{"id":9486,"date":"2020-06-08T14:39:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T14:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/?p=9486"},"modified":"2020-06-16T14:48:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T14:48:41","slug":"june-8-june-14-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/june-8-june-14-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"June 8 – June 14 (2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Good memories! Nuff said!<\/p>\n

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Last Saturday when I was dining at the Daily Grill with my pal Sheriff John from Florida, I heard an amazing song on the restaurant’s overhead music system. We identified it as a song called “Voyage Libre”<\/span> by Thievery Corporation, a group I’ve known about for quite a while. They’re one of my go-to groups to listen to when I’m in my “Palm Springs” vibe. I immediately came home and downloaded the song! Enjoy! (Anybody speak French? What are they saying?)<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Voyage-Libre.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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Monday the 8th \u2013 VIDIOT! \u2013<\/span> If you remember from last week\u2019s \u201cWally\u2019s Week,\u201d I was working on a short presentation video for my kid\u2019s book series. I had worked all night Sunday evening putting together a demo assembly edit for my editor Scott. When I woke up Monday afternoon Scott had the video finished! I sent it to my attorney and agent for comments, and after a few minor tweaks, my agent was VERY happy! Fingers crossed that it achieves some results. I drove over to Paty\u2019s with Roxy for dinner, and my pal Sara met us there. Then I went home to do some work during the evening. Later I did some auditions and typed out Wally\u2019s Week. I fed and walked Roxy on our late night stroll through the neighborhood and enjoyed a nice cigar on a gorgeous night! There were a lot of stars out, and it kind of reminded me of those nights in Palm Springs I miss so much. I really miss my balcony time in room 627 at the Hyatt. Maybe someday soon I can go back. I made some spaghetti and watched an episode of \u201cThe Invaders.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tuesday the 9th \u2013 GIMME A HAND\u2026OR TWO! \u2013<\/span> The first errand of the day was to stop by my vet\u2019s office and pick up some more prescription cat fud for Spook. (I\u2019ve spelled cat food as \u201cfud\u201d ever since the Gary Larson cartoon) I stopped by my box to get some mail, and then drove out to Alex In Wonderland to drop off the redone hands for my Beautiful Day Muppet replica. The fur was trimmed incorrectly on the first set of hands, so I had a second set made that I\u2019ll send (via US mail) to my pal Sergio Lopez so he can work his magic on them. He\u2019ll return them to me and I\u2019ll have Alex do a hand-swap\/transplant. I cut the new hands out myself, pinned them together, so I needed Alex to stitch them up for me. I stopped by KFC to get some food to go, then went home to feed the pets. I did some auditions, worked on my computer for a bit, walked and fed Roxy and hit the hay.<\/p>\n

Wednesday the 10th \u2013 CARAMEL CORN? SHIRLEY YOU JEST! \u2013<\/span> Craving a tuna sub, I stopped at Subway to get a quick snack before my 3pm session. I hit CVS to pick up some delicious caramel corn, per the request of my 93 year old \u2018adopted grandma\u2019 Shirley, who has been locked up in her place for 3 months, unable to go out beyond the perimeter of her assisted living quarters. She said she saw some on TV and it looked good. I stopped over to Voice Trax West for a 3 hour session for the super-secret client I\u2019ve had for about 4 years. When I finished up I dropped Shirley\u2019s caramel corn off for her, stopped by Rusty\u2019s Pets to pick up some supplies for Roxy, and then I went home to feed the kids. Later I did a little work around the house, recorded my nightly auditions, and made some hot dogs on the grill and watched another episode of \u201cThe Invaders!\u201d<\/p>\n

