Good Stuff and Bad Stuff
The New MuralOnce upon a time around March 2007
Starting off on a serious note, an article at
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03182007/news/regionalnews/girls_bloody_beating_regionalnews_dan_mangan________and_leela_de_kretser.htm reports that a Filipino girl was brutally attacked on a bus home from school by at least ten other ten teenagers because she looked Chinese. Just for that and no other reason. The bus driver, of course, did nothing and just told her to go to a priest.
WHAT THE HELL IS THAT ABOUT?
First, we still live in world where you can beat up a kid for the way they look and get away with it? Then, what is the deal with the bus driver? Some heads better be stomped into little itty bits by huge stomping boots because of this. Global warming cannot come soon enough so we can be rid of people like these.
Then there is this story at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6473897.stm where some folk in Indonesia have been arrested for beheading Christian school girls. It just does not get any better does it? This horrible plague called humanity. That tsunami got all the wrong people.
Let us just get the beheaders and the bus beater uppers with their bus driver in a small room let them rip. That or I would love to Battle Royale them up. Any survivors (in either situation) get an RPG in their chest (and I do not mean Dungeons and Dragons).
Anyway:
To get my mind off that topic, think about this: Only in Xena can there be a submarine episode set in ancient Greece. And be serious about it.
The Cure is going to be playing in Hong Kong on July 30th of this year. How cool is that going to be? Anyone got two pairs to tickets and airfare to spare? And while we are at it, can anyone send me to M’era Luna as well?
The Cure is also in Miami this weekend, but I have no need to see them in the Wang of the Nation.
And continuing on with the good, happy news that does not involve beating people up on the bus or cutting their heads off, they are making another comics related mural by the [new] Golden Apple in Northridge (as reported at http://www.dailynews.com/entertainment/ci_5480155 ).
The original mural is a happy memory of mine as it felt like a security blanket when I first moved to the big city. I was disappointed when they painted over it, too bad they were not able to declare it a landmark or something. I am sure that back then when people were giving directions, they were like: When you see Wolverine take a right turn at the next light. Or something like that.
I never cared for the Free Enterprise movie, but own it because there is a scene that occurs that shows the mural in all its glory as well as a scene inside the original Northridge Golden Apple.
[The problem with the new mural is that it will not be as visible as the old one- from what I can tell at least. This new one is not only in a blind spot; shrubbery may obscure it as well. But from the picture, the main image is once again a recreation of Frank Miller’s cover to the first Wolverine mini-series.]
And I might have mentioned this before, but on clear nights at the house I can see stars (I could not see them for crap at the apartment or back in Northridge but they were plenty visible in the outskirts of Ventura County and Santa Barbara). Better still, I can see and recognize at least two constellations (Orion and the Big Dipper). I am close enough to the city to get some glare and the view would not be as great if I were way, away from the city, but I am looking forward to spending summers on the roof just staring up.
[Back to bad news again, I have got to enjoy this while it lasts- at the pace they are building things around here pretty soon I will not be able to recognize Orion if he shot me full of arrows himself]
Someone out there is throwing rumors that the local PBS station might show the new Doctor Series on Thursday nights repeating on Saturday nights.
THAT. WOULD. BE. AWESOME.
Especially if they show the new series that begins March 31st in the old country.
I have not talked about 24 in a while, have I? I am still watching the new episodes as they come but since the two parter the show seems to have come to a slump. They are still exiting, with great openings and endings on each installment but it seems as if all you had to do was watch the first five minutes and the last five minutes and you will have seen everything you needed to know. The show was essentially a donut.
The episode this week was better though as we learn what has happened to the formerly Drippy Audrey who is now covered by a Tarp Audrey. Speculation online had bets that Jack’s revenge comes into play next season or the inevitable movie. I say it will come sooner and it will involve the mysterious exchange President Palmer-Wood had to give the Chinese for Jack in the beginning of the season.
