vrijdag 31 juli 2015

vrijdag 31 juli 2015 Up at 4:14. Watch France 24. Sometimes Calais sounds like Caly. The UK will not become a "safe haven" for migrants in Calais, David Cameron has warned. But his words have stirred some controversy in the media. French police stop over 1,000 migrants from reaching Channel Tunnel. Switch to KOMO News. Hmmm. May be you should just retire, Justin. Justin Bieber feeling depressed over music comeback.

It's such a busy day at work. Gorgeous sailors. More than 5,000 sailors will move into Seattle for Seafair's annual Fleet Week. Tourists from the cruise ships. Tourists in general. A couple a special people from KOMO News. A thrill for me! But it's so darn hot outside. People are sweating. July goes down as hottest month on record in Seattle. For those ignorant tourists from Texas who told me What The Global Warming? It was 71.1 degrees this morning. It is here and now. It's crazy to deny it anymore. Enjoy sunny Seattle before it burns up.

My undershirt is totally wet from sweat. It's 94° which breaks the record (again). I melt at home.

donderdag 30 juli 2015

donderdag 30 juli 2015 Home from work at 1:03. Watch MST3K: Hobgoblins. Ever feel like a cardboard person? Up at 6:40. Turn on Stephanie Miller. A police officer who killed a man in Cincinnati during a traffic stop has been indicted for murder, the Hamilton County prosecutor said today, noting, “This was the purposeful killing of another person.” The prosecutor called what sparked the shooting a “chicken-crap stop.” Lots of people call in to talk about this. Cincinnati cop pleads not guilty to murder.

Walk down to Target to get a few things... a cube of Riesling among other things. Walk through the Convention Center. The Microsoft people still can't smoke where they're supposed to. Home again. I can hear the Blue Angels screaming around Seattle while I'm trying to take a relaxing bath. They look like this. This makes news around the world. France 24.

woensdag 29 juli 2015

woensdag 29 juli 2015 Up at 7:10. Turn on Stephanie Miller. She interviews Michael Tomasky about the latest antics with Donald Trump. I like Michael's article - Air Conditioning: Threat or Menace? An Overheated Argument... while I live in one of the most un-air-conditioned cities in the USA. (Seattle)

Watch BoJack Horseman. BoJack is a contestant on Mr. Peanutbutter's new game show, facing off against a mystery 'bigger celebrity' contestant in Let's Find Out. Daniel Radcliffe?

Take a short walk around Freeway Park. TechReady 17 is meeting at the Convention Center. A lot of smokers at Microsoft. Is the conference about the new Windows 10? Get a Lotto at Clay's Market. Watch the horror-comedy film Horns before I go to work.

Actually, the story turns sad when the truth comes out.

dinsdag 28 juli 2015

dinsdag 28 juli 2015 Re-watch Heroes - Four Months Later... My favorite hero - Peter Petrelli.

Watch MST3K - Gorgo. It's like a Godzilla in Ireland. Play this for St. Patrick's Day. Filmed near the Aran Islands, off Ireland's west coast.

Sunrise 5:42am. No marine clouds this morning. Wind 0mph - Humidity 63% - Pressure 30.28" - Visibility 10mi. Someone at work asks me to define Downtown Seattle. Well, I Googled it. Here!

Home. Watch Ender's Game. Ender Wiggin is a special boy.

maandag 27 juli 2015

maandag 27 juli 2015 Up at 4:00. Watch France 24. Paris: From the city of lights.... to the city of trash? It seems like the Green Thing to do - volunteering to clean up the trash. Watch some KGO News. Nice views of San Francisco and the Bay Bridge just as the sun rises. The lamps of Market Street.

The weather is perfect for a little walk... 62° and mostly sunny. A slight marine breeze. Down to Pike Place Market. I want to get a Diet Dr. Pepper, but I just buy a Lotto.

Watch some Daily Show. Jon Stewart Destroys Donald Trump - ‘Our First Openly Asshole President' Rant-Man. Trumpenstein. Fun to make up names.

Exclusive - Ta-Nehisi Coates Extended Interview. Jon interviews author of Between the World and Me about racially charged police discrimination and the challenge of tackling systemic racism in America.

zondag 26 juli 2015

zondag 26 juli 2015 Good morning. Good sleep. Up at 7:02. I was expecting rain, but... nothing. Turn on KUOW for Weekend Edition Sunday. I love the audio stories and interviews. Author Austin Grossman tells his fictional version of President Richard Nixon - In This Twist On Tricky Dick's History, A President's Secrets Can Save Us. Personally, I love the retelling the events of the Watergate scandal. I was 15 - 16 when Watergate happened. Fun to flashback and watch Dick. I loved Bobby Sherman, too!

Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers... did something. I don't know what! Where are the cookies? Walk down to Uwajimaya. Busy. Busy. BUSY. Get some veggies, Yaki Soba noodles and Sho Chiku Bai. On my way out, the Mak Fai Washington Kung Fu Club Lion Dance Team bust into the store. They brush by me. The fur is very soft.

Walk back up Fourth Avenue. It's all clean. Nothing left from last night's parade. Another project... a 660-foot-tall skyscraper that is under construction in Seattle. It will consist of 44 floors and be completed in April 2017. It was designed by Zimmer Gunsul Frasca and is being developed by Daniels Real Estate. The Mark!

Rain! Let it Rain! I watch the dark clouds, and finally. It's raining. Buckets of rain at 6 o'clock. Second season of BoJack. I love it!

zaterdag 25 juli 2015

zaterdag 25 juli 2015 Up at 5:27. Strange dream about travelling with Rick Steves in Russia. I get lost. I can't find Rick, and I don't speak Russian. Watch France 24. President Obama Visits Kenya. Switch to KOMO News. Let's see if people will cooperate. Seattle police ask for phone diet during Saturday parade. Yay! Go, M's! Mariners show what they CAN be, defeat Toronto, 5-2M’s flash potential, smiles.

10m mixed synchro final, Kazan. Nikita Shleikher is a bit of alright.

2015 World Aquatics Championships. Next - Wait, Wait. I always have trouble with the limericks. Busy day at work. Lots of Canadians here to watch today's baseball game. They seem pretty happy. Mariners falter in 8-6 loss to Blue Jays . Denny Way is closed to traffic for the parade. People visit us for chips and drinks. Hurry up, or we'll miss the parade! I head home at 8:30PM. Check out the parade on TV. Recycling has its own float!

vrijdag 24 juli 2015

vrijdag 24 juli 2015 Up at 2:20AM. From the old disco days. I don't know why I woke up to this song. Back to Life. I'll figure it out later. Haunting. It's early in the morning. It's 62° outside but the apartment is still 73.4. (I want it down to 70.) Insomnia. Walk up the street in the cool darkness. Relief. Enjoy the fresh air.

Take a couple of naps in the morning. Watch KOMO News. Something new at IMAX - Living in the Age of Airplanes. KEXP is a lot of fun. Thank you! They play a bunch of Beastie Boys. Oh my 33% God! It's 66° and a little rainy. Oh rain, how I have missed thee! Walk up and down the Pike - Pine Corridor. An interesting new restaurant - La Cocina Oaxaqueña.

I can't believe Bill's Off Broadway will open again.

Watch MST3K: Devil Fish. Warning! An advanced Dolphin Battle Cruiser has just de-cloaked next to the Satellite Of Love! And the dolphins fire their super circular plasma beam radiance gun. Mike & the Bots learn that dolphins are smart … and + touchy!

donderdag 23 juli 2015

donderdag 23 juli 2015 It's 58° for a quiet walk home. Home by 1:04AM. Settle down with MST3K: The Screaming Skull.

I can't make past the second segment where the bots work through the trauma of having to watch Gumby mutilate robots by having their own clay figure show. I sleep until the 5AM alarm. I just want to stay in bed all day. Turn on Stephanie Miller.

Rick Perry Unloads on Donald Trump's 'Barking Carnival Act'. It is to laugh! I have just enough to make it through the day at work. Lucky to hear The Record during my break. Marcie Sillman talks to reporter Kathryn Schulz of the New Yorker about her article about Northwest earthquakes The Really Big One which sent shockwaves to my inner core.

The Earthquake That Probably Won't Devastate Seattle

Back to my place, I should watch The Core... Maybe later. Instead, I watch Iron Man 3. I like Tony's jig. It's Christmas in July again. Jingle Bells (Bombay Dub Orchestra Remix) Marvel's Iron Man 3.

At last, The Core. Why not?

woensdag 22 juli 2015

woensdag 22 juli 2015 Up at 1:08. I can smell cigarette smoke. (It's not me.) Watch MST3K: Quest Of The Delta Knights. A lovely 1993 fantasy/adventure sword and sorcery film. Pearl and Mike trade places. Weird. Maybe I can go back to sleep.

