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You can now log into most web and mobile applications via Facebook Connect, a service that is essentially an online extension of yourself. This presents a less entertaining, but definitely more efficient, technology than the tunnel Charlie Kaufman constructed to help people enter John Malkovich. Imagine the Being John Malkovich sequel, where John Cusack would just install an app, click Connect With Facebook, and immediately be inside of Malkovich from the comfort of his own (weird) living room.

This episode of Post-Nup is an important look at the future of this people-entering technology. And don’t be scared of people-entering technology! For writers and other artists who find it difficult to charge for their work in the Internet era, it presents the possibility of an additional, much-needed revenue stream. If a fan will pay good coin to watch a behind-the-scenes documentary about you, how much more would they pay to sit inside your fraggin’ head for a while?

I would pay good money to sit inside of a lot of different people. And so would the talented Parvesh Cheena (star of Outsourced, RIP), who is guest-starring in Episode 12.

Enjoy.

- @soodsandeep

PS. Post-Nup will be screened September 14th (closing night!) at the United Film Festival in Chicago.

Like most US-born Indians of his generation, Omar was not cool in high school.  But at the age of 13, when he was playing Dungeons & Dragons with dudes who looked like Oscar Wao, his aunt tried to console him by telling him that all the cool guys at school would be the ones pumping his gas and driving him around 20 years from now, like in Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion. Two of those cool, future-gas-pumping guys from Omar’s school are now state senators.

Despite his parents’ dreams of their only son becoming a doctor, Omar ended up designing his own major in college.   I can’t remember exactly what it was called, but I think it was something that sounds synonymous to “undeclared stoner”.  Luckily, this total lack of direction in college proved to be the perfect experience for bullshitting his way through a series of marketing positions at Internet startups after he graduated.

Currently, Omar works from home as a “web entrepreneur“, so if you have “funding opportunities”, please do “circle back” with him soon.  Oh yeah, and Omar loves the shit out of his wife.  He just doesn’t understand her (or most things) most of the time.

Gaby used to be that girl you hated in high school. She seemed to have everything: looks, popularity, grades, money, handsome boyfriend, cute VW Bug with a flower holder, etc.   But like a poor country with a large oil supply, she never really seemed to enjoy any of her natural resources.  In fact, she was kind of a bitch.  And whether you’re Gaby or you’re Yemen, that’s a fucking tragedy.

After an uneventful four years at Princeton, Gaby chose to attend law school at Berkeley.  Why?  Because she’s Jewish. And when you’re Jewish, you stay East, or you go West.  The whole middle part is never really an option.

Gaby met and fell in love with Omar almost immediately after moving to the Bay Area. She was bowled over by his positivity, boyish looks, excellent height, the Jewish-Muslim storyline, and how cute they would look when they appeared in the NY Times Marriage section.

Too bad Omar forgot to email the NY Times before the deadline. It’s stuff like that. Stuff like that which brings out the bitchy high school girl in Gaby.  She loves him, but the dude can be irritating as hell.