Gigantic human eating statues based on the popular ATTACK ON TITAN anime series are part of a new Japanese theme park.. Lots of other interesting things abound in the park, as well..
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Four more enormous holes have been found in Siberia.. Newest scientific theory is that they are be being caused by gas underground and the fear is that craters are going to become more commonplace as temperatures globally rise.. Other less popular theories conclude that they are the gates of hell, ajar for the world to see.
I swear I just saw Horatio Sans pumping gas
Alter the likelihood of him being in Minersville Pennsylvania pumping gas is slim to none.
Horatio: you have a doppelganger in the coal region …
What happens when the conspiracy is on the other server?
A Facebook study has been conducted on people without them knowing. Again..
What happens when the conspiracy is on the other server?
The city that never drinks
There is a major drought in a major city in Brazil. It has big ramifications and perhaps will showcase the beginning of the coming water wars..
The city that never drinks
I am a little confused..
Two father babies likely in a few years..
But didn’t anyway ever see MY TWO DADS?
Monday, February 23, 2015
New study reveals the global impact of debris on marine life
It’s pretty disgusting if you think about it..
But if you think this is bad, just imagine a grave yard in Hollywood.
Just kiddin’.
New study reveals the global impact of debris on marine life
This is an image showing four separate scenes from the city of Chelyabinsk.. That was the site of the 2013 meteor explosion that rocked that part of Russia and was equal to several Hiroshima bombs..
RT profiles the city where now, as you can see, strange things are brewing..
The image of the three suns was an optical illusion.
But the blue snow wasn’t.. As a matter of fact, the storm giving people the strange colored precipitation made world headlines but no one came by to explain why exactly the weather was as colorful as it was..
There is little we understand about anything.
But three suns and blue snow is probably at the bottom of our human comprehension…
It is highly unlikely that there will actually be a reality TV show on Mars
Good article..
Depressing if you were one of the hopeful people who wanted to be on Mars by 2025.. Even sadder for the rest of us who need, for the sake of humanity and existence, to explore the universe..
It is highly unlikely that there will actually be a reality TV show on Mars
i’m cruising along, reading my issue of real simple, about to flip the page, when i see this ad. i pause because the photo is adorable and feels really natural. then i’m confused what the image has to do with tylenol, so i stop to read the ad text. then i flip the page.
first thing: i rarely ever stop to read an ad. i typically ignore them. but this photo caught my eye and i stopped. so, success on that front tylenol!
second thing: it wasn’t until after i’d already turned the page that it occurred to me that the ad featured a same sex couple.
i turned back to the ad and felt a sort of weird happiness. thing is, i honestly did not think that this level of national ad representation of same sex couples would occur during my lifetime. yet here it is.
but more importantly, this type of representation is becoming so much more commonplace that i’m no longer hyper-aware that it’s occurring.
it’s just people, doing their thing, in an ad.
the battles are far from over. but this one small thing made me happy.
representation matters.
This is an interesting take from a fellow blogger.. Tylenol is using an interesting image of love to sell it’s product. But if you really look close you’ll notice something that years ago would have been noticed much faster.. Progress indeed. People doing their thing.
Sunday, February 22, 2015
CT Scan of 1,000-Year-Old Buddha Statue Reveals Mummified Monk Hidden Inside
This is pretty amazing..
It brings back the memory from just a month to do ago of people claiming the mummified monk found was alive but simply in a very deep meditation.. Of course no one has been yet to claim this 1000 year old monk is the same.
CT Scan of 1,000-Year-Old Buddha Statue Reveals Mummified Monk Hidden Inside
The Academy Awards..
And I haven’t seen even one of the films nominated for best picture.. And quite frankly that doesn’t bother me in the slightest..
Tegan and Sara singing 'Everything is Awesome' is not enough..
the movie should have been nominated. For SOMETHING..
And quite frankly tonight’s live performance was awful.. Sad for them to even be a part of it, and one of those pop culture moments they will probably wince at at some point in their career.
Here’s why your human resources department hates you
This may be one of the best explications I have ever read that sums up my total anger at the typically ignorant and aristocratic attitudes displayed by people in just about any human resource office I have ever dealt with or spoken to..
There’s an attitude of ignorance.. And yup usually the HR executives are safety sheltered and nestled away from the herd of heathens that are considered ‘resources’ ..
The culture throughout any office or company is failing because of the mentality displayed by human resources..
Anyway. Read this article.. Especially if you work in HR.
Here’s why your human resources department hates you
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Unless insanity prevails and Art Bell changes his mind, DARK MATTER is going to be coming this July. And here, thanks to a fine YOUTUBE user named ḰIḒṔṴJẶ PRODUCTIONS, we have a trailer for the much anticipated return to the airwaves. Via a podcast.
Sometime in July.
From somewhere in a dark room in Pahrump Nevada..
Meanwhile, Art Bell posted a new message on BELLGAB with a bit of an update:
No news yet. The deal is actively being worked on by both sides, I will let you all know the moment we have a deal because until that time THOSE PEOPLE would screw with it. For all I know they have already tried to steal Falkie away for their bumpers.
