... who's afraid of the big, dark bat

... well, jokes on us people. while i normally keep my fan status quiet of certain films, characters, etc., i cannot deny my giddy level of excitement over non other than heath ledger who's been cast as a younger 'joker" in the upcoming July 2008 release of the next BATMAN film.

does everyone recall jack nicholson's version of Batman with michael keaton? he was brilliant in the role, and while the memory lives on of that great performance, a new direction is being taken with the 2008 film. heath was asked to read a batman graphic novel called, "the killing joke" and consider modeling some of joker's now famous maniacal ways after Alan Moore's famous 1988 depiction. true fans of the dark knight series consider this rendition the golden chalice, if you will, of joker's truly evil nature. (note the picture of joker in the lick above at the bottom of the story's write-up!)

the pics that follow are not 100% guaranteed to be true, but my online source has been spot on with such pics, news and details about movies as the Transformers, (saw on the 4th - goseeitomgoodnessitwasfun!) the Lord of the Rings series, and even the Batman Begins movie from 2 years ago, which sucessfully rebirthed the batman series.

anyhoo.., the first pic has been circulating for about 2 months online. it's said to be a test run with a more "chaotic application" of joker's infamous clown-like makeup. the other 2 are a possible studio-level freeze frame of joker's incarceration in arkum asylum and an marketing slick/image to be used for wider "poster stills."

all i can say, being a creative and visual person myself.... holy crappola this looks cooh.

... cat's meow?

IT'S CAPTION CONTEST, PEOPLZ!
... cat gotcher tongue? lets have some fun. leave a comment that you think best suits this image... have fun, be creative, try to be reasonably civil, and we'll see what all you creative peoplz come up wif!


i know what my caption would be, but this is a family show... :)

... iWant

... and holy hell, i have a feeling at some point i will get. i've got a raging techno schwing for this new iPhone by none other than those bastards at apple and all their white coated lab rats that do nothing all day except dream up ways to make me purchase all their shit because it's superior, functional, easy to use and i'll-be-goddamned-if-not-always-so-f**king-pretty.

breaaaaaaathe. i'll be fine... but holy hell looky! it does everything i need a wireless device to do except my dishes! crap! that functionality will prolly be part of a future software download! it can play veedio's better than my iPod, it can give me maps and directions because omgoodness i'm directionally retarded and sooo need something (or someone) to tell me where the hell i am, and more more more more more.

how's that kool-aide taste, you ask? well pretty damned good thank you very much!

... take that apple

... i get extreme joy out of watching this video. listen to the words carefully before you all get too excited. the technology is here and now, and by god so is the sarcasm.

... whatcha doin?

... hmmm? whatchoo been doin? you wondering about me, eh? well.. i've been keeping myself busy. and yesh, due to requests from some of you to see what mah' new digs look like, i decided to give in. i spent most of the day cleaning, and actually getting to some projects i've put on the "later" list. (it's called procrastination peoplz, look it up) Maddie was a dutiful cleaning mate as she continually brought me toy after toy after toy after toy to see if one of them would be 'the best' one for me to play with... (and yesh, i'm not a monster, i played with her constantly)

after a sudden flurry of emails deciding sunday's plans, i have the parents coming up to see the place... so that should be fun. maddie's all excited too; everytime i choose the right tone to say, "grandma and grampa are coming!" she gets all huffy and her haunches poof up. she's become such a good guard dog around here. i mean, all birds deserve to be barked at if they land on my back porch, right!?

here's the pics. anyway, most of the stuff you'll see below i already had... a couple of things, like the TV, i splurged 'cuz damnit.. i jes' wanted to. sue me... regarding the camera angles? i basically had fun with my camera and now you all get to suffer through it. enjoy.


my new samsung c300 color laser... omg i'm in love. it actually purrs when it prints.


coffee... onna timer... 6:15 brewtime baby! how did i ever survive without this?


can you say "plasma hitachi director series 1080i goodness?" i knew you could...


living room angle. nice place overall. my fav thing? it's bright with biiig windows! eep!


mah' bbq coleman baby! it folds up and is ready for a tailgate party! woop woop!

ummm.. light... especially drooly when it's tiffany/frank lloyd wright lookin'!!

maddie's the best. she keeps me company, plays often, acts as a guard dog, and only asks for payment in the form of food and that i scoop her poop... without complaining.

i hope you all have a wonderful "rest o your weekend" - leave me a note if yer so inspired to.

... keep on truckin'

... can you see me now? many of you have asked for an updated pic of me via this site. not sure really why, since i'm still convinced i have a face jes' made for radio, but hey... you ask, i deliver.

it's not too exciting. of course, with that being said, i'm not too exciting either. oh, and apparently i'm either on fire currently or being subjected to a slow burn convection oven.

not much to share this week so far. busier-than-hell week already booked up. at least it's turned back to fun ol' dreary-looking outside washington state weather. of course, murphy's goddamned law struck again: i pad $13 bucks for teenagers to clean my car at a local garage station via a drive thru monster - and today it rains. ... rrrrgh.

... i have nothing really to say

... and i feel bad about that. i only have scattered thoughts that some of you may or may not care about. hell, i'm not even sure how i feel about it all. i read all of your entries. everyday. i feel bad that sometimes i jes' don't feel like i have a damned thing to contribute. so... well, i sorries. here's an update on me.

1. i'm all moved into my new apartment.
2. it's nice and bright.
3. maddie's all set up in her routine now. (i think she loves making me bag her poop now that i'm "sans-backyard")
4. it's quiet. almost too quiet.
5. this is all my choice, but it's hard. the quiet is deafening.
6. i've been alone now with my thoughts for 2 weeks. it's amazing how little i've accomplished.
7. J and I are on cruise control now. house is sold, closes on the 15th. we're basically waiting to get a fat check to pay off ALL of our debt and split the rest. ho hum.
8. i'm working prolly 12 hours a day on average now. most of it is catch-up since there's so much to do.
9. i believe maddie thinks the downstairs neighbor's lil' poof dog is a cat. (she was raised by 3 of them...)
10. i feel empty. even being social with friends leaves me numb. this is all very, very confusing.

anyway, it's hump day. halfway through the week people. i hope you all are having a great one. all i can say is that every day i try to make it a good day. that's a start in the right direction, right?

