BREAKING NEWS:
THE WORLD’S LARGEST VOLCANO HAS STARTED TO ERUPT
-USGS/HVO raise alert level to RED/WARNING
-National Weather Service issues Ashfall Advisory; up to 1/4″ of ash possible
-Winter Weather Advisories are up for portions of Hawaii; falling snow and volcanic ash could make travel difficult if not impossible
-Lava is contained to the summit caldera now and lava is NOT threatening populated areas AT THIS TIME, but that could change in the coming minutes/hours/days/weeks.
Google is currently 100% confusing Jim Carrey with Paul Giamatti, crediting Giamatti with all of Carrey’s films.
People have taken to various social media platforms to discuss how they two are having the same strange phenomena occur. Apparently the algorithms have goofed up a bit due to too much thanksgiving festivities.
We did too. It happened to us as well..
There’s probably a very logical and solid explanation for this. And we certainly anticipate hearing it.
Sinbad is showing fans that he is making some progress following his 2020 stroke. The comedian’s family posted an update on social media showing a glimpse of his rehabilitation.
The update was made on Sinbad’s official Instagram page on Monday. The post included a photograph of the 66-year-old stand-up comic amid physical therapy, holding a walker with someone aiding him from behind.
https://www.thejourneyforward.life/
Just about every year, we collectively watch the movie PLANES TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES. Steve Martin and John Candy star in a raucous and zany film about two men just trying to get home for Thanksgiving.
And just for the record, the new 4K version has about an hour of unseen footage!
As we travel with them on their silly hijinks, we are introduced to strange and bizarre characters, we peer through the veil of some distinctly grim and entirely dirty hotels. And, in the end, Steve Martin’s character Neal Page is able to get home to his family just in time to enjoy a beautifully prepared dinner, and a perfectly groomed, family running down the stairs to greet him.
But what about John Candy’s role, Del Griffith.
That situation is a bit different.
Throughout the movie, Del Griffith provides the comic relief necessary to make this a timeless hit comedy. What is deeper and darker, more sinister and grim, is the person we really meet in Del by the end.
You are left looking at a man at his darkest hour. Someone who is alone around Thanksgiving and Christmas season.
Someone who has lost his wife and is forced to spend the holidays only with himself, just himself.
No one else, and no family.
This is a tale all too familiar to many people around this time of year. There’s something very magical and beautiful in the air when businesses and homes begin putting up Christmas decor. Lights and music greet us at every store entrance, friends and family stop by for traditional festivities.
But so often, we are forever changed as friends and families die away.
During the film PLANES TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES, it takes a bit of time for Neal Page to figure out the obvious. Until a few scenes in, we are led to believe that Del is also trying to get home in time for Thanksgiving. It’s not until the final scene that movie viewers realize he has no one to go home to, and no reason to even go home.
Del is a drifter. We are not permitted to learn much about why his wife died or when, we just know she is gone. And with her went a story–Del’s contribution to her story died with her.
That is grim. It feels overwhelming and it’s nature and beyond depressing and it’s reality. That is why some lively scenes can make you forget the heartache:
So as the nationwide rampage of Del and Neal end, it ends with a heartfelt moment of love when Page arrives back home to smell of turkey scent roasting in the house.
What happens to Del Griffith after this movie ends. Sure, Neal invited Del back to stay for dinner. As the song plays the film out, we see Del, standing there at the front door, humble and meek, accepting of this new friendship.
But let’s play it out. Does Del continue to be Neal’s friend? Does he move in? We highly doubt it. As a matter fact, we are led to believe that Neal is somewhat of a pretentious person of wealth that is beyond reproach. Del is the exact opposite, selling shower curtain rings for money. He does not inhabit the wealthy yuppieism of the Reagan years that Neal emits.
So it’s hard to believe a friendship will continue once Thanksgiving dinner plates get cleaned up. But even if it did, Del will enter the Christmas season alone and void of nurture and love.
So many people this holiday season will be in that same place. That is what makes this movie magical, not just a film that is filled with the most vibrantly spectacular comedic scenes of all time, but also a movie that showcases and dramatizes just how deeply lonely some people can be when that cold and dark air begins to approach around Thanksgiving..
Mall Cop inhabits the same fate. Paul Blart is seemingly fun, adventurous.. but in the end even he was consumed by a desire to be loved in a moment of holiday fraud.
The tragedy of PLANES TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES is that, seven years after the movie was released, on March 4, 1994, Del Griffith himself, John Candy suffered a heart attack in his sleep and died at age 43.. Just imagine how many other roles we could have seen him in were it not for this tragically early demise.
PLANES TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES lives to this day in infamy each holiday season. It has become a staple for many families to continue watching this movie around Thanksgiving. Lately each year it seems to get even more popular.
