Really Big Unshow
Unshow #44.
Special Guest Paul Maki aka JohnBoze
Lately Paul has been busy:
He has contributed to the Quirky Nomads (http://quirkynomads.com/wp/)
Between the Lines Studios as both writer and voice actor (http://betweenthelinesstudios.com/)
Jack’s announcements
The Orc Skit in the latest Requiem of the Outcast was co-written by Jack and is in this episode: (http://www.requiemoftheoutcast.com/wordpress/2009/11/03/roto-s07e02-boo-did-we-scare-you/)
Jack will be doing live performance at Podcamp AZ on Saturday, November 14 (http://podcampaz.org/)
A webstream of this perfomance will be available. Watch the deadpan website for times and further info.
Greasy Nipples by:
Vanamonde (first comment of the week)
Ed from Texas
Cj
JOhnBoze
The Energizer Bunny
reaper
Johnny Null
JohnBoze
Johnny Null
Jack annouces the Duel of the Fates III contestants – with a twist. Send in “intangibles” in 12 seconds or less.
Paul Maki starts a semi-recurrent segment (please help name). Paul said fragments of lyrics, can you guess what they are?
Paul is also looking for intro music for this segment.
Don’t forget to send in your Deadpan slogan from episode 142 boards
And Episode 144 will expose Huey Lewis’ lies
Send in content: 206-350-Tomi (8664) or e-mail: sphericaljackmatgmaildotcom
Just don’t step on the monitor.
I’m using my new monitor as we speak. However, I think my hubby cheated, he bought the next model up from the pedal he showed me. I should have got an even bigger monitor just to make things even :)
Now I’m going to try Dragon Age on my new monitor
How big’s the new monitor, TEB? Yes, size does matter :)
FYI – While Incredible Pizza is good for the special day, it is definitely not the place for a cheap date. Both the buffet and the gaming are on the high side.
Just worked two hours cleaning the garage. Tired. Exhausted. Happy. Two weeks in a row (with a foreseeable two to three more) of cleaning this out. Feel’s good actually organizing things.
Waters of Mars not until Dec 19???
Grr
We took the kids to Bass Pro Shops. It looks just like this: http://bit.ly/23kW4k and holy moly was it fun and FREE. My favorite price.. although I did buy a new cup. It was pretty green and has a nice lid. It’s for my new job.
I’ll throw pics up on Flickr of the kiddos with Santa and everything.
I highly recommend taking the kids (or grown-ups.. I mean a free cookie and hot cocoa is good for us too!) to Bass Pro Shops. It’s fun just to look at the fish, but right now it’s so incredibly awesome.
Title of Submission FTW!
http://thereifixedit.com/2009/11/08/occams-razor/
JB – If it is “The Waters of Veronica Mars”… I’d pass on it.
Bunny said:
EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE
(hee!)
I never heard a Dalek say, “Extermicate!”. . . . .
I am shocked that forni”cate” didn’t make the cut.
Goodnight, murgatroid.
Bit of a rollercoaster weekend, up and then a down.
Heading backing home today, morning Pan.
I approve Jack’s comment.
Welcome back, Van.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times….or as we call it, Monday.
Sorry to hear about the down, Van. I hope everything is okay!
I took today off, as an attempt to use up vacation time, so all is good. Yard work awaits!
Mariachi uploading to Youtube now — I’ll send links as soon as it’s all posted.
falling
asleep
at
desk
:(
Woohoo! Got my Google Wave invite!
Boohoo! Can’t accept on a phone browser so I must wait until I get home…
Morning Pan!
Back from an early trip downtown. Now to do some work, then to hit the post office.
After that it’s garbage and cat litter cleaning. Then I can finally get back to Dragon Age.
A poor little mouse sacrificed itself (willingly) so I could learn the secret of transmogrification ;)
After reading the comments:
Have a good and quiet train ride home.
Look forward to seeing Sly B’s performance. Jack, why don’t you record and upload some of your stuff to youtube? (I know, Saturday’s performance will be streamed live)
Cj, I never found Vince Vaughn particularly good looking so the comparison to Jack didn’t work for me.
My poor kittycat is not feeling well. She’s also losing weight even though she seems to constantly eat. I don’t think she’s long for this world. She has a regular appointment at the vet’s on Thursday anyway. While not totally unexpected, it is still a little depressing.
