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Florence Henderson to Grand Marshal Owensboro’s Christmas Parade

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carol-brady We all know her as Carol Brady but Owensboro Kentucky has got THE “Florence Henderson” to Grand marshal their Christmas parade! Now that’s Wessonality! (Anyone get that?)


The 2015 Owensboro Christmas Parade will take place on Saturday, November 21. It will start promptly at 4:30 p.m., rain, shine or snow, and is expected to last between an hour and a half to two hours.

Go here for the complete article: Owensboro Parent Magazine

 

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Posted by Chuck Gee - November 4, 2015 at 9:59 AM

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Government surveillance is everywhere, can you really disappear?

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“Up here in space, I’m looking down at you. My lasers trace, everything that you do. You think you’ve private lives think nothing of a kind. There is no true escape, I’m watching all the time”

In 1982 Judas Priest wrote these lyrics. Pay careful attention to it. You don’t have to “like” Judas Priest to understand what they were saying. It was bad enough knowing that satellites were watching us all the time back then. But now…

 

untitled  In 2015, it’s no longer the Government just looking down on us from above. They are watching our every move. We now have “smart” phones with dumb people. I am “one of the dumb” too. We use bank cards, we shop on line. Everything we have has GPS on it. We hardly use cash anymore. When we do we are sometimes still asked for our phone numbers. Most willingly give it to them. So our habits and whereabouts are constantly known and recorded. So is Edward Snowden a saint or a sinner? He did expose top Government secrets but he also exposed the fact the Government spies on its own citizens “or” watches them.

Here is an interesting article about a man trying to go offline and become “anonymous”. Is it even possible these days? Can we remove our digital footprint at all? Should we? Or is it inevitable that every movement and breath we take be tracked and stored away…just encase the Government needs it.

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I took myself offline completely. Here’s why – Telegraph

untitledq“My current art project, Data Shadow, aims to get the public to realise that our phones are extensions of ourselves, but that we do not own its contents – which has potentially catastrophic consequences. For someone else to be able to monitor our messages, photographs, physical locations and online activity equates to total surveillance.’

“We all have a right to privacy, but this is gradually being eroded. Last year in America, Congress decided that the Fourth Amendment, which states the need for a warrant to search for specific things, does not apply to non-US citizens’ personal data. That is 95 per cent of the world’s population.”

For more go here: The Telegraph

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Posted by Chuck Gee - November 4, 2015 at 8:53 AM

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Journey has fired Dean Castronovo

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Remember Dean was replaced a few months ago due to be arrested way back in June for a slew of charges? He went into treatment for drug addiction and while he was in there he called the band’s manager. The band’s manager informed Dean that he was terminated from the band on August 10th. How Dean respond to that?

From: Blabbermouth

In the same interview, Castronovo admitted that he has “been on and off the wagon for years.” He added: “It’s been a struggle and the band has given me a bajillion chances and I kept screwing those chances up. Finally, it came to a head this year, you know. There’s been a lot of emotional, verbal and physical abuse with [my ex-fiancée] and myself, and it came to a head after this last tour. I hit lower than bottom, and it’s something that I’m going to have to fight the rest of my life.”

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Posted by Chuck Gee - November 3, 2015 at 10:56 AM

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Guys and dolls do you have your ticket to “LAUGH-a-LOT”?

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 Next Thurs Nov 12th at the HFAC, Second City will be in town for ONE NIGHT of comedy. These are improv professionals and they go on to be SNL cast members! You don’t want to miss this show! Our own local Gavin Eddings is opening for the SC crew. Come out for a funny evening of entertainment!

 

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AFTER DARK SERIES:  The Second City Fully Loaded
Join us for lots of laughs as the talents of six Chicago comedians take the stage with fresh, fast and always funny sketches.
Thursday, November 12 | 8:00 p.m
McCormick Hall
Reserved Ticket $32 (all sections)
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*adult content show–may not be appropriate for younger audiencesHenderson Area Arts Alliance

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Posted by Chuck Gee - November 3, 2015 at 8:05 AM

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KickActs October Traffic Stats

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203,464 page hits!

