Month: April 2023

by Travis Mateer

Date: April 9th and 10th, 2023
Time: 3-4pm; 2:30-3:30pm
Location: Silver Park; West Broadway
Business contacts: 0
Government/community contacts: 2
Houseless contacts: 2

The drug epidemic masquerading as a homeless crisis is reaching apocalyptic levels in San Francisco with the high-profile stabbing of CashApp founder, Bobby Lee, and the beating of a former Fire Commissioner. It’s so unsafe on the streets, a flagship Whole Foods store just closed its doors after being open for a little over a year. From the link:

One of the largest supermarkets in Downtown San Francisco—the Whole Foods Market at Eighth and Market streets—intends to shut down at the close of business Monday just a little more than a year after the store opened, company officials told The Standard.

“We are closing our Trinity location only for the time being,” a Whole Foods spokesperson said in a statement. “If we feel we can ensure the safety of our team members in the store, we will evaluate a reopening of our Trinity location.”

I’m including the deteriorating situation in San Francisco in today’s report because of my concern that fear will lead our own community to degrade our ability to make distinctions between houseless people who are dangerous and need to be held accountable, and houseless people who are NOT dangerous, and face just as much risk, if not more, from the dangerous people riding the carousel between the jail, the hospital, and the streets.

In my AA#4 report, one of the community members I spoke with told me about an unsafe person by the name of Jason Coffee who worried local residents in this area last year before committing an act of violence against a woman that finally took him off the streets. This community member told me of another person living under a bridge in the same area, so I made a mental note to check it out.

On Easter I ran into this houseless individual, and it turned out to be “A” from the Reserve Street Bridge area. I know “A” quite well, and don’t find him to be a threat, but I don’t expect anyone who doesn’t know him to feel the same way. This is one area where I hope my experience and knowledge of some houseless individuals can go to better address their situation and alleviate some community worry about certain people.

This hope of mine is one reason why the image that opens this post is of Lee Nelson, the homeless man beat to death by the psycho who is currently sitting in the Missoula County Detention Facility awaiting sentencing, pictured below.

The other houseless contact, and two community contacts, were, all three of ’em, poets. One of the poets, Michael Earl Craig, writes wonderfully weird stuff that I’m quite familiar with, so it was nice to let them know that a fellow poet has become a Gonzo-esque journalist covering the madness of Zoom Town.

The third poet, who I ran across on Monday, has been a traveler for many years. I told him about some of the things I was looking into, and he told me his perspective about the spiritual war he felt was raging in this town and everywhere else. I didn’t disagree.

Now, let’s move along to DAY THREE of this packed report because I’m excited to tell you about the amazing opportunity this abandoned site represents to me. Behold!

Date: April 11th, 2023
Time: 9:00am-10:30am
Location: Bonner and East Broadway
Business contacts: 1
Government/community contacts: 5
Houseless contacts: 1

The video at the end of this fifth AA report will show you, up close, what this abandoned camp-disaster looks like. After doing a closer inspection, my confidence at leading a VOLUNTEER cleanup of this site has shifted. Does it have anything to do with the drug paraphernalia I saw? Yep!

A good portion of the community contacts listed above was me making phone calls, first to University police, then to city police. I learned from UNIVERSITY law enforcement that this site has been referred to city police several times, but so far nothing has happened, so I put in a call to the new Public Information Officer and offered my “crazy glue”, cross-jurisdictional services to find a way to address this particular site.

From my conversation with UM police I also learned about a University parking lot that became a homeless encampment. The price tag to clean that up? $10,000 bucks!

After following up with WGM Group, I headed to Bonner, which would SEEM far enough on this first day after the Johnson Street Shelter closed for anyone to be out there, but sure enough, here’s some dude I found passed out in a red sleeping bag:

I announced myself LOUDLY and a dude who looked to be in his 20’s quickly popped up his head. I told him my name and my purpose and asked if he had been staying at the Johnson Street Shelter before it closed and he said YES!

