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Over the weekend I finally, finally, found time to do an “updated” version of Schrodinger’s Bedroom. This was the short film that I made last year as an entry for the short-lived Fox “reality” show On The Lot. It had already been uploaded to YouTube, but that was the version that was submitted for the competition, and unfortunately because of the limit on length that was in the rules I didn’t have time to put proper credits in this film. That’s always bugged me. So now I get to fix this and let it be, in my mind, a true and proper film that gives a nod toward everybody who helped make it.

So without further ado, here is Schrodinger’s Bedroom starring Dawn Swartz, Chris Otto, Selassie Amana, Ed Woody, Olivia Woody, Doug Smith, Tyler Richardson, Melody Hallman Daniel, Chad Austin, Veronica Jones, and a cameo appearance ...

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See that pic of Ron Price? That’s when he was sworn in on the Rockingham County Board of Education a little over a year ago. Nobody from his family wanted to come and hold the Bible for him, so school board attorney Jill Wilson had to fill in. This pic was taken by Richard Moore, and we’ll get back to it in just a little bit…

A few days ago Ron Price dropped his lawsuit against Richard and Debbie Moore. There’s a story about it in The Reidsville Review, but based on what I’ve heard from a number of sources, the Review story is… shall we put it… “wildly inaccurate”. There was no settlement at all, and certainly no conditions imposed. Ron Price cried “Uncle!” on his own.

Yet in spite of giving up, Price is delusional enough to claim a victory out of this…

Price said he

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A guy near Seattle has crucified Santa Claus and put him on display in his front yard. The whole thing is meant to protest the over-commercializing of Christmas.

Obviously, this has upset quite a few folks around there.

This whole “crucified Santa” thing has been around for at least a dozen years now. Supposedly, the manager of a department store in Tokyo put Santa on a cross for a store display around 1994, because he was told to do something for Christmas and he didn’t know what the holiday was about or what people usually did for it. And then last year some dude in Canada did the “Santa nailed to a cross” shtick too.

I hate to say this, but I kinda see where these guys are coming from. I didn’t start my Christmas shopping until this past week. In years past, I used to enjoy going out ...

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In 1953, a young North Carolina actor named Andy Griffith did a stand-up routine about the game of football. The recording of it became a runaway bestseller across the country, and it quickly propelled Griffith toward major motion picture roles and of course The Andy Griffith Show. And since that time “What It Was, Was Football!” has become one of the best-known comedy monologues in history.

I first heard this bit around 1984, when the local edition of P.M. Magazine did a video clip of Griffith’s routine accompanied by footage from a local game. They even had a guy act out the “Buddy have a drink!” part. I thought it was pretty hilarious and years later when I spotted an Andy Griffith CD at a store in Asheville I bought it, just for “What It Was, Was Football!”. It’s now on my MP3 player 🙂

And guess what? You ...

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Right now I’m averaging just one blog post a day. Which means that behind the scenes, I’m up to something.

But whenever I’m not on sabbatical from blogging (boy did that one go SNAFU or what?) I like to keep a little activity going so that the site doesn’t stagnate.

Here’s something that I found tonight that’s well worth sharing: from a 1994 variety show at a New York high school, it’s a live-action on-stage performance of “Weird Al” Yankovic’s classic song “Nature Trail to Hell”!

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I think… I think… that this should be safe to post. And I not only say that in light of how the Viacom situation was eventually resolved, but also because on this one I did take extra steps to illustrate how hosting this on YouTube is fair use under the Copyright Act of 1976, and that proper citation is given.

So that bit of peskiness out of the way, and especially for benefit of those who for whatever reason haven’t been able to see and laugh at this yet (‘cuz I sure have 🙂 here is the November 9th, 2007 edition of The Soup on E! Entertainment Television featuring the first commercial that I made for my school board campaign last year…

Here’s the original post about it from the night it started airing, by the way.

Thanks again to Joel McHale, the staff of The Soup...

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It’s 2:53 a.m. in the morning and I’m up making tea and working on a new website and some other stuff at this way late hour. Thought I’d make a post to chronicle the past few days developments…

Ever since Friday night a wazoo-load of e-mails and phone calls have been coming in from good folks who caught my school board commercial on E! Television’s The Soup. I’m still a bit overwhelmed by the attention the ad seems to have gained lately, now over a year since it ran (for only a week and a half on WGSR Star 39 in Reidsville). One neat thing that has happened because of it is that I’ve been hearing from a lot of people that I’ve somehow lost contact with over the years. I honestly had no idea that The Soup was so popular! I’d heard of it before but until now ...

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I’ve just learned that the first commercial from my school board campaign last year – the “Star Wars” one – is being featured on this week’s edition of the E! Entertainment Television series The Soup! I checked the airtime schedule and it looks like it’ll be running throughout this next week…

Friday, Nov 9, 10:00p
Saturday, Nov 10, 12:30a
Saturday, Nov 10, 10:00a
Saturday, Nov 10, 11:30p
Sunday, Nov 11, 2:30a
Monday, Nov 12, 6:00p
Monday, Nov 12, 10:30p
Tuesday, Nov 13, 1:30a
Wednesday, Nov 14, 2:00a

I’ll be checking it out later. And comment about it here. And if I can figure out some way to do it without getting hit with a copyright infringement again (E! isn’t owned by Viacom too is it?) maybe I’ll post the YouTube clip of it 😛 Thanks to Courtney Willis for the heads-up!

EDIT 11-10-2007 1:10 a.m. EST: I just saw ...

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