Hasselhoff Wednesday: Election Day Yesterday!

 

Don't look at me, I voted for this guy.

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

eidolon \ahy-DOH-luhn\, noun:

1. A phantom; apparition.
2. An ideal.

Eidolon comes from the more common word idol, which originally referred to pagan religious idols. It was first used in the 1820s.

 
Nerdist Colony, Noun: 

• A place where people of a geekier nature can be themselves without the fear of ridicule; an area where cosplay is accepted as being normal and out of costume people are rejected and despised. Normally a comic book store or a gaming shop.

Craig: Um... dude, why are you dressed as Spock?
Geoff: Oh. I'm heading over to the nerdist colony to flash my sonic screwdriver at some orion slave girls. Wanna come?

Craig: ...Sure, why the force not? *grabs Batman costume*

 

Trivia

 

How old must a person be to serve as a U.S. congressman? How about as a senator?

• Congressman, at least 25 years old; senator, at least 30. The minimum ages are specified in Article I, Sections 2 and 3, of the U.S. Constitution.

History

• Jefferson Davis: was elected president of the Confederate States of America (he'd already been serving as president under the provisional constitution), one year to the day after Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States of America (1861)
• college football: Rutgers beat Princeton in the first intercollegiate game (1869)
• October Revolution: the Bolshevik uprising began in St. Petersburg; the October/November discrepancy is due to Russian Old Style dates (1917)
• Meet the Press: the Sunday morning talk show debuted; it is the longest-running TV program in the world (1947)
• Australia: voted to keep Queen Elizabeth as its head of state (1999)

Birthdays

• Charles Henry Dow 1851
• John Philip Sousa 1854
• Ignacy Jan Paderewski 1860
• James Naismith 1861
• Walter Perry Johnson 1887
• Ole (John Sigvard) Olsen 1892
• James Jones 1921
• Martin Pavelich 1927
• Mike Nichols 1931
• Stonewall Jackson 1932
• Eugene Pitt (The Jive Five) 1937
• P.J. Proby 1938
• Guy Clark 1941
• Doug Sahm (Sir Douglas Quintet, Texas Tornados) 1941
  
• Mike Clifford 1943
• Sally Field 1946
• Glenn Frey (Eagles) 1948
• Maria Shriver 1955
• Lance Kerwin 1960
• Lori Singer 1961
• Paul Brindley (Sundays) 1963
• Corey Glover (Living Colour) 1964
• Peter DeLuise 1966
• Kelly Rutherford 1968
• Ethan Hawke 1970
  
• Thandie Newton 1972
• Rebecca Romijn Stamos 1972
• Nicole Dubuc 1978
• Emily Jean "Emma" Stone 1988
• Mercedes Kastner 1989
• Yuka Kuramoti 1991 (Japanese butt model)

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

Ridin With Biden

Today I had to go to Lowe's. As I approached the entrance, I noticed a female driver looking for a parking space. I flagged the driver down and pointed out a handicap parking space that was open and available. The driver looked puzzled, rolled down her window and said, "I'm not handicapped!"

 
Well, as you can imagine, my face was red! "Oh, I'm sorry," I said. "I saw your 'I'm Ridin with Biden' " bumper sticker and just assumed that you suffer from a mental disorder."

 
She gave me the finger and screamed some nasty names at me. Boy! Some people just don't appreciate it when you're only trying to help them...

Review Tuesday: Terrifier 3

 

 

TERRIFIER

3

Art the Clown returns to ruin Sienna's Christmas. 

I was planning on stopping with the horror reviews for a bit since I have only been concentrating on that genre for about two months, but since this film is still relevant and we did get around to seeing it in a timely manner I figured I might as well. 

 

This installment in the franchise takes place after the events of TERRIFIER 2. How? you might ask, considering that Art the Clown lost his head in the second movie. This movie, however, puts in the effort to tie together the endings of the first two in an attempt to make some sort of coherent line between the two. In this movie it is fully established that Art is indeed some demon from hell out on this planet to commit mass murder. Of course, while that is being established there is plenty of over the top gore-porn and possibly way too much dull exposition.

