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Twitter on 5/13/2011 10:02:33 AM by Matt Warren
Hey look, people are saying nice things about our new series Versailles! In 140 characters or less! People like Fred Willard, Gayle King, Oscar Blandi, and Chris Kattan!
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April Fools on 4/1/2011 11:40:00 AM by Matt Warren
It's April 1st today, aka April Fools' Day, aka the most frustrating day of the year. It's the only day of the year when the average U.S. citizen gets to experience all the perks of being a paranoid schizophrenic: not trusting anyone, disbelieving your own eyes, thinking everyone is out to get you, etc. It's a total nightmare.
But we assume that you, the loyal Night Feed reader, is, on average, WAY too smart to fall for any of that type of shenanigoats. So instead of insulting your intelligence, we just thought we'd point you toward this great prank from our pals over at Stella, and remind you that David Wain's Wanderlust will be in theaters later this year.
And while we're at it, why not check in with the goings-on over at Back on Topps, Horrible People, and Status Kill? Hopefully they'll make you feel a little bit better about your own foolishness. Zots and Crambles!
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Writers Strike on 11/16/2007 2:08:00 PM by Rob Barnett
My Damn Channel is getting a heap of new attention, phone calls, offers and rapid traffic increases in the wake of the writers' strike. If we weren't completely spiritually aligned with the writers and dedicated to giving them the best deals in the business - we'd feel guilty. Bad fortune cookies cracking open all over old Hollywood Boulevard mean 'good times' for all the cowboyz and cowgirlz out here in VIRTUALWOOD.
We've been sleepless for the past 108 days that our site has been up LIVE - creating new channels and videos for mass distribution: backing professional writers, actors, musicians, comics, directors, and producers who still work in the old system but can taste and smell the new world dawning. Our co-cons are too talented to ever quit creating. We set them a new thanksgiving table with a feast of web freedoms. No turkeys in our oven - they're still alive out there - gobbling about how they're not really losing audience to the web and how business is better than ever. Ya think?
Hundreds of former co-cons have hit the beach over the last few years...especially in TV + radio. Old Hollywood is becoming layoff-land.
Our new media speedboats are outrunning the old battleships. Our generals have no fear. The best new media companies are run in ripped jeans, blaring loud music in offices that look like a cross between our college dorms and the OLD mtv.
The best part about not having a boss in a suit is that you don't have to second guess yourself. You can go back to making art the way you did before you thought your whole life depended on the outcome. (It actually does - but the wheels are about to fall off this posting - right?)
It always boils down to Freedom vs. Fear. Dylan's best interview - given in 1984 at about 4 o'clock in the morning - offered the best advice any creator can lend another:
(Paraphrasing) "......whenever you want to do anything in your life - don't ask advice - if you do - you'll either end up not doing it - or doing it wrong - but if you know what you want to do - and you do it - you'll be successful - no matter what."
We took a My Damn Channel camera out on the picket lines yesterday......we'll share some more strike energy later. It smells like Thanksgiving.