Cookie Monster is Not Blue Elmo
by Amelia G : July 3rd, 2008
Carny: We have a WINNER! Choose your prize.
Little Girl: I want the blue Elmo!
Carny: Here ya go! One blue Elmo for the young lady!
Jeff Schuetze: Blue Elmo? Did you hear that? Cookie Monster is not a blue Elmo!!!
Sean: We are totally old.
Jeff Schuetze: And he eats COOKIES!!!
Actor/comic strip guy Jeff Schuetze (pronounced “shoot-zee like a gun”) writes a web comic called JEFBOT. His strips are mostly about pop culture and his trials and tribulations as a SAG actor. Although he generally brings readers a new comic twice a week, he does something unusual but clever in the world of comics and lists his acting resume on there. I always wanted to see what Dogbert’s Scott Adams’ resume looked like alongside the Dilbert comics, moreso when he still had a day job. At any rate, Jeff Schuetze’s acting curriculum vitae includes a special skills and abilities list. Having looked over mountains of headshot submissions myself, I can confirm that it is fairly common for someone to list unusual talents on the back of a photo or on an attached piece of paper, the sorts of oddities which might make them a better candidate for a booking. Jeff Schuetze’s list includes biking, bowling, hydroslide, ju-jitsu (brown belt), ostrich jockey, programmer, soccer, surfing, tennis, ultimate frisbee, and videogames. While including the list is common, I’d have to say that is a unique and interesting list. I googled hydroslide and I can’t figure out how it differs from regular water-skiing. I’m dying to know what exactly that is and how the artist became an ostrich jockey and what that entails.
JEFBOT is fun in general, but it probably comes as no surprise that I especially loved the cookie monster webcomic. It is actually . . .
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