A Touching Holiday Song

Should an old aquaintence be forgot
And never brought to mind.

So why sing 'bout loser now
Unless you're tanked on really cheap wine.

Happy New Year from your friends at the Night Stalker blog.

Sorry About Missing Last Night

I was tied up...

Good night and good luck.

The Night Stalker

Bond: Day 3

Finished off the Connery films with Diamonds Are Forever and began the Moore error with Live and Let Die and The Man With The Golden Gun.

Good night and good luck.

The Night Stalker

James Bond: Day Two

Watched Thunderball, You Only Live Twice and On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

Good night, everyone, and good luck.

The Night Stalker

The Year Of Our Bond

I decided to spend the last seven days of the year 2-007 watching all 21 James Bond movies. Today: Dr. No, From Russia with love.

Good night, everyone, and good luck.

The Night Stalker

I Have A Very Important Announcment...

Happy holidays!!!

Goodnight, everyone, and good luck.

The Night Stalker

Still Hating Blogspot

True story.

I Hate Blogspot

True Story.

Good night, everyone, and good luck.

The Night Stalker

Five Years- That's All We've Got

Ok, if all the prophecies are to be believed, then five years from today. The world is going to end. Now I don't believe this, but just in case I've made a decision. I will make it my business to investigate the Unexplained, the final frontier. This blog will serve as a record of my adventures. My 5-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.

Sorry, I was having a Star Trek moment there. Anyway, since we've only got five years, you should listen to this David Bowie song from The Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=louXPUW7tHU

Good night, everyone, and good luck.

The Night Stalker

You Know Who I Hate Right Now? Comcast

So, my mother got a new DVR this week. And, surprisingly, she managed to get it set up all by herself. But she couldn't figure out how to get the remote to play nice with the cable box.

She called costomer service and couldn't get an answer. For two days we took turns searching the net and staying on hold be for we finally found out we had set the bloody thing up correctly and that we need to call are cable provider to get the answer.

Comcast told us that our new DVR (a Samsung) was not compatible with a Comcast cable box. What would be compatible? A Comcast DVR, of course...

LIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We finally called up the store we got the Samsung from and someone told us how to set it up.

So, I plan to make Comcast's life a miserable as possible.

Good night, everyone and, good luck.

The Night Stalker

Reason #42 To Avoid Comcast

They lie to their customers. More later.

Good night, everyone, and good luck.

The Night Stalker

Why I'm Afaid Of Spiders

Between computer malfunctions and goverrnment corruption, we haven't visited the truly bizarre recently. Allow me to rectify that.



The follwing story was first told by a real night stalker, meaning he gets paid to do this (lucky dog).

http://www.slemen.com/spider.html

Something terrifying was happenong on an Ukraine apartment building in 1990. People were being found on an elevator dead. What's more, thet were missing blood and had bite marks on their bodies. It seemed that a vampire on the loose.

Determined to get to the bottom of the deaths, two officers rode the elevator repeatedly. Less than a week later, the end of there adventure would leave two dead: one an officer, the other, a spider the size of a small dog.

What could cause a spider to grow so large? Many believe the Chernobyl incident is to blame. But I'm not convinced...

So take my adivce: the next you decide to ride an elevator, be sure you're armed for combat.

Good night, everyone, and good luck.

The Night Stalker

Another Delay

Still not working.

Good night, everyone, and good luck.

The Night Stalker

Windows 95 (BC)

My home computer won't let me login, so I can't post what I wanted to post. Tomorrow.

Good night, everyone, and good luck.

The Night Stalker

Just Checking In

I'm finally home.

Good night, everyone, and good luck.

The Night Stalker

A Bold Leap Forward

This just in: evolution has shifted into high gear!

Scientists believe that evolution is speeding up, especially in the old world.

I wonder if this means we'll have less idiots running around in the future...

For full details, see:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7132794.stm

Good night, everyone, and good luck.

The Night Stalker

Out of Danger

Finally, I'm done with my exams!

