A Family X-mas

I came across this short film by Warren Eig on Reel-Exchange, which is a site that various artisans of media can post a demo reel of work that they have done.

Reel-Exchange: A Family X-mas: "A Family X-mas", is a twisted view of the whole holiday "night before X-mas" story. But it redeems itself at the end. It is funny, twisted, and definitely N.S.F.W.

So before watching this, make damn sure the kids are not around. It may visually warp the whole holidays thing for the rest of their lives.

The summary of the film is:
A FAMILY X-MAS is about a mob boss, Johnny Guccianno, who accidentally wakes up one Christmas Eve to discover Santa Claus. Johnny doesn't believe in Santa Claus, but after some convincing he realizes he's captured the real Saint Nick. Unfortunately, Johnny's not a big fan of Christmas.

And for something special, watch the credits for the cast list. I giggled at the casting/character irony.

Mr. Eig, I solute you. Here is the YouTube embed.


Blessed Be, and as Jean Shepherd would write in his book & movie A Christmas Story

If you get a BB-Gun, you are just going to shoot your eye out.

Dr. S.

And you might think YOUR thanksgiving was bad?

Now for a video about having a "healthy" holiday feast:


Blessed be, and pass the meat.
Dr. S.

Speeding Ticket Taser - THIS PISSED ME OFF!!!!

I found this video on Shoutwire. I clicked the link & was totally appalled by the conduct of the officer. And some people wonder why so many others are scared shitless by cops. From the time I watched the video, [approx 10:30 CST], to the time I went to comment, the view count went from 240,000 to over 250,000 in a span of just 20 Minutes!

I'm sorry but the actions of this officer need to be dealt with by his department by his immediate dismissal, with no compensation, retirement & benefits fully revoked.

And he should not EVER be allowed to work with people,
even as a restroom attendant.

The text from the YouTube description reads like this:

UHP (Utah Highway Patrol) tasers man in front of pregnant wife and baby over an alleged speeding ticket. Outraged? Call the Vernal, Utah UHP Office and let them know!

The contact stuff from the UHP site reads as such

• Utah Highway Patrol - Vernal, Utah
• Address: 152 East 100 North, Vernal, UT 84078
• Office: (435) 789-3111
• Fax: (435) 789-8575
• Hours: M-F 9am - 5pm
• Contacts:
• Bureau Commader - Captain Bruce Riches
• Section Commander - Lt. Jeff Chugg
• Web Site: http://highwaypatrol.utah.gov/

And, now for the video:


Blessed be, have a great Thanksgiving,

And try not to piss off the asshats that work for the Highway Patrol. This video proved that some are the bottom feeding mouth-breathers of law enforcement. But, at least now we know where all of the muscle-headed bullies from school go if they cannot get a job as strip club bouncers!

Dr. S.

The next step in the squirrel war

O.K. I promised certain others that I would not carry on the whole squirrel thing. But there are people out there that actually search for squirrel news.
{odd, but true}

So until I can get the squirrel news web/blog site set up, you will have to deal with it here.



Blessed Be, and bow down to your lord & master......... Foamy

Dr. S

I'll fix the links later so that you will all enjoy the furry fun of squirrels.

Why I still support IATSE, just not here

I found out about this, read several different stories, and . . . I am not happy.

This is the bullshit spewed from http://www.livebroadway.com/

And my comments on this will be in RED.

Local One, IATSE, the stagehands union, has shut down Broadway. They left the negotiating table and abruptly went on the picket line. They refused to budge on nearly every issue, protecting wasteful, costly and indefensible rules that are embedded like dead weights in contracts so obscure and old that no one truly remembers how, when or why they were introduced. The union wants you to believe they are the victims, the little guys.

We have the highest regard and respect for our stagehands. But, they are not, as the Union leadership characterizes them, the typical "little guys" as far as compensation is concerned. Their "average annual earnings," in salary and benefits, is more than $150,000, with many stagehands earning more than $200,000.

*They are professionals and should be well paid, and will remain the best paid in this industry in the world. We simply don't want to be compelled to hire more workers than needed and pay them when there is no work for them to do.

