Lucky me, I can now say that some of my work was briefly featured on the website PostSecret.com. PostSecret is a website that encourages people to send anonymous postcards to be put online, and someone picked up a promotional postcard for a show that I had made a poster for and sent it in. It was, however, taken down for some reason, but lucky me, somebody out there saved it first.

Long time Ramsey Ess fans know that every year I create some kind of multimedia Christmas card. Last year it was a version of “R2-D2, We Wish You a Merry Christmas,” and the year before that it was a thing so amazing that it’s no longer online.

This year I had big plans. I was going to record an all-out holiday parody version of Miley Cyrus’ classic song “Party in the USA.” Everybody loves holiday songs. Everybody loves parody songs. Total win.

I got everything together, I wrote it, recorded the main vocal, recorded backing tracks, autotuned it and saved the file.

Then I listened to it the next day and remembered I can’t sing.

Rather than throw the whole thing out, I’m giving you a taste: here’s the first verse and the chorus. As my Christmas gift to you, you do not have to listen to the bridge or the final verse with at least four layers of my off-key warbling.

Please enjoy before I think better of posting this:

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While looking for family Christmas cards to Photoshop myself into I came across the following Christmas photo:

I love you, the Ferguson family.

I will (and kind of have been) continue updating RamseyEss.com as I do this, but I would be remiss if I didn’t let you know that I am currently blogging over at Sparknotes.com’s blog.

It’s a much different style than what you’ll find here, but basically I’m doing summaries of classic literature with my dumb jokes and commentary for tweens thrown in. So, it’s like regular Sparknotes except with references to Gossip Girls, teen angst and puns.

I just completed a full summary of “The Scarlet Letter” and am now beginning to make fun of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird.” ‘Bout time somebody took that lady down a peg, right?

You can check them all out here.

While there are bikes on the “fence,” you’ll notice that the directive of the sign is totally being followed.

Some nice folks at the UCB Theatre in NY have asked me to make some posters for their shows. I done did these for them. (Please email me, if you’d like a poster as well. My rates are surprisingly reasonable because I don’t do this professionally.)

From November’s GORILLA GORILLA show at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre in NY:

Starring Ben Rameaka! Written by me (Ramsey) and directed by Eric Drysdale.

Here’s a weird little video I shot and edited for GORILLA GORILLA’s October show at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre in NY:

The Cycle of Life

Written by Jill Morris
Starring Amber Nelson, Ben Rameaka and Jen Bartels

Special thanks to Matt Morrison for the hospital access!

Welcome to the final Famous Hamsters in History!

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