I don't mind saying this aloud at all:Any so-called "legislator" who votes on a bill WITHOUT READING THE FRICKIN' THING needs to be dragged out into the street and sh...
Friday, June 26, 2009
New short film: PAYMENT
My friend Todd Williard is participating in this year's 48 Hour Film Project (something that I've wanted to take part in for the past four years but stuff keeps coming up... maybe next year :-). Anyhoo, Todd and his crew based out of Greensboro, North Carolina came up with the following brilliant short film called Payment. Check it o...
Thursday, June 25, 2009
MTV's DJ & THE FRO ran my school board commercial tonight!
(I just wish that it didn't have to be followed up immediately by MTV running all of Michael Jackson's classic music videos...)As several folks have written in about: Tonight's episode of MTV's new show DJ & The Fro, titled "Birds", featured a good-natured mocking of my "Star Wars"-inspired campaign commercial for Rockingham County Board of Education in 2006.In the episode...
Ark of the Covenant to be revealed tomorrow, sez Ethiopian patriarch
Abuna Pauolos, patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia, has announced that tomorrow will finally see the revealing of the biblical Ark of the Covenant, which his church is said to have guarded for centuries.According to those who adhere to the legend, King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba had a son named Menelik I, who eventually came to Jerusalem as a young man and spirited...
Death by Twitter
A seventeen-year old girl is dead after being electrocuted in her bathroom in a freak accident while plugging in a laptop computer that she was using to Twitter.Maria Barbu of Brasov, Romania was found by her parents laying next to the laptop, and police think she "may have tried to plug in the computer's mains power lead with wet hands after the battery ran down during a long Twitter session".Here's what I have to ask in case no one else has: why...
Iranian government using THE LORD OF THE RINGS to stifle protests
In one of the more bizarre stories to come out of Iran in the past week or so, it's being reported that the country's state-run Channel Two is running a marathon of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, intending to keep protesters off of Tehran's streets and watching the adventures of Frodo and Sam instead. The average citizens of Iran are quite fond of movies from...
Farrah Fawcett has passed away
This is, sadly, the only occasion I will likely ever have for posting this classic image...Farrah Fawcett has died at age 62, succumbing to a cancer which she had valiantly fought against for so very long.First it was Ed McMahon who was taken from us earlier this week, now Farrah Fawcett. Once again, we seem to be losing our legends at a harsh ra...
"What the heck am I gonna do with this?!"
That was the question I was asking everyone late on Tuesday night at the Palladium in High Point when we were there to see Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The crew from 107.5 WKZL FM was there giving out prizes during a Transformers trivia contest. Phillip and Matt and I were sitting up around the top rows of the theater and one of the 107.5 guys asked "What does Barricade...
Review of TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN
I'm going to say that I immensely enjoyed Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen despite a lot of problems possessed by this movie.I saw it at midnight on Wednesday night (meaning the wee hours of yesterday morning) along with fellow bloggers Phillip Arthur and Matthew Federico. And I am compelled to echo the sentiments that just about every reviewer on the planet is saying...
"Weird Al" Yankovic channels Jim Morrison in "Craigslist"!
It came out last week and I haven't been able to post about it 'cuz I've been out of town since then (maybe it's time to finally get a laptop?) but "Weird Al" Yankovic has done it again. His latest release "Craigslist" is about the (in)famous classified ads website, done in the style of Jim Morrison and The Doors. It is hilarious and Al even got Ray Manzarek to do the keyboards...
Monday, June 15, 2009
Twitter making Internet news finally come into its own right now in Iran
Twenty years ago this month, the broadcast of the crackdown on the pro-democracy protesters in Beijing by the Chinese government was widely hailed as the moment that international television news coverage like that of CNN became a serious factor at long last.That was CNN in 1989.In 2009 it is Twitter, of all things, that is marking the end of television's dominance of the news.Here's the Twitter feed for most of the "tweets" about what's going down...
Radioactive wasp nests plague dump site
Sounds like a Fifties B-movie, or maybe the genesis of a new Spider-Man villain: the country's most contaminated nuclear waste site has provided building material for swarms of wasps building their nests and now the nests themselves are loaded with radioactive isotopes of cesium and cobalt. The Hanford nuclear reservation near Yakima, Washington is currently being cleaned up and workers are having to deal with the nests, which fortunately have already...
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Army mecha-nic builds real exoskeleton
Carlos Owens is a mechanic in the United States Army living in Wasilla, Alaska. Five years ago and working without any blueprints, he started laboring on a real-life mechanical exoskeleton much like what we've seen in Aliens, BattleTech and a lot of other science fiction. Four years and $25,000 later, you can see his finished product on the right. It can raise its arms,...
I'm pretty sure ABC/Disney won't like this
At this moment, Johnny Robertson of the local cult calling itself the "Church of Christ" (which has nothing to do with the real Churches of Christ) is broadcasting an entire story from ABC's Nightline about real estate scamming in Martinsville, Virginia as part of his What Does The Bible Say? (or as I call it The Martinsville Taliban Show) on WGSR Star 47.So let's look at the first part of the Walt Disney Internet Group's Terms of Use, with emphasis...
First pics of Chad and Koren's wedding!
Ashton Hobbs is posting a wazoo-load of photos on Flickr of Chad and Koren's wedding yesterday. Click here for the "Chad Austin Wedding" set.Great work Ashton ...
Iranian irony
I find it a sad commentary that many Americans are watching the people of Iran rejecting the farce of that country's elections a few days ago......when we ourselves for the most part are all too accepting of how managed and controlled our own nation's elections are.Could we ever take to the streets and demand real freedom to choose a destiny apart from that which the two-party...
