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"I first started wrecking stuff in San Diego in 93 after a 3 year graffiti hiatus. I took a break because i was sickened by how mainstream it had become. Think about that, it was 1990 when i decided graf had sold out. Regardless, the wall calls you back whether you want it or not. So this 2am freestyle ran for a long minute. I painted with Clip and Scram, two old school San Diego writers."

 

 

This is a busy time of year for me, but I managed to slap together an hour's worth of slap-happy rock 'n' roll for you, the listener. From New Mexico come bands like The Scrams and Kilimanjaro Yak Attack. Some of the bands I've gotten to know from The GaragePunk Hideout are here like Lovestruck, The Manxx and J.J. & The Real Jerks. Plus we take a trip into Indian Country with a segment featuring goofy novelty songs from the '50s and elsewhere, as well as some rocking tunes from Native American artists. You'll have to slap yourself to realize you're not dreaming.

  

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Here's the playlist:

(Background Music: Slap It by Ronnie & His Twangy Little Fellow)

Bitch Slap Attack by Lovestuck

Chimp Necropsy by The Scrams

The Masks by Death

Omega Todd by Kilimanjaro Yak Attack

Cornfed Dames by The Cramps

 

(Background Music: Taos Pueblo by Impala)

Red Man by Slidin' Clyde Roulette

Indian Rock by The Musical Linn Twins

Big Chief Little Puss by The Olympics

Boppin' Wigwam Willie by Ray Scott

The Radical by Russell Means

Yata Hei by Keely Smith

Millennium Car by Keith Secola & His Wild Band of Indians

 

(Background Music: Geronimo by Link Wray)

Mustangs and Camaros by Stargunn

Where the Rio de Rosa Flows by '68 Comeback

Broke Yr Spell by The Manxx

Chicken Shack by Hellwood

Seersucker Suit by J.J. & The Real Jerks

(Background Music: Slappin' Rods and Leaky Oil by The Savoys)

 

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Sesame Street Oscar the Grouch Pop! Figure by Funko, bought at Barnes & Noble

That modest dance school on the edge of Siem Reap town produced top dancers through the years. Doing their stretching exercise combined with the form of Cambodian Classical Ballet, the novice was trying to imitate the senior pupil here. This was 2010.

My last visit, most of the best dancers had been poached from this troupe by the better funded outfits like Smile of Angkor or big hotel show with promise of better pay. Capitalism at its best of course, so the school has scramed for more trainees in 2012. It's a sign of producing good products I supposed.

The JM97 Police Speeder bike is a futuristic Hover Bike was built to be able to acend above conjested city traffic and fly over to the scene of a crime, or to pursue villans. It has twin SCRAM-Jet Engines coupled to a repulser lift, and can do 230MPH.

 

This is one of my oldest standing MOC's originally built in 1997-ish. It was inspired by the Playstation video game Jet Moto. I built two of these for my city. This one has been updated recently with new parts to give it a cleaner look (old parts were very dusty) and to add tail lights. Otherwise this model has been unchanged since I first built it. It carries the same equiptment, (a Flashlight/gun and a radio), as Lego's 6324 Police Trike did back in the day.

Dennis McFadden's Michalak Scram Pram, Granny Smith

Western Gulls, Larus occidentalis. There's a story in these three adjacent pictures. When I first started looking at this rock, the chicks were hidden on the far side. What caught my attention was the squabble between the two adult gulls. I believe the squabble was the gull parent telling the other gull it was too close to its chicks and to scram.

Foundations Exhibit -

  

Sydney's original graffiti artists paint side by side with the Insomniaks (formerly Ignore Mainstream crew), Sydney's very own newschool delegates.

 

Foundations is curated by Phibs in association with aMBUSH Gallery and will include artists such as Paze, Spice, Styles, Scram, Kerupt, Prins, Mare, Kade, Rexy, Gane 2, Mystery, Houster, Kode 2, Poser, Yzer, Oricks, Oke,

Saturday, March 25, 2017

Intermission

Saps at Sea Tent, Proudly Present:

LAUREL AND HARDY – JUST ONE MORE TEENSY-WEENSY NIGHT!

Welcome back All Saps! To our second, 39th Anniversary Year Gathering of Marvelous Movie Delights and Humorous Hijinks!

Here your Grandest of Sheiks has assembled a night you will not soon forget. We have a "Special" Guest author in attendance, Mr. Craig Calman. Author of "100 Years of Brodies with Hal Roach: The Jaunty Journeys of a Hollywood Motion Picture and Television Pioneer". A loving look at the man responsible for being the boss of Stan and Ollie, and bringing to us those wonderful Comedy Classics we enjoy each and every meeting. I will interview Craig and he will share great stories and anecdotes. You can also purchase his fine book and have it autographed for a measly $30!

