If you’ve yet to watch this surreal 7-minute interview of Ralphy “LOOK AT ME!!” Nader .please treat yourself to a larf or 3 and then join me below the fold for a re-cap and analysis of one of the funniest videos I have ever seen.

(And don’t feel bad if you’ve never seen it; I only saw it last week for the 1st time) (more…)

The question I am most commonly asked,

So, where are you headed next?

has had a twinge of ouch to it for a while now. Despite the fact that our project is all about world travel, it’s coming up
on 2 years since I departed on my most recent journey abroad, the journey that comprises this 1st installment of TLP. How the time has zinged by like that is beyond me. I guess making a movie is a lot of work.

Let’s see, there was 3 months of shooting, 4-5 months of editing, 2-3 months of writing, a couple months
or screening and re-writing, a month of recording the narration & many months of polishing. Lost in that is the waiting. Oh, the waiting. Let’s call it “many months”. And when all you wanna do it return to beautiful place like this,

patience is tough.

At long last, weeks after the work was completed, the postal service actually delivered the DVD which contains our final sound mix. It was a painful exercise in patience. But fortunately, I have been quite busy with other things (see previous posts) and Marc was out of the country most of that time, so it hardly mattered.

Now let’s see if we can get everything synched up, compressed, burned onto a new DVD, sent out to TV networks, & sold!

And, no, I’m not talking about this picture:

But rather the evolution of “The Laughing Planet” as illustrated by our logo. Prepare for a pictorial journey about how

THIS became THIS

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