The LAZARUS EFFECT showcases the newfound popularity of reanimation horror.. WIRED’s Jordan Cruccihola examines this premise in an article posted today, saying 

“Reanimation horror is not the most populated of sub-genres. We’ve surely had more cabins in the woods, unbeatable super killers, and haunted houses. But reanimation has a special place in our hearts thanks to its scientific roots. Sure, it’s all ridiculous science with little to no connection to reality, but there are still a lot more lab coats than in your standard-issue slasher. And if there’s one thing we wish there were more of in horror flicks, it’s lab coats..”  

An the author is dead on right! The LAZARUS EFFECT, being released this weekend for public consumption, has an interesting premise: A group of medical students find a way to bring the dead back to life. It’s a horror classification, but easily travails into the science fiction category as you read more about the idea.. And really, we are living in this world.  

This horror encapsulates perfectly our fears about future shock, the advancement of medical technology, and how we are on the verge of some amazing but possibly scary things.. The movie is getting intensely bad reviews, not only from the paid informants in entertainment rags, but also the masses who have already been privileged to see and write about it. 

The common thread is that this is a rip-off of FLATLINERS. Maybe that’s true, but it’s also bringing to theaters the concept of the future and how it can be dangerous if in the wrong hands.. there’s a cultural allegory here if you pay attention. A commentary on society.. 

LAZARUS is not expected to rise to the top of the heap in the movie theaters over the next few days, but it is predicted to do fine for its genre for a winter weekend.. 

I tend to avoid pop culture.. When the story of ‘the dress’ came up, I figured it was some illumanti ploy to divert our attention from something. But I figured to myself, the pictures of the now famed ‘dress’ are just being manipulated to further cause debate online. I propose this very theory to my wife tonight.. I said, “Tara, the dresses being posted are all different colors.” I figured I was right.. then she asked me, “well what color is the dress,” as she showed me a photo. I said, “Black and blue!” … A fierce debate ensued. Even my four-year-old Ayden got involved—though he said it was purple, I chalked that up to him being much closer than what Tara thought, white and gold..

So 48 hours of trying to avoid this, and now like millions of others in the masses, I am fascinated by the dress debate.

Also even more fascinated that one dress, one little post on a rarely known TUMBLR site, can cause a debate the ENTIRE WORLD gets busy with.. (While the world burns) .. 

BUT.. the consolation prize to those seeing other colors than blue and black: COLORS AREN’T REAL ANYWAY.

Coming soon to a future near you: Human head transplants. I don’t think people quite realize the future shock that is about to hit them, the amount of changes that are going to quickly occur, and the medical technology that is going to change the world. Now whether human head transplants go mainstream is anyone’s guess.. I still can’t get the image from the 1990s classic movie (in my mind anyway) MARS ATTACKS out of my head.. It’s coming..

A scientist is calling for an urgent investigation into the SIBERIAN holes.. If it continues, some argue, the earth changes may cause the same holes in Alaska and Canada..

An idea to sell before election 16: Ten foot poles with Bush’s face on it..

Gary Glitter sentenced to 16 years in prison for sexually abusing three young girls in the 70s

Gary Glitter has received a 16-year prison sentence after being convicted of sexually abusing three young girls in the 1970s

The singer was arrested in October 2012 under Operation Yewtree, the national investigation British police launched in the wake of a child abuse scandal surrounding the late BBC entertainer Jimmy Savile… the Saville hell on earth continues, even after the scumbag’s death..

Gary Glitter sentenced to 16 years in prison for sexually abusing three young girls in the 70s

THE PORN WILL CONTINUE ON BLOGSPOT

PORN LOVERS WIN!! the big decision from Google Blogger that was going to block all of the blogspots including porn has been reversed.. An outcry ensued after the initial decision. PORN will now live on, on blogspot. With the ‘nudity’ tag as requested by Google.

But I still ask: Does anyone still use BLOGGER?

LEONARD NIMOY.

DEAD AT 83..

Fears grow for Christians held by ISIS

Fears grow for Christians held by ISIS

More warnings to the shoppers of America: Holder says malls should increase security.. I hate to say this aloud, but have you visited a mall lately? The security at my local nearly bankrupt and empty shopping plaza features security guards that make Paul Blart look like an FBI agent..

DC's Catwoman Comes Out as Bisexual

After 75 years, Selina Kyle is finally coming out of the closet.In the latest issue of the DC Comics’ Catwoman comic book series — No. 39, released this week — Kyle kisses another woman, ending decades of fan rumors and speculation by stating canonically that the character is, in fact, bisexual.

I am not shocked.
As a matter of fact, being a BATMAN fan since my early years of life, I always sensed something a little edgier about Catwoman when compared to the other villains.. Selina Kyle is not the quaint woman of Tim Burton’s imagination in the early 1990s.. 

And anyway, I always pictured Catwoman as Ertha Kitt, as she was probably the role model for any Catwoman to come.

This comic book coming out has generated a lot of controversy and attention—

This whole thing started when Genevieve Valentine wrote a blog about this. The explanation for this new role of the arch nemesis of BATMAN:

When I was first plotting out what I expected to be a six-issue arc, there were a few emotional beats I considered indispensable. One was Nick, around whom Selina’s moral axis pivoted and whose death would set up Antonia to be both guilt-trip and threat to Selina – a contestant for the throne, even if neither of them wanted to think of it that way. Another was finding time for a few key moments with Batman, particularly in the first issue to set up their connection even when at odds.
And one was establishing Selina as canon bisexual.
She’s flirted around it – often quite literally – for years now; for me, this wasn’t a revelation so much as a confirmation.

