November 2007
This is a list of posts published in November 2007.
Ultimate Yankee Swap Fighting – Extreme Championship Home Edition
This weekend, Andi and I hold our seventh annual Christmas party. We began this tradition the year we were married (in part to celebrate our swanky new digs but mostly to find a time in the hectic holiday season to tip a glass of good cheer alongside our close friends) and we haven’t missed a year yet.
Over time, we have worked the schedule to try and offset the myriad of other gatherings that we all field innumerable invitations to attend. While we used to hold the event closer to Christmas, we have tried to steer clear of the big day.
Of course, this experimentation has introduced its share of lessons learned. One year, we held it the very next day – December 26th – out in the wild frontier of Dudley but quickly realized that fixing the fiesta so late in the season was a dicey proposition, as a raging Nor’Easter took root midway through... Continue reading »
To Catch a prEDator
Taking a break from all this Ed Zone’s Funniest Home Video nonsense, I interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to post one of those little slice o’ life pieces that I like to draft every once in awhile to remind y’all that behind this goofball facade, an actual human resides. The latest check of the Nielsens shows at least three of you are grooving to the continued adventures of the DWG so all I can say is hang tight, something big is coming. And by the time I am done posting it, this site will likely be bookmarked by crickets and tumbleweeds the world over.
But that’s for another day.
Today, I wanted to drop you a note to let you know how things were going in the Humphries household. Of course, with 22000 cc’s of triptofan on the docket for this week, we all know the holidays are just around the river bend – meaning I have to get to work drafting the annual C... Continue reading »
Trailer Park – Dumbguy Forever Vol 2: Clip Skip
Here it is. The official trailer to the Second Film Never Produced by Writer/Director/Producer Ed Humphries. I have spent so much time, effort and energy creating nothing, I feel like James Blunt.
As with the first trailer I made, both projects boast several hours of actual footage. After viewing the ‘dailies’, I realized there was no way I could ever produce something coherent – so I took the next best tact and simply cobbled together these trailers. Remember, this stuff was filmed when I was young and dumb. Now that I’m a bit more mature and my tastes more refined, I have no doubt I could blast a creative project out of the park. Alas, the rigors of the Nine-to-Five conspire to rid me of any artistic aspirations. Damn that Catch-22.
This trailer is a kissing cousin to the last one. A few years back, I decided to create a DVD project of random... Continue reading »
“Is that, JimKat?”
Another day – another celebrity wedding to announce.
Coming on the heels of the recent Kerryookie matrimony (you read all about in Star, Us Weekly and of course – The Ed Zone) comes word that another member of my circle of friends has found true romance. The word on the street is that our good friend, Kathie Schaaf, has accepted her paramour Jim Beal’s proposal for marriage.
Say hello to JimKat.
Once the details were ironed out and the rider added to the contract (apparently Kathie’s German heritage dictates a dowry of 433 pounds of Wienerhozen be granted to her suitor) – the happy couple hit the streets to announce their engagement. Pure folly on their part, if you ask this intrepid reporter. I had a fleet of paparazzi staking out every last tree house, henhouse, doghouse and outhouse from here to Eternity Springs, NV – just waiting for their private mom... Continue reading »
Trailer Park – Dumbguy Forever
Look out, YouTube!!!
At long last, I offer my readers something more than flowery language and pretty pictures. With today’s grand unveiling of this little blast from my past, The Ed Zone has been thrust into the brave new world of web videos. And with this first video (click the photo link at the bottom of this post), my true identity has been stripped bare for all to see. Yup, beyond this cool, calculating facade the real truth is exposed. I’m nothing but your garden variety tool.
Anyway, my best bud Sean and I have been trying to figure out how to add video to this site for many months now. Last year, on Halloween no less, I was able to post two videos that depicted a few segments of spine-chilling terrors from spooky siestas long since past but those videos came in at a scant 30 seconds or less so there wasn’t much heavy lifting required to get them up and... Continue reading »
200
Time to celebrate the Bicentennial.
With this post, I have officially hit 200 full posts in less than two years. Now, a simple search of the Archives will show many more than 200 pieces, but in selecting a mile marker, I decided to ignore the shorter ‘Asides’ – those quick hits that run down the side of the page. Nope – for this moment to be meaningful, the posts had to be those full-fledged magazine length articles that I’ve thrust upon you, my poor unsuspecting Constant Readers, over the last twenty months.
I touched upon this the other day. Since this Blog was established (in the last days of January 2006), I have written close to 700 pages of original content. As I’ve gone back and reread some of those older pieces, I am truly amazed at the shear breadth of original thought on display. Now, I don’t mean to beep my own horn but I have t... Continue reading »
Halloween Haunts
Trick or Treat.
This is just a quick little post aimed at bringing y’all up to speed on this year’s Halloween Hauntings in the Humpries Household. I swear, if Mr. Travelini (my 9th Grade English Teacher) ever performs a Vanity Google on himself and stumbles across this site and my alarming attachment to alliteration, I am so seriously screwed.
First the Trick.
This was going to be THE YEAR. The one where I finally embraced the great gift thrust upon me and used my freakish cabeza and animated looks to draw Homer Simpson to vibrant life.
I had it all planned out. The uniform is the easy part. First, a white polo and some blinding blue pants – not Jeans – just generic blue pants. Ya’ know, what the... Continue reading »
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