{"id":5490,"date":"2018-11-19T06:15:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T14:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/?p=5490"},"modified":"2019-04-26T20:44:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T20:44:50","slug":"november-19-november-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/november-19-november-25\/","title":{"rendered":"November 19 &#8211; November 25 (2018)"},"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>Honestly, I don&#8217;t think my new computer tech knows what he&#8217;s doing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ww_20181119_00.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ww_20181119_00-500x473.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ww_20181119_00-500x473.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ww_20181119_00-700x662.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ww_20181119_00-768x726.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ww_20181119_00.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/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\">After seeing the new film &#8220;Stan and Ollie&#8221; this past week, once again I find myself with this song from <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;Way Out West&#8221;<\/span> stuck in my head. Fantastic! If you don&#8217;t laugh (or at least smile) when watching this, check your pulse.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe title=\"Laurel &amp; Hardy\" width=\"1250\" height=\"703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b-NbCcgo0d0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Monday the 19th &#8211; PREMATURETURN! \u2013<\/span> Though I had originally planned on returning this day from my trip to Palm Springs, I came back early (on Saturday night) because it was too cold in the desert for me to have any fun. I started the day by driving my rented SUV to my box to get packages. It\u2019s a good thing too, because one of the packages was a new mannequin I had ordered for a new project I\u2019m working on. And the extra space in the SUV to accommodate that mannequin was VERY much appreciated! I mailed off some eBay packages, I gassed up the SUV, and then returned it to Enterprise. I came back home and did some work around the house. Then I rushed off to Bang Zoom studios in Burbank to do another 3 hour session for the digital assistant project I\u2019ve been working on for 3 years; now going into its 4th years. This technology takes a long time to perfect. Because of all the recent fires, smoke and general bad air quality, I had a lot of phlegm sitting on my vocal cords. In addition to continually having to clear my throat, I just didn\u2019t have my usual resonance, which I needed for this digital assistant job. So I had been taking Sudafed for a few days prior to clear all that gunk away and it seemed to work pretty well. Putting lemon in the bottles of iced tea that I took with me to the session also helped immensely. On the way in I stopped at Jersey Mike\u2019s to grab a sandwich, and after the session I rushed home to record some more of our church elders for recorded messages that will go up on the church website over the holiday season. After they left I grabbed a much-needed nap, got up to do a bunch of auditions, worked with my new mannequin, packed up some more eBay stuff I just sold, typed out Wally\u2019s Week, and hit the hay. Though I had bought all the fixins I needed for my Saturday Night Super Salad last Saturday night, I\u2019ve been too tired to watch an old episode of \u201cSNL\u201d before bed and eat my salad. Maybe tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Tuesday the 20th \u2013 A BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL FILM! \u2013<\/span> Because several more church elders were coming over in the early afternoon to record their messages, I got up and noon and prepped my studio. Wouldn\u2019t you know it, the maids arrived right around the same time. This presented a quandary, because they needed to clean, but we also needed it quiet for recording the messages. The maids started working upstairs doing quiet work for a bit while we recorded. As soon as the elders left, they could start in with the vacuuming. I packed up some more eBay stuff I needed to send, organized my garage a bit, put Roxy in the Mustang, headed to the post office to drop my packages, picked up a package at my box, and took Roxy to a delicious lunch on the patio at Paty\u2019s in Toluca Lake. I got home and was able to do a little work, and then I drove to the Arclight Theater in Sherman Oaks to see an Academy screening of \u201cStan and Ollie.\u201d I had been dying to see this ever since the first trailer was posted. My pal Elliot Lurie is a member of the Academy, so he signed up for the screening and took me. But when we arrived at the theater it looked like we weren\u2019t getting in. The screening was at 7, and we were there by 6:45. The guy at the ticket stand told us that all the seats had been taken. He swiveled his monitor around and showed us that all the seats in the theater had been occupied. I thought this was odd. I noticed a bunch of people going into theater 2 for a special KCET (the local PBS station) event. I told Elliot it was OK, that we\u2019d catch another one. He thought it odd that, even though he had RSVP\u2019d on the Academy website, there wasn\u2019t an available seat. But sometimes they overbook to make sure they have a full house. Elliot said he wasn\u2019t ready to take no for an answer quite yet. And thank God he didn\u2019t. He asked another lady at the theater where the \u201cStan and Ollie\u201d screening was. She said it was theater 10. I\u2019m thinking that wonderboy at the ticket counter thought we were trying to get into the KCET screening instead of the \u201cStan and Ollie\u201d screening. Even though Elliot CLEARLY said it was for the \u201cStan and Ollie\u201d screening, it\u2019s further proof that nobody listens any more. Once we got to theater 10 the girl there checked us in and we found some seats. There were only about 25 people in the theater, which made me think that wonderboy at the ticket counter might have chased some other people off who DID take no for an answer. Too bad. I told the girl