So, haven't been many updates lately, but I've been fairly busy, and even this one was supposed to go up a couple days ago - it's been dated when I originally started it. It still has a sort of sleepily-tapped-out feel to it, but I wanted to knock it out before I moved on to other things in my head. I won't say it's been the most interesting thing to happen of late, but it's the most easily encapsulated in a blog entry.

Thursday night, I tagged along with the venerable BadServo to the 40 Watt in Athens for a show. I had renewed my car's tag online, but hadn't picked up the sticker in the mail, and Thursday was the last day I could drive around with a Mar 2005 sticker without attracting police attention. So, I was gonna be in town anyway, and it was brought to my attention that MC Chris was gonna rock the house, so I went.

For those of you in the unfamiliar, MC Chris is a production assistant turned voice actor on the popular Adult Swim programming block on the Cartoon Network, an outfit I am still desperately seeking employment with. He also has a solid fan base as a rapper, which is how he is able to book and pack venues like the 40 Watt. Many of you would no doubt recognize him from his contributions as the voice of Hesh on Sealab 2021 or MC PeePants on Aqua Teen Hunger Force - or maybe, just maybe, the crazy pincer guy in the Board room skit at the end of the Bebop Cola episode of Sealab. In fact, many of you have probably listened to one or these things and thought quietly to yourself, "My, that is an interesting effect they use on that voice. It must be like the modern, 21st-century version of the Alvin and the Chipmonks technology."

No.

No, it's not.

He sounds exactly like that.

But it's okay, because he does indeed rock the house.

I'd go through some tired, played-out play by play of the show, but I encourage all of you to check out a show on your own if possible - Especially you, Finn, given your taste for that weird kid rapper, and the fact that the leg of the tour in your area coincides with the new Star Wars movie premiere, and Chris is inviting everyone to catch it with him after the show.

Takes a special kind of guy to dedicate one song to Mitch Hedberg, sing one about the Aibo, suggest the torching of a frathouse as a segue into a geek pride moment, and then blow the lid off the joint with an ode to Boba Fett.

Suffice to say, as another song goes, MC Chris Ownz.

[so in the meantime I'm gonna memorize all of his rhymes]