I’ve been framed! John Eaves demonstrates the way to get into pictures!
I got up a little late for me, 6 am. I didn’t go to the gym. Didn’t skip… just my sixth day off day. Take a deep breath. A weekend off before it get’s busy. Dorth is getting ready to go out, and Beaky is contentedly knitting a piece of twine into a complicated parrot macrome on top of his house. Me, I have 5 giant plastic bins in front of me filled with two decades worth of Trek memories. As I leaf through them, I find that I’m tossing the funny ones into their own pile without thinking about it. Always listen to your body.
It wants funny, it gets funny!
Try to never take a normal picture. That’s my advice to you! This face is called a “gookie”. It was invented by my hero, Harpo Marx. I don’t always know when it is going to strike me. I don’t hold it back. Send me a picture of yourself throwing a “gookie” and I’ll run it.
(Below) Classic Harpo “gookies” through the years.
(Below) Of course, strenuous face making in the art department all day is exhausting, so I have my nap time out on New York street. Me and teddy. Not only do they let me work here, but I have my own apartment. Seriously though, this was that DS9 episode where San Francisco is a police state, and sections of the city are a devestated. We were scoping out Laura’s urban set dressing, and when I saw the dumpster apartment I just couldn’t resist. Besides, you know how I like getting in boxes and containers! Later, one of the set dressing guys marked it with it’s own street number… 5555… the number of Paramount Studios on Melrose. Awwwww… so cute!
(Below) Serve yourself captions. Choose one – 01) Herman discovers Doug’s new napping spot. 02) Is this the shipment from Tantalus? 03) Mike? We only have one Doug left! Better order a backup! 04) Doug, you aren’t escaping that easy! 05) Uncrate the alternate Doug. 06) Ok! Fed Ex will be here in 15 minutes, Doug! You’ll be in NYC by 10 am! 07) This one doesn’t look too fresh. 08) Ok, Douglas, you can come out, if you are ready to behave! 09) But Herman! When you said I was canned, I thought you meant fired!
(Below) One day John bought a fish eye lens for his camera…
(Above) Jimmy Vanover as Emilio Lizardo.
(Above) Doug Drexler as Bazooka Joe’s pal Mort.
(Above) Fritz Zimmerman as Gina Lolabrigida.
(Below) Who could resist taking this picture? Herman would take the art department to lunch, across the street at Lucy’s El Adobe. On the way back this happenstance bit of serendipitously funny business presented itself.
(Below left) Alan Kobayashi mocked up this Weekly World News style paper for my birthday (surely the best of times!). (Right) I brought this cartoon in one day and Denise went wild over it, taking it to the wall by her desk. Hey! that looks like me on the blog the other day!
(Below) Jim? Just what is it you are trying to say?
(Below) My turn at Bat. This isn’t what it looks like. Laura Richarz, every Halloween, would go out and buy decorations for the art department. I took a shine to the inflatable bat, but no matter how hard I tried, I just could not blow that polyurethane, imitation of a winged rodent to it’s full inflated potential. Do they make Enzyte for Bats? I’m batting a thousand today! Sheesh!
This is the kind of stuff that makes me wish I wasn’t too lazy to get a job
Oww! I’m surprised John Eaves still talks to you after treating him like that! LOL!
Did he ever get you back?
Love it!
The term “gookie” was first introduced to me (as a kid of the early ’90s) by the Animaniacs. That show was fantastic at introducing classic showbiz routines to kids and working great nods for the adults into it! I still love it when I watch it today
Doug that is what you get for trying to inflate Die Flatedmaus ……
5 BIG plastic bins? Really?? Not to mention what’s stowed away on your hard drives!
I wish I worked for the Star Trek art department! (sniff sniff!!)
I think Doug-in-a-Box was great! Put me down for Caption 3 (haha!)
Yuk Foo!
Hahaha! Looks like fun!! Now the guy on the bench? You can’t write that kind of comedy. Timing like that just doesn’t happen every day!
Good stuff Doug! Glad you got a morning to sleep in!
Hey Doug, in that second photo, on the wall, the picture with Roddenberry and some of the cast….do you have that? I’d love to see a scan of it. I’m trying to remember if it’s one of the books I have, but I might be thinking of a similar image, not this one.
Caption 10) Ooh, Wack-a-Doug, my favorite! Where’s my rubber mallet?
11) Getting any inspiration on the Super Mario inspired episode yet, Doug?
12) Aw, you guys always know just what to get me for my birthday! What do I feed ‘im?
Doug, always trust your instincts. Your subconscious seems to know what it’s doing.
I knew John doesn’t have hair, but I’d say that’s the least of his concerns in the head department!!
Lots of fun stuff, and hopefully we’ll see more in the future!
13) See I told you they would fit a body….
