Newscoma

No, really. It’s in this news story from Houston’s Fox 27 news. Apparently the aliens downloaded music into Sammy’s head.

Ghost Theory isn’t so convinced.

Now off to hunt Bigfoot stories for our holiday enjoyment.

Dear Weekly World News,

Thank you.

Love,

Newscoma

You have made me smile this week. As a true fan of anything like aliens, Bigfoot sightings, chupacabra rumors and cheese, CNN is giving me a case of the happies.

And the fact that you unapologetically reported yesterday that you have personally seen a UFO just makes me giddy.

Alas, I’ve never seen an alien. I would actually love to see one but not the kind that inhabit your body and eat their way out of your stomach. That would give me the wiggums.

The idea, however, that you are having fun with this story this week. I know, there are a lot of journalists out there rolling their eyes. Not me. I did a Gingersnaps Squee when you interviewed Milton Torres.

You are living my dream job right now. I admit I’m jealous but also swooning from the joy of it all.

So, if you need an assistant, I’m your girl. Call me Brenda Starr. As Weekly World News isn’t hiring me, I feel that CNN is the next logical step. You can be the Space and Technology dude and I can be the Odd News/Bigfoot/Aliens/X-Files Correspondent.

I have references.

Love,

Newscoma

After a whirlwind visit to Memphis yesterday, I came home and fell out in my bed because I was one tired camper.

Yeah, I know that’s exciting. But when I woke up this morning, Horror/Hollywood Ron sent me a lovely little story out of England that gave me a happy.

A crowd of 100 stunned stargazers brought a town centre to a standstill when five mysterious UFOs were spotted hovering in the sky.

Drinkers spilled out of pubs, motorists stopped to gawp and camera phones were aimed upwards as the five orbs, in a seeming formation, hovered above Stratford-Upon-Avon for half an hour.

The unidentified flying objects lit up the otherwise clear night sky above Shakespeare’s birthplace in Warwickshire on Saturday.

I love the line “Drinkers spilled out of pubs …”

They are coming.

And I, for one, am just giddy.

Well,

I guess I’ll just have to start my own odd news website if Weekly World News is leaving me high and dry….

Grumble, grumble

Stay tuned.

So, you need to waste some time. I’m your (wo)man.

I think there are is some weird stuff going on in Washington. I mean it was always crazy/criminal peculiar but I think something is teetering underneath the surface. Let’s take a look.

•  Vice-President Dick Cheney doesn’t recognize stuff like laws. He’s above the law.  He is a Super-Neoconhero that don’t need no stinking laws. And he will break you if you, you know, try to oversee what’s he’s doing. The Crone has more. I’m scairt.
• It’s not true. Or is it? Gitmo Bay is in the news.
• Former Attorney General John Ashcroft says they were fighting like 12 year-old girls over the quarterback for the football team. I’ve seen this first-hand with 12 year-olds. It’s not pretty. (He didn’t really say this, but you get my point.) Go and read what the singing lawyer is talking about.
• Finally on the political front, if I send someone from the newspaper to cover a story, they are representing the paper. It’s my call as managing editor to send whomever I want to send. Adam Kleinheider had the right as a reporter and representative of WKRN to cover Nashville mayoral candidate Karl Dean’s  conference call. As I work for both a newspaper and I blog, Mr. Dean, media is different and if you want to run a city, you are going to have to move with the times. And he is a reporter. If Steve Gill had been sent, would have been alright with that? How about Ann Holt or Bob Mueller? What’s funny about this story is one of the guys that works with one of the politicians on his campaigns from ’round here and I discussed this for a long time yesterday. Yup, we are talking about this in Hooterville. Politicians and their handlers need to realize that the times, they-are-a-changing. Carter is right here. And Dean looked goofy.

So let’s root around some more, because, dang you, it pleases me.

• Badger Beth does a self-portrait which has nothing to do with politics but I thought I’d add it anyway because she makes me laugh.
• Scout is headed here. And for her, this just might be a dream come true. She is being accompanied by the lovely Finn.
• Sometimes, I just want to sit at Malia’s feet and listen to her because she is such a positive, lovely, understanding person. Seriously. She is proof that people can all get along and it is a good thing. And she has gorgeous red hair that just needs to be seen.
• CROP CIRCLES IN TENNESSEE! CROP CIRCLES IN TENNESSEE!  Man, I love me some alien visits. Well, at least the nice aliens. Not the blood-sucking ones who want to eat me and turn me into soup.
• I’m not nuts about blogs that just yell at me. I get enough of that in my non-virtual world.  Kat Coble tells you the ones that irritate her.

It’s Friday. Thank Goodness.

Bad Bad Ivy Challenges me Dangit.

For this:

There will be a throw down. She will win because she’s like really strong and stuff, but I like to talk big.

This just freaks me out. When I was a kid, I had every Bigfoot, Bermuda Triangle and Alien Abduction book on the planet. Most kids were reading Little House on the Prairie.

No, not me.

I know this surprises none of you.

But this, this is just … wow.

A yacht has been found drifting off the Australian coast with computers running and a table laid for a meal — but no sign of the crew, puzzled officials said Friday.

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“The engine was running, the computers were running, there was a laptop set up on the table which was running, the radio was working, the GPS was working and there was food and utensils set on the table ready to eat, but no sign of the crew,” he said.

“It was a bit strange.”

Police said one of the crewmen is believed to have bought the catamaran, KAZ II, at Airlie Beach south of Townsville and the three planned to travel home to Western Australia around the northern coastline.

Hall said the boat’s GPS system had been retrieved and the data would be analysed for clues to the mysterious disappearance of the crew.

“That will now enable us to track backwards where this yacht has actually been in the last few days, and we’re hoping that can pinpoint the search area for the missing crew,” he said.

All the boat’s sails were up but one was badly shredded, while three life jackets and survival equipment, including an emergency beacon, were found on board.

Mysteries like this are just downright weird. I’ve asked this question 4,587 times during my time of being a member of the blogosphere.

Why doesn’t Weekly World News hire me? I could be the Murray Waas of tabloid.

*sigh*

I’m headed to work, but I really was shocked to see that it had been a decade since the Heaven’s Gate Suicide.

Rio DiAngelo has a message he wants to share with the world. It’s an important message, one that begins in space. That’s where he came from, and where he will one day return, following in the footsteps of his 39 friends. Bearers of the same message, those 39 friends received their culminating cosmic transmission 12 years ago, when amateur astronomer Alan Hale stood in his driveway one summer evening around midnight, pointed his telescope low and due south and saw something that wasn’t there before.

This is really bizarre to me. It’s an interview with the sole survivor from LA Weekly. 
This is still the freakiest thing.

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Coming to the tourneys.

This is the weirdest video I’ve seen in awhile. Who knew. Thought it was appropriate.

I have plenty to say about the Libby trial.

Alas, tomorrow.

Here, for your reading enjoyment, is some of the latest news on Alien Abductions.

UFO’s in Arkansas? Umm … okay.

Close Encounters in Washington DC? Well, I’m sure there are a lot of that. If I was an alien, I’d be eyeing the guys with access to the red button too.

I’ve never heard the term “fastwalkers.” This one was sorta interesting.

And one more for the road: UFO sighted over O’Hare.

Bigfoot violence must be stopped.

Bigfoot has been found, but his feet are missing.

Police in the suburb between Seattle and Tacoma said an anonymous tip led to the discovery of the 8-foot, 400-pound wood carving with red reflector eyes on Wednesday beneath a pile of debris in a back yard about a block from where it was stolen.

Now that’s just not right.