Christmas '09, in Which Eric Gets into the "A"-Hole
December 27, 2009 Sunday 12:00:40 PM 51º
No videogram today. I’m a bit videogramed out for the moment. I’ll get back to doing them, just not today. There’ll be a big one coming, anyway. On the 21st and 22nd me, Cait, and Wendy made a poorly lit, badly acted, low audio quality Christmas special videogram. It was quite the scene. A videocamera, TV monitor, floodlights, props, costumes, fake snow, an 18 page script. Cait was aiming to have the whole thing edited and posted by the 25th. I didn’t see that happening. Takes me 3 hours to throw together a 7 minute videogram. No way, with all the Christmasing, she’d have a 15 minute one done in two days, with three hours of tape to upload and go through. It may become an Orthodox Christmas special. (Orthodox Christmas is on January 7, don’tcha know.) And if that doesn’t happen, it may be the Cait Brennan’s Birthday/Christmas in February Special.
Next year we’ll start working on it in October instead of two days before Christmas. I hope we make another one. Even though I can’t act worth crap, it was fun to do. Acting’s hard when you’re a painfully shy goober with almost no acting experience and two days to get ready for it. But Cait says who better to play Eric Paul Johnson than me. I guess there’s that.
So, yeah, no videogram today. Feel like writing, anyway. And reading’s good for you! Makes you look smart. You know who wasn’t a reader? George W. Bush, and you saw what happened to him! He had shoes thrown at him. Do you want that to happen to you? You want people throwing sweaty, used shoes at you where ever you go?! Then read!
It’s 51º, the heat’s off, the windows are open, and I’m naked. Is it obvious I love the cold? Although, I hear I wouldn’t be able to do this in Chicago.
For the people who don’t know, I got my grades from my first semester of college since 1994. “A”s. All of ‘em. Every class I took, got an “A.” Psychology, Mythology, Astronomy. “A.” Never done that before in my life. It’s been over a week since I got my grades and I’m still agog about it. Maybe W. Bush is the model to follow. Goof off until you’re 40, then get your act together. Except my dad doesn’t have powerful friends to get me into jobs I’m woefully unqualified for.
Loon Christmas pics...
My living room.
Kami Montgomery’s first Loon Christmas.
Cait and Wendy dancing.
Had a pretty good Christmas. My parents were around, so Ethan didn’t sit on the food counter, or show me his ass. But good Lord...his haircut...
What the hell is Ethan thinking??????????????????
Wouldn’t be Christmas without my mother getting passed out on the floor drunk with Holly licking the alcohol off her lips. (Actually, she was playing with the cat.)
Texting while Legoing. Is my beard getting grey??? I may have to shave it off.
And my sister was inappropriate around me only twice. As we were sitting down for the Italian Christmas dinner my mom makes every year (antipasto, manicotti, sausage, meatballs, bread, butter) my sister walked into the room saying, “I just got an e-mail saying oral sex causes cancer.” And a few minutes later she talked about horse farts in her face during a carriage ride while we were eating. Diane Johnson...a klass act since 1972.
I got from:
Kat’s mom: One spinach, and one pepperoni Lou Malnati’s pizza!
Holly: Fire Helicopter Lego set.
Kami: This year’s Star Trek movie.
Cait & Wendy: DVDs Futurama Volume 4, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Disneyland USA. AppleCare Protection Plan for my Macbook, a 1949 magazine ad for 7-Up. Not a reproduction, actual full-page magazine ad in a frame. I dig that vintage advertising stuff. And a Brandmeier T-shirt from his December 2007 concert at the Rosemont Theatre in Chicago, which is cool! I couldn’t go to that concert because at the time I was flying over Chicago. If I had gotten in a day earlier maybe I could’ve gone to the show. Last year I bought the CD of the concert, and now I have a shirt from it. It’s almost like I was there!
Parents: Winter Toy Shop Lego set (it lights up!), Bloom County The Complete Library Volume One: 1980-1982
Pretty good haul for an economy still trying to claw it’s way out of the financial devastation Bush skipped away from. (I didn’t intend for this entry to have so many snotty swipes at Georgey Jr. Just happened like that.)