Thursday the 11th \u2013 PUPPET PROJECTS! \u2013<\/span> Alex in Wonderland had the new set of hands finished for my Beautiful Day Muppet replica, so I drove over there to pick them up. Then, craving Crazy Bread from Little Cesar\u2019s, I stopped by one of their locations and got some! YUM! I remember when Little Cesar\u2019s first opened in 1986, and how addicted my buddy Dave and I were to their Crazy Bread from the get-go! I stopped by my mailbox to pick up a check, and then went to my seamstress Shelley\u2019s to pick up the first phase of work on my Robin the Frog replica Muppet. I got home and did a little work and fed the kids. I got a great e-mail from one of my agents that the super-secret client I have been working for over the past four years is extending the contract for an additional two years! Wonderful! I packed up the Beautiful Day hands to send to Sergio, as well as some DVDs that I\u2019m sending to my dad. I noticed some errors on the Robin the Frog puppet, so I e-mailed Shelley the corrections to the pattern and I\u2019ll take it back to her the next day for a re-do. I had a very busy Friday planned so I turned in early.<\/p>\n

Friday the 12th \u2013 CRUNCH! MUNCH! AND A HUNCH! \u2013<\/span> First stop of the day was a visit to my chiropractor Dr. C. The numbness in my left fingers and toes has been gradually going away thanks to these treatments, but I\u2019ve really locked in on why this has happened. And it\u2019s all because of an injury to my left elbow. Yup, I\u2019m convinced that\u2019s the cause of it all. It\u2019s a long story, but it seems like (after discussing it at length with Dr. C) that it\u2019s all some sort of domino effect. After that I met my pal Sara at Lancers for a nice outdoor lunch. Lancers had been closed for many months for the lockdown and just recently re-opened. I really enjoyed having my favorite hot beef sandwich again! We strolled through Hobby Lobby for a bit, and ran into my old pal Christopher Ameruoso and his wife there. We chatted for a bit and then I headed to the post office to drop off some mail. I stopped off at my seamstress Shelley\u2019s again to drop off the Robin the Frog stuff for the re-do, and then I stopped off at the store to get some much-needed grocery items. I got home and did some work, went through some invoices that had been e-mailed to me for all the puppet work I\u2019m having done, and then started thinking about the arm rods for the new Green Grover replica Muppet I\u2019m working on. Back in the old days, they used white rods on the arms of the Muppets. I guess they thought the rods would blend into the light background better and disappear from the camera\u2019s eye. But when the puppet\u2019s arm is against its body, which is usually a darker color, the white rods really stood out. Which is why they probably went to black arm rods eventually. That way it would simply look like a shadow on the puppet\u2019s body. But since I wanted to stay true to the vintage look of this puppet (did you know that Grover was GREEN before he was blue?) I started looking for the right gauge of wire I could use for the arm rods and then paint it white. But I happened across several white wire hangers that would just do the trick! When I was making puppets as a kid I would confiscate all the black wire hangers in the house and turn them into puppet rods. I found the most pristine ones I could find, cut the wires to length, and found some \u00bd\u201d wood dowels in my garage. I got some black suede and started working. I cut the dowels in 4 \u00bd\u201d lengths, sanded the ends nicely, and drilled a small hole toward the base of the dowel to insert a portion of the white wire. I had bent the bottom half inch of the wire at a 90 degree angle to insert it into the wood handle. Then I took Barge glue and attached suede leather to the outside of the handle. This will give me better grip of the handles during the manipulation of the puppet. At the top of the wire, I bent larger 90 degree angles which will be embedded into Green Grover\u2019s hands and stitched up. I truly do love doing this sort of work! I drove over to Denny\u2019s and picked up some food to go and came back to eat and watch an episode of \u201cThe Invaders\u201d with guest star Peter Graves, about a year before he took on the role as Jim Phelps on \u201cMission Impossible! Those were truly the glory days of television!<\/p>\n

