Day: November 28, 2014

A Black Friday news collection

Here are the briefs and long reads to know about, now that your turkey induced coma has wore off and you’re most likely caffeinated as hell for your shopping steam roll.. First take a deep breath and enjoy your worldview. Or maybe get it shattered by facts ..

The news:

Marcel-Lehel Lazar, a.k.a Guccifer, tormented various celebrities with no special skills beyond what he had picked up on the web.
The New York TIMES has an interesting profile running on Marcel-Lehel Lazar, otherwise known as the hacker GUCCIFER.  He caused chaos and heartache to all of those who he stole the emails of.. The New York TIMES also mentions one other Guccifer prediction that may scare your Christmas socks off: A 2015 nuclear attack in Chicago and an unnamed city in Pennsylvania.. Many are discounting that as conspiracy lunacy, while others may be getting their iodine ready..

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There is some perspective on Black Friday today courtesy of a YouTube video that compares shoppers in 1983 and today. Needless to say, our animal instincts have kicked in to high gear and we are acting like hunters in ancient times again. The 1980s outfits were more colorful, too.. why do we all dress in black anymore? SO drab and boring, so morose and melancholy. Let’s pep this experience up, zombies! IT’S CHRISTMASTIME!

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More on the shopping sensation: Mark Dice is back again with his annual tradition: Dressing up like Santa and shaming shoppers. It works.

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Ebay has sent out an urgent message to any of its sellers: The IRS wants you to pay your taxes..  You must pay Uncle Sam if you sell that old junk inn your closet. So ifs ands or buts .. You’ve been warned.

 Again! The sunspot is back ..it has been renamed active region 12192..It looks like quite a dangerous sunspot capable of producing flares.. be aware. You can choose between http://spaceweather.com/ or www.solarham.net for your best viewing of news in relation to the sun..

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Ferguson protests are not done yet.. they have moved from the streets of fire into the stores of chaos on Black Friday.. 

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There have been some very interesting cautionary tales of WIFI over the past few years.. this new story from the UK DAILY MAIL offers up some more food for thought: Is WIFI causing headaches? And pain? It profiles a person who has EHS.. Do you?

Remember the SLENDERMAN case? The girls who stabbed another just to summons their master? According to the lawyer, one of the girls who stabbed the other still believes SLENDERMAN is real.

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The horror movie BABADOOK is getting some more attention.. the latest from NPR, which gives it high praise.. It is noteworthy, and mentioned in the article, that this movie is scoring nearly a 100% high rating on ROTTEN TOMATOES, coming in at 97.. that’s amazing, it’s a score that is difficult to get to on that site or any other.. this movie is going to be one of the greatest horror movies ever seen by those who choose to see it..

Here is another story about BABODOOK from ROLLING STONE, which says that filmmaker Jennifer Kent took a story of an imaginary creature stalking a mother and her son and created the ‘scariest movie of the year’ .. 

You know who Megan Fox is. But do you know the other Megan Fox? Thanks to the Internet (and a friend of mine who found her on my behalf) she is making the rounds in a viral fashion. She compares a can of Coke to evolution.. she visits a museum and mocks science. And she reviews cloth diapers. Get ready Megan Fox for the real Megan Fox..

REAL WORLD star dead at 29.. choked on his own vomit after a night of partying..

The UK METRO profiles the story of the ‘tragic history’ of the REAL WORLD in light of Ryan Knight death..

FILE - In this Sunday, April 6, 2014, file photo, singer Scott Stapp, of the band Creed, performs solo in concert at Soundstage, in Baltimore. In a video posted on his Facebook page, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2014, Stapp said he is broke and living in a hotel. Stapp said he had been living in his truck and had no money for gas or food. (Photo by Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP, File)
CREED frontman says he’s broke.. .. “Right now, I’m living in a Holiday Inn, by the grace of God, because there’s been a couple of weeks where I had to live in my truck”


Shia Labeouf makes wild rape claim: “One woman who came with her boyfriend, who was outside the door when this happened, whipped my legs for 10 minutes and then stripped my clothing and proceeded to rape me, then walked out with her lipstick smudged to her awaiting boyfriend, who I image was quite hurt by it. All this happened in front of hundreds of people. It was really terrible”

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Roseanne Barr offers graphic joke about Bill Cosby on Twitter.. takes it down. Regrets taking it down as controversy erupts..

