FAN FRIDAY

I have to confess...I'm a big fan of TheDaveman, 

and I'm part of the Davemania movement!

There, I said it! 

I've been going to group therapy with other Davemaniacs, but nothing seems to help! 

TheDaveman is not like your average, ordinary nutball case you might find lying drunk and stoned in a Pine Bluff, Arkansas alley, behind a strip joint! Ooooh, noooooo! 

He deviously uses clever devices to grab you, pull you into his web, and never let you go!

Look at the innocent sounding words he uses to lure you in to watching his narcotically addicting videos:

"I'm just some dude that enjoys humor and 

laid back atmospheric conditions. A throw 

back from the 70's I'm not suffering from 

insanity - I actually enjoy it! Don't judge! 

Try it! You'll like it. I like singing, goofing 

off, movies (mostly sci-fi and action with a

 little drama) and hey, Old Time Rock & 

Roll is the best! Country music too. I'm 

completely random. That's me. "

Oh, yeah! I'm jus a good ole country boy, jus a 

funnin' with ya'll, I'm not crazy as a loon, no way...

I have a hankerin' for watchin' movies, goofin' off, 

and I'm completely harmless! ( Yeah, like Norman 

Bates in the last scene of Psycho!)

The sure fire way he mesmerizes gullible men to  

watch his videos is by using a gorgeous, sexy 

spokesmodel  by the name of Cleopatra Bionda 

(undoubtedly a Russian spy), who no red-blooded 

American male could ever resist...especially when 

she does those sexy little kissy things at me..uh...I 

mean...at the anonymous viewers!

Now, listen up! Here is the major reason not to get suckered into watching TheDaveman's videos!

They are so hysterically hilarious, you will fall into the abyss of laughter, and never be able to return to the place from whence you came!

The only reason I'm posting this next Davemania video is to give you a brief glimpse of the devilish crap you MUST avoid...at all costs!!

Remember now, no matter what primal desires you have to watch this, turn away in haste, my son...or daughter...or whatever floats your boat!

Ready to resist this? Otay, start RESISTING:

Are you coo-coo? I begged you not to watch this!

What makes it worse is that this is the one where the Daveman sings Wild Thing, and Cleopatra dances the hoochiecoo!

You're hooked, and you don't even realize it!

Ooooh, so your mind can't be manipulated so easily?

Okay, let's test that out. Ready?

Don't think pink!

Regretfully, I have to admit, I'm too far gone to ever rid myself of this soul crushing addiction, but maybe it's not too late for you!

How ya doin' with that "don't think pink" thing?

SIGH! 
Go on ahead and click the link!

https://www.youtube.com/user/ImTheDaveman?feature=watch

THOUGHTFUL THURSDAY

I have over 27,000 views on my YouTube videos, but YouTube took away 14,000 views from me one day, with no explaination, so now it shows I only have 13,000 views.

My goal is 1 million views, so that makes it a bit harder to reach now, and I get a little discouraged at toms. (Not just at Tom's, but I'm discouraged at Bob's and Fred's too!)

Well, today I went to the little world map that YouTube provides on my channel, that shows the places my videos are being watched all over the world...AND IT BLEW ME AWAY!!

Mind you, some of the countries only had one or two views, but it is cool to know people are watching my silly videos, in places like Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain, and Greece!

I know my good friend Manolis is the one watching in Greece, because he is always writing encouraging comments that are especially flattering, coming from a great musician like him!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sosZHz99fHU&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PLSjsHBxHT6kEvG-KjGAY4hSdKAWITAjWs

Who, though, is watching my videos in Belarus?

I never get any comments from Belarus.

It would be cool if I did, though!

How about the "mates" that watch my videos in Australia?

The map showed that I had 6 views from Australia last month.

I'd like to know who they are, because it's so much fun making comments back and forth with my YouTube friends I've come to know and love, like Cheryl M., The Daveman, Katest 3r, Rhymesause, Gounderus and others!

Now, THIS is funny!

I figure that my 16 views from the U.K. all came from cute little Kate of Katest 3r fame.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrB6Jqe1cP8

She commented that my song "Went To Arizona" filled her with emotion. That is what a songwriter loves to hear! When someone simply says good song, I appreciate it, but a songwriter likes knowing how the song moved them, made them happy or sad, or even made them angry!

Cheryl M. (AKA Yellow Rose) is probably the greatest example of someone who comments from the depths of her heart with joyful enthusiasm and feeling! I absolutely love that free spirit she is never afraid to display to people she loves!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEjLkbtcBG0

Plus, she is so funny and adorable!

