The Tommyblog

An RP and David Rees fanblog. Go to /tagged/ooc to just get David Rees stuff, go to /tagged/ic to just get RP-related stuff, or browse normally if both interest you. I've also sorted stuff into audio, video and article tags (these posts are usually, but not always, unrelated to RP).

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At about 39:25, David compares himself to celery and it makes me laugh painfully hard. I would never think of doing that, let alone finding it funny, but there it is. Good lord.

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Instagram video by John Hodgman • Aug 23, 2016 at 10:17pm UTC

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I have emerged from miserable anxiety and grumpiness to find that I do, in fact, still have a massive Thing for David Rees. Thank God. I thought I’d lost my capacity to fawn over strangers. 

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Artisanal pencil sharpener calls it quits

Allow him to be blunt. Artisanal pencil sharpener David Rees explains why he's packing up his pencil case and quitting the business.

Welp. It is done. I guess I’ve been saved from spending $40 on a pencil, ‘cause God knows I’d have done it the moment I got a worthwhile job. I mean, if I come into a truckload of money, I’d pay $500 just to show my affection, but I haven’t inspired that kind of demand. 

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Do you have the Aphex Swift songs downloaded? Would you be willing to send someone the files because they didn't realize that the songs were going to be taken off Soundcloud? :(

EDIT: Screw it, here’s the link. I’ve linked stuff on here before and had no trouble.

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Finn Icky - Luca Mantenuto

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This one! But also all the others.

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This Trumpzilla Cartoon Won't Fix a Thing | David Rees

You are looking at a Godzilla-like monster with a white hood gleefully destroying a city. Citizens with NPR tote bags are screaming and bleeding.

MANDATORY: No one does political cartooning like David Rees; even without pictures. Please read and retumbl. Thank you

That is all. 

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Aphex Swift is gonna be taken off of Soundcloud because Universal hates fun. Download that shit now!  

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GOING DEEP WITH DAVID REES airs Wednesday nights at 10|9c on the Esquire Network. Also available on iTunes.

I don’t know how to actually link to specific images on Instagram, but I finally remembered it was a Thing. Apparently David discovered Earthbound a couple weeks ago. Amazing. His reaction to the pencil eraser is A+.

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The Iowa Caucus: A Creative Visualization - The Baffler

Politics is hard, and we need some straightforward and literal way to handily process the ever-shifting alliances of power in an election season. To that end, The Baffler has employed expert comic mind David Rees... Read More »

Where’s the drawing of someone sending this link to others who reply with “I didn’t read that”?? Motherfuckers.

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Welp. I did it. I made the gif. Gonna just leave it in their c-box. I am petty. Or I needed an excuse to make a gif of ‘Julian Assange’ eating cold spaghetti in the dark. One of those.

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So I got rejected from an RP board last night because they only allow actors, models and musicians for face claims. I understand drawing the line somewhere, because people can be weird and use Facebook friends otherwise. But I figured it was just an oversight, because most RPers aren’t lining up to use comedians for characters, and prepared to join anyway. Spent a long time reading into the site concept and stories and stuff. Happen to ask a throwaway question about whether ‘tribute characters’ like mine are welcome, ‘cause some seem to think they’re unacceptable. They ask who the face claim is, I tell ‘em, they say he’s unacceptable because he lacks acting credentials on IMDB. I ask if they require musicians to have acting credentials. They do not. I ask why the acting standard is being applied to my character instead of the musician one. They just say “we aren’t changing the rules.” Fucking arbitrary! Someone could decide they wanted him to have some short cameo in their TV show or movie, and suddenly he’d become a valid face claim. ???? Anyway, I kiiiind of want to make a GIF of David in a bad wig eating cold spaghetti all “HE IS AN ~ACTOR~” but I’m pretty sure that’d be petty.Also that joining a board after intensely guilting its staff probably ain’t the best. It looked like a good board, too. D=  So I’ll post about the urge here. Hah.

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Reblog if I can straight up ask you for a RP.

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BECAUSE I’M USUALLY TOO SHY TO ASK AND PURSUE.

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I now unironically like Aphex Swift and, as a result, have Taylor Swift songs in my head on the regular (because let’s be real, her vocals are the catchy part). I’m having a hipster identity crisis here. Christ. My favorite band is Swans, I’m not supposed to ‘get’ Taylor Swift. D=

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Letter of Recommendation: Sleep, ‘Dopesmoker’

An epic stoner-metal song that is almost religious in its ambition.

I somehow clicked on a link to this without realizing David Rees had written it, gut-laughed every other paragraph, then looked at the attribution and went “FUUUUCKKKK”.  I think stoner metal’s one of the few genres of metal I actually enjoy, but I don’t know if I can commit to a song for over an hour. I mean, I feel like Swans’ “The Seer” is a commitment and it’s half that. Maybe its volume will have prepared me sonically, though. Hmmm. I want to make a dirty joke featuring “prepared me sonically” but I’ll spare you. EDIT: You know, I don’t know what I was expecting. I was intimidated by the length, loaded it up (it’s on Spotify), started listening and went “Oh, wait, this is the kind of metal I ENJOY.” And proceeded to rock out contently for over an hour. I forgot to listen for the avalanche having an orgasm though. Next time.

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A person who is not me made this. That person is celebbee. Y’see, I fuse some pretty unlikely groups of people due to being a huge fucking nerd. So I’ve babbled about David Rees to a gal, an RP partner, who really like Steven Universe (a show I also enjoy) and she has become a convert. I haven’t even had a chance to show her that time he sang “Shake It Off” on a cruise ship yet. Me, I don’t engage with Steven Universe in a way that compels me to whip up gemsonas and what have you, but. . .I gotta support this. It is beautiful, shameless nerdery. It’s being let loose on tumblr. I shall now tag this with relevant tags, and so further muddy the waters. David Rees fans will see Steven Universe content. Steven Universe fans will see David Rees content. MINDS WILL BE BLOWN.

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David Rees on Twitter

“I've never been tempted to host a podcast, but I want to host a conspiracy theory podcast. Listeners suggest topics, I make the theory.”

A. clearly a great idea that was never given a chance and b. I need to think of more games/thought exercises in this vein. Propositions that force people to either have an interesting conversation or STFU.

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Today, in podcast scouring. . .

I’m looking for a specific podcast guest thing wherein David 1. addresses the notion of being “anti-PC”, 2. claims he’ll never host a podcast and 3. estimates he’d only been on 6 podcasts prior. It’s one of those things where I remember hearing it, I remember some details, but I can’t remember what the podcast was. Obviously it was a relatively old one, what with the ‘6′ number thrown around (at least I’m hoping these were all said during the same podcast). I think, but am not positive, that the host was a woman. 

I can’t remember where the hell I heard it and it’s driving me bonkers. One of those situations where I was pleasantly surprised, so I wanna go back to it.