I didn’t film this interaction because I’m not trying to unnecessarily provoke a negative response. I did, however, tell this guy that I’d like to see people who this community can help, get help, but the DANGEROUS ones? Well, they better watch themselves. I think he got my message.

After that interaction, I stopped by the school in Bonner, just a few hundred yards away, and gave them my contact info. Then I filmed a quick clip by the bus stop this guy probably deposited at before stumbling into the woods to pass out. Nice color of sleeping bag, by the way.

Below are the links to my first four reports, where you can find the quantitative AND qualitative data. If you want to know why Travis’ Impact Fund (TIF) is a GREAT fund to financially support, click the links and see for yourself what this first phase has done to assess the pre-April 10th situation in some problematic areas in and around Missoula.

AA#1-Travis' Impact Fund First Report!
AA#2-From North Russell to Camper Fire
AA#3-From Kim Williams Trail to North Hellgate
AA#4-From West Broadway Island to Silver Park

For a visual (and visceral) look at what today’s report covers, here is the video:

https://vimeo.com/816765421

To continue spreading the word about Travis’ Impact Fund (TIF), I attended the Parks and Rec board meeting yesterday after doing the morning assessment (and providing alarm clock services for that houseless dude). I think my brief presentation was well-received, probably because I explained my persistent interest in seeing a public forum happen with our new Sheriff, our County Attorney, and whoever gets the Police Chief nod.

There were also specific individuals/areas to bring attention to, and the general goal of public safety to champion. I have to remember these forums are not like Monday night City Council meetings because questions from the board are allowed, and I don’t think my comments would have been stopped at 3 minutes.

Now that the Johnson Street Shelter has closed for the season, and possibly for good, I’m going to break down the numbers of the preliminary phase of my assessment to show what LESS THAN $500 dollars can produce in terms of an informed perspective on what’s happening in and around Missoula. Here’s the breakdown:

Business contacts: 8
Government/community contacts: 17
Houseless contacts: 3

Cost to Travis' Impact Fund (TIF): $322.55

Click the link above if you want to support my TIF, or go to my about page if you want to provide a general donation. Thank you for the support!

by Travis Mateer

Before getting to my experience watching the STATE OF THE COMMUNITY held at the Double Tree Hotel yesterday, I’d like to say how impressively uninformative local media coverage has been thus far. What I’ve read has focused primarily on the 10 minute speeches each local leader gave the full room. For context on those local leaders, here’s the link to Part I.

I went to Twitter to see what other coverage I might find. This also didn’t produce much, except for a few tweets from Colter Nuanez, like this one:

What else might have been news worthy about this State of the community? Maybe the questions posed to these three city/county leaders and the answers they formulated. Instead, coverage like this article by Martin “Gomer” Kidston contains barely anything worth highlighting, except this claim from President Bodnar that a loss of confidence in the value of a college education is a national security problem. From the link (emphasis mine):

“We all should be concerned about the numerous polls that show public confidence in higher education has been eroding for over a decade,” he said. “This is the largest national security challenge that no one is talking about. We’ve staked our claim as a country as an innovation-based economy. Innovation requires education. We have to address that.”

I have a hard time taking Bodnar’s worry about national security seriously, considering his former position leading a transnational corporation after getting Rhodes-scholar-educated at an institution like Oxford.

Oh, but Seth Bodnar used the word KIDDO, so forget everything I just said. Anyone who uses the word KIDDO is clearly incapable of doing anything wrong, so hopefully that sex-based discrimination lawsuit will be dropped, especially if NATIONAL SECURITY is on the line!

Another lawsuit NOT mentioned, since events like these omit inconvenient realities in order to paint a pretty picture of community STRENGTH, is the Reep Bell & Jasper payday for the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office.

Is that why our newly elected Sheriff, Jeremiah Petersen, wasn’t in attendance yesterday? I can’t say. I also can’t say if our lead County Attorney, Kirsten Pabst, was in attendance, because I didn’t see her. Mike Colyer, our placeholder Police Chief, was in attendance, and that’s good because the question I helped my table craft had to do with public safety. Here’s the question I asked about our ever-expanding growth in a valley contained by mountains:

For those who support encouraging expansion, or claim it’s inevitable, how do you propose addressing gaps in our criminal justice system to ensure public safety?

