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Posted by michael from the did-you-know-that-there-are-mugs-with-your-face-on-them dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The Wait is over! Ellen Feiss's interview is up! And she really was on drugs, (well, allergy meds.)" She's, like, going to be traumatized about this forever, like.
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  • Maybe a Brown student (Score:4, Funny)

    by mithras the prophet ( 579978 ) on Friday November 22, 2002 @08:49AM (#4731266) Homepage Journal
    can type in the article from the 'paper paper', since that will probably be faster than waiting for this server to recover?

  • wow /.'ed already (Score:4, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 22, 2002 @08:50AM (#4731271)
    Seems this interview has already been slashdotted. It was like a server. And then it went beep. beep. beep. And all the webpage was gone. It was a really good server too.

  • Give me karma (Score:4, Informative)

    by BinBoy ( 164798 ) on Friday November 22, 2002 @08:51AM (#4731284) Homepage
    the apple of apple's eye: ellen feiss

    her pc crashed, she made the switch, and now she's famous. meet the internet's latest it girl.

    By Zachary Frechette

    Ellen Feiss is a lot like most 15-year-olds, with one notable exception: Some guy in Holland is wearing a T-shirt with her face on it right now. Actually, a lot of people are wearing that shirt with her picture or drinking coffee from a similarly themed mug purchased on one of Ellen's numerous fan sites. After appearing in a "Switch" ad for Apple computer (www.apple.com/switch/ads), Feiss quickly became an Internet celebrity, spawning stories in newspapers from coast to coast and sparking discussion in chat rooms across the world. There was even a look-alike contest held outside Amsterdam, although most of the entrants were men. Some have argued she seems a bit too, um, light-headed in her commercial, but that hasn't stopped Leno and Letterman from trying to book her (actually, it probably helped). As a sophomore in high school, Ellen still isn't quite sure what to make of her 15 minutes, but between meetings with her agent and MTV executives, she took some time to answer questions for Post-.

    How did you get involved with the Apple switch campaign in the first place?
    It's kind of a funny story. I'm friends with the son of the director, Errol Morris. I'm friends with his son Hamilton. I went with him after school, him and two of my friends. We didn't think we were going to make ads; we were just going to get the free set food. So we go there, and they're like, "We need a couple more people, so I guess the three of you can make ads." So we all made ads, and me and Hamilton's got picked. I had no idea I was going to do it until I got there.

    Is the story you told true?
    Oh yeah, it's definitely true.

    What was the paper about?
    It was about Chinatown, and the formation of Chinatowns in America. I lost like three pages of it; it was terrible. It was a really, really good paper.

    Did Apple compensate you for the commercial at all?
    I'm not actually sure how much I got paid because it was in installments, and the whole contract was dealt with by my parents, so I'm not actually sure. Oh, and I got an iPod. It's like the coolest thing ever.

    What was the initial response of your friends and family to the commercial?
    They all freaked out. I called my dad while I was at the set because I had to get him to say that he was my guardian and it was OK for me to do it, and he didn't believe me that I was going to do it. So they all freaked out when they found out I got the ad.

    Did you get a lot of phone calls after it aired?
    Yeah, a lot of old camp friends, actually.

    When did you start getting the sense you were becoming a celebrity beyond the commercial itself?
    I was on vacation in Arizona this summer, and when I left everything was fine. It was kind of like, "Oh this is cool, I'm in a commercial," but that's it. And so we left. When we get back two weeks later, it's like a bombard, it was so big. I have like 20 messages on the answering machine from different people telling me about this, random people like people who work with my parents and all these other people. I get back and I'm in The New York Times, and I'm in the L.A. Times, and Letterman wants me on his show, Leno wants me on his show. I'm like, "I just got back from vacation!" It's funny because I get back, and the New York Times is like, "Ellen is unreachable for comment because she's supposedly on vacation," and I was like, "How do they even know this?" It was really kind of scary, actually, a little overwhelming at first.

