Thursday Thirteen #9

13 things about Dane Bramage

The Elemental Edition

Remember way back to my Thursday Thirteen List of 13 Lists of 13 (my T13 #2)? Well on of the items was “13 Elements from the Periodic Table That I Like”. That was supposed to be kind of a joke. I wasn't going to do it but my current list idea, “13 Supermodels Who have agreed to Go Out with Me with Photographic Evidence” isn’t quite done. So as usual when I am behind the eight ball and hurting for time and ideas, I steal borrow ideas from Lynn at Bloggin’ Outloud. And I'm in luck! He's on a blogcation for two weeks and can’t object. He he he. So what I have done is created the Interactive Thursday Thirteen Science Quiz. I've listed Thirteen symbols from the periodic chart. You come up with the corresponding element. Try it from memory first then cheat if you have to. There is no grade.

1. Hg
2. He
3. C
4. K
5. O
6. Mn
7. Co
8. As
9. Os
10. Pu
11. Au
12. Pt
13. Uub (hint atomic number 112)

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1. Hg - Mercury
2. He - Helium
3. C - Carbon
4. K - Potassium
5. O - Oxygen
6. Mn - Manganese
7. Co - Cobalt
8. As - Arsenic
9. Os - Osmium
10. Pu - Plutonium
11. Au - Gold
12. Pt - Platinum
13. Uub - Ununbium or "eka mercury," is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the temporary symbol Uub and has the atomic number 112. Element 112 is one of the superheavy elements. Following periodic trends, it is expected to be a liquid metal more volatile than mercury.
    

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Juxtaposition

I was checking out who had been stopping by via sitemeter. Aside from the usual suspects I found that several people had stopped by because of this quizilla quiz graphic.


In case you didn't know, Wolfwood pictured here is who the guy on the right is dressed as in this picture from Gen Con 2006. The guy on the left is dressed up as Vash the Stampede. Both are characters from the anime Trigon. Now you know.

Are You Ready?

HT Eddie @ EDDIEBUTLER.COM

30 Days Favors Baby Killers

This is a looooong rant.
The cable channel FX has a show called 30 Days where the host or some designated person spends 30 Days in “someone else’s life”. I had heard about it but I don’t have time to watch TV so I never saw any of the episodes. There were five and the sixth and season finale airs tomorrow.

Last Wednesday night after church, I walk into the living room and the kids are all asleep. Their mom (my niece) had to run an errand so I sit and watch over the kids. The TV was on FX. Whatever my niece was watching had gone off and this 30 Days show comes on. Episode 5: Abortion was about a young woman, Jennifer who had an abortion and now works part time at Woman’s Health Clinic as an administrative assistant and counselor (read “recommends abortions”) She flies off to Long Beach, California to spend 30 days at “His Nesting Place”, a Christian pro-life maternity home, started and run by Pastor AL Howard and his wife. Her mission was to work in the home and participate in pro-life protests and activities. This Jennifer creature is staunchly Pro-abortion and I don’t think she was ever going to give pro-life a serious chance. Her personal agenda was one of infiltration and conversion, not of Pastor Al but of the mothers that were there. This agenda was documented by the show but not promoted as such.

Okay I am hooked. I had planned to turn the channel or turn the TV off altogether but I wanted to see how this went. I honestly thought that maybe this Jennifer would see the light (the eternal optimist in me.) Boy was I suckered. Jennifer and Pastor Al did not hit it off although they both were cordial and courteous. Mrs. Howard was very tolerant of Jennifer but her presence taxed the Howards. Jennifer did not live up to her promise either. When they went to minister in front of the abortion clinic, she wore a pro-choice tee shirt and refused to pass out literature which only said that there were alternatives to abortion. The extent of this pro-life “protest” was a soft spoken pastor and his wife handing out pamphlets. Apparently the shows producer didn’t think this was graphic enough. So they had Jennifer and one of the moms from the home attend a membership drive of the Survivors, a pro-life organization that protests abortions. They recruit people born after Roe v Wade as they are the survivors of the “American Holocaust”. The speaker made an interesting point if true, a third of that generation has perished because of abortion. They cut to the planned protest where Jennifer shows up but does not participate on the pro-life side. This group was I little more visible than a kindly old man and his wife. But still all they did was hand out pamphlets and try to convince women, couples, anyone who may have been heading to the clinic, to not kill an unborn child. Jennifer had to get in the leader’s face and tell him how wrong he was for being so confrontational. When the man tried to reason with her, she started spouting liberal pro-abortion drivel. You know, It’s not a baby it’s a fetus so it’s not murder, a woman has control of her body, rape and incest yadda yadda yadda. And she was smooth. Obviously she is very use to and very comfortable with convincing people that abortion is just a medical procedure that every woman has a right to have. Her biggest concern was the hypocrisy of the left. She says we want all these babies to live but we don't offer any "plan" or "programs" to deal with the huge flood of unwanted babies. Like if someone could take care of all these kids then she would be the first to say goodbye to abortion. Obviously the purpose of her being at His Nesting Place had completely eluded her. More below the fold.

