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well, if you take out the fact that its supposed to be D&D, the movie is ok. Its not very good, but its not THAT bad either!
Now I know this topic has been quiet for a long time, but there was something I felt compelled to warn the citadel about.You might not have guessed this but they made a sequel.There is a second part. I couldnt sit through the entirety of the first movie, and after handling the box of the second I had to go wash my hands in hot bleach and soap. you got it, released straight to DVD, no namable actors or actresses...
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Y'know, if I was newly minted punk rocker I think I'd call myself Linus Appalling.
The new Zero Defex CD is now available from CD Baby. Go order yours today! It comes in a groovy digipak with all the lyrics including my own appallingly bad words for my own song "Hypocrite." On the CD I sing it in Japanese because I didn't want to own up to the actual lyrics. But Mickey and Jeffro, who were in charge of the CD package, put the English lyrics on! Nooooooo!!! But now it's there for the world to see & you can't see it, world, unless you buy the damned CD. So buy it.
Yesterday I got a phone call from the guy who did this article about the cyclone in Burma. I only got one quote. But he spelled my name right, so that's a plus. And he didn't put in a photo of Noah Levine with my name under it (it's really happened before!!), another plus.
The guy called asking me what I thought of the fact that lots of Buddhists are saying the recent cyclone in Burma was karmic commupence (how do you spell that?) for the military crack-down on Buddhist monks there. I had to laugh. It's such a ridiculous idea. It sounds just like when Pat Robertson said the Sept. 11th attacks were God's punishment to all the gays and lesbians in New York (which is what I said that got shortened in the article). Or whatever Pat Robertson said. Just pure bullshit nonsense. Same with blaming the cyclone on karma. Stupid superstitious bull-hockey, I say! And I am the final word on everything!!!!
And even if it was their karma, which is wasn't, who gives a shit? People are in trouble. Go help them. No more analysis than that is necessary.
The guy wanted to know if this was a widespread type of belief across Asia. It's hard for me to say much about all of Asia. But, in Japan it's certainly not common to blame natural disasters on bad karma. I mean, when the Kobe earthquake happened it wasn't like everybody said, "Yeah, serves 'em right for having named their city after Kobe Bryant when he gave all those women AIDS." The closest thing I ever heard to this in the years I lived there was when we found some abandoned baby birds in the warehouse where the company I worked for stored the monster costumes. Someone said that the birds' fate was "Hotoke-sama's will." Hotoke-sama is what they call Buddha. But even in this case there was no recourse to saying this was the baby birds' bad karma from previous lifetimes.
If people do say this, then they don't know much about Buddhism. That's all I can say.
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Taft shoots a round of 627
While several Taft High golfers got a break between league tournaments, another group of Wildcat golfers got a chance to work on their game Monday afternoon in a loss to the South Rebels at Buena Vista Golf Course.
"The Taft High boys junior varsity squad had a good time and learned a lot about the game of golf yesterday..." said Taft coach Mike Cowan. "For some it was their first experience playing a full 18 hole round and all had smiles on their faces at the end of the match."
Overall, Taft shot a score of 627 while South had a round of 591 over an 18-hole stretch.
Taari Morgan shot the lowest score of the day for the Wildcats with a 114. Marcus Grossbard followed with a round of 120 while Edtmer Medel and Dylan Sivils each shot a 130. Rick Navarro chipped in with a score of 133 while Tanner Melton rounded out the scoring with a 137.
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Tear-Jerking "Marry Me" Video Closes Out Sydney Mardi Gras
Sydney Mardi Gras certainly closed with a bang. The country that brought us the pivotal viral video "It's Time" back in 2011 has done it again with "Marry Me," a look at a gay surfer's modern day quest for love set against breathtaking backdrops and a soundtrack of Macklemore's "Same Love." Does a succession of hookups pay off for our star? Grab a tissue and click play on the video that was created to close out Sydney Mardi Gras 2014 over the weekend to find out!
I can't believe that i was able to get my Husband back who left me and followed another woman, When he left me i almost took my life because i loved him so much and i never believed that he would have done this to me, but i am so happy that the world have people like Dr. Stanley who can use his powers through the act of spell casting to reunite broken marriage and relationship. I actually came to realize this when i saw his email address online and contacted him and to my surprise i was able to get my husband back within 24hours. I must say that through Dr. Stanley my problem was solved. You can contact him through this details firstname.lastname@example.com for help............Shanquita
Just curious...The people who are complaining that the actors in this video are "unrealistic" because they are "perfect, young, beautiful models." Yet, you say that the video should have been made with "average, fat ugly people." And those who say they cannot find love and there isn't someone for everyone...Is it because you look to "catch" those beautiful model-looking people who might just not be interested in you, so you think you will not get someone because these people have no interest in you? Have you taken your perfect-male glasses off and just tried to find someone with whom you have a lot in common?