    So do you have any interest in doing Leno or Letterman?
    I was offered to, but I decided not to because I thought it wouldn't be so much "Who are you, Ellen Feiss?" It would be more like, "Are you a stoner?" blah blah blah. I did get other offers besides that that I'm getting into. MTV wants to talk to me. They're doing a pilot on me. The guy's going to come to my house in two weeks and interview me, and then show it to the CEO of MTV. I got a lot of crazy offers. I thought if I went on Letterman, it would be like I go on Letterman, and then I go on "Regis and Kelly," and then I go on Channel 5 News, and then it would kind of fizzle out pathetically. MTV's a little cooler.

    Any idea what the MTV show would be about?
    No, he has no idea. He just said he liked the ads and said I was a cute kid.

    Do you think this has the potential to jump-start a career in entertainment?
    I don't know. I also got a call from the Farrelly Brothers. They were like, "You know we really like your ad," so they wrote down my name or something. I have an agent now. This guy writes me down -- the producer of all the Farrelly brothers movies -- and he's like this kid is whatever whatever, this ad is pretty funny, so he writes my name down and he's trying to get in contact with my agent. Since I didn't have an agent at that point ... well it's a kind of confusing story, but anyway, they wanted me to be in one of their movies, but since they found out how old I was they don't think I can be in one. Supposedly, though, my agent is "floating my image," quote unquote. I don't know what the hell that means.

    So have you made a bunch of new friends at school?
    No, it isn't that weird. I get a lot of really obvious comments from people like "Did you know that there are mugs with your face on them?" and I'm like, "No I didn't; why don't you tell me about that?" Just comments like that. It's like, "Thanks for telling me about that."

    Are you OK with all the Web sites, and people walking around wearing your face on their T-shirts?
    Oh, whatever, I think it's kind of funny. These people don't have lives. I don't know, it was kind of bizarre at first. I went to my Web site but I decided not to read any of the comments because I thought it would be too weird. I heard about some of them, though, so I was like, "Weeell, I'm not going to read those."

    Did you hear about the look-alike contest in Holland?
    I did! I saw the pictures, too. It was really funny.

    Did you have a favorite picture?
    The toothless old man was hands down the best, but no one actually looked anything like me.

    Has Apple tried to contact you since all this happened?
    They contacted me to supposedly advise me. They were like, "We don't really want you to take this anywhere," but I decided to get an agent anyway. I went to Macworld in July. It seems like the kind of thing where if you're not in the biz .... I thought it was the most boring thing. I got shuttled down to New York, and I got VIP seating, and I was like, "Wow, I'm at the Oscars or something," but then I was like, "No, I'm at Macworld." I met Steve Jobs. He called me by my first name -- clever, huh? It was brief.

    Do you have a favorite switch ad besides your own?
    Probably Hamilton, just because I know him, and I saw him make it. It was so funny. Me and Hamilton have decided that our new nemesis is Jeremiah Cohick. He's our age, and he's trying to steal our limelight! We decided we don't like him. We're out to get him.

    Does it bother you at all that some of your fame might be related to your perceived state of sobriety in the commercial?
    It doesn't really bother me. I do admit to looking pretty out of it in that commercial -- I think I look horrible. It was after school, but I was the last person to make the commercial, so by the time I made it it was like 10, so I was really tired. The funny thing was, I was on drugs! I was on Benedryl, my allergy medication, so I was really out of it anyway. That's why my eyes were all red, because I have seasonal allergies. But no one believes me.

    Do you feel any connection to the Dell dude?
    No, none whatsoever. That guy's a doofus. I get a lot of "What if you guys had kids?" And I'm like, "What if we had kids?" Why would you ask that? What a weird question. They'd probably be blond.

  • Who? (Score:5, Informative)

    by mikeymckay ( 138669 ) on Friday November 22, 2002 @08:53AM (#4731302) Homepage Journal
    Watch her here: http://www.apple.com/switch/ads/ellenfeiss.html [apple.com]

    • Re:Who? (Score:3, Funny)

      by ehiris ( 214677 )
      And quicktime like, crashed my Intel PC. Safety through tight control is bad and that's what Apple is all about.