I’m hoping the sick part of it is just a cold or something. I heard somewhere that Swine Flu is actually transferable between cats and owners. I wonder who’s been hanging around my cat. I wonder who my cat would let hang around her. She hates everybody.
Ok, now to do some work
Well, my time alone on the boards was…fun. Now I’m off to the post office and to run a few other errands.
Later Panites!
The weeds, they tumble.
So apparently, I have a number of Facebook alter egos.
Cj, didn’t you have a rollercoaster quote from Parenthood?
See them tumbling down
Pledging their love to the ground
Lonely but free I’ll be found
Drifting along with the tumbling tumbleweeds.
Wednesday is a holiday here in Canadaland. Just what do you do with a mid-week day off? I know a number of places that are moving it to today or Friday, but not my workplace or hubby’s
Oh yeah, on a completely unrelated note (not that any of my thoughts today were related): My boss’ travel requests were denied because of the current situation with my company. So don’t work schedules around me, I can work around you.
I hope that isn’t cause for concern, Bunny.
So – I had a weird musical whiplash weekend: Kenny Wayne Shepherd Saturday night and Carmen Sunday afternoon. Blues guitar to opera in a space of about 15 hours.
So are one of those alter egos you Jack? Maybe I friend the middle aged and bald Jack Mangan.
I think it’ll be cannelloni for lunch today. That sounds like a good meal.
Jack:
http://www.reuters.com/article/smallBusinessNews/idUSTRE5A24A920091103
It’s US, though so…
JAJ “To Do” list (in no particular order) –
( ) find flickr password
( ) log-on join the Deadpan photo pool
( ) get life straightened out.
good luck with that last one J0e, If you can figure out how to do that, let the rest of us know the secret ;)
( ) Study at remote temple with mysterious, James Hong-like sensei, become baddest motherfucker in the world.
( ) Revamp website to make story .pdfs and .mp3s available for purchase.
( ) Change guitar strings.
( ) Milk.
( ) Multi-grain bread.
( ) Cat litter.
What are you milking, Jack?
Llamas ?!?
Here’s a fun quiz:
http://steakhouseorgaybar.com/
I now have a mental image of DeNiro saying “I have nipples. Could you milk me?”
I’m appreciative of the rare weekday EssBee *AND* Rhettro sightings!
BTW, Rhett, I hope you can wait a decade before friending the middle-aged bald Jack Mangan. I sure hope he doesn’t show up any sooner.
Uh oh . . . You mean to tell me that wasn’t YOU, Jack?
I now have a mental image of Ben Stiller air-milking a cat – Thanks, Jack.
Well had an uneventful trip home. Back to the grind in the morning, need to get an early night.
We’ve got Nipples,
Yes We Do,
We’ve got Nipples,
How About You?
(yes, two of my sisters were on cheer leading squads. Sue me)
I went to the wrong high school.
So’kay, Jack. Lo Pan went to the wrong life.
And I
I want
To see my crush again, yeah
The magical correction
I dream; the world speeds on, yeah
No se apoye contra la puerta
No se apoye contra la puerta
Maybe I’m a loser
Maybe I’m the unsuspecting Lord
Maybe I’m a rapper
Maybe I’m just living by the sword
Your sorrow is
Beautiful
To me tonight
So cold and bright
“…that a ride could make me so frightened, so scared, so sick, so excited and so thrilled all together. Some didn’t like it. They went on the merry-go-round. That just goes around… nothing… I like the roller-coaster. You get more out of it”
Bunny, I should not even compare Jack to Vince Vaughn. Those are completely different leagues.
Jack wins – hands down on the “who’s hotter contest” …
I got my hair done today. Sweet relief has been achieved.
Be *clap*
Submissive *clap*
Be, Be
Submissive *clap*
Be *clap*
Submissive *clap*
Be, Be
Submissive *clap*
S-U-B-M-I-S-S-I-V-E
Go Team!
errrr – let me guess, that team was the bottom of their league.
Let’s just say I never liked the school, and an opportunity to make them seem inept and to emasculate their sports program brightens my day.
Lejon: You’re emasculating the cheerleaders?
Do a Wikipedia search on “Bottom” and the connection between your cheer and my question becomes funnier. Maybe note hilarious but we take what we can get here.
:)
CW: “V”
75% thru. Will probably finish it but it’s going to take something awfully compelling in the last reel to make me watch another episode.
