The newest STRANGER THINGS 2 trailer hit on Friday the 13th .. amazing timing as always with the fine people at Netflix..
The excitement over this program is incredible. Not only are people re-watching and re-binging the first season in preparation, but there is an equal amount of re-watching and analyzing of the newest trailers..
Before discussion.. take a glance:
My initial thought: This is actually the weaker of the teasers and trailers for season 2.. Yes, I am inclined to wonder why Eleven is more androgynous .. why she has more hair now and no one shaved it. why she is out of the upside down and eating Eggos in the normal world..
So many questions about her. But the trailer didn't pay much attention to her--I think on purpose. Instead we glimpsed into the post-pubescent boys and now new friends of another gender planning something, just as the world is being taken over by giant squid creatures from the upside down.
Not viewed at all? Mike's mom and dad. Barb..
Forgive me before moving on, but I really hope something happens to Mike's dad. The guy was a total buffoon, I know on purpose, but really annoyingly so.. Perhaps the 'Reagan Bush 84' sign that pops up in their front yard is a showcase of how his total trust in government and Reagan fight against the Commies with star wars defense weapons is an example of how he won't be changing any time soon..
Fair enough.
I want to know the other families, though as well.. We know only Mike and Will.. There are plenty of other kids in the show that I want to understand.. Maybe season 2 will there.
It appears from this trailer that a journalist shows up to investigate. Perhaps a conspiracy journalist.. Also, the homages being paid to KARATE KID and GHOSTBUSTERS is pretty cool. During the run-up to this release STRANGERS THINGS creators also revealed a poster showing a true and amazing tribute to another amazing movie that came out in 1984: The original NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET..
Homages aside, the character development looks very in depth. At least judging from a single trailer.. Will seems to be a main character.. Perhaps Will becomes the earthly manifestation of the upside down and Eleven has defeat him? Perhaps Nancy is the key--or just true love.
The MK ULTRA affair looks amazing in this..
I am entirely excited.
One interesting conundrum that STRANGER THINGS 2 may have is how audiences have come to know and love Finn Wolfhard playing Ritchie from the remake of 'IT.' He was foul-mouthed and funny.. a complete reversal in a sense from Mike .. but not really. STRANGER THINGS 2 may feature a more mature Mike.. not sure if they'll go as far as genital jokes and F words.. But audiences may have grown so used to it from IT that they may expect it.
But back to my thought about this trailer to begin with.. As much as I love it, I wish the final trailer released prior to the show's October 27 binge-worthy debut would have been the one that premiered at Comic Con.. the amazing with that is complete with Michael Jackson's THRILLER and ends with Boris Karloff's horrific laughter.. for those who forget, this:
Yes, indeed.. a hurricane-ish type storm is about to hit Ireland..
Hurricane Ophelia is the 10th consecutive hurricane to form in the Atlantic basin this year. According to University of Miami hurricane expert Brian McNoldy, the last time ten consecutive storms became a hurricane was 1893. While a very interesting factoid, the "elephant in the room" is that Ophelia is headed to Ireland. It is rare, but not unprecedented.
There are a few interesting things about this.. First off, there have been really rare occasions that storms of this nature made it as far as Ophelia may..
Actually there have been only a handful in the past years since about, oh, 1851..
From 1851 to 2010, only 10 extratropical storms, typically the tail ends of tropical cyclones, have hit within 200 miles (322 kilometers) of Ireland....Hurricane Debbie was the only tropical hurricane to make landfall in that area, clipping the far northwest of the British Isles in 1961.
But this is 2017--the year that mayhem on land and in oceans seems to reign supreme..
Ophelia is in warm waters right now.. But after some more travel will lessen in intensity and most likely (we think? ) become extra tropical, somewhat like Superstorm Sandy from 2012.
That does not mean Ireland is going to dodge a significant bullet here.. as a matter of fact, maritime problems will exist, harsh winds, and heavy rains..
Channel 2 on Tuesday aired footage of a minor who dressed up like a clown in Yavne. “I am the Yavne clown,” said the boy. “I do it because it’s boring [in Yavne] I am not into killing people, only into scaring children.”
