Welcome to my World of Wonderment

Our planet is a neat place, full of weird and unusual people doing weird and unusual things. One oddball thing I like to do is geocache. What other activity is there that makes people travel hundreds of miles to climb a mountain, wade a river, and fight a Bigfoot, just to be the first person to sign a piece of paper rolled up in a 35mm film canister stuffed in the knot hole of a tree? I can't think of any other sport that has such a great mix of technology and the wonderful outdoors. A lot of geocaches are placed in a beautiful setting, or hidden in a challenging or unique way, or in a historical setting. Geocaching allows the finder to share in some of the hiders favorite places, and along the way you get to meet some interesting characters, and occasionally learn something new. While this blog is primarily a geocaching blog, I also use this place to post the occasional funny video or weird news story, or as a platform to rant or rave about something I really have to share. But for the most part this website is about you, the weirdo walking around in circles, talking into your GPS unit like it's a phone, pretending your taking pictures of a phone booth to find find the tiniest micro-cache, or circling your car around and around a light pole in a parking lot trying to retrieve a cache without even getting out of your car.

7/7/08

John McC**t

7/6/08

Public Service Announcement: David Lynch Sucks

I'm watching Blue Velvet right now and I want to know how did this movie garner any accolades. Congress should pass a law declaring that if David Lynch ever tries to make another movie he should be drawn and quartered. I decided to watch this movie after seeing that it was one of the American Film Institutes top 100 movies of all time. AFI said it was one of the top 10 mystery films of all times. The big mystery is who supports this crap.

I'll give you the play by play of this movie as I watch it. It has the worst sound track of any "serious" movie ever made. Some of the songs are good songs, I love Roy Orbison etc.. But they are all out of place. The acting in this movie is horrible. The dork main character chews up the scenery. And then there is Dennis Hopper. Hopper is the worst actor of all time. He ruins ever movie he has ever made. Think about it. Apocalypse Now was awesome until Hopper shows up. Hoosiers might have been a good movie if he had not been cast. This movie is definitely no exception. It has one of the worst/weirdest scene ever in any movie. Dennis Hopper (have I told you how much I hate this asshole?) starts sniffing something, (oxygen?, glue?, his underwear?) and rapes Isabella Rossellini while he yells for his mommy. Damn, I need a shower. This movie is just full of unnecessary sexual violence. Why does that damn curtain keep flapping?

And what is with the 25 times the actors say or drink a Heineken? "Heineken? Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!" That is a line delivered ham fisted, straight from the movie.



This ranks right down there with Muhalland Drive, another David Lynch movie, that is the worst movie ever made. Is that guy dancing with a snake? More underwear sniffing, and then Hopper puts on lipstick? Man this movie is bad? Roy Orbison's estate should sue for slander. To quote an Orbison song played during this movie, "I can't help it if I cry," at how bad this movie is.

Oh shit, the man in the yellow coat is a cop! I didn't see that coming. Also, what year did this take place? Most of the cars are from the late 50's, and a few from the 60's. The main dork dresses like it's 1982, but everyone else dresses like it's 1962. The dork sure does heal well. First he's stabbed in the face, (and that appears and reappears trough out) and then he is nearly beaten to death and then the next day he is fully healed.

WTF? I didn't see that coming. David Lynch convinced Isabella to get naked and beat up one more time. Wouldn't you just take her to the hospital, not to your girlfriends house?

What the hell?!? Now the guy with the yellow coat is standing there, and he's dead, standing? What in the world is Dennis Hopper sniffing? Sorry about the long rant but I can't say enough about how bad this movie is. Don't just take my word for it. From wikipedia: Roger Ebert, noted film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times, supports my view, although he praised Isabella Rossellini's performance as being "convincing and courageous". Ebert criticized how she was depicted in the film, even accusing David Lynch of misogyny: "degraded, slapped around, humiliated and undressed in front of the camera. And when you ask an actress to endure those experiences, you should keep your side of the bargain by putting her in an important film"

David Lynch you put your disease in me.

Mike Gravel and the National Initiative

Early on during the presidential primaries, I was pulling for John Edwards. Later on I heard about Mike Gravel and after doing some research, he became my dark horse. Unfortunately for America, neither one of these candidates are black or a woman, so the press just pretty much ignored them. And in our "American Idol" society, if you don't appeal to 13 year old girls, your candidacy is not valid. So we ended up with a rock star, with no background, that claims he is a liberal, but the few things he has actually voted on in Congress have not proven he is any different than the previous administrations. Any one can spout out "hope and change", but I have yet to see any thing different from this guy other than his skin color, and his ability to turn a phrase. (And who knows, maybe those aren't even his words, but some paid speech writer?) George Bush says he is a christian, but if you ask a christian what are some of the most important tenants of christianity, don't lie, love thy neighbor, do unto others, don't kill, well this asshole doesn't fit that bill. As for Obama, we don't know anything about him, other than he looks and sounds cool. But what I don't get, if everyone wants change, why get behind a politician that is exactly that, a politician? Instead of saying, I am a liberal, I am against this unlawful war, I am against warrantless wiretapping, and I am against what the current administration stands for, he says he wants to reach across the aisle and compromise. He said he would keep Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense. He voted recently to give telephone companies immunity for facilitating the government's warrantless wiretapping. And he even says he will continue on with Bush's illegal faith based initiatives. Why, to compromise? To reach across the aisle in friendship? Well screw them. Take a stand. Have a backbone. But that is not going to happen. As for him being a liberal with hope and change, there is hope but probably no change. Barack doesn't fit the bill either.

