There are a lot of different sources I could check for this stuff.
What's become important - seems to me - in the systematization of my thinking about my theoretical divergence point (from 2013 or earlier) is that in these present day report topics, I establish a consistent pattern to my search. I try to imagine how some other person is making it easy for me to decode this stuff.
What isn't consistent is a thought that formed immediately this night around 10 PM when I found myself trying to decide if the calendar day 05/26/2017 would be an interesting detail and the first thoughts that formed in my mind was to search for images I created that specific day and that is a source I rarely use in my searches.
Imaginary straw-figures in my mind might call it 'instinct'. But that's uninspired. You're incapable of independent thought.
https://www.amazon.com/ZONE-Zulu-Virus-Chronicles-Book-ebook/dp/B073WGJBF3
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You borrowed this book for free with your Kindle Unlimited subscription on September 10, 2019.
HOT ZONE: A Post-Apocalyptic Conspiracy Thriller (The Zulu Virus Chronicles Book 1) Kindle Edition
by Steven Konkoly (Author)
Product details
Print Length: 352 pages
Publisher: Stribling Media (July 11, 2017)
Publication Date: July 11, 2017
SOMETHING INSIDIOUS HAS ARRIVED--RIGHT IN THE HEARTLAND OF OUR NATION, TURNING NEIGHBOR AGAINST NEIGHBOR!
Dr. Lauren Hale, a new hospital resident, is nearly killed by a raving mad emergency room patient, in a senseless, unprovoked attack.
Officer David Olson, veteran cop and former Marine, returns from a father-son camping trip to discover that his ex-wife has vanished under bizarre circumstances, and his police department is on the verge of collapse.
Jack and Emma Harper, a young, upwardly mobile couple, find their hip city neighborhood rapidly descending into madness.
Dr. Eugene Chang, a research scientist for a major pharmaceutical company makes a shocking discovery that might explain the spreading wave of illness and violence gripping the city.
Eric Larsen, leader of a top-secret, rapid-response unit, circles high above the Midwest, in an unmarked military transport. Mission still unknown, his team waits to parachute into the night.
WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS, complete strangers from different walks of life will be forced to join together to survive the LIVING NIGHTMARE that has been unleashed on their city--AND THEIR COUNTRY.
This is their story.
From:
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 7:17 PM
Subject: Writing
Kerry,
I have been impressed with some of your writing. Did you ever think about writing a book?
On Nov 17, 2016, at 1:30 AM, Kerry Burgess wrote:
Nope, I don't have very good vocabulary skills..
All my most interesting and advanced skills are locked away somewhere in my mind with my astronaut memories.
From:
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2016 7:14 AM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Writing
When you say "vocabulary skills" are you referring to things like sentence structure, tenses, and punctuation? Don't need to worry about that - editors job. You not only have unique life experience but a vivid and rich imagination. You referred to your "fugue state of mind" in one of our communications. You have been using those threads of thoughts and images to write your blog. All I'm saying is: you could use these skills(?) in writing a book.
http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie8.html
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
(from internet transcript of incomplete dialog)
Dr. Beverly CRUSHER: So much for the Enterprise-E.
Captain PICARD: We barely knew her.
CRUSHER: Think they'll build another one?
PICARD: Plenty of letters left in the alphabet. ...Mister Worf. I regret some of the things I said to you earlier.
WORF: Some?
PICARD: As a matter of fact I think you're the bravest man I have ever known.
WORF: Thank you, sir.
PICARD: See you on Gravett Island.
Hot Zone: A Post-Apocalyptic Conspiracy Thriller (The Zulu Virus Chronicles Book 1)
Steven Konkoly
Chapter 27
"I'm not going anywhere," she said.
"No time to argue with me," said Owens. "You either leave now on your own, or you leave on one of those buses. That's where this is headed. My guess is they're doing a clean sweep of this place. Staff included."
"I have nowhere to go," she said. "The two coming in on the ambulance were picked up a block from my place. If the 465 rumors are true, I don't really have any options."
"What about Dr. Chang's place? You said that was pretty secure," said Owens. "He gave you the codes to get in, right?"
Hale fished through her scrubs, feeling the worn, folded card in her front pocket. "I don't have my keys or purse."
