Anyway, a message from my Aunt Joy, who served as a second mother to me during my time in Vermont. Some of the images in the videos come from my uncle John during his tour of duty with the VT National Guard in Iraq.

If you know me, heartwarming messages are the exception, so I promise to soon return to September 11 jokes and offensiveness. But in the meantime, please at least watch, and hopefully vote

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Hi Friends/Family,

I need your help, puhlease….

I created and submitted two ads to moveon.org for their “Obama in 30 seconds” contest. Yesterday they started voting. I’ve looked at A LOT of the ads and I honestly think my ads “Hope” and “Priceless” are up there in quality compared to many of them. For those of you who know them, Kathryn and Jimmy’s 13-yr old son Galen (and his friend Julian) wrote and recorded the music for the ads!

If you can, I NEED YOUR HELP WITH VOTING ASAP, which ends April 27.

They are two doing diff’t types of voting. They are picking the top ten based on best rating in terms of quality. Then they are picking another five based on just how many hits they get, which is more like a popularity contest. The five that are viewed the most (the popularity contest) will also get into the final judging. Those fifteen will be judged by the “experts” like Oliver Stone, Ben Affleck, and Matt Damon, etc.

Anyway, if you can use all your powers of e-communications (emails, blogs, myspace, etc.) and spread the word asking people (and people they know and so on) to watch my ads, that would be GREAT! If they rate them HIGH too that would be even better, but since we cannot make them do that (but hopefully they will want to!), just viewing them will be enough. Here are the links to both of the ads:

Hope

Priceless

Each time someone follows a link and watches the ads on the obamain30seconds.org site, they’ll count that toward the total viewers for that ad. (People who watch an ad this way will have to enter their email address before they’re counted; this prevents fraud and makes sure it’s not one person just hitting refresh over and over.)
Anyway, if you can help at all, that would be great.

THANKS!

Hope all is well.

xoxoxoxo

Then go to their blog and watch this video of lead singer Andrew destroying my first acoustic guitar.

Then watch them performing here:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Because it’s the “best of everything” I am enjoying my new life here for the most part. Low cost of living, it’s wonderful. How does “you get what you pay for” fit in to that as a sales point. I’m having difficulty making this comment as sarcastic as

New Life Goal, write something that makes Judd Apatow laugh…

After a brief conversation with my coworker about how Nazi Fiction is one of the few things that scares him, I stumble upon this gem, that I can’t believe I haven’t seen before.

Excellent footage, live in the studio.

Somehow this is infinitely cooler than the human-played theremin version.