Let the Documentary Begin

Today I got a call from a reporter for The Daily Universe which is Brigham Young University's campus newspaper. Apparently, she saw my comments over at ProvoPulse.com about booters, and she wanted to talk to me. I answered her questions and told her that I am planning to film a documentary about booting.

What is booting you might ask? Well, basically if you park illegally, a company comes by and puts a big orange 'boot' on your tire. This makes it so you can't go anywhere. Then they send someone to take it off and you've got to pay them 50 bones. A little steep.

Anywho, people here in Provo absolutely hate boots, booting, booters, or anything else that has to do with boots. Which is weird because they really love line-dancing. Oh well. People here hate them so much that the mere mentioning of booting usually results in long strings of Mormon profanity, and sometimes even regular profanity. This emotional response has inspired me to make a documentary that explores the booting industry and look at the pros and cons of booting. It should be fun.

I start filming this weekend. I'm trying to get people to interview and things like that. If you are reading this, live in Utah, and would like to tell me your story, send me an email and tell me your booting story. If I think it's interesting enough you could be in my movie!

Email: booter@spencerkingcomedian.com

How to Rebuild Integrity in Professional Sports

Now what? Hockey has been cancelled,(who really cares, besides Canadians) baseball is rolling in roids, basketball players are attacking fans, and football players have cocaine addictions. These are just the few things that plague the world of professional sports these days. Why has this happened? What happened to the days when pro-athletes were role models for the younger generation?

When I was younger, I remember looking up to professional athletes. Some of them that I admired were Larry Bird, Dale Murphy, Dan Marino and others. The days when this type of athlete was the prominent example of how most athletes were, is over. Every once in a while a guy will come along like Pat Tilman, who was a great example of how a professional athlete should be an example. I'm not saying that each athlete should enlist or anything, but at least we knew that Pat stood for something. He had values. I wonder how many people he inspired to serve others?

These days it seems that athletes are worried about one thing: money. Sure I agree that owners should share the profits they make because of their teams, but c'mon, it's getting out of hand already. It all stems from greed. The owners make more because they charge more. Plus you've got concessions which requires that you apply for a second mortgage before you can buy them. The solution seems almost simple.

The only way we could get the integrity of professional sports back, is to scale down the money that is involved. Limit ticket sales so that owners will still have enough to pay the bills on the stadiums and other things, but you shouldn't pay someone 14 million to throw a ball. They could still make a good living, but they don't need that much money. It almost sounds socialistic I know. Anyone who is a true capitalist is probably screaming for me to be blacklisted right now. Anywho, these guys don't care about what they do because they make so much money. They aren't worried about being examples to the younger generation. This generation of athletes, with the exception of a few, are the most selfish, and self absorbed group of people in the country. Although they run a close race with all the folks in Hollywood, they still have a slight lead.

I myself have really become sickened of watching professional sports. To me, college sports are way more exciting. These guys are playing for their school, not for money. I'd prefer watching any NCAA championship game to watching any championship in professional sports. There is more drama, and in most cases, more desire to win.

I know I can't make a difference myself, but I can still state my opinion. Enough with the overpaid cry babies!

The lesser known victims of the MLB steroid scandal

The whole steroid scandal seems to be in full swing(no pun intended) lately. With Jose Canseco's book pointing fingers, many people are in an uproar as to what the future of baseball will be. Amidst the turmoil of steroid users and the coaches who supposedly "knew" what was going on, there exists a small group of people that were greatly affected by steroid use: The people who got second.

SI.com has a great story about Mike Greenwell who was the runner-up AL MVP in 1988. Who won the honors that year? Why, none other than Mr. Canseco. How would that feel. Greenwell plays a clean game and has a great season. Conseco juices up and takes the honors. I can definitely understand why Greenwell is pissed. He has a right to be. Sure, Canseco looks bad now, but that doesn't give Greenwell the feeling of winning the MVP award. Greenwell stated:

"He reaped a lot of rewards and a lot of benefits for being on an illegal drug and probably took something away from me that I never got to feel. So does it bother me? Absolutely."

What about all the other Mike Greenwell's in the league? All those guys who finished second to those who used performance enhancing drugs, what about them? This could, or should, cause a major look into the latest records and an investigation to whether or not they were legitimate. For all we know, Roger Maris should still be the single season home run record holder. If I was his family and found out that the record had been beaten by a juiced up player, I wouldn't acknowledge that record being broken.

So to all the Mike Greenwell's out there: I feel sorry for you, and I hope that one day you will get the honors that you deserve.

Anti Ashlee Simpson

Well, I'm just trying this out as a test. Apparently if your site has the words, "anti ashlee simpson" in them it's supposed to generate a lot of hits. I hope that's true, and I also hope that you people who come here leave some freakin comments!

Many of you have probably seen that whole petition thing. I did not personally sign it because I have better things to do. I still don't think she is very good though. Anywho, let's see how this experiment goes.

More Film Projects

I've been kind of stagnant during the last month or so when it comes to film. Our short film did alright in the LDS Film Festival. We'll be included on a DVD that will be compiled later this month.

On Saturday, the crew of Decaf Comedy Jam will be at it again filming another short film. This one is going to be a silent film, and it should be pretty funny. More on how that goes later.

