maandag 28 februari 2022

maandag 28 februari 2022 War and Peace? Turn on France 24. War report: Ukraine-Russian ceasefire talks begin at Belarus border.

It's 35°F and mostly cloudy. Nice to take a bike ride for pleasure. Ride around Oberlin in the countryside? Nope. It’s barely above freezing. My fingers feel chilled. Greetings from the Oberlin Depot.

Up to Tappan Square. ✊ 💙 💛  Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odessa, Dnipro, Donetsk... OC students paint a rock in support of Ukrainian freedom.

Do you miss the Hair Metal of the 80s? Where's my hair??? WCPT... Thanks for playing Runnin' With The Devil. Dave and Eddie: One of the greatest frontman/guitarist teams ever!

zondag 27 februari 2022

zondag 27 februari 2022 MST3K: The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-Up Zombies. A cavalcade of heads from the early 60s. Harold, Jerry and Angela.

What We Learned About Technology From Watching 1995 sci-fi action drama... Johnny Mnemonic. I need a Sino-logic 16, too, Johnny.

zaterdag 26 februari 2022

zaterdag 26 februari 2022 View of Kyiv. The calm before the storm?

Turn on ABC 7 Chicago. Report: Ukrainians in Chicago pray, reach out to family, friends after Russian invasion.

Turn on The Cross Connection. Love the white suit, Tiffany! Malcolm Nance: Ukrainians are a progressive, Democratic, Western-leaning nation who have been orienting their armed forces toward integration with NATO. This is what Putin is terrified of, is the democracy and the cause of the people there.

My bike is frozen with icicles dangling from it. It's unridable. Walk down to Tappan Square. People are doing Squirrel Behavior Research. Looking for No War and Peace for Ukraine signs. Maybe it's too cold.

vrijdag 25 februari 2022

vrijdag 25 februari 2022 View of Maidan Square in Kyiv, Ukraine, after Russian invasion. Local time: Friday 7:12 AM.

Turn on David Pakman. Truly, Trump is a global laughingstock. Ridicule him! Mock Trump! The ignorance of Trump was extremely well put. Volodymyr Zelensky - President of Ukraine: I am target number one.

donderdag 24 februari 2022

The alternative is death. donderdag 24 februari 2022 Chicago. Lake Shore Drive. Good morning. (Bad morning). I'm so sorry. Ukrainian Village.

Sad. Sad. Sad. Sad. Sad. Russia invades Ukraine.

woensdag 23 februari 2022

woensdag 23 februari 2022 Pamela Denise Anderson from Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada... Labatt beer from Montreal, Ontario???

Pamela in Wonderland. Sex, tape and rock 'n roll.... The fabulous story of Pam & Tommy continues. I love this biography series!

It is on this day, 161 years ago, in 1861 that Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., for his inauguration, avoiding an assassination attempt - The Baltimore Plot. It's 29°F with a few snow flakes flying through the air while I ride my bike out to the country. Some neighbors are moving out. I envie them.

Morning! Morning! Morning! Oh, look .. Howard's being eaten! Goodness gracious! Now, the comedy/musical Monty Python's Meaning of Life.

THIS IS THE END

dinsdag 22 februari 2022

dinsdag 22 februari 2022 Emperor Nero: Do I live for the people or do the people live for me? Peter Ustinov as Nero in Quo Vadis.

Three o'clock morning movie - King of the Jungle with Buster Crabbe.

It's a rainy rainy day. Let's travel with Rick Steves from Milan to Lake Como. The beauty of these places are breathtaking. Lucky Italians! The rain lets up for 30 minutes, so I head out for a little bike ride. It's a very mild 58°F, but a shower catches me by surprise. Wetness!

Back at my place to dry off and watch MST3K: Deathstalker And The Warriors From Hell. I 💜 this episode.

maandag 21 februari 2022

maandag 21 februari 2022 Are we at Grandma's? By the beard of Zeus... It's MST3K: Hercules Unchained... our midnight movie.

ABC 7 LA News : Justin Bieber Tests Positive for COVID-19, Tour Postponed. His team is infected, too. Well! That changed my life! It's in the news, everywhere! EVERYWHERE!! Because of greedy landlords, the US is becoming a ghetto. RENTS REACH 'INSANE' LEVELS ACROSS U.S. My rent went up 26%! Statement from the National Lawyers Guild Housing and Homelessness Committee on COVID-19.

Turn on Stephanie Miller. She was on Ayman last night. Two Republicans vs two Democrats. It was DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison who said the GOP is the party of Fear, fascism, and fraud. But, Steph! Your ball gag comment took me by surprise! Tee hee! 😆 It's sunny and a nice warm 59°F. Students are enjoying themselves outside. Me, too!

zondag 20 februari 2022

zondag 20 februari 2022 Midnight movie - MST3K: Attack of the Giant Leeches. Frank is reading Working with Difficult People with much interest. Then Dr. F. attaches a leech to Frank's neck.

WKYC NOWCAST: Sunny and windy. High 47F. Winds SSW at 20 to 30 mph. Winds could occasionally gust over 40 mph. Yes! The wind blows my hood right off my head. It's 41°F in Oberlin. Balmy for February.