For example:

# It takes a few minutes to move a piano, but we are forced to pay stagehands for four hours of work. YOU AGREED TO IT, SO DEAL WITH IT! STANDARD SHOW UNION OR NOT HAS CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS TO THOSE THAT TAKE THE TIME TO DO THE WORK!

As a result, over the course of a year, many stagehands add another $50,000 dollars to their six figure salaries from moving pianos or mopping floors. I HAVE YET IN 37 YEARS OF WORKING IN THEATRE MET SOMEONE MAKING $50,k MOVING & MOPPING

# Head Electricians earn a six figure salary, but their contract only permits them to work a total of 80 minutes a week. THIS IS TOTAL BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!! I HAVE WORKED AS AN M.E. AND I HAVE NEVER COME ACROSS THIS STIPULATION.

# A flyman making $160,000 annually in salary and benefits is required for all productions, even when there is no fly cue in the production and no flyman is needed. AGAIN, YOU AGREED TO IT YEARS AGO, JUST FUCKING DEAL WITH IT YOU PANSIES!!

# We are required to keep the same number of workers loading in a show as hired on day one for the entire load-in process regardless of how many workers are subsequently needed. O.K. YOU GOT ME THERE

# We have offered a significant raise in wages, but the union says there will be a cut in wages. The only explanation is that this would be the result of fewer people being paid for not working. W.T.F.???? I WANT SOMETHING FROM YOUR STASH, CHARLOTTE!



These issues can only be resolved at the bargaining table, not on the picket line. We remain prepared to meet 24/7 until we reach an acceptable agreement.

Charlotte St. Martin
Executive Director
The League of American Theatres and Producers, Inc.

IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO BROADWAY PATRONS

Due to a strike by Local One, IATSE stagehands, there will be no performances today at many Broadway theatres. Off Broadway shows and several Broadway productions, including CYMBELINE, MARY POPPINS, MAURITIUS, PYGMALION,THE RITZ, THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE, XANADU and YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN will perform this week according to their normal schedules. For information about Duran Duran's Red Carpet Massacre, please visit DuranDuran.com. However, the rest of the Broadway theatres are dark.

If you purchased tickets via credit card to a Broadway show that is not performing, in most cases your card will automatically be credited. If you purchased your ticket with cash, please return to the point of purchase.

Visit ILoveNYTheater.com for detailed information about cancelled shows and refunds/exchange.

And a reminder: When buying Broadway tickets, it's a very good idea to make your purchases through well-established, primary sources like Ticketmaster, Telecharge, ILoveNYTheater.com, theatre box offices, and the Broadway Ticket Center.

We encourage you to continue to place orders for future performance dates and to purchase replacement tickets for those automatically refunded.

Please check back with this page or visit www.ILoveNYTheater.com for updates on the work stoppage.

* * * *

The League of American Theatres and Producers is the national trade association for the Broadway industry. Our members include theatre owners and operators, producers, presenters, and general managers in New York and more than 240 other North American cities, as well as suppliers of goods and services to the theatre industry. Each year, League members bring Broadway to more than 30 million people in New York and on tour across the U.S. and Canada.

This site provides information on special Broadway events and programs. For information on and tickets to shows in New York City, visit ILoveNYTheater.com. For information about shows in other cities across the U.S. and Canada, visit TouringBroadway.com.

I'm not sorry for being an ass about this, but these people are
sisters and brothers to me over the years. They need
the respect that is due to them, and not treated as just people
that push things, flip switches, make sure people look good,

And that they are seen & heard by the other people that paid over
$100 to see the show

I am REALLY pissed about this

Blessed Be,
as long as you are not a member of The League of American Theatres and Producers, Inc.

And Charlotte St. Martin, I hope you never meet an unemployed stagehand, designer, or writer.

For my blessings, DO NOT apply to your deamon twunt ass.

Dr. S.

Here is an easy quiz for you all.

I found this and thought, "Lets test the brain power of those that come here".

And then I realized that would be cruel to some of you.

Then again, why waste bandwidth with another stupid video from YouTube?

