Well, here it goes…
I can’t stand it anymore! If I sit for one more minute and let this new social woodworking world pass me by I’m going to explode. It would kill me if in 5 years Marc Spagnuolo and Matt Vanderlist had their own woodworking shows on DIY or HGTV (with spin-offs on Fine Living) and I (we!) could no longer correspond with them as a result of their growing celebrity. They would have so many fans (and stalkers, most likely!) and receive so much email that their agents or assistants would have to keep them at arms-length from their adoring public; they would just be too busy and too important to stay in touch with us little people.
Don’t fool yourselves; the WoodWhisperer and Matt’s Basement Workshop aren’t the only ones. Dave Noftz, Shannon Rogers, and Rick and Erik from The Sawdust Chronicles will go the same way! They’ll all move to Cincinnati or Boston (the new New York and Hollywood of the woodworking elite) and get about town in their chauffeured, ladder-racked, dually crew-cab pickups with tinted windows and be seen at all the best Woodcraft and Rockler stores. Neil Lamens will be their design consultant and Tommy MacDonald will be their personal trainer and coach.
Sipping champagne from coffee mugs shaped like routers, they’ll all forget their roots and thumb their noses at those of us who didn’t get in on the ground floor. That can’t happen! I want their secret personal email addresses that only a select few know about. I want to be one of the people whose email they still read and respond to. I want to become one with the Schwarz!
So here it is. I am tossing my hat into the ring. Be warned; I may become the new Britney of the woodworking world!
- Pete
I promise Pete, I’ll ignore you just the same when I’m famous as I do now!
Gotta say, I almost fell out of my chair laughing at this. We can all just hope for the best!!!
LOL! Yeah man, you gotta stay on top of the rising stars. Who knows, maybe The Wood Whisperer will be one of your sponsors one day!
And you know, the woodworking world could really use a Brittney. We don’t have anyone out there who’s mental. Or at least lets us know they’re mental.
Relax, Pete. Look at me: I’ve been busting my butt for 6 months, and my name didn’t even come up!
Or maybe no one, but no one, finds a galoot adorable… Geez, this is working on me now…
Oh, Mack… if you noticed, I posted this 7 months ago and haven’t done much updating since then. You are definately at the top of the list with the others… plus, I think you have some of the coolest theme music!
LOL! Thanks for the compliments – esp the music! It kind of exposes my redne… er… Appalachian roots.