Owens pulled a set of keys from his pocket and held them out to her. "You don't have time. Plus, my car is in the lot right across the street. Lot L. Rank hath its privileges."
"I can't take your car," she said. "What are you going to do?"
"You know what they say about the captain, right?" said Owens.
"I'm too tired for riddles."
"The captain always goes down with the ship," said Owens. "I'm going to warn the others. If I get out of here, I'll find Chang's place. I have the address in my phone."
"I'll walk," she said.
"You won't get very far out there," said Owens. "Take the fucking keys, Lauren. They probably figured out you lied by now."
She swiped the keys from him, not sure what to say.
"You can thank me later. Get out of here," said Owens, grabbing her arm and speed-walking toward the ambulance entry.
When they reached the open doorway, Owens turned, looking over his shoulder at her and mouthing, "Go!" A commotion broke out at the far end of the hallway, a nurse gesturing wildly at a cluster of soldiers. Lauren passed the soldiers standing around the entrance, nodding politely before breaking into a jog and eventually a sprint - never looking back. There would be plenty of time for guilt later.
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From 7/16/1963 ( Phoebe Cates the United States Army veteran and the Harvard University graduate medical doctor and the world-famous actress and the wife of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 5/26/2017 ( illustrated above here in images by me ) is 19673 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/13/2019 ( ) is 19673 days
From 11/26/1976 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in solar system deep space in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day makes his first landing the Jupiter moon Callisto ) To 9/13/2019 is 15631 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 8/19/2008 ( referenced below here in text by me ) is 15631 days
From 4/10/1952 ( Steven Seagal ) To 2/19/2006 ( referenced below here in text by me ) is 19673 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/13/2019 is 19673 days
From 6/9/1961 ( premiere US film "Fee Fie Foes" ) To 9/13/2019 is 21280 days
21280 = 10640 + 10640
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/20/1994 ( in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 10640 days
From 6/9/1961 ( Michael J. Fox ) To 9/13/2019 is 21280 days
21280 = 10640 + 10640
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/20/1994 ( in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 10640 days
From 9/21/1937 ( J.R.R. Tolkien "The Hobbit" ) To 8/2/1991 ( premiere US film "Doc Hollywood" ) is 19673 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/13/2019 is 19673 days
From 7/31/2017 ( premiere US film "The Dark Tower" ) To 9/13/2019 is 774 days
774 = 387 + 387
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/24/1966 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The Menagerie - Part II" ) is 387 days
From 4/8/1988 ( premiere US film "Above the Law" ) To 9/13/2019 is 11480 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/8/1997 ( premiere US TV series episode "Nova"::"Cut to the Heart" ) is 11480 days
From 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) To 9/13/2019 is 10466 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/29/1994 ( premiere US film "I Love Trouble" ) is 10466 days
From 6/29/1995 ( the Mir space station docking of the United States space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-71 pilot astronaut and my 3rd official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) To 9/13/2019 is 8842 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/17/1990 ( United States NASA announces the selection of the Group 13 Astronauts ) is 8842 days
From 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate ) To 9/13/2019 is 10408 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/2/1994 ( premiere US TV series episode "704 Hauser"::"Triskaidekaphobia" ) is 10408 days
From 8/29/2015 ( referenced below here in text by me ) To 9/13/2019 is 1476 days
1476 = 738 + 738
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/10/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) is 738 days
From 5/21/2006 ( referenced below here in text by me: Kerry Burgess - Re: Journal May 21, 2006 ) To 9/13/2019 is 4863 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/25/1979 ( premiere US TV series episode "Battlestar Galactica"::"Greetings from Earth" ) is 4863 days
https://twitter.com/SpokaneCity/status/1172659218240786437
City of Spokane
@SpokaneCity
4:51 PM - 13 Sep 2019
The Sister Cities Connections Garden in @SpoRiverfrontPk is officially open! Come check out the garden on the north side of the orange bridge. http://vimeo.com/359876722
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spokane,_Washington
Spokane, Washington
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sister cities
Spokane has six current sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International:
Nishinomiya, Japan – since September 1961 (Spokane's first sister city)
Jecheon, South Korea
Jilin City, China
Limerick, Republic of Ireland
San Luis Potosí City, Mexico
Cagli, Italy
From 7/16/1963 ( Phoebe Cates the United States of America Central Intelligence Agency officer and the United States Army veteran and the Harvard University graduate medical doctor and the world-famous actress and the wife of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 12/20/1994 ( in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 11480 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/8/1997 is 11480 days
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http://www.tv.com/shows/nova/cut-to-the-heart-965479/
tv.com
NOVA Season 24 Episode 19
Cut to the Heart
Aired Apr 08, 1997 on PBS
Episode Summary
NOVA investigates a medical technique performed by Brazilian doctor, Randas Batista, who allegedly discovered a way to treat enlarged heart conditions at half of the cost. Batista claims that by cutting through the heart's left ventricle, it would alleviate the risk of heart failure in many of the people who suffer from this rare condition.
