My Navin R. Johnson Moment
This past Friday, I peeked at my stats and saw a couple hundred hits for my Shoyu Ramen post. That post was about a month ago, so it getting a lot of hits was really out of the blue. It turns out that Bon Appetit featured my post in a slide show on their site. Check it out here.
Sure, there’s no money involved, but it’s still exciting. After pointing it out to Boom Boom and a couple friends, I realized I was sounding like Navin R. Johnson when he got the phonebook –
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Navin: 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: 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.
[the Sniper points to Navin’s name in the phone book]
Sniper: Johnson, Navin R… sounds like a typical bastard.
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Hopefully I won’t have a sniper come after me now…
Here’s the clip in case you’re totally lost:
Thanks Bon Appetit!
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LOL, that’s so funny! 🙂 Funny clips apart, it really is exciting news: congrats!
Oh thank you!!
Congrats! It’s always exciting when your blog gets a shout-out 🙂 And Bon Appetit… that’s a big time shot out! P.S. I hadn’t seen the ramen post before, but it looks absolutely delicious!
Thanks! Definitely worth trying that recipe
Congratulation–well deserved!
cool and hope you had fun ‘navin-ing!’
Congrats . . . what wine goes with a Navin R. Johnson moment? Salud!
Congrats bro! Now all you need is a chair and a dog named Shit head.
And a paddle ball, and this ashtray, and this remote control. And that’s it. I do t need anything else.
1. Congratulations! That’s really cool.
2. I saw Steve Martin performing with his bluegrass band this past weekend. He did a lot of comedy, and I decided that counted as fulfilling my childhood dream to see him do stand up live.
3. “HE HATES THESE CANS!!!”
AMAZING! And if Bon Appetit is into you, then you know you’re classy. And not even with a K!
How cool is THAT?!?! Congratulations! This also might be one of the best blog post titles ever, b-t-dubs.
Woot, woot!!! Awesome, man…making a name for yourself! 😉
Not sure if you saw it, but this post was featured in an article on MLive.com featuring “Best of local bloggers.” So I’m getting attention on a post that I wrote about how I’m getting attention on a post that I wrote. Wonder who else will pick it up??