This rap that I wrote, composed, and performed, gave the BBtv crew their first inkling of my insanity…

An early attempt to promote the podcast. You can find these stills in the ‘Mep Art’ section of the website.

Russ Goes Boing Boing Boing, And Subsequently Runs out of “Units,” Speed Readers vs. Auctioneers, TMR Eats a Turkey Sandwich with the Devil, MassiveAwesomeErectionWebsite.com, The Adventures of Flying Buttress Boy, Greg Desperately Wants to Ridicule Navy Football, Force Lightning in a Can, Cows and Terrorists Conspire to Turn the World into a Slurpee, and Clea Ponders Why Tourists Enjoy Reaching Up the Bull’s Ass.

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Serial Amazon Reviewers, Who is Harriet Klausner?, Off-Off Broadway Flops, Wiki-ruption, Everyone’s Favorite Show: “Let’s Go Outside and Watch the Dueling Guys Shoot Each Other in the Head!”, Renaissance Message Boards, Steinbeck to Steinbrenner, Boom Goes the Dynamite, and Rex Hudler: Color Man or 1920s Seductress?

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One of the most potentially offensive things I’ve ever created. Also a very hard hitting critique of the award winning and mind-numbingly stupid self help series. The other actor in the piece is one of my closest friends, comedian Payam Karamooz.

To date, the most successful Mep promotional YouTube video. Spawned out of an irresistible desire to pay tribute to this man in a way that the national media never would. Storey put his heart and soul into this video, I added some video clips for effect. This video was completed between 2:00 -9:00 AM, the morning after Vonnegut passed. Possibly the best thing we’ll ever do.

A few months later, we received a very nice letter from Lily Vonnegut (Kurt’s daughter) saying that she and the family really enjoyed and appreciated the piece. That pretty much validated my entire existence, right there.

This was the video that started it all. We had never done such a thing before, but Greg, Storey and I decided that this crazy event had to be memorialized somehow. And probably not by ranting about it on our podcast. Thus, a genre was born; the Mep Video Montage (TM). Given that we had no recording equipment, the montage had to consist of found stills from the internet, with some Photoshopping alterations.

This video made its internet rounds, being referenced in the Boston Globe, and showing up on the front page of BoingBoing.

Russ’s tendency of flaming things he’s had a bad experience with.

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Radio Recruitment for Death, Oprah for President, John Milton’s Cheeseburger, Reverse in Orleans New, Dancing in Toasted Oatmeal, OJ’s Money Shot, Hertz Ads, Our Visit to http://www.friendster.com/3148475, and Hang on Schmoopie.

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Here’s me at the 2006 New Media Expo in Ontario, CA talking about what TMR is all about on Podcast 411.