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Posted by Chuck Gee - November 2, 2015 at 1:52 PM

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S.S. Baychimo, A real ghost ship!

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Excerpt: Mysterious Universe 

The Mysterious Ghost Ship of the Arctic | Mysterious Universe

“The Baychimo was obviously tougher than its captain had given it credit for, because it did indeed survive the winter, and began its ascent into the annals of sea legend. People began to report seeing the ship cruising about the cold north Atlantic waters, totally intact and seemingly unmanned. The first such sighting came when a dog sledder heading for Nome, Alaska, spotted the ship adrift near shore, and the number of sightings took off from there. The path of the Baychimo was unpredictable and erratic, with the ship sometimes being seen near shore but at other times far out to sea, and it was sighted alternately in both open water and trapped within ice, in wildly disparate locations.”

 

SS Baychimo – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sightings

  • A few days after the Baychimo had disappeared on 24 November 1931, the ship was found 45 mi (72 km) south of where she was lost, but was again ice-packed.
  • After several months, she was spotted again but about 300 mi (480 km) to the east.
  • In March of the following year, she was seen floating peacefully near the shore by Leslie Melvin, by a man traveling to Nome with his dog sled team.
  • A few months after that, she was seen by a company of prospectors.
  • In August 1932, she was boarded by a 20-man Alaskan trading party off Wainwright, Alaska.[3]
  • March 1933, she was found by a group of Eskimos who boarded her and were trapped aboard for 10 days by a freak storm.
  • August 1933, the Hudson’s Bay Company heard she was still afloat, but was too far a-sea to salvage.[3]
  • July 1934, she was boarded by a group of explorers on a schooner.
  • September 1935, she was seen off Alaska’s northwest coast.[3]
  • November 1939, she was boarded by Captain Hugh Polson, wishing to salvage her, but the creeping ice floes intervened and the captain had to abandon her. This is the last recorded boarding of the Baychimo.[4]
  • After 1939, she was seen floating alone and without crew numerous times, but had always eluded capture.
  • March 1962, she was seen drifting along the Beaufort Sea coast by a group of Inuit.
  • She was found frozen in an ice pack in 1969, 38 years after she was abandoned. This is the last recorded sighting of the Baychimo.
  • In 2006, the Alaskan government began work on a project to solve the mystery of “the Ghost Ship of the Arctic” and locate the Baychimo, whether still afloat or on the ocean floor. She has not been found yet.

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Posted by Chuck Gee - November 2, 2015 at 9:07 AM

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A list of SCARY movies you have to watch!

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The Amityville Horror.

The-Amityville-Horror-House   I saw this one as a kid after reading the book. You have to over look the dated clothes but the movie scared the hell out of me. I won’t watch it again even now. The house located at 112 Ocean Avenue Amityville, Long Island New York was the scene of 6 gruesome murders committed by the DeFoe’s son Butch. That wasn’t the end of it. The house was purchased afterwards and the Lutz family (not the Lutz family I know) moved in to it. They lived there 28 days and were driven out by “Something”…

The Exorcist

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Another one that was terrifying. When it was released in 1973 it had people fleeing the movie theaters. After 40 plus years it still stands the test of time. Inspired by the 1949 Exorcism of Roland Doe, this one is sure to give you the “willies” too! It made 12 year old Linda Blair a household name and probably was also the death of her career.

American Werewolf in London

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Finally one that isn’t based on a true story though werewolves are thought to exist. I saw this one when it came out. Sprinkled lightly with some humor but the werewolf transformation was incredible realistic looking for the time. No CGI was involved. David and Jack are backpacking across the New York Moors and stop in at The Slaughtered Lamb” pub  for a brew. Before they leave the are warned to ” Stay on the road, Keep clear of the Moors”. But they are attacked by a creature and Jack is killed. This is were is gets trippy. As the movie continues along Jack shows up in different states of decomposition. It has some great scare moments in it. Well worth the watch!

