Mestee Blogger

I don't usually respond to comments two days in a row, but in the case of a direct question, I'll make an exception...

Mestee,
Do you even answer comments posted here? Anyway, here's a question, how did you find my site in the first place?

~Tony

Dearest Tony,

My blog, like many others, features a "NEXT BLOG" button in the upper right hand corner of the page. On one fortuitous day, I stumbled upon your blog and decided to be a more active member of the blogosphere, adding a comment to your site. I would have let you guest blog when I was on vacation, but I didn't get your psuedo offer until about 4 days after I left.

Factually,
Brian

For those of you unfamiliar with Tony, he lives in Canada and also has a blog called The Wine Shown , on which he has posted a bunch of hilarious pictures of himself photoshopped into movie scenes like these...





Now Tony probably thinks he has a new stalker, which is not entirely true.

I went to the gym yesterday, but I left my Bally's ID card at home, which happens at a rate of about once per month or so. It's not a big deal, you just have to give your name to the trainer at the front desk so they can look up your picture in the computer. This is how the conversation went yesterday and how it almost always goes now, anywhere I have to give my name to a stranger...

Trainer: Last name?
Me: Adams.
Trainer: First name?
Me: Brian.
Trainer: Haha, no way!
Me: Yeah, I know.
Trainer: Oh man...have you seen Office Space?
Me: That's the first question everyone asks.
Trainer: (slightly disappointed) Oh, really?
Me: And, yes, I've seen it.
Trainer: Have a good workout.
Me: Bite me.

Okay, so I didn't say that last line, but I was thinking it. I wonder if I'm reaching a breaking point with the whole Brian Adams/Bryan Adams thing. I mean, I've been getting unsolicited comments about it for 20 years now. Twenty years! Do you have any characteristic that people have been reminding you of for 20 years? If so, maybe you can relate...but you probably don't. Also, isn't it weird that people always ask if I've seen Office Space, which is a reference to the Michael Bolton character who always gets bombarded with dumb/obvious comments about his name? Aren't they sort of missing the point? I feel bad that I've become sort of humorless about the whole thing, but the joke just gets so old...and everybody uses the same lines: Are you related to him? Have you seen Office Space? You must get that all the time! Yeah, exactly...that's why I don't need to hear it from you! It actually makes me laugh when I'm intentionally as humorless as possible when people make reference to my famous name. You can just hear the disappointment in their voices when you obviously don't share their enthusiasm. Maybe I do need therapy.

Somewhere in the District of Columbia, Irfan is marking his calendar.

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