Just a couple of days ago I made a post lamenting how much I hate DVD’s. I guess Motorola was listening:
Motorola plans movie-playing mobile phone
….and the means to play feature films on small removable storage cards, Chief Executive Ed Zander said Wednesday.
This can’t happen soon enough for me!
It’s that time of the month again. We’ve got a big, bright, full moon floating in the sky. For a long, long, long time, man has considered the full moon a sign of craziness.
According to Mythic Realm, Werewolves have been around throughout most of mankind’s written history. Probably the first account of a shapeshifting was from the book Metamorphoses 
The common argument, and one that I heard today on Fox, is that since the Moon’s gravity controls the tides, and we’re about 60% water, it therefore controls us. That’s just silly as all get-out and hardly worth “debunking”. The Moon’s no closer or farther away just because it’s not obscured by the Earth interfering with the Sun’s light.
Where I think this all comes from is a lot simpler. Only in VERY modern times, and I mean the 21st century being the only exclusive century, was man not the prey of other beasts. Those beasts could see a LOT better during a full moon than a dark night. In more modern times, robbers could see you a LOT better during a full Moon than a dark night. Therefore, if you weren’t careful, and were traveling at night, a brightly lit full Moon posed a threat. It would probably be best to stay inside or things could get kinda crazy on you real easy during a full Moon.
Now, there are all kinds of reputed studies that connect the Moon to psychological problems. But, there are just as many, probably more, that debunk that theory.
So, what I do during a full Moon is look up in the sky and think, “Wow! What a beautiful Moon we’ve got tonight!”. And go about my normal business.
Now, the only myth I will go along with is full Moon’s make you hornier. My very scientific theory behind that is not that it tugs on your body’s water more or less, or gravity lighten the load of a man’s nuts thereby making them feel a little randier. It’s a lot simpler than that. The pale, pure white light of the Moon has a two-fold double-whammy effect. It not only makes the object of your desire visible, it’s faint enough to hide their imperfections. And, if you’re close enough to them when it’s that dark and the only light you’ve got is the Moon, you’re probably horny in the first place.
So, during this, and all the full Moons to come, don’t fret the bad stuff and most definitely enjoy the good.
Good sci-fi flicks are hard to come by these days. They almost always feature animals from space that have mastered the ability for intergalactic travel with the mindset of a reptile. Every so often, something comes along that is real sci-fi, what I enjoy the most. Billy Bob Thornton seems to be attracted to those same types of realistic sci-fi flicks as well. His newest adventure, The Astronaut Farmer, looks like something I’ll have to see:
In this movie, Charles Farmer, who never made it to space as a real astronaut, decides to build his own Mercury-Atlas rocket and go to space anyway. Apparently a lot of attention to detail was made for this movie. For that, I do want to see it. I hope it’s a monster hit so that Hollywood will realize just how tired most adults are of reptiles invading far-away planets.
I swear, I have never even heard of 2001 – A Space Travesty
Forget the small testicled polar bears, global warming has apparently spawned something to really worry about right now! Check this out:
According to Google, this bug has to be about 200 FEET LONG! They may have totally screwed the hurricane season. And, they might not be able to accurately predict the oceans’s temperatures. And, now this! I am still scanning Google Maps to find a huge can of Raid heading towards that thing. But, so far, no luck. And, as usual, the media’s slow to pick up on this pending global catastrophe. So, if anyone hears any updates, PLEASE let me know.
A while back I wrote a diatribe on the unfolding Hot Coffee scandal. Needless to say, I got it wrong. However, Senator Hillary Clinton decided to make it an issue and that did annoy me. Still does. Since that original post, Take Two has fessed up, agreed to all fines and restitutions, and basically taken a beating. Now, I’m reading where a New York grand jury has subpoenaed Take Two over documents related to the Grand Theft Auto sex scenes. I’m not sure what the point of that is. From what I can tell, they’re not either. Although I was wrong on what they did, I really don’t consider what they did that big a deal. The game itself features breaking all kinds of laws. There’s murder, stealing, drug dealing, you name it. Hillary et al could care less about that. However, the possibility of sex causes them to wig completely out.
Folks, we need to examine our priorities. And, it needs to start from the top down. Is sex really all that much more damaging to our society than drugs, murder, and mindless violence? Why in the hell was GTA allowed a lesser rating with all the violence than it would have been with some nudity and sex? That just ain’t right. I could do with a lot more lovin and lot less violence in my life.
And, for what it’s worth, the private sector has dealt Take Two it’s penalty on its own. On the day I posted my erroneous post, Take Two was selling for $28.55 a share. Today, it’s $10.00 and dropping like a rock. In the private sector, justice is dealt out harshly and quickly without the meddling of the Hillary Clintons and others worried to death about pandering to their voters.
Just for chucks and giggles, I’ve put together a playlist of some of my favorite science fiction songs that I’ve redone. As usual, there’s no vocals. You have to sing them yourself. See how many you can actually remember ( or ever even knew ) the words to:
Here is the Music Player. You need to installl flash player to show this cool thing!
Enjoy. And don’t forget, I only do these for fun.
I was just browsing through headlines, when I stumbled on The Schizoid Split in Movies on Slate. Now the angle being discussed there is about the separation of CGI effects and the live action. Sometimes it’s pretty messy and screws up an otherwise OK movie. Sometimes it’s the star of the movie and the actors merely fill in. However, doing a little research on the topic led me to this:
The #87 Hottest babe of 2001 according to Maxim was a babe named Dr. Aki Ross. That’s right, that babe is a doctor. What’s more, that babe will always look like that. That babe, you see, is Photoshopped. She is purely CGI. What’s even more amazing to me, I’ve even got an apparently Photoshopped pic of the Photoshopped babe. Now, in her movie, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, all the characters are CGI. The only human contributions are voices. The schizoid split I see coming in the not too distant future will be when Hollywood realizes it doesn’t have to put up with million doctor run-of-the-mill actors and actresses and can CGI the star they want. I mean, let’s face it people, Aki Ross looks hot. Much hotter than most of what’s being offered in Hollywood today. She can sing, she can dance, she can shoot a rifle, laser, cannon, you name it. She can do back flips, somersaults, splits, and stand on one finger if needed. She’s ALL THAT and more. She’s never done drugs and doesn’t have a drinking problem. She only exists to act.
Now, here’s where I get weird on people. The main argument with the “adult entertainment” industry in keeping their material available is it is a form of free speech. In simpler terms, it’s art. The problem they keep having is the acts they are portraying are illegal in many parts of the country and world and the movie is simply documenting an illegal act. In order to fully document the act, laws are broken in many parts of the world. What if porn was CGI? Would the mere depiction of sexual acts make porn more legal than the documentation of it? I mean, at that point, it IS nothing but art. I could go a lot deeper on this tangent, but you get the picture. Child porn would have no need to abuse kids. There would be no forced sex trade to make movies. Etc.. I see nothing but positives from this perspective. It needs to be done. Now.
Deep Impact met it’s target and blasted a good chunk of it into dust. That’s what was expected. However, it’s had some unintended results:
1. The citizens of Tempel 1 have filed suit against the US government. And justifiably so.
2. People For The Protection of Rocks are protesting.
I’m sure there’s plenty more. I’m sure NASA’s just breathing a sigh of relief that these are the worst things to occur so far. Lord knows there have been worse.
CNN says you have to be a paid member to watch the Shuttle rollout.
Moon members can watch it for free!
( Well, ANYONE can watch it for free. Not nice of CNN to try to trick people like that! )