As with all John Hughes movies, there is a message lurking deep beneath the laughter and frivolity of his films.
Give thanks for what you have, but remember those who don’t have what you do, or what they once did.
Happy Thanksgiving to all. And if you see Del Griffith at your local bus station, do him a favor and invite him for dinner. He needs that human connection..
So far, snowfall totals of more than 6 feet have been recorded in two locations, according to the National Weather Service. Orchard Park, where the NFL’s Buffalo Bills play, has picked up 77.0 inches in the last 48 hours, and Natural Bridge, just east of Watertown, has picked up 72.3 inches; historic numbers for the area.
As the snowfall intensified, two county residents died from cardiac complications related to shoveling and attempting to clear the ground, said Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz.
“We send our deepest sympathies and remind all that this snow is very heavy and dangerous,” Poloncarz said. “Please continue to avoid shoveling this very heavy, wet snow, and use caution and avoid overexertion if you must shovel today.”
Winter weather alerts are still in effect for over 8 million people across six Great Lakes states Saturday evening: Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York.
Forecasters and officials have been sounding the alarm on the life-threatening nature of this snowstorm, which is historic even for the Buffalo region where heavy snow is the norm during winter months. And the forceful snowfall is expected to continue through the weekend with brief periods of relief.
— Read on www.cnn.com/2022/11/19/weather/buffalo-new-york-great-lakes-snowstorm-saturday/index.html
Perhaps the fact that more may fall is the biggest insult to this injury… heed travel bans, warnings.. help your neighbors and friends and keep a watchful eye over those around you…
While some get stuck in snow patterns in the winter the rarity of this event can not be over stated. It’s tremendously historic by all calculations..
Let the sun shine! Because the snow sure is still falling..
Images circulating of the 70+ inches of snow falling in upstate New York are unbelievable.. enough to give you true anxiety.
Just imagine looking out your hostages window and seeing snow still building up from the ground..
It’s a good thing they moved the game from Buffalo this weekend! This is a current look at Buffalo Bills Highmark Stadium:
In their last Public Statement, the National Weather Service in Buffalo reported that the accumulated snowfall from the ongoing snowstorm was up to 77″ in Orchard Park, New York.
That’s 6 feet 5 inches of snow..
Who is broke overnight of a mess quitting at The mega platform overnight, Elon musk recently told people to work harder or take a mass layoff.
It appears 75% of the remaining 3000 people took that layoff
.. immediately the #RIPTwitter began trending.
Scores of remaining employees at the social media company on Thursday appeared to reject owner Elon Musk’s ultimatum to work “extremely hardcore,” throwing the communications platform into utter disarray and raising serious questions about how much longer it will survive.
Bob Savage is directing The Boogeyman for Hulu.. the film received its rating, “PG-13” for “Terror, violent content, teen drug use, and some strong language.”
From press releases, the plot: “Still reeling from the tragic death of their mother, a teenage girl and her little brother find themselves plagued by a sadistic presence in their house and struggle to get their grieving father to pay attention before it’s too late.”
Sophie Thatcher (“Yellowjackets”) and Chris Messina (Birds of Prey) star alongside David Dastmalchian (Dune, The Suicide Squad), Marin Ireland (Y: The Last Man, The Umbrella Academy), Vivien Lyra Blair (Bird Box, Mr. Corman) and Madison Hu (Voyagers).
The original story was first published in 1973, before finding a home in Stephen King’s Night Shift collection in 1978.
Ps the plot sounds wildly different than the original …
Boogeyman is set for a 2023 release..
Agents from the U.S. Air Force and FBI recently raided homes in Clark and Lincoln counties in an investigation of a man who operates a website about the top-secret military base known as Area 51, a spokesman said Wednesday.
The Air Force Office of Special Investigations and FBI entered homes owned by Joerg Arnu in Las Vegas and the tiny town of Rachel on Nov. 3 and seized potential evidence for an undisclosed joint agency probe, according to Lt. Col. Bryon McGarry, spokesman for Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas.
— Read on www.reviewjournal.com/news/military/air-force-fbi-raid-homes-in-probe-of-area-51-website-2677764/
Dreamlandresort.com has been existence since 1999, and Arnu stated that this rate appears to be based off of an image that was posted on the site recently.
According to the report, Arnu and his girlfriend were raided at the house by agents in early November..
Elon Musk says Twitter is a software and servers company at its heart and has asked employees to decide by Thursday evening if they want to remain a part of the business, according to an email sent by the company’s new owner to its remaining staff.
Musk wrote that employees “will need to be extremely hardcore” to build “a breakthrough Twitter 2.0” and that long hours at high intensity will be needed for success.
Musk, who also heads Tesla and SpaceX, said Twitter will be much more engineering-driven, with employees who write “great code” comprising the majority of the team.