Month: October 2016

THE SMALL TOWN CLOWN CLIMAX: BANS FOR HALLOWEEN BEGIN

I received a circular from my son’s school today the clowns are banned!!

The Halloween parade coming up for his kindergarten has been marred by the small town clown scare of 2016.. The clowns, the mailing to parents said, will not be permitted.

No outfits with white paint.
No red wigs..
nothing…Clowns are barred from appearing.

It is getting a bit silly, isn’t IT?

Of COURSE clowns are scary!!

This BBC article explains some good history on why..

So during your local home town clown frown you can have more reason to be afraid…….but so afraid that you would support a ban?

A ban on clowns, but not on vampires..? Not on ghosts..? Not on ghouls of any sorts.

No, clowns. They are an emblem of death but … maybe they are being banned because of a fear of death and not the fear of clowns!

Maybe we are not afraid of the teenagers hiding in the woods with white paint? Maybe we are not too affected by those meandering around under street lights with wigs and red noses.. No, instead, maybe we are frightened by what these symbols of the underworld represent.. maybe we are freaked by our own demise?

Regardless of what they represent or why we are afraid, schools and entire towns banning clowns for Halloween seems a little big ludicrous..

Target is affected, too..

Target Removes Clown Masks From Stores After Recent Scares »

It is a world a silly. Insane. CLOWN. Can’t wait for November when the clown crisis clears up… Until then it’s cloudy with a Chance of mild hysteria

And along with stores banning them, ENTIRE TOWNS are also saying they can’t appear during Halloween trick or treating. School across America, not just my son’s nestled in the coal region of Pennsylvania, is calling quits on white paint.

It is all silly. It is all ridiculous.. it is all too much.

Let the small town clown nonsense of 2016 just end.

October 21, 2016
The internet investigates: Ken Bone’s not safe for world virtual life. Real life now ruined.

If you watched the debate.. you saw this:

The new hero of the presidential campaign.. Kenneth Bone and his red sweater..

But since then, the world of red sweaters (and Halloween costumes of him) have become a little more uncomfortable.. Namely because of online sleuths and now mainstream reporters trying to dig into his digital past and, well, virtually ruin him..

THE BONE ZONE JUST ERUPTED ..

So much for the red sweater..

Just the you thought it was safe to dress as a mild mannered undecided voter…….the media investigated.

You can’t just ask a question at a debate without mainstream media digging up REDDIT comments that you made..

FROM CNN:

Bone’s questionable Reddit posts include a number of comments about the bodies of women in NSFW photos, as well as a confession that he once committed felony insurance fraud, forging documents to make it appear that he had car insurance for his pizza delivery gig.
In addition, he wrote candid comments about the killing of Trayvon Martin, which he referred to as “justified.” He also called acquitted gunman George Zimmerman a “big ole shit bird.”

And this … THIS .. is what happens when an everyday someone gets the spotlight fame.

This has been the wildest election in my lifetime. Probably yours as well. The sad offset off it is ruined lives, horrid relationship struggles and fights within families.. and now someone who was low key online sharing information of his insurance fraud and other odd NSFW material has had his life opened up for the world to see and judge.

IT happened before.
It will happen again..
And Kenneth Bone is boned by the mainstream world…….no secrets in INTERNETLAND..

October 15, 2016
A scene from Knoebels yesterday – the best place on earth in the…

A scene from Knoebels yesterday – the best place on earth in the summer and during the month of October just as much.

October 10, 2016
HALLOWEEN SPECIALS COMING THIS MONTH

This is the greatest month of the entire year in my personal opinion.. television programming that matches the spirit of the season compliments the cool clean air of the autumn October night..

The most wonderful time of the year begins.

October 10, 2016
The weirdest year: Halloween fear of clowns is now causing costume bans!

Halloween is typically the best time of year to dress up as a clown with creepy apparel and a haunting smile.

Not in 2016–the year we have come to fear clowns as the craze swept the nation since August.. The urban legend small town clown has ruined the chances for a New Jersey school to be clowns for Halloween!

From NJ.COM:

At least one New Jersey school district has banned clown costumes this Halloween in light of a rash of creepy clown scares, threats, and attacks that have been popping up across the country.

In a notice addressing the clown issues posted on the district website, Montclair Interim Superintendent Ron Bolandi both assured parents that the school system is working with local police to ensure safety, and asked them to downplay the Halloween-clown connection with their kids.

“With Halloween just a few weeks away, I am asking for your cooperation in not allowing your children to dress up as clowns at any school event due to the possible disruption and fear it may cause,” Bolandi said in the notice.

“If anyone shows up with a clown related costume, they will be asked to change or sent home.”

One day I promise you we will look back at this time and feel a little ashamed of how ridiculous we acted about clowns that probably mostly never even existed to begin with..

A long look in the mirror.

A long look at real clowns hiding in the shadows..

October 9, 2016
‘Black Mirror’ Creator On “Terrifying” Donald Trump, Season 4 Plans, Tech Fetish & Netflix at the NY Comic-Con

‘Black Mirror’ Creator On “Terrifying” Donald Trump, Season 4 Plans, Tech Fetish & Netflix at the NY Comic-Con:

A lot of information was put out at the Comic-Con event..
Including a lot of Trump bashing..

Netflix attained the rights of BLACK MIRROR from Channel 4 in England.. The Comic-Con crowd reportedly had ferocious laughs at the new episode called PLAYLIST.. The purpose is to comment on augmented reality..

