I Just Want a Kitty

What were they thinking when they did that?!?

2011-12-17T16:48:00.000-05:00

One week to Christmas Eve. Yep I'm ready. Loooove this time of year, all the crazies out panic shopping on the last shopping weekend before the holiday. There was even a little bit of snow to make everything wet and some of the crazies even crazier.

This brings us to my next bunch of vintage Christmas photos for your holiday viewing enjoyment. I'll call today's collection "What the heck were they thinking when they did the garland?". Growing up, my mom always did the garland on our tree and her slight OCD made it quite enjoyable to watch. Here's how it went: 1) Dad and us kids put the tree up 2) Dad does the lights 3) kids put ornaments up 4) mom puts garland up 6) mom adjusts garland 7) mom adjusts garland some more 8) Mom takes garland off tree and re-puts it back on 9) Mom hates it, takes it down 10) mom puts the garland up but at another angle 11) Mom hates it and takes it all off again 12) Mom puts it back up the way she had it up in the first place 13) Mom adjusts the garland. Then we were able to put the trainset up. Looking at the following photos I can assure you that Mom would most definately NOT approve of the garland...

Garland matches the carpet, they get points for that.

One strand?!? And on the bottom?!?

Looks like someone's arms got tired after the first wrap. Gotta love people who like to conserve garland by only wrapping around the front of the tree.

One gets the impression that the garland wrapper felt the need to restrain this tree.

More tired arms. Start at the top, and then straight down and once around.

This is definately not my mom's tree. She couldn't reach that high.

Wow. Creative yes. Wow again.

Look at the shiny ornament and pay no attention to the goofy garland my dear.

No tree midsection, no place to hang garland. Keep that in mind when you go out looking for a tree!

Merry Christmas!!

I'm too Sexy for my Tree!

2011-12-10T19:40:00.000-05:00

Here are some more fun vintage Christmas photos. We'll put these in the "I'm too sexy for my tree" catagory.

She was in love with her dress, her photographer husband just loved the new carpet though...

Vinyl dress with coordinating go-go boots and obligatory turtleneck.

Work it honey! And when your done get some ornaments on that scrawny naked tree woman..

Another one too busy Christmas dress shopping and no ornament shopping. Sigh. LOVE the shoes though!

The higher the hair the closer to God. And on such a holy night. Plastic on the furniture would make my mother proud.

More Vintage Christmas fun next time!

Christmas Kids

2011-12-09T23:04:00.001-05:00

I love old photographs. Nothing in particular, but just the fact that they can teleport you to a different time and place. Plus they make you wonder: What ever became of the the people in the pictures? What where their lives like? Oh well.. Let's have some fun with some old Christmas photos... :)

"Santa Baby, just slip a sable under the tree, for me..."

Ma! This ain't what I wanted for Christmas!!!

Got my trusty steed and peacemaker.. Santa better not forget what I want or else!

As my 9th grade English teacher used to say: "Blessed art thou among women"

Grandma I don't know what's scarier - your dog or your lamp!

OOOO Shiny ringy thingy!!!!! WANT!!!!

Have a happy Christmas season!

Hey crafters! Here's a tip for you!

2011-09-17T21:45:00.006-04:00

Ever wondered what to do with all those crazy colorful pom poms you have hanging around cluttering the old craft or sewing room?! Nicki Minaj has the perfect solution for you:

Waste not want not. Love the socks!

80's Hair. High and Foofy!

2011-01-14T22:53:00.027-05:00

Tonight's topic is 1980's hair. The 80's were my formative hair years, I went through my teen years dreaming of sky high tresses whipped up with Aqua Net and Tenex. Mousse wasn't just for dessert anymore! Gobs of gel made hair helmets and a few 100 shots of hairspray made those helmets impenetrable. One night I was feeling rather giddy and took a razor to my head and gave myself sort of a mini Mohawk that was easily hideable under layers of feathered camouflage. It worked but I learned one valuable lesson: Prell might be a good shampoo, but it's hell on razor burn.

Ahh 1980's on Long Island, where outfits were big and hair was even bigger! The 80's were also my formative music years. Nothing was better than New Wave stuff and my goodness could those people think of some really wild hairdos!!! Here's a bunch of my favorites.

The Alarm, a personal favorite. Give me love, give me hope, give me hairspray..

Alphaville. The guy in the middle looks sad, maybe it's because his hair went flat...

Bananarama! Poof! Poof! and Poof!

Depeche Mode made 80's hair really cool.

OK, the Flock of Seagulls dude wins the "How the heck did you do that" award this evening.

Gene Loves Jezebel. Yikes.

Teri Nunn of Berlin looking uber cool in her bi-color style.

Howard jones makes foofy hair look good. I saw him in concert in 1985 and throughout the show his do never went flat. Damn.

Kajagoogoo

Missing Persons, plastic boobies and big hair.

Boy George. Need I say more?

Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran. That's the hairstyle I would have loved to have when I was 15. Neither my hair nor my mom would cooperate with me on that one...

Nitro. Never heard of these guys but when I saw the pic I knew it needed to be added to this blog. Wow. That's all I can say.

Poison. Purple jacket, check. Lipstick, check, Bracelets, check. Peroxide, check.

Sigue Sigue Sputnik. I like when the mohawk matches the jacket, don't you? That shows a refined sense of style.

Specimen. These guys weilded cans of hairspray as well as they weilded black kohl eyeliner. I wonder what happened to the Bat Cave?

No 1980's hair compilation would be complete without Robert Smith of the Cure.

Thompson Twins.

Queensryche. The lure of the aerosol can hit the Northwest too, not just the Northeast.

Strawberry Switchblade. Offray Ribbon and their local craft store must have wept when they went away.

And we finish with Vicious Pink and Yazoo:

It makes you want to go out and buy some Aqua Net, doesn't it?!

My seizure inducing Christmas tree

2010-12-30T20:19:00.001-05:00

1,250 minilights plus the star. What a wonder it is! Happy new Year!!

TSA

2010-11-22T18:27:00.001-05:00

The old cliche gets even worse...

2010-11-21T00:06:00.003-05:00

You know the old cliche: "Life sucks and then you die" How about this: "Life sucks and then you die and then you are fossilized dying"
Never say "Things can't get any worse", fate has ears you know...

Making Geology Sexy!

2010-11-07T09:42:00.002-05:00

More like a Monday today...

2010-11-06T21:54:00.010-04:00

Here I sit with nothing to blog. So needless to say I am going to blog anyway as not having anything to blog about hasn't stopped me before. I have been enjoying a rather interesting little wine from Pennsylvania that a dear friend gave to me. Who knew they made wine in Pennsy?! Anyway it's called Tall Ships and it's not so bad because it really doesn't taste so winey. It's a blush and methinks it's not so overpowering. I'm rather liking it. My better half just brought to my attention that I finished the bottle in a half hour. Hmmm I suppose that's a testament to how good it is? Mind you this is the same person who told me this morning that one of the reasons he loves me is that I am not normal. So I just went to the winemakers website and they call this a "country blush" and describe it as medium dry and fruity. I'm not getting fruity but then again I'm a beer chick and not a wine woman. Formally a vodka vixen and Malibu Maven, but I suppose those days are over ;)

Today we bought a bottle of vodka and it's a watered down version. I know there is plenty wrong with this state but watering down alcohol seems rather perverted to me. Cheaper maybe, but really?! This state is more fruity than this wine seems.

I just checked the website again and the vinyard carries peach, cherry and raspberry wines also... Yum! That wouldn't be a bad version to try. The fruitier the better!!

Gratuitous volcano post

2010-11-05T19:06:00.006-04:00

OK so I just had to anyway.... Here are a couple of photos taken as screen saves on my iPad. They are of Merapi

Daytime covered in volcanic ash

Night time eruption

I am a volcano webcam addict....

Here's Colima on November 4th:

Geology rocks!

Huh!

2010-11-05T18:01:00.006-04:00

OK so another volcano is erupting, that means I'll be writing a new post or adding pictures right?! Well, almost right. I'll get to the earth burping in a future post perhaps but not this one. I'll let the major news networks do the heavy stuff today.
Right now i am going to go on about one thing. And only one thing. One thing that is near and dear to my little ticking heart ~ Christmas lights. It's that time of year again (don't give me that "It's only November 5th" schtuff!!) Let's face it nowadays Christmas season begins when the munchkins go back to school. This year I was watching to see who would advertise first, who would end Fall early and rush us into Winter before we were ready? Kmart did. Not Wallyworld suprisingly enough. Hello, blue light special on patience already... Ooops sorry, all out!! Maybe next year.

But getting back to my Christmas lights, I have decided to do something a little different and quite radical for me. Every year I try to coat every available wall with those wonderful, brilliant little lights but not this year. By now I must have thousands of lights on heaven knows how many strings... Steady on lights, chaser lights, blinky lights, fade in/out lights and whatever else it have. (Holiday Intereior Illumination is my thing). This year they won't be going on the walls or even the windows, they are all going on my not quite 6 foot scrawny plastic Christmas tree (Ahem! That's a Walmart Aspen Fir with realistic bendable branches if you please). I thought about it and figured "Why should I be the only one having hot flashes here?!" This year my little fake tree victim is going to be covered - no, slathered in billions and billions of hot mini Christmas lights in a festival of color and action. My aim is to have the first tree in Christmas history to be seziure inducing.
Needless to say the prospect is very exciting but not so excited about having to take it all apart after the New Year.. But that's a bridge to be crossed at another time so we won't be thinking about it right now. Just imagine, sitting on my couch with a nice mug of hot cocoa, with sunglasses on and getting a tan from my tree. Come on Thanksgiving arrive,I can't wait all month now can I?!?!

