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Sunday, April 23, 2017

Rockaway Beach - Day 24


Thirty Days of Toothy Tile, Grey Goose and the Baby Tiles

Day 24





July 21, 2012





What was that again, Emily? "He had a little kid on his shoulders." 
 
[author note: Rockaway Beach is on the south side of Long Island, NY.]


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                     At the Beach - The Avett Brothers
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Sunday, March 12, 2017

BYOS - Bring Your Own Sunglasses For This Look Back at March 12, 2016


Today Narnia Dispatches celebrates a phenomenon that happened one year ago today, March 12, 2016.   After nearly four years of not being photo'd together,  Jake Gyllenhaal and Austin Nichols were seen outside a sausage house and beer garden (hold the snark, please! LOL) called Bangers in Austin, TX.  The appearance was unexpected for Austin - not so much for Jake.  Jake was scheduled to appear at Bangers, as part of his promotion for the movie Demolition which was showing at the SXSW Film Festival.

We had a preliminary teaser when tweeter Carlos Chavez revealed he thought he saw Jake and Austin at the "A Conversation With Jake Gyllenhaal" event held at the Austin Convention Center.


 


 


And darned if we did not then follow Jake's train schedule to Banger's after this event, and what happened?  THIS happened.





Penny for the baby, sir, could I have some more????




Look at them!!!!  Just look at that!!   Three and a half years that dadgummed Jaustin / Toothy Tile & Grey Goose drought lasted, surviving on a diet of crossed paths, coincidences, gas fumes and ships passing in the night supported by social media alone, come to fruition and gloriously sated with this one single photo.

Why, I think time may have stood still for a mere second, the stars and planets aligned, sunbeams burst through the clouds, and those clouds - if you were not present at that moment, you may have missed the clouds....

 

 It was and still is something to behold.  Today, Narnia Dispatches celebrates nearly 15 years of Jake and Austin still knowing each other, still seeing each other, doing things together, sharing a meal, walking, being together, however you want to see their association.  It cannot be denied, will not be hand-waved, ignored or tucked away here at Narnia Dispatches.
Today, we celebrate Jake and Austin.  Here's to you, fellas.  xoxo












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our playlist:  Any Way the Wind Blows - Southern Pacific
                     Don't Stop - Fleetwood Mac
                     What Makes You Beautiful - The Piano Guys
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Saturday, March 11, 2017

Trains, Cars and The Great Escape

Sometimes Jake's people let their guard down just long enough for their official narrative to take a hit.

About three and a half weeks before Sunday in the Park with George opened, Jake began to very publicly be placed in New York City in preparation for Previews, which kicked off on February 11th.  [Recap: Jake began 2017 with the highly visible St. Bart's photo essay, which circulated well into the new year. The Caribbean respite then quickly morphed into his appearance at the Golden Globes in Beverly Hills, CA on January 8, peaking with a spotting at the Taco Bell in Southgate MI on January 14th.]  

And, not surprisingly, since Jake's return to the Big Apple for the duration of his Broadway show, his daily social media searches have been stretched to Violet Beauregarde levels of hot air inflation. A torrential flood of memes and robot tweets followed one after the other, not only stretching credulity, but making the head spin with the seemingly omnipresent flow of nothing to hide Jakeness. 

via GIPHY 

 Right? lol.  Social media activity filled with tweets and Tumblrs on being "robbed", being under-respected, not knowing how to hold a dog, not knowing how to physically run with dignity

the way he looks at Heath, Natalie, Anne, and a host of others from his life history (except Austin Nichols), sharing gum with other men at the Tony's, catfishing Amy Schumer, picking up bagels off the subway floor and eating them, just to name a few.  Yes, these and more have been robot tweeted with an obviously robust purpose.  It's a way to fill up space - this author likes to refer to the phenomenon as "Twitter Botox". 

However, while Mgmnt has been busy stuffing Jake's social media activity, what they had forgotten to do was to continue carrying out their client's "living in New York City amongst the people" and waving-from-the-front-porch narrative.  From previous time periods in NYC, Jake has been reported to be: sitting against brick walls drinking coffee at La Colombe, grabbing a workout at the gym or Soul Cycle, reading books on the subway, walking down the middle of random streets amidst the taxi cabs with earbuds, standing on subway trains [see December 9 2014 tweet of being a "subway stud"], entering crosswalks with the likes of Marcus Mumford.... No, Jake wasn't seen to be doing any of these previously routine, papped activities and in particular, pictured or tweet sighted on the NYC trains. (Jake and trains being the key rinse and repeat words.)

