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...help understand this question and others, I recently talked to an expert in the fields of tailgating and fandom...
...Once you realize that,” St. John said, “you’ve achieved Step One to healthy fandom...
...indy artist's work. While smaller, alty-friendly cons like the Small Press Expo and the MOCCA Art Festival are important places for like-minded artists and fans to gather, an event like San Diego allows the temporary collapse of borders between the balkanized factions of pop-culture fandom. In this sense, the Comic Con International may be a far more democratic convention than either of this election-year's events...
...even though it seems Zappala has the fiercely loyal Ingalls Rink fandom tightly wound on his finger, his demeanor is still that of the lunchpail-and-hardhat grinder. “I tell him all the time that he’s having a helluva season, and he just deflects the praise,” Steeves said. “It’s great to see such a level-headed kid be successful...
Burnett's fandom is apt. As much salesman as entertainer, he turned reality-TV product placements into an art form (there are, he says, some 40 in The Apprentice). At heart, The Apprentice is a love letter from Burnett--a naturalized American from Britain--to Yankee capitalism. "The whole world takes America's charity," he says, "and that money is created through entrepreneurs." Survivor, with its tension between group effort and look-out-for-number-onemanship, has always been a metaphor for the corporate jungle. The Apprentice uses the business world as a metaphor for that metaphor. (Lest anyone miss...