zondag 31 mei 2020

zondag 31 mei 2020 Was it a mistake to turn on KING 5 News last night? The sun sets in Seattle at Pike Place while tear gas poured through the air. Riots in the rain. Cars burning. Seattle Under Mandatory Curfew Amid Violent Protests After George Floyd Rally.

I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore... a dark, quirky movie which Netflix recommended. Melanie Lynskey and Elijah Wood team up to tell this crime-drama story where the real villain is humanity’s collective lack of empathy.

I saw this on College Street, Oberlin, Ohio... Washington!

My mind is in Washington State... especially in Seattle. KUOW is in my ears all day. Nice to hear a new show of Live From Here... while I admire the Clematis.

The USS Enterprise searches for the USS Defiant, which vanished without a trace in unsurveyed space three weeks earlier. Spock: We are registering very curious readings from all sensors. (Can space literally break up?) Spock: There is no known phenomenon which would account for these readings. They encounter a green glowing object that, according to sensors, is apparently not really there. Spock: No mass analysis. No trace of radiation. We see it, but our sensors indicate it is not there. Here, the adventure begins with The Tholian Web!

zaterdag 30 mei 2020

zaterdag 30 mei 2020 Turn on KSTP Ch. 5 to see what's going on in Minneapolis. Quite a long list of destroyed places from riots. Midori's Floating World Cafe at 2629 E. Lake was hurt.

I finish Children of Dune. Leto Atreides II is happily mutating.

Midnight movie - The Big Lebowski - a 1998 crime comedy.

Catching up with Hal Sparks. He's watching and commenting on the press conference Trump is holding in the Rose Garden. All of a sudden, it's done. Trump Runs From Reporters In Press Conference Disaster. We have a chicken in the White House.

Good day for biking, running and skateboarding. It's nice to see people walking through Tappan Square and hanging out. Two hundred fifteen students were stranded here after lockdown. I see some kids at Union Street Housing with boxes piled outside. Time to go home.

A lovely discovery on the bike path... rows and rows of Phlox.

Old Man: [winces in pain] Many years ago, I climbed the mountains, even though it is forbidden. [Another wince] But things are not as they teach us. Watch Star Trek: For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky. I feel for the poor old man.

vrijdag 29 mei 2020

vrijdag 29 mei 2020 Today is Space Force day!

donderdag 28 mei 2020

donderdag 28 mei 2020 MST3K - Star Force: Fugitive Alien II. Japanese science fiction at its best! Fugitive Alien Ken faces off against the evil leader of the Star Wolves!

woensdag 27 mei 2020

woensdag 27 mei 2020 Just relax! Right here. Right now! It's MST3K: The Thing That Couldn't Die. Coronavirus in Oberlin! Just a little warning. 9/11 times 25.

Remember when Freedom was so free?!?

dinsdag 26 mei 2020

dinsdag 26 mei 2020 Turn on Stephanie Miller - armed and dangerous! She shot herself with an orange nerf gun.

So much to talk about on the show this morning. Trump's golf trip. The Take Trump Off Twitter movement. How cavalier people are outside. I'm shocked! CNN reporter debunks beachgoers' coronavirus theories. According to ncov2019.live, we're at 99,702 deceased. Checking on coronavirus updates in Washington State. The Medical Examiner's Office has been testing the bodies of some deceased since the coronavirus outbreak. A Quarter of Those Tests Were Positive.

Sorry, beach goers! It's not 1999 and we're experiencing deadly virus that can go to the beach with you. Sorry to Steal Your Sunshine.

maandag 25 mei 2020

maandag 25 mei 2020 Only 7 months until Christmas. Monday morning movie - a 1966 British horror film based on H.F. Heard's 1941 novel A Taste for Honey - MST3K: The Deadly Bees.

Yay! Music! I'm treated to a little concert. The Oberlin Conservatory performs Stay On It by Julius Eastman. I ❤️ it! Happy Memorial Day! I'm binge-watching Season 6 of The Flash. Filming ceased in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic so the last two episodes were not made. Then it's Season 5 of Supergirl. Fun with Kara, Lena, Alex, James, Andrea Rojas (boo!), a new guy William, J'onn, J'onn's brother Malefic, and (my favorite) Querl "Brainy" Dox.

zondag 24 mei 2020

zondag 24 mei 2020 The Enterprise transports the Medusan ambassador Kollos; his telepathic interpreter, Dr. Miranda Jones; and engineer Laurence Marvick. Is There In Truth No Beauty?

zaterdag 23 mei 2020

zaterdag 23 mei 2020 Dreaming, dreaming is free. Dreaming, dreaming is free... Dream, dream, even for a little while. Dream, dream, filling up an idle hour. Fade away. Radiate. Dreaming (Blondie song). Ladies, gentlemen and pets... Wake up! It's Green Day! I dreamt last night that I was walking some kids through the Fairview Marina. Some Russian music was blasting from one of the yachts.

