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Quote from: HorrorRetro on October 02, 2013, 12:05:57 PM
I like the British version of Master Chef.  It's so sedate and composed versus the garish US version.  It's about the cooking rather than the personality conflicts the US version promotes.

I loved Masterchef Australia.  It is nothing like the US version.  Very supportive and positive.  Everyone is better for having been there. Can't even watch the US version with all the nastiness.  I can only follow one cooking show at a time.

I tried to get the Gabber, Jaz-something from Australia to say if it really was that different there.  He never answered.  Maybe he fears me immigrating.

This week on "Not Hoarders" 

I ran about 5 minutes of the tape, so if there is something better later on, please say.

While listening, I imagined a story about a guy who is endlessly fascinated by doing random surveillance.  Movie,tv show, book?

Here's some ideas...
• An introverted trust fund genius and his loving mate live isolated in a beautiful beachfront house near a town of interesting characters and discover strange weirdness
• Genius-Joe-Scraping-By-But-Driven-By-His-Obsession lives with roommates in the attic of some brownstone in Washington DC (where he would be privy to tons of weirdness), raises pigeons and is supported by a cast of quirky townies
• A young retiree from the tech world lives in the high desert where he can get really clear signals on his huge dish array.  He uncovers an alien/US government conspiracy. 

Maybe it's better suited to a tv show.  One week he uncovers a kidnap operation, the next he sees a murder - you get the idea.  He eventually uncovers "something really big".  You choose - political, ET, whaddevah.  The story arc would include him finding himself in danger as the watched become the watchers.

Maybe Flipper is looking for a job?

It's going to sound boring but is so good...
Is this considered cooking?

Fluffy brown rice microwaved 2 minutes with a lot of minced kale and basil.
Fold in favorite pesto.
Garnish with Crabmeat and fresh salted (and lightly sugared a la Asian style) Brandywine tomato.

My current favorite cooking show is The Great British Bake-Off.
One of them made Spotted Dick - I've heard of it but never seen it.

Quote from: guildnavigator on October 01, 2013, 09:12:56 PM
Someone wormhole Art to ask if Whitley will ever pen a sequel to the film Wolfen.
I WILL

I heard Art use "worm/wormed" to refer to the act of sending something by wormhole.  He(along with everyone seemed to cringe at the "hole" part.
Is it better?  I like it.  A new language is evolving.

Spooky Matters rules.  Good one Steelbot.
Art directed listeners to BellGab but clearly wanted to indicate distance.  It was so cute how he calmed us something sort of nasty.  Sort if how I refer to my beloved and crabby, quite elderly father. 

Quote from: bateman on October 01, 2013, 05:42:28 PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Monument_Syndrome

It's good to see it has a name.
My daughter said that she heard one of the congress people (from MA I think) said she would not take pay as long as anyone wasn't getting paid.  I know it is a little bit grandstandy but they all should follow suit.

Quote from: Chine on October 01, 2013, 04:58:41 PM
As a Reiki Master, lots of healing work is for animals. Since I was very young, I could communicate with their energy and those that crossed over. The hardest is knowing when they will pass. Not just ours but a strangers. Intuively, I know through clairvoyance, claisentience, clairamience. Smells often (people and animals on the other side. It happens a lot in the dog art, the Afghans as that's my main breed. I will 'see' them and paint them. No idea who she/he is. I get names too. I'll put the name on the work. Posted on my site and someone (who I do not know) from across the country or world will find their dog on my site. For friends, I may feel a pull to do a portrait if the dog is sick. I charge it with reiki, intention of highest good. They heal. But the highest good is also that they must pass. Never am I 'used to it'. Rather, deep to my core this is a blessing and gift. Can I prove these experiences? No. 30 some years doing this, studying it, etc. Tiresome, kinda. All I know is the physical reality in what results from it. Great love, compassion, being a better person. And when I get emails or see tears in the eyes of the owner who lost their beloved furbaby. Well, it's hard to articulate how that washes over you.

'Snow...In Memory'

Sure do wish you could have done one for my Kiki - gone too soon.

Breaking Bad does songs I cut my teeth on in the day...

