Famous Friend
Some people think it must be cool to have a famous friend. You’re imagining hanging with someone like, say, Keanu, and Keanu telling you things he doesn’t tell anyone else, and you ragging on him for sucking at PlayStation. That would be cool. But what it’s actually like is one of your friends—your real friends, say your best friend—and he’s exactly the same only everyone thinks he’s wonderful. Do you see how annoying that is? Because, sure, he’s a good guy, but he’s not perfect. He’s not God. But now everyone fawns over him and tells you how lucky you are to know him. That’s why they pay attention to you: because you might help them get closer to him. And whenever you spend time with him, just the two of you, you both know he could be somewhere else, listening to people flatter him or take him cool places for free or sleep with him, because he’s famous. Being friends with a famous person is the worst. And that’s why when the magazines come sniffing around, asking just off the record, just for background, is he really happy, and does he drink or ever do drugs, and did he really hit that girl, you tell them everything.
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Charles Thiesen (#3)
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Mapuche (#1184)
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Narain (#824)
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Brittany O. (#1688)
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Karan (#1376)
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Posted: 4907 days ago
Can't wait to read that magazine interview!
Scolopendra (#3998)
Location: San Diego, CA
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Posted: 4907 days ago
~The TC
Max
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Quote: "I'm my number one fan!"
Posted: 4907 days ago
Simon (#3192)
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Stygian Emperor (#2947)
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Arnab (#3918)
Location: Brisbane
Quote: "Now, I don't know Max, I've never met Max, or know anything about him, but I have it on good authority, that he is, in fact, a werewolf."
Posted: 4906 days ago
That's a thing that happens, right?
Ballotonia (#4030)
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Posted: 4906 days ago
Ballotonia
Mlaz (#5134)
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Michael Harrell (#2372)
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Posted: 4906 days ago
Russell (#3897)
Location: USA
Quote: "O Lord, Protect us from those to whom you speak directly"
Posted: 4906 days ago
and i'll be honest, i'm kind of excited.
Keith (#4156)
Location: Ballston Spa, NY, USA
Quote: ""You're more than just a naive moron to me""
Posted: 4906 days ago
Like "I had Taco Bell for dinner and then my famous friend came for a visit"...
So, yeah, having a famous friend sucks.
Stygian Emperor (#2947)
Location: the Stygian Empire
Quote: "Flesh is a design flaw."
Posted: 4906 days ago
coolpillows (#3749)
Location: new york general sort of vicinity
Quote: ""It's not working" -- Joseph Clark"
Posted: 4906 days ago
- I'm not Max's friend (although we have communicated on friendly terms)
- I didn't do anything bad
- I'm not famous
But maybe this is the beginning of some new fiction. If so, when does he cut off his friend's leg?
Max
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Quote: "I'm my number one fan!"
Posted: 4906 days ago
jessica (#3063)
Location: austin, tx
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Posted: 4905 days ago
jas (#4698)
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