  • Right... (Score:4, Funny)

    by IIRCAFAIKIANAL ( 572786 ) on Friday November 22, 2002 @08:56AM (#4731316) Journal
    An anonymous reader writes "The Wait is over! Ellen Feiss's interview is up! And she really was on drugs, (well, allergy meds.)" She's, like, going to be traumatized about this forever, like.

    This is Slashdot. Now that the server is down, the wait is just beginning...

    Oh wait, it's still (sluggishly) responding. I'll repost it (somewhat) anonymously.

  • Summary (Score:5, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 22, 2002 @08:56AM (#4731322)
    For the 234892 of you who will inevitably post 'the server was already slashdotted', the interview was a lot like a standard interview, with questions and answers. Ellen thinks your fascination with her is unhealthy and you should get lives. She doesn't like that she's on your coffee mug. The toothless man in the Feiss look-a-like contest was the funniest. The Dell dude is a doofus. She's friends with the son of Errol Morris and that's how she really got her part. And her ad was filmed at around 10pm and she was on Benadryl, so of course she seems out of it. Also, her really really good paper was about Chinatowns appearing in cities across America. She was asked to appear on Letterman/Leno but declined because she figured her fame would dry up quickly, like going from Leno to Regis to some local public access deal... but she's in talks with MTV and possibly the Farrelly brothers.

    That's all from memory and I read it a while ago. Stop complaining about the server being slashdotted or CmdrTaco will come to your house and eat your children.

  • elen feiss's popularity (Score:5, Interesting)

    by pamri ( 251945 ) on Friday November 22, 2002 @08:58AM (#4731348) Homepage
    It seems others [google.com] are noticing [theroyalgazette.com] elen feiss's popularity with the geek crowd.

  • Like, thats a lot. (Score:5, Funny)

    by deathcloset ( 626704 ) on Friday November 22, 2002 @09:05AM (#4731382) Journal
    She says "like", like 28 times. I like counted.

  • "Bendadryl" my butt (Score:5, Funny)

    by revscat ( 35618 ) on Friday November 22, 2002 @09:08AM (#4731395) Journal

    The funny thing was, I was on drugs! I was on Benedryl, my allergy medication, so I was really out of it anyway. That's why my eyes were all red, because I have seasonal allergies. But no one believes me.

    Mmmhmm.

    Look, Ellen, I've done a lot of dope during my day. Bunch. Used to grow it, in fact. And I've taken Benadryl, too.

    Not once has Benadryl made people think I'm high. Never. I've taken Benadryl, gone to work, nobody even knew. Weed makes people think I'm high. The bloodshot eyes, the lazy movements, the relaxed jaw and speaking style. Fuck, you're wearing a cotton pullover with a hood. Comfy clothes, man. Comfy clothes are all you care about wearing when you're stoned. Detective Rev. says that you were high as a fucking kite but can't admit it because you'll get in trouble.

    Can't blame you, but can't believe you, either.

  • Seems nice enough (Score:5, Insightful)

    by GT_Alias ( 551463 ) on Friday November 22, 2002 @09:11AM (#4731416)
    Seems like a nice enough kid to me, if not a bit like a rabbit caught in the headlights of instant fame.

    At least she can laugh about all of the crazy stuff, like dress-up contests. Too many other people would, "like, freak out because that's really, like, wierd."

    Ah to be 15, ignorant, naive, on Benadryl, and an instant celebrity.

  • Lies! Damned lies!! (Score:3, Interesting)

    by seanmeister ( 156224 ) on Friday November 22, 2002 @09:13AM (#4731425)
    According to Ellen in the interview:

    It's kind of a funny story. I'm friends with the son of the director, Errol Morris. I'm friends with his son Hamilton. I went with him after school, him and two of my friends. We didn't think we were going to make ads; we were just going to get the free set food. So we go there, and they're like, "We need a couple more people, so I guess the three of you can make ads." So we all made ads, and me and Hamilton's got picked. I had no idea I was going to do it until I got there.

