Get your vote on!

Hi,folks. Sorry for the lack of updates this week, but a brand new (read: painfully boring) job has kept me away from my nerdly duties.

Still, I felt it pertinent to share with you this bit of news from the MySpace bulletin of a certain mc chris:

yo! thanks for being patient with me. we've got the venue and we're still waiting for lockdown on the theater. things look ok. now what sucks is that it starts at 8 and not 6:30 like i had thought. so looks like i won't be able to get as many as i thought but i think karl and nurse can rest easy. you guys are definitely in the show if you can get there with ur gear for mic check, be ready etc. i think if i give everyone twenty minute sets and there can be as little load in load off time as possible, we might be able to get a few more in.

i go on at ten.

that leaves about six twenty minutes spots. let's say five with all the changes.

i think we can fit in three more acts. no bands. it has to be just mc's with mics and simple set ups.

i think the folks that have shown interest are:

tanuki

zealous one

beefy

mc gigahertz

funky 49

tg_2005

rappy mc rapperson

dr. strangelove

stuntjunkies

so i'll let u guys decide, who should i put on the bill?!!? reply in my blog and i'll announce next week! peace!

REPLY IN MY BLOG!!! DO NOT REPLY HERE!!! BABY DUCK JESUS HAS CUT UP CHEEKS AND LIPSTICK FACE.

You heard the man, folks; please let mc know who you wanna see in Eugene by posting at his blog.

Nerd News in Brief

Apparently, there's some sort of Low-Fat Crunchy Peanut Butter shortage in upstate South Carolina.

No, I'm not making that shit up.

Ever since that whole Salmonella scare, the supplies have been dwindling. Now it appears as though they've all but dried up.

I'm a simple man, but my peanut butter needs are quite explicit. As such, I find this totally unacceptable.

While I try to find a reliable online peanut butter merchant, please enjoy the Nerd News in Brief.

• No known cure: In my opinion, there's no better way to start the day than with a heaping helping of musical whoop-ass. Today's serving come compliments of the Mythril Nazgul (AKA: myf). The track is called “The Contagious,” and it is. Ye gods, it is!
• Double-damn!: Another week, another big announcement from the ZeaLouS1 camp. The guys just dropped the knowledge that the headliner for their super show at the San Diego Sports Bar on the 26th of July will be none other than YTCracker. As if Z1 and Comic-Con weren't valid enough reasons for your attendance!
• And my lovely wife Camille: My man dimension recently shared this little nugget over at the Rhyme Torrents boards; it's a blurb about Bill Cosby's pro-nerd commencement address at a recent graduation ceremony at Carnegie Mellon University. It's nice to hear the Coz dropping some uplifting knowledge of the nerdy persuasion.
• Leave me alone: And Bill ain't the only cat preaching the geek gospel; Psychology Today also recently concluded that being a loner may not be such a bad thing. “Loners often hear from well-meaning peers that they need to be more social, but the implication that they're merely black-and-white opposites of their bubbly peers misses the point.” Eat that, well-adjusted society!
• “The red Kryptonite makes me go crazy.”: Ill-content to let me sit here un-amused, my man Church recently reminded me that the cat who does those “I'm a Marvel / And I'm a DC” parodies has ramped up production. If you haven't checked ‘em out in a couple of weeks, then you're a bit behind the times.
• Two-timer!: And obviously ill-content with my accolades (I keed! I keed!), Church got a shout-out for calling to the attention of Boing-Boingers everywhere the excellent work Bucknell University's Professor Eric Faden. Prof F cut a fantastic video mash-up entitled “A Fair(y) Use Tale” that slaps together tiny slivers of Disney dialogue to “spell out an articulate, funny, and thoroughly educational lesson on how copyright works.” For the uninitiated, I've included it below.