Tag Archive: videos

Now I’m on Youtube. What have I gotten myself into?

I don’t know what the hell I was thinking. When my buddy Tig Carson asked me to do a nerdy video series with him, the idea excited me because doing nerdy stuff with friends is always a good time. Tig is the curator of Nerd Out With Me (follow them on Facebook here, and Twitter and all that jazz), and the author of A Space Story, a Hitchhiker’s Guide-esque science fiction adventure. I have fun talking about geek stuff with him. The idea of a video series sounded like fun, too. We’d talk about old toys and cartoons from our youth and whatever. It would be a good way to spend an afternoon. Then we set up a spot and filmed some material as a…
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The most punk rock thing Nirvana ever did was play MTV Unplugged

Twenty-two years ago today, Kurt Cobain killed himself. He was still just a kid, really, talented and tortured and burdened by a weight he wasn’t equipped to handle. Nirvana’s music left a mark on people, but they left as quickly as they came. How strange to disappear when still at your peak. Cobain was a little playful, a little rebellious, and a little punk rock – he taunted jocks, smashed instruments, and thumbed his nose at his fame – but the most punk rock thing he ever did was strap on an acoustic guitar and play one of the most intimate, revealing sets of music of the last 30 years. The boldness wasn’t just in the stripped down set, despite it being unusual for a…
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Remember the time I backflipped over a mountain gorge?

It was pretty awesome when I did a backflip over a 72-foot canyon on my bike. I took some video of it but for some reason Youtube keeps saying it’s some dude called “Kelly McGarry” which is ridiculous because this is obviously me so I don’t even know what to say about that. You can totally tell from the gloves it’s me, though. Boy, that was sketchy! But I came away from it okay because as you can tell this video is of me and I don’t know who “Kelly McGarry” is, what a botch job by Youtube because everyone knows I did this, I took the video just four days ago in Indiana just look at the gloves you can tell. Well bye.