March 2012
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Monkee Memories
I grew up watching The Monkees reruns on KTLA, Channel 5 in L.A. I loved the show.
At one point I worked at Sam Goody, and made a friend that I kept for a while after I’d moved on to other things. When she was asked to work a 1996 appearance by The Monkees at the Sam Goody at Universal Citywalk (which, at the time, was a two-story superstore), she invited me to come along.
So began my...
February 2012
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"Soy a bombero". →
uless:
misterbillforeal:
It means “I’m a fireman”. I shouted that in a smoke-filled apartment tonight while searching for trapped occupants at a fire. It’s a phrase that’s drilled into our heads in the fire service- at least where I live and work. There are a lot of illegal Hispanic immigrants living here. I go into their…
STOP. No seriously, freeze. And read this right now. It’s...
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I had the weirdest dream about Universal Studios today. I was telling someone what a great place it was to work (in real life, it literally almost drove me to suicide).
After Glenyrd posted a photo from the area, I suddenly realized that I could illustrate a few of the things I’ve talked about before on here using Google Maps. So, without too much retelling (or context), here’s a...
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A demo track from Pink Floyd’s new...
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I've just started my next parody.
It’s Mary Poppins. This should be fun…but I’m not sure how long it’ll take.
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“Hey, Tony, you can’t tweet that yet. The show’s still going on. It’ll be too obvious that we wrote that before Billy Crystal even took the stage.”
“Eh, just leave it. Nobody will notice. We’ll just tweet it again in a few hours.”
Seeing all this tilt-shift and hypercolor photography reminds me of how much I overused sepia tone in photography class when I first discovered it in the ’90s.
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macencheeze asked: Yeah Man, Santa, your place. I got. I don't want no problems. Just put the gun away.
To anon
You let my daughter go, and that will be the end of it. But if you don’t…
Oh, wait, wrong speech.
Thank you for your kind words. Forgive me for not publishing them so that I can keep them in my ask box so I can read them again whenever I need a lift. That’s the kind of thing that keeps me going.
Speaking of dreams, time to go have some.
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witcheswhimsy replied to your photo: When I was a kid, I had a lot of nightmares. There…
That sounds absolutely frightening. I have had dreams not of grinds but of objects that are not considered scary and I would wake up in fear. I do not think that was not very nice of the teacher to laugh.
I was embarrassed for even bringing it up when she laughed at the idea. But then, I had very few...
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theclosetthinke replied to your post: Oh look, the spammer got smarter and sent the fake…
Some fucknut follows me, posts stock photos for a week and then is generous enough to give me an ipad for free and I have the unmitigated gall to call him a fucknut?
How dare you, sir! You can do better than fucknut!
Oh look, the spammer got smarter and sent the fake iPhone giveaway submission thingy as “staff@tumblr.com” instead of “staffkennyvee@tumblr.com.”
Still not gonna work.
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20kilosofcarrots asked: Today, I was watching the news, and of late all the Australian news has been about is the political situation. So then I was thinking to myself, "I wonder if Australian politics make it to the American news". Then tumblr popped into my head and to me you seemed to be informed on a lot of things so I thought I would ask you. Does Australian stuff (the politics of late) make it onto/into...
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suiz replied to your post: Ali Baba, or the Forty Thieves
Ken this was fucking amazing :)
Wow, thanks, suiz! I was trying to strike a balance between added/altered text and the original. Wasn’t sure I got it right, but I’m really glad you liked it!
Destroying classical literature could be a new...
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salutationtothestars replied to your post: salutationtothestars replied to your post: Ali…
I may be a little bit deranged right now due to tiredness, but it was hysterical. I laughed so hard I almost cried a couple times. So yes, it’s a very good thing.
I’ll take a deranged-tired-hysterical-laugh-and-almost-cry any day! Thanks =)
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salutationtothestars replied to your post: Ali Baba, or the Forty Thieves
omg Kenny
I don’t know if that’s a good omg or a bad omg…but I’m gonna go with good unless you say otherwise =)
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Ali Baba, or the Forty Thieves
In a town of Persia lived two brothers, sons of a poor man; one named Cassim, the other Ali Baba. Cassim, the elder, married rich and took it easy while saying that poor people just don’t work hard enough. He was contemplating a run for the presidency; but the wife of Ali Baba was as poor as himself: they dwelt in a mean cottage in the suburbs, and he was more of a 99%-er. Ali Baba was in...
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salutationtothestars replied to your post: xtremastuff replied to your post: I’ve been…
Oh, my gosh. I have so many fond memories of reading Beowulf in Brit Lit, senior year.
Mine was Junior year. The whole time, all I could think was “if I was still in the advanced class, this would be easier, because people wouldn’t be interrupting with questions every two lines.”
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xtremastuff replied to your post: I’ve been thinking of spoofing a classic short…
Beowulf
Oh my. Funny story about Beowulf…when I was in high school, just after I’d dropped from advanced classes to regular (I went for the easy A instead of the hard-earned B), my English class read Beowulf. It took us six months to get through it while the teacher tried to explain it. By the...
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theclosetthinke answered your question: I’ve been thinking of spoofing a classic short…
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.
Would you believe I’ve never read that (this is about to change)? That may make this the perfect choice. Plus, it’s short. Good call.
I’ve been thinking of spoofing a classic short story just for fun (sort of like I spoofed The Bible not too long ago)…something in the public domain so that I don’t have to buy anything, or worry about getting sued. Nothing too long, of course.
Any suggestions/requests?
