Two good stories today on Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING worth reading:

What exactly did Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of THE SHINING mean?

An aide to Kubrick scoffs

Years back, I never really appreciated the Kubrick version of THE SHINING. I read the Stephen King book, and actually enjoyed the late 1990s TV adaptation (it was the late 90s,  right?, or early 2000s?) of the book. I thought the Kubrick version was a little too deep for someone who just wanted a scary movie about a frightening hotel….

But maybe it wasn’t deep at all. Maybe all those references people thought meant something actually meant nothing?

But didn’t Kubrick help fake the moon landing?? Or has the joke been on us all these years?

MY YEARLY ODE TO MINI EGGS

Oh Cadbury Mini Eggs, I love you
You’re chocolate goodness, it’s true
You melt in a mouth and not in a hand, 
And are always fresh and never bland

Your milky goodness and your colorful bite
Can help any creature have a good night
Your Easter gift every year,
Maybe better than a cold beer

Mini Eggs, Mini Eggs, 
To you I’ll walk with faster legs
It’s time again to almost part,
I hope your chocolate will not make me fart

The Easter season will soon be gone
And with that we’ll have to say so long
In a few months, you’ll be manufactured again
Eggs of glory for women and men!

Happy Easter.

For once tumblr may not be down because of their network

Millions around the web are seeing their speed slow to a crawl.... It’s like dial up 1999 all over again..the London TELEGRAPH reports this:

Cyberbunker is housed in a five-story former NATO bunker and famously offers its services to any website “except child porn and anything related to terrorism”. As such it has often been linked to behaviour that anti-spam blacklist compilers have condemend.

It retaliated with a huge ‘denial of service attack’. These work by trying to make a network unavailable to its intended users,overloading a server with coordinated requests to access it. At one point, 300 billion bits per second were being sent by a network of computers, making this the biggest attack ever.

1,000 dead ducks found in Chinese river

It was dead pigs first.. Now ducks..

Anyone getting the idea than something else is happening. Such as 1) pollution from an unregulated industry or 2) our testing of some type of bio weapons?

This story creeps me out not because of the mysterious deaths of animals but because we know the Chinese government will not be honest with what is causing the problem..

Watch for more animals. Something tells me it’s not going to stop with ducks, just as it didn’t with pigs..

1,000 dead ducks found in Chinese river

Shaq meets Crispy..

Seriously, Former National Basketball Association center Shaquille O’Neal stopped by the Statehouse Friday to visit Gov. Chris Christie

And it led to what may quite possibly be the strongest photo I’ve ever seen..

I cannot even predict how the Supreme Court will rule, but today was a pretty historic day

The gay marriage debate may finally be settled..
Or just beginning?

I cannot even predict how the Supreme Court will rule, but today was a pretty historic day

This is not Kate Middleton. And she is not pregnant.

It’s tough being fake, times two.

Is that a mosquito buzzing over? Or a drone..

(By the way: Drones kill more civilians than terrorists..)

Here is your must read of the day

Chances are you don’t know what the ‘Monsanto Protection Act’ is.. I think it’s on purpose that you don’t.

Time to educate yourself now.

Here is your must read of the day

A tale of two Popes: One of these pontiffs is not like the other.

This almost looks staged to me..

Amazing how different Natzinger is from Bergoglio.

So where did that fancy gold chair go, anyway?

How to not score drugs: Ask a cop for some on a city street

According to cops, the Shamokin, PA woman stopped a police officer and asked him to help her a fix of heroin.. obviously the cop didn’t assist.

A snippet from the NEWS ITEM:

Arlina Alves, 49, of 142 E. Lincoln St., flagged down Patrolman Raymond Siko II in his cruiser while he was patrolling Liberty Street at 9:30 a.m.

Siko said Alves told him she needed a “fix,” asked him for some heroin and even requested a ride to York to purchase heroin.

After Siko pointed out that he is a police officer, Alves allegedly replied, “That’s even better because you probably have some heroin at the station that you have taken off people. I only need one bag.”

After realizing she wasn’t getting any heroin, Siko said Alves became combative and started cursing in the middle of the street in front of three adults and two children.

Siko said Alves admitted drinking a couple bottles of wine the night before.

She was cited for public drunkenness and disorderly conduct.

How to not score drugs: Ask a cop for some on a city street

So what did you do (or are you doing) as a teenager? I bet you didn't earn $30 mil, unless your name is Nick D'Alosio and you got a big bundle of cash from Yahoo!

So what did you do (or are you doing) as a teenager? I bet you didn't earn $30 mil, unless your name is Nick D'Alosio and you got a big bundle of cash from Yahoo!

Your self help of the day: 22 things that happy people probably do differently than you

Your self help of the day: 22 things that happy people probably do differently than you

My friend and I discuss the global ramifications of the Amanda Knox retrial

This and many other amazingly cool images from Egypt were snapped by a man named Vitaliy Raskalov .. He sneaked up to the top of the Great Pyramid at Giza before the sun began to set—and he has the photoset to prove it..

People are strange..

So I have another website, as some may know, and I put a little funny comment on there about how OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN came in second place this weekend at the box office. And wouldn’t you know it, I actually got a death threat about it.. 

Seriously people? This movie has caused you to have so much emotion that you …. issue death threats? Fatwas? It’s a terrible (probably stupid) action movie about a terrorist attack.. Like we haven’t seen that before. Seriously…

A death threat. Over a lame movie. 
Go figure.

Oh the other site is HorrorReport.com in case you were wondering.

A St. Clair, PA man assaulted a woman over her political beliefs. And it happened in his business location...

Seriously, this is nuts:

Saint Clair police Patrolman Frank DiMarco said, Prutzman, owner of The Trading Post Pawn Shop on South Second Street, assaulted the woman at the business after becoming enraged at her for supporting and voting for Obama.

The woman, who was not identified, suffered a severe laceration to the right side of her forehead, cuts and scrapes on her head, neck and ear and appeared to have dirt on her coat and scuffs on her knees and clothing, DiMarco said.

DiMarco said the argument began about 9:30 p.m. Friday over the woman’s political views at which time Prutzman threw her against walls.

As the story goes.. the victim also said that as she tried to get away, her neck was grabbed and her head was thrown off the ground…

Heck of a way to conduct business at a pawn shop, isn’t it?

A St. Clair, PA man assaulted a woman over her political beliefs. And it happened in his business location...

I think everyone should take a quick look at OneTinyHand.com

I guess the site has been around for a while.. but it’s new to me. And I love it, for some sick reason..

I think everyone should take a quick look at OneTinyHand.com

I spent a little too much time this weekend reading news accounts of horrible situations

Locally, here in the coal region this morning, two beautiful young children died in a car accident.. Tonight I was reading about a child who died at an Atlanta airport after a display sign fell on him.. I am still following up about the story of the child in Georgia who was killed in his stroller, it was the second child who died on the mom—another older boy died in New Jersey in gun violence..

And you know what? I am sick of it all.

It’s not bad enough that I have a cold/flu type of a thing for about a week.. but all of this mental pressure was probably too much for me.

No news is good news.

The happiest people sometimes skip to the sports section..

But I cannot.

Instead, I broil with anger and simmer with agony at daily headlines from sea to bloody sea…

This is one crazy messed up world, don’t you think?

The news really gets me sick anymore.. including this incident of teens shooting a baby in a stroller

The news really gets me sick anymore.. including this incident of teens shooting a baby in a stroller