Judging from the new Web site of the President-Elect, it looks like the White House might actually have a blog - maybe even a Youtube channel?

Meanwhile, most American newspapers are still using generic WordPress templates made more than 4 years ago, and yet they think they are “cool”.

From lostwackys.com

I can’t stand people who yell “I hate Monday!” or “I hate going to work!” - especially when they say “I wish I was at home, sick, sleeping.”

At home, sick, sleeping, is probably one of the worst places you could ever be . . . ever.

TWO weeks - TWO FRIGGIN’ WEEKS after I got a flu shot. . . I got…some sort of funky flu.  I’m not too sure if it was the flu, but it was funky in a snotty way.

I was wondering when someone would call me “Captain Boogie” - that’s how bad…bad, is bad.  Real bad.

The worst part about being sick is when BIG moments in your life happen and you have to miss it.

When I was ten years old, it was summer, summer, SUMMER….and I missed a good portion of it because I had chicken pox.

This year?  It was the ELECTION.  I almost didn’t vote because I was afraid I’d get other folks sick at the ballot box (my ballot was literally a tainted ballot).

I fell asleep as President-Elect Obama made his speech . . . promising hope for a new day . . .

. . . alas, it still didn’t whip out this virus thing.  You haven’t lived ’til you can dress as SLIMER from Ghostbusters without having to buy anything from the costume shop….

He's so snot

Curse you, snot.

I wrote this on my blog on February 10, 2007.  That’s a lifetime before Joe the Plumber, Sarah Palin, SNL sketches, Hillary Vs. everyone, etc. etc. etc. etc.:

The problem with politicians today is that they’ve all become way too out of touch with the American people and more in touch with the petty, trivial issues that currently rule Washington. Politics have all become more and more a game about oneupsmanship, to the point where Washington has become a farce of itself.

Lately politicians have been so focused on supposed issues such as the airplane the Speaker of the House rides on instead of concentrating on real issues like the war in Iraq, education, and social programs.

It has gotten to the point where the people that we’ve elected to higher office have all forgotten about their constituents. They’ve become content with business as usual, and business as usual means not getting the people’s business done.

The reason why I’m supporting Obama because he IS NOT content with business as usual. He sees an America that is not filled with red states or blue states, but instead sees an UNITED STATES of AMERICA. He’s here to unite, and not divide.

He’s also not afraid to speak out about what’s right, even if it means going against his own party’s position on issues; he was not afraid to criticize and question the Bush administration’s handling of the Iraq war, while many other people in his party were all too afraid to ask if what America was doing was the right thing to do.

And those are just some of the many reasons why I’m supporting him. I hope you guys do as well.

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February 10, 2007 is almost a lifetime ago now. I think I made the right choice back then.

I hope, on Tuesday, everyone makes the right choice too.

Yes…I know….I SLACKED this year.  Big time.

However, over at my friend Tricia’s blog, well, she had a baby.

On Halloween.

The kid couldn’t wait to trick or treat.

So, in dedication to Rainer Ingersoll Lawrence, who, for Halloween, came out of his home as . . . a baby, here is a CLOSEOUT on Halloween clips…

OK - now, this is cool. Some theater group out there named Terminal Pictures - they’re actually taking NOVELS written by Ed Wood (yep, the guy wrote books) and adapting them for the mini-silver screen. This one is a preview of The Vampire’s Tomb.

And how about another one from Terminal Pictures - based on Wood’s book DEVIL GIRLS.

BOOORIS THE SPIIIDER

Casper The Friendly Ghost…by Daniel Johnston.

LOOK! There’s that very creepy Count To Ten With Nobody video from Sesame Street again. I swear I had so many nightmares from these surreal Sesame Street moments.

Alice Cooper - Elected.

Alice again and Dee Snider - Be Cruel To Your School

OK - last and final clip. I have been looking for this one for AGES:

Look What The Cat Drug In - Video by The Brothers Quay. Music by (the very under appreciated) Michael Penn.

Ok - last entertainment posts for a while. Coming soon I’m going to be blogging about….struggling….as a young man….something I haven’t done for quite some time. Which is strange considering that the name of this blog is…ah, yea yea yea…

EDIT: What I meant to write was that I haven’t written ABOUT the struggling part in a long time. I am struggling, yes, true, but so are so many other folks out there from my generation. Soon I’ll be writing about them as well, which is all long overdue.

