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[dr_tectonic]

Sean Combs, formerly known as "Puffy", then "Puff Daddy", then "P. Diddy", now just wants to be known as "Diddy", because he felt the P. was getting in the way -- it was "too impersonal".

This is not the kind of news that I normally pay attention to, but it made me wonder: is there something about celebrity that makes people crazy?

Or is it just that crazy people make better celebrities?

Comments

[toosuto.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[bryree.livejournal.com]

He stole my answer, and added a link.

Curses! Out-cooled again.

[toosuto.livejournal.com]

That's OK your job is prolly more exciting.

Or something. You've got a pony right?

Nyah, nyah!

[bryree.livejournal.com]

I mean, um, my condolences on your not having a pony, sir. Perhaps we could arrange to have some shipped...

[k8cre8.livejournal.com]

Or, maybe, it's just noticed more.

Nah.

[lostncove.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking about removing my middle initial. I think it causes emotional stress and confusion for the public. Can I be famous now??

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

Yes! You can!

[nehrlich.livejournal.com]

I think crazy people make better celebrities. You almost undoubtedly have not been following the Terrell Owens saga (he's a wide receiver in pro football), but it's been the same sort of thing. He signed a 7-year, $49 million contract last year that made him one of the top three most highly paid receivers in the league, but he decided that it didn't pay him enough, so he's been throwing hissy fits in the press all summer.

Once he actually got to training camp, he got in an argument with the coach and got kicked out of camp (which _never_ happens - people have gotten in fights and knocked each others' teeth out without getting kicked out). When the media caught up to him, he was lifting weights at home in his driveway (which made for a nice photo op - there were news helicopters circling), where he told them that the coach had told him to shut up, and that the coach wasn't his daddy, and nobody other than his family could talk to him that way, so of course, he had to curse out the coach and throw another hissy fit (which is what got him kicked out).

He's pretty much insane. But highly entertaining.

[ocschwar.livejournal.com]

The answer is "yes." Positive feedback, Dr. Tectonic. You have to be a little odd to want to live in a fishbowl. And living in a fishbowl will make you odder still. And so ad infinitum. But I am not convinced this is anything more than a calculated business decision, like how Prince managed to keep his label from stealing his stagename by naming himself (I really hope that's in the Unicode spec) and making people call him TAFKAPrince.

[ocschwar.livejournal.com]

I looked it up. Prince's logo thing is not in the Unicode standard. Eit.

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

I'm embarrassed to admit that I did, too. [Though apparently some symbols from some Dr. Seuss book are.]

#1, or #2?

[psyclonic.livejournal.com]

Memo to Sean Combs: it's not your "P" that was getting in the way, it's all your crap!

[flwyd.livejournal.com]

On the plus side, I was glad to see Mr. T on Conan O'Brien twice this week.

(On David Letterman, he famously said "My first name is Mister. My middle name is Period. My last name is T!")