GAME ONE: The INDIANA FEVER hosted the ATLANTA DREAM to tip off the evening. This was a closely contested affair and by Halftime the Fever were clinging to a 33-31 lead.
After the break Indiana slowly but surely put more and more distance between themselves and the Dream, ultimately winning the game by a final score of 85-74. Erica Wheeler led the Fever with 20 points. Continue reading
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Yes, it’s the 16th of June, better known to James Joyce geeks like me as Bloom’s Day. The day is named in honor of Leopold Bloom, the Jewish advertising sales rep and Freemason who is one of the major characters in Joyce’s novel Ulysses. The novel also brings along Stephen Dedalus, the protagonist of his earlier novel Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
For those unfamiliar with this work, Ulysses is Joyce’s stream-of-consciousness novel in which he metaphorically features the events from the Odyssey in a single day – June 16th, 1904, in Dublin. (The day he met Nora Barnacle, the woman he would eventually marry after living together for decades) Bloom represents Ulysses/Odysseus, Stephen represents Telemachus and Leopold’s wife, Molly Bloom, represents Penelope.
The novel is jam-packed with Continue reading
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THE SHIP OF SILENT MEN (1920) – Written by Philip M Fisher. The crew of a ship called the Lanoa set out from Hawaii. A few days later an abnormally powerful electrical storm strikes, leaving the area unusually cold in its wake.
The men on board the Lanoa don’t have much time to ponder that before they begin receiving distress signals from a ship identified as the Karnak. Even though the message indicates that the death of the entire crew seems imminent, the Lanoa receives the message again later, after assuming the Karnak met with disaster. Continue reading
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As always with this global conflict the victims were a diverse lot. The killers were all Muslims.
(And, sadly we recently had the 1 year anniversary of last year’s Muslim fascist attack at the PULSE Nightclub, where innocent people were murdered by Muslim homophobia.)
WITH THE ATTACKS BELOW ADDED IN THE NUMBERS STAND AT:
PEOPLE KILLED IN TERRORIST ATTACKS IN THE NAME OF ALL OTHER RELIGIONS IN THE LAST 19 DAYS: 0 … ZERO … NONE.
PEOPLE KILLED IN TERRORIST ATTACKS IN THE NAME OF ISLAM IN THE LAST 19 DAYS: ONE THOUSAND ONE-HUNDRED FIFTY-ONE … AND COUNTING.
June 8th: Af Urur, Somalia – Al-Shabaab, the local affiliate in the Global Muslim Fascist Murder Machine, attacked and killed FIFTY-NINE innocent people and injured THIRTY-EIGHT more. Continue reading
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The Hypnotic Eye is one of the most beloved bad movies of the 1960s. Its hilariously campy trailer, its sinister Eurotrash villain and its Ed Wood-level police work all make it a true anti-classic.
Jacques Bergerac, one-time husband of Ginger Rogers, played Desmond, the magician who uses the title object to augment his hypnotic abilities to an enormous degree.
After various beautiful women appear on stage with Desmond as volunteers from his audience he plants a post-hypnotic suggestion that causes them to mutilate themselves in various extreme ways after the show.
Some set their hair on fire, some wash their faces with acid ,some shove their faces into fans, etc. This being an old black & white movie the effects are very tame by today’s standards. Continue reading
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THE AVENGERS Volume 1, Number 121 (March 1974) Houses Divided Cannot Stand
AVENGERS ROSTER: Thor, Iron Man, The Scarlet Witch, The Black Panther, The Vision, The Swordsman and MANTIS.
HOUSES DIVIDED CANNOT STAND
Synopsis: Atop the World Trade Center Towers the battle between the Avengers and the supervillain team called Zodiac has come to a pause. That pause was brought on by Mantis’ mutant empathic powers filling her with the pain that Taurus’ Star Blazer Cannon inflicted on New York’s Geminis. This caused her to be overwhelmed and fall down, teetering on the edge of the roof and in danger of plummeting to her death below.
With all the combatants now focused on Mantis’ potential fate the Zodiac member Aries encourages their leader Taurus to unleash another blast from the damaged cannon to hopefully cause Mantis to fall.
Taurus refuses. With Zodiac’s attempt to kill every Gemini in New York thwarted by the damage done to the Star Blazer during the clash of superteams he now wants to simply make an escape and offers to spare Mantis if the Avengers let Zodiac go. He hints at Mantis being very, VERY important and thinks the Avengers are bluffing when they (truthfully) say they don’t know what he is talking about.
The Scarlet Witch – using her romantic partner the Vision’s body as cover, quickly maneuvers into position and unleashes her mutant hex power on the Star Blazer, completely destroying the weapon. The other Avengers rush forward to attack Zodiac in order to keep them away from the prone form of Mantis and hopefully capture them.
