The Dankness of it all.

Wednesday June 18th, @ 10:00pm I will be guest monologist for The Doug Dank Project at PushPush Theater in Decatur.

The Doug Dank Project combines alternating improv and storytelling. The monologist tells a story that then inspires a few improv scenes, that then inspire another story, that then inspires more improv. It goes on like that for about an hour, an hour of pure enjoyment.

I originally performed as an improvisor for Doug Dank when the show first started. It's become a much tighter show since then, and I'm honored to be invited back to tell stories. Thanks guys.

Also, the show is tomorrow, so book your flights now.

You get smaller while the world gets big

The more you know you know you don't know shit.
"The Whiz Man" will never fit ya like "The Whiz Kid" did.

Loss Clunky

Hello,

If you are reading this, then you must truly be a considerate and obliging reader. How do we know this? Because you have endeavored to find new a posting here at clunkyrobot.com. However, as you might have come to realize, your endeavoring mostly returns disappointment.

Where this website was once a consistently and faithfully updated collection of doings and don'tings, it has recently become a shadow of it's former glory. I would even go so far as to say it's a shadow of a shadow. Like a projection or prediction of what this website's shadow WOULD be like, if it even had a shadow, which it does not.

We've got a few big things looming on the horizon here at clunkyrobot. Sadly, most of them have nothing to do with this website. Like the play that RP and I are writing that we will also be preforming in. Or the new show for Adult Swim we're writing that is crushing our soul... in a good way.

As soon as either of these big projects get up and running we'll be back. And we'll actually have projects to talk about, instead of pre-projects that are still in the nerve wracking development stage that can't be talked about because they are constantly changing.

Fair enough?
Oh, not specific enough?

Ok, check back here in a few weeks if you please, we'll probably have something worth saying about something worth talking about.

How's that for specific?

Who's Johnny?

I guess I am... for now at least.

Curt Holman is kind enough to ask me a few questions for our local free newspaper The Creative Loafing.

Questions like:

What's your regular character as a puppeteer?
My character's name is "Lil' Tamo the Robot." Officially his job is to be the snarky straight man to Phineas J. Monkey's goofy clowning. But really it's just an excuse for Lil' Tamo to make jokes specifically for the parents who bring their kids to Uncle Grampa. No child has ever laughed at a Full Metal Jacket joke. But hey, who doesn't love a sarcastic robot who makes semiobscure movie references?

Movin on up.

We're upgrading to Movable Type version 4.0, our weblogging software of choice. If everything goes as planned, we'll see you next week and nobody will notice a difference.

We are very happy with Movable Type. (it's also completely free for personal use) However, there are many choices to consider when picking your weblog software. Here is an article comparing two of the blogosphere's most popular weblogging programs. (Hint: MT wins)

Untill then...

Folded Thinking

And here I thought I'd never relate to an article from the New Yorker...

The author Simon Rich gives us a sort of super self-conscious and slightly paranoid inner dialogue of what he imagined people were saying about him when he was a kid. Wow...

@ thirteen years of age:
“Hey, look, that thirteen-year-old is walking around with his mom!”
“Where?”
“There—in front of the supermarket!”
“Oh, my God! That kid is way too old to be hanging out with his mom. Even though I’ve never met him, I can tell he’s a complete loser.”
“Wait a minute. He’s scowling at her and rolling his eyes.”
“Oh, yeah . . . and I think I just heard him curse at her, for no reason.”
“I guess he’s cool after all.”

I like to overthink things. I like to build large unweildy and unrealistic bridges of comprehension between things that may or may not have anything to do with each other. A sort of Calabi-Yau space of thought folded in on itself a thousand times until it exists in all dimensions at once. That's how I order lunch. You might think that you are just telling me you are out of onions, but I KNOW WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON.

The Theoretical Calabi-Yau space, a main tenant of Super String Theory, this is also where my brain gets trapped

Here's another example. When I walk into a crowded room I immediately start making imaginary flight paths for all objects that exist in that space. Warning! There is a potted plant... avoid. Caution! A small man has stopped in your direct path, make adjustments. Proximity Alert! There is a group of 3 people walking directly towards you, adjust... adjust... Oh No! They're splitting up! For the love of God!
WATCH WERE YOU ARE GOING!

CUT TO STATIC
SIGNAL LOST...

It's hard work.

Block Smashing Cake Action

While reading this Boing Boing post about a multi-teared multi-tiered video game console wedding cake it reminded me of the super awesome Groom's cake that my friends made for me when I got married.

I sent the photo along to the guys at Boing Boing and they made a post about it. I wouldn't have had this great cake if not for the hard work of Matt, Jackie, Nat and Sharie. Thanks again you guys!

Clark Howard's Timed Stoplights

Saturday night we saw this month's episode of the Lucky Yates Talk Show at The Vortex Bar and Grill in Midtown. It was another great show, (our monologue jokes bombed as per usual) and featured local hero and Consumer Activist Clark Howard. He's like the nicest guy in the world. After the show we spoke to him about our iPhone! Even though his official advice was to wait for the "next version" he seemed impressed with it's beauty.

Clark responded to a recent article blog post from our local free newspaper, Creative Loafing, that called for the lovable Howard to run for Mayor of Atlanta! (There's a bit of controversy surrounding this story, as it was aped (re-written) by our NON-free local newspaper The AJC who failed in any way to cite the previous article) Clark Howard seemed open to the idea of running for Mayor, but wouldn't exactly commit quite yet. He did have lots of great ideas for fixing some of ATLs problems. (like timed stoplights, and an effort to remind the City workers that they work for US)

Also making a rare appearance that night was the world's only all-bass Rollie Fingers tribute band: Bases Loaded. Their mustaches proceeded them.

Incidentally...

We sat directly behind AJC blogger Rodney Ho who blogged about the show instead of actually watching it. Seriously, he had his Macbook Pro open and was hunched over typing in his blog practically the whole time. He seems like a nice enough guy, but he really couldn't wait? I don't know... Maybe it's no different than a film critic taking notes on a notepad with a little flashlight during a movie. Although it seems much douche-baggier.

Posted from iPhone.

"Let's ROFLMAO!"

We saw Transformers yesterday. It wasn't terrible and I actually had a blast watching it.

The robots looked pretty awesome, even if it was hard to tell exactly what they looked like sometimes. Especially the Decepticons, they barely slow down enough to see them fully.

I totally called who was going to be the first minor human character to die within 3 seconds of meeting them. It's a Micheal Bay film... there aren't too many surprises. Although the acting from the human characters was pretty admirable, considering.

Some of the dialog was laugh out loud bad, but I don't care how good of a writer you are, trying to shoe horn in "There's more to THEM than meets the eye" is going to feel weird no matter what. There is a lot to look at in the film and always something new and shiny just around the corner. So the film is fun and enjoyable and ridiculous and dumb.

In other news:
I also had some time to make a new iPhone desktop.

Babystar Birther

We interrupt our overly obsessive iPhone coverage to make an important announcement.

Ida Millie Chapman was born yesterday!

Congratulations to Matt and Jackie!

The Dankness of it all.