... has anyone seen my bunners?

... okay, okay, i really don't have my very own prosh leeeetle bunners. but for anyone who's been a fan, a voter, or consistant viewer of what happens on my other site, fuzziechadsrule, you'd think i did.




i will try very hard to be a consistant blogger over the next week, but it may be difficult. we're packing up the rest of the goods today and moving out of our home of 3.5 years. a lotta work went into this place. work to make it a better place for us and our marriage. unfortunately, mainly due to my own misgivings about my life and other things i cannot put into words right now, it's become a place not suitable for me.

FCR may be late next week while i wait for internet hook up and all that crap... so be patient with me, and i wish you all well. i will likely be able to check in witchoo all during breaks at the office, but as life often teaches us; there's no guarantees.

... for sale, but not to idiots

... okay, wow. i've never been so swamped by fake offers and scams in my life. i'm trying to sell a really nice TV on craig'slist and holy hell have i been attacked by FAKE offers and scams trying to screw me, take my product, leave me with no money, and maybe attack and hold me for ransom.

it's a great TV! 51" panasonic hdtv! huge! nice! jes' don't wanna move it! and these are the types of offers i've been getting in email: (this is NOT edited by me, i swear...read it carefully and enjoy the sheer horror...)
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Message:

Dear Seller
Am Laura Anderson by name am interested in the purchase of yourElectronice which i saw the advert on the internet today and i was highly interested in buying it from you.if you dont mind i will like to know if it'sstill available for sale and your last offer price so that i can make plans onhow am going to buy it from you, i will like to know it present condition. will you Accept Us Postal Money Order as a mode of payment, because there's a client and colleagues of mine (mafia?) who will be ready to send you payment py post if we bothaggree on the term and condition,if this is ok by you kindly get back to me with the pictures of the Puppy.Hope to hear from you soon,Best Regards,Laura Anderson
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WOW, what a hold this person has on the english language! Sure, i know some people have some issues with grammer.. but this seems to me like a hack and slash cut & paste job. and yesh, my friends... "kindly get back to me with pictures of the Puppy..." i dunno. do ya THINK this sounds like a scam? I don't wanna end up in a ditch somewhere... I think i'll pass on this offer, but damn it was funny to read.

... OMG OMG OMG how cooh is this?

...HOLY FRAKKING FAST BATMAN! Woop woop! Even got full asking price BEFORE a reduction! (we panicked 2 days after listing @ $360k) we lowered it $10k but the offer came in the other day offering full price, and yesh, they asked us to pay some closing fees and give'em a new carpet allowance. FINE! DONE! SOLD! signing papers soon! eeeeep!

... buy my home, please

... i know i know, it sounds like some bad joke. we really do wanna sell our home though. i know all of you are dying to move up to the gorgeous pacific northwest, right? we've got the perfect house for you, sitting on jes' shy of an acre. fully fenced, filled with all kinds of upgrades. how many koi ponds do you know that are terrorized by great blue herons, eh?

that's right baby... this gem is going for a steal of a price of $349,900.00, and the seller's are highly motivated to sell. New roof, all kinds of inside upgrades, and much much more.

anyone convinced yet? c'mon peoplz! clicky here for more info! MLS#: 27072086


front yard shot of new paint, new roof, accents like specialty lighting, new stained glass door and more!


many of you may recall my kitchen remodel! it's done, it works, it rulz! you likey, don'tchoo!?


this backyard has been a great time for us, sprawling with all our plantings, birds, all kinds of nature and great for maddie's frisbee games!


koi pond! marshmallows over the firepit! what more can you ask for peoplz!?

i sorries...

... my deepest apologies to you all out there in bloggerland. i've not been keeping up with your posts or mine. i'm trying tho. i really am. it's jes' hard sometimes. i really don't have much to say really. nothing intelligent at least.

my mind is a wasteland. filled with thoughts and questions and fears of which i have no idea how to organize. the picture i edited today was, safe to say, not one of my best. then again, the less people see of me prolly the better. the term "face made for radio" is an addage i've heard before, and for so many years grew comfortable with. the pic sums up a lot of my issues tho. i don't know what i'm doing anymore. it's funny too, since i have a job that takes care of me, family and scattered friends in my life that mean more to me than anything, and yet i feel so empty sometimes it takes more energy than i have to get out of bed... or to resist crawling back it at any moment.

life takes turns. it's up the the driver to know how to navigate those turns. i think i've been a very poor driver lately. my life is changing. mid-life crisis? dunno. f**ked up and full of issues? quite possibly. all i know is that i'm hurting people around me that i don't know how to communicate with anymore. that's not fair to them.

so, bear with me out there people. please. i'll try to be good. i'll try to write. i jes' don't have it in me to share my daily bullshit, because frankly, i don't even wanna know about it, much less write about it. i need to be alone to find some of these answers. i'm sorry. no worries tho, for anyone wondering about my other site, FCR; i hear the management still works over there and won't let any of his fans down...

for the record, our house is up for sale now. and nnnoh, i don't know where i'm going. if anyone knows any buyers in the lynnwood area in the pacific northwest, be sure to send them my way.

