#i got a healthy amount of fights against money. and two Fame sightings.

[bleuberrygliscor]

listen. i dont often contest splatfest results... but out of the 37 battles i did, but literally just under 50% of them were mirror matches, including in tricolors...where were all the money players???

[bulldogedition]

Hold the cue cards! The Eagle has landed!

As America quietly--and we mean quietly--marked the 50th anniversary of the moon landing this week, TIME magazine decided to use nostalgia for its cover story on the topic.. Back when the moon was the hot location to get to, when John Kennedy's promise of landing a man  on the moon during the 60s ended with Richard Nixon's Administration celebrating it, and back when they were relevant as a weekly, they featured a 'race to the moon!' article a few months prior to the famed event..

This year on the 50th, they are placed a "next space race" re-do with SPACE X as the main racer.. Business taking over!!

Things have changed since then, obviously.. The ole-timers who lived through this event tell me that the world stopped in its tracks to watch coverage on TV of the moon landing.. The wiser elders of today inform me of the emotions of that time, the amazement and bewilderment so many had as they watched history being made in real time.. on TV sets--a new medium for so many in that era..

Even the  Brits did it their way across the pond.

BBC mounted programming to celebrate the great event. One of the shows featured a live jam by Pink Floyd. The program was a one-hour BBC1 TV Omnibus special with the whimsical title of So What If It’s Just Green Cheese?. It was broadcast on July 20, 1969, at 10 p.m.. The Floyd session eventually came to be called “Moonhead.”

TV GUIDE issued a cover story at the time cementing history: As major a worldwide television event as you can get.. Broadcast live not from our planet but from a satellite of it, the moon..

Children across America watched one small step for man became the giant leap for mankind, and turned to space .. they wanted to be astronauts when they grew up. Neil Armstrong became an American hero--looked up to by countless around the planet..

It was America's moment, the shining example of how WE could make it.. how WE could strive for more.. how WE could get to the moon and maybe one day beyond.

MALAISE DAYS

That brief but albeit amazing American moment of being the first to plant an earthly flag on a desolate space dwelling wore off quickly.

About 50,000+ deaths in Vietnam, Watergate, the Manson murders in Cali, high gas prices, inflation, and other world wide events suddenly forced people into a corner where pride and patriotism was not as evident.. Where we lost our focus on leaving this planet.

Instead, we decided to stay, and fight.. and argue.. Burn bras and protest war!

There was economic turmoil and other vastly amazing and historic moments of political upheaval.. whether it was Richard Nixon resigning before impeachment, or a sweater-wearing Jimmy Carter telling the nation to conserve its energy, it all led to the Reagan Revolution.

He indeed paid for that microphone and he intended on using it..

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd_KaF3-Bcw&w=935&h=701]

 PATRIOTISM UP IN SMOKE

President Ronald Reagan addressed the nation on January 28, 1986, hours after classrooms and media across the nation watched the Challenger explode on LIVE TV..

He called it a national loss.. He said during that broadcast, "I want to say something to the school children of America... I know it's hard to understand, but sometimes painful things like this happen. It's all part of the process of exploration and discovery. It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. The future doesn't belong to the faint hearted. It belongs to the brave."

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa7icmqgsow&w=935&h=701]

There seemingly something about this moment that killed the dreams of space.. The malaise 70s turned into roaring decade of greed in the 80s, and somehow we trashed the notion that space mattered.

By the 1990s, a decade when miraculous and amazing discoveries were being found on Mars and other moons of Saturn, we continued just finding ourselves finding space to be the frontier not worth mentioning..

George W. Bush had a similar moment when he addressed the nation in 2003 when the Columbia exploded after mission control lost contact.. Debris fell from the skies above Texas as the Columbia was lost without survivors..

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT5ecjjXdqw&w=1218&h=685]

And now, 50 years after the moon landing moment, even the business SpaceX cannot get attention unless one of its rockets blows up on the way to the Van Allen Belt.

