JoeyBahr.com

Yes. I haven’t typed much on here in a while.

I know, but honestly, I wasn’t ignoring you.

Oh, you don’t need to tear up like that. I still appreciate you.

Did I say appreciate, I mean feel for you.

Hmm, I see this is one of those times that no matter what I type, you’re gonna cry.

I promise, I’ll do better.

Well of course I’ve been looking at other websites.

It’s not like that, totally.

I’m looking at them so I can fully understand just how beautiful you are.

Uh, you aren’t buying that are you.

Okay, I’ll grab the pillows and sleep on the couch tonight. I just hope you’ll see things my way in the morning.

Now it’s time for Kansas to put forth their say in who should be the Democratic Party’s Nominee for President.

This year I am in a position I haven’t been for a while.  I am a civilian essentially in the process.  I don’t work for the Party or an elected official.  I am capable of unleashing my talents for one of the candidates.

As you can tell from the title, I am choosing to support Barak Obama.  Two reasons why.

First, he is someone who truly can change not just the party in the White House but the nation.  We sorely need this.  America is reeling from 8 years of the Bush Administration.  The nation is fractured and standing on the edge of serious economic problems.  Add that to the existing problems with the military and our standing in the world and something needs to be done.

Obama is the person who can bring people together to get things done, not score political points.

The second reason rests with the fact that he was born in El Dorado, Kansas.  And the old partisan in me would love to stick it to the Republicans in this state by having a Democrat born in Kansas elected President.

Now it’s time for you to go and caucus for him on February 5th.

Well the Blog Spammers are at it again.

Today alone I have received about 10 e-mails telling me that I have comments to moderate.  All of those comments are not about the items I posted to the web-site.  No, those comments are spam messages from someone trying to sell drugs of some sort.

It is because of these spammers that I turned on the comment moderation.  What that means is that when you type a comment for a post, I must first approve it to be displayed.

Rest assured, I will allow valid comments, even if I don’t agree with them.

The ones I won’t are the spam comments.  These are not typed by a person, but instead inserted by a bot that is hoping to find some sucker out there to purchase the wares of the person who has enlisted them.

I have no problem with advertising.  In fact at some point, I will probably put up a Google AdWords banner on this site.  But I draw the line at spam.

So do not fear, I will do my best to defeat the spammers…I hope.

Just got back from seeing The Simpsons Movie. How is it? Well, my cheeks still hurt from laughing.

Hey, the cheeks of my face not my…you so need to get your mind out of the gutter there.

Yes, the movie was very much an over sized episode. No, not an episode from the good years of the series. It’s more on the level of the recent good episodes from a couple of seasons ago.

The big difference with the movie comes from the freedom of the film screen versus the TV screen. The writers, all fourteen credited writers, took the freedom to insert a few more craps and goddamns than normal. Not to mention one unmentionable body part.

The first half of the movie you will be laughing a lot. The jokes are coming at you almost every other moment. As the movie drives towards the climax, the jokes slow down, but some of the best of the film await you then.

I would give you some of the plot, but I won’t. You must see this for yourself. Yes, I know some of the storylines are re-purposed from TV episodes. Plus the shear size of the cast of characters of the show seems to weigh down the movie with trying to fit many of them into it.

Despite that, I would have to say it is one of the best comedy’s out this summer.

Sure it can’t compete in the unintentional comedy of the new Lindsay Lohan movie, but hey someone sold that flaming pile of crap as a drama/thriller/horror movie not what it really is…an excuse to get the young starlet to dance around scantily clad.

Sorry about that, tangent over. Like I said, The Simpsons Movie is the best intentional comedy of this summer.*

(* That I have seen so far. Which given the limited amount of movies in Great Bend, isn’t saying much.)

On behalf of all the loyal Royals fans, we would like to welcome you to the land of baseball mediocrity.

For all those years you have rode rough shot over the American League. You thought you were invincible. The small market teams were your farm system, not the minor league single A, AA, and AAA baseball teams. If you didn’t win the World Series, then it was a bad, bad year and Joe Torre should be fired. (Hell, if Torre had been fired as many times as you guys have called for his scalp, Billy Martin would look like a saint.)

But now, now you are six games under 500. The AL Wild Card seems out of reach. Let’s not even think about the AL East right now.

Sure the team could find itself and mount a major turnaround in July or August. Problem is, that is the mantra of long losing teams.

How many times have fans for teams like the Royals, Cubs, and Yokohama Dragons said, “Just wait until after the All-Star Break, man, we’re gonna go on a tear.” I will proudly admit I’m still waiting on that tear I promised in 1999. I know it will just start after this 12 game loosing streak.

