3 Years of J-Dubb

Well, three years have gone by now since that first J-Dubb's Theatre post. This blog has kept going since then, and has even spun off a YouTube channel. I was hoping to break a hundred posts by the end of 2008, but I've had a lot going on since the end of the summer, including setting up an internship, and now it's looking like I may not even have as many posts as last year. Ah well, there's always next year. After all, I am now in my final term of school.

So anyway, without further adieu, let the recounting of year three begin:

As always, year three began with the recounting of the previous year.

Then came the Halloween season. I had a week of Halloween posts, including Nosferatu, and the first Halloween video. It is unsure yet as to whether there will be a Halloween video this year. It could happen, despite being in the middle of The Network series.

In November, Oprah put up a YouTube channel, I "pwned" a slovenly roommate in a video sketch, and I topped my post count from 2006.

December, I took the YouTube "H8orz" to school, and then wrote a melancholy post about the passing of years.

In January, I analyzed a mysterious brain teaser which has been showing up in comments and message boards around the Internet. Then I gave five facts about myself.

In February, I showed YouTube how to get noticed, in a parody of several top YouTube videos and vloggers.

That March, I put a hurting on both Tacobell and Billy Mayes.

In April, I proposed a new reality show and created an advertisement for J-Dubb's Theatre.

Then in May, I revealed the truth about the mysterious vlogger, Magibon.

In June, I decided to put my foot down on spamming contests.

And in July, I did several things, including giving five facts about myself again, questioning the controversy of e-begging, I initiated Dubb 2.0, and I deconstructed the monstrosity known as "Highlander the Source."

In August, Smosh was suspended from YouTube, but reinstated shortly after. I finally broke 166 subscribers after a small subscriber curse. And I introduced the world to Moepickles.

But then, towards the end of the month, the mysterious Network Executive turned up. He imprisoned me (J-Dubb) inside my own mind, and is using my body to reinstate his power. After this happened, absentee blogger activated. That means that this isn't really J-Dubb writing this, but an algorithm that is posting everything exactly as J-Dubb would have written it anyway. Now that end has been tucked in nice and cozy.

In September, the Executive, calling himself Belphegor, made a video proposal to YouTube. Then I posted about a rather eerie incident involving 9-11 and an eye exam that I made... er... I mean that's what would have happened if I weren't trapped inside my own mind, of course.

And finally October. Usually I have a Superstar of the Year before the anniversary post, but I missed it this week. But don't worry, there will be a Superstar of the Year this coming week.

And now the fourth year begins with a recounting of the previous year.

Superstar of the Week is Alfred E. Newman

Superstar of the Week is John Cleese

J-Dubb's 9/11 Folklore

Alright, I've got a crazy story for you:

About seven years ago, when I was in the Airforce, I scheduled an eye exam. I didn't get to go to this eye exam, however, after a couple of planes flew into the World Trade Center, toppling the two buildings. I still have the sticky note for the appointment. I found it with a bunch of stuff a few years ago and thought it would be an interesting souvenir. It says
"Appt 24th Sept No Doctor
moves to Sept 11th."

Thing is, since then I have not scheduled another eye exam for various reasons. I had some technical issues trying to schedule an appointment while I was still in the Airforce. After that, I have not scheduled an appointment for reasons including procrastination and no health care as an unemployed student. Point is, since my eye exam was cancelled on 9/11/2001 I have not scheduled another exam between now and then.

So today, seven years later, I have finally scheduled another eye exam which will be this Thursday. Guess what the date is.

Superstar of the Week is Jeff Goldblum

Greetings and a Proposition

The Network Executive who hijacked J-Dubb's body has posted a video. He has a proposition for the internet world. What do you think? Should he be trusted?

Greetings and a Proposition

Absentee Blogger Activated

J-Dubb has gone missing. Absentee blogger has been activated. Absentee blogger is a powerful algorithm that calculates the exact blog post that J-Dubb would have written, and writes it in his stead. Pretty convenient, huh?

The Network - Darkness Rising

One year has passed since the attempted takeover of YouTube by The Network. The mysterious "Executive" was banished into the abyss...

wasn't he?

The Network - Darkness Rising

Superstar of the Week is Dom DeLuis

J-Dubb's Moral of the Week

Have you paid your tithe?

This Weeks Urban Legend

Claim: Tapping the sides of a soda can will prevent it's insides from spilling over when you open it.


Status: False

See the full story.

Superstar of the Week is Patrick Stewart

J-Dubb's Moral of the Week

Recycling old Moral of the Weeks from two years ago is tasteless, but hell, it's a funny picture.

