This picture triggered an existential crisis for me today. I think that makes it art….

…right?

nevver:

le Bat

Bet you thought I forgot today.

Da7e as Dog

Today Is: 07/28

Da7e is: Dog on Lawnmower.

Here’s the Thor trailer. 

I realize it’s a leak, pirated footage, meant for those attending Comic Con to describe to their friends on their blogs. 

But the toothpaste is out of the tube and this is just my blog where I talk about how inconvenient my life is. And you know what’s inconvenient? Me not seeing the Thor footage.

I’m fine not seeing Captain America’s costume, because that was just test footage. This is a trailer made for Comic Con, it’s what the people behind Thor wanted to make more important by making it exclusive. And that would have been totally fine, except it leaked.

Oops.

That being said, this footage fits with my reformed feelings about what Marvel is doing: it’s more important that they succeed in making this unified universe, not that every movie is accessible to all audiences. 

I hope Thor will be something different from Iron Man. It looks like it could be. It also looks like Marvel is scared to show us just how different from Iron Man it will be, which is sad. 

Trust the audience that’s pirating your footage. They’re doing it because they’re excited. I don’t think there is anything in this trailer that would cement an opinion in a person one way or another, it just amplifies what that person already thought about the film. Which is why it’s not effective for a mass audience. Which is why they meant for this footage to only show at Comic Con.

But that didn’t happen.

Life’s a bitch.

Kimberly Freeman of One Eyed Doll answers your questions in the cutest video series ever.

I’ve previously bestowed upon Kimberly Freeman the title of “one of my favorite people/artists currently living. 

I stand by that and encourage you to enter her world and find out why.

Da7e As Cat [Sic]

Today Is: 07/28

Da7e Is: The Sliding Doberman

Ivy Bean, the world’s oldest Twitter user, passed away today at a care home in Bradford. She was 104.

From the Daily Mail:

During her high-profile Tweeting career Ivy was invited to No. 10 to meet then Prime Minister Gordon Brown, after which she Tweeted that she had used the private toilet in Mr Brown’s study.

She was also delighted to meet Peter Andre, who planted a kiss on her head, and counted DJ Chris Evans and Calum Best among her followers.

Ivy, a former mill worker, first hit the headlines as the oldest person to embrace technology when she joined Facebook at the age of 102, quickly clocking up several thousand followers and giving her celebrity status.

She’s tweeting with the angels now.

[dailymail.]

Da7e as Cat

Today Is: 07/27

Da7e Is: Maru, the cat who really wants a hat.

I’m about to set this kick off, people. Get ready, dammit.

(Posted for those of you who haven’t yet tried waking up to Edith Piaf since Inception opened, because it’s great).

Who is driving?

Really, in what way are we asking that question? Are WE drivers? Am EYE a driver? ARE YOU YOUR OWN DRIVER? Or are we all in the hastily-made/faulty-break’d Toyota of God, hurtling towards infinity?

Oh, no, nevermind, the bear is driving.

OMG THE BEAR IS DRIVING!

HOW CAN THIS BE?

(PS. @Massawyrm totally tweeted this yesterday and I decided to steal it from him. I’ve been doing this a lot. Like THIS NSFWish image of a … four-legged, naked, woman…thing.)

It looks to me like the Government just said it isn’t illegal for me to crack e-books, online comics and DVDs. It also appears very legal and possible for me to jail-break my iPhone and install “unauthorized” software on it.

You know what, Government? I think we’re okay on this one.

Statement of the Librarian of Congress Relating to Section 1201 Rulemaking

Section 1201(a)(1) of the copyright law requires that every three years I am to determine whether there are any classes of works that will be subject to exemptions from the statute’s prohibition against circumvention of technology that effectively controls access to a copyrighted work.  I make that determination at the conclusion of a rulemaking proceeding conducted by the Register of Copyrights, who makes a recommendation to me.  Based on that proceeding and the Register’s recommendation, I am to determine whether the prohibition on circumvention of technological measures that control access to copyrighted works is causing or is likely to cause adverse effects on the ability of users of any particular classes of copyrighted works to make noninfringing uses of those works. The classes of works that I designated in the previous proceeding expire at the end of the current proceeding unless proponents of a class prove their case once again.

This is the fourth time that I have made such a determination. Today I have designated six classes of works. Persons who circumvent access controls in order to engage in noninfringing uses of works in these six classes will not be subject to the statutory prohibition against circumvention.