And boom. The Bible versus are now being quoted on news articles and comic book sites, and many people are suddenly condemning someone that doesn’t exist except on paper.

Now the question becomes: Who does the CAT want more? The BATman or the BATgirl? 

So don’t fear, BATfans, Catwoman’s sudden burst of sexual creativity is not going to be ruining any childhood imaginations.. her proclivity for both genders is not going to incur the wrath of God on the comic book world.. And quite frankly, we will survive.

I think this is a fine move. Comic books are always and should be on the cutting edge of societal evolution. I think for some male oriented readers, this may challenge and rattle the core of their nerve endings for a bit. But they will grow used to it.. After all, why condemn a woman who is bisexual but be pefectly fine with a wealthy man, Bruce Wayne, who uses his money and influence to get attractive women to sleep with him?

And really, what BATMAN and CATWOMAN do in their bedrooms is nobody’s business. Well, unless it’s on a certain page in a comic book..

DC's Catwoman Comes Out as Bisexual

What is flashing us from CERES, the dwarf planet we are suddenly hearing a lot about?

MORE:

Ceres continues to baffle astronomers as the Dawn spacecraft gets closer to being captured into orbit around the dwarf planet.

The latest images, taken nearly 29,000 miles (46,000km) from Ceres, reveal that a bright ‘alien’ spot that stands out in previous images lies close to yet another bright area.
While Nasa has not provided an explanation, scientists suggest these spots may be frozen pools of ice at the bottom of a crater that reflect light.

I don’t think there’s a point

Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda, on why she is not questioning her father’s suicide ..

I saw some very mean spirited comments regarding her words.. People need to lay off.

This is what it's like to be dead

A Reddit AMA allowed a man who claimed to have died twice to entertain questions from the masses about what he felt, what he remembered, and how it felt..

Some of what he said may surprise some.. rattle others.. leave many without hope that anything at all happens after this life is over.

You can read the text of the full AMA here. A few highlights posted:

On what death felt like:

Both times I was just “not there”. It was just all black. I would describe it as when you take a nap. A short nap with no dream, you wake up and it feels like you’ve been sleeping a long time, when in reality it’s only been about 15 minutes

Was it emptiness:

It was definitely not just a gap. Much like a dreamless nap, you don’t just wake up and feel like time just jumped ahead. You know that you’ve been asleep for a while. At the same time, you can’t really remember experiencing anything at all, unless you had a dream

On afterlife beliefs:

I am still an atheist, and now I know that there is no such thing as God or Heaven. At least not for me. My reasoning behind that is no God would ever put a person and family through such a experience

I believe this man’s experience was exactly as he described.. I think that is what scares me the most. The idea that nothing exists after this, that this pitiful planet on earth is the last place we will be. That all the emotion and love, pain and joy, will all just vanish as we perish.

I have Raymond Moody’s stories, the tales of bright white lights that captivated me as a child when I read about his NDE research, is truer than the man on REDDIT who said that, for him, nothing existed in the blackness of death.

This is what it's like to be dead

A screen shot from CNN is their reporting showing ISIS destroy priceless antiques—items of interest from ancient history that lasted for centuries. And now ruined in mere seconds with a sledgehammer..

This is not the first time such deeds have been reported. 

Most likely will not be the last..

Llama chase in Arizona captivates nation; at one point, 3 were on the run

Llamas have always fascinated me.
And today they stopped the entire nation in its tracks as a live chase ensued on TV..

llama chase

llamas

Llama chase in Arizona captivates nation; at one point, 3 were on the run

Astronomers Find Supermassive Black Hole 12 Billion Times Size of the Sun

Astronomers say they have have discovered a black hole so big that it challenges the theory about how they grow. 

We are told that this new amazing discovery comes from a supermassive black hole that formed sometime around 900 million years after the big bang. 

While it may seem a strange concept for some to consider, this black hole is not working the way it should. It’s too big ..

NBC NEWS reports,

But with measurements indicating it is 12 billion times the size of the sun, the black hole challenges a widely accepted hypothesis of growth rates. “Based on previous research, this is the largest black hole found for that period of time,” Fuyan Bian, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University (ANU), told Reuters on Wednesday. “Current theory is for a limit to how fast a black hole can grow, but this black hole is too large for that theory.” The discovery was described in a study published Wednesday in Nature.

Is this a black hole so massive that it could actually pre-date the currently accepted time frame of the beginning of everything?

Does this throw everything ever taught out the window?

Does anyone else even somewhat comprehend any of what this could mean?

Space is amazing. Science is too.
But when it comes to the perplexing concept of black holes, I have trouble understanding. Glad I’m not paid to try..

Astronomers Find Supermassive Black Hole 12 Billion Times Size of the Sun

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The perfect song for a night when science is rocked by a supermassive black hole that challenges our current thinking about how old this whole thing is anyway.

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

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Climate change.. Earth changes.. global warming.

Say what you will and read what you say.

The facts often get in the way of a good debate, don’t they?

Take for instance a moment of somewhat clownish behavior on the floor of the Senate–the chamber that is supposed to house the ‘adults’ of government..

