And with Daylight Savings, maybe you’ll be awake.
Science explains, of course, why these events occur. But that little part of me that likes mystery and menace still loves the myths that have surrounded such solar actions for centuries.
And even this go around, in our modern age, is not immune to people bringing up religious and spiritual connotations.
Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, imprisoned in Russia, is “missing,” her family says. The member of the punk rock protest group reportedly was being transferred to a new penal colony. But her husband and other family members say it’s been days and they still don’t know where she is.
What did Vlad the impaler Putin do this time?
What happens in Russia didn’t stay in Russia, as major media has picked up the story about Nadezhda Tolokonnikova going ‘missing’..
I think we can all sort of, well, envision where this one’s going?
Well today is it.. It’s not the darkest day of the year, that comes before Christmas, but it’s Daylight Savings Time. There’s lots of old farm reasons we do it.. George W. Bush changed the time of year we did it a decade ago. I still don’t get that one.
But here we are again.. falling back—and hour more of sleep tonight, but of course having a child I will just be up an early earlier than normal..
It is strange.. As I type this it’s 11:30am. This time tomorrow it will be 10:30…
Something always feels lost this time of year, besides sunlight and daytime hours.
Thank God someone decided to keep pagan traditions alive in the early Christian church. If not, there’d be no Christmas lights in the dark, dull winter air..
Daylight savings coming in.
By the way, this Counting Crows song was recorded in the year 1996, and there have been lots of daylights savings since then. I was 16 and the world was in front of me. But I have come to learn that each November, things all become the same…cold days, lonely nights, leaves slowly falling around me.. A whirlwind of autumn leaving, making way for the death of winter.
HOT IRON!
HOT MIC.
But does it keep the wrinkles out?
A new report about Obamacare shows just how bad the website is.. in a nation of million of uninsured people, only six people signed up on day one of Obamacare, and only a few hundred the next day.
The numbers are coming as a shock—and most likely numbers that have not improved since those opening days..
Real story.
A clown was hit by lightning two times in one day—and he plans on going to church more often.. I guess that may be a logical step after being hit by lightning twice in one day.
I’d prefer him just stop being a clown, though, and we can call it even..
War, peace, and H20: It’s all going to come to a head.. WORLD AFFAIRS details that very notion in a new issue, arguing that climate chance is nothing when compared to the coming water wars on Earth and ‘water refugees’ roaming the dry land..
British media (as usual, doing what American media doesn’t do) reports that the circumstances of water use may be so sire that now water companies are beginning to take notice of the scarcity..
But reports aren’t stop some leaders from making strange choices, such as Harper from Canada selling the fresh water supply to a French company..
NESTLE has been called the world’s worst ‘water predator.’ Comments from CEO Peter Brabeck, commenting that water should NOT be a right, surely doesn’t help the corporate cause.
Stay hydrated.
While preppers may be reader, will their kids!? It’s a logical question that some parents of tech-addicted teenagers are asking.. A website is asking the question: How will your teen act when the SHTF?
One thing that kids may NOT be able to do when the fecal matter is thrown into the wind, at least in New York State: Buy smokes. New York is raising the legal age to purchase tobacco to age 21..
Happy holidays: Deep cuts to food stamp program starts now.
It may be brutal for some.. How it will affect your state..
Yes, indeed.. Congress beats up on the weak before their several weeks off from work.
Happy November.
The media acting somewhat responsible, not reporting rumors, and waiting for confirmation of facts..
Multiple victims.. High powered rifle.. On suspect may have been wounded
This is a developing story. Expect anything and believe nothing at this point..
Pope Francis remains the cool rockin Pope. The NSA may have spied on him, but when kids love him this much, why should he care. Unless the child is a plant, armed with a hot mic and camera.. hmm..
Either way: Meet the little boy who could not leave the Pope..
Stars and their Halloween selfies.. Heidu Klum ages and Nicki Minaj virtually nude.
Thankfully the Halloween season has ended. I don’t think I could take much more of these..
But stars and their turkeys selfies coming next! Deep fried and oiled up. And that’s the star.
