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I wish to interrupt all your seeeeeerious discussion on seeeeeerious topics to make a brief announcement….
Found via .:Chapel.Perilous:.
(Is that the most kickass-designed site you’ve seen in a while, or what?)
Plus they read Bad Attitudes.
Have mentioned that I work with Jerome’s brother and niece lately?
I guess in light of tonight being the premiere of “The Hulk“, and inspired by many posts by pops on the subject…
Perhaps I should shamelessly re-plug my 3D flash movie:
The First Episode of The Super Dudes – “Incredible, Ain’t it?”
NOW PLAYING ON NEWGROUNDS.COM
Maybe with a big enough pep talk, I’ll get around to making the second installment, where Captain America talks to kids in an inner-city school about drugs?
No. Nothing is sacred to me. Why do you ask?
In about an hour or so, I will be off with La Famiglia and the extended ones off to the Clyde Beatty Cole Bros Circus (See if you were my REAL friend, I would have free tickets for you too.)
This will of course involve a drive past a mile-long demonstration of protestors FROM PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals), and their “Boycott Animal Abuse” signs. Has anyone ever wondered if any of these animals would still be alive had they been left in the wild? Just curious.
One of my other questions would be: What if the circus was in your town, and an elephant dropped dead in the middle of the big top? What… exactly… do you do then?
Continue reading “Send in the clowns…”
You’re the rock that I stand on
You’re the girl of my dreams
You’re the one who brings music to a world ripped at the seams
You’re a starlight serenade
An angel sent FROM above
You’re my inspiration of love
One of the things that annoy the hell out of me (beside annoying love/dove/above rhymes) is the number of things I start but never finish. I wrote this song in 1992, even got as far as most of the MIDI programming. Certainly never went to the studio with it.
Of course I would think of this song every June 5th.
It’s the song I wrote for our wedding. Today’s our 11th anniversary.
Continue reading “Inspiration and other mushy, icky, girly stuff”
In lieu of actual content, I thought I’d just regurgitate a comment and make a whole post out of it. (Funny, I was just at Donna’s talking about wanting to do this.)
Some dude named Orion puts in a cameo at Emperor Misha’s joint where he “fisks” a new French ad, tentatively titled:
“Stop picking on us, or we shall get more nasal and snobby”, or something like that.
… starring none other than Woody Allen; Americas favorite inbreeder since Jerry Lee Lewis.
Continue reading “Fuque La France!”
The Princess™ has an inneresting meme going on: Songs that bring on major life changes. Michele’s playing, so that means all the cool kids have to play… and uhm, me too.
Let me channel my inner-Eminem OMMMMmmmmmmm….
Well, I would imagine that if they ever made Eric Brooks: The Movie, the soundtrack would be incomplete without Play That Funky Music (White Boy). That was me. With all the Brothers and Boricuas in Bushwick.
The BeeGees – Love So Right. It’s a major driving force in me. I decided as a kid, horrified by Barry Gibb whining about this heartbreak, that I would never let anyone that close to me. Ever. If anyone gets that close, I push them away. Love is for suckers anyway.
Continue reading “Soundtrack of your life”
It took long enough, but I finally have something up in my links section. When I surf blogs, I’ll be coming through here… idiots that come there via their referrals will look REALLY stupid, and I will direct people to point and laugh at them.
I also need to add a “personal website” (you know, non-weblog?) section, as I’ve gotten emails FROM a lot of old friends that haven’t heard FROM me since my last newsletter in 2001… as well as “Celebrity” home pages, really cool famous people I’ve met either in person or through the web…
In tying all this together, I got a newsletter last night FROM the ever so stunning Lisa Whelchel, who has a new book on home schooling out.
So I write back, “Hey Lisa, remember me?”, and enclose the photo below. It’s when I met her back in May of ’83, at the place my friends and I lovingly refer to as “The Cult” (see?).
The only picture I have with her, and I look like a TOTAL FREAKIN’ DORK!!!! (What’s up with my teeth? And I think I’m caught here pick-pocketing what’s in her sweatjacket. I’m not sure.)
It is now dawning on me that this picture is FROM 20 years ago, this month… She’s still hot-looking, and I suddenly feel very old, and as dorky as ever.
Ok… EXPLAIN this to me like I’m a six year old.
Boycott-Hollywood – A site that has been set up *specifically* to target and punish celebrities for their “anti-war” statements, has been dealt a death blow by the William Morris Agency. The site is being closed down by dotster sometime within the next few days.
Get this… Boycott-Hollywood complaining that their “freedom of speech is being infringed on”, and this is unfair.
You really have to laugh at the irony of it all.
(Link via Misty)
//** UPDATE – A new domain name, registrar and host is in the works… **//
Yoo hoo… can we talk?
On a serious tip. No more wisecracks on the subject. I have to realize that I play to a more global crowd. Not everyone thinks I’m funny. In the world’s defense, a lot of Americans think I’m a mean-sprited asshole too.
What started this was a remark I passed in my comments. It was a “racial/ethnic” slur directed at Mr. Razavi. No semantics, no excuses… WHAT I SAID WAS WRONG. Simple as that.
I am very sorry for hurting you, Sayed. And I mean it. I am very sorry for anyone who was offended by the remark, too. It was crude and insensitive.
What followed after that was a chain reaction of disasters on both sides. Events that we have *BOTH* admitted publicly we could have handled better. Exacerbated by caring friends on both sides who wanted to defend us.
We both lost our cool. While we can’t erase the past… we can only move forward INTO the future.
As I planned to resurrect this site over the summer, I VOWED that this kind of stuff was not going to happen anymore.
I wanted to come back and be a POSITIVE force in the community. At a time where people are being polarized and torn apart over a war that affected the entire planet… I wanted to help bring the web community back together, torn apart FROM all the debate and harsh words, and I wanted to work with the same people with the same mindset.
Continue reading “Web Skirmishes 101”
The First Episode of The Super Dudes
– “Incredible, Ain’t it?”Let’s face it. If you’re willing to run around town in tights, have incredible powers that you use only for good deeds, with no insurance or financial compensation, rather than knock off a bank or go on a killing spree:
1) You really need to get laid.
b) You’re out of your mind.
Let’s take the mythos of our beloved superheroes a step further and make them more real. The good and the bad. Here’s what I’ve come up with:
Continue reading “The Super Dudes”
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