Tren de Aragua

Tetrahydrocannabivarin

The Longest Day (book)...audiobook on YouTube...unmatched recount.

Sainte-Mère-Église...D-Day paratroop.

So like, I'm watching MSNBC's All Inside Jen Psaki, and what she said about her talents, so beautifully reserved and wonderfully humble...nice of her to open up the way she enjoyed.

John Steele (paratrooper)...seeing the movie the jaded viewer might pass off his actions as "nice Hollywood-type drama"--but, IT ALL REALLY HAPPENED.

 I grew up idolizing them guys. There are hundreds of stories like his in this book. I've read dozens of books on the subject, but if I were to read just one, this would be it.

So this Conahan pseodo-arbiter judge dude gets a pardon, but didn't Hollywood make a movie about all these types of deviltries back in the seventies titled Brubaker?

"“I am shocked and I am hurt,” Sandy Fonzo, whose son committed suicide after he was locked up as part of the scheme orchestrated by Conahan"--NY Post

Commutation injustification.

I don't know if I should post this, but it blows my mind ONLY NOW am I learning of an ARSON that took place in eastern Cub, AND KILLED 87 PEOPLE!

The reason I think it must be is because on that day I was JUST OUT OF basic training for the USN...that's why.

It really makes me wanna rewatch that AHS with the Clowns.

Edvard Munch The Storm

Mossad member?

Baileys goes nice in eggnog.

Is that person a Carpetbagger?

Imagine a Möbius tesseract in x dimensions...

It's funny how intake of alcohol propels one into action--generally negative--albeit of occasionally positive aspect, no?

(Been imbibing, out of here to party in His name, albeit in my way...

Having buttons on the opposite side I can understand, why these still exist is beyond me.

I like Bob too 

The laugh every time he whacks his brush to dry it. Something I've done millions of times but I don't usually laugh.

Redberet: maybe her sweater is reversible 

Twenty year anniversary:

"The energy released on the Earth's surface...by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was estimated at 1.1×10¹⁷ joules."--Wikipedia

"Weeks after the earthquake, theoretical models suggested the earthquake shortened the length of a day by 2.68 microseconds, due to a decrease in the oblateness of the Earth."--ibid

"The Andaman and Nicobar Islands appear to have shifted south-west by around 1.25 m (4 ft 1 in) and to have sunk by 1 m (3 ft 3 in)."--ibid

Wow.

Watched ABC news this morning. A trivia question was what long river bisects Jacksonville FL. None of them had ever heard of it, and could not name any Florida river. 

Q: name the river

Silence (I named it)

Name any river in Florida 

Silence (I rattled off several)

Here's a hint. Saint-

Augustine?

No it's ____

Geo or Will: Never heard of it 

4 idiots astounding and unbelievable 

To Redberet re squirrels. I have a horsey by a tree. It's so cute when a squirrel sits on it, but I can't get a picture!!

I have noticed a new Denny feature. The post edit goes away after awhile. But how long idk 

I love my squirrels. This is not my pic, but I like the way this person thinks.

Recalls to one Kramer's skills at the martial arts...

I'm crushing on the new Veep's woman...she's almost as cute as Nikki Haley.

Going against every fiber of my being, I find myself doing his stupid little dance. 

I am fortunate enough to be able to go to the commissary that sits right next to this, Hangar One, Moffet Field. It is bigger than it looks. Restoration is almost complete after 7 years. Google boys get to use the field as a reward since they put up the ducats. I really miss those Fourth of July, Blue Angel shows. They were great. Crowds were bigger than Fleet Week.

Navy personnel scramble as they fear the incoming Martians (they turned out to be friendly)....

Will Reeve, GMA anchor, and son of Chris Reeve, announces his ignorance during the trivia questions. "Oh I didn't know it's called Motown (records) because (Detroit) it's the motor city."

Well, DUH

Maybe not ignorance, just total stupidity. That's not something you need to learn, or be told. Because of the obviousness of it!

Next he'll ask why is Detroit the motor city. 

Common knowledge requires being a commoner. Special people are exempted.

I didn't know Will Reeve existed until this morning. No surprise that he said something like that -- the network morning shows (on any network) are bastions of brainless banter. 

For the record (so to speak) and by no means in defense of Reeve, Motown Records have not been in Detroit for 60 years. They've been in L.A., NYC, and back to L.A. They've been an independent label, part of MCA, Polygram, Capitol, and independent once more. The first couple moves occurred before Reeve was born. Unless he is some sort of music buff, he wouldn't have known of Motown's roots in Detroit. 

Among my long list of treasured friends was one who was for a while a VP of Motown.  But that's merely a tiny tidbit of his extraordinary life.  I wish I had had more time to spend with him.  To say he had stories is an extreme understatement - yet he was not one to boast or even have the slightest air of a man of his accomplishments.  He was humble and reserved, yet exuded a preternatural dignity that could not be ignored.  "They don't make 'em like this anymore."

There's not really a good synopsis of his life available online, at least that I know of, but here's some middling attempts:

Douglass-Riverview News and Current Events: "Life with Motown;" Dr. Junius Griffin's Son Lives From Activist to Charmed Life

Junius Griffin - Wikipedia

Douglass-Riverview News and Current Events: Dr. Junius Griffin: From the Mountains to the Sea

Some of those movies were pretty good (but that's just a white dude/petite bourgeois' opinion)...yeah, it's understandable for a person wishing to "lift" the community to consider them not exactly what helps the cause.

Moscow, Idaho was named after Moscow, Pennsylvania.

Of course, you idiot.  What else would it have been named after?  Really.

Currently enjoying a film Mr. Griffin may have been referring to: Sheba, Baby.

amazing how tech has gotten so cheap. I bought a gamestick from Amazon with 40 emulators/platforms that plugs into the tv. It has 60k games, some of them I wouldn't rate much better than shareware. meaning there are hundreds that are still worth playing. It comes with two wireless controllers. PlayStation library alone makes me happy. All for 45 bucks and some games even have the cheats. It's nice to play Galaga or Centipede once in a while.

Great story (except the part where he dies in the end):

James Harrison, whose blood plasma donations are credited with saving 2.4 million babies, dies at 88 | AP News

Doomsday plane...allegedly reported in skies over Midwest.