My new novel ‘Ferryman’ is out…

My latest novel ‘Ferryman’ is out and available at Amazon in both paperback and Kindle formats.   Give it a read and let me know what you think.    And of course by all means leave a review on Amazon.   J/W

Notable one-liners… answers!

Okay you’ve had a chance to mull it over.    Exactly how well do you know your movies?

1. Look what I’ve done – I loved him and now I’ve gone and killed him. (Storm of the Century)
2. I will find you. (Last of the Mohicans)
3. He will know your ways as if born to them.   (Dune)
4. Why don’t you put her in charge.  (Aliens)
5. Get away from her you BITCH. (Aliens)
6. Give me what I want and I’ll go away. (Storm of the Century)
7. You’re not a pleasure unit. (In Like Flint)
8. Make little fists with your toes. (Die Hard)
9. I’ll have what she’s having. (When Harry Met Sally)
10. Losers always whine about doing their best. (The Rock)

Some of these were pretty easy, but still if you answered eight or more correct then I’d say you’re well on your way to laying claim to that ever so enviable icon of being a Couch Potato.    For those of you who didn’t fare so well, don’t fret – I’ll have more challenges coming your way.  J/W

News at 11:00…

A 37-year-old Louisville man in parachute pants died yesterday in an apparent skydiving accident.    His wife and sister told police that she didn’t think it good idea.     The complete story at 11:00….

Notable one-liners…

Think you’re pretty hot when it comes to knowing all there is to know about movies?    Well have I got a test for you.    Take a look at some famous and not so famous movie one-liners below and test your knowledge.    Do you know what movies they’re from?

1. Look what I’ve done – I loved him and now I’ve gone and killed him.
2. I will find you.
3. He will know your ways as if born to them.
4. Why don’t you put her in charge.
5. Get away from her you BITCH.
6. Give me what I want and I’ll go away.
7. You’re not a pleasure unit.
8. Make little fists with your toes.
9. I’ll have what she’s having.
10. Losers always whine about doing their best.

These may not be verbatim, but hey… they’re pretty damn close.    And don’t give my any of that “those lines are in several movies…”    These lines are most identifiable with one particular movie.   By who you ask?    Well by me of course.    I’ll post the answers in a day or two.   J/W

What’s with that…

Why is it that everytime I come to “lane ending – merge” sign on the road, everybody pulls into the lane that’s ending?

 

Frightening Halloween Pictures of the Canine Variety

The secret life of a what… an american teenager… huh…

Now I know several folks think this show is the best thing since the space-saver spare.    Any why not… I’ve been told that it’s collected all kinds of awards and stuff.     Simple-minded me… I’m just trying to figure out what – and why in the hell would a show with no actors win anything.    I mean at first the acting was so poor that I thought it must have been some really bad (and I mean really bad) reality show – as if we need another one of those.    But as I sat there counting the seconds of my life slip by, I watched several robotic-like high schoolers whip around in their fancy new cars with their flashy clothes and bedding each other down in these highfalutin apartments – the which I can only dream about affording.    So I quickly came to an ever so appearant conclusion…

1) While the parents aren’t too bad of actors, the only teenager that act better than a fly on the wall is the girl from “Still Standing”.

2) The writers are either kids themselves or the studios only have the coin for minimum wage.

3) Enough of the cell phones already!    My God over half of the ten minutes that I spent watching this show were focused on the brain-dead stare of some teenager blabbing nonsense on their cell.

4) “…Secret Life” should do us a favor and remain a secret.    Enough glamorizing teenage pregnancy.    This show in no way reflects real life… well maybe except for that brain-dead stare that people have while talking on the cell phone.    Get a clue… you don’t look hip or cool and even though Facebook and the like might try to convince you otherwise… no one really gives a xxxx what you’re doing or saying at any particular time.

Just like you’ve had enough of what I have to say… J/W

Predators… are they elite fighting forces from an alien world… or just beer drinking hicks?

