Letters to the Editor
scottbateman
Published Letters: 25 Editor's Choice: 1
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Hey Rob
[Read the article: Rabbit Bites: A real iPhone letdown]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Some people do; in fact, MANY people do (I just wish the "likers" would leave as many comments as the "haters").
There's one thing I've learned over time: Likers almost never let you know they like your work, but you'll hear from every single person who hates your work.
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Hey Rob
[Read the article: Scott Bateman: My mom had a stroke]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And but so if everything on Video Dog is The Suck, what do you consider good? Because honestly, your criticisms mean absolutely nothing to me unless I know what's at the other end of the scale. They'll probably continue to mean absolutely nothing to me then too (as a syndicated political cartoonist for eight years, I'm used to much worse hate mail), but at least I'll know where you're coming from.
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Best one yet!
[Read the article: Tony Cartoons: Baby Kitten]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I love love love the kitty's little barrette!
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Hey Laura--
[Read the article: Scott Bateman: Found sound, magic oranges from Spain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, as a Queens resident myself, I had to represent.
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For GeeBee
[Read the article: Scott Bateman: Eating haggis in Scotland]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I suffer from gout, and just looking at organ meats can trigger an attack. So, I won't be trying haggis. But Christina does make it sound tempting!
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How does a racehorse piss?
[Read the article: Scott Bateman: Meet the Lithium League]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Standing up, I'm guessing.
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Holy crap!
[Read the article: Red State Update: Hillary Clinton and Merle Haggard]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dunlap made a joke about Kon Kan? I doff my comedy chapeau in the general direction of Tennessee, because the difficulty rating for making a Kon Kan joke in 2007 has got to be 10.0...
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Yes, cigarettes.
[Read the article: Scott Bateman: Actual audio from the 1946 film "Despotism"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Because everybody smoked on camera back in the late '40s and early '50s.
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Elbows...
[Read the article: Scott Bateman: Deb Olin Unferth reads "Deb Olin Unferth"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...are overrated.
That said, I wasn't fully happy with my arm work in this animation, either; I would fire my entire animation factory in Korea if I had one. But I'm just a guy with a laptop making animation at Starbucks on a tight, tight deadline. I do what I can.
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Oh, I forgot...
[Read the article: Scott Bateman: Rejected children's characters]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...that Don Hertzfeldt invented the idea of rejection and is the only person who has ever had material rejected by a TV network. My bad.
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And but so less snakliy and more seriously
[Read the article: Scott Bateman: Rejected children's characters]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Like most of the animated films I do, theis animation's idea came about through a confluence of random events.
The animation's idea came about after I appeared on Jon Friedman's "Rejection Show" at New York's Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York earlier this month. I went on to talk about my failed TV show (the failure being, the network ran out of money), but doing the show made me want to come up with a short film of faux rejected material. I'd been experimenting with 4-frame cycle characters, starting with the Deb Olin Unferth animation a few weeks back, and I had brown kraft paper sitting around, which seemed perfect for rejected material--who submits animation to a TV network on brown kraft paper? And the music's actually the same music that I originaly did for my animation The Lithium League, which just seems to suit this sort of material really well.
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Me too!
[Read the article: Scott Bateman: A real song about VD]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I remember it, too; I was about four or five and I got in trouble for singing the song around the house. That, and "Honky Tonk Women."
For those who are curious, here is the original PSA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK_jDA3qrUU
Get VD, get a free horse! Yay, VD!
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And but so...
[Read the article: Changes at Salon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...need a full-time, daily animator...?
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Director's commentary
[Read the article: Scott Bateman: Variety SHAC in "Resolutions"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]After several meetings between our respective management teams, the members of Variety SHAC and I decided we wanted to do an animation together. We had Joe Eszterhas write the screenplay, and we brought in Patton Oswalt to punch it up. Then we recorded the voices: Jennifer Aniston is Chelsea, Janeane Garofalo is Andrea, Drew Barrymore is Shonali, and weirdly, Patton Oswalt is Heather (he does a GREAT Heather voice--who knew?). Once we had the recording, I had my team of college interns storyboard it, and then we sent the whole thing off to a factory in Korea to be animated. 24 months and six million dollars ($5.9 million just for Joe) later, here's the finished product!
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Attention: Tyler Mason
[Read the article: Scott Bateman: A racist Bible for horny teens]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's not a laugh track. This was recorded in front of a live audience at a comedy club.
If you'd like, I can have Eugene ask the audience to leave the club the next time he is recorded.
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Greatest album ever?
[Read the article: Red State Update: Imagine Hinder followed by Nickelback]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wrong, Dunlap. Clearly, the greatest album ever recorded is Now That's What I Call Music 24, not 23. Get with the times.
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Who are Heidi & Spencer?
[Read the article: Who the hell are Heidi and Spencer?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Surely you saw my "Hills" animation...?
http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/comedy/2007/10/25/thehills/index.html?source=video&aim=/ent/video_dog/comedy
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Hey Hepstyle
[Read the article: Scott Bateman: In the future we still don't have jetpacks]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've only ever heard one Bill Hicks album, and that was years ago now. Which bit reminds you of Mr. Hicks...?
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Hey Raymund
[Read the article: Scott Bateman: "Atom Age Vampire," Part 15]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Have I mentioned how much I love your Atom Age Vampire limericks...? Good work!
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Mulligas:
[Read the article: Bateman: Who should be John McCain's running mate?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You know that and I know that, but the character doesn't know that.
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My bad.
[Read the article: Bateman: Ben Bernanke in plain English]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's fixed now.
I blame Dick Cheney.
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Traitor
[Read the article: Bateman: Why do you refuse to testify, Karl Rove?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Karl Rove was involved in the outing of a CIA operative. This is, by our laws, treason.
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Enh.
[Read the article: Bateman: I know what a Zamboni is!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I win some, I lose some. I learn and move on.
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Hey!
[Read the article: Team Salon live-blogging Biden-Palin debate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How come I don't get to play...?
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Dear Wordwrecker;
[Read the article: Bateman: "I'll get Osama bin Laden, my friends"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]All the animations are still up. Just go to the Video Dog page and scroll down. For some reason, the animations (and other Salon content) don't always get properly indexed and so don't turn up on the "Scott Bateman" page or in a Salon search. I blame Dick Cheney.