Category: Daily Life

Molly plays

I just tried replying to Barry’s Bringin’ Down the House post and am not sure if he is moderating comments or if haloscan is having hiccups so I’m reposting the comment here:

First satirical conspiracy theory:
Perhaps, just perhaps, such movies are a government sponsored de-sensitization program for things the They fear might come to reality. If you’ve already seen the Hoover Dam blown to pieces and wash into a crevice that causes a reaction with the fault line and dumps one third of the US into the pacific then when something actually happens it is not the first time people are seeing it albeit real versus fiction.

Don’t forget the reason you are seeing a huge influx of war movies and that new Iraq weekly show and other fighting hurrah war movies is that after 9/11 the government contracted Hollywood to make pro war movies.

"Hollywood was ordered by the U.S. government to promote pro-war movies.
Musicians at the Grammys were threatened with blackout if they made any anti-war comments."

see also Operation Hollywood

Now back to reality:
My saddened awakening was before 9/11 when the Taliban destroyed the Buddas. I have always dreamed of travelling the world and seeing its wonders. I am fortunate to have been on the World Trade Center but my kids will never know that thrill. Destroying the Buddas was a reminder that nothing is permanent and that if we want to experience then we need to get out and do it. Remember Clingman’s Dome when it was green? I do because my family didn’t sit in their home saying "…when we get around to it…" or "…we don’t have enough money…" I want my kids to see the wonders of the world before those wonders fall to the hands of man or the forces of nature (will Disney survive Wilma?).

For my prayer post I wanted to cross reference Ring Around the Rosies as a piece written relating to Black Death but I had the gumption to look further than the first link I found and Snopes debunked my believe that Ring Around the Rosies was written about Black Death. My world is shaken!

As a child every night before be I would kneel and say:

Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the Lord my soul to keep
If I should die before I wake
I pray the Lord my soul to take. Amen.

As an adult I have a problem with this. I don’t think children should be sheltered from such realities as death but to hyperfixate on them night after night in our times is too negative. Perhaps this was once appropriate during times of plagues but today I think there needs to be another variation. Perhaps the stuffed animal Amy is playing with has the answer:

Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the Lord my soul to keep
May angels watch me through the night
And keep me in their blessed sight. Amen.

Student: The deadline looms.
Master: Focus on the task, not the deadline.

David Baldinger is back! I love his Remnants cartoon!

Could someone explain to me how they filmed these kids on invisible skateboards? The shadows are perfect. The little clouds of dust imply a board. The only thing I can imagine is that they Chroma key’d the boards and edited them out by hand but if that’s the case this is some fine editing!

Yes! I won! I matched 3 number without the powerball so I scored $7. I swear I almost bought the power play which would have made this a $35 ticket. Wahoo!

Just incase you haven’t heard, the lottery is up to $340,000,000! Draws tonight. I really hope that no one gets it. I’d love to see this break $400 million and I sincerely hope that someone truly deserving gets the money.

Yellow monsters poke above the tree line as they pilliage the earth. Once gone you cannot have it back.

Student: Only I believe in me.
Master: And that is all that matters.

Student: I have reached a crossroads.
Master: Read the signs carefully.

For those into home defense. (yes, you’ve seen that gun on Predator)

My wife posted this picture of a wooly worm that was crawling around outside our house. It’s head is toward the top of the picture. Looks like a mild winter to me.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration explains the wooly worm as a weather predictor.

"…the amount of black on the woolly bear in autumn varies proportionately with the severity of the coming winter…"

"The longer the woolly bear’s black bands, the longer, colder, snowier, and more severe the winter will be."

"…every 3rd weekend in October the annual Woolly Worm Festival in Banner Elk, NC. They begin worm their worm races around 10:20 AM…"

Ours was heading west. Now what does that mean?!

Amy joins molly on the afternoon hike