Reality Intrudes
Posted at 6:00 AM on January 8, 2010
by Dale Connelly
(81 Comments)
Radio Heartland has a special last minute lightning ticket giveaway for The Café Accordion Orchestra at the Cedar Cultural Center TOMORROW night, January 9th.
We'll take names until 1pm TODAY.
Enter here.
Obey the rules.
Good luck.
Things got a bit wacky on Trial Balloon yesterday.
I had no idea what was going on until I woke from my afternoon nap and took a look at the out-of-control conversation that was underway. I'm not pointing fingers, but I think things get a little loopy in the playroom when we have a snow day. Fortunately there was no roughhousing and everyone had a good time, so I'm not complaining. But I wish I hadn't sent a link to Spin Williams. I told him the blog represented the minutes from our brainstorming session and invited him to react to our concepts and our progress as we work to develop our movie project - Goats From Outer Space.
Here's his critique:
I took a look at the "minutes" from your "brainstorming session" and I have to say that I really like the enthusiasm of your team. It's great when you get to work on a project when everybody is "on board" from the very beginning, even if they're not "on task". But nobody said it would be simple to do a movie about Goats From Outer Space.If I didn't make it clear in our earlier conversations, there are certain things you MUST have to get a movie made. When you list them in order of their importance, they take on the shape of a Christmas tree, because getting a "green light" to do your movie is just like that - finding goodies with your name on them. And at the top of the list is the same thing you'll find at the top of a tree:
Stars.Money.A Director.Publicity.Special Effects.Merchandise.A Cool Promo.Critical Acclaim.An Awesome Website.A script.
You started in exactly the wrong place by asking your team to develop ideas that would serve as the foundation for a believable script. Scripts are among the least important elements in making a movie. And "believable" scripts are like Bigfoot - crazy people say they exist but I haven't seen one, and I don't expect to, ever. Certainly not with this project. You're talking about GOATS FROM OUTER SPACE, for crying out loud.Your team sensed this and immediately started working on the MOST important thing - casting. Some very big names were mentioned as part of that conversation. Unfortunately, some very dead names came up as well. I would discourage you from pursuing that particular angle. The technology is advancing quickly, but we're not at the place where we can put Garbo in a new movie - yet. When we do get there (have you seen "Avatar"?), it would be smart to have a few concepts in your back pocket that could make very attractive vehicles for the return of dead stars. Bogart, for example, would still be very big at the box office. But I don't think even Goats From Outer Space can bring him back.
Even living stars will have a problem warming up to your idea without many bundles of that second item on my list - money.
Have you taken care of that yet?I didn't think so.
And there will have to be a romantic element to your script, when you eventually get around to writing one. Ordinary people will pay real money to see beautiful people in love, so keep that in mind. Maybe a few sparks can fly between a goat herder and a space scientist. You know - the usual deal where they don't like each other at first and then can't get enough. But like I say, that's last on the list.
Overall, you're off to a good start. I won't mention any names, but you have already seen finished, successful movies that were based on less than you have here with Goats From Outer Space! Congratulations and Good Luck!
From The Meeting That Never Ends,
Spin Williams
Despite the upbeat sign-off, I think we have just been told our movie project is DOA. I'm not hopeful.
Have you ever done something where you proved the doubters dead wrong?
Comments (81)
well, i hope Donna doesn't have another snow day or we won't get anything done today again!
not certain, but i think my Mom and relatives thought i was downright crazy to start up with dairy goats in my 60s. and i think they are shocked that the goats lived and Steve didn't hang himself in the pole barn (having been wrested from the city life by his crazy wife). it's how German Lutheran folks think - not what good happened but what bad things haven't happened. like when i thanked my Mom for all she had done for us as kids she said "well, at least you never went to jail."
off topic, but Kris i gotta know about peeps in the microwave.
Oh, Dale -- say it isn't so. Thought for sure some angel investor saw our discussion and was ready to spend some dough -- God knows they've spent good money making worse movies!
Bruce Lee in drag with a boa for me -- love it! A young Shirley Maclaine is even better -- always loved her books. Actually I sort of resemble Sigourney Weaver -- tall, brown-eyed, wavy-haired brunette.
