It's been a while since i shared about No_bob, the world's most famous stuffed dolphin [can you name any others] who i was going to call 'Bob' [largely due to this amazing Blackadder scene] but then realising that he was made out of material and fluff and would not in fact bob, he became No_bob. When i was a speaker on the youth/school speaking circuit in South Africa i would usually take No_bob with [...]
so by now you have heard of the #neknomination phenomenon sweeping the world [this week at least] apparently [and i say that because i haven't actually seen any of the original versioned clips] it started out as a drinking challenge video clip game where someone downs a beer and then challenges his/her mates to up the ante and passes it forward so stupid that two people in Ireland died from participating [this never happened with [...]
so yesterday i got to meet Stephan Pastis, creator and draw'er [i guess] of the greatest cartoon strip alive, Pearls Before Swine... [more importantly, he got to 'meet' No_bob, the world's most famous stuffed dolphin] The Far Side, on it's good days [and when it was good it was great, and it was usually good] is definitely up there. so is Dilbert [Scott Adams who draws Dilbert got me started on Pearls Before Swine and [...]
the theme was a day in the life of me, and to a large extent this is what a regular day looks like: hanging out with my beautiful wife, looking deep and contemplative in many different ways and poses, messing around with technomology, being different in some way, playing some kind of sport, game or improv to the full [sometimes resulting in africa shaped injuries], appreciating bobblehead [or 3D] Hulk, taking time to worship God [...]
this week's challenge is a little more vague than normal which is great cos it allows for a wider scope of creativity and so i came up with these two pics which for me contain the idea of 'Future Tense' first up, the world's most famous stuffed dolphin whose name is No_bob [i was going to call him 'Bob' but he doesn't bob hence the name and the lack of a huge number of entrants [...]
yes, yes, you know it - favourite cartoon strip blah blah blah Pearls before Swine... this one being incredible both for the humour but more importantly for the invention of the word "winnery" [join my PBS campaign - for years now i have been subtly trying to encourage Stephan Pastis, creator of Pearls Before Swine to add a new character - that of a yellow and white stuffed dolphin called No_bob [because he doesn't bob] [...]
Latest challenge on Wordpress: Many of us think of our lives as boringly normal, while others live the high life. Take a step back, and take a look at your life as an outsider might. Now, tell us at least six unique, exciting, or just plain odd things about yourself. # i like to drink Top Deck chocolate from the bag - second best option is breaking chunks into smaller pieces and microwaving, but a [...]
Famous stuffed dolphin No_bob encounters famous Petronas towers a few years ago i attended a youth conference in Malaysia and so naturally i took the world's most famous stuffed dolphin, No_bob [I was going to call him 'Bob' but he doesn't bob] with me... this picture in front of the Petronas towers signifies the tourist experience for me - feeling very very small in front of something that is very very big - [...]
So back in the day i recorded a song with my friend Simon van Wyk [now a world famous Brother Streep] titled 'Squishy Fruit Conspiracy' which was about my personal hatred towards raisins and other related squishy fruits... You can listen to that song here as well as the follow-up i did called 'Sultanas' which was a parody of Snow's 'Informer' from a whole bunch of other years ago... And the even famouser No_bob [the [...]
so it seems like people continue to have an interest in the john ellis... um i'm not sure it's a saga, i think you need three movies for that, but new direction-taking-focus-ment? anyways i said to john, "hey john, people have questions" and john said to me "ask me those questions" so i said "Okay, but i just don't have them yet" and so this is where you come in... if you have a question [...]