Jason Murphy

Vivid Dreams of A Marketing Geek

Dec 26, 2006 Unordered Miscellany

It’s bad enough that I live this stuff each and every day, but when I start dreaming about it, over the Christmas holiday weekend even, that’s when I know that I’ve been drinking a little too much Geek Kool-Aid. Here’s some actual dreams that I had over the weekend.

So I’m sitting down at a Christmas banquet next to my buddy Mr. Bill Gates. There is a group of about 20 of us at the table and we’re having goose or some kind of fowl bird. Bill is leading the conversation at the table and I don’t recall what the topic was, but it was pure geekery. I didn’t participate much, instead I’m enthralled with a very large green jem that Bill is wearing on a large gold chain around his neck. I stopped the conversation and ask what kind of stone that is.

Bill gives me a “are you dumb, kid?” kind of look and simply responds “It’s kryptonite.”

He then removes his toupee and reveals that he has been the real Lex Luther this whole time!

Here’s another dream, this time showing I think too much about SEO. I don’t know the guy below from Adam, other than through a few forums.

I was sitting at home reading a nice book, when the door bell rings. I was very surprised to see that it was Jeremy Shoemaker. Except he had a full head of hair. I asked about his new mop and he said it was a free gift from a Bosley campaign he was running. We joked around about the state of the industry and how it had changed over the years. We were talking about Digital Point’s recent takeover of Google through a majority share buyout, and the recent Yahoo/MSN merger. I offered that we boot up the Xbox 360 and he said he was actually there on business, but he’d school me on Live some other time. I asked his business and he said that I had won his contest. Contest?! Didn’t know I even entered. He didn’t mind the details, but only told me that I was hand selected by his sponsor. The prize: a full on internship/mentorship with Shoemoney and a few other industry names and we’d exclusively be handling the Nerf account. That’s right, we’d be exclusively managing all the SEO and PPC marketing for Nerf footballs, and all those cool Nerf warfare toys. Nerf? WTF?

So I immediately run to my computer, load up my domain tools, and start looking for Nerf domains. I was bummed because Nerfster.com was already taken.

I had a few other dreams of this nature, but those two were the ones I remembered. I recall waking up from both thinking to myself “What the hell? I need to get out more.”

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