Throughout the show however; the producers thought it necessary to point out the shift towards conservatism in the country and how many states were restricting access to abortions. They even said that some states were trying to ban abortions altogether to get the Supreme Court to revisit Roe v. Wade. And they said it like it was a bad thing. Missouri has pending legislation that would ban abortion. So they talked to the head of NARAL and all the pro-choice legislators and people on the street they could find. The show represented right wing politicians as opportunists riding the wave of conservatism. The show then displayed cartoons showing that while people think there should be fewer abortions, they made a big point to note that the vast majority of people think that abortion should be allowed in the first trimester. But the number drops off significantly after that.

So to help their agenda they show the couple from Indiana whose teenage daughter died. Indiana has a parental notification law for underage seekers of abortion. The Mom calls it the murdering law. You see the poor girl got pregnant and wanted an abortion. Apparently she didn’t want her folks to know but lacked the funds to go to Kentucky or Ohio to have her baby killed. So she had a “back alley” abortion. Infections and complications resulted and she died. The doctor at the hospital marched in and declared “Your daughter died of an illegal botched abortion!” Wow. Let me just say that I feel for the parents. No one should have to bury a child. BUT WHAT IN THE HELL WAS WRONG WITH THOSE PEOPLE? Their daughter was so afraid to talk to them that she opted for a back alley procedure? And THEY BLAME PRO-LIFERS for parental notification laws in their state? The dad said “If she didn’t have to go 105 files to get an abortion, she’d be alive today”. SHE DIDN’T HAVE TO GO ANYWHERE YOU NIMROD! SHE JUST HAD TO TELL YOU!!!! And for whatever reason she didn’t want to do that. And it cost her her life. Strange how your think a teenager has to have your permission to get a license to drive a car but thinks its wrong if she needs to tell you she is undergoing a medical procedure to have the living human being ripped out of her. Of course the shows producers didn’t make these points.

The show went further down hill from there. They showed high security abortion clinic that had been fire-bombed and the operators kidnapped. They showed pro-abortion legislators describing abortion restrictions as “steps backward” and “anti-woman”. The only time when the pro-life view was given equal time was when Pastor Al took Jenn to see his friend. They tried to explain that life begins at conception and she blew them off with “liberal churches don’t interpret it that way”. Their explanation that liberal churches aren’t Biblical went in one ear and out the other. But whenever Jenn got the oppurtunity she tried to convince the mothers that there was nothing wrong with pro-choice. In one scene she is alone with a mom (alone as in a room with the mom and the camera crew). The woman tells Jenn outright that she does not think it is right to have an abortion (carefuly stated not to mention killing babies) and Jenn wrangles with her verbally until she says that while she personally would never have an abortion, she can not speak for other woman. Jenn calls her Pro-choice and declares victory.

So after Jenn’s 30 days are up she has a tearful goodbye. She claims she bonded with the mothers and children and will miss them. No one’s mind was changed. FX spent an hour under the guise of open mindedness to promote their anti-Christian, pro-abortion agenda. Tomorrow’s season finale has the host spending 30 days in jail. The trailer made it seem like he was going to have a rough time of it, the loneliness of being lock up and all. How lonely could he be? He had the frickin’ film crew in there shooting everything he did. I went to the website and previous episodes dealt with outsourcing, atheism, Islam, and immigration. I wonder if those were as far left as “abortion”.

