A Meat Lover's Dream

How could you beat a Turkey?
Easy have a Turkducken, Turkey, duck & chicken
How can you beat a Turducken?
Turbaconduken!

Yes, bacon wrapped Turducken.

This is almost as mouth watering as the bacon roll
Shown on Good Morning America where overlapped bacon strips
Wrapped around ground sausage
Were baked into a better tasting Meatloaf

I have not tried these yet, but I aim to.

Its the O+ blood in me.

I crave meat, and this is craving!

Check the link above.

JOB OFFER

Strangely I responded to a Twitter feed by a Celeb
A Celeb in the Comic Book industry hired some Artists off Twitter
I asked if he wanted Writers
He DM'd me to get in contact
Since he doesn't follow me
I cannot DM him back
I sent info via a form on his website
Hopefully the message gets relayed
If not
There was a glimmer of hope
I could be writing for comic books
Perhaps its still glimmering
I await a response via email
Provided the webmaster got the info to him.
This blog would likely turn into a diary
If this job happens.

Country 95.3 packs it in

Corus Entertainment apparently doesn't believe country music is alive.
They changed formats to Oldie's 60's 70's 80's and renamed it NEW95.3
That alone is an Oxymoron, or like a previous posting, an OPPOSITE!
Clearly the marketing people are not carrying a full deck of cards.
As yet there were no identifiable DJs present in the morning but I have tuned out.
Slightly further up the dial in the GTA was 95.9 KX96
They also have a cottage country repeat siganl at 89.9
They've been playing country for 15 years and they just gained just about every listener 95.3 has lost.
They also don't respond with form letters that do not address the complaints being sent.

Have fun losing ratings.

OPPOSITES

OPPOSITES
By John Ross Harvey

Good Bad
Hot Cold
Up Down
Right Left
Light Dark
Cooked Raw
Human Inhuman
Meat Vegetable
Sugar Salt
Skinny Fat
Democrat Republican
Liberal Conservative
Free Oppressed
Surplus Debt
Legal Criminal
Sun Rain
Summer Winter
Thawed Frozen
Heaven Hell

Batracer

Batracer is a free to play, or pay once for life to play, racing driver simulation.
The car graphics are merely for listing drivers and team standings
The car graphics are user created from archive photos and artwork and are generally in reverse of the true images they were derived from.

There are Formula 1 sets for 1986, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
all of which have Ferrari
There is LeMans which has many Ferraris
There is a Ferrari Challenge which strangely contains more Ferraris

Most other sets, and indeed there are many, do not contain any Ferrari.

As of yesterday, visiting www.batracer.com has displayed this message:



BATracer Unavailable Until Further Notice

BATracer is presently unavailable due to legal issues following receipt of a letter this morning (2nd November 2009) concerning user-submitted Ferrari content within BATracer. Efforts are being made to resolve this issue and to restore the site at the earliest opportunity following changes.

The ability to further upload user-submitted content for inclusion in the game has been disabled until further notice.

BATracer.com



Statement Concerning Infringement of Trademarks and Designs of
Ferrari S.p.A. "Ferrari" of Maranello

The inclusion of Ferrari material into BATracer was not authorised by Ferrari, and the activity of BATracer and user contributions was not in any way related to Ferrari.

All Ferrari content will be removed from the game, and all user-carset projects involving Ferrari content will also be removed.


Far be it for me to explain how free advertising of your product is an infingement of copyright, user images are not taken from Ferrari, they were created to resemble Ferrari.

You had several fans on this site willing to support the Ferrari duo of Massa and Alonso, now they won't.

Is bullying a minor gaming site like Batracer really what a multimillion dollar conglomerate like Ferrari needs to do?

I've been told they don't even own their image. Bernie Ecclestone does.
I don't see him suing Batracer for image copyright.

Why would Ferrari willingly attack its very own fanbase over a picture they see perhaps 10% of the time while playing?

I fail to see the logic of this rediculous attack by Ferrari, but I am a Bilingual Vulcan.

Batracer may run on say $2 million over 4 years, where as 10 cars sold at Ferrari probably equal that much, I'm sure it takes less than 4 years to sell them.

I doubt they even have that much, not all players have opted to pay for better control features, or sponsoring to get them. Most of the players actually pay nothing. So maybe $2 million is way beyond what they've actually taken in from paying players. That money pays for server rentals, maintenance, advertising, development and anything else a gaming site needs to spend money on. That amount of money is not a liquid pile of $ they put on display. It's spent most likely.