AIRED: 4/8/97
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094602/releaseinfo
IMDb
Above the Law (1988)
Release Info
USA 8 April 1988 (limited)
Full Cast & Crew
Steven Seagal ... Nico Toscani
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094602/quotes
IMDb
Above the Law (1988)
Quotes
Nico Toscani: Not one C.I.A. agent has ever been tried, much less accused of any crimes. You guys think you're above the law.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy_Cross
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http://hvom.blogspot.com/2015/08/milky-way.html
Posted by Kerry Burgess at 2:01 AM
Saturday, August 29, 2015
Milky Way
From 9/10/1985 to 10/28/1994 is 3335 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_%C3%96pik
Ernst Öpik
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ernst Julius Öpik (22 October [O.S. 10 October] 1893 – 10 September 1985) was an Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist
Astronomical work
In 1916 Öpik published an article in the Astrophysical Journal, in which he estimated the densities of visual binary stars. In his sample was 2 Eridani, a white dwarf star. Öpik determined its density as 25,000 times the density of the Sun but concluded that the result is impossible.
In 1922, Ernst Öpik published a paper in which he estimated the distance of the Andromeda Galaxy. He determined the distance using a novel astrophysical method based on the observed rotational velocities of the galaxy, which depends on the total mass around which stars are rotating, and on the assumption that the luminosity per unit mass was the same as that of our galaxy. He concluded that the distance was 450 kpc. His result was in good accordance with other estimates of these days (100 to 1000 kpc) and were closer to recent estimates (778 kpc) than Hubble's result (275 kpc). His method is still widely used.
[ excerpt ends Posted by Kerry Burgess at 2:01 AM Saturday, August 29, 2015 ]
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 08/19/08 08/19/08 4:09 AM
Every time I look at this photo of the Saturn moon Phoebe I always tend to linger on that location marked Euphemus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Phoebe_2005_Mercator_PIA07795.jpg
Image:Phoebe 2005 Mercator PIA07795.jpg
I am not certain if that is where I landed or if it is just an area of high interest to me.
As I was waking up a few minutes ago, my waking or half-sleeping mind was pondering the landing cycle I made on 6/7/1976 and I was thinking of such details as the burn I made in my landing craft after I separated from the Orion ship. The Orion ship proceeded for some kind of orbital rendevous with the planet Saturn and I broke away from the intertia of the Orion ship so I could plunge into the gravity of the moon Phoebe. I made a long burn about 1 hour before landing and then I rotated around to view the approach and then made some minor thruster burns before the final approach. The sunrise cycle on the moon Phoebe is about 9 hours and I landed about 6 hours before the next sunrise. I took a nap on a special kind of couch I had in that landing craft and then I woke up about 3 hours later and began suiting up for EVA which was more difficult because my right arm was still barely usable. I awoke today thinking I was in very good spirits though. I went outside to watch the sunrise and to survey the terrain and I had a camera set to first capture my egress to the surface for the first time and then to record me watching the sunrise. I spoke to myself about how I had been anticipating that moment watching the sun rise over the horizon of the Saturn moon Phoebe back in November 1975 as Phoebe and I watched the sun rise that morning before I left Earth. I also commented to the camera that the surface of the Saturn moon Phoebe was probably the spookiest place I had ever been and I had been to 3 other spooky places before in my life.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2018/09/21/UPI-Almanac-for-Friday-Sept-21-2018/1011537196256/
UPI
UPI Almanac for Friday, Sept. 21, 2018
On Sept. 21, 1937, J.R.R. Tolkien published "The Hobbit," a novel about a fantastical journey to reclaim treasure stolen by a fire-breathing dragon.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101745/quotes
IMDb
Doc Hollywood (1991)
Quotes
Dr. Aurelius Hogue: Well, nice work, Hollywood.You were just about to crack open the chest of a 6 year-old boy to cure a case of diarrhea. Now, listen up smart ass. Next time I tell you how to treat a patient of mine, you'd better damn well do it, doctor. I doubt you'd know crap from Crisco.