So what that this video has attractive actors in it. Did watching it distract you from the real message in it? If you stop looking and accept the person you are, people will be attracted to the real you, Even if that is not the official message, it is what I got out of it. Stop attacking people for their actor choices. Attractive people have to work, too...lol
Beauty is, as they say, in the eye of the beholder, Stop looking for superficial people and you will find someone to have a deep and loving relationship with.
So says the man in a loving relationship for the past 23 years...
OMG this video is so beautiful! It is just so real like what a lot of people actually getting through, been looking for true love and just gotta get through ups and downs because you gotta meet many of Mr. Wrongs first before you're gonna actually meet your Mr. Right. I love the video so much and the soundtrack Same Love is just perfect! Beautiful job
Ps: I shed a tear
Has anyone seen the best seller on relationships? I don't think so. The whole point being that there is not "guide" to a perfect relationship. There is so much more at play than the trials, tribulations, and surface matter. That's just life. The message is that everyone should have the ability to freely, openly, and most of all, lovingly be able to be with whom they choose. Was your first date perfect? Did you end up marrying them? Likely not. Like anything else in life, it takes honesty, open communication, passion, determination, and love to make a relationship work. No matter if it is at the beginning, middle, or end, of the relationship journey. Marriage is commitment and so many other things that could take weeks to describe and words mean nothing without the action to follow. I wish nothing but happiness for those that want to be committed and get married. Every individual has the right to be treated equal, with dignity, respect, and accepted for who they are. After all, you are not living his/her life. Everyone is going to have differences as the world we all live in, is far from perfect.
The next time you say you're going to do something; make a vow, a pledge, a promise, a suggestion, just keep your word and follow through with the action. If someone starts off with hate (in any form), don't expect miracles to happen and for you to be treated as superior. Hate is taught, not a birth right or trait auto programmed. What to be a better person...only you can do something about it and take the first step forward to make that change happen.
What comes around, goes around and usually, it's not how you would expect it to be. Good, bad, or indifferent. If you step forward and are positive, the reception and return of your good intent is usually more effective and memorable. Everyone has different belief's, morals, standards, acceptability, etc. If everyone was the same, how dull would that be? Be glad that everyone is different. Everyone can learn something from someone.
Put one foot forward and without reason, do or say something nice to someone while you can. Nothing and no one lasts forever. If you don't seize the opportunity to make a difference, the opportunity may never present itself again. If you surround yourself with negativity, you can not expect positive results to occur.
I have read many o f tkinne comments, and how many have such negative comments, to young, pretty, muscled, tanned, not ugly, poor, etc., etc., etc. I did not come out until I was 30. Two straight marriage, 1 short as she perished in a car accident, and the other divorce. Had two gay relationships one ending in his suicide from alcohol. I am not handsome, rich, am 72, try to keep healthy, met a man 18 years my junior, together 19 years, now married, no one is happier and excepted by family and friends. So please be kind even if you are not happy.
Are you fucking kidding me? He was being depressed because of that shit; let me tell you what is depressing: you're gay, you live with an abusive and father who's into drugs and a mother who's on depression pills; and you live in a neighbourhood where 'everyday is a great day 'cause it might just be your last day'; growing into that shit made me fucked up; I no longer wanted to live, there wasn't a day when it didn't stop, and you can't get used to this kind of BS. This got into my body; I started working, I ate the hell of what I could, became obese, nobody did give a shit to me due to my body; lost my weight, looked quite good, got myself some ailment, that I have been living with for years; I'm nearly, always everyday fighting for myself and my sanity; I'm 25 and I haven't been with a guy, ever in my life, forget about even having slept with one: this is just about me; everyone has a story to tell, it can be that this guy was really suffering for being unloved, and I know that it hurts a lot, but... Anyway, what I really want to say, is that it should be closer to the real deal; not all gay guys look that hot, we have work, we study, we have family, friends, social circles, and so on...
mate each of us has his/her own struggles. there is nothing that can cover on all of our issues in one piece, but one piece can help us reflect on our own issues.. I cant judge how difficult are things for you and you cant judge how difficult are things for me, for my weaknesses and yours are different therefore, our coping mechanism will be different too. I wish you all the best mate!
So what if the models are good looking geez stop with the so called superficiality and the "unrealisticness" of the whole clip. They are hoping to inspire people and not put people down. And there was a racist comment tuning the fact that the actors were white so what! Stop making a big deal out of every little damned thing. They chose a locale and some models who are above average in the looks department. So damn what. It may happen to you and may not and you may find true love you may not blah fishpaste. Just enjoy and see yourself and others in their position or no-one for that matter.
