• “LUKE, ARE YOU CARRIE?”

A new Luke Ski & Carrie Dahlby song at the FuMP!

First, Scooter Picnic did “Kyle, Are You Ian?”. Then, Devo Spice & Worm Quartet did “Devo, Are You ShoEboX?” Now, the great Luke Ski & Carrie Dahlby bring you “Luke, Are You Carrie?” Will this be a capper on a trilogy, or a continuation of a meme? Only time will tell. To do your own brain-switched team-up song, get the instrumental on the Sideshow. Lyrics & mixing by Luke Ski. Please note the various micro-cameos by some other FuMP & Sideshow artists in this song. Download this song now on the main page of the FuMP: http://www.thefump.com

• ARCHON 36

I’m returning to Archon doing my usual Sunday afternoon concert (location TBA), and I’ll have a merch table in Artists Alley, same spot as last year. For details, visit the Tour Dates page, where you can also get details on WorldCon and GenCon Indy. Speaking of which…

• GENCON ATTENDEES: PLEASE BUY THE $2 SPECIFIC TICKET FOR MY CONCERT!

As of August 6th, my solo concert has 38 TICKETS SOLD. I’d really like to hit 100 by the time GenCon starts, so please purchase a specific $2 ticket for my concert at this webpage: https://registration.gencon.com/events/32218 . If you already purchased a $2 generic ticket with the intent of using it for my concert, email me at thegreatlukeski@gmail.com and let me know. Thanks.

You can read the rest of the comedy music concert line-up and find links to buy tickets for them on the Tour Dates page.

Sometimes it feels like so much stuff happens in such a short period of time that I can’t keep a handle on it. This is one of those times. Mostly it’s good, but I have to start with some sad news this time. A friend to myself and the dementia / Weird Al fan community passed away this week, Susan Parry Whelchel. I have many fond memories of her at Weird Al concerts as well as at OVFF and more recently Con on the Cob. She will be greatly missed.

On a happier note, I recently had a sociopolitical discussion with Alex Rasey. You can see that here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff5y2-mcohs .

Speaking of newborns, why don’t you stop by http://drdemento.com/request and submit a request for the song “Pregnancy Is Strange” by Carrie Dahlby? And be sure to include your email address, so it’ll count towards this weekend’s Top Ten countdown for June 2012! And as always, listen to the show at http://drdemento.com/online.html . It’s still the best show ever. Thanks!

And now, onto the news. ~ Luke Ski, 6/26/2012

• “SNOOPY THE DOGG” WINS LOGAN AWARD FOR “OUTSTANDING PARODY SONG”!!!

When it was announced that the nominees for the Logan Award for Outstanding Parody Song of 2011 were “Charlie Sheen” by Power Salad, “If I Could Be Weird Al” by Moneyshot Cosmonauts, “Perform This Way” & “Party In The CIA” by “Weird Al” Yankovic, and “Snoopy The Dogg” by the great Luke Ski, I immediately came to the conclusion that the award was most likely going to one of the two songs by “Weird Al”. But it was to my shock and delight that at DeepSouthCon 50 in Huntsville, Alabama on June 16th that Dr. Demento announced that the winner of the 2012 Logan Award for Outstanding Parody Song was “Snoopy The Dogg” by the great Luke Ski. You can watch it happen on Power Salad’s Ustream page at the following links:

Logan Awards, Part 1: Dr. Demento talks about Logan Whitehurst (7:43)

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/23367487

Logan Awards, Part 2: The ceremony with live performances (47:22)

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/23367642

I thanked a whole bunch of people in my acceptance speech, so here I will specifically thank this year’s jury for the Logan Awards: Dr. Demento, Tom Smith, Anthony LoGatto, Mikey Mason, Jonah Knight, John Heering Jr., and James Allen. You’ve made another one of my dreams come true, and I am eternally grateful for it.

It’s also worth noting that it was announced at the ceremony that the Chair of the 2013 Logan Awards will be me, and that the ceremony will take place at MarsCon 2013 in the Twin Cities, March 1st through 3rd, 2013. Nomination Suggestions will begin promptly on January 1st and end January 15th.

