"What?" Me explain

Got to love 80's television. Man do I love television. When I was a kid television was one of my favorite pasttimes.

Did I read books? yes. Did I read Comic books? Yes. Did I play outside? Hell yes all the time. But I always loved to come back to my first love, Television. Sweet sweet cathode ray tube of the gods.

One of my favorite things to look forward to was Friday. When friday arrived I would get to go to Grandma's house for the weekend. No more school for the next two days and I would get to hang with the Grandma and Grandaddy.

We'd watch shows that were in syndication like, Alice and Gomer Pyle and to tell you the truth I watched so much TV that it's all a blur what year so and so came on and what was in syndication and what wasn't but I enjoyed all of it.

At night I would watch Dallas with them but i'd have to be extra quiet. Then I'd stay up real late with my cousin Candy and watch 'Friday night videos' they actually showed videos back then. That show really went to hell in the 90's. We'd even sometimes hold a tape recorder up to the tv to record certain songs. I still remember the time that I couldn't shut the Recorder off when a Huey Lewis video 'Heart of Rock and Roll' came on. My cousin saying "Turn it off! turn it off!" "I can't!" "It won't trun off!" ah good times.

Saturday morning cartoons were a staple of weekend greatness! From the 'Mr. T' cartoon to 'Superfriends' and even short lived cartoons like 'Galaxy high' and the 'Drac pack' and 'Mighty Orbots' I loved every minute of Saturday morning. Fuckin' A.

Every Saturday in my memory was filled with going to the mall with grandma and my sisters and cousins in different combinations from time to time. It was our weekend routine. Grandma would give us a clue what was for dinner and i'd get excited for the next meal. Grandma fed us well, Cereal of all kinds, Hot dogs, and an endless stream of Kool Aid! "Oh Yeah!" Grandma made sure we weren't hungry that's for sure. We'd watch Diff'rent Strokes and Facts of Life and other bad sitcoms and for the life of me I can't remember there ever being much fighting to change the channel.

My whole childhood I watched Saturday night live with my Grandma. I may have not gotten all of the jokes but I enjoyed it so much every saturday that by the time it was looming close to midnight I would get sad.

Sundays weren't ruined by anything like church for me but I did have my own church. That is the church of Davey and Goliath! Hell yeah loved those little clay dudes! Goliath the dog would always let Davey know why Bitch slapping some old bag for her food stamps was bad news in the eyes of the lord while I would laugh at their playdough goodness while chowing down on one of the many fine cereals available in my grandma's kitchen. Grandma would keep each kind of cereal in it's own tupperware container. Quite a site to behold. Thinking back to her well organized kitchen and a container for everything with tupperware as far as they eye could see I realize my Grandma must be suffering from OCD. Hehe. We'd also watch an early morning sunday show called 'The Children's Hour' where some guy who's name I can't remember would have local school children on the show to read the funny papers. I remember in the 4th grade one such girl in my school was on the show and everyone hated her after that. Wow kids suck. I didn't I wanted to ask her about it but alas never did since i was painfully shy in school.

Grandma's house was home more than any home i've ever lived in. When it was time to go home on Sunday evening I would be sad for it was another week of the hell that was school and home life in our shit house or apartment we were living in at the time. But I had something to look forward to. Next Friday at Grandma's!

Funny and sad

Check out this cool satellite photo of Hurricane Katrina and also check out this video of this CNN weatherman that loses his cool under pressure. Haha sorry I had to laugh.

Don't take no prisoners!

I love when song lyrics use bad grammar.

Today it's time to start working on the long awaited web page for 'Nowhere in Mulberry' and get this shit in gear. I predict it will look lame. Hehe.

BRING ON FALL! Enough with this heat I can't take it no more. I was really saddened to see the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, it's so sad and I hope that people come out of it with their lives and their homes arent too badly damaged. I would say they are in my prayers but I don't pray. At all.

I did pray as a child for awhile but why pray when I can just briefly hope for a second. Why do I have to make it an official proclamation to the Lord? He's always listening right? So if i'm driving and I think to myself, "Gee I hope those people down there are alright." and that invisible omniscient one hears it so no need to kneel down in front of my bed and clasp my palms together right? C'mon it's the age of rush hour! Americans are always on the go we don't have time to kneel down and pray, God can tune in while I'm running errands for christ's sakes!