My $2 million figure is if 100,000 players bought the $20 one time only fee for better controls called Kool tools.

Do they have that many? I doubt it.

Can they possibly meet Ferrari's demands? I doubt it.

So why is Ferrari insistant on bullying the little guy?
Because that's all bullies do. They care nothing about anyone but themselves.

Many of their hard core fans have the same attitude.

I have not been a fan since Berger/Alesi years, I was planning to return next year with the Alonso/Massa lineup, now....probably not.

Support Batracer, and tell Ferrari to take a hike.

Hallowe'en

HALLOWE’EN
By John Ross Harvey
3rd annual posting

All Hallow’s Eve
Hallow’s Evening
Hallowe’en
Not Halloween as many may write
This was not a Christian celebration
But a Celtic observation of the end of summer
Reaping of the final harvest
Beginning of winter
Where Samhain, Lord of Dead, gathers souls
In animals, and decides what other animals
They will reside in next
On the Eve of this Day
Barriers between Natural and
Supernatural worlds are Broken
Faeries were considered hostile
People would imitate Faeries
And ask for Treats, or the household
Would be tricked
Hence modern day trick-or-treating
These imitators would carry turnips
Carved with faces
Much like the modern day Jack-o-lantern
This festival became observed here
In North America after the Irish
Potato famine made many emigrate
From Ireland and bring their folklore with them.

But let’s face reality here
There is but one reason Hallowe’en exists today
Commercialism
An incentive to buy products
Second only to Christmas
At least for now
Until the next MUST HAVE candy comes around
Hallowe’en will then be #1
In the pockets of Commercial Enterprise
Too bad the Irish don’t run them.

विन्डोज़ 7

WINDOWS 7
By John Ross Harvey

Like most people that converted from DOS to Windows
It was Windows 3.1
So now we have Windows 7
So where was Windows 4,5,&6?
Windows 95 is 4
Windows 98 is 5
Windows 2000 is 6
Windows XP is 7?
Windows Vista is 8?
Windows 7 is 9!

Hitchhikers Guide Math there
6x9=42

Only if the 9 is Windows 7

Photocopiers that Suck

Crap
Always
Not
Operating
Now

I will never be your spokesperson

Money Grows On Trees

MONEY GROWS ON TREES
By John Ross Harvey


Money is paper
Paper is made from Wood
Wood is Trees
Money comes from Trees

Now you Know!

Can that stupid slogan go away?!

Organic

ORGANIC

By John Ross Harvey

First off let’s get this straight
Everything on Earth is Organic
All items on Earth are Animal, Vegetable (plants, fruit incl.), or Mineral
The steel on your car is mineral, created from a rock of Iron ore
The rubber on your tires is from a plant
The gasoline in your vehicle is from long dead animals
(CARS the movie had it right with Dinoco)
The bricks on your house are clay from the riverbanks
The glass in your windows is from sand in a desert or beach
Claiming something isn’t organic is a fallacy
Everything on Earth is organic.
The CN tower 400 years ago may have been rocks and salt somewhere else
Before being repositioned as a 1815ft tall tower.
Everything on Earth is from this earth.
The food your parents ate became you.
Some potato from the Irish famine may now be blog writer.
To be inorganic, it must not be from this world.

So are you?

Proof That Hell is Frozen

PROOF THAT HELL IS FROZEN
By John Ross Harvey


1. What do you hate more, freezing temperature? Or a suntan? Proof 1
2. What do you hate more snow storms? Or rainstorms? Proof 2
3. What is the world’s most incurable disease? A COLD! Proof 3
4. Where is life mostly uninhabitable? Antarctica! Proof 4
5. Which is heavier, a winter boot? Or a running shoe? Proof 5
6. Snowball’s Chance In Hell? Pretty damned good actually. Proof 6
7. Three Forces of Evil: (read the blog) Proof 7

Feel free to deny these observations to prove your inability to grasp reality.

Nom de Plume

I've been doing research on how many authors have used
Or do use a Nom de Plume (Pen name for the American's)
Most notables are Steven King as Richard Bachman
And Nora Roberts as J.D. Robb

They already had success though. The other names for
slightly different book genres.

An obvious reason to change a name to pen name
Is that another author already has your name
John Harvey is a crime author with over 30 books, and sells in the millions
John Ross Harvey has only 5 books currently sells in the under 100s

One site I read suggested 2 syllable first name, and 1 syllable last name
kind of like Steven King and J.D. Robb, go figure.

