Futch On Funnies

Christmas Music Streaming

2008-12-13T00:25:00.001-05:00

There's over 15 hours of holiday tunes on my Christmas playlist and it's cycling pretty much continuously on the laptop. The tracks are pretty varied, from your basic standards to really "out there" pieces. The first link below will key you into the live music stream, which I may manipulate and break into live depending on listener ship. The second link is a list of what tunes have been played recently, just to give you an idea of the range going on here.

http://97.100.112.166:8000/listen.m3u - Listen!

http://www.last.fm/user/bingfutch - Playlist

Tracks include tunes from my latest album "Christmas Each Day" and involve everyone from Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Sting, U2, The Darkness, Slade, Disney Theme Park Tracks, Dolly Parton, Josh Groban, Vince Gill, Faith Hill, Brian Setzer, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Wham!, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Luther Vandross, Adam Sandler and you won't believe who else. It's work-safe and full of fun - so pull it up and let it rip! Happy Holidays!

Loving Jae

2006-05-24T14:10:00.000-05:00

I married my fine and funny wife two years ago this coming weekend; we're really looking forward to revisiting the scene of the crime. We had the best wedding ever, a tropical week-long blast down in Key West with family and friends that was emblematic of our relationship. Wild, wacky, gorgeous, fun, surreal, joyful and intense. That's us in a nutshell.

She's in New York on business at the moment, so it's the cats, the dog, the snake and me, planted solidly in the studio with everything I need at arm's reach. I love you honey. But when you go - I dive headfirst into work in lieu of pining. Besides, we talk often enough during the day to make it better. The fact that we still act like newlyweds is both an endearing feature of our marriage and something that makes us infinitely hateable, to the point of scorn and derision. If we had a petrodollar for every time someone said to us "Geez, get a room", I could personally pay down the national trade deficit.

As we head back down to Key West (where we have family), it's a beautiful and amazing consideration, these past couple of years. Never could I have forseen the blessings of life at this stage in the big, crazy cycle. Never could I have imagined loving a woman the way that I love Jae - an all-encompassing, spiritually connected love that knows how to dodge sudden cracks in our Earth steps and fallen branches in our paths.

A love of dual abundance and sacrifice, of bright highs and dark lows, of balance and perpetuity. She is inspiration and salvation, little girl and all woman. She's my wife. And I really, really like her. And to paraphrase a certain musical "she lo-oves me, and I love her, and she lo-oves me for loving her and I lo-ove her for loving me and we love each other. Because neither of us got enough love in our childhoods. And that's showbiz. Kid."

Happy Anniversary, Baby!

Love,

Me

Shutting Down Until Another Time.....

2005-11-24T00:04:00.000-05:00

Of course, I realize that seemingly only Marisol really reads this blog (or at least is the only one who interacts) - and she understands what happens when life happens. You have to make adjustments.

So, no sentimental goodbyes - I'll pop in from time to time - but in the interest of streamlining my day-to-day, I've decided to chill with this particular blog. Of course, I'll still read the funnies - life would be simply unbearable without them!

I'll be focusing my efforts on writing, recording and performing music, chasing the almighty dollah, and maintaining my other blogs:

All Florida Indies - it's only updated once a week, but thousands of people, through Apple iTunes and other podcatchers, are tuning in to hear the music of Florida's unsigned bands.

What The Futch? - The voice of dissent and the occasional recipe. I'm just a torchbearer in the neo-revolution, passing along information to help sleepwalking people awaken.

Nowhere, Nevada - The official band blog of Mohave.

Thanksgiving is as good a day as any to hang it up for awhile, but the archives are still here, as well as the links to some of my favorite funnies. If something truly earth-moving comes along, I'll post it - but this is my official intention to stop maintaining FOF on a daily basis. Keep laughing out there....and if you want to be alerted to new posts - by all means, SUBSCRIBE!

From Toon Town,

Bing

Pooch Cafe

2005-11-21T00:33:00.000-05:00

As half of a household with mixed critters, this is pretty funny.

A Drop In The Polls

2005-11-16T14:14:00.000-05:00

The Story So Far

2005-11-11T12:26:00.000-05:00

So, Geoff and the faerie Pibgorn have been zipped back to the birthplace of Mozart while the composer is stuck in modern times as Drusilla the succubus does battle with a demon to reverse their places, have I got that straight now?

