As both the US and Soviet cultures plunged into the Space Age, it was probably inevitable that curiousity about what lay beyond our solar system grew among citizens of both our cultures. So along with growth in nuclear deterrency, each side had its own love affair with science fiction, UFO mythology, and by golly unexplainable phenomenon that yields itself best to, well, theories of other humanoids coming or having come sometime to visit us or our ancestors at some point.
shockedSome disturbing, wierd, and downright goofy signposts Joe Bob Briggs' magazine, "Wittenburg Door", sees tongue-in-cheek as pointing towards the endtimes:
http://www.wittenburgdoor.com/content/si
Examples:
America’s No. 1 source of imported oil is Canada (more than all the nations of the Persian Gulf combined).
“I said to myself, ‘I love him, but I love me more.’”
—Televangelist Juanita Bynum, explaining on Divorce Court why she had to leave her husband
Symphony orchestras in Germany, France, Italy and England are being forced to cancel performances because fortissimo passages in certain works violate European Union noise-at-work laws, and professional musicians can’t wear ear plugs without losing their ability to play their instruments.
- Mood:
amused
- Location:48109 (Анн Aрбор. США)
- Music:Lesnoy olen / Лесной олень
A storm chaser who's really a ghost finds he is related to a ballet dancer who can see the future. Stars Vanilla Ice and Rick Springfield. Genre: Drama
Just go to the TV Show Pitch Generator and click the purple button to create your own proposal for the next Emmy winner.
- Location:48109
- Mood:
creative
- Location:48109
- Mood:
determined
- Mood: crazy
I was looking around for Thirteen Women. Not literally, I was looking for an Mp3 of the song, "Thirteen Women (and Only One Man in Town)" by Bill Haley and the Comets, one of the many Atomic Hits featured in Atomic Cafe.
Which led me to this incredible, magic place,
http://www.atomicplatters.com/all_catego
The soundtrack of an era. It's a webcast, it's a catalogue of pop songs, of spoken word recordings....it's the BOMB!
you know what I mean.
- Location:ann arbor
- Mood: silly
- Location:ann arbor
- Mood:
confused - Music:S. Stevens,Flint, For the Unemployed, etc/Greetings fr MI, the Gr8 Lakes State
I'm thinking of de-investing my Cold War energies in Live Journal and putting them into a Google blog instead. As I read all my friends' LJs, I see that, for the most part, they are designed to let people know what is going on with them. This comes at a time when, more and more, I personally do not want to share on line (at least for the world to see) what is going on privately with me. I am more interested in blogging about a specific topic and attracting other people who are interested in that topic. Which has happened with my other LJ blog ( Electric Conduction) but not the Nuclear Cafe.
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coldwarbabyproject is definitely further ahead in my head than in the real world. But that may be true of all projects.- Mood: creative
- Location:Plymouth MI / Плимут, МИ США
- Mood:
thoughtful - Music:"The Good the Bad and the Ugly", soundtrack,Ennio Morricone
All Sputnik did was fly, and beep.
Sputnik's beep
There were rumors that the beeps represented encoded messages to KGB spies, or something like that, but they didn't. They were just beeps.
- Location:48109
Of course, no one would disagree that William F. Buckley, Jr. lived a good long life, and may have mellowed out a little tooooo much in the end. The old conservative warhorse, whom I first became interested as more than someone to jeer at (during my contra-contra feminist communist-curious leftist years) when I learned he was a worthy champion AGAINST the War Against Drugs
- Location:Plymouth, MI Плимут.ми сша
- Mood:
guilty - Music:Bob Dylan, '"Lonesome Death of H. Carroll"/The Times They Are a Changin'
- Location:48170
- Mood:
nostalgically sad - Music:Kate Bush, "L'amour looks something like you", CD: The Kick Inside
But to do have that many pictures, LJ says I must pay. To my estimation, there is nothing I would gain with a paid account except the privilege of more userpics. I'm not storing a lot of pictures on this blogs scrapbook; I'm not using voiceposts; there's really not much different between the free "plus" account and the next one up. Hmm. Decisions, decisions.
BTW, I don't know how clearly this userpic comes through. It's one of my favorites, definitely. It is President Kennedy working, or trying to, in the Oval Office, with John Kennedy, Jr., playing under the desk.
- Location:41870 US
- Mood: confused
- Music:Bob Dylan, "Tangled Up in Blue". CD: Blood on the Tracks
But I have a new need to fill. Last night, I rewarded myself for FINALLY cleaning my refrigerator for the "Movie Lines" magnetic poetry.
I haven't made up crazy movie lines, I just had fun pulling them all apart and putting them together in various places on the fridge. "A boy's best friend is his mother." "I just shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he'll get in my pajamas, I'll never know." "I love the smell of napalm in the morning." "They call it a Royale with cheese." "May the force be with you." etc, etc.
But it still doesn't look right. My fridge is almond colored, and all the poetry lines are white. I have about four other magnets on my fridge as well as a birth announcement from my friends V & V's kid and a picture of my nephews. (You see what's coming next.) I've decided to adopt refrigerator magnets as my new collectible hobby. Especially ones of movie stars and movie scenes.
I collect US presidential campaign buttons and Soviet medals, but that is a pricey e-Bay kind of hobby that I handle myself. Refrigerator magnets, I figure, come up just about everywhere. So if anyone feels the urge to do me a random act of kindness or celebrate me in some fashion, a refrigerator magnet would be a good way to do it. And if anyone wants to be mean to me, taking one of the few I have would be a good way to do that.
- Location:48109
- Mood: ingenius
- Location:41870 US
- Mood: chipper
- Music:Knock on Wood/Amii Stewart/SKY
- Location:48170
- Mood:
good - Music:"Listen to the Music" Doobie Bros. Sky Internet 70s stream
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