Moepickles: A Legend is Born

So, last night I attended The Winekone's live show on BlogTV, and witnessed the creation of a new legend; The Legend of Moepickles. Unfortunately, the show doesn't seem to have been recorded, so I can't link you to it.

Basically, Tony(The Winekone) began addressing a visitor to the room, moepickles69. I don't know exactly what initiated it, whether Tony randomly picked Moepickles out of the group, or if Moepickles wrote a comment, which I didn't see, that Tony responded to. I think it may have been that Moepickles referred to Tony as a legend, or something equivalent, because Tony then began to talk about how Moepickles goes way back in YouTube history, basically describing her as a YouTube matriarch, and how Tony remembers watching Moepickles back when she was just getting started, etc. This was ironic humour, as Tony had never heard of Moepickles up to that point. 

Edit 8/5/2013: Tony was not joking. Shortly after I wrote this post, Moepickles filled me in on the story, and apparently Tony really had known her for years. I'm not sure why I didn't edit this afterward, but years later, Tony has informed me of my error:

"I WAS BEING SERIOUS THAT I KNEW HER SINCE FOREVER. YOU RUINED EVERYTHING."
-Tony Huynh

I apologize to everyone who has been deceived over the years by this blog post.

Edit 2: Um, did anybody notice that this entry was posted on 8/5/08 and this edit was made on 8/5/13? I swear to God, I didn't plan it that way. Weird. 

Edit 8/5/2018: The previous two edits were unintentionally written exactly five years to the day from the original blog post. This edit was intentionally written exactly five years to the day from the previous two edits, and ten years to the day from the original blog post. Happy Moe Pickles day, Tony!

... wherever you are.

-End of Edits-

I then took the opportunity to declare Moepickles to be a YouTube Legend. That's right, Moepickles is now legendary. I tried to find moepickles69 in a YouTube search, but I couldn't find one. I did, however, find a moepickles without the numerical suffix. So head on over to Moepickles channel and give her a legendary shoutout.

Animal of the Week is the Bronzed Cowbird

Photographer: Luther Goldman; Image source: Jim Conrad's Naturalist Newsletter

The Elusive 166

I've been in a subscriber lull lately, or so it would seem. The truth is, I've actually been gaining new subscribers, but I've also lost a couple. I don't know who they were or why. They weren't people who commented on my videos ever, and probably didn't even have videos of their own for me to have noticed them. Whatever the reason, I've watched my subscriber count go back and forth between 164 and 165 a few times over the last couple weeks.

One person subscribed to me just before I posted "E-begging Scandal", and then two more subscribed to me as a result of "E-begging Scandal". At this point, I was excited to have 165 subscribers. I figured it wouldn't be long before I had 170. But then, almost as fast as those two people subscribed, I found myself back down to 164. I figured it must have been someone who watched my video and got offended because I didn't say that e-beggars should be hunted down and hung by their scrotums, like they wanted to hear. Either way, it's disappointing to lose a subscriber when you don't have that many. Why can't they stay subscribed and go unsubscribe from someone who has 17,000 subscribers, or something?

So then I saw a bulletin on my profile from FruityMcGayman. If you don't know, Fruity is a channel whose soul mission is to subscribe to every channel possible. The FruityMcGayman icon can be seen gracing subscriber lists all over YouTube. In the bulletin, he said that he hadn't answered subscription requests for awhile because he hadn't been logged on, and to send a pm(private message) if we had sent him a request that he hadn't answered. It just so happens that I sent him a request quite some time ago. Since then, I've been subscribed to by knockoffs such as ClownyMcGayman and DeadyMcGayman, but no Fruity. So I sent him a pm, and shortly after, I was up to 165 again. But before I knew it, I was back down to 164.

Well, now I'm back up to 165 again, and it's an interesting story. This weekend, when I watched Smosh's "We've been Suspended" video, I found a comment which started with, "Chill the f**k out!" Now, normally I would ignore this, but I'd had a few glasses of Jim Beam and a martini that night, so I decided to respond with, "F**k off." After all, Smosh has spent 3 years making YouTube sketches and are the most subscribed channel, so they had every right to be upset. Then I read the rest of the comment, and realized that I was in error. This person had basically said that everything would work out for them. So I explained my current state, and apologized.

Before I could do that, however, I found that my comment had a response from someone else. This person said something along the lines of, "Well, this is important to them, so you f**k off." See, the thing about the comments on YouTube, is that when you reply to someone elses comment, your reply shows as an independent comment for awhile before showing up as a reply to someone else. So this person thought that I was telling Smosh to f**k off. So I responded with, "That was a reply to someone elses comment. Thanks for your concern though."

That's when I got the idea to check out this persons channel. So I clicked on their username and watched a few videos. As it turned out, I liked what I saw. I favorited a couple, commented, and subscribed to their channel. Last night, I found that they had subscribed in return, putting me back up to 165.

