Episode 17: Drinking

1. I've felt shitty about a lot of these cartoons because I felt like the writing wasn't great, or the writing was good but it fell apart in execution due to poor voice acting and third grade level production values. Well, this is the first cartoon since Crash: The Board Game five episodes ago that I've actually liked.

2. The joke about how alcohol makes you a great writer is based on a little bit of truth, because I've always noticed that most of the truly great writers, musicians, and comedians that I've held up as my greatest influences are or were total alcoholics and drug addicts. Honestly that's a main reason why I drink as much as I do: because sometimes I feel like sobriety guarantees a failure to create any sort of great art.

3. Case in point: Bill Hicks, George Carlin, Lenny Bruce, Chris Farley, John Belushi, Mitch Hedberg, Richard Pryor, The Beatles and Ernest Hemingway were all drug addicts and/or alcoholics, while Dane Cook has led a completely clean and sober life.

4. Honestly, I don't have enough to say about the creative process of making these videos to fill ten facts. You may notice that most of my "ten facts" blog posts are mostly filler, or drunken whining. Here is the process that I go through to make one of these videos:

1. I think up an idea
2. I spend a couple hours writing a script
3. I come up with a list of pictures that will make up the video
4. I draw the pictures
5. I record the sound into my computer and edit it
6. I make a slideshow of the pictures and sound with Windows Movie Maker

And that's about it. Honestly, I'm fucking surprised I've managed to fill ten items this long with such thin material to work with. It would be like an NFL kicker trying to write ten interesting facts about every game he's ever played. He could probably do it, but on average less than two would be about his personal contributions.

5. Yeah, for that reason I think I'll cut this post short.