Posted by Bunny.
We needed a place to put stuff some of our friends have been sending us: Fight! area now open.
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Posted by Bunny.
We needed a place to put stuff some of our friends have been sending us: Fight! area now open.
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Posted by Pinky.
Today is "Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day" here in the U.S. Which is also to say that the other 364 days of the year are "Not Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day". In their place may I suggest "Malcolm X Day" (May 19), "Sitting Bull Day" (how about June 25?), "Anne Sullivan Day" (April 14), and about 361 others.
Posted by Pinky.
I was browsing the internet last night when I accidentally came across a very graphic photo that really shocked me. It was a photograph of an Iraqi man who had been shot in the head by a U.S. army sniper. His head was basically gone, his face was flattened out and floppy like an empty rubber mask. There was blood everywhere, trailing away from his head via a small foamy river. He had no head any more, but he did have blue pants and clean tennis shoes. It's hard to believe that someone’s life can end so quickly, and with so much violence.
This morning I woke up with a huge knot in my stomach. I'm sure it was that awful photograph and for most of the morning I kept wishing I hadn't ever seen it. Then I started wondering to myself, "How many Iraqi people have died during this war?" I went online and found a website called iraqbodycount.org. The current estimate is somewhere around 30,000 civilians killed by military intervention in Iraq. This is a number that exceeds my comprehension.
There's been a lot of argument here in the U.S. about whether it's right or wrong to show photos of dead people, be they U.S. soldiers or Iraqi civilians, in our newspapers or on the evening news. But if my not-very-close encounter with just one dead Iraqi man left me so sad and angry, I can only imagine what would happen if people were confronted with many, many more images of this kind of violence and suffering. I don't want to see photos of mutilated children, but I'm sure there are thousands. They must exist - but where are they? I still don't understand why all the news reports of bombings, kidnappings, executions, errant missles and whatnot don't seem to affect me on the same visceral level that that one photo did. Maybe if you want to complicate a war, the public needs to see more pictures?
~pinky
Posted by Pinky.
Bunny just posted our first episode on our website. I had a chance to sit down and do a very short interview with my friend Dr. Hui, who was nice enough to drive all the way out here from LA (I think it’s about a two or three-hour drive). Besides doing the interview, we gave Dr. Hui a nice tour around the immediate vicinity (the old trailer park, the huge electrical power line towers, the semi-abandoned junk yards) and we also showed him our plans for the university we're hoping to build one day (I think he was impressed). We really enjoyed his visit.
Even though it's just one episode on our website so far, at least now I feel like we're slowly moving forward. It's a start. We have three more episodes in-progress, I hope to have them all done and posted on our website very soon.
~p.
Posted by Bunny.
I just posted our very first Pinky Show episode to the archives section. It's called The Health Care Crisis, Part I and is an interview with Dr. Hui. He hung out with us for a while and my favorite part was when Mimi, Kim, Pinky, and I were all walking with him down by the dried-up river bed and he was feeling all our fur and he said that my fur was the softest (it's true, I'm really really soft).
Anyway we're happy to finally have a Pinky Show episode on the website - this one is a text-only episode, but following ones will probably be audio or audio with pictures. It looks pretty ridiculous right now, sitting there in the big, empty archive all by itself, but we'll keep making more.
~B.
Posted by Pinky.
I'm determined to have a good year this year, even if I have to bite and scratch and fight for it. Last year was a bad year, and actually, the year before that was actually pretty bad too. For whatever reason I've just been feeling kind of lost… and I am really sick of that feeling. I don't want to spend any more time feeling like that.
I'm not even going to make a bunch of resolutions this year. Last year I made some and two weeks later I couldn't even remember what they were. So this year I'm only going to concentrate on one thing: I'm going to stay in constant motion and I'm going to concentrate on learning as much as I can. Me and Bunny are going to try to grow this website as much as we can. I only have a little while here on Earth and I'm not exactly a kitten any more, I think it's time for me to start fulfilling my obligations. Here I go.
~p.
Posted by Bunny.
As you may have noticed, we are behind schedule. Our goal was to have new episodes ready to go by the time the new year rolled around. Well, "technical difficulties", I say. My usual method for dealing with uncooperative electronic and computer equipment would be to hit them with a blunt object, or, if it's something small enough to lift, to shake it violently. But lately none of this has been working. I've started reading instruction manuals. I hate instruction manuals, it is the only kind of reading material they have down there in hell.