Our special program is JUST ONE MORE TEENSY-WEENSY.... Stan & Ollie and Alcohol, rarely mix. In this case hilariously so! You will see a glass lifting CartOOn, then what happens when you mix two vagrants, a mad Judge that wants them out of town, a drunken benefactor (The always inebriated Arthur Housman) and a tipsy Woman.... everything, in SCRAM! (1932) Then our guest comedian, Red Skelton, provides a demonstration of the wonders of Guzzler's Gin. After a tasty (Alcohol free) intermission, we will watch the recently restored BLOTTO (1930). Stan and Babe decide a night on the town is in order. Off to a Nightclub they go with some Prohibition Booze...they think. What happens when Stan's wife (Anita Garvin) gets a little suspicious? Come see in this evening of .... (Hick) sobriety. Oh yes, there will also be a few surprisses, I mean, surprises .... ah heck, just come and see. March 25th at Williams Hall next to the Trinity Church.

John Field

Your Grandest of Sheiks

The Fuller Building or as it is better known, the Flatiron Building, was one of the tallest buildings in New York City upon its completion in 1902. Designed by Chicago's Daniel Burnham with John Wellborn Root in the Beaux-Arts style, it also bears the influence of architectural trends introduced at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, combining elements of French and Italian Renaissance. Its triangular plan was a clever response to the awkward site produced by the intersection of Broadway and Fifth Avenue at at 23rd Street, Fifth Avenue, and Broadway, facing Madison Square.

 

Like a classical Greek column, its limestone and glazed terra-cotta façade, whose forms simulate the effects of rustication, is separated into three parts horizontally. Since it was one of the first buildings to use a steel skeleton, the building could be constructed to 285 feet, which would have been very difficult with other construction methods of that time. At the rounded tip, the triangular tower is only 6.5 feet (2 meters) wide. The 22-story Flatiron Building, with a height of 285 ft (87 meters), is often considered the oldest surviving skyscraper in Manhattan, though in fact the Park Row Building (1899) is both older and taller.

 

When completed, it was officially named the Fuller Building after the building's promoter George Fuller. Locals took an immediate interest in the building, placing bets on how far the debris would spread when the wind knocked it down and nicknaming it "the Flatiron" because of the building's resemblance to the irons of the day. The building is also said to have helped coin the phrase "23 skidoo" or scram, from what cops would shout at men who tried to get glimpses of women's dresses being blown up by the winds created by the triangular building.

 

Today the Flatiron is a home to several book publishers, most of them under the umbrella of Holtzbrinck Publishers. It was featured in the Spiderman movies as the office of the newspaper, the Daily Bugle.

 

The Ladies Mile Historic District, an irregular district defined roughly from 18th Street to 24th Street and Park Avenue South to Avenue of the Americas, preserves 440 buildings on 28 blocks. Between the Civil War and World War I, the district was the location of some of New York's most famous department stores, including Lord & Taylor, B. Altman, W. & J. Sloane, Arnold Constable, Best & Co., and Bergdorf Goodman. Also included is Daniel H. Burnham's Flatiron Building, at Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street; most of the Ladies' Mile Historic District lies within the Manhattan neighborhood named after that building, the Flatiron District.

 

In 2007, the Flatiron Building was ranked #72 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.

 

The Flatiron Building was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1966. The Ladies Mile Historic District was designated a historic district by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1989.

 

National Register #79001603 (1979)

Vacuum tube transportation designed by EARL R. STONEBRIDGE.

 

If such a project is possible, it can avoid all government regulations in both nations by being contructed beyond the 12 mile limits of offshore monitoring, thus becoming a true project found by citizens of two nations. The tax issue can be avoided by sending the revenue to a bank that is not connected by any ties to either japan or the usa, thus making the entire trans-pacific project historical in nature. There would be many details to be worked out in a project of this scope. The matter of ferrying the passengers beyond the limits, the matter of visa and passport validations, etc, but the entire project is feasible and one that i imagine will become a reality within the next two decades

Now I have to be careful when typing the selection of products, otherwise I might get a pregnancy test as opposed to a snack. It is more or less a matter of taste to mix foods with pregnancy test and condoms. And the Snacketti are advertised with a horror fish. Let's scram! Rheineck, Switzerland, March 21, 2014.

