#leap dave williams

[barrymccaulkinem]

"Leap Day" - 30 Rock

directed by Steve Buscemi, aired 2012

[elphabaoftheopera]

another leap year another year of people not understanding my 30 Rock reference

Anyway the spirit of Leap Dave Williams be with us all today 💛💙

[abuddyforeveryseason]

Awww, how cute, Buddy's girlfriend's proposing to him. As we know, a guy can't say no to a marriage proposal from a girl on Leap Day. But, just in case he decides to break with tradition, she's proposing on top of a cliff (easy to push people off of), so he'd better say yes.

According to Douglas Adams, that little tree growing under the cliff is called a "grimmet".

I had planned on drawing 366 different pictures from the beginning, even if it wasn't a leap year, so I guess I lucked out.

And of course, everyone's favorite Leap Day movie is showing on repeat.

You know, speaking of woman making marriage proposals, I've been watching a show which features spinsters, and the ladies on the show are the stereotypical old maids who want nothing more than to get married, falling in love with even the most mediocre of men. And it feels that, even for the time, it's just wish fulfilment from the part of the male writers. Sure, the old maids might not be too attractive (though, TV being what it is, they're far from ugly), but I think a lot of men would want nothing more than to marry a religious virgin who'd be his homemaker despite his obvious flaws.

And in the real world, women who chose not to marry had a very rough life ahead of them. Even if it wasn't illegal for a woman to choose to stay single, it was immoral according to most religions, the woman would have trouble supporting herself, and would be targeted by all sorts of violence, from literal witch-hunters to random criminals who see a person who'd have a harder time defending herself.

So, in a society where women were pressured into marriage, a woman who refused to do so was a real outlier. And fiction adopted a "sour grapes" stance on the matter, portraying any adult woman who's never married as being desperate to do so - and always out of loneliness or romantic passion, never out of a practical need to survive. And that'd let the male viewers enjoy the fantasy world where even an unattractive, unsuccessful and unintelligent man has the option of marrying a submissive virgin if only he can look past her age.

[writebackatya]

Watching a timeless holiday classic in honor of Leap Day

[thelassoway]

Leap Dave Williams (2012)

Uptight lawyer Dave Williams turns into the real Leap Day William after an ice fishing trip gone awry.

[picturebookshelf]

LeapFrog: Casey Cat Has A Hat (2010)

Story: Rozanne Lanczak Williams -- Art: Don Williams & Dave Walston

[oysters-aint-for-me]

*full title does not fit: "a dog took my face and gave me a better face to change the world: the celeste cunningham story"

to vote on your favorite fake TV SHOW from 30 rock, go here!

[balioc]

Holiday Engineering: Leap Dave Williams

S6E9 of 30 Rock, "Leap Day," provides us with a fascinating and valuable artifact from a holiday-engineering perspective: an invented, made-from-scratch festival that is designed to feel like a real and successful festival that already has legs.

...this is rare. The people who invent new holidays are usually in the vanguard of new social/cultural/ideological movements, and they're usually doing so with an eye towards their immediate circumstances and their immediate goals; they want to Make a Statement about their favorite principles, they want to appeal to the idiosyncrasies of their most devoted fellow-travelers, often they want to promote group cohesion and insularity, etc. You don't often get people creating stuff from whole cloth while asking, "how would this work if it were already fully embedded in society and treated like a normal holiday?"

For that you have to turn to fiction. And most fictional holidays, I've found, are not very well-thought-out. But 30 Rock's weird bizarro-world version of Leap Day is...surprisingly impressive, and would-be holiday engineers can learn something from it. It's pretty stripped-down and basic, as you'd expect from a festival made up for one 30-minute episode of television that's mostly about something else. But there's some real there there. I think you could actually observe the holiday-as-written, without adding content, and people would get something out of it. Certainly, with a little embellishment, you could get something good.

(We're going to discount the part where there's, allegedly, a cheesy holiday movie where Jim Carrey learns the true meaning of Leap Day. That kind of thing is great if you can actually swing it, but you can't, so it doesn't help.)

Theme. This is honestly the holiday's biggest weakness, but even so, it's better than you might expect. The message is: "Leap Day is for taking a leap! Do something bold, something new, something unexpected!" Which is punchy and resonant. The problem, of course, is that it's not observable in a ritual context. You can't be in the proper Leap Day spirit without thinking outside the box, and holidays are all about providing a box in which you can stay for a little while. To do the Leap Day thing, you have to make reference to the particular contours of your own individual life, which is the opposite of how festivals work. But everyone can probably think of some way in which "making a leap" would be meaningful for him, so OK.

The flip side is that, because Leap Day is such a necessarily-individualist holiday in concept, it makes sense for the observances to be so minimalist. There's no Leap Day Festive Family Meal, and thus no traditions surrounding such a thing, but...that makes sense, right? You're not supposed to spend Leap Day going home to eat with your family, you're supposed to do something crazy.

