Will you be Dean's friend?

Hey pallies, likes here's a really cool way of helpin' others comes to true Dino-devotion. From the pad goerie.com, Erie Pa. Times-News feature writer Dave Richards scribes the followin' Dino-tale....

A dude tagged Joe Popp, artist extraordinare from Erie, PA. recently asked all his Facebook pallies to change their portraits to our Dino...and then he asked his pallies to ask their other pallies to do likewise.

Dudes, likes I loves this here Dino-idear...'cause the more our Dino gets promoted, likes the more others will be drawn to pure Dino-bliss. Likes I did tries to track down Mr. Popp on Facebook, but obviously he no longer has our Dino as his portrait...and as you will read below, Popp found no way to track down the number of pallies who went Dino. But, likes we knows pallies, every little thin' done for our Dino is well worth our Dino-efforts.

Thanks to Mr. Dave Richards for sharin' this story with his Erie, PA readers. To view the whole story in it's original context, just likes as usual, clicks on the tag of today's Dino-post. Dino-promotin', DMP



Dave Richards: Will you be Dean's friend?
Dave
Richards

Erie artist Joe Popp recently completed a piece of Facebook performance art. He asked his Facebook friends to change their profile pictures to Dean Martin. Then, he asked his friends to ask their friends and so on.


Everybody loves somebody some time, but would everybody love Dean Martin at the same time?


"I thought it'd be interesting to see how many people I could get to comply," Popp said.


Why Deano?


"Just random, out of nowhere," Popp said. "After I thought about it, it was because he's completely neutral. There's no political agenda. Most people can deal with Dean."


Alas, Popp has no way of computing how many people became Dean for a week.


"But I learned a couple things," he said. "One is people get sick of doing something very quickly. People were posting, 'I'm tired of this' just two or three days after it started. Then there were people who posted, 'I don't even know who that is.'


"That shows you he's not from our generation; he's from our parents' generation. Those steps away from what you grew up with get wider and wider."


True enough. Today, we have Facebook. Back then, their social network was called the party phone line.


DAVE RICHARDScan be reached at 870-1703 or by e-mail at dave.richards@timesnews.com or on Facebook.