The response to this question was less than satisfactory, and basically entailed Hess and Slotnick talking about the jail diversion program and specialized courts, like a “shelter court” that allows people staying at the Poverello Center to appear in court via Zoom from the shelter. Isn’t that convenient?

The mobile support team was also mentioned, as well as a “receiving center” that will be opening in the fall or winter of this year, but nothing was said about the revolving door some individuals seem to experience despite committing violent crimes.

Instead of worrying about violent crime, Hess and Slotnick were MUCH more animated when calling out the legislature for the culture war antics playing out in Helena. At one point the grandstanding even elicited applause. So it’s no surprise the Missoulian chose that aspect to focus on in their article. From the link:

Two of the highest-ranking elected officials in Missoula, both Democrats, excoriated the Republican-controlled Montana Legislature on Monday afternoon for what they say is the state lawmaking body’s push to reduce local control and discriminate against segments of the population.

Missoula County Commissioner Josh Slotnick and Missoula Mayor Jordan Hess spoke at City Club Missoula’s annual State of the Community luncheon along with University of Montana President Seth Bodnar. They were asked by an audience member to state anything they were happy or unhappy with from the Legislature’s session this year.

Both Slotnick and Hess made an apparent reference to a proposed bill that would block gender-affirming care for transgender minors. Senate Bill 99 was introduced by Sen. John Fuller, a Whitefish Republican. Another pending bill would make it lawful to deadname and misgender trans youth.

Did I applaud when Mayor Hess referred to the bill aimed at restraining Tax Increment Financing as one of the biggest threats coming out of Helena? No, but I definitely smirked, because our leaders know there’s an actual chance SB 523 could get passed and become law.

After the event concluded I lurked near the lunch I didn’t pay for, feeling hungry, so I decided to ask if I could have a Caesar wrap. Not only did I get a free wrap, I also got the impression that my inquiry to City Club last month about hosting a criminal justice forum is being discussed, at least that is what I was told. Maybe it pays to keep the ranting and raving in check, at least in real life?

Does ranting have a place in media? Next month’s City Club topic might provide an answer, since the topic is “current media landscape”. I’ll definitely be attending that one.

If you appreciate my coverage of events like these, please consider making a donation at my about page, or you can choose to support Travis’ Impact Fund (TIF).

Thanks for reading!

by Travis Mateer

Is the state of our community strong? That’s what our Mayor, County Commissioner, and University President want you to think by calling Monday’s State of the Community address NAVIGATING CHANGE IN A STRONG COMMUNITY.

What makes a strong community? If you follow “Strong Towns” on Twitter, you may discover that some people’s definition of “strength” isn’t compatible with your own.

Yes, people are great, but sometimes people can ALSO be trashy, dangerous assholes. Law enforcement understands this all too well, and it can burn them out. Likewise with social service providers. So how do you convince them that our community is strong when they’re spending their time flying drones over homeless camps?

I like this bird’s eye view, it’s much safer than my on-the-ground approach. Maybe I should take notes from people who fly drones. I wonder, could the pilot of this drone connect me with anyone else who flies drones in Missoula?

In the animal kingdom, taking what you want is a clear sign of strength. I thought we humans were supposed to be more evolved than that, but maybe I’m wrong. Maybe my liberal arts education, with an emphasis on literature and creative writing, was a giant mistake that fucked up my thinking. Maybe I should be more like this character:

How will Jordan Hess (Mayor), Seth Bodnar (UM Prez), and Josh Slotnick (1/3 of Commissioners) define STRENGTH?