... stop the world, i wanna get off

... for any of you out there who don't know me, be ready to either open-mindedly read an uneducated opinion, or run screaming to someone else's blog and have a nice day. i'm a bit of an idiot overall, see? i don't like politics, i hate watching the news due to the media's fascination constant and mind-numbing highlighting of humankind's hate and voilence toward each other, and i get easily pissed when people try to force their values and/or belief systems down my throat.

with that lengthy caveat now in tow, i give you my only opinion and/or odd reaction to the recent shooting tragedy that has swept the nation. (need i even add that all the goddamed movie studios are scrambling for the rights to the story to turn into a damned hollywood blockbuster, those SICK BASTARDS)

i heard a compelling yet gut-twisting radio talk the other day talking about this shooting tragedy. when i first heard the radio caller begin to state his case, i was pissed, irritated and even contemplated changing channels due to his goddamned audacity to ask such a question. but then it hit me... what if he's got a valid point?

his question was simple: "not unlike the passengers who fought back and brought down the plane in PA during the 9/11 attack..., why didn't any of the students do the same?"

now, granted that most of us do not know how we'd react in this situation, but when the steam stopped coming out of my ears, i began to listen to "some of his" supporting arguement, and it honestly made me wonder a little bit. the caller spoke of old-school values and morals, along with assumed,"woman and children first mentalities" that were instilled into the "men" of years past. i have to agree with the one fact that yesh, it IS possible that had people stood up to this deranged attacker, possibly fewer deaths would have occurred.

My issue is, well... i dunno. (whimper) should we have to be expected to DO THIS had other steps and measures been taken to prevent this? (don't even get me started on the whole "wtf is the world coming to that we even HAVE to have these measures in place?!")

the caller continued his side and highlighted the brave and now "hailed as a hero" Holocaust survivor who gave his life to HOLD THE DOORS SHUT while students escaped through windows behind him. in my mind, this man without a doubt is hero, was brave and beyond compassionate and honorable for giving his life to the children behind him scrambling for their lives... but my gods, what horrors had this man already faced in his life?, and yet in a moments notice, he sacrificed himself without hesitation for people he didn't even know... my gods, the gift he gave those survivors' families...

woman and children first. right? some people get all self righteous and pissy hearing that. it's not sexist necessarily, but it's respect, it's survival... isn't it? DOES that thought process exist anymore? MORE injuries occurred apparently such as crushed ribs, broken bones, cuts, bruises and scrapes due to students (male and female) hurting one another trying to escape from the entire nightmarish event.

i'm not in any way saying that people are to blame, i am in NO WAY belittling the horror and tragedy of the event, but the "caller" who raised this point and got me to think.

i don't have answers. but i do have pain. our country is learning to cower and weep or run in the face of FEAR. our media is partially to blame, and certain equal assholes running our government causing dissent and radical "anti-america" behaviour everywhere... would anyone care to share their thoughts on this?

... so what, you tink' 'dis is cute?

... then go here. i'm back baby... and maybe stronger than before. i'm like a new and improved product you find on the shelf of your local store; leaving you to wonder what the hell was wrong with the original me? love ya all... thanks for your support over the past week. it's been rough without dear chasey. his presence is greatly missed. i mean, who else could flatten your ass in 30 seconds or less EVERY TIME you sat down on the couch and nonchalantly purrrr as you tried desperately to breathe. 'dats right, our beloved thunderbutt.

nothing new and exciting to report this week. work is busy, being busy is busy, and well, that's it.

... mr puddins has left the building

Good afternoon everyone.

wifee and i are sorry to say that this is our final update on our little boy, Chase.

yesh, it's true. our "Chase" is, in fact, mr puddins... the original inspiration for this web-blog. so, now you know. it's finally safe for the truth to be known. (for those of you who may be new here, Chase's name was originally hidden to protect the innocent. the publc was, simply put... not ready for this much kitten)

Chase was, by far the most amazing fuzzy little creature wifee and I have ever known. he gave us 9 amazing years to cherish. everyone who has EVER been in contact with Chase always adored him immediately; whether because of his alarmingly loud and overwhelming purr or due to their shock at his “plus-size peak” of 26lbs of pure loving cat.

we took Chase home on friday after another 5 days of IV medications, water & nutrients. Chase developed a pancreatic issue after the initial surgery that cleared up (for the time being) his carcinoma tumor that was removed from his liver. contrary to popular belief, the pancreas does not like to be squeezed like a grape or otherwise f**ked with. the ensuing inflammation of the pancreas caused a high fever, complete and total loss of appetite, urge to hydrate and overall effect on his behavior. while seemingly getting over these difficulties at the clinic, upon taking him home friday night, Chase’s overall condition worsened once again.

we took our little guy in this AM for a diagnosis, a shred of hope and were given the tough reality of what we already knew; it was time to let go.

the staff at the our local emergency clinic was incredible. they were so kind.
they removed Chase from our grips to install an IV, so the process would be painless.
then they brought him back for us to say our goodbyes.
they allowed us our time, as much as needed in fact. It was so great of them to allow us to have our space.
it was horrible that Chase seemed to know.

he snuggled in so close to us both and i can still feel his purr run through me.
we knew it was time, but had to do the right thing.

the doctor came in holding a blanket for the table. ('cuz NO one likes a cold hospital table...)

i held Chase so close as she administered the shot.

brave wifee stood by close too. familiar faces for our lil' guy.
Chasey just... went... to sleep.

thank you ALL for your recent contributions to my site over the past month. your kind words and support have been marvelous. see? Chasey even effected people in bloggerland that he's never even met! amazing animal. amazing friend.

I hope you ALL are well. Hug your loved ones, fuzzy ones too.

Much love... bronxbt & wifee

... i need happiness damnit

... and dagnabbit i found it. so there. no silver lining, no happy dances. jes' simple hammie goodness experiencing 'eez first piece of broccoli! what more could you ask for when times have you down? watch and enjoy.
mr puddins is back at the emergency vet clinic. at least 2 days of observation, tests and more to determine why 10 days after the surgery he's still not eating, vomiting bile and more... poor lil' guy. we need him home.

