Happy Thanksgiving to all,
Well all I can say is I hope that we are all Thankful today for something that brings a little or a huge amount of joy to not only our taste buds, but also our souls in wanting to help out in someway or other. (Shouldn't WE ALL FEEL THAT WAY ALL THE TIME), I started my day as I almost always do with watching a very famous BIG city Parade ( Hmm, I wonder which BIG city it was....) yeah I saw the Macy's Day Parade. Here were some of the many floats I got pics of the Energizer Bunny
, Virgina from does 
"Yes dear Virgina, there is a Santa Claus?", of course a BIG "BLUE guy" named Clumsy Smurf 
from this summer's big Smurffy hit movie, and with out a doubt what's a Macy's Day Parade posting here at Day life of the Matt without
ol webhead? My brother Micheal came and pick me up at a little after noon and we went to his place whistle everyone there got ready to go to see their cousins and grand parents and great grandparents and more uncles and aunts at grandma and grandpa house. I got to experience a small sampling of Dr. Who? while they got ready, when we got there conversations were abound along with Cannon 
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Ryan showing me their hand made Turkeys. Many things such as a card game called Spoons-unos (not to be confused with the game we played when I was a teen known as Spoons) was being played with kids of all ages 
, and Heidi and her cousin Ashley (correct me if I'm wrong), Kathie? had a pretty little modeling shot time 
with their aunt Kris and me. Here is a small sampling of what only a small part of our get bird was like 
as we all gathered around the table for our great Thankful day and also here are just a couple
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more of around the table shots as well. While on the way home to their house I had promised Cannon and Heidi that I had something special for each of them by telling them I had found these things in the garbage on the start of this month, they gave me such cute answers in the way of guesses I couldn't help but to laugh at their hunches.........
Hey there,
I have had something on my thoughts for the past few weeks and I guess truly it's because well there just isn't one..... ?, What am I talking about your all asking while probably shaking your heads as you read these very words that I Matt am typing out. Well without making a long overdrawn tale I have always wondered we have songs for the holidays mostly Christmas ones to bring out the joy in us all around the season of giving. Or why is it that we also but not as much have Halloween themed songs like the" Monster Mash" to give us a wee bit of fright or scares leading up to that last day of October (better known as major pay day time coming soon for dentists....), yet in truth there maybe one if even that of a hymn or a song for the day we give "Thanks" for everything we have had a chance to do in helping those around us even if they aren't our real families, so I been having a little ditty spinning around in my head as I was saying at the beginning of this called "GOBBLE, GOBBLE, NO MEAL AM I FOR YOU" as you can see I'm looking out for the birds we consume tomorrow. Now I don't have much in the way of a lyric or a genuine message to be said I can only see something like
this, as a result of great laughter.
Hello there,
So you all know that I like to joke here from time to time, yet I had happen to of had a couple of other titles for this very entry, they were this "where's your own Spider-Man type of mask for today?" or "Walking into a webbed what?'. Yes as you can guess I know without a doubt none you even thought that I was talking about wearing a corn cob over your head and having all of the kennels sticking all over one's face! or was I? No in truth I want to talk about that very strange mishap of us as humans minding our own business and without knowing it out of nowhere we seem to find a sticky substance on our faces because we have walked right into a spider making their web to catch their prey. What I find most amazing about this happenstance is I can see it being a normal occurrence inside of any structure like our homes or work places and for kids reading this your work place is a place that starts with the letter "S". I also know many people fear those crawly things with a passion as much as appreciating them for eating whatever has two wings: with that being said I still find it a constant oddity when we somehow or other are outside doing work and we feel a cobweb on our face yet we can't see anywhere that the invisible strand is? yet at the same time, there are no trees around or other such areas where we can see with the naked eye or even a one of us wearing glasses......a place where the web was?, It maybe wise to note that trying to avoid a weaved web is always impossible to do even if you think you know where one is like in a cave for example? I had happen to be thinking of this not because there is a answer, because I don't think one would have a way of existing, but because over the last few months or so I have walked up to get some carts outside and find myself reaching to my forehead to pull off such a web mask and still ponder "How did I do that?"
