Monday, August 2, 2010

Knocking Off For A Week

I'll be travelling to Maine's Kennebec River valley for a week of glorious rusticity. No internet access electricity or hot running water for a week- just a glorious time paddling around one of the great ponds of Maine, swimming in water pristine enough to drink, and hiking in the backcountry. While the ancestral manor of the family (a home built by my great-grandfather, and his compatriots who all pooled their labor to build homes for themselves) is in the Bronx, the two room cabin in Maine also looms large in the family history. The first trip to Maine is a family rite of passage, and the dirt roads and pristine waters are just as much a part of the family legacy as the elevated "6" train of Westchester Avenue and sadly non-pristine salt marshes of Pelham Bay.

Thankfully, there are no two-toed sloths in the Maine woods (I couldn't find the "shithouse troll" animation, which I would have embedded. Also, I was going to embed this video but st00pit Youtube won't let me do it.

At any rate, I'll be back in a week... don't break the internet while I'm away.

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zombie rotten mcdonald said...

hey! an english manor house with Zorbs growing out of the roof!

Can Huge Lagomorphs be far behind?

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

I AM FAR TOO UN-STONED FOR THIS!!

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Non-stoned?

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

yes, this will be staying in my netflix streaming queue FOREVAH.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

oops, dropped your gun.

FumbleZed.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

the two women are diggin where Sean is remembering the beach-rape. What, the Eternals are descended from Ayn Rand?

"No Brutal ever pnetrated the Vortex" O WHAT A GIVEAWAY!

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Sean is also wearing a chest merkin.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

CHARLOTTE RAMPLING HAS APPEARED!

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

the brutals are killing all the people who wore sportcoats to the beach.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

wow, the blocking is terrrible. people wandering around meaninglessly, looking off to the side.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Goats. GOATS AN MONKEYS.

and a fey curly haired blond guy who likes whipping Sean Connery.

WHAT COULD THIS MEAN?

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

ooo, a mirrored pyramid in the garden. sweet.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Sean is so wasted, he just lies there all splayed out. I bet they had to write those scenes into the movie.

"OK, Sean, just lay there staring into the screen."

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

the bread is made with green dough.

NOW THEY ARE STEALING FROM SOYLENT GREEN!! ALL THE SEVENTIES DYSTOPIA MOVIES ARE GETTING MIXED UP.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

wait, the renegades live at teh Starlight?

..I guess that makes a kind of sense.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

there's a whole batch of extras whose only job is to wander around, looking colossally stoned.

..I guess that makes a kind of sense.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Charlotte's got quite a wig. Surprised it doesn't break her neck.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

HOLY HELL, MY DOG JUST FARTED. LOOK, IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE MOVIE, GO UPSTAIRS!!!

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

now the eternals are showing Zed dirty movies.

the netflix description calls this a 'cult classic'

What cult other than us in the bloggerhood?

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

May has decided that Sean is a mutant.

YOU DON'T NEED TO TELL ME THAT.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

they are all wiggling their fingers at teh curly haired guy, who does not want to go to second level.

he seems uncomfortable with the wiggling fingers. That does seem to be a cruel thing to do to a guy on an acid trip.

"does this bother you? I'm not touching you!"

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

now he's passed out and drooling on the mirrored round table.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

SEAN JUST FAILED 'MIMING THE INVISIBLE BOX'

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Zed is being attacked by a bunch of Old Eternals in tuxedos. He strikes back with their own crutches.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

why did the other eternals only age one side of Friend?

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Charlotte and sean are having a tug of war with a tie-dyed sheet?

And then he pulls her top off.

And then he's blind. Charlotte's nipples can blind?

OK, I lived through them, but I am not sure I really understood the 70s.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

OK;

a scene where the Eternals wander around the grounds of an English Manor House, while the grubby proles stand outside, beating on the force field with sticks.

So, a vision of the Republican World, then.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

too many Connery buffalo shots for me in this movie.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Charlotte's pretty pissed that Zed busted out of that plastic bag.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Now Connery just ate a leaf. That was pretty blatant.

