Saturday, October 26, 2013
So tonight is the night.. next weekend Halloween will be a thing of the past, so by default, bars are already being filled up from polluted sea to radiated sea with tramps with tramp stamps, vamps in damp cramps, all flocking to dumps and dive bars..
Sexy.. fangy..
Hairy.. sleazy.
All there for your eyes to see…
So what is it at your local watering hole? What are they all wearing?
My Facebook ‘news’ feed is already filling up with images of friends in zombie attire, bloody fangs.. and oh, yes, outfits that would make anyone with decency blush just by looking..
It’s a party night, after all..
When everything hangs out, gore and all.
Arms and legs, adorned with fake wounds..
Chests bare. And that’s the women!
Sexy nurses, sleazy witches..Scantily clad teachers.. And Miley Cyrus. I’d dare say more men will wear Miley this year than women.
I did see a few nuns tonight. Though I think they were real, since they were cloaked from head to toe..Oh, and they weren’t vomiting behind a car at 2am..
HOW DIRTY IS YOUR HALLOWEEN?
Enjoy the night.
And be safe.
Don’t be the next Ben Tramer.
Did you waste $50 bucks on a Miley Cyrus costume back in September?
TWERK IT.
The Internet has changed everything. That we know. It comes in like a wrecking ball.
Remember back in September when Miley Cyrus costumes were flying off the shelf? Well that was so then.. This is now. And the ‘now’ is defined by the internet meme of the day, the topic and trend of the moment—and those trends can change by the moment.
And in that sense, basing your costume off of a trend can show how ‘dated’ you are—the ‘dating’ of years back would take months. These days it takes minutes..
USA TODAY opens its article with the trying tale of a woman from Arizona . She bought her Miley Cyrus costume but will not be wearing it to the Halloween party… I wonder how many other people are in the same boat as her? A foam finger collecting dust already.. a skimpy outfit hanging up… waiting to be worn but probably never will be…
USA TODAY goes on to report this,
In 1984, the cool kids went as Freddy Krueger; in 1994, they went as one of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers; and in 2006, they were Barack Obama, according to a 30-year look back at best-sellers from Spirit Halloween, the largest seasonal Halloween retailer in the country, with 725 locations across the United States and Canada
The first thing this quote tells me is how uncool I have always been.. I keep un-dusting my Freddy outfit on a regular basis.. It’s so old that the mask is ripped up the back of the head and I am not forced to wear it with a hoodie—actually making it a little more frightening in my opinion.
But enough about me, back to YOU.
The history of costumes is a stroll down amnesia lane in pop culture.
There aren’t many homemade ghosts anymore.. replacing them? The sexy and skimpy outfits of nurses who seem to want sex more than candy.
In our current times of virtual trick or treating, kids come and go. IN my personal opinion, I rarely even know what they are anymore.. they don’t seem to know either..
Of course, 20-somethings will wear their makeup and outfits with little material, go to that bar and achieve success: Drunken sex with a ‘sexy’ Superman costume laying on the floor. The dignity they lost in the process was priceless, but what do they care? They’re not 30 yet..
Halloween has changed .. It still changes. Abruptly.
Massive Barge On San Francisco Bay Likely Secret Google Facility - CBS San Francisco
KPIX 5 has learned a mysterious barge floating on Treasure Island belongs to Google. But the project may be sunk before it ever opens for business.
Why does Google have to be so creepy and shady with everything it does?
Massive Barge On San Francisco Bay Likely Secret Google Facility - CBS San Francisco
This is the location of horror.. so much misery.. so many tears. This is where the massacre occurred. This is—and soon was—Sandy Hook Elementary School. It’s being demolished. A new one will be unveiled in 2016..
But even when it is, those children who died will still be gone and those tears most likely will not be dry..
I have long debated in my own mind: What do I hate more, spiders or snakes?
So far, my experience with snakes has been rotten. They sneak into my house.. one nonvenomous one bit me in 2007.. But my wife has suffered a few spider bites that made my little two-holed snake bite look like child’s play.
