CHUCK IN A WHEELCHAIR

Chuck in a wheelchair

Let's see... what did I do Friday night? See the North American premier of A Prairie Home Companion? Nope. Go to any of the many SXSW parties with my videoblogger pals? No.

As you might have seen from my Flickr photo, I was in an Austin hospital with what turned out to be strep throat. This was a huge relief actually, because the doctor seemed kinda obsessed with giving me a spinal tap (!) to check for meningitis.

Anyway, I'll stop whining now. I've got antibiotics and am holed up in Robert's house, and he's just the nicest guy ever. A big-hearted Texan with the oldest pig in the state out in his backyard. Rocketboom has been editing their much-anticipated commercials on my laptop while I've been passed out in the spare bedroom, waiting for this to pass. Amanda's mom is a doctor, and says I should be mostly over it (and no longer contagious) after 24 hours on antibiotics. So tonight... I will emerge. Gently, like a feeble butterfly.

MOOKI FUNNIES

Our kitten Mooki is funny and so are we, if you cheat the speed. Just messing around with our next video for MookiTV. [Quicktime, 30 MB]

PRAIRIE DISCO COMPANION

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So I'm selling my rare and controversial "A Prairie Ho Companion" t-shirt on eBay. Since we don't have a decent still camera anymore, I used my video camera to pose for a few images. I thought it was kinda funny. I thought it would be even funnier set to Europe's Final Countdown with some ridiculous effects piled on. Enjoy.

RED RUSSIAN KALE

Trust me - this is cool.

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Hey hey it's The Honeys! The magical water-deflecting properties of red russian kale, in CrappoVision.

HOT ENUFF 2 FRY AN EGG?

A rigorous scientific exploration.

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Hey, it's another episode of The Honeys! Sure, you can say it's hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk. But is it? Lorika and I decided to find out.

LORIKA'S BOUNTY

Lori gardens instead of blogging, so I'm her surrogate.

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A quick-n-dirty look at Lorika's garden treats.

CHUCK'S DREAM

Scruffly. Sleepy. Slurpetty-burpetty.

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Here's a dream I had about sliding down a big big hill. With stylistic/musical apologies to Clark ov ZipZapZop.com.

CAMEO: CHUCK'S MOM

Word to my mother.

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What's Chuck been up to? How fat is Chuck's cat? What did Chuck's mom get him for his birthday? All will be revealed in this week's episode of The Equalizer.

PRELUDE TO GARDEN VLOGGING

Tune in sometimes for the Chuck-n-Lori Backyard Program

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This is just a little taste of our backyard vlogging action. On account of my leaving for Seattle in a few hours, this is all I had time to whip together. More soon - you know you want it!?

VLOG 3.0: MEET THE HONEYS

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People often ask me, "Chuck, why are you such a fuckup?" That always gives me a good chuckle. Then they ask me again, putting their hand on my shoulder. "No, seriously, Why are you such a fuckup?" Usually then I run away.

My most recent bit of fuckupery: I was supposed to do the live iChat webcam thing on Jay Dedman's call-in show last night, 10:30 my time. Around 10, Lorika and I were sitting down for dinner and wine, and she wanted to watch a movie. We started in on the Marilyn Monroe collection - How to Marry a Millionaire. I decided we'd just pause it at 10:30 and I'd jump into the chat. Well, by 10:30 I'd had a couple glasses of wine and we were settled into the movie, so I thought, "Oh, I'll jump in at 11:00 instead." But umm, I forgot it's only a half-hour show.

So here, by way of this tipsy vlog-vid, is my apology/explanation to Jay. One note - Lorika and I not only refer to each other as "honey" but we refer to ourselves as "honey" in the 3rd person. Which causes all kinds of confusion, but it's kinda fun. Welcome to my oversharing.

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KEYWORDS: Secret Farm, Jay Dedman, Manhattan Neighborhood Network