Friday, September 30, 2005
THE AIR IS MESQUITE-FLAVORED
I thought I'd be sheltered from the fires raging in the San Fernando Valley, way out there. It's a pretty good distance so I watched the news and hoped that my friends in the area were safe (stay not on fire, Shane!). Then the Wildwood Canyon area of Burbank burst into flames yesterday. On my way home from gig one yesterday (more on that later), I saw a small plume of smoke on the hill. I thought nothing of it. Later in the day, as a red sun set on the city, I figured that it wasn't just some guy putting out a pile of leaves.
Today, I woke up and my first thought was, "Hey...I don't remember starting a barbeque before I went to bed...?" The stink of burning brush has permeated the air. Even my clothes smell like I've been eating Korean food.
It figures that a place called Wildwood would catch fire. Maybe they need to clear out some of that wild wood and rename the place. They may have to. Charred Canyon's not as pretty, but it may be more appropriate soon.
MY TOP 3 WEIRD ANSWERS TO "WHAT DID YOU DO AT WORK TODAY?"
Here's what I've been up to the last couple of weeks, the latter part of which has been spent working double shifts. (I'm tired.)
1. "I removed dots from a green screen."
There's an extensive green screen sequence I'm working on for some sitcom and since the composite requires some extensive motion tracking, the green screen is covered in black dots to help acquire tracking information. And those dots have to be removed so I've been doing that.
2. "I removed some chick's boobs."
In this television pilot, a gal who decided to bear her massive fake breasts for all to see had a change of heart after seeing the footage. Nevermind that her massive fake boobs take the attention away from her skeletal back (you can almost see her heart beating). So I was charged with doing all I could to cover them and remove them without her looking like a boy.
3. "I threw knives at Jason Lee."
See an upcoming episode of My Name Is Earl. It's the one where knives are being thrown at Jason Lee.
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I thought I'd be sheltered from the fires raging in the San Fernando Valley, way out there. It's a pretty good distance so I watched the news and hoped that my friends in the area were safe (stay not on fire, Shane!). Then the Wildwood Canyon area of Burbank burst into flames yesterday. On my way home from gig one yesterday (more on that later), I saw a small plume of smoke on the hill. I thought nothing of it. Later in the day, as a red sun set on the city, I figured that it wasn't just some guy putting out a pile of leaves.
Today, I woke up and my first thought was, "Hey...I don't remember starting a barbeque before I went to bed...?" The stink of burning brush has permeated the air. Even my clothes smell like I've been eating Korean food.
It figures that a place called Wildwood would catch fire. Maybe they need to clear out some of that wild wood and rename the place. They may have to. Charred Canyon's not as pretty, but it may be more appropriate soon.
MY TOP 3 WEIRD ANSWERS TO "WHAT DID YOU DO AT WORK TODAY?"
Here's what I've been up to the last couple of weeks, the latter part of which has been spent working double shifts. (I'm tired.)
1. "I removed dots from a green screen."
There's an extensive green screen sequence I'm working on for some sitcom and since the composite requires some extensive motion tracking, the green screen is covered in black dots to help acquire tracking information. And those dots have to be removed so I've been doing that.
2. "I removed some chick's boobs."
In this television pilot, a gal who decided to bear her massive fake breasts for all to see had a change of heart after seeing the footage. Nevermind that her massive fake boobs take the attention away from her skeletal back (you can almost see her heart beating). So I was charged with doing all I could to cover them and remove them without her looking like a boy.
3. "I threw knives at Jason Lee."
See an upcoming episode of My Name Is Earl. It's the one where knives are being thrown at Jason Lee.
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Wednesday, September 21, 2005
PRAISE BE TO THE FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER
I have found the religion that may have shaken my faith in science, logic, and critical thinking. Glory be to Him for I have been touched by His Noodly Appendage.