BAH - I really keep missing days…

How about some films from Lisa Hammer aka Lisa Terror aka that voice of that cute goth chick from The Venture Bros.?

You know, something about cowboys, laundromats and horror movies all seem to mix together into a fine fine blend of polyester and cotton.

BAH - I keep missing days…

Here is something REAAALLY scary:

The end of the Paul Lynde Halloween Special! That’s Pinky Tuscadero shaking it out and shaking it in…so scary which is why I’m only showing the END of the special….AND:

An obligatory clip with THE BEST member of KISS (sorry Gene Simmons) Peter Criss singing Beth.

ok one more…

Someone MUST HAVE held a gun to Paul Lynde to get him to sing this one…

Ah - I missed a few days.  Bah.

Here is a few ads from a place that sadly has never seen my face but I’d rather go there than in space: Spooky World!

A few of my friends always chanted, what they CLAIMED to be Spooky World’s slogan: “Deaaaadly donuts and witch’s brew cider…”

Deadly donuts and witch’s brew cider…is not what I hear in these ads for Spooky World.  In fact, all I hear is a very cheesy 80’s glam metal jingle.

In fact, this ad kinda looks like something from an early 80’s zombie cheese fest. Hey girl, just because he looks gohulish doesn’t mean he’s out to get your brains.  Maybe he just wants to be your friend?  There’s that damned jingle at the end again.  Is that Billy Squier singing the jingle?

And this one looks like a clip from a Billy Squier video.  I think that’s actually the Billy Squier himself near the end of the video.

And here is a TOUR of Spooky World from 2000. I love that line “I get to harass people and get paid for it.”  My kind of job!

Ah, but this year they got it right. First: They got THE right spokesman - Mick Foley, who literally has faced The Undertaker and has lived to tell about it. Next, they let the displays speak (or scare) for themselves AND they used the right kind of music: Rob Zombie IS Halloween!!!

But not once did I hear “deadly donuts and witch’s brew cider” in any of the ads.  I think my friends were referring to 420 Land, and not Spooky World - damn, I would so love to go to Spooky World - goth girl on one arm, Slim Goodbody on the other arm.

Here are two bonus videos:

Straight from Cover Lay Downland and A/V club camerawork circa 1994, here is an UNPLUGGED version of The Stroke by Billy Squierededdah.

A live version of Dragula from Rob Zombie (in a white t-shirt?!?)

Finally, direct from 420 Land (where my “deadly donut” and “witch’s brew cider” friends hanged) - here’s “Was Dog a Doughnut” from Cat Stevens.

Tomorrow - the true embassador of Halloween and the man who should have been THE GOVERNOR of New York…

And, once upon a time, right at the very end of summer, Nickelodeon (when it was cool and . . .ah, OURS), used to show what was once a tv special that eventually became a very fine series: The Adventures of Pete and Pete.

This one was called “What We Did On Our Summer Vacation”

This special was about someone who is always central to a neighborhood every summer: The ice cream man…

…who disappeared.  Oh yea, there are quite a few subplots: an intense battle against that kind of lifeguard that came out of that Tony Atlas ad that kicked a bunch of sand on you that made you mad that made you spend 19.95 that. . . ah, whatever.  Oh yea, that Captain Scrummy and that red headed blind lady look like they could be rock stars for some reason.  Anyway . . .just watch

I used to be a big supporter of PETA.

I always believed in the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Then they started doing these outlandish stunts with nudity and porn stars.  I don’t mind nudity, I don’t mind porn stars - I do mind it when they’re trying to do nude porn starrish stunts in family places like the one they did in Brattleboro.

And now, today, this letter from PETA which urges Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream to use human milk.

Honestly?  I still believe in organizations like The Fund For Animals started by the late Cleveland Amory because they stick to the point of animal rights.

To me, PETA seems like they’re purposely cheapening the animal rights movement with these silly stunts.  Keep your clothes on and stick to the point!

“When I was overdrawn, my bank charged me an overdraft fee. And yet when my bank is overdrawn, I have to pay them via bailout?” - Travis T.

I have to say this again: So here we have all these homeless folks, families struggling to survive, single mothers trying to raise their babies, and yet we’re putting our money toward CEOs who already make TONS of money and the companies THEY put out of business?

What would my grandfather, who used to take me to Legg Mason in Pikesville, Maryland as a kid just to watch the stock tickers, my grandfather who had all these stocks and dressed in pinstripes suits - what the hell would he think?