Then This skit occurred..

The woman behind Senator James Inhoffe looked a little embarrassed for him.. The Senator himself seemed a little shaky as he threw the snowball, perhaps quickly realizing how strange of an attempt it was to disprove manmade global warming..

So word on whether the fellow conspirator ni the snowjob actually caught the cold ball..

But I would sure love to have been a fly on the wall in the room when the decision had to be made: Who was going to go outside and get a snowball and put it into an evidence bag for a Senator to throw on live somewhat-watched TV..?

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Jesus Christ almighty George Snoory Noory shaved his mustache..

I’d imagine a hairless top lips helps with pizza roll digestion..

My God..
http://mobile.wnd.com/2015/02/ghost-rockets-proof-of-aliens-on-earth/

So true.. So very true..
Caillou is the hellbeast of parenting.. The curse of pain..

He’s just a kid who’s four and each day he annoys some more..

Condom Sales Skyrocket in South Korea as Adultery Is Decriminalized

Happy days are here again for the cheating hearts of South Korea..

Condom Sales Skyrocket in South Korea as Adultery Is Decriminalized

Matt Drudge reacts to net neutrality today on Twitter..

Facebook Introduces New Tools to Help Prevent Suicide

There’s something amazing and also creepy about this at the same time…

Facebook Introduces New Tools to Help Prevent Suicide

I think when the winter time is over, everything needs to really really good bath..

Bombs or birdshot? Mysterious booms fill the skies over central

Big, mysterious booms that filled the sky from south Grand Pairie to Southlake on Tuesday afternoon..

Even more booms have been plaguing a number of other states..

Bombs or birdshot? Mysterious booms fill the skies over central

MYSTERIOUS DRONES SUDDENLY ARE FLYING AROUND PARIS FRANCE

MYSTERIOUS DRONES SUDDENLY ARE FLYING AROUND PARIS FRANCE

If I eat 2700 calories a day, a quarter of that is Coca-Cola. I drink at least five 12-ounce servings. I do it everyday

Warren Buffet, explaining how he stays alive

Don’t think Michelle Obama would appreciate it.
But he could be the new face for the ‘got sugar?’ campaign..

JENNIFER FINK: Why schools are failing our boys

An amazing editorial in the Washington POST..

Some money quotes:

Re-entry after winter break has not been easy for him. The rules and restrictions of school – Sit Still. Be Quiet. Do What You Are Told, Nothing More, Nothing Less. – have been grating on him, and it shows. His teacher recently emailed me; she’d noticed a change in his behavior (more belligerent, less likely to cooperate) and wanted to know if there was anything going on at home.

More:

The lack of movement and rigid restrictions associated with modern schooling are killing my son’s soul.

And

Kids haven’t changed much over the past 150 years; our society has. So while my son still needs movement, still craves real-world learning, physical labor and ways to contribute to his family and his world, he’s expected to spend most of his time in a desk, in a classroom, with 20-some other kids his age. He’s not allowed to go outside at school when it’s too cold or wet; he’s expected to sit quietly in the library or auditorium during recess time. He’s allowed few opportunities for “real” work; today, when you hand an 8-year-old a saw or allow him to start a fire, people look at you askance.

I will be honest.. I really never thought of this until I read this article. And with a 4-year-old getting closer to the magic age of kindergarten, I am a little disturbed now by what me and my wife as parents may face..Especially known the movement and activity my son needs.

Why after all of these years of does a PINK FLOYD song continue in schools.. why does it seem kids are meat for sausage instead of brains for education? Why have we failed not only boys, but girls? Why is America lagging behind? Why is it all just wrong.

And will anyone do anything to fix it..?

JENNIFER FINK: Why schools are failing our boys

The Clinton Foundation accepted millions of dollars from seven foreign governments during Hillary Rodham Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state, including one donation that violated its ethics agreement with the Obama administration, foundation officials disclosed Wednesday.

This is a must read story from the Washington POST written by Rosalind S. Helderman and Tom Hamburger..

The Clinton Foundation accepted millions of dollars from seven foreign governments during Hillary Rodham Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state, including one donation that violated its ethics agreement with the Obama administration, foundation officials disclosed Wednesday.

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In honor up the ever so important FCC vote coming, I offer up the only song I can think of that features a line about the FCC.

Thanks Eminem in 2002.

Maybe after their vote they will not let any of us be..

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Net duality..Will the FCC let the bases belong to us?

There is lots of information online regarding net neutraility.. lots of truth. Lots of bunk. Lots of reasons to also be a little freaked by what may occur when the FCC decides on this..

There’s one source I trust: The Electronic Frontier Foundation. The site also has a great post that may lead you to understand this entire mess just a little better.

You can read it here. And you should read it here.

The EFF is very worried about the vague ‘general conduct’ .. after reading their description and questions, anyone online should be worried as well.

There is something quite big at stake with the internet..

https://www.eff.org/ .. read all about it.

Until then.. all your bases are belong to us.

Until they belong to them.
The good old days of the internet WERE that good. And tomorrow is as bad as it seems.

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Madge is showing her age a little.. the Material Mom fell off a stage onto one of her male dancing goats at the BRIT awards.. The world of gossip and celebrity is abuzz about the Madge Taking a Tumble Video.. the UK DAILY MAIL, without question, has the best coverage: Giant full screen images of the shocking moment when Madonna fell backwards off the stage.. 
The Drudge Report is leading with this as the top story today—Drudge knocked down the FCC rules for the Madonna fall. He knows how to get hits, still.. 

