November 2, 2022

"So I woke up with something that’s literally Black Hairy Tongue. People, including my doctor, seem to think it’s no big deal, and will go away soon, but it certainly is gross."

That was Julie Powell's last tweet, quoted in "Julie Powell's Last Tweet Before Her Death at 49 Causes Confusion Among Fans/The popular author of Julie and Julia tweeted she had 'black hairy tongue' the day before she died" (Gizmodo).

The Mayo Clinic’s website describes black hairy tongue as a “buildup of dead skin cells” that accumulate on the tongue, explaining that while it can look alarming, “typically it doesn’t cause any health problems, and it’s usually painless.”

Photograph of the horrid condition at that Mayo Clinic link.

Going back further into Powell's tweets, you see that she had Covid in September:

“Decided to take a nap and woke up sick like a dog. This is how the covid hits, I guess. All of a sudden like,” Powell tweeted on September 10. A few days later she shared another tweet about how painful it was living with covid-19. “Weirdly, my Covid is getting worse. Terrible headache, cough, probable fever, fatigue,” Powell tweeted on September 13.

Lest readers speculate, Gizmodo tells us the speculation is "right-wing" and goes on to minimize the significance of some deceased person's last social media posting. After all, Chris Cornell's last tweet — "#Detroit finally back to Rock City!!!!" — gave no clue that he was about to commit suicide.

40 comments:

Lurker21 said...

Two weird things happen and people are going to think there's a weird reason. Off the top of my head, I'd say it's more likely the vaccine had something to do with her death than that Pelosi was having a gay tryst.

Mike Sylwester said...

In the previous blog article about Powell's death, I commented that I had read her other book -- Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession.

Powell was an alcoholic sex addict. She liked to be dominated roughly. She had sex with many men, including strangers.

She was not like she was portrayed by Amy Adams in that movie.

I do not remember whether she wrote about abusing drugs, but it's a good bet that she did abuse drugs.

Ahouse Comments said...

I was wondering and found this:

Powell had previously tweeted that she was vaccinated and boosted, and by September 19 the author tweeted that she no longer had covid-19.

https://news.yahoo.com/julie-powells-last-tweet-her-110000053.html

Jimmy said...

She also tweeted this, on 10/1/21.
"I would argue that covid does kill some of the right people.The anti vaxxers/maskers are dying in legions.
But yes. It's a real shame about Kavanaugh."
https://twitter.com/imyourmoderator/status/1587798048347807744

Ann Althouse said...

"I was wondering and found this..."

Yes, that's also in the article I link to.

Mark said...

Powell had previously tweeted that she was vaccinated and boosted, and by September 19 the author tweeted that she no longer had covid-19.

When something highly unusual and unexpected happens, such as a fairly young woman suddenly having a fatal heart attack, it is not inappropriate to inquire about something that was different in their lives. One of those things was having COVID. Another is that she had at least three of the shots, presumably the mRNA type.

At the altar of SCIENCE, it is necessary to consider the latter as a possible COD.

FullMoon said...

After all, Chris Cornell's last tweet — "#Detroit finally back to Rock City!!!!" — gave no clue that he was about to commit suicide.

Some people who commit suicide are in a good mood immediately prior to the act.
They have made a final decision to end their pain, and are happy about it.

madAsHell said...

I understand that the problem did go away.

Karen of Texas said...

Could someone please explain to me why it's impossible for people to accept that her death, or any of the SADS numbers we're seeing, could have been the result of the systemic organ damage that is coming to light after contracting the wild thing (longcovid is a thing) OR from damage caused from by the injectable gene therapy? That "quack" Robert Malone has an interesting substack article, "When Is mRNA Not Really mRNA?", about the potential mechanism that could be behind some of the negative reactions to the injection. But to even suggest it's the jab is to immediately assume the anti-vaxxer!! mantle. And to suggest it's the wild thing is to immediately be tossed in the Sheep!! pen. This irritates the pi$$ out of me.

I Have Misplaced My Pants said...

Chris Cornell almost certainly didn't write his own tweets. There are services for that.

OLC said...

Pepto-Bismol can also cause black hairy tongue. If she had a heart problem, she may have dismissed symptoms as an upset stomach, taken some Pepto, and gotten a nasty-looking tongue. Signs of a heart attack vary, especially in women.

OLC

OLC said...