at the desk that the kid up front was telling everyone the screening was full. The manager went to speak with him immediately. But by then, the damage had been done. The screening was set to start in 5 minutes. This movie is a beautiful film in every conceivable definition of the word. The performances are beautiful. The sets are beautiful. The cinematography is beautiful. The costumes are beautiful. The make-up is beautiful. I fully enjoyed it, and to be honest, I was fighting tears in the first 5 minutes. To see the filmmaker\u2019s recreation of Laurel and Hardy\u2019s glory days in full color was a sight to behold. I was very moved by thinking that this must have been what it looked like to be on the set back in those days. The film is an amazing achievement, but I fear it won\u2019t get the Oscar buzz it deserves because it doesn\u2019t deal with any Social Justice Warrior issues, LGBTQ issues, or racism issues. And the Oscars seem to be drawn to those types of issues when nominating their films. Too bad. I wholeheartedly recommend \u201cStan and Ollie\u201d which will (unfortunately) only get a limited release in the U.S. on December 28th. On the way out of the theatre I recognized director Peter Farrelly sitting in the lobby talking to friends. I worked with Peter a few years ago (right around this time of year) when he directed the Dodge spots I did; providing the voice for a CGI monkey named Gas Monkey. I could tell that he recognized me when I approached him, but I reintroduced myself anyway. I told him I was the voice of the monkey in Dodge spots we worked on, and he said he could hear it in my voice. I congratulated him on all the great buzz surrounding his new film \u201cGreen Book,\u201d and told him I had just seen a screening of \u201cStan and Ollie.\u201d He said he had always been more of a 3 Stooges fan (evidenced by the Stooges movie he co-directed several years ago). I got home and did my auditions, prepped for the morning recording session with more church elders. Since I had to be up so early, I opted not to make my salad and watch \u201cSNL.\u201d It was so close to Saturday at this point, I decided to just wait anyway.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Wednesday the 21st \u2013 ROMAINE PTOMAINE! or EEE! COAL EYE! \u2013<\/span> When I got up at 9:30 to prep for another session with the church elders, I had a text from my friend Sara telling me about a Romaine lettuce ban. She said if I had any I should throw it out. Sure enough, the salad kit I bought last Saturday night upon my return from Palm Springs INDEED had Romaine in it! This would have gone into my salad last Saturday night, had I not been too tired to make it! WHEW! I trashed it without a second thought. When the recording session with the elders was complete I sent back to bed with some serious jaw pain. I\u2019m thinking I may have some sort of TMJ issue now, considering all of the sinus and dental surgeries I\u2019ve had of late. Great. More trouble. In addition to jaw pain, headaches and ringing in the ears, my head feels very stuffy. I ended up napping until 4. I had a call with my computer guy Brian to fix some issues I\u2019d been having with my system since he was here to effect changes back in September. They were easy fixes and it didn\u2019t take much time at all. I had a bunch of e-mails from Stephanie my trademark attorney about some products we\u2019re looking to acquire a trademark for. I had to download a bunch of legal paperwork, sign it, scan it, and e-mail it back. Honestly, how did anyone do any business before e-mail?! They sent it through the post office?! Good grief! I got cleaned up and took my Mustang to my auxiliary garage to get my Gran Torino out for a spin. But over the past few months it\u2019s been acting oddly. It used to start up right away, even though it had been sitting for a few weeks. But now it was having trouble staying lit. It took several startings before it finally caught. And in the process I had to rev the engine several times to get the fuel into the line. As I was locking up my Mustang I heard someone yell, \u201cHEY!\u201d I turned around and it was some irate lady telling at me. I couldn\u2019t hear exactly what she was saying, and her accent was very thick, but I could tell that she probably wasn\u2019t happy with the engine revving that was necessary to get my car going. I told her I was sorry, I couldn\u2019t hear her, and I had to go. I hopped in my Torino and took off. I definitely need to get this problem looked at the next time I\u2019m by the Burbank Auto Doctor. I can\u2019t keep doing this. But I felt it was odd that somebody would complain, considering that I have to listen to yelling and screaming kids in the pool outside my house for hours on end, sometime. Add to that the leaf blower guys that seem to camp outside my window (usually when I\u2019m trying to record a Voice Over) for 20 minutes! A few minutes of engine revving raised this lady\u2019s ire? We should trade places so she could REALLY have something to complain about! I got to Coral Caf\u00e9 to have dinner with my pal Sara, picked up some groceries on the way home (including new salad mix with NO Romaine), made some hot dogs on the grill, and watched the final 2 episodes of \u201cMy Living Doll\u201d on DVD before bed. It\u2019s Thanksgiving Eve!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Thursday the 22nd \u2013 HAPPY THANKSGIVING! \u2013<\/span> Shortly after 3 I woke up, cleaned up, and drove the Torino to the Sportsmen\u2019s Lodge in Studio City so our group could enjoy our annual and traditional Thanksgiving Day dinner together. As always it was a lot of fun, an the food was spectacular! We went to my house and watched a film that came out in 1965 called \u201cLaurel and Hardy\u2019s Laughing 20\u2019s\u201d \u2013 a fun, mindless romp that was perfect for post-Thanksgiving dinner bliss. A filmmaker named Robert Youngson in the 60\u2019s tapped the studios of Hal Roach and Mack Sennett to see about using clips form some of their silent masterpieces. He cut the best scenes together and would release the compilation films theatrically. Back in the 60\u2019s the thought was that nobody cared about silent films, so he had his pick of the litter. His compilations