The Big DumpTruck

Here's a little something I created yesterday. I'll post the other one in a day or two. You know, spreading out the love.

Labels: funny, movies, video

I am sad to announce that I will not be able to decorate my house to the level that I would like to this holiday season. I would like to cover the house with so many lights that you can see it from space. Sure, the neighbors might not like it, but really, who can stay angry at twinkly lights? Nobody, that's who!

I don't own enough lights to accomplish my dream, nor do I have the manpower available to me to do it. I guess it will have to wait until after I become rich and famous. And have a lot more energy to do stuff like this.

I also pulled out the two shrubs that I normally put lights on every year. That seemed like a good idea until I realized I can't put lights out on these shrubs any more because they aren't there any more. Huh.

So last year, during the January "everything 75% off" sale at Target I bought a little fiber optic tree. Last week I tracked it down so we could see how tall it was. Not tall enough to use as our only tree, not by a long shot. But of course, now that it's set up, I think I'll leave it, just so I have a little something to make me happy. And here it is:

Labels: happy, holidays, lights, video

Do you know how big a bus is???!!!

Meet Toby Jones, he'll store anything you want for $10.99.

Labels: funny, video

To be fair, this guy has every right to choose to vote the way he ended up voting. On the other hand, the reason bothers me. A lot. Without giving away the plot, I think it's pretty interesting that he got to be as old as he is and was honestly surprised when the kindly people at the polling places had to set him straight.



Courtesy of C.Monks.

Labels: politics, stupid people, video

I know I don't really maintain the podcast any more (mostly because my mac.com site expired) so this would be turned into a podcast if I still had one. Which I don't. That doesn't mean you shouldn't watch this video to make the hit count go up which would make me feel pretty good about myself. I'm just saying.

Here we have Junior and Phantom, doing a bit of a duet.

Labels: junior, phantom, video

My son had a sleepover here last night and all he got me was a short video movie he made with his friend. The file is stored over at flickr (they do video now too) and I think MAYBE you can download this one to watch on your iPod. I'm not sure if it will let everyone, or just me because it's in my account. Actually, can someone let me know? If you can't, I can try to upload the M4V version here with a link. Because I know you want to watch this daily on your iPod or iPhone. I know I do.

Labels: flickr, junior, outer space, video

I'm such a sap. This is the kind of thing that makes my husband laugh at me, which is why I cannot watch Field of Dreams with him any more. It doesn't matter how many times I watch it, I always cry.

This is a link to a video of two guys a the lion they raised from a cub until they released him into the wild. This video is 40 years old, put to a modern soundtrack - you can watch without sound. Very safe for work unless you're the kind of person who cries watching Magic Kingdom commercials when the kids see Mickey for the first time. Ya, that's me too.

Labels: happy, holy_crap, video

[*Updated to fix the broken links*]

I rule. I now have the Mr. Deity theme song as my ringtone, just like Mr. Deity does (except when he has Elton John's "The Bitch is Back").

"Who is Mr. Deity?" you ask?

Mr. Deity may be the greatest thing since sliced bread. If you really want a behind the scenes look at what it's like to be The Deity and to create the heavens and earth and whether or not we're really supposed to take Sundays off, you should hike over to the Mr. Deity site and either watch the copies there or download the podcast to take it with you wherever you go on your video-enabled iPod.

I'm still floored that something this good is available for free.

Labels: fun, humor, link, video

Ask anyone who wrote a journal (or letters) when they were a pre-teen or a teenager and they will tell you it was deep and meaningful and captured the deep and important moments of one's life. Okay, so fast forward and read some of those journal entries and cringe, baby. Wait, you didn't write one? Well you have to go share the love at Mortified: Angst Written.

This site is a multi-media journal karaoke for the ages. Real people (some celebs, some not) read from their original journals. The real words. The real feelings. It is as funny as you might imagine.

I doubled over with laughter watching this month's featured video. Real Live Actors perform a script written back when the author was 15. Kevin McDonald's part made me weep with laughter (I love his work, but the lines he was given were the real star here.)

So that's my fun link for the weekend. And don't even tell me that it doesn't make you want to go look for your old notebooks and journals!

Labels: humor, video, websites

Longtime fans of the Big DumpTruck know that I have odd obsessions. Some come and some go. Some appear to come and go because I don't talk about them as much as I used to. Michael "Lord of the Dance" Flatley, ice cream trucks, and Adam West come to mind (because I used to do a weekly Lord of the Dance update and talk about Adam West sightings, which I don't do any more. I still love them both.)

My current obsession is with garden gnomes. I'm not sure how it happened, but it did. I love them. I don't own any, but that's part of the appeal. Not having one means I get to focus my life on finding just the perfect one.

So now my family points out any television show or commercial that features garden gnomes. It's nice to have people trying to make me happy. Yesterday Mr. Dump sent me a link to a YouTube cartoon that had a very small garden gnome appearance that made me laugh out loud.