I don't pray before meals either, "Thanks invisible creator man for this Steak-um sandwich i'm about to eat. YUM!"

When something truly happens and people try to console you, say when your mother dies, People many times say, "You are in my prayers." "Woohoo! I made the prayer list! My fate is as good as sealed with that big guy up stairs cause this person decided to give me a shout out while talking to the almighty!" Thanks for nothing. Basically when someone has a problem and you are reaching out for help and the person you are reaching out to says "I'll pray for you." It's the same as saying, "Sorry Dude you are on your own." Hehe. The healing power of prayer pfft.

Yesterday I was messing around online and I found this game called 'THERE' which is a socializing game where you meet people and buy clothes and cars and stuff, It's basically like a video game version of friendster or something where you meat lotsa people and hang out and chat and dance with your video game version of yourself called an 'Avatar' or 'Toon'. Me and my pal Grady went into the game to check it out and were invited to a house party. When we arrived it was a house with some cute video game chicks and some buff guys without shirts and a lit up dance floor. The first thing I said when I spotted Grady's outfit and Avatar's clothes was, "Are we supposed to be Metro-sexuals? And I think he agreed that yes we were Metro-Sexuals supposed to hit on video game ladies.

So I sat down at a four chair circle and began chatting with tha' Ladeez. Immediately they jumped up and went to the dance floor with some Jock looking guy. I told Grady that this was too much like real life. So we hopped on a hover scooter with Grady riding in the back and we really looked lame. Like a futuristic TWEEDS catalogue pic for the mildly lonely. Grady went AFK (away from keyboard) While I rode around on the scooter thinking this game isn't for me.

I could see this game being fun if there was a point to it other than buying clothes and vehicles and houses and having raves at your virtual love shacks. I guess if I was single hitting on the Avatar of some lonely miss might be fun. Sigh.

I have a free trial with the game so i'll try it again. Hehe.

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Happy Belated Birthday Stephen!

Sometimes I think about people that were in my life on a daily basis long ago that one day just dropped off the face of the earth. Sometimes I no longer wanted a particular person in my life anymore sometimes you just lose touch and sometimes you just move on. Friends drift apart and friends move away or just fall out of favor.

My Wife has been a constant friend since I met her in late 96'. I've had best friends in my life those people that you call whenever you want to share something and those people you want to watch movies with talk about books and tv shows with. There are those people you talk about intimate things with.

In late 1989 just after Highschool ended I went to work at a Picture Frame dept. in a craft store called Bankrupt Crafts, that wasn't really the name but who cares the place doesn't exist anymore. There at the Bankrupt framing department was the dept. manager and his name was Stephen. It is now 2005 and Stephen is still my friend currently longest running friend in my life besides any family member and I'm proud to have him as a friend. He's one thing that a lot of people aren't on this planet. He's honest. He's generous. He's funny. And he's single girls!

Hehe sorry Stephen. Stephen was there when I met my future wife and he was there at the wedding and he's now the God father of our daughter. My wife wants to fix him up so badly and find him the love of his life hehe. Here's to you Stephen and Happy Belated Birthday!

I remember one day back in the early 90's when Stephen and I were bored there in the bankrupt framing laboratories and deciding what we'd do to pass the time. There had already been such hijinx as fishing string on rubber cockroaches and running around the shop with toy guns re-enacting John Woo shootouts during business hours, but today there would be something new. A new creation. Stephen pulled two giant sheets of card board with him on the otherside of his workspace and began cutting with his trusty Exacto blade.

I wanted to see but he insisted I not look till the time was right. "What was he doing?" "What could it be?" I thought with a sweaty anticipation. Was he making a funny sign saying something like "The customer is always wrong Bitch!" or possibly a giant letter 'F' and a giant letter 'U'? No nothing like that.

The time came and he said "Ready?" and began walking, he was holding hands with something 'what was it?'

He had created a cardboard boy! and CARDBOARD BOY WAS BORN! after laughing my ass off as he held hands with his new creation walking him around the shop he went to work on cardboard boys sister CARDBOARD GIRL!

