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i am the anon who earlier pointed out bike snob being possibly a woman. the podcast might not mean anything..."warhol" lectured the midwest.remember JT Leroy?
This Just In: BSNYC Posts on Saturday (and is quoted in the New York Times) BikeSnobNYC 2008
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See, also, a letter to the editors of n+1 about the article. andy warhol on
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broken but not killed kerouacslover 2009
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location kerouacslover 2009
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March 2009 kerouacslover 2009
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ada lovelace day: to emma, forever ago kerouacslover 2009
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February 2009 kerouacslover 2009
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January 2009 kerouacslover 2009
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there's no place like home kerouacslover 2008
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forget me never, or at least not today kerouacslover 2008
sionnach commented on the word warhol
This is a unit of fame or hype, derived from Andy Warhol's dictum "everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes" — it represents, naturally, fifteen minutes of fame. Some multiples are:
* 1 kilowarhol — famous for 15,000 minutes, or 10.42 days. A sort of metric "nine day wonder".
* 1 megawarhol — famous for 15 million minutes, or 28.5 years.
July 28, 2008
sionnach commented on the word warhol
Coined by Slate.com writer Collen Murphy, a Warhol is a measurement of length of fame, and is, naturally, fifteen minutes. Murphy explains: “A thousand warhols could be a kilowarhol or, perhaps, a jewell, after Richard Jewell, the man who generated news reports for months despite having failed to participate in the bombing at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. A milliwarhol, or about nine-tenths of a second of fame, might appropriately be named after the tyke whose rescue became a brief focus of attention last summer after he fell through the hole of an outhouse.�?
July 28, 2008