If selling horror fiction, use a K for the last name
To be placed near King and Koontz

Romance authors should sound more female or at least
Less gender specific

Danielle Steele, theres that 2 and 1 syllable combination again

So I narrowed down some choices, from many to just two.

First is names from my jobs and residences during my lifetime
Second is a nearby town and something noone uses anymore
(Though it is a famous actor/director/writer's last name by sound
And a famous sci-fi fantasy novelist exactly)

Here they are:

1. Wentworth Vaughan
2. Markham Wells

Intelligent suggestions are welcome, idiotic ridicule by simpletons are not.

Leaning towards option 1.

This would be for further fiction efforts like crime novels, sci-fi, suspense,
Or any other genre I can write.

With luck it could get a reputable publisher to sign them.
Then it will need Twitter, facebook, email address, webpage,
And all other media visibility to help sales along.

STRIKES

STRIKES

By John Ross Harvey

The Toronto civil service strike has been around for a few weeks now
Mostly know the world over on CNN as Toronto's garbage strike
Which is mostly true as that service is part of the union
That also includes daycare facilities
Not that people's children not being cared for ever makes the news
Ferries to the island were also affected
Thankfully some people have created island access in the interim
Or everyone living there would suffer dearly
Garbage in the parks, not a brilliant system
But what choice have they when strikers block the dumps
Why is city employing garbage workers, or sanitation engineers?
Almost every other city around contracts it out.
Could be Miller or Laidlaw or Wasteco, they have many to choose from
So why wouldn't they simply fire them all and contract out?
And then pay the rest of the people not crippling our city that are not
Striking as garbage workers
Garbage is an essential service, our health and well being are greatly affected
Garbage should never be allowed to discontinue
Unions are to blame
Unions demand more than the average working class
I've never been in a union, the company I work for does not hire union workers
Toyota does not hire CAW, who had better quality workmanship?
Toyota does
Now VIA rail is on strike
Maybe that's a godsend to commuters as now they cannot
Commute into the smelly city anymore.
If I get a million book buyers from the links to the left
I'll donate half of it to ALS charity
That's certainly more productive than a garbage worker union strike

A Week of Sorrow

We lost 3 great entertainment icons this week.

Everyone's favourite sidekick Ed McMahon

Every boys first crush Farrah Fawcett

And Every girl's favourite singer Michael Jackson.

The last 2 just hours apart on the same day.

Where did you hear it?

It was on Twitter for me?

Is this how we'll get all of news from now on?

What do you remember of their careers?

Ed was a staple with Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show

Farrah was the reason Charlie's Angels were the #1 TV show in the day

Michael sold more records than anyone else on earth, before or after

100 million alone from Thriller internationally

I want to remember them positively

They did have negative publicity before their deaths

I don't wish to bring that up

Respect the dead

Remember what they did in life that made yours better

Laughs, Love, Music

R.I.P. Ed, Farrah and Michael you are missed.

Rim Jim and the Hamilton Blackberries

RIM JIM AND THE HAMILTON BLACKBERRIES
By John Ross Harvey

So a Phoenix judge, Mr. R.T. Baum decided to not decide.
Jim Balsille still wants to buy the team and move it.
Gary Bettman wants to continue shoeing a dead horse.
Fact: Phoenix is a dead market for hockey
Fact: The team is in crushing debt to many parties
Fiction: Bettman has local people willing to keep team in town.
Fiction: We believe Gary Bettman
Fact: President Obama loves his Blackberry
Fiction: Gary Bettman likes his Blackberry
Fact: Jim Balsille wants a team in Hamilton
Fact: Hamilton will fill the seats
Fact: Toronto will not suffer from a Hamilton team
Fiction: Toronto will suffer from a Hamilton team
Fact: Buffalo is further away than 1 hr
Fiction: Buffalo will suffer from a Hamilton team
Fact: Canadian, and specifically Ontario fans...HATE BUFFALO NOW!
Fact: We don't buy their seats unless its our team crushing them.
Fiction: Ontario hockey fans fill Buffalo arena seats.
Fact: Jim Balsille will keep trying to get a team
Fiction: Gary Bettman will stop him forever.
Fact: Some people are sick of Jim Balsille and his efforts to buy a team
Fact: More people are sick of Gary Bettman not wanting him to.
Fiction: Jim Balsille is stupid.
Fact: Gary Bettman redefines stupid.

