As Seen On TV

Magical realist dreaming must be contagious. Last night, in my sleep, I came up with another answer to the question I posed in yesterday's post: I blog so that I can get on the QVC channel. Last night I dreamt that I was, for some reason, watching a segment for the QVC home shopping channel from the studio where it is broadcast. The hosts were rehearsing (Do they rehearse on QVC?) a spot in which they would be selling some kind of combination home computer / home entertainment system. It seemed that the large-screen projector for the home entertainment system was run via the computer so that you could watch internet programming. I have no idea if there is such a product or whether there'd be a market for it, but that's not the point in a dream. The interesting thing was that the "programming" that was showing on the screen was not a high resolution movie trailer, a live news feed, or even a YouTube video, but rather a static image. It was a screen shot of Mazurland Blog.

The hostess was practicing giving a tour of the specs and features of the system, but I was just standing there waiting for her to say some lines about our blog. I knew that QVC had chosen us for some good reason to help sell the product, and I was sure that she'd say something about the three cute little boys on the right. (For some reason, Hank and Ben were absent - maybe the producers asked us to remove them.) But the reason for the image of Mazurland Blog went unremarked as she went down the list of features. I was getting a little antsy standing in back of the cameras, and I started to analyze the situation, a sure way to kill a dream: When is this thing going to air? How many site visits would we get out of this? Should we expect a call from Pajamas Media? Why were they trying to sell a big screen projector using a static image? Who would buy a large screen projection system to view a blog or do computer work? What would you use this for? (Wait, I think I know...) Not that I'm complaining about free publicity. but is this any way to run a business?

Like I said, magical realism. A little light on the realism.