We won the fucking contest!

In this space last week, I made a plea for your support. Me + friends entered the Blanks on a Blank filmmaking challenge. Well, thanks to your support and votes, and the votes of other appreciative art-lovers out there, our entry, Raccoons on a Space Shuttle survived the onslaught of hataz and won the muthafuckin contest. First place out of 83 films! The grand prize was a trip for 2 to the Snakes on a Plane premiere. Unfortunately there were 4 core people in the group and unfortunately I will be one of the 2 left behind (we chose names out of a pillow case). But still, first place! Thanks for everyone who voted. For those that don't know what the fuck I'm talking about go back two strips and read up.

I won't be in Hollywood this Thursday but I will be at the "best of" screening at the Alamo Drafthouse, so if you go, feel free to yell at me.

What's up with today's comic?

In honor of the big win, today's comic is a deleted scene from our film. The time limit for the contest was 5 minutes so we didn't cut it due to time constraints. We filmed a bunch of scenes that we didn't end up using where David "McHanrahan" Jara fights off Raccoons in stupid/funny ways. One of those scenes involved him taking a Raccoon to the balls. After he gets hit in the batch, we had a tight close-up of him moaning and bemoaning. I had about 5 suggestions for things David could say post crotch-blow, my favorite being the line featured above. David, for some odd reason, absolutely refused to consider it for the film (something about dignity etc). He did say it once in front of the camera just so I would shut-up. According to David, the only one of my suggestions he considered using was "oooooo, right in the worther's originals."

Let me point out that he had no problem with his ad-lib, "yippee-ki-yay, mother raccoon!" However, humping beans? Too stupid.

Am I bitter? Wistful is more accurate, but hey we still won even with a "great" line like humping beans on the cutting room floor.

Also, in the spirit of full disclosure, the Raccoon didn't exactly attack David as seen above. It's more accurate to say a raccoon puppet was thrown at David's crotch for about 25 takes.

While I'm being honest, I also googled "Mexican humping beans" to see if I indeed coined it. Nope. Turns out the adult film industry is light years ahead of the rest of us, as usual.