To find out the other winners of the 2012 Logan Awards, visit:

http://www.loganawards.com

• KICKSTARTER UPDATE: SURVEYS SENT TO DONORS, LUKESKICON DATE PICKED

Hello, wonderful Kickstarter donors! Luke Ski here with some updates
for you regarding my Kickstarter, so you can watch the new video I
made…

…and/or you can read this:

— I sent off the surveys for your Kickstarter prizes Sunday night. If you didn’t get the survey, feel free to email me at thegreatlukeski@gmail.com, and I’ll send the survey to you that way.

— I have acquired all of the items for my new AV Concert Rig, and most of the additional tech items from the stretch goal! I’m holding off on the laptop & iPad for now because I may upgrade those two into a MacBook instead, also I want to have funds handy for LukeSkiCon preparation purposes.

— The tentative date for LUKESKICON is JUNE 21st-23rd, 2013. If any of you know of any big conventions, events, or other reasons why that weekend would not be good to have the convention, please let me know. Again, the convention will be in the Chicagoland area, near Des Plaines, IL..

Thank you all so much again for donating to the Kickstarter and making it so much easier for me to create and perform for you all. I look forward to working on all your prizes and planning LukeSkiCon 2013. Hope to see all you donors there!

• LUKE SKI GOES TO WORLDCON!

WORLDCON 2013
http://chicon7.net
Hyatt Regency Chicago - Chicago, IL
August 30th - September 3rd, 2012

Whether you call it WorldCon 2013 or ChiCon 7, it still means the same thing to me, that Luke Ski will be performing at a WorldCon for the first time! My concert is currently scheduled for Saturday afternoon at 4:30 pm in the Plaza room. If that changes, I will let you all know. Unfortunately, I’m not allowed to use my new video rig at this show (Union rules), but that won’t stop me from performing 75 minutes of my latest and greatest hits for the WorldCon audience! Hope to to see you all in sweet home, Chicago.

• “ROCKY HORROR” FANVID BY JERED PEREZ

Hot off the heels of making “The Ballad Of Optimus Prime”, Jered “Mr. Tuesday” Perez has struck again with another fan video for a classic Luke Ski song, “Rocky Horror”! Are you a fan of the “Rocky Horror Picture Show”? Do you have other friends online who are as well? Well then for the love of Frank, please tell them all about it! So all you juggalos raise a Faygo toast to Jered Perez for another awesome fanvid!

• GENCON ATTENDEES: PLEASE BUY THE $2 SPECIFIC TICKET FOR MY CONCERT!

https://registration.gencon.com/events/32218

Ahem. Here’s the number of specific tickets currently sold for GenCon Indy’s comedy music related events:

Thursday Damsels of Dorkington show —– 177 tickets sold
Thursday Marc Gunn concert ————— 75 tickets sold (sold out)
Friday Damsels of Dorkington panel —— 124 tickets sold
“Friday Night Live” show with all of us - 260 tickets sold
Saturday Mikey Mason concert ————- 57 tickets sold
Saturday Damsels of Dorkington show —– 118 tickets sold
Saturday Marc Gunn concert ————– 100 tickets sold (sold out)
SATURDAY THE GREAT LUKE SKI CONCERT —— 18 tickets sold <———-
Saturday Tom Smith concert ————— 74 tickets sold

As you can see by the above list, everyone else is kicking my ass. My solo Luke Ski concert has only 18 tickets sold so far. This is my 18th year performing at GenCon. Mikey Mason is making his first appearance, and he’s sold 3 times as many tickets as me. Excuse me for a moment while I transform into Chris Farley from the old Herlihy Boys sketches from “Saturday Night Live”… …SWEET MOTHER OF GOD!!! WHAT IS THE HOLD-UP?!?! CAN WE STOP THIS CRUEL GAME, AND ALLOW LUKE SKI TO KEEP ONE SHRED OF DIGNITY?!?! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, BUY A $2 TICKET FOR LUKE SKI’S SATURDAY NIGHT GENCON CONCERT!!! WHO ELSE ARE YOU GOING TO BUY A TICKET FOR?!?! JO-JO THE IDIOT BOY?!?! HOLY SHNIKEYS!!! COME ON!!!… …So in conclusion, it would make me really happy if by the time GenCon gets here, I’ve hit the 100 tickets sold mark. If you already purchased a $2 generic ticket with the intent of using it for my concert, email me at thegreatlukeski@gmail.com and let me know. Thanks.

• “SNOOPY THE DOGG” ON THE NERDAPALOOZA 2011 LIVE ALBUM!

