Happy Halloween Eve Eve 2k10

Happy Friday! After a tumultuous beginning of the work week, it looks like this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday will be pretty decent at work. At least a majority of today and all of Saturday and Sunday.


My Steelers are playing the World Champs Sunday, Halloween night- WHOO HOO!! My Tar Heels are playing national football powerhouse William & Mary Saturday.

The next Batman movie now has a title: “The Dark Knight Rises” Christopher Nolan tells the LA Reporter "Our ambition for the third movie is to complete a story that has begun. This is not starting over, this not rebooting. We’re finishing something, and keeping a consistency with what’s come before has real value." Nolan also reportedly told the paper there will be no Riddler in this film.

Don’t miss this Sunday night’s premiere of AMC’s “Walking Dead”. It’s one of those over hyped things that I’m actually looking forward to seeing. It’s mostly filmed in and set nearby in Atlanta, Ga.

For a laugh, you may want to consider Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's "Rally to Restore Sanity" and "March to Keep Fear Alive" tomorrow at 12 pm ET up in Washington, DC. I’m sure CNN/Comedy Central will cover it live.

It’s been a busy couple of week’s death wise.
•James MacArthur, Danno from (Original) Hawaii Five-O, dies 72

•Lisa S. Blount, actress from 'An Officer and a Gentlemen' Dies 53

•Paul The Octopus dies of Natural Causes, 2 1/2 years old.

•Alex Anderson, creator of Rocky and Bullwinkle dies 90

•Gregory Isaacs, Reggae Singer, Dies 59

•Johnny Sheffield (played Tarzan's son 'Boy') Dies at 79

•Tom Bosley, Happy Days' Dad, Dies 83

•Barbara Billingsley, June Cleaver on "Leave It to Beaver", TV mom, dies 94

•Simon MacCorkindale of "Falcon Crest" Dies of Cancer

•Beach music icon General Johnson dies

•Stephen Cannell, prolific TV writer-producer, dies 69

•Joe Mantell, Academy Nominated actor, `Marty,' `Chinatown' dies 94
The latest as of early Friday afternoon is James "Jimmy" Wall. Wall was Captain Kangaroo's stage manager before he convinced the show to create its first black character, Mr. Baxter. Wall, in fact, worked at CBS as a stage manager for nearly 50 years. He played Baxter and another recurring roll on the show until 1978.

What is wrong with the Texas Rangers? Game 3 starts Saturday in Texas. Let’s hope they at least show up and not get shut out or lose by 9 runs!!

More wackiness regarding the filming of “The Hobbit” and New Zealand.

Saw 3D isn’t getting good reviews. I think the 1st couple of movies were interesting, then they seem to become what many serialized horror movies become; caricatures of their old selves.

Space shuttle Discovery is prepared for its final launch into space, which is scheduled for this Tuesday Nov. 2, 2010 from K-S-C,; yo? I’m a big fan of the shuttles and everything NASA, but it’s kinda ironic that leaks and other minor issues are besetting this, the final launch. Maybe they ARE right in mothballing the fleet. It pains me to write that.

Ready for some more McDonald’s law suit craziness? A Brazilian court ruled this week that McDonald's must pay a former franchise manager $17,500 because he gained 65 pounds (30 kilograms) while working there for a dozen years. When this madness comes full tilt to the US, I’m gonna be RICH!!

Hospitals in Indonesia are struggling to cope with scores of injured survivors of a devastating tsunami, including a newly orphaned two-month-old baby found in a storm drain.

Here’s some ‘unpopular’ science - I thought this was hilarious.

Here’s a feel good story..

And finally, when real life sadly imitates art – 2 stories of woe. Though history is replete with these incidents, this week we’re reminded of 2 stories of Hollywierd woe.

What the hell is going on with actor Randy Quaid? Last month, he and his wife were arrested in Santa Barbara, California for felony vandalism while living in a home they used to own without the consent of the current owner. THEN they run up to Canada seeking asylum citing that there are people in Hollywood trying to kill them like they killed actors David Carradine Heath Ledger. Quaid and his wife were arrested in Vancouver last week and jailed on outstanding U.S. warrants related to the felony vandalism charges mentioned above. This wackiness is very much akin to Quaid’s character, Clark Griswold’s cousin Eddie Johnson. Quaid he is not crazy but rather the victim of a criminal conspiracy to take his wealth, and perhaps his life

What the hell is going on with actor Charlie Sheen? It seems that he cannot separate reality from his character “Charlie Harper” of ‘Two and a Half Men’. Kinda sad, really. Now to make his story about an allergic reaction to prescription medication and the subsequent nude rampage more salacious, the female he was with, and also accused of stealing a $100k watch from the actor, is an ‘adult film’ or ‘erotic’ actress.

Now neither of these stories affect my life, nor dare I say, the lives of anyone I know one iota. For the most part, after the usual roll of the eyes and/or one lined water cooler jokes, these stories or events are often dismissed. To me, each one of these situations, and even the ones that involve death, is just one of those things that has always happened and unfortunately always will” There’s nothing we can do but sit back and watch it go by.

