Posted in books, celebrities, Dating Amy, movies, writing life, tagged ben affleck speech chasing amy, chasing amy, chasing amy speech painting birds diner of, Dating Amy, datingamy.com, holden's speech chasing amy, Kevin Smith, kevin smith boring ass life, kevin smith monologues, kevin smith smonologues, kevin smith twitter, kevin smith writing pep talk, smonologue, smonologue #9 on February 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I really like Kevin Smith. I like his attitude, I like his sense of humor, I like his rants. I sort of named Dating Amy, the blog that launched my career as an author, after one of his films (even though my name is Amy). I love his films.
He had me with Clerks, of course, but it wasn’t until Ben Affleck’s Chasing Amy speech about the painting of birds bought in a diner that I realized there was no turning back.
And now I am in Smonologue #9?
So excited.
Posted in Dating Amy, Internet shenanigans, tagged 30 dates in 30 days, 50 dates, 50 dates Amy, dating, Dating Amy, Dating Brian, DatingAmy, datingamy.com, DatingBrian, internet dating on July 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I think it’s weird when people take the going on XX dates idea, but it’s human nature to imitate something that’s even been mildly successful.
I think it’s really weird when people call their site Dating TheirName plus the XX number of dates idea, like this guy at DatingBrian.com.
When I named this site back in 2002, it was supposed to be a twist on the Kevin Smith movie Chasing Amy, which I love.
But when people call their projects Dating TheirName plus X amount of sport dates, it sounds like they’re just doing a twist on me.
Good luck to him, I’m sure he’s a sweet kid, but as George Harrison said about Homer’s barbershop quartet rooftop session: It’s been done.
