“The central postmodernist claim seems to me that because there’s a near infinite number of ways to interpreta complex set of phenomena —which actually happens to be the case — You can’t make a case that any of those modes of interpretation are canonical. And so, if they’re not canonical, and if that canonical element isn’t based in some kind of reality, then it serves some otherMaster.
And so The Master that it hypothetically serves for the postmodernists is NOTHING BUT POWER because that seems to be EVERYTHING they believe in.
They don’t BELIEVE in Competence.
They don’t BELIEVE in Authority.
They don’t seem to believe in an Objective World,
because everything is LANGUAGE-MEDIATED.
So it’s an extraordinarily cynical perspective : that because there’s an infinite number of interpretations, none of them are canonical.
You can attribute everything to Power and Dominance.
Oh, hello, Pizza Man! Oh, two larges! I only ordered one. Oh, pepperoni and pineapple. My absolute favorite. I guess I'll have to eat these both by myself.
THE CEILING
Slimer pokes his head through the ceiling and scans the room hanging upside down.
LOUIS
He spots Slimer through the rearview mirror.
LOUIS
(quietly)
Okay, let's boogie!
He whirls around and fires a proton stream at Slimer,
slicing a burning a gash across the ceiling.
THE STAIRS
Janine comes up and ducks as a bolt of energy streaks
across the room and strikes the wall behind her.
Slimer disappears.
LOUIS
(embarrassed and apologetic)
Oh migod! I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to do that.
It was an accident.
JANINE
What are you doing up here?
LOUIS
I was trying to get that smelly green thing.
The guys asked me to help out.
I'm like the fifth Ghostbuster.
JANINE
Why would you want to be a Ghostbuster
if you're already an accountant?
LOUIS
Oh, no, it's just if one of the guys calls in sick or gets hurt.
Louis quickly slips off the proton pack and sets it down
Dan Aykroyd interview with Bill Murphy re John Belushi afterlife communi...
Danny :
All subjects are open
Really?
Danny :
Look, absolutely wide open
Alright, well let me ask you — do you feel that John has been
able to communicate in any way fromThe Afterlifedo you —
Danny :
I have great story — Isaac Taggart.
Dr. Isaac Taggart, the brilliant designer of House of Blues
we have thirteen of them around the country
now it's owned by LiveNation,
if you ever been to a House of Blues
Foundation Room, you know —
We got one in Cleveland, we got him we got one in New Orleans we got —
They’re beautiful venues and Isaac Taggart designed them,
and after John died he did a meditation with his — the woman
he worked with Phyllis Crystal who was an amazing seer
and giftedclairvoyant they went into a deep trance and
Belushi appeared stepping between — he was had one foot
in one side of a windowsill, and one of another
and he was… hecouldn't move through,
he couldn't pick up and he said
“I need to speak to my Nana,
I need to see my Nana —”
Now, how would Taggart know that that's what Belushi
called his grandmother, you know?
So he said “The NDC is done”, I said “That's what
he used to call his grandmother.”
So, Isaac said “Well, can I do an intervention with Phyllis and —
Trying to help him cross?” and I said “Please do.”and he did
and there's been nothing from John since —
Al Franken went to bungalow number three,
where John died had spent the night there,
and he said that John sat on the bed next to him and
appeared to him vividly for at least two minutes
yeah — that's riveting it that was prior to
Isaac's enabling the crossover, shortly —
that was a couple of weeks after his death
that Al Franken rented the bungalow….
and I meant Isaac I mean through oh good good
Michael yeah Michael Murphy sure yeah yeah took me to Isaac's house mm-hmm and Isaac's wife and Maureen yes Maureen Starkey yes married to Ringo yes I know
Isaac used to say “Here's Maureen Starkey,
she was married to Ringo,
she's my greatest piece of
rock & roll memorabilia!”
that's ringo starr's arene was awesome she was a quiet place she loved that she loved all his friends as she loved us all even though we're the blue the boys distracted from the marriage very gracious I mean wonderful three it was just being such the hostess so great Bob we were there but but aiesec such a spiritual person I just — the Zen about him, being in his presence….