Saturday, March 25, 2017

First half intro by John

Saps at Sea Tent, Proudly Present:

LAUREL AND HARDY – JUST ONE MORE TEENSY-WEENSY NIGHT!

Welcome back All Saps! To our second, 39th Anniversary Year Gathering of Marvelous Movie Delights and Humorous Hijinks!

Here your Grandest of Sheiks has assembled a night you will not soon forget. We have a "Special" Guest author in attendance, Mr. Craig Calman. Author of "100 Years of Brodies with Hal Roach: The Jaunty Journeys of a Hollywood Motion Picture and Television Pioneer". A loving look at the man responsible for being the boss of Stan and Ollie, and bringing to us those wonderful Comedy Classics we enjoy each and every meeting. I will interview Craig and he will share great stories and anecdotes. You can also purchase his fine book and have it autographed for a measly $30!

Our special program is JUST ONE MORE TEENSY-WEENSY.... Stan & Ollie and Alcohol, rarely mix. In this case hilariously so! You will see a glass lifting CartOOn, then what happens when you mix two vagrants, a mad Judge that wants them out of town, a drunken benefactor (The always inebriated Arthur Housman) and a tipsy Woman.... everything, in SCRAM! (1932) Then our guest comedian, Red Skelton, provides a demonstration of the wonders of Guzzler's Gin. After a tasty (Alcohol free) intermission, we will watch the recently restored BLOTTO (1930). Stan and Babe decide a night on the town is in order. Off to a Nightclub they go with some Prohibition Booze...they think. What happens when Stan's wife (Anita Garvin) gets a little suspicious? Come see in this evening of .... (Hick) sobriety. Oh yes, there will also be a few surprisses, I mean, surprises .... ah heck, just come and see. March 25th at Williams Hall next to the Trinity Church.

John Field

Your Grandest of Sheiks

The Fuller Building or as it is better known, the Flatiron Building, was one of the tallest buildings in New York City upon its completion in 1902. Designed by Chicago's Daniel Burnham with John Wellborn Root in the Beaux-Arts style, it also bears the influence of architectural trends introduced at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, combining elements of French and Italian Renaissance. Its triangular plan was a clever response to the awkward site produced by the intersection of Broadway and Fifth Avenue at at 23rd Street, Fifth Avenue, and Broadway, facing Madison Square.

 

Like a classical Greek column, its limestone and glazed terra-cotta façade, whose forms simulate the effects of rustication, is separated into three parts horizontally. Since it was one of the first buildings to use a steel skeleton, the building could be constructed to 285 feet, which would have been very difficult with other construction methods of that time. At the rounded tip, the triangular tower is only 6.5 feet (2 meters) wide. The 22-story Flatiron Building, with a height of 285 ft (87 meters), is often considered the oldest surviving skyscraper in Manhattan, though in fact the Park Row Building (1899) is both older and taller.

 

When completed, it was officially named the Fuller Building after the building's promoter George Fuller. Locals took an immediate interest in the building, placing bets on how far the debris would spread when the wind knocked it down and nicknaming it "the Flatiron" because of the building's resemblance to the irons of the day. The building is also said to have helped coin the phrase "23 skidoo" or scram, from what cops would shout at men who tried to get glimpses of women's dresses being blown up by the winds created by the triangular building.

 

Today the Flatiron is a home to several book publishers, most of them under the umbrella of Holtzbrinck Publishers. It was featured in the Spiderman movies as the office of the newspaper, the Daily Bugle.

 

The Ladies Mile Historic District, an irregular district defined roughly from 18th Street to 24th Street and Park Avenue South to Avenue of the Americas, preserves 440 buildings on 28 blocks. Between the Civil War and World War I, the district was the location of some of New York's most famous department stores, including Lord & Taylor, B. Altman, W. & J. Sloane, Arnold Constable, Best & Co., and Bergdorf Goodman. Also included is Daniel H. Burnham's Flatiron Building, at Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street; most of the Ladies' Mile Historic District lies within the Manhattan neighborhood named after that building, the Flatiron District.

 

In 2007, the Flatiron Building was ranked #72 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.

 

The Flatiron Building was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1966. The Ladies Mile Historic District was designated a historic district by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1989.

 

National Register #79001603 (1979)

Ryan Helbach, a Hypersonic Research Engineer, stands in Hypersonic Combustion Research Cell 22, used in research into SCRAM jet technology at the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, Jul 21, 2016. Helbach is the program lead for AFRL's Intellect to Intellect Exchange (i2i Exchange) which pairs AFRL scientists and engineers with innovative private tech companies and created the AFRL Entrepreneurial Program allowing scientists and engineers to take sabbaticals to pursue outside for-profit goals. (U.S. Air Force photo by J.M. Eddins Jr.)

these are so cute when you see them closeup. They usually hang around with the ducks and get what they stir up..

