I thought this was the funniest of the three Pasek pieces you've posted. As a send up of the cult of celebrity it's subversively effective. Setting up a cultural (or is it just cult?) hero like "maralyn manson" as an icon of individual attainment seemed immediately to me to be something like a "you can be anything you choose to be" after-school television programming ad. Of course, the humor, to me, is based on the distate I feel for the character, but it still seems funny.
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I thought this was the funniest of the three Pasek pieces you've posted. As a send up of the cult of celebrity it's subversively effective. Setting up a cultural (or is it just cult?) hero like "maralyn manson" as an icon of individual attainment seemed immediately to me to be something like a "you can be anything you choose to be" after-school television programming ad. Of course, the humor, to me, is based on the distate I feel for the character, but it still seems funny.
Ohhhhh...
Marilyn Manson!
That's who that is.
Now I get it!
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