TAPES AND LEGACIES DESTROYED

I mentioned before the ole' timers.. those who lived through the decade of revolution.. As an 80s child, I only can contemplate the death of space exploration. .When I was just 5, I may or may not have known of the Challenger horror.. when I was growing up in the 90s, my love of space was not because of NASA exploration but instead because of my healthy diet nightly of staying awake late to listen to Art Bell expose and expand on potential alien life and UFO sightings around the world..  But my interviews of those who lived through the live stream -- the true live stream during the 60s of the event -- produce another interesting side effect of the moon landing: I am told the youth of that day were glued to TV sets, but the older Americans had disbelief in what they were seeing..

Hogwash! Man on the moon!? No way!

Perhaps this is where conspiracy theories were formed.. This could be the beginning times when people just could not believe their eyes..  It was all too perfect a story. Kennedy promised men on the moon before the end of the decade. And suddenly at the end of the decade we were going to the moon, safely on LIVE TV for the world to watch, land then leaving the moon without incident, arriving back at home.. all without injury. All without a situation. Without a disaster...

Also destroyed.. a legacy? This was reported last year:

US astronaut Buzz Aldrin is suing two of his children and his former business manager alleging they stole money from him and are slandering his legacy.

The lawsuit, which also claims they are stopping him from getting married, was filed after his children petitioned to take control of his finances.

They asked a judge to name them as his legal guardians because he is suffering from memory loss and confusion.

 HOAX OR NO

There is still a large amount of people (and actually growing if you see popular opinion polls and compare throughout time) that do not think we actually were on the moon. Some real events may not have helped the NASA defenders over the years..

Back in 2009, media reports told us that Nasa taped over its only high-resolution images of the first moon walk with electronic data from a satellite or a later manned space mission, officials said today  So the most historic event in the agency ever, and someone they managed to record something else over it to save money.. huh!?

Stories like that don't help...

Rumors like this don't help either: Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining' was released 11 years after the first landing on the moon. In that movie, Danny Torrance - played by child actor Danny Lloyd - is seen wearing a knitted jumper with an Apollo 11 rocket on its front. In the scene where Danny first encounters Room 237, he is seen playing on carpet that it is said to resemble an aerial photograph of the launchpad of Apollo 11.. When Danny picks up the tennis ball, which is supposed to represent the hoax itself, he then enters Room 237 and comes out of it attacked and bruised. Later, in the climax of the movie, Jack Torrance - played by Jack Nicholson - screams and raves about the responsibility that's been placed on him, and that he has signed a contract to maintain the hotel and that he is responsible for holding its secrets.

The interpretation asserts that 'The Shining' was, in part, Kubrick trying to confess his role in the moon landing, from the carpets up to Jack Nicholson's crazed rants acting as Kubrick's vented frustrations.

Stanley Kubrick's daughter was forced to push back against this in 2016..

Also this.. There was a viral video that was released on the internet where Buzz Aldrin was attending the National Book Fest in Washington DC and was being interviewed by an eight-year-old girl named Zoey.

Zoey asked the astronaut: “Why has nobody been to the Moon in such a long time?”

Aldrin’s eyes grow wide in the video and he says to the little girl:

“We didn’t go there, and that’s the way it happened. And if it didn’t happen, it would be nice to know why it didn’t happen.”

Some have even claimed to see NASA being sloppy and forgetting to censor buildings appearing in moon footage..

And just on Friday night, Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis featured this as the topic for the program.. and also included a strange clip of the astronauts joking to mission control about cue cards and stage hands!!

Mission Control to Neil Armstrong: Is Buzz Holding the cue cards for you… over?

Neil Armstrong: Cue cards have a no. We have no intention of competing with the professionals believe me.

Unidentified voice: yea Ron’s getting to be known as the silent CAPCOM. (unintelligible) OK.

Buzz Aldrin: The only problem Charlie, these TV stagehands don’t know where they stand.

Mission Control: Well he doesn’t really have a union card there we really can’t complain too much I guess.

Neil Armstrong: Hey the restraints here are doing a great job of pulling my pants down.

x x x

NAZI CONNECTION

There are tons of questions that people will constantly ask about whether the moon landing REALLY happened in space or in front of TV cameraman somewhere on some elaborate set directed by Stanley Kubrick..

