Re: [scifinoir2] "Enterprise" Marathon on Scifi Channel Now
Indeed, Astro, understand I'm bothered by the concept. This was something I said with sad regret, but which I believe to be true. I don't know that humanity will get to the point of getting rid of prejudice anytime soon without something catastrophic happeneing. Some think a near planetary extinction event like a nuclear war would do it. I just think it'd make the survivors fight for the scraps left. So my feeling of "transferance of bigotry" as a "solution" is not an endorsement, just a harsh look at what a screwed up people we still are. -- Original message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I didn't say it was good or desirable, just probably the only thing that could reduce bigotry on our own planet quickly. People can band together in fear and hatred to look over differences rendered small by a greater perceived threat. I learned that way back on an ep of "All in the Family", when Archie Bunker and George Jefferson--who were always fighting about George and other Blacks being in Archie's neighborhood--banded together in worry when a Puerto Rican family moved into the neighborhood! Great show, and sadly, true to fact. -- Original message -- From: Astromancer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A transference of bigotry??? Guys, think about it... -See that guy who looks like a cross between Elvis and P-Funk? He is Johnny Ross.- From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Mon, 9/1/08, Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] "Enterprise" Marathon on Scifi Channel Now To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, September 1, 2008, 7:58 AM IMO, Keith, that's *exactly* what it would take, an ID4-type event to force mankind to work together. http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik --- On Mon, 9/1/08, KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net wrote: From: KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] "Enterprise" Marathon on Scifi Channel Now To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com Date: Monday, September 1, 2008, 2:27 AM it's not among my faves, but i agree that it explored an area that needed exploring. I've often wondered if the only thing that would cure prejudice here on Earth--is if we have an extraterrestial target to move the bigotry from each other to aliens. -- Original message -- From: Martin That it was a fantastic story all the way through, showing me a lot of the potential that was in the ST Universe and the actors. The xenophobia element was something I always suspected would have existed in the early days of the Federation among hew-mons, and it was perfectly presented, both subtly and overtly. http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik --- On Sun, 8/31/08, KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net wrote: From: KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] "Enterprise" Marathon on Scifi Channel Now To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com Date: Sunday, August 31, 2008, 12:02 AM What were your thoughts about "Terra Prime"? -- Original message -- From: Martin And, as much as the mirror-universe arc did for me, "Terra Prime" really got me moving. If only they'd taken that show from the Killer Bees earlier and given it to Coto... http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik --- On Sat, 8/30/08, KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net wrote: From: KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net Subject: [scifinoir2] "Enterprise" Marathon on Scifi Channel Now To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com Date: Saturday, August 30, 2008, 12:33 AM Be still, Martin's beating heart! SciFi Channel is running an "Enterprise" marathon all night. They're at the point where the Orion "slave" girls ep was shown, and coming up at 1 am, the two-part mirror universe ep where the evil Archer grabs the futuristic starship. Might be worth a look if you're up late and bored and tired of all the Sarah Palin talk...
Re: [scifinoir2] "Enterprise" Marathon on Scifi Channel Now
I didn't say it was good or desirable, just probably the only thing that could reduce bigotry on our own planet quickly. People can band together in fear and hatred to look over differences rendered small by a greater perceived threat. I learned that way back on an ep of "All in the Family", when Archie Bunker and George Jefferson--who were always fighting about George and other Blacks being in Archie's neighborhood--banded together in worry when a Puerto Rican family moved into the neighborhood! Great show, and sadly, true to fact. -- Original message -- From: Astromancer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A transference of bigotry??? Guys, think about it... -See that guy who looks like a cross between Elvis and P-Funk? He is Johnny Ross.- From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Mon, 9/1/08, Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] "Enterprise" Marathon on Scifi Channel Now To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, September 1, 2008, 7:58 AM IMO, Keith, that's *exactly* what it would take, an ID4-type event to force mankind to work together. http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik --- On Mon, 9/1/08, KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net wrote: From: KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] "Enterprise" Marathon on Scifi Channel Now To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com Date: Monday, September 1, 2008, 2:27 AM it's not among my faves, but i agree that it explored an area that needed exploring. I've often wondered if the only thing that would cure prejudice here on Earth--is if we have an extraterrestial target to move the bigotry from each other to aliens. -- Original message -- From: Martin That it was a fantastic story all the way through, showing me a lot of the potential that was in the ST Universe and the actors. The xenophobia element was something I always suspected would have existed in the early days of the Federation among hew-mons, and it was perfectly presented, both subtly and overtly. http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik --- On Sun, 8/31/08, KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net wrote: From: KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] "Enterprise" Marathon on Scifi Channel Now To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com Date: Sunday, August 31, 2008, 12:02 AM What were your thoughts about "Terra Prime"? -- Original message -- From: Martin And, as much as the mirror-universe arc did for me, "Terra Prime" really got me moving. If only they'd taken that show from the Killer Bees earlier and given it to Coto... http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik --- On Sat, 8/30/08, KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net wrote: From: KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net Subject: [scifinoir2] "Enterprise" Marathon on Scifi Channel Now To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com Date: Saturday, August 30, 2008, 12:33 AM Be still, Martin's beating heart! SciFi Channel is running an "Enterprise" marathon all night. They're at the point where the Orion "slave" girls ep was shown, and coming up at 1 am, the two-part mirror universe ep where the evil Archer grabs the futuristic starship. Might be worth a look if you're up late and bored and tired of all the Sarah Palin talk...
