Hello all!

Well, if you’re a fan of Harry Potter you’re really going to enjoy this weeks post! And if you’re not a Harry Potter fan you’re STILL going to enjoy this weeks post!

Some of you have heard the story already but for those who haven’t I’ll fill you in. During the opening night of the book release, my partner in crime CJ and I went to Books-A-Million to see what all the hub-bub was about.

These video post, I’ll be bringing to you this week all came from that night. Each one shouldn’t last more than over 2 minutes each and are all hilarious!

I know some of you have been requesting them for weeks so I finally got around to doing it. And starting tomorrow…. Harry-Potter-Nomicon begins!!!

Late FFF

I spent 45 minutes this morning trying to get this stupid post put up on blogger.

I'm tired of writing.

I just got in from another long day, I'm going to bed, it's been a busy week.

But not busy enough for a quick FFF!!!

Do you know what the channel ESPN stands for?!

Every Sports Possible Network

Wild huh? I thought it'd be a lot cooler than that. Guess that's why they just give you the abbreviation only these days.

OK, goodnight and have a grand weekend!

Can't wait I see?

I just posted this to my YouTube account and before I could even post the link I found out it's already been viewed 5 times?! Holy Crow! What are you people doing?! Sitting around waiting anxiously for the next video to come out?

My, my, what avid fans.

This is a bit of footage I thought had been deleted from my camera by accident. I'm happy to say that I found a little snippit of it for your enjoyment.

Tony my friend, I'm sorry it got cut out. It was really a sweet clip and I'm very sad we didn't get it all. Oh well. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hblohBmzwJw

Video's anyone?

So I've gotten only a couple dozen e-mails the past few weeks asking about new video posts. Well guess what folks? They're finally here. Oh wait! Hold on! You're getting 3 full weeks of them too!! 3 a week for the next 2 weeks! WA-HOO!!

This first one comes from Beauty and the Beast. It was filmed for the "Behind the Scene's" DVD but was never released, enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgSFjlhS8Yc

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Well, I'm back.

It's so good to be back home folks!

I had a wonderful time and thank everyone up in Idaho for it, but now it's time to get back to business!

My new position starts today as well as my return to the "Footloose" cast. Big day, big day indeed. I do hope everyone made it thru the week here without me. I will try to get around to those videos this week. I can't promise anything right now but I will be giving it an effort!

As for the strips, those will return as well, I've written several more during my vacation and can't wait to have them posted up here! I'm glad a lot of you loved the last series, I have to admit the idea had me chuckling for weeks.

Ok, I'm off to work. See you all tomorrow.

It's really good to be back!

Suprise?

Hi folks,

I'm on vacation in Idaho this week so there will be no posts. Sorry for not telling you all earlier but I wanted it to be a suprise and indeed it has been for quite a few!

I also got a promotion at work too that I'm proud to announce starts the moment I get back from here.

So have a great week folks and we'll see you next week with more fun on the way!

Chow!

Frenzy FFF

I'm a little beat but let's see what I can whip up for you here real quick.

Did you know Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong both died on their birthdays? How wild is that?! Oh wait... do you even know who Louis Armstrong or Telly Savalas is? Hmmm... forget it.

First off I'd like to apologize for everyone who hasn't received any e-mails from me this week. It's really been a tough week for me. I have to be honest. Life is... busy. But in a good way! I'm working on delivering some very exciting news in the near future but for right now it'll have to wait till the "Monday Morning Me" post.

Let's talk about other things shall we? Life is great, what can I say, it doesn't get any better than this. Things at work are awesome as always. I set up my 360 yesterday but can't figure out how to hook it up to my sound system yet. (something I may work on tomorrow) I put in my NCAA College Football game I just bought for it, watched the tutorial and put it right back in it's box to gather dust.

It's WAY to out of my league. I have NO idea how to play this game because it is so different from anything else I've ever played. I guess my only choice will be to trade it in for a 3rd of it's cost in exchange for some money off Halo 3. Which looks to be the only game I'll be playing it for.
(and all the sudden my 360 is not so special after all)

That was sad I can't deny. But I did hook up the old GameCube and play Mario Kart Double-Dash for the first time. It's a really fun game I just bought and I really like it.

OK. This is turning into an MMM already! I'd better stop while I'm ahead. Hey folks, have an awesome weekend.

