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Prior to the advent of photography, if you wanted a lasting memento of your uncle’s dead face, you could either undertake the extremely expensive proposal of commissioning a painting — of which time was of the essence because of the putrefaction of the model — or you could have a death mask made.
How Justin Bieber Works -and- How teenage girls work
by Marshall Brain | September 27, 2010
Even if you don’t like the music, the persona or the fame of Justin Bieber, you may be interested in in the human being named Justin Bieber and the psychological effects that his fame is having on him. Also, what is the deal with teenage girls that causes the same thing to happen over and over again? Think about Elvis Presley, the Beatles, David Cassidy… it’s bizarre… like “teenage girls” are an army of insects, pre-programmed by some ancient evolutionary brain force to behave in exactly the same, timeless, irritating ways generation after generation. Anyway, here is an article that describes Justin’s current plight, which appears to be directly caused by the insect-force buried deep inside the brains of many teenage girls…
Today’s inspirational Moment #104 – What to do with fame
by Marshall Brain | March 11, 2010
As everyone knows, Conan O’Brien picked Sarah Killen to follow on Twitter: The inspirational part is what she did next: Conan O’Brien’s Twitter stunt turns tear-jerker Before the fateful O’Brien connection, Killen and her mother had been setting up a sponsor page for the Michigan Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure for breast cancer. [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I was having a conversation with a nice gentleman who mentioned that he has a hard time remembering names since he meets so many people, and they all start to run together at some point. Curious as to how his social life facilitates such a revolving door of new acquaintances, I asked him why he knows such an impressive herd of people. To that he responded that he’s something of a “micro-celebrity” in our fair city.
Maybe it’s because I had never met a self-described “micro-celebrity” before, but I considered it fairly audacious of him to make such a claim to a perfect stranger. The conversation also took an awkward turn when I had never heard of his micro-celebrity-making venture, and he looked visibly crestfallen.
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