What will we cover? Go ahead and cast your vote here:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=eO8_2bX7dudV83VkmrIeVOOQ_3d_3d

CANCELED – Sorry. I wouldn’t have advertised if I’d have known. . . .
I’m told my music was excellent – the patron and staff reception was enthusiastic – but that the Wine Bar is not going to be paying for any more music. Oh well. Sorry, I hope you hadn’t made plans.

(Here’s the Fired Up press release. I hope you can make it.)

Fired Up Pizza and Wine
October 8, 2008
Hello Fired Up Friends,

Live music returns to Fired Up starting this Fri. Oct. 10th. Come in and enjoy the wonderful acoustic sounds of Jack Mangan Friday’s and Saturday’s from 6:00pm-10:00pm thru the end of October.

Don’t forget about our End of Summer Wine Blowout Sale. For the month of October, ½ price on bottles of our cellar wines. They are going fast. Sale is only for the month of October.

Hope to see you soon

The Fired Up Staff

Trucker Overdrive honored me with an interview on a “BS” (Bonus Show) episode of this 12 Volt Theater podcast. It was a fun, revealing conversation. Who knew that TO would be such a hard-hitting journalist?

Please give a listen.

http://www.12vtheater.com/2008/07/06/bs-5-interview-with-jack-mangan/

This is the Gilligan survey I mentioned in Deadpan #97.

Have fun with it! Click Here to cast your vote

Geekify Gilligan’s Island. Not like this show was a bastion of cool to begin with, but let’s replace the cast with the geekiest selections possible.

We’ll start with the girls.

For Ginger, our choices are:
Inara from Firefly.
Mary Jane Watson Parker
Or
7-of-9

For Mary-Ann:
Kaylee from Firefly
Arwen
Or
Slavegirl Princess Leia

For the Skipper:
William Shatner – but it’s gotta be oldman William Shatner
That Ambassador guy with the crazy hair from Babylon 5
Zed, Killer of Brutals

Professor:
Reed Richards, Mr. Fantastic
Doc Emmett Brown
Doctor Who – the Tom Baker generation, of course. duh.

For the black guy on Gilligan’s Island. . . . . (sounds of wind)
. . . . . . . . . . *motherfucker*
No, the Harlem Globetrotters don’t count.

For the Howells:
Miracle Max and his wife from the Princess Bride
Crow T Robot and Tom Servo
Tom Bombadil-o and Willow

for the special guest star:
Mechagodzilla
That naked chick from Ghost in the Shell
My old D&D character

Finally,
For the geekiest Gilligan possible:
Weird Al
Neil Peart of Rush
or
Paul Reubens, better known as Pee Wee Herman, before he became a porn fiend.

Now remember, we’re not going for who would make the coolest replacements, otherwise every choice in every category would have been Boba Fett. We’re trying to maximize the Gilligan geek factor. Each category will have an open slot for your own suggestions, in addition to your votes, so be creative.

Sorry. Poor time mgmt. Deadpan 95 will release tomorrow evening. Sorry. I suck. Carry on. As you were. I don’t even have enough done to put out a half-show. That was the plan, but — not this time.

Thx for your patience. In the meantime – check out what I think was a pretty decent, old-tyme, 40-minute episode:

Episode 18

Goodnight patient mush.

This isn’t a Diebold machine, it won’t be rigged.
Go here to vote for the next Deadpanpalooza movie. The choices are:
Eraserhead
Southland Tales
A Boy and His Dog
The Bride of Frankenstein (original)
Being There
Some Kind of Monster
Watchmen (the graphic novel)
or Pick Your Own

Click Here to vote for the next Deadpanpalooza movie

I’d suggested settling this with VoiceMail, but it was rightly pointed that out that calling VM is more difficult for some, so — sorry if you’ve already called -we’ll nix the VM idea and do it this way. Let me know if you have any trouble with the Survey site.

A Deadpan tradition. My picks for this year:

Canadiens-Bruins. Les Habs in 7.
Penguins-Senators. Pens in 5.
Capitals-Flyers. Flyers in 7.
Devils-Rangers. Rangers in 5.

Red Wings-Predators. Wings in 5.
Sharks-Flames. Sharks in 6.
Wild-Avalanche. Avalanche in 6.
Ducks-Stars. Ducks in 7.

Lazy Unshow.

maybe this time?