What if there was a huge press conference in which the government fully disclosed that there are ETs and that we are being visited by them? What then?
Would ufology collectively sit back, prop it's feet up and then try to decide what to research next? Would there be a period of "See, we told you so" and then it would be gone like today's newest pop group?
Or would disclosure ruin the magic of not exactly knowing? Like knowing how David Blaine or Criss Angel do their tricks, would the entire thing become a moot and boring exercise?
I do believe that we have been visited many times and continue to be visited. I believe that many of the occurrences in the Bible happened to be UFO's.
I'm just not sure I want to know completely.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
pancakes, pancakes, pancakes, burritos. No Coke. Pepsi
If a fast food place is going to be open 24 hours a day, they should allow you to actually, you know, order food.
I woke up starving and went to McDonalds a little bit ago to get something to eat, so I hop in the car, drive to the closest one and after waiting 10 minutes to be waited on, am told that all I can order is Breakfast Burritos. So I drove off disgusted and went to another one and was told I could order pancakes. Pancakes. I can make myself some friggin pancakes. I felt like I was in a SNL sketch.
I worked in fast food for many years. Managed them more than I was a regular employee. I understand that you have to clean the fryers and the griddles, but for the love of Pete, you don't do them all at the same time while you are open.
I hate to use this as a place to bitch and moan, but hey, it works I guess.
I woke up starving and went to McDonalds a little bit ago to get something to eat, so I hop in the car, drive to the closest one and after waiting 10 minutes to be waited on, am told that all I can order is Breakfast Burritos. So I drove off disgusted and went to another one and was told I could order pancakes. Pancakes. I can make myself some friggin pancakes. I felt like I was in a SNL sketch.
I worked in fast food for many years. Managed them more than I was a regular employee. I understand that you have to clean the fryers and the griddles, but for the love of Pete, you don't do them all at the same time while you are open.
I hate to use this as a place to bitch and moan, but hey, it works I guess.
Monday, March 26, 2007
Technology
I guess I'm old fashioned. I hate cell phones, although I do have one. I still have the same computer I've had for almost three years and have only done one upgrade to it (and that was just so I could run a game). The only thing I have to have the newest version of are videogame systems. Then after a few months of it, I'm breaking out the older systems.
The reason I explained that was that I just read my brothers blog where he was talking about his love of the newest and best technology. I can attest that is true with him, just as he can attest to the fact that I like the older stuff better.
It's not like the two of us are generations apart, I'm nine years older than him. I was born in the mid 70's he was born in the late 80's, so it's not the fact that our ages are far apart that makes us different in the aspect of technology. As a matter of fact, seeing as how I was old enough to remember the leaps in technology better than he is, you would think I would be more impressed with it.
Maybe it's that technology can't possibly match the images I grew up on in movies and comics. Lord knows I am a geek, a nerd and a poindexter when it comes to those things. Hell, I gave my brother his first comic book when he was too young to read (I think he learned when he was 17 LOL) just so he could look at what his "Bubba" was reading.
I've seen videogames go from a simple dot being hit by two sticks to the latest Gears of War type game and to be honest, I have a hard time believing that technology has really bettered the games from the time of the NES or the SNES. Sure we have a better picture or a longer game, but does that make it more fun? Not always.
Maybe that's why I really don't like the technological jumps we've had. Life hasn't become easier because of most of them, it's really made it harder when you have to go out an constantly get the newest version of something that just came out two months ago.
The reason I explained that was that I just read my brothers blog where he was talking about his love of the newest and best technology. I can attest that is true with him, just as he can attest to the fact that I like the older stuff better.
It's not like the two of us are generations apart, I'm nine years older than him. I was born in the mid 70's he was born in the late 80's, so it's not the fact that our ages are far apart that makes us different in the aspect of technology. As a matter of fact, seeing as how I was old enough to remember the leaps in technology better than he is, you would think I would be more impressed with it.
Maybe it's that technology can't possibly match the images I grew up on in movies and comics. Lord knows I am a geek, a nerd and a poindexter when it comes to those things. Hell, I gave my brother his first comic book when he was too young to read (I think he learned when he was 17 LOL) just so he could look at what his "Bubba" was reading.
