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Interview: Josh Simpson, the Man Behind @BPGlobalPR

Posted by mistergroonk in Intertube Madness, Interviews, USA on September 13, 2010

The @BPGlobalPR Twitterer has been revealed as Josh Simpson. He has been interviewed by Mat Honan and found, by us, to be a pretty cool guy.

Awl: Were you doing this all by yourself?

@BPGlobalPR: No, not at all. The idea was mine, and all the long form writing, talks, and speeches were me. But a lot of tweets–a lot of my favorite tweets–weren’t mine. I edited and maybe tweaked some of them, but there’s no way I would have been able to come up with the quality or volume of jokes without a good team. We had about 15 people, and those writers deserve a lot of the credit. Some contributed every day. My dad did one, even. I sent him a message and told him about it, and I was like, “fuck, I’m not sure what he’ll think.” But he responded immediately with a joke.

It was nice to create something that could be inclusive with people’s frustrations. I made it purposefully non-partisan for that reason. As much as I could, I mean. When you’ve got Joe Barton grovelling on the House floor, I had to say something about that.

We suggest reading the entire interview over on The Awl.

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Best Buy Employee That Created Awesome iPhone4 Video Un-suspended, Quits Job Anyway

Posted by mistergroonk in Animation, Versus, Video on July 9, 2010

In June, an amateur animator, and Best Buy employee, released a hilarious video regarding the iPhone4 vs HTC Evo. The video focused on the blind fervor Steve Jobs marketing machine has created around anything iPhone related. It’s damn funny satire. The suits at Best Buy corporate, however, felt it disparaged the product somehow(see: made the store look bad) so they had the employee suspended.

Regardless of whether he keeps his job or not (which he doesn’t expect to), Maupin is optimistic. “I see it all as a blessing in disguise. I’ve wanted to start my career in graphic design/animation for so long, I see this as my kick in the pants to go get it,” he says.

Weeks later, The Suits un-suspend the erstwhile animator. The video currently has almost 4 million views(a couple dozen of those are from us). We wonder how much of that came from the kerfuffle Best Buy raised afterwards.

Anyway, now the animator’s not sure if he’s returning to work.

I’m not sure if it would be comfortable returning to Best Buy considering the circumstances… but I will definitely consider all options.

Well done, animator guy.

Sorry, Cubicle rats. The following video is NSFW due to coarse language.

iPhone4 vs HTC Evo

His chuckle-worthy but not-as-funny rebuttal video lay below the cut.
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Tuesday Tease: BLACK DYNAMITE! Righteously Kung fu Kick Ass!

Posted by mistergroonk in Movies, Trailers on September 15, 2009

This ain’t no jive Swank Evening at Wayne Manor.

Take the spirit of DOLEMITE. Add large fun-buttery chunks of I’M GONNA GET YOU SUCKA. Stir in the 21st century flava of a 70s blaxploitation films, like Ms JACKIE BROWN. And what you’re getting is an explosive piece of BLACK DYNAMITE!

Michael Jai White being kung fu badass funny. Salli Richardson is there to class up the joint with hotness and style. Featuring RENO 911’s Cedric Yarbrough selling drugs in Black Dynamite’s community.

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Tuesday Tease: THE INFORMANT! is Sneaky, has a Fat Matt Damon

Posted by mistergroonk in Movies, One Sheets, Trailers on September 1, 2009

We decided to lead with the obvious because some days you just have to. In THE INFORMANT!, Matt Damon pulls a RAGING BULL. Damon’s no stranger to this tactic. In COURAGE UNDER FIRE he subverted the idea.

There’s not much else to say about THE INFORMANT! at this stage of the game. Honestly, the damn thing popped up out of nowhere. Seriously, we’re losing our touch if a flick that looks this good can avoid Groonk Movie Radar for this long.

The official one-sheet listed on the official site making it all, well you know, was a bit of a head scratcher.

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