(or): Really, One Direction? What the hell have I done with my life???
Okay, it isn’t as creepy as it sounds… not really… Most of you know how this whole thing started. I began tweeting for one reason only. Because my older daughter, Jessica, was on Twitter, and I knew it would drive her crazy if I started doing it. And then I got the idea that if I sent funny, clever comments and Photoshop pictures to celebrities and they actually answered me back then my daughter might think I was cool again, like she did when she was a little kid.
And it worked. She told me that if I could get someone really famous to tweet me back, she would get on Facebook and admit to people that I was cool. So after months of hard work, I managed to get responses from:
Ricky Gervais, and English comedian
James May, from that English show Top Gear
Eric Idle, from Monty Python… he is really nice…
William Shatner, from the original Star Trek
and Dana Carvey, from Saturday Night Live and such movies as Wayne’s World… I will have you know that Mr. Carvey is actually following me on Twitter, and favorites lots of my stuff, so there.
And Jessica did indeed go on Facebook and said I was ‘cooler than her’, not a small deal for a twenty-something year-old to do.
But, and here is the thing… that thing that always shows up in my plans… I asked, the other day, if there were any famous people who I could try to get a Tweet shout out from, that would impress my fourteen-year-old daughter Mollie. And she said One Direction. I should have seen it coming. She typed their names into the Twitter search thing herself, because I have no idea what their names are, even though I know a lot about their music from taking long car trips with her.
So lately, I have found myself sending tweets to these guys. Not clever stuff like I used to do. This is more like: Please, send me a tweet saying hi to my daughter, Mollie. She loves you guys.
Yes, I am a little disgusted with myself.
But I am an awesome dad.
Pouring My Art Out 
I don’t think I’ll be impressed until you get a tweet response from someone on the E-Street Band.
We’ll see
That’s it?
You can do better than that.
Try taking it more than one way…
Interesting.
In that case, well played.
phew… I was totally bluffing.
I don’t believe that. Well, maybe I believe that you didn’t know what was going on, but the crack squirrels had the situation under control.
I will get someone to tweet that you respect.
Hmm, the phrasing of that statement, it’s unclear. You are going to get someone that I respect to tweet? Or, you are going get someone to tweet “that you respect?”
Maybe both.
I’ll take it.
good
I’ve seen some of those One Direction lads around where I live. Shall I approach them next time and force them to answer your tweets?
Mollie would love you forever if you could get an autograph…
I have but a couple of weeks left before I have to move deeper into North London. They have celebs there but mainly middle aged ones from terrible TV shows.
I was used to seeing Amy Winehouse, Jerry Sadowitz, Ricky Gervais, Julian Clary…now I have to settle for the cast of Eastenders.
Ricky Gervais tweeted me… just sayin’…
I don’t usually spot them, someone else points them out. I’m pretty blind
No wonder you like my blog!
I forget my glasses when I go out. I must get laser surgery at some point.
I will do it for you… cheap…
You can’t just shine a TV remote in my eyes, that on;t work, you have to burn a layer of the eye off. What about using that mini blowtorch?
I have a dremel tool I use on the tikis…
Either would work
I have a laser pointer, exacto knives, we are all set.
I have an exacto knife too. I was doing crafts
so you say
I made artwork
Hand cut doilies???
Haha! Hmmm…
I made a map of the world and I glued them to foam board and then I hung them on sticky foam pads making a giant collage, then they all fell off the wall an hour later
whoops
Sometimes, you gotta take one for the team… who am I kidding, I just vomitted in my mouth.
It goes both ways, right?
The vomit?
That too, but I meant the very idea of me tweeting the just-add-water-and-grow-your-own-band kids.
This post is wild: not a criticism; but a good thing in this case. Your pictures are great. Your content is seriously happening. Way to go. Worth my time to visit your blog. And, by the way, thanks for stopping by Wilder Man on Rolling Creek. I never thought about “Zebulon” … sounding like an alien planet. But, now that you mention it …. Okay. I’m out. T
thanks so much… I am writing a sci-fi series. I have to come up with a lot of alien names.
And I used to make up stories about an alien for my kids, and he lived on the planet Nebulon… so…
You are an amazingly awesome dad!!! Way to put yourself out there for your kids! All my mom ever did was threatened us with pulling her shirt off in public should we not behave, LOL…
Umm… it sounds like she meant that out of love… sort of… and parents have to do what they have to do. I once told my daughter that if she ever really made me mad I would show up at her school wearing nothing but a thong Speedo…
Gorilla tactics I say! We never knew when or where she would think of striking! Thankfully she never did, and if she does now I told her I would join in, lol! I like your speedo thong idea, I’m sure it was a sure way to get them to behave as well 🙂
I can be very creative in my ways of getting back at people.
Yes, you are a great dad. (And thanks for letting her choose the music in the car)
She likes a lot of my old-timey 70’s rock too.
Sounds like you got a good one..
I made sure to teach my kids to try everything, and then let them make up their own minds.
Only way to do it – too bad more aren’t secure enough to do the same!
People like to turn their kids into little thems.
Who is One Direction?
Some boy band.
I kind of figured that out. I thought you might be able to provide a fan’s eye view and give a little description.
No… would you like to talk to Mollie?
The explanation would be more meaningful if it came from you.
No it wouldn’t.
Aww, that’s great. I am thanking the heavens that my kid is not into One Direction. Yesterday in carpool she explained to her friend that Nikola Tesla started out working for Thomas Edison and how Thomas wasn’t really the first one to invent the lightbulb, he was just the one who got the patent for it first. I was such a happy mom. However, she is a fan of Taylor Swift so you can’t win them all.
Oh, my kids are smart, but kids have to listen to some kind of music.
Indeed. And I never meant to imply they weren’t. Didn’t mean for it to come out that way…if it did.
I know. It just struck me that these days, even the smartest kids will probably end up listening to crap music.
It’s sad to think about it. DJMatticus and I were just talking about the music too.
I have very old taste in music.
There’s nothing wrong with that. I have the Anderson Sisters and Billie Holiday on my ipod along with other more current selections.
Oh… I meant more like Bad Company, Zep, the Who, Foghat, and so on…
Haha, yup them too.
ha!
On New Year’s Eve, we watched the Def Leopard Concert. They still rock!
There are still some bands from back in the day that can pull it off.
I feel your pain! I’ve been fortunate, so far, to have two children who do not listen to One Direction. Yet. I’m sure my day will come. Way to go, awesome dad!
Thanks. And it could be worse.
Why yes you are an awesome dad!
Thanks… I do try.