I've been graced with an inside view, now, twice in my life, of
the phenomenon of cewebrity. The first time, in the late 90's, it
was a stature built on some amalgamation of actual talent, accented by there being
so many fewer web sites, and by the medium being so much more remote
and "underground." Now, perceived cewebrity has become airborn,
infecting everyone who can muster up the energy (or narcissism) to
sign up for blogger, or install movable type, or log into
livejournal, and present the world with every bit of stale
information, with every witty comeback and interesting
walking-down-the-street story that comes to mind. There are,
clearly, variations on the extent of mundanity of personal blogs.
There are extents of the gag-effect associated with the cewebrity
stalker comments. There were extents in the 90's of the uselessness
of web sites. There are extents of everything. Somehow, however,
perceived cewebrity (all cewebrity is perceived, right?) has become
much more commonplace, and much more self-obsessed, and much more
annoying.
Anyways, I thought it would be fun to make fun of bloggers. I
recognize the irony of this being posted by movable type, I just
don't care. This entire entry is just to have something on the page
before I make and launch the site. Screw you, anyways.
I'm thinking:
cewebrity perception interviews
cewebrity hairstyle
oops
cewebrity before-and-after pictures
cewebrity video
interviews
If you're reading this, then you know about this site. As Lindsay says, and I'm
paraphrasing, interpreting, and partially making this up, since I
forget the exact comment, "no one is going to give a shit about your
stupid web site."
No shit.