Being a kid again would most certainly be fun at many times of the year for sure one great example would be of course Christmas morning being the best of all. Well it still is a few weeks before that said holiday for we still haven't even embarked on "Turkey Day" (which happens to be this upcoming Thursday by the way). I'm still trying to figure out the "Snow thing" if you can believe it? Still being a adult kid is very fun as well especially for me when last night as I was about to leave the comic shop "Adventures Underground" I saw this very rare and if you can believe it unknown to me as well a nineteen eighties
Toy Box. Yes I know I talk about HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE , quite often here I only wish that I could find a place to put it....(if I were to get it?) or some little boy who happens to have a mix of those toys and the newer ones from the early part of two thousand to two thousand and two. For sure I know someone would want it who now has kids that loved the toy line of yo long ago......
Greetings,
Today's number is fifty even. What are you counting your asking right?, well today after I had brought in my third round of grocery carts my boss Kelsey came up to me and said "Hey Matt I want to talk with you for a moment do you mind?" For a brief second I was sure I was in some trouble for something I had done earlier today for some reason, so I said "Sure where do you want to go I had asked. I saw that we were on the outskirts of the bread aisle, which is adjacent to both the Bakery and the Produce departments. Kelsey had ask me "If I wouldn't mind handling a card program directed at kids since everyone knows how you are around kid I think you'd be prefect for this..." I was now excited because for sure everyone knows how I am around kids at the store anyway. I had her tell me more about this card program, she showed me this card that in the left corner it says Kids Club and on the right size of the card it had a small set of pictures of a group of Bananas and behind it a couple of Apples. Kelsey told me that this new program was meant to get kids a option over a cookie and that she wanted me to be the designated courtesy clerk to hand out to every kid I know. She gave me fifty cards, as soon as I handed out my first four I started to keep track of how many I had left. A couple of hours before I left to head home I had handed all of them out and I felt like I was finally in a right environment for myself in charge of a simple project that will have great benefits because here is how the card works, the child signs their name on the front of the card and gets one of either fruit on the card for FREE just by handing it to the cashier and the cashier scans it after weighting the fruit of the child's choice and hands them or in the case of them being with a parent hand it back to them. The coolest thing about this card is it won't go and expire till mid August of next year. So if you happen to have any kids and visit your local Albertson's or Super Vale in some parts of the united states just ask your bagger or courtesy clerk for a KIDS CLUB card and see what happens.....besides a cookie maybe tastier than a Apple or a Banana but think of this at that said moment, fruit will give you more energy than a sugar rush which is what you only get from a cookie anyway, yet in the end I know the choice is yours kiddo......
Cylon Dreamers,It seems that Glenn Larson creator of the original BSG from the late nineteen seventies and early nineteen eighties (see part 1 for insider info.) has finally been able to truly win over fans of classic sci-fi geeks and reinvigorate his story of man vs machine. How is that your wanting to know, huh? Well after seeing the vast improvements of the last two decades on the two other BIG NAMED sci-fi sagas and I don't think there true identities need mentioning well ok, maybe a couple or so pics may help: 
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or maybe not?, maybe much like TNG and even a whole lot more so from DS-9 it 
was the structured storytelling that got Larson thinking once again about his machines known as the Cylons. In the Winter of two thousand and three on December eight and ninth a new re imaged pilot called BATTLE STAR GALACTICA aired as a three hour miniseries 
. It was during time when my eldest niece Portia was as I talked about here quite a lot had a childhood form of Cancer, that she was dealing with over that year and finally had beaten it in the late spring of two thousand four. After her recovery we visited her and her family and at the Mall of America I happen to pick up the DVD cover shown above, watched the whole thing in one sitting on the AMTRAK ride from Minnesota to Washington state, I gotta say I'm not sure if before posting (comparison pt.1) if I truly recall much of the original BSG outside of seeing it maybe once or twice when visiting my aunt Mary Anne and her family in the summer of nineteen ninety two, while visiting the whole side of the Powers side of my mother's side of the family. Anyway (I seem to be, "reminiscing more than I should" when this is about, Battle Star Galactica the miniseries) The story of this new Galactica is by a Star Trek writing vet named Ronald D. Moore and Christpher Eric James based on a teleplay by Larson. This take on the universe of B.S.G. was immensely more fleshed out than Larson's original from nineteen seventy eight and the series which followed in that a good lot of story points were changed to fit equality of the world as it is now. The main thing that comes to pass in the miniseries, (that we were really came close to in two thousand and eight was having a madame President in Hilliary Clinton) as leader of the free world. It also took original character's like Dirk Benedict's StarBuck character
and made it a female as well. Now as to the central foes of man in this space tale are "no longer just robotic toasters" as Baltar claims the Cylons happen to now have twelve other models and apparently the sixth is 
in his head and causing chaos aboard Galactica as well as tormenting him as well. I am sure that there are many surprises awaiting me in both takes of BSG of new and old alike, and like many who like one over the other, for this nerd known as Matt I too make love one over the other but I won't ever forget that the whole like anything is best!