Gee.. Can't imagine WHY "Sick_Of_It" hasn't found someone.. What a negative, nasty bitch.
Been with the same guy for 11 years.. Not in as good of shape as when we met, we look older.. WE ARE OLDER.. and we're still in love. Possibly get along so well because we don't have the pissy attitudes evident on this thread.
of course we do.. but I would imagine the story line for maturer men would be different.
for the record, I have not seen much of old straight people's lives being discussed publicly - so it is not about gay / straight, but general culture of shoving old people to the side and trying to rid of them, this is displayed greatly by government policy everywhere in the world. definitely an issue that needs more awareness. you need to remember the audience that this clip was intended to so that things are taken in proportion. no ne claims that this clip covers on all issues faced by any one person, it is about love and a personal interpretation of love and sequel of events around it... every person in the world has his/her own experience and life journey, they are bound to be different, but on a general level we could agree that we all went through these phases; lost, despair, being used, losing the plot, but then also taking responsibility of your own action and life, getting back on track, finding love, being happy... lets not be fixated on the character but the msg..
I'd would have much preferred living in a world that did not need to have a debate about love! but a world that is operated by and through love.
why they never use normal everyday people? there is such a bad obsession to sexualize and stereotype everything, just focusing on that tiny minority its not real and very boring....
honestly give us some real people not a couple of model gym gay porn type with bleach teeth fake tan a plastic steroid body....here the vivid example how a nice message can become another pretty boring cliche' crap....
I agree with your sentiment completely. In the Gay Community, no one seems to count but that sacred few who are "perfect." That's one reason that Richard Dreyfus, Mark Ruffalo, Gary Oldman, and a few others are my favorites among straight actors. They are largely average-looking guys with tremendous acting skills, who have made it in a tough field that is filled with low talent pretty boys.
Essentially the message here is that in order to find somebody you must:
- Live by a beach and do nothing all day but swim and surf in the Ocean
- Exercise 3-4 hours a day, every, day minimum
- Date exclusively people with minimum 6 packs
- Forget about looking just "normal", having a "normal" body or actually a real job where you have to be in an office 8-9 hours a day
- Exclusively hang out with people who look like they have popped out of a fashion magazine
This is so annoying.................
Actually speaking as a masculine gay man, I am glad they showed guys like this. Every gay film or gay character on television I have seen, (besides the odd 1 or 2) is portrayed as a fashion-loving, wrist flipping, diva walking boy. I was starting to get irritated at the fact that there are more types of gays out there than just the flamboyant ones.. <sigh> Nobody will every just be "happy" for something. Always negativity.
if you cant grasp a msg from a story you have some real issues my friend!
in order to find love you need to be in touch with yourself in whatever you do , regardless of how you look etc.....
get real! I just cant believe how much insult to human intelligence
you can put in one paragraph! only goes to show how shallow you are!
actually I am a gap toothed, hairy, average body looking man and I went through similar events as in the clip... and I found love in the same spot I walked through everyday... except it did not happen until I learnt to love myself first.
you are focused on the looks rather than concept. in a way this is my life story... and personally, I dont think these guys are hot, but ordinary, the only difference is while I am more than delighted to eat McDonald's and Pizza, they choose to eat Salad and other healthy food options. you dont propose that we start discriminating against people for choosing to live healthy, do you? lets just be positive in our lives, the empty half of the glass is always horrible, but if we focus on the full half, we can certainly be happier and reach better places. one last point, we seem to think that people who look good dont have problems, but they do... they are simply like us all. in a funny way the ygly and the beautiful suffer from same discrimination for the opposite reasons; people avoid the ugly ones because they are ugly and dont want to be seen with them but also avoid the beautiful ones because they think they are not good enough to be seen with them... how about we learn to hang around people we get along with? thats how I choose to form my relationships... looks dont matter to me at all! my friends are young and old, beautiful , average and ugly, gay and straight, men and women, fortunate and less fortunate... they are my friends simply because we get along and stimulate each other.. and we are a fucken happy bunch of mixed crowd and none of us feel inadequate in any way...
cheers mate
I very much get the concept here - young and pretty sells. Old and ordinary does not. It honestly doesn't matter how much one loves one's self (regardless of what RuPaul says) there is not "someone for everyone" and many gay men simply fade into the background the older and more ordinary they get. All these little anecdotes that we tell ourselves to placate ourselves are worthless. Be real - people who do look good have significantly less problems than those who have to struggle through social situations, fade in at social gatherings and who don't get a second glance.
