September 2006 Archives

Guest member??  I'll leave the inevitable jokes & insults to you guys.

I wish I could see the dancing superstar this weekend, but I am sick and he lives in San Diego.  I'm still in shock I won't get to watch the Halos make a run for the crown in October, fuckin A's. If you want to pull back the curtain on E's home video go here.  The whole movie is on Google Video.

The next step to I.F.S. world dominance is taking over the land of child predators, spammers, and fake pages galore.  That's right fellow ministers and rabbi, we are taking over MySpace.  With all the time I don't have on my hands, I have put our glorious organization in the spot light by creating I.F.S. space.  I made it into a music page so that the anthem could be added to each of our profiles in hopes of bringing some attention to all the wonderful things we have accomplished the past (almost) two years.  I would also like to suggest that somehow we get a version of Spray Jam up there as soon as Diego can make that happen.  Check us out fellas,   here we come. 

-Trade

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Heil Wardrobe! Here's links to the Megamix and the Anthem, now where's my tie?

     Megamix

     Anthem

(M+T Update: MoAP forgot to include the album artwork for the Anthem.)

Download album_cover.jpg

MoAP, could you make the newest version of the Arnold mix readily available? and what is our song of the week...any new black keys? cheers.

Auf Wiedersehen, MOW

"I'm fully confident I could handle Baumann"- Mark Lee Schroeder, September 24, 2006

Anniversary?

And he's been dancing ever since.

Putting off working on my yearly work review, I decided to look at the site and noticed that with this post we will be at 350 posts and almost 950 comments.  A year and almost a month old, this site as well as I.F.S. have come a long way, and none of it could be possible without everyone's ongoing contributions (except Dane and Jimmy cause they haven't posted). 

I will be purchasing three thirty packs of Adolphus in SB this weekend if anyone would like to join me at my new vacation home, the Mesa House.

Just as I gave you all Recent Comments when we hit 250 posts.  I am experimenting with new side content.  We now have "MOM's Posts from the last 60 Days" to highlight our current MOM, the Minister of Trade.  As well I have added the "Category Popularity", which shows the most popular Categories for Posts.  Let me know what you think.

Well boys I have decided to make a weekly entry of my over seas journey. To keep me close to my brothers and my brothers close to me.  This first one will be about my adventures in Werstberg.  The disco seen was huge, four in one night, five am when it ended.  If it wasn't for the lack of neon I would have thought I was on another one of our 'Vegas Adventures'.  The pic below is of my main man Ulf.  A semi-pro basketball player who is into hard nights, pints of Jager, and womanizing the freu lines.  He grew up with Dirk Nowitzki and come to find out Wertsburg is the city that birthed the mid-range jump shooting assasin. After our ninth shot, I hit the dance floor and did a rendition of a Strauss Samba.  Destroyed the ladies.  Literally, knocked one over.  Thats all for now, hope all is well boys
My Ulf pic was to big to insert, Bunch how do I shrink the pics so I can give you guys some visuals.
GOOOOOOOOOOOO Flapjacks

Check out the trailer for Frank Miller's latest graphic novel (comic book) inspired film Sparta.  Sorry no embedded video right now, so you'll have to click here.

So please give me some feedback, we have the option of requesting what we would like the Rock to write on our group (mine) autographed picture.  I was thinking, " To the men of IFS: Continue eating flapjacks and walking tall once a month" Love, the Rock. Let me know fellas, and i'll try and get some sweet shit written.

Sometimes you have to take the good with the bad.  Take the Minister of Finance for example.  He can't calculate the tip on a bill worth a damn, but then he brings something like Ba-BOOM to the table.  So you keep around the math major who can't perform basic mathmetical functions (addition, division, etc.) because he's capable of taking heart-breaking tragedy and turning it into tasteless comedy:

       (Ba - Boom!)