The fact that I keep doing karate and sparring despite injuries is an example of something a couple people tell me I should quit because of my age.
I entered and finished a race called the Lewis and Clark Ultre Marathon, i.e. 50 mile race back when my older boss said I hadn't done enough training to finish. I loved proving him wrong and swore I would never repeat that again because I hurt in ways I had never felt before.
Yes, Kris, I want to know about Peep tournaments. I have a cousin big into peep contests, she'll want to know, too. Inquiring minds and all that.
I'm waiting to be proved right on anything I've done...
Back before single parenthood I did several bike rides across Minnesota for MS (TRAM). Based on the money that my friends/family ponied up for the fundraising part on the first ride, I'm pretty sure they all thought I would be dead before the week was out, so their money was safe!
Jousting peeps rock. I will let Kris tell, as I don't even own a microwave.
I am also from German Lutheran stock, Barb, no wonder the goats are such a success, what choice did you have?
I decided to pursue costuming instead of a healthcare career, and still haven't starved or gone homeless (close calls, but never completely).
Of course, it could still happen.
How could Spin miss the romance of Donna and Carlos-plenty there, I should think.
The 11-year-old thinks mush is a waste of film and print," why would anybody watch that stuff?"
Being of German atheist stock--Lutheran came later for me--pretty much everything I did was met with skepticism by my parents, especially becoming a pastor of a Lutheran church. Lots of people thought I would never succeed as an English teacher (maybe I didn't). People still doubt I do the bike riding I do. Lots were sure that the non-profit another man and I started would fail. But here's the big one: my wife Sandy and I dated for a week and half in 1965, and then decided to get married in a year. She was 25 and I was 20, a huge age difference in 1965. But in two days we moved it up to 6 weeks later. So it was 8 weeks from our first date to our wedding. Many doubted we could arrange the wedding in time, most thought she was pregnant (wasn't), and all thought the marriage would never last. I suppose 45 years later some of the few who are still alive still doubt it.
Until I wrote this, I never realized how much I swim upstream. I could name a few other items. Hmmmm? German, I guess.
Goodness, I better catch up on what I missed yesterday afternoon...darn work.
As for today's question - I guess people have perhaps had too much faith in me (or maybe just enough), little doubt really, at least not on big stuff. Which means, I guess, that I have to consistently provide reason for those around me to maintain the faith that I will continue to do interesting things. Oh dear.
the money could come from goat day at the minneapolis convention center. and also we could apply for the green money from the federal government for goat based industry development. i think 200 million ought to get us started. then we can work quickly to get the goat delegation to be featured in the winter olympics in vancouver next month and start the promos for the upcoming movie and develop a world following before we begin filming. we can sell international movie rights before we even got out of the box. i think we have mike pengra go set up his drum set on the street in vancouver and act as kind of a carnival barker to bring people to the goats in space booth and then have barb and the goats there to collect names for the list of investors. we could broadcast radio heartland from whistler mountain and have dale do luge runs and clyde and the man in the hat , jim and i could do the 4 man bobsled time trials as part of the promo. maybe the goats as figure skating pairs.
geez dale. this is all falling together just like peas and corn.
Dale, your questions had me on a memory trip while I did my morning indoor bike ride. Among other things, I dredged up the memory of when Morning PHC went off the air. I know I thought nothing could replace it. I don'r really remember how I reacted when you started. I know listened all the way through. How un-German of me.
didn't mean to cast aspersions on German Lutherans, Clyde - you obviously turned out pretty good! at least i don't think you ever went to jail....
i don't see anyone coming to the front to be the director of our film. i imagine Dale might have some words of caution to anyone who would try to keep us on task...
but somebody has to feed the cast and crew and i'd like to do that. with a caution that there will be lots of goats' milk products :-)
there are so many good writers on this blog i should think the script would be easy.
anybody good at fund raising?