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Starting off on a serious note, an article at
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03182007/news/regionalnews/girls_bloody_beating_regionalnews_dan_mangan________and_leela_de_kretser.htm reports that a Filipino girl was brutally attacked on a bus home from school by at least ten other ten teenagers because she looked Chinese. Just for that and no other reason. The bus driver, of course, did nothing and just told her to go to a priest.
WHAT THE HELL IS THAT ABOUT?
First, we still live in world where you can beat up a kid for the way they look and get away with it? Then, what is the deal with the bus driver? Some heads better be stomped into little itty bits by huge stomping boots because of this. Global warming cannot come soon enough so we can be rid of people like these.
Then there is this story at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6473897.stm where some folk in Indonesia have been arrested for beheading Christian school girls. It just does not get any better does it? This horrible plague called humanity. That tsunami got all the wrong people.
Let us just get the beheaders and the bus beater uppers with their bus driver in a small room let them rip. That or I would love to Battle Royale them up. Any survivors (in either situation) get an RPG in their chest (and I do not mean Dungeons and Dragons).
Anyway:
To get my mind off that topic, think about this: Only in Xena can there be a submarine episode set in ancient Greece. And be serious about it.
The Cure is going to be playing in Hong Kong on July 30th of this year. How cool is that going to be? Anyone got two pairs to tickets and airfare to spare? And while we are at it, can anyone send me to M’era Luna as well?
The Cure is also in Miami this weekend, but I have no need to see them in the Wang of the Nation.
And continuing on with the good, happy news that does not involve beating people up on the bus or cutting their heads off, they are making another comics related mural by the [new] Golden Apple in Northridge (as reported at http://www.dailynews.com/entertainment/ci_5480155 ).
The original mural is a happy memory of mine as it felt like a security blanket when I first moved to the big city. I was disappointed when they painted over it, too bad they were not able to declare it a landmark or something. I am sure that back then when people were giving directions, they were like: When you see Wolverine take a right turn at the next light. Or something like that.
I never cared for the Free Enterprise movie, but own it because there is a scene that occurs that shows the mural in all its glory as well as a scene inside the original Northridge Golden Apple.
[The problem with the new mural is that it will not be as visible as the old one- from what I can tell at least. This new one is not only in a blind spot; shrubbery may obscure it as well. But from the picture, the main image is once again a recreation of Frank Miller’s cover to the first Wolverine mini-series.]
And I might have mentioned this before, but on clear nights at the house I can see stars (I could not see them for crap at the apartment or back in Northridge but they were plenty visible in the outskirts of Ventura County and Santa Barbara). Better still, I can see and recognize at least two constellations (Orion and the Big Dipper). I am close enough to the city to get some glare and the view would not be as great if I were way, away from the city, but I am looking forward to spending summers on the roof just staring up.
[Back to bad news again, I have got to enjoy this while it lasts- at the pace they are building things around here pretty soon I will not be able to recognize Orion if he shot me full of arrows himself]
Someone out there is throwing rumors that the local PBS station might show the new Doctor Series on Thursday nights repeating on Saturday nights.
THAT. WOULD. BE. AWESOME.
Especially if they show the new series that begins March 31st in the old country.
I have not talked about 24 in a while, have I? I am still watching the new episodes as they come but since the two parter the show seems to have come to a slump. They are still exiting, with great openings and endings on each installment but it seems as if all you had to do was watch the first five minutes and the last five minutes and you will have seen everything you needed to know. The show was essentially a donut.
The episode this week was better though as we learn what has happened to the formerly Drippy Audrey who is now covered by a Tarp Audrey. Speculation online had bets that Jack’s revenge comes into play next season or the inevitable movie. I say it will come sooner and it will involve the mysterious exchange President Palmer-Wood had to give the Chinese for Jack in the beginning of the season.
________________________________________________________________________
http://www.myspace.com/catterpillarboy
http://catterpillarboy.blogspot.com/
http://catterpillarboy.livejournal.com
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