You can tell that they are ready to scram

The 5 Star Motelles have a show tomorrow!

Voo Doo Scooter @ 2318 Central Ave (near the Frontier)

Free, All Ages, and Fantastic!

 

We're playing with The Scrams and The Dirty Novels. Come out if you're around!

www.myspace.com/themotelles

 

Also playing SATURDAY the 23rd at 1016 Coal (near 10th)! All ages!

 

I debated making this black and white, but we all know I love my colors :)

Rapid Offensive Unit

 

- Short range, atmosphere-capable fighter and reconnaissance-unit.

- Aft and wingtip reaction thrusters allow for acrobatic maneuvering in vacuum.

- Primary drive uses some kinda gravity-field generator, which is supplemented with scram-jets when in atmosphere.

- Low radar, lidar, and EM profiles.

- Full electronic warfare suite.

- Crew complement: 2, with hybernation/suspension systems for both.

- Pilot has optional manual controls, tactical H.U.D., and holo-volumetric display.

The 2010 Steve Terrell Spooktacular.

 

Fe fe, fi fi, fo fo fum, it's a Monster's Holiday! Halloween is here again and it's the second anniversary of The Big Enchilada! Sit back with a cold glass of your favorite blood type and enjoy the ghoulish sounds of Stud Cole, Roky Erikson, Johnny Dowd, Deadbolt, The Monsters, The Fuzztones, The Scrams, Electricoolade, The Electric Mess, The Hydeouts, Marshmallow Overcoat and so many more. Rock your rockin' bones!

    

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Here's the playlist

 

(Background Music: Zombie by The Big Guys)

You've Become a Witch by The Electric Mess

Monster's Holiday by The Plainsmen

Creeps at Night by The Hydeouts

Voodoo Moonshine by Deadbolt

The Witch by Stud Cole

La Llorona by The Scrams 

Witchcraft in the Air by Bettye LaVette

 

(Background Music: Spooks-a-Poppin' Theme by The A-Bones)

Don't Shake Me Lucifer by Roky Erickson & The Resurectionists 

I'm the Wolfman by The Fuzztones

Coffin Nails by Coffin Nails

The Zombie Stomp by Danny Ware

Breathing With the Dead by Organs

I Got the Creeps by Big John Bates

Frankenstein Meets The Beatles by Dickie Goodman

 

(Background Music: Zombie March by Dirtbag Surfers )

Spookie Boogie by Cecil Campbell's Tennessee Ramblers

Werewolf Dynamite by Kim Fowley

Zombiefied  by Electricoolade

13 Ghosts by Marshmallow Overcoat

I Was a Teenage Werewolf by The Monsters

Demons and Goats by Johnny Dowd

 

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Listen to this podcast 7 p.m. Mountain Time Tuesday October 26 on Real Punk Radio

Captured this bird on takeoff from my backyard.

I do not have the time to look around a lot. I will be back online later and check pictures...

Don't accidentally lean against one of the thousands of buttons, or you might abort the reactor and cost the United States the war!

Saturday, March 25, 2017

Vice Sheik intro

Saps at Sea Tent, Proudly Present:

LAUREL AND HARDY – JUST ONE MORE TEENSY-WEENSY NIGHT!

Welcome back All Saps! To our second, 39th Anniversary Year Gathering of Marvelous Movie Delights and Humorous Hijinks!

Here your Grandest of Sheiks has assembled a night you will not soon forget. We have a "Special" Guest author in attendance, Mr. Craig Calman. Author of "100 Years of Brodies with Hal Roach: The Jaunty Journeys of a Hollywood Motion Picture and Television Pioneer". A loving look at the man responsible for being the boss of Stan and Ollie, and bringing to us those wonderful Comedy Classics we enjoy each and every meeting. I will interview Craig and he will share great stories and anecdotes. You can also purchase his fine book and have it autographed for a measly $30!