Now this from the UK: A venomous spider attack has shut down a British school! Apparently the Den Academy has experienced an outbreak of the ‘false widow’ .. no, not the black widow spider.
The false widow, as opposed to the widow of another nature, is called Britain’s deadliest spider .. it’s not aggressive towards humans, but does bite if it gets trapped in clothing..
It is believed to have arrived in the UK in crates of fruit from the Canary Islands. And since, eight legged hell ensued. Oh, and thanks to climate change, people expect the false widow to mate and spread across the United Kingdom.
And if crates of tea and crumpets or fish and chips leave there to other places? Expect the false widow to just spread across the planet.
A whole new world of venomous life.
Great. And these spiders are plain out horrendously ugly..
Pork is what’s never for dinner for me anymore: A pig disease that killed millions of piglets in China has now spread to the United States. US farmers have now reported 768 cases of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV).
There is a theory that oarfish wash ashore when a big event is about to take place—perhaps tectonic movement. It’s rare.. but it happened prior to the massive Japan quake and tsunami. And now oarfish are washing ashore in California .. The oarfish has drawngawkers .. but also some fears.. Could this be a sign of movement deep under the ocean, in the depths of the earth? Is something moving? Oarfish predicting earthquakes is not as crazy as it sounds..
Some more fish news: Remember the news we and so many others have been reporting on concerning a mysterious and loud global hum? A new theory now provides a potential answer: It could be the sound of mating fish in the North Atlantic and the English Channel .. So when the waters are rockin’ I’d imagine it’s not good to go knockin’??
Friday, October 25, 2013
This is an amazing story from the Philippines: A wall of rock reveals a new fault line in the nation! The rock wall developed after the strong 7.2 quake devastated parts of the nation on October 15.. villagers report a strong stench of sulfur and say the rock wall rose on one side as the ground was shaking..
Nevada school shooting 911 call: 'I got a kid down who's been shot'
No one knows why a child opened fire at Sparks Middle School in Nevada, killing a teacher and wounding two other students before taking his own life.
Nevada school shooting 911 call: 'I got a kid down who's been shot'
Merkel's move: Can you hear her now?
Maybe the NSA should re-create the HealthCare.gov site.. but they are busy with their own stuff.. They record 124 billion calls A MONTH .. they may know everything from the drugs you’re taking, to what you’re having for dinner, to who you’re currently attempting to mate with.. And they know if the partner really wants you to mate with them. It’s gotten to the point where now nations are actually turning to the United Nations to implement some internet privacy rules.. The angriest may be Germany’s Angela Merkel, who apparently has been spied on by the NSA too.. Old friend (or foe to some) Edward Snowden says there is no telephone call in America that does not leave some sort of record with the NSA.. ..
But life online may get a little more transparent, thanks to Mozilla. They have a new product called LIGHTBEAM, and it is set to expose those companies who are looking over your shoulder while you surf the world online..
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Remember the woman the other day who was fainting behind President Obama while he spoke? Why did he turn around BEFORE the woman fainted? Wow. . this video is quite a bombshell of conspiratorial thought. I love it!
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Healthcare.Flub
The government is used to regulating products and not selling them. Perhaps that’s too easy of a way out for the Obama Administration? I just think the entire disaster that is now happening with Obamacare is unfortunate—there really is no way to even debate if Obamacare in itself is good, because the problems with the health care rollout has completely overshadowed the argument as to whether health care reform was right or wrong. Now we are dealing and reeling with insurance cuts for people who have plans they wanted to keep, and a failure of a website that, for some reason, works worse than even a Geocities page in the late 1990s..
The news rundown concerning this, should you wish to cringe:
- Cancellation notices are soaring above Obamacare enrollments..
- People can’t log on!
- Dummy files and fake names were left in published code!
- Democrats in uneasy spot over Health.gov
- Trading blame in front of Congress..
- What we did not learn from hearings..
- Contractors testify: Not enough testing..