... this sucks royally monkey butt

...well, this posting is a warning to ALL of you out there... my fantastic laptop & my external harddrive managed to fail me this week. on monday AM, i was working till almost 1am with nooooo problems at all. my lappy was fine, in fact shutting down with no hiccups.

i came to work at 6am, and upon firing up the portable PC, i get the error,"no operating system found." well shit. two technicians later, and even after a friend's professional data recovery team hit both the lappy harddrive and the external unit to try to save my data... i'm shit outta luck.

for my somethingsketchy site: i've lost about a years worth of designs, artwork, most of my REFLECTIONS comic and more. they were able to recover some of the comic, 'bout back at the starting point 6 months ago when i started to post entire pages... but ALL the data since (4-5 pages worth) is gone gone gone. you hafta understand my pain over this: every page took about a month to restore, color, redo the layout, type, rasterize, layer, paint, filter in effects, and more... sooo, waaaaaaaaaah! shit shit shit shit shit. this is sooo depressing. thankfully, for portfolio's sake and production possibilities, it's a blessing that i posted HI RESOLUTION pages online. i right-clicked the sonofabeeches and saved them to my NEW external HD and my NEW damned expensive lappy.

for my fuzzisechadsrule site: i've lost a years worth of research and fuzziecutegoddamned animals! that sucks! i also lost all my weblinks, so half the obscure and weird sites i found my material from are gone until i hunt them all down again! aaaaaaaargh! i also lost my entire archive of winners & contestants that i was going to do fun stuff with in the future... guess i need to hit my own site and start 'saving as' so i can get all my shit back... damnitall.

when i purchased my external harddrive, i promised to be dilligent in backing up my data on a religious level. well, i failed that. i had prolly 3 backups performed of my critical data and somehow over the past 4 months, i only backed up WORK data and not my artwork...

back up your stuff peoplz. do it NOW. use a CDR, a DVD, an external HD, or online "virtual harddrives" you can purchase through your internet provider. most of you, who follow my blogs know that i've been so damned busy i've not been able to get "back to" my art on this site. this week, with my time off... i was hoping to get back to it. monday's events have depressed me to the point of not wanting to get outta bed. soooo, we'll see how it goes given that realistically i need to spend time reconstructing all i've lost, and not worrying about the new pages...

oh, and my favorite word of this week is, "shit," in case you hadn't noticed. between my lil' mr puddins being confirmed with terminal cancer and losing all my work... i'm not inna wonderous mood.

hope yer all doing better. seriously. go hug a puppy for me or something.

... update on the shaved poodle (UPDATED 03/21/07)

UPDATE - hello all you bloggerpallys. a little depressing of an entry/update today. mr puddins does indeed have cancer. that's an overall statement tho, 'cuz the doc did remove the now-titled-malignant tumor from the outside of his liver, but it's been deemed the type of cancer (tech. term evades me) that goes into the tubes, and spreads fast and is hard to completely irradicate. due to a previous committment, i'm unable to go with wifee to mr puddin's appointment tonight, but she will hear about options, if any, to give puddins the very best days?weeks?years? to his life.

my personal feelings are so torn over this. i've taken the next couple of days off for other reasons and this AM mr puddins suddenly appeared next to me in bed... he sounded the same, happy purrrrrs and kneeding next to my arm, but he's sooo small now, sagging, and his eyes are a little glazed. my gods it kills me to see him this way. 9 years of vibrant, thunderbutt joy from this loverboy, and now he jes' looks like he's in pain. he doesn't deserve this!!! if his quality of life will be severely hindered, i cannot... well... we cannot be selfish! i don't wanna lose my lil' boy, but damnit he deserves better.

aaargh. anyway. stay tuned. more news when i know it. and thank you all for your kind words of support and fuzzie-goodness.

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... um, i meant to say, "mr puddins." really. what a tough lil' bastard he is. makes his daddy proud though, yesh he does! our little 9 year old boy (got the math wrong on my first entry) has pulled through a horrific day yesterday when they found a huge mass resting between his gall bladder and liver from the ultrasound.

the price of a small car later, mr puddins has a 6 inch incision/stitch on his fat bellie, a shaved square on his back where a 'pain patch' (like the nicotin patch, but "funner!") and legs shaved like a voilated poodle where the IV drips went. the mass was a gynormous tumor (gynormous = technical term for f**king huge) that was actually attached to the liver and was causing both the liver and gall bladder to act all hinky. as mentioned in the previous post, mr puddins was jaundiced, had lost about 12 lbs, and had stopped eating; well, the gall bladder issue also explains some painful BRICKS the poor doozer had laid too during the past few weeks... oi vey, what a nightmare. we're still waiting for the biopsy results tho... doc removed all he could, but is skeptical. malignant means mr puddins comes home and lives with us as long as he's got left with pain management. Benign means he comes home and lives with us possibly for friggin' ev-ah! ;)



(exposed bellies are funny)

doc rerouted his liver innards, and 'cuz mr puddins survived the night, he was bumped up to "tough lil' bastard" status at the emergency vet and allowed visitors. we went to see him around 6pm this evening. it was positively heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time. mr puddins damned near mauled wifee, begging to be brought home. he took one glance at me and delivered a helluva head-butt and proceeded to flop down in my arms which had encircled him on the check out table. (damned metal tables are cooold!)

his big thing is his purrrs. he purrs when he's mad, sad, happy, hungry, pissy, agitated, when he poops, when he sleeps, when he's curled up with wifee, when he's wrapped around my head, when he's got a vet's thermometer shoved up his waz-hoozits, and more...! he purred SO LOUDLY when he saw us. it was almost like he was saying, "mom? dad? i'm gonna be okay... thanks."

actual translation is more like, "mom, dad, get me the f**k outta here!" but we love him all the same. so yeah, our cat looks like a shaved poodle. i can't wait till he gets home so i can point and make fun of him... ahhhh, the good 'ol times... the inspiration for this very blog's creation is coming home soon! eeep!

