Hey y'all, it's been a few weeks. Hopefully everyone saw Daniel's new tape.
Obviously the most important part of that tape was not my advertisement. The more important part was the community dinner and skinwalker sacrifices and elder gods and all that other shit...but let's take a minute just to talk about the ad first since I can give some real commentary on that. I made that ad around the end of 1988. Yes, that was me talking. I was around 50 - sounds young to me now but at the time I felt like I was already old as hell. I had to spend an hour or so in a recording booth in the Broadcast Station up on Bernard Overlook, gave them some pictures and instructions on the ad, and they put it all together for me. It was a service that the station offered to local businesses so I just thought, "why the hell not?". That ad was only on air for a little less than a year obviously, but it seemed like it brought in a fair bit more business than usual. Our motto was goddamn stupid looking back on it but hey, rhymes are popular, people remember 'em, so what do you expect? Now, the reason it took me so long to make this post (if 3 days counts as long, anyway) is because I was digging through some of my old stuff to find the script I used for that ad. The whole ad is long gone, I doubt they have it in their archives or any of that nonsense but I still have the script. I just thought y'all might get a kick out of it, so I found it and I typed it all up and everything: "Hi, my name is Trevor Magnil. I run the Magnil Clothing Store on Main Street in Walker Creek, Washington along with my wife, Julia. We have everything you need from pre-made clothing to custom alterations, and even custom orders that we make from scratch! Get a T-Shirt, some custom fit jeans, a new hat, a beautiful luxury jacket, and so much more, all at great prices! We'll work to find what's best for your style and price range! So come on down to the Magnil Clothing Store! Our motto is: “If you wanna wear it, we'll prepare it!” Visit us on Main Street!" Anyway, it's time to get down to business and talk about Community Dinners. I made a post about 'em once before but I didn't really go into it much. Just said that everyone acted sorta fake and weird and that the food was bad. I guess I'll go into some specifics on what they are exactly: Community Dinners happened a few times a year, sometimes even once a month depending on the WCTB organizers. It was basically like a big town potluck, but sometimes got sponsored by Roy or someone else. You'd get there and everyone would just be shootin' the shit and goofing off and whatever. There'd be a vote for what dishes get brought out first, but I guess anyone who was a skinwalker would get a different card. Then there'd just be a bunch of boring speeches and mindless small talk, and a prayer before the meal, which is the same one you heard. It's pretty carefully worded so that it can really work for Christianity too, which is what every non-skinwalker in Walker Creek practiced. I guess thinking back on it I still should have realized that it was really weird but...I guess people just really don't want to wake up. To be honest, if you think back on some of the crazy stories I've told like my leg injury, the Robert Farm incident, the WCPD encounter, the van in the woods, and a bunch of others, I should have put two and two together way faster. I'm still kicking myself for that one; I'm just lucky I actually got out without too much harm done. Oh and also, the "glory for the harvest star" part on the tape wasn't said by anyone at those dinners. It ended at the "become one across the world" part. It gave me chills to hear that prayer again, knowing the true meaning of it. All of the "Hosted" are sick bastards. To finish this off, I'll just say that there was usually some dancing after the meal. I heard people talking about joining the Hosted program a lot whenever I went to one of those events, so I guess it was used for recruitment too. I don't really have a good way to end it so I'll just sign off. If you have any more questions about Community Dinners then let me know. If you assumed that I'm too old to know about social media then you're wrong: you can contact me on twitter and instagram (and my email) with questions. -Trevor
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Hey y'all! It's been a while so I think it's time for me to keep sorting through the Walker Creek Media Archive and give y'all my thoughts on it. Last post, I talked about all the 1950's stuff with the WCBS and Louise and everything. It was a bit of a downer. Today's entry hopefully won't be. No promises though. Anyway, it seems like the archive skips out on the 60's but it didn't seem noteworthy I guess. I'll talk about the 4 or so entries from the 1970's today. Luckily there's a lot to talk about with 'em.
To start it off, there's a picture of the Magnil Lumber Co. Warehouse that was apparently taken in '71 That one brings back a lot of memories but it looks more rundown than I remember. Y'all don't even know how much time I had to spend there as a kid and teenager. My dad dragged me out there damn near every day and I even spent a lot of time working out there. Mainly it was a warehouse for processing lumber and part of it was for storage. I think the Carter Company took it over after the sale and still uses it but I haven't kept up. Anyway, it was located around 15 minutes outside of the county. To this day I still don't really know why it had to be all the way out there, but that's just the way it was. I remember seeing it in one of Daniel's old tapes too. Sorta nostalgic to me just like a lot of this media archive stuff. Not always in a good way though. As I said before on this blog, my father was cold and distant from me. I'm sure some of you can relate. Those memories in that warehouse were not the most pleasant or enjoyable or anything of that sort. When I look back, I do think of positive things like childhood and my family but I also think of the negative shit. Being forced to go there, getting yelled at for messing up, doing hard and unpaid labor for the family business until my body damn near gave out, getting frightened by the older lumberjacks, and a lot of other things. I don't wanna go too far into it since it's not relevant to Walker Creek or the archive really but I just wanted y'all to know that it's not all sunshine and rainbows with that. I mean, it's been 60 years since then so it (mostly) doesn't bother me a damn bit anymore but thinking about it still isn't the best. Still interesting to look back on though. Moving onto another thing I wanted to talk about from the 1970's on the archive: the James Lambert Ad. That one just makes me damn angry. That ironic tagline: "A Mayor you can rely on." All I have to say about that: bullshit. He ran the county into the ground in less than a year and got 2 media archive entries. I despise that man, even if he was the one who somehow came the closest to destroying the skinwalker's plan. How incompetent do you have to be to almost destroy the plan of an alien species just by being bad at your job?? Last thing for the 1970's part is the Tom Sorkan ad from '76. The whole thing really just encapsulates what his term was all about. "Vote for Sorkan because he's doing better than Lambert, and who else are you going to elect anyway?" That's basically what his platform was. I know that Sorkan doesn't get talked about too much around Walker Creek and...that's why. He was just unremarkable to put it simply. Right off the tails of Lambert's disaster, he tried to pick up the pieces but he just didn't cut it. Only reason he got re-elected from that ad and then a few more times was because folks were too damn scared of a second Lambert-type Mayor that they'd rather settle for the mediocrity and failures of Sorkan. He didn't really fix the economy. Just cobbled it back together a little and held it in place with duct tape (does that analogy makes sense? I hope so). He tried his hardest at public relations and things like that to make the people like him. Hell, even I liked the guy somewhat even if he irritated me with his mediocrity (and demands in the shop, but that's a story for a different time). Even with that though, he just wasn't notable. And then the ending of his term with "embezzlement" was the nail in the coffin for him just being forgotten. Of course, we know now that he wasn't removed due to simple embezzlement but that's a story for another time. That's all I have for the 1970's part of the archive. I know this is a little shorter than usual but it's all I have for now. I'll try to do a blog about the 1980's part as soon as I can. Hope y'all still enjoyed learning these little bits and pieces of history. - Trevor |
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