Others are looking at the video in a little more curious way. After all, this is the year of the goat on the Chinese calender—and that’s not a good thing for the world. Play with the ram? Get the horns. Madonna did with this mishap.

The DAILY MAIL notes the lyrics of a song she performed:

Sang lyrics including ‘I’m going to carry on’ and ‘Watch me stumble’ 

Stumble. 
Tumble.
Fumble.

This is stuff memes are made of..

My wife and I saw this and showed it to my now four-year-old son. He laughed at gave back the phone.. nothing major, just a lady with a cape falling on top of a goat. Nothing he never saw on Phinneas and Ferb already..

But in the end, things seemed ok.

The 56-year-old looked shocked - and briefly stopped singing - after she fell down a set of stairs, but picked herself back up and continued to the end.

No goats were harmed in the making of this GIF that will live in showbiz infamy..

Solar eclipse to disrupt power supplies - Telegraph

Eclipse to block out 95 per cent of sunlight in parts of Europe

According to the report appearing in the UK TELEGRAPH today, this nearly 100% eclipse on March 20 may actually cause problems..

The eclipse is going to be the biggest one since 1999.

Victoria Ward writes this,

Power supplies could drop suddenly next month when the UK is plunged into darkness with an eclipse of the sun.
Energy experts warned there could be possible blackouts in the biggest solar eclipse since 1999.
Nearly 90 per cent of the sun’s rays will be blocked out in parts of Europe on March 20.
In London and the South East, 85 per cent of the sun will be obscured by the moon whilst in northern Scotland, more than 95 per cent will be covered.
The National Grid has warned that solar power output in Britain will halve during the event.

My first inclination on this was that the story appearing is just an example of fear porn and attempt to get readers and clicks. But it could also be a relevant message about the future. If we rely heavily on solar energy, there very well will be moments where, perhaps, our power source goes black. Or maybe times when that same power source throws a hissy fit and solar storms knock down a grid..

Ward says, 

He told the Financial Times: “In a way March 20 is a glimpse into the future of our power systems.”
The eclipse will last around two hours from 8.40am. The next one will not be until 2026.

So .. Eclipsepocalypse 2015 begins in earnest.. 
Be afraid.

Solar eclipse to disrupt power supplies - Telegraph

LADY GAGA RUMORED TO BE STAR OF NEXT 'AMERICAN HORROR STORY'

LADY GAGA RUMORED TO BE STAR OF NEXT 'AMERICAN HORROR STORY'

If you have some spare time in the coming days, listen to last night's CLYDE LEWIS radio show..

It was beyond important.

The title was “My Name is Metal” and talked about the very real future that is about to hit humanity like a freight train: Babies becoming less inclined to being born from a womb.. instead, futuristic ways of putting stem cells away for later, so women can choose when she has a child, is coming. Along with that, religious implications, societal upheaval, commonplace gay parents, and future shock..

Clyde Lewis opened his show with shock and awe:

Being in a lab or a building where we can grow children is at least two years away according to a report from Russia Today and the child-growing lab is being used in order to allow two men to have children.
Babies of same-sex couples are becoming a future prospect, as scientists have disclosed revolutionary research on making human egg and sperm cells using the skin of two adults.
It means that we might soon see a fully “dish-manufactured” baby in a lab.

The show had a free-flowing only caller driven format .. during the course of the program—and this is not a scientific viewpoint at all—the majority of younger callers seemed to be better apt to having agreeable minds to the future coming. However, older callers—and those who professed more of a Bible bumper belief system—did not. 

The amazing part is this: It’s all happening. Not later, but now. 

Last week TIME magazine published a cover with an adorable baby’s face: The headline read ‘This baby could live to 142 years old’ 

There are dangers with this future. But amazing possibilities too.. the idea of knowing genetic defects prior to birth.. the chance for parents who cannot have children being able to in new ways.. And even more, as Clyde Lewis argued, this could end the abortion debate. Imagine no more need for women to consider aborting a fetus… instead putting it all on hold, saving the pregnancy for when she is ready through the use of artificial practices.

The future is now.
And it’s going to scare a lot of people.
It’s going to shred old style beliefs on life and death..
And it’s going to be a totally more revolutionary idea than the test tube baby of last century.

Welcome to the brave new world, earth.

You can—and should—listen to the show here: https://soundcloud.com/groundzeromedia

For a LOT of fun, go about 2 hours and 29 minutes into the broadcast.. 

And while you’re at it, check out the "the future" tag from Coal Speaker to see all of the years I have been talking and thinking about this very thing.,.

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Gas heat is amazing.
But when it’s not working, hissing, or leaking, awful things happen.

This video of a house exploding in New Jersey, is evidence of how powerful a gas explosion can be.  

This video was caught by a police dash cam. You can see, quite literally out of the clear blue sky, the gas line ruptures and the entire house blows to bits. 

The current thought is that a gas main was ruptured—somehow. This is how the UK TELEGRAPH summed up the event for historical record:

The explosion happened about 90 minutes after police received the first report of a strong gas smell in the area.