Breaking Bad - Crystal Blue Persuasion

http://youtu.be/U_rP5Zgm2tY

Quote from: bateman on October 01, 2013, 04:41:46 PM
I am a terrible person, but this image has always made me laugh.

That's pretty terrible, Batemen.
Cyclists can be a pain in the ass, but when it goes wrong...
A few years ago, we had a sheriff deputy fall asleep and take out three cyclists on a road loved by cyclists, and that I drive 5 miles to my horse each day.  He killed two of them and the third was badly hurt.  One of the two enjoyed a blessed life, having fallen in love in New Zealand and traveling the world biking and competing with her surviving mate.

Quote from: The General on October 01, 2013, 02:05:03 PM
Man, I just have no idea what show you guys all listened to last night but I really enjoyed this guest.  Yes, he's a Christian theologian and Bible scholar, but he's a serious scientist, a famous UFOlogist, and he used science to debunk the Majestic Documents and the Ancient Aliens theories.  It was fascinating.  Art was asking him hardball questions, too, like "Have you applied the same scrutiny to the Bible?"

I was just about to post something along this line. 
You don't get Bill Nye the Science Guy "making learning fun" in deep academia.  Heiser has the disciplined temperament it takes to learn how to do stuff like read ancient Sumatran.  His perspective was interesting.

Quote from: bateman on October 01, 2013, 01:24:08 PM

http://youtu.be/beM28FLdAzk

Sigh.

Could there have been any more perfect song?
So much regret as he ends it with his "precious"

BABY BLUE
Guess I got what I deserved
Kept you waiting there too long my love.
All that time without a word
Didn't know you'd think that I'd forget
Or I'd regret the special love I have for you -
My Baby Blue.

All the days became so long
Did you really think I'd do you wrong
Dixie When I let you go
Thought you'd realize that I would know.
I would show the special love I have for you -
I have for you.

What can I do what can I say -
Except that I want you by my side.
How can I show you show me the way
Don't you know the time I've tried.

Guess that's all I'd have to say
Except the feeling just grows stronger ev'ry day.
Just one thing before I go -
Take good care baby.
Let me know
Let it grow the special love you have for me.
My Dixie dear.

Quote from: WildCard on October 01, 2013, 11:11:46 AM
"I had a vision of the group soul of humanity as a perfectly circular pool of intense living light.  All around the rim of the milky pool were a complex variety of sexual rites, a metaphor for all social interaction.   Translucent Hindu deities swooped over the group taking the excessive energy of the shimmering pool and passing through the group as ecstasy and pain.   I saw that the reason we were all brought together was to provide a psychic energy feast for the Gods and Goddesses.   I saw my heart as the axis of karmic, earthly, and universal energies, transected by and uniting the polarities of male/female, birth/death, good/evil, and love/hate.   To maintain a balance of forces we all fed both Deities and Demons."
http://alexgrey.com/art/paintings/soul/deities-and-demons-drinking-from-the-milky-pool/

This works for me.
Very rich emotional and visual experience.
It must be a wonderful memory to revisit.
Tantric.

Quote from: grano salis on September 30, 2013, 07:08:31 PM
Yes! It got more lame as time went on, but it was ridiculously funny--I even think that Art was trying to suppress a chuckle as he said "There you have it..."

That would be worth a listen.  Didn't Snoorey have something like that?  And then a day or two later he pulled that stupid prank on Linda Staci? 
I don't think I ever heard the AB interview, come to think of it.

Quote from: aldousburbank on September 30, 2013, 06:36:50 PM
Geez I'm an old tobacco smoking long haired gun totin' hemp wearing bible smoking gay loving monogamous dark skinned heterosexual hippie.  Double digit standards is whut I'm talkin' aboot. Wait, what?

You're not that old.  Just ripe.  I don't know about the rest.

Quote from: widespread1 on September 30, 2013, 06:09:06 PM
This is a song I wrote on the mandolin shortly after my Mothers passing.
It is me saying goodbye to here.

The timing is off and the sound is pretty bad but it wasn't a time to be playing with a metronome.