I think I lost my place...uh...let me see...MAP! ♫ I'm the map, I'm the map...♪♪ Been watching too much Dora with my granddaughters!

That's it! I was telling you about all the diverse places around the worm where they view my videos! 

I cannot even imagine what people in Saudi Arabia, Indonesia,

Turkey, Serbia, and Malaysia think about my wacky songs, and Glirkazoid videos! The YouTube map shows I have views from these places, but I never receive comments from those far flung countries!

They are probably thinking...VILD AND CLAZY HAMERICAN!!!

 It makes me giggle when I think about a Belarusian watching this, and forming an opinion about Americans!

Hamerika Clazy! Videos Vacky!

I hope and pray that people all over the earth are brought closer together by watching each others videos, and realizing that we are all basically the same in what we think is funny, sad, important (like family and friends), exciting, delightful, musically beautiful, and so many other things that can bring mankind (and womankind) together instead of tearing us apart!

Amen!

OUT OF THIS WORLD WEDNESDAY

When we last left our hero Gary (the Glirkazoid), he was about to endure the first of the 5 tests of the Gruesome Glirkazoid Gauntlet! 

The first test is to ride a pink bike across the Gland Canyon, on a narrow rope, blindfolded, in gale force winds, singing the Glirkazoid classic song, "Sweet Yellow Rose!" 

Only the pure of heart are able to conquer the Gauntlet, and Gary's heart was really, really pure...but a little skill and coordination was also needed, which Gary was woefully lacking in.

Dramatic music begins to play!

You have to listen to this to be capture the suspense!

The servants of the Supreme Counsel place Gary on the pink bike...they blindfold Gary with a black blindfold...then they lead him over to the narrow rope that is spanning the deepest part of the Gland Canyon...dramatic music gets louder (isn't this getting exciting)...gale force winds are blowing across the canyon when the front tire touches the wildly swaying rope!

Gary is really not afraid for his life, his fear is that his peers will view him as not being pure of heart if he fails.

Gary boldly pedals out on the whipping, undulating rope!

The spectators are certain Gary does not have a "snowball's chance in THE BIG HIBACHI" of making it across. 

Our beloved Gary is trying his level best to keep the bike on the rope while blindfolded, riding against the wind...but he is about to give up...and now he begins to sing the required "Sweet Yellow Rose Song!"

He gets to the part that says, "who is there to pick me up, when I'm lower than a worm, who puts a smile upon my face, and makes my backbone firm...

Gary stops slipping off the rope now!

Then he sings the part that says, "I'd love to stand tall on my own, do it all myself alone, but I'm way to weak for being strong, living in the "shadow zone"...

It's you I need to make things right, to free me from my fears, my super hero, shining knight, who wipes away my tears...

Gary understands why he feels such strength and courage now... YELLOW ROSE! This song is about the helper of all Glirkazoids...YELLOW ROSE!

Who has devoted her life to encouraging and giving help and comfort to ALL Glirkazoids! 

God knew that I needed help, and HE sent you as a blessing, to calm my spirit fill this void, and keep my mind from stressing...

Yellow Rose is not God or anything, but a dear sweet Glirkazoid who just has the God given super powers to come to the aid of any poor Glirkazoid in need!

By the time Gary was finished with the song, he was across the Gland Canyon, without even realizing it!

Thanks to the cool, Yellow Rose, with her God given super powers!

Whew! I'm glad that's over with! 

I was worried for Gary! Weren't you?

However, that was only the first step to gaining entrance to the Supreme Counsel!

The second step of the Gruesome Glirkazoid Gauntlet is too scary to even mention until next week!

Stay tuned!

TRAVELIN' TUESDAY

It's Travelin' Tuesday, 

So let me begin,

To tell you my story 'bout travelin',

I was born in St. Louis,

By God's good graces,

But I wanted to travel to different places.

By train or plane,

Or boat or car,

Travelin' fast and travelin' far,

I wanted to see,

What the world was like,

Even if I had to ride my bike!

My first big trip,

Was to Tacoma, it was raining,

Too bad it was for basic training,

I traveled to Boulder,

For some things I lusted,

I fried my brain, and nearly got busted.

I hitchhiked across America,

Boy, that was dumb,

Let me hear a DUH,

I met diverse people,

And it was fun,

Until I got that ride from the dude with a gun,

He didn't kill me,

As you can see,

But it took me awhile to clean up my pee.