I've seen videogames go from a simple dot being hit by two sticks to the latest Gears of War type game and to be honest, I have a hard time believing that technology has really bettered the games from the time of the NES or the SNES. Sure we have a better picture or a longer game, but does that make it more fun? Not always.
Maybe that's why I really don't like the technological jumps we've had. Life hasn't become easier because of most of them, it's really made it harder when you have to go out an constantly get the newest version of something that just came out two months ago.
BayFormers: A movie so bad a robot would cry.
As a longtime Transformers fan (Going strong since 1984), I was originally stoked about the feature film to be released on July 4. How could it go wrong? You have a 20+ year back story, recognizable characters and Steven Spielberg producing.
It seems that all three of those are the reasons my excitement for this film has left me. Spielberg has put Michael Bay at the helm of it, even after admitting he had no interest in the characters or the plot that has made Transformers the piece of Americana that it is. Only after being told he could do it as an "aliens invades earth" type of movie did he agree to it.
The characters are what drive Transformers. Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Jazz, Megatron and Starscream: These are what people wanted, true to life versions of the characters we grew up with. It's understandable to make a few changes, and I have no problem with Megatron being an alien spacefighter instead of a gun or Bumblebee being a Camaro instead of a Volkswagon Beetle but to turn Megatron from a humanoid type of robot to a chrome version of the Predator just doesn't work. I won't even get started on the new version of Starscream, whose character has always been of a "pretty boy" who is vain about his looks being turned into a mechanical monkey/wasp hybrid.
These aren't the characters we know. This isn't Transformers. This is just another example of Hollywood taking something that people hold dear to them and changing it for the sake of change.
I've exchanged instand messages with one of the screenwriters for the movie and we have talked about that. I can't blame him for changing the story to fit what the director wants, after all, there are a lot of people that would kill to write a script for Bay and Spielberg. If he didn't do it, someone else would. I do have to give Roberto credit for facing the people that are against what he wrote, that takes guts and I applaud him for it.
I will go see it. A lot of people will go see it. But I will go see it knowing that I am not seeing the Transormers I grew up on and have wanted to see in a live action film for 23 years. No, I will go in and pay my seven dollars and sit down in the dark theater and try to enjoy BayFormers.
It seems that all three of those are the reasons my excitement for this film has left me. Spielberg has put Michael Bay at the helm of it, even after admitting he had no interest in the characters or the plot that has made Transformers the piece of Americana that it is. Only after being told he could do it as an "aliens invades earth" type of movie did he agree to it.
The characters are what drive Transformers. Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Jazz, Megatron and Starscream: These are what people wanted, true to life versions of the characters we grew up with. It's understandable to make a few changes, and I have no problem with Megatron being an alien spacefighter instead of a gun or Bumblebee being a Camaro instead of a Volkswagon Beetle but to turn Megatron from a humanoid type of robot to a chrome version of the Predator just doesn't work. I won't even get started on the new version of Starscream, whose character has always been of a "pretty boy" who is vain about his looks being turned into a mechanical monkey/wasp hybrid.
These aren't the characters we know. This isn't Transformers. This is just another example of Hollywood taking something that people hold dear to them and changing it for the sake of change.
I've exchanged instand messages with one of the screenwriters for the movie and we have talked about that. I can't blame him for changing the story to fit what the director wants, after all, there are a lot of people that would kill to write a script for Bay and Spielberg. If he didn't do it, someone else would. I do have to give Roberto credit for facing the people that are against what he wrote, that takes guts and I applaud him for it.
I will go see it. A lot of people will go see it. But I will go see it knowing that I am not seeing the Transormers I grew up on and have wanted to see in a live action film for 23 years. No, I will go in and pay my seven dollars and sit down in the dark theater and try to enjoy BayFormers.
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Gimme some Truth
Americans deserve the truth.
We deserve to know where our enemies are coming from.
We deserve to know who the terrorists to our way of life are.
America will never be told any of this. However, we will have the opportunity to vote for said terrorists next year. You see, the American way of life is in danger from the very people that are supposed to protect it. Washington D.C. is the hub of the most dangerous people to our way of life, to our freedoms and to our pursuit of happiness.
The very people we put into office.
I'm not sure if it's a shadow government or an Illuminati plot from hundreds of years ago but there is something. More than likely it's greed. Why else would someone spend millions of dollars and years of their lives to get a job that pays a few hundred thousand dollars a year?