I'm very glad that you can co-exist among the pretty people. Not all of us are as lucky as you.
completely disagree with you. people who simply hate the rest, they will discriminate and make them feel bad regardless of who they are. Look at Princess Diana, she had it all but suffered most from last of love and being lonely all the way to her death. I'd be careful with not making such generalisations. so many people fade, but that is mostly because they accepted to fade - i refuse to fade and my moto in life is that when I die the world is going to miss out on something amazing that is no longer around! this secures that I never cave in to social injustices but always fight for them. the only things that scares me in life is to accept the "social norms" that we are told to be right and try to fit in them. I am what I am, I am who I am, and I am not anyone else... never faded and will never fade even if I will be 200KG ugly toothless and hairless (head) hairy elsewhere man, I will still be fabulous.. this should be everyone's attitude in life..
Your reply is a good one, it is a shame that they give the impression that it is only the "beautiful" people that live out the "dream" and not that we can all have the "dream" but, don't just dismiss it either, it is a great sentiment. It should still be applauded, it should have just been a bit more "down to earth" as to what "average" life really is.
I'd always thought I'd marry my soul mate. He was the one for me. I didn't want him at first after coming out of a very volatile relationship. Yet, it was the first time I had actually fallen in love deeply. I wanted him to be my last and for us to last. When he went off to work,my heart cried because it missed him so much.When he returned home, I didn't want to let him go. I enjoyed being by his side.He made me feel alive every day. I could be myself around him.I was going to propose to him on a beach on his birthday two years ago. He left me to go find himself and ended up with another. No matter where our lives take us. No matter whom we meet. I will always be in love him.
Stop looking for it. The only way to really have true love is for it to find you. Just live, be happy, be yourself and when you meet the right person work together to make your relationship to be the absolute best that it can be. And above all else, be honest and don't ever let your pride deprive you of a wonderful relationship =)
we cannot and should not be defined by our being in a relationship. it is our ability to stand alone (through loving ourselves first) that will make us complete and thus equipped to deal with such an arduous (albeit beautiful) task of being coupled. this video promotes the concept of "seek till you find", which is highly unlikely to yield sensible and fruitful results in the long term. why does gay liberty have to mean that we have to subscribe to high school girl fantasies of what love is (something that had been imposed on high school girls by society!). we shook the world to understand that we exist, that we are different, that things aren't simple and straightforward. can't we take the next step against social conformity and seek personal improvement which only might result in a great relationship. besides is the fact that everyone in the video is hot which is fluffy and unrealistic... let's not conform, let's help the world truly be the better place. leave the cheap romantic stories to the hallmark channel.
I dont think there is any conformity here! the good looks of the cast or not is very personal - I dont feel that they are hot or anything special - they are simply people who were willing to cooperate on this project in a matter of few hours! there is nothing wrong with romance - some have killed it but it has nothing to do with high school girls or any other trash... it can be a way of life, as this is definitely how I live on a daily basis - my life is full with romance and it is beautiful!
if you are not romantic, that is your way and no one can tell you how to go about love, but to tell others that they cant be romantic is very disrespectful!
finally, what is the go with discrimination against people who look after themselves? people were on the clip based on merits and trust me you would want to have them as your mates as they are the most down to earth genuine people I have ever met! they are real people who just did not let themselves be unhealthy. and considering that there is a worldwide awakening towards being fit and healthy, it is a matter of time that more and more people will look like this! you cant really say that being healthy is "fluffy and unrealistic"
Tired of racist comments so what if they're white. Ther are tons of shows and messages and entities exclusive to back people, to asian people and to Indian people. Lets stop the racist bull and admit it if someone said anything about the hypothetical possibility that the actors were asian someone would have made a comment or if they were middle eastern someone would have complained if they were indian someone would have complained if they were black someone would have complained. I f it was a ginger someone would have complained if they were not good looking there would have been evern MORE complaints so all of you guys and girls or whoever stop complaining about every single aspect and so what if you see it as tacky romantic comedies are tacky and romances and dramas are tacky they are just making it accessible they are highlighting issues and problems that people find themselves stuck in. Csting locale and story is irrelevant.
Tired of racist comments so what if they're white. Ther are tons of shows and messages and entities exclusive to back people, to asian people and to Indian people. Lets stop the racist bull and admit it if someone said anything about the hypothetical possibility that the actors were asian someone would have made a comment or if they were middle eastern someone would have complained if they were indian someone would have complained if they were black someone would have complained. I f it was a ginger someone would have complained if they were not good looking there would have been evern MORE complaints so all of you guys and girls or whoever stop complaining about every single aspect and so what if you see it as tacky romantic comedies are tacky and romances and dramas are tacky they are just making it accessible they are highlighting issues and problems that people find themselves stuck in. Csting locale and story is irrelevant.
