TeeVeePad, Presented By Matthew Perry
Communication -- it's what brings us closer together as people. We're all looking for places to come together, to share ideas, to stay in touch. To communicate. Maybe it's around the water cooler at work. Or maybe it's at your favorite coffee house. Or maybe it's here -- on the Internet!
Hello -- I'm Matthew Perry, the star of the NBC's long-running hit sitcom Friends. And when Friends, the long-running hit sitcom on NBC that I starred in, came to an end, I wanted a way to stay in touch with my friends. But we're all so busy these days. Matt has his show on Thursday nights. David joined a rec softball league. Lisa switched to an unlisted phone number and apparently forgot to tell me. Courtney would rather hang out with David Arquette than shoot the breeze with someone she worked with for a decade. And Jennifer -- I don't even know what she's up to these days.
How can busy stars like us stay in touch while jetting to the set of our latest film or waiting for NBC to maybe offer us a sitcom after all we've done for them? Letters are so impersonal. Postcards are so terse. I don't even know if they have telegrams any more.
Then, one day, I came across a clipping from the New York Times Circuits section about this emerging new trend called weblogs or blogs for short. Apparently, weblogs or
Yes... yes, there could. This blog!
But I'm just a simple star of a long-running hit NBC sitcom. What do I know about such complicated matters as coding and designing a Web page, registering a domain name, and setting up a back-end server that can both handle traffic and offer firewall protection against potential DNS attacks? And my personal assistant is just useless when it comes to things like this.
Fortunately, I happened across the great guys and gals of TeeVee. I was eager to find an existing TV-centric Web domain just as they were eager to unload one. They didn't even want cash in exchange for their site -- just a chance to see Jennifer Aniston's snoobs. (Which reminds me, Jen, if you're reading this, those Polaroids you were handing out at the wrap party are... um... no longer in my possession. Hope this doesn't queer things between you and Brad.) So as of today, you're not just looking at Matthew Perry, star of the long-running hit NBC sitcom Friends -- you're also looking at Matthew Perry, sole proprietor and co-founder of TeeVeePad!
Because it hit me just as I was handing a plain manila envelope stuffed with Polaroids to a sweaty, fat computer geek -- if a TV star like myself had the desire to be on the cutting edge of Weblog technology, then surely, other TV stars must have the same desire. So I put the call out to my TV pals to see if they wanted in on the ground floor of this Weblog thing. And boy, did they ever! George Wendt! Dan Rather! Rena Sofer! Some guy who may or may not have starred on Ed -- it's like a virtual galaxy of TV stars gathered at one Web site. And they're sharing their innermost thoughts with you!
Or at least, they will be sharing their innermost thoughts with you if you decided to purchase a special VIP membership to TeeVeePad. For the next few days, we're offering a sneak preview of the first and only collection of celebrity weblogs. Go ahead -- poke around our site. Find out what's eating John Stamos. Learn all about Marg Helgenberger's special vichyssoise recipe. Say, what does Mischa Barton think about President Bush's plan to overhaul Social Security? It's all here at TeeVeePad, and it's all yours... if you act now and pay our $100 annual membership fee.
Hey... we didn't get to be celebrities by giving it away for free.
Well, that's it for me -- the future of communication beckons! Does it beckon you, too? And if it does, do you think you could pony up a Ben Franklin for your old buddy Chandler? I think you can.