Interesting note (SPOILER ALERT) – just reached the 1st bit of the show that a conspiracy folks might say was anti-Obama. It was the mention of “Universal Health care”.
Funnily enough though … about 30 seconds earlier, someone says that the the Aliens were already secretly among us, starting unnecessary wars and destroying our economy. Hard to get more anti-Busch/Cheney then that! So, I’d say the show is not picking political sides. People are just reading into it what they will.
JØ: Actually, I’m pretending to be a cheerleader emasculating the team. I suppose I’m efeminiting the cheerleaders…
I saw that too, JOe. We really liked it!
???
The “Bottom” joke or the multi-party “V” references ?
So Rowdy Roddy Piper sees these aliens with special sunglasses?
the multi-party references, sorry.
Ugh, my brother is a nightmare. He and I haven’t spoken for years (long story). I’ve really been thinking about him a lot recently, so I emailed him with just a short “thinking about you.” I got a response from him saying that he prays for mom, dad, and me every day. *sigh*
Sly B’s Mariachi concert from yesterday can be viewed here:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bolyejar&search_type=&aq=f
She has a spectacular vihuela solo in Cascabel.
Sorry that there is strife between you guys EssBee.
One of the really saddest things about that is that it is completely 100% possible to pray for someone without estranging them/pissing them off.
IMHO – If he is wielding prayer as some sort of blunt weapon, then I think he’s missed something in the instructions.
Thanks, JOe. The prayer isn’t the reason for the estrangement. I can deal with prayer pointed in my direction . . . it’s just that . . . well, I won’t get into it here.
CW: A Fish Called Wanda, which is definitely on my top 10 of all time list.
I’m heading home… Sis-Boom-Bah
I have some overly-zealous in-laws that I, on occasion, have to remind that “I’m already Christian.. I don’t need you to urge me in that direction.”
Just because I don’t blast my beliefs in everyone’s faces doesn’t mean I’ve forgotten my faith. It irritates me no end when people use use their beliefs to apply guilt or as a weapon.
I’m just sharing – I’m not assuming that any of you are experiencing this. :)
Cthulhu will devour them all.
jack: Like this?
http://www.ectomo.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/40492213_9650d24cf4.jpg
Hey Pan.
Dinner is done and just doing a quick hop on to say Cj is a sweetheart. Not anything special, she just has a general aura of sweetness surrounding her.
That is all. I now return you to your rgularly scheduled Panning
EssBee, will have to listen to Sly B’s set tomorrow.
Bunny out.
I just figured out who DJ Bunny is. I am t3h dumz. Hi DJ Bunny. But you said out. But I’m totally putting out the Hi anyhow. I need tequila.
Well, bring enough to share, Johnny.
Ed from Texas: Bien sur! Sharing is caring.
Sorry to hear about the Family trouble EssBee. Christians like that drive me crazy. I’m a very strong Christian and I wield it like a soft pillow, an open door and a showing of love. Many people use faith as a reason to criticize and hate… Those people are the reason I hate more organized religion. Trust me those people are doing it wrong and Jack is right Cthulhu will devour them all.
Strong Christian = Bench-presses Iron Crucifixes
-or-
Can hold the Iron Cross for five minutes.
Aww Bunny. :oops: (shuffles foot around)
Thanks.
I agree with the reaper AND …
If Canola accidents occur in threes … the rest of you better go lock up your spray cans!
I just spent an hour in hazmat clean-up. The can of spray Canola I had in the cabnet above my stove, failed containment. Fortunately it was not a sudden, catastrophic failure. More like it just slowly stopped believing in itself as a pressurized container.
meh
So everything else in the cabinet had this sticky, slicky mess on the bottom AND a bunch of it had run down the front of the cabinet and into the crack above the stove fan/light unit.
ick
jJ: What a mess! That’s much worse than a 4 year old with a can of it spraying wildly around the kitchen.
You have my sympathy!
I hope nobody was injured or slipped or anything like that.
EssBee – Thanks for sharing the video. Tell Sly B that the music was great fun!
The Cascabel was teh hot! Made me want to do “the forbidden dance”… or maybe even dances that, while not expressly forbidden, are highly regulated in most states.
CJ – no deaths reported but I will fear flammable canola slowly seeping it’s way through that vent hood till it finally finds a hot light bulb or expose wire. (insert “fretting” emoticon here)
Wasn’t the Iron cross a wrestling move maybe it is more like that…
11-9-09, JOe does the lambata.