We brought many people to the back of the shop to show them our newfound friends and were met with curiosity and fear. Fear? not really but I thought that read funny. Stephen needs to dig out ol' cardboy boy and girl so I can take a pic for the blog.

The picture here is just something I found online and looks nothing like our Cardboy Boy but I thought would be well suited since Stephen is a talented sculptor.

Sniff, I miss you Cardboard Boy.

Just a little bit...

I was just thinking about the time that I was watching Sally Jesse Raphael, yes it was a long time ago. The theme to the show was Children who were embarassed by their flamboyant parents. These parents would dress overly slutty and shake what god gave them while their children would cry themselves to sleep wondering why Mommy showed so much cleavage and didn't seem to care about their feelings.

The always understanding Sally spoke very sympathetically to the children about their insecurities and their feelings about why their mothers acted the way they did. Sally riled up the audience wanting to give these parents a piece of her mind. She told the children that she will help them and get to the bottom of this. Ah thanks Sally you seem to really care about these kids feelings and the horror of living with an embarassing parent at the time in ones life when embarassment is something you would choose death over.

Cue Music.

"Wiggle it!" "Just a little bit!" "Wiggle it!" "Just a little bit!"

The mothers come out in their slutty attire shaking their asses and dancing to the stupid song while the audience boos. The cameras show quick cuts to each child's face as they tear up totally embarassed by their parents. Sally puts on her serious face.

If Sally cared so much why'd they play that 'Wiggle' song when they came out? Stupid Bitch.

I don't know why I just thought of that. I guess that 'Wiggle it just a little bit' song stuck in my head hehe.

I'm feeling a bit uninspired lately. I am preparing for the first ever show to be released, for next friday and am thinking of what to put on our site. I'll use blogger most likely at first till we actually have some kind of content to use then have a real site.

I can't wait till Hockey season starts. I'm making french bread pizza in the oven and it's always good. I'm just hoping I find inspiration soon.

Just another day in Mulberry

Woke up a little late today at 7:45 am, I was a little annoyed with myself. I took a shower and got a bottle of water and I waited for Emma to wake up.

My Daughter eats yogurt while I eat some Lucky Charms ooh yum! I've decided we are gonna have taquitos for lunch today.

I do my regular routine looking up all my fave sites but I also try not to look at any of the BigBrother stuff as I'm trying to wean myself off of it. But I look in on what happened in the house the previous night and I'm hooked for the day reading about the crazy antics and the fighting that's taking place.

I'm hooked on this damn show and I hate most of the people in the house. My favorite house guests are Kaysar the Iraqi guy and the Buxom Blonde Janelle, they have both become very close friends and stay up late at night playing chess and talking about their lives outside the house. They are interesting. The rest except for Howie and Rachel make me sick to my stomach. Ugh.

The house has degenerated into first grade with name calling and backstabbing. I guess this is what CBS wants but I don't. Man whatever happened to be adult and discussing things like a grown up in a civilized way? Kudos to CBS cause I haven't stopped watching.

I haven't given up on the podcast but I just didn't feel like messing with it last weekend but we will be back to doing it this weekend and I will have lots to talk about. I can't wait to share our show with everyone after our practice shows we've gotten comfortable expressing ourselves.

I can't wait to see the movie 'The 40 year old Virgin' it looks really funny and It's gotten great reviews. It's directed by Judd Apatow the creator of one of my favorite short lived shows called Undeclared which comes out on DVD today and I can't wait to watch it all over again and see the episodes that never aired. Highly recommend!

Trying to relax

Call it lack of inspiration or just having not much to say but I took some time off the blog just to reaccess things. I got to chill out a little this weekend and actually dug out the playstation 2 and played some NHL02' which was fun. Stephen came over and we played the Starwars Ep3 game which I thought kinda sucked. We started playing a game called Mercenaries and I lost interest. I just felt like it was a big waste of time, I don't know I used to be able to sit still with a video game for hours on end but now I feel like I should be doing something more worth while. sigh.

