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?

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[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.