Maybe instead of focusing on the word STRENGTH I should be more aware of the MULTI-MODES involved in the processes of NAVIGATION. Our UM Prez, The Bod, is very aware of this, since his pedigree includes running General Electric’s Transportation division, or whatever these corporate monsters call it. Here’s a great breakdown of The Bod’s resume:

It gets worse, or more impressive, depending on where you’re standing in this globalized control grid we’re getting ensured in, when you see the educational part of this dude’s credentials. From the same link (emphasis mine):

Bodnar, a Rhodes and Truman scholar, earned two master’s degrees at Oxford University. He graduated first in his class at West Point and later taught classes as a faculty member at the military academy.

Representing the two-wheel mode of radical transformation for Missoula’s transportation infrastructure, here’s a more-than-appropriate picture of Mayor Hess sporting the color LIME:

See that white stuff on the mountain back there? That white stuff is a natural element that brave Multi-Modal Zealots (MMZs) are simply undeterred by. If sturdy MMZs who bravely ride bikes through snow aren’t the epitome of strength, I don’t know what is.

Last, but certainly not least, we have Josh Slotnick, our first Poet/Commissioner, but hopefully not our last 😉 Step up to the mic, Poet Slotnick!

How is Josh Slotnick at navigation? Well, his performance of mea culpa after that poorly disclosed conflict of interest issue seemed to go pretty good, so maybe Slotnick is a STRONG NAVIGATOR than I thought. Just don’t ask former Commish, Jean Curtis, about it, because I think she’s a little angry at some of our elected leaders. From the link:

On February 9^th, Missoula County commissioners approved a zoning variance for Corner Farm Village, LLC. Josh Slotnick is a partner in that corporation.

The lack of transparency from WGM Group, planning staff and the Missoula County Board of County Commissioners, especially Josh Slotnick, makes it look like they are trying to fly below the radar.

His name was not mentioned in the presentation. His wife’s name was but they have different last names. While he was not present at the hearing where the decision was made and therefore, did not vote, he should have publicly declared his conflict of interest.

The variance came before the Missoula County Board of County Commissioners of which he is a member. Commissioners Strohmaier and Vero knew this was Josh’s project and should have stated that on the record.

The subject property is within Citizen Initiated Zoning District #13. The regulations prohibit any commercial use and allows 2 dwelling units per acre. There is a variance process and based on their decision, a strong case must have been made for an unnecessary hardship.

Is this an example of strongly navigating change? No, but give this farmer poet a break. His organic food might be important if our NATIONAL strength is less than what we’re being told by our totally trustworthy national political leadership.

So, what are the highlights of today’s STATE OF THE COMMUNITY? I’m going to leave that for Part II, which will come out tomorrow.

Thank you for the support, and stay tuned for more to come.

by Travis Mateer

Date: April 7th, 2023
Time: 11:30-12:30pm; 2:30pm-3:30pm
Location: West Broadway Island 
          plus Silver Park
Business contacts: 1
Government/community contacts: 3
Houseless contact: 0

I recently had the chance to thank Council person, Daniel Carlino, for exhibiting compassion in multiple statements to his colleagues on Council about their fiscal priorities as the closure date for the Johnson Street Shelter officially arrives today, April 10th. I explained to Carlino that long ago I experienced compassion fatigue due to my years working with the kinds of people who stalk ducks and try to harm them with rocks.

Yes, that is what I captured in a brief video clip, which the still image above is taken from. Did this grown man chucking rocks at ducks hit anything? No, but he got close. Really, I should thank this guy, since my filming of his antics from across the river led to a nice conversation with a resident of the area who is tired of this bullshit.

How tired? Chainsaw the vegetation down to keep the riff-raff out kind of tired, especially after “Mr. Coffee” finally got arrested for doing this:

This act of violence occurred in July of 2022, so I can sympathize with this woman’s current frustration, since “Mr. Coffee” is the man she had to contend with camping illegally near her home.

To help further explain citizen frustration in Missoula, here are some pictures I took AFTER homeless service providers recently claimed these illegal camps were mostly clean:

The ASSESS part of the AA reporting phase is going splendidly, but there’s that other “A” to keep in mind, and that’s ADDRESSING some of this garbage.

