Sunday, July 07, 2013
Speed racer
Somewhere I was writing about my memory of Monaco in 1990 and of how I was disappointed that we arrived in port too late to see the Grand Prix race. All the road barricades and stuff was still up. We must have just missed it.
But then that must have been something else, some other race. I don't now recall.
Yeah, and Brazil. That would explain a lot of unexplained thoughts I have had for a very long time.
Monaco was the last port I visited when I was still assigned to the USS Wainwright CG 28 and I left the ship there for an airplane flight back to the United States. The ship continued its deployment and I was onboard for most of the deployment to the Mediterranean Sea. I am trying to rack my brain, while not over-concentrating, on the period of time from late July 1989 through the end of the year before I left the ship. I have been thinking she told me to play dumb when I returned to the real world in July 1989. I have been trying to recall specific details but I have begun to suspect that I was being administered the security drug during the time-frame so any possible memory I could regain is going to be hard to reacquire. I can visualize still to a certain degree the ports we were at during that deployment in late 1989.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 3:10 AM Friday, April 22, 2011
What was that port during our Med cruise in 1989? The ending of this film got me thinking of that. That would have been late 1989 or very early 1989. The Fire Controlman Senior Chief Petty Officer of our division, who became the Master Chief Petty Officer after I left, told me he was glad I had gone up on the deck of the forecastle that day. We were in port somewhere in the Med, I don't think that was in Naples Italy, but it could have been, but I reject that notion because as I recall no one liked Naples and if a riot was going to happen then we expect it there, but it could have been somewhere. We were in Valencia Spain, which was a place I enjoyed a lot and had never been there before but I don't think that happened there but who really knows because I was on duty the day the rally happened on the pier and thus was sober while usually when on the beach in the Med, I usually was not and there were always girls from Britain. No matter what port we were in, there were always girls who told us they were on holiday from Britain. So where was that? France? Toulon France? Maybe. That was my last stop before flying back to the United States, similar to the 1991 film where they are going to Mexico, I was riding from Monaco France to Toulon France in the back of the mail truck and I was seriously hung over from drinking too much and I was crashed on a pile of boxes in the back of the mail truck that would take me to the US military flight back to Charleston SC. A serious windstorm had blown through Monaco just about that time. The plane flew for what seemed to be only a few minutes before we had several hours of wait time at another airport to repair something that had gone wrong with the airplane.
What did I start off to write here? I don't recall. The master chief. The riot on the pier. They were protesting the United States Navy and nuclear weapons. The senior chief was glad that I went up on deck as he asked because I stood there and looked down at the people on the pier and they were quite agitated and I recall one person in the group took a trash container and threw it on to the brow that led from the pier to the quarterdeck of the ship but that was about it. They might have yelled a lot. I don't really remember a lot else other than that. We might have been in Spain. Perhaps Rota Spain. I recall we spent all of Christmas and New Years in Palma Spain, much to my pleasure because I loved Mallorca, but I don't the protests happened there. I also recall being very pissed off in 1989 because we were leaving for that deployment to the Med. I don't recall specifically when we left but I recall that was very soon after the Hurricane Hugo and why I should have even been pissed off about being deployed overseas on the ship I was assigned in the United States Navy fleet, I do not know.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 22 April 2011 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 10/23/2006 3:55 PM
The Captain’s Yacht. That is what I was trying to remember here. I can’t remember anything about that particular boat on a Burke-class destroyer, but I remember that when I left the Wainwright in 1990 to return to the States, we were anchored off the coast of Monaco and I took the Captain’s yacht, or did we call it the Captains’ gig, in to port.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 23 October 2006 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 4:08 AM Monday, August 20, 2007
July 25, 2006
I was thinking this morning or last night about all that commotion in the Ironman community a few years ago about people racing under other people's name. That would seem to tie in with my theory about Tom Warren and Tom Watson. They are probably real people, but I think they know I was there. Not exactly clear on this, but it means something. I suspect that people were all talking about something along these lines and that produced the buzz about the "phantom" competitors.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 20 August 2007 excerpt ends]
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Lethal Weapon 4 Martin Riggs Leather Jacket
Lethal weapon 4 as Martin Riggs jacket, This jacket was worn by Mel Gibson as Martin Riggs in the film Lethal Weapon 4.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104299/quotes
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Freejack (1992)
Quotes
Nun: [Aims shotgun at Alex] What are you and what are you doing here?