So if like me you hope for some change, check out these videos. The first one is Mike Gravel being honest and not a politician, also not being very popular.

The second video is about an interesting idea that Gravel is behind, The National Initiative.



7/5/08

If Guns were Cookies


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I Love Mountains

A friend of mine sent me this link about mountain top removal. Check it out and spread the word. If you want to contact an elected official, scroll to the bottom of the page.


iLoveMountains.org - End Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

Judge Rejects Bush’s View on Wiretaps

Judge Rejects Bush’s View on Wiretaps


Published: July 3, 2008

A federal judge said that the
wiretapping law established by Congress was the “exclusive”
means for the president to eavesdrop on Americans, ruling out
presidential authority to override that law.

Rest of the Article...

7/4/08

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Adolf Hitler's Son is Dead

Taken from American Blog

Racist, homophobe Jesse Helms is dead

Jesse Helms on "negroes":

As an aide to the 1950 Senate campaign of North Carolina Republican candidate Willis Smith, Helms reportedly helped create attack ads against Smith's opponent, including one which read: "White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories? Frank Graham favors mingling of the races." Another ad featured photographs Helms himself had doctored to illustrate the allegation that Graham's wife had danced with a black man. (The News and Observer, 8/26/01; The New Republic, 6/19/95; The Observer, 5/5/96; Hard Right: The Rise of Jesse Helms, by Ernest B. Furgurson, Norton, 1986)

The University of North Carolina was "the University of Negroes and Communists." (Capital Times, 11/22/94) Black civil rights activists were "Communists and sex perverts." (Copley News Service, 8/23/01)

Of civil rights protests Helms wrote, "The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that's thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men's rights." (WRAL-TV commentary, 1963) He also wrote, "Crime rates and irresponsibility among Negroes are a fact of life which must be faced." (New York Times, 2/8/81)

Helms on "degenerate, weak, sick homosexuals":

Over the years Helms has declared homosexuality "degenerate," and homosexuals "weak, morally sick wretches." (Newsweek, 12/5/94) In a tirade highlighting his routine opposition to AIDS research funding, Helms lashed out at the Kennedy-Hatch AIDS bill in 1988: "There is not one single case of AIDS in this country that cannot be traced in origin to sodomy." (States News Service, 5/17/88)

Helms being a racist:

And the man ABC News now describes as a "conservative icon" (8/22/01) in 1993 sang "Dixie" in an elevator to Carol Moseley-Braun, the first African-American woman elected to the Senate, bragging, "I'm going to make her cry. I'm going to sing Dixie until she cries." (Chicago Sun-Times, 8/5/93)

Helms filibusters making Martin Luther King day a national holiday:

A year before the election, when public polls showed Helms trailing by 20 points, he launched a Senate filibuster against the bill making the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. a national holiday. (David Broder, Washington Post, Aug, 29, 2001)

On cutting AIDS funding:

Sen. Jesse Helms says the government should spend less money on people with AIDS because they got sick as a result of "deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct," The New York Times reported Wednesday....

"We've got to have some common sense about a disease transmitted by people deliberately engaging in unnatural acts," Helms told the Times.

And before anyone says that Helms came around on AIDS in his later years. No he didn't. He came around on AIDS in Africa. Still didn't want to help Americans with AIDS because, you know, they were homersexuals.

Treason is the Reason for the Season

In celebration of Independence Day I thought I would share the most salient passages of the Declaration of Independence


We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.




Thanks to our founding fathers foresight we can even poke a little fun at our country.



7/3/08

10 Movies to Avoid

If I gave you the following list of movies, I wonder what you would think in advance, before I told you what the list was about? Are they some of your favorite movies of all time? Top grossing movies of all time? Most loved movies of all times? Well all of those things may be right, but to me they are 10 of the most over rated pieces of film crap ever made.

#10 - The Happening
This movie really should be the number one movie on the list for me. I thought it was going to be awesome judging from M. Night Shyamalan's previous works. But this movie just sucked. I had an idea it was going to suck almost at the opening credits. But by the time the first scene is over and the main character (Mark Wahlberg) is introduced, I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that it sucked. It has the worst acting of any movie ever. And that is saying a lot. Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, and John Leguizamo are usually great actors. And the reason this movie is #10 and not #1 is because I think I was the only one left in the world who still thought highly of M. Night after his last movie The Lady in the Water.