There are a great number of gay men who NEVER find love. (Possibly the majority...) While your message is hopeful, Jorge, it is fundamentally unrealistic. I wish I had a fucking nickel for every time someone has said, "There is someone for everyone" to me. I am now 57. Still waiting...but without much hope. I moved on and am trying to set up a life without love. There is NOT "someone for everyone" because mainstream society, religion, family, and the Gay Community itself, get in our way, along with "chance and circumstance."
While I applaud this Australian, I urge caution about romanticizing or idealizing Australia as ultra liberal on the issue of homosexuality, because there are parts of Australia solidly opposed to it. It also is not strictly about "love". It also is about sex, plain and simply. I suspect that many of the straight folk who are so strongly opposed to gay sex in some respect crave what we have. I came out with my first partner 47 years ago this summer, and I have never loved another man as I loved him (and, still do). We remained very close, non-sexual friends until he died in 1996. I really wish people would just leave us alone; stop making us the topics of conversation and the objects of curiosity. Soon to be 70, I remain delighted that I am homosexual and still thrill at the sight of a beautiful man.
Thank you. We were together 8 years. Yet, our bond of friendship never stopped even for a moment. We were "young" lovers when we met; he had just turned 19 and I was about to turn 24. What we shared was precious; a deep, deep love and an extraordinary sexual appetite that we sated regularly!
You are so right, we all know we are sexual creatures, sex is sex, between consenting adults there is nothing like it. What the issue/problem is, when any person/law/Government /Church tries to infer/insist that, as long as you are straight... you are a sexual creature, your sex life is your business and your human, I don't care what goes on is someone's bedroom, I just care that basic Human Rights are being ignored on one hand and used as leverage on the other. Here in Australia we make a lot of noise about Equality, but we are still living with the last Generations ideas of morality, until we live in the present day, nothing is going to change. One day no one will have the to ''come out'' because there will be no reason to fight for recognition of ones sexuality, one day we can just celebrate every humans unique diversity. I am not Gay, I do have people in my life that I love and respect that are and if I just sit by and not support them, I might as well walk away from them now. They don't have to put up with not being loved, for who they are.
Being gay, I appreciate your support and acceptance. I wish everyone held your progressive thinking. I just need to point out that I DID NOT choose to be gay. I chose to love and accept myself, then share the real (gay) me with my friends, family and co-workers. Being gay is no more a choice than being straight.


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"OK, Johnny here are your very first baby rules. No slobbering or puking up mushrooms on your plate."
Look at that sharp blazer he wore to his wedding. See the cool crest? I wish they still made manly clothes like that. Of course they'd have to make real men like my Dad to fit in them.
Many of my cartoons are inspired by real life.
"I work and slave, just so I can put clothes on your back! And what thanks do I get? BACK TALK!"
Not only did he put clothes on my back, he also slaved away at work every day so he could supply me with all the latest plastic weaponry, which is essential for the molding of every boy's character.
"When you bring home the bacon, then YOU can make the rules!" was a favorite sermon of his.
We had lots of rules at the dinner table.
For one thing we had to use the exact utensil and hold it just right or we'd be breaking a rule that would surely bring on the end of the world.There were thousands of utensils and we had to memorize what each one was for. "That's your pickle fork! Not your juice fork! A pickle fork has 2 tines, while a juice fork only has one!"
Every time I heard a rule, I asked "Why?" which drove him crazy. "The world is built on rules! Without rules we'd go to Hell in a handbasket!"
We also had to eat everything on our plates no matter how ugly - like big hunks of ham fat, gristle, creamed cauliflower - otherwise all the little Biafran babies would starve and it would be our fault for not choking down lard.I think this used to be pretty common with parents who had grown up in the depression, but it's still a pretty funny concept to those of us who lived a life of ease our tougher parents provided for us.I find authority something I feel I have an unremitting urge to rebel against, but at the same time find entertaining. Authority figures inspire my most intense cartoons because I have lived my whole life driving them crazy and studying the results of my mischief.
This is what I saw every day coming home from playing after school.
If I saw this action, it was an omen that I had done a bad thing and was about get what was coming to me.
This is what I found waiting for me if I came home with a poor grade in "Social Studies" on my report card. To this day, I still can't figure out what social studies is. Can someone explain it to me?In Summers, my Dad never wore a shirt and that was a scary sight.Especially at the cottage.
I combined some different real life events starring Dad into this Ren and Stimpy scene. This is partly reminiscent of a night me and my teenage friends stayed up all night partying and singing Beatle songs with a couple of the girlfriends at our cottage on Wolf Lake. He gathered the boys all together the next day to warn us we could get "7 to 10 in the big house" for having a "gang splash".Of course, it was OK for him to flirt with all our girlfriends.