I love this board, never change.
Art
I love BELLGAB, too. That’s why I am not only a reader but an active member.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
This is the weather map for early next week courtesy ACCUWEATHER.
Note the brutal cold.. brutal brutal cold.. Like way below the averages for this time of year.
Also on the way; The end of the warm period for the west. As a matter of fact, come a few days from now, just about the entire nation will be screaming until they are hoarse for winter to just go away!
The amazing things that happen when you're busy making other plans. Four years on..
The John Lennon song still is true.. there are things in life that remind you you’re not in charge. Such an event occurred February 2011 when my wife went into labor after watching a Cosby Show rerun with me around 3am—the witching hour. She had our son, Ayden Morris, near 1pm hours later..
From that moment on my life changed and it continues to do so.
Being a father is amazing. Rewarding.. challenging.. And honestly the best job I’ve ever had. And one I have to do—my wife feels the same way about motherhood. We are called to act each and every day. And even when he goes to bed each night, we still watch from the corner of our eyes to make sure he’s safe and sound.
And today, Ayden is four.
I can’t honestly believe how quick time has passed.
I think it was about two years ago that I wrote on this website that I intended on writing a book about fatherhood. I still want to. I started it.. I suppose it’s never too late. Information about parenting really doesn’t change, does it?
UK nuclear sites warned over drone terror attack
BRITAIN’S nuclear plants are at risk from a terrorist strike by unmanned drone aircraft, writes Caroline Wheeler.
And it’s not just the UK.. It’s anywhere as drones take over our planet.
This is one of those little side effects of the DRONELAND we have become.. the notion that one little tiny specimen of tin and software can land itself in the middle of the ticking time bomb known as a nuclear plant..
On the lighter side, one day drone deliveries will populate your doorstep—the day you order something will be the day you get it.
It’s what else we get with drone wars that make me nervous..
UK nuclear sites warned over drone terror attack
Gov. Scott Walker: ‘I don’t know’ whether Obama is a Christian
The potential 2016 contender dismissed questions about the president’s faith as insignificant.
So this is the debate for ‘16 now?
This..?
Gov. Scott Walker: ‘I don’t know’ whether Obama is a Christian
A new map shows America’s quietest spots.. Maybe I am about to hypothesize some junk science.. The vast majority of the West is simply without sound.. I would dare say, without much scientific backing to administer such a claim, that the quietest spots may correlate with the happiest.
Terrorism funding just one thing big banks are getting away with - whistleblower Everett Stern
His name is Everett Stern. And what he said has so many implications that you can’t count them. This would all go far beyond your typical bankster scandal..
Terrorism funding just one thing big banks are getting away with - whistleblower Everett Stern
Saturday, February 21, 2015
The world takes notice to KIM’s new haircut: It defies gravity and is the new rage of social networking.. Of course for all of the wrong reasons..No one ever said dictators had style..
It is time to send Dennis Rodman back to North Korea to solve this world crisis..
Just realized that I had a whole slew of new followers this week, not sure if it was the people on the FAMILY FEUD who creepily look like me or my annoying new SAMSUNG phone inspired images of my food with sloppy writing on top of it.
Either way, major hugs for all the new folks who are trying to figure out what this bizarre little site called COAL SPEAKER is all about.
Free hugs.
Not from me. But from that guy.
New UN report reveals collaboration between Israel and Syrian rebels
The new documents show that Israel has been doing more than simply treating wounded Syrian civilians in hospitals.
And add THIS to that story:
Truth bomb from Wesley Clark: He said that ISIS was created from ‘friend and allies’.. The source of this news could be considered a biased Russian reporting service. So in that case, let’s go straight to the video where CLARK himself is quoted accurately by Russian media..
Proof here:
New UN report reveals collaboration between Israel and Syrian rebels
Police release SLENDERMAN crime tapes.. The girls not only thought SLENDER was watching them stab, but they also described how to pretended they'd go get help
Also, one admits she knew they’d be caught.
And they were..
Police release SLENDERMAN crime tapes.. The girls not only thought SLENDER was watching them stab, but they also described how to pretended they'd go get help
Notice that dry area on the radar over Pennsylvania?
Interesting news has come.. the winter storm warning over many parts of the state—where the dry portion is—has been called off and downgraded to an advisory. It’s still snowing. But lightly.. as a matter of fact, so light that those fears of 9-12 inch totals are extremely wrong not in the light of the new news..
There are some meteorological reasons for all of this.
But I’m not going to go there.. instead I will concentrate on my own theory: Hootie Hoo he been a success yet again..
The day was created years ago and has been ceremoniously done for over two decades.. People go outside and scream HOOTIE HOO at the sky.. it’s an attempt to get rid of winter, and scare it away..
This year, judging from the radar, perhaps it worked..
I think maybe even more: This could be a monumental example of collective consciousness at its best, with people banding together in the same thought for the betterment of people as a whole.