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360

Guess what I have? An X-Box 360 Elite!! Yes, yes, some of you recieved my text message over the weekend about it but I'm still excited about it today. I'm hoping to hook it up and start playing it sometime this week.

Let me see... besides that I don't think much else went on. I had a fabulous time visiting my grandparents in Mobile AL and now I'm ready to start the new week.

How was ya'lls?

The Hitch

Everyone know of Alfred Hitchcock right? Well, here's an interesting fact about the man. Did you know he didn't have a belly button?

Nope. True story! They sewed it up after surgery. Can you believe that? The poor man never experienced the joys of belly button lint!?

Not that I would know of any joys belly button lint would get you in the first place.

It's been a grand week. I hope you all have felt the same. I am trying to get those videos up but I haven't had the time. Thru a million request, I'm trying to read the final Harry Potter book myself so that "everybody" can talk to me about it.

I plan on finishing it sometime next week so after that I should have the time to complete the videos.

Ok folks that's all for now. Take care and have a wonderful weekend!

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Monday Morning Me

Today the MMM is all about Me. (as always)

As some of you already know, CJ, Caleb and I went on an excursion thru Books-a-Million in search of Harry Potter nerds last Friday night. (and boy did we hit the jackpot) Now the video footage we took of it WAS extremely hilarious but I'm not sure if I'll have time to beak it down into video posts for this week or not. Believe me I'll do everything I can to but as things look right now, I just don't have the time.

Now another video I've been dying to post is a deleted "behind the scenes" clip of Beauty and the Beast. I think it's hilarious but need to find out which tape it's on first. (I have 3 full ones with no titles on them. I'll try to search for that too.

Ok, hope everyones weekend was as eventful as mine. Some of the things that happened to me this weekend I don't think any of you would believe but overall I have to say, it was an adventure!

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The FFF word

Fun Fact Friday is all about “word” knowledge this week folks!

Did you know “underground” is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters “und”?

And according to the Oxford dictionary the longest word is “pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis”

The longest place name still in use a hill in New Zealand called “taumatawbakatangihangakoauaotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokiawhenuakita”

And the only word in the English language that uses just one vowel 6 times is the word “Indivisibility”

Also the words “Facetious” and abstemious” are the only 2 in the English language that use all the vowels in order.

Oh and wanna know what the 2nd longest word is? “antidisestablishmenterianism”
Ha! Not even close to being first right?

Sorry about going so long without a post folks. I plan on making it up to everyone with a Saturday post of the comic strip. I’ll try not to let it happen again!

C-ya!

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Coming Soon...

The Special Edition DVD of our Beauty and the Beast play is one step closer to it’s completion! CJ and I just laid the commentary tracks for everything last night. I have to warn you, it’s a little crazy.

But I do have some information on DVD that isn’t very good. Cuts. They can’t put our “behind the scenes” footage on it or our “Christopher Award Skit” either. They even lost the “secret ending” footage we shot on our last day. So it won’t be as awesome of first conceived.

But I am thinking about posting some of the “behind the scenes” footage for everyone on the blog one week so you’ll get to see a portion of the humor we had in store.

Nothing else new to report but Footloose I guess. No word on what part I’ll play in it yet but rumor is I’m not getting a part at all. Just chorus. Ahh… and my 15 minutes are up like that!

Freezing FFF

So get this. In every place around the world there is an dialing code. Did you know that even Antarctica has one?! Yeah. It's 672

So if you ever want to call your friend in Antarctica there you go! Who lives there anyway? Sure I've heard of expeditions out there but has anyone set up a house and started living there?

Maybe some poor sap hear lives down in South America near the equator said "Honey, let's move some place where it's cooler!"

Do you think the penguins from Happy Feet still live there? I bet they do. Yep, singing penguins... who'd have known! It's way too cold for us to ever find out! Though I doubt they sing young teeny-bopper beats like they did in the movies.

Nah. I bet if penguins really could sing and dance it's be to disco music if anything else. Oh yeah... disco pen-guin-go fever is sweeping the continent!

But you'll have to dial 672 if you want to talk to them yourself.

Have a great weekend folks!

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Let me explain

Here's a picture some of you saw of me in the paper yesterday. I was at the auditions for Footloose and the NewsStar was there taking pictures. I had no idea they were actually going to put this one in there though.