Oops I think I submitted a comment while logged into Google with a work account. Please do not publish it with that "logo/picture" appearing. And of course, you do not need to publish it at all. Maybe I didn't even submit it. Enjoy your blog!

My comment was:

Pepto-Bismol can also cause black hairy tongue. If she had a heart problem, she may have dismissed symptoms as an upset stomach, taken some Pepto, and gotten a nasty-looking tongue. Signs of a heart attack vary, especially in women.

OLC

wendybar said...

After reading some of her tweets, justice is served. Sorry, NOT sorry. https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/julie-powell-wished-death-on-the-unvaccinated-then-she-died-suddenly/

William said...

If what Mike Sylwester observes above is true, I would think that her extreme life style had more to do with heart trouble than the vax. I also think that Paul Pelosi was the victim of an attack by a lunatic. I don't think Pelosi awoke at 2AM with a sudden impulse to call for the services of a gay prostitute. And the attacker was motivated more by lunacy and a drug addled mind than by the words of Trump.....The world is filled with random, chaotic and harmful events. I guess it helps to posit that the ultimate hostility of the universe is all part of some plot by people we don't like. Get rid of the bourgeoise or the clergy or the Commies or THEM (and WE all know who THEY are) and life will be grand for everybody.

tommyesq said...

One guy's last tweet, made who knows how long prior to his suicide, by either him or his publicist/social media manager (rock stars, like other celebrities, sometimes don't create their own content), means that no one's last tweets have any possible meaning.

Gizmodo sure sounds smart, let's believe everything else they publish.

James K said...

While it may be unseemly to speculate about her triple mRNA injections causing her heart attack, I can remember the glee of the left/pro-vaxxers at any story about someone who refused the vaccination dying of Covid. In none of these cases do we know cause and effect, but we do know that there has been a high rate of excess deaths the past year of people in that 30-50 age group, not attributable (or not obviously so) to Covid.

Bruce Hayden said...

“If what Mike Sylwester observes above is true, I would think that her extreme life style had more to do with heart trouble than the vax.”

I can see you wanting that to be true. Probably because you and everyone around you trusted various levels of government, and as a result, got multiply vaxed, then boosted. We have known the mechanism for quite some time now, for many of us here, better than a year. Safety of the mRNA vaccines was predicated on the mRNA quickly breaking down at the injection site. It doesn’t, lasting in the body 60 days, or even longer. Instead of breaking down at the injection site, like it’s supposed to, it gets picked up by the lymphatic system, then swept into the circulatory system, where it circulates through the body, until it accumulates somewhere inconvenient in the body. For obvious reasons, that includes the heart, the center of the circulatory system. All this time, the mRNA is pumping out spike proteins. In a spike protein naive immune system (for those who hadn’t survived the virus, that means the first jab)this isn’t a major issue. And that first jab (or prior natural immunity) teaches the immune system memory that the spikes indicate the presence of a pathogen. But with the (unnecessary) 2nd and subsequent jabs, the immune system quickly recognizes cells producing spike proteins as infected with the virus (even though they are only infected with the spike producing mRNA), and kills them. That’s its job. It’s the fully expected result of a primary immune response to infected cells. And, since the mRNA is moving around the body in the circulatory system, it should be no surprise that the generated spike proteins generated by the mRNA cause serious issues in that system, including myocarditis, pericarditis, and blood clots - sometimes massive blood clots.

Andrew said...

"After all, Chris Cornell's last tweet — "#Detroit finally back to Rock City!!!!" — gave no clue that he was about to commit suicide."

I had a friend who committed suicide two years ago. He wasn't active on social media. But I had a good conversation with him two weeks before he died, and an email correspondence with him a few days before it happened. Everything seemed normal. There were zero red flags, even in hindsight. I found out later that he had a conversation with a different friend, in which he discussed his plans for the near future. He was enthusiastic and genuine. He was one of the most "together" people I ever knew. I still can't wrap my mind around it.

Bruce Hayden said...

“That "quack" Robert Malone has an interesting substack article, "When Is mRNA Not Really mRNA?", about the potential mechanism that could be behind some of the negative reactions to the injection.”

What Dr Malone is talking about there is that Pfizer and Moderna substituted Pseudouridine for Uridine in much of the mRNA in their novel, and grossly undertested, experimental gene therapies sold as vaccines. He has taken to calling the mRNA in those vaccines as “artificial mRNA”.

