Bobby "2 Note" Deniro

as Dorothy Parker said about Katherine Hepburn one night, all he goes all the way from A to B 

Charlie's not buying his sell out 

Where to FInd Good Astronomy Info

Mars magnified

DO NOT listen to your friends, rumors, internet rumours saying that the Mars will look as big as the moon etc. that's all living example of how, even though we have the World wide web on our phones now, so much misunderstanding, rumour, word of mouth can still travel amongst us. misinformation. 


good sources: Wikipedia's good for explaining phenomenon like the Equinoxes, and listing ones like the phases of the Moon. the World Almanac is good for listing most of the highlights of the year. e.g. they list the several eclipses (around 6) per year around the world. so next time you hear a religious nut saying there are a freakish 6 eclipses that year, you know it's bs. 


 my favorite astronomy website is http://earthsky.org/, an excellent one for telling you what's going on in the skies. note the far right, TONIGHT, where they tell you what's going on every night of the year. so next time you hear or even read that rumour (the Mars one is maybe the biggest, rumour that is), check the site. 

FUndamentalist Hypocrisy (redundant?)

good but not the only book

i love how fundamentalists can use the strictest Biblical beliefs in being against homosexuality,  evolution, and in favor of proselytizing,  yet can use the loosest Biblical interpretations in "proving" that the Bible predicted numerous scientific advances, that a people can slaughter another,  that the "end times" are here

End of Winter?

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this is  another "contrary to popular belief. "


on average the coldest days are in Dec, Jan, Feb. in the North hemisphere. starting at the begin. of March they gradually raise up. the coldest days  of the year are  usually around mid Jan. so you can say that Winter ends at the end of Feb, about 6 weeks after the shortest day (Solstice), March is  little by little the  begin. of Spring. 


yes i know there are usually cold days in March, snow can happen in April etc. but again we're talking averages and slow change. and remember there can be very warm days in Jan, etc. 


seems everyone, including most of the media,  thinks that  Spring suddenly begins on the Equinox. but again it's just that: the time that the Equator lines up directly with the Sun. it's not all the sudden a time of flowers, warm weather, animals etc. again it's all a gradual, average  process. 

Biggest Bullshit Holiday

not to seem super bitter (wink), but Valentine's wins. at least Mother and Father's day are based on real people, deeds etc. Valentine's ain't. there were a couple of St Valentines but neither had anything to do with romance, love etc. that story about one of them getting the first Valentine's card is just that. 


astronomically same deal: nothing. some bs that birds start courting is just that. 


where it's real? as usual with holidays, commercialism, like greeting cards, gifts etc. guilt. chicks expecting more rings things blings etc. the capitalism of love (redundant). 

Real Deal: Coldest Month

ice ice baby

a lot of folks think that Feb is the coldest. for the most part this is bullshit in the Northern hemisphere. on average, most years, Jan is the coldest. 


what happens is the shortest days (least Sun light) are in Dec (like the Winter Solstice). it takes some time for the Earth to cool down. about a month. so a month after the shortest days are the coldest days. the real dead of winter. of course it's  opposite in the southern hemisphere. 


as far as snow goes that's a different ball game, changes year to year with La Nina etc. not sure of that phenomenon. 

the NFL's other Pre- season

Lombardi trophy

take a look at the NFL's history.  the first half of the season VERY  often doesn't  mean much. you can have a team literally   lose half of those   games  and go on to the Super bowl. conversely you can have a team go 7-1, then not even make the playoffs, which has happened more often than most notice. . that's why i don't even pay attention to the first half:  there's a  damn good change it won't mean much t all in the end. 


but of course most fans do, since they love football so goddamn much. i've known fans that go nuts during the official pre- season games which mean even less.   but they love the games, the season, every official game,  like they mean everything. 


these are some reasons that football is so popular. ther's a game every season's weekend. then you have a whole frigging week for hype, armchair analysis, media attention, theories, arguments,  prediction, etc. so it really is as if  every week's a mini Super bowl. the fans eat it up, the media runs with  it up since it means more ratings/money etc, of course the teams eat it up though they complain about the media etc often, but really it's all a huge part of why they're paid so much. 

Equinox Full Moon (no it's not the new Twilight book)

rare today, that we have the Equinox and a full Moon. near even amounts of day and night with top lunar brightness.

a lot of folks think a lot of bs about the Equinox: first day of Autumn (wrong: hottest days end around Labor day). me and many others used to say that it was the one day you can balance an egg on end (also wrong: can be done any day).

it's actually not that complicated: Equinox sounds like Equator. hence it's the exact time that the Equator lines up directly with the Sun. "Summer" in Tropics ( kind of), begin. darker days here, Sunnier days in SOuthern hemisphere. near equal light and dark most everywhere. that's about it. but again most technical: Equinox and Equator.

