Popkultur disaffection

Snapped with my phone, on a slummy stretch of Market Street here in SF:

Then it hit me

I’m not going to be famous

I won’t get to be a rock star

I am going to be stuck on the payroll doing work that doesn’t interest me for a very long time

Apparently this poster also turns up as a mural in Fresno.

Of course, this rhetoric has been around for a long time. You saw it on the streets of Paris 36 years ago.

Blogger Tom Coates has a rebuttal which claims that blogs give the lie to this sentiment. I'm not convinced — but then I don't want to be that kind of famous, anyway.