April 30, 2008
Posted by Kittysafe
Coldplay Serves Up Another Hot Dish
Exclusively, on Coldplay's official website they are giving away
the first single from their upcoming album VIVA entitled
"Violet Hill".
The song is reminiscent of a civil war hero waiting to hear from
the woman he loves back home, but after only one listen
it really could be about anything, this is Coldplay afterall.
That aside, it's a good, solid, enjoyable song, and I look forward
to hearing the rest of the album, maybe they will read this glowing review
and mail me a free copy? I would not turn that away! Coldplay! Call me!
April 29, 2008
Posted by Kittysafe
Ducking the Big Sick - Stimulating the Package
Why does the Bush Administration "Stimulus Package" give me an 'Eerie, unsettling on a visceral level, haven't I seen this in a science fiction movie?' type feeling?
First off there's the feeling of being paid off to be a good little American. Then there's the ability for our administration, particularly our President who did worse in school than I did to be running the country into what so many believe is the wrong direction. We are supposed to be leading the country towards solutions and a brighter future for our children and our childrens, children's children, and not towards the script of The Running Man. Didn't the Moody Blues teach us anything?
But I digress. Something is amiss. It is time when dreamers turn again to the stars, but this time perhaps they are closer than they've ever been before.
It is time for a change. A positive change that works for the people, you know the way Abraham Lincoln stated it in The Gettysburg Address almost 200 years ago?
It would seem many of these truths are not self evident, and cannot be until the greed and the self brainwashing, the leading our people into wars, fulfilling our own goals, our own need for global drama are set aside.
And for the men and women and the citizens of Iraq who have died in what might very well turn into the longest war in our American history, I implore that in a larger sense, "we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
April 28, 2008
Posted by Kittysafe
Take the Celebrity Pet Quiz! What Celebrity is Your Pet? [Click to take the Quiz from Catster]
Jupiter's Results:
Wow, your cat is Johnny Knoxville!Johnny KnoxvilleUp for Anything The kind of pet that can leap tall fences in a single bound (or not, but give it a shot anyhow), Jupiter is the original Jackass, Johnny Knoxville! Going through the pain so you don't have to, Jupiter knows that he trots a fine line between funny and stupid, but he doesn't care—he's laughing about it all the way to the pet store. His over-the-top antics make you grimace with fear and you often find it hard to believe that he actually enjoys playing the class clown. But Jupiter laps it up and continues to defy the odds, despite your warnings and concerns. Other males in the pack tend to be a little jealous of Jupiter, but the females find him simply dreamy. A die-hard good ol' boy, Jupiter is more of a General Lee type than a Knight Rider, but give him enough time to think things through and he's sure to find a way to wreck both vehicles at the same time. |
Neptune's Results:
Wow, your cat is Al Gore!Al GoreSaving the World Always the winner of the pawpular vote, Neptune is Al Gore! Green through and through, Neptune is super-careful about how he marks his territory and goes out of his way to cover his tracks. Though Neptune is a lover and not a fighter, he won't stray from your side when trouble flashes its ugly fangs. Not bothered by superfluous detail, Neptune can be counted on to report back to you with the facts at hand, no matter how nasty they may be. Not one to rely on his top-notch genes and breeding, scratching and clawing his way to the top is Neptune's modus pawperandi. |
How to Bring WOW Tanks Back From Extinction
Most people by now have realized that at many times finding a good tank,
nay, any tank for 5 mans, heroics, can be a daunting task,
in fact it can be downright impossible for hours on end.
The reasons why are not unknown. High repair bills, respeccing constantly come first to mind.
I proropose a solution. One I have been mulling over for many months,
discusses with many people to get their feedback, tanks, non tanks alike.
I propose this:
In any instance that has a raid ID, a token will be handed out when the final boss is killed
to the member of the party who took the most damage throughout
the entirety of the instance. We all know this is generally the tank.
The token will be soulbound allow the user 1 free respec and 1 free full repair.
This token must be used within 15 minutes of leaving any instance.
And will vanish upon logging out.
I believe this will encourage tanks to be more available, terrible teams aside.
Please reply with your thoughts on this.
Thanks!
~Kittysafe
April 27, 2008
Posted by Kittysafe
It's basically a look at how since cats are artistic and independent manipulators of man,
that we too must understand our cats to manipulate them right back,
and how to do it.
It's sort of the Kevin Mitnick Guide To Social Engineering your cat if you will.
I would love to see this author on The Colbert Report, I can imagine Stephen asking,
"Sir, what is Kitty Safe Network, and why are cats on the Internet in the first place?"
Anyway, it's a lot of fun to read, and hopefully it can help me with our pal Jupiter.
Post your thoughts below!
April 25, 2008
Posted by Kittysafe
Just playing but there is a small discrepency with Dave's Beatles logic when he says to Lisa in Season 2 Episode 2 of News Radio that Yoko wasn't cokmpletely disruptive on Double Fantasy concerning the belief that she broke up the Beatles (Which I think would've happened with or without her)*, because Double Fantasy came out AFTER Lennon had already left The Beatles.