As I have noted at the conclusion of past proceedings, it is important to understand the purposes of this rulemaking, as stated in the law, and the role I have in it. This is not a broad evaluation of the successes or failures of the DMCA. The purpose of the proceeding is to determine whether current technologies that control access to copyrighted works are diminishing the ability of individuals to use works in lawful, noninfringing ways. The DMCA does not forbid the act of circumventing copy controls, and therefore this rulemaking proceeding is not about technologies that control copying. Nor is this rulemaking about the ability to make or distribute products or services used for purposes of circumventing access controls, which are governed by a different part of section 1201.

In this rulemaking, the Register of Copyrights received 19 initial submissions proposing 25 classes of works, many of them duplicative in subject matter, which the Register organized into 11 groups and published in a notice of proposed rulemaking seeking comments on the proposed classes.  Fifty-six comments were submitted.  Thirty-seven witnesses appeared during the four days of public hearings in Washington and in Palo Alto, California. Transcripts of the hearings, copies of all of the comments, and copies of other information received by the Register have been posted on the Copyright Office’s website.

The six classes of works are:

(1)  Motion pictures on DVDs that are lawfully made and acquired and that are protected by the Content Scrambling System when circumvention is accomplished solely in order to accomplish the incorporation of short portions of motion pictures into new works for the purpose of criticism or comment, and where the person engaging in circumvention believes and has reasonable grounds for believing that circumvention is necessary to fulfill the purpose of the use in the following instances:

(i) Educational uses by college and university professors and by college and university film and media studies students;

(ii) Documentary filmmaking;
(iii) Noncommercial videos

(2) Computer programs that enable wireless telephone handsets to execute software applications, where circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of enabling interoperability of such applications, when they have been lawfully obtained, with computer programs on the telephone handset.

(3) Computer programs, in the form of firmware or software, that enable used wireless telephone handsets to connect to a wireless telecommunications network, when circumvention is initiated by the owner of the copy of the computer program solely in order to connect to a wireless telecommunications network and access to the network is authorized by the operator of the network.

(4) Video games accessible on personal computers and protected by technological protection measures that control access to lawfully obtained works, when circumvention is accomplished solely for the purpose of good faith testing for, investigating, or correcting security flaws or vulnerabilities, if:

(i) The information derived from the security testing is used primarily to promote the security of the owner or operator of a computer, computer system, or computer network; and
(ii) The information derived from the security testing is used or maintained in a manner that does not facilitate copyright infringement or a violation of applicable law.

(5) Computer programs protected by dongles that prevent access due to malfunction or damage and which are obsolete.  A dongle shall be considered obsolete if it is no longer manufactured or if a replacement or repair is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace; and

(6) Literary works distributed in ebook format when all existing ebook editions of the work (including digital text editions made available by authorized entities) contain access controls that prevent the enabling either of the book’s read-aloud function or of screen readers that render the text into a specialized format.

All of these classes of works find their origins in classes that I designated at the conclusion of the previous rulemaking proceeding, but some of the classes have changed due to differences in the facts and arguments presented in the current proceeding.  For example, in the previous proceeding I designated a class that enable film and media studies professors to engage in the noninfringing activity of making compilations of film clips for classroom instruction.  In the current proceeding, the record supported an expansion of that class to enable the incorporation of short portions of motion pictures into documentary films and noncommercial videos for the purpose of criticism or comment, when the person engaging in circumvention reasonably believes that it is necessary to fulfill that purpose.  I agree with the Register that the record demonstrates that it is sometimes necessary to circumvent access controls on DVDs in order to make these kinds of fair uses of short portions of motion pictures.

Da7e As Cat

Today Is: 07/26

Da7e Is: A hyper and curious Scottish Fold

Too Many Daves. @davidehrlich, @davidjrdotcom, and my friend Dave Selman. I’ve only met one Dave I didn’t like, and he doesn’t live in this state. (When we all get renamed, I get to be Shadrack).

What? Did this happen? This sounds great!

replicant:

(via citrine - shimmeryshine)

A small group of people were gathered on the lawn a distance from the convention center. They were standing around Joshua Jackson from ‘Fringe’, he was staging his own ‘Pacey-Con’, giving out fan fiction he wrote and getting pictures with the women, all while the ‘Dawson’s Creek’ theme music played on a boom box.

