10-May-2008: Today's new WCCC COMIC is quite a GAS. HEE HAW! Funny Donkey.

7-May-2008: Many frequenters to umop.com may recall that I do enjoy entering art-related contests from time to time. Well this time I have descended upon the Garmin Garage Wrench 'n' Win Contest, mostly because I really want my Nuvi 660 to have a 3D avatar of Hamster from Retarded Animal Babies driving around in a Lamborghini go-kart. DON'T YOU? I hope so, because I'm already a finalist (among what shall be a total of 20 finalists) of this month-long contest, and will need your vote to get the magic happening. When voting time comes in a couple of weeks, I'll link it up again; in the meantime you can check out my stiff competetion by viewing the finalists (this page requires Flash 9). Many of the entries are from kids, but all the basic ideas are kickass, so it's going to be close.

28-Apr-2008: Two nifty new shots in the PHOTO ALBUM today, taken at AHNE2008 (Analog Heaven Northeast; an annual conclave of synth nerds like myself) by my friend Matt Davidson.

27-Apr-2008: Whoa, man. Check that out. That's pretty messed up right there.

25-Apr-2008: I don't post letters to/from fans very often, but figured, "why not, there haven't been enough updates on umop.com this month anyway." I also figured my reply was empirical enough to be potentially relevant elsewhere. So... the other day someone contacted me after watching my YouTube video of my performance of "Subdivisions" by Rush, asking for help on how to get into playing synths. Here is my reply:

"I have nothing to offer... I learned Subdivisions when I was 13 years old in 1983. All self taught... played by ear, etc.

17-Apr-2008: Bask in this delightfully sunny new WCCC COMIC!

6-Apr-2008: Today, my RETARDED ANIMAL BABIES series officially turned 5 years old. Ah, but even as the series has matured, it has remained as immature as ever!

5-Apr-2008: I figured if I posted this back on April Fool's Day, nobody would believe me in the slightest. But on April 1st I really did get myself into yet another fool's folly. Check out the latest addition (lucky #13!) to the History of My Cars: a 2005 Corvette!

23-Mar-2008: HAPPY EASTER. Eggs. Resurrection. I don't get what's so hard to understand about why we have Easter eggs! And the rabbit is, well... it's the animal they used to use to determine a pregnancy, and that's kind of a renewal type thing. And, er... the chocolate, is... made of BEANS, and beans grow out of dirt, and dirt is... You know, I'm not sure about the chocolate.

17-Mar-2008: Happy St. Pat's today! Why not celebrate it by watching a vaguely Easter-themed cartoon? That's right you dirty little pants-monkeys... RETARDED ANIMAL BABIES 20 is ready to watch, right on schedule. Five years & twenty episodes, oh me, oh my...

14-Mar-2008: Thank God it's PI-DAY!

13-Mar-2008: So we're putting Plastica back together... a silly '80s tribute project which may or may not end up being a high-profile rock, New Wave, comedy, wigs 'n whiskey kinda thing in the Connecticut area (i.e., Connecticut). And you are hereby cordially invited to check out the new PLASTICA MYSPACE PAGE and "friend" us.

Today we've had the audacity to upload four pretty idiotic outtakes from last night's practice that probably should ever be heard, by anyone, ever. Firstly, we don't have a singer yet, so it's all instrumental. Second, I think Rolling Rock put crack in their beer this week because we decided speeding up both of our Journey songs was a fantastic idea. The image at left here is of course a screencap of the MySpace player, and it couldn't say it any more perfectly: "Please Stop Plastica playing" when our insanely fast "Don't Stop Believing" cover is foolishly selected! And then there's Master of Puppets which we always like screwing with. So yeah, it's all pretty zany stuff & I'm happy to say that we are having ridiculous fun with Plastica again. Wheeee!

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