On Sunday a tornado almost hit us. It came about five miles from our house. There was a real possibility that we could have been seriously hurt.
And yesterday, well, there's no words.
The massive super tornado that literally decimated the town of Moore occurred a mere half hour from my house and only ten minutes from my work.
I worked last night, too. And I was going to leave super early so that I could chill out at work and read comic books and use their wi-fi. I was going to jump in the shower at around 3:00 or 3:30pm but I was watching tv and being lazy. If I had left when I wanted to then there is a good chance that I would have been in Moore and on the I-35 WHEN the tornado hit.
Frightening when you think about it.
Last night my family and I stayed the night at my in-laws house. I slept on the floor. Didn't get the best sleep. My back still hurts.
Yoinked from the almighty wikipedia machine of knowledge ...
"Things to Come (1936) is a British science fiction film produced by Alexander Korda and directed by William Cameron Menzies. The screenplay was written by H. G. Wells and is a loose adaptation of his own 1933 novel The Shape of Things to Come and his 1931 non-fiction work, The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind. The film stars Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, Cedric Hardwicke, Pearl Argyle and Margaretta Scott.
The cultural historian Christopher Frayling calls Things to Come 'a landmark in cinematic design.'
Wells is assumed to have had a degree of control over the project that was unprecedented for a screenwriter, and personally supervised nearly every aspect of the film. Posters and the main title bill the film as 'H. G. Wells' THINGS TO COME', with 'an Alexander Korda production' appearing in smaller type. In fact, Wells ultimately had no control over the finished product, with the result that many scenes, although shot, were either truncated or not included in the finished film. The rough-cut reputedly ran to 130 minutes; the version submitted to the British Board of Film Censors was 117m 13s; it was released as 108m 40s (later cut to 98m 06s) in the UK, and 96m 24s in the United States (see below for later versions). Wells's script and selected production notes were published in book form in 1935, and was reprinted in 1940 and 1975.
Wells originally wanted the music to be recorded in advance, and have the film constructed around the music, but this was considered too radical and so the score, by Arthur Bliss, was fitted to the film afterwards in a more conventional way. A concert suite drawn from the film has remained popular; as of 2003, there are about half-a-dozen recordings of it in print. After filming had already begun, the Hungarian abstract artist László Moholy-Nagy was commissioned to produce some of the effects sequences for re-building of Everytown. Moholy-Nagy's approach was partly to treat it as an abstract light show but only some 90 seconds of material was used, e.g. a protective-suited figure behind corrugated glass. In the autumn of 1975 a researcher found a further four sequences, which had been discarded.
The city of 'Everytown' in the film is based on London: a facsimile of St Paul's Cathedral can be seen in the background. The film, written throughout 1934, is notable for predicting World War II, being only 16 months off by having it start on Christmas 1940, rather than 1 September 1939. Its graphic depiction of strategic bombing in the scenes in which Everytown is flattened by air attack and society collapses into barbarism, echo pre-war concerns about the threat of 'the bomber will always get through'. Wells was an air power prophet of sorts, having described aerial warfare in Anticipations (1901) and The War in the Air (1908)."
Steve's Snacks Of The Week:
Coffee
Pills
Chipins Popcorn Chips
More Coffee
Yet Even More Coffee
Random Potato Chip Shards
Apple Slices
... AND NOW, Steve and this blog are both PROUD to once again present today's super special Church-less Movie of the Week in its entirety FOR FREE! Because I fucking rock is why.
But lets go over a few theater rules first. Firstly, there's absolutely no talking allowed in Steve's Theater during our feature and any and talkers WILL be given a dirty sanchez. Seriously!
Also, no cell phones or African-American berries in the theater. No open flames. Gays are accepted, however. Dispose of all trash in its proper receptacle. And please, absolutely NO TEXTING! Very serious about that one.
And be sure to dim your headlights (where applicable).
So not only do we not have wifi at our house and no TV or cable but my wife just lost my brand new phone so I have been forced to use my old phone which is a piece of crap. And we have yet to turn it on in the hopes of finding the old one, so I have been phoneless and internetless for quite some time now.
But it won't be theirs for long. They just put money down on a big farm sort of patch of land outside this small village they call a city. So good for them. I'm happy for them.
Yawn.
I had two interviews and a 100% guarantee from the store manager that I would get hired. Them they didn't hire me. WTF? I had an expressed verbal agreement and now I'm being shut out. It's deeply frustrating.
Do you want to know something funny?
There is a Family Video here in town, here in Seminole... "family" being the important word here. "FAMILY" Video. They're a family video chain. They rent free kids movies. Faaaaamily.
And there's a room in the back with hardcore porn.
So it's "Family" Video then. You can rent Backdoor Sluts 9 at "Family" Video.
I have another interview coming up but I'm not sure if I should take it. It's with one of the biggest and most beautiful movie theaters in America and that's a bit of pressure for me.
I see movie theaters like other people see cathedrals. Movie theaters are my churches. Working at a theater would make me a true Ed Wood priest.
It was with Family Video. Good, friendly company. It's doing strong too in the face of a recession, do that's great news. I'm still with "the bookstore that must not be named" but I'm tired of getting so few hours and not getting any respect. So i'm branching out. It's hard for me to do different things and be bold but you gotta do what you gotta do.
I was in that interview for over and hour and the store manager and I spent most of our time talking about our kids and what movies we liked. We got along like gangbusters. She loves bad movies so we went off for a really long time on Rock of Ages and those Scifi channel "Mega Shark" atrocities.