"As the gas company was working to localise and mitigate the gas leak there was an explosion that by all accounts totally destroyed the house at 59 Oak Avenue, there’s nothing left there but the basement foundation," said Captain Tom Dellane of the Stafford Police Department.

This is a prime reason that if you are going to excavate the ground, place a call before you dig. Call 811.. It can save a life.. The footage you see is not foreign.. it can happy in any happy and quaint neighborhood near you..

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

UK GUARDIAN REPORTS: Season of the witch: why young women are flocking to the ancient craft

Rapper Azealia Banks brought witchcraft back into the mainstream by tweeting ‘I’m really a witch’. But women in the US have been harnessing its power for decades as a ‘spiritual but not religious’ way to express feminist ambitions

This fascinating story written by Sady Doyle in the UK GUARDIAN explains how a new burst of ‘witches’ is taking place in the modern world.. 

The GUARDIAN seems to credit modern pop culture and entertainment with the new witchcraft of our age.. Things like AMERICAN HORROR STORY and the COVEN. Doyle even gives a nod to the TUMBLR site http://charmcore.tumblr.com/.. I have visited it, though it seems more that it’s a site of reblogs as opposed to original content. 

But there is another angle, one more political: Feminism and the power of the female, symbolized by the strength of a witch.. 

Doyle writes, 

Wicca, with its focus on a goddess (rather than a male god – though it has those too) and its relatively open approach to creating canon, was a natural fit for many feminist women interested in writing their own spiritual script. But women who weren’t explicitly Wiccan were also drawn to “witchy” ways of processing the world: not only did women make feminist tarot cards in the 1970s, author Alice Walker personally endorsed one set – the Motherpeace deck. Feminist psychologists such as Jean Shinoda Bolen and Clarissa Pinkola Estés wrote books on using goddess imagery and myths as means of understanding female subjectivity.

There has been a long and wrong series of centuries in which witches were proclaimed evil.. they were stoned, drowned to death, and ‘pressed’ with heavy objects.   

I know several people who practice Wicca. They are fine, amazing people. While they may have one too many ‘coexist’ bumper stickers, they don’t cause harm to me or society. 

Suddenly witches are trendy. Get ready for that..

UK GUARDIAN REPORTS: Season of the witch: why young women are flocking to the ancient craft

This is a movie poster blast from the past.. it was called THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN, and a was loosely based on the ‘Phanton Killer’ or the ‘Texarkana Moonlight Murders' that took place ni 1946..

The other evening, I got the chance to watch the 2014 remake of this 1976 classic.. The redo was interesting. It was like DICK TRACY meets SCREAM, a movie with cartoonish appeal that also featured a ‘we know this is a horror movie’ attitude like Wes Craven’s late 20th century horror series.. 

However, any time I watch a remake, I typically go back and watch the original. Either for posterity or just because I want to check off the similarities and differences between each incarnation.. 

The original SUNDOWN film wasn’t exceptional by any stretch of imagination.. But it created a new genre—it may be one of the least known movies that started the slasher flicks of the late 70s and all of the 1980s. The TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN was brutal at times and most likely difficult to view during some moments in theaters during the Carter years.. 

But there was one thing that THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN got right in 1976: One of the most memorable posters I have ever seen for a movie, especially a horror flick..  There’s something freakish about that sunset image and the town, that lonely town, tucked safely but dangerously between the trees and mountains.. And that foreboding image of the Phantom with his freakish mask that only displays two eye holes..

This poster has stuck in my mind for years.. Since I was younger and first stayed up late without my parents knowing to watch this on Rhonda Shear’s UP ALL NIGHT, I remembered that poster. . and that quaint image of Americana destroyed by a masked villain to stole innocence..

I was born in 1980, years after this original film.. But as a child of the 1980s, a certain spirit of the 70s was bred into my in my early life.. 

This image presented on the poster haunted me for two distinct reasons: 1) It reminded me of the scene from ET where Halloweeners begin to the roam the streets at sundown, and 2) the image looks amazingly like the town I grew up in the 80s, Centralia PA—a town with an underground mine fire that met its demise because of that crisis.. 

This post is not a movie review .. I quite frankly disliked the new remake and the original was lackluster. But it was important in the history of horror movies. It gave us the slasher flick.
And it gave me chills each time I thought about that hauntingly beautiful movie poster..

Two newspapers followed me on TUMBLR today—2!

Out of respect, I will hold off on my ‘print is dead’ rhetoric for at least a week.

Democratic FCC commissioner balks at net neutrality

This is going to become quite the epic battle. Not sure how many internet users realize how important this is, if they did their be moving gifs and memes already

Democratic FCC commissioner balks at net neutrality

The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden 'black site'

UK GUARDIAN: Exclusive: Secret interrogation facility reveals creeping aspects of war on terror in US city as accounts describe shackling and brutality without basic rights

British press dropped a bombshell on the world.. Reporting by Spencer Ackerman of the UK GUARDIAN has created a firestorm of controversy around the globe, even though American news seemingly is ignoring the revelations printed in latest runs of the British paper..

Ackerman writes,

The Chicago police department operates an off-the-books interrogation compound, rendering Americans unable to be found by family or attorneys while locked inside what lawyers say is the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site.
The facility, a nondescript warehouse on Chicago’s west side known as Homan Square, has long been the scene of secretive work by special police units. Interviews with local attorneys and one protester who spent the better part of a day shackled in Homan Square describe operations that deny access to basic constitutional rights.