Payoffs can be traced back throughout history, from Judas betraying Jesus for 30 pieces of silver up to whoever the latest Senator is that has been caught taking money from special interest groups. Now though, we have oilmen in power who are waging a war in the biggest oil producing country in the world, yet say it's not about oil. The acronym for the original operation itself was O.I.L.--Operation Iraqi Liberation.
So the route to O.I.L. began with 9/11. So after five and a half years, we seem to have forgotten the fact that we were going after the "mastermind" of the 9/11 attacks Osama Bin Laden and somehow are now in a quagmire of a civil war in Iraq, while Bin Laden is still free to continue his usual brand of terrorism.
That is if Osama is really the one behind 9/11. Now, many people have said that the government was behind the 9/11 attacks and there is good evidence behind the theory that they were. As a matter of fact I believe that if the government wasn't behind them, then were at least guilty of knowing about them and doing nothing to stop it. Which really would be worse? If they were willing to sacrifice three thousand American citizens to authorize a "war on terror" which somehow ended up being a war in Iraq and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein to bring "democracy" to a people who obviously don't want it, what else would they do to get their way?
Do they think people are too stupid to see the ties between Bush, the oil companies and the war in Iraq? Do they think that people will happy to pay 3 dollars for a gallon of gas so the oilmen can make more money? What better reason to keep a war that has no real point going for years?
There are many reasons to ask for the truth.
The main reason being that we deserve it.
We deserve to know where our enemies are coming from.
We deserve to know who the terrorists to our way of life are.
America will never be told any of this. However, we will have the opportunity to vote for said terrorists next year. You see, the American way of life is in danger from the very people that are supposed to protect it. Washington D.C. is the hub of the most dangerous people to our way of life, to our freedoms and to our pursuit of happiness.
The very people we put into office.
I'm not sure if it's a shadow government or an Illuminati plot from hundreds of years ago but there is something. More than likely it's greed. Why else would someone spend millions of dollars and years of their lives to get a job that pays a few hundred thousand dollars a year?
Payoffs can be traced back throughout history, from Judas betraying Jesus for 30 pieces of silver up to whoever the latest Senator is that has been caught taking money from special interest groups. Now though, we have oilmen in power who are waging a war in the biggest oil producing country in the world, yet say it's not about oil. The acronym for the original operation itself was O.I.L.--Operation Iraqi Liberation.
So the route to O.I.L. began with 9/11. So after five and a half years, we seem to have forgotten the fact that we were going after the "mastermind" of the 9/11 attacks Osama Bin Laden and somehow are now in a quagmire of a civil war in Iraq, while Bin Laden is still free to continue his usual brand of terrorism.
That is if Osama is really the one behind 9/11. Now, many people have said that the government was behind the 9/11 attacks and there is good evidence behind the theory that they were. As a matter of fact I believe that if the government wasn't behind them, then were at least guilty of knowing about them and doing nothing to stop it. Which really would be worse? If they were willing to sacrifice three thousand American citizens to authorize a "war on terror" which somehow ended up being a war in Iraq and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein to bring "democracy" to a people who obviously don't want it, what else would they do to get their way?
Do they think people are too stupid to see the ties between Bush, the oil companies and the war in Iraq? Do they think that people will happy to pay 3 dollars for a gallon of gas so the oilmen can make more money? What better reason to keep a war that has no real point going for years?
There are many reasons to ask for the truth.
The main reason being that we deserve it.
Friday, March 23, 2007
Grandpa's Ghost
I was probably six when I had my first encounter with the paranormal.
I was staying the night with my Grandmother while both of my parents were working the night shift. I had been tucked into my dad's old room and I could hear my grandma start her snoring from her room when I started getting thirsty. So I jumped out of bed and walked down the hallway to the kitchen to get a Coke.
After I got the Coke out of the fridge, I couldn't find the bottle opener. Remember at this time in 1980-81, sodas were in the bottles that required a bottle opener or strong teeth to get the caps off. Well, I didn't want to wake my grandma up (since she would make me settle for water or milk) so I sat at the table and tried to open it anyway I could.
