#Miscellaneous
Fear Fest: Fire! Burn It Down, Pookie.
OCTOBER 18th, Fire
“Fire has always been and, seemingly will always remain the most terrible of the elements.”
-Harry Houdini
Fire is no joke. As a small child I was enamored by two things. Small fires, and large fires. I used to sit in my basement and light monopoly money ablaze to get my jollied. That ended when I burnt a hole in the carpet. In my 11 year old brilliance I moved the couch, cut a piece of carpet out and placed it over the charred remains. It took my parent a whole 3 hours to start asking questions. I no longer start fires, but damn I love to watch them.
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‘Transformers 4 and 5’ May Shoot Back To Back, Star Jason Statham. Don’t Ditch The Xenophobia!
Transformers 3 wasn’t just an abortion. It riffed off of every lazy view of the world that bovine America sees. Sexist, racist, lazy. So fuck no, I’m not excited for Transformers 4 and 5. Wait, it may star Jason Statham? Conflicting…feelings.
THIS WEEK ON Dexter: Smokey And The Bandit.
We’re three episodes into Dexter’s sixth season and ain’t a damn thing happened yet. I’m not worried, no sir. I take the fanboy approach. Patiently awaiting something dope. So the sweet scene with the corpse horses was the last thirty seconds of the episode. So Billy Adama and Father Joe are up to nothing. So Dexter is just giving baby baths and shit.
It can’t stay like this forever, right?
Fear Fest: Demo Dick Marcinko. Makes Jack Bauer His Bitch.
OCTOBER 17th, Dick Marcinko
“Award of 50,000 piasters to anyone who could kill First Lieutenant Demo Dick Marcinko, a grey-faced killer who had brought death and trouble to the Chau Phu Province during the Lunar New Year.”
-Viet Cong Wanted Poster
If you don’t know who Dick Marcinko is, shame on you. All those phony Chuck Norris facts could truthfully apply to this man. Let’s just say that Demo Dick, as he was known, is a true American hero and move on.
There are many things about Marcinko that would qualify him for Fear Fest status. Number one on that list would be that this is the man that started Seal Team 6. I’m sure the rest of the list is still classified, but we might as well toss in there that he was technical advisor on “24”. That’s right, fictional hero Jack Bauer is a cheap knock off of the real thing.
THIS WEEK ON The Walking Dead: What Lies Ahead
(Before we start, I know what you’re probably thinking. “Whoa Dude, first Fear Fest and now Walking dead recaps? Are you taking over Omega Level?” Well, no, the Brothers Omega will return with more regular postings when their daily lives are more settled. And shame on you for suggesting otherwise. Sometimes Superman and Batman have to put in time on Clarke and Bruce. The same rings true for Caffeine and Rendar. I was tasked to write the recaps because of my familiarity with the source material, and my deep knowledge of zombie arts.)
We start season two with a woefully written message that serves as a reminder of what happened in the last episode of season one. We are reminded of the CDC and Dr. Jenner, who I’m surprised they didn’t just name Mac Guffin. I’m not the goodest writer. I can however recognize lazy writing. The last three episodes were rife with it last year. The first five minutes were harrowing. Will the bad writing continue? Did they bad writers stay when Darabont left? The answer is no, the bad writing will not continue. I look at the terrible exposition as an example of where the show could have gone but won’t. Season one may have collapsed like a certain baseball team I follow, but I can hope and dream that season two will swing for the fences again.
Fear Fest: Heights!
OCTOBER 16th, Heights
“I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.”
-Cyrano de Bergerac
Wow, can you believe we’ve made it half way through the month already? We’ve laughed, we’ve cried, we may have even peed a little. Sorry, I do that when I get excited. Today we’ll be talking about a fear that dates back to man’s first moments on Earth. Heights or acrophobia.
Fear Fest: Needles!
OCTOBER 15th, Needles
“Ah, pierce me 100 times with your needles fine and I will thank you 100 times, Saint Morphine, you who Aeseulapus has made a God.”
-Jules Verne
If you guys are anything like me, you hate pricks. However, there are people out there that are so inherently needles that hey actually faint when they see them. Trypanophobia is the fear of medical procedures, specifically ones that involve injections.
THIS WEEK ON Dexter: Once Upon a Time…
The coda to this week’s episode of Dexter should leave everyone with a resounding “No shit, really Morgan?” It only took the Little Sociopath That Could two and a half years of parenthood to figure out that he would have to don a mask to save his child from the truth? I don’t know why this took so long to register with the typically brilliant slicer, but when the episode ended I was stunned the writers tried to float that proclamation across the narrative like it was a revelation.
Dur-duh-doi! Yeah, that’s what I spit at the screen.
Tyrannosaurus Rex Much Bigger Than Previously Thought. Clone It And Confirm, IMO.
The Tyrannosaurus Rex has been filling the undies of many a good lad and lass (or at least me) over the years with gorgeous caramel liquid chocolate. It seems that even that reaction may have been understated, as researches and science wizards have revealed the fucker was bigger than we thought.
Fear Fest: [Ride The] Lightning!
OCTOBER 14th, Lightning
“Electricity is really just organized lightning.”
-George Carlin
We may think we own this planet, but we’re really just guest of Mother Nature. If she wanted us gone, she wouldn’t even have to break a sweat. Today’s fear is something that we’ve all seen and heard. Astraphobia is the intense fear of thunder storms. While this fear knows no gender lines, it’s interesting to know that men are nearly 5 times more likely to be killed by a lightning strike than women. Kind of a weird stat huh? Well, you have the rest of the article to figure out why. If you already know, then don’t be a spoil sport, keep it to yourself.
