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| moving up |
| 12.31.04 (12:47 pm) [edit] |
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happy new year's from the liberty's kids. this will be our last post of 2004. we'd like to thank our droves of loyal fans who laugh with us here on the blog. we came here in july and we love the response we've got. it's overwhelming! so thanks to everyone for making us #1. and thanks to those few bitter bloggers whose jealousy drives us to get better and better. it's just fuel for the fire. we've come a long way. 2 bloggers. 1 dead, 1 missing presumed eaten by a yeti. however, they're both welcome back with 24 hours prior notice. i'm sure we could work something out. we all have some good new year's eve plans. and they're awesome cuz all the liberty's kids are straight shooters who don't drink or do drugs. but we still know how to have fun without manmade evils. we hope to see everyone back here in 2005 and we hope to exceed the expectations of everyone. speaking of exceeding, i'd like to congratulate fellow liberty's kid, eggs benedict on 2 successful films on student films. 1 starring myself. it's in the top 10 best reviewed. and his other is in the top 10 viewed this month. so that's cool go here to see em!
http://www.studentfilms.com/film/get.do?id=798" title="http://www.studentfilms.com/film/get.do?id=798" target="_blank"http://www.studentfilms.com/f...
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| The King has returned |
| 12.29.04 (1:44 pm) [edit] |
Thanks to my Dad, I received the Extended Return of the King DVD set for Christmas. I've been waiting over a year now to see a non-butchered version of this film, especially with the unconsciable removal of the confrontation of Sauraman scene at Isengard restored.
Before you write this off as a nerd post, that's all I'm going to say regarding nerdy complaints. There will be no "Kirk is better than Picard" -esque arguments here. Clearly, Kirk was better than Picard, but Picard had less hair.
Anyway, I liked the extended Return of the King. The added scenes really helped fill in a lot of serious plot holes, such as how Eowyn wound up with Theodyn at the end, and how Aragorn ends up with the annoying Arwyn at the end, despite the fact that Eowyn is hotter than her and can kill dragons and such. OK it doesn't really explain that, but, thanks to the handy and futuristic DVDs, you can just edit the movie yourself with its handy film editor and erase her right out of the entire trilogy!
My favorite addition is a scene towards the end where they go to visit Sauron and the 'mouth' of Sauron comes out and talks to Aragorn, Gandalf, etc. He looks kind of like this:
He says many things and looks really cool. How do I get a hat like that?
I'd also like to add that Kirk got more chicks, but Picard got a better quality of chicks. Did you see that brunette in "Tapestry'? She's hot!
**************** out of ***************** stars
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| It's beginning to look a lot like January |
| 12.28.04 (2:23 pm) [edit] |
I, for one, am glad Christmas is over this year. Not that I didn't have a good Christmas-I did. It was fun to see family and friends, and I got some great presents, and hopefully gave some good presents in return.
No, for me it's more just that I came back from Christmas with a terrible head cold that, for the first time in my life, actually affected my ears and made it so everything sounded like I was wearing industrial earmuffs.
A typical conversation goes like this:
Person A: Hey, how are you?
Person B: I'm doing really good.
Person A: That's great. Did you hear about that tsunami?
Person B: Yeah that sucks...for them!
In my world of the last 4 days, that same conversation sounds like this:
Person A: Hey, how are you?
Person B: *stares blankly*
Person A: That's great. Did you hear about that tsunami?
Person B: *stares blankly*
Finally, today, thanks to no less than 7 cold remedies including but not limited to Vicks Vapor Rub, Tylenol Severe Cold, Costco Allergy Medicine, Nasal Spray, Ear Drops, Halls Defense Vitamin C tablets and Ricola, I am now doing significantly better. Here's hoping to be drug-free in the new year!
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| we 4 kings |
| 12.25.04 (7:02 pm) [edit] |
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hello to all. as you can see, the liberty's kids have taken a bit of a vacation for the week of xmas. we travelled far, have stories to report, pictures to show and an inventory of presents to roll call. that's for the upcoming days. for now, while we rest up and recover from all the candy and what not, we'll leave you with this real life picture of all the liberty's kids together, save for the ficticious james towne. however, instead of him, we have a cute baby type thing with us. it's a one and only original christmas card from your favorite bloggers. merry christmas to all and yeah yeah..
p.s. do they compare to the characters of us? methinks they do a bit.
