USA Phone Lookup

There is a new site that allows the user to look up where phone numbers originate from and it’s address is USA Phone Lookup. I have caller Id, and sometimes I don’t recognize the number. With reverse phone lookup, I can see for free what city it came from, and for a fee I can find out who it is that is calling.

This has been a paid post for which I will be compensated.

Twilight Zone Marathon

New Years Eve is here again, and this year I am celebrating like I did last year and the year before. By watching the Twilight Zone marathon on the Sci-Fi Network and kicking back a few brews. The Twilight Zone is the greatest series ever to appear on television, bar none. The crude special effects contrasted the excellent writing in a way that hasn't been done since, and will never be done again. I fyou don't have the Sci-Fi Network, don't worry, here are a few of my favorite episodes.



Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder, and nothing drove the point home more so than this episode.



In a totalitarian state where books are banned, A librarian is judged to be obsolete and sentenced to be executed, only he is cunning enough to turn the tables on his accuser.



William Shatner of Star Trek fame is on a flight when he spots a goblin ripping up the wing outside his window. He tries to alert the crew, but they think he is crazy. I can identify with him.

Holiday Frames

No, I’m not talking about planted evidence and people going to jail, I’m talking about the great deals Zenni has going on right now on Holiday frames. I’ve said this before and I am saying it again, I will never buy eyeglasses at a store again. There is no reason to, because Zenni has eyeglasses at a fraction of the cost.

While I was browsing through their glasses this morning, this pair caught my eye.


I can’t drive without my glasses, but sometimes the glare from the sun causes me discomfort, especially if there is snow on the ground. If you check out the website they are Frame Number 5826, Metal Half Frame with Polarized Magnetic Snap on Sunlens. If I had these eyeglasses, driving would be no problem. I can get these frames for under $30 dollars in U. S. money. What a great deal!

So if you find yourself unable to see things and you think you might need eyeglasses, remember Zenni Optical. You will be glad you did.

Childe Roland to the Dark....I mean Dubai Tower Came

My first thought was, he lied in every word,
That hoary cripple, with malicious eye
Askance to watch the working of his lie
On mine, and mouth scarce able to afford
Suppression of the glee, that purs’d and scor’d
Its edge, at one more victim gain’d thereby.

From Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, by Robert Browning 1855



The poem that inspired the seven book long story written by Steven King was itself inspired by Shakespeare's King Lear. The reference to the Dark Tower in King Lear was inspired by even older folk tales and legends.

The Dark Tower is a linchpin which holds together (and keeps separate) alternate realities. In the series of novels, the hero Roland Deschain is on a quest to find and enter the Dark Tower, which holds the answers to all questions. In the third novel entitled "the Wastelands", we find out the Dark Tower sits in a land called Thuderclap amid a field of Roses, and that the tower exists in all realities. In the reality that Roland's companion Jake comes from (New York City, 1977), the Dark Tower is a rose. In book five we find out that the nemesis who is trying to keep Roland and his companions from reaching the Dark Tower has the ability to use weaponry from neighboring realities which have manifested in our reality as books, comics, and movies. (Robots with Dr. Doom armor, light sabers, and sneeches from Harry Potter.) By the sixth book the characters realize that they are characters in a book, and two of them travel to "Keystone" (the real?) Earth and meet Stephen King.



So what does the Dark Tower look like? Difficult to say. It's image seems to change from book to book.

Today I was reading a post from the Secret Sun in which the Dubai Tower is mentioned. I followed the Wiki link, and when I saw it my thoughts instantly went to the Dark Tower, without knowing why. It just seemed like a morph of all the images I had seen of the "fictional" Dark Tower.



Reading the Wiki entry, this captured my eye.

Burj Dubai (Arabic: برج دبي‎ "Dubai Tower") is a supertall skyscraper under construction in the Business Bay district of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and is the tallest man-made structure ever built, despite being incomplete. Construction began on September 21, 2004 and is expected to be completed and ready for occupation in September 2009

I did another quick wiki check, and sure enough,

The Dark Tower is the seventh and final book of novelist Stephen King's Dark Tower series, published September 21, 2004 (King's birthday) by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., and illustrated by Michael Whelan. The subtitle of this novel is REPRODUCTION REVELATION REDEMPTION RESUMPTION.

The Dark Tower, which is the final novel in the series was published September 21, 2004, which is the very day construction began on the Dubai Tower.

Remember my saying that in one of the realities in the novels the Dark Tower was a rose? The Dubai Tower is modeled after the Hymenocallis, which is a type of flower.

This plant is the foundation of the design for the Burj Dubai in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.The Burj Dubai will become the world's tallest building once completed in late 2008.

Of course it would be insane for me to say a fictional tower which has been talked about in stories for at least a thousand years is currently being built in Dubai, but the synchs cannot be denied.

Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign tower. Slash and burn,
return, listen to yourself churn. Lock him in uniform and book burning,
blood letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate. Light a candle,
light a motive. Step down, step down. Watch a heel crush, crush. Uh oh,
this means no fear - cavalier. Renegade and steer clear! A tournament,
a tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives
and I decline.

From "It's the End of the World as we Know it" by REM

Transformers: Rythms of Darkness :Updated

Thanks to Brocke at Prison Planet Forum.



The above image is from a Transformers comic book printed in September, 1991.

The year is 2001. My symphony of terror! Welcome to the future. One of many possible futures, but the future nonetheless. It is a future where the Decepticons rule. Where the pulse of life, of light, has been smothered by rhythms of darkness.

Here's a short video clip from the Transformers cartoon, from 1987.



Transformers Predicts The Destruction Of The Twin Towers In 1987 via Noolmusic.com


Still image at 9 seconds.



It would seem, whatever "alternate future" the Transformers travel to, the WTC has been destroyed. The first time by meteorites, the second by Decepticons. Indeed the world was "transformed" by an act of "deception".

Update: I didn't notice before that the meteorites in the cartoon are remnants of Mars. As longtime readers of this blog know, most D.C. Comics which foretell of 911 depict J'onn J'onzz, the Martian Manhunter.

Pay Per Post

Merry Christmas everyone. In the upper right hand corner of this blog, you will see a badge for Pay Per Post, and I want to explain a little about it.

About two months ago my unemployment compensation had run dry, and I was having trouble finding work. I desperately searched for ways to make money online, and that is when I found Pay Per Post.

How it works is, companies who wish to advertise on blogs submit a request to Pay Per Post. Pay Per Post then lists the opportunity, and bloggers can choose whether or not they want to take it. When you take the opportunity and write a short add for the product, you get paid after 30 days.

At first I was torn with whether or not I wanted to put adds on my blog, but hey, doesn't all television programs have advertising? Times are tough, and Pay Per Post has really helped me out.

There are a few criteria, your blog must be at least 90 days old, and you will need to have a pay pal account. The more readers you have for your blog, the higher your list of opportunities will be. Some of you with a large readership will really be able to make a lot of money.

If you click the box and sign up with Pay Per Post, I will get a few bucks for the referral. I didn't put the box up right away because I wanted to wait a bit and see how I liked Pay Per Post. After two months, I have to say I love it, and highly I recommend it to anyone who has a good blog and is strapped for cash.

Christmas Miracle

Some of you might remember this post,where I talked our cat Precious not coming home. Tonight, a woman called and said she had her. We drove two and a half miles out of town, and sure enough, it's her. My wife and daughter cried, they had already grieved over her and believed her to be dead, even though I told them that all the signs I had seen pointed to her being alive, even though she had been missing for seven weeks.

I am very happy. And it's three days before Christmas too. :) Thanks to all who read my previous post and offered a little prayer.