Bad, Bad Lester Brown Part One: First Contact
If you’ll take a moment to reference the press release below (Tod Brilliant Announces His Fame), in which the genius of Lester Brown and his book, Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble are mentioned, you’ll get a sense that I idolize the man. True enough. In fact, his book, and the question of how to get it more widely recognized, distributed and read was a major influence on my decision to become famous. Well, it turns out that Mr. Brown’s camp got wind of my efforts to lend my fame to his efforts. After talking via telephone with Mr. Brown and Reah Janise Kauffman, co-founder of Brown’s Earth Policy Institute, it was decided that the three of us should meet next week in Washington D.C. to discuss how we can work together to effectively promote not only Plan B 2.0 but the ideas within.
How excited am I to meet with them? To meet with Lester Brown, whom the Washington Post has hailed as “one of the world’s most influential thinkers� Very excited. Beyond excited. Blown away. Bowled over. And intimidated as hell! Who am I to meet with such a monumental mind? Am I going to waste his time? Fellow celebrities, power, money – these things don’t impress nor intimidate me. True genius, now that’s a different matter. That’s beside the point, I suppose, as the meeting is set and I’m going to do what I can, bring what creativity and insight I may possess to bear upon the question of how to “prime the pump†and turn Plan B not only into a national bestseller, but into the blueprint for how to fix the damage we’ve done before we leave nothing, and I do mean nothing, for future generations.
As it stands, I’m headed to D.C. on August 17th. Wow. Let’s see what happens. Go buy Plan B 2.0 already. You can grab it at www.alonovo.com – same catalog as Amazon, only much mo’ betta.
Tags: Plan B
You Suck
Now you have your first “hater”
But, Ben . . . why? Why does fame have to so suddenly turn people against me? I promise you, I\’m only trying to do the right thing (great movie, by the way. it has been a LONG time since I\’ve seen that one).
Ben - come back to me. Tell me what I can do be less sucky. It may be that I cannot, but I\’d like to try. I promise you, and everyone else, that I will not be a removed, detached celebrity who ignores the world around him. Ben, I\’m listening to you.