Mandy, Mandy, Mandy.

Mandy.com is a job posting site for people in the video production line of work. Every week the  site sends out new job postings.

For a long time there has been the "Kevin Maher's Mandy a**hole of the week" posting.
To win the weeks' title, you have to post a job that is totally asinine.

Like,


"Entry level/intern position. Must know Final Cut Pro X, Avid, Maya, Premier Pro 6, Cinema 4D, After Effects, Photoshop, InDesign, must have own transportation, willing to work nights/weekends/holidays. 4 years experience a must."

Today we have a winner I feel I must share.

"Seeking Experienced, fast, Very Creative and Ambitous DP with Red camera (preferable the scarlett or epic) with lighting package for Indie pop music video shooting in Philly area on Sept. 5th. Must have your own equipment /transportation. no diva attitues needed. this is an Indie music video so Only Seekignt hose that are fast moving, Very Creative with lighting and camera angles And can Think on their feet- Especially those Who bring. visual ideas to the table. Only responding to those who send links , rate, and equipment list. Looking to Hire Immed.

Paid: This is a low paid/no pay job "

[typo's are theirs]



(preferable the scarlett or epic)
 What do you think that camera costs?
Now remember, this is for a low pay/no pay job.
But you can put it in your portfolio/resume for future jobs.

"For the professional who wants it all, the EPIC-M RED DRAGON PRO COLLECTION brings you all of the gear and accessories necessary to tackle any shoot. This package is compiled of the finest RED gear, carefully crafted and designed to ensure professional level quality from the field to the sound stage. The EPIC-M RED DRAGON PRO COLLECTION has brought together the latest and greatest in RED technology and accessories to make it even easier to shoot EPIC."

 So.
Price.



No. You are wrong.




That is not what this camera costs. Remember, you can buy a house on Walnut Street, in Freeland PA, 4 bdr. 3 bth. for 49,900.
So how much for the camera?

$58,505.00

 Sure. I am going to drive to Philly to shoot a music video for free with my camera that costs more than my neighbor's home.

Feh.








Anyhow the girls and I went to the range for about an hour today,

My two are touching, the girls are drifting up to bull's eye.

Soon.

Soon they will be right on the mark.



[Yes I know it is a 50 foot pistol target, and upside down, but it was one of the only ones I had]

Ink

Well, what is a dad to do?

show the girls the word of specialty ink for calligraphy. 

J. Herbin is most likely the best ink around, and the 1670 collection is the best of the best. He went around Asia and India looking for pigments to make ink for the Kings and Queens of Europe, back in the day. The day being 1670, that's where they got the name from.

If you tilt the paper one way you see one color, tilt the paper the other way, a different color, but overall infused with 14K gold.

Bleu Ocean looks, well, blue and sea teal with gold. Emerald Chavor is emerald green, blue and gold. We had to wait two months to get that one, they were only selling small quantities here in the US of A and we had to get on a waiting list.

This video does not do it justice, as far as the ink looks.

Enjoy. 

(Click on full screen)

The ink can be found here:

https://www.goldspot.com/store/j-herbin

Barnett Jackal. Again.

• Aluminum Riser
• CNC Machined 7/8" Picatinny Rail
• Anti Vibration Foot Stirrup
• Finger Reminders and Pass-Through Foregrip
• Lightweight Composite Stock
• CROSSWIRE® String and Cable System
• High Definition Camo Finish
• 26.25" Axle to Axle
• Draw Weight: 150 lbs
• FPS: 315
• Weight: 7.7 lbs 
• Length x Width: 36" x 28.25" 
• Red Dot Sight    

 I have to work on zeroing in the sight. It was good last week, but then I took it off and put it back on now it shoots down and to the left. The public range is 1.2 miles from here, so it is not that big of a deal to get there. 



So as I sit here writing this, guess who came by to taunt me?

Yup. Mr. Bun.

I just said "Laugh while you can, monkey-boy!" 

 

a little of this, a little of that.

Freeland wash day. Nothing clean, right?

Nothing clean right.

So.

If you were in Freeland, and needed to wash your clothes, right now, and I mean a lot of clothes, you could stop by "Big Bubbles" and be done with it.

