PCQOTD : 6-30-06

Plebian:
"I’ll do anything you say. In fact, I’ll even stay. But I must be going."

Erudite:
"Brighter than a lucky penny, when you're near the rain cloud disappears, dear."

Odd Impressions

So I had a dream last night, a dream that I was in love. I've thought I was in love once in my life, and was definitely, deeply in love once. I felt that feeling last night in my dream, but couldn't tell who it was. My only impression of her was dark hair and well-defined tanned legs. Later in the dream, I was terrible ill and stricken with fever, and was near death. In my feverish state, all I could think about was the woman I loved, and I muttered the strange words "potatoes and gold...potatoes and gold..."

I later realized that what that referred to was her legs, with her well-shaped firm calves and golden skin. It's not the most flattering phrase about, but in my love-struck illness, that's the image that wafted through my head.

And I want to fall in love again. Actually, I want my true love back, but that's not likely.

PCQOTD : 6-29-06

Plebian:
"So let me introduce to you the one and only Billy Shears."

When I was in wrestling, we had a referee named Billy, and I always introduced him with that line. Nobodoy ever got it, which made it even more amusing to me.

Erudite:
"I have itchy fingers, and butterflies are strange."

CageMatch Conflict!

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Originally uploaded by oohmygeez.

Bizarro Austin always cracks me up.

PCQOTD : 6-28-06

Plebian:
"Can’t sing. Can’t act. Slightly balding. Dances a little."

Erudite:
"Truth is dreams that don't come true, and nobody prints your name in the paper till you die."

PCQOTD : 6-26-06

Plebian:
"I'm pretty! I'm a bad man!"

Erudite:
"I am a man who likes talking to a man who likes to talk."

PCQOTD : 6-23-06

Plebian:
"These vagabond shoes are longing to stray."

Erudite:
"What good's permitting some prophet of doom to wipe every smile away?"

Elektronik Supersonik

You wish you were as cool as Zlad. Best music video evah.

"Hey love crusader; I want to be your space invader."

Chekkit out.

PCQOTD : 6-22-06

Plebian:
"Up your nose with a rubber hose."

Erudite:
"Woe is me. My criminal career is now eggstinct!"

I really wanted to include a quote from my favourite Skinamax movie, H.O.T.S., but it ain't quotable.

Stuck In Folsom Prison

Okay, this guy didn't say it was Folsom, but he does volunteer in a prison. He pushes a book cart around to lend inmates reading material, and occasionally he finds things left in books or shoved onto his cart. Here, he shares them with us, the interaudience. For some odd reason, I find this stuff fascinating.

Enjoy.

PCQOTD : 6-21-06

Plebian:
"And if I ever have a son, I think I'm gonna name him Bill or George."

Erudite:
"I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell."

JACK TUNNEY SPEAKS!

CageMatch President Jack Tunney breaks his silence when he appears to make an important announcement that will change the course of CageMatch history! Tune in and find out what's going down!

Exclusively on YouTube.

PCQOTD : 6-20-06

Plebian:
"It starts out like an A word, as anyone can see, but somewhere in the middle it gets awfully 'kwer' to me."

Erudite:
"I've distilled every thing to one single principle: win or die."

PCQOTD : 6-19-06

Plebian:
"Where Alph the sacred river ran through caverns measureless to man."

(Okay, so it's not popular culture. Sue me; I was in a hurry, and it popped into my head.)

Erudite 1:
"It doesn't matter if you win or lose, it's what you do with your dancin' shoes."

Erudite 2:
"Goob, did anybody ever tell you you've got a big mouth?"

Erudite 3:
"I changed the conditions of the test. I got a commendation for original thinking. I don't like to lose."

PCQOTD : 6-16-06

Plebian:
"Keep your eye on the sparrow."

Erudite:
"I saw Kid Minneapolis fight once. In Cincinnati."

Wake Up Call

Have I mentioned lately how much I love the Japanese?

This link will take you to a YouTube page has a segment from a Japanese tv show that features people pulling pranks on unsuspecting citizens. This particular clip has the pranksters waking up people in new and interesting ways.

PCQOTD : 6-15-06

Plebian:
"Fightin’ the system like two modern day Robin Hoods."
aka
"Fightin' the system like a true modern day Robin Hood."

Erudite:
"Now we're up in the big leagues gettin' our turn at bat."

PCQOTD : 6-14-06

Plebian:
"They're a page right out of history."

Erudite:
"What's black and white and has two eyes? You and Moshe Dayan."

My Lovely Kitchen

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Originally uploaded by TedHobgood.

It hasn't been the greatest 24 hours around. Monday was supposed to be my day of rest, relaxation, and romping on the Xbox, after a very busy weekend that saw me doing four shows and produce two videos and get very little sleep. So after dinner with Ethan and Jeff, I go home to relax, and instead encounter a lovely smell. Upon enteringthe kitchen to deposit my leftovers in the fridge, I discover my two kitchen sinks are completely full with stanky brown water, and have overflowed onto the counters and the floor. Huge-ass mess. My art supplies were on the counter, and a few (thankfully empty) sketchbooks got ruined. I spent the rest of the evening moving stuff and sopping up goo.

Turns out the water line that my upstairs neighbour and I share hadn't been cleaned out in a long time, and the aforementioned neighbour loves pouring chicken and rice down the drain. I had noticed things were running slow for a while, but apparently early yesterday, the whole thing just stopped, and when the neighbour ran his dishwasher, it all backed up into my kitchen. Yippee.

Fortunately, I pay a buttload of money to the Homeowner's Association, and fortunately, this time the handyman wasn't a dick about things. On the contrary, he got a plumber out first thing this morning and had the line cleaned. When I returned to my apartment at lunch today, the brown water had finally receded, and I was left with the lovely gunk you see in the picture (click it to get a good closeup view!) The inside of my dishwasher was gunked as well, as the backwash got in there too.

