(So in my quest to interview the other Brian Spaeth who wrote a book, I decided to just interview the first Brian Spaeth I could my hands on, and found one on Facebook.)
1) I just published my first book. Would you ever do something like tell your family and friends you’d been writing it in secret and never telling them it’s another guy?
I wouldn’t steal your thunder, but I have been thinking about writing a book too. we could definitely save on marketing expenses.
2) What’s it like being Brian Spaeth for you? I enjoy it every day.
It is the most awesome thing in the world…of course. We are very humble about it though.
3) Did you know there’s only 11 of us in the US? Do you ever think there should only be one? How much would I need to pay you to change it to like “Brian Spades”? If you mumbled it, people would probably never even realize what you did.
People spell my last name wrong all the time so I’m not sure if officially changing it would really work. Maybe we should have some sort of “battle royal” for the right to claim the name of Brian Spaeth…all losers change their name to Betsy.
That went pretty well, and Brian did end up buying my book. I can only hope he goes through with telling his family he wrote it, so they all go and buy copies, he can autograph them, etc, et al, tomorrow.
There really are only 11 of us in total – I may try to track down everyone and set up that battle Brian mentioned. The losers wouldn’t have to change their name in my version, though – the losers would die, and stop using my name.
I have made contact with the other me who does writering, so look out for that one soon.
(After the break, we shared additional conversations, including some NBA talk. I’ve always been my own best friend, but now I might be my own best friend twice over.)
I writed:
Yeah, everyone thinks it’s “Space” on the phone, and they always write “Brain”, right? You’re like the only person who understands me.
Maybe we should have a like Brian Spaeth anthology book – there’s another one of us who wrote a poetry book. What’s your potential book about? Mine is about a giant futuristic airplane.
He writed:
Each chapter would be about a specific person I know or have known. We’ll see if i can actually find time to write it. An anthology would be a cool idea.
And yes my name was officially “Brain” for the first month of college. The admissions person misspelled it on the professors’ roll sheets.
I writed:
I had a credit card with “Rbian” on it once – that one I thought was cool because at least it was different. Maybe I should start a FB group for people with our name.
You’re Oklahoma, right? How do people feel about the Thunder in general?
He writed:
I think we would much rather have kept the hornets, but the games are pretty much packed. The last game I went to it seemed like the fans are starting to get behind the thunder. Most people know it would take a couple of years to build this team up. We will be the highest attended last place team ever.
Oh and what’s up with the Toast page? Ironically that is my nickname.
(I’m a fan of “Toast” on FB.) I writed:
No way – that’s awesome. Mine is Steak. What if all the Brian Spaeths have food nicknames like this?
Oh, and I find people who take the time to imitate food online fascinating.
You can see we’ve become fast friends – I’ll continue to post every correspondence we share for the rest of our lives.
I can’t wait to hear what he thinks of his book that I wrote!
