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So I’m watching it again – ‘cuz it’s one of my all-time favorite movies – and I’m wondering…

Dare I post a video on YouTube of myself doing my extremely disturbing yet hysterically funny impersonation of Buffalo Bill?

It seemed to be a rather popular trick when I was in high school. So much so that during a swim meet my senior year my teammates asked me to do it while I was standing up on one of the diving blocks. Of course, I obliged them.

So I’m thinking of videotaping it and sticking it on YouTube. Might become a sensation. And then again it might get me arrested.

What do you think? 😛...

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Yes the rumors are true: Monday Night Live now has its own page on Myspace! And it does a really good job of conveying the off-beat personality of Reidsville, North Carolina’s premiere television call-in show, too. On the page you’ll find a history of the long-running show, hilarious “in-jokes” like references to Commander Ashtar and Tom Wopat and Richard from Danville, pictures of hosts Mark Childrey and Ken Echols (and maybe a few other familiar faces), and even the show’s theme music – “Tusk” by Fleetwood Mac – playing in the background… along with much more! The only thing missing is that Jaybird isn’t on the friends list… but maybe he’ll get a Myspace page of his own soon (hurry up Jaybird!)....

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This morning I was going back though the past few months of blog posts looking for something I’d written pertaining to education. In the course of searching I found the video of WGSR’s Star Talk on June 14th where Mark Childrey interviewed me about my plans to address the July 9th meeting of the Rockingham County Board of Education while dressed as a Jedi Knight. It was all to protest the “Standard Mode of Dress” (legalese for “school uniforms”) at Reidsville Middle and Reidsville High schools that the board had approved.

As was reported here a few weeks later, the board wound up rescinding the earlier vote to implement the policy after POTSMOD (People Opposed To Standard Mode Of Dress) turned the meeting into a media spectacle with picketing by students, black armbands and not just a Jedi but an “escaped convict” too 🙂

Well, I watched the video ...

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You’ve probably heard by now that O.J. Simpson is being investigated – along with several accomplices – for armed robbery at a Las Vegas casino. The very first thing that popped into mind was that “this sounds like Ocean’s 11!”

I couldn’t resist. This was screaming for a Photoshop job.

Instead of the 2001 remake with George Clooney and pals, I went with the original 1960 movie with Frank Sinatra and the “Rat Pack”, which I saw a long time ago and always liked.

So here it is: “O.J.’s 11” (or “O.J.’s Eleven” however you want to spell it out)…

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Over the weekend I was re-reading through parts of the Harry Potter books and something really scary crossed my mind. It turns out that there are numerous striking similarities between Harry’s arch-nemesis Lord Voldemort, and disgraced Rockingham County Board of Education member Ron Price (the admitted thief and loather of public participation).

Consider…

– Lord Voldemort has no friends. Ron Price couldn’t find a friend or relative who would hold his Bible as he was being sworn-in for the school board.

– Lord Voldemort conned many people into thinking that he was a charming man. Ron Price conned many people into thinking that he was a “conservative” Christian.

– Lord Voldemort is fixated on himself and sees everyone else as a potential threat. Ron Price is fixated on himself and has said that “I’ve learned who my opponents are and who will work with me.”

– Lord Voldemort and Ron ...

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Remember a few weeks ago when we discovered that VH1 was featuring my first school board campaign commercial on its show Web Junk 2.0? Well, during that same show there was a… strange… clip showing a preacher on some local community access TV station. And he was swearing like crazy! It was like every two or three seconds, VH1 had to bleep out what he was saying.

Here’s the full video…

WARNING: This video is loaded with excessive profanity
I honestly don’t know what to make of this guy. Is this for real? The way he moves around the screen is something that I’ve never seen done with a video camera before. How does something like this even get broadcast without the FCC stepping in? He calls himself “Spirit of Truth” and there’s an article about him on Wikipedia that has much more about him, including more of these ...

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Can’t embed this YouTube video so you’ll have to click here to watch it. It’s just what the title says: 1,500 inmates at a prison in the Philippines dancing to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”.

Yes, this is for real. Here’s a story from the BBC about it, which is part of the exercise regimen that a security consultant came up with for the prisoners.

Thanks to Marc at Bmovies – who never fails to amaze me at the stuff he locates on the Internets – for finding this 🙂...

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This is either a very clever statement, or I have crossed a terrible, terrible line …

The “Read a Harry Potter book for Jesus!” t-shirt. So what’s the story behind the inspiration for this latest bit of mischief? I’ll admit that part of it is because as a Christian, I don’t have a problem with the Harry Potter books. But also because it really hit me earlier today, while going through a certain portion of the book Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, that there is an amazing use of scripture toward the end of the book. It’s not directly quoting from the Bible, but it’s a wonderful depiction of the nature of God.

It’s toward the end of the next-to-last chapter of the book, “The Lost Prophecy”. I was finding so many Bible verses that reflect what Dumbledore is saying there, that I literally lost count ...

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