The world of horror is remembering a legend of the genre tonight.. Betsy Palmer–best known by fans as the woman who played JASON VORHEES’ mother in Friday the 13th 1 and 2–passed away at the age of 88 Friday night of natural causes..
Her longtime manager, Brad Lemack said that Palmer went into the next realm while in hospice care center in Connecticut.
Palmer had appeared in films, on Broadway and in TV shows for decades before she took the role of Mrs. Voorhees. She would say in later years that she only took the role in that first film because she wanted the money to buy a new car
Google announced that it is teaming up with Levi’s to make jeans with conductive fabric — which could eventually allow wearers to use their legs as touchscreens — swiping their thigh, say, to accept a phone call.
The idea and product came from a secret Google lab—just imagine what other products are being made behind closed doors!—and it already making waves around the global INTERNETS..
Digital pants. While progress is progress, I ponder if digital pants is the progress we crave..
Though it will give the grandest of excuses for people who pick the wedgie: I was just answering a text.
This is how the AP summed up the result of the Sunday Randstand on the Senate chambers:
Although the lapse in the programs may be brief, intelligence officials warned that it could jeopardize Americans’ safety and amount to a win for terrorists. But civil liberties groups applauded as Paul, who is running for president, forced the expiration of the once-secret program made public by NSA contractor Edward Snowden, which critics say is an unconstitutional intrusion into Americans’ privacy.
RAND PAUL not going to take it anymore.. Unloads on Patriot Act on the floor of the Senate, as the gallery is filled Sunday night with people wearing “Stand with Rand” shirts
he world must love watching AMERICA be destroyed.. SAN ANDREAS, the epic action disaster pic–essential for summer box offices–is number 1 in 55 countries.. Even more, it made $60 mill in the overseas box office and for some reason performed exceptionally well in MEXICO..
The potential deluge of AM affiliates asking for Art Bell may be here..
Tonight, it has been announced that KERN 1180 Newstalk in Bakersfield California will be broadcasting MIDNIGHT IN THE DESERT.. The station is owned by American General Media and broadcasts at 10,000 watts during the night time hours–the time when Bell will be speaking to the world live from the desert..
KERN also broadcasts Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Michael Savage, and RED EYE RADIO..
KENI in Alaska is interested..
And countless others are too..
The queen mum, sitting amongst her gold and jewels, spoke to the peasants. A broken country, a divided nation.. and a royalty shielded from the truth of the land…
Richard Sudan wrote the article linked with this post. It’s a good read..And perhaps a good reasons monarchies have become even bigger hindrances of progress than any other form of government..
This is just a snippet of articles on Google News showcasing the amount of AP dispatches being picked up focusing on my little region in the woods lately.. The last remaining coal breaker in Pennsylvania is set to be demolished.. a little bit of a debate has surged within the coal region as to the merits of trashing the historical structure still standing after all this time.
A few noteworthy things about this last massive piece of history to know:
It is a symbol of when coal was king, when barons placed their bets on the dusty underground that would be unearthed for profit.
From this breaker, coal was broken into various sized pieces–often young children were forced to take out the sharpest pieces–and it was loaded onto trains for nearby large cities. Hence the name: Breaker boys. Those same breaker boys went to work clean but home filthy, and their lungs eventually become highly toxic filled with soot..
Regardless of the dangerous conditions met in the breaker, the coal region at one time employed over 180,000 people in the mining system.
And that was then>
This is now: A region vacant its spirit, a land that time often forgot.. spectacular and monster buildings, like this breaker, are vacant..
When this building comes down, with it comes hundreds of years of mining lure..
The AP says this:
The St. Nicholas Breaker once held the distinction as the largest in the world, the size of a city block and capable of processing more than 12,000 tons of anthracite each day. Shuttered for more than 50 years, it now blights an area whose economy never fully recovered after anthracite’s reign came to an end.
The reign truly did end.
And it was replaced by nothing.
Keep in mind at one time people traveled from NEW YORK CITY to shop at department stores in Mahanoy City, the home to this breaker. Mahanoy City is now falling into pieces, filled with hard core drugs, and an aging population whose homes go vacant after the inhabitant meets the mortal fate.
Coal was king.
Long live the coal region.
Falling soon: The breaker along with the souls of the boys were toiled and troubled their lives with the work of men..
Google announced that it is teaming up with Levi’s to make jeans with conductive fabric — which could eventually allow wearers to use their legs as touchscreens — swiping their thigh, say, to accept a phone call.
The idea and product came from a secret Google lab—just imagine what other products are being made behind closed doors!—and it already making waves around the global INTERNETS..
Digital pants.
While progress is progress, I ponder if digital pants is the progress we crave..
Though it will give the grandest of excuses for people who pick the wedgie: I was just answering a text.