- Consumers grow very frustrated with Healthcare.gov
- SO how much did Healthcare.gov cost?
Just a plain weird GIF presented by NBC’s TODAY SHOW blog this morning.
And I can’t stop watching it..
The exciting world (to me) of solar flares
The sun has come alive! M class and X class flares..the latest in a series of strong bursts that came off of the sun was an X1.7 flare. It will be set now to provide a glancing blow to the planet Earth.. The X class flare came from sunspot 1882.. you can find the most and best information concerning this and other previous flares from the suddenly active sun on SOALRHAM.NET, plus you can also hear why the sun is suddenly so active and what that can mean courtesy a video provided by Art Bell’s website..
But at this point two CMEs are heading to earth..
Also this link of worth reading: A ‘Canyon of Fire’ solar filament eruption was caught on close up video..
Thursday, October 24, 2013
THE DEVIL'S IN Danvers: Colleen Ritzer asked murder suspect to stay after school
BOSTON.COM is reporting this:
The high school math teacher who was allegedly slain by a 14-year-old student asked the student to stay after school on the day she was killed because she wanted to help him with an upcoming test, a student in the class said today.
Student Rania Rhaedaoui said she was in Colleen Ritzer’s algebra class on the last period of the day on Tuesday, along with the suspect, Philip Chism.
“She saw him drawing during class and she just said to him, ‘I didn’t know you could draw,’” said Rhaedaoui, a 14-year-old freshman.
“I sit really close to him, so I could hear,” she said.
Rhaedaoui said she later heard Ritzer ask Chism to stay after school.
“She just said, ‘Can you stay after with me?’ He just gave a nod.”
“There was a test coming up, and she wanted to know if he had any questions on learning equations,” Rhaedaoui said.
Cambria Cloutier, another 14-year-old freshman, who was also in the class, said she walked by Ritzer’s classroom at about 3:15 p.m., more than an hour after the class had gotten out at 1:55 p.m. “She was standing at her computer, and he was just sitting there,” Cloutier said. “It just looked normal, like any other day.”
An obvious developing story.. There is more much to read at BOSTON.COM
THE DEVIL'S IN Danvers: Colleen Ritzer asked murder suspect to stay after school
The Pepper-Spraying Cop Got a Bigger Payout Than His Victims
Lt. John Pike reached a $38,000 settlement in a workman’s compensation claim. The UC Davis students he assaulted got $30K each.Read more. [Image: Reuters]
Such is life: Unfair to Flair
The battle of the hosts has been highly entertaining.. in as much as Noory has stooped to poaching guests once Bell posts them as booked to be on his show.. Noory using Art's phrases "raging into the night.." - and Art zinging back "Did he say 'raging' or 'flailing'"... it's been a long time coming :-)
Love this one! I agree
HHS Finds Two Enrollees for Pro-Obamacare Ads
They found two!
Of course it probably took a combined 565 hours to sign up, but they found two!
This is getting beyond comical, more like… really embarrassing.
HHS Finds Two Enrollees for Pro-Obamacare Ads
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Is this Brooklyn Halloween decoration too offensive?
Some impressed, others disgusting by Halloween display in Brooklyn..
Others wonder: Too edgy?
Inside the interesting world of creating fake eyes.. the LA TIMES reports on the ‘family business’ … One thing I found interesting: No schools actually offer education on ocularistry.. you have to be an apprentice and work with a master craftsman..
I suppose besides that, the notion of creating fake eyes as a living is just sort of creepy and weird..
KROKODIL ROCK
Krokodil is spreading.. the drug use that profoundly hurt millions of Russians with disgusting results is now in the United States.. At least six people in Chicago were suspected of having it.. two in Arizona.. skin is rotting.. the word is spreading.. Don’t take this drug.
