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scottobearDanny visited briefly tonight, we gabbed a bit about his D20 rogue to be played with the sci-fi club and then hung out, watching TV. While watching the Learning channel special on making a monster hoax, my Nurse came by... Named Hadley, very nice lady. Incision on my back is about nine centimeters long, with a staple per centimeter, if what she said stuck in my head properly. I had to really rally the troops to get a nurse out tonight, but I think I got a good one... I think she was a stop-gap measure, and I'll get different nurse as my regular... which is a shame, because she's very nice, and personable.
Blurry, because she didn't know how to use the camera. I'll turn on the flash next time. I had to color balance a bit as it was really orange. Left is the shirt lifted up, on the right is the elastic of my sweats. You can see the 9 staples pretty vividly here. She says that it's granulating and forming a decent scab, too. Lots of paperwork, but t least they provided a folder for it this time. many questions were asked and measurements taken for insurance reasons.
Every Playboy centerfold - The photographs in this suite are the result of mean averaging every Playboy centerfold foldout for the four decades beginning Jan. 1960 through Dec. 1999. This tracks, en masse, the evolution of this form of portraiture.(safe for work)
Alien vs Predator movie teaser
Real hoax of Martian invasion is on us
Did the infamous Orson Welles The War Of The Worlds broadcast actually cause mass hysteria, or was it the biggest hoax to be found in the fact that we believe so many panicked?
"On October 30, 1938, America panicked. Millions throughout the United States thought that the invasion from Mars had begun and panic gripped the nation." So says a press release that just crossed my desk from Brantford's Sanderson Centre for the Performing Arts, which will be recreating this historic radio play this Wednesday through Friday.
Indeed, when it comes to falling for a story that is truly out of this world, we are constantly reminded of Welles' infamous radio hoax that, we are still told every year, supposedly convinced an entire United States populace that the Martians were invading the United States, or to be precise, New Jersey. Here's a quick recap of how it happened:
It was on the night of Oct. 30, 1938, that a series of short, increasingly ominous news bulletins kept breaking into a live CBS broadcast of the music of Ramon Raquello and his orchestra. In the first bulletin, an Intercontinental Radio News reporter tersely announced that astronomers had detected enormous blue flames shooting from the planet Mars. Next the music was stopped to announce that a meteor had just crashed into the Earth near Grovers Mills, N.J.
Then the radio reporter broke in again to say it was a space ship and not a meteor that had crashed in New Jersey and that a space creatures complete with tentacles had emerged alive from the wreckage. Soon the space monsters were using a giant three-legged armored mobile vehicle to tromp across New Jersey using their space guns to blast everything in their path with death rays. The now-marauding Martians were also killing the local population with clouds of black gas against which even the most sophisticated gas masks proved useless.
By now radio listeners were starting to panic, hiding in their boarded up basements or packing the wife and kids and a few possessions into the family car to attempt to escape before the spacemen caught them. Those who panicked were people who had tuned in late and had not heard any of the four separate announcements during the series of bulletins that what was being broadcast was a radio play adaptation of H.G. Wells' The War Of The Worlds, performed as one of the weekly broadcasts by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater.
So the people of the U.S.A. had fallen for a hoax — but the report of the spread of panic is something of a hoax itself.
Prankster lore has it that six million people heard the broadcast and of those, fully one quarter (1.5 million) fled or hid in panic. Alex Boese of the Museum of Hoaxes says that "more recent research suggests that the actual number (of people who actually panicked) is probably far lower. In fact, the idea that the broadcast touched off a huge national scare is probably more of a hoax than the broadcast itself."
The Toronto Star of Oct. 31, 1938 carried front page news of the hoax but the amount of panic described in the Star is hardly the stuff of millions running for their lives.
"Until 1 a.m. (CBS's) switchboards were jammed with indignant listeners, some threatening to sue," the Star reported. The report put the number of panicked listeners as being a few thousand and as for those stories of grievous injury caused by the hoax, about the worst the 1938 Star could come up with was: "One woman said she had collided with furniture in her haste to get into the street, blackening both her eyes." CBS "received many phone calls about the broadcast but only 10 telegrams, all protesting it, this afternoon," the Star revealed.
Two black eyes and 10 pissy telegrams! Does this sound like mass hysteria to you? Alas, history has preserved in amber the perception that The War Of The Worlds broadcast was the epitome of mass hysteria.
Blurry, because she didn't know how to use the camera. I'll turn on the flash next time. I had to color balance a bit as it was really orange. Left is the shirt lifted up, on the right is the elastic of my sweats. You can see the 9 staples pretty vividly here. She says that it's granulating and forming a decent scab, too. Lots of paperwork, but t least they provided a folder for it this time. many questions were asked and measurements taken for insurance reasons.
