There’s a terrific set of links and resources over at Mashable.com, and it’s updated continuously:
http://mashable.com/2015/11/14/paris-attacks-how-to-help/#HcMKlkEchkqT
For a little perspective, we Americans should remember the support and friendship the French people showed us after September 11, 2001.
L’Amérique se tient avec la France.
I am honored yet again to see one of my poems published by Dead Snakes. Thanks to Editor Stephen Jarrell Williams for allowing me to share “Graceless Ravens Envy You” at the link below:
http://deadsnakes.blogspot.com/2015/11/eric-robert-nolan-poem.html
And, by the way, my friend Tejal Jhaveri Moen has also published a new piece at Dead Snakes! Click the link below to read “A Tearless Cry.”
http://deadsnakes.blogspot.com/2015/11/tejal-jhaveri-moen-poem_13.html
Anyway … in searching Wikimedia Commons for a public domain photo for this post, I learned that there is such a thing as a “Chihuahua Raven” (corvus cryptoleucus). That’s just wrong on several levels. I suggest that we hunt it to extinction.
Photo credit: by Shahnoor Habib Munmun (Own work) [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons.
Someone named Eric McConnell posted this in a comment on Trace Beaulieu’s Facebook wall. I thought it was a particularly nice idea.
Greg Camp said in the comments for this Youtube video, “Tonight, all good people sing this song.”
Pour les gens de France:
Comme un garçon en Amérique, je entendu des histoires de mon père à propos de la bravoure de la résistance française. Je me souviens clairement; mon père a lu beaucoup de livres sur la Guerre Mondiale Deux.
Vos amis aux États-Unis savent ce soir que vous allez convoquer à nouveau la même bravoure.
Godspeed à nos amis et alliés dans la grande nation de la France. Vous avez de l’amour vient à vous à travers l’Atlantique.
La France est une grande nation. Ses habitants sont forts.
Vous prévaloir contre les criminels et les terroristes qui sous-estiment le caractère du peuple français.
Liberté, égalité, fraternité!
L’Amérique se tient avec vous.
Okay, mine kinda sucks:
“Parallel universe,” explained the other me.
How about this one?
“Warning: Rabies Virus Airborne. Flee Infected.”
Let me try again:
“Remember when cats were OUR pets?”
My obligatory wolf entry:
“GenetiClaw Inc.: Now, werewolves CAN exist.””
One more:
“Trump is a poorly programmed robot!”
[UPDATE: Pete Harrison just came up with one!]
“Nolan and Woods: the perfect clones.”
And another!
“NO MORE GAMES!!!” cried the android.
Speaking of veterans today, I’d like to mention that our own little online circle is honored to have one among us. Blog Correspondent Pete Harrison is not only our expert on all things horror-related, but also someone who has served his country with distinction.
Pictured below before an HH-60G PAVEHAWK are members of the United States Air Force 55th Expeditionary Rescue Squadron, in the summer of 2004, in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Pete is first left in the top row, with his arms folded.
If you enjoy the movies, books and comics that we chat about here at the blog or on Facebook, then thank a guy like Pete or one of his colleagues. Constitutional freedoms of Speech and Press would be absent without those to defend them — not to mention our lives and our safety.
Thanks, Petey!
To all the good men and women who have served our country in the highest manner possible, thank you.
I’m unable to determine the origin of this saying.
It sounds biblical. But a google search shows people attributing it to everyone from Stephen King to Mary Poppins to some girl’s grandmother.
Photo credit: By Alicia Rae from Pittsburgh, USA [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons.
“Circle” (2015) is a particularly dark sci-fi thriller that manages to be pretty good despite its obviously low budget. I’d give it a 7 out of 10.
Fifty strangers awaken in mysterious high-tech room in which they’re forced to vote on who among them will next die, until only one survivor remains. (It’s a setup reminiscent of the “Survivor” reality tv series. Good Lord, has that show really been on for 15 years?!) Other amatuer reviewers have called this a “study in human nature;” I think maybe that’s a bit generous. We see a few obvious stereotypes and some pretty thin characters (even if a couple of unexpected flourishes were very well played). I also think that the vast majority of people who would find themselves in this story’s setting would lack the composure we see from virtually every character on screen.
Still, this movie was different and creative. It kept me in suspense at times, and held my attention. And early on, the talk about awakening “in a red room” appears to be a pretty cool nod to what seems like this movie’s direct inspiration — 1997’s classic “Cube.”
I really disliked the ending, but an explanation about why would be a tremendous spoiler.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 