Police official Boaz Hamami, who was also interviewed for the Channel 2 report, said that the danger is two-fold: to the people who are panicked by the clowns, and for the clowns themselves, who might end up being shot by security or worried citizens who might respond with violence at the sight of a clown attacking children.
And there is a new report from the nation that a child was running scared at someone dressed like a clown.
This is the same pattern of clownish oddities that graced other continents previous autumns..
Oddly enough the movie IT came out and all of I seemingly died off in America and the UK. But in Israel? The small town clowns are out en masse….
A nightly ritual for me and many others: GROUND ZERO WITH CLYDE LEWIS.
For him, and his fans, good news: His program has now moved up on the Talk stream live list from the top 25 to striking within the top 5 beating Alex Jones, George Noory, and Glenn Beck..
As of October 4 2017, here is the top 25:
Here are the TSL Top 25 Streaming Talk Shows for Q3 (Rank/Show/Share):
1. Rush Limbaugh, 17.7 2. Michael Savage, 17.2 3. Laura Ingraham, 7.7 4. Sean Hannity, 6.2 5. Mark Levin, 4.9 6. Clyde Lewis, 2.6 7. Glenn Beck, 2.3 8. Alex Jones, 2.1 9. Hugh Hewitt, 2.1 10. George Noory, 1.9 11. Howie Carr, 1.8 12. Mike Gallagher, 1.7 13. Dennis Prager, 1.6 14. Tammy Bruce, 1.1 15. Red Eye Radio, 1.0 16. Chris Plante, 0.8 17. John Batchelor, 0.8 18. The Dana, Show 0.8 19. Larry Elder, 0.6 20. IMUS 0.6 21. Michael Medved, 0.5 22. Larry Kudlow, 0.5 23. Jeff Kuhner, 0.4 24. Lars Larson, 0.4 25. Joe Pags, 0.4
Marilyn Manson cut his Saturday night show at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom short after a stage prop collapsed atop the shock rocker. The severity of Manson's injuries was unclear at press time, but the concert was canceled after a brief delay.
"Manson suffered an injury towards the end of his incredible NYC show. He is being treated at a local hospital," a rep for the singer told Rolling Stone.
Here is a video:
The incident occurred roughly an hour into Manson's concert, the third date on the North American leg of Manson's Heaven Upside Down tour. During "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of These)," Manson made his way toward the back of the stage, where a prop featuring two giant pistols suddenly fell forward onto Manson. Video from the concert shows Manson grappling the prop before it comes crashing down to the stage.
After the stage crew lifted the prop back up, Manson lay on the ground for several minutes. EMT workers also rushed to the backstage area as venue workers yelled "Ice! Ice!" repeatedly.
And not the first time..
On Friday in Pittsburgh, Manson tumbled off of the stage.. he told the crowd he broke his ankle calling his tour manager a fascist..
In an 11-hour period beginning at 7:19 a.m. and ending at 6:46 p.m. Saturday, the President of the United States ripped off 18 -- yes, 18! -- tweets dealing with the dire situation in Puerto Rico following the devastation wrought by Hurricane Maria.
None of them were good.. it has created a monster of a problem for the President..
In the aftermath of a storm that ground Puerto Rico to a halt and turned off power for just about 100% of the people, the leader of the free world decided to blame Puerto Rico..
He attacked San Juan's Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz..
"They want everything to be done for them" he Tweeted at one point..
Then he slammed news organizations for being critical of him not responding to the crisis in Puerto Rico..
The entire fight became the focal point of the cold opening of last night's SNL ..
The season premiere of Saturday Night Live was hosted by Ryan Gosling with Jay-Z as the musical guest.
(by the way.. SNL is stale stale stale stale... stale)
18 tweets in 11 hours..
It has not even been one full year yet since the election.. only 9 months of the presidency.. And the year's tension is at the highest level yet. Football is not a diversion but just another reason to get angry..
There is something strange afoot in the city of Seattle Washington -- a butterfly effect is causing strange emotions from people who are finding origami butterflies throughout public locations.. when the papers are unfolded, ominous messages appear..
