Zsa Zsa Gabor dead at 99

A woman famous for being famous.. She has now left this earthly domain at 99..!

A really rough year for celebrity deaths continues .. the steady drumbeat doesn’t appear ready to end despite the end of the year coming ..

Found some early artwork.. circa 1996ish.

Found some early artwork.. circa 1996ish.

The wild West

This year started strange. Was weird in the middle.. and ending in the same style as it began.
Nothing predictable happened. No ordinary events … all big magnitude, big “yuge” style happenings littered the months of 2016.

And it ends as odd as it began.
With Kanye West to Trump Tower!

Let me first say, all politics aside, Donald Trump is a media genius. There are countless media organizations focused like a laser beam on the Trump tower elevators… Cameras pointed to catch every guest of honor or deplorable. Trump is eating up the attention.. Yesterday, big news took place in Aleppo, Syria. But the media instead was more concerned with West’s brief meeting with the President-Elect and post even briefer media presser..

Later on Twitter, West posted a #2024 and mentioned that he spoke to Trump about important issues, such as violence in Chicago.

And the media was shocked. Stunned faces as West appeared..and the Twitterverse went mad, angry people saying hateful things is a normal course of business on the social network.. but Trump’s daily actions ignite more passion than anything of recent memory.

If this 2016 cycle is any predictor of next year, 2017 is going to be as wild by the day as the latter half of our current calendar was..

The Trump show is a skilled media performance. It is not a circus, as some have deemed. Instead it is an intelligent and formalized media sucker punch each and every day. And they fall for it.

Every news network has tuned into Trump TV. His face is everywhere.. his actions are noted … at some point I expect his bowel movements to be live-streamed and for his colon to have a Twitter following.

Yes indeed. This year as shaped us up for a much different 2017 than many expected.

And some Kanye West sprinkled on top for good measure as this year slips and slides into oblivion just as quickly as it began…

Yet another tragic celebrity death.. 2016 has been...

Yet another tragic celebrity death.. 2016 has been unkind..

Alan Thicke shockingly passed away on Dec. 13 after suffering a heart attack while playing hockey with his 19-year-old son Carter. He was 69 years old and still working as an actor.

Don’t know if this is real or not but I love it!

Don’t know if this is real or not but I love it!

An angel gets its wings. Chewy to the top of the tree for...

An angel gets its wings. Chewy to the top of the tree for Christmas 16!

I see turtles. All the time. #tmnt

I see turtles. All the time. #tmnt

Trump to Tap Fast-Food Executive Andy Puzder for Labor Secretary - NBC News

Trump to Tap Fast-Food Executive Andy Puzder for Labor Secretary - NBC News:

He has flirted with the idea of replacing some fast-food employees with robots to combat rising minimum wages.

In March, he told Business Insider: “They’re always polite, they always upsell, they never take a vacation, they never show up late, there’s never a slip-and-fall, or an age, sex, or race discrimination case.”

He has also fiercely defended controversial ads for Carl’s Jr. that have featured women in bikinis eating burgers in a suggestive manner.

“I like our ads. I like beautiful women eating burgers in bikinis. I think it’s very American,” Puzder told Entrepreneur last year. “I used to hear, brands take on the personality of the CEO. And I rarely thought that was true, but I think this one, in this case, it kind of did take on my personality.”

Donald Trump will remain EP on 'Celebrity Apprentice'

Donald Trump will remain EP on 'Celebrity Apprentice':

Donald Trump will remain as an executive producer on NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice,” even while serving as president of the United States.
That agreement, first reported by Variety and confirmed by sources at NBC and the Trump campaign, means the president will have an interest in a show aired by a media company that also reports on his presidency – a major conflict of interest for the network.

Okay.. well…alright then..

John Glenn dead at 95

John Glenn dead at 95

They picked the Donald

They picked the Donald

CUE THE SONG! I'mmmmm dreaminnnggg of a...