It's hard for me to relax anymore. I never sit still, I'm always moving trying to get stuff done and when I am done it's hard for me to just sit still and watch a movie or something. What's happening to me? I love movies and love to watch DVDs, i've just lost interest lately I guess. I don't know. I did watch two movies over the weekend with many pause breaks during them. Team America and Constantine. I thought bother were entertaining but neither great in any way. Team America was certainly funny but not hilarious. Constantine was well made but I just lost interest in it halfway through. I don't know if that was the movies fault or mine.

I've really gotten in to the show BIG BROTHER and I need to just stop watching before I become more addicted. I don't know why it's so interesting to watch people locked in a house together competing for money. In fact it brings out the worst in people. Lying and cheating and doing anything to get ahead. People rationalize treating others poorly and being mischievious as the way to play the game which spells out for me that I could never play such a game. My stomach couldn't handle it and I can't lie at all.

Being lied to is a painful thing and I've been lied to in such a way that when I realized it was a lie it was like being punched in the gut and stabbed in the back at the same time. It's a miserable thing to be lied to and there's nothing more terrifying than not being able to trust someone especially someone that you love. It sucks. So when I watch this show and I see people make deals and break them all for the sake of prize money that will mostly go to taxes I ask myself how can it be worth it? Perhaps it shows peoples true colors, there are bright spots in the game, people that are likable that become the House guests that people trumpet as their favorite. But those people rarely win a game like this as it's the people who are best at decieving that win the jackpot and that my friends is why I steer clear of Reality TV. It makes my stomach hurt.

Jury Duty

I can't believe it I got another Jury summons! F*ck! I've gotten jury duty the last 3 years in a row! Why do they hate me so much? I hate jury duty! I hate going downtown! The traffic sucks and it's unbreathable air if that's a word. Each Time I have had jury duty I have to sit around all day and then i'm assigned to a court and they tell us to go to lunch and then report later where I then sit forever waiting. UGH! I HATE IT!!!

My Wife told me I am exempt since I take care of our Daughter as a stay at home parent. God I hope so! Ok enough exclamation points. hehe.

My wife wants me to go to Houston this weekend to visit family but I really don't want to. I am one of those people that can't sleep unless it's their own bed. I know I need help but until I get that help I can't sleep on trips anywhere. I don't know why this is but I am miserable travelling. It drives my wife crazy.

My Dad has been writing music for my podcast and it's been great he's a very talented musician and I wish he had his own site where people could listen to his music all the time. Thanks for your contribution Pop.

If I use the word Pretentious am I pretentious?

If I wear a beret' and smoke cloves am I pretentious? If all I do is talk about my art and how my life experiences are what guide my hands like astral tendrils from the beyond to the canvas, am I pretentious?

If I decide that all tv is bad except for pbs but also find the time to flip to the fox reality channel but don't let anyone know, am I pretentious? No that's just sad thank god for IFC. D'oh you are pretentious!

If I were to grow a soul patch and use phrases like 'Wax poetic' am I pretentious. Not necessarily but I should be put to death.

If I think I am smarter than everyone on political panels on CNN and Fox news and utter 'pfft' alot cynically during the broadcast am I pretentious? No you are smarter.

I feel sorry for the geeks who keep blogs with no comments. D'oh that's you! you sad sad man. sniff.

What if I decide to get a tat and get inked up and be different like everyone else I could get some kind of aztec type shit with chinese symbols that don't mean anything and I could wear 'westside chopper' t-shirst! that's not pretentious just poserish.

What am I back in highschool? I could start taking pictures with my digital camera and title the pic stuff like 'Sequoia alpha sunset' and hang it in an art gallery and sip on a spritzer while waxing poetic about my life and what it means to be and artist. Now you are getting it.

I could direct a short film about homelessness and date rape and kids blowing themselves away by finding unlocked guns in their parents closets. Dude, your'e not a first year film student.

I need to hang at the local coffee houses and maybe bring and acoustical guitar and sing about how my girlfriend dumped me when i was young only she wasn't your girlfriend she was just using you to make her current boyfriend jealous while she made out with you for a week and made you feel special. D'oh thanks for bringing that up, sniff. At least you don't know any Erasure songs. That's true.

