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My Celebrity Look-Alikes

Well, Jason McKeeman got me hooked on this My Heritage site.  It’s so cool!  The site scans your photo (how does it know where on the photo my big fat head is?), then compares it with other bobbleheads like Jon Bon Jovi and Frankie Muniz.  I don’t really look like these guys do I?  Funny thing, down the list a ways was Ron Howard, who Jim Roy has remarked I look like when I’m wearing a hat!  Check it out!

PS:  Jeff, Clippers signed Lamond Murray!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Well it’s that time of the year again.  Time to be thankful for so many things!  I’m thankful the Tigers beat the Yankees.  I’m thankful that Darcy, Ian, Nick, Jordan, and Darryl called from our Triad birthday party in Grande Prairie at 3 am leaving me a message: “TIGERS, WHOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”  I’m thankful the NBA season starts soon.  But I’m also thankful that in the spring of 1993, me, Jeff, Jim, Darcy, Jerry, and Scott made a little English project video called “TV Time”.  It was essentially a video-book report on “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding, but done in a SNL format.  I happened upon watching it this evening while I monitor the Steelers-Chargers game, and thought I’d share some of it with the world!  It’s good for some laughs, especially seeing all of us from 13 years ago…

 

Jeff was a wigmaster throughout this whole production.  “Stop touching me!”  The only beast on this set was that moustache!  Am I playing my boyhood hero Thomas Magnum?  Not this time, it’s Geraldo Rivera!  And I’m really getting down to the issues!

   

Weekend Update with Kevin (Jerry Walker) Nealon… interviews Cajun Man:  “Mental institushawwn!”  Jerry was renowned for his objective views, always able to report the story from a different angle…

   

Wayne’s World!   Darcy welcomes Ralph from the “island incident” on the show.  Remember when Wesley Snipes was on?  That was awesome.  Ross Perot next week!  Darcy avec une mini-mullet… was this still cool in 1993?

     

Who’s that sneaking on to the set of “Sprockets”?  What did Jack do when the boys “got out of line”?  Jeff cannot answer Dieter.

Your excretements will flow freely with our new X-Lax Oreo!

Playoffs baby!

MLB playoffs begin today, and after a 19 year playoff drought, my Detroit Tigers are playing in October!  You can understand my excitement since the last few years have not been kind in my world of sports:

Last seen in the playoffs in:

NHL – Pittsburgh Penguins 2001
NBA – Utah Jazz                   2003
MLB – Detroit Tigers           1987

OK so the Tigers blew it in their final series against Kansas City, the last place team in the AL Central.  Now we have to play the Yankees in the Bronx instead of Oakland in the cozy comfort of Comerica Park.  Oh well, it won’t be the first time my favorite team takes on my most hated team in the playoffs (NBA finals 1997 and 1998!).

  good vs evil

Christmas in the desert

Those of you who know my girlfriend Eun-gyung know that she just left Seoul for the University of Kuwait to start some courses towards her master’s degree in Arabic.  Though she was invited for the full 2-3 years to complete the program, she’s only going for 6-8 months to get a flavour for the Middle-East and their sweet, sweet oil-rich sands.  Anyway, I decided to check the weather forecast there and it seems like it’s HOT! 

 

And those smiling suns never end!  I don’t think I could take 40 C every day for 365 days per year.  Hrm, no humidity though…

Bawling about Balling

  Me and the old basketball gang down at the “Y” in better days.  Except for that jerk guy who always called foul!

In the wake of missing out on playing with Jeff and Ian’s basketball team in Edmonton, I decided to sign up for some league play here in Charlottetown.  So I went and checked out a drop in gym in order to prep for the upcoming season.  The other guys down there didn’t look like even half the competition we’d face down at the U of A, so I figured I’d teach them how to play ball Edmonton style!  Well, I played some 3 on 3 half court, then some full court 4 on 4, and I must say I’ve never felt more beat down!  My shots weren’t falling and after 45 mintues I could barely get up and down the court.  Besides having 60 year old knees and hamstring tendonitis, I realized I’m also out of basketball shape, so I’m now motivated to get ready for this league that’s starting up soon.  I guess I’m the Shawn Kemp of Charlottetown, minus the drug abuse and dozens of illegitimate children!  Anyway, I’m coming back fast, working out every day again and still I have a little more time before our season starts.  I’m also on my way to physiotherapy tomorrow morning, and I’m trusting they know how to get my ailing body back in game shape.  Good luck to Jeff and Ian’s team, I’ll be wanting to hear all the details!

  Kemp on the road to recovery… before his latest DUI.

Prenez-garde monsieur, prenez-garde!

