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Check out the latest from Fox News and you'll see that the U.S. Government is covering up the real Bigfoot find by making it look like a hoax. They've obviously stolen the real sasquatch corpse and replaced it with a rubber costume.

I imagine that Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer are now being held in an unspecified government facility and being questioned / debriefed about their experiences with the Bigfoot creatures.

Expect to see black helicopters over north Georgia soon, as the US captures and hides the Bigfeet away at Area 51!




Bigfoot Body Revealed to Be Halloween Costume
Tuesday, August 19, 2008

So it really was a rubber suit.

The excitement over a supposed Bigfoot body that built all last week, culminating Friday in a circus-like press conference in Palo Alto, Calif., collapsed like a wet soufflé over the weekend as an independent investigator found out it was all fake.

SearchingforBigfoot.com owner Tom Biscardi paid an "undisclosed sum" to Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, the two Georgia men who say they found the body, for their frozen corpse and the privilege of trotting them out in front of TV cameras.

At the same time, Biscardi sent self-described "Sasquatch detective" Steve Kulls back to Georgia to check out the body.

Kulls, it's safe to say, was severely disappointed.

The upshot? The real Bigfoot, once found, is now missing. So are Whitton, Dyer and Biscardi's money.


"I extracted some [hair] from the alleged corpse and examined it and had some concerns," Kulls writes. "We burned said sample and said hair sample melted into a ball uncharacteristic of hair."

Kulls called Biscardi in California, who told him to heat the body to speed up thawing.

"Within one hour we were able to see the partially exposed head," Kulls continues. "I was able to feel that it seemed mostly firm, but unusually hollow in one small section. This was yet another ominous sign."

Then came the clincher.

"Within the next hour of thaw, a break appeared up near the feet area. ... I observed the foot which looked unnatural, reached in and confirmed it was a rubber foot."

That jibes with what Jerry Parrino, owner of Internet Halloween-costume retailer TheHorrorDome.com, told FOXNews.com last week.

"It definitely looks like our [Sasquatch] costume," Parrino said after viewing photos of the body.

The Biscardi team immediately went into crisis mode. Biscardi called Whitton and Dyer at their California hotel. They admitted it was a hoax and agreed to sign a promissory note at a meeting set for 8 a.m. Pacific time at the hotel.

But when Biscardi got there, he "found that they had left."

"At this time action is being instigated against the perpetrators of this fraud," Kulls writes on Biscardi's Web site. "On behalf of myself I can say with certainty Matthew Whitton and Ricky Dyer [are] not the best Bigfoot trackers in the world!"

Greetings my friends,

Today is the 101st anniversary of Criswell's birth.

Keep him in your thoughts today while you throw back a few double Beefeater martinis
and watch the holy trinity of his film appearances in his memory.









Can your hearts stand the shocking fact that 87% of Criswell's predictions have come true!?!


Remember friends, future events like these will affect you in the future!

Leisure was the word this weekend.

Friday, after work, I picked up some new hardware for the drumset, a few new posters for the music room, and a couple of odds & ends from Home Depot. Did some stuff around the house, and passed out on the couch watching THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME.

Saturday, I got a haircut, did some laundry, and got took a nap before going to a party in Acworth with my friend Jennifer.

Made some new friends that night and much drinking and Wii Bowling was done by all.

Yesterday, I came home, straightened up the house, then brought my dog Ben over from Mom's house for the afternoon. Figured it was about time to introduce him to the new house and start to get him used to staying over.

Watched BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: RAZOR, played around online and got to sleep around midnight. I intentionally overslept this morning until about 8AM, and wish I could have today off to nap by the pool.

I hate it when the weekend vanished like that.

Click the link for pictures!

http://www.inquisitr.com/2357/has-bigfoot-been-found/



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 12, 2008
BIGFOOT BODY FOUND
DNA evidence and photo evidence to be presented at a
PRESS CONFERENCE
to be held on
Date: Friday, August 15, 2008
Time: From 12Noon-1:00pm
Place: Cabana Hotel-Palo Alto (A Crown Plaza Resort) 4290 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, California 94306

Searching for Bigfoot, Inc. Menlo Park, California
Tom Biscardi, CEO

BIGFOOT BODY FOUND - EVIDENCE AND DNA DETAILS TO BE PRESENTED AT A PRESS CONFERENCE ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 15th

FROM 12 N00N TO 1:00PM AT THE CABANA HOTEL-PALO ALTO IN PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA

A body that may very well be the body of the creature commonly known as “Bigfoot” has been found in the woods in northern Georgia.

