The Character Shop made the string puppets seen inthe orbitz.com commericals I hate. I HATE marionettes, so freaking creepy. I didn’t like those old scfi kid’s shows like the ‘The Thunderbirds’, and such when I was a kid, and I depise them now. One retro cheesy thing I do not welcome returning.

On the up side, you know the Orginal new iMac dancing in the store window add we all swore was a Pixar animation?

Nope, it was a puppet, these guys did that too, so for that alone they get to live.

Hollywood Haiku by Tim Carvell

This German Fork Lift Safety Film (.MWV file) is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen. I wish all safety movies were this great.

Warningythonesque gore. FUNNY! You have to give it a few minutes to get there, so just sit back and prepare. And yes, it’s all in german, be sure to have the sound up when it starts getting good.

Now I worked for a lift truck company, I designed a award winning manual for one of their award winning products, so I’ve already passed this one to them, you betcha! It reminds me of all the stuff in my head when I was designing that manual too.

Short on stuff to talk about, so sue me.

Weekly Wrap-Up:

1. What was your favorite book as a child? Why?

“There is a Monster at the End of this Book”, which is a brilliant Little Golden Book with Grover. I buy one for everyone I know with kids. Grover rocks. Super Grover is my hero. Elmo sucks!

2. How often did you read as a child? Describe your preferred reading area or situation.

Oh all the time, but then I had no friends, outside a few of the kids inthe neighborhood, who later became hookers and addicts.

3. What children’s literature series did you read when you were younger? Why?

I had a Few. Anything by Judy Blume and the kid dectective series The Three Investigators. I read them all. I highly recommend.

I can say Judy Blume changed my life, without her I never would have discovered I had Scolosis (and had to wear a back brace for ys), and suffered much torment, no wait.. I still recommmend her anyway.

4. Do you still read children’s literature? Why or why not?

No, I’m grown up. I think some things should just be for kids. Adults reading it does not make it cooler, it woud have made me not want to touch it. Kids deserve some stuff that adults don’t claim, besides adults get all werid with it. I submit my only piece of evidence need to illustrate this - Harry Potter Slash fanfiction.

5. What children’s book would you recommend for a child’s library? Why?

Any of the ones above I mentioned, and The original edition of the Neverending Story, the movie doens’t do it justice, and goes much longer.

1. What do you most want to be remembered for?

Not having actually killed anyone. (I threathen it alot)

2. What quotation best fits your outlook on life?

Bite me or get over it.

3. What single achievement are you most proud of in the past y?

My Pixeldecor Patterns being designed in to a IGT Las Vegas Slot machine. (I’ll know more in October when it’s released)

4. What about the past ten ys?

Hrmmm… graduating design School just squeaks in, the only time I had decent grades in my life.

5. If you were asked to give a child a single piece of advice to guide them through life, what would you say?

Don’t pick on the fat kids.

‘Reading Rainbow’ fights for survival:

Reading Rainbow” has several strikes against it in the battle for funding. For starters, it has no access to merchandise licensing deals, an increasingly important part of PBS’ funding scheme for children’s shows. There are no “Reading Rainbow” action figures to sell, no “Reading Rainbow” jammies to keep kids warm at night.

See this is what bugs me about PBS (okay, one of the many things as longtime readers know) they lay on this left wing “we do this for the children” spiel and present themsleves as non-commerical, and commercial free.

Hey, selling children Sesame Street slippers, or a Barney Plastic tea set *is* commerical, brainiacs.

I’ll just leave that point htere befre I turn this into another tirade against PBS.

London bound.

You just know it’s eventually gonna come to the US - I can see the cast now:

Frodo: Bernadette Peters
Samwise: Tom Wopat
Arwen: Melanie Griffith
Aragorn: Matthew Broderick
Gandalf: Frank Gorman
Sauron: Nathan Lane

So, I sold some crap on ebay. Jsut extra/duplicate snowdomes I have gotten/bought.

The auctions were clly marked PayPal only. you’d think that was pretty cl, eh?

Not for Miss Prissy Pants. (not real name or Ebay ID) Did she not see the line about paypal only? No, she saw it. She doesn’t like paypal, and only wants to send me a check or a money order.

Well, boo freaking hoo, you can’t walk into a steak house, order the steak then say you are a Star Trek fan and dont belive in money so you can only pay in shiny marbles. But thats ok since other merchants have taken your marbles. Certainly I can take your marbles too.

If i didn’t want rid of the domes I would have told her to blow me and give her smokin’ bad feedback, but i said money order or nothing. I’m still marking her with bad/nuetral feedback, but didn’t tell her that. Stoopid people need slapped.

See, I hate going to the bank, HATE it, I keep rebate checks for months, usually they will expire before I remember to take them on the one visit I have make to the window every so often.

I wanna write her back and say “kiss my big white butt” but instead I wrote a terse lecture on how much nicer it woudl have been if she’d written me before bidding so I would have had a choice if I wanted her business or not.

WasArrested.com is good for playing tricks on friends at work. Custome news stories to make your pals into perverts.

Yep, this is fun on a lazy Wednesday.

Eddie Izzard is on tour! And coming to Ohio! woo hoo!

Thanks to Eric at inthegrAy.com for the tip off.

Odd costume designs - however if you’re a cross-dressing vampire hooker and Elvis impersonator, this could be the designer of your dreams.

However the SCA folks I know might be looking at the laurel wreath suit for more… formal occasions.

You have been following the ipod story on PVP haven’t you?

I hope so. Be sure to back up inthe archives to catch it all. This is too good to miss.

I want an iPod too. Will someone buy me one?

Maybe I can start a collection on here, other people have asked for more for stupider things. Maybe people will give me money to buy myself a iPod. Sniff. Me want.

