Here we shall laud the praise-worthy and even the not-so-praise-worthy - with style and wit, as per usual throughout TLB PRIME, and as worthiness calls for it too...! Aye! This is yet another official site member of Luminous (\ô/) Luciano ™'s TLB Prime Network, aye! ;) Enjoy your stay here!
Here is some *bizarre music* courtesy of our friends over at YT - laudable efforts, guys...! But still...
YourMinis.Com enables YOU (and 1001 corporate entities) to create widgets that will "spread the word" on whatever it is that "rocks your world"... sort of! Great promotional tool, I am sure... But it is also a grandiose waste of time - when one realizes that all that these widgets do, when they finally do download fully and start functioning properly, is, no more no less what we can readily see on any specialty cable channel with a simple flick of the remote! Case in point: the Rolling Stone widget below...
True, we are in the I.A. (Information Age) and all the fuss here is justified for THIS sure is INFORMATION! Indeed, data is flying high and low all over the web here... But perhaps it is a tad excessive to create a widget just to countdown to the release of an umpteenth unnecessary (aye, OBSOLETE) video game based upon AMERICAN FOOTBALL... (ugh)
I mean, who needs this stuff And who needs to buy another MADDEN game - keep the cash or donate it to the millions upon millions who are dying of HUNGER all around the world! John Madden doesn't need the dough - over there, they sure do. Maybe they'll make a widget about REAL NEWS - news that MATTER. Until they do, news that Madden watches and other sports trivialities are the object of (another) 1001 widgets - like the scoreboard widget below... (How many scoreboards do you NEED - sheesh!)
More entertaining and educative, they also have the AOL VIDEOS widget on their extended menu... Far more entertaining and IMMENSELY more informative than other widgets that they sure do have in spades, all over the place... (such as the WWE variety I made fun of here!) At first glance, it is NEWS... hence, it should MATTER. But then, upon closer inspection, we notice that those are clearly not world-shaping events there, in these much-vaunted and lauded AOL videos...
Well, at least I also found a CLIMATE CRISIS widget Now here is something useful, about what really MATTERS out there, in the REAL WORLD, and that is affecting us all... Oh wait; it's another promotional tool, is what it is! For Al Gore's flick - An Inconvenient Truth! We were had, again! Ugh!
All in all, it is such a pity; such fine "widgetry" - and it is all wasted on such trivial, worthless subjects!
Yeah, Flair defeated McMahon in 2002 but this came just a tad too late as WCW had just lost to the WWE in 2001.
Anyhow - celebrating the anniversary of this decisive victory over the enemy seems a trifle devoid of meaning now as Ric Flair remains in the WWE (in the EMPLOY of one V.K. McMahon) and has even been faced with an ULTIMATUM coming from McMahon; the retirement ultimatum, no less! Flair has to win every single match he's in (now - as he nears 60 - he has to be really, REALLY like an Ubermensch as his entrance music, Thus Spake Zarathustra, infers him to have always been...) otherwise - he has to retire the next time he loses one single match! (Luckily, that does not apply to any tag-team matches or battle royales he might participate in!)
Flair just defeated MVP on P-P-V (this year's Royal Rumble, yes) just to keep his career going! He's avoided retirement so far half-a-dozen times (and that is the way they want it to feel and look like too; Flair narrowingly avoiding "the end"!) against such opponents as Randy Orton, Umaga, Triple H, William Regal and MVP (It is a nice gimmick - I wish it hadn't been used though! While it generates interest in Flair -with every match his possible last- it makes it appear to be that a legend like him does not get to choose when he walks away? That should never be the case! It isn't the case either - but that Flair agreed to this storyline, makes it seem as it is if only within the context of "the storyline"...)
Next up will be... Mr. Kennedy - ironically the guy that I saw as the heir apparent to both Ric Flair and fellow Horseman Tully Blanchard!
And he could instead turn out to be the man who "puts away" Ric Flair...?!?
Maybe Flair will choose WHEN he retires yet - and pass the torch to Kennedy, as I'd hoped?
Not quite the way I was hoping to see it happen though.
- Dubya repeating the same mistakes, ad nauseam - California Burning... - Buddhists Bashing becoming a trend... (almost) - Britney frowning... - Pretty much all of her competitors in jail, at one time or another... - While the "Ninja Burglar" carried out his business without a care in the world...! - Miscarriages of justice continued, worldwide... - Luciano (Pavarotti, not me!) and Evel quitting on us - Several other irreplaceable stalwarts depart as well; way too many of them to list here... (If you really want a summary list, check out the Lugubrious one - not the Laudable one!) - The U.S. Dollar taking a tumble... - The Loser's Loonie (aka the Canadian currency) rising to parity with the U.S.'s, as a result... - The high cost of living (and dying) rising too... - Oil prices soaring as well (yeah, they're burning hot!) - Australians electing a new leader man... - Canadians still losing the odd soldier in Afghanistan - Americans losing them twice as fast in Irak - Venezuelans cried over trivial things, really, due to Chavez (bottom picture) - Kenyans re-enacting Rwandan actions (almost) - Iran and North Korea bracing for a fight... - Russia choosing sides... - China too... - Islamist radicals calling for the beheading of most everybody who ticks them off...! - And the Pope speaking of "peace"... - While Luminous Luciano makes more enemies! *LOL*
Yeah - all in all, a very laudable, productive year!
But, at the end of it, we have very LITTLE to show for it!
Delight in the simple things, my friends, for only they are truly worthy of praise in this world ~ and on thislaudable blog as well! And as far as True Praise goes ~ God Knows ~ onlyGod Is Worthy of it!
Born in the Age of Aquarius, destined to seek out truths in many an art form, trained as a historian and a journalist but truly a prose-lover... Luciano is out to dispel any clichés and reinvent them all both to the tune of a little something called the truth as also to his own image - and being old-fashioned, he does not mind that distinction one infinitesimal tiny bit at all...! "There are two ways to spread the light; be the candle... or the mirror that reflects It." I have chosen to be the latter... okay? ~*~
"To be not only a seeker of light... but a dream weaver of light" ~*~ For as surely as the moon reflects the light from the sun, you and I can reflect the Light from Above - and be, indeed, the light of this world! ~*~*~*~ NOTE: THERE ARE COOKIES ~ from at least three parties~ ON ALL OF MY BLOGS! ~*~ accept it!
