Dr. Who

Dr. Who. Can't get enough of what? Who? Who? Doctor Who.

It's comic relief time in Britain, so the fans of shows get a little bit of their favorites actors and characters, doing a funny bit for charity. Dr. Who fans get a little treat from the good doctor and from his companion(s).

I am a Dr. Who fan and have been a fan from the time of the First Doctor. I caught all the old shows on my local PBS station. I've followed the doctor over the years and am up on the current doctor, play well by the actor Matt Smith.

Why am I a Doctor Who fan? Well, let me see?.

The writing is good and the acting is right on. Tom Baker was my favorite doctor for years, until David Tennant, got the part. I thought that Christopher Eccleston was a great doctor too. The writing of the revised doctor under the stewardship of Russell Davis was outstanding.

The doctor started out as an entertaining kids' show and over the years became something quite serious. But not freakin' presumptuous as to become a muddle to kids.

Also Dr Who, the character? Is probably the most nonviolent aggressive person in the history of fiction. He is a very positive fictional fella

"A special two-part mini episode with the Doctor, Amy and Rory in danger aboard the TARDIS. Doctor Who star Matt Smith materialises for a special appearance for Funny For Money." See the videos

Kate's dress sells for £78k

What's the least? The much to do about nothing? About Kate and Will? This week? CNN, the cable news network, that is losing audience in droves, is sending fifty (that's 50) of its people to London to cover the royal wedding of Prince William and Miss. Kate

Also at a charity auction, I presume, some dude called Nick from Jersey spent 78 thousand pounds for the see through; dress that Kate Middleton wore to woo Prince William. See the video.

Was it a dress or something else? And, why was it really put up for auction? What am I doing? Falling into the Kate and Will, or Will and Kate trap, like CNN, which has fifty of its people to send to a foreign country to cover the wedding of two people whom so far haven't done anything, and there is so much going on in this country for CNN to report?

I wonder what would CNN do, if while it has that number of people in London, a real story breaks out? Something a little more important? For instance a cat in Jersey climbs up a tree and can't get down on her own, and all the neighbors are beside themselves with concern?.

Charlie Sheen for President?

For the amusement of many and to the chagrin of a few, Charlie Sheen for President? Of what?

Charlie Sheen says he's winning. He took his show on the road and TMC estimates his sold out show could make him a cool 7 mill a month. If that's not enough Public Policy Polling matched up Charlie Sheen and President Obama, and Charlie Sheen and Sarah Palin. Among Democrats, if the choice is between the big grizzly mama, also known as failin Palin, and Good ole Charlie, Charlie wins 44-24. If it's Charlie vs the Pres, among Republicans, Charlie wins again. 37-28. Among independent, Charlie would send Sarah back to Alaska by, 41-36. But Charlie has high unfavorables, 67 % to only 10% favorable.; So what does this all mean? That Democrats and Independents don't like Sarah, and Republicans aren't fond of Obama. But in a straight on race against Charlie, Palin and Obama win. Palin beats him 49-29 overall, and Obama trouces him 57-24.

But so what? Charlie isn't no pol. Not at least as of now. Anyway, the poll got the wags wagging their tongues about the far out possibility that Charlie might run for pres. Well, the Donald thinks he's pres material, why not Charlie?

The Cure - Lullaby (Live Video)

One of my all time favorite songs - Lullaby by The Cure! This video is extra special because it is live. So hot.

Lyrics:

On candystripe legs the spiderman comes
Softly through the shadow of the evening sun
Stealing past the windows of the blissfully dead
Looking for the victim shivering in bed
Searching out fear in the gathering gloom and
Suddenly!
A movement in the corner of the room!
And there is nothing I can do
When I realise with fright
That the spiderman is having me for dinner tonight!

Quietly he laughs and shaking his head
Creeps closer now
Closer to the foot of the bed
And softer than shadow and quicker than flies
His arms are all around me and his tongue in my eyes
"Be still be calm be quiet now my precious boy
Don't struggle like that or I will only love you more
For it's much too late to get away or turn on the light
The spiderman is having you for dinner tonight"

And I feel like I'm being eaten
By a thousand million shivering furry holes
And I know that in the morning I will wake up
In the shivering cold

And the spiderman is always hungry...