    According to Ellen [apple.com] at Apple's site:

    I'm writing to share a tragic little story.

    My Dad has a PC that my sister and I used to use for our homework assignments. One night, I was writing a paper on it, when all of a sudden it went berserk, the screen started flashing, and the whole paper just disappeared. All of it. And it was a good paper! I had to cram and rewrite it really quickly. Needless to say, my rushed paper wasn't nearly as good, and I blame that PC for the grade I got.

    I'm happy to report that my sister and I now share an Apple PowerBook. It's a lot nicer to work on than my dad's PC was, it hasn't let me down once, and my grades have all been really good.

    Thanks, Apple.

    Ellen Feiss

    So which was it - an email to Apple, or a hookup with the director's son?

    • Re:Lies! Damned lies!! (Score:5, Informative)

      by nordicfrost ( 118437 ) on Friday November 22, 2002 @09:34AM (#4731578)
      But what about: (From the article)
      Post:Is the story you told true?
      Ellen: Oh yeah, it's definitely true.

      Post:What was the paper about?
      Ellen: It was about Chinatown, and the formation of Chinatowns in America. I lost like three pages of it; it was terrible. It was a really,

      If the story is true, it doesn't matter if she knows the son of the director.

    • Re:Lies! Damned lies!! (Score:5, Insightful)

      by Zathrus ( 232140 ) on Friday November 22, 2002 @09:37AM (#4731604) Homepage
      How are the two mutually exclusive?

      She was writing a paper, lost it, and had to rewrite it. This lead to the purchase of an Apple PowerBook.

      She was later picked for the Switch ad by pure chance and happy (?) coincidence. Apple asks her to write the "letter" to share the story behind her switch.

      Thus they're both true. You misapplied cause and effect to imply an effect that wasn't there.

  • The funniest part of the interview (Score:5, Funny)

    by MarkGriz ( 520778 ) on Friday November 22, 2002 @09:13AM (#4731428)
    "Are you OK with all the Web sites, and people walking around wearing your face on their T-shirts?"
    "Oh, whatever, I think it's kind of funny. These people don't have lives..."

    What's that sound? Ah yes, the sound of 1000 slashdotters being stabbed through the heart.
    Well, at least Natalie Portman still loves you.

    • Re:The funniest part of the interview (Score:5, Funny)

      by hype7 ( 239530 ) <u3295110@@@anu...edu...au> on Friday November 22, 2002 @09:31AM (#4731558) Journal
      Do you feel any connection to the Dell dude?
      No, none whatsoever. That guy's a doofus. I get a lot of "What if you guys had kids?" And I'm like, "What if we had kids?" Why would you ask that? What a weird question. They'd probably be blond.

      I had to clean my screen after reading that comment - I laughed so hard saliva went everywhere

      -- james

      • That's IT! I've had it! (Score:5, Funny)

        by greenrd ( 47933 ) on Friday November 22, 2002 @12:25PM (#4732821) Homepage
        I laughed so hard saliva went everywhere

        That's the last straw. Did we really need to know the destination of your oral fluids???

        I'm now officially declaring a JIHAD on those spawns of satan, Joke Congratulation Posts.

        Jokes? Fine. I've no problem with them. A lot of jokes on slashdot are at least a good attempt at being amusing. But joke congratulation posts? Whether satirical or straight, they just blow goats.

        I'm sorry. I'm now going on a one-man crusade to mark all joke congratulation posts, irrespective of their origin, as -1 Overrated. You may call me sad and pathetic, you may call me strange - but I retort that those who post Joke Congratulation Posts are even sadder!

  • T-Shirts? (Score:5, Funny)

    by silvaran ( 214334 ) on Friday November 22, 2002 @09:13AM (#4731429)
    Are you OK with all the Web sites, and people walking around wearing your face on their T-shirts?
    Oh, whatever, I think it's kind of funny. These people don't have lives.

    That's it, I'm taking this T-shirt off. And you can have my mug back.

