Here’s a scenario: two of my squadmates have just been killed by snipers. We’ve captured three of the enemy, and we believe they can tell us where the entrances to their cave and tunnel complexes are, but they refuse, and remind us that under our military rules, we can only ask them for their names, [...]

We heard the music from our carport, 2 blocks away, and decided to slide over to Hooter’s and see what was going on. Turned out it was Rye Road — myspace.com/ryeroad — playing a bunch of pretty good country covers and a few nice original songs. Had the little Sony A1U video camera in the [...]

Sort of a “draft” for a Firefox commercial. Roughly done, more as a training exercise than for any other reason.

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele *said* he wanted to bring more Hip-Hop to the party. So I helped — along with unwitting accomplices Gene Weingarten (Wash. Post columnist) and cool Miami hop-hipper E.Grizzly - myspace.com/erikgrizzly

Before he went into the communist dictator business, Fidel Castro wanted to be a baseball player. So it was an obvious move to use CrazyTalk to have him “sing” the 1908 Edward Meeker version of ‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game.’

Oh, my! When he’s not busy terrorizing, it seems Osama bin Laden enjoys reciting poetry, in this case T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.’ And he has a strangely effeminate voice, too. (Or maybe the actual reading was done by Jane Aker and I used the pseudo-animation program CrazyTalk to make it [...]

Hey - I couldn’t let Rush Limbaugh have all the fun. So in this experiment with the Crazy Talk mouth-animation software I had Barack Obama sing the same song — to Hillary Clinton.

Rush apparently does reggae karaoke on his days off. Who knew?

(Actually, I was playing with a program called “Crazy Talk” that sort-of animates faces sort-of in synch to speech or music. It’s better with speech but not as much fun.)

According to a Sarasota Herald-Tribune article this event drew about 2000 people. Here’s what some of them said about their reasons for being there:

Shots of a moderate spring shower, with a bit of wind, at the Fair Lane Acres mobile home park in Bradenton, Florida, taken with a Sony HC-1 in a flexible weatherproof housing. Need Florida B-Roll? I can do it, fair weather or foul.