Frack Me

Fracking"
I was reading about hydro fracking.  first of all, the word "fracking."  perfect word to describe a process that fracks the earth.  There should be no confusion to ANYBODY about how shitty this is to the planet.  Hence the EPA giving the thumbs up.  

They stick a tube down into the earth and pump fluid down there, causing pressure to release oil.  Raping the land quite literally.  I don't know the exact science, but I guess, nine months later, an oil baby is born.

Couldn't the scientist who came up with this have said,
   -"you know what--I'll keep this one to myself."  

instead he said:
   -"Do you know where can I cash this?  Does the bank on this check have a local branch?"

the EPA says there's no definitive proof that this is going to cause serious problems.  Already water supplies have been contaminated, and somebody's well blew up.  jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pale of water, and Jack and Jill were vaporized.  There was nothing left--not even a crown.   

The EPA says there's no definitive proof that this is going to cause serious problems.  

-You could describe this process to a three year old with hearing problems and said three year old would say "that doesn't sound right.  I may have literally been born yesterday, but that sounds awful."     

POSSIBLE UPCOMING DISNEY MUSICAL PROJECTS

POSSIBLE UPCOMING DISNEY MUSICAL PROJECTS:

The following is a list of possible upcoming Disney movie musicals, written specifically for children.

SCHINDLER'S LIST-- Oscar Schindler (voiced by Michael J. Fox) is a lovable owner of a slinky factory in Germany. When the evil Nazi Commander (Alan Rickman) threatens to take all of Schindler's Jews to the Concentration Camps, it's up to Schindler and his sidekick, Latkah Goldstein the talking potato pancake (voiced by David Cross), to save the day. Memorable scene: Schindler jumping over the Auschwitz walls using specialized Slinky boots.

2001: A Space Odyssey
PART 1: Join the madcap adventures of the lovable Caveman Moog (Kevin James) as he struggles to survive in the era of primitive man. One day, he happens upon the mysterious Monolith, who turns out to be a wacky sidekick voiced by Chelsea Handler. The Monolith teaches Moog how to kill to survive, and Moog teaches the Monolith about friendship.

PART II-Astronaut Dave Bowman (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) struggles to tame his mad cap computer, HAL 9000 (Robin Williams). With the help of Frank Pool, an astronaut Mouse (Julia Roberts), Bowman has to foil HAL's plan to destroy the Monolith.

Tangled: The story of the Marquis De Sade - The Marquis De Sade (Danny DeVito) falls in love with the beautiful Maid, Elizabeth (Kiera Knightly). He captures Elizabeth and puts her in his magical torture chamber filled with a myriad of sidekicks, including a talking whip named Whippersnapper (Dennis Miller), a torture rack named Racky (Jeffery Tambour) and a hot poker named Pokie (Nathan Lane).

The Human Centipede: Three adventurous brothers (voiced by the Jonas Brothers) go on a journey to find fortune. When they happen across a mad scientist (Christopher Lloyd) who promises to make them rich, they proceed, having no idea what's in store for them.

Notable songs: "One Man's Trash is Another Man's Dinner," "A Hole New World," and "Please Kill Me."

Caligula: A shot-for-shot remake of the 1970's film.

1st chapter of a novel I'm thinking of writing

In order to increase internet search engine optimization, I want to inform you that I did not get help on this from Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian, President Barack Obama, anyone from Harry Potter, Star Wars, Star Trek, or cum guzzling sluts.

I already hate this novel. Usually, I have to finish the entire draft before I can't stand it. It's nice to see that I've matured.

I'm a sad person. I don't have many friends, I'm a thirty-year-old virgin, I have a massive ego, and my greatest achievement in life thus far is that I kind of helped write content for a college website.

For me, "success" is unbridled admiration from one's peers and the ability for one's art to withstand the test of time. As a result, I won't really know how successful I've been until after I've been dead for a hundred years. And I have the terrible suspicion that one hundred years after I am dead, I will not only be dead, I will also be disappointed. But seeing as how I am a 30 year old virgin, being dead and disappointed is already kind of the status quo.

I want success. I want fame. I want recognition. I want money. I want a meaningful relationship. I thought if I did what I was told in school, these things would follow. Moreover, I thought that if I treated people nicely, these things would follow. Now, I am not so sure.