I had a few people ask me what was so funny off to the side but I think it was Rick and I just laughing with Tony who was standing off to the side. Man look at Kim... she's really bearing down on that paper ain't she?

Anyway, the audition went well. I was the best male actor there.... I was the only male actor there. (Rick just came to hang out) I'll know which role I got tomorrow, but yes. I'm in the play.

Hope everyone's weekend went as well as mine!

FFF once again!

Time for Fun Fact Friday once again! This time it has a little "stooge" with it! Everyone knows who the 3 Stooges are. (I hope) but did you know that out of the six of them (Moe, Larry, Curly, Shemp, Joe, and Curly Joe) That 3 of them were actual brothers!?!

Moe, Curly and Shemp. I don't know about you, but I never knew that!

This week has been awesome. Really. Work is at it's best right now my time is really doing well. I've played Mario Kart so much this week that I'm actually starting to have dreams of racing down Rainbow Road. People have been asking about when new pictures would be popping up and I must say it has been a while. I'll see what I can do.

Oh, but here's a cool thing. Look up "Matt Wilkins" on Google and guess who's site pops up first? Yep. That's right! Mine!! (yes, I "google" me)

Thanks for your patience on me answering your e-mails. It's just been a crazy week and I haven't had the time to respond to them all like I usually do. But I promise it'll get better!

Everyone have a great weekend, I love you all!!

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Another week

Ok. I'm done with "As You Like It" so finally my week nights should be getting back to normal very soon.

I wasn't able to get a recording of my performance like I wanted. So no video posts of that play. Sorry. I tried.

Doesn't matter much anyway because I was hardly in it in the first place to make a difference.

Oh well. I have a new comic strip this week which should run for the next month or so. I think it's really funny and if you don't enjoy it as well.... then don't bother checking my blog again till September.

Thanks for all the e-mails these past few weeks. I promise I'll get around to answering each one ASAP now that my nights aren't tied up.

Now, with that all being said ONWARD WITH THE WEEK!

Penny for your thoughts?

Did you know that if you toss a penny 10,000 up in the air that it will not be head 5000 times but only 4950? That's because of the weight distribution on the coin. The head weighs more and that makes it more likely to fall on the bottom making tails the most common victor!

I wonder how they found that out though. Please don't tell me government research and money was wasted on this fact. And 10,000 times?! I bet it was a couple of bored college students, what do you think?

Off to work!

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As You Like It

Well this weekend we started our new play "As You Like It" to a warm welcome by audiences. Thanks to all of you who came to see it and for the rest who haven't yet, we're performing it again at the park for 2 nights next week so you're most welcome indeed to show up!

I hope to get some video footage of the play for next weeks posts. It's been a long weekend (of course) and I'm in a constant state of "worn out". Maybe I can get to bed by 8 tonight? (I'm getting old!)

Getting Popular?

The FFF is attracting more and more attention every week I see! Well, well, I'd better start making them more interesting as time goes on then!

So what should I tell you about today?

Did you know Charlie Brown's father was actually a barbar!?

What about the most common name in all the world is?

Can you guess?

Bob? Nope.

John. No.

Muhammed? Uh... actually... yeah. Wild isn't it?

That's all for now. Have a great weekend folks!

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MMM

Time for another Monday Morning Me today!

Well, it's been a rough weekend. I'm so tired I don't think I'll ever catch up on sleep! We had our final performances of Beauty and the Beast this weekend and they all went well. "As You Like It" starts this weekend so all of our practices from here on out will be.... long. 6 am came very quickly to me this morning and I am so very tired from this weekend I want to go back to bed and sleep another 7 hours!

Oh well.

Hope everyone elses weekend went well. We start comic strips back once again tomorrow!

FFF what?

Time to explain again what the FFF stands for. It means "Friday's Fun Fact" I've been doing this so long that I keep forgetting we have many new readers everyday who don't have a clue of what I'm talking about so I thought I'd explain it once more.

Today's FFF is about the man above. Mark Twain. Yeah, yeah, he wrote a few famous books but you wanna know something real interesting? He was born in the year 1835. When Haley's Comet came into view. Then died in 1910... when Haley's Comet came back around. Wild huh?

Hope everyone has a great weelend. It's the last call for Beauty and the Beast and I'll be donning the Cogsworth outfit for the final time! Woo-Hoo!

