Over at Pet Rock Star, Shannon writes about Your Own Dot Org, a song that Joi asked her to write for and about us for our birthdays this last September.
I first listened to the song in September, on our flight to New York. While I had all the intentions to write about the song once our birthdays had passed, I was a bit reluctant to share the song since -- even though it's about topics that I've written about publicly -- it is still incredibly personal. It was an incredibly great gift and a wonderful song and I didn't just want it to become a joke about the "Ben and Mena."
And, when there are lines like "you're unbelievably adorably cute / benevolent, witty, and brilliant to boot" it's a bit tough to say "hey, here's a song written about us!" without looking like a complete egotist.
Now that Shannon and Joi have written about it, I have to add my comments and say that she did an amazing job. Shannon captured some really great moments and managed to make it funny, not sappy.
My absolutely favorite part of the song, which refers to this dinner:
"even four days alone reveal this is true:
ice cream... is so sad... without you"
Thanks to Shannon and Joi.
