...oh, and this woman has no chin, looks like a grey alien fucked a rhesus monkey, and she's a city councilwoman from Sacramento, CA, a city chock-full of some of the flakiest motherfuckers on the planet.

IIRC, Sacramento, CA did this too years ago. I assume everywhere does this.

Bachelor film project 2011 from The Animation Workshop.

As long as anyone can remember, the coming of The Undertaker has meant the coming of death. Until one day the grim promise fails and tension builds as the God fearing townsfolk of Backwater wait for someone to die

By: Bo Mathorne, Tue T. Sørensen, Arthur Gil Larsen, Rie C. Nymand, Mads Simonsen, Thomas H. Grønlund, Esben Jacob Sloth, Martin Holm-Grevy

Bo Mathorne - Director
Arthur Gil Larsen - Animation Lead
Mads Simonsen - Technical director
Thomas Grønlund - Animator
Rie Nymand - Animator
Esben Sloth - Art Director
Martin Holm-Grevy - Environment lead
Tue Toft Sørensen - Animator

Music composed and performed by:
Sons of Perdition

Voice actors:
The Tramp: Zebulon Whatley
The Minister: Lucien Dodge
Bubba: Phillip Sacramento
Towns people: Laura Post

Supervisors:
Michelle Nardone - Production supervisor
Katrine Talks - Production supervisor
Jessie Roland - Animation supervisor
Christian Kuntz - Animatic supervisor
Patrick Voetberg - Editing supervisor
Sunit Parekh-Gaihede - CG supervisor
Jared Embley - Rigging supervisor
Thomas Christensen - Sound supervisor
Svend Nordby - Technical supervisor

Consultants:
Peter Albrechtsen - Sound design consultant
Michael Valeur - Story consultant
Andrew Harris - CG Consultant
Mads Juul - Animatic consultant
Saschka Unseld - 3D animatic consultant
Anna Kubik - 3D animatic consultant
Jericca Cleland - Story consultant
Marec Fritzinger - Design consultant
Tomm Moore - Design consultant
Lawrence Marvit - Design consultant
Niels Bach - Background consultant

Thanks to:
Lasse Niragira Rasmussen - Additional animation
Jeppe Bro Døcker - Additional animation
Morten Thorning - Moral guidance
Oliver Kirchhoff - Scripting
Those Poor Bastards - Inspiration
Robert Bennett - Voice work
Lostandtaken.com - Textures
Friends and family

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Yeah - family holiday obligations - we're off to see my aunt in Sacramento. We had never driven highway one- we did it through the Big Sur which was pretty cool.

In reply to this comment by eric3579:
Nice, so what are you doing in this part of the world? You got peeps in Santa Cruz?

In reply to this comment by dag:
Just passed Over this bridge a few hours ago on the way to Santa Cruz. It's a pretty spot.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Sacramento, State, jazz, Ben Folds, Selfless, a capella, vocal, music' to 'Sacramento, State, jazz, Ben Folds, a capella, vocal, selfless cold and composed' - edited by dystopianfuturetoday

I've been to Schiphol. It's a pretty cool airport. It's also not a hard word to pronounce, or (DUH!) look up how to pronounce before you make yourself look like a moron on national television (you know, like real journalists do...). I also got to see Charles de Gaulle (pronounced "Sharl duh GALL" if you work for Fox) a year before that big collapse happened (French engineering... lolz), but that place smelled like a goddamn ash tray.

Then again, the closest airport to where I live is the completely misnamed Sacramento International (there is no international service to/from Sacramento). The luggage art installation is about the only cool thing to see.

Fox is proving more and more everyday to us that they are just as professional as your average Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid.

This is as ethnocentric as news gets.

This Embed's got more staying power:
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I would have posted my video sooner, if the MSNBC embed didn't give me such trouble... But alas, yours was posted sooner, so.. all's fair.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Sacramento-CA-A-Symbol-of-Tough-Times
another copy

Wiki:

In August 2008, a Sacramento man claimed he had discovered evidence that pointed to his stepfather being the Zodiac Killer. A black hood, a knife encrusted with blood, writing samples, and rolls of photographic film were collected by the FBI. The FBI has not said when it will release the results of its tests. As of November 2008 those tests have neither concluded nor ruled out the suspect as the Zodiac Killer, and the FBI continues to collect more evidence to build a DNA profile.

