KNEEL! You have reached GeneralZod.net. Terence Stamp was a little tougher as Zod in Superman than he was as Bernadette in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (but not much).
AFTERLIVING – The Process of Mummification with Martha Stewart. It looks as though Martha is learning a ton of stuff in the slammer.
I don’t know why anyone would want to do it but if you go to hugeurl you can generate a massive URL redirect to any particular site. For example blog.mikebrowne.com becomes:
Isn’t that exciting? No? Useful? No? Sorry…
Bushmunch & Dickhead in “4 More Years!!” Now that some funny crap. I can’t wait until this nightmare is over.
Tomorrow is the big night when all the little ghouls, goblins and witches show up to say, “trick or treat”. Kids now are dressed mostly spiderman and princesses – they’re missing the point if you ask me. I know the whole dead thing is scary to kids, but isn’t it something they’re going to have to deal with eventually anyway? The culture in the US and Canada is one of ‘if we don’t deal with it, it’s not happening’ in regards to death. Mexican children are very accustomed to the idea of death and probably less fearful. So rather than dressing little Johnny/Janey up like a cartoon character stick them in a trusty old bedsheet and send them out into the night as a spooky ghost and scare the crap out of them with stories of ‘the afterlife’. No kid of mine would be a frickin’ sissy spiderman. (Probably why I don’t have any). I’m such a cruel bastard.
Think about the roots of the day as you read below.
Blatantly stolen from MSNBC:
Celtic Samhain – In the fifth century B.C., Celts who lived in what is now Ireland, Britain and northern France celebrated New Year – called Samhain (pronounced Sow-en) – on Nov. 1. They believed that on Oct. 31, Samhain eve, the veil between the living and the dead was lifted, and that spirits would search for living bodies to possess. To frighten the spirits away, villagers would extinguish the fires in their homes, making them frigid and unwelcoming, and dress up in ghoulish attire, noisily parading around town in an unruly and destructive manner. Some accounts tell of how the Celts would burn at the stake a person who was believed to have already been possessed as a warning to the other spirits.
Roman Pomona Day – After the Romans invaded Britain in the first century A.D., they merged their Pomona Day festival, also celebrated on Nov. 1 and dedicated to their goddess of fruits and gardens, with the Celtic holiday. The Romans were said to have substituted the sacrifice of humans with burning effigies, a custom that was transferred to England’s Guy Fawkes Day after the notorious attempt to blow up parliament in 1605.
Christian All Saints and All Souls Day – In the ninth century, Christians began to celebrate All Saints Day (All Hallow’s Eve) on Nov. 1 and later All Souls Day on Nov. 2. Present-day trick-or-treating is thought to have originated with Christians going door to door begging for “soul cakes,” or bread with currants. The more cakes the beggars received, the more prayers they would say on behalf of the donor’s deceased relatives.
Irish bring Halloween to America – Irish bring Halloween to America: The mix of autumnal harvest traditions was transported to the United States by Irish immigrants fleeing their country’s potato famine in the 1840’s, and the jack-o’-lantern custom was probably brought to America with them. According to folklore, Jack — a wayward drunkard who tricked the devil — was denied access to heaven and hell. But the devil gave Jack a single ember to light his way through the emptiness, and he placed the ember inside a hollowed-out turnip to keep it from going out. When the Irish landed in the United States, they found that pumpkins were more plentiful than turnips and made their “Jack’s lanterns” out of them instead.
Today is day one of Dov S-S Simens’ 2-Day Film School™ for me. I’m kind of excited. As I have a 24/7 parking space at work I thought I’d save 18 bucks for parking over the next the two days, come early and walk down to Robson Square for the course. I thought I might as well grab a cup o’ Joe and my CD case that I forgot yesterday here at my desk. I’m at work at 7 a.m. on a Saturday which is unusal to say the least. I’ve been interrogated by the CSR’s and Support folks already. Matt S just asked if I forgot to go home… I’m dumb but not that dumb.
Oh well. I’m off. Wish me luck. This could be fun.
CBC News: Bin Laden claims responsibility for 9/11
True or bullshit? I’m not sure. Isn’t it convenient that this tape, the first video in almost wto years of Osama, would show up basically on the eve of the US election. Sounds fishy to me. More magic video tricks? perhaps.
David Hasselhoff pleaded no contest on a drunk driving charge. I still think he could have gotten off if he would have claimed it was KITT doing the driving. Hasselhoff’s an asshat. For enhanced viewing of this article please download and listen to the knightrider theme (380kb mp3) while reading.
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