Comments on: New Years Rockin’ Eve

By: Russell Miller

Russell Miller — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 03:07:46 +0000

Thanks for your response, Margaret! That is the reason I am such a fan of yours, because you are honest and real, and you give so much of yourself. That is what touched my heart when I watched interviews and performances, and read your blog. It had nothing to do with being funny, although you are also very funny.

By: margaret cho

margaret cho — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:35:40 +0000

thanks russell. you are very supportive! honestly, i don’t feel like a celebrity. i never have. i am friends with lots of people who i would consider real celebrities, and their lives are vastly different from mine. my life feels normal and busy. the fans i have feel more like my friends, and i don’t have a sense of separation from them or a feeling that my life is anything but ordinary, although i guess it is not. and money – well, that’s something we all struggle with!

By: Russell Miller

Russell Miller — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 04:56:19 +0000

I just now noticed that you posted a comment, yourself. Finally! acknowledgement! You know the relationship between celebrity and fan is a weird one, and sometimes I think it can be unhealthy as well. I love your work, and your blog, but I don’t know you. That is weird in itself. I addressed the issue of fan-celebrity weirdness on my blog. I would love to hear your thoughts about being a celebrity and how you relate to your fans. In particular those obsessive fans. I don’t want to be one of those!! I try to remind myself that you are just a human being like everyone else, just one that has a lot more money than me.

By: Russell Miller

Russell Miller — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 04:43:44 +0000

Remember in the Wizard of Oz, when the wizard says \pay no attention to the man behind the curtain?\ It sounds like you got a good look behind that curtain and saw how the illusion is produced, and it sickened you. It poisoned that childhood trust in television and media. They wouldn’t lie to me, would they? Not Walter Cronkite? or Dick Clark? Well, rest assured, there is a real world out here you can trust, but it isn’t on tv, in the movies, or on the web (oops!). It’s out where the wind bites your cheeks. By the way, it also sucks when you realize that Christmas albums are always recorded in July.

By: margaret cho

margaret cho — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:02:05 +0000

happy new year everyone. thanks for reading and i encourage comments and let me know what you’d like to read about. i am enjoying this. and yes melissa i feel exactly the same way. it’s a total catch 22.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:23:09 +0000

New Years is a mix of emotions for me. A lot of the time there’s relief that a not so great year is over, and the chance for the new start but there’s also this feeling of sadness and panic because another year is over and I haven’t done anything meaningful. It’s quite the catch 22.