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I have found the religion that may have shaken my faith in science, logic, and critical thinking. Glory be to Him for I have been touched by His Noodly Appendage.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2005
DRAWING AGAIN
Haven't done much drawing in a while but the bug bit me last night so I rattled this out. Finished it pretty late and it's been pointed out to me already that her boots might need some more attention. I admit, I kinda gave up on them at 2am. But maybe I'll revisit them some time later...
It's also posted on the Drawing Board.
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Haven't done much drawing in a while but the bug bit me last night so I rattled this out. Finished it pretty late and it's been pointed out to me already that her boots might need some more attention. I admit, I kinda gave up on them at 2am. But maybe I'll revisit them some time later...
It's also posted on the Drawing Board.
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Monday, September 19, 2005
IF YOU SEE THESE IDIOTS IN BURBANK, THROW GARBAGE AT THEM
How embarassing. On behalf of myself and the thousands of residents of Burbank California, I apologize for these cocksuckers.
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Phony Red Cross workers use Katrina to solicit money in Burbank
The Associated Press
Three people were arrested after posing as Red Cross workers collecting money for Hurricane Katrina victims.
As early as Monday they had set up a table with a donation collection box outside a Best Buy store and displayed fliers that read "Help Now. American Red Cross Relief For Hurricane Katrina," said police Detective Matt Ferguson.
Tino Lee, 44, of Burbank and Liz Nicholas, 22, of Glendale were arrested late Thursday on suspicion of fraud and conspiracy. Lee was held without bail and Nicholas was held in lieu of $100,000 bail, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Web site.
The third suspect, a 14-year-old girl from Pico Rivera, received a citation to appear in Juvenile Court and was released to her parents. She was not identified because of her age.
The three were acquaintances and arrested wearing badges that read "Red Cross Volunteer," police said.
Police said the trio collected as much as $2,000 in cash, as well as a check for $200.
Federal law bars anyone from impersonating a Red Cross worker to solicit funds on behalf of the agency, said U.S. attorney spokesman Thom Mrozek.
"It's upsetting and it's disturbing at the same time," said Red Cross spokesman Nick Samaniego. "We can't have people out there slandering the work that we stand for."
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How embarassing. On behalf of myself and the thousands of residents of Burbank California, I apologize for these cocksuckers.
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Phony Red Cross workers use Katrina to solicit money in Burbank
The Associated Press
Three people were arrested after posing as Red Cross workers collecting money for Hurricane Katrina victims.
As early as Monday they had set up a table with a donation collection box outside a Best Buy store and displayed fliers that read "Help Now. American Red Cross Relief For Hurricane Katrina," said police Detective Matt Ferguson.
Tino Lee, 44, of Burbank and Liz Nicholas, 22, of Glendale were arrested late Thursday on suspicion of fraud and conspiracy. Lee was held without bail and Nicholas was held in lieu of $100,000 bail, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Web site.
The third suspect, a 14-year-old girl from Pico Rivera, received a citation to appear in Juvenile Court and was released to her parents. She was not identified because of her age.
The three were acquaintances and arrested wearing badges that read "Red Cross Volunteer," police said.
Police said the trio collected as much as $2,000 in cash, as well as a check for $200.
Federal law bars anyone from impersonating a Red Cross worker to solicit funds on behalf of the agency, said U.S. attorney spokesman Thom Mrozek.
"It's upsetting and it's disturbing at the same time," said Red Cross spokesman Nick Samaniego. "We can't have people out there slandering the work that we stand for."
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Thursday, September 15, 2005
ROBERT WISE, R.I.P.
Robert Wise, the man who directed two of my favorite movies of all time, The Day the Earth Stood Still and West Side Story, died today. Rest in peace.
ROYBERTITO'S PREMIERED LAST NIGHT!
G4TV decided to air Roybertito's :60 Second Spot instead of the new Dr. Tran short last night. Unfortunately, the big crowning sight gag in Roybertito's was unceremoniously covered up so as to show no joke at all which kinda sucked. However, it did headline the half hour with a big "Hold on to your hats!" at the beginning of the show to herald Roybertito's so that was cool.
