... I'm gonna live for-eh-vah
Jan. 25th, 2008 05:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
penfield"Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid."
- Francis Bacon, Essays
A few months ago I expounded on the ignoble desire of "fame", as part of a screed against social networking sites. And as I said, I am not immune.
So I read with some interest the recent Washington Post Magazine article by Gene Weingarten, The Fame Threshhold, which in turn references Tom [Shroder]'s Postulate on the Universal Nature of Fame:
"A person is truly famous if and only if his or her name, when entered in quotes into the Google search engine, returns more hits than does the phrase 'she moaned.' "
As of this writing, "she moaned" yields approximately 2.12 million hits. Eager to play along, I checked my name, which brings forth a relatively paltry 1,170 hits. For some frame of reference, I am about 1/5,000th as famous as Ben Affleck and 1/40,000th as famous as Paris Hilton.
On the bright side, I am just about as popular than the phrase "Now take off your bra."*
- Francis Bacon, Essays
A few months ago I expounded on the ignoble desire of "fame", as part of a screed against social networking sites. And as I said, I am not immune.
So I read with some interest the recent Washington Post Magazine article by Gene Weingarten, The Fame Threshhold, which in turn references Tom [Shroder]'s Postulate on the Universal Nature of Fame:
"A person is truly famous if and only if his or her name, when entered in quotes into the Google search engine, returns more hits than does the phrase 'she moaned.' "
As of this writing, "she moaned" yields approximately 2.12 million hits. Eager to play along, I checked my name, which brings forth a relatively paltry 1,170 hits. For some frame of reference, I am about 1/5,000th as famous as Ben Affleck and 1/40,000th as famous as Paris Hilton.
On the bright side, I am just about as popular than the phrase "Now take off your bra."*
