hurm

Motherless Brooklyn

2009-12-22T21:46:48Z

"She'd been talking in kind of a trance, not needing me to prompt her more than once in a while. As the narrative got nearer to the present day her eyes got clearer, her gaze less transfixed on the distant island, and her voice grew heavier with resentment. I felt I was losing her to bitterness, and I wanted to draw her back. Protect her from herself if there was no other threat."

waiting there for me, yes I do

2009-10-31T18:33:21Z

"Everything is so fragile. There's so much conflict, so much pain... you keep waiting for the dust to settle and then you realize this is it; the dust is your life going on.
If happy comes along--that weird unbarable delight that's actual happy--I think you have to grab it while you can. You take what you can get, 'cause it's here, and then... gone."

10/22/08

2009-10-07T05:52:03Z

me: man, that google noise startles me every time
that "dlunk" that sex I have a new chat message
haha
I meant to type sez
oh man, my brain bears must be rubbin fur coats up there or something

excake: hahah what
lulz

me: like literally pawin some crotch
cuz they got paws

Summer's End

2009-09-28T06:38:34Z

When the summer started I hung a dry erase board in my primary work area and wrote my Summer of Mac goals on it. I wrote all the things I wanted to get done in the time after my job ended but before I became a full-time student. Looking over the list now, only a couple projects have been completed and marked-through. I blame STAG.

I didn't know at the beginning of the summer that I'd be putting on a sketch comedy show. It's been something the just-married Joe Parsons has been talking about with us for a couple years but it wasn't until well into the summer that the endeavor became official. Soon I was in writing meetings once a week, then twice a week. Then rehearsing, filming, editing, and planning. It was great though. Amazing. Looking at the finished product, there's still a lot of room for improvement but it's something that I had never done before and was thrilled to have been a part of.

One of my favorite moments happened minutes before the show. We were underneath the stage and heard the Alamo ad reel start to play "Timebomb" by Beck. Joe, Ben, Scott, Ximena, David and myself linked arms and huddled up. A couple of us gave an impromptu pep talk. At that moment with the loud music and the crowd waiting above I could sense all the nervousness and excitement and anticipation and I felt like I was riding on top of it and that everyone in that huddle felt the same way. I remember what I said in the huddle. It wasn't overtly personal but I'm going to keep it to myself nonetheless.

The STAG crowd was a sold-out 170 something people. Not that big when compared to another crowd I had just performed in front of. A month earlier, August 14th I went with Master Pancake to perform our Lord of the Rings show at Quakecon. Quakecon is a video game convention held outside of the DFW metroplex in Grapevine, TX. The crowd that night was 1,400 people. That... was something else. Hearing the roar of that many people laughing at one of your jokes was a little frightening and a lot fun.

For people who've seen a Master Pancake show before you know there's a drinking game for every movie that ties in to a drinking game generated chosen by the audience. You shout the phrase and then take a drink. For this show, the cue was an extreme close-up of the ring of power. The drinking game phrase selected by the crowd was "bawls deep", a reference to the caffeine drink BAWLS that was passed out free to every attendee.

The process of taking suggestions from a crowd of 1,400 people was not an easy or orderly process, but good god damn - when it came time for them to shout the phrase - I didn't think it was possible for 1,400 people to have that kind of harmony when yelling. The first time the entire crowd yelled "bawls deep" like a convention room of rapt Marines, the hair on the back my neck felt like it might never unstraighten. Scary and amazing at the same time.

After the show, we were treated like conquering heroes as we walked around the convention. There were also some drunken antics but nothing too bad.

Between the my last Summer of Mac update and the end of August, we have the following stats:
4 podcasts
3 radio shows
3 Austinist posts
1 show of Master Pancake: Lord of the Rings at Quakecon
1 open mic night

The open mic night was really an open stage night. Mascot Wedding and the STAG crew preformed three sketches at Austin No Shame theater in preparation for STAG. I think the crowd was about 15 people, but it was actually really helpful. After one performance failed to even get the slightest of reactions we decided to do it as a video instead and it turned out waaaay better. If you're clever, you can find videos of those three performances on Facebook.

Also during that time I went to my cousin's wedding in Maine, I got accepted into the Texas Creative Program, I competed with the KOOP Killwatts softball team, and Mascot Wedding finished another short video.

Now Summer is over. Shit, September is almost over. I am now a full time student. My berfday has come and gone. I am now 29 years old. So yeah... "Summer of Mac". Pretty stupid, I know. I didn't do half of what I originally planned to do, but I'll be damned if I didn't fucking do some shit. Shit I didn't see coming at the close of May. If you expand the time window from May 23rd (our Mascot Wedding trip to New Orleans) to September 13th (STAG), and look at everything that happened between there, it's gonna be real hard to top that. These were some intimidating months. It definitely has not all been great. There were a lot of nights with no sleep. There was driving in my car and finding out my dog was dead. There was not speaking to someone. There was feeling crushed and frustrated. There was loneliness. Some of it feels so far away as fresh wounds and responsibilities have cut short any sort of off-season I thought I might get.

Looking back, to think of these past few months as the "Summer of Mac" now feels like a gross misrepresentation of what these experiences have been about. The moments both good and bad that I'm going to remember years from now were made remarkable by the presence and involvement of my friends. Times change, people change, blah blah blah change change change - I just hope that, whatever happens, my friends can look back at this micro-journey and know how happy it made me to feel like I was part of something. That creation was made beautiful and fun through collaboration. That I had partners.

The world we seize

2009-09-28T02:18:37Z

Levi's is running a pretty stirring commercial right now. Wild end of the world youth images with Walt Whitman's "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" playing over it. Do I have a increased positive perception of Levi's because of it? Not telling. But it did make me look out my window at the sunset and the spectrum of possible emotion and think maybe there was some place to go. Then I got in my car and thought about how young I am still and how maybe driving faster with the radio louder I could somehow never grow old. Then I drove past a hunched over old man who couldn't walk to the bus stop without stopping to lean on a parked car and catch his breath and I felt stupid and drove home. If you were to dash your head against the asphalt, there's only just blood in your brain. Nothing better.

Appendix
Commercial
Thoughts on Walt Whitman

Constrictor

2009-09-24T04:17:07Z

Summer is gone gone gone. I believe today is the first official day of Fall plus it's been cold these last two days, but it never feels like Summer in September. It can be hot as hell outside but if it's September, it still feels like a glass with maybe a smidgen of cocktail and melted ice left. It's hard to call that a drink. If Summer is over, the Summer of Mac is for sure over.

Man, right now I do not feel in any kind of shape to have just finished any season of me. I feel mentally bruised, sore and spun. I didn't feel that way last week, I should have written this then.

"Summer of Mac is over?" you say. "That can't be right, if it was certainly I would have read about it in the papers." Well you read about something. The Mascot Wedding Show won a Best of Austin Critic's Pick from the Austin Chronicle, "Best Saturday Night Date." Honestly, I was surprised and thrilled to see it in the paper. Nobody told me it was going to be in there. I just scrolled down to it online, spit out the chips I was eating and began jumping around my living room, yelling profanities, and then called David. If I'm being super-honest with you, winning one of these has been a secret wish of mine. The comix anthology I created and edited, Lawless Comix, tied for something one year, but it won the year after I stopped editing it. I felt proud of the recognition but more pride for the people that were still doing it than for myself (so the year I stop, it wins something?). Master Pancake has won twice in a row now, but I feel like congratulating John and Joe, not myself.

I'm making too big a deal of this, I know. The writer who wrote it probably could have just been dissatisfied with the way her "Best kick-ass migas" article was turning out and went with option two. Well, I'm glad she did. I was smiling the rest of the day. "Hey guy on the bus next to me, (points at self with thumb)... Best of Austin right here."

Of course, y'know, there's David too. We work hard together on the show. We butt heads about it sometimes. We work together on projects outside the radio show all the time, and sometimes it's hard, for both of us, to leave that outside the studio. You spend enough time with someone you're going to get on each others nerves. We're not always in the best of moods every week but when 6 o'clock rolls around we turn that monitor up up up and and bring it. It's nice to have something you put a lot of work into get some recognition. It's funny though, because since we got the write-up we haven't had a "real" show. They've either been membership drive shows, or one of us has been absent. In fact, we won't have a regular, back to basics, David + Mac and no asking for pledges, until four weeks from now.

Wow, I just meant to mention the write-up and then wrap-up my Summer of Mac stuff. Looks like I got to ramblin'. I'll stop here for now. The awards party is tomorrow. I'll take some pics.