Oh back to school, back to school, to prove to Dad that I’m not a fool!  Since I’ve been banished to Atlantic Canada, I decided a great use of all my newfound free time was to enroll in the Canada School of Public Service french class.  I’m just going two evenings per week, and it’s been going well.  I’d say I remember way more than I thought and probably could’ve started at a more advanced level, but I liken myself to our old friend Billy Madison – I have to get through all the french levels, starting at the beginning, so I can take over my department, and stop that weasely Eric!

3rd Grader: Hey look everybody, Billy peed his pants.
Billy: Of course I peed my pants, everyone my age pees their pants. It’s the coolest!
3rd Grader: Really?
Billy: Yeah! You ain’t cool, unless you pee your pants!

Old Farm Lady: If peeing in your pants is cool, consider me Miles Davis.
Billy: That is the grossest thing I’ve ever heard in my life. Let’s Go!

Anyway, I’m no Sol (http://www.rickstv.com/tvo/parlezmoi.html - he’s a francophone clown who starred on many a CBC 10-minute short film (1979-1980ish) where he taught us the wonders and beauty of the basic french language), but I’m learning and remember a lot of the french I took in university.  C’est vraiment la langue de l’amour, n’est-ce pas? 

   Remember that time Sol met the ghost?  Or the burglar?  Or the gambler?  Jim?

Lost on a distant island

I decided to throw a picture of my place (courtesy of Google Earth) for all to see.  If you look closely in the middle you can see my apartment, and on the upper left is a symbol for my office building (just 3 blocks from the ocean).   My house is about 15 minutes (walking) to my work, though as Jeff pointed out, it looks much farther.

Forwards To Fall

Well, September is half over as I’ve been painfully been made aware… I received double birthday wishes today, from people thinking my birthday was September 16 (it’s really October 16).  The annual triad party won’t be as fun (for me) this year, but rest assured I’ll be in Edmonton in spirit as Jordan and Darcy celebrate the big 3-0.  Only a few more weeks for YOU Jordan!

Triad 2004 @ The Old Spaghetti Factory:  T-shirts courtesy of Darryl and Jordan were perhaps the coolest Triad gifts ever given…    

   

Triad 2005 partying with Jason – wait, we’re not partying, we’re acting all “emo” and stuff.

<below> Slick Rick with Bootsauce

Anyway, the weather is holding out rather grand, it’s still hovering in the mid twenties, and it feels much warmer with the humidity.

  

The other thing I’ve enjoyed thus far is that all soda is in glass bottles on the island.  It takes me back to Saskatchewan in the 80’s and the old “Pick-a-Pop” days.  There is something delicious about soda from a glass bottle on a hot day.  With that, I’m off to sample some of that ice cold Diet Dr. Pepper that Ian got me on to drinking.

SNL vs LOTR

OK, so it’s a lazy Labour Day long weekend, and I’m at home just relaxing.  I watched in dusgust the Tigers lose to the Angels Sunday night.  I tried to go to sleep but I couldn’t, perhaps anticipating another vacation day tomorrow.  I’ve started reading Feist’s latest Exile’s Return (thanks to Jeff) which is great so far.  So I’m on the fantasy kick for a bit.  I turn on the TV and I catch some of Peter Jackson’s LOTR marathon, which reminded me of a long abandoned project I started in the early 00’s while watching the movies for the first time in the theatres:  What if the all-time SNL cast parodied these movies?  Would it not be the funniest thing ever to see Farley homo-erotically parading around as the dull-witted but loveable Sam Gamgee?  Or Phil Hartman blasting magic out of his staff as Gandalf?  And Chris Rock as Saruman the White???!!!  Anyway, we had a lot of fun thinking of the various cast, so here’s a quick breakdown on my thoughts…

Frodo:  Are you OK, that Nazgul rider was CLOSE!

Sam:  I’m just DANDY!  I got a bowl of chocolate pudding in my underpants! 

Frodo:  Uhhhhh, we didn’t have any chocolate pudding…

          What would Nat X say?

Chris Farley – Sam   Chris Rock – Saruman,   Rob Schneider – Frodo,  Adam Sandler – Aragorn,  Tina Fey – Arwen,  Billy Crystal – Bilbo,  Darrell Hammond – Boromir,  Chevy Chase – Denethor Steward of Gondor,  Kevin Nealon – Elrond,  Chris Elliot – Eomer,  Victoria Jackson – Eowyn,  Jimmy Fallon – Faramir,  Phil Hartman – Gandalf,  Horatio Sanz – Gimli,  Chris Kattan – Gollum,  Norm MacDonald – Grima Wormtongue,  Dana Carvey – Legolas,  Mike Myers – Merry,  David Spade – Pippen,  Dennis Miller – Theoden,  Will Ferrell – Treebeard

      

Please feel free to comment on your selections of cast members, add funny quotes, etc.  Or if there are any photoshop wizards who can create better photos than me, send them over and I’ll post them!!!  Thanks!