"Whattaya hangin' around with these skinny wimps for? Ever see a man hit 4 horseshoe ringers in a row?" CLANG CLANG CLANG! Then he'd follow that up by walking on his hands for an hour and chopping a load of wood for them, while we felt pitifully wimpy
in our dirty hippie hair and cut off jeans with our scrawny legs sticking out. "Hey girls, wanna see how fast I can gut a fish?" Dad would ask. Mom would roll her eyes and go make us some delicious strawberry shortcake. She had seen all this bird of paradise display before.
I don't know about your Dad, but mine has the most magnificent meat stuffed fingers - about 4 times the circumference of modern day wimpy man fingers like most of us have. He must have built these up working 12 hours a day on his own Dad's farm during the depression.
"Listen funny boy...I know you think your old man's full of crap, but..." - these are all real lines I heard growing up.
You can't make this stuff up.
Here he is in retirement and he can still kick your ass. ...and catch a whole bucket of fish in the time it takes you to bait the hook.
I find lawnmowers, chainsaws, outboard motors and fishing equipment funny. Why? Because my dad collected them. He had a hundred lawnmowers. The only one I was allowed to use was the worst one -otherwise it couldn't be called "work". The electric one. "You know what gas costs these days?"
So I had to maneuver around all the trees on the front lawn and get the cord tangled around all of them (in my hippie clothes) while a shadowy image of Dad stood between the slightly open curtains in the front window staring at me, rolling his eyes with disgust. Finally when he couldn't take my amateur mowing skills anymore he'd burst out the front door yelling "You Idiot! You're doing that all wrong!" He'd come out and untangle the lawn mower cord, replug it in and show me the right way to maneuver the maze. "What the Hell do they teach you in school anyways??!"Here's the cottage we always went to every year for the summer. This is where we would relive the hardships of the depression by rebuilding the delapidated houses in the hot sun, before ging out to torture innocent fish and deplete the rainforest for relaxation. That's me and my sister Elizabeth below. I hadn't figured out how to rebel yet. You can tell by the haircut he gave me with the magic "Hair Whizz". I wrote a story about the cottage starring George Liquor and my Dad. George goes up to Canada every year to Mike's cottage to live the rugged life and drink real beer, not that watered down American rat-piss.
It's about how they don't make real men anymore, and how kids these days don't know how to enjoy the outdoor life or roughing it. "We're becoming a nation of WIMPS!"
George himself has a lot of Dad in him. Except Dad doesn't hunt. I suspect he actually has secret empathy for fur-bearin' creatures even though he pretends to hate pets.(just kidding, it's probably the mutt's savings purse)
Here he is feeding a chili pepper to our beloved epileptic poodle, Jocko.
He thinks of them as freeloaders and lectures them about getting a real job. But whenever my sister brings her cats over he plays all kinds of tricks on them and laughs his head off. He likes to put a cat toy on the end of his fishing line and put the toy in the basement, then come upstairs with the rod. As he reels it in, it pulls the catnip mouse up the stairs and the cats do backflips and practically fly up the stairs , run around the kitchen and bump into the walls trying to catch the damn thing.Here's what happens when he makes a funny - or watches Foghorn Leghorn cartoons.
Y'know my Dad has hilarious stories of when he was a rebellious youth, and his Dad was much harder on him than any modern person can imagine - and he was a Priest! He REALLY believed in discipline and enforced it with an iron fist of God.
Grandpa and Grandma came over from the old country (Ruthenia) to escape ignorance, oppression, giant ornery bears and poverty, but carried with them the fear that if you didn't work your fingers to the bone 16 hours a day, you might lose everything you've gained. They were really nice to me. Grandpa kissed me (on the mouth!) every time we met and tried to convert me by scratching my lips off with his stubbly whiskers. I remember the only time he ever scolded me was when I grew long hair.He was sitting next to a picture of the greatest hippie (the guy Republicans love and ignore) in history and said: "The Lord meant for women to have long hair and men to have short hair, so I pointed to the picture and said "What about Jesus?" My dad started laughing his butt off "He's got you there Dad! You can't argue with that sonovabitch kid of mine." I could tell Grandpa wanted to make him kneel on rice kernels for 6 hours to punish him for his own back talk. Grandma, by the way made the most delicious Ukranian food and made you eat 15 helpings at a time. I never complained. See this church below? Grandpa and his friend built it themselves. Boy, men were men long ago.I combined my Dad and his Dad and turned them into Ren's Dad for "Ren Seeks Help". Double the authority in one ultra intense character and I got my Dad to do his voice.
You can't beat real life for story material. That's why I can't take modern animated features which seem to be made by people who have never met other people, and only get their ideas from other animated features.Seriously. What is this crap?
Why do they keep making it over and over and over again??
It's unbelievable to me.
They must have a computer program that
clones other features and slightly mixes up the order of the plots.
