Me: “What do you want for your birthday?”
5yr old: “A hawk eyed camera copter and studying my little sister’s brain.”
Me: “what?”
5yr old: “Get it, we’d donate her brain to a brain bank!”
Me: “um, I’ll see what Santa can do about the brain donation, ok?”
5yr old: “We should study his brain too, that guy is nuts.”
From the archives: 5/7/2008
Mr. Godin, I would like to interview you for a documentary I am compiling exploring the evolution of purpose (personal, social, technological). Actually, I would be ecstatic honored and quite possibly wet my pants if you said yes to an interview for my film. It’s working title at the moment is “Life in Perpetual Beta“. We have an interesting line-up of creatives, techies, life coaches, authors etc. that we are interviewing [ Sidney Levy, Nova Spivak, Dan Pink to name a few]. I think that your personal style would really kick ass and fit with our message. (ala Dan Pink “there is no plan” or Yoda “there is no try only do” – how social networking and collaborative economy is changing the shape of society and shifting the way we think about work). It may turn out to be the irreverent whorish bastard child of “the secret” with a heart of gold, thus making it world famous or it may just be another blurb that gets put up on Youtube, but all the same, I’d love to get a few moments of your time to interview you. Please do let me know if you would grant me the honor of an interview.
In gathering information for Life in Perpetual Beta the book (common’ you knew it was coming) I looked through my old interview pitch emails. I didn’t know Seth Godin from Adam at the time to tell you honestly, but my tribe told me I had to have him, so I made an impassioned plea… was even ready to pee my pants… then had the audacity to mention honor… still hard to believe, I did eventually get the interview, You can see it here.
I don’t mind when a toy manufacturer goes all out to promote a product, I really don’t. It’s when they all do it together around the holidays that it gets to me. In Target the other day there were at least 3 toys in every single aisle that were jumping out at me. Case in point: The Baby Alive dolls in the video scared the crap out of me, all of them jumping up and down in their zip tied cribs giggling as I walked by – that’s just not right, toys should not be self animated! At least the one my kids are obsessed with (Bigfoot the Monster) has a button you have to push… We have stood in Target for well over an hour pushing it’s buttons, of course, those aren’t the only buttons being pushed. Christmas shopping with kids is close to martyrdom. It’s no better at home as the Bigfoot Toy has it’s own Facebook app, which my kids are also obsessed with… you can make the thing act out it’s moods… which we do all day… and enter to win one… which we’ve also done (what am I thinking!) Makes me paranoid about what toy manufacturers are planning to startle us all into buying online this coming Monday.
The markers who are killing me at Christmas are the same ones who paid me to write this post.
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