See you in a bit

Happy 4th! Hope you all have a safe and fun 4th of July!

I am getting my stuff together over here, so I need to take about a week off from blogging. I need to recharge and replenish and get some stuff done around the house also. I will probably do a little commenting here and there, but mostly things around here will be quiet.
Catch you in a little while!

A surprise candidate!?

Gee! I am just blown away by this news! I had read on Grant Miller Media that Grant had taken his name off of lists for various awards. Well, it looks like Grant has decided to devote himself entirely to a run for the Presidency! I would be one to support Grant's bid for the White House. He would be a President who could make us laugh as he guided our country. We would laugh with him as he delivered speeches involving butt humor, we would giggle about his descriptions of different kinds of raunchy sex antics, and we would laugh about Milton Berle's whang! His speeches would be clear and concise-hell, contrary to the President now in office, he would actually be able to pronounce words from a speech!



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George Carlin 1937-2008

You may have already found out, but I just heard that George Carlin died this evening. He was one of my heroes. He did things his way. He thought about life in a way that I admire. Sure, sometimes he was a little too abrasive, a little too brash, maybe went too far sometimes, but most of the time the guy was directly on target. He scored bulls eyes against hypocrisy where ever it lay: religion, politicians, authority figures, the rich, war makers, and the powerful. Even though his ideals made him a hero of the "counterculture" and the left, progressives were sometimes the target of his searing jibes, directed at some of those whose ideas seemed well-intentioned at the time, but when Carlin put his magnifying glass of bullshitism on them, seemed hypocritical, snotty and dumb. To me, that made him all the more persuasive as a person who wanted to do the "right thing," but in his own way.
We lost a guy who was one of the greatest comedians, an author and a spokesman for those who did not want to just follow the rules and go away quietly. He saw through the BS, and gave us stuff to think about in the process. Sometimes I would be listening to one of his gigs and he would say something that would just blow me away-like "hey yeah-that is so true!" Who could forget the 7 Dirty Words controversy? He was fired from a headlining Las Vegas Nev. gig because the people couldn't handle his kind of humor. (I guess he was getting pretty dark for this gig though!) saying, that "People who go to Las Vegas, you've got to question their fucking intellect to start with. Traveling hundreds and thousands of miles to essentially give your money to a large corporation is kind of fucking moronic." Hmmm that's just pretty much how I feel! (sorry if you like to do that!)

Just a few days ago it was noted that he had earned the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor that was to be awarded to him this November. I think he deserved the prize, don't you?

Hey George-we're really gonna miss you! Here are some great George clips and an mp3 you can download!

This clip epitomizes what George was about! (I think)



Those Seven Notorious Words!



Ever the equal opportunity insulter:



George Carlin on religion (mp3 you can download-(leftclick and then listen or DL):
http://www.box.net/shared/avf70vhgk4


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It's been soooo hot over here!

Lately it's been so damn hot over here! It's actually been kinda humid here and so the swamp cooler-even turned up to high, isn't doing anything for us and we're sweating-sweating like Ashanti is sweating in these sweaty photos!

Ok, ok! Don't sweat it! I'll stop with this kinda sweaty sexist stuff! I was surfing around and found this interesting blog about celebrity sweating! It's where I found the above sweaty pics. It's called, not surprisingly, Celebrity Sweating http://www.celebritysweating.com/. They have many, many sweating celebs here! No sweat!

They give a little support for Obama (I do think their attempt at humor for the Obama post was kinda dumb!) Obama Sweats Gracefully as Only Future Qualified Presidents Can.

I used to sometimes get promotional copies of The Funny Times, THE FUNNY TIMES MAGAZINE Cartoon Monthly a monthly mini-newspaper featuring mostly social, and political comics and humorous columns, as a result of subscribing to several lefty and media commentary mags. I always thought of subscribing to TFT, but never did. I recently decided to look at the site to see about posting some of the work of cartoonists I have seen in the paper. There was a section called Links and Letters-(I was trying to find links to cartoonist's sites) and at the bottom of this page was "Hate Mail." I checked that link out. Funny stuff, but actually a little bit creepy also! Hate Mail.

Here are a few 'toons from a great cartoonist I have been meaning to post for a long time. Matt Bors, whose toons are often found in The Funny Times is a great artist who has a biting sense of progressive humor! His artwork is somewhat similar to another great cartoonist, Jen Sorenson who I posted a few from earlier C3 Fun -Comics, Comedians and Clips: 2007-10-07.

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SNL revisited

From looking at my Sitemeter Referrals and other data available on my Sitemeter page, it seems like Saturday Night Live-related humor is popular. I get most of my hits from that Penelope clip that I link to (which is surprising being that all the other Penelope links got pulled!).
Well, I am trying to please people who come this humble site. I am posting a couple of clips of a couple of my favorite comics from the later era of the show- Will Ferrell and Dana Carvey. They were two of the few funnier people on the show, in my opinion.

