Hording ... SNAPPLE???

For those who follow my twitter, facebook, zannel and/or myspace have all noticed a slight obsession with "Bret's Blend Tea Trop*A*Rocka - Diet Snapple". Currently I have a small pyramid of Snapple consisting of 17, 6-packs sitting in my room and one in the fridge. Now besides the obvious, that I'm slightly batshit crazy, why would I have so much damn Snapple? Well it's because Snapple does randomly decide that sometimes they should discontinue "flavors" and a brand.

Firstly let's start with the brand, depending on the age or taste of some of my readers may or may not remember "Snapple Soda". The two flavors I remember are "Tru Root Beer" a clear root beer and "Cherry Lime Rickey". I remember being a kid and constantly hunting down the root beer and then one day *POOF*, the stopped the whole line of Snapple Soda.

Now the other brand they got rid of was "Elements" that had flavors like "Rain", "Earth", "Fire" and "Sun". Those were the basic four flavors that they came out with which they expanded onto and added five more flavors. Personally I was a fan of "Rain", it was a refreshing flavor. I remember spending the end of my highschool career and the beginning of college drinking "Rain". Then once again *POOF*.

I mustn't forget my favorite flavor of Snapple "Bali Blast" drank it for many years and you guessed it *POOF*.

So let's ballpark from 1990 until 2010 Snapple has gotten rid of a brand that I enjoy roughly every ten years, not to mention the random disappearance of "Bali Blast". Here we are now in 2010 and I have found a new flavor I enjoy "Bret's Blend Tea Trop*A*Rocka - Diet Snapple". This time I am merely getting ahead of Snapple and stocking up on it that way if I decide to stop drinking it, it can be on my terms

For all of you that think I'm losing it just a little bit more, go out, try and find a bottle and taste it. So far everyone that has tried it on my recommendation as enjoyed it. Everyone know I don't endorse specific brands and won't until they pay up and I'm not getting paid by Snapple for this (I wouldn't bitch one bit if they did though ... I'm just sayin' Snapple).

Other news/upcoming:
"A six gun for LOBO, two kills for a virgin." is rolling along, it now has a twitter @ASixGunForLobo and a website asixgunforlobo.com. - Remember if it wasn't for Western X westernxtheshow.com there would be no LOBO, so don't forget to check them out as well.

Congrats to Kristin Davis for getting on the ballot for Governor of NY.

And just because she is both a friend and trainer to myself and Kristin Davis here is a plug for MJ Carlesi and musclesorority.com.

If I plug MJ I must also plug Steve C. of Foundry who has just released "Foundry Retooled" on iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/retooled-feat-rich-decicco/id389765371 definitely worth the download.

That's all for this post, so until next time; "Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!"

Spin-Offs

Well after writing a pretty lengthy blog just now, I realized that I may actually want to work in Hollywood one day, so I deleted the thing and will now "continue" what was to be the end half of that blog.

As some who are reading this may or may not know, later this year starts "A six gun for LOBO, two kills for a virgin." which is a spin-off of "Western X".

Now I've heard some grumblings about spin-offs not lasting or being flops. Well let it be said that even the ones that don't make it far are still remembered. Here is a short list of the ones that are the most known shows and their spin-offs. This is not including most cartoons, the thousands of reality shows and the like.

All in the Family (1971–1979)
-Maude (1972–1978) - Good Times (1974–1979)
 -The Jeffersons (1975–1985) - Checking In (1981)
 -Archie Bunker's Place (1979–1983)
 -Gloria (1982–1983)
 -704 Hauser (1994)

Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990–2000)
 -Melrose Place (1992–1999) - Models Inc. (1994–1995)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
 -Angel

Cheers (1982–1993)
 -The Tortellis
 -Frasier (1993–2004)

The Cosby Show (1984–1992)
 -A Different World (1987–1993)

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (since 2000)
 -CSI: Miami (since 2002)
 -CSI: NY (since 2004)

Dallas (1978–1991)
 -Knots Landing (1979–1993)

Diff'rent Strokes (1978–1986)
 -The Facts of Life (1979–1988)
 -Hello, Larry (1979)

The Golden Girls (1985–1992)
 -Empty Nest - Nurses
 -The Golden Palace

Good Morning, Miss Bliss
 -Saved by the Bell - Saved by the Bell: The College Years - Saved by the Bell: The New Class