And really, that's the best kind of subscriber; the ones who you interact with, rather than just someone who gives you a bigger number. I don't have a clue who unsubscribed, or if they even watched my videos. Maybe they unsubscribed because they didn't watch my videos, and they were doing house-cleaning. Or maybe they only subscribed in the first place hoping that I'd return the favor, and I never did.

Well, anyways, let's see if I can actually move on to 166 now.

Superstar of the Week is Frederick Douglass

This Superstar of the Week was chosen by Frederick Douglass of
Greedo Shot First.

Smosh Suspended

After nearly 3 years of making sketches for YouTube; most subscribed channel, Smosh, was suspended on July 30. The above video was posted on Smosh's alternate account, IanH. Their channel is back now, as of August 2, but there is still no explanation as to why their account was suspended. I visited the Smosh forum to see if I could find anything out. While sifting through pages of childish comments written by teenagers, I found that the suspicions among Smosh fans generally have to do with either the old Pokeman music video, or a shot of the Toy Story movie case in the latest video, raising hairs with Viacom.

YouTube drama-stirrer, Renetto, has a different theory. Renetto's latest drama battle has to do with the DMCA (digital media copyright act), and with YouTube's paranoid gestures to comply with the DMCA, often at the expense of content providers. Renetto attributes Smosh's DMCA complaint to the ease which one can file a complaint, and to YouTube's "shoot first ask questions later" attitude. He believes that some random person filed a DMCA complaint on Smosh, intitiating the suspension by trigger-happy YouTube. Renetto also seems to imply that he was the person who made the complaint, in an attempt to bring the problem to YouTube's attention. He states that it would be a perfect move due to the fact that Smosh is highly visible, even outside the YouTube community, and a false claim resulting in their suspension is sure to draw the eyes of YouTube.

Smosh still has yet to post the official explanation as to why their account was suspended on any of their YouTube channels, Smosh.com, or on their Myspace page. They might not even know at this point.

J-Dubb's Theatre - Classic

This was one of my first videos, and possibly the least viewed. I made this one in response to my friend, jbdodson, who made a video asking YouTubers to show their backyard grass, pretty much as a spoof of Razorsex's "YouTube Sandwiches" video.

This video probably also has my worst acting ever, but I still think it's fun.

Animal of the Week is the Magellanic Penguin

Superstar of the Week is Bollywood Actress Swarnamalya

Highlander the Source as it Should Have Been

Last September, I watched the horrendous movie, Highlander the Source, and wrote a review about it. After reading that post again, I have decided to write a followup. This time I will talk about what I would have done different with the movie.

Now, the budget was low and the dialogue was poor, but I'd say that the most disappointing thing about this movie was the lack of ties to anything previous in the series. This disappointment outweighs the low budget and all that other stuff. The previous movie, Highlander Endgame, took everything that the television series had built up and combined it with the movie series. With these two series combined, Endgame built up a further plot.

Highlander the Source did not use any of the previous plot points that had built up. Instead, they attempted to start a completely different plot, independent of it's parent. The problem is, this new plot had absolutely no build-up within the movie. They just sort of threw us the new plot, as if they expected the previous movies to carry it. But with a new plot and changed character relationships you're basically telling a completely different story, so you need to lead up to the new story as if there were nothing before it. Sure we know who Duncan Macleod is, but we don't know this new, "changed" Duncan Macleod. You need to build the character, not just tell us, "by the way, he's different now."

As for me, I would have began where the last movie left off. Conner, the original series hero sacrificed himself, giving his power to Duncan. Up to that point, Conner was the hero of the movie series and Duncan was the hero of the television series. When Conner gave himself up, Duncan became the overall hero of the series. Reviewing and reinforcing this point in the movie would have given Highlander the Source the weight of the rest of the Highlander series. It may also have generated interest in the previous series for new viewers.

Up to this point, the Highlander series has always been defined by the virtuous immortals versus the dark natured immortals competing for the prize. If one of the shady type immortals wins the prize, the world will fall, so the good guy immortals must prevent this from happening. In The Source, there is no presence of dark natured immortals. Instead, they have been superseded as villains by a character called, " The Guardian". The guardian is an immortal, but higher powers removed him from the quest for the prize centuries earlier. Now he guards what is called "the source" as it is presumably the source of the immortals. The only reason why he's even the bad guy is that the protagonists are looking for the source and he has to defend it.

