MONDAY SEPTEMBER 16 2013
A town in Colorado has become an island after Biblical flooding.. Flooding continued to wreck spirits and reek havoc throughout the weekend..
Few words can describe the flooding in Colorado..
Major air rescue planned in Boulder County..
MORE RAIN COMING..
Weather slows rescue efforts..
A number of towns are still completely cut off due to flooding..
Four in ten believe the end times are upon us..
Casey Anthony to be grilled in case about defamation.. deposition set for October..
The story of Voyager 1 continues to simply amaze me.. the thoughts of it reaching interstellar.. so cool. And we are learning new information and confirming old information with this voyage. But perhaps Clyde Lewis said it best about Voyager 1’s long distant signal: “Now we wait for that call from ET — but only if they have a phonograph”
Last week: 4-year-old boy tragically dead because of brain eating amoeba.. But now some more frightening news about this has surfaced, it’s perhaps a dangerous one, too: The deadly brain eating amoeba has been found in the municipal water supply of St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana.. This is Southeast of New Orleans.. it’s near that big sinkhole.. and it’s troubling news. The amoeba is called Naegleria fowleri and is about a tenth the width of a human hair.. It actually devours brain tissue. Is the water supply in danger? Keep drinking, state health official say! Just don’t snort it, as that is when the true danger will be had.
This is a story that showcases, above all else, the truly inadequate infrastructure of the United States and the fragility of our water supply.. And sadly a child now is dead, and others have been sickened by the brain eating amoeba in the water..
For some, clowns are frightening. For others, they are appearing on the British streets looking sinister. Apparently a ‘sinister’ clown has been appearing on streets in Northampton in the UK.. The clown has even taken to a Facebook page dedicated to finding him to tell people he is real and he will appear. Only a few weeks ago, the story of the spooky clown gripped the town, with one image tweeted of the clown holding balloons–thanks to Instagram, the colors are used to made it much more foreboding.. Though clowns don’t need much enhancement to look frightening…
But while some mock those who are a little shaken by the appearances of clowns, think of this: The typical clown, with white makeup and a big red nose, actually represent death–with all of their features representing the stages of decomposition that a body goes through after it passes. No wonder it’s frightening.. and deep down, even children who don’t understand death, are often gripped with fear when they see a clown .. I believe it’s because we have a primordial relationship with something deeper, and clowns with their ancient symbols of shape shifting and expressions of death, are very deep in the fear department..
I see low budget horror movies. All the time.
Media seems shocked that INSIDIOUS 2 scored so well at box office..
Flashback: ATLANTIC writes that INSIDIOUS 2 is an example of why sequels don’t work in horror..
Perhaps the ATLANTIC is an example of why people don’t often read the ATLANTIC. Instead they go to low-budget horror movies in the autumn–especially when one has a release date of Friday the 13th..
TIME mag: the top 10 scariest movie franchises..
Paper writes that horror movies fail to shake humans anymore, that they no longer have quality and they don’t possess the cultural sensation they once did.. Cassie-Lee Grimaldi writes that movies fail to hit like once, such as SILENCE OF THE LAMBS.. instead, she says, they ‘bore’ us.. While I don’t agree that all horror or thriller fits into this category, I will say I agree with her premise, but I will expand it just a bit more. I believe all movies, comedy, drama, romance, fail to do anything much for us anymore.. we have seen the same show play out over and over again, the same film.. the same idea. Nothing new and nothing old, all the scripts are the same. Some characters are a little different, and some gems come out of the rough patch–the CALL and MAN ON A LEDGE are recent examples I can think of in the thriller world, THE CONJURING in the horror genre.. However, riddle me this: Have you seen a comedy you’ve enjoyed in the past few years? Anything that really made you have a gut laugh? One fresh with ideas? …for me, not many at all.