Things to Watch

My girlfriend would be proud: Tune in to CBS tonight for the premiere of painfully, underrated sitcom How I Met Your Mother. You won't be disappointed. Bonus points for guest star Mandy Moore being hilarious in the preview I saw of this episode a few weeks back. Here's the homepage

Also: Comedians of Comedy: Live at the Troubadour, premiering Saturday on Comedy Central,uncut and uncensored @ 1 AM (oops, I guess that's Sunday); it's about 70 minutes. I was the assistant editor on this, BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE! Next Tuesday, the 2nd of October, is the DVD release of CoC: Troub- the real, extended cut with two and a half hours of everyone who's everyone in alt-comedy: Patton Oswalt, Brian Posehn, Zach Galifianakis, Maria Bamford, Sarah Silverman and Steve Agee, Dana Gould, Jasper Redd, Bob and David(though I think their sets were cut), and the list goes on. If you like the comedy, buy the DVD. it's the lollapalooza of laughter.
Here's the link to the Comedy Central show

The Post Script: Retarded Policeman- a friend of a friend's video. Totally hilarious and brilliant. Check out their YouTube profile for the rest of their videos. All of which are awesome.

I really should be playing videogames right now

I've been working more lately, which is all fine and dandy, but it's SUCH a nice day out and I really should be playing videogames.

I mean, come on, what better way to spend the last day of summer than by sitting inside and thrashing punks in Streets of Rage? Or morphing into lion-wolf beasts in Altered Beast? Or shotgunning orcs to death in Blackthorne?

I just unearthed my old copy of maybe the greatest videogame of all time- SKITCHIN'. As a Sega Genesis kid, I always wondered if they could possibly make a better videogame than Road Rash- you know, the game where you were a motorcycle racer, except it was more about beating people to near death and watching them fall off their bikes and die screaming across the red asphalt. Oh yeah, without getting caught by the cops, because letting the open road murder your enemy is still a crime in the lower 48.

But Skitchin' did it. It was Road Rash, except instead of being a motorcycle racer you were- ready for this?- A PROFESSIONAL ROLLERBLADER. And you were in a race to win, and you could beat up your opponents, but the key was this- you were racing through two way traffic and while you were "skatin'" you could "hitch'"onto the backs of cars and use them to speed in front of your opponents- hence "Skitchin'"

Sure, you had pipes and chains and baseball bats to beat the snot out of the other rollerbladers, but the real fun was staying next to them, whack them a few times with a two by four into oncoming traffic and watch them take a beige Chevy Tahoe to the noggin, sending them floating through the air only to hit a billboard and get picked up by the cops. AWE. SOME.

Halo can go fuck itself. Skitchin' was the apex of modern videogaming.

Super Car!

I made this miniature almost three years ago and pulled it off the top of my refridgerator this afternoon to finish it. And by finish it, I basically repainted it and shellacked it with dirt around the wheel wells for some texture.

I'm currently obsessed with establishing a legitimate "portfolio" of work I've created- artwork, sculpture, etc. So I've been finishing and retouching other models and miniatures and starting on a few new ones.

The picture was taken against a sheet of 49 cent posterboard from Rite Aid, using the crappy 60 watt bulb showering light all over the room. My camera makes it look pretty good. I'm happy with it and can't wait to post more.

Great Moments in American Headlines

I heard about this on Saturday and my jaw hit the floor. Here's the amazing headline from Entertainment Weekly:

"KID NATION INTRODUCES YOUNGSTERS TO JOYS OF DRINKING BLEACH"

The story that was relayed to me in the following paraphrased way:

apparently there was confusion as to what was in some bottle so a kid drank it (BLEACH) said, "Hmmm...this tastes funny" and handed it to another kid for the very adult task of getting a second opinion. "yeah," said the second, and required a third to concur.

I'm not sure what exactly was/is the outcome, because the show starts airing on Wednesday night.

I understand the concept is to get the kids to act like grownups and see if they'll create the new roman empire or start fashioning spears and hunting each other, but if I was running the show I might...relent after three kids drink bleach.

Also, did I mention that the kids are in a ghost townin the middle of New Mexico? yeah. Fucking brilliant television. I. CAN'T. WAIT.

Here is a link to a great article followed by the unbelievable trailer for Kid Nation.
Watch it, but don't be surprised if by the end you've pulled out ALL OF YOUR HAIR.

Jeff Crocker on 101 People More Normal Than You

I did a short run of drawings for Matt Gourley's summer web-art epic-

101 People More Normal Than You

Mine can be found at numbers 76-80.

But make sure to click through all of them as there are some other great guest artists, like Andy Goldblatt and Jeremy Carter.

Margaritas are the new Pinkberry

Pinkberry is out, people. Sorry.

Now, on those hot, late summer days, everyone's going out to El Torito or Acapulco's to get a sweet refreshing citrussy refreshment garnished with fresh fruit and loaded with youth-enhancing tequila cultures.

This is good news to a lot of people that A.) already know this fact, and because B.) there aren't a lot of Pinkberry's in cities that don't end in 'York' or 'Angeles.'

It's also great because you can make a delicious margarita at home, no need for some sort of fancy powder and milk and water and the crack-fucking-cocaine they put in it to make you crave more.*

All you need are some limes, some tequila, triple sec, and ice. And salt, very important not to forget the salt. Pinkberry doesn't have any sugar, but it also doesn't have salt. You lose, Pinkberry. Margaritas have a TON of salt all along the rim of the glass, so it cannot be avoided.

Spread the word. If you're coming home from the beach, why not stop and pick up a delicious maragarita from your local cantina? Does Pinkberry have a Spanish name for it's locale? I think not.

Margaritas are the new Pinkberry.





*They've amended the Wikipedia entry for Pinkberry so it now links to the page defining "Chasing the dragon."

New video for Rob Schrab - Scud @ Comic-Con!

I edited this video as part of Rob Schrab's on-going behind-the-scenes documentation of making the last issue of his comic book, "Scud: The Disposable Assassin."

It's important for a few reasons-
1.) This issue has been anticipated for ten years.
2.) The previous issue left on such a huge cliffhanger that we are all foaming at the mouth.
3.) I was a huge Scud/Schrab fan way back in the day.

It's also fun to hear Rob talking about comic books, because as long as I've known him personally, he's been making films.

The comic's going to be awesome. Watch the video and enjoy a little slice of Comic-Con!

If you want to see more you can check out Rob's website, RobSchrab.com, where he posts updates, artwork, short films, and other assorted behind the scenes fun times.