Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
GIRALDO RIVERA
This guy who once WAS Good Morning America, decided to film his own wondrous search for Al Capone's safe.
So Rivera took us onto a journey to find Al's Safe.
So, supposedly he finds the safe of Scar Face and he proceeds to have it opened annd guess what?
It was empty.
I recall thinking:
WHAT A WASTE OF TIME, I COULD HAVE HELPED MY SON WITH HIS HOMEWORK OR TAKEN A WALK OR VACUUMED THE RUG...
So I have no life, no life at all.
So I check up on the History Channel and sure enough, there are all these shows (documentaries?) where a group of folks look for stuff and 'find' nothing.
THE CURSE OF OAK ISLAND
Okay.
So this group of Journey-ists are looking for pirate booty in a swamp of all places.
That is different from business guys who go to pole dancing facilities where the celebrities dress up with funny hats and eye patches.
Well, the team finds these caverns or holes or whatever and spend all this money on big machines and stuff and....
WELL THEY FIND NOTHING.
Well, to be fair they discover some old coin.
And guess what? I swear to the Almighty some narrator comes on the audio portion of this debacle and says:
Welcome to Season II?
WHAT?
Like these other History Channel presentations, it is not what you actually find, the journey is what matters as well as the most preposterous leaps of logic you can lunge for during the many, many scenes of nothingness that burden all these shows.
At least the UFO and Ancient Aliens 'documentaries' constantly take the viewer to global sites containing evidence of the wonders created by ancient humans.
And during those epic presentations, similarities in building techniques and symbols give many fans some important lessons relating to cultural diffusion; the universal transfer of ideas from continent to continent and these presentations underline the contradictions in 'generally accepted archaeological theories'.
All of the interesting bits related to secret pirate caches on this strange island could have been presented in one hour; with advertisements.
We view a strange set of stone tunnels along with wooden features that span a large area of this strange land.
How in the hell these 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th century mariners created these deep holes as well as long tunnels and were somehow able to line the structures with wood and rocks is amazing.
And that the liquid flows into these tunnels is in itself amazing.
But like I have stated, the entire story could have been told in a little over 40 minutes.
I will give this team one kudo though.
Unlike Geraldo, they did find one coin.
THE SEARCH FOR GIANTS
Well this team led by two brothers looks for the remains of ancient giants in North America.
And when you wish to discuss Ancient Giants, you must include references to Genesis and The Odyssey and hundreds of ancient tomes that refer to giants.
This giant search is funnier than the damn search for pirate treasure.
I watched an interview with Donnie Wahlberg concerning Blue Bloods.
He noted that the family dinner scenes that comprise about 3-5 minutes of each episode take 4 hours to tape prior to editing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3HMYeAUCCY
The producers/directors of this giant satire take about 3-5 minutes to film 3-5 minutes of meaningless conversations between members of the team. And these stupid scenes are repeated over and over and over until the entire enterprise becomes cartoonish.
Of course it is the 3-5 second scenes depicting the brothers as they nod to each other and squint at each other and give each other the thumbs up as they make their nihilistic search for giant bones that do not exist...but these knowing looks and gestures are really funny until the same scenes are repeated over and over and over....
Now remember that the Ancient Alien nuts never find one chard of glass or one wire or one battery (that could deliver more than one mini-watt of power) or one clamp or one power drill or one set of rails or even THE WHEEL or anything that could deliver proof of some teleological certainty concerning ancient tech that never existed. At least if we found a watch in the desert without some Rolex etching
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/what-will-we-leave-in-the-fossil-record-180952666/
But the stone work that appears all over the world is astounding all by itself.
And the ancient sites are incredible to view.
So if one ignores the silliness of this giant satire, one might find some solace in the fact that several examples of the great Mississippi Mound Culture spanning the entire Central USA are presented.
And it is extremely difficult in most cases to access these great mounds/pyramids since they are oftimes found on sacred ground.
A multitude of Native-American nations do not wish that these sacred grounds be violated and Federal as well as State legislation prohibits such desecration.
So what does this 'documentary' state as its primary conspiracy to find Giant Bones?
The Smithsonian.
So I am in the outhouse again, having re-subscribed to the Smithsonian Magazine and what do I find?
THE 9,000-YEAR-OLD MAN SPEAKS
The main article appears on page 52 of the September 14th edition.
It turns out that after 20 plus years, the Smithsonian was finally able examine the bones of this giant Native-American. And this occurred because the various groups protested against the desecration of these old bones.
I just bring this up because the Alien documentaries always tell us that the Federal, State and World governments are hiding all this ET stuff.
And the Goshen doc has to underline that governmental forces are attempting to prevent the team's journey.
And the Giant searchers claim that the Smithsonians as well as other forces are attempting to hide all the ancient giant bones.
THE END
Except who killed JFK and how come fluoride is allowed to interrupt my bowels from time to time?
LINKS?