In March I will start filming my first documentary production. It will deal with a certain local issue that I think could provide for entertaining and funny footage. I won't disclose the topic yet because I'm really paranoid about someone stealing my idea. I know I live in Utah, but it's definitely not a perfect place. More on that coming soon as well.

Another interesting web search

Well, apparently my site has started to attract a more seedy audience. Checking out my referrals to the site, I happened upon and interesting search query that led someone here. They used MSN search and this was the query:

erotic coupon book

Not only is it weird that my blog would come up in that search; it came in first! That's a first for this blog. I thought it was pretty funny though. Maybe I should come up with an erotic coupon book so that it will ring true to the search.

Get your erotic coupon books right here!

Go Shout Praises from the Mountain!

Well, it happened. I got internet at my little basement apartment! I'm so frickin happy I could scream! So hopefully that means I may write more. Probably not though.

Do a happy dance for me people.

Have a Married Valentine's Day!

Well, this weekend I will be up at my grandparents house in Richfield, ID. Don't even bother trying to figure out where it is. It's a small, small, small, very small town. I think it's really funny to imagine my dad growing up there. Anyway, we'll be up there for the weekend, so I thought that I'd get this post out now.

This will be my first Valentine's Day as a married man. To tell you the truth, it makes it a heck of a lot easier to have a Valentine. If I can't find anybody, I've always got the wife. (rimshot, crash) Of course I wouldn't have another Valentine. What kind of person do you people think I am?

Since we're poor at the moment we're foregoing any traditional gifts and just sticking to spending the day together. Maybe we'll go out to eat or something. The cool thing about being married is we can make really cool home-made coupon books. (wink) Can you say 'Erotic Massage'? I knew that you could.

Being poor makes it easier to enjoy the holiday actually. I don't have to stress about getting my wife a better gift. Of course, there's always the chance that she'll get me something anyway. Then I'll look really retarded. "Gee honey, that's great! I just realized that I left your present at the store. Be right back."

It's gonna happen. I can feel it. I can sooooooo feel it.

My new podcast

Well, I've decided to join the ranks of those who want to be heard, literally. I have a new podcast which is an mp3 file based way to record stuff and have people download it.

Here's the rss file. Check it out!

NBC10.com - Sports - McNabb Sick During Crucial Part Of Super Bowl

NBC10.com - Sports - McNabb Sick During Crucial Part Of Super Bowl

Okay, McNabb, you lost. End of story. "But I was sick. I threw up." Waa Waa Waa. "I'm a little wuss." That's what I heard.

Take it like a man. And hey Freddy, next time you wanna talk some smack, back it up. Welcome to being the biggest joke in the NFL buddy.

Spencer Speaks Live?

So I've been recently looking into web radio and broadcasting stuff live on the internet. I've always wanted to have my own radio show. I think I'd be pretty good at it. The question is, if I took an hour out of my day to broadcast a show from my computer, would people listen? Who knows, from the looks of my comments I don't think many people would, but maybe if I was good and the word spread I could get a decent following.

I need to figure out which software I should use to broadcast though. Any suggestions would be good. Also I would like to know what you would want to hear about. This would be, in no way, like a normal talk show. Since it would be at my computer I could get emails and instant messages and talk about stuff I see on the internet.

So let me know what you think people. I'd really like to know.

We live in an 'F'ed up world: or WHY THE PENGUINS?!

I haven't posted in awhile now. I haven't really felt the desire or motivation to say anything. It's kinda like when you eat a lot, but you never poop. You keep eating, but you still don't feel like pooping. Then, in one single moment, it hits you like a ton of bricks and you race to the toilet to let it all out. Well, I've reached that point and this blog is my toilet. Get ready for a lot of crap!

First up; Iraq. Elections came and went. Only 35 people or so died. I guess that's good. People are looking at that as a success. I guess as many people in the United States die in car accidents on the way to the polls every four years. So yeah, it was a success, whatever. Our troops are still there, and it doesn't look like they'll leave soon. We have to let the little fledgling country leave the nest sometime. It has to fly on it's own eventually.

Islam extremists are saying that they have another soldier prisoner. A little message to the extremists: It's not working! Can't you see that? We aren't backing down, but I'm sure Allah is really proud of you.

A crematory owner is going to jail for not cremating bodies and throwing them in his backyard. This guy makes Michael Jackson seem almost normal.

And speaking of Michael Jackson: Why is he not in jail already! People are actually protesting and saying that he is innocent. Well, I know he won't go to jail until the jury says he's guilty, but c'mon folks, he's guilty. The guy is a total wack job. He was cool in the early eighties and I still love to jam out to 'Beat It' or 'Billie Jean', but let the jury decide what's gonna happen. He'll probably be happy to go to jail, because once he gets there he'll have a lot of 'boys' who want to play with him. They'll pass him around the shower like a joint at a Bob Marley concert.

Finally, an iceberg the size of Long Island is going to hit another iceberg. Why is that such a big deal? Think of the penguins! They share this world with us. We should be aware of their sufferings. Apparently this collision is going to affect hundreds of penguin populations. WHY THE PENGUINS?!