So it seems I have a genuine mea culpa/apology to bestow on you, my loyal readers. It seems that not only was I pretty far off on my assessment of Kevin Cosby as a person, he's also not a viable suspect, as he took his own life almost a year and a half ago. I received several missives from friends and acquaintances of Kevin's and while he might have possessed a passing interest in Chorazos and attended a ritual as a guest once, "he never struck [my informant] even remotely like the kind of person who would kill people and leave ridiculous amounts of blood behind. He was a good man and he cared a lot about people."

The same reader, who I'll call Marty Glickstein, pointed me to a website that has, in fact, kept me up all night. My neighbors must, by now, be at their wits' ends from my periodic loud pronouncements of "Holy shit!" "No way!" and my favorite, "Great big bags of burning panda poo!" It turns out that Chorazos has indeed been active, malevolent and murderous. "Chorazos has many strikes against them," relates Marty. It seems they hacked into the aforementioned site called Sentry outpost (http://www.sentryoutpost.com) with some sort of a virus called Lucky5 that had actual physical effects on people using infected computers. Genius. But evil genius, no doubt. Marty also gets into Chorazo's rumored murderous past. "We believe that Chorazos even killed some of our shared friends." More info on this coming in a future post, I am sure!

Another helpful reader, we'll call her Penelope Pittstop, sent me a copy of a flyer from 2006 which she surmised was an invitation to a recruitment event for Chorazos in North Carolina and that it may have been how they tried to recruit Kevin. She also pointed out the black swan image on the flyer (hard to miss the giant one in the background, too). I did a quick Google search and came up with this from the Wikipedia listing:

"The term black swan comes from the ancient Western conception that 'All swans are white'. In that context, a black swan was a metaphor for something that could not exist. The 17th Century discovery of black swans in Australia metamorphosed the term to connote that the perceived impossibility actually came to pass."

I think this means something, but it's going to take a little more digging. Interesting concept, though I'm not sure how it applies here nor am I sure of its purpose. Crap. Just what I need...something else to keep me awake!

Of course, I can always use your help and guidance! Don't hesitate to email me at: eddie@popetattles.com!

Read on, faithful warriors! Eddie has a lot more goodies in this issue of Pope Tattles!