Copyrighting

COPYRIGHTING
By John Ross Harvey

Seems pretty simple, create something, copyright it.
It’s yours, noone else can have it.
Like the phone.
Bell made it; noone else had it for a long time.
Now, everyone makes phones, mostly cell phones.
Quebec tried to copyright the Question mark.
Yup, you read that right.
They used it for their Information Booths, and
an Independent Store put up a Question Mark.
Obviously a Question Mark is public domain
That’s like saying you’ve copyrighted the number 1
Not possible, practical, or reasonable.
So why is Lindt Sprungli Chocolate trying to copyright
A Chocolate Bunny?
Several if not all Chocolate companies have made
Chocolate Bunnies for years, for Easter.
I’m certain I’ve eaten several of the competitions'
And far less of Lindt’s.
So how can any court reasonably suggest that
Lindt has a copyright on a Chocolate Bunny,
or even a Gold Foil wrapped Bunny.
I ask you. Is that not the most ridiculous copyright claim ever?
I will now copyright every word in this document
to prevent anyone from ever repeating what I just wrote, so noone can ever
write these words ever again.
See how ridiculous that is?
Chocolate Bunnies? What’s Next, the Moon?

Email Spammers

EMAIL SPAMMERS
By John Ross Harvey


I’ve had probably 4 Russian wives per day
12 Singles that want to meet me weekly
42 Viagra pills real cheap a month
6 Nigerian dictators a month
12 Google money laundering scams a week
6 Importing companies a month
And this doesn’t count the people I don’t know
That want to follow me on Twitter
If we have no communication beforehand, then
You don’t get to follow me.
That’s just my personal email
It’s almost doubled with work’s email
Does it make sense that I’m reading
SPANISH FLY by William Ferguson
It’s about the dirty thirties and seasoned hustlers
Always out to make a quick buck
By convincing others to part with their money
On the chance of winning big
In games like 3 card Monte
Perhaps it does.
Scammers are often also Scum.

My American Idol Song

MY AMERICAN IDOL SONG
By John Ross Harvey

Don’t give me a ballad
Don’t sing me a thank you
Don’t write something schmaltzy
Give me a rocking tune
Even if its country

I cannot take the endless Idol songs
All about you got me here
Thanks for making me great
I want to hear something meaty
Not something to make me puke my plate

Rockers want to rock on
Country singers want to get you dancing
If I hear another sappy ballad
I may resemble Charles Manson

We want to hear real songs
With real emotions
Not fake songs
With overplayed notions

Let me hear a Done somebody wrong song
Then I won’t have to pull out a gong

American Idol is very predictable
Half reason why I’m leading
In the Facebook game
Of predicting

Unless Kris wins tonight and
The point values change
I’ve already won
Just like Adam


Who cares if it rhymes? The point is made.

Pontiac Bites The Dust

PONTIAC BITES THE DUST
By John Ross Harvey

General Motors is set to announce the termination of Pontiac.
Well they have so many brands to choose from
Chevy, Cadillac, Saturn, Buick, Oldsmobile, Hummer, GMC trucks and Pontiac
Why not ditch Saturn instead?
Because Saturns actually sell because they are cheap.
Why not ditch Chevy instead?
Because nothing depreciates more than a Chevy, better bang for their buck.
Why not ditch Oldsmobile?
What will Seniors drive if that happens?
Why not ditch Buick?
Didn’t they try that already?
Oh yeah Tiger Woods endorses it.
Why not ditch GMC trucks? They are identical to Chevy trucks.
Oh yeah Trucks sell.
So why not Cadillac?
Because doing so removes the only thing worth buying from GM.
So why not Hummer?
Arnold will want a Hybrid version first
So we’re left with Pontiac
Built for Drivers that cannot find a light switch.
I suppose that’s a good thing.

Bring the McLaughlin back, and ditch the rest.
Now that was a brand.
And his house is the Xavier’s school for gifted children in the X-men movies.
Can’t go wrong there.

Trademarks

TRADEMARKS
By John Ross Harvey


First off I’ll tell you the origin of Trademark
Smith Bros. Cough Drops
Brothers Trade and Mark Smith decided they needed a description
To identify their product as an original.
Hence using their own names, they created Trademark
A description used by a multitude of corporations worldwide.
All from 2 brothers in St. Armand Quebec.

But everybody has a trademark.
Something that identifies them as the original.
Michael Schumacher always said: “To be honest.”
Not that I ever thought he was, but that’s what he said.
My boss always says: “What’s your name?” Sometimes he actually says your name.
Another colleague of mine keeps saying, “At the end of the Day.”

Completely ridiculous, unintelligent egotists, claim authority on subjects they know nothing about and trademark their comments with “Full truth.”
Full of shit more likely.