After watching the 2010 Predators movie for a second time, a question popped into my melon.    I’d always thought of the predator creatures as some kind of elite fighting force.   You know with their shoulder mounted ray guns and invisibility cloaks… I mean come on, that’s just not something that everyday folks like you and me can lay our hands on (no matter how much we wish we could).    But after carefully considering the premise – I’m not so sure.

Let’s take a look at the facts from this latest installment of the popular series.    The way I see it, you have three predator buds out for a weekend hunting trip (humans just happen to be one species of game).   I mean look at.    They had a camp, along with a camp fire and their ride parked out back in the brush.    Sound familiar?    Pretty damn striking to the image of three drunken hicks, crushing empty Bud cans against their foreheads while sucking on some chaw and fiddling with their shotguns around the fire (which will undoubtedly be put out with some manly recycling contest involving the aforementioned Budweiser).     Be  honest… come on… admit it – sounds pretty damn reasonable doesn’t it.     I mean which are you more likely to find on a hunting trip in some backwoods forest – a group of elite fighting forces or a bunch of drunk yocals with their pit-bulls and a cooler of beer?

I don’t mean to offend anyone with my reference to hicks or yocals, but it is what it is.

So what’s all this mean?    Means I’d like to see the real-deal predators – the elite fighting forces kind.   I bet they’d sure whoop up on some alien ass.    

Now as for the movie itself.    Other than the opening I thought it was a pretty damn good movie.   My exception with the opening is that if these Predators (even the hick variety) have the technology to suck folks up off our planet in the blink of an eye – why’d they revert to the ancient technology of parachutes to place our hodge-podge group of heroes down on the game preserve planet?    A little bit lame don’t you think.

‘Nuff said – you bet!    Stay low and keep out of the cross-hairs.   J/W

2012 End of the World?

Will something, anything… happen in 2012?   I don’t really consider myself a doomsdayer, but I do believe something will happen.    Actually – that’s not correct.    To be more accurate, I believe something has already started to happen.

In fact I believe it started a few years back and continues to grow in intensity the closer we get to the celestial alignment of 2012.  

Some scientists have already stated that it’s possible that the gravitational / magnetic pull of the 2012 alignment could have an impact on the earth’s axis.    One scientific theory as to the die off in the bee population centers around magnetic disorientation caused by cell phones…    The impact of magnetism as a possible treatment for depression and other mental disorders has already been reported and in fact goes back several centuries.    If you remember, one explanation for the recent mass bird deaths was that the birds became disoriented and flew into some power lines…

Do you see the trend here?   

As I said earlier I don’t consider myself a doomsdayer… but I have to admit that I do find the correlation between changes in magnetism and mental processing to be a little alarming.   And my biggest fear is that it will come so gradual (as we approach the alignment) that no one will tie the two together before it’s too late.   

Would you really think anything about why you’re not sleeping as good at night as you used to?    What about when you reach for the spoons in your kitchen and realize that you opened the drawer next to them by mistake, or you start forgetting what you were shopping for if it’s not written on your list?

What if “that” forgetfulness gets worse?    What if your trouble to get a good night’s sleep gets so bad that you can’t sleep at all?

There won’t be any sudden catastrophic event happen in 2012.   But there could be an end point for what may have already started.    What would happen to the world as we know it, if between now and then we gradually forgot who we are, where we are, who we love?    What would happen to the world if all memory and mental functioning were gradually erased?    How would you react if you didn’t recognize your own spouse or children?    Logic would state that the last to go would be the basic instinct for survival.

The worst part of it – unless we talk to one another about what’s going on, we may never see it coming until it’s too late.

A bit of a drag I know, but I thought it worth stating.  I encourage your feedback and dialogue.   J/W

A little Indiana humor…

After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year,  New York  scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago. 

Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed, a California archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, a story in the LA Times read: “California archaeologists, after finding 200 year old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the New Yorkers.” 

One week later the  Indianapolis Star  reported the following:  “After digging as deep as 30 feet in his pasture near  Lafayette, Indiana , Henry, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Henry has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, Indiana had already gone wireless”.