Wednesday June 18th, @ 10:00pm I will be guest monologist for The Doug Dank Project at PushPush Theater in Decatur.

The Doug Dank Project combines alternating improv and storytelling. The monologist tells a story that then inspires a few improv scenes, that then inspire another story, that then inspires more improv. It goes on like that for about an hour, an hour of pure enjoyment.

I originally performed as an improvisor for Doug Dank when the show first started. It's become a much tighter show since then, and I'm honored to be invited back to tell stories. Thanks guys.

Also, the show is tomorrow, so book your flights now.

You get smaller while the world gets big

The more you know you know you don't know shit.
"The Whiz Man" will never fit ya like "The Whiz Kid" did.

Loss Clunky

Hello,

If you are reading this, then you must truly be a considerate and obliging reader. How do we know this? Because you have endeavored to find new a posting here at clunkyrobot.com. However, as you might have come to realize, your endeavoring mostly returns disappointment.

Where this website was once a consistently and faithfully updated collection of doings and don'tings, it has recently become a shadow of it's former glory. I would even go so far as to say it's a shadow of a shadow. Like a projection or prediction of what this website's shadow WOULD be like, if it even had a shadow, which it does not.

We've got a few big things looming on the horizon here at clunkyrobot. Sadly, most of them have nothing to do with this website. Like the play that RP and I are writing that we will also be preforming in. Or the new show for Adult Swim we're writing that is crushing our soul... in a good way.

As soon as either of these big projects get up and running we'll be back. And we'll actually have projects to talk about, instead of pre-projects that are still in the nerve wracking development stage that can't be talked about because they are constantly changing.

Fair enough?
Oh, not specific enough?

Ok, check back here in a few weeks if you please, we'll probably have something worth saying about something worth talking about.

How's that for specific?

Who's Johnny?

I guess I am... for now at least.

Curt Holman is kind enough to ask me a few questions for our local free newspaper The Creative Loafing.

Questions like:

What's your regular character as a puppeteer?
My character's name is "Lil' Tamo the Robot." Officially his job is to be the snarky straight man to Phineas J. Monkey's goofy clowning. But really it's just an excuse for Lil' Tamo to make jokes specifically for the parents who bring their kids to Uncle Grampa. No child has ever laughed at a Full Metal Jacket joke. But hey, who doesn't love a sarcastic robot who makes semiobscure movie references?

Movin on up.

We're upgrading to Movable Type version 4.0, our weblogging software of choice. If everything goes as planned, we'll see you next week and nobody will notice a difference.

We are very happy with Movable Type. (it's also completely free for personal use) However, there are many choices to consider when picking your weblog software. Here is an article comparing two of the blogosphere's most popular weblogging programs. (Hint: MT wins)

Untill then...

Folded Thinking

And here I thought I'd never relate to an article from the New Yorker...

The author Simon Rich gives us a sort of super self-conscious and slightly paranoid inner dialogue of what he imagined people were saying about him when he was a kid. Wow...

@ thirteen years of age:
“Hey, look, that thirteen-year-old is walking around with his mom!”
“Where?”
“There—in front of the supermarket!”
“Oh, my God! That kid is way too old to be hanging out with his mom. Even though I’ve never met him, I can tell he’s a complete loser.”
“Wait a minute. He’s scowling at her and rolling his eyes.”
“Oh, yeah . . . and I think I just heard him curse at her, for no reason.”
“I guess he’s cool after all.”

I like to overthink things. I like to build large unweildy and unrealistic bridges of comprehension between things that may or may not have anything to do with each other. A sort of Calabi-Yau space of thought folded in on itself a thousand times until it exists in all dimensions at once. That's how I order lunch. You might think that you are just telling me you are out of onions, but I KNOW WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON.

The Theoretical Calabi-Yau space, a main tenant of Super String Theory, this is also where my brain gets trapped

Here's another example. When I walk into a crowded room I immediately start making imaginary flight paths for all objects that exist in that space. Warning! There is a potted plant... avoid. Caution! A small man has stopped in your direct path, make adjustments. Proximity Alert! There is a group of 3 people walking directly towards you, adjust... adjust... Oh No! They're splitting up! For the love of God!
WATCH WERE YOU ARE GOING!

CUT TO STATIC
SIGNAL LOST...

It's hard work.

Block Smashing Cake Action

While reading this Boing Boing post about a multi-teared multi-tiered video game console wedding cake it reminded me of the super awesome Groom's cake that my friends made for me when I got married.

I sent the photo along to the guys at Boing Boing and they made a post about it. I wouldn't have had this great cake if not for the hard work of Matt, Jackie, Nat and Sharie. Thanks again you guys!

Clark Howard's Timed Stoplights

Saturday night we saw this month's episode of the Lucky Yates Talk Show at The Vortex Bar and Grill in Midtown. It was another great show, (our monologue jokes bombed as per usual) and featured local hero and Consumer Activist Clark Howard. He's like the nicest guy in the world. After the show we spoke to him about our iPhone! Even though his official advice was to wait for the "next version" he seemed impressed with it's beauty.

Clark responded to a recent article blog post from our local free newspaper, Creative Loafing, that called for the lovable Howard to run for Mayor of Atlanta! (There's a bit of controversy surrounding this story, as it was aped (re-written) by our NON-free local newspaper The AJC who failed in any way to cite the previous article) Clark Howard seemed open to the idea of running for Mayor, but wouldn't exactly commit quite yet. He did have lots of great ideas for fixing some of ATLs problems. (like timed stoplights, and an effort to remind the City workers that they work for US)

Also making a rare appearance that night was the world's only all-bass Rollie Fingers tribute band: Bases Loaded. Their mustaches proceeded them.

Incidentally...

We sat directly behind AJC blogger Rodney Ho who blogged about the show instead of actually watching it. Seriously, he had his Macbook Pro open and was hunched over typing in his blog practically the whole time. He seems like a nice enough guy, but he really couldn't wait? I don't know... Maybe it's no different than a film critic taking notes on a notepad with a little flashlight during a movie. Although it seems much douche-baggier.

Posted from iPhone.

"Let's ROFLMAO!"

We saw Transformers yesterday. It wasn't terrible and I actually had a blast watching it.

The robots looked pretty awesome, even if it was hard to tell exactly what they looked like sometimes. Especially the Decepticons, they barely slow down enough to see them fully.

I totally called who was going to be the first minor human character to die within 3 seconds of meeting them. It's a Micheal Bay film... there aren't too many surprises. Although the acting from the human characters was pretty admirable, considering.

Some of the dialog was laugh out loud bad, but I don't care how good of a writer you are, trying to shoe horn in "There's more to THEM than meets the eye" is going to feel weird no matter what. There is a lot to look at in the film and always something new and shiny just around the corner. So the film is fun and enjoyable and ridiculous and dumb.

In other news:
I also had some time to make a new iPhone desktop.

Babystar Birther

We interrupt our overly obsessive iPhone coverage to make an important announcement.

Ida Millie Chapman was born yesterday!

Congratulations to Matt and Jackie!

The Dankness of it all.

Wednesday June 18th, @ 10:00pm I will be guest monologist for The Doug Dank Project at PushPush Theater in Decatur.

