The Swim Archive

[Qman1]

May 23, 2006
Every Time You Wink, the Stars Move
Apologies for the lapse between journal entires, but the last month of pre-production was hoppin'-**bleep** crazy. We went a bit over schedule, and as a result people started taking off for other jobs and vacations planned months ago and so forth. But at long last, pre-production for The Venture Bros. season 2 has come to an end. All episodes--including the epic and altogether-too-ambitious season finale--are now off to Korea. I never have to draw another **bleep** storyboard again. At least not until season 3. If and when that happens.

Though post-production will linger on until something like August, my role in that is a mere fraction of my workload for pre-production. So now I have time for all the things I haven't had time for since I started rolling this Sisyphean stone up the hill way back in June of last year. Things like sleep, going to the doctor, going to the dentist, reading books, hanging out with or even remembering to email a dozen friends I've blown off, congratulating the Urbaniaks on the birth of their twins... You know; life. And Hawaii. I'm going to Hawaii in June...for research. At least that's what I will tell the IRS next year, when I try to deduct the trip.

I've been showing off the screen captures from the incoming episodes so much that I haven't posted any of our luxurious backgrounds or baffling character designs in quite a while. So below is a little bit of that. The background image is the Venture Compound's austere press conference room, where Jonas Sr. no doubt unveiled many a startling, fantastic invention to an eager public in bygone days, and where he probably negotiated "Rusty's Law" with the Guild of Calamitous Intent. As for the characters, those whom you don't recognize, your guess is as good as mine...but you're probably wrong.
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As promised, the Venture Bros. Season 1 DVD will be in stores at the end of this month. I still haven't gotten my complimentary copies yet, so I don't know how it turned out, but I'm sure it's great and you should go out and buy like five of them. Each and every one of you. Adultswim.com had a five minute clip from the DVD special features up on their site last week, but I think it's gone now. I probably should have informed you all about that, you know...like last week.

I've done some interviews recently. One for about.com, but I don't know when it will be posted online. Probably closer to the release of the DVD. I also did an interview for Draw Magazine published by sometimes Venture Bros. storyboard artist Mike Manley, though the truth is we did the interview over email some time last year, so I forgot all about it until the issue came out last month. Lastly, I was interviewed by Dave Levy, an animation producer here in New York, for his forthcoming book Your Career in Animation: How to Survive and Thrive"

And last but not least, here are some screen captures from upcoming episodes:

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We love you,
JP

P.S. Tha

[Qman1]

May 25, 2006
My First Day At Williams Street
Good lord I met a lot of people today.

Spent my first 10 minutes wandering the halls looking for the .com guys only to find I was on the wrong side of the building. Overheard Mike Lazzo asking who the hell I was. Sweet first impression!

Merrill and Kevin took me around after I got my bearings to meet everyone. At first Merrill was assigning people their 80s TV show counterparts. For a few people, these are the only names I now remember - Face from the A-team, Simon and Simon, and some guy from Love Boat.

This is gonna be fun. I'll update again later.

- Patrick

[Qman1]

May 26, 2006
Table Tennis 360
So Xbox 3-sitty sent us a copy of Rockstar's Ping Pong. My first reaction to
playing here at work was... eh take it or leave it. However the landscape
change dramatically after I got a few alco-bevs in me (yes, after work
hours). Final opinion... This game is going to be my new Guitar Hero. (That
means this is the game I'm going to play when I have a bunch of intoxicated
friends over) When I first played it I was kinda underwhelmed, I guess I
expected explosions and prostitutes and guns and stuff. Like extreme pong or
something. There was none of that, just good clean pong with a dash of
decorum. That why I think it is key to play with a bunch of overly
competitive and rambunctious dudes. (And yes I'll say it again toxicity
levels help) I don't mean to suggest that you destroy your liver in the
pursuit of game play. I'm just saying that it helps put in some of the
excitement and in-your-face-osity that Rockstar seemed to miss.

OK I realize I am not a avid gamer type, I don't smell of old couch and I
don't have Cheeto dust on my shirt so this is kind of a lay-person's review.
Even so I will try to discuss some of the other aspects of the game beyond
competitive drinking. However that will have to be in another installment
cuz I haven't gotten past this trash talk, slam your opponent, spit on his
shoes and and kick his dog phase yet.

I give this game two thumbs up, and I say to Rockstar, "Hey! I like what
you're doing"

Wanna play?

- Hockey Chicken

[Qman1]

May 30, 2006
Let Loose The Kraken!
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From Jackson Publick's Live Journal:

The DVD's hit the stores today!

And as of this morning, we're apparently #9 on Amazon's list of top sellers. So we can officially say we "debuted at #9," which sounds pretty good. And we're climbing! You hear that, "Charmed-the complete 5th Season?!?" We're comin' for you!

So thank you all for the pre-orders, and the 5 star reviews dating back several months, and for your hard-earned cash or credit! Hope you dig the DVDs...

we love you,
JP


...from the DVD special features film shoot:

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Left to right: Ben Edlund, Jackson Publick, James Urbaniak being transformed, Doc Hammer, part of some make-up chick.

[Qman1]

June 2, 2006
Getting a Grip

Eventually, we met up with Captain Yellow Feathers and heard about his plans for the site. A lot of what he says makes sense to me. I have to admit that before I talked to him, I was not certain that I wanted to stay here. I also felt that staying would maybe be a sign of betrayal to people who I respect and felt crushed by the switch.

Over time though, I was assured that it was not a betrayal and a lot of the internal bickering and backstabbing has kind of dissipated. I have come to see the opportunities that are now open to us. My guess is that you are going to see a whole lot of growing pains in the next few weeks (months?), but in the end, you are going to see a very different adultswim.com. And I think you are going to have a lot more friends to hang out with at the site.

- Merrill



June 2, 2006
Response to Change
 So now the website was in the hands of Mission Library. Pick your cliche: slap to the face, kick to the **bleep**...it was all that. Chaos and dread. Uncertainty and trepidation. Finally on the next Tuesday we got a face-to-face meeting with Mission himself, which we hoped would clear up many of the questions we faced.

I was lost at sea. How could I be useful in this new incarnation of the site? Before the takeover I was the in-house anime expert, wrote and content managed games and ran the message boards. It was well known that Mission didn't like our games and was indifferent about anime, so I wasn't sure where I would fit in. We halted production on every game we were making and waited. I had gotten vague offers to write articles for Toonami Jetsream, which would be cool, but my heart lay in writing for games. We could do nothing but wait for Tuesday.

--Chris



June 1, 2006
Sea Change
Here is a not-so-well-kept secret: The Adult Swim site is changing hands again.

The first thing people want to know is the whys? I don't know. The site's ratings have not been so hot. The political wind about the site has been blowing since shortly after I started here at the end of 2005. Three years ago, no one cared about anything on the internet. Now, broadband and iPods and whatever have made the internet "space" a lot more important to the business. I kind of felt that it was inevitable that Alcoholic Dad was going to gain control of the site. It was clear he wanted it. My one regret is that I wish that Loving Mom had more time to find his footing on the new site re-design.