Here's a fairly recent picture of my biggest inspiration showing off his collection of of my cartoon art through the ages.
Happy Birthday Dad! Have lots more!
your disobedient son,
DAD'S RESPONSESo I do not know why you hate discipline so much, and why I get frustrated for stupidness whether my kids or myself.
I realy beleive every child should have 2 yrs of military service, where they teach you discipline. cleanliness, respect for their superiors and put up with situations that might cost them their lives to protect the masses that laugh at respect and expect the world owes them a living.
Thanks again for my birthday tribute.


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Walter O. Brockway, age 83, of Petersburg, Mich., passed away Tuesday morning, Nov. 13, 2012.
He was born Aug. 1, 1929, the son of Emery and Nellie Mae (Hoffman) Brockway. He married Esther Mae Hatt on Sept. 9, 1950. She passed away Jan. 24, 1983. Walter retired from the Ford Motor Company Ypsilanti Plant. He was an active member of the Deerfield Free Methodist Church.
Survivors include a son, John (Connie) Brockway of Allegan; daughters, Helen (Cecil) Shelden of Dundee, Sally O'Mara of Brownstown Township and Kathleen (Wesley) LaFountain of Shelbyville; brother, Ellsworth (Flossie) Brockway of Petersburg; sister, Catheryne Good of Petersburg; grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Preceded in death by his wife, Esther May; son, Gary Lee Brockway; daughter, Audra Jean; sons-in-law, John Duffield and Robert O'Mara; brothers, Charles and James; and sisters, Helen Watters, Virginia Watters and Dorothy Krutz.
Friends may call from 2 until 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, at the Cover Funeral Home in Dundee. Funeral service 11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 16, at the funeral home. Condolences may be made at www.coverfuneralhome.com.
Walter O. Brockway
Walter O. Brockway, age 83, of Petersburg, Mich., passed away Tuesday morning, Nov. 13, 2012.


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Florence Jones died November 29, 2012
Florence Sykes Jones, 85, of Little Rock, Arkansas, passed away November 29, 2012. She is preceded in death by her husband of 65 years, Larry Jones, her parents, Casper and Lillie Fay Sykes, and six siblings, Ruth Sykes, Helen Gilmer, Ellen Garrett, Ralph, Casper, Jr., and Joe Sykes.
Survivors are her son, Gary Jones of North Little Rock, AR; grandson, Nicholas Jones of Little Rock; granddaughter, Heather Hartwick; and great-granddaughter, Eden Hartwick of St. Augustine, FL. Florence has two surviving sisters, Fay Love and Martha Golden, and three brothers John, Allen and James Sykes, all residents of Arkansas, along with many nieces and nephews whom she loved dearly.
Flo retired from Alcatel-Lucent (formerly Teletype) where she received many outstanding achievement awards setting the bar high with her dedicated work ethics and excellent skills in accuracy and speed. She was also a very talented florist, owning her own business for several years, "Flo's House of Flowers"; not to mention her exceptional culinary skills which were rivaled by none! She was a member of Little Rock First Church of the Nazarene.
Visitation was from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Sunday, December 1, 2012, with funeral services on Monday, December 2, 2012 at 10:00 a.m., both at Roller-Chenal Funeral Home, 13801 Chenal Parkway, Little Rock, Arkansas, (501)224-8300. Dr. Jim Daniel and Rev. Steve Comeans officiated. Burial was at Meadowbrook Memorial Gardens, Beebe, Arkansas.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Humane Society of Pulaski County, 14600 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock, Arkansas 72210.
Online guestbook: www.rollerfuneralhomes.com/chenal


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Here's a Wikipedia entry for those who don't get the reference in the title even after looking at the picture.
Tonight April 17, 2009 (Fri) I'll be at Austin Zen Center 3014 Washington Sq., Austin, Texas 78705. Come at 6 pm for Zazen or at 7 pm for the talk. You can skip the zazen if you want. I'd be more likely to skip the talk! But that's just me. Either way is fine with the folks at the Zen Center.
Tomorrow, April 18, 2009 (Sat), is really busy. I'll be at San Antonio Zen Center, 1442 W Woodlawn Ave. San Antonio, TX 78201. They have 8:45am Zazen and at 10am I'll give a talk. At 11am I'll do a book signing. Come to all or any.
Then the very same day (4/18/09) at 3 pm I'll be at Book People bookstore 603 N. Lamar, Austin, Texas 78703.
The next day, April 19, 2009 (Sun), I'll be at Houston Zen Center 1605 Heights Blvd., Houston, TX 77008. 8:20 am is zazen. 9:45 am I'll do a Dhrama Talk followed by book signing supported by Brazos Bookstore. Both are open to public, and it's OK to attend just the talk if you're lame (or just can't get out of bed that early).