Turn on News 9 Colorado for news, weather... and sports. High School Wrestling Championships 2022. Admire the 113 lb. kid with the long hair and spider-like moves - Jackzen Rairdon - from Thompson Valley HS. I've had plenty of super close matches. It's an amazing thing.

Do Americans care about possible war in Europe? ABC News: Why Americans should care about the Ukraine-Russia conflict. Let's check with BBC News. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson: Russia is planning the biggest war in Europe since 1945. Compromise? Компромисс? Why? I don't understand.

zaterdag 18 februari 2022

zaterdag 18 februari 2022 Alcyoneus - the largest radio galaxy ever, stretching at least 16 million light-years through space. Anton Petrov describes The Largest (Radio) Galaxy Ever Found.

Jim Morrison: Let me tell you about heartache and the loss of God. Wandering, wandering in hopeless night. Out here in the perimeter, there are no stars. Out here, we is stone... immaculate. C'mon. Let's get cosmic and watch The Doors.

Cartoons for Saturday - Futurama. Bender takes a duplicator to make smaller (and smaller) copies of himself. The Professor displays a mathematical equation projecting the Benders' population growth, explaining that they will continue to replicate ad infinitum, multiplying exponentially; because they need matter in order to replicate, they will eventually consume the entire planet. Ep.: 617 - Benderama.

Apartments at Trump Tower now available to knock down prices. Soccer Megastar Cristiano Ronaldo Sells Trump Tower Condo for $7.2M—$11.3M Below Purchase. Hal Sparks talks a lot about Trump's money problems on his radio show - The Hal Sparks Radio Program Megaworldwide.

vrijdag 18 februari 2022

vrijdag 18 februari 2022 Greetings from the red planet Mars! Home planet of Christopher Lloyd. Watching that crazy 1999 Disney Sci-Fi comedy My Favorite Martian.

Turn on KING 5 News - Gov. Jay Insee says Washington's mask mandate will end March 21. A reporter interviews the manager of the Daily Dozen Doughnut Company for her opinions. Seattle got COVID-19 first, don't forget. I'm still nervous about it. The Daily Dozen was always generous to our child care who gave us free donut holes to our kids when we passed by. God bless the Daily Dozen.

Missing Pike Place Market! Fond memories of browsing through the comics and collectables in Golden Age Collectables.

Light snow showers for 12 hours straight... We have another mess to clean up. Cars and roads covered in ice and snow. NASTY!

Ice-covered branches sparkle in the sunshine. It's only 22°F.

Want an adventure in the snow? Take a ride through the Swiss Alps on the Glacier Express! Look down as you cross the Landwasser Viaduct. MSNBC: Hillary Clinton slams Trump, GOP and Fox News. She speaks the truth! Republicans will claim they’re on the side of parents and family values, but they will do nothing for actual parents. Good speech, Hil! Now This News: The whole keynote address.

donderdag 17 februari 2022

donderdag 17 februari 2022 Happy 50th b'day to Billie Joe Armstrong!

Los Angeles has its victory celebration with the Rams at the championship parade and rally to celebrate their Super Bowl win.

The rain is melting the snow. The golf course becomes a swamp.

Watching Dune (2021) for the third time. Sandworms are awesome!

Peanut butter M&M's... so delicious, smooth and creamy!!! 😋

woensdag 16 februari 2022

woensdag 16 februari 2022 Mike: Brought to you by the league of psychotic children... MST3K: Invasion of the Neptune Men.

Turn on Democracy Now. Gun control activist and Parkland school massacre survivor David Hogg talks with Amy. When I was starting out, we had about 40,000 gun deaths a year on average in the United States, and now we’re seeing, on average, about 45,000 a year, most of which are suicides but are still, nonetheless, preventable. Parkland Survivors Demand More Action from Biden.

For a February day, it is a balmy 53°. Thank you, City of Oberlin, for clearing the bike way up to the city limits.

Klaatu: I've travelled 250 million of your miles. Guns, tanks, bombs!! Why? WHY? WHY?!? The core message of The Day the Earth Stood Still is... Humans must change their violent ways and work for peace if we're to survive. Take me off this planet, please.

SNAP! Guns, tanks and bombs would be gone. I've got the power!

dinsdag 15 februari 2022

dinsdag 15 februari 2022 Watching season 2 of Raised by Wolves.

COUNTDOWN TO SPRING: 33 days. It's 22°F. Spring now! Now! NOW!!

Out for a little bike ride. Hello from Peters Hall in Oberlin, Ohio.

Warm up back my place watching MST3K: Alien from L. A.

maandag 14 februari 2022

maandag 14 februari 2022 Last night, I fell asleep after the halftime show. Then, I'm up at 2 AM to watch the KTLA 11 o'clock news. It's glorious! Rams House: L.A. wins Super Bowl on home turf.

Many Maskless Fans Seen at the Super Bowl... even when free NK 95 masks were given out. This could be a Super Spreader Bowl! My brain spends most of the day in L. A. Walking down the streets and beaches. I love LA. I don't wanna leave today -Starcrawler. It's Randy Newman's classic ode to Los Angeles which is my earworm.