Wierd: The Cult of Ellen Feiss

[adderslj]

Don't you love our disposable culture? It can make starts of the most unlikely people. Take, for example, Ellen Feiss. Now, she looks like an ordinary American teenager (but less fat), at least to my British eyes. Geeks the world over see something different in her, though.

A star is born

The fans gather

Why?

Comments

[maliszew.livejournal.com]

Why am I not surprised? =)

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[adders.livejournal.com]

To be fair, they're normally followed with pieces on how the problem is spreading here, too.

[maliszew.livejournal.com]

That is, I suppose, encouraging in a weird sort of way. I just find it weird that the US is simultaneousely held up by its critics as a nation of self-absorbed, narcisstic health freaks and one made up entirely of lazy, indolent tubs of lard. I'm not quite sure how to reconcile this two-pronged attack on its honor.

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[adders.livejournal.com]

Simple: the US is made up of a combination of both. :-)

Or, possibly, the US society is just more prone to extremes of both than most.

[maliszew.livejournal.com]

Or, possibly, the US society is just more prone to extremes of both than most.

I think this is probably the more correct of the two, if only because it maps on my notion that the key to understanding the US is that it was founded by equal parts narrow-minded Puritans and non-judgmental libertines. America is the Land of Extremes. Get that and you're half-way to understanding us.