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Jim Bridenstine
Verified account
@JimBridenstine
NASA Administrator
7:42 PM - 13 Sep 2019
Met with the @BellFlight team today in Fort Worth, Texas. Bell’s work with Unmanned Aircraft Systems under the @NASA SIO contract will transform the future of transportation in our country.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110093/releaseinfo
IMDb
I Love Trouble (1994)
Release Info
USA 29 June 1994
Full Cast & Crew
Julia Roberts ... Sabrina Peterson
530930main_sts49launch_full.jpg from internet
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0519743/
IMDb
Battlestar Galactica (1978–1979)
Greetings from Earth
TV-PG 2h Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi Episode aired 25 February 1979
Season 1 Episode 17
Release Date: 25 February 1979 (USA)
From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 11:04 AM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Journal May 21, 2006
Kerry Burgess wrote:
I think it was my first thought after waking up this morning that I used to date Julia Roberts a long time ago.
I also have these unexplained thoughts that I was a fighter pilot in the U.S. military, although I'm not sure which service, but I may have been in two different branches over time. I am also confused about thoughts that I may have been a helicopter pilot. What's next? A space shuttle pilot? Seems like a lot for someone that is only 40. And, while I am not sure when this divergence happened, I am reasonably certain it was before I turned 33. So I must have been a pretty busy guy. Especially because I have thoughts that I was some kind of mathmetician too. I have these thoughts too that I was captured by enemy forces at some point and tortured while in captivity.
https://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/1990/90-007.txt
NASA official website
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
January 17, 1990 3:00 p.m. EST
Johnson Space Center, Houston
RELEASE: 90-7
1990 ASTRONAUT CANDIDATES SELECTED
In the first of what will become standard biennial selections, 23 new astronaut candidates have been named for the Space Shuttle program.
The candidates were chosen from among 1,945 qualified applicants, 106 of whom received interviews and medical examinations between September and November 1989. They will report to the Johnson Space Center, Houston, in July to begin a year of training and evaluation, after which they will receive technical assignments leading to selection for Shuttle flight crews.
The 1990 group consists of 7 pilot candidates and 16 mission specialist candidates, including 11 civilians and 12 military officers. Among the 5 women selected are 3 military officers, including the first woman to be named as a pilot candidate, and the first Hispanic woman to be chosen. A listing of the candidates and biographical data follows.
A listing of the candidates and their birthplaces follow. A listing of the candidates and short biographical sketches are available from all NASA newsrooms.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0503337/
IMDb
704 Hauser (1994– )
Triskaidekaphobia
30min Comedy Episode aired 2 May 1994
Season 1 Episode 4
Release Date: 2 May 1994 (USA)
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From 7/21/1988 ( as Kerry Burgess my official United States Navy documents includes: Small Arms Operator ) To 7/31/2017 is 10602 days
10602 = 5301 + 5301
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 5/8/1980 ( the state funeral for Josep Tito ) is 5301 days
From 3/24/1943 ( Harvey Weir Cook dead ) To 12/20/1994 ( in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 18899 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 7/31/2017 is 18899 days
From 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) To 7/31/2017 is 9692 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 5/16/1992 ( the landing of the first flight of the United States space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut and my 1st official United States of America National Aeronautics and Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 9692 days
https://www.upi.com/News_Photos/view/upi/1f40b71d1671c5aa8d0170ba84a393f2/Idris-Elba-at-The-Dark-Tower-New-York-Premiere/
UPI
Idris Elba at 'The Dark Tower' New York Premiere
Idris Elba arrives on the red carpet at 'The Dark Tower' New York Premiere on July 31, 2017 in New York City.
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/16b.htm
The Menagerie, part 2 [ Star Trek television series episode ]
Original Airdate: 24 Nov, 1966
VINA: You're better than a theatre to them. They create the illusion for you, they watch you react, feel your emotions. They have a whole collection of specimens, descendants of life brought back long ago from all over this part of the galaxy.
