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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[moneypenny.livejournal.com]

She is a student at my (former) high school, and knows many of my friends. Everyone is about as baffled as you are.

[point5b.livejournal.com]

1. To many, she appears as if she might be stoned. This is deeply amusing (to some).


2. She's the only memorable aspect of the Switch campaign.


3. Three words: bip bip bip

[a-machine.livejournal.com]

But less fat?

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[adders.livejournal.com]

Yeah, less fat. The news over here keeps running stories about the soaring obesity rates amongst Americans and American teenagers in particular.

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[adders.livejournal.com]

>1. To many, she appears as if she might be stoned

Really? Cultural prejudices at work. She just came across as a typical "laid back" American teen to me. Too much junk food and cable TV.

> 2. She's the only memorable aspect of the Switch campaign.

Good point.

>3. Three words: biip bip bip

That's one word three times. :-)

Certainly that might be amusing if you were stoned...

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[adders.livejournal.com]

That makes a certain amount of sense. I can't begin to imagine how it feels to have fan sites about you spring up all over the internet, though. I hope she has a lot of friends with very level heads around her right now.

Good to hear from you, by the way. Best of luck with those continuing health issues.

[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.

[point5b.livejournal.com]

How many heavy-set, stoned American teenagers do you meet?