Just thought I’d wish all of you a wonderfully scary Halloween!
If you haven’t already checked it out… here is FRANKEN-HNT!
EDIT: 10:50 AM
So, at break this morning I go to my regular coffee-shop and order 1 ice-coffee, 1 hot chai and a bagel with cream cheese to go. The grand total… $6.66! Hmmm….
Thank you all for visiting and for all your kudos for the Franken-HNT project. I have to share your pleasure with my partner in crime for this posting, Fingers B. Mega thanks also to all of you who contributed body parts to this sick and wrong production. Couldn’t have done it without you!!! And of course the mighty Osbasso for creating HNT… and was one of the first contributers to the project! Now I will crawl back into my cave and resume being a lurker… perhaps to emerge once in a while for the odd special HNT project or two. But do come by and visit for the usual rubbish that gets posted here! Cheers!
EDIT: 1:50 PM
I’m fielding 2 new shows for Rogue 2006. Using the name of my production company Theatre J’Nerique would be a “conflict of interest” since we power the festival. So, now I have to come up with a couple of “invisible” production companies. I think “Chonie Chewing Collective” is gonna be one. Any suggestions for the other?
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Yes, there is a soundtrack! So when you get in… click the player to hear the soundtrack…. it runs under 3 minutes.
Now….
Happy HNT!
EDIT: This is NOT my HNT…. click the link to go to the real one!
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FRANK
I was created on a whim by my creator, Dr. Frankenwiener, who had lost his sanity one Sunday afternoon in October.
DOCTOR
Ya bad a, ya bad a ya bad …
FRANK
Being an idiot genius he wasn’t well versed in the art of conversation. I made my needs known and he set about creating a remedy for me.
DOCTORFRANK
I was shown an array of body parts for the creation of my future bride. They were all so beautiful that it was impossible to decide.
DOCTOR
Oooohhh… watch this? What about this? What about this? Woo Woo woop!
SPLAT!
DOCTOR
Woops! Can’t use that one.
FRANK
He worked long and hard. Soon he had the best of the best assembled.
DOCTOR
Oooohh… this is going to be good, you’ll see.
FRANK
However due to a technical glitch the creation filled with life jumped off the table and scurried away.
HEAD 1
Oh, nice rack!
HEAD 2
I’ll say… but where is the head?
DOCTOR
Come back, liebshn! You are not cooked yet! You need eine kopf!
FRANK
I was in despair. We only had a body and no head. How could I be expected to conduct a conversation with a headless body?
DOCTOR
No to worry… big guy… I know where to get ein good kopf for your girlie friend. I’ll just get the head that was once attached to these legs.
FRANK
He soon attached it.
DOCTOR
Here have some vodka… it will help with the healing.
FRANK
And so we were created. We moved out to a condo in
BRIDE
HOW DEEE!
THE END
(run end credit music)
11:00 AM: Things are shaping up a little slower than I want them to. Suddenly my schedule is jam packed with all sorts of busy work. I will have something ready to go soon. Planning on posting the Franken-HNT tomorrow by 8 PM, Pacific time. So stay tuned for the sick and the wrong.
Looks like my upcoming weekend will be filled too. Lighting gigs are suddenly coming up like they are going out of style.
More later…
Here is the next installment of the play. If you missed the first installment CLICK HERE. Please be aware that this is a very rough first draft.
MUSIC
His cell phone goes off. He puts the communicator down as he fumbles to find it. He finds it, flips it open and reads the message. A darkness come over him. He looks at his watch.
He looks around, pulls out a gun and checks the clip. Puts thye gun back and pulls out the phone again. He punches some numbers into the phone. Doesn’t get an answer.
Enter MS. WHITE, an attractive 20 something, with a shopping cart.
PAUSE
She pulls out a gaudy Hawaiian shirt out of the shopping cart.
MS. WHITE
There is also this… and it’s full price.
HUNTER
Silk.
MS. WHITE
One hundred percent. Which one I get for you will depend entirely on…
HUNTER
Which one I choose?
MS. WHITE
Oh, if life were so simple… it was once. No. It would depend on you, Hunter, informing me… if you are done.
HUNTER
With?
MS. WHITE
You’ve had generous offers from other casinos. 3 to be exact. I’ve heard the rumors. Are you leaving the Kingdom? Are you done?
HUNTER
Who did you hear this from?
Many of you are sending in some great body parts for this somewhat insane Franken – HNT Monster project – MEGA THANK YOU’S. I can only post a body count update later tonight… after the workshop I have to conduct this evening.
One minor change… I’m easing up on restrictions for your submissions. I’ll take as many as I can… BUT only send ONE pic! I will also use your body parts ONLY with your permission! I will try to harvest and use as many as I can! I’ve boosted up the memory on the special e-mail address… so send them in to frankenhnt@itcamefromfresno.com before MIDNIGHT on Sunday!
EDIT: BODY COUNT as of 9:30 AM, Oct. 21. KEEP EM COMING, FOLKS!
(note: these are only from e-mail submissions… “permission to use from my blog” has not been counted yet.)
HEAD (front) – 4 (male) – 1 (female)
BELLY or TUMMY (front) - 1 (male) - 1 (female)
NECK, SHOULDER & ARM/S (front) – 1 (male) – 3 (female)
NECK, SHOULDER & ARM/S (back) – 1 (female)
CHEST & UPPER TORSO (front) – 2 (female)
TORSO (side) – 2 (female)
FEET & TOES (front) – 3 (female)
BUTT & TOP LEGS – (back) – 1 (female)
LEGS (side) – 1 (female)
LEGS (front) – 1 (female)
LEFT BREAST (front) – 1 (female
EYE (side) – 1 (female)
HAND & ARM (front) – 1 (female)
This kind of grave robbing is fun. If you have not received an email from me yet thanking you for your submission… you will sometime soon. Cheers!
