Note: This topic will be an ongoing, but irregular feature here at Daddy Dan. The basic idea is to give you ideas for your blog, because I’m a giver. Some of you may be in a blogging slump and looking to come up with something interesting to write about. I’m here to help. Please note that these are ideas that I’ve contemplated using for myself but decided for some reason (too much work, too shy, the idea is not fully fleshed out, etc.) not to use them. I think they’re all potentially good ideas as long as someone puts some thought and creativity into them. With that long (and probably boring) preamble, I’m ready to share my first idea for your blog. Feel free to take it and run with it. I’d love to see it, so let me know if you do.
I call my first idea “My Brush With Celebrity”, but feel free to call it what you want.
It’s a very simple concept. You take pictures with random strangers (or family, friends, co-workers, etc.) that resemble (or even funnier, don’t really resemble) a celebrity. Your post just consists of posting the picture with the header (Me and “the celebrity”). Maybe in the text you could say, “I ran into XXX at XXX” (for example, “I ran into George W. Bush at Al’s Lounge. He was a surprisingly great guy!” Make sense?
I’m not sure why it would be funny, but I just know it would be, by golly! You’d probably get random people finding your site through a search engine looking for the particular celebrity leaving comments saying things like “That’s not XXXX!” and then you could mess with them.
Here’s an example post. I’m using a random picture from my wedding, and please remember, the man in the picture with me (on the right) is NOT Joe Pesci!:
My Brush With Celebrity: Joe Pesci came to my wedding!
by Daddy Dan
Me and Joe Pesci (of Good Fellas and Lethal Weapon 4 fame) at my wedding. We didn’t even invite him, but I’m so glad he was there. Everyone at our wedding was impressed that we had a celebrity friend! He was a very nice (and affectionate) guy! He liked drinking beer.
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Someone has got to use this idea! Please? Anyone have any suggestions for improving this idea?
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#1 by terri on October 17th, 2008
I LOVE this idea! It seems like exactly the kind of random and stupid thing I would do! I think getting my picture taken with a stranger would be the most fun part!
terris last blog post..Life is Good – October 17, 2008
#2 by terri on October 17th, 2008
I forgot to mention (and maybe this isn’t news to you, but) it looks like “Joe Pesci” is trying to stick his tongue in your ear.
terris last blog post..Life is Good – October 17, 2008
#3 by VegasDad on October 17th, 2008
Love the idea. I’ll just have to rummage through my thousands of pictures to find somebody that looks like a celebrity.
This also gets me thinking that I wish I had pictures from my really real brushes with celebrities. I live in Vegas. There are always celebrities here. Back when I was in college here I played blackjack at the Hard Rock with Jenny McCarthy; Dennis Rodman bought us drinks at a night club and Polly Shore spilled his cocktail on me at the Billboard Music Awards. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a camera on hand for any of these. Also, when I was young my dad was Tom Selleck’s body guard and he came to our house for dinner. My dad also worked security at the Playboy Mansion. I wish he still did.
Of course, my wife works at the airport and meets celebrities every day, but especially on Fridays and Sundays. She has flight boarding passes with autographs, but no photos.
We’re going to the Greg Maddux Celebrity Dinner on Monday night. Perhaps we’ll meet some more there and take some photos with my camera phone.