This same concept applies to Green Street Hooligans.  The plot's contrived, the acting's metiocore at best, the messages are ridiculous and overtly placed, and Elija Wood stars as the "Yank".  That's a lot of bad.  But, the movie is about British Football Hooligan gangs.  And that's a lot of good.  Actually, they're not gangs, they're 'firms,' and they support their local football teams.  Support here means getting drunk, street fighting with other firms and singing the local team's anthem - seems like a pretty sweet life and makes for some decent entertainment.  For drunken/mindless enjoyment, I recommend Hooligans - except for Esteban, who'd probably go out and destroy some unsuspecting San Diegan after watching it. 

Good Flapjack,
Rousing

Sam-Banksy
Originally uploaded by Shot70.

Let's keep this art train rolling.  This Banksy show looks like it was pretty interesting.  Too bad we were all getting drunk and watching football this weekend rather than appreciating fine art.  This makes me want to watch I Am Sam again, who's in?

After many months of neglect, I've resolved to be a better minister and resurrect the Weekly Music Downloads. They were just to young too die. So without further ado, let me introduce the bold new look of WMD and this week's artist who I hope you will all enjoy. Flapjacks!

Weekly Music Download

Artist: Freelance Hellraiser Album: Waiting for Clearance (2006) Bio: Roy Kerr, aka The Freelance Hellraiser, is one of the most respected creators of the UK bootleg scene. He is credited with originating so called "Mash-ups" when he combined an instrumental edit of The Strokes' track Hard To Explain with Christina Aguilera's pop hit Genie in a Bottle. Although originally greeted by a cease and desist order from RCA, the genre was later embraced. Download Track: Placebo - English Summer Rain (Freelance Hellraiser rmx)

My Hershey photo diary, as told by Fricker's camera:

Thanks again Jordan...

So 12 of our 16 ministers have signed up for the new Gmail services.  That's pretty good for less than a week, but I want everyone on it, and I want everyone to have the ability to chat to one another during the course of a day, but most importantly I want to make sure everyone knows how to sign-up and how to use these new services.

Here's the email I sent out to everyone earlier this week, minus the passwords:

Advancements in technology have given us prosthetic limbs, bridges, and erection pills for spray jamming all day.

With the help of Google, I have made email addresses, a calendar, and a contact list for all of our International Flapjacking Needs.

Here is the list of usernames:

They should be self-explanatory, everyone's login is the ______@wedoiteverymonth.com. If anyone doesn't like there username it can be changed, but for now try to use these, as everyone should have everyone else in there Contacts list, and that may change if the username changes.

(Email me at mediatech@wedoiteverymonth.com for the password if you have not received this email.)

Go here to sign-in for the first time to your email: http://mail.google.com/a/wedoiteverymonth.com/ 

Once you have done this, you should notice all members are listed under Contacts, and in the Quick Contacts box.  If everyone wants to, or with work (can), install Google Talk, we can all converse/chat easily. If you can't install Google Talk, you can still chat, if you see a green circle next to that person's name then they are online and available to chat, rollover the person's name and you should be able to click Chat, a grey circle means they are offline, and nothing means that person hasn't used chat.

If you are on your home computer, go here to download Google Talk.

Once your email is set-up, you can jump over to the calendar here: http://www.google.com/calendar/a/wedoiteverymonth.com  
or it should be up in the top left or right of your gmail screen.

You should see "I.F.S. - International Flapjack Society Calendar" under "Calendars" in the left sidebar.
(If you don't see it, contact me, Booman's didn't work but I know it has worked for some.)

That is about it, MCR and myself have had hearty chats everyday at work, but we have grown tired of making fun of Tanto to one another, not to mention he is one of the only ministers to get Google Talk up and running on his computer so it is not nearly as fun.

I've been throwing around a few ideas for neck ties. A necktie for all occasions, whether you're slaving away in the office, attending a bar mitzvah or possibly going on that special date to Red Lobster for the shrimp fest. As a society we need to begin to update our wardrobe, hopefully establishing a completly formal ensemble if you will...okay, so I was thinking either a solid gold or brown with the IFS embroidered on the OR a striped gold/brown with same embroidery. It may also be possible to include a hankey, yup, a hankey for that suit. I promise the price won't be as much as the shirts, BA BOOOOM...Let me know.

Auf Wiedersehen, MOW

So we have all had time to settle back down into our "normal" lives...