From a local report:
"Origami butterflies with ominous messages have been found all around Seattle.The colorful creations look cheerful at first, but when unfolded, the phrase “you are not safe,” is revealed. A date is printed along with the message: 9-28-17.Even more puzzling are the illustrations, which include Russell Wilson, Kurt Cobain, the Starbucks siren, and a peace message. One of the notes features the Seattle skyline without its famous Space Needle landmark.A website is listed on some of the papers: www.allgodsmustdie.com. On it, a scramble of letters merge together to form the statement, "You Are Not Safe” while Wagner's "Das Rheingold" plays. Then, a psychedelic goat appears behind the vaguely threatening.There is aReddit thread dedicated to the strange occurrence."
Interesting information has been unearthed by users on REDDIT.. they appear to be on to something. THe ALL GODS MUST DIE page may be associated with an anti-abortion religious zealot.A theory has emerged that this person could be drumming up attention for national abortion rights day--9/28..
But it is tattering already fretting nerves in the area--a location that is having earthquake drills and emergency alert tests...
A relic of a sexist era gone.. Hugh Hefner dead at 91..
Hugh Hefner -- the silk-robed Casanova whose Playboy men's magazine popularized the term "centerfold," glamorized an urbane bachelor lifestyle and helped spur the 'sexual revolution' of the 1960s -- has died, his company said late Wednesday. He was 91.
Hefner founded Playboy in 1953 with $600 of his own money and built the magazine into a multimillion-dollar entertainment empire that at its 1970s peak included TV shows, a jazz festival and a string of Playboy Clubs whose cocktail waitresses wore bunny ears and cottontails.
It’s a $100 million MTA project shrouded in secrecy, with 18 of them for tunnels and bridges. So what are they exactly?
The MTA’s man in charge of the bridges and tunnels, Cedrick Fulton, dodged Carlin’s questions Wednesday.
“I said no comment,” he said.
Some MTA board members, including New York City Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg, say they know too little about the towers – even with half the money already spent and some of the towers already up.
“A lot of the board members felt they didn’t have all the details they would have wanted, myself included,” she said.
Harry Knowles, the movie blogger who founded Ain’t It Cool News, is taking a leave of absence from the popular fan site after being accused of sexually assaulting a number of women.
Knowles allegedly groped and harassed five women over the past few decades, according to multiple reports this week from IndieWire.
“Therapy, detox, and getting to a better place,” Knowles wrote of his departure on Facebook and Twitter late Tuesday. His sister will take over AICN in the interim.
New Line and Warner Bros is celebrating a renewed interest in the box office with IT's release..
Today the two studios have announced the release date for the sequel to IT as September 6, 2019, where it will debut in regular theaters and IMAX screens..
By that point, 'IT' may still be in some theaters.. the movie has been a complete and total phenomenon..And continues to do well..
Though there has been no official announcement, it’s presumed that Andy Muschietti will be returning to direct..
In metered market numbers, the primetime match-up between the 27-10 winning Washington Redskins and the Oakland Raiders snared an 11.6/20.
The worst SNF has performed this season so far, that’s an 8% dip from the early numbers of last week’s Atlanta Falcon’s 34-23 win over the Green Bay Packers. Gaining cheers and boos from fans at FedEx Field in Maryland last night, the third week of SNF for the 2017-2018 season declined 10% from early numbers of the comparable game of last year on September 25, 2016.
The outcome to the weekend is what I expected. Facebook and Twitter are filled with memes and jersey burnings, controversy and "I stand" logos overtop of people's profile photos... I have literally witnessed "virtual" online friendships ending this morning due to the kneeling controversy ...
Someone I know wrote a long post about how she will stay off of Facebook due to the debate. Perhaps I will do the same, only lurking from a safe distance.
This whole debacle about kneeling during the National Anthem has reminded me a little of the 'freedom fries' battle of the early 2000s. Back then France decided it would not support the United States war in Iraq. The Capitol cafeteria renamed French fries 'freedom fries' in a strange Orwellian protest. Some others in the nation followed with the same name...
It was quite the hot topic then.