I've found a way to get around my lack of a laptop. You see, I'm typing this on my phone and sending it via Blogger Mobile.

Back on school computer now. I'm having some difficulties, but I'll work with it out. Blogger Mobile is great, because it it means that anywhere in the world where I can send a text message, I can check in it with you.

Now the main article:

The Bush administration is in hot water (again [why is this considered news?])

They were ordered not to destroy tapes showing the torture committed at Gitmo, but did it any way. Now it remains to be seen whether they will have to answer for their sins.

I assume their defense will be that they did for the American citizens. I wonder how they'll explain the rumors that they've tortured American citizens...

http://my.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20071212/475f6ad0_3ca6_1552620071212-546570070

Good night, everyone, and good luck.

The Night Stalker

Out of Greece

My third test done. It was a little harder than I expected, but I still did Ok.

So, last night my laptop got into a fight with a glass of water.

It lost.

As could be expect, my laptop won't turn on anymore.

The good news is, I can get it repaired. For free at that. The bad news is that, since I have to send it in to be repaired, I might have a hard time posting on every single day. But I'll do my best.

Now, on to the main article. I won't usually have to do this, but I have an update on yesterdays article. I finally got to watch the other two videos that I posted last night.

The second video has nothing to do with 9/11. It's all about taxes. If the claims in this video are true, then if you are an American, do not have to pay federal income taxes. If the claims in this video are true, then the supreme court ruled against the Sixteenth Amendment.

(Oh video, where have you been all my life?!?!?!)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1656880303867390173&q=America%3A+Freedom+to+Fascism&total=584&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

While my roommate and I laughed at it (for the first half hour), the final video is by far the most sinister (and that is saying something...). If this one is true, then we're all in for some tough times.

According to this, the elite are in the final phases of putting the New World Order into power. This video claims that the elite is exploited the middle class/poor to gain power, money, more money, and power.

Doesn't seem so far-fetched, does it?

http://video.google.com/videoplaydocid=1070329053600562261&q=ENDGAME&total=2659&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

So, let's pray/hope that these videos are nothing more than the work of nutcases, but prepare for the possibility that they're true.

Good night, everyone, and good luck.

The Night Stalker

PS. Post 42!!!!!!

Out Of Turkey

So, I took my Math final. I actually think did good on it, which is surprising since I struggled all semester.

More madness from my work: I got a call saying I missed a shift at a cafeteria I didn't (until this week) work at it. I went to the HR (Human Resources) office and tried to figure out what happened. It turns out that the guy who called me wasn't even in the cafeteria that he said I was supposed to be at. He was at the one I was working at on the day in question. Probably at the same time.

And now on to the main article:

When you're the Night Stalker, sometimes you have to chase down stories, and sometimes they just fall into you're lap. Or more specifically, you slip on them. Literally...

I was walking up the stairs at MSU when I slipped on a piece of paper. I picked it up, mostly to curse it and throw it away. I instead I found something far more interesting.

This is the actual paper I slipped on:




















Seeing that I wasn't likely find anything more important, I decided to do what I do best: chasing down the truth.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7866929448192753501&q=Loose+Change+Recut&total=101&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

This first video is very long, nearly hour and a half. And while it brings up a lot of interesting points, it also seems at times to ignore basic common sense. I'll let you watch it and decide for yourself it's believability.

The second and third videos are even longer and sadly I haven't had a chance them in there entirety. Normally, I would have waited to post this until I had seen them both, but I thought this was too important to wait even one more day. So once again, you'll have to watch them and decide for yourself their believability. Here are the links:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1656880303867390173&q=America%3A+Freedom+to+Fascism&total=584&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

http://video.google.com/videoplaydocid=1070329053600562261&q=ENDGAME&total=2659&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

And finally, the text website:

http://physics911.net/

I want to make something clear: just because I take things seriously doesn't mean I necessarily believe them. Maybe these people are paranoid.