 

The movie has a runtime of over TWO HOURS which a surprise from any horror flick. To be honest, I felt the length of the film actually hurt it with a lot of slow periods that dragged the movie to a screeching halt. My wife and I both fell asleep a couple times while trying to watch this. That should never happen during a horror movie. It just told me that the pacing was all off and this movie needed more polishing. Then again, it's not like the previous movies were all that great either, but I didn't fall asleep during either of them as I recall. 

 

Horror movies have notoriously low standards. Usually the ingredients required are simple: hot chicks screaming, violence, gore, and an unstoppable menace as the villain. If you are one of those who like inventive new ways of executing violence in a horror film, this one might actually have a couple new things for you. All in all I would call this unimpressive. How many times do we have to see Art stop to laugh at people while he's in the process of dismembering them? Meh. Don't worry if you're a big fan. this isn't the end of Art the Clown. They left it wide open for an extremely fourth installment.         

 

 

TIME TO VOTE!

Better than the other choices!

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

cantrip \KAHN-trip\, noun:

1. Chiefly Scot. A magic spell; trick by sorcery.

2. Chiefly British. Artful shamming meant to deceive.

Cantrip is of uncertain origin, but it is most likely a variation of the Old English word calcatrippe which referred to both a plant and a type of iron ball used to block calvary in warfare.

 

prolebrity

• A professional athlete that achieves celebrity status, especially a professional in action sports.

Yo Rob Dyrdek is tight as hell, but it sucks that hes all prolebrity now.

Shaun White has given gingers something to be proud of. It's rad that they have their own prolebrity, man.

 

Holiday

• Election Day USA

  

 

Holiday

• Guy Fawkes Night, also known as Guy Fawkes Day, Bonfire Night and Firework Night, is an annual commemoration observed on 5 November, primarily in Great Britain. Its history begins with the events of 5 November 1605, when Guy Fawkes, a member of the Gunpowder Plot, was arrested while guarding explosives the plotters had placed beneath the House of Lords. Celebrating the fact that King James I had survived the attempt on his life, people lit bonfires around London, and months later the introduction of the Observance of 5th November Act enforced an annual public day of thanksgiving for the plot's failure.

History

• Susan B. Anthony: the suffragist attempted to vote in the 1872 presidential election although women were not allowed to; she was fined $100 but refused to pay (1872)
• Monopoly: the popular Parker Brothers board game was released (1935)
• FDR: beat Wendell Wilkie to win an unprecedented third term as US president (1940)
• Ella Grasso: Connecticut woman became the first female to be elected governor of a US state without succeeding her husband (1974); Shirley Chisolm, the first black woman representative, was elected to Congress (1968)
• Saddam Hussein: the Iraqi dictator was sentenced to death for crimes against humanity (2006)

Birthdays

• Eugene Victor Debs 1855
• Will Durant 1885
• Alfred Neale 1891
• Raymond Loewy 1893
• Joel McCrea 1905
  
• Natalie Schafer 1912
• Roy Rogers (Leonard Slye) 1912
• Vivien Leigh 1913
• John McGiver 1913
• Myron Floren 1918
• Ike Turner 1931
• Billy Sherrill 1936
• Chris Robinson 1938
• Elke Sommer 1940
• Art Garfunkel 1941
• Sam Shepard 1943
• Gram Parsons (Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers) 1946
• Peter Noone (Herman's Hermits) 1947
• Armin Shimermin 1949
• Bill Walton 1952
• Jon-Erik Hexum 1958

• Robert Patrick 1958
• Bryan Adams 1959
• Tatum O'Neal 1963
• Andrea McArdle 1963
• Famke Janssen 1964
• Angelo Moore (Fishbone) 1965
• Mark Hunter (James) 1968
• Corin Nemec 1971
• Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead) 1971
• Ryan Adams (Whiskeytown) 1974
• Heather Kinley (The Kinleys) 1978
• Jennifer Kinley (The Kinleys) 1978
• Jeremy Lelliott 1982

 

 

 

  

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Look forward to 4

Wendy 4

aka

Wendy Fiore

aka

Wendy Combattente

 

   

  

  

 

 

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