Mount Sinabung

2010-08-29T09:50:00.001-04:00

A volcano has erupted on Indonesia's island of Sumatra, forcing thousands of people to flee their homes as black smoke and ash shot up 1,500 meters into the air.

Mount Sinabung in the north of Sumatra began erupting around Saturday midnight after rumbling for several days.

A red alert was issued for the region after the Sinabung volcano thundered back to life for the first time in 400 years.

According to Surono, head of Indonesia's Volcanology center, lava was overflowing the volcano's crater.

"This is the first time in history since 1600 that Sinabung erupted and we have little knowledge about it," Reuters quoted Surono as saying.

Authorities evacuated at least 12,000 people from high risk areas on the slopes of the 2,460-meter volcano to temporary shelters. The area around the volcano is largely agricultural.

Local people have been urged to wear face masks to avoid health problems from the volcanic ash. And those living along rivers have been told to be on alert for lava-induced floods.

There are at least 120 active volcanoes in Indonesia, which is part of the Asia-Pacific "Ring of Fire", a series of volcanoes and fault lines stretching from the Western Hemisphere through Japan and South East Asia.

Reflections on turning 40

2010-07-03T23:42:00.004-04:00

For some reason I think 29 was the most stressful for me. Letting go of my youth I suppose. In my family by 29 you should have been married with 2 or 3 kids, have a mortgage and car payments. Ooops... I so missed that boat with glee. At 33 I ran off to Europe, eloped with the man of my dreams and never looked back. Since tonight is my last night of my 30s decade I'll bore you with my non-mid-life crisis.

Oddly enough I'm looking forward to my forties. Mortality is a fact of life and we are all bound for heaven so to speak. A few women friends have told me that I will like being 40, because at this point in my life I won't give a darn anymore. One said that there is a confidence that comes along with age and experience. And I blamed all that apathy on my recent major surgery, that kind of gives you a sense that you're bulletproof. I didn't feel like drinking beer much either after that bit of work... Thank goodness this evening I've gotten past that too!

3 minutes left and it's still cool. Tomorrow will be another day and then the one after. Thank God for letting me get this far. I have a great husband, great family, great friends, my health and a job. In my eyes that means I have a very rich life, I am very blessed and I look forward to being a 40 year old or a whatever year old! :)

At least it can be pronounced!

2010-05-28T17:16:00.004-04:00

LONDON - A second, much larger volcano in Iceland is showing signs that it may be about to erupt, scientists have warned.

Since the start of the Eyjafjallajökull eruption, which caused cancellations of thousands of flights in Europe because of a giant ash cloud, there has been much speculation about neighboring Katla.

An initial research paper by the University College of London Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction said: "Analysis of the seismic energy released around Katla over the last decade or so is interpreted as providing evidence of a rising ... intrusive magma body on the western flank of the volcano."

"Earlier seismic energy release at Katla is associated with the inflation of the volcano, which indicates it is close to failure, although this does not appear to be linked to seismicity around Eyjafjallajökull," it added.

"We conclude that given the high frequency of Katla activity, an eruption in the short term is a strong possibility," the report said. "It is likely to be preceded by new earthquake activity. Presently there is no unusual seismicity under Katla."

Icelandic President Ólafur Grímsson has warned governments around Europe that a significant eruption at the volcano is close. "We [Iceland] have prepared ... it is high time for European governments and airline authorities all over Europe and the world to start planning for the eventual Katla eruption," he said.

And according to the "Global Volcanism Program" website:
Katla volcano, located near the southern end of Iceland's eastern volcanic zone, is hidden beneath the Myrdalsjökull icecap. The subglacial basaltic-to-rhyolitic volcano is one of Iceland's most active and is a frequent producer of damaging jökulhlaups, or glacier-outburst floods. A large 10 x 14 km subglacial caldera with a long axis in a NW-SE direction is up to 750 m deep. Its high point reaches 1380 m, and three major outlet glaciers have breached its rim. Although most historical eruptions have taken place from fissures inside the caldera, the Eldgjá fissure system, which extends about 60 km to the NE from the current ice margin towards Grímsvötn volcano, has been the source of major Holocene eruptions. An eruption from the Eldgjá fissure system about 934 AD produced a voluminous lava flow of about 18 cu km, one of the world's largest known Holocene lava flows. Katla has been the source of frequent subglacial basaltic explosive eruptions that have been among the largest tephra-producers in Iceland during historical time and has also produced numerous dacitic explosive eruptions during the Holocene.

If you thought that "That which can not be pronounced" was a heck of a volcanic ride, this'll be a bit more hair-raising methinks....

Dear Lord....

2010-05-22T16:35:00.001-04:00

An Ode to Granny Panties

2010-05-15T17:07:00.005-04:00

This morning while getting dressed I looked at my underwear collection and thought how sad it really has become. What used to be filled with shiny things from Fredrick's of Hollywood is now loaded with mostly white cotton comfort things from Walmart. One little imperfection on one of those shiny pairs of undies and out it went ~ and new ones were bought to replace the offending pair immediately. But now, a well worn, somewhat greying pair of granny's with elastic on it's last leg is a treasure to hang onto til that leg finally goes and it needs to finally be put out of it's misery. Then there is the mourning and a few stages of grief after the tossing out. How things change as you get older...

Since it's Saturday and I have nothing to do (except laundry, dishes, vacuuming, floor washing, toilet scrubbing, dusting, gardening and duck feeding) I looked Granny Panties up on Google and found something entertaining at the Urban Dictionary website. This is what it says:

1. A term to describe the kind of women's underpants that are considered "uncool" if you're under the age of 60, or something. In this aspect they are similar to tightie whities for boys. Granny pants are usually high cut, with a highly elastic waistband that will come up to at least your belly button. They may also come in floral patterns, pink patterns, or other "old lady" looking styles- just like any other type of underwear, actually, anything's possible stylewise.

People who wear granny underwear usually wear it because:
A) their mom bought it for them
B) they don't like thongs or bikini cuts
C) they're playing some kind of sport (oh, c'mon, you don't seriously think that all female athletes wear thongs, do you? Most "sporty" girls underpants are NOT thongs or really low cut.)
D) they just like them and don't care what others think.

Locker room:
-"Ew, you wear granny panties?"
-"Yeah, that's right, I do. Get over it. At least they don't go up my a** like thongs."

2. A pair of underwear which are usually A) larger than the woman who wears them. B) Very stretchy and elastic. C) The best pair of undies you'll ever wear.
Most people frown upon them because, as we all know, the smaller your undies are, the cooler you are. But in terms of comfort and practicality they beat thongs by a mile or more.

I wear granny panties because I'd rather have baggy undies than a string in my ass.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=granny%20panties

Duran Duran, Nagel and the potty lady...

2010-05-09T21:20:00.009-04:00

One of my most favorite bands as a teenager was Duran Duran. Loved them and couldn't hear them or see them enough. Oooo and that Simon LeBon, he was quite the hottie to my then teenage eyes, oh yeah he was the cat's meow! That was quite a while ago and finally getting to see them 2 years ago was still quite a thrill to me. Like a dream come true over twenty years later... Well better later then never I suppose. Whoa! A few months ago he turned something like 52 years old or whatever ~ THAT made me feel really really old! Sigh.

Anyway, so it was their album Rio that introduced me to the artist Patrick Nagel who did the cover art. You know the one who did all those beautiful, sleek art deco like ladies. And Rio was a lovely lady, no?:

So the other night I'm surfing the web as usual and came across more pictures of women by the same artist, all in style similar to our friend Rio here. Very sleek, elegant ladies that you would expect from Mr Nagel. Finally I came across one that I had never seen before and couldn't believe my eyes ~ I had to laugh as it caught me completely off guard. Never expected to see one like this!! But I must say, Nagel even made something as mundane as usuing the toilet very elegant indeed!

"You know you're something special and you look like you're the best..."

Cute Silent Film Blurb

2010-05-08T23:40:00.005-04:00

You know, just thinking about it makes me wish I had some good New York Cheesecake right about now... Oooo and a hot cup of tea too. Yummo!

Hoppy & Gabby together again...

2010-05-03T21:19:00.004-04:00

Before you start singing "Back in the saddle again..." wait til you read the rest. This is quite the coinkydink if I don't say so myself. Last Friday I went to Hendrysburg to see the actual house that William Hopalong Cassidy Boyd was born in. It's a quaint rather unassuming, bit smallish box on the side of an impossible to find (almost) country road. Thus a few hundred feet and a short busride back is this sign:

Sweet, huh? I think so. The fun part is this: Stand in front of the William Boyd birthplace sign and take your picture. Then all you have to do is turn 180 degrees around and you will see this sign:

Now, how can any Hopalong or Gabby Hayes fan NOT appreciate that?! Too fun!

Flappers and the Roaring 20's

2010-05-01T17:13:00.002-04:00

Just so you know...

2010-04-21T19:34:00.007-04:00

Here's how it's pronounced:
Eyjafjallajokull (ay-yah-FYAH-lah-yer-kuhl) volcano
Consider this a public service.