On the other hand, I've always said that a paranoid is someone who knows what's going down...

I read these sites and watch these videos, not because believe them, but because they are part of what this blog is about. I don't claim to know the truth, but I will always seek. And the public has the right to know, I will always tell it.

Whether this is true or not, I consider my personal responsibility to ask the tough questions and to seek true answers. And I hope you do to.

Good night, everyone, and good luck.

The Night Stalker

The Sword of Damocles

The sword of Damocles is hanging over my head
And I've got the feeling someone's gonna be cutting the thread
Oh, woe is me, my life is a misery
Oh, can't you see that I'm at the start of a pretty big downer?

I woke up this morning with a start when I fell out of bed
And left from my dreaming was a feeling of unnameable dread
My high is low, I'm dressed up with no place to go
And all I know, is I'm at the start of a pretty big downer...

Sha-la-la-la that ain't no

The sword of Damocles is hanging over my head
And I've got the feeling someone's gonna be cutting the thread
Oh, woe is me, my life is a mystery
Oh, can't you see that I'm at the start of a pretty big downer?

Sha-la-la-la that ain't no crime

That ain't no crime

So, yeah, last day before finals. I tried to study as much as I could, but my brain kept shutting down. Math will fun first thing in the morning...

As for the tone of this blog, I've sort of been missing it lately, so here are some headlines to tide you over, until I'm not so down. After tomorrow at noon, I should be back to my normal, charming self.

Adoption Madness

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=498789&in_page_id=1811&ito=1595Don't

Flying Reindeer

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4313531a4560.html

Why I Call My Roommate "Fishmonger"

http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/pfk/pages/item.php?news=1482

Good night, everyone, and good luck.

The Night Stalker

The Brink Of Disaster

Day one of epic studying. I focused on math and will continue to do so. It's my toughest class.

To avoid going completely insane, my roommate and I occasionally went down to play some pool. In the course of this, he majorly anger the pool gods, so if even one has any ideas on an appropriate sacrifice, please tell us.

We always watch some episodes of Quantum Leap, though I mainly watched for research purposes.

I have to work tomorrow, so I can't spend the whole day studying.

Good night, everyone, and good luck.

The Night Stalker

The Edge Of Destruction

So, yeah, it's Finals week. Major studying. Not a lot of time for Night Stalkering.

But today was fun, I went to see Shoot 'Em Up, which had almost as much plot as the title suggests. It wasn't great, but it was fun. Though some of the one liners would make even Sir Roger Moore cringe. (Note: See Moonraker [Actually no, don't see it. I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy])

Also, I got promoted! I now am a level 2 clerk, which means I can handle my boss' money and get half a dollar more an hour.

One more thing. There is a website that rates your blog's reability level. Apparently, you have to have be a college under grad to understand this. My roommate and I aren't to sure how valid this is, so I thinking up a test to find out. More on that later.

Good night, everyone, and good luck.

The Night Stalker

She's A British Teacher, And She's Dangerous

This is appears to an old article, but a British teacher has been deported from Sudan.

Why?

She let her students name a teddy bear "Muhammed."

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/11/27/sudan.bear.ap/index.html

I'm scared for this teacher. And if you think I'm over-reacting, just remember the case of the Satanic Verses, where a Middle Eastern government effectively declared war on the author of a controversial book.

Now, nothing so extreme is happening this time. A group of her colleagues argued her case to the government and she has been granted a full pardon.

So, I guess that means she can return to Sudan if she wants. I'd urged her not to. The government has pardonned her, not the citizens who are still calling for her execution.

Good night, everyone, and good luck.

The Night Stalker

PS. One out of four finals completed!

Pool Hall Blues

After watching a Youtube video of trick snooker (Brit Pool), my roommate and I decided to try and recreate it.


Our journey began in the our own hall. That pool table was being used (as it always is, I have no idea why we keep trying), so we went to one next door. That table was also being used.