This album is 37 tracks recorded live at Nerdapalooza 2011, and features me performing “Snoopy The Dogg” as well as “MvL” by Insane Ian with Devo Spice and Luke Ski, along with tracks by the Consortium Of Genius, Brentalfloss, Captain Dan & His Scurvey Crew, Marc With A C, Sci-Fried, Adam Warrock, Schaffer The Darklord, Dual Core, Koo Koo Kanga Roo, and many more! Only $7 for the MP3 version, or $15 for a CD. Get it at: http://nerdapaloozafest.bandcamp.com

My song “Snoopy The Dogg” is nominated for Out­stand­ing Par­ody Song of 2011 for the Logan Awards! Thank you to my fans for suggesting the song, and thank you to the jurors who made it a nominee! We’ll see if I bring home the robot cat this Saturday at DeepSouthCon with Dr. Demento!

To see the full list of nominees, click here:
http://www.loganawards.com/2012-nominations/

Attention GENCON INDY attendees:

My Saturday night 9pm concert is now a specific ticketed event! Please go buy a ticket for it to ensure you’ll have a seat at my concert!

ENT1232218 “the great Luke Ski: Live in Concert!”
https://registration.gencon.com/events/32218

The show’s price is still $2, same as a Generic Ticket, which will also be accepted at the door assuming there are still seats left at showtime. However, purchasing a specific ticket for my concert in advance has another important purpose. It lets the powers that be at GenCon know that I do have a fanbase there that wants me to return every year to put on a show. So if you’re planning to see my show at GenCon Indy this year, I would really really appreciate it if you’d go buy the specific $2 ticket in advance. (If you already bought a $2 Generic Ticket for the specific purpose of using it to see my show and you have no other potential use for it, let me know.)

Also, don’t forget about “Friday Night Live” (ENT1232317, $2) with performances by Luke Ski, Marc Gunn, Tom Smith, the Damsels of Dorkington, Mikey Mason, and Dan the Bard! I’m also performing at the Costume Contest on Saturday as usual, but you don’t need a ticket for that.

Thanks everyone, see you in Indianapolis, if not sooner.

~ Luke Ski

Today is the 35th Anniversary of the release of “Star Wars”, so a bunch of people on the internet decided that today is Geek Pride Day. Funny, I thought that was every day on the internet.

Anyway, my Kickstarter was a resounding success! Final amount raised: $6,355.79, plus a real world donation of $300 from “Mom Ski”! The donation that put us over the top of our stretch goal was from Luke Ski super-fan & Bad Rapport listener Bob Mathews (a.k.a. Number 11) of Fullerton, CA who donated an astounding $2,100! Looks like I have a lawn to mow! In fact, that’s 1 lawn to mow & house concert with 100 cake balls, 9 songs to write about people for the EP CD, 11 puppets of people for the next Bad Rapport video episode, 14 super-detailed caricatures, 25 quantities of bacon with corresponding t-shirts, 47 audio bits, 79 chibis, and 92 shout-outs! Phew! I have a lot of work to do! Thank you so much to everyone who donated! I am shocked and overwhelmed by the success of this Kickstarter, and I am eternally grateful to all of you fans who have made this a reality. So thank you, thank you, thank you all so very much.

If you still have money left over for donating to awesome things, I highly suggest you donate to Worm Quartet’s Kickstarter, for which the funds will get his long awaited “Songs Of The Maniacs” album released, and get him an awesome keytar for his live stage shows. This Kickstarter ends in 20 days, so please go check it out. http://kck.st/L3RPsj

And hey, you know what would be cool? If you all went to http://drdemento.com/request and requested “Pregnancy Is Strange” by Carrie Dahlby! Be sure to leave your email address, or else it won’t count towards the tally for the May 2012 Top Ten countdown on “The Dr. Demento Show”! A show, by the way, which continues to be awesome and you should totally be listening to every week at http://drdemento.com .

And now, on the the usual pluggery. Until next time,

~ Luke Ski, 5-25-2012

• “SNOOPY THE DOGG” ON THE NERDAPALOOZA 2011 LIVE ALBUM!