Horrible events seem to repeat themselves
This is getting beyond creepy.. A few days ago the world became aware of the plight of the family of Kendrick Johnson. Johnson was 17, was found dead rolled up in a gym mat, and had an autopsy in which his cause of death was ruled accidental. A second autopsy was conducted but , when he was opened up for the procedure, it was discovered that his body was stuffed with newspapers .. his brain, heart, and lungs were missing. Even organ from his pelvis to his skull were gone.
And now enter this story: Ryan Singleton, 24, moved from Atlanta to Hollywood this summer… He turned up dead in Death Valley and his organs were missing ..
These stories are NOT connected.
But they are only similar in their strangeness..
Last night Clyde Lewis spoke about the two bizarre tales on his show GROUND ZERO…
It’s difficult to imagine the suffering each family is going through—a mystery of not knowing what someone you loved even died is one thing, but the added on strangeness of bodies missing organs or bodies being stuffed with newspapers adds so much insult to injury..
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Yesterday this website wrote a bit about the strange death of Elisa Lam—and the weird video of her final moments of life..
Today we offer this: The Cecil Hotel has a long and sordid history. In February, CNN did a report that covers the full oddities that occurred at the Cecil.. The hotel caters to young international travelers.. But the hotel of horrors has a dark past. Besides the serial killers, the hotel also became a popular place in the 1950s where people would simply rent rooms and jump out of the windows..
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Pretty interesting video.. these are the top five conspiracies that are true.
You’re not crazy after all.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
MORE THAN 70 WILDFIRES (29 UNCONTAINED) RAGING IN AUSTRALIA, and that is where this photo you’re seeing was taken.. they are also getting increasingly close to Sydney..
Unusually for the overall American drone campaign, the strikes in the area mostly occur in densely populated neighborhoods. The drones have hit a bakery, a disused girls’ school and a money changers’ market, residents say. One strike occurred in Matches Colony, a neighborhood named after an abandoned match factory that is now frequented by Uzbek militants. While the strike rate has dropped drastically in recent months, the constant presence of circling drones — and accompanying tension over when, or whom, they will strike — is a crushing psychological burden for many residents.
Civilian Deaths in Drone Strikes Cited in Report (via azspot)
A must read story.
Do you really want these drones?
The wheat belly..
And here I thought the beer was doing it to me..
Tonight, my dental hygienist, who converses with me for the entire appointment about food (she talks more than me, given the circumstances), taught me something new. I learned something about food that I somehow did not contemplate: Wheat is making people fat, and maybe causing more problems than solutions in my life.
And this comes as a shock—as I thought it was good eating wheat cereal and whole wheat pasta..
So my all natural hygienist informed me that William Davis and his research on wheat would be important for me to read. I did.. If Dr. Davis is right, I am doing most things wrong..
According to what I now know in this anti-wheat theory, if I stop eating wheat my stomach will decrease and I will lose my appetite to keep eating more wheat (I do go for second helpings of that wheat pasta when I make it) ..
I also learned that wheat is just about as addictive as anything.. Maybe even cigs and beer?
The theory also contends: Wheat is a trigger of heart attacks.
So much to learn.. so much to eat that’s not wheat.
And Doc Dav concludes this about what the best diet is:
My philosophy is a return to real ingredients. Eggs, vegetables, some fruit, avocados. We should eat regular food and get rid of this notion of processed foods for breakfast. I understand that we have kids and we have people we need to entertain. So I try to recreate foods that are familiar to people. I show people how to make pizza, muffins, cookies, chocolate éclairs. We use benign ingredients. We don’t use wheat, gluten-free carbohydrates, or sugar. You can turn something like coffee cake into something that’s benign and healthy. Life is good without wheat.
Hmm.. a one ingredient diet.
Where did I hear that one before.. hmmm???
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Noel Harrison is dead.
WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND may be one of the greatest songs ever written..
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
And because of the smog, and God knows what’s in the thick stew, a city of 11 million people in China has completely been cut off from the world
Look Inside a Chicken Nugget
When will it become unethical to keep calling these chemically produced deep fried containers of bone and fat ‘chicken’? Sounds like now..