Among the many points blasted in the story from the GUARDIAN, police do some interesting things.. these salient points are presented:

• Keeping arrestees out of official booking databases.
  
• Beating by police, resulting in head wounds.
  
• Shackling for prolonged periods.
• Denying attorneys access to the “secure” facility.
• Holding people without legal counsel for between 12 and 24 hours, including people as young as 15.

At least one man was found unresponsive in a Homan Square “interview room” and later pronounced dead.

One quote from the article was a bit chilling, with one protester telling the reporter, “It’s a domestic black site. When you go in, no one knows what’s happened to you”

The Chicago police department was forced into an awkward position on this matter.. they issued their defense in a statement to the GUARDIAN.. They said, in part:

"The allegations in this instance are not supported by facts. The vast majority of our officers serve the public with honor and integrity, and alleged actions of one individual decades ago are in no way indicative of the hard working men and women who put their lives on the line each day to protect residents."

Is this the night Chicago died? Or the night that constitutional did?

The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden 'black site'

Keith Olbermann Suspended For Penn State Tweets

It all started with a quote ‘we are’ tweet. Olbermann responded ‘pitiful’.. The problem is the original post linked a story showing that Penn State raised 13 million dollars for cancer research. Regardless of the controversy, he did not back down ..

Keith Olbermann Suspended For Penn State Tweets

New poll on vaccinations: Forty-four percent of respondents said parents should be mandated to vaccinate their child, while 38% favored some parental choice. The survey also showed a generational difference in vaccination support with younger Americans more in favor of it.

The results come amid a measles outbreak in the U.S.

New poll on vaccinations: Forty-four percent of respondents said parents should be mandated to vaccinate their child, while 38% favored some parental choice. The survey also showed a generational difference in vaccination support with younger Americans more in favor of it.

Get ready to have your history books shredded and your world rocked: Scientists now suspect gerbils were the real villains in the Black Death — not rats

A new study finds that great gerbils in Asia, not rats, helped spread Europe’s black death and kill millions.

This is a bit of a game changer when it comes to history. 
I knew there was always something I really didn’t like about gerbils..

Get ready to have your history books shredded and your world rocked: Scientists now suspect gerbils were the real villains in the Black Death — not rats

Google bans porn from Blogger

Google is banning public pornography on its Blogger site.

Google Blogger bans porn.. The world just remembered that people still use BLOGGER.. There are also some fears that GOOGLE will start to just disappear websites over ten years old–ten years ago was a heyday for GOOGLE BLOGGER users.. In response, the Internet Archive is going to attempt to begin trying to back them all up..  

This is interesting for a number of reasons.. First off, one may ask why GOOGLE BLOGGER is suddenly worried about this issue? And secondarily, does anyone still even use GOOGLE blogger?

I am much more worried about fake sites, like gambling and over redirect Blogspots than I am REAL end users who post porn…

I ponder the same as others.. is this just an attempt to clean the servers of some old blogs that don’t get updated anymore?

As for me, I left Blogger about five years ago when they stopped allowing automatic FTP uploads of posts.

Google bans porn from Blogger

Gigantic human eating statues based on the popular ATTACK ON TITAN anime series are part of a new Japanese theme park.. Lots of other interesting things abound in the park, as well.. 

Four more enormous holes have been found in Siberia.. Newest scientific theory is that they are be being caused by gas underground and the fear is that craters are going to become more commonplace as temperatures globally rise.. Other less popular theories conclude that they are the gates of hell, ajar for the world to see.

I swear I just saw Horatio Sans pumping gas

Alter the likelihood of him being in Minersville Pennsylvania pumping gas is slim to none.

Horatio: you have a doppelganger in the coal region …

Leonard Nimoy rushed to the hospital

Leonard Nimoy rushed to the hospital

What happens when the conspiracy is on the other server?

A Facebook study has been conducted on people without them knowing. Again..

What happens when the conspiracy is on the other server?

The city that never drinks

There is a major drought in a major city in Brazil. It has big ramifications and perhaps will showcase the beginning of the coming water wars..

The city that never drinks

ISIS vow to ‘throw homosexuals off of your leaning tower of PIZZA’

ISIS vow to ‘throw homosexuals off of your leaning tower of PIZZA’

Let me pose this question..

Do you think there are colors in the universe we have yet to discover?

I am a little confused..

Two father babies likely in a few years..

But didn’t anyway ever see MY TWO DADS?

The Manitoba UFO story hits national airwaves with Clyde Lewis program

The Manitoba UFO story hits national airwaves with Clyde Lewis program

New study reveals the global impact of debris on marine life

It’s pretty disgusting if you think about it..

But if you think this is bad, just imagine a grave yard in Hollywood.

Just kiddin’.

New study reveals the global impact of debris on marine life

TIME MAG: The Vaccine Everyone Wanted

TIME MAG: The Vaccine Everyone Wanted

This is an image showing four separate scenes from the city of Chelyabinsk.. That was the site of the 2013 meteor explosion that rocked that part of Russia and was equal to several Hiroshima bombs..

RT profiles the city where now, as you can see, strange things are brewing.. 

The image of the three suns was an optical illusion. 
But the blue snow wasn’t.. As a matter of fact, the storm giving people the strange colored precipitation made world headlines but no one came by to explain why exactly the weather was as colorful as it was..