From reports,

The episode, Playtest, centers around an American tourist named Cooper — played by Wyatt Russell — who agrees to test out a new interactive augmented reality system from a gaming company. He does so in order to make money to return home, after his funds were stolen by a cyber thief. The system is a network of devices able to tap into Cooper’s brain, and by using a neural net, learn and adapt to his fears. This leads to the creation of “the most personal survival horror game in history,” according to one of the characters in the episode.

And … I know you can’t wait and neither can I, the newest six episodes from BLACK MIRROR appear on Netflix on October 21..

October 9, 2016
SNL jokes… 24/7 media coverage of the Trump ‘p&*sy’ comments…
SNL jokes… 24/7 media coverage of the Trump ‘p&*sy’ comments to cousin Bush.. and only a 1 point drop?

The POLITICO reports in more detail about the stunning non-effect of the seemingly obvious Trump-plosion:
- A 74-percent majority of all voters had a negative reaction to the video – including 47 percent who said their feelings were a zero (very negative). But there’s a partisan element to voters’ reactions to the video: 69 percent of Democratic voters said they had a very negative impression after watching it, but only 22 percent of Republicans gave it a zero rating. Ten percent of Republicans said the video gave them a positive feeling.
- An even sharper partisan dynamic exists when voters were asked whether the video gives them a more or less favorable impression of Trump. Among all voters, 61 percent say it makes them feel either somewhat or much less favorable toward Trump, while 28 percent say it doesn’t affect their view of Trump; 8 percent said it makes them feel more favorably toward Trump.
- But just 48 percent of GOP voters said it makes them feel less favorably toward Trump, while 36 percent said it doesn’t affect their opinions of Trump.
- Debate tonight.
The world has gone Shocktoberfest mad!

And for those who thought the NFL would be the ratings winner…..think again.
October 9, 2016
Florida Today interview with Robert Englund

Florida Today interview with Robert Englund:

You can read the interview in total at the link.. but one of the most interesting part was what Robert Englund thought when asked if he could have changed plot lines or characters of the NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET series, what would it have been.. his answer:

I don’t know if I would do anything different. We broke some rules with the second film and even addressed some bi-sexuality, which was groundbreaking, and I am proud of that film. If I was in control of my own “Nightmare on Elm Street” movie I have an idea I would have liked to see. I thought it would be great if the children of previous victims, or just kids who grew up hearing stories about Freddy Krueger, were each haunted by their own version of Freddy Krueger. Kids who grew up hearing stories about this Freddy Krueger guy and the awful things he did envisioned him in their own way, and that is the version that begins to haunt them. Some people may picture him as stout, another might envision him as tall & thin, another with a different hat, or a different sweater. He could have different gloves, or even a glove with small razor blades as referred to in the first movie. It would be neat to see very different interpretations of Freddy Krueger based on the child’s vision of who or what Freddy was to them. After all, each person’s subconscious would picture him in a totally different way.

That sounds a little like a Slenderman-ish type of thought.. His thoughts on FREDDY’S REVENGE is interesting, it certainly did have a fair share of bi-sexual themes present as political commentary during the Reagan era ..

His idea actually would make sense for a modern Freddy film.. Imagine a movie where there are multiple actors playing a Freddy character , and they all are different in some way.

With new NIGHTMARE films being planned for the future, maybe someone should listen to ‘Freddy’s’ idea of how to modernize the film series for a new 21st century generation..

October 9, 2016
Florida Today interview with Robert Englund

Florida Today interview with Robert Englund:

You can read the interview in total at the link.. but one of the most interesting part was what Robert Englund thought when asked if he could have changed plot lines or characters of the NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET series, what would it have been.. his answer:

I don’t know if I would do anything different. We broke some rules with the second film and even addressed some bi-sexuality, which was groundbreaking, and I am proud of that film. If I was in control of my own “Nightmare on Elm Street” movie I have an idea I would have liked to see. I thought it would be great if the children of previous victims, or just kids who grew up hearing stories about Freddy Krueger, were each haunted by their own version of Freddy Krueger. Kids who grew up hearing stories about this Freddy Krueger guy and the awful things he did envisioned him in their own way, and that is the version that begins to haunt them. Some people may picture him as stout, another might envision him as tall & thin, another with a different hat, or a different sweater. He could have different gloves, or even a glove with small razor blades as referred to in the first movie. It would be neat to see very different interpretations of Freddy Krueger based on the child’s vision of who or what Freddy was to them. After all, each person’s subconscious would picture him in a totally different way.

That sounds a little like a Slenderman-ish type of thought.. His thoughts on FREDDY’S REVENGE is interesting, it certainly did have a fair share of bi-sexual themes present as political commentary during the Reagan era ..

His idea actually would make sense for a modern Freddy film.. Imagine a movie where there are multiple actors playing a Freddy character , and they all are different in some way.

With new NIGHTMARE films being planned for the future, maybe someone should listen to ‘Freddy’s’ idea of how to modernize the film series for a new 21st century generation..

October 9, 2016
Shannen Doherty dances through workout one day after chemo

Shannen Doherty dances through workout one day after chemo:

She’s already documented what a typical “chemo day” is like for her, and now Shannen Doherty is sharing another part of her battle against breast cancer — the day after chemotherapy.

“I’m not feeling too great,” she explained in a short video. “I’m really tired. I was nauseous last night and achy — everything sort of typical after chemo. I would prefer to be laying in bed right now and doing nothing, but guess where I’m heading? Gonna go work out.”

She is a brave person having a very public battle with cancer..

October 9, 2016