Is finally released today in theatres! So make sure you go see the sequel to Blue Harvest.

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Remember me introducing you to Stewie not very long ago? I got her because of a crazy incident with a mouse and wooden spoon. And I remember looking at her and thinking, well, it’ll be several months before she’s old enough to earn her keep.
Well, I was wrong…
Stewie got her first mouse this morning! I’m so proud of her! Good kitty!
Michelle

We all know everyone’s favorite cartoon baby is Stewie. Stewie is that evil baby that looks like he has a tumor the size of a football in his head.

Yeah that baby. Well he has this whole plot to kill his mother and take over the world. Well if you watch Family Guy you know that he is pretty close to be the funniest person on the show and almost everyone loves him. Here are some pictures of Stewie!

Hope you liked these pictures

~Dieter~

LOOOOOOL

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The next member of the Viking Fellowship I wish to indroduce is Nindrojrir Perfidious the Dwarven Rune-Keeper.  Nindrojrir acts as the fellowship’s Healer but can do just as much DPS as Beowyf in a pinch.  Nindrojrir is constantly running around and jumping.  Nin has been running in circles constantly since Everquest 1.  MMO Viking’s kids laugh and call him “your jumping friend” when they see him.  Always dressed in black Nindrojrir seems like a cross between Lord Vordimort and Stewie from Family Guy.  Always quick to laugh at another member of  the Fellowship’s misfortune in game.  Well actually I think the entire Fellowship does this with each other but I think Nin leads this category.  Nindrojrir can summon a large healing Runestone that heals all Fellowship members closeby.  Beowyf likes to lean against it during fights.  Nindrojrir can also name the runestone, so being Nin he names his runestone after characters that have peeved him lately.  It is very insulting and can be confusing when the game says the Runestone has been defeated by enemies.  Nindrojrir always yells!  Every sentence is a yell!  An example would be “Beo what hell are you doing!”  Nindrojrir is the richest of the Fellowship with 100 gold to his name.  This is unacceptable to Beowyf who only has 63 gold.  The fact that Nin never spends his gold has not gone un-noticed by the Fellowship sometimes resulting in slurs directed at him.  In a past life Nin was Nindakin the Gnome Wizard.  MMO Viking prefers Norse-like Dwarves to Fae-Celtic-like gnomes anyday!  Luckily  J.R.R. Tolkien didn’t have a group of gnomes show up recruiting Bilbo Baggins to burgle for them! 

Prea belea Stewie Griffin asta )

If you’re like me, then you’re too cool for Halloween. But, if you’re like me, you also get that last minute feeling like you’re about to miss out on something special by not dressing up. Here are some ideas (with pictures) to ease the debilitating Halloween stress.

Consider being Pirate Stewie

The Red-Eyed Ballerina

For couples, consider the Boba Fett and Phyllis Diller combo

Anybody else out there not really buying all these “things are looking up!!! really!!!” pieces in the media? I just have to see how my own business has a much different flow than it’s had in years past to know that all is not entirely “normal.” Though I believe that “normal” will be purposefully redefined over the next few quarters.

People are still spooked, jobs are still being lost, and budgets are still incredibly slow to be approved.

A quick glance through Roper’s Mood of the World Report had these numbers jumping out at me:

69% of US consumers agree that “this is the worst economy I’ve ever experienced”

62% of global consumers experienced a negative event, while 23% experienced a positive one (such as job advancement, job distress, increasing value of savings & investments, declining value of savings & investments, financial windfall, difficulty paying monthly bills, housing distress)

86% of global consumers have used some kind of money-saving strategy this year

1970s Recession Conventional Wisdom Said Simple Life Was Here to Stay
59% of Americans in 1974 agreed that “doing without some things and living a more austere life would be a good thing”
Only 20% felt doing without was a bad thing

Which, as you recall, led straight into the Go-Go Eighties and “Greed is good” and that ridiculousness. We have short memories, huh?