made LOTS of money! This particular film was shown at the most recent Sons of the Desert meeting, and I loved it so much I bought it on DVD. After everyone left I grabbed a nap on the couch. When I woke up my \u201cTMJ\u201d issues had seemingly gone into my left sinus; the same sinus that was the problem a few years ago. Uh oh. So it\u2019s NOT TMJ issues, it\u2019s another sinus infection? Great. As I laid there on the couch I could feel my left sinus getting stuffy, and I could hear popping and snapping inside. I wasn\u2019t sure my ENT\u2019s office would be open on Friday, but I left a message anyway. I was experiencing the exact same types of pain that I had before I had the sinus surgery \u2013 pain behind my left eye, in my left jaw, and ringing in the ears. I worked all night, did some auditions that were due on Monday, edited some videos, and spent all night considering what to do about my situation. I stayed up all night until the local urgent care clinic opened at 9am.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Friday the 23rd \u2013 MY EARS ARE RINGING\u2026BUT I\u2019LL LET IT GO TO VOICEMAIL! \u2013<\/span> The nearest urgent care center was only a few miles from my house, so at 8:30 I hopped in the Torino and headed over. I got there about 15 minutes before they opened, and as I sat there in the parking lot a few guys pulled into the parking lot and asked if they could take a few pictures. I chatted with them for a bit, and then they headed off. Nice guys. I was ushered into an examination room and the doctor looked up my sinus with a scope and said it looked pretty red. She prescribed me some of the antibiotic Clindamycin. Off I went to CVS to get my prescription. If this IS another sinus infection, I want to get ahead of it now so it doesn\u2019t get nasty like it did 2 years ago. That was hell. I refused to let my \u201cBlack Friday\u201d turn into a \u201cBleak Friday!\u201d When I got home around 11 I made a Chef Boyardee pizza-in-a-box and started in on the season 3 DVD set of \u201cI Dream of Jeannie.\u201d Though I was dealing with a fair amount of pain, watching a 29 year old Barbara Eden helped to quell it considerably! I got to sleep around 1pm, and got up at 6:30. I checked e-mails, took another antibiotic, listed some more eBay items, made some Buffalo Mac and watched a few more episodes of \u201cI Dream of Jeannie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Saturday the 24th \u2013 HEADIN\u2019 TO CHRISTMAS! \u2013<\/span> The Advil PM I took for my head pain knocked me out until 4. By the time I got up it was too late to get my packages at my box, so I just worked around the house and got ready for movie night. We watched \u201cIncredibles 2\u201d and thoroughly enjoyed it. It\u2019s a real honor to be in the Additional Voices credits for that film! After everyone left I grabbed a nap, and then got up to do some work around the house. I made my traditional Saturday Night Super Salad (Romaine\/Ptomaine-free!) and watched the third episode from the third season of \u201cSNL\u201d which featured Hugh Hefner as host. He was brilliant. Andy Kaufman peformed Elvis Presley\u2019s \u201cI Need Your Love Tonight\u201d in that episode. After checking the episode\u2019s original airdate (October of 1977) I realized it was only a few short months after Elvis\u2019 death. It was a great episode! Then I slept for a few hours so I could be up for the final church recording session.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Sunday the 25th \u2013 THE HOLIDAYS ARE RINGING IN\u2026IN MY EARS! \u2013<\/span> Right at noon I got up to prep the studio so our church\u2019s head Pastor Bob Bock could some record his messages for the church\u2019s website. He had never been to my house before, so after the session I gave him and his wife Peggy a brief tour. But my head was hurting pretty badly so I headed back to bed. I sacked out until 6:30! I got up to feed the pets and wait for my effects guy Jim Ojala to come over to pick up some materials for a new William Shatner\/Capt. Kirk figure I\u2019m thinking of making. I took another antibiotic, grabbed a nap, and then got up later to spend all night working on bookkeeping duties, and to prep some deposits for the bank. With my head still hurting and my ears still ringing, I headed to bed. I hope these antibiotics kick in soon. This is miserable!<\/p>\n<p>And how was YOUR week??!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">PIX FROM THE WEEK<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_5492\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ww_20181119_01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5492\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5492\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ww_20181119_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ww_20181119_01-163x500.jpg 163w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ww_20181119_01.jpg 392w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5492\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is the figure I hope to eventually turn into a Captain Kirk figure for Planet Wallywood. Here&#8217;s how it starts. Stay tuned to watch the progress!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5493\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ww_20181119_02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5493\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5493\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/wallysweek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ww_20181119_02-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ww_20181119_02-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ww_20181119_02-700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ww_20181119_02-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ww_20181119_02.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5493\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our nutty Thanksgiving 2018 group of hungry celebrants at the Sportsmen&#8217;s Lodge!<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5490","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\/5490","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=5490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}