dinsdag 30 juni 2015

dinsdag 30 juni 2015 Midnight movie - MST3K: Cave Dwellers. I fall asleep during the film... except when the Mads exclaim with delight... We're Evil! EVIL! Up at 6:30. Read Seattle Times - The recovery gap: Seattle area’s economic expansion is favoring the wealthy.

News alert: GOV. CHRIS CHRISTIE RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT. A little breeze for my walk to work. Want to play in Denny Park. No play... Got to work. The numbers - SUGG ITEMS SOLD: 26. TOTAL CUSTOMERS: 185. ITEMS SOLD: 682. Back home.  Uff da!  A grueling 82.9°F in my apartment. Turn on RTBF International. It's hot in Brussels, too. Heat alert.

La chaleur me dérange

maandag 29 juni 2015

maandag 29 juni 2015 Hard to settle down. I swear... I don't drink coffee! Midnight movie - MST3K: Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster. Sleep for almost 5 hours. Watch France 24. All the talk is about the looming Greek debt default. HuffPo - MERKEL'S MAYHEM. I always enjoy a peek behind the scenes at the big names in Haute Couture. Menswear summer 2016: Time for experimentation and new elegance. Starring: Walter Van Beirendonck, Yusuke Takahashi, Barnabe Hardy, Mario-Luca Carlucci & Peter Strateas, Rick Owens, Amar’e Stoudmire, Serge Ibaka and Raf Simon.

Nice walk around First Hill. When I get over to East Pike, I remember a story in the news - Gay couple claims they were attacked by group on Capitol Hill. Another assault. These visitors from Olympia probably felt safe in Seattle, and they let their guard down.

Ah, KOMO News! Just drink your prune juice!

I love Futurama. And Farnsium. Ladies and gentlemen, Near-Death Wish.

zondag 28 juni 2015

zondag 28 juni 2015 Happy Pride Day! Restless. Hot apartment. Midnight movie - Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country.

Gorkon and Kirk. I've never trusted Klingons, and I never will. I can never forgive them for the death of my boy. Poor, David. Asleep for a couple hours. Watch KOMO News. Weekend Event Picks: Pride, Crafts, And Cars. Next - Star Trek: The Search For Spock. I just close my eyes and listen to the dialogue. Young Spock and David.

I want to join the party. Everyone's heading to 4th Ave for the parade. I'm going to work. I gets me that kids smoke. Not sexy, dude!

Relax at Tilikum Place for the KEXP Party. Chief Seattle loves it! The city seems very peaceful when I head home. Where is everyone?

zaterdag 27 juni 2015

zaterdag 27 juni 2015 Up at 7:10. Turn on KEXP. They say... 

Congratulations & Happy Pride! KEXP wishes all of our friends, listeners and everyone across the country a happy Pride weekend. Congratulations to everyone on a landmark decision in favor of love.

I want to join them in their Pride Party at Tilikum Place Park. Music kicks off at 10:00AM with DJ El Toro.

It's already 77° in my apartment. Keep cool and watch Ice Planet.

Now it's 90.4° outside. 84.8° in my apartment. Trying to keep cool. Watch movie - The Sword and the Sorcerer.

vrijdag 26 juni 2015

vrijdag 26 juni 2015 Up at 2:22. Watch France 24. Terror attack on French factory. Decapitation. Explosions. Turn on KUOW. Good news, everyone! Gay Marriage Is Legal Across America, Supreme Court Says

Interesting comment.

Pathetic that the Court had to make this decision. An entire Senate and Congress...sitting on their hands and passing this off like cowards. These representatives are elected and are supposed to speak for the people. That didn't happen today. Every Senator and every Congress person should be issuing an apology today...

Week in Review broadcasting live from Northgate Community Center at 10 a.m. Guests are former mayor Mike McGinn and regulars Joni Balter and Chris Vance. It's already 75° (with only 46% humidity) this morning. Up to B'way before it gets too warm. I Am Capitol Hill.

I feel so lucky to be back in time to hear President Obama at the AME Church in Charleston, SC. Amazing Grace.

It's getting hot. Please, go down, Sun. My Three Suns.

Watch Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan. KHAN!

donderdag 25 juni 2015

donderdag 25 juni 2015 Up at 4:59. Decent night's sleep. Watch KING-5. Sound Transit releases its first video of full-speed testing of the ULink. Under Capitol Hill at 55 MPH. Obama Heckled at White House LGBT Pride Event. Switch to KOMO News. This is something that I dread. Heat watch is on! Temperatures set to soar into the 90s this weekend.

Up to work to help open the store. Business is steady. Lots of tourists. Practice my French with a couple. Ça me fait doucement sourire. Take my lunch break at KOMO Plaza... the home of KOMO News. In a quaint shady place with flowers and trees...

