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Well, I’ve done it… I’ve finally made the Muppet Test. I’ve been talking about doing it for quiet a while… but now it is finally done!
Click here to find out what Muppet you are! You’ll even have the option to copy and paste some code into your site that shows the world. What Muppet you are most like!
Well, Celeste tagged me…
The Rules: Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog. Share 5 random and/or weird facts about yourself on your blog. or Share the 5 top places on your “want to see or want to see again” list. or Share 5 things you never pictured being in your future when your were 25 years old. Tag a minimum of 5, maximum of 10 random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs. Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog. The tagees have a choice of which they want to do.
I’m going to do the 5 weird things… though some of these are more just “funny stories” I remember. If I listed all the “weird” things about me it would take the rest of my life.
1) I once got a friend to believe I was a merman prince from an underwater kingdom who had been sent to the surface for schooling. I had to be extremely careful never to get wet however, as that would turn me back into a merman. I tasked him to be my body guard and to help me watch for water. He was great at it… and I don’t know that I ever told him otherwise… though I’m sure he figured it out at some point. This was in 6th grade… when SPLASH had been released.
2) In 1978 my brother Jason and I got to go to the newly built North Town Mall in Springfield, MO to meet Darth Vader, the dark knight from the newly released “Star Wars” movie. I was 6 years old, Jason was 4, and though we hadn’t seen the movie, we already knew very, very well who Darth Vader was. We waited with great and growing anticipation to meet him. When it was our turn one of his t-shirt clad teenage lackeys led us through the rope, up to the platform on which he stood. We were then turned around to face the camera, and told to smile. My mom started squeezing my shoulder… really, really hard about this time… so I said, “Stop it mama!” And turned around to face her… only to see that she was still 10 feet away behind the ropes smiling and waving at us. I then realized, with a mix of fear and excitement, that it was Darth Vader who was squeezing my shoulder!
3) Celeste loves this story / fact… all through most of grade school and all of high school my mom baked Jason and I homemade cookies every morning for breakfast. One pan full a piece. We would wake up, eat our cookies, drink about 3 to 4 glasses of milk, get dressed and ready, then lie back down for about a half hour until it was time to catch the bus. No, believe it or not I’m not diabetic. We just really liked cookies… and my mom is just amazingly nice! During Jr. High I got up an hour before Jason and, for some reason, I enjoyed having freshly made sausage biscuits during those two years.
4) As many of you know I love to dress up. My costumes have varied in size, cost, and theme in the last few years. What many people don’t know is this isn’t a “new” fascination. I have made costumes, and my wonderful mom has helped, ever since before I was in kindergarten. A few of the things we (my brother Jason and I) have dressed up as through the years have been… Underdog, Bo & Luke Duke, Luke Skywalker & Han Solo, Aliens from “V”, Stormtroopers, Space Ace, Elf Quest elves, Vampires, Wonder Woman (yep… red boots and all), Superman, Spider-man, Stormshadow & COBRA characters, Indiana Jones & Satipo, Tarzan, Jawas, and many, many other things including made-up superheroes like, Smoke-Bomb Kid, Rainbow Kid, Vex, Space Troopers, and the Guardian Angels.
5) I come from a big family, 3 brothers, 2 sisters… but for a long, long time I thought I had 4 brothers and 2 sisters. My cousin Dee came to live with us and attend high school with my older brothers during high school because he was living with his grandmother before and there wasn’t a very good school in her area. This was around the time I was 4 years old. So, from about the age of 4 until I was 8 Dee lived in our house. Somehow I never questioned who he was and just believed he was one of my older brothers. It wasn’t until I was in high school that I found out otherwise. My mom was standing with me at church when someone asked, “How many brothers do you have?” “Four,” I said. “You don’t have four brothers,” my mom laughed. I looked at her and said, “Yes… Leland, Barry, Dee, and Jason…” “Dee is your cousin,” she said smiling. Well… he’s still like a brother to me.
Okay… presuming Facebook pages count as “blogs” I tag, Chris, Curtis, Jason, Jason Whaley, and Dan Lovejoy.
Our cousin Matt Scott told us about this video… it’s funny because it’s true. Yet another font (hello Papyrus) that is way over used in our society.
So Celeste and Jason bought me an iPhone for Christmas and gave it to me early… i.e. yesterday. I could not (and can not) believe it!
