{"id":3172,"date":"2016-05-17T06:27:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T13:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/?p=3172"},"modified":"2019-04-26T17:37:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T17:37:50","slug":"may-17-may-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/may-17-may-22\/","title":{"rendered":"May 17 &#8211; May 22 (2016)"},"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>I LOVE THIS PHOTO!&nbsp; I found it on-line and grabbed it immediately.&nbsp; This happened at the Paul McCartney concert in Sioux Falls when a woman named Michelle (named after the Beatles song) and her young son Simon were invited up on stage by Paul so he could sign her arm. I&#8217;ll never forget that moment, and I KNOW they never will!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_00.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3173\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_00.jpg\" alt=\"ww_20160517_00\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_00-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_00-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_00-700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_00-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_00-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_00.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/humming\/humming.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"54\"><\/p>\n<p>All the while I was watching &#8220;Alice Through the Looking Glass&#8221; (and for a few days after) I was humming Jefferson Airplane&#8217;s <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;White Rabbit.&#8221;<\/span>&nbsp; What a great song!<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe title=\"Jefferson Airplane -White Rabbit-\" width=\"1250\" height=\"938\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WANNqr-vcx0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Tuesday the 17th \u2013 LOTS TO DO! \u2013<\/span> When I got up around noon I put in a DVD of an old TV show to study a voice that I\u2019d be \u201cvoice matching\u201d later in the day at a session.&nbsp; I stopped by Taco Bell to get lunch, and went to Salami Studios in North Hollywood to eat my food before the session.&nbsp; From 2 to 4 I did the session for a Warner Brothers animated feature and it was great fun!&nbsp; What a great group of guys.&nbsp; I wish I could tell you more about it, but all in good time.&nbsp; I headed over to Plastic Depot to pick up some things my pal Kyle had been working on.&nbsp; The biggest project was a stand and dust cover for my Kermit the Frog replica puppet.&nbsp; It\u2019ll keep him safe and dust-free.&nbsp; Then I headed to my mailbox to get my mail, I mailed a few things off, and then I stopped by the cleaners to pick up my dry cleaning.&nbsp;&nbsp; Then I went home to relax, do a little work around the house, catch up on a few things, and grab a short nap.&nbsp; When I got up later I did my auditions in my home studio and sent them to my agents, and then I headed back to bed to be up early for a session on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Wednesday the 18th \u2013<\/span> A BIG WEDNESDAY \u201cWHEW!\u201d \u2013 I had to be up early for a 9am session at Studiopolis in Burbank.&nbsp; It was a great session and during the times when I wasn\u2019t needed, I got a lot of great reading done in a multitude of new comic books!&nbsp; When the session ended at noon, I headed to Roundtable Pizza to get a pizza to go. YUM!&nbsp; I drove over to my seamstress Karyn\u2019s studio to pick up some work she had been doing for me.&nbsp; She made some repairs to my Jesus costume (though I won\u2019t need that until next Easter), she made a new costume for my 8\u201d Joker figure (the manufacturer used the wrong color fabric so I had that corrected), she made some alterations on the Robin vest that adorns my mannequin, and I dropped off a cap so she could sew on an embroidered Wings patch that I bought at the Paul McCartney concert.&nbsp; I got back home and spent the remainder of the afternoon doing some work.&nbsp; I got a bit tired (those early morning sessions do it to me all the time) so I grabbed a short nap.&nbsp; Then I got up later to do all sorts of things; auditions, laundry, dishes, I put Robin\u2019s vest back on the mannequin, and I changed the sheets and comforter on my bed.&nbsp; It would seem that I was getting back into normal life after my MayMayhem excursions.&nbsp; I made some spaghetti and watched a few episodes of \u201cThe Munsters\u201d before bed.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Thursday the 19th \u2013 RESPITE! \u2013<\/span> It sure felt good sleeping late!&nbsp; I got up around 2 and met my assistant Sara for lunch at Jersey Mike\u2019s.&nbsp; I took Roxy along so she could get out and see some of the world too.