GERALDO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LWAwWwIe7Y
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldo_Rivera#Talk_shows.2C_specials_and_guest_appearances
THE CURSE OF OAK ISLAND
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChaGXh_hSXk
THE SEARCH FOR GIANTS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlQPP_tmpQc
MISSISSIPPI MOUND CULTURES
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mound_Builders
POSTSCRIPT
How can I make money?
That is the issue and I guess, always has been since Chaucer.
The Play is the thing.
I am becoming more and more of a nihilist.
Rhetoric and drama and presentation is everything.
Cruz knows this, Curly Rand knows this, Rubio thinks he knows this, Murdoch KNOWS this, Clinton understood this, Pudge Luntz is an expert in this,
WHAT SELLS?
THAT IS THE QUESTION THAT JUST NOT DEFINES AMERICA, IT IS THE QUESTION THAT IS AMERICA.
THE REAL END
Comments
YEAH, I cannot really edit.
ha
Here is the real picture I wished to begin this blog:
by Richard Day on Wed, 12/10/2014 - 4:29pm
DD, when you edit a draft, there should be a tab at the bottom that says Publishing Options. If you click it, change Moderation State to "Published," and save, your changes should appear on the site. I did this one for you.
I'm trying to get a better solution, but you can use this workaround in the meantime.
by Michael Wolraich on Wed, 12/10/2014 - 4:42pm
Thank you so very much Mike.
I appreciate it!
Now I just have to delete my comment.
hahahahah
I do not know why this is so funny to me.
But I will work on this attitude!
by Richard Day on Wed, 12/10/2014 - 5:00pm
lol.
Edit to add: I saw this before I saw you managed to finally get it in the post. Often you really are more entertaining in "unedited" forms, you know, because you have so much talent at the conversational narrative thing....it's more fun to watch you in action and interaction, so to speak....at least for me...
by artappraiser on Thu, 12/11/2014 - 1:31am
You just slay me as they say! hahhahahaha
I am the least talented guy I ever met. hahahaha
What a nice thing to say and yet you have said nice things to me for years.
I believe that I usually acknowledge such homages, as it were.
Artappraiser, you aid in my keepin on and keepin on; as it were.
You have been really, really nice to me.
Thank you for this and other comments over the years.
I really cannot relate how important this type of acknowledgement means to me, as an individual.
Thank you.
That is all I got.
by Richard Day on Thu, 12/11/2014 - 1:32am
That does it. You and I must have some kind of psychic connection. I was just having a conversation last night with my friend and neighbor about this exact topic. All the programs on the History Channel have this annoying habit of asking questions that they never get around to answering. The History Channel is the greatest packager of fluff and filler in the known universe. All of their shows have about 8 minutes of information that is padded out, repeated and sandwiched between filler to make up a full hour of programming. Then, they seamlessly merge you into a second hour of the same show, asking the same questions, which they have to explain to you all over again. . I sometimes find myself screaming at the TV: "GET TO THE POINT!!", but they never really do, they just dance around it, and speculate and postulate ... endlessly. So far, the treasure of Oak Island may have been left by Pirates, or the Knights Templar or the Rosacrucians. (who may have left the actual Lost Ark of the Covenant in the so-called 'Money Pit' or in a cave under the swamp.) .. Arrrgggghhhh..
by MrSmith1 on Wed, 12/10/2014 - 5:44pm
hahahahhah
As you already know, if they got to the goddamn point, there would be no show!
hahahahhah
And I am so happy to see that I am not the only idiot to watch these silly docs.
I had already written to many pages to even get into the Lost Ark or the Templars or the Rosacrucians.
Thank you.
by Richard Day on Wed, 12/10/2014 - 7:37pm
Good to see you back in the fray, Mr. Day. I love the history cannel, the archeology shows, the digging in the jungle and the exploration of caves. After many years of watching these shows there is one inescapable fact:
There has never been a flat chested research assistant.
by Oxy Mora on Wed, 12/10/2014 - 5:52pm
They do stick to men for the most part! hahahah
Oh this storage war thingy....now they know how to find breasts!
Although there is this real cute Texan who is about five foot nothing weighing about 90 pounds who makes one think less about frontal trajectories.
Oh, and I am still nuts about Ancient Aliens for heavens sake.
Just so that 'they' keep investigating old grave sites of our ancestors.
Who cares if they 'find' that aliens lifted our rocks, so to speak.
hahahahah
by Richard Day on Wed, 12/10/2014 - 7:42pm
Ha ha, Day. You are back in form, but you might want to lay off that next bottle of cough syrup.
by Oxy Mora on Wed, 12/10/2014 - 7:46pm
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by Richard Day on Wed, 12/10/2014 - 7:42pm
I think TV producers have a low IQ and produce for that crowd. I don't get time to watch much so I don't know what is on. All of you keep me informed.
I enjoyed the laugh. Thanks DD
by trkingmomoe on Tue, 12/16/2014 - 5:57pm