woensdag 31 januari 2018

woensdag 31 januari 2018 ‘Daily Show’s’ Trevor Noah Goes Off on Trump’s State of the Union. I love you, Trevor. What a lot of clap! Trump couldn't help it, but he clapped for himself.

Happy Independence Day for Nauru. 50-years-old! To celebrate the anniversary, here are 11 amazing facts about Nauru, the least visited, most obese nation on Earth.

dinsdag 30 januari 2018

dinsdag 30 januari 2018 Up with BBC. They present a dramatised account of David Bowie working on his last album, Blackstar. Ladies and gentlemen... The Final Take: Bowie in the Studio.

The Cleveland Indians' Chief Wahoo Is Out. For real? Cleveland? Stephen Colbert Mocks Nikki Haley’s Grammys Outrage. You know, John Lennon, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, NWA. I loved their song “No Comment on Tha Police.” #LSSC. The State of the Uniom. They called The Who Refuseniks! Play, Won't Get Fooled Again.

maandag 29 januari 2018

maandag 29 januari 2018 Up with Stephanie Miller. Jeanine Pirro is shrill... and drunk! Steph has a scenario. Funny! Hillary Clinton made a surprise appearance at the Grammy Awards comedy bit that took a jab at President Trump. James Corden invites Cardi B, John Legend, DJ Khaled, Cher, Snoop Dogg and Hillary Clinton to audition to narrate Michael Wolff's best-selling Fire & Fury. KING 5 shows us the new urban oasis in downtown Seattle. Five years in the making, the Amazon Spheres open today.

zondag 28 januari 2018

zondag 28 januari 2018 In the village of Midwich, everyone simultaneously becomes unconscious. In a few hours the residents awaken, seemingly unhurt--but in a few days the townspeople realize that every woman is pregnant in The Village of the Damned. On Channel √2, they have Entertainment and Earth Invasion Tonite with Linda and Morbo.

On Colony. Won't somebody, please, think of the children.

zaterdag 27 januari 2018

zaterdag 27 januari 2018 Behold the horrors of the carbon-freezing chamber, Lando Calrissian and aide Lobot! What can you do? Midnight movie - The Empire Strikes Back.

Watch France 24. The Zouave statue serves to monitor the floods of the Seine. Is this the dreaded “flood of the century”? Cartes, drone, photos... quatre ou cinq façons de voir la crue de la Seine à Paris. (Maps, drone, photos... four or five ways to see the flood of the Seine in Paris.) Homes and businesses in Paris are on high alert.

Watch Hal Sparks Radio Program Mega-Worldwide. Hal tells us how Dutch Intelligence Spied On Russian Hacking Group Cozy Bear.

Drizzly day. Dreary day. I walk up the Railroad Trail.

To round out the day, let's watch MST3K: Time Chasers. Meet Mike's brother Eddie.

vrijdag 26 januari 2018

vrijdag 26 januari 2018 Stephen Colbert: You’re looking good America. Trump doesn't have to come back. He can stay in Switzerland. Oh! They don't want him either. Trump Booed At Davos.

Nevermind that! This is more important. I feel that the Star Wars prequels were good, too. Never underestimate the power of a prequel!

donderdag 25 januari 2018

donderdag 25 januari 2018 What happens in Skull Mountain stays in Skull Mountain! It is the stronghold of Bandon.

What happens in Graymark is brutal! Wil grudgingly saves Allanon from the torture-happy clutches of The Crimson. Riga jabs a needle into Wil's neck to drain out his blood. Cringe! With Wil's blood, can the Elfstones be activated by General Riga?

Destiny Is Stronger Than The Wishes Of One Man Wil rejects the notion of destiny, saying that he's only in Graymark to help. Watch The Chronicles of Shannara all day while it's raining.

woensdag 24 januari 2018

woensdag 24 januari 2018 Up with Terrence Lee and Katie Ussin for News 5. Just checking things in Cleveland, my old neighborhood.

First! I couldn't be prouder! Congrats to LeBron James - the youngest player to join the 30,000 point club.

Because a pipe bursts at a charter school, students are home for weeks. Water Pipe Day! Parents have mixed feelings for the solution offered by The Intergenerational School. It's homeschooling for the kids.

A rainy day for our kids. A tea party for stuffies.

dinsdag 23 januari 2018

dinsdag 23 januari 2018 MST3K: Women of the Prehistoric Planet. A Doomsday Device arrives at the SOL. Joel insists on bringing it inside and accidentally activates its self-destruct. It's a whole thing. Tarantino-Style 'Star Trek' Trailer Shows Us The Wonderful Potential. “Green blood. Green women. And Nazis.” How bad of a deal did we get with the Schumer Sellout? Dreamers Feel Betrayed After Senate Democrats Break Their Promises.