 Then, a few weeks ago (around February 20), this Tumblr post appeared:



http://closetwithaview.tumblr.com/post/157524041371/myirishjaredlove-yesterday-i-went-into-the-city
 
Oh wait that was interesting; read that again, what did it say? 

"After the show i waited outside to meet Jake! It was terrible cause he was heading to the car and I was farther down on the line so I walked up like everyone else"

Since that time, Mgmnt has tried to gradually up their game a bit.



Ella Cerón (@ellaceron)
2/21/17, 08:21
Real New Yorker™ level unlocked: saw Jake Gyllenhaal on the subway.


On March 8, these two tweets were particularly entertaining:




This tweet above was interesting because the picture is an old one. And it appeared in Jake's search timeline on March 8, although the date on the original says January 17.

And it was on March 7, that this particular robot tweet below had a resurgence in life after being in incubation from the first go-around back in October of 2014 (not particularly easy to "dig up" an old tweet like this unless you have a link):


 

See how that would subliminally work?  Repeat, repeat, repeat an association and the mind associates or is "reminded" that Jake lives in New York City now and he is a "regular" on the subway.

Even though, @myirishjaredlove reported seeing him headed to a car after the show.  Interestingly enough, there just are not tweet sightings of Jake on the subway trains prior to or after his shows this year.  There have been several random ones, but they are few and far between. Which lends to the curious question of why this practice would pretty much cease to non-existent this time around? 

Just wondering.  :-)

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                      Took the Last Train - David Gates
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Sunday, March 5, 2017

Thursday at the Airport With Jake - A One-Morning Performance

(Reader warning:  There's an "F" word and graphic picture used in one of Austin's instagrams in this post)


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One bleary-eyed blink and you would have missed it.  I mean, the alarm clock needed to be set mighty early to catch this one.


 

While we're not positive where the "mom" is, we know that this tweeter is in....New York City.  Since she says "the airport", that seems to infer a local airport for her.  If it were an airport in another state, I would think she would refer to the actual name, but I'm not going to throw down the gavel on that one.

As is always the case with Jake and Austin, there are rarely cold steel, smoking guns.  You have to look at the events surrounding, leading up to and following a sighting.

Last we left this rumbling, stumbling pair, we had Jake in New York City performing Sunday in the Park With George at the Hudson Theater, following a stop-off and run for the border at a Taco Bell in Southgate, Michigan.  And Austin?  Well, Austin was in Michigan as well, we assume driving the rehab-bus after his sister and bro-in-law skipped town.  ;-)   For further reference to this, please see:  source

Well, this current weekend, Austin is SUPPOSED to be in London at a Walker Stalker convention.  It had been set up since last year. Well, lo and behold, what happened?  Let's allow Austin to "break" the news to us, starting with his tweet and Instagrams from March 1:


 

And another Instagram on March 2: 

austinnichols  Gettin on a plane to London

 

But by Friday morning, something had gone terribly wrong:

 

Then in what I'm sure could be an attempt with some humor to set fans at ease...

 

Pfft!  That's it.  He's done.  No other flights available, I guess.  No mechanics around. Throw in the towel.  Pack up the camping gear and go home.  Don't pass go, don't collect your $200, just call a cab and pick up a sandwich for the ride back to....where?  Michigan where he's the bus driver for his recuperating father?  Austin, TX where all of his vehicles are located in his garage?  Or to Los Angeles, where he visits the beard, I mean girlfriend, according to Maxim magazine?  

 

[Aside:  Oh but wait! Guess the patriarch Dave Nichols is "on the mend".  More on that later.]  But in the meantime, we will scratch Michigan from the short list of return-destination possibilities.

 

We return to the tweet sighting of Jake at the airport on Thursday morning and wonder why it could have been viable?  We know he couldn't have been departing because he had performances stateside to do this weekend.  And this airport tweet came at 05:33 am ET. That's pretty darn early. Could he have been giving his boo Austin a lift to the airport for his weekend trip to London?  I doubt it. These two guys have parted ways due to business trips an endless amount of times. Nothing new there.

