X-press Dispatch #1: Donald Mowat and Jake Gyllenhaal

Throwback pic is from the Nightcrawler set, circa Fall 2013

Another day, another use of a second degree of separation Instagram post to keep Jake Gyllenhaal relevant and in the public eye. A shared moment from a professional colleague that nudged Narnia Dispatches to take a quick second look at Donald Mowat's truncated biography page on IMDb. 

What leaps out immediately is how only a mini-biography, that abruptly ends in 2012, is presented. In other words, Mowat's abridged bio curiously ends just when he begins to start working with Jake routinely.  In fact, after 2012, Mowat has been stuck like glue to Jake Gyllenhaal movie projects in much the same way that Nick Payne seemed attached at the hip to Jake when it came to his theater productions (Constellations; If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet; Seawall/A Life?

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No, really.  Out of Jake Gyllenhaal’s 14 wide released films since signing with WME in 2012, Mowat has been the makeup designer for 6 of them. That’s right. If we include Prisoners, which began filming in 2012, Mowat has worked as Jake’s make-up artist in nearly 50% of his projects in just six years.

[We've crossed through misleading entries such Accidental Love, which was actually filmed in the spring of 2008, the video short and the TV series appearance.]

So one has to wonder what essential component might a makeup artist possess that would inspire Jake to forge such a deep and abiding relationship with one? Maybe Mr. Mowat is a person Jake  can trust. A person who knows how to keep secrets. 

A CAVE OF SECRETS

The hair and makeup trailer is notorious as Ground Zero for set gossip, and every actor knows it. Says Scott, “Especially on the first day, I’ll never name names when I tell stories. I hardly even bring up examples of other people I’ve worked with. [Actors] pick up on the fact that you respect privacy in general. Then they start to trust that you’re going to respect their privacy.”
“Everything is about trust,”  Filmmaker Magazine

In other words, the makeup trailer is like a sanctuary for an performer in production.  A place where an actor can go to decompress, to hideaway from the hustle and bustle on set, and to perhaps have some quiet time away from others that NDAs may protect you from, but just don't provide the kind of separate physical spaces needed to truly feel safe. Since so many artists are in the closet that alone would not explain Jake's deep attachment to Mowat. Which means that the secrets being hidden away from the world must be much larger than that. Like maybe those children Jake keeps reminding everyone that he doesn't have, yet continues to lament year after year how much he wants. Those kids he just never seems to have time to get around to having. At least not publicly.

As a result, there may have been a more personal reason why access to Jake on set in New Mexico was so tightly controlled when filming Brothers in December 2007. And guess, what? A makeup artist was the excuse for the seclusion even back then.

 Jake near his trailer with an unidentified woman.

A mystery woman that the strategically well-timed story published in the PR go-to rag, Popcrunch (November 2007), easily fit the bill for this concocted battle between Jake and Tobey Maguire. Although we here at Narnia don't know too many makeup artists who "stay with the actor" during a shoot, we do know a few live in nannies who might fit the bill.

..."he'll let her stay with him during the shoot"???? Reeally?

Given that this makeup artist story appeared just a little over a month after the rumor of Jake and Austin Nichols having a surrogate baby together in October 2007, a nanny would be an essential companion for a working actor. Particularly, since Mr. Nichols had been flown to Uruguay, of all places, to provide just the proper cover distance to convince the public that no there-there existed after all. In normal closeting times, it's important to make sure those OTPs are not on the same continent, even while working. Even more so, when a secret baby is involved.

Perhaps this mystery woman, might also explain Just Jared's snarky comment back in the day when he still had some gumption to go rogue every now and then. So the woman holding that big black diaper bag is not Reese Witherspoon. Got it, Jared.

Now we don't know if Donald Mowat likes to wear pink beanies on set *sarcasm intended*, but we do know that he continues to enjoy a special relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal throughout the years. One of those rare individuals he has actually allowed inside that circle of trust. Year after year, hidden away from the world. After working with Jake on six movies in just eight years, who knows what kind of secrets Mowat might hold which could inspire him to be hired over and over again. All we do know, is that children do like familiarity and Jake does have a history with secret rendezvousing and movie trailers. How reassuring to have an ally around who can be trusted at all times; where no explanations are necessary whenever under the radar meet ups are needed, or that private phone call, just to check-in, needs to be made.  Just sayin'.


