The Rink Rat: May 2009

Monday, May 11, 2009

Sydney's Outing

Syd the Kid goes for a walk on a nice Spring day.

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Monday, May 4, 2009

Twitter Made Me Famous

My massive overstatement of a title notwithstanding, I did manage to get one of my tweets quoted in the Washington Post over the weekend. I grew up on the Washington Post. I read it every day. Tony Kornheiser was the man (although, so were these guys). I dreamed of writing a sharp, witty, insightful column that people clamored for every Tuesday and Thursday. I'm not counting anything in the Style section.

Instead, I started a blog. And I'm pretty sure that I'm now only 7,852 page views behind an average Kornheiser post. I guess you can call that progress. In the virtual world there are ample opportunities for fame, its just that now, the time frame has dropped from 15 mintues to 15 seconds. It's much easier that way. My "fame" had come and gone before I even knew about it. I didn't have to deal with the paparazzi since 1. they don't care and 2. they have no idea what I look like since I'm just a screen name. Sure, Kornheiser has a byline, a cable show, a national weekly prime time sporting event and tons of money. But has he ever had one of his tweets published (online) in the Washington Post. Well, I'm not actually sure, but I'm going to say no since he probably thinks twitter is idiotic.

Well Tony, it feels pretty damn good. Maybe not as good as that first time you were published in the print version of the Post. But we digital now, baby, and my backhanded jab at Marc-André Fleury's soul patch is the only thing people seem to be discussing. Sure its only the three other people in my cube, but they're talking a lot. Oh wait, they stopped. It's already been 15 seconds. That was quick.