Girly girl things

2010-04-18T21:06:00.002-04:00

Admittedly I am not a girly girl. Though I do have an occasional passing fancy for something greatly girly girl or positively princess. Occasionally divine diva. And then there are those certain things that warm my chachki loving heart. Especially when it comes to fingernails. I LOVE having my nails done! There is nothing like a polished French Manicure to feminize a nail chewers fingertips. Yes, I am a nail chewer and have been as long as I can remember. Stress, anger, nerves or just plain boredom are enough to start me a chewin'. Gross perhaps, but maybe that's why I have such an awesome immune system? I have probably ingested more germs than I care to think about, but I digress... This morning whilst pulling clothes out of the dryer, I banged my poor thumbkins right into the darn machine and now this evening it is still angry at me. Good thing I wasn't planning on having the nails done anytime soon. OK I'll be honest, I am just too cheap to get the needed refills after the original set. Sigh. Maybe if I had this cute set done I wouldn't mind paying for the upkeep?

Gratuitous Potty Humor

2010-04-11T21:49:00.005-04:00

Life or Death?

2010-04-05T20:57:00.003-04:00

OK so I'm watching the LIFE series on the Discovery Channel this past Sunday (as I have been since the beginning) and once again I had to turn it off and walk away. Not that this hadn't occured to me in earlier episodes but this weeks show just solidified it in my mind: This series should not be called "Life" ~ more appropriately it should be called "Death" As most of the critters seem to get stalked and eaten on these programs.

Was it well filmed? Yes. Was it well presented? Yes. Was the information interesting? Yes. Do I want to see more dancing birds? Yes please. Do I want to see any more pelicans eating baby birds? No thank you. Would I like to see another starfish having a leg torn off? Hell No!

Call me a weenie, I just see enough blood and gore on the normal stations and the news. The last thing I need to see before I go to bed is a spider the size of my car devouring sweet little frogs. Think I'll go back to surfing the internet on Sunday nights. Sorry Oprah.

Where the heck is this?!

2010-03-26T22:43:00.003-04:00

It's raining cows! Halleluia it's raining cows!

Things that make you go 'Eeeeeeewwww....'

2010-03-18T19:04:00.003-04:00

With a "Free 10 day home trial" I think the real (and un-nerving) question here is: What the heck did they do with the unwanted used/returned Love Maids?! Actually on second thought, maybe some things are better left to the unknown...

The higher the hair, the closer to God!

2010-03-17T19:42:00.005-04:00

Amen to that sister!!

Cabin Fever

2010-03-12T20:02:00.013-05:00

AAACKK is right! I have got to get the heck out of here! I mean really... OK so the month and a half has gone really quickly since my surgery but sitting on the love seat getting really grumpy at the dismal choice of TV shows my cable company happily overcharges me for has really gotten old. The most exciting flicks I have watched in the last week were from my DVD collection ~ or from the library. OMG - one was The Land of the Lost movie. That was hysterical, glad I had my staples out or those things would have shot across the living room as I laughed so hard. A clever T-Rex!

Really, ask yourself this: how many times can you watch the same show on the 'On Demand' channels?! Twice and then it's like put some darn new ones up already (this is from experience...) Uugh. Paranormal documentaries are no fun the second time around. Sorry there's no ghost in this room, and not that one either. You folks are going home with nothing this show, saw it last night.... Sigh. Even the ghosts are bored.

I want to go back to work. It's not like I want to work, I mean personally I'd rather be out on a ginormous yacht taking sun in the Mediterranean while someone serves me dinner and cocktails with frilly little umbrellas in them. BUT at least while I'm at work, I can be around people much more miserable than myself. My job, like most, comes with so much entertaining drama. Utter silliness, I have flashbacks to grade school way too often there.

And what's even worse, all this sitting around healing. And eating. And watching TV. And reading. And eating. They took a huge mass out of me and yet I PUT ON SOME WEIGHT. That's how that works for me. I figured out that there was this newly created empty space so I had to put food there and quickly. Not thinking that maybe some vital organs needed to go back to where they belonged? I'm just thinking here.

OMG it is time to get out among the living and be active and vibrant again. OK maybe 'vibrant' is pushing it a little but you get the picture. Like the great philosophers The Muppets once sang in their film classic "Treasure Island" ~ "Cabin fever has grabbed us all aboard, this once proud vessel has become a floating psycho ward. We were sailing, sailing heading who knows where, and now though we're all here, we're not all there." Makes you think, doesn't it?

Yeah, it makes you think that I really do need to get out of this house or at least step away from the computer, no?!

The Muppets searching for their sanity also...

Wallpaper Nightmare

2010-03-10T22:03:00.003-05:00

Ma! Come help me! Your wallpaper is so loud I cannot hear myself play Christmas music!

Parade of Peacocks

2010-03-09T22:05:00.009-05:00

Aren't peacocks so fascinating? I first ran into one in person while on my honeymoon in Crete. Visiting Knossos, right next door was a fenced in area with a bunch of peacocks all just milling around and squawking (they are VERY loud!) But what beautiful creatures they are, in their blue green finery.

And the albino ones are so devastatingly lovely too. Really amazing animals.

Along with my fascination of this majestic creature I also adore silent films, and that is my bridge to explain why I am sharing the next few photos.. Silent film stars in peacock finery.
Pauline Starke
Mae Murray

Thank you Captain Obvious....

2010-03-08T09:27:00.001-05:00

Funny!

2010-03-04T22:39:00.001-05:00

Caller : Hi, our printer isn't working.

Technician: What's wrong with it?

Caller : The mouse is stuck.

Technician: Mouse? M'am, printers don't have a mouse!

Caller : Oh really?... well I just sent you a picture ...

Our interesting Earth!

2010-03-04T15:11:00.002-05:00

Roughly 2 million years ago, the Taylor Glacier sealed beneath it a small body of water which contained an ancient community of microbes. Trapped below a thick layer of ice, they have remained there ever since, isolated inside a natural time capsule. Evolving independently of the rest of the living world, these microbes exist without heat, light, or oxygen, and are essentially the definition of "primordial ooze." The trapped lake has very high salinity and is rich in iron, which gives the waterfall its red color. A fissure in the glacier allows the subglacial lake to flow out, forming the falls without contaminating the ecosystem within.

Read more: http://www.good.is/post/science-rules-antarctic-glacier-has-five-story-blood-red-waterfall-of-primodial-ooze/?GT1=48001#ixzz0hEz21e7x

http://atlasobscura.com/place/blood-falls

WANT!!!!!!

2010-03-03T22:21:00.002-05:00

OMG!! I just LOOOVE all kinds of decorated eggs!!! Can you imagine this?! Died and went to painted egg heaven!

Chilean Quake Likely Shifted Earth’s Axis, NASA Scientist Says

2010-03-02T10:33:00.002-05:00

By Alex Morales

March 1 (Bloomberg) -- The earthquake that killed more than 700 people in Chile on Feb. 27 probably shifted the Earth’s axis and shortened the day, a National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientist said.

Earthquakes can involve shifting hundreds of kilometers of rock by several meters, changing the distribution of mass on the planet. This affects the Earth’s rotation, said Richard Gross, a geophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who uses a computer model to calculate the effects.

“The length of the day should have gotten shorter by 1.26 microseconds (millionths of a second),” Gross, said today in an e-mailed reply to questions. “The axis about which the Earth’s mass is balanced should have moved by 2.7 milliarcseconds (about 8 centimeters or 3 inches).”

The changes can be modeled, though they’re difficult to physically detect given their small size, Gross said. Some changes may be more obvious, and islands may have shifted, according to Andreas Rietbrock, a professor of Earth Sciences at the U.K.’s Liverpool University who has studied the area impacted, though not since the latest temblor.

Santa Maria Island off the coast near Concepcion, Chile’s second-largest city, may have been raised 2 meters (6 feet) as a result of the latest quake, Rietbrock said today in a telephone interview. He said the rocks there show evidence pointing to past earthquakes shifting the island upward in the past.

‘Ice-Skater Effect’

“It’s what we call the ice-skater effect,” David Kerridge, head of Earth hazards and systems at the British Geological Survey in Edinburgh, said today in a telephone interview. “As the ice skater puts when she’s going around in a circle, and she pulls her arms in, she gets faster and faster. It’s the same idea with the Earth going around if you change the distribution of mass, the rotation rate changes.”

Rietbrock said he hasn’t been able to get in touch with seismologists in Concepcion to discuss the quake, which registered 8.8 on the Richter scale.

“What definitely the earthquake has done is made the Earth ring like a bell,” Rietbrock said.

The magnitude 9.1 Sumatran in 2004 that generated an Indian Ocean tsunami shortened the day by 6.8 microseconds and shifted the axis by about 2.3 milliarcseconds, Gross said.

The changes happen on the day and then carry on “forever,” Benjamin Fong Chao, dean of Earth Sciences of the National Central University in Taiwan, said in an e-mail.

“This small contribution is buried in larger changes due to other causes, such as atmospheric mass moving around on Earth,” Chao said.

To contact the reporter on this story: Alex Morales in London at amorales2@bloomberg.net.

Roberto Candia, Associated Press. A view of Pelluhue, Chile, some 200 miles southwest of Santiago, Sunday. After the earthquake that struck central Chile Saturday, a tsunami destroyed much of the village.

Just a thought..

2010-03-01T12:17:00.002-05:00

How lousy a pres is Obama when the Germans are inspired by his ineptitude to create a float like this?!

Earthquake Map - Interactive

2010-02-27T23:04:00.001-05:00

Earthquakes

2010-02-27T22:54:00.003-05:00

With all the news from Chile today ~ 8.8 WOW.... I thought I'd let you know there was an earthquake in Oklahoma today too. Luckily it was ALOT smaller than the one in Chile. I cannot imagine how scary it must have been for the folks in Chile to go through the ground shaking and dangers that followed. Scary stuff. Makes you realize just how tiny we are on this dynamic planet. Squaters, really! If some bonehead comes out of the woodwork and says the "earth is angry because of global warming" someone please smack them upside the head, HARD.

