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"wha--SHE'S not a mastiff!!"

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Digging Out

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the GOP shit storm

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Amy Poehler’s ‘83 Ass Contest Win

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Here is another video roll-in seen in the Upright Citizens Brigade movie, Wild Girls Gone, now available for pre-sale in the iTunes store.  In this video from the 1980’s, Doreen (Amy Poehler) accepts her prize for winning the “Best Jello Ass Contest,” back in her prime as the town’s ass contest queen.  Her boyfriend Terry (Matt Walsh) cheers her on.

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ACORN Controversy: A Video Interview With CEO Bertha Lewis

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The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) has been a prime target for conservative groups and politicians. Truthout sat down with Bertha Lewis, CEO and chief organizer for ACORN to discuss the recent events and the state of the organization.

(Continue reading at Truthout)

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The Legendary Lumberjack Documentary

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This short is a roll-in seen several times in the background of the forthcoming Upright Citizens Brigade film, Wild Girls Gone, available next month on iTunes.  Why a student documentary about lumberjacks?  Dramatically speaking, it is a device which helps spur the B storyline.  Comically speaking, the entire lumberjack genre remains unexplored, virgin territory.

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Down at the Pawn Shop

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This is a deleted scene from the forthcoming Upright Citizens Brigade movie I directed, Wild Girls Gone, available next month on iTunes.  In this scene, Will Arnett appears as a shady pawn shop proprietor.

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The Most Dangerous Man in America

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Daniel Ellsberg at UCLA following the screening of his just-nominated documentary about the Pentagon Papers, with the film’s co-director Rick Goldsmith.  The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers is an impressive, magnificent history of the whistle blower, the war machine, and Nixon’s profane vindictiveness.

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We, the Corporations

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We the Corporations

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Corporations Can’t Vote

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On January 21, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporations are entitled to spend unlimited funds in our elections. The First Amendment was never intended to protect corporations.

This cannot stand. Join our campaign to protest this decision. Protect our democracy! Free speech is for people — not corporations.

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The People vs. SCOTUS

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Today’s long-anticipated ruling from the Supreme Court has set back existing laws and regulation against corporate funding of campaigns by 60 years. This has opened the floodgates for the very corporations begging for bailouts to throw pocket money at our representatives, to make sure they continue to not have to pay corporate taxes, or succumb to environmental regulation, or other accountability. Here is a V-Log made at an airport by the distinguished Laurence Lessig, author of the Stanford Law Fair Use Copyright Code, an invaluable doctrine for documentary filmmakers, on the signficanace of this ruling, and what it means for U.S. citizens going forward.