Can’t do HNT this week (see post below for reasons) but I have an idea for next week if you are interested in participating.
I will create a Horror Extravaganza with your contributions and create a Franken – HNT Monster… or 2! The Monster will be made up of body parts from YOU! What I will need is ONE pic from you. Either FRONT or SIDE view. It can be from a past HNT or a random new pic. I will slice and dice and sew it all up…. perhaps even include a soundtrack and story (yeah, like I haven’t done that before… lol).
Because there are over 200 HNTers I will have to limit submissions on a “first supplied, first patched” basis. Remember, SEND ONLY ONE PIC! Below is a list of pics I will need per section of the body.
HEAD front view – 6 pics
HEAD side view – 3 pics
NECK front view – 2 pics
NECK side view – 1 pic
TORSO front view – 5 pics
TORSO side view – 3 pics
LEGS (right or left) front view 4 pics each.
LEGS (left or right… including butt) sideview 5 pics each.
Now what do you do? Email Me ONE said pic at frankenhnt@itcamefromfresno.com then comment on this post as to what you sent me… e.g. “Head (front)”. I will allow 4 or 5 pics past the needed inventory per body section and will state in the comments something like “I got enough HEAD!” This will mean that submissions for that body section is closed. Deadline for submissions is Midnight Sunday.
Let’s see what kind of Half-Nekkid Monster we can make!
EDIT: The count on body parts at the moment 7:25 PM is 2 heads, 1 tummy. 1 left shoulder… all guys so far.
We do need a bride for Franken-HNT!
EDIT2: 7:35 – Finally got the first “bride” body part… a lovely neck!
Here is a small sample of a stitch! This is only a quick and dirty sample… not the real thing.
EDIT 3: 8:02 PM – This could be fun!
EDIT 4: 10 PM – Arms & Hands… we need those too. Feel free to pass the word!
More on that later. So, I had set a deadline to complete a first draft of this play. The deadline is THIS SATURDAY! I made this deadline LAST SATURDAY! The reason I set up this deadline is that there is a Rogue barbecue THIS SATURDAY and I wanted to try out a cold reading of the play in front of the gang. (Besides, I love the fire of a quick write!)
Well, life has decided to conspire against my tango with the Wacky Zone. O.K., let me explain. my modus operandi is to jam my big foot into my big mouth and then I would have to deliver the goods! It worked great with the last 49 plays that I have to my name. Kinda like inviting people over for a party just so you’ll get the house clean for the event. So, I make the deadline… ANNOUNCE to all turning up that there may be a reading of my new play… and I only have 11 pages done.
The same time that I created the deadline and ANNOUNCED the fact… I of course decide to CHANGE MY CREATIVE PROCESS for said play. I had plotted it out and developed the characters… then decided that this did not feel right for this piece and made the executive decision to float the piece in a more “stream of consciousness” process. The moment I make this decision… BOOM… folks are coming over to hang out, meetings are scheduled (that need my presence), and the last 2 nights… I’ve been out at meetings and drinking like it’s bloody going out of style. Then tonight, Number 1 (my heir) and I go out to a local bar and buy 13 old bar stools for $5 a pop! (score!) These are now sitting in my already over stuffed garage.
The worst part of all of this is that I’ve been really agonizing over the “jump” in the play. The point (early on) when everything begins to really move! I figure it out… and now I have to suddenly conduct a workshop for the bloody Rogue on Thursday (that I’m convinced that nobody is going to attend)! Jeez! And what am I doing about it? I’m blogging.
40 more pages to go. It’ll get done. Have a nice day and cheers!
This week’s Picture Daze edition is a small sampling of life here in the Big “NO”. These pics were taken last weekend.
The annual Big Fresno Fair was in town and scarysquirrelman and I decided to grace the event with our presence. The traffic was ridiculous but we finally made it into the in-field parking, past the metal detectors, through the scary tunnel and out into the Fairgrounds.
I am constantly amazed by the humanity I see at the fair. It truly is a cross section of the city’s population… every social, economic and racial stratas are represented.
It’s a huge county fair with local livestock and produce displayed with pride and for competition. In fact this particular cloven hoofed critter has award winning udders. SSM seemed quite taken with her.
Every town in the county turns up with their produce to be judged… it’s quite the buzz. My personal pick this year for fruits & veges galore was the city of Easton.
Then there is fair food! Everything seems to be deep fried and on a stick. Here is SSM in mid-chomp on a corndog. I went for a hotlink myself. I suspect checking out the award winning udders earlier significantly affected our food choices.
We had dropped some bucks at the horsetrack earlier and I think that eating a whole load of heart attack food provided some comfort for our losses. Of course no trip to the fair is complete without visiting the Commerce & Industry pavilion.
Exhibitors hawk every thing from hot-tubs to gadgets that are halfway useful. This sign made us very curious. Turned out to be attachments to a weedwhacker.
There are of course the concerts, etc. But for me this annual event is a reminder of the heart of the valley… the fact that this area is known as the “bread-basket of the world.” It’s a celebration that I live in a place that toils the earth and am blessed that our food is always fresh.
It’s all about the food really.