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
 -Xena: Warrior Princess
 -Young Hercules

Law & Order (1990–2010 )
 -Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999– ) - Conviction (2006)
 -Deadline (2000–2001)
 -Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001– )
 -Crime & Punishment (2002–2004)
 -Law & Order: Trial by Jury (2005)
 -Paris enquêtes criminelles (2007– ) — an adaptation of Criminal Intent
 -Law & Order: UK (2009– )

Liquid Television
 -Beavis and Butt-head - Daria & King Of The Hill
 -Æon Flux
 -MTV's Oddities - The Head & The Maxx
 -Cartoon Sushi - Celebrity Deathmatch

From Love, American Style
 -Barefoot in the Park (1970)
 -Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972–1974)
 -Happy Days (1974–1984) - Laverne and Shirley (1976–1983) - Blansky's Beauties (1977) - Mork & Mindy (1978–1983) - Fonz and the Happy Days Gang (1980) - Joanie Loves Chachi (1982–1983)

The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977)
 -Lou Grant (1977–1982)
 -Phyllis (1975–1977)
 -Rhoda (1974–1978) - Carlton Your Doorman Cartoon (1980)

Perfect Strangers (1986–1993)
 -Family Matters (1989–1998)

Sam and Friends (1955–1961)
 -Our Place (1967)
 -Sesame Street (1969– ) - Play With Me Sesame (2002–2003)
 -The Muppet Show - Muppet Babies (1984–1991) - Little Muppet Monsters (1985–1986) - Muppets Tonight (1996–1998)

Sanford and Son (1972–1977)
 -Grady (1975–1976)
 -The Sanford Arms (1977)
 -Sanford (1980–1981)

So it's a bit of a lengthy "short" list but it's just to prove a point.

For fuck sake.

Well apparently I do have a blog and it hasn't been touched for almost a year. I don't know if going through my phone and finding the number to text in my blog was a good thing or not yet.

So now that I've spent the last hour reworking everything so that this doesn't revolve around all my old shit from a year ago here starts the new shit.

In the last year I've managed to get out of the corporate rat race and get back to stunt work. Thanks to MJ Carlesi I dropped a good amount of weight and got back in shape.

As far as upcoming projects; Western X is still going strong and going so well that its getting a few spin-offs one being "A Six Gun for LOBO Two Kills for a Virgin" which will star myself and Victoria Paege. I do have to thank Michael Flores for this one.

Thats about all the crap I'll cram into this first post and hopefully I'll stay up to date on it this time.

Want more info on the people mentioned, find it here.
Dice (ME) - www.facebook.com/vondice, http://www.twitter.com/vondice

MJ Carlesi - www.musclesorority.com, www.facebook.com/musclesorority, www.twitter.com/musclesorority

Western X - www.westernxtheshow.com, www.twitter.com/westernxtheshow, Western X Producer's Blog www.xwilltravel.com

Victoria Paege - www.victoriapaege.com, www.vpaege.blogspot.com, www.twitter.com/victoriapaege

Michael Flores - www.cazadorproductions.com, www.twitter.com/michael_flores

Social Networking

Ok boys and girls, it's apparently time for an update. The photoshoot for WAT-AAH! bottled water went great, there are pictures up on Facebook (facebook.com/vondice), but the real reason for the update is now VonDice is also on twitter (twitter.com/vondice) and also on Zannel (zannel.com/vondice) just to add to all the fun.

VonDice is on another social network.

Well it's probably better late then never, VonDice has expanded a little and made its way on to a blog. So know not only can we be seen on Facebook (www.facebook.com/vondice) we can also be seen here. The updates on the two sites should roughly be done around the same time so take your pick where you want to be.


The only reason this is all being started is because of a client who gave really sound advice. Her name is MJ Carlesi of Muscle Sorority (www.muslcesorority.com, www.myspace.com/musclesorority, twitter.com/musclesorority & http://www.facebook.com/musclesorority). Get the point yet. The point she made was that the more places that you are, the more people will see you. The more people that see you, the more work you get. So here's to you MJ, and it's also her fault that the VonDice facebook status gets updated so much. "You got to stay on top!"

So look forward to past pieces and new ones all coming soon right here at vondice.blogspot.com!