Re: [scifinoir2] David Duchovny enters rehab for sex addiction
Worked wonders. I learned that there were messages I'd grown up with that I had to break...but they had become subliminal so I didn't even realize what was happening. Everything down to my own self image had been influenced by toxic messages I'd heard growing up. I'd People who were dead and gone...but their words were still at work in my life. I did some talk therapy for a while, but then I tried something called EMDR therapy, which was really great because it literally re- processes the way you remember traumatic events. I let a lotgo after that, and, I think, because a better person for it. My kids absolutely LOVE the change. I used to be the heavy dark cloud when something went wrong (because I grew up with an "uh-oh, here comes dad" type father) but now I am a lot more pro-active, a lot more "let's show you how to hold this so that you won't break it" instead of being this heavy when it's broken. Without therapy, there's no way my wife and I, who both grew up in the same housing projects, would be together today. SO many messages we didn't realize we were reacting to, but personally, I was surprised, because I thought I was being this progressive thinker and being outside of the box. Turned out I was missing things right under my nose! I highly recommend it. BEFORE something goes wrong. My wife has been talking to publicist turned author Terrie Williams a lot lately, specifically about depression/mental illness and the Black Church, and we're all surprised at how once you decide to take your mental health seriously, how lots of things that are designed to completely derail you -- roll off your back. But when you DON'T deal with it, or even acknowledge that it can be a problem, it makes other problems worse! On Sep 1, 2008, at 9:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how that therapy work for you? What did you learn? -- Original message -- From: Daryle Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dude was hilarious in Zoolander. He is the perfect Fox Mulder, which is a blessing and a curse, I guess. I watched him play basketball once and remember being impressed by a couple of moves. I think anyone bold enough to admit their weaknesses should be applauded. At the very least, we should reserve judgement until he comes out. If he turns out to be a rehab addict like the Lahans and Spears of the world, THEN it's open season. When I went into therapy, everyone I knew looked at me sideways. "his marriage must be in trouble", etc. The truth is I felt like something wasn't working and I wanted to break it down. All the way down. Now the naysayers and nem are pretty much all trying to figure out what's wrong in their lives/marriages/careers. If you need help, you need help. Nothing wrong with going to get said help, just in not letting it work. On Aug 31, 2008, at 7:43 AM, Martin wrote: Exactly that, Keith. Aside from his over-the-top performance in "Evolution", he's been the same character all the way through his career. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik --- On Sun, 8/31/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] David Duchovny enters rehab for sex addiction To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, August 31, 2008, 12:12 AM I'm indifferent. He's an interesting guy, though, very smart, well educated. Why don't you like him? Dull personality, think he's acting is from the Charles Bronson school? -- Original message -- From: Martin I've *never* been a Duchovny fan. The only think I've liked him in was "Evolution". And now I like him *less*. Man is married to a DOLL, and he lets his hormones take him on tour? http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik --- On Fri, 8/29/08, ravenadal <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote: From: ravenadal <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> Subject: [scifinoir2] David Duchovny enters rehab for sex addiction To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com Date: Friday, August 29, 2008, 10:33 PM David Duchovny enters rehab for sex addiction 14 hours ago LOS ANGELES (AP) — David Duchovny, who plays a sex-obsessed character on Showtime's "Californication, " has entered a rehabilitation facility for sex addiction. The 48-year-old actor said he did so voluntarily, in a statement released Thursday by his lawyer, Stanton Stein. He added: "I ask for respect and privacy for my wife and children as we deal with this situation as a family." Duchovny's publicist, Flo Grace, confirmed the report, which first appeared on the Web site People.com. She and Stein both declined further comment. "All of us at Showtime wish David and his family the best during this very private time," the network said in a statement. The second season of "Californication" begins Sept. 28. Duchovny starred as the conspiracy-minded Fox Mulder on "The X-Files" TV series and in
