| Subject: Revised "FriendFeed" Script |
| From: "Barrett Brown" <barriticus@gmail.com> |
| Date: 10/12/07, 10:19 |
| To: "Kevin Depew" <kdepew@minyanville.com> |
A Friend You Read Is a FriendFeed Indeed (Fox Format)
Barrett Brown
Hoofy: Good evening. A group of former Google employees who left the company after having assisted in the development of the search engine giant's e-mail and mapping services have finally launched their own internet application. Known as FriendFeed, the service provides an easy method for users to see what their friends have been checking out on the Web.
Boo: See, I like this. FriendFeed is Web 2.0 at its best. Keeping peopl in touch, sharing information...
Hoofy: It does sound like a pretty cool service, Boo.
Boo: I'm glad you think so, Hoofy, because you're already signed up for it.
Hoofy: I'm... what?
Boo: That's right, I signed us both up for the beta test earlier this month.
Hoofy: Oh, uh... good.
Boo: I know, right? So, let's take a look on the ol' laptop here and... see what Hoofy's been checking out on the net...
Hoofy: Maybe we should do this later.
Boo: No, no, we've got time; we were supposed to do an interview tonight with Milton Friedman, but it turns out he's dead or on vacation or something. Okay, here we go...
Hoofy: Uh, are you sure? Let me just give him a call and see about...
Boo: Now, wait. What's this?
Hoofy: What?
Boo: "Sci-Fi Fan Fiction dot com." Well, I didn't even know you were into sci-fi, man! So... holy (bleep), what the... (laughing) what the (bleep) is this? Did you did you write this?
Hoofy: Oh, God. (head in hands)
Boo: "The Further Adventures of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Episode 42: Where Walks the Technodrome, by Hoofy the Anthropomorphic Bull"... Oh... wow. What the hell is this?
Hoofy: It's a fan fiction website, okay? It's a small community of sci-fi fans who write their own stories about their favorite characters.
Boo: "'Thanks for your help against Shredder, Hoofy,' said Leonardo, as tears of gratitude came rolling down his apple-green cheeks."
Hoofy: And sometimes... we write ourselves in to the scripts.
Boo: "'Hey, no problem,' replied Hoofy. 'You think I'd be able to sleep at night knowing that my girlfriend April O'Neill - who is sexually attracted to me - was trapped in his metallic clutches?' 'I guess not, Hoofy,' said Leonardo. 'I guess not.'" Wait, who's April O'Neill oh, right, the reporter chick...
Hoofy: Come on, Boo.
Boo: No, no, that's great, I think you and April O'Neill make a great couple. Hey, you both do news!
Hoofy: Shut up, man.
Boo: No, you two are like a media power couple, like, uh, Ashleigh Banfield and that guy she dumped when she got famous.
Hoofy: Can we move on?
Boo: Sure, let's see what else you've got here...
Hoofy: Maybe we should check out your FriendFeed stream, huh?
Boo: Sure, I've got nothing to hide.
Hoofy: Okay, let's see... spending a lot of time on YouTube, huh?
Boo: Well, it's pretty addictive.
Hoofy: Okay, what's this you've been looking at here...
Cue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7vvkloC-Ac
00:43 00:51
Hoofy: Is this... bear porn? (laughing)
Boo: It's a nature show!
Hoofy: Boo, this is bear porn.
Boo: It's a nature show! They're fighting!
Hoofy: Don't seem to be fighting very hard...
Boo: Okay, truce.
Hoofy: You got it. This is Boo and Huffy, signing out.
Boo: Back to you, April O'Neill.
Huffy: You son of a -
cue music