Dear Jimmy Fallon: so when you going to have jkOnTheRun on your little show?

Dear Jimmy Fallon,

Congratulations on landing the big Late Night gig, it’s a good show, and you are doing good things with it already.  The “I’m a big geek” meme is original, and you are already doing a good job milking it to make things a bit different on your new show.  Kudos for that idea.

Please take this letter in the spirit in which it was intended.  You will not be taken seriously as a geek until you have Kevin and I as guests on Late Night.  I understand you are new to your job and all; that’s why you have so far taken the “easy geek” route.  Having Kevin Rose of Digg/ Diggnation and Joshua Topolsky of Engadget on Late Night was frankly an easy way for you to go.  Sure, Digg is the biggest geek social media site on the planet, and engadget is the biggest gadget site.  I realize that makes these guys an easy call to have as guests on your little show — but come on, that’s the easy way out.

The fact is, you are not going to be taken seriously as a geek until you have Kevin Tofel and I, James Kendrick, as guests on Late Night.  Now before you rip into this idea, know that I understand that jkOnTheRun is not the biggest and flashiest gadget site out there.  That’s why a move to have us as guests on Late Night could only be taken as solid proof that you are a real, certifiable geek.  Taking the hard way, now that shows guts, and I’m sure you have them.

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I’m pretty sure that Kevin and I have handled more gadgets than those other guys combined.  I mean, come on, our tag line at jkOnTheRun is “…using mobile devices since they weighed 30 lbs.”  Thirty freakin’ pounds!  That shows how long we have been doing this geek stuff, and you can tap into that gadgety geek goodness on your show.  That would sure get you tons of geek cred on the street.  No question about that.

Make no mistake, Kevin and I are geeks all right, the exact sort you are already using to build up your geek meme on Late Night.  But we’re not ordinary geeks, no sir, we are PROFESSIONAL geeks who do this for a living.  We don’t sit around drinking beer and pretending to play on laptops.  Nope we do this geek thing FULL TIME.  We are a part of the most respected tech network on the Internet, GigaOM.  You’ve heard of them, I’m sure.  You need that if you are ever going to be taken seriously as the true geek of late night.  Trust me on that.

I hope you realize that this entreaty is based on respect for you as a late night host.  We want to see you succeed at this Late Night thing and we’ll do anything we can to help you in this endeavor.  We’re there for you, man.

Take care,

James Kendrick, jkOnTheRun

UPDATE: I have tweeted this challenge to Jimmy Fallon.  If you’d like to see us on his show then get your own tweet in too!  @jimmyfallon

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