I Haven't Posted in a While (DRAGON BALL STEVE (DELABAR))...

...and I was like almost, just about knee-deep on making an actual Dragon Ballz cartoon starring Steve Delabar, who is perhaps the most amazing cyborg to ever play baseball, specifically in 2013. Then I looked at my life-schedule and realized what I was working on wouldn't be ready until December. So I stopped. But this is kind of a hint of where I was going.

Rock. 

Roll. 

Also, NEW CAPTAIN AMERICA TRAILER. 

How the Team Canada Goalie Decision will be Solved

In case you missed it, in late August, the Canadian men's hockey team met in Calgary to begin training for next year's Olympics in Sochi.

Unfortunately, because of the high cost of insurance, they had to stay off the ice; so the entire training session was played out via ball hockey.

As any seasoned ball hockey goalie will tell you, it's a different game once you take the skates off.

Tonight I was the Jack Morris of ball hockey goalies. Allowing 7 goals late but winning 10-8 isn't blowing a lead; it's saving to the score

— Cashew Mirman (@CashewMirman) August 20, 2013

You don't have the lateral speed you have on ice,  and although you're more stable (especially when there's heavy traffic in front of the net) smaller moves and adjustments are near impossible to complete.

Also, you sweat like a motherf**ker.

So thinking about that got me wondering about how the potential Team Canada goalies fared in Calgary.

There were a handful of goalies earmarked to compete for a spot on the team: Roberto Luongo, Corey Crawford, Braden Holtby, Carey Price, Mike Smith...

But maybe there were a couple more people there? And maybe it played out (like so much does these days) on Roberto Luongo's cellphone?

Blue Jays 2HP Twitter Blender: September 1st, 2013

I tried something similar to this once before.
I took a Mike Wilner tweet and tried to make a cartoon out of it.
It didn't quite work.

Then yesterday Rogers Centre broke.
And Wilner tweeted about it.
And then Jose Bautista's twitter account decided to follow me.
And then I noticed a tweet saying Hayao Miyazaki retired.
So I tried again.

Space Jays 2: The Wrath of Zaun

Back in March I made a movie called Space Jays.

March was a good time to be a Blue Jays fan. Before the taint of 2013 took hold, we all looked forward to watching Josh Johnson dominate; we all thought Melky Cabrera would prove to the world he wasn't being held together by PEDs; we all loved Metric's Stadium Love.

Since March the world has become a much darker place.

Back when I made Space Jays, it's unbridled optimism made sense. That kind of thinking doesn't work today.

So I'm rebooting Space Jays in it's sequel.

I'm making it darker... grittier.

Enjoy this trailer:

Also, enjoy the original Space Jays:

And since you're here, if you're a Toronto sports fan you might as well watch this:

Remember that time it looked like I was plagiarized?

I've never played Capcom's "Lost Planet" games.

I enjoy gaming, but if I'm going to spend time stuck on an alien planet killing things, I'd prefer that experience to contain the hyper-melodramatic-space-opera-bull-shit of Mass Effect 1 and/or 3 (Mass Effect 2, for all it's accolades, struck me as much too dry and/or self-serious).
Anways, Lost Planet has always struck me as the "Pitch Black" of space games, whereas I'm more a "Chronicles of Riddick" kinda guy.

Of course I'm probably the world's only "Chronicles of Riddick" kinda guy.

When I first saw the trailer for "Lost Planet 3", the first thing that popped to mind was "wow that dude looks like RA Dickey".

Then someone tweeted something, and I remembered "Space Jays".

So Capcom, I'm firing the first shot: if there are space lasers in this game, I'm taking y'all to court.

Angry Bretts

I think it's pretty obvious that Brett Lawrie like his cell phone:

I mean, the dude tweets about Swedish House Mafia often enough that at least a couple of 'em must've been sent from his cell.

And if he's got a smart phone, he's probably got Angry Birds.

Which is pretty fitting, because he's the Angriest Bird I know of (by bird I mean Blue Jay, not British woman).

And seeing how Angry Birds isn't afraid to license their game off to the highest paying intellectual property, I think it's only fitting that Brett Lawrie gets a shot at it.

The Munenori Kawasaki All Star Write-In Campaign Video: The Washington Nationals

Bluebird Banter's Munenori Kawasaki write in campaign is barrelling full steam ahead.

Of course, Kawasaki's performance today is making it pretty easy to want to write him in:



Whereas before I approached this campaign via an anti-Jhonny Peralta attack ad, I thought this time it was best to model a vid on Kawasaki's seemingly endless positivity. Well sort of. It's at least as positive as I can get.

Thanks to @Minor_Leaguer at Bluebird Banter @Matt_HBB from House of the Bluebird for the great GIF action.