HEY! I'M ENTERING COMPETITIONS NOW!

Thanks to my sister-in-law, I found out about this Doritos "Crash the Super Bowl" competition-type-thing. They challenge everyone to make a 30-second ad, and if it wins... they'll air it during the Super Bowl. Pretty cool, huh?

I struggled at first with trying to fit a an idea into the 30-second limit, but then decided to address the problem within the commercial. Oh, and while I've been animating for some four years now... this is the first time I've ever animated to my own voice. And yes, I have a naturally high "girly voice". Blame my parents.

So anyway, here's the video:

And here's the link to the video:
CLICK HERE TO GO TO VIDEO!
Please go there and comment/vote for it. It would mean so much to all the world's orphans. Wait, did I say "orphans"? I meant me. I would mean so much to me.

HOW COCAINE IS MADE

Knowing that cocaine comes from coca leaves, one might think that creating the white powder is an organic process. As you'll see in this video... it's far from it.

NEED ROBOT INSURANCE?

This clip reminded me of a post on my brother's blog. It seems there's some real robot paranoia out there. Trust "Old Glory" to protect you!

POKEMON KID VS. NINTENDO 64 KID

WHO IS MORE EXCITED?
POKEMON:

NINTENDO 64:

CLASSIC MTV "STATION ID'S"

These ten-second clips aired throughout the early days of MTV. They bring back more memories than I care to admit. Good Lord I watched a lot of television.
MOTEL:

CONSTRUCTION WORKER

FISH TAIL:

SERVICE STATION:

HAIRY M:

REHAB WATCH: MICHAEL RICHARDS

For those of you who missed it, Michael "Kramer" Richards had a legendary meltdown on stage last Friday night. This rant includes almost every taboo racial slur in the book... and it was all captured on camera.

This looks like a job for alcohol (or drug) REHAB!

OHIO STATE WINS MORE THAN THE GAME!

They also win the "Drunken Fan Award" for this impromptu appearance during a Fox News remote piece.

EXTRA EXTRA: JOHN McCAIN CAN READ!

Republican Senator (and Presidential hopeful) John McCain appeared on Meet the Press yesterday. When asked about Iraq, McCain repeatedly showed the ability to look down at a piece of paper and read the carefully crafted "talking points" of his political team. I'm starting to see why right-wingers angrily called Bill Clinton "Sick Willy". Clearly they were jealous of the ability to store facts AND words inside one's head, and then be able to speak about those things in a clear and concise manner.

THE BEST "UNPLUGGED" EVER?

In the 10 (or so) years that MTV's "Unplugged" series aired there were some classic, if not legendary, performances. One such episode featured Eric Clapton singing "Tears in Heaven" just months after his son had died. Another featured Paul McCartney doing numerous "stripped-down" versions of his greatest hits. However, for my money, nothing beats Nirvana: Unplugged.

The concert featured the band doing many of their hits, as well as some amazing covers of songs from the Vaselines, the Meat Puppets, and David Bowie. One such cover was Bowie's "The Man Who Sold the World":

Sadly, this was one of the last televised performances (Nov. 1993) before Kurt Cobain's death in April of 1994. Also, after seeing Dave Grohl front Foo Fighters for so many years, it's a bit strange to see him quietly playing drums in the background. As an added bonus, here's one of the first television appearances of Grohl (and Nirvana) in early 1992:

MORE CRISPIN GLOVER GOODNESS!

A delicious eight-minute interview with Crispin Hellion Glover conducted by VICE Magazine. In it, he covers the finer points of his own feature film directing debut "What Is It", as well as his other performance art endeavors. This dude is the BEST kind of crazy!

ANDREW "DICE" CLAY HAS LOST HIS MIND!

Andrew "Dice" Clay has succeeded in climbing one more rung up the crazy ladder of life. Back in the 1990's no one can forget his tear-soaked interview with Arsenio. Then came his 2003 profanity-laced interview on CNN. And now Dice points his insanity directly at the former MTV "golden child" Tom Green. Clay appeared on Green's internet chat show and proceeds to go all "high school bully" on him.

