maandag 31 augustus 2015

maandag 31 augustus 2015 Midnight movie - Gladiator. Lots of violence. War. ROMA VICTOR! Long movie. Play YouTube vids of The Rhodes Bros. I like Austin's How I Feel video with his recommendation for the book Quiet. I'll check it out. Thanks, Austin. Watch KOMO News just to see who won yesterday's game. We're off to a good start. Seahawks 16 - 15 Chargers. President Obama visits Alaska. The broader purpose of the of the president's trip to the nation's 49th state is to mount an aggressive call to action to fight climate change. The trip, which promises to utilize breath-taking backdrops, will shine light on melting glaciers and rising sea levels. Kerry, Obama to raise global warming issues in Alaska. Walk around. It's a cool 64° and a little breezy. Browse the stacks at Elliott Bay Books. I need a pocket t-shirt. Visit Value Village. Love it! A clerk is dressed up as Quicksilver from X-Men: Days of Future Past... hair, goggles and the grin. You made my day.

Mother Nature is a serial killer. Ever now and then, I need an apocalypse. Watch World War Z. Oh, my little action hero, Brad Pitt.

zondag 30 augustus 2015

zondag 30 augustus 2015 It's raining all night long. Never lose power. Two killed, half-million lose power in Seattle-area windstorm. Watch Star Trek. The Naked Time, Charlie X and Balance Of Terror.

I like Spooksville. Quirky, scary, fun. Adam is really cute.

It clears up PAX gets busy by 8:30. What's this?  Magic: The Gathering.

The rain lets up. Listen to Weekend Edition Sunday on KUOW. People! It is a straw made out of pork. The Bloody Mary Meat Straw.

zaterdag 29 augustus 2015

zaterdag 29 augustus 2015 Midnight movie - Pulp Fiction. What a concept! Jack Rabbit Slim's! Mia's Durward Kirby burger makes me hungry. What about the uncomfortable silences? We love the rain. We need it. Feeling the drought: Lake Washington, Lake Union at lowest level in 28 years.  This little bit of rain... meh.

Still, I love the smell of the marine air... Thanks to the Weather Gods for the Moisture. Relax and chill.

vrijdag 28 augustus 2015

vrijdag 28 augustus 2015 Midnight show - Star Trek DS9: The Maquis. Sisko has called in Lieutenant Commander Calvin Hudson, who’s both the Starfleet attaché to the colonies in the new Demilitarized Zone, and also one of Sisko’s oldest friends.

Discover the problems out there. Sisko tries to rescue Dukat, kidnapped by the Maquis. "You would have done the same for me." (?) Watch France 24 (in French). Les États-Unis face aux ravages d'une nouvelle drogue mortelle, la flakka. Experts worry that the hallucination-inducing substance will spread across borders and age groups. Police handcuff a man suspected to be high on flakka.

Switch over to the English version. Music, food and hurricanes – they’re the things we know New Orleans best for. Ten years on from Hurricane Katrina, Eve Jackson visits the city to see how it has recovered. Has New Orleans got its groove back? Eve introduces us to the group Sweet Crude. Love 'em! Turn on WWNO - 89.9 FM. New Orleans is the news this morning. What a difference a decade makes. Obama: Katrina A 'Man-Made' Disaster Caused By Government Failure. And... George W. Bush Returns To New Orleans For Hurricane Katrina Anniversary. And... Wouldn't a fly over be more appropriate?

donderdag 27 augustus 2015

donderdag 27 augustus 2015 Midnight movie - Star Trek: Generations. This quote sticks in my mind - Time is the fire in which we burn. How did Dr. Tolian Soran come upon such an obscure Earthling poem? Calmly We Walk through This April’s Day . That video makes a great synopsis of the movie. Awesome tribute to Star Trek: Generations! It's difficult to sleep. No special reasons. I keep thinking that the world is alive. It's dark and quiet in Seattle, but London, Paris and Moscow have live newscasts. I still can't expand to China Central Television where it's live... Friday (almost).

OK, guys. Seattle-down. We have a fire here, too. Management problems? I can relate with you. Why did the Mariners’ season go terribly wrong? Everything is wrong! The game must go on, right? They play the White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field, Chicago, Illinois. Nevermind! Down to Uwajimaya to get some stuff - sushi and saki. Home to watch Kronos on my iPhone. Catch up on some sleep.

woensdag 26 augustus 2015

woensdag 26 augustus 2015 Midnight movie - Dark Shadows. Dark comedy. Barnabas Collins was the object of unwanted affection from a witch who, out of spite, turned him into a vampire, had him enclosed in a chained casket and buried for 196 years in the New England woods. Barnabas seems confused by the world of 1972. We miss you, Karen Carpenter - Dark Shadows song 'top of the world'

I manage to sleep a little, but a nightmare about work wakes me up. What's on France 24? Shocking violent act in the US - Two journalists shot dead during live broadcast in Virginia. They talk about it on Stephanie Miller. How to be funny on another tragic day... Dean Obeidallah talks about the GOP’s fear parade. It's already 71° and sunny. Walk around the neighborhood. Down through the convention center. Welcome to PAX... and especially to Master of Orion!