I remember hanging out with old friends one time. They showed up at my door saying they met in college and talked about old friends back home, Once they realized they were from the same town the shared mutual names and mine came up. They both had known me and hung out with me. They decided to show up at my door and see what I was up to. I can't remember how they knew where I lived I think they called my job since I had always worked at the same place since the beginning of mankind which would be about 5000 years ago according to those creationists hehe but I digress. Which makes me pretentious by digressing by the way but anywho, yikes anywho is even worse how about my old default, Anway they showed up at my door and it was weird since both people were from different chapters in my life and I had to just stand there and focus for a minute. It was Shakespeare and Wind those two with nicknames I will not explain except that one has nothing to do with literature and the other has nothing to do with flatulence.

We went to pizza hut.

They did that thing that rude people do. They talked about people in their circle that I didn't know and funny anecdotes while I ate all the pizza not looking up. Why did they even show up? Are they paying for this pizza? God I hope so. Wind who is a girl talked about psycho boyfriends. Wow that's original an attractive girl talking to two losers about her mean boyfriends cause she feels safe. Yeah that's right Shakespeare was a safe dude friend for her to chill with that she could tell everything meanwhile most certainley he would snap one off as soon as he got back to his dorm after hanging out with her all night in her too short midriff. But I am just making that part up but i'm sure it's true.

Anyway, they finally asked me what I was up to and I had nuthin' I had scene lotsa movies and stuff but that's it so let's skip ahead. We went to a bar near TCU and people were hangin' like a coffee bar atmosphere only consuming alcohol. There was a guy playing acoustic guitar in the corner and he was pretty good for a pretentious fuck with a soul patch. We met Shakespeare's alky friend named Fred I think everyone loved fred there even Wind. Only in a safe way of course cause she was getting over her abusive boyfriend.

I smoked lotsa cigarettes! I have always smoked Marlboro Reds even when I first started smoking there was just something macho about rushing quicker to lung cancer than those damn Marlboro lights. Have you ever noticed that hard drinkers smoke Camels? I sucked down a few pretentious japanese beers and got a good buzz. Shakespeare requested that one Erasure 'I love to hate you tune' to which the guy knew which had me questioning things about Shakespeare. I believe he was in that confused state that happens when you hang out with a beautiful girl that only thinks of you as a friend and you are secretly madly in love with her and it will destroy your friendship if you do anything about it stage. You know the one right? Me neither what a fuckin' loser.

Everytime Wind would get up to go flirt with other dudes he would pour his heart out to me about his love of Wind and drink more and more and Fred just sat there quietly until he decided to pipe in this nugget of wisdom. "When I am depressed, I drink It makes me feel better." I nodded knowing that getting drunk would be the best thing for Shakespeare. He mouthed the words to the Erasure song. Man what a gay I thought gay not as in Gay but as in Huge fucking dork. I haven't seen this guy in like 2 years and hadn't seen Wind in even longer and this guy is pining for her and they decide to come and visit me? Yeah I guess. Okay just checking.

I get up and go the the bar for a new beer and Wind is sitting there smoking one of Shakespeare's Cloves. She smiles at me and winks and I realized that poor sucker Shakespeare doesn't have a chance she just winked at me and made me feel all tingly she's just one of those people that makes everyone feel like they are in love and feel like shit at the same time. I started to feel bad for him poor fuck. She said that Shakespeare was driving her crazy and I asked why. She said, "He's too clingy, He's always hanging on me." I nodded in agreement seeing how i'd witnessed this all night but failed to mention it cause i'm a bad writer.

Fred talks the bartender into giving him a glass full of the part of the beer dispenser whatever it's called remains that fall into the catch pan at the bottom. It' filled with all the different kinds of beer that have dripped there from all night. Gross. He chugs it. I tell Wind that he will be dead within the year. She agrees. Shakespeare's ears are burning and he comes up and puts his arms around Wind. "What are you two talking about?" She shrugs off of him while fake smiling. "You of course." "I knew it." Gross indeed.