The fun started at the next hall. We got the key to game room in the basement, failed to recreate the trick and played two games. He won the first one and I won the second.

After that, we decided to go to the final hall in our complex.

Except we couldn't.

The door locked again when we closed it. From both sides.

Luckily, someone walked by and lets us out when I slid the key over the door.

The final hall has a pool table. In it's game room. That no one can get into, because the key is missing.

Finally, we went back to our hall, but the room with the table was closed.

After tonight, my roommate and I have decided to play every pool table on campus.

Good night, everyone, and good luck.

The Night Stalker

All Quiet On The Midwestern Front

Nothing today. I have two tests in the next two days and I'm exhausted. I'm off to bed.

Good night, everyone, and good luck.

The Night Stalker

You *Need* A Bit Of Shock Treatment

No, seriously. I've been pretty sluggish lately, but after having a session with my psychiatrist, he prescribed some electroshock therapy. I'm telling you, I've been jumping like a real live wire all day!

Scratch that; shock treatment is *BAD*. Almost as bad as frontal labotomies. And as my Psych prof is fond of saying, "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal labotomy."

Basically, with finals week coming up, I have no idea how much I'm going to be able to write each day. So, you can amuse yourself with this:

http://www.parapluesch.de/

This German-made (don't panic; there's an english translation) game allows you to play shrink to a group of abused and clinically insane cuddley toys.

Hint: If you drag the cursor around the bed near the floor, you'll find the shock treatment device.

Hint: So far, only one cuddley toy needs shock threatment.

Warning: Too much shock treatment will kill the cuddley toy.

It's a pretty fun game, though very morbid.

While your playing, I recommend listening to this:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=A3M3jcZvkg0&feature=related

And now a piece on Cruel Intentions.

I actually have no idea what to say about this. I don't whether I liked it or not. After watching it, I had the reaction that I usually reserve for Quentin Tarantino flicks: I blinked twice in quick succession. My first question was "Do I like this?" My second was "Am I allowed to like this?" I can see it now:

St. Peter- Have you ever seen Cruel Intentions?
Me- ...Yes.
St. Peter- Did you like it?
Me- Why, yes.
St. Peter- You go to Hell!

Anyway, if you like movies like Dangerous Liasions, it's a pretty safe bet you'll like this.

Next on my "To View" list is Invasion of the Body Snatchers, starring Donald Sutherland (who played Hawkeye in MASH) and Leonard Nimoy (who was the host of "In Search Of...")

Good night, everyone, and good luck.

The Night Stalker

Censorship and a Cold Shower

If there's one thing I take seriously, it's censorship. Especially when it involves books. So, when I found out that a movie, based on a book that gets banned every three days, was being shown at MSU, I knew I had to fork out the three bucks to see it.

The book in question was, I'm told, a highly erotic novel that took place between the two world wars. The movie was a different matter.

For the life of me, I can't figure out how a movie based on Lady Chatterley's Lover can be so mind-numbingly boring. The mind boggles.

I will say one thing for it: It used actors that looked like real people, unlike an earlier version I saw advertised that I'm sure was glorified porn.

Let's hope my next movie choices are better picks.

Good night, everyone, and good luck.

The Night Stalker

Ban On Spanking

No, you read that right.

In California, a bill to ban spanking is about to be introduced to the congress.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2809937

I don't know about you, but I know a lot of people who will freak out about this. And not for the obvious reasons...

But they needn't worry. This ban will only keep you from spanking children under the age of four.

Which means I should probably stop my roommate from making up those "What do we want? KINKY NIGHTS! When do we want them? NOW!" signs.

And now for another addition of "The Night Stalker Rejects!":

1) An American Haunting. This movie was completely pointless from word go. I had to see it. You don't.

Also a couple of new things for the blog.

If you look at the bottom of this page, you will see both a weird news reel and my sloganizer (it changes all the time, so I'm never stuck with the same slogan.

Good night, everyone, and good luck.

The Night Stalker