I’ve begun publishing some of my older articles on Knol, Google’s answer to Wikipedia (of sorts). I figured either let them rot on my hard drive or give ‘em to the world to enjoy. So world: enjoy!

The Knol concept is a bit different than Wikipedia: not everyone is allowed to correct articles, only the author may. Readers however can suggest changes in the comment section. A downside is that any quack can write an article and talk about the end of the world. Oh wait, that’s what one of my articles is about…

Oh well, here it goes: the first set after the jump. Don’t ask me how I know so much about weather and the air force.

Click the hurricane to blow you away.

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Attention

Good day.

I am the United Nations Presidential Task Force Chairman for Refugees here in Ghana. I here by pass this information to you that the Member of the Parliament is looking for God fearing person who can be the Ambassador to the African refugees.

The meeting was held yesterday in the castle House in OSU (president Office). Your name has been nominated So that you can be the Ambassador for the African Refugees.

I want you to forward all your details to us so that we can pass your details to the United Nation Head Office in England and America so that United Nation Head Office in England and America can put your name in the registration Book for this appointment and send you official letter regarding this appointment.

I wait to Hear from you.

Hon.Dr. Peter G. Arthur

The Presidential Task force Chairman
United Nations Head Quarter Accra Ghana
Accra Ghana

Hello,

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If you personally are not interested in this offer, we would appreciate if you could forward it to your female friends.

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Russia.

No, this is not a post about soccer (Football to you Americans, a game consisting of 22 skilled players, one impartial referee, two eagle-eyed referee’s assistants and one stupid ball). I realize there is this WorldCup thingy going on, but anyone who knows me knows that I couldn’t care less about who is kicking that leather (or polyurethane) ball around and winning at it.

This is about the Eurovision Song Contest, the original American Idol. Well, possibly more than that, as its been a TV show transmitting since 1956 (older than Doctor Who!) and only professionals participate. Most famously it brought us ABBA in 1974 and has been an important tent-pole in European musical culture ever since (I mean the contest, not ABBA, although, come to think of it…).

In case you live under a rock or in America, you may have heard that Lena won the contest, a cute-as-a-button singer from Germany, who charmed all of Europe with her song “Satellite” (no, not a cover of the lesser ‘Satellites’ by Beyonce!).

Well, the line-up this year was fantastic to say the least, and although Lena’s song is great, I feel it was a photo-finish for the most part. To cut a long story short, here is my selection of the best of the best, in no particular order. But I wonder, whatever happened? Most are doing their songs in English, as opposed to their native tongues only a few years ago…

Oh, never mind. Enjoy!

PS: “You suck!” comments will be instantly deleted as they only state the obvious.

We finished a rough-cut of the first episode and are toying with the idea of changing things around a bit. FX and acting could use some spiffying up, but it’s a work in progress.

You can go to the show’s site to keep up with the news on it and watch the pilot rough-cut for as long as it’s online.

Like I said, it’s a work in progress!

“Your happiness grows in direct proportion to your acceptance
and in inverse proportion to your expectations.”

Michael J. Fox has always been a kind of hero to me.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not someone who idolizes human beings, but I have always been admiring his work and his ability to stay above himself. I still remember myself as a snot-nosed 6-year old philosopher sitting on an isle on a transatlantic flight to the US in 1985, and watching a strange movie with this cool kid, a crazy-haired doc and a flying car. I couldn’t hear the sound because it was a few rows forward in business-class (us cattle in coach had to watch something else), but this cool dude stood out. As did the car. Back in School I would argue with kids over which was the cooler car: the silver DeLorean that could fly, or that black TransAm that could talk. Ah, the 80s.

When a video-store opened around the corner it was a given that I would get my dad to rent me Back To The Future I through III. I could relate to him on many levels, not just height-wise. He was everything a cool kid should be: self-confident, witty, cute and funny. I never really saw Family Ties as that show never made it to my TV screen, but other movies did imprint him as Teh Awesome in my impressionable young mind: The Secret of my Success, For Love Or Money and especially Greedy, more so for teaming him up with Kirk Douglas. In so many ways I wanted to be him. Just watch this 80s Pepsi commercial to see what I mean.

I wanted to be that cool. And then… I grew too tall. I was somewhat short in my school years, but alas a growth-spurt set in around 15, and now I am too tall to be him. Still, I followed his career into SpinCity and beyond. When he bowed out of SpinCity I knew something was wrong, as did we all (why would he always have his hands in his pockets?) and by then his Parkinson’s was full out of the closet.

For years I never heard from him again, except for the occasional mention in the news, a graceful come-back at Rush “foot-in-mouth” Limbaugh and a cameo on Scrubs.

Now in his late 40s and struggling with this ailment he reflected back on his life in his new book A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Future. NPR made an interview with him on that book that enticed me to write this post to share said interview. Although a radio interview where Mike drops jokes, wit and truths as he always has, it is Parkinson’s that is ever present, even in the voice-only interview. We may have seen him on TV with his condition, but it is in the audio that it somehow truly comes across.

Click here to listen to the NPR MJF Interview, or right-click to download.

Don’t let it ever be said that someone called him a chicken…

For your consideration, here are a few videos from ages past. Like two years ago. Old stuff. Some are funny, some are sad, some just are. I recommend Driving Me Crazy and Old Tucson (especially the ‘bad’ part). And half-way-through of 40. And maybe Public Message. And then there is of course the old trailer for Rubberside Down.

Click to enjoy.

You can read the online version of the edition here. Enjoy!

I’d like to point out that, although the cover-image is credited to me, it was actually taken by my sister-in-law, Nancy. Just FYI…

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It describes the occurrences leading up towards the beginning of the novel, introducing a few characters that play a big part in it, yet without revealing the plot of the book and developing only more mysteries resolved only in the novel.

It will be a series of vlog entries created by one minor character.

Currently in pre-production.

Will be part of the site www.seaangelsnovel.com

More to come! Check out the book’s site here.

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It’s but a 5-minute description of the world’s biggest conspiracy theory, a plot so evil, it’s been hanging around our necks for hundreds of years, yet we can do nothing about it. Who started it? Where did it come from? Who is that evil, evil group of people behind it?

Except answers. But, be careful, they’re watching us. They… are… everywhere.

Currently in the script-writing stage. Trust me, it’s going to be hilarious if I do say so myself…

I’m happy to announce my favorite singer Emma Shapplin has just released her newest album, and its a step in a new direction. After her previous pop-opera albums Carmine Meo and Etterna, she now released Macadam Flower, a new more modern approach to her style.

And in English.

While her previous productions were entirely in Old Italian (with the exception of the song Discovering Yourself) and very operatic with a few pop-techno-touches, this album is an unexpected cross-cut of instrumental and techno-rock songs, a few in her native French (!!). While I enjoy the album, I still feel her previous works are more epic in scale and thus inspirational, at least for me.

Still, Macadam Flower is very enjoyable. Allow me to place here a few of her past songs for you to savor and learn why she’s my fav diva. Besides the fact that she writes or produces most of her own stuff. Christine Daae incarnate!

Here a few of her songs, including:

• From Macadam Flower the single Nothing Wrong.
• From the Red Planet Soundtrack the song (and my all time fav song from her or anyone) The Fifth Heaven, here used in a Final Fantasy remix.
• From her album Carmine Meo the single Discovering Yourself.