Our special program is JUST ONE MORE TEENSY-WEENSY.... Stan & Ollie and Alcohol, rarely mix. In this case hilariously so! You will see a glass lifting CartOOn, then what happens when you mix two vagrants, a mad Judge that wants them out of town, a drunken benefactor (The always inebriated Arthur Housman) and a tipsy Woman.... everything, in SCRAM! (1932) Then our guest comedian, Red Skelton, provides a demonstration of the wonders of Guzzler's Gin. After a tasty (Alcohol free) intermission, we will watch the recently restored BLOTTO (1930). Stan and Babe decide a night on the town is in order. Off to a Nightclub they go with some Prohibition Booze...they think. What happens when Stan's wife (Anita Garvin) gets a little suspicious? Come see in this evening of .... (Hick) sobriety. Oh yes, there will also be a few surprisses, I mean, surprises .... ah heck, just come and see. March 25th at Williams Hall next to the Trinity Church.

John Field

Your Grandest of Sheiks

Flatiron Building: "Not well known among those not from the area, or not into historic architecture, the Flatiron Building is a favorite of New Yorkers and admirers around the world. Perhaps because it symbolizes so much of how New Yorkers see themselves -- Defiant, bold, sophisticated, and interesting. With just enough embedded grime and soot to highlight its details. The Flatiron's most interesting feature is its shape -- a slender hull plowing up the streets of commerce as the bow off a great ocean liner plows through the waves of its domain. The apex of the building is just six feet wide, and expands into a limestone wedge adorned with Gothic and Renaissance details of Greek faces and terra cotta flowers. The building has two claims to fame -- one architectural, the other cultural. Some consider the Flatiron Building to be New York City's first skyscraper. It certainly was one of the first buildings in the city to employ a steel frame to hold up its 285-foot tall facade, but not the first. Some felt its shape (like a flatiron) was less artistic and more dangerous. They thought it would fall over, and during construction the Flatiron Building was nicknamed "Burnham's Folly." The building's cultural legacy is a little more interesting and has passed into the local social consciousness as a fable. It is said that the building created unusual eddies in the wind which would cause women's skirts to fly around as they walked on 23rd street. This attracted throngs of young men who gathered to view the barelegged spectacle. Police would try to disperse these knots of heavy-breathers by calling to them, "23 Skidoo." This phrase has passed out of common usage, but its descendant, the word "scram" remains in a back corner of the American lexicon." - www.glasssteelandstone.com

 

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We've got some GREAT pet items right now! Get 'em while they're hot! The first 2 pictures show a Sofa Scram scat mat. We have 2 of them! If your cat or dog stands on it, it makes a noise to make them "scat". Great for teaching them to stay off of the furniture, counters, stove... And the Orange Emergency Vet Fund has a great exercise pen available for sale! And we currently have a couple of small pens and even a car ramp to make it easier for your seniors to get in and out of the car. It's lightweight, and holds up to 400 lbs! And a couple of "critter" cages -- for your rabbit, or guinea pig, or other small critter. And for humans, look at the selection of scrubs that has come in this week!!! And a very nice surround for your electric fireplace. Perfect, now that the freezing temperatures are here!

Rikki's Refuge Re-Tail " A Pawsome Resale Shop " 3503 Lafayette Blvd. Fredericksburg, VA. 22408 540-891-5300 RE-TAIL on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ReTail.org

www.duckworks.com/product-p/jm-scrampram.htm

 

The first-ever SALISH 100, June 22-28, 2019, was a small-boat cruise running the length of Puget Sound--100 nautical miles from Olympia to Port Townsend, Washington, and including more than 100 watercraft ranging from Stand-Up Paddleboards to kayaks, rowing boats to pocket-cruising sailboats, and about 15 larger support boats, otherwise known as Motherships.

 

Organized by the Port Townsend Pocket Yachters group, the SALISH 100 was commercially sponsored by Duckworks Boat Builder's Supply of Port Townsend. Co-sponsors included the Northwest Maritime Center, the Puget Sound chapter of the Traditional Small Craft Association (TSCA), Kingston Mercantile & Marine, The Artful Sailor, Small Craft Advisor magazine, and the Gig Harbor Boat Shop.

 

Planned overnight stops along the route included Henderson Cove just east of Olympia WA, Penrose Point Marine State Park, Gig Harbor, Blake Island Marine State Park, the Port of Kingston, and Mats Mats Bay before the final destination of Port Townsend.

 

Boaters came in from all over North America to participate in the event, which promised to be the largest organized small-boat cruise in North America, if not the world.

 

Registration was free, and advance registration is being accepted for the 2020 SALISH 100 cruise. To add your name to the contact list for 2019 SALISH 100 updates, or to register for 2020, please email organizer Marty Loken at Norseboater22-at-mail.com (replace”-a- with the ampersand @!

