Comments on: Fame, the bitch-goddess

By: ventureblogalist

ventureblogalist — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:33:05 +0000

nice post. You deserve a Harper Lee moment.

By: Ramana Rajgopaul

Ramana Rajgopaul — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:42:22 +0000

At my retirement party, a well wisher said “Ramana has left his footprints on many markets and many factories. Every one will miss him.”

I do not get even one new year greeting card from any of these people who were the ones who would have missed me. when I was on the throne, I was famous indeed.

This also passes.

By: the communicatrix

the communicatrix — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:40:01 +0000

Emily - I’m on Plurk, too, but…

Hell, I don’t know. I just like Twitter.

Earl - I always enjoy your comments! —”Jennifer,” Colleen’s Hyderabad-based VA

Angie - I’m blessed beyond my wildest dreams of 10 years ago. So it owes me nothing, I know. Just know that I’ll forever be exorcising this stupid vanity.

Franca - Tina Fey? Ha! I was Tina Fey nine years before there _was_ a Tina Fey!

Ian - Sorry about that earworm, dude. And like Franca sez, fame is overrated—it’s the perks of fame that rock.

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:15:49 +0000

Along with prompting a loop of David Bowie’s “Fame” to play continuously in my head this post made me ask myself “do I really want fame?” At this point I’d settle for acceptance, but isn’t fame kind of uber-acceptance? Then there’s the money…and the beach house.

By: Franca

Franca — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:49:30 +0000

Communicatrix:

You are one of my secret twitter addictions. A couple of your posts are already my favourites. Even though you don’t follow me (sniff, sniff) I still forgive you and continue to follow you. ;) Keep on making us crack up, you’re most wonderful. ;)

Re:Fame well as soon as you stop chasing her she’ll come running into your life. Play hard to get and there she is - Lady Fame at your doorstep pronto. It’s some kind of Universal Law or something. IMNSHO Fame is vastly overrated, anonymity rocks! If only more people would believe me.

Anyhoo I think you’re vastly superior to that Tina Fey woman - so there!!

Cheers!

Franca

By: Angie

Angie — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:41:05 +0000

You’ve made your own mark here on this little corner of the web and we love it.

Your mothers (and grandfathers) hunger for fame set you on the right path, you’re entertaining us here and twitter..Wonderful. Come on Ms. C, you have the BF (and his offspring), you have Arnie, you have your writing and you have us, could you possibly need any more ;)

“Which parts of your life make you the happiest? I’ll bet they’re pretty simple.” YES they are and they put a smile on my face every day!

By: Earl Kabong

Earl Kabong — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:12:14 +0000

I’m too famous to bother reading this post myself. But my people found it amusing.

By: Emily

Emily — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:30:59 +0000

“Back away from the Speedo, Eurotrash grandpappy.”

Hah! Great line.

Ahhh, Twitter. I just started using Plurk myself which is quite similar…and therefore, also a bit addicting. <.<

By: the communicatrix

the communicatrix — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:37:39 +0000

Johanna - You will send me five hundred dollaaaaaaars…

Jean - Wish I had me some of that gene, boy howdy.

Jared - And I called you thinking you could get me famous. We’re like an O. Henry story.

E. - Always the journey. And yeah, it’s amazing how actually dealing with the truth slays dragons.

GirlPie - Oh, communicatrix-dot-com readers are a very healthy lot, and we have a very healthy relationship!

Claire - That’s a good observation. I think most people care what other people think of them, and have some sort of measuring stick where number of admirers or likeability = worth/excellence. It’s hard getting down with that and even harder rooting it out, but I think it’s the road to sanity.

By: claire

claire — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:50:35 +0000

For the percentage of people for whom fame is not a prominent goal, there’s still popularity affecting many I suspect. When I started my blog over 3 years ago, I had some big hopes for it. Never got as many hits or comments as the bloggers I read for the most part though.

Not bothered by that much anymore since I’ve seen how high traffic can stress people out and bring out the trolls. I blog what I want to when I want to which is a nice bit of freedom