Every Playboy centerfold - The photographs in this suite are the result of mean averaging every Playboy centerfold foldout for the four decades beginning Jan. 1960 through Dec. 1999. This tracks, en masse, the evolution of this form of portraiture.(safe for work)
Alien vs Predator movie teaser
Real hoax of Martian invasion is on us
Did the infamous Orson Welles The War Of The Worlds broadcast actually cause mass hysteria, or was it the biggest hoax to be found in the fact that we believe so many panicked?
"On October 30, 1938, America panicked. Millions throughout the United States thought that the invasion from Mars had begun and panic gripped the nation." So says a press release that just crossed my desk from Brantford's Sanderson Centre for the Performing Arts, which will be recreating this historic radio play this Wednesday through Friday.
Indeed, when it comes to falling for a story that is truly out of this world, we are constantly reminded of Welles' infamous radio hoax that, we are still told every year, supposedly convinced an entire United States populace that the Martians were invading the United States, or to be precise, New Jersey. Here's a quick recap of how it happened:
It was on the night of Oct. 30, 1938, that a series of short, increasingly ominous news bulletins kept breaking into a live CBS broadcast of the music of Ramon Raquello and his orchestra. In the first bulletin, an Intercontinental Radio News reporter tersely announced that astronomers had detected enormous blue flames shooting from the planet Mars. Next the music was stopped to announce that a meteor had just crashed into the Earth near Grovers Mills, N.J.
Then the radio reporter broke in again to say it was a space ship and not a meteor that had crashed in New Jersey and that a space creatures complete with tentacles had emerged alive from the wreckage. Soon the space monsters were using a giant three-legged armored mobile vehicle to tromp across New Jersey using their space guns to blast everything in their path with death rays. The now-marauding Martians were also killing the local population with clouds of black gas against which even the most sophisticated gas masks proved useless.
By now radio listeners were starting to panic, hiding in their boarded up basements or packing the wife and kids and a few possessions into the family car to attempt to escape before the spacemen caught them. Those who panicked were people who had tuned in late and had not heard any of the four separate announcements during the series of bulletins that what was being broadcast was a radio play adaptation of H.G. Wells' The War Of The Worlds, performed as one of the weekly broadcasts by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater.
So the people of the U.S.A. had fallen for a hoax — but the report of the spread of panic is something of a hoax itself.
Prankster lore has it that six million people heard the broadcast and of those, fully one quarter (1.5 million) fled or hid in panic. Alex Boese of the Museum of Hoaxes says that "more recent research suggests that the actual number (of people who actually panicked) is probably far lower. In fact, the idea that the broadcast touched off a huge national scare is probably more of a hoax than the broadcast itself."
The Toronto Star of Oct. 31, 1938 carried front page news of the hoax but the amount of panic described in the Star is hardly the stuff of millions running for their lives.
"Until 1 a.m. (CBS's) switchboards were jammed with indignant listeners, some threatening to sue," the Star reported. The report put the number of panicked listeners as being a few thousand and as for those stories of grievous injury caused by the hoax, about the worst the 1938 Star could come up with was: "One woman said she had collided with furniture in her haste to get into the street, blackening both her eyes." CBS "received many phone calls about the broadcast but only 10 telegrams, all protesting it, this afternoon," the Star revealed.
Two black eyes and 10 pissy telegrams! Does this sound like mass hysteria to you? Alas, history has preserved in amber the perception that The War Of The Worlds broadcast was the epitome of mass hysteria.
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Date: 2003-10-30 07:49 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-10-31 01:45 am (UTC)how weird.
looks like they're all in the shower too. hmm.
ps hope your back heals up good and you get a cool scar to show people for "oooh!" value
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Date: 2003-10-31 04:27 am (UTC)I agree.. it's funny how the evolution of the models get fairer-haired
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Date: 2003-10-31 02:32 am (UTC)oof, oofda and on and on, i am stuck on OWIE!
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Date: 2003-10-31 04:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-31 08:52 am (UTC)BE STILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Date: 2003-10-31 03:14 am (UTC)looks like it hurts!
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Date: 2003-10-31 04:24 am (UTC)THe staples come out in a week, and the scarshould be pretty invisible later on.
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Date: 2003-10-31 05:59 am (UTC)Your incision actually looks to be healing nicely. I always take Hypericum (St. John's Wort) after any sort of trauma involving cuts or punctures. I'm taking it now, for the after effects of my dental work. These days, a lot of people are using it to treat depression, but it has long been used to prevent infection in, and diminish the pain of, wounds of all sorts. In solution, it is especially good for keeping them clean.
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Date: 2003-10-31 06:02 am (UTC)Thanks for the herby-tip!