'My Hero!'

Hey, ya'll remember back in the late 60's (early 70's for me).... The super awesome Spiderman cartoon? It was that cartoon that brought on a life long fondness for the characters, well some of them...

Dang that cartoon was so awesome! AND! Do you all remember the Marvel Superhero's cartoon?

With Hulk, Captain America, Submariner and Thor (Although the early Captain America cartoon has him join up with Thor, Iron Man, Wasp & "Tall man - who can become 'Ant Man'...

I've managed to collect all of these cartoons.. So camp now, I watched a Captain America episode last night that left me in stitches, it was fuckin hilarious how they sewed that shit together!

So for the Spiderman cartoon, the voice work was done right here in Canuckia, while the animation was done stateside...

BUT, even more of a Canadian connection is that 'ol favorite of faves....
Rocket Robinhood!

Even 'The Mighty Hercules' cartoon was another joint Canadian / American production! I had no idea!
These can be kinda hard to watch these days!

"Herc, Herc... There's Daedalus, there's Daedalus!!!!"

So camp!

Ok, have to start settling in to watching my annual Christmas movies... I did watch 'Die Hard I' the other night and last night, I watched for the first time 'The Man Who Invented Christmas'. which is a kinda biographical story on Charles Dickens writing 'A Christmas Carol' (aka Scrooge).
I love the story, I mean, essentially it's a ghost story... I think the best film version is the 1970 'A Christmas Carol' with Albert Finney as Scrooge.
This telling has an 'added' part a lot of the other films leave out, which is at the end, Scrooge ends up in Hell and his business partner Jacob Marley (No relation to Bob) gives Scrooge a small tour of Hell and is then taken to his new 'office', where he'll spend an eternity in the cold, doing Satan's finances, all the while his massive chain of life weighs him down... It's when Satan's henchmen are draping this ginormous chain on Scrooge  he wakes up, safe in his bed, his heart changed and he's all eager to be a great man for the remainder of his days...

Ya'll gettin in the Christmas spirit yet?


Just spoke to the previous owners of the house that caught fire. I knew they had owned the place for some time, but jeez, Mike and his parents moved in 1959, just after the house was built, then the family owned it until Mike took it over himself and they had it right up until about 3 years ago, when they got tired of horrible partying student tenants and sold it. Of course they were shocked and saddened to hear it caught fire... Was good to talk to them, they are really great people.
No word on what will become of the place.

The Fire Next Door

I always feel I need to explain it whenever I write about my 'neighbors', I have my neighbors that live in the front of the house we rent and then I have THE neighbors whom are those around me.

That being said, THE neighbors house caught fire today, in case you didn't know and well, it was chaos, as all emergencies like these are.. Still vibrating with adrenaline.
The students who rent the place were not home and that was luck on their part.. Anyhow, watch the video it has a full and detailed explanation as only I can.

Here's an 'After' picture...

Um don't ask me why I don't video while the action is going on and actually capture the 'action' lol... It took me multiple car crashes at the house in Burnaby before I actually remembered a camera and to video it... But I guess it's better I'm not thinking of grabbing my cam, because i'm thinking about the safety of my neighbors and those around me.

Our feature presentation:

Ever Been Stalked By A Squirrel? & A Heavy Lift Launch to Orbit Tonight

Jerkface the wonder squirrel returned today.....

Damn you tree rat!!

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December 8-9th 2018: There's a launch tonight just after midnight for us. A Delta IV Heavy Lift rocket is taking a 'mysterious' cargo to orbit .... Some friends and I have been looking at photo's and whatever they are putting up there is no 'little' satellite..

I mean, lookit this photo, look at the bottom left hand corner and how tiny the people are compared to this 'capsule'. Given some room for boosters on whatever the satellite is the remaining area is still pretty huge... Something big is going up...

Countdown clock is here:
https://www.ulalaunch.com/missions/delta-iv-nrol-71

That link also has a link to the YouTube live broadcast... These heavy lift launches are bad ass! I'll be up checking it out!

This is the mission 'patch'... even it is kinda... ominous.. Eagle tearing with it's claws, "Serving those who serve"?

Super military.... Maybe it's some kind of kinetic orbital defense weapon.....

