The Story of the GnarDonkeys

It's a short story right now.

Brian met David in San Diego while doing comedy at the now defunct Comedy Coop. They both were really creative ADHD types who could improvise too.

Then Brian moved to Myrtle Beach for a regular type job and couldn't do comedy anywhere so he made stupid videos that got tens of thousands of views.

And David did voiceovers for hamburger fastfood chains and male modeling

Then one day they chatted on gmail.

brian: hows the male modeling?
david: i'm cuttin up runways world wide!

and is MC'ing at comedy clubs in NYC.

Then they chatted on gmail and suddenly became the GNARDONKEYS. Here's the chat:

brian: dude are you twittering?
it's so hot right now
david: i'm twittered out larry. just signed up

Sometimes David calls Brian Larry. We don't know why. Brian has a cat named Larry. But that's not why. David thinks it's funny to call Brian Larry. Brian does too.

brian: any news on your career front?
david: in NYC rt now working the clubs. Comic strip Live
2nite. Did Gotham last weekend

I tried to talk about twitter but we both think tangentially:

me: other cool thing about twitter is ppl are pretty open, you can stalk
industry ppl etc and talk to them
david: cool i love stalking people
david: i'm stalking Gary Busey rt now
me: lol he's a conservative, no?
david: gotta rrack that fucker down
me: yer a piece of work dude
no waves in NYC tho you must be shredding the figurative gnar
so do they see you as the socal boy out there?
david: one dude thought I was Jeff Spicoli
classic
me: lol
david: they laugh more at the way I talk than the jokes
me: nice and also prob because your style is slower than the anxious Jewish NYC thing - you should joke that you pattern your comedy after Woody Allen
david: i called one guy a "barney" and they didn't know what to do with that one
me: dude I don't know what that is.
david: lol classic even better
me: a purple gay dinosaur?
david: i think

Then we got to talking about twitter:

me: after you twitter for a while you can do a tweetcloud and see what words you
use most check out my posts about it at fuelinteractive.com/blog
david: i'll ride that tweetcloud all the way to the bank
me: lol weirdo
if you do ride a tweetcloud, it should be in your naked guitar outfit
if you can call that an outfit

So we needed a name for our twitterdentity!

me: cool, we need a name, a concept something- think about that
btw I'vegotten 40,000 video views in the last 3 months using tubemogul
and keyword research
david: Twitter Squirrels that's the name
me: lol
lmao
I like it
david: let's do this
me: oh yeah, i have a video of a song that mentioned squirrels
let me find it before we stop here
http://youtube.com/watch?v=HNaxlWXTSOI
punk girls don't like squirrels
that's a punk rocker character I was working on

But twittersquirrels was too many characters, so we brainstormed, after this interchange:

me: lol freakin weirdo
but you've got great hair
so it's ok
david: it's a lot of work
me: really? you don't just roll out of bed that way??
david: i never roll out of bed
me: twittersquirrels is one character too long!
do you LEAP out of bed?
david: i levitate
me: lol your yoga is
very powerful
david: it's the force. yoga has nothing to do with it
me: oh, SORRY

Ok I just got too lazy to format the rest of this, but this is how it went down:

me: lol
k
oh, they say we can't use 'twitter' in the id
dang it
how bout geeksquirrel
squirrelcloud
gnarsquirrel
geekshredding
david: squirrelnecks
me: squirrelgirls
david: larriatsquirrels
me: lol
squirrelhose
david: donkeysquirrels
me: monkeydonkeys
donkeymonkeys
david: donkeynecks
me: lmao
i put a list of animals with K's in their
names on the programmers' whiteboard here at work
david: squirrelneckdonkeys
me: too long
donkmonkneys
david: hedonkeys
me: mandonkeys
david: that's the one
lol
hilarious
me: gnarmonkeys
mandonkeys?
david: that's funnier
gnarmonkeys
nice
me: k
david: gnarmonkeys@gmail.com
me: surprisingly, that is available
david: i never would have guessed it
me: that's why they pay me
the big bucks there, gnardonkey
gnarmonkey
gnardonkey
david: gnardonekys si hilarious too
me: then there's like narmonkeys which are like
monkeys with a unicorn horn, like narwhales
david: gnardonkeys!
me: prefer that?
choose one
david: i think gnardonkeys is funnier
we can us a cool donkey heeehaw as a hook
it will be classic
me: k
gnardonkeys is created
follow it
more later, back to work, my curly haired friend