Friday, April 15, 2005

Khaaaaaaaan!

Via Egotastic (although I have no idea of how I got there). This is too funny. And all too true.

Some celebrities think they've got this whole image thing figured out, they can have fun with it, and they can make it their bitch. Sure, we like John Malkovich, and, sure, we thought it was cool and funny when he starred in Being John Malkovich. But for William Shatner, every day is Being William Shatner. Some celebrities get it, but Shatner so thoroughly gets it that "it" no longer exists. He's consumed "it." He's crawled up inside celebrity and made it explode, the way that Neo finally crawls into Agent Smith and makes him explode.

I'm only sorry that they missed his appearance as "The Barker" in Riel. But that's probably due to my hereditary francocanadophilia. (More on Louis Riel here, by the way...)

UPDATE: I've retraced my steps. Phoebe is ultimately to blame.

To be fair, Gawker and Defamer are the proximate causes, but the pilcrow press is a comparative negligence jurisdiction.