Sleep a little more. Watch WABC News at Noon (9 AM Pacific). Making progress - NEW YORK BOARD BACKS $15 MINIMUM WAGE HIKE FOR FAST-FOOD WORKERS . Catch up with MarkE Miller. I sympathize with the travel problems - FLYING IS YUCKY. But they get to Seattle and have fun! Wait until the end to check out the fabulous abs. It's 64° and partly cloudy. Head down to Uwajimaya to get some stuff. I just take my good ol' time. Up Fourth Avenue to my place. Stop by the Seattle Public Library.

Listen to Here & Now on my radio.  I remember Luke Spencer! I was such a fan back then. After 37 Years, Tony Geary Leaves ‘General Hospital’ Amazing story. Veel geluk, Luke!

Watch Star Trek TNG: Descent before I go to work. Riker, Geordi, Troy and Worf beam down to a planetoid with unusually high EM interference to find Data.

dinsdag 21 juli 2015

dinsdag 21 juli 2015 Cool marine breezes last night. I fell asleep while watching MST3K: Soultaker.

No bad dreams. Up at 3:28. Turn on BBC News. I hope this report is NOT about me: Poor sleeping patterns link to cancer. 'Definitive experimental proof' they say. Oy, vey. Switch to KING-5 News. Report from Town Hall. Rent control debate heats up in Seattle. I'm lucky to live in Bellwether Housing. I'm going to rent. I want my money going to a nonprofit like Bellwether. Washington State bans rent controls. Licata says new development gives the "illusion of progress," but we lose soul of city if ppl can't afford to live here. I get to speak French with some tourist at work. Let's play some French Scrabble. BBC News - New Zealand's Nigel Richards wins French Scrabble crown.

Everyone's enjoying a break from the heat and sun. It's cool and cloudy today... until 6 PM. The sun pops out for a bit. It's Christmas in July. Watch Doctor Who: The Time Of The Doctor.

maandag 20 juli 2015

maandag 20 juli 2015 Up at 2:38. It's a cool 63° and dark outside. Monday morning movie - MST3K: Girl In Gold Boots. I'm impressed with Mike's voice. Rain in space? Restless. Take an Aleve for my achy back. Watch France 24. Today the Greek banks reopen, but the debt buzz continues. Money, they say, makes the world go round. Thinking It Takes A Pillage. Still restless. Is this really musical anarchy? Listen and relax to Orchestral-Rock-Folk-Synth-Jazz Sound Of L'anarchiste.

zondag 19 juli 2015

zondag 19 juli 2015 Is it a horror film or more a child-friendly fantasy? Midnight - MST3K: Merlin's Shop Of Mystical Wonders.

Most horrifying to me is a story, which bears a very close resemblance to Stephen King's short story The Monkey, a thief steals a Cymbal-Banging-Monkey Toy from Merlin's Shop. Up at 6:30. Walk up to QFC to pick up a few things. E. Pike is a mess. Some pyro started a fire in a parking lots, but someone from Club Z puts it out. On my way back, a young zombie Hobo is swaying, trancelike, back and forth. He's holding a knife which glints in the sunlight. I could've been shivved!  Some papers are blowing down the street - Capturing Capitol Hill. More sunshine for us than to deal with. High: 95° and clear skies. A warming climate for sure. It's official. Quelle surprise! 2014 Was Hottest Year on Record, New NOAA Report Confirms.

zaterdag 18 juli 2015

zaterdag 18 juli 2015 Restless night. Up at 6:28. Top 10 worst movie accents. Watch this one - Elysium. Movie sin tally: 109. A Heat Advisory Is In Effect Until 9:00PM Sunday, July 19. This is too much. Seattle poised to hit 90 again this weekend.

vrijdag 17 juli 2015

vrijdag 17 juli 2015 Midnight movie - The Beverly Hillbillies. Jethro's version of bowling is different... cutting-edge. Next - MST3K: Blood Waters Of Doctor Z. Just listen while dozing off. Up at 6:09. Oyster and onion omelet for breakfast. Turn on KOMO for more Boom News - Seattle struggling to keep up with booming Downtown. On my walk, I see the news box - Expansion Plans For The Washington State Convention Center. Up to the top of Capitol Hill. Pride in the windows. I didn't know there were so many different pride flags. Polyamorous Pride... Straight Allies. Hello!

