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01 August 2006

Damn, there go my 15 minutes A friend just emailed me saying he'd seen me on some TV show (here in Chile).
The other night me and my beautiful wife where walking out of a local bar, and some hair-gel dude and a silicon-titted chick were leaving ahead of us. Three 'journalists' popped out with cameras and started pestering them. Apparently they're 'famous' in small-town B-list way.
Thing is, I have no idea who these people were, and feel cheated of my chance at fame and over-exposition. I don't even know what show we were on!

post by: signal at: 15:31 | 2 comments

I don't think it counts if you don't know about it and can't let your friends know to watch.

Or maybe it only counts a portion towards your 15 minutes so you've got some left over. Use it wisely!

posted by fenriq 01 August | 17:57

That's okay... I had mine on TV during the VH1 40 Greatest Music Pranks show when Improv Everywhere staged a fake U2 concert. It was number 23 on the list and I'm in the first shot after they show the crowd reaction, screaming loudly and girlishly wearing a red sweater coat over jeans and a white shirt. I'm framed directly in the center of the shot.

But then, you see me again, when the voice-over talks about how they gathered audience plants, and I'm walking towards the camera and off-screen to the left. I think it's cool that they included that shot, because it doesn't make me look like a complete idiot for believing that U2 was really playing on a random rooftop in midtown.

I had to rewind and play that part twice, just to look at the footage again. ^_^

posted by TrishaLynn 02 August | 10:05

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