Thursday, February 6, 2014

5 Items In The News

"Psych' Goes Pop!
Well there goes yet another TV series we've been watching. 'Psych', which airs on the USA channel, announced the series will be ending after 8 years on TV.



The final five episodes will air after it returns on Wednesday, February 26th, 2014. There will be a special LIVE studio audience broadcast featuring the cast and creator who will take Q&A's after the final show on March 26th (2014).

Is this another case of TV execs pursuing the younger crowd, that mostly don't watch TV, ending up instead abandoning the older crowd who does?
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Anyone Else Tired Of Mother Nature's Snowgasm?



The Sochi Games
They're not just being played on the slopes. Reporters arriving ahead of the games have been tweeting for days about the hotels. Some early arriving coaches noted there were no lamps in some of their rooms for at night. Others report there are no shower curtains to be had anywhere.

NBC reports on another kind of game. One that is more alarming and involves not only reporters and athletes. Everyone who is planning to show up needs to be aware...



It might be a temptation to take pokes at the Russian government. I'm not in that camp. When the government and sponsors commit $51 billion to do the job right and it doesn't get done, there's hellva' lot more people I'd blame first before a few at the top. In this case when you have hackers and screw-ups of this magnitude it says more about the Russian culture then those who attempt to lead it. Let's hope things start moving more smoothly forward.

Let us also hope too we here in the United States aren't so haughty that we cannot see that we ourselves are pretty much cut from the same cloth. It's one thing to screw-up an athletic event. It's entirely another when 1 out of 5 of our nuclear power reactor instructors are accused of helping future instructors cheat on their exams. Yeah there's nothing I'd like more then to be stationed on a submarine 1,000 feet down with a bunch of dodo birds back in the engine room. Then there's the 100 officers over at the Air Force being investigated who are responsible for manning and training our nuclear missile personnel.

I only hope and pray that everyone else is a screwed up as we appear to be. If the time should ever come wouldn't it be a hoot if both sides pushed the button and nobody's lit up. Then on the other hand, it only takes one of these, which are 260x's more powerful then the one used Hiroshima, to turn the other into ash. Possible even one's own self if they misfired.

Unlike the Sochi Olympic screw-ups this is some serious shit. It's why we should first maintain even stronger vigilance on our own cultural values. Before we earned the right to poke fun of someone else's failures we need first to get our own house in order.
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Going Back To Speaking Of Entertainment
Philip Seymour Hoffman died before filmmakers could finish shooting his scenes for the sequel to 'The Hunger Games'. They plan to get around this by digitally recreating him in order to finish the movie. I'm simply amazed how far the industry has come when it comes to technology.

How they done it--
Scenes from another one of my favorite shows THAT GOT CANCELED (damn them!)
SyFi's "Sanctuary"

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"Mia- The Movie"
No they are not making a movie of Mia Farrow's life, but maybe they should. The latest scoop. 'Page Six' is reporting Mia once complained the 'Beatles' favorite guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi groped her back in 1968.

Couple that with her two year marriage to 50 year old Frank Sinatra when she was 21. With her 67 year old brother being in jail for child molestation. Her older brother who committed suicide in his Vermont art gallery in 2009. And you have a very complicated true life drama. Certainly Mia's entire life is surrounded by a lot more questions then answers right up to the present.
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New York Is Full Of Well Knowns
Now there's one more to add to the list, Lauren Bush. Lauren is George H.W Bush's granddaughter. 'Page Six' is reporting she and her husband David Lauren (son of Ralph Lauren) have hunkered down in a 10,200 SqFt $28.5 million pad in New York's West Village The joint reportedly has 13 fireplaces and 5 1/2 baths among other amenities.

How can you hope to one day own a home like that?
The answer... work harder. Billionaire investor Sam Zell explains it's simply because, "The 1 percent work harder.". So get off your ass !

I'm not sure how that explanation plays with the small shops and restaurant owners. A number of them in the 'Village' for decades are now being driven out by the ever increasing taxes and rents through the recent gentrifications such as this one. I find it ironic that the very thing that makes 'The Village' area attractive to millionaires (small privately held shops and restaurants) may lead to their demise. This whole thing kind of reminds me of the 'Poconos' here in Pennsylvania after the millions of New Yorkers came down looking to get away from it all.

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