Now I say it is a song for anybody to has ever lost someone close to them. I plan on rerecording it soon. perhaps I will use a metronome and a better mic.

https://soundcloud.com/widespread1/trinityfinal

That was beautiful.  It sounded like there was ocean waves.  Was that the poor mic?  Cuz I really liked it.

Quote from: Redacted on September 30, 2013, 05:27:22 PM
Indeed.  I did & tonight am having ww yeasted pancakes with apples & cinnamon & organic maple syrup.
Breakfast with Art Bell.  Crayzee alright.   

yum
Somebody posted about waffles and that night I made up a batch of feasted batter and the next morning we had smiles all round.

Quote from: grano salis on September 30, 2013, 04:56:17 PMLinda was born in 1942. (She really is not that old). You guys are borderline malicious--(I know that some of this is mildly humorous)  Nobody went on like that about male guests who were really elderly like the late  Corso or Sitchin.

For reals!!!  The double standards...

Quote from: onan on September 30, 2013, 03:07:08 PM
I believe more in the Supra-natural than the supernatural. I find that when things are the most chaotic are the times I need to slow down. I see more delicate dances of harmony and joy just by shutting the fuck up and knowing that I am only one of many. Seeing others about in their day to day is about as spiritual as I can ever hope for.

I believe in biology. I can relax and appreciate the universe more by holding a loved one than I ever did getting high. I trust in the magic of love and attachment caused by oxytocin. I somewhat understand the mechanics yet is still seems beyond my capabilities. In the same way that I know how a car works but the ride is still worth it. I hold a small child and my sense of wonder brings tears. When I play with one of my dogs I learn consistency and the joy of trusting.

I dunno what this has to do with ghosts... probably nothing. 

I have put myself into so many situations over the years to get a glimpse of something ethereal only to be disappointed.  Now I only believe that each of us is here for another and anything else is a distraction.

I'm having this collision of envisioning your alter-ego, HumbleMan along with a own rush of oxytocin, which is also released when I look at baby sloths.

http://youtu.be/Ssa7LMeC_Bw
The opposite would be Frau Blucher, reminiscent of that aforementioned being...

http://youtu.be/hs5j8uUR2nc

Quote from: aldousburbank on September 30, 2013, 02:53:21 PM
Tell her I love her, still, and forever.

Wow an Aldous double hit. 

She knows.

Quote from: aldousburbank on September 30, 2013, 02:51:31 PM
Heh
One of wisest teachings given me by a now deceased traditional elder was, "Burbank, your life's going to be a a hell of a lot better when you realize that some people are no fucking good."  I still struggle with this a little but less as time goes by.

I guess I should thank her for bringing such a profound lesson to me and my family.

Quote from: aldousburbank on September 30, 2013, 02:04:15 PM
Sunk my battleship. Why is it that being a grandad makes stuff lame and/or creepy?  I think our grandkids inherit our cool at birth.

But hey. Batty Brooke has a good point in considering the sensitivity of others when relating remarkable phenon. In my case, I don't care much about being considered batty or prone to hyperbole or loon. Nonetheless, it is not always appropriate to F with people's sense or belief's about reality. I learned this from tripping with others of course.  I say, believe whutevers it is you wants to- I don't care who you may be, cuz I got nuthin to sell and nuthin to defend.

But since MV created this thread and we're all here by mutual interest and consent, let me just act for a moment as if. Enjoy it, ignore it, doubt it, forget it. Just don't think I have a reason to care whether you agree or whether you think I would have a reason mental to make it up.

ahem
Cough
Cough cough

There for sure is parallel dimension. Some stuff bleeds through some not and some always does. I don't know much about it but have experienced this:  Powerful and empowering intradimensional contacts from which we are perfectly designed to receive edification and healing, and contact episodes which were something like the reverse. It seems to me more like hot and cold weather, rather than good and evil, although from our perspective... And I don't like cold.

And one of my lessons, other than taming fear, avoiding panic, was (is) that while "positive" spiritual forces potentially reflect positive and healing light into an individual or CULTure, negative hyperdimensional apparitions may also be a reflection of wounding, fear, and hate. As such, part of our jobs is to face the darkness with our own light and positivity whatever it may be. I learned that this can not only tame the dark spiritual serpents of whatever weird parralelalex party might be unseen to us, but more miraculously, standing rooted in our own light and positivity, however much it may be, is the secret to taming our own (human) fears and healing our own wounds.