Sorry for the length but moonbats who pass off their agenda as “open minded Television” really push my buttons. Stay away from FX. Discovery Channel has much better programming with “Dirty Jobs” and “Mythbusters”!

Friday Filler

Okay here is a silly blogthing. Why? I don’t know. Could be because the abortion post I was working on since Wednesday isn’t finished yet and I am feeling a wee bit guilty. Or not. You decide. Or don’t.

You Are 0% Redneck

I'll slap you so hard, your clothes will be outta style. You ain't no redneck - you're all Yankee!

How Redneck Are You?

Now here was a weird one. They ask you to assign the friend that first comes to mind when you think of a word. Voila.

What You Really Think Of Your Friends

Paul S is your soulmate.

You truly love Dave J.

You consider Kathy your true friend.

You know that Paul K is always thinking of you.

You'll remember Bell for the rest of your life.

You secretly think Eric is creative, charming, and a bit too dramatic at times.

You secretly think that Ron is colorful, impulsive, and a total risk taker.

You secretly think that Matt is loyal and trustworthy to you. And that Matt changes lovers faster than underwear.

You secretly think Dave C is shy and nonconfrontational. And that Dave C has a hidden internet romance.

What Do You Think of Your Friends?

Paul S and Dave J are the only friends that actually read this blog. But they know all the others and can attest to how close this comes. That is if they were inclined to leave comments and only one of them is.

Thursday Thirteen #8

13 things about Dane Bramage

The Quote and Epigram Edition

Quotes are popular subject of Thursday Thirteen lists. I am nothing if not a mindless toady... a dedicated follower of fashion a aficionado of trends. (Good thing I installed that politically correct filter he he.) So here are 13 quotes that got me to thinking; (NOTE: I have some epigrams here as well. I don't know who may have said them so I marked them as "unknown". If you know the source, let me know so I can update the post and my notes.)

1. The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of one's self.
   --Jane Addams, American social worker and Nobel Peace laureate (1860-1935).
2. "The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream…It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for."
   --Benjamin Elijah Mays
3. "Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged."
   --Helen Keller
4. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
   --Abraham Lincoln
5. As a former fetus I oppose abortion.
   --Unknown
6. "Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for."
   --Ray Bradbury (who just turned 86)


The rest of the list is below the fold. Go to the end of the post and click "We want to read more!"

7. I am for the separation of liberalism and state.
   --Unknown
8. "Simply consider why those blacks who have been accused of bad behavior or demonstrate questionable character do not have their 'blackness' questioned, but those who are conservative and/or preach the virtues of hard work do.
   --Juliette "Baldilocks" Ochieng, conservative Republican
9. Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
   --Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
10. It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.
    --Ben Stein
11. But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
    --Philippians 4:19 authored by The Holy Spirit.(This is my life's verse
12. Men of honor never stand for ANY question of their integrity. Liberals on the other hand, are so used to being called liars, that they don't even notice.
    --Unknown
13. Appeasers believe that if you continue feeding steak to a wolf, it will eventually become a vegetarian.
    --Unknown

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Headlines For Wednesday 8-23-2006

Watching TV May Cut Kids' Pain
"Mommy I have a boo-boo"
"Take two Spongebobs and call me in the morning"

Manilow Having Hip Surgery
But singer won't be any hipper after operation

AIDS attention turns to prevention
However some plan to continue their current tactic of whining, crying, accusing and demanding that somebody cure them

Calif. woman sues over mannequin attack
A Tale of Two Dummies

Two starved to death in epic sea voyage
Survivors describe the two as sweet, *burp* , tender individuals

Woman Accused of Girdle Heroin Smuggling
Police baffled why anyone would smuggle in girdles hidden in Heroin

Two starved to death in epic sea voyage
Survivors complained of having to eat Mexican for remainder of trip

Is Pluto Really a Planet?
Pluto: "I've lived decades as a planet but secretly I've always known I was a Kuiper Belt Object."

Experts: Snail Venom May Have Benefits
It certainly serves the snail as it chases down its prey and injects the venom through huge fangs... wait snail venom?