Below, @davidehrlich proves that he hasn’t learned to keep his opinionating to himself, even after last year’s Mystery Team debacle. 

theecstatictruth:

i’m home. the following happened on my flight about 10 minutes into my conversation with a fellow passenger about my first year of covering comic-con for a film site:

me: yeah, this year it was totally reinforced that there is a passionate fan-base for even the most wayward of properties.

dude: oh yeah, like what?

me: like those bullshit Resident Evil movies, for example. i covered the panel for the new one and was all tossed off and snarky about it, and a few fans came out of the woodwork and torched me for it in the comments section. i tried to give it a fair shake but those movies are fucking terrible. 

dude: i’ve crewed all 4 of them. 

me: well, it was nice meeting you.

at which point we prepared for take-off.  annnnnnnnddddd scene. 

now, time to try and get some serious coma action - when i wake this blog will resume normal activity (hold your applause) and i’ll file another cinematical piece before resuming work on trailers for 2 different projects (applaud now).

A 1AM voicemail: The only real questions I have after this voicemail is who is coming to visit me…and when?

The Four-Faced Liar - Winner.

That’s my own horn that’s tooting. But, considering this happened last week, Teen Mom won television last Tuesday and G.D.T. read my Haunted Mansion article, I’m pretty sure my life can only dip into a period of inactivity while I’m working on other things.

So I’m tooting this horn while tooting is appropriate.

Toot.

Buttersafe.

Da7e as Dog (Da7e as Pet?)

Today Is: 07/23

Da7e is: The Dog

My Haunted Mansion article has returned with a vengeance (and a purpose!) now that we’ve learned Guillermo del Toro will be directing [EDIT: Producing] a franchise reboot for Disney.

Comic Con is GOIN’ ON, and due to that, my editor has access to the man himself. Who read THIS article about Disney’s Haunted Mansion that I gave a polish - the original was part of my “farewell week” at The Bad & Ugly, where I wrote 5 lengthy posts about my obsessions, as I was not under contract any longer.

ANYWAY! It has nothing to do with a film adaptation, but knowing that this talented director gave my article the time of day makes ME feel all warm inside and should make YOU happy that he has a respect and working knowledge to appreciate the history of the theme park ride. 

Thought I’d blog this. That way, when I forget how happy I was this morning, I can find remnants of my happiness in my blog archives.  

Toot toot!

Da7e as Cat [Sic] 

Today Is: 07/22

Da7e Is: The Moonwalk Pug

Shirley Sherrod got an apology. That’s good. But the whole thing is bad, and Rachel Maddow explained it well. 

F-f-f-f-fox News - Lame guys. You should be less lame with this many people watching you no matter what you do.

· Season 2 premiere of “Teen Mom” was the #1 program across all television for Tuesday (P12-34).

· “Teen Mom” Season 2 premiere delivered a total audience of nearly 3.7 million viewers, a record for the series and a +72% increase versus the “Teen Mom” series premiere.

· Among P12-34, “Teen Mom” delivered a 3.3 rating, +50% versus the series launch.

· The Season 2 premiere of “Teen Mom” delivered a 5.2 F12-34 rating, +63% versus the series debut in December.

M. Night is a dick. If you haven’t seen this yet… well, let’s just say that 2 of my six things this week (What am I talking about? CLICK) will most likely deal with filmmakers and critics and who owes whom what.

Like: If M. Night thought that his films had been declining in quality he’d kill himself. Which is understandable. But what, if anything, does he OWE the movie-going public that gives him his budgets?

Added to Netflix Queue: “Chopping Mall.” Because I was talking to Rob at work about it and I made a pretty good educated guess about what the movie was about based on the title. Then, he told me I left out robots, and I had to add it.

Da7e As Cat

Today Is: 07/21

Da7e Is: The Cat

Badass Music Video directed by Jons & Francois

I want new sneakers.

Da7e As Cat #6

Today Is: 7/20!

Da7e Is: The Cat

Well.

I’m kind of more poor this week than I usually am…but…maybe the credit card…

NO! NO! THAT’S HOW DEBT TURNS BAD! RESTRAINT, DAVE! FOR 3 MORE DAYS, RESTRAINNNNNNT!

What are YOU watching tomorrow at 10PM?

Teen Mom season 2 premiere on MTV perhaps?

Da7e As Cat #5

Today Is: 07/19

Da7e Is: The Beagle.

No Fear!

Audience Award for Outstanding First U.S. Dramatic Feature Film Sponsored by HBO (cash prize of $5,000 from HBO) THE FOUR-FACED LIAR, Directed by Jacob Chase

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Yeah. That’s right. It came with a motherfucking trophy.

Since I wasn’t in LA for this, Marja, Emily and Jacob have promised to provide me with a photo of said trophy. A TROPHY! For a film!

