Beard & Stach Fest 2013! Please Give!

Hello Family, Friends, and Readers!


It's that time again, a new year has arrived and with it comes the Beard & Stache Fest for 2013! The time for YOU to do the Right Thing and help support some amazing foster kids by donating to the Treehouse Foundation!

If you have donated before, you know how darn easy and safe it is. If you are new to this, heres some simple instructions.

If you want to donate and help me take home top honors as a Beard & Stache Fest Contestant you can do it two ways:

A. In Person: Haul your hungry butt over to Li'l Woody's over by Capitol Hill (1211 Pine St, Seattle WA 98101) and put money in the can with my Face On It! If you are too stunned my the amazingly good looking faces of my teammate, I am KILTED ERIC!  You are free to put any amount you would like into the can, I suggest large donations. :)

B. Online: Go over to www.beardandstachefest.com, click Contestants, and scroll down to my team, The Whisker Rebellion, and click on my face (YEP KILTED ERIC ONCE AGAIN!), you'll see a box to enter a donation amount (they suggest $10, I suggest $100 :)

You DO NOT have to do this only once by they way. Feel free to drop money into my can as often as you would like during the ENTIRE month of March. That's right, you have the whole month to donate and help me become the next major prize winner!

Thank you very much!

Yours
Kilted Eric

Clyde's two! Birthday Video!

2-8-13 - Clyde turned 2 years old and is very much the stereotypical energy filled little kid! Here's a video in 2 parts, part one is Clyde, Ryan, Caroline, and myself singing the classic happy birthday while Clyde blows out the candles. Part 2 is just Clyde being Clyde for your amusement.

Enjoy!

A couple of short vids

Here are a couple of raw (unedited) vids of me and the kids.

First it's Clyde just a running around Ryan's school one day.

This is me and the boys being boys.

A few photos

A selection of recent photos of the fam.

 Ryan working on a science project, measuring the soaking abilities of different types of paper.

Eating dinner. I have no idea why this photo was taken, but here it is.

Decorating the Christmas Tree

 Sick boy Ryan and his little brother Clyde

Ryan and a Christmas Camel.

Family Picture With Santa!

The Family Picture with Santa 2012

I Found It - Axel's Christmas!

I FOUND IT I FOUND IT!

My parents, Mom really, had this wacky old vinyl of Axel's Night Before Christmas. Now, Axel was a silly Scandoohovian character played by Clellan Card from the early radio and TV years, the old WCCO stuff.

Well, I found out my mom sadly sold that album, and thus I have been on a quest to find them. I still am looking for the actual vinyl pressing, but this day any digital version is fine by me. Well, last year I found the script to Axel's Night Before Christmas. I donning my memory cap created my own version of the radio play, including silly sound effects and voices. I then uploaded it to youtube.

Well, today, as I was surfing the web, I found that somebody has actually posted the 1938 Axel's Night Before Christmas on Youtube! It's wonderful to hear that silly show again!

So, here it is, my early pre-season gift to you.

Clellan Card as Axel, performing Axel's Night Before Christmas.

Well, what do you think, pretty great huh!

Now, for comparisons sake, here is my version. Please consider that I had the script, but I hadn't heard the true version in 20 plus years.

Happy Holidays everybody!

Spook Show!