Good morning Dale, Mike and RH'ers-
If I'm not mistaken, it is Elvis Presley's 75th birthday today. How about something in honor of the King?
well, we have Catherine for costuming then and Anna for building scenes and props if that's ok with them...
i know the "milk a goat" booth at the State Fair rakes in dollars. but we have to find some more docile goats than mine.
oh yeah what do people doubt i can do?
most recently: get this movie off the ground.
my life has been an example of what most peoples mothers caution them against. ready fire aim. i have an idea go for it and then realize as i get into it why this wasn't the best easiest option. if you aren't failing on occasion you aren't stretching far enough. but the ones you pull off are the ones you hang your hat on.
Barb, I'm sure you caught that tim did a masterful, masteful job of funding (except ofr me actually going down a bobsled run). I have a degree in theater, but I swore off directing years ago. Need I explain why?
Also, Barb, I am now offended that you thought I was offended. What is Elizabeth Bennett's father's line? Someting like, we live to make sport of our neighbors and be made sport of in turn.
John Louis Anderson (not Louis Anderson) has two books you should read if you have not. "Scandinavian Humor and Other Myths" and "German Humor, on the Fritz." I never really knew I was German until I read that. I now realize I swim upstream to reach the moral high ground, which Anderson says is the natural habitat of German-Americans.
Dale, World of Wonders is perfect for this. For me "Everything is Holy Now."
Good Morning All,
People close to me have not given me much negative feed back on things I have tried to do. Perhaps I should been told I wasn't making good choices, but I'm glad I wasn't.
Who knows what will happen with the plans for a Goats From Space movie? Spin Williams should think twice about telling a group, like the people that post on this blog, that they can't do something.
I think a cartoon movie would be good. Then you wouldn't need live actors and you could just use cartoon drawings of famous actors. I think That Guy in the Hat could give advice on doing a cartoon movie.
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I propose the motto for today to be ""Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits."
--Robert Louis Stevenson
I'm in good company -- I also have a BA in Theatre from U of MN - Mpls. Never put to use -- the awful realization 2/3 of way through college that I'm really not talented or beautiful enough to be an actress or dancer of any merit.
So I live vicariously in this blog starring in Space Goats from Outer Space. So you all must be my adoring public? pleeeze ...
how about "don't step on my blue suede hooves"?
Hearing the horse betting song from a musical reminded me of the song "You Gotta Have Heart" -- possibly from same musical.
Dale, can we hear that in honor of what it takes to keep going against those dream-stealers that sometimes appear in our lives?
diablo cody has to write the screen play. the cohens have to direct.the other option is to do aa 180 and give it to the guy who did the lord of the rings movies (peter jackson) and make it an epic drama. i think there is enough material here for the special effects to carry the movie. we could ask jim ed to consult on sound.
Joanne, we like you, we really like you!
Love the quote for the day, Cynthia. As I try to hit a deadline even I don't believe I can make (and I can be pretty unrealistic), I shall keep it before me.
I don't know if I am up for a whole movie, but I do want to make the pairs skating outfits for the goats in the Olympics (photoshop that!)
Looked on YouTube for good peep jousting and could find nothing worthy. For starters, I think you really must have the fancy cocktail toothpicks to make it dramatic enough.
you gotta have heart is damn yankees
thanks to catherine for my new mantra from robert louis stevenson.
i will use that and yesterdays mantra "follow a goat" as my guiding lights for 2010
OK, raise your hands if you're dancing, shimmying and shaking to "Bossa Nova?"
My family was more worried about what I might do, not what I couldn't do. My mom once asked me "Why couldn't you just have married the farmer down the road and stayed close to home?"
Animated Space Goats movie? (Geez, I just heard Gary Owens in my brain doing the old Space Ghost intro, only he says, "Spaaaace Goooooats!" hee-hee)
Yeah, a couple of ideas leap to mind. First is MCAD. I suspect that one of the students could be easily coerced into doing a space goats flick. The Minnesota branch of the IFP (Independent Film Project) would also be a way to get in touch with some film folk that may be interested.
i'm glad you shared your motto with us, Cynthia - i like it.
Jim, that's a good idea to go animated. or maybe a mix (haven't seen Avatar). our film will need to appeal to people with money (not us) or be so arcane (goats should pretty much take care of that) that Robert Redford wants it for his film festival. and of course we'd submit it to the Free Range Film Festival in July (i'm hoping that this year we'll have lots of TB folks in the barn, wearing their goat pins - Sherrilee you'll have to make a bunch!)