Either way, the locations where HOOTIE HOO sounded loudest are also the driest today during this dud of a winter storm.
Thanks everyone..
It worked.
Huge blaze guts 79-floor Dubai skyscraper
Incidentally, the building did not pancake down on top of itself..
Just saying.
Huge blaze guts 79-floor Dubai skyscraper
Clown from amusement park found in sex offender’s house.. And people wonder why some hate clowns so much..
This is a rather bizarre story from MASHABLE about a 22-year-old woman who is morphing her face to look like different stars.. Sadly, I know a girl that looks just like this version she’s doing of Mr. Bean.
The internet can bring out such strangeness, don’t you think?
Welcome to Hollywood.. where apparently even the Oscar statue snorts cocaine..
It is actually a message of art being sent by the artist PLASTIC JESUS..
More from the LA TIMES:
"The piece is intended to draw attention to Hollywood’s hidden problem of drug addiction that affects hundreds of people in the showbiz industry and is largely ignored until the death of a high profile A list celebrity," Stern said in a statement on Plastic Jesus’ behalf to LAist.
In case anyone was watching the Family Feud around 2am last night, that was NOT me participating …
However, as people who know me could attest, the man has a strikingly similar appearance and had mannerisms that seemed the same.
I posed this on Facebook and actually came to learn that one of my friends and her dad actually is constantly reminded of me when they watch Jonathon Karl on CNN..
I guess Karl is a tad better than the nervous guy on Family Feud.
Maybe.
Here is the sight from this weekend’s weather forecast.. anything pink and purple are winter weather somethings. And there are lots of them, storms are a plenty..
The season is almost ready to change. I hear song birds in the morning now and the noon sun—when it is out—is strong.. But until the spring blossoms bloom, it’s going to be considerably cold and snowy. That continues, obviously, this weekend.
I think the second week of March will be a transition..
Let’s see how good I do with that forecast..
Friday, February 20, 2015
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Now healthy eating is a mental disorder? POPSCI says: Striving For The Perfect Diet Is Making Us Sick
Call me a bit of a paranoid conspiracy theorist, but when I see articles critical of people who are attempting to get a little healthier and eat better, all I can think of is some sugar-selling CEO from ‘Name your GMO company’ giving talking points to clueless reporters just trying to get a clickbait article to go viral.
Now excuse me while I finish my sauteed kale over baked chicken..
Now healthy eating is a mental disorder? POPSCI says: Striving For The Perfect Diet Is Making Us Sick
A worthwhile retort on the CABLE TV cord cutting
Last night, I dropped a link on this site and espoused some of my beliefs that the current generation growing up will drop out of the TV scene much prior to the next one. . the link on the ‘cord cutting’ actually came from TIME magazine.. However, a reader comment on the situation offered a very different and good perspective on the potential other side of the coin.. Since it was buried at the bottom of the site and few may have seen it, I’d like to share it in full, as it offers up a counter argument to the believe that Millennials are ready to abandon their TV sets altogether:
It’s important to put this in perspective. The industry does a really good job of hyping reports and headlines based on a single, biased view. If we were to describe “millenials” as the age group of 18-34 from the inception of cable TV in the early 80s, things really don’t look that different. People don’t make primary choices about TV services until they have their own homes. The median age of first-time home buyers has gone up considerably just in the last 10 years alone. Until you are making a primary decision about TV service (not living with mom and dad, in a dorm or with several roommates), you are just making do (i.e., watching video online). SNL is not irrelevant. People are just choosing to record it and watch it later, not live. Nielsen, the author of this report, does not have the capacity to measure this.
Since the inception of the VCR, live TV viewing has declined. When operators introduced DVRs into consumer homes, live TV viewing declined even more. A couple of years ago, DVR penetration among pay-TV subscribers was only about 40%. Throughout 2013 and 2014, due to much lower manufacturing costs and a hefty drop in the global price of chip sets and memory, operators have been able to put a lot more DVR set-top boxes in homes at a much lower price to subscribers. So what happens? Again, live TV viewing declines even more. This is not to say that people are watching less TV, they are just watching it on demand from their DVR. The popularity of broadcast TV programming has never been higher. People are just not watching it “live”.
And that all makes sense.
It does not shake my perspective though that SNL is irrelevant..I base that a bit simply on the humor or lack thereof that often comes from the show. But there may be other shows that are quite relevant, perhaps being recorded later.. Which changes the game altogether for Neilson and advertisers.
No matter how you look at it, the pop culture world has changed.
Los Angeles hospital warns 179 patients possibly exposed to 'superbug'
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A large Los Angeles teaching hospital has told scores of patients they may have been exposed to a drug-resistant bacterial superbug during endoscopy procedures that infected seven patients and contributed to two deaths
It seems high time for a new fear.. Ebola never quite hit home. Measles didn’t much more to shake the nation to the core.. and the Polar Vortex was replaced with a ‘Siberian Express’ to remind us of how awful weather is and how it’s our enemy. Plus don’t think for a second that news directors aren’t getting a kick out of a slight percentage of Americans believing that Vladimir Putin is somehow creating polar surges into the United States to destroy our Western Civilization..