I've been working at stand-up comedy now for two years, and I am disappointed that I am not a genius at it. Even if I manage to get good enough to do it for a living--even if I eventually win the Mark Twain award for humor, I won't be known as that "genius" who came along and was instantly good. This depresses me further.

The more I do stand-up, the less sure I am of anything. Whether or not I am funny, whether or not other people are funny, what funny is, what funny isn't, etc. I am not sure that funny is something that can be explained in words. And I'm tired of trying to find the "key" to comedy. Either you got it or you ain't, and I fear that I ain't.

And where does that leave me? I enjoy writing, telling stories, telling jokes. So I must continue to do so, even if no one laughs. Therefore, I write this novel in an effort to amuse myself (of course, my egotistical desire is that, in amusing myself, I'm able to amuse what will become a consistent and faithful fan base).

One thing I have learned from stand-up is that I have to reveal something of myself if I want to be heard. And yet, at the same time, I really want to write a novel about a space ship that vaguely resembles a dildo. So this will be an attempt to reveal within the realm of science fiction.

1

According to Jerry Seinfeld, there is a difference between stand-up comedy and "humor." I interpret this as follows: Stand-up comedy makes an audience laugh. "Humor" makes an audience say to themselves "that's funny." I am in hell right now, as I think about these kinds of quotes from famous comedians.

I wake up in the morning and do the following:
*rock back and forth in my bed and hum the theme to Star Trek
*Brush my teeth.
*Feel guilty about not flossing.
*Write one page of stream of consciousness in which, for the last six years, the phrase "as for the rest of my lifetime program, give me more of the same." That's a quote from a song from "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," and I'm not sure what it means. Nevertheless, it pops up in this stream of consciousness writing, and may well be the key to my insanity.
*Cry occasionally, and then congratulate myself on the fact that I am emotionally available--though does it count if you're all by yourself?
*Go to work.

I work at the kind of place where one email from a person forty states away can destroy an entire day. My co-workers, normal human beings who are slowly being driven insane by the corporation in which they work, are decent people who attempt to balance unfathomable suffering and loss with doing something nice over the weekend.

Just re-reading the past few paragraphs. I'm not impressed. Woody Allen would have banged out about fifteen one-liners by now. But onward.

This daily routine has gone on now for about two years. While I do not like surprises and excitement, I often fantasize that, like Bilbo Baggins, I am just about to go on a tremendous adventure.

Speaking of Bilbo Baggins, that's pretty much who I am. A crotchety old man in a crotchety young man's body. I think I'm also a lot like Snarf from "Thundercats,"

Hang on a minute--I'm just trying to figure out how to artfully get the plot moving. Everything at this point feels contrived, so I'm just going to get to it.

A large star ship, which looked a lot like your generic dildo, was hovering over my apartment. I had just come back from dinner at the local Japanese restaurant, where I had eaten a bowl of Chicken Terryaki. I have no idea why I included that bit about the Japanese restaurant into the narrative--but it does remind me of a story I wrote in elementary school in which a family went on a journey around the world to track down a falling star. But at each destination, the entire family would stop to eat at a restaurant. And I would go into detail about what kind of food they ate. It would be like Luke Skywalker stopping for Brazilian food on the way to the Degobah System and writing a review of it on Yelp.

At any rate, as I was opening the door to my apartment, sensing an unpleasant bowl movement in the near future, I noticed the ship hovering above me. It did not make a sound, and looked to be the size of five or six city blocks. And, as I said, it looked like a dildo. I could go more in depth as to the color, texture, and what have you, but honestly, who gives a shit. You know what a dildo looks like and whatever ship you see in your imagination is going to be much more interesting than my version. And I'm not a huge fan of overly descriptive passages in novels. I'm also not a huge fan of writers who go on tangents--well, that's a lie. If the tangent is interesting and/or funny, I'll go along for the ride. But I digress.

Back to the ship. I often wondered how I would actually react to this kind of a thing. I had assumed that it would be with shock, and that I would freeze and not know what to do. That's about what happened.

There was a flash of light, and I was standing in a large, spherical room. A guy, wearing all plaid, was standing at a computer terminal--also plaid. He pressed a light on the terminal.