Galactica fans,
Hey to you Sci-Fi nerds or regular tuner inner of this site, Today is going blow you all away for sure.....because if you all recall back at the beginning of this year I said I was eventually gonna compare a Sci-Fi saga way back in mid January. Still don't recall it in any way do ya?, well here is a sight hint as to what it is NOT! "A LONG TIME AGO, IN GALAXY FAR, FAR, AWAY...." nor is it this "WE'RE OFF TO OUTER SPACE TO SAVE MOTHER EARTH, FROM A EVIL RACE...." and for sure it's not "SPACE THE FINAL FRONTIER, THESE ARE THE VOYAGES OF THE STARSHIP ENTERPRISE...." so from these famous openings of other science fiction classics you for sure know that whatever I'm speaking of is right around these series in when it aired originally. Yet many of you may still not recognize that this classic that I'm talking about came from the same fellow who in the mid nineteen eighties came up with a series with this 
, rather sleek talking car to rival those two county boys who drove this
. His name is Glenn Larson and like Roddenberry who created the (BLUE TEXT) or even the fellow known as the (GREEN TEXT) Lucas, Glenn was wanting to make a science fiction piece more in line of the (RED ORANGE TEXT) anime called Star Blazers. The upcoming series would incorporate a feeling of Star Wars as well of exploration like Star Trek. The enemy was a race known as the Cylons a machine race built in part by a human known as Baltar, who hopes to free his own world out of the twelve colonies that plan to be taken over by the Cylons. In this version of BATTLESTAR GALATICA, which I have been trying to watch since Sunday, it was only because (of being so tired) I had to write about it now, here is what my DVD cover looks
like. Also because for the longest while I only had the new BSG series (more on that tomorrow), this one starred Loren Greene who starred in Bonanza as the father figure in that series well. Here he's Adama the main human in charge of the very last Colonies greatest space vessel known as Galactica
. What is really neat about this Galactica series was in how easily one could compare the heroes to the Star Wars characters in a way, but if you were to look at a Colonial viper from the series, here is one
, look if you will at the basic design and also think back to (Lucas design) of the small rebel planes known as X-wings
,you would think did Larson just pick up the models parts that (Lucas threw away) . I truly think not but you never know? The series was famous like (Star Trek) in that it was not only in exploration it had multicultural races in key positions on the ship. One part of this Galactica that harkens back to Star Blazers that I see is when they are trying avoid a group of Cylon raiders here what those looked like 
in a energy field in the Madagon system on their way to planet Carillon reminds me of when (Wildstar) is trying to find out the length of a solar channel in a part of space known as the Octo star cluster, which has been holding the Yamato/Argo for three weeks time. Another thing about this series is the fellow who played the Starbuck character went on to play the character of "FACE" in Universal's THE A-TEAM. This had a a lot of other great people in it as well like future (Star Wars: visual supervisor John Dykstra) here as a model maker and future (Star Trek director Winrch Kolbe) at least I'm pretty sure that he was something on this feature but what I can't remember for the moment. It also had a major star before her greatest film roles Jane Seymour as colonialist Serina on a major world in the Galactica universe, of course a very unknown future musician named Rick Springfield played Adama's other son Zac. Yet in all honestly I have to say comparing this older version of Galactica is truly hard for me, since I only happen to have right now this pilot to base the whole of the older series on is rather unfair I'm thinking?
To Be Continued....
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