If you had one ticket to a play of mine, which would you go see?
	Beauty and the Beast
	As You Like It
	High School Musical
	Footloose
	I would chuck the ticket and stay at home
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Ta-Daa!!!

Look at that good looking man in the tux on one knee. (to the right) Isn't he a darling!! This is a picture of me performing at the 75th Anniversary show last month. Oh, what a time what a time!

My A/C is back on so everything is good in the world once again! I'm getting ready for the encore presentation of Beauty and the Beast this week. Then for the next two weeks I'll be performing Shakespear's "As you like it" And in July I've been asked to take part in "High School Musical" over at the Rose theater in Ruston. I'm also told that I'll be in "Footloose" as well this September. (maybe I should start charging for these appearances, what do you think?

I'll do a poll tomorrow to decide!

Quick link

Sorry folks! No A/C has delayed my comic strip for the week. I have some "emergency" junk here I break out for such an occasion.

It seems a few of you have craftily found this link already. So I'll provide it openly now for everyone who may not have seen it yet.

It's the failed shooting of my short film I tried to make last year. What ya think?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld9asKiMnTw

No A/C!!!

I'm burning up in here! It's been an inferno all weekend at my house. They said they couldn't fix the A/C till later on today. I can't tell you how many pounds I've sweated off in the meantime!

Blah! Short post today is all you get!

FFFF (for Funny!)

So we've talked a little about laughter in this weeks strip but did you know laughter is actually good for you? Besides increases your mood it's also been proven to relieve stress hormones in the body as well as lower blood pressure.

Laughter's also a good way increasing the vascular blood flow throughout you body. In fact, some scientists estimate that laughing 100 times is equivalent to a 10-minute workout on a rowing machine, or to 15 minutes on a stationary exercise bike. Laughing exercises the diaphragm, as well as the abdominal, respiratory, facial, leg, and back muscles!

So you see?! My blog really IS good for your health!

You're welcome and enjoy your weekend folks.

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Monday Me

What a weekend! I hope yours went well. I spent mine visiting friends in Branson, MO this weekend and had an awesome time! Now it's back to work, push-push, shove-shove!
I'm glad you all liked the videos from last week. I'm planning on bringing a few more on the site this week before going back to the comic strips. Don't worry. This is only a temporary thing. I have some great comics coming up soon that I know you're all going to like!

And yes, it was my birthday last week. I never mentioned it because it really isn't as big a deal to me as it is other people. The only thing I ever do for my birthday every year is eat over at my mom and dad's, open presents, then go home for bed. The end. Poof! That's it.

But thank you for the hundreds of belated wishes and phone calls over the weeknd. They were much appreciated. Kudos to Kelly for being the only person to wish me "happy b-day" on the actual day of. (Oh, and Hollie... you ARE a terrible friend, but I'll keep you around all the same)

Ok folks, have a great week!

FFF frenzy!

Wow, what a week. I still carry a cough but the rest of my sickness is about done. This has probably been the 2nd worse I've ever been in my life. I'll just be glad when I finally kick the coughing to the side and I am 100% well again!

Now as for our FFF....

After my $5 bill FFF ya'll started e-mailing more questions to me about money. I didn't really answer any e-mails this week because I was sick but it changed my mind for today's FFF. Ok, a lot of you asked about the $1000 bill. Who was on it? Why president Cleveland of course. Do they still make them? No.





Those (as well as the $500 bills) are no longer in circulation. Yeah you could find one on ebay still I imagine but not at a bank. I'm not sure when they stopped making them but I believe it was around the mid 1946 and circulation for them ceased after 1969





So how big a bill did they actually make? Well Andrew Jackson actually graced the cover of a $10,000 bill once. Mainly used as a "gold certificate" but still it's pretty cool. They stopped making those in 1934.

Ok, I'm done for the week. Hey, just a thought here but what do you think about a few more video post for next week as well?

Here I am singing... awwww...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elCa2TTm2HQ

This one seemed to be a fan favorite.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGBEocbSw60

Told you I'd get around to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMMI_L9E2ZA

Down with the sickness

Can you believe I STILL can't beat this cold thing?! I've been up since 2 a.m. trying to get some sleep but I can hardly breathe!! Work was slow and neverending. It's even bothersome to talk to people I feel so miserable right now.

