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Here's my latest 'pluggerism' - for the Jeff MacNelly strip "Pluggers" (now being drawn by Gary Brookins)...
I am paraphrasing a famous quote by the late artist Andy Warhol, RE: everyone getting "fifteen minutes of fame". I'd been getting my RL fifteen minutes of fame, a few seconds at a time, by being on TV sporadically throughout my life (such as in the audience of game shows and talk shows, or actually being interviewed for the news [like the time the condo clubhouse caught fire back in September, 2000], etc.)
In this case, a female cat wants to be the center of attraction during a fast-breaking news story - even though this canine TV reporter doesn't see her, during live coverage. (And I'm sure that many of you had done this, at least once in your lives.)
If some of you want to submit your own 'pluggerism' (with or without an illustration) - in the hope of having it appear in the syndicated audience participation comic strip - mail it out to: PLUGGERS, P.O. Box 29347, Henrico, VA 23242. And, for those of you who are unfamiliar with "Pluggers", you can check out some of the more recent strips by going to the following link: http://www.seattlepi.com/fun/comic......re_id=Pluggers
"Pluggers" (C) Tribune Media Services, Inc.
I am paraphrasing a famous quote by the late artist Andy Warhol, RE: everyone getting "fifteen minutes of fame". I'd been getting my RL fifteen minutes of fame, a few seconds at a time, by being on TV sporadically throughout my life (such as in the audience of game shows and talk shows, or actually being interviewed for the news [like the time the condo clubhouse caught fire back in September, 2000], etc.)
In this case, a female cat wants to be the center of attraction during a fast-breaking news story - even though this canine TV reporter doesn't see her, during live coverage. (And I'm sure that many of you had done this, at least once in your lives.)
If some of you want to submit your own 'pluggerism' (with or without an illustration) - in the hope of having it appear in the syndicated audience participation comic strip - mail it out to: PLUGGERS, P.O. Box 29347, Henrico, VA 23242. And, for those of you who are unfamiliar with "Pluggers", you can check out some of the more recent strips by going to the following link: http://www.seattlepi.com/fun/comic......re_id=Pluggers
"Pluggers" (C) Tribune Media Services, Inc.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Comics
Species Dog (Other)
Size 525 x 578px
File Size 139.7 kB
Personally, I got my 15 minutes by accident. I was working the Scarborough Faire Renaissance Festival in 1989, and couldn't wear my glasses. I walked by a couple of empty chairs... squinted at a shape a little ways off... then walked on.
Turned out the "shape" was a TV camera from PM Magazine, taping footage for interstitials while the set wasn't in use. And, darn it all, I never got to see it... but everyone else who worked Scarborough that year did! I was so confused when they started congratulating me on my TV debut...
Turned out the "shape" was a TV camera from PM Magazine, taping footage for interstitials while the set wasn't in use. And, darn it all, I never got to see it... but everyone else who worked Scarborough that year did! I was so confused when they started congratulating me on my TV debut...
Well, Wanderwolf, you got to start somewhere!
In my case, the earliest I'd ever appeared on TV was in the early 1970s, where tryouts for a 'mock vaudeville show' (to promote the movie version of Neil Simon's "The Sunshine Boys") were taking place at the Palace Theater in NYC. I was practicing my juggling act outside of the theater, where a cameraman recorded me, and I saw myself on "The 10 O'Clock News" on Channel 5, later that night. (BTW, I didn't make it into the show.)
The longest I'd ever been recorded was back in the early 1980s, when I got to appear in a documentary "The Life of Python" - a tribute to "Monty Python's flying Circus" - where I got to sing "The Lumberjack Song" with a bunch of other fans! That sequence lasted about a minute or two.
At the time of this posting, I am presently 56 years of age, and I'm estimating that I'd used up about ten of my "fifteen minutes of fame" - which means I still have five minutes left!
In my case, the earliest I'd ever appeared on TV was in the early 1970s, where tryouts for a 'mock vaudeville show' (to promote the movie version of Neil Simon's "The Sunshine Boys") were taking place at the Palace Theater in NYC. I was practicing my juggling act outside of the theater, where a cameraman recorded me, and I saw myself on "The 10 O'Clock News" on Channel 5, later that night. (BTW, I didn't make it into the show.)
The longest I'd ever been recorded was back in the early 1980s, when I got to appear in a documentary "The Life of Python" - a tribute to "Monty Python's flying Circus" - where I got to sing "The Lumberjack Song" with a bunch of other fans! That sequence lasted about a minute or two.
At the time of this posting, I am presently 56 years of age, and I'm estimating that I'd used up about ten of my "fifteen minutes of fame" - which means I still have five minutes left!
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