Thursday, December 29, 2011

Discorporate Actors Gone Not Forgotten


Actors who've discorporated.  (Left their Bodies) Sure enjoy their work.  Not a complete list, just a few from some of my favorite shows, etc.
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The Munsters: Yvonne DiCarlo - Lily, Al Lewis - Granpa, Fred Gwynne - Herman.
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Addams Family: Carolyn Jones - Morticia, Jackie Coogan - Uncle Fester, Blossom Rock - Grandmama, Ted Cassidy - Lurch & Thing
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Star Trek: DeForrest Kelley - Dr. McCoy, James Doohan - Scotty, Nurse Chapel/Lwaxanna Troi/Computer Voice of Enterprise - Majel Roddenberry, Great Bird of the Galaxy - Gene Roddenberry, John Colicos, William Campbell, Merritt Butrick
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Are You Being Served?  Mrs . Slocumbe - Mollie Sugden, Ms. Brahms - Wendy Richards, Mr. Humphries - John Inman, Mr. Grainger - Arthur Brough, Mr. Harman - Arthur English, Young Mr. Grace - Harold Bennett. Young Mr. Lucas - Trevor Bannister.
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Keeping Up Appearances: Rose #2 - Mary Millar, Daddy - George Webb
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As Time Goes By: Joan Sims - Madge Hardcastle, Frank Middlemass - Rocky Hardcastle, Moyra Fraser - Aunt Penny
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Golden Girls: Dorothy - Bea Arthur, Blanche -  Rue McClanahan, Sophia - Estelle Getty
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Beverly Hillbillies: Jed Clampett - Buddy Ebsen, Granny - Irene Hays, Pearl Bodine - Bea Benaderet, Milburn Drysdale - Raymond Bailey, Miss Jane Hathaway - Nancy Kulp,

Green Acres: Eddie Albert - Oliver Wendall Douglas, Eva Gabor - Lisa Douglas, Pat Buttram - Mr. Haney

Petticoat Junction: Kate - Bea Benaderet, Uncle Joe - Edgar Buchanan
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Hogans Heroes: Hogan - Bob Crane, Werner Kemperer - Col. Klink, John Banner - Sergeant Schultz, Sergeant Carter - Larry Hovis, Sergeant Kinch - Ivan Dixon
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Young Frankenstein: Elizabeth - Madeline Kahn,  Peter Boyle -Monster, Igor - Marty Feldman, Inspector Kemp - Kenneth Mars 
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Dallas:  Miss Ellie - Barbara Bel Geddes,  Jock Ewing - Jim Davis,
Falconcrest:  Jane Wyman - Angela Channing
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Laugh In:  Alan Sues, Henry Gibson, Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, Larry Hovis, Teresa Graves, Flip Wilson, Tiny Tim
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Miscellaneous: Mr. French - Sebastian Cabot, Johnny Carson, Ed McMahon,


I remember you, you live in my heart. Thank You for all the pleasure you give.

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Kirk / Spock "K/S" Homoerotic Trek Fandom

Kirk/Spock is a subset of Trek Fandom which choose to believe that the Captain and the Vulcan are homersexual symbiotes or something.  :)


Ever since the original series was on the air, fans (mostly female at first) have written what is called "fanfic" or fan authored fictional stories about Kirk and Spock being lovers.  For many years in the seventies all you had to do was whisper "KS" and Trekkers might giggle or roll their eyes.  Don't get me wrong, they were tolerant for the most part, but it still seemed like a taboo subject matter.  Like the female generated fanzine that included a nude foldout watercolor of Spock in the seventies.  Unusual.  Nowadays this kind of stuff seems quaint and belonging to the Victorian era or something.  Of course K/S has spawned any number of fanfic subjects that play "what if" with all sorts of combinations on all sorts of shows, but the K/S'ers blazed the way!  Pants Off To 'Em!

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Ozark Hillbilly Depression Food

  
Click Link Above or Photo For Picture Album
My Mother and her parents used to eat these foods during the Great Depression and afterward.  They were common foods in the Ozark Hills of Missouri.  You don't much see anyone eating them in the big cities unless they are real Country Folk.

Grandpa especially liked to sit and chew and gnaw on chicken neck bones, pig's knuckles, chicken feet.  Her mom liked clabber milk and squeaky cheese.  Whenever they would butcher a hog, which was a very big deal, the whole neighborhood would come and help, and helpers got a part of the results.  One old bachelor from Germany who was dirt poor would come and work hard and in reward he would take the pig's blood, and go home and make blood sausage.  Nothing from the pig was wasted. 

