I got a massive response yesterday from my friends asking them to vote for my Watchmen video and I wanted to say thank you to everyone who voted!

The voting session is now closed, and the winners will be announced on Monday. I haven’t waited on test results like this since that time in college.

So today is the official 24 hour voting period for the Watchmen contest on youtube, and I need everyone’s help. You need to go to the Watchmen page on youtube and click on ‘Vote’.

From there, search for my video by typing ‘timtoon’ into the search box. Next my video will show up; click to watch it. If you like it, please vote it a thumbs-up!

The contest is here: http://www.youtube.com/watchmenmovie

I don’t want to sound too severe, but this may be the most important vote you cast in your entire life.

Going off what’s being said about the youtube video *UNAIRED* OZYMANDIAS TOY AD!!! 1985, I’m starting to think this toy commercial is a very clever piece of viral marketing… or at least that’s what the folks at Double Viking seem to think.

Maybe the forum posters at rpg.net are right and it’s really a test shoot of the actual ad that got leaked?

I’m not sure what it is, but what I do know is the good people at WatchmenComicMovie.com put it in their top five Veidt product commercials.

They also remind you that voting is still under way for the top five ads — so get watching! Personally, my favorite is that mysterious toy commerical.

Oh, and here’s a link just in case you missed it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jeslfkbmcE

After the last week or so you’d think I’m just using timtoon.com as a mirror of Topless Robot or something, but no. I’m just so excited to share the site’s breaking news, Lawrence Kasdan to Write Robotech Movie. And TR is dead-on about what makes Robotech such nerd catnip. It’s not the transforming jets or the giant alien invaders — it’s the love story.

Frankly, Macross is the greatest love story ever told (Lolita is #2). Specifically: Lisa Hayes, the captain of the most powerful spaceship in the Universe, is so infatuated with pilot Rick Hunter she washes his underwear, while Rick chases after 15-year-old Chinese tease and pop star Lynn Minmei, who pines after her cousin Lynn Kyle, who angril throws empty gin bottles at Minmei. Oh, and Kyle is the spitting image of Lisa’s dead fiancé.

The pinnacle of this is episode 28, Reconstruction Blues. You ache for Lisa diligently cleaning up Rick’s apartment on her day off while he’s out getting stood up by Minmei. How can one man be so stupid? Dude, she does your frikkin’ laundry.

*epic facepalm*

I learned another new word today:

Shambolic – adj. Chiefly British Slang
Disorderly or chaotic

As in a chaotic shambles. Gets right to the point, and is such fun to say. Thanks, Gordon Ramsay!

My Watchmen ad got a nice mention over at über-nerd site Topless Robot today in Ozymandias Action Figure with Real Bastard Power. If not for the video, check out the comments by some eagle-eyed readers.

Besides oozing self-conscious parody (it’s too low budget and chintzy to be an actual commercial), the whole thing has an early-nineties vibe. And looking past the VHS wear-and-tear effects, it’s obvious it was filmed on low-end DV, probably as a cheap way of adding to the aged look. This reeks of a studio-made viral.

I’m not at all bothered that I got sussed out in about five comments; I’m just happy to be mistaken for studio-made viral marketing!

Just a reminder I still have this Watchmen video up on YouTube, and its merit is based solely on something boneheaded like the number of views, so keep watching!

Honestly, if I wanted more views, I should have put a girl in short-shorts wiggling her ass.

The Kids in the Hall feel my ohh-so-sincere pain.

I’m so lonely…

How can I be afraid of a monster who is too tired to chase me if he doesn’t get at least eight hours of sleep a day?

My computer friend was having troubles with his girlfriend, and I tried to offer him a bit of advice: in Unix, chmod is used to set permissions for which users can access the file, with 7 granting access to everyone.

…which means I inadvertently made his girlfriend a whore.