What he did with the House of Blues with him and this is something that Michael believe he mentioned this to me and you can confirm it that there are urns from four corners of the earth that were embedded in the walls of the House of Blues
and, maybe — I don't…. I mean that was
Danny :
Well we took dirt from The Crossroads — and
every House of Blues under the stage, has dirt from
The Highway 49 & 61 crossroads which is the region,
was supposed to be where Robert Johnson sold his soul
to the devil to acquire better vocal & guitar skills
and then get hit records and he did —
that's the great crossroads legends, so —
we do have the dirt there,but maybe —
I may have, like, you know — because
he would…. you know our wall there
had all the religious symbols,
you know to coexist together you know
Unity & Diversity was Our Motto
and hidden rooms which I didn't know they were there,
in person that were in the Foundation Room and then they had the wall there's nobody decorated that mean wall would actually open up there'd be yet another small little, private room
and so I was with your rooms to pray in yeah I miss a club in LA it was beautiful me too me too now there's just an aluminium and glass tower going in there that song like anywhere and so this is a full-time construction zone no matter where you live in Los Angeles it seems traffic here are you kidding me - Wow what's going on I can take 20 minutes rather they're now an hour employee I know it's a did you try to ask the question sir yes sir go ahead shout it out yeah let me let me bring the mic over there
Ghostbusters theme park hello thank you just to start personal thank you because my wife and I met at the old house it was in West Hollywood so so thanks for everything locations up and running yeah you know we've seen some of the footage of international theme park attractions based on ghostbusters just wondering if do you know if there's any plans for anything in the u.s. Legion
there's a company called Void and they've got a great thing that doors yeah and it goes out into like you know shopping malls and public event spaces and basically you walk in they kit you out with pack and thrower and trap or not to trap in the back of the thrower they put you in the into environment and you you know you use the equipment to neutralise spirits and entities and at one point they get you where you're just you know thirty five floors up above Manhattan with no railing they're looking down and they're coming out at you out of the sky it's really a really powerful exciting what would you call like a gallery game and that I mean ice is very impressive and I think said you know that's kind of stuck you look for also we've got the Activision video game that we're gonna a remaster we remastered that that that's coming out and that was almost like the third movie they told a great story in there and you know I really was pleased with the images of that if you play that on a big screen in a nice home theater it's quite impressive there's a team from Japan that are working on audio-visual kind of a reality VR experience with goggles and you know and for our technology you know so but as far as a big theme park wrong I didn't know I think the boy thing is the closest to to what's going on up there in that world yes I'm wearing the world I don't tell you right now come down there put over the speeding you come by court with another good project I'll get the duck country Herefords into you oh yeah they're good a little bit a little sharp mustard on there you can stay all night I got a bedroom Boise all weekend you all all week all month bring your family I know I got a good honest face you'll be all right yeah anybody yeah do with all those characters live inside of you they're asleep most of the night we have a gentleman that traveled a long ways too you must ask you a question yes sir
Hello again — I was just wondering in
Ghostbusters, we actually catch ghosts
and hold them in a storage facility;
now, did you ever think about
how to actually destroy a ghost…?
Danny :
We didn't want to destroy them we wanted to hold them and
we wanted to eventually figure out technology to send them across
backwhere they belong but you know, so many resist going back,
they don't want to go back, that's why there are ghosts
they just don't want to go back — loop ghosts,
loop hauntings, they just want to stay there
So our idea was, “Okay we can contain them
and at some point get to the point
in The Science where we could
send them back across —”
get a question which one was that well which which incident was that oh you mean oh yes you mean no yeah yeah no no they think they like me there I think I think so Egon you know you wrote a screenplay for Ghostbusters book ghostbusters health and I would like to ask you is there any possibility that it will be sent into a book or a comic book the Ghostbusters help them oh it's a wonderful script yeah it's a good script I think we're gonna get Jason's movie may we have an animated idea we want to do and then the three cool idea for you know and another animated show pretty cool idea I have ghostbusters hi where they all meet the three of them meet Franklin's dance and Spengler and then you know hell-bent I could see once all those get made oh I could see it being a film because it introduces a whole new kind of concept in the story and it would buckle it would tie into to the to the past without depending too much on it yeah but it would make a good comic puncture you know a great video game there's some really neat equipment in that and that story really neat like what now you got any curious what time Oh like you know inter plane or interceptor you know you just get in here yeah you go from Manhattan you flick a switch and you're in men help them okay like melts in the universe man help them you know Alec Baldwin as the devil Dan yeah normal question for you so we believe in extraterrestrials we believe in spirits right well I do okay I said we exclusive okay so what's your thoughts on cryptids things like Mothman Bigfoot monster well duck Meldrum at the University of South Dakota he's a paleontologist he has a pretty compelling evidence that Bigfoot Sasquatch is a real thing he's got footprints he's got spore he's a you know a doctor paleontology so I've seen some convincing evidence there there was a her name was Rhys cap real Rhys and she was on a camping trip up north in a Winnebago up in Washington State I think it was and a sasquatch attacked their camper and she has footage of it you know and she's told me that story a couple of times I always ask her about it you know and again she still gets a chill and she thinks about it Mothman Brienne each story there they made a movie with Richard Gere about it yeah and let's see well there's you know then Yeti you know still stories about yet either Jersey Devil Chupacabra is you know there's a reason they're out there at the very least it's entertaining yes sir well the evil ray is in ghostbusters do the evil ray is there I don't know if there's any more of evil ray but it's in there okay okay well in the movie they they cut it down to the right you know they banded it properly that that movie moves along really well and I was evil there yes Gilda Radner do you think she would have been a good Ghostbuster oh anything absolutely no she wouldn't wonderful she could have been great as Janine the secretary right but we had Annie Potts, yes lady there are so many Oneliners amazing one-liners it was part of at least in our house everyday killer just curious but if you have a favorite line from one or two two might be my favorite