Happy Hallow’s Day.
RELAX. IT’S OVER.
ALL HALLOW’S EVE has ended.. Trick or treat night ended up being rainy for little Ayden.. the dark side of the night actually became intensified—it was like the ancient Celts were right .. I felt a thin vale slowly lifting for a bit as the wind and rain poured down over streets vaguely light by night lights and glowing orange Halloween decor.. But the night, as things go, is over. Quickly.. And now we march as a civilization into the other season. In America, Thanksgiving. And across the world; Christmas. Santa Claus is putting away the Halloween mask and warming up the sleigh.. His slave labor camp is going into high gear.. Elves’ breaks are stopping. Hope he put the suicide nets outside of the North Pole.
Onto Christmas we go, world!
For better or worse.
I’m torn! Paranormal with Clyde Lewis or Art Bell tonight!?
Busy night going back and forth this Samhain, as the veil between here and ‘there’ thins..
Spooky matter….
There are so many things that I can—but will not—say.
Decide for yourself..
And really think it through…
Wow.
Nothing seems sacred anymore.. Quite literally.
So while tongues of fire erupted over old men’s heads in a secret conclave, the NSA knew all..
Perhaps there’s a special place in purgatory for people who do such things? If you believe in that sort of thing that is..
But healthcare.gov still won’t work.
Mind blowing.
A few days ago a friend told me there was now underwear that masks your farts. I didn’t believe him.
The story that 13-year-old Zubair ur Rehman told was so moving, the moved the translator to tears.. She told the story of Momina Bibi, 67, her grandmother.. she was out picking okra when a drone fired several missiles at an unknown targets near his compound.
Eventually the drone strike killed Bibi…
The child testifying said this,
"Now I prefer cloudy days when the drones don’t fly. When the sky brightens and becomes blue, the drones return and so does the fear. Children don’t play so often now, and have stopped going to school. Education isn’t possible as long as the drones circle overhead"
Still not concerned about collateral damage? Perhaps then you lost your humanity.
A woman believes that she was healed by a ghost, and also goes on to claim that she has a photo to prove it..She said that the ‘White Lady’ in a church during a family summer holiday.. Does this photo prove that a ghostly angel may have assisted in healing someone, or is it proof that ‘mind over matter’ is stronger than we think?
She got better AFTER she was shown the image.. perhaps her mind filled with joy and wonderment .. maybe a spirit did it. OR maybe her brain simply got a jump charge of positive reinforcement…
And maybe, as some would argue, science and God would go hand in hand, that there was a spirit and her brain did jump start, but that they both worked together.
I am undecided. This did not occur to me, so I cannot judge her situation or predicament. I can only wonder.. and question.. constantly.
The latest scares of the world have led to this: “Trunk or treating.” People are getting candy ‘off the streets’ and instead putting them in trunks of cars in church parking lots.. to make things safer.. although children may not be safer around certain church leaders, I suppose this is all just eventual.
Nevermind the stories that I have been posting in which there have not been these ‘razor blades in apples’ that people always though.. Blame those rumors and decades-long scares on pure rumor and speculation. They didn’t happen.
Nonetheless, let’s go get dressed up in an expensive costume and go to the trunk of one car. Sounds fun.
Yeah.
A food fight is brewing, with the weapons being chemically enhanced cocktails of mystery.
Monsanto and Pepsi want it to stay that way.
On July 10, 1941, half the residents of Jedwabne, a Polish village 85 miles northeast of Warsaw, murdered the other half. The mob, led by the mayor, were Catholics; their 1,600 victims were Jewish, slaughtered over several nightmarish hours with bats, knives, rifles and other improvised weapons. Those who survived the massacre were then rounded up in a barn donated by a local farmer, which was then set ablaze. A plaque erected at the site blamed Nazis for the massacre, but, in fact, Nazis had only authorized it. Locals walked by the plaque for half a century, knowing the truth, but saying nothing
Those resources and information sources are set to increase with the movie AFTERMATH.
Consider this review from the VILLAGE VOICE.
This article sort of goes without saying. Or does it??
