Last week we spent a lot of time writing about Brett Kimberlin and the incident involving blogger Patterico where someone spoofed his phone number and told 911 he had shot his wife.
Tonight, my family was sitting around the kitchen table eating dinner when sheriffs deputies pulled up in the driveway.
Someone called 911 from my address claiming there had been an accidental shooting.
It wasn’t nearly the trauma that Patterico suffered, but I guess the Erickson household is on somebody’s radar.
Luckily it was two sheriffs deputies who knew me and I had already, last week, advised the Sheriff’s Department to be on the look out for something like this.
All those years in prison made Brett Kimberlin an angsty boy with a horrible penchant for really bad rap.
It appears that sometime around 2006, several years after Kimberlin was released from prison, he joined a band named Op-Critical. The band’s music can best be described as liberal alternative rock and they claim some of it has been featured at ACLU and Amnesty International events. Their music mirrors that of other little known liberal bands who trashed bush in the later part of his presidency and would be unremarkable if it weren’t for the fact that one of the guys playing guitar and singing is a violent criminal.
Take, for instance, the Op-Critical song titled Fear. The song describes Americans being fearful and “thinking that the plastic bag maybe isn’t innocent” and how that undue fear is being used by Bush to control them. The lyrics mocking the fear of terrorist attacks would, again, be unremarkable for a late 2000s liberal band if they weren’t sung by a man convicted of setting off bombs in a small American town and the music video didn’t feature that bomber lurking around the Cleveland Park DC Metro station complete with shots of an unattended bag.
I try to spend as much time with my nephews as possible. When this comes on, they sorta dance. It wasn’t a one off I saw it at least twice. They do this long walk lunge thing, while laughing and falling down. Especially when daddy (my bro) is singing along.
Wonderpets.
I don’t know what I find more entertaining, the little guys doing their dance, or their dad singing along and doing a semi-dance.
Being their dad’s brother? I still go with the boys, just cuz it’s their job to be cute, though having a guy who could snap me in two singing, “What’s gonna work! TEAM WORK!” while making arm gestures, is pretty flogging funny in and of itself.
Here’s a longer cut, of a portion of one of the episodes.
This is already old, I only decided to click it Saturday at The Other McCain’s place, but it’s still excellent, and wouldn’t post it if it wasn’t for the moves by Dodson and having watched the extended version.
Also if you scroll down the page, you will find This post Where he shouts out the viral vid, saying he’s negotiating a ringtone, which I think is already a done deal. He’s also got a T-shirt, already available for a mere $29.95. I think the $49.95 T-shirt comes with fingerprints.
Just Genius, nice he has a sense of humor, and is taking advantage of an opportunity.
Update: I can’t believe I didn’t include the last part. “Our family don’t run around crying and acting sad, we just dust our shoulders off and keep on moving.”
Not a fool, Just Very angry at the time of the interview.
I actually like this guy.
He had a moments rage after helping his sister to NOT be raped, and lost his temper, which in my mind equals, “good effing guy!” and he went off, and a camera just happened to be present, and he became a phenomenon, simply because cameras were there to catch a family very pissed off, and an intrusive reporter asking questions, and then he and his sister were edited to look like fools. The Gregories/ATTN people saw it, ran with it and now have entered into a contract with them to help out?
If there is humor that is found in the vid, then, in MY OPINION, I think that is good. Like Antoine the Philosopher said, “dust” yourself off and move on, and find the humor while focusing on the goal.
Catch that bastard, and Eff his Azz up.
(brought about by a conversation with a gamer friend, on a game that I will not admit I play.
[update: Go to the link, I still think the guy rates hits, But This is just effing ridiculously hilarious.]
The right are the fascists according to the artists.
You told us how you weren’t afraid to die.
Well then, so long.
Don’t cry.
Or feel too down.
Not all martyrs see divinity.
But at least you tried.
Standing above the crowd,
He had a voice that was strong and loud.
We’ll miss him.
And they continue.
Standing above the crowd,
He had a voice that was strong and loud and I
Swallowed his facade cuz I’m so
Eager to identify with
Someone above the ground,
Someone who seemed to feel the same,
Someone prepared to lead the way, with
Someone who would die for me.
Will you? Will you now?
Would you die for me?
Don’t you fuckin lie.
I’m a big fan of Tool, and A Perfect Circle.
Do you think that they ever thought that their words of fascistic dominance would ever be used against their own favored party?
I don’t think so, but It IS Obama that they are describing, more than any right winger who they hated.
Question. What do you get when you take a bunch of hippies that have nothing else to do (heh) and give them a bunch of vegetables and power tools and tell them to put together an orchestra?
Answer. Pretty much the same thing you’d get from a bunch of smelly hippies sitting around banging out of rhythm on empty buckets like they normally do. Except WAY more obnoxious.
If you are going to put out a music video shouldn’t you be able to, you know, sing?
And, did this guy buy carbon offsets for all of the energy wasted in the creation of this video?
Update: Welcome Coastal Conservation League goofballs. Here’s a clue, if you don’t want someone to make fun of your ridiculous little video, don’t spam their site with links to it.
Music made by electricity and air. No speakers or sound equipment.
In this clip, “the music that you hear is coming from the sparks that these two identical high power solid state Tesla coils are generating — there are no speakers involved.”
The Tesla coils stand 7 feet tall and are each capable of putting out over 12 foot of spark. They are spaced about 18 feet apart. The coils are controlled over a fiber optic link by a single laptop computer. Each coil is assigned to a midi channel which it responds to by playing notes that are programed into the computer software
Nightclub applications of this could be pretty cool.
The next time you are trying to fathom the rantings of the “progressive” left, keep this video in mind. There is nothing you can do to understand this level of looniness.
One little moonbat was a tad bit upset about the treatment Britney received after her VMA performance.
How do I know it’s a moonbat? They act exactly the same way whenever they lose an election.
Btw, this is a dude.
Not safe for work for some language at the beginning and the bizarre looks you will get from anyone within earshot.
Just in case you’ve ever wondered if the Chuck E. Cheese and Showbiz Pizza Place you’ve taken your kids to in the suburbs is anything like the version in the hood.
Now that’s paying attention to your market demographics.