And today in the news there's an awesome report of a garden gnome terrorizing a small town in Argentina. Viva la scary gnome!

Labels: fun, gnomes, News, video

Okay, so those of you who have subscribed to the podcast via iTunes will get this one automatically, but for those of you who haven't (ahem) I will share an .mov version of the movie for you to watch right here.

Now keep in mind that no cows were harmed in the making of this film. Junior was, because his feet went south on him while he was minding his own business standing on ice in the driveway.

Behold, the Cow Racing Safety Video

(I have no idea why this might appear twice in your browser. It is all controlled by Blogger, so blame them.)

Labels: Cow, driving, podcast, video

I'm not sure if you guys still need me to post when there's an updated DumpCast. I suppose I could set it up over on BlogRolling and ping it when it's updated. Or maybe theres an RSS feed built in to the website (I use iWeb to do that one, I have no idea what's built in. Is that lazy of me?)

Let's see...in other news...I was really disappointed with my lunch today. I'm sorry, it had to be said. My dinner, however, was excellent. Thanks for cooking, Mr. Dump!

Labels: podcast, video

I got my birthday present a week early (well, one of my birthday presents, I'm sure, right honey? Right?)...I picked up a Flip video camera to use for the DumpCast. It's not the high quality one I want to fully replace the Sony that broke, but I didn't want to have to wait until this summer to have ANY kind of video camera device. The Flip was on sale at Best Buy and I also had a coupon so bargain city!

The first results of the Flip filming is available on the DumpCast webpage (or via iTunes). The second one is being fine tuned and will be up later today. That's two in two days. You can't beat that type of quantity, er, quality entertainment!

Let's just say that the first podcast features someone cheating at a game, and the second one summarizes our road trip to Maine. Cause if you can't make a movie about your road trip, well, what kind of movie director are you?

Labels: camera, movies, podcast, video

Do a search for "DumpCast" and you'll find me over on iTunes. Or, you know, click this link.
I know, any fool can get a podcast added to iTunes, but let's pretend for a minute that it takes more effort than that.

I need to figure out another camera to use because the sound on the little digital camera stinks royally. I thought maybe I had my hand on the microphone after the first one, but I don't think that's the case.

If you want to buy me a digital camera, I'd like an HD camera that records to hard drive. Not asking for too much, am I? Okay, so you all need to subscribe over on iTunes so I will become fabulously rich and famous! Oh, wait, this is all free. Well, nevermind. At least this is fulfilling my dream of being a world re-knowned documentary filmmaker. Cause you know, that's what these are, right? At least some of the time.

Labels: famous, podcast, video

Okay, maybe this will go faster once I get used to the software. Or if I hire someone to do it for me. That person will also figure out how to make the files smaller. Sorry.

Here is the first podcast, stored on my mac.com site because all the tools I use made it easy to do that. If you click on the "subscribe" button it will add the podcast to your iTunes list and any time I do a new one it will get picked up automatically. That's what we all want, right?

THE DUMPCAST IS HERE!

Labels: fun, itunes, podcast, video

Welcome Heathen-Seeker! I really do appreciate all the traffic being funnelled my way by the website that sent you here. I don't have any real plans to pimp my children out for the sake of a charity car wash, just in case that wasn't clear. I don't believe in car washes. On the other hand, I would allow any cute child of mine to open a charity lemonade stand on a busy street.

I kid!

No, I'm not about pimping my children. I'm not interested in short term rentals. The real money is in selling your children outright.

I kid again!

Here are important things that I would like to share with the hoard of Catholics (or is that a "pew of Catholics?") wandering through the front door:

• Dubble Bubble white gumballs are pineapple flavored.
• Disney's Meteos game boy game is very very hard so why make a Disney flavor that implies it's for kids? The Winnie the Pooh level is a killer!
• Mr. Dump made American Chop Suey for dinner. He's my hero.
• I wouldn't be sad if Barry Bonds retired before breaking the record.
• I'm confused. El Presidente said we were fighting this war to make America safer. So then why have the Al Qaeda reformed and possibly moved terror cells back into the US, putting us in the same danger we were pre-9/11 if...and I hesitate to even suggest it...the war in Iraq has nothing to do with Al Qaeda because the Iraqis didn't have anything to do with 9/11?
• CNN - you stink. What the hell is up with the new redesign? There is less branding (and useful information) on there now than there is on my website! And if you don't cut the crap with the video-only stuff I'm going to scream. Don't you even care about the millions of people who want to check the news at work and have video streaming blocked? I'm done with you. I'm going to have to go somewhere else to get my news and that's a sad, sad thing.
• The Vicar of Dibley - how come nobody told me about this show? I adore Dawn French!
  

Labels: News, video, websites, welcome

Labels: fun, holy_crap, video