 

I have taken my Innova pinhole on some pretty good adventures in the short time I have had it, but none were quite as interesting as the trip inside a nuclear reactor. Back in July, four of us (all packing Hasselblads no less) made the trip out to Tri Cities to take the B Reactor tour at Hanford. I had never been inside a nuclear reactor before (I am not sure too many people can say they have) so I did not know what to expect. It was both more and less impressive than I had imagined. The sheer size of it, it just towers above you, and the weight of the history in the room really gets to you. But I get ahead of myself.

 

A bit of history. Hanford was built to make a bomb. Specifically Fat Boy that was dropped on Nagasaki in 1945. They didn't know they were going to build Fat Boy back then, but the point of Hanford was to produce a nuclear reactor (the world's first on this scale) to use non-fissile Uranium to make Plutonium, which could be used in a bomb (and was). Hanford was selected because it was vast and remote. Some 50,000 workers were brought in to build it, and they did, in complete secrecy in just over 12 months from 1943 to 1944. Nobody knew what Hanford was, not even the workers building it. The secrecy around the construction was so well kept that the workers themselves became disgruntled that they weren't doing something to help the war effort. Despite assurances that they were in fact building something of importance for the war their dissatisfaction eventually led to them pooling funds and contacting Boeing and having their own bomber built, which they donated to the Air Force.

 

Anyway, back to the reactor. The large cube-shaped thing in the center of the image is the reactor core itself. It is a five story tall graphite cube bored through with 2004 horizontal shafts. Aluminum pipes were inserted into the shafts and into those pipes a uranium slug (or several in one tube actually) would be inserted. At which point boron control rods would be removed and nuclear reaction would begin. River water from the Columbia would be pumped in at the rate of 75,000 gallons a minute. It would enter the reactor at a temperature of about 50 degrees and leave a little over a second later at about 190 degrees F. It was critically important that the water never reached boiling. Over time the rods would decay into Plutonium and workers would shove the rods out of the back of the reactor, at which point they were radioactive enough to kill an unshielded person in ten seconds, or so. In fact, Hanford to this day remains the most radioactivally polluted site in the U.S. Being the world's first production level reactor, they did not know as much as was probably prudent about nuclear waste, and much contamination occurred of the area and river. Amazingly, in Hanford's decades of operation, the reactor never had to be SCRAM'd and other than one case of exposure to Americium, there were no severe cases of radioactive exposure.

 

Whew. Anyhow, it is quite a trip. The tour lasts about two hours, you ride a bus out to the middle of the site. You can bring cameras! In fact, they give you 45 minutes or so after a tour and lecture to wander pretty much freely and photograph what you will. I think I only made seven exposures, I was so wrapped up in the history of it all. The tours are free, but they tend to fill up pretty fast once registration begins in the spring. Though one volunteer told me if I got a group of photographers together and called their offices they would arrange a special photographer tour.

 

There is a lot more I could say about this whole experience, and in a sense most of those words would not do the experience justice. There is a certain type of awe that settles over you when you are standing in front of something like this that just cannot really be described or photographed.

Saturday, March 25, 2017

Intro of Second Half

Saps at Sea Tent, Proudly Present:

LAUREL AND HARDY – JUST ONE MORE TEENSY-WEENSY NIGHT!

Welcome back All Saps! To our second, 39th Anniversary Year Gathering of Marvelous Movie Delights and Humorous Hijinks!

Here your Grandest of Sheiks has assembled a night you will not soon forget. We have a "Special" Guest author in attendance, Mr. Craig Calman. Author of "100 Years of Brodies with Hal Roach: The Jaunty Journeys of a Hollywood Motion Picture and Television Pioneer". A loving look at the man responsible for being the boss of Stan and Ollie, and bringing to us those wonderful Comedy Classics we enjoy each and every meeting. I will interview Craig and he will share great stories and anecdotes. You can also purchase his fine book and have it autographed for a measly $30!

Our special program is JUST ONE MORE TEENSY-WEENSY.... Stan & Ollie and Alcohol, rarely mix. In this case hilariously so! You will see a glass lifting CartOOn, then what happens when you mix two vagrants, a mad Judge that wants them out of town, a drunken benefactor (The always inebriated Arthur Housman) and a tipsy Woman.... everything, in SCRAM! (1932) Then our guest comedian, Red Skelton, provides a demonstration of the wonders of Guzzler's Gin. After a tasty (Alcohol free) intermission, we will watch the recently restored BLOTTO (1930). Stan and Babe decide a night on the town is in order. Off to a Nightclub they go with some Prohibition Booze...they think. What happens when Stan's wife (Anita Garvin) gets a little suspicious? Come see in this evening of .... (Hick) sobriety. Oh yes, there will also be a few surprisses, I mean, surprises .... ah heck, just come and see. March 25th at Williams Hall next to the Trinity Church.

