Category: Holidays

A One-Man Halloween Party

Halloween Party Man

A hayseed, a jug o’ hard cider with a corncob bung, and a pumpkin. The guy’s ready for anything.

[Found here.]

Hmmm.

Oran Gutan Pumpkin

Young Ichabod sorts it out.

[Found here.]

Saturday Matinee: Ray White, Priscilla Ahn & Tom Waits

Talking Feet: 6-1/2 minutes of awesome. Watch the whole thing [via].

Priscilla Ahn‘s got a cool version of Tom Waits‘ “I Don’t Wanna Grow Up.”

Tom Waits was indicted [sic] into The Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame in 2011, and Neil Young introduced him. Great intro, great clips, great quotes. Someone said that Waits doesn’t sing the same song the same way twice.

“I think what I try to do is write adventure songs and Halloween Music.” –Tom Waits

That last quote cracks me up, because back when we still had trick-or-treaters coming around, we’d do up the front entry and blast Mickey Hart’s “Planet Drum” and Wait’s “Bone Machine” to the neighborhood. Great Halloween music.

Have  a great weekend, see you back here tomorrow.

The .Gif Friday Post No.303 – Halloween: Zombie Colonel, Alien Attack & Panic Spaz

Zombie Colonel
alien
Panic Spaz

[Found here, here and here.]

It seems like it’s too far off to do proper Halloween posts, but here’s our Halloween Archive anyway.

Kid Squid

squid costume

This is entirely awesome.

[Found here.]

Giorno del Signore Cristoforo Colombo

columbus-day-facts

[Click on the image for “10 Things You May Not Know About Christopher Columbus.”]

Happy Socialism Day – An Opinion

Union Racism California

Once May Day was coopted by socialists (to commemorate the 1917 Communist Bolshevik Revolution) President Grover Cleveland sought to distance an observance to honor those who worked in jobs requiring physical exertion. Labor Day was created as a sop to the unions, and it accomplished little except to foment class envy, the lever used by Leftists throughout history.

Labor Day was easily coopted by Unions, who are by definition socialist. Work too hard or too efficiently, you make the sluggards look bad. That’s what I was told, as was my father – work at average or below, nothing more, or you’re out of a job. When the top producers drop to the mean, the mean drops even lower.

There’s something obviously wrong and inherently evil with that credo, and I never bought into it.

Every worker starts out as a pissant. Few workers stay at that level… unless they want to. Who is dumb enough to want long-term minimum wage? I certainly didn’t.

Note that there is no holiday respecting the one institution that supports labor, pays for labor, frees people from impoverished economic slavery and provides step stones to prosperity, and that is Free-Market Capitalism.

Anyone who tells you otherwise is either ignorant or a liar.

BTW, here’s your bratwurst. Mustard’s over there.

Bunk

Nominated for Best Supporting Actor

Wilson

In the [2000] film [Cast Away], Wilson the volleyball serves as Chuck Noland’s personified friend and only companion during the four years that Noland spends alone on a deserted island.The character was created by screenwriter William Broyles, Jr.

While researching for the film, he consulted with professional survival experts, and then chose to deliberately strand himself for one week on an isolated beach in the Sea of Cortez, to force himself to search for water and food, and obtain his own shelter. During this time, a volleyball washed up on shore. [Wiki]

[Image found here.]

2013 Independence Day Parade

The float’s all gassed up and ready to go, and we’ll be at the biggest Independence Day Parade west of the Mississippi tomorrow. (I have a key to the crappers, too).

See you there.

BunkFloat 4 July 2013

Stolen modified float pic came from here.

UPDATE:
That’s what the float looked like today with a Ding Dong in front of it:

2013 HB 4th of July Parade (5a)

The Tim Conway Jr.  Show is worth listening to for the theme song alone. It can be heard online 7-10PM weekdays AM640 KFI.

Memorial Day – Remember Always

Memorial Day 2012
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