Today’s Music: Lester Young & Coleman Hawkins – Jumpin’ With Symphony Sid
Note on Today’s Music: taken from one of Sharp Little Pencil’s recent posts. Classic jazz that stuck in my head, so I thought I’d share. And you should check out her site too – great poetry!
Aaaaaand…Friday. Thank goodness. Long, long week.Long days, long nights.
And how does one keep ones sanity during times like these? Why, one reads blogs, of course!
Shalvika got out and did some traveling, and met some great people.
Kayjai (the president of Canadia) took us on a typical day with her.
LizzieCracked has been on an artistic tear, and we are the beneficiaries!
And finally, Cayman Thorn nominated me for Addictive Blog Award. A huge honor coming from him, and if you want everything from hilarious sports commentary to tropical fiction, you should check him out.
Hell, check him out anyway. I look forward to every new post of his, and it’s a big deal to me to get this from him!
Some great stuff from them, and everyone else this week, so thank you all for that!
And that brings us from this week to last week. We asked you how you want your remains handled. And wow, do you guys have issues! (And I mean that in the best possible way.) Here’s what you said in response to last weeks poll.. (As always, my comments are memorialized in italics.)
traded to the Mets for future prospectsCayman Thorn
(If that’s how they get their prospects, so much is clear…)
I HOPE MY HUBBY SELLS MY ORGANS ON THE BLK MARKET FOR LOTS OF CASH. Love&Lunchmeat
(He’d get more grinding them up as aphrodisiacs.)
DropMeOff atThe next Spatial Anomaly to do some time warping. Michelle Motley News
(Oh, so you’re a Scientologist…)
Propped in the corner at the wake with a beer in your hand – John Phillips
(Ah, tuesday nights…)
Stuffed and made into a hat rack (Stacy Lyn)
(With an extra branch to hang your gloves! (No, I didn’t say that.))
used as a mould for El Guapola Sex Dolls (SnB)
(Only the original will do.)
I just want to float…all over the world.
(Would you settle for floating over a Thanksgiving Day parade? You’d get to be on tv…)
…made love to constantly by geisha for all eternity. – Hotspur
(Wouldn’t you want that before you were dead?)
Dropped from a tall building onto a politician.
(What a waste of a perfectly good corpse…)
Not funny, donated for medical research – Benzeknees
(An excellent plan, Benze. I tried to donate my body to them once. They took one look, and donated it right the hell back.)
Covered in sushi and served for dinner. x, Becca
(What if we just butter your buns and call you a biscuit?)
Thrown out of an airplane (for old time’s sake). –Lily
(Extra points if you hit a politician!)
chopped up and made into Soylent Green (Madame Weebles)
(And the Iron Chef secret ingredient is…)
I want mine floated away on an ice berg if there are any left. Elyse 54.5
(You’re a polar bear?!?)
Mummified and sold at Pottery Barn lv
(They might mummify you and hire you.)
cremated then sprinkled over salads and served to unsuspecting vegans. Alex A
(They wouldn’t even get angry. (They don’t get enough protein for that.))
Donated To Science. Evil, forbidden science. (Smaktakula)
(Ok, but I shudder to think what those botanists will do with it…)
Donate my remains to science. Mixology is a science, right? Scarp
(The noblest science!)
Pickled…wait…it already is Stay Abnormal
(Glad to see you planning ahead!)
Cremated & my urn be adorned w/googly eyes & mustache. –Kbar3
(So interred inside a Mister Potatohead.)
cremated & sprinkled on chzsteaks of my annoying customers. (words&otherthings)
(Velveeta never tasted so good!)
could be, would be…but isn’t. B_T
(I don’t think these polls are a suitable place for philosophy…)
Featured in Disney World’s Haunted Mansion. Grippy
(How about at the ticket booth – the prices are even scarier…)
bronzed and affixed to the nose of the recently retired space shuttle (Kanerva)
(WE HAVE A WINNER!!!)
Stuffed into my blog (Frank)
(In your Shorts?)
Cryogenitcally frozen. Just make sure I have my Uggs. KJ
(If there are Uggs involved, wouldn’t cremation be more appropriate?)
Congratulations to Kanerva for this week’s winning answer! And from the offered choices, this week was a tie between Stuffed and mounted on the lawn and Shot into space! (Hey, it was good enough for Rodenberry…). Either one is a fine way to spend eternity, so congratulations to you as well!
Finally, we move on to next week. This poll is the result of an odd bit of synergy. Last week, I was discussing burgers with Frank). And this past weekend, my nephew suggested that be this weeks poll.
Who am I to argue?
So, my nephew would like to hear about your favorite burger. And that’s this weeks poll. Top your answers with relish,but top them soon, because this one ends at 2359 EST on 11 Oct. And if you write in an “other”, leave a way to recognize you, and I’ll link back next week.
And to amuse you until next week, enjoy this.