These Women Have Spent Years Cleaning Up After Senators Who Now Want To Deport Them.

maandag 22 januari 2018

maandag 22 januari 2018 Midnight movie - The Open House. Logan always seems cold. Don’t go into The Open House KING 5 takes us on a tour of the new Amazon Go store d'town Seattle. It's the first hometown concert in five years. Pearl Jam Announce Seattle Stadium 'Home Shows' to Fight Homelessness. So, raise the Pearl Jam flag up on the Space Needle!

zondag 21 januari 2018

zondag 21 januari 2018 Midnight movie - Star Trek: Beyond. Left - Right: Anton Yelchin, Chris Pine and John Cho.

Captain James T. Kirk: Captain's Log, Stardate 2263.2. Today is our 966th day in deep space, a little under three years into our five year mission. The more time we spend out here, the harder it is to tell where one day ends and the next one begins.

Austin Butler shirtless. Why not? We love it!

How Did This Guy Ever Save The World? Really? A spaceship crash-lands on a remote planet in Pitch Black. Dangerous criminal Richard B. Riddick (Vin Diesel) tries to survive.

zaterdag 20 januari 2018

zaterdag 20 januari 2018 These guys couldn't run a 7-Eleven. Government Shuts Down After Senate Blocks Short-Term Spending Bill.

Twitter doesn't shut down. Check #GovernmentShutdown2018. The motion was rejected 50-49, with four Republicans voting no and five Democrats voting yes. The vote came in live on Bill Maher's show. Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (colorized)! Take Cover! Flying Saucers Invade Our Planet! Washington, London, Paris, Moscow Fight Back!

UFO Vs Congress. Aliens: YES! Congress: Zero!

vrijdag 19 januari 2018

vrijdag 19 januari 2018 I Got Ants In My Pants with James Brown. Nice way to start the day. Thank you, KEXP. Lots of talk about tomorrow's Women's March. The Women's March Los Angeles invites all the 750,000 Angelenos who helped fill the streets. Go AGAIN on January 20th, 2018 in downtown LA! Stephanie Miller and the gang are doing it! After a year of Trump and outrage, this weekend's women's march will focus on electoral politics. I hope that it's a nice day at Pershing Square.

What you need to know about Seattle’s Women’s March. The march begins at Cal Anderson Park. The demonstration will combine themes of women’s rights, civil rights, LGBTQ rights and human rights.

The weather forecast calls for rain and wind speeds between 11 to 20 mph, with gusts up to 25 mph. The day’s high temperature is 46 degrees. Eh, bien. Vive la résistance!

donderdag 18 januari 2018

donderdag 18 januari 2018 Star Trek - A Private Little War is such a dramatic episode. Captain Kirk writhing in pain from the poison of a Mugato bite. Spock getting shot in the back by a primitive projectile weapon. Bleeding green blood. The pacifist Tyree turning into a killer. Nona, a kahn-ut-tu witch-woman in leather bellbottoms and a feathered bra curing Kirk with a mahku root. It gets pretty cheesy. Over-the-top performances by everyone!

Michael J. Tansey, Ph.D. - Chicago clinical psychologist, author, teacher - appears on Bill Press to discuss Trump's mental fitness and the book The Dangerous Case Of Donald Trump.

Dolores O'Riordan is honored on KEXP when they play I Still Do. It's mostly a dry day, so I walk and listen to music. How dare I take a photo of the sunset? But I do it anyway. It's beautiful.

Thank you, Barkley Village, for finishing the path project... with tree bark... and light posts. Nice!

Netflix has Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters. I love the Japanese trailer.

woensdag 17 januari 2018

woensdag 17 januari 2018 It is not liquid, gaseous, or solid, nor is it a nebula... All the stars vanish when the Enterprise enters the Zone Of Darkness in The Immunity Syndrome.

Pentagon Reportedly Weighing Using Nukes In Response To ‘Large Cyberattacks’ Annihilate! Kill! Kill! Colin Kaepernick is listed at 6’4 232 lbs. Donald Trump was just listed at 6’3 239 lbs. Someone is lying.

dinsdag 16 januari 2018

haircut dinsdag 16 januari 2018 In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree... - Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is one of the most famous poems in the English Language. But it is also one of the strangest. On BBC Radio - Kubla Khan: A Vision in a Dream.

From the poetic to the ridiculous... Let's Do Some Crimes! Joel and the bots riff on The Beatniks. Downtown to Jes' for a #1 buzz cut. They finally upped the price to $12.

