donderdag 30 april 2020

donderdag 30 april 2020 Fair night's sleep. Up at 3AM. Watch MST3K: War of the Colossal Beast. Back to sleep for a couple hours. Turn on France 24. Reading the recession. How badly will the economy be hurt by the pandemic? When can a recovery start? Nice, cool, little walk - 52°F with occasional light rain. I feel like it's Seattle in Oberlin. Back home to watch Stephanie Miller.

Loved Brooklyn Dad Defiant on yesterday's show! Gotta read his book The Liddle'est President. Jesus! I swear that I'm watching too muuuuch YouTube! Yellooow! Daffodils, tulips and dandelions at Oberlin Arboretum.

Social distancing? Ok. Politics. Check! Nature, ok!

woensdag 29 april 2020

woensdag 29 april 2020 Jimmy Kimmel knows! Just when you thought 2020 couldn't get any weirder... Bring on the UFO videos! To quote Tony Stark from Avengers: Infinity Wars...

CDC, Are You Ok? I'm not ok! Rachel's report is scary!

Safety Dance and Chinese Quince. Using my new iPhone SE. Listening to music on WTSQ and taking pictures of flowers.

Mudd and Mike. Enjoying the nature at Oberlin College. I'm chill.

What messes with my bliss is Covis!

dinsdag 28 april 2020

dinsdag 28 april 2020 Midnight movie - A.I. Artificial Intelligence.

Terrence Lee moved to Chicago. He's on FOX 32 Chicago.

On France 24 - Home-made Masterpieces and Solitary Snaps: Imagery in a Time of Coronavirus. I needed a dose of culture. Merci. Rhinegeist translates to Ghost of the Rhine... back by popular demand! Truth... it is good!

Return to Uhtred and the 4th Season of The Last Kingdom.

maandag 27 april 2020

maandag 27 april 2020 Once Upon A Time In Hollywood... Musso & Frank’s Grill in Hollywood is suing its insurer for not covering pandemic losses. Sad. I was planning to meet Rick and Cliff there.

zondag 26 april 2020

zondag 26 april 2020 Sunday Morning SNL! Brad Pitt as the lovely and talented NIAID Director Anthony Fauci!

zaterdag 25 april 2020

zaterdag 25 april 2020 Oh! A comedy for a change... Midnight movie - MST3K: The Brain That Wouldn't Die. Lt. Ninety dreams that he's the General in charge of Space City and the World Space Patrol. It's A Day In The Life Of A Space General. Reminds me of Trump's crazy dream of Space Force.

Nice day for a bike ride! I start with a sweater, but I shed it. Prunus avium in spring! They're blossoming everywhere.

The view from Professor & Lorain - The Carnegie Building.

Up to Johnny's Carryout to get some wine and vodka. Someone is hoarding huge bottles of top shelf rum. OMG! Frozen pineapple, lime juice, coconut cream, and various rums into a blender... Bravo! That's a million Piña Coladas! I can hear Escape (the piña colada song).

Why don't we let this wash over the country? Someone, out there, please! Rescue me! Trending on Twitter - #TrumpSolutions. Uff da! Canada! Indeed, the world is mocking the USA... like this News Report from Your Morning Nova Scotia.

vrijdag 24 april 2020

vrijdag 24 april 2020 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is 2h 41min long, so I was watching last night well past midnight. It's true that the film was made with a loving and exacting attention to period detail -Mark Olsen. I was so engrossed that I never took a break.

The clouds were stubborn to burn off. After lunch, it's beautiful and sunny! It seems to be a regular thing for me to play WONE 97.5 FM in Akron. It's Flashback Friday when I hear the Classic Rock station. I got a photo of Sweet Pete of Sweetbay Drive. Thanks, guys!

I ❤️ Trevor! Trump 'seems to think of chaos as an essential service'

donderdag 23 april 2020

donderdag 23 april 2020 Today, I'm happy to be one of the retired. PANDEMIC PAIN PILES UP: 4.4 MILLION MORE JOBLESS CLAIMS.

Fun movie - Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Spock: They like you very much, but they are not the hell "your" whales. Dr. Gillian Taylor: I suppose they told you that. Spock: The hell they did.

woensdag 22 april 2020

woensdag 22 april 2020 Midnight movie - EuroTrip.

Scotty does a great robot! Excellent robot skills! Out early to get groceries at Walmart. Back home in time for Stephanie Miller's interview with Malcolm Nance. I like the blue background. Trump's mental illness is literally killing us. They talk about what’s coming next from the Trump Death Cult!

It's Earth Day... and I miss you, Washington. I hope the best for you. I want to get back to you.

dinsdag 21 april 2020

dinsdag 21 april 2020 I think it, Jimmy Kimmel says it. Thank you for the Titanic analogy! 420 From Home! A Swiss village in the Alps is terrorized by giant eyes from outer space. Let's watch MST3K: The Crawling Eye! The Trollenberg Terror!

Watching Trevor Noah: Son of Patricia, I'm amazed by his authentic Balinese experience with snakes. Behold the Green Mamba! A disheartening article in The Atlantic which is drawing a lot of attention - We Are Living in a Failed State. The coronavirus didn't break America. It revealed what was already broken. When the virus came here, it found a country with serious underlying conditions... Turn on France 24. The Debate - Europe's moment of truth: What common response to Covid-19? I'm hopeful for Europe. It seems that the EU is organizing itself to find common strategy. The European project will survive this crisis.

maandag 20 april 2020

maandag 20 april 2020 Various corn! You mischievous devil!

Harcourt! Harcourt Fenton Mudd You Good-for-nothing SOB!

