{"id":2273,"date":"2015-06-15T06:38:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T13:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/?p=2273"},"modified":"2019-04-26T18:55:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T18:55:01","slug":"2273","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/2273\/","title":{"rendered":"June 15 &#8211; June 21 (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:calc( 1250px + 0px );margin-left: calc(-0px \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-0px \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:0px;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:0px;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:0px;--awb-spacing-left-medium:0px;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:0px;--awb-spacing-left-small:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h3>RANDOM PIC OF THE WEEK<\/h3>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a mock-up I found very interesting.&nbsp; It&#8217;s how they think Elvis would look had he made it to the age of 80!&nbsp; Fascinating!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ww061515.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2274\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ww061515.jpg\" alt=\"ww061515\" width=\"423\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ww061515-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ww061515-500x590.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ww061515-700x827.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ww061515-867x1024.jpg 867w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ww061515.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/humming\/humming.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"54\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Since I was studying the Herman&#8217;s Hermits song &#8220;Mrs. Brown You&#8217;ve Got a Lovely Daughter&#8221; for my new parody about the California drought, I started thinking about some of their other songs.&nbsp; As I walk Roxy through the complex at night I&#8217;ve been humming their hit <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;I&#8217;m Into Something Good.&#8221;<\/span>&nbsp; I remember the song being used in the movie &#8220;Naked Gun.&#8221; Hilarious!&nbsp; Here&#8217;s a great video&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe title=\"The Naked Gun Peter Noone HD (I&#039;m Into Something Good)\" width=\"1250\" height=\"703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XTSjhm2t8ms?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Monday the 15th \u2013 THAT\u2019S A BUNCH OF GARBAGE! \u2013<\/span> Right around 3 in the afternoon I got up and saw that my garbage still hadn\u2019t been picked up.&nbsp; Wednesday is garbage pick-up day, and I\u2019m not sure why the driver missed my house and several others in the complex.&nbsp; So I called and asked when I could expect them. I also asked for a credit for the missed week, because this is a service I pay for.&nbsp; The guy on the phone said that the bill I pay wasn\u2019t precisely for garbage pick-up, but was for something else.&nbsp; Even though the payment coupon says SANITATION.&nbsp; I told him it must be nice to not do your job but still get paid for it.&nbsp; I asked him how I could sign up to get a job like that.&nbsp; I know it wasn\u2019t the guy on the phone\u2019s fault, but it\u2019s still very frustrating.&nbsp; I made some other calls, did some work around the house, and then napped on the couch until 8pm.&nbsp; The previous active week had left me a bit exhausted, so it was nice to catch up on some sleep.&nbsp; When I got up a few hours later I hopped in the Gran Torino and picked up my assistant Sara so we could go to the Coral Caf\u00e9 for a late dinner.&nbsp; I got home and got started on Wally\u2019s Week and did my auditions.&nbsp; I have to be up early the next day for a Honda session, but I did manage to squeeze in a snack and a few more episodes of the old \u201cBatman\u201d TV series on Blu Ray before bed.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Tuesday the 16th \u2013 LAST-MINUTE LARNYX! \u2013<\/span> Since I don\u2019t sleep very well at night (I\u2019m a night person by nature) I only manage to get a few hours of sleep when I have to be up in the morning for a job.&nbsp; Such was the case with this night.&nbsp; After only a few hours of sleep I got up at 9, got cleaned up and headed to Santa Monica at 10 for a voice-over for a Honda radio commercial.&nbsp; I got to Lime Studios at 11 and the session went very quickly.&nbsp; I think they ended up using the third take we did!&nbsp; That\u2019s pretty rare, but the producers had a keen idea of what they were looking for. I played an opera-singing Honda sales associate. It was a pretty funny commercial.&nbsp; Just before I went into the session, I got a call from my animation agent Pat telling me to high tail it over to North Hollywood Sound at 2 for some work on a videogame.&nbsp; When I finished the Honda session, I made a quick stop by Campos Tacos (my favorite Mexican restaurant) and got some lunch.&nbsp; Then I headed home to walk Roxy. I finished up and headed to Burbank for the session.