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| a skinny santa... |
| 12.20.04 (7:14 pm) [edit] |
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every year for the past 5 years, we've invited ourselves over to our aunt's place to make gingerbread houses. at least that's how i think it goes. we always have much fun but i think we bug her family every year. that's not really the point, they're super cool and nice and gracious for hosting us all these years. so this year, 4 out of 5 liberty's kids attended the gingerbread house making thing. james towne couldn't make it on account of him being ficticious and dead. we paired up as follows: myself and lando the free on a team, and eggs benedict teamed with his gf, liberty belle. it was very entertaining, i hope we don't offend anybody with our horrific houses.
the house of minute man and lando the free, complete with santa the destroyer wielding fiery cross, busting naughty doers.
and a shot of the whole house.
the house of eggs benedict and liberty belle, they live inside.
merry xmas from the liberty's kids!
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| The Best Clue Ever Given..... |
| 12.20.04 (9:57 am) [edit] |
Over the weekend we had a Christmas Gathering. This being our first real “party” we had officially put together, there were some lessons to be learned. It’s like a wedding, you send out 500 invitations and only 250 people actually show up. Needless to say we had enough food to feed more people then we actually know.
We played a couple games and one of those games was “Catchphrase.” For those of you who don’t know what “Catchphrase” is, I will give a brief description. It’s like $25,000 Pyramid in mini form. You have a word you need to describe w/o actually saying any part of the word. If you don’t know what the word is, or you have difficulty describing it, you can pass it to another teammate to describe the word. Which is just what happened to me.
Skyy was unable to describe the word given so it was then passed to me. I had no idea this word was an actual word but I thought of a way to convey it to my teammates. The word was “Valkyrie.” I gave the clue “This guy played Batman blank Kilmer.” Of course the team shouted “Val.” I then gave the clue “This was a hit song for the band Mr. Mister back in 1986. Blank liason down the road that I must travel.” I thought for sure everyone would know the hit “Kyrie” from one of the beloved bands from the 80's that brought us such hits as “Broken Wings” and “Is it Love?” Unfortunately nobody in the room listened to any music pre-Chumba Wumba. Minute Man got it, but he wasn’t on my team, he was just rolling on the floor in laughter at the clue I was giving.
There it was, the best clue of my life, and no one could get it.
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| OLD PEOPLE |
| 12.18.04 (11:40 am) [edit] |
I have come to discover the greatest security force in the whole world are old people....especially old people in old people neighborhoods. My grandma reports to me when I get home about every person that walked down the sidewalk that day. All old people love to look out their windows and report to each other on the phone..."there's a man in your yard." "we have a new mailman." Even when some service comes to the house, three or four phones calls come in from the neighbors demanding an update. WOW GREAT JOB MCGRUFF!
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| big fish / frog |
| 12.17.04 (7:22 pm) [edit] |
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greetings for today. sorry it's late. at the moment our very own lando the free is on an airplane, heading for libertyville. or something close to it. we're all excited and have lotsa christmas related plans for the week. me and my pals watched big fish tonight. we all decided the old version of ewan mcgregor looks like jabba the hut/a frog/a robot. weird pervy old man. other than that, it was better than i remembered. sorry to be so brief, but the matters at hand require my attention. all you readers have a good weekend and be checking back in for new pictures and cartoons and watch the eggs benedict paradox video starring myself and others. : >
http://www.studentfilms.com/film/get.do?id=798" title="http://www.studentfilms.com/film/get.do?id=798" target="_blank"http://www.studentfilms.com/f...
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| Original Music Video |
| 12.16.04 (5:47 am) [edit] |
Here is another feature film by  featuring our very own Minute Man as the lead. It's a 3 minute music video inspired by the music of Interpol. Come one, come all and watch this masterpiece. Just click on the link below. Feel free to review this film too.
http://www.studentfilms.com/film/get.do?id=798" title="http://www.studentfilms.com/film/get.do?id=798" target="_blank"http://www.studentfilms.com/f...
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| In the arms of Black Jack Davey |
| 12.16.04 (2:56 am) [edit] |
may 15th, 1701
ahoy ahoy
seaman james towne here. we've officially lost sight of the old kingdom of spain. i hope to return there after my travels are complete. i'm pretty sure we're lost, because we've passed the same island with the skippers on it 3 times, at least! i really don't know if captain catfish knows the difference between a coxswain and a crow's nest. he seems preoccupied with "the mizzenmast." whatever that is.. i don't mind though. i'm here for the spoils and the life of a pirate, and to find my father of course. Smythe, the first mate, had me thrown into the brig for forgetting to swab the entire upper deck of the ship. I thought only the guy with that weird whistle was allowed up there. i guess i deserved it. however, i don't feel his threat to my bird, willy was merited. he's always eyballing him, and methinks he's a bit squiffy at all times. he'll have a flogging coming his way if i find my belongings out of order!
there are grumblings aboard of a scoundrel of a sailor who goes by the name of 'black jack davey' i haven't met the lad, but i've heard some stories. like how he ate the head of his dog on account of a bet. and how he pillages all villages and islands he comes across. no mercy with that one. i don't fear him, yet. i think everyone aboard this vessel has taking a liking to me. except that matey who refers to me as "ye cowardly swab!" maybe he was just having a bad day. maybe by my next entry, i'll be out of me holding pen and we'll be farther from home, closer to destiny!