CUE THE SONG!
I'mmmmm dreaminnnggg of a white…Christmas.

But with days go before this scenario plays out, models will be all over the board.

Stay tuned.

Four New Names Officially Added to the Periodic Table of Elements

Four New Names Officially Added to the Periodic Table of Elements :

A few more to memorize.

Why 2016 was one of the greatest years for horror movies ever -- the link goes to the BUSINESS INSIDER. My thougts below..

Why 2016 was one of the greatest years for horror movies ever -- the link goes to the BUSINESS INSIDER. My thougts below..:

THE WITCH.
THE CONJURING 2
DON’T BREATH…
So many others.. (And I would even couple some movies from 2015 into this category because they were ahead of their time, films like BABADOOK and IT FOLLOWS) ..

This was the year for horror. So many people analyzing such things are attempting to figure out why.. I can tell you why. There has been a generational shift.. and with it, a newfound burst of creativity and not movies that rely on just the typical and stale forms of scaring people. We had movies this year that dug deep–emotional films with a gritty sense of reality.. and a self-awareness that it was all, thankfully, just fiction.
Maybe.
You hope.

That is why horror works WHEN it works. When horror does what it is supposed to do, you are scared and have a reason to be scared… you are trapped in the emotional roller coaster along with the main character.. and in the end, the release from the films comes with the self-realizaiton your mind has that you WERE NOT the one in danger. Someone else was. Your brain that release the energy and calm down by closing credits.

There were lots of those very films this year.. and it was a scary year.
Don’t think for a second that the reality around you does not play in.. This election was divisive and unkind, sometimes crude, rude, and even scary. Pop culture can be scary. Reality can be scary. That is why horror, again WHEN it works, works well. Because in the end horror is fiction .. horror is just a few hours on a big screen in front of us .. for even the gory films, horror is an escape from the true gore of life. The reality of reality is that it’s plain out dangerous and scary. Your brain often is looking, constantly, for ways to keep your body to surive. At least you know by the end of a film that you did survive.

And quite frankly, this year, movies were better than other years. It all just worked well, it flowed perfectly.. the box office release schedule also seemed to favor horror. The summer–for some weird reason–always works better for horror than the autumn. Especially August and early September. No different this year.

But this year we were delivered classic films instead of rubbish that would have been better going ‘straight to video.’

So thanks, Hollywood, for a change. It was a fun scary year. Here’s hoping that it was not fluke, and that it continues in 17.

Hold on to 16 as long as you can. Changes come around real soon make us demons and men.

Rise of the robot music industry

Rise of the robot music industry:

Robots everywhere..
This article is a little freaky to me.. someone who enjoys music created by someone with a heart, a soul.. a brain.

But now I am equally curious.. have I enjoyed music, possibly, that has been created by robots!?

Trump’s Phone Call With Taiwan President Sparks China Complaint

Trump’s Phone Call With Taiwan President Sparks China Complaint :

You just get the feeling.. we are in for a wild few years ..

Joe McNight killed in road rage incident outside of New...

Joe McNight killed in road rage incident outside of New Orleans..

Donald Trump celebrating the Carrier decision to retreat on...

Donald Trump celebrating the Carrier decision to retreat on sending over 1000 jobs to Mexico … Now the president-elect is issuing a threat to anyone else who is thinking about leaving..

Christmas. Begins. Tonight. Charlie Brown on ABC at...

Christmas. Begins. Tonight.

Charlie Brown on ABC at 8pm..

Brown is a hero for our time..

This is a picture of a Bible passage found in the rubble of the...

This is a picture of a Bible passage found in the rubble of the Gatlinburg fires by a Dollywood employee..

The fires are terrible. I recently spoke to someone who was in Gatlinburg and reported how horrid the situation on the ground has become..

Dollywood is in the crosshairs.. the intense raging fires have damaged beautiful areas of Earth.

But this Bible passage, one about fires damaging , is both poignant and chilling… humbling and heartwarming…