When In Doubt, Whip It Out!!

Rainy Day In GreenVegas, SC - 10/25/10

Not your happy, info filled blog today- maybe later. Been busy day here at work. A tornado watch until 1pm ET makes this day a little more interesting. These same storms wreaked havoc in the Dallas, Texas area.

In football, my Tarheels lost to hated Miami over the weekend. My Steelers won. Thanks for a controversial call going OUR way for a change.

Just a quick work rant. I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, and I'm not better than anyone, I'm more imperfect than anyone I work with. However some of the people I work with are so incredibly stupid, naive it's more pathetic than it usually is in any workplace. Though many of you know what I do and where I work, I have never officially stated what I do or WHERE or whom I work. Some of these people don't read simple instructions that even I can comprehend. And when someone not as smart as these people, people who've been doing this job a hell of a lot longer than I have, when they can't see how utterly stupid their actions are and how already answered their questions already are, then perhaps it's time for me personally to make another change. I must be the faulty cog in the wheel of this organization. After all, this organization has always existed FINE and will exist and operate FINE long after I'm gone.

Ok, enough of the work rant. I really really miss the old me. Where is the life that I recognize?
(insert the Geico commercial with the drill sergeant calling the psych patient a "jackwagon" and suggesting a visit to "namby pamby" land).

WIkileaks released another 40 MILLION (OK, not that much, but a lot) documents concerning the wars overseas in Afghanistan and Iraq. While the numbers and specifics not released or downplayed by the US during these wars is indicative of any nation in any war historically, I wonder what makes the US government any more evil NOW than it (or any nation conducting war in the past) it was in previous wars? The media coverage between all wars pre WW2 and post WW2 is amazing and a stark contrast. Personally, I don't think these contrasts or differences make those who consider or call the US evil or bad for conducting these wars and less patriotic. The very serious "game" of war is conducted like any other game; as in NOT revealing your strategy or your casualty numbers for either side or anything negative. When someone or someone like WIkileaks release this information, it cannot be helped that the information hinders one of the players in some way. You don't reveal everything and every result from playing the game. This whole 'wikileaks' situation reminds me of someone tattle telling in class. If you like that type of thing, then it's OK I suppose. Historically, every great general or those who are/were "good" at their job repeats the fact that wars should never be fought and they should be avoided at any and all costs. I agree with this thinking. I also believe that if you conduct war, there needs to be quick, strong, decisive actions to minimize unnecessary death/injury. To me, just ONE death during a "war" is one too many and that's the precise reason why war shouldn't be conducted in my opinion. But it is also my opinion that if war is to be conducted or fault, while regrettable, civilian casualty is an unfortunate byproduct of war and military "actions". So arguing about whether one or ten or ten thousand people die or have died is kind of inane. One death, whether civillian, military or otherwise is obscene.

What say you?

So This Is Thursday....

The world's longest cat Stewie - 4 ft long

Happy Thursday - or Friday or whenever you're reading this. Not much going on today. Still too freaking warm outside - near 80 degrees approaching Halloween- sheesh! Though it DID get down to around 30 degrees about 94 miles away from here this morning. As of Thursday afternoon, me and the missus have no “big” plans for my bi-weekly Friday/Saturday/Sunday off.


On Yahoo! News this afternoon, one of the afternoon's headlines reads "Obama says elections could set nation's future". NAH, REALLY? How Bush-esque...

What do you think of the "racy" photos at GQ of the cast of TV's "Glee"? I think the pedophilia concerns are kinda muddled because, as with most shows, you have early/mid 20 year olds playing high school teens.

Look for Jimmy McMillan of New York’s The Rent Is Too Damn High (www.rentistoodamnhigh.org/) political party to possibly make a cameo on this weekend's Saturday Night Live.


Conan O'Brien is lining up the expected "big" guest list for the initial week of his show debuting November 8th.


Katy Perry and Jack Sparrow imitator Russell Brand are getting married in India.


Why did NPR fire (terminate the contract of) analyst Juan Williams for telling Bill OReilly that one time on a plane people appearing to be Muslims dressed in religious garb frightened him?


A new study indicates that eating whole grains instead of refined grains may have benefits for your waistline. Will they ever come out with a whole grain cheesecake?

How do you feel about Collin Ferrell being in a "Total Recall" remake?


Looks like the on again/ off again production of "The Hobbit" is becoming just as long and drawn out as the movie/story will be.

Penthouse founder Bob Guccione Sr has died.


And finally, a U.S. satellite has detected increased activity at a North Korean nuclear weapons test site, suggesting it could be preparing for a third test, a South Korean government source was quoted as saying. If we went into Iraq because of alleged WMD's and the argument is being made that even though the WMD's were moved out of Iraq and it's a GOOD thing Saddam is gone, can't we make the same argument concerning Kim Jong Il/Nam/Nong?

