Monthly Archives: October 2013

The Exorcist Is Forty Years Old Today

31 Thursday Oct 2013

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Today, Halloween Day, is the fortieth anniversary of William Friedkin’s Oscar award winning movie The Exorcist that scared the bejesus out of us baby boomers when it first hit theaters in 1973 and has been scaring the bejesus out of our kids and grandkids ever since. I vividly remember going to the Abilene, Texas premier of The Exorcist with a friend of mine named Ron at a theater that was so crowded when the movie began that there were people sitting in the aisles and was almost deserted well before the movie ended. This theater was initially packed because there had been a tremendous amount of interest in this film. People had been talking about it. The local paper had been writing about it and God knows the local preachers had been preaching about The Exorcist for weeks in advance of its arrival in our little God-fearing city.

I went to the Abilene, Texas premier of The Exorcist at some movie theater I forget the name of forty years ago today and I still recall the experience vividly. I went with four friends only one of whom was able to sit through the whole movie with me. O.K., truth is, I thought a time or two about chill’n at the concession stand myself. In fact, far more than half of the folks who had paid good hard worked for money to watch The Exorcist on Halloween night in Abilene, Texas forty years ago to this very day decided to leave well before the movie was half way over. It was an extremely intense experience, no question about it.

Finally, when the credits were rolling with that eerie soundtrack Tubular Bells still sending chills down my spine and goose bumps infecting my entire body, I looked around and saw that Ron and I were two of a few small group of people who were still in the theater. Ron and I sat in our seats until the overhead lights came on. I can’t remember if it was me or if it was Ron who said “O.K. I could use a drink.”

The Exorcist is one of the greatest movies ever made. It is also one of the most frightening movies you’ll ever see. Do yourself a favor and watch it. Tonight would be a good night. It’s HALLOWEEN! Boooowaaaaa!!!

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This Yank’s a Bit Odd

29 Tuesday Oct 2013

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A great many of us noted with sadness the passing away of Lou Reed on October 27, 2013. One of my favorite photos of Lou Reed was one taken in 1973 in the Cafe Royal in the ritzy Piccadilly section of London. The photograph shows Lou Reed having drinks with David Bowie and Mick Jagger. The reason I like this picture so much is that I love the expression on Jagger’s face as he watches Lou Reed reach across the table toward David Bowie. Mick seems to be thinking to himself “This Yank’s a bit odd.”

Mick was right because as much as I and millions of other people around the world admired Lou Reed and appreciated his great talent, he was indeed a Yank who was a bit odd. But oddness is not exactly a scarcity among us Yanks. And so in keeping with Mick Jagger’s assessment regarding the much loved and admired Lou Reed’s oddness here are some more Yanks who many feel are a bit odd.

Sarah-Palin_crazy-lookThis Yanks’s a bit odd.

ted_cruz6This Yank’s a bit odd.

MicheleBachmannThis Yank’s a bit odd.

RobertsonThis Yank’s a bit odd.

TedNugentOffMyMedsAgainThis Yank’s a bit odd.

Got ideas for other peeps who could fall under the category of This Yank’s a Bit Odd? Put ’em in the comments.

BSA Comes Out Against Stupidy

21 Monday Oct 2013

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Random Acts of Stupidity

The Boy Scouts of America recently stopped discriminating against gay kids. That’s good. Now they’re banishing stupid adults. That’s even better.

By now you’ve seen or at least heard about the three adult jackasses who took some kids to Utah’s Goblin Valley State Park and distroyed a rock formation that had been in place for many millions of years. A man named David Hall shot a video of Glenn Taylor pushing on the rock formation while playfully singing the pop song “Wiggle It, Just a Little Bit”. The video shows that after the rock formation had been destroyed Glenn Taylor encourages his son to share a laugh and a high-five with him. This despicable desecration would no doubt been filed away as an unsolved random act of unlawful stupidity if it hadn’t been for the fact that Mr. Hall was so proud of his video that he decided to post it on Facebook.

Glenn Taylor, David Hall and another man seen on the video were all three Boy Scout troop leaders. After this video went viral a few days ago on YouTube all three men were kicked out of the Boy Scouts of America. Good riddance. The Boy Scouts issued a statement saying that the former leaders violated the Scouts’ principle of “Leave no trace,” which it said “teaches the value of natural areas and the methods we can use to help protect and conserve these areas for future generations.”

Also, the National Park Service and the United States Department of the Interior are said to be working with the Department of Justice to file federal charges against these idiots.

 

Web Sites Banned in China

20 Sunday Oct 2013

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The Great Firewall of China

According to statistics compiled by Internet World Stats the population of China, excluding Hong Kong and Macao, is over 1 billion 300 million people and of that population 35.7% or 477 million are connected to the Internet. Of the 477 million people regularly using the Internet in China, only 391,000 have Facebook accounts. Why? It’s because Facebook is banned by the Chinese government. The Chinese government requires all Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to block Facebook. Access to Facebook is available to Internet users in China only through proxy server software

For several years there have been a number of sites on the Web that can tell you if your Website or any other Website is banned (blocked) by the Great Firewall of China. Recently, a new site has been added into the mix that many believe is far superior to all the rest. Satisfy your curiosity by visiting Blocked In China to find out if your Website or any other site you’re curious about is currently banned in China.

Here’s a partial list of Websites currently being blocked by the Chinese government. Often the government will open access to a site for a few weeks or months and then suddenly block it again thus discouraging it citizens from using these sites.

This information about the Great Firewall of China was originally posted on my site, Scoroncocolo.com, in July 2011.

Republicans Cave

17 Thursday Oct 2013

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What a crazy week it’s been with the baseball playoffs going on and my bookie calling me ever hour or so, it’s little wonder I’ve had time to pay attention to
the recently resolved government shutdown and almost default deal. Go figure. So a little while ago I consulted my politically geeky and ultra conservative
friend Ubetal Keckurass, a local neighborhood watch captain who you would NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES want to f**k with. He patiently explained to me how during the negotiations that lead to the recent deal in the Senate and the House that reopened the government and averted a government default, the Republicans had choked. And my good friend Ubetal Keckurass suggested very forcefully that I share this video with you which he insists drives home the point that the Republican Party’s moderate wing decided to “Run away! Run away!”

Creating and Maintaining Webpages

15 Tuesday Oct 2013

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Today I logged onto Register.com, the company that hosts my Website www.scoroncocolo.com, and added some code into my index.html file.

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<p><span style=”background-color:#000; color:#fff; width:30%; padding:1em; position:absolute; left:2em; top:33em; opacity:0.80; -moz-opacity:0.80; -khtml-
opacity:0.80; filter:alpha(opacity=80);z-index:3;”><a href=”https://scoroncocolo.co/”><span style=”color:#fff;”>New Scoroncocolo Site</span></a></span></p>
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This code placed the link to this new site you’re on right now on my older www.scoroncocolo.com home page. You can see the link in the photo above. And of course, if you go there and click that link it will bring you right back here.

Sunday Night Movies

13 Sunday Oct 2013

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Here’s SNL’s spoof of the Government shutdown.

Here’s the trailer for Alfonso Cuaron’s “Gravity” starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. This video was posted on YouTube only a few days ago and already it has almost five million views.

While it’s not exactly imax 3d, if you click to watch it full-screen it’s almost jaw-dropping.

Sure things in the news today seem really bad. There’s a hurricane in India and the U.S. government is shut down. But as the Barenaked Ladies say, “Odds Are” we’re gonna be all right. Ah, despite the fact that there is a 79% chance of Dinosaurs.