[Music] I think all of Marie's dialogue just is you know the speech about the cast dogs and you know and uh you know the the speech in City Hall you know is the passion there this was fantastic he was great yeah yes yeah sure go ahead yeah well I The Banshee wanted to get out of New York City and also you know there are other countries where are there ghosts lots of them there I felt like that we could do we could do a beautiful beautiful location there and I'd meet a kind of an Banshee like entity that comes from legend that would be quite frightening earlier was The Slenderman mentioned forms and I was wondering what your take on because my wife and I have a theory on this what something in pop culture like the Slenderman or the rape it's being popularized now do or manifest in terms of like the manna the Fedora the sort of reoccurring physical theme a cultural mind form well Slenderman certainly came to life in the attack that those two girls perpetrated on their friend now Thunder man seems to me be just a digital phenomenon the fedora guy is like he's not from the internet right so we hope that Slenderman remains in the domain of the digital you know what Slenderman does arise around her I was ready to swing anything but you know what Slenderman shows that if God can kind of and cross over into the physical realm through I'm actually into the perfect prettiest behavior of humankind which is what happened there yeah yeah it's infectious um 2016 use the idea of ley lines and I Lily Dale know that Lily Dale existed ley lines what do you think about the idea that that is a path let's need to look at those old maps in Europe and see where they pass through and then you look and you see this X and there's a tower or a castle or something a hand jar of something that's been built there and and why that structure there well because it's the cross of a ley lines yeah I think the whole planet has that kind of energy running through it yeah good question because we we have we have just over four minutes left do you have something else on your schedule well we've got a sign running shoes we have photos we got lots of stuff here this afternoon honest no no I do you identify yourself as a urologist no I don't say that you don't I don't I I have an interest in it I think a you apologist really is someone who like Stanton Friedman that we just lost God yes what a wonderful guy who's the expert on Roswell someone who makes their life that who takes it on as a real profession MUFON has the Star team programs Star team investigator programs so you have to go through take an exam and learn how to question people and untreated up T's sensitively and so there's a course you have to take so until I qualify and I'm not gonna call myself youth ologist but they certainly have an interest in it and I believe I've seen for them yes what's that in what I would get the Dominion sparkplug kitty kind of like mr. Stay Puft but a kitty sparks fishnet stockings was actually a brand symbol and she could do a lot of harm because she's electric now over in the corner there yes siree I yeah very interesting afternoon yes yes we were about to interview Steven Greer we'd interviewed I'm sorry we didn't you demon Greer of the morning we were about to interview Steven Bassett you know the disclosure guy and and they called from Syfy network and said the show's canceled the day of that UFO stuff and then then yeah the disappearing blackboard you know one minute it was there and then the next the mall second once I was there the Mustang was gone so there was something happening that day you know I don't know but we can't be silenced you know and now look what's going on with the Navy and these f-18 footages come on yeah yes I have a young man who wants to ask something well I Bonus don't know you're from Vancouver that's a different party and Ottawa oh well like makes me feel at home parties that's like the Canadian mmm but without a job
[Applause] [Music] [Applause] we don't have enough Americans up there come and visit us please please back to the future yeah you know like yeah we we have a lot of equipment but now we've got this ghost and we don't have anything you that you have so they license maybe men in black hey that's so me that's just something Wow why don't you write it can we have one last question let me just run over here real quick excuse me out of all of the tech in Ghostbusters I've looked into it I couldn't find a definitive answer what the the resistor your resistor on the side there yeah that's just absorb extra like that's a resistor as you would find in a car to kind of compensate for like over voltage so it kind of protects you from little shocks and stuff yeah and you know what the tubes for and here's the bonus question
hey Dan great family thank you sir
what are your thoughts on the Mandela effect and has it affected you personally which doe the Mandela effect about how we're not in the right universe uh you know with the way the world is today I don't know that any of us is in the right you remember but as you know there are I would stop millions of universes parallel universes and we're just lucky I think to live in one where we get to inhabit the planet earth the most beautiful blue sphere in the multiverse and you know sometimes we're in the right place sometimes we're in the wrong place but there's nothing we can do about it some meditate be mindful and make this universe that we're stuck in a better one amen [Applause] Dan
Another Dimension where a cast can have adventures and epic battles without generally affecting any place outside of this dimension or vice versa (although that possibility might crop up as a multi-part arc). It's a different story for anyone inside of course.