Home for Ellen. I love her DJ tWitch! But he can't teach these white men to dab. It's harder than you think... I think.

maandag 15 januari 2018

maandag 15 januari 2018 MLK rally, march planned in downtown Seattle. I cannot be there today... Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

Much work remains in carrying on King’s legacy. Racial equality, human rights and economic justice is honored today. It's still our struggle to make a better future. I believe the children are our future. Tchanori Kone is my hero!

zondag 14 januari 2018

zondag 14 januari 2018 I love the cold opening! ‘Saturday Night Live,’ With Help From Old Friends, Skewers ‘Morning Joe’ The legend. The battle. The first hero. Let's watch 10,000 BC. Lots of scary stuff. The Almighty is some kind of mutant - the last of the Atlanteans. Our hero gets trapped by the saber-toothed cat. It's chilly out... at first. The sun warms us up quickly. I walk while listening to Live From Here. Great show! Great music!

'Star Trek: Discovery': Everything You Need to Know About the Mirror Universe. Andorians, Tellarites, Klingons and Vulcans. I love it!

zaterdag 13 januari 2018

zaterdag 13 januari 2018 I'm into Space & Astronomy today. The story of the Curiosity rover. Mars Martian Mega Rover. Future astronauts: @NASA identified eight icy places on #Mars where you can get all the water you need. BYO bucket & shovel.

Disjointed is back! Yay! Kathy Bates and the gang! Yay!

vrijdag 12 januari 2018

vrijdag 12 januari 2018 The whole world is talking about Trump. Donald Trump's 'racist slur' provokes outrage. Scott expresses my feelings exactly: You are physically & mentally unfit to be president, a pathological liar, a scam artist, a fraud with delusions of grandeur, a showboating nutjob, and to top it all off you’re an unhinged racist who never takes any accountability. You must resign.

Trevor Noah: As someone from South Shithole, I'm offended Mr. President. Guys, I don’t know how to break this to you, but I think the president might be racist. I want to snuggle with Trevor.

donderdag 11 januari 2018

donderdag 11 januari 2018 Black Hole Apocalypse on PBS! Let's join the hunt for clues about the nature of black holes.

It's a day for Gore-Tex. Here comes the rain again! Black Hole Sun, won't you come and wash away the rain? The Soul-Sucking, Attention-Eating Black Hole of the Trump Presidency. There is Trump world, and then there is the sweet release of oblivion. Stephanie Miller chats with Malcolm Nance about the latest. Hang my head. Drown my fear. Till you all just disappear.

woensdag 10 januari 2018

woensdag 10 januari 2018 Midnight - The Twilight Zone. The Earth falls out of its orbit and starts moving toward the sun in The Midnight Sun.

On HBO, it's Solaris. You think you're dreaming me. No? Who am I then? It looks like Armageddon in Montecito. Ellen and Oprah have beautiful homes which are destroyed by the rain-triggered mudslides. Burned by wildfires in December. We're getting a little rain, too. I'm keeping my bike home.

dinsdag 9 januari 2018

dinsdag 9 januari 2018 Midnight - Twilight Zone. S.S. Captain Lutze revisits his old haunts in Deaths-Head Revisited.

Trevor Noah unpacks Trump's claim to be a 'stable genius' Donald Trump Finds His Safe Place... or did he? A number of other messages were directed at him including "No one is illegal" and "Medicare for all." And Trump Didn’t Sing All The Words To National Anthem. The BBC noticed.

maandag 8 januari 2018

maandag 8 januari 2018 Some people have all the fun. Here's What 'No Trousers Day' Looked Like in London. And in San Francisco... Pantsless passengers take over BART. It's a global phenomenon in roughly 60 cities, with participants in Berlin, Toronto, Washington, D.C., and others. But the Seattle No Pants Light Rail Ride Is Dead.

Travis Bone is back on Stephanie Miller as executive producer!

Oprah 2020! It's all the talk. What a fantastic idea! We loved her Golden Globe speech. Oprah could run. Oprah could win. Is America going insane or coming to its senses?

zondag 7 januari 2018

zondag 7 januari 2018 John Pavlovitz writes. Compassion a liability? Malice an asset? Empathy in America: An Obituary.

Let's watch Black Mirror. They twisted this Star Trek-like virtual reality simulation into something evil. Good one! Episode: USS Callister.

My roommate has been away for a month. I like having the apartment to myself. It's warm and cozy. Well, I just want to stay inside - on this dismal, drizzly, cold day - and enjoy my solitude.