In the source, I would have included a presence of dark-natured immortals. I would have began with an alliance of dark immortals at war with an alliance of good guy immortals, which would have built up since Endgame. The dark alliance learns of and begins to search for the source, which results in the liberation of a darker and more ancient force, bent on destruction. This darker force becomes the new antagonist and now the good guys have bigger fish to fry. As a result, some of the dark immortals ally with him/her/it, while others make the decision to ally with the good immortals.

I would also introduce a league of ancients; immortals older than the known surviving immortals, and long forgotten by all except maybe Methos. These would be the protagonist guardians of the source, instead of the gimpish antagonist used in the movie.

In the Source, Duncan Macleod is declared to be, "a changed man", presumably darker than we have seen him before. The reason apparently has to do with a rejection from some woman that he was married to in between movies. The creators do not attempt to develop this character or create any familiarity with her. Also, movies like James Bond or Indiana Jones, where each installment stands on it's own, can get away with changing love interests with no questions asked. But the Highlander series, attempting to be epic, cannot pull this off.

Now, Duncan has loved and lost many times over the centuries. In the first season of the series, they introduced a love interest named Tessa. Throughout the season they built up her relationship with Duncan, and then killed her off at the end of the first season. This was pretty much Duncan's big tragedy throughout the series. Why did this chick from The Source, who we never knew, make him a darker Duncan? Didn't Tessa already do that?

Later seasons introduced us to Amanda Raven, on and off immortal love interest to Duncan. The series finale placed Duncan and Amanda together. Then, in Endgame, there was no mention of Amanda, but there was a new girl, Kate/Faith, who had a history with Duncan centuries back. If they wanted a dejected Duncan for The Source, they should have used one of these characters who we were previously acquainted with. Of course, they would have had to throw out the plot point of Duncan being able to impregnate her after entering the source, but that's all for the better. Nobody cares. And they should have included Amanda anyway, after leaving the two of them together in the series finale.

In the movie, Highlander the Final Dimension, there was a sorcerer named Nakano who had the power to make illusions. The bad guy, Kane, received this ability when he took Nakano's head. From this, Conner should have received this power after defeating Kane, and Duncan should have received this power when he beheaded Connor. But this factor has been left out of all other Highlander installments.

In The Source, I would have included this factor, giving Duncan the power of illusion, and also creating a new concept. In addition to your average everyday immortal running about, now, after so many centuries, some of the immortals are becoming so powerful that they are gaining preternatural abilities. Now there's immortals, and there's super-immortals. This could be the explanation for the post apocalyptic state of the world, as all explanations for that were left out of the movie. Perhaps the warring factions of immortals, now that many have amped up powers, has resulted in the destruction of society. Of course, the ancients who I mentioned earlier as well as the even badder bad guy would possess these abilities.

And finally, the sword. One major defining piece of the entire series is the iconic sword. Well, actually there were two. Connor had a Japanese katana with a white hilt and a tiger head on the pommel. Duncan had a katana with a white hilt and a dragon head on the pommel. These two swords were similar enough that they pretty much represented each other as "the" Highlander sword. I don't remember seeing Duncan's sword in The Source, but according to a review I read, a sword that broke in a fight scene at the beginning of the movie was apparently Duncan's katana. Now, breaking the iconic Highlander sword is like saying, f**k the rest of the series and f**k the fans who enjoyed it. You're gonna watch this new crap that we want you to watch instead.

My initial thought is that the dejected Duncan should have been using a different sword in the beginning. Then, later on, a revived Duncan retrieves his classic sword. However, since there's actually two Highlander swords, the breaking of Duncan's sword could have represented the dejection of Duncan. Then later on, a revived Duncan could take up Connors sword as a way of not only saying, "I'm back", but also fully accepting the legacy that Connor left him.

How Many Second and Final Warnings do I Get?

Really, maybe I'm wrong, but I was always under the impression that second and final meant; there are two, and there won't be any more. Apparently I was wrong.

Ever since the beginning of the year I keep getting recorded calls on my cell phone saying, "This is the second and final warning. Your car's factory warranty is about to expire. blah blah blah..."

I remember the first time I got the call, I thought it was a legitimate call from the manufacturer. My thought was, "Hmm, I don't remember getting a first warning. I hope it's not too late." Then I got a second second-and-final warning.

I suppose it's probably multiple companies that all have me on their list because some douche sold me out to them without my awareness, but the thing is, the first several calls I got were from the same number, meaning it was the same company giving me all these second-and-final warnings. Now I'm getting the calls from several different numbers. In the beginning they were out of California and now they're from the mid-west, but it's probably the same few companies, if not the same one altogether.

In the words of Zipster08, "Who am I gonna have to screw to get off this list?"

Blooper of the Week

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I wonder if these home shopping network people double as televangelists.

