Thursday, October 31, 2019

vrijdag 31 oktober 2019

vrijdag 31 oktober 2019 Midnight movie - MST3K: Time Chasers.
I visit my new doctor in Oberlin - Deon K. Regis, MD. He seems like a friendly guy. He thinks that my recuperation is on track. My test for Oxygen Saturation was 97% which is real good. (I was wondering about that.) Rain! California could use some. It's a very rainy and windy. Trick-or-Treat in NE Ohio has been rescheduled due to bad weather.
It's way too wet for trick or treating. But I had to put my Star Trek uniform on. It's Halloween after all!
Watch Star Trek: Insurrection. The leader of the Son'a - Ru'afo - is devious, ruthless and very scary ugly! Played by F. Murray Abraham.

Wednesday, October 30, 2019

woensdag 30 oktober 2019

woensdag 30 oktober 2019 A Rocky Jones marathon - Beyond The Moon and MST3K: Crash of Moons.
The whole RJ gang: Vena, Rocky, Professor Newton, Winky and Bobby.
It was 7 years ago on this day that Superstorm Sandy roars through the Eastern Seaboard. It effected NE Ohio as well.
Sandy passed through Ohio in the wee hours of the morning. Lots of people lost power for several hours. Vid from WEWS in 2012. I'm still reading On Fire. I'm suffering from bouts of fatigue. I'll read a couple pages, and suddenly I conk out. The Intercept posted on-line the chapter - Season of Smoke. It reminds me a lot of my experience in Bellingham and Blaine when the smoke settled on us. She even remarks on the film on our glasses that you can't seem to clean off.
The fires in California are going from bad to EXTREME! It's a new level of danger. "Extreme" fire weather began in the Los Angeles area at 11PM Tuesday. It's expected to persist for 30 hours, bringing isolated gusts of up to 80 mph. The National Weather Service is labeling the fire weather conditions an "extreme red flag" warning.
Watching KCAL live, I see the dangers in Simi and Jurupa Valleys. Escapes, evacuations, first responders attacking the fires and the rescues. Air Force One sits on display at the Reagan Library as the fire burns in the hills of Simi Valley.

Tuesday, October 29, 2019

woensdag 29 oktober 2019

woensdag 29 oktober 2019 Kor: Savor the fruit of life, my young friends. It has a sweet taste when it is fresh from the vine. But don't live too long. The taste turns bitter... after a time. Watch Star Trek DS9: Once More Into The Breach. I don't think that I'm ready for "retirement" Klingon-style. I think that I still have time to savor the fruits of like. May we meet in Sto-vo-kor.
Midnight movie - Movie 43. I think that it's a hoot with lots of LOL moments. But it come with lots of warnings. Movie 43 is not for the easily-offended and contains jaw-dropping, sometimes shockingly disturbing, but always entertaining intertwined storylines you'll have to see to believe. I like the Truth or Dare segment with Halle Berry... as well as the Homeschooled segment with Jeremy Allen White.
Jimmy Kimmel used a montage to highlight the vastly different ways Trump and former President Barack Obama announced the deaths of terrorist leaders to the nation. Trump should be mocked. Hazmat responds to fentanyl exposure in Oberlin. A little excitement in Oberlin today. Helicopters were buzzing around. The hazmat team suited up at Oberlin Hospital and headed out to Walmart.

Monday, October 28, 2019

maandag 28 oktober 2019

maandag 28 oktober 2019 Trump was booed loudly and greeted with 'lock him up' chants at World Series. That's awesome, DC! In honor of the World Series and baseball in space (vid), I watch Star Trek DS9: Take Me Out to the Holosuite. Rom: What's a bunt?
Tweets from LeBron James. Man these LA 🔥 aren’t no joke. Had to emergency evacuate my house and I’ve been driving around with my family trying to get rooms. What a crazy night for him! Please, be safe, folks. Getty Fire off 405.
This is the plan for my walk today. A loop around Parkwood and Robin Park Blvd. I take 18 minutes to walk the circuit.
Success! My breathing is steady. I'm getting stronger everyday.

