Green Like Gitgan

Good ol’ Jeremy Bear - he hasn’t blogged in quite some time. Heck, even “Elizabeth” the stand-in over at jeremybear.com/blogger who makes me want to poke my eyes out with a dull pencil hasn’t written anything in quite a while. Yeah I know there was quite a hiatus here on Green Like… but I figured if I’m gonna get back into the swing of it maybe he can too.

Here is my list of things Jeremy might be doing instead of blogging

10. Keeping it ‘real’

9. Developing a non-nutritive, semi-permiable, non-osmotic cereal varnish and crunch enhancer

8. Wishing everybody would forget about that stupid children’s show so he could be #1 Jeremy Bear site on the Internet again. **Edit - since I first wrote this apparently, the site has grown in popularity with the Google - this is a good sign - strike while the iron is hot dude! **

7. Animating next year’s Christmas animation

6. Trying like heck to not be an Obamaniac

5. Keeping a lid on it (before somebody starts a fight)

4. Penning an autobiography entitled “Calvin: The Sketch that Made Me the Man I am Today”

3. Working on an educational comic book titled “Gilbert & Calliope address the myth of Global Warming” a comic fully sponsored by BP (Make life a little better).

2. Whittling toothpicks

1. Keeping us all waiting

I thought I’d send you to a few of my favorite Jeremy Bear posts - go on, clickety click.

Jeremy & Carey’s digital Christmas Greetings - 2003 is my favorite as it’s the most interactive.

Traffic Pwned! - Jeremy recounts the story of his day with ‘Uncle Aaron’ at a mandatory traffic school

Jeremy on the Late Show with Jay Leno - yes, on national television. This clip needs to be on YouTube.

The JeremyBear.com Mailbox - Illustrating the Internet’s addiction to all that is JeremyBear.com

Mt. Paran Christian School - the comic that introduced JeremyBear.com to legal action!

I’d link you to a few more but Jeremy has the worst archive system that blogger offers, making it absolutely painful to try and find things - all that said - check out the links. Hopefully Jeremy will send up a flare and let us who don’t see or hear from him regularly know that he is indeed still alive - and hopefully at some point, still blogging. The world’s got a fever, and the only prescription - is more Jeremy (or more cowbell).

I posted the following on my “blog” at espn.com - a site that I don’t visit very often, mostly because I don’t really know much about sports or really care that much. But I knew that it would annoy my co-worker Keith.

You see Keith thinks that in order to fill out a NCAA tournament bracket you should know something about sports, or at least basketball or maybe at least be able to tell which of two numbers is higher than another.  But I don’t agree - I think part of the fun of taking part in March Madness is the fact that you don’t have to know anything to fill out a bracket and you might just get lucky.

This is apparently quite annoying to him so I capitalized on it by posting a blog which you can read below or view on my ESPN.com profile page, oops wait I mean this one.

5 reasons my NCAA picks are better than yours… 

If anyone is actually reading this then you probably know me, and by knowing me you know that I know absolutely nothing about sports. But that doesn’t mean that my picks aren’t better than yours. Here are 5 reasons my picks beat your picks…

5. I did them at work. I’m generally a bit more on my game when I do things during the work day. If this hold true I will easily defeat you.

4. I’m wearing brown. It’s a good color on me and I think it just adds to my ability to make great picks.

3. Kent State - I know where it’s at and can drive there without written directions, once again - adding to my familiarity with this years tournament.

2. The Wagner Lab of Ornithology in Newport has informed me that that bird is a liar, and also not my doppleganger. Today is a good day.

1. You actually read this list, meaning you’re looking for insight for your picks which means you’re worried that you’ll make or have made poor choices - I win.

Good luck this year.

So I finished typing that and published, figuring that nobody would ever read it unless I specifically directed them there.  I was wrong - later that day I got an email letting me know that I had received a message on my profile at ESPN.com.  It said the following:

From:       MattFriedrichs
Sent:          03/19/2008 at 10:32 AM
Subject:    Picks blog
Message:  Very funny. I’d consider it for the front of ESPN.com if you turn on the comments (Edit My Profile, privacy settings).

The next day I received another message:

From:      CommunityEds
Sent:        03/20/2008 at 3:34 PM
Subject:   Funny blog
Message: We rounded up NCAA tourney blogs, yours included here: http://myespn.go.com/s/blogs/show/username/CommunityEds?target_tsn=99

I was really suprised -  I went ahead and turned on comments like they requested but I don’t think it ever was promoted to the front page of ESPN.com.  But just like the March Madness, (and Forrest Gump for that matter) you never know what you’re gonna get.  Looks like sometimes there is a little luck involved with Tournament brackets…

Welcome to 2008!

Come on Josh, it’s been 2008 for over a month-and-a-half - and besides, who are you even talking to anyway?

The people who occasionally stop by to see if I’ve written something…

…and then leave immediately when they see its still the same old crap from months ago?

You know, whenever I have a conversation with you like this you’re never supportive or helpful?

So what?

All I’m saying is that it would be nice if you could help me by being constructive - try and help me with this, you know it’s been a while.

Fine, what do you want me to do?

Ask me some questions, guide the conversation, help me be interesting.

You got it captain.

Don’t call me captain.

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Hey all - my buddy Andy Pull, along with his wife and friends have entered Apple’s Insomnia Film Festival. Give it a watch, rate it and leave a comment. An interesting little flick with a surprise ending.

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