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 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?
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..
The potential 2016 contender dismissed questions about the president’s faith as insignificant.
So this is the debate for ‘16 now?
This..?
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.
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..
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.
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:
Also, one admits she knew they’d be caught.
And they were..
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.
Incidentally, the building did not pancake down on top of itself..
Just saying.
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..
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..
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.