 

Or could it be that Austin was coming in on an arrival flight? Couldn't he have taken a cab from the airport, though? Surely - after all, how incredible of a driver could his hubs be?  But wait. What if Austin and the Baby Tiles had still been in Michigan, but were coming into the Big Apple?  Could that explain the very early arrival?  Less chance of being seen.  And it could explain why Jake would risk being spotted because he could not wait to see his children.  He likely had been waiting to see them for some length of time, how long we are not sure.  But waiting nonetheless.

 

And as has been the kind of luck that Jake has had sometimes - well, he got caught. Again.  Now, let's throw one more log onto this little campfire.  Who has a birthday coming up this Wednesday, March 15?  Jake's mom, Naomi Foner.  And who could have been disembarking on this wee-hour arrival flight to help celebrate? Possibly her grandchildren - the Baby Tiles en masse. Two tweets from last night's Sunday in the Park performance:

 







Since Wednesday falls during the work week, it's very possible that a 71st birthday shindig is being/has been held this weekend and that's why the grandchildren were flown in.

To help deflect and flag wave through, we had some help from the two rumblin', stumblins'.  Let's take a look:


 

Austin in Los Angeles?  But of course.

And Jake?  


http://jacobbgyllenhaal.tumblr.com/post/158003500216/ashleyparklady-prefers-clean-shaven-march-4
 

and


http://dailygyllenhaals.tumblr.com/post/158001591041/jakegonline-sundayintheparkwithgeorge-bts
 

Because we know that Jake playing with other people's children for the world to see, must mean he couldn't have any of his own.  Yeah, we know, bud.   Nice try.  ;-)

Huzzah! Let everyone have cake!  

Another rare Twitter catch.  And another round of broken planes and Broadway backstage moments.  

Btw, for those wondering about the patriarch Nichols, looks like he's "on the mend" from that quite-serious, mysterious malady his son-in-law wanted all the world to know about.  From the well-timed re-opened Instagram account of Austin's bro-in-law, any curious questions on Dave Nichols status have been generously answered:
A post shared by Rowdy (@rowdyatx) on

Interesting details to these pictures are noted.  It's good to see that Austin "returned" to where he was more badly needed, isn't it? Taking care of his fur child in LA. Instead of the wheelchair bound dad that Randy is selling via his Instagram account.

 And that's how you know, what you are seeing is what PR wants you to see. What is actually happening behind the scenes is not going to be posted on Rowdy or Austin's Instagram. Who would like a slice of birthday cake, now?  Order up!

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our playlist:  Waiting To See You - Dan Hartman
                     I Knew You Were Waiting - Aretha Franklin &
                                                            George Michael
                     Waiting for a Star to Fall - Boy Meets Girl
                    


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Saturday, February 25, 2017

The Perils of a Michigan Taco Run


Back on January 14, 2017 this happened.


 

And where was the account located?  Southgate MI

 
Note:  Southgate MI is 11 miles from Detroit (the airport).  94 miles from East Lansing, MI.  15 miles from Romulus MI.  And 72 miles from Jackson MI.  [remember these cities and distances later in the post]

We know that Jake was in Los Angeles on January 8 because he was seen in the audience at the Golden Globes, getting up and down from his seat 1001 times *wink*.

Five days later, Jake was still being placed in Los Angeles on January 13:


 

To recap, for a moment, the Taco Bell tweet appeared on January 14 at 1:33 pm CT, which was 2:33 pm ET (Michigan time).  Now, pay close attention because what follows from here is really something to behold. An actual tour de force in unscrupulous chicanery by a smug yet paranoid PR team desperately trying to bury the truth about their closeted clients. Including how to use commercial airlines, "civilian" tweeters, and family & friends to help sell the lie to the public.

Gr🌨g

I know I'm in Southern California, but I'm assuming that wasn't Jake Gyllenhaal...


7:38 PM - 14 Jan 2017  [5:38  PM CT]
Here's the best one:
REVISED 03 16 2019:  Since scrubbing has been going on, it appears two of the above tweets are no longer "available" to the public anymore.  Here is the "Jake gyllenhaal is on my flight" tweet in its now-saved form:

 
I guess Jake was personally overseeing the pouring of his coffee. Or, maybe he was going to help the flight attendant serve the passengers? Who wants peanuts? LOL!