I feel like I should take up track and field or something. Now I have trophy lust!

Something from Ms. Jessica Brillhart (of BRILLHART/GONZALES Productions) that I should have blogged when it first hit. Because it’s cool.

And evidence that she’s real and I really am still in contact with her. : )

Da7e as Cat Video #4.

Today: 07/16/10

Today, Da7e Is: The Cat.

I bet you my parents didn’t have to deal with this shit.

Yeah! Now that we have enough distance from 300, let’s bring it back!

ericmortensen:

Nine Inch Nails -  Just Like You Imagined 

from The Fragile

\via rhiannonds:fuckyeahnineinchnails:dckevlar

I Thought Things Would Be Different When We Met Again by 3dBiPolarBear

Green Lantern Costume revealed.

Pretty neat. Reserving full opinion for when I can see it in motion.

This is one of those great discussions you have to navigate Tumblr to see the whole thing, but it’s really, really interesting. Basically, the concept of owning less, which was the secret message of Toy Story 3, because if everything I own is sentient, I’m, like, the HITLER of things.

david:

…

And to give proper credit, I was simply paraphrasing Sam Lessin, who’d been talking about his interesting idea at FOO Camp, that no one should own anything anymore, and that everyone who can afford to will rent things as much as possible. I don’t remember saying it as elegantly as…

Da7e-As-CAT-Video #3

Today: 07/14/10

Today, Da7e Is: The Cat.

If you haven’t downloaded, like, all this shit yet - go to ChildishGambino.com

childishgambino:

If you want the clean version to spin, get it HERE.

This should be remade, right? Right. 

Am I the only one who got pretty excited about this being a BTTF/Y The Last Man comic crossover? Because if Brian K. Vaughn wrote that shit, I’d read it, then have it gold plated.

[Justin Van Genderen]

Christian Bale Vs. Mel Gibson. Hey! We should cast Mel as the next Batman Villain. That rumor stated here - Read it or dont . com

Meet - katehutson - one of the MTV TJ candidates, who just won major points by shoving the Kid Cudi video I worked on back into the Re-Blog circle. Brava!

“Pursuit of Happiness” - Kid Cudi ft. RATATAT & MGMT

{TRACKS FROM THE STASH}

Props to Jess Brillhart for finding and Hood Internet for making.

The Hood Internet - The XX Gon’ Give It To Ya (DMX x The XX) by hoodinternet

By Miss Carolyn Main.

If Republicans don’t want Palin for President, they should let Fox loose on her. O’Reilly - O’REILLY - reveals her idiocy in a fact-based manner. Every issue she speaks on has this line where her talking points run out and it’s revealed that she has no ideas of her own, not even good ones.

Re-blogging the Daily What again. Why?

COSTUME CHARACTERS!

That’s right, dear friends, I used to be a costume character (and recently gave my card to a guy who costumes for charity - never got a call back though). 

At my school in Colorado: Monarch High School, we had a mascot called Mo The Coyote. Mo was very prominently featured during the first two years of Monarch’s existence, then was packaged up underneath the gym for 2 years.

The disappearance of the Mascot was pretty simple: no one wanted to perform Mo. It used to be that 3-5 students would perform each “specialty” Mo task - a cheerleader who knew all the cheers would switch off with a tumbler, a dancer, etc.

My friend Julian and I - fans of comics, costume characters and theme parks - made the argument through student council and eventually to the Vice Principal himself that Mo needed to make a return our Senior Year. Our solution was simple: between the two of us, we could do full games as Mo, switching off at quarters or halves.

When the Vice let us pull the costume out from under the basement, Julian and I noticed that the strap for the head was gone (no tumbling, but anyone who has mascot’d knows it frees up the head spinning trick) and the mouth was poorly designed. You were supposed to be able to see out of the mouth, so Julian and I used some free time to build over-sized fangs for the Mo head that would both make the Coyote look more fierce while also propping the mouth open so we could see.

That football season, our team went undefeated into the playoffs, which was great, because whomever was in the suit for the 4th Quarter had to leave the field at the 2:00 warning just in case we lost and the student body decided to take it out on the mascot.

None of that happened, even into the less-winning Basketball season, because basically everyone in the school knew it was Julian and I inside the animal.

I was on Student Council and was in good standing with the co-presidents, also being the type of person who could structure drama, it was my job to write most of the Pep Rallies. For one, I wrote in a 3-minute dance off between Mo and a human counter part. I remember Julian and I having a discussion about who was going to be the human, and I’m so glad we settled on Julian because - damn, that sketch went over well. Julian would go out and dance his heart out in an almost seizure-riffic sort of style and Mo would tag out with his limited movement and insult-based dancing.