Here's a map of the earthquake prone areas of the USA just to keep you up at night....

This map shows relative shaking hazards in the United States and Puerto Rico. During a 50-year time period, the probability of strong shaking increases from very low (white), to moderate (blue, green, and yellow), to high (orange, pink, and red). Map not to scale. Source: USGS

Geology is Fun!

2010-02-25T22:30:00.000-05:00

I have to agree with these guys....

2010-02-24T22:16:00.003-05:00

In heaven there is no beer, that's why we drink it here!

Bessie Love

2010-02-23T09:09:00.008-05:00

Recuperating from surgery has it's good points, one of which is being able to sit and watch all the movies that you "have wanted to see forever" plus a few surprises you never thought you'd see (or like). Yesterday was a perfect day for it, I got to watch Broadway Melody of 1929 and the Hollywood Review also from 1929 both of which showcased the acting talents of Bessie Love. It's so hard not to like her! In the first movie she is the optimistic noble sister who sadly gives everything up for her little sister's happiness and the next film showed her adorable comedic side. Not to mention her singing and dancing abilities! See below:

According to Wikipedia: Bessie Love September 10, 1898 – April 26, 1986. Love was born Juanita Horton in Midland, Texas. She attended school in Midland until she was in the eighth grade, when her chiropractor father moved his family to Hollywood. Bessie graduated from Los Angeles High School and then received from her parents (as a graduation present) of a trip around the United States. After six months of traveling, she finally returned home to Los Angeles.

To help with the family's financial situation, Love's mother sent her to Biograph Studios, where she met pioneering film director D.W. Griffith. Griffith, who introduced Bessie Love to films, also gave the actress her screen moniker. He gave her small roles in his films The Birth of a Nation (1915) and in Intolerance (1916). She also appeared opposite William S. Hart in The Aryan and with Douglas Fairbanks in The Good Bad Man, Reggie Mixes In, and The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (all 1916).

In 1922 Love was selected one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars.[1][2] In 1923, she starred in Human Wreckage with Dorothy Davenport and produced by Thomas Ince.

As her roles got larger, so did her popularity. She performed the Charleston in the movie The King on Main Street in 1925. Also that same year she starred in The Lost World, a science fiction adventure based on the novel of the same name by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Three years later she starred in The Matinee Idol, a romantic comedy directed by a young Frank Capra.

Love was able to successfully transition to talkies, and in 1929 she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Broadway Melody. She also appeared in several other early musicals including The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929), Chasing Rainbows (1930), Good News (1930), and They Learned About Women (1930).

However, by 1932 her American film career was in decline. She moved to England in 1935 and did stage work and occasional films there. As war came in Europe she returned to the US for a while, worked for the Red Cross, and entertained the troops. After the war she moved back to Britain where she kept her main residence, and continued to play small film roles for film companies in both the US and Britain. She appeared in films like The Barefoot Contessa (1954) with Humphrey Bogart, and as an American tourist in The Greengage Summer (1961) starring Kenneth More.[2] She also played a small role as an American tourist in the James Bond thriller On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969).

Her career came to a quick halt soon after that however, and she moved permanently to the United Kingdom, becoming a British citizen. She made a comeback in the 1980s with roles in Ragtime (1981), Warren Beatty's Reds (1981), Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981) and (her final film) The Hunger (1983) starring Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, and Susan Sarandon. During her lifetime, Love featured in 131 films and TV episodes.

In 1977 she published an autobiography From Hollywood with Love. She was at this time living comfortably in a flat overlooking London’s Clapham Common and had recently appeared in a television account of the abdication of King Edward VIII.

She recorded that during World War II in Britain when she found acting work hard to come by she had been the ‘continuity girl’ on the film drama San Demetrio – London an account of a ship badly damaged in the Atlantic but whose crew managed to bring her to port. She also says she had regular diet in the post-war era of stage roles as an American Tourist and similar and was Aunt Pitti Patt in a large-scale musical version of Gone With the Wind.

Love was married once, from 1929 to 1935, to film producer William Hawks (the brother of film director Howard Hawks), and she had a daughter from that marriage. She died in London, England from natural causes on April 26, 1986.

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6777 Hollywood Blvd.

Climategate Meets the Law (Hopefully!)

2010-02-23T08:36:00.004-05:00

Climategate Meets the Law: Senator Inhofe To Ask for DOJ Investigation
(Pajamas Media/PJTV Exclusive)
February 23, 2010
by Charlie Martin

Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) today asked the Obama administration to investigate what he called “the greatest scientific scandal of our generation” — the actions of climate scientists revealed by the Climategate Files, and the subsequent admissions by the editors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4).

Senator Inhofe also called for former Vice President Al Gore to be called back to the Senate to testify.

“In [Gore's] science fiction movie, every assertion has been rebutted,” Inhofe said. He believes Vice President Gore should defend himself and his movie before Congress.

Just prior to a hearing at 10:00 a.m. EST, Senator Inhofe released a minority staff report from the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, of which he is ranking member. Senator Inhofe is asking the Department of Justice to investigate whether there has been research misconduct or criminal actions by the scientists involved, including Dr. Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University and Dr. James Hansen of Columbia University and the NASA Goddard Institute of Space Science.

This report, obtained exclusively by Pajamas Media before today’s hearing, alleges:

[The] Minority Staff of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works believe the scientists involved may have violated fundamental ethical principles governing taxpayer-funded research and, in some cases, federal laws. In addition to these findings, we believe the emails and accompanying documents seriously compromise the IPCC -backed “consensus” and its central conclusion that anthropogenic emissions are inexorably leading to environmental catastrophes.

As has been reported here at Pajamas Media over the last several months, the exposure of the Climategate Files has led to a re-examination of the IPCC Assessment Reports, especially the fourth report (AR4), published in 2007. The IPCC AR4 report was named by Environmental Protection Agency head Lisa Jackson as one of the major sources of scientific support for the agency’s Endangerment Finding, the first step towards allowing the EPA to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant.

Since the Climategate Files were released, the IPCC has been forced to retract a number of specific conclusions — such as a prediction that Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035 — and has been forced to confirm that the report was based in large part on reports from environmental activist groups instead of peer-reviewed scientific literature. Dr. Murari Lal, an editor of the IPCC AR4 report, admitted to the London Daily Mail that he had known the 2035 date was false, but was included in the report anyway “purely to put political pressure on world leaders.”

Based on this Minority Staff report, Senator Inhofe will be calling for an investigation into potential research misconduct and possible criminal acts by the researchers involved. At the same time, Inhofe will ask the Environmental Protection Agency to reopen its consideration of an Endangerment Finding for carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the Federal Clean Air Act, and will ask Congress to withdraw funding for further consideration of carbon dioxide as a pollutant.

In requesting that the EPA reopen the Endangerment Finding, Inhofe joins with firms such as the Peabody Energy Company and several state Attorneys General (such as Texas and Virginia) in objecting to the Obama administration’s attempt to extend regulatory control over carbon dioxide emissions in the United States. Senator Inhofe believes this staff report “strengthens the case” for the Texas and Virginia Attorneys General.

Senator Inhofe’s announcement today appears to be the first time a member of Congress has formally called for an investigation into research misconduct and potential criminal acts by the scientists involved.

The staff report describes four major issues revealed by the Climategate Files and the subsequent revelations:

1.The emails suggest some climate scientists were cooperating to obstruct the release of damaging information and counter-evidence.

2.They suggest scientists were manipulating the data to reach predetermined conclusions.

3.They show some climate scientists colluding to pressure journal editors not to publish work questioning the “consensus.”

4.They show that scientists involved in the report were assuming the role of climate activists attempting to influence public opinion while claiming scientific objectivity.

The report notes a number of potential legal issues raised by their Climategate investigation:

1.It suggests scientific misconduct that may violate the Shelby Amendment — requiring open access to the results of government-funded research — and the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) policies on scientific misconduct (which were announced December 12, 2000).

2.It notes the potential for violations of the Federal False Statements and False Claims Acts, which may have both civil and criminal penalties.

3.The report also notes the possibility of there having been an obstruction of Congress in Congressional Proceeds, which may constitute an obstruction of justice.
If proven, these charges could subject the scientists involved to debarment from federally funded research, and even to criminal penalties.

By naming potential criminal offenses, Senator Inhofe raises the stakes for climate scientists and others involved. Dr. Phil Jones of the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit has already been forced to step aside because of the Climategate FOIA issues, and Dr. Michael Mann of Penn State is currently under investigation by the university for potential misconduct. Adding possible criminal charges to the mix increases the possibility that some of the people involved may choose to blow the whistle in order to protect themselves.

Senator Inhofe believes that Dr. Hansen and Dr. Mann should be “let go” from their posts “for the good of the institutions involved.”

The question, of course, is whether the Senate Democratic majority will allow this investigation to proceed, in the face of the Obama administration’s stated intention to regulate CO2 following the apparent death of cap and trade legislation. The Democratic majority has blocked previous attempts by Inhofe to investigate issues with climate science.

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/climategate-and-the-law-senator-inhofe-to-ask-for-congressional-criminal-investigation-pajamas-mediapjtv-exclusive/?singlepage=true

More than 1,200 tiny quakes hit Yellowstone Park, but jitters are few

2010-01-31T19:00:00.001-05:00

CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Yellowstone National Park is shaking again, but jitters seem few so far.

