Hello again! Here is the second episode of CODEFELLAS. I hope you like it! Thanks for watching.

Welcome to my first blog post since … gosh, I guess since a long time ago! My friends and I are making a new web series about snoops working at the NSA. It’s called CODFELLAS. Here’s the first episode! We hope you like it!

CBS Sunday Morning did a little piece about pencils and my pencil-sharpening business. I hope you like it!

Here it is, friends: The final installment of this election cycle’s GET YOUR WAR ON series. This one is about the end of the White Man Era. We hope you like it!

This is a long post but it’s about something pretty interesting so I hope you’ll indulge …

Like many folks, Occupy Wall Street has been some doing good work in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, helping people on the ground.

Now OWS is launching the ROLLING JUBILEE, a program that has been in development for months. OWS is going to start buying distressed debt (medical bills, student loans, etc.) in order to forgive it. As a test run, we spent $500, which bought $14,000 of distressed debt. We then ERASED THAT DEBT. (If you’re a debt broker, once you own someone’s debt you can do whatever you want with it — traditionally, you hound debtors to their grave trying to collect. We’re playing a different game. A MORE AWESOME GAME.)

This is a simple, powerful way to help folks in need — to free them from heavy debt loads so they can focus on being productive, happy and healthy. As you can see from our test run, the return on investment approaches 30:1. That’s a crazy bargain!

Now, after many consultations with attorneys, the IRS, and our moles in the debt-brokerage world, we are ready to take the Rolling Jubilee program LIVE and NATIONWIDE, buying debt in communities that have been struggling during the recession.

We’re kicking things off with a show called THE PEOPLE’S BAILOUT at Le Poisson Rouge on Thursday, November 15. It will also stream online, like a good ol’-fashioned telethon!

Friends, the line-up is insane. Performers include:

– JEFF MANGUM (Neutral Milk Hotel)

– JANEANE GAROFALO

– GUY PICCIOTTO (Fugazi)

– LIZZ WINSTEAD

– HARI KONDABOLU

– TUNDE ADEBIMPE and KYP MALONE (TV on the Radio)

– members of DAS RACIST

and other great talents including a group of radical nuns! I’ll be playing the role of JERRY LEWIS, emceeing in my tuxedo from MEN’S WEARHOUSE.

This will be a joyful, positive night about people banding together and subverting a predatory financial system in order to help each other. BOOM! That’s a movie pitch right there, goddamn why am I not a Hollywood mogul?!

Anyway, HERE IS THE INFORMATION about THE PEOPLE’S BAILOUT:

– The LIVE SHOW is at Le Poisson Rouge on THURSDAY 11/15, 8 – 11 PM. Tickets are $25 (each ticket buys $500 of distressed debt).

– The LIVE STREAM will be at http://rollingjubilee.org (you’ll be able to donate online)

– Here’s the FACEBOOK PAGE

– The HASHTAG is #peoplesbailout

HOW YOU CAN HELP:

– Spread the word! Share this info with your friends, family, and followers
– Donate money via http://rollingjubilee.org

$25 abolishes an estimated $500 worth of debt
$50 abolishes an estimated $1000 worth of debt
$100 abolishes an estimated $2000 worth of debt
$250 abolishes an estimated $5000 worth of debt

– Host a live-stream party! Get together with folks in your town and watch the show online and donate money and maybe even drink a beer if you’re feeling crazy.

– If you are Jerry Seinfeld or Bill Cosby: Call me about doing a set at the live show! We’ll fit you in.

Okay, that was a really long blog post. I feel very vulnerable right now. Thanks for reading.

Bye!
–David Rees

Here’s the latest GYWO video: It’s about Obama supporters gloating. Enjoy!

We made a TV commercial for HOW TO SHARPEN PENCILS! It features Mary Norris (copy editor at the New Yorker, long-time pencil enthusiast) and the voice of Kurt Braunohler, one of the funniest, sweetest guys in comedyland. It also features a brief shot of my favorite photograph ever.

It will air on late-night TV in early November. You and your friends will see it during re-runs of: Saturday Night Live (VH1), The Soup (E! Entertainment Television), Conan (TBS), The Daily Show, Colbert Report, Futurama, South Park (Comedy Central), and Adult Swim (Cartoon Network).

Please share far and wide! I want to sell more copies of my pencil book! I want to be interviewed on Charlie Rose! I WANT IT ALL

CEOs have started pressuring their employees to vote for Romney. Mitt Romney himself suggested this tactic! We made a GET YOUR WAR ON video about it. Please watch, enjoy, and share! (NSFW)