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A transference of bigotry??? Guys, think about it... -See that guy who looks like a cross between Elvis and P-Funk? He is Johnny Ross.- From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Mon, 9/1/08, Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] "Enterprise" Marathon on Scifi Channel Now To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, September 1, 2008, 7:58 AM IMO, Keith, that's *exactly* what it would take, an ID4-type event to force mankind to work together. http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik --- On Mon, 9/1/08, KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net wrote: From: KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] "Enterprise" Marathon on Scifi Channel Now To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com Date: Monday, September 1, 2008, 2:27 AM it's not among my faves, but i agree that it explored an area that needed exploring. I've often wondered if the only thing that would cure prejudice here on Earth--is if we have an extraterrestial target to move the bigotry from each other to aliens. -- Original message -- From: Martin That it was a fantastic story all the way through, showing me a lot of the potential that was in the ST Universe and the actors. The xenophobia element was something I always suspected would have existed in the early days of the Federation among hew-mons, and it was perfectly presented, both subtly and overtly. http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik --- On Sun, 8/31/08, KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net wrote: From: KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] "Enterprise" Marathon on Scifi Channel Now To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com Date: Sunday, August 31, 2008, 12:02 AM What were your thoughts about "Terra Prime"? -- Original message -- From: Martin And, as much as the mirror-universe arc did for me, "Terra Prime" really got me moving. If only they'd taken that show from the Killer Bees earlier and given it to Coto... http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik --- On Sat, 8/30/08, KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net wrote: From: KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net Subject: [scifinoir2] "Enterprise" Marathon on Scifi Channel Now To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com Date: Saturday, August 30, 2008, 12:33 AM Be still, Martin's beating heart! SciFi Channel is running an "Enterprise" marathon all night. They're at the point where the Orion "slave" girls ep was shown, and coming up at 1 am, the two-part mirror universe ep where the evil Archer grabs the futuristic starship. Might be worth a look if you're up late and bored and tired of all the Sarah Palin talk...
Re: [scifinoir2] Hurricanes and Storms Affecting You?
Okay, thoughts and prayers that way... -- Original message -- From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Keith, I do have a friend who lives in Alabama. her 91-year-old mother is in New Orleans now, refusing to leave. (She must have several angels and ministers of grace defending her, because she stayed through Katrina. Lost her house, but she hadn't lived in it for about a year, as she was recovering from ill health in an assisted-living facility. The lower floors of it did flood, but she stayed put and safe. A braver woman than I. When I hear anything about her, I'll pass it on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik --- On Mon, 9/1/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [scifinoir2] Hurricanes and Storms Affecting You? To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, September 1, 2008, 5:32 PM Anyone here live in, or have loved ones in, the areas currently ravaged by storms: Mobile, Jackson, Shreveport, Baton Rouge, and of course, New Orleans? If so, i hope they're doing okay. I lived through a big hurricane back in the '80s in Houston, and it ain't no joke. I love violent weather in one way, but having the house you're sheltering in literally shaken by 120 mph winds, seeing a large tree blown apart by a lightning bolt like something from Zeus? Dealing with days of after affects like flooded streets, unsafe drinking water, lack of power and refrigeration, and various critters of all kinds scurrying around in the muck looking for shelter or food? Sitting up in watch at night to make sure looters don't take advantage of total darkness and chaos? Not something I'd care to repeat. Thoughts with you or yours if you're being affected by this. By the way, if any of you or someone you know are in storm-ravaged areas, how is communication handled? Do people still have access to cell phones to send text messages to friends across the country to say "I'm okay"? I wonder how people nowadays are able to stay in touch when, say, someone in New Orleans has to flee and only has a few moments to send a message, or phone service is spotty?Are there services or sites that help those in disaster areas stay in touch with their loved ones across the country? For example, is there a way for someone in Baton Rouge who for some reason can't reach a relative in New York to use an intermediate service, web site, or person to get a message sent? Maybe text a message to a site or person who would act as a go-between to communicate with people on the other side? I've heard of this social networking thing "Twitter", that's used to send brief (140-word max) messages, and it evidently can be setup to let others see m essages. Seems like that 's a way for someone with a cell phone to drop a quick message and make sure several people so designated could later read the message, once the sender's no longer in touch.