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| CLASSIC |
| 12.15.04 (1:07 pm) [edit] |
HERE'S A CLASSIC POST
[b]CAPTAIN'S BLOG STARDATE: 104137.12[/b]
Downstairs in my Grandma's house is the ultimate shower head. This prized jewel of Salt Lake, crafted in the 60's, has such amazing water pressure that it is exquisite utter joy to experience this thing. Well a couple weeks ago, I was in the mood for this nice long relaxing shower. After I washed myself and was squeaky clean, I noticed in the basket of shower goodies a product known as NAIR. Lets face it people, I'm a just a guy, a regular guy. I've never really dealt with such products that promise total hair removal in four minutes.....without shaving no less. All one has to do is spray it on the hair, then sit and ponder modern science at work. Well, to make a long story short, I decided to use it on the small patch of chest hair I have..............as well as my nipples. Four minutes went by and I wiped off the hair with a simple wash cloth, thinking that this was the coolest thing I had seen in months. Not but ten minutes later, my poor little nipples were fire engine red and so sensitive that the mere touch of clothing sent pain chills through my body arching my back and raising the hiars on the back of my neck. Concerned I reread the directions which didn't say anything about applying it to these specail places....until the very last line on the bottle....DO NOT APPLY TO NIPPLES OR GROIN AREA! OOOOOUCH! Why on earth wasn't that the first warning on the label. How lucky am I that I wasn't super curious as to expose other things to this NAIR stuff. Anyway, 2 weeks went by and finally my little guys are out of the woods. meaning they aren't all..........well, I'll spare you guys the graphic details and charming visuals that for sure would have popped in your heads!
TOODLES!!! :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:
:END LOG ENTRY
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| The shopping cart that wouldn't cooperate |
| 12.15.04 (5:32 am) [edit] |
A couple days ago I went to Target for a little bit of Christmas shopping. I got into the store and it was a madhouse! I then spent the next 5 minutes trying to pry a part the carts. I even had another customer pulling on one end while I was pulling on the other trying to get one of the carts unstuck. No luck. I finally found one and went on my way. However, this had a wheel in the front that wobbled and squeaked with the highest pitch squeak you could imagine. I made it back to the toys and desperately tried to find a place to ditch the cart. I wandered over to the baby clothes where it appeared to be fairly empty. I took the wrapping paper out of the cart and gradually abandoned the it there.
But that's not the end of the story. I still needed a cart because I had to get 2 gallons of milk. Over by the belts I noticed a cart and no one in the vicinity. I watched it for about 5 minutes to determine if anyone was going to come back to it, they didn't. I ran over to cart, grabbed it, and bolted to the opposite side of the store just in case it was somebody's cart.
I've learned my lesson though. Don't go shopping w/o someone else because at least you will have someone to be embarrassed with if you get the one cart that won't cooperate.
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| Look down, looook down and see the warald... |
| 12.13.04 (2:12 pm) [edit] |
I've been brushing up on my Roger Whittaker, trying to get my Christmas on with a bit of folk nostalgia, when I noticed something disturbing about the cover of Roger's classic Christmas album:
All this time I thought it was snow, but I realized this album was made in the 70s, before Prell had perfected its formula-Roger Whittaker has the worst case of dandruff I've ever seen!
Now all the songs about dragons and like weird kings dreaming about the Jews is starting to make more sense. I would be singing about weird things too if my scalp was exfoliating like a volcano.
Sadly, we see that the eventual effects of unchecked dandruff:
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| While you were snowboarding.... |
| 12.13.04 (10:29 am) [edit] |
Our very own Eggs Benedict:
has one of his short feature films available for viewing online. Go here: http://www.studentfilms.com/f... and spend 90 seconds watching the true story unfold.
Enjoy!
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| I'm mad at McDonalds |
| 12.13.04 (5:37 am) [edit] |
Over the weekend I needed a quick dinner before heading out to a babysitting gig. I decided I hadn't made a trip to McDonalds in a while and a #2 Two Cheesburger meal would hit the spot. I rolled into the drive thru and to my surprise they had changed the menu. A #2 was no longer a two cheesburger meal, but a double 1/4 pounder with cheese (which isn't that just a 1/2 pounder with cheese?). I scanned the menu thinking maybe they had just mixed the numbers up, but no. A two cheeseburger meal is no longer available.
