Tonight at Theater for the New City in the East Village, friends will remember Cal Chamberlain, a 90's scenester who had a popular internet show a decade before You Tube would become a household name. Today's NY Times has a piece chronicling the life of "Judge Cal," one of the first people hired by Pseudo.com, a pioneer site in the web's early days that sent Chamberlain to the 2000 Republican convention armed with a headset webcam. The Times describes Chamberlain's life, from appearing in a David Byrne video to his friendship with Debbie Harry, "like scenes from a Jay McInerney novel." Chamberlain also served as a blogger for CNN and worked with the art collective The Madagascar Institute at Burning Man to create “Big Rig” that featured parts of two 18-wheelers welded together. Chamberlain was found dead in his Chelsea apartment two weeks ago with the cause still unclear.




We'll all see ya again, "after the jump".
Cal, It'd been years, two decades since we lived together on east 108th. I'm glad to hear you blew up after I went away, and I'm sorry to hear you passed. Last time I thought of you, Steven Sprouse passed. 1987 was a good year, the year of the comic book for me. Peace.