Joanne--I have BS in English, Speech, theater arts and journalism education U of M, 1968. One of my models for teaching was Lee Adey.
Thanks for playing "Everything is Holy Now." I love that song. i heard it in concert at the Cedar Cultural Center.
Thanks, Dale! What a great song -- now I can go about my day. Gotta go ...
I'm my own worst critic and it doesn't happen often, but it's a glorious event when I prove myself wrong. I doubted I could ever drive in the twin cities, get through a master's program, or adequately participate on my favorite radio program's blog.
I DO have a snow day again today! Mainly because of the extreme temps. but there IS a motherlode of snow in this town! Sorry to hear Spin thinks the movie will be a bust. I like Tim's and all others optimism here. As for the film - give me a job - I'll fake it with confidence (Dale's line - thanks DC!)
Have a wonderful weekend in this wonderful world. Love Louis!
Tim et al, where do you "find" all this detail? And who knew we had so much related talent here?
I'm going to the Frozen River Film Festival in Winona at end of month, maybe we can get it on there next year. Lots of alternative type films, and BOY is this alternative.
I'm enjoying all these success stories. I was broken hearted at being passed over for Bobettes (synchronized dance team) in high school, supposedly because I wasn't a good enough dancer. I later ended up getting pretty good at folk dancing, ultimately teaching it, so there. Only one of those who rejected me ever knew that, but it was enough. :)
alright now we have the radio show over and jasper will take it from here. we can all focus on the movie. lets go team.
donna you are in cahrge of job assignments with another snow day. clyde. lee addly fits perfectly, can you channel the directing tips and guide us through the process?
good weekend all. i'm going to try to make the cedar for CAO . last weekend with Beaujolais was wonderful
ps - I'm hoping Peeps are those little marshmallow chicks, right?
Yes, Barbara, we are talking marshmellow Peeps. Like everything else, they have expanded their territory and are more than just chicks. (Note to self: need to create Goat Peeps on Ice for the annual Peep Diorama competition).
Cynthia, I am so inspired I put today's motto on the screen saver. Don't know if it will help get everything done, but should keep me on an even keel.
Finally catching up here a bit - I think I like the idea of being played by Doris Day or Amy Adams (should I worry that both are often freakishly optimistic blondes?). And I'd have a blast making sets...maybe we could turn this thing into a clay-mation or super-marionation movie so I could, selfishly, have the best of both worlds? Amy Adams for my voice -plus I could build the sets/models. (For the record, I am yet one more theater major for the bunch - doubled with anthropology for good measure.)
Cynthia - love the quote. May have to add that one to my rotation of signature quotes in my emails.
Ooh and Peeps goats would be great! I'd buy 'em!
Hope everyone is staying warm.
How to make Peeps joust in the microwave:
Take a microwave-safe plate, and put two Peeps on it. They should be facing each other but not touching. Take two toothpicks (as Catherine says, those fancy cocktail toothpicks are especially nice) and insert one into each Peep. These are their lances. Turn the microwave on, and watch the Peeps expand. Eventually, the lance of one Peep will poke the other, and that Peep is declared the winner!
Continue watching the Peeps in the microwave, because they do some amazing things. First they expand, and then they collapse and become an interesting puddle with eyes. It helps if there is someone in the house who is good at color commentary.
Courtesy of the Baltimore Sun, Peep Jousting!
Goat pins for all -- just let me know when!
Cynthia - I also am saving the RLS quote - fabulous.
AND... I can handle Continuity on the movie. I'm good at that - it's why my teenage daughter feels she can never get away with anything!
I know that Dale’s account of the movie-making process was meant as satire, but I believe it is all too close to the actual truth. Funny in either case! We do have an amazing range of talent and creativity on this blog.
Cynthia, did you post on the NYTimes Wordplay blog today? I post there as Orion7 from time to time. If that is not you, then never mind!
Kris, not me on the NY Times wordplay...wish it were...may take a moment to check it out, Orion7.
