Wednesday, March 30, 2005

I Wanna be... (The March Edition)

A member of the Get-Along-Gang and help them search for their Red Caboose, a pilot that writes messages in the sky, that guy on the Krispy Kreme commercial, a hype-man in a rap group, owner of a seeing-eye dog, Vin Deisel's cousin, animator of Kool-Aid Kool Man for the packets of Kool-Aid, the guy who invented ipod's, really good at something (read: amazing) like piano or marco polo, friends with Ben Stiller and Will Ferrel so I could be in 8 movies every year, the chicken or the egg so I could answer the question of which one came first, the 4th stooge, a reincarnation of Rodney Dangerfield so that I can finally get him some respect, that man working in a peach factory downtown who puts the peaches in the can in the President's of the United States of America's song Peaches, able to walk on water like Jesus, a little bit talla and a balla, The Voice like my friend Shayne, a monster truck driver, an owner of one of those old time Ma and Pa cafe's where everything looks like it's stuck in the 1950's, Mr. Clean, a friend to all of the little animals who need one, somebody's baby, a washed out celebrity who's only claim to fame is that they are a commentator on I Love the 80's/90's or I Love the 80's /90's Strikes Back, Dr. Sam Beckett (originally played by Scott Bakula) on the remake of Quantum Leap, the Queen Bee, the leader of a sadistic cult and the first one to drink the poisoned punch, a voice of an animated cartoon character that is drawn to resemble me, like Mike Bates, an Anchorman just like Ron Burgandy, an award winning blog writer, on a professional dodgeball team, Noah's Ark, somewhere beyond the sea, critically bashed by professionals but raised up on a pedestal by my adoring fans, able to think up new things that I wanna be...

(to be continued)

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Wednesday, March 09, 2005

pookon.com receives recognition from fans

Something amazing has happened to me and my website over the weekend, something that seems to be happening more and more often. Before I explain myself, go to your favorite search engine (be it yahoo, msn, google) and type anything related to my site (pookon, godsplash, miller park, beer pong, saguaro cactus, STYX) and see if you can find my site. Often random people type in keywords and accidentally stumble upon my site. Most times I don't find out, but when I do it is spectacular. Tim was browsing the STYX website message boards, and saw a post about summerfest photos, where a random person stumbled upon my site, the posted the link for everyone else to view. The following is that post:

http://www.pookon.com/styx1.html
Here is someone's concert photos from a summer concert. I stumbled across it by accident. He has some great concert photos. If you leave it the page for a bit, he also recorded a bit of the show, a different song for each page. Maybe this will help a bit with all our need for new concert photos.

Tim saw this and went nuts. He replied to this post with the following:

OH MY GOD! This is soo crazy. That's my brother's website! I made him bring his camera along. You can even see me ruining the songs by singing along every once and a while (sorry). I am the guy in the first few pictures with long hair standing next to Lawrence. How did you find it?

The next post answers Tim's question:

Hey Tim!! That is amazing that I stumbled upon the website of your brother's!! I was sitting here waiting up for my teenage daughter to come home from a night out with friends. I typed in "Styx" on MSN homepage and started surfing. And there it was. He has some really great photos. Love his comments, what a great sense of humor! And the music add to the pages is such a great idea. Funny and creative too, What a great Kid your brother is. You taught him well!

Tim then conveyed my thanks for the pleasant comments:

Haha, well it was just mind blowing to open up this post and see my brothers website link there, lol. Anyway he really appreciated the comments and we look forward to rocking out and taking more pictures in the near future.

When Tim told me about this it rocked my socks off. It's times like this that make me keep working on this site, even though some times it can be a burden and time consuming. Somewhere out there, there are people who care. I can add a few more Styx fans to that list now. How much does that rock?

www.pookon.com