No videogram today. I’m a bit videogramed out for the moment. I’ll get back to doing them, just not today. There’ll be a big one coming, anyway. On the 21st and 22nd me, Cait, and Wendy made a poorly lit, badly acted, low audio quality Christmas special videogram. It was quite the scene. A videocamera, TV monitor, floodlights, props, costumes, fake snow, an 18 page script. Cait was aiming to have the whole thing edited and posted by the 25th. I didn’t see that happening. Takes me 3 hours to throw together a 7 minute videogram. No way, with all the Christmasing, she’d have a 15 minute one done in two days, with three hours of tape to upload and go through. It may become an Orthodox Christmas special. (Orthodox Christmas is on January 7, don’tcha know.) And if that doesn’t happen, it may be the Cait Brennan’s Birthday/Christmas in February Special.
Next year we’ll start working on it in October instead of two days before Christmas. I hope we make another one. Even though I can’t act worth crap, it was fun to do. Acting’s hard when you’re a painfully shy goober with almost no acting experience and two days to get ready for it. But Cait says who better to play Eric Paul Johnson than me. I guess there’s that.
So, yeah, no videogram today. Feel like writing, anyway. And reading’s good for you! Makes you look smart. You know who wasn’t a reader? George W. Bush, and you saw what happened to him! He had shoes thrown at him. Do you want that to happen to you? You want people throwing sweaty, used shoes at you where ever you go?! Then read!
It’s 51º, the heat’s off, the windows are open, and I’m naked. Is it obvious I love the cold? Although, I hear I wouldn’t be able to do this in Chicago.
For the people who don’t know, I got my grades from my first semester of college since 1994. “A”s. All of ‘em. Every class I took, got an “A.” Psychology, Mythology, Astronomy. “A.” Never done that before in my life. It’s been over a week since I got my grades and I’m still agog about it. Maybe W. Bush is the model to follow. Goof off until you’re 40, then get your act together. Except my dad doesn’t have powerful friends to get me into jobs I’m woefully unqualified for.
Loon Christmas pics...
My living room.
Kami Montgomery’s first Loon Christmas.
Cait and Wendy dancing.
Had a pretty good Christmas. My parents were around, so Ethan didn’t sit on the food counter, or show me his ass. But good Lord...his haircut...
What the hell is Ethan thinking??????????????????
Wouldn’t be Christmas without my mother getting passed out on the floor drunk with Holly licking the alcohol off her lips. (Actually, she was playing with the cat.)
Texting while Legoing. Is my beard getting grey??? I may have to shave it off.
And my sister was inappropriate around me only twice. As we were sitting down for the Italian Christmas dinner my mom makes every year (antipasto, manicotti, sausage, meatballs, bread, butter) my sister walked into the room saying, “I just got an e-mail saying oral sex causes cancer.” And a few minutes later she talked about horse farts in her face during a carriage ride while we were eating. Diane Johnson...a klass act since 1972.
I got from:
Kat’s mom: One spinach, and one pepperoni Lou Malnati’s pizza!
Holly: Fire Helicopter Lego set.
Kami: This year’s Star Trek movie.
Cait & Wendy: DVDs Futurama Volume 4, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Disneyland USA. AppleCare Protection Plan for my Macbook, a 1949 magazine ad for 7-Up. Not a reproduction, actual full-page magazine ad in a frame. I dig that vintage advertising stuff. And a Brandmeier T-shirt from his December 2007 concert at the Rosemont Theatre in Chicago, which is cool! I couldn’t go to that concert because at the time I was flying over Chicago. If I had gotten in a day earlier maybe I could’ve gone to the show. Last year I bought the CD of the concert, and now I have a shirt from it. It’s almost like I was there!
Parents: Winter Toy Shop Lego set (it lights up!), Bloom County The Complete Library Volume One: 1980-1982
Pretty good haul for an economy still trying to claw it’s way out of the financial devastation Bush skipped away from. (I didn’t intend for this entry to have so many snotty swipes at Georgey Jr. Just happened like that.)