- 9:43 AM, Friday,
March 21st, 2014:
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- I was texting Matt
(current 5th
ranking GolfKon
player -
yet actually the best putter, he's just only played
twice) the news in this entry and all he could say
was: "That is absurd." And I couldn't come up
with a better word for it. As if everything leading to
this meeting wasn't hard to process...
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- So I walk
into Armani Wells and meet Claudia surrounded by cool
Back to the Future memorabilia (as well as wonderful
designer men's clothing at discount prices) and she
unfortunately couldn't leave to grab coffee since an
employee was out sick. Oh, wow, did I even
mention how this came to be?
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- So 4 years ago
I added "Claudia Wells" on Facebook after seeing
her interview on the then just released Back To The
Future Blu-rays. She mentions her shop and
I realized how close it was and I won't lie -
I asked her out. LOL. I mentioned I was a
fellow actor, included my reel and asked her to
coffee. I never heard back and figured she got
messages like that from a TON of people. Never thought
twice about it...
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- ...last week, once
the charity was lined up, I started going through
my friends that were in LA - looking for any
connections with celebrities that might be interested
in making an appearence, maybe donating something,
etc. Saw Claudia, remembered the shop - and even
though she never responded I wrote "hey" anyway.
Her reply?
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- "Love the
video! Sure, I'll have coffee with you. Why not? As
I always say, "you never know what a day'll
bring...""
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- Oh dear. She saw
the "hey" from 2014, saw the bottom of the note from
2010 and assumed it was all at the same time.
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- "Wow. So that
coffee question was sent to you FOUR years ago. I
am now married with two children!!!
LOL."
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- And for once,
I actually was laughing out loud. But of course,
now that I had her attention? We both laughed,
I mentioned the event and set up today's meeting.
Crazy.
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- So we got to
talking about the course, the event and I asked
if she was associated with any charities and she was:
Kids in the Spotlight. It's a group of professional
actors, writers and industry folks that help at-risk
kids produce their own short film in a 10 week
program. But the real deal. So when they get to the
actual shooting, there's a crew, it's catered - they
feel like they're on the set. Pretty cool experience
for foster children who would never have access to
something like that. (http://kidsinthespotlight.org) I
ended up just proposing things to Claudia and she
thought it was cool...
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- For the event on
the 29th? I thought it would be cool as
I mentioned a couple entries ago - for her to
give the autographed flyers to the players that got
into the Final Four...
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- Done. They will be
personalized when she gets back from an autograph show
in Detroit that day and given to the Top 4. That's a
very cool thing to play for.
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- Then I proposed
the biggie: how's about we dedicate a hole to Back to
The Future on Memorial Day, have you appear and have
Kids in the Spotlight be the charity for the hole or
even the entire event? She checked her calendar, it's
open - and she booked it. That is happening. I noticed
one of her postcards had the Time Machine Delorean in
front of her shop and I joked "How cool would it
be to have the Time Machine at my house on Memorial
Day.
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- "Oh I can
do that, I know the guy." Pulls out her phone and
texts him.
- <blink> To
cut to the outcome, later that afternoon he called me,
we worked out the details and it's happening. Uhm.
This, will be at my house in my driveway for the
dedication:
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- Uhm. What the
hell? He's waiving the $1500 fee because he's a friend
of Claudia's and he believes in her charity - but
asked if I could cover transportation for the 200
mile round trip at a buck and change per mile.
OF COURSE DUDE. We'll find a way to cover
$250 for one of the coolest moments of my life. LOL.
He also mentioned that I should connect with the
actor that played Mayor Goldie Wilson as he digs doing
stuff. I mentioned that to Claudia? She texted him and
said he'd totally do it if he's in town.
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- Are you watching
this steamroll? I mean, we still have 2 months to go!
So of course I get to work on the logo for the
hole...
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- And whyyyyyyyyy is
it Golf TO the Future? Well, most of you know
Hole 7 as the pipe hole... and now? You will be
starting on the tee box in 1885 and literally "Golfing
to the Future" to 2015 (the final pipe) while passing
Pipe 1955 and Pipe 1985 in order to hit a hole-in-one.
I'm working on all the graphics for each pipe as well
as getting a Time Machine DeLorean for the ball to
shoot over or under as it goes through the final pipe.
Man is that gonna look cool in the episodes.
:-)
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- So this absurdity
is happening and I somehoew have to sleep in the
next 2 months. LOL.
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- Then of course to
top it off, she agrees to go on The Mo'Kelly show with
me on Sunday to promote everything and announce the
"absurdity" within this entry and then this
video...
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- People, we're
gonna raise a bunch of money for charities this year.
My freaking BACKYARD. Can any of you process that this
worked? You know what this feels like to me? 4tvs. An
idea that everyone thought was crazy, that
I built and then immediately booked a ton of
shows at $250 a pop and it was the reason I moved to
LA. But honestly? I think GolfKon is even a bit
crazier. There's a permanence to doing shit to your
HOME... and to the scale I did it? With the
website and the tournaments and the league points...
it's a very bizarre obsession that only right NOW has
total justification.
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- What's
next?!?!?
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- Adam
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