 

Phantasm

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A bizarre movie about an undertaker that shrinks down the town’s dead people to dwarf size so they can be used as slaves on another planet. The movie contains all the cool stuff a horror movie needs. Dead people, creepy tall people and a sphere that flies thru the air and drills holes in your head!

 

A Nightmare on Elm Street

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The first movie in the series was ground breaking. A real slasher movie! An evil man burnt up in a furnace because of his deeds only to come back to life in your dreams! How cool was that? “One, Two, Freddie is coming for you”! Don’t go to sleep! It still holds up!

List some of yours!

Honorable mentions:

The Omen

Night of the Living Dead

The Blob

It’s Alive

The Fog

 

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Posted by Chuck Gee - October 30, 2015 at 4:25 PM

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“Ages of Rock” Podcast! All things ROCK!

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Ages of Rock Podcast 

 

Welcome to Ages of Rock Podcast!

Your co-hosts, Allen Tate, Bill Algee and Dennis Talbott are 3 middle aged, semi mature, Midwestern men….

Talking Rock!

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Posted by Chuck Gee - October 30, 2015 at 8:39 AM

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My Interview with Fortune Teller James Pierri of “Auset Gypsy”

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 KICKACTS HALLOWEEN SPECIAL!

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Ah, Tis the season! The fall of the year. Leaves are turning. The weather is cooling down and the wind is blowing that familiar feeling into the air! Halloween is upon us!

candleAfter four plus years of sending out interview requests to interview a psychic during this hallowed time of the year, I finally got a reply. I was super excited to open up my email and see that, as James Pierri had put it “fate had brought us together”. We exchanged emails back and forth and let me tell you something. As for me, the generally, always skeptic but still always curious person that I am… I was highly enlightened over the course of the interview. During the course of our emails, I  sent him just a photograph of a palm of a friend of mine. (See interview below for more details!)  No other information was included with the photograph. A few days later I received the reading back that James did for my friend. Keep in mind that James knew nothing about my anonymous friend. No details at all. Zero, Nada, Nothing…I immediately forwarded the reading to the owner of the palm. My friend isn’t much on words but his reply  was this. “A little creepy but 100 % accurate”! How’s that! Enjoy the interview!

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James, welcome to KickActs…tell us a little bit about yourself.

 527563_225526590905566_1320091589_n My Great Grandmother Cecilia was beloved and very popular for her fortune telling and séance skills. Especially during prohibition when she mixed her moonshine potion up! Surrounded by astrology, numerology, folk-Pagan-Catholicism and lots of superstition I was definitely a child of my environment and soaked it up!

Today AusetGypsy.com is a reliable source for metaphysical modalities like tarot, palmistry, astrology, candles and so on from the good fortune of appearances on TV, on radio, podcast, YouTube and in print. My horoscope column has been published in fashion/style magazines for the past 10 years and is currently found in JACQMAGAZINE.COM. Travel is extensive, I just recently came back from a 10 day stint at Musikfest in Bethlehem Pa where currently I’m the house reader at IntoTheMystShoppe.com, followed by 2&1/2 weeks in Orlando where I provided two presentations on Wicca & Modern Isiacism ( the religion of the Goddess Isis) in Cassadaga an over 100 year old spiritualist  community! Festival season picks up from now until New Year’s Eve, my time will be divided between those festivals and tending to my private clientele found around the country via Skype or at my home, their homes or at the metaphysical centers I work from In the NYC/NJ/PA area. Currently I live in Jersey City Nj on the beautiful water front over looking Manhattan. Incredible full moon views!

Besides devoting my life to the exploration, study and…practice of Tarot, palmistry & Astrology I have also pursued an academic route studying as a researcher on Neo-paganism and alternative modern religions, ancient philosophy, art & religion/history as well. To support my work from the inside out I’ve also been initiated and ordained a Isiac priest in the Fellowship of Isis, an international fellowship devoted to the Goddess through study, experience, charity work and public ritual. As the head of the Iseum of the Sacred Lotus it’s my responsibility to perform… Read more…

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Posted by Chuck Gee - October 30, 2015 at 12:20 AM

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Church Cults. Know any?

