fedward, tumbling

dceiver:

Wow. How out of touch have I been lately with what’s really important? Here’s my pal Mark Sullivan, in a national commercial campaign for the Amazon Kindle. One of the important events in my life was that I started blogging under the name “DCeiver.” The event that precipitated my launching of that blog was that I went to a party at Castle Fun-Fun, where Mark, in an effort to let his then-girlfriend (who was leaving for grad school) know that he would love her forever, dressed up in a tiger costume and jumped through an actual ring of fire behind Ben’s Chili Bowl. It was just something the world needed to hear about. For me, the rest is history. And Mark is wonderful: it’s so nice to see him on my teevee, reminding me about the odd and fragile way that good friends can touch your life in ways you don’t see until many years later. (I mean, I suppose it’s supposed to also remind me about the Kindle being a quality product, but I already own a Kindle, and it is.)

That girlfriend he was trying to demonstrate his love for almost immediately broke with him, so sometimes your big dumb romantic gestures don’t pay off. You should keep making them though, because they help in the war against cynicism!

I’d say something about remembering that night, but everybody who was there remembers that night.