Pretty soon. As of right now we have 2,921,545 views. When we hit 3 million all four of us + Daisy are going to celebrate with donuts and coffee. The Iraq War: Legal or Illegal episode went over 1 million YT views a few days ago too.

Also, for those of you who hate us so much and keep sending us threats and hate e-mail, please keep them coming. Nothing amuses me more than reading your pathetic and stupid comments.

Right now we are in the middle of producing our Hawaii episodes so we are not blogging as often. Our apologies to those of you who like the blogs. Kim & Mimi are busy doing some non-PS stuff at the moment so I can’t ask them to blog.

Bunny.

I just made a new area to acknowledge all those who have supported us with donations since day 1. You can check it out here. The new system will be able to accept short comments or dedications from now on - isn’t that cool?

- Bunny

We have a new area of our PS website. It’s called “Pinky Presents” and it features educational videos made by others. I made this area because in spite of trying to be super clear that we didn’t make Islands at Risk: Genetic Engineering in Hawaii, we got several e-mails sent to us that made us realize that some people out there thought we made that video. Well we don’t want to take credit for anybody else’s work so now we have this new area.

Anyway, in addition to having the new area, there is also a new video in that area for you to watch. It is also by Na Maka o ka Aina and is called We Are Who We Were: From Resistance to Affirmation. When was the last time you got to see a video about Native Hawaiian sovereignty from a Native perspective? The Na Maka website has about a hundred videos - go check it out. I haven’t seen them all but in my opinion Faces of the Nation and Act of War: The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation should be required viewing for every American.

- Bunny

Pinky’s interview with Jeffrey Smith - a.k.a. What’s Wrong With GMOs? - is currently being featured in YouTube’s Education area. Which means that for the next few days we will be slugging it out with other YouTube educational videos for viewer supremacy - videos by hot babes (I use the term loosely) teaching about word origins, and real live (”live”) college professors explaining the finer points of ’storytelling theory and practice’. The competition is intense.

Also, I just added a few entries in our Specials Area - human beings and some other stuff. And for those of you who haven’t been following the Wikileaks controversy - go check it out. Very, very interesting.

- Bunny

Looks like the internet gods like Pinky. Not only is today Pinky’s birthday, we also hit the 3 million views mark at YouTube. Coincidence?

To celebrate Pinky’s 6th birthday we are going to catch a ride into LA and go looking for a comic book store. I told her I’ll buy her a copy of Persepolis if we find one.

Production on the Hawaii episodes is going well. We’re kind of doing them “all at once” but will be finishing them individually, in order. We’ll have the first episode (the intro) released before the end of the month, and the others will follow fairly quickly thereafter.

No other news to report.

- Bunny

We are a little behind schedule with our production schedule. We’d been hoping to release the first episode of our Hawaii: The Colony series before April but it’s already March 28 so it looks like it’s not going to happen. Pinky’s been really sick for a couple of months now and so we still haven’t gotten around to doing the audio recording for the episode. She still sounds pretty miserable and spends a lot of time lying around saying “guuuuuhhh…… bleh…” or something similar. The upside is that we’ve had more time to do more revisions to the script (parts two and three included) so I guess that’ll be a good thing in the long run.

We’ve been receiving e-mails from people in various European countries (Germany, Poland, etc.) telling us that our GMO episodes on YouTube are being ‘blocked’ by someone. Is it YouTube or is it their governments? I have no idea. If anybody knows who’s responsible for this sort of thing, please let me know.

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Last Friday I mentioned that we have been receiving e-mails from some people in Europe saying that they can no longer access our What’s Wrong with GMOs? episode at YouTube. Well, the story checks out: visiting the YouTube site via an anonymous European proxy server returns the message ‘video not available’ if you try to access the GMO video. Okay. But looking into the matter I’m discovering that there’s actually all kinds of weird things going on at YouTube.

For example: If you do a YouTube search for ‘GMO’, our What’s Wrong with GMOs? video - although being the most popular video on the subject by far - is buried way down in page 3 results, right next to all the other videos nobody ever watches. Our Islands at Risk: Genetic Engineering in Hawaii video is also receiving the same treatment (search: “GMO taro”).

Some of our YouTube subscribers have e-mailed us asking whey they’ve been ‘unsubscribed’ from our YouTube channel. Others have been asking us if we’ve been deleting their comments (we never delete comments).

Strangely enough, if you do a search for “Iraq War Illegal”, our The Iraq War: Legal or Illegal? video still pops in at number 1 (1 million+ views). Our Vietnam War video comes in on the first page of returns, as does our illegal immigration video. So why is our GMO episode (only ~40,000 views) being suppressed in Europe? Is it related to the pressure the U.S. is exerting on European countries to accept GMO? I don’t know.

As you can imagine it’s going to be very difficult to find out what exactly is going on at YouTube/Google. Censoring a nobody organization like The Pinky Show is easy - we’re not the New York Times and don’t have a small army of researchers or lawyers to look into this.

Bunny