The Doug Dank Project combines alternating improv and storytelling. The monologist tells a story that then inspires a few improv scenes, that then inspire another story, that then inspires more improv. It goes on like that for about an hour, an hour of pure enjoyment.

I originally performed as an improvisor for Doug Dank when the show first started. It's become a much tighter show since then, and I'm honored to be invited back to tell stories. Thanks guys.

Also, the show is tomorrow, so book your flights now.

You get smaller while the world gets big

The more you know you know you don't know shit.
"The Whiz Man" will never fit ya like "The Whiz Kid" did.

Loss Clunky

Hello,

If you are reading this, then you must truly be a considerate and obliging reader. How do we know this? Because you have endeavored to find new a posting here at clunkyrobot.com. However, as you might have come to realize, your endeavoring mostly returns disappointment.

Where this website was once a consistently and faithfully updated collection of doings and don'tings, it has recently become a shadow of it's former glory. I would even go so far as to say it's a shadow of a shadow. Like a projection or prediction of what this website's shadow WOULD be like, if it even had a shadow, which it does not.

We've got a few big things looming on the horizon here at clunkyrobot. Sadly, most of them have nothing to do with this website. Like the play that RP and I are writing that we will also be preforming in. Or the new show for Adult Swim we're writing that is crushing our soul... in a good way.

As soon as either of these big projects get up and running we'll be back. And we'll actually have projects to talk about, instead of pre-projects that are still in the nerve wracking development stage that can't be talked about because they are constantly changing.

Fair enough?
Oh, not specific enough?

Ok, check back here in a few weeks if you please, we'll probably have something worth saying about something worth talking about.

How's that for specific?

Who's Johnny?

I guess I am... for now at least.

Curt Holman is kind enough to ask me a few questions for our local free newspaper The Creative Loafing.

Questions like:

What's your regular character as a puppeteer?
My character's name is "Lil' Tamo the Robot." Officially his job is to be the snarky straight man to Phineas J. Monkey's goofy clowning. But really it's just an excuse for Lil' Tamo to make jokes specifically for the parents who bring their kids to Uncle Grampa. No child has ever laughed at a Full Metal Jacket joke. But hey, who doesn't love a sarcastic robot who makes semiobscure movie references?

Movin on up.

We're upgrading to Movable Type version 4.0, our weblogging software of choice. If everything goes as planned, we'll see you next week and nobody will notice a difference.

We are very happy with Movable Type. (it's also completely free for personal use) However, there are many choices to consider when picking your weblog software. Here is an article comparing two of the blogosphere's most popular weblogging programs. (Hint: MT wins)

Untill then...

Folded Thinking

And here I thought I'd never relate to an article from the New Yorker...

The author Simon Rich gives us a sort of super self-conscious and slightly paranoid inner dialogue of what he imagined people were saying about him when he was a kid. Wow...

@ thirteen years of age:
“Hey, look, that thirteen-year-old is walking around with his mom!”
“Where?”
“There—in front of the supermarket!”
“Oh, my God! That kid is way too old to be hanging out with his mom. Even though I’ve never met him, I can tell he’s a complete loser.”
“Wait a minute. He’s scowling at her and rolling his eyes.”
“Oh, yeah . . . and I think I just heard him curse at her, for no reason.”
“I guess he’s cool after all.”

I like to overthink things. I like to build large unweildy and unrealistic bridges of comprehension between things that may or may not have anything to do with each other. A sort of Calabi-Yau space of thought folded in on itself a thousand times until it exists in all dimensions at once. That's how I order lunch. You might think that you are just telling me you are out of onions, but I KNOW WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON.

The Theoretical Calabi-Yau space, a main tenant of Super String Theory, this is also where my brain gets trapped

Here's another example. When I walk into a crowded room I immediately start making imaginary flight paths for all objects that exist in that space. Warning! There is a potted plant... avoid. Caution! A small man has stopped in your direct path, make adjustments. Proximity Alert! There is a group of 3 people walking directly towards you, adjust... adjust... Oh No! They're splitting up! For the love of God!
WATCH WERE YOU ARE GOING!

CUT TO STATIC
SIGNAL LOST...

It's hard work.

Block Smashing Cake Action

While reading this Boing Boing post about a multi-teared multi-tiered video game console wedding cake it reminded me of the super awesome Groom's cake that my friends made for me when I got married.

I sent the photo along to the guys at Boing Boing and they made a post about it. I wouldn't have had this great cake if not for the hard work of Matt, Jackie, Nat and Sharie. Thanks again you guys!

Clark Howard's Timed Stoplights

Saturday night we saw this month's episode of the Lucky Yates Talk Show at The Vortex Bar and Grill in Midtown. It was another great show, (our monologue jokes bombed as per usual) and featured local hero and Consumer Activist Clark Howard. He's like the nicest guy in the world. After the show we spoke to him about our iPhone! Even though his official advice was to wait for the "next version" he seemed impressed with it's beauty.

Clark responded to a recent article blog post from our local free newspaper, Creative Loafing, that called for the lovable Howard to run for Mayor of Atlanta! (There's a bit of controversy surrounding this story, as it was aped (re-written) by our NON-free local newspaper The AJC who failed in any way to cite the previous article) Clark Howard seemed open to the idea of running for Mayor, but wouldn't exactly commit quite yet. He did have lots of great ideas for fixing some of ATLs problems. (like timed stoplights, and an effort to remind the City workers that they work for US)

Also making a rare appearance that night was the world's only all-bass Rollie Fingers tribute band: Bases Loaded. Their mustaches proceeded them.

Incidentally...

We sat directly behind AJC blogger Rodney Ho who blogged about the show instead of actually watching it. Seriously, he had his Macbook Pro open and was hunched over typing in his blog practically the whole time. He seems like a nice enough guy, but he really couldn't wait? I don't know... Maybe it's no different than a film critic taking notes on a notepad with a little flashlight during a movie. Although it seems much douche-baggier.

Posted from iPhone.

"Let's ROFLMAO!"

We saw Transformers yesterday. It wasn't terrible and I actually had a blast watching it.

The robots looked pretty awesome, even if it was hard to tell exactly what they looked like sometimes. Especially the Decepticons, they barely slow down enough to see them fully.

I totally called who was going to be the first minor human character to die within 3 seconds of meeting them. It's a Micheal Bay film... there aren't too many surprises. Although the acting from the human characters was pretty admirable, considering.

Some of the dialog was laugh out loud bad, but I don't care how good of a writer you are, trying to shoe horn in "There's more to THEM than meets the eye" is going to feel weird no matter what. There is a lot to look at in the film and always something new and shiny just around the corner. So the film is fun and enjoyable and ridiculous and dumb.

In other news:
I also had some time to make a new iPhone desktop.

Babystar Birther

We interrupt our overly obsessive iPhone coverage to make an important announcement.

Ida Millie Chapman was born yesterday!

Congratulations to Matt and Jackie!

The Dankness of it all.

Wednesday June 18th, @ 10:00pm I will be guest monologist for The Doug Dank Project at PushPush Theater in Decatur.

The Doug Dank Project combines alternating improv and storytelling. The monologist tells a story that then inspires a few improv scenes, that then inspire another story, that then inspires more improv. It goes on like that for about an hour, an hour of pure enjoyment.