  • Try As I Might... (Score:5, Funny)

    by BlackBolt ( 595616 ) on Friday November 22, 2002 @09:14AM (#4731434) Homepage Journal
    I just can't get into the swing of the whole "Ellen Feiss" thing. I've invested WAAAY too much time, money, and effort into the "Natalie Portman/Hot Grits" movement to switch now.

    Natalie Portman Forever!!! (*waves pennant feebly*)

    BlackBolt

    • Re:Try As I Might... (Score:5, Funny)

      by verch ( 12834 ) on Friday November 22, 2002 @11:50AM (#4732556)
      I used to like Natalie Portman, and I spent all this time stalking her, but then like, she was like, beep beep beep, restraining order. And I was like all like man, that like sucked, I was a really good stalker and stuff. So then I like switched like to Ellen.

      Ellen, Stalk Different

  • Mirrored (Score:3, Funny)

    by grub ( 11606 ) <slashdot@grub.net> on Friday November 22, 2002 @09:19AM (#4731467) Homepage Journal

    Brown Daily: Good morning Ellen.
    Ellen Feiss: yo mannnn...
    BD: How was your time working with Apple?
    EF: Do you.. like.. have any crack?
    BD: umm..
    EF: Apple gave me crack.. it was.. like.. really good crack.
    BD: Let's talk about your upbringing.
    EF: It was.. like.. gone..
    BD: Your upbringing was "gone"?
    EF: nooooo.. the crack at Apple.. it was like.. really good crack..
    BD: OK, well then let's talk about Apple. Did you meet Steve Jobs?
    EF: It was really.. good crack.


    [the above story is fictional..]

  • shutdown -h now (Score:4, Insightful)

    by davmoo ( 63521 ) on Friday November 22, 2002 @09:22AM (#4731485)
    I quote from the interview:

    ""We need a couple more people, so I guess the three of you can make ads." So we all made ads, and me and Hamilton's got picked. I had no idea I was going to do it until I got there."

    So I get the impression from this that the ad was made up. Didn't the majority of y'all just finish trashing Microsoft for doing that a few weeks ago?

  • Apple "switch" campaign... (Score:4, Insightful)

    by LordYUK ( 552359 ) <jeffwright821@NOSPAm.gmail.com> on Friday November 22, 2002 @09:25AM (#4731510)
    PA said [penny-arcade.com] it best about these stupid people and their stupid commercials.

  • FOX TROT!! (Score:4, Funny)

    by autojive ( 560399 ) on Friday November 22, 2002 @09:26AM (#4731521)
    You know when you've become a geek icon when you've become a reference in Fox Trot [mac.com]

  • Mirror (no joke) (Score:5, Informative)

    by jtkooch ( 553641 ) on Friday November 22, 2002 @09:29AM (#4731548)
    Mirror here [etards.net] Oh, and YOU'RE WELCOME (sorry, computer guy joke)

  • Free set food? (Score:4, Funny)

    by tezzery ( 549213 ) on Friday November 22, 2002 @09:31AM (#4731556)
    "We didn't think we were going to make ads; we were just going to get the free set food."

    Sounds like someone had a hit of the munchies...

  • Memorable Quotes of Ellen Feiss... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Jugalator ( 259273 ) on Friday November 22, 2002 @09:31AM (#4731560) Journal
    "I got shuttled down to New York, and I got VIP seating, and I was like, "Wow, I'm at the Oscars or something," but then I was like, "No, I'm at Macworld.""

    "I also got a call from the Farrelly Brothers. They were like, "You know we really like your ad," so they wrote down my name or something."

    "Supposedly, though, my agent is "floating my image," quote unquote. I don't know what the hell that means."

    Kids... :-)

  • How news worthy is this? (Score:3, Insightful)

    by corvi42 ( 235814 ) on Friday November 22, 2002 @09:34AM (#4731577) Homepage Journal
    Amazing how so much airtime & newspaper column space can be devoted to such stuff. How newsworthy is this really?

    "Area girl friends with TV director's son, gets part in ad!"

