Saturday Morning Awesome: ZeFrank is back

As long-time readers of this blog know, I'm a big fan of ZeFrank. This morning, ex-pat, Canunistani Uncle Ted sent me a link to a Time.com piece done by ZeFrank himself. Too awesome, I'm glad he found work.

I'll keep ya'll updated whenever I find him popping up again.

Enjoy underground artists getting paying jobs,

Bp

Love songs to Condi Rice

First, here is subtle piece from ZeFrank -- a lilting melody with a dark undercurrent, appropriate for Ms. Condi -- Freaking hilarious.

And second, a tropical bootie shaker from the always fantastic Steve Earle, via Stud Farmhand.



Enjoy the amorous tributes that the Queen of War and Torture has inspired,

Bp

Zefrank -- love song to Condi Rice

ZeFrank at his best, singing to the fierce and disapproving Condi. One of my favorite of his pieces.



Enjoy the delicate irony,

Bp

ZeFrank on Waves

Here's a big fat analogy, or metaphor, or both for ya'll to wrap your heads around.

Enjoy the moving lights and sounds,

Bp

ZeFrank: Bust that Cycle

Been a while since I posted some ZeFrankiness. This one is about busting cycles, shaking up your life a bit. Of course, that's not all it's about, and it get strange, but what would ZeFrank be without the strange.

Enjoy your throwback internet v-log postings,

Bp

Nice look into government workings

Almost didn't get a post in today.

I have two minutes, so I'll keep it short. I picked this ZeFrank episode because he goes into specifics around a bill that was being blocked in congress. It's a quickie little civics lesson and outing of a pork barrel (hows that for cliche) senator.

Enjoy your finals-free lifestyles,

Bp

Random ZeFrank show -- knitting porn

A video for you while I run off to catch a bus, to take an exam.

Enjoy your thousands of errors,

Bp

ZeFrank on how to deal with telemarketers, and warrantless wiretapping

Babs, this one is for you:

Enjoy some snarky hindsight,

Bp

ZeFrank show: League of Awesomeness Olympics

Just got back from a fantastic family wedding. Congratulations Ali and Kevin.

I'll have more to say when I've slept off this sugar hangover (yes, actually a sugar hangover I was the designated driver).

Enjoy a bizarro Zefrank episode in the meanwhile:

ZeFrank talks Scrabble

I come from a Scrabblephilic family. However, it wasn't played as intensely until I left home. I shudder to think what would happen to me should I play with Mother and The Man now. Ouch.

Enjoy ZeFrank,

Bp

ZeFrank: What's up with the Deciduous trees yo?

Early day today, so here's some dancing bologna while I go about in search of bloggable material.

ps: I ate way too much smoked whitefish yesterday -- so good, but so rich.

Enjoy the change of seasons,

Bp

ZeFrank gets stuck at an airport -- hindsight is 20/20

I'm technologically challenged at The Wife's computer terminal, but not so much I can't post a ZeFrank video for us to enjoy.

Muhahaha,

Enjoy the little things,

Bp

ZeFrank Poll

Although I dig ZeFrank shows, I was curious about ya'll's opinion (ya'll's is a word, shut up) of them.

Enjoy your voting,

Bp

ZeFrank on L.A., humans as poker chips, and places that don't really exist

I'm off to a bbq with The Study Group, here's some of ZeFrank's surreally brilliant mind for you to enjoy in the interim.

Happy week - ZeFrank

Still busy with The Uncle, so here is a ZeFrank episode with finger spanking, and a week of happiness. More soon.

Bp

Grey monday morning antidote, ZeFrank on Confidence and Creativity

Seems like a weird morning. I'm sore all over from being on a ladder for two days with my hands above my head (I could explain, but I'd have to kill you), and somehow that weaponized robot article just set me off on the wrong mindstream for a gray Monday morning.

I checked in with the ZeFrank Show archives and dug up this post he made during the last week of his year-long video project. Feeling better now, ready to go out and wrestle with inanimate objects some more.

ZeFrank on Snakes and their Cages

Since it's all hot and all, this episode of The Show seemed topical.

Enjoy your smallclothes,

Bp

Street Chickens

I've got approximately 15 minutes to get ready to head to Breitenbush hot springs and carry stones for 2 sweat lodges today. Keep filling my days and going to bed late. My friend and acupuncturist Jon Schell came by last night at like 10 with approximately 60 lbs of blueberries that he got from a client, and we bagged em til almost midnight. I'm a bit delirious, but here is a video to entertain you until I get back.

ZeFrank on NY urban wildlife (introduces another of the inside jokes of The Show, when a segment is weird and random enough, he'll ask "are the new viewers gone yet?"):

I miss ZeFrank -- video defining Brain Crack

Alright, confession time. Hello, I'm a ZeFrank Fanboi. I miss his daily video shows (was that a video blog?).

For those of you who haven't been initiated, The Show by ZeFrank was a year-long daily video project that ended on March 17, 2007. You can go to This Link to see the first show ever, and proceed from there by clicking on the date above the screen. Ze also has a main page with lots of little shorts and whatnots you can watch, some games and weirdness. He blogs a bit on the left bar as well. Not every day of the show is brilliant, but most will make you laugh and some will make you think. Also, he gets the hang of it as he goes, so they get better and better. The inside jokes start to stack up and get some real weight as well.

I was reminded today about one of my favorite episodes, and wanted to share it with you. It's about Brain Crack. You will also see some of the traditions that grew into the show: a man performing a "power move" that was good enough to earn him a superhero name -- Razor Kitten, as well as the chess game he played through the show with The Fabulosos.

I may start posting my favorite shows periodically, for old times' sake. We'll see.

I've got these ideas, see

So I have these ideas that I'm tracking down. Things I'm investigating, plans I'm making, hopes I'm fostering. They're based on principals I picked up somewhere which felt right, but I've found that principals without action of some sort -- even the investigatory, learning-phase sort -- give me heartburn (note to self: have actually had heartburn a lot lately, maybe my mind is trying to tell me something here). ZeFrank had a great term for the unfulfilled ideas, brain crack.

Anyway, I was following a post I made on the Paleo board regarding tanning boar hide, and I realized -- if I talk about this stuff in a blog I'm totally outing myself LOL. This stuff seems normal to me now but you know what, its pretty wierd actually LOL.

C'est La Vie, out I come I guess.

Since I study Biology, have always studied nature, one central idea (should I call these meme's yet? Might be a bit heavy-handed)I'm on is finding uses for non-native invasive species. I'll have to develop this idea over a few posts so it doesn't become a huge, boring post. One of these invasive destructive species is Wild Boar. They are part of one of my lines of thought about eating/utilizing/creating a market for non native invasive species.

Quick overview: When humans decide a wild animal is tastey, or useful -- what is the most common result? Extinction or severe depletion of stocks. Why not turn this around and create markets/tastes/fads that require non-native destructive species to execute? Why not eat them?

So -- in Spain there is a whole food culture based on wild boar. There are cultural mores like looking at the hooves to make sure they are dark or black, meaning that pig was wild and eating lots of acorns and will taste especially good.

Wild boar are tearing up central and northern California like a flock of crazed rototillers. While I don't eat a lot of pork, you do the math.