CUT THEM OUT.
ONE INGREDIENT UP YOUR LIFE.
At one time we watched people get hanged in town squares.. Before that we put people on the rack.. Burned witches… So on and so on…
But now we have proof that we like watching people get soaked by taxis …
Did we really need a study to prove the deepest and darkest secrets about the human mind?
Samhain set: Witches are the most popular costume in 2013, princesses for kids. Not making the list: The TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES. I frankly think they were the most popular this year, since we could not find any for my son in a 100 mile square radius. I guess the best gauge for that will be so see if any heroes in a half shell end up joining Ayden in night life trick or treating..
Mark knows more about you than you do about him.
But does Facebook know when you’ll break up with Facebook?
The best book covers ever—-and some of the best books ever, too. I remember being frightened of these imaginative stories as a child—some have stuck with me ever since.
There was a yearly ‘book fair’ that would show up in my grade school. I went to a Catholic school, so nice child-friendly books were proudly on display. But if you looked hard enough, you can find these books there.. I bought it sneakily, as though I was doing something bad, and tucked it away in my bookbag until I got home. I’d read it at night, and covered myself with blankets when I heard the house squeak….
They were scary stories to tell in the dark…
And if I’m not mistaken, they still exist somewhere in my house. I just have to find them…
When I do my son will inherit the treasure..
I pride myself in being a decent cook.. someone who can put a little love into something and end up with something tasty..
So in my “one ingredient diet" recently, I planned the big one: Baking my own homemade bread. The concept itself was beautiful in my mind.. in practice? Well..
I’ve not reached three homemade loaves of bread that were crusty, heavy, and didn’t quite ‘rise’ the way I wanted. I have never really used yeast before, and figure my misunderstanding of yeast is my roadblock..
This bread thing? It’s like a science project.. I actually feared that my yeast would rise too much and my house would suddenly take on the appearance of a 1950s rerun of I LOVE LUCY. But alas, it was not meant to be.
The loaves had decent flavors.. but once they got cool, they turned into rock hard entities, things that look like they’d look better as a garden decoration than a food product..
I need more fluff.
More yeast? Less?
A house of bread would be better than a rock hard insult.
I will persevere, though! This dough ain’t got me down.
INCOMING!
Asteroid due to fly in between Earth and the moon
SPACE.com: NASA’s Near-Earth Object Program says a small asteroid will fly in between Earth and the moon on Tuesday, with its closest pass to our planet occurring around 5:45 p.m. ET.
The asteroid was first discovered on Oct. 25. During its closest pass, the space rock will fly by Earth at a distance of about 176,000 miles. It’s estimated to be between 39 and 89 feet wide.
Photo: This illustration shows the trajectory of asteroid 2013 UV3, in blue, as it flies by Earth. (NASA/JPL)
There sure have been lots of weird anomalies in the sky in recent days.
Good thing FEMA REGION 3 is ready for anything.. right?
This is a behind the scenes image from the setting of Kubrick’s THE SHINING. There are lots of other images in this treasure trove, and you can see them all at http://imgur.com/a/Ur9Zo#TakkNne
I think Jack Nicholson looked even scarier when he’s not in the role..
Only a few more days to Halloween.. silver shamrock.
This YouTube video is a conglomeration of scenes from HALLOWEEN 3, the Season of the Witch.
I fondly remember old times gone by, gathering together with friends in a house of our choice, firing up the colortini, and watching the waves of Halloween flow through the air.
Actually, what we did was a high-school type version of MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000. We’d make comments and jokes, mock the film, and laugh throughout.. We did it for more than just Halloween 3, it was for many horror flicks. Our favorite character, as a group collectively, was Doctor Loomis. We coined a term “Loomicide” that would one day go on to become my late 1990s and early 2000s AOL screen name..
Oh, those good old days!
But in hindsight, dare I say, Halloween 3 is sort of a classic. I may have been met with scorn for that comment last century, but I think people are rediscovering the awfulness and also amazingnenss of Halloween 3.
