It's been a week since we relaunched My Damn Channel. We're 90-95% of where we need to be with the new redesign. We're attacking that last 5-10% with the help of loyal co-cons writing and attacking us with ideas to fix last fixes. We're also gathering your hit lists for additional ideas to make your house and this new Enterprise more 'be all.'
The new Star Trek entered our brains the same night as our relaunch.
The amount of online communication bout our fave TV franchise is staggering.
Full disclosure - before we continue - somewhere here - in a box - there are 79 memorex audio cassettes - the ones with the 2 little white things in 'em - holding the recordings of every single original episode of the series - taped by a little fat white kid - off the speaker on the tiny TV in our kitchen back in Fort Lee, NJ. When you listen closely - you can hear Mom YELLING: "DINNER!" And you can hear me YELLING back: "SHUT UP! I'M TAPING "STAR TREK!!!'"
If you published any form of digital media in the past week, you're likely part of a mass collective of humans who are 'one' with the 43 year-old phenom of Star Trek.
Here then - a list - to ask ourselves WHY:
Star Trek Assumptions:
1. We need to believe in heroes and in the possibility that we are capable of heroic acts.
2. The future needs an organizing principle to deliver answers we seek.
3. We long for the past while embracing the future.
4. Obama reminds us of Spock.
5. Kirk represents the ideal leader (or father figure, brother, husband, best friend, lawyer, coach, boss, starship captain.)
6. We want to have sex with a green-skinned goddess.
7. We like to see things explode.
8. We like to sit in dark rooms and fantasize with an about others.
9. J.J.
10. Nerd is the new black.
Found this amazing video yesterday of William Shatner being made to watch the new movie trailer. Watch his face: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDEJXdEcV7U
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Inauguration Day,
Obama on 1/20/2009 5:00:29 AM by Rob Barnett
Millions dreaming en masse
The sun comes up for a second time today
Church bells ring
Cynics take a holiday
Hate sits down
A General buys drinks at the bar
Seventeen degrees of burning passion light a fire
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Martin Luther King,
Jr.,
USAService.org on 1/19/2009 5:21:08 AM by Rob Barnett
Today we honor the life of a King, and another man prepares to mark the next defining moment in American history tomorrow.
Opportunities to DO something today are here - you can 'find an event' by putting in your zip code.
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Bush,
Obama,
Oval Office on 11/10/2008 5:37:54 PM by Rob Barnett
Posted with tags
Vote,
Red Meat,
McCain,
Obama,
American,
Drill,
Iraq,
Joe,
Polls,
Liberal,
Conservative,
Democrat,
Republican,
Abortion,
Tax,
Terrorist on 10/28/2008 3:36:47 AM by Rob Barnett
7 days to go. If you watch and listen to all the blabber, you'd think we can't keep a thought in our head if it doesn't fit into the smallest possible soundbite to stir up the greatest possible doubt.
Here are some of the code words to move you to VOTE like a simpleton.
Terrorist
Tax
Spend
Republican
American
Democrat
War
Hope
Congress
Liberal
Abortion
Conservative
Bush
Experience
Change
"Joe"
Oil
Polls
Bailout
Rescue
Hero
Socialist
Battleground
Iraq
Drill
This red meat sampler only scratches the surface of the games played on all sides behind McCain and Obama to scare you into action.
Do something COMPLETELY AMERICAN - in 7 days (or sooner if you can early vote) - walk into a voting booth - put all the bullshit aside - and make the smartest possible choice to elect your next President.
Harry Shearer & My Damn Channel present the last word on the Presidential race: no words at all.
Don't just sit there watching TV - get involved - EMAIL this link:
http://www.mydamnchannel.com/Harry_Shearer/Silent_Debates/TheFinalSilentDebate_972.aspx
and please - for the love of god - V O T E !
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Sarah Silverman,
The Great Schelp,
Obama,
Florida on 9/30/2008 2:35:35 AM by Rob Barnett
Rosh Hashanah is here and Sarah Silverman celebrates with another viral video to ring in the year 5769:
http://www.thegreatschlep.com/site/index.html
http://www.sarahsilvermanonline.com
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Bob Dylan,
Barack Obama on 6/6/2008 3:28:00 AM by Rob Barnett
The Times of London spoke to Bob Dylan on tour in Denmark.
"Well, you know right now America is in a state of upheaval," he says.
"Poverty is demoralising. You can't expect people to have the virtue of purity when they are poor. But we've got this guy out there now who is redefining the nature of politics from the ground up...Barack Obama.
He's redefining what a politician is, so we'll have to see how things play out.
Am I hopeful? Yes, I'm hopeful that things might change. Some things are going to have to.
"You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future."
More:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4076339.ece
And:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article4074327.ece
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Stanley Ann Durham Soetoro on 6/4/2008 6:18:00 AM by Rob Barnett
I put our children to bed just one night - five months ago, feeling the real possibility that Barack Obama could be the next President after Iowa.
Last night was an historic moment. Here's a photo and a prayer - in respect for the work ahead - and for what happens next.
Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro is the mother of President hopeful and Senator Barack Obama. Born in 1942 in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Stanley Ann Dunham attended the University of Hawaii in the late 1950's. It was during her study in UH that Ann Dunham met Barack Obama's father Kenyan student Barack Obama Sr. and got engaged, and later married at an age of 18 in 1960. Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr. divorced in 1965, when he left for Harvard University to continue his education. In 1967 when Barack Obama was 3 years old, Ann Dunham married Indonesian student in UH Lolo Soetoro, so that's why there was a "Soetoro" in Dunham's name. Dunham and Soetoro divorced in the late 1970s. In 1992, the 50-year-old Stanley Ann Dunham earned a Ph.D. in anthropology for her 1067-pages-long dissertation Peasant blacksmithing in Indonesia: Surviving and Thriving Against All Odds from the University of Hawai'i. Ann Dunham died in 1995 of ovarian cancer and uterine cancer at the age of 52. In A Free-Spirited Wanderer Who Set Obama’s Path, New York Times reporter Janny Scott writes a biography on Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro.
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Coolio,
FREE FM,
Howard Stern,
Newsweek,
Obama on 2/20/2008 9:29:00 AM by Rob Barnett
live stream at www.971FreeFm.com - Past/Present/Futures about to collide this morning when Coolio does the Adam Carolla Show LIVE instudio at 97.1 FreeFM. Sarah Silverman is also scheduled to appear - also Stuttering John from Howard Stern (& the chin). Pritty good for a Wednesday.
Just picked up the new Newsweek with Michelle Obama on the cover - Coolio is on pg. 14 - opposite the Pope! We're cookin' in the Vatican now.
