R.I.B. - Ramblings In Brief - Triple Play!
Too many annoyances out there - too much crap all over the place - to promptly attend to, really... And why bother dealing with any of it in depth either? Thus, we chose to adopt the expeditive and most efficient method, permanently: blast it all to pieces piece by piece, take no prisoners, spare no one! But doing so in a less painful way, with little doses at a time! Now don't get us wrong here: in doing so, we do not hope that it will be less painful for everyone involved - at all! Au contraire, we hope it will sting, stab, bite and burn even more furiously since none of these topics (with one glaring exception now and then, really - but, to be honest, there are so few of those it makes one want to cry, really...! But that is another story.) hence, none of these stories deserved or was dignified with a full post to call its own anywhere else on the TLB Prime Network - at blogging time, that is!
So here we go again...
MORE R.I.B. - RAMBLINGS IN BRIEF!
==============================================
Tyler The Tyke - grounded!
They dared. The Boston Bruins dared ground their unruly, insubordinate teenager sniper of a star winger - the one who got them all those important goals to win that key series versus the Tampa Bay Lightning in last year's playoffs and eventually win the Stanley Cup - at last!
He got up late one morning, missed a "mandatory team breakfast" (because, as we all know surely, teams that have breakfast together, break out of slumps fast - and in complete togetherness too, aye!) and that was it... Third strike and he was a HEALTHY SCRATCH for the next game.
And the Bruins lost that game - and the following one too, after ten straight wins with the teenaged sniper in their line-up.
The thing is, mandatory or not, the team was doing so well they didn't need any damn bonding ham-n-egger breakfast together - team spirit was at an all-time high after a slow start to the defending championship season, rebounding in the second month of it to make it quite the November To Remember indeed...!
And this is done - to discipline, sure, and sometimes you just have to do it - but all it did was break a team's momentum.
Tonight, they won the game against the lame Blue Jackets of Columbus by a close 5-3 score: they were losing to them 2-0 in the first period! They struggled and had to score two, including one in the last minute of the game, on a power play, in order to secure a two-goal differential that looks half-way decent - on paper. Disappointing and unworthy of a championship team.
So, you had to go out of your way and discipline the young adolescent, Boston Bruins?
Hockey teams are exactly that: a bunch of adolescents that get on a high and when they are brought back to reality, the synergy is no longer the same for a while on the ice, in the locker room, at game time most of all...
The game is fun when things are going well and the atmosphere is relaxed - the vast majority of these guys won a Stanley Cup just a few months ago together, the few additions to the group have integrated well (Pouliot has scored big goals recently enough, including the winner against Pittsburgh in a crucial game; Corvo just scored the winner against Columbus, avoiding the team a suddenly three-game losing streak after ten straight victories, which would have been just abysmal for team morale!) and so this team already has plenty of team spirit! There is no need to insist on team building here - these guys already proved they had it!
Don't mess with that synergy and, next time they are on such a high, just let the kid(s) play!
Even if the Tyke misses a curfew or something!
Seguin will be Seguin - on the ice, especially - but you got let him lace them up for that to be... B's!!!
Next!
=============================================================
Teacher run through the mud - before trial!
The Canadian Press reported, on Friday December 2nd, 2011, a slightly disturbing story under the headline "Female teacher charged with sex assault involving elementary student" - wow, every boy's (and some girls') dream come true...
This is, indeed, a Canadian affair too...
Pun fully intended, aye, I confess...!
It took place in the province of B.C., British Columbia, capitaled by Vancouver and their sore loser citizens... This female teacher in Langley, B.C. has been charged with sexually assaulting an elementary school student - but it isn't as bad as it sounds right there (poor journalism could not pace itself and reveal the accused's age later on, while establishing a proper chronology of the events that unfolded - sad, really.) Because the journalist who wrote copy here goes straight ahead into mentioning that the accused is one "fifty-seven-year-old Deborah Ralph" accused of "one count of sexual assault and one of sexual interference in incidents police allege to have happened between December of 1998 and June of 2001."
Only then is it -finally- mentioned that "the RCMP say Ralph had been the victim’s teacher, but was not at the time of the alleged offences." Phew, CP - you painted a grim picture of a nearly-retired old teach that molests teenagers (half-consenting teens with twisted fantasies, probably, but let,s not go there, really) but then, at least, you reconfigure things a bit, just in time...! Wouldn't it have been easier to start off with "teacher faces charges for alleged incidents that allegedly took place more than twelve years ago" - HUH? Yahoo journalism...!)
