I am actually genuinely surprised that my good friend Brian (aka Darth Larry) had nothing to do with this, since he’s a bigger Star Wars geek than even I am and also an accomplished cello player!
Here’s the video that has musicians and saga fans alike everywhere talking today…
Here’s a rare photo from happier times, when Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby and “White Hat” were still a band…
Fifteen years after first seeing that and it’s still about the gosh-darned funniest Photoshop job that I’ve ever beheld š...
I have reposted stuff on this blog twice in the past, on rare occasions. But never three times. This deserves it though (and no doubt will be posted again in years to come).
It’s been two years since the last time I shared this YouTube video. And since this is the week of Thanksgiving (yes I’ve already begun preparing to deep-fry a bunch of turkey) and there are perhaps still a lot of people who’ve never enjoyed this before, I thought it was well worth posting again š
It’s the short film Thanksgiving With The Kranzes. Produced a few years ago by aviation students, it’s a dead-on hilarious parody of Ron Howard’s movie Apollo 13.
It is Thanksgiving 1970. This year it’s Gene Kranz’s turn to host the traditional dinner for his NASA colleagues. The heroic crew of the Apollo 13 mission has been given the command of ...
One week from today I’m gonna be up to my elbows in marinade, Cajun seasoning and all kinds of other good stuff as I prepare three… count ’em, three… turkeys for a hot fryin’ bath in cottonseed oil. Yes it’s that time of the year again, when Yours Truly goes bonkers for the deep-fried turkey! As has been done in years before, expect photos chronicling the art, and perhaps even a video or two.
However I cannot emphasize it nearly enough: deep-frying turkey is potentially a very dangerous activity. I haven’t been burned (yet) but there have been a few close calls, despite taking every precaution that I know of. To me it’s worth the risk because deep-frying honestly does produce the most tender and succulent meat that you’ll ever get from any method of cooking a turkey, and I suppose that there’s always going to be a possibility ...
The bloggin’ might be sparse the next few days as I am going out of town on a mission of considerable import. So in the meantime…
It occurred to me this afternoon that I haven’t posted a vintage Sesame Street clip in a good long while. The ones with Bert and Ernie seem to be especially popular. So here’s one from the 1970s (way before the advent of 1080P) which finds Bert plagued with “H” all over his television screen…
I remember this sketch cracking me up bad when I first saw it as a pre-schooler! Thirty years later, it’s lost none of its hilarity š...
Been quite busy behind the scenes here the past week or so folks, hence the sparsity of posts. Lots more coming soon, and that’s a promise!
In the meantime, this oughtta tide y’all over for the weekend. It’s Queen’s classic song “Bohemian Rhapsody”… covered by William Shatner!
So some friends and I went to “Weird Al” Yankovic‘s show in Charlotte on Saturday night, the latest stop during his new Alpocalypse concert tour.
And not for the first time (actually it’s my third and I think Ed’s ummm… fourth or fifth?), we got to meet Al š
Here’s my filmmaking partner “Weird” Ed Woody with Al…
Here is good friend Marissa with Al! Okay, Marissa is, like, one of the most mature eighth graders that you will ever find. But on the trip to Charlotte yesterday she steadily began turning into this whole other person and when Al came out on stage Marissa went totally berzerko!! She is a bigtime Al fan and, well… you can imagine what happened when she got to meet her hero š
When we brought her back home at 2 a.m. I warned her father that he was going to see ...
Here’s the just-released music video for “Polka Face”, the medley from “Weird Al” Yankovic‘s latest album Alpocalypse! And with it, Al has achieved something that to the best of my knowledge has never been done before by any musical performance artist: producing a music video for EVERY track from a single album!
Congrats Al! And the “Polka Face” video is hilarious!! š...
Couldn’t resist sharing this lil’ gem that I found a few days ago. Okay yeah it’s awesome all on its own. But for me there’s whole other significance. You see: this was the very first thing that I watched on a VCR in my own house! It was sort of a “late Christmas present” to ourselves. So on December 31st 1983, I came home from a sleepover at my best friend’s place and Dad was hooking the first VCR we ever owned up to the TV, and to try it out he rented a tape with a bunch of Mister Magoo cartoons on it. I think we must have watched that thing over and over half a dozen times before the tape went back to Cobb TV and Stereo Barn (the only place in Reidsville at the time to rent videotapes from) on Monday morning.
So from 1957 here is ...
Says what it means! Means what it says!
That video went live two days ago and has already had more than two million views....