Alex Furlong: I don't know what I am... or where.
[Whispers to himself]
Alex Furlong: Maybe I died. What was it they called me?
Nun: Pathetic?
Alex Furlong: No.
[Looks up to her]
Alex Furlong: A freejack.
Nun: [Gasps] Holy shit.
http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1991/204/
F1
Formula 1
1991 Monaco Grand Prix 12 May 1991
Pos No Driver Team
1 1 Ayrton Senna McLaren-Honda
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayrton_Senna
Ayrton Senna
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ayrton Senna da Silva (21 March 1960 – 1 May 1994) was a Brazilian racing driver
http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/m/manchurian-candidate-script-transcript-denzel.html
Manchurian Candidate [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Memories shift.
Do you have dreams, sir?
Everybody has dreams, corporal.
No, not these.
No, I don't.
I write it all down.
You know, like, every night,
right when I wake up,
I try to get it down.
It doesn't always come together,
you know,
not everything that I can remember.
Maybe you should go
to the V.A. Hospital,
talk to one of the doctors.
- I've been to doctors, man.
- Okay.
I'm just... I'm just...
I'm just a little stuck, sir.
Because I remember, okay, Shaw...
Shaw, okay...
Shaw saving us, right...
...but that doesn't make sense,
because...
...that should've been you.
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/3F19.html
"The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"
Original Airdate in N.A.: 28-Apr-96
Bart: And then, he claimed he was the one who turned cats and dogs against each other. Why is he always making up those crazy stories?
Homer: Maybe it's time we put Grampa in a home.
Lisa: You already put him in a home.
Bart: Maybe it's time we put him in one where he can't get out.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/13/07 5:08 PM
I wonder if this is what certain "memories" means:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luge
A luge is small one- or two-person sled on which one sleds supine and feet-first. Steering is done by flexing the sled's runners or pulling straps attached to the sled's runners. Luge is also the name of the sport which involves racing with such sleds. It is a competition in which these sleds race against the clock.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 13 March 2007 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/17/07 7:22 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_luge
Men's singles
Games Gold Silver Bronze
1964 Innsbruck Thomas Köhler (EUA) Klaus Bonsack (EUA) Hans Plenk (EUA)
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 17 March 2007 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/30/07 3:08 AM
A very detailed dream about being on a Luge course at an Olympic competition. I can remember that I made two timed runs through the course. I can remember very clearly the first part of the course going down a large hill and going very fast. But the weird part is that I was going backwards and that I had to make a 90-degree turn about half-way through the course, which was very tricky. There was a wall there at the turn that I would have hit if I hadn't got it right.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 30 March 2007 excerpt ends]
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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Quotes
Qui-Gon Jinn: He can see things before they happen. That's why he appears to have such quick reflexes. It's a Jedi trait.
From 5/12/1991 ( the Monaco Grand Prix ) To 5/19/1999 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US film "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace" ) is 2929 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/9/1973 ( premiere US TV movie "Sunshine" ) is 2929 days
From 7/3/1958 ( premiere US film "Fiend Without a Face" ) To 1/17/1992 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US film "Freejack" ) is 12251 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/19/1999 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US film "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace" ) is 12251 days
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120915/releaseinfo
IMDb
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Release Dates
USA 19 May 1999
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050393/releaseinfo
IMDb
Fiend Without a Face (1958)
Release Dates
USA 3 July 1958 (New York City, New York)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050393/
IMDb
Fiend Without a Face (1958)
Invisible atomic monsters attack a U.S. Armed Forces base and the local residents.
http://www.divxmoviesenglishsubtitles.com/S/Star_Wars_-_Episode_I_The_Phantom_Menace.html
Star Wars - Episode I The Phantom Menace
Has anybody ever seen a Podrace?
They have Podracing on Malastare.
Very fast, very dangerous.
I'm the only human who can do it.
You must have Jedi reflexes if you race pods.
Don't do that again.
You're a Jedi knight, aren't you?
- What makes you think that? - I saw your laser sword .
Only Jedis carry that kind of weapon.
Perhaps I killed a Jedi and took it from him.
I don't think so.
