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I think I made the point stronger in my comment to the post.

You can be "remarkable" by being weird, as long as the flavor of weird is a safe kind of weird. People like to laugh with you at yourself.

Being too weird or being weird-scary no longer makes you remarkable, but makes people too uncomfortable and they want distance themselves from you and the ultimate punishment, they dismiss you and shun you.

By the way, Maria Palma, makes a similar point about an ad in Vogue. The weird hat was the only ad that stood above the noise for her in the whole issue of Vogue.

Excellent point. You have to have a sense of where that line is between "purple" and "purple haze". Is it "wired" or just plain "weird"? That really does make the difference between something that gets talked about, and something that gets talked about behind your back.

Great post, Devin. Well done.

Whoah! The cat scared me there for a sec... thanks for catching my attention :)

Yes, there's a difference between "different-and-creative-weird" and "freaky-and-scary-weird".
There is a very thin line.

~Maria

Hello silly person, Totally Awesome did not fail. It was a phenomenal success and I believe it achieved exactly what God meant for it to achieve. You might want to talk to God a bit about your perspective on life and what is most important. No not the God of money, the real God.

Love, SUPERDELL

Dell,

Thanks for posting. I'm thrilled you've taken the time to comment. Please, please--in all seriousness--we would love to hear more about this experience from your perspective. Let's not split hairs over semantics, let's hear about what happened, what you're doing next and lessons you might take away from this experience.

ddt

Devin,

I have made the same offer to Dell on one of my posts. I am hopeful he will share with us his perspective.