DNA evidence and photo evidence of the creature will be presented in a press conference on Friday, August 15th from 12 Noon to 1:00pm at the Cabana Hotel-Palo Alto at 4290 El Camino Real in Palo Alto, California, 94306. The press conference will not be open to the public. It will only be open to credentialed members of the press.
Here are some of the vital statistics on the “Bigfoot” body:
*The creature is seven feet seven inches tall.
*It weighs over five hundred pounds.
*The creature looks like it is part human and part ape-like.
*It is male.
*It has reddish hair and blackish-grey eyes.
*It has two arms and two legs, and five fingers on each hand and
five toes on each foot.
*The feet are flat and similar to human feet.
*Its footprint is sixteen and three-quarters inches long and five and three-quarters inches wide at the heel.
*From the palm of the hand to the tip of the middle finger, its hands are
eleven and three-quarters inches long and six and one-quarter inches wide.
*The creatures walk upright. (Several of them were sighted on the same day that the body was found.)
*The teeth are more human-like than ape-like.
*DNA tests are currently being done and the current DNA and photo evidence will be presented at the press conference on Friday, August 15th.

Proposed QUANTUM OF SOLACE title track!

Friday night I went to Mom's house to record the Opening Ceremonies for her and ended up staying until midnight to watch them live. The artistic performance stuff was very cool. As always, the parade of nations was more boring than a college philosophy class.

Yesterday, I got up and did some editing on a freelance job. As the day progressed, I stepped away to do a few other things, but kept coming back to the editing.

Around 10PM, I drove to Marietta and hung out with my friend Jennifer. Her apartment complex has a really cool swimming pool, so we swam for a bit, talked for a long while, and hit Marietta Diner at 3AM.

Got a bit bleary eyed on the drive home, but got back fine.

And then hit the sack around 5:30.

Today will be more editing and definitely a bit of house cleaning. And I need to do a couple of favors for my brother. Tonight I'm planning on watching PAN'S LABYRINTH and hitting the pool.

Nothing much else going on.

Planning on taking a long vacation over Labor Day weekend and doing Dragon*Con. If I'm up for it, I may even drive to Nashville to hang out with my friend Joe. Dunno yet. As always, we'll see what happens.

and everyone else who doesn't like Christian Bale's Bat-voice!

Here it is! The second lowest Health Department restaurant inspection in Georgia history!


ATLANTA -- Super Grand Buffet - 1630 Pleasant Hill Road – Gwinnett County

Inspection: U (15 points) (7/23/08)

The report says an employee was preparing stuffed mushrooms with their bare hands. Plus, raw fruits and vegetables were not thoroughly washed to remove soil. Health inspectors also found three dead flies in the soup which was being served to customers.



On the upside, this business busted it's butt and received a 100 rating a week later upon reinspection.

That Mexican restaurant in Duluth that got a 13 (the lowest GA health score EVER!) in May never reopened...

Seriously, check this out!


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Spent yesterday in my old home town of Ellijay with my friends Donna & Mike.

We hit the pawnshops and bookstore, which revealed one small find.

Had lunch at El Agave, the best Mexican restaurant in the world, then we went back to their place and watched a movie on their Blu-Ray home theater system.

The movie was a piece of crap, THE RECRUIT with Colin Farrell and Al Pacino, but since I'd never watched a film on a high end Blu-Ray system, it kept my attention the whole time.

Okay, most of the time...


Nothing much else going on. Got a few things to do around the house today. That's about it.

Found a couple of great music DVDs at WalFart yesterday.

Picked up the Metallica documentary SOME KIND OF MONSTER, which is one of the best rock documentaries I've ever seen. A brutally honest and brilliant film about the near break up of the band. Fantastic filmmaking...