Re: [scifinoir2] David Duchovny enters rehab for sex addiction
I'm with Martin on David Duchovny's acting style which 'flatline' describes to a 'T...Also, though sex addiction sounds cute, it is no joke. Like with most addictions and mental illnesses, people tend to think that you actually can choose not the have such afflictions...I am no psychologist, but i do know this much from personal experience; somewhere along the line, you lose the ability to decide to do it and it becomes something you have to do or can't help but do...In some cases, mental disorders become a disease that actually affect you physically as well...I had (and have) to learn how to do things I did every day of my life when as I recovered from severe depression; things like bathing, vocabulary, getting out of bed, socializing, and rebuilding my life-long work ethic from scratch...When even sex becomes an addiction, it is no longer a choice...you will need help...As corny as it sounds, that is the truth of it...Okay, done with the rant... -See that guy who looks like a cross between Elvis and P-Funk? He is Johnny Ross.- From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Mon, 9/1/08, Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] David Duchovny enters rehab for sex addiction To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, September 1, 2008, 7:13 AM I'm not saying that you or anyone else should run out and pick it up, even as a rental. It's *not* a great movie, in *any* sense. It's pretty much an over-the-top gross-out of a movie, good for stupid laughs and little else. Hence, it drew my attention easily. http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik --- On Mon, 9/1/08, KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net wrote: From: KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] David Duchovny enters rehab for sex addiction To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com Date: Monday, September 1, 2008, 1:43 AM I've never seen "Evolution", though I take it you like it? -- Original message -- From: Martin Exactly that, Keith. Aside from his over-the-top performance in "Evolution", he's been the same character all the way through his career. http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik --- On Sun, 8/31/08, KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net wrote: From: KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] David Duchovny enters rehab for sex addiction To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com Date: Sunday, August 31, 2008, 12:12 AM I'm indifferent. He's an interesting guy, though, very smart, well educated. Why don't you like him? Dull personality, think he's acting is from the Charles Bronson school? -- Original message -- From: Martin I've *never* been a Duchovny fan. The only think I've liked him in was "Evolution". And now I like him *less*. Man is married to a DOLL, and he lets his hormones take him on tour? http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik --- On Fri, 8/29/08, ravenadal <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote: From: ravenadal <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> Subject: [scifinoir2] David Duchovny enters rehab for sex addiction To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com Date: Friday, August 29, 2008, 10:33 PM David Duchovny enters rehab for sex addiction 14 hours ago LOS ANGELES (AP) — David Duchovny, who plays a sex-obsessed character on Showtime's "Californication, " has entered a rehabilitation facility for sex addiction. The 48-year-old actor said he did so voluntarily, in a statement released Thursday by his lawyer, Stanton Stein. He added: "I ask for respect and privacy for my wife and children as we deal with this situation as a family." Duchovny's publicist, Flo Grace, confirmed the report, which first appeared on the Web site People.com. She and Stein both declined further comment. "All of us at Showtime wish David and his family the best during this very private time," the network said in a statement. The second season of "Californication" begins Sept. 28. Duchovny starred as the conspiracy-minded Fox Mulder on "The X-Files" TV series and in two films. "The X-Files: I Want to Believe" opened in t heaters earlier this summer. He and his wife, actress Tea Leoni, have two children. The couple married in 1997.
[scifinoir2] Gustav, Palin's Pregnant Teen Daughter and the Troopergate
First off, best wishes and prayers for all those affected by Gustav. It sounds like it was not as bad as expected. Hope everyone survived okay. As for the rest of the subject line, It's gotta be tough to be McCain right about now and I for one couldn't be happier. All this on the tail of the best DNC in recent memory. I'll admit to doing a bit of jig at the keyboard. B
[scifinoir2] File - Map_of_SciFiNoir_Member_Locations
Hi SciFiNoir Family. This is a reminder to add your name to our group map that lets members know in what cities other scifinoir members live. Most of you probably live really close to other memers and do not even know it. This map will hopefully correct that. Please click through to add your point on the map. Takes less than a minute. http://www.frappr.com/scifinoir/map Thanks Tracey de Morsella, your moderator SciFiNoir/SciFiNoir-Lit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir-lit/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir2/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [scifinoir2] Hurricanes and Storms Affecting You?
