February 5, 2007

random road trip craziness

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[Match­book doodle lami­na­ted on to busi­ness card. New York, 1998]
A very busy day today. If you’re hoping to meet up with me at Tesco’s, pro­bably the best thing to do for the next cou­ple of days is give me a phone on my mobile +44 (0) 770 309 9462. We’re get­ting a lot of local media inte­rest, which is a good thing. Howe­ver, inter­views are time-consuming, which inter­fe­res with our sche­dule, which is a bad thing.
The thing is, EVERYTHING we’re doing is time con­su­ming… tur­ning up at the sto­res is time con­su­ming. Doing press inter­views is time con­su­ming. Dri­ving from place to place is time con­su­ming. Edi­ting the film foo­tage is time con­su­ming. Pos­ting the stuff online is time con­su­ming. Eating and slee­ping is time con­su­ming.
And with only nine days till Valentine’s Day and a cou­ple of dozen sto­res left to visit, time is the one thing we don’t have lots of…
The good news is, the new bottle looks fan­tas­tic, espe­cially on the super­mar­ket shelf. It really stands out.
On one level, perhaps we bit off more than we can chew. On another level, this is a good thing. Some­ti­mes biting of more than you can chew is exactly what you need, to make something inte­res­ting hap­pen.
Wha­te­ver hap­pens, this adven­ture does not end February 14th. Good things beget more good things. I’m seeing lots of dif­fe­rent direc­tions this ran­dom act of road-trip cra­zi­ness could end up going, once this current chap­ter ends. Exci­ting times, indeed.

[Full Disc­lo­sure: I’ve always liked super­mar­kets. Always found them fas­ci­na­ting pla­ces. Bet you didn’t know that.]

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