John Field

Your Grandest of Sheiks

Let's hope they don't need to leave their billet anytime soon

Saturday, March 25, 2017

John's Prolog, and the handing out of the new 2.0 SAPS Cards

Saps at Sea Tent, Proudly Present:

LAUREL AND HARDY – JUST ONE MORE TEENSY-WEENSY NIGHT!

Welcome back All Saps! To our second, 39th Anniversary Year Gathering of Marvelous Movie Delights and Humorous Hijinks!

Here your Grandest of Sheiks has assembled a night you will not soon forget. We have a "Special" Guest author in attendance, Mr. Craig Calman. Author of "100 Years of Brodies with Hal Roach: The Jaunty Journeys of a Hollywood Motion Picture and Television Pioneer". A loving look at the man responsible for being the boss of Stan and Ollie, and bringing to us those wonderful Comedy Classics we enjoy each and every meeting. I will interview Craig and he will share great stories and anecdotes. You can also purchase his fine book and have it autographed for a measly $30!

Our special program is JUST ONE MORE TEENSY-WEENSY.... Stan & Ollie and Alcohol, rarely mix. In this case hilariously so! You will see a glass lifting CartOOn, then what happens when you mix two vagrants, a mad Judge that wants them out of town, a drunken benefactor (The always inebriated Arthur Housman) and a tipsy Woman.... everything, in SCRAM! (1932) Then our guest comedian, Red Skelton, provides a demonstration of the wonders of Guzzler's Gin. After a tasty (Alcohol free) intermission, we will watch the recently restored BLOTTO (1930). Stan and Babe decide a night on the town is in order. Off to a Nightclub they go with some Prohibition Booze...they think. What happens when Stan's wife (Anita Garvin) gets a little suspicious? Come see in this evening of .... (Hick) sobriety. Oh yes, there will also be a few surprisses, I mean, surprises .... ah heck, just come and see. March 25th at Williams Hall next to the Trinity Church.

John Field

Your Grandest of Sheiks

Greetings, out there in podland, the 96th exciting episode of The Big Enchilada is here, so weep no more. We have wild new sounds from He Who Cannot Be Named, Alien Space Kitchen, Sex Hogs II, San Antonio Kid, a couple of Swedish bands, Rattanson and Fezz, classic punk rock from The Germs, The Eyes and Skull Control, a strange ditty from rockin' Rod McKuen and to celebrate episode 96, some sweet sounds from the 9,696-year-old Perfect Master himself, Question Mark (and the Mysterians).

 

Download here: archive.org/download/BigEnchilada96/BigEnchilada96.mp3

 

Here's the playlist:

 

(Background Music: Honey Rock by Barney Kessel)

96 Lagrimas by Los Shains

"8" Teen by Question Mark & The Mysterians

Losing My Mind by Alien Space Kitchen

MDManne by San Antonio Kid

Wandering Black Hole by Rattanson

I Dig Her Wig by Rod McKuen

 

(Background Music: Banshee by The Derangers)

Lovedoll by He Who Cannot Be Named

Pigtails by Sex Hogs II

Magma by The Scrams

Demolition Man by Skull Control

Ugly by SA90

I'm Your Witchdoctor by The Chants

Around and Around by The Germs

 

(Background Music: Straitjacket by Bill Haley & The Comets)

Fezzalized by Fezz

I Want You to Be My Baby by Grace Chang

Kill Your Parents by The Eyes

Hellbound by Sinners

There's a UFO Up There by Travis Wammack

Money Changes Everything by Ought

(Background Music: 96 Tears (en Espanol) by Question Mark & The Mysterians)

 

[Sofia and her friend Doc are having a play date. Doc brought over her doctor tools so they decided to play Hospital.]

 

S: Doc, doc, you have to help me! It's my Scoops, she's burning up!

 

D: *feels her forehead* You're right! We need to get her into a room STAT!

 

[They run to Sofia's bed]

 

D: Scoops, tell me what happened...Scoops?

 

S: *gasp* Is she...?

 

D: *puts her stethoscope to Scoops chest* No, I still hear a heartbeat, but its fading. Sofia, we have to act quick, do you know what happened?

 

S: No, she was fine and then the next thing I know is shes burning up.

