Question, read, and learn. The more you learn the more you understand. The more you understand the less you fear.
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Before I Slumber
No matter how much of a animal you may be there is always time to slow down and center yourself.
Happy Birthday to actor, Fred Gwynne
Fred Gwynne - A.K.A. Herman Munster - born on July 10, 1926.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001304/?ref_=nv_sr_1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Gwynne
Revisiting Escape From New York!
On July 10, 1981, John Carpenter’s Escape from New York was released!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082340/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
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Monday, July 9, 2018
Training for a Marathon
... On Netflix
I'm sitting here debating on what will be the next Netflix binge of randomness for this upcoming weekend of dedicated vegging. Gotta plan ahead so as to be able to figure out the time frame needed to complete tasks that need completing and to be able to squeeze in the series of selection.
(*Sleeping is optional)
(*Sleeping is optional)
Tweets from the Last Blockbuster @loneblockbuster: We understand it's a scorcher out there but how would you feel if we came to your house and sweat all over your DVDs?
http://twitter.com/loneblockbuster
(The last Blockbuster in the US south of Alaska located in Bend Oregon)
(The last Blockbuster in the US south of Alaska located in Bend Oregon)
Sunday, July 8, 2018
Before I Slumber
Enjoy your surroundings. Take time to take in all the little things that are before you.
Artwork from the book A Monster Calls
A Monster Calls is a fantasy novel written for children by Patrick Ness, from an original idea by Siobhan Dowd, illustrated by Jim Kay, and published by Walker in 2011. Set in present-day England, it features a boy who struggles to cope with the consequences of his mother’s terminal cancer; he is repeatedly visited in the middle of the night by a monster who tells stories.
The Ken & Barbie Killers
When a handsome man from Canada met an equally attractive, albeit younger teen girl in 1987, no one, including their closest friends, could have predicted they would one day be known worldwide as the “Ken and Barbie Killers.” Paul Bernardo was an intelligent and popular 23-year-old from the Scarborough area of Toronto, and appeared to be on the path to success. After graduating from the Sir Wilfrid Laurier Collegiate Institute, he attended the University of Toronto Scarborough while working as an Amway consultant. Yet behind his blonde locks, deep dimples, and charming personality, Bernardo was dabbling in dark fantasies of rape and torture. He began to indulge these sadistic urges by humiliating women in public and hitting his dates, but when his desires weren’t satiated, he began prowling at night, searching for girls walking alone. He would eventually rape at least 13 women, yet his thirst for dark perversion was never quenched. Scarborough detectives began looking for someone who became known as the Scarborough Rapist, and although Paul was an almost identical match to the sketch police made from victims’s accounts of the assaults, he wasn’t arrested when initially questioned. He cleverly talked his way out of an interrogation, even voluntarily giving a DNA sample to police.
Tristan da Cunha The Remotest Island
Tristan da Cunha, in the South Atlantic, has a population of fewer than 300 people and its neighbors are more than 1,000 miles away. It can only be reached by boat on a 7 day voyage. The island has around 1,000 acres of poor grazing land for 300 cattle and 500 sheep, and its biggest crop is potatoes.
Tristan da Cunha (/ˌtrɪstən
Tristan da Cunha is part of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. This includes Saint Helena and near-equatorial Ascension Island, some 3,730 kilometers (2,318 mi) to the north of Tristan.
Haunting Driftwood Sculptures By Japanese Artist Nagato Iwasaki
Nagato Iwasaki is one of those artists you don’t know much about. But his art talks for itself.
The Japan-based artist creates incredible driftwood sculptures. Each of his human-shaped figures can both mesmerize and scare you. The artist manages to create an uneasy feeling using nothing but wood and you can be sure, that if you’d stumble upon one of these sculptures at night, you’d go sleepless for days.
The Chongqing Novel House
Often
people find writings left by previous tenants, etched into the surfaces
of their home. Normally nothing more than a few words, a list, a number
or two. Rarely does someone find an
entire novel, including illustrations, covering every wall, such as was
found in this abandoned house in China.
It
is not unusual for writing to be found in old homes, left by the
previous tenants. Door frames containing lines measuring the heights of
children each year, maybe a teenager’s angst filled scrawling of a
crushes name, or even telephone numbers inscribed directly onto a wall
near where the phone resided. However, finding an entire novel written neatly onto every wall of an abandoned house is pretty much unheard of.
What would such a novel be about?
What would such a novel be about?
There
are movies where someone who had lost their sanity, wrote demonic
texts on the walls of their asylum cell, or a mad detective laid out
his case against the criminal he had been chasing down obsessively. But neither is the case with the writings on the walls of this abandoned house in Chongqing, Southwest China. “I was 17… I have reactions like lightning, hearing like a bat, my vision is like a hawk, and I am as strong as a general.” So reads one of the passages of this novel, unsigned and mysterious.
The photos date from about 2009, and it is believed that the novelist may have been a vagrant shacking up in the slowly crumbling building. The Chinese writing covers every wall, and flows around holes and gaps where the plaster work has fallen away. The novel was obviously written when the building was already in its decrepit state.
The text also includes drawings that illustrate the adventures of the stories Kung-fu super hero.
Although it would be great to know who created the work, I think there is something special about it remaining a mystery.
What happened to the author? Were they living there alone? Do they have other works? It's these questions, not so much the work itself, that drives the intrigue. The work itself is beautiful but it’s the unknowns that create a certain romance to this mystery. What do you think? Have you ever found mysterious writings on your walls?
The photos date from about 2009, and it is believed that the novelist may have been a vagrant shacking up in the slowly crumbling building. The Chinese writing covers every wall, and flows around holes and gaps where the plaster work has fallen away. The novel was obviously written when the building was already in its decrepit state.
The text also includes drawings that illustrate the adventures of the stories Kung-fu super hero.
Although it would be great to know who created the work, I think there is something special about it remaining a mystery.
What happened to the author? Were they living there alone? Do they have other works? It's these questions, not so much the work itself, that drives the intrigue. The work itself is beautiful but it’s the unknowns that create a certain romance to this mystery. What do you think? Have you ever found mysterious writings on your walls?
In Memory of Dammit
Of all the legends and traditions that surround Tennessee Tech, the most inconsistent is that of Dammit the dog. One version has Gov. Gordon Browning naming the dog during a campus visit in the'50s. When the dog blocked his path, he supposedly yelled, "Dammit, get out of here." To excuse the profanity, he added, "That's the dog's name, isn't it?" Other versions cast President Derryberry in that role.
It wasn't Dammit's life that made him a legend, nor his death. It wasn't even his funeral in 1954, although that was spectacular for a dog: There was a casket and student procession. No, it's the grave itself that gives this legend legs: Dammit is buried in front of a fire hydrant on the quad, directly in front of Derryberry Hall.
And even today, flowers occasionally appear there. We don't know who leaves them, and we don't know why. As a tribute? To be funny? To be kind? Maybe it's meant as a salute to Tennessee Tech traditions.
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