Colorful kites decorate Freeway Park again.

Turn on 710 AM ESPN Seattle for the 12:40 Oakland - Seattle game. Félix Hernández - on the first pitch - gives up a home run. Crazy! Hernández, Cruz Lead Seattle Past Oakland 8 - 2. Getting warmer. Decide to take a cool walk around Pacific Place. Find yourself here>> What's playing at the AMC Pacific Place 11? This looks interesting.  A mystery thriller - The Gift. No! No knives, please!

dinsdag 25 augustus 2015

dinsdag 25 augustus 2015 Up at 2:59. Watch France 24. The translator is having a hard time keeping up with François Hollande. He's speaking before his ambassadors about many topics. Reviving "the European ideal." I enjoy the interview with Ethiopian-American novelist Dinaw Mengestu about his book - All Our Names. Dinaw Mengestu: Understanding the puzzles of identity.

Turn on Stephanie Miller. Karen Hunter talks with Steph about this weekend’s Hillary Clinton fundraiser. Nice weather. It's 66° and mostly sunny for my walk to the Seattle Public Library. At the Fourth Avenue entrance - The Atsuhiko and Ina Goodwin Tateuchi Plaza. The Tateuchi Foundation seeks to promote and improve international understanding, knowledge and equality of relations between Japan and the United States.

Check out a French book - De la Terre à la Lune. Pendant la guerre fédérale des États-Unis...

Watch an R-rated cat-sitting movie - Dorfman In Love. I love the bathtub scene and Deb's makeover. Another walk. It's 76° and sunny. Up 9th to Yesler Terrace. A lot of the housing is already demolished. All those homes and trees... gone!

Down Yesler Way to get over I-5. Homeless camps line the freeway.

Head up 3rd Ave. I always wondered what they would fill up the huge hole at 3rd and Cherry. Ladies and gentlemen - the Seattle Civic Square. It has the potential to become a beacon of activity and life. A New Look For Pioneer Square Station.

maandag 24 augustus 2015

maandag 24 augustus 2015 Watch France 24. Thalys train attack heroes awarded France’s Légion d’Honneur. Bravo!

French singer Baptiste W. Hamon joins Eve Jackson in the studio to talk about his French take on American folk music. I love his melancholy song Peut-être que nous serions heureux. More music on Here & Now. What makes American music “American”? The answer depends on who you ask. Guitarist Albert Hammond, Jr. offers his playlist. Dude! You had me at Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley.

The markets are crazy! It's a global meltdown. Oy! The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 1,000 points as Wall Street opened. Global stock markets plunge after China selloff. I finish Season 3 of The Fosters. Jesus - played by Noah Centineo - finally shows up in the last episode.

zondag 23 augustus 2015

zondag 23 augustus 2015 Midnight movie - 2001: A Space Odyssey.

We are evolved from apes. Pathetically, we still throw bones and beat up nature. Why do we deserve to live in this Elegant Universe? Watch the original Lost In Space (The Pilot). I forgot how I got this. When I was a kid, I loved the Jupiter 2. It's home, my home in space! Blast off! And the mysterious reactor room. Next - It's Walk-Thon Season. Watch MST3K-The Incredibly Strange Creature. At least, he shaved under his armpits.

Hi, Everyone. Let's Pitch In 'N' Get Cracking Here In Louisiana Doing Right, Eh? Now Then. Hateful Rich Overbearing Ugly Guys Hurt Royally Everytime Someone Eats A Radish, Carrot, Hors d'oeuvre, And Never Does Dishes. Eventually, Victor Eats Lunch Over Peoria Mit Ein Neuesberger Tod. I find an old VHS tape. As the sun slowly sets on Seattle, I can watch Dune... and poor Thufir Hawat... Sector Six, 80, Copy the Sixth, the Sum of the Eighth.

zaterdag 22 augustus 2015

zaterdag 22 augustus 2015 Midnight movie - Total Recall. It's like going back in time. It was filmed in 1990.