I recently did some focus groups across the country and in EVERY market, even though we were in a couple that had been particularly hard hit by the housing bubble bursting, respondents told us over and over again that in 5 years they were going to be RICH. Not just better off than they were at the moment but wearing the best designer clothing and accessories, owning multiple vehicles and homes, boats, you name it. No one was calling their desire by its proper name – there was lots of talk of being comfortable and not having to worry about finances but every visual that was chosen was one of sumptuous, over the top luxury.

The “I must consume” Cookie Monster will be back, don’t you worry. We’ll all have too much work and the conferences will be in places we really want to go!

Stewie escreveu uma musica á sua adorada Suzie, mas deu o nome da sua amada á canção. Será que não houve já muita gente que fez isso?

October 21, 2009: Barry Cauchon

Hi all: I have a fondness for Civil War history and the melodic sounds of the banjo. To me, the sound of the banjo and images from the Civil War go hand-in-hand. I’ve always associated the two together. Years ago, my appreciation for the banjo came from an unlikely source …  comedian Steve Martin. He was my first influence to this great instrument.

So last week (October 15), when Steve Martin brought his banjo playing tour to Toronto I had to be there. And I wasn’t disappointed. It is the second Steve Martin concert I’ve been to in 31 years.

The first was at the historic Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto in August, 1978. Steve was supporting his hugely successful comedy album “Wild and Crazy Guy” and was performing at arena-size venues. I was a big fan of both Steve’s comedy and banjo playing and so I bought a ticket in the nosebleed section. That night Steve came out in an all pink suit and proceeded to entertain about 18,000 of us. Three things from that show stand out in my memory.

The first was when Steve announced that he would perform a magic trick called “The Amazing Disappearing Dime Trick” in which he held up the dime for all of us to see and then made it disappear. Performing a ‘close up’ magic trick to an arena-size audience was nuts, and a true Martin-style comedic moment (if you don’t get the joke, well you just had to be there…sorry). I loved it.

The second thing I remember was when he performed his hit single “King Tut” at the end of the show (an Egyptian icon that I would personally become involved with two decades later when I became the Sr. Project Manager for the 2005 King Tut tour).

Finally, I remember his banjo playing. This was not a big part of his comedy act that night but nonetheless I was really impressed by his playing and decided that I had to have one for myself. I bought my first banjo a short time later. And although I didn’t keep it for long, eventually selling it at a garage sale, the seed was planted for my future.

Now, roll ahead twenty-two years to the year 2000 and I get the urge to play banjo again. I’m older, wiser and now more dedicated. I’m also experiencing a lot of stress in my life at this time. I buy another banjo along with lots of ‘HOW TO’ books and videos and proceed to teach myself in earnest how to play this thing. I even take a few banjo lessons. Within a month, I upgrade that banjo, exchanging it for one that is “really nice”. My stress levels plummet and I realize that the banjo is also an incredible relaxation instrument.

But being in the basement (remember – that cold, dingy and dreary place) took its toll and I soon found that my banjo was spending a lot more time in its case than in my hands. Eventually it remained there and has been so for the last three years. I was unhappy.

STEVE MARTIN GIVES ME ‘BANJO REBIRTH’

Steve Martin's new CD called "The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo"

Now let’s jump ahead to 2009 and I hear that Steve Martin has released a CD of banjo songs that he wrote himself. I’m intrigued and buy it. The CD is called “The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo”. It has sixteen songs of which Steve composed fifteen. I am pleasantly surprised when I listen to it for the first time. Like most fans of this man’s work, I expected a good deal of these to be novelty songs. However, only one song can be considered a Steve Martin novelty song, and personally, that one is great called ‘Late for School’. But the other songs are genuinely wonderful banjo compositions, featuring not only Steve Martin but other exceptional musicians and singers. I thoroughly enjoyed the entire CD.

When I heard that Steve was going to do a limited live concert tour to support the CD and that Toronto was to be one of the stops, I jumped at the chance to see him. This time I was not in the nosebleed section but just a few rows from the front … center stage.