The answers are at the link @ the bottom of the quiz to avoid some of you lemurs from cheating.

Not to say lemurs are dumb. Aside from Mini-Lops, and three toed sloths, I like them quite a bit.

So, now on with the:

World’s Easiest Quiz

(Passing requires 4 correct answers)

1- How long did the Hundred Years’ War last?

2- Which country makes Panama hats?

3- From which animal do we get cat gut?

4- In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution?

5- What is a camel’s hair brush made of?

6- The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal?

7- What was King George VI’s first name?

8- What color is a purple finch?

9- Where are Chinese gooseberries from?

10- What is the color of the black box in a commercial airplane?

Feeling pretty confident are you? You only need 4 answers correct to pass the test.

To get the answers, click on this line & scroll down.

Blessed Be, & read a book to learn something gnu.

Dr. Strangelove

O.K. I know this is stupid, ......

But it is cute & safe for work.



I love Kate Bush. Hell I just like bush, {not Bush, I prefer bush}

But I hope you all enjoy the silliness of this video.

Blessed Be, and just be goofy sometimes, it is good for you
Dr. Strangelove

Batman, Adam West, and long time friend Wally Wingert

When I was in school back in the 80's I made friends with a guy named Wally Wingert, who had this passion for dressing up as different characters, as well as impersonating them vocally. I used to shoot publicity photos for his portfolio, and back him up as a "cohort in grime", [read my "Aluma-Man & Leather Lad" post], while doing gigs.

Now he is one of the very rare people in the performing arts that actually makes a living off of his passion of entertaining. You may not know him by name. But if you have ever seen Family Guy, or watched PAX TV, [he is the voice on the network id's], you might know his voice. And he has done way more than that. His site is http://www.wallyontheweb.com/ Check it out.

But I wax poetic. This is a video that Wally did that a friend of mine sent me who also knew Wally from his radio days here in Sioux Falls.
Please be entertained knowing Adam West was not only one of Wallys idols, but is now also a friend of his.

Just to show that sometimes dreams do come true.



Blessed Be, and follow your feet to get where you want to go.
Dr. Strangelove

And now for a blast from the fun past

I found this & thought to share with you all another one of my favs. from my youth.

It goes along with what I found back in March with "The Yip Yips meet the telephone"

So, without further ado. . . .
Classic Sesame Street - Yip Yip aliens discover a radio



Blessed Be, and be "happy happy, boing boing" as much as you want to
Dr. Strangelove

HOLY SHIT! NO WONDER I'M SO HAPPY!

I found this article on TechRepublic & thought I would spread the word:

Workplace profanity boosts morale

• Date: October 25th, 2007
• Author: Toni Bowers
• Category: Workplace, Coworkers, Company Culture
• Tags: Workplace, Morale, Leadership, Management, Toni Bowers
  

Profanity can boost morale, according to a new British study, published in the current issue of the Leadership and Organization Development Journal, called “Swearing at work and permissive leadership culture: When anti-social becomes social and incivility is acceptable.”

Couple of points about this: A) Is that the longest title of a study you’ve ever heard of or what? and B) If they’re counting words muttered under the breath, I have the potential to be the happiest person on the face of the earth.

According to the study, “frequent swearing can reinforce solidarity among staff and enable them to express their feelings, such as frustration, and develop social relationships.” I guess until you turn to the person in the cubicle next to you and call her a $%$$#%. Then morale kind of plummets, at least for one person.

And I’m not extremely familiar with British law, but in the U.S. you can bleep your way to the highest realms of good morale…until one person finds it unacceptable and takes you and your potty mouth to court for creating a hostile work environment.

The press release on the study did quote a Professor Yehuda Baruch as saying that abusive and offensive swearing “should be eliminated where it generates greater levels of stress, rather than helping to relieve it.” How exactly you’re supposed to determine that I’m not sure.

Baruch admitted that finding that “happy medium” is a tough proposition for supervisors. “Managers need to understand how their staff feel about swearing. The challenge is to master the art of knowing when to turn a blind eye to communication that does not meet their own standards.”