"We have him," he said.

"Excellent. Bring him to the Gazebo," a voice responded.

"Come with me," the man in plaid ordered me.

"Do I need an attorney?" I asked, knowing that my parents would be proud of me for taking care of the legal ramifications at the top of any mess.

"You are not in trouble. Quite the contrary. You have been chosen."

"For what?"

"It would be best if we went to the Gazebo. I should add that my name is Jack. Jack Barista."

"Jack Barista," I said, instantly forgetting his name. I have trouble remembering names because I'm too freaked out with the social interaction to function. Being instantly transported to a giant dildo had only exacerbated the social anxiety.

Jack Barista led me out of the room, into a corridor. It was at this point that I realized that every surface of this ship was, essentially, a touch screen. My shoulder brushed along one of the walls, and the entire corridor was instantly covered in advertisements for shoulder pads.

We entered a larger spherical room in which five or six other men (all wearing plaid) were pressing buttons on the walls. One of the guys was typing with his hands while pressing buttons on the floor with his feet.
Jack brought me up to one of the men, whose plaid consisted of four gold stripes.

"This is Captain Roger Portfolio Manager."

"Hello," the Captain said. "Your assistance is required."

"Are you talking to me, because if you guys, who have probably conquered both the speed of light and time travel, require my assistance, you're probably screwed." I replied, in an attempt to be funny. The attempt failed.

"We will explain to you later why we have brought you here. Know, though, that you are safe, and that we shall not lie to you."

Excellent, I thought to myself. Now I knew for sure that I was not safe and that they were lying to me. My mother has taught me well.

"What you must know now is that we have left the earth's orbit, and are returning to the 51st century."

"I didn't feel a thing. Is this ship a Lexus?" Another attempt to be funny that failed.

"Jack Barista will take you to your living quarters. Obama willing, we shall survive what is yet to come."

"Can I at least ask why this room is called a 'Gazebo?'"

"Why wouldn't it be called a gazebo?" the captain shrugged. As he shrugged, advertisements for wikipedia appeared all over the room.

"Shouldn't it be called a 'bridge?'"

"Why would we call it a bridge?

"Good question."

Barista wrangled me out of the Gazebo. As we walked down another corridor, other crewmen (yes, all wearing plaid) passed us.

"So is the captain also a portfolio manager?" I asked.

"That's his last name. At some point in the past, one of his ancestors was probably a portfolio manager."

"And one of your ancestors was a Barista?"

"That is correct. Legend has it that my ancestor once worked an entire shift in a downtown Los Angeles Starbucks during the morning rush by himself."

"Wow. You come from royal stock."

I was deposited in my quarters and instructed how to use the food dispenser and the toilet. I got the sense that Barista didn't want to talk long, as evidenced by his leaving the room as soon as possible.

The shock was beginning to wear off. I was terrified. I started to cry--but of course, I encountered the usual throat tension that I worked so hard to release in drama school. So in order to finish crying, I had to think about that scene from the movie Contact where Ellie talks to her "father," the latter of whom was actually an alien using the image of said father as a medium. Her father had died when she was younger, and--I feel awkward explaining the plot of this movie. Go to IMDB and read the synopsis.

Obscure Quotes Uttered by Famous Historical Figures

Obscure Quotes Uttered by Famous Historical Figures:


"We're out of toilet paper."

-George Washington

"Fuck you, Brutus,"

-Julius Caesar (uttered right after "Et Tu, Brute")

"Be honest. Does this tie make me look fat?"

-William Howard Taft

"Where be the bitches?"

-Ben Franklin

"You can spin it any way you like, this is the mother of all unhappy endings."

-Pocohantus

"Then you make a come hither motion with your finger."

-Ben Franklin

"There's something familiar about my wife."

-Oedipus

"I also invented the money shot."

-Ben Franklin

"I am so the smartest guy on this continent."

-John Adams

"I'm sorry to hear about your mother."

-Adolph Hitler

"What kind of moron would think that the Earl of Oxford wrote my plays? I don't need to put my name on them."

-William Shakespeare

"I'm pretty sure I'm the Devil. But don't tell anybody."