This album is 37 tracks recorded live at Nerdapalooza 2011, and features me performing “Snoopy The Dogg” as well as “MvL” by Insane Ian with Devo Spice and Luke Ski, along with tracks by the Consortium Of Genius, Brentalfloss, Captain Dan & His Scurvey Crew, Marc With A C, Sci-Fried, Adam Warrock, Schaffer The Darklord, Dual Core, Koo Koo Kanga Roo, and many more! Only $7 for the MP3 version, or $15 for a CD. Get it at: http://nerdapaloozafest.bandcamp.com

TOUR DATES:

• DUCKON 21

http://duckon.org
Pheasant Run Resort - St. Charles, IL (far west Chicago suburb)
June 1st - 3rd, 2012

I’m doing a concert on the Main Stage on Sunday at Noon!

• DEEPSOUTHCON 50

http://www.dsc50huntsville.com
Embassy Suites Huntsville - Huntsville, AL
June 15th - 17th, 2012

Special Media Guest of Honor Dr. Demento! Performing at DeepSouthCon this year: the great Luke Ski, Devo Spice, Worm Quartet, Power Salad, Steve Goodie, Nuclear Bubble Wrap, the Boobles, Cirque du So What?, and Danny Birt, with a non-performing appearance by Rob Balder! This will also be the location of the 2nd Annual Logan Whitehurst Memorial Awards for Excellence in Comedy Music, hosted by Dr. Demento himself!

• CONVERGENCE 2012

http://convergence-con.org
DoubleTree By Hilton Bloomington Minneapolis South - Bloomington, MN (Twin Cities area)
July 5th - 8th, 2012

At long last I am very happy to be returning to ConVergence! I am doing a concert in Harmonic ConVergence on Saturday night at 7 pm, with Possible Oscar following me at 8:30 pm.

• GENCON INDY 2012

http://gencon.com
Indianapolis Convention Center - Indianapolis, IN
August 16th - 19th, 2012

Luke Ski returns to GenCon for his 18th year! Also performing at GenCon Indy 2012 are Tom Smith, Marc Gunn, The Damsels of Dorkington, Mikey Mason, and many more!

ENT1232317 “Friday Night Live”
Friday at 9 pm, Crowne Plaza, Grand Central Ballroom
A comedy & music concert featuring many of GenCon’s favorite regular entertainers, featuring the great Luke Ski, the Damsels of Dorkington, Marc Gunn, Tom Smith, & Dan the Bard!

ENT1229999 “27th Annual Gen Con Costume Contest!”
Saturday at 4 pm, Indianapolis Convention Center, 500 Ballroom
The Costume Contest is where the best and most creative costumes will be on display for all to see and enjoy. Judging-time entertainment by the great Luke Ski!

ENT1232218 “the great Luke Ski: Live in Concert!”
Saturday at 9 pm, Crowne Plaza, Grand Central Ballroom
Back for his 18th year, “the great Luke Ski” will be performing his nerdy comedy music, latest parody hits, and original fan favorites on the topics of TV, movies, pop-culture, and stuff geeks love!

Note: Saturday night’s line-up in the Crowne Plaza Grand Central Ballroom: 7 pm Damsels, 8 pm Marc Gunn, 9 pm Luke Ski, 10 pm Tom Smith! Get tickets for all of them! Tickets for events can be acquired at: https://registration.gencon.com And of course, come look for me at my table in the Entertainer’s Spotlight area of the Exhibition Hall Dealer’s Room!

• PLEASE SUGGEST A LUKE SKI SONG FOR THE LOGAN AWARDS!

The 2012 Logan Awards for Excellence In Comedy Music will be held at DeepSouthCon in Huntsville this June, hosted by Dr. Demento himself. The awards will honor the best comedy music of 2011, and it would be a dream come true if I were to win one of these prestigious cat statuettes. Songs of mine that have already made the Nomination suggestion list are “Skeksis Back” (Video), “Sneaking Snacks into the Cinema” (Original Song), and “Snoopy The Dogg” (Parody Song). “Jabba Jive” and “We Are The FuMP” which were both written by me also made the list for Parody Song. Thank you to the fans who submitted those suggestions.

Please take a look at this list of my other eligible songs/videos. If you think any of them are so good that they deserve an award, then please go to the nomination suggestion page and submit them.