I think Blankfist may be a little more leftist than he thinks, but then again, I think that's true about most of the country. He's just a fiscal conservative, which I don't consider a bad thing - on the contrary, fiscal conservatives keep liberal thought in check with a firm slap of the checkbook. There needs to be balance, don't get me wrong.

As far as cops supporting Prop 8, I'm not terribly surprised, as I find cops tend to vote as social conservatives. Most cops I know are registered Republicans. I'm a little saddened by their support of the prop.

I think Prop 1A is a good thing to vote yes on, because our public transportation infrastructure here in America is a goddamn joke. I've spent a little time in Europe, and I was amazed at the public transit options they have available. I got off the airplane in Schipol Airport, and went downstairs to catch the train to Haarlam - it was extremely easy to get to where we wanted. My girlfriend has spent some time in Japan and Australia, and learned how to navigate the bus and rail systems they offer quite easily. The bay area has one of the better public transit systems in the US, but even it is lacking compared to what I saw in towns a fraction SF's size in The Netherlands and Germany. The plan would be even better if Sacramento was included in list of major cities hit, but for Sharks fans living in SF and Fresno, this might help them catch a few Hockey games, which would be a neat, albeit somewhat indirect, economic stimulus.

Prop 2 I'm up in the air about. I'd like to think that here in California we have access to the best quality food in the world as it is.

Prop 3 would be nice, but the CA budget is strained pretty far as is. I'd love for the state to be able to afford it.

Prop 4 is something my girlfriend and I have disagreements about. She'd likely vote for it, but I'd of the mind that Doctor/Patient confidentiality needs to be implicitly extended to minors.

Prop 5 is a step in the right direction for drug law reform. Jail is no place for non-violent drug offenders.

Prop 6, the cops are lying outright about this being anything about "safe neighborhoods." A strong "No" from me.

Prop 7 I think I'm going to vote No on as well.

I think I've made my position on 8 pretty clear.

Prop 9 looks pretty bad and unnecessary. Prop 10 looks even worse. Both will be getting "No"s from me.

Prop 11, I'm not so sure about. I'm curious as to why the League of Women Voters are endorsing it (I know they're supposedly Non-partisan, but tend to be socially progressive), but nearly every other progressive organization opposes it. I'd have to review this one a little more, but I'm inclined to vote No.

Prop 12, I'd rather give veterans better educations than better loan rates. Our GI bill as it exists now is a joke, and is in dire need of updating. I think this is the whole "Teach a man to fish" issue, but the prop just wants to give out fish instead of fishing lessons. For every dollar we spent on the WWII-era GI bill, seven dollars came back in taxes from veterans who used their free-ride scholarships to become better educated, then used their educations to get better jobs (increased salaries meant increased incomes to tax, and the ones who started their own companies opened up more taxable revenue streams), which paid for bigger homes (more property tax). We desperately need something comparable for our veterans today. I can't say that giving better home loans to veterans isn't a good thing, I think it is, but I think providing them with a better education after they've served their country would be even better. I'll have to wait and weigh out what I'm gonna do with this one later.

Thanks, Persephone so-Eric and I have a lot in common-glad to see he keeps the love and wonder for the experience of simply living life-

Speaking of which....., i am making tentative plans for San Fran and Sacramento round the same time(course you already know persephone) and am trying to engineer a suite at the Ritz Carlton for a night-the door will be open all night for any bay area sifters who wanna drop in-otherwise, I'm floppin' for a week and am trying to decide which of my long-lost pals whose door I'll darken-

*quality

I only found out about Avenue Q during a roadtrip to Sacramento, CA. That's a 10 hour ride from where I live so we had plenty of time to listen to the whole musical (which was really good, incidentally). The girl who put the CD on just said, "hey, I totally love this; you will, too."

Musicals aren't really my thing but all of the songs are terribly clever and genuinely funny. Realization dawned about halfway through the CD when I heard this song, and then everything snapped into focus as I thought, "but wait, this song's from a musical? I always thought this song sounded a little too polished and had a few overly oblique references, (e.g., "Come down here, Trekkie"), to be an amateur production."

I hope to see the production some day. Too bad i don't live a little closer to NY or London. :-)