Skerrrry! 💀

Holy Crap! Friday Surprise Find

Somewhere in my head I did know that John Garcia, former singer of KYUSS, Unida, Slo Burn and Vista Chino has a new album coming out in January.
I know I say this a lot, but... If you know me, you know I'm a  HUGE KYUSS fan... At my instances for most of the time that The Wasteland Zombies were together we played KYUSS' 'Green Machine' at the end of just about every show we played.. Except towards the end here as we wanted to close with our new original, one I'm so very proud and fond of 'Anubis Rising'... Yet I digress... John Garcia was another major influence for me, along with Mike Patton - Faith No More and Bruce Dickinson - Iron Maiden.
Garcia's got a great gritty vocal that's easily recognized when you hear it and it blends in with the 'Stoner/Desert Rock' sound so well, like rum & Coke.

I had heard the first and second singles some time ago as Blabbermouth has been posting them in news articles as they've been released. The first single was recorded with The Doors Robby Kreiger and the second single 'Chicken Wing' was a quirky groovy song.
Then today, just checking in on Blabber... BAM there it was another single, but I was super blown away with it. The first two totally convinced me I was going to buy the album when it comes out on January 9th on Napalm Records... Which is where I'll be pre-ordering it from in the not too distant future. I may even splurge for some kind of courier.. Because though the mail is flowing now, it's still severely backed up,,, Holy shit! Did you know that UPS charges $25. to mail... a Christmas card??? I get they are a specialized service, but that card better be AT it's destination when I walk out the door after paying them... I had called, because I wasn't sure, for some reason i thought they and UPS were in league somehow... Maybe that's Puralator.. Anyhow, I had some cards to mail and it was actually a surprise, it was warmer than forecast outside, so I went for a walk until I found a fucking mail box!!
I mean I know I can mail them from Shoppers downtown or Superstore, but it's a long walk, long than I wanted to go today and I found one outside of government building not too far from me...

Holy shit! That was a tanget!
Check out 'Jim's Whisker's' by John Garcia & The Band of Gold

I've been watching it over and over! I love that my favorite musicians are STILL putting out entrancing, kick ass music this much later in their careers.

Makes me wanna be in the desert

Pic of me in the Nevada desert 2002

F'N Tree Rat Again & Those Shinny Metal Baskets

So this morning, I'm, I dunno, getting ready, to get ready to go do some errands and as I'm walking in the kitchen, my eye catches the window on my front door and outside of it, 'Weird', I thought, 'That looked like squirrel color 'gray''....

I walk over to the door and see this:

Fucking tree rat! OK, I know from having owned a dog and cats, been around pets and have watched animals all my life, they are a LOT smarter than people give them credit, they are, sure yes, there's dumbass dogs, not so much cats, I've met some crazy cats, but not really ever a stupid one... Anyhow, these rodents, the squirrels, watched me all Summer and learned, not through me taking the patience I did with 6 chipmunks to get them to accept me and come to me for food... No, the squirrels, they jumped through that hoop and went right for the "Here I am, give me fuckin food asshole"... and one has the gaul to insult our species by walking on it's hind legs like a fucking monkey!
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If ya don't know, Dollarama has pop like Pepsi, cheap and I do use the place to buy things like lint rollers, garbage bags, you know, things that'll fall apart easy ad you throw out right away, because that's what they sell... Things that'll fall apart easy...

The other week, all of a sudden the wire baskets are gone and they just have the shopping carts with a great big long pole sticking up straight up out of it...
I've never wanted to steer one of those carts with that damn pole on it.. Looks like you're going into a jousting competition or something...
So today, I lamented to a worker, that said I was purposely trying to mow down a security guard from  the mall (Furthest thing from my mind, I was looking for Cap'n Crunch), but I told her. "This sucks... Stupid carts". And she said, "Look, write to the office, I hear they are good at listening to their customers, give it a try because you're not the only person who wants them back" and she would give me no reason for why they took them, she didn't know she said.

Maybe people are stealing them? I dunno, they are a lot more convenient than the shopping carts with the jousting pole or the green bin with wheels, which even the healthiest old person would probably have a hard time trying to dig say a couple of small items out of the bottom of the thing..

So I'm going to write to the Dollarama HQ and ask for our baskets back! Are you with me?



I SAID, ARE YOU WITH ME?????

Save our baskets! Write to: 

Damn it, there's no 'email' address.... So go here and write them!
http://www.dollarama.com/about_us/contact-us/

Also, I suggest people go down to the store with placards and chant: 
'What do we want! OUR BASKETS BACK! 

When do we want them: NOW!'

(But let me know ahead of time so I can sneak down and video you, because that'd be pretty funny!)

Phantom Lord

Metallica

Sound is ripping through your ears 

The deafening sound of metal nears 

Your bodies waiting for his whips 

The taste of leather on your lips

Hear the cry of war louder than before 

With his sword in hand to control the land 

Crushing metal strikes on this frightening night 

Fall onto your knees for the phantom lord

Victims falling under chains you hear them crying death pains 

The fists of terrors breaking through now there's nothing you can do

Hear the cry of war louder than before 

With his sword in hand to control the land 

Crushing metal strikes on this frightening night 

Fall onto your knees for the phantom lord

The leather armies have prevailed the phantom lord has never failed 

Smoke is lifting from the ground the rising volume metal sound

Hear the cry of war louder than before 

With his sword in hand to control the land 

Crushing metal strikes on this frightening night 

Fall onto your knees for the phantom lord

Fall to your knees 

And bow to the phantom lord

Songwriters: Dave Mustaine / James Alan Hetfield / Lars Ulrich

Phantom Lord lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc

Venus! - NO, Not By Bananarama! +UFOs?

So couple of celestial 'events' going on. There's a 'green' comet that should be visible in the evening sky. Just after Sunset, look to the East lol.. There you MIGHT be able to see with the nekid eye a 'greenish' hued comet, this is 46P/Wirtanen and it's been making it's way through our inner solar system.
It's closest approach is mid December and already it's 'hue', the glow around it, is almost as big as the full Moon looks to us... NOT to say it's as visible as the full Moon, just it's glow around it is big.

According to USA Today:
"Wirtanen’s closest approach to the sun will be Wednesday, Dec. 12, and its closest approach to Earth will be Sunday, Dec. 16, EarthSky said. On that day, the comet will be "only" 7.1 million miles from Earth, which is rather close in cosmic terms. (The sun, for instance, is about 93 million miles away.)

The comet should be visible with the naked eye, but the best views will probably be through binoculars and small telescopes, especially away from city lights. "Be sure to seek out dark skies in your quest for Comet 46P Wirtanen," said David Dickenson of Universe Today.

One nuisance will be brightness from the increasingly full moon next week.

The comet and its coma (the fuzzy-looking area around the comet) will be rather large – two to three times the diameter of the moon, Sky & Telescope reported."

A photo of 46P and it's glow compared to the Moon.

Photo credit: spaceweather.com

|I'm usually up each morning around 5am to 6am and this morning this super bright object in the Eastern sky caught my eye!

No it didn't make me cry or want to eat an apple pie!

It did however make me wonder what I was looking at... It didn't have Mars' color.. So I figured was Venus and pin an award on my chest, because I guess right! I mean it couldn't be too many other things...

Super brilliantly bright! You won't miss it, it'll be the brightest thing in the East until the Sun creeps over the horizon and don't state at the Sun....

So I took a lil vid and also two pix.

 Venus at 6:03AM AST

Venus & light flares at 6:05am AST - And don't you mind about the 'UFOs' in this photo!

Blackened

Blackened

Metallica

Blackened is the end

Winter it will send

Throwing all you see

Into obscurity

Death of mother earth

Never a rebirth

Evolutions end

Never will it mend

Never

Fire

To begin whipping dance of the dead

Blackened is the end

To begin whipping dance of the dead

Color our world blackened

Blistering of earth

Terminate its worth

Deadly nicotine

Kills what might have been

Callous frigid chill

Nothing left to kill

Never seen before

Breathing nevermore

Never

Fire

To begin whipping dance of the dead

Blackened

Metallica

Blackened is the end

To begin whipping dance of the dead

Color our world blackened

Blackened

Opposition...contradiction...premonition...compromise

Agitation...violation...mutilation...planet dies

Darkest color

Blistered earth

True death of life

Termination....expiration...cancellation...human race

Expectation...liberation...population...lay to waste

See our mother

Put to death

See our mother die

Smouldering decay

Take her breath away

Millions of our years

In minutes disappears

Darkening in vain

Decadence remains

All is said and done

Never is the sun

Never

Fire

To begin whipping dance of the dead

Blackened is the end

To begin whipping dance of the dead

Fire

Is the outcome of hypocrisy

Darkest potency

In the exit of humanity

Color our world blackened

Blackened

Writers: James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Jason Newsted

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