-Andrew Jackson

English to True English Translator

"We'll cross that bridge when we come to it"

Translation: I'll throw you off that bridge when we come to it.

"How did he/she die?"

Translation: "How can I avoid this person's fate?"

"These things happen."

Translation: God loves me more than you, right?

"Stranger things have happened."

Translation: Whatever you're going to do is probably going to fail, and I'm too nice to be honest about it.

"If there's anything I can do, let me know."

Translation: Please God, let there not be anything I can do.

"She's cute/nice/sweet/a good person"

Translation: She's not the supermodel you're hoping for, and frankly, you deserve far worse.

"Don't worry, I'm sure things will work out for you."

Translation: I'm tired of interacting with you, so I'll pretend to be God to get you to shut up.

Original Ending to Walt Disney's "Tangled" AKA Rapunzel

The following is taken from the script for the recent Disney film "Tangled."  This was to be the original ending, but was changed at the last minute due to budget constraints.  Enjoy.

INT.  TOWER.  MORNING

Flynn, mortally wounded, has just cut off Rapunzel's hair.  As a result, her hair no longer has the power to save him from his doom.  Mother Gothel, enraged and rapidly aging, falls to her doom and she turns to dust before her body hits the ground.

RAPUNZEL

Flynn... don't die!

FLYNN

You were... my new dream.

He dies. 

RAPUNZEL

No, Flynn!  No!

She starts to cry.  Suddenly, she looks up with hope in her eyes.

RAPUNZEL

Wait a minute!  I've still got my pubic hair!

She lifts her skirt and takes off her undergarments.  Twenty-five feet of pubic hair emerge.  She grabs Flynn's face and rams it into her pelvic area.  

RAPUNZEL

Flower gleam and glow,

let your power shine,

Save what has been lost,

Bring back what once was mine...

Sparks and other forms of energy fly out of her pelvic girdle, surrounding Flynn's body.  His wound is healed, and he is brought back to life.

FLYNN

What... what happened?

RAPUNZEL

I brought you back to life with my pubic hair.

FLYNN

I'll never ask you to get a bikini wax again.

END CREDITS

Transformers: Dark Of The Moon -- A Parody

TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON

A Parody

EXT.  SPACE.  LONG AGO

OPTIMUS PRIME (VOICE OVER)
Do I need to give you an opening narration?  Haven’t we gotten the general idea?  Autobots, Decepticons, etc.  The fact is, the only reason why I do these bits of narration is because my voice is cool to listen to.  It doesn’t matter what I say.  Oreo cookies.  Vaginas.  Richard Chamberlain.  There’s your narration.  Enjoy the Goddamned film.

The ARC crashes on the moon.

INT.  OVAL OFFICE.  EARLY 1960s.

A bunch of STATESMEN stand around PRESIDENT KENNEDY.

KENNEDY

Do you mean to tell me that an alien ship has crash-landed on the moon?

STATESMAN 1

Yes, sir.

KENNEDY

Does it have anything to do with that alien cube that was mentioned in the first film, and the alien device located within the great Pyramids that was touched on in the second film?

STATESMAN 1

We’re under strict orders from the Pentagon not to reference backstory from the first two films.

KENNEDY

Because if we do that, we could save a lot of time and suffering.

STATESMAN 1

Our orders are clear.

KENNEDY

All right then.  Gentlemen, we need to get our people up to the moon and determine the origin of this alien ship, for we have “never before” encountered anything like it.

STATESMAN 1

Yes, sir.

KENNEDY
If the executives who plotted out this film have some free time, I need some help planning the Bay of Pigs.

EXT.  MOON.  A FEW YEARS LATER

The Eagle lands.  NEIL ARMSTRONG and BUZZ ALDRIN step out.

ARMSTRONG
That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

ALDRIN
Are we still in the prologue?  This makes the prologue of the Tree Of Life look rushed.

ARMSTRONG
Proceeding to crash site.

EXT.  ANOTHER PART OF MOON.  LATER

Armstrong and Aldren reach the ship.

ARMSTRONG

We only have five minutes of air.  Setting instruments to scan for McGuffins.

They search through the ship.

ARMSTRONG
Wow.  This is amazing.  Isn’t this amazing?  Wow.

