Congratulations. What sort of response did you get? Positive? Negative? Or just curious?

I love those moments! Glad you got to have one, especially in a school - a place where learning should happen.

I've been hammering away at the idea of "Who Is John Galt?" as a simple and effective marketing device for the films - which should've been plastered everywhere financially possible from sea to shining sea from the runup to ASP1, but it fell on deaf ears.

It's a perfect, ready-made publicity tool because it taps into the curiosity factor that resides in every human being and offers the film as its answer.

Not surprising then, that your shirt with that simple line of text on it may have introduced Rand's work to at least one of a group of random bystanders. That's getting it done - so my compliments!

Hello Irbeggs,
My pleasure. Glad you enjoyed it. :)
Regards,
O.A.

Thanks for sharing OA! Mr. Emanuel's playing is truly beautiful. Joyous!

Hello johnpe1,
The Gulch is a beautiful thing! Good people... we are lucky to have landed among friends!
Regards,
O.A.

Hello johnrobert2,
Fantastic!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0TaJ84X...
Regards,
O.A.

Hey, O.A., Emmanuel is good! that's one of the
really neat things about the online gulch -- you
learn about new artists ... Antonio Carlos Jobim
in Pendulum of Justice, Tommy Emmanuel here --
it's grrrrrrrrreat! -- j

Good questions, yes. How many blank-out stares did you receive? Hopefully none.

Atlas Shrugged...it's not just fiction any more.

As it should :)

My son has had this company for almost 20 years. He has a lot of Roark in him so while he is successful there is a lot of drama.

I was wearing my hat the other day and walked into a presentation being given by a company to my team and one of the guys got it and said he loved my hat. Asked how often people recognize it. I told him not often and he laughed and said he is from Seattle and thought he would get even less recognition from people out there.

But all in all I agree that it is uncommon for people to say anything about my hat, which I take to mean they don't know where it comes from.

Indeed, having her tell me that Dagny is her role model made me very proud.

I like the name. As popular as AS is I am surprised you don't get some comments on the 20th Century Motor hat.

I wear my 20th Century Motors hat a lot and some have given it a puzzled look but no one has commented. On the other hand, I sometimes wear a hat with the logo of my oldest son's company on it and a few have asked if that has anything to do with "That book". The company is Fountainhead Irrigation and the answer is definitely.

Now THAT has to be one of the most exciting moments in a parents life... Dagny is her role model. She has a great future ahead of her with wide open eyes :-)

John, I think you hold the record for introducing the movies as well as the book, being the person you are :-)

As I entered my bank one day an older gentleman was exiting. He read my tshirt and chuckled in recognition. Who is John Galt?

Is your daughter going off to college? I remember that your daughter was a teenager. Given your disagreement with the coffee, the two of you might want to reconsider. I am educating future Galts, Danneskjolds, Reardens, d'Anconias, certain Taggarts, etc. at Florida Tech, today's Patrick Henry University. As I write this, I am wearing my "Atlas Shrugged: Now Non-Fiction t-shirt". My daughter is going to Florida Tech to study biomedical engineering and told me that Dagny is her role model.

Good job John. It's a shame that in a group of twenty people that no one knew who John Galt is.

Hahahaha....that's what I thought too. Good job John with the shirt.

Eh hem! Was there any cards being given out?