Is there some place I can write into and complain? Is this how it is around the world or did they just change the menus in Utah? Today I'm going to sit down and write a strongly worded letter to McDonalds expressing my anger over this dramatic menu change.
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| We're #1! |
| 12.12.04 (5:49 pm) [edit] |
Reporter: This is Jim Smiley here for channel 4 news. The atmosphere is alive as we wait here for the Liberty's Kids to arrive at the press conferenece. We're all very excited, and...oh, hold on...I think there might be...yes, here they come now! It's the Liberty's Kids!
*CROWD CHEERS ENTHUSIASTICALLY*
Reporter: Wow, this is truly an honor. Up close and in person, we're here with the creators of the Liberty's Kids blog, which at 7:41 pm Central Standard time became the #1 blog on the Hot Blogs section on Tblog. It appears the crowd is quieting down now, let's see if we can get some questions in.
Reporter: Yes, Liberty's Kids. How does it feel to be #1?
James Towne: Well, I know these guys have worked really really hard for this, and though I'm really new, I think I can speak for everyone when I say we're thrilled.
*CROWD GOES WILD AGAIN*
James Towne: Thank you, thank you.
Reporter: How long have you guys been in the blog business?
Minute Man: Well I started blogging in early 2004. I did such a poor job at it that everyone felt they could do better, and soon my brother, Lando, had a blog up called "Daily Cartoon with Dr. Funky." Our friend, Purple Mountains, had a blog of her own, too.
Eggs Benedict: I also had a blog named "Captain's Blog."
Liberty Belle: That's right. And we all decided that we would be able to poor our talents and time and do better if we joined forces and created one giant Super Blog, which was born in mid-July, 2004.
Reporter: How much do you remember about that?
Lando the Free: I remember it like it was yesterday. We messed around with the banner quite a bit, and experimented with several different looks. Finally, I came up with the Mt. Rushmore look, and that's how it's stayed ever since. No matter anything else I try to do something different, I also go back to Mt. Rushmore.
Reporter: I understand that, to commemorate the occasion, President Bush is having your images all carved on the actual Mount Rushmore as we speak?
James Town: Yes, that's correct. I hope they don't make my forehead look too big.
*CROWD LAUGHS*
Reporter: Any closing thoughts?
Minute Man: We'd just like to thank everyone who made this possible, including all our new readers out there. You know who you all are!
Reporter: What does the future have in store for the Liberty's Kids?
Liberty Belle: Well there will be many more cartoons, of course. We're also going to be having an actual contest to give away a sealed copy of The Perfect Storm on DVD.
James Towne: We'll also catch up with me and see what I've been up to back in the 1700s on a pirate ship.
Crowd: We can't wait!
*Thank you T-Blog for Making us the #1 best blog! We love you!*
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| We're all fine here, everything's fine...how are you? |
| 12.12.04 (11:13 am) [edit] |
Hello and welcome to our latest feature on the increasingly dynamic Liberty's Kids blog. This week's movie review is Scooby Doo 2, which comes to us courtesy of our monthly Netflix subscription, which allows us to rent movies that are too embarassing to rent in person, such as Scooby Doo 2 and Pee Wee's Play House volume 1, which was not as funny as we remembered it being.
Anyway, the movie this week was Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. I admit right off the bat that I did not see Scooby Doo 1 and was thus almost completely lost for most of the movie. OK maybe that's not true, but still.
"Mystery, Inc," as the 'Scooby Gang' are now known, all live together in a big, expensive, crime-analysis house. They have super computers worth billions of dollars and the town they live in is called "Coolsville." Personally, I'd think the presence of Freddy Fish Jr would be enough to merit renaming the town "Weinerville," but I didn't make the movie.
Anyway, the gang is fighting a bad guy who they provide far too much back-story for. The budget appears to be 70 trillion dollars, as there are massive amounts of CGI everywhere, including several all-CGI sequences, such as when monsters chase Scooby and a massively fake-looking CGI Shaggy down a mountain on garbage can lids.
I feel the film failed in its attempt to stand as a metaphor for the failures of Socialist Europe. The character of Scooby Doo was underdeveloped, and when he would go crazy for Scooby snacks and poo on things, you could tell he was acting, and didn't really mean it. Meanwhile, the score, which was originally lush strings and a haunting piano, was changed at the last minute to a campy and cartoony cacaphony of electric guitars and pop songs. For shame, makers of Scooby Doo 2. Here's hoping "Scooby Doo 3: The rising democracy in Afghanistan," is more rewarding.
** out of ************************* *** stars.
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| happy birthday 12/11/04 |
| 12.11.04 (6:28 am) [edit] |
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sorry to be posting over a comic, but there's other liberty's kids too ya know :p i'm just here to mention it's our very own LIBERTY BELLE'S BIRTHDAY! she's 26 today. and she's got more grit, fire, and guts than all of us put together. so happy birthday to her. you all better leave a very heart felt birthday comment for her!