Keith, I do have a friend who lives in Alabama. her 91-year-old mother is in New Orleans now, refusing to leave. (She must have several angels and ministers of grace defending her, because she stayed through Katrina. Lost her house, but she hadn't lived in it for about a year, as she was recovering from ill health in an assisted-living facility. The lower floors of it did flood, but she stayed put and safe. A braver woman than I. When I hear anything about her, I'll pass it on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik --- On Mon, 9/1/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [scifinoir2] Hurricanes and Storms Affecting You? To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, September 1, 2008, 5:32 PM Anyone here live in, or have loved ones in, the areas currently ravaged by storms: Mobile, Jackson, Shreveport, Baton Rouge, and of course, New Orleans? If so, i hope they're doing okay. I lived through a big hurricane back in the '80s in Houston, and it ain't no joke. I love violent weather in one way, but having the house you're sheltering in literally shaken by 120 mph winds, seeing a large tree blown apart by a lightning bolt like something from Zeus? Dealing with days of after affects like flooded streets, unsafe drinking water, lack of power and refrigeration, and various critters of all kinds scurrying around in the muck looking for shelter or food? Sitting up in watch at night to make sure looters don't take advantage of total darkness and chaos? Not something I'd care to repeat. Thoughts with you or yours if you're being affected by this. By the way, if any of you or someone you know are in storm-ravaged areas, how is communication handled? Do people still have access to cell phones to send text messages to friends across the country to say "I'm okay"? I wonder how people nowadays are able to stay in touch when, say, someone in New Orleans has to flee and only has a few moments to send a message, or phone service is spotty? Are there services or sites that help those in disaster areas stay in touch with their loved ones across the country? For example, is there a way for someone in Baton Rouge who for some reason can't reach a relative in New York to use an intermediate service, web site, or person to get a message sent? Maybe text a message to a site or person who would act as a go-between to communicate with people on the other side? I've heard of this social networking thing "Twitter", that's used to send brief (140-word max) messages, and it evidently can be setup to let others see m essages. Seems like that's a way for someone with a cell phone to drop a quick message and make sure several people so designated could later read the message, once the sender's no longer in touch.
[scifinoir2] Hurricanes and Storms Affecting You?
Anyone here live in, or have loved ones in, the areas currently ravaged by storms: Mobile, Jackson, Shreveport, Baton Rouge, and of course, New Orleans? If so, i hope they're doing okay. I lived through a big hurricane back in the '80s in Houston, and it ain't no joke. I love violent weather in one way, but having the house you're sheltering in literally shaken by 120 mph winds, seeing a large tree blown apart by a lightning bolt like something from Zeus? Dealing with days of after affects like flooded streets, unsafe drinking water, lack of power and refrigeration, and various critters of all kinds scurrying around in the muck looking for shelter or food? Sitting up in watch at night to make sure looters don't take advantage of total darkness and chaos? Not something I'd care to repeat. Thoughts with you or yours if you're being affected by this. By the way, if any of you or someone you know are in storm-ravaged areas, how is communication handled? Do people still have access to cell phones to send text messages to friends across the country to say "I'm okay"? I wonder how people nowadays are able to stay in touch when, say, someone in New Orleans has to flee and only has a few moments to send a message, or phone service is spotty?Are there services or sites that help those in disaster areas stay in touch with their loved ones across the country? For example, is there a way for someone in Baton Rouge who for some reason can't reach a relative in New York to use an intermediate service, web site, or person to get a message sent? Maybe text a message to a site or person who would act as a go-between to communicate with people on the other side? I've heard of this social networking thing "Twitter", that's used to send brief (140-word max) messages, and it evidently can be setup to let others see messages. Seems like that' s a way for someone with a cell phone to drop a quick message and make sure several people so designated could later read the message, once the sender's no longer in touch.
[scifinoir2] This ain't no jive, particle physics rap is a hit
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iHdzr5Lg8vYnBMsPd7jYVzzAJk6QD92U3FA00 This ain't no jive, particle physics rap is a hit EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Who says science doesn't turn people on? Kate McAlpine is a rising star on YouTube for her rap performance - about high-energy particle physics. Her performance has drawn a half-million views so far on YouTube. The 23-year-old Michigan State University graduate and science writer raps about the Large Hadron Collider, the groundbreaking particle accelerator that has been built in a 17-mile circular tunnel at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. McAlpine raps that when the collider goes into operation on Sept. 10, "the things that it discovers will rock you in the head." The $3.8 billion machine will collide two beams of protons moving at close to the speed of light so scientists can see what particles appear in the resulting debris. "Rap and physics are culturally miles apart," McAlpine, a science writer at CERN, wrote to the Lansing State Journal in an e-mail last week, "and I find it amusing to try and throw them together." Others, including physicists, also find it amusing. "We love the rap, and the science is spot on," said CERN spokesman James Gillies. McAlpine received permission to film herself and friends dancing in the caverns and tunnels where the experiments will take place. "I have to confess that I was skeptical when Katie said she wanted to do this, but when I saw her previous science rapping and the lyrics, I was convinced," Gillies said. "I think you'll find pretty close to unanimity among physicists that it's great." McAlpine honed her physics rapping skills at Michigan State's National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, where she was part of a student research program two years ago. Information from: Lansing State Journal, http://www.lansingstatejournal.com
