1972, when I was your age, I just got out of the Army, was married and was looking for a job to put some distance between me and poverty. If I was an âescape artistâ you wouldnât have had the opportunities you had. Time is fleeting and youâll be where I am much sooner than you can imagine. Prepare for your future now. Donât waste time kidding yourself that youâre liberated.
PS. If you come home next week, we can go to âCoffee Sundayâ at St. Leoâs.
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Even more important than my fatherâs involvement was his blessing. On some level, I felt like Iâd been given permission to keep Fakebook running, like I was off the hook for the moral ambiguity Iâd been struggling with. If my parents thought it was harmless, maybe I wasnât such a horrible person after all.
Maybe.
I opened my phone and looked at my growing list of unread Facebook messages. I sighed, put the phone back into my pocket, and walked home.
Christine sat down across from me the next day at Handler. âDave, I canât believe people are falling for your crazy thing.â
âYou mean you donât believe Iâm in front of that furniture store?â
Dave Cicirelli
I canât believe the furniture store let me sleep for four hours before they insisted I leave.
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Justin Marshall Did you give anyone a dutch oven while you were there�
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Dave Cicirelli The future owner of that couch will need a priest to undo the horror heâll be bringing into his home.
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Matt Riggio Did you pack a small pillow or anything? jesusâ¦
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Dave Cicirelli And yeah, I packed a pillow. Iâm not an idiot.
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Matt Campbell Daveâ¦I follow your daily posts like a junkie seeking a fix. Rest easy knowing that youâre helping my work days go much faster. Iâm one of those stuck in the boxâ¦and the best I can do is support your journey by keeping abreast of it.
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âOf course not. The pictures are terrible.â
âI know, but no one seems to notice, as long as I make it blurry. It makes me question why I spend so much time on your projects.â
âVery funny. But I like what youâre doing. Itâs sort of a social experiment. Youâre testing what people are willing to believe.â
I wished I had thought of putting it that way in the coffee shop.
âYeah, I think itâll work as long as it stays on the rails. But Iâm going to make this thing nuts.â I grabbed a weekly planner from my desk and showed her the next three months. âI got a head start on some of the PhotoshopâIâm arriving in Philadelphia tomorrow, and I have most of it made.â
She thumbed through the calendar and shook her head. âOh Daveâ¦no one is going to believe this.â
âWell, thatâs kind of the point. I want to see how far I can push this. Itâs comedy, mostly.â
âRight, but Daveâyouâre in Mexico in time for the Day of the Dead festival? Thatâs in like, two weeks! Youâre on a shipping boat to China in the middle of November after you accidentally kill a drug lord? You join the North Korean circus? This is too much. Youâre not going to prove anything.â
âLet me show you whatâs going up tomorrow night in Philadelphia.â I was getting defensive. I opened my phone and showed her what lay in the future.
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Dave Cicirelli
I totally just ran into a Ben Franklin impersonator and am getting a beer with him.
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Dave Cicirelli
Ok, weâve had like 7 beers. Heâs awsome. Weâre pregramming at his place, and as you can tell he doesnât fuck around.
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