Sorry. I meant that good for nothing Trump, trump, trump. It's "Make Fun of Trump Day!" Yay! How does 36% of the country trust him? Do they not own TV's? Ha ha ha!

zondag 19 april 2020

zondag 19 april 2020 Midnight movie - Altered States. William Hurt made his film debut in 1980 as the troubled scientist Eddie Jessup in this freaky science-fiction feature.

A lazy Sunday morning. Hash browns and tofu for breakfast. Orlando and I are watching Mystery Science Theater 3000 (The Return) - At The Earth's Core starring the lovely and talented Doug McClure. I notice that the Oberlin Golf Club is open as I ride by it on my bike. Lots of stupid, rich dudes. They don't seem to be maintaining safe distances. Please adhere to all guidelines that have been communicated so we can stay open & safe! I like to get off my bike and walk when I get to Oberlin College. Yes! A little nature goes a long way. What's going on, Seattle? Back home to watch KING 5 News. Here's an old video of my walk through Cal Anderson Park... Apr 19, 2009! Since we're time traveling to 2009, let's re-watch The Hangover.

Kirk, McCoy, Scotty and Uruha find themselves in a mirror universe aboard a parallel Enterprise run by ruthless barbarians. Yay! More Authoritarianism! Scotty: We gotta get outta here in 3 hours! (It'd would be nice to have the luxury of such time, but it's too late for us.) Watch Star Trek: Mirror, Mirror.

zaterdag 18 april 2020

zaterdag 18 april 2020 Midnight movie - MST3K: Fire Maidens of Outer Space. I am the maiden of hellfire.

Watching Firefly. I forgot how much of a fighter Dr. Simon Tam could be. In the episode Objects in Space, he confronts a ruthlessly professional bounty hunter, Jubal Early, who will stop at nothing to retrieve River. One of my favorite episodes!

From the Alliance of Firefly to another interstellar authoritarian regime - the United Citizen Federation of Starship Troopers. For the Federation I will give my life!. It's mankind vs the Arachnids!

It gets only up to 50°F. I find some Reinegeist Truth beer at the IGA.

vrijdag 17 april 2020

vrijdag 17 april 2020 LSSC has a great design for those checks! Cole Stangler... Live! Paris journalist covering labor & politics, on France 24. He reports on the severe economic slump in the US.

Switch to CNN. Analysis by Stephen Collinson - Trump takes a victory lap for a crisis that isn't over yet. Suppress the virus first!

Today, on this day in 2019, it was a lovely day in Oberlin - 68° and sunny. It was my first full day in Ohio after a 74-hour trek across the USA by bus. Today, it's a bit snowy. It's been a whole year that I've lived in Oberlin. Enjoy my silent film about my walk to Mickey Mart. In honor of my anniversary, I present a poem by Delmore Schwartz - Calmly We Walk through This April’s Day.

FREEDOM! Liberate America! 'We're Not Afraid of Any Virus' These stupid people protest the DeWine-ruled statewide shutdowns outside of the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus... with their stupid V for Vendetta surgical masks. OHIO!

donderdag 16 april 2020

donderdag 16 april 2020 Midnight movie - Animation, Adventure, Comedy - The Secret Life of Pets.

Turn on Democracy Now. It seems that we'll never know the real numbers. Across the United States, there are nearly 640,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, though the true number is likely far higher due to the critical shortage of tests. COVID-19 Deaths and Infections in Ecuador and Brazil Go Largely Uncounted. Brazil President Bolsonaro consistently downplays the threat of the pandemic. Leaders risk lives by minimizing the coronavirus. Bolsonaro is the worst. Yanomami Teen Dies of COVID-19 as Fears Mount of Outbreaks Among Indigenous Groups.

I'm stunned to see snow on the ground this morning, but it's melting quickly. Just a little walk down Colony Drive.

Stephanie Miller is in my ears while I walk. I like the hashtag #AdjournTrump. Invoke the 25th now! Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) is on the show to update us on what Congress is doing to help out average Americans during this unprecedented crisis.

It's been a year since I arrived in Ohio... Find It Here. Period!

Happy Birthday, Lukas Haas. One of my favorite characters - Richie - in Mars Attacks. I like how you took care of Grandma.

Good night America. Good night planet Earth. Night Justin.

woensdag 15 april 2020

woensdag 15 april 2020 My favorite thing about Jimmy Kimmel is his daughter Jane singing the intro, and she says This is ridiculous. They should play the Darth Vader Theme every time Trump speaks! Midnight movie - MST3K: Escape 2000. Dystopia invades The Bronx.

US marks highest number of deaths in a day - 2,405. The world greatest nation!?!? 😂😂😂😂 a nation that can't even have a proper health care system! Escape 2020! Turn on Stephanie Miller. Great interview with Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney. I love it when he says Everyone wants to kiss the sailor in Times Square, but you have to win the war first. Watch the destruction of the world. Transformers: The Last Knight... in French. It's pretty crazy!

dinsdag 14 april 2020

dinsdag 14 april 2020 Chris Hayes interviews the agriculture reporter for The Wall Street Journal Jesse Newman. I can barely watch this. Tragic! The latest coronavirus toll: dairy farmers dumping milk and chicken companies discarding eggs as America's food supply chain struggles to adapt. Aliens that look like clowns!?!? Midnight movie - another krazy 1988 komedy - Killer Klowns from Outer Space.

Spoonman sung by Soundgarden is playing on WTSQ. Last month, we started experiencing The Shutdown. The college students were putting things in boxes, packing up their cars and leaving. I find that when I miss them, I check Oberlin College Flickr.

Are all you guys healthy and well? I hope so. Take care, Obies!