And, where was Austin?  Well, Mr. Nichols was supposed to be in southern California as of January 12th for an Ocean Champion private fund-raising dinner event:


 

But January 12th came and went, with no sign whatsoever of Austin having attended, not from host @OceanChampion nor environmentalist Philippe Cousteau (the son of Jacques Cousteau), who attended.

Swiped from the source next door however, we have Austin placing himself in Los Angeles on January 14:


So Austin didn't attend a State of the Ocean event on January 12, even though he was publicized to, but two days later, he is seen skateboarding with a dog on the streets of Los Angeles.  Okay.

On January 16, Jake "surfaces" in New York City.  This tweeter's profile location is listed as Long Island.


 


 

And Austin?  Well, on February 3, believe it or not, he was placed in Michigan.


 

And for the benefit of the public domain, various back and forth conversations ensued:











because he's from Ann Arbor 

[When someone asked if Chloe Bennet was with him]:






So at this point, we have Jake leaving LA and arriving in NYC, with a (possible) sighting in Southgate, Michigan in between.  And now, once Jake is seen in NYC, Austin is being seen in Michigan. See a pattern here?  Back on February 4th, Narnia had published an analysis of the Michigan-Austin tweets, but we're going over this again to place them within the context of something bigger.


 

So, what happened after Ashley Nichols was tweeted in Michigan on February 3 and Narnia speculated that she was possibly there to help little bro with his and Jake's children?

From Waiting for Toothy 2:


Anonymous said...
Bad news.
Austin's father has serious health problems.

February 05, 2017 12:38 pm

However, the hyperlink no longer works, so don't try it. Where did the link take you to?  Rowdy Stovall's Instagram.  Rowdy is married to Ashley, Austin's sister.  Back on February 5th thru 6th, Rowdy's Instagram was on full display with several narrative posts.  Here is a partial screenshot which was one of the first to place him and Ashley in Michigan with the father, Dave Nichols:


And the following were comments on two of the posts. They're formatted this way because at the time, the posts weren't saved or embedded so this is from an email link.  These two sets of comments were from two different posts from Rowdy's Instagram:


  • honeytuckerSo sad to hear about David. Prayers for a speedy and complete healing.
  • schochhubbardPraying for Dave as well as all of you 💗💗💗
  • infamoustdev❤️
  • demaderaatxSending lots of love to the family! Thanks for the update. Let me know if there is anything I can do.
  • laurenhabiby❤🙏🏻❤
  • watergirl_lynneThe Morea's are sending love and prayers to Dave and his recovery.

On the Rowdy/Ashley picture post:

  • schochhubbardPraying for Dave as well as your family. We love you 💙
  • laurenhabibyPraying for Dave. Love you guys!!!
  • stirtherouxlizziePrayers for your dad.. 💙
  • lindseylooheronI just heard the news today. Will and I are thinking about you guys and sending you thoughts of love and healing. Of course, if there is anything we can do...we're here for you.


As you can see, the same accounts were commenting on both posts.  One more side note:  Of the commenting accounts seen above, only one of them is a public account, Austin TX woodworking business account (@demaderaatx).  The other accounts  @honeytucker, @schochhubbard, @infamoustdev, @laurenhabiby, @watergirl_lynne, @lindseylooheron and @stirtherouxlizzie were all private accounts.

From Rowdy's Instagram on February 6, he even posts a picture of daughter Penny sending her grandpa a Get Well:



And the first post about the father, included a Caring Bridge site that one could visit, which required registration.  



On February 8, we are then spoonfed detailed information that surely must be legitimate because of all the specifics provided *sarcasm intended*:


Are you still with us? Good. Because there is more to share. Rowdy Stovall's Instagram account was not only used to document the initial reason for all of the Nichols' presence in Michigan, but the posts also provided future cover for Austin by supplying a handy "post-crisis rehabilitation scenario" in case he is seen again.  A 'Get Out of Jail Free' card if you will. Surprisingly, however, Austin has not been seen in any of Rowdy's Instagram photos. We see dad, Ashley, and even one of his nieces, but not one appearance by Austin. Zilch.

Within days, on February 9th, Rowdy posts again on his Instagram that he, Ashley and the family are returning home to Austin, TX.

