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NEW INFORMATION: THE SUGAR BOWL IS BEING POSTPONED .. DEVELOPING..
INITIAL POST:
The Sugar Bowl College Football Playoff quarterfinal between Notre Dame and Georgia will still be played as scheduled at 8:45 p.m. ET at the Superdome stadium in New Orleans, according to authorities, despite the deadly attack on New Year’s revelers on Bourbon Street overnight that killed at least 10 and injured at least 35..
“We are going to make sure that our routes and the Superdome are safe today for the game, and yet, we had this tragic event, and we’re sorry again to everyone in our community,” New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said Wednesday morning.
Organizers of the annual football game said they are “devastated.”
DEVELOPING..
As if we needed one more reminder of the whirlwind that was 2024, here’s another reflection to add to the mix.
New Year’s has a way of stirring thoughts about the generations that have come and gone—their visions of the present, their reflections on the past, and their dreams for the future. It’s incredible to think that we are now 100 years removed from New Year’s 1925.
A few people born in that year or earlier are still with us, but as time marches on, they too will fade away. Soon, there will be no one left who experienced the world as it was a century ago. Unless groundbreaking advances in life-saving technology emerge, the reality is that 100 years from now, those living then likely won’t know we existed, and we will no longer be here.
This duality—the fleeting nature of our existence and the enduring march of time—is both the nostalgia and joy of New Year’s. It reminds us that life continues, that humanity perseveres despite the challenges and calamities the planet throws our way. Yet, that same nostalgia carries a bittersweet feeling. The darkness of memory lingers in our hearts, and while it can be a source of warmth, it can also lead to melancholy. We’ve all had moments where nostalgia pulls us into sadness, sometimes even depression.
But that’s the magic of midnight. At 12AM, nostalgia steps aside to make room for the promise of something new. Whether you celebrate by kissing a loved one, hugging friends and family, or standing quietly under the night sky, the moment is yours to own. Midnight wipes the slate clean like a Catholic Church confession.
Resolutions may be famously short-lived, but why not aim to keep a few this year longer than the normal time frame? Pause and consider that the feelings you have now—the hope, the uncertainty, the optimism—aren’t so different from those felt by people ringing in 1925. As their clocks struck midnight, they celebrated with the same belief in the possibility of brighter days ahead. History has since painted the realities of their time, but in that moment, they, too, embraced hope.
As we step into 2025, let’s hold onto that same belief. We will persevere as we always do. And when the clock strikes midnight next December, we’ll likely find ourselves saying, “Thank God 2024 is over,” just as we will for 2025 and the years that follow. Because that’s what we do as human beings. We endure. We hope. And we keep moving forward, whether it’s 1925, 2025, or 3025.
Here’s to embracing the passage of time, to holding onto hope, and to welcoming the future with open arms.
Closer in the sense that at least more cast members are being reported..
Despite what seems like it will never logically happen, news sources including DEADLINE have reported that there are some developments in the MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE movie.. Amazon MGM Studios and Mattel’s live-action Masters of the Universe film has four new villains, Deadline has learned.
People just JUST loved him as Joker.. so why not Skeletor too?
Jared Leto (House of Gucci) is confirmed for the role of Skeletor, having initially been linked to the project back in September.
Others now aboard include Sam C. Wilson (House of the Dragon) as Trap Jaw, Hafthor Bjornsson (The Northman) as Goat Man, and Kojo Attah (In the Grey) as Tri-Klops.
From the DEADLINE story (and you can tell PR press related-ish dispatch):
The primary antagonist in the Masters of the Universe franchise, Skeletor is a powerful and cunning sorcerer, serving as the arch-nemesis of our hero, He-Man, played by the previously announced Nicholas Galitzine. One of Skeletor’s key henchmen, Trap Jaw is a recurring villain in the franchise, known for his cybernetic enhancements and versatile weaponry. Goat Man is a minor villain, known for his goat-like appearance and association with Skeletor’s forces, while Tri-Klops is one of Skeletor’s most resourceful and tech-savvy henchmen, a skilled swordsman who’s a master of surveillance and technology.
While all HE-MANs who are in a mid-life crisis buying all of the new action figures on the market (I can speak from experience here).. it just seems the promises of a live action movie will not happen. There have been so many delays and cancelations that it seems we will just be left with the cartoons and, of course, the 1980s live action film that some either love or hate.
But holding out hope–let’s see how this all works out.
Until then.. we have Gwildor.
The associated press is reporting.. A flu-like disease that has killed dozens of people over two weeks is being investigated in southwestern Congo, local authorities said.
The deaths were recorded between Nov. 10 and Nov. 25 in the Panzi health zone of Kwango province. Symptoms include fever, headache, cough and anaemia, provincial health minister Apollinaire Yumba told reporters over the weekend.
The deputy provincial governor, Rémy Saki, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that between 67 and 143 people had died.
MORE..
