The Mock Dock

Wow. This is the most unbelievably inspiring story. I saw it this morning and thought, “This totally is not mockable. But I must share it.”

So here you go. Prepare for lumps in your throat.

BEHOLD: Adam Lambert’s interview on 20/20.

You know what? I will probably never ever buy a CD of his, but I LIKE him. I don’t like his dying cat shriek, or the fact that he ends nearly every song he ever sings the same way, but I really LIKE him. He’s a smart, well-spoken, knows-who-he-is guy, and I like him. And I totally LOVE his mom. I loved his coming out story, and her role in it.

So there it is. I like him.

And you know who else I love? John Stossel. Every last word he says is super exaggerated and I LOVE that.

LOVE.

In case you missed it, check out the clip about foot pads from last night’s ABC 20/20, in which The Mock Dock is prominently featured. And now that it’s all over with and out in the open, you get to know how this all happened. SO incredibly cool.

Remember how I posted that final kinoki post in which I said, “hey – if anyone wants to buy the rest of my foot pads, write to me at mockarena@themockdock.com and I will send them to you”? So a couple days later, I get an email from a producer at 20/20, saying he’d be interested in taking the rest of the pads and perhaps even talking to me about my experience with them. At which point I had a total freak out. That freak out was abruptly interrupted by a few moments of skepticism, because it just seemed too good to be true to have been noticed by someone with any kind of credibility or stature. So I googled the producer’s name, and he’s popping up all over IMDB and everywhere with all sorts of credits, and so I allow myself to soak it in for like two seconds before immediately calling the other mockdockers and promptly rendering them completely deaf by freaking out into the phone at them.

Anyway, the next day I chatted with the producer on the phone (NICEST MAN EVER) and he said, “Hey – why don’t you consider doing a video diary recap type of thing of your kinoki experience?” and I said, “Sure!” and then hung up to commence my third total freak out, because the amount of experience I have with creating video is equal to the amount of experience I have performing brain surgery. Which is to say none whatsoever.

So the other multi-talented writers here at the Mock Dock got together with me that weekend and we threw together a roughly 8-minute video. And then that Sunday, I used ACTUAL VIDEO EDITING SOFTWARE to edit and voice over and throw in commentary into the video. Which, if you know me at all, you realize is utterly absurd, because I know nothing about video editing software. This is why it took me 7 hours to edit 8 minutes of video. Anyway, I sent it to the producer with very limited amounts of hope that it would actually be considered, let alone used.

But you know what? This producer happens to be the NICEST MAN EVER, and he either liked me or he felt really really sorry for me, and he kept me up to date on the progress of their story, and ultimately, this past Thursday night, wrote to me and said the following magical magical words: YOU ARE IN.

And even then, while I was smack dab in the middle of freak out number four, I thought – Well, they’ll probably use like a 1 second shot of my foot or something. But they ended up not only using quite a few bits of me, but also our website name was featured at the bottom of the screen for all kinds of seconds. And all of us mockdockers were here watching, in my living room, in one huge collective freak out. Best Night Ever.

So there you have it. Check out the whole kinoki experiment right here. And for the tens of you out there who read our site, count yourselves as part of the beginning of what we hope is a long and successful blogging adventure. Thanks for the visits!!