New Taste Treat

I was feeling a bit hungry so I grabbed a Granny Smith apple from the fridge sliced it and then noticed a bottle of Glenfiddich on the counter. So I figured what the hell? I dipped an apple slice into the shot glass before eating it and it was a winning combination!

TPBs in Charlotte

Trailer Park Boys: Drunk, High and Unemployed Tour 2011

Had lots of fun in the McGlohon Theater in Charlotte last night, starting at Blue Restaurant where I had a double scotch, and a couple Redhook IPA's. Then walked to McGlohon Theater and talked with those sitting near me about the TPBs and their new projects.  The show was great, with all the mayhem and fun always surrounding the boys. 

Audience members invited on stage to play a game of...

Are you smarter than a 1st grader?

audience member invited onstage to play Cyrus

in a TPB scene re-written by Bubbles

The Alpocalypse

Weird Al Yankovic's 2011 Alpocalypse Tour

Last night I was enjoying the show from VIP seating.  Close enough to get a face full of water during the performance of Smells Like Nirvana when Al tossed a cup full into the audience. The show was fantastic. The band was perfect as usual. 

All the guys are excellent performers and totally dedicated to their art.

There were numerous costume changes. A furry peacock during Perform This Way, Kurt Cobain during Smells Like Nirvana, black suit and sunglasses for Party in the CIA, black suit, hat and beard during Amish Paradise, black and red zebra stripe lounge suit for Wanna Be Your Lover. White&Nerdy hoodie while riding a Segway on stage, while the band were dressed as perfect nerds, with horn rimmed glasses. and pocket protectors, Jim West was miming texting on an invisable device!

The costume changes were covered by use of his multimedia show which included his AL-TV interviews, there were clips from pop-culture TV shows showing his own influence on pop-culture. The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, Naked Gun as well as many others throughout the years dropping his name. My favorite has always been The Simpsons when Homer laments “He who is tired of Weird Al is tired of life.”  The multimedia show is now becoming an audience participation piece, akin to Rocky Horror, in particular with the audience speaking along with Yoni (Getty Watanabi) during the Wheel Of Fish clip from UHF, ["Weaver, you are so STUPID!"]

The finale was staged beautifully as Al and the band were accompanied by Darth Vader and 4 Imperial Storm Troopers, and was comprised of The Saga Begins followed by Yoda, including the syncopated nonsense now a trademark of the encore performance of that song. Except for that bit the entire audience was singing along to Saga and Yoda.

“He who is tired of Weird Al is tired of life.”

 

Thank you, jackass!

  Now some loser jackass is trying to use my hobby as a jihad weapon! 
Just after 9/11/2001 the paranoid Republican controlled government started over regulating model rocket engines of over 62 grams.  I can't even see the logic there. The 9/11 terrorists used commercial aircraft to destroy the World Trade Center, not model rockets or planes.
 Now this brainless loser has come up with a plan to load 5 pounds of C4 explosive into 5 high speed model planes and fly them into the Pentagon, Capital and some bridge(s) over the Potomac River. 
  If he really wanted to damage one of those targets, he should wear the 25 pounds of C4 he bought and blow himself up like all good delusional terrorists.
  It only takes one dummy to ruin something the rest of us enjoy doing safely.
I hope Johnny Jihad's actions don't mean regulations in the sale of r/c planes.
If our idiot lawmakers would regulate C4 more closely, then maybe the rest of us can still enjoy our hobby of flying model aircraft.

A large remote controlled aircraft similar to what the department says

suspect Rezwan Ferdaus plotted to fill with C-4 plastic explosives to

use in an attack of the Pentagon and U.S. Capital.

 

Here is a good video showing how model aircraft are constructed
and why it would be foolish to even try to use them for harm
  
* * * U P D A T E * * *

BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man accused of plotting to fly remote-controlled model planes packed with explosives into the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol was asked to leave a Boston mosque because of his radical views.

An official with the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center says Rezwan Ferdaus of Ashland was suspected of admiring al-Qaida and criticized the mosque's participation in interfaith efforts and politics.

Atif Harden, director of institutional advancement at the mosque, tells The Boston Globe that Ferdaus disapproved of the mosque's policies that allowed men and women to eat together in its cafe and was hostile toward women he thought dressed inappropriately or who talked to men.

Harden called Ferdaus "very disaffected, very disturbed. Just a bitter, angry guy."

The 26-year-old U.S. citizen was arrested Wednesday.
 

Information from: The Boston Globe, http://www.boston.com/globe

Why the hell didn't they inform the authorities if they knew he "was suspected of admiring al-Qaida"?? 
  



Lincoln County Apple Festival getting underway.
Vendors are here and setting up their stuff.
EMS, Police, Fire and National Guard ready to assist if needed.
Temperature is 54 and cloudy.  Looks like the start of a good one.

Lincoln County Apple Festival

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