Love how Thorax is also a character in "9 Chickweed Lane." What a wonderfully nutty universe!

Three Mice With 20/20 Vision

2005-11-07T11:42:00.000-05:00

The Great Pump Kin

2005-11-02T11:00:00.000-05:00

Intro To A Story Thread

2005-11-01T15:27:00.000-05:00

"Luann" has kicked off a new story line that's got my attention. It started on Halloween with a pretty striking three-panel intro:

Which has now developed into this:

AWWWwwwww! And that's one of those "awww" noises that goes up at the end, too. How devastatingly cute is that?

I'm betting that Pud will have nothing to do with it (he's a nice dog, but your average dog has a thing about cats) and Brad will end up giving it to Toni Daytona. Where does it go from there? Who knows? I'm just betting this little mewing kitty is going to have more of an effect on this strip than the last stray cat that crept into one of our favorites. (Anyone remember which one that was? Hard to recall, because not much has been said about the cat since....)

Happy Samhain!

2005-10-31T13:46:00.000-05:00

Thanks to Cagle's Page.

I Hate Flying

2005-10-30T18:38:00.000-05:00

PC and Pixel

Excuse me while I geek out on "9 Chickweed Lane"

2005-10-23T11:27:00.000-05:00

Brooke McEldowney's pulling some kind of triple-threat. He not only writes the most compelling, hysterical and sexiest comic strip ever, but he also illustrates it with beautiful people, inside and out, who ring with an intimate truth.

And then he renders it all into levels of artistry, lines of whimsy, high-contrast hi-jinks that turn three and two panel worlds into exquisite portraits of design, graced with a mischievous wit and an unmistakable power. I love "9 Chickweed Lane"

Best comic strip about relationships. Ever. Brooke's a genius.

Okay, wiping myself off now and going back to work.

BWAAAAAA-HAAAAAA!

2005-10-23T11:05:00.000-05:00

Damn, I needed a good laugh. And I got two today:

God Bless the Spastis.

"Pooch Cafe" to the rescue!

Not The Time To Play Monopoly, Fer Sure!

2005-10-18T10:46:00.000-05:00

Bird-Brain

2005-10-14T14:08:00.000-05:00

Just Wild About Harriet

2005-10-13T18:02:00.000-05:00

Ain't it the truth, ain't it the truth?

F Minus

2005-10-12T11:13:00.000-05:00

Some mornings, you just feel like.....

So Funny, It's Sick (Or The Other Way Around)

2005-10-11T12:30:00.000-05:00

Read 'em all, they're the funniest and scariest series of political 'toons I've seen in a while.

Goats

2005-10-06T13:18:00.000-05:00

Goats, answering the question, "how do I feel today?"

Grok!

2005-10-03T08:13:00.000-05:00

"Brevity" cuts to the chase, don't it?

BOO!

2005-10-02T21:35:00.000-05:00

Throw horrible names at me, this is super-cool. I'm a geek.

Seattle

2005-09-30T17:19:00.000-05:00

Heh-heh, I guess I forgot to mention that I was going to be in Seattle all week, so I sort of dropped out of sight for a week - but the paper in Seattle sort of proved to me that I live in a very "safe" town for funnies.

Notable this week, however, is the running "Luann" thread about the various pairs of friends noticing how different they are. It's notable because they say that "opposites attract" ("they" also say that "familiarity breeds contempt", so what does that say about most relationships?) and it certainly seems as though every pair of friends are exactly that: opposites. Just when you think you've got a comic strip pegged, it goes and gets all profound on you.

9 Chickweed Lane: L.A. Gets It!

2005-09-22T10:17:00.000-05:00

As a person owned by cats ("cat owner" just doesn't seem to cut the catnip), this strip brought forth a babbling brook of laughter today; much needed!

Super-Baldo!

2005-09-21T09:23:00.000-05:00

We interrupt this string of political comics to bring you this special report. We LIKE Baldo as a superhero! We now return you to your regularly scheduled ambivalence.

Fudd-y Business

2005-09-20T12:05:00.000-05:00