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Awwwiiiiight!
I’m not even sure I should be telling you this, because I can already see by that shifty look in your eye (er, the shifty click of your mouse button), that you’re going to beat me to them, but … here goes.
In 22 hours and counting, you will be able to order tickets to a presentation at the Alamo Drafthouse of Homestar Runner Live! featuring the creators of the indubitably addictive Web site of the same name.
I haven’t seen Star Wars Episode III yet, but if all goes as planned, I’ll have tickets for Homestar before I have tickets for Sith.
The Brothers Chaps have been in Austin before, but seeing it at the Drafthouse and paying for tickets as a means of paying homage to their intense genius just feels right in a way that thing like eating a whole bag of Funyuns just doesn’t.
I got hooked on their animated site about two years ago and perhaps the best Christmas gift I gave last year was a Strong Bad E-mail DVD set.
It’s tough to pinpoint what it is about their ‘toons that works so well, but I’d venture a guess that it’s a mix of their smarts and savvy combined with a willful innocence and retro-geek sense of temporal dislocation.
That and it’s very funny and very sharply done.
So. I’m getting tickets. Did I say 3:30 p.m. tomorrow? I meant … uh … 3:45. You should definitely wait until then to order online.
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By Robin
May 31, 2005 2:07 PM | Link to this
Anyone have an extra ticket to the 9:30 pm Homestar Runner show on Saturday, 6/11? If so, contact me at hansandjudy@aol.com and I'll buy it from you. Thanks!