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“Who is that?” It’s none other than The Daily Show‘s Women’s Affairs correspondent and Mel the Stalker from Flight of the Conchords. “Why is there a Burkepost Blogpost about her?” Because NBC-Universal’s Last Call with Carson Daly has begun its 10th season, and we shot a sweet interview with her recently. Here it is (after a word from an NCBU sponsor). Rated PG-13 for adult themes.

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As We Enter is my new favorite song. It’s the first one on the new Nas and Damian Marley album, Distant Relatives. Fortunately for me, I was introduced to it live, shooting a secret show at the Roxy for Last Call with Carson Daly.

Parks and Recreation Director Ron Swanson is the funniest new TV character I can think of. Nick Offerman, the actor, also builds things like canoes at his woodshop.

Pete Alton and I were on the two Canon 7Ds. Dee Nichols and Field Producer Mike Hammer Hammeke were on the other cameras, which I think were an HVX and a DVX. And Joe Lamattina was the editor!! Directed by Rich Bond. Parks and Rec is on NBC Thursday nights. Last Call with Carson Daly is on weeknights at 1:35, after Jimmy Fallon.

The MY WORST Video Podcast, Episode 8. It’s the end of season 1, so I’m reluctantly picking a story from my own memory bank. Like this post, it’s about excessive self-representation.

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Remember 311? They still have several thousand fans that were psyched to go to Vegas for a very long but surprisingly good show on March 11 (get it?). I was shooting on my DVX from behind the stage. To my knowledge, Chris Otwell was the main shooter and editor of this awesome piece. Other cameras: Hammer, Gramercy, Gibril, a couple of locals on long lenses in the back. We also had Sprague on contracts, plus probably T.O. Double-D on Photoshop, and many more. For the interview, I shooting MCUs next to CO, who had the 3-shot. Check it!

Felipe Henriquez – white hair, not tall – testified in Spanish that he left the scene because was scared. Last year, on a clear night in LA, his pickup truck turned left and crushed a young white dude’s Ducati. The motorcyclist wasn’t badly hurt, but was angry, and ran over to the pickup swearing, and maybe even saying something like, “Fucking Hispanic!”

When the paramedics arrived, Sean (white dude) left the pickup, which then drove away. Henriquez didn’t contact the police or anyone else. The only reason he got caught was a witness’s iPhone picture of the license plate.

Superior Court Judge Renee Korn dismissed us this afternoon after we each answered “yes” to whether we thought the jury was hopelessly deadlocked. Two of the five of us that eventually voted guilty were adamant that there was no legal justification for the sympathy votes he was getting. They had a point, and for me, I had to say guilty because the People did prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he willfully failed to provide his information to anyone, at the scene or ever.

The foreman, an Irish immigrant, argued that the system failed the defendant, and that did seem to be the case. In the second-to-last vote, I pleaded agnostic, because there was brief confusion over whether the People had to prove he intended to gain an advantage by leaving, which they did not. Knowing that it wasn’t the final vote, I also wanted to encourage non-attachment to opinions. I saw people clinging to what they had said already, on both sides, although less so today, the second day of debate. One guy, who works in insurance, switched from guilty to not, but admitted after that he believed Henriquez broke the law.

In a deliberation room, your government asks for your reasoning as an official part of justice being served. Some feel that it’s their duty to rebel against what they see as an unjust law or aren’t willing to ignore what has been deemed irrelevant. Some care much more about whether they’ll still have to go to work that day if we decide this way or that. Some say as little as possible. In the end it was 7-5, not guilty. For all the time squandered, I walk away satisfied that I did what I could for rational dialogue with respect to the law. And as a group, we didn’t have to convict the old man who made a bad driving decision, was intimidated, and then made a bad legal decision.

Now another group of 35 will enter that courtroom, or already have, and 12 will have the honor of arguing whether they can convict an old man who says he was scared. I feel bad for the two others, who will have to wait out the whole process as alternate jurors, and never be asked for their opinions.

Episode 7. Jason[ROVE]‘s worst police encounter was not the time he was arrested. Here he tells how he tried to resist a bicycle ticket.

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Daisy worked for a mortgage guy whose parrot ruled the workplace.

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The first story Ari thought of took place on stage, with gloves.

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