Do you know a David Cross? Sometimes I think we all must. He's a really smart guy in your social circle (usually tied to the music scene) who fights with depression and being a drunken jack-ass, usually has the shaved head and National Health framed glasses, showing both a feather-touch sensitivity and inflamed sense of outrage when someone blindly passes along a notion.

A real "David Cross" isn't just pissed off and double-edged resistant, though, he's usually capable of delivering the most devastating, transgressive, vicious, and wild joke about something completely inappropriate. His morbid fascination with his and others' cruelty can be deflated by one cathartic guffaw at the expense of our own blind, insane, reckless way through a pretty awesome place called earth. Where crack babies, gay bashers, mean cops who think they're cool, and especially the religious just crap it all up.

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Get over Alvin and the Chipmunks already, he bought a really nice summer home with the money he made off of it...He's a real mench for admitting it!

David Cross has been a major player in the comedy game since his days in Mr. Show. Since then, he's been a jack of all trades, dabbling in TV and movies, becoming a Grammy nominee recording artist (for the magnificent Shut Up, You Fucking Baby), serving as a voice talent for video games, and now has a book out called I Drink for a Reason. Starting his career as a stand-up comic at 17, he returns to his roots this fall, launching a tour with a stop at Bumbershoot. Cross has been a very busy man. He will be curating his own stage at All Tomorrow's Parties in addition to launching a Channel 4 UK television show entitled The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, which, if God is merciful, will eventually come stateside without a terrible remake. Fans of "Arrested Development" hold out hope after hope for the magical words "In production" next to an IMDB movie credit, but tragically, there is no news to report as of yet.

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Here's a video put out a while back from The North American Halloween Prevention Initiative. It's kinda weird and it was hard to get my brain around it before the morning muffin... but it features a ton of awesomeness in the line-up -- and that's good enough for me.

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