The next thing I know, there's this man standing there that freaked me out since my grandma had lived alone since my grandfather died in 1974 and my parents were married later that same year. After "he" saw me upset, he took the Coke from the table, sat it in front of me and said, "So you're Chris."
How did he know my name? Who was he? More importantly, how did he just appear in front of me?
For some reason, his use of my name made me feel more comfortable with him. I answered him and started drinking my Coke. For the next few hours the two of us talked about everything from my parents to how I liked school to the baseball team I was on that my dad coached. After a few hours he said, "I have to go now, but just remember I'm proud of you and love you." I don't know how long went by after that but my grandma found me asleep by the kitchen table when she woke up to have her morning coffee, so it must have been about 4 am. Sitting on the table were two empty Coke bottles.
Years passed before I told my parents about this and I was sure they were going to think I made it up. That is until my dad got this odd look on his face and told me about an experience he had not too long after his dad died in 1974.
His mom (my grandma) had gone out with her friends to play cards and try to get on with life after losing her husband. My dad was waiting on his friend to pick him up so they could go running around. As he was sitting in the front room waiting, he heard footsteps in the back of the house so he went to check it out. He didn't see anyone but heard the same noise elsewhere in the house, he then realized that it was coming from the same route his dad had taken to check the doors before he went to bed. He said, "Dad?" and the footsteps stopped.
I've had many experiences with things that can't be explained. This was just my first and the one that I think back on when I want to remember the one person I've always wanted to meet. My grandpa.
I was staying the night with my Grandmother while both of my parents were working the night shift. I had been tucked into my dad's old room and I could hear my grandma start her snoring from her room when I started getting thirsty. So I jumped out of bed and walked down the hallway to the kitchen to get a Coke.
After I got the Coke out of the fridge, I couldn't find the bottle opener. Remember at this time in 1980-81, sodas were in the bottles that required a bottle opener or strong teeth to get the caps off. Well, I didn't want to wake my grandma up (since she would make me settle for water or milk) so I sat at the table and tried to open it anyway I could.
The next thing I know, there's this man standing there that freaked me out since my grandma had lived alone since my grandfather died in 1974 and my parents were married later that same year. After "he" saw me upset, he took the Coke from the table, sat it in front of me and said, "So you're Chris."
How did he know my name? Who was he? More importantly, how did he just appear in front of me?
For some reason, his use of my name made me feel more comfortable with him. I answered him and started drinking my Coke. For the next few hours the two of us talked about everything from my parents to how I liked school to the baseball team I was on that my dad coached. After a few hours he said, "I have to go now, but just remember I'm proud of you and love you." I don't know how long went by after that but my grandma found me asleep by the kitchen table when she woke up to have her morning coffee, so it must have been about 4 am. Sitting on the table were two empty Coke bottles.
Years passed before I told my parents about this and I was sure they were going to think I made it up. That is until my dad got this odd look on his face and told me about an experience he had not too long after his dad died in 1974.
His mom (my grandma) had gone out with her friends to play cards and try to get on with life after losing her husband. My dad was waiting on his friend to pick him up so they could go running around. As he was sitting in the front room waiting, he heard footsteps in the back of the house so he went to check it out. He didn't see anyone but heard the same noise elsewhere in the house, he then realized that it was coming from the same route his dad had taken to check the doors before he went to bed. He said, "Dad?" and the footsteps stopped.
I've had many experiences with things that can't be explained. This was just my first and the one that I think back on when I want to remember the one person I've always wanted to meet. My grandpa.
Random Thoughts
Marvel Comics Essential line and DC Comics Showcase Presents line of trade paperbacks are the best deals in comic books. At around $17 (10 for some), they provide you with over 500 pages of Silver Age Comic Book goodness. The one drawback (if you can consider it a drawback)is that they are in black and white, but hey, at that price it makes a nice coloring book if you have kids (or are a kid at heart).
Do Creationism and Evolution have to be mutually exclusive to one another? (This part is only my theory ) Think of this, God in his infinite wisdom realized that the world would go through changes over time. Knowing this why is it hard to believe that He would create organisms able to evolve and adapt to the changes of the world? It makes sense to have things slowly change over a period of time since if something just appeared that was different, the nature of not only people but also animals would be to kill it for being different.
For some great movie reviews check out www.khyron.net . This guy is good.