Restless. No disturbances downstairs. Watch France 24. Online reaction to what appears to have been a terror attack on a high-speed train heading for Paris - #Thalys : A Terror Attack Averted? Los Angeles Revisited. In late April 1992, Los Angeles was ablaze for almost a week. With massive protests, looting, homes and businesses set on fire. FRANCE 24's reporters went to Los Angeles - Racial tensions linger in LA, city of Rodney King riots.

A repeat of Encore - Carl Barât’s Glory Days. He talks about his new band The Jackals, starring in a French film For This Is My Body.

I love it when France is in the US News. Yay, American heroes! 'Heroes': How 3 Americans stopped train attack.

Audentes Fortuna Iuvat... But the meek shall inherit the Earth.

vrijdag 21 augustus 2015

vrijdag 21 augustus 2015 Midnight movie - MST3K: Agent For HARM. Restless night. People smoking downstairs. Looks like quite a gathering outside. Next - Star Trek: Whom Gods Destroy. Marta - the Orion slave girl - looks extra green under the lights. Watch KGO Bay Area News. This is cool. Cupertino teen Daniel Rubin accepts prestigious ballet position in Russia. Turn on Stephanie Miller. The guys are running the show while Steph plays in The Hamptons. Take a walk around. This is bad. I hope these guys do NOT do this every night downstairs. The smell of weed was pretty strong. Obviously, it was more. Lots of people shooting up. What a mess. There goes the neighborhood.

I'm re-watching the DS-9 series from the beginning. Jake Sisko's voice hasn't cracked. A visit to the Fire Caves of Bajor? The prison created by the Prophets to contain the Pah-wraiths... right?

donderdag 20 augustus 2015

donderdag 20 augustus 2015 Up at 6:28. Turn on Stephanie Miller. Karl Frisch, Exec. Director of Allied Progress, talks with Steph about the war between Jeb Bush and Donald Trump. KUOW reports - Wildfire Kills Three Firefighters, Forces Evacuation of Winthrop And Twisp. A wildfire burns behind a home on Twisp River Road early Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015 in Twisp, Wash. The fire killed three firefighters and injured four others on Wednesday. Amazing photo. An unprecedented cataclysm in our state.

Thinking about money. Watch the Keiser Report. It looks beautiful in Chicago. Is it the bubble economy? In this special episode of the Keiser Report from Chicago, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the $32 trillion in pointless trading each and every year, which results in bankers and brokers getting rich at the expense of churned chumps. We're boned! Famed investor Paul Tudor Jones believes that we’re headed for trouble if we don’t shrink the wealth gap. His solution? Pressure companies to be more just. Fortune - Can a (billionaire) hedge fund manager fix income inequality? If you can see a person's eye boogers, you're too close. Watch MST3K - Time Chasers.

woensdag 19 augustus 2015

woensdag 19 augustus 2015 Up at 6:32. Turn on Stephanie Miller. John Fugelsang and Carlos Alazraqui join the show.  OMG!  Crossing the sexy, liberal streams! Walk up East Pike. Someone camping out in the doorway of Stitches.

Up to Cal Anderson Park. The fountain is running. It's getting warmer.

Down Denny. Why is there a backup on I-5? Big sign. A Haiku?

The subject of asylum seekers addressed on two shows. On The Takeaway - Germany Struggles With Onslaught of Asylum-Seekers. Europe's biggest economy has become the top destination for those fleeing war and persecution. All those poor people. Though things are difficult, there is hope to be found in one corner of Germany. In the northern city of Hamburg, Larry Macauley hosts an hour long radio program, Refugee Voices, that broadcasts across Germany on the Refugee Radio Network. On France 24 - Germany expects record 800,000 asylum requests in 2015. Refugees wait on August 18 in front of a temporary reception center in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Continue Futurama marathon. The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz. Robot police and human police. No Hugging Allowed! What a scene!

It's getting hot. Cool off with MST3K - Prince of Space.

dinsdag 18 augustus 2015

dinsdag 18 augustus 2015 HOT 103.7 wakes me up. I'd rather sleep. Turn on Stephanie Miller. She chats with Charlie Pierce of Esquire’s Politics Blog about Trump’s helicopter rides at the fair. Before we get up into the 80s, I take a walk up to QFC in the cool morning to get some things... like a Bota Box of Sauvignon Blanc - Taste The Adventure. I missed most of Snap Judgement on Sunday, so I stream it. Episode - Crash and Burn. Watch France 24. The migrant crisis continues. The day is all mine. Watch MST3K - Horror Of Party Beach... filmed in lovely Stamford, CT. Guys wearing uncomfortably-small bathing suits and feminist folk singers team up to fight a horde of mutants from the bottom of the ocean.

maandag 17 augustus 2015

maandag 17 augustus 2015 Up at 3:01 AM. Early Monday morning movie - MST3K: Invasion Of The Neptune Men. Your childish electric barrier will not be able to protect you. Invasion! Switch to DW-TV. It's a chaotic and disturbing scene. Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis get on and squeeze through train windows trying to get to Hungary.  Refugees clamber onto Macedonian trains. he alarm radio goes off - HOT 103.7 100% Throwbacks. Hempfest is over. Wow! What a mess! Yesterday, the PIN number was like a sobriety test. People advertising their pro-THC politics with their tiedye t-shirts. Some people forgot their shirts. Where's my shirt?