In and out. One stop. Speed Queen.

But.


If you only had a few things that needed laundering, and perhaps a place to stay ( because the Gargoyle house is full)  less than 400 yards away, on the same street,

Tiny bubbles.

With rooms. Daily and monthly.

I would have a better photo of the sign, but there was a scruff in the door-way giving me the hairy-eyeball, so for safety's sake, I left.


If your business tanks, in Freeland, send a message to the people that did not patronize your establishment.

It reads "Here's to our Lives being meaningless. And how beautiful it is because freedom doesn't have a purpose!"

Gee, talk about sour grapes.

I wonder what, exactly they sold. The store sign is gone and the building condemned by the town.
Based on the nasty parting shot, I am guessing something vegan/commie/antisocial/democrat/anti-American/high-fluting/self-righteous/narrow-minded/codswallop crapola.

But that is just one guy's opinion.



And last, one more damned rabbit taunting me.

Dollar General treats

If you are looking for a bargain in toaster treats, let me know, I have a line on slightly damaged toaster treats.

Only one buck,
 at,

well, the dollar store.

One toaster treat missing.  Not one pack, one toaster treat.

One dollar. Firm offers only.

South Street Freeland PA Dollar General can not write it off as a loss. Maybe the Front Street Dollar General guys try to pull that off now and again, but what do the boys in the home office think?

 It is only four months old.

The thief either decided crime is s sucker's road and those that travel it end up in the gutter, the prison or the grave.
There is no other way.



Or, that UN-toasted brown sugar cinnamon  pop-tarts suck so bad they will pass up on a free smart phone.

Good luck finding a pay phone, pally.

Sigh.

Darling #2 said she understood that I do not suffer fools gladly.

She said she often has dealings with a wicked, evil, bad-vibe monger.

What to do?
What to do indeed.
I gave her two quarters. She said, what am I supposed to do with fifty cents? I said give them to the bad-vibe monger, and explain that one is to rent 1/2 hour in the sobbing locker, (Please remember to empty the tear-bucket on your way out) and the other is so he can call someone who cares.

"How do you make a phone call with a quarter?"
It's for a pay phone.

Blink

Blink

What's a "pay phone"?

These were once as numerous as bison on the plains, until the early smart phone adopters killed them all off.

See that black box? hanging off the bottom of the phone? That is a Phone Book.

It contains the name, address and phone number of every person (well, the person that pays the bill at that address) and in the back, every business in the community. So, if you were looking for someone, just look up the name.

See?


If you were looking for a phone number outside your area, you would have to call "Directory assistance" which is like Siri, but with less of a personality.

Rabbit season.

Fat rabbits in the yard.
They eat and eat and eat and eat.

Rose and I can walk right up to the rabbits, and they don't care. A car drives past and they run about six feet. And that's it.
They are like ghetto rabbits.
They don't give a darn about anything.
They look at me and get like " what are you going to do?  Bring it.  I don't care I am a ghetto rabbit"

Well, Mr. Rabbit, you think you are pretty smart, you just Mr. Smarter.

 Bang. You're dead.

Or should I say, Twang, you're dead.

Either way, the key phrase is "you're dead"


 

Rabbit Isabel

TOTAL TIME: 1 hr

Prep: 30 min

 

Cook: 30 min

• 1-ounce plain (all-purpose) flour
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 1/4 teaspoon dry mustard
• 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 1 young rabbit per person, fillets and leg meat removed
• 1 egg white
• • 1 slice good bacon per two rabbit fillets
  • Sorrel or sage leaves
  • 4 ounces (1 stick) butter
  • 1 onion, finely chopped
  • 2 Glasses of white wine
  
  
  Make seasoned flour with salt, pepper, dry mustard and cayenne pepper.
  
  In a food processor finely mince the leg meat, add the egg white and seasoning and blend to a paste. Flatten the fillets and flour lightly. Lay a piece of bacon cut to fit on one fillet, spread a layer of the mousseline of rabbit and egg white onto the bacon and lay your sorrel of sage leaves on top of this. Place the other rabbit fillet on top to make a parcel.
  