Of course, it leads to a drug sequence. Another one.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Whoah. It's getting MOAR incoherent.

Sean is wearing a bridal gown now.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Zed is being filled up with knowledge. Pretty much like putting the Library of Congress on PalmPilot.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

I have to figure out a way to get this to stream on my iPhone. Portable Zardoz!

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

whew. Zed has gone to culottes and a vest, rather than the diaper. A welcome upgrade.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

OK, Charlotte Rampling spends most of the movies trying to kill Connery

So how does she end up with him, again?

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

ANOTHER drug sequence. In a house of mirrors and Kaleidoscope-scope, featuring all Sean's old girlfriends.

Shouldn't be shooting that gun in the Hall of Mirrors, Zed. Pretty sure of that.

See? cuz now you just killed yourself.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Sean passed out at the desk in teh Library. Something tells me that was not acting.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Now, after the last druyg sequence, Zed's hand can make the film run backwards. It's Magic!!

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

the really old guy is dead, which seems to surprise the Eternals.

Of course, this causes the floating stone head to crash. Obviously.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Blue Head Scarf guy is coming in and acting all Captain Exposition.

SHOOT HIM AGAIN, ZED!!

M. Bouffant said...

MB is calling me a drama zombie. Also.
AUGUST 8, 2010 5:46 PM


wow, the blocking is terrrible. people wandering around meaninglessly, looking off to the side.
AUGUST 8, 2010 9:43 PM


Not doing so well at disproving it, are we?

Also, I am watching a Bob Hope movie. Now we know who the drama zombie is.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

O crap, now it's wiggly finger time again. Singing Eternal is standing on a pedestal in the middle of the pond, and she says "Now We Can Say Yes To Death." A simultaneous Saying Yes and Zombie shoutout!! AWESOME.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

And now the rest of the red-plaster-head guys show up with guns. Kind of like when the Europeans came to America.

M. Bouffant said...

151, then 251. Be back at 351.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

M BOUFFANT DISSES ZARDOZ.

this is not allowed.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

FINALLY, THE RAMPLING SEX SCENE.

whle Zed's colleagues mop up and a chamber orchestra plays.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Now the time lapse Zed/Charlotte family scenes. Skells holding hands, you betcha.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Good. Lord.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Also, I am watching a Bob Hope movie.

Not enough Rampling.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

whew. I feel a bit like Charlotte Rampling here.

That was good. I need a cigarette, or at least another drink.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

well, there goes BBBB's productivity for Monday. You're welcome.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Captain Hammer, Corporate Tool.

Yes, I am following up with Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Have we broken the internet yet?

Smut Clyde said...

Synchronicity! Giant floating heads!

Smut Clyde said...

I feel vicariously Rampled now. Also dirty.

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

Zardozer.

Now with extra Zardoz.
~

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

still not broken. The intertron is hardier than it used to be.

well, I tried. Perhaps if I had watched Bad Ronald too.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Over to you, Von!

Mandos said...

*BOOP*

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Mandos is Von?

I would NEVER have guessed that.

Mandos said...

It's possible that I'm everyone you haven't met and at least one person you have.

More than one assuming hive minds.

I saw "Empire of the Ants" on TV last night. Good stuff!

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

It's possible that I'm everyone you haven't met and at least one person you have.

hah! you can't blow my mind.

I JUST WATCHED ZARDOZ.

Mandos said...

On your iPhone?

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

no; the video-fascists at Netflix say "streaming does not support your operating system."

so it's Youtuber!

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

hey, wait.... I see what you do there.

Vonnie said...

WOW
Hey, is B4 not back yet?
This thing is pretty big.
but is it bald and bad?

Vonnie said...

sorry I wasnt around this weekend.
some stuff and things going on.

Vonnie said...

Um, noooooo
Mandos is NOT Von.
Just sayin'

Vonnie said...

and with today's massive eye pain nastiness,
mandos wouldn't want to be von.

Vonnie said...

b4? knock knock knock?
Are you home yet?

