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Konichiwa, Snowman Army!

Chris and Ryan, creators/actors/idiots of the online comedy show SNOWMEN HUNTERS, here with a word to our friends and readers of this blog.

We’re closing in on two months of weekly SNOWMEN HUNTERSepisodes from our home-brew media site, Zanzibar19.com, and things are crazy good. From the tiny Zanzibar19.com team, thanks for your views, emails, letters and death threats.

Things are going so good we’re having to revamp some of the ways we get the word out. Shooting, editing and posting these episodes on a weekly basis is HARD. Because of all this good feedback, we’re dedicating a lot more time to responding to friend requests, emails, etc. at our various profiles across the web. The upshot is our time for everything is dropping fast.

What does that mean?

It means we still want to have time to talk to our friends here AND socialize AND get the episodes out AND keep a meaningful blog going about what we’re doing.

Until now, every time we posted a blog, we’d upload it to 20-odd sites across the web. Yeah, we’re kind of dense that way. But in order to spend more time writing the blog and less time managing it, we’re going to simply ask everyone reading this blog to venture to our website at Zanzibar19.com and check out the blog there.

Of course, we’ll still be here interacting with friends here, but the blog will be at Zanzibar19.com. We’ll still be talking about what we’re doing with SNOWMEN HUNTERS, comment on entertainment in general and our niche in particular, and trying to be interesting and non-sucky as we do it.  We just won’t have to spend the time uploading it everywhere.

Of course, we’ll still be talking to our friends, making new ones, and chatting with anyone who’d like to talk about podcasting/netcasting/vidcasting.

See you soon, and thanks for watching.

C&R
Creators, SNOWMEN HUNTERS

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So it turns out Sherman Rance and his bloodless snowmen enemies have one thing in common. They both love musical theater. And knife fighting.

In this weeks’ episode, SNOWMEN HUNTERS Episode 08: Michael Jackson F@#*s Boys, we see Sherman’s a Jet, because when you’re a Jet, you’re a Jet all the way.

What does this mean? And what the hell does it have to do with Michael Jackson’s unnatural love for boys? Tune in and find out.

Brought to you by the fine, damaged people at Zanzibar19.com.

Enjoy, C & R

Come on over here and check it out. . . Zanzibar19.com.

Every week, when we fling a new episode of SNOWMEN HUNTERSout into the world, we almost wonder if we’ll be arrested, or at least deported. But that hasn’t happened, and we live on to offend another day.

This week’s try: Episode 07: Ginagut Monologues. It tells the story of Everett’s graduation from apprentice snowman killer, to assistant snowman killer. And it has him drinking snowman blood.

SNOWMEN HUNTERS Episode 07: Ginagut Monologues. Enjoy. And be sure to watch in the next few weeks, as we close in on a season finale you flat out won’t believe.

Brought to you by the fine, damaged people at Zanzibar19.com.

Enjoy, C & R

Come on over here and check it out. . . Zanzibar19.com.

What have we done? For the burgening legions of SNOWMEN HUNTERS fans, Episode 06: Mongoloid Melodies is a short, sweet visit with madman snowmen hunter Sherman Rance.

For others, it may be evidence we need to be arrested for crimes against culture. We’ll take that as a badge of honor, because we believe this is some crazy funny stuff.

With that warning, we give you the latest episode of SNOWMEN HUNTERS. . . Episode 06: Mongoloid Melodies!

Brought to you by the fine, damaged people at Zanzibar19.com.

Enjoy, C & R

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What kind of poor bastard man loves a stick the way normal men love a woman? Sexually, we mean, if you were wondering. Sometimes the stick on top. It’s not important. What’s important is what horrible thing in his past brings him to that kind of madness? What pushes a man to follow Sherman Rance in hunting snowmen? In Episode 5 of SNOWMEN HUNTERS we begin to unravel the mystery of Everett Van der Sloot, and find out just what he was, and what he has become.

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Enjoy, C & R

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You would think shooting snowmen is the craziest thing a man could do. You would think a man marrying and making sweet, gentle love to a stick would really, really be as far as a man could go.

But in this week’s SNOWMEN HUNTERS, you’ll see just how far Sherman and Everett will go to get what they need to be he best damn snowmen killers in the world.

Brought to you by the fine, damaged people at Zanzibar19.com. We should be sorry, but we’re not.

C & R
Come on over here and check it out… Zanzibar19.com.

We here at Zanzibar19 and creators of the SNOWMEN HUNTERS are longtime lovers/followers of Leo Laporte, the tech guru of TechTV (R.I.P.) and were in large part inspired to do the internet show thing based on Laporte’s podcast evangilizing. Or is it Podcast?

This week, Laporte, over at his site TWiT.tv put for the idea of calling what we all do in online entertainment netcasting rather than podcasting.  As proud members of the TWIT army from the start, the SNOWMEN HUNTERS are with you here, Leo.

SNOWMEN HUNTERS Episode 3… Everett loves his stick TOO much.

Boy,
this…  What we do in this episode will live to embarrass our
relatives. This on ends on such a crazy, random, ridiculous level we’ll
be living it down for years. But man, it’s funny.

  So what won’t we do for our audience? NOTHING! But explaining this new episode of SNOWMEN HUNTERS this coming Thanksgiving is going to be tough. But we’ll take it for you!