[scifinoir2] Re: Recasting "Lost in Space" (Was: "Stargate: Universe")
You make a persuasive argument but so far the advertising as income model has worked primarily for search engines and gossip sites. And like all other media, what works for one is not going to work for everyone. Google is striving. MSN (with all of Microsoft's muscle)is struggling. Yahoo is somewhere in the middle. Traditional newspapers are dying on the vine because while they get a lot of traffic on-line as of yet they have been unable to translate that into income. As for porn sites, most of the pay sites are struggling because free porn is plentiful. (As a side note, I remember my response when I heard Christie Brinkley's ex-husband spent thousands a month on internet porn: "What? Doesn't he know how much internet porn you can get for free?"). By the by, free porn does not mean all of those free sites are profitable. Most are put up by geeks who like to share their personal stash. That said, I do believe in your model for profiting from the web. When I put my website back up I am going to make a concerted run at supporting both the site and myself through on-line traffic and advertising support. ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Daryle Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The problem with the entertainment industry is that it often > confuses adding multiple layers to 2 dimensional thinking with 3 > dimensional thinking. This is why there is a huge falloff in > entertainment revenue, even though entertainment CONSUMPTION is high. > > The lifeblood of the internet is advertising. Because you are > reaching huge audience with low overhead. The entertainment industry > has typically survived by charging people for entry. Pay per unit, > pay per ticket, etc. The model is clear. Pay 1 dollar for > something, add $3 in value to it, charge $20 for it. Well, now less > people have the $20 for your crappy $3 product, so sales will fall > off. Add to this the fact that there is an internet where one can be > entertained for FREE (or at least it feels free), and you have your > revolution. > > You can't go to a market where people are getting things for free > and ask them to pay for it all. That's just silly. However. Someone > IS paying, every day, billions of dollars. Advertisers. > > What's killing the bottom line in theatrical releases? Advertising. > You have to out-market another picture in order to get that first > week advantage, and if you don't get it, your picture is done. A > $100M picture has to have around $20M in advertising to drive people > to see it. So of COURSE you're not going to make your money > back...you've blown 100 thousand dollars on print ads in > Entertainment Weekly! There's no way to recoup that. You haven't > even proven that the ad resulted in someone going to see the picture! > > What's fueling Google to be an internet juggernaut? Advertising. > Nobody pays to use Google. Nobody but advertisers pay to be seen > there. MTV.com and PerezHilton.com make more money per month than > most of the 80 pictures that came out this spring/summer. Why? They > reach the same audience. Because they get their money from advertising. > > Because advertisers pay to reach people who go to MTV.com. > Paramount doesn't get paid for their audience. They are charging > their audience. Imagine if Tracey decided today that in order to be > a part of this group you had to pay. It would be the Tracey and > Chris show within a week. (Well, not really, I think the core crew > would come up off some money and support, but you get the idea) > People would walk off pouting and fussing. Now, what if Tracey found > out that an advertiser was willing to pay her $75,000 for 3 months > just to put an ad in front of us, and the more we clicked on that > ad, the more money she'd make, because the advertisers would soon > return, and, as Obi-wan warned, in greater numbers. Well, there would > be a routinely annoying ad in these messages that we would all either > click on or ignore, and suddenly, SciFiNoir is a business. > > This is essentially all the entertainment industry has to do. Take > the money that's out there instead of trying to get blood from a stone. > > Why not build an entertainment model supported by advertising? Why > buy controlling interest in a theater chain, and make money from the > ads on the screen? National Amusements, for example, makes NICE money > from those trailers and commercials. Music, Sports, and movies need > to get into the GETTING money business. Just put your business into > a growth area and take what comes. And there's no greater growth > area than interactive. > > BIg studios should do what Disney does. Make the movie, then make > the merchandise. Own the merchandise, give the movie money away. > Throw the movie out there, and use it to sell merchandise and > tickets to Orlando. Build a brand so big t
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Recasting "Lost in Space" (Was: "Stargate: Universe")
The problem with the entertainment industry is that it often confuses adding multiple layers to 2 dimensional thinking with 3 dimensional thinking. This is why there is a huge falloff in entertainment revenue, even though entertainment CONSUMPTION is high. The lifeblood of the internet is advertising. Because you are reaching huge audience with low overhead. The entertainment industry has typically survived by charging people for entry. Pay per unit, pay per ticket, etc. The model is clear. Pay 1 dollar for something, add $3 in value to it, charge $20 for it. Well, now less people have the $20 for your crappy $3 product, so sales will fall off. Add to this the fact that there is an internet where one can be entertained for FREE (or at least it feels free), and you have your revolution. You can't go to a market where people are getting things for free and ask them to pay for it all. That's just silly. However. Someone IS paying, every day, billions of dollars. Advertisers. What's killing the bottom line in theatrical releases? Advertising. You have to out-market another picture in order to get that first week advantage, and if you don't get it, your picture is done. A $100M picture has to have around $20M in advertising to drive people to see it. So of COURSE you're not going to make your money back...you've blown 100 thousand dollars on print ads in Entertainment Weekly! There's no way to recoup that. You