&nbsp; I did the 2 voices for characters I had done for this videogame before, but I did a new characters which was a nervous, creepy rat-like creature. It was fun!&nbsp; I got home by 3:30 and it was nice to be back in air conditioned comfort.&nbsp; It had been a fairly hot day and I had been on the move since 9am!&nbsp; I did a little work around the house and then grabbed a long nap on the couch.&nbsp; I got up later for auditions, worked on-line, sent the invites for my Saturday night movie night, made some hot dogs on the grill, and enjoyed a few more episodes of \u201cBatman\u201d before bed.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Wednesday the 17th \u2013 BUSINESS AS USUAL! \u2013<\/span> At noon when I woke up I did some work around the house and walked Roxy.&nbsp; I made some phone calls and lounged around on the couch.&nbsp; My pal Brittney Powell came over to do some work, and I checked out the new mix of the parody song I wrote a few weeks ago.&nbsp; It\u2019s a parody of the old Hermans Hermits song \u201cMrs. Brown You\u2019ve Got a Lovely Daughter\u201d called \u201cJerry Brown You\u2019ve Got To Locate Water\u201d about our state\u2019s water shortage.&nbsp; I had my producer make some tweaks on the mix, and now it\u2019s ready to be sent to the media.&nbsp; Since Wally has retired from doing parody songs, I decided to record this one under the moniker Stained Freebird.&nbsp; Obviously a tip of the hat to my late, great pal Stan Freeberg (comedy writer and musician), I thought that was a great name to use in the vein of Gnarls Barkley.&nbsp; I felt this song needed to be written, and it virtually wrote itself.&nbsp; Our Governor has been a do-nothing politician when it comes to creating new ways to get water to a desert state.&nbsp; So I had to say my piece.&nbsp; I recorded some new voice tracks for Go 96.3, the radio station in Minneapolis that I do image voicing for. I also recorded some tracks for a station in my old hometown of Aberdeen, South Dakota.&nbsp; I may become the image voice for that station as well!&nbsp; I did my auditions, made a Tombstone pizza and watched some more \u201cBatman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Thursday the 18th \u2013 COYOTE CONFRONTED! \u2013<\/span> Roxy woke me up at 2 for a walk, and when we went outside I realized it was HOT!&nbsp; But even with all her hair she loves nothing more than to sunbathe on the hottest patch of grass on the lawn.&nbsp; She\u2019ll turn her belly up to the blazing hot sunshine and go to sleep.&nbsp; It never ceases to amuse me.&nbsp; I came back inside to relax in the cool house, and I got a panicked call from my neighbor Caroline.&nbsp; She was at a different spot of the complex walking her small dog Ridley, and she saw a hungry coyote hanging around the area.&nbsp; I grabbed my phone and my camera and headed to the area she told me about.&nbsp; Sure enough there he was.&nbsp; He was a lone, scroungy coyote that didn\u2019t look very healthy at all.&nbsp; I followed him through the complex to see where he\u2019d go.&nbsp; He didn\u2019t like me following him and picked up his pace.&nbsp; As I ran after him I stomped my feet (knowing they don\u2019t like loud noises) and whistled loudly.&nbsp; When I was a kid my mom taught me how to do a loud whistle (something that would come in handy if I never needed to hail a cab!) but it\u2019s VERY loud.&nbsp; He didn\u2019t like that either.&nbsp;&nbsp; I chased him until I didn\u2019t see him any longer.&nbsp; My neighbors said they saw him running out of the complex.&nbsp; I told my neighbors to go to the local sporting goods store and buy a referee whistle and keep it with them when they walked their dogs.&nbsp; Knowing that a coyote\u2019s hearing is keen, this will hurt his ears and he\u2019ll run off.&nbsp; I also know they have a keen sense of smell, and I advised them to get a Super Soaker and fill it with water and vinegar and blast him.&nbsp; I\u2019m sure the coyote wouldn\u2019t want to stink either.&nbsp; When I got home and looked up what to do when you encounter a coyote, it said to do exactly that.&nbsp; Whistle, soak them with vinegar, and also rattle a soda can full of coins.&nbsp; The loud, shrill noise will chase them away.&nbsp; I printed up a sheet of guidelines that I\u2019ll post throughout the complex.&nbsp; I also did some last-minute work on the scripts for my new web series called \u201cWacky Wally\u2019s Vintage Toys.\u201d&nbsp; Then I headed to Jerry\u2019s Famous Deli to meet with my producer Kevin to discuss the ideas.&nbsp; On the way home I stopped at Kinko\u2019s to make some copies of the coyote guidelines.&nbsp; I got home and put some photos on a flash drive for Kevin to use when he edits together the web series.&nbsp;&nbsp; I did my auditions, and continued to tweak the web series scripts.&nbsp; I walked Roxy around the complex and posted the coyote flyers. Then I came back inside and made some buffalo mac and watched some more \u201cBatman\u201d episodes from the second season Blu Ray set.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Friday the 19th \u2013 A \u2018TAXING\u2019 JOB! \u2013<\/span> The first order of the day was to call a locksmith to fix the lock in my mailbox.&nbsp; It became very loose and to make matters worse, my key stuck in the lock!