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| When there's somethin weird and it don't look good. |
| 12.11.04 (5:49 am) [edit] |
OK at long last, the promised 2nd cartoon from the tied winner of our recent 'send in your ghost story' contest. We promised the winners a cartoon interpretation of their winning stories, so here we are. This one comes to us courtesy of 'Thisisnotablog' http://thisisnotablog.tblog.c... Thanks for the story, 'This...' and be sure to check back often for some exciting new contests with accompanying winning cartoons!
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I was in 6th grade, and i slept on the third story of my house... there was no where to run to if someone came in.. only the window.
It was about four in the morning and a giant thunder storm was happening. I heard rain inside the house so I woke up my Dad and we went down the stairs. We had two decks coming off of our second story. We walked to one, and then saw that the sliding glass door was open. I know we had locked it that night... then as my Dad went up the stairs after closing the door, I looked out it and saw three faces...
One was a clown face, the other was a dead man, and one was right against the window with a gun.... as I walked up the stairs noises came from outside the house on the roof... Next thing I know I wake up to see the garage door was open, and the brakes on my bike had been cut... I didn't know and rode my dike and crashed into a mail box because I didn't have and way to stop....
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| All hands on deck |
| 12.10.04 (2:20 pm) [edit] |
Dear Log,
I have made my way onto the ship, the Magnolia Gaye, and we have set sail for buried treasure and adventure, but we had to turn back and return to port when the captain, a grisly fellow named Skylarking Catfish, realized he’d left his wallet at his urologist’s office.
With wallet in hand, we set forth again, and I was shown my quarters, which I took note of sketching below:
I met the First Mate-a studious taskmaster by the name of Smythe. He paid me’ advance of 2 doubloons and ordered me to hoist the gangplank* and then get fast to work swabbing the deck. I advised him I didn’t have a mop and he looked confused and pulled out a chart. Studying it, he made a number of calculations on his abacus and was in the middle of his studies when Captain Catfish himself wandered up.
“Arr, what lechery be this?” said he.
Looking up, Master Smythe adjusted his spectacles and replied, “It appears we have not budgeted for a mop for young master Towne here.”
“Ar, what treachery here be! I’ll have ye in a gibbet* for this!"
Smythe gulped and the captain was reaching for his sabre when the captain’s parrot, Mr. Jingles, said “Spare ye him. He may be of some use to us later.” The captain thought about it and, grumbling, wandered off and fell down a hole in the deck. Smythe turned to me and said “Off with ye! Ge ye hence to your quarters forthwith!”
I quickly made my back to my quarters, but not without throwing a glance over me shoulder in time to see the other deck hands giving Smythe a pirate wedgie* while he exclaimed, “Scoundrels! You---eeek---no!”
TUNE IN NEXT WEEK FOR ANOTHER EXCITING INSTALLMENT OF JAMES TOWN: A PIRATE!
GANGPLANK: A board or ramp used as a removable footway between a ship and a pier.
GIBBET - Chains in which the corpses of pirates are hung and displayed in order to discourage piracy.
PIRATE WEDGIE – different than a normal wedgie, this kind is when it’s done to a pirate.
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| One is a genius, the other's insane |
| 12.10.04 (3:01 am) [edit] |
In my desire to come up with a briliant post for today, I decided to tap into my brain and just write down everything that came to mind. The following is the transcript...
Gone away is the new bird, here to say is the new bird, he'll sing a little song as he goes along, walking in a winter wonderland...
Lou. Blue Lou. Why is he called that? Well it's obviously a derogatory nickname, but like a loveable nickname since he's likeable.
Do doo dooooooooooooo
Here to stay is the new bird. I've got to get that out of my head.
Paper
Beef jerky
doooooooooooooooooooooo
What was I doing?
If my brother would just listen to me and make a budget, he would never have these money problems. He would be here to stay, like the new bird, he'll sing a...
No! Out!
What should I blog about today? If I have to plan ahead, I'm thinking too hard. I'll just blog about the first thing that comes to my mind. Keyboard, mouse, computer, desk. OK maybe I shouldn't blog about the first things I look at. Unless there's something funny about them. Maybe if my computer had Captain Kangaroo on the desktop, and he was dressed as a giant Vienna Sausage.
Blueeee looooooo
Mama likes whites bright like the sunlight, mama likes the magic of Chlorox 2...
Quantum Leap is a REALLY good TV show. But Arbys is not a good restaurant. Could these things be related? Probably not. Why is it Sam is never eating an Arby's sandwich on Quantum Leap? I'll have to think about this.