The few weeks that all of this was happening were pretty bad. Although I truly believe that there was nothing personal about the site switching hands, a few people used the opportunity to make very personal attacks. Plus, anytime a job switch like this happens, people will sit around and mope and ask themselves what they could have done differently. It felt like no one was in our corner.

- Merrill

June 1, 2006
Changing Hands

Last week Mad Labrador asked me to write the truth about what was going on around here--or at least what I thought the truth was. I'm going to give it my best shot over the next few days, though I'm not used to being able to speak unfiltered.
The website's been floundering. The last redesign was intended to fix many of Mad's concerns with the site, and while we did everything we could, nothing could stop the inevitable. Two weeks ago the head of Cartoon New Media called us together and broke the news: from now on AdultSwim.com will be under the direct control of Mad, the head of Adult Swim.

--Chris

[Qman1]

June 6, 2006
Brave New Boards
The second priority we were given is the Message Boards. I've been involved with the boards since my first day here and changing them is really difficult for me. On top of that, the moderators are against a lot of the changes I'm going to have to make. Which is their job; they're there to protect the users' interest and these changes are definitely going to shake the users up. The whole focus of the boards is going to shift, and there are quite a few people who won't like it. But then, hopefully, there will be people who do.

--Chris



June 6, 2006
Sorting It Out
OK, so we've switched around, we're patching over some hurt feelings, what comes next?

I'm trying to figure that out. I like the new site. I like that it has opened up some areas for me to play around in. What has been really exciting is that I am starting to spark ideas off of Slapshot, the adultswim.com art director, and Chop Chop, the other adultswim.com writer.

The frustrating part is trying to figure out how this all fits together. At 3:30 yesterday, we were still trying to figure out what to put out that day. Every day is a mad scramble towards a goal line, but you're not really sure where that goal line is. We don't all sit near each other. You catch brief fragments of conversations and try to figure out what one person is doing. Every day brings a million plans, a thousand lost opportunities and hundreds of missed communications. It's exciting and scary to be so loose, but it also makes your head break because you honestly do not know what's coming next or how to even deal with what has to be done that day.

- Merrill



June 5, 2006
Brave New Site
The Tuesday meeting came and the new reality was calming--actually, it was pretty exciting. Afterwards I think we all felt a lot more reassured. Our new priorities were presented to us, three things that we were to focus on.

One of the new focuses is going to be games. We'd heard that might be the plan earlier, but I was amazed by the scope Mirrored Lens proposed. This is very exciting for me, but I do worry that right now I think I know what kind of games Mirrored wants...which is usually a sure sign that I don't.

--Chris



June 5, 2006
Group Therapy
AdultSwim.com's been meeting up with Boss Haircut as a group every couple of days to try to figure out where the site is going. On Friday, Boss Haircut had Greasy Ear write down every section of the site and throw it into a hat. We all had to draw out a name and focus on that for the weekend and try to figure out how to improve it. Boss Haircut said that he was hoping he got the Fix, but I ended up pulling it, so if you have comments on the Fix, let me know. I know Boss will be paying attention to my section.

The meetings with Boss Haircut are interesting. The thing with Boss is, even if you get pissed as hell at him, he's still very charming. It's very hard to stay angry when Boss is right in front of you. He tells a good story. He has an interesting way of looking at things. In some ways, I kind of feel like I might be spinning my wheels here for a while until we get to some stuff that I can effect more directly. But as long as Boss keeps it interesting, I think I'll be sticking around.


- Merrill

[Qman1]

June 8, 2006
Clip & Save
There is a lot of hurry up and wait in putting adultswim.com together. Some days, you want to chop off a finger so that you can go home and get a break from it all. Other days, you want to chop off someone else's finger because you are so bored. Here are some of the highlights of the last couple of finger-bleeding days:

I caught an early episode of Pee-wee's Playhouse. Although I was kind of afraid that it would not live up to my expectations, it was funny as hell. There were so many great things I forgot, like Randy, the bad puppet. Knuckles and I have been pulling more clips for the site and I finally saw "Rats Off To Ya," which I have somehow always missed. Knuckles hates that episode, but I really want a Rats shirt now. Shaved and Furred and I have been taking some interesting videos and pictures for the site, too. We have also been using a dart board to determine the future of the boards. OK, maybe not. But we have been reading all the posts with great interest.

Some people have gotten pretty close to what our plan may be, but I want to be clear that the site will not become subscription based or cost money.

- Merrill


June 8, 2006
Clipping **bleep**
 So right now Marmalade and I are stuck in an edit house, pulling clips for our clips section. This is really maddening work. If you've never done it, this is how it goes: Watch a few minutes. Stop and get clip. Watch. Stop. Watch. Stop. And the fact that this is probably going to continue for months is going to drive me crazy. It's absolutely necessary, but it feels just like busywork.

I just wish we could get started on the new games, but Michigan Lunchbox wants us to focus on getting the site fixed first. Speaking of that, people on the boards have been really freaked out by the nebulous "changes" we keep mentioning. I actually enjoy all the speculations people come up with, but we're going to have to reveal our plan for the future soon and I'm a little afraid of the chaos that will ensue. But I guess you can't make an omelet without um...chaos.

--Chris



June 7, 2006
Meetings and Clips
So for the last few weeks we've been having meetings with Mackerel Lampshade down in on-air. These meetings are unusual, especially since Mackerel hates having meetings, but it's been pretty educational for me. Sometimes he'll tear down a part of the site and tell us how crappy it is, but for some reason it doesn't bother me at all. He has absolutely no respect for institutions, which I'm coming to really appreciate. It seems clear that he would even get rid of the on-air bumps in a second if he thought of a better idea.

One thing he really cut into was our fairly anemic clips section, so right now Marble and I are in an editing studio pulling a crapload of clips--at the moment, we're on Tom Goes to the Mayor. Which I'm starting to hate more and more with every "Rat's Off to Ya!"

- Chris



June 7, 2006
Duck
Every few days, the adultswim.com team walks down to the Williams Street Writers' Room to meet up with Plaid Pants. The Writers' Room has a big table in it and I usually sit across from Plaid Pants. Directly behind Pants' head is a huge circular window that has a view out to the back entrance of Williams Street.

Yesterday, while Pants was making a particularly big point, a little plastic yard duck popped up behind him in the window. While Pants was elaborating, the duck started dancing all around the window and bobbing his neck. I started smiling and biting my lips to keep from laughing. I think Pants thought I was especially amused at his remarks, but it was really just the duck.

- Merrill

[Qman1]

June 9, 2006
Maelstrom
Yesterday I told the boards some of the changes that will be happening soon. You can read that here. Some people didn't want me to put the news out so early, but I really felt that the sooner we told people the more time they would have to adjust to it. And I'd rather have chaos now than chaos later when we do implement these new changes.

