“Busy, busy, busy, is what we Bokononists whisper whenever we think of how complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.”
-- Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"

Synchronicity: There Are No Accidents And No Coincidences -- however, there is still synecdoche and, well, stochasticity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OHbW0pGQWY

"To make sense of life, know history;
to make knowledge of history hurt less, do art." -- (Me)

Arthur Askey, before your very eyes, ladeez 'n' gennamin!

Switching back to my Phantom Chicken account for awhile..just to confuse everyone..probably including myself...

For all those in the path of the eclipse and concerned about swarming crowds on local support services in communities, all I can say is: I really empathize, but imagine we will all weather the "Zombie-Apoc-Eclipse" in spite of our make-a-buck and bandwagon-and-fad-thronging selves.

Life rolls on. And now a word from all of our sponsors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WfUdKqFFD8

Good Luck..Mi Amigo!

Taking some time away from the site.
Stay cool, peace out, and yadda.

I guess it was so slimming the entire post just up and disappeared! I can relate to your computer having heat problems..got over-heated myself yesterday (again) doing some yard work..started feeling puny like Bruce Banner..This new(old) blood pressure medicine they put me back on doesn't work well in the heat. I mean how much f***ing water/fluids do they want me to drink anyway?!? 3 Gatorades and 2 Large Glasses of water in a 2 hour period seem like it should be sufficient but 87 over 66 tells me otherwise...

See, now I wouldn't mind so much if the Watchtower pamphleteers turned up at the doorstep with something like this: https://vimeo.com/140244363

[facepalm] Insanity prevails, here on Planet of the Apes.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/02/bus-seats-mistaken-burqas-anti-immigrant-group-norwegian

Push the button -- the BIG, RED BUTTON.

Please, no crowding -- there's plenty of fine seating and good tables left, at the Eclipso-Apocalypso-Ipso-Facto-All-Akimbo-Head-Honcho-Psycho-Depresso-Mucho-Grando-Espresso-Alfresco Bar & Grille.

Well, SCREW all this and everything else, fellow campers!
Put on this one, and then hit me with your sweet bliss, booze!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpUh5wUBkbM

I'll be in the Apocalypso Abyss Club if anyone needs an in-flight missile tech...

See you at the bar:
Mongo’s Eclipse-Slipaway, Armageddon-Outta-Here Lounge

Welcome to Apocalypse Right Away!

Our specials are The End...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsQtnBu3p7Y

...but many of our best customers prefer Riders on the Storm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-SpyO6bcwc

If you're stuck, may we recommend Break on Through to the Other Side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyHO6fkvEGU

Please let your waitron know when you are ready to order.

And, for dessert, there's nothing like a nice pie fight to clear the air.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GNR12vGALI

Thank you for visiting Apocalypse Right Away!

OK, then. Just talked with the docs and they'd another scan in a week. Just when you think things are interesting, they get more interesting-er. So, back to the original policy: One day at a time. Got it. Check. Over 'n' Up.

Hey! what about Curly, Larry or even Shemp(hmm Shemp Shrimp..gotta' nice 'ring' to it..hahaha..ok I'll stop now)

Sam Shepard, 73.
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40777076

Another good guy who had the right stuff, for a while, on this planet, while we were stuck with one another, orbiting around and around...

Enjoy your well-deserved well drink, and rest, at the Happy Bottom Riding Club, sir.

Back mon. morn from brain tumor wars. Tired but OK. Universe mustbe ticked off I made Reaper wait more: got out just in time for Sam Shepard's death and a week-long heat wave!

Whaddya say to that, Major Kong?

Time for another blast from the good folks in the nuke medicine bunker. Who knows -- maybe I'll be able to play the piano when this one's over (a real miracle, like trying to finish this well-bearded joke). See ya in a few days.

So far, this year has been a ferocious, terrible, tragic *decade.*

Your new name is 'insidiouso' :o)

FUN SCI-FI FACT!
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40710051

Obey the Omnog!

Life makes sense again now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHLbaOLWjpc

Today's Vonnegut quote:
"It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead."

Crap 'Net service here in the boonies. Works about 12 to 14 hours a day. The trick is trying to figure *which* hours, on any given day...

When O'Mong doesn't get my jokes...maybe I need to sharpen my skills ;o I really have nothing against MST3K being on Netflix..really...

8^) Today's Helpful Reminder:
Go watch "Jack Frost" again -- yes, again. (Trust me on this.) Do it now.