Adobe Updates Every Time You Poop

Is it just me? There is a slew of new updates every time I click on an Adobe product. Even when I click to open a pdf document in a Google search, I get a list of updates. Granted, as a web developer I do have a few Adobe products installed on my computer; but every time I use a product?

The crazy thing is, I get the download alert when I go to use an Adobe application. If I'm working on a project in Adobe software, I kind of want to keep my space free for the software, a web browser or two, and occasionally a second Adobe application. I don't want to be installing updates on top of it all.

Maybe frequent updates are a strategy of big software companies; give the customers the feeling that they're on top of things. In that case; thanks, Adobe for for being on the ball. Bang-up job.

This Weeks Urban Legend

Claim: Little Mikey of LIFE Cereal fame died from the effects of mixing Pop Rocks candy with soda pop.
Status: false

See the full story.

Dubb 2.0

I read a statement by Nalts; actually, I think he was quoting someone else, so it's really a quote of a quote, but basically it said that, "a new blogger spends a lot of time on their blog. An old blogger spends a lot of time on other peoples blogs." It's time for J-Dubb's Theatre to take on the ways of the old blogger in my new project, Dubb 2.0.

I've blogged since September, 2005, and made YouTube videos since Febuary, 2007. During this time, I would browse other blogs or videos on occasion when the mood struck. I would even write the occasional comment.

Interestingly, I created the Network series, a fictional video series about the slipping of "old media", and the rise of "new media", yet I wasn't fully taking advantage of what it was that made the new media different from the old media. As if myself and other internet content providers were merely new versions of the old media content providers.

Under Dubb 2.0, J-Dubb's Theatre will be more than just another content provider. It will be a social outlet, connecting with other content providers. And Dubb 2.0 is a fitting name for this project; as the focus of web 2.0 is mainly social collaboration, it shares the same purpose as Dubb 2.0.

E-Begging Scandal

E-begging, the concept of asking for money over internet video, has generated a lot of controversy and discussion over the last couple years. What are your thoughts? I have a question for you in this video:

E-Begging Scandal

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Superstar of the Week is Noriyuki Morita

George Bush Running with Scissors

I heard on the radio this morning that George Bush has proposed a plan to cut greenhouse gasses. This seemed like a good idea, until he was spotted by several people running around a greenhouse with a pair of scissors yelling, "Come out now, you gasses! I know you're in there somewhere!"

Tagged Again

I shot this video a couple weeks ago, but I didn't want to post it here until I had a chance to write a full blog post. Well, that didn't happen, so here's the video.

Tagged Again

J-Dubb's Theme on Nalts

I was watching Nalt's videos this morning, when I found this one, which has a particularly familiar tune playing in the background.

Superstar of the Week is Ben Kingsley

Superstar of the Week is Winston Churchill

Superstar of the Week is Jennifer Connolly

The "Stop Spamming Contests" Spamming Contest

This is my contest that I have started for a charitable cause. With all the spamming contests that go on in this world, something has to be done.

The "Stop Spamming Contests" Spamming Contest

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Hey guys, I just thought I'd tell you that I had a dream last night that I was dating some English princess; a cute brunette chick. Then suddenly, she was captured by some large ape who began chucking barrels at me. I don't know why.

Also, I just got a haircut and my head looks really thin now. Just thought I'd share.

And Now for a Classic J-Dubb's Theatre Moment

This is from the infancy of J-Dubb's Theatres videos. This is where , like the smartass that I am, I lipsync to audio of a rant about lipsyncing videos.

Superstar of the Week is Walter Kronkite

It's summertime, and Superstar of the Week is back. For those of you who may be new to J-Dubb's Theatre, Superstar of the Week is when I feature a random person as a superstar by displaying their image on this blog. Why? I have no idea, but I've done it ever since the beginning of this blog.

Magibon - The Mystery Revealed

Magibon; perhaps one of YouTubes most mysterious vloggers. In this video, J-Dubb reveals the truth that everybody's been wondering.

Magibon - The Mystery Revealed

The Network - Teaser

This is a teaser trailer that I put together for the upcoming continuation of the J-Dubb's Theatre series, The Network.

Ah Walmart Employees ;-)

This actually happened. This was for someone leaving an insurance claims office.

Walmart Employee: 'Hello this is Walmart, how can I help you?'
Customer: ' I would like to order a cake for a going away party this week.'
Walmart Employee: 'What do you want on the cake?'
Customer: 'Best Wishes Suzanne' and underneath that 'We will miss you'.

The Talking Goat

What's Wrong With This Picture?

According to an E-Mail I received, some guy in Mississippi actually tried to use this as an ID.




Brilliant!!


