Parodies:
- WalkingSilly
- Sheldon’s Delight
- Serenity
- I’m That Type Of Spy
- Red Bank NJ
- Skeksis Back
- The Star Wars Chanukah Song

Originals:
- Smeg Head

Videos:
- “Flat 29 Is The Flat For Me” by Flat 29
- “My Figuas” by Possible Oscar
- “Stupid Cowboy Thing” by Cirque du So What?
- “You Just Don’t Get It, Do You?” by Paul & Storm
- “Shortest Song” by Insane Ian
- “Second Shortest Song” by Insane Ian

Here’s the link to the Nomination suggestion page:
http://www.loganawards.com/nomination-form

There’s only ONE WEEK LEFT to suggest songs for nomination, the last day is May 31st!

So there’s no time like the present to suggest a Luke Ski song for Logan nomination! ;D

• “THE BALLAD OF OPTIMUS PRIME” FANVID BY JERED PEREZ

Jered “Mr. Tuesday” Perez continues to be an awesome purveyor of Luke Ski fanvid goodness! This time he tackles an old fan favorite, “The Ballad Of Optimus Prime”, my filked-up celtic tribute to the leader of the Autobots, done with the Nick Atoms in 2003, long before Mr. Bay got his hands on him. Check out the video here: http://blip.tv/mr-tuesday/amv-the-ballad-of-optimus-prime-6116854

Watch video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBmm853sTho

I am elated to announce that as of this morning, I have hit my Kickstarter stretch goal of $5,500!!! Thank you so much to everyone who has donated, in particular the fan who donated a staggering $2,100 to ensure that we would be put over the top! Looks like I have a lawn to mow. And now…

2 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD STILL DONATE TO THE KICKSTARTER BEFORE IT ENDS:

(1.) LUKESKICON IS HAPPENING
in the Chicagoland area sometime before Dec. 2013! Besides the “FuMP Fest” concert headlined by Luke Ski and featuring Carrie Dahlby and other members of the FuMP, here are other potential activites we may be doing over the weekend:

* Movie riffing
* Screening rare videos & films from early in Luke’s life
* A talent show for the fans to participate in
* Recording things for use in future Luke Ski songs/sketches
* Go to Key Lime Cove indoor water park
* A visit to Galloping Ghost Arcade to play classic 80’s video games
* Invade a Karaoke night somewhere and dominate it

* Play the ‘Boob Tree’/'Eat Poop You Cat’ drawing game

* Luke & Carrie’s Bad Rapport podcast LIVE!

…and other stuff we haven’t come up with yet.

ANY DONATION AMOUNT will get you on the invite list for LukeSkiCon, or for those of you who can’t make it, it’ll get you access to the live webstream and/or concert recordings of the “FuMP Fest” Concert! So donate $1! What have you got to lose? Besides a dollar?

(2.) THE NIFTY DONATION PRIZES!

Here’s a quick recap of the prizes you can get for donating. Remember, each donation point includes all of the prizes below it in price!

$1 - Shout out on “Luke & Carrie’s Bad Rapport” podcast
$5 - Luke draws a full color chibi of you and Luke on a 4×6 card
$25 - Luke records an audio message for your cell phone, podcast, radio show I.D., etc.
$50 - BACON!, and a t-shirt that says “I donated to Luke Ski’s Kickstarter and all I got was this lousy t-shIrt, and BACON!”
$100 - A super-detailed full color caricature of you by Luke.
$200 - Luke makes a puppet of you to be featured on the next puppet Bad Rapport YouTube video.
$300 - Luke writes and records a song about you for an exclusive EP CD.
$1,000 - A house concert, and Sara makes you 100 cake balls.
$1,750 - Luke Ski mows your lawn.

(See Luke’s Kickstarter page for details and the fine print.)

The Kickstarter ends on SATURDAY, MAY 19TH at NOON CST! So you have less than 24 hours left to donate something to get in on LukeSkiCon and get some nifty prizes! Here is the link to it:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/335203126/luke-skis-av-concert-rig

Thank you all again so much to everyone who donated! Talk to you all again soon,

~ Luke Ski, 5-18-2012

PS: Here are a couple of other Kickstarters by friends of mine you might be interested in donating to:

Gozer Games “Titans Of Industry”
Board Game: http://kck.st/I2atjU
This Kickstarter ends this Sunday night at 10 pm CST.

Worm Quartet “Songs Of The Maniacs”
album: http://kck.st/L3RPsj
This Kickstarter ends in 27 days.

