Pause button review: Scriggity

Famously named after the 1996 R&B hit ‘No Scriggity’ by Blackstreet,  Scriggity has the most phonetically pleasing name of any show on the internet. A full 98% of the end-of-the-year review episode consists of a series of questionable characters saying the word as part of some complicated community service sentence (or it may [...]

New Year Resolutions – less fighting mountain lions

Resolved to spend less time fighting mountain lions in 2007? I know that feeling. Whether you’re a lover or a fighter, it’s time to get up close and personal with the latest episode of For Parody Purposes Only – just click on the Hello Kitty bandaids on my big bald head. Or [...]

Pause button review: Starring Amanda Congdon

‘Starring Amanda Congdon‘ opens with the first lady of videoblogging struggling to flag down passers-by for some vox-pop on the subject of Time’s (You are the) Person of the Year issue. It is, perhaps, a wry nod towards the relative nature of Congdon’s star power, [...]

The war on Christmas

What’s Santa bringing me for Christmas? Well, I already got a Panasonic 42″ Plasma, and by God, it’s gorgeous (and believe me, I had to do a lot of whining to get it past the House Appropriations Commitee). There’s no danger of me getting all my content from postcard sized laptop [...]

Kevin Smith loves me. He really does.

Or at least, he’s contractually obliged to love something about the Virgin Mobile Bleepin’ Awesome contest.   Which I won (or rather, my Smiley Intervention video did).  Thanks, in no small part, to my rabid MySpace fan army.  If you stick with this clip long enough, the Clerksman does a passable impression of my accent.
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Blogtag. From the mouths of MySpace babes (as in children…)

It’s the new sensation that’s a rockin’ the…. shit, vlogosphere doesn’t rhyme with sensation. Nation, however, does. I speak, of course, of the blog tag. The “five things I didn’t know about you”. I was mildly amused to see the video blogging world all agog (rhymes with vlog) over the [...]

Olde English, new-fangled medium

I post (increasingly) infrequently on Aspecialthing, which is “the premier comedy community on the internet” and a message board for what could fairly be described as passionate (alt-) comedy snobs. A while back I got into a bit of a posting pissing match over the merits of YouTube as a medium for comedy. [...]

Running into the Running Fool

As I slouch through middle age, I am embracing my role as grumpy old man. Because, really, what are my options? I don’t actually keep the balls that the kids kick over the fence, but I may, on occasion, let them sit for a day or two first. That seems fair. [...]

It must be about that Time

So, having been Time’s Person of the Year for a couple of days now, I can look back on the experience and say that it’s a bit like waking up in a Tijuana with a stranger’s name tattoo’d across my chest in six inch high letters. I don’t quite remember how I got [...]