Overhead - the satellite dishes and the Space Needle.

It's 86° and the sun is beating down on us. Stop by Whole Foods and try something new - Bo Kho Beef. (I don't want to cook at home.) Space News - Dwarf planet Ceres reveals pyramid-shaped mystery. Cool, cool space... for The Outer Limits - Second Chance.

I Want To Get Away... I want to fly away.

woensdag 24 juni 2015

woensdag 24 juni 2015 Up at 3:45. Laundry. Watch KOMO News. On this day - 68 years ago - private pilot Kenneth Arnold claimed that he saw a string of nine, shiny flying saucers moving past Mount Rainier at speeds estimated at a minimum of 1,200 MPH.

Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting. It’s credited as the first modern UFO sighting and the origin of America’s obsession with flying saucers. Even TIME posts this tagged under bizarre history - This Is Why People Think UFOs Look Like ‘Flying Saucers’. Walk down to Uwajimaya to pick up a few things... and a bottle of Hakutsuru sake. It's the start of the Aomori food fair. It's 71° and a little cloudy on my way home. A dragonfly chases me through Freeway Park.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch because I heard The Origin Of Love on KEXP. Pike Place Market breaks ground for expansion.

dinsdag 23 juni 2015

dinsdag 23 juni 2015 Midnight movie - MST3K: Daddy-O. A hip, cool singer gets beaten by a girl in a race, and after licking his wounds, they team up to solve a groovy mystery involving ghost gym trainers. The Mads get creepy in the Invention Exchange where they display their Alien Teething Nook. Yikes!

Up at 6:12. Watch France 24. They seem hopeful. Near the iconic Eiffel Tour... Paris officially launches 2024 Olympic games bid.

Rainbow crosswalks are newest symbol of Seattle Pride Week. On my way up to Trader Joe's, I cross at E. Pike and 10th. Take a photo before it gets defaced.

Relax with a nice warm bath. Watch Star Trek TNG: The Loss.

Counselor Troi loses her empathic powers; the Enterprise is slowly pulled off course by an unknown force existing in two-dimensional form into a deadly cosmic string. Go to work.

maandag 22 juni 2015

maandag 22 juni 2015 Up at 4:58. Watch France 24. Thousands of people joined members of the Emanuel AME Church Sunday night in a unity march - the Bridge to Peace.

It's a cool 55° and cloudy on my way to work. Some out-takes. Listen to BBC News on my break. Debate - Confederate flag: Do South Carolinians want it removed? A nice 75° and sunny for my walk home. Perfect. Comedy, please. Am I sure to want to meet ancient relatives? Watch History Of The World, Part 1.

Just a little moment from history. Take me there! At last, Star Trek TNG: Suddenly Human.

zondag 21 juni 2015

zondag 21 juni 2015 Too warm. Too cold. Restless. Midnight movie - MST3K: The Wild World Of Batwoman. France 24 - Millions adopt complex postures to mark Yoga Day. Thousands of people dressed in white sat on yellow mats under the Eiffel Tower, and similar events were held in Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Seoul, Beijing, Manila and other places.

LIVE: Sunday church service at the Mother Emanuel AME Church in downtown Charleston, S.C. Doors open to all. It's 87°. People fan themselves. Console each other.

'Let Us Not Grow Weary': Church Opens Doors After Massacre. Up to work. I love when people flash their Canadian money at me. Pretty!

Listen to the TED Radio Hour during my break. I love the conversation about the physics of time. Does time exist at the quantum level? I can eat this stuff up. Sean Carroll: Why Does Time Exist? And Rick Steves escorts me home. I only listen to the tour of Norway. Home. Watch Star Trek TNG - The Best Of Both Worlds.

zaterdag 20 juni 2015

zaterdag 20 juni 2015 Up at 1:24 AM. Currently 59°F Restless. Check the weather. Our 16 day dry streak ended today with a little 0.02" in the gauge overnight. Rainless in Seattle. Unreal.

Watch movie - Nightcrawler. Set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles, Jake Gyllenhaal plays a creepy young man, Lou Bloom. Disturbing, restless, visually sleek, dark, thought-provoking thrills.

Next - The Outer Limits: The Premonition. Some nice people get trapped in a time warp and meet the Limbo Being.

The legend of the Gordian Knot, a knot so intricate and convoluted that no man could untie it. For there are problems so perplexing that they are seemingly impossible to solve, when Man ventures to the outer limits of his experience...