This story can be confirmed on these reliable news sources: CollegePork, Image Poop

Zelda on YouTube

So I was browsing YouTube today, something I don't seem to do that often these days, despite that one of my hobbies is making videos for YouTube. Anyways, so I was browsing the featured page, and I got myself onto one of those chains, where I'm watching a video, and one of the related videos catches my interest, so I click on it to watch it, then one of the related videos on that page catches my interest, and so on. So I eventually found myself browsing a bunch of videos related to The Legend of Zelda, and found that a few people have made their own renditions of Zelda, some live action, and others digital. There were three of them that I liked enough to favorite.

This is what appears to be a trailer for a live action Zelda movie. It is actually an elaborate April fools joke, done by IGN. Those gaming people have a tendency to throw out pretty convincing hoaxes on April Fools. Anyways, this video is very well done, and looks like a real Hollywood production.

Personally, the Zelda canon is confusing enough as it is, I think it would be best to keep it within the confines of videogames.

This next video is a CGI rendition based on the creators interpretation of the final battle between Ganon and Link.

The video can also be downloaded here: www.seekingfate.com
I found it a bit ironic that when I right clicked the download link, my option from the dropdown menu was "save link" (Internet Explorer users would have "save target", instead).

This third video is a live action Zelda parody, filmed by a group of kids for a school project. The sound is a bit sub par, but I found the video to be pretty funny. Also, you might want to allot 30 minutes of time to watch this.

Choose J-Dubb's Theatre

This video is basically a follow up to my intro video that I posted over a year ago. It's basically a new intro for people who are new to J-Dubb's Theatre. It's interesting looking back at the old intro. The first time around, each scene was shot in just one take. This time, filming basically the same thing, I took several takes for each shot, to get everything perfect, and still found flaws.

The more you look at it, the funnier it gets.

My New Reality Show

So, I'm creating a new reality show called, "Angry Women." Basically, we take a bunch of women with anger issues, ego problems, no consideration for the people around them, or sense of camaraderie, and absolutely no sense of dignity in front of cameras. They'll have to live together for 3 months, forming teams and competing in contests. Watch chaos ensue as they make no effort toward teamwork and display no sportsmanship. And you'll be on the edge of your seat as, in every episode, there will be footage of women with flared nostrils coating the house with saliva in one senseless drama after the next.

This will be the cast:














Here's Pam, heiress of her fathers advertising buisness. But she's no longer daddys little girl, and she's out to prove it.












Kiki's an exotic dancer. She works to pay for school, where she is studying part time for her masters in nuclear physics. Who'd have thought.














Debb was a military brat. Now she's a corporate executive. She will take the lead, whether people follow her or not.









Barbara thought she needed a break from her husband. Should've went to Bermuda, Barb.














Tiffini has her own clothing line. If you don't treat her like a princess, she gets cranky. If you do treat her like a princess she gets cranky.

Well, that's my reality show. Tune in later for the the air dates.

Edit:
This show will not be airing. I have just been informed that this idea has already been used. Apparently, this is the description of every reality show already in existence. Gotta love the creativity that goes into these shows.

Kablamo!

Are you tired of commercials where some annoying guy yells the entire time? This product is guaranteed to remove the annoying commercial, and replace it with something more pleasant.

Here's the vid: Kablamo!

Tacobell WTF!?

Around the time of the Superbowl, I noticed some new commercials for Tacobell popping up. Now, in the past, Tacobell has had pretty decent advertising; not as good as Jack in the Box, but not horrendous like McDonalds or Burger King. Well, these new commercials put an end to that, for a little while. In these new commercials, they featured people who had bit into a Tacobell burrito and pulled away a mucus-like drool-string of cheese, which extended from their mouths to the bitten burrito. Meanwhile, "I'll Melt With You" is playing.

Now, one thing I've noticed is that, when advertising for food, you generally want to make the food look appealing. That is if your intent is to sell the product anyway. The thing I observed, after viewing these commercials, is that, when selecting a fast food place, the image of these commercials tended to make me avoid Tacobell. In fact, you could say that these commercials sort of work as an appetite suppressant. Seriously, what were they thinking? Since when does slimy and stringy go together with appealing?

Now, they only showed these commercials for about a week or so after the Superbowl, so I figured Tacobell must have wised-up. But, low and behold, they have begun showing them again. Tacobell needs to give their advertisers a kick in the jewels and maybe try to get in on the deal with Jack in the Box. These commercials just aren't doing it for them.

What's more? I've began to see that song as the song from the stupid Tacobell commercial, even though I've been familiar with it for a couple decades. I'll get the song in my head and think, "Oh man! That's that stupid commercial!" and then I remember that it's actually a good song. Come to think of it, it seems I first became aware of the song when it was used for a much more appealing Burger King commercial.