To open the show, comedic writer Dave Barry came out and introduced Steve and did a 15 minute ‘one on one’ interview with him. Odd, but this was a Steve Martin concert after all. I did hear Steve mention that it was ‘fill’ (which could be true as his back up band, The Steep Canyon Rangers, was running late) but I know they do this ‘on stage’ interview at all his concerts. Whatever the case, we got to sit and listen to Dave and Steve chat for a bit and then Steve played a song from his CD . For those folks in attendance that night who were expecting Steve to do a stand up comedy act, I think he won them over when he showed them just how good of a banjo player and composer he really is. Steve is so good in fact that in the past he has shared the stage with banjo greats like Earl Scruggs, Bela Fleck and Tony Trischka to name a few. His banjo compositions are solid and entertaining and I personally went to see him play these songs. What was fun for me, and the audience, was that Steve is still Steve and he injected humor regularly throughout the night resulting in a ’variety show’ rather than just a straight forward musical show.

Steve’s last encore of the night surprised me. He did a bluegrass version of ‘King Tut’ (which sounded quite similar to the original). For me, I didn’t feel he needed to add that to the repertoire. His banjo songs clearly held their own and if I had any complaint about the show at all was that he didn’t play one of my favorites from his CD called Pretty Flowers. But show business is show business and I guess you have to give the people what they want so King Tut was in and Pretty Flowers was out. I tip my hat to you, sir. Your work is solid.

As an aside, King Tut is in my life again. The second exhibit from the King Tut touring franchise is scheduled to come to Toronto from November 24 to April 18, 2010 and I’m giving talks to students at local schools to help prime them for the exhibit. I call the presentation The King Tutorial. Steve sings King Tut again and I’m giving Tut talks. WEIRD.

So Steve and I again cross paths. It’s all very strange to me. Is it meant to be? Is it fate? I may never know but I still wonder about these kind of things…LOL.

Stewie from "The Family Guy"

I think it is safe to say that my ‘Banjo Rebirth’ took place due to Steve’s (not Stewie’s) new CD and concert. My interest is once again peaked to play the banjo. So tonight I will take my banjo out of its case for the first time in over three years and I plan to get really ‘comfy’ with it. And as I do, I will think of Steve Martin and the influences that this man has had on my life over the years. He has influenced my sense of humor. He has influenced my interest in the banjo and strangely, he may have even influenced my involvement with King Tut. For all this, I want to say “Thank you Steve. You’ve brought joy to my life not only in the form of music and humor but also with your personal thoughts on the rights of Australian bushmen to be allowed to smoke in their own huts without reprisals”. Fascinating stuff for sure.

If there is anything I can request from Steve Martin, should we ever meet, it will be to grant me one wish from my own personal bucket list.

BUCKET LIST ITEM #4: Get a FREE banjo lesson from Steve Martin.

Please Steve. Grant me this one wish…please…for FREE!     

Life is good my friends. Have fun and find your joy.

Best

Barry

outreach@awesometalks.com

Olyan egy irtó szerencsés emberi lény vagyok, hogy abba az iskolába járhatok, ahol Bozsó Petike és Dolmány Attila is végeztek. Ha valakinek nem esett volna még le, Bozsó Péter Stan magyarhangja a South Parkból, Dolmány Attila pedig Kylé, és Stewie-é a Family Guyból. Olyan kielégülés közeli állapotban vagyok ha meghallom a hangjukat, hogy az valami fantasztikus És Dolmány Attilával egy színpadon álltam. És hallottam a hangját, és láttam cigizni. Locsoljatok fel egy vödör vízzel :D

This has nothing to do with that fact that the toddler on the show just happens to be the pimp to Stewie’s evil.  This isn’t about Cleveland picking up the pieces in a home ruined by a baby-daddy.  I could care less that the teenage daughter is one “oops” away from preggo-ville.  Or that Cleveland threatens to beat other people’s children.

All that is funny and true.  No beef there.

The reason I think the Cleveland Show is racist is because they seem to get all the throw-a-way jokes from Family Guy.  Are black characters not good enough to be treated to fresh new thought-provoking angles?

Don’t just toss us table scrap gags after the Family Guy writers pick all the meat off the bone.  Every joke on that show feels like Peter should be saying it, but the producers were like, “We can’t fit it in, just throw it in Cleveland’s bit pile.  We’ll blacken it up later.”

The Cleveland Show is the chitlins to the Family Guy’s honey glazed ham.  Do we not deserve a honey glazed ham?