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SUPER FUN TIME HAPPY BLOG!

13 Nov

from October 10, 2007

This is a collection of “what ifs,” and “never weres.” This is not a hoax, not a dream, not an imaginary story. It is an actual compilation of blogs never written.

I had the idea of writing a blog in the style of those instructions that you find in foreign toys, the ones that were translated to English via Serbian. Here is a sample:

SUPER FUN TIME HAPPY BLOG!

Thanking You Consumer Friend! Your readings of “Mr. Blog’s Tepid Ride” make much happy to all day, whether lunch or major meal time!  Mr. Blog no like rancid milk, why buy it in store?

 First time have much to blog, much talking with great gestures to sky, air, Germany. (Parenthesis!) And Sir Know All say advice to teens and their appliances. This week good as bad week too.

 Letter the First come to mail by email computer “URL”

 I soon found it impossible to keep up. It is really hard to write that stuff well. It is really easy to write that stuff bad, believe me, but to write that well is work. Too much work. And possibly offensive too.

I also had the idea of writing a blog about the New American Songbook.

The classic American Songbook is full of “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” Kate Smith bellowing “God Bless America,” “Chattanooga Choo Choo,” and a lot of songs that were good in their day, but their day passed about two centuries ago. I had the idea to write new songs that better reflect modern America. Almost instantly, I realized that I cannot write songs. Go back to the “poetry” blog and you’ll see proof. So here you’ll find the titles that would have filled my New American Songbook:

Hey Pervert

“Yeah, I’m Talkin’ To You”

 “That Powder Ain’t Sugar”

 “Song of Rehab”

 “Sir, I Apologized To You in Step Nine”

 “You’re a HO And You Gots Ta GO! (Jerry Springer Anthem)

So that was out. It was around that time that I took a good look at my friends and saw that they are about 2/3 female. No, I don’t mean that the individual friends were each 2/3 female, I mean that 2/3 of my total friends are female. (Somebody check that- I’m not a math teacher.) I got to wondering.

If I went to a man’s web page and saw a mostly female audience I’d have a couple of guesses. I’d guess that the guy was either a queen or a stud. I am neither. But I’m working on “stud.” I’m just a guy who skews female in all major demographics. That may explain the Kotex ads on my page. Anyway, I do urge all of my female fans to check out my page, which currently features classic WWF wrestling music videos from the 1980s, including The Honky Tonk Man and the infamous Vince McMahon “Stand Back” video. In the interest of not offending my female fans I have scrapped plans to write a blog entitled “Testicles.”

I spotted this bit of news today: Bobby Brown suffered a mild heart attack in LA today. I tried, really, but I couldn’t stretch it out to an entire blog, funny as the premise obviously is. So here is the single joke I wrote:

Bobby Brown suffered a mild heart attack in Los Angeles today. According to his spokesperson, “He just wants the fans to know that he is definitely going to come back full speed ahead.”

Come back from what- 1987? Bobby Brown hasn’t had a hit since he last hit Whitney Houston. But I guess that’s his “Prerogative”

Better that I left it alone, I think. That is more Mr. Know-It-All’s area, and speaking of Mr. Know-It-All……..

I have been accused of being Mr. Know-It-All. I must, here and now, publicly, categorically, deny deny deny. I am not Mr. Know-It-All. No way can I be Mr. KIA. Go to his page and you’ll see- he also denies being me. And what two guys should you believe more than me? I mean “us.” And if I were him, then it would clearly be a symptom of some deep-seated mental disorder, possibly indicative of a split personality psychosis.

So there you have it. A collection of things never to be. Some may never have seen the light of day, others may never have even been conceived had it not been for this wonderful forum called “Mr. Blog’s Tepid Ride.”  But the unifying theme, the thread that joins all of these unfinished blogs, is the same as the theme behind all of my blogs- “what was I thinking? It sounded good at the time.”

The Truth Is No Laughing Matter

13 Nov

from October 8, 2007

So I’m working on the yearbook and we have a Hollywood theme, and it seems to have carried over to my blog-slinging (and damn if I’m not sticking with that word ’til it hurts.) As I type this I am wearing cool shades, sitting in a director’s chair, and I refuse to talk directly to anyone, preferring to let my assistant do all that.

