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RANDOM PIC OF THE WEEK<\/h3>\n

Here’s a cool pic of my Tony Clifton silicone mask I used on Halloween, taken by my pal Mark Fullerton!<\/p>\n

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 Since I’d be doing an abridged version of this song in my comedy act at the “We Talk Funny” show at Flappers Comedy Club, I obviously have been humming it all week. It’s a little ditty I put together for the Dr. Demento Show back in 1989. It’s called “Bat to the Future.”<\/span> It’s the long version, so buckle in! The point was to show how many popular songs from the 50’s and 60’s would fit into the structure of the famous “Batman” TV show theme.<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Back-To-The-Future-Long.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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Monday the 28th \u2013 CONSTRUCTING COMEDY! \u2013<\/span> A trip to Video Transfer Service of L.A. in Pasadena was my first stop of the day. I needed to drop off some old reel to reel tapes to have them transferred to digital files. I needed one particular tape transferred so I could use it to perform next Monday night at the \u201cWe Talk Funny\u201d Voice Actor stand-up comedy night at Flappers in Burbank. It was a song I did back in 1989 called \u201cBat to the Future,\u201d which takes the Batman TV theme and reconstructs it in such a way where I can sing several songs from the 50\u2019s and 60\u2019s to it, and it fits perfectly. The original version I did was about 7 minutes long, but I needed to cut it down to about 2 and a half minutes for my act. After I dropped off my reels I went to Rocket Fizz to pick up some bottles of Dr. Pepper. Then I went to the cleaners to get my comforter. I got back home and did some work around the house, took a short nap, and then got up later in the evening to do my auditions. I wrote out Wally\u2019s Week and did some more writing for my comedy bit next week. It seems that my comedy bit is in a state of constant change, as I continue to come up with new jokes and bits.<\/p>\n

Tuesday the 29th \u2013 POWERING UP ON THE POWER RANGERS! \u2013<\/span> About mid-afternoon I walked over to my cat Spooky\u2019s vet so I could exchange some canned food that he doesn\u2019t like for canned food he DOES like. I got home and fed the kids, then did some work and recorded a few auditions. Then I drove to my seamstress Shelley\u2019s to drop off some work. I\u2019m hoping to have a few new shirts made for the upcoming Ranger Stop Power Ranger convention in a week. I picked up some spaghetti to-go at Little Toni\u2019s, and then went home to eat and grab a short nap. I got up later to work on my kid\u2019s project, and did some more work on my comedy bit. Then I watched the old Power Ranger episodes I did voices in to bone up on the show in case I\u2019m asked questions at the convention next week. It was so long ago when I did the initial job, I\u2019ve forgotten most things about it. But as I watched them a few things started coming back to me. I watched them before turning in for the night and enjoyed soup and a sandwich while I watched.<\/p>\n

Wednesday the 30th \u2013 EUREKA! \u2013<\/span> For the past 10 years or so, I\u2019ve taken to doing voice recordings on a small Olympus voice recorder. I talk about all kinds of things; life stories, memories, anecdotes, thoughts, feelings, etc. \u2013 in hopes that my descendants will someday want to know more about their wacky ancestor. When I fill up a recorder\u2019s internal memory, I\u2019ll switch over to an external memory on a micro SD card. When that gets filled up, I\u2019ll dub everything over to my computer for safe-keeping, and then store the recorder. I\u2019ll buy a new recorder to start my next set of log entries. I just finished up my 12th recorder, but as I was attempting to download the internal memory to my computer something happened where it wouldn\u2019t let me access the memory. My recorder said the memory was full, but my computer said that there\u2019s nothing in the folder to get. Very confusing. So I spoke with a specialist at Olympus and she suggested getting a certain type of patch cord to go from the recorder\u2019s earphone jack into another recorder\u2019s microphone jack and doing an analog transfer that way. This way I would at least have a back-up of the files in SOME form on my computer. But after talking to my pal Scott Sebring he suggested that I get a cord that goes from the recorder\u2019s earphone jack directly into my computer\u2019s audio recording program; the one I used to do my auditions. Brilliant! So I ordered a specific type of cord needed in hopes that this will fix the problem. Not sure what happened to this recorder, considering I\u2019ve never had a problem with any of the previous 11, but there\u2019s bound to be one bad apple in every bunch. I hope that fixes the problem. I got a nice long walk in on a gorgeous day. First, I walked to Prints Charm\u2019n to pick up my Blue Psycho Ranger prints that I\u2019ll have available at the Ranger Stop convention. Then I walked over to a brand new vintage story run by my friend Eben, and then I walked over to Yes Embroidery to pick up a few things I had them do. I got home and showered, drove to Burger King to get a drive-thru dinner, and then I went over to my seamstress Shelley to drop off one of the shirts I picked up at the embroiderer. I talked to my pal Brandon about the details for my Orlando trip, and then went home to do my auditions. I grabbed a short nap, and then got up later to watch the Amazon documentary \u201cHalloween In A Box,\u201d on Halloween eve! It was fun Halloween viewing!<\/p>\n

