Con Man - Alan Tudyk, Nathan Fillion, PJ Haarsma - Wins first Dalai Lama Dude! Award ot the year.

Wray Nerely (Alan Tudyk-Me!) was a co-star on Spectrum, a sci-fi series which was canceled -Too Soon- yet became a cult classic. Wray’s good friend, Jack Moore (Nathan Fillion) starred in the series and has gone on to become a major movie star. While Jack enjoys the life of an A-lister, Wray tours the sci-fi circuit as a guest of conventions, comic book stores, and lots of pop culture events.  The show will feature all the weird and crazy things that happen to Wray along the way to these events.



Alan Tudyk, Nathan Fillion and  PJ Haarsma have come up with a winning concept, confirmed by their enormously successful Indiegogo campain, which is certainly worthy of the first Dalai Lama Dude! Award this year.

Check out the story, concept, trailer and more here:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/con-man#/story
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/conman
https://www.facebook.com/conmanseries

Veronica Mars

Veronica Mars Kickstarter Blowout!

They gave themselves 30 days to raise two million dollars in pledges.  It took just eleven hours.  Veronica Mars fans, or marshmallows, donated feverishly and by the end of the second day the total was well above the three million mark with 48,000 donors.

Kristen Bell wrote:

dearest marshmallows...
I am currently the happiest blonde in a hamster ball the world has ever seen. We have been waiting so long to make this movie dream a movie reality, and it’s because of YOUR commitment, YOUR persistence, that we finally have a chance.

The Veronica Mars movie fundraising campaign has made big waves — big enough to have (at least briefly) eclipsed the news of Pope Francis' new position! Not one to be rude, Kristen Bell tweeted an apology Thursday. The campaign hit the $1 million mark in 4 hours and 24 minutes, according to Kickstarter, overtaking the seven hour record set last week.

Go to The Veronica Mars Movie Project to participate.

Veronica Mars Kickstarter Campaign is the Latest Dalai Lama Dude! Award Recipient 

Could a T-shirt be DLDA-worthy?

 

A T-shirt THIS Awesome could be!

Missoula is the Garden City.  That moniker has taken on new meaning ever since Montanans passed the Medical Marijuana ordinance.  Grow operation have been sprouting up faster that pimples on a teenagers face.  

As always there are two sides to the situation.  Those who truly need the herbal remedy are now able to get it legally. But where the loads of money to be made you can be sure that the hucksters and charlatans will soon follow.

Be that as it may, there is room for celebration, and what better way that with a stylish t-shirt to commemorate the occasion (situation, circumstance, debacle)?

 More of choppedliver's awesome stuff!

Eri Yoshida, 18 yr old Japanese Female Knuckleballer Gets Dude! Award!

 

Eri Yoshida, Dalai Lama Dude! Award Winner!

She's 18 years old, only 5 feet 1 inch tall, weighing in at 115 lbs.  Her opponents are all in the six foot, 200 lb catagory.  But, not to worry, her knuckleball seems to even the odds.  Eri Yoshida's first professional appearance for the Chico Outlaws was an auspicous one, played at their home Nettleton stadium.  She became the first female to play professionaly in two countries.  In her first inning the Tijuana Cimarrones lead-off hitter bunted a single.  The second popped out and the third hit into a double play to end the top half.

The Outlaws scored 4 times in the bottom of the first.  Three of those came from a home run by J.J. Sherrill.  The fourth came from Yoshida herself as she sliced a bases-loaded single past the first baseman into right field.  As of now, it looks like Eri's hit was the first ever by a female in a pro baseball game! The inning ended when she was forced out at second base on a feilders choice.

Overall, she seemed in command of her game, not letting herself get flustered during the third when the team from TJ took advantage of her mistakes.  The Cimorrones tied the game in the third inning and Yoshida didn't return in the forth, so she will not get any credit for either a win or loss in the game.

Spontaneous Goofyness in the University of Montana Library

UM Pumpkin Prankster Returns!

The Preposterous Pumpkin

It was a dismal outlook this fall when the University of Montana decided to give a "face lift" to the Main Hall building. Scaffolding, fences and security cameras were erected to facilitate the refurbishing and re-roofing of the building. "How", we all asked, "could the Hallow e'en Pumpkin be put in its rightful place with all that construction going on?"

I was convince that this was all a ruse to thwart the sly scaler and oppress the absolute glee felt throughout the community in seeing his traditional pumpkin perched upon the pinnacle of the University's clock tower.

But, Monday morning, to our surprise and joy, there were not one but three pumpkins pertly impaled on the precipitous spires. Adding to the general awesomeness was the fact each was carved with a traditional jack 'o lantern face.

Truly worthy of the coveted Dalai Lama Dude! Award.

More images showing the whole picture from the detail above, the three pumpkins on the tower and the gables flanking it, and the scaffolding that was used during the repairs. The means used to plant the pumpkins has never been discovered. (Click each photo for a larger version.)

Barak Obama Recieves Dalai Lama Dude! Award

Our exuberance of the election of Barak Obama as president of our country cannot be sufficiently expressed. The best we can come up with is this:

Since the beginning of the nation black people have been oppressed. They continue to be at the lowest rung of social and economic status. With Obama's election we see hope for us that this will be uplifting for African-Americans in many ways. And, when the lowest of us is uplifted, so are we all. Hope in just and fair policies here and abroad is being restored.

But, with all this optimism we remember this story told by the CIA agent in the movie "Charlie Wilson's War":

"This little boy, on his 14th birthday is given a horse. Everyone in the village says, 'How wonderful the boy got a horse,' but the Zen master says, 'We'll see.' Two years later the boy falls off the horse and breaks his leg and everyone in the village says, 'How terrible.' The Zen master says, 'We'll see.' Then, war breaks out and all the young men have to go out and fight except the boy can't because his leg's all messed up and everybody in the village says, "How wonderful!"

"And the Zen master says, "We'll see."

So, we now award the most prestigious Dalai Lama Dude! Award to our president elect

Barak Obama. Dude!