Nevertheless, even if the last such alleged indiscretion took place ten years ago at least, when the teacher in question was therefore a still quite youthful 48 (lucky teenager, eh) - Deborah Ralph was promptly "removed from her teaching duties this past November 9th" which was a single day after her much delayed arrest...
And then yahoo journalism (which has got to be worse than yellow journalism, on every other day!) went ahead and published her name online, for everyone to demonize this woman who is, most probably, not even guilty of anything at all...!
Deborah Ralph had taught at James Kennedy Elementary School from September, 1987 until June, 2010 and at Langley Fundamental Elementary from September, 2010 until last month. In all that time, there were obviously never any suspicions that this woman could have some latent pedophilic tendencies...? Why believe the allegations now, when retirement is about to knock on the teacher's door, after so many years of faithful services?
Not only is the police (and the press) ready and more than willing to believe these allegations; they are eager to find out if there are more to be unearthed! Police are trying to determine if there are any other victims and are asking parents to come forward if they believe their child may also have been assaulted.
"Assaulted" - by a mild-mannered teacher with the unfortunate last name that she bears? Unless she's really mannish in some ways, I just don't see it... Then again, stranger things go on right under everyone's noses that will never be denounced, investigated, "determined" by those Clouseaus and other bozos...!
The true determination of guilt and innocence will only take place one time - on The Day; J-Day!
But that is another Story...
Next!
==============================================================
And to end on a lighter note - this time - Arnold & Paul commentaries on Total Recall...!
Most surprisingly of all, Arnold does have total recall of what he was thinking, feeling and experiencing when he shot Total Recall years ago...! Amazing... The Neanderthal has a brain after all...
When you think about it, this movie could have starred any number of true thespians - and it would have been a totally different film in the end! I am not sure how long it took to go into production, but quite possibly Charlton Heston could have done it (hey; he did Omega Man Soylent Green and POTA - he could have made Total Recall!) or guys like Paul Newman, perhaps, or Kirk Douglas. A plethora of lesser names could have done it, too, and it would have been better for it as well!
For Total Recall is the movie whose script laid on the shelves for YEARS, collecting dust, until it FINALLY got the nod of approval and went into production! Thus, it could have been assigned to a large number of directors, theoretically, before Paul Verhoeven came over from the Netherlands, hot on the heels of a few innovative flicks there - innovative for their violence and smut factor, need it be precised here?
(Let's pause now and admonish Blogger again: for it underlines words that are in my vocabulary and not in his, inferring these words to be incorrectly spelled by moi - simply infuriating. See now: it just did it AGAIN! I had to substitute the verb "admonish" to the verb that I wanted to use ("invectivate") because the Blogger Booger quite simply doesn't know it!!! Heck, Blogger even underlined "Soylent"...!!! Originally, though - and the reason for this pause, at first - Blogger had underlined "precised" in red: so, if it needs precisions for that one, too, here is a quote from a far more reliable source than he is himself...
Austin's work on avant gershwin pulls off the feat of sounding like a veteran who just came on the scene--incredibly polished and precised, but still excited at the possibilities waiting around the corner.The verb invectivate will have quite the future in the 21st Century - because I plan to use it extremely, ah, vigorously if you get what I am screaming... in writ! And, in closing - I don't need your spell-checking services, Blogger!!! Thank you. But no thanks!)
Et maintenant - de retour à nos moutons;
and now back to our regular programming!
Thus, years later (is it the 25th anniversary, already? Has to be....) and especially since they are projecting a remake of it already (creativity-bankrupt Hollywood cannot come up with anything, anymore, so they will keep on ransacking everywhere else for potential movies to make, possible millions to rake in! That includes more comic-bookies adaptations that were ever conceivable before; remakes galore; all those umpteenth unnecessary sequels; greenlightings of the most lurid ideas, for so-called originality or vanity's sake really; adaptations of old material twisted all out of shape through a wretched and warped view of what modernization should be... But we digress right now - big time!) so, in the light of all this, why not try and push a so-called "collectors edition" of the first film, with director and lead actor commentary, at this most money-wise of times...!
Some have likened the endeavour of putting Verhoeven and Schwarzenegger together in a sound booth to review, scene by scene, their movie together, to be an instant comedy goldmine - and that is hardly disputable by the evidence right here:
Schwarzenegger is, basically, quite the big goof - how did this guy ever get elected Governator is beyond me. Sure, for some unstable minds out there, "larger than life" is the description that supersedes "big goof" when it comes to describing Ah-nold: but come on, face the evidence! Just the guy's laugh makes you cringe - and it is not in intimidation...!