Sunday, October 27, 2019

zondag 27 oktober 2019

zondag 27 oktober 2019 Midnight movie - MST3K: The Deadly Mantis. What's eating Crow? A space creature... a tacky blue, blob-like creature. Luckily, Mike gets the creature to regurgitate him. I could hear the wind blowing last night - 20 to 30 mph. Wild stuff! Before the sun rises, I want to walk out in it. Gusts are blowing leaves everywhere. It's fun to be pushed around by the wind.
Sam Coleman: What we are witnessing here, Senators - is the return of an ancient and forgotten superspecies. Godzilla. The MUTOs. Kong. We believe that these - Titans, and others like them, provide an essential balance to our world. Watch Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Dr. Emma Russell: The mass extinction we feared has already begun. And we are the cause. We are the infection. But like all living organisms, the earth unleashed a fever to fight this infection. Its original and rightful rulers, the Titans. They are part of the earth's natural defense system. A way to protect the planet, to main its balance. But if governments are allowed to contain them, destroy them, or use them for war, the human infection will only continue to spread. And with our lifetime, our planet will perish, and so will we. Unless we restore balance. The Battle in Boston is total, epic destruction! Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump returns to meet his supporters in New Mexico. Hello, New Mexico. By far my favorite Mexico.. Everyone hoots when Darrell Hammond appears as none other than former President Bill Clinton. Trump throws out Snickers and Juul pods when Pete Davidson pops out. I'm from ISIS! Vid: SNL Trump Rally Cold Open.

Saturday, October 26, 2019

zaterdag 26 oktober 2019

zaterdag 26 oktober 2019 Midnight movie - The Flesh Eaters.
The Takeout panel on impeachment - Major Garrett gathers CBS News correspondents to take a deep dive into in the impeachment inquiry of Trump. Just the facts... no speculation.
Rain showers are moving in. It's going to be wet today. It was calm this morning, but the winds are picking up, too. Let's stay indoors.
I read and watch movies (and Netflix). John Carter.

Friday, October 25, 2019

vrijdag 25 oktober 2019

vrijdag 25 oktober 2019 Hard to believe I've just seen a trailer for a movie saga that began more than four decades ago. Here's the Final Trailer for The Rise of Skywalker: Remembering Rep. Elijah Cummings. The speeches are sad, funny, and rather moving. Obama, Pelosi and the Clintons honor an amazing man. There’s nothing weak about kindness and compassion. There’s nothing weak about looking out for others. There’s nothing weak about being honorable -Former President Barack Obama. After a day out of the hospital, and I get a few things done. My brother-in-law drops off a care package from mom. We go down to the post office to send rent. 20-minute walk up and down College Street.
I love it when a show drops on Netflix that you didn’t even know was coming and it turns out to be really really awesome. Daybreak!

Thursday, October 24, 2019

donderdag 24 oktober 2019

donderdag 24 oktober 2019 It's a new day at Mercy Regional Medical Center. Up at 5AM to pee. I think that I got 4 hours of real sleep. I notice that my door is cracked open. Someone checked on me last night while I was asleep. Lovely intro to Stephen Colbert's show. At 5:30AM, someone from radiology stops by to take an x-ray of my chest. "All done. Now you can go back to sleep" (I doubt it.) Soon after that, a nurse takes a blood sample. Turn on News 5 CLE. New nurses: Rhonda and Cole. Today's goals: Painfree safety.
After a few tests, the doctors decide that I could go home. I still feel weak, though. On my way out, I say good-bye to my nurse-of-the-day, Cole. "Thank you for all your hard work." Thank you, all!

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

woensdag 23 oktober 2019

woensdag 23 oktober 2019 Sunrise in Intensive Care Unit #9.
Pulmonary embolisms. It's hard to grasp the seriousness of my recent medical crisis. I survived something that would have killed most people my age. During first night in the hospital, the rapid response team rescued me twice. Little by little, however, my situation improved. My blood pressure normalized. After doses of 100% oxygen, my breathing became stronger. And now I am in normal care. I'm watching lots of MSNBC.
Hospital food - stir fry vegetables. Very yummy!

