# Everyone Gets Their 15 Minutes **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 11, 2007, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-gets-their-15-minutes/403630 "2007-05-11T00:40:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-gets-their-15-minutes/403630/21 "2007-05-17T06:03:57Z")
I’ve been interviewed numerous times, during my election bids (especially last time), for my metro site, and a few times about my editing Wikipedia. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-gets-their-15-minutes/403630/22 "2007-05-17T14:36:00Z")
I was interviewed by a local TV station while taking part in a pro-choice rally here in the early 1990s. “Why are you, as a dude, interested in abortion rights?” was the gist of it. A bunch of friends called me later to say they’d seen me on TV - and that I was surprisingly coherent. I was also once interviewed by the _Plain Dealer_, the big local paper, about some legal work I’d done on a domestic violence case. More recently I was interviewed, along with two friends, on a Franklin, Tenn. radio program about Civil War battlefield preservation. I wrote some topical op-ed pieces while I was a reporter for my local paper, just before law school, that got some attention. That was cool. And I got a shout-out on _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ that others notice from time to time. I wrote to the staff to suggest a particular starship name, and staff writer Rene Echeverria (sp?) not only used the ship name, but named a nebula after me in the episode “Firstborn,” too. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-gets-their-15-minutes/403630/23 "2007-05-18T03:55:54Z")
Whoah… that was YOU?! ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2007, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-gets-their-15-minutes/403630/24 "2007-06-07T04:23:16Z")
Time Magazine’s Person of the Year is You. ---
**Author:** ![Idlewild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8491ac/32.png) [@Idlewild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idlewild)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2007, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-gets-their-15-minutes/403630/25 "2007-06-07T04:35:15Z")
Sorry about the whales. Maybe they were in disguise. Anyway you did your best with the information you had. My fifteen minutes may have been back when I was a minor local celebrity within the very active poetry scene in my (small) hometown, as a decent juvenile poet. If that was my lot, it’d be kind of funny to blow it out on that. 😃 My hometown’s great. It’s sort of like a teeny-tiny LA or something. If you ask someone what they do it’s “Well, this is my day job, but really, I’m a writer.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-gets-their-15-minutes/403630.md?page=1)