It was that year as Mo that lead Julian and I to audition at Six Flags to be costume characters. I was cast as Bugs Bunny and he was cast as Sylvester, but they wouldn’t pay the gas money for us to drive to the theme park every day of the summer, so that gig didn’t last long.

But the costume charactering is still in me. Watching that bee dance, I’m looking for when the Bee touches his head as part as choreography or if he’s adjusting the mask (at the beginning of Single Ladies, for instance, he almost looses the head off the back). I’m also really impressed at the amount of bend he can get in the mid-section of that costume.

That’s a talented performer. That’s right: Costume Characters are hard as shit.

I still remember auditioning for Bugs and coming up with panicked ways to “pretend [I’m] building playground equipment, but [I’m] missing a part and [I] need to convey this without using sound or facial expressions.”

So, yeah, that dude or lady is lucky the Bee’s eyes are so expressive.

thedailywhat:

Lights Out: The Jollibee mascot performs the cutest pop song medley dance you will see a fast-food restaurant chain mascot perform this week, guaranteed.

[epicponyz.]

thedailywhat:

U MADvertising of the Day: Cleveland’s Brokaw Advertising is so over LeBron.

[adrants.]

Above: SoundCloud on a Friday.

Below: Julian’s House on a weekend.

soundcloud:

kleinjinx:

Awwww this is just TOO cute!

david-noel:

Eyes up, it’s demo Friday at SoundCloud

nevver:

Dial-A-Cliché

nevver:

David Horvitz

nevver:

How to make a Daft Punk Helmet in 17 Months

nevver:

“One Hundred Live and Die”, Bruce Nauman

We would. But they’d have that genetic disease where they have too much Y chromosome, so their shoulders are overly wide and they’ll be ungodly hairy.

If we never shave our children, perhaps they can become Chupacabra and avoid racial profiling altogether. Supernatural profiling, that’s where it’s at.

Who wants to propose the legislation?

Ask Da7e a question. He’s been really good about answering all of them thus far.

I dunno. Do you wake up every morning completely content to not interact with anyone or learn anything?

I used to talk to a lot of homeless people when I lived in Colorado. Mostly because I’d have extra time or be trying to impress the type of attractive teenager who has read On The Road recently and is about half-way through Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

Point being, I never gained anything from it. If you don’t do things unless you know what you’re getting out of it, life would be boring.

That said, thanks for asking something!

Ask Da7e a question. He’s been really good about answering all of them thus far.

No. Yes.
http://idontlikeyouinthatway.com

Everyone go say “hi” to Todd and help him mock some celebrities.

Ask Da7e a question. He’s been really good about answering all of them thus far.

mrmattenlow:

lumber:

bbones:

femalempowerment:

mindset:brokensocial: (via vongreyskull)

nevver:

Flexible

nevver:

AmazingFuture

ericmortensen:

rhiannonds:

Endoodled (by Alex Dram)

nevver:

The Thought Experiment

nevver:

Caution

nevver:

The World is Yours

“This time, I wanna be the turtle.”

nevver:

Würsa (18,000 Km from earth)

nevver:

Fail Whale

anthonyking:

BOOK #12 - Apparently if you want to write a great book about writing for Hollywood, you must first create a unique animal metaphor (see Save The Cat).  I’m going to write a book about improv called Birth A Platypus.

agentmlovestacos:

Museum of Oddities at the NJ State Fair.

Is there anyone who DOESN’T want to go to your birthday party in Vegas for a month or so?

I love Vegas. A set of my grandparents live there, so I’ve been going there since WAAYYYY before I could drink or gamble.

Now that I do both, family visits have gotten more expensive.

Ask Da7e a question. He’s been really good about answering all of them thus far.

LongTermRelationship?

Ok. You want to know a secret? The past 3 long term relationships I have been in have been with women who grew up in Colorado and then moved here to New York.

I didn’t mean for this to happen and, yeah, it makes me kind of paranoid that I’m somewhat stunted in the dating department, only getting to pull from one state (It’s an attractive state - so I’m not COMPLAINING, per se).

My last LTR was named Kate (not the Kate that married my friend Elliott, not my friend Kate with the badass lips, also not my other friend Kate who is dating my friend Nate), and why it ended is amorphous, but I think we’d both agree that I worked too much and didn’t emote enough.