Look Inside a Chicken Nugget
Thousands Of Consumers Get Insurance Cancellation Notices Due To Health Law Changes
This is just becoming a mess … So many surprises ..
The report says, in part:
By all accounts, the new policies will offer consumers better coverage, in some cases, for comparable cost — especially after the inclusion of federal subsidies for those who qualify. The law requires policies sold in the individual market to cover 10 “essential” benefits, such as prescription drugs, mental health treatment and maternity care. In addition, insurers cannot reject people with medical problems or charge them higher prices. The policies must also cap consumers’ annual expenses at levels lower than many plans sold before the new rules.
But the cancellation notices, which began arriving in August, have shocked many consumers in light of President Barack Obama’s promise that people could keep their plans if they liked them.
Thousands Of Consumers Get Insurance Cancellation Notices Due To Health Law Changes
ENOUGH OF THE SELFIES!
Not a day goes by that we are not subjected to a nude or partially nude celebrity selfie on Twitter. Today it’s Shai Labeouf..
Come on Hollywood, it’s bad enough we have to see our naked bodies. We certainly don’t want to see your Shai Labeoufs staring at us
Job-creation weakens, but unemployment rate down
The job numbers were significantly worse than expected…
Job-creation weakens, but unemployment rate down
Why Is There A Winter Flu Season? A series of info-graphics attempts to explain..
I have been researching this for a while. I was sure there was an answer.
And then I realized, there are a ton of answers and endless possibilities as to why there is even a flu season to begin with.
And with all the possibilities, I will add one more in the mix: The flu shot. It seems that whenever there is a hot and heavy campaign to vaccinate people against the flu, the flu suddenly spreads.
Coincidence, I am sure I’d be told. Coincidence.
Now excuse me while I pop my vitamin D supplement.
Why Is There A Winter Flu Season? A series of info-graphics attempts to explain..
Even more interesting, Feldman writes The man who abused Haim now “walks around, one of the most successful people in the entertainment industry, still making money hand over fist” ..
I am sure the cast and creators of the movie LUCAS is being studied heavily today..
WOMB TO THE TOMB
Remember a few weeks ago when Syria crossed that ‘red line’.. the President went on TV, and the world was on the brink of World War III.
Until Vlad the Impaler Putin was able to get his best buddy Assad to ‘give up’ those weapons of some destruction.
But now comes this story from the LONDON TELEGRAH: Assad’s snipers, they report, are ‘targeting unborn babies’ .. the story is shocking.
Including with it is even a disturbing image of a fetus with a bulley lodged in its head.. And whether this is true not or, LIFENEWS (a pro-life oriented site) reports that an X-ray shows unborn baby being targeted screamed in pain ..
We have been here before—times when ‘doctors’ and other experts from within a nation say something has happened but history uncovers a fact that it never did. Think back to the babies being thrown from incubators in Iraq .. George H.W. Bush used it as part of the pretext to enter Gulf War I. It has since been revealed that those events did not occur, but simply were used as propaganda to humanize the war to sell it to America..
Is this new example of babies being killed in the womb another example of selling a war?
Is this war even for sale anymore?
The strange behavior of Elisa Lam
Elisa Lam was a 21-year-old student staying at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles .. She also succumbed to her fate there.. The story was a shock to the world: She was found dead in the Cecil’s water tank.
Not to make the story less strange, but the Cecil was also the location where the ‘Nightstalker’ stayed—Richard Ramirez was a serial killer. A murderer of prostitutes, Jack Unterweger also lived there for a bit..
And now the weird death of Elisa Lam made the Cecil an even darker place than it already was.
The other night, Art Bell’s website showcased a video of Elisa Lam in her final moments of life.. Though the video was online for some time now, Art Bell talking about it propelled it to instant popularity.
