Sun Flare-up

Some explosive activity on our Sun will be causing some weird effects down here on earth Sun . As the only real cause of global warming or cooling you can bet these massive explosions will trigger some strange activity in our skies. They figure the flare-up could even affect some electrical grids. Neat stuff because just like with climate there ain't anything we can do about it.  :)

On a more earthbound note, I've been watching 'Southland' on TNT. I missed all the little signs I've been told were there unfortunately. I'd like the first minute of the taped program I watched last night back where the guy who played 'Bull' on 'Band of Brothers' wakes up naked next to another guy. I don't know who thought that storyline was a good idea but eeeeeuuuuuuwwwwww... no more 'Southland' for me. The storylines have been degenerating lately anyway. FAIL!

California Hail

Yesterday, despite the temperature never dropping below 50 degrees, hail pounded down on us California sissies here in Oakland. I took a picture and movie. The picture shows my street buddies who wave on the way by the shop a few times a week. They took refuge in the apartment building across the street until it let up. They saw me taking pictures and prompted me to take the one below. The movie came out well with the audio noise from the hail beating down. Twenty minutes after it hit the sun was out.

Super Pack

We have another day with an eerie story. Unlike Red China’s ‘Ghost Cities’ this story concerns real life predators. A ‘Super Pack’ of wolves numbering around 400 terrorized a remote area of Russia, killing livestock and horses at will The '400'. No one has ever seen anything like it because packs usually run in the six or seven number. The authorities believe the intense cold sometimes dropping into the -49 degrees Centigrade range with little food drove wolves from hundreds of other packs together. I know the first reaction to Russia unleashing hunters to confront this ‘Super Pack’ is ‘awwwww… the poor doggies. Now granted, these wolves are beautiful creatures but really… 400 of them in a blood thirsty pack? Imagine 400 wolves howling at night around your little town in the middle of nowhere - great fiction material but scary reality. Definitely time to break out the AK47’s comrades.

China's Ghost Cities

Red China builds ghost cities now for what purpose no one seems to know. They have a lot of our money so maybe they’re building them to get us focused on something other than their military buildup and new fleet of stealth fighter jets. :) This article about them fires up the imagination Ghost City. Modernistic cities created at enormous expense but kept empty makes for eerie possibilities.

Is This Your Cat?

“Is this your cat?”

With all the Middle East religion of submission fanatics in Tehran screaming ‘Death to America’ to celebrate Iran’s plunge into darkness decades ago, I figured this picture might be more entertaining than stating what my take on the Middle East is.

This Lady Has Guts!

Six thugs on motor scooters arrive at a jewelry store with sledge hammers and begin breaking glass front windows to steal loot. Antique lady in red, probably my age or older, runs onto the scene handbag swinging, foils the robbery, and inspires enough passerby help to capture one of the robbers. The video is priceless. The lady in red looks like she's trying to go out with her boots on, swinging from the heels. Oh Yeah!

Super Bowl Show Review

I paused the Super Bowl during the first half since it was just my wife and I watching and preparing dinner. I figured this would be a blessing later during what I knew the half time show consisted of: Black Eyed Peas. I fast forwarded through their off key, atrocious… I won’t call it music… whatever that woman caterwauling on the stage was howling with her caustic comrades and army of dancing lighted Gumbies. The game did not disappoint. The commercials were uninspired and many like the Doritos one with the guy licking fingers and pants were… disturbing. That half time show in my humble, out of touch, sixty year old head was bad beyond the concept of bad. That there are people buying Black Eyed Peas albums answered many questions in my mind as to the inexplicable things happening around me. It also defined a new horror of hell – me, straight jacket, strapped onto a gurney, headphones, Black Eyed Peas blaring in my ears for eternity. I’m going to church next Sunday. Christina Aguilera – not knowing the words to the National Anthem – FAIL!

I know the Super Bowl is a football game, my friends; but how tough would it be to find a singer who knows the words to the National Anthem and… and anything other than a half time show of Black Eyed Peas… even somebody playing Yankee Doodle Dandy on a Kazoo would have been an improvement.  :)

Favorite Ads

Here are two of my favorite Superbowl commercials. The first is the famous Y2K Nike one and the second is a hitchhiker with an ax 'but he has Bud Light'. I hope they have a couple good ones today.  :)

First Lesson

I taught my grandson Colin how to shoot a BB gun after we bought him a Crossman like my brother Paul had as a kid. He loved it and he was a natural. You can tell by his stance in the picture Colin can adopt the pose of a seasoned veteran in an instant after learning proper techniques. I made up a shooting gallery inside a deep welled reinforced box where he blew apart plastic fish, Toy Story figures, targets and assorted plastic posed pieces. He had no mercy. When he missed he knew right away what he’d done wrong. He’d say ‘I jerked the trigger, Pa’ or ‘I didn’t get set first’. His favorite was blowing the multicolored plastic fish into bits from an old fishing game. He’s only allowed to shoot at my house with me there, so I believe we’ll be getting more visits rather than going to Sacramento.  :)

99 Cent ARCHANGEL

I put ARCHANGEL up for sale at Amazon at my dirt cheap price of 99 cents. Many of my friends read it here on the blog while I edited it. It was one I received more e-mails about than anything I ever did. The feedback ran about 50/50. Combining Archangels, Warrior Nuns, and famous political figures possessed by demons did not go over well with everyone... especially the famous figures I picked.  :) Here's the link, Cover, and blurb.

ARCHANGEL

What do you think the Lord does if he looks down one day upon the earth, and decides he’s had enough of turning the other cheek to his prodigal son, Lucifer? He sends the Archangel Raphael down to put Lucifer in his place; but when Raphael gets his butt kicked and held for extortion, what does the Lord do then? He plays hardball.

From the darkest realm of reality, the Lord asks the Archangels Michael and Gabriel to bring back his Avatar from exile: Abaddon, the dreaded Archangel of the Abyss. Forged by an angry God to stop the rampaging Lucifer from decimating Heaven’s host, the black winged Warrior Angel did all he was created for. Banished by God’s hand before Abaddon could obliterate Lucifer completely, the Lord’s Avatar passed the eons stoically, his only companionship the unsanctioned visits from his Archangel brothers. Raphael was Abaddon’s favorite. Reunited with the Lord, Abaddon is given a mission: save Raphael, find two tortured nuns who hold the key to exorcising demon kind from human hosts, return the balance between good and evil, and punish Lucifer. The grim Abaddon had four words for his Lord: “I can do that.”

Saved from brutal captivity, Sister Mary Catherine, and Sister Angelina, begin their journey beside the Seraphim of Heaven with both pure and impure motives. The Archangel of the Abyss makes the two nuns one promise: no force on Earth will ever hold them captive again. Desired captivity would be another matter.