This is the best decorated house in Parksville 2024.
Silver Meadows Farm Market puts on a terrific pumpkin festival, along with a corn maze, in nearby Errington.
Category: humour
Gumption by Nick Offerman
Nick Offerman has released four semi-autobiographical publications:
- Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man’s Fundamentals for Delicious Living (2013)
- Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America’s Gutsiest Troublemakers (2015)
- Good Clean Fun: Misadventures in Sawdust at Offerman Woodshop (2016)
- Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside (2021).
Gumption is a humorous, philosophical look at some of the people who have inspired Nick over his lifetime. For example, as a young man he was a huge fan of the film Billy Jack (1971) — and its creator / star Tom Laughlin. He attended Tom’s funeral in 2013 and spent time with the family.
While focused on personal heroes, Nick finds time to expound upon many of his favorite topics such as religion, politics, woodworking, agriculture, creativity, philosophy, fashion, and, of course, meat.
21 profiles of America’s gutsiest troublemakers
- George Washington
- Benjamin Franklin
- James Madison
- Frederick Douglass
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Frederick Law Olmsted
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Tom Laughlin
- Wendell Berry
- Barney Frank
- Yoko Ono
- Michael Pollan
- Thomas Lie-Nielsen
- Nat Benjamin
- George Nakashima
- Carol Burnett
- Jeff Tweedy
- George Saunders
- Laurie Anderson
- Willie Nelson
- Conan O’Brien
Paddle Your Own Canoe by Nick Offerman
Hilarious street philosophy.
Nick Offerman has released four semi-autobiographical publications:
- Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man’s Fundamentals for Delicious Living (2013)
- Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America’s Gutsiest Troublemakers (2015)
- Good Clean Fun: Misadventures in Sawdust at Offerman Woodshop (2016)
- Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside (2021).
He has also narrated all four as audiobooks.
Like most people, I love Nick Offerman as an actor, especially as Ron Swanson in the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation (2009–2015).
His writing is just as funny.
When Nick wrote this 2013 book, he wasn’t nearly as famous as he is today.
In 2003, he married Will & Grace actress Megan Mullally. She’s MUCH more famous and financially successful.
Everyone knew Nick Offerman after his fantastic performance in episode 3, The Last of Us – season 1. An Emmy winning turn.
I do recommend this book. And plan on reading all four.
Colin from Accounts 😀
Funny TV sitcom.
Colin from Accounts is an Australian comedy television series created and written by husband-and-wife team Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer, who also star as the show’s main characters. …
Set in Sydney, Australia and centred on Ashley (Harriet Dyer) and Gordon (Patrick Brammall), two singles who are brought together by a car accident and an injured dog whom they name Colin (from Accounts).
Ashley and Gordon are flawed, funny people who choose each other after being brave enough to show their true selves, scars and all, as they navigate life together.
Worth watching. Though I did feel the series got weaker towards the end.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Trump Announces his Campaign is a JOKE
Click PLAY or watch FAKE NEWS on YouTube. 😀
A (2016) video purportedly showing the presidential candidate saying that his campaign had been an April Fool’s Day prank all along was actually created for a comedy TV show.
Snopes
I Only Read Murder – by Ian & Will Ferguson
Will Ferguson is a Calgary based humorist and writer.
He and his older brother, Ian Ferguson, another funny writer, published this book in 2023.
The brothers were working together remotely during the pandemic on what would become their first fiction co-write, a comedic mystery featuring a sleuthing has-been actress named Miranda Abbott. …
Their heroine is a delusional actor whose fame has mostly faded. When she is recognized, it’s for playing the “crime-solving, karate-chopping” Pastor Fran, the titular character in a 1980s TV show called Pastor Fran Investigates. …
… part of the dynamic during those over-the-phone work sessions was simply to make each other laugh. …
Calgary Herald review
Out of work. Out of money. Miranda Abbott somehow lands a tiny role in an amateur theatrical production Murder Mystery called Death is the Dickens.
The book is amusing. A light read.
I don’t like Instagram
I’d avoided this Facebook social media alternative — until the pandemic. It’s very popular with outdoor recreation folks so I started posting near daily on @BestHikeVisuals.
This parody nails it. 😀
Click PLAY or watch it on Vimeo.
Day 1 for me on Instagram was November 9, 2020.
It’s shocking how limited Instagram is compared with Facebook. For example:
- until recently, it was super difficult to post from a computer
- Instagram images sometimes don’t show on browsers with ad blockers installed
- you have no control over the sizes of thumbnails. They often look stupid.
- Instagram videos are often poor quality and look bad when viewed from a computer rather than a phone
I’m up to over 600 posts now. And it IS rewarding to quickly scan all of those. And there are some very good photos.
But many of the coolest influencers are posting less to Instagram. Looking to TikTok and other social media.
The Simpsons LIVE Opening – People
From Season 17, Episode 15. “Homer Simpson, This is Your Wife”
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It’s very close.
Click PLAY or watch Original V.S. Real Life Comparison on YouTube.
Cunk on Earth – Eat THIS, David Attenborough 😀
Very. Funny.
On Rotten Tomatoes, 100%.
Cunk on Earth is British mockumentary TV, brilliantly skewering everything and everybody historical.
… stars Diane Morgan as Philomena Cunk, an ill-informed investigative reporter …
The series introduces subjects such as the development of agriculture and early civilization, the rise of Christianity and Islam, the Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution, the First and Second World Wars, the Cold War and the Space Race.
With an eye to the future, Cunk concludes the series with a speculative comment on the possibility of AI takeover. …
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Henri, le Chat Noir 😀
Val introduced me to the Henri videos.
Existential angst, as only a cat in France could suffer. 😀
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Henri, le Chat Noir … French for “Henry, the Black Cat”) is a web series of short films on the existential musings of the cat Henri, written and directed by William Braden.
… Braden was inspired by the American perception of French films as “very pretentious and self-involved.
Henri was actually from Seattle. He lived to the age of 17.
Rick McCharles 