... how to gain leverage

... you create it. yesh, dear bloggervillians, that's jes' what i did. i'm proud to announce that my company, formerly federal network services, has 110% merged with it's sister company of many years, communication specialists and become a new and exciting international company; Leverage Information Systems.



this is my baby! the project that's kept me up for days and days and days! both our previous company's sites have been seamlessly merged into http://www.leverageis.com i'm so proud of the work our new company has done to help make this public release (yesterday) a success! my coworker/employee (whatever) in crime, Dan, also did an incredible amount of work to make the site possible. anyone who can take my design elements and vision and make it a reality is okay in my book. plus, he's got the stones enough to look me in the eye and say things like, "that's stoopid!" when i get a little weird with my creative ideas on functionality and such.



imagine allllll this goodness being created over the past 2 months! from business cards to letterheads, signage to invoice slips, packing stickers to fax labels and soooo much more! it's an ongoing process now over the next 6 months to a year + to educate our national and even international customers about the transition, how it effects and them and what it means their level of service - it only gets better! eeeep!

anyhoo, thanks to all of you who have been patient with my recent lack of blogging overall, lack of comments on your respective sites and prolly my overall crankiness. it's been a soooper stressfull few months, and while the end isn't in sight jes' yet, some of the toughest hurdles are behind us.

someone tell me it's all pretty! giggle.

... feeling green

... mr puddins needs everyone's help please. known and loved by all, my baby boy is suffering from liver failure and currently not doing too good. for anyone who's read my blog from the start, mr puddins, (who's real name is hidden to protect the innocent) was the original inspiration of my blog, and an often-seen contributor to my comments when posting on other folk's blogs.

he's jes' not doin' to well. he now jaundiced, a sure sign of liver-related toxicity and is actually turning yellow (skin, eyes... so in retrospect i colored this picture incorrectly) my poor baby boy is jes' ragged too. he's stopped grooming, and has lost over 12lbs. and yesh, before anyone begins doing the math, mr puddins was also aptly nicknamed "lardass, thunderbutt, fattyboy, chunkyboy, cougar, and puddins," for his heaviest weigh in was about 2 years ago @ 26lbs. (for any of you not familiar with the pacific northwest, that's about he size of a fully grown cougar, or perhaps a small bear)

while my constant attempts to mask my gnawing pain and torn soul over this sweet little baboo's plight is sad and transparent by my attempts of interjecting humor throughout this post may tire some of you... trust me, it's about all that's keeping me going. with all the other shit going on in my world, my rocks are my stoopid, silly and utterly devoted animalz that keep us both/me sane.

mr puddins is faced with that likely biopsy and the results could see his future involving a tube & plug from his gut/side for 3-6 weeks to continually feed/medicate/fluidate (<-- learned me a new word today @ the vets?) to reverse the symptoms... OR the worst of all possibilities could happen too.

we're not ready to give up on our baby boy. 6 years ago i brought mr puddins into the barnes&nobby store where wifee worked. i walked right up to that middle customer service desk and asked if she had any books on how to care for a kitten. before she could answer, i removed lil' mr puddins from beneath my jacket and plopped him down on her keyboard. holy shit the whole store turned to instant goo... mr puddins was head-knobbing his way around the entire circular workstation and positively whoring it up with anyone and everyone for attention. amidst the "mew mew mew's," wifee and i knew we officially had our hands full.

okay... shit. keyboard getting blurry now. don't think it's waterproof. send your luv peoplz. mr puddins needs you.

... i'm soooo sorry

... hello bloggervillians out there. i'm so sorry i've been distant. it's not you. it's me. i've needed time. i've been sooo busy, stretched thin to the point of breaking in fact. i need to take some time and jes' focus on what's really important to me. yesh, don't worry... all of you are part of that equation. there's jes' soooo much going on that i cannot even talk about. all KINDS of really exciting things at the office that aren't public yet... that I had cooh pivotal parts in... eeeek! and yesh, other things as well. oi vey. i'll leave you all for now with a picture of the majority of my day's commute home; rain rain and a pissy kitty.

... new family members rule!

... especially when 'dere lil' fuzzie monsters! omgoodness, omgoodness, i got to spend the day with the newest member of my middle sister's family! meet "Barkley," everyone! 'eez the squooshiest, sweetest lil' puppery pile-o-goodness i've met in years!

to the best of their knowledge, barkley is a collie/labrador mix. he's sooooo well behaved already! ee'z learning not to bite, fetches well enuf, and already lurves a good flop on his owners lap for a bellie scritch!

oh yeah, it was ma' middle sis's birthday get together too, so that was nice to share her day with her, the beautiful neice and 'growin-up-so-fast nephew! 'course grandma and grandpa were there too! some of you may recall a few months back when i posted a tribute to their dearest lab, Nucha, who passed away a bit unexpectedly. it was time for these special peoplz to welcome in a new lil' puppers tho, and i think they've made a great choice!

Check out the pics!! aaaaaaand click on the pic to watch Barkley's Video! what do you think! eeeep! wiggle wiggle!

... employees rule (UPDATED)

... so this guy i hired, many of you know him only as Dan; well, he RULZ. he's an independant video producer, and a damned good one. he's got a good shot at winning a $10k prize for creating a local TV spot for KISW's Radio show, the "BJ Shea Morning Experience." kinda a guy show, a little raunchy, but occasionally intelligent things happen on it. well, occasionally. the winner of this 30-second TV spot gets their ad run between 8-9pm on our Channel 13, FOX between the shows 24 and prison break.

Dan can submit as many as he wants, and both of these are true contenders. I've seen some of the competition online and so far his is by FAR the most professionally shot, edited, etc. i'm proud of ma' boy! giggle.... these (2) videos are updated now, so feel free to post yer reactions, etc. feedback rulz and it all helps gather hits/interest. let Dan know what you think!? me likey.

