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Oh, just working on the Friday thing.

Why doesn't the NFL get it over with...

and out the NFC West as the minor football league it is? I mean, Derek Anderson and Alex Smith are your starting QBs there, why are we lying about it? To make them feel better?


Well it isn't working.

This Weekend!

A brand new Tork's Blog idea! Be there, or something.

The Stoogeum

Today I went to a museum filled with Three Stooges memorabilia. It is located in Ambler, Pennsylvania and is open once a month for free. Details can be found at its website.

They don't allow you to take pictures inside the museum, which is the only reason why I'm not posting hundreds of photos here.

At the main entrance were some touch screen monitors. One was a simple trivia game, while the others provided timelines and rare photos of team. There is a small room where they sell merchandise and another area where they sell memberships to the fanclub, something that they boast is one of the oldest in the country. It's at least 35 years old, since it dates back to when Moe and Larry were still alive.

The first room beyond this area has several photos, some toys altered to look like the Stooges, and a couple Three Stooges games. The pinball game is basic but includes several Stooge sound effects, and the game, subtitled "Brides is Brides", is a weird take on Food Fight. (I had a vague recollection of it until recently when I downloaded it for MAME. It's honestly forgettable.) Both games are free to play. Next to some of the pictures of the team is a script for "Soup to Nuts" written by Rube Goldberg himself. I wanted to get my greasy hands on that one.

Behind that area is three manniquens dressed as the Stooges as they appeared in Idle Roomers. They point to a room with a wall covered with newspaper comics making references to the group.

The basement is probably the highlight of the museum. When you enter it you see several authentic posters advertising their shorts. It's an impressive collection in itself. To the right you'll see lots of official Three Stooges merchandise over the years. I actually had a couple of the items, including the Commodore 64 computer game, Stooge lottery tickets, and Stooge golf balls. There was one wall covered with official Three Stooges comics made while the group was still alive.

To the left (from the entrance) you had several trinkets that once belonged to the Stooges themselves. Stuff like a check written by Moe, drivers licenses belonging to Curly Joe, and a big suitcase that belonged to Joe Besser. In a back room they had several props saved by Curly Joe himself from their movies. I can honestly say that I saw the helicopter/tank/submarine hybrid from The Three Stooges in Orbit. Towards the exit was a slot machine that wasn't working that day.

In the basement there were several monitors playing classic Curly shorts. I got to see the later half of In the Sweet Pie and Pie that contains their best pie fight.

Upstairs there was a small gallery. It contained several pictures of the stooges drawn or painted by fans, as well as a few actual frames from their two cartoons, The New Three Stooges and The Robonic Stooges.

One room I almost missed was a theater. It had 85 seats that were almost all taken at the time. The short playing was the same one played in the basement. Behing the theater was a small gallery dedicated entirely to Shemp. It mostly focused on his career after he left the group and before he returned. I wish they would put his solo shorts on a DVD at some point.

Before we left I got a tshirt with Moe, Larry, and Curly dressed as professors (I work at a college so it seemed appropriate) and I got a book that someone wrote about Vernon Dent. Outside I had my picture taken in front of the sign above with a volunteer who was dressed as Moe dressed as Santa.

I would say that I can now die in peace, but that would be a lie. Coming back with a wife and a new generation of Stooge fans is my destiny.

I didn't meet Leonard Maltin today.

Actually, that was a huge long-shot anyway.

Update about Tork

I got new glasses this week. Isn't that something?

I bought nothing during Black Friday. Isn't that something?

I plan to be in Pennsylvania tomorrow. Isn't that something?

I might meet Leonard Maltin tomorrow. Isn't that something?

I learned which district I live in during the beginning of the month. Isn't that something?

My blog will hit the 1000 post mark soon. Isn't that something?

The girl who had a psychotic crush on me once now appears to be a mother (I did some facebook spying.) Isn't that something?

There are four people following this blog. One is a friend, but the rest of you are weirdos. Err, I mean isn't that something??

I don't even know what following a blogger blog accomplishes. Isn't that something?

Futurama Season 5 isn't out until the 21st of next month. Isn't that something?

The Ctrl+Alt+Del "gamer" webcomic is awful, but its miscarriage comic is the funniest thing ever. Isn't that something?

I decided to play Dark Cloud again for no good reason. Isn't that something?

I want either a iPod Touch 32GB or a new computer with Windows 7 for Christmas. Isn't that something?

I forgot where I was going with this post an hour ago. Isn't that something?

Rifftrax Live Show

Lookie here. Another live show so soon after the Halloween one.

Back in 2009 the guys at Rifftrax had a few online riffings on their ustream channel. They were testing out their servers by riffing some new shorts live. They finally decided to do a live show for Planet of the Dinosaurs (with the short thrown in for anybody who didn't pay for the movie) but it failed. The short kept crashing and apparently the fans melted the servers for the feature. Some tech nerd couldn't even properly apologize on Rifftrax's behalf. Thus they decided to try a live show in theaters.

While they did do a couple live shows this year, one day (can't remember when) they did an unannounced live show online. It was basically the Rifftrax crew playing table shuffleboard while Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett made humorous observations. It was kind of neat to come home and find out about this and we now know why they had such a show. There is going to be a live online show this December.

On December 3rd they will debute a new short online. It is a buck to watch it. Before the show, they will announce whatever Christmas film they will do on the 16th. No details about that one yet.

Maybe I'll see you at the Rifftrax chat room next Friday!

For flip's sake

For frick's sake! For farge's sake!


Are there any adults in this country?


If I was a dictator, the first thing I would do is kill all the pundits.

(I wouldn't do well as a president. I would say that free speech is awesome before adding "now shut up and stop making EVERYTHING about politics already!")

I hope nobody finds out

that I started the shooting between the Koreas.


(Sorry!)

This Week In Entertainment (November 2010)

Remember when Futurama was coming back on the air and I was excited? Well, it took me three episodes before I stopped watching the first Comedy Central season. Not because anything was bad, but because I just don't care about anything on TV anymore. TV is a distant fourth in my entertainment hobbies behind video games, the internet, and DVDs.

Anyway, here is the DVD set for that season. Maybe it's time for me to do some catching up.

Redskins' Football (2)

Redskins' football

It's like this.

Video games

It's like this

I had a sandwich.

Couple days ago. It was good, too. I need to learn the art of cutting a sandwich diagonally.

Sadly, we were out of provolone. American cheese just doesn't work on a regular sandwich anymore.

Voting and junk

Where I live there was a vote on putting slots in the Anne Arundel Mills Mall. (Or maybe next to it. I didn't really pay attention to the exact wording and you know how misleading partisan groups can be on that kind of thing.) I think it's going to pass, although personally I think they should have put them somewhere else.


No reason to bring this up, other than the fact that if Question A passes I'm going to get me a casino waitress for a wife! Yee haw! (Note: "Yee haw" is not part of Tork's vocabulary. Just seemed like the right thing to type here.)