Thursday the 31st \u2013 HAPPY HALLOWEEN ALL YOU HALLOWEENERS! \u2013<\/span> I got a Halloween scare! I drove all the way to Pasadena to pick up my reel to reel tapes and their digital counterparts, but when I got home later to download them to my computer I discovered that the digital files were ONLY THE LEFT CHANNELS! I went to Fed Ex to mail off the glossy photos I\u2019ll have on my table at Ranger Stop, then stopped by my box to pick up my packages, and then I went home to make some phone calls. My friend Edi told me that she was up for having dinner, but at the last minute she decided to stay home. So I decided to celebrate a quiet Halloween at home. I ordered a Domino\u2019s pizza, watched an old TV movie called \u201cScream of the Wolf,\u201d (directed in 1974 by Dan Curtis of \u201cDark Shadows\u201d fame), and relaxed with the pets. It was a nice, quiet Halloween. I had kind of hoped to find some venue to do Tony Clifton one last time before I put him away for a while, but no such luck. So I put the Clifton costume away for a while, reorganized the Chaney Room, did some more writing on the comedy bit, and cleaned up for my maids, who will arrive on Friday to clean up.<\/p>\n

Friday the 1st \u2013 RIGHT CHANNEL IS RIGHT! \u2013<\/span> After a panicked call to the Video Transfer Service of L.A. about my missing right channels, they figured out the error and send me the corrected files. WHEW! My maids came over to clean, and then my pal Brittney came over later to do some work and prep for my upcoming trip to Orlando. I did some work editing the music track I\u2019ll be using in my comedy set, and then I headed out to Jerry\u2019s Famous Deli to meet up with my old friend Tuesday Knight and her mom. We laughed and talked for a long time, and then we all came to Planet Wallywood so I could give them a tour. When they left I grabbed a short nap on the couch, and had the most amazing dream. I dreamed I saw Adam West alive and well walking into a building. He saw me, smiled, and whispered something to a lady he was with who came over to talk to me. I said to her, \u201cAdam\u2019s still alive!?\u201d And she said that his death was a \u201cmisunderstanding in the media\u201d and that he was indeed still alive. Of all the weird things. But sadly, when I woke up I realized that I was back in a world where Adam West no longer existed. I wanted to go right back to sleep and re-enter that dream world where Adam was alive and well…but no luck. Since I do an Adam West bit in my comedy set, I\u2019m sure that\u2019s probably why Adam has been lurking in my subconscious. I got up to feed the pets, walk Roxy on a cold night, and then drove over to Denny\u2019s to get some food to go. Oddly enough, William Shatner (who ALSO figures into my comedy set) was in that evening\u2019s episode of \u201cPolice Woman\u201d that I watched before bed. It was about 1974 and he was looking thin, fit, and muscular! And his acting was VERY good!<\/p>\n

Saturday the 2nd \u2013 DAYLIGHT STUPID TIME! \u2013<\/span> Later in the afternoon I got up to get some groceries. I got home and unloaded them and prepped for movie night. Unwilling to let Halloween go quite yet, we watched the episode where Scooby-Doo meets the Addams Family (one of the best episodes of Scooby I\u2019ve seen so far) and the old film \u201cThe Fearless Vampire Killers\u201d which was just released on Blu Ray. I remember when they showed this film on the CBS late night movie on Friday nights when I was a kid. It looked so intriguing, but after a full day of school, a long school week, and lots of activities, I could never stay awake through the whole thing. I remember waking up at certain parts of the movie and then going back to sleep. But it was good to be able to watch the entire thing without nodding off! After everyone left I grabbed a short nap, and then got up to engage in the ridiculous and futile exercise of setting the clocks back an hour. Ugh\u2026that time of year again. There oughtta be a law against this idiocy. Someone recently Tweeted me that, as an agriculture worker, they appreciate the extra hour of daylight to work in the fields in the summer time. I told them that it was fine, but why don\u2019t they just work until the sun sets, and leave the clocks alone for the rest of us? There\u2019s really no reason to have everybody set their clocks to a different time, if the agriculture workers want to work later to enjoy more sunlight, just go ahead and work later. No need to futz with the clocks. I still haven\u2019t heard a useful argument for why Daylight Saving Time is a good idea. I tweaked and rehearsed my comedy set a few time, fed and walked Roxy, did some auditions, made my traditional Saturday Night Super Salad and watched an episode of \u201cSpace 1999\u201d with Peter Cushing as the guest star!<\/p>\n

Sunday the 3rd \u2013 SHIRLEY-LESS SUNDAY! \u2013<\/span> When I got up in the late afternoon I had a call from my \u2018adopted grandma\u2019 Shirley that she wasn\u2019t feeling well and wouldn\u2019t be going to church. She wasn\u2019t at movie night the night before, so it\u2019s probably good that she rest and relax. I went to evening church, came home, did some work, napped on the couch, and then recorded my comedy set to time it. I was given 10 minutes of time, and my act timed out to exactly 9 minutes and 47 seconds! I dubbed the music track for \u201cBat to the Future\u201d I\u2019d be using over to two flash drives (just in case), a playable CD, as well as a DVD that had the .wav and .mp3 files as data. I wasn\u2019t taking any chances! I made a Tombstone pizza and hit the hay so I\u2019d be rested up for Monday.<\/p>\n

And how was YOUR week??!!<\/p>\n

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PIX FROM THE WEEK<\/p>\n

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My pal Mark Fullerton took this shot of my new Captain Kirk figure while at movie night. I love it!<\/p><\/div>\n

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And this one with Kirk and Spock, the Enterprise and a Tribble is REALLY cool too!<\/p><\/div>\n

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My friends Scott and Vickie Sebring stopped over for a bit before attending a post-Halloween costume event! Just like out of the episode, “Today Scooby and the gang meets Laurel and Hardy!”<\/p><\/div>\n

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And this one…”Today Scooby and the gang meet Batman and Robin!”<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8685","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\/8685","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=8685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}