If you side with the conspiracy theory that the landing was a hoax, suspend your disbelief for a moment and believe.. because there is a whole other conspiracy theory/fact for your enjoyment..

Filmmaker  Aron Ranen got a grant for $65,000.. He got this grant in order to travel across the USA to interview former astronauts, mission controllers, scientists and others, in an attempt to prove that NASA actually sent men to the moon in 1969.

But instead of proving it was real, he was left with countless questions over whether it really happened.. His movie, MOONHOAX, is available for free download on YouTube and other platforms..

Along with the questions that persist whether it was real or not, Ranen asked some other question. If it was real, the set of facts that presents itself may be much more discomforting..

In the documentary, one of the Apollo mission’s few black employees reveals that the Ku Klux Klan operated openly at the Kennedy Space Center during the ’60s.

And more: A retired tracking engineer said that Nazi scientists helped the U.S. test hydrogen bombs in the South Pacific during the ’50s. This was a claim substantiated by recently declassified documents.

A former slave laborer recalls esteemed rocket scientist Wernher von Braun overseeing huge forced-labor camps in Germany during World War II (true).

And, finally, it turns out that all the basic data taped during the Apollo 11 mission has been misplaced--something confirmed in 2009 by NASA itself as we talked about earlier.

For your discernment, all the uploaded segments of MOONHOAX featuring some of the hard to stomach facts that Nazis helped the United States get to the moon, with one allegation that Neil Armstrong was the first to walk on the moon because he was a German, and Nazis assisting the US get there wanted it that way..

PUNCH DRUNK

50 years on... 50 years later. We have not really been back since....

We have been stalled here on this planet. A planet filled with war and mayhem. Instead of reaching for the stars we are just forced to continue grasping at straws that something will change..

If the moon landing really even happened to begin with.

And on that note, we will end with Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon. When he was approached about the factual matters of the moon landing several years ago, he had an interesting response..

Back in 2002, Buzz was approached by a moon landing denier.. Aldrin decided to take action..

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_YM9cCtwz4&w=1218&h=685]

It would have been the punch heard around the world.. but after decades since 1969, everyone stopped listening.

[lifestillamazingblog-blog]

//This must be my dream// Find me cause I’ll never find you (3)

They only realized how late it was when outside the pub almost everything was closed but walking in the silent and dark streets wasn't a big deal; and they talked like nothing was about to happen, both surprised at how sober they were or seemed despite the amount of drinks they had. Matty thought that probably one of his gears was off place because of how odd his actions were, but he wasn't a quitter and he didn't want to quit either.

The moment Matty suggested leaving the pub, Jade regretted deep in the back of her head her comment about the place being too hot, yet she was driving her Rover down the street while Matty smoked and hummed a song she couldn't quite get. The sight she had of him was now imprinted in her head; his curly hair all over his face as the cold air was entering from the rolled window, his hand outside holding his cigarette, the gray smoked around him and his well defined profile she admitted to herself she like too much for it to be healthy.

But he had something different, and not just the fact that he was a superstar in it way of rising further into fame; he was smart, witty, philosophical, straightforward and deadly handsome, she had the idea that Matty was like that because she was a fan since the 1975 started, but their conversations just confirmed everything and she was reluctant to find more.

-Lovely place. – Matty whistled when he entered Jade's apartment. It had a vintage air that her grandmother put a lot of time and money; pastel green wallpapers decorated with flowers and humming birds, empty picture frames hanging in symmetrical way, vintage and retro furniture for the living room and kitchen, an old white wooden table and chairs for the small dining area, but Matty's favorite was the big bow window decorated with cushions of various colors, where a nice sight of a small portion of the city could be seen, probably wasn't a good look after all, but something about the glistening lights coming through the glass made it look so neat.

-Thank you. – said Jade while putting her keys and red scarf in the table. – I have wine, do you want some? – Matty heard her from the kitchen, he didn't really give her an answer but she was coming passing the door frame with two wine glasses in her hands. Matty was looking at her vast collection of music, finding how diverse her music was; from old vinyl of Elvis to The 1975' EP's and albums, Korean bands he didn't recognize to Taylor Swift and Arctic Monkeys, he grabbed ILIWYS and put it in the pink retro stereo Jade had. He heard her singing along to "Love Me", and he saw her walking towards him, handing his wine.