PIKE: Which means they had to have more than one of each animal.
VINA: Please.
PIKE: They'll need a pair of humans too. Where do they get intend to get the Earth woman?
VINA: You said that if I answered questions
PIKE: But that was a bargain with something that didn't exist. You said you weren't real, remember?
VINA: I'm a woman as real and as human as you are. We are like Adam and Eve. If we. No, please, no! Don't punish me! I'll die! (disappears)
[Hearing room]
MENDEZ: An Earth woman? Then you were captured as breeding stock. (flash)
KIRK: Why? Just to maintain a supply of zoo specimens?
SPOCK: Much more, Captain.
[Pike's cell]
(as Pike searches the walls for a door, a hatch opens and a glass is placed on the floor)
KEEPER: The vial contains a nourishing protein complex.
PIKE: Is the keeper actually communicating with one of his animals?
KEEPER: If the form and the colour is not appealing, it can appear as any food you wish to visualise.
PIKE: And if I prefer
KEEPER: To starve? You overlook the unpleasant alternative of punishment.
(Pike is surrounded by fire and brimstone, screaming in pain)
KEEPER: From a fable you once heard in childhood. You will now consume the nourishment.
PIKE: Why not just put irresistible hunger in my mind? Because you can't, can you? You do have limitations, don't you?
KEEPER: If you continue to disobey, from deeper in your mind, there are things even more unpleasant.
(he drinks the nourishment then launches himself at the glass wall. The Keeper steps back in surprise)
PIKE: That's very interesting.
KEEPER: Now to the female.
PIKE: You were startled. Weren't you reading my mind then?
KEEPER: As you've conjectured, an Earth vessel did crash on our planet, but with only a single survivor.
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/16b.htm
The Menagerie, part 2 [ Star Trek television series episode ]
Original Airdate: 24 Nov, 1966
(from internet transcript)
[Woodland glade]
VINA: You want some coffee, dear? I left the thermos hooked to my saddle.
Captain PIKE: Tango! You old devil, you. Uh, I'm sorry I don't have any sugar. Well, they think of everything, don't they? (feeds lumps to the horse)
VINA: Is it good to be home?
PIKE: They read our minds very well. Home, anything else I want if I co-operate, is that it?
VINA: My, it turned out to be a lovely day, didn't it? You're home. You can even stay if you want.
PIKE: But we're not here, neither of us. We're in a menagerie, a cage!
VINA: No.
PIKE; I can't help either one of us if you won't give me a chance. Now, you told me once they used illusions as a narcotic. They couldn't repair the machines left by their ancestors. Is that why they want us, to build a colony of slaves?
VINA: Stop it. Don't you care what they'll do to us?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101745/releaseinfo
IMDb
Doc Hollywood (1991)
Release Info
USA 31 July 1991 (Los Angeles, California)
USA 2 August 1991
Full Cast & Crew
Michael J. Fox ... Dr. Ben Stone
Synopsis
Dr. Benjamin Stone (Michael J. Fox) is a hotshot young surgeon who longs to leave the drudgery of a Washington, D.C. emergency room and finally leaps at his chance at more money (for repaying his med school debts) and less death as a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills. On his last day, Ben's relationship with his co-workers is presumed to be anything but a warm one. None of his colleagues will join him for a drink, and a cake in his honor has an iced portion of the phrase "Good riddance, asshole" sliced out.
Ben's cross-country drive in a 1956 Porsche 356 Speedster to become a Beverly Hills cosmetic surgeon is interrupted when he crashes in the rural redneck hamlet of Grady, South Carolina. The crash is through the hand-made fence of local Judge Evans (Roberts Blossom). The superficial Ben offers to pay for the fence, so he can be on his way, but the Judge isn't interested, and he sentences him to 16 hours of community service at a nearby hospital. Ben gets angry, and the stern judge increases his community service to 32 hours.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0150527/releaseinfo
IMDb
Fee Fie Foes (1961)
Release Info
USA 9 June 1961
From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 10:33 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Every one that flatters thee
Kerry Burgess wrote:
http://www.online-literature.com/short.php/333
As it fell upon a day
In the merry month of May,
Sitting in a pleasant shade
Which a grove of myrtles made,
Beasts did leap, and birds did sing,
Trees did grow, and plants did spring;
Every thing did banish moan,
Save the nightingale alone:
She, poor bird, as all forlorn,
Lean'd her breast up-till a thorn
And there sung the dolefull'st ditty,
That to hear it was great pity:
'Fie, fie, fie,' now would she cry;
'Tereu, tereu!' by and by;
That to hear her so complain,
Scarce I could from tears refrain;
For her griefs, so lively shown,
Made me think upon mine own.