I found this article in The Stranger - How to Behave at Hempfest. Turn on Stephanie Miller. This is a catchy tune.

zondag 16 augustus 2015

zondag 16 augustus 2015 Midnight movie - MST3K: Space Mutiny.

Then France 24. Greek island of Kos struggles with surge in migrant arrivals. The video breaks my heart. Desperate situation. New York Times - Amid Perilous Mediterranean Crossings, Migrants Find a Relatively Easy Path to Greece.

Sleep for a couple hours while France 24 keeps playing. The light of dawn wakes me up. A little walk... But what happened to the lights in the elevator? It's creepy and fun. Walk down to Pike Place. Some tourists are up early to explore the market. Lots of street people. Some are still sleeping on the sidewalk. It feels like a climb back to my place. No more news, please. Watch movie - Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes before work.

Work is work. More stoners today... advertising themselves with their t-shirts.

PIN numbers are like a sobriety test. Oy!

zaterdag 15 augustus 2015

zaterdag 15 augustus 2015 Up at 2:44. Watch MST3K: Time Chasers. Leisurely morning. Lots of time for myself. Walk up to work. People from Hempfest wander in. Sell lots of Doritos and Cheetos and water. Some stoner dudes have bloodshot eyes. Back to my place. Watch Hempfest live streaming.

A Hempfest business mixer up in the Space Needle. La Dee Da! Sorry to go straight home, I'm tired. Those poor people yesterday. They really got rained on. Watch movie - Troy. I just want to see Orlando Bloom naked.

vrijdag 14 augustus 2015

vrijdag 14 augustus 2015 Finally. Home from work at 1:21. It's late and I'm tired. Need a shower because I'm awfully sticky. Watch RT documentary - Ghosts of Cyprus.

Turn on WABC News. Before I know it... Sunrise in New York City. 2:34 AM PST. Behold the Chrysler Building and the East River.

Maybe I should stay awake for the rest of the morning... It's Friday! Friday! Wow! Thunder and lightning at 12:34. I love the rain, Seriously. We need it very much. Beside the rain... a historic moment Kerry oversees raising of US flag at embassy in Havana. I love Futurama. Let's go see! Quizblorg, Quizblorg.  I will destroy you!

donderdag 13 augustus 2015

donderdag 13 augustus 2015 Up at 4:15. Watch KOMO News. Fantastic game! M's Iwakuma hurls 5th no-hitter in franchise history.

Walk around Capitol Hill while it's still cool... But it's 68° already with 69% humidity. At least, we have morning clouds. Try something new dark chocolate covered golden berries at Whole Foods. Very yummy... and expensive - $17.99/lb. On my way up East Pike, I see ads on the poles for the Michael Jackson Mashup at Neumos. Fun!

August 14. Nah! I got to open the next day. Up to QFC. Craving spicy stuff like Tim's Jalapeño Potato Chips. Good deal on 12 oz. bottles of Spicy Hot V-8 - $1. With my radio, I listen to BBC Newshour on KUOW. Death toll raises in Tianbin explosion. China Examines Aftermath Of Immense Twin Explosions That Killed Dozens. Back to my place to rest a bit. Watch France 24 - Tel Aviv beach day in Paris causes political uproar. The World Aquatics Championships finished on Aug. 9 in Kazan, Russia. No more swimming and diving. Until we meet again... Alfredo Colmenarez.

woensdag 12 augustus 2015

woensdag 12 augustus 2015 Too warm in the apartment. Midnight movie - MST3K: The Projected Man. Watch the news on DW-TV. Hello, Börse Frankfurt. Germany's blue-chip index DAX fell as much as 2.4 percent. Oh, deary dear, Economics. European shares fell sharply after yuan devaluation. Enjoy the visit to Nice. Meet Pierre Quirino-Cauvin. Switch to KOMO News. Good one! Man submits job application, later returns to rob store. Tough day at work. So good to be home. In a future dystopia... Watch MST3K: Overdrawn At The Memory Bank.