I originally performed as an improvisor for Doug Dank when the show first started. It's become a much tighter show since then, and I'm honored to be invited back to tell stories. Thanks guys.

Also, the show is tomorrow, so book your flights now.

You get smaller while the world gets big

The more you know you know you don't know shit.
"The Whiz Man" will never fit ya like "The Whiz Kid" did.

Loss Clunky

Hello,

If you are reading this, then you must truly be a considerate and obliging reader. How do we know this? Because you have endeavored to find new a posting here at clunkyrobot.com. However, as you might have come to realize, your endeavoring mostly returns disappointment.

Where this website was once a consistently and faithfully updated collection of doings and don'tings, it has recently become a shadow of it's former glory. I would even go so far as to say it's a shadow of a shadow. Like a projection or prediction of what this website's shadow WOULD be like, if it even had a shadow, which it does not.

We've got a few big things looming on the horizon here at clunkyrobot. Sadly, most of them have nothing to do with this website. Like the play that RP and I are writing that we will also be preforming in. Or the new show for Adult Swim we're writing that is crushing our soul... in a good way.

As soon as either of these big projects get up and running we'll be back. And we'll actually have projects to talk about, instead of pre-projects that are still in the nerve wracking development stage that can't be talked about because they are constantly changing.

Fair enough?
Oh, not specific enough?

Ok, check back here in a few weeks if you please, we'll probably have something worth saying about something worth talking about.

How's that for specific?

Who's Johnny?

I guess I am... for now at least.

Curt Holman is kind enough to ask me a few questions for our local free newspaper The Creative Loafing.

Questions like:

What's your regular character as a puppeteer?
My character's name is "Lil' Tamo the Robot." Officially his job is to be the snarky straight man to Phineas J. Monkey's goofy clowning. But really it's just an excuse for Lil' Tamo to make jokes specifically for the parents who bring their kids to Uncle Grampa. No child has ever laughed at a Full Metal Jacket joke. But hey, who doesn't love a sarcastic robot who makes semiobscure movie references?

Movin on up.

We're upgrading to Movable Type version 4.0, our weblogging software of choice. If everything goes as planned, we'll see you next week and nobody will notice a difference.

We are very happy with Movable Type. (it's also completely free for personal use) However, there are many choices to consider when picking your weblog software. Here is an article comparing two of the blogosphere's most popular weblogging programs. (Hint: MT wins)

Untill then...

Folded Thinking

And here I thought I'd never relate to an article from the New Yorker...

The author Simon Rich gives us a sort of super self-conscious and slightly paranoid inner dialogue of what he imagined people were saying about him when he was a kid. Wow...

@ thirteen years of age:
“Hey, look, that thirteen-year-old is walking around with his mom!”
“Where?”
“There—in front of the supermarket!”
“Oh, my God! That kid is way too old to be hanging out with his mom. Even though I’ve never met him, I can tell he’s a complete loser.”
“Wait a minute. He’s scowling at her and rolling his eyes.”
“Oh, yeah . . . and I think I just heard him curse at her, for no reason.”
“I guess he’s cool after all.”

I like to overthink things. I like to build large unweildy and unrealistic bridges of comprehension between things that may or may not have anything to do with each other. A sort of Calabi-Yau space of thought folded in on itself a thousand times until it exists in all dimensions at once. That's how I order lunch. You might think that you are just telling me you are out of onions, but I KNOW WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON.

The Theoretical Calabi-Yau space, a main tenant of Super String Theory, this is also where my brain gets trapped

Here's another example. When I walk into a crowded room I immediately start making imaginary flight paths for all objects that exist in that space. Warning! There is a potted plant... avoid. Caution! A small man has stopped in your direct path, make adjustments. Proximity Alert! There is a group of 3 people walking directly towards you, adjust... adjust... Oh No! They're splitting up! For the love of God!
WATCH WERE YOU ARE GOING!

CUT TO STATIC
SIGNAL LOST...

It's hard work.

Block Smashing Cake Action

While reading this Boing Boing post about a multi-teared multi-tiered video game console wedding cake it reminded me of the super awesome Groom's cake that my friends made for me when I got married.

I sent the photo along to the guys at Boing Boing and they made a post about it. I wouldn't have had this great cake if not for the hard work of Matt, Jackie, Nat and Sharie. Thanks again you guys!

Clark Howard's Timed Stoplights

Saturday night we saw this month's episode of the Lucky Yates Talk Show at The Vortex Bar and Grill in Midtown. It was another great show, (our monologue jokes bombed as per usual) and featured local hero and Consumer Activist Clark Howard. He's like the nicest guy in the world. After the show we spoke to him about our iPhone! Even though his official advice was to wait for the "next version" he seemed impressed with it's beauty.

Clark responded to a recent article blog post from our local free newspaper, Creative Loafing, that called for the lovable Howard to run for Mayor of Atlanta! (There's a bit of controversy surrounding this story, as it was aped (re-written) by our NON-free local newspaper The AJC who failed in any way to cite the previous article) Clark Howard seemed open to the idea of running for Mayor, but wouldn't exactly commit quite yet. He did have lots of great ideas for fixing some of ATLs problems. (like timed stoplights, and an effort to remind the City workers that they work for US)

Also making a rare appearance that night was the world's only all-bass Rollie Fingers tribute band: Bases Loaded. Their mustaches proceeded them.

Incidentally...

We sat directly behind AJC blogger Rodney Ho who blogged about the show instead of actually watching it. Seriously, he had his Macbook Pro open and was hunched over typing in his blog practically the whole time. He seems like a nice enough guy, but he really couldn't wait? I don't know... Maybe it's no different than a film critic taking notes on a notepad with a little flashlight during a movie. Although it seems much douche-baggier.

Posted from iPhone.

"Let's ROFLMAO!"

We saw Transformers yesterday. It wasn't terrible and I actually had a blast watching it.

The robots looked pretty awesome, even if it was hard to tell exactly what they looked like sometimes. Especially the Decepticons, they barely slow down enough to see them fully.

I totally called who was going to be the first minor human character to die within 3 seconds of meeting them. It's a Micheal Bay film... there aren't too many surprises. Although the acting from the human characters was pretty admirable, considering.

Some of the dialog was laugh out loud bad, but I don't care how good of a writer you are, trying to shoe horn in "There's more to THEM than meets the eye" is going to feel weird no matter what. There is a lot to look at in the film and always something new and shiny just around the corner. So the film is fun and enjoyable and ridiculous and dumb.

In other news:
I also had some time to make a new iPhone desktop.

Babystar Birther

We interrupt our overly obsessive iPhone coverage to make an important announcement.

Ida Millie Chapman was born yesterday!

Congratulations to Matt and Jackie!

The Dankness of it all.

Wednesday June 18th, @ 10:00pm I will be guest monologist for The Doug Dank Project at PushPush Theater in Decatur.

The Doug Dank Project combines alternating improv and storytelling. The monologist tells a story that then inspires a few improv scenes, that then inspire another story, that then inspires more improv. It goes on like that for about an hour, an hour of pure enjoyment.