A year later I saw Shakespeare at a mutual friends party and he was very drunk and had completely shaved his head and also sported a pointy goatee. He looked like the leader of the satanist church. I asked him how Wind was and he said they weren't friends anymore that he told her how much he was in love with her and that they should start going out and she stopped answering his phone calls. I told him that I was sorry and he said 'Don't be' and a chick bumped into him and the pen from his pocket hit the kitchen floor and broke. He picked it up and stared at the pen and turned red. He yelled at the girl that this pen was worth $300 dollars and his parents got it for him for his graduation gift from highschool. She must pay him $300 dollars now. It was a big messy scene with the boyfriend ready to kick his ass and finally the host of the party writing him a check just to shut him up. Wow this dude had lost it. Luckily I have not heard from him since. Pretentious bastard.

Am I pretentious if I blog about whether I am pretentious or not? Good god yes you pretentious fuck!

The Stream of Conciousness post

Two days ago there was a zombie eating my neighbors foot while standing in a bowl of spaghettios that look to be lukewarm. Two sigh's later and the Zombie's head has exploded due to Chef Boyardee blasting him with a four barrel shotgun! Awesome! I exclaim as the Chef High fives me while flipping off the Kool Aide Man that is walking across the street. I frown being a childhood hero of mine. Kool Aide man whips out an Uzi and sprays across the street riddling the Chef with Bullets. I clap cheering on the Kool Aide man. Right as he cheers 'OH YEAH' a blade goes through his chest, He's been stabbed in the back by the Hawiian punch dude. I whip out my 9 and empty the clip while yelling, "NOOOOOO!"

The Hawaiian punch dude is dead in a pool of red punch. I High five an invisible ninja that is strolling by on a visible pogo stick.

I decide to go on a walk just as a limo pulls up, It's the animated corpse of Bob Hope! Yay! He throws me some hostess cupcakes!

I saunter of to Dawson's creek where I see Dawson crying on the edge of a dock. "Dude, fucking get over yourself." Dawson turns to look at me and says, "Leave me alone! Joey loves Pacey!" I tell him that the show ended a few years ago and he needs to move on. Dawson ponders this a moment then Shoots himself his limp body falls in the creek. I realize this would've been an anwesome ending to the show and sit on the edge of the dock and begin to cry.

A litter of puppies run up to me and they smell like fresh baked cookies. I yell 'YAY!" and I join the circus!

At the circus I become a master of throwing knives and i can hit any target from 2000 yards out in high wind just like Martin Riggs. I soon become best friends with a penguin named Chance who is an expert at preparing frozen dinner where they taste like restaraunt food! It's an incredible talent to have let me tell you that. The best thing about it is that we never have to eat out cause we just load up on Night Hawk and Hungry Man dinners and live like kings. Until...

Chance is kindnapped by Mimes! We didn't realize till around noon because they are so quiet, we enlist the help of a bounty hunter named Giles Van Mandershnoot who is an expert in People Finding, He tells me that "Expert Knife throwing could come in handy in the life of a bounty hunter." I sign up in the Bounty Hunter's guild and get a nifty I.D. card and and set up business cards to hand out. Giles tells me that I should get a vehicle for Bounty hunting. We go to a used car lot and I find a really nice Solar Powered car called the 'Shiznit 3000' for only a handful of pennies! Jokes on them I don't ever have to fill it with gas and it come with Satellite radio! Woohoo!

I christen my car the 'Terrapin of Doom" or TOD and hop in and go top speed of 60 mph hot on the trail of those damn mimes. I crank and 80's station while searching. I drive for days until I happen upon a Diner in the middle of the desert. The sign reads, 'Best damn TV dinners ever!' I whip out my Ginsu's and walk in. IT'S FILLED WITH MIMES!

I see in the kitchen that poor ol' Chance is chained to the microwave. I get very angry and unsheath my blades.

The mimes seem to be pulling out invisible weapons and swinging them around.

Two minutes later they are all dead. It turns out that Chance spiked all of their tv dinners with Rat poison! We have a good laugh then hop in TOD and get the hell out of dodge.

Sky High

First of all I wanna say that the first time I saw the trailer for 'SKY HIGH' I thought it looked kinda lame, they were taking the cool premise of a superhero highschool and making a family friendly Disney flick most likely safe for all ages. Laaame.

Well then I kept seeing reviews for the movie that were positive, So Stephen and my Wife and I checked it out and...

