The Franchise Apocalypse: The zombiefication of Hollywood

A great article.. Anghus Houvouras on the zombiefication of Hollywood.

I have known Anghus for years and have followed him.. he used to write a column for my other site, HORRORREPORT.COM, and he continues to be a great and outspoken commentator on the current times of Hollywood.

He writes this;

The entertainment landscape is starting to look like an episode of The Walking Dead.  Originality is a dwindling number of survivors making their way through an unforgiving apocalyptic landscape where the threat of being devoured by rapidly multiplying zombie franchises seems inevitable. 

How true that is..

The Franchise Apocalypse: The zombiefication of Hollywood

When a selfie with Obama is not just a selfie: WHEN IT’S BIG PAPI DAVID ORTIZ SNAPPING THE PHOTO ON HIS CAMERA AS A PUBLICITY STUNT FOR SAMSUNG!!!

Bad form!

This photo is exciting UFO and Mars enthusiasts all around the planet earth.. It shows what looks to be an artificial source of life coming from Mars beamed back to NASA from a rover..

NASA hasn’t commented on the photo yet..

Some say it’s an artificial source of light or perhaps evidence of the famed underground civilization that some think exists on the red planet..

Others are chalky not up to a typical camera anomaly ..

And finally others, including me, are wondering if this is a part of a grand disclosure—Bill Clinton appearing on Jimmy Kimmel talking about aliens and Roswell.. Maybe it’s a plan to accustom us to what will soon vs revealed.

The truth is out there after all.. We just have to know how to discern what is truth and not..

NH Teacher Fired For Refusing To ‘Unfriend’ Students On Facebook

Good ole Mrs T… Fired for having too many friends..

NH Teacher Fired For Refusing To ‘Unfriend’ Students On Facebook

Serious reading takes a hit from online scanning and skimming, researchers say

Yea yea yea.. and TV made us dumb, too.

I think someone is trying to come up with a reason why their website has a really bad bounce rate.

Get some better content! You’ll keep the readers longer!

And anyway, news happens too fast to read it ..right?

Serious reading takes a hit from online scanning and skimming, researchers say

Botanists baffled by rapid growth of 'space cherry' - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

GIFU—A tree grown from a cherry pit that traveled in space five years ago with astronaut Koichi Wakata, now commander of the International Space Station, has bloomed far ahead of what is normal—to the astonishment of botanists.

This is a pretty freaky story—almost like the beginnings of an eerie science fiction story in which trees from space grow so fast that they take over the planet!

Okay.. that’s a big wild.. But really, the idea that a tree that should grow this big in years only took a few..

And even more: The ‘space’ tree only has 5 pedals as opposed to the normal 30.. 

This from The ASASHI SHIMBUM:

Botanist Takao Yoshimura, 78, successfully sprouted one of the pits that traveled to the ISS using a method in which he covered the soil with sphagnum moss.

In four years, the young plant has grown to a height of about 4 meters. This spring, it produced about 10 buds, which all were in bloom by April 4.

Yoshimura said it takes 10 years or more for cherry trees to grow flowers, but the young trees produced from cherry pits taken into space have flowered unusually early. Some of the 265 space-traveling cherry pits were planted in Kochi and Yamanashi prefectures after they returned to Earth and they have already come into bloom as well.

Botanist Kaori Tomita, a 56-year-old lecturer at University of Tsukuba who participated in the space cherry project, said that current science can offer no answer for the unusually fast growth of the space cherries.

Killer cherry trees from outer space.. coming soon to a garden near you.. Seeds that have been altered by the space/time continuum.. 

Botanists baffled by rapid growth of 'space cherry' - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

If the G-d wants your little ass in check … He’ll send a whale to fetch you. or a problem to remind you, or some devil to chase you home.

I love this quote .. it’s from the blob http://soredemonao.tumblr.com 

The site re-blogged my “I don’t know” post this morning.. I think him/her .. the response I got was great..

"Or some devil to chase you home." 

Love it..

This may look like something from THE NAKED GUN, but it’s a real image.. This is how to dress when you meet royalty!

The other day I wrote about Tommy Lynn Sells' execution..

…and I was not too forgiving of the killer—I suspended by disagreement with the death penalty because of Sells’ crimes and didn’t introduce the notion to my mind to feel bad for him,

But I found this article really interesting: A Chaplain has created a house in Canada where ex-offenders can go to die with dignity..

It brings up the bigger question: What should we do with people on death row or any criminal who has exhausted the forgiveness of society?

