Blog like an Egyptian

So, a couple of weeks ago I got an email from a PR firm that I'd worked with in the past. "Unique opportunity to travel to Egypt!" etc etc. It sounded a bit like one of those junk emails that you get every so often, "Hello, I represent the Crown Prince of Burundi, and I need your help in withdrawing his majesty's 100,000,000 pound fortune." Too good to be true, right?

Anyhow, I didn't respond right away, but eventually I thought "How many times will I have the chance to go to Egypt, even if it is part of some grand scheme to get one of my kidneys?" I wrote back, and they outlined the event: We'll send you to Cairo, pay for the trip, and you will cover a concert at the pyramids. I hadn't heard of the singer at all, which concerned me a bit, but luckily it wasn't the Crown Prince of Burundi. So, I told them I was in, and they said they'd get back to me.

I didn't hear from them for several days, and finally decided that they were chasing after bigger reporters. What was Wolf Blitzer up to? Maybe Mary Hart from Entertainment Tonight was taking my place. I was at a press junket for the Special Edition DVD of William Friedkin's CRUISING (which was great, and comes out on September 18th), when the PR firm emailed and asked me to give them a call. Just as a note, that's a pet peeve of mine. When you get an email that says "Call me", I always wonder why they couldn't have just put whatever they were going to say on the phone into the email?

I emailed back and said that I couldn't call as I was in junkets all day, and the reply came back "If you want to go to Egypt, we need to talk." And so it began. More soon, but in the meantime you can entertain yourself with a ton of photos.

Comments

[Carina]

That is super neat!

And I don't mean to pick out the typos, but I did giggle when I read "Mary Hary".

[Kevin]

Whoops. Nice catch. You should be my official proofer.

[Jessica]

I also hate the "call me" email. JUST TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT IN THE EMAIL. Half the time, I figure it's for a project they know I will refuse to begin with. But Egypt! Neato!