Balloon Rescue

It's all about being in the right place, at the right time

There are, in every life, those occasional moments when you find yourself in exactly the right place, at precisely the right time, and in retrospect you couldn't possibly explain how you managed to do precisely the necessary thing. Yet you manage to do just that.

This short clip illustrates exactly what I mean.

Too Much About Nothing?

William Windsor, also known as William Wales, also known as Prince William of Britain.

The lady, Kate Middleton, also known as Kate.

The couple known as the young royal, William, and the commoner, Kate, a young royal to be, and also known for what?

For doing too much of nothing. This is not personal. It is not their fault that they hog space more than, or as much as Charlie Sheen. Charlie Sheen is an entertainer. William and Kate are just William and Kate, or Will and Kate. Not two nobodies, but two bodies dressed up in somebodies clothes.

The two of them get mentioned as much as some dictators whom have imposed too long on their people.

Every news site on the web -- Well, almost everyone has a section dedicated to news about them, about them doing absolutely nothing.

But why?

In this Republic, which is known as the United States, there is more news about Will and Kate than there is about why this country can't pay its bills. There are more resources of the American press dedicated to tell Americans about what Kate is wearing, and about what she will be wearing, than there are telling Americans about how our government really works and why it doesn't really work for us.

And so, Will and Kate by doing nothing may be up to something? Or somebody is?

Item from the Associated Press -- "Fashion experts reveal what they feel about Kate Middleton's style and how she will fare as a fashion icon. " See the video.

Kid Jumped From The Golden Gate Bridge And Lived

Unbelievable Luck?

A kid in San Francisco jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge and lived. Why did he jump? Because it was a stunt, done for kicks. He is probably just some lucky dumb ass kid. He is a transfer student, probably with not enough friends, and who wanted to get notice, said he wanted to be cool. He probably didn't know what he was doing. Some other kid or kids dared him, and so this kid, a seventeen year old high school boy, on a school field trip to the bridge, jumped.

He probably didn't know that of the thirty two people who jumped off the 220-foot high bridge last year, all of them died. He probably didn't know that since 1937, the year the bridge opened, that of the estimated fifteen hundred plus people who jumped from the bridge, ninety nine percent of them died, from fractured skulls, broken bones and severe internal injuries. This boy jumped and received no severe injuries?  He received no severe physical injuries from the stunt -- just a broken tail bone and a torn lung..

The stupid ass stunt could have gone wrong. And this young kid could have gotten his head bashed on the rocks. Oh, well. See the video.

Mel Gibson and American Justice?

Today, Friday, Mel Gibson pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor spousal battery charge. Mr. Gibson, agreeing to a plea bargain, was given three years probation and ordered to attend 52 weeks of domestic violence counseling. He said he entered the plea of no contest because it is in the best interest of his children. He wanted to avoid a trial and have the whole sordid relationship that he had with his ex-girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva, dragged out again in public

Okay, Mel Gibson was in a bad relationship, with a woman, who allegedly tried to shake him down for money, and maybe she did, and maybe she didn't leak to the media, the so-called secret tapes of their conversations, conservations which were often one-sided ,with Mel Gibson behaving like a jerk. Maybe she is as much a jerk as he is? Maybe not?

But! Mel Gibson has a horrible temper and a trash mouth, add that to the fact that he admitted that he battered his girlfriend, all I can say is, that dude got off easy. Very easy. Maybe too easy.

But justice in America, is just that. In most cases, the rich gets just what they want, but if you don't have any money, justice is just one chunk of ice falling down on your head.

Note to Hackers, Spammers, Spoofers, Unemployed Computer Geeks, and Lazy Technical Wizards

Stop Hacking, Spamming, and Spoofing Me!

 

 

I don’t know any of you personally, but I have made your acquaintance through the cyber-world; I’ve had my e-mail accounts hacked and spoofed and have received a plethora of messages from you from my friend’s accounts. And while I appreciate your concern, I’m not a guy, so I don’t need Viagra or my penis enlarged, thank you very much and I’m truthfully not in the market for a Russian bride.