Back then, you didn't waste food just because it might have been dropped on the ground, or had a little mold on it, etc. or worm holes.  When they briefly went to California looking for work and lived in a garage, my grandmother would take my young mom and they'd go in the alleys behind restaurants in Los Angeles and search the trash cans.  They'd find bread or cheese with a little mold on it, they just cut off the mold and it was fine.  If the vegetables were wilted or had spots, or were just tops and peels etc. they'd make soup out of it.  Nothing was wasted.  If you found an apple, cut the worm out of it.  Today's kids would yell EEEEWW and throw it away disgusted.  My mom would cringe at that.

My mom had to live by herself and run the house for a year during the depression when she was 14.  She had to tend the garden everyday after school to be sure she had food to eat.  She had to can food, trade with neighbors, be super careful spending the few dollars her Dad might send home from the road.  No one gave her anything, they couldn't afford to.  I don't think most the people alive today have any idea what it's really like during a bad Depression.  They keep talking like we're in one or close to one.  Hah.  Well, first thing they better do is start allowing chicken keeping in the suburbs, maybe if you have an acre allow a cow and pig too.  And people will learn real quick how to eat scraps and poor people food and things they'd rather die than eat now.

The foods in the picture album above are just some of the things off the top of my head, I'm sure I missed alot.  I'll try to add to it over time.  You can look up any of those things on the net and how to cook them, buy them, etc.

In case you didn't click on the Photo Album, here is a partial list of the foods: Cow Brains, Cow Tongue, Blood Sausage, Pork Cracklins, Pig's Feet, Pig's Knuckles, Chicken Feet, Pig's Ear, Cow's Intestines (Tripe), Chicken Gizzards, Chicken Livers, Ox Tails, Squeaky Cheese, Clabber Milk

Copyright 2011 VROUK

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Here Come The Mummies! 4000 Yr Old Funk Band


 
A Four Thousand Year Old Funk Band of Mummies Plays 
Attack of the Weiner Man Live
Weird with a Beard!
  VROUK APPROVED!

You can visit this Madison WI band at their web site
or search out their 39 Videos on YouTube including such hits as
Attack of the Weiner Man, You Gonna Eat All That?, Dirty Minds, Libido Knieval,
Booty, Funky Little Baby, Ra Ra Ra, TipToe, Single Entendre, Oozie, Cow Belt, more.
This band is GROOVY.

Prisecolinensinenciousol - Adriano Celentano

 
Prisecolinensinenciousol, a Parody by Italian Comedian Adriano Celentano for Mileluci on Italian TV.   He made up this gibberish and dance to make fun of what English sounds like to Italians.  Hilarious!  You can almost "hear" English words that aren't there.

And the DANCE NUMBER!  Imitating Americans doing a GROOVY Dance Number,
You will share it with your friends after you see it.  I especially love the angular bodies and head tosses and struts/mirrors, the harmonica, all the visual gags making fun of Americans of the era.  Just like the Romans thought that all non-Latin speakers sounded like baahing sheep, therefore the word Bar-Bar-ians meaning uncouth, these modern Italians have quite a funny fake Elvis sounding version of AmEnglish.  By the way, the Japanese think Americans sound like barking dogs!  And their term gaijin translates roughly to "round eyed bastards".  Hahaha!  I love finding out this stuff.

If you have never gone on YouTube and searched for videos of non English practicing their English speaking and accents, it's HILARIOUS.  Check it out.  That's how I found this video.

Cha Cha Heels - Die For Art - DIVINE

 
Cha Cha Heels for Christmas starring DIVINE
Excerpt from John Waters movie where character of Dawn Davenport ruins Christmas morning for her parents.  You'll want to play it again and again.  Especially poignant is the mother at the end plaintively crying "not on Christmas! not on Christmas!"
NSFW!!!
One of the most neurotic scenes of all time.  You'll want to memorize the dialogue.
Speaking of Divine, here are a few more scenes from her John Waters movies that are especially Weird:
 
Who Wants To Be Famous? Who Wants To Die for Art!

 
I Wish You Was Gay - Queers is Just Better!
Edith Massey God Bless Her! in that all time classic scene where she tries to get her grandson to go gay so she won't worry about him and girls.

How To Dance When You're High On Life

 
SundayFundayz Guys Video
How to Dance When You're High On Life
Okay, I know over a million have already seen this incredibly happy video, but just in case you have not, check it out!  It's Fun!  These guys are having so much fun you just want to dance with them!  They have a channel on youtube and also are on FB as SundayFundayz and Twitter same name.  They are dancing to bhangra music, that catchy music from Bollywood in India, and you can see they have practiced the Indian dance moves to perfection, complete with knowing the words and facial expressions.

 
Tunak Tunak Tun was the Song they are Dancing To