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  1. twitter (feed #4) NEW Fundraising Slides Show What RNC Really Thinks... [#] 13h ago via Twitter
  2. twitter (feed #4) Meg Whitman Calls Press To Event, Has Them Ejected - News lady at the end is even funnier than Meg's bizarre behavior! http://shar.es/mbsym [#] 13h ago via Twitter
  3. generic (feed #3) Posted Fundraising Slides Show What RNC Really Thinks 13h ago via Huffington Post
  4. twitter (feed #4) Thousands of Deputies Swarm Health Insurance Companies--With No Coverage - http://bit.ly/abTqgA [#] 14h ago via Twitter
  5. twitter (feed #4) Why Voting by Internet Is a Bad Idea (Very Bad) http://shar.es/mHLNp [#] 1d ago via Twitter
  6. twitter (feed #4) About the California Fair Elections Act - YesOnProp15.org http://shar.es/mHNey On the June 8th ballot! [#] 1d ago via Twitter
  7. twitter (feed #4) They won't let a boy operate as flight control, but they'll let a boy blow up a stadium: http://shar.es/mHMHL [#] 1d ago via Twitter
  8. twitter (feed #4) ARREST THEM! Help put @AHIPHIWIRE under citizens arrest for crimes like denying care & blocking health reform: http://is.gd/9Mk2f #m9 #hcr [#] 1d ago via Twitter
  9. twitter (feed #4) Toyota workers raised safety concerns with bosses in 2006 memo - latimes.com http://shar.es/mHTj8 [#] 2d ago via Twitter
  10. twitter (feed #4) DOJ smacks down Diebold-ES&S merger of voting machines monopoly! http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7733 [#] 2d ago via Twitter
  11. twitter (feed #4) Dude wins RT @kbondelli: That Oscar is really going to tie the room together. [#] March 8th via Twitter
  12. twitter (feed #4) RT @carr2n: James Cameron looks like he might fly up to the podium like a winged beast if he wins. #Oscars [#] March 8th via Twitter
  13. twitter (feed #4) Total win with THE COVE and Ric O'Barry holding up a sign urging all to text DOLPHIN to 44144 - Japan, stop the dolphin slaughter! [#] March 8th via Twitter
  14. twitter (feed #4) RT @daveweigel: Oh, so that's how you mime "suicide bomber." Okay. #oscars [#] March 7th via Twitter
  15. twitter (feed #4) FTW! @ellenpaige: Im pretty sure Lead guy in glasses dancing during hurt locker was the son of the crazy jewish lady that broke in earlier [#] March 7th via Twitter
  16. twitter (feed #4) WTF #Oscars Dance Tribute? Pop locking to dramatic score totally captures "The Hurt Locker," & doing the robot totally evokes "Up." [#] March 7th via Twitter
  17. twitter (feed #4) Seriously...WTF? Awkward! RT @ebertchicago: The big question: Martin and Baldwin: What happened? #Oscars #footinmouth #chilloutlady [#] March 7th via Twitter
  18. twitter (feed #4) Worst part of ABC #Oscars red carpet coverage is their ripped off music loop from Arcade Fire's "Wake Up," used over and over. #otrc [#] March 7th via Twitter
  19. twitter (feed #4) RT @ebertchicago: ABC's fashion commenter analyzing Mariah's hemline, pleats and pin. What about her BOOBS? Russ Meyer would be ecstatic. [#] March 7th via Twitter
  20. generic (feed #3) Posted Oscars Red Carpet: Best Doc Nominee The Cove Dazzles! March 7th via Huffington Post
  21. twitter (feed #4) Good looking out, @huffingtonpost: "The COVE dazzles on Oscars Red Carpet!" http://bit.ly/bQob39 [#] March 7th via Twitter
  22. twitter (feed #4) #Oscars Red Carpet 2010: "The Cove" Shimmers! - http://www.johnennis.tv/blog/oscars-red-carpet-2010-the-cove-shimmers/ #TheCove #dolphins [#] March 7th via Twitter
  23. twitter (feed #4) It's Hard Out Here For a Pimp Smear Job - http://www.johnennis.tv/blog/its-hard-out-here-for-a-pimp-smear-job/ [#] March 7th via Twitter
  24. twitter (feed #4) The only Oscar that matters tonight should go to the very deserving THE COVE for Best Documentary. See it, and tell Japan to come correct! [#] March 7th via Twitter
  25. twitter (feed #4) If only the LAPD could fight back against these destructive Mafia Wars. [#] March 7th via Twitter
  26. twitter (feed #4) Madame Peggington Noonington, Arch Duchess of Opining Upon That Which She Knows Nothing - Here, on costs of #HCR http://ff.im/-h55hG #tpot [#] March 7th via Twitter
  27. twitter (feed #4) #Oscars weekend in LA is like a massive construction project tying up the city, yet more pretentious. [#] March 6th via Twitter
  28. twitter (feed #4) Jay-Z hangs in the White House Situation Room, Right Wing guard is in apoplexy. - http://www.johnennis.tv/blog/commander-in-beats/ [#] March 6th via Twitter
  29. twitter (feed #4) Sarah Palin got a Laugh Track as she bombed on Leno's Show; ergo, Leno has a laugh track. NBC yanked #Conan for this? (cough, 4th place!) [#] March 6th via Twitter
  30. twitter (feed #4) I wish I could watch Bill Maher's show without Bill Maher. [#] March 6th via Twitter
  31. twitter (feed #4) RT @GuruGangStarr: Guru's ( @GuruGangStarr ) producer speaks out on his condition http://bit.ly/9Y5F8s (via @Solar_7Grand) [#] March 5th via Twitter
  32. twitter (feed #4) More #RNC Fundraising Slides! http://digg.com/d31KloJ?t P.S. @dceiver The political impact of tchochkes cannot be denied. #gop #tlot #tpot [#] March 5th via Twitter
  33. twitter (feed #4) LEAKED: More Secret RNC Power Point Slides! - http://bit.ly/8XK7RT #p2 #rnc #gop #fail #p [#] March 5th via Twitter
  34. twitter (feed #4) You Betcha Your Life #palinshowtitles [#] March 5th via Twitter
  35. twitter (feed #4) CRIBs notes #palinshowtitles [#] March 5th via Twitter
  36. twitter (feed #4) Extreme Makeover: Pageant Loser Edition #palinshowtitles [#] March 5th via Twitter
  37. twitter (feed #4) http://tinyurl.com/y8waq3d - Self-delusion? There's an app... [#] March 5th via Twitter
  38. twitter (feed #4) You gotta figure if NY Gov. David Patterson keeps firing everyone else over his own fuck ups, he'll eventually fuck up and fire himself. [#] March 4th via Twitter
  39. twitter (feed #4) Thank you! Ahh. The summer season looks promising. RT @questlove: moment yall been waiting for. #HOWIGOTOVERJUNE8TH [#] March 4th via Twitter
  40. twitter (feed #4) BBC America: Palast Hunts the Vultures http://shar.es/m3wQM [#] March 4th via Twitter
  41. twitter (feed #4) #ClarkHoyt @NYTimes, you humiliate yourself, your paper, & your readers every day you refuse to retract O'Keefe's #ACORN lies you carried. [#] March 4th via Twitter
  42. twitter (feed #4) Bob Cesca: The Tea Party Is All About Race http://bit.ly/bioyGY [#] March 4th via Twitter
  43. twitter (feed #4) When's Hollywood not Socialist & trying to take away Palin's guns? When it gives her slippers, a robe, & jewels: http://bit.ly/apcbUY [#] March 4th via Twitter
  44. twitter (feed #4) WILD GIRLS GONE website now up for soon to be released Upright Citizens Brigade movie! http://wildgirlsgonemovie.com/ Check it! [#] March 3rd via Twitter
  45. twitter (feed #4) Attention all news media outlets: Please give up the breaking coverage today that Megan Fox has only slept with 2 guys. Please. #notcool [#] March 3rd via Twitter

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