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Robert Wise, the man who directed two of my favorite movies of all time, The Day the Earth Stood Still and West Side Story, died today. Rest in peace.
ROYBERTITO'S PREMIERED LAST NIGHT!
G4TV decided to air Roybertito's :60 Second Spot instead of the new Dr. Tran short last night. Unfortunately, the big crowning sight gag in Roybertito's was unceremoniously covered up so as to show no joke at all which kinda sucked. However, it did headline the half hour with a big "Hold on to your hats!" at the beginning of the show to herald Roybertito's so that was cool.
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Friday, September 09, 2005
EDUCATION IN AMERICA
Lindsey was flipping channels this morning and landed on a show on MTV. It's called Made and it features high school kids trying to do things that have nothing to do with their lives or personalities. One particularly enjoyable episode featured a nerdy Jewish kid who wanted to become a rapper. The one we caught a few minutes of today had what looked like a well-off teenaged girl trying to become a snowboarder. Her "Made coach" is a professional snowboarder and in the middle of the show he tells her that he has to go to Vermont for a competition so she'll have to spend the weekend snowboarding without him. She says something like, "You're going to Vermont? Where is that? Canada?"
What the fuck.
By all accounts, this girl probably goes to a great school in a great neighborhood and is living a great life. How in the hell does she make it to 15 or 16 years old without knowing that Vermont is a state in the United States of America?
I have no solutions. I'm just complaining.
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Lindsey was flipping channels this morning and landed on a show on MTV. It's called Made and it features high school kids trying to do things that have nothing to do with their lives or personalities. One particularly enjoyable episode featured a nerdy Jewish kid who wanted to become a rapper. The one we caught a few minutes of today had what looked like a well-off teenaged girl trying to become a snowboarder. Her "Made coach" is a professional snowboarder and in the middle of the show he tells her that he has to go to Vermont for a competition so she'll have to spend the weekend snowboarding without him. She says something like, "You're going to Vermont? Where is that? Canada?"
What the fuck.
By all accounts, this girl probably goes to a great school in a great neighborhood and is living a great life. How in the hell does she make it to 15 or 16 years old without knowing that Vermont is a state in the United States of America?
I have no solutions. I'm just complaining.
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Wednesday, September 07, 2005
NEW DR. TRAN SHORT'S A-COMIN'!
The image above is the beautiful background for the new Dr. Tran short. Breehn made it. Ain't it cute? "Short" isn't just a cool version of saying "short film". This is actually REALLY short. So we figured out a way to pad it a bit with something that includes me that I may end up regretting but I've had fun doing anyway (vague enough for ya?). More details can be had on the Lone Sausage production journal.
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The image above is the beautiful background for the new Dr. Tran short. Breehn made it. Ain't it cute? "Short" isn't just a cool version of saying "short film". This is actually REALLY short. So we figured out a way to pad it a bit with something that includes me that I may end up regretting but I've had fun doing anyway (vague enough for ya?). More details can be had on the Lone Sausage production journal.
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Sunday, September 04, 2005
Open Letter to the President
From the Times-Picayune:
Dear Mr. President:
We heard you loud and clear Friday when you visited our devastated city and the Gulf Coast and said, "What is not working, we’re going to make it right."
Please forgive us if we wait to see proof of your promise before believing you. But we have good reason for our skepticism.
Bienville built New Orleans where he built it for one main reason: It’s accessible. The city between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain was easy to reach in 1718.
How much easier it is to access in 2005 now that there are interstates and bridges, airports and helipads, cruise ships, barges, buses and diesel-powered trucks.
Despite the city’s multiple points of entry, our nation’s bureaucrats spent days after last week’s hurricane wringing their hands, lamenting the fact that they could neither rescue the city’s stranded victims nor bring them food, water and medical supplies.
Meanwhile there were journalists, including some who work for The Times-Picayune, going in and out of the city via the Crescent City Connection. On Thursday morning, that crew saw a caravan of 13 Wal-Mart tractor trailers headed into town to bring food, water and supplies to a dying city.
