dinsdag 30 november 2021

dinsdag 30 november 2021 Midnight movie - MST3K: Fugitive Alien. Joel starts up a farm by dressing up the Bots. They aren't happy.

Late, late movie - Duel of the Titans. My name's Romulus. What's yours? Legendary founder and first king of Rome - Romulus. Up for another Steve Reeves movie? YES! 😁 The Giant of Marathon. In 490 B.C. Greece, muscle-bound Athenian peasant Phillipides (Steve Reeves) becomes an Olympics champion and is made head of the Sacred Guard. Admire the skillful way he throws the javelin.

Next for my movie marathon - The Slave. In 48 BC, Julius Caesar sends loyal soldier Randus (Steve Reeves) on a mission to Egypt. Can you keep a secret? (Shhh. 😗 He's the son of Spartacus.)

Trevor Noah: ‘Covid Turned the Planet Into a Frat House’ Omicron, follows Alpha, Lambda and Delta in the Greek alphabet.

It's fair Fall day. 46°F. Evening stroll through Tappan Square.

maandag 29 november 2021

maandag 29 november 2021 Midnight movie - Forbidden Planet. Beneath the surface of Altair 4, there lies technology of a civilization millions of years more advanced than Earthlings. Délicieux! SpaghettiOs and Star Wars for breakfast. Oh So Good!

What??? Que se passe-t-il? Fashion. Mode. Lightsaber!. Sabre laser?

And now... Something more serious. Climate CRISIS! Daisy Pearson - Activist & Artist for Intersectional Environmentalism: In reality, we cannot tackle the climate crisis without addressing the culture of greed and exploitation that got us here in the first place. COP26 has been and gone and failed. Watch Democracy Now.

In tribute to Broadway songwriting icon Stephen Sondheim... U.S. Deaths from COVID: 776,651. USA! USA! USA! WOW! American pharmacist and Confederate States Army veteran John Stith Pemberton. Clouds. What do you see? I see a poodle kissing a bunny. Right?

zondag 28 november 2021

zondag 28 november 2021 Watching Venom: Let There Be Carnage and OMG! Robert Sheehan is upset with the violence.

I miss Robert Sheehan. Hope there's a lot more of Klaus Hargreeves in The Umbrella Academy. Season 3 set to arrive in 2022.

Poor Everson. Sooooo much rain. The water is pouring over the roads again. I used to live just 13 miles away in Bellingham. KING 5 News: Residents of Everson, Sumas advised to voluntarily evacuate ahead of forecasted flooding. Lots of sand bags. Greetings from Oberlin's very merry merry Oak Street. A little rain fell on our pretty snow. A few flurries are still possible today.

Happy 28th b'day to Omar Jimenez! An exceptional journalist for CNN. Perfect when covering critical national issues of crime and justice.

Feeling barbaric... Let's watch Conan The Barbarian. Leo makes a fine young exceedingly brutal Cimmerian. What? NO! Box office bomb?!?

zaterdag 27 november 2021

zaterdag 27 november 2021 France 24: World races to contain new Omicron variant. The new variant B.1.1.529 was identified on Tuesday and has a very unusual constellation of mutations.

It's on this day in 2015 when I said good-bye to the Cambridge Apartments. I lived in that place for 17 years. I never experienced such stability in my life, and I probably never will again. Cambridge Apartments Renovation Wins ABC Awards. From 1930 to 1945, it was known as the Cambridge Apartment Hotel.

Nostalgic... Westlake Center tree lighting marks return to big holiday events. After 6 years and about 2400 miles away, I miss Seattle. Who wants more SNOW ❄❄❄? A clipper will bring snow late this afternoon through the overnight. After that, the lake effect snow machine turns back on Sunday into Monday for the Snowbelt! This is the time of year that I dread... the cold and the snow in Ohio.

Trash (Mark Gregory), former leader of the Riders gang is now a cynical loner, remaining in the impoverished, lawless wasteland of the Bronx. Watch MST3K: Escape 2000.

vrijdag 26 november 2021

vrijdag 26 november 2021 MST3K Turkey Day Marathon 2021! 😄

Dozed off last night during The Brain That Wouldn't Die. Awake for an oiled up Alan Steel in Hercules Against the Moon Men. On ABC 7 Chicago News: CTA Holiday Train, Bus Returning for 2021.

It's 28°F. Cold enough to snow... and it does. Snow ends at 1 PM.

A mysterious and unusually destructive force invades the galaxy. BINARY BLACK HOLE?!? Burnham leads Discovery to investigate. She must also find a way to help Book cope with the destruction of his home world. Watch Star Trek: Discovery. Season 4, episode 2 - Anomaly.

donderdag 25 november 2021

donderdag 25 november 2021 Midnight movie - MST3K: Time Travelers.

Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade: Marchers, floats, balloons set to step off in NYC. Tom Turkey is the oldest, most recurring, and most famous float. The weather is cooperating. Partly sunny at 42°F.

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 2021: Feels like the good ol' days.

Down to Powell, Ohio. Thanksgiving festivities with family. Turkey, stuffing, sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie and apple pie. Yummy yummy cookies.