After that I travel to Dallas in time to be at Legacy Books 7300 Dallas Parkway, Plano, Texas 75024 at 7:30 pm on April 21, 2009 (Tues). What do you call a book signing in Plano? Plano book signing!
It's raining like cats and dogs here in Austin! And, just to emphasize things further, the guy I'm staying with, Lauren Crane, has a cat and a dog that constantly stage wrestling matches with each other in the living room. The TV weather people have been advising people to stay home and stay away from windows lest they get klonked on the noggin by hailstones the size of watermelons. So here I am blogging away. Ate a lovely dinner at a vegetarian place called Mother's last night.
I've been reading a neat book called Living And Dying In Zazen: Five Zen Masters Of Modern Japan. Josho at the Chapel Hill Zen Center kindly gave it to me. Thanks! It's got some great stuff about Kodo Sawaki and a bunch of other Zen teachers.
The back cover blurb says, "The deification of Zen teachers by their followers has been a problematic issue in American Zen; this book provides a healthy antidote, presenting four men and one woman who have lived and died in Zen within the rich context of their personal lives and their culture, so that we can fully understand what makes a Zen master in Japan." That's sorta what my new book is about too. Only Arthur Braverman came up with the idea four years ago.
This kind of ties in with something I've been wanting to say about monastic Zen practice. Number one, I don't hate monastic Zen practice! I've been noticing a lot of people think I do. I don't. OK?
But I do think there's been a tendency for people, both here and even more so in Japan, to view monastic Zen as the only authentic Zen practice. And that's just not so.
Buddha himself was not a monastic until after he established his order of monks. And, they say, he established the order of monks somewhat reluctantly because he believed, at first, that the understanding he'd come to couldn't be transmitted to others. They had to find it for themselves. Lots of the greatest Zen teachers were not monastics.
Monastic Zen developed as a way for people who were interested in Zen as a personal matter to practice in groups. All of the rules of monastic Zen are almost purely arbitrary. You turn on your cushion clockwise so you don't bump the person next to you. If it had been established that you turn counter-clockwise that would work just as well. You fold your oryoki napkins in that funky way so that everyone is doing the same thing and gets done at the same time and it looks neat and tidy when they're done (tidiness is very important in communal living). You could just as well fold them up a different way. And so on and on and on for about a zillion more rules.
It's important to note that none of the rules are magic or holy at all. But it's also important when you're in a monastery to follow their traditions and not do things your own way. Because doing it your own way screws it up for everyone else. It's an important reason but that is the only reason it's important.
Monastic practice becomes more complex the more people you have doing it. A single person alone can just as easily set up her own version. This is perfectly legit since all the monastic traditions started from the personal habits of specific teachers.
There is no fundamental reason monastic practice is any more "authentic" than practice by yourself or with a small informal group. Smaller, less structured groups might have a tendency to get a little sloppy. I once sat with an informal group in Japan who had a big beer drinking party after their sittings. I didn't go back. But then again, large monastic institutions have a tendency to focus on keeping their arbitrary rules at the expense of honest and sincere practice. Either way is bad for practice.
OK? Enough for today!


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I'm back from San Francisco and down in Los Angeles again. Long time readers will note that the links to the weekly Zen classes at Hill Street Center and the all-day Zazen have finally been updated, for the first time since August. Sorry about that. I'll try to be better.
Just to reiterate what's there, there will be a Zen class next Saturday, the 19th of January and I'll be there. The all-day sitting for January will be on the 26th. YOU MUST RESERVE AHEAD OF TIME TO ATTEND THAT. Please, please, please do reserve a spot. It's really difficult to do the meal service if people just show up without reserving first.
I'm without a home internet connection now and will be doing my writing and posting from libraries and coffee shops until I get that rectified. If I get it rectified. We'll see how freeloading off of coffee shops and libraries goes.
And what the fuck's going on in the comments section of this blog? It just seems totally random. Barak Obama and the Masons? I'm sorry. I can't figure it out. Anyway, whatever.


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OK. Time to test the power of the Internet. I know this blog has thousands of regular readers in several different countries. Perhaps somebody somewhere out there can help.
My film "Cleveland's Screaming" was potentially accepted into a European film festival. I can't give specifics until it's finalized. However, they need the film on Digital Betacam tape in PAL format. To get this done in Los Angeles costs almost $500, which I simply do not have. The master is on my computer. I have the facilities to dub it to mini-DV or DVD in NTSC format.
SO, among all you thousands of readers all over the world, is there anyone who has the facilities to do this type of transfer cheaply?
Write me at firstname.lastname@example.com and let me know. I'll give you whatever details you need.


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