Tuesday, October 29, 2013
NEW YORK TIMES hits: The White House response on Monday to the expanding disclosures of American spying on foreign leaders, their governments and millions of their citizens was a pathetic mix of unsatisfying assurances about reviews under way, platitudes about the need for security in an insecure age, and the odd defense that the president didn’t know that American spies had tapped the German chancellor’s cellphone for 10 years.
Monday, October 28, 2013
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..
Obama admin. knew millions could not keep their health insurance
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.
Obama admin. knew millions could not keep their health insurance
Tweeting Bra: Sends Tweets Every Time It's Unclasped
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.
Tweeting Bra: Sends Tweets Every Time It's Unclasped
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..
Nightmares and dreamscapes
It has been well over a decade since my paternal grandmother died. Over the years I have been given the gift of having some dreams about her—however she was never actually in them.. only her vacant house and her empty garden. Last night, that changed. I had a dream that we were saying goodbye to her house and her life (a long time after mind you) and she was in it.. she gave me a great big hug and whispered “where did the time go?” and finally “I love you.’ Even though it was a dream it felt like magic.. My dream ended with me asking her, “Do you believe in God” and ….boom. The alarm clock began to do its early morning magic-buster.. I never got an answer.. But I know that she loves me.. Ironically, this was also the first dream in which my son was actually in it—I have been a dad for two and a half years but this was a first.. I was showing my son Ayden a pear tree she had.. I found an old toy in her house..
But as for that potent God question?
Alarm clock.
Sunday, October 27, 2013
THE WEEK OF THE WITCH
The season of the witch is here.. for some, this is the time of year where the thin line between reality and ‘over there’ vanishes for a while.. Ancient tradition would cause us to wear those costumes, carve those Jack O’Lanterns..
Pagan rituals that persist today.
It’s also a time where, in my opinion, I feel it becomes a virtual ‘full moon’ for the week.. The strange, the creepy, the macabre. It begins today..
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..
The killing is being called a mass stabbing..
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.
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