British Channel Bans Smoking Cartoons
Insist people smoke traditional objects like cigars and cigarettes instead

That's it for Headlines today. Remember to visit the usual suspects for more "headliney goodness"!
basil at basil's blog
Lyn at Bloggin Outloud

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New Features

Aside from new blogroll members, I have yet again tweaked my template. I have added some things to my sidebar.  First I moved “Last Weeks News” a little farther down the bar. Seems they don’t update it as regularly as I thought they would.  Then I added a “Word of the Day”, a “Quote of the Day” and a Today’s Birthday” all courtesy of The Free Dictionary . They have other daily goodies like Hangman puzzles and word match games.  One feature which affects the whole blog is the “instant look up” feature.  Just double click on any word and a new window opens up with the definition, etymology, synonyms and usage. Try it! Click on dodecahedron. I dare you! All to enhance your blog experience here at Dane Bramage.

 

Hat Tip to DL Foster at Perspectives In Motion. DL I came, I saw, I stole shamelessly because it looked so cool!

New Additions to the Blogroll

Today I blogrolled Billy at  The Real Deal and fellow fundamental Christian Dani at Generation X-Pose.  Go give them a once over.

PERSPECTIVES IN MOTION: Stop being a professional victim!

Another great post by DL Foster. PERSPECTIVES IN MOTION: Stop being a professional victim! DL talks about Juan William's new book Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America -- and What We Can Do About It.

He contends that current the "civil rights leaders" have time and time again sent the wrong message to poor black people desperately in need of direction. Amen Juan. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Maxine Waters, Eric Micheal Dyson and some of the other race baiting professional victim trainers need to get another job. We are sick of their whining and pointless finger pointing.

Now that's a sentiment I have expressed many times on this blog. Alleged Black leadership has failed to lead. Now it seems their only role is to arrive on the scene, point fingers, blame the (rich Republican) white man, demand investigations and dispensations and reparations. They do everything but what is needed to help the Black community.

Just once I would like to see Reverend Jesse Jackson tell a post-catastrophe crowd of Black people; "You need Jesus. You need to pull yourself up out of this mess. And if you find that you can, lift up your neighbor too. Philippians 4:19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Trust in God not the government."

Yeah I would really like to see that but I am not holding my breath.

The Characters of Gen Con 2006

A Photo Tour of the Convention Through the People Who Dressed for the Occasion

Thursday Thirteen #7

13 Things about Dane Bramage

My T13 custom logo is from a photo I took at Gen Con of a very special form of chess. A little more mainstream than the thirteen toes logo I did two weeks ago.

Well I think you have gotten an idea about how I think and some of my interests. I thought I would give you the History of Dane Bramage through 13 States I have visited. Now I have been through many more than 13 but this list is those states that I spent at least 24 hours in.

1. Pennsylvania: I went to school at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh for a year and a half. A few years later I lived in the Poconos in Stroudsburg while working in East Stroudsburg. The parent company I worked for was headquartered in Canton Ohio, and I was transferred to the East Stroudsburg plant after only a month. East Stroudsburg is also home to the Frank Frazetta Museum.
2. Michigan: I have Family in Detroit and I have been to Novi for HP training as well as local gaming conventions. I attended church in Temperance once too.
3. Illinois: Mostly passing through Illinois on my way to other places, I did stop once to enjoy the Battletech center when it was in Chicago. I forgot to mention I also stopped for famous Deep Dish Pizza!
4. Georgia:I've been to Atlanta a couple of times, I have family there. I really like Atlanta and hope to get back there Someday.
5. Oklahoma: I got to meet many a proud Okie from Muskogee. The company I used to work for had a plant in Muskogee and I made a couple of week long business trips there.
6. California: The last place the old company had a plant was Califonia. I'd fly into Fresno, stay in Madera, and work in Chowchilla. At one time my brother and one of my sisters lived in California. My brother's kids still live there with his ex. My aunt lives there and my mom bounced back and forth between California and Ohio since I was in high school. The last place was San Diego and I really enjoyed that city. I would hop down the coast when working in Chowchilla to see the family. Now I hop around the corner.


The rest of the list is below the fold. Go to the end of the post and click "We want to read more!"


