Muppet Holiday Joy

I can't even tell you which of these I like better. One thing is certain, I have still not outgrown the Muppets, and I likely never will.

Beeker's Ode To Joy



Gonzo directs in Classical Chicken



Pointless? Well, yes. Beautiful? Undeniably.

Now That's What I Call Sheep-F*cking, Vol 1

San Francisco's Bay to Breakers run is squealing good fun.

Two years back we decided to dress as sheep & "shepherds". I put "shepherds" in quotes because the pretty much universal interpretation of this theme was to dress as sheep-f*ckers. A few brave souls dressed as sheep (several cute little pink "shorn" sheep, in fact), but the rest showed up as genuine sheep-f*ckers. Now we did get a little creative. We had sheep-f*ckers with robes, staffs and beards. We had sheep-f*ckers dressed like back woods rednecks (think Deliverance, "boy, you built like a hog"). I think we even had a kilted Scot or two.

Anyway, thanks to a Gmail search gone delightfully wrong I unearthed a pre-B2B email thread discussing the mix CD that we were to create as the soundtrack to our unnatural day. If I could find a way to pump a distressed sheep call audio clip into a blog post, it would go right h..- baaaaaaah!

Here we go:

• New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
• The Cars - You're All I've Got Tonight
• Rolling Stones - Beast of Burden
• Oingo Boingo - Violent Love
• Pink Floyd - Sheep (On second thought, too obvious)
• The Pogues - Gartloney Rats (Any Pogues song, really. What is it about Irish folk music that just makes me wanna give Dolly a rogering?)
• Pixies - Here Comes Your Man
• The Police - The Bed's Too Big Without You (but with there you it's pretty small)
• Prince - I Wanna Be Your Lover
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Suck My Kiss
• Reverend Horton Heat - Cowboy Love
• The Pipettes - Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me
• Soft Cell - Tainted Love
• Social Distortion - Sick Boys
• Weezer - Undone (The Sweater Song) (get it?)
• Bananarama - Cruel Summer
• Def Leppard - Animal (DL just knew they were writing a sheep-f*cking classic. Where's VH1 Behind the Music on this one?)
• Devo - Whip It
• Echo & The Bunnymen - People Are Strange
• Erasure - Chains Of Love
• Nirvana - Rape Me (Ah.... bad taste. Bad taste!)
• The Police - Behind My Camel (Behind my short fuzzy hump-less camel)
• The Ramones - Animal Boy
• The Smith's - Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others (some girls are hairier too)
• The Beatles - Why Don't We Do It In The Road?
• Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf (like the wolf, but, uh... different)
• Sublime - Date Rape
• Al Green - I Can't Get Next To You
• Guns N' Rose - Anything Goes
• ACDC - Let Me Put My Love Into You
• The Shins - Kissing the Lipless

And there you go... the soundtrack to some kind of twisted barnyard sex carnival. Giddyup!

Stolen Jokes

Hey Ladieth,

I think this guy got a hold of some maggot material and the friendmaker (see dictionary bit). Love the MacDraw accompanyment.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiFrfeJ8dKM

From the Pointless Annals

I found this little, stupid, idiotic piece of Pointless History while doing some housecleaning on my hard drive. At first I thought, "huh, why did I forget about this, and why didn't I share it with anyone?" Then I watched it and remembered why.

But my embarrassment, as always, is everyone else's gratefulness that they're not me.

A little background: I went on a week long road bike trip through Death Valley in the winter of '05. One of our campgrounds was 100 yards away from the Great Sand Dunes. Me + large sand dunes + camera = you do the math:

A further note on planning

Perhaps all you gentlemen of Pointless Endeavors Inc should be a synchronized, harmonic, moustachioed boy band...



And all us girls could be your groupies. I could totally tap that.

A Note On Planning

It's now July, and you know what that means.... yep, Halloween will be here soon. I realize that we still have almost 4 months to plan for it, but every year Halloween seems to sneak up on us, and every year we scramble to come up with an idea at the last minute. And we all know what happens if you try to cram when coming up with a group costume idea, right? (Remove from sight of children and see below.)



Frightening. I know. If you start planning super late, you get super creepy. (By the way, did you know that Target had a "husky boys" section? Well, the gentle, sleep-seeking residents of Miller Drive in Davis, CA certainly know. And somewhere, some nice young hospitable college coed is probably still trying to get green paint out of her shower.)

Needless to say, choosing the right Halloween costume is a critically important decision. As I've shown, when things go wrong they can go very wrong (like "picking a child-sized Spider Man costume out of your ass" wrong). Selecting a costume can also be daunting for some. In my experience the group theme costume idea is generally a safe and easy bet. In this case, you only have to come up with one good costume idea, and you have the collective creative juices of every member of your group to blend into the final product. In other words, it's a team effort.



Now, some might argue that a group theme actually diminishes creativity and is a bit of a cop out, but I gotta tell you there's something pretty awesome about a group of men in their late twenties arriving at a party dressed as the Council of Really Good Looking Skiers. Cop out or not, chicks dig a man dressed in a pink 80's skiing one-piece, and what else is there, really? Behold.



October is soon upon us, so let's start the Goodwill visits now and maybe we won't find ourselves dressed as Casper and the Friendly Sheet-Clad Ghost Clansmen come Halloween.

Cameras to document stupidity...

For about a week now I've been all hot about purchasing a ATC-2000 Action Camera - a water-resistant, shock-proof, helmet-mounted video camera from Oregon Scientific. I started to think back on all the ridiculous times that have passed without even a tip of the cap to Mister Posterity. As proof I point your attention to Exhibit A (below). Here was a grand dumb time spent sledding in an inflatable 4-man raft at our friend's place near Incline Village. In this case NATE! happened to have his digital still camera (with convenient video mode), and he happened to be willing to risk it's sensitive digital existence all for capturing the moment. Because of his sacrifice we may continue to enjoy this fine video example of 4 grown men practicing safe and controlled urban snow rafting. But just imagine if we also had first person video footage of this sled as it barrelled into the snow bank. And just think of all the other moments (Neal's birthday skydiving jump, various slope-side shenanigans, biking, rafting, etc.) missed merely because I haven't yet spent $99 (plus S&H) on this essential digital trinket. I believe I've just successfully talked myself into this purchase. Next time you see me I'll be wearing my brand new helmet-mounted video Action Camera.

Exhibit A: