Mike Browne’s Blog

Quotes from PROPHET YAHWEH: “UFOs and spaceships appear on my signal.” and “Be advised! Yahweh and His Angels are superhuman beings, on other plantes who fly in spaceships!”

Alrighty then. Call me crazy but perhaps the “prophet” (who to me looks like a cross between the infamous Suge Knight of Death Row Records and Hadji from Jonny Quest who also had mystical powers) ought to look into either detox from whatever the hell it is he’s smoking or perhaps go back on those meds that the nice doctor in the hospital prescribed the last time he was picked up by the guys with the butterfly net. The $7.95 per month to see this cuckoo pants summon spaceships just might be worth it. I must give him one thing though, at least he’s sane enough to be using gmail rather than Hotmail or Yahoo! Mail. However, I do sense a hint of paranoia on the News/Media Sign-up page: “After I receive your email, I will contact you back, very briefly, to make sure that you are who you say you are, and after verifying who you are, I will sign you up and send you your complete login information.” The noise you hear whilst reading his website are thousands of cuckoo clocks all sounding at once.

CBC News: Officials keep close eye on water levels along N.S. south shore

Mom and Dad are fine. The picture in the above article is kind of funny though.

I got an email from Brian Liu of Global Television National News with Kevin Newman regarding the Willy Pickton trial’s publication ban and bloggers. I guess I come up pretty high in Google for Pickton and Blog. I got the message too late in the afternoon to do anything about it but I sent him a note anyway. Here’s what I said:

Hi Brian,
Darn I missed your email. I hope you got what you needed from someone else. I would be happy to speak to you about blogging whenever you’d like. If another opportunity comes up I do have some opinions about this particular issue. Mainly, I do understand the need for a publication ban to ensure a free trial for someone during preliminary proceedings. However, once a jury has been chosen the details should be public regardless of the issue. If jury swaying via media is a concern then sequestering is always an option. It’s a tough question in this case as it is generating much public interest and there are the feelings of the victims’ families to contend with, but people want to know what happened. Gomery is a different animal altogether where the population of the entire country are the victims, and it seems a little shady that the federal government would want to prevent that information from coming to light seeing as they are the preceived perpetrators of the crime.

Anyway, there’s my rant. Thanks for thinking of me. Sorry I couldn’t get back to you sooner.
Mike Browne

CBC Nova Scotia – Flooding prompts state of emergency
I’m going to give Mom and Dad a call to see that all’s well. Doesn’t look good. Here’s some more pictures from Tallships.ca, some from the fire department, the story in the Chronicle Herald and a story in MacLeans magazine.

I got another letter from the Nova Scotia Community Service’s Adoption Reunion branch yesterday. After some ‘preliminary inquiries’ they believe they may have located my birth mother. I am now finishing my biographical letter and mailing it off along with a photo of myself (the one I used in the about me section on this blog). They want to have it available prior to approaching her. To say I’m afraid is a slight understatement. Being a creative person the limitless possible outcomes of this are beating the hell out of me. Any information at all will help answer some of the questions that have haunted me for my entire life. Here’s hoping… Wish me luck.

Also on the adoption front, Marty Johnson, adopted person, fellow blogger and reader of this pathetic excuse of a blog, has his story and interview in GQ magazine coming to newsstands on Thursday. Marty is the guy who found he is a Nigerian Prince and traveled to Nigeria to meet his natural family. Now I don’t know if there’s any royalty in my blood nor do I think it worthy of GQ, however, I’m sure my story is interesting in it’s own way. I’m excited to find out what it is. You never know.

UPDATE (2:57pm): Letter sent.

Phil Spector, as seen in this article, also has shitty taste in personal hairdos. Looks to me like he’s having some kind of ultra-strange Supah-fly slash Tim Burton style collision. I’ll bet there’s birds and a family of voles living in there. No doubt Jimmy Hoffa is somewhere in that tangled mess as well. Is there possibly an ‘insanity plea’ in the works? If there’s not there should be. Obviously this man is in no way capable of understanding the charges against him. This has to be an accident. An no it’s not a Photoshop job, sad to say. Why on Earth someone would set foot outside the hair salon with a do like that truly has me stumped. OMG, he’s whacked.

Choose the enlarge option under the photo on the article. It will make your day. Thanks to Carol for the link.

Motreal born Henry Corden a.k.a. Fred Flinstone is dead at 85 and Thurl Ravenscroft, the voice of Tony the Tiger, is dead at age 91. Yabba Dabba Do! They were grrrrreat!

The Complete List – ALL-TIME 100 Movies – TIME Magazine

I’m glad they didn’t put them in any kind of order. Those kind of debates are rather boring. I’m not sure if I agree with this list yet or not. I have a lot of films to watch before I can render a real opinion. Perhaps I’ll put some thought into my own top 100 films list.