Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]LOL. > A friend was aghast when he saw these more recent images. How can a > person change so much? Don't worry, I told him, now she can be a > celebrity and move to LA, where doctors can make her look exactly > like the original picture taken when she was 12. > > Then, realizing she'll never make it beyond the interview circuit and > become the singer/model/actress she's always dreamed of without further > modification, she'll be lured into a full plastic rebirth to emerge as > Sharbat! (successor to Shakira, our current foreign-born singing > infatuation). > > Sound, Stage, Screen and Print! She'll go on a whirlwind tour, pledging 1% > of the proceeds (after tax) to help other less fortunately-photographed > Afghan refugees. > > Ultimately, driven to depression and self-loathing by the Hollywood machine, > she'll drive her Hummer off the Venice Beach pier into the Pacific, injuring > only one young surfer. > > While recovering in the Betty Ford Clinic, she strikes up a friendship with > Mariah Carrey and moves in to her mansion in Brentwood. > > But Hollywood's through with the both of them and the agents stop calling > (even the tabloid paparazzi save their film). They're evicted and take > up life on the street where they both disappear into the invisible caste of > west coast refugees, pushing their shopping carts filled with decaying > copies of Glamour, down Sunset Blvd. > > Then, Steve McCurry, while on Vacation in LA, manages to capture a > frightening image of the two of them as they mob his Lexus. Again, iris > pattern matching is employed to confirm the identities of the two vagrant > women, and the newly famous image ends up on the cover of National > Geographic. > > > In jest, > > Chris Hoover > hoovercd@pacbell.net > NO ARCHIVE > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html