims: Nichols, Chapman, Stride and Eddowes.
• He bragged about the first two and took a friend to the 3rd event to prove it to him/show off. The 3rd/double murder event was harrowing for the killer and so he stopped. Though Kelly, the 5th victim may have been killed by a copycat who knew the killer of the other 4.
• Wasn’t a sex crime killer or a psychopath really—it was more like sport killing—in a place where killing women was routine.
• The perpetrator had killed twice within the prior 18 months in his homeland.
• So the answer will not be found in the UK. There’s probably some family in mainland Europe that could confidently say “My great-grandfather worked with Jack the Ripper.”

Movies This Week. New Moon (YES, but hated the teen werewolf), Ninja Assassin (YES, a new franchise begins!), Young Victoria (NO, she was a big bore), The Last Station (NO, Tolstoy was an old coot), The Messenger (NO, too many words), Old Dogs (YES, John Travolta is a hoot-not a coot), Fantastic Mr. Fox (YES, and he’s fabulous!). It’s been a week dedicated to movies.

Words of Encouragement for TDH! Yes, some recipients (if you send me an email, you may automatically get on my TDH distribution list. I don’t troll Facebook for readers!) send me “PLEASE STOP SENDING ME EMAILS!!!” (that ungrateful bitch!) not knowing TDH comes only once a week and they can delete it without even opening it (like I do to the hundreds of emails I get every week). But, I do get some encouragement! Regarding last week’s column, a few readers, who are busy professionals!, kindly sent me their comments:

From Adept Spiritual Healer Sylvia Brailler sylviabrallier.com. “Thanks for the mention in your column! Yeah, Nic get some therapy is right! Totally fascinating about Mengele and the potential for his twin research in Brazil. I had heard he was down there, but haven’t heard of this book before. Definitely one of the creepier guys of the last century. I know OF Laurie Handlers…I’m vaguely connected to most of the tantric teachers that are out there. Don’t know her well enough to say anything good or bad about her. There are some good things out there…and an awful lot of baloney. Sylvia”

From Stanley Krippner, Ph.D. dreamtalk.hypermart.net/member/files/
stanley_krippner.html. “Don’t you dare take me off this list! You found a photo of Moses’ alleged grave! Yes, it is out in the middle of nowhere. Now I do not feel so badly about leaving my camera behind on that day. I did have my camera when we visited the grave of Moses Maimonides, however. I wanted to pay special homage to Maimonides because Maimonides Medical Center, where I worked for a decade, is named after him. He was a dreamworker as well as a physician, by the way. Stan”

From Dr Michael A. Aquino, Baron of Rachane. www.xeper.org/maquino “Hi Victoria, Another tasty column; you certainly cast some wide nets and catch fun stuff in them! There’s a bit more Moses-stuff in the “Introcaution” to: www.xeper.org/maquino/nm/SLA&GM.pdf. Happy Thanksgiving, Michael”

From Lewis Barlow www.tmius.com. “I need to go to the Middle East for travel. Moses’ grave? I didn’t know it existed. Perhaps it still doesn’t. Are you going to be able to see the footage of the head shrinking? I could name a lot of people who I would like their heads shrunk. Perhaps it could be a service offered to people!!! See you at Thanksgivings. I have a few friends coming to that. And my sister is in town. We are going to the Stevie Wonder concert Saturday night too. Can’t wait. Have a blessed week. Peace & head-shrinking, Lewis”

From Dee Wolfe (www.myspace.com/edeewolfe). “I’ve noticed something about your blog, may be the root of its magic for me, however scattered your topics appear as I read them, they seem to become one cohesive theme at the end—like a little short story. This latest one is nothing less than amazing. That castle looks like one I’ve dreamed about.”

How Many Playboy Playmates Are Prostitutes? From page six of the New York Post: “Hollywood madam Michele Braun is out to destroy the myth about Playboy Playmates which Hugh Hefner and his staff cultivated for decades. Apparently, Playmates are not wholesome girls-next-door who just happen to have incredible figures they don’t mind showing off.

I read the December Playboy already. The famed Playboy interview is with director James Cameron. They didn’t ask him about the threat of a lawsuit over Avatar. There appears to be major parallels between the 2008 animated fantasy flop Delgo and Cameron’s Avatar. These comparisons have not escaped Fathom Studios, the studio behind Delgo, which released a press release hinting at possible legal action.

“Braun is planning to write a tell-all about her 11-year career hooking up centerfolds and porn stars with the men who could afford the $10,000 minimum for a date. Her clients included the kings of two countries, Fortune 500 CEOs and professional athletes, two of whom—a baseball star and a race car driver—ended up marrying the Playboy Playmates they met through Braun’s agency, Nici’s Girls.

“I only worked with famous girls, mostly Playmates. Hef couldn’t keep any of his girlfriends in the [Playboy] Mansion,” she said. “At one time, seven of the eight girls living in the Mansion were working for me. I had one of his girlfriends in the Mansion just to recruit for me.” [Read more]

Adam Lambert’s Lewd Performance. I didn’t like him until now. This is how a performer gets noticed—unless there is a sex tape. Adam Lambert shocked and surprised the American Music Awards with what some viewers deemed a “lewd” performance of the title track of his debut album, For Your Entertainment.

The American Idol runner-up pelvic-thrusted his way through the four-minute, S&M-themed routine, taking time out from singing to grope a female dancer, kiss a male musician and, most shockingly, shove a male dancer’s face into his crotch, in an act that simulated fellatio.

The raunchy stuff was apparently added to the live broadcast without anyone knowing. The simulated sex act was edited out of the videotaped version of the awards show that was transmitted three hours later to the West Coast—but the rest of Lambert’s performance remained intact.

Lambert did tell the Los Angeles Times—before the West Coast broadcast aired—“If it’s going to be edited, then, in a way, that’s discrimination. I don’t mean to get political, but Madonna, Britney [Spears] and Christina [Aguilera] weren’t edited.”

He went on to add, “It’s a shame. Female entertainers have been risqué for years. Honestly, there’s a huge double standard…It’s 2009, it’s time to take more risks. It’s about entertainment. People want to be surprised. It’s too bad that people are so scared.” [Read more].

ENVY The Steakhouse to Host a Winemaker Event Featuring South American Wines. Some friends told me, after last week’s French wine tasting event, that I should keep drinking. Apparently, I am much more fun when inebriated.

So, on December 3, 2009, I went to ENVY the Steakhouse. ENVY hosted a winemaker event featuring South American wines paired with the chef’s signature dishes for only $20!

Guest speaker Larry Challacombe, the owner and national Sales Manager for Global Vineyards, the largest distributor of South American wines, provided his extensive knowledge and expertise on the wines of that region.

ENVY The Steakhouse invited wine society members for $20 and non-members for $25 to this exclusive event. Three lucky guests won one of three prizes, including a bottle of South American wine, a $50 gift certificate to ENVY The Steakhouse or a one night stay at the Renaissance Las Vegas hotel. The event was on Thursday, December 3 from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ENVY The Steakhouse, located on lobby level of the Renaissance Las Vegas Hotel. 3400 Paradise Road, Las Vegas, Nevada 89169.