Author: UncleLar

The head orphan and eldest surviving member of the Fall Family Clan.
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Keep your fingers crossed for me…

I dread the opening of the new school year. It’s the time that I am most vulnerable to coming down with something. All I can figure it that all the kids coming back from PSU from their summer vacation bring new bugs back with them. Classes started two weeks ago and sure enough I’m battling (hope it’s not swine flu).

Two of the last three years I managed to dodge a bullet by basically shutting down doing much of anything once I sense something coming on (usually it’s with a slight cough, throat tingle, or nasal congestion). Of course, last year, not only didn’t I dodge the bullet but I got hit with a cannonball.

I’m in shutdown mode now. I’m battling a tingly throat along with a slight cough. Knock on wood that it doesn’t explode into another asthma bout (or worse).

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“Whiteout”

Warner Brothers has a movie coming out this September called Whiteout. Some one has taken the trailer for the movie and turned it into a video hyping Penn State’s upcoming football season.

Here’s the PSU version of “Whiteout”

I’ll say one thing for the PSU football program. They really know how to turn an night football game into an experience. This year’s designated Whiteout game will be against Iowa at 8PM on September 26th. Several of my Iowa friends are coming in for the game and I’m very much looking forward to it.

Here’s a link to the original movie trailer.

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Does this look like fun or what?

This is Erin, a friend of mine that I met on one of my Wisconsin trips. We’ve kept in touch through the years. She’s a pilot for Republic Airlines, doing commuter hops around the Midwest but recently decided to get a different perspective of flying.

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The Tidal Wave – the best bar shot ever?

Spent the weekend in Dewey Beach DE where the latest rage in bar shots is the “Tidal Wave”.

Here’s a video I shot of a bunch of Santa Clauses (more on that later) doing Tidal Waves (yes I did one too but I couldn’t videotape myself) at the Starboard in Dewey.

The shot can be anything that you’d like, it’s the water in the face that gives it the name. The shot was taking the bar by storm and people were lining up to have water thrown in their faces

OK – now the Santa suits story.

There’s a group in Philly that sponsor’s their version of a Santa Claus bar tour (similar to the one that I run in State College but on a slightly grander scale). Their tour is called the “Running of the Santas”.

“Rudolph’s Revenge” is their July version of the Santa Run. It’s a bus/ferry trip from Sea Isle City NJ to Dewey Beach that departs Friday night and returns on Sunday with the centerpiece of the trip being the Revenge Party at the Starboard.

Here are a couple of photo’s I took at the Starboard during the Rudolph’s Revenge party.

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Next year I might bring my Santa costume, or I might try the Starboard’s Dewey Beach version of Pamplona’s “Running of the Bulls” festival instead – or maybe both.