I recently worked on a commercial for Juicy Drop Pops, a sour lollipop made by Topps - the Ring Pops and Bazooka gum people. This commercial pits a ninja (me) against a pirate to see who can withstand the sourness longer.

It just started airing on Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, CW Sat Morning Kids, ABC Sat Morning Kids, Nicktoons, and Disney XD. Check it out to see who wins!

my directoral debut, 8 days later is an official selection of the 2009 coney island film festival!!

coney island is an awesome place just by itself, so sticking a film festival there just completely brings it over the top. imagine taking a giant bowl of your favorite ice cream and topping it off with fourth of july fireworks.

see you there? screening info is as follow:
Program #13
Sunday Oct 4, 3pm
CONEY ISLAND MUSEUM
1208 Surf Ave. 2nd Floor

john calipari is our new coach and I couldn’t be more excited.

I guess you had to be there the last 2 years when billy gillispie was pig-headedly, unapologetically running our program further into the ground.

remember about a week ago I was telling you about my experiences at the license x-press?

well I got my brand spanking new driver’s license in the mail yesterday! a nice surprise was that my picture isn’t total shit, which I’m pretty happy about.

fucking hell, from start to finish I renewed my license in 8 days and 18 minutes (what?).

with my birthday fast approaching I realized the other day that the expiration date on my driver’s license was also fast approaching!

I took this opportunity to visit the handy-dandy nyc dmv license x-press located right on 34th st. I read mixed reviews about the place, how some people breezed right through the process while others took a lot longer, but all in all the people seemed to get their stuff done within an hour so I figured it was still a better option than going to the brooklyn dmv (the last time I renewed my license I pretty much spent all morning and afternoon waiting in 80 lines).

it should be noted that like the rockstar that I am, I went ahead and printed up the forms and had ‘em filled out the night before. a rockstar who reads instructions very carefully, follows every minute rule, dots all his Is and crosses his Ts. and just in case I get asked for other forms of ID I grabbed my passport, social security card, voter card and a utility bill to prove my current address.

shit yeah it’s GO-TIME. the dmv was about to get served.

when I arrived I decided it might be fun to time exactly how long this whole process will take. synchronize watches…

10:49AM: checkpoint 001
the information counter. (politely) flashed my (neatly) filled out mv-44 form. was given a slip of paper to sign and directed over to…

10:50AM: checkpoint 002
the eye exam and photo station. this is where you get your eyes checked, your documents validated and your photo taken. the line was only about 8 people deep but the dude in the front seemed to be having some problems with his docs. he’s definitely not a rockstar. but as soon as mr. stoppage was unclogged the line moved a little better. next thing I knew I was (clearly) enunciating the random letters on the eye exam chart and trying not to look like an ass for the photo that will be my identification for the next 8 years. (btw, you don’t need to bring a passport, a social security card, voter card or a proof of address. the lady called me an overachiever.) I was given a ticket with a number which shall grant me access to the third and final step in this process. now comes the anticipated long ass wait, right? I barely sat down when my number appeared on the display.

11:04AM: checkpoint 003
the “hand over everything that you brought and was given to you today and pony up the money” station. with a glance over the documents and a few clicks of the button I was given an interim license until my real one arrives in the mail in a few weeks.

11:07AM: out tha door, fools
mission accomplished in 18 minutes from start to finish. see you in 2016, license x-press!

this is why he’s my president.

I usually don’t watch the soup, much less anything on the e! channel, but by pure accident I caught this segment:

if that doesn’t summarize the dynamic between jon and kate I don’t know what will.

exactly what the title says. very much worth checking out.

so just this past sunday I got guitar hero (don’t even make me link that up, you know what it is). I played it a little when I was at dan’s over thanksgiving and I was hooked.

I tore right through it on EASY mode so I ventured forth on MEDIUM. I was able to successfully complete each song at this new setting and burned right through right up to the very last song to beat the game.

ozzy osbourne’s bark at the moon.

it’s widely regarded as the toughest song in guitar hero and it’s no exaggeration. this song repeatedly kicked my ass. repeatedly.

until tonight.

after my buddy alex came over and showed the song can actually be conquered (the dude is a few years’ veteran of GH) I took a stab at it. I came dangerously close to flaming out right at the end (the song ends with an impossible guitar solo) but I somehow managed to sputter my way to the finish line.

I felt like it was some sort of nerd rite of passage. and it was great.