 
 And what was Austin doing?  From February 6:


A post shared by Austin Nichols (@austinnichols) on
 
May 16, 2010 update:  We happened to notice that this Instagram post of Austin's has now been removed.  Hmmm.  I remember the photo once I saw the caption which described a video where Austin pretended he was "flying" the deard Wally, aka beard Chlo Bennett's dog.  These publicist teams can remove the tweets, but the text remains behind and in this case, from our draft page, we get the validity of the post:

A post shared by Austin Nichols (@austinnichols) on

He then adds a promotional-type Instagram post on February 9 about the Bates Motel (a show he is guest starring in), the same day that his sister, brother-in-law and their family are returning to Austin, TX and we assume, leaving the father "rehabbing" in Michigan.  This is followed with the plethora of Valentine's tweets, Instagrams and Instagram Stories with his beard Chloe Bennet on the 14th  (see Narnia Dispatches' post:  Austin and Chlo on Valentine's Day allegedly in LA California )

For background purposes, let's explore why that Taco Bell tweet from Southgate, Michigan on January 14, 2017, unleashed such a tidal wave of PR activity. First off, Austin has many cousins who live in Portage MI on his mother's side of the family.  Moreover, a Vermeulen Furniture store used to be located in Portage, but closed in 2010.  (Note: "Vermeulen" is the surname for Austin's maternal side of the family)   source for Vermeulen Furniture

Remember all those cities and distances listed at the beginning of this post? Well, here's one more. Portage, Michigan is only 135 miles from Southgate. Over the years, since Jake fell hard and heavy for his tall Texan during The Day After Tomorrow audition in May 2002, there has been an ongoing Michigan connection for Jake that now, with this Taco Bell sighting, spans 15 years. 

Here's a soon-to-be 22-year-old, lovestruck Jake Gyllenhaal proudly wearing a Michigan t-shirt in an early scene from The Day After Tomorrow. Considering that Jake's character, Sam Hall, lives in Washington, D.C., the wardrobe choice is an intriguing one.



Then in October, 2004, Jake is not seen campaigning for John Kerry in his backyard of California or even in New York, but rather in East Lansing, Michigan. Gee, I wonder why he chose that particular city to display his civic duty?



 Over the years, Jake has been seen in Portage, Southgate, Romulus, and East Lansing. Considering that a large part of Austin's family lives in and around Jackson, as well as Portage, it's no surprise that these are the cities Jake continues to be sighted in.  Michigan is obviously important to Austin. It's where his father completed his residency in Diagnostic Radiology (University of Michigan), where his mother's family is from and where he was born (Ann Arbor). He frequently returns for family celebrations and for summers on Clark Lake where his mother was buried in 2015 in the Columbia Township Cemetery. When Austin's TV show John From Cincinnati was cancelled in August 2007, Austin was found in Jackson, Michigan and was infamously arrested for a DUI on August 24.


And, just how closely located are all these cities associated with Austin and Jake? Well, let's take a look:

Southgate, Michigan
Romulus, Michigan

Jackson, Michigan
East Lansing, Michigan
Portage, Michigan


12 miles via 127 S Jackson to Clark Lake


Now why would PR be so concerned about Austin's sister being seen with him in Jackson, Michigan on February 3 when she has a family of her own and a husband down in Texas? 

1) Remember, Jake had been seen in Southgate, Michigan just two weeks before on January 14.   
2)  Narnia had published a post on February 4 speculating that Ashley was helping Austin with the kids since Jake was in NY preparing for his play and Maggie was about to fly over to Berlin.

If Jake and Austin were not an actual couple raising a closeted family, there would be no need for such an obviously manufactured and elaborate Instagram story to emerge about Austin's dad suddenly having a very public "health crisis". A crisis that conveniently forced him to be shipped off to Michigan, even though he practiced medicine in Austin, Texas for over three decades and no doubt has an enormously supportive network of professional providers down there. Never mind that Austin, TX is where Mr. Nichols and his immediate family actually live. If the whole scenario wasn't outlandish enough, the privating of all that explanatory "corroboration" only a few days later is truly laughable. A ready made explanation for PR interns and trolls to draw from if someone dared to bring up the pattern of Jake being seen once again in a geographic area that is intimately associated with Austin Nichols.

As another closeted celebrity tweeted back on July 3, 2013:


 

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                    What is Life - George Harrison
                    White Liar - Miranda Lambert
                    Bigger Than the Beatles - Joe Diffie
                    Small Town Saturday Night - Hal Ketchum
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