So far I've been surprised by the board reaction. The majority has been the expected riots and gnashing of teeth, but there have been more than a few people who understand and even welcome the upcoming changes. If you go into the boards right now you'll see protests and petitions, screaming and complaining, but I actually have more hope that perhaps these changes are for the best.

--Chris



June 9, 2006
Meetings **bleep**
Have you ever been tired but you really aren't sure why? That's what this week has been. A non-stop yawn-inducing drain, but I am not really sure why. My one guess is that with all the switches, there have been a ton of meetings. Which **bleep**. The best thing, to me, about meetings is that I concentrate more on doodles than I would if I was just sitting at my desk.

We had an 11 AM appointment with Golfer to discuss the site changes and I was just not feeling it this morning. Golfer walked in, sat in his chair and said, 'What are we talking about?" I said, "Nothing." Golfer stood up and left the room, saying, "Great. Have a nice weekend." Thank you, Golfer. That was what I needed today.

- Merrill

[Qman1]

June 13, 2006
Clips Eternal
My God, will the clips never end? This is the fourth day of me pulling clips from our Williams Street originals. Last week after discovering how tedious the whole process was I turned to Marmaduke and said "Hey. This is going to get really tiresome very quickly. We should take shifts." To which he said "Oh, sure, we'll take shifts. By the way, I booked studio time on Monday and Tuesday. That's probably going to be you." Apparently "shifts" means that I'll take all days ending with "Y" and he'll take every other European Holiday. Like Boxing Day or Guy Fawkes Day.

The only good part is that now I'm working on getting clips from the new season of Venture Bros. They're really good, even better than last season. Right now I'm looking at Brock dressed up like Chewbacca. Awesome.

--Chris



June 13, 2006
Podcast
It's been a little quiet around here. Torrid is out grabbing clips, Smallville and Sawdust are on vacation and Puck is at a convention. In other words, we're a little under staffed at the moment.

Yesterday, I got a call from Hairy that Tom creator's Tim and Eric would like us to link to their podcast. I told Hairy we could do it, but it would be hard this week because everyone was out. Hairy said ok, and then conferenced in Tim and Eric. I told them the same thing I told Hairy. It was possible but it would take some time. Hairy, not satisfied, then sent an email to me and Big Boss Master Blaster and said he needed it up right away. Master Blaster then asked me why I couldn't do it right away.

Master was probably right in some ways. I could have forced the issue harder, but we had already pushed a lot of changes out the door that day and I was not really wanting to push the Development Team harder. Tim and Eric sent us the podcast. It's really funny, but it would never pass Standards and Practices at Turner. Neither Master nor Hairy had seen it, so they had no clue it was dirty. So, now we're back where we started with no link to the dirty podcast at www.timanderic.com, which is in no way affiliated with Turner. And in no way am I telling you to check it out.

-Merrill


June 12, 2006
Busy Morning
We have this thing on Thursdays called Adult Swim Stage. It's for us to look at the site's design for the coming week and make sure everything works. We must not have paid enough attention to Stage last Thursday because we had to make a lot of running changes this morning. "Winner!" was not slated to be a box this week, but since it was talked about on the bumps, we decided we better make it one really fast. "Dog Boy" did not link to the right thing either. Whoops! Luckily, no one at Williams Street looks at the site unless they are forced to, so no one probably caught it.

Progressive and I had to grab Fan Reviews from the Message Board this morning as well. The reviews, in general, have become more thought out and well written in the last few weeks. Well, maybe not the InuYasha ones. They are impossible to sludge through. I make Progressive grab those, because life is too short.

- Merrill



June 12, 2006
Case of the Mondays
I'm spending a good deal of time now trying to finalize new guidelines for the board switch with the moderators. I swear, I love all those guys to death, but some of them can be very opinionated. They have nothing but the boards' well-being at heart, but it can be kind of frustrating. But I think it just goes to show how dedicated they all are to this place and how much they care about making it work.

Meanwhile, I'm pulling clips again today. Clips, clips, clips. We've done about 160 clips so far, with no end in sight. At least I'm working on the Venture Bros today, so it's not so bad. I can't wait to get to the new ones.

--Chris

[Qman1]

June 16, 2006
Why Fridays **bleep**
No one wants to be here on a Friday. But you have to be here. You know why?

Because all the crap you slacked off doing the rest of the week has to get done. Friday afternoons **bleep**. Always. Today, Gym-Freak decided to take off and go golfing. Awesome. It's not like we needed you here, Gym-Freak. Ugh. I have been meaning to FedEx something for over a week. It is still sitting here on my floor. I even made a list today. I have hardly done half of it. I give up. I'm going home.

- Merrill



June 16, 2006
Casino Royale
Today I was talking with Wombat, a new-media developer, and Petticoat, our intern, when the subject of the new James Bond movie came up. We all agreed that the new Bond looked pretty kick-**bleep**, but then Wombat floored us with the assertion that "James Bond, 007" is a title that is passed on from agent to agent, not the name of a singular character played by different actors.

What followed was a dazzling display of nerdery that enveloped half the office and anyone unlucky enough to blunder through. The majority opinion was that James Bond is the same guy throughout every single movie, just played by different actors, but Wombat refused to concede, even though point after point was brought to light from dozens of Bond movies. Even now, people are still debating it. For my money, though, no way was Bond just a title.

It was a fine example of what a middling trivia question will do to a gaggle of nerds on a warm Friday afternoon.

--Chris



June 15, 2006
Worth a Thousand Words
Yesterday Moribund, Parable and I went on a our weekly picture-taking excursion. When we first started doing these blogs, we decided to have a different picture every day of Moribund and I looking stupid to go along with them, but now we keep having to top ourselves with idiocy. Yesterday we came up with a range of artful poses, including making out with Rosie the Robot and riding a toy motorcycle around the office, but only a few were really any good.

The highlight of the day had to be when Moribund suggested we do a kind of Reservoir Dogs walking-down-the-street thing. So I walked over to the wall, doing my thing, starting to feel uncomfortably like a model in one of those "let's reject the modern image of beauty" clothes catalogs. Then it was Moribund's turn. I turn around from walking out of frame and he's got his shirt off, parading around in what had to be the most overexaggerated walk he could muster. A little old lady driving a car passed by right then, looking horrified at this shirtless guy and the two other guys taking pictures of him. I felt dirty.

--Chris




June 15, 2006
Diary Edited for Content
Today has been kind of stupid. Half of the adultswim.com office is out and the other half disappears for hours at a time. This morning, we put the final touches on our plans for Venture Bros. pimpage on the site. All of you who bitched and moaned about all the Tom stuff everywhere will probably be happier with this stuff, assuming you like the Ventures. If you don't, you'll probably be hating life.

We've started discussing our plans for Pee-wee's Playhouse. Unlike Saved By the Bell, Pee-wee will have a pretty big web presence on the site. It's not all planned out yet, and even if it was, I wouldn't want to tell you about it yet, because half of the fun is finding out what's going to happen.


