Alex Blaggazine

Watch BETAS Now, For Free!

Dear Tumblr friends: I spent six months of the past year writing for this show (I even make a little cameo in episode 10 as a douchey startup CEO), and I'm very proud to be a part of something with so many amazing and funny and talented people. 

Betas tells the story of five young friends trying to launch their app amongst the absurdity of the Silicon Valley/San Francisco startup scene. Anyone who followed me back during BajillionHits.Biz knows this is something I've been thinking/joking about for a long time.

The first three episodes are available for you to watch for free right now, and then Amazon will release one additional episode per week for the next eight weeks. You'll have to be an Amazon Prime subscriber to watch the rest of them (or I think you can also buy them a la carte). The episode I wrote comes out this Friday!

EXCLUSIVE: Comedy Central is expanding its late-night block with a new show hosted by comedian/producer Chris Hardwick and co-produced by Funny Or Die. The

SXSW Hipster Showdown

Two very chill bros arguing about who is going to have the raddest time at South By this year. 

The Year-Round South-By Guy’s Guide to SXSW

Introducing BRAINDEX, the World's First "App Show" 

I'm psyched to say that BRAINDEX - the new interactive game show in which you can play trivia head-to-head against celebrities, weirdos and your Facebook friends - is now live and available for free in the App Store. So if you've ever wondered whether you're truly smarter than Mike Tyson, today is your day (and there will be a lot more random celebrity guests coming in the future). 

In addition to featuring my luxurious mustache and "barely coherent" brand of game-show hosting, BRAINDEX represents the very first, very experimental step towards combining TV viewing with a truly interactive iPad experience (ie, "TV you can touch"). The show was made for almost no money, and as far as I know, it is the first and only show distributed solely as an app. 

So please check it out! Download it (free)! Give it a 5-star rating in the App Store! A lot of time and hard work went into building this thing, and I know the people who made it see Braindex as only the beginning of all the cool stuff that can be done in the realm of interactive television. 

The older I get, the less comfortable I am with putting my true thoughts and feelings about things online, at least in a manner any lengthier or more earnest than a tweet.

I think it's because if time has taught me one thing, it's that everything I think and feel will eventually evolve, and sometimes even change completely. There's no such thing as having a static, comprehensive, fully formed worldview, with exacting ideals and positions on every messy question life has hidden for us. 

I find myself increasingly put off by people who have strong, certain opinions on things. Authority is an illusion most of us try to project, or a hard-won mantle reserved for the rarified few who have actually earned it with patience, time and wisdom. 

But in the endless static of the Internet, everyone is an expert so long as they voice their opinions loud enough to break through the clutter. I spent years doing this (and even worse, in the ultimately pointless realms of celebrity and popular culture), so I understand why it's appealing. It's easy to dismiss, to deconstruct, to find the flaws in everything. It's difficult to empathize, to understand, and to grant even the most obviously troubled among us some small permission to exist. 

I feel gross about always needing to chime in on the frenzied, hyperactive dialogue about what is Good, about who is Bad, about why this Matters when that Doesn't. Over time, it all ends up sounding so pointless and obvious and stupid.

K-LOL: The Final Episode

This is the last of K-LOL for now, and it's a real barnburner, so definitely watch it. One thing I've learned from producing ten weeks of this thing: making original scripted comedy for the Internet is HARD. There's not a lot of money, not a lot of time, and it turns out the vast majority of the YouTube audience genuinely prefers to watch emotionally erratic thirteen year-olds yell at cats.