Pure genius
The Kids in the Hall
April 22nd, 2009Because sometimes you just need to laugh…
April 14th, 2009This is too good not to post. If you don’t know what teabagging is, you can check the intertubes…but this whole video is full of awesome.
Holy Cow
April 8th, 2009It’s been a long time since I posted. Basically Blue Sky was teh awesome, but it kept me insanely busy. I would wake up, get on the shuttle to the studio, work all day and into the night, then get on the shuttle back to the apartment and fall asleep. And then I’d wake up and do it all over again.
It was crazy, and cool, and I made some great friends. I didn’t want it to end, but at the same time, I did, because it meant I’d come back home to my family. And that was a good thing.
So anyway, I was catching up on my reading of the intertubes and came across this gem:
h/t Oliver Willis
Blue Sky!
January 29th, 2009So things have moved very quickly over the last week and a half, but to sum up – I got a temp job at Blue Sky to work on Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. I flew out to New York yesterday, and report to work today. The job will last a couple months and will keep me very busy. I am out here on my own – my wife and kids are staying in California.
So it’s a mix of really, really good news (job at Blue Sky), mixed with no-so-good news (leaving family at home). I think this is what they call “bittersweet”.
The End of a Presidency
January 12th, 2009He may not go down in history as the worst. But I’d be willing to bet he’ll go down as one of the worst. As George W. Bush held his final news conference today, various news organizations have begun looking back over the last 8 years and, well, I think Joe Gandelman over at The Moderate Voice put it best:
let’s just say that when they made their list of pluses and minuses they ended an extra page for the minuses . . .
The good news for George Bush: they are not (yet) calling him the worst President ever. The bad news: its clear he is considered one of the most unsuccessful Presidents in recent times and perhaps in history — and historians’ views over the past year have largely coincided with those emerging assessments.
Self doubt and depression
January 9th, 2009They’re a bitch.
Weight Test
January 9th, 2009Weight test coming along. Don’t know why this process takes me so long, but I think I’m too critical of myself during the blocking process. It seems to get results…but it’s just too slow I think. With luck, I should have this ready by the job fair. Not that i think the job fair is going to do much, other than be a means of getting some face time with recruiters, which is good in and of itself.
Anyway, too tired to embed the new blocking. Here’s the link. The timing is about right…maybe a bit fast during the actual lift and a bit fast at the reaction at the end. But I think I’m pretty darn close to taking it out of blocking.
Effed Up
January 8th, 2009A really messed up situation in Oakland. Group of young men fighting on BART. BART officers break up the fight, take the men off the BART and begin handcuffing them. As one of them, Oscar Grant, is on the ground and being subdued by what looks like 3 officers, one of them gets up, draws his gun and shoots Oscar in the back – while he’s pinned down on the ground by the other officers! Oscar later dies.
Video shot on cell phones here
It’s not an easy thing to watch, knowing you’re seeing a young man about to be killed and then the shooting is actually captured on the phone video. You don’t see much other than the officer stand and draw his weapon. You can hear the shot and see the other officers who were subduing Oscar jump back.
I mean…it’s not clear whether Oscar was one of the men fighting or not. But even if he was, there was no need for this. The cops were on the scene in force. They had subdued and handcuffed many other young men already. Oscar appeared to be willing to cooperate (his hands are up in the air at one point before the cops get him face down). And then in an instant, his life is gone.
There’s something drastically wrong with that.
Joe the Plumber, now Joe the War Correspondent?
January 7th, 2009You’ve got to be kidding me.
D’oh! Edit to clean up bad linkage. Bad Jeff, no biscuit!
RIP Ron Asheton
January 6th, 2009Ron Asheton, guitarist for The Stooges, dead at 60.