7. New Jersey: On our way back from Atlanta, my brother and I came through Trenton. We weren't lost, he has family there and we were road trippin'. One of the best times of my life.
8. West Virginia: Drove to Wheeling for a small gaming convention, me and about 8 of my closest friends. Good times, good times.
9. Florida:I have been to Ponte Vedra and St. Petersburg on business trips. I had stayed in luxurious golf resorts so I wouldn't know the surrounding communities at all. The weather was excellant.
10. Texas:Fort Worth Texas was hot. I went there to attend Origins. This was before Origins found a permanent home just 100 miles southwest of me.
11. Indiana: I just got back from Gen Con in Indianapolis. This was the fourth year I have been there. It's kind of like my home town only with twice as many people. I've also work a week in Evansville, which is very much like home only with half as many people. An interesting thing I've noticed about entering Indiana on I-70; a million billboards about RVs and antiques. (This is better than entering Wisconsin on I-94. See below.)
12. Wisconsin: I've attended Gen Con in Milwaukee since 1985. A very nice town but it rolls up the sidewalks downtown really early. I have a horror story about my car breaking down in Kenosha. What's up with the naming the streets? Here in Akron we started numbering the streets. I think they stopped at 7th avenue. Kenosha not only has a 7th Ave., it has a 7th street, and a 80th street and 80th ave, etc.. The streets run one direction and the avenues run perpendicular to them. I was so confused. An interesting thing I've noticed about entering Wisconsin on I-94; a million billboards about cheese and porn.
13. Louisiana:In 1988 me and nine other guys and two pregnant girls drove to New Orleans. The event was World Con(NOLACON) and we went to work the con. We got free rooms out of it. (If you call cramming 12 bodies into one hotel room free.) I walked down Bourbon St. I saw the clubs and bars, most with naked women. I saw the open doors where they sold booze to pedestrians on the street. As an impressionable man in my twenties I was impressed, albeit with the wrong things. When Katrina struck and I was in Christ and in my forties, I really thought that the government should not rebuild it. The residents are more than welcome to but not with my tax dollars. Interestingly I will be returning to the Big Easy this November for a business conference. It was scheduled for last year an rescheduled for obvious reasons.

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Headlines for Wednesday 08-16-06

Elvis Fans Mark Anniversary of Death
Flags were at half mast at 7-11s everywhere

Couric says viewers want hourlong news
Viewers will be disappointed when she delivers the same old crap she always has

Man drinks potion for good luck: doesn't get any
The bars are full of guys who drink and don't get any

Discovery Hints at a quadrillion space rocks beyond Neptune
Number is a rough estimate. They've only actually counted 370

Iraqi War Vets Face Mental Challenges
"Must'nt...Throttle...moonbats...

Access to new HIV prevention methods lacking
And yet the primary and best prevention method, abstinence, goes unused.

Jumping sturgeon knocks man unconscious
He just eel'd over; kelpless. (Thanks Kip!)

Raising Superkids? Parents Show Stress
Lois Lane asks Ma and Pa Kent for advice

Online dating is planned for orangutans
Service will fail when couples meet and find they lied about themselves in their profiles

$300,000 award against Starbucks found excessive
God forbid they have to start charging $5.00 for a cup of coffee

Woman Arrested in Ga. McDonald's Case
She was McRaigned in McCourt before the McJudge

Cyclists beware: inflamed bladders ahead
I want to see that on a road sign.

Congressman delivers his own son
Democrats quickly denounce move as plot to idle hospital workers

That's it for Headlines today. Remember to visit the usual suspects for more "headliney goodness"!
basil at basil's blog
Lyn at Bloggin Outloud

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Home Again and Mostly Rested

Well I am home finally and had a whole day to recover from my vacation. I need that extra day because I tend to throw my schedule off by staying up until 3am most nights.  Aside from the really expensive hotel, and their attitude that they should charge you for everything, it was a good trip. I am in the process of gathering pictures and I should post them in the next day or so. Meanwhile everything should slowly get back into the groove.