"Tacobell! No! Bad Tacobell! No cash for you!"

Featured Video

Finally, I have a new video out. This video demonstrates several ways to get your video noticed on YouTube. Basically, it's composed of parodies of popular videos.

Evil Ronald

So, a little over a year ago, I made a post about the evil Burger King. Well, now as it turns out, Ronald McDonald has gone over to the creepy side as well. This post, unlike the Burger King post, however, doesn't contain any comical conspiracy theories. Rather, this is my observation of a horrendous design decision.

Now, first off, I was never a fan of Ronald McDonald as a kid. I despised those commercials that would come on during childrens programing with their attempts at "child humor". But it seems that the icon of the obese has transcended the realm of bad humor into something even worse.

One thing interesting, the classical happy meal commercials, a concept ripped off of the old childrens program, H.R. Pufnstuf, have now been completely revamped. All the classic characters, like Grimace, are gone. The dorky clown with the horrible puns has now been replaced with a plastic talking statue. Now, doesn't that sound a bit familiar?

Fortunately, unlike Burger King, The Ronald McDonald statues are incapable of moving on their own.


Now, This immobilization of Ronald McDonald is really no big deal. But something caught my attention yesterday. On a roadtrip, I stopped by a McDonalds, to be greeted by this face.

No joke. This is the face which will now be gracing McDonalds restaraunts. Now, McDonalds, for whatever reason has been known to attempt a more "grownup" image for their franchise, as they did with the failed arch delux menue. But scaring all the kids away from the restaraunt has got to be bad for business. I seriously began to wonder if I was dreaming after seeing this. I mean, come on, at least the old Ronald smiled. I think I saw this guy on an episode of the X-Files once.

1 Year?

So, I decided to do something other than schoolwork for a couple minutes today. I actually logged on to YouTube for the first time in a looooooong time. The founder of J-Dubb's Theatre logging on to YouTube? Who would have thought?

Anyways, one thing I noticed on my account, is that my first video now says "Added: 1 year ago". So as of today, I've been making YouTube videos for 1 year already.

Hello

Hey guys, it's been a while since my last post, so I'm writing this one to say what's up. I've been buuuuuusy lately.

Well, go New York. They did what no other team could do this year, and in that last freakin possible game.

Anyways, see you soon.

J-Dubb

Night and Dark Clothes Don't Mix!!

Right now I'm sitting in my 6:30 to 9:00 at night, HTML class. It is dark out, as the sun had already set before I left my house. On top of that, it's cloudy and rainy. A few minutes ago, I was in my car, on the way here. I was driving down an unlit stretch of road, when suddenly, I saw two pairs of feet appear within range of my headlights, directly in front of my car. I slam on my breaks, tires screeching like a banshee, sliding on the wet road, and stopping my car a couple of yards away from killing or severely injuring two people. These people gave me a, "huh?" look, and walked away, as the odor of burning tires surrounded my car. Thing is, these people were wearing all black, crossing an unlit street at night in the rain. Everybody who has the tendency of trying to stay alive knows that this is asking to be hit.

Thing is, this is far from the first time I've seen people in black clothes crossing an unlit street, appearing invisible until my headlights reached them. I've had many other times where I've seen some dark figure just reaching the other side of the street, making me think, "thank God they didn't cross any later, or I would have hit them. This time, however, they were right in front of my car, on the wet road. So I decided to look at all the other pedestrians out that night, and they were all wearing dark clothes. One person, I could only see their legs, because they had light pants, and another person, I could only see their white shoes, but everybody else was all in black.

Now, I know that right now, our culture seems to be in this, "bad good-guy" faze, where everybody wants to look all dark and formidable, because it's cooler. And every time you go out, you want to look as cool and Matrixy as possible, on the chance that everybody around you will pick you out of the hundreds of other people they come in contact with and say, "wow, look how spiffy that person looks." But you're probably not gonna look that cool when I'm scraping your bloody ass off my hood with my ice scraper. Maybe it's time to say to yourself, "hey, I'm an adult now, and I realize that in reality, I'm not an immortal vampire of the night."

Okay now, in all fairness, I'm sure everybody's done this at some point. I have a black leather jacket and black shoes, and I know I've gone out at night wearing all dark clothes. It's easy to dress that way during the day, not thinking about going out at night later. Sometimes you get caught working late. If you are out at night in dark clothes, at least make sure to cross the street in places where cars can see you ahead of time. This isn't a public service announcement, or a GI Joe, "and knowing is half the battle"/ Jimminy Cricket moral message thing. I'm just saying that I really don't want to go through the hastle involved with hitting a human with my car. So please have some consideration and don't dent my fender.

