The New Phone Book Is Here!!!
30th March 2009
Navin R. Johnson: The new phone book’s here! The new phone book’s here!
Harry Hartounian: Boy, I wish I could get that excited about nothing.
Navin R. Johnson: Nothing? Are you kidding? Page 73 – Johnson, Navin R.! I’m somebody now! Millions of people look at this book everyday! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity – your name in print – that makes people. I’m in print! Things are going to start happening to me now.
From the movie, “The Jerk” by Steve Martin.
With the release of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Persuasion on April 7, 2009, I’m starting to feel like Narvin R. Johnson and that exhuberant joy of seeing your name in print. Yippee!!!
I googled up the title today and found ninety-six, 96, that’s 50+46 listings of online book sellers for the book. Wow! That’s the kind of spontaneous publicity . . .
More surprising to me is the foreign language listings – Spanish, Hungarian, Japanese among others. Hey, spontaneous INTERNATIONAL publicity!
This is just pure joy right now. All eager anticipation with none of the bitter disappointment experience may bring. The external Spring; that sweet delay between the moment you pop the question and before she replies; the delightful instant of the crack of the bat when you really get a hold of one, yet before it sails foul; yep, I’m in the sweet spot of optimism, possibility, and joy.