Really and truly, I don’t think if I were the head of a company, I would trust anyone to successfully learn that “art.”

I still f**king hate VIsta, Pt deux {I.E. VISTA SICKS}

I found this video on WWW.BLIP.TV. And could not embed it directly. So, if you want to see the original click on WWW.BLIP.TV.

UPDATE: I found an embed on YouTube. So click the video below to maybe save some time.

ENJOY!

Blessed be, and tear down the Gates of suckage!

Don't buy into the evil Bills of usurping us computer users.
So sayest I, and so sayest the spaghetti monster.

Dr. S.

I just have to do this

I found this on Break.com through a friend and absolutely could not resist posting this video. It is a great spoof of all of the lame "entertainers" that we all have had to suffer through the past few years. I can't the embed code from Break, so I found it on Youtube.com

I Wanna Be A Pop Star

Blessed Be, and don't have a drink in your mouth while watching this.
{You may ruin your keyboard & screen.}
Dr. Strangelove.

Germaine's Webcam

I am a big Foamy the Squirrel, Jonathan Ian Mathers & IllWillPress.com fan in general. I thought this was funny & deranged in so many ways, & needed to spread the word of our "lord and master".



Blessed Be, and stop staring.
Dr. Strangelove

National Squirrel Awarness Week

This is courtesy of www.scarysquirrel.org/
Click the link above to goto the original text, and working count-down counter.

Fall is harvest season, and October is the harvest month in the northern hemisphere. It's the time for harvest festivals, county fairs, Halloween, and that last plunge in the ol' swimmin' hole before winter sets in.

Well, Patriots, what was once a carefree time of year has been co-opted into a season of skwerlien debauchery. For, as many of you know, the second week in October was declared National Squirrel Awareness week in 2000 (England proceeded the States with its own National Red Squirrel Week in 1998).

We're not quite sure who to blame for this commemoration. Also note that the starting date varies from year-to-year, place-to-place. For example, there's seems to be disagreement as to when the second week in October starts. Some say it begins on the Sunday after the first full week. Others begin festivities on the first Sunday of the month (unless the first Sunday is the first day of the month...). It's confusing, but the week's timing and who's responsible for it isn't as important as what to do about it.

Sure, we could intiate a campaign to do away with this national embarrassment. Or, perhaps we should promote Skwerl Awareness Week as a time to drive the bushytails back into their forest hovels where they can gambol around with all their skwerlvert eco-terrorist friends. Then we could release an army of famished wolves into the forest and... well, you can see where we're going with this...HEY! THE NEXT NAT'L SQUIRREL AWARENESS WEEK BEGINS:

OCTOBER 07, 2007

Blessed Be our furry little friends!
Dr. S

So, you wanna see something REALLY SCARY?!?!

I saw this & thought back to when I was working for 'Disco On Wheels', when I got sent out to babysit the kelo dj's. But there was one night I had to drive & setup a gig for some dance at either Harrisburg or Canton, and the DJ, Wally Wingert, {who now does a butt-load of voice work, [i.e. Family Guy], & other stuff, and is still a good friend of mine}, and myself had both just seen the movie

"Twilight Zone"

[UPDATE 07.10.14: Thanks to 'The Mut', I corrected the movie from "Tales from the crypt"]
So, to top it off I had an aluminum splint on my wrist like a bad captain hook & Wally was dressed in all leather. For the whole night during the gig we referred to each other as "Aluma-Man & Leather Lad".

Mind you, Wally doesn't imbibe in anything, and I was totally dry. {yes, there was a time that I was responsible}

And as the night closed, & we bundled up all of the gear back into the truck, & we hit the highway to head home.

Imagine a full moon that you can drive & see EVERYTHING. It was a "I wear my sunglasses at night . . . . " moment.

We are still chatting back & forth about various things, and then it happened.

Headlights about two miles away.

I turned to Wally and asked "Do you want to see something really scary?'
He picked up on where I was going, and we both went into movie mode. Dialog & everything.

So here we are driving down a rural 2-lane highway, in a box-truck that has no equal for forward lights, {I forgot to mention that our boss rigged the panel van with a light package that would impress/blind people, why?, just because}, and there is someone coming at us.