This also allows said battles to be Invisible to Normals.
The laws of physics may not apply in this space, and characters might have powers they wouldn't normally possess.
Hurling a bad guy into an alternate dimension is a great way to provide a bloodless "death" for a Big Bad, or just set up his return because you never know when he might pop back out of that alternate dimension to ruin your day. If animated shows for young kids ever require a villain to be Killed Off for Real, they'll usually throw him in a phantom zone and then lock the door behind him; he's not really dead, but he's also never coming back. Of course, this can also be the setup for Sealed Evil in a Can via a Tailor-Made Prison.
The name comes from an alternate dimension in The DCU, where Krypton sent its condemned criminals; they didn't die, but they were almost completely unable to influence the world outside. Much like Australia.
In video games, this is sometimes the justification for the Amazing Technicolor Battlefield. See also Crystal Prison for a common cage.
May be related to the Void Between the Worlds, which, if supernatural powers are involved, may be the equivalent of Purgatory and Limbo.
slang for "dollar," 1895, American English, of unknown origin. Related sambolio is attested from 1886; perhaps [OED] this was based on a deformation of Napoleon as the name of a late 19c. French gold coin. But also compare the Latin coin-names semodius "half a modius," simbella "coin worth half a libella," in which the first element is semi- (see semi-).
also from 1895
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Napoleon
used in reference to various qualities and things associated with 19c. French emperors of that name, especially Napoleon I (Bonaparte), 1769-1821. The given name (Italian Napoleone) is attested from 13c., said to be from a St. Napoleone of Alexandria, a 4c. martyr. It has been folk-etymologized as "lion of Naples" or "nose of a lion."
The name was applied to a gold coin issued by the government of Napoleon I, bearing his image, worth 20 francs. As the name of a 12-pound artillery piece, it is in use in U.S. military from 1857, from Napoleon III (1808-1873), under whose rule it was designed. As a type of boot, by 1860; as a card game, by 1876; as a type of rich cake, from 1892; as a type of good brandy, from 1930. The name also was applied by 1821 to anyone thought to have achieved domination in any field by ambition and ruthlessness. Napoleon complex in reference to aggressiveness by short people is attested by 1930. Related: Napoleonic; Napoleonism.
semi-
word-forming element of Latin origin meaning "half," also loosely, "part, partly; partial, almost; imperfect; twice," from Latin semi- "half" (before vowels often sem-, sometimes further reduced to se- before m-), from PIE *semi- "half" (source also of Sanskrit sami "half," Greek hēmi- "half," Old English sam-, Gothic sami- "half").
The Old English cognate, sam-, was used in such compounds as samhal "in poor health, weakly," literally "half-whole;" samsoden "half-cooked" ('half-sodden'), figuratively "stupid" (compare half-baked); samcucu "half-dead," etymologically "half-alive" (see quick (adj.)); and the lingering survivor, sandblind "dim-sighted" (q.v.).
The Latin element was common in formations from Late Latin, as in semi-gravis "half-drunk," semi-hora "half hour," semi-mortuus "half-dead," semi-nudus "half-naked," semi-vir "half-man, hermaphrodite."
The Latin-derived form in English has been active in forming native words since 15c. Semi-bousi "half-drunk" ('semi-boozy'), now obsolete, was among the earliest (c. 1400). As a noun, semi has variously been short for semi-detached house (by 1912), semi-trailer (by 1942), semi-final (by 1942).
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