Have the chins sing to you at Merry Christmas from Sundog

::ill Will Press:: Passion of the Zombies
Foamy rules! Thanks for helping things lighten up today Erik!

Our friend Ric Downey passed away this morning around 1:20 am. He was 61 years old.
Above is photo of him in happier times. Ric touched the lives of many people in a positive way, both publicly and privately. He was a well loved and highly respected member of his community and will be missed by all who truly knew him. His stories and wit were legendary. I for one will miss our talks. You could tell Ric anything. I am lucky and grateful to have had Ric as a close friend and mentor. Goodbye my friend.

On Christmas night, Sunday, Decmeber 25th from 9 pm – 11 pm here in Vancouver on CityTV, the show fromerly known as The Spiritual Guilt Trip, now known as Chasing Christmas will be playing.

Hey who’s that in the credits? Why me of course. 🙂

0615 – Awaken to the sounds of Gene Autry gaily singing his Christmas standard, Here Comes Santa Claus. You may download it right here to play as you read this post (right click and choose “save as…” to download the 3.52mb MP3). We were up early to prepare Moosh for surgery to remove a cyst on her eye. She wasn’t allowed to eat anything at all so she was rather unhappy this morning. We did manage to hold her down to take a photo of her cyst for posterity. Illustration below:

Merry f’ing Christmas! Here’s a giant vet’s bill. Good thing we love the dog or it’d be off to the woods for one of those, “Go on! Get! Shoo!” scenes from horrifically sad movies. Just kidding. I was so worried about old Moosh going under the knife today I hardly slept at all.

0715 – Leave Burnaby with a hungry, pissed off dog in the car driving against rush hour traffic to the veterinarian in Maple Ridge. Only one lane on that stupid Pitt River Bridge at that hour as the counterflow lane is in. Fun… not! Yes , we still use the vet in MR as Dr Loff is great with Moosh and specializes in senior canines. Moosh, the half-blind, half-deaf, warty and arthritic 14 year old Springer Spaniel definitely fits that bill. Did I mention we love our dog?

0820 – Arrive ten minutes early at the animal hospital and have to wait ten minutes to hand Moosh the trembling drama queen over to the vet’s assistant.

0840 – Arrive at Ye Olde Butcher Shoppe in MR (still the best butcher’s shop for us) to beg for an unordered Christmas turkey and meat for stuffing. I guess they saw me coming because they had a 16 pounder for me. Luckily I went early enoough in the day that th extra birds they ordered were still there. Thanks guys!
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Worst Job Ever – Google Video (NOT AT ALL FOR CHILDREN’s EARS)

I always wondered who was on the other end of that. And you thought your job sucked.

Time for some controversy…

Finally! A film about this delicate subject that is done by Hallmark as an afterschool special. We will be seeing The Ringer over the holidays.

Before anyone gets wound up and frothing at the mouth about the content and subject of the movie let me clarify – This film is done by the Farrelly Brothers (of Something About Mary and Me, Myself and Irene fame) and they are friends of Special Olympics and have included a friend of theirs with and intellectual disability as a bit player in all of their films. One of the films Executive Producers sits on the board of the Special Olympics which as an organization has backed the film. Here’s a quote from the Making of The Ringer PDF on the Special Olympics site regarding the film:

Tim Shriver agrees that it is time for the organization to take some chances to address a new group of people. A key aim of Special Olympics is to change how non-disabled people think about people with intellectual disabilities. “We’ve been sharing that message on the playing field with many groups,” he explains, “but the stereotypes are naggingly persistent.

“One reason for that is that our traditional message is not as effective with teens as it is with older people or much younger ones. But humor is a very effective way to reach them, and the Farrellys are masters of that demographic”.

As someone who spent three years of his life working with some severely intellectually and physically disabled people and their families, and went to be a scorekeeper for a local Special O bowling league, I am sure there will be some folks who will be offended right off the hop by any film approaching this subject as irreverently as the Farrellys may. Perhaps after an openminded watching of this film families and friends of intellectuallly disabled folks will feel more at ease and those who didn’t understand before will have some insight. I have hope that this brings to light the real sense of humour that I saw from my clients on a daily basis in my work.

Looks like Sonnyboo is finally done his independently produced movie, Horrors of War, and the trailer is available online.

Synopsis – Feeling the pressure from Allied advance, Hitler unleashes his secret weapons. This movie follows a wayward soldier during World War II in the European theatre as the O.S.S. sends him to investigate Hitler’s arsenal of experiments.

A WW2 movie with zombies? Count me in. I’m an avid gamer of World War 2 first person shooters. It’s Call of Duty 2 right now. I’m also, as many of you know, a huge fan of zombie movies and if you click the link zombiefreak.com, surprise it takes you to my site.

I met Sonnyboo while gaming one day and we had a chat about his flick. Its cool to see he’s done. Way to go Sonnyboo! Good luck guy!

YouTube – SNL – The Chronic of Narnia Rap