How to Cope with Being Suddenly Famous, Thursday Second Period

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"Once you become famous," Herc began today's class, "your life is not only your own any more. It belongs to the public; specifically, to your fans. 'Oh,' I can hear some of you thinking, 'I'm not going to be that kind of famous,' but you would be surprised at what people can be fans of. Now, we've touched on this earlier, talking about the internet and the things people might say that you should just ignore, they're not really for you, but dealing with fans directly is a whole other kettle of fish, and not always one you're going to have any control over. You might be in line at the grocery store, trying to buy milk, and someone comes up to you wanting a photo, or an autograph, or to ask you some really intrusive questions or pinch your bum--" not that that had ever happened to him or anything, ahem "--because sometimes people forget that the people they look up to are people too, and that there are lines. And being rude to your fans is generally considered a bad idea, since these are, after all, people who have committed no greater crime than thinking you're really awesome." He paused, then admitted, "Except for the ones unthinkingly committing sexual assault. Most people won't blame you for being rude to them. I'm not going to tell you how to deal with having fans, because it's something I'm not that good at, either." Living on a military base helped with insulating himself from that kind of thing, and then their popularity had taken a nosedive for a while there. "But it is something to think about and be aware of. How you treat your fans matters, not just to your public persona or whatever, but to them, as people.

"Now, I'm going to open the floor to discussion," he declared. "I want to hear your thoughts, and any questions or strategies you might have as far as dealing with fans goes."

MORE QUESTING! Thursday, Period 4

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Today when students arrived for MORE QUESTING!, they would find instead a sign letting them know:

Class Cancelled
Because of Reasons.

Alex didn't know what those reasons were, though he would like to find out. He was nosy that way. He also didn't know why he'd been tapped to deliver the message, but he was guessing godly solidarity or something. At any rate, he'd stuck the sign to the door and gone back to his room to take a nap, because naps were awesome.

((Thursdays are tricksy, y'all.))

Plus We Have a Motorcade [Thursday, March 13, 2014, 1st period]

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"Right," Josh began, sipping from his coffee. "This week the right wing has decided to clutch their pearls and wail over the dignity of the Presidency and how that has been lost because President Obama went onto a web comedy to promote his health care initiative. In case you haven't seen it--" he turned on the video.

"Bill O'Reilly went so far as to say: 'All I can tell you is Abe Lincoln wouldn't have done it.' Putting aside the fact that television, webisodes and electricity hadn't really become things when Abe Lincoln was president and that Bill O'Reilly is a pompous jackass...do you think he had a point? Do Presidents appearing on talk shows--Nixon did 'Laugh In', Clinton went on Arsenio Hall and played the saxophone, Obama's been on pretty much every late night show that currently exists--lessen the dignity of the office? Does the office need dignity?"