In America, we seem to become agitated any time we hear that prisoners get basic rights such as food, water, and books.. We get infuriated when we think about how they drain the tax dollars of money.. (of course we seldom care that pot offenders get hard time and that death row inmates often languish for years even though DNA evidence now may prove them innocent of the crimes).. 

How should a dignified nation treat its criminals? With dignity.. I am good with that.

Maybe except with Sells…

Sort of a weird and rare sight.. a 4.7 quake in FRANCE!

Ebola breaks out on a scale never seen before

I think we all need to be paying attention to this story.. Not only is humanity having a terrible time in Africa where Ebola has resumed killing, but it’s now a burdensome mission for all nations to stop the spread.

We are more connected than ever.. we travel more than any time in history. And Ebola is as deadly as it has ever been—it appears that it’s newfound mission is to spread beyond the borders of the nations where it dwells..

Maybe go back and watch that deplorably bad 1995 movie OUTBREAK. Graphics are bad and shoulder pads were big.. but it’s a lesson on what we do not want to have happen on this planet.

Ebola breaks out on a scale never seen before

Watching those quakes with a few shakes

Past 24 hours..There have been two 4.0+ earthquakes in Oklahoma…… and a 3.1 earthquake along the New Madrid..

This after a weekend series of quakes in Oklahoma..

Something below is moving..

Washington POST reports" The recovery puzzle: Matching jobs to job-seekers

Post the want ad and wait for people to line up? In places such as this town in rural Ohio, it’s not that easy.

This is an interesting story..
And a lesson on why the American economy is not steamrolling back to life.. (no matter what any politician or President says)

The skills of Americans are becoming obsolete.. We are the service economy.

So why happens with robotics replace the waiter? What happens when the service is performed by a mindless patented creature? 

I don’t know.

And no one seems to be trying to answer that dangerously close question..

Washington POST reports" The recovery puzzle: Matching jobs to job-seekers

A Smoking Gun bombshell: Al Sharpton's Secret Work As FBI Informant

The SMOKING GUN reports it, I can add no more:

When friends and family members gathered recently at the White House for a private celebration of Michelle Obama’s 50th birthday, one of the invited partygoers was a former paid FBI Mafia informant.

That same man attended February’s state dinner in honor of French President Francois Hollande. He was seated with his girlfriend at a table adjacent to President Barack Obama, who is likely unaware that, according to federal agents, his guest once interacted with members of four of New York City’s five organized crime families. He even secretly taped some of those wiseguys using a briefcase that FBI technicians outfitted with a recording device.

AND MORE:

The high-profile Obama supporter was also on the dais atop the U.S. Capitol steps last year when the president was sworn in for a second term. He was seated in front of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, two rows behind Beyonce and Jay Z, and about 20 feet from Eric Holder, the country’s top law enforcement officer. As head of the Department of Justice, Attorney General Holder leads an agency that once reported that Obama’s inauguration guest also had La Cosa Nostra contacts beyond Gotham, and engaged in “conversations with LCN members from other parts of the United States.”

There is a ton more to the story at the SMOKING GUN

A Smoking Gun bombshell: Al Sharpton's Secret Work As FBI Informant

Jay-Z Embraces Five-Percent Nation, Addresses Illuminati and Questions Other Religions

If Jay-Z wanted to rid himself of the burden of being a member of the Illuminati, his latest actions will do nothing for him..

News was made this weekend when it was released that Jay-Z is a bling wearing member of the Five Percent Nation. The New York POST story was pretty sensational regarding the whole event.. so I went to a less sensational source. NPR reported about the Five Percent Nation in 2006. This is what NPR reported are the tenets of the belief structure:

Tenets of the Five Percent Nation

(1.) That black people are the original people of the planet Earth.

(2.) That black people are the fathers and mothers of civilization.

(3.) That the science of Supreme Mathematics is the key to understanding man’s relationship to the universe.

(4.) Islam is a natural way of life, not a religion.

(5.) That education should be fashioned to enable us to be self-sufficient as a people.

(6.) That each one should teach one according to their knowledge.

(7.) That the black man is God and his proper name is ALLAH — Arm, Leg, Leg, Arm, Head.

(8.) That our children are our link to the future and they must be nurtured, respected, loved, protected and educated.

(9.) That the unified black family is the vital building block of the nation.

You can read more from NPR here..

But back to the other train wreck of thought: The Illuminati. We have been hearing this rumor for years that Jay-Z is a proud member of the illuminated. The rumors have gone as far as saying that Mr. Z spread the belief to Beyonce.. And as a result, she became Sasha Fierce on stage—in interviews she seems to truly believe that this devilish personality exists within her.

