2016! THE RETURN OF BOOK STORES!

I wrote several predictions for 2016 and published then on here a few days ago.. Read them if you choose.

I have also been reading some other people’s predictions. One I found in the Wall Street JOURNAL is amazingly accurate, wish I would have said it myself.

Ann Patchett predicts the return of book stores.. She writes, 

This is going to be a fabulous year for books. In 2016, Elizabeth Strout has her best novel yet coming out, “My Name Is Lucy Barton,” and I can’t wait to sell the late Paul Kalanithi’s gorgeous “When Breath Becomes Air,” and just when you think Louise Erdrich can’t get any better, she goes and writes “LaRose.” Go to your local independent bookstore this year and buy a copy. You’ll be part of the trend.

Independent book stores are amazing. All book stores are amazing.

In my county, Schuylkill County Pennsylvania, there are virtually no more book stores left. We have to leave the county to get somewhere meaningful in the print world.  This has become a detriment since my nearly 5-year-old loves book stores.. 

Last month, we signed up at the library for the first time, at least for me, in 15 years. 

It’s all worth it.
And yes, progress is amazing. Tech is great. But there will never be anything which surpasses holding paper bound together in your hand and turning pages. .

2016.. the return of book stores. I like that one.

Large Group Of Armed Militia Members Take Over Federal Building

Cliven Bundy is also advising the local ranchers, Steven and Dwight Hammond, not to submit to federal authorities as required on Monday. Instead, Bundy is urging them to go to the Harney County jail and ask for “protective custody.”

Large Group Of Armed Militia Members Take Over Federal Building

A ‘real’ headline from ‘real’ media..

Blind mystic whose followers claim she predicted 9/11 attack, ISIS and 2004 tsunami has chilling vision for 2016

That chilling vision for this year, courtesy of the fine reporting at the MIRROR:

And now it has been revealed that, before her death at age 85 she predicted “a 2016 invasion by Muslim extremists” across Europe.

Oh… Baba Vanga died in 1996, by the way. 
She must have been REALLY good to still be quoted today…

Psychologists warn constant email notifications are 'toxic source of stress' .. MORE: A culture has developed where people must feel they are constantly available for work, study reveals

Agreed..
Agreed.
Agreed

Psychologists warn constant email notifications are 'toxic source of stress' .. MORE:  A culture has developed where people must feel they are constantly available for work, study reveals

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The first song of 2016 on Coal Speaker.. 
Hope you follow me in 2016. I will be here as long as you will…
I’m on Twitter too..
And Instagram.
And YouTube.

Follow me wherever you find me.

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

A lot of corporations utilize auto-timed social media posts.

And this year, a lot of companies got it very very wrong, wishing people a happy new year the day before it happened.. 

Social media jobs suddenly open at big corporations!? Checking Indeed.com now

The Force Sleeps tonight?

My friend Anghus at Flickering Myth wrote up a good post on the latest STAR WARS..

While the dust is still not clearing (two sold out shows at my local movie house last night when my wife and I took my son to see the newest Alvin movie), it’s worth noting that some of the amazing reviews the movie was getting is dimming.. the glittering of gold has gotten old.. Stale.. Perhaps over.

Anghus douses it with some cold water–the fandom need this..

He writes, in part:

There were so many moments where I cringed. The scene where Han Solo first appears is so terribly staged. Woefully written with embarrassing levels of convenience wrapped up nicely in an unconvincing action sequence featuring monstrous Rathtars. None of it felt like Star Wars. And yet, it’s still Han Solo and Chewbacca back in action… extremely limited action. Or the moment you realize the movie is going to feature yet another variation on the Death Star. At that moment, my eyes rolled so hard I could see my brain—and it wasn’t happy. Another Death Star? Seriously?

Anghus penned a number of controversial posts on my website back in the early 2000s. He knows how to evoke emotions and be opinionated with purpose–making a good point almost always.

While I did not award STAR WARS the movie of the year on my site for 2015, it did rank up.

And now reading this Flickering Myth column I’m wondering if the movie is just rank.

That cringe worthy scene? The first time we see Hans Solo? I felt it too. I felt that ‘force’ of wincing at the screen.. 