I originally performed as an improvisor for Doug Dank when the show first started. It's become a much tighter show since then, and I'm honored to be invited back to tell stories. Thanks guys.

Also, the show is tomorrow, so book your flights now.

You get smaller while the world gets big

The more you know you know you don't know shit.
"The Whiz Man" will never fit ya like "The Whiz Kid" did.

Loss Clunky

Hello,

If you are reading this, then you must truly be a considerate and obliging reader. How do we know this? Because you have endeavored to find new a posting here at clunkyrobot.com. However, as you might have come to realize, your endeavoring mostly returns disappointment.

Where this website was once a consistently and faithfully updated collection of doings and don'tings, it has recently become a shadow of it's former glory. I would even go so far as to say it's a shadow of a shadow. Like a projection or prediction of what this website's shadow WOULD be like, if it even had a shadow, which it does not.

We've got a few big things looming on the horizon here at clunkyrobot. Sadly, most of them have nothing to do with this website. Like the play that RP and I are writing that we will also be preforming in. Or the new show for Adult Swim we're writing that is crushing our soul... in a good way.

As soon as either of these big projects get up and running we'll be back. And we'll actually have projects to talk about, instead of pre-projects that are still in the nerve wracking development stage that can't be talked about because they are constantly changing.

Fair enough?
Oh, not specific enough?

Ok, check back here in a few weeks if you please, we'll probably have something worth saying about something worth talking about.

How's that for specific?

Who's Johnny?

I guess I am... for now at least.

Curt Holman is kind enough to ask me a few questions for our local free newspaper The Creative Loafing.

Questions like:

What's your regular character as a puppeteer?
My character's name is "Lil' Tamo the Robot." Officially his job is to be the snarky straight man to Phineas J. Monkey's goofy clowning. But really it's just an excuse for Lil' Tamo to make jokes specifically for the parents who bring their kids to Uncle Grampa. No child has ever laughed at a Full Metal Jacket joke. But hey, who doesn't love a sarcastic robot who makes semiobscure movie references?

Movin on up.

We're upgrading to Movable Type version 4.0, our weblogging software of choice. If everything goes as planned, we'll see you next week and nobody will notice a difference.

We are very happy with Movable Type. (it's also completely free for personal use) However, there are many choices to consider when picking your weblog software. Here is an article comparing two of the blogosphere's most popular weblogging programs. (Hint: MT wins)

Untill then...

Folded Thinking

And here I thought I'd never relate to an article from the New Yorker...

The author Simon Rich gives us a sort of super self-conscious and slightly paranoid inner dialogue of what he imagined people were saying about him when he was a kid. Wow...

@ thirteen years of age:
“Hey, look, that thirteen-year-old is walking around with his mom!”
“Where?”
“There—in front of the supermarket!”
“Oh, my God! That kid is way too old to be hanging out with his mom. Even though I’ve never met him, I can tell he’s a complete loser.”
“Wait a minute. He’s scowling at her and rolling his eyes.”
“Oh, yeah . . . and I think I just heard him curse at her, for no reason.”
“I guess he’s cool after all.”

I like to overthink things. I like to build large unweildy and unrealistic bridges of comprehension between things that may or may not have anything to do with each other. A sort of Calabi-Yau space of thought folded in on itself a thousand times until it exists in all dimensions at once. That's how I order lunch. You might think that you are just telling me you are out of onions, but I KNOW WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON.

The Theoretical Calabi-Yau space, a main tenant of Super String Theory, this is also where my brain gets trapped

Here's another example. When I walk into a crowded room I immediately start making imaginary flight paths for all objects that exist in that space. Warning! There is a potted plant... avoid. Caution! A small man has stopped in your direct path, make adjustments. Proximity Alert! There is a group of 3 people walking directly towards you, adjust... adjust... Oh No! They're splitting up! For the love of God!
WATCH WERE YOU ARE GOING!

CUT TO STATIC
SIGNAL LOST...

It's hard work.

Block Smashing Cake Action

While reading this Boing Boing post about a multi-teared multi-tiered video game console wedding cake it reminded me of the super awesome Groom's cake that my friends made for me when I got married.

I sent the photo along to the guys at Boing Boing and they made a post about it. I wouldn't have had this great cake if not for the hard work of Matt, Jackie, Nat and Sharie. Thanks again you guys!

Clark Howard's Timed Stoplights

Saturday night we saw this month's episode of the Lucky Yates Talk Show at The Vortex Bar and Grill in Midtown. It was another great show, (our monologue jokes bombed as per usual) and featured local hero and Consumer Activist Clark Howard. He's like the nicest guy in the world. After the show we spoke to him about our iPhone! Even though his official advice was to wait for the "next version" he seemed impressed with it's beauty.

Clark responded to a recent article blog post from our local free newspaper, Creative Loafing, that called for the lovable Howard to run for Mayor of Atlanta! (There's a bit of controversy surrounding this story, as it was aped (re-written) by our NON-free local newspaper The AJC who failed in any way to cite the previous article) Clark Howard seemed open to the idea of running for Mayor, but wouldn't exactly commit quite yet. He did have lots of great ideas for fixing some of ATLs problems. (like timed stoplights, and an effort to remind the City workers that they work for US)

Also making a rare appearance that night was the world's only all-bass Rollie Fingers tribute band: Bases Loaded. Their mustaches proceeded them.

Incidentally...

We sat directly behind AJC blogger Rodney Ho who blogged about the show instead of actually watching it. Seriously, he had his Macbook Pro open and was hunched over typing in his blog practically the whole time. He seems like a nice enough guy, but he really couldn't wait? I don't know... Maybe it's no different than a film critic taking notes on a notepad with a little flashlight during a movie. Although it seems much douche-baggier.

Posted from iPhone.

"Let's ROFLMAO!"

We saw Transformers yesterday. It wasn't terrible and I actually had a blast watching it.

The robots looked pretty awesome, even if it was hard to tell exactly what they looked like sometimes. Especially the Decepticons, they barely slow down enough to see them fully.

I totally called who was going to be the first minor human character to die within 3 seconds of meeting them. It's a Micheal Bay film... there aren't too many surprises. Although the acting from the human characters was pretty admirable, considering.

Some of the dialog was laugh out loud bad, but I don't care how good of a writer you are, trying to shoe horn in "There's more to THEM than meets the eye" is going to feel weird no matter what. There is a lot to look at in the film and always something new and shiny just around the corner. So the film is fun and enjoyable and ridiculous and dumb.

In other news:
I also had some time to make a new iPhone desktop.

Babystar Birther

We interrupt our overly obsessive iPhone coverage to make an important announcement.

Ida Millie Chapman was born yesterday!

Congratulations to Matt and Jackie!

The Dankness of it all.

Wednesday June 18th, @ 10:00pm I will be guest monologist for The Doug Dank Project at PushPush Theater in Decatur.

The Doug Dank Project combines alternating improv and storytelling. The monologist tells a story that then inspires a few improv scenes, that then inspire another story, that then inspires more improv. It goes on like that for about an hour, an hour of pure enjoyment.