This is a judge for yourself kind of story—I think you need to do your own digging and figure out the reality or fiction of 1) the Illuminati and 2) Jay-Z’s seemingly real knowledge about the occult and secret societies.. 

I just know this: Jay-Z and Beyonce are really rich. Sasha Fierce is too. 
And they are both plain weird and creepy…

Jay-Z Embraces Five-Percent Nation, Addresses Illuminati and Questions Other Religions

Discussions over grilled food

I had a wonderful free flowing discussion with friends yesterday .. we were invited to a very early spring barbecue.. great food. And even better conversation.. We spoke about the missing flight 370, we talked about conspiracy theories, 9/11, God or the lack of one, and the meaning of life and whether mediums have the ability to talk to the dead. It was all of my interests spiraled into one great chat with good people—add to that chicken and homemade macaroni and cheese.

I did come to a realization, though.. During the conversation, others gave adamant opinions about their personal beliefs—their thoughts on what God is and if there is one, along with any other theory of mythological or paranormal subject matter. As for me? I just don’t know.

I don’t really know anything.

I read the theories, I see the information presented by experts, I know of the books, the Bibles, the Korans, the priests, and the ghostly tales.. I am aware of the Planet Nibiru.. I know that aliens met Dwight Eisenhower and told him there’s no God.. I know that George Noory has the worst toupee on earth.

But I just don’t know what my own opinion is.. I look at others who often say that they have the answers as closed-minded.. I often categorize Christian zealots in the same bin as atheists—neither allows much thought opposed to their own..

But as for me? I just don’t know..

Opinions are so often existent only to be proven wrong.. If I say that Flight 370 landed safely there’s the chance it didn’t.. and really, I just don’t know!

I don’t know!
We don’t know!

And though we don’t know, we will endlessly fall victim to the parade of opinionmakers, and haphazardly jump on the blowhard bandwagon of hot air. No one on that train knows, really. They just don’t admit it.

Is there a God? I really don’t know.
Are there aliens? I don’t know.
Is anything real?

Is anything real…That is the question Truman Burbank asked in one of my favorite movies, THE TRUMAN SHOW. The answer he got was that he was real.

Maybe that’s it.. nothing is really real.. except us. And we waste too much time debating and creating wars about Gods we have never seen and beliefs we cannot defend with fact.

I want there to be a God.
And aliens. I’d rather there be no planet X, though.

But Truman Burbank? I just know he’s real..

Toddlerus maxiumus

While the family was getting ready for work and day care today, I overheard my son Ayden tell my wife Tara, “Mommy, get daddy I want to tell him something.”  I melted with joy at his innocent little voice, almost whispering to my wife.. I was sure of it: He was proud of something. Maybe he built something, stacked pillows the right way, or had a profound thought about the meaning of TOM AND JERRY KIDS..

I walked back, smiling with anticipation..

My son Ayden was set for school…coat on, hat on..one hand in his pocket and juice in the other. He laughed when he saw me.. I said, “Yes Ayden?”

Ayden replied, 

"Daddy, you have a big ass."

Shock and awe.. I wanted to laugh out loud.. But Tara and I just looked at him, half smiling, and said, “where did you learn that?” He said, “I don’t know, but it’s a funny word.”

He is right.. it is a funny word.
I guess in his defense, it is in the Bible, right?

You might be seeing this on a 15-second delay

The 10 to 15 second delay theory comes as a result of a new study, which says that instead of seeing things as they are right now our brain captures an average of the past 10 seconds to create a more calm state…

Maybe people who say that they have a different frequency of existence actually see things as they are right now, or maybe people who are schizophrenic actually don’t have this delay mechanism?

Fascinating stuff…

You might be seeing this on a 15-second delay

This photo is making its way around the internet and into an inbox near you.. It’s from February .. The image you see if of a deer with strange lights hovering behind it.. it is from by Rainer and Edith Shattles at their Jackson County, Mississippi home..There is also video .. the video has gone viral after WLOX did a profile on the couple’s trail cams.. And it’s a series of them, over an hour of time in which the deer were lit up by bright lights ..

Very creepy stuff.. a deer in the headlights.. But the headlights not from a car.. but maybe a galaxy far far away?

Six-year-old child left brain dead from Pennsylvania mom’s drowning attempt dies

Just a horrible, rotten story..

Laurel Michelle Schlemmer said she was hearing voices before drowning her two children and that they’d be better off in heaven. So she killed them…

Their voices are forever gone now due to her crimes..

Six-year-old child left brain dead from Pennsylvania mom’s drowning attempt dies