Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Ghost Town [DVD]

"...Ricky Gervais is brilliant in Ghost Town, playing an unnervingly rude dentist, Bertram, who dies for a few minutes during surgery and acquires the unwanted ability to see ghosts..." Amazon.com

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Friday, December 19, 2008

Slippery Seattle Streets

Today there was some chaos in Seattle. My Mom lives less then five minutes away from where todays chaos happened and saw all of this while driving down I-5. Now I was born and raised in Seattle and in 25 years I never had a problem driving threw rain, snow, slush, or sleet, and I know the streets to avoid... but some people just have no clue (or luck). To give you an idea of the area, imagine a miniature version of SanFransisco and you have Seattle. Now what Californian in there right mind would drive down one of those steep S.F. hills on a snowy, icy day? Most Seattlites know better, but today two charter bus drivers in Seattle decided it would be a good idea to take a short-cut down one of Seattle's steep hills with a bus full of teens. 
Looks like that didn't work...

"..."I'm right by the driver and he turns on this road that's too steep, and everyone is saying, 'don't go down. That road it's too steep. There's fish-tail tracks,"' said Tamera Vasquez. "And he still goes down, straight down."

"And we are like sliding down the hill, people are like 'whoaa...' People can see it coming. Next thing we know we slammed into the guard rail," said Stephanie Jackson.

By the time the first bus stopped, its front end and front wheels were dangling suspended about 30 feet above the freeway..."

"...And just as people began to flee, another bus came sliding down the road.

"He kind of wheeled it to the left a little bit, then the corner of the bus hit the other bus," said Zachary Blackburn...
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Monday, December 15, 2008

Sunday, December 14, 2008

George Bush and the Flying Shoes...

"...In the middle of the news conference with Mr Maliki, Iraqi television journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi stood up and shouted "this is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog," before hurling a shoe at Mr Bush which narrowly missed him..."BBC
This was so random I figured everyone would want to see the video...

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

The Dark Knight [Special Edition]

"...Ledger is fantastic as the Joker, a volcanic, truly frightening force of evil. He sets the tone of the movie: the world is a dark, dangerous place where there are no easy choices..." Amazon.com

Monday, December 8, 2008

F-18 Crashes in San Diego Neighborhood

SAN DIEGO, CA – "...A fighter jet returning to a Marine base after a training exercise crashed in flames in a San Diego neighborhood Monday, killing three people on the ground, leaving one missing and destroying two homes.

The pilot of the F/A-18D Hornet jet ejected safely just before the crash around noon at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. Explosions rocked a neighborhood of half-million-dollar homes, sending flames and plumes of smoke skyward...

...The pilot, who ended up hanging by his parachute from a tree in a canyon beneath the neighborhood, was in stable condition at a naval hospital in San Diego, said Miramar spokeswoman 1st Lt. Katheryn Putnam. The pilot was returning from training on the carrier USS Abraham Lincoln off the San Diego coast when the plane went down, she said.

Putnam had no details on a possible cause..." -Associated Press 
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With the runway at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar seen in the background, smoke rises from a fire in a suburban neighborhood, foreground, after an F-18 military jet crashed while attempting to land at Miramar.  Monday, Dec. 8, 2008 - San Diego.