Well, one of the community contacts in my quantitive data is a phone call to sign up for the Clark Fork Coalition’s river clean-up on Earth Day in order to specifically address the site documented in the last report, which I’ll include a link to below. I also spoke with a contact I have now with Fish Wildlife & Parks about this upcoming clean-up, specifically, and the array of services I have to offer, generally speaking.

Before getting to the video (which has some music by Noise Complaint) I’ll put links to the first three reports below. Thank you to ALL who are supporting Travis’ Impact Fund (TIF) and/or using the donation button at my about page.

AA#1-Travis' Impact Fund's First Report!

AA#2-From North Russell To Camper Fire

AA#3-From Kim Williams Trail To North Hellgate

Plus a special report about SB 523 and HB 112

Now, here’s the video report featuring Noise Complaint!

https://vimeo.com/815803739

by Travis Mateer

I had a hunch the timing was right for me to see this film, directed by Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko), but I wasn’t prepared for how explicitly synchronized my experience would be as Easter eve flipped to Resurrection Day for Jesus.

Are you ready to break reality with me? Because movies, and numbers, and the esoteric interpretations of symbolism and synchronicity can get pretty out there, so buckle up, readers, because shit is about to get WEIRD.

For me, number break-downs, like the tweet pictured above, aren’t compelling until additional synchronicities start accumulating. I’m especially curious about synchronicities that have fiction/non-fiction bleed-through, so to speak.

One example of this, to show you what I’m talking about, is the fact Dwayne Johnson character’s name (one of two) is Boxer Santaros. Why is this significant to real world happenings for me? Maybe this image will help explain it:

That’s right, last night Trump was ringside with BOXER, Mike Tyson, and Kid ROCK, the sudden critic of Bud Light. Do I need to mention that Dwayne THE ROCK Johnson has been a professional wrestler in his career? And should I mention prominent Bud Light ads can be seen in the film?

It’s also important to note, since we’re talking about JESUS in this movie, that some people actually think Donald Trump is the messiah, or anti-Christ, depending on where you’re standing. This perspective isn’t helped by the fact Mel Gibson, who made a little movie about Jesus, seemingly saluted Trump last night at this same event.

The cultural and personal references accumulated for me so quickly, and continue to do so this morning (Easter morning), that it’s going to be difficult to make this sound coherent. I can’t even put on a fucking t-shirt without the image directly connecting to the movie. Here’s a selfie, then I’ll explain the significance.

Here are some of the elements in this image sending me off the deep-end. First, the owl icon is from the movie Bladerunner, and it represents the Tyrell Corporation. That movie is based on a book by Philip K. Dick. You can see him pictured behind me, just above the tattoo on my arm, which is ALSO significant.

First, the book by PKD referenced in Southland Tales is titled Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said, and the reference comes when a cop says “flow my tears…” before committing a double homicide. Going deeper, another character in the movie has a name that is really screwing me up on a personal level. How am I going to explain this without sounding nuts?

Ok, let’s start with the fictional name of the character, a cop by the name of Roland Taverner. That last name is a direct reference to the character in PKD’s novel, JASON Taverner. From Wikipedia (emphasis mine):

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said is a 1974 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. The novel is set in a futuristic dystopia where the United States has become a police state in the aftermath of a Second American Civil War. The story follows genetically enhanced pop singer and television star Jason Taverner who wakes up in a world where he has never existed.

Where things get weird for me is the REAL name of the actor who plays Roland (another name with significance I’ll get to in a sec), and that name is Seann William Scott. Why? Because William is my middle name, and the name I took on for my poet persona. And Seann (minus an “n”) is the name of the man killed at the homeless shelter where I used to work, Sean Stevenson.

It goes deeper, but I’m trying to pace myself, because now I’m going to discuss two famous poets, my middle child, and how the Stephen King reference plays in to all this.

One of the background storylines in the movie is a political campaign. The candidate at the top of the ticket is Eliot, spelled just like the poet credited for kicking off modernist despair with his epic, The Wasteland. Also, the name of my second child, who was born in October (the tattoo on my arm, visible in the picture, are the horoscope signs of my family, so you can see Eliot’s Libra sign).

