Just because I'm introspective and I walk among the shadows, it doesn't mean that I can't hear you. -- Hope
Crista Flanagan, a writer and performer on MadTV, has teamed up with the fellas behind AskANinja.com for a new Web series called "Hope is Emo" that features Flanagan as Hope, a brooding high school emo chick with plenty of angst and depression to spare, and I'm guessing more than a few albums by The Cure. In the first episode, which you can view after the jump, she tearfully pleads to her listeners to stop destroying words by erasing or deleting them. She's so serious about this, in fact, that she made an urn to hold the chalky remains of words that have been callously wiped from the chalkboards at her school. Well, it's not so much an urn as it is a fondue pot, but you get the idea. Also, and perhaps even more importantly, freshmen and sophomores can't go to prom, and it's a rule people really need to learn to obey. I found it quite humorous, and I'm looking forward to more.
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6-20-2006 @ 2:11PM
Salem said...
I almosl lost a rib while watching that... This webcast is almost great, and I say "almost" because of the previous existence of that genious vidcaster girl known as Brookers, who did this very same kind of show before. What a shame, huh? :/
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6-20-2006 @ 4:32PM
stephen said...
i saw her posting links to this all over the place on youtube and people were replying back with really hateful things. they thought it was real and she was lookign for attention. which is completely in character of course. i totally thought it was real as well and turned it off right after the opening because i was so annoyed by her gothness. well played. very well played.
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