But all mocking aside, perhaps the new fear of the SUPERBUG is warranted?
More from the REUTERS report:
The possible exposures occurred at the UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center between Oct. 3 and Jan. 28 during procedures in which a specialized endoscope is inserted down the throat to diagnose and treat pancreatic and bile duct diseases.
One thing to note: Many of those who may be infected are in the predicament after a ‘routine’ procedure. And now there is nothing routine about the possibility that they have a life-altering bacteria that may kill up to half of the people who get it..
And while we are not calling this one Captain Tripps just yet, public statements being made now will either be looked on as prudent caution or blatant disguises sometime soon in the future..
"It’s important to emphasize: This particular outbreak of CRE is not a threat to the health of the public in Los Angeles County," said Benjamin Schwartz, deputy chief of the acute communicable disease control program at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.
Los Angeles hospital warns 179 patients possibly exposed to 'superbug'
Clear evidence that the United States serves garbage to children in school lunches
Since the 80s the entire program was turned to waste. Nothing improved even with newer guidelines. The sugar industry had too much say… sick examples are presented here when the Daily Mail compares the US school lunches to cash strapped nation…
Clear evidence that the United States serves garbage to children in school lunches
This image is sure to stir up controversy (and sell some fish wrappers).. the NEW YORK POST pictures President Obama with a blindfold around his head as a message that he is ignoring Islamic terror threats…
You can read the article in full here: http://nypost.com/2015/02/18/obama-refuses-to-acknowledge-muslim-terrorists-at-summit/
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
The 500 pound meteor in the room
AAn amazing—and scary—piece of news is being reported ..
Americans in New York, Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania reported seeing a fiery, 500-pound meteor soar through the sky this week before the space rock apparently broke up somewhere over the Keystone State, according to scientists.
NASA said on Tuesday this week that the meteor entered the Earth’s atmosphere in the sky above western Pennsylvania earlier that morning and was reportedly witnessed by spectators stretching for hundreds of miles across the United States from the Mid-Atlantic to the Midwest.
The meteor burst into flames above PITTSBURGH..
Remnants of the meteor ended up on the ground in Pennsylvania—my home state as well. I didn’t see this, however, it seemed more confined to the Western part of the state..
It was traveling at 45,000 miles per hour..
The video and the story are both equally amazing..
There were reports of sonic booms.. Lots of calls to the AMA..
And also this piece of interesting news: A meteor exploded over New Zealand yesterday..
The pink stars are falling all too often lately, don’t you think?
The 500 pound meteor in the room
I went back and found this Microsoft PAINT creation I made in the year almost ten years ago—already! It seems like yesterday. What was obvious then is that TV mattered—certainly more so than it does NOW as proven by the TIME magazine article I posted tonight on the death of television..
Pop culture was once dictated to us.. It was once forced down our digestive tracts..
Like AM radio, conventional TV is dead.
There is a revolution in what people want and how they want it.. The talking heads who gave us what they wanted us to digest are almost no more—the power is in the people’s hands.. is this why regulation is being discussed? Why the Internet will be branded as a public utility and the government will act accordingly?
Since 1998 the NET was a wild west, tamed a bit by modernization and maturity.. but we are living in unparalleled times.
Anything is possible.
Good.
And bad.
It is our choice .. and cutting out the norm of how we once acted is a good choice.
Cord-Cutting: Millennials Abandon Their TV, Cable Faster Than Ever
This is important and game changing.. A cultural switch is going on. And this backs up my point the other night that Saturday Nighy Live and other live programs are becoming increasingly irrelevant ..
Like AM radio, conventional TV is dead.
Cord-Cutting: Millennials Abandon Their TV, Cable Faster Than Ever
Mystery Bright Spots On Dwarf Planet
So many things in the universe we don’t know yet.. so many mysteries we have yet to discover.. we are left to ponder the strange things we have yet to find a d these little lights on a tiny planet showcase the infancy of our universal lives. .
Mystery Bright Spots On Dwarf Planet
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
This is what a real woman looks like when she is near 50.. CNN reports this:
《 The image comes from a cover shoot for the December 2013 issue of Marie Claire Mexico and Latin America, representatives for the Mexico-based publication said. The photo in question was not published, and spokespeople did not provide an explanation for how it surfaced last week.》
The ultimate response to the photo has been applause.. I’m OK with the picture too..
Clearly we have been overwmeled by popular media and lied to about what real beauty is…
Another one bites the dust
The Schuylkill Mall is being hit with another store closing.. Kmart liquidation will be this year..
80 employees out of a job..another anchor store shuddred.. another day closer to the now very likely demise of the once great mall on the hill..
Another one bites the dust
If people think this is journalisitucally offensive they probably never visited the Newseum or have any inkling on just how rude and crude newspapers once were.. that’s not to diminish what this paper did. But shouldn’t first amendment protections be afforded to those who we disagree with the most?