- Merrill


June 14, 2006
Bastards
I've been checking out a script today for a new pilot from Jeff Olsen, who was a co-creator on Stroker & Hoop. I've known about this thing for a while, and I thought it was an interesting idea. Now it is a funny script. Hopefully, it can be a funny show.

We also had a meeting with Lord Butch this afternoon about the site ratings. Ratings seem up a bit, but not by any great amount. Still, any upswing is nice. We've heard you guys loud and clear. You want an event like Hockey Chicken again. We've started preparing for it to happen by the end of the year. You **bleep** better turn out.

- Merrill



June 14, 2006
Traffic
So we just had a meeting with Myriad Landscape to discuss traffic numbers from the past few weeks. We're just in this weird place where we're trying to figure out what's working and what isn't. Turns out that Adult Swim Fix is working all right, games are working all right and people apparently like all the homepage weirdness. At one point Myriad said he was surprised that we were so comfortable with web technology, to which I replied in a singularly eloquent moment: "I'm all into the internet."

At the end we came up with some goals for the future, number-wise, and some stunt ideas. I think those will be good, but I still like one we thought up a while ago, where we strand Marigold in the middle of nowhere with a camera and no money and make him have to trade on the name of Adult Swim to get rides home. That would have been sweet.

--Chris

[Qman1]

June 23, 2006
Frantic
I should title all my entries as obscure Harrison Ford movies from now on. Regarding Henry's up for tomorrow. Today has been just a mess. I got in around normal time and had to jump right into creating thumbnails and clip titles for our first big clip expansion next week. Somewhere around 130 clips and I got them done before noon. Pretty kick-**bleep** progress, even with tons of distractions. Then the power went out. Great.

In the afternoon we had this long meeting where it was determined that
Mechanic never really listens to what Kevlar has to say and we all rejoiced. Then we went through stunt ideas and new homepage crap. The new stunt is going to be interesting. I actually wouldn't mind being the victim this time; as Mechanic said, it sounds like kind of a cool adventure. You'll just have to wait and see, but it's coming probably sooner than you think.

--Chris


June 23, 2006
The Talk of the Town
Did you ever see our page for the Venture Bros. DVD? I hope you didn't. It was kind of a piece of crap, a fact not lost upon our fearless leader, Nine Iron. Whenever I talked to Nine Iron, he always pulled up the crappy Venture Bros. DVD page and kind of rubbed my face in it. The page is a good example of what was wrong with the site and what we're going to change about it. It doesn't do you any good to hear about Special features on a DVD. We should be showing them to you. So, Monday, on the Fix, we're going to show one of the Venture Bros. Extra Features from the DVD, so you can see the kind of cool extra crap they made for this thing.

Nine Iron also told me about an ecstatic Venture Bros. DVD review from Moriarity at Ain't It Cool News. You can see it here. The funny thing about the review is that Moriarity leads it off with a screen grab of the craptastic DVD page from our site. Also, he didn't ask permission for the image, but I guess we'll look the other way. Since we're talking about links, you might also want to check out Dustin Diamond's new site. Dustin played Screech on Saved By the Bell. I guess he has fallen onto some hard times and he is selling T-Shirts to help save his house. So, if you want to help Screech, check out his website "getdshirts". Otherwise, we might have to show Saved By the Bell again so he can get residuals.

- Merrill

June 22, 2006
We're Locked Up Right Now...

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We can't break free of our chains. We will have more updates tomorrow.

- Merrill & Chris.

June 20, 2006
Go Team Venture!
We're re-doubling our efforts to make this a better site. We've been planning stunts and we're going to be adding a lot more clips. Soon, you'll be getting a much more robust Fix. By the way, I hate the name Fix. I think it should be called Free Episodes. I think I want to change "Clips" to "Watch Funny Clips." We just grabbed 158 more new clips today (we currently have less than 300), so you're going to see a lot more of your favorite clips. Screw you, YouTube.

Glasses and I went down to talk with Ol' Yeller about some of our plans. We had one thing we really wanted, which was to premier the first episode of Season 2 of The Venture Bros. early. Ol' Yeller thought about it. He called Jackson Publick to talk about it. Finally, we decided. The premier of Venture Bros. Season 2 will air two days early on the Fix at adultswim.com. Friday night, at 6 PM, you can be among the first to learn the secrets of the Venture boys and see what happens to Brock and Doc Venture. There will be some HUGE surprises this week, so you are going to want to see it here before it gets spoiled somewhere. Next week, we'll be showing you clips from upcoming episodes of season 2, before anywhere else. We're also going to start answering the Suggestion Box.

- Merrill



June 20, 2006
Demon Tournament
We get weekly reports as to the state of our site traffic, broken down into segments and categories. We can see what did well this week, compared to the week before. How many users and how many page views. Aside from the home page, our most popular section is always Games.

I happened to notice something interesting in this report. Our top five games get broken out separately: Demon Tournament, Iron and Flame, Breakfight, Flameout and Head Games. All alone, InuYasha: Demon Tournament generates nearly half of all our games traffic. Nearly half! Which equates to nearly a fifth of the entire site's traffic. One game. Clearly Fullmetal Alchemist fans have been lying down on the job.

--Chris




June 19, 2006
Sweaty Work
Highsticker and I went up to the roof a few minutes ago with Intern Whiskers to take pictures for the site. On the way up the ramp, we passed Prince Valiant bringing in Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha, from the upcoming [adult swim] show Metalocalypse (formerly known as DethKlok). We all said "hi" quickly and went on our way.

It was hot as hell on the roof today. A sticky, nasty heat that radiated off the cars parked up there. Highsticker and I took some pictures and walked around the building with Intern Whiskers, looking for anything else to capture, but we were frying in the sun. After a weird run-in with a security guard who demanded to know why we were taking pictures, we decided to call it quits for the pictures for today. I saw Tommy inside and walked over to talk to him in more detail. Tommy asked if it was hot outside. Then he pointed out the sweat under my man boobs. "Do you get pimples up under those manboobs?" Tommy asked.

Well, for your information, Tommy, the answer is no. Now, my **bleep** is a completely different story. Hey, doing a web site is sweaty work.

- Merrill

P.S. - Brendon, look out for Whiskers. He wants to talk your ear off about MySpace or some crap.



June 19, 2006
Keeping House
Today is one of those days where I can't point to any one thing and say "Look at that. I got that done today." I watched Periwinkle, our intern, write crude, childish things on Marduk's cube, which segued into a short trip to pick up a tape from an editing studio. I got caught up on the massive "Site Changes" thread on the boards. I've made lists of things to talk about to our message board vendor. Just...nothing special.

Except....Periwinkle keeps coming in and hovering around my cube. He's like a little kid, ambling along chanting "Whatcha doin'?" every five minutes. Every time I try to write this **bleep** blog, there he is, just staring at me. He asked to read over what I'd written so far and just kept sitting at my desk, just waiting for me to write in front of him like a trained monkey. I'm this close to sending him across town to...I don't know, get muffins or something...just so I can write in peace.