It's still dark when I fall back to sleep for a couple hours. Up again in time for Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me. I learn about the Japanese Noodle Jacuzzi in Hakone, Japan. That was a grueling 2h 45s of Transformers: Age of Extinction. The battle in Hong Kong... Are there enough skyscrapers to destroy?

vrijdag 19 juni 2015

vrijdag 19 juni 2015 Up at 4:54. Watch KING 5 News to see what going on at Chambers Bay. It's a challenge for the golfers of the U. S. Open. What's The Deal With The Grass? Turn on Stephanie Miller. Today's show seems rather heavy. We are all mourning the deaths of the shootings in Charlotte. Steph talks with Tina Dupuy about this and Rachel Dolezal. "What is going on in this country?" Steph asks. Up to work to open the store. Put out the newspapers. Seattle Times - New York Times - Wall Street Journal and one little USA Today...

Affidavits spell out chilling case against Dylann Roof. Busy day. 8 hours zip by at work. Home. Chat with mom about dad. Catch up with Rachel Maddow. She looks at the number of times President Obama has had to address the nation in the wake of a horrible mass killing and the many layers of context that make these tragedies unique to the United States among all modern, developed countries. Americans again left to make sense of horrible tragedy.

Thank you, Rachel. We will remember Clementa C. Pinckney.

donderdag 18 juni 2015

donderdag 18 juni 2015 Up at 4:14. Watch France 24. It's the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. The day that decided the fate of Napoleon. Unfortunately, the top story is again... USA, shootings, hate crime - Nine killed in South Carolina church ‘hate crime’.

Turn on Stephanie Miller. She pounces on stupid Steve Doocy. Charleston Shooting Part of ‘War on Christians’ No, it's a hate crime. President Obama addresses this violence - Church Shooting 'Raises Questions About a Dark Part of Our History' Short walk about Pike Street. Play with YouTube. A cool. I LOVE THIS! I could make you all go away! Any time I want to! With Dylann Roof captured and under arrest, it seems appropriate to watch Charlie X. Both are young men with destructive tendencies.

Relax with some old Star Trek. Using their allure, Mudd's Women learn about the miners of Rigel XII; there are three of them, one for each woman. The mystery of the women deepens when Ruth sets off an alert on McCoy's scanner. McCoy wonders whether they're actually as beautiful as they seem, or whether there's something else...

Flashback to 1994. Kamen and I at Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens in Akron, Ohio. We were Sci-Fi buddies.

From my diary -- Up early. Took car to ?? Rick and Larry take us to car show in Akron. Visit LSS. Brian said that I start job @ June 28th 6:30 PM. Kamen and I celebrate. Allen makes hamburger at LSS. Watch Star Trek. Ate Chinese. 93°

woensdag 17 juni 2015

woensdag 17 juni 2015 Up at 4:25. Watch KGO San Francisco News. GOLDEN! Dubs delirium seizes Oakland. Turn on Stephanie Miller. Billionaire businessman and reality television star Donald Trump announces his candidacy for President. They mock his speech. So, does Jon Stewart - Jon Stewart Thanks Trump for ‘Making My Last 6 Weeks My Best 6 Weeks’. Donald Trump’s First Speech Was Basically Filled With Lies. Go to work. Work. Back home. Finish Sense8. Just Turn The Wheel And The Future Changes. At last - I Can't Leave Her.

Post from EW - Sense8: Let's Talk About All Of Season 1

dinsdag 16 juni 2015

dinsdag 16 juni 2015 Up at 4:14. Watch Sense8 What Is Human?

Will and Jonas have a serious conversation. Definitions: What is Sensate and what is Human? Toward the end of the show, the 8 share their birth experiences. Quite touching. Good show! Switch to WABC News. Guess what! Donald Trump Announces He's Running For President in 2016.

Work day passes quickly. Thinking about the Cavaliers. Can they do it? The Warriors should put the finishing touches on their campaign. Warriors 105 - 97 Cavaliers.

maandag 15 juni 2015

maandag 15 juni 2015 Up at 2:30 AM. Continue Sense8. What Would Nancy Drew Do? And We Will All Be Judged by the Courage of Our Hearts. That was a crazy car chase... and bike chase.

I would watch more, but I want to pace myself. On KGO 7 News - Golden State Warriors Beat Cleveland Cavaliers 104-91 in Game 5. They lead the series 3 to 2.

Help open the store. Something wrong with debit and EBT cards for about 4 hours. Frustrations. Who's reading Little Big Man?... a tale that comments on alienation, identity, and perceptions of reality. It came from the box of books in the staff lounge. Home at 4:50. Watch Star Trek - Obsession. Captain Kirk orders phasers to fire on the smoke creature; however, the phaser attack is completely ineffectual. The phaser beams just pass right through it.

Next episode of Sense8 - Death Doesn't Let You Say Goodbye.

Oh my God! They play the song Mad World. That's tough.