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Monday, August 30, 2010
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The 5 Minute Show Episode 18 for May 1, 2006! SiSi discusses the challenges facing the Catholic Church with Sister Mary I O'Bleary
In episode 18 of The 5 Minute Show, ThePete has been damned to Hell, so SiSi takes over, asking the hard questions of Sister Mary I. O’Bleary and the Catholic Church ;)
via tv.thepete.com
Watch this video! It's one of my favorites of all of the 5 Minute Shows we did. :) (The ending cracks me up.)
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Tonight's J-ntertainment (not the typical kaiju film): MATANGO: Attack of the Mushroom People
This is actually a pretty decent psychological thriller... with mushroom people.
What?@jaythepal @thepete and @siskita at the George Washington Bridge earlier today!
We shot another edition of "Jay and Kay in NYC" today. This time, we shot at the GWB.
It was a really beautiful day, as you can see.
We saw the classic Little Red Lighthouse in the shadow of the massive GWB!
Somebody needs to learn how to photobomb properly...
Much better:
More pics and a whole new ep of "Jay and Kay in NYC" coming soon!
Holy crap! Leonard Nimoy was in "THEM!" He was like 12, but he was in it!
OK, so he was actually 23 in the movie, but still, he's crazy young.
You can hardly blame them for casting him as the Vulcan--look at that huge ear!
His line read a few seconds later needed a bit of work, to be honest. But he was way better than Clint Eastwood in "Revenge of the Creature."
Friday, August 27, 2010
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Anyone know the difference between these two "Wall-E" Blu-Ray 2-disc sets? I mean, aside from price?
I saw these two DVDs at Best Buy yesterday. They're both Blu-Ray, 2-Disc sets, but aside from minor packaging differences and the fairly major $5 price difference, how are they different?
Check out the backside of these DVD sets. You don't even need to get closer than this to see the features are identical, too.
Sometimes corporations confuse me...
Monday, August 16, 2010
Ever wonder what happened to the original Flipper? Well, at least she didn’t end up in a tuna can… ;(
Ever wonder what happened to the original Flipper? Well, at least she didn’t end up in a tuna can… ;(
AMY GOODMAN: What happened to the dolphin that you named Cathy, that we knew as Flipper?
RIC O’BARRY: Cathy committed suicide a couple of days before Earth Day, which was April 22nd, 1970, the first Earth Day.
via democracynow.org
Hit up that DN link above to learn how Flipper committed suicide and also learn about a documentary exposing serious cruelty to dolphins in Japan (yes, I know, Japan isn’t perfect!). I usually don’t care one way or the other about movements to “save the whales” or whatever. I prefer to focus on “saving the humans” first and then the whales. However, these dolphins are pretty intelligent creatures and if it weren’t for humanity’s excessive ability to be cruel, they’d not be killed for their meat. This is also a good example of “the great economic war” we’re all fighting—capitalism and the free market taken to the nth degree. Where cruelty, exploitation and morals aren’t an issue.
Just make the most damn money you can…
Posted on Monday, August 16th at 5:21 PM.
via website666.com
So sad!
Sunday, August 08, 2010
5th/13th wedding anniversary pics with @siskita and I pt2
And of course, nothing says "Scottish food" like HAGGIS!!! It's actually quite tasty. We both had it tonight and we both recommend it!
On either side of the haggis is mashed potatoes (left) and mashed turnips (right). I've actually found a way to eat turnips that I kinda like! Go fig!
Proof we both ate haggis:
Oh and if you mock haggis you mock my people you racist bastard.
We finished the meal off with some scotch given to us on our wedding day by the woman who officiated the ceremony. It was bottled the day of, but was in the cask since 1995 (2 years before we started dating!). It still tastes good. (Not that I'm a fair judge.)
Finally, we stopped off at Pinkberry for some delicious frozen yogurt!
That's all the pics. But now, I'd like to leave you with one thought: imagine what a burp at this point in the evening would taste like.
Interesting to say the least! Good night and I'm full...5th/13th wedding anniversary pics with @siskita and I
Since we exchanged our vows in Scotland we knew we wanted to have our anniversary dinner in an authentic Scottish restaurant, so we went to Highlands down on 10th and Waverly.
The atmosphere there was very cozy and the waiter was nice, he gave us complimentary champagne since it was our anniversary. The last time I had champagne was five years ago in Scotland.
Here is Sierra looking beautiful next to a glass of champagne.
We started our dinner off by splitting a beef tartar appetizer.
It was pretty tasty!
More pics coming shortly...