WORST BURGLAR EVER!

This is security camera footage (no sound) of what could be the most ineffective criminal of all time. It's a miracle that this guy didn't die at least twice during his late-night break in.

REMEMBERING NEWT: 1994

Since last Tuesday's election, there's been much speculation about what the Democrats would do with their newfound power in the House and Senate. In the days leading up to the election, many Republican pundits warned the American people that a Democratic win could lead to endless investigations of the Bush Administration.

I wonder where they got this paranoia of a party "coming to power" and exacting revenge? Hmmmm, maybe this news piece about the Republicans' sweeping victory in 1994 will shed some light. In it, the then newly-named Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich promised to:

"Spend the next 2 years investigating corruption in the Clinton Administration"

My guess is that if the Democrats take advantage like Newt and company did... they'll turn up more than just an Oval Office blow job.

OLBERMANN REPORTS ON RIGHT-WING TERROR SUSPECT

Over the past few months mysterious letters containing white powder have been sent to various left-leaning celebs and politicians. One such letter made it's way to MSNBC's own Keith Olbermann and even got some unwanted press along the way. Well, over this past weekend an arrest was made in the case, and wouldn't you know it... the alleged terrorist is nothing more than an avid Republican.

Keith does a nice job summing up the evidence so far, as well as explaining that this nut has succeeded in doing nothing more than taking up the precious of the FBI. That's the same FBI who could be fighting actual foreign-born terrorists.

DAVID LYNCH AND A COW?

Leave it to Lynch to promote his new movie in the weirdest possible way. Awesome!

The amateur cameramen set the scene:

We drove by Hollywood Blvd. and La Brea (in Hollywood, CA) and saw David Lynch and a cow just chilling, helping to promote Laura Dern for academy consideration for his new film "Inand Empire." CHEESE IS MADE FROM MILK!!!!

JACK PALANCE - (1919-2006)

I learned about Jack Palance's death through comments on my YouTube animation of him. I completed the piece just two months ago, in early September, and wondered if Mr. Palance would ever see it. I also wondered if he would "like it", or want to rip out my heart through my throat.

This type of man is a dying breed. The silent tough guy who can make you flinch without ever moving a muscle.

I thought I'd take this opportunity to re-post the animation:

Invite people to learn more about this amazing indiviual HERE.

And hope that Jack is in a better place where he'll never have to approach "burnout" ever again.

AMAZING FOOTBALL MOVE!

This kid can't decide whether to go "left" or "right"... so he chooses neither!

SASHA BARON COHEN AS HIMSELF...

After seeing roughly a thousand interviews of Borat over the past few weeks, I found this clip refreshing. This is an interview from a few years back with Cohen and Jon Stewart. He's funny as himself... who knew?

Oh, and here's a classic Borat bit for those of you who like that kind of thing.

FOX NEWS ANCHORS SPEAK LIKE DUBYA!

Here's an interesting slip-up. Made even more interesting with her doing it TWICE! Even Sheppard Smith just can't let it go.

And here's Sheppard Smith's own famous Freudian Slip a few years back. No wonder he got such a good laugh at another anchor's faux pas.

A FUNNY (AND WELL-CHOREOGRAPHED) COMMERCIAL

In this commercial, a guy gets caught (almost) at a bar when he should be at a wedding with his girlfriend. Thankfully, his fellow bar mates pitch in to bail him out. (NOTE: If I'm not mistaken, the bar is none other than the world famous "Dresden Room". Made famous in "Swingers" with Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau.)

JACK BLACK'S ANTI-PIRACY PSA

Funny stuff.

SORE LOSER?

Watch Faith Hill's reaction to Carrie "American Idol" Underwood winning Female Vocalist of the Year at the Country Music Awards. You get the feeling that she thought she was gonna win, no?

BORAT ON HOWARD STERN...

Borat on Howard Stern
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GAMBLING WITH JOHNNY CARSON...

Martin Short tells a gambling horror story that took place at Carson's house.

