"There Goes an Asshole makes Nerve.com's top 20!

This past summer I was able to get my hands on the security cam footage of some asshole stealing the tires from my bike that I had locked up in front of my apt. I edited it and wrote a song about it and put it on YouTube. Within weeks the video was featured on BoingBoing as well as numerous other blogs and took home first prize at Bike Shorts. 70,000 views later it was starting to feel like I might just have a viral video of my own. Well it's officially so, now that Nerve.com has released their Top 20 Viral Videos of 2007.

Sarah Harrison of Nerve.com writes:

Who among us has not had a bike stolen or vandalized? When Shank Bone Mystic, a Brooklyn-based musician, had the wheels from his bike taken, he was able to obtain footage from a nearby security camera that filmed the whole thing, including several passers-by who didn't see the theft-in-process, or noticed but didn't do anything. Shank Bone put his feelings to music and put the music on the footage, creating the universal lament "There Goes an Asshole."

(FYI, "Shank Bone Mystic" is an alias of mine that I've been performing under since freshman year of college.)

Well there it is, rubbing elbows with Obama Girl, Soulja Boy and 2 Girls 1 Cup. A most prestigious honor, and one I'm proud to have achieved.