Coffee Cups on TV - Stop Being Broken
Continuing to evolve my tiny show. This time we added other people, multiple angles, a memorized script and production stills.
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23 May 2009
Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenocerous
My friends and I made a music video for a Flight of the Conchords lipdub contest:
Please watch it in high definition.
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13 January 2009
New Favorite Submit Button
Instead of “Submit” or “Go” or whatever, they use a little e-mail icon to start a new e-mail newsletter subscription.
Hottt.
4 November 2008
Three Admirable Reasons to Vote McCain
1) You think his tax policy is sound
This is either because you are incredibly wealthy and want to retain all the money you can, or you’ve been misled by the Republican promises of “trickle-down economics”. But all the evidence of the Reagan and Bush tax plans points to the contrary. Rich people, when given tax breaks, don’t invest in the country’s future, they invest in their own futures.
If it’s because you’re very wealthy and want to conserve your money, well I can’t argue with that, except to suggest that maybe you want to show a little compassion to your fellow citizens. Besides, I’m not worried about this group, since they’re in an extreme minority. What worries me is that in order to make sure this minority achieves a majority vote, Republicans have tied their provably-false tax policies in with more morality-focused promises:
2) You want to stop abortion
I totally sympathize with this. Who wouldn’t want to live in a world where abortion could be avoided?* (Maybe abortion doctors, but they can find other jobs.)
But the truth of the matter is that five Republican Presidents have had twenty-five years between them to outlaw abortion, and we’re still deeply divided on the issue. Even John McCain seems not particularly committed (when asked to vote whether he supports Roe v. Wade, he declined to vote either way).
I believe with all my heart that McCain is yet another Republican Presidential contender who is promising change on the abortion issue, and who has no plans at all to deliver on that promise. I can’t predict the future, but I have twenty-five years of evidence. Instead of potentially wasting your vote on this heated issue, you should probably do more to prevent accidental pregnancies, like Obama wants to do.
3) You want to win the war on terror
It would be great if we could clean up every single terrorist, brush off our hands and say, “whoo! That’s done. Everybody loves America, again.” But we’re fighting an enemy whose goal is war itself, and by bin Laden’s own words: destryong America’s economy. How do you fight an enemy whose primary goal is war?
* There are, of course, many more reasons why abortion shouldn’t be made unsafe and illegal, but I wanted to concentrate on the aspects that McCain voters would agree with right away.
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20 October 2008
Helping Sarah Palin
I’m writing this in a sincere attempt to help Governor Sarah Palin out of a really weird place that she put herself in. Her sister used to be married to an Alaskan State Trooper who by all accounts acted like a jerk and wasn’t a particularly good cop.
Later, we found out:
An Alaska ethics inquiry found that Gov. Sarah Palin, the U.S. Republican vice presidential candidate, abused the power of her office by pressuring subordinates to fire a state trooper involved in a feud with her family, a report released on Friday said.
She knew this was coming, and could have responded one of three ways:
- She could have apologized. Americans love this, and reporters almost never argue with it.
- She could have said she didn’t agree with the findings of the legislative panel that put out the report (nevermind that the panel was 10 Republicans and 4 Democrats).
- She could have pointed out the inconsistencies in the report, which simultaneously condemns her behavior and says that she didn’t do anything illegal or improper.
Instead, she chose option four, and said, “There was no abuse of authority at all in trying to get Officer Wooten fired.“
I don’t know, maybe that’s her way of saying, “I disagree with the report,” but to me it sounds like she’s saying, “I didn’t read the report and I don’t intend to.”
It’s not too late to apologize. Seriously. We’ll eat it up, and we can move on and talk about differences in policy instead of who is the most corrupt candidate.
13 October 2008
The Difference Between Cats and Dogs
A dog will be your friend even when it seems like nobody else will.
A cat will be your friend only when it seems like nobody else will.
24 July 2008
Free rating card artwork
I was annoyed that I couldn’t find any high-quality artwork for this movie / film / trailer / preview / rating card / green screen image anywhere online, so I recreated it (then I cleaned up the spacing and alignment a little).
If I were a screenwriter, I’d make a poster of this and hang it on my wall for inspiration.
Download the full version in glorious 1920 × 1080 PNG format.
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22 May 2008