I originally performed as an improvisor for Doug Dank when the show first started. It's become a much tighter show since then, and I'm honored to be invited back to tell stories. Thanks guys.

Also, the show is tomorrow, so book your flights now.

You get smaller while the world gets big

The more you know you know you don't know shit.
"The Whiz Man" will never fit ya like "The Whiz Kid" did.

Loss Clunky

Hello,

If you are reading this, then you must truly be a considerate and obliging reader. How do we know this? Because you have endeavored to find new a posting here at clunkyrobot.com. However, as you might have come to realize, your endeavoring mostly returns disappointment.

Where this website was once a consistently and faithfully updated collection of doings and don'tings, it has recently become a shadow of it's former glory. I would even go so far as to say it's a shadow of a shadow. Like a projection or prediction of what this website's shadow WOULD be like, if it even had a shadow, which it does not.

We've got a few big things looming on the horizon here at clunkyrobot. Sadly, most of them have nothing to do with this website. Like the play that RP and I are writing that we will also be preforming in. Or the new show for Adult Swim we're writing that is crushing our soul... in a good way.

As soon as either of these big projects get up and running we'll be back. And we'll actually have projects to talk about, instead of pre-projects that are still in the nerve wracking development stage that can't be talked about because they are constantly changing.

Fair enough?
Oh, not specific enough?

Ok, check back here in a few weeks if you please, we'll probably have something worth saying about something worth talking about.

How's that for specific?

Who's Johnny?

I guess I am... for now at least.

Curt Holman is kind enough to ask me a few questions for our local free newspaper The Creative Loafing.

Questions like:

What's your regular character as a puppeteer?
My character's name is "Lil' Tamo the Robot." Officially his job is to be the snarky straight man to Phineas J. Monkey's goofy clowning. But really it's just an excuse for Lil' Tamo to make jokes specifically for the parents who bring their kids to Uncle Grampa. No child has ever laughed at a Full Metal Jacket joke. But hey, who doesn't love a sarcastic robot who makes semiobscure movie references?

Movin on up.

We're upgrading to Movable Type version 4.0, our weblogging software of choice. If everything goes as planned, we'll see you next week and nobody will notice a difference.

We are very happy with Movable Type. (it's also completely free for personal use) However, there are many choices to consider when picking your weblog software. Here is an article comparing two of the blogosphere's most popular weblogging programs. (Hint: MT wins)

Untill then...

Folded Thinking

And here I thought I'd never relate to an article from the New Yorker...

The author Simon Rich gives us a sort of super self-conscious and slightly paranoid inner dialogue of what he imagined people were saying about him when he was a kid. Wow...

@ thirteen years of age:
“Hey, look, that thirteen-year-old is walking around with his mom!”
“Where?”
“There—in front of the supermarket!”
“Oh, my God! That kid is way too old to be hanging out with his mom. Even though I’ve never met him, I can tell he’s a complete loser.”
“Wait a minute. He’s scowling at her and rolling his eyes.”
“Oh, yeah . . . and I think I just heard him curse at her, for no reason.”
“I guess he’s cool after all.”

I like to overthink things. I like to build large unweildy and unrealistic bridges of comprehension between things that may or may not have anything to do with each other. A sort of Calabi-Yau space of thought folded in on itself a thousand times until it exists in all dimensions at once. That's how I order lunch. You might think that you are just telling me you are out of onions, but I KNOW WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON.

The Theoretical Calabi-Yau space, a main tenant of Super String Theory, this is also where my brain gets trapped

Here's another example. When I walk into a crowded room I immediately start making imaginary flight paths for all objects that exist in that space. Warning! There is a potted plant... avoid. Caution! A small man has stopped in your direct path, make adjustments. Proximity Alert! There is a group of 3 people walking directly towards you, adjust... adjust... Oh No! They're splitting up! For the love of God!
WATCH WERE YOU ARE GOING!

CUT TO STATIC
SIGNAL LOST...

It's hard work.

Block Smashing Cake Action

While reading this Boing Boing post about a multi-teared multi-tiered video game console wedding cake it reminded me of the super awesome Groom's cake that my friends made for me when I got married.

I sent the photo along to the guys at Boing Boing and they made a post about it. I wouldn't have had this great cake if not for the hard work of Matt, Jackie, Nat and Sharie. Thanks again you guys!

Clark Howard's Timed Stoplights

Saturday night we saw this month's episode of the Lucky Yates Talk Show at The Vortex Bar and Grill in Midtown. It was another great show, (our monologue jokes bombed as per usual) and featured local hero and Consumer Activist Clark Howard. He's like the nicest guy in the world. After the show we spoke to him about our iPhone! Even though his official advice was to wait for the "next version" he seemed impressed with it's beauty.

Clark responded to a recent article blog post from our local free newspaper, Creative Loafing, that called for the lovable Howard to run for Mayor of Atlanta! (There's a bit of controversy surrounding this story, as it was aped (re-written) by our NON-free local newspaper The AJC who failed in any way to cite the previous article) Clark Howard seemed open to the idea of running for Mayor, but wouldn't exactly commit quite yet. He did have lots of great ideas for fixing some of ATLs problems. (like timed stoplights, and an effort to remind the City workers that they work for US)

Also making a rare appearance that night was the world's only all-bass Rollie Fingers tribute band: Bases Loaded. Their mustaches proceeded them.

Incidentally...

We sat directly behind AJC blogger Rodney Ho who blogged about the show instead of actually watching it. Seriously, he had his Macbook Pro open and was hunched over typing in his blog practically the whole time. He seems like a nice enough guy, but he really couldn't wait? I don't know... Maybe it's no different than a film critic taking notes on a notepad with a little flashlight during a movie. Although it seems much douche-baggier.

Posted from iPhone.

"Let's ROFLMAO!"

We saw Transformers yesterday. It wasn't terrible and I actually had a blast watching it.

The robots looked pretty awesome, even if it was hard to tell exactly what they looked like sometimes. Especially the Decepticons, they barely slow down enough to see them fully.

I totally called who was going to be the first minor human character to die within 3 seconds of meeting them. It's a Micheal Bay film... there aren't too many surprises. Although the acting from the human characters was pretty admirable, considering.

Some of the dialog was laugh out loud bad, but I don't care how good of a writer you are, trying to shoe horn in "There's more to THEM than meets the eye" is going to feel weird no matter what. There is a lot to look at in the film and always something new and shiny just around the corner. So the film is fun and enjoyable and ridiculous and dumb.

In other news:
I also had some time to make a new iPhone desktop.

Babystar Birther

We interrupt our overly obsessive iPhone coverage to make an important announcement.

Ida Millie Chapman was born yesterday!

Congratulations to Matt and Jackie!

The Dankness of it all.

Wednesday June 18th, @ 10:00pm I will be guest monologist for The Doug Dank Project at PushPush Theater in Decatur.

The Doug Dank Project combines alternating improv and storytelling. The monologist tells a story that then inspires a few improv scenes, that then inspire another story, that then inspires more improv. It goes on like that for about an hour, an hour of pure enjoyment.

I originally performed as an improvisor for Doug Dank when the show first started. It's become a much tighter show since then, and I'm honored to be invited back to tell stories. Thanks guys.

