By September 29th, most of you will be looking at this design for your Facebook profile, which was unveiled at the F8 Conference this morning. It’s a beautiful thing. If you want to enable it early (like I did) check out this awesome Lifehacker article that explains how.
What’s a “LIFTr” and what does it have in common with Buffy? Why are you interrupting my day to talk about this? Shouldn’t you be eating tacos or something? I thought I unsubscribed to this blog!? These are all good questions. I’m expanding the style of my blog and the post content a bit. It’s not all about me. Well, indirectly, it’s always about me. LIFTr A few years ago, before I wrote & published the Fail Whale Book, I wrote a series of articles for a company called LIFTr, about social media marketing for small business. They were designed …Read the Rest
Part 6: The Question & The Answer I had planned on asking her the Monday night before she left town for the fest. But then, because she’s such an in-demand producer, she scheduled a meeting Monday night. I was starting to panic that my window of opportunity was closing on my hands. If we were on Twitter, that sentence would have been “…opportunity was closing on my penis,” because that’s how I roll on Twitter. But this is a family-friendly blog, so I won’t use the word “penis” here. You’re welcome. Suddenly, Saturday, which was booked, opened up. …Read the Rest
Part Five: Execution I decided that I wanted to ask Allison to marry me in June. It was close enough to our 2 year anniversary, but far enough away from our birthdays so that the date was special on it’s own. But, much like scheduling a film shoot, a snag appeared. Purgatory Inc, a film Allie produced and I scored, got into the Garden State Film Festival, and Allison decided to go to represent the film. She was going to be gone for a week at the beginning of April. Erin Fleming, one of Allie’s best friends and the only …Read the Rest
Part Four: The Song I decided, almost immediately, that the proposal was going to have some kind of original music as a part of it. I mean, that’s my thing. So I wrote. I knew I wanted strings. It’s my favorite part of the orchestra. Besides, too much brass and it’d sound like I was asking her to marry me while riding into battle on the Scottish countryside. I needed it to be personal, I needed to write something from my heart, and for the first time in years, it would be the first piece of music not attached to television, …Read the Rest
Part Three: The Plan I had a plan. Because of what we do for a living, the proposal needed to involve music and film. We have thousands of photos chronicling our relationship, so I decided to create a slideshow of our life together, and write an original piece of music to play over it. Then I’d shoot a video of myself, telling her how I felt about her. Piece of cake. Originally, I was going to do it at CineSpace in Hollywood. I concocted a plan which involved taking her out to a “premiere,” and then when we showed up …Read the Rest
Part Two: Permission So I needed to ask Allison’s father for permission. I’d met her father twice before on two trips to New Jersey, and we’d gotten along great. But that was in MY eyes. For all I knew, he was secretly saving for a sniper to take me out the next time I visited. But I knew that if I was going to do this, I wanted to do it right. My best friend Jorge Urbina had just done this himself; it went very well for him. I was pretty confident that I’d get a positive response, but not …Read the Rest