Television reporters were doing live reports from downtown New Orleans streets. Harry Connick Jr. brought in some aid Thursday, and his efforts were the focus of a "Today" show story Friday morning.
Yet, the people trained to protect our nation, the people whose job it is to quickly bring in aid were absent. Those who should have been deploying troops were singing a sad song about how our city was impossible to reach.
We’re angry, Mr. President, and we’ll be angry long after our beloved city and surrounding parishes have been pumped dry. Our people deserved rescuing. Many who could have been were not. That’s to the government’s shame.
Mayor Ray Nagin did the right thing Sunday when he allowed those with no other alternative to seek shelter from the storm inside the Louisiana Superdome. We still don’t know what the death toll is, but one thing is certain: Had the Superdome not been opened, the city’s death toll would have been higher. The toll may even have been exponentially higher.
It was clear to us by late morning Monday that many people inside the Superdome would not be returning home. It should have been clear to our government, Mr. President. So why weren’t they evacuated out of the city immediately? We learned seven years ago, when Hurricane Georges threatened, that the Dome isn’t suitable as a long-term shelter. So what did state and national officials think would happen to tens of thousands of people trapped inside with no air conditioning, overflowing toilets and dwindling amounts of food, water and other essentials?
State Rep. Karen Carter was right Friday when she said the city didn’t have but two urgent needs: "Buses! And gas!" Every official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency should be fired, Director Michael Brown especially.
In a nationally televised interview Thursday night, he said his agency hadn’t known until that day that thousands of storm victims were stranded at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. He gave another nationally televised interview the next morning and said, "We’ve provided food to the people at the Convention Center so that they’ve gotten at least one, if not two meals, every single day."
Lies don’t get more bald-faced than that, Mr. President.
Yet, when you met with Mr. Brown Friday morning, you told him, "You’re doing a heck of a job."
That’s unbelievable.
There were thousands of people at the Convention Center because the riverfront is high ground. The fact that so many people had reached there on foot is proof that rescue vehicles could have gotten there, too.
We, who are from New Orleans, are no less American than those who live on the Great Plains or along the Atlantic Seaboard. We’re no less important than those from the Pacific Northwest or Appalachia. Our people deserved to be rescued.
No expense should have been spared. No excuses should have been voiced. Especially not one as preposterous as the claim that New Orleans couldn’t be reached.
Mr. President, we sincerely hope you fulfill your promise to make our beloved communities work right once again.
When you do, we will be the first to applaud.
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From the Times-Picayune:
Dear Mr. President:
We heard you loud and clear Friday when you visited our devastated city and the Gulf Coast and said, "What is not working, we’re going to make it right."
Please forgive us if we wait to see proof of your promise before believing you. But we have good reason for our skepticism.
Bienville built New Orleans where he built it for one main reason: It’s accessible. The city between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain was easy to reach in 1718.
How much easier it is to access in 2005 now that there are interstates and bridges, airports and helipads, cruise ships, barges, buses and diesel-powered trucks.
Despite the city’s multiple points of entry, our nation’s bureaucrats spent days after last week’s hurricane wringing their hands, lamenting the fact that they could neither rescue the city’s stranded victims nor bring them food, water and medical supplies.
Meanwhile there were journalists, including some who work for The Times-Picayune, going in and out of the city via the Crescent City Connection. On Thursday morning, that crew saw a caravan of 13 Wal-Mart tractor trailers headed into town to bring food, water and supplies to a dying city.
Television reporters were doing live reports from downtown New Orleans streets. Harry Connick Jr. brought in some aid Thursday, and his efforts were the focus of a "Today" show story Friday morning.
Yet, the people trained to protect our nation, the people whose job it is to quickly bring in aid were absent. Those who should have been deploying troops were singing a sad song about how our city was impossible to reach.
