2017 picking up where 16 left off..
Miguel Ferrer, ‘NCIS: Los Angeles’ Actor, Dies at 61
Miguel Ferrer, the character and voice actor who appeared in shows including “NCIS: Los Angeles” and “Crossing Jordan,” and films such as “RoboCop” and “Iron Man 3,” died on Thursday of throat cancer. He was 61.
Morning views .. in black and white. Color to be added by the day’s experiences, the moment’s joys, and the glimmers of tears that stream down an actor’s face. All the world’s a play. Your stage has been set. Now go steal the show!
‘The Apprentice’ out-takes allegedly show president-elect using the n-word..
The report are surfacing on Alex Jones’ INFOWARS.. the story is getting a ton of online traction tonight..
Let the week begin.
THE DREAM
In December 2016, wrestling legend Jimmy ‘Super Fly’ Snuka was put into hospice and given 6 months to live. This weekend, he succumbed to his fate..
Just weeks ago, he was ruled unfit to stand trial in the death of his girlfriend from the 1980s.
Snuka was charged with third-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter over the death of his girlfriend Nancy Argentino in 1983.
He was declared mentally incompetent at a hearing in June 2016 and was due to attend a hearing to re-evaluate his condition.
Nancy, 23, was taken to hospital gasping for air and oozing yellow liquid from her mouth on May 10, 1983, having spent the night in a hotel room with Snuka.
That is the sad legacy of the wrestling giant– he was famous in his prime.. He couldn’t stand trial to do his time.
And he is gone rot a greater judge and jury beyond the earthly realm today.
On Friday morning, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery did what it’s always done before the inauguration of a new president and revealed a portrait of the man in question. So the public did what it’s always done, and came to see it.
“Why is he tossing an apple?” asked a woman strolling through with two friends.
“Because it’s the Big Apple,” one friend replied.
The first woman said that she liked the inclusion of the apple. “I’m a dietitian, so that’s good.”
This artwork in question: not, alas, a surprise reappearance of the six-foot-tall painting that Donald Trump bought with his charity’s money and which then went AWOL (Have you seen it? Send tips!), but rather a 1989 studio photograph by the photographer Michael O’Brien. Trump, in a suit and tie, stands against a blue sky backdrop, an apple tossed from his hand hanging in midair.
The portrait is temporary. It will hang in its spot on the first floor until the end of February. It’s not an official presidential depiction — those aren’t commissioned until the end of a presidential term, and they join the official gallery upstairs only after the pol has left the White House.
“It’s very witty, and we think a good representation,” said David Ward, the museum’s chief historian who was on hand to answer questions about the artwork. “It’s simultaneously a respectful portrait, but it also references Rene Magritte.” (You have seen the Belgian surrealist’s most famous painting: man in suit and tie, blue-sky backdrop, apple covering his face). The portrait was already a part of the gallery’s collection before the election. “We know Trump liked it, because he used it as the cover of his second book.”
“Well, there he is,” a young woman said, pausing in front of the portrait and considering it with the discernment one gives to portraits of future leaders of the free world hanging in world-class art museums. “There he is,” she said again. “The future A-hole-in-chief.”
Late in the 1990s, on a cold night, I fondly recall being covered up with warm blankets.. the room was dark.. and a small AM radio was playing next to my bed. Long before iPods and phones, the age of dial up was just too slow.. The radio worked fine. The voice of Art Bell interviewing Father Malachi Martin billowed through the shadows… They chatted about the ‘perfect’ possession.. Bell bragged that Martin told him of the TRUE secrets of Fatima.. it was all given to us like a novel, like a perfect novel. About perfect possession.
Father Malachi Martin was a very real Jesuit priest. He passed away just before the turn of the century.. His mark was made on the paranormal world thanks to Coast to Coast AM at that time, and other media outlets that broadcast his story ..
Martin’s fame was given a higher credibility after his numerous appearances with Bell. But his story did not end with the radio show appearances.
Father Martin is well known in the exorcism community as being a major player — he often even said he could spot possessed persons as he walked the streets of his home town of New York City..
He was involved in a number of exorcisms.. He battled demons, he said. And now thanks to a new Netflix documentary hitting this weekend, others will say he claim he battled demons as well..
The new feature length documentary HOSTAGE TO THE DEVIL will feature some stunning claims .. such as this: That after an exorcism in 1999, and after a fall that later led to his death, Fr Martin told a friend that an invisible force had pushed him, leading to the head trauma…
Writer and producer Rachel Lysaght recalled how Fr Martin, from Ballylongford in Kerry, had his first encounter with exorcism while in Egypt working on a book, The Scribal of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The story will go on to showcase ACTUAL footage from exorcisms.. we are told that faces will be blurred to protect the possessed.
One amazing claim gaining a lot of traction today thanks to a link on the Drudge Report (Drudge was a listener to Art Bell back in the day as well, don’t forget) is this: The UK DAILY MAIL is blaring this: Catholic priest who inspired The Exorcist died from a fall after a ‘possessed’ child spoke to him and he was ‘pushed over by an invisible force’, CIA agent claim
Reporting from the MAIL as follows:
Ahead of the release of a new documentary, his close friend Robert Marrow has lifted the lid on the moment he believes the priest was effectively killed – when a possessed four-year-old girl he was meant to be exorcising spoke to him in America.
Talking to RTE Radio 1’s The Ryan Tubridy Show, the producer of the feature-length show called Hostage to the Devil Rachel Lysaght recalled a harrowing moment during filming.
Former CIA agent Mr Marrow retracted the steps to Connecticut where Father Martin had offered to carry out an exorcism on the four-year-old girl.
When he arrived at the neutral home, the family were already there, and the girl walked up to the priest and said: ‘So you’re Malachi Martin – and you think you can help her?’, suggesting she was talking while having an out-of-body experience.
It has been claimed that after the exchange in 1999, a fall led to his death from a head trauma at the age of 78.
He told a friend that it was caused by an invisible force that pushed him.
By this time, the father from County Kerry in South-Western Ireland was hiring himself out as a private exorcist and it is believed he was the inspiration behind the famous film released in 1973.
Due to Father Martin’s age, Mr Marrow drove him to his clients across America where he had relocated after turning his back on the church.
The former CIA agent told RTE the encounter between the priest and the girl was the most disturbing thing he had ever seen, according to Rachel Lysaght, who also wrote the new documentary.
There are times I have my doubts.. We all do. Faith in God is one thing. Faith in the devil– or at least the acknowledgment that one exists– seems more difficult. But Father Martin had no doubts. He was aware perhaps of things that none of us want to be.. that none of us are able to be.. that very few of us would ever believe if we saw.
If the stories presented are to be considered true, then the real mysteries of the paranormal and bizarre are even deeper and more foreboding than anything we know.
I plan on watching this documentary and contemplating the meaning..
A LOT of inside jokes on this picture that virtually no one except about 50 people who graduated from a school in East Central Pennsylvania in 1999 would understand..
These were the days.
Having a nostalgia filled Sunday morning.
And nostalgia is the thing I crave least.. the emotion I want to dissuade from occurring the most. And the brain warp that happens way too often as I see hours slip through my fingers like the sands of time.
I am late to the game, I know. .but I downloaded the game HELLO NEIGHBOR today .. Attempting to play the best I can. My son Ayden is much better since he watched the ANNOYING ORANGE videos of it long before I even knew of it..
Happy playing.
