Dear Bob,
I’ve been a fan of yours for most of my life. As a young teenager I was a folk music enthusiast, and I discovered you early. My formative years were spent listening to “Blowing In The Wind”, Times Are A-Changing”, “Baby Let Me Follow You Down” and dozens of others. I have a button from those times that says. "Relect Bob Dylan God". Love you man!
When you turned electric with “Bringing It All Back Home”, I became electric too. You turned me on to the infinite possibilities of rock and roll. That’s why when a spectacular idea for a business opportunity came up, I thought of you. Think of it Bob: Bob Dylan Fortune Cookies.
Don’t laugh; I’ve thought this through. There are enough quirky lyrics in your songs to last us for decades. Heck you may never have to go on tour again if things work out right. As for me, I can see a time when I’ll talk to my last flake on the used car lot. Won’t that be a great day!
Now let me paint a picture: The young couple has just had their full of Pork Chow Mien and reach for a fortune cookie. Instead of saying, “You will soon have business success”, it says, “The answer is blowing in the wind”. Now wouldn’t that be something?
The great thing about Bob Dylan Fortune Cookies is that as time goes on they will be more and more effective. As we baby boomers die off, less and less people will be aware of your songs and their impact on our generation. So when they open up a cookie and it says, “Come mothers and fathers throughout the land, don’t criticize what you can’t understand” it will sound as fresh as it did when you wrote it over forty years ago.
My favorite line of Bob Dylan Fortune Cookies will be called “The Subterranean Line”, after the classic song, “Subterranean Homesick Blues” That one song is chuck full of great fortune cookie lines. Here’s a few touching examples.
“Don’t want to be a bum, you better chew gum.”
“Get sick, get well, hang around the ink well.”
“You don’t need a weather man to know which way the wind blows.”
“The pump don’t work ‘cause the vandals took the handles.”
The possibilities are endless, I tell you!
The cookies could be used for special occasions. For example, a great “date” ice breaker fortune cookie: “Lay, lady lay, lay across my big brass bed.” For that college fraternity party: “Well I would not feel so all alone, everybody must get stoned”. For political campaigns we can mine the song “Masters of War” for several relevant nuggets
Bob, we’ve got a home run here. I’m so excited I could spit! With you and me partnering up on this project we will make history and a truckload of money. In no time at all we’ll be goin’ down Highway 61 like a rolling stone with the Memphis blues again!
Call me Bob. I’ll be waiting.
David
I’ve been a fan of yours for most of my life. As a young teenager I was a folk music enthusiast, and I discovered you early. My formative years were spent listening to “Blowing In The Wind”, Times Are A-Changing”, “Baby Let Me Follow You Down” and dozens of others. I have a button from those times that says. "Relect Bob Dylan God". Love you man!
When you turned electric with “Bringing It All Back Home”, I became electric too. You turned me on to the infinite possibilities of rock and roll. That’s why when a spectacular idea for a business opportunity came up, I thought of you. Think of it Bob: Bob Dylan Fortune Cookies.
Don’t laugh; I’ve thought this through. There are enough quirky lyrics in your songs to last us for decades. Heck you may never have to go on tour again if things work out right. As for me, I can see a time when I’ll talk to my last flake on the used car lot. Won’t that be a great day!
Now let me paint a picture: The young couple has just had their full of Pork Chow Mien and reach for a fortune cookie. Instead of saying, “You will soon have business success”, it says, “The answer is blowing in the wind”. Now wouldn’t that be something?
The great thing about Bob Dylan Fortune Cookies is that as time goes on they will be more and more effective. As we baby boomers die off, less and less people will be aware of your songs and their impact on our generation. So when they open up a cookie and it says, “Come mothers and fathers throughout the land, don’t criticize what you can’t understand” it will sound as fresh as it did when you wrote it over forty years ago.
My favorite line of Bob Dylan Fortune Cookies will be called “The Subterranean Line”, after the classic song, “Subterranean Homesick Blues” That one song is chuck full of great fortune cookie lines. Here’s a few touching examples.
“Don’t want to be a bum, you better chew gum.”
“Get sick, get well, hang around the ink well.”
“You don’t need a weather man to know which way the wind blows.”
“The pump don’t work ‘cause the vandals took the handles.”
The possibilities are endless, I tell you!
The cookies could be used for special occasions. For example, a great “date” ice breaker fortune cookie: “Lay, lady lay, lay across my big brass bed.” For that college fraternity party: “Well I would not feel so all alone, everybody must get stoned”. For political campaigns we can mine the song “Masters of War” for several relevant nuggets
Bob, we’ve got a home run here. I’m so excited I could spit! With you and me partnering up on this project we will make history and a truckload of money. In no time at all we’ll be goin’ down Highway 61 like a rolling stone with the Memphis blues again!
Call me Bob. I’ll be waiting.
David
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