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From TMZ.com, April 10, 2007, 1:30pm PDT:

Jake's New BFF

Forget Matt and Lance, Jake Gyllenhaal has a new buddy.

Jake was spotted in San Diego last week, visiting the set of HBO's pilot "John from Cincinnati," where his pal Austin Nichols plays the lead. Gyllenhaal arrived and was immediately escorted to Nichols' trailer, where they spent most of the day. Austin left the trailer only to grab some grub for the two from catering tables. This photo shows the best friends at a Lakers game in 2006.  

Pic/research sources:  Just Jared; TMZ; PopCrunch; IMDb; Mowat Instagram

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Detention Time with Jake Gyllenhaal and his Band of Merry Grammers

Narnia comes to our blog today not to ignore what is going on in America currently, but to focus for just a while, on what we do.   

Seven (7) years ago today, we want to tip our hat and acknowledge a special anniversary in Jake and Austin's joint history. 

The Club Lounge.

The wrap-up can be read here from our 30 Days of Toothy Tile, Grey Goose and the Baby Tiles - Day 25, which chronicles the tweet sighting of Jake at the Ritz Carlton Club Lounge in L.A., the days leading up to the sighting and the PR Repair afterwards.

The day we began talking on Oh My Godot blogspot in the unlikely post "Looking for Loki", but one which served as a vessel for a classic case of a pr team's intern being sent in to dispute and discourage discussion occurred.  The visit was a classic example of the many times a troll took up residence on an OMG thread, persistent in arguing and usually culminating with personal attacking, as evidenced by the deletion of comments.

And the next day, June 2, on one of Special's Out Spotlight's which focused on Sam Harris, the discussion turned to the PR Repair as Jake was suddenly photographed "arriving" into Los Angeles at LAX in some of the most ridiculous "pap" pics he'd had to do.  And these airport photos were some of the last that we've seen Jake do ever since.  In an excellent analysis of the LAX photos by Special K, called "A Little Song and Dance",  some good points are made and M&M provides excellent explanations and scenarios.  (This particular author only irritated and attracted the ire of a scoffer. Sorry, Special! 😞 lol)

Clearly, this was a memorable moment in Baby Tile lore and one of the last of the organic sightings we've had of either Jake or Austin.  Now, they "slip through the cracks on purpose" on social media, barring the organic Romulus flight sighting (covered in the November 30, 2016 post "One If By Tile, Two If By @Austinnichols Family").  

Aaaaah, good times!  Today, we remember fondly.  Hard to believe it's been seven years.


→→→→→→→

While Jake has disappeared again into his prairie dog hole, and we entertain ourselves with recycled, old pictures -

Wait, what?  What did you say?  There are some new pictures of Jake?  Where?  What's he doing?  And they're nice ones?

Well, we at Narnia Dispatches are very sorry to say that we cannot share them.  You see, this literal smattering of unseen photos of Jake look to be current (we assume because of the "Prince of Persia"-like length of his brunette locks),

but we don't know that for certain only because well, the photos are difficult to locate the original source, even though the account with the watermark all over them refers those who ask "Where did you get these pictures?", to reach out to @CriterionCollection.  

It would seem the screencaps likely come from a "new interview" with the actors and others associated with the film Wildlife and is a bonus feature of the DVD.  Apparently, @jakey_gyllenhaal (a "fanpage" Instagram account) had her copy of the DVD express shipped because just three (3) days later after the DVD was available on release , here she is with HD HQ screencaps from the interview.

With her watermark on them.

When another supposed Jake Instagram fan account (@jakegyllenhaalphoto) re-posts two of the new photos, they are scolded by yet another Jake account (@gyllenatic) for "stealing!!" the photos from @jakey_gyllenhaal, whom we must now assume has exclusive rights to the HD HQ photos. @gyllenatic proceeds to then tattle of this horrific crime to two additional Jake fan accounts, who then come scurrying over to also hurl stones at @jakegyllenhaalphoto.

And then the other half of the Jake Cavalry, aka @chaoticjakekilledthedinosaurs, came over with their ruler.

Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk.   Pardon this author while she steps outside for a moment to have a private moment of being humored.