Also got the DVD of Jimi Hendrix's entire perofrmance at Woodstock. I'd seen a big chunk of this on PBS about 6 months a go and loved it.


Over all, $20 well spent.

HIPPY BARFDAY, JENNIFER!

J K Rowling's children's charity to publish The Tales of Beedle the Bard on December 4, 2008


In celebration of Harry Potter's birthday today, the Children's High Level Group (CHLG), the English charity co-founded by J K Rowling and Emma Nicholson MEP to help children suffering in institutions, announces that it is to publish The Tales of Beedle the Bard.

Fans around the world have been clamouring to read the wizarding fairy tales?created, handwritten and illustrated by J K Rowling - since last December, when Amazon famously bid £1.95 million / $4 million for the charity copy, one of only seven in existence, at Sotheby's in London.

The Children's High Level Group will publish three editions of the book, all in the English language, to be printed and distributed by Bloomsbury, Scholastic and Amazon. The Bloomsbury and Scholastic editions (£6.99 / $12.99) will feature additional commentary on each fairy tale from Professor Dumbledore and an introduction by J K Rowling. Amazon will produce up to a maximum of 100,000 Collector's Edition copies (£50 / $100), which will aim to closely replicate the look and feel of the original 'Beedle'. All editions will go on sale on Thursday 4 December 2008.

All net proceeds from the sale of the books - expected to be in the region of £4 million / $8 million - will be donated to CHLG.

The charity works to make life better for vulnerable children across Europe, where over a million children and teenagers are growing up in unacceptable conditions in large residential institutions. In most cases they are without adequate human or emotional contact and stimulation, while many only just survive without life's basics such as adequate shelter and food.

Emma Nicholson says: "We are so thrilled to be publishing such an exclusive and special book. This unique project will raise vital funds for the work of CHLG, to help us change the lives of hundreds of thousands of marginalised and institutionalised children who are living in appalling conditions, and make sure that no future generation suffers in this way."

J K Rowling says: "There was understandable disappointment among Harry Potter fans when only one copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard was offered to the public last December. I am therefore delighted to announce that, thanks to the generous support of Bloomsbury, Scholastic and Amazon (who bought the handwritten copy at auction) - and with the blessing of the wonderful people who own the other six original books - The Tales of Beedle the Bard will now be widely available to all Harry Potter fans. Royalties will be donated to the Children's High Level Group, to benefit institutionalised children in desperate need of a voice. The new edition will include the Tales themselves, translated from the original runes by Hermione Granger, and with illustrations by me, but also notes by Professor Albus Dumbledore, which appear by generous permission of the Hogwarts Headmasters' Archive."

Containing clues that were to prove crucial to Harry Potter's final mission to destroy Lord Voldemort's Horcruxes, The Tales of Beedle the Bard is the volume of five wizarding fairy tales left to Hermione Granger by Albus Dumbledore in the seventh and final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Only one - The Tale of the Three Brothers - is recounted in the book. In The Tales of Beedle the Bard, the four remaining stories are revealed for the very first time.

How'd it get to be hump day so fast?

I've got a ton of stuff on my plate at work. Next week is a critical meeting with a potential client. If we can reach an agreement to do business together, that will keep us afloat for atleast another 5-6 months and help me sleep better at night.

If we can't reach an agreement...


Tired this morning.

Some good family friends are in town and staying with mom. I had dinner with them last night, and since they are Russian, there was much drinking to do. I got a good buzz on and am moving slowly today.

Not hung over. Just tired.

Okay. Time to work.

Later.

George Lucas Talks Indiana Jones 5, Spielberg’s “Nostalgia,” Compares Fans to “Holy Ghost.”
Posted on Monday, July 28th, 2008 at 5:03 pm by: Hunter Stephenson


When it comes to interviews, George Lucas is like that dad who never says anything too out of line, but leaves you pissed off and checking for emotional and totally unnecessary welts. In a new interview with the Times Online, he discusses Indiana Jones 5 and takes more shots at Crystal Skull and Steven Spielberg…

“If I can come up with another idea that they like, we’ll do another. Really, with the last one, Steven wasn’t that enthusiastic. I was trying to persuade him. But now Steve is more amenable to doing another one. Yet we still have the issues about the direction we’d like to take. I’m in the future; Steven’s in the past. He’s trying to drag it back to the way they were, I’m trying to push it to a whole different place. So, still we have a sort of tension. This recent one came out of that. It’s kind of a hybrid of our own two ideas, so we’ll see where we are able to take the next one.”