Having spouted all this, I may be one of the least new age guys you could ever go skeet shooting with and I toss all "spiritual" hoodoos out the compound gate if they make the mistake of coming in. This is my religion.

Can't have too many alternate realities bumping into each other.  Heck - I get that experience with the scout and pony club moms! 

So you believe in evil?  I didn't until my father remarried.  Not joking.  She swears she reincarnated Russian royalty and has a twisted obsession with Rasputin.

Quote from: bateman on September 30, 2013, 01:49:16 PM
Listening to "Sexual Healing" at a diner after a delicious Irish breakfast. Going to the Frick Collection next. You people know far too much about my life.

And who knows what casioson knows and what he will be broadcasting...

I do wonder what you "do" Bateman...   such a nice young man with so much time.

Quote from: bateman on September 30, 2013, 01:39:19 PM
If you think those numbers are insane, have a gander at NY state worker salaries. Port Authority cops making 400k per year. I shit you not.

http://seethroughny.net

Wow - that is one extensive site and will take some time to sort through. 

I wonder if there is one for the Bay Area.  Part of our challenge is that we have an enormous number of agencies layered one atop the next.  Cities, counties, transits, schools, utilities, layers on layers of open space, air quality, water resources, ABAG (Asso. Bay Area Governments). 

Government is big business around here.

The thing that strikes me as tragic is that they are hurting Joe and Jane Sixpack - the normal working people usually living paycheck to paycheck, raising their families and paying their taxes.  Also people who often don't have anything as sweet as what the BART workers enjoy.

If those people can't get to their jobs then things start breaking down pretty quick.

It's all so wrong.

Quote from: b_dubb on September 30, 2013, 12:52:08 PM
these numbers are insane. how can this be justified?

Very strong unions in a symbiosis with a strong democratic political machine.

Also insanity.

Quote from: aldousburbank on September 30, 2013, 11:16:08 AM
Or more accurately, back to their jobs.

Profound distinction there.

Now I'm not on an autocorrecting hell machine and can embellish.  These people have health care for their whole family for $95/month.  They call in sick and then go in for overtime at 150%.  If you ask for help, prepare for "the look" and even a snake-necked answer.  The "engineers" have the soul job of checking that the doors are clear.  The stations are filthy, you have to tiptoe through the vagrants and mind you don't slip in the....

A quick google of "BART compensation" tells the story. 
Here's one typical article:
BART workers' paychecks already outpace their peers'
By Mike Rosenberg and Daniel J. Willis
San Jose Mercury News  07/27/2013
the average gross pay for the blue-collar BART union workers who are threatening another shutdown was $76,551 last year -- more than the average employee made at any large school district from San Jose to Walnut Creek, any county from Santa Cruz to Contra Costa or any transit line from San Diego to Sacramento.

BART's top-paid train operator grossed $155,308, compared with the $109,450 that the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority paid its top light-rail driver. BART's best-paid janitor made $82,752 while the upscale Hillsborough City School District paid its top custodian $59,360. And BART's electrician with the highest paycheck made $149,957 -- nearly twice the $79,878 that AC Transit's best-paid electrician made.

... this when so many people are out of work

Quote from: b_dubb on September 30, 2013, 11:43:43 AM
trying to think of a way to insert a pithy remark about a steampunk penis pump.  not having any luck.  oh wait ...

Stop at cod piece and you might have something there.

Quote from: FightTheFuture on September 30, 2013, 09:58:11 AM
I always thought Noory should hook-up (That`s what the kids are calling it these days, right?) with LMH.

Not going to happen not even in his (or your) wildest dreams. 
She has a say and I don't see the chemistry... at all.
I'm betting she has plenty of better options.

Quote from: aldousburbank on September 30, 2013, 10:03:07 AM
Actually, seriously, I know my story but I don't know what it is. I was there, but that's it, so it's a huge open question to which I don't seek an answer.

this is so much more interesting than the other thing.  Oh well, some day maybe.