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Monday, October 21, 2019

Sunday, October 20, 2019

zondag 20 oktober 2019

zondag 20 oktober 2019 More Riverdale... and KJ Apa! It's a buggy day in the park. Little carpenter ants and clover mites were crawling on me. At least, I got to read two chapters of my book.
I had fun in the sun, too, Tom Daley. I didn't have the workout that you had, though. A little bike ride around town was just fine. I wish that I had my 25-year-old body again. (Six pack included) Watch MST3K: Escape 2000. (How about Escape 2019?) A 1983 Italian action film. Oh, no! Extermination squads!
Extra movie - Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi - Timetrap.

Saturday, October 19, 2019

zaterdag 19 oktober 2019

zaterdag 19 oktober 2019 Midnight movie - Brothers of the Head... a 2005 mockumentary. The story of Tom and Barry Howe (starring Harry and Luke Treadaway), conjoined twins living in the U. K.
Oberlin is busy! It's the Cross Country Inter-Regional Rumble. I count 19 buses on Professor Street, but 39 teams are competing. It's a crisp, cool, clear morning for literally hundreds of athletes. Oh! You can see the Moon in the upper-left hand corner. Go Yeo!
Some teams use Tappan Square to do warm-up laps, but I'm here to read - On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal.
Everyone is talking about it... To hear about it, I turn on Hal Sparks. HSRPM: The Meltdown part 2.6beta. He's bonkers! The Atlantic: The Unraveling of Donald Trump.
Watch a little Star Trek. Oh,no! Dr. Sevrin is found to be a carrier for the deadly bacteria synthococcus novae in The Way to Eden.
Herbert! Herbert! Herbert! Herbert! Herbert! Herbert! Herbert!

Friday, October 18, 2019

vrijdag 18 oktober 2019

vrijdag 18 oktober 2019 Midnight movie - Disturbing Behavior - a 1998 American teen science fiction psychological horror film. France 24 - The Green New Deal: Putting the climate at the heart of global policy. I haven't heard from Jeremy Rifkin in a while. He talks about the Carbon Bubble. I found a nice quotation today by Oscar Wilde. A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias. (1891)
I finish No Is Not Enough at The Local. It's busy and noisy in the cafe. Over to the Oberlin Bookstore to buy On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal (also written by Naomi Klein). Oberlin's trees!
Up to 56°F. It feels warm in the sun. Beautiful skies and trees!
Dinner and a movie - Baked beans and potato salad and The Legend of Hercules with the lovely and talented Kellan Lutz.

Thursday, October 17, 2019

donderdag 17 oktober 2019

donderdag 17 oktober 2019 Midnight movie - X2: X-Men United. I haven't watched this in a while. 2003... What a kick! Elijah Cummings, Key Democrat In The Trump Impeachment Inquiry, Dies At 68. Sadly, he didn't survive to cast THE vote.
Ohio = Voter Suppression. Thanks, NPR, for I feel concerned. Report - Ohio Purges Voters Amid Growing Concerns of Voter Suppression Across the U.S. Be fair and transparent. Let us VOTE!
Thanks to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, I can laugh a little.

Wednesday, October 16, 2019

woensdag 16 oktober 2019

woendsag 16 oktober 2019 Hah! Comrade getting into space! yes!
Anton! That was such a tribute to our first Space Explorers!  Highlights from the October Democratic debate in Ohio. Impeach! Morning storm. How bad will Winter be in NE Ohio? Bad!
It's a wild time at the Whyte Wyrm! I love Riverdale!

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

dinsdag 15 oktober 2019

dinsdag 15 oktober 2019 Awake so early. I know that the sun is up in Paris. Turn on France 24. News about the Turkish Syria Offensive.
USGS: 2.6 magnitude earthquake reported near Madison, Ohio.
Don't let Earth become like Venus. We Think Venus Had Water For Billions of Years, Losing it Suddenly. LeBron James weighs in on the NBA-China dispute. I guess that this caused a minor earthquake in the NBA. Well... what do you think MLK would be saying about Hong Kong right now? Injustice anywhere is a threat to Justice everywhere. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
I got a buzz cut at Manuels. He's very attentive. He even grooms my eyebrows. He listens to my experience of the Browns Seahawks game. Read a chunk of No in Tappan Square. One of my favorite things in the world: reading my book in the park on a warm sunny day.
Dublin, Ohio! Epicenter for the 4th Democratic Debate. Trump campaign flies 'socialism destroys Ohio jobs' banner over Dem debate site. Fourth Democratic debate takes place in Ohio tonight.