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| RAINBOWS AND CRAP |
| 12.09.04 (2:11 pm) [edit] |
Yesterday, the most random song entered the vortex of my brain and statred the dreaded reapeating game that makes some postal workers go postal! We've all heard it. We've all seen it. Kermit, that is, with a banjo in some swamp singing, "Why are there so many songs about rainbows.".............Well you know what? I could think of only one other song..."Somewhere over the rainbow." So now I think Kermit is crap. What lies do we tell our children? The song title should be, "Why aren't there so many songs about rainbows?" So now I can expect all you readers out there to comment on all the songs you know about rainbows...and ya know what, that's almost as annoying as all the alternative rock bands singing about Superman! My point...I'm sure there are tons of songs about rainbows...but does one really know them all when there at the age when one does watch KERMIT sing? NO!
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| Merry Christmas from the White Stripes |
| 12.09.04 (9:16 am) [edit] |
A couple years ago I decided to splurge on one Christmas present and get Minute Man the ultimate gift. I found an autographed guitar from his favorite band The White Stripes and I thought "Who needs groceries when my little brother can have this?"
Christmas morning came and he unwrapped it and had no reaction at all. I'm sure he was confused or overwhelmed, or something, but I thought he would at least have some kind of reaction.
So this year he is going to get a case of toilet paper.
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| the american adventure |
| 12.08.04 (6:52 pm) [edit] |
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heya. i said on my other blog i'd get some new pictures up of the FAMED minute man himself. that's me. today at work i saw that some lady's name was OOPSIE PUCKETT. can't be real! hey aren't these ghost stories in december spine chillingly creepy? oooo. ok. so i'm gonna post a photo. but it needs an explanation. it's me myself running with a flag. a little bit back, a pal of mine needed a subject for an action photo. so i got the flag and ran around. and this is how it came out. i call it "a great american."
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| The stockings were hung |
| 12.08.04 (3:33 pm) [edit] |
It’s December, the snow is falling, and presents are under the tree. In short, it’s the perfect time of year for some ghost stories.
Liberty’s Kids recently ran a contest for readers to submit their scariest ghost stories. We’ve been sifting through the entries, and even had to outsource some of the counting to a ghost story counting company in Gangees, India to help out. Finally, the results are in, and the winner is a tie. Each of the following stories will receive their own, custom, original, Liberty’s Kids artwork interpretation of their ghost stories.
Submitted by DEYellowSnow http://deyellowsnow.tblog.com...
One time, there were these two friends working in a nursing home. It was late at night, perhaps 1am or so. So, the lights go out. Probably five seconds later, they go back on. They decide to go around and see if the senior citizens are alright. They walk around in a hall and see a dark figure, somewhat like a man, rush into a woman’s room. They rush into her room and see nothing but the fear in her eyes. The very next day, that woman died. Can this be the grim reaper?
Tune in tomorrow for the cartoon for co-winner “Thisisnotablog.” We also will have another installment of James Towne: a Pirate, coming up, so check back often!
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| Drink up, me hearties, yo ho! |
| 12.07.04 (2:44 pm) [edit] |
dear log,
this is my first entry before i embark on the journey of my life. my name is james towne and i'm about to board on the famed magnolia gay, a pirate ship. the menacing man on the helm is captain skylarking catfish, that bloody dog. or so i've heard some of the men say. i consider myself more of a lubber than a true seaman. hopefully my experiences aboard this mighty cog will turn me into a man! what are my intentions? i'm searching for my father. 2 years ago, he set to sail on a packet full of spice, rum and tea leaves, never to return. so i've made it my destiny to find him, dead or alive. and if he be dead. i'll hunt down the scallywag of a dog and gut him with my rusty sabre. We're being fitted with supplies and assigned bunks tonight, after the celebration... of course. i've been known to down a clap o thunder or 2 in my day, on occassion.
i paid a manservant with the last of my doubloons to load my trunk with my belongings onto the ship. i hope to find my place swiftly, lest i find myself barren in the breeze. har! also, i figured it gets awful lonely aboard a ship, the life of a pirate. nothing but the sea and adventures awaiting you. so i purchased a bird from a grog blossomed drunkard in the alley. i've named the lad willy. so it's just me and my willy now. the time has come to report for duty, we'll be leaving the kingdom of spain as soon as the repairs are done on the ship. Perhaps one day I will be able to avenge me-self on those scurvy dogs who kidnapped my Pa. Wish me luck.
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| A pirate's life for he... |
| 12.06.04 (6:19 pm) [edit] |
We were busy doing some cleaning around the old Liberty Kids Headquarters building, located in an undisclosed, top secret location and definitely not inside a volcano on an island in the South Pacific, when we came across a secret door.
