Welcome back. Haven't updated a whole lot the last while because of work, holidays and such not to mention the news has been fairly depressing lately so, hey, hey, what can you do? Thought I would throw out a few things… that are semi-news worthy at best, but you can be done with it in no time and go back to getting your news from The Guardian and USA Today.
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First off, congrats on being alive! We survived yet another doomsday prediction and as it turns out all those Mayan and Dick Clark memes didn't generate enough sarcastic karma to wipe us out. Compared to the last major prophetic apocalyptic threat in the year 2000 (Y2K anyone) every one seemed pretty calm this time around, seeing it as a win-win situation. If it doesn't end, you're alive and if it does you can probably defer your credit card and car payments. Many scientists have predicted that the world will end due to intolerable levels of carbon dioxide, that the universe will rip apart because of its continual expansion or the Sun grows so hot it eventually swallows Earth. You don't have to rush out an buy water purification tablets just yet, those events aren't expected to take place for billions of years, but as luck would have it, there's a couple more doomsday predictions that will come (and go) during our lifetime. Jeane Dixon, a well known American psychic who passed away in 1997, predicted that Armageddon would occur with Jesus returning to Earth to defeat the Antichrist, Satan and the False Prophet between 2020 and 2037. Jeane also predicted that the world would end on February 4, 1962 due to that particular day's planetary alignment. Swing and a miss. Mariners Church head pastor is rolling with 2021 because it is one biblical generation (80 years) since the founding of Israel in 1948. Sooo.. that is it for the next hundred or so years. Live easy, friends.
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A Washington woman has grounded her 59 year old son for conveniently 'losing' the girl's bike she gave him when he was 8 years old. Helen Puz, now 99, was gifted the bicycle by a neighbour after her husband died forcing her to raise her young son Don alone. Don put up with the girls bike for a while before ditching about 50 feet off the Vashon Highway near Vashon Island, Washington. Helen saw a story in a local paper about a bike that was swallowed up by a tree and thought it looked familiar. Helen and Don went out to the tree where the bike was encased and confirmed it was in fact the bike that had be ditched some 50 years ago. Also, it has been confirmed that the front wheel still turns. I just like the picture.
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We all know how much of a pain in the ass air travel can be sometimes. The infinite queues, the overpriced stale food, and passengers that require assistance board first? What the hell is that? Not to mention when you actually get on the plane… their stupid small bags of chips and thimbles of juice. Cramped seats. Large dude beside you taking the whole armrest. What a habitually terrible experience. Well, imagine an airport that played nothing but the first six Black Sabbath albums (and maybe some Heaven & Hell and Born Again at regular intervals), the lights were dim, the security was lax (not LAX… airport humour!), and the Ian Gillen led incarnation of Sabbath was the house band. That may be a ways off, but the airport in Birmingham, UK has considered a proposal that would rename the airport after Ozzy Osboune, the resident Prince of Darkness. "It's an interesting idea and I've got an open mind. We need to be making the most of the talent we have got and did have in this city," said Birmingham city councillor Phillip Parkin. Rock & roll, mate!
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This isn't even news, and I feel kind of like a moron posting it but this is photographic gold. And a rarity! A picture of Madonna's legs open WITH clothes on. But for real… she fell while skiing in Switzerland.
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Remember when Mel Gibson didn't scare people just by mentioning his name? He started off bad ass enough, playing in the first two Mad Max films, then Peter Weir's Aussie WWI epic Gallipoli. My favourite of Mr. Mel is definitely Lethal Weapon. The first one. The sequels provided some fun with Riggs and Murtaugh but they didn't come close to the first one. In the original film, the mismatched cops (Mel's counterpart being Danny Glover) take on a seedy drug and prostitution ring, and their main muscle, resident crazy man Gary Busey. Gary and Mel's hair are the best things in a movie and make the best gritty, dirty cop movie since Magnum Force. Why am I mentioning any of this? It just Mel's birthday, that's all. And since Lethal Weapon and, to a lesser extent "Braveheart," are pretty bad ass flicks and hopefully he has a pleasant evening, but Mel, don't drink and get behind the wheel.. Just saying'
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Let's not talk World Junior hockey. Canada's version of March Madness saw the boys lose to a very well prepared American team in the semis, setting up a USA-Sweden gold medal game with Canada and Russia playing for bronze.
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Check out Hot Water Music's new video for "Drag My Body" and check out their current tour dates HERE.
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