I am informed by a reader that I have an entry in Wikipedia. I find this strangely disturbing -- "strange" because I'm willing to go on camera and talk about my experiences at Infocom, so why does having a 5 sentence blurb on wikipedia bother me? I mean, after all, now I'm in the echelons with Germaine Greer, Barbara Cartland and Stephen Colbert, not to mention Brian C. Rosenberg.
I think it's that I didn't put it there, and I didn't know about it (until now). Where else do they know me, and I don't know them? This must be a small ripple of an echo of the shadow of the experience of fame for a Brad Pitt or a Natalie Portman. I once read that every person would rather have one or the other, not both: Wealth or Fame (with enough of either you get the other). I'd choose Wealth.
Then again, now I can join wikipedia and doctor my entry, creating my own wikiality. The long-term secret affair with Garrison Keillor in the 1980's, which led to the end of his arrangements with Margaret Muus? That elderly husband who died and left me with $523 million? The three kids taken from custody after that bank robbery (from which I was acquitted)? The sky-diving trip to Tasmania in 2005 that was the last time any family or friends saw me? All these historical facts about me can become true, or at least wiki-true.
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Having seen it, though it still leaves something to be desired, and leaves out your recent past, I still think that it's a good wikpedia spot.
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