I overreact to stuff like this; it fills my head and I can't do anything else productive until it's resolved. I ended up having a very bizarre dream last night about going to a birthday party with Ethan Kaye and drinking grog, then I was at my dad's house running away from criminals who had broken in, whilst a teenage gang was at war with the Black Panthers on the front lawn. Fortunately, Optimus Prime showed up to lift me in his palm and take me away from the chaos.

Everything ends well. There doesn't appear to be much damage done (other then the sketchbooks and a few crappy paintings). The drains run a LOT better now. It got me off my ass to actually wash dishes. And it was a great weekend with a hilarious CageMatch performance by Bizarro Four String Samurai and a great Natural Selection jam that brought together a lot of area performers.

Back to work, and a much clearer mind.

PCQOTD : 6-13-06

Plebian:
"And if you're not careful, you might learn something before it's done."

Erudite:
"Perchance be with us in Bangkok; makes no difference."

Scott Sullivan At CageMatch

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Originally uploaded by oohmygeez.

This may be my favourite picture of me ever. Thanks, Lauren!

And to all my faithful fans: come out and see CageMatch this weekend. Bizarro Four String Samurai will give you a lesson in improv the likes you've never seen before. They are the sages of the stage.

CageMatch Video From THIS Week

This week was a strange one, as the champions, Four String Samurai were backed into a corner and forced to face their strangest challengers yet.

Click here for the video page.

I also did a little video for the Natural Selection Improv Jam that took place on Saturday. It's available on YouTube here if you'd like to see it.

PCQOTD : 6-12-06

Plebian:
"Cleveland rocks!"

Erudite:
"To have a heaping helping of their hospitality."

CageMatch Video From LAST Week

I just noticed that I forgot to put an entry in this blog last week to note the posting of the CageMatch video for 6/3/06, so here it is. Better late than never. This is one of my favourites so far, simply because it covers so much: the suspension of Siegel-Prov by Jack Tunney, the tournament in Rio de Janeiro to crown new champs, the defeat of Chicken. by Four String Samurai, and a little bit of cool animation to introduce the new challengers, Wacky Town.

By the way, I curse Chicken. for coming up with a name that seems to end my sentences before their time every time I type it. Damn you and your foul inclusion of punctuation, you scurvy sitcom funsters!

This week, CageMatch is going to change a little, and I'm still trying to figure out how the storylines are going to change with the new twist thrown into the mix. I know that what I really enjoy the most from producing CageMatch is the story behind the meeting of the teams, the wrestling-style drama and storylines that make the show a little bit more special than just two improv teams doing makeumups. I'm going to try to accentuate the storylines a little more in my on-stage introductions, just to get them across. That said, people don't come to see me, they come to see the performers, so I'm going to keep my bits on stage brief, and just provide a fictional framework for the real show.

I've created a summary page that lists all the shows so far, with links to the various videos. You can find that here. I plan on doing a little more with it, throwing in summaries and whatnot, and may even do a "behind the scenes" page that shows how I make the videos, if anybody's interested in that. (Are you?)

There's also a page on Flickr that features stills created for the videos, ones that I thought people might get a kick out of seeing more clearly. There's some inside jokes and easter egg-type things thrown in there. I'll be updating that regularly as well. Check out that page here.

This week's video should be up early tomorrow, with any luck. Luck is not what I've had lately, so I'm due!

PCQOTD : 6-9-06

Plebian:
"With his faithful Indian companion"

Erudite:
"No hitman can match him, for his million dollar skill."

PCQOTD : 6-8-06

Two Erudites, each with their own individual Connection to the Plebian.

Plebian:
"Who’s more foolish; the fool, or the fool who follows him?"

Erudite 1:
"Tick follows tock follows tick follows tock."

Erudite 2:
"Not a boast, sir. But a curse. For I have never met my match in joust or duel."

PCQOTD : 6-7-06

Plebian:
"Welcome to Sherwood."

Erudite:
"The movie star...and the rest."

PCQOTD : 6-6-6

Plebian:
"Sometimes we quarrel but then how we love making up again."

Erudite:
"Smoke for pleasure today. No cigarette hangover tomorrow!"

Mantises and Mystic Knights

So my new favourite podcast is Chikara Podcast-A-Go-Go, a weekly look at the Chikara Pro Wrestling promotion in the northeast. I'm not normally a big podcast person, but between this and Ask A Ninja, I may just have to go out and buy a video iPod just to be able to enjoy this stuff on the run and show it to other people. Hey! I could put the CageMatch videos on the iPod as well! I'm off to the Apple Store!

Chikara Pro is sort of what OMEGA probably would've been if a) we had come along when things like iMovie were readily available, and b) we were in a more metropolitan area than Bumfuck County, North Carolina. Chikara is knowledgable wrestling, with a blend of lucha and Japanese styles, with a good sense of humour and a lot of talent. And they have my favourite Toryumon wrestler, Milano Collection AT.

The picture shown here is the world's greatest Camel Clutch. You have to watch the video yourself to find out why.

L'Automobile Fantastique

Knight Rider is even more amusing when it's in French.

Likewise for Hong Kong Phooey, Thundarr The Barbarian, The Fall Guy, Spiderman, ThunderCats, and an amazing French version of The Dukes of Hazzard.

PCQOTD : 6-2-06

Plebian:
"The Wells Fargo wagon is a-comin'."

Erudite:
"You see, to be a straight man you have to have a talent, you have to develop this talent, then you gotta marry her like I did."

PCQOTD : 6-1-06

Plebian:
"Whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

Erudite:
"No ones gonna drag you up to get into the light where you belong."