11-10-09, J0e’s health insurance provider gets an unusual claim form filed.
Johnny Null: That license plate image made me bust out laughing so much I woke my wife. Love it.
You know what’s weird? Listening to a friend’s recording of him playing a harpsicord while the song keeps buffering… like the harpsicord keeps stopping in creepy ways. Fun.
I thought Iron Cross was a movie with that guy, the one with the forehead.
Lu Gosset or something?
(although it is not at all apparent, that was supposed to be amusing. you may laugh now.)
*giggle*
Write write write
Procrastinate procrastinate procrastinate
Write write write…
Drink hot tea..
Rinse
Repeat… long night.
Goodnight, Louis Gossett, Jr.
Every time I hear the name Louis Gossett, Jr., I think of Enemy Mine.
Word association procrastination FTW.
Morning Pan, back to work, feeling abtut empty at the moment, the mindless routine will do some good.
-abut +bit
“CTHULHU” is not a valid vanity plate. Please verify that the plate you entered…
…consists of only numbers and letters.
…begins with at least 2 letters.
…is no larger than 6 characters.
…does not intermix letters and numbers.
Damn.
However!!!
As of the first of this month, “TRYSEX” may be available for order. Please submit an application or call our telephone center to confirm availability.
Note: Because “TRYSEX” is 6 characters, it is not available as a motorcycle vanity plate.
9-1-1. Please state the nature of your emergency
This dude just ran us off the road!
Did you catch the license plate?
It said TRYSEX.
I’m sorry, you do realize there are serious penalties for making prank calls to the 9-1-1 emergency system?
Heheh.
A study of the effects of celery on loose elastic:
http://www.lileks.com/institute/frahm/indexmain.html
This is bizarre AND strange.
CPIMM: I don’t wanna grow up, I’m a Toys’R'Us kid.
Hmm, Texas recently went to seven letter license plates, but that part of the site is down for maintenance this morning, so I can’t check if a custom plate can be ordered with seven letters. CTHULHU may be able to ride in Texas :)
The only Iron Cross I’m aware of, in terms of athletics, is the position held in gymnastics, on the rings. Those ring things. They’re ring-shaped.
http://gymnastics.about.com/od/glossaryofgymterms/g/IronCross.htm
justa J0e: I’m very glad there was no shrapnel involved!
I wonder if ASSMAN is also available. . . .
Take care, Van, whatever is going on. xox
Have a wonderful day, DP!
Morning Pan!
JN: DJ Bunny is my alternate-universe ego – bwahahahahahaha
Seriously, it just means I’m on my i-Pod touch as opposed to the computer. :)
EssBee, it looks like a lot of fun in that video.
*hugs* for Van, just on general principle
Just kissed hubby out the door, now it’s time for breakkie! I think grilled cheese is called for this morning… although I do have some pineapple left over from yesterday’s dinner…hmmmm
My daughter’s pretty excited. One of her pictures will be used in tomorrow’s Remembrance Day ceremonies and will be hung in the Museum of the Regiments.
Can you say proud mama?
Oh yeah, Cj, did you buy anything from the party you went to? ;)
The wind is whistling over the DP boards this morning
Don’t forget: Thursday is ditto’s birthday!
Morning Pan.
Hiya CJ
Heloooooo TEB
that’s my best T I double GER ER impersonation.
not feeling to “bouncy wouncy trouncy flouncy fun fun fun fun fun” right now though. Maybe after coffee and some toast.
No tigger’s for J0e. That’s ok J0e, I’ll bounce, trounce and flounce for the both of us.
NS: As ridiculous as they are, the pictures are cute. I had a little “schwing” from this one because it mentions Star Trek! :)
http://www.lileks.com/institute/frahm/art9.html
J0e, did you know your web page link on the boards (justadistanthum) doesn’t work? Is it missing a t?
I hate it when that happens Cj
Checked ADOT
Plate CTHULHU is not available, search again.
Plate STRTREK is not available, search again
Plate DEADPAN is available, order now or search again.
ooooh Jack! Do you see that?
I love the fact that Arizona Registries is “a dot”
Good morning, J0e, Essbee, Bunny, NS and anyone else who is awake or hello to you when you are awake.
Yes, Bunny. I did buy something. I wasn’t going to buy anything, but there was something I wanted and now it is mine.
Cool, Cj. I usually end up buying when attending those type of parties too (although I’ve only been to two).
