Hope everyone has a safe and happy Halloween.  Check out the link below for some fun Halloween facts.

Why we dress up

This wonderfully fun and strange rendition of Jingle Bells via Tom Baker.  This should help to put you into the season or at least make you smile.

YouTube – Jingle Bells – Indian Punjabi Bhangra Version .

Average Betty

This Thanksgiving I decided to take a little video throughout the day to give the rest of my family and friends who would not be attending a feel for our holiday.

Instead of shooting straight video, editing it and uploading to the internet. I used a new service which allows you to post your videos directly to the internet in real time. Over the past three weeks I have had the pleasure of using this new micro video service called Seesmic to document my life. I thought this would be the perfect medium to capture this Holiday and share it. Below are the the videos in order.

Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Holiday!

Chuck our friend Eve and I just spent the last 8 hours filming two Clip Shows and a Cinema Psychic. It was the perfect end to a roller coaster week. Happy we are done with it and I am looking forward to the week ahead.

This week we go to Phoenix to attend the first annual Podcamp AZ which is being held in Tempe on Saturday the 3rd. Chuck and I are really excited and I cant wait to get the next couple of days done so we can meet up with old friends in the PHX and enjoy some great food.

What does the week, or the three days before jetting off to Phoenix hold. Work and a quite a lot of it. Chuck and I set a schedule last week that included producing both shows and extra content for the next two weeks. This allowed us to take the week off while in Phoenix, which is great! This leads to a big crunch right before we leave that combined with my “work a day job” brings the stress! Someone said to me last week, “you could skip a week” I laughed. Chuck has yet to miss a week since we started the Psychic and we are quickly approaching a year. It is always hectic and sometimes rushed but I enjoy the race to the finish.

This week is also the celebration of that pagan holiday, Halloween. Over the last couple of years I have paired down my excitement over this time of year. I know I have written a couple times as to why, but I think this year might just be different. I have been thinking that maybe my head is been in the wrong hole which has lead to my removal of feeling and or overall excitement in the holidays that I once loved. This year I would like you to know, I am back. Which is to say, I will be dressed as a masked murder, watching scary movies and handing out candy to the kids this Wednesday night. You should stop by and say “boo!”

This weekend is done. I spent the whole week waiting for it to get here and in a blink of an eye here it is Monday. Why is it when you want the time to slow it speeds up and the reverse for when you just want it to be over. Spent quite a bit of time this weekend soul searching. I want to report, I might be a little more screwed that I had originally thought. I guess time will tell.

One last thing, I spent last night at a Halloween party. I dressed as Geek Guy of Clip Show fame. Chuck and his lady friend were along for the ride with a couple of their friends. For the most part I spent the night solo talking to randoms about any number of things. Quite a few friendly people and it turned out to be a decent party all and all. It is the first party I have been to in, well I cant remember when? Got me thinking about the parties we use to throw and how much fun we all had. Maybe it is time for another party. I guess what i might be saying is, New Years 2007?

If you are going to be in Phoenix this week. Drop me a line. Lets get together and have a drink or two. If you are not, why not? We could have a drink and talk new media. Fun times!

Like many of you I spent last week celebrating our nations birth. Which to most Americans equals grilling, drinking, throwing an object around in the yard and catching a summer movie. It seems, I am more atypical American than I had originally thought, because I did all of these things.

I love the summer, the warm nights and the hot women, minus the hotness of the women. The best part of the summer is the movies. The Studios release their big budget, violence laced, sex driven BLOCKBUSTERS. We start to seem them sneak into the theater in May and by the 4th of July we are knee deep in explosions.

This summer is no exception and by far the biggest film of the year is Transformers. You know, that Michael Bay movie about the robots that kickass. I talked to someone over the weekend who was not quite sure what these “Transformers” were all about. I asked the person, who is in her 30’s, had she been asleep in the 80’s. She said no, I think she is lying?

Now I am not going to give you the background on this movie, just know if you are looking for a fun summer movie, this is it! I have seen a lot of movies, yes more than ten, and when I saw Transformers last week I was excited. There has been a lot of hype surrounding this robot flick.  I knew it was going to be a big earner, but even I was surprised when at the end of the movie the whole audience applauded? When was the last time that happened? Minus a film festival. This thing is going to break records and make more money than Heiser’s other favorite 4th of July release, Independence Day.

Transformers
Review from the Village Voice
Blockbuster

Howdy all!  Trying to get my shit together after a long vacation.  Drank enough to kill a sailor and ate enough to make a fat person go see Jenny Craig.  Here are couple of pictures from the 4th of July flood.  Also check out the other pics from the last seven days.

4th Flood. 
Video 

Here is a video Chris cut together today from Christmas 2005. Does this mean Chris is running two years behind in his editing? Or is he just that bored. Anyway have a look and pay special attention to the animal that died on the top of my head.

video features: Heather Quinn, Tommy Baker, Charlie Baker, Mary Kirks, Dave Kirks, Jim Kirks

Check out some of our photos from the Thanksgiving holiday.

Flickr

Little something the D. Glock forwarded on to me about the beginnings of Thanksgiving. I found it interesting, did you know Thanksgiving was not an official holiday in the US until 1863.

Indians everywhere!

This Halloween we took it easy, no big party this year. My brother, in from Reno, and mother joined me at my house to hand out candy and watch some scary movies. Here are some pictures from our evening.