Over eight days, more than 1,270 mostly tiny earthquakes have struck between Old Faithful and West Yellowstone. The strongest dozen or so have ranged between magnitudes 3.0 and 3.8.

That's strong enough to feel - barely. The vast majority have been too weak to be felt even nearby.

Likewise, online chatter about an imminent volcanic eruption in Yellowstone hasn't really picked up compared with the attention that a similar quake swarm drew just over a year ago.

"Perhaps we have done a better job in the past year or so helping the public understand that earthquake swarms are not unusual in Yellowstone," park spokesman Al Nash said Monday.

The largest quakes in the current swarm have included two of magnitude 3.1 and one of magnitude 3.0 late Sunday and early Monday, according to the University of Utah, which helps monitor seismic activity in Yellowstone.

Those who've felt some of the recent quakes include Tim Townsend, a law enforcement ranger at Old Faithful. Most haven't been alarming, he said, although one last week "had me running to cover, for sure."

One of the world's largest volcanoes slumbers at the core of Yellowstone.

The volcano last had a caldera-forming eruption 640,000 years ago and last spewed lava 70,000 years ago. Geologists say Yellowstone could erupt again, although the probability of an eruption within anyone's lifetime is extremely low.

That hasn't discouraged speculation. One Web site during last year's swarm carried a "Yellowstone Warning" urging everyone to flee the Yellowstone area, saying there was a risk of poisonous volcanic gases venting from the earth.

Others have tied the Yellowstone volcano to the end of the world in 2012, as some people fancifully interpret the ancient Mayan calendar to predict.

Relatively mundane fault slippage is believed to be causing the latest quakes, said Jamie Farrell, a researcher at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

Not that the swarm isn't interesting to geologists - quite the opposite.

"It gives us an opportunity to maybe get a better idea of what the processes are that are causing the earthquakes we're seeing," Farrell said. "Hopefully, each time we get one of these, we can get maybe a little better idea of what's going on down there."

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press

Know this feeling?

2010-01-29T22:25:00.001-05:00

Sometimes, when you really gotta go, it can feel like this.

Full Moon Names for 2010

2010-01-29T21:51:00.001-05:00

Full Moon names date back to Native Americans, of what is now the northern and eastern United States. Those tribes of a few hundred years ago kept track of the seasons by giving distinctive names to each recurring full moon. Their names were applied to the entire month in which each occurred.

There were some variations in the moon names, but in general the same ones were current throughout the Algonquin tribes from New England on west to Lake Superior. European settlers followed their own customs and created some of their own names. Since the lunar ("synodic") month is roughly 29.5 days in length on average, the dates of the full moon shift from year to year.

Here is a listing of all of the full moon names, as well as the dates and times for 2010. Unless otherwise noted, all times are for the Eastern Time Zone.

Jan. 30, 1:18 a.m. EST -- Full Wolf Moon. Amid the zero cold and deep snows of midwinter, the wolf packs howled hungrily outside Indian villages. It was also known as the Old Moon or the Moon after Yule. In some tribes this was the Full Snow Moon; most applied that name to the next moon. The Moon will also arrive at perigee (it's closest point to Earth on its non-circular orbit) less than three hours later, at 4:04 a.m. EST at a distance of 221,577 mi. (356,593 km.) from Earth. So this is the biggest full moon of 2010. Very high ocean tides can be expected during the next two or three days, thanks to the coincidence of perigee with full moon.

Feb. 28, 11:38 a.m. EST -- Full Snow Moon. Usually the heaviest snows fall in this month. Hunting becomes very difficult, and hence to some tribes this was the Full Hunger Moon. .

Mar. 29, 10:25 p.m. EDT -- Full Worm Moon. In this month the ground softens and the earthworm casts reappear, inviting the return of the robins. The more northern tribes knew this as the Full Crow Moon, when the cawing of crows signals the end of winter, or the Full Crust Moon because the snow cover becomes crusted from thawing by day and freezing at night. The Full Sap Moon, marking the time of tapping maple trees, is another variation. In 2010 this is also the Paschal Full Moon; the first full Moon of the spring season. The first Sunday following the Paschal Moon is Easter Sunday, which indeed will be observed six days later on Sunday, April 4.

Apr. 28, 8:18 a.m. EDT -- Full Pink Moon. The grass pink or wild ground phlox is one of the earliest widespread flowers of the spring. Other names were the Full Sprouting Grass Moon, the Egg Moon, and -- among coastal tribes -- the Full Fish Moon, when the shad come upstream to spawn.

May 27, 7:07 p.m. EDT -- Full Flower Moon. Flowers are now abundant everywhere. It was also known as the Full Corn Planting Moon or the Milk Moon.

Jun. 26, 7:30 a.m. EDT -- Full Strawberry Moon. Strawberry picking season peaks during this month. Europeans called this the Rose Moon. There will be also be a Partial Lunar Eclipse that coincides with moonset from the western and central sections of the US and Canada and coincides with moonrise for parts of eastern Asia. At its maximum the Moon will be overhead for observers in the South Pacific;nearly 54-percent of the Moon's diameter will become immersed in the Earth's dark umbral shadow.

Jul. 25, 9:37 p.m. EDT -- Full Buck Moon, when the new antlers of buck deer push out from their foreheads in coatings of velvety fur. It was also often called the Full Thunder Moon, thunderstorms being now most frequent. Sometimes it's also called the Full Hay Moon.

Aug. 24, 1:05 p.m. EDT -- Full Sturgeon Moon, when this large fish of the Great Lakes and other major bodies of water like Lake Champlain is most readily caught. A few tribes knew it as the Full Red Moon because when the moon rises it looks reddish through sultry haze, or the Green Corn Moon or Grain Moon. Since the Moon arrives at apogee about 12 hours later, this will also be the smallest full moon of 2010. In terms of apparent size, it will appear 12.3-percent smaller than the full Moon of Jan. 30.

Sep. 23, 5:17 a.m. EDT -- Full Harvest Moon. Traditionally, this designation goes to the full moon that occurs closest to the Autumnal (fall) Equinox. The Harvest Moon usually comes in September, but (on average) once or twice a decade it will fall in early October. At the peak of the harvest, farmers can work into the night by the light of this moon. Usually the moon rises an average of 50 minutes later each night, but for the few nights around the Harvest Moon, the moon seems to rise at nearly the same time each night: just 25 to 30 minutes later across the U.S., and only 10 to 20 minutes later for much of Canada and Europe. Corn, pumpkins, squash, beans, and wild rice -- the chief Indian staples -- are now ready for gathering.

Oct. 22, 9:36 p.m. EDT -- Full Hunters' Moon. With the leaves falling and the deer fattened, it's now time to hunt. Since the fields have been reaped, hunters can ride over the stubble, and can more easily see the fox, as well as other animals, which can be caught for a thanksgiving banquet after the harvest.

Nov. 21, 12:27 p.m. EST -- Full Beaver Moon. At this point of the year, it's time to set beaver traps before the swamps freeze to ensure a supply of warm winter furs. Another interpretation suggests that the name Beaver Full Moon come from the fact that the beavers are now active in their preparation for winter. It's also called the Frosty Moon.

Dec. 21, 3:13 a.m. EST -- Full Cold Moon. On occasion, this moon was also called the Moon before Yule. December is also the month the winter cold fastens its grip. Sometimes this moon is referred to as the Full Long Nights Moon and the term "Long Night" Moon is a very appropriate name because the nights are now indeed long and the Moon is above the horizon a long time. This particular full moon makes its highest arc across the sky because it's diametrically opposite to the low Sun. In fact, the moment of the Winter Solstice comes just over 15 hours after this full moon, at 6:38 p.m. EST.

Last, but certainly not least, this will also be the night of a Total Lunar Eclipse. North Americans will have a ringside seat for this event (totality will last 73-minutes) and, depending on your location, will take place either during the middle of the night or during the predawn hours. Observers in Western Europe and western Africa will see the opening stages of the eclipse before the Moon sets; South Americans will see the Moon set either during the total phase or as the Moon emerges from the shadow. At mid-eclipse, the Moon will appear almost directly overhead for observers in southern California and Baja Mexico.

By Joe Rao SPACE.com Skywatching Columnist

Holy smokes I have got to find this movie!!

2010-01-26T20:41:00.003-05:00

How did this classic manage to evade me?!

Varan the Unbelieveable... Yep.

2010-01-10T13:51:00.004-05:00

You gotta love TOHO. They have managed to make the kinds of movies that people like me just love to watch, not to mention, try to find MORE of their films too! Ahh monsters, big, evil, and some downright goofy.

Yesterday I found an amazing DVD: "Varan the Unbelievable" (or Varan with the Unbelievable Neck Goiter) and I was so excited to find it I never bothered to look and see if it was actually in English. Actually, subtitles aren't that annoying, and it's not like there were intricate plot twists that were hard to follow. Hey, it's a monster flick!

I think the underlying point of this film is to leave butterflies alone. Don't go looking for them in lush, beautiful forbidden places. That's how two people died in the beginning and then of course, everyone has to go looking to find out why they died. Guess no on figured that butterflies would start such an immense landslide. In the "Tibet of Japan" of all places.