The reported symptoms in patients include: Fever
Headache
Nasal discharge and cough
Difficulty breathing
Anemia
https://apnews.com/article/congo-unknown-disease-kwango-11c96d7073ae4a0bc8ef9b2575f8d226?s=09
ANY NEWS OUT THERE POSTING IMAGES OR FOOTAGE OF LINES? Those lines if they even exist during the early hours of Black Friday are nothing at all like they used to be.
Black Friday, the historically profitable shopping day that compels us out of our houses and retailers into the black, is over as we knew it.
You were able to sense it for a few years.. and then last year it really hit everyone. No lines. No fights.. nothing.
We are traditionalists here at the Horror Report.. and we’ve been using the ‘AND THEY’RE OFF’ headline since we existed in the early part of the millennium.. But 2024 may be the year we officially retire it for good.
After all Black Friday has become a shadow of what it once was..
Like 20 years ago in 2004 when we spoke about fights in aisles:
Or 9 years ago in 2015 when we showcased amazing imagery of Black Friday bashings:
The saddest part is those who are less than age 19 or 20 may not even recall the ‘good old days.’ But before you lament too much, let’s not forget those good old days were often embarrassing, and results from Black Friday were often such we would be lectured by media moguls about the plight and fall of America. But .. wow.. those malls were packed, weren’t they?
All of this is not to say that corporations won’t make money and that people are done Christmas shopping. Quite the opposite. Companies have slickly entered the market place of ideas in the tech era, making often even larger profits than when we all got in cars and went to malls. But what we will lack are the fun images.. the frivolity of fights and battle scars cash register wars. Those days are gone.
Was it COVID? Was it inevitable? And …will it one day come back?
Until it does.. we only have nostalgia and memories.. Imagery of times now completely sealed in the trash heap of history. But thanks to modern tech we can look at the old world and see what we once were.
Americans are expected to set a new record for Thanksgiving travel, with nearly 80 million to hit the roads, catch flights and board cruises over the holiday period, travel group AAA said on Monday.
About 1.7 million more people will travel this year from Tuesday, Nov. 26 to Monday, Dec. 2, compared to a similar period in 2023.
Let the misery begin a number of storms possible. Will weather cooperate? And will we get home in time for Thanksgiving? 2024?
Just digest that very REAL headline for a moment..
A near miss. With a UFO. In a Pentagon report.
Welcome to 2024… The closest to disclosure we have been so far?
As with all of our UAP and UFO headlines lately, not very concrete information is known.. but the headline and brief description of events the government is sharing, in any other timeline, would have knocked our socks off. Now we just take it and move on?? The rent is due, after all and eggs are pretty expensive. Let’s talk when prices go down, shall we?
From what we know, the New York close call was among 757 cases of unidentified anomalous phenomena reported to US authorities within the past year, according to the annual report released Thursday by the Pentagon..
In that case, the airline crew had reported to the Federal Aviation Administration that its commercial plane had a “near miss with a ‘cylindrical object’ while over the Atlantic Ocean” just off the coast of New York.
It wasn’t clear when the sighting happened, or which airline was involved.
So now you know. But you just don’t know too much, really..
The Onion, which planned to relaunch the conspiracy-minded Infowars as a parody website, was named the winner of the bankruptcy auction held in Houston on Thursday. J
Jones was forced to put Infowars and other assets up for sale after a judge ruled in June that he had to pay roughly $1.5 billion for Sandy Hook families..
A group of Sandy Hook families who filed the defamation lawsuit against Jones agreed to accept a smaller payout to increase the overall value of the Onion’s bid, according to the families’ lawyers.
MORE..
More from the Washington POST:
At the court hearing Thursday, the trustee overseeing the bankruptcy auction said the Onion did not have the highest bid, but that the Sandy Hook families’ agreement to forgo some of their defamation award to pay off Jones’s other creditors made the Onion’s bid the best overall deal, according to the Associated Press. The trustee, Christopher Murray, did not share the dollar amount of the Onion’s bid, but said he followed the rules laid out by the judge that allowed him to skip a round of bidding that would have let interested parties try to outbid each other.
As of this moment, INFOWARS.COM has returned and it is NOT under ONION control..
One of the links now on INFOWARS is footage of Alex Jones on Glenn Beck
DEVELOPING..
Some people may remember the famed Danville, Pennsylvania monkey Escapade several years ago, when monkeys escaped from a crashed truck in a higbway.. those monkeys were a part of disease studies and people were told to stay indoors and lock their windows.
Now similar circumstances are taking place in South Carolina .. police and authorities are warning people to stay away from the 40 monkeys, which are now on the run…
Authorities in South Carolina have warned residents to lock their doors and windows after more than 40 monkeys escaped from a research facility Wednesday night.
The primates broke loose from a Alpha Genesis facility in Beaufort County and traps have been set up and thermal imaging cameras are being used in an effort to locate the fugitive monkeys, the Yemassee Police Department said in a statement.
This is developing..