    Does this sound like an Onion [onion.com] article?

  • Ellen's Parodies (Score:5, Funny)

    by telstar ( 236404 ) on Friday November 22, 2002 @09:36AM (#4731602)
    Classic parodies of Ellen Feiss [wemakedotcoms.com]

  • In all fairness to the switch ads (Score:5, Interesting)

    by f00zbll ( 526151 ) on Friday November 22, 2002 @09:47AM (#4731731)
    Lately I've been considering switching, but not really because of the ads. More than anything it's the assinine licensing of XP. I recently went through two months of BS dealing with microsoft and their jacked up licensing bs. I'm a heavy computer user and re-install windows at minimum twice a year. This is a format c: drive and completely reinstall clean. Now if I only had 1 computer that would be ok, but I have several as in 5 computers. That means at minimum I re-install windows clean 7 times a year.

    Sure win2K and XP are more stable, but after tons of install/uninstalls of apps and programs the thing starts to seriously slow down and munge itself. Since 95 I've had windows corrupt it's own dll's atleast 2x a year on all the systems. This isn't even counting production boxes at work that have mysteriously killed IIS dll's.

    The thought of having to tech support my Son's computer is beginning to make me throw up. He already has a skill for crashing win2K and XP by pressing down on a half dozen keys for a minute. Toddlers and young children don't know that microsoft didn't design the keyboard as a ladder or piano. All they know is when I push down on all the keys with my palm, the box makes lots of funny noises. I've seen young children bang on mac keyboards without causing it to lock up hard. Sure the ads are stupid, but many people consider themselves computer challenged. If buying a mac means I don't have to re-install windows on my Son's box 5x times a year, I'm there. I rather not waste 4 hours per install, when I could be doing other things more fun.

    • The answer to your miseries is rather simple: teach your kid to do his own goddamn re-installs! ;)

    • Re:In all fairness to the switch ads (Score:4, Insightful)

      by tres ( 151637 ) on Friday November 22, 2002 @12:32PM (#4732901) Homepage
      I'm happier using my macs now than I ever was trying to get my PCs to run.

      I mean, the nice thing about a Mac is that it just works. I don't need to waste time trying to figure out why the crap that should work--that was working yesterday--is not working today.

      I've worked with all kinds of OS's--from Debian on a Sparcstation to OpenBSD on my old Pentium laptop. Hell, I administer an NT domain and keep a mid-sized network of production Windows machines up and running. For what it's worth, I've had a little experience getting stuff to run. I'd say that right now, I'm more productive, and less worried about getting my system running right than I have been with any other OS.

      That aside, I think you may be having hardware rather than software related issues. I don't know what's happening to you, but I don't think it's Windows that's to blame. Again, there's plenty of reasons not to like Windows; the poor interface design inherent in Windows, many of the management tools are simply buried, are counter-intuitive, or just don't exist. Windows' popularity is the result of the best marketing in the world, not the best quality.

      Because Microsoft's paramount concern is to get their OS to run hardware from a myriad of vendors, they have put the stability of the overall system second to the marketability of the OS. Albeit, Microsoft has done a pretty good job getting their OS running on lots of different equipment, but the down-side is that they really have no control over the quality of the overall system.

      If you stick with PCs, try a business-class system from Dell, or another commodity vendor that has control of the entire system. For me, I'm extremely happy with my Apples. A few years ago I laughed at Apples. I'd never be caught near an Apple computer. Now, I'd never go back.

      At home, I still have my Mandrake Linux Desktop, my FreeBSD server, my OpenBSD firewall and the wife's token Windows box--I'd never want to get rid of them (except for the hassles of the Win Box)--but I spend more and more time getting things done, learning new things and having fun on my Mac than I ever did trying to get what was working yesterday to work once again. I have enough trouble at work keeping things running right, I don't want to come home to do the same crap.