Check out this dumb video I made: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V1YHcLMdgw
~ Luke Ski, 5-11-2012

HEADLINES:

- LUKE SKI’S KICKSTARTER
STRETCH GOAL UPDATE: We’re at 55% with 7 days to go!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/335203126/luke-skis-av-concert-rig/posts/217863

- PLEASE SUGGEST A 2011 LUKE SKI SONG FOR THE 2012 LOGAN AWARDS!
http://www.loganawards.com/nomination-form/

- “THE BALLAD OF OPTIMUS PRIME” FANVID BY JERED PEREZ
http://blip.tv/mr-tuesday/amv-the-ballad-of-optimus-prime-6116854

- TOUR DATES:
DUCKON http://duckon.org St.
Charles, IL June 1st - 3rd, 2012
DEEPSOUTHCON http://www.dsc50huntsville.com
AL June 15th - 17th, 2012
CONVERGENCE 2012 http://convergence-con.org
MN July 5th - 8th, 2012

- LUKE & CARRIE’S BAD RAPPORT: Episode #063 – Rent-A-Baby
http://badrapport.com

- THE FUNNY MUSIC PODCAST hits EPISODE #100!!!
http://www.thefump.com/podcast.php

…and more!

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HEADLINES:

- LUKE SKI’S KICKSTARTER STRETCH GOAL UPDATE

We are currently at $3,020! That’s 55% of the way to my stretch goal
of $5,500 with 7 days left to go!

To recap, if I hit my STRETCH GOAL of $5,500, I will plan a
“LukeSkiCon” weekend featuring the “FuMP Fest” concert in the
Chicago area for all the donors who are able to make it. For the
donors that aren’t able to make it, I will do a live webcast of the
concert, and make the concert recording available to all the donors.
For details, read this update: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/335203126/luke-skis-av-concert-rig/posts/217863
, and/or watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CENo99cOQ3Y
.

So please donate if you can, and please tell your friends online
about it. Remember, there are all kinds of awesome pledge prizes you
can get, like bacon, t-shirts, artwork, puppets, a song about you,
cake balls, house concerts, and Luke Ski mowing your lawn! Here’s
the link to the donation page: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/335203126/luke-skis-av-concert-rig
. This Kickstarter ends at Noon CST on Saturday, May 19th. Thanks
again so much to everyone who donated, let’s see if we can make
LukeSkiCon happen again!

~~~

- PLEASE SUGGEST A LUKE SKI SONG FOR THE LOGAN AWARDS!

The 2012 Logan Awards for Excellence In Comedy Music will be held at
DeepSouthCon in Huntsville this June, hosted by Dr. Demento himself.
The awards will honor the best comedy music of 2011, and it would be
a dream come true if I were to win one of these prestigious cat
statuettes. Songs of mine that have already made the Nomination
suggestion list are “Skeksis Back” (Video), “Sneaking Snacks into
the Cinema” (Original Song), and “Snoopy The Dogg” (Parody Song).
“Jabba Jive” and “We Are The FuMP” which were both written by me
also made the list for Parody Song. Thank you to the fans who
submitted those suggestions.

Please take a look at this list of my other eligible songs/videos.
If you think any of them are so good that they deserve an award,
then please go to the nomination suggestion page and submit them.

Parodies:
- WalkingSilly
- Sheldon’s Delight
- Serenity
- I’m That Type Of Spy
- Red Bank NJ
- Skeksis Back
- The Star Wars Chanukah Song

Originals:
- Smeg Head

Videos:
- “Flat 29 Is The Flat For Me” by Flat 29
- “My Figuas” by Possible Oscar
- “Stupid Cowboy Thing” by Cirque du So What?
- “You Just Don’t Get It, Do You?” by Paul & Storm
- “Shortest Song” by Insane Ian
- “Second Shortest Song” by Insane Ian

Suggestions for Nominations will be taken until May 31st. Here’s the
link to the Nomination suggestion page: http://www.loganawards.com/nomination-form/