Wish they had gotten Sharon Stone's commentary too: always wanted to know what she thought about that divorce scene there...
Or of her usage by Verhoeven in this and that other film too...!
But that is another story - a smutty story - not for this blog!
Paul & Ah-nold, though - you have to listen to it to believe it!
Hope they collaborate again - soon!
Maybe on "The Expendables: Armageddon" or something...?
;-)
So here we go again...
MORE R.I.B. - RAMBLINGS IN BRIEF!
==============================================
Tyler The Tyke - grounded!
They dared. The Boston Bruins dared ground their unruly, insubordinate teenager sniper of a star winger - the one who got them all those important goals to win that key series versus the Tampa Bay Lightning in last year's playoffs and eventually win the Stanley Cup - at last!
He got up late one morning, missed a "mandatory team breakfast" (because, as we all know surely, teams that have breakfast together, break out of slumps fast - and in complete togetherness too, aye!) and that was it... Third strike and he was a HEALTHY SCRATCH for the next game.
And the Bruins lost that game - and the following one too, after ten straight wins with the teenaged sniper in their line-up.
The thing is, mandatory or not, the team was doing so well they didn't need any damn bonding ham-n-egger breakfast together - team spirit was at an all-time high after a slow start to the defending championship season, rebounding in the second month of it to make it quite the November To Remember indeed...!
And this is done - to discipline, sure, and sometimes you just have to do it - but all it did was break a team's momentum.
Tonight, they won the game against the lame Blue Jackets of Columbus by a close 5-3 score: they were losing to them 2-0 in the first period! They struggled and had to score two, including one in the last minute of the game, on a power play, in order to secure a two-goal differential that looks half-way decent - on paper. Disappointing and unworthy of a championship team.
So, you had to go out of your way and discipline the young adolescent, Boston Bruins?
Hockey teams are exactly that: a bunch of adolescents that get on a high and when they are brought back to reality, the synergy is no longer the same for a while on the ice, in the locker room, at game time most of all...
The game is fun when things are going well and the atmosphere is relaxed - the vast majority of these guys won a Stanley Cup just a few months ago together, the few additions to the group have integrated well (Pouliot has scored big goals recently enough, including the winner against Pittsburgh in a crucial game; Corvo just scored the winner against Columbus, avoiding the team a suddenly three-game losing streak after ten straight victories, which would have been just abysmal for team morale!) and so this team already has plenty of team spirit! There is no need to insist on team building here - these guys already proved they had it!
Don't mess with that synergy and, next time they are on such a high, just let the kid(s) play!
Even if the Tyke misses a curfew or something!
Seguin will be Seguin - on the ice, especially - but you got let him lace them up for that to be... B's!!!
Next!
=============================================================
Teacher run through the mud - before trial!
The Canadian Press reported, on Friday December 2nd, 2011, a slightly disturbing story under the headline "Female teacher charged with sex assault involving elementary student" - wow, every boy's (and some girls') dream come true...
This is, indeed, a Canadian affair too...
Pun fully intended, aye, I confess...!
It took place in the province of B.C., British Columbia, capitaled by Vancouver and their sore loser citizens... This female teacher in Langley, B.C. has been charged with sexually assaulting an elementary school student - but it isn't as bad as it sounds right there (poor journalism could not pace itself and reveal the accused's age later on, while establishing a proper chronology of the events that unfolded - sad, really.) Because the journalist who wrote copy here goes straight ahead into mentioning that the accused is one "fifty-seven-year-old Deborah Ralph" accused of "one count of sexual assault and one of sexual interference in incidents police allege to have happened between December of 1998 and June of 2001."
Only then is it -finally- mentioned that "the RCMP say Ralph had been the victim’s teacher, but was not at the time of the alleged offences." Phew, CP - you painted a grim picture of a nearly-retired old teach that molests teenagers (half-consenting teens with twisted fantasies, probably, but let,s not go there, really) but then, at least, you reconfigure things a bit, just in time...! Wouldn't it have been easier to start off with "teacher faces charges for alleged incidents that allegedly took place more than twelve years ago" - HUH? Yahoo journalism...!)
Nevertheless, even if the last such alleged indiscretion took place ten years ago at least, when the teacher in question was therefore a still quite youthful 48 (lucky teenager, eh) - Deborah Ralph was promptly "removed from her teaching duties this past November 9th" which was a single day after her much delayed arrest...
And then yahoo journalism (which has got to be worse than yellow journalism, on every other day!) went ahead and published her name online, for everyone to demonize this woman who is, most probably, not even guilty of anything at all...!