What stag is

2009-09-10T15:55:30Z

Let me tell you about "Stag." Joe Parsons, Ben Bartley and Scott Chester did a live sketch comedy show a couple years ago called Stag and have been talking since about doing another one and asked if Mascot Wedding wanted to get involved. Next thing you know, David and I are in writing meetings two times a week.

Part of the appeal was doing something different and new, of course, but the original impetus was to find something else for Mascot Wedding to do. We've been talking about doing our own stuff for a while but for some reason we work better with an occasion to rise to.

These past three or four weeks it feels like 4 or 5 night a week I'm either shooting video, discussing, or rehearsing for the show. As of right now, some of the videos are still waiting for some finishing touches but it's looking like everything will be ready before Sunday. Between David and myself, I think we wrote 9 of the sketches that are in the final show. Although everyone in the group has contributed in numerous ways.

I don't really want to describe the show in any more detail because I'd like as much as possible to be a surprise. It's tricky though because I grabbed so many of friends to help out with the videos.

For those interested in attending, the show is this Sunday, September the 13th at 7:10 PM at the downtown Ritz Alamo Drafthouse. The show is scheduled for one night and one night only. Tickets are available here. I hope to see you there.

The world will keep spinning

2009-08-31T06:24:01Z

The summer of mac has one day left. I guess I owe you an update, livejournal. I also owe myself some sleep.

Sleeping is giving in

2009-08-04T17:29:43Z

Last week's stats:
1 Austinist post
1 Radio show
1 Open mic performance

Last week started out sad because of my dog. It also wasn't as productive a week as I wanted it to be. Wednesday I think I slept around 12 hours. Had a couple revelations while doing stand-up on Thursday thanks to a conversation with David and another comedian. Friday was something I hope I'll remember for a while. The weekend was spent working on stuff including a school project. Two and half writing meetings last week.

Will this week be a good? Not sure but I did happen to look down at my mileage last night at just the right time to notice this:

Good omen?

The Seven Capital Cities of Doubt

2009-07-27T18:33:09Z

Last week's stats:
1 radio show
1 stand-up performance
1 Austinist post
1 podcast

Last week got off to a tough start. Soreness and a tough softball loss to Emo's. We gave-up an 8-run lead and lost on a home-run in the bottom of the ninth.
I didn't have class on Wednesday, which provided a break from bike-riding and ample time to rest. Thursday I went to cap city to see a friend open up for a touring comedian who was pretty funny even if his choice of a closer joke was bizarre. Friday night meant an in-store performance and an open mic at Coldtowne. Saturday, Dinos at Beauty Bar.

I finished season four of Six Feet Under. More meetings. More class. More time on the bike. More drinx. More sleeping. More un-returned messages.

This summer has been a balance of distractions. Trying to distract myself so I don't spend so much time thinking about the same thing. Trying to not give in to distractions so I can work. Trying to stay in the moment instead of thinking two moves ahead.

I went to San Antonio on Sunday. When I was there I wanted to spend some time with my old dog. Petting her and listening to the way she was breathing made my eyes swell and burn but I manged to keep it together. I don't want to write about that till I have to so I won't. It seems like nothing and everything at the same time.

I felt like I coasted a little too much last week. I'll try and do better this week.

Oh on Monday I got to class and sitting on the desk next to me was a paper flower I had made from the ripped edges of spiral notebook paper. I made it the previous Friday and it had survived the weekend. So I took a picture of it:

Ignition up this week. Discipline! Action! Focus! Distraction!

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

2009-07-27T17:56:31Z

I biked past a car this morning parked out front of the Littlefield dorm with a license plate that said "NAZISH."

I left out the part where I couldn't stop crying

2009-07-22T19:23:23Z

Sixteen dollars. That's the cost of being sore. That's what it cost me to park my car at a UT garage Monday and last Thursday because I was too sore to ride my bike to campus.

So last Monday I started class. I'm now a student again. When I got my student ID, the dude working the counter noticed my last one was issued in 2000. He asked me what happened. "Were you just taking a shower one day and the decided not to come back?"
"No I'm a grad student now."
"Ah. That was what someone told me one time. That they were just taking a shower one day and then decided school wasn't for them and then they re-renrolled ten years later."
Keep in mind the counter guy had an eastern European accent. I think that makes the story better.

