You’re Invited
Click here to see the official trailer! That’s right. You’re invited. We’re ready to announce the very first screening of Follow Friday the Film. As some of you may know, we submitted the film to the SXSW Film Festival. We were short on time, and the cut we submitted was rough. Unfortunately, SXSW declined. The good news is, we do what we want. And we want you guys to be able to see the film that week in Austin. SO WE’RE RENTING A DRIVE-IN THEATER. I don’t know if you can tell, but I’m really excited. Our first screening will be Sunday, March 10th at 8 pm...
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#fftheverification Things I’ve learned in the past few weeks: 1. No matter who you are, nobody likes the selection of music on your iPod as much as you do. 2. Everyone is paying less for gas than we pay in Los Angeles. 3. Audis get phenomenal gas mileage. . 4. Something like half the people running the UK are not elected. 5. Armadillos carry leprosy. 6. Louisiana has drive-thru daiquiri stands. 7. Celery requires an insane amount of water to grow. 8. The President and Bill Cosby eat free at Ben’s Chili Bowl. 9. The appropriate way to say Baltimore is Balamer. 10. Pot pie in Pennsylvania...
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We got up early to be at Mount Rushmore right at 8am. The weather cooperated, and we got some gorgeous footage and photographs. I also took a photo for a family of ten. And by a photo, I mean like 12 photos, because I am bad at using cameras. Sorry, family of ten. We headed to Crazy Horse, which is supposed to be an enormous sculpture of Crazy Horse on a crazy horse, but is currently just a face. The sculptors started work on the monument in 1948. At this rate, it should be finished in about 450 years. I can only assume the delay is due to funding issues. Perhaps a Kickstarter is in order? As...
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We woke up from our NyQuil-induced slumber in Worthington, Minnesota, in the worst motel of the trip thus far. I don’t want to talk about it. We exited the motel room via the window and didn’t look back. As far as I recall, the day went something like this: Take NyQuil. Dream of Twitter. Wake up, ask where we are. Fall asleep before getting an answer. Dream of Twitter. Wake up, ask what day it is. Fall asleep before getting an answer. Dream of Twitter. Wake up, ask what time it is, fall asleep before getting answer. Dream of hay bales on Twitter? Wake up, go to Wall Drug, take some more...
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We woke up in Chicago, and learned about the Aurora theatre shooting from Twitter. I’m not good at talking about tragedy. I don’t feel like I have anything to add to the conversation. But I think we all have a need to connect with one another when something like this happens. I think that’s why we gather to leave flowers and mourn at the sites where terrible things happen. Why thousands of people showed up to hear President Obama speak in Aurora. And why we go straight to Twitter when our world is turned upside-down. Not just for the news, but to gather and connect with each other in a...
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Chicago. LOVE this town. We met up with @dansinker in Evanston in the morning, prior to his dentist appointment (thanks for fitting us in – hope your teeth are well). Dan is a bit of a Twitter celebrity. In 2010 to 2011, he secretly penned the parody account of Rahm Emanuel, @MayorEmanuel, during his bid for Mayor of Chicago. From his first tweet (f*** you right in your f***ing face-hole), it was clear that Dan’s story would be irreverent, immediate, and irresistible. With a cast of characters that included David Axelrod, Carl the intern, and a duck named Quaxelrod, it is still, IMHO, the...
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