Decorate YOUR FITZMAS TREE - an Interactive Animation, my Best Yet!

[symbolman]

MERRY FITZMAS! I wanted a Damn Fitzmas Tree ever since I heard the term invented RIGHT HERE, and NOW by god I have one, and you can too..

I have labored long and hard on this Interactive Animation (Flash - you may need the most recent flash plugin on your system - at least 6 I think, here's the Macromedia link for player/plugins: http://www.macromedia.com/downloads/#players ) - WHERE YOU can actually DECORATE YOUR OWN FITZMAS TREE, by dragging and dropping Ornaments and dropping them on the FITZMAS TREE - if an Ornament sticks to your "hand" it may be because of the slimy people encased within, just give it another mouse click on the tree to shake it off :)

There are two Flashes that interact with each other - one is the Fitzmas Tree itself, with a box FULL of decorations, the decorations being the Subjects of Indictments, Investigations, etc - something your Right Wing brother-in-law might be interested in knowing, lots of fun facts :)

If you click (click all over the page, lots of surprises on it) on the TITLE's of the Flashes you can go between the Tree itself, and another Flash that will load up with all the Decorations and an explanation of WHO they are, and WHAT they did.. for folks that don't know much about the Plame Outing they can get educated on the Ornaments and then click on back to the Tree and Decorate the Hell out of it :P

Here's two links, the first goes to the Fitzmas Tree itself, but like I said, you can click to the other Flash for more info, or a pal can get more info and Trim the Tree after.. Try this one First:

http://www.tbtmradio.com/flash/merryfitzmas.swf

or you can check out the Ornaments (but maybe miss some surprises where the Presents are) at This Link:

http://www.tbtmradio.com/flash/merryfitzmasornaments.swf

In case you're wondering what that building is in the background, it's the HAGUE, I thought it rather appropriate - and the guys in ORANGE, well, I think you'll recognize them :)

So ENJOY if you will, and do me a favor, keep this KICKED Please - a labor of love, but no sleep for about Three days either.. Pass it around to anyone you think might be interested, but Please also come back here and Let me Know what YOU think of this work, I scrambled brains doing this :)

And don't forget to open the presents under the FITZMAS TREE, I wrapped them special just for YOU.. and Turn Up Those Speakers!

[bbinacan]

1. Great work. n/t

[napi21]

2. THANK YOU!!!! I decorated my tree and laughed the whole time!

It sure was the fun part of my day!!!! Thanks!

Oh, and thanks for the great popup gift!

[HeeBGBz]

3. Well done!

You rock, symbolman. May I share it?

[symbolman]

11. Of course, share it with everone you want to

I'd like to see it get out there in the blogosphere, any where on the web where people need a chuckle.. and only 12 more days until the Season is over.. well, THIS Season is OPEN SEASON for Rove and Fitz has his nose to the ground..

I'm betting two months..

Don't forget to check out my film at Takebackthemedia.com, 2 DVDs worth of in depth Chronology and humor on the Plame outing..

Pass it on Brother :)

[stillcool]

4. Bookmarked for later fun-times...

and recommended for the same.

[symbolman]

34. okay, later times now

how was it.. was it good for you? :)

[havocmom]

5. LOL So fun, Thanks for all your hard work

Sent link to my wayward daughter who LOVES Fitzmas!

[symbolman]

21. Wayward daughter?

If she LOVES FITZMAS then what's wayward about her? :)

[havocmom]

24. Now now, one should not make value judgements based on one issue

Get to know her first... then decide!

She recently confessed to pinching orange flavored chewable children's asprin from her grandmother' s medicine cabinet when she was little. LOL I told her I had loved them too and that's why we didn't keep any at home... then there's the mushroom story... ;)

AND, she's an alburn haired little woman besides: says the fastest way to a man's heart is through his ribcage.

Want her number? :D

[symbolman]

25. If I was 10 years younger (I'm 53 now)

and didn't have a loving wife and an 11 month old son I'd take you up on that - I like to live dangerously, and curiously enough I just BROKE a RIB (bathing my boy of all things), so that's a funny coincidence, LOL!

Sounds like a Beauty, if only we lived forever, and the sixties came back with a vengence, eh?

[havocmom]

26. Broken rib? OUCH. Not good. Take care of yourself.

If the 60s came back with a vengance, us geezers might make a killing teaching seminars on how to avoid some of the pitfalls!

[symbolman]

27. Yeah, the first three weeks were a total bitch with the rib

all those years of bar fighting, football, racing motorcycles, crashing in helicopters in the Tundra of Alaska, gold mining, etc and I break a rib washing my lil boy..

Must be getting old..

Avoid the pitfalls? Man, that's LIFE!.. if you live, I should have been dead a 100 times already :)

[Rainscents]

37. I broke 3 ribs from sneezing over the this past summer... OUCH!

Hurts like hell. I'm still not heal all the way yet.