EXT.  OCEAN.  LATER

Apollo 11 touches down.  The astronauts take out silver briefcases and hand them to the Navy retrieval team.

ARMSTRONG
Careful.  Those McGuffins are precious.

INT.  SAM’S APARTMENT.  PRESENT DAY

Sam Witwiki wakes up.

SAM

I had another prologue nightmare.  In the last one, I was crashing the Kelvin into a Romulan ship.  Oh, how I miss that nightmare now.

CASEY, Sam’s new girlfriend, walks up to him, holding a large bunny.

LOVE INTEREST

I got you this lucky bunny.

OPTIMUS PRIME knocks on the window.

OPTIMUS
I know I’m a few scenes early, but I was just checking to make sure that this is really happening.  We’re going with the notion that this blonde model saw you, instantly fell in love with you, and now you’re living together.

SAM

If I had known this when I was signing the three-picture deal, I still would have signed it.

(to Audience)
As would ANY of you.

OPTIMUS
Fair enough.

He leaves.

EXT.  APARTMENT.  DAY

Sam leaves his apartment just as his parents are arriving. 

MOTHER
Hello Sam!  You have a small penis! 

FATHER
Hello Sam!  I openly disapprove of you but quietly love you!

SAM

Glad they brought you back.

MOTHER
Can I just take this opportunity to break away from the film and advertise that I’ll be appearing as Blanche in the West End Production of Streetcar Named Desire?

FATHER
And I’ll be in the new David Mamet play in Chicago.

SAM
(to audience)
You guys should really check these folks out.  They’re terrific.

EXT.  CHERNOYBL.  LATER

Optimus arrives with MAIN SOLDIER GUY and the other Soldiers.

MAIN SOLDIER GUY
The Russian Contact guy said he’d meet us here.

OPTIMUS

At Chernobyl.  A fitting location.  A fitting metaphor.

RUSSIAN CONTACT GUY

Right this way, gentlemen!  I must show you the inciting incident!

LASERBEAK, a Decepticon, watching from the shadows.

INT.  REACTOR ROOM.  MOMENTS LATER

The Russian Contact Guy shows Main Soldier Guy a piece of technology.

MAIN SOLDIER GUY

It appears to be something important.

Suddenly, a tentacle from a giant WORM operated by SOUNDWAVE knocks over part of the room.

EXT.  FACTORY.  MOMENTS LATER

The worm chases Optimus.  Optimus transforms, and his trailer also transforms into a locker.

OPTIMUS

Let me take a quick second to equip myself with some weapons. 

He pulls out some weapons from the locker, and puts in a couple of college textbooks and a sack lunch.

He proceeds to cut off the head of one of the smaller segments of the giant worm.

Soundwave, standing on top of the worm, looks at Optimus.

SOUNDWAVE

Optimus!

He and the worm disappear below ground.

MAIN SOLDIER GUY
Who was that?

OPTIMUS

That… is Shockwave.

MAIN SOLDIER GUY
How do you know him?

OPTIMUS
We went to the same undergraduate university together.  Though he was a business major whilst I was a communications major, we were both in the honors choir. 

MAIN SOLIDER GUY
And what is this piece of equipment?

OPTIMUS

That… is impossible.

END ACT 1

ACT II:  Sam runs around and screams.  Optimus makes ominous predictions.  John Malcovich, Francis McDormand, John Turturro, and Patrick Dempsy do their best.

END ACT II

ACT III

EXT.  CHICAGO STREET.  DAY

Sam, Optimus, Main Soldier Guy, OTHER SOLDIER GUY, and the other autobots stand in the ravaged streets of Chicago.

OPTIMUS

Don’t worry.  I’m sure we can figure out a way to blame all this damage on Blagojevich.

SAM

My girlfriend has been kidnapped by RICH ATTRACTIVE PRICK guy, and we’ve got to go and save her.

OPTIMUS
And I must face SENTINEL PRIME, voiced by Leonard Nimoy, and thus far, the most fleshed out character in this entire series.

EXT.  CHICAGO BUILDING.  DAY

Sentinel Prime turns on the McGuffins.

SENTINEL PRIME

Oh, Optimus Prime!  You must learn that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

INT.  MOVIE THEATRE.  DAY

JOSHUA SNYDER, who’s currently watching Transformers 3, wigs out.