I don't know, but I think we here at Narnia have ridden this merry-go-round before and the source of the gall was our old friend from the past, jakebullshittingovereverybody.  😉

What is also fascinating over this policing and fretting over "photo credits" and "stealing from the internet", is this same account who created the fabulous "edit", also posted this interesting photo,

Entitled "Jake with tattoos", this photo seems to show our Jakers with tats on both forearms!  When did he get those?  They must be real because there does not look to be a hashtag of "manip" or "filter" or "specialedit", etc. in that mass listing of hashtags. They do not appear to be from his Southpaw filming days as his character's arms did not have tattoos in that area of his forearms.  Perhaps from Prisoners?  Just askin'.


Jake's team seems a bit obsessed with controlling pictures of their client, don't they?  


Now comes this new friendly and helpful warning from a Wiki How about posting photos on your Blogger page.  Dated May 14, 2020:

Hmmm.  Wow, Blogger.

Lucky for these Jake fanpages, Instagram is more of a leash-free dog park, so to speak, huh?  Because otherwise, the "fanpage" Instagram account would've had to order the DVD, receive the package in the mail within three (3) days, in order to have time to contact Criterion Collection (and receive a reply) for permission to create those HD HQ screen caps of Jake from the interview, not to mention an actual video clip, in order to post them on her Instagram page.  Phew!


I'm just asking, just asking.  Pondering out loud.  Speculating.  Entertaining ideas.




HAPPY CLUB LOUNGE DAY, everyone.  

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When You Need Cover-Up for Your Cover-Up

A live look at WME/Endeavor and Jake Gyllenhaal's Public Relations Team after their dastardly doin's of having Austin's July 14 Instagram post altered.

In case you were not aware, after Narnia Dispatches published "The Quietest Clapback" on Sunday, July 14, Austin's Instagram post was changed quite noticeably.  Gone was the pointed and personalized "Hey @tomholland2013 can I be Spider Man when I grow up?" and replaced with the generic, "I'm gonna be Spider Man when I grow up" @spidermanmovie @marvelstudios.  

  Here's the original statement, posted on July 11.

And then orders were issued from on high, and an intern took out their correction tape,

and voila!

View this post on Instagram

I’m gonna be Spider-Man when I grow up. @spidermanmovie @marvelstudios

A post shared by Austin Nichols (@austinnichols) on Jul 11, 2019 at 11:55am PDT

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm not exactly hearing Sergeant Schultz here, lol.

Perhaps Junior had some kind of objection???  Maybe someone stayed after class to talk to the teacher?  Holland???

Narnia will stand behind Austin full stop on this one.  He has been censored; put in his place.  Imagine those of you, like myself, who are on social media and someone either tells you to change your tweet or Tumblr post, or has access to your account and takes an eraser to your thoughts and expressions.  They then take out that Fat Sharpie and scribble words for you.  "Here.  This is what you really meant to say, isn't it?"

Austin and Jake came to an agreement on their life road a long time ago.  But it is times like this that reminds them both of the price that comes from being in the closet and publicly denying that the other exists.

Perhaps Jake needs to look at his life partner and realize that most folks have a threshold level for tolerance of all the nonsense that he pulled with Holland. No matter how scripted, words and actions can have consequences on other people.  This goes for any romantic partner of Holland's as well. 

Remember that WME/Endeavor also manages Tom Holland (no surprise there), so they have a built-in win-win with this kind of redaction.  What they didn't win at was totally erasing the original post.  Sorry fellas.

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                     You Can't Change That - Raydio

Some Things Never Change - and That's The Jam!

Ha ha ha ha, Jason Nesmith from Galaxy Quest is Team Narnia after watching the Jake and Austin show following the last Sea Wall/A Life performance on Sunday, March 30.  [We assume those performances took place and Jake didn't slide out for recess ahead of time.]   ;-)

There were the few obligatory "Jake in the Public Theater Lobby" photos with fans, but on Monday, April 1, we were privy to four (that's right, FOUR!) pics of NYC sidewalk walking complete with air buds, beanie with strategically-facing label, the army green bomber jacket, the workshop blue pants, pristine white sneakers, and the eyes-not-on-path position, face in phone.

We're not sharing the pictures, so if you've not seen them already; just envision the sight in your mind.  We've seen this pose plenty of times, if we just close our eyes, the image should come right to us!

On Tuesday, April 2, Jake was portrayed to be in L.A., having run into a gentleman named Ken Dawg outside of Crossroads Kitchen, an upscale, vegan restaurant Jake is supposed to have been spotted at before.  Ken Dawg is a courageous burn survivor and motivational speaker, according to his Instagram profile.  His post also happens to mention that Jake has a movie soon to be released, even providing the name of the movie in his Instagram post.  