I feel like I’ve answered this question before, or told this story before… let me see if I can find it. Give me 10 minutes (that to you will seem like a gap between sentences).

Ok. I can’t easily find it.

But, yes. It ended on terms where we both realize we were making each other feel bad instead of making each other feel good. We still hand out, there just isn’t sex punctuating our hanging out.

God, has it been over a year? I guess it has.

I’ve gotten some play since then, dear reader, so you don’t need to feel THAT bad for me, but in terms of actually dating people, yeah, it’s been well over a year.

But in comparison to when I started this Formspring, I have now carved out a small part of each day to have a social life, so I guess I’m LTR-prowling, of sorts.

Ask Da7e a question. He’s been really good about answering all of them thus far.

I know, right?!?! The world is boring. Sometimes no matter what external stimuli I’m being provided, I get bored. That’s probably why I’m so into podcasts, books, albums and Rubik’s Cubes on the subway: just standing in a car waiting to get somewhere is boring.

Anyway, thanks for thinking of me when you’re bored. I wish I could help you out, but I’d probably just end up plugging something I did, like telling you to go to ListenOrDont.com or something.

Right now, Da7e is answering Pop Culture questions. He words in TV, movies, gossip and porn. Go!

This week @oliviawilde. That’s Olivia Wilde for you Twitter folks. She has an awesome blog, supports young activism in the ACLU, stars in House, will be in Tron Legacy and Cowboys & Aliens. Not to mention our political beliefs align!

It’s really not a creepy, stalker thing. We’d really get along.

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Sadly, no. All electrical activity in our brains stops when we die. Do I believe that non-sentient energy continues on after we die? Yes. Sadly, we can’ take ownership over our energy.

“We can’t take ownership over our energy” is also a sticker I have on my condom box.

Right now, Da7e is answering Pop Culture questions. He words in TV, movies, gossip and porn. Go!

It’s always been my opinion that the happiest situation a human can possibly be born into is the severely developmentally disabled child of a rich white family that can afford to keep you on a beautiful estate where you’ll never want for anything your simple mind desires and never know about politics, murder or have to deal with the opposite sex.

The secret to being happy is to limit your worldview so all the problems you worry about are small. Like, if I’m only worried about where my next meal is coming from, sure it’s stressful, but I’m not worrying about meaningless work and my boss wanting some stupid task done. Where I eat is a genuine worry that doesn’t make me unhappy (unless I don’t get to eat, obviously), so I’m ok thinking about it. Worrying about reality television frequently seems stressful, stupid and pointless to me, making me less happy. Also, there is no real consequence if I fuck up. The show will still air, everyone will just be pissed at me.

Yeah. Simplicity, stupidity, money and a caregiver - those are the makings of happiness.

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Dogs. Cats have a perfectly justifiable right to exist and they are pretty cute, but the “domestic” cat’s I’ve seen are fat and depressed or look perfectly normal except for their bi weekly clawing/escaping/shitting freakouts.

Right now, Da7e is answering Pop Culture questions. He words in TV, movies, gossip and porn. Go!

nevver:

No Swimming, Funatic

nevver:

I feel fine/nothing.

Um. Have I not told you about my VERSUS trilogy?

Ninja Vs. Samurai
Ninja Vs. Pirates
and
Ninja Vs. Ninja?

Part 1 - The classic showdown between Ninja and Samurai. I say classic, because it would really be about highlighting the differences of each’s fighting style, etc. Not to mention the actual Ninja and Samurai mythology collides beautifully.

Part 2 - During the opening of Japan, a ninja is sent to retrieve a stolen shipment from the New World with possible supernatural powers! (Hint: It’s a robot)

Part 3 - Ninja has to face his own Master, possibly after living in the New World long enough to become a Cowboy Ninja.


Anyway. I’ve outlined but not written these, like a lot of my stupider pitches. That’s right, I said Stupider.

But the answer to the actual question is Ninjas. Because real pirates have no discipline in combat.

Right now, Da7e is answering Pop Culture questions. He words in TV, movies, gossip and porn. Go!

Hawaii. And I’d make a Myst movie w @jessbril. I’m pretty sure we already know how we’d do it, but we don’t want to step on any Inde toes:

http://mystmovie.com/

Because those guys have gumption.

Right now, Da7e is answering Pop Culture questions. He words in TV, movies, gossip and porn. Go!

2, by the Bruce Willis school of thought.

Right now, Da7e is answering Pop Culture questions. He words in TV, movies, gossip and porn. Go!