Quite frankly this is one of the major problems I have with Raw Story and other publications geared to promote themselves in Facebook. The vast majority of time is spent on click bate or controversial headlines that often neglect to delve any deeper than the byline.
Online news gathering and consumption should NE amazing. Instead we are left to debate mundane and insignificant events on social media.
Why I am quitting sleep meditations
The march of machines is taking our jobs from under our feet.. robots will accomplish tasks once held by human.
But in all of the futureshock we are being hit with, one thing remains clear: People are still trying to be people. And get in touch with the larger element of our cosmos..
Enter into the equation something that maybe could be the job of the future: An expert on meditation..
Mary Macvean of the LA TIMES writes that people are seeking a way to slow down.. a moment to take a breather and disconnect from the highly wired world. And in doing so, find the inner peace that is promised with meditation..
The LA TIMES opens this way:
“Bring your attention to this moment,” Janice Marturano instructed. “Be open to sensations of warmth or coolness, sensations of fullness from breakfast, or perhaps hunger.” Minutes later, the meditation ended with the traditional strikes of little hand cymbals.
Buddhists? Old hippies? New Agers?
Nope. The room was full of hospital executives and managers in lab coats and scrubs, jeans and sports coats at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. And the teacher was Marturano, once a top executive at General Mills.
And it goes from there–people who are in highly respected walks of life are the new meditators.. They are attempting to slow down a bit..
Years ago, well before the 60s generation drugged the meditation world up, this would have been unheard of. It wasn’t so long ago that even Catholic priests warned of the dangers of meditation.. you can slip out of the realm here and let evil forces take over. Now most religions are heralding in the power of yoga and mixing it with prayer. What was blasphemy then is bastioning now.
I can see it now.. experts in meditation opening up their own buildings where people can find solitude in darkness. Experts and ‘gurus’ will be the new fad–and lots of people will pay big money to those who call themselves a subject matter expert in the art of just being alive without a handheld device.
Instead of a quiet walk in the woods, we will pay hundreds of dollars to someone who can give us the experience in alternate ways.. A new movement! And a new job market.. Finally humans may have found the one thing robots can’t do. Well.. maybe not.
There is one interesting caveat, and a personal one, I’d like to share on this, however.. And an important one. For about two weeks, I was attempting a certain sleep meditation (one that will remain nameless, as I don’t want to besmirch the reputation of a highly visited YOUTUBE page.) It seemed to be putting my to sleep quite fast.. the video’s essentially said it would connect me, or the user listening, to the God of the universe. Whatever that meant..
The video clearly had an impact on my life. But not the one I expected.. For about two weeks, I fell asleep fast without trouble. But I didn’t dream.. I literally can’t remember one instance in the two weeks where I woke up remembering any dream at all. Even more, for about a week and a half my daily life seemed slower and more zombielike. I didn’t get excited about nearly anything.. I was zoned out, and even my morning coffee didn’t do much to awaken me. I stopped the meditation and without about three or four days I was back acting normal again, heart racing after caffeine. Even my tin-foil hat paranoia was back in full force.
So which ‘me’ was the better me? Zoned out and careless about most of everything. Or wired with a touch of mental anarchy? A better question, perhaps: Which was the real me? I have lived most of my life being stranger than some and perceiving conspiracy where others don’t even see smoke. But I am never at rest. The meditation-version of me was at rest. At night, and even during the day..
This showcases, at least for me, the power of meditation and the ability of the mind-body connection becoming more of an albatross than a savior.
I am quitting the nighttime hypnoses.
Instead maybe I’ll just take a phone-free walk in the snow winter woods.
Monday, February 16, 2015
A good Clyde Lewis tonight for those who have a chance to listen— go to groundzeromedia.org to hear the show live for free..
There’s quote the tale of intrigue and prophecy with the latest ISIS crimes against hunabity. For instance they are just 500 miles from Italy and have announced a clear intention to get to Rome..
Should youveish, you could read more about that twist in today’s news here: http://nightterrornews.com/2015/02/16/hell-on-earth-thanks-to-prophecy/
I got a new phone today.. goodbye to the intrusive and slow spy device from Apple. Hello fast and modern extra illuminati spy device from Samsung.. expect some really lame little strokes of art until they lose all humor even to me, which won’t be long.
It’s my hope that my phone will listen to me closely and tell my smart TV everything I was too ashamed to admit to it..
I thought it was a big deal in 2007 when I was on the cutting edge of my friends with an iphone. With this new phone I feel like I’m walking on Mars
Call me dorky but of all the facts presented on this page about time, the John Tyler factoid got me the most..
Even more than the Pizza Hut bit.. go see what I mean here: http://higherperspective.com/2015/02/understanding-time.html?utm_source=cleo&ts_pid=2
I highly encourage everyone who hasn't seen FED UP to watch it..
Suddenly, after my viewing, I feel like a very irresponsible parent..
Here I am, a lover of food and cooking my own meals.. but at the same time in a constant battle with my child about how he should eat. He is about to turn four—and I worry some of the bad habits have already become too ingrained in him to change.
However, after watching FED UP, I am just angry.