My husband thought that we should take the Space Goats story from yesterday and make it into into a video game. I don't know where he got the idea, since he's never played a video game in his life, and, even though I despise videao games, the idea may have some merit. I can see the leaping space goats dodging mountain lions and other predators through a variety of environments, earning food and goodies as they achieve various levels, etc, with really annoying music to accompany them on their journey. Oh my, this is getting depressing! Forget I even mentioned it.
One last thought for today-Spin Willims mentioned merchendise. What would Space Goats brakfast cereal be like?
Kris: 1) Satire is reality. 2) My son the game producer will tell you that very few, very few are designed from scratch. Almost all are spin-offs of TV shows, movies, or previous games.
Renee - What came to mind as soon as I read Space Goat Cereal was "get mountains of oats with Space Goats Cereal." Oh, and I think it oughta have goat-shaped marshmallows.
Off Topic: any of you birding type people noticing strange behavior at the feeders? "Mine" are being very aggressive today, squirrels too, chasing the birds; a pair of sparrows (?) got in an argument and wouldn't quit... Is it just the extreme cold making them more competetive?
Once again, I'm gone for a couple hours and all kinds of craziness happens. "The Blog Meeting That Never Ends"
Clyde - impressive, you must have been a professional student for 10 years! I almost minored in French, but didn't go the extra bit to do it.
I graduated from U of MN in '82, so I knew Bob Moulton, Arthur Ballet, Charles Nolte, Lance Brockman, Jean Montgomery and I remember Lee Adey. Was he the African American gentleman that taught directing? I remember that class. Directing a scene and watching it being performed was far more nerve-wracking than even auditioning for parts.
And Peeps Goats and Space Goat merchandise -- gotta have a Beanie Baby goat that talks or something. The fun never ends!
May I suggest no raisins or choclate chips in the cereal?
Joanne: Lee Adey was not whom you are thinking of. White, bushy eyebrows. When I was there he directed the technical part of theater, which was more my part, and taught the sequence for ed. students. I think he ended up department head in the 90's when my son was there. I was in a program that used cross-disciplinary courses which counted in a couple of disciplines at once. Still took a bit longer.
Merchandizing-the Mike Pengra action figure.
yes, Clyde - no raisins or choco-bits. the bits could be white - like little goats' milk cheeses. oats a good idea. and molasses - they say YUM!
we could steal from Lucky Charms - goats love clover - and they love black oil sunflower seeds (their "treat" along with cheerios) and birch leaves and twigs. and rose bushes and grape vines.
Renee, i love the computer game idea.
and gosh - this blog is full of good-looking theater types. makes an ugly goat herd feel pretty inadequate over there in the sciences...... although i did take lots of music classes and harpsichord lessons - will that do?
Barbara - it could be that they are hungrier than usual after these cold days or it could be that they are getting closer to breeding season....
nice that you are noticing
Barb--beats the heck out of me, Music, except to listen to it, is a complete mystery to me. Remember that I said I look like Jack Elam, a man who got many character parts for simply being ugly and weird looking.
I would buy a Mike Pengra action figure! Would it come with a JASPER accessory?
Oh dear me no, JASPER sold separately. Remember, we have a flim to finance here, and Tim's budget is going to take some doing.
Thanks for playing all, believe it or not, this keeps me on task.
Hi chums,
Raise your hand if you'd buy a 'Carlos' action figure. (It would come with a retractable 5 o'clock shadow.)
Don't let that goat herder fool you -she' very cute. Barb, I've been thinking that Dame Hellen Mirren, as stately an actress as she is, may not be the best casting fit. What would you think of Dianne Wiest playing you? She's smart and funny and second guesses herself. Very human, very believable, very likable.
Another thing, we still need to cast Beth-Ann, Mike the mayor, and Mark the biker. I know Tim said I should be in charge of job assignments with my snow day, but I'd much rather cast. Besides, he didn't name a deadline and I excel at putting off today what I could do tomorrow or the next day or the one after that.
Only 24 posts to go and we'll break yesterday's number!
Yep, I don't know if I'm going to be able to keep up the pace with yesterday's dozen posts (just kidding, but probably not far off)... I have a company coming for dinner and have gotten distracted from blogging!
