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Loving the exposure on Letterman!
I have not been able to stay awake for Letterman for months. I have no idea why I was wide awake on Monday, March 17, at 11:45 p.m., but I was. (It might be the intense Body Fit exercise class I'm taking right now that has thrown my internal clock off kilter.) Anyway, there I was, in bed, watching Letterman's Monday night segment called "Small Town News." I love that segment. I have always vowed to send something to him from our paper because, face it, we have some doozies printed in our pages sometimes. But I never did. I watched Letterman read his first item (some lame thing about an ear of corn), when suddenly, he introduced the next item from "The Forest- Blade in Swainsboro, Georgia." I almost had a full-blown, apoplectic, hyperventilated fit. I grabbed Alan like I was drowning. He was peacefully reading next to me, and thought something had gone terribly wrong with me. "It's…it's…it's…US!" was all I could sputter out to him. And by that time, Letterman was reading out the photo caption that I had written about the "Suspicious Package" that had been delivered to a local business last September. (Check out the Sept. 19, 2007 issue of our paper online in our archives.) The last line, "Anyone missing a five pound delivery of marijuana from California is asked to call the Georgia Bureau of Investigation," (which I had written tongue-in-cheek) was what Letterman read on his show. To say that I was beside myself is like saying Ben & Jerry's pistachio ice cream is just average. I was so excited I called my mother in California to let her know that our paper was being mentioned. (She was just as excited, but fell asleep an hour before the West Coast broadcast.) Ironically, the next day at work I forgot to tell everyone about it until Neil Kalmanson called to tell me his wife, Mary, saw it. I thanked him for reminding me and started telling everyone about what I had seen. From then on, it was one person after another, telling us they had seen it. By Friday, several people had e-mailed us the link to YouTube that features the video. Letterman, by the way, in his inimitable style, deadpanned that last line of the photo caption like it was "real." It's a hoot. Wally told me that of all the newspapers he's been publisher, a couple have had items featured on Jay Leno's Headlines. However, we are both die-hard Letterman fans, so we're doubly thrilled that our paper made Letterman. It's just too cool! As of this writing, there were about 3,368 views of that particular video on YouTube. I'm sure the number will be higher by the end of the week. Now that the initial euphoria has worn off and, like a friend of mine said, our "six seconds of fame" have evaporated, it's back to the daily grind. Thanks to Shane and Dawn who sent that newspaper clipping in. Thanks to all who called and e-mailed us, too. Ah, fame. Short but sweet!--Jacquie Brasher is senior writer for The Forest-Blade and may be reached at jacquie@forest-blade.com
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