Are there any public relations firms in Canada? Moreover..any that would want to help Rob Ford?
More insanity in Canada as the Toronto mayor could lose more council votes..
Ford says he is quitting drinking and turning to Jesus. But before he did that, he also pushed over an elderly council member..
This guy is worse than the SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE impersonation of him..He has become a parody of himself..
The pop of pop culture.
Pop goes the world.
Selfie Pope style.
At least the Pope did not twerk in ‘13.
The amazing failure: SPIDERMAN the Broadway musical to conclude this year.
It never could have worked, in my opinion..
Fan boys aren’t going to go to a Broadway musical—and not everything should be a musical.
Of course BUFFY fans may still say the musical episode was the best of the show, but I will say that the same fans who liked BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER are not the fans who like Spiderman.. This musical was simply doomed by the onset.
And what made the likelihood of it failing even more clear: Regardless of the risky gamble that that Jeremiah Harris took, it still ended up being the most expensive musical to produce.
People go to Broadway for RENT, and CATS. Not spiders.
Rumors continue to persist that Brittany Murphy was poisoned..
Father of Murphy claims that spies took revenge..
I don’t know why she died, or how she died, but every time I see a movie from the past in which she appeared or starred, I am reminded of how much the acting world lost with her untimely passing.. Her talent was always present..
My sister and I discuss world events on a regular basis.. Tonight she referenced the ‘bagel in the head’ operation that people in Japan are getting. I was stunned, aghast..confused. Amazed.
Yes, and I realized, I am about a year behind the times. Hell, even Anderson Cooper put this on his Ridiculist in 2012.. I missed it all.
Here is the predication: A new trend in Japan is to have a bagel head surgery. And people are so dedicated to the trend that they get a two-hour saline drip to implant the bagel-shaped welts on their foreheads.. It was pioneered in Canada but made popular in Japan—at least that is what Wikipedia taught me tonight.
But it’s not a permanent wheat-like appearance. A day after the process, your head does in fact go back to normal.
Some people get one bagel. Some get two.
I have been perusing Google images for a bit this evening and I realize that I completely missed this inane trend.
But it did slightly make me hungry for Panera Bread.
So is this still a trend? Or have the bagels soured?
Inquiring bagel heads want to know.
Karl Bushby is not an ordinary hiker..
An AP photo taken today by Alex Kareotes shows the extent of damages from a tornado outbreak in Washington, ILL.
This may be one of the strongest (if not the strongest) severe weather systems ever for November.
The night is not over yet.. the storms are moving through Pennsylvania now and strong winds are coming.
In COALSPEAKER land, I imagine a 3am power outage may be in store .. if not that, high winds may wake the household.
But it is nothing even close to the disaster and destruction that the Midwest saw today..
There are so many towns that have been destroyed.. at least partially, if not in full.
But to this, no one is quite sure what did. Tonight, George Knapp takes us back in time to try to find out..
Some background may be in order..
The event is termed the Dyatlov Pass incident. It’s been a famed target of paranormal and UFO investigators for some time. The entire affair is shrouded with mystery.
Nine hikers, who were experienced in their craft, died in some pretty bizarre ways in 1959. Human tracks were found heading downhill. The temperature was minus 24 at the time the hikers were on the Russia Ural Mountains—the local language named the mountain “Do not Go There.” The tracks that were found were strange mainly because, in the conditions, they were barefoot. Barefoot—minus 24 and barefoot tracks were found.. Think about that one for a minute.
Thinks get even weirder, though.
Seven men and two women were said to be experienced hikers.. history tells us that they were in the snow-capped Ural Mountains. Cold.. beautiful.. and deadly for all nine of them, as they never lived to tell the tale of their venture. Instead, their bodies were found in various locations, frozen in the conditions.. Some of them also had horrid internal injuries, but yet their outside physical appearance showed no wounds or scratches. They also had high levels of radiation present ion some of their clothes. One person found dead was missing a tongue. They were prematurely aged—their hair was gray…
If you should want to learn some more, you can easily find information and theories online..
