Comment by Recruiting Animal on July 16, 2008 at 2:05pm

JD, you're right. He does look like Curly's handsome brother. Same haircut. But you said he wasn't talented. This is fantastic. If he doesn't win, well I don't know if everything is kosher here. But then again, Ben eats crabs so that doesn't really matter.

Comment by Slouch on July 16, 2008 at 2:15pm

I thought we were gonna keep that a secret

Comment by Ben Gotkin on July 16, 2008 at 2:21pm

Haha Animal, very funny. We all know I'm not talented, but watch it with the comments about the haircut... Otherwise, thanks for the kudos, kosher or not, it was fun to do.

You caught me on the kosher/crabs thing too. Nobody's perfect...

Comment by Rayanne on July 16, 2008 at 5:22pm

ahhhh, Ben..., thanks for the shout out! This was wonderful... I even got weepy!

Comment by Ben Gotkin on July 16, 2008 at 5:43pm

Thanks Rayanne. I won't say how many takes it took to get that. I'm also not happy with the audio quality I'm getting from the Flip camera these days. I didn't expect such an emotional response though. Cool.

Comment by Claudia Faust on July 16, 2008 at 6:27pm

Wow -- we've been immortalized with such creativity!!! Ben rocks, everyone :)))

ps. Ben, if you win the trip to Jamaica you have to fly through Miami to say hi!

Comment by Ben Gotkin on July 16, 2008 at 8:04pm

Thanks Claudia & Maren. Let me assure you though, Snoop Dogg doesn't have anything to worry about :-)

Comment by Ben Gotkin on July 16, 2008 at 11:08pm

Funny enough, when I first started thinking through this, I was trying to make it somewhat musical, but then realized what total disaster that would of been, came to my senses, and did the straight read instead. Now if I had some back beat, that might of been a different story...

Comment by Dennis Smith on July 17, 2008 at 9:17am

Excellent video, Ben! You are the master poet ~ now we know it!

I'm not planning on having a "throw-down" with you any time soon!

Dennis

Comment by Glenn Gutmacher on July 17, 2008 at 4:26pm

My temple's rabbi is fantastic and well-regarded, yet readily admits he loves lobster. Most Reform Jews like myself (and Ben?) are low-key about that kind of thing. To build on Maren's suggestion for musical background, I would suggest a still visual (animation is harder) before each letter of the alphabet which includes a fun image of the letter itself and headshot of the person referenced or some relevant graphic (plenty of royalty-free clip art for the latter).

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