haven't even proven that the ad resulted in someone going to see the picture! What's fueling Google to be an internet juggernaut? Advertising. Nobody pays to use Google. Nobody but advertisers pay to be seen there. MTV.com and PerezHilton.com make more money per month than most of the 80 pictures that came out this spring/summer. Why? They reach the same audience. Because they get their money from advertising. Because advertisers pay to reach people who go to MTV.com. Paramount doesn't get paid for their audience. They are charging their audience. Imagine if Tracey decided today that in order to be a part of this group you had to pay. It would be the Tracey and Chris show within a week. (Well, not really, I think the core crew would come up off some money and support, but you get the idea) People would walk off pouting and fussing. Now, what if Tracey found out that an advertiser was willing to pay her $75,000 for 3 months just to put an ad in front of us, and the more we clicked on that ad, the more money she'd make, because the advertisers would soon return, and, as Obi-wan warned, in greater numbers. Well, there would be a routinely annoying ad in these messages that we would all either click on or ignore, and suddenly, SciFiNoir is a business. This is essentially all the entertainment industry has to do. Take the money that's out there instead of trying to get blood from a stone. Why not build an entertainment model supported by advertising? Why buy controlling interest in a theater chain, and make money from the ads on the screen? National Amusements, for example, makes NICE money from those trailers and commercials. Music, Sports, and movies need to get into the GETTING money business. Just put your business into a growth area and take what comes. And there's no greater growth area than interactive. BIg studios should do what Disney does. Make the movie, then make the merchandise. Own the merchandise, give the movie money away. Throw the movie out there, and use it to sell merchandise and tickets to Orlando. Build a brand so big that everybody's kids bug you to upgrade your cable package to get their channel. How many times do Black filmmakers have to hear the George Lucas story before somebody gets it? How many different ways do people need to learn about Desilu? Do we really have to start a Black Troma Pictures to get this point across? This ain't new, folks, and it is the ONLY THING THAT WORKS. Take. The. Easy. Money. You NEVER hear about how hard it is to get an adult picture made. Why? Because the Adult industry spent the years 1995-2001 getting itself together so that they wouldn't be caught out there when people stopped paying $40 for DVDs and VHS tapes. Digital distribution, my friends. It is happening everywhere else except with us. there is a paradigm shift in marketing and promotion...and we are missing it! Daryle Lockhart On Sep 1, 2008, at 1:06 AM, ravenadal wrote: The clarion call of digital distribution is similar to the siren call of digital publishing on demand. I know a lot of authors who have self-published, I can count the number who have made money on one hand with fingers left over. The authors I know who have gotten paid are still those who have published traditionally. Ditto for film distribution. Just today I read an article about the current hard times for independ
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how that therapy work for you? What did you learn? -- Original message -- From: Daryle Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dude was hilarious in Zoolander. He is the perfect Fox Mulder, which is a blessing and a curse, I guess. I watched him play basketball once and remember being impressed by a couple of moves. I think anyone bold enough to admit their weaknesses should be applauded. At the very least, we should reserve judgement until he comes out. If he turns out to be a rehab addict like the Lahans and Spears of the world, THEN it's open season. When I went into therapy, everyone I knew looked at me sideways. "his marriage must be in trouble", etc. The truth is I felt like something wasn't working and I wanted to break it down. All the way down. Now the naysayers and nem are pretty much all trying to figure out what's wrong in their lives/marriages/careers. If you need help, you need help. Nothing wrong with going to get said help, just in not letting it work. On Aug 31, 2008, at 7:43 AM, Martin wrote: Exactly that, Keith. Aside from his over-the-top performance in "Evolution", he's been the same character all the way through his career. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik --- On Sun, 8/31/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] David Duchovny enters rehab for sex addiction To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, August 31, 2008, 12:12 AM I'm indifferent. He's an interesting guy, though, very smart, well educated. Why don't you like him? Dull personality, think he's acting is from the Charles Bronson school? -- Original message -- From: Martin I've *never* been a Duchovny fan. The only think I've liked him in was "Evolution". And now I like him *less*. Man is married to a DOLL, and he lets his hormones take him on tour? http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik --- On Fri, 8/29/08, ravenadal <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote: From: ravenadal <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> Subject: [scifinoir2] David Duchovny enters rehab for sex addiction To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com Date: Friday, August 29, 2008, 10:33 PM David Duchovny enters rehab for sex addiction 14 hours ago LOS ANGELES (AP) David Duchovny, who plays a sex-obsessed character on Showtime's "Californication, " has entered a rehabilitation facility for sex addiction. The 48-year-old actor said he did so voluntarily, in a statement released Thursday by his lawyer, Stanton Stein. He added: "I ask for respect and privacy for my wife and children as we deal with this situation as a family." Duchovny's publicist, Flo Grace, confirmed the report, which first appeared on the Web site People.com. She and Stein both declined further comment. "All of us at Showtime wish David and his family the best during this very private time," the network said in a statement. The second season of "Californication" begins Sept. 28. Duchovny starred as the conspiracy-minded Fox Mulder on "The X-Files" TV series and in two films. "The X-Files: I Want to Believe" opened in t heaters earlier this summer. He and his wife, actress Tea Leoni, have two children. The couple married in 1997.
