SHAMEFUL ACTS OF SHOPPING!
We are days into the shopping season, but here is a YouTube compilation of the most shameful of behavior displayed by supposed humans on Black Friday. Enjoy.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
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Sunday, November 25, 2012
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Interesting.. my hometown has a song about it now. Pretty nifty.
Let Rogue Valley, my favorite band, from Minneapolis, Minnesota be your guide to the modern ghost town of Centralia, PA
‘Pennsylvania 61
through the very heart for some
where industry has long been gone
looks like any old abandoned town
it looks like any other place
forgotten and left to waste
its residents have long been chased awaysteam rises from the fields
smoke-clouds skim the streets
a fire burns underneath the fallen citythis old mining community
is hotter than the planet mercury
a statuette without a face
disfigured and erasedfour hundred acres all unseen
been burning since 1960
the government gave it up
paid money for all the people to move out
they took their pictures and precious things
their families, their histories
level it all, let nature reclaim this townsmoke rises from the hills
like some kind of poison spell
the mines are smoldering still
after fifty yearsthey’ll burn for a hundred more
hollowing a harrowing core
the coal went when the soul went
the other way down
Pennsylvania 61level it all
don’t look back on Pennsylvania 61’
You can listen to Rogue Valley’s fantastic brand of Americana at their Bandcamp, like them on Facebook, and find out more about their expansive ‘Four Seasons’ albums through their website.
Drunk on milk? Shedding the magic underwear at Disney? Now a bear hug on Anne Romney.. Just keep him away from her horses.
A great stocking stuffer: BLACK EYED CHILDREN.. I want to read this one..
Much more fascinating than the MEN IN BLACK..
Friday, November 23, 2012
So this is how modern shopping happens? This resembles more like an end of the world movie than the Christmas spirit.. Materialism at its finest.. and ugliest.
BE PROUD AMERICA. THE WORLD IS WATCHING.
And scratching it’s head in a mixture of disbelief and amusement..
Embarrassing..
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So this is how modern shopping happens? This resembles more like an end of the world movie than the Christmas spirit.. Materialism at its finest.. and ugliest.
Thursday, November 22, 2012
First he was pumping gas obviously drunk on milk. And now Mitt Romney has been photographed at Disneyworld with his kids.. It looks like he is happier on the water rides than he was pumping gas at a station.
At a certain point though Mitt will become old news. I can’t imagine the media continuing to have fun with him so many weeks now after he lost the election..
I would say this is the best meal of the year..Seriously great food, great family, great fun.. Great thanks.
Sure, we have this silly notion that Thanksgiving is about Pilgrims and Natives sitting at a table enjoying a meal. That may have happened but it wasn’t until Abraham Lincoln that this whole thing even became a national holiday, and that was after a big social campaign to have him do it during the Civil War. And yes, some even think there is a much darker and more sordid history of Thanksgiving than one portrayed in history books. We do know there is a pretty rough section of history large not told to young aspiring students in school. America’s government often (and still often does) treated Native Americans with contempt.. White landowners didn’t have their land until a trail of tears forced original settlers off of it. That is the dark history of this nation. One that cannot be ignored.
But we really cannot change much of that now. can we?
At this point we can only make sure the turkey is cooked and the filling isn’t raw. I don’t mind lumpy potatoes.
History is something open for debate often..
So all debate aside, all untold history of sketchy pilgrim and Native American dinners ignored, why is it really that Americans eat like gluttons and sit for hours watching large men in stretch pants knock into each other?? Well, it’s all because of Sarah Hale. She wrote the letter than saved Thanksgiving and convinced Honest Abe to name it a day. There must have been a big brain in that large forehead, Sarah.
Without it, today would just be Thursday and most Americans would be stuck in the weekly grind .. Instead now we will gain 10 pounds, pass out in our sloth, and wake up early to be rude to each other at stores at 3am. The American way.
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
It is the biggest party night of the year..
… and right now my wife and my son are both soundly asleep and I am watching a Back to the Future marathon on HBO.
I don’t regret for one moment that I’m not out enjoying the party night.
But for those who are out be safe everyone.
Creepy Christmas..
We already know that stores are set to track your ID and see if you are a ‘repeat returner’ of products.
But this one is a little weirder and Orwellian to me. Store mannequins are not set to watch you as you shop to spy on your shopping habits.
Christmas of the future!
Buy local. Avoid the all-knowing eyes of the lifeless mannequin.
From the age of 16 until about a year and a half ago, I worked either full time or part time in the restaurant industry. I took a sabbatical from the profession since I had a full time job and a second full time job as a dad since 2011. Nonetheless, tonight was always a night of greatness in my restaurant recollection.
Pies. Lots of pies.
The smell of turkey roasting in the oven in the restaurant kitchen.
Setting tables up for reservations.. Making certain enough seating was available..
The magical ‘setup’ hours were fun times, in my memory.
Not like Mother’s Day. I despised worked Mother’s Day for a number of reasons—not because I hate Mother’s Day itself but more because I can’t stand the notion that so many kids see their moms once a year and their choice on that productive day is to take Mother to a busy restaurant with bad service and cold food. How lame.
But Thanksgiving? I always loved waiting tables on Thanksgiving. There was something fun about it.. something ‘holidayish’..
I am jealous of those who get to smell the wafting aroma of pies in restaurant kitchens across the United States tonight.
Yes there will certainly be some mighty big issues to talk about in 2016. Such as creationism.
Seriously.. I want a debate about creationism from the GOP contenders.. with Rick Santorum moderating. How fun that could be.
Yes there will certainly be some mighty big issues to talk about in 2016. Such as creationism.
Michio Kaku voices his solar flare fears
Physicist Michio Kaku was a guest on George Noory’s Coast to Coast AM last night.
Kaku quickly directed the conversation towards his fears over solar activity He told George Noory that he was disturbed by the size and strength of recent solar flares..
Kaku said that the fear is one of the flares could hit earth and ‘all hell could break loose’..
Kaku said it was a matter of time, mentioning that the last big flare happened 150 years when telegraph wires were shorted out. He mentioned that people in Cuba were reading newspaper at night because the Northern Lights went that far South.
In our modern world, Kaku said the satellites would be fried, power plants could go down, and he said it could be worse than 20 Hurricane Katrinas across the planet.. The scary possibility is more possible as the ‘maximum’ of solar activity is occurring The sunspot is like a rifle, Kaku said, and the flares are like bullets. “One of these days one of these solar flares is going to hit the earth,” he told George Noory..
Kaku spoke about Congress’ inaction in taking advice of physicists on concerning the grid. Kaku worried about nuclear reactors failing and more Fukushima type events happening simultaneously throughout the world.
A part of the chaos Kaku foresees: Food riots, and violence as people realize ‘no outside’ will be able to help the areas affected by a solar maximum flare.
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