In the past week, my old man has been contacted by Tower’s newspaper, Duluth’s newspaper and the two big Twin Cities newspapers. A radio station out of Ely has called him in an attempt to get him on the air and yesterday Minnesota Public Radio called hoping for the same. A couple of days ago someone from Dallas, Texas called looking for an interview, but my mom just swore at them and slammed down the phone. (I might exaggerate.)

But today my dad’s fame was brought to a whole new level. I said he was famous (see yesterday’s entry), but to further prove my point, I have a story.

I got a phone call from a job I applied for today (my very first call!) and I was a little broken up about it because I decided it wasn’t the job for me and if I don’t want to even consider the first job that might come along, there’s no way I’ll ever find a job I like. Obviously.

But after I hung up the phone, it rang again and my dad answered it. I figured he was getting called in to work because it’s snowing like insanity out there, but he hung up the phone and said, “Amanda, who’s Jimmy Kimmel?” like the name rang a bell, but he just couldn’t connect the right areas of his brain to figure out exactly who this man was. My mom was all hooting and hollering about The Man Show and I was trying to ask why he wanted to know, and he said, “Oh, they wanted me on his show tonight.”

Excuse me?

Yes. That’s right. For whatever reason (perhaps because it was 54 below there yesterday and but a measly 47 below in Tower), Jimmy Kimmel LIVE is shooting a live remote from Embarrass, Minnesota this evening. They wanted my dad to join in the fun, but he said he had to work. They weren’t about the give up that easy though – they promised to call back again this evening. That means I should probably get off here so they can call again and try to get my fame-shy dad on national television.

I never in a million years thought we’d be getting phone calls from Hollywood. Crazy, crazy shit, I say.

*UPDATE - A reporter from NBC nightly news is coming over tomorrow, so it looks like the old guy will be on national TV whether he likes it or not. This is complete madness.