Category: Dreams

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"Other people" Awesome Dreams Friends Memoir

Dinusoars

One amazing thing about the internet is that you can put yourself out there for all to see. Then they all can look at you and pass you on to their friends. Their friends can also like you and pass you on. This is all free. The internet provides great opportunities for marketing and promoting yourself. However, when it comes time to get paid for things…not so easy.

For instance, I have started submitting these “guest commentary” pieces to the Lake County Record-Bee. Fun for me, fun for my family to see those words in print, and convenient to submit online. Hopefully some people – even strangers maybe! – will read that, enjoy it, and smile. Then maybe they’ll stop by here to see what else is up. But I’m not making any money off of this, and I’m also not really concerned about tracking where this stuff ends up.

The people who post the giant, bolded “copyright” text at the bottom of all of their blog columns…it just makes me roll my eyes. If someone wants to steal something from here and post it elsewhere, well, then I’ll deal with that when it happens. Until then, I can only dream of my biggest problem being that too many people are interested in what I’m saying.

The now-infamous Jonathan Amores is, in fact, dealing with too many people liking his work. When Jonathan took his hipstamatic photo at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, he never dreamed that one day, hipsters and yuppies all over the internet would be enjoying it…teal wash and all.

Jonathan’s photo somehow made it onto Reddit, Sad and Useless, and also The Daily What. All without his knowledge or effort. Also, unfortunately, without his name attached to any of it. The glories and the pitfalls of the internet.

But I’m here to set the record straight.

PS. This is a really great photo, I totally see how it spread all over the internet. Props, jamores!

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Awesome Dreams Drew

A grandiose celebration

I’ve been edging up on 10,000 views total over the life of this blog.  Well, actually, when I say I have been edging up on it, I mean I was at like 8500 and starting to think about what I wanted to do to celebrate 10,000.  I figured I should do something, I mean, that’s an accomplishment.

Me: I’m almost to 10,000 total views.
Drew: Wow!
Me: Calm down now. How many of them are you?
Drew: About half.

Nevertheless, I really was planning a party, like when you hit the 100th day of the school year in kindergarten, and all day is counting to 100, 10 sets of 10, and m&ms.  That’s how I remember it, at least.

Then this silly Guess Who? post got Freshly Pressed (yay!) and the count started climbing, and I didn’t even have time to plan anything.  Then I sat here with the page on 9,992, hitting refresh and waiting to see 10,000.  Then I got distracted by Facebook or some such nonsense and when I clicked back I had missed it entirely.

Not that I’m complaining about ANY of this, I’m just explaining why the party will be less anticipated and more hastily thrown together.  Like when your birthday’s on a Wednesday and your party is the Saturday after.  Just not the same.

I can definitely put something together for 25,000 views.  Start planning now.  What do you guys say?

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Dreams Not awesome Work

Anxiety dream

Last night I had an anxiety dream about Opening Night of Snow Falling on Cedars (which is this Saturday).  In my dream, the theatre (which seats like 500-something people?  Maybe 600?) was almost totally empty.  Only 60 people showed up, because all the tickets were comps and stuff, so we had a lot of no-shows.  We closed the doors (?) to the side sections of the orchestra and the balcony because everyone fit right in a little clump in the middle. 

I was kinda in trouble.  A big part of my job is to pack Opening Night.

Then, it wasn’t actually Snow Falling on Cedars, I think it was like a janky version of Disney’s 101 Dalmations, and all these older patrons were yelling at me to turn up the volume and tell everyone to stop talking.

I’m pretty sure that’s not what’s going to happen.  But I will be checking the seating map today to see how many empty seats we have left.  And for the first time ever, I think I will check with the box office right before 8 pm to see how many will-call tickets weren’t picked up.