Conclusion:  Jake could be anywhere.

And Austin?  Well, we all know how quiet he's been, but as soon as Jake's play is over, we're privy to a picture of him on his Triumph, sans helmet (????)

and a couple of Instagram "stories" with the narration telling us Austin and his beard Chumley (aka Hassle "Hassie" Harrison) are hanging out with his nieces and nephew.   In Austin, TX.

Conclusion:  Austin could be anywhere.

As opposed to what social media is trying to tell us.

Jake in New York City....then Los Angeles....

Austin in....Austin, TX!!!

How long have we been doing this, folks?  I think it's My Little Pony in Groundhog Day.  ;-)

*sigh* 

UPDATE:  April 6, 2019

And now predictably, since Jake is really incognito, enjoying family time, his social media team has begun Operation Month of April (Austin's birthday month).  Time to feed the Tom Holland fans with some contrived "bromance" appetizers in preparation for the later onslaught.

And some Tumblr contrived drama:

This will be the demographic that Jake's public relations and social media teams will be aiming at and now probably explains this latest photo that Jake posted on his Instagram.  

What 99% of the public doesn't realize is this is likely one of his and Austin's kids' toy cars that they received for their birthday or Christmas.  LOL!

Anyway....some look-over-here while Jake is somewhere else being all domesticated.  (and no one is gladder than Austy! *wink*)

So, there's our Narnia Update on these two.  We hope that they and the fam are enjoying some down time together before Papa grabs his lunch pail and goes off to work again.  

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                     Holiday Road - Lindsey Buckingham
                     Morning Train - Sheena Easton

Bleacher Observations II: Did Mr. Clean Join Jake Gyllenhaal's Social Media Team?

A stealth glance into the top desk drawer of someone's Social Media Team's desk:

Exhibit A shows some pretty dirty, used erase scrubbers.  To the left, a small stock of fresh ones.  Looks like someone's been busy, doesn't it?  Hard at it?


Scrubbing the internet is nothing new.  Remarks in interviews which revealed too much, inflammatory or regretful tweets taken down, or in the case of Oh My Godot, when M&M or I have gone back to old posts to find a link, only to find the dreaded "404".  Gone.  "Doesn't exist".  There's also the intentionally controversial tweet or post, followed by quick deletion, pretending to look like an "oops" just occurred, but online just long enough for "fan" accounts to see and download.  But that's a whole 'nother matter. This author tends to get derailed easily and let's get back to our intended topic.  ;D


On March 2, we at Narnia were initially intrigued that one visitor in particular was visiting our site daily and looking at everything.  Post after post after post. Not that this hasn't happened before.  But whoever this particular person was, really seemed interested!  

 Statcounter tells us that this person has paid 81 visits (as of today, 03/17) over 18 days?  Actually, it began to be creepy. M&M and I noticed how many pictures were being downloaded and we began to suspect we had a PR intern doing the intense scoping.  Then, on Thursday evening, I was looking again at statistics of this particular visitor and noticed a pattern of "exit links" following downloads.  

First of all, many of you know about the web track analysis tool called Statcounter. Narnia uses Statcounter because we're curious about who visits the blog and seeing what topics are popular.  Statcounter will break down a lot of different aspects for users and one of them is "downloads", which means someone is copying a picture from a post.  "Exit link" means the visitor has clicked on a location in the post to take a firsthand look at whatever the link was connected to - a webpage, an Instagram post, or a tweet.  Not any big deal at all. I know that my account is seen by various sites when I visit as well.  And we all share pictures that we have found elsewhere - one of the best parts about the internet.
But like anything else when there is an overabundance of activity, this heavy downloading raised our curiosity.  I clicked on a couple of the "exit links" of this particular visitor from "Brighton UK" and believe it or not, the source from the link no longer existed.  "Hmmm...okay, that's odd."  So I checked another one.  Also "no longer exists".  Already, the bad feeling was creeping in....

And it began to hit me what this visitor was doing.  I checked several more and if the links weren't scrubbed (deleted), the instagram or twitter account was now set on private.  