Purely angry.
Some day in the future, a generation—maybe my son’s—will look back in anger at the previous for making the world a very sugar-addicted unhealthy place.
The link here:
http://fedupmovie.com/
And it’s on iTunes
And if you really REALLY want a challenge, take it on the site: http://fedupmovie.com/#/page/fedupchallenge
Sunday, February 15, 2015
Another troubling aspect of this, the AP is reporting tonight that ISIS is now about 500 miles away from Italy..
The killings raise the possibility that the Islamic militant group — which controls about a third of Syria and Iraq in a self-declared caliphate — has established a direct affiliate less than 500 miles (800 kilometers) from the southern tip of Italy. One of the militants in the video makes direct reference to that possibility, saying the group now plans to “conquer Rome.”
My really ultra sad and depressing assessment of tonight's SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE 40th anniversary nostalgia
I was looking forward to this 3+ hour extravaganza celebrating SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE’S 40 anniversary for weeks.. Tonight when it finally began, I couldn’t to turn it off..
Let me explain.
I grew up watching the show.. from an early age, I recall my parents allowing me to stay up late on a Saturday to watch the cold open, usually with Phil Hartman nailing his Ronald Reagan impression. I typically was only able to stay away until the band’s first song.. As I got older, the show was a staple of my existence on weekends.. after working late at a restaurant for several years, this program was the go-to before turning in and waking up the next day to do the same grind job again. There are even particular seasons I find the best: The 92-94 years, and then 97-the early 2000s..
The special airing tonight is giving me a different sense of SNL.. In a sense, I think the forced nostalgia is a bad thing. The live recreation of old skits using the same actors—actors clearly who have aged and gained weight—are not kind. The parade of stars is obviously interesting to watch, but it’s also a bit unnerving to see how fast 40 years went by. And how many stars have left our world.. the number of unfortunate deaths of cast members is normal with a program that spans four decades.. But the sharp recall it gives so many people seemingly makes them also think of their own demise..
Call me a little too negative on this, but I was reminded watching it of my own aging process as well.. Some may call me young yet.. But when you realize that you’re about 6 years younger than this program, you get the ‘oh boy’ moment..
There are some other things that are called to mind when seeing this many years of memories. First off, SNL is running shorter clips of the classics. They used to be 20 years old.. but now as they age, the life of the memories has become abbreviated to fit more..
And in fitting more, it also showcases how the ‘not ready for prime time’ comedians of the 1970s have led to a ‘does anyone still watch this show?’ mentality of our current age..
The modern world of comedy is a bit different.. The youth of today, for better or worse, like watching clips on Youtube or short 10 seconds VINES.. or even shorter three second GIFs.. Or better yet, one frame memes usually featuring some sarcastic or rude commentary about life. The live entertainment offered up on SNL is not cutting edge. While they have attempted to mix the internet generation onto their show, the last effective cast to do that was Andy Samberg. And really, he only gave us a ‘dick in the box’ as the fondest memory some have of him on the show..
I am really not trying to be negative—I am not. But seeing Chevy Chase’s weight start gathering around his neck like a brace, and “Opera Man” coming back, Steve Martin singing ‘King Tut’, and Dan Aykroyd blending up a fish al-la-70s style, I get a bit nostalgic. And a bit sad.. And quite honestly a bit too much.
Maybe some nostalgia should be left to the personal moment, the time when you’re alone and contemplating all you have seen and done.
Maybe this 40th anniversary special is a little unhealthy..
Yes, I am seeing the Facebook and Twitter messages of people “LOL”ing .. And they are taking photographs of the show from the smart phone of the TV, mostly trying to brag about the APPLE TV or SAMSUNG in their homes… It all seems so vacant.. It seems so forced..
Compared to the early clips of racy and risky humor, the current incarnation of this show is overly safe and about as cutting edge than a dull butter knife.
This is my honest assessment and gut instinct of this NBC special..I may be wrong.. But it’s how I feel.
Perhaps I am alone..
Or maybe 40 years worth of three generations is LOL in spite of themselves tonight.. and when it’s over they will wonder where their night has gone. And their lives.. As the beat goes on.
30 years after the BREAKFAST CLUB, it is coming back to some theaters.. It is interesting now to go back and see what TIME magazine, then in 1985, said about the classic movie. One fun concept is to look at what will never happen again, thanks to modern technology..
It was a movie for its time and of its time, but yet somehow stands the test of time. Yes, outfits are different.. the technology is limited..
But there’s one common thing shared by that of all generations: Our attempt to fit in, find our niche, and create a ‘character’ out of our reality.
In the BREAKFAST CLUB, the most amazing part is that all of the characters, by the end of their Saturday detention, actually discover who they really are because they are faced with the clear vacancy of others judging them. I bet, though, by Monday their egos were back and they ‘role’ resumed. But it’s all fiction, right?