I would like to admit that Mr Man and I (both fairly intelligent beings) did infact lock ourselves out of our own house today.

We walked into our backyard and discovered that niether of us had infact unlocked the backdoor when we walked out. Well, he went out first and I was out behind him a few minutes later. (Whenever he goes out normally he unlocks the door so hear e can get back in, so I don’t even bother to check it. He’s much more dependable then I am on that stuff.)

Now, we have a 6 foot privacy fence, one that Mr Man made himself and did so so it was damn near escape-proof so the dogs would’nt work a picket loose and run for the hills. Each plank is screwed, not nailed in, with four screws. It’s a cedar picket fortress.

So… there we are, two people, and two dogs (who are happy we are out with them in thier domain, and wrestling to show how happy they are) And we’re trapped, in our own yard.

We have a large drive through gate, but it is locked with a padlock, and on our side no less. And we dont have the key on us.

Our nieghboors have a key to the front and back doors - but they aren’t home. All our windows at the back of the house are WAY above head level and the one thats not is locked for sure. (most of our windows are not very deep, but wide and from the inside the booms come about chin hieight)

My friend Bev has a key, but she’s 15 minutes away, but I know she’ll come. But we can’t get to the phone. Mr Man has a cell phone - in the truck, which is out front. Yup, on the other side of the fence.

But, we remember the back sliding window lock had popped off with bad glue during the winter, so it will open from the outside now. I find a long enough stick from our brush pile that has nice angle with a crook at one end for pulling the switch foreword and we know what has to happen next.

Finally, in a resigned moment of despiration, Mr Man climbs up on a saw horse and jumps the the fence… And severely sprains his ankle when he lands. But he gets up and I throw the stick over and he painfully hops to the truck.

It works like a charm, which makes him sw to himself he’ll get the glue kit to fix it. He gets the cell phone but the battery is almost dead. I have just enough power to call Bev. QUICKLY.

She’s home, I blurt out the emergency and she says she’ll rush right over. I hand the phone back over the fence to Mr Man.

In the mean time, I’m trapped still in the back yard feeling like I’m in the excercise yard at a federal prison.

I certainly was NOT going to jump over the fence. (This butt does NOT go higher than my head, thank you, unless it’s motor assisted, let alone with my bad ankles will I willfully jump a distance like that.)

I start spreading some mulch Mr Man made over the weekend (that’s why he called me outside to begin with, to show me all the mulch he made while I was acting all medieval and crap over the weekend). Five minutes later, I hear Mr Man’s voice. I look up and he’s at the now opened back door.

As he sat on the front porch he realized he could hear the TV inside the living room clly. The window was open. The front living room window over looks the porch and while very very wide (120″+, long as long as my couch and half) the bottom is only a bit below waist level. He slides back the screen… it moves easily… and he got in!

So, then we had to call Bev to tell her not to bother, but she’d already left, so when she came we rewarded her with delivery chinese.

All is well in the universe now, except Mr Man’s foot is screwed and we feel like idiots. Oh yeah and that padlock on the back fence is coming off and will be switched with a simple snap hook. (Which I suggested MONTHS ago, for this very same f)Oh yeah, and we’re hiding some door keys in the back and front yards in the near future.

This has been a public service message.

For this.

We really wish sometimes they’d just give the northern half to Michigan or Canada already.

I won’t even try to understand the whole NASCAR thing, but sometimes I think the whole “collectors” thing goes to far.

As I type this I am munching on Kraft’s “DIPS” brand french onion chip dip. It has a NASCAR Driver Jeff Burton in his butch little jumpsuit and sunglasses on it, and the entire package is in orange and gold racing checks.

On the back it says “Collect all five cups!” and lists four other drivers names. Do NASCAR fans REALY go out and collect chip dip cups just beacause it’s NASCAR?

I don’t know how, but suddenly Blogshares seems to be getting people’s links again. VBB over trippled in value in 24 hours, and doubled in just the past few hours. I know a few of you own a crapload of stock in this joint.

At least on this site.

This whole saga started when I posted a simple weblink to his site, and said it was scary. Comments came from regular names you know, but NONE as derisive and insulting and generally hateful as the ones coming from his fans.

I was getting comments weeks later! 5 months later I got 10 in a week! They are all hate-speak deriding my commenters for not liking him because he was gay. Oh please. NO ONE even said that. They said he was a sucky designer, and as a designer myself, sucky overrides all.

Last I saw over 32 comments on one little 15-word post.

I turned OFF the comments. That should have ended it right?

Not Bobby’s fanatic followers, oh hell no. (I’m actually convinced a few of them were the Queen of Pain himself) They began writing the commenters (my brother specifically) to put them down in private email calling him everything but a asswipe for a circus elephant and a poor white piece of redneck trash (well we are but you don’t need to say it!).

I have now deleted that original post, and all others the others referring to that post.

Bobby is DEAD on VBB. I give up - the gay decorator fan club nazis have won. He’ll get no more Google hits from me. Pah’tooey!

Blue Man Group is touring.

Three dates in OHIO! WOO HOO!!! I am SO there! Tickets for Cleveland and Columbus go on sale tomorrow! heheeh! Cincinnati comes later, but being I hate Riverbend and Sinsinnasty’s entertainment/concert fees I’ll prolly go to Columbus.

And, anyway, Cincinnati runs WAY to close to my yly weeklong medieval retreat, and I’ll be getting ready for that, yeah.

Adobe to drop OS 9 in next major Photoshop release

WOO HOO! About time!

I have seen the light! Sweet Jebus!

(The post’s title comes from a comment under the story, it made me laugh hard.)