8/8?

solar time

as i mentioned before im into  numerology a bit, like with  Fri the 13 and 26th, Sunday oneday etc.

but many try to do it on days like this, so called 8/8, August 8. but you have to realize  that the calendar month names don't line up numerically: September (Sept) is supposed to be the 7th month, October the 8th etc. ..

Spring, e.g. the Equinox, is in March, and that's where i think a lot of calendars started. as ours is supposed to: if you count, the 7th month from March is Sept,  etc. as a Pagan i agree with that.

starting the calendar year Jan 1st, Jesus' circumcision (which it almost certainly wasn't just as his birth is most certainly not Dec 25), was decided by some monk in the mid ages or something. the new year then, for some reason.

so Aug 8 doesn't line up, but Oct 8 would. 8 8. more about that later probably.

Hate the Hype: My Real Deal

now if u'v been following my tirades, you know that i don't have much of a long fuse for hype (short for hyperbole of course, hence, inappropriate, over-done, gushy, etc).

but from my experience, it's almost unfair to the person being hyped: they may be a totally different person in reality (not reality tv, also bullshit). actually i've met some hyped performers on film sets especially and most of them seem pretty nice, mellow, hard working.

now the ones who are being arrested, going bankrupt, doing too many drugs, etc: you wonder if a big part of their problems is that they believe the hype

so it's all the bullshit that surrounds them that i suppose i hate. all the media attention, idiot fans, people paying hard earned money for these folks. i've always had a short fuse for ignorance as well and i suppose that hype is another ugly form of it. .

Why: June Sunniest, July Hottest

the Solstice happens in June (im talking about the northern hemisphere of course, for southern, reverse the facts). so June is the sunniest month, the one with the most sun light. but on average, July is the hottest in most of the hemisphere.

the reason is that it takes the Earth some time to be heated. so temperatures lag by some time. so we get the most sunlight in June (because the Earth is tilted most towards the Sun at the time), heats up the Earth, then hottest month in July.

as i've mentioned before, the phenomenon can be witnesses daily: high noon is at 12 or 1 (daylight savings), yet again it takes some time for the Earth to heat up, so the hottest time of the day is a couple hours later. happens almost every day, barring storms etc. .

How to Soothe Your Sunburn

now when i was young and ignorant (redundant) i did get some bad sunburns, being fair skinned, etc. so a couple of basic practices took care of it afterwards. i still get them accidentally at times so i do the same, they still go pretty well.

• cool down with a nice cold shower, cold towel etc. give it a good hose down/wipe etc. NO SOAP-- you can get an allergic skin reaction as i got once.
• then apply liberally a nice thick coat of lotion. preferably with aloe in it.
• do that periodically, when you need to, when you feel warm etc.

it'll turn into a nice tan actually, usually. of course i think sun bathing for a tan etc is one of those idiot youth get it while you can when you';re a young hot chick so you can snag a man and be taken care of deals, because there's nothing that ages your skin worse than the Sun.

there' also stuff that you can use that i've read: pat your skin with a tea bag, yogurt, apple cider vinegar etc. but the main point of water and cool, then lotion to keep hydrated, goes very well.

Real Deal: Sun Protection

try not to listen to the fear mongering media (redundant?), the medical profession hypochondria, journalists trying to sell magazines (unlike me, im just trying to sell a blog! haha). take the words of some one who is fair skinned (we are always fair or white, never pale or pasty) and who lived in the desert for over a year:

• buy cheapo SPF 15 lotion. that's all i did. from a dollar store. you don't need spf 2000 bullshit
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• at the beginning of Sun exposure, rub it all over the exposed areas. all of them: ears, cleavage, feet, etc.
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• unless you're going swimming or something, after which you of course re apply, ur done.

that's it. that's all i did for over 2 years. and i never got sunburn, again living in the middle of the Mojave, no trees, no a/c so we were outside all the time, often sitting and moving in high noon.

Ignorance: NY versus Iowa

SMELL: now i was in Iowa at the time when times were pretty tough in NYC, there was a good amount of pissing at the subways etc. so the city had a national reputation of reek. but i don't think any of the city stink compared to Iowa: the state had and maybe still has about 350 percent more pigs than humans. so even in a pretty sophisticated university town like Iowa city, the pig shit smell at times was overpowering. i was actually there at around the time that Mad Max Beyond Thunder dome came out, where Thunder dome was literally powered by pig crap. wonder if it was the same deal in Iowa.