The kids of the Digital Age... Connecting with their devices.

woensdag 24 november 2021

woensdag 24 november 2021 Midnight movie - MST3K: Mac and Me.

KING 5 News: Ellensburg Doctor Sells WA COVID Vaccine Exemption Forms. Dr. Anna Elperin: This is a scamdemic. It has little to do with public health at this point. It has more to do with government control. She has repeatedly made baseless statements about COVID-19 that are unsupported with scientific evidence. She has also minimized the seriousness of the pandemic in social media posts and at public events. Revoke her license! Sunny at first. Clouds are heading to Oberlin. High 49°F. An albino squirrel sighting!!! Hi there! 😀 It's been a few months.

Cruising by Zechiel House. Check out the flags. Can you identify them?

Kree Supreme Intelligence: possesses all known psionic powers. Telepathy, telekinesis, cosmic awareness, sensory link, postcognition, precognition. Supreme Intelligence: On Hala, you were reborn, Vers.

Dinner and a movie: Curried lentil soup and Captain Marvel.

dinsdag 23 november 2021

dinsdag 23 november 2021 Threatened by Blackness: Rev. Barber condemns attorney's 'Black pastors' remarks. Rev. Dr. William Barber. LSSC: Andrew Garfield shares how art helps him get through grief (VIDEO). What a beautiful, heartfelt moment. A tribute to his mum. A tribute to Jonathan Larson. A tribute to Stephen and Jon. A tribute to all people who value art and sew up our wounds. After watching this interview, I need to see tick, tick...Boom.

Don't Walk Away - Jade. Released on November 23, 1992. Happy 29th anniversary to that lovely song! Thanks WZAK. Nice but a little chilly for a bike ride. Admire the Lake in New Russia.

Ratsy's - best collection of mugs in Oberlin. Nobody Knows I'm Gay!

I know where the soul goes. Mourning for your old friends who die of AIDS... It goes so deep, deep, deep.

maandag 22 november 2021

maandag 22 november 2021 Seattle Seahawks... Russell Wilson is sad. Barring a Miracle, Seahawks' Loss Could Signal the End of a Era.

Uff da. I need a little Atmosphere. Please, Make It All Better Again! All the 2021 American Music Awards Winners. All the members of BTS wore Givenchy Spring 22 outfits - designed by Matthew M. Williams - to the 2021 AMA.

Did they really say Huzzah in Russia in the 18th century? Mature audiances only. Watch The Great. (Not great with the history.)

zondag 21 november 2021

zondag 21 november 2021 Midnight movie - Bohemian Rhapsody.

Chance of rain 90%... 44°F. Biking out. 🚲  The rain is light (at first).

Jim Jordan as Speaker of the House? That's an idea that blows my mind because he's my Rep. here in Ohio. But they talk about it on The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart. Jonathan is stunned, too.

Only the strong will survive. Watch X-Men: Apocalypse. Mutants rule!

Apocalypse: Weapons. Superpowers. The weak have taken the Earth.

Aidy Bryant as Mother Earth: I know Mars. She's a hot, dry, windy whore. SNL Weekend Update discusses the issue of climate change.

zaterdag 20 november 2021

zaterdag 20 november 2021 Trouble for DeJoy? Biden makes new choices for USPS board. On-time mail delivery has plummeted under Postmaster Louis DeJoy—forcing veterans to wait longer for prescriptions, seniors to scramble to pay bills without their Social Security checks, and communities to feel less connected. DeJoy needs to go. On The Rachel Maddow Show... Turn on ABC 7 Chicago for news and weather. Report: Kenosha, WI, protests over Kyle Rittenhouse verdict don't materialize; 2 planned in Chicago. The city seems to be setting up for Christmas already. The Magnificent Mile is looking festive. 2021 will be more fun than 2020. Greetings to the Carr Pool for the Oberlin College Swimming and Diving Invitational. Welcome kids from Penn State Altoona. A 247-mile trip❓

Thank you, Tiffany Cross, for highlighting what Vice President Harris is doing since her tenure in office. I 💙 The Cross Connection.

Barack Obama: Happy birthday to my friend and my brother, POTUS! Thanks for giving all of us the gift of better infrastructure. Grateful for all you’re doing to build this country back better.

Watching Supergirl: Hope for Tomorrow. I 💚 it when Brainy turns green. It's so sexy sexy!

vrijdag 19 november 2021

vrijdag 19 november 2021 It's a sci-fi night starting with Star Trek: Prodigy. In Terror Firma. Dal rescues Gwyn from The Diviner.

Next, Star Trek: Discovery. Season 4 begins. Ep.: Kobayashi Maru.

WTSQ is playing some fine music... as usual. Welcome To Paradise and Orville Peck's version of Smalltown Boy. It's justified and soulful. Roswell, New Mexico - population 48,411. Famous for the Roswell UFO incident. Starting the 1999 American science fiction television series Roswell. Alien/human hybrid Max is an interesting character.

Oh, dreary sun. You need to go away. The day is very done. I've nothing else to say. Good night.