In honor of RONAN FARROW benig beaten by the GOLDEN GIRLS.. Next time MSNBC may want plug Farrow with ads featuring the whole gang from that retirement from Florida..

Bad news for Ronan Farrow.. ratings are bad. So bad that he may get canceled, according to the New York DAILY NEWS today..

The DAILY NEWS says, 

Farrow, 28 — the opinionated, blue-eyed son of actress Mia Farrow and either Woody Allen or Frank Sinatra (even Farrow’s not sure which) — has been a disaster for MSNBC. The channel took the frequent cable-show guest and handed him his own program, “Ronan Farrow Daily,” which premiered in late February.

“He sort of stinks on TV,” an MSNBC source told Confidenti@l. “He hasn’t turned out to be the superstar they were hoping for.”

And to show just how bad things are, Neilson rated the show 708th place and was beat out by a “Golden Girls” rerun on the Hallmark Channel.

Seriously.. this is happening again!? People trying to apply for Monday’s midnight OBAMACARE deadline are being greeted again with the website ‘currently unavailable’ messages..  this is beginning to feel like a big joke—maybe it’s just an April fools prank and the website will announce on the 1st of April, “April Fools, you got until midnight tonight instead!”

UNbearable: North Korea conflagration again?

Well.. the war never did end.

As if Kim Jong Un and fake stories about mandations of his haircut is not worrying enough, this happened hours ago: North Korea and South Korea traded fire during military drills—real fire. Real artillery.  

Residents on five front line islands in South Korea were in shelters for hours ..

It's a self selfie world

California.. They have a beautiful state and, besides Hollywood, the area is filled with good people. And they are being told that up to 18,000 of them could die if a big one hit.. 

The UK DAILY MAIL points out, in our selfie culture, it’s sort of what everyone did after the series of weekend quakes: Take selfies with the overturned materials behind them.. They didn’t do THAT in 1906! OR … did they? My God.. I think they did!?

After I read the DAILY MAIL piece about the selfie culture, I found so many photos from the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake in which people were posing in front of rubble.. ruins.. and remnants. I think it’s because, in a sense, the selfie is just a piece of human nature.

It documents the fact that “you were there” .. that you saw what you saw, and for the record, you lived through it.. Just as those who wore those cloaks and vestments of the 1900s did as they sternly posed for the camera with debris and death behind them, we do the same now.. Perhaps nothing has really changed. Maybe nothing has ever been the same.. But the selfie has always been there. 

Even honest Abe loved to get his photo taken. I bet central bank notes that he would have also had an INSTAGRAM to compete with Justin Bieber.

And that soldiers would have taken selfies on the battlefield at Gettysburg..

Then again, as we see here, sometimes the selfie gets tasteless.. the Arizona Wildcats lost and the streets went wild, with students ‘rioting’ over the pointless nonsense that is called college sports. And selfies were all the rage, along with the actual ‘rage’ over nothing in the streets..

I completely agree with the BLOODY DISGUSTING blog.. these ads for PS2 (like the one you see here) are just awful.. just sick.. disturbing.. almost too much.

But also strangely amazing, beautiful, and memorizing.

And I guess that is just how advertising is meant to be…

Except this one. This one really hits me the wrong way:

Russia's Military Begins Massive Nuclear War Drill

On Thursday, 10,000 Russian troops began a drill simulating the massive use of nuclear missiles.

It’s only just a drill … only just a drill.. only just a drill.

BUT as Ronald Reagan would say…. ‘we begin bombing in five minutes’

Russia's Military Begins Massive Nuclear War Drill

It’s spring dammit. And that’s how I’m dressing.

CELEBRATE! Lady Gaga has emerged almost fully nude to celebrate turning 28. The big news, she made it out of the 27 club alive.. 

Congrats Lady in no clothes. 

But my God, how do you walk in those shoes!? They just can’t be OSHA safe.. who’s carrying workers comp on you, Stephanie?

Pretty certain that this is not how the end of March should be looking, but it is exactly how it looks here in Northern Schuylkill County tonight..

The kids these days appear to like ONE DIRECTION. At least if you judge it by who cleaned up at the Kids Choice Awards.. 

Though I am glad to see that NICK still slimes people..

I bet few folks these days would remember why that tradition happened.

NOAH just must not be like the book version

The epic NOAH movie is storming through box offices.. Christians flocking to it in bigger numbers than Sunday mass. But noteworthy are some Christian perspectives, as this one by Matt Walsh, on why it’s a terrible movie if you look at compared to the ‘book version.’ Walsh points out that NOAH was made by an atheist and that rock people were bad guys. Along with weird love angles.  I had no inclination to see this film. After this review, now I may just want to..

The New York TIMES called NOAH ‘less epic’ than a horror movie..

NOAH seems to be slated to have a $47 mil opening for the weekend.. Nikki Finke wondered if the Southern California quakes made NOAH seem a little too real to see in theaters.. Either way, it appears that the former Governator’s SABOTAGE failed massively.. 

So.. did we just find out why animals were running out of Yellowstone?

I just wrote this morning about quakes in LA and Oklahoma.. but I didn’t speak much about Yellowstone.

And BOOM.
Shake>
QUAKE.