Timing. Also kind of unfortunate. Once-every-four-years is not enough observance to build up resonance and holiday feeling. You're probably going to experience only four Leap Days over the course of your childhood and adolescence, when you're building your deep-seated associations, and each time the memories of the last one are going to be very fuzzy. Ah, well, it's baked into the core concept, nothing to be done.

Mythology. Every four years, Leap Day William emerges from the Marianas Trench to exchange candy for children's tears. And you know what? That's solid. It's a very simple story, but it's memorable, and you can riff on it.

Activities. You pretend to cry so that people will give you candy. Again, simple but solid. Easy-to-perform, but very distinctive. For a holiday that mostly can't be ritualized by its very nature, it's probably good to have a two-second ritual easy-peasy ritual to remind you that 'Tis the Season.

Symbols. You're supposed to wear blue and yellow. Garish, but that's the holidays for you. It's as distinctive a color palette as Christmas's. And if you don't wear blue and yellow, people get to pull your hair (or kick you in the shins) (or something). I have a strong personal dislike for the St. Patrick's Day-esque "enforcement of sartorial holiday norms via cheeky physical violence" thing, and I'd encourage aspiring holiday engineers not to include that kind of content on moral grounds, but -- from an amoral design perspective, it's great, it uses base human instincts to turn people into propagators of Proper Holiday Spirit.

Traditional food (sweets). Everyone loves candy. If want to add some cheap zing to your holiday, find a way to incorporate giving people candy. It's better to have a distinctive and memorable holiday food, but that's difficult and may not be appropriate. Candy is super easy and there's almost always an excuse for it.

[bearterritory]

PALO ALTO – California track & field ended its regular season in tremendous fashion this week, picking up a more-than-decisive victory on the men's side at the 129th Big Meet by demolishing Stanford at Cobb Track and Angell Field by a margin of 114-48, its largest point differential since 1992. The men also picked up two meet records courtesy of NCAA leader Rowan Hamilton (hammer, 74.46m/244-3) and the 4x100m relay quartet of Chase Williams, George Monroe, Mason Mangum and David Foster (39.46); both were previously owned by the Cardinal, with Hamilton's surpassing Dave Popejoy's 1995 mark by over four meters.   The win from Hamilton capped off the Golden Bears' first podium sweep of the day, which included Ivar Moisander's second-place mark of 68.29m (224-0) and Michael Gupta's third-place 64.57m (211-10); the latter, a personal-best, moved Gupta up to No. 7 in program history. Cal also scored all nine points in the men's pole vault thanks to Will Siemens (4.77m/15-7.75), Parker Terrill (4.77m/15-7.75) and David Brok (4.47m/14-8), then repeated that feat in the discus, where Justin Wirtz's third-place 52.53m/172-4 followed massive personal bests from Nick Godbehere (53.85m/176-8) and Charlie Dang (53.58m/175-9). The decathlete trio of Seth Johnson, Luke Buddie and Riley Knott also went 1-2-3, in that order, in both the 110m hurdles and the javelin; in the hurdles, Johnson's victory came at a time of 14.86 to Buddie's personal-best 15.12 and Knott's 15.16, while the javelin contest resulted in 54.57m (179-0) for Johnson, 52.48m (172-2) for Buddie and 51.51m (169-0) for Knott. One final men's sweep came in the 100m, where Foster (10.25) led Williams (10.39) and Monroe (10.39) to another nine points for Cal.   Other wins for Cal's men came in the long jump (Mangum, 7.66mw/25-1.75), the high jump (Jai Williams, 2.07m/6-9.5), the 400m (Isaiah Shaw, 46.76), the 800m (Iyan Godwin, 1:54.26), the 400m hurdles (Aiden Baker, 52.97), the 200m (Foster, 21.16 – PR) and the 4x400m (Shaw/Godwin/Johnson/Josh Keller, 3:13.23).   In the women's competition, the Cardinal broke a three-year Cal winning streak, taking the win with a score of 90-72. Senior Amari Turner earned Cal's third meet record of the day in the pole vault, surpassing the 2011 mark set by Stanford's Katerina Stefanidi with a winning leap of 4.35m (14-3.25).

Turner's result highlighted one of three podium sweeps on the women's side, with Kylie Hilton (4.07m/13-4.25) and Ali Sahaida (3.97m/13-0.25) rounding out the pole vault top three. Cal also earned that distinction in the 100m hurdles – with Jazlynn Shearer's 13.52 beating out a 13.53 from Jada Hicks and a 14.17 from Mari Testa – and the women's hammer, where Jasmine Blair's 60.47m (198-4) led Adrianna Coleman's 56.54m (185-6) and Destiny Okoh's 56.47m (185-3). Blair later picked up another win in the discus, where she improved her PR (and program No. 2 mark) by over a meter to 59.60m (195-6).   Cal's women took home three more field event victories. The shot put contest landed in favor of Caisa-Marie Lindfors, who posted a throw of 15.18m (49-9.75) for the win, while Myla Canty out-leapt the field in the triple jump (12.19m/40-0) and Carolina Visca out-threw her competition in the javelin (50.03m/164-1).   "I think all of our kids competed to the best of their ability," Director of Track & Field/Cross Country Robyne Johnson said. "Credit to Stanford's women – they were the better team today. Our guys did a really good job, really showed up. I think we can do something special at the Pac-12 Championships."  