Evidently, there in the Japanese Tibet a rather large creature has lived undisturbed for a very very very long time. Annoyed occasionally by the music and singing of a group of worshippers who live high in the mountains around his placid lake. The leader kept waving branches as if to pacify the beast.. Then it happens, his peace is destroyed by a child, then a woman and then shortly after them, the whole Japanese Military. Thus we learn, Varan can fly, destroy ships and stomp Tokyo too. Nothing like a good monster stomp!

I won't tell you how it ends, but suffice to say I'm sure Varan reached for some Pepto Bismol after the credits were done.

The world is a little less green...

2010-01-10T13:19:00.002-05:00

Rest in peace Art Clokey.

I hate lying global warming boneheads...

2009-11-25T23:02:00.003-05:00

This is a good editorial. The global warming people have irked me for some time now, with their panic-mongering and BS. I've always maintained that if you want to stop global warming you need to put mufflers on volcanoes and stop plate tectonics. Listening to Al Gore won't save you, that loser won't quit cheeseburgers for his cashcow, ooops, I meant "cause". It's like everything else in life - fear and guilt generate large amounts of cash. Follow the money!

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100017393/climategate-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-anthropogenic-global-warming/

Eat, drink and be merry!

2009-11-25T22:51:00.000-05:00

Got it?

2009-11-13T19:51:00.001-05:00

The Official "I Just Want a Kitty" Car

2009-11-05T22:17:00.004-05:00

I wonder if it purrs when you put it into park?

Godzilla rules over all....

2009-11-05T22:15:00.003-05:00

Happy Halloween!

2009-10-31T22:07:00.000-04:00

Yongary! Eat the annoying kid!!

2009-10-23T21:02:00.012-04:00

Who said the Japanese were the only ones who could make monster movies? Tonight in our "Around the world to meet new monsters" tour we meet Yongary. Though he is not dissimilar to Godzilla, as he does breathe fire, stomp on cities and gratuitously break things, eats oil and gasoline for strength, but he has one thing going for him that Gojira doesn't: a horn at the end of his nose... That blinks. I kid you not. It blinks. His beak blinks. This is Korean monster cinema at its best, yes you read that right, this cinematic masterpiece is from Korea.

Yongary does have some limitations though for one thing, his fire breathing mechanism works only for short distances which was quite unfortunate as he could have taken out the annoying lead characters in a chopper early on which would have improved the film immensely. His second limitation was his fascination with helicopters. Ooo a whirly birdy! Let's follow it to our doom! His third and last limitation was that he dies at the end, so much for a sequel. It was a most ignominious death too as he died half in and half out of a river, but happily he was able to take out one last bridge for the viewers enjoyment. Leaving his business end in a river he shuffled off this mortal coil leaving behind what was supposed to be blood in the water I guess, but age has deteriorated the color of the film somewhat so the red blood was more like brown diarrhea... Thus leaving the viewer thinking he crapped the river when he went the way of the dodo. Just a final indignation after being shot and poisoned to death.

One other aspect of the film that is not unlike some Godzilla movies - the obligatory annoying pre-pubescent know-it-all child in a starring role, UUGH! I hate that aspect about these films. It leaves me to think that all Asian children have level 7 security in their respective governments. I mean really, if I tried going the places these kids seem to just walk in I'd be shot dead on the spot and then arrested. And yet these scruffy little rascals always seem to save the day. Honestly I never like when the monster dies but at least I was spared from a final scene where some idiot kid is waving to a monster exiting stage left crying "Good bye Yongary! Thank you! Please come back. I love you!!" Or any other disturbing, annoying and nauseating sentiments. Whew saved, but just barely. Strangely enough, the annoying child in this film was in the weirdest part of the film - where Yongary hears music and just starts dancing to it. I mean busting a move to some hip late 60's rock n roll tune. Like yeah baby, you're sooo groooooovy!

Something I have learned watching these kinds of monster flicks is that Japan and now Korea evidently have helicopters and jet planes with the shortest turning radius's in the world. I mean those babies can literally turn on a dime! But when all is said and done this one is actually quite watchable, if you can get past the love crazy adults, an annoying child, and a death scene that would make Norma Desmond proud ~ until of course, the unfortunate pooping sequence...

Love this kitty's face!

2009-10-13T20:57:00.001-04:00

Oktoberfest 2009!

2009-09-29T17:35:00.003-04:00

Here's a little shout out to all the folks drinking their hearts (and wallets) out in Munich Germany as we speak. Happy Oktoberfest to you & drink a few for me!

Enjoy a yodel!!

Starry Starry Night...

2009-09-28T20:48:00.003-04:00

I just love this photo. All I know is that this is someplace in Nevada. Nice, no?

Look at all those stars... Quite dreamy.

Bhutan 6.1 earthquke

2009-09-27T17:24:00.004-04:00

Magnatude 6.1 earthquake hit Bhutan today. I found this map on the USGS website showing all the earthquakes that have happened since 1990 (the little circles). The star icon is today's quake, quite a busy subduction zone.

Feeling like a noshy?

2009-09-25T11:08:00.002-04:00

Men, women, age and looks.

2009-09-23T20:12:00.012-04:00

OK, I'm just putting this out there. A bunch of us got into a conversation at work today about "older men" (Sadly "older" is really not that much older as I am sliding helplessly and unstoppingly towards 40 at this very moment... But I digress.) So up of course came the topic of how men seem to become more handsome as they age, well, some do at least. And women are not always so fortunate. Of course there are always exceptions. So I have decided to illustrate what I mean, of course, me and all my pictures here. Without further ado; "Three men who have aged well in my opinion":

Sean Connery

Tim Curry

William Boyd

I'm sure there are more but I can't think of anyone else at the moment. Some day I'll have to do the same for ladies who have aged well, but for now here are the fellas..

Speaking of gardens...

2009-09-22T20:03:00.004-04:00

Can you believe these sunflowers?! Some fellow in Germany got his to grow upwards of 24 feet tall... WOW! He is probably going to be in the Guinness Book for these tall blooms and this photo shows the mayor officiating the measuring. My sunflowers got to about 1 foot tall and bloomed small carnation size blooms and that was it. Bummer. I'd like to know this guys secret! Beer maybe? ;)

Gardening Tip

2009-09-19T19:51:00.007-04:00

I tried to grow ducks this year in the garden but it didn't work.

They wouldn't sit still long enough to take root.

A word of kind advice

2009-09-18T22:52:00.003-04:00

Here's something to think about the next time you're out at night driving with your sweetie: Check the back seat for Saucermen BEFORE you get in the car. And wear a sweater too, it might be too cold to go out topless...

Welcome to Canada!

2009-09-17T20:09:00.003-04:00

Some people are very clever, this is quite adorable and well done. According to the author, the beaver got away unharmed too. Whew! This is from Youtube and the person who posted it is called klaatu42, it's been there for 6 months and has over 1.2 million views.

Dreams of a little girl...

2009-09-14T20:21:00.006-04:00

I found these photos on Ebay the other day and had to save them. I had forgotten how lovely Diana was back in 1981 when she posed for these portraits. I have been a fan of hers since I was 10 and I remember getting up at 3am to watch the 'wedding of the century' live on TV. What a day. To a young girl like me the thought of princeses and princes and castles and horsedrawn carriages was all quite amazing! Could these things really be true?! As we all know happily ever after isn't gauranteed to anyone even beautiful princesses, but what a lovely dream it was, no?

Would you buy a croc from this guy?

2009-09-12T23:27:00.004-04:00

It's amazing what photos you can find out on the www.

I guess this fellow is the original 'croc hunter' then?

They look pretty daunting, he better take care as they might piddle on him.

The Critters Under the Porch...

2009-09-11T00:54:00.004-04:00

I once heard that the best security system is a nosy neighbor.

What a great system we had this summer - four nosy neighbors watching us come and go and everything else going on around us...

Yes we fed them of course, just look at those eyes, how could we not?!

To tired to blog - have a kitty

2009-09-08T19:56:00.001-04:00

A video you have to see to believe...

2009-09-07T00:38:00.002-04:00

Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus

2009-09-06T19:51:00.005-04:00

This movie is on tonight on SyFy... You know where I'll be! :)

Here's a chick that really likes her meat...

2009-09-06T00:57:00.002-04:00

Do you see spots before your eyes?

2009-09-05T23:24:00.009-04:00

Perhaps it's every girl's dream to own a horse, and ever since I was a wee one I wanted an equine buddy... Now that I'm older, sometimes I still dream of that 'perfect' horse and what it might look like. My dream would be to have an appaloosa. Not just any appaloosa but one that looked like it got caught in a paint factory explosion. As most my posts are profusely illustrated, this one just screams for pictorial examples. Enjoy the scenic spotted beauty of the Appaloosa Horse...

Gus Visser and His Singing Duck

2009-09-04T11:26:00.004-04:00

Gus Visser and His Singing Duck singing "Ma, He's making Eyes at Me" from their Vaudville act. 1925, predating sound, go figure. A very cute song though!

Space ape spreads fear and terror with bubble machine!

2009-09-03T18:01:00.005-04:00

Most people go out and spend their money on movies they love. I go out of my way to find the worst movies ever made. I think I have found it. This stinker is so bad, suffice to say the special affects included a bubble machine... And I write "special affects" because this movie will "affect" you alright. If a picture is worth a thousand words than here you have it, 1000 terrible words about a terrible movie. Oh I forgot - it's in 3-D too or as the movie poster claimed "Adventures into the future in NEW TRU-3 DIMENSION!" (While watching this, you will wish you could slip into another dimension.) It's terribleness tries to reach out and touch you as you try to figure out why you just wasted the last hour of your life watching a half gorilla, half old deep sea diver try to kill the last surviving family after the alien apocolypse. This goes beyond cheese. I'm not sure there's a word to describe how awful this film really is. So yes, it holds a prime spot in my DVD collection.

