Good Clown vs Bad Clown

It's Good Clown vs Bad Clown. Bozo the clown on tv - good clown. Pennywise lurking for some free hugs - bad clown. At the Barnum & Bailey circus, good clown. John Wayne Gacy as Pogo at your kid's party, bad clown. At a kids party with a balloon - good clown. Menancing at the halloween parade - well he's pretty creepy - bad clown. Sexy girl clowns - well they're just hot.

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Space Travel

Space Travel

A trip to Mars? Let's go. Your spaceship is too slow. Not with NASA's new, purely solar, electromagnetic thruster. Theoretically an EM Drive could propel us to the moon in four hours. To mars in just 70 days. Never mind Newton's third law. Beam me up Scotty.

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Hydrogen Cars 101

Hydrogen is the most abundant substance in the Universe. Fuel cells can power you car by converting Hydrogen into electricity. Fuel cell vehicles - FCV's - don't emit green house gases. Emissions from an FCV's are oxygen and water. A hydrogen powered Toyota Mirai is expensive at $58,000 dollars. My Scion is paid for. It costs fifteen cents per mile to power a hydrogen car. Driving my XB costs me seven cents per mile. That's like half as much. And I can fill my tank at the corner.

The closest Hydrogen station is 663 miles away. In Graniteville South Carolina. Road Trip.

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Hydrogen,"the Universe","Fuel cells",electricity,"Fuel cell vehicles",FCV's,FCV,"green house gases",Emissions,oxygen,water,"Toyota Mirai",expensive,Scion,"hydrogen car",XB,Graniteville,"South Carolina","Road Trip",gasoline

Leaf Blowers - The Devil's Hair Dryer

The autumn sunrise. Fall colors. The golden season in all of it's glory. Trees shedding their leaves as they prepare for winter. I'm sorry what did you say? Speak up. Can't hear you over the leaf blower. It's called the Devil's Hair Dryer. And in the fall the landscape crews are everywhere. So if you thought you were going to sleep late. Think again.

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Cubs World Series Parade

Cleveland, the Red Sox, the White sox all took their time. But the Cubs have waited 71 years to get back to the World Series. Over a century since they won it.

Till now.

"World Series Parade","Joe Maddon","Rahm Emanuel",Cubs,"Jake Arrieta","Wrigley Field",Baseball,"Tom Rickets","Let's go cubbies","Let's go Cubs","Theo Epstein","Anthony Rizzo","John Lackey",Kris Byant","Ben Zobrist,Victory,Chicago

My three favorite books that I read this past year.

Over the past year, I have checked fifteen books out of the library. Three books I bailed on. Twelve I read, And of the twelve, three books stood out.

The first book: The Risen: A novel of Spartacus, by David Anthony Durham.
Spartacus and his revolt battle to topple Rome.The horrors of war. Gladiators Kill. Children leave childish things, and the gods reap the souls of those who rose but then fell.

The second book: The Long Goodbye: by Raymond Chandler

Hard boiled 50's LA crime story. Alcoholism, scars of war, and the
superficiality of the City of Angels.

And the third book: Friday night lights: A town, a team, and a dream, by HG Bassinger.

Odessa Texas. Small town America in all of it's glory & all of it's shame.
Focused through the lense of high school football.

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https://youtu.be/L7P7ns4an_k

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Airship Battles

My wife was telling me about a legal case that had an Airship Battle. I was like Airships? You mean like Zeppelins? Shaking her head she's like, no. Heirships. Where there is a living heir. I was like, so no Zeppelins? If you like Zeppelins.

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Lucas Museum - Chicago Museum Campus

Today I'm visiting Chicago's museum campus
Home of 
Soldier Field
Mc Cormick Place 
The Adler planetarium
The Shedd Aquarium
The Field Museum
and soon, The Lucas Museum
But wait, the critics say it will spoil the view.
View of what?
It'll replace this freaking parking lot.
Spoil the view for who?
Lake Shore Drive and the IC tracks are west of here.
The Critics say, It's a blob, it's too big, it's to unconventional.
Well you want unconventional?
When it was unvieled in 1967
Chicago's Picasso was hugely unconventional
Now it's a picture postcard chicago Landmark
The critics would have Lucas fans go down to the vacant Micheal Reese Hospital site
For what?
There isnt' shit down there.
Hello?
Put Lucas's museum of modern pop culture
Where all the Museum goers can get to it.
On the Museum Campus

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Long Form TV Shows - Notes

longform, long-form — TV programming that is longer than an hour in duration; a TV movie or miniseries; “The company specializes in longform production.”


Fargo
Walking Dead
Sopranos
The Wire
Orange is the New Black
Game of Thrones

Pullman - The story of America

The story of Pullman is the story of America. It's a story of vision, success, betrayal, bitter hardship, decline and eventually rebirth.

Vision

George Pullman learned about tight sleeping quarters while working on the Erie canal.Back in America on an painful overnight train ride Pullman envisioned his future. George would go on to build luxury overnight rail cars.His next vision was of a town for his workers.

Success

In 1882, George Pullman built a company town complete with residences, churches,schools,parks, library, shops and hospital. All Pullman homes had indoor toilets,running water & gas. Advantages not found in other working class areas of the city.

Hardship

Pullman's town prospered for fourteen years until the depression of 1894.In an effort to maintain profits, Pullman cut wages, but not rent or prices in his company town. 

Betrayal

His failure to lower workers cost of living while lowering their wages led to the Pullman Strike. To break the strike he called on his friend Grover Cleveland. Federal troops were brought in and killed 40 workers. Upon his death in 1897, George Pullman was so dispised, his body was moved to Graceland cemetary under the cover of darkness. To prevent desecration of his remains, his body buried under 18 inches of reinforced concrete.

Decline

The last rail car rolled off of the Pullman line in 1981. On December 2, 1998 the Pullman factory and clock tower burned.

Rebirth

Since the fire, the clock tower has been rebuilt. A walmart opened. Homes are being rehabed. The clock tower site now a state and city historic site - is becoming a National Park.

So go down to Pullman and take a walking tour. We can learn alot about ourselves by looking at the past

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Frank Lloyd Wright - Oakpark Tour

Join Therese, Andre'and myself, as we take a video tour Oak Park. The highlights were: Frank Lloyd Wright's Home and Studio, the Jerusalem Cafe', Unity Church, Frank Lloyd Wright's mistress's house and a half a dozen homes designed by the architect.

I gave Andre' the camera and let him have at it. He did great. Therese was a little befuddled by my lack of direction, but I assured her she would do fine and she did. Great job Therese.

Normally I script the shoot before I shoot it. That way I know what the story is. This time we shot, then I figured out the story. I took most of my cues from Therese's narrative. Working in reverse was harder for me, and took a little longer but, the shooting felt more natural and comfortable.

So it took a week to edit, and now it's going up on Youtube. I hope you like it. Click through on the jpeg above or the tags below to see the video on YouTube.




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E-Man: The Infectious Disease Superhero - Notes for my Halloween costume.

E-Man is the one man Infectious Disease Swat Team. E-Man can Treat the Ill, Calm the Hysterical and Decontaminate the Scene. In a single bound.

E-Man's Secret Lab in Evanston, Il.,  surpasses CDC, World Health, and all Universities labs combined.

Superpowers: Compassion. Cleanliness. Able to Decontaminate with a Wave of his Glove.

Supervacines: Developed in secret, his cape is a Supervacinator, able to inoculate by looking at it. No shot required. Child friendly!

Women, children and dogs like him. Men fear him.