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SHAPPY'S ONLINE DIARY:
Monday, November 20, 2006 It's like a whole new apartment! Cristin and I did a BIG CLEAN & PURGE this weekend! Had a wacky week! Monday I hung out with Wammo and Derrick Brown and stayed out too late! Luckily, I was cat-sitting in the neighborhood. I hosted Urbana and trained Johnny Cockstrong behind the bar on Tuesday. Cristin woke me up the next day at 2:30 PM! I had to get to work by 3! Thank heaven for our cat-sitting gig! That night was the CD realease party for The Dustballs! All of the BPC groups played-Clint & Charles Show, The Makeout Party, The Fools, Sean T. and Moonshine! I had a great night and Cristin cut hair and made tips! We both were up late again! I asked Moonie if he wanted my Thursday shift cuz I was pretty beat and wanted to see the woman's we cat-sit for (S. Rice) staged reading of the play I helped write a bit for that night. The weather turned on us but we made it home in time to have a late dinner with a friend at Neptune's. I had a rare Friday off but didn't really get to sleep in much cuz our landlord was patching up a hole in our bathroom ceiling that morning. Also, I wanted to get to the Big Apple National Comic Con which kicked off. I got a cool Gen. Zod t-shirt, a Don Knotts t-shirt and found a replacement for the Spock t-shirt I thought I'd lost! I met one of the appraisers from Antiques Roadshow and talked about View Master reels with him. I also found a very cool Adlai Stevenson Dell Comic! That night Cristin came home and we ordered za and attacked the bedroom and other rooms to make way for the IKEA bookshelf that Cristin's folks were bringing in the next day! We re-arranged the whole bedroom! Saturday I got up earlier than I have in a long time! We ran some errands and watched Hannah & Her Sisters ( I like to watch that one around this time of year) Bruce and Maureen showed up and Bruce and I built the big, white bookcase! We had a fine dinner at Just Arthur's and then went about the business of re-arranging all of our DVD's and VHS and basically changing the front room! It looks great! Today we ate at Neptune's twice! Once for brekkie after buying some new rugs for the house and again when snoo's old roomie and pal Kim showed up from Australia! Oh yeah, while we were waiting to be seated during brunch this little white haired lady came out and the woman she was with called her AUNT MAY!!! Cristin didn't get it but this Spider-Fan freaked out! Excelsior!!! posted by Shappy at 12:11 AM
Sunday, November 12, 2006
The FANBOYS trailer has hit the internet! This is the first of many! This is what they secretly showed at the Star Wars fan film awards at the SanDiego ComicCon! Just type in "Fanboys trailer" at youtube! It's also available at iesb.net! I'll try and get some screen grabs up here as soon as I learn how to do that! Start the MADNESS!!!
posted by Shappy at 11:35 PM
Monday, November 06, 2006
So busy! I had all the busy shifts last week at the BPC! Halloween started off slow and then kickly became a madhouse when Bad Ass Burlesque took over! I had a costume on for about 30 minutes before I had to tear that sucker off cuz it was so crazy busy! All of these lovely ladies on stage and I hardly saw any of them! I did get to say hello to underground artist Joe Coleman which was pretty cool. He remembered me from Quimby's! Thursday and Friday we had metal and punk bands for the CMJ Music Festival. Thursday I gave away 12 cases of Bud and 5 bottles of Jagermeister in under 2 hours! Friday I watched angry youth thrash and kick the living crap out of each other! Two tables died that night in the name of punk. Made great $ for a change! Got all of plane tickets paid for the holidays! I'll being seeing my folks for X-mas and my bro and his fam for New Year's! Looks like the club will be covered properly. I started training another fill-in barternder for coverage. Cristin was in the Chamber Dance Company show all weekend long. I went on Saturday it was awesome to see Cristin's work being danced to! We tried to use our Olive Garden gift cards but we were overtaken by Broadway tourists!
Times Square is to be avoided at all costs on the weekends. Unless you want to feel really AMERICAN!
It's been difficult avoiding Tower Records going-out-of-business sale these past couple of weeks. When they go over 50% off that place is gonna get empty quick! I scored some pretty good scores from the rental section and the toys and comics sections. The days of chain record stores are numbered!
Picked up a cool new magazine called GEEK MONTHLY. It's got Dwight from the Office as James Bond on the cover. It lives up to it's name! Check it out!
I also just went up on a poetry podcast called indiefeed.com! Here's a link-
http://performancepoetry.indiefeed.com/
That's all for now!
posted by Shappy at 12:33 PM
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
LIFE IN THE 1500'S
Interesting!
The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be.
Here are some facts about the 1500's: These are interesting.
Most people got married in June, because they took their yearly bath in May and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.
Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children! Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water."
Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood
underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and off the roof. Hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs."
There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.
The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying "dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until when you opened the door it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was
placed in the entranceway. Hence the saying a "thresh hold."
(Getting quite an education, aren't you?)
In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot.
They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme, "Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old."
Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could "bring home the bacon." They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and "chew the fat."
Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.
Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or "upper crust."
Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the
custom of holding a "wake."
England is old and small and the local folks started running out of
places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a "bone-house" and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on the wrist
of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the "graveyard shift") to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be "saved by the bell" or was considered a "dead ringer."
posted by Shappy at 11:23 PM
"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
posted by Shappy at 3:21 PM
What American accent do you have? The South The West The Inland North Philadelphia Boston The Northeast North Central What American accent do you have?
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