I also saw the Hurt Locker last Monday. There's a part at the end where someone is in the cereal aisle of grocery store. You see shelves of Cap'n Crunch, Frosted Flakes, etc but there's only one box of Golden Crisp. Without looking at each other Ximena and I both said Golden Crisp! out loud at the same time and then started lolzing around in our chairs because of it. The people around us weren't pleased. Great movie though.

Tuesday I rode my bike to class for the first time. I also had a Stag meeting and a KOOP softball game. More about Stag at a later date. The softball game was against the Brentwood Donkeys. Our team was disqualified before we even started the game because no women showed up to play for our team. We're supposed to have at least three. We actually have five on our roster but do to various reasons (injury, pregnancy) none showed up. Too bad because it was our best game by far. They stopped the game after eight innings and it was 41-7 at that point.

Wednesday more class, more bike-riding. I have to admit it feels pretty good to not have to use a car to get somewhere. Wednesday night David and I met for a nightcap at Nomad. While we were there someone recognized our voices from the radio show. What? That's something can happen? That kind of blew my mind a little bit.

Thursday was another open mic at the Velveeta Room with David. As has been the case, David and I always end up on opposite ends of the bill. This time he was first and I was third from the last. I did the set I wanted to do the previous week. I was happy with some stuff, other stuff still feels a little stilted. That's what open mics are for, getting a feel for things. When I went up, the crowd was maybe a quarter full and mostly comedians. I got a lot of handshakes and compliments afterward which was nice. Then we stomped on over to Mugshots and ran into half the Alamo Ritz workforce.

Friday was another open mic, this time Coldtowne's Punchline. Only thirteen comedians as opposed to the Velveeta Room's thirty-three and you also get an extra minute. Coldtowne is a much smaller venue, only seats about thirty-five but the place was full and the crowd was mostly non-comedians. My set went really well. I tried out a new bit which got a surprisingly good reaction. This year's FPIA winner was the closer. Bryson Turner. Hilarious and really complimentary after the show. I was also able to ride my bike there which felt kind of cool. Nothing like walking or riding through your neighborhood to make it feel more like yours. Afterward David and I got a nightcap at Barfly's and I biked it on home to watch some Six Feet Under.

Saturday ended up super fucking busy. No surprise there. Another Stag meeting in the morning, followed by softball practice, radio show prep, radio show, and then an Alternative Softball League party that night. The softball practice was important because thanks to Long and Ben our roster now has five more girls on it and some were coming out to practice for the first time.
The party that night had Sumo suits. Y'know, these things:

What looked like the simple fun of bumping into each other wearing giant balloon suits, was actually a grueling thirty-two person wrestling tournament. Mandy, one of the girls throwing the party commented on how the suits were perfect because everyone there had competitive streaks they try to keep in check. I wrestled five people that night, made it to the finals before losing and was about the sorest I've ever been the next day.

I spent most of Sunday feeling beat-up followed by another softball game. I played horribly but KOOP cruised to victory thanks to the play of our new recruits and some improved fielding. After I got home I had to finish a project for class and only got two hours of sleep.

Monday was a day of atonement. After I got home from campus (driving, not riding) I slept pretty much the rest of the day and night.

Stats:
1 radio show
1 podcast (which is about the MW New Orleans trip)
1 Austinist post
2 open mics

Summer of Mac, beeches

We're day to day and you know it

2009-07-15T21:12:07Z

Last week's stats
2 Podcasts
1 Radio show

I also bought a bike, something I had been meaning to do for a while. So far, I'm three days into summer class and have ridden it to school and back two of those days. The result is my ass is really sore. Well not at the moment. I've showered and am now sitting comfortably but right after class, when I got back on the bike... ouch.

Last Thursday I went to go see Spoon at Stubb's. When I first got to Stubb's I was not really feeling super hot and earlier I tonight about trying to unload my ticket but those feelings left when Spoon came on. That is their power, at least for me. Great show.

Right before I entered Stubb's, my sister called and wanted to know if I wanted to see a midnight show of Bruno. I didn't know Bronwyn was so eagerly awaiting this movie but I said yes. Bronwyn was pretty shocked by a lot of it. I gotta say, I'm surprised by how many people are shocked that Bruno is shocking. My sister didn't finish Borat because she heard it was gross but was eagerly awaiting Bruno, which she told me was going to be about "fashion and models". The Onion had this to say, "Oh, that Sacha Baron Cohen. He's totally unpredictable. You never know what to expect from him unless you've seen all his other work."

