My cousin Jake, art director for Adult Swim’s promotions & merchandise, is sending me the Space Ghost and Aqua Teen Hunger Force DVDs. Yay! (Although whenever I mention Jake in connection with his uber-cool job, I feel like the proverbial Jewish mother: “My son, the _____.”)

When I replied to his email, wondering whether it was kosher to send me the loot (and asking about the Williams Street crew), he wrote:

we have loads of dvds.

I actually have an office at williams street and work directly with Mike Lazzo and all the creators over here. Andy Merrill is genius. they’re all brilliant.

I am working on the Sealab and Aqua Teen Volume 2 dvd packaging and menus now. If you go to the shop @ adultswim.com, I created some screen printed posters. Also if you look on adultswim.com webcam, you can see a meatwad pinata I made and my mugshot.

And sure enough, the site has his mug shot in profile (also linked above) and a shot of his Meatwad piñata! And it also looks like you can buy his Meatwad piñata (or a reasonable facsimile thereof), or his Adult Swim poster set, which “may well be the coolest product we’ve ever had the pleasure of featuring on this site,” sez the anonymous web shop copywriter.

I used to see Jake all the time when we were both going to separate Utah colleges, but I have yet to visit him in Atlanta. Extra incentives never hurt, though . . .