Saturday the 13th \u2013 START ME UP! \u2013<\/span> My maids arrived early in the afternoon to clean up Planet Wallywood, and later I went to my auxiliary garage to charge up my Gran Torino to drive it to dinner. I hadn\u2019t driven it in several months and it was going to need a jump start. I keep a charged-up jump starter in the trunk for these occasions. The battery was pretty dead, so it took a little while for it to get enough juice to start. Figuring that the battery would charge while I drove it to dinner, I didn\u2019t worry about it starting back up again to go home. I met my pal Sheriff John from Florida for dinner at the Daily Grill in Burbank. We had a great dinner, but the Torino didn\u2019t start up again when I came out. Luckily I had enough charge left in my jump starter to get her rolling again so I could go home. A few months ago my pal Officer Mark gifted me with a compact little trickle charger for just these occasions. I pulled into my garage and plugged the jump starter in to replenish its juice. Then I hooked the trickle charger up to the Torino\u2019s battery. I\u2019d let it charge overnight and get the battery nice and full. I came back inside to do some work, edit a video, and after working all night, I fed and walked Roxy just before dawn Sunday morning. It was cool, quiet, and pleasant. I checked on the trickle charger and it was already about a quarter full! I came inside and made my traditional Saturday Night Super Salad and watched another episode of \u201cSpace 1999\u201d from the second season. I\u2019ve been dreading watching these, since the majority of second season episodes have been pretty bad, but this episode was actually watchable. But again, it\u2019s a retelling (rehash?) of the old \u201cStar Trek\u201d episode with the Nomad character. An AI being created by a guy who died, then somebody from the crew has to pose as the dead creator to fool the AI robot. Are there no original ideas in this season? Are they ALL going to be old \u201cStar Trek\u201d storylines? So far I\u2019ve detected many, and the new character of Maya is a direct rip-off of Mr. Spock.<\/p>\n

Sunday the 14th \u2013 SMOKESKI AND HUTCH! \u2013<\/span> After having been on the trickle charger all night, the Torino fired right up! NICE! I headed to the Smokehouse to meet my friends Sheriff John, Officer Mark and Miss Connie for dinner. Great food and good fun! We took some wacky pictures and then I headed home to do an audition. Later I fed and walked Roxy, and got the urge to finish the stand and support rod for my Oscar the Grouch replica Muppet. I had been waiting for my pal Kyle at Plastic Depot to complete a stand I had designed, but because of everything going on, he\u2019s having trouble getting the raw materials needed from suppliers. The temporary base I was using for Oscar would now become the permanent base. It was the right dimensions to fit in the bottom of the trash can, and all I had to do was find a wood dowel that was 7\/8\u201d to fit in the base\u2019s vertical support. I had just the dowel I needed in my garage, I cut it to size, put on a foam rubber topper, and I was good to go! Perfection! By the way, if you\u2019re at all interested in the process I used to make my Oscar, you can read all about it (virtually step-by-step) on my new how-to page here… Oscar the Grouch Project<\/a>.  That was the very last thing I needed to do to complete my Oscar the Grouch display, and he is officially done! I took some photos, finished up the expose about his creation, and headed to bed with a great sense of satisfaction.<\/p>\n

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

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PIX FROM THE WEEK<\/p>\n

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Two icons together! Only in Planet Wallywood!<\/p><\/div>\n

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My pal Officer Mark shot video of Oscar meeting Robot Elvis, but for some reason the audio didn’t pick up. But it makes a REALLY funny silent movie!<\/p>\n

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I’m having waaaaay too much fun with this puppet. Watch out ladies! Beautiful Day is on the prowl!<\/p>\n

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Mr. Awesome sent me this Psycho Blue Ranger protective mask. LOVE IT!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Making the vintage-looking hand rods for my upcoming Green Grover project.<\/p><\/div>\n

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When the producers of this podcast showed me this graphic, I could NOT stop laughing!<\/p><\/div>\n

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My pal Sheriff John visited me from Tampa, and we headed straight for the Smokehouse…<\/p><\/div>\n

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…in my 1974 Gran Torino<\/p><\/div>\n

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But Hutch and I had a bit of a disagreement over hygiene protocols.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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