Sometimes I will "embed" a tweet into a Narnia post, meaning I'm taking an HTML code that every tweet has and I can place it into the blog so that it will show up in its natural state like this:

pic.twitter.com/nUTnJh9u3k

— DumpaDay (@DumpaDay) March 15, 2019

 

But having learned from past mistakes (of links or pictures being taken down), I also will make a JPEG picture out of tweets and Instagram posts.  That way, if the tweet is deleted for whatever reason, I have a copy of it in its full, original form.  If you simply embed a tweet into a post and it gets deleted later on in time, the original formatting is not only lost, but you lose the link altogether! lol.  That's not good. 

Let's take a look at a couple of examples of what was being seen:

Here is a snippet of a Narnia blog visit from our "Brighton UK visitor".   You can see the date and then the time, followed by the URL of the web page they looked at.  It might be a bit blurry, but in this small screenshot alone, one can see that "Brighton" was looking at many posts. This in itself is nothing unusual or alarming. Normally, it's welcomed.  But, there are three "Exit Link's" right in the middle of the activity, two of which say "twitter" following the HyperText Transfer Protocol.  So, if those links are opened, I can see that twitter account, but oddly, the account is now set to "Private", meaning that the account's tweets no longer can be seen. Of course, at the time the two links were selected for our post, the account was not on private.

So now, if I go back to the Narnia post that this link was used in (and this is the case for both of those "Exit link" tweets (because "Brighton" exited the post to look at both of them), the tweets now look like this:

In other words, now that the account has been "privated", no one can see the tweet in its original form.  As a result, this section of the post looks (aesthetically) messed up and, let's face it, the most desired effect is to view a tweet in its original form.


Let's look at another example to show that there is a pattern of suspicious activity that is targeting Narnia Dispatches. Because people do private their accounts at times or take a tweet down.  It does happen.  Nothing to Henny Penny about it as an isolated event.

But, here's more download activity by our visitor on March 7 after they were looking at Narnia's post on photoshopping called Dastardly Darkroom Doins: Wake Up Call for OTP Fans.  There was all kinds of downloading going on of the photoshopped pictures. But notice at 19:33:43, the reader exited on one of the hyperlinks (and there were hardly any hyperlinks in this post, mostly pictures):

That particular link was to provide an attribution to a blogger's page about how she used photoshop to insert a balcony where there really was none, but it was to help her own business, not for nefarious purposes at all.


Now, her post is gone:

Fortunately, this does not damage Narnia's post but if you try to click on the hyper link following the words "Well, this was an interesting find", the link is going to take you to the 404 page, as evidenced directly above.

Let's look briefly at two more Narnia posts where the embedded tweets took several hits:  Never Too Late to Take a Way Back Look at Jake Gyllenhaal and Cannes 2017  which was a recap of all of the OTT narratives with Jakers/Paul Dano/Lily Collins at Cannes and then there was The Perils of a Michigan Taco Run which focused on a Jakers' sighting in Michigan at a Taco Bell - in other words, a place he wasn't supposed to get spotted at. Remember, Michigan is where Austin's family is from.

Here's Brighton's visit.  Notice the pattern of looking at various posts, followed by several downloads and then at the end, several "exit links".  Two of these were the same tweet link.  

Here is one of the places in the Cannes post where the "t.co" exit link" belonged to the tweet we had embedded for entertainment purposes.  ["t.co" in a URL indicates a tweet link] What remains are the words of the tweet ("jake gyllenhaal and steven yeun together at Cannes yes please thank you god"), but the tweet itself has been removed from the internet.

Notice, in the original Narnia post where the hyperlink reads (in green highlight) "pic.twitter.com/QgS9TtM7S8"?  That letter/number sequence matches the first listed exit link in the screenshot above at 23:18 of the visitor's activity:


"Pic.twitter" (which precedes the "t.co" in a URL link) also notes there is an image in that tweet.  So not only has the tweet now disappeared off the web, the attached picture is also gone. 


Are you still with me? LOL! We're all getting a quick lesson here, aren't we?  Where's Mr Kotter, our teacher?  Where's Professor Kingsfield?  ;-)


Of those five exit links in the screen shot of Brighton's visit (of which two are identical, which means there were actually only four exit links) - all four are now deleted from the internet.


Here are two more examples.  One can match the twit pic code to the exit link codes above and see that they match. "po9yzZve2k" and "8IFNHerlWj" match.  This is how I'm able to link the coincidence of a now-deleted tweet to the viewing activity of this particular "visitor."  It's really not looking so coincidental anymore now is it?