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They’re off! Black Friday madness from sea to sea.

The media reminds me a lot of Andre Linoge from Stephen King’s STORM OF THE CENTURY. In that fictitious horror tale, Linoge was an aging devil looking for a child apprentice to teach the evil ways.. he found one by demanding a town during a massive blizzard to give him what he wants and he will go away. After chaos and brutal fights ensued, Linoge took his child and flew off into the distance, leaving the mess of the world behind him.

The media does just that. In Ferguson last week, after drumming up people and revving their airwave engines, they inspired a riot. They wanted it. They needed ratings, and knew that once the grand jury decision regarding the Michael Brown shooting would be revealed, their dreams could be fulfilled. A town burned, even some media folk got their heads slammed with bricks. And the next day, as the smoldering mess was still too hot to touch, the media slowly vacated the scene and took their news trucks with them. They really, really don’t care about Michael Brown, nor do they care about justice or a police state. They wanted ratings.. for a brief night in November, they got astounding ratings. And a city burned..

Now, with Black Friday upon us, the media has the same desire. They want rage, blood, fights, and gore. They hope that the shopping scene is chaos, that store owners will be in peril, and that shoppers fighting over foreign made slave products will punch and push their way through lines in stores all over the United States. Luckily for the media, people on Black Friday are somewhat predictable. This type of event will most likely happen today–violence has marred Black Fridays in the past, so why wouldn’t this year be the same? The media will get what it wants. And it will go away..

But what do Black Friday shoppers want? They want deals..I get that.  I think they want something more than that. I believe they want to feel they are a part of a group, a little branch of humanity. They want to share laughs, share stories, and they want to be in line with other human hunters for goods.. In a sense, they are a part of something today.  A part of a herd, sure, and yes they will be cattle prodded through WALMARTS across the fruited plain.. but I think becoming a shopper on Black Friday is  a bit like being a part of a team. Either you’re on team Shopper or on Team StayatHome.  You are choosing your side once you get your keys in hand and trek to the mall..

There are some horrific past experiences of people on Black Friday.. this video captures that in opening rounds from 2012 and 2013.

And this year, so far, there have been some photographic evidence of humanity’s brutality over material possessions, and it’s not just the US of A:

2014-11-28T092414Z_365419847_GM1EABS1CAJ01_RTRMADP_3_BRITAIN-RETAIL  This photo was taken in London, where retailers ‘competed’ over products on sale. This looks less like a competition and more like a brawl in the making..

And another from London:
2014-11-28T092135Z_1798880374_GM1EABS1C0J01_RTRMADP_3_BRITAIN-RETAILPeople brawling over a TV set. Who will win? ! Cut it in half and let them both have a piece!!

Just one more.. in this one, shoppers look more like brain hungry zombies as they reach as far as they can for the store’s products..

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These scenes will happen anywhere the smell of commerce is existent today..
Do you want to be a part of this scene? Or you can simply wait for Cyber Monday. Clicks don’t hurt other people.

OR Local Saturday.. whatever they call it these days..

For a person like me, someone who actually wouldn’t mind just getting out of the house today with a three year old, where would I go? Malls could be vicious and dangerous. Even grocery stores may be fraught with hidden dangers. My local Turkey Hill market is selling ice cream and soda at half price. That sounds like a trample waiting to happen, as well..

The HORROR REPORT will monitor the shopping scenes across America today.. Maybe not in person, but certainly newsworthy events will be shared and tidbits of anarchy will be broadcast on this site.

If you head to a store, may your journey be peaceful and your harvest of cheap plastic be plentiful. Just think before you buy.. And don’t throw the first punch. You can be shared in a Black Friday crime.

And in the meantime, here’s some humor from the ONION, in a 2012 article.. when 42 million died in the bloodiest black Friday weekend in history.