Halloween song: Numa-Numa & 'Resident Evil'

Shadowleggy and cartoon versions of the "Resident Evil" characters offer up a "Resident Evil Musical"!

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Be a Ninja in 30 Seconds or Less

Halloween is here, and Michelle Phan has a last-minute quick and easy costume tip for all you proscratinaters. Or a quick and easy way for you to get ready for the Nine Days of the Ninja, which start tomorrow.

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Time traveler or hard of hearing?

Sometimes, too much useless knowledge can spoil the fun.

A friend sent me a link to this video last night, because he's either heard of/or been subjected my love of time travel tales via playing in one of my roleplaying game campaigns. (I think he might have been in the game where D&D characters were sent back to ancient Blackmoor.)



When I saw the video, I thought, "Isn't that just a hearing aide?"

Many years ago, I did a little article on hearing aids for I-don't-recall-where-anymore, but during the course of that, I discovered an early development that had been created by Siemens in the 1920s. Back then, I even came across some old print ads that showed an elderly gentleman holding a hearing aid exactly like the woman in the footage is holding whatever she's holding. I spent entirely too long trying to find that ad online, and I discovered that the collective wisdom of the internet has once again sapped the life out of a really cool urban legend (and beaten me to the punch, once again).

While I never did find the ad I remembered, I did find this page at the Siemens website that has a black and white crop from the ad I had been seeking, as well as an image of the hearing aid that woman is using in the clip (I'm fairly certain).

While the cell phone tale is a cool one, it has an additional problem: How would a cell phone operate without cell towers and satellites? And while I'm thinking about it, could a cell phone even connect with the phone networks of the 1920s, with all of the hardwires and operators manually switching plugs from one outlet to another?

Of course, it that WAS a time traveler in the footage, it's possible that she came from a space ship or a TARDIS-like vessel that is itself a "cell tower" or "satellite".... Perhaps all of us non-imaginative nay-sayers have this all wrong!

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Starting Monday: Nine Days of the Ninja!

Once Halloween is behind us, comes November, and the celebration of men and women who wear masks better than anyone in all of history: Ninja!

November 1 - 9 brings Nine Days of the Ninja, a blogathon that will span cross through several of my blogs and possibly even beyond!

If you want to take part in Nine Days of the Ninja--if you want to help draw back the curtain on these deadly and secretive assassins--assassins who may have killed David Carradine and who may have Randy Quaid in their deadly sights even as you read these words--all you have to do is post something Ninja-related on November 1 - 9 and then send me the link. I will make sure to post it here at Cinema Steve.

But if you fear the Ninja and choose not to take part, I can understand. But I hope you will come here to read and learn about Ancient Ninja Secrets (or at least check out the reviews I'm going to be posting).

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Scientists Find 'Liberal Gene' | NBC San Diego

Who would have guessed that genetics would become the foundation for the 21st Century's version of phrenology?

Scientists Find 'Liberal Gene' | NBC San Diego

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Alleged dirt-bag sues blogger for linking

There's a character in Canada who allegedly likes to use their somewhat wacky libel and anti-discrimination laws as a)a lottery, and b)a way to silence anyone whose views he doesn't agree with.

It seems this person is inadvertently revealing the so-called Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) as a vile bunch of speech-code enforcing thought police. The CHRC are willing participants in his outrageous lawsuits, to the point where he is suing bloggers for linking to articles about him and allowing readers to comment.

Blazingcatfur--a Candadian blogger I have no personal connection to, but who was a fellow traveler for "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day"--is the target of one of this alleged dirt-bag's lawsuits. You can read about the situation here:

Blazing Cat Fur: Richard Warman Sues Blazingcatfur For Linking To "Far Right" Mark Steyn

Blazingcatfur is seeking donations to help him with his mounting legal bills. I encourage you to lend a hand.

I'm grateful for living in the United States of America where, unlike in Canada, legally sanctioned bodies can't work toward this:

I know there are some dimwits out there who think that America needs to limit free speech and impose laws like they have in Canada. But if you actually use your brains for a moment, do you REALLY want it to be this easy for alleged dirt-bags to go after and silence anyone they don't like while pretending they are doing it to further human rights?

I hope not. But if you do, I hope you'll join Randy Quaid north of the border.

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The Hollywood Star Whackers prowl the night....

From the AFP...

American actor Randy Quaid and his wife Evi will Thursday claim asylum in Canada, saying they fled there in fear of their lives to escape a group they have dubbed the "Hollywood Star Whackers."

I find this interesting, particularly because I observed in my Saturday Scream Queen profile of Brittany Murphy that Murphy and her husband reportedly died of the exact same accidental cause. Which happened to be almost the same drug-and-illness related "accident" that killed the media-sainted Heath Ledger.

You can read the full article here: "Randy Quaid and wife fear for their lives, seek asylum in Canada"

Is there anything to this? Have some of the "accidental over-doses" that have befallen actors, musicians, and other public figures in recent years actually been murders carried out by some shadowy organization? And are these killers terrorists, devil-worshipers, or Ninjas? And when will there be a "Law & Order" episode ripped from this headline?

Or maybe there won't be such an episode, because anyone who contemplates making it will turn up dead from an accidental overdose of OTC cold medicines.

There is DEFINITELY a movie in this!

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