If you have been watching the NBA Championship games-(go Celtics!) you have seen the commercials featuring Ferrell's Jackie Moon character from the recent Semi-Pro flick. (I didn't see it-how was it?)Here's a couple of versions of this commercial.




The Old Spice ads were great too! Here are a bunch of "takes" that are pretty funny!



Dana Carvey was (and is)a great comic also. With all the talk about John McCain resembling a grumpy old man, here is one of Carvey's best skits!

MySpaceTV Videos: Saturday Night Live - Grumpy Old Man

Have a great Father's Day weekend! Happy Father's Day to all those fathers out there!



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A matter of speaking

As usual, Jon Stewart perfectly "narrates" the current news show tapes for maximum hilarity! He exploits our politician's gaffes so well! Here, he showed how when Hillary was supposed to concede the nomination to Obama, she had a seemingly difficult time doing it, and how McCain is, well just McCain!



I like comedian Brian Regan. Speaking of gaffes-here is a little clip of Brian talking about how he sometimes makes mistakes when speaking with others. I do the "you too!" thing once in a while, so this hits home! Give it listen and if you like it download it! (left-click to get to menu for either listening or downloading)
http://www.box.net/shared/f4utni1vok


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I admit: I am somewhat of a troll

I enjoy adding comments to sites when I come upon sleazy, stupid, untruthful posts or clips that are the work of ultra right wing individuals. I come across these sites not by my own choice, but through links from other sites. Even though it doesn't get me anywhere with these people, I feel that sometimes, a comment is necessary. I can't let it go. I respond to them and, using non-threatening language, without curse words, dispute what they are saying when I feel a response is in order. Oh ok! I admit-I only have left comments on Youtube, Liveleak, and the Young Americans for Freedom site, but if that is being a "troll," I guess I am. By the way, I actually would welcome righties to come to my site and discuss (like I do) stuff they disagree with on my site. Not that I have that much outright political stuff, but if people did, I wouldn't mind. I know that some progressive bloggers deal with a-holes that leave really stupid, ugly comments. I also know that these right-leaning commenters are not going to change how I feel. I don't feel that I will change how they feel either. It is just discussion. I feel better when I have said my piece. There are some statements and declarations by people that need to be responded to. I have to respond to Minutemen types on Liveleak and YT who say they aren't racist, and then call Hispanics scum of the Earth or cockroaches. I have to respond to people who make really dumb statements.
Like those at a site called Young Americans Foundation, an ultra-conservative youth foundation started to help save the Reagan Ranch and recruit youth to the cause of Republicanism. I am not sure how I came across the site-but I probably came across it through a Youtube link from one of Jason Mattera's hatchet job video clips. This organization is (to me) far right, with its heroes being Reagan, David Horowitz, Michelle Malkin, Rush Limbaugh etc. The spokesman for the group is Jason Mattera, who also is noted for doing the aforementioned videotaped right wing hit jobs on liberal or progressive politicians. Watch his clips on YT if you wanna get sick. Mattera would like to think he is doing investigative reporting but there is no investigating-just attack with half-truths, and outright lies. (I sometimes hear an Adam Sandler character when Mattera speaks! Am I alone in this?)
I have debated Mattera a few times. He wrote a ridiculous column about how youth are instinctively conservative. http://yaf.org/blog/?p=101 I disagreed. He wrote back, then strangely, (and probably indicative of the site) did not post my last comment that blew his crap right out of the water! I was the "leftist" (everyone is a "leftist" who disagrees with the site's stance on an issue) that was able to effectively, logically destroy his "core argument that young people are instinctively conservative"! (another weird thing is that my last comment appeared shortly thereafter, for a short time, but then disappeared the next day) I have sent several comments about why he/they would do this, leaving him with the last word, but no response. Lately all comments have disappeared and the rest of the text related to the clip is gone. Well, I guess it is "their" site. They can't debate without name calling and outright lying.
While trying to track down the missing page about the youth vote, I found a great response to the YAF drivel put forth by Mattera by Campus Progress' Erica Williams. Erica says it better that I ever could on a comment page!



Liveleak stuff: Billie Joe whatever his name is http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=41a_1212100569 says he won't drink Coors beer anymore and we should boycott it 'cause of Coors Spanish language billboards. There are lots of funny responses to his ridiculous idea (this guy is always complaining about liberals this and liberals that and Coors is one of the most far-right companies in our country!) mine was that from the looks of this video, he seemed to be heavily drinking some kind of beer to make such a stupid video!

Ok-enough of the political/social stuff!

I have always loved watching the silly 1950's public service message type videos like the ones found in the Prelinger Collection Internet Archive: Prelinger Archives in the Internet Archive. This is like one of those little films, but not really!



Atlanta public access tv-Penis Power( I hadn't been able to post some of these before, now the clips are back!)Alexyss Tylor seems to come across as some kind of feminist, but she seems to always talk about dongs.



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