I recently went through some of my boxes at my dad’s house and came across some old posters. Worth highlighting are four “We Are Scientists” posters. If you’re not familiar with “We Are Scientists,” then you probably didn’t go to Harvey Mudd. Neither did I, but my best friend Drew did, and that was enough. When I found the posters I said on Twitter “just came across 3 @scientistbros posters from Claremont – They’re about 8 years old and hilarious.“. They responded asking me to post photos. It turns out I found four – see below.

Above poster: Bottom left corner reads “X: Graphic, beautiful nudity & strong, Highly Literate Language.” Also, “sometimes you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet. And sometimes you do not.”

Above poster: The band member on the far right had hit his knuckle on something that night, and was bleeding. When signing this poster he pressed his bloody knuckle onto the poster over his mouth then wrote; “My dentist fucked up my braces removal – does this make me a badass? No. -Chris”. The “doesn’t get jokes” reference is to a joke that my buddy Brooke told during their concert. Sure Does… Former band member Michael Tapper wrote “Reach for the stars Whit” – which is exactly what my aunt would write. Michael bought Deluxe Boggle for me after the band lost my Boggle set the night before that concert.

Nothing to explain here.

Above poster: “Speechwriters LLC” was two guys, I think Misha Chellam and Dave Lowensohn, out of Pomona College. I somehow got my hands on their music around 2003, and have always hoped that they would go big too.

With all of that now out of the way – “We Are Scientists” and “Speechwriters LLC,” get in touch with me so we can do an interview over at Late Night Republic. Leave a comment or contact @whitscott on Twitter.

My good friend Emlyn shared this video with me, knowing that I love creative videos that have been well story-boarded.

It reminds me of this amazing video that one of my favorite directors Michel Gondry did several years back.

What I don’t get is what all the “Free Obama” stickers and pins are about. I keep up with the news pretty well but I’ve heard nothing about Obama being captured, or imprisoned, and yet all over the internet I see “Free Obama” this, and “Free Obama” that. How can this story have fallen through the cracks? If you have any info, please send it my way. Thanks.

Speaking of Free Obama, I’m wondering when will he be free (for coffee)? I donated a substantial amount of money to the campaign (somewhere between $15 – $20) and since then, Barack has been sending me e-mail updates on his campaign – awesome!

I recently found out that his campaign headquarters are in Albuquerque NM, which is great news because my mom recently moved there! When I found this out I immediately started to reply to his daily e-mails.

“Dear Mr. Barack Obama, What a coincidence – my mom just moved to Albuquerque, maybe we can go out for dinner when I come into town. Now that I think about it, you’re probably pretty busy – maybe coffee will do? Let me know how free you are in October, that’s when I plan on visiting.

Sincerely, Whit Scott”

To be quite honest, I’m a little mad at Obama right now. The dude sends me almost an e-mail a day and I only send e-mail’s back once or twice a week. I gave him $15 – $20! I’d be more then happy to buy his coffee, although I heard he’s been breaking records when it comes to fun raising (by the way fun raising sounds amazing, I totally want to work on a campaign!).

My guess is this all comes down to the Free Obama stickers I keep seeing. I know he has an Internet connection wherever he is being kept, but he obviously can’t get out for some coffee with one of his biggest supporters. If you happen to see Obama anytime soon let him know that I’d still really like to go out, and that I’m not that mad at him – I understand that running for President is not easy (I was the President of the Anti-Social Club in high school).

Last Tuesday night Claire took me to see Mika, my current favorite artist, at the Warfield in San Francisco. If you haven’t heard of Mika, you should track down his music at YouTube or check out his site. Mika reminds me of a young Freddie Mercury, i’m not sure I need to say much more about him, he speaks for himself. The opening band was The Midway State from just outside of Toronto. In this first picture you see me with two of the band members from The Midway State, in the second picture you see Drew with them 2 days later in Seattle, it’s like we were there together, but on different days. Kinda.