The Wasteland is also a poem Stephen King references in his fictional epic, the Dark Tower series, which features the gunslinger protagonist, Roland. Another aspect of King that resonates with me is his choice of Colorado Springs as a key location in his book, The Stand. Not only does this location have Tesla/Trump connotations, it also has personal Sean/William significance. Are you keeping up, dear reader?

The other name on the political ticket is also a cultural reference to a famous poet, and that’s Frost, as in Bob Frost, or Robert Frost. If the name isn’t obvious enough, a line from one of Frost’s most well-known poems is used in the movie, the one about roads taken and NOT taken.

Have I mentioned that Southland Tales is about the Apocalypse? Maybe I should include a brief synopsis of the film before moving to the biggest synchronicity of all time. Ok, here it is:

On July 4th, 2005, in a fictionalized United States alternate history reality, two towns in Texas (El Paso and Abilene) were destroyed by twin nuclear attacks, killing thousands and triggering a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions, sending America into a state of chaos and hysteria, as well as a Third World War (a fictionalized version of what the nation may have become under the War on Terror), with the US government re-introducing the draft.

The PATRIOT Act has extended authority to a new agency known as US-IDent, which keeps constant surveillance on citizens—even to the extent of censoring the Internet and requiring fingerprints to access computers and bank accounts. In response to the recent fuel shortage in the wake of global warfare, the German company Treer designs a generator of inexhaustible energy, which is propelled by the perpetual motion of ocean currents, called “Fluid Karma”. However, its inventor Baron von Westphalen and his associates are hiding the fact that the generators alter the ocean’s currents and cause the Earth to slow its rotation, and that the transmission of Fluid Karma to portable receivers (via quantum entanglement) is ripping holes in the fabric of space and time.

In near-future 2008, Los Angeles (referred to as “The Southland” by locals) is a dystopian[11] city on the brink of chaos overshadowed by the growth of an underground neo-Marxist organization. The film follows the criss-crossed destinies of Boxer Santaros, an action film actor stricken with amnesia; Krysta Now, a psychic ex–porn star in the midst of creating a reality TV show; and twin brothers Roland and Ronald Taverner, whose destinies become intertwined with that of all mankind. The Taverner twins are revealed to be the same person by the engineers of Treer, duplicated when Roland traveled through a rift in space-time, while Boxer has become the most wanted man in the world despite his political ties and his having the fate of the future, in the form of a prophetic screenplay foretelling the end of the world, in his hands.

I know some people who will be reading this post, and they live in Texas. That is where their family is from, though they have all lived in different places over the years. This family has an amazing patriarch. How amazing? I asked him for some credentials months ago, hoping to compel some state officials behind the scenes, but it never got that far.

Well, today is THE PERFECT DAY to show readers of this humble little blog the credentials of this impressive man, so here is a little idea of what my work is connected to:

A very brief Bio Biographical Background of Dr. Kenneth E. Stevenson (shortened version) 

Dr. Kenneth Stevenson grew up in an inner-city Pittsburgh neighborhood. Stevenson won a Congressional appointment to the Air Force Academy, beginning a fourteen-year Air Force career which saw Stevenson graduate as one of only six blacks in his class.   Stevenson was assigned to the Strategic Air Command (SAC) as a B-52 co-pilot and later as an instructor-copilot.

In Southeast Asia, he amassed almost 1200 combat flying hours and 210 combat missions. He received ten Air Medals and three Distinguished Flying Crosses for his service. He commanded his own B-52 crew at the age of 25, and was one of the youngest commanders in SAC.  

Stevenson achieved a Master’s degree Cum Laude in only nine months, from the University of Pittsburgh. Thereafter, he was assigned to the faculty of the Air Force Academy where he taught English. In 1992, he obtained his first doctoral degree, and in 1994, obtained a second doctoral degree.   The U.S. Jaycees selected Stevenson as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of America. Congressman Moorehead of Pittsburgh also recognized him in the Congressional Record for his outstanding achievements. 