~~~

- “THE BALLAD OF OPTIMUS PRIME” FANVID BY JERED PEREZ

Jered “Mr. Tuesday” Perez continues to be an awesome purveyor of
Luke Ski fanvid goodness! This time he tackles an old fan favorite,
“The Ballad Of Optimus Prime”, my filked-up celtic tribute to the
leader of the Autobots, done with the Nick Atoms in 2003, long
before Mr. Bay got his hands on him. Check out the video here: http://blip.tv/mr-tuesday/amv-the-ballad-of-optimus-prime-6116854

~~~

- TOUR DATES:

DUCKON 21
http://duckon.org
Pheasant Run Resort - St. Charles, IL (far west Chicago suburb)
June 1st - 3rd, 2012

This isn’t 100% confirmed, but it looks like I will be doing a
concert at DucKon on Sunday afternoon. Details TBA.

DEEPSOUTHCON 50
http://www.dsc50huntsville.com
Embassy Suites Huntsville - Huntsville, AL
June 15th - 17th, 2012

Special Media Guest of Honor Dr. Demento! Performing at DeepSouthCon
this year: the great Luke Ski, Devo Spice, Worm Quartet, Power
Salad, Tom Smith, Rob Balder, Carla Ulbrich, Steve Goodie, Nuclear
Bubble Wrap, The Boobles, and Danny Birt! This will also be the
location of the 2nd Annual Logan Whitehurst Memorial Awards for
Excellence in Comedy Music, hosted by Dr. Demento himself!

CONVERGENCE 2012
http://convergence-con.org/
DoubleTree By Hilton Bloomington Minneapolis South - Bloomington, MN
(Twin Cities area)
July 5th - 8th, 2012

At long last I am very happy to be returning to ConVergence! I am
doing a concert in Harmonic ConVergence on Saturday night at 7 pm,
with Possible Oscar following me at 8:30 pm.

~~~

- LUKE & CARRIE’S BAD RAPPORT
Episode #063 – Rent-A-Baby

This episode is done in a style that I like to call “thrown together
quickly”. We start off with a quick visit with Blasted Bill and
Moonbeam of Pod Of Destiny fame recorded just after PenguiCon. Then
we jump ahead to Luke & Carrie in the Wisconsin Dells following
their visit to the Twin Cities so baby Alex could meet his
grandparents and great grandparents. We recap the trip as well as
PenguiCon and Luke’s day at the Ultimate Marvel Marathon. Then we
return home to Josh & Sara and wrap up with News of the Stupid
and remind people to please donate to Luke Ski’s Kickstarter,
because if it hits the stretch goal of $5,500, we will throw
“LukeSkiCon” featuring the “FuMP Fest” concert in Chicago (see
website for details, Kickstarter ends on May 19th). We also have
comedy & music tracks by Mikey Mason, Power Salad, Steve Martin,
Wyatt Cenac, Brak, and Digital Underground, and a drawing of Carrie
and Luke as ducks for no reason. Episode length: 1:38:47