Sure, the acting is terrible.. yes the scenery is awful.. and by all means, the flow of the movie is choppy and sloppy—but isn’t that what sort of makes it good in a sense?
However, think of it this way: Halloween 3 may have been the BEST of the entire series.
Sure, it didn’t feature the SHAPE, Michael Myers, donning the Shatner mask.. and no, it had no mentions of Laurie Strode. There was a scene though where the tied up main star was forced to watch the original Halloween…
There were also some other lessons to be learned from Halloween 3, some cautionary tales to remember..
For instance: Bad parenting. The child who gets his head eaten by snakes and worms had really awful parents, they just seemed to want to be rid of their child.. they were selfish and had little skill in containing their son, who ran wild without attention.
Another lesson: The overuse of television. In that time, the boob tube had antennas. Today, there’s no need with handheld devices and Twittering from all ends of the earth. Maybe, though, the fact that kids were glued to TV and almost slaves to it should be a lesson for all of us.
Something else: How powerful media is. And how many times influential hidden messages can be tucked into our shows. In this movie, kids were told to get home by 9 o’clock too put their Halloween masks on, and then eventually succumb to a massive amount of worms, snakes, bugs, and other things that would eat their brains.. Pretty scary if you minus out the acting of the movie. Maybe John Carpenter was actually trying to show that subliminal messages are alive and well, and that they could maybe make us do things against our will..? That or he just wanted to come up with an idea that was different.
I tried contacting the legend, John Carpenter, for this, but his associate said he was not able to comment on Halloween 3 at this time. Understandable. I think he’s a little busier than me at the moment.
So in that sense, we need to look to past interviews to see what exactly John Carpenter intended on doing in THE SEASON OF THE WITCH. It’s worth remember that Carpenter really didn’t want to do any more Michael Myers related films. They actually envisioned that a fourth Halloween would have been a ghost story. Instead, since H3 flopped, the fourth was the RETURN OF MICHAEL MYERS. And then there was a 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, … bla bla bla.. John Carpenter told Aint it Cool news that he didn’t understand why fans of Halloween hated the third installment so much.. He said, “Hey, man, I don’t know. I like HALLOWEEN 3. I like the story, especially weird evil Irish industrialists. It’s hilarious.”
And it was hilarious .. It was awful. Wonderfully awful.
I go back now and think to myself that Debra Hill and John Carpenter touched on a number of themes that are actually quite scary. Yes, teenagers can mock it, just as I did with friends back in sultry summer night parties in the late 1990s… But maybe I have developed a renewed appreciation for this movie..
What could be scarier for a child that having your mom and dad buy you a mass produced mask because you were convinced by a commercial with an annoyingly catchy theme to do it.. and you jump on the bandwagon with millions of other American kids… and you wear your mask, at the same time as them, at 9pm on Halloween night.. and have your brain eaten by bugs?
Now that is scary for a kid.
When I was a kid, there were ‘scary stories to tell in the dark’ … and then there was ‘HAROLD' ..
For some reason it was one of the more haunting tales in my early times..
NBC news reports this:
President Obama repeatedly assured Americans that after the Affordable Care Act became law, people who liked their health insurance would be able to keep it. But millions of Americans are getting or are about to get cancellation letters for their health insurance under Obamacare, say experts, and the Obama administration has known that for at least three years.
It’s for breast cancer awareness month.
But don’t phones potentially add to risks.. do we want our phones next to our breasts? Do we even want our bras to tweet!?
What a strange twist of teets.
Meet the actor who plays dead for a living.. Chuck Lamb has appeared in numerous shows and movies … as a dead man. Naturally he is pale and bald, so seemingly has .. just looks dead? But Lamb is a professional dead man, the one that producers call when they need a victim..
This is horrible.. Disgusting news from New York City: Stabbing rampage hits Brooklyn.. a man was arrested after butchering a woman and her four children.. According to reports this Sunday morning, a ‘crazed man’ turned the Sunset Park home into a slaughterhouse.. The woman was 37. She had four young children.. The man has been identified as the children’s mentally troubled older cousin.. This is such a horrible story..