Me and my buddy,

Thought it would be great,

To go to Florida for spring break,

Ft. Lauderdale was groovy,

The girls were chummy,

But my car broke down, and we were out of money,

We made it back,

'Cause a dude took us in,

And fixed the car with a safety pin.

(True story)

The Grand Canyon was awesome,

But here's the sad tale,

Where I almost "bought it" on Bright Angel Trail,

The mules were a-coming,

There wasn't much room,

Got too close to the edge,

And went down with a boom.

 However, twas only a few feet I'd drop,

How happy I was, when I fell on that rock.

So watch what you wish for,

It's nice to roam,

Travelin's fun,

But it's safer at home!

BURMA SHAVE

MANESS MUSIC MONDAY

I just released my new, old song on YouTube that I wrote about 42 years ago.

I promised I would tell the true meaning to the song in my blog... so here it is!

I went to Arizona...means, I went to Arizona... circa 1970!

And all along the way, I thought about some people there...means, as I was driving there, I thought about my friends who I was going to move in with...Ryan and Joanne Aurand.

I met Ryan in the Army, and he was the greatest singer I'd ever heard, taught me to play the guitar better than I ever thought I could, and became a very close friend, along with his wife Joanne.

They felt so far away...means, it seemed like it took forever to drive from St. Louis to Phoenix, Arizona in that Drive-A-Way car! 

Do you remember the Drive-A-Way business?

Here is how it worked, this girl flew from St. Louis to Stanford University, and then wanted her car.

Her parents paid to have the car driven there by me, but I paid for the gas.

I then flew from San Francisco to Phoenix to join my friends.

 Simple as that!

Enough of that. Let's get back to the classic song.

I went to California, I ran into some rain...means, after living with my friends for awhile, I got itchy feet, and decided to hitchhike to California to become fay-moose, and it didn't work out according to my plan. (Rain symbolizes disappointment, rejection,

and various difficult circumstances.)

I haven't been there since the storm, and I won't go back again...means, I wasn't going to go back to California, but I eventually did, anyway, to visit my sister.

Fireman's in the station, the doctor's on the street, the singer's in the factory without a bite to eat...means the fireman and doctor are where they should be, at the fire station, and in the doctor's office on the street, however, a great singer, like Ryan, was working in a factory where he didn't belong, and not receiving a crumb of recognition for his talent!

The safety of your kindness, the love you know I'll keep, the beauty in your blindness, I'm hiding in my sleep...means, as I was leaving Arizona I wanted to tell my friends how their kindness made me feel safe and warm, I would keep the love for them in my heart, how beautiful it was that they were blind to my faults, and during my years of depression I would sleep a lot, to hide from the difficulties of the world.

The mountains all around me, they shadow all my fear, I leave the past behind me, I hope you lend an ear...means, there were literally mountains that were all around Phoenix, but my true fear was leaving the protection and support of my friends, and then I would soon feel that far away feeling again as I traveled to California.

This is the song I wrote years ago, to share my feelings with my friends!

ST. ST. LOUIS SUNDAYSUN

As I have mentioned in a previous blog posting, we hardly ever went to church when I was a kid.

So, that made Sunday a time of pure relaxation, family getting together, and reading the "funny papers" on the living room floor.

I loved spreading the newspaper on the floor and reading the "Funnies," even though they weren't that funny, apart from Peanuts.

Would someone please explain to me why Prince Valiant was in the "funny papers?"

That strip was sooo boring, not a bit funny, and never came to any conclusion!

Pogo was kind of cool, with an avant garde style that had a reckless abandon, and a delightful,whimsical feel about it.

Are you old enough to remember the Mary Worth "comic" strip? You have to be pretty ancient to have that one in your memory banks!

Anyway, another real snoozer, unless maybe you were an old maid spinster, that didn't have a radio or T.V...or books, or friends. Just cats!

Beetle Bailey could be funny at times, but I'm kind of sore at the creators of this comic strip!

They made it look like Army life was nothing but a bunch of goofing off, playing practical jokes on ole Sarge, and having loads of fun! So I joined up when I became of age!

I learned that Army life had absolutely no resemblance to the Beetle Bailey cartoon...on the first day of basic training!

As time went on, some of the greatest comic strips of all time came along, in my humble opinion.

The Far Side...which was not really a "strip," but all the hilarity was in one frame...and it was pure genius!

And perhaps my favorite comic strip of all time, that touched my heart, as well as my funny bone, was Calvin and Hobbes!

See what I mean!