FAME! well, sorta, for a second anyway...

Yes! Me! Quoted in the Wall Street Journal?! Yes, in a front page article about the S.L.U.G. Queen coronation. As the author, Mary Pilon said in her alert email yesterday morning, "Right below a heinously depressing story about the collapse of Wall Street as we know it..." Hmmm, the end of civilization and me and the Queens in the Wall Street Journal - cause and effect, or just really awesome timing?

You can read the whole thing, plus see a video and some photos here:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122203411663760967.html

As always, I thought my quote was kind of pedestrian,

"There are people who don't like the slug queen, who are embarrassed by it," says Kim Still, the pageant organizer. "But we just keep doing it."

but it did the job. I was hoping to score with a quippier but far more confusing and perhaps too-glib-for-WSJ line - "We take not taking ourselves seriously very seriously here."

I got quoted in the New York Times a few years back too, in a travel article about Eugene. I'm chipping away at those 15 minutes of fame a few words at a time, I guess... It took a friend's suggestion to figure out where to even buy a copy of the Wall Street Journal in Eugene, but $2 at Safeway and I've got another page for my scrapbook!