[lizardsfromspace]

Huh, is USA not doing their Leap Dave Williams marathon this year?

[severingt]

Summertime Hits Show 6th July 2012

All Summer Long - Beach Boys

Crazy In Love - Beyonce & Jay Z

Faith - George Michael

Almost Saturday Night - Dave Edmunds

All The Way From Memphis - Mott The Hoople

Warwick Avenue - Duffy

This Kiss - Faith Hill

Umbrella - Rihanna

You Belong With Me - Taylor Swift

Dancin on a Saturday Night - Barry Blue

Rehab - Amy Winehouse

Piece of my Heart - Beverly Knight

Need You Now - Lady Antebellum

Everybodys Free - Rozalla

December 63 - Four Seasons

Burning Love - Elvis Presley  

Beach Baby - First Class

Tiger Feet - Mud

With or Without You - U2

Rolling In the Deep - Adele

Poker Face - Lady GaGa

Let Me Entertain You - Robbie Williams

Leap Up and Down (Wave Your Knickers In The Air) - St Cecilia

I'm Yours - Jason Mraz

I Shot The Sherriff - Eric Clapton

I Love Rock'n'Roll - Arrows

Human - Killers

Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol

Hey Baby - Bruce Channel

Beautiful - Christina Aguilera

That's Why God Made The Radio - Beach Boys

[aestheticvoyage2024]

Day 229: Friday August 16, 2024 - "This was 37 Months"

Favorite Food: Meat/steak, now that he is 99% weaned, but nothing will come close to the Cherry Icee at the Twins game

Favorite Song:  getting Alexa to play ABC by Jackson 5 and Choo Choo Train song by Patty Shukla on Spotify, growing up with AI

Favorite Book: Charlie Chooses, and In Charge of Moonlight on Audible

Favorite Show: Paw Patrol Movie

Favorite Toy(s): Blue Angle Airplane and Toy Train Engines from Mackinaw

Best Phrase/ Word: Major leap in his sentence structure, vocabulary, and making conversation; saying all kinds of funny things "Hey What's Goin On Here?" "Are you kiddin me?" "Actually..." Recalling stories and telling his experiences. I love you so much is still the best thing to hear from William.

Favorite Favorite: Big Summer Adventure, Tagging Flagstaff, Phoenix, Dallas, Michigan, and a road trip stop in Minneapolis for a Twins game, and Omaha Zoo. Also his Green Bike Upgrade and learning to ride it in may new places especially at Big Papa's New Home.

Least Favorite: Being away from his Huckleberry while on summer vacation. And his new developed fear of monsters in the night and needing reassurance that they are not there with a flashlight. And leaving Mr Pete's class.

Big First/Moment: 23 total states visited after this summer's ramble, 9 MLB ballparks (MN Twins), Visited the Geographical Center of USA, Upgraded to the Green Bike and tried pedals, 99% weaned off mama milk, completed PrePrimary Montessori, Crossing Mackinac Bridge and visiting Mackinac Island.

Song: Sam & Dave - Hold On, Im Comin

Quote: "When fisherman can't go to sea, they repair nets. In simple terms, even if youre not doing your main thing, always do something which relates to your main thing." ~Steve Jobs

This was 36 months This was 35 Months This was 34 Months This was 33 Months This was 32 months This was 31 months This was 30 months This was 29 months This was 28 months This was 27 Months This was 26 months This was 25 months This was 24 Months This was 23 Months This was 22 Months This was 21 Months This was 20 Months This was 19 months This was 18 months This was 17 months This was 16 months This was 15 months This was 14 months This was 13 months This is 12 Months This is 11 months This was 10 months This was 9 months This was 8 months This was 7 months This was 6 months This was 5 months

[breadknight-likes-things]

Remember Everyone: Nothing That Happens On Leap Day Counts!

Real life is for March!

[juniorcaptain]

Happy Leap Day from 30 Rock!

[jaymesbuckman]

It's at this time of year when I reaffirm my craving for an actual Leap Dave Williams film, but at least this February saw Jim Carrey be hilarious in a big movie again. It's been too long. The last Jim Carrey movie I remember seeing in theatres was "The Number 23", which also came out in February, but beyond its emphasis on a particular number, it had nothing else in common with "Leap Dave Williams". Despite my lifelong love for Jim, I had no designs on seeing it, but I was dragged over by some friends. And I might have been on mushrooms. It was a bad time.

But you know what wouldn't be? "Leap Dave Williams".

And you know what wasn't? "Sonic the Hedgehog".

[notwiselybuttoowell]

Better get going to make the most of it! Though I suggest cherry picking.