Backstreet Boys will be together for the SNL 40th.. and now .. Looks like Justin Timberlake and the rest of the members of the popular 90s boy band might just reunite for an appearance on Saturday Night Live 40th anniversary special. If you’re excited about that, you’ve clearly run your course with modern pop culture and are stuck in a period of time when your youth dictated what you’d love for your life. Backstreet’s Back. Alright.
Megan Fox or not..? Michael at Bay? Rumors abound. Journalism doesn't.
Some new rumors about Megan Fox and Michael Bay–could it be that she’s in the new TRANSFORMERS movie but HE is out!? At this point just rumors. I highly doubt them as well.. for better or worse, Michael Bay IS the TRANSFORMERS movie. and lots of people are really excited about the idea that Fox will return along with Shia LeBouf, so as long as he’s not wearing some paper apparatus over his head that day..
These casting and production rumors are getting a little ridiculous.. as noted with a headline like this: “‘Transformers 5′ Cast, Trailer & Plot: Mark Wahlberg & Megan Fox Confirmed For Film [Rumors]… ahhhh..entertainment journalism. Where the words ‘confirmed’ and ‘rumors’ can appear in the same sentence..
I wish John Podesta would have given us disclosure, too..
Imagine: A United States citizen with high profiles and extremely high credentials and clearances in the United States government publicly saying that he wishes he could have brought disclosure on the topic of UFOs. Imagine.. Stop imagining.. it’s exactly what John Podesta is saying! Some hate him politically, others love him. But stop with the ridiculous two-party division nonsense and just realize what Podesta, a former Clinton staffer, is really saying: Podesta said in a tweet February 13th:
“Finally, my biggest failure of 2014: Once again not securing the #disclosure of the UFO files..”
The Large Hadron Super Collider is going to be restarting again–a new particle, we’re told, could be detected this year that would make the Higgs Boson look minor. For those keeping score, there are tons of websites online depicting a frightening scenario, one that they say even Stephen Hawking is warning us of.. perhaps a new black hole opening? Maybe the universe itself being eaten up..? Maybe the Langoliers coming ..or wait, that’s a Stephen King book. Not Hawking. But what we do know is this: The extremely updated Collider is going to search for signals that could become a new model of physics. And maybe open a black hole, too..
Lions and tigers and bears oh my
Some good news for your Sunday morning sidewalk–tongue in cheek on that.. a reliable publication like the FINANCIAL TIMES would never attempt to just scare us with awful things, right? They have. They are giving us a list of the 12 ways the world could end.. Asteroids.. supervolcanos.. global monetary collapse.. nuclear war.. pandemic.. Perhaps my favorite though: “Unknown consequences.” The catch all. Just in case they missed any disaster scenarios, they want to go for the full wide ranging effect on your psyche. Thanks reliable reporters at FT. Never expected it from you.. (though every bit of what they reported was accurate, and probably underdone in their descriptions) ..
Saturday, February 14, 2015
Cupid’s dangerous arrow: Those ancient Romans and what they gave us
Those ancients were wild and crazy.. Imagine the scene: A naked herd or folks dancing while the sacrifice of animals takes place.. There are smiles and cheers, and hopes that the burning animals wi…
Cupid’s dangerous arrow: Those ancient Romans and what they gave us
Russian city wakes up to find it is covered in BLUE snow
The strange weather phenomenon hit Chelyabinsk, in the Russian Urals, sparking fears the snow was contaminated with toxic materials.
It sure looks beautiful. In a toxic sort of way..
Russian city wakes up to find it is covered in BLUE snow
'Future of Food'
PBS series ‘Food Forward’ centers on one question: How did something as fundamental as food go so fundamentally wrong?
Looks like a good documentary..
I hope the information presented will occur. I want my generation and the one coming after me to make food better, healthier, fresher, and cleaner..
It’s a hope.
'Future of Food'
Friday, February 13, 2015
I'm completely fine with the idea of digital immortality.
LIVE FOREVER. BABY.
liked.
Cars.. Houses.. Things. Things of tangible value.. They are passed down and willed to others after death. Why not Facebook, or even going further, blogs and other social network space! We may not have a tactile ability to touch our Facebook page, but your digital life has become a branch of your existence. Selfies and all..
There’s good news for those who want to forever live online after death: Facebook is about to let more than one billion users to decide who takes over their account when they die..
Sure some may scoff at such news.. Others may deem it another example of our digital and self addicted society . But it makes sense..
There’s a caveat to this story–and perhaps a relief for millions: ABC reports:
Once Facebook is notified someone has died, the profile page will turn into a memorial with “Remembering” listed before the person’s name. The digital heir will be able to change the profile photo, make posts on the page and respond to friend requests.
The one thing off-limits: Private messages. Facebook said a person’s heir will not be able to log in under their identity or see any of their private discussions.
It will be called Facebook Legacy. And it will set into place a concise plan Of action for who represents our memorial page once we are not within an earthly realm..
I have pondered something, though.. If EVPs and VHS tapes can prove ghostly presences as so many believe, how long until these spirits learn to communicate on Facebook.. Perhaps one day when you log into your deceased family’s facebook page, you’ll be greeted by evidence that they were recently there as well.