You’ve all heard of Literal Videos? Well, here’s an Honest Trailer. This time for the Avengers.
Have a great week, y’all! See you out in the ‘verse…
I like the Honest Trailer. Very…honest. Hmm…have a great week, Guap! And thanks for the shout out! 🙂
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Thanks Kayjai.
Everyone should be reading your posts!
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I missed last weeks poll but for the record my family has strict instructions to put my remains in a Hav-a-Tampa cigar box and next road trip they take, let me fly wherever out the car window..
Mad fun over here this week and now I’m hungry thanks to your burger poll!!
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That sounds like a great idea, FPP. My plans are along similar lines.
You should have seen me snacking on everything in site thinking about the poll for this week!
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And no one else is worthy of mention? Damn, I hate when people list a few blogs to read, and not the hundreds or thousands of blogs that follow them or that they follow or have heard about in passing.
I liked the trailer. I liked all the trailers. It was the best trailer park ever.
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So many others worth mentioning, Hotspur.
But I always thought that if there’s a ton listed, it’s less likely people will check out any of them, so I just list three or four that stuck in my head for whatever reason.
And I try to not to keep relisting the same blogs (or you’d be there at least three times a year!) 😉
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Guap, that was a totally ironic statement made for comedic purposes. Over on my red couch, I have a post today that hypes 6 or 7 blogs that I’ve been looking at lately.
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Nono, I caught that. Just thought I’d throw the reason out there for anyone who did wonder…
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Gawd, I forgot to vote again! No pole or poll is complete without GingerSnaap! Dammit!
Have a great weekend, Guap- give TMWGITU a kiss for me!
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I figured you were giving me a week off from the belly laughs, Ginger.
Thanks, and have a blast yourself! (And stop hitting on my wife.)
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Your wife loves it when I hit on her! Leave us alone!
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Hahahaahaha, loved that trailer!!!
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Thanks Nicole. They have a whole bunch of them.
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Dude! Thanks for the shout out 🙂 I have been having many brief artistic expulsions of late… I guess that is why I am even having to ask the next question….
How the HELck did it get to be Friday? What kind of – who is in charge here I want a do over I didn;t get to vote and I came up with it a couple days ago…I just never was present – mentally I guess when I thought of it….. Glue Factory – high quality limited quantity and you know there would be glitter in it. My way to keep on giving
Great answers from some – others just a bit puzzling bordering on disturbing – I can say that now right cause I think glue qualifies…. holy have so much to do Batman… I( thought it was Wed. without really thinking about it I would have said Thurs… mannnn…
Well at leadt I started off Friday right – woulda been worse to get all the way through the day and then have to scroll forever and..not get the joy of Friday Foolishness first thing in the Morning…
Joy. Pure Joy. 😀
Next week is Mental Illness Awareness Week – gee I think you are pretty aware of Mental Illness – there are a lot of nuts around here… BUT some people aren’t so much and their misguided souls could use some awarifying… – time to move some mountains !- change the world! i am gonna just take a little nap first 🙂
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Thanks for the heads up on next week, LizzieC.
I’ll see if I can’t force my brain to come up with something…
I think if enough of us took naps, we would definitely have the energy to change the world!
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Missed this one! I flipping love what you are doing here by the way. In case I didn’t already say that.
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Thanks Becca! It’s my own little corner of “WTF?!?” 😉
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Keep it up!
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So much Foolishness so little time! Hahaha! Love the burger dress! I wonder if it comes with a shake?
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I was looking for burger images and found that dress pic, Susie. And yeah, I thought exactly what you said.
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Great minds. What else can I say???? 🙂
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I know you’re not going to believe this but I hate burgers! However, I will happily ingest the outer crust with the cheese, toppings and mushrooms. Mmmm. Have a good weekend, EG!
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Hate burgers?!? It is now my mission in life to convert you, Asplenia!
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Served in a dive bar on a paper plate. With extra pickles…ah, someone’s been to Corner Bistro 😉
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I realize it’s not a write in,. but I’m pretty sure you won this week just for catching that, BT.
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Woohoo!
Technically I have an unfair advantage by living here (its not universal, like a Simpsons or Holy Grail reference) but, woohoo!
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As always, TMWGITU has it right about the proper burger. She’s my kind of gal.
I think my favorite answers from last week are Cayman Trout’s and Smak’s. And really, I can’t see how the Mets could really go any wronger by acquiring a dead body, it’s not much different from their lineup now.
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I think the Mets would do better with a genuine corpse in a management position, M Weebles.
Or perhaps in the front office. That would definitely be trading up.
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I liked throwing in the blender with Vokka ’cause that IS what I always do. Hehehehe. Great post.
Muah!!!
Sooz
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Whoooops!!!! I spelled Vodka wrong…Guess you can see what I”VE been doing. Hehehehehe!!!!
Sooz
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You’re inspirational, Sooz!
I think I’ll start my Friday night a little early today…
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You’ve got some catchin’ up to do my friend!!!
