Tumblr (3.0; @jeffrubinjeffrubin)http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzeakrA1yy1qz8ca1o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Better shot of Whiplash, “the world’s smallest cowboy.”</p> <p><a href="http://www.whiplashrides.com/">http://www.whiplashrides.com/</a></p>http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/452981157http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/452981157Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:02:35 -0400<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzeae1f1qf1qz8ca1o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I had a lot of fun in Texas, though the obvious highlight was the rodeo and Whiplash, the Cowboy Monkey.</p> <p>He rides a dog, jumps hurdles, and herds sheep. Dissapointingly, Whiplash does not do any trick shooting or even carry a gun.</p> <p>The show itself was kinda boring (really, the dog is doing most of the heavy lifting) but there’s nothing like that first moment when a monkey in a cowboy hat shows up riding a dog.</p>http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/452974204http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/452974204Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:58:03 -0400<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzcj65zpFU1qz8ca1o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzcj65zpFU1qz8ca1o3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzcj65zpFU1qz8ca1o4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>CH Gun Club slideshow</p>http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/450872867http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/450872867Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:13:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz4u1x8y5j1qasthro1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://blog.collegehumor.com/post/441647597/today-at-5-pm-est-pat-and-jeff-will-be">collegehumor</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Today at 5 pm EST, Pat and Jeff will be Bloopcasting <i>live </i>and answering your questions. Ask them about about videogames, Lost, or any other coolest thing in the world.</p> <p>See you at <a href="http://collegehumor.com/LiveCast">CollegeHumor.com/LiveCast</a> at 5.</p> </blockquote>http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/441648167http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/441648167Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:28:01 -0500<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.collegehumor.com/moogaloop/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1930339&fullscreen=1" width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" quality="best" value="http://www.collegehumor.com/moogaloop/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1930339&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://www.collegehumor.com/moogaloop/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1930339&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="400" height="300" allowscriptaccess="always"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Bleep Bloop: Coldstone Creamery with Dan Klein and Jon Gabrus.</p> <p>Pat alerted me to the existence of a Coldstone Creamery videogame a few months ago, and it’s such a minor release that it was hard to confirm it’s existence or when it was coming out. I’m very glad we stayed on top of it.</p>http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/441345721http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/441345721Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:44:32 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz3q04xm0V1qz8ca1o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Screenshot from “Law Abiding Citizen,”a movie which <i>also</i> has some things to say abou the nature of justice.</p>http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/440570568http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/440570568Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:17:54 -0500<a href="http://blog.collegehumor.com/post/437065134/needed-pete-and-pete-fans-for-ch-live">CollegeHumor Staff Blog: Needed: Pete and Pete Fans for CH Live</a>: <blockquote> <p>For the next CH Live - <a target="_blank" href="http://newyork.ucbtheatre.com/shows/1792">March 18th at the UCB in NYC</a> - Jeff and I are looking for two big Pete and Pete fans to go head to head with our own TV savant, Pat Cassels, in a triva showdown.  Prizes will be awarded and tears will be shed in this no-holds-barred nostalgia fest.</p> <p>If you want to be considered, email me at streeter.seidell@gmail.com.</p> <p>Contestants must…</p> <ul> <li>Be able to make it to the show on March 18th (9:30PM)</li> <li>Have an encyclopedic knowledge of Pete and Pete (and maybe some other classic Nick programming)</li> <li>Not be intimidated by Pat Cassels’ command of TV trivia </li> </ul> <p>If that sounds like you, shoot me an email and I’ll be in touch.</p> </blockquote>http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/437160603http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/437160603Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:57:22 -0500<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/435740662/tumblr_kyzquqHDAK1qz8ca1&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"></embed><br/><br/><p>New ringtone.</p>http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/435740662http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/435740662Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:30:26 -0500<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyvdn2WKQy1qasthro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Very very excited to be heading back to Austin, though I’m breaking a promise I made to myself that I wouldn’t return until <a href="http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/383952261/this-is-a-map-of-schlitterbahn-in-new-braunfels">Schlitterbahn</a> was open.</p> <p>I might do some more shows while I’m down there, watch this space for details.</p> <p><a href="http://blog.collegehumor.com/post/430475688/street-here-collegehumor-is-headed-to-sxsw-in">collegehumor</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Street here.  CollegeHumor is headed to SXSW in Austin, TX for a special CH Live show. Sunday, March 14th at 8PM at the Cap City Comedy Club.  Jeff and I will host, Dan will tell jokes and we’ll have plenty of very, very funny guests.  Tickets available here: <a href="http://bit.ly/9PR0a9"><a href="http://bit.ly/9PR0a9">http://bit.ly/9PR0a9</a></a></p> <p>Hope some of you Texans can make it.</p> <p><i>And if you can’t make it to this show but want to get CH at your school, fear not!  Just go to <a href="http://www.collegehumor.com/collegehumor-live-tour">CollegeHumor.com/live</a> to book us. </i></p> </blockquote>http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/430636191http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/430636191Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:39:05 -0500<p>This is a question I get a lot, and not just anonymously over Tumblr, so let’s talk about it.</p> <p>“Play Value” was a talking-heads show about videogames I appeared on not only before Bleep Bloop. It was kind-of a spinoff of a show called “Best Game Ever” that I appeared on not only before Bleep Bloop, but before I even worked at CollegeHumor. Play Value was exclusively online and Best Game Ever was on digital cable service MagRack (which was related to OnDemand, I think?). Every episode of Play Value was a crash course in some aspect of the history of gaming, whereas Best Game Ever was a little sillier.</p> <p>My work on Play Value was limited to just showing up on camera and making jokes about Donkey Kong so unlike, for example, Bleep Bloop I have no insight into what’s going on behind-the-scenes. I have no idea if there will be future episodes, but I can tell you it’s been a long time since we shot one. Both shows were a lot of fun, and they put me on when the top item on my resume was temping at the Bed Bath and Beyond corporate Headquarters in New Jersey, so I’ll always be eternally grateful to the people both. Even though you never see me with anyone else on the show, everyone was great and many of us are still in touch. If they make more and call me, I’ll be there and make sure everyone knows. I’ve had several people tell me they found Bleep Bloop via Play Value, and it’s always really exciting.