Posted: July 30th, 2006 under Internet Video.
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My roommate Tony came home the other day with this drawn on his own finger and I about died laughing when he rubbed his nose while we were having a conversation. He says people actually have this tattooed on themselves from time to time. I generally don’t grok tattoos. There is no imagery that I am so attatched to right now that I could imagine still being attatched to as an old man. But this? This I could see myself enjoying quite a bit. Not that I’m seriously considering it…

And now that you’ve read it here, you have no reason to re-read it on flickr. I just saved you some time. Pay me.

Posted: July 30th, 2006 under Miscellaneous.
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Potential second, or even first, best thing ever to happen in the world.

Posted: July 23rd, 2006 under Internet Video.
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I decided to try to be better about putting my phonecam pictures up on flickr. There are four new ones as of today that amuse me. The adjacent one is of the toilet in my apartment’s bathroom. It has lately become a surface for multiple-medium grafitti. The Museum of Modern Art is talking to us about having it installed in their galleries, but you go to the blog so you get to see it first. Bling.

Also, my flickr pro account silently vanished the other day, and nobody told me a goddamn thing. I totally had to reproify my account to upload these. Bugger.

Posted: July 21st, 2006 under Miscellaneous.
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This will be short on account of I’m at work at the moment, and they might hire me for tomorrow too, so it’s best to Look Productive. I just wanted to report my presence in the audience of my friend Jesse Meyerson’s appearance on the MTV program “Yo Momma”.

Now, aside from the fact that this show should have been done in ‘97 if it wanted to catch a a humor craze as it shifted from the inner city to the white suburban crowd, and aside from the fact that MTV totally misspelled “ya mamma,” the show would appear to be pretty funny from what I saw.

Jesse did not advance, but I would say he put up a worthy effort. The contest didn’t appear to be not rigged from where I was standing. But hey, it’s reality television. You don’t go on it to not be exploited, do you?

Posted: July 20th, 2006 under Miscellaneous.
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Here are some music videos from my favorite band:

Posted: July 17th, 2006 under Internet Video.
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Having been in college for the past three years has precluded my financially from investing in a television. Televisions are quite useful for people in my line of study, as they can double as an editing monitor, but they can also spell disaster for one’s constant desire to be up to date with the goings on around town. You can argue that they rot your brain, and maybe they do, or maybe the people who feel at risk for that have rotten brains to begin with.

Either way, nobody can deny that there are certain cultural advantages to being abreast of what’s currently good on television. I just discovered a good way to discover good shows without owning a television or bothering to watch all the riffraff that they also put on the airwaves (modern television seems to endeavor to generate quality programming by attrition: if there are millions of shows, a handful are bound to be good).

The show I’ve lately become enamored of is “Pen & Teller’s Bullshit!” The format of the show is that they pick a topic, usually something really safe and uncontroversial like The Bible, abstinence-only ‘education’, or criminalization of prostitution, and call bullshit on the socially dominant beliefs surrounding said topic. It’s one topic per show, and in the half hour provided, they do some serious rending of your previously firm beliefs. Plus it’s funny and they do magic tricks.

But how did I discover this show absent a television? The internet, obviously. The site is called Throw Away Your TV, but they don’t seem to exclude visitors who simply haven’t bought one. And they have tons of shows on there. It’s pretty great. You know what you should do? You should…

Ch-check it out.

Posted: July 14th, 2006 under Internet Video.
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My friend Ben Joseph made this last fall around the same time I was working on my Ninjas and Pirates picture. I happen to think it’s pretty awesome, and I hope you do too. I was involved in the casting process of this flick, and the leading man, Van Hansis, has gone on to fame and fortune as a regular character on a soap opera. He can thank Ben and me in his daytime Emmy acceptance speech.

Posted: July 11th, 2006 under Film and Video.
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Posted: July 9th, 2006 under Miscellaneous.
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I’m working on this sci-fi side-project right now. It’s a feature-length script that appears to be demanding a retelling in novelistic prose, and I am trying to accommodate it. One of the hard things about writing about how stuff is in space is that I haven’t been asked to crew on a single shuttle mission, despite my letter campaign demanding that NASA consider me for one. So I’ve had to rely on videos and stuff from zero gee experiences some of the pampered, well connected bastards that get picked have put out. Here’s some stuff I just discovered about what liquids do in zero gees. Yeah they’re low res, but they’re the best I have until I stow away on a shuttle.

Ch-check it out.

Posted: July 9th, 2006 under Miscellaneous.
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