It really is more amazing than I had thought it would be. I mean, I had seen Jason’s, and even messed around on it a little, as well as some in the Apple store on display… but nothing compares to actually owning and using one!
Apple did such an amazing job of thinking, “What would be awesome to do on a cell phone?” and then doing it! They have changed the face of how I can (and will) do business as well as how I can (and will) keep in contact with friends and family.
The features are all amazing… being able to check email, receive calls, merge calls, go online (and really see websites) get the weather, take notes, listen to music and watch movies… that is all amazing, seriously amazing. But it’s the little things that are simply flooring me! The interface. The way I think, “I wish I could do this or that…” and then I CAN! Plus, it is so easy to use, and learn how to use!
So… with all these amazing features, and just being in such a euphoric state from having just been “handed” an iPhone (ask for the story sometime), I was a little surprised when I logged onto my new AT&T account and saw this image…
Notice just left of the little iPhone image… the option to “Upgrade Phone.” What? You mean there’s a BETTER phone than the iPhone?!
Of course there isn’t. I just thought it was funny… and seriously, how hard would it be for AT&T to change that little text out so that if their customer has an iPhone instead of saying “Upgrade Phone” it would say something like “Congratulations, you have the best phone on the planet!” Wouldn’t that be a great thing to see? Wouldn’t it be one more small bonus (much like all those I’m finding in the user interface) that would make someone so proud to own an iPhone?
Either way, it doesn’t matter really… I mean I, and all the rest of the people in the world that own an iPhone, know, without a doubt, that this is by far the best phone in the world… no upgrade needed.
Yes, I know, I’ve been posting a ton of videos from the TODAY show… but they had such a great Halloween day show that I have to share these!
This one is of the Mel Brook’s new Young Frankenstein Broadway production. The cast was there at Rockefeller Center and did a few numbers, this one got put online… and Celeste and I can’t stop signing (slash yodeling) it.
If you’re like me you LOVE Stephen Colbert and his brand of humor. It’s right up there with David Letterman, Amy Sedaris, Ted L. Nancy, and Andy Kaufman. And if he’s not your kind I’m sorry… you’re so wrong as to what is funny and you need to get over it.
I also like him because he is a character… not a “character” like, “That guy’s such a character,” but a character as in a persona that he plays. Much like Andy Kaufman, Alice Cooper, and even Marilyn Manson, the “Stephen Colbert” the world knows and loves is a character. It’s a performance. It’s not the person his family knows. It’s not the person his close friends know. It’s not really “him“… it’s “him” as a part or a role.
This is something that is often so hard for many people to distinguish that they end up believing the public character version of the person is the real person also. I know it happened greatly with Andy Kaufman… and has happened to some degree or another with many of the other people I’ve mentioned here as well as countless other performers.
The thing is, often people who are so well known as their crafted persona are very reluctant to show their real self in any way shape or form. I don’t blame them really. I can see how, for instance, it could help them be famous while allowing their true selves to remain private and normal. But, it is nice, every now and then, to see one of them give an interview, speech, or appearance as themselves… their true selves…
So who is the real Stephen Colbert?
Well… here’s a clip into his wonderfully blessed mind.
Tis the season for spooks and ghouls, and kids and candy, and dressing up, and having parties, and apples, and jack-o-lanterns, black cats, witches, full moons, goblins, midnight runs, and all sorts of other colorful language. So, with all those wonderful words swimming around in my head I thought I’d write a little poem all about Halloween.
An Ode to Halloween
It’s Halloween!
It’s Halloween!
It’s Halloween!
It’s HAL-LO-WEEEEEEEN!!!
I hope you enjoyed it.
So we started up our own CafePress shop (again). Seems like not a week goes by that I don’t say, “You know what would make a funny t-shirt?” In fact I’ve done it so much that Celeste has started doing it too. So, here’s a place where you can buy some of these crazy ideas.
There are only a few on there now (2 designs so far) but there will be more in weeks to come… unless no body buys them, in which case it will probably just stagnate and then disappear one day… But for now we’re really excited about it!
Featured now is my “I THANK THE GREAT I AM” shirt, which is a play on the cliche “I think therefore I am,” and the one pictured here, “I’m accidentally cool.” We thought of that one while waiting on Cari and Jeremy at the Mudhouse yesterday! Fun stuff! Go buy something!
