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Monday, March 21, 2011
Time's Top Ten Twilight Zone Episodes
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011
S.1. Ep. 16 "The Hitch-Hiker"
Behind her appears a nameless sailor, played by Adam Williams. He needs a ride to San Diego. She begs him to ride with her and he accepts willingly over and over again. The sailor gets her a can of gas and they take off. As they drive, she asks him if it's possible for a hitchhiker to keep up with her if they keep getting picked up. He agrees her physics questions is plausible. She sees him again and he tries to hit him. The sailor flips out. She tries again and again to hit him. The sailor has enough of this near death bullshit, makes her pull over and ditches the crazy bat.
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When I younger, I thought, screw this. I'm running away from my parents and I'm going hitchhike until I find a place that I like. When I was in 11th grade, I read one of my still favorite books, On the Road by Jack Keroauc. He just went. Took off. Said, fuck this, I'm out. He saw his country and its neighbor on foot, in car and by bed of truck. How I wish.
Then as a freshman in college, I watched Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas adapted from Hunter S. Thompson's book of the same title. Driving.. cross country.. on a mission to find.. the American Dream. YES, PLEASE. This venture is still on my bucket list, however, with gas at $3.50 a gallon, it may simply be a memory of a dream I had when I was 18-years-old.
Now for the news!
This is why you don't stop for hitchhikers.
DeKalb County man shot after picking up hitchhiker
Posted: Mar 07, 2011 1:18 PM ESTUpdated: Mar 07, 2011 1:18 PM EST
DEKALB COUNTY, AL (WBRC) - An elderly man from DeKalb County is recovering at UAB Hospital after being shot during a robbery at a church.
Investigators say a 70-year-old Pete Bailey picked up a female hitchhiker who asked him to pull over at a church. That is where detectives say she shot him before stealing his vehicle.
37-year-old Patty Elaine Westbrook was arrested by DeKalb County authorities. She is charged with attempted murder.
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Investigators say a 70-year-old Pete Bailey picked up a female hitchhiker who asked him to pull over at a church. That is where detectives say she shot him before stealing his vehicle.
37-year-old Patty Elaine Westbrook was arrested by DeKalb County authorities. She is charged with attempted murder.
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This is why you don't hitchhike.
Hitchhiker beating suspect sentenced
He and his younger brother beat, robbed man
Updated: Wednesday, 23 Feb 2011, 1:07 PM MST
Published : Wednesday, 23 Feb 2011, 1:07 PM MST
Published : Wednesday, 23 Feb 2011, 1:07 PM MST
SAN JUAN COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) - A San Juan County man has been sentenced to six years in prison for the brutal beating of a hitchhiker nearly two years ago.
Joshua Garcia, 23, and his younger brother Jose picked up Leroy Thompson in Farmington, New Mexico in October 2009 and told him they would take him to Kirtland, but instead, they beat and robbed him.
Thompson survived the attack.
Jose Garcia was sentenced earlier to nine years for his role in the case.
Hitchhiking is illegal in most states. In case you wanna go hitchhiking, please visit this website first: USA Laws to Hitchhike.
S.1. Ep. 15 "I Shot an Arrow Into the Air"
As he ventures alone in unchartered territory he reaches the other side of the mountain tops. Before his eyes lies a road, telephone poles and two mile signs; one for Reno and one for Nevada. The ship nor the men ever left Earth. He realizes now that he just committed murder out of desperation.
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Hot, dry, inevitable fear and killing out of desperation. Reminds me of a place over 1,000 miles south of Nevada. A city build from battle and history. A place now known as one of the most dangerous places on Earth, Juarez, Mexico. This place is where survival of the fittest applies to only the killers. If the innocent don't leave Juarez, they have an equal chance of death. Men, children, women of any age, ethnicity or appearance are all fair game.
Most recently, women have been the most popular targets for cartel assassins. A new term, coined in recent years, femicides, have been occurring more frequently in the war-torn state of Chihuahua. According to Aljazeera, nearly 8,000 lives have been taken since 2008 in Juarez. More and more women seem to... disappear in Juarez.
A shocking blog, shared with me through my journalism professor, titled, "Ciudad Juarez: En la sombra del Narcotrafico" or in English, Juarez City: In the Shadow of Narcotics Trafficking. The author of this blog is a woman, Judith Torrea. She started her blog in 2008 and has reported on the crime in Juarez ever since.
If Benito Juarez could see his city now, he'd be utterly ashamed.
S.1. Ep. 14 "Third from the Sun"
Fritz Weaver, Pittsburgh native, plays Will Sturka. He works at a military base as a scientist, developing Hydrogen bombs for the nuclear war that will occur in 48 hours. His friend Jerry Riden, played by Joe Maross, also works at the military base. Will and Jerry have devised a plan to steal a military space ship to evacuate their planet before the nuclear holocaust begins. Will invites Jerry and his wife over to play cards, a ploy to prepare them for departure. During their card game, Mr. Carling, one of their bosses, arrives at the Sturka home. Carling is played by Edward Andrews. He maliciously hints that he knows the plan Will and Jerry have spent months plotting. After Carling leaves, Will tells the families they have to leave immediately.
When the two families arrive at the base, the signal is given. Will and Jerry believe everything is ready until the signalling light begins to approach them. It's Carling with a gun. Will and Jerry jump Carling and head towards the space craft. The alarm sounds and the whole two guards attack them as they board. They made it.
Will and Jerry are hopeful for their future. The talk about the planet they are headed towards. They're flying to the third planet from the sun, Earth.
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Intelligent life? In outer space? Like.. humans? NO WAY MAN!