Ah, thought I, thou mourn'st in vain!
None takes pity on thy pain:
Senseless trees they cannot hear thee;
Ruthless beasts they will not cheer thee:
King Pandion he is dead;
All thy friends are lapp'd in lead;
All thy fellow birds do sing,
Careless of thy sorrowing.
Even so, poor bird, like thee,
None alive will pity me.
Whilst as fickle Fortune smiled,
Thou and I were both beguiled.
Every one that flatters thee
Is no friend in misery.
Words are easy, like the wind;
Faithful friends are hard to find:
Every man will be thy friend
Whilst thou hast wherewith to spend;
But if store of crowns be scant,
No man will supply thy want.
If that one be prodigal,
Bountiful they will him call,
And with such-like flattering,
'Pity but he were a king;'
If he be addict to vice,
Quickly him they will entice;
If to women he be bent,
They have at commandement:
But if Fortune once do frown,
Then farewell his great renown
They that fawn'd on him before
Use his company no more.
He that is thy friend indeed,
He will help thee in thy need:
If thou sorrow, he will weep;
If thou wake, he cannot sleep;
Thus of every grief in heart
He with thee doth bear a part.
These are certain signs to know
Faithful friend from flattering foe.
From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 10:33 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Every one that flatters thee
I don't remember when I first read this. But it sure resonates with me. It is even ironic the part about May. If I'm not mistaken, it was May 31 when I gave up my apartment. I want to sit down and try to write out as much of a timeline after that as possible, but I can't remember a lot of the details, although I knew all along that my tormentors knew exactly what I was doing and where I was located every minute of every one of those days. And so in this message below, he is talking basically about how people can talk about being your friend, but it is when the world throws you down into some really dark place, it is your friends that are going to be there with you.
[ excerpt ends From: Kerry Burgess Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 10:33 PM ]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Schieffelin
Eugene Schieffelin
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Eugene Schieffelin (January 29, 1827 – August 15, 1906) was an American amateur ornithologist who belonged to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society and the New York Zoological Society. He was responsible for introducing the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) to North America.
Starling release
In 1890, he released 60 starlings into New York City’s Central Park. He did the same with another 40 birds in 1891. Schieffelin wanted to introduce all the birds mentioned in the plays of William Shakespeare to North America. He may have also been trying to control the same pests that had been annoying him thirty years earlier, when he sponsored the introduction of the house sparrow to North America.
European starlings were not native to North America. Schieffelin imported the starlings from England. Scientists estimate that descendants from those two original released flocks now number at more than 200 million residing in the United States.
The starlings' wildly successful spread has come at the expense of many native birds that compete with the starling for nest holes in trees. The starlings have also had negative impact on the US economy and ecosystem.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/call-of-the-reviled/
Scientific American
Antigravity: Call of the Reviled
Brought here on a lark, starlings are now at every turn
By Steve Mirsky on June 1, 2008
Whistle. Pop. Whirrrr. Zzzt. Repeat. Many, many, many times.
That’s the song, if you want to call it that, of the European starling. Two of these relatively drab, chunky little birds are now my next-door neighbors—the pair moved into a hole in the maple tree in front of my house. Whistle. Pop. Whirrrr. Zzzt. Repeat. Incessantly. They fly into the hole. They fly out of the hole. They dig away at the tree’s innards and fling the detritus onto the sidewalk below with their little yellow beaks. I might be grateful if I could count on the birds to toss sawdust onto freshly fallen snow so that pedestrians got a firmer footing. But it’s already spring; the birds are just digging a deeper hole for themselves.
