Brain Dead

Where you at, Mike Cronis?  Did you forget our.. meeting?

 
  Sometimes I just have to .. stop.  Things just get all screw-barred in my brain-head and I feel like Life just sort of runs-on like a.. run-on.. sentence.  Today, I did mostly nothing.  Well, mostly mostly nothing.  I visited a few Goodwill stores in search of some 8-track tapes as I'm going to install a new-in-box 1982 8-Track player in my 2012 Corvette Grand Sport "Rosie".  Unit won't fit where the ashtray goes as it's too bulky (shucks).  Might have to install it on the passenger side somewhere, or the glove-box perhaps, or I could glue-gun it to the dash (ahem).  I'll probably wire it up tomorrow, though I started searching for the accouterments to install it into the fuse-box, I gave up because.. I'm brain-dead today.




How I feel in Space Command sometimes.

  I'm not sure why.  I can't think today.  I have no creativity and I can't add 2 and 2 (eleven?)  Brain is numb.  I was very sharp-witted earlier this week but my mind went into shutdown mode.  Maybe my brain is Windows XP-based?  (There was actually an 11-part update for XP the day after Microsoft indicated there would be no more updates.  hm..)

Kitty Kitty is their Lord.

  Took some pants to get them tailored (too long) though it won't be ready for several days (boo) at $13 (more boo, I thought it'd be $5).  Got my bike back from being refitted (to fit me, as I'm a bit short) from LSE Racing in Wheatridge on Saturday.  Very well done work (as usual) from Larry there.  Quite balanced.  Impressive.

  But, aside from wandering, hitting Gunter Toody's '50s Diner here in the Springs (annoyingly, and I've mentioned this to the owner, they play '50s and '60s music, which are two entirely different genres, almost totally different universes to the alien visitor) (see my blog on Best of the 1960's and 1950's for further review [click those years to the links])  I actually neglected to indicate the popularity of 3D movies in the 1950's which then arose in the 1980's for a little while too.  No one liked them then and no one really likes them now (for the most part, Gravity being a mandatory exception).  Gunter Toody's (based on the character from the early '60s TV show, Car 54 Where Are You? staring Fred Gwynne [Herman Munster] and Joe Ross ["Oooo!  Oooo!"])  Kids nowadays probably won't remember the 1961-1963 show, but it had a lasting affect on Americana for dozens of years afterwards, well into the '90s with the horrible movie in 1994, which I deem one of the worst movies of all time (shame, really).  Dave click this response here (not work safe) to make-up for the film.






The food is actually decent and diner-esque, cheating from time-to-time but authentic enough the chicken-fried-chicken sandwich is sublime and huge and the green-chili (on a burger, hash-browns or scrambled eggs) is best in Colorado in my book.  The malt-powder double-chocolate malt shake is excellent.

Spread it.

Hey, Bard.  What year is it?!

  I just needed today to .. recharge my brain I think.  I actually took a nap, something I never do.  Oh, my two pear trees came in and I helped direct planting of those near my two peach trees adjacent to my two apple trees (an actual grove now I warrant, by Jove!)  I really should finish my homework for college but I have tomorrow to complete some of it and 'till Sunday to complete the rest.  I'd only mash-up junk of a report if I did it now, my brain dis-con-junction-ated. 

I like how he's both serious (on the left) and fun-loving (on the right) and arguably spiritual: "Are you there, Lord?  It's me, Mark.  My vagina is six colors."

  So, I leave you with some horrible superhero costumes to enjoy.

 

 

Out.

The Soviet Union's Super Plan Deluxe with Cheese

  I've figured out the Soviet Union's masterwork plan, 25 years in the making (or more).  In December of 1991, "The Bear" (Soviet Union), unable to support it's own mass, split-up its remaining nation-states that were taxing on the Union itself, demanding welfare, etc. 



                                                                  

During this time, Putin was head of the KGB.  This is a very big deal.

Putin (circled) successfully pretends to be a tourist during a visit by Ronald Reagan.

 

  From 1991 onwards, Russia then strengthened its inner core.  Putin selected Boris Yeltsin, a known drunkard, as a figurehead to make sure Putin's Grand Strategy would not be interfered with and simulate an end to the Cold War.  Anyone in the military who works any sort of operations knows this is not the case, that we've been cat-and-mousing Russia continuously and smaller, unheard-of-by-the-public battles take place quite often.  Most Americans are unaware of the arsenal and true capabilities of various countries.  Anyone in the military who actually did something "non-support-based" (like admin or civil-engineer or dentist, etc.) know this is true firsthand and that the Iraq War was valid on many levels, hidden from the public (note* it had nothing to do with 9-11 whatsoever, that was something else entirely as we were distracted with more pressing matters.   I was working at Cheyenne Mt. at the time and we had a lot more concern until it was too late because the Canadians dropped the ball (again) with their scrambling their leased F-18 Hornets and some argument with the air-towers (I worked with one of them in North Dakota later-on, and that's something he has to try to live with that he screwed-up, though counseling has eased that a bit) causing delay in response by 23 crucial minutes over an argument of validity.  My job at the time was tasking the space sensor network and collision avoidance of manned-spaceflight.  I was able to have the shuttle move twice due to incoming debris, one a close-call, the other a near-collision without of which lives would have been lost (I got a plaque and an achievement medal because I was only a Staff Sergeant).

  Putin then strengthened the Russian space-program (I was always in awe when despite great famine in Russia in 1997 they would still launch a lot of satellites).  He then pretended to have a democratic state though more of a mob-state as if Al Capone became President of the United States, allowing and controlling drug and human trafficking and getting a fair "cut" on all illegal and untraceable transactions.  Those who tried to cheat that system were destroyed brutally. 