Bad news: My doc says I can have ONE beer a week.
Good news: Today's beer day!

Mongo take some time off now, before anything else go wrongongongongongongongongongongongongongongongong

What can I say? This "∑øZ∂ø" ID is just me channelling Jimmy Page, even though I'm no Capricorn. Or sumptuously wealthy. Or a rock icon. Or anyone of importance at all. Or even human. (I am in fact a random algorithm for social commentary and dramedy.)

Q: Was Einstein working on a theory of general civility when he died?

“Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice.” -- Maj. Sidney Friedman

Cool story & cooler vid:
http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/06/26/534438300/the-empire-state-building-synced-its-lights-to-the-grateful-deads-i-will-get-by

Fun film and soundtack: "Micmacs." French, with English subtitles, and a really fun soundtrack. Sample track (end credits) shows some of the delightful, "Looney Tunes" -esque treatment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPmKg-Lal5w&index=23&list=PL9E7EFDA8701C75C1

Enjoy!

AHEAD OF OUR TIME?
An old memory in my head recently surfaced: It's 1977, and a military buddy and I are having beers in a small bar in Germany. We're all watching a film the bar is showing on its projector, up on a small screen. (Sort of a novel experience back then. It was some cheeseball "Jaws" ripoff flick, as I remember.) Anyway, cutting loose a little, my pal and I are kicked out of the bar a short time later -- for talking back to the screen and providing comedic commentary. (In time, we would come to call these "riffs" and "riffing," but that would be a decade or so away.

(No, we're not geniuses -- just playing the same TV-watching game many were doing then, before MST3k. and out in public... but not well appreciated for it, this time out, by others at the watering hole.)

Back from the dead again. (No one is more surprised than me.)

Hello the Wall Post...checking in to see what excitement I might have missed...My Memorial Weekend consisted mainly in getting my yard ready then putting out a pallet of St. Augustine and I am feeling very much my age tonight. How goes it in your neck of the woods?

Speaking of flashbacks, too bad this one got no love:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5-RMxhmQDA
Wonderfully goofy, mindlessly delightful, TWO scoops of real cheese!

This explains a lot of those B&W sci-fi movies, and those times:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl8yixAnUZU

♫ It's alright hey Princess Leia ♫ The Steppenwolf song would work quite well with just a few changes here and there :o) or maybe you're more in the mood for "Happiness is a warm lightsaber"

Awhile back we were talking about Favorites under-achieving..from the New Season...Re-watched Time Travelers the other day and one thing I did notice is the 1st half of the movie has many awesome riffs(with loud fits of laughter) but it seems to lag considerably in the 2nd half of the movie...You would think with all the stuff going on during that part of the movie it would have been a lot funnier.

Back from another skull nuking, and moving pretty slow. No fish/fiss here, and I still don't lisp when I walk [not that there's anything wrong with that] -- but, for the halibut, I am told by the good folks in Nuke Medicine who run the Brain Roaster 5000™ therapy ride, my scalp now smells like a surgically windblown combo of smoked sea bass and cajun-blackened catfish. (I know -- the Sturgeon General should look into this fishy bizniz, especially as he gets paid scale...)

And thanks for the Be Sure to Get Well [Drinks] messages here. Skoal!

Or, rather, I should say, "Screaming Skoal!"
8^)

GONE FISSION: Taking a break for a while. Catch you all later.

Seasonal Quote: "Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae." -- Kurt Vonnegut

Apply as necessary.
ß^)

And now, a word from Monster & Oliver:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLi2xB82ZyI
-and-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H916EVndP_A

Random Quote Day: "Only two things are infinite, the universe
and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
-- Albert Einstein, in "The Atomic Brain Pile."

Re-watching Reptilicus since my daughter is dragging her feet(Class this morning and now she's off with a friend to hold her hand while she gets a tattoo). Anyway, don't know how i missed it the 1st time around but had to chuckle at "CandyGram for Mongo" during the breathtaking depth charge scene.

Thought for the Day: "Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps." - Emo Philips

Speaking of Ray Milland & Rosie Greer...I had totally forgot about this until i just happened to be watching this Experiment the other day...lo and behold https://youtu.be/TNWLs7IgbZY?t=93

From "The Beast of Yucca Flats" comes this telegram:
"It *IS* more suspenseful when you don’t know what’s goin’ on."

"Change is the only constant in life."
-- Heraclitus, in "Hercules Against the Sun Demons"