Here's a little something for Theda Bara fans

2009-09-01T21:23:00.020-04:00

I found these on an aution site ~ actual items worn by actress Theda Bara in the silent films: Madam DuBarry, Cleopatra, Salome and A Fool There Was. These items fetched thousands of dollars!

Madam DuBarry dress. $7170.00

Pants from Salome and decoration from Cleopatra. $8,962.50

Bra from Cleopatra and shawl from A Foll There Was. $5,377.50

The Cleopatra bra close up.

Headpiece from Cleopatra. $19,120.00!

Top from Cleopatra. $6572.50

Another headpiece from Cleopatra. $10,755.00!

Here's a great totebag!!!

2009-08-31T21:39:00.001-04:00

Movie review!

2009-08-30T20:55:00.004-04:00

Well I have ben a bit lax about my movie reviews. But holy smokes have I found a few gems that I need to write about! Like this one: "Warning From Space".... I'll be the first to admit I was a bit disappointed when I watched the movie and there weren't any giant star shaped aliens with eyeballs for bellybuttons destroying Tokyo or any other urban area for that matter. Not one bit of stomping at all. They are actually human sized and friendly ET's warning us of an out of control planet careening it's way across the galaxy on an imminent collison course with our planet. Gosh that sounds scary, no? Well of course it doesn't happen since we (humans and aliens) put our heads together and figure out a way to destroy the rogue planet, but not before earthquakes, tidal waves and searing heat reek havoc worldwide. It was a great joy for me to know that we can work side by side with our newfound extreterrestrial buddies in stopping the apocolypse. Whew, I'll sleep good tonight. And so should you. On a side note, these aliens never blinked. Their eyes lit up but never once closed... Very strange indeed.

Good bumper stickers

2009-08-30T20:31:00.003-04:00

"Don't hit my clunker - already been rear ended by present administration"

4 months til Christmas...

2009-08-29T16:46:00.032-04:00

Today while basking in the uber hotness of a sunny August day I couldn't help but think of my favorite holiday! It's coming soon, Christmas is just right around the corner!! Soon our little casa will twinkling with millions if not billions of tiny cheery blinking and flashing lights, the tree aglow with more lights and shimmering tinsel garland. Cluttered to the point of exhaustion with sparkly glitter encrusted ornaments...Warms the heart, no? Seeing that I'm in the holiday mood and I do like a bit of seasonal nostalgia, I'd like to share with you some wonderful vintage photos of Christmases past....

This lovely tree looks as thought it crawled into the house via the chimney and is now trying to take over the coffee table. Perhaps it will conquer the living room next. So much for a Yule Log.

All I can think is that this one might be a photo from Australia. I mean who else would decorate their Christmas tree with boomerangs? Maybe they are bananas. Either way the poor tree has little to live for now. Sad enough to think it will die in a few short weeks, but to live in fear of that wallpaper while it waits for the angel of death... Life really is cruel sometimes.

Nowadays we keep an eye out for poisonous things. Is there lead in our paints? Our children's toys? Asbestos in our walls? Here's an example of what happens when you use 1950's tinsel on an unsuspecting Christmas tree. Evidently it dissolves it completely. Like water on a witch from Oz. Hope someone in that house had the presence of mind to move all those presents before the end.

I don't know about you, but this one really creeps me out. It looks as though it lurks in its dark corner, beckoning unsuspecting victims to come nearer with all those tempting gifts kept underneath it's branches. Like it's saying "come just a little closer my darlings...."

Now this is a happy little perky tree! Not lonely because he has his little bear friend to keep him company while the family is out celebrating at various Christmas parties. Although I do fear for this little evergreen, it looks as though it's about to be devoured by those horrendous drapes...

I AM THE TERROR THAT TWINKLES IN THE NIGHT!! ALL MINIONS BELOW MUST FEAR ME!!!! AND THAT MEANS YOU TOO CUTE PUPPY FIGURINE!!

I know it's exciting to go out into the wilderness to find 'the perfect tree' for your holiday. Perhaps it's some callback to our early history where we'd go out to hunt and gather our daily rations to live. I am the great hunter! Hear me roar! the proud owner of this tree must have belted out upon setting it up in the living room. But being a woman I can't help but think that there was a loving wife standing proudly behind this great hunter asking "Where the hell is the top bonehead? "

Yep, you're probably thinking that I need to get a life. Actually I have one. This is what I do to take a little break from it. Scary, no? :)

A weird vintage postcard

2009-07-11T22:49:00.004-04:00

I wonder what it says!

Valentine's Day Cheesecake!

2009-02-14T00:30:00.003-05:00

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!

OOOOOOO Shiny......

2009-02-06T22:15:00.004-05:00

It's how you wear it that matters!

2009-01-29T00:41:00.004-05:00

Thelma Todd

Polly Walters

Aileen Pringle

Alice White

Gwen Lee

An interesting day...

2009-01-27T23:44:00.009-05:00

I get to the doctors office today and I am led to the back by a very professional and friendly nurse. We get to chatting and I find she is an ER nurse - nothing to blink at. After spending some quality time recently in the hospital I have a whole new found respect for ER people. We get to chatting about the weather and how really careless drivers are between going too fast and driving too close and we came to the conclusion that people just don't think and there is very little common sense in use out there on Midwestern roads. Then she said something that blew my mind - "The new man in the White House will bring back common sense". I nearly fell over. Honest to goodness she believes that Obama can make people use their common sense. All I could reply was "I sure hope so!" and left it at that. Well let's face it I certainly didn't want to piss off the person handling my test. But WOW. I found her naivety most shocking. Here was an obviously intelligent woman, seemingly well read and up to date on current events but then that came out. I have to admit it made me so curious and I wanted to ask 100 questions as to how, why and when, but like I said I didn't feel I was in the right place.

For the longest time I had thought this Obama cult thing was media hype, do people really believe he is going to give them free healthcare and pay their mortgages?! Are people really so gullible? To think that Obama is going to make people have common sense is really stretching it a bit. I think it was Gandhi who said "Be the change that you want to see in the world", no one can make you change, you and only you can make that change. Perhaps people can inspire you but ultimately only you can change you. Maybe Obama inspires people to be better, if that's the case all the power to them, I hope they succeed in being a positive change in their communities and maybe even the world.

The scary part of all this cult like Obama worshipping is the fact that no one seems to like to mention the fact that he's only human, just like you and me. He's apt to stumble and fall, screw up, make bad decisions and mistakes just like the rest of us. What will all these people who believe in his infallibility do when he eventually does screw up or fail? It isn't pretty when peoples heroes take falls. I wonder if he realizes that he carries the weight of the hopes, dreams and aspirations of many people on his shoulders? Not to mention the burden of the many people who just want everything handed to them free and clear? How will they react when they find out that their unrealistic expectations will go unmet? How will the hero worshippers take learning that their god is only flesh and blood? Only time will tell...

A great Valentines night dress

2009-01-25T22:04:00.003-05:00

Here's a great dress for that romantic evening out on Valentine's Day! Feminine and sleek velvet slenderizes your figure into beauty personified ~ daring to bare only so much to keep the mystery of you. A bustle of taffeta completes the look, tied into a perfect bow to cover the perfect end! Simple yet elegant jewelry enhances the look and gives this gown the polish it needs along with high heel strappy shoes. No longer do you have to wear your heart on your sleeve - you can wear it on your greatest asset now! Accent those curves and those gorgeous gams girls!

(I'm not sure where this photo is from but it is from 1930. The irony of it, and I do love irony, is that the number of the photo starts with "But..." Irony just doesn't get much better than that!)

The Cat Brain

2009-01-21T23:38:00.002-05:00

THE CAT BRAIN

The Ultimate Fashion No-No

2009-01-20T21:32:00.009-05:00

10 points for stratigiclly arranged maribu!

I do wonder how does one enter a doorway with this dress on?!

Take a hint in case you decide to wear a 'Swan Dress' in the future:

If Marlene Dietrich couldn't pull it off in 1935, nor could Bjork in 2001 - chances are you will look just a stupid if you wear one. I could be wrong, but I certainly won't be wearing one of these feathered doozies and I certainly ain't no fashion diva!!!

Yikes, but I do like those shoes!

Bjork did auction this dress off on Ebay (or plans to, not sure if it already happened) for a charity event so that's definitely a positive side to this fashion disaster.
I wonder what it sold for?!

Elinor Fair

2009-01-19T21:15:00.004-05:00

Elinor Fair was born Eleanore Virginia Crowe on December 21, 1904 in Richmond, Virginia. During her childhood her family moved many times and she lived in New York, Virginia, Washington State, California and possibly other states. Though her first screen credit was at the youthful age of 13, Elinor started her career as a violinist. According to some releases she studied music in Berlin, Paris and London but returned to the United States when World War 1 broke out. After returning to the States she worked on stage and in Vaudeville then in 1916 the family moved to California when Eleanor started work in silent films.

Early on she was credited as Eleanore Crowe, Lenore Fair and finally Elinor Fair. She was a popular actress and received positive reviews for her performances in both drama and comedies. Some of her most popular early films were a string of comedies about the marital misadventures where she was paired with Albert Ray. Then in the early 1920's came more dramatic films and again, more rave reviews of her performances. By the time 1924 rolled around and Elinor was chosen as a WAMPAS Baby Star she already had at least 33 movies under her belt! Elinor's biggest role came when she caught the attention of Cecil B Demille. DeMille cast her opposite William Boyd in 1926's epic story of The Volga Boatman. As the feminine lead she certainly did shine!