Um. Today I have a thing for Laura Brekenridge, but I’m pretty sure I freak her out on a personal level. Megan Fox got married, but she’d be more of a sex doll.

As for celebrities I’d like to date: Emma Watson and/or Olivia Wilde

As for which celebrity I would most likely date: Vanessa Carlton or Leighton Meester. Carlton because I think she’s low key enough for my lifestyle and Meester because she’s in New York and looks similar to…someone…

Right now, Da7e is answering Pop Culture questions. He words in TV, movies, gossip and porn. Go!

Thanks, SpamBot. I wish you were a hot woman like you’re pretending to be, then I could hit you across the face with my penis, because that’s what I do to iPad spammers.

Da7e will answer any question about anything, because he’s obsessive and has no privacy or standards.

Really: “What are you running from or to?” <- because I’d like to have that answered.

Jokingly: “Would you like to run your own TV series, Mr. Gonzales?” <- In that case I would be a television executive.

But, yes. In a vague way, my life is constantly trying to figure out what I want out of my life.

Da7e will answer any question about anything, because he’s obsessive and has no privacy or standards.

nevver:

Giddyup

nevver:

3D

pbh3:

1) Please make it so pictures and videos embedded in text posts show up on the Dashboard and Tumblelog.

2) Please let us insert pictures that are wider than 500 pixels.

3) Please convert line breaks in posts automatically into HTML!

Sincerely yours,
Alec

nevver:

I can’t wait

Because it’s another species who have discarded entirely different waste from humans. Some of it might be useful. Also, if you eat the feces of a predator, you’ll sweat out a scent that makes you invisible to that predator. Seriously. I didn’t believe it either… until BearShit Fest ‘08

Da7e will answer any question about anything, because he’s obsessive and has no privacy or standards.

Which new State Farm Commercial? I’ve only seen the one with the Asian Guy singing Styx. This is the problem with DVR and watching TV on the internet, is that unless Hulu has decided Insurance is part of my “Ad Experience,” I probably won’t see it. And Hulu won’t because, I’ve been giving them very accurate data by clicking the “Was this ad helpful?” button (or whatever the prompt is), and I’m pretty well insured.

Interestingly about Second Becky, I know a Second Becky. Her name is Lindsey Broad and she’s the Second Ally on ‘Til Death, a series I wrote off until I started noticing what the hell it was doing.

[If you don’t know what the hell Til Death is doing, this AV Club article called Nobody’s Watching: The strange genius of the fourth season of Til Death should fill you in]

http://www.avclub.com/articles/nobodys-watching-the-strange-genius-of-the-fourth,42394/

Lindsay was also the pocket-call girl in Get Him To The Greek and amazing as her character on the Brooklyn-based webseries “The Burg” which you can see at http://theburg.tv

The current episode “Change,” features me as a suit salesman. Not an insurance salesman.

Though I also don’t usually turn down paying gigs, so if you want to murder the State Farm Guy for me, maybe I’ll step in.

Da7e will answer any question about anything, because he’s obsessive and has no privacy or standards.

Thanks Ed!

Yes, I will be returning to Latino Review, probably with a column until I get some MTV stuff sorted out that I’m not really allowed to go into too much detail about over the internets. Let’s just say my sudden disappearance with basic news was based on a decision that was made that will allow me to work on more television.

I love movies and I love writing, but I also love television, so I’m going to try to fill all three passions if I can.

Da7e will answer any question about anything, because he’s obsessive and has no privacy or standards.

Things?
That’s kind a vague, but the question itself is a good one.

As far as how it’s changed me:

I now give most parents the benefit of the doubt. When a person or show is in a position of making reality easily digestible, it’s very obvious how selecting key moments in a person’s parenting can be used as a way to show they are a good parent OR a bad parent based simply on when you cut away. Now, when I see a kid get yelled at, or a little girl on a leash in a mall in Broomfield, CO (where you should just be able to track your kid), my mind immediately justifies the situation as an isolated one. I’m no longer calling random people on the street bad parents.

I agree with all the people from my past that said I’d make a great dad. I used to sneer at that (especially when I was running children’s parties at a pottery-painting studio in High School), and tell people that I hated children. The truth is that I don’t hate children, I hate inconvenience and have never felt mature enough to be responsible for another life. On a daily basis, these days, I watch ACTUALLY immature people deal with the reality of unprotected sex. All things being equal - I’d probably make a better father than I ever gave myself credit for based on the clarity of my priorities. I have to devise an animation at least once a week that is about some 16 year old who thought she could raise a child, go to college, date and have hobbies and I have to figure out new ways to show her re-orienting her priorities around a newborn. My priorities would instantly shift towards the child, and despite any complaining that might happen along the way, I’d handle it.