Typically, as things go, people claim UFOs are behind it. They also say Soviet weapons did it. Some claim Bigfoot. A plethora of explanations of the strange—but the real strange thing of this whole affair is that we don’t know what did it..
Tonight on Coast to Coast AM, George Knapp will attempt to find out. I am eagerly looking forward to this program.. I think Knapp will do it justice, and I can’t wait to hear some theories proposed by Keith McCloskey, who wrote a book on the incident called MOUNTAIN OF THE DEAD.
Listen in should you have the chance..
Unless the story is just too creepy to handle.
Today has been a day of weather hell and devastation from tornadoes..
And as these things usually are, living through weather history is not an enjoyable experience, stay safe and be aware that more weather tonight is likely..
AP reporting:
The National Weather Service confirmed tornados have touched down in several Illinois communities by early afternoon. Meanwhile in Chicago, fans at Soldier Field watching the Chicago Bears host the Baltimore Ravens were cleared from the stands and players and coaches left the field around 12:30 p.m. as wind and rain moved in.
Jason Beckman talked about killing his father for some time. But in 2009, when he dad made a joke that his son would not ‘know what to do with taht [Megan Fox]’, he killed him.
The MIAMI HERALD money quote:
Jason Beckman, on trial for killing his politician father in April 2009, confided to fellow jail inmates that just before the shooting, the young man had asked his father about the raven-hairedTransformers star.
“His father told him he wouldn’t know what to do with that,” the inmate, Michael Nistal, told Miami-Dade jurors.
Beckman, who prosecutors say talked openly for years about hating his father, grew enraged. “So he went and got a shotgun and blew his head off. He missed his head and shot his face and part of his neck,” the inmate said.
The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center has issued an extremely serious “Particularly Dangerous Situation” alert for an extremely violent…
It’s mid November. It will feel like mid-spring—and the skies above will be just as confused.. it’s not severe weather season but today will be severe in some places.
The threats in this area today include:
-Several intense tornadoes likely
-Several large hail events likely with a few very large hail events to 2” in diameter possible
-Several damaging wind gusts with a few significant gusts to 80mph possible.
That is strong wind.. and that severe weather.. And it is a dangerous situation brewing—hopefully one that will not happen as the NOAA predicts.
Here are the latest warnings nationwide.
And keep in mind that major areas like Chicago and Indianapolis are facing tornado threats today.
Accuweather is running an up to the minute live blog on the weather conditions.
Stay tuned. Be safe.
Be alert.
And as always, be prepared as best you can..
And now SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE took notice.
National attention for the small city paper.
Congrats, in some sort of sense, are in order?
http://www.nbc.com/assets/video/widget/widget.html?vid=n43354
So funny from the show last night—and so true about the way Blockbuster employers were..
I will miss this store
When my wife and I put my son Ayden to bed, it gets a little dull just reading the same old bed time stories time and time again.. We spice things up. My version of a bed time tale is to take Ayden on a wild ride of bizarre imagination—rainbows and elephants made of pink fish, sometimes ladders made of toothpicks and skies melting with chocolate clouds.
Tonight I realized how inane my stories can often be. Ayden was taking particularly long to get to sleep.. My rambling bed time chat became, well to put it bluntly, just stupid. I was grasping for straws.. Each time I thought I was done, Ayden asked for another story.
At one point, I recall saying roughly these words:
And then Ayden jumped on his lollipop and flew to pop tart mountain. Before he got there, he told himself,
'Today was very good,
Today was quite a treat,
But I must increase my bust,
Before I fall asleep.
What!?
Yes.. I’m running dry no child-friendly accounts.. I need some new material.
Maybe I will just start reading him WAR AND PEACE and see how far we get.
Meanwhile it’s time to gas up the lollipop plane and get ready to do some Saturday night bust increases.