As a quick biology note, DNA consists of a double helix of nucleotides: Each nucleotide is composed of one of four nitrogen-containing nucleobases (cytosine [C], guanine [G], adenine [A] or thymine [T]), The nitrogenous bases of the two separate polynucleotide strands are bound together, according to base pairing rules (A with T and C with G), with hydrogen bonds to make double-stranded DNA. RNA differs from DNA by being a single strand of nucleotides, identical to one of the strands of the double helix in DNA, but with the substitution of Uridine(U) for Thymine(T). This substitution of Uridine(U) for Thymine(T) occurs automatically every time a portion of DNA is unzipped, and RNA is manufactured from one of the exposed strands of DNA.

RNA (and esp here mRNA) is supposed to be short lived. (Or probably more accurately, it was the substitution of Thymine for Uridine that allows DNA to be stabile for decades, even millennia). The key here is the Uridine. At least two things appear to be going on. First, the Uridine itself appears to be much less stable than Thymine. Secondly, Uridine appears to trigger the immune system to destroy the mRNA when it encounters it in the bloodstream, and the like. The result is that mRNA tends to live a very short time outside cells - minutes, up to maybe 15 minutes. That was probably why the mRNA in the vaccines was considered safe - it would normally break down quickly - here at the injection site, before being swept up by the lymphatic system, etc.

But for some perceived reasons (one may have been to make manufacture, transportation, and storage of the vaccines easier), the manufacturers of these vaccines substituted a Pseudouridine (Ψ)(reportedly N1-Methylpseudouridine (m1Ψ)) for the normal Uridine(U) in the mRNA in the vaccines. This is why Dr Malone calls it Artificial mRNA, since it doesn’t occur naturally. The result is that the mRNA in the vaccines doesn’t break down quickly, like natural mRNA does, and it also evades the immune system much more effectively. It also appears to cross the blood/brain barrier much more easily.

In summary, the payload for these experimental gene therapies consists of long lived artificial mRNA generated from the spike generating portion of the decoded genome of the Wuhan (original) variant of the virus, with Pseudouridine(Ψ) replacing Uridine(U) in the viral RNA.

Bruce Hayden said...

11/2/22, 3:04 PM
Blogger Bruce Hayden said... I

“And, since the mRNA is moving around the body in the circulatory system, it should be no surprise that the generated spike proteins generated by the mRNA cause serious issues in that system, including myocarditis, pericarditis, and blood clots - sometimes massive blood clots.”

Lest you think that this is conjecture- by now a number of cardiologists and pathologists have noted the high concentration of (Wuhan) spikes in these areas, when investigating myocarditis, pericarditis, massive blood clots, etc, that occurred shortly after 2nd, etc jabs.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

Can somebody be posthumously declared anti-vaxxer?

walter said...

WTF,
You start a new thread(?) without mentioning she had jabs (I posted her booster anticipating tweet last post).
W.T.F.
It's like the jabbed will go to ANY length to avoid any connection.
Rubicon crossed, confirmation bias.
AKA B.S.
Somewtimes it seems you sstart a new post as a way to discard prioer discussion.
It kinda works. I give you that.

walter said...

Mike Sylvester,
Think her exre=tra-cuurricular behavior caused black hairy tongue and/or cardiac arrest at 49?
Do tell.
Where's your painstaking micro-step diagram per norm?

walter said...

Blogger Lem Ozuna from the Braves said...
Can somebody be posthumously declared anti-vaxxer?
--
Absolutely. And the dead from putative COVID apres jab(s) can be deemed lucky because it "could have been worse."

Iman said...

“Chris Cornell did not commit suicide.”

You sure about that? Guy sounded like he was in a lot of pain when he sang.

rcocean said...

Woman who wishes death on anti-vaxxers, dies of CV-19.

LOL. Hilarious!

And per a friend of Child:
Flinging around four-letter words when cooking isn't attractive, to me or Julia. She didn't want to endorse it. What came through on the blog was somebody who was doing it almost for the sake of a stunt. She would never really describe the end results, how delicious it was, and what she learned. Julia didn't like what she called 'the flimsies.' She didn't suffer fools, if you know what I mean.

walter said...