The secret door led down into a mysterious cave, and there, propped up against the wall, we found the following:
He was grasping a sabre in one hand and a dusty little chest in his other. We pried the chest open and found a complete and remarkably intact journal with hundreds of entries and sketches laying out a fascinating story of high adventure on the high seas, told through the eyes of James Towne, a brash young 17th century pirate. We will be delivering these journal entries to you, the blogging public, every week, maybe even multiple times in a week if demand is great enough. It’s a fascinating tale, and not for the weak of heart. Tune in to Liberty’s Kids tomorrow for the first installment!
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| Vacuum Cleaner loophole.... |
| 12.06.04 (12:53 pm) [edit] |
I found a loophole in the vacuum cleaners at the carwash.
Last Saturday I decided that my car carpet needed to be vacuumed. Fortunately, .5 miles from my house is a carwash with vacuum cleaners. They were .50 but I always hate it when you are trying to vacuum and it starts beeping at you, and you don’t know how long you have before it will shut off. So I put in .75 to be safe. I began vacuuming, finished the front, vacuumed the back, then back to the front again. The vacuum wasn’t shutting off! I would have just hung up the hose and driven off but I wanted to make sure I got my $’s worth. About 15 minutes later it turned off and I was finally able to get on with my day.
For those of you who have the same problem of it turning off too quick, just put that extra quarter in and it will go for an eternity.
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| Very exciting time |
| 12.06.04 (3:01 am) [edit] |
Tank : Morning! Did you sleep?
Neo shakes his head
Neo : Not much...
Tank : You will tonight, I guarantee it! I'm Tank, I'll be your
operator.
Neo stares at his arm
Neo : You don't...you don't have any...
Tank : Holes? Nope. Me and my brother Dozer, we're both one
hundred percent pure, old fashioned home-grown human, born
free!...Right here, in the real world. Genuine child of
Zion.
Neo : Zion?
Tank : If the war was over tommorow, Zion's where the party would
be.
Neo : It's a city?
Tank : The last human city. The only place we have left.
Neo : Where is it?
Tank : Deep underground, near the Earth's core, where it's still
warm. You live long enough, you might even see it!
Tank smiles
Tank : ...I gotta tell you, I'm fairly excited to see
what you're capable of, if Morpheus is right and all...We're
not supposed to talk about this, but if you are...Damn, it's
a very exciting time. We got a lot to do, lets get to it..
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| some battleground |
| 12.05.04 (11:48 am) [edit] |
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heya. i've been afraid to post recently cuz the posts we have are already too good. but i'll give it a shot. so the other day on the way home from work, i was stopped at a light and this plumbing van was driving through the intersection. now, this isn't a story at all. but what was on the van makes it a story. it said mario's plumbing. and it had a picture of super mario with like a plumbing wrench. out loud i said to myself "hmmm that's a massive copyright infringment." unless it was some promotional thing from nintendo, which i doubt. so that was weird. but not much of a story.
i can't think of anything else to write really, so i'll just post some comments here about our fallen comrade, matt. i appreciate his contribution he made to the liberty's kids site. it's tough being a LK. however, we work like the road of bones here. if someone falls while working, we just incorporate them into the pavement and keep building. i learned that from watching long way round, starring ewan mccgregor. anyway, matt is welcome back here once he unfreezes himself and gives us 24 hours prior notice. it's always cool to have "missing, presumed dead." next to your name huh? we have big big plans in store. stay tuned.
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| Tragedy! When the feeling's gone and you can't go on, it's tragedy. |
| 12.04.04 (5:35 am) [edit] |
I know you have all been on the edge of your seats to find out what has happened to our Liberty Kid, Matt, who was en route to a far-away land to excavate a petrified lemur when his plane crashed in the Himalayas.
We were all in near-hyterics when we heard the news here at Liberty Kids headquarters. We immediately set out to find our lost teammate. We quickly set about deploying thousands upon thousands of Empirial droids to scour the earth to see if they could find Matt and relay information to us as to his whereabouts.
At 3:33 pm yesterday, our satelite uplink at Liberty Kids secret headquarters received this transmission from droid HR-829B, shortly before it was destroyed and mysteriously eaten by an unknown source. As you can see, things look pretty grim.
So, it is with great sadness that we announce that our teammate has fallen, apparently having frozen to death in the Himalayas, eventually to be eaten by a giant, man-eating, Yeti. We'd like to take this moment to thank Matt for his contributions to our site, and wish him luck at his new endeavors. Perhaps one day the technology will exist for us to send out a search party and recover what is left of our fallen friend. Until then, we must move forward. Watch this site for the addition of a new, exciting Liberty Kid, coming very, very soon!