Feh. Interns.

--Chris

[Qman1]

June 27, 2006
Rundown
Let me give you a dumb rundown on my day so far. I got a text from Intern Bushy at 9 AM sharp, letting me know he arrived to work at time. I publicly challenged him on the boards to be at work by 9. Of course, when I get the text, I am in my car, nowhere near work.

I spent the next few hours in meetings and talks and brainstorms and whatever the hell else you want to call it, trying to plan the next few weeks out. You guys seemed to like it when we brought the Venture Bros. premiere out the next week for even more Adult Swim Fix viewing, so I think we are going to keep doing that. We also got our first real look at the Pee-wee images we have to play with. There is one image of Jambi that is hypnotic. Icing is working on some cool Metalocalypse stuff as well. We have some exclusive Metalocalypse videos coming you will not see anywhere else.

- Merrill



June 27, 2006
Guest Diary from Dave
Well you can shove it right up your bum bum! Please, what is it with the people at Williams St. that walk around like someone just shot their dog?! I always give a nice comfortable smile and nod when I pass by people in the hall. Sometimes give a weak little hello as I pass. What kind of jerk do you have to be to look me right in the eye and say nothing back, not even a reciprocal nod. Some chump did that to me this morning, I didn't even know him. I could understand if I had done some thing to this dude, like inadvertently shot his dog or something.

Sigh.

If you work at Williams street and you are reading this, please smile back cuz if you don'm probably gonna start crying.

- Dave



June 26, 2006
Just Another Manic Monday
We are doing everything we can to grab clips for the site. Clips, according to our boss man, Backswing, are the number one priority right now. Backswing barks whenever he sees us walking the halls or in a meeting or doing anything that's not grabbing clips. Including myself, I have three .com employees grabbing clips today in various places around town. We should be making a huge dent in our goal of having a few thousand clips by the end of this week.

Beyond that, today has been stupid. We sent some tapes out to be digitized to go up on our site. It is a long, stupid process. We sent one company, who I have been told to keep nameless, a tape with 2 hours of clips on it. They delivered it late with less than 20% of what they were supposed to do actually done. So, sorry nameless crap company, you **bleep** and we will never use you again. After dealing with that setback, we had to discuss what the new Adult Swim Fix and new Clips pages will look like. Plus, Backswing came down and wanted us to pimp the hell out of the fact that the Fix will play the Venture Bros. premiere the rest of the week. Which, we did, but it ate into some clip grabbing time. No biggie. The last obstacle is that Ham Hands is on vacation. So, in the interest of fairness, a few other adultswim.com staffers will be doing guest blogs to tell you their side of the story.

- Merrill



June 26, 2006
Karen's Guest Blog
Enormous Samurai is on vacation, so some of us are filling in for him. Don't worry; he'll be back next week. Together we will do our best to fill in his size 17 shoes. I am a producer for AdultSwim.com, but I have always thought that the lamest title ever since I don't actually produce, so I have decided I am a line producer for adultswim.com. I run around after the "creative types" (their name, not mine) and ask "Is it done!?" "Where is it?!" "NO you CANNOT have that money!!!" Most importantly, I have a key to the premium closet.

If you have been following this blog, you have read a lot about what has gone down over the last few weeks from the fools below, and they have done a good job of honestly capturing the crazy state of affairs. However, some of us suffered more political and professional damage than others due to the corporate coup. I am one of them, mainly because of my big mouth. Guess what? Executives don't want to hear unsolicited negative news from the minions. Hindsight, I should have kept my big fat mouth shut and let the infrastructure collapse around me, while enjoying a cool beverage or two. Lesson learned and this mouth will only volunteer her opinion when asked. But the Evil Genius accepted me into the fold and said "clean slate" for now (cut to my badge not working tomorrow). Even though we are still in a state of complete chaos, we have survived and are adapting and getting tighter as a team every day.


- Karen

[Qman1]

June 30, 2006
Answer Bag
Today, I am going to answer some questions from adultswim.com fans who sent messages and comments to me at **bleep**.

To start with, a few people asked to see the drawing that Patrick made of me in retaliation for the drawing of him in "Don't Be Greedy." Check out the drawing in my diary entry.

[rpgamer] wrote: Suggestion for garnering feedback, create a feedback page. Have it available not only in some link, probably towards the bottom, but have it linked to directly every time a user logs out, so as to assure gaining some feedback.

Not a bad idea, rpgamer, but the truth is, we get a ton of feedback from the Suggestion Box. It is hard to even keep up with that. For the time being, we will have to keep suggestions limited to that.

[duzi] sent a very nice email and asked: please bring back Thursday Viewer Bumps.. they are what made me rush home to watch [as] in 05.. they were like the uber-dee-duber connection that we, as a nation of viewers, had with you, our nightly savior.. we could reach out and touch you on the site.. and you, [as], stroked us lovingly back... on tv.

I asked what the deal was and received this cryptic message back: We decided to spread the wealth.

[Mark] sent: What about running action as well as comedy premieres on the Fix all week long? I think a lot of people would appreciate a Fan Art section on the site. Thoughts?


I wish that I had good answers for this stuff. The action premieres are a RIGHTS issue that we trying to resolve. In the meantime, we are working on getting a new (for us) action series to do a whole season within the Fix. It's too early to say what it is or to announce it.

We're also looking into the Fan Art thing. We really want to do it. Once we get it hammered out with legal, it will definitely be a part of the site.

Finally, [DBZ4ever] writes: Will "VS Threads" (ex. Spike vs. Vicious) go into the General Dicussion folder once it is made?

I think so. Once we get on our feet with the upcoming changes, we'll know more.


Thanks for the mail everyone and sorry to those I did not get to. Have a patriotic Fourth.

- Merrill



June 30, 2006
C-O-M-P-A-N-Y P-O-L-I-C-Y Part 1 Guest Diary By Jordan
What's it like working at cartoon network? Before I tell you, I want you to form your own picture in your head of what it's like to come to my job every day. Got it? Okay, good. Now, lemme tell you that it is not at all like that. I work for the largest multi-national conglomerate in the world. If you think that job consists of cotton candy and unicorns, you're in for a rude effing awakening, bud. For example...

Here's how my day went yesterday: I woke up precisely when I was supposed to be AT work, rolled over and grabbed a cigarette. After pulling on the clothes that smelled the least bad, mumbling swear words on the way to my car, and breaking numerous traffic laws, I arrived at work a mere thirty minutes late. I immediately entered a meeting with my as.com cohorts to discuss the meeting we would be having at four o'clock that afternoon. Got that? I had a ten o'clock about my four o'clock. The ten o'clock turned into a circular discussion about ad sales and placement and the production process. It took about an hour and fifteen minutes. After that meeting Chuckles, Slapshot and myself agreed to meet up again at three o'clock to go over what we would be presenting at the four o'clock.