Time will certainly tell if the movie rates with some of the early STAR WARS films. Needless to say, it already rates stunningly higher than the PHANTOM MENACE.

New company claims they'll be able to RESURRECT THE DEAD by the year 2045!! ENTREPRENEUR Josh Bocanegra says his new company Humai area aiming to bring the dead back to life

The new company are aiming to “extend and enhance life" by freezing human brains for extended periods of time using cryonics, a deep freezing technology using very low temperatures, and then putting them into artificial bodies.
But Josh claims the company’s ultimate goal is to preserve a human brain BEFORE a person dies.

New company claims they'll be able to RESURRECT THE DEAD by the year 2045!! ENTREPRENEUR Josh Bocanegra says his new company Humai area aiming to bring the dead back to life

Saudi Arabia executes 47, including prominent Shiite cleric

Saudi Arabia executes 47, including prominent Shiite cleric

Hope for Alzheimer's sufferers as first vaccine is tested on humans

Hope for Alzheimer's sufferers as first vaccine is tested on humans

The annuity value of Saturday night's Powerball jackpot is worth $334 million

Play it.. More than once. 
But accept the consequences of a win should you be chosen by fate.

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A guy recording an internal tree fire in Defiance, OH.. And he fell twice in the mud.

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Kim Jong Un is threatening a war in 2016

He really is.

One of these years he’ll do it.

In the mean time, sit back and enjoy some parody pictures of this very real image:

See them all here.

Trying something new

Chatzy has been around for some time now.. I created a room on there and will utilize it from time to time. I am going to call it something. Just haven’t thought of the name yet.. A place to go and sulk, perhaps exchange some goodness or positive commentary.. maybe lament a day. Perhaps give good tidings or paraphrase contempt for society.. You pick the purpose.

Nonetheless the room exists here: http://www.chatzy.com/64563083013868

I will, from time to time, be live in there.. Stop by, stop in.. leave a message.. If not it will be stagnant. And disappear. Like Geocities.

Let’s not make this a Geocities chat room, okay?

The room name for now: The Sorrowful Passion

‘It’s like managing a boyband!’ Cat owner spends five hours a day running a Facebook page for her 'Magnificent 7’ pets that have attracted over a million followers and two modelling contracts

Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, New York, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont and West Virginia all get Minimum Wage increases today

Watchful eye on January 11-13 time frame.. This storm will make Christmas Day’s 70 degrees be a distant memory if it holds.. it would be pretty significant and pretty snowy in places that haven’t seen snow yet this winter..

AND there is still a chance all of this will just end up being plain old boring rain.  Either way, a storm is brewing.

By now you may have heard of this.. it’s gruesome. The image you are seeing shows blood pouring down an elevator shaft after an electrician was killed.. it was filmed by shocked vacation goers who thought they were suddenly in the movie THE SHINING..

More here..

Matt Davis called it a “real life scene (from) ‘The Shining’” when he and his family walked by an elevator with blood pouring from the top, WFTX reports. The elevator was also struggling to open and close with cruise officials trying to steer people away from the scene.

According to Davis, he was told by a waiter that an electrician on the ship got hurt with a Carnival cruise supervisor telling him that the man passed away. “A crew member or somebody was inside or behind that wall when the elevator came down, and I don’t know what happened, but something terrifying happened,” Davis said.

Police said the man was Jose Sandoval Opazo, 66, who was an electrician aboard the ship. WFTX reports Carnival has not commented on the incident, but offered to pay for three counseling sessions for the Opazo family

A vacation from hell indeed.. and a horribly tragic way for the cruise ship worker to meet a demise.. A horrid story all around..

NATALIE COLE DEAD AT 65..
The year begins with an RIP..

MORE..

Pretty sure this is a yearly tradition now for British press.. this, in photography, is how the drunkest of the drunkest heralded in New Years 2016 across the pond. Learn from the images presented. And for the UK TELEGRAPH, get as many hits as you can since Drudge and others have now linked you up.

Pretty sure what we are seeing here is not just alcophol.. but other …things.. too. May God bless humanity.