It's much warmer today than yesterday - 74°F. Down to Martin Luther King Jr. Park for the Mask Market. Limit 2 per person. (Oops. I take 3.) The kids' table has a lot of Spider-Man masks (in the lower left hand corner). No Star Wars masks. Sad.

Liquor stores ARE essential! Especially in Ohio where the state government accumulates much money through taxes. Trump wants churches reopened as U.S. deaths near 100,000. You know! I'm atheist/polytheist. (I can go anywhere.) DANGER! The safest thing to do is pray at home. God! This is ridiculous!

vrijdag 22 mei 2020

vrijdag 22 mei 2020 Midnight movie - MST3K: Attack of the Eye Creatures. Ladies and gentlemen... The Rip Taylor Trio!

Early morning walk in a rain shower. Listening to music on WTSQ. I've never heard of the Seattle Band Tacocats. Their song is appropriate for my walk. The video shows the deconstruction of Seattle. What a fabulous concept! A bridge to Hawaii would be 2400 miles long. With Hyperloop Transporation Technologies, at 800 miles per hour (1,300 km/h), travel from San Francisco to Honolulu would take 3 hours. I'd love to see a Global Metro System.

Everything looks lush. I found some Azaleas and Alliums!

Back home to dry off and watch Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Lightspeed skipping is cool! That was very daring of Poe Dameron.

donderdag 21 mei 2020

donderdag 21 mei 2020 Midnight movie - MST3K: Mighty Jack.

The Flash tries to explore the universe with the Neural Hyper-collider. Is this mind projection? The machine harnesses neural electricity and transfers it across superluminal particles. Therefore projecting human consciousness across space-time. The Flash!

Astrum is groovy! I love exploring outer space and understanding what's out there. How big do you think our solar system is? Up until Pluto? A bit beyond? How big can other solar systems get? Astrum answers! This news sends me into a fiery ball of fury! Earlier coronavirus lockdown 'could have saved 36,000 lives' OMG! Trump Genocide!

woensdag 20 mei 2020

woensdag 20 mei 2020 Pasta! It's what's for breakfast!

Become hungry I have. The pasta yummy in you I sense. Mmm.

What Cities Could Look Like In A Post-Coronavirus World. This is a question that people in Seattle are asking. Seattle is grieving for the future. I feel safe in this small college town called Oberlin, but I miss Seattle... its creative spirit, its liberalness, its intelligence.

Re-watching The Umbrella Academy. I love this series about these quirky superheroes trying to prevent an imminent global apocalypse. Season 2 of The Umbrella Academy premiers July 31st. I can't wait!

dinsdag 19 mei 2020

dinsdag 19 mei 2020 Midnight: Ragnarok... Tell me about it. Walk me through it. -Thor to Surtur in Thor: Ragnarok.

Afterwards, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs the Reverend. It's Mike's Morning Madness music playing Come A Little Closer by American alternative rock band Cage The Elephant.

Lil Timmy Tim raps in honor of Ms. Lawton! Ms. Lawton! Ms. Lawton! Ms. Lawton! Timothée Chalamet shares a new message for his statistics teacher. I wonder what grade Timothée got!?! Billie Joe Armstrong and sons play a quarantine-style song - I Think We're Alone Now - from his music basement. This could be my very own Self-isolation theme song. This is cute, I think. After being cooped up most of the day from the rain, I rode my bike to the end of Prospect Street. That's where you can see the Solar Photovoltaic Power Plant one mile north from me. It's huge! No access to the public. But you can see it through the trees. It's a 2.27-megawatt solar array located on the college campus, and connected by the city utility’s distribution lines to the power grid.

maandag 18 mei 2020

maandag 18 mei 2020 Never stare at a wet egg. The latest episode of Rick and Morty was truly a mind bender! Promortyus! Rick and Morty deal with facehugging aliens and genocide.