... take my cold, please

... holy gross coughing and flemmy-ness and wracked ribs and chest and ewwwwww and wtf did i-do-to-deserve-this? and nnnnoh there's too many deadlines for the tradeshow at the end of the month i cannot afford to be sick aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! so yeah. no exciting and monumental post today except that i feel like huge monkey butt.

i hope you all are well.

... sometimes i feel

... that when everything's going jes' right, the other shoe is about to drop. today i took the day off to get some things done. to relax. i came home sick and have woken up today feeling like total monkey-butt. i'm weak, a little nauseated, and jes wanna crawl back into bed. so much for my "to-do" list. it's already been shoved to the back of my mind. will someone go get me some damned chickee-soup? .. meh

i'm not a complete idiot tho. i know things will take their turn. i'm a reasonably successful designer and marketing director for a company that's jes' gone international. as the designer, my new logo's been accepted and i'm now moving QUICKLY forward to implement the new logo throughout the entire company (6+ sites) as it's applied to all literature, flyers, tear sheets, letterheads, business cards, the website, autosignatures and many many many more things... there's so much to do, and so little time. what would normally be a 6+ month process has been accelerated to under a month, so needless to say the countless hours i sit at the office or at home working into the wee hours are well placed, if not jesta' lil' insane. of course it doesn't stop there: i also create from scratch all the literature, flyers, and basically everything you'd expect to see from a company whether it's a slick glossy, a dazzling website in 'da works thanks to my new employee, (dan the man) and more...

whatever. this isn't meant to be a tirade. not a call for help. i'm jes venting and damnit, i can once in awhile even if it's jes' into the vast internetty-space of bloggerville. at the very least i can relax today a little bit. maybe curl up and watch a netflix... or perhaps retreat at some point into my dark and cavernous bedroom and crawl back into my proverbial hole.

at the very least, i can say, however, that the picture i posted has given me a possibly unnatural and terrifying fear of seagulls. can you say holy OUCH!?

... what i've been doin

... is likely very clearly evident. over the past week, i've been a booth bunny along with my employees at the san diego convention center. brand spanky new booth i ordered, (nimloc brand, totally cool and easy to put up like lego blocks!) new design, and 2 new partners to highlight in our tradeshow layout! i cannot tell you how gratifying it is to see everything come together. looks, layout, booth bunnies, (yesh, having a sales team that's not hard on the eyes is a benefit) and products that are actually really exciting to talk about!

all the pics are before the show, so please excuse the messy floor and cables everywhere... giggle.








the hardest part of all this madness was designing all the posters and such without actually having the new booth present. it was still shipping out from it's midwest warehouse when i needed the exact dimensions for all signage, so i had to talk to the sales rep of the company and trust all his panel measurements! thank goooodness it all worked out. i'm jes happy it all looked okay, and for a fleeting few moments i can feel like i'm an accomplished designer. oi vey.

... marketing gone right

... not a lot of time to post today. busy busy busy busy. got a new working damned toilet in our master bedroom, new flooring is almost down, and now the pipes and other nastiness under the 30+ year old sink has us stumped. can't handle it alone. will likely call in professionals so it's their asses when it explodes all over my new flooring and not mine. stay tuned.


on a brighter note, i get all happy when i see creativity and marketing that collide successfully. most important, i get even happier when someone wearing an outfit like the dood in the picture below is devoured. hope you all have a helluva week. i'll be in san diego from tuesday on at the AFCEA WEST 2007 convention as a booth bunny, so you all take care.

... welcome to my leeetle friend

... so you ask yourself, wtf a weasel? what's going on? where did cardboardpeople go? well. i dunno really. inspiration took form of a lil' weezer and bit me in 'da butt. my mind works in mysterious ways fer sure. anyone who knows me thru the archives of this blog or from seeing me daily knows i'm a weird one fer sure... so, well... accept change with open arms. if not, may you always have a humpy weaser attached to your shin with amorous intentions.

it's my damned blog, ah' can do whaddaye' want. truth be told, i was gettin' tired of the look. NB (new blogspot) convinced me to move on from the old (it's been like 2 years) and start fresh. new look. "go edgy!," the 100 year-old jewish man's voice cackled in my ear! (again, those who know me know about the voices in my head) "be daring!," he cried as he also pointedly established himself that i really had no motivation to do this other than to amuse myself with hand-drawn images of a ravenous and troublesome weazer. well... it suddenly made sense. and what better way to conjure up feelings of living on the edge, jes' squeaking by, and always being in danger of some perilous impending doom than create a title like "weasel on a stick!?"

some say edgy, some say cutting edge, others say it makes no goddamned sense. well... yer all right so how's that? i likely will continue with my otherwise useless posts; rantings about my life, an occasional movie, funny sh*t i find online, my inexuseable inability to use capital letters unless forced to, pictures of my silly animals and more... so, i say, who wins here? well. i dunno. any of you who like my silly sh*t win i guess. jes' understand as always that i can't get my goddamned mind to turn off. i'm often twittering around jes' on that edge, and frankly friends and attention is all i crave. it's sad really. i rarely have much in the value department to say, and yet i lurve you all and have made some incredigle friends out there in bloggerville.... so yeah, stay tuned for more weird sh*t, posts, and otherwise weazer-madness. it's ON peeplz.

... it's wrong that i like this so much.

... okay, i know it's not GHN day... but i couldn't wait. if you do nothing else today, check out this website and laugh, smile and openly weep like i did. the swimming dive board scenes are my fav. - it makes me happy. click on the image and go go go go goooooo, go nowwwww. yer friends will like you more.