 

I know there must be some financial reward or intrinsic value derived from hacking a personal Facebook, e-mail, or Twitter account, or you wouldn’t spend countless hours hacking and spoofing. You might like the power of messing with people’s minds by overflowing their in-boxes with Spam addressed from their friends. But couldn’t you be using your skills and talents elsewhere? Do you really have to spend your time hacking my e-mail account to get ahead in life?

 

Now that your skills have been honed by working for pharmaceutical companies to send spoofed e-mails and fake Facebook messages, wouldn’t you like to use those skills for the right side instead of tirelessly bothering the “little people” with Spam?  I’m not suggesting that you put yourself at risk with illegal activities. You could probably get a job for a litigator researching and investigating white-collar criminals—the guys like Mozilo who rip everybody off and never get punished for it. You could go legit and actually earn more cash and respect. Software engineers don’t typically earn small salaries and get more respect than the average spammer, as do many others with your particular set of technical skills. (The image above is an actual screen-shot from Craig’s List with the job description of “hacker”, so it’s clear that I’m not the only one thinking in this vein.)

 

 

And for the few of you hackers and the like who are into hacking high-profile celebrities and pseudo-celebrities’ Twitter, Facebook, and e-mail accounts for fun, cash, or glory, why don’t you change your focus a little and start hacking the real criminals? We all know that Justin Bieber is an exceedingly cute kid with muppet-like hair, but that’s not really a crime. I’m talking about the CEO’s of major corporations who wield influence that they really shouldn’t have and their attorneys.

 

 

**As a legal aside, it should be noted that I accept no personal responsibility for anyone who chooses to hack anyone else. Hackers are responsible for their own actions.

 

 

Sheen, Franco, Watson and Spider-Man

Things have been especially weird in the entertainment industry lately. Big stars are falling, small ones are rising, shows are coming apart and it's all getting really difficult to track. Hell, we can't even rely on Justin Bieber's hair being all swept and dreamy anymore. That's why I have a multi-stage plan to rescue the entertainment industry in America from itself. It's not going to be cheap or easy, but I assure you, it's necessary.

The big news in Hollywood for the past couple weeks has been the very public, extremely weird meltdown of actor Charlie Sheen. Yesterday CBS officially handed down his pink slip concerning Two and a Half Men, though that was really just a formality. Everybody knew that the network could no longer sustain a tiger-blooded warlock like Charlie "Winning" Sheen, but that leaves us with a unique predicament. If Charlie Sheen goes away, we won't have anything as amusing as his particularly verbose style of insanity for a long time. We need to keep this guy in the limelight somehow, lest boredom overtake us all.

That's why I think it's clear that Charlie Sheen needs to join the cast of Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark. The permanently embattled Broadway show is mere inches from closing down. After being plagued with technical problems, safety failures and some of the most scathing reviews in recent memory, the show is now facing the likely departure of director Julie Taymore. Where others might see disaster in this latest news, I see opportunity. A production as quixotic and ridiculous as Turn Off The Dark doesn't need a pretentious spectacle-hound like Taymore at the helm, it needs a master of the inexplicable like James Franco.

Yes, there is nothing that could turn the fortunes of the Spider-Man musical and its rightful star, Charlie Sheen, around better than the involvement of artistic chameleon James Franco. The guy has a thousand little projects running right now and he's freaking everywhere in increasingly unusual formats. It's going to take his uniquely unpredictable touch to forge a new work of art out of the smoldering mess of Sheen and the biggest Broadway disaster in decades.

But there's one element missing from this pop culture alchemy. It needs something light, something special to balance the equation. That's why it seems overly serendipitous that Emma Watson, pixie-haired co-star of the Harry Potter movies, has announced that she's taking some time off school to concentrate on her acting career. Shocking, I know. We all assumed that Watson would really hunker down and focus on achieving a degree from Brown University instead of chasing the stardom, riches and ease of playing pretend for a living, but fate had other plans for her. Now that Miss Emma is ready to dive into her post-Potter career, she could really do wonders for the Sheen/Franco edition of Turn Off The Dark. She could serve as an airy, hopeful counterpoint to Sheen's dark intensity. A volatile mix? Yes, but James Franco can contain and focus it like a laser of pure art.

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