Midnight movie - Captain America: Civil War. Let's define catastrophe. Vision: Our very strength incites challenge. Challenge incites conflict. And conflict... breeds catastrophe. The skills and strength of the Winter Soldier amaze me.

A break from the rain! GO! We expect of a high of 70°F with periods of rain. Turn on WTSQ for some music. They play Crimson and Clover by artists Tommy James & The Shondells. Elm Street is a little wet.

Happy Mount St. Helens Day! On this day 40 years ago... BOOM!

Once, I went with a friend to visit the Mount St. Helens Institute in a rented white Ford Mustang convertible. 200 miles? KING 5 commemorates the 'Eruptiversary' with a documentary.

zondag 17 mei 2020

zondag 17 mei 2020 Midnight - Crisis Theory - the last episode in my Westworld marathon. Los Angeles de-evolves into chaos with revolution. Caleb's role is revealed. The authority of the ultimate AI machine - Rehoboam - is challenged!

New series to binge - Riverdale. Thanks, Netflix. I like their movie homage. How ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ Came to ‘Riverdale’.

Unstable weather. Rain rain rain! On and off. Light and heavy.

zaterdag 16 mei 2020

zaterdag 16 mei 2020 Binge-watching Westworld.

vrijdag 15 mei 2020

vrijdag 15 mei 2020 Midnight movie - Saint Laurent. Finding fun in Marrakech. Bio of the young fashion genius Yves Saint Laurent. Gaspard Ulliel earned a Lumières Award for Best Actor.

Is the US opening up too fast? The question is debated on France 24.

What U.S. States Can Learn From COVID-19 Transition Planning in Europe. A person walks down a nearly deserted street by the Boucherie Normande in Deauville, France.

En France comme si vous y étiez! The ultimate Loire Valley getaway! Les Hauts de Loire... a luxurious hotel-restaurant in an ivy-draped hunting lodge deep in the forest. 79 Rue Gilbert Navard, 41150 Onzain, France. Je voudrais un verre de Vouvray, s'il vous plaît.

It feels good to take a voyage virtuel to France.  I haven't done it in a long time. I want to visit Paris again, so let's watch the 2006 anthology film Paris, je t'aime. I always love the Le Marais segment AND appreciate the "tourist" segment where Steve Buscemi is stranded in the Tuileries metro station... and things get complicated.

OMG! Is it raining in France as in Ohio? I'm going to life in a muddy puddle of a place. A Marsh? Ah, oui! Life, in France, after the lockdown.

donderdag 14 mei 2020

donderdag 14 mei 2020 Cult movie night! I start with the worldwide sensation Yor, the Hunter from the Future. Yor, le chasseur du futur. Einer gegen das Imperium. Йор, охотник будущего. Il mondo di Yor.

Yor! His world is actually a post-apocalyptic Earth after a nuclear holocaust. A tyrant called the Overlord rules ruthlessly. After watching Brandon Tenold's review of The Pit, I thought that I had to see this thing! I wanted bizarre, and I received bizarre in abundance! Sammy Snyders does this creepy scene... Sandy, the babysitter, scrubbing him in the bathtub.

Sometimes I give myself the creeps. Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me. It all keeps adding up. I think I'm cracking up. Am I just paranoid? Or am I just stoned? I heard Basket Case on WTSQ. I really like Josh Gaffin's program - The Afternoon Show. Thanks, Josh, for playing a Green Day favorite for me today.

Weird weather. At first, it was chilly and rainy. The clouds never go away. We top out at 73°. Lots of walking. Hi big, old tree!

dinsdag 12 mei 2020

dinsdag 12 mei 2020 Rock Your Body (in confinement) Yes! Stephen Colbert calls it The Dumbest Thing The President Has Ever Said. OMG! Such a Hissy Fit! Maybe the weed is smoking us. Don’t Ask Me, Ask China. Jared! I agree with Jimmy Kimmell... It's the dummest time to be alive. Sorry! Can you get insane? YES!

woensdag 13 mei 2020

woensdag 13 mei 2020 Live from her home in New Brunswick, NJ, Naomi Klein talks about the threat of a High-tech Dystopia in her article Screen New Deal.

Enjoyed Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics. I have never experienced LSD, but I tried mushrooms a long time ago. All these stars - and Sting - share their insights into psychedelics.

Deepfake of Trump's face on a lying toddler from 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' is perfect. This is hilarious! I can't stop watching it!