No one can kill a Jedi.
I wish that were so.
I had a dream I was a Jedi.
I came back here and freed all the slaves.
- Have you come to free us? - No, I'm afraid not.
I think you have. Why else would you be here?
I can see there's no fooling you, Anakin.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120915/quotes
IMDb
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Quotes
Shmi Skywalker: Can you help him?
Qui-Gon Jinn: I don't know. I didn't actually come here to free slaves.
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IMDb
Freejack (1992)
Release Dates
USA 17 January 1992
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Full cast and crew for
Freejack (1992)
Emilio Estevez ... Alex Furlong
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 06/06/07 12:31 AM
I wonder if this is the source of that memory of a child named Charlie Brown who was smearing crap from his diaper onto the refrigerator. That was when Thedia was married to James Nevells and he was in the Marines. I was over at the house of one of his fellow soldiers and Charlie Brown was his kid. I pointed out to the wife that Charlie was smearing poop on the fridge. I can still visualize that. I can also visualize watching "Speed Racer" on their television. I think that kid also crapped in his father's uniform shoe.
There is also something familar about that sense of jolting awake as I wonder why I have similar artificial memories from long ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_8
Eleven hours into the flight, the crew had been awake for over 16 hours, having been awakened about 5 hours before launch. So it was time for Frank Borman to start his scheduled 7-hour sleep period. It proved difficult to sleep. NASA had decided that at least one crewmember should be awake at all times to deal with any issues that might arise. But the constant radio chatter with the ground and the air circulation fans made it hard to sleep. As well as this, sleeping in space is a somewhat unnatural experience—you cannot rest your head on a pillow and Bill Anders said that he would suddenly jolt awake with the sensation that he was falling.
About an hour after starting his sleep period, Borman requested clearance to take a Seconal sleeping pill, but the pill had little effect. After Borman slept for seven hours fitfully, he awoke feeling ill. He vomited twice, and had a bout of diarrhea that left the spacecraft full of small globules of vomit and feces. The crew cleaned up as best as they could. Borman decided that he did not want the world to know about his medical problems but Lovell and Anders still wanted to tell the ground. They decided to use the Data Storage Equipment (DSE), which could be used by the crew to tape voice recordings and telemetry, which were then dumped to the ground at high speed. After recording a description of Borman's illness they requested that mission control check the recording, as the crew "would like an evaluation of the voice comments".
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 06 June 2007 excerpt ends]
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allmusic
Kerplunk!
Green Day
Release Date
Jan 17, 1992
Green Day's second full album
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000JMKKG8
Kerplunk
Green Day
Product Details
Original Release Date: January 17, 1992
ASIN: B000JMKKG8
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Kerplunk (album)
Kerplunk!
Studio album by Green Day
Released January 17, 1992
Kerplunk! is the second full-length album by punk rock band Green Day. It was released on January 17, 1992
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastroenterologist
Gastroenterology
Gastroenterology (MeSH heading) is the branch of medicine whereby the digestive system and its disorders are studied. Etymologically, the name is a combination of three Ancient Greek words gastros (stomach), enteron (intestine), and logos (reason).
Physicians practicing in this field of medicine are called gastroenterologists.
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Star Wars - Episode I The Phantom Menace
You have a big day tomorrow.
Sleep well, Ani.
- Obi-Wan? - Yes, Master?
I need an analysis of this blood sample I'm sending you.
Wait a minute.
I need a midi-chlorian count.
The reading is off the chart.
Over 20,000.
Even Master Yoda doesn't have a midi-chlorian count that high.
No Jedi has.
What does that mean?
I'm not sure.
I wanna see your spaceship the moment the race is over.
Patience, my blue friend.
You'll have your winnings before the suns set.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070751/releaseinfo
IMDb
Sunshine (1973 TV Movie)
Release Dates
USA 9 November 1973
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005114/bio
IMDb
Biography for
Nick Lachey
Date of Birth
9 November 1973, Harlan, Kentucky, USA
Birth Name
Nicholas Scott Lachey
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377818/quotes
IMDb
The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)
Quotes
Cop: What seems to be the problem, sugar?
Daisy Duke: I think something bounced up into my undercarriage.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 10:53 AM Pacific Time near Seattle Washington State USA Sunday 07 July 2013