... my new crack

... it takes a lot to get me to pay more than a few moments attention to somethi... LOOK GRASS! giggle. but seriously, my attention span is about as long as a thumbtack and it's scary how quickly i can go from listening intently to... um... where am i?

well thank goodness for our friends out there on the internet. i'm going to start a new section every few weeks on my site (or weekly, or daily, or maybe 4X a day....wait, maybe 4X a week... or maybe i'll jes' forget what i'm doing completely!?) called non other than GHP baby!

introducing.... Go Here Please!

it's gonna be cooh stuff i find out there on internetland... blogs, fun sites, silly stuff, quiet possibly educational (tho unlikely for any of you who know me even a little) and/or entertaining.

my first entry is best described as my new crack. (cheaper too) stoopid, fun, silly, and great to do when you're on a concall with a bunch of boring people at the office. (i keed, i keeeed) it's simple, go here and play the game. it's simple mouse clicking, good aim, and the ability to stay aloft. the real question is... can you beat my score of 326ft?

no need to thank me, dear peoplz. i'm here to help.... or at the least, to make you realize after you read my blog that your life and level of sanity isn't that bad after all....

... it's cold out there

... and speaking of which, if any of you wonder what might go thru my head at a zoo.... well... yup, this about sums it up. it's like they're in my head.

... lord of the rings?

... omg omg i loved this scene! you remember it, right? what a great series! this is from the first of the three films!it's the beginning scene where gandalf enters the beloved hobbit shire and greets lil' frodo baggins and envelops him in a huge hug and... kiss? waaaait a minute...




ooooh, wait. my bad. this is jes eensy-teensy little reese witherspoon (or reesers piecers, as she likes me to call her) possibly being:

a) mauled b) greeted kindly c) sampled like a king's table buffet

... by non other than kate friggin' winslet. (you remember, that dumpy creature from titanic, who then promised never to lose weight for another role, and now weighs exactly 15lbs but somehow is still gargantuan to lil' reesers.) omgoodness, when did she grow to zena warrior princess sized proportions? i swear she could wrestle a bull moose and win. WHILE dragging poor wittle' leo decaprio from a cold watery doom.... either way, i was sooo amazed at how they seemlessly super-imposed the body of lil' reesers next to the body of kate so she looked all tiny and hobbit-like. oh wait. my bad again... she is microscopic nowadays. she looked so much bigger in Legally Blonde. i guess the camera really does add about 20 lbs and apparently 4 feet.

i watched about 10 minutes of the golden globes last night and was shocked to see this scene... even MORE shocked to find this pic on a celebrity gossip website. it's perfect... it jes' captures all the magic of hollywood. ya know, how REAL it all is and how each and every one of these actors/actresses work so hard to make the world a better place. really. i was moved to tears.

p.s. kate winslet whipped out a fork and knife and devoured my lil' reesers moments after this magical shot was taken. gawd i love hollywood and their starvation diets. so sad really...

... took the leap

... and may have jes' landed on ma' schnoozle. yesh everyone, this weekend i took the leap and joined the ranks of "those who have ascended" into new-blogspot-goodness. i'm not quite feeling the magic so far, but overall it's been fairly painless. okay, well sorta.



like happy cat, (pictured above) who also needs your help, there are some pains that i must learn to overcome with out joyous new interface called blogspot:

1. NB (new blogspot) killed my counter. i admit, it was cooh to be over 7k. now i'm somewhere around the low 40's.... meh.
2. NB killed my banners on my other sites. I'd like to add one to this site too, and my original technique as of yet hasn't worked to modify the HTML. if anyone knows how, please leave a comment for me?
3. NB killed the majority of my hyperlinks throughout my blog. I spent over 3 hours combing through many of the archives in order to re-establish order to my universe. anyone perusing my archives can thank Starbuck's triple shot-o-mochaeey-goodness for that painful experience.
4. NB's stoopid "flag blog" option on the Blogspot top bar is too close to the "next blog" option... i've already found myself unintentionally flagging other people's blogs as "unsafe for children! run for the hills!" instead of randomly checking out other blogs out there... hrumpf!

anyhoo... hope you all like the subtle improvements on the site. i do like the new option to make my archives a dropdown menu, i like some of the teensy abilities to tweak all colors, fonts, etc... and while some people may not like my BIG OL' MUG up on the site; for once, i think a random shot of me by a coworker came out fun and cooh... so, um... bite me. (giggle)

... we all need to

... smile more dagnabbit. i know that at times i can seem like the poster child for valium, but damnit i do know the power that a smile can bring to others. workmates, family, friends, loved ones; who cares. no one is immune to a funny picture, a funny saying or jes' a well-timed joke.

in searching for funny animal pictures for my fuzziechadsrule site, i often come across these funny pictures of cats/kittens that have, in some cases, HILARIOUS sayings written over them. most are written as if the cat was attempting to communicate the thought. (hence the text lends itself to more of a phonetic style)

they crack me the hell up. i have a digital picture frame with these on them now. they're mixed up with family shots, travel pics and more.... giggle. it makes me happy.

i even have gone so far as to create a few of my own too. if you sit back and watch the 15+ images, any ones the have text with any type of SHADOW or red highlight on them are mine. the rest are found. so, watch above, and remember that you can SPEED up the slides by hitting the "+ or -" icons below.

enjoy yer hump day, smile, laugh and share with people you lurve. giggle.

