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Epstein and his pedo pals had some very specific taste in snack food

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There is also pastry talk here and there. It’s obvious from the context that this is coded language. Many people have pointed out that “cheese pizza” was the code for “child porn” on 4Chan, but it’s not 100% certain that Epstein meant exactly this. For example, others refer to “pizza” as code for “piece of (ass).” Various people have speculated about “grape soda,” like “grape = rape,” but nobody has been able to decode it with absolute authority. I have not read any speculation about “Chinese cookie.”

The most upsetting thing about these communications is that the names (other than Epstein’s) have been redacted, in direct contravention of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

For example, what legitimate reason could there be for redacting the name of the sender in this e-mail to Epstein:


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You can probably figure out who that is by searching the Epstein files for other mentions of “Chinese cookie,” “pizza,” “go kno” and “grape soda.” Interestingly, the DoJ redacted one of the participants in that conversation, but not the other. (Somehow Woody Allen is also involved in that text. Now that I consider it, that’s probably not surprising.)

After I looked through the files, one thing that struck me is that the pizzagate QAnon nutbags were kinda-sorta on to something. They misread all the code, targeted all the wrong people, and got all the details wrong, but it seems there was a pedophile ring, and pizza was somehow related.

Marie Tomanova naked in World Between Us (2024)

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Czech documentary. In English and Czech. Filmed mostly in Manhattan.

Will Marie from a small town in the Czech Republic succeed by fulfilling her lifetime dream to conquer New York as a still photographer? We follow a five-year phase in the personal and professional lives of Marie and Thomas, partners in work and life, their passion and obsession for art, their fearlessness to make their vision a reality, and the boundless effort that requires. The film thus becomes a testimony to the moments that shape the young artists’ careers, with all the uncertainties and obstacles they must overcome on the way to make their dreams come true. The film is also about a young artist’s desire to be accepted in a new place, but also to be recognized in the place she left. Marie no longer feels at home in her native Mikulov, nor does she feel like she belongs to America. The phenomenon of pulling up one’s roots, migrating elsewhere, and finding a new home in a foreign land is a universal theme.


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Spoiler alert: Marie succeeded in conquering New York as a still photographer.

She photographed her fellow Czech, Paulina Porizkova, for the cover of Vogue.

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And earned another cover for herself in Vogue Czechoslovakia!

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1) The Porizkova cover would become one of Vogue’s most memorable.

2) Yes, it is called Vogue Czechoslovakia (CS), even though that country no longer exists.

Tura Satana topless in Tura! (2024)

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This is a documentary about the life of Tura Satana, an iconic 1950s burlesque performer, and the star of Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! It focuses on a brutal childhood incident, her burlesque career, her famous lovers (Billy Wilder, Marty Allen, Tony Bennett and Elvis, to name a few) and her eventual cult movie stardom.

I learned something from this film: Tura had neither Japanese nor Native American components in her DNA. Tura was born in Japan, her father had a Japanese last name, and her family spent some time in one of the infamous Japanese-American internment camps, so she spent her entire career as a “Japanese-American icon,” and also claimed some Cheyenne ancestry through her mother. One of Tura’s daughters got her DNA tested. The Japanese percentage shown in that test was zero percent, as was the Native American! Based on that test, it is possible to extrapolate that Tura’s dad was 92% Chinese and 8% Filipino, while Tura’s mom was entirely Northern European, mostly Scottish. Like many people with some Filipino ancestors, her real name included some Spanish elements: Tura Luna Pascual Yamaguchi. “Satana” is her married name, taken from a boy she married when she was 13, he 17.

By the way, you may be wondering about the “50% European Jewish” in the ancestry of Tura’s daughter. Tura had told her daughter that her father was singer Tony Bennett, but it turned out that her father was actually Jewish comedian Marty Allen, who opened for Bennett. (She does indeed look a lot like Marty Allen!)


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A bare breast from Katarzyna Dałek in Złamanie Otwarte (2024 short)

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Polish drama. The title translates as Open Wound, more or less, but MUBI lists it in English as Take Me to Her.

Basia (35) pretends to her husband that everything is fine. At the entrance exams for acting school, she meets Alicja (20) and her infant, whom she takes care of. After a demanding performance and a difficult confrontation with her husband, she decides to kidnap Alicja’s child, inadvertently putting it in danger. This shock makes Basia ready for change and healing.


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Her nudography is here