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| DUFF, DUFF, IT'S WONDERFUL STUFF |
| 12.03.04 (2:20 pm) [edit] |
Howdy all. Yesterday, at work, I shared an elevator with Hillary Duff and her body gaurd. Seriously folks, she's like 4'8''. Anyway she was on the phone with her mother blabb'in about how great the snow was here. A thought actually crossed my mind for a minute. The body gaurd certainly wasn't going to expect a Hotel Employee to do anything drastic so I would have the element of surprise. All I would have had to do is say to him he had some food on his jacket. The minute he looked down I would poke him in the eyes and knee him in the crotch. By this time Hillary would be screaming and I would make use of her fright by grabbing her phone and exclaiming to her mother. "I have your daughter now, I hope you enjoyed your last conversation with her!" Then simply hang up. Why do this you ask? Within probably 1 hour it would be national news. I'd be on Celebrity Justice, Access Hollywood, VH1's Best Week Ever, and prison...how cool is that?
BUT I DIDN'T...OBVIOUSLY!
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| Zero Hour |
| 12.02.04 (7:18 pm) [edit] |
*NEWS FLASH*
This just in at the Liberty Kids blog. One of our members who you all know and love, Matt, is reported lost somewhere in the Himalayas. He was on a trip to try to excavate a petrified lemur with his gun club when his plane went down.
Sources tell us most of Matt's club have been forced to eat each other to stay alive, even though they've only been stranded for about 15 minutes or so. We do not know if Matt, at this time, is alive, dead, or more importantly, will ever pay us back that $22 he borrowed to buy Sweet Home Alabama when the DVD came out and he was out of money.
We will continue to bring you updates as we hear from them. We expect this crisis will be resolved, one way or another, at approximately 3:33 tomorrow afternoon, Central Time. Until then, let's all keep Matt and that lemur in our thoughts, and pray for his speedy return. (Matt's, that is.)
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| Close your eyes and try to sleep don't say so long |
| 12.01.04 (6:52 pm) [edit] |
I've had my Christmas tree up for a while now and I can't see how I survived without it all year. The ambient light it gives off is comfortable and home-y. Are there any other light-up holidays I could celebrate without looking like a loon?
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| Alternate Christmas songs..... |
| 12.01.04 (5:27 am) [edit] |
A few weeks ago Lando the Free, Minute Man and myself, all began thinking of Christmas songs bands could have by taking an original song of theirs and adding something Christmas themed to it or using something about the band in a regular Christmas themed song. Below is a fraction of the list we came up with, feel free to add your alternate titles as well:
Depeche Mode: "Blasphemous Christmas"
Travis: "Writing to Reach Santa" and "Slide Snow"
Muse: "Citizen Christmas List Erased"
Erasure: "Carol of the Bells" (All Boys Choir Version)
Brendan Benson: "Sitting Pretty on Santa's Lap" and "Mrs. C."
Sheryl Crow: "Soak up the Snow"
Madonna: "Beautiful Santa"
REM: "Losing my Belief in Santa"
50 Cent: "E.L.V.E.S."
They Might Be Giants: "Istanbul (Not Constantinorthpole)"
Spoon: "Lines in the Red Suit"
Placebo: "All I want for Christmas is crack"
Muse: "christmas time massacre"
Muse: "Stocking Syndrome"
NIN: "The downward noel"
blur: "that red suit"
Jason Falkner: "Mr. Christmas"
Brendan Benson: "LaNorthPole"
Elliott Smith: "A distorted Christmas is now a necessity to have cheer"
elliott smith: "rudolph's trick"
coldplay: "frosty, the sad snowman"
Charlatans UK: "Up on the house top at the lake"
jet: "cold hard christmas"
The Cure: "It's Christmas, I'm in Love"
strokes: "spiked eggnog"
Strokes: "The Jolly Life"
Strokes: "Is this all I got for Christmas?"
Robbie Williams: "The stockings were hung"
von bondies: "downtown d-rock santa shop"
interpol: "SNOW MANS"
Outkast: "Ho ho yah"
Depeche Mode: "The elves' lament"
iterpol: "santa was a fat man and he's always down"
The Natural History: "Santa is watching this house"
morrissey: "you're the one for me fatty (santa)"
brmc: "snow burns"
hives: "c is for christmas"
Morrissey: "I've given all my presents away"
Jude: "Black Santa"
David Bowie: "Santa's Filthy Suit"
blur: "santabum"
Electric Six: "Manger! High Voltage!"
They Might Be Giants: "Build a Birdhouse in the north pole"
Beatles: "being for the benefit of mr. scrooge"
Shins: "Sharing is creepy"
white stripes: "i'm finding it harder to be a secret santa"
Radiohead: "Pakt like candy canes in a tin box"
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