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TheMuteRobot Shop is up!

Just added a “Store” page (see the button in the banner overhead?) to The Mute Robot! Right now it’s just a Zazzle store with a couple awesome original t-shirts you can get, but more stores and items will be forthcoming!

Thanks for visiting!

Conan v Jay v NBC

I posted this on Facebook originally, but I figured a few more people ought to see it, so here goes:

This is what happens when NBC tries to have its cake and eat it too. Or, rather, have and eat TWO pieces of cake at the same time. Except the fridge is not big enough for two pieces (go with me…it’s a small fridge), so they moved their first piece of cake out of the refrigerator and onto the counter, where it got more exposure, but no one wanted it. Meanwhile the second piece of cake stayed cool in the fridge, biding its time, just being cake.

After a few months on the counter, understandably, the first piece of cake became stale and unwatchable inedible. People started complaining about the smell of the first piece of cake – which had been doing fine in the fridge – and the little bits of green fuzzy mold starting to appear. So NBC understandably wants to put the first piece back in the fridge, not realizing how smelly and moldy it is, and still trying to salvage it. But, no matter how hard you wish, you can’t fix a moldy piece of cake by putting it back in the fridge (says my gastroenterologist).

Now, all this time the second piece of cake has stayed in the fridge – still perfectly edible, though a bit of an acquired taste – with its decorative orange frosting. But NBC still wants the two pieces. And still has just the one (small) fridge.

The solution seems obvious, right? Throw out the moldy piece, and keep the one that’s still good. Who cares if one of NBC’s friends/rivals wants the moldy piece? It’s tarnished. They’ll just get that awful food poisoning people who eat garbage sometimes get.

But, alas, no. NBC takes the good second piece of cake out of the fridge, and puts it out in the driveway for the garage sale next month (possibly), and puts the moldy first piece of cake back in the fridge, thinking, “this first piece of cake was once good. Or at least popular. It will be that way again! And no one will realize we left it on the counter at room temperature for several months!” But it’s that second piece that’s still good. It’s the second piece that people are going to want, when and if they come over. And now it’s just out in the driveway, where anyone can get it.

I don’t know about you, but I’m gonna follow that good second piece of cake.

As long as someone properly refrigerates it.

I’m With Coco

Team Conan!  Stop NBC from trying to unseat Fox as the world’s worst television schedule programmer.

The Mute Robot #9

Brand New Threadless Submission!

Well, it’s that time again…time to go to threadless.com and vote (preferably a 5) for my new design, All Thoughts are Prey to Some Beast.  It’s an image from a song by Bill Callahan of the same name.  I’m very proud of this design, since it looks almost exactly like how I saw it in my head.  Please go, show your support, and maybe get a Threadless tee of your very own!

Thanks, friends!

CED

Merry Christmas!

Here’s a card I made to go with the presents I gave this year.  I had to delay it ’til the end of today, so as not to ruin the surprise for the people who actually had to unwrap it.  But here it is for all of you, sans the tedium of tearing open a sharp, dry envelope!

The original photos is of the Americana at Brand (in Glendale) from the top of its parking structure.

P.S.  REMEMBER TO CLICK THE THREADLESS LINK TO THE RIGHT TO VOTE FOR MY T-SHIRT DESIGN!  THANK YOU!