Thursday Thirteen #6

Random Yak had a list of true events that could have been used as an excuse. I told him I would steal his idea and use a variation of it. I am nothing if not true to my word. In honor of the fact that I am currently at Gen Con, I thought I would give you some insight on the personality of a gamer. So here are 13 ready made excuses that a typical gamer might use

1. I failed my saving throw
2. My balrog ate it
3. A rigger jacked my car
4. I didn't have the right spell components
5. I was sitting when some stinkin' Nosferatu walked up, grabbed it and obfuscated away
6. My wookie ate it
7. A decker jacked my laptop
8. My LARP group meets that night
9. It was destroyed in a tragic light saber mishap
10. Somebody hijacked the Astral Plane
11. I mistakenly put it in a bag of devouring instead of a bag of holding
12. I made a mistake on my teleport without error spell
13. I traded it for a rare and two uncommons

If they made no sense to you, don't worry. Gamers have a language and culture all their own.

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MIA

Dane Bramage here, in for the vacationing Dane Bramage. Okay here was the plan:

• Drive to Indianapolis
• Get settled into the hotel and take advantage of the Hi Speed internet access
• Post my Thursday Thirteen
• Blog like I did last year

The reality:

• The hotel's internet access is $7.00 a day
• I can't access any of the free WiFi that my laptop detects
• $7.00 a day is a little more than my budget can stand especially since I blew $30.00 in the business center printing out materials I need for events today and tomorrow.
• Yes this post cost me $7.00

If I get cheaper access expect my T13 and other posts. (The costumes are especially good this year!) If not expect a deluge of posts on Sunday when I get home. I am on vacation you know.

More Movies That You'll Never See

This overwhelmingly popular feature is back. And by overwhelmingly popular I mean 3 comments. With such encouragement how could I not torture bless you with even more?

Again what I have done is researched (as much as is humanly possible from a chair in front of a computer) into what blockbuster sequels were planned and possibly made but will never be seen. Here are some I found:

Ben Affleck returns as Matt Murdock. He becomes the lawyer for the ruthless Miranda Priestly:
Daredevil Wears Prada

After losing an important race, Lightning McQueen starts hanging out in sleazy garages wanting quick meaningless tune ups:
Cars 2: Looking for Mr. Goodwrench

Denzel Washington reprises his epic role, this time he tries to enlist mutants into his civil rights cause:
Malcolm X3: Last Stand

The Rock is back. He returns from being cursed to wipe out all drug Lords and give their profits to NYC's poor and needy:
The Scorpion King of New York

Bruce Wayne flies to St. Lucia and Martinique and falls victim to the rhythm of a vigorous popular dance:
Batman Beguines

Damien opens a school for cursed youngsters and uses their demonic powers to fight for Damnedkind:
The O-Men

Robin Williams exacts revenge from all who ruined his family road trip vacation:
RV for Vendetta

As always, if you have a "movie that you'll never see" leave it in the comments. Be sure to check your locals listings! For all the good it will do you ! MMWWAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Extreme Treadmill Workout

I saw this at Pettifog Playground



Thanks chrys. And thanks for pointing to Aimee's visually stunning Foxfire Diaries.

At Last! A Photo of Dane Bramage!

Because no one demanded it! A photo of Dane Bramage.

Well not a recent one.

Now you can play a little game to figure out which one is me. Unless of course you know which one it is, like my many friend who reads this blog. Here we go.

• This photo is of me and my brothers.
• This photo is circa 1980.
• I am the oldest of my folks kids, two boys and two girls, but not the oldest in this picture.

Ryan vs Dorkman - Google Video

Cash at Science and Supermodels has this post about Star Wars. And he links to a fan video of a light saber duel Ryan vs Dorkman A must see. Professional quality. Move over Lucas.

Thursday Thirteen #5

I was thinking about what I would do for this weeks list. Everybody has a list of movies so I thought why not just go with the flow. How I came up with this list though is I just wrote down the first 13 films that popped into the vacuum that is my mind. Than I went back to see why I thought of them. Here they are in no particular order, for no particular reason. I've hyperlinked them to IMDb.COM (Internet Movie Database) which will open in a new window if you want more information on a particular film.

1. Star Wars: In 1977 I so wanted to be a Jedi. (Today I am more Sith oriented.) I saw that film over 22 times and in some cases in back to back showings where my cousin and I would just stay all day at the theater. No obsession there.


2. Superman: The first Christopher Reeves film. My brother and I were in NYC for one night in 1980 and had an opportunity to see many films but we chose Superman which we had already seen.