Hehehehehe…
Muah!!!
Sooz
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Awesome blog! Have a great day!
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Thanks so much, segmation!
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Now I know what to crochet next – a burger dress! Thanks for the idea, Guap. ❤
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Good lord – I would love to see pictures of that if you do it, Stacy Lyn!
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Where can I get a dress like that? I have a corporate function coming up.
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If you wear that dress and don’t get a promotion, I’d be shocked Jen.
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Reading your comments . . .laughing . . . can it get any funnier? Dropped from a tall building onto a politician.
(What a waste of a perfectly good corpse…) When I got to this one it was laughing tears all the rest of the way! 😀 Nobody comments like you in italics, El Guapo, NOBODY!
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Thanks Linda!
(And I’m so glad I’m not the only one that cries when I read my posts.) 😉
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You can butter me. Hey I don’t know if you saw but I am at ladyornot.wordpress.com right now until my site is up and running again with wordpress.org.
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Hubba hubba!
I did see that the other day. I hope they get your server back up without any hassle, Rebecca!
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Love the honest trailer! Saw that movie with Mr F the super-nerdy – neither of us could see where leather-boobs fit in!
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I think they tried to smush in as many superheros as they could, Beautiful.
But to be honest, there’s aalways a place to fit in leather boobs.
hehehe
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Geez, and here I thought I just wanted to be cremated. But now I have so many great ideas and possibilites to choose from. Decisions, decisions.
Congrats on the addictive blog award! We all have to be addicted to something, I should know, ha. May as well be something funny and witty and good for us; like cookie dough.
I wish you a peaceful week my friend, hopefully with shorter days and much shorter nights. Thanks again for brightening up my week.
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Glad you enjoyed it, RoS.
As for me, I think I’d like to be stuffed and mounted on the wall.
Possibly cross-eyed.
hehehe
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Oh my, maybe like one of those Billy Big Bass toys. You know the ones that sing “Take me to the river…” That would be hilarious.
You could have yourself sing, “Let’s do the time warp Again!!!” haha. Not sure what my song would be. I’m torn between Elton’s “the bitch is back” or Evita’s “don’t cry for me Argentina, the truth is I never I left you…” Maybe a nice medley of the two!
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Oh. My.God.
My mind is reeling form considering the possibilities of that mashup…
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I’ve got a cold and therefore as a man I am close to death. Having read these answers to your question Guap, all I can conclude is that you know a lot of weirdo’s. Hat rack?
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On my blog, I think the weirdos is kind of a “birds of a feather” thing.
And we’re honored to have you among us!
Hope you’re feeling a little better, GfB.
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Glad you seem to feel better already!
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I’m going the philosophical route, NBI. One day it will come for me too, so why get bent over it…
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I’ve never heard of “Literal Movie Trailers” before, but I’m guessing they’re something most everybody else has heard of. As a nerd myself, I can largely agree with the trailer, with two minor quibbles. 1) Captain America is at least one person’s favorite Avenger, and 2) The whole “I’m always angry” thing made perfect sense to me, and actually added a layer of nuance to the character that had been heretofore lacking.
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I agree Smak. The bit in the trailer where the Hulk changes is my favorite part of the movie, and added a lot of depth to the character.
But Captain America? Really?
Sigh…
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I voted Baron Burgers for next week. They are a chain here in Alberta & I had never heard of them before moving here. They have the most delicious burgers I have ever had. They always do the meat fairly well done, with a delicious mushroom sauce on all their burgers which just makes the burger. They have nice soft buns with sesame seeds, great pickles & my mouth is watering just thinking about them!
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There’s a place here called Jackson Hole that does a huge loosely packed burger that is delicious, especially for a chain, Benze.
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I’m honored with two mentions here – let alone inspiring a poll question!
Great answer by Kanerva … and your comment on mine made me laugh!
BTW – as a former burger reviewer of local haunts, I will give a legit for your nephew.
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Thanks Frank – and you enjoying the response is the highest praise!
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I enjoyed the music this morning! Navar and I were dancing in the kitchen fun old tune. I thought the video was funny and at the last part you will enjoy this movie unless your a girl that’s probably true funny. I wish more Movie trailers had an honest bent to them.
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Ticket sales would nosedive if trailers were honest, Starla. I remember the trailer for “Revenge” fromTony Scott. Fantastic trailer, long arduous movie. Sigh.
At least you got to dance a bit!
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Yes Thank for the music. I did really enjoy it. :+) Dancing is always a good thing.
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I finally saw The Avengers – I thought it was pretty cute. Now, I’m ready for a burger on the grill…I agree with your girl – she’s a smart one!
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A burger and a beer, whitelady, and my arm around my girl.
And I’m the first to admit – she is definitely the smart one in our relationship!
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Those poll answers were hilarious this week! And even funnier were your responses. Well done! Just like a burger, but I don’t eat those so I’ll have to come up with some suitable substitute…
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