...and hopefully gradually invite alcohol back into our daily existence...

... Now that we are removed from the mayhem of the trip, I know we can all appreciate even more what it means to come together under IFS and expand the influence of our organization. It seemed a daunting task to corral that many monks on a plane and travel to PA, but we made a commitment to our brother, so congrats to all of us who made this dream possible. Each one of you brought a diversity to the trip, a bit of character that IFS celebrates in its members...

...I know that you all will agree that this trip was one for the ages.

With this in mind, a lot of the success of this trip can be attributed to the Yingling's generous hospitality and unending kindness and accommodation to our needs. Jordan, you have a beautiful home and two wonderful parents whom it was an honor to meet. We said our thanks while we were there, but now it is time to repay the Yingling's for all that they did for us: the house, the dinners, the beer, the handles (damn you Jager and CC & Whiskey...thanks Jack), the breakfast, the rides and rental car, and for putting themselves up in a hotel so we could party at their house. I took the liberty of putting together a little gift card package for the Yingling's: $150 to the Hershey Spa for Jane, $150 to the What If Cafe of Hershey, and $150 to Scott's Grille in Harrisburg (Jordan suggested these restaurants). This comes out to around $36 per person (including cost of gift cards and shipping fees divided by 13 of us). I ran this by several members and got the ok, so I hope everyone is fine with this. $36 for everything that the Yingling's did is a small price to pay considering train rides cost a little less than half of that if the Yingling's drove you to the airport. Please send me a check for $36 promptly (I put this all on my credit card) and don't want to have to hound people. 209 Mesa Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. Or if you are coming to the barbecue this weekend just bring it up with you.

Jordan, we miss you and hope to see you for the anniversary meeting or for New Year's. Again, tell your parents thanks for making this an unforgettable trip.

Minister of Athletics and Gift Cardery

Dear Brothers,

Congratulations on the fantastic weekend that was IFS Philadelphia

I hope you are all recuperating well and are preparing yourself for are upcoming adventures for the rest of September. 

Download festival (The SF music extravaganza I brought up at the last meeting) is going to be held on Saturday Sept. 30^th at the Shoreline Amphitheater in  San Jose

. Show highlights will include performances by Beck, the Yeah yeah yeahs, TV on the radio, the Shins, Muse, Wolf mother, and some cool potential gusts. We can hopefully find accommodations with our IFS brethren living in the area (Fidel and Tonto, that’s you) and can supplement those lodgings with friend of the society’s houses, Mike Hu, the Pi Phi girls, etc. Don’t let the money be too much of a concern, I found round trip fights on Travelocity from LAX to San Jose for as cheap as $103 round trip, and from LAX into SFO for $123. The tickets are between $25 and $50 depending on where we want to have access to. The show guarantees to go on, rain or shine, and if we all get motivated and show up it will be a weekend for the record books.

NFL 2006-7 monster season kick off and inaugural MesaHouse opening party. Due to some conflicting work schedule issues, this had to be delayed from Sunday the 10^th to Sunday the 27^th, but never the less the show will go on.  A day of Adolfus drinking and gridiron gazing will be preceded by a night of jager-bombs and torturer-shots. I am going to slow cook some competition worthy chili with prime cuts of meet several days ahead of time so the flavors have time to blend and mature.

Lets keep the high after Philly going strong through the rest of the month! These to events have potential to be awesome if we all get behind them and make it happen. Please comment or give me a call (949-878-6842) with any questions or ideas you may have.

Good flap-jack,

The Rabbi of Leisure

   SPRAAAAAY  JAMMING,

        SPRAHAY-HEY-HO JAM,

          SPRAAAAYAY OH JAMMING,

SPRAY JAM IS MY LIFE!!!

Now post your song verse or else you'll be... 

SPRAY JAMMED THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!!

I.F.S. in Philadelphia!! A dream became true! Fuck yeah!! We lived and we died by the cake spray of pan jam! Cheers Jordan and cheers to everyone who travelled all the way across the country for this memorable weekend, probably the best weekend of the year!!

Diego Jam

Yup. Notice the highly apparent resemblence to Gene Wilder in the original Willy Wonka...