I’m clos­ing the eSIP vot­ing page at 5pm CST on Thurs­day, March 8^th. Results will be up the fol­low­ing Wednesday.

That pic­ture is Apple’s Sys­tem 7.5.3 run­ning Mac­Paint on an emu­lated Mac­in­tosh Plus com­puter run­ning on my iPod shuf­fle. If you want to, then you can do what I did.

This was going to be a post about the Aqua Teen scare a month ago. What had started as a pub­lic­ity stunt turned into a ter­ror alert, as cit­i­zens of Boston called police and bomb squads over some blink­ing LED car­toon char­ac­ters. When I was going to research and write this, I pasted a link to a SignOnSanDiego.com write up of it. I was going to try to tie the whole thing to Philly cut­ting trans fats and Anna Nicole Smith’s death.

No dice.

My mes­sage to you guys is to write when you feel like it. Even if you only mar­gin­ally feel like it, get out your what­ever and write. Just do it.

This week­end was one of SNOW! Holy buck­ets. I had an idea for a News­bleep that would actu­ally be fake report­ing about a real event as it hap­pened. Then I decided to not film until Sat­ur­day, and the snow had stopped, and then it started melt­ing. I’m not sure if I’ll fin­ish writ­ing the episode and shoot it any­way (as per Holli’s sug­ges­tion that it’d be funny to talk about a bliz­zard when the snow is all melt­ing away) or just wait until it snows again or scrap it.

We also went on a mini Christo­pher Guest marathon. We watched This Is Spinal Tap, Wait­ing for Guff­man, and A Mighty Wind, with For Your Con­sid­er­a­tion soon. I didn’t real­ize Eugene Levy was such a writer. Finally, last night, we watched The Departed, and both enjoyed it. Did it deserve an Oscar for Best Direc­tor? I’m not sure.

This week­end we’ll prob­a­bly be head­ing to Big Stone City for whammy kicks and gui­tar gig­gles. Bring your rock­ing face or get your face rocked off!

P.S. Dan’s birth­day was a good day for me, too. I got presents like a clever t-shirt and The Prestige.