&nbsp; He came by and loosened everything up so he could get my key out, and then he tightened up the lock which had become loosened with age.&nbsp; I happened to see a couple Board members from our complex\u2019s Board of Directors. So we got into a discussion about the things that are wrong with this complex.&nbsp; I was on the board about 10 years ago, but things are getting out of control here again so I may need to run for office again to get things back in line.&nbsp; I just don\u2019t understand how so many of our Board members don\u2019t use common sense or logic when making decisions that affect the complex.&nbsp; It\u2019s nuts!&nbsp; But I digress.&nbsp; I hopped in the car and went to Fast Signs to pick up the new signage I was getting for Planet Wallywood. The first batch of signs they made for me had something called \u201cbanding.\u201d&nbsp; They\u2019re thin lines in the print that make it look uneven.&nbsp; So they agreed to run the signs again on a new machine.&nbsp; I stopped by my mailbox to get my packages, and then hit McDonald\u2019s for some dinner.&nbsp; And then I ran by Jersey Mike\u2019s to get a sandwich for later when I watch \u201cBatman\u201d before bed.&nbsp; But when I got home I was feeling very energetic, so I decided to clean off my filthy patio.&nbsp; It was full of leaves and dirt. With my allergies being as bad as they are, I have to keep it as clean as possible so my sinuses won\u2019t become inflamed.&nbsp; And with apologies to Governor \u201cVery\u201d Brown (so named because his no-action policies have led to California turning brown!) I did have to hose down my patio for about 1 minute.&nbsp; All the sweeping of the leaves had kicked up so much dust I started to sneeze and have an allergic reaction.&nbsp; The water helped to wash the dirt away.&nbsp; Then I went inside to relax for a bit with a nap on the couch.&nbsp; When I got up I was feeling energetic again.&nbsp; First it was off to the grocery store to get some groceries. Then I decided to tackle a huge job in my garage that had been hanging over my head for a long time.&nbsp; I\u2019m working on reorganizing all of my stuff in storage, but most importantly was isolating and organizing all of my tax documents.&nbsp; I had tax documents and receipts dating back to 1993!&nbsp; Of course I no longer need all those receipts, so I ended up dumping everything pre 2000.&nbsp; I kept the tax returns and documents, but threw away all of the receipts.&nbsp; I labeled all of tax documents and receipts and put them in waterproof plastic boxes.&nbsp; Whew!&nbsp; What a job!&nbsp; But I\u2019m glad I took the time and did it.&nbsp; The next phase is to continue putting random stuff away in boxes and filing the boxes away.&nbsp; The garage is looking better, but it\u2019s not perfect yet!&nbsp; I fed and walked Roxy and then settled down with my Jersey Mike\u2019s sandwich and watched a \u201cBatman\u201d 3 part episode!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Saturday the 20th \u2013 MOVIE MAGIC! \u2013<\/span> During the afternoon I worked around the house getting ready for my weekly Saturday night movie night.&nbsp; I spent some more time working on the scripts for my web series.&nbsp; Occasionally during movie night we enjoy special celebrity guests.&nbsp; My pal Dorothy Fontana (D.C. Fontana to you \u201cStar Trek\u201d fans) is married to a guy named Dennis Skotak, a genius special effects artist who has worked on tons of films.&nbsp; One of those films is John Carpenter\u2019s \u201cEscape From New York.\u201d&nbsp; I love that film, so I got it on Blu Ray and he and Dorothy were kind enough to come by and provide live commentary to my movie night guests.&nbsp; It was fun having him tell us shot by shot how the effects were done.&nbsp; Then he wowed us with a series of personal, behind-the-scenes photographs that he took on the set. WOW!&nbsp; What a night!&nbsp; Though most of the guests left around midnight, several of us stayed up until 2am chatting.&nbsp; I did some work around the house when they left, cleaned up a bit, made a huge salad, and settled down to watch another episode of the old British series \u201cThe Persuaders\u201d with Tony Curtis and Roger Moore.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Sunday the 21st \u2013 SORE SINUS SUNDAY AND A SUPER SUMMER SOLSTICE! \u2013<\/span> Well, as expected, all of the work in the dusty garage and on my dirty patio had inflamed my sinuses.&nbsp; I slept late in the day, but got up for evening church.&nbsp; My sinuses were hurting so I came home and slept on the couch all evening.&nbsp; But I DID call my dad first to say Happy Father\u2019s Day!&nbsp; I got up to do work around the house, did my auditions, made some soup and a sandwich, and watched more \u201cBatman.\u201d&nbsp; It was the longest day of the year, and summer\u2019s here.&nbsp; But I love knowing that from here on out, the days will eventually get shorter and we\u2019re on our way to fall!<\/p>\n<p>And how was YOUR week??!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">VIDEO FROM THE WEEK<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the Youtube version of the new parody song &#8220;Jerry Brown You&#8217;ve Got to Locate Water&#8221; by Stained Freebird.&nbsp; Complete with lyrics. 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