So, I shut off the headlights, & there was mention of 'there might be nun's out there!!!', 'rocks must have taken out the headlights', etc.

As we got closer, I flipped the switches for the auxiliary lights, and turned them all on at about 3/4 of a mile. And by our guess, the car left close to a 150 yard skid track.

That made our night.

So anyway, now on with the show:

Do not watch this if you are tripping on anything, 'Cause it might warp your mind, curve your spine, and may help to lose the war for the allies'. {George Carlin}
But it is still cool.



Blessed be the artists that can have the forethought, patience, {thirteen hours}, to do things like this.


Dr. Strangelove

Britney Spears - VMA 2007 - Gimme More

By popular request, {and this way I don't have to search for it again}, I'm posting the video of one of the most resent tragedies.

Just don't eat anything before watching.

Blessed be, and remember that spandex is a privilege, not a right
Dr. S.

Notes from the veranda Pt 1

So, as I sit out on the 'back porch" of my favorite pub, I am realizing it is actually a nice night to go camping. Unfortunately I have to be at work in about five hours to load the musical "Movin' Out" into my venue, babysit the show, shut our gear down,
drink, eat, sleep, baby sit show again, {read the label from any shampoo bottle and you will understand}

"Lather, rinse & repeat"

Anyway, I just felt it my duty to let you all in on a little secret. Promise to not tell anyone. Seriously, double pinky promise.

I killed a squirrel the other night.

I DID NOT MEAN TO DO IT! HE JUST RAN OUT & I SQUASHED HIM TO MUSH!

4400 lb vs 10oz [now ooze] what do think will win?

If you want to make contributions to the memorial fund for its family, send it to the Sioux Falls humane society;

And if you want to view the grave site, it is somewhere in the woods north of Rice, on Bahsen just shy of the bend to the east.
As an ordained pastor of the Universal Life Church, it was my calling to respectfully deal with the situation.

SO ANYWAY:

Physically or verbally, we all kill things, ideas, intentions, & love, without knowing that we have done so. And when we finnaly find out about it. It ends up too late to pick up the remnants & make good of the situation.

So, if you find yourself wondering in the trees & find a marker with foamy writen on it.

Please pay respect.

And if you find yourself wondering around going "WTF have I done? Where am I going?".

Take some time to enjoy what you have, & who you have in your life.
You may be surprised.

You asked for orignal material, you got it. Shit like this normally goes to my phantom site.

Blessed Be, & be respectful of others.
Dr. S.

Umm, words escape me on this.

Would he be 'slap-happy'?

Stoned Out of His Mind - Watch more free videos

Blessed Be, and pull your pants up
Dr. S.

And now for something completely different......

So, my friends & family. Several of you expressed concern from my last post. I am ok, I just needed to blow off steam. Is that not what weblogs are for?

So I bring you this.



Politically correct? NO!
Fun to watch? YES!
Pertaining to our current life in America? {sidebar, I misspelled america, & one of the choices was calamari, WTF?} HELL YES!!!

So, Blessed Be, & enjoy the calamari

Dr. Strangelove

Good people, just stupid choices

O.K.

Why is it that the people that I know make some of the most stupid-assed decisions without asking someone else "Is this a stupid-assed thing to do?'.

It honestly scares me.

To those I see on a nightly basis. I'm sorry for being a total prick this last last week. Shit

This was longer. I cut out the crap that I had written after proofing it.

In all, yes I finally lost it after the pub closed. After reproofing, I realized I had left out the point of this post.
And thought I should tell you that a friend of mine committed suicide a few months ago. I only found about it last week.

Right now all I can say is be yourself, believe in what you do, and keep buggering on. And if you suspect someone not doing the same.

get them help

Blessed Be, and follow what The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy says on the cover.

DON'T PANIC!

Doctor Strangelove, ULC

P.S. After reading this, I sound like a total idiot. But I still stick up for my friends. Alive or dead, I will still tell you that YAAFM for pulling this kind of crap on those of us that care about you.

"The Amazing Jonb"