Now. Not too long ago my work used to be split between as.com and cn.com. With the recent shake-ups here, I have landed permanently on the as.com team. However, there are still some lingering cn.com commitments that I have to take care of. One such commitment was what we call a "post-mortem"Â meeting. It's a meeting to discuss the goods and bads of the production process of a large-scale project. It usually occurs several months after the project has been completed and everyone has had ample time to not be pissed and to forget what went wrong. I was supposed to attend one of these yesterday. At the zoo. At ten-thirty. Still with me? Ok. I didn't go at ten-thirty. It was decided that I wouldn't need to be present for the entire meeting. Just the last hour and forty-five mintues. So, after my ten o'clock, I worked for about an hour and a half on what I was going to be presenting at my four o'clock. Then I grabbed my keys, read the directions to the meeting place in my email (since I couldn't print yesterday, I was going to have to rely on my memory and keen sense of direction) and headed out for the zoo. The ATLANTA ZOO. Where the COMPANY MEETING was.



June 30, 2006
C-O-M-P-A-N-Y P-O-L-I-C-Y Part 2
When I got to the zoo, I didn't see the gate that I was supposed to enter through to get to the super-secret meeting place because I parked on the wrong side. So I went to the front entrance and asked where the Cartoon Network meeting was. They told me to go around the side of the zoo to the gate marked 007. I did this. When I got to gate 007 it was locked and there was no security guard, like there was supposed to be. So I used the callbox. The person on the other end told me to go back to the front entrance. I did. Again I asked the same question of a different zoo employee. They told me that the place I was supposed to be was all the way at the back of the zoo and that there were signs pointing me to it. So, I walked to the back of the zoo, dodging fat, vacationing bumpkins and color-coded, unruly day-care kids, running around just begging to get stepped on or thrown into the tiger pavilion. When I got to the back of the zoo, I saw a big, empty white tent and no more helpful little animal signs and no meeting building anywhere. So, I walked back to the front of the zoo, once again swerving in and out of screeching children and sweaty yokels. All this time trying to call someone who was actually AT the meeting, but everyone's phones were turned off to be polite. By this point, I was also kind of sweaty. Being a heavy smoker and from Ohio, I'm not a real walking-around-in-the-middle-of-summer-in-Atlanta type of guy.

This time when I got to the front of the zoo, I went to the security office and asked where the EFF the cartoon network meeting was. The lady that answered the door started to tell me about the big white tent, and the secret path behind the tent that took you around and through Forest Sauvage and over the Mountains of Mist and it was at this point that I said:

"You know what? I'm just not gonna go. It's one-thirty, I'm sweating like a **bleep**, I'm pissed and there's only about and hour and a half left of the meeting to talk about what went wrong three months ago. I can't remember specifics. I was pissed the whole time. So, I'm just not gonna go. I'm gonna go to my favorite bar, The Highlander, and have lunch. Screw it."

And that's what I did. I made it back here in time for my three o'clock about the four o'clock, got a little more work done and had a smoke before we went to talk to [insert witty alias for the boss here] about why we **bleep** today. Awesome.

So in essence what I'm saying, is that all of you out there who think working at Cartoon Network is like living in Animal House, you are sadly mistaken. Except for the heavy drinking. But it's not the funny kind. It's the sad kind. Like in Leaving Las Vegas. Except Elizabeth Shue isn't going to be giving you a helping "hand" while you gurgle out your last breath.

-j



June 29, 2006
Sleepy as Hell
Here is a little known fact about Williams Street. The temperature of the building is as uncontrollable as Blue Eye's mood swings. I have been frickin' roasting alive in my cube today. It is one of those nasty sticky hot feelings that make you want to just lay on the ground with no parts of your skin touching each other, not move and just sleep. Then, when you walk down the hall to where the rest of [adult swim] is, it feels a lot colder and you look like a freak for sweating so much.

Speaking of Blue Eyes, the reason I had to go down the hall was to talk to him about getting some Boondocks stuff. In our two hour meeting the other day, he said we could give him marching orders to get whatever Boondocks material we needed. I sent him an email with our groups' requests (which we had already talked to him about). I also set our team in motion to start carrying out some of these plans. Blue never really responded to my email and when I saw him today, he was in one of his more ornery moods.

Blue Eyes informed me he did not respond to my email because he didn't open it, but he assumed I wanted something from him. I told him that I wanted the Boondocks things we had talked about. He replied with the classic, "People in hell want ice water." "I know," I said, "that's why they call it hell." Fortunately, Blue was with Overpriced T-Shirt, who also wanted to add in his two cents. I just walked away, because it was pretty boring. So, when the Boondocks DVD is out and you want to see related content on the site, just know that people in hell also would care for some ice water.

Remember, if you have questions or suggestions about the site, send them on in to:
**bleep**
- Merrill



June 29, 2006
The Intern's Guest Diary-Blog-Thingy
For my guest blog, I was going to talk about how I got suckered into dog sitting while the neighbors are off in Europe. I would have mentioned that the first morning I arrived at their house the kitchen floor was covered with sh#%. And I probably would have told you all about how I opened the back door to get some fresh air, and two cats ran away.

But Mermaid says this entry has to be about work, so I can't. Instead, here's a little taste of Williams St. from my side.

Everything I knew about this place came from what I saw on TV, the website, and the info I got from my friend Armstrong - an intern from last summer. And it's almost exactly what I imagined it to be. The people are awesome, there are almost always projects for me to work on, and lots to see and do when the workload is light. I'm working with a small group of people on the website, so I get to toss in my two cents, even when no one wants it. Plus I get to be there when we meet with the big boss of [adult swim]. That guy has a crazy way of getting everyone motivated. It's cool to watch, if you're not the one being yelled at, I mean.

So far I've gotten to edit video for the site, work on random graphics, take pictures, copy edit, watch tons of cartoons (some of which aren't out yet), and a bunch of other stuff I can't remember. I still have a ton of things I want to do here yet. I'm trying to get into TV and/or film production eventually, so need to start meeting more people at the on-air side of things. And I still have some pranks to pull, but there's plenty of time I think.

- Patrick



June 28, 2006
Let's Make It Better
Once a week, we have a meeting with Dirty Cleats where we show him the stuff we want to put up on the site for the next week. It was at 4. I needed to leave no later than 4:30 so I could take care of some crap with my impending move in a few weeks. I finally got out at 5:45. In many ways, it was a greatest hits of Dirty Cleats' "Greatest Lectures." We heard the following choice nuggets, again: "No one cares what you think. You're boring," "Don't be victims," "Steal what you need," and "Start every morning asking how you **bleep** today."

Even though I think some of his comparisons are crap (they don't make new bumps each night or put out more than 3 Birdmans a year and we churn this site out every day), there were some good thinking points. So, here are some new ways in which we will not be **bleep**:

* From now on, Adult Swim Fix comedy premieres will run for a solid week, not just Fridays. Meaning, you can watch new Ventures all week long.

* We are gathering thousands of clips of your favorite show. And soon, they will be available in a flash player for everyone on Mac.

* More downloads. You'll be getting a ton more wallpapers.

