This is a Please Respond segment that was supposed to be filmed in Orlando a year and a half ago with Kamphey, but we had to cancel on the actress because other people had already canceled on us. I still think it’s funny.

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So I submitted this to McSweeney’s and it got rejected.

Enjoy…

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So I learned about a week ago that a video Kamphey and I did for SHARP Televisions called Smash Your Television got played on a German TV news spot about viral videos and new media.

We gave the short version to SHARP right after we shot it and it was used as an internet promo, but the extended version we shot (with characters and a plot) has just been languishing on my hard drive waiting to be finished. I still haven’t even shown the actors either version, because I’ve been spending the last year agonizing about finishing it and making it perfect.

Looking back on it (I had to dig it up so I could send the company a high res, broadcast version), it’s really ambitious, high-concept and pretty funny in some places. Maybe I’ll get the balls to show it to someone one day, but for now, screenshots will have to do.

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Hey all,
If you have a bunch of food you’re just planning on tossing when you move out, give it to St. Francis House on Main St. instead…

I spoke with Kent Vann the director at the St. Francis House this morning, July 7, 2008. They have a desperate need for food.

Their pantry shelves are bare. The reserve food they keep in their two large freezers has been completely used up and the freezers have been unplugged to conserve electricity. Hundreds of hungry people come to St. Francis for food each week. Kent tells me that if they don’t get some donations right away, many of the people who come to them for food will leave hungry.

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Too good…

Anti-terrorist drill in Shangdong

(Xinhua/Fan Changguo Photo)

Members of China’s armed police demonstrate a rapid deployment during an anti-terrorist drill held in Jinan, capital of east China’s Shandong Province July 2, 2008, roughly one month ahead of the Beijing Olympics.

by Shaun Spalding, click to enlarge

by Shaun Spalding, click to enlarge

Thirty-nine days until I relocate to San Diego, California and here’s what I’ve learned so far…

Best big cities rank: 5
Population: 1,255,500

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So this is old… Flashback to early 2005 when a perfect storm of events occurred.

• 1. I found out the keyboard I had at home (that we assumed was broken) still worked as a midi controller.
• 2. I was trying to re-learn how to use audio editing programs after having problems with them on a project.
• 3. I’d bought the cheapest vocal mic I could find at Best Buy to do a voice over for that same project.
• 4. I’d just downloaded Fruity Loops 5

And that’s how ended up “writing” a song called Space Beauty Pageant.

“Space Beauty Pagent (Demo)” by The Baby Whales off of their debut record “Songs from the Distant Future: 1973″

I wanted it to be like The Fat Lady of Limbourgh by Brian Eno from Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) — an album where he actually out-Bowie’s Bowie. It ended up sounding like… well… this. It’s an interesting failure.

I blame the questionable instrumentation partially on my not being able to hear the notes as I played them on the broken keyboard, and partially on my inability to figure out how to hear midi sounds in Fruity Loops until I exported them. It’s hard to write a song that you can’t hear until it’s finished.

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