Friday, August 06, 2010
Website666: 65 Years Ago, Today, One of the Most Efficient Killers to ever have existed was Let Loose on Hiroshima. Us
I posted this over on Website666 earlier today, but I think it needs to be seen by folks who don't follow my contrarian views:
65 Years Ago, Today, One of the Most Efficient Killers to ever have existed was Let Loose on Hiroshima. Us.
Many people on the street were killed almost instantly. The fingertips of those dead bodies caught fire and the fire gradually spread over their entire bodies from their fingers.
A light gray liquid dripped down their hands, scorching their fingers. I, I was so shocked to know that fingers and bodies could be burned and deformed like that. I just couldn’t believe it. It was horrible. And looking at it, it was more than painful for me to think how the fingers were burned, hands and fingers that would hold babies or turn pages, they just, they just burned away.
via gizmodo.com
Those words came from a post on Gizmodo today quoting Akiko Takakura. She was 20 years-old when she miraculously survived, just 300 feet, from where the atom bomb over Hiroshima detonated, 65 years ago, today. Read the rest of Takakura-san’s account and the accounts of other witnesses/survivors at Voice of Hibakusha (hibakusha=atomic bomb survivors).
To anyone who still maintains this action was justified, I simply say this:
With a single act, more than 50,000 people were wiped out. By the end of that year, an estimated 150,000 people had died from the bomb’s effects.
Did we need to become such efficient killers? Or could we have ended the war another way, without staining our hands with the blood of 150,000?
This isn’t about whether “they deserved it” or not. It’s about what we made ourselves on that day. It’s about what we continue to make ourselves any time we wage war. Is anything we gain worth that kind of violence, pain, destruction and loss?
via website666.com
I feel like denying that last part is like denying any hope at all for humanity.
"Yes, we had to kill all those people--there was no other way to win the war!"
Well, if that level of violence is what humanity sometimes requires to stop the fighting, what about us is worthy of survival at all?
Thursday, August 05, 2010
Wednesday, August 04, 2010
Don't believe the hype: BP's magical disappearing oil not really disappeared...
So, the AP reports on a, uh, report that says most of the oil in the BP Oil Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is gone. Meanwhile there's more than just Shep Smith from Fox News who thinks that's not the case. The below excerpt comes from DemocracyNow.org:
Environmental Activist Jerry Cope on "The Crime of the Century: What BP and US Government Don’t Want You to Know"
Environmental activist Jerry Cope has spent the last few weeks traveling along the Gulf Coast and experiencing firsthand the contamination in the air and water. In an article being published on Huffington Post, Cope argues that instead of celebrating the allegedly vanishing oil, we should be concerned about the disappearance of marine life in the Gulf. He describes the Gulf as a "kill zone" and looks into where the marine animals have gone, given that BP has reported a relatively low number of dead animals from the spill. [includes rush transcript]
Antonia Juhasz: BP’s "Missing Oil" Washes Up in St. Mary’s Parish, LA
We speak with independent journalist Antonia Juhasz, who is just back from Louisiana, where she found what she calls some of BP’s "missing oil" on the wetlands and beaches along the waterways near St. Mary’s Parish, where no one is booming, cleaning, skimming or watching. [includes rush transcript]
via democracynow.org
Sure, there are the odd exceptions, but your not going to get the whole story if you only get your news from mainstream sources. This is why you should check out DemocracyNow.org or just click on the links/pics above to read their coverage today.
I listen to DN almost every day (they don't broadcast on the weekends).
Oh yeah, and big surprise: what the USG and BP are telling us doesn't match up with logic or, it would seem, reality.
After the air around Ground Zero being "safe" and the bungled reaction to Katrina, should we expect anything else? I don't think so.
Monday, August 02, 2010
The 5 Minute Show ep 18 for 5/1/6! SiSi discusses the challenges facing the Catholic Church with Sister Mary I O'Bleary
The 5 Minute Show Episode 18 for May 1, 2006! SiSi discusses the challenges facing the Catholic Church with Sister Mary I O'Bleary
In episode 18 of The 5 Minute Show, ThePete has been damned to Hell, so SiSi takes over, asking the hard questions of Sister Mary I. O’Bleary and the Catholic Church.
via tv.thepete.com
Wackiness ensues, don't worry!
Sunday, August 01, 2010
Watching 1949's "The Third Man" on Netflix Instant Watch. Hopefully it will be better than "Inception" :\
Audio levels for this movie on netflix Instant Watch seriously suck though. Having to turn off the fan to hear it. :\
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