Anyway, during Bruno I kept getting texts from David who was drinking at our favorite conversation piece, Nasty's. So after the movie I drove down there for a night cap and to watch tipsy David yell about sports with another bar patron.

Other stuff happened last week too. Meetings. More movies. Gnashing of teeth. Saturday night I was having a bad go of it, couldn't get to sleep. I managed to get my mind off of things by thinking through what I'd put in my will. Probably a side effect of watching too much Six Feet Under but it quieted my mind down and let me pass out.

As it comes

2009-07-07T05:07:19Z

When I was a kid, July was about the month I started to get nervous. Because after July, oh shit it's August and then here comes school. Well, next week the second summer session starts and if all goes well with my adviser tomorrow I should be starting class then.
Stats:
5 shows of Independence Day at the Ritz
1 Austinist post
1 podcast

I would have liked to have added a radio show and more podcasts in there but Pancake practice and shows prevented it. I also created a Facebook group for Mascot Wedding which didn't really take any time at all but I'm adding it on there. I also expected to do another open mic night at the Velveeta Room as well. I signed up ahead of time, I showed up on time but I didn't check in with the bartender so I didn't get top go on. I didn't check in last week but still performed. The host checked to see if some absentees were in the audience were there before moving on but not this guy. I didn't find this out of course until the emcee announced the last comic of the night and I was still sitting there going over my Batman bit in my head. It kind of sucked. I wrote a new bit that day, Ximena and David (who did go on) waited an extra hour for me, and all that nervous energy waiting creates that gets poured out when I go on stage stayed bottled up. That was the worst part; getting amped up and then just going home. I couldn't think straight when I closed out my tab so I ended up significantly over-tipping. At least someone benefited.

I also went down to San Antonio to visit my Dad in the hospital. He's out now and he's not going anywhere and that's all I'm going to say about that.

I spent most of today dealing with the fallout of my air conditioning crapping out Saturday night. I'd like to kick the shit out of this week I really would. I would also like to make wings and watch a movie and maybe go swimming. I now have cold air blowing out of holes in my house. That's a good start.

Triple Digit Heat

2009-06-29T20:52:22Z

I woke up this morning feeling slightly beat-up from the weekend. I went to San Antonio on Saturday and had way too much fun. So much fun I can't even tell you about it, livejournal.
I also woke up only vaguely remembering my summer goals. I still haven't even looked at them today. And it looks like I might not get too much done today as I have master pancake practice in an hour. Five, count them, five shows of mocking Independence Day this weekend at the Alamo Ritz.

So I missed the radio show this week because I was in SA, so this week's stats are as follows:
2 podcasts edited
1 Austinist post
1 Open mic night performed at

That is correct, David and myself went down to the Velveeta room on Thursday for their weekly open mic. I'd have to say it was a success. David went 8th and just killed. Killed. Fuck that guy for being so funny. I went 41st or around there, and got steady laffs from a much smaller crowd than when David went. We're going to try and pick up the reins and start doing a lot more of these. I'm not going to announce them anywhere or browbeat friends into coming because these really are just practice but you'll hear if anything substantial comes along.

Summer of what have I done?

2009-06-22T16:19:51Z

Summer of Mac got off to a slow start last week. I got some organizational stuff and worked on various projects but not as much as I would have liked. I got sunburned at softball practice. I drank way too much on Thursday night, and mistook one acquaintance for another calling someone by their wrong name for at least an hour before a non-drunk clued me in.

I wanted this time to feel like a summer vacation and not like unemployment, but right now it feels somewhere in between. I'm definitely relaxing and crossing things off my to-do list but I also feel unconnected at the moment. Being at home most of the day talking to yourself will do that. I woke-up last Monday already feeling the self-imposed pressure of this pretend non-season. Why did I talk this up? Why couldn't I just have played this by ear instead of throwing goals all over the place? Where am I going to hang that white-board?

NEwayz. I've since calmed down a little.

So, lots of irons in the fire, natch, but last week saw these finished products:
1 radio show (on which we gave away some Jenny Lewis tickets... see, you should have listened)
1 Austinist post
1 podcast.