JOSHUA
Oh my God!  That’s hysterical!  Sentinel Prime, voiced by Leonard Nimoy, is quoting a line uttered by Spock in Star Trek II the Wrath of Kahn.

Josh’s penis explodes.

INT.  SKYSCRAPER.  LATER

Sam sneaks into the 125^th floor of the skyscraper.  He pulls a gun on RICH ATTRACTIVE PRICK GUY

SAM

WHERE IS SHE?  WHERE IS SHE?  WHERE IS SHE?  WHERE IS SHE?  WHERE IS SHE?  WHERE IS SHE?  WHERE IS SHE?  WHERE IS SHE?

RICH ATTRACTIVE PRICK GUY
Can I get a chance to answer the…

SAM
WHERE IS SHE?  WHERE IS SHE?  WHERE IS SHE?  WHERE IS SHE?  WHERE IS SHE?

LOVE INTEREST
Jesus!  I’m right here!

SAM
Let’s get out of here.  We’ll just hop on this alien hovership.

They do so.

EXT.  SKYLINE.  MOMENTS LATER

Other Decepticons fire at the hovership, which causes it to crash in a huge fireball.

EXT.  STREET.  CONTINUOUS

Sam brushes off a few bits of dust.

SAM

Right.  Onto the next stunt.

EXT.  SKYSCRAPER.  CONTINUOUS

STARSCREAM flies up to Sentinel Prime

STARSCREAM
The humans have escaped!

SENTINEL
Quickly!  Get me the screenwriter!

SCREENWRITER
What’s up?

SENTINEL

We need to buy some time.  Can you write in a sequence where the humans get trapped in skyscraper as it falls on its side?

SCREENWRITER
Are you thinking this would take two or three minutes?

SENTINEL

Two or three?  Try fifteen or twenty. 

SCREENWRITER
You’re the boss.

INT.  SKYSCRAPER.  MOMENTS LATER

Sam et all find themselves in an abandoned skyscraper.  At once, Shockwave’s giant worm rips the skyscraper apart, and the top half falls over.

As they are tossed about.

SAM

(to LOVE INTEREST)
Don’t be afraid.

LOVE INTEREST
I’m actually not afraid.  Does anybody have any uppers?

EXT.  SKYSCRAPER.  CONTINUOUS

Optimus flies in.

OPTIMUS
I’ll save you.  It’s a shame I’m not the protagonist.  We could save a lot of time.

He kills the unstoppable worm creature with a single shot to some random part of its body.

Then he gets caught in a bunch of crane ropes.

OPTIMUS

I’m caught in these ropes.  I’d free myself with the sword that’s attached to my arm, but the plot’s not in any hurry, so why should I be?

EXT.  STREET.  LATER

Sam faces off against RICH ATTRACTIVE PRICK guy.

RICH ATTRACTIVE PRICK

You’re on the loosing side, Sam.  I’m on the winning side. 

SAM

At this point, everybody’s loosing.

RICH ATTRACTIVE PRICK

In life there are winners and there are loosers.  And winners are people who attach themselves to winners.   Like the British when they attached themselves to the South during the Civil War, or like when Mousilini attached himself to Hitler.  Or when Darth Vader attached himself to the Evil Emperor.

SAM

And you’re the CEO of an accounting firm?  Who’s your client?  Bernie Madoff?

He punches the Rich Attractive Prick, who falls against the main McGuffin device, causing it to shut down.

EXT. STREET.  LATER

Optimus faces off against Sentinel Prime.

SENTINEL

Optimus, can’t you understand that I… oh, the hell with it.  Let’s just fight.

(fifteen minute fight scene.  Optimus kills Sentinel)

MEGATRON
Excuse me, would you mind killing me as well.  I just got an offer to appear as the main villain in the next James Bond film.

OPTIMUS
With pleasure.

He kills Megatron.

Sam runs up to Optimus.

SAM
We did it, Optimus.

OPTIMUS
No, Sam.  I did it.

SAM
You want to do that thing where we look knowingly into each other’s eyes for a prolonged period of time?

OPTIMUS
Sounds like a plan.

They look knowingly into each other’s eyes for a prolonged period of time.

THE END