For good stuff on anything Esoteric (UFO's, Shadow Government,etc.) there is only one place to go www.binnallofamerica.com. There you can find streaming interviews, articles by some really good writers that know their stuff and links to find just about anything you need in the world of Esoterica.
Not much to say this time, but that's the way it is when allergy season comes around. So all I can say to you today is May you be in Heaven a half hour before the Devil knows you're dead.
Do Creationism and Evolution have to be mutually exclusive to one another? (This part is only my theory ) Think of this, God in his infinite wisdom realized that the world would go through changes over time. Knowing this why is it hard to believe that He would create organisms able to evolve and adapt to the changes of the world? It makes sense to have things slowly change over a period of time since if something just appeared that was different, the nature of not only people but also animals would be to kill it for being different.
For some great movie reviews check out www.khyron.net . This guy is good.
For good stuff on anything Esoteric (UFO's, Shadow Government,etc.) there is only one place to go www.binnallofamerica.com. There you can find streaming interviews, articles by some really good writers that know their stuff and links to find just about anything you need in the world of Esoterica.
Not much to say this time, but that's the way it is when allergy season comes around. So all I can say to you today is May you be in Heaven a half hour before the Devil knows you're dead.
Thursday, March 22, 2007
It's the most wonderful time of the year...
Spring. A time when schoolkids get a week away from school to spend with their videogames, bikes and friends. A time when the trees blossom and the flowers bloom. A time when high heating bills end and a respite occurs before the cooling bills come. Christmas is paid for and New Years Resolutions are forgotten.
All of these things are nice. But two things annually happen in spring that are guaranteed to bring a smile to my face.
The Start of the Baseball Season and Wrestlemania.
As a lifelong St. Louis Cardinals fan, opening day at Busch Stadium is a holiday in my family. Not a holiday to exchange presents or dress up for grandma during dinner, no, it's a holiday in the fact that it is a time when the family gets together, puts on a new ball cap and jersey and pigs out on snacks while watching fabulous athletes preforming in a way that few ever will be able to.
The start of a new season represents the hope that we all should have, the hope that everything will be better tomorrow, that there is always a chance that if we give it our all we can overcome any obstacles. That isn't to say that our team always wins or that we always win in our lives, but if we give it our best shot there is nothing to be ashamed of.
While Baseball Season is beginning, Wrestlemania is an end of sorts. While wrestling doesn't have a season such as Baseball, Football or Basketball; Wrestlemania has always been considered the end of the year gala such as the World Series, Superbowl and the NBA Playoffs. It is where feuds are settled, champions are crowned and legacies cemented.
Many people don't understand my fascination with the "sport" of professional wrestling. How I have been able to watch it for the past 26 years and follow it with the same passion that I follow the Cardinals in baseball. To me (and remember this is just my opinion), wrestling is the closest thing we have to the gods of myth and legend. For a few hours a week I can watch larger than life supermen battle each other in the ages old tradition of Good Vs. Evil, and no place is it bigger and more spectacular than Wrestlemania.
There have been moments that have been embedded into our pop culture, such as Hulk Hogan slamming Andre the Giant at Wrestlemania III. There have been moments that touched us such as the reunion of Randy Savage and Ms. Elizabeth at Wrestlemania VII. There have been moments that transcend the wrestling aspect of it and show that perseverance and dedication can pay off as Chris Benoit and the late Eddie Guerrero embraced each other after each had "won" their respective World Titles at Wrestlemania XX.
This year is poised to be no different as Shawn Michaels takes on John Cena, a match bridging the 80's and 90's generation with the new generation. The Undertaker takes his undefeated streak at Wrestlemania's up against Batista, another match pitting the older generation against the new generation. No matter who wins these matches, it's almost guaranteed that there will be something that will be remembered decades from now.
Spring is the time when rebirth is in full swing. No matter what the reason, and there are many of them, it is the most wonderful time of the year.
All of these things are nice. But two things annually happen in spring that are guaranteed to bring a smile to my face.
The Start of the Baseball Season and Wrestlemania.
As a lifelong St. Louis Cardinals fan, opening day at Busch Stadium is a holiday in my family. Not a holiday to exchange presents or dress up for grandma during dinner, no, it's a holiday in the fact that it is a time when the family gets together, puts on a new ball cap and jersey and pigs out on snacks while watching fabulous athletes preforming in a way that few ever will be able to.
