Clark and Michael, An Idea for a Reality Show, whutev.
If you liked Arrested Development, you know, that awesometastic show that got canceled just because not enough of you people know comedy even if it rests its ball on your chin, brushes your teeth with its dick and comes inside your pussy ears? Then you are going to like Michael Cera’s latest project Clark and Michael and you will like it HARD.
It’s basically a mockumentary about two friends trying to get their idea of a TV show picked up by Hollywood. Speaking of mockumentaries, newcomer Clark Duke has this David Brentesque air to him that perfectly complements Michael Cera’s dry, awkward humor.
The show currently has 8 webisodes online and at an average of 10 minutes per episode, it’s perfect for you desk jockeys looking to inject some comedy in your boring-ass office lives.
While we’re on the subject of TV shows, mockumentaries and whatnot, I would like to take this opportunity to pitch MY own idea for a reality show. Not a lot of you know this, but I’m a sucker for reality shows (I’ve actually gotten laid many a time for my superior knowledge of Pinoy Big Brother and its participants. Of course, whether or not the sex I got from said knowledge is consensual is for the legal system to decide.)
Taste Asia: A story of inebriation and lust
Last Tuesday, I invited myself to the Blogger Food Fest held at the SM Mall of Asia where I hobnobbed with other Internet celebrities and blogosphere elites. This particular event was bittersweet for me as it made me realize that I won’t be dropping the “Rising” in my “Rising Internet Star” title anytime soon. I mean, when I arrived at the venue with my entourage(read: TJ and Riz), I was stopped by the people at the registration table and told me that I wasn’t on the list and hence, can’t be allowed to go in.
Strangely enough, not everyone at the event knew me. (I think primarily because I am only well-known in my circle. You know, the circle who appreciates people like me who can’t write anything that doesn’t directly or indirectly refer to their genitalia, getting drunk, arson or racism). So yeah, instead of shaking hands and getting praised, I spent a good amount of time waiting in front of the reception table, sweating the fuck all over the place with a miserable excuse for an erection.(You know, because I can smell food from where I stood. And food turns me on.), waiting for a ticket in.
Luckily, I saw Rico and Sasha before I passed out of sheer hunger and they managed to get me and my ‘entourage’ in. First thing I grabbed my attention when I walked in the venue was that beer was free-flowing and I knew that I had to take advantage of that.
Fan Art yay!
You may or may not know that the guys over at The Man Blog have been planning to get a T-shirt out for the longest time. Now, thanks to Midori’s orgasmawesometastic designs, we finally went ahead had the things printed and we’re supposed to get our hands on them this weekend! yay!
For dicks:
I mean come on, it’s not like everyday that you get fan art. Also, having this printed on shirts would fulfill a lifelong dream: to be on everyone’s chests! (Boys’ or girls’! But mostly girls’) yay!
Anyway, if you have more suggestions as far as what we should consider for our next shirt design would go, hop over to this thread and let us know. We’re not promising you anything, but if you come up with a nice enough design, we just might buy you a beer. Or if you’re by any chance a hot chick designer and you play your cards right, there’s a good chance that we’ll brutally attack you with our genitals. That is all.
Plaxo 3.0 - All about sync
I’ve been using Plaxo to organize and keep my contacts up to date for over a year now. Of course, I did so intense adverse criticism from the likes of Jason Calacanis and Web 2.0 snob par excellence Michael Arrington notwithstanding.Plaxo’s value proposition is novel yet incredibly simple–use the service to organize your contacts, update all your contacts with any changes in your contact information (new Phone number, new Email address etc.), and request/receive updates on changes on any of your contacts’ details.
Pretty straightforward if you ask me, but it turns out that Plaxo’s request update function was too easy to use. The service got a lot of flak from users who got inundated with update requests and were quick to call the company out on sending tons of notification that many deemed to be spammish.
But if you’re anything like me who spent numerous years in Business Development and Marketing, you’d have over 500 contacts in your address book, a good number of which you consider to be business prospects, your contention would be that you take the good with the bad and there is no better service out there to keep your address book organized and updated.
Personal Branding shit
I’ve been working closely with Marco the site guy, one of the country’s most acclaimed web designers (By ‘most acclaimed’ I actually mean ’someone who does nothing all day but smoke pot and ramble about how the government is screwing all of us), in conceptualizing and implementing a new logo to be used for this site as well as in my business cards and pretty much all my marketing collaterals.
After paying him a handsome amount of money(Lie. I gave him nothing but a small rotting piece of fruit and a high five), he came up with these studies:
"The personal blog of Marketing Strategist, Rising Internet Star, Man Blog editor, child pornographer, alcoholic, and cokehead-- Douchebag Jones--Err, Mike Villar!