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Scary. Scary. Scary.

It’s Halloween so here is another scary tale. A tale of faith gone array.

Church cults. Reading the article below reminded me of my time in a church group situation. It seems it towed close to what went on here. Not so much as the isolation but the “signs and wonder” and the supernatural. We didn’t shun anyone but yea we ceased all listening to secular music and worldly things. Stayed with our “own” kind.  Kept an eye on each other and held each other accountable and infallible.

jim_jones_006b I would say it’s a thin line anyway at best. Most churches are really just social clubs. Some do help the community but so did the Peoples Temple. Get my point? I don’t want to be a stumbling block for anyone and I do believe in God. It’s just there is so much “man” in everything where do you turn? And what if you don’t believe in Jesus? What if you are raised to believe in Mudhamad? There is no way you’re going to convert to being a Christian because your brothers will be more than happy to kill you for that. Why is that allowed? What if you never heard of anything? What if you believed in orange juice? (Anyone get that reference??Lol) What if all you knew was you worshiped the “Sun” and not the “Son”?

The lines are too close. Most Televangelists are no more than Rock Stars. I am sure most pastors are probably the same way. We all crave attention and what better way than to have a podium and a book and crowd already bought into the message? Easy pickings. It’s the same thing Barkers do at carnivals. …I really think if you wanted to be a pastor then maybe you should stand behind a cloth curtain so no one knows you and you simply read scriptures out of the bible. No translations, no stories. Just read word for word and add nothing to it.… You enter unannounced and you leave unannounced. And remain “anonymous”.

Every generation says it’s the last. I recently had a friend tell me the world was ending in October of this year. He swore by it. Why did he do that? Well, because he was bilked like everyone has. I first heard about it ending in 1988. It didn’t happen then. It didn’t happen now. But every few years someone will say that the “Lord” told them the world was ending. A basic search on Wikipedia and you will find probably at least 20 times this century alone it has been announced. It’s a fear tactic. Scare the people and they will follow and be loyal and throw their money at you. It reminds me of the movie “Water World”. Dennis Hopper’s character “deacon” was the spiritual leader of the ship and all its people. He gave a speech “I’ve had a vision so great, as it came to me I wept”. And with that He got the masses excited and they started rowing. When asked where they are rowing to, he replied. “I don’t have a …damn clue. Don’t worry, they’ll row for a month before they figure out I’m fakin’ it.”

So it continues. Humans have a desire to be accepted. We wear matching uniforms. We join clubs with like minded people. We go to churches with people that are like us. We are easily pulled in. I have a family member. They are in a cult. A well-known one at that. Will they ever get out of it? Probably not. Do they want to? Probably not because they are “accepted”. But really it’s on the cult’s terms though and not theirs. I don’t have the answers but I see the observations. I just know surely it can’t be God’s desire but we continue as we do.

Anyway, read the article. Know the signs of a cult. See how many of you are already in one or becoming one.

chuck

some excerpts:

“I had always imagined my life in terms of a story, and now Tyler was offering me the chance to be a part of one. He had developed a distinctly Charismatic vocabulary of “spiritual warfare” and claimed he was communicating directly with God. He said the five of us had been chosen for a dangerous but important mission: changing the nature and understanding of Christianity on our campus. Like the characters of Morpheus or Hagrid, he became our escort into a secret community where evil was battled at close quarters and darkness lurked around every corner.”

“That first semester was exhilarating. Our prayer experiences were very emotional; sometimes, we wept.  Though I still secretly had doubts about the authenticity of the group’s beliefs, I was profoundly moved by the courage and loyalty my friends were showing towards one another. It felt like being in an epic adventure, in which each of the main characters bravely faces his or her own weaknesses while bonding together in the heat of battle.”

For the entire article. The Seven Signs You’re in a Cult – The Atlantic

 

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Posted by Chuck Gee - October 28, 2015 at 9:42 AM

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