Virgo defeats the Scarlet Witch for the second time in as many days, then joins her teammates in using their superior numbers to keep the Avengers hard-pressed by attacking in cadres. At length Aries fights his way through the Avengers and tosses Mantis’ body over the ledge. Continue reading
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Seven new college sports teams will be joining the NCCAA for the 2017 into 2018 collegiate season beginning this fall. Here are those seven newcomers:
NEBRASKA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE
Team Name: SENTINELS (Formerly the Parsons)
Location: Papillion, NE
Year of Establishment: 1945
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OTTAWA UNIVERSITY IN ARIZONA
Team Name: SPIRIT
Location: Surprise, AZ (Seriously)
Year of Establishment: 1865
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VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY OF LYNCHBURG
Team Name: DRAGONS
Location: Lynchburg, VA (Can you imagine that!)
Year of Establishment: 1886
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Well, I am STILL having a terrific time watching the political realignment going on here in the U.S. The only change we would have gotten would have come from either Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders and if one of them got in then the two rival gangs of White Collar Criminals called Democrats and Republicans would attack the outsider at all costs.
The attacks would be different in nature but Bernie would now be getting slammed like Trump is by the establishment forces. Most recently United States President Donald Trump withstood the awkward Comey/ Russia/ Impeachment witch-hunt. In related news the Democrats’ Pro-Sharia mobs in their black masks attacked the protests against Sharia around the country.
Then there’s the childish drama queens of the self-styled “Resistance.” LMFAO! Yep, the opposition to Trump and his Populism is a rag-tag collection of bloated rich pigs, privileged children of the left, international corporate interests and establishment politicians who’ve been in office for DECADES in many cases.
“Resistance, Inc” or maybe “ResistCo” would be a better name for them. None of these allegedly “rebellious” groups lacks funding and the mask-wearing members gleefully launch physical attacks on anyone who disagrees with them.
REAL Resistance movements throughout history have been composed of the poor, the working class and courageous nonconformists of all stripes. Those REAL Resistance movements are composed of people who are taking actual RISKS because of the stands they take, unlike the Anti-Trump fascists.
The bizarre little people who make up the conformist mobs that oppose Trump are the ones inflicting physical injury on people as well as “filing complaints” around the clock to try to inflict financial or professional harm on their victims.
HELPFUL HINTS:
If you can file a complaint and get the Powers That Be to act on your behalf to punish those who disagree with you then you are NOT part of a Resistance Movement … you’re part of the forces of Oppression.
If TEACHERS – the ultimate forces of conformity – are on your side and encouraging your “resistance” (LMFAO) then you are NOT part of a Resistance Movement … you’re part of the forces of Oppression.
If TEACHERS can only threaten your future career prospects if you dare to disagree with the worldview of those secular clergy members then you are NOT part of a Resistance Movement … you’re part of the forces of Oppression.
If you can impose censorship on others while remaining free to express open hatred to anyone who disagrees with you then you are NOT part of a Resistance Movement … you’re part of the forces of Oppression.
If you pretend to be a rebel but you need a Safe Space to deal with the world then you are NOT part of a Resistance Movement … you’re part of the forces of Oppression.
Members of REAL Resistance Movements risk ending their lives in a prison where the last sound they ever hear may be the laughter of the people torturing them to death. Posturing drama queens like you Americans of “The Resistance” figuratively spit in the faces of those courageous people. And you cheapen what they represent with your oh-so-safe play-acting. Continue reading
THE Nth MAN (1920 – 1924?) – Written by Homer Eon Flint, who died in 1924. Though this short novel was not published until 1928 many fans of the author argue that it was actually written in 1920.
The story is set in what was then the near future of the 1930s. The Nth Man is an enormous humanoid figure with hardened skin like the shells of certain species of animals. He is supposedly 2 miles tall, but that would make many of the events in the novel impractical if not impossible.
The mysterious giant is at first regarded as half rumor and half Tall Tale as he sets the world talking with some incredible actions. He tears apart some of the Great Wall of China, he removes the head of the Sphinx and places it on top of one of the pyramids and he picks up a ship bound for Australia and carries it for thousands of miles.
Showing more cognitive purpose the Nth Man also makes off with an entire building to thwart a plot by anarchists and saves a little girl from drowning. All of the preceding deeds have been accomplished under cover of darkness but now the colossus comes out into the open, emerging from San Francisco Bay to tower over the city.
The Nth Man walks from coast to coast, easily defeating the aerial and land forces that attempt to stop him. You would think this proto-Kaiju sequence would have inspired a film adaptation long ago. The gigantic figure goes to Washington D.C. and lays down some demands from on-high. Continue reading
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