Life In Perpetual Beta

I didn’t plan to do this interview. I didn’t know who Jeff Pulver was. I met his eccentric friend Geo Geller at a Webgrrrls party I sneaked into to meet my camera person Adrienne. I don’t know what Geo was doing there but he and Adrienne were chatting and drinking it up and became pretty insistent that I  interview Jeff.  They KNEW, even if I didn’t, that Jeff was the real deal, and I needed to have a conversation with him.

Geo took me out for some split pea soup after the party, at some point in the meandering of dialog he handed me his cell phone, mid call:

"Hi this is Melissa"

"Hi Melissa this is Jeff Pulver"

SURPRISE – an interview is born.

Adrienne and I met Geo at Grand Central Station two days later.  We didn’t know exactly what we were doing, or exactly where Geo was taking us. In fact, when we got to our train stop, Geo says, " I don’t know where he’s meeting us, or when, we can just wait in the Dunkin Donuts."  

It crossed my mind that Geo may have been plotting to enslave us into frying vats of donut holes for the rest of our natural born lives. What the hell were we doing in the dark standing in front of Dunkin Donuts? I was starting to rethink this whole "go with your gut" thing, starting to wonder if this "uncomfortable" intuitive moment was really just plain ole’ uncomfortable. How could I even think that I could make a movie with just an idea but no grand plan? I was starting to remember those public service announcements that played during Saturday morning cartoons, the ones about not going anywhere with a stranger.  I’ll spare you ALL the thoughts racing through my head in the small moments we waited because lo and behold Jeff Pulver pulled up in his SUV.  Luck 1 – Donut hole frying enslavement 0.

Sometimes, you just get lucky, and that’s OK.

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