A major one, too..A 4.8 magnitude quake struck Yellowstone in Wyoming this morning..

The Yellowstone quake was preceded by a 3.0 foreshock at 4:36am MDT, about 2 hours before the main shock..

So if the animals ran, was it the 4.8 or .. is there more to come?

A raw and windy worry

Saturday night was a weird kind of night.. creepy.. rainy.. foreboding. Anyone else feeling like we are on the verge of something ..? There is just something about raw nights like last night, with wind and cold rain. The earth has power, as does nature. We don’t. Sometimes it feels like we are just constant victims to time itself. Each hour could be the last..
But collectively looking at it, I feel a sense of dread about upcoming events and times. And I don’t know why.. I fear the future this Sunday morning..

Here’s some reasons why..


This image is the 3.0 magnitude earthquakes or better across the United States.
We already know about the Southern California shaking, whether they be aftershocks ore foreshocks of a bigger one to come.. But take a glance at the middle of the country: Oklahoma has been getting rattled by quake after quake after quake—mostly in natural gas drilling areas where fracking is taking place. Just last night—last night—there were two moderate earthquakes over that state.. (and at a fracking location)  And it was felt as far as Kansas..

I was also catching up on my boom and noise news .. The Strange Sounds blog ran a post concerning booms in Missouri earlier this month.. I have actually seen some more recent reports from Missouri of the same booming noises taking place. And with all of these booms and obvious mini quakes taking place, it reminded me of something I have read before concerning the days before the last major New Madrid quake in the 1800s:  There were booms heard prior to the 1811 quake..

Speaking of the LA panics: They just keep happening: There is a lot of movement taking place in Southern California, as documented by this quake rundown..

Ebola winning. That's not good.

The deadly virus Ebola continues to spread, seemingly unabated. The outbreak has now reached Guinea’s capital .. people are obviously worried, as shown here, about what would happen should Ebola spread throughout the world. Meanwhile,the death toll continues to rise, nations that surround Guinea shut down their borders,  and Guinea orders a ban on eating meat.. The scary part is: When people battle Ebola, Ebola always wins..

A little venting here.. And nothing political at all is meant by it.. no statement being made. 

Last night SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE joined in the already apparent NBC comedy team’s portrayals of the President. 

I long for the good old days when politicians were lampooned instead of being propped up—no matter the party or silly side you’re on. It’s healthy to laugh at our Chief Executive and Congress.

It’s needed.

IT SHOULD BE MANDATED!

Instead we’re subjected to PR and badly written comedic mind control..  During the supposed political ‘satire’ on SNL, the President had to kiss Justin Bieber to promote health care to the young. I missed the joke.. I didn’t get why it was funny.. But I sure saw through the attempt to promote President Obama. And that is NOT WHAT POLITICAL SATIRE IS..

ABC7 in Los Angeles has a live streaming quake cam always online.. over the past day, since the city of angels has been shaking like hell, I have been sort of attached to this live video.. I realized tonight I was watching it so much that I actually witnessed a worker cleaning the needle .. I got so excited I did a print-screen to capture my ‘exclusive.’ 

EXTRA EXTRA
READ ALL ABOUT IT!
ABC7 EMPLOYEE CLEANS THE QUAKECAM NEEDLE

Maybe I have to close this window..

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Blast back to 1995.. things weren’t all that great but the tomorrows were as bad as they seemed. 

And Oasis was king.
For a day.

Some might say..

Saturday night live! A blast from the past to the band that people predicted would become the next ‘Beetles’ but never did.

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Earthquake: 4.1 quake strikes near Rowland Heights; felt over wide area

A shallow magnitude 4.1 earthquake was reported Saturday afternoon one mile from Rowland Heights, according to the U.S. Geological Survey . The temblor occurred at 2:32 p.m. at a depth of 5.6 miles. (It was originally reported as a 4.4 magnitude.)

This is after the Friday night 5.1.. and last week’s 4.4…

Seems to be a harbinger of something else coming.. 

This was the largest aftershock yet.

Or perhaps the second largest ‘foreshock’ of a bigger one on the way..

Earthquake: 4.1 quake strikes near Rowland Heights; felt over wide area

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Get ready for heroes in a half shell. My son is already enthralled by the minute plus trailer for the NINJA TURTLES movie with Megan Fox coming out this summer.. Although I have read a few sources that are not as excited as today’s youth are with the Michael Bay rethink of the TURTLES..

And others are providing harsh commentary on Megan Fox’ abilities to transform into April O’Neill. The only thing I really noted about the trailer was the lack of substance, but instead the reliance on big action bombs and blasts and Megan Fox’s face. Not three seconds of the trailer went by without seeing Megan Fox ..

It seems that every time the TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES come around, they get bigger. This one is no different. It appears that Michael Bay made them absolutely huge, as though they were steroid-using weight lifting heroes in a half shell .. Maybe too big?

As a student of the 1980s and 90s, the cartoon featured turtles who were short and fun.. As a matter of fact, even April O’Neill was taller than them. Not this go around, though.. Michael Bay made them ugly and huge.. They looked more like alligators than turtles.

And Megan Fox looks more like Megan Fox than April.

And Michael Bay looks like Michael Bay.

But does TMNT look more like Pearl Harbor than a hit? Time will tell, this summer…

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