&nbsp; I got back home to do some work around the house, I wrote Wally\u2019s Week (though I was very late), and uploaded some photos and video for my website.&nbsp; I realized that I hadn\u2019t done a Wally\u2019s Week the previous week because of the wacky Monday the 9th I endured.&nbsp; With the colonoscopy, being anesthetized, and trying to get my life together for Palm Springs, it just slipped my mind!&nbsp; So I had two weeks\u2019 worth of entries to do.&nbsp; I grabbed a nap, and then got up to do my auditions.&nbsp; There was still a fair amount of stuff to do after my trips, so I spent the rest of the evening working on that.&nbsp; I enjoyed the rest of my Jersey Mike\u2019s #13 on white while watching a few more \u201cMunsters\u201d episodes before bed.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Friday the 20th \u2013 AN ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE! \u2013<\/span> My maids arrived just after noon to clean, and my contractor Electric Bob came over to check out the problem with my vibrating garage door.&nbsp; After the maids left, a young filmmaker named Diana came over to have me record a few voice tracks for a film she was doing. My assistant Sara found her on-line, so I contacted her and did the voice tracks.&nbsp; I like to help out young filmmakers in the infancy of their careers.&nbsp; God knows enough people went out of their way to help me when I was first starting my career.&nbsp; So I\u2019m repaying the favor.&nbsp; I did some work on the computer and then walked over to Studiopolis to pick up a check.&nbsp; My friend Brittney Powell came over to do a little work and pick up a check for some work she had done for me in Palm Springs. A little later I picked up my 89 year old friend from church, and my adopted grandma, Shirley.&nbsp; We went to dinner at Jerry\u2019s Famous Deli.&nbsp; I hadn\u2019t gotten to see her in a while because of my nutty schedule, so it was good to catch up with her.&nbsp; I came home with a full tummy and grabbed a nap.&nbsp; Then I got up to spend the rest of the night on my various e-mail accounts cleaning out old and unwanted e-mails.&nbsp; Around 2am I fed and walked Roxy around the neighborhood on our regular nightly outing.&nbsp; As we walked through the quiet evening, I was overcome with, what the Eagles call, a \u201cpeaceful, easy feeling.\u201d&nbsp; I just felt an overwhelming sense of thankfulness and an \u201cattitude of gratitude.\u201d&nbsp; There was a big, beautiful moon in the sky and a sky full of stars.&nbsp; I felt calm, peaceful and at ease.&nbsp; After our walk I took Roxy inside and I went back out to the pool area to lay back in a chair and just sit in a lounge chair and stare at the sky.&nbsp; I was totally enjoying the environment; a distant night bird was chirping away, occasional low clouds would dance across the bright full moon creating all sorts of shapes in the sky.&nbsp; It was kind of like looking at a beautiful painting that was changing all the time.&nbsp; The smell of the moist night air, mixed with the cool of the evening was quite soothing.&nbsp; Mars and the stars looked amazing, and I enjoyed watching the steam rise up from the Jacuzzi, and a gentle ripple eased across the surface of the pool.&nbsp; What an experience!&nbsp; I was truly loving life!&nbsp; I made some hot dogs on the grill and watched some more \u201cMunsters.\u201d&nbsp; What a magical night!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Saturday the 21st \u2013 RETURN TO ROUTINE! \u2013<\/span> Shirley and I headed out to get lunch around 2:30, and then I picked up a few items at the local CVS.&nbsp; They were having a dog adoption outside the store so we enjoyed walking by and seeing the doggies.&nbsp; I told each one of them that I knew they would someday get a great home with a nice family.&nbsp; We stopped by the bank so Shirley could cash her IRS check and then I took her back home.&nbsp; I went back to my house and napped for a bit.&nbsp; Then my friends started showing up for movie night.&nbsp; I hadn\u2019t had a Planet Wallywood movie night in about a month, so it was great seeing everyone again.&nbsp; After it was over I did some work, then made my usual Saturday night Super Salad and watched an episode of the old BBC series \u201cThe Avengers.\u201d&nbsp; It was good to be back at the routine again.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Sunday the 22nd \u2013 A CAREER FIRST! \u2013<\/span> I sprang from bed and started getting ready for the \u201cAlice Through the Looking Glass\u201d screening at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood. It was a cast and crew screening for those who worked on the film.&nbsp; I picked up my friend Yulia at 2:30 in Burbank, and we drove to Hollywood.&nbsp; We had some time to do a little shopping at Hot Topic and the Christmas store.