Like an asteroid put on a collision course with the earth millions of years ago, the starlings invaded my territory because of events set in motion in the distant past. About a decade ago the top of the main trunk of the maple became diseased and saw the business end of a chainsaw. That left a dead top, the kind that cavity-nesting birds love to excavate to build their little homes. Only about 20 feet from the front door of my little home in the Bronx. Zzzt.
The other starting point lies much deeper in the mists of time. In the late 1590s Shakespeare noted the mimicking ability of the starling while writing Henry IV, Part 1. Hotspur is contemplating driving King Henry nuts by having a starling repeat the name of Hotspur’s brother-in-law Mortimer, whom Henry refuses to ransom out of prisoner status. “Nay, I’ll have a starling shall be taught to speak nothing but ‘Mortimer,’ ” Hotspur whines. (In theater and life, in-laws can often be counted on for dramatic conflict.) Whirrrr.
We move on to the late 19th century, when a group called the American Acclimatization Society was reportedly working on their pre-environmental-impact-statement project to introduce to the U.S. every bird mentioned in Shakespeare’s scripts. Clearly, the Bard abided birds—his works include references to more than 600 avian species. A Bronx resident, drug manufacturer Eugene Schieffelin (a street bearing his name isn’t far from my house) seems to be particularly responsible for the starlings’ arrival here. Well, his chickens have come home to roost. Pop. (The society also brought the house sparrow to our shores, a pair of which nest in a vent on the front of my other, human, next-door neighbor’s house.)
The Acclimatization Society released some hundred starlings in New York City’s Central Park in 1890 and 1891. By 1950 starlings could be found coast to coast, north past Hudson Bay and south into Mexico. Their North American numbers today top 200 million. As bird-watcher Jeffrey Rosen put it in a 2007 New York Times article, “It isn’t their fault that they treated an open continent much as we ourselves did.” Zzzt.
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27055030
BBC
The birds of Shakespeare cause US trouble
By Jane O'Brien
BBC News, Washington
24 April 2014
Birds feature prominently in Shakespeare's plays and poetry. But one of the bard's birds has become a major nuisance in the US.
Choughs, wrens, cormorants, owls, nightingales, larks and some 60 other species all have their place in the playwright's canon.
Such references have inspired bird lovers for centuries.
So much so that in 1890, a German immigrant named Eugene Schieffelin decided it would be a great idea to introduce as many of Shakespeare's birds as possible to North America.
One cold winter's day he released 60 starlings into New York's Central Park in the hope they would start breeding.
Unfortunately, they did.
The US is now home to an estimated 200 million European starlings. Thickset and pugnacious, starlings are the bruisers of the avian world.
And they are now such a nuisance they are one of the few bird species unprotected by law.
"Starlings are lean and mean. In the industry they're often called feathered bullets," says Michael Begier, National Coordinator for the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Airports Wildlife Hazards Program.
"They're a particular problem at airports because they flock in very large numbers, and compared to other birds their bodies are very dense. They are about 27% more dense than a herring gull which is a much larger bird."
When a flock of starlings strikes a plane the effects can be devastating. In 1960 they caused the most deadly bird strike in US aviation history.
The birds flew into the engines of a plane as it took off from Boston's Logan Airport, and it crashed into the harbour, killing 62 people on board.
Starlings also cost US agriculture an estimated $1bn (£595m) a year in damage to crops - particularly fruit trees.
They can even cause milk production to drop at dairy farms because they steal the grain being fed to cows.
"What makes the starlings particularly insidious is that they pick out the finest quality grain, which causes a reduction in dairy output because the cows aren't getting the nutrition they need," says George Linz, a research wildlife biologist at the USDA National Wildlife Research Center.
"Very often farmers don't realise what's happening."
Ironically, starlings are only mentioned once by Shakespeare - in Henry IV Part I.
Hotspur is in rebellion against the King and is thinking of ways to torment him. In Act 1 Scene III he fantasizes about teaching a starling to say "Mortimer" - one of the king's enemies.
"Nay, I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak nothing but Mortimer, and give it to him to keep his anger still in motion," Shakespeare wrote.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000219/bio
IMDb
Steven Seagal
Biography
Born April 10, 1952 in Lansing, Michigan, USA
Birth Name Steven Frederic Seagal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Seagal
Steven Seagal
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He was granted Serbian citizenship on January 11, 2016
- posted by Kerry Burgess 01:37 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Saturday 09/14/2019