[symbolman]

41. Man THAT is one hell of a SNEEZE!

I didn't know you could do that, better get some antihistimes and gobble them up all day so it doesn't happen again..

SNEEZING? Wow, that's freaking scary.. are you a little woman, not to be sexist - I mean I fallen out of trees and been thrown by horses and truckbeds, etc and never broke anything other than fingers and toes..

I KNOW it hurts because I DID Sneeze while healing, and it was like the HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES :) I howled so loud halfway through the sneeze that I woke my kid up in the middle of the night.. I think I may have even rebroke it when I did that, did hurt more, had to rewrap for another week..

But it's been three weeks and no more pain really - I mean I'm not going to lift anything heavier than a kid, and the brake job on my old Chevy is going to wait, so it feels like it grew back fast enough, still hurting YOU? I really DO feel your pain :)

UPDATE: My wife says she's heard of people breaking ribs by sneezing.. man that is TOO much,..

Well, for Fitzmas I want you to heal, okay? Drink lots of Egg Nog :)

[Lindsay]

6. Merry Fitzmas to all,

and thanks to Symbolman! Definite holiday cheer there.

[lonestarnot]

7. Any turds with names on 'em?

[symbolman]

32. LOL

Spray paint turds with gold paint and they make excellent ornaments, or Republicans waiting til spring to hatch.. :)

Learned that from Martha Stewart

[FreedomAngel82]

8. Oh how cute!!

So cute!

[DemReadingDU]

9. Excellent, Thank you for all your efforts!

[symbolman]

33. My pleasure

anytime... anytime ROVE GETS FROG MARCHED THAY IS :)

[DesertRat]

10. What fun! thanks n/t

[symbolman]

51. Thanks

I had some fun making it, lots of chuckles, "And HE's going to Jail.. and SHE'S Going to JAIL.. then HE's GOING to Jail.."

big grins that day.. even better when the Rove Frog March begins.. someone should write an anthem, The Frog March of the RovePig" :)

[xxqqqzme]

12. Yes - that is awesome - just sent

it all over the place...What a great holiday gift. Thank you.

[symbolman]

31. And at a Great Price too!

I'm thinking of lowering prices on this flash next week so some of you may want to wait :)

I DO it all for YOU GUYS, you're my inspiration and strokes help a LOT.. if I hadn't had MY stroke I wouldn't be doing this for Free :)

I know, not funny if you've actually had one - I'm not too PC, old school I guess..

BUt a big hearty THANKS to you, glad you enjoyed it and sent it all over the place!

I should send it to the DLC and watch them cringe in HORROR at someone telling the DAMN TRUTH! :)

[symbolman]

13. Kicks

for the morning folks :)

[demobabe]

14. This is a MUST see!

Symbolman put a lot of time into this one - too much fun!

[savemefromdumbya]

15. Merry Fitzmas and Treasons greetings to you!

great job!

[symbolman]

16. Thanks everyone!

I live, breathe, and eat this subject too - I think this is the Premier way to get the word out - I'd like to get this to so many people that someone like Olbermann picks up on it, and I'm sure some Right WIng sites would push it (like they do when they protest a movie that shows Jesus being more human, taking wives, etc) when they don't mean to :)

If you can send this around and post on blogs or whatever I'd sure appreciate it, makes a nice political Xmas gift online -

Oh and MoveOn has an Xmas card contest, tho this is probably a little too radical for them, but they did say if they liked something else besides the winner they'd promote it as well, and the site that did it, so here's another way for me to try to move my "Rove's War" film which I still have going as a fundraiser at Takebackthemedia.com to keep us able to make works like this and films about the media and electronic voting, etc..

Appreciate the FUN comments, nice to make people laugh during times like these :)

[Usrename]

17. This is great!

"Treason's Greetings" :rofl:

[laylah]

18. I have sent this

far and wide. WTG, Symbolman! You are right, it is one of your best works yet. :toast: Merry Fitzmas!

Jenn

[Synnical]

19. Cool - thanks

That was fun! Great Job. :toast:

[symbolman]

20. Glad you're all having FUN with it

what with all this Xmas vs Christmas crap floating around Washington I thought this would kick them in the Pants :)

Thanks for spreading it around too, a fun Merry Fitzmas card for a change.. now if he just indicts that pigman Rove it will be all I want for Fitzmas!

[AndrewJacksonFaction]

22. Broken Links

Broken Links?

[symbolman]

23. Nope, but there was a problem for about a half an hour

thanks for letting me know, I wouldn't have known otherwise and called it in.. I was hoping that it was getting hammered :)

Appreciate the heads up, Merry Fitzmas!

[symbolman]

28. It's working fine.. C'mon IN the FitzTree is FINE

don't miss this, download it for the kiddies if nothing else, word is the Kids are going nuts over this and it's educational as well, if you click over to the Ornaments explanations :)

[SamuelAlito]

29. Patrick Himself

Sometimes comes here. You mind if I let him know about the animation at his blog?