We’re angry, Mr. President, and we’ll be angry long after our beloved city and surrounding parishes have been pumped dry. Our people deserved rescuing. Many who could have been were not. That’s to the government’s shame.
Mayor Ray Nagin did the right thing Sunday when he allowed those with no other alternative to seek shelter from the storm inside the Louisiana Superdome. We still don’t know what the death toll is, but one thing is certain: Had the Superdome not been opened, the city’s death toll would have been higher. The toll may even have been exponentially higher.
It was clear to us by late morning Monday that many people inside the Superdome would not be returning home. It should have been clear to our government, Mr. President. So why weren’t they evacuated out of the city immediately? We learned seven years ago, when Hurricane Georges threatened, that the Dome isn’t suitable as a long-term shelter. So what did state and national officials think would happen to tens of thousands of people trapped inside with no air conditioning, overflowing toilets and dwindling amounts of food, water and other essentials?
State Rep. Karen Carter was right Friday when she said the city didn’t have but two urgent needs: "Buses! And gas!" Every official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency should be fired, Director Michael Brown especially.
In a nationally televised interview Thursday night, he said his agency hadn’t known until that day that thousands of storm victims were stranded at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. He gave another nationally televised interview the next morning and said, "We’ve provided food to the people at the Convention Center so that they’ve gotten at least one, if not two meals, every single day."
Lies don’t get more bald-faced than that, Mr. President.
Yet, when you met with Mr. Brown Friday morning, you told him, "You’re doing a heck of a job."
That’s unbelievable.
There were thousands of people at the Convention Center because the riverfront is high ground. The fact that so many people had reached there on foot is proof that rescue vehicles could have gotten there, too.
We, who are from New Orleans, are no less American than those who live on the Great Plains or along the Atlantic Seaboard. We’re no less important than those from the Pacific Northwest or Appalachia. Our people deserved to be rescued.
No expense should have been spared. No excuses should have been voiced. Especially not one as preposterous as the claim that New Orleans couldn’t be reached.
Mr. President, we sincerely hope you fulfill your promise to make our beloved communities work right once again.
When you do, we will be the first to applaud.
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Saturday, September 03, 2005
AND THEY JUST KEEP DYING
The lack of physical help going out to the people of New Orleans and surrounding areas is just abyssmal and embarassing. What's going on in the White House? Where are the National Guardsmen? Oh yeah...they're doing 3 tours of duty in Iraq.
And annoying as many people find him (even me), Michael Moore gets some things right with his open letter to Bush.
And while some celebrities stick to the script, good ol' Kanye West speaks from the heart. Perhaps ill-timed. Perhaps tactless. But someone had to say it. And anything to make Mike Myers and Chris Tucker look like script-reading jackasses.
There are links all over the internet to help out. Click 'em and donate.
Bush doing his impression of Nero.
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The lack of physical help going out to the people of New Orleans and surrounding areas is just abyssmal and embarassing. What's going on in the White House? Where are the National Guardsmen? Oh yeah...they're doing 3 tours of duty in Iraq.
And annoying as many people find him (even me), Michael Moore gets some things right with his open letter to Bush.
And while some celebrities stick to the script, good ol' Kanye West speaks from the heart. Perhaps ill-timed. Perhaps tactless. But someone had to say it. And anything to make Mike Myers and Chris Tucker look like script-reading jackasses.
There are links all over the internet to help out. Click 'em and donate.
Bush doing his impression of Nero.
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Thursday, September 01, 2005
HOW TO GET LINDSEY TO SEE A WESTERN
Lindsey hates westerns. I like 'em and it's sad that we can't sit down and watch them together. But I always thought that if there were actors in a western that she liked, maybe she'll tolerate one. Brad Pitt to the rescue. All he has to do is show his rippling abdominals once in a trailer.
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Lindsey hates westerns. I like 'em and it's sad that we can't sit down and watch them together. But I always thought that if there were actors in a western that she liked, maybe she'll tolerate one. Brad Pitt to the rescue. All he has to do is show his rippling abdominals once in a trailer.
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