She is absolutely willing to hire me part time and she was going to hire me at that exact second but she thinks that I would be a wonderful store manager or assistant manager ... so I have another interview tomorrow at 10am with the district manager.
YEAUHH!!!
So I have another interview tomorrow but I might be a stor manager! I might be an assistant manager! I might actually be SOMETHING! It's been a while since I've been something, you know?
And the best part is that the woman who I talked with today, she said that if for whatever reason I didn't get to be a store manager, and she said she doubts that will happen, but if thr DM doesn't turn me into a store manager, then she has no problem hiring me part time at her store.
So basically what I'm saying is I gotta freaking second job!
Yoinked from the almighty wikipedia machine of knowledge ...
"Warm Bodies is a 2013 American paranormal romantic zombie comedy film based on Isaac Marion's novel of the same name. Directed and written by Jonathan Levine, the film stars Nicholas Hoult and Teresa Palmer.
The film focuses on the development of the relationship between Julie, a young woman, and R, a zombie, and how their eventual romance develops throughout. The film is noted for displaying human characteristics in zombie characters, and for being told from a zombie's perspective
Warm Bodies is a novel by author Isaac Marion. The book was described as a zombie romance by the Seattle Post Intelligencer, and makes allusions to William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The author, based in Seattle, originally wrote a short story titled 'I Am a Zombie Filled with Love' on his blog. Atria Books, a division of Simon and Schuster, acquired the publishing rights to the full novel in early 2010.
The author has retweeted Steve Galindo. Therefore, the author of this blog is totally hecka famous and should get a million blowjobs.
On January 28, 2013, Zola Books published Isaac Marion's novella e-book prequel to Warm Bodies, titled The New Hunger. On October 15, 2012, Marion announced via his blog that he is writing a sequel. No official title or release date have been set."
Steve's Snacks Of The Week:
Coffee
Pills
Strawberries
More Coffee
Yet Even More Coffee
Random Potato Chip Shards
Random Sodas
... AND NOW, Steve and this blog are both PROUD to once again present today's super special Church-less Movie of the Week in its entirety FOR FREE! Because I fucking rock is why.
But lets go over a few theater rules first. Firstly, there's absolutely no talking allowed in Steve's Theater during our feature and any and talkers WILL be given a hot carl. Seriously!
Also, no cell phones or African-American berries in the theater. No open flames. Gays are accepted, however. Dispose of all trash in its proper receptacle. And please, absolutely NO TEXTING! Very serious about that one.
And be sure to dim your headlights (where applicable).
I have been chosen to beta test the new Marvel online role playing game this weekend.
We have no internets yet at our new place, so I am spending a crapton of time at my brother in law's place which is about a block and a half away.
It is freaking amazing!
I have a Thing at level 5 that just defeated Electro in Hells Kitchen and I also have a Punisher and a Hawkeye that are still stuck at level one. Punisher is almost level two.
See, Thing is a reeealllly easy character to start with because he is just an unstoppable muscle machine. Punisher may look cooler but he has no real powers and so he is much much MUUUUCH harder to fight with and level up.
Also my computer is old and makes everything really blocky, but it's still amazing as all hell.
My oldest daughter and I made this the last time we were at Golden Corral together.
It was based on the premise that the reds are the superior gummy flavor and the yellows are the inferior flavor. Also, yellow mirrors Americas internment of the Japanese during world war dos.
Just thought I'd give you a random heads up. It's been a while.
I'm home alone right now watching The Avengers. Love it. I could watch Avengers every day and still Mark out watching it. As a child I didn't have too many friends so I would stay in my room and read my comic books and dream of big budget movies I assumed would never happen. Now they're here. It's amazing.
I've got a cup of coffee next to me I've been awake only for about two hours. I woke up at one in the afternoon. It felt damn good.
I've got a very heavy book on my lap. It's great. I'm reading an advanced copy of Joe Hill's upcoming book "NOS4A2" and I'm on page 201 of about 670. Im not even halfway and I'm already creeped the heck out. It us an amazing world he paints and I just do NOT want it to end.
I have a tall boy of Coors Light in the fridge and the DVD Django Unchained, which I haven't watched yet, but because I love my wife so much I am biting my lip and watching other things instead.
Now that is love!
Hey! Here is some good news!
This May 5th, Cinco De Mayo, is my wife and I's anniversary! We have been together, been dating, for over a decade now! A decade! Over ten goddamn YEARS together!
How fucking amazing is that?
So to celebrate we will probably go out and do our usual thing: have a really nice dinner in OKC, get drunk as hell, watch whatever the newest superhero movie is in theaters, I believe that's Iron Man 3, go roller skating, and probably go home and fuck each others brains out. It's going to be awesome.
Hopefully we will be getting wifi soon at our new house, Downton Flabby, here in Shawnee. Then I will be sure to post the regular free bad movies and big titties that people are accustomed to here.
In almost every Harpercollins publishing children's books about superheroes, regardless of it being Marvel or DC or in Metropolis or in New York or even in Gotham City, the exact same two hip looking young guys show up. Usually they show up as cops but sometimes on the other side of the law. They even show up in Transformers and Iron Man books. I just recently discovered this and found a buttload of examples for you.
If my broke ass ever makes it to Comicon I am either going as my favorite superhero, Spider Ham, or get someone to go with me as the "Hipster Cops."
Witness my own personal finds of these mysterious "Hipster Cops" ...