Dr. Stevenson later worked as a marketing representative and a corporate pilot for IBM, where he received the IBM 100% Club award for two consecutive years.   In 1985, Stevenson and his wife Mary Ann founded Everlasting Covenant Christian Ekklesia in New York, a culturally diverse church of over 700. They also established and served as principals of Everlasting Covenant Christian Academy, a private Christian school for the pursuit of excellence in all life disciplines. 

Stevenson founded a second congregation in the city of Pittsburgh, and later a school there that would serve its underprivileged youth. Renaissance Academy of Pittsburgh Alternative of Hope (RAPAH) Charter School opened in 2003, achieving Four Star academic excellence. 

Dr. Stevenson has also published numerous works and has appeared on many television and radio programs. He was the Recording Secretary for the Shroud of Turin Research Project (STURP), having accompanied the American scientific team to Turin in October 1978 to study the Shroud. Stevenson edited The Proceedings of the 1977 United States Conference of Research on the Shroud of Turin. and was the author and co-author of internationally known best sellers in the United States on the subject: Verdict on the Shroud, The Shroud and the Controversy,  Image of the Risen Christ, and his latest book, NAZAH: White Linen and the Blood of Sprinkling.

Dr. Stevenson has also authored other notable publications.  In addition, he produced the documentary “Behold the Man” which airs annually on Christian television. Dr. Stevenson and his wife, Mary, currently continue as co-pastors to the New York Congregation, and a growing internet audience.

Are you starting to make the connections? Are you starting to realize that the son of a man with a strong faith in God came to Missoula for help and instead found death? But not immediately. No, the assault was on January 3rd, 2020, but Sean Stevenson wasn’t removed from life support by the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office until January 5th, three days later. Are you beginning to see what is happening here?

Look at the picture of this young man who became a father and lost a son. The synchronicities surrounding what is happening here have a depth that continually blows me away, and I haven’t even gotten to the biggest one yet, because there’s still Jane’s Addiction and rollerblades to deal with.

The timeframe of “three days” obviously has relevance to those of the Christian faith, since it was the amount of time Jesus spent dead in the tomb before resurrection. Three Days is also a song by Jane’s Addiction, one of my personal favorite.

Did I listen to Jane’s Addiction while rollerblading during the 90’s? Not that I can recall, but I HAVE spent time recently on wheels, and even more recently a semi-famous wannabe cult leader, who fled to Northern Idaho after being cancelled by Hollywood, has taken direct aim at rollerbladers.

While Benjamin’s tweets are pretty damn funny, I had an experience last summer where some bro-holes had some shit to say as I was enjoying a roll on a Missoula downtown sidewalk. So I took notice when Southland Tales has a secondary character get mowed down while rollerblading, clearly mocking this 90’s phenomenon.

The last connection that takes this out of the stratosphere is one I only noticed while write this post because I don’t recall Kevin Smith appearing in the movie, but he apparently did. Here’s the character he plays:

Why is this so significant? I’ll tell you, but I’m not going to tell you EVERYTHING in this post. What I will say is Kevin Smith made a movie, and that movie’s title is DOGMA. In that movie a synchronicity exists involving the Stevenson family, and it’s mind-blowing.

There’s enough information in this post, from my perspective, to put together what I’m not-so-subtly hinting at, but you have to CARE enough about Sean’s life to do some of the work on your own. I don’t feel the timing is right for complete disclosure yet.

Some of the references and ideas I don’t have space or bandwidth to go into deeply, but I feel are definitely noteworthy, include Justin Timberlake’s character, Private Pilot Abilene, and the prevalence of smiley faces everywhere around his character. This relates to water, and the technology in the movie that draws energy from the ocean. I have some thoughts on this that are no where near formed enough to share yet, but touch on the idea of “wet” circuits, AI, and quantum physics.

How is that for a 2023 Easter-year-of-the-rabbit-Sunday bonus post? If you would like to support my crazy approach to content creation, Travis’ Impact Fund (TIF) is ready for your donation, as is the button at my about page.

Thanks for reading!