March 5, CNET writer, Chris Matyszczyk published an article based on NASA scientist Dr. Richard B. Hoover's recent findings of bacterial life in CI1 carbonaceous chondrites, meteorites in which only nine exist on Earth. Hoover believes these meteorites arrived on Earth from outer space. The bacteria, Hoover believes, is a fossil of alien life. NASA warns media sites and news conglomerates that Hoover's theories are not always correct. Yet, Hoover isn't alone on the theory of intelligent life existing in outer space.
Last year, Stephen Hawking warned our civilization to fear aliens. According to Hawking, we shouldn't even be attempting to contact them nor go searching beyond our solar system. I can't agree more. Aliens are going to come to our planet and hateeeeee us.
Hopefully, it's like the movie Signs and we can just throw water on them. Splash, splash. Take that! Yeaa, that's right the Earth is 70% water, fools!
The Space Review's Stephen Ashworth wrote an interesting article titled, "What future for intelligent life in space?" When you say it aloud, it sounds kinda douche-bag-ish. Basically, Ashworth's thesis is that we could sustain human life in space if we started building space stations. Not like the International Space Station that only houses about ten people. We need a space station like Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar Galatica or Zeon, Girl of the 21st Century.
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| Zeon's Space Station |
Like to know more about our first space station? Check this out.
S.1. Ep. 13 "The Four of Us are Dying"
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| Arch Hammer |
1. Johnny Foster, played by Ross Martin, a lounge trumpet player who died in a train wreck.
2. Virgil Sterig, played by Phillip Pine, a gangster who was shot and thrown into a river.
3. Andy Marshak, played by Donald Gordon, a boxer who ran away from home. He is the only man who is still alive.
When Arch turns into Andy, he runs into an old man who turns out to be his father. His father freaks out on him and Arch pushes him to the ground. After Arch returns to his hotel room, a detective arrives to arrest him and take him down to the police station. Arch tricks the detective by changing his face back into Andy's face and runs outside. There outside the hotel door is Andy's father with a gun. Arch begins to studder and panic as the older man points a gun in his direction. Andy's father shoots Arch in the stomach. As Arch begins to die, his face changes through the three different faces. All four of them were dying.
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March 4 in Redwood, Ca. Simon Gann, a known conman, was finally sentenced to 16 months in prison. Fox Reno's online new site published his charges and actions. The 30-year-old pretended to be a millionaire and talked women out of their money. Gann used the name Saleem Dutante and thrived off counting cards at casinos. He has performed his conman act since 2003. The Almanac gives better details on Gann's act.
Facebook is home for many scam artists. Most recently through the Associated Press, scam artists are using photographs of soldiers to lure women into giving up personal information and above all, money. The internet makes con artistry much easier and a lot easier to be anonymous. Always be careful what you sign up for on the internet and never give away any personal information. By 2011, you'd think we should know the basics of the internet.
Monday, March 7, 2011
S.1. Ep. 12 "What You Need"
Steve Cochran plays Fred Renard, a lonely, distraught, angry man. He sits in a bar, alone, drinking the same drink when a short, kind-faced man enters the bar. He's a peddler who somehow knows exactly what you need. He gives a young woman a bottle of stain remover. He gives another man, a former baseball player, a bus ticket to Scranton, PA. Suddenly, the ball player receives a phone call at the bar. It's his old manager offering him a career as a coach.. in Scranton, PA. He has a stain on his shirt and the young woman walks over and takes his stain out with the bottle of remover.
Fred stares at the man the entire time he is giving people 'what they need'. Fred approaches the small man on the street, asking him quite threateningly, what he needs. The man reaches for a pair of scissors and hands them to Fred. As Fred goes to his hotel room, his scarf is stuck in the elevator. He screams for help then remembers the scissors and cuts his way out of death.
Fred stalks the little man for what he needs. But the little man explains that he knows he has a talent but he can only use it sparingly. Fred is upset with this and continues to harass the man.
Late one night, Fred is aggravated that he can't get what he needs and nearly attacks the little
man, who we find out name is, Pedott, played by Ernest Truex. Finally, Pedott tells Fred that he cannot give him the things he needs most. Fred pushed Pedott out of the way and goes through his things. He finds a pair of too small shoes that
have leather soles. Fred hates them but assumes they're what he needs. Pedott tells Fred the
shoes are what he needs. Suddenly, Fred goes to attack Pedott and gets hit by a car.
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Abraham Maslow wrote an article in 1943 titled, A Theory of Human Motivation. In it, he defined what he believed are the basics of human needs through what is known as Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
Click the pyramids for more definitions.
In 2004, the pyramid was amended to fit the natural shift of our generations.
What we need are not materialistic. Most of the time, human beings feel empty inside and try to fill the void with objects, possessions, etc. However, just making someone else happy can fill that void. It's kinda like How the Grinch Stole Christmas. The Grinch took everything but when he saw that the Whoo's didn't need things, just each other and a crazy little diddy, he wanted to share the JOY and HAPPINESS, too.
An article on Peak Oil Blue Blog, shares my ideology that our hierarchy of needs have shifted dramatically because the United States economy is dwindling. Maslow's pyramid worked for his time but now it's out-dated. Psychologists now are looking towards Chilean Economist Manfred Max-Neef's theory of American needs. Since we like shapes, we'll call it the Max-Neef circle. The circle gives ten major needs that all human need:
- Idleness
- Subsistence
- Freedom
- Affection
- Identity
- Protection
- Understanding
- Creation
- Participation
Max-Neef states in an interview with Democracy Now! reporter, Amy Goodman, the United States is becoming an underdeveloped nation.
"Greed should be among those who have nothing. No. The more you have, the more greedy you become..."- Manfred Max-Neef
But for us internet nerds, here's our pyramid.
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