Most of the serious writing I do these days is for my AFTERBURNER editorials. I also co-host a show on PJTV called TRIFECTA. Steve Green from VodkaPundit, Scott Ott at Scrappleface and I got the idea when we met for the first time while at CPAC in Washington at the beginning of the year. TRIFECTA lets us handle smaller stories and just generally goof on them for the most part.
Producing the show is a bit of a problem, since Scott and Steve do it via Webcam. The problem for our PJTV producers is in getting everybody’s visual elements in line and ready to go for Tuesday taping. Scott hosts a segment, Steve hosts one and I host one, and we tape all three right after each other. Our Executive Producer then decides which order to release them in, but they’ll all come out this week in one order or another. So on Mondays we generally have a conference call to get our ducks in a line for the next day, and it occurred to me that some of you might be interested in seeing how we get prepped for these sequences.
Here’s my outline for the segment we’ll tape tomorrow.
Hello boys and girls.
Nothing leaping up at me except BALLOON BOY.
I’d like to open with Scott’s headline at scrappleface: WORLD HAILS OBAMA’S RESCUE OF BALLOON BOY…
…because I think it’s just priceless.
Three topics interest me:
1. The human connection. When we thought there was a kid in that thing we all sat transfixed. When you look back on it with no kid, it’s just a piece of debris. A lot of people talk about how crappy humans are, but this is us at our best.
2. Us at our worst: looks like the whole thing was a fraud by a family that has been watching a little too much reality TV. Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montaug should be Time’s People of the Year. They encapsulate everything wrong with the Culture of Celebrity and apparently, this is why they scared the piss out of the entire world: to get famous. I think mom and dad can be famous from prison.
3, This incident immediately hammered home to me how ridiculous conspiracy theories are, and upon what flimsy evidence they are based. When you show me footage of a real UFO that has the same kind of crispness and detail that this fake UFO had, then I will believe in UFO’s. Instead, we are always asked to interpret a single frame of a distant blur with WHAT APPEARS TO BE A MISSILE POD ON AN AIRLINER! or some other rubbish.
Why are UFO pictures so blurry and the Balloon Boy pictures so detailed? BECAUSE BALLOONS ARE REAL.
Anyway, that’s where I’m going. Talk to you at noon.
B
The 3 trifectas and afterburner are the highlights of my pjtv week. Nice to see the background operation.
“When we thought there was a kid in that thing we all sat transfixed…this is us at our best.”
Yes!!!
“Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montaug should be Time’s People of the Year. They encapsulate everything wrong with the Culture of Celebrity”
I vote for Nadya Suleman and Jon Gosselin, a.k.a. OctoMom and the front third of “Jon & Kate Plus 8.” In other words, a woman who wanted to outdo Angelina Jolie by looking like her and having 14 kids, and a man who invited cameras into the sanctity of his home and was surprised everything went to hell.
Reportedly, she’s kinda hot for him. (http://www.myfoxphilly.com/dpp/news/local_news/101909_octomom_Jon_Gosselin) Please God, let the world end if they ever hook up.
“This incident immediately hammered home to me how ridiculous conspiracy theories are, and upon what flimsy evidence they are based.”
Climategate was, and to a certain extent, still is a conspiracy theory.Dependant on who is doing the telling, of course.
Well, you’re still my favorite Patriot, and it pains me to say this, but, I can see you’re still ignorant about UFO’s (ignorant, as in lacking knowledge). There are thousands of perfectly clear pictures of UFO’s out there, but, the best collection of Pictures and Videos from Space vanished with the Italian OVNI website, when the owners simply vanished, and, someone took their Site down.
The Universe is a big place, you know, and everywhere we look, even in what was thought to be literally empty black holes in the Firmament (not Black Holes per se) they find the ‘markers of life.’ If they’d asked me, even when I was in grade school, I could have told then the Universe is configured for life, intelligent life, just like the Planet Earth.
To believe that we are ‘special,’ a “one of a kind event in the Universe” is the height of zenophobic, arrogant egotism. And, to insist that, “…if we can’t do it, nobody can,” is pure madness, according to a man you might respect: Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain). See: “Letters from the Earth,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_from_the_Earth
I admire and enjoy everything you write, respect your opinion, and, am excited over your adventures building Moon Rockets in a Garage, but, when it comes to life in the Universe, and, UFO’s, I beg to differ.
FYI: I knew about liquids that were breathable back in the 1950′s, and, only recently had another exposure to a crystal clear liguid, that totally evaporates in about two seconds when it hits the floor. Believe it or not, you have to be told to breath it out, otherwise you will fight to hold it in until you die (a soft, beautiful female voice, “Breath out or you will die).
Terry Goodkin, author of the “Sword of Truth” series included ‘a’ breathable liquid in his books (quotes the soft words above), but, I didn’t know the human race had discovered breathable liquids until I read Dan Browns, “The Lost Sign.”
It’s the only way a Human can survive a “Null Space” traverse (total immersion during time in what is now called the “Higgs Field”).