Deborah Ralph had taught at James Kennedy Elementary School from September, 1987 until June, 2010 and at Langley Fundamental Elementary from September, 2010 until last month. In all that time, there were obviously never any suspicions that this woman could have some latent pedophilic tendencies...? Why believe the allegations now, when retirement is about to knock on the teacher's door, after so many years of faithful services?
Not only is the police (and the press) ready and more than willing to believe these allegations; they are eager to find out if there are more to be unearthed! Police are trying to determine if there are any other victims and are asking parents to come forward if they believe their child may also have been assaulted.
"Assaulted" - by a mild-mannered teacher with the unfortunate last name that she bears? Unless she's really mannish in some ways, I just don't see it... Then again, stranger things go on right under everyone's noses that will never be denounced, investigated, "determined" by those Clouseaus and other bozos...!
The true determination of guilt and innocence will only take place one time - on The Day; J-Day!
But that is another Story...
Next!
==============================================================
And to end on a lighter note - this time - Arnold & Paul commentaries on Total Recall...!
Most surprisingly of all, Arnold does have total recall of what he was thinking, feeling and experiencing when he shot Total Recall years ago...! Amazing... The Neanderthal has a brain after all...
When you think about it, this movie could have starred any number of true thespians - and it would have been a totally different film in the end! I am not sure how long it took to go into production, but quite possibly Charlton Heston could have done it (hey; he did Omega Man Soylent Green and POTA - he could have made Total Recall!) or guys like Paul Newman, perhaps, or Kirk Douglas. A plethora of lesser names could have done it, too, and it would have been better for it as well!
For Total Recall is the movie whose script laid on the shelves for YEARS, collecting dust, until it FINALLY got the nod of approval and went into production! Thus, it could have been assigned to a large number of directors, theoretically, before Paul Verhoeven came over from the Netherlands, hot on the heels of a few innovative flicks there - innovative for their violence and smut factor, need it be precised here?
(Let's pause now and admonish Blogger again: for it underlines words that are in my vocabulary and not in his, inferring these words to be incorrectly spelled by moi - simply infuriating. See now: it just did it AGAIN! I had to substitute the verb "admonish" to the verb that I wanted to use ("invectivate") because the Blogger Booger quite simply doesn't know it!!! Heck, Blogger even underlined "Soylent"...!!! Originally, though - and the reason for this pause, at first - Blogger had underlined "precised" in red: so, if it needs precisions for that one, too, here is a quote from a far more reliable source than he is himself...
Austin's work on avant gershwin pulls off the feat of sounding like a veteran who just came on the scene--incredibly polished and precised, but still excited at the possibilities waiting around the corner.
And as for invectivating, for the record, I disagree strongly with the author of the following:
Greek/Latin Roots for Theological Terms II www.drbilllong.com/GrLaRoots/TheolII.html
5 May 2007 – There is one OED attestation of the verb invectivate to mean "to utter invectives," but I don't think it will have much life in the 21st century. ...
Et maintenant - de retour à nos moutons;
and now back to our regular programming!
Thus, years later (is it the 25th anniversary, already? Has to be....) and especially since they are projecting a remake of it already (creativity-bankrupt Hollywood cannot come up with anything, anymore, so they will keep on ransacking everywhere else for potential movies to make, possible millions to rake in! That includes more comic-bookies adaptations that were ever conceivable before; remakes galore; all those umpteenth unnecessary sequels; greenlightings of the most lurid ideas, for so-called originality or vanity's sake really; adaptations of old material twisted all out of shape through a wretched and warped view of what modernization should be... But we digress right now - big time!) so, in the light of all this, why not try and push a so-called "collectors edition" of the first film, with director and lead actor commentary, at this most money-wise of times...!
Some have likened the endeavour of putting Verhoeven and Schwarzenegger together in a sound booth to review, scene by scene, their movie together, to be an instant comedy goldmine - and that is hardly disputable by the evidence right here:
Schwarzenegger is, basically, quite the big goof - how did this guy ever get elected Governator is beyond me. Sure, for some unstable minds out there, "larger than life" is the description that supersedes "big goof" when it comes to describing Ah-nold: but come on, face the evidence! Just the guy's laugh makes you cringe - and it is not in intimidation...!
Wish they had gotten Sharon Stone's commentary too: always wanted to know what she thought about that divorce scene there...
Or of her usage by Verhoeven in this and that other film too...!
But that is another story - a smutty story - not for this blog!
Paul & Ah-nold, though - you have to listen to it to believe it!
Hope they collaborate again - soon!
Maybe on "The Expendables: Armageddon" or something...?
;-)
posted by Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™ at 8:12 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home