Here’s something interesting to think about, and something I’ve asked people to DISASTROUS results:

Now that YOU know I’m spending so much time thinking about suddenly being pregnant and how that changes someone’s life: Does that change how much you value my opinion on if a significant other is contemplating an abortion or the morning after pill?

I FEEL more informed, but some people see that question as a man trying to insert himself somewhere a man doesn’t belong. I get that, but that doesn’t mean I can’t ask the question and receive a civil answer.

Da7e only does Formspring when people ask him questions. You should ask him a question.

If I could still fit into my Space Camp flight suit, I would. But I can’t.
It’s still around. I’m a man who owns 4 bodysuits. Be jealous.

Da7e only does Formspring when people ask him questions. You should ask him a question.

A woman who knew how to fish.

Da7e only does Formspring when people ask him questions. You should ask him a question.

A sentient super computer. Then you couldn’t blame it, really, you could just blame the logic processor. And yourself for not voting.

Da7e only does Formspring when people ask him questions. You should ask him a question.

Friday Night Lights season. On DirecTV. When it’s new.

Da7e only does Formspring when people ask him questions. You should ask him a question.

A book of the Bible. A singular one. It would be “The Book Of Da7id” and appear before Timothy II

Da7e only does Formspring when people ask him questions. You should ask him a question.

If those two old people survived the nuclear holocaust, chances are most of Los Angeles survived and there would be cooler people to run the world. Or, maybe White and Shat were fused into one, two-headed, multi-gendered leader of mutants.

But, so I don’t get accused of not picking a side: Shatner.

My grandfather used to live down the street from him when I was growing up, so I have vivid memories of his dogs barking at me and him jogging in the morning.

I might be bias.

Da7e only does Formspring when people ask him questions. You should ask him a question.

Did I qualify if valuing work over personal relationships? Because I’d like to think that I value both.

Aw, fuck, I just thought of another answer to the last question - I CAN KEEP SECRETS.

Really. So, the lives of my friends are usually very off limits in these public forums.

That being said, sometimes I do value my work over my personal relationships. It’s because I value my passion and I’m usually passionate about my work. I think I’m a good friend and I strive for it, but if a friend borrows my hand blender and snaps it in half, I might sour towards that person for a few days.

I think you’ve put your finger on my main problem in life (now that I have a job in television and can’t complain about wanting to work in television), and that’s my oscillating favoritism between my social life and work rather than finding a way to integrate them both.

I could complain about my friends, but it’d be petty. Like Scarlet Scribe is moving to LA. I’m not happy about that.

Da7e only does Formspring when people ask him questions. You should ask him a question.

About myself? There are some base rules, but they are all pretty simple guidelines about relating to people and how to make that better without hurting feelings or probing any of my emotionally squishy parts.

For instance, as a man reviewing porn does, I used to question the size of my penis versus the size of the mean penis. The natural response to this is to only describe my penis in the most horribly graphic and disgusting terms (calloused, hooked, bleeding). Not only do people instantly recognize this as a joke, but it sends the subtle social hint that I will not be realistically describing my penis.

That’s probably something I play close to the vest - What my penis looks like.

I’d lay off my family, not because I don’t like talking about them, but because I still have enough “man” and enough “Latin” in me to sometimes become unnecessarily overly passionate about my family.

I don’t often talk about what I’m feeling in a way that SHOWS you what I’m feeling, so if you get any sort of negative reaction out of me, chances are you’ve hit on an emotional sinkhole.

I have a weird thing about the theme of “Loss of Innocence,” which I would say I play close to the vest, but I think I spoke about it in a phone call to the /Filmcast. Let’s just say that I haven’t told anyone the absolute truth yet about how much I did or did not cry at the end of Toy Story 3.

I did see Finding Neverland by myself and cried…and cried.

Which I imagine is startling to people who actually know me. Not in concept, but trying to picture what that looks like.

Weakness. I don’t like to acknowledge mine, so answering this question is kind of difficult for me. I’m not trying to dodge it.

I guess the most honest answer is that the downside of being outspoken and “an open book” is you don’t really find out what really affects you until you’re half way through talking about it with someone.

Please feel free to respond if I didn’t do what I just did right.

Da7e only does Formspring when people ask him questions. You should ask him a question.