&nbsp; Then we checked into the El Capitan and got our tickets and our popcorn.&nbsp; My agent Cathey was there too with some of her friends, so we picked out some seats in the balcony, put on our 3-D glasses and got ready for the movie.&nbsp; Before it started I saw the director James Bobin in the lobby.&nbsp; I thanked him for including me in the festivities and he said, \u201cYou\u2019re all over the film!&nbsp; You\u2019ll be very happy.\u201d&nbsp; He and I had such a great time working on doing the voice tracks for the film and experimenting with all sorts of different takes on things, I couldn\u2019t wait to see what had finally made it into the film.&nbsp; This would be a career first for me; my very first credited performance in a Disney feature film.&nbsp; And it was a bit moving for me to finally be enjoying an experience that I had dreamed of for a long time!&nbsp; I sat riveted in the balcony and couldn\u2019t take my eyes off the screen!&nbsp; I\u2019m not normally a fan of 3-D movies, but this was amazing to watch!&nbsp; And it moved swiftly and deftly!&nbsp; I was trying to pick out all my voices in the film\u2026Humpty Dumpty, some chessmen, a bird, a guard, etc.&nbsp; It was fun listening for what made it in the final film.&nbsp;&nbsp; I saw my friend Abby in the lobby after the film.&nbsp; Abby was the gal who did all of the booking arrangements and filed my paperwork so I could get paid.&nbsp; She said that James had called her during the week to make sure I\u2019d be at the screening.&nbsp; HOW COOL!?&nbsp; After the movie Yulia and I went over to my old pal Rob Richards\u2019 house to see how he was doing.&nbsp; I hopped in my car to head home to feed the pets, and Yulia hopped an Uber to head to a meeting.&nbsp; On the drive home I was feeling very high.&nbsp; I napped for a bit, and then got up to do a bunch of auditions, go through a month\u2019s worth of receipts, pay some bills, and reconcile my bank statements. Whew!&nbsp; What a week!&nbsp; I rewarded myself by making a Chef Boy Ar&nbsp; Dee pizza and I watched the final two \u201cMunsters\u201d episodes.<\/p>\n<p>And how was YOUR week??!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">PIX FROM THE WEEK<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3174\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3174\" class=\"wp-image-3174\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_01.jpg\" alt=\"Hollywood Boulevard is shut down to prepare for the big \" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_01-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_01-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_01-700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_01-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_01-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_01.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hollywood Boulevard is shut down to prepare for the big &#8220;Alice Through the Looking Glass&#8221; premiere.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3175\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_02.jpg\" alt=\"ww_20160517_02\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_02-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_02-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_02-700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_02-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_02-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_02.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3176\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_03.jpg\" alt=\"ww_20160517_03\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_03-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_03-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_03-700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_03-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_03-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_03.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3177\" style=\"width: 385px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_04.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3177\" class=\"wp-image-3177\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_04.jpg\" alt=\"A wax Marilyn Monroe oversees all the activity on Hollywood Boulevard.\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_04-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_04-500x667.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_04-700x933.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_04-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ww_20160517_04.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wax Marilyn Monroe oversees all the activity on Hollywood Boulevard.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wallysweek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}