#9 - Donnie Darko
If for some reason your spouse comes home with this movie, claiming that someone at work thinks this is the best movie ever made, and you should watch it. Get a divorce first. This movie is that bad. If you want to watch a movie with a man dressed in a giant rabbit suit fucking with somebodies life, rent Harvey. If I thought more people have heard of this movie I would make it #2. But fortunately whenever I bring up this movie, most people don't have a clue what I am talking about. Well I could say that about anything really.

#8 - The Matrix Reloaded & The Matrix Revolutions
These two movies count as one, they were filmed at the same time, and released just a few months apart. I was surprised by The Matrix. I know Keanu can't act his way out of a wet paper bag, but he did a good job in the first one. These other two movies however, are just awful. Bad acting, a bad story line, and bad direction. Neo is a zero.

#7 - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest & Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
These two movies are even more disappointing than the Matrix sequels. The first one was so good, a jolly good adventure. But I defy anyone to write a synopsis of the last two movies that is less than 10,000 words. What an unnecessary convoluted mess.

#6 -Napoleon Dynamite
What a stupid movie. I love offbeat comedies, but this is just ignorant. Everyone I tell this to, always, always, always, tell me the same thing, "You have to watch it more than once." How in the fuck did you sit through it the first time? Vote yes for Pedro? I would rather vote yes for Bush.

#5 - No Country for Old Men
This movie was so disappointing. It had everything, the Cohen Brothers, Tommy Lee Jones, Woody Harrelson, even a sadistic hit man with a pneumatic cylinder. What more could you ask for in a movie? Nothing you would think. Well how about an extra 5 minutes to finish the damn story! Never have I been so enthralled in a movie, and then just have it pull the rug out from under my feet and suddenly end. Eavesdrop for a second on me watching this movie. "......Credits? Credits? Why the fuck are they rolling the credits in the middle of the movie. What the fuck!?! That can't be the end. Nikki was there another disc that came with this movie? Son of a Bit......" Tails hombre.

#4 - Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
I know some nerd with a plastic light saber is out there plotting my death right now, but this movie was such a let down. As soon as the latest three movies in the series were announced, I was pumped. I think everyone started salivating about getting the chance to see how Luke's dad went from an honorable Jedi night to one of Hollywood's baddest, badasses. But that part of the story just gets glossed over. Lucas blinds us with startling special effects, and great acting, but the story just isn't there. These aren't the droids movies your looking for.

#3 - Fight Club
I just don't get everyone's fascination with this movie. I guess because it has somewhat of a twist at the end. The problem was, I guessed what the twist was about 30 minutes into the movie. Movies just suck when that happens. I talked a friend into watching the Usual Suspects over the weekend and he didn't like it. (It is one of my favorite movies of all time) He said he figured out early on who Keyser Soze was and it made the movie less interesting. Imagine if you knew right away that Bruce Willis is dead at the beginning of the Sixth Sense. If you didn't know by now and haven't seen Sixth Sense, don't, I just ruined it for you. What happens in fight club....... is just stupid.

#2 - E.T.
Just because this movie came out when you were a kid and it made millions of dollars, does not make this a good movie. If you want something sickly sweet, go suck on a hummingbird feeder. And the same goes for the movie Big.

#1- 2001: A Space Odyssey
Here is another movie that starts out great. You have monkeys discovering how to club each other in the head, an iconic soundtrack that whips us and the monkeys into a frenzy, and then the mysterious obelisk. Cue the music. Da Da Daaa, Da Da Daaa, DAAAAAAAAAAAAA. Its just like great sex. You have a big black phallus, monkeys screaming, and then the money shot of the bone flying through the air. Well, sex at my house anyway. And then comes the cuddling. Two, long, drawn out hours, of cuddling. Couldn't have Kubrik given the ape a cigarette and called it a day? The rest of the movie is just boring.

Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency


Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency

7/2/08

What Happens in Drink Club, Stays in Drink Club

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WTF is going on here?  Bragging rights for the best caption.

Questions for God

The Ethical Atheist - Questions for God

Innovative Music Video

Here is a weird music video that beats the pants off of anything MTV or VH1 will ever do.

Arcade Fire's Neon Bible

Just start clicking and dragging. It is not really my kind of music but it is really innovative.

Breaking News

It appears that Avyeq the walrus died of a stroke.

Grandma's Birthday

This just seems wrong, very funny, but wrong. And I can't quit laughing at this.





Could you do this, or have you done this? And then post it to the internet? She puts it in her mouth! Oh, I can't quit laughing.

7/1/08

George Lucas in Love

Can You Name These People?



One of the people in this picture I guarantee you know. And no, it is not Charles Manson.




Electoral Votes According to Some Polls

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A "Touching" Tribute To A "Touching" Legend

A world renowned masturbating walrus has died at the New York Aquarium. Ayveq we will miss you.

Here is the "touching" tribute.

Mother's out there everywhere are using this as a life lesson. Not only will you go blind, you may die first. On a side note, 100% of people who have masturbated have died, or will die in the next 100 years, I know, I know, shocking isn't it?


A Walrus Masturbating - The most popular videos are here