He smiled at her to thank her for the wine. - What's your favorite? – Matty asked her, with the deluxe album in the air.

-Oh my god, you did not just ask that. - He found the displeased look in her face delightful. – You can't ask me that, I can't answer.

He laughed. – Why not? – He leaned closer without really knowing, she had lit some candles and the warm lights against her skin made him believe he was seeing stars.

-You just want to hear me saying it, right? – Her voice was low now, an unintentional way to make him go closer to her.

-It depends... I want to hear you saying a lot of things, love. - He said, his smoked and wine breath mixing delightfully with hers. She rolled slightly her eyes, biting her lips as she kept an eye on his.

- "I love all of your music"- She repeated what she had said at one point through the night. – What else? – She asked, taking away Matty's glass of wine he hadn't even drink from and putting both in the coffee table.

- A lot of incoherent sounds from that pretty mouth of yours. – He said before crashing his lips to hers. Jade froze but eventually let him do as he pleased, her mouth moving along his like they were fighting for dominance, both not giving up in their efforts.

He tasted like cigarette and wine and something sweet she liked so much, her lips parted and his tongue slide in, she could felt her entire world burn as Matty's hands travel down her blouse, finding their way up to her skin, and she shivered in excitement when his cold hands touched her, leaving more burning imprints. She lifted her hands to his hair, getting tangled in his curly locks and he was the first one to moan when she played with his scalp.

He broke the kiss because of this, looking like his pride had been hurt, but Jade was smiling, proud of it, and soon, a smile was appearing in Matty's face too. He went down to her earlobe, whispering the dozen of things he wanted to do to her, making her nodding her head in affirmation to everything he said, and then he placed sloppy and wet kisses on her neck before nipping her skin, leaving pretty red marks along his way down. He could hear her biting her lips, avoiding her mouth to emanate any kind of sound. – Don't hold back, babe...- he said against her skin, making her shiver because of the vibrations of his voice.

She moved him away, out of breath, finding a confused expression on his face and she smiled, taking his hand and leading him to her room.

It took no time for both to be taking their mouths, kissing like they their lives depended on it. Matty grabbed the hem of her blouse and she lifted her arms to take it off, tossing the fabric somewhere in the room. He glanced at her, making Jade blush at the look he was giving her, finding the black lace bra incredibly hot for his own good. Matty kissed her neck again, pushing her to the edge of her bed and holding her back while his mouth worked down on the bay of her still covered breast.

Her head fell back to the way he was kissing and licking and making her entire body shake with unholy feelings she couldn't remember ever feeling. Jade remembered his velvet voice telling her not to hold back and so she was moaning without caring, feeling Matty's smile against her skin. Her hands worked on his shirt, pulling it up and throwing it away. Matty watched as her eyes glossed over his skin, fingers tracing his tattoos, producing a nerve wrecking twitch in his entire body; he watched as she bit her lips when she reached the "We Are Kings" tattoo, and he couldn't think of a moment he was more turned on than this.

As her hands went down, they worked on the buckle and loops of his belt, then undoing the button of his jeans and sliding the zipper down, his pants then tugged down. Watching Jade sitting in her bed and pulling at his hips, his breath hissed when her lips were leaving kisses along the tattoo she traced before, her fingers were pulling at the garter of his boxers and shit... He wasn't ready at all.

Something was off for her as well; she had no idea where the sudden confidence came from, at least the entire lust she was feeling. She had blurry the memory of the last time she did this to a man, it didn't feel new, but it felt entirely different in a way she liked so much she might do it till he's at the verge of passing out.

Her lips were wrapped around the head of his length and her hands going up and down in his shaft, tracing veins as he got harder in her hand, she would look up to find a sight she would never forget; Matty's parted lips mouthing curses and eyes shut, she was amazed. She licked the head just to tease and could hear him moaning silently, head falling back and his hands holding her head to go deeper, and she did without hesitation because it was Matty Healy and in the back of her head, she wanted him to write a song about her giving him a blowjob.