It shows Lam on an elevator acting, for lack of a better word, strange. Some think she is battling a spirit or demon, others think the video is simply an example of her fragile sanity.. The four-minute security video was posted on YouTube (*I don’t know by who, you’d think this was evidence??*) .. In the clip, Lam is frantically pushing elevator buttons as the door of the elevator stays open.. then she starts behaving bizarre..After these strange events on the elevator, Elisa Lam gained access to the rooftop of the Cecil Hotel. She climbed into the water tank of the hotel. She then died—and was found two weeks later .. The only reasons she even was found was because hotel guests were complaining of the water’s taste and color—investigators found her body decomposing in the hotel’s source of water..
In September, the UBC student’s parents filed wrongful death litigation against the owners of the Cecil Hotel. After all, the water tank is in a restricted area, and it is sealed. Yet somehow she ended up being found dead in a place where, frankly, someone of her strength and size should not even be able to get to..
The VIGILANT CITIZEN website did great work on a report concerning Lam, the dark history at the Cecil, and other weird things like the Lam death being similar to DARK WATER from 2005 and the fact that, after Lam’s death, tuberculosis broke out on skid row in Los Angelas, near the Cecil Hotel, and the test kits used during those situations were named: ‘LAM-ELISA’..
This video, along with the inclusion of her circumstances on paranormal websites across the Internet landscape, must be painful for the family already reeling in pain from the loss of her innocent life.
But there are just some weird things about this video.. her behavior may be a result of a psychotic episode or drug use.. but the elevator doors not closing until she is gone? The fact her body was found somewhere that a person should not be able to get to?
The Cecil’s history is already frightening enough.. Add this to the mystery of the location.. And this one, in my opinion, is still unsolved—regardless of the experts and officials that called this death accidental.
Monday, October 21, 2013
Do you check your kids' Halloween candy every year for knives and poison? Ever wonder why?
I myself also recall a childhood fear of this very thing—the notion that the candy would kill me or that a razor blade would be hidden in my fruit.
The fear was only inspired further by the scene from HALLOWEEN 2 (not the Rob Zombie version) of a boy in a pirate suit being taken to the hospital for his mouth bleeding..
Those fears that we have, ingrained in us from an early age thanks to modern media and pop culture.
And today,
I still check the candy every Halloween night..
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There is no way in hell you’re learned about this in history class. the X-Rated and weird Lyndon Johnson, waving his appendage proudly for all to see…
From cracked:
THIS WEEK: Daniel O’Brien and Jack O’Brien tell the story of a President who recorded phone calls with his tailor, accepted the Vice Presidency because JFK’s death was statistically likely, and nicknamed his penis “Jumbo”.
The Mind-Blowing, Dick-Waving Presidency of Lyndon Johnson
This is when you should be hospitalized for your Bieber Fever.. A man has undergone extensive and expensive plastic surgery in his desire to look like Justin Bieber—and he STILL does not even look like him!
Oh the fun! Sunbathing in the middle of poverty and riding a water slide while government goons monitor your every move.
The WASHINGTON POST is reporting on a new water park in North Korea.. The government built the brightly colored park, in the middle of the drabby conditions the nation faces.. among some odd photos released, the POST reports, pictures of “handful of eager-looking young men and women playing in the water while, in the background, a mass of several hundred stern-looking men in dark suits look on silently. It’s weird.”
Creepy..
I cannot believe how bad the Obama Administration missed the chance to make Healthcare.gov exceptional.. And now this
OBAMASHOCK: Healthcare.gov website STOLE copyrighted scripts! And the site STILL does not work!? Shameful.. technologically shameful..
It got to the point today where the President had to have a special address in the Rose Garden the mess—and someone actually passed out during the event! The woman was probably exhausted from trying to create an account on the .GOV website..
What a major goof up this all is..
CEOs and the occult: A story just in time for Halloween
New York TIMES details: “When CEO’s embrace the occult” The TIMES writes about Korean executives who often consult spiritual advisers before making major business decisions — decisions that can affect their employees around the world…
An author makes a new claim: Robert Kennedy stole JFK's brain!
RFK stole JFK’s brain. What else do I have to say.
An author makes a new claim: Robert Kennedy stole JFK's brain!
