If you build it they

February 05, 2002

If you build it they will come. Perhaps the rallying cry of many porn web designers but I still find some value in the "Field of Dreams" message. The mere mention of Jim Croce brought on several casual references to him by others over the next few days. All of the people who brought him up claimed to not have had a look at my "journal". Why does that happen? You buy a shirt and then you see way more people than ever before wearing the same one. Is it that you never noticed the shirt until you bought the shirt or is it that your purchase somehow started a chain reaction? Am I turning into Andy Rooney or Jerry Seinfeld? If you read this particular post with one of their voices in mind then you'll see what I mean. I'm pretty sure that there are causal connections far more interesting than the ones I can grasp. A 35 year old man in China is picking lint from his bellybutton while repeating an English phrase he is hearing through the white plastic airline headphones he kept from a business trip he took last month. In Berlitz fashion he is saying "you look lovely".
Did my saying that actually make it happen? Is it happening? Science says that there is no logical connection. I am playing only with probabilties and not with events that are coordinated in any concrete way. Oh my god. The man is turning toward me and is actually saying, "no Craig it is specifically you that looks lovely". His english is poor but I can make it out. He seems so sincere. He is taking off the headphones and starting to remove his shirt. I have to go.