Great. Read the above quote and imagine he’s weighing out whether to take a shit before he leaves Spielberg’s manse. It’s no different. Moreover, it turns out that Spielberg and Harrison Ford aren’t avatars, and they are simply too rich and powerful…

“Indiana Jones only becomes complicated when you have another two people saying ‘I want it this way’ and ‘I want it that way’, whereas, when I first did Jones, I just said, ‘We’ll do it this way’ — and that was much easier. But now I have to accommodate everybody, because they are all big, successful guys, too, so it’s a little hard on a practical level.”

Painful. Maybe he should hire Phil Jackson as a consultant? Lucas says he looms over a realm called the “father’s world,” whereas his empire’s video games, merch and books are the “son’s world.” As for the fans and bloggers? We are the “holy ghost”—now you know—and Lucas says we can “go our own way.” Fleetwood Mactastic. Outside of more Star Wars and Indiana Jones, Lucas still aspires to make those personal films. This is probably my fave Lucas quote of all time…

“I can’t say yet, but [my next films will] be personal. In fact, I’d sooner just make them and not even release them, just put them on the shelf, like ships in a bottle — ‘Oh, look, let me show you my collection.’ Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way. Films are a very expensive hobby. And you have to get people to want to go and see them.”

You see, these guitars cannot be played, touched even. Don’t point!

Had a great, easy going weekend.

After freelancing on really long projects over the past few weeks, this was exactly what I needed.

Friday night, I came home from work, played the drums for a bit, goofed arouned on the net, and ordered a pizza. I only do pizza like 3 times a year and Friday night, I got the craving...

Saturday, I was up at 7:45 and started cleaning more drums. As it got hotter, I went inside, cooled off, played some Xbox, then took a nap. Later, I finished the drum, the went out to the North GA Premium Outlet Mall, which has a really cool music store, and a bunch of clothing and kitchen stores.

Afterwards, I went out to Phipps with my friend Jenn and we saw HELLBOY II. Considerably more upbeat (and a bit more predictable) than the first film, it was a fun 2 hours and with its amazing art design it was a joy to look at.

Yesterday, I cleaned some more drumset parts, played video games, cut & trimmed the yard, and did some house cleaning.

All in all, it was an easy going weekend that helped me decompress since my last time off.


Next weekend, I've got to take the dog to the vet to be boarded and I'll be spending Saturday in Ellijay.


Ok, time to work...

http://videogum.com/archives/viral-video/who-is-making-all-these-muppet_011175.html

Just got back from the local cinema in Dawsonville, which happens to be the only theater I know that charges you $3.50 for a small drink and when you get the cup, it's an honest to god SMALL drink. Like the kind you got with a Happy Meal when you were 7 years old!

Georgia Theater Company, when it comes to highway robbery, they put the customer first!


Anyway, I saw the movie...

and aside from one or two minor points, my feelings are exactly the same as they were when I walked out of BATMAN BEGINS:

They got it right!

Characterization, relationships, mood, tone, and theme. Best of all, it was clever!


I knew that Christopher Nolan would make a solid movie, but this was so far above my expectations, I was like a kid in a candy store and loved every minute of it!

Damn!



Then, there was the WATCHMEN trailer... I'm on the fence on this one. Any movie that has a principle character screaming, "Nooooooooooooooooooooo!", in sheer anguish is walking on thin ice. And any movie that put that shot in the trailer certainly isn't doing anything to convince me that I should go and see it.

I dunno...

A bunch of people chuckled.

Then there's the TERMINATOR: SALVATION trailer. Everybody in the theater chuckled.


But, DARK KNIGHT rocked and it paid off at the end.

You know, INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL could have rocked, too. But, George Lucas is experiencing senility.