3. Ordinary People: This film won a boatload of Oscars but I think Donald Southerland was overlooked and is underrated as an actor (some think this was his best role). Mary Tyler Moore distanced herself beautifully from her “Mary Richards” TV persona in this movie. Timothy Hutton lauched his career with this film. An excellent story about loss and family.


4. Eye of the Needle: Another Donald Southerland movie. He is a Nazi spy who knows the truth about D-Day and is trying to get back to Germany. He stays with a British couple and seduces the wife of the crippled husband. He is so EEEEVILLLL in this film.


5. The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Has anyone over 30 not seen this film? Does anyone not know how to do the “Time Warp”? Does anyone not have a teddy and black fishnets? (I don’t. Really! I don’t!)


6. The Kentucky Fried Movie: ROTFLMAO. "This is Buttkiss, Klahn's bodyguard - he is tough and ruthless. This is Kwong, Klahn's chauffeur - he is rough and toothless.“ You may not fully appreciate the humor in this film unless you lived through the ‘70s. Some of the things they did in this film they would NEVER do in a film today. It is brought to you by the same people that did Airplane and the Naked Gun series. Warning: The Kentucky Fried Movie has nudity.

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7. 2001: A Space Odyssey : I actually didn't see this until after I saw Star Wars. It was still very impressive despite the freaky ending. Hated 2010 though.


8. Big Trouble in Little China: Kurt Russell is Jack Burton. “Who?” “Jack Burton! Me!” Russell swaggers like the Duke in the homage to chop socky movies. It is a tradition among my friends to watch it every Chinese New Years. And it is the only John Carpenter film that I will admit liking without reservation. Carpenter has a history of letting his anti-Christian sentiment leak out in his films.


9. Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan: My favorite of the Star Trek movies. Bad guys were bad guys and needed their bad butts kicked. And no one comes close to Kirk in that department.


10. In the Heat of the Night: Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger made an incredible team in this film. I have more respect for it’s portrayal of race relations in the south than I do for the TV series it spawned. The TV show just oozed “PC”.


11. Godzilla vs. (Just about anybody!) “OH NO! They say he's got to go. Go! Go! Godzilla!” I will always have a spot for Japanese monster flicks. They are so campy and corny, what’s not to like? I like Gamera films too!(Gamera! Gamera! Gamera is really neat! He’s full of turtle meat! We’re eating Gamera…)


12. Joy Luck Club: Two and a half hour chick flick of doom! I got caught up in the scenes that took place in China. The decadence, the hedonism and Godlessness. Compelling story telling.


13. The Boys in the Band: A drive-in date movie? Well that's how I saw it. It wasn't even my date. I was 10 years old and my Mom and her boyfriend wanted to see this movie. She dragged all of us along. (No babysitter for the four of us and we got in free)  This was my introduction to the gay agenda. I was too young to understand it then but even so, I thought it was weird that all these men were in this house with no girls talking about loving each other. It was ground breaking. Ground that should never have been broken. Thanks Mom.

Well I hope this was a fruitful exercise in letting you know more about Dane Bramage.

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Church And State: Top Seven Myths of Homosexuality

Move over Mythbusters. As much as I enjoyed the whole "man strapped rockets to his chair" and the "Archimedes Death Ray Compitition", Adam and Jamie have nothing on Nathan Bradfield. Nathan blogs at Church and State and has a post on Top Seven Myths of Homosexuality. You know like "People are born gay" and "Ten percent of the population is homosexual" and other agenda based lies. Nathan notes:

Myth #6: The Bible doesn't Condemn Homosexuality--Only Promiscuity.

In recent years, several mainline denominations have abandoned traditional interpretations of Scripture and have embraced the "Gay-Christian" movement. Similarly, people claim that Paul's statements were only addressed to believers back then and are not relevant today. But God's Word - which is unchanging and stands forever - gives us a different story.

Fact: God clearly condemns any sexual act outside of heterosexual marriage.

He has facts and scripture to debunk these myths.

Alas the liberal crowd ain't buying it as evidenced in his comments. Be sure to check them out too. Nathan does a good job dealing with them.

HT:DL Foster at Perspectives in Motion who introduced me to the term webmonkeys. Thanks DL.

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