Goodbye Howard Cunningham

from http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20435305,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines
Tom Bosley the folksy father of Richie Cunningham on the '70s sitcom about the '50s, ABC's Happy Days, died Tuesday in his Palm Springs, Calif., home. On Oct. 1 he had turned 83.




The actor died of a staph infection, according to TMZ, which first reported his death.



Before finding fame on the small screene, Bosley won a Tony for starring as the beloved New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in the Pulitzer-Prize-winning 1959 musical Fiorello!. He also made a memorable mark in the 1964 Peter Sellers cult comedy The World of Henry Orient, as the too-understanding husband of Angela Lansbury's character.



After Happy Days, he would frequently costar with Lansbury on her CBS series, Murder She Wrote.



Reacting to Bosley's death, his Happy Days costar Henry Winkler expressed his sadness, telling Los Angeles's KNX-1070 News Radio, "I'm in shock, I really am. I spoke to him just a few weeks ago and he seemed to be getting his strength back."



Born in Chicago, Bosley was the younger son of a real estate broker father and a former concert pianist mother. "We were fairly wealthy until the stock market crashed," he told PEOPLE in 1979, during the Happy Days craze. "When I was 2, my father lost all his money." His parents divorced nine years later.



Bosley joined the Navy in 1945 at 17 ("I'm the only guy I know who went in as a seaman and came out a seaman"), then enrolled in pre-law at DePaul University. In his first year, he switched to acting.



After stock theater in Illinois (with fellow aspirants Paul Newman and Geraldine Page), he flipped a coin in 1950 to decide between New York and Los Angeles. New York won.



For nine years before Fiorello! he acted off-Broadway and in summer stock while working menial jobs to feed himself. Movie and TV roles followed, and in recent years, whenever there was a Happy Days reunion, he could always be counted upon to appear – and tease his TV son, Ron Howard, about not casting him in his movies.



Bosley married twice. His first wife, Jean, a dancer, died in 1978 (they had wed in 1962). His second wife, the former Patricia Carr, survives him. They married in 1980. He also has a daughter, Amy.



Ironically, Bosley's death comes only a few days after that of another iconic '50s TV parent, Barbara Billingsley, of Leave It to Beaver.

Something Else to See Along With All The Recent Stories Concerning Ghostbusters 3

To accept the award for “Best Horror Movie” at the 2010 Scream Awards, Bill Murray appeared wearing a full Ghostbusters outfit, which even included a proton pack. The award show was held Saturday in Los Angeles, and will air on Spike TV on October 19th at 9pm.

Freaking Tuesday!

Happy Tuesday! 19 days until Halloween! Only another few hours until I get off of work for a couple of days before my weekend playtime. We tied a high temperature record yesterday at 86 degrees. Gonna be 86 or so today as well. Welcome to fall!!

Here's some stuff I saw on the ol interweb today..


On this day in 2000, two suicide bombers attacked the destroyer USS Cole while it was at anchor in Aden, Yemen, killing 17 of its crew members and injuring 39 others.

Remember the story from last week concerning the discovery of an earth like planetin another galaxy? Well, apparently, scientists 2 years ago received a "mysterious pulsing light" from that area. Read more HERE

Lions Gate is offering to merge with MGM..
Another public car crash while filming the upcoming 'Transformer 3' movie- see it HERE

Sony Pictures has just announced Rhys Ifans, the Welsh actor perhaps best known for roles in "Notting Hill", "The Replacements" and several other films, will play the villain in Marc Webb’s "Spider-Man" reboot

Scripts for "The Flash" and Green Lantern 2" are expected to hit Warner Bros. by Christmas.

NBC today pulled the plug on legal drama Outlaw after putting the freshman series on production hiatus last week. It hails from Conan O'Brien's once NBC-based production company Conaco.The remaining 4 original episodes of Outlaw will air Saturdays at 8 PM over the next five week (preempted on October 30th for a previously scheduled Shrek special).

KIM JONG NAM, eldest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, who has said he opposes a chain of empire that would see his younger half brother, Kim Jong Un, succeeding his father.

Kind of an interesting/funny story at CNN for those of us employed.

Matt Damon won't be in the next "Bourne" movie. The franchise's next film, "The Bourne Legacy," will not star Damon or even feature Jason Bourne.
The Gap's new logo is a no go. Belk's new log is a go.

I read over at Whitney Matheson's blog, Pop Candy, over at USA Today that Napoleon Dynamite is coming to Fox television- in the form of a cartoon.

I also read over there that "they" are bringing the old school "Family Circus" cartoon live action style to the big screen.

The NFL has hired former Sports Illustrated model Marisa Miller as their newest spokesperson.

and finally, Good bye Bobby Cox. The longtime Atlanta Braves manager's final game was last night when the Braves fell by one run to the San Fransisco Giants in the NLDS 3-2. I don't belive there is a manager in baseball history who has lost so many "one run" games. Anyway, I'll let the professional sports writers write eleoquent stories abotu Bobby's final game last night. All i can do is publically thank him for all teh great and heartbreakign moments with the Braves over the years and wish him a well rested, satisfying life.