Also, the show is tomorrow, so book your flights now.

You get smaller while the world gets big

The more you know you know you don't know shit.
"The Whiz Man" will never fit ya like "The Whiz Kid" did.

Loss Clunky

Hello,

If you are reading this, then you must truly be a considerate and obliging reader. How do we know this? Because you have endeavored to find new a posting here at clunkyrobot.com. However, as you might have come to realize, your endeavoring mostly returns disappointment.

Where this website was once a consistently and faithfully updated collection of doings and don'tings, it has recently become a shadow of it's former glory. I would even go so far as to say it's a shadow of a shadow. Like a projection or prediction of what this website's shadow WOULD be like, if it even had a shadow, which it does not.

We've got a few big things looming on the horizon here at clunkyrobot. Sadly, most of them have nothing to do with this website. Like the play that RP and I are writing that we will also be preforming in. Or the new show for Adult Swim we're writing that is crushing our soul... in a good way.

As soon as either of these big projects get up and running we'll be back. And we'll actually have projects to talk about, instead of pre-projects that are still in the nerve wracking development stage that can't be talked about because they are constantly changing.

Fair enough?
Oh, not specific enough?

Ok, check back here in a few weeks if you please, we'll probably have something worth saying about something worth talking about.

How's that for specific?

Who's Johnny?

I guess I am... for now at least.

Curt Holman is kind enough to ask me a few questions for our local free newspaper The Creative Loafing.

Questions like:

What's your regular character as a puppeteer?
My character's name is "Lil' Tamo the Robot." Officially his job is to be the snarky straight man to Phineas J. Monkey's goofy clowning. But really it's just an excuse for Lil' Tamo to make jokes specifically for the parents who bring their kids to Uncle Grampa. No child has ever laughed at a Full Metal Jacket joke. But hey, who doesn't love a sarcastic robot who makes semiobscure movie references?

Movin on up.

We're upgrading to Movable Type version 4.0, our weblogging software of choice. If everything goes as planned, we'll see you next week and nobody will notice a difference.

We are very happy with Movable Type. (it's also completely free for personal use) However, there are many choices to consider when picking your weblog software. Here is an article comparing two of the blogosphere's most popular weblogging programs. (Hint: MT wins)

Untill then...

Folded Thinking

And here I thought I'd never relate to an article from the New Yorker...

The author Simon Rich gives us a sort of super self-conscious and slightly paranoid inner dialogue of what he imagined people were saying about him when he was a kid. Wow...

@ thirteen years of age:
“Hey, look, that thirteen-year-old is walking around with his mom!”
“Where?”
“There—in front of the supermarket!”
“Oh, my God! That kid is way too old to be hanging out with his mom. Even though I’ve never met him, I can tell he’s a complete loser.”
“Wait a minute. He’s scowling at her and rolling his eyes.”
“Oh, yeah . . . and I think I just heard him curse at her, for no reason.”
“I guess he’s cool after all.”

I like to overthink things. I like to build large unweildy and unrealistic bridges of comprehension between things that may or may not have anything to do with each other. A sort of Calabi-Yau space of thought folded in on itself a thousand times until it exists in all dimensions at once. That's how I order lunch. You might think that you are just telling me you are out of onions, but I KNOW WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON.

The Theoretical Calabi-Yau space, a main tenant of Super String Theory, this is also where my brain gets trapped

Here's another example. When I walk into a crowded room I immediately start making imaginary flight paths for all objects that exist in that space. Warning! There is a potted plant... avoid. Caution! A small man has stopped in your direct path, make adjustments. Proximity Alert! There is a group of 3 people walking directly towards you, adjust... adjust... Oh No! They're splitting up! For the love of God!
WATCH WERE YOU ARE GOING!

CUT TO STATIC
SIGNAL LOST...

It's hard work.

Block Smashing Cake Action

While reading this Boing Boing post about a multi-teared multi-tiered video game console wedding cake it reminded me of the super awesome Groom's cake that my friends made for me when I got married.

I sent the photo along to the guys at Boing Boing and they made a post about it. I wouldn't have had this great cake if not for the hard work of Matt, Jackie, Nat and Sharie. Thanks again you guys!

Clark Howard's Timed Stoplights

Saturday night we saw this month's episode of the Lucky Yates Talk Show at The Vortex Bar and Grill in Midtown. It was another great show, (our monologue jokes bombed as per usual) and featured local hero and Consumer Activist Clark Howard. He's like the nicest guy in the world. After the show we spoke to him about our iPhone! Even though his official advice was to wait for the "next version" he seemed impressed with it's beauty.

Clark responded to a recent article blog post from our local free newspaper, Creative Loafing, that called for the lovable Howard to run for Mayor of Atlanta! (There's a bit of controversy surrounding this story, as it was aped (re-written) by our NON-free local newspaper The AJC who failed in any way to cite the previous article) Clark Howard seemed open to the idea of running for Mayor, but wouldn't exactly commit quite yet. He did have lots of great ideas for fixing some of ATLs problems. (like timed stoplights, and an effort to remind the City workers that they work for US)

Also making a rare appearance that night was the world's only all-bass Rollie Fingers tribute band: Bases Loaded. Their mustaches proceeded them.

Incidentally...

We sat directly behind AJC blogger Rodney Ho who blogged about the show instead of actually watching it. Seriously, he had his Macbook Pro open and was hunched over typing in his blog practically the whole time. He seems like a nice enough guy, but he really couldn't wait? I don't know... Maybe it's no different than a film critic taking notes on a notepad with a little flashlight during a movie. Although it seems much douche-baggier.

Posted from iPhone.

"Let's ROFLMAO!"

We saw Transformers yesterday. It wasn't terrible and I actually had a blast watching it.

The robots looked pretty awesome, even if it was hard to tell exactly what they looked like sometimes. Especially the Decepticons, they barely slow down enough to see them fully.

I totally called who was going to be the first minor human character to die within 3 seconds of meeting them. It's a Micheal Bay film... there aren't too many surprises. Although the acting from the human characters was pretty admirable, considering.

Some of the dialog was laugh out loud bad, but I don't care how good of a writer you are, trying to shoe horn in "There's more to THEM than meets the eye" is going to feel weird no matter what. There is a lot to look at in the film and always something new and shiny just around the corner. So the film is fun and enjoyable and ridiculous and dumb.

In other news:
I also had some time to make a new iPhone desktop.

Babystar Birther

We interrupt our overly obsessive iPhone coverage to make an important announcement.

Ida Millie Chapman was born yesterday!

Congratulations to Matt and Jackie!

The Dankness of it all.

Wednesday June 18th, @ 10:00pm I will be guest monologist for The Doug Dank Project at PushPush Theater in Decatur.

The Doug Dank Project combines alternating improv and storytelling. The monologist tells a story that then inspires a few improv scenes, that then inspire another story, that then inspires more improv. It goes on like that for about an hour, an hour of pure enjoyment.

I originally performed as an improvisor for Doug Dank when the show first started. It's become a much tighter show since then, and I'm honored to be invited back to tell stories. Thanks guys.

Also, the show is tomorrow, so book your flights now.

