mike polk: he’s from ohio.

Wow, that was one hell of an October, folks.  But never mind that right now.

At present, I am lying in bed dealing with some sort of nasty bug that makes it impossible for me to talk properly without coughing a lot.   The girlfriend is on a mission to find a thermometer, so I can take my temperature and find out whether or not I need to go to the Hospital or something.   My head is also very woozy right now, but that might have something to do with the large amount of Nyquil I imbibed last night.  Or maybe it’s the bug.  Either way, last night  I may very well have seen God.   He looked like Carl Sagan.  Suffice to say, I am not feeling well at all.

So I figured it was as good a time as any to share with you the works of Mike Polk.  He’s an Ohio-based comedian who’s come up with some brilliant stuff, including this video.  It’s a tourism video for his home town of Cleveland, and watching this makes me want to go to there.

Now, apparently, the Cleveland tourism council wasn’t having it, so a second video was commissioned…

Fun times in Cleveland, indeed.

There’s also this equally sad and funny video, entitled “I Guess You’ll Do”, described as a comical, cynical cartoon about marriage.

i received this phone call this morning….

Sounds ominous.

 

wow – I haven’t written a darn thing in weeks.

And even that “darn thing” was, basically, a YouTube clip of John Barrowman smiling to the theme from Friends.  I am a bad, bad, pretend blogger.

My friend Jeremy (aka “Butthorn”), however, is a good pretend blogger.  I’ve linked to his stuff in the past, but this particular post is particularly hilarious.  Seems that Mr. and Mrs. Butthorn are having a baby.  Anyone who primarily remembers Jeremy as half of the comic duo behind the hit WMEB (University of Maine radio) program The Poop and Pee Show will be naturally shocked at this, at least before they realize that such a program was probably excellent preparation for what Jeremy and Annie will be dealing with for the next three years.

However, Jeremy is on the case.  He’s come up with a list of 30 things never to do with a new baby, and honestly, I think we could all take this sort of thinking to heart.

However!  Prepare for an awesome post about what I’m up to these days over at the Somerville Theatre in bucolic Somerville, MA.  It’s awesome.   Freaking, flipping, farking awesome.  Totes.

omg fanvids lolz ^_^: Torchwood, “Friends” style

Yep.

Lauryn, I believe the words you are looking for are: “This is so very wrong, and yet, so very right.”

songs you (probably) know: Paramore, “Use Somebody”

Paramore, covering Kings of Leon’s “Use Somebody” unplugged at the BBC Radio Live Lounge.

Yes, that song is probably too recent to cover.

Yes, Paramore misspells their band name on purpose, and that’s never a good sign.

I don’t care.  It’s a lovely version.  Enjoy it.

that does it….

FDA Bans Clove Cigarettes STARTING IMMEDIATELY!!

i think i’ve given up on political blogging, and also humanity

(from ABC’s reality-ish show Wife Swap.)

BACON IS GOOD FOR ME!!

SHE’S ACT LIKE SHE’S THE QUEEN AN’ WE’RE THE SORRY PEOPLE!

So, about two weeks ago, I wrote a virtriolic, nasty, sarcastic piece called “I Am Not An American”, where I basically (sarcastically) declared that I must not be an American because I believe in things like health care and equality, and not in things like, say, Glenn Beck or death panels.   Or bacon.   Though I do like bacon.

i made a music video!

This is the official video for “Nikita Says Love”, by my band The Pluto Tapes.   I made this.  Enjoy!

niiice!: Reading Rainbow on the set of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1989)

This episode’s book was something called The Bionic Bunny Show, though the YouTuber here cut that part out in order to focus on the real meat of the day: ruining Andy’s childhood fantasies.

Ha ha, no, I’m just kidding, of course, I never thought Star Trek: The Next Generation was real, per say.  Really, I didn’t.   When I learned that the transporter was actually a camera trick mixed with a shot of glitter in a glass of water, I was fine.  I was.  Fine.

But, seriously, though: this was a pretty awesome thing to see as a kid.  It was the making of Star Trek: The Next Generation.  It was how they put together a TV show, with full behind the scenes access provided by our friend Levar Burton, who just happened to be on both shows.   Even non-Trekkies remember this one (at least the transporter glitter thing).  For slightly nerdier children, it was nerdvana.

Here’s part two, where we learn that the crappy containment device from that crappy episode “Home Soil” was actually about two feet tall and made of stuff Rob Legato had left over after building his model planes.  Also, the real Enterprise is like six feet long.  Sorry about that.

Stay tuned for exclusive bloopers near the end.  There is a TNG blooper reel, from the beginning of Season One, where you can actually hear Levar Burton saying the “S” word! You might like that as well, but you don’t have to take my word for it!

(da-dum-DUM!)

okay, let’s lighten things up a bit here..

Feels like every time I post here, it’s all about health care or politics or Big Papi David Ortiz with his Big Papi Syringe full of El PED’s, and dagnabbit, it’s summer, a time when we should be outside, catching marshmallows and roasting fireflies, and spending our fleeting, ephemeral childhood nights getting spooked, chased, and otherwise dismembered by horrid creatures from the nightmares of Poe. 

Thus, The Onion offers the following: 74% of Children Tenting Out In Yard Don’t Make It Through The Night.