Postaday for May 16th: Singular Sensation. If you could have a guarantee that one, specific person was reading your blog, who would you want that person to be? Why? What do you want to say to them?
(This reminds me of the prompt we had back on January 12th, but in the interest of writing fresh, I’ll try a different tack.)
I have to believe that Mark Zuckerberg knows the impact he has on liking things. My gut wants me to want Mr. Z to read my blog, because on my blog I mention the book I wrote, now and again, and then he might read it, and might like it, and might mention as much publicly, and BOOM! I’d be a best seller.
And that’s pretty selfish, but hey, my blog’s a per-blog, or perblog, or personal-blog, or exercise in extreme me-focusing blog, or whatever it’s called. Still, as they say in the Spiderman flicks and parodies thereof, with great power comes great responsibility. If I knew I had Mark Zuckerberg’s ear, (eye, since he’s reading; you know what I mean) it would behoove me to do more than just champion my silly novel.
Right? I’d have to bring up the ills that face the world and make sure he knows about them and their importance. Since he’s so powerful and can solve problems easier than I can.
But wouldn’t he know about those things anyway? I mean, could I really tell him something he didn’t already know, unless it was about me personally?
And yet a man who runs a $200 billion business still only has 24 hours a day to deal with. Who am I to take about even 5 minutes of his waking 960. That’s half a percent of his day. That’s a billion dollars. My stupid book is not worth a billion dollars.
So, I guess I’ve talked myself out of answering this prompt with “Mark Zuckerberg.”
Charlize Theron, on the other hand, seems like a nice person. And she works so hard. If she read my blog everyday, and was somehow entertained, and let slip a “bukkhead” during an ad-lib moment in one of her films, that would be pretty darn cool.