...WE LOVED IT! It's got a high cheese factor but that's okay because the film doesn't take itself seriously right away we know that Will Stronghold(Michael Arangano) is the son to two of the most powerful superheroes in the world 'The Commander' and 'Jetscream'(Kurt Russell and Kelly Preston) and today is his first day of Highschool. Soon you will find out not just any highschool but SKY HIGH a highschool for superhero offspring who will hopefully become great heroes themselves.

Will's got the best friend who of course is a cute girl named Layla that he doesn't realize is in love with him. Of course not.

Will's got a problem though he hasn't shown any signs of having superpowers and all his friends have gotten powers and he's feeling a tad insecure. It doesn't help that his dad can't wait to turn the family into the first Family of Superheroes. Just like all the teen movies of the kid that doesn't have the heart to tell his dad he doesn't want to go into the Family business, College, insert sport here, etc.

We get to meet of all Will's outcast friends that will soon win your heart, Who wouldn't want to have friends like this?

This movie definitley follows a predictable pattern of teen woes in film but it doesn't matter cause all of the characters are just so damn likeable. All of em'. On the way to school we meet the Bus driver Ron Wilson the son of two mighty heroes who never got powers so he now drive the bus. Played by Kevin Heffernan of Super Troopers Farva fame he makes the best of his role and gets laughs. In fact all of the adults in this movie shine, We've got of course Kurt and Kelly as mom and pop but the faculty of the school work very well from Lind Carter as the Principal witht he power of the Comet? And Bruce Campbell as Coach Boomer a wise ass ball breaking P.E. Coach that loves torturing the students. My favorite though is Dave Foley as Mr. Boy a former hero sidekick that now teaches the Hero Support class for , well sidekicks. Also Kevin McDonald as a giant brained science teach Mr. Medula.

The kid cast is great too from Will and Layla to all of their geek friends that are destined for the sidelines as sidekicks this movie just has a charming cast of characters.

Of course the question for Will is will he ever get his powers? Will he realize that his best friend Layla digs him alot? Will his fellow student arch nemesis Warren Peace kick his ass? Of course we know all the answers and it doesnt matter because the execution is what it's all about and there were laughs for kids and adults. It's even got an all Cover 80's soundtrack which I found distracting at first but then realized a cover of Spandau ballet and The English Beat is better than most of today's music material that is in teen flicks so I will take it.

I hope this movie is a success cause i'd like to see another movie for every year of highschool for the group of friends. I know I know it's a disney flick, but that's what's cool I loved it and i'm not ashamed. Hehe.

Comedy of errors

Those last couple of posts were total phone-ins. Well one was hehe.

Well we went ahead and tried the first podcast show of Nowhere in Mulberry. We had fun and it lasted about 36 mins. We weren't prepared at all and just went headfirst into the recording. As soon as we were done I realized I had a mic on mute. D'OH! We didn't pick up my sister's voice except for the first 5 minutes. What had happened was I had a phone call and when you have a 16 month old daughter you pick up the phone no matter what you are doing. It was my Brother in law and I paused the recording. This must've defaulted to original settings or something, I still don't know what happend.

I got off the phone with him and we resumed and little did I know but it was not recording any of the sound clips I played or my Sister and her many impressions hehe. That was a joke for my sister seeing as her voice sounded the same with all her different impressions. Well it's back to the drawing board I guess.

It's ok that it didn't turn out great because I never intended for us to go in the direction that we did, being so unprepared and all. Our first show will be a huge first impression and I don't want it to be with us not having anything to talk about.

I'm trying to quietly type as my daughter is still asleep in her bed. My whole morning routine I try to be as quiet as possible because I just want to finish my morning routine before she wakes. Then when she wakes we eat breakfast together while watching Barney once again.

I'll spend the week coming up with show ideas. It was alot of fun to do this with my best bud Stephen and my Sister Vanessa who I don't see enough of. At first when I played a few of our test recordings for my wife I felt as though she felt left out but I want her to participate anytime she wants. We'll see what happens, I just don't want to give up on the idea of the podcast because of defeat by technical problems and a general lack of knowing anything about computers hehe.

My M.O. is to get fed up with something and lose interest. Not this time. Gulp.