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Never fear, Internet neophytes! A new website has your back. The folks at Rocketboom, themselves a onetime viral sensation, have come up with Know Your Meme, a handy guide to the endless stream of random Internet madness...
...maxim used to be that if you had to explain a joke, it wasn't funny. It's still true - even with the explanation, we don't get the appeal of something like, say, Robocop on a Unicorn. But for the rest of the Web's inexplicable absurdities, Know Your Meme at least gives you a fighting chance of getting...
...really captured or recorded. That's kind of fun and thrilling. Writing is slightly more fixed in time, but it's the most difficult. In terms of a preference, they appeal to me in different ways. Performing is so social, and writing is so solitary - you just don't know when someone will read it. I don't really have a preference. It's like comparing two different sports or two different kinds of food...
...very nice notes about the sexual aspect of my writing, so I don't think that's a problem. Once I'm in the relationship with someone, then people don't really like what I write. That's why my next book is going to be called If You Know Me, Please Don't Read This...
...book contains a few celebrity profiles, including one of Lenny Kravitz. Do you think that you really got to know him by hanging out with him at a club for a night? Did you worry that he was just humoring you? I don't think I got to know Lenny Kravitz very well. I got my first impression, and that's what I tried to put down. I spent more time with Marilyn Manson, and he might have been more vulnerable. We had more time, and I feel like I got to know him a bit more...