The Big DumpTruck

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