And starting this Friday, I will answer some User Mail in this diary. Got a question about the site? Send me an email at the address at the bottom. I can't promise I will answer everything, but I will read them all and I will pick a few each week that are specifically about this site. This is your chance to tell me how I **bleep** today.

Send your emails to: **bleep**

- Merrill



June 28, 2006
Woody's Guest Blog
Bee boo beep bop beep boop beep blip BLEEP!

Oh, hey. I didn't know you were listening. That was the sound of me adding clips to the site and making new pages for your clicking pleasure. I'm an old copy machine that was converted into a web developer by adding a monitor, an old cell phone semiconductor, some duct tape and a cup holder. Every week chickens, cross-dressers, motorcycle gang members, ninjas and monkeys throw things at me and ask me to turn it into web stuff. You should see how it works. There's this tube that used to be a mail chute. Pictures, words, movies and stuff are dropped down the tube every day and land in my cube, down here in the basement. I push the green button, cut the red wire, make some beeping noises and hope for the best. If web things don't appear fast enough, I'm beaten and they threaten to unplug me.

This week there's been a lot of stuff coming down the chute. You've heard about the ****load of clips we have on the way. If you haven't checked lately, go see what we've added so far. There are lots more on the way. There's also a new game in the works that is gonna get played like crazy. You'd all better play it, or else Motorcycle Man and Ninja Beast will hunt you down and steal your lunch. Fix is running new Venture Bros. episodes all week. You gotta take advantage of that. Adultswim.com is getting a lot more fun and interesting. Come back often to see what else we have in the works. There are some tricks up some sleeves. I can smell it.

-Woody

[Explosivo_420]

yep those are the blogs.

[cherbear]

will anyone affiliated with adult swim be present at the Comic Con Conference in San Diego, CA in a couple weeks?.......my husband and I are attending.....he is a  talented cartoonist but his stuff seems like it would fit in more at adult swim.....at the conference they are having portfolio reviews.....I was just wondering if anyone from Williams Street would be there.....thanks so much

[Qman1]

---

cherbear wrote:
will anyone affiliated with adult swim be present at the Comic Con Conference in San Diego, CA in a couple weeks?.......my husband and I are attending.....he is a  talented cartoonist but his stuff seems like it would fit in more at adult swim.....at the conference they are having portfolio reviews.....I was just wondering if anyone from Williams Street would be there.....thanks so much

---

...most likely...

[Qman1]

July 6, 2006
Danger!
It is dangerous times at Williams Street. For one thing, we were warned
that housekeeping "caught a vagrant in back entrance rubbing feces on the
back door, fully exposed." Poop on a door? What is that about? Maybe it
was just some dude pitching us a really weird show? Or some insane IB'er
telling us what they think of the board switch. Anyways, we were told we
should avoid that entrance from now on.

The other big danger is Golf Cleats. Ever get the feeling that someone
asked for something without really knowing what they were asking for? Yeah,
that might be Cleats and this site. Well, we are in a mad dash to get more
episodes and more clips. In a bizarre reversal from earlier this year where
I was told "to stay as far away from the shows as possible," Golf Cleats now
says, "Do nothing. No blogs. No pictures. Nothing but clips and Fix and
promoting the new shows." Ummm, so does Golf Cleats think if we start
promoting Minoriteam, the traffic will shoot up? Hey, by the way, Cleats,
where's that Boondocks stuff you promised us?

- Merrill


July 6, 2006
What's the Word of the Day?
I spent most of the morning today making thumbnails for the many clips we're
working on adding to our clips section and editing episode descriptions for
Pee-wee. Everyone else seems absolutely giddy about the premiere of Pee-wee
on Adult Swim, but I'm less enthusiastic. Don't get me wrong, the show is
absolutely insane and deserves a watch if only to see how incredibly trippy
it is, but I can't build up a lot of excitement personally for it. Maybe I
have some repressed childhood memories attached to it. I dunno.

Also today Kaleidoscope came back from a chat with Milky Lanyard with a new
road map of our new "marching orders." We're supposed to do certain things,
not do certain things, stop doing certain things and yet get a routine going
of putting certain things out on a regular basis starting fourth quarter
that we haven't been working on at all and won't be able to start working on
for another week. Just another day at .com, really.

--Chris

[duzitickle]

---

Qman1 wrote:

July 6, 2006
Danger!
It is dangerous times at Williams Street. For one thing, we were warned
that housekeeping "caught a vagrant in back entrance rubbing feces on the
back door, fully exposed." Poop on a door? What is that about? Maybe it
was just some dude pitching us a really weird show? Or some insane IB'er
telling us what they think of the board switch. Anyways, we were told we
should avoid that entrance from now on.

---

thats just freaky..


and it was pretty neat to be mentioned in the blogs..
the ones from june 30.. that is..


now.. can anyone help me decipher
what 'spreading the wealth' really means..?

[Qman1]

July 12, 2006
Beauracracy and Show Schedules
I'm getting really fast at making thumbnails for clips. I churned out close to 80 today before lunch. Once you get a good process down it's pretty mindless. Then I walked down the hall to talk with Magic Happenstance and Koolaid Matador, to discuss a request from the Tom Goes to the Mayor guys for us to re-number our episode descriptions to reflect the order in which they aired.

That sounds simple, doesn't it? Which of course it never is. If we renumbered the episodes for the site it would seriously throw off everything else. If people looked at our master schedule and saw that episode 17 was airing on a certain date and looked it up our our show page, they'd see the wrong episode. Plus, internally having two sets of episode numbers would just get confusing.

Bureaucracy is fun.

--Chris



July 12, 2006
Guest Blog from Dave
I made this thing. (the thing in the picture) It's a Dethklok sign. I made it out of metal and the soul of a forsaken child. I was pretty stoked about It so I was showing it off and some one sez to me, they sez, "hey Fart Face, why don't you make a huge one of those for our display at Comic-con" So I say "OK, please don't call me Fart Face."

So I spent most of this past week-end working on this giant Dethklok sign.

It looks sick, it's about 7' by 4', it's made of 20 gauge galvanized steel and it's held up by rock and roll chains.

Unfortunately it appears there has been a slight problem with transporting it from my shop to Williams street. It just got here about ten minutes ago and half of the poly-urethane I poured on the sign has liquefied itself in the hot ATL sun. An un-expected turn. I am going to wait till the end of the day and see if it re-hardens. If it doesn't I sacrifice an intern.

It has been said that only the blood of an intern will satisfy the rock and roll demons that haunt my every step.

Dave



July 11, 2006
Moving Day
As you read this, I'm probably carrying a giant box of crap into my new house. I have been building up for this move for the better part of the last few months. Luckily, there has been no drama at work or big changes on the site, so it's been pretty easy.

Seriously, I can't believe this is finally here. The last few weeks have been near murderous to my health. When I come back to work, though, I will have a new cube mate. Slapshot and I decided to be cube mates so we could have unobstructed paths to yell and throw crap at each other while we argue over the site. Slapshot has become a really good friend in the last few months, so I hope this works out and we don't end up just killing each other.

