In grade school, whenever a student was caught eating candy, the teacher would ask, “Did you bring enough for everybody?” Time carried this logic through to its absurd conclusion: If everybody can’t be Person of the Year, then no one can. “In the future,” Andy Warhol once predicted, “everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.” Well, start your clocks, people.
Time's up.
Posted by: Mark Bourrie at December 20, 2006 11:07 PMI still think Time meant Garth Turner was Person of the Year.
Posted by: Lew at December 21, 2006 12:00 AMMy clock is bigger than yours.
Posted by: rebarbarian at December 21, 2006 12:21 AM...PICK ME!!! PICK Me!! Pick me! pick me! pick...
*sigh*
Posted by: tomax7 at December 21, 2006 1:06 AMHah! I KNEW I'd get it this year! Everyone always laughed at me, but I kept telling themmm...just you wait and see...I'll be man of the year one of these days...
Well I was RIGHT!
Take that you worthless nobodies!
Posted by: Alex at December 21, 2006 1:20 AMAccording to NRO's The Corner, Danny Bonaduce has just redeemed himself and earned an EXTRA 15 minutes of fame.
Heh.
Posted by: The Partridge Family at December 21, 2006 10:32 AMNot man of the year - News maker of the year!
Posted by: the bear at December 21, 2006 2:51 PMWouldn't Reuters be the "Newsmaker" of the year??
To Make: Fabricate, Construct, Contrive ......
Posted by: OMMAG at December 21, 2006 3:41 PMAndy Warhol was a remarkable artist. my sense of the art word is primitive, but he seemed to me to be a man in his own world all the time, not quite participating in it but just observing it and sometimes pushing it along to see what would happen.
I didnt know he got shot and was near death at one point. the 15 minutes of fame is so true. nowadays its cut down to about 15 seconds of fame because of all the crowding in the digital world.