If you'll notice, mascotwedding.com is no longer just forwarding to a wordpress blog. It is now its own site... consisting solely of a wordpress blog (hmm). I added a new audio player as well. The new page isn't close to being finished so it is not making the list this week even though it took up a big chunk of time.

Week two ho! I want my scalps!

Summer Home

2009-06-04T17:38:01Z

Hello livejournal.
I remember back when I was working at The Front, this one coworker (we'll call him Mittens), declared that it was going to be the Summer of Mittens(!) the same way George on Seinfeld declared it the Summer of George once. I remember instantly disliking this. Summer of Mittens? Bah! All Mittens was going to do is play video games, drink and get fast food at 1 AM. Sounds like a great summer, sure, but that's everyone's summer! That ain't no summer of Mittens! You can't claim a summer like that!

I originally thought I was going to have more time. My current job was supposed to end back in May but has been extended and will now end next week. I also did another run of Mater Pancake shows, mocking Rocky IV. I start grad school here in Austin in August, although I'll be taking one class in July. So my window has shrunk a little bit, but I'm going to still try. Try for what? Summer of Mac.

Mascot Wedding's recent trip to New Orleans would have originally been the kick-off date, but now it will have to serve as an awesome awesome awesome pre-party/prequel. That trip really deserves its own entry... one more thing to do this summer. So what do I hope to do with the Summer of Mac? Get a lot done. Originally it was going to be to take on all new projects but since my time is a little shorter than i thought I'll try to narrow it down to eliminating my to do list and getting a good start on some other projects. So stuff like Bill and Erik will be back. MascotWedding.com should get some more attention. An encore run of one of my favorite Master Pancake shows is also waiting in the wings. Long, that thing you and I started working on - I'm going to try and get that back on the rails. I'm also going to try and get outside some more, maybe do some summer stuff I haven't done in a while like tubing. I'll be updating as the summer progresses. Possibly annoyingly often.

But the Road to Summer of Mac has been going pretty good. MPT's Rocky IV went well. The MW trip was a success. Got some more video-writing lined up. The extra two weeks on the job put some extra coin in my pocket.

I realize this whole thing is pretty self-centered, but hey it's my livejournal fer chrissakes, isn't that the point? if it helps you can view this as a way to keep me from spending all my free time on the couch (but I did just sign up for Netflix... uh oh).

My summer starts June 15. I'll try and do a good job with it.

The Grand Tour

2009-04-30T19:00:21Z

The next time we're blasting some probe into deep space, and we make a little welcome package for aliens (should they come across it), we should just include a device that plays funny cat videos.

Cat In A Box @ Yahoo! Video

I think we'll be judged well as a species.

News and notes

2009-04-29T16:00:30Z

Spurs lost to the Mavs last night ending their season. Tim Duncan and Tony Parker played well but that was about it. I thought before the playoffs that if Manu was healthy the Spurs could contend but after the way the role players collectively no-showed during the series, I don't know. I appreciate the minutes Poppovich gave to rookie George Hill last night. It's nice to see some effort made to develop young talent. I'm still disappointed that Ian Mahimini couldn't get any playing time this year (due in part to injuries).

There's one year left on Manu's contract. If last night's game proved anything it's that the core of the Spurs line-up, Tim and Tony is still solid. The role-players however... yikes. We'll see what the Spurs do in the offseason I guess.

I still do not get the sense of entitlement around the ACL Festival. Facebook is full of people bitching about the line-up. If you don't like it, don't go. If you already bought a ticket, you can easily make a profit selling it before the show. Did people expect it to be some super kewl line-up? Yeah I'm a little disappointed in it too, but should have I expected more from a festival that Ben Harper headlines every year? Why can't ACL just be something fun to do that weekend? NEwayz...

This weekend is the last chance to catch David and myself making fun of Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring alongside Master Pancake Theater. Mascot Wedding even has a short LotR video playing prior to the show. These shows will sell-out so buy your tix sooner rather than later. Insider tip: the late shows have had more "into it" crowds over the last two weeks so plan accordingly.

Still more wooden acting

2009-04-15T19:06:34Z

Here's another Owen-penned DadLabs video featuring me, this time sporting a shorter version of my action beard.

Hot Dad Action: Circumlocution
by DadLabs

I did it on my lunch break and finished that beer before I left. Count it. Here's the facebook page for Hot Dad Action.