Does one HAVE to have a yahoo account to login to FLICKR ?
I am trying to login to FLICKR and it just keeps asking me to login to Yahoo.
Yup, J0e. The one owns the other.
meh
Apparently I DID start a new frakken yahoo account at one point but I don’t seem to have the correct password AND I can’t just get them to e-mail it to me because I can’t seem to enter the correct info in their “verification” step. Which also means I can never cancel the account and start over so I guess it just hangs out there forever doing nothing but padding their stats as to “Look how many members we have” even though it is DEAD and useless.
bastards
this has already taken more time then I had to spend on it this morning.
NO I DON”T WANT TO PLAY IN YOU DAMN YAHOO SOCIAL NETWORK !!!
I ALREADY HAVE ONE, THANK YOU !
grrrrr
Poor J0e. Can’t play with his photos :mrgreen:
jJ: Stoopid, mean, Internet! Gah. I hate when I spend more than like 2 minutes trying to get into an old account.
I once spent an entire hour and a half reinstating my ICQ account because someone hacked it and changed my password and there were certain people in my life where that was the ONLY contact info I had on them so I felt it important to get it back.
Needless to say, I was irritated, but had a sense of satisfaction once it was fixed.
Sorry for the tirade. :(
I’ve managed to let my life be defined by the things I haven’t done or have left unfinished. So things like this which are a step backwards for me and an added time sink, just get me livid.
I only use Yahoo for their mail, I haven’t been social on it in quite some time.
I wasn’t aware that ICQ was still used.
I C Q people, everywhere.
later panites.
Bye J0e. Have a good day.
Maybe one of those other Facebook Jack Mangans should get the AZ DEADPAN license plate.
*Manly hug for Vanamonde*
Good morning, Pan!
I’ve seen a couple of good license plates here in AZ
DRK JDI is my favorite.
Oh, an TEB: ADOT =
Arizona
Department
Of
Transportation.
Aside from the obvious, they do appear to have perfected the legal singularity, so they are indeed “a dot”…
Oh, I should probably mention that I interviewed Philippa Ballantine for Touching the Monolith, and the interview can be found HERE
Finished two reports, now it’s lunch time. May even have some time to play DA after lunch :)
Will probably not be on line tomorrow. Holiday means cuddle time with hubby ;)
Boy am I letting my stomach control my day. It’s only 10:40 and I’m talking lunch.
Ok, maybe snack time. I’m starving.
BTW – Major kudos to Sly B for the excellent Mariachi music.
Bunny, that’s the best reason to be offline.
Hmm, I’ll see if I can manage a listen to the Le-Pip interview today.
Does that mean you like to cuddle my hubby too? hmmmm.
I always thought it was Phillip of Ballantine.
Johnny Null, wasn’t he from Macedonia?
TEB, I think Mr. Bunny and I would both prefer not to cuddle – - with each other, at least.
I’m trying to tie mass, Macedonia, and the LHC, but nothing so far.
I’ll be cuddling with a housefull of children tomorrow. I’m having a backyard picnic with all my favorite little munchkins.
Time to make lunch for one of them now.
CP: Vivaldi Concerto No. 1 in Gm.
^^^The bumper music I used in the old Highbrow/Lowbrow segments – - I can never hear this now without mentally adding the burp sound effects.
Sorry, Antonio.
Pumpkin cobber in the oven.
Finished writing this week’s MM show…
Now working on PodcampAZ stuffs….
CE: Spaghetti squash with a dab of butter and some salt.
my most favorite vegetable evAr.
I’m fond of Vivaldi. My fave classical CD is Gustav Holst’s “The Planets”. I have to get it on vinyl someday.
Cj: We tried that for the first time last week. It was fabulous!
It is 2:19pm local time. That makes it 2:19 past my bedtime. I’m tired. Red tie?
I love Mars and Pluto. But nothing beats 1812 with real cannons and church bells.
I’m playing with Pandora today. I put in Delerium with Apocalyticpa (sp?) and Hans Zimmer.
Very cool mix for writing actually. Although both the Star Wars and Star Trek themes are a little too well know to not be distracting.
Nomad, fun to see you’ve discovered James Lileks. I’m not sure whether his page about The Gobbler is still up or not…
If you like Apocalyptica, then I highly recommend Rasputina for goth cello music.
And unrelated: http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/just_area_mans_luck