Author Archives: matt

Seattle, Washington So Here’s a Thing that Happened

Went to Bumbershoot last night. The talented and adorable Sia of Zero 7 put Melissa and I on the band’s guest list to go backstage during their performance. At the end of the set, without any warning… "Ladies and gentlemen, … Continue reading

Seattle, Washington I Have Found the Promised Land, and it is Mostly Below Sea Level

My bandwidth woes appear to be no more. Those plucky Dutch have come to the rescue — in particular, Elise Roders and her generous colleagues at SURFnet. My videos have been uploaded onto their Nether-servers, and if you go to … Continue reading

Seattle, Washington “Pharaoh, Let My Compressed Media Files Go!”

It turns out data traffic costs money. Most people who watch the dancing video watch the streaming version on my front page via the embedded YouTube player. This is easy to put up and it costs me nothing. The fine … Continue reading

Seattle, Washington Blog Wankiness

The content of this entry is no longer relevant, but there’s a whole bunch of nice comments that’ll be deleted if I remove this, so I’m just gonna leave it like this. I re-added the missing journal entries from the … Continue reading

Seattle, Washington Bandwidth Woes and the Elusive Valderrama

This site will be offline very soon while we switch back to my previous site host. It should be down for a couple days, then back to normal. I changed hosts last month, just before releasing the video, to a … Continue reading

Seattle, Washington Apologies and Fun With YouTube

Perusing comments and email, I figure I can save myself a lot of time with the following. All in one breath: I’m sorry Ireland, Scotland, Spain, Canada, Portugal, Brazil, Argentina, South Korea, Canada, Israel, Poland, Bulgaria, Malaysia, Hungary, Colombia, Venezuela, … Continue reading

Seattle, Washington Clearing the Air

I am not the guy in the video. Just had to get that off my chest. I mean yes, that’s me up there. There’s no internet imposter scandal. But people do not smile when I walk by. I don’t create … Continue reading

New York, NY It’s Done

Here is a place to leave comments about the dancing video. Be gentle. And yes, the site is a bit disheveled at the moment. It will get increasingly sheveled in the coming days. We are sheveling as fast as we … Continue reading

Burbank, California The Little Boy Who Got Everything He Ever Wanted

I just stopped into a 7-11 on Magnolia to service my growing taquito dependency. A handlebar-mustached vagrant stopped me on my way out to inform me of the precise date and location of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. When I smiled in … Continue reading

Seattle, Washington Editing

It’s a small irony that I’ve been stuck in a room for the last three days mucking around with images of myself wandering the planet. And I find myself asking: Who is that lucky jerk? How do I get HIS … Continue reading