Renee, I do think you're onto something with the video game. Husband had to create one for a computer class in grad school, but that was early '80s. Something about a chicken and eggs coming down a chute.
There was an article in the Sunday Strib about how video games are NAMED, and ways that could go horribly wrong. Like "Invizimals", which is probably closest to what we'd be looking for... (There was also one called "Trials HD" which could have been an alternative, tho' much more boring, name for this blog.)
Oh dear-I think we are running out of steam. I know I am, although I was thinking about cereal and if this would be a way of increasing Barb's share in the goat milk market. Could we get US youngsters to pour goat milk on their Space Goat cereal? Are Dream and Alba and the girls up to increased production? What is written into their current contracts regarding their work hours and conditions?
And a bobble-head doll of ????? Dale? Dream? NO. It's got to be . . Tah Dah-- TGITH, especially if he is as handsome as Richard Dryfaus.
Myself, I want to know how the beard retraction on the Carlos action figure works.
Do you raise his arm or twist his head? do I really not want to know????
Renee - re the Girls' contract obligations in work hours: Dodger = zero (likes the sex and kids part but hates the milking part); Alba = will milk but only if she can dance around; Dream = LOTS of milk and work as long as she gets fed and she doesn't have to get pregnant again.
but alas, i am not a licensed dairy so i'd end up in the slammer for selling that terrible, dangerous, unlicensed, uninspected milk full of all kinds of dangerous things like vitamins, minerals, protein, calcium to poor, unsuspecting little kids.
Donna - i think Diane Weist is a bit too cute - love those squinty eyes and actually, that part would fit quite well. i still go with M Emmet Walsh's body maybe with Diane Weist's eyes and the rest of the head is Cathy Bates. or a fat Grannie Clampett (Irene Ryan).
now i gotta go; i'm making possum stew
Free gift in the cereal--a bobble-udder doll of dream.
oh you folks are just too funny
thanks
over and out
ok donna, casting it is and we can work together until monday even though dale is gonna come in and mess with us by posting a saturday blog in a couple of hours. we need to keep this going,
how about a bobble eye doll of clyde as jack elam. i am thinking of this movie as just the beginning. we can open goatland and start the international licensing of goatland enterprises in switzerland, bolivia, bangkok, hongkong and new zealand for the world wide exposure we will have access to after goats in space becomes the blockbuster hit we know it is destined to be. i think we have to think about about the video game rights.(clyde we need some input from your son) the accessory possibilities (peeps, cheese, goat milk for marshmellow goats oats, goat pins, the goat ap on the iphone will be very popular, action figures of mike, the girls and the bobble udders) we can commision peter ostrushko, peter mayer, ann reid, neil and leandra, the pines and bob dylan to do a goats in space soundtrack for the movie and the worldwide tour could start and end here with stops in all the goatland locations around the world and other venues where the tour can get goatland products featured in the programs prominantly to build worldwide distribution.i am thinking new your city, paris, tokyo, london, rome madrid, auckland, melbourne, mexico city and fargo.
donna will get the casting done by monday and hopefully dale won't get too far off topic next week but how do you keep this going with blog topics? captain billy with goats at sea? officer rafferty with goat saftey ideas. it goes on forever. we can open goatmart stores in all the empty spaces in the strip malls. sell goat world products as the neighborhood requires, dollar stores, coffee and bagels bistros, pizza joints, cell phone stores, all the stuff you see at all the strip malls everywhere except with goats as the focal point. we could offer goats for lease and start doing taco bell comercials with goats.
donna, can you do casting and job assignments? and can you take next week off too. we have many miles to go before we sleep... figuratively speaking.
geez dale this is all coming together like peaches and cream.
Geez, Tim -- you're making me dizzy with all these creative ideas. But is the world ready for GoatWorld? Are we risking overexposure where Goats lose their charm, because what was once interesting and different becomes commonplace? I certainly don't want to curtail your expansive creative process ... just something to consider.
i just got back form florida whrer the have disneyword, universal studios, seaworl and now the holyland i just thought goatworld would be the place that would be closest to the way it ought to be. to wait for an hour in line to go on a ride for 2 1/2 minutes seems unfulfilling. to wait to milk or pet , spacewalk or interact with goats from space seems like an idea whose time has come. who wouldn't rather play with a goat than a mouse a dolphin a flintstone or a moses lookalike. i think we are ready to proceed full speed ahead. goats from space may be influencing my behavior without my being totally aware but what the heck.
