On Friday, I received a long-awaited call from Sony PR telling me that the segment I taped for Shark Tank was going to air on January 27th. This was exciting for a whole bunch of reasons, most important being I was finally allowed to acknowledge I ever taped for the show. Exactly two days after WCIU aired the Don’t Spit the Water! pilot, I was on a plane for a week-long trip to LA, where I would ultimately stand on the Shark Tank set and try to convince a panel of rich folks to invest in my custom stick figure cat drawing business.

After the show airs, I’ll write a bit more about my experiences that week. It was one of the most surreal and exciting experiences of my life. Without giving the ending away, I will say they have enough footage to make me look savvy or insane – it’s all in how they want to edit it. I have a little anxiety about potentially looking the fool on national television. But if they paint me as a bozo, it just makes for a better story.

It is an understatement to say that this silly stick figure cat drawing project has taken me to some unexpected places. One day I will write a book called, “The Two-Sentence Emails That Changed My Life.” The DSTW pilot. The Cat drawing Groupon. The Nairobi Project. Shark Tank. These are all products of me daring to ask a short, stupid question – and someone on the other end replying, “sure, why not?”

2011 has had an interesting finish. If you enjoy seeing me get humiliated, I’m sure you’ll walk away satisfied. Tune in to ABC at 7pm CST on Friday, January 27th, to see if I was able to convince real live millionaires and billionaires that there’s a future and a market for custom stick figure cats!