Unfortunately The Volga Boatman was the peak of her career. When filming wrapped, Elinor and William Boyd who had fallen in love during the filming, went to Santa Ana and were married on January 13, 1926. It was his third marriage and her first.

After the wedding, she went on to act in more movies some of which also starred Boyd. Like The Yankee Clipper. Then it seems she went into semi-retirement, happy to be Mrs. William Boyd. Sadly in only a few short years the marriage ended badly amid rumors of mental instability, drug use and infidelity on Elinor's part.

With her marriage finished, Elinor tried to go back to work although the parts became less important and much more scarce. She had put on some weight and her strong Southern accent seemed to work against her in the talkies. In the years 1930 and 1931 she couldn't get any movie parts. Finally in 1932 she was able to find some extra work and her last film was an uncredited bit in 1934. Frail mental health and 'nerves' no doubt came into play also.

After all the good parts stopped coming her way, things started to unravel for Elinor. After years of being a top billed actress she was only given small and sometimes uncredited bits. Life would never be the same for her and soon her mental stability was also called into question as her behavior became more and more erratic. In 1932 after having a fight with her movie stunt pilot fiance Frank Clark she flew to Yuma Arizona and eloped with aviator Thomas Daniels out of spite. A few hours after the nuptials, Elinor returned to her fiance and explained to the press "I was blue after having quarreled with Frank Clark my sweetheart and I thought I'd show him how smart I was. It was just a big mistake." After this affair, Daniels was arrested for writing a bad check to cover the flight to Arizona though this was soon cleared up when he made good on the payment. A few days later Elinor was reported to be 'seriously ill and at the home of her mother recovering'. I have found no evidence of her ever marrying Frank Clark. In July of 1934 shortly after Elinor received her annulment from their first marriage, she remarried Thomas Daniels. Their second divorce came about a year and a half later in 1935.

By 1936, in her own words she was broke due to "poor business investments and wildcat stocks" Elinor was financially destitute and was unable pay her rent or medical bills. Elinor was twice found by the police wandering the streets in a bad mental state when she and her mother were about to be evicted from their apartment. Both of her ex husbands stepped in to help them out. William Boyd hired a doctor and a nurse for her and agreed to pay all her expenses until she was able to work again. Daniels took care of her rent. "If Elinor could just get her health back" said Mrs. Crowe "I know she could go into pictures again. But her nerves won't stand it. Everything is gone now - money, furs, jewels, cars. I don't know what we are going to do when another rent day comes around."

In 1938 Elinor along with other broke and forgotten silent movie stars petitioned the governor for a law that would compel actors and actresses to save 10% of their earnings in order to protect them from having to beg for bit parts when they were no longer in demand. It was called Career Insurance or Mandatory Film Savings Law, sadly this turned out to be a press agent stunt to exploit fallen stars in order to promote a new movie.

Elinor married Jack White, an actor, in 1941, but this marriage also would be short lived. White filed for divorce charging that Elinor was continuously intoxicated, he received a marriage annulment in early 1944.

Elinor passed away in 1957.

http://www.dorothysebastian.com/efair.html

My Dove Garden

2009-01-18T00:35:00.006-05:00

The widest thing occurred today. As usual I feed my ducks every day, whatever they miss goes to the little birds that are around here like sparrows, juncos, starlings and doves. Well it seems the doves have decided that this is the place to hang out at because here are 7 of them snoozing in my garden paraphernalia. I have been meaning to get out there and clean all the fences and empty pots up and put them away, but it seems the birds like all the clutter... They are a little hard to see on the left, but there are three there. The one on the top left is cute, he watches me but doesn't fly away as quickly as the others do. Guess he's used to me being curious about them. I snapped this picture through the sliding glass door because if I moved any closer they would all get nervous and fly away and I didn't want that to happen. Besides, the door was frozen shut. Literally! It has been so cold here that for two days now I've needed to use my hairdryer to thaw out the sliding door just to open it. Moments of sunshine that is usually enough to warm it and thaw it are few and far between. I feel so bad for all the little critters out in this weather, yet they survive in it. Isn't nature amazing? Click on the picture to make it much larger, that way you can see all 7 doves...

Iceman the Duck

2009-01-16T20:46:00.004-05:00

Meet a mallard drake named Iceman the Duck. We named him that because he almost froze to death during the first bad freeze of this winter. He's a little miracle duck! A few weeks ago, one night the temps went down from 20 degrees to below zero in just a matter of a few hours. To make things worse there was a terrible wind that just wouldn't stop blowing. Parts of the pond that hadn't frozen yet sprayed upon this little guy as he lounged on the ice and his left wing became frozen to the surface of the pond. Iceman struggled for most the day to free himself, twisting the stuck wing into what looked like a feathered pretzel. He was too far out for a person to reach him (my husband tried twice) so he had to free himself with only the help of the sunshine. We really thought we were going to lose him for a while there.

Somehow between his struggling and the warm sun (it never really did go above freezing that day) this duck got himself free of the ice! Now his wing is torn up pretty badly as he needed to pull out a bunch of feathers to free himself, but he seems to be pretty much back to normal now. Unfortunately he cannot fly so he and another mallard drake with a damaged wing have become fast friends and always travel around here together. We call that one Parky. Happily they like to stop by our patio for food and we happily oblige!

Grace Bradley

2009-01-16T11:29:00.005-05:00

Grace Bradley (aka Mrs. Hopalong Cassidy) in 1934.

http://www.dorothysebastian.com/gracebradley.html

A beautiful photo of Dorothy Sebastian

2009-01-15T20:04:00.007-05:00

Dorothy Sebastian 1903 - 1957

Actress

www.dorothysebastian.com

The Crawling Eye - run for the hills! No run away from the hills!

2009-01-14T00:40:00.013-05:00

Oh happy day! Did I find a GREAT stinky Limburger cheese of a film today! We didn't make it to the bookstore this past weekend due to an ice storm but I am glad we went tonight. Today's movie rant is about the unforgettable 84 minute cornea assault known as "The Crawling Eye". Maybe they should have called it "Oversize Moaning Tentacled Eyeballs of the Alps" instead. The hills were definitely alive ~ but with what leaves you wondering as it certainly wasn't music.

Come to think of it, the eyes did crawl....

Here's my description of this highly underrated cinematic masterpiece: Mountain climbers keep turning up headless or not at all. Then while the hero and star of the film (Forrest Tucker of F-Troop fame) is heading to the film's ground zero, he meets on his train 2 sisters, one of which is clairvoyant. So they all go to the same hotel and find out about the disappearances when they arrive.

Then our hero meets with a scientist friend who has a lab on an observatory conveniently located on the same mountain responsible for all the disappearances and deaths. Here we learn about a mysterious and radioactive cloud (hey, this is from the 50's!) that seems to move with a certain amount of intelligence... Which is a good thing because that is the ONLY intelligence in the whole film. Anyway, after the cloud whacks a few more folks; all the living survivors, lab staff and the whole village of about 17 people end up seeking refuge in the observatory. There they wait for the inevitable - death by cheesy movie monster.

Now I know you will want to run out, buy this film and see it for yourself so I refuse to divulge how this one ends. But I will tell let you in on some 0f the exciting aspects of this sadly Academy overlooked brilliance: Molotov cocktails! Thrilling escape scenes! Murderous zombified people! Little girls almost grabbed by evil alien tentacles! Then there's that heart stopping moment when you just don't know if the cable car will make it to the top or come crashing down the rocky mountain with all it's helpless passengers -aaaarrgghhh there's just too much suspense! You MUST see it to find out..... Or at least to laugh your bummy off like we did.

I think living in a Pixar world, sometimes we take for granted the special effects we have nowadays. We should probably appreciate more of the old sci-fi effects as I'm sure movie makers did the best they could to pull off a movie in the 1950's whose guest stars were giant eyes with tentacles. Brilliantly using the old 'blow up the front door so all you can see is a HUGE eyeball looking in at a tiny victim' scene. Used to great affect in this gem.

OK, maybe appreciate is too strong a word but I get a strong feeling that a large amount of tequila may have been involved with the making of this film. That's cool with me though, especially since you don't need large amounts of tequila to enjoy this film.... But you may need to if you lack a sufficient sense of humor to get through the ending!!!

1950's film-makers and their 'women issues'...

2009-01-11T01:58:00.006-05:00

I have come to the conclusion that the men who made horror and sci-fi movies in the 1950's all had serious 'women issues'.... Click the photos for a better view of their cheesiness! :)

Why do cats need humans?

2009-01-10T17:50:00.003-05:00

There are days, weeks or years when you feel on top of the world and in total control of your life. Then something happens to make you realize that total control is more or less relative, if not an illusion!

Case in point, our favorite pets ~ Click here to find out: Why do cats need humans....
http://iam.homewithgod.com/nspirn1/WhyDoCatsNeedHumans.html

3 men to walk on water..

2009-01-10T17:32:00.003-05:00

There have been 3 men in the history of the world to walk on water.

This shows the 3rd man in history to ever walk on water.

The 1st one was Jesus Christ.

The 2nd one was Peter the apostle.

Then there was this guy, Jose, a local from Houston......

Last photo

2009-01-10T01:24:00.004-05:00

This is probably the last thing the photographer remembers before it all went dark....

Monkeys....

2009-01-10T01:18:00.001-05:00