Listen, download, subscribe, leave us COMMENTS at http://badrapport.com
You can leave a VOICE MESSAGE for the podcast by dialing
(916)-LUKE-SKI
You can email us at badrapport@gmail.com
You can follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/badrapport
And we now have a Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/badrapport
RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/LukeCarriesBadRapport
iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/luke-carries-bad-rapport/id335287593

~~~

- THE FUNNY MUSIC PODCAST

Devo Spice and Luke Ski interview the artists who posted songs at
the FuMP dot com over the past week. Recent episodes include:

Episode #98: Tom Smith
Episode #99: Consortium of Genius and Insane Ian
Episode #100!!!: Scooter Picnic and Chris Waffle,
and we listen to highlights from the past 100 episodes!!!

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• Kickstarter Update: $5,500 Stretch Goal for “LukeSkiCon” weekend with “FuMP Fest” concert in Chicago!

My Kickstarter hit its goal of $1,750 in less than 24 hours, and I couldn’t be more shocked, happy, and appreciative. So thank you so much to everyone who has already donated. My friends have encouraged me to come up with a STRETCH GOAL, so I came up with a list of more technology that would help me out creatively and practically both at home and on the road at gigs: A drawing tablet for my computer so I can make animated cartoons, a new modern video camera, a Zoom H2 recorder for podcasts and live shows, a GPS for my car, a Laptop so I can get work done on the road, an iPod so I can give the one I’m currently using back to its owner, and an iPad for showing videos at my merch table (which will also help with merch sales at Table 27 at MarsCon). Factoring in fees and the production costs of the pledge prizes, I came up with a stretch goal target of $5,500. I know this seems high, but I hit $1,750 in less than a day, so it’s certainly possible to hit that goal in the next 18 days.

So what is the incentive for the donors for me to hit this stretch goal? I will plan a weekend long series of fun events in the Chicago area, which I am jokingly calling “LukeSkiCon”. The central event of the weekend will be a live at least 2 hour long concert headlined by Luke Ski, and featuring other acts from the FuMP dot com and “The Dr. Demento Show”, which I will call the “FuMP Fest”. If there is decent enough internet at the location of the show, we will webcast the live concert (hopefully both audio & video) so the donors who couldn’t make it can watch / listen to the show as it happens. We’ll also record the show and make it available to donors who miss the live webcast. So even donating as little as $1 will get you access to the recording of the concert. So why wouldn’t you?

Other potential ideas for activities I’ve come up while brainstorming about “LukeSkiCon” are as follows:

• Movie riffing
• Screening rare videos & films from early in my life
• A talent show for the fans to participate in
• Recording things for use in future Luke Ski songs/sketches
• Go to Key Lime Cove indoor water park
• A visit to Galloping Ghost Arcade to play classic 80’s video games
• Invade a Karaoke night somewhere and dominate it
• Play the ‘Boob Tree’/'Eat Poop You Cat’ drawing game
• Luke & Carrie’s Bad Rapport podcast LIVE!

There’s so much cool, fun stuff to be done in the Chicagoland area, we’ll take suggestions and figure out an itinerary full of stuff people want to do that’s as affordable as possible. We can also arrange for all our out of town participants to stay at the same hotel, so it’ll be even more convention-like.

So to recap, if I hit my STRETCH GOAL of $5,500, I will plan a “LukeSkiCon” weekend featuring the “FuMP Fest” concert in the Chicago area for all the donors who are able to make it. For the donors that aren’t able to make it, I will do a live webcast of the concert, and make the concert recording available to all the donors.

So please donate if you can, and please tell your friends online about it. This Kickstarter ends at Noon on May 19^th, let’s see if we can make LukeSkiCon happen again! Thanks again so much to everyone who donated, and I will talk to you all again soon.

To donate, follow this link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/335203126/luke-skis-av-concert-rig

~ Luke Ski, 4/30/12

I would like from now on as often as I can to have the live shows I do be video-accompaniment shows, like the ones done by Devo Spice, the Gothsicles, Insane Ian, MC Lars, and many other FuMP colleagues of mine. This Kickstarter campaign is designed to raise the funds to acquire the professional audio & video equipment I need to make that a reality. My goal amount is $1,750.00. There are all kinds of nifty rewards you can earn for donating, including an exclusive t-shirt, custom-made artwork, puppets, and music, cake balls, a house concert, and more! To watch the video, read all the pledge rewards, and to donate (if you can), just go to the link above. (I have also put my Kickstarter video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwgq_kkhpIA)

UPDATE: I wrote this e-mail update yesterday, and overnight, my Kickstarter has already reached its target goal of $1,750! (Thank you so much to everyone who has already donated!) While I am thrilled about this, I want to make sure you all know that you can still donate to the Kickstarter to receive the nifty pledge prizes. My target goal just covers the cost of the new AV equipment, it doesn’t cover the cost of the materials needed to create the nifty pledge prizes (t-shirts, puppets, etc.). So please donate, I promise the funds will go to continued Luke Ski fanservice!

• “HOW TO SPEAK SHOEBOX” by Cirque du So What?

Download it now for free at the FuMP: http://www.thefump.com

In 2004, Luke Ski went to visit ShoEboX of Worm Quartet in Rochester. Back then ShoEboX had a couple of sketches written which he recorded with Luke. For whatever reason, they didn’t see the light of day again until the scripts were exhumed for use in “Cirque du So What?”. The first sketch “Escargot Flambe A La Mode” was on our first album. The second sketch is now a FuMP offering, and it can be found on our latest album “Stupid Cowboy Thing - Volume 2: Additional Squid”, available for purchase at the FuMP store, so enjoy your 8-years-overdue language lesson.

• CARRIE DAHLBY HAD A BABY!

On Leap Year Day 2012, at 1:55 pm Carrie Dahlby gave birth to Alexander David Rasey, 8 lbs 4 oz, 21 inches long. He has blonde hair, and Carrie says he looks just like his Daddy, Josh Rasey. Much congratulations and hugs to both of them. If you want to tell Carrie and Josh congrats, you can do so by calling 916-LUKE-SKI (that’s 916-585-3754) and leave them a voice message, which we will play to them on our podcast, “Bad Rapport”. Welcome to the world, Alex! http://tinyurl.com/CarrieAndAlex