ONE MILLION UNIQUES

Just back from a 3-city, 3-day work trip. I missed blogging for the first time while we hit our single biggest traffic day ever at My Damn Channel. Harry Shearer's "Found Objects" are exclusive looks at footage you're not supposed to see. The response to yesterday's Katie Couric clip brought one million uniques to our site in less than 24 hours. It's still climbing. Everyone loves Katie. I think they'll love Bill O'Riley & Ann Coulter less when Harry's next "Found Objects" hits our site. Here's Katie if you want to watch & share the luv: http://www.mydamnchannel.com/channel.aspx?episode=367

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GUEST BLOGGER DAVID WAIN

Hi everyone! It's me, My Damn Channel's own mascot, David Wain, here to tell you that if you like Wainy Days, you'll maybe also like THE TEN, a comedy extravaganza of a feature film I made, with an all-star cast, sexy girls, naked guys, and several songs by Roberta Flack. It comes out on DVD TUESDAY JANUARY 15! Lots of info, trailers, pre- order info, blah blah blah at http://thetenmovie.com/index_ten.php I LOVE YOU ALL happy new year david "david wain" wain

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DAD DREAMS

I'm not breaking down Bonaduce today, or bringing up My Damn Channel....I'm dreaming about my Dad on the third anniversary of his last day chasing dreams. Irwin Morton Barnett started off with two crappy names. When I tell you his mother's first name, you'll realize this was a guy who had a lot to overcome while growing up in depression and poverty in New York. Grandma Ukie was a ball buster. She married a kind, quiet man named Stanley Barnett and proceeded to give hell to her husband and son every chance she had. Somewhere inside a painful childhood, my father developed a deep desire to rise up out of repression and fight back with skills to market, brand, and promote Irwin Morton Barnett as I.M.B. He became an ad man able to conjure up commercial campaigns for clients that included airlines, foreign countries, radio stations, and tourist destinations. My dad became a big success - a big man in his own mind - and in his belly too. When he was as old as I am now, my father was sometimes mistaken on the streets of New York for Pavarotti. He perceived these mistakes a badge of honor, rather than as putdowns. This was a man extremely over-conscious of his own brand - always wanting to be considered a rainmaker, an influential power-broker. Three years ago, my dad died a broken man. Massive business success in the sixties and seventies led to extravagances that poisoned his spirit and took his health. My father never did drugs and rarely sipped wine, but he became hooked on money, on power, and on winning. Self-made roads led to self-obsessed dead ends. Passengers on the journey got swept up in the race - and a series of crashes wounded unsuspecting participants and bystanders. When he died on this January night in 2005, my dad and I had been estranged for several years. As I sit awake in the middle of 'the night feed' tonight with my 12 week-old son, and my wife and two daughters sound asleep, I’m praying that pain releases the past. I’m praying that my dad’s story informs the future for all of us that follow in his family. His story taught us to never to demand victory, but how to balance highs and lows. His hard times remind us life is supposed to be a team sport. Victories and losses have more meaning when they’re shared with people you trust. Treasure is tainted if it’s not shared. I’ve finally found words to thank my dad for all the good, the strength, and the creative commitment that inspired him to conjure up magic out of little more than dreams. I honor a man who fell in love with my mom and gave me life and love. This was a guy who showed me how to create substance from dreams and I’m dreaming that his hardworking soul is finally at peace.

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LOVE VEGAS - LOVE PEREZ

My Damn Channel / CES kickoff party in Vegas last night. Mr. Milonakis shoots our video for "I Love Vegas" produced by Don Was & featuring Perez Hilton.

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MY DAMN CHANNEL - FRONT PAGE NY TIMES

A few months back, internal stats on My Damn Channel consistently began to prove that our biggest viewing hours started at 12Noon & went through to 2pm. Lunchtime/Desktime is the place where humans are eating an average of 2 videos a day. We shared the ideas & the stats with one of the better bloggers we know. Brian Stelter is: http://tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/. He writes for the paper as well. The Times found that many of our brothers and sisters are finding the same results. Here's more...on page one of today's Times.

Noontime Web Video Revitalizes Lunch at Desk

For Web video, lunchtime has become the new prime time, and media companies have started responding.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/05/business/media/05video.html?ref=todayspaper

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JUST ONE NIGHT?

Was it just one night? Sounds like a bad Phil Collins song - but I stayed up late last night - did the 'night feed' with the twins - watching all the coverage I could get on the Iowhoppin'. Was it just one night? Or did the possibility of positive energy & a more honest politic squelch every cynical pundit on the tube. The talking heads still sound like they're ga-ga over Obama 24 hours later. It's surprising and fun to watch. Left my oldest daughter a voicemail early this morning to share some of the rush. So much idealism was attacked and literally murdered over 40 years ago....the caucuses felt like a night when the country was willing to hit the reset button. Washington has spewed lies for so long that the well of optimism and the hope of the great candidate was almost entirely evaporated. New voters are about to get their first glimpse at how an inspired, gifted leader could turn one good night into four better years ahead. I'm onboard.

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COMING UPS

Shooting extremely twisted video this Sunday night at our CES opening night party in Vegas inside the Palms hotel. Don Was is producing. Andy Milonakis is Andy-ing. The rest is going to have to get down on tape to be real. Guest stars abound. Just saw an early cut of our new 'soap opera' series: HORRIBLE PEOPLE. Created by A.D. Miles.


Cookin' with Coolio is in pre-production in LA.


Getting early cuts of our first animated series: INVASION and our new BEDTIME STORIES series from creator, Steve Kerper. He will launch the CARNIVAL OF STUFF channel coming up. His "HAPPY HANNUKAH" video blew up &
made it into our Top 10 of 07.



Enough of us - another co-con deserves a standing ovation:

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HEMINGWAY

"The great thing is to last and get your work done, and see and hear and understand and write when there is something that you know and not before and not too damn much afterwards."

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