The site has been neglected over the past four days. SHECKYmagazine went on vacation. Pictured above is one of our hosts with a lorakeet on her finger, shortly before the colorful bird nipped her hand, spilling a sizeable amount of blood over everything. (This is at the aviary at Gatorland.)
We almost didn’t make it to Orlando. The lunkheads at USAir goofed up our reservation (claiming that we were the ones who goofed) and almost didn’t let us take our trip without substantial penalties. You know what they say at USAir: “The customer won’t stop bothering us!” (Just in case any of you should have a problem with USAir– and if you plan on flying USAir, it is probable that you’ll have problems– do what we did and call the Consumer Affairs number! (866)523-5333 is the number… don’t tell them we told you… the number seems to be a well-guarded secret. Besides, we hafta fly on them one more time before they go out of business– which should be any minute, based on the treatment we received last Sunday night/Monday morning!)
On the flight home, though, we got back into blogging mode, clipping an item from the local paper down there: Comedy Warehouse, the “comedy club” inside Disney’s Pleasure Island (it’s actually improvisational comedy), was described in today’s Orlando Sun-Sentinel as offering a “Shrek-type of clean comedy, seemingly pure with a touch of ‘Did he just say what I think he said?’ ” In other words, it’s clean and bland for the kids, but one of the troupe throws in the occasional sexual impotence or anal sex reference so the adults aren’t bored. Kind of like every Disney animated movie since Alladin– good, clean Disney fun with Robin Williams throwing in semi-obscure dick jokes.
We’ll be quoted in an upcoming Los Angeles Times article! There’s a hearing today (Friday) on whether Jay Leno must adhere to Judge Rodney Mellvile’s gag order in the Michael Jackson molestation case. We chatted for a bit with a Times reporter who will be in attendance. Not sure when it’ll run. Hope someone out there can snag a hard copy!