September 2012 ~ Strange Days in LA: From Magnolia to Inherent Vice

Sunday, September 30, 2012

Warlocks (Phoenix vs Harpies) Shooting: 3 Dead

Posted on 8:59 PM by Gawar

The traditional Warlocks' logo is the Phoenix.Recent activity regarding the City of Phoenix was detailed here on Friday.Update/Clarification: All three men shot have died.The Orlando Sentinel reports that the Warlocks were founded in Orange County in the late 1960s by Navy veteran Tom “Grub” Freeland. The club now has chapters throughout the U.S., England and Germany.Members of the Pennsylvania Warlocks motorcycle club came to Florida to establish...

Posted in Dead, Florida, Harpy, Phoenix, Shooting, Veterans of Foreign Wars, VFW, Warlocks | No comments

Fire On Board Orioles Plane

Posted on 7:36 PM by Gawar

Fire. Flight. Birds. Baltimore. Orioles. Rays.The chartered flight carrying the Baltimore Orioles to their season-ending series with the Tampa Bay Rays had to make an emergency landing in Jacksonville, Florida on Sunday night, September 30, 2012, after a fire on board.The fire was in the kitchen area.The team is safe and sound at Jacksonville's airport while the situation is evaluated.“They came on and told us we needed to make an emergency landing,...

Posted in Baltimore, Birds, Fire, Flight, Major League Baseball, Orioles, Rays | No comments

Everything Is Connected

Posted on 7:53 AM by Gawar

Cloud Atlas will be released as a film, in the USA, on October 26, 2012. The motion picture is written and directed by Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer, and Andy Wachowski, based on the 2004 novel Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell."Everything is Connected" is the movie's tagline.The Wachowski siblings are the directors, writers, and executive producers of The Matrix trilogy.Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) from The Matrix."An epic story of humankind in...

Posted in Cloud Atlas, Everything is Connected, Fortean, Haley Berry, Hugo Weaving, Matrix, Synchrocinema, Tom Hanks | No comments

Friday, September 28, 2012

Season of Suicides: Of Phoenix, Fox and Paradoxes

Posted on 5:01 PM by Gawar

On September 27, 2001, the Zug massacre "happened." In Zug, Switzerland, Friedrich Leibacher shot 18 citizens, killing 14 and then took his own life. Eleven years later, during the same week, things didn't look much better on the evening news.Phoenix. Fox. Suicides.Signs. Balaclava.Lewis.Scientology.Anarchy.Aurora.James Holmes.James Holmes.Phoenix.The live Fox News broadcast of the suicidal end of a car chase on September 28,...

Posted in Arizona, Cade Poulos, Engeldinger, Fox, James Holmes, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Phoenix, Stillwater, Suicides, Workplace Violence | No comments

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Oklahoma "Red" Suicide: Dressed As Batman's Two Face

Posted on 8:54 AM by Gawar

Breaking News: Cade Poulos, September 26th's suicide, was dressed as the Batman supervillain Two-Face (Harvey Dent), for his school's "Super Hero Day." This appears to be in the realm of a copycat and continues the outcome we are seeing issuing from the "Bane/Joker" red dawn event in the wake of the Aurora shooting (July 20, 2012), allegedly carried out by James Eagan Holmes.The comment from the Joker character that I quoted at...

Posted in Deaths, Harvey Dent, Heather Ledger, Joker, Lexilinks, Names, Oklahoma, School Shooting, Stillwater, Suicide, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, Two Face, Water | No comments

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Lone Ranger Death

Posted on 12:29 PM by Gawar

Water. Bridger. Death.Authorities say a crew member who died working on a set for the upcoming Johnny Depp film The Lone Ranger is a 48-year-old man from Redondo Beach, California.The coroner's office announced on September 24, 2012, the man's name was Michael Andrew Bridger.(This Michael Andrew Bridger is not be confused with Michael Andrew Bridger, who was born on October 5, 1943, with that name but today employs the name Michael Morpurgo,...

Posted in Acton, Gore Verbinski, Green Hornet, Jay Silverheels, Johnny Depp, Michael Andrew Bridger, Native Actors, Redondo Beach, The Lone Ranger, Tonto | No comments

NFL Should Worry About Suicides Again

Posted on 9:26 AM by Gawar

Now that the replacement refs are a thing of the past, the NFL should worry about the suicide of its players again. Violence had returned to the NFL in a climate without rules. But what the recent events exposed were the raw violence just under the surface of the game.Twitter, the sports media, and talk radio were abuzz with the outrageously terrible call giving a win to the Seattle Seahawks on Monday Night Football."The short version is that referees...

Posted in Deaths, Ear, Football, Gladiators, Labor Dispute, Matt Schaub, Murdock, NFL, Paralyze, Refs, Replacement Referees, Scabs, Seau, Suicides | No comments

Strange Days in LA: From Magnolia to Inherent Vice