And as for the Michigan Taco Run post from February 27, 2017?
Well, there were a couple of casualties.

The "Jake Gyllenhaal is on my flight and here I go fan girling again" tweet - that account is now private-d.  The "flying home with jake gyllenhaal" tweet which included a twit pic of Jake is now deleted entirely.  (Fortunately, I had that tweet saved as a JPEG and I have now re-inserted it into the post.) #Winning

Interestingly, the hinky "flying home with Jake Gyllenhaal" tweet is one that our visitor exited from. In this screenshot from a March 13 visit, one can see where the Michigan Taco Run post was being looked at and at the very bottom, the exit link which contains the code "kjWjaAsiRC". This code matches exactly the same alphabetical sequence in @sarashenasky's tweet pic code of "pic.twitter.com/kjWJaAsiRC":

So for the past fifteen days, from March 2 through today, the 16th, here are Narnia's stats for this particular "visitor":


75 returning visits
286 downloads of images

In addition to these findings, this particular poster has subsequently visited Narnia many times and, interestingly enough, after  reviewing each link, this was what was discovered:

6 deleted twitter accounts - (meaning the entire account is gone)

20 deleted tweets
1 twitter account goosestile (my twitter) was blocked from viewing
3 twitter accounts set to private which Narnia had embedded from
1 deleted website link
1 suspended twitter account
4 deleted Instagram posts


This is just a sampling of all the changes which have occurred since the time Narnia had full access to these social media links, which were used for blog posts. What a coincidence!  That's a large amount of scrubbing, I mean "changes", don't you think? 

Well, maybe not such a coincidence really when one realizes that we are just months away from the beginnings of studio promotion for Spiderman: Far From Home, starring Jake as Mysterio alongside Junior, aka Tom Holland.  The flick will be the biggest movie Jake has worked on since Prince of Persia.  "Biggest" referring to budget and money spent on marketing.  Jake fans will not have seen the likes of this kind of promotion in many years, perhaps ever.


Disney's splashy influence on Prince of Persia was evident in the promotion back in 2010, and Jake was everywhere, promoting the film.  Spidey will be very much like Prince of Persia on steroids, of which we've already seen a few sneak peeks with the Brazil Comicon joint appearance and the plethora of "Romance with Junior" Instagrams, Instagram shipping comments, and Instagram heart-eyes stories.  Because the film involves both the Marvel Universe AND Sony Pictures, well....The Powers That Be would understandably be concerned about Jakers' "situation", one that involves his real-life same sex spouse and real life children.

Jake's name will be increasingly searched on the internet and highly ranked on Google.  His social media team is not excited about the prospect of posts like "Michigan Taco Run" or "The Masterpost of Toothy Tile, Grey Goose and Baby Tiles" showing up next to a picture of Mysterio and Spidey.  Hence, the markedly increased activity on Narnia Dispatches, the disappearance of tweets and hinky looking accounts online and suspicious emails coming into Narnia's mailbox.  A mailbox which, by the way, will no longer be accessible on our blog. Sorry trolls.

In parting, let's look at an interesting tweet and subsequent conversation that my social media account had with the tweeter:

Kind of interesting, isn't it?  No, no, no, no!  I'm not saying this is Jake visiting Narnia and scrubbing posts with his little magic eraser. LOL.  Not at all.

But it's interesting he was seen in the same city.  Brighton is an "English seaside resort town".  It is only an hour's train ride south of London.   Just sayin'!!  lol.  

Supposedly Jake was in NYC around the time of this sighting.  But Brighton looks like a great place to spend some time, doesn't it?  Especially for a guy whose husband loves to be near water. 

Back to the subject at hand!  Narnia is not throwing down the gauntlet on this suspicious activity.  We also do not make this a practice to dissect and observe visits.  However, this particular visitor stood out like a St. Bernard amongst a group of Weiner dogs so we took a closer look.  

Narnia also does not hyper focus on visitors unless we are steadfastly confident of malicious intent or very suspicious activity. We enjoy sharing what we see and inviting others to come with open minds.  History has shown that Jake's team is heavy-handed.  This activity is like a sledgehammer.

But, they should know by now that we will not be intimidated by such tactics and we remain entertained, focused, determined, and most of all, in awe of all of our OTP's and honorary members.  

Signed, 
Prairie Girl
Methodical Muser

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