VLOG Tag

So, there's this tag game going around on YouTube right now, where, if you get tagged, you make a video blog where you give five facts about yourself. I got tagged the other day by my freind Adam. Here's my response:

What's wrong here?

So, apparently there's a new chain message going around the internet. It's some sort of neat little brain teaser-mabobber, that goes like this:

Whats wrong here
AAA
BBB
CCC
DDD
EEE
FFF
GGG
HHH
III
JJJ
KKK
LLL
MMM
NNN
OOO
PPP
QQQ
RRR
SSS
TTT
UUU
VVV
WWW
XXX
YYY
ZZZ
Did you know that 80% of UCSD students could not find the error above? Repost this with the title “what’s wrong here”, and when you click “post “, the answer will be really obvious.
Note: You may want to read the following post before wasting your time trying to solve this.

I found this message on a friends profile on Facebook. So I decided to ponder this for awhile. After a couple of seconds, I decided to do a Google search to see if I could find the answer. Apparently, this message is starting to plague comment sections on blogs, journals, and profiles across the internet. Some people are getting bombarded with this nuisance, probably largely in part by people reposting it, as per the instructions, out of curiosity. I also found that there were many people who, like me, decided to try to satisfy their curiosity by looking it up, probably a wise decision.

So, I found a couple of articles dedicated to solving this little pest, and saw that not only are there several possible answers, but even different variations of the problem stated.

Now, the two most common answers I found had to do with the problem being in the question, "Whats wrong here". Some people say it's the absence of an apostrophe in "What's", and others, the absence of a question mark at the end. In these theories, the alphabetical, triple-columns are only there to distract from the actual situation. Problem is, some variations do include the apostrophe, question mark, or both. I've even seen variations where the beginning of the sentence isn't capitalized, which could be another possibility under this theory.

In another variation of the problem, the question is, "Find the error. It's impossible!". Which changes that theory, unless they originally left the apostrophe out of "It's", or something.

Another theory, is that it's a logic problem. The question asks what's wrong, but there is nothing wrong, thus the question of "what's wrong" is the very problem.

I've even seen it suggested that the problem is the presence of "KKK" within the triple columns, an idea which did occur to me, but I don't find very likely. (That would make an already lame riddle that much lamer.)

Thing is, the end of the problem states, "when you click 'post', the answer will be really obvious"
Why?
Another theory explains this, in that the "I"s are really lowercase "L"s. In most default typefaces, capital "I"s look the same as lowercase "L"s. In the text editor, however, the "L"s and "I"s are distinctly different, as they are in my Georgia typeface. Problem is, I copy and pasted several instances of this case into Notepad, which uses a distinguishable I/lowercase-L typeface, and found that in every instance, the capital "I"s are infact capital "I"s.

So I believe this last theory is infact the originally intended solution to this problem, simply because of the, "it will be obvious when you hit repost", part of the equation. This is the only solution where this statement is relevant. The problem is that at some point, somebody retyped this message instead of reposting it or even copy/pasting it. This person typed it out with capital "I"s, not knowing what the solution was supposed to be. It may even have been the original recipient who did this. That variation of the message is the one that ended up spreading, and spawning even more sub-variations. Because of this, the riddle is being posted like wildfire, yet irrelevant in that it lacks the originally intended problem.

Possibly, only the initiator of this pesky little message knows the truth. And they probably had no idea what a monster they were creating when they posted it.

sources: Banana Smoothie, Drunken Texting, 360 Gamers Together, XIHA Life BBS, I luv Korea

Another Year

So, the winter months came and went. We flew over spring and into summer. Then, just as quickly as the leaves grew back on the trees, they began falling off again. Halloween came and went, then Thanksgiving, and finally, Christmas.

It's funny, earlier this month, I went to eat at an Arbys. They were playing Christmas music and I enjoyed it. Normally I talk about abhorring Christmas music, I guess in the past I tended to prefer a darker image. But I enjoyed it as I sat there, eating my Philly steak sub, which I found is very good, btw. Anyways, I guess as I get older, and years begin to feel the way months used to, these traditions that have been there my whole life are kind of nice. It's like all those moments become connected and time freezes for a bit.

Well, now another Christmas has passed and we're about to move into the next year. This time it will be called 2008. So, tomorrow will be January again, and I can expect that month to pretty much fade into oblivion, along with the following several months. It's funny, these last few years, by the end of the year, it seems like I really only remember July through December. Maybe it's because I'm busier during the months that precede the summer, so I don't really notice them.

Anyways, happy new year.

Here's a fittingly melancholy video about the fall:

Hate Smart

Here is J-Dubb's Theatre's latest video. A cheesy instructional video for all aspiring "haters" so that they don't end up embarassing themselves.