HICKS: everyone in NY would put me down for going to Iowa: it would be loaded with Midwestern hillbillies, corn fields, blah blah bullshit. . the geniuses ripping on me? mainly teenagers that were going to upstate NY schools in metropolises like Fredonia, Oneonta, Oswego. "half a horse towns" as my brother would say.

CULTURE SHOCK: other super brains would tell me what a culture shock it would be going to Iowa. bullshit. it was Midwestern, maybe on-average more laid back, but not a big jolt. the shock actually was always when i went back to NY: the urban life, city cultures, the guidos in my home town. always kind of surprised me more when i came back. must be why so many idiots in America love shit like Jersey shore. for the record, i liked Iowa, but prefer it in NY.

What She Really Looks Like

now we all know that she looks different the morning after, and just by coincidence, there just happens to be a pill named in conjunction with this phenomenon. but there's a way to go before that time. and why not get some recognisance, see if she's really as fine as she's painted?

• fire alarms. this one's hard to come by obviously, but isn't it worth calling in a false alarm and risking arrest? (grin). in college i went to one of those huge midwest universities with huge dorms. we would have fire alarms in the mid of the night all the time. maybe it was people screwing in some chicks' room, knocking over the candle, setting fire to the potpourri or something. and you would see these 18 year old WASPY chicks who liked to deck themselves up with tanning, too much makeup, bleach. but at that bed time hour it was like ghosts emerging from the catacombs. . . now i can see why Mae West would sleep with full makeup. which brings us to:
• see them after their jobs. especially if they work at some chick joint: Hooters, strippers. see them without their wigs, in baggy warm ups, not much makeup, heels off. i used to work in strip joints. some of them were unrecognizable at the end of the shift.
• laundry day: you know they're washing their best push up bras, hottest tops, spanks, tights, girdles, whatever. no heels, what do they look like in their baggy old sweats, over sized t shirts, sneakers, baseball hats.
• walking the dog/getting the paper/coffee/bagels/etc: the gossip mags seem to be great at this: getting these glam gods out walking in the living day lights again in similar outfits to above

the Summer Solstice

what actually happens at the Solstice is that the northern tropic, Cancer, is directly lined up with the Sun. it's the northernmost that the sun is directly in line with the earth, which is why there's tropics. so maximum Sun in the northern hemisphere (all this of course is the opposite in the south).

the "beginning of Summer" belief is pretty much bs: warmest days start begin. June thru begin. of Sept on average. peak in July since the Earth takes a little time to be heated up. this can be observed daily: highest Sun is at noon, but it takes a couple of hours for the Earth to be heated, so usually hottest time of day is a couple hours past noon.

so a good time of course to enjoy the Sun and Earth, but also to give thanks, maybe even energy and a little sacrifice (of your time and effort at least) for all that they provide, life, and all parts of which humans survive. giving us nature, vegetation, feed etc. not to mention enjoyment, other health (e.g sunlight stimulating vitamins within us), the mental and physical light of day. a great great entity unto itself.

How Lies become the "Truth"

the expression that something is an "acquired taste". i wonder if that's what the Nazis had in mind when they said that a huge lie, repeated over and over, can become the truth? that lies can grow like cancer until the healthy truth eventually dies?

we should also keep in mind that Hitler supposedly said that he learned propaganda from the Western democracies, not from the Soviets even with Stalin. recent examples:

• "war is peace" rhetoric by Bush and Obama (Obama receiving the Nobel peace prize after increasing troop levels in Afghanistan by tens of thousands, and Bush actually said that the purpose of the Iraq war is peace),
• Bush's Brain (Rove ET AL attacking not the weaknesses of another candidate but their strengths: see Swiftboating),
• CNN saying that the Democrats losing one seat gave them a minority in the Senate (they controlled 59 of 100 seats), also most of the American media playing up the Democrats "losing" everything while having a majority in congress the whole time

Do Them, Not What They Say

i've learned over the years not to listen to chicks when they talk about relationships, matters of intimacy, what they want in a man, all that bullshit. not because i hate them but because so much is bull crap.

i've had women say to my face that they hate me, that there's no way they're going to bed with me, that they don't like my type. and usually that same day they would fool around with me, go out with me, go to bed with me. then i've heard a lot of women say they like funny guys, short guys, Irish (all me), nice guys. then they've gone with the bores, the jerks, the money bags (most frequently), taller guys.


you stick to your methods guys. Mystery et al. increasing the touching, tease them (kidding them about themselves etc), going to a more secluded location, always bringing pen and paper, rubbers, breath fresheners. stick to your stuff and go with their behavior, increase intimacy type deal. even if they say they like tall dark handsome stupid, and you're short fair smart--literally...