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IMO, Keith, that's *exactly* what it would take, an ID4-type event to force mankind to work together. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik --- On Mon, 9/1/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] "Enterprise" Marathon on Scifi Channel Now To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, September 1, 2008, 2:27 AM it's not among my faves, but i agree that it explored an area that needed exploring. I've often wondered if the only thing that would cure prejudice here on Earth--is if we have an extraterrestial target to move the bigotry from each other to aliens. -- Original message -- From: Martin That it was a fantastic story all the way through, showing me a lot of the potential that was in the ST Universe and the actors. The xenophobia element was something I always suspected would have existed in the early days of the Federation among hew-mons, and it was perfectly presented, both subtly and overtly. http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik --- On Sun, 8/31/08, KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net wrote: From: KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] "Enterprise" Marathon on Scifi Channel Now To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com Date: Sunday, August 31, 2008, 12:02 AM What were your thoughts about "Terra Prime"? -- Original message -- From: Martin And, as much as the mirror-universe arc did for me, "Terra Prime" really got me moving. If only they'd taken that show from the Killer Bees earlier and given it to Coto... http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik --- On Sat, 8/30/08, KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net wrote: From: KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net Subject: [scifinoir2] "Enterprise" Marathon on Scifi Channel Now To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com Date: Saturday, August 30, 2008, 12:33 AM Be still, Martin's beating heart! SciFi Channel is running an "Enterprise" marathon all night. They're at the point where the Orion "slave" girls ep was shown, and coming up at 1 am, the two-part mirror universe ep where the evil Archer grabs the futuristic starship. Might be worth a look if you're up late and bored and tired of all the Sarah Palin talk...
Re: [scifinoir2] David Duchovny enters rehab for sex addiction
I'm not saying that you or anyone else should run out and pick it up, even as a rental. It's *not* a great movie, in *any* sense. It's pretty much an over-the-top gross-out of a movie, good for stupid laughs and little else. Hence, it drew my attention easily. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik --- On Mon, 9/1/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] David Duchovny enters rehab for sex addiction To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, September 1, 2008, 1:43 AM I've never seen "Evolution", though I take it you like it? -- Original message -- From: Martin Exactly that, Keith. Aside from his over-the-top performance in "Evolution", he's been the same character all the way through his career. http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik --- On Sun, 8/31/08, KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net wrote: From: KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] David Duchovny enters rehab for sex addiction To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com Date: Sunday, August 31, 2008, 12:12 AM I'm indifferent. He's an interesting guy, though, very smart, well educated. Why don't you like him? Dull personality, think he's acting is from the Charles Bronson school? -- Original message -- From: Martin I've *never* been a Duchovny fan. The only think I've liked him in was "Evolution". And now I like him *less*. Man is married to a DOLL, and he lets his hormones take him on tour? http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik --- On Fri, 8/29/08, ravenadal <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote: From: ravenadal <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> Subject: [scifinoir2] David Duchovny enters rehab for sex addiction To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com Date: Friday, August 29, 2008, 10:33 PM David Duchovny enters rehab for sex addiction 14 hours ago LOS ANGELES (AP) — David Duchovny, who plays a sex-obsessed character on Showtime's "Californication, " has entered a rehabilitation facility for sex addiction. The 48-year-old actor said he did so voluntarily, in a statement released Thursday by his lawyer, Stanton Stein. He added: "I ask for respect and privacy for my wife and children as we deal with this situation as a family." Duchovny's publicist, Flo Grace, confirmed the report, which first appeared on the Web site People.com. She and Stein both declined further comment. "All of us at Showtime wish David and his family the best during this very private time," the network said in a statement. The second season of "Californication" begins Sept. 28. Duchovny starred as the conspiracy-minded Fox Mulder on "The X-Files" TV series and in two films. "The X-Files: I Want to Believe" opened in t heaters earlier this summer. He and his wife, actress Tea Leoni, have two children. The couple married in 1997.
