Did you forget about this giveaway?  Well, even though I posted about if a few fortnights ago, it’s still a real life event.

The winner of the Family Guy Volume six giveaway is Tristen G.!

Congrats Tristen! And if you’re interested in finding out what it will be like to open up your Family Guy DVD set, here’s a YouTube clip of someone doing just that.  Take a look.  It’s like the Blair Witch Project, but there are no ghosts and no scared film students. You do, however, get to see a tortured soul.

Here y’are!

Sure, this isn’t about “real” TV, but why have a blog if you can’t promote your stuff? I had a web-based video series called “Truth @ 15 Frames Per Second” way back in 2006. They were crazy times. YouTube still put everything 4 frames out of sync, and nobody had even heard—let alone forgotten—the name Jessica Rose yet. Some time soon I’ll have a video airing on Current TV (it’s a channel!) about the series and people’s reactions to it. Check your local listings.

Well now everybody has a web series and I’m back with another one. It’s called “Time Travellin’” and it’s about the wacky time travelling adventures of the same two people who are in all my movies. Here’s the first episode. Please tell all your friends. Future episodes will be at my new website Canny Valleys.

The elderly might need some help with the analog to digital conversion.

PS – My real life job boss told me to put this on TiFaux.

Listen — I was about to do a post defending the newfangled line-up of the Smashing Pumpkins. Even though they are nowhere near as wonderous as they were when we were adolescents, they are still making okay music. Listenable, at least.

However, I just spent about three and a half hours trying to embed the new Smashing Pumpkins video — a nine minute monstrosity that is basically a lot of strumming and boring poetry. And it’s only embeddable through AOL (it was taken off YouTube). And it begins playing immediately, whether you press play or not. Thanks for being a pain in the ass, Smashing Pumpkins.

So, as petty revenge, I’m embedding a YouTube clip of Bullet With Butterfly Wings. It’s a dated song — I don’t know how I’d respond to it if I heard it for the first time today, but I can enjoy it based on nostalgia alone. If you want to to take a snooze and listen to the new stuff, it’s after the fold.

But if you want to remember high school, acne, and the era of television where Murphy Brown reigned supreme, watch the clip below.

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