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Thursday, June 30, 2005
The season finale of Doctor Who just aired on CBC, but if you missed the series the first time, they're rerunning it on Sundays at 7PM. They'll also be airing season 2. And the BBC just announced that there will be a third season.
Overall, I think they did a good job of it. It kept the spirit of the show, respected continuity without relying on it, (except for the return of the sonic screwdriver, which had been destroyed during the fifth Doctor's time, if I remember correctly) and had the right mix of humour, adventure and some disturbing, eery bits. Christopher Eccleston was a great choice, bringing enthusiasm and charisma to the role. The Daleks were updated somewhat, with the hovering, and the top part able to do a 360 and the silly suction cups shown to have much more versitility than we might have expected.
It's probably best that the BBC did it, and not, as some reports were circulating years ago, some American producer, who would have wrecked it utterly.
Doctor who always showed and inspired more imagination and thought than, say, Star Trek. Because, really, there weren't any limitations, other than budget, as to what kinds of stories they could do.
Anyway, check it out, if you didn't get the chance the first time round...
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
Presidential Disconnect Bush seems to think the terrorists who destroyed the World Trade Center and the insurgents in Iraq are the same people with the same agenda. But, of course, he's not going to admit that they see themselves as fighting an invading force that's occupying a once sovereign nation and who have no legal business being there. Because he's a putz...
Monday, June 27, 2005
Articles, government corruption, freedom of speech, truth: "Declared a hero for saving numerous lives at Ground Zero, he was the janitor on duty the morning of 9/11 who heard and felt explosions rock the basement sub-levels of the north tower just seconds before the jetliner struck the top floors."
Sunday, June 26, 2005
"Communist" China is beating the U.S. at capitalism.. The Chinese want to buy American oil company Unocal. This hits the Bush leagues in a very tender and sensitive place and makes Americans realize that their economy is a wretched piece of shit, with their unprecedented debt, expensive wars and frigging tax cuts to the wealthy every five minutes. The funny thing is that they encouraged China to switch to a market economy. Well, the US does like to arm its enemies, doesn't it?
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds is being made into a CGI movie. It's using the album's music and set in Victorian times. There's test footage of a Martian Fighting Machine and a Flying Machine.
Inquiry Exposes Canada's Role in 'Renditions'More tales of people routinely kidnapped by the government and sent to places where they're tortured.
Saturday, June 25, 2005
Sculpted Bodies And a Strip Act At Justice Dept. Ashcroft's $8 thousand curtains were removed from the Justice statues. How do you spend $8,000 on curtains? They cost more than the statues did, for chrissakes...
More on Hamilton Mayor Di Ianni suing everyone in sight at the friends of canada website. It seems that city council have slashed funding to HECFI, the Art Gallery, the Library (and let me tell you, I fucking love the library...it is the single solitary thing that government is good for), and public health so that they can spend $650 thousand to sue federal employees for doing their jobs and obeying the law and protestors for disagreeing with the aim of turning Hamilton into Toronto.
This tactic is the recommendation of David Estrin, a lawyer and Di Ianni campaign fund contributor of Gowling Lafleur Henderson, the legal firm who will be paid an undisclosed amount to handle to case. Is it just me, or does this seem amazingly corrupt? How can they hope to get away with this brazen circle jerk where they ejaculate cash all over each other?
Feel free to ask him yourself...here's his e-mail...mayordiianni@hamilton.ca
Tom Cruise spars with Lauer on 'Today' show...It's weird that i saw this item as a headline segment on CTV news tonight. Then I found a shitload of links about Cruise and his views on drug pushing psychiatrists, including pages of people calling for a boycott of his films...and almost unanimous was the opinion that he's looney tunes.
Now, everyone knows that our economy is based on having us all addicted to one thing or another. But a lot of people get really upset and take it personally when someone challenges the status quo. Why is that?
When I saw the CTV segment, it was so badly editted that the obvious bias was in favour of pharmaceuticals, to the extent that I wondered if CTV is owned by some drug company or other. They had teasers during the news about Cruise going on a tirade and throwing furniture around, jumping off couches, what have you, before they ran the segment. Then they showed Tommy saying something about how the drugs mask the problem but don't actually solve it, which to me seemed pretty obvious, and then they cut to some lab coat guy with a pile of papers in his hand saying that their drugs are good, they're awesome, everyone should be on them. Interspersed were bits of a family with a baby beaking off about how the drugs saved the mother's life and she said Tom Cruise should shut his fucking trap, only nicer, barely, but with a smile that looked like it was only a force of habit and a definite Paula Abdul kind of look to her eyes. It was so distinctly biased, yet, I realized that the majority of people watching wouldn't pick up on it.
I mean, I understand the lab coat guy defending his meal ticket and the mother and Brooke Shields defending their habits, but the pages of people boycotting his films? What's that about? Why do they care?