FWIW,
Anyone thinking the vax requirements are in the rear-view should consider not only folks in the military, but freelancers in media having that requirement even for outdoor NFL gigs.
The enforcement on media also squeezes on the confirmation bias.
They had to get it..YOU have to get it it!

Mutaman said...


Blogger Karen of Texas said...

" But to even suggest it's the jab is to immediately assume the anti-vaxxer!! mantle. And to suggest it's the wild thing is to immediately be tossed in the Sheep!! pen. This irritates the pi$$ out of me."

The Crackers are big on "suggestions". Facts- not so much.

Mutaman said...

Bruce Hayden said...



" What Dr Malone is talking about there is that Pfizer and Moderna substituted Pseudouridine for Uridine in much of the mRNA in their novel, and grossly undertested, experimental gene therapies sold as vaccines. He has taken to calling the mRNA in those vaccines as “artificial mRNA”. "

Bruce may have set an all time record for most gibberish posted here- which is pretty amazing considering some of the stuff Althouse has written over the years.

Yancey Ward said...

I wonder if some of what is happening is that the vaccine induces immune responses to heart tissues because the spike protein gets more widely circulated due to the nature of the vaccine itself (see the reports of elevated troponin in vaccine recipients), and that same inappropriate immune response is retriggered when vaccinated are infected with standard COVID virus afterwards.

Aussie Pundit said...

Ockham's razor, people. The virus kills people, not the vaccine.
There is a conspiracy, but it's opposite to what you think. The conspiracy was to undermine belief in western medicine and vaccines in particular, so that the virus would rampage unchecked in America and other western countries.

Lurker21 says:
Off the top of my head, I'd say it's more likely the vaccine had something to do with her death

Off the top of your head, do you think that polio vaccines kill, but polio is harmless? It's a psyops campaign. Black is white. Ignorance is strength. War is peace. Viruses are fine but vaccines are dangerous.

Aussie Pundit said...

Lest you think that this is conjecture- by now a number of cardiologists and pathologists have noted the high concentration of (Wuhan) spikes in these areas, when investigating myocarditis, pericarditis, massive blood clots, etc, that occurred shortly after 2nd, etc jabs.

That's just a flat out lie.

Tofu King said...

I have sympathy for her family. It's a shame she was such a hateful person.

B. said...

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/02/books/chapters/julie-and-julia.html

Critter said...

It's the vaccine. It's the spike protein, it's incredibly dangerous. Why they chose to use that to make a vaccine is anyone's guess. When you acquire covid naturally it does not get into your circulatory system, your body has defenses to keep coronaviruses out but when you inject the spike protein, the mRNA vaccine, into your bloodstream it's game over, it's everywhere including your brain. Which might explain why the vaccinated people can't understand what they've done to themselves.

Aussie Pundit said...

"It's the vaccine. It's the spike protein, it's incredibly dangerous. "

No, it's not. You've been lied to.

walter said...

Occam's Razor: Inhaling the spike protein can be dangerous. Injecting it is stupidity and/or sadistic.

walter said...

And training the body itself to produce spike protein for extended periods of time is insane.
The testing and regulation was short circuited and this shit was given out to a scared public under EUA. Scared doctors took and advised patients to take it. Getting back to the confirmation bias and fear of being somewhow liable even if they did recognize the danger. Longstanding figures in Western Medicine had no interest in undermining trust for the hell of it. When they raised alarm, suffered mightily. Previous guidelines/thresholds for yanking harmful medicines were ignored.
On and on and on.
Aussie Pundit points to the (living) jab harmed: "Liars!!!!"

walter said...

Of course, there's also the gloriously inflammatory lipid nanoparticles enlilsted to disseminate the spike protein here, there and everywhere..including across the blood brain barrier.
Aussie Pinhead: "No it doesn't!!!"

Aussie Pundit said...

Of course, there's also the gloriously inflammatory lipid nanoparticles enlilsted to disseminate the spike protein here, there and everywhere..including across the blood brain barrier.

That's just word salad. It has no meaning.

Ockham's razor says that the disease is bad, and the medical treatments/preventions are good.

Aussie Pundit points to the (living) jab harmed: "Liars!!!!"

They're being harmed by the disease, you idiot. Not the cure. And here I was thinking that China had screwed up this time, but no, they've really done a number on us. Black is white. War is peace. Viruses are good, vaccines bad. Wow.