 

D: *grabs her otoscope to look inside her ear* Aha! I found the problem!

 

S: What is it, Doc?

 

D: You know the term 'brain freeze'? Well, she's having brain burn. It's caused by eating something really, really, reeeeally spicy!

 

S: Is there a cure?

 

D: *grabs her injection needle* Yes, all she needs is a shot of liquid ice.

 

S: Look, shes waking up!

 

D: uh-huh...uh-huh...hmm..uh-huh. You're very welcome, Scoops.

 

S: What did she say?

 

D: She said she went to Pepper Pots-n-Pans house for lunch and ate spicy chili.

 

S: Oh, Scoops! Thanks Doc!

 

[Suddenly Sofia's door crashes open]

 

G: Keep it down! I'm trying to pretend I'm not watching you right now, and big-headed kid, your mom is outside. Scram

 

D: Awww, okay. See you later, Sofia.

 

G: And you, lets go.

 

S: Where are we going?

 

G: Unfortunately not an orphanage. I told your dad I would take you shopping for picture day clothes so get your shoes on and lets go.

  

 

Next time you're found, with your chin on the ground

There a lot to be learned, so look around

 

Just what makes that little old ant

Think he'll move that rubber tree plant

Anyone knows an ant, can't

Move a rubber tree plant

 

But he's got high hopes, he's got high hopes

He's got high apple pie, in the sky hopes

 

So any time you're gettin' low

'stead of lettin' go

Just remember that ant

Oops there goes another rubber tree plant

 

When troubles call, and your back's to the wall

There a lot to be learned, that wall could fall

 

Once there was a silly old ram

Thought he'd punch a hole in a dam

No one could make that ram, scram

He kept buttin' that dam

 

but he's got high hopes, he's got high hopes

He's got high apple pie, in the sky hopes

 

So any time you're feelin' bad

'stead of feelin' sad

Just remember that ram

Oops there goes a billion kilowatt dam

 

All problems just a toy balloon

They'll be bursted soon

They're just bound to go pop

 

Oops there goes another problem kerplop

Oops, there goes another problem kerplop

Oops, there goes another problem kerplop

Kerplop!

 

Sammy Cahn

I don't know what it was the bleeding or the exhaustion. Whatever it was, it made me lose consciousness. When I woke up, I was still being dragged around by two ninjas. The wound on my arm was at least wrapped up. Still, some of my ribs are no doubt broken, something in my leg is out of place, there's some swelling around the left side of my face. To be honest, I'm a bit surprised this was all. Hell, I'm lucky to be alive. But I don't care. All I care about right now is Steph. I need to be there for her right now, no matter how busted up I am. And these Mortal Kombat rejects aren't gonna stop me.

 

"Let me go...now. I'm not asking again..."

 

"Be quiet, child!"

 

"So that's how it is..."

 

Can't say I didn't warn them. I was a struggle, and I hurt all over doing it, but I was able to weasel my arms out of their grip and slam the back of my fists in their noses as hard as I could. I hit hard enough that something in their faces at least came loose, so their pain was enough to distract them. They weren't very well trained, I guess. Now that I was out of their grip, I grab the backs of their heads and slam their skulls together. I let the go and they fall to the floor out cold. Then I let out a pained grunt and fall to my knees as something in my chest switch places. It wasn't jut a sharp pain either. It was the kind that lingers and makes you feel horrible for a good 20-30 seconds before it gives out. Injuries...just a setback. Not gonna stop me from getting to Steph. Neither was Talia, who was blocking my path when I recovered from the pain.

 

"Timothy, you must be reasonable. Let us help you, you're injured!"

 

"You think that-*ah!*-that's gonna stop me? Get out of my way unless you wanna end up like these guys."

 

"Why are you doing this to yourself? You've passed the first trial, you've already proven your strength. There's no reason to go on."

 

"Yeah, there is. I gotta be there for her..."

 

'What are you thinking? This is her challenge, not yours. You can't help her."

 

"I never said help. I just don-*ugh*- just don't want her alone. Now scram."

 

"Stubborn like a mule. Just as he is..."

 

She starts walking towards me. Well, I warned her. I take a swing at her, aiming for a nerve cluster in the side of her neck. She grabs my hand before I make the hit,though. Instead of kicking my ass, though, she puts my arm around the back of her neck and starts walking me to were I was gonna go.

 

"The hell are you doing?"

 

"Stephanie's Trial is a long walk from here. You'll collapse before you get off this floor."

 

"You're helping me?"

 

"You have to be there. You said it yourself."

 

"Thank you..."

   

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