I've known victims of psychiatry. I don't associate with them anymore because they're no longer human. Whatever huddling parts of humanity they had as full fledged lunatics have been stomped and pounded into limbo by the lab coat guys.
The psychiatrist's success just means they've managed to put another patient into a stupor and they no longer have the motivation to do whatever it was that was disturbing the people around them.
But, the media seem to be saying that only Scientologists think like this, and since they're a bunch of nutjobs, Cruise's views aren't relevant...besides, he's a child molester, and also, it was much better when he didn't speak his mind so much, and gosh, aren't we stuck for ways to fill air time now that Jackson's not on trial?
Now, I don't know if Scientologists are nutjobs. I know diddly squat about them. I don't trust religions and I don't think science is infallible, so I my cursory view of Scientology is that it's unnecessary, misguided, kinda weird and possibly just a cash grab for L. Ron Hubbard. I don't recall anything very profound about Battlefield Earth that probably wasn't already in Star Wars.
Anyway, you don't have to be a Scientologist to see psychiatry as institutionalized drug pushing and the theory of chemical imbalance as bullshit. Check this out: Most of what you will hear is pure unfounded false "science" and is the product of the ravings of a single psychiatrist in the US who first put it out as "theory" to attract drug company funding to his university. The theory, thus funded became the basis for a multi-billion dollar industry world wide which has attracted psychiatrists, pediatricians, insurance companies, school officials and teachers, all of whom profit, along with the drug companies...
This is a sick and perverse nation, my friends...
Friday, June 24, 2005
Teary Durbin: I'm sorry This is why the Democrats are doomed...When one compares the tactics of the bloody fascist Bush administration to Nazis, they apologize for it afterwards. As if they were wrong...
Thursday, June 23, 2005
Ghost Rider is revealed get a load of the flaming skull
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
New stuff for you...
First, in the Nihilist Glee Club Archives, the epic Edna Greenbalm's Boarding House.
Also, there's new NGC Comics Desktop Wallpaper andNihilist Propaganda Desktop Wallpaper!
Enjoy...
Apple Switches Its Core. I'm sure they know what they're doing, but, to me, it just seems wrong...
I keep hearing this accepted nonsense about America being named after some obscure navigator called Amerigo Vespucci. This is based on an assumption made by some priest who knew about him.
However, the Mandeans, who worshipped Ishtar and Venus believed in a utopian fantasy land filled with invisible pixies to the west called "Merica".
And, the Templars, who also worshipped Venus, and maybe a big head, and had access to ancient documents buried under Solomen's Temple, and started Freemasonary, and all that, also had a fleet of ships that were never found and never impounded by the French army or the Vatican. Where'd they go, huh?
Well, all over the place, really. But, to America long before Gerard Depardieu.
By way of proof, for you sceptics and nihilists...
Many Templars travelled to Scotland, where Robert the Bruce was killing opponents in Churches and getting excommunicated and just not really getting on with the Pope at all. It seems that they helped win the Battle of Bannockburn and with training and stuff. Anyway, later, along comes Willaim Sinclair, who builds Rosslyn Chapel and founds a town nearby to house all the masons he's imported and starts freemasonary and had ties to the Templars, etc.
Now, every inch of Rosslyn Chapel is covered in carvings of religious symbols and floral designs and stuff. Some of it looks like corn and aloe cactus, which are indigenous to America, which supposedly wasn't discovered until 1492. The Chapel was built between 1446 and 1486. Do the math.
So, in closing, remember that everything you've ever been told about anything is probably complete and utter bullshit...
The problem with George Lucas, it seems, is that he's apparently spent all the years since Star Wars first came out secluded in his studios, his only social contact being fans and his employees (who are themselves, probably fans) and so has completely forgotten how people converse and interact in the real world. Awesome special effects, though.
Sunday, June 19, 2005
Hamilton sues protestors. The smoggy city of Hamilton's latest mayor Di Ianni is on a suing frenzy, taking everyone from the Federal government to university students and anyone else who looked sideways at the local construction industry's (ie. Di Ianni's friends) dream of building an expressway through Red Hill Valley to court. It seems his top advisor is lawyer David Estrin, a rabid little technocrat.
The national campaign to impeach George W. Bush
US lied about use of napalm. Bush is going to think twice about allying himself with democracies in the next war, I think, since the British keep revealing his lies.
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Rumsfeld Says No Alternatives Exist for Gulag of our time. He doesn't think it should be closed, which, of course, is what many soulless Russian officials said about the Gulag.
Why don't you like me? Jackson got off scott free, but promises that he won't sleep with little boys anymore, just in case.
What freaks me out about this are the fans in some kind of ecstatic religious frenzy outside the courthouse, as if Jesus himself had been cleared of child molestation charges.
The torture never stops, as Zappa noted, and also the UN and Afghan Human Rights commision, who want access to the US Bagram airbase, where they're chaining prisoners from the ceiling and other inventive ways to waste time...
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