There is little we understand about anything.
But three suns and blue snow is probably at the bottom of our human comprehension… 

It is highly unlikely that there will actually be a reality TV show on Mars

Good article..

Depressing if you were one of the hopeful people who wanted to be on Mars by 2025.. Even sadder for the rest of us who need, for the sake of humanity and existence, to explore the universe.. 

It is highly unlikely that there will actually be a reality TV show on Mars

notentirely:

i’m cruising along, reading my issue of real simple, about to flip the page, when i see this ad. i pause because the photo is adorable and feels really natural. then i’m confused what the image has to do with tylenol, so i stop to read the ad text. then i flip the page.

first thing: i rarely ever stop to read an ad. i typically ignore them. but this photo caught my eye and i stopped. so, success on that front tylenol!

second thing: it wasn’t until after i’d already turned the page that it occurred to me that the ad featured a same sex couple.

i turned back to the ad and felt a sort of weird happiness. thing is, i honestly did not think that this level of national ad representation of same sex couples would occur during my lifetime. yet here it is.

but more importantly, this type of representation is becoming so much more commonplace that i’m no longer hyper-aware that it’s occurring.

it’s just people, doing their thing, in an ad.

the battles are far from over. but this one small thing made me happy.

representation matters.

This is an interesting take from a fellow blogger.. Tylenol is using an interesting image of love to sell it’s product. But if you really look close you’ll notice something that years ago would have been noticed much faster.. Progress indeed. People doing their thing.

CT Scan of 1,000-Year-Old Buddha Statue Reveals Mummified Monk Hidden Inside

This is pretty amazing..
It brings back the memory from just a month to do ago of people claiming the mummified monk found was alive but simply in a very deep meditation.. Of course no one has been yet to claim this 1000 year old monk is the same.

CT Scan of 1,000-Year-Old Buddha Statue Reveals Mummified Monk Hidden Inside

The Academy Awards..

And I haven’t seen even one of the films nominated for best picture.. And quite frankly that doesn’t bother me in the slightest..

Tegan and Sara singing 'Everything is Awesome' is not enough..

the movie should have been nominated. For SOMETHING..

And quite frankly tonight’s live performance was awful.. Sad for them to even be a part of it, and one of those pop culture moments they will probably wince at at some point in their career.

Here’s why your human resources department hates you

This may be one of the best explications I have ever read that sums up my total anger at the typically ignorant and aristocratic attitudes displayed by people in just about any human resource office I have ever dealt with or spoken to..

There’s an attitude of ignorance.. And yup usually the HR executives are safety sheltered and nestled away from the herd of heathens that are considered ‘resources’ ..

The culture throughout any office or company is failing because of the mentality displayed by human resources..

Anyway. Read this article.. Especially if you work in HR.

Here’s why your human resources department hates you

We had an amazing ‘Thanksgiving in February’ to honor my son and his 4th birthday.. while we may not have had any success on getting him to become even a slight carnivore this year, he did help prepare the meal. Until he saw the neck that is..

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 Unless insanity prevails and Art Bell changes his mind, DARK MATTER is going to be coming this July. And here, thanks to a fine YOUTUBE user named ḰIḒṔṴJẶ PRODUCTIONS, we have a trailer for the much anticipated return to the airwaves. Via a podcast.

Sometime in July.
From somewhere in a dark room in Pahrump Nevada..

Meanwhile, Art Bell posted a new message on BELLGAB with a bit of an update:

No news yet. The deal is actively being worked on by both sides, I will let you all know the moment we have a deal because until that time THOSE PEOPLE would screw with it. For all I know they have already tried to steal Falkie away for their bumpers.
I love this board, never change.
Art

I love BELLGAB, too. That’s why I am not only a reader but an active member.

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

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 amazing things that happen when you're busy making other plans. Four years on..

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?

UK nuclear sites warned over drone terror attack

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..

UK nuclear sites warned over drone terror attack

Gov. Scott Walker: ‘I don’t know’ whether Obama is a Christian

The potential 2016 contender dismissed questions about the president’s faith as insignificant.

So this is the debate for ‘16 now?
This..?

Gov. Scott Walker: ‘I don’t know’ whether Obama is a Christian

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.

Terrorism funding just one thing big banks are getting away with - whistleblower Everett Stern

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..

Terrorism funding just one thing big banks are getting away with - whistleblower Everett Stern

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.

New UN report reveals collaboration between Israel and Syrian rebels

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:

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New UN report reveals collaboration between Israel and Syrian rebels

Police release SLENDERMAN crime tapes.. The girls not only thought SLENDER was watching them stab, but they also described how to pretended they'd go get help

Also, one admits she knew they’d be caught.
And they were..

Police release SLENDERMAN crime tapes.. The girls not only thought SLENDER was watching them stab, but they also described how to pretended they'd go get help

 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.

Huge blaze guts 79-floor Dubai skyscraper

Incidentally, the building did not pancake down on top of itself..

Just saying.

Huge blaze guts 79-floor Dubai skyscraper

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..

Just ffaaaaannnntttaaassttiic…

Now healthy eating is a mental disorder? POPSCI says: Striving For The Perfect Diet Is Making Us Sick

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..