So, what should a Yankee’s fan do? Well nothing drastic is needed. Honestly, placing a severed horses head in the bed of George Steinbrenner won’t get you any where, except maybe dead or permanently banned from Yankee Stadium, which is harsher than death for a Yankee’s fan.

What is needed now is patience. For the Yankees to get better they need to redevelop youth. For far too long they have gotten by through purchasing players from other teams while letting their cupboards get bare. Now that is starting to bite back.

Steinbrenner is no idiot. He will start playing where he needs to in the draft and trading deadline to get some new pieces for his team. The Yankees will be back, damnit.

In the meantime, Yankee fans, just sit back and worry and remember, George has a plan and he’s sticking to it. (Just like the Royals, Brewers, Orioles, Phillies, Pirates, and … have stuck to that successful winning plan.)

As some of you might know, I have a new job as an office supply salesman.  (Please spare the rest of us from your paperclip jokes.  Trust me, they aren’t funny…at all.)

With my job, I end up spending time in my car driving to call on my customers.  This windshield time has allowed me to notice something; on most Top 40/Hot Adult Contemp. stations, you are almost guaranteed to hear one of a few songs when you switch over.

Given this insight, I present you with the current list of songs you are bound to hear:

1. Avril Lavinge’s latest, ummm, I don’t even know the title of it, all I know is it is an annoying song.
2. Gwen Stefani’s latest, The Sweetest Escape.  Not a bad song, but it definitely has some strong annoying potential when over played, which it will reach that critical mass in about 1 week.

So their you have the first list of songs you are bound to hear.  I will try and keep it updated.

Only in the Great State of Kansas can the people worry about dodging a tornado one moment then hunker down for a blizzard in the next moment.

Proof in point is this Tornado Watch currently in effect until 6:00 AM February 24th. Followed later in the day by this Blizzard Warning. Both of these watches/warnings are for Barton County, Kansas.

Now you know why us Kansans will say if you don’t like the weather now, just wait five minutes, it will change.

This post is a test of using automator to ummm post posts to the blog.

Yeah, I’m sure that last sentence violated like 5 or 6 grammatical laws.

This is to serve as a warning/promise. I will be updating the look of this site within the next few days.

I am taking the ambitious step of rolling my own theme. So I will be getting my hands and arms dirty with the wonders of HTML, CSS, PHP, and all other things WordPress as I design and drop the latest incarnation of JoeyBahr.com on the World Wide Web.

I know your just filled with anticipation on this one.

See you soon on this.

Also more posts coming up soon about my path down the road of being a screenwriter.

For a long time, I wanted to write something. At the end of high school it was computer programs. After college it was campaign speeches and commercials. As I approached my quarter-life crisis, I flipped between a movie and a novel.

As I search more and more for what it is I want to do in life, the choice between movie and novel grew larger.

I have always been blessed, or cursed if you will, with a vivid imagination. Many a story has started to percolate inside my brain. I finally decided to take the plunge and write a novel in conjunction with NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) this November. I got about 4,000 words into my idea for a novel when it struck me.

Sure a novel would be a great thing to write. And, I would be able to enjoy a great amount of freedom in what I created. But, I wanted something that I could also turn into a commercial item. Basically, I wanted to make some money off of this.

The chances of getting a novel sold and published are tiny to begin with. The chances of said novel actually selling in a significant enough number to make writing my career are, well let’s just say they are worse than the odds of me finding a pair of 21 year old redhead gals in just skimpy lace lingerie laying in my bed.

So I decided to focus my energy on screenwriting. Granted the chances of becoming a professional writer for TV or films is not very good either, but they remain greater when compared to being a novelist.

Now the issue was, what would I write? I already made the choice it would be screenplay for a movie. (Many more contest for movie scripts to enter than there are for TV scripts.)

I first tried to adapt the idea I had for my novel into one for a script. The more I thought about it, the more I realized it probably wouldn’t work.

Then one day the idea came to me. What about the kids who are always told that they could be President of the United States of America someday? What happens to those kids down the road. What if two of those kids were always rivals throughout school and one day down the road they face off again?

That ladies and gentlemen, is the idea I am turning into a script. I would go into more detail, but I don’t want to give away the full idea and have someone else sell the script before I can get it sold myself.

So stay tuned to here as I show you my progress in churning out my first film script. Should be quite the ride.

And just think, someday down the road you can pop down about $7 on a counter to buy a ticket to see what I wrote. I know you are so thrilled at that prospect.