</p> <p>Confession - I typed all of this just to tell this story: Magrack produced a variety of shows for all sorts of niches. They had a show about surfing, they had a show about cooking, etc etc. I was on the show about videogames. They had ads in the subway once that showed stereotypes from the different niches getting along - a jock hanging out with a surfer dude, or a chef hanging out with a cheerleader, you get the idea. The tagline was something like “We all do different things but we get together on MagRack.” One was a skiier hanging out with a Saved-By-The-Bell-style pocket protector nerd. At the time I was excited to see promotion for something I was working on, but after I got off the subway I realized that the pocket protector nerd was basically their stand-in for me.</p> <p>By the way, both shows are now available online. <a href="http://www.onnetworks.com/videos/play-value">Here’s Play Value</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4nlqRSDckI">here’s Best Game Ever</a>.</p>http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/430609256http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/430609256Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:21:00 -0500<p>“To date, [Good] is the only Better Than Ezra song to reach #1.”</p> <p>- Very optimistic sentence from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_%28song%29">the Good Wikipedia entry</a></p>http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/428544990http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/428544990Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:19:22 -0500wikipedia<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kytf3hE8Px1qz8ca1o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Well, I watched this movie. To it’s credit I would say it’s exactly as bad as I expected it to be, but no worse.</p>http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/428408579http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/428408579Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:30:53 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kynubkgDTB1qznuf2o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Reminder - Bleep Bloop will be at March’s Penny Arcade Expo in Boston. I’ve never been to PAX but I’m at least about meandering around the floor as I am about the panel.</p> <p><a href="http://patrickcassels.tumblr.com/post/422135445/attention-massachusettsians-jeff-rubin-who-i">patrickcassels</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>ATTENTION MASSACHUSETTSIANS</p> <p>Jeff Rubin, who I co-host the video game talk show “Bleep Bloop” alongside, and I will be at the <a href="http://www.paxsite.com/paxeast/index.php">Penny Arcade Expo</a> along with CollegeHumor writer Brian Murphy and “Bleep Bloop” director Creighton DeSimone. It’s at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston on March 27th. Details above. Join me after at Boston Harbor, where I’ll be tossing chests of His Majesty’s tea into the water.</p> </blockquote>http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/424648523http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/424648523Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:16:43 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyo2777Tvr1qz8ca1o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>… and Bryce!</p>http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/422351964http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/422351964Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:04:19 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyo26abXa81qz8ca1o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Greetings from Zion…</p>http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/422351361http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/422351361Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:03:46 -0500<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyihtte2TY1qz8ca1o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/415707668http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/415707668Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:55:56 -0500<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/410162147/tumblr_kydk4jR9uK1qz8ca1&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"></embed><br/><br/><p>The Beach Boys - Salt Lake City</p> <p>Assuming we can get out of the incoming snow, me and Streeter will be at the University of Utah tomorrow night with Dan Levy for some CollegeHumor Live. <a href="http://www.dailyutahchronicle.com/arts/website-brings-free-humor-to-u-1.2167259">Details here</a>, see you there!</p>http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/410162147http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/410162147Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:57:55 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kydcldpZG91qasthro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://blog.collegehumor.com/post/409854468/the-7-types-of-internet-lists-believe-me-i-was"></a></p> <p>The 7 Types of Internet Lists.</p> <blockquote></blockquote> <p>Believe me, I was well aware what a large glass house I was living in when I wrote this.</p> <blockquote></blockquote> <p>It really feels like <a href="http://digg.com/comedy/The_7_Types_of_Internet_Top_10_Lists_IMG">everyone on Digg should see this</a>, doesn’t it?</p>http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/409855962http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/409855962Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:16:06 -0500<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.collegehumor.com/moogaloop/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1929588&fullscreen=1" width="400" height="225"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" quality="best" value="http://www.collegehumor.com/moogaloop/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1929588&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://www.collegehumor.com/moogaloop/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1929588&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="400" height="225" allowscriptaccess="always"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><a href="http://bleepbloopshow.com/post/407410332/bleep-bloop-winter-olympics-believe-me-if-the">bleepbloopblog</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Bleep Bloop: Winter Olympics</p> <p>Believe me, if the videogames had curling, we would have included it.</p> </blockquote>http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/407410964http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/407410964Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:29:17 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky9byuEGQl1qasthro1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>We launched a CollegeHumr staff blog today, so future CH related posts will go there. I started with this today -</p> <p><a href="http://blog.collegehumor.com/post/405309270/jeff-here-when-we-launched-lolaid-a-few-weeks">collegehumor</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>When we launched LOLaid a few weeks ago we had no idea how much people would give, and we were only sorta sure it was going to work at all. I’m really impressed that, even though you could see the videos by giving as little as a dollar, over 90% of the donations we received were for the suggested donation of $5 or more. Thanks again everyone who donated, and if you haven’t yet there’s still time to help Doctors Without Borders <i>and</i> get access to three CH Originals we’re never going to post anywhere else at <a href="http://firstgiving.com/collegehumor"><a href="http://firstgiving.com/collegehumor">http://firstgiving.com/collegehumor</a></a>.</p> </blockquote>http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/406005015http://www.jeffrubinjeffrubin.com/post/406005015Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:50:42 -0500