  Anyway, with that warning, we unveil SNOWMEN HUNTERS, Episode 3: Boy Meets Stick.

So who’s more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him? That’s
the question we tackle, in our first Everett centered episode. You’ve
been asking for it, so you get the background on Sherman’s moron
partner. We see the effects of a horrible secret from Everett’s past,
and how they lead him to follow a man who shoots snowmen for a living.
The end of this one is something you won’t want to miss.

  Enjoy.

Lately we’ve been
buzzing with the fun of having our own mini-studio, punching out these SNOWMEN
HUNTERS every week.

Yay, good for us.
Whatever.

But as usually
happens when you get a bit of success, your mind starts wandering towards the
next head to mount on your wall. While we haven’t found that yet (other than
more, crazier SNOWMEN
HUNTERS episodes) we came across a hell of a headtrip.

It started as we
thought about last week’s posting, about the

SNL cast that is
playing somehow, somewhere in the afterlife.

The SNL posting got us thinking about
somehow bringing actors/directors from any era together for fantasy projects.
We then remembered George Lucas talked a few years back about just this: At
some point, the CGI engines which brought us the true, interesting fantasy
acting of Gollum and King Kong (not just the misfires of Jar Jar) could
eventually be used to resurrect Alec Guiness, River Phoenix, Natalie Wood,
whoever. Grab an actor’s catalogue, every performance, picture, interview,
voice-recording, plug it into a new script and POW: Now 1960s era William
Shatner is the villain in the rebooted JAMES
BOND series.

Try to tell us
you didn’t just get a geekgasm.

Then it hit us:
It’s only a matter of time before this process was used to remake the STAR WARS
saga. Just try to tell us Lucas, the man who rewrote history (by CGIing Jabba
the Hutt and having Greedo shoot first) wouldn’t jump at this. Or at least
order his minions jump on this after he passed on.

Then it hit us again:
The fine points of this technology will take a few years to develop, so when
would this happen? Lucas is fond of reissuing tweaked versions on anniversaries
(1997’s SPECIAL EDITIONS), so a better question is when could
this happen? Wednesday, May 26, 2027, or the 50th Anniversary of
STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE.

Dust off your
countdown clocks. So stake-out your place in line now. It’s coming. Search your
feelings. You know it to be true.

Of course that
got us and our pals thinking about what/how we’d do it. Here’s what we’ve come
up with. Totally useless, we know, but really interesting to contemplate.

STAR WARS 2027 

Writer/Director:
Peter Jackson (we’re sure they’ll eventually have director-bots too). We
thought about what he said in remaking KING KONG: That he’d use the original as
a ‘real historical document’ i.e. the core which would act as a skeleton around
which he’d update/change/enhance, all while being faithful to the ‘reality’ of
the original work.

Sean Penn (FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN era) as Anakin Skywalker
Rachel Weisz (ABOUT A BOY) as Padme Amidala

Vincent Price as The Emperor

Andy Serkis (Gollum in LORD OF THE RINGS) as Yoda

Sean Connery as Obi Wan Kenobi

Orlando Bloom (PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN)as Luke Skywalker
Vivien Leigh (GONE WITH THE WIND) as Princess Leia
Burt Lancaster (FROM HERE TO ETERNITY) as Han Solo
Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca

Denzel Washington as Lando Calrissian
Christopher Walken as Count Dukoo

Lawrence Fishburne as Mace Windu

James Earl Jones as Darth Vader

Peter O’Toole (LAWRENCE OF ARABIA) as Qui Gon Jinn
Errol Flynn (THE SEA HAWK) as Jango/Boba Fett/Clone Troopers

Hashing around this idea with our friend Scott Sleeper, he
came up with an interesting list:

James Dean (REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE) as Anakin Skywalker

Sophie Marceau (THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH) as Padme Amidala

Boris Karloff (or maybe Robert England) as The Emperor

Frank Oz as Yoda

Russell Crowe as Obi Wan Kenobi

Hugh Jackman as Luke Skywalker

Katharine Hepburn as Princess Leia

Charlton Heston (PLANET OF THE APES) or Bruce Campbell (EVIL
DEAD 2) (LOL!!) as Han Solo

Kevin Peter Hall (the Predator in PREDATOR) as Chewbacca

Lawrence Fishburne as Lando Calrissian

David Carradine (KUNG FU, KILL BILL) as Count Dukoo

Keith David (PITCH BLACK) as Mace Windu

James Earl Jones as Darth Vader

Jet Lee as Qui Gon Jinn

Yes, we’re geeks.

You’d think if a man hunted snowmen, you’d know the craziest thing you’re ever going to know about him. But when it comes to Sherman Rance and his mumbling idiot friend Everett, shooting snowmen is the sanest thing they do.

Check out the new episode of SNOWMEN HUNTERS, and feel free to click over to our YouTube profile (or double click the player below) to give us the rating you feel is fair. Based on the feedback and emails we’ve received since last week’s premiere, we suspect we’re close to breaking into the top ranks of YouTube comedy. But we’ll need your help, and your 5 star votes, to get there. We’re probably a mere episode or two away… (famous last words…)

But who are we really doing this for, anyway? That’s right.  It’s you. Only you.

Here endith the ass-kissing, and here startith the show. . .

Thanks for watching,
C & R

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