BOO!

Here we are out on the town again. No one got too drunk they couldnt walk home. All and all a great night. Chris meet a nice Redhead, Chuck found love on a street corner and me, well I slept alone, better yet not in a stair well.

Flickr

Thanks to the kids for taking this young man out on the town. I really lived it up, my liver thanks you. So will the doctors some day when they have to remove it.

Yes, I will take this one.

I hope this year is full of joy and happiness! May this year be as good as the last. Looking forward to spending time with all my family and friends this year, 2006!

New Year

Keeping with my original commitment, I am not celebrating Christmas this year. Amazingly enough it is surprisingly refreshing. Not that I was too big on the whole Christ born thing anyhow, more of the commercial Santa side of things. Not having to decorate the house or buy gifts, best of all not put the lights up is a big plus. I defiantly don’t miss that part of the Holiday season.

I will admit, I do like the music, I was thinking in the shower this morning why that is? I decided it has to be because I know all the words? Or maybe it’s because it reminds me of Christmas past and reminds me of when I was a kid. Who doesn’t want to be reminded of that, well I guess there are those of you who were beaten or something worse?

So Happy Hanukkah and what not! Have a great Holiday season! In 2006 maybe we will think about doing X-mas again, but who knows?

Christmas
Hanukkah

Singapore was fun, clean and safe with great food and friendly people and very western. Almost too western with all its McDonald’s and 7-11 and did I mention they love KFC. But really who doesn’t love KFC?

People have been asking me today what was the best thing I did, or what my lasting impression was. I would have to say the beauty of the place. It is so green and lush and clean, which is a plus to someone like me. Germs, well I have some issues. Let’s not go into it, no Howard Hughes jokes Pop. I enjoyed the mix of culture, something that is lacking here in whitey land. The food and tastes from all over the world were fantastic. I was surprised to see my Father eat fish, or crab. You know it is good if he is eating anything from the ocean. What really stands out is service. I am huge fan of great service, but who isn’t. No Chuck not that kind of service? It didn’t matter where we went, from the small home run restaurant to up scale upper priced, the service was great. I have not been waited on like that since that time Chris and I were in that flop house in Vietnam. But that is a story for another day. One of the best things about Singapore dinning is the hot towel. Ever place you eat you are given a hot towel for your face and hands. What a joy! I wish that was something that happened here more often. In one Japanese restaurant every time you used one towel the replaced it, needless to say I went through a few. Poor girl just kept running back and forth fetching towels. Did I mention no tipping! There is a tax, but still less than 10%. They are working that hard and not getting tipped. Can you imagine what eating out in this country would be like with no tipping? Everything would be self serve.

What a wonderful time I had though! It is an experience I will never forget. It has opened my eyes to a part of the world I wasn’t sure I would see. It is funny how being away from your life allows you to refocus when you return. I feel anew again and energized, although being back at work with the lag is no fun. Being able to go somewhere with out my cell phone was a much needed break for me. It’s funny how little I missed it, although it was pretty lonely in bed. It is the vacation I have been talking about taking for the last few years. Being removed from my everyday was the break I needed!

Thanks Mom and Dad, you have proven your worth again and I swear if I ever have kids I will tell them how great you are. If you get the chance to travel to this part of the world, a part of the world without SUV’s, you should. I think every American would benefit from seeing the world outside his or her bubble. I love this country, America, but I can see leaving for another place would have its upside.

In the next couple of days I will post all of the pictures from the trip. I also have another blog I want to write, but we will see if it gets done.

Singapore

PS

Hot women with really cool cell phones, big plus on this trip, big plus! I thought how one of my friends, and you know who you are, would have a hard time coming home because of all the hot Asian women.

I have been having a relaxing time here so far. My mother and I have been hanging together these first few days. Which if you know my mother, which some of you do, it is a real treat. My father has been working, which consists of just about 12 hours a day. Making him a tired middle aged man when he gets home. Being the trooper he is, he has taken us out at night, which is very cool, even if it does cost $12 S a beer. (more on that latter)

The biggest problem has been my mother’s legs and feet. Being a woman of mature age her body was not happy with her long plane ride. It seems her feet and legs in a show of revolution have swelled a bit. Not anything to serious but it is now day three and they are still not happy. Today we will be hanging around the apartment as we attempt to get them back in order. Poor kid.

Have seen many amazing things in this last couple of days. I know that my friends Chuck and Ash, maybe more Ash, would be falling over themselves about the women. For me though the best part, other than the McDonalds on every corner, is the fact I am 5 inches talker than everyone else. Having the ability to look down the street and see everything for miles, I feel like a basketball player. Be that a white no talent basketball player.

Going to go down to the pool now, it is a bomby 85 with 100% humidity. More to come just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. Also wanted to send a shout out to all my Indian friends (feathers not dots) thanks for the food. In hindsight though, sort of the beginning of the end?

Thanksgiving

Thinking like I do, I needed more time to come up with just the right thing to say to the number one women. Let’s face it, your Mother, yes yours, is the Women you are looking for, for life. I have found that women, but my Father keeps telling me I can’t Mary her?

Mom, how many times can a son praise his Mother before the cops show up? Five? Anyway, I know you had a great b-day. You drank and were Mary? For everything that you are and that you will still be, Happy Birthday. May you live to be 55!

July 31 on the Wiki!