  Now that we have an amazingly weak president internationally, Putin is in charge.  There have been a lot of transactions between Putin and Obama than the American public know about.  Putin has explained his intentions and told Obama to placate the lower-class with cheap phones and marijuana and more social programs for the lazy.  (Note* The already-existing social programs were already heavily bloated, and in my opinion only 10% are truly in-need, not 55% currently getting a hand-out, such as "disabled" vets (who I work with) who can still actually work at a job but have "sleep apnea" (aka snoring), being overweight causing back pain, or muscle cramps).  Hey man, that's life.  You'd be that way anyway not being a veteran!  Still, there are many vets that deserve some compensation that I've met.  I've just met a lot that are admittedly cheating the system, hence a hand-out unjustified.  What honor?!  There's those getting free social programs for a lot of reasons.  Unemployment comes from one's own mandatory contribution, and it's my opinion social-security for those over 65 make fine sense (again, it varies from individual to individual, and they already paid into it during their time working).  Some free handouts though.. I've seen some real laziness and failure, and marijuana doesn't help matters on that count, because why give a shoot when you get free government pot, food, money, living quarters, and a phone?  Bad, because it's easy to control the people that way, and doesn't make much of a person, just a cockroach with no honor.  If someone needs it, if someone's down on their luck, fine.  Though why aren't the churches, fat with money, not doing this instead?  Isn't charity their job, not the government's?

Now just one more solid gold candle holder that could go right here with .. oh, wait.  We need a Holy Water-fall as well.  But Pope, the people are hungry.  Hungry?  Let them eat cake!  Give 'em communion wafers.  We need more gold!

  America is trying-on a communist coat for a while and Putin is trying on a democratic one, though it's all a ruse.  It's my belief that Putin told Obama not to make a follow-on for the Space Shuttle, that the Baikonur Cosmodrome would take care of ISS missions.  By making the US a lame-duck space-wise, (despite entrepreneur Space-X, a freelance company non-military) all nations launch out of a few major places, being French Guiana and Kazakhstan's Cosmodrome (maintained by Russia).  When all countries bring their space technologies to launch from Russia, these new emerging technologies are undoubtedly analyzed overnight by the Russians in-place there, giving away space secrets for every payload mission for the Russians to get FREE TECHNOLOGY without having to spend effort creating from scratch.
 

  During the Dissolution of the Soviet Empire these last 23 years, the smaller countries, foolishly believing they had the chance to make it on their own, struggle with their own economy and build it up.  This makes the slobbering, stuttering, tax-on-the-system children of Russia grow-up on their own accord.  Thing is, they can't really focus on their military as much, obviously relying on Soviet-era hand-me-downs from the 1980's and 1990's they had before, therefore very antiquated.  They can't spend money funding a military when they're trying to get their democratic nation to get a foothold, so they focus on manufacture and commerce.  In the meantime, Putin puts his money on military strength, and for obvious reason.

  The Grand Plan of Putin (aka CCCP Super-Plan Deluxe with Cheese) [or Con Queso] is pretty obvious to me now.  Once these nations are strong enough to be valuable again and not a tax, and/or one of his placed "leaders" "democratically elected" into office are ousted (in the case with Ukraine) it's time to take it back.  Seize it back.  Not to let that nation in question get too powerful, just enough that it's perfectly balanced between being actually worth something and not quite strong enough to defend itself from re-annexation, coming off as a "welcome home, you'll be wealthy again" slogan. 

  This plan is grandiose and amazing.   I'm impressed with it's span on a global level.  Our President just lets it happen.  I've seen the off-screen banter and his defeated face as Putin smugly smiles in victory as we "put sanctions" against the actions to seem like we are against it.  No, Putin told Obama to shut-up and take it in the hoo-hah, and like a weakling, he does.  Obama's President!  We won!  Yay!  We won!  Idiots.  Start learning Russian.  Teach it to your kids.  They'll be the slave-race.

1997.. Now.

Out.

Mystique Mistake

 
After watching several X-Men movies, I get sorta annoyed with the character depiction of Mystique.  Having read a lot of the comic in the late '80s, she was depicted with smooth skin and a sort of Babylonian, Byzantine Empire breech-cloth outfit, not depicted so poorly as Rebecca Romijn came-off as some sort of weird, blue, lizard-girl.  Romijn also played her off as being a bit retarded, but that could have been the actress being herself.  Mystique was very intelligent strategist and perhaps over 100 years old, though her age is unknown, she is, like Iceman and Wolverine, potentially near-immortal.

  The next X-Men-based film, Days of Future Past is coming out this summer, based on a story-arc from the early 1980's and can be watched pretty well from the comic-adaptation, Wolverine and the X-Men on Netflix and will, of course, have some Mystique in it.  Let's hope Jennifer Lawrence dresses correctly, and is smooth skinned and exotic and sexy-ish.

Here is what I read (and millions others) and grew-up with for Mystique.  This is Mystique:

 

 

 

 

Okay, so now you know what Mystique looks like, then heed my words, these are not Mystique (no scales, bumps, eczema, etc.).

NOT MYSTIQUE:

 

 

 

 

 

 

  So there you have it.  Though, arguably, Mystique can shapeshift into anything, it's potentially possible the "not Mystique" images above could have actually been Mystique, including the Grimace/Batman Marvel/DC crossover limited-run, and as Evil-Ernie in the Sesame Street/Marvel crossover, limited-run, Sesame Street: Nights of Obsidian Destruction The Motion Picture II: Electric Boogaloo Criterion Edition.