  • Really, really pathetic (Score:3, Funny)

    by NineNine ( 235196 ) on Friday November 22, 2002 @09:57AM (#4731804)
    I find it really, really pathetic that people are obsessing about a person in a commercial. JEsus, fetishizing commercials? For a group of people that are anti-big company, anti-commercial softweare, it's pretty damn hypocritical that a person who shows up in a fucking corporate commercial is being obsessed over. It's a commercial. Ignore it. Get on with your lives. Jesus, talk about commercialism gone rampant. Geeks hate commercialsm from big company X, but eat it up if it's from big company Y. That's like saying "I hate those nasty, big, soul-killing companies like Wal-Mart. But have you seent hat new K-Mart ad? It's so cool!"

  • Slashot Interview Anyone? (Score:5, Interesting)

    by bje2 ( 533276 ) on Friday November 22, 2002 @09:58AM (#4731813)
    Can we please get a slashdot interview with her, so we can ask some questions????

  • Sum of all fears... (Score:5, Funny)

    by augros ( 513862 ) on Friday November 22, 2002 @10:02AM (#4731861)
    There must be nothing scarier than being stalked by the Mac community ...

  • Who? (Score:3, Funny)

    by fire-eyes ( 522894 ) on Friday November 22, 2002 @10:13AM (#4731932) Homepage
    Right.

    Who?

  • Ellen? How about Janie?!? (Score:4, Insightful)

    by Quixotic Raindrop ( 443129 ) on Friday November 22, 2002 @10:15AM (#4731948) Journal
    Guys. If you're going to be a lam0, and stalk a switcher, Ellen is a dead end. And, too young for even the high-schoolers among you.

    Instead, I recommend Janie Porche. She's literate and smiles. A lot. Much easier to deal with, in the long run. Trust me on this one.

  • Ok, someone please explain (Score:4, Insightful)

    by quantax ( 12175 ) on Friday November 22, 2002 @10:21AM (#4731999) Homepage
    I am rather interested to know what thousands of people are so obsessed by Ellen Feis when all she did was pretty much act like a stupid teenager with a computer. Maybe its just me, but acting like an ignorent teen with a computer who says 'like' and is pretty much completely average overall (according to her performance) is not really something I aspire to. Is there some detail I am missing. I don't watch TV (but have seen the ad online), and this looked like standard 'stupid advertisement' with some decent writing. Honestly, the way people are obsessed by her is disturbing; I, like any geek, look up to certain people, but I have never been obsessed by someone to this degree, and especially just because they emulated dumb teen. Can anyone rationally explain this phenominon(sp)?

  • In Other News (Score:3, Funny)

    by Zech Harvey ( 604609 ) on Friday November 22, 2002 @11:37AM (#4732462)

    In a brilliant PR move, Apple has trademarked the word "Like" and is sending cease and desist letters on behalf of their new IP acquisition. The question of prior art has arisen, though the only clear contenders, Moonunit Zappa and "My So Called Life" have yet to respond at the time of this posting. Film at 11.

  • Ellen's no dope (Score:3, Insightful)

    by tsackett ( 410681 ) on Friday November 22, 2002 @12:03PM (#4732640)
    Maybe she says "like" a lot, but she says a number of pretty insightful things.
    I thought if I went on Letterman, it would be like I go on Letterman, and then I go on "Regis and Kelly," and then I go on Channel 5 News, and then it would kind of fizzle out pathetically.

    That's the smartest thing ever said by a temporary celebrity about temporary celebrity.

  • Hilarious interview; a figure for our time (Score:4, Insightful)

    by Zhe Mappel ( 607548 ) on Friday November 22, 2002 @07:02PM (#4736198)
    Terrifically fun read. She's obviously cooler than the people twice her age (and more) who fetishize her. And do you know what her secret is, you middle-aged cueballs with your Feiss t-shirts and coffee mugs? Have you not read your Nabokov? She doesn't give a fuck. Ha, ha! The ultimate object of worship in our pandering age is the celebrity created out of nothing, who doesn't care, who really can't be bothered, for whom it just happened and for whom just as easily one day it will un-happen, and, meanwhile, whose sheer disinterest turns the covetous world on its ear.

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