*The reason I think this is because John was really heading towards becoming a full on activist and Paul McCartney was more the laid back lover not a fighter type, eventually this would have led to the band's break up no matter what.
Actually this dynamic reminds me a lot of the breakup of Pink Floyd when Roger Waters left the band after The Final Cut. A feud that went on mostly between Waters and David Gilmour, but also led to the departure of Floyd's keyboardist Richard Wright who later returned to the band when the coast was clear.
Incidentally the band reuinted only once in the 24 year break up at the LIVE 8 Concert in 2005.
April 24, 2008
Posted by Kittysafe
Looks like international laws were broken by USA again when it became common knowledge
that Warner Bros had undercover investigators effecting the Swedish court case against the Pirate Bay.
I asked my cat, he said screw myself by meowing in iambic pentameter.
In other news, I took my cats out in our backyard wearing their new kitty harnesses.
March 17th was Jupiter's second birthday!
April 12, 2008
Posted by Kittysafe
Battlestar Galactica at the Summit
The new season of BSG is nothing short of brilliance and everything the best science fiction tries to accomplish.
Lee finding his true voice and direction.
The President coming to terms with her own mortality.
Baltar's discussions with himself and spreading new seeds of monotheism.
Starbuck getting her shot.
Admiral Adama's incredible line "I'm tired of turning away from the things I want to believe in."
The Centurians reclaiming free will and rising up against their opressors.
Ann Curry Interviews the Dalai Lama
This interview is a truly important interview.
The dalai lama talks about non violence and why it is so important to adhere to such a worldview,
and how war has never helped anyone including USA in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Is Tibet facing cultural genocide?
Tibet does not seek separation but to be brought into the economic health of The People's Republic of China
while maintaing their cultural diversity. Tibet is spiritually advanced but economically backwards,
not getting help from China for so long.
I highly recommend watching the full interview. [Full Transcript of the Interview]
April 11, 2008
Posted by Kittysafe
Hope for Haiti
What is our excuse? We watch on the news people are starving in Haiti. They're eating dirt cookies. They cannot afford vegetables. People are starving, dying of malnourishment, and here we sit dumb fat and happy. We can eat steak. We can eat past the point of fullness. This begs the question, why aren't we helping?
Why isn't McDonalds flying over happy meals? Why isn't anyone? Forget the cost of food, remember human lives are at stake.
The answer is simple ,and we have the means to help these people.
So why aren't we? We Are The World was a long time ago. We have all these organizations. Old and new ones. But what are they really doing to ease the suffering? It's clear we don't need another rock concert, we need action.
April 9, 2008
Posted by Kittysafe
"We're not in the coffee business serving people, we're in the people business serving coffee"
Noted words by the man who took Starbucks from a company with 3 stores opening their 4th, to the 3rd largest franchise in the world with over 15,000 stores spanning 44 countries world wide.
Starbucks introduced a new coffee this week, Pike's Blend, in an effort to return the company to grace, to simpler times, away from the stuffed dolls, and commercialism that he felt made the company lose sight of it's purpose, and back to it's roots, to the coffee, to the people.
I am myself a little excited to try Starbuck's new Pike's Blend Coffee introduced this week, and we at Kitty Safe hope if you do try it, you come back here and leave a comment on what you thought of it.
April 5, 2008
Posted by Kittysafe
Ghost Whisperer Returns!
Ghost Whisperer returned tonight with a standalone episode, which is fitting, after all, new viewers getting confused by old story arcs, old viewers easing back into the show, it made sense and felt right.
That aside how was the story? It was heartfelt as usual, but possibly a little over formulaeic. Let me explain what didn't work for me.
Mom apologizing to Ned, admitting he was right. This is way too fantastical and ridiculously perfect.
It shouldn't have happened that way, it was just too neat. And it rarely happens in real life,
because if you do give up that high ground as an adult, what's to stop your kid from walking all over you?
And don't give me this BS like it's about trust, it was out right simplistic writing and made me cringe.
Honestly though I related a lot with this story, and perhaps that colors my review of this episode, but it is what it is.
Mom sees the light and has to ask, ooh hey what's that? It's so beautiful, is it time? The 3 questions on the check list, come on already, we get it.
Those nitpicks aside I really enjoyed the story, the acting was great by the kids, but the ending was a bit too neat.
All in all, very happy Ghost Whisperer is back, and I rate this episode a 7.5/10
Welcome back GW!
A Dream
I recall the dream started with Mike and I in a car pulled over to the side of the road. It was very late maybe 2 in the morning, because I could feel the cold morning air, and the eerie quiet of that time before dawn when every child is supposed to be home in bed, and Mike was sleeping. And I was watching a movie on an old style projector screen that was standing in the middle of the road, when a female police officer pulled ovger to ask me some questions. Strangely enough, she did not ask about the movie screen, it was as if she had never seen it.
