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Obama with tags
Obama,
freedom,
911,
Osama Bin Laden,
White House on 5/2/2011 7:23:11 AM by Rob Barnett
It's an historic day on planet earth. We salute every family who's suffered terror. We salute our President. We salute every woman and man serving freedom on the frontlines of a war that goes on.
We'll continue to entertain you at My Damn Channel as we honor and praise what's right and what's just.
"Justice has been done." (President Barack Obama, 5.1.11)
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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Bob Dylan,
Bill Flanagan on 4/11/2009 9:27:53 AM by Rob Barnett
A new
Bob Dylan album is on the way. Here's an excerpt from a new interview by Bill Flanagan with a link below to much more. He talks a bunch about Obama, about dreams, and his work.
Are you a mystical person?
Absolutely.
Any thoughts about why?
I think it’s the land. The streams, the forests, the vast emptiness. The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I‘m more at home in the vacant lots. But I have a love for humankind, a love of truth, and a love of justice. I think I have a dualistic nature. I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.
But the album is all about love – love found, love lost, love remembered, love denied.
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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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Obama,
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.
Halloween marked the season 2 finale of YOU SUCK AT PHOTOSHOP.
Over 400,000 views so far - close to 1000 comments webwide debating the appearance of Dane Cook, whether Donnie is Dane, if both are dead, what David Cross has to do with the whole thing, and if YSAP is really gone (again?).
Feels like months since 10/31: we elected OBAMA - the economy turned the clocks back to 1933 - and Jetsons' flying cars still seem another thousand years away.
Fear not: the creators of YSAP open up a new chapter in the wonderful "WORLD of WEBNDER"
Adobe presents a BIG FAT BRAIN film
starring Troy Hitch & Matt Bledsoe
produced by Amy Austin
AGENCY OF RECORD is here
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Obama with tags
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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Obama with tags
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