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- Feb 25th, 2009
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I have a pretty healthy fascination with celebrities. In fact this following story seems 100% entirely normal, dontcha think?
I see the movie Stand by Me and really love it. I am obsessed with the main character Gordie Lachance. I want to ease his pain. Maybe a year later, I am sitting in a doctors office in Atlanta, and I am convinced that the boy sitting across from me is Gordie!
I call my brother and insist he hits the credits on the video. This was prehistoric times, so it required me to ask the doctors office to use their phone, and my brother had to take the VHS and fast forward to the end to find out. The answer is Wil Wheaton and it’s no match on the patient list. Not too obsessive, right?
Skip to decades later and I enter twitter preparing to conquer.. I check out the heavy users and when I see an avatar and the name @wilw .. somehow I just KNOW that it’s my Wil ! I am loving my gut instincts from way back that my crush from so long ago is now a tech geek! (and currently more of a celeb in that arena)
Moving on…
big heavies in the industry are popping up everyday. E V E R Y D A Y!!!
As of today – My Twitter Hot Top Celebrities:
- @evanlowenstein – you know – half of the identical twin duo who sing that hit song Crazy for this Girl, and the illustrious brother of yours truly.
- @aplusk – Ashton kutcher – I have NEVER seen his work (except for Cheaper by the Dozen), but I love his holy tweets (lots of Kabbalah) and the work he has done with Demi
- @mrskutcher – Demi Moore. I wish her tweets could talk, so I could hear her voice. Can I say that?
- @johncmayer – John Mayer – still warming up, very few replies to other tweeters, but he is 140 characters of pleasure, very clever and witty
- @the_real_shaq – Shaquille O’Neil – so unpretentious. The real shaq is REAL
- @ewanmcgregor – Ewan Mcgregor – Scottish Moulin Rouge honey. Follow me dude.
- @lancearmstrong – Lance Armstrong – You got to love hearing “getting the kids off to school” and then just back from a 6 hr ride – 110 miles. Very empowering!
- @johncleese – John Cleese – One of the leading members of Monty Python. I love me my English humour!
New on my radar:
- @coldplay – Coldplay – The band. I think their music is some of the hottest stuff out there, so I expect very sharp lyrical 140 character tweets.
- @davejmathews – Dave Mathews – Ditto with above.
I have some questions for you:
Q: If you could communicate with a celebrity, who would you WANT to see?
Q: Celebrities can now speak for themselves – will the tabloids go out of business?
Q: Do you think the word celebrity will embrace a new definition with the lowly people able to access them SO DARN EASILY!?
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- Feb 18th, 2009
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This POST is for YOU. I may express my personal thoughts, but it is because I feel your pain, and I want to allow you more opportunities to share YOURS.
For as many searches to my blog for ‘make money online’ stuff, there are equal amounts for ‘Meir’ or ‘Mikey Volk’. I don’t know if this mean my blog sucks or that Meir had an impact on MANY. I’m going with the latter.
The point is, I want YOU to leave comments. Anonymous, or with names, just say hello, and let us know you are still thinking of him. You are not alone. All your comments on previous posts have been very touching.
Last night I attended a ‘Siyum’ in memory of Meir (Mikey) Volk. This is a completion of a significant amount of Torah Study done in honor of his memory. It wasn’t hard to find scholars willing to do this, as Meir had supported so much of their learning with his generosity.
Today I will go to the gravesite.
Someone posed a question last night. How has your life changed in this past year since his passing?
It is not the first, second, or third time I have thought this. It is on my mind quite often.
Everything Meir did was BIG.
His presence was BIG (well over 6 feet tall)
When he spoke about business, it was with a LOT of passion, and excitement
When he spoke on intellectual subjects, your head would swim
When he made money, he made it BIG
When he gave charity, he gave 75 cents to every dollar earned.
The list could go on, but I will allow his family to share the rest as they desire.
The impact he had on my life, my career, my outlook has been just as BIG.
In fact, when I ask how my life has changed… my thought is
“what has stayed the same?”
If you are driving towards a destination (albeit unknown) and suddenly you take a right turn, instead of a left turn, your entire future has changed in that small move.
Thank you Mikey for thrusting my life into the unknown, making me work by butt off, and allowing me to draw from your passion for living to embrace what the future brings.
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- Feb 15th, 2009
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You will probably laugh, but I learned a lot about what it meant to have healthy and honest friendships from the TV show ‘Friends’.6 characters had less than 30 minutes to share an engaging storyline involving all of them equally. When an issue arose, which it often did, the friends had to communicate, sometimes with brutal honesty… without sabotaging their relationship.
After spending too many years avoiding conflict at all costs, suddenly we were witnessing that Monica and Rachel could be at each other’s throats, (sometimes literally) and then be best friends again.
No hard feelings. Wow. That level of honesty may seem like it could only work on TV, but they were onto something….
I was enlightened, and intrigued.
Twitter, the home of 140 characters or less, brings this communication style more into the mainstream. Communication 2.0.
Our lives are sitcoms, we don’t have time for unnecessary chit chat. Twitter understands our fast paced lives, and allows us to decide who we want in our circle, woo them with our short tweets. Maybe become friends, or business partners. I have witnessed it all.
It’s my kind of instant gratification, say it like it is, a little bit (lot) narcissistic, allowing us to be voyeurs into the lives of people who would never give you their real phone number (hint..like MINE).
Just saying, if you have been missing me, you may find me there.
Are you using Twitter? If so, for what purposes and what have you discovered? I am a bit surprised how it started off as a Marketing tool and now is touted as the next possible Facebook.
Move fast people.
And follow me
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