~B.
Posted by Pinky.
The end of the year is fast approaching and we're still fighting with all this equipment, trying to get everything to work the way we'd like it to work. Not that we have high standards (we certainly don't) - rather, the learning curve for how to use all these things is a lot steeper than we thought it'd be. For example, learning how to use the little portable mixer we have wasn't so hard, but figuring out how to record multiple tracks to the computer at the same time gave Bunny conniptions. Or, finding someone to donate an old electric guitar to us so we could make our own background "music" (see how I put music in quotes?) also wasn't so difficult, but finding a way to keep this 40-year old thing in tune gave me a giant headache (finally we decided we're just not going to play so much in tune). So, in a nutshell, everything is still moving along, but just very, very slowly. My new revised time-table: I would like to have the e-mailable blurbs and the trailer done before the last day of 2005. Starting 2006 with a shiny new website, all ready for hanging new episodes on it would be a great way to start the new year. Till next time, please take care.
~p.
Posted by Bunny.
We got a very important piece of equipment in the mail today. Before, we just had a microphone hooked up to a tape recorder. Now we have a little gadget that allows us to run a line from the telephone to the tape recorder. That way we can call people up and actually tape the whole conversation - you know what that means: interviews! ~B.
Posted by Bunny.
Our first announcement because it's our first day live on the web. Welcome to our brand new website. Pinky and I have been working on building this website for a few weeks now (I did most of the work) but we've been talking and planning about it almost since we first met last year. After all the dreaming it's a good feeling to actually see it realized, though of course right now there's basically nothing here in terms of actual content. It's okay though, we'll start making Pinky Show episodes starting first thing tomorrow morning. But right now we're going to celebrate our first big step by taking a nap. ~B.
Posted by Pinky.
Hi. I guess this is the first entry in my digital diary. It's an open diary - Bunny and I thought it'd be a good idea to have a little place on our website where one of us could record our thoughts regarding what we're doing (or trying to do). But before we get started with that, here's a very condensed pre-history of The Pinky Show.
January 1, 2001: Bunny born in a small house in Culver City, California (Los Angeles).
March (?), 2002: Pinky born somewhere on the island Oahu, Hawaii (don't know exactly when or where).
September 2004: Pinky decides to "get educated". Enrolls in school. Expelled two weeks later for "willful insubordination, harassment of teachers, and attempting to incite a riot" (all untrue!). So much for formal education.
October 2004: Pinky leaves Hawaii to see the world. Disguised as a suitcase, Pinky hops a plane to California, and meets Bunny wandering the streets of LA a few days later.
November 2004 - March 2005: Pinky & Bunny basically just wander around North America, looking at stuff, avoiding traffic, etc. Decide to settle in the desert on the outskirts of Los Angeles (lots of space, peace & quiet) for the time being.
March 13, 2005: Rejected by schools, Pinky & Bunny decide to take their learning into their own hands… whatever that means. More thinking required.
April 4, 2005: Pinky & Bunny decide to make an eduational TV show. The premise of the show is simple: every episode we'll ask a simple question, and then we'll give ourselves 5 minutes to try to answer it. Pinky will research, write, draw pictures, and narrate; Bunny will learn how to run a computer and make a website. We'll call it "The Pinky Show", which we consider more catchy than "The Educational Show In Which Pinky & Bunny Answer A Deceptively Simple But Nonetheless Important Question in Approximately 5 Minutes".
April - June 2005: much floundering and confusion.
June 29, 2005: Pinky & Bunny bump into sisters Mimi & Kim (also cats) in a random chance meeting in the desert. After talking a bit, Mimi & Kim decide to help with the show. Special talents: Mimi - math, organizing things, and hiding. Kim - toys, comics, and video games. Now we are four!
July - September: somewhat less confusion, but much more floundering. We decide to have the show available on the internet, since no television station wants us.
September 11, 2005: The launch of the beta version of The Pinky Show website. Quite a few things don't work yet. Lots more work to be done.
December 1, 2005: Our official opening day for The Pinky Show website. Everything (more or less) works! Yay! Here we go...
~pinky