SOMETHING I THREW TOGETHER...

Negative Campaign Ads from Middle Earth. Feel free to pass it on to anyone and everyone.

RIGHT-WINGER IGNORES REALITY!

I know, it's hardly a newsworthy headline, but in this case there's too much evidence (and stupidity) to ignore. This particular situation involves left-wing radio personality Stephanie Miller, and some right-wing retiree named "Sock" from Ohio. It began a few weeks ago with THIS appearance from Miller on the "Hannity & Colmes" show, in which Miller defended Cindy Sheehan.

This, in turn, led "Sock" to write a hate-filled letter to Miller's show in which he hopes for the deaths of BOTH Miller and Sheehan. The entire letter is HERE (a larger, edited version is HERE)... and it begins with this "lively" open:

As with Cindy Sheehan the best thing that could happen to you would be seeing some WONDERFUL activist sticking an AK-47 up your Glory Holes and sending you into eternity.

Now there's not much mystery about what "Sock" would like to see happen here, right? (Note: However there is some mystery as to why he would choose to capitalize "glory holes"? As well as some confusion about what "glory holes" are.) But thankfully, we don't have to "read in" any meaning to the letter. That's because "Sock" provided his address AND telephone number to Miller, and was promptly contacted on-the-air to discuss his feelings.

Miller's first words with "Sock" went like this: "I was just wondering what you were thinking. So you'd like to see me and Cindy Sheehan dead?" "Sock" then replied, "No, I didn't say that."

Really? What else did he mean by "sending you into eternity" then? In fact, the entire letter is one long explanation of how "Sock" would celebrate the deaths of Miller and Sheehan. So why not admit this to Miller? Why not take advantage of the public forum he'd been given? Could this be another right-wing "typewriter hero" and "real-world coward"? You be the judge.

THE ENTIRE PHONE CALL CAN BE HEARD HERE

COFFEE IS FOR CLOSERS ONLY!

Alec Baldwin's classic scene from "Glengarry Glenross". The language is definitely NSFW.

GERALD FORD'S 1976 CAMPAIGN ADS

It's interesting to see how much current campaign commercials can address in just a 30 second ad. It's even more interesting when you see these two ads for Gerald Ford's re-election bid. In the first one, Ford's Pastor takes a whole minute just to get across the point that Gerald Ford didn't do an interview in Playboy Magazine.

And in this ad, singer Pearl Bailey gives her two cents about Gerald Ford. However, she says nothing about his record, accomplishments, or even plans for the future... choosing instead to laud his "simplicity and honesty".

ANOTHER RIGHT-WING MORON: GLENN BECK

If you've never heard of Glenn Beck, consider yourself lucky. Beck is another in the long line of right-wing nuts with high school diplomas, who just happen to be blessed with a deep "radio voice". In fact, Glenn got so popular on the "talkie box", CNN went ahead and gave him his own TV show.

Which brings us to Beck's "John Kerry" rant from today's broadcast. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the recent comments by Kerry, they went like this:

"You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."

Sounds terrible doesn't it? However, what Bush, Cheney, Tony Snow, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and countless other conservatives forget is that Kerry was in the process of mocking President Bush at the time. In fact, his statement just prior to this quote was commenting on Bush was currently living "in a state of denial". Therefore even when Kerry calls Bush a dunce who "got stuck in Iraq", the IDIOT himself can't even realize he's being insulted! Welcome to "soundbyte city" ladies and gentlemen!

As you'll see in the video, Kerry (a Vietnam veteran) sought to clarify his statement earlier today, and yet Mr. Beck continued his assault as if John Kerry never addressed the issue.

By the way, it's interesting to note that as hysterical as Glenn Beck gets over this slight against military service, he's NEVER SERVED a day in any branch of the U.S. Armed Forces. However, according to his Wikipedia page, he does admit being an alcoholic and drug addict throughout his 20's.

Wow, no military service combined with an alcohol and/or drug problem... is that a prerequisite for entry into the Republican Party?