Again Brian Williams? Again?
"What was my wow … I’ve been so fortunate. “I was at the Brandenburg Gate the night the wall came down."
Williams went on to tell a possible whopper at the Gipper’s Ronald Reagan museum in 2008..
The only problem with him standing at the Brandenburg Gate is that he really didn’t. Tom Brokaw did. Williams arrived 12 hours after it came done. But it was a long time ago, right?
I figured six months would be ample time to find the other Williams whoppers ..
A strong magnitude 6.9 earthquake has struck in the open waters of the Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge; the quake struck within the last 30 minutes
The NATIONAL TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER says this:
"A destructive widespread tsunami threat does not exist based on historical earthquake and tsunami data. However, there is the small possibility of a local tsunami that could affect coasts located usually no more than a hundred kilometers from the earthquake epicenter."
9 reasons Philly is suddenly 'hot'
Get ready America..
Coors light..
Hoagies..
Cheesteaks with fake meat..
Philly faces.
Mullets and boots.
And the Pope.
All coming to the city of Brotherly Love.
9 reasons Philly is suddenly 'hot'
Paterno didn't abuse the children. He reported the story of abuse (abuse he did not actually even witness) to his superior, which is what university policy instructed him to do. Maybe Paterno had an opportunity to be a hero, hindsight is 20/20, but he was not particularly knowledgeable about the issue at large OR the actual events, so he did what he thought he was supposed to do. He was an extremely accomplished and well loved man - merely following protocol is not a reason to take that all away
I know for a fact that my Paterno statue post would cause some commentary.. This one being shown here is among the most innocent, a few others detailed some awful things I should do to myself..Unprintable things. Sandusky things..
And you’re right, anonymous, Paterno didn’t do the wretched deeds that others did..
But for some record, I’d like to place a number of news items from the memory hole back into the cyberworld of today:
Penn State’s Rap Sheet Way Longer Than Sandusky Scandal
Why did Penn State hire the president of football-rape-probe-cover-up U?
And we also cannot forget the Freeh report: Freeh Report Slams Joe Paterno
All of this does not matter to some fans, though.. But it matters to me.. Just as any group of highly placed people abusing their rights or the decency of their human presence, it bothers me..
The devil with roses: Many nations are now banning Valentine's Day
You may have already guessed which ones: Iran, Indonesia, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia prohibit it. And many more in Central Asia.. the theory is that it runs completely opposite to Islam..
The devil with roses: Many nations are now banning Valentine's Day
Until I saw—quite literally—a black cat walk underneath a ladder this morning, I completely forgot the calender read Friday the 13th..
So for all of those out there with that sick sense of doom lurking behind every bad event, happy day to you all..
In 2004, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC detailed the horror that some people face when they wake up on the 13th when it’s on a Friday.. the fear.. the refusal to even get out of bed! In that report 11 years ago, NAT GEO said that over $800 mil was lost in productivity because of people neglecting to live their normal lives, instead fearing the 13th..
I would imagine that fear is only amplified as time goes on..
For those with triskadekaphobia, it’s going to be a long day.
It’s a tweet that ultimately fell on deaf ears: “#ServicioPublico Infalgan solution of 10 Mg for injection is needed for Vanessa Chacón.” S ent from San Rafael del Piñal, a small town in Venezuela near the border with Colombia, the tweet was sent on behalf of Chacón, 22, who needed the medicine to survive a severe coronary condition. Unfortunately, it’s simply not available there — and isn’t likely to be anytime soon.
Think for a second of the utter horror that many are now feeling in this nation.. Several hundred tweets—at this point—are being posted daily asking for the same help. Oil prices dropped.. an economy crashed.. This nation seems to be teetering on the brink of destruction..
The ECONOMIST is summing up what it calls mismanagement and an oil slump as the main culprits for the decaying social fabric of the nation.. The publication reports,
About this, at least, Mr Rondón is correct. Sixteen years after Hugo Chávez took power in Venezuela, and two years after he died, his “Bolivarian Revolution” faces the gravest threats yet to its survival. The regime is running out of money to import necessities and pay its debts. There are shortages of basic goods, from milk and flour to shampoo and disposable nappies. Queues, often of several hundred people, form each day outside supermarkets. Ten patients of the University Hospital in Caracas died over the Christmas period because of a shortage of heart valves.
Another aspect of the trouble in the nation: Education is at risk of becoming meaningless there as the LATIN AMERICAN HERALD TRIBUNE writes in an editorial:
If something has been evident during 16 years of “socialism of the 21st century” is that education has stopped being a priority, unless the State finds it useful to get its ideology into the heads of citizens.
Evidence of this contempt for education is there for everyone to see: schools and educational centers have collapsed; professors and teachers are poorly paid and poorly prepared; curricular changes eliminated basic subjects, distorted reality and introduced indoctrinating concepts and materials; evaluations and automatic promotions were eliminated, among others.
Meanwhile: Bonds are tumbling..
And as mentioned above: The pharmacy shelves are empty and barren..
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