Wow, I’m really envious, Doug. I’d have loved to have worked there with you guys, even with the less pleasant craziness that sometimes happened.
And I lol’d at Yuk Foo.
Is that a shuttlebay in the picture behind you?
I vote for caption #02…
I need to get a fish’s-eye lens for my camera, unfortunately I’ve never seen any cheap ones…
Overall, funny pictures. I wish I had a job like that…
Doug, I wish I was in YOUR art department!!
These are the best posts Doug. You kids always look like you are having so much fun! And I have to admit I would give up one of my kidneys for some of the stuff you folks had plastered on the walls. It’s not just about having fun. It is also about scoping out all the treasure that can be seen floating around in the background. (And don’t get me wrong. You people are treasures too. I am just referring to the graphic ones!)
And speaking of picture five… can you direct me to where I can order my own Doug. I think he would be ever so much fun at parties. Does he eat much? Is it housebroken? Or is he like sea monkeys and I will be disappointed after I add the water?
You gotta tell me that you guys had someone hide in the container and jump out, surprising people?
And with the bat, did you tape it to you and you run around screaming, “Get it off!”?
Hey Farva what’s the name of that restaurant you like with all the goofy shit on the walls and the mozzarella sticks?
My vote is for caption #9.
This stuff is too funny, reminds me so of a bunch of guys I worked with a few years back.
Thanks for the laughs Doug
Caption 11:
“Ohhhh, Doug soup.” “Hey, do we have a microwave big enough for this?”
Oh, all too good, that’s “the stuff” eh, but that bear, OMG. LMAO!
And now that I met him in person, that look on John’s face; priceless.
Thanks Doug, you knows I likes me the money-shines, eh.
If I have time I’ll look for me “gookie” pics. Lord knows there’s enough of ‘em in my family, much to my mom’s sometimes annoyance, LOL.
Douglas E. Graves, can’t I just have ONE handsome picture of you, ever?!
Awww, Mom…, where’s the fun in bein’ handsome?
But OK…, snap another one…
Pose
Set
Good… hold that smile… wait… almost… (what is it with moms, they always take FORever to take a pic, LOL), just about…
- Gookie! -
*Click*
Douglas!!!
Run away…
LLP,
deg
Oops, money-shines = MONKEY-shines, eh.
Oot, oot… oot?
PLL,
deg
Hadda do it. Printed out that bear, and added it to me studio decor. C wants one for her work too. I don’t know how that will go over in a eight-grade class though. Most kids will get it and love it, but there’s always that one straight-laced kid with no warped sense of humor that will squeal at home to their parents, and that will cause an uproar.
Best just to enjoy it here, Honee.
Thanks Doug!
LLP,
deg
deg, If you need it higher rez, let me know.
Find a couple of those gookies, deg. Doug said he’ll post ‘em, and I’m sure the many followers he has would just love to see ‘em!!
Thanks, Doug, but the file was a pretty good size when I opened the original in a new window, so I’m good, but thanks eh. You’re aces, bud.
It’s on my screen-saver as well. And I sent it to my bro and another warped sicko bud, that I know would “get” its brand of humor.
My mom would be aghast.
I remember I sent her this link to this on-line test of; How many 5 year olds could you take in a fight?
She was like, Oh my word, can you even imagine? Who would even ever think to think of that?
I was like, Mom, it’s a joke. It’s a sick joke, right up my alley, so I’d think you’d get that by NOW, but it’s not real, Mom.
I still don’t get it, Douglas.
Oh Mom…
Here you guys go (I know you want to test yourself), I knocked off 38 myself. Yeah.
http://www.howmanyfiveyearoldscouldyoutakeinafight.com/
I’ll look when I get some time De.
LLP,
deg
24 for me.
I’m such a girl! I can only take 18.
HA!!
Oh cool, there’s a new one with 90 years old, too!
http://www.howmany90yearoldscouldyoutakeinafight.com/
I got: YOU COULD TAKE 41 NINETY YEAR OLDS IN A FIGHT!
Same peeps used to have a, Would you survive a Zombie Attack? test too. But I can’t seem to find it.
I remember, I got killed as it asked if you would leave your safe-house to go out and get a stranded love one across town. I’d HAVE to go get C, but I died because of it. Better to have tried, eh. Wonder what happened to her? Hope she made it through.
Stupid zombies. Choke on my brain, stupid zombie.
LLP,
deg
Alright, go guys! Now, see how you do against the geezers, eh!
PLL,
deg
Oh man…….
Every time I notice that lil’ kill-bear pop up (it just did) on my rotating pic desktop on my ‘puter to my left, I just bust out laughing… OMG.
Oh man……. Ut, he’s gone now, but he’ll be back…, just like Arnold, to kill everybody, eh.
LLP,
deg