April 2004

If anyone is playing the new MMORPG, City Of Heroes, Jess and I (plus some friends) are on the Virtue server. Get in touch with me!

Tonight was The Kinetoscopic Wonderment Film Festival. This was the specific festival for which we made our "Keep Austin Weird" movie. I'm sure you're all on the edge of your seats, wondering how we did...

If you hate seeing this country slowly turning into George Orwell's "Big Brother", I highly encourage you to go to www.StopFCC.com and register. At the bottom of the page they now have a link to an ACLU page where you can fill in a form to send a fax to your senators. It even has pre-filled in text if you can't be bothered to work up your own. I added the following paragraph just to add my own personal input.

People have a choice. A choice to change the channel, or turn off the radio or TV. People should continue to have the choice of whether or not they watch or listen. Don't take this choice away from those who want it, merely to please those who do not want it. Just as forcing people to watch something they find offensive is wrong, so is eliminating the choice so as to please those people. If I find chocolate ice cream offensive, I can choose not to eat it. I do not think that the correct course of action is to ban chocolate ice cream across the world.

It's so easy, that there's really no excuse. Believe me, I'm one of the laziest people around, and I found it effortless. Support free speech and all that. Don't let the government make your choices for you. Grrr.

So I'm quite distraught. Apparently, I sound like a Texan. Annika commented after watching our film that I sounded Texan. Someone in New York who I was speaking to at work made the same comment. I'm bummed. I don't want to sound Texan.

I had always been quite happy that everyone in Texas always thinks that I'm from somewhere else, and are surprised to learn I am a native Texan. I always attributed this to the fact that I had always been into doing other accents, and I figured all those years of doing other accents had skewed my own into a more northern or more neutral accent. Many times I find myself slipping toward a more New York area type accent, although just ever so subtly. I guess my accent is so slight that Texans can't hear it, but anyone else can. I'll have to work on that...

For today is the day that Jesus hid chocolate eggs from the Romans which really pissed them off ans thus they crucified him in a bunny suit for added humiliation.

Or something like that.