You get smaller while the world gets big

The more you know you know you don't know shit.
"The Whiz Man" will never fit ya like "The Whiz Kid" did.

Loss Clunky

Hello,

If you are reading this, then you must truly be a considerate and obliging reader. How do we know this? Because you have endeavored to find new a posting here at clunkyrobot.com. However, as you might have come to realize, your endeavoring mostly returns disappointment.

Where this website was once a consistently and faithfully updated collection of doings and don'tings, it has recently become a shadow of it's former glory. I would even go so far as to say it's a shadow of a shadow. Like a projection or prediction of what this website's shadow WOULD be like, if it even had a shadow, which it does not.

We've got a few big things looming on the horizon here at clunkyrobot. Sadly, most of them have nothing to do with this website. Like the play that RP and I are writing that we will also be preforming in. Or the new show for Adult Swim we're writing that is crushing our soul... in a good way.

As soon as either of these big projects get up and running we'll be back. And we'll actually have projects to talk about, instead of pre-projects that are still in the nerve wracking development stage that can't be talked about because they are constantly changing.

Fair enough?
Oh, not specific enough?

Ok, check back here in a few weeks if you please, we'll probably have something worth saying about something worth talking about.

How's that for specific?

Who's Johnny?

I guess I am... for now at least.

Curt Holman is kind enough to ask me a few questions for our local free newspaper The Creative Loafing.

Questions like:

What's your regular character as a puppeteer?
My character's name is "Lil' Tamo the Robot." Officially his job is to be the snarky straight man to Phineas J. Monkey's goofy clowning. But really it's just an excuse for Lil' Tamo to make jokes specifically for the parents who bring their kids to Uncle Grampa. No child has ever laughed at a Full Metal Jacket joke. But hey, who doesn't love a sarcastic robot who makes semiobscure movie references?

Movin on up.

We're upgrading to Movable Type version 4.0, our weblogging software of choice. If everything goes as planned, we'll see you next week and nobody will notice a difference.

We are very happy with Movable Type. (it's also completely free for personal use) However, there are many choices to consider when picking your weblog software. Here is an article comparing two of the blogosphere's most popular weblogging programs. (Hint: MT wins)

Untill then...

Folded Thinking

And here I thought I'd never relate to an article from the New Yorker...

The author Simon Rich gives us a sort of super self-conscious and slightly paranoid inner dialogue of what he imagined people were saying about him when he was a kid. Wow...

@ thirteen years of age:
“Hey, look, that thirteen-year-old is walking around with his mom!”
“Where?”
“There—in front of the supermarket!”
“Oh, my God! That kid is way too old to be hanging out with his mom. Even though I’ve never met him, I can tell he’s a complete loser.”
“Wait a minute. He’s scowling at her and rolling his eyes.”
“Oh, yeah . . . and I think I just heard him curse at her, for no reason.”
“I guess he’s cool after all.”

I like to overthink things. I like to build large unweildy and unrealistic bridges of comprehension between things that may or may not have anything to do with each other. A sort of Calabi-Yau space of thought folded in on itself a thousand times until it exists in all dimensions at once. That's how I order lunch. You might think that you are just telling me you are out of onions, but I KNOW WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON.

The Theoretical Calabi-Yau space, a main tenant of Super String Theory, this is also where my brain gets trapped

Here's another example. When I walk into a crowded room I immediately start making imaginary flight paths for all objects that exist in that space. Warning! There is a potted plant... avoid. Caution! A small man has stopped in your direct path, make adjustments. Proximity Alert! There is a group of 3 people walking directly towards you, adjust... adjust... Oh No! They're splitting up! For the love of God!
WATCH WERE YOU ARE GOING!

CUT TO STATIC
SIGNAL LOST...

It's hard work.

Block Smashing Cake Action

While reading this Boing Boing post about a multi-teared multi-tiered video game console wedding cake it reminded me of the super awesome Groom's cake that my friends made for me when I got married.

I sent the photo along to the guys at Boing Boing and they made a post about it. I wouldn't have had this great cake if not for the hard work of Matt, Jackie, Nat and Sharie. Thanks again you guys!

Clark Howard's Timed Stoplights

Saturday night we saw this month's episode of the Lucky Yates Talk Show at The Vortex Bar and Grill in Midtown. It was another great show, (our monologue jokes bombed as per usual) and featured local hero and Consumer Activist Clark Howard. He's like the nicest guy in the world. After the show we spoke to him about our iPhone! Even though his official advice was to wait for the "next version" he seemed impressed with it's beauty.

Clark responded to a recent article blog post from our local free newspaper, Creative Loafing, that called for the lovable Howard to run for Mayor of Atlanta! (There's a bit of controversy surrounding this story, as it was aped (re-written) by our NON-free local newspaper The AJC who failed in any way to cite the previous article) Clark Howard seemed open to the idea of running for Mayor, but wouldn't exactly commit quite yet. He did have lots of great ideas for fixing some of ATLs problems. (like timed stoplights, and an effort to remind the City workers that they work for US)

Also making a rare appearance that night was the world's only all-bass Rollie Fingers tribute band: Bases Loaded. Their mustaches proceeded them.

Incidentally...

We sat directly behind AJC blogger Rodney Ho who blogged about the show instead of actually watching it. Seriously, he had his Macbook Pro open and was hunched over typing in his blog practically the whole time. He seems like a nice enough guy, but he really couldn't wait? I don't know... Maybe it's no different than a film critic taking notes on a notepad with a little flashlight during a movie. Although it seems much douche-baggier.

Posted from iPhone.

"Let's ROFLMAO!"

We saw Transformers yesterday. It wasn't terrible and I actually had a blast watching it.

The robots looked pretty awesome, even if it was hard to tell exactly what they looked like sometimes. Especially the Decepticons, they barely slow down enough to see them fully.

I totally called who was going to be the first minor human character to die within 3 seconds of meeting them. It's a Micheal Bay film... there aren't too many surprises. Although the acting from the human characters was pretty admirable, considering.

Some of the dialog was laugh out loud bad, but I don't care how good of a writer you are, trying to shoe horn in "There's more to THEM than meets the eye" is going to feel weird no matter what. There is a lot to look at in the film and always something new and shiny just around the corner. So the film is fun and enjoyable and ridiculous and dumb.

In other news:
I also had some time to make a new iPhone desktop.

Babystar Birther

We interrupt our overly obsessive iPhone coverage to make an important announcement.

Ida Millie Chapman was born yesterday!

Congratulations to Matt and Jackie!

The Dankness of it all.

Wednesday June 18th, @ 10:00pm I will be guest monologist for The Doug Dank Project at PushPush Theater in Decatur.

The Doug Dank Project combines alternating improv and storytelling. The monologist tells a story that then inspires a few improv scenes, that then inspire another story, that then inspires more improv. It goes on like that for about an hour, an hour of pure enjoyment.

I originally performed as an improvisor for Doug Dank when the show first started. It's become a much tighter show since then, and I'm honored to be invited back to tell stories. Thanks guys.

Also, the show is tomorrow, so book your flights now.

You get smaller while the world gets big

The more you know you know you don't know shit.
"The Whiz Man" will never fit ya like "The Whiz Kid" did.