Vonnie said...

love how Z knew I was coming over here.
I guess I do do whatever I'm told to do on teh fb.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

ZARDOZ KNOWS ALL.

Vonnie said...

Helloooo

Vonnie said...

What is going on over here?

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

resting.

trying to get the work done that I should have been doing last night when I was Zardoz-blogging the Zardoz.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Let's take it to 300 before B^4 checks in, shall we?

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Jennifer's going to be sad she missed this one.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

wv was quakers.

make of it what you will.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Von must be werking.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

really, I didn't expect to have to keep on carrying this today.

Do I need to watch Zardoz again?

fish said...

it

fish said...

expected

fish said...

of

fish said...

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fish said...

It's a smoking jacket, or would be if I smoked.

that is why the jacket does it for you...

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

I knew you'd do it fish.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

If Jennifer had showed, we'd have hit 500 easy.

600 if she used the opportunity to vent about her basement. Or vent her basement.

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

Is this thing still on?
~

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

Apparently so. A Zardoz always benefits from Kathleen live-blogging the Olympics, or some such, ZEM.
~

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

700 if she had live-blogged Bad Ronald.

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

ZEM = REM, but with more Zombie.

I meant to type ELZ, Emerson, Lake, and Zombie.
~

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

All four yur own gude, ELZ.
~

M. Bouffant said...

You're Zombuzzled.

M. Bouffant said...

Is what you are.

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

Still not dead yet...
~

fish said...

If your arguing, I must have paid.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

O fish.

We all know that you will argue whether you've paid or not. We know you too well, my brother from a fishy mother.

Vonnie said...

Still not back yet, huh?

Vonnie said...

that's kinda too bad

Vonnie said...

fish - one word post fail

Vonnie said...

I always try to do at least one sentence....

Vonnie said...

with LOTS of punctuation!!!!!

Vonnie said...

annoying word verf is annoying

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

hah. My feed showed the first two VonComments in reverse order, and it didn't make sense.

Now I see.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Hope your eye is better Von.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

I told you! B^4 became a bit character in a Stephen King novel!! The guy from the city always gets it. or gets et.

Vonnie said...

Z, I need a picture.
You halp me?

Vonnie said...

Brando? you out there? I said "halP" again....

Vonnie said...

here i am.....rock you like a hurricane
dun dun dun dun dun dunnnnnn

Vonnie said...

last word verf: latoya
um ok
new word verf: denalist

Vonnie said...

Eye much better. Sensative, a little red and swollen, but better.
Should be 100% by Friday.

Vonnie said...

is ok, I never make sense, no matter what order I'm in.

Vonnie said...

Nah, I dig B4 too much to lose him to a Stephen King novel.

Vonnie said...

fly by night....away from here....
love this radio station.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

329 comments? This is like a Sadly, No thread, except with less actor-talking-about-tits.

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

You! Yeah, you in the red diaper and the hooker boots... CLEAR OUT!!!

fish said...

We all know that you will argue whether you've paid or not.

No I won't.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

you in the red diaper and the hooker boots

I can't help but feel that comment was directed at me.

No I won't.

Ooo, I felt that was a bit predictable.

Vonnie said...

Ruh Roh, he's baaaack

Smut Clyde said...

Not a Stephen King novel, but "In The Mouth of Madness".
He's back... but he's changed

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

B^5.
~

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

Wow, my blog still smells like Zardoz...

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Don't taunt. We can start this thing back up again....

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

....or maybe not. Who am I trying to fool? Nobody can be arsed to blog anymore, let alone pull off a good old fashioned Zedding. I may have to change my avatar. Or just stick with posting at the Empire.

Sigh.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

What has two thumbs, more or less, and comment notification for this post turned on?

THIS DEAD GUY.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

I could just take it to 400 and call it a day.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Von stopped talking to me, then stopped blogging. fish stopped blogging or commenting. Jennifer is busy with other venues.

All my Zardoz compatriots are gone. I probably don't care enough to keep up the meme.

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