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The highly guarded project’s panel Friday at Star Wars Celebration unveiled secrets from the film — and a new trailer.
Some hints and puzzling features in the trailer–most certainly one of the interesting comments that will be discussed: “It’s time for the Jedi to end.”
Here is the full panel discussion as well:
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Suicide Barriers Going Up At Golden Gate Bridge After Over 1,500 Deaths:
Work officially began Thursday on a net under the Golden Gate Bridge intended to prevent and deter the dozens of suicides that take place at the iconic landmark each year.
More than 1,500 people are thought to have died there over the bridge’s 80-year lifespan.
The stainless steel net, located about 20 feet below the bridge’s sidewalk, will span 1.7 miles of roadway on each side of the bridge and extend 20 feet out over the water.
It will be built over a period of four years, at a cost of just over $200 million drawn from a mix of federal, state and local sources.
This revealed by the star of the movies himself, Robert Englund, at Monsterpalooza 2017..
iHorror has a good summary of the events that took place during Englund’s appearance.
The headline making part was when the glove came up..
“The original glove was given to me by Wes for pickup shots on Nightmare 2. In a little MTV stage on Santa Monica Blvd in Hollywood, and I went to work, and there was this huge rumor, from you guys [points to moderator Tony Timpone] about industrial espionage because they were the weather vein of popular culture, they knew that this franchise had become even more iconic than we realized. Guys pretended to be crew members on the pickup shot day, in this little studio on Santa Monica Blvd, and they wore tool belts and everything, they were there to get the glove. And we heard about this, Kevin Yager told me this. So, I stole the real glove; I just took it. I didn’t know it came from Wes, I know it now, but I stole it that day. There were like a couple of doubles, but I stole the original glove. I’m busy being Willie from V and going to film festivals, in Paris and getting awards for Science Fiction shows and so I stuffed it, and I outlined it in red and green neon, and I floated it in a plexiglass box, and I gave it to my agent. He won’t give it back!”
There is plenty more than that to watch.. you can see it all here and it’s worth the viewing:
This year’s annual Easter Egg roll may be newsworthy for all the wrong reasons.. Donald Trump is busy threatening war with Kim Jong UN and dropping MOABs on Afghanistan, and that is removing headlines from what would have otherwise been a large embarrassment for the Commander in Chief: The Easter Egg roll could shape up to be a hefty disaster..
The White House, busy dismantling much of the administrative state that existed, forgot to order the eggs! Someone then must have realized that 35,000 people would be guests this weekend. Whoops.
Then the rush order for eggs were places, but the White House forgot to send the VIP military tickets that usually are sent. Then they forgot to order up big named entertainers for the guests… Then they forgot to send out invites for the normal number of 4,000 DC children at public schools–ones that get the tickets yearly.
According to published reports, last minute (holy crap moments) requests were sent to PBS KIDS for Sesame Street characters–something ironic given that the Trump budget would completely zero out the puppets from PBS..
And finally…members of Congress and their families have yet to be invited.
Making Easter Great Again.
REUTERS reports this interesting piece of information:
Many South Koreans marked “Black Day” on Friday, but it had nothing to do with concerns that North Korea may conduct a weapons test, or that the United States, the South’s main ally, may launch a pre-emptive strike to stop it.
It had nothing to do with Good Friday or Black Friday either.
“Black Day” in South Korea is a day for singles, marked by eating “jajangmyeon”, a noodle dish topped with a thick sauce made of black beans. It’s celebrated by singles as a response to “White Day”, an Asian Valentine’s Day which falls a month earlier, on March 14.
If you lived under a rock for the past few days (I envy you to a degree if you did) North Korea tensions are potentially at the highest level in my lifetime.. even more so, the tension around the world seems to be duplicative of what happened during the Cuban Missile in the Kennedy era…
But this story about South Korea’s reaction is what interested me more, at least culturally, than the threat of nuclear end times..
You may recall that during the run-up to war in the Gulf in 1991, Kuwait was partying hard in the metro districts and eating fancy foods in the restaurants.. War broke out yet there was a peculiar distance so many had, even though they were close by. While I cannot say a comparison is appropriate between the Koreas and Kuwait, it certainly is fascinating to realize that the North’s Southern neighbors are living their single life the same way as they would have despite the Navy destroyers and special OPS threatening to doom the cheese-loving North Korean leader.
More from REUTERS:
As tensions grew to a fever pitch elsewhere over the likelihood of North Korea conducting a nuclear or long-range missile test, possibly this weekend, there was little sign of concern in South Korea’s capital, Seoul, which lies within range of the North’s artillery.
“Outside South Korea, some people are worried, but we don’t feel like that in our daily lives,” said Choi Na-young, an office worker in central Seoul.
“All I can do is just try my best and work hard,” said Choi, as she queued for noodles with colleagues. “So no matter what the outside world thinks, I came here to enjoy Black Day”.
“Black Day” was trending on Twitter and was the leading news item on the Naver web portal in South Korea, which has one of the world’s highest percentage of Internet users as a percentage of population.
The nonchalance about the possibility of conflict with the North has grown in recent years in the South, which remains technically in a state of war with its neighbor. The 1950-53 war between the two ended in an armistice, and no peace treaty was signed.
And the rest is history.
Or will be…
Enjoy black day while you can. The darkness of war may threaten the land.
Fans of horror films and the genre love to show their favorite slasher on T-shirts and apparel. Twas always thus and always thus shall be..
Given that thought, I thought it would be proper and decent to show you all one of my favorite places for such items: The Serial Killer Shop online, featuring tons of cool shirts that can showcase your favorite villain from horror or to celebrate your most prized movie from the genre. Real people featured too should that be your forte.
The website features amazing deals.. it also has a huge fan base, over 24,000 people on Twitter, 100,000 on Facebook, and 26,000 on Instagram. You most likely have seen their products on a torso near you. You may even have one yourself..
The site also features a blog that has very readable horror movie facts and tidbits.
However, it’s clear the real prize for readers are the products..
You can visit the shop and peruse the items yourself, but I wanted to share the shirts I felt most affinity for.. my favorites from the website, and maybe they’ll be yours too:
Absolutely love this one.. my spirit animal has scissorhands..
Camp Crystal Lake never looked so respectful. A nice vacation spot.. a beautiful piece of garment to showcase the date when the camp was founded. And Jason lurks. The vibe from the shirt is spot on.
Classic horror is not forgotten either.. Franklenstein! Very cool.
And the best for last.. my favorite of the items offered:
This IT FOLLOWS shirt captures the brilliance of the movie onto one image. The black and white presents the perfect picture, coupled with the blood red font. One of the better movies of the past decade.. and one of the most amazing shirts to show your love of it..
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So enjoy the products, Check them out..
The world is a scary place. You may as well show off your flare the proper way.
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