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22 October 2006
Sun, 22 Oct 2006 07:57:09 GMT Doonesbury's Warvia Kjell Olsen2040 days agoPiece on Garry Trudeau, the guy behind Doonesbury. I’m not entirely sure why I clicked onto it, or why I started reading it, or why I kept reading it; but it did a good job of pulling me in.
It turns out he’s not afraid of publicity so much as he’s horrified at being perceived as the kind of person who wants publicity.
I can empathize with that. I’ve never been one to attract attention to myself. But one of the things I wonder all the time is whether I’m just fake timid1. I mean I have a fricking public journal up on the internet for anyone to read2. I go out and play soccer on a field in front of fans, and although I hate to death the thought that people are watching me, I do sort of like it.
So do I maybe try not to attract attention just because I’ve never been paid tremendous amounts of attention? Or do I tend to deflect whatever attention I do get, thereby discouraging it from coming? The chicken or the egg.
There’s a difference between reputation and image, Trudeau explains. “These get confused in people’s minds,” he says, but one involves character, the other public relations.
“I just refused to get entangled by issues of image maintenance that fame implied. I made a deliberate retreat from a publicly visible life.”
It’s the stem cells. I hear their cries.
1 Here meaning that I don’t want too much publicity/attention focused upon me.
2 People can read it if they wish, but I haven’t ever told anyone about my site, it’s linked from a few other places. But I don’t at the moment have a link to it on facebook, where of my friends would likely find it.
If you google for me it comes up, and if you see my station11.net email address (I mostly use my umn.edu addy for stuff relating to school) you might be inclined to see what site that is. But otherwise, the only reason someone would come here is because google led them, and there’s ostensible something I’ve put down in which they have interest.
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09 February 2006
Thu, 09 Feb 2006 13:35:59 GMT Mohammed Dancevia Kjell Olsen2294 days agoSacrilege.
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06 November 2005
Sun, 06 Nov 2005 18:39:00 GMT boondocks_comicvia Kjell Olsen2389 days agoBoondocks gets animated tonight on Adult Swim.
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26 February 2005
Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:30:00 GMT Calvin and Hobbes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediavia Kjell Olsen2642 days agoWhat a great series, and quite a pleasantry to stumble upon this after just finishing reading Le Petit Prince. Two whimsical and incredible pieces of work – go read them1 over and over.
1 Calvin and Hobbes can be had here until it’s hammered by some legality, while le petit prince seems to be under some sort of copyright, and is better in print with the pictures anyway.
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