It hurts a little when he's pulling too tight at her hair, but she enjoyed it way too much as he guides her closer to him. - You look so good. – He mumbled a bit breathless, his stomach muscles contracting at every intake of breath. – With your mouth on me like that. – He whispered, watching down at her less red lips on him. It filled her stomach with something hot and twisted, tears springing in her eyes as she goes deeper and she had to breathe through her nose because her throat was being fucked.

When she pulled away, out of breath, she can't help the curve on her lips as the dazed expression on Matty's face confirmed a little she did great, he might as well considered writing her a song in gratitude. He helped her up, his mouth pressing hers with more force and eagerness; he leans on her, leaning her backwards onto the bed, until she falls. He kissed her neck, tongue lapping her skin, his hands are on her back and he works on her bra, unhooking it fast and tossing it away. He's amazed, delighted and he never felt something like that before, he felt like a teenager again after seeing her half naked and he can't help it. He takes her right breast on his mouth and he's sucking and biting, and the only thing he heard is her moans and the heart beats mixing, unable to separate her to his.

Her moans were like music and it crossed his head about recording her and use it for their next single or something, but then he thought about him being the only one to be able to hear her and he crossed the idea. – Matty...- he heard Jade, her body was shaking under his and he loved that.-...Please...- she said as Matty was pulling her jeans down. Noticing the wetness on her underwear, how ready she was for him and he hasn't even touched her properly. - Please what? – He asked as he went back to her abdomen, tracing a line of kisses down on her. He waited for an answer before pulling her panties down, but she only shivered and moaned.

She felt a cold air between her thighs but was soon replaced by the burning touch of Matty's fingers, she screamed a little, arching her back when Matty circled her fingers in her clit. Her head went crazy as he moved his fingers; slow then fast then sloppy then fast again, but she was moving her hips against him, wanting more, everything seemed like a rainbow and she wondered if she was high because the stars she was seeing were so real in the moment. Out of nowhere, she pulled Matty up to her and her lips crashed on his, she bit them, tongue fighting his and moans escaping her mouth. He was whispering in her ear how wet she was, how pretty she was, what he wanted to do with her, how he would do it, and it only made her closer to reach her peak when he inserted a finger in her entrance, moving fast with her hips. He watched as her breath became uneven and her walls tightened.

He pulled out and she opened her eyes in disbelief, face concerned and blue eyes glistening. - Why? - She mumbled and he grinned at her.

-Not yet, love. – he whispered her, aligning himself to her entrance before giving her anytime to react, he pulls in and he thinks he's high because he loved this too much. He listened as she whimpered and moaned and screamed when he thrust her, every time deeper and strong. He fell on her, one of his arms in one side of her and the other holding her hips, moving her along until she's got the rhythm.

-Matty... Oh my god, Matty! – She felt like her bones crashing, skin melting and the entire room burning in flames as he kept going onto her. Her hands were wild on his back, scratching him and biting his ear because she didn't know what else to do.

- You feel so fucking good, Jade. – He said on her mouth, nipping her chin and moving his hips faster. – So good. – He repeated. She cried out when he reached that sweet spot of hers and when he fingered right above where they connected, she started to lose it.

She's convulsing, but Matty whispered her in a sweet voice that she's alright. – It's good, babe. You're so good, so fucking good...

But their breath was catching and they seemed unable to find oxygen, eyes getting heavier, his fingers and thrust getting slower and sloppier; her grip on her is tights, her nails digging down his neck and Matty groans something wicked in her mouth and finally, she hits her peak, breathing harshly under him, he followed not far behind, pulling out and stroking himself before cumming in her abdomen, reaching the curve of her lips. He's surprised when he watched her licking and tasting his cum. He leans in again, lips pressed to her slightly open mouth, tongue lapping along her lips and she returned the gesture way too intense.

The music in the living room was still on and he found Jade half asleep humming along "This must be my dream", he grinned and fell beside her after tugging covers over them, his arms were around her waist when she turned to the side and whispered a slow "good night" to him with a little smile on her lips, and it's the last thing he saw before falling asleep.