Tim - there's no way I can take next week off - I have to meet with my administrator about the progress of my job target - something about incorporating more technology into my lessons- and it will take A LOT of preparation to successfully fake it with confidence. Even if I could manage BOTH casting and job assignments, once the jobs are assigned, how would we know that the crew won't start spinning records and have a dance party like the Peanuts gang and will even listen to us?? You know very well that some are going to be nuking peeps and betting on their jousting matches every chance they get. No doubt there'll be some boiling water snow makers in the bunch too. What I'm saying is that I think trying to get these TB'rs to work as a team will be tougher than we can imagine.
I'm very sorry for letting you down and for not revealing these misgivings sooner. I took a couple hours off this evening and had dinner in a part of the house away from the computer to think things through. That's why I'm posting so late and in five minutes it will be Saturday, for God's sakes!
Your ideas are really something though and I'm sure you'll find someone willing to work as hard with you on the project as you inaccurately thought I might. Keep in touch and if there's anything you need, tell Barb about it. One more thing - I think my part would be best played by Eugene Levy in drag.
donna i thought we all just sat around and danced like the peanuts gang to rh daily. how else would you listen to radio heartland? as for time have you forgotten where this all began? just steal some time from your administrator and contact a pooka to take you away to wherever you want to be for as long as you want to be there with whoever you want to go and wen you return not one second will have passed.
really donna you are making this much more difficult than it needs to be. we just need some german lutherens to put their nose to the gridstones and get going here.
remember the mantra:
I propose the motto for today to be ""Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits."
--Robert Louis Stevenson
Posted by cynthia in mahtowa | January 8, 2010 8:13 AM
and
follow a goat
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goat, not to people or things.
sorry i had to get that quote correct . not follw a goat. it is tie it to a goat.
And let's not forget goat suspenders in all this!
I shouldn't think goats would like to wear suspenders much.
when do you folks sleep?
:-)
love the suspenders,
how about ties bow ties and socks?
Just tried to make snow with boiling water. Not bad-the trick is to toss it up in the air so it has more time to freeze on the way down.
We'll have to try it again sometime when it is really cold.
All in the name of science-
Sleep? We don't need no stinkin sleep!
Bobble-eye doll--heh, heh!! So you know who Jack Elam is tim.
Way to go, Catherine! I’m glad you didn’t have to suffer a 70 mph wind to do it, either. It is pretty cool. If you have kids, it makes a good contrast to try it later, when you know it is too warm to sublimate.
oh Jack Elam - those eyes! now i remember!
the goats would chew off suspenders, for sure.
they don't really eat everything, as the myth goes, but like other animals they explore things with their mouths. they'd explore the heck out of suspenders. and they are busy chewing the pole barn down also
now i think we've set a record for number of posts, right?
there may be a cut off. maybe you can't go on forever and keep adding to a blog that lists a day of record
i thought i posted earlier that the quote was cynthia from matawa quoting albert einstine saying that in order to find a happy life but i don't see it here maybe its lost in the vapors.
nope never mind.
that has been scientifically disproved.
OMG, it's Sunday morning -- I leave for a day and a half and look what happens! I had no idea this thing was going to rev up again like that. Yes, I'm sure this is a record # of entries.
Donna's right - some of us get distracted by other stuff. Gotta go buy some Peeps if there are any out - do they only sell at Easter? I'll let you know.
I only checked this to see if the madness had stopped, I guess not.
Because I am an oldest child, I feel compelled to dispense knowledge as I have it (I tendency I am working on over coming, but haven't quite yet).
Barbara, there are Peeps for All Seasons (another diorama theme I may need to pursue). The Valentine Peeps are available now, if you delay, you can always gets shamrock Peeps-if you delay further, well, it will be Easter and your worries are over.
There, my conscience is clear, I did not withhold knowledge.
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