little. yellow. different. A weblog by Ernie Hsiung

Ernie-Aid

So yeah, how shocked and flattered am I about this whole Ernie-Aid thing?

The whole Ernie-Aid started when I got laid off the same day that PuppetMaster ended. So needless to say, I was a basketcase for a couple of days. Friends would call me on the phone. “Ohmygod, you just lost your job? AGAIN? You okay, Ernie?” They’d ask. “Yeah,” I would respond in shell-shock. “Talk to me in a couple of hours when I’m finished constantly FTPing files and hosting a chat on a Yahoo! discussion board, and then I’ll freak out.”

So Philo (who was the PuppetMaster) and his best friend Choire kind of did this as a joke, really. Basically get some people to write humiliating things about me, making it a fun “Let’s Roast Ernie” session, watching Choire and Philo do their best KQED telethon host impersonations. I’m thinking thirty dollars, at the most. Uhmm… no. More like a thousand dollars. And an interview with the news editor at AdWeek magazine, who apparently finds laid off dot-commers begging for money on the internet hysterical. (Because… ummm… it is.)

Okay, I’m gonna switch into cheap Chinese bastard mode.

A THOUSAND FRICKIN DOLLARS?! Ohmygod, are you guys NUTS? We’re in a RECESSION ECONOMIC DOWNTURN, folks! Why on God’s Green Earth would you send money to me? ME, for the love of God? If I was someone else and I saw some Chinese shmuck begging for dollars, I wouldn’t donate my dinner leftovers, much less send in a hundred bucks, much less create a donor matching fund. The MP3 of Kevin, I could handle. The flash game of me coming out of gopher holes made by Bertie? Hysterical! But this is money we’re talking about, folks! Don’t you folks have to feed your wives / husbands / children / domestic partners?

But seriously guys, I’m horrible at formal thank you notes, but know this: I’m flattered beyond words. You guys rock. Totally rock. And to try to humble myself in times of post-Ernie-Aid, here’s a picture just for Choire and Philo for putting this show on. That’ll teach you guys to send money my way again, suckafools.