I want you to be my prize

2009-04-14T17:34:04Z

A lot of good trailers out right now. I'm excited about Moon, Extract, and I'll admit it, the Hangover. I el-oh-elled twice at the trailer, when the door hits the baby and also the Mike Tyson/Boogie Nights thing.

This upcoming weekend has, in the past, been described as my favorite of the year. Why it's the start of the NBA Playoffs. Oh sweet playoff basketball, you're the reason I have cable. But this year... meh, not that excited (still a little excited though). Odds are I'll have to watch the Spurs lose because Manu Ginobili's sexiness will be confined to a suit on the bench due to his bad case of the Argentinian foot chompers (or whatever). The first round should still be fun (right?). I'm also going to busy this weekend. Two Master Pancake Lord of the Rings shows on Friday and two on Saturday (get your tix here), the Mascot Wedding show also on Saturday, and then a softball game on Sunday, KOOP vs Waterloo. On a side note, my new yellow knee-high socks got here from American Apparel and I am jazzed about it. Care about it! Although, one man's knee-high is this man's calf-high. Why hasn't anyone started the site StupidHipsterClothesForTallDudes.com?

Lemme see... anything else? Oh yeah. I've slowly been re-watching Arrested Development on DVD. Oh man, still so fucking good. I'm still coming across jokes I missed the first and second time. Like when Lindsey is working out she's watching the work-out tape on Kegel exercises called like "EZ-Kegel with Rebecca Kegel", or something like that.

Did anyone else watch the YYYs on SNL? I watched the clips online and I gotta say I'm disappointed they played "Maps". As much as I love Maps, I'm more curious as to what the songs on their new album are going to sound like live. URG... I haven't bought ACL tickets and I wasn't planning on it, but what if the YYYs are the bill? I'll have to go. Even if they're playing at Stubb's or whatever that same weekend I'll have to go.

Something I am not excited about right now? Comic books. I haven't been to the comic book store since the last Scott Pilgrim came out. I haven't even read all the stuff I got at Staple. Maybe it's a symptom from my lack of Bill and Erik work, that the sight of comics makes me feel depressed I don't have more time for m'boys.

Oh and another thing, the Funniest Person in Austin competition is already like two weeks in. Shit, I totally meant to do that this year. I also totally meant to do some more stand-up this year which TOTALLY did not happen. Mascot Wedding alum Joe S did, and for interested parties, here's what Matt Bearden said in his review of Joe's round, "Joe Shaffer needs a magic trick and a puppet. Stat."

Is it 1 yet? I think I'm going to walk the five block to Jamba Juice and get a muffin and a smoothie. Mmmmm, smooooovies.

Please don't have my crazy

2009-04-13T17:17:08Z

I hate this song a little less now.

I thought he was a Democrat

2009-03-17T19:58:10Z

Mainstream comics are like any other medium where if something is successful, copycats will start popping up as fast as possible. One minor yet successful recent trend was having a guest appearance by Barack Obama, or at least sticking him on the cover. Erik Larsen can't stop doing it. Marvel sold through five printings of Amazing Spider-man 583. But leave it to dumb ol' Rob Liefeld to one-up everyone.

Wow.

The wind between buildings

2009-03-04T08:48:26Z

Man I just sent off a dead stupid sign for our table at Staple this Saturday. They said they could have it back to me in time. I hope so because this thing is awesome in a retarded 2AM way. It was Dave's idea too, so if it comes out you can blame him. I'd post it here, but I want to see the look on the faces of the MW crew. Pics will be taken.

The only thing left is I need a table cloth to fit an 8 foot table. Any ideas where I can haz? I also need a tequila shot and 10 hours of sleep. I lost it a little at one point today, which I blamed on being tired. But I walked to the post office during lunch which was nice.

Oh, I've been working a new job downtown. Have I not mentioned that here? I also have a 24/7 parking pass for a garage on 6th street. BUT the job also goes away in three months. Everyone has been real pleasant/awesome so far.

This is a lame post. You're a lame post. Are you wearing a soft shirt today?

I know that you will have the right words

2009-03-03T08:15:37Z

Sleep? I'll sleep when I'm dead.
(Oh shit)
Or this weekend.
(Oh what?)
Whichever comes first.
(Oh shit AGAIN)