Sunday, October 20, 2013
A fascinating story from Japan: The youth of the nation do not want t have sex.. so much so that there is a birth crisis on the horizon..
The UK GUARDIAN has a report about Japan, where people seemingly have stopped desiring sexual relations.. As a matter of fact, it’s not just a disinterest, but a large percentage of the nation ‘despises’ sexual contact!
Even more, the ‘celibacy syndrome’ is so bad that the government is worried about it.
Not mentioned in the story: Worries about Fukushima.. I wonder how many people have stopped being interested in having children because they fear the nation that their children would actually grow up in?
Nonetheless, the GUARDIAN story is worth the read..
And it’s not just Japan.. people in America too seemed much less interested in sex than ever before..Maybe American kids are just plain lazy?
Is this just evolutionary? That naturally, somewhere along the line, human beings would stop being interested in the very act that resulted in our existence?
A fascinating story from Japan: The youth of the nation do not want t have sex.. so much so that there is a birth crisis on the horizon..
POLITICO REPORTS: Tech ‘surge’ to tackle Obamacare websites
The Obama administration Sunday said it’s called on “the best and brightest” tech experts from both government and the private sector to help fix the troubled website at the root of the Obamacare enrollment problems.
A new Administration. A new ‘surge’ to handle a crisis of their own creation.
I just hope no one in the White House hired on David Karp.
POLITICO REPORTS: Tech ‘surge’ to tackle Obamacare websites
Six year ago today (on a day virtually the same as today weatherwise) my wife Tara and I took our first walk as a married couple. This image perfectly symbolized how I felt that day—walking into the future, backs to the past.. but the same bridge of life.
Since then we had a child, headaches and heartaches, deaths and tribulations. Along with it, laughs, endless smiles, and sure, a few necessary frowns.
The journey of life.. accompanying each other..
After six years, we now have a legacy. A child ..
In six years, he’ll be going on 9.. and we’ll be combing out gray hairs—with me maybe shining a bald head.
While we know things can mightily change in the span of only a few years, a few constants will remain.
DAILY BEAST on the HEALTHCARE.GOV disaster
Whether you agree with the Obama Affordable Care Act or not, one thing appears clear: The rollout of the website was a complete and utter disaster..
DAILY BEAST on the HEALTHCARE.GOV disaster
So what did CARRIE fail at the box office?
I thought the cool secret advertisement that was done in the New York City coffee shop did a great job showcasing the movie.. I have seen endless ads for the film.. the word of mouth has been decent, and actually I even saw a review in CHRISTIANITY TODAY that portrayed the movie in a much more favorable light than what would be expected from a religious publican.
So why did it fail?
First off, it’s up against what may possibly be the movie of the year: GRAVITY, which is now experiencing its third week as the number one film at the box office—and that is pretty impressive this year, as many movies did not have much staying power once released.
But it’s almost Halloween.. scares are in the air. So why did a horror movie fail?
Interestingly enough, it seems that scary flicks do better in the middle of the summer than the autumn—maybe kids are out of school and parents are more apt to get them into a an R rated film than they would be when school’s in session? I recall when my mom took me to see FRIDAY THE 13TH JASON TAKES MANHATTAN and my music teacher caught her in the act..
There is a certain aspect of CARRIE that doomed it from the beginning: The fact that MGM actually remade it to begin with. It was not really, well.. needed. The original film is still a classic, and people happily watch that version when they have the chance.. Nikki Finke made a good point, too: CARRIE did not satisfy the people who wanted SAW-like gore, and didn’t make people happy who wanted the creepy factor like in PARANORMAL ACTIVITY.
So here we have CARRIE, a film that may have been better never existing—at least the current incarnation..
But one other thing is for sure: THE FIFTH ESTATE, Wikileaks movie, flopped big time. It is only in about 1700 or so theaters. Next week, it will be lucky to be in 17..
Now this will be a World Series to remember
The Boston Red Sox have won the American League pennant and will meet the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series..
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