Former ANNIHILATOR Frontman BIG JOHN BATES Releases "Scarlet Letter" Single / Video; New EP Out Now

Former Annihilator frontman/co-founder John Bates – who can be heard on the band’s legendary Welcome To Your Death demo – has spent the last 25 years serving up his own brand of psychobilly, garage rock, punk-blues and Americana, releasing music under the monikers Bates Motel, Big John Bates & The Voodoo Dollz, and Big John

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One person among thousands of spectators is wearing a mask at the Paris Lolympics.

The camera zooms in on them.

This is how we get shamed now.

#Paris2024 #ScarletLetter #CovidIsNotOver

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#bookstodon Here's a bookish question: Head of #CDC Dr. #RochelleWalensky said she wasn't for recommending us to #MaskUp for protection from #Covid because masks are a #ScarletLetter - I thank maybe if she ever read the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel, it was long ago, and she missed the point that wearing the letter was ulrimately Hester Prynne's path to redemption. Any ideas how to make sense of her analogy?