One person who is not wild over our move is the Dark Crystal. Dark Crystal has already informed me several times that she is a business person and her boss, Calculator, is a VP (can you believe it?). These are not dorm rooms she informed us, and she will have no hooliganism. She also said she was offended by our Squidbillies sculpture outside of our new cubes, even though we did not put it outside of our cubes and it has been sitting in the same **bleep** place it is now since before I started working here. I changed it to say "Boy Hunter" instead of "Booty Hunter," but that was not enough for her.

We finally carted it off, but the tensions are brewing.

This may get interesting.

- Merrill



July 11, 2006
Moving Day?
So I'm back from my day out sick. I'd probably have called out again today, but I remembered that Merry is out moving, so I felt like I should come in. But when I get here there's something unexpected--apparently we're all moving cubes! I knew we were thinking about it, but I didn't know that it had been decided and that preparations were already underway. I'm so totally in the loop.

Last week we reviewed some new Adult Swim Fix designs. Usually I agree with Merry with what needs to be done to accomplish a certain end, but he and I found ourselves of differing opinion when it came to the proposed new design. I sometimes feel like we're letting the pressure from Munch Lebowski rush us in ways we perhaps haven't given enough thought to, when we maybe need to just take a step back and ask "What is it we really want from this?" But the pressure for results is there, so it's probably going to be just par for the course.

Anyway, I'm starting to feel sick again, so I'm probably going to leave soon. So much for my glorious comeback.

--Chris




July 10, 2006
Gas Face
I'd like to thank Contagious for being sick again today, and Mover for asking me to fill in. You'd think that the size 16 shoes left to fill would buy you a hearty constitution, but that does not seem to be the case as that joker catches more bugs than a kid with a mason jar.

Instead of spending my day watching kick **bleep** shows that you haven't seen yet, I have been crunching numbers for the Chocolate Swim and DangerDOOM promotions. I must admit, I hoped for better from you people. We provide FREE music for you to enjoy, and what thanks do we get? Juggle Demons worked his booty off to bring these gems to you and deserves the endless interweb notoriety that his efforts earned. If you see him, give him the "good lookin' out."

Malt Liquor is in Scotland. Probably playing golf at the birthplace of the sport, having more fun than is even fair. **bleep**. One day, when I am King of the Universe, I too will take extravagant vacations. For now, I will probably go to Hilton Head. Which when you think about it, is nothing like Scotland.

I wonder, are there Scottish bumpkins? I'm of the opinion that there are bumpkins everywhere, just different kinds. Raise your PBR if you concur.

Speaking of bumpkins, I had to siphon gas from a crashed motorcycle tank to a brand new ebay'ed replacement this week. It was the grossest thing in the universe. A few times isn't that bad, but with a hose that's slightly too short, and slightly too curled, it becomes a gag filled fume fest that I may never recover from. I'm positive my life got shorter.

Regardless, things feel a little slow this week at Moon Station Williams. Just as if the edge were ground down a bit, the frantic sheen dulled.
ButtPoke is wandering around like a lost puppy, with no one to discipline him. It's sad really.

-Kevin

[Qman1]

July 20, 2006
Headed For the Con...
Most of the staff here at Williams Street are getting ready to head off to
the San Diego Comic-Con. If you are coming out, I hope you attend the Adult
Swim panels and visit our booth.

Speaking of booth stuff...

We want everyone in costumes from [adult swim] to show up at our booth
between 3 and 5 PM on Thursday. We have some special stuff in store for you
if you are wearing an [as] costume. Thanks, guys. Have a great con.

Merrill

July 17, 2006
I'm Selling MY COMPUTER
hey pals.

It's me Brendon.

I just got a New computer and am Selling the one I got 5 months ago.
It's totally loaded with great music gear and animation gear. I'm
selling it
for 2,500 (not including shipping). But it's worth way more with all the
kick **bleep** software. And I've written the
entire season of "METALOCALYPSE" on it. It's probably the most metal
laptop
ever.

I really am looking fwd to you having my computer .

E-mail me at **bleep** if you want it.

did I mention it's magic?

I love you all.

Brendon Small

p.s.
Here are the stats of this magical device:

PowerBook G4 15"
Mac OSX 10.4.7
Processor: 1.67 Ghz PowerPC G4
Memory: 1 GB

Condition: Well taken care of, licked clean, in perfect working
condition,
adorned with stickers from bands you should love, the keyboard that all
DETHKLOK scripts were typed up on.

Software:

ProTools LE
Reason
Live
Adobe Photoshop CS2
Adobe Creative Suite 2
Adobe GoLive CS2
Adobe Illustrator CS2
Adobe InDesign CS2
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[Qman1]

July 25, 2006
comic con 2006
1: morning drama - huge accident on 85, so I'm late, but lucky for me
Jennifer locked her keys in her car. 7 dollars for cigarettes at the
airport. Creepy baby picture in our amazing, quiet Victorian hotel. So so
flattering that one girl wants her picture with me, and to find out how my
garden is doing this year. I'm her hero? Meetings. Drinks! Sushi! Star bar!


Day 2: awkward hung over voltron breakfast. Boondocks panel, gabby was
amazing. Lady Shake is another new favorite person. Mike McFarland, hadn't
seen him in 7 years - so fun to catch up. Fish tacos with Pete. Adult Swim
yacht party, cool but I hate parties. If anyone smokes pot they'll turn the
yacht around. Gary Anthony Williams is giving out piggy back rides. 4th and
G. Lazzo's there! I'm so drunk! Johnathan wants to know if I am in therapy,
and to tell me that he's straight. But he'd let Paul molest him. I
remind him of his first love. Pizza with homophobic guys who are yellling at
some transvestite in jennifer's ear, we almost fight. Kiss on the sidewalk
from some guy who was so sad the bars closed before he did. Reluctant room
party, so we go to the pool. Doug is swimming, Dana is ready to go. Almost
in bed, nick calls... Jay, Eric, Loren, Nick, Thom? Hotel rooms are
depressing, so I'm up for anything. Best night of the con. We are up until
five. Old blue, canned oxygen, check in stories, and everything is so funny.

Day 3: Tomicon! Fist fight. So hung over that I've lost interest in food.
Spent 240 way too easily. Esther Pearl Watson is so nice. Panel is
AMAZING. Except this screening questions thing...? Dino kicked out of the
con. Drinks downstairs, but we're so hungry. Afgan food, not a good idea.
Where's the party? Lou Ferrigno giving this girl a back rub at the hotel
bar. 4th and G, so so crowded. Marriott? Hyatt? Suddenly there are naked
people in a hot tub, not my thing. Dana and Jennifer and Doc and Yoshiya
show up, and we all run away. To horton, room party, again, not Jennifer and
Dana's thing. But fun anyway. I love to talk **** about people when I'm
drunk.


Day 4: pack, coffee, cab, plane.

- kim m.