Cue now: 3 million without power in Puerto Rico, Houston still devasted, fires along the West Coast, Florida with many locations recovering, and a new hurricane looming in the Atlantic.. that coupled with some of the weirdest and most bizarre weather in a long time. North Korea threatening to shoot down a US plane. Terrorist threats being made against soft targets... Crises abound.
And we? In America? We are busy. People are kneeling during a song.
Russia’s southern Krasnodarsky Region has awoken to horrifying news about a pair of cannibals that could be responsible for up to 30 grisly murders, local media report citing police. Parts of some of the victims were reportedly stored for later consumption.
Some of the victims were in fridges… Some others in parts.
Apparently the couple has been involved with the kid napping and eating of people since 1999, last century.
And now caught.
A murderous and horrific long-winded rampage of cannibalism over……
The prediction that a hidden planet was meant to smash into Earth on Saturday — killing us all — was laughed at by experts.
But that quickly turned into nervous laughter when a number of people spotted strange lights in the skies above America hours before the destruction was supposed to take place.
Freaked-out Los Angeles residents saw what they described as a UFO with a weird crescent flying over them.
Luckily we are still here and the earth hasn’t been destroyed .. but for a few seconds there may have been absurd fears within the hearts of Los Angrlenos…
Suddenly America's past time has divided the nation--or the President talking about it..
This past week, Donald Trump loudly stated that players who take needs during national anthems should be FIIIIIIRRREEEDDDD!.....
And this weekend? Many NFL players locked arms or kneeled in solidarity against the President, causing a new national fervor about the biggest game in the United States..
I wrote before that I suspected some odd conspiracy--ratings were down and now ... most likely up.
A wave of protests swept across the National Football League on Sunday as President Donald Trump escalated his feud with players who kneel during the US national anthem to draw attention to racial injustice. Trump ignited a firestorm of criticism after comments on Friday in which he described NFL players who chose to take a knee through renditions of "The Star-Spangled Banner" as "sons of bitches" who should be fired. The US leader doubled down on those remarks early Sunday, urging fans to boycott the NFL as long as the protests continued. "If NFL fans refuse to go to games until players stop disrespecting our Flag & Country, you will see change take place fast. Fire or suspend!" Trump wrote on Twitter. Yet players throughout America's most popular sport took a defiant stance on Sunday, in the largest such demonstration since former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick started the protests in 2016.
Trump was forced back into the issue tonight (and he LOVED every minute of it) ...
Trump, speaking to reporters on a New Jersey tarmac before boarding Air Force One, was asked for a reaction to the statement by New England Patriots owner (and Trump supporter) Robert Kraft about being “disappointed” by Trump’s recent comments.
“I like Bob very much, we’re friends — he gave me a Super Bowl ring a month ago, right? — so he’s a good friend of mine, and I want him to do what he wants to do, but we have a great country, we have great people representing our country, especially our soldiers, our first responders, and they should be treated with respect, and when you get on your knee and you don’t respect the American flag or the anthem, that’s not being treated with respect.”
Asked a reporter: “Are you inflaming racial tensions, sir?”
“This has nothing to do with race,” Trump said. “I never said anything about race. This has nothing to do with race or anything else. This has to do with respect for our country and respect for our flag.”
The new 'freedom fries' of Monday water cooler chat will center around Donald Trump and the new national sensation.
Meanwhile? .... lots of tiny players and older ones too have brains rattling around their heads and futures filled with head injuries.
If you were watching HGTV in Orange County on Thursday morning, you may have been treated to a terrifying surprise.
As the channel switched to an emergency broadcast screen, an extremely loud, badly transmitted voice came over the speakers.
“Realize this, extremely violent times will come,” the voice said.
“It almost sounded like Hitler talking,” Stacy Laflamme told The OC Register. “It sounded like a radio broadcast coming through the television.”
TV viewers on both Cox Communications and Spectrum received the alert. According to the broadcasting companies, no one was sure why. They believe that some sort of radio emergency test tone was sent, which was picked up by the television stations. Instead of ending after a tone as usual, whichever station sent the alert did not send the ending code, and another radio transmission was picked up and continued to air.
With how intense the world has been lately–earthquakes, fires, fears, and hurricanes–this must have come at the completely wrong moment.
