The Governor! Review of this week's THE WALKING DEAD

Does this guy have the most gruesome man-cave ever, or what?"Walk With Me", last night's episode of AMC's smash series The Walking Dead, at long last brought us the much-anticipated appearance of The Governor: a character voted a few years ago as one of the greatest villains in comic book history.Okay, so David Morrisey doesn't resemble his graphic novel incarnation that much....

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This is the pastor of the church I'm going to

Meet "Hobo Joe"!That's the pastor of the church I've been going to, in his clown/hobo getup at the beginning of yesterday's worship service. I forget what "H.O.B.O" is an acronym for but it's something to do with kicking off the annual general fund drive.Joe is quite a cool fella! Incidentally, I offered him the use of my Jedi Knight costume if he ever wanted to use it....

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You know who you are!

I'm gonna say something here and I don't care who reads it or what the hell they're gonna think of me...ANY man who throws away a beautiful wife and some of the most amazing children that I have ever seen God bless ANYONE with, who mistreats the woman that he had been married to for so long, is a TOTAL BASTARD.I admit that my bout with bipolar made me make life a living hell for those closest to me, especially my former wife and I'll always regret...

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Two small musings on politics

Voting in America has devolved into middle-school immaturity: dominated by petty cliques, peer pressure and lots of masturbation (figuratively, thank goodness...).Allow me to remark that I know lots of real middle-schoolers, mostly from community theater... and they ALL act more mature than the voting adults are right now!Then I have to observe that the vast majority of political news, indeed news that passes for "top stories" among the television/print/major...

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North Korean army official executed... by mortar round

"Yup, he blowed up real good!!" A vice-minister of the North Korean military has been put to death for "drinking and carousing" during the official mourning for that country's late despot Kim Jong-il.And to emphasize the point, the poor dude was executed by mortar fire... Kim Chol, vice minister of the army, was taken into custody earlier this year on the orders of Kim Jong-un,...

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Brilliant essays by Chuck Baldwin: Christian warmongers and American comfort

Chuck Baldwin, Christian writer and thinker extraordinaire, is always a treat to read. But his two most recent columns, I found to be especially illuminating.First there is this one from last week: "They Prefer Caviar, Even If It Comes With Chains", in which Baldwin articulates why too many Americans... including far too many American Christians... have given up the risks of liberty for the comfort of security and in doing so have ended up as slaves....

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NYPD cop arrested for plot to kidnap, cook, and eat women

Read all the unsavory details here.I suppose they were all out of donuts at the local shop, h...

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TSA removing cancer machines? Really?

I haven't heard Mitt Romney say a single nary thing about eliminating the Department of Homeland Security and completely scrapping the Transportation Security Administration. That he hasn't and apparently approves of those governmental monstrosities is just one more reason why the Romney/Ryan ticket won't get my vote next month. Neither will Obama/Biden, but that's a post...

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By Crom! Schwarzenegger making a new Conan movie!

(And just to be clear, Ah-nuldt is not playing Conan O'Brien.) Personally, I think this is ten years too late. Wanna know why? Because sometime before 9/11 happened there was serious work afoot to make a true sequel to 1982's Conan the Barbarian: one that would forget that Conan the Destroyer ever happened. King Conan: Crown of Iron had a script written by John Milius...

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Well...

...that was a crazy past 72 or so hours!!Got a lot accomplished though. More than I've been able to do in a long long time.So I remembered that I have a blog. Guess I should post some stuff and try to get caught up, h...

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Finally watched this week's THE WALKING DEAD...

...and it would be "Sick" even if that wasn't the episode title.This week's episode focused solely on Rick's group at the prison, and picked right up from the end of last week: with Hershel's severed leg bleeding-out and the Rick's posse finding a small group of still-living inmates.That was plenty enough to launch a solid hour of some of the most intense and gruesome television I've ever witnessed. We got a lot in "Sick": an idea of how long it's...

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Antoni Dobrowolski, the oldest survivor of Auschwitz, has passed away

During my lifetime, I have met six survivors of the Nazi concentration camps. Each of them Jewish. Some were at Treblinka. Some at Bergen-Belsen. Some at Auschwitz.Hearing only them tell his or her story would remain as one of the most humbling and heartbreaking and in the end most inspirational tale of human hope that I have ever listened to. To hear the tales of six...

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Off doing filmmaking!

Come back Monday. I promise I won't be too inflammatory. May...

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It's funny because it's true

I am NOT an uncommitted voter. I've been committed 3 times...and I'm still not crazy enoughto vote for Obama or Romney!   (I don't mind at all laughing at my own mental illness. Especially if I can use it to laugh at the stuff that really deserves i...

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Reida Drum, classy lady extraordinaire, has passed away

How does one begin to describe Reida Drum?Nothing I could possibly write would ever come close to encapsulating her feisty nature, her high-minded priciples... and her personality resplendent with color and charm.(Reida once told me that she liked how I described her as "resplendent" in a blog post. She said that was one of her favorite words.)Reida was many things: an educator,...

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io9 features sci-fi inspired political ads. Take a wild guess which one made the list...

Behold the 8 Weirdest Real-Life Science Fiction Political Ads as assembled by popular geeky/techy website io9.And yes, that school board commercial of mine from 2006 is on the list.But check out this ad - also inspired by Star Wars - that West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin aired when he successfully ran for re-election two years ago...Hey, Manchin shot a TIE Fighter out of...

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New technology: 2TB optical storage, cardboard bicycles!

Two researchers at Case Western Reserve University have developed an optical storage system that can hold 1 to 2 terabytes of data on a disc the same size as a standard Blu-ray or DVD! That's equal to 50 Blu-ray discs. Whereas Blu-ray and DVD discs have always had up to two layers holding the data and the laser refocusing to transition from one to another (the reason why your DVD often pauses for a split second before resuming play) the researchers...

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