OK, you caught me in a lie. (Read any blog at random and you’ll catch me in anywhere from three to infinity lies.) I am not wearing shades, nor am I sitting in a director’s chair, nor do I have an assistant, though I do prefer communicating through emails rather than actually talking to people, so I guess there is a modicum of truth there.

And a modicum is enough nowadays. Who wants the truth? As a wise man once said; “You can’t handle the truth!” And no, we can’t.

Would you like to know the truth about such dangerous topics as “grave robbers from outer space”? While I won’t spill any secrets of NATIONAL SECURITY, I will merely point out that in 1959 a courageous young documentary filmmaker named Edward D. Wood Junior attempted to inform the public of an immediate crisis that endangered not just the citizens of Hollywood but the entire world. He had discovered, through long weeks of research in hidden national archives and secret military installations worldwide, that aliens were about to attempt a conquest of Earth, with our own dead as their invading army. Try as he might, Mr. Wood was thwarted at every attempt to rally the public into action, and for his efforts, the government poisoned his image in the eyes of the public. This once promising Harvard graduate with a PhD in Psychology and an MBA in Business Management from the Wharton School of Business, was ruined and became a laughingstock in an angora sweater.

Would you like to know the truth about atomic testing in the South Pacific?  For decades, the government has suppressed knowledge of the radiation-induced abnormal hyper-growth of certain reptiles, both prehistoric and contemporary, to gargantuan size. Similarly, the abnormal growth to epic proportions of common ants in the American mid-west due to atomic testing has been suppressed. Newsreel footage of fire-breathing dinosaurs have been leaked to the public from time to time by intrepid truth-seekers, but the government’s black-ops division has managed to convince the public that these actual films of dangerous creatures are really just Japanese movies with men in rubber suits, not monsters.

Would you like to know the truth about asbestos? It is a well-known fact that asbestos is NOT a carcinogen. It is totally harmless and may in fact cure acne. Asbestos was first used as a government cover-up in 1941 when the Air Force claimed that the area around Roswell New Mexico was contaminated to keep the public far away from what was really going on- a flying saucer crash. After the debris was moved to Area 51, the government continued to use the asbestos story for any operation they wanted to keep classified. To this day, CIA incursions into Hanoi during the Vietnam War are blamed on asbestos. Famously, when the Soviets captured Francis Gary Powers after his Blackbird spy plane crashed in the USSR, the US government claimed that he was not spying, and that his plane entered Soviet airspace because of asbestos in the cockpit.

Would you like to know the truth about the Yeti? The Yeti is not a hoax, nor is it a sort of prehistoric “ape-man” as the press (well-known as the propaganda arm of the government) would have you believe. The Yeti are in fact a well-organized and well-hidden militia created for the sole purpose of protecting the nation from a Soviet invasion in 1978. In the late 1970’s the Soviet Union prepared a full-scale invasion of The United States using mercenary Indian Monkey-Man soldiers. These soldiers had, among other futuristic technologies, invisibility-rendering pants. Facing a “primate-soldier gap,” the President authorized the creation of “an elite Yeti squadron,” capable of repelling the Soviet mercenary Indian Monkey-Men. These proved more than capable, and all knowledge of the Yeti had been suppressed, often violently. The Yeti remain America’s ever-vigilant first line of national defense.

Would you like to know the truth about the moon landing? The popular conspiracy theory states that we never landed men on the moon, and that the 1969 moon landing was filmed on a soundstage. That is just not true. We did land on the moon. In 1952. During world War Two, Germany was creating advanced V-2 rockets capable of reaching England. They also created, just as the war was ending, the first jet aircraft. Using German scientists and technology smuggled out of Germany after the war, America created the first lunar rocket in 1952 on a small hidden base in New Mexico. When we reached the moon, astronauts discovered a lunar base constructed on the dark side by aliens from Alpha Centauri. Soon after reaching an agreement, we received advanced alien technology (Did you really think we created Velcro?) in return for turning a blind eye to the mass abductions of humans.

I have been very careful, in the writing of this blog, not to name actual names or reveal too many specific details. It is not safe to do so. In fact, I was very careful to couch it in vague terms and even to write it as if I was being silly with all the “Hollywood” nonsense in the first paragraphs, in case this was being monitored. But it is all real and the truth must get out.

It’s funny. I’m sure I’m all alone. I know I locked the door. But I can swear I just heard footsteps and saw a shadow creeping along the wall. It is funny how the mind can play tri