The start of a new season represents the hope that we all should have, the hope that everything will be better tomorrow, that there is always a chance that if we give it our all we can overcome any obstacles. That isn't to say that our team always wins or that we always win in our lives, but if we give it our best shot there is nothing to be ashamed of.
While Baseball Season is beginning, Wrestlemania is an end of sorts. While wrestling doesn't have a season such as Baseball, Football or Basketball; Wrestlemania has always been considered the end of the year gala such as the World Series, Superbowl and the NBA Playoffs. It is where feuds are settled, champions are crowned and legacies cemented.
Many people don't understand my fascination with the "sport" of professional wrestling. How I have been able to watch it for the past 26 years and follow it with the same passion that I follow the Cardinals in baseball. To me (and remember this is just my opinion), wrestling is the closest thing we have to the gods of myth and legend. For a few hours a week I can watch larger than life supermen battle each other in the ages old tradition of Good Vs. Evil, and no place is it bigger and more spectacular than Wrestlemania.
There have been moments that have been embedded into our pop culture, such as Hulk Hogan slamming Andre the Giant at Wrestlemania III. There have been moments that touched us such as the reunion of Randy Savage and Ms. Elizabeth at Wrestlemania VII. There have been moments that transcend the wrestling aspect of it and show that perseverance and dedication can pay off as Chris Benoit and the late Eddie Guerrero embraced each other after each had "won" their respective World Titles at Wrestlemania XX.
This year is poised to be no different as Shawn Michaels takes on John Cena, a match bridging the 80's and 90's generation with the new generation. The Undertaker takes his undefeated streak at Wrestlemania's up against Batista, another match pitting the older generation against the new generation. No matter who wins these matches, it's almost guaranteed that there will be something that will be remembered decades from now.
Spring is the time when rebirth is in full swing. No matter what the reason, and there are many of them, it is the most wonderful time of the year.
TO ALL THINGS A BEGINNING...
This isn't going to change your life.
This isn't going to change the world.
This more than likely won't entertain you.
I'm really not sure what this is going to do. I really don't have any idea on a format other than what I usually do...Rant. One minute I may be talking about the lack of proper border security for America and the next I might be talking about how Steve Austin was far more important to wrestling than Hulk Hogan.
There might be discussions on UFO's or cryptozoology (although there are some that are much more knowledgeable about those type of things) or a good recipe for chili.
Now with that out of the way, I guess we're off.
So, the great movie 300 is causing a stir since it depicts strong willed people not wanting to be overtaken by oppressive forces. Gee, I wonder why that is? Do you think it could be the fact that the people in power want to feminize the entire country? Because it shows how the fighting spirit of America could be used to not just take it anymore? Nah, has to be something about green screen effects.
Those three people involved in the murder of that little boy deserve to be executed. Live on prime time television. Maybe that would deter a few people from doing what they did. Even though I hate to have to think of the fact that there are more people out there that would do what they did.
Ok, sorry this sucked, but I couldn't sleep and it came to me to do this while I was tossing and turning in bed. I promise the next one will have some sembelance of order and reason.
This isn't going to change the world.
This more than likely won't entertain you.
I'm really not sure what this is going to do. I really don't have any idea on a format other than what I usually do...Rant. One minute I may be talking about the lack of proper border security for America and the next I might be talking about how Steve Austin was far more important to wrestling than Hulk Hogan.
There might be discussions on UFO's or cryptozoology (although there are some that are much more knowledgeable about those type of things) or a good recipe for chili.
Now with that out of the way, I guess we're off.
So, the great movie 300 is causing a stir since it depicts strong willed people not wanting to be overtaken by oppressive forces. Gee, I wonder why that is? Do you think it could be the fact that the people in power want to feminize the entire country? Because it shows how the fighting spirit of America could be used to not just take it anymore? Nah, has to be something about green screen effects.
Those three people involved in the murder of that little boy deserve to be executed. Live on prime time television. Maybe that would deter a few people from doing what they did. Even though I hate to have to think of the fact that there are more people out there that would do what they did.
Ok, sorry this sucked, but I couldn't sleep and it came to me to do this while I was tossing and turning in bed. I promise the next one will have some sembelance of order and reason.
Primus
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