  
  In a heavy-lidded frying pan melt the butter and gently fry the onion, add the rabbit parcel and brown, turning carefully. Season, pour on white wine, cover and cook gently for 10 minutes turning the parcel halfway through.
  
  
  Drink a glass of wine.
  
  
  Check that the rabbit is tender and cooked through, and serve with garlic-pureed potatoes and a green vegetable.
  
  
  yum.
  
   

cross bow goodness

Catey shoots first

Fortyfive yards, I am not quite an inch left of the target.
I will have to work on my sights.

The chicks are cool in Vermont

So,
here are three chicks jumping off a high bridge abutment.

later, some boys showed up. only one jumped.

I am assuming the first group were girls, they were so far away I can not be sure, but I think so.

Steampunk

If you came to Springfield VT this week, you could attend the Steampunk festival. All you would need is a USA flag shirt, over-sized novelty shorty pants and a sense of humor.

That and a steampunk R2D2

Of coarse, back in my day, we just called it "Jules Verne" stuff.

Vermont fun

So.
We came to Vermont for a few days for birthday fun.

Dad's birthday, Catey's birthday and my birthday.

I got Catey a Martin Cougar recurve bow, 45 lb. draw weight, fiber optic sights and a whisper biscuit arrow rest.

Well, actually the sights and arrow rest were from her last bow, a Precision Shooting Instruments (PSI) Kingfisher bow.

What did I get for my birthday?

Glad you asked.

I was given a Barnett Jackal Crossbow.
350 feet per second, 100 foot pounds of energy shooting a 20 inch bolt.  

But nobody will let Catey or me shoot an apple off their head or a cigarette out of their mouth.


So, here we are just shooting:

And again here is Kevin;

This bow is wicked fast, I had no idea the kids were getting this for me, I thought they would be surprised with the bow I bought for Catey,

Monsignor Pohak

St. Mary's Church has a leak in the roof.


Monsignor Pohak can;

1) hire some bohunk to climb up and see where it is leaking

or

2) hire a guy with a drone.

He decided to go with #2

That little white car, that is Catey's new car.

That white house is where we live now.

Of coarse it is much larger when you are on the ground.

This is about the highest spot in Freeland PA

The corner of Fern and Main

On the west side of the intersection of Fern and Main is what I thought was an abandoned building.


This building.

In the nine or so months we have lived here (Lord, has it been that long?) no one has gone in or out.
The lights are never on. the place is strewn with trash. There is wood, sofas, refrigerators, beds, and debris stacked against the windows.


We decided to go for a walk around the neighborhood about midnight last week, and passed by this place.

On closer inspection, Catey sees, spray-painted on the wall inside "No place like Home"

As we walk along the side of the house, we here music coming from inside. Like 40's music. Catey takes her flashlight and raps on the wood covered window, and the volume on the radio goes down by 50%.


Nobody moves.

Well, we don't move, someone inside does.


Then we run.

I whisper, "Not that way, that is towards our house, quick, this way and we can double back through the ally-way".

No one wants to walk down Fern St. again.

Day or night.

Speaking of days

August 2015
Freeland PA

Sorry this is so late, we have missed;

01) Mustard day
02) Ice cream sandwich day
03) Watermelon day
04)  Coast guard day (which is interesting because we are about four hours away from the nearest navigable body of water the Coast Guard would be interested in)

and today,
05) Work like a dog day
06) Wiggle your toes day
07) Lighthouse day
08) (my kids can not wait) sneak some zucchini onto your neighbor's porch day
09) Book lover's day
10) Lazy day
11) Presidential joke day
12) Middle child day
13) Left hander's day
14) Creamsicle day
15) Relaxation day
16) Tell a joke day
17) Thrift shop day
18) Bad poetry day
19) Aviation day
20) Daughter's day
21) Senior citizen's day
22) Be an angel day
23) Ride the wind day
24) Vesuvius day
25) Kiss and make up day
26) Dog day
27) Forgiveness day
28) Race your mouse day
29) More herbs, less salt day
30) Frankenstein day
31) Trail mix day

Marshall Tucker Day

Well, they don't have that here in Freeland.

But they should.

Freeland

Today in Freeland a child is snubbing and crying.

And somewhere, off in the distance, a dog was barking.