... take a moment and light a candle

... and send a loved one a note of "get well, love and support." a dear friend, darlene, alerted all of us out here in bloggerland about her son's tragic accident over 2 weeks ago. i want to take a moment and simply ask each and every one of you to please consider going to her site - HERE - and also please consider going - HERE - as well to light a candle of support for her son, Mark.


he was involved in a horrible car accident where he was NOT, i repeat, NOT the driver. he was practically torn in two but somehow managed to struggle through great odds and make it to the street to call for help. Mark needs our help. he's so strong, so vibrant and so in need of our love.

anyone who has been tracking his progress through his mother's site has been moved immensely by her writings about all that's going on. what's a key thing is i have noticed that the blogger community has absolutely rained down onto her sight with such love, support, poetry, song, notes and good tidings that even i feel a change in myself... there is so little good out there at times; take a night and jes' watch the news and you'll see what i mean. this event has drawn so many of us together.

no strangers, no anonoymous entries, no religion. just love and support to a man who needs our energy and a family that is inspired by each and every one of you.

do what you will. but i truly hope you'll take a moment and read Darlene's archives to get caught up and send their whole family your love.

thank you

bronxbt & mr puddins (who's sworn off kitty katnip until this is all over)

... it's allll clear now

... i get so confused. before any or all of you say "well, nnnoh duh, it's youuu," lemme explain. i've been "TXT'ing" online since before the pretty screens you all see in front of you even existed. i'm talking puuuuure text baby, scrolling green text (or black, or amber, or gold depending on your shitty monitor back in the early 90's) was ALL the internet was back then. AOL interfaces and all the spiffy stuff we take for granted now was barely a neuron-sparked idea in someone's noggin.

so why is it, after all these years do i find myself constantly getting confuzed with how people TXT one another, or more importantly, ME...? there's all these symbols that are SUPPOSED to mean something that i jes' don't understand! so, i decided to do some online research to clarify what some of these mystery symbols mean that come across my cell phone or instant messenger.

i hope you are all visual-based learners like myself. when i found this doc, it allll became totally clear as to what half this crap means that i seem to see more and more each day. it's all clear now. consider this a public service, peoplz. i'm here to help.

... it's my first time

... so be gentle, please. oh silly people. what were you thinking? first post of 2007 baby! are you moved yet? are you emotionally charged? um... is anyone out there?

i talked to a friend of mine the other day who said one simple comment that really got me thinking. we discussed all the sh*tty things he had been through, all the adversity he had overcome and yet he was still able to maintain a positive and genuine outlook on his future. his statement was an easy one: "at least i'm still smiling. in a sea of frowns, i'm still afloat."

this was cooh. yup. that about wrapped up my feelings on his words. it was jes' cooh. people get so wrapped up in all their problems, issues and understandably so their pains; but we forget so easily how much worse things can be. so with the average person in america creating and failing their new year's resolutions within 30 days after pledging, my pledge will remain simple and hopefully achieveable:

i will continue to make people smile. i will continue to try to be good to everyone in my life that i love dearly, (and even those who continue to chafe) and will continue to take my own failings and issues in stride. in short, to keep on smiling.



hope you're all well. thanks for making my life a better place to exist in.

... i swear to gawd

... it's like i'm 4 years old. of course, i often act like i am, so this whole post may be a moot point. this holiday season i received some very generous gift cards covering a whole gambit of places like home depots to groceries, (new to me, but hey! cooh! free food! woop woop!) and i tell ya, there's one thing that was hurridly shoved in my pocket so i could share it with allll my officemates this year:

a frog.



yup... a frog. doesn't make sounds, doesn't move on it's own... but lemme tell you, if you touch the two contact points on it's arse, it lights up and puts on a show. the pic doesn't do it justice, but trust me. it's cooh.

it's like my beloved nephew, who after opening all his presents, was caught playing with a clothes pin and a piece of ribbon. buy me overly generous gifts and i laugh all the way to work this morning with a plastic frog. what DOES this say about me? hmmm....

... i'm quackers over this

... omg omg i cannot believe this. it's slow motion goodness! it's the matrix. no, it's scenes from bulletproof duck... no, i dunno, but i betcha Jet Li had something to do with the cinematography! it's genius. it's hilarious... it's a helluva first way to take yer first baby steps!! OMGOODNESS wouldjoo look at their little fwappies when they drop! what bravehearts! you can almost hear 'em screaming, "attacccccck!" hmmm, on second thought, maybe it's more like, "yeeeaaarrrrrggghhhhh!!!!!"

i haven't laughed so hard in months. i seriously am in pain. i'm thinkin' i've busted a rib... maybe my heart...a lung perhaps. holy hell these lil' doozers have a hard start to their life. who ever thought that duck bashing could be so much fun! before you all getcher' downy feathers up in a bundle, clicky below or here to watch this clip. YESH, all of it. the last "FWAP" alone makes it all worth it. trust me.....

UPDATE: PG-13 rating! The first minute has a steamy and "fowl" um... mating scene which i'm not exactly able to edit out... move past the yer' pain and then you'll see some hilarious duckie-fwappage.

... jeezus stutters

... hallelujah and all that stuff! and yesh, i wrote jeezus like that..."jeezus," so suddenly every search engine in the world wouldn't hook into my site thinking i was a hardcore worshipper. and nnnnoh, i have no problem with people who are religious, please no one be offended, it's jes' not my cuppa tea. i live by the golden rule, and to me it's jes that simple. i jes' thought it was funny (you all know i'm a sick bastard) that 77777 came across my car's mileage counter on friday.

'course the other funny thing is that by some small measure of divine intervention, i was able to get gas not 5 minutes later right before the fumes i was driving on went poof and magically stranded my ass. even more ironic, that AM, i filled up my tank, whistling innocently as i capped off the top, got back into my car and drove to work. by the time i GOT to work there was no power in the Woodinville and Bothell area, and by 10 am more than 1 million energy paying customers in Washington State had no power. gas stations in powered areas RAN OUT... that's right,... RAN OUT... and somehow, that AM... i gots-me-sum gas and happily puttered away into the darkness...

yuppers, the huge rain and windstorms really kicked my area's arse. tons of people with no power and no hope of warm water for at least another couple of days. somehow we didn't get effected, we lost power about 4 times Friday night for 45 second stints, but then it came back on! woop woop!

hope you all are safe, warm, happy and have a big cuppa joe or hot chocolate nearby. more later on this week when i have something intelligent to share...