Down East Olive. It seems that people have camped out all night in the baseball field. Police are telling them Time To Leave.

Écouter - 97.7 FM Première Colombie-Britannique - votre radio en direct et sur demande: débats, entrevues, reportages, chroniques et analyses. Something a little different for lunch - a BKT - Bacon, Kale and Tomato sandwich. I pile on more.

He tells like it is.. Or tells it like he sees it. Ladies and gentlemen - Donald Trump’s ‘Belly Flop’ in the GOP field. The New Yorker has an amazing cover showing Donald Trump belly flopping into a pool of GOP contenders. Trump is making a big leap into the 2016 waters. Will he stay afloat? The greatest meme generator!

Finally, Guardians Of The Galaxy.

donderdag 16 juli 2015

donderdag 16 juli 2015 Home by 1:05 AM. My late late movie - MST3K: Boggy Creek II. At 26:55 see...

Thank you very much, BBC, for the weather. Pluto is -230 celcius! And Breathtaking first close-ups of Pluto reveal mountains, chasms. In the year 2057, Earth's last hope lies with a spacecraft whose mission is to deliver a nuclear device designed to reignite our fading sun. Behold - Sunshine. Starring Cillian Murphy. Manage to sleep for a couple of hours. Take a walk up to B'way. Watch the news. Hal Sparks is on KOMO with Mary. He's performing at Parlor Live in Bellevue July 16 - 18.

The sky is literally falling in this thriller as one of the nation's leading astronomers, Madison Kelsey believes she is tracking a huge rogue asteroid rocketing toward earth. Watch Deadly Skies.

woensdag 15 juli 2015

woensdag 15 juli 2015 Midnight movie - MST3K: Track Of The Moon Beast. A 1976 film about a Moon Beast that kills when the moon is full. Back then, the guys under 30 had long hair and side burns. Starring Chase Cordell and Gregorio Sala.

Up at 5:50. Peace has broken out. Jubilant Celebrations in Tehran. Turn on Stephanie Miller. They discuss the implications of Iran nuclear deal. Finally, the Bush era in American foreign policy is over. Love John! He contributes his wit, humor... and hair.

John Fugelsang, host of Tell Me Everything on SiriusXM Insight 121, joins the gang in the Los Angeles Bureau for all three hours. On Twitter: The ppl who don't like Obama's deal to keep Iran from developing weapons are the ones who didn't mind Reagan selling Iran weapons. Turn on KUOW. Carry my radio while walking around d'town. News conference. The President speaks live about the Iran deal. Obama: Iran Nuke Deal Makes Our Country, World Safer. It's 65° with clear blue skies. The sun glistens off the new Amazon building.

They discuss these issues on France 24. Florence Villeminot presents the views from the papers around the world - Iran deal: 'Jubilation in Tehran, relief in the White House and dismay in Israel'.

dinsdag 14 juli 2015

dinsdag 14 juli 2015 Midnight movie - MST3K: Final Justice. Restless. Happy Pluto Flyby Day. NASA's New Horizons probe is on the verge of zooming past Pluto. Nice picture.

NPR presents a tribute to New Horizon's adventure. Poetry. Today, France Celebrates The Bastille Day.

maandag 13 juli 2015

maandag 13 juli 2015 Up at 6:02. Just in time for Stephanie Miller. Chat with Eric Boehlert. Watch some WABC 7 News. Head d'town before work. Walk up 5th Avenue and rest for a while at Tilikum Place. I'm breaking down a lot of cardboard boxes at work. I'm selling a lot of candy today. A lot of kids from the EMP wearing Nirvana t-shirts. Back home by 9:31. Watch Alien Outpost.

zondag 12 juli 2015

zondag 12 juli 2015 Decent sleep. Dreaming about Bellingham.

Influence from the Seattle Weekly - Restless In Seattle. Up at 6:28. Watch France 24. Hoping to hear about Le Tour de France 2015.

BMC win timetrial. The news is serious about the Grexit. France is almost alone in helping Greece. Play The Outer Limits - Moonstone. This episode gave me nightmares when I was a kid. Those eyes looking, probing, examining. I think that the Grippians are peeping Toms. We Are Controlling Transmission.

Pork fried rice for dinner. Is it true? What's new? Are they coming back? I would love to see Heroes Reborn. Good night, Hamlet.