Kids, don't try this at home! Cousin Fred is a professional idiot. Busy week at The Compound. Send fruitcake!

​Happy Monday again, everybody! We’re off on an uproariously chaotic journey this week! Let’s see, today we’re filming one segment of a short film in Cosmic City. If all goes well with that, we’ll film the second segment on Saturday. And, if everything goes well (meaning I get off my lazy ass and get to editing), we’ll enter it in the Twister Alley Film Festival this year.

Oh, and The Daughter arrives this Wednesday, so I’ll have to make a run to OKC to pick her up (she’s leaving the truck behind in Virginia).

In the meantime, I intend to record the narration for a SECOND short film this week and POSSIBLY shoot it next week. Well, that may be a bit ambitious considering I have to drive The Daughter back to OKC on Sunday. And then Monday I’m over in Enid for an appointment. Wednesday of next week I’m at Oklahoma Heart Hospital for another early morning appointment.

Beyond that, I’m working on a feature-length script for a movie about everyone’s favorite lawyer with a gun, Temple Houston.

On and on, it goes…

Am looking forward to Thanksgiving this coming week, with The Daughter, The Folks, and even The Relatives from OKC. Cousin Fred is wringing his hands over the fact that he and Friend Lamont failed in their attempts to bag a sand hill crane (ribeye of the sky). I haven’t told him yet, but I anticipated said failure and bought a big-ass turkey. He’s off the hook, but I won’t let him know that just yet. For some reason, I enjoy seeing him sweat.

He’s been prowling around some wild game site on the dark web hoping to buy a black-market sand hill crane to claim as his own. I fully expect the FBI to show up at The Compound sometime this week to drag him off in cuffs. It’s been awhile since their last visit, I think we’re due.

Oh, yeah, the other thing I want to get done before I check in to Mercy Hospital (whose commercial tag line should be “Have Mercy!” spoken by Billy Gibbons) in OKC in early December is to finally shoot and post the first of several YouTube videos.

I know I’ve been saying for more than a year that I intend to do that, but you have no idea how hard it is to set up for a video shoot and then tear it all down again. And, as I mentioned before, I am something of a lazy person.

Of course, Cousin Fred doesn’t want to see me do the staid sort of cooking videos where I share some of my BBQ secrets gained over the past decade that I’ve been pursuing BBQ and smoking perfection. Cousin Fred seems to think we need to up the game a bit and become extreme YouTubers. Take for instance, this guy who developed a new use for a blender.

Honestly, I hadn’t even thought about mashing the YouTube stuff into everything else I have to do over the next few weeks. Cousin Fred came running into the house yesterday waving his iPad around and telling me I just had to see something.

What I saw was a YouTube video made by a bunch of guys in west central England who cemented one guy’s head into a microwave oven. Okay, while you’re trying to get that image into your head, what I’m talking about here is said guy (we’ll call him Cement Head) literally putting his head inside a microwave oven while his “friends” (we’ll call them the Evil Bastards) poured mixed cement into the oven and around his head.

Guess what happened next…go on, guess!

Nope, not that!

His head became encased in the block of cement which became stuck inside the microwave oven.

Who knew that could have happened?

It took calling out the British version of Fire & Rescue to: 1) dismantle and remove the microwave oven; and, 2) free Cement Head from…well, the block of cement around his head.

Now then, the Evil Bastards worked for nearly two hours on Cement Head’s weighty cranial tomb before calling in the professionals who took yet another hour to bust dumbass (not to mention) numbnuts Cement Head out. The Fire & Rescue dudes later tweeted that they spent far too much time trying to free a dummy from the cement when there could very well have been people with “real” emergencies that needed assistance (the Brits have zero sense of humor).

Cousin Fred’s point is that he feels we need to do something a bit more extreme to get noticed on YouTube. He immediately ran off for secret planning meetings with Friend Lamont to come up with something that will fit the definition of extreme. I can’t wait to hear it…in the meantime, I have plenty enough to keep myself busy.

Oh, if you want to see the British version of Jack Ass…it’s here.  Kids, don't try this at home!

That is all!

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