I'll see about posting the videos this week but right now I really don't feel up to it!

Looking for me?

Alright, time for the FFF. How cool is this…

Do you know where the term “The whole nine yards” comes from? Back during WWII when arming a fighter with .50 caliber ammo belts, the belt would measure exactly 27 feet long. So when the pilots fired at their target they went “the whole nine yards” and emptied their fuselage.

And you just thought it was a movie with Bruce Willis! Shame, shame!

PS- My heart goes out to little Mikie. Who got his face busted up while getting mugged this week. I feel so bad that I laughed uncontrollably when seeing the pictures. What can I say? His pain amuses me!

Have a great weekend folks!

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50/50

Whew, what a week! My car's been acting up. Seems a clamp isn't tight on my battery and I need to have the whole thing replaced this week. Shouldn't cost that much and I'm glad that was all that was wrong with it but still.

Being without my car is like being without clothes! I feel out of place. Stranded. Hopefully I'll only have to part with it for a day. But that's a day I can't live without. I hate bumming rides off people. But that's just me I guess.

I'm tempted to let it go as is for the moment. Just for a day! But I would be running a risk if I did. My "quick fix it" technique I used to keep it on shouldn't last more then a few days if at all. So I'd really be pushing it if I did it that way.

And why doesn't someone open up a 24/7 mechanic's shop. Imagine that. Having your car worked on overnight by people and being able to pick it up bright and early on your way to work the next day! I'd diffidently pay more that kind of service!

Ok folks, one last run of "Play Time" and I'll be done with the series. I've got some great ideas ready after that which I think you'll all like. Oh and don't worry. I haven't forgotten about the videos I promised. I should have them ready to go by next week. So be prepared.

Ok that's all for now!

FFF show me the money!

I showed this one to my employees this past week and was slightly suprised no one had realized it before. Get out a magnifying glass and a 5 dollar bill. Did you know that every state in the US is printed on the back? Look all across the top of that building and you'll see what I'm talking about. Pretty neat huh?

Speaking of the "mighty green" it's about time I went out there and made some! Have a great weekend folks!

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Encore!

Guess who’s coming back this June? Yep, that’s right folks! Just when you think it was all over the drag me back into the tights again! I can’t believe it. One good thing about this is my brother Jordan will get to see me in it and know that I am the “end all, be all” of theater. (heh heh)

Folks I won’t lie, it’s been a rough week but I’m ready to start a new one. Very soon I should have some videos up of the play due to a slight injury I haven’t felt up to cutting the film but will get back on the horse next week. I promise.

By the way, you people just want to see the clips of me dressed up in a clock suit right?

Thought so.

I'm sick

Sorry about all the delays lately, but I've been bad sick since yesterday with that cold/flu thing that's been going around and just haven't had the effort to post on the blog.

I'm getting better today I think. Nothing but aches and pains kept me up last night but I've taken a slight nap now and feel a little better. Hopefully I'll be 100% by tomorrow.

But that's no excuse to skip over this weeks FFF now, is it?

So let's talk about cars. Or better yet manufacturers. Did you know that the first Ford cars had Dodge engines in them? Or that Chrysler built the B-52's that bombed Japan and Mitsubishi built the "Zero's" that tried to shoot them down. By the way they're now owned by the same company if that's not weird huh?!

Have a good weekend folks!

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Nominated!

After a weekend of sold out perfomances the show has finally come to an end. Which means life will be back to normal at last for me! But look what I got in the mail this weekend? A letter from the theater saying I had been nominated in their awards show! However, if you'll read the entire letter I believe it was for "Best Supporting Actor" and NOT what they put down. Just read it and you'll see what I mean.

Hi-ho, hi-ho, it's off to work I go!

The FFF's of May

STAR WARS

Happy Star Wars day everyone!
Oh you didn't know that it was on May 4th? I guess that's just us Star Wars dorks who only know that sort of information. But let's see just how much you know about what's happened in the month of May throughout history.

In May of 1972 the New York Stock Exchanged opened
In May of 1911 we saw the first Indy 500
In May of 1931 the Empire State Building opened
And in May of 1980 Mount St Helen erupted.

George Lucas also has a birthday in May.... like me!

So pull out your lightsaber and assemble the stormtroopers because Star Wars day is officially on!!

(no I'm not dressing up in a Darth Vader costume for work)

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