Now healthy eating is a mental disorder? POPSCI says: Striving For The Perfect Diet Is Making Us Sick

A worthwhile retort on the CABLE TV cord cutting

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.

Los Angeles hospital warns 179 patients possibly exposed to 'superbug'

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A large Los Angeles teaching hospital has told scores of patients they may have been exposed to a drug-resistant bacterial superbug during endoscopy procedures that infected seven patients and contributed to two deaths

It seems high time for a new fear.. Ebola never quite hit home. Measles didn’t much more to shake the nation to the core.. and the Polar Vortex  was replaced with a ‘Siberian Express’ to remind us of how awful weather is and how it’s our enemy. Plus don’t think for a second that news directors aren’t getting a kick out of a slight percentage of Americans believing that Vladimir Putin is somehow creating polar surges into the United States to destroy our Western Civilization..

But all mocking aside, perhaps the new fear of the SUPERBUG is warranted? 

More from the REUTERS report:

The possible exposures occurred at the UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center between Oct. 3 and Jan. 28 during procedures in which a specialized endoscope is inserted down the throat to diagnose and treat pancreatic and bile duct diseases.

One thing to note: Many of those who may be infected are in the predicament after a ‘routine’ procedure. And now there is nothing routine about the possibility that they have a life-altering bacteria that may kill up to half of the people who get it..

And while we are not calling this one Captain Tripps just yet, public statements being made now will either be looked on as prudent caution or blatant disguises sometime soon in the future..

"It’s important to emphasize: This particular outbreak of CRE is not a threat to the health of the public in Los Angeles County," said Benjamin Schwartz, deputy chief of the acute communicable disease control program at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.

Los Angeles hospital warns 179 patients possibly exposed to 'superbug'

No good things come from a Year of the Sheep

Or goat—or ram.

No good things come from a Year of the Sheep

Perhaps the title speaks for itself..

Clear evidence that the United States serves garbage to children in school lunches

Since the 80s the entire program was turned to waste. Nothing improved even with newer guidelines. The sugar industry had too much say… sick examples are presented here when the Daily Mail compares the US school lunches to cash strapped nation…

Clear evidence that the United States serves garbage to children in school lunches

This image is sure to stir up controversy (and sell some fish wrappers).. the NEW YORK POST pictures President Obama with a blindfold around his head as a message that he is ignoring Islamic terror threats…

You can read the article in full here: http://nypost.com/2015/02/18/obama-refuses-to-acknowledge-muslim-terrorists-at-summit/

Billionaire Mark Cuban Says Net Neutrality Will 'F%$k Everything Up'

Billionaire Mark Cuban Says Net Neutrality Will 'F%$k Everything Up'

Maybe next year I’ll try to do a ‘somewhat famous people with big Ashes’ on Ash Wednesday.. here is one: Bill Donohue on Fox News

Tonight you get a two for one.. Not only is there a snapshot of my dinner, baked squash, red onions, peppers, and mushrooms, over pasta. But you also get a little hint of my feet. 

Thank me later.

I really bungled this one up. Here it is Ash Wednesday and not one thing posted about it, despite my Catholic education as a younger lad.

I hope all reading had a fine and hot Ash Wednesday.

The 500 pound meteor in the room

AAn amazing—and scary—piece of news is being reported ..

Americans in New York, Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania reported seeing a fiery, 500-pound meteor soar through the sky this week before the space rock apparently broke up somewhere over the Keystone State, according to scientists.
NASA said on Tuesday this week that the meteor entered the Earth’s atmosphere in the sky above western Pennsylvania earlier that morning and was reportedly witnessed by spectators stretching for hundreds of miles across the United States from the Mid-Atlantic to the Midwest.

The meteor burst into flames above PITTSBURGH..

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Remnants of the meteor ended up on the ground in Pennsylvania—my home state as well. I didn’t see this, however, it seemed more confined to the Western part of the state.. 

It was traveling at 45,000 miles per hour..

The video and the story are both equally amazing.. 

There were reports of sonic booms.. Lots of calls to the AMA..

And also this piece of interesting news: A meteor exploded over New Zealand yesterday.. 

The pink stars are falling all too often lately, don’t you think?

The 500 pound meteor in the room

I went back and found this Microsoft PAINT creation I made in the year almost ten years ago—already! It seems like yesterday.  What was obvious then is that TV mattered—certainly more so than it does NOW as proven by the TIME magazine article I posted tonight on the death of television..

Pop culture was once dictated to us.. It was once forced down our digestive tracts.. 

Like AM radio, conventional TV is dead.

There is a revolution in what people want and how they want it.. The talking heads who gave us what they wanted us to digest are almost no more—the power is in the people’s hands.. is this why regulation is being discussed? Why the Internet will be branded as a public utility and the government will act accordingly?

Since 1998 the NET was a wild west, tamed a bit by modernization and maturity.. but we are living in unparalleled times.

Anything is possible.
Good.
And bad.
It is our choice .. and cutting out the norm of how we once acted is a good choice.

Cord-Cutting: Millennials Abandon Their TV, Cable Faster Than Ever

This is important and game changing.. A cultural switch is going on. And this backs up my point the other night that Saturday Nighy Live and other live programs are becoming increasingly irrelevant ..

Like AM radio, conventional TV is dead.

Cord-Cutting: Millennials Abandon Their TV, Cable Faster Than Ever

This being reported by ROLLING STONE and various other sources