The Right Honorable Samuel A. Alito, Jr.
(the A stands for Awesome)

[symbolman]

30. PLEASE DO

Tell him and anyone there that this is my way of HONORING HIM for literally SAVING OUR COUNTRY!!

Then ask him if he will autograph my shoulder so I can have it tattooed ON :)

DO IT, NOW!! :)

Really would appreciate it.. hey, let him know I have a film called "Rove's War" that I'll be glad to send to him as well at http://www.takebackthemedia.com , which I researched for a year on 2 DVDs - you never know, there MIGHT be something I've come across in those 2 DVDs that someone hasn't checked into, miracles DO happen..

and every time you click on the Novak STAR in the Flash, an angel trips a Republican :)

AND that I'll buy him DOUGHNUTS FOR LIFE, heh..

[symbolman]

35. The word is getting out, the Fitzmas spirit is Spreading :)

Hey, Firedoglake has linked my Fitzmas Tree, so even MORE are going to have a Merry Fitzmas! Please send this off to pals and get it out there so Fitzmas becomes even more of a household word :)

Here's the firedoglake link: http://firedoglake.blogspot.com/

They also link to my "Rove's War" film there with a bit of a review on it, NICE PEOPLE there..

[otohara]

36. That Was Fun

Especially like Laura and Turd Blossom

[symbolman]

38. LOL Yeah, Benjamin Arnold Rove

and good old CRAZY EYES Laura - from that pic of Laura where she looks completely INSANE while posing with the Prince of Wales :)

THANKS!

[OzarkDem]

39. Thanks, Sym!

Great work, lots o fun! I'm passing it around to my friends to celebrate Fitzmas.

[symbolman]

40. Welcome!

Even Kids seem to like it, maybe it appeals to the big kid in all of us - the one that wants the BAD KID to get some "Time OUT", like JAIL for ROVE :)

Appreciate it folks, thanks!

[alfredo]

42. The first link, merryfitzmas.swf didn't load.

I got just a white page. Ornaments did load.

Mac G4 OSX 10.4.3 running Safari

I will try it with another browser.

[symbolman]

43. I'll ask my wife

she's the mac person in the house, I'm the PC guy - she'll know and we'll figure it out.. funny that the ornaments loaded, strange, but then again Flash is a wierd animal and they love forcing people like Quicktime to run to their site and download the latest plugin every 15 minutes :)

Sorry about that, we'll figure it out..

[alfredo]

44. I tried it on Opera and got the same thing. I am on dial up so

I didn't get to see the Ornament site because it was still loading a forty minutes after it began. Your other graphics have worked well for me. It might have been my connection, or the amount of traffic last night.

I'll try again

On edit:

It is acting the same this morning.

[symbolman]

46. I'm fairly certain that it won't work on dialup

and I've had to apologise to some folks for that, but dialup is sort of comparable to looking at a painting through a tube (this is not to diss dialup, I was stuck in the south for a while at one point and their DSL was a Diesel run Modem :) ) -- if just won't work in some cases, like I said with Flash since it's such a wierd animal that sometimes there are so many parameters that there is no way it's going to work..

I wish I could help, but like I said dialup probably won't work.. I remember being on dialup, and I could go make a pot of coffee and paint a barn by the time a file would load, hated it..

I don't know how to make it better, anyone else have any ideas?

I appreciate your persistance! Helps me figure out ways to tailor flashes as well..

A Merry Fitzmas to you anyway.. maybe I can burn it onto a CD and mail it to you? PM me a snail mail if you'd like and I'll send the file on CD so you can see it, will that help?

[alfredo]

47. I am looking at DSL right now, but my budget is rather slim.

You don't need to do that, but if you do, I will make sure my radical friends get a look.

[Bongo Prophet]

45. Great work, symbolman!

i will spread the link around in my small email list of friends....


tech note:
The flash loads quickly and everything pops up perfectly on this 1.2ghz g4/OsX.3.9 machine.

This and comlogic.blogspot.com are now my xmas recommendations for laughter to relieve outrage fatigue.

BP

[rocktivity]

48. Absolutely fabulous, sweetie darling!

And happy holidays to you and the TBTM crew!

:bounce:
rocknation

[fortyfeetunder]

49. This was priceless!

:kick: for the Friday night crowd.

I had fun decorating..time to get a live 'un

And a Merry Fitzmas to you!

[symbolman]

50. Kick for the holidays

Rove's going down any day now :)

[symbolman]

52. A Kick for the Holiday

Don't miss the chance to play with the Interactive Tree and learn all about the players in the Plame outing.. Kids LOVE decorating this tree.. heard that some of the DU'rs have had to pull their little ones off the computer so THEY can decorate the "Merry Fitzmas Tree" themselves :)

Spread the links and,

Enjoy!