After that I met a tribe of native americans in a family restaurant that they ran, and we had a sort of sweat lodge experience of the four doors. And at one point I was positioned to meet someone and I remember I was afraid. I was not ready.
Everyone was drinking coffee, but for some reason there wasn't any left for me in the end.
We arrived then at a fast food restaurant, Mike ordered and I went my own way.
In my dream I was walking in the middle of a great highway at night walking towards my mom's house, and before me was an endless expanse of broken tiles over an abyss and I had to hop from tile to tile in as they came towards me in order to not fall through, when it occurred to me, the tiles were not the road at all but the complexity of life flowing upon the road, and that instead of hopping from tile to tile in fear, I could ignore the tiles, and walk. Even though I could not see the road, I believed it was there, and though for a moment I thought I would fall, my feet did find solid ground, and in a renewed state did I walk effortlessly towards the future.
By the way the tiles were purple.
April 4, 2008
Posted by Kittysafe
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968
On the eve of April 04, 1968 on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel of room 306 40 years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. came to Memphis in order to help set up a non violent protest for the workers on strike.
He was shot by a single rifle bullet and through his sacrifice the world was changed forever
Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. He was born January 15, 1929. If he lived, he would have turned 77 years old. In the early 1960s, King focused his challenge on legalized racial discrimination in the South where police dogs and bullwhips and cattle prods were used against Southern blacks seeking the right to vote or to eat at a public lunch counter. After passage of Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, King began challenging the nation's fundamental priorities. He maintained that civil rights laws were empty without “human rights”—including economic rights.
Noting that a majority of Americans below the poverty line were white, King developed a class perspective. He decried the huge income gaps between rich and poor, and called for “radical changes in the structure of our society” to redistribute wealth and power.
By 1967, King had also become the country's most prominent opponent of the Vietnam War, and a staunch critic of overall U.S. foreign policy, which he deemed militaristic. In his “Beyond Vietnam” speech delivered at New York's Riverside Church on April 4, 1967—a year to the day before he was murdered—King called the United States “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.”
Time magazine called the speech “demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi,” and the Washington Post declared that King had “diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, his people.”
We turn now to that speech that King gave in April 1967.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. , giving his “Beyond Vietnam” speech at Riverside Church in New York on April 4, 1967.
For more of King's speeches check: Pacifica Radio Archives .
King gave his speech “Beyond Vietnam” a year to the day before he was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. On the day of King's assassination, Robert Kennedy was in Indianapolis, Indiana campaigning for president. He announced the assassination of Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968.
- Sen. Robert Kennedy , speaking in Indianapolis, IN, April 4, 1968.
For more of King's speeches check: Pacifica Radio Archives .
The night before he was killed, King gave his last major address in Memphis, Tennessee. He was there to support striking sanitation workers as he built momentum for a Poor Peoples March on Washington.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. , giving his “I Have Been to the Mountain Top” speech in Memphis on April 3, 1968.
For more of King's speeches check: Pacifica Radio Archives .
Bobby Kennedy announced the tragic news briefly on the air, and just two months later he himself was assassinated.
April 1, 2008
Posted by Kittysafe
Some new movie reviews in the works!
So I recently watched some really good movies, one new one old. Two very dissimilar movies, but they did have one thing in common. They're both rather off beat. The first movie, Primer is a film about 2 friends whose curiosity leads them to create a time machine while trying to create anti-gravity. The second movie is from 1989, a off beat horror called Parents, about a child who is raised in a family of middle class cannibals.
If you have seen either of these films please post some comments below.
We at Kitty Safe Network are also working on integrating our site with a Woopra interface, and that's a really exciting thing coming down the way. So we really look foward to having a free real time chat system in place on the website, and hope you all enjoy it too.
More to come!
The Film Career of Robin Willliams
These are just my opinions on Robin Williamses film career and what I personally feel are his two best films.
Even though two movies are given a rating of 10, only one can truly be Robin's best film because he made it so.
A.I. was fantastic but little of it's success had to do with Robin Williams, but to Jude Law, Haley Joel Osment, and a brilliant script.
Because of this I feel confident in stating Robin Williams best movie is Moscow on the Hudson (1984)
followed by What Dreams May Come
Best Robin Williams Film
Moscow on the Hudson (1984)
10
Artificial Intelligence: AI
Moscow on the Hudson
9
What Dreams May Come (1998)
8
Awakenings
Dead Poets Society
The Birdcage
Good Will Hunting
7
Deconstructing Harry
The Fisher King
Insomnia
Mrs. Doubtfire
Patch Adams
6
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Bicentennial Man
Death to Smoochy
Hook
Jakob the Liar
Jumanji
One Hour Photo
To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar
5
RV (2006)
4
Night at the Museum (2006)
Popeye