How To Be Totally Famous as Usher or Taylor Swift and Everyone Will Want Your Autograph
Really!
You’ll be a celebrity and you’ll probably get an adoring entourage and maybe even a private helicopter –that’s how famous you’ll be. And trust us, going around in a helicopter is ~waaaay~ more cool than merely being driven about. Truly. Traffic jam? Hah, no problem: we’ll just FLY over it --because *fame* has it’s advantages, oh yes it does. Didn’t Usher just sign up to perform at the next Superbowl? Think so. Now, that’s fame! Surely, Usher has a helicopter.
You will be ~that~ famous: Usherfamous! Aw, how sweet would that be? Your entourage will have an entourage. Yup.
Okay, well, actually that might be a little bit of an exaggeration.
Maybe a wee overstatement.
Okay we stretched --or kind a’ lied actually: stretched it to the point of lying. “Honest.” Sure, we really do hope you get all of that A-list celebrity treatment if that’s the sort of thing that pleases you, but actually, we can’t promise fame at that level. Sorry.
No no no no, wait wait wait, don’t crumple this. Hear us out.
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In fact, you ~can~ achieve fame of a sort.
You could surely really impress your little brother. Hah? That would be nice. Also: Grandma. Yes, grandmas are so impressed by what we’re about to propose.
You could impress your mom.
Really, please don’t crumple this. (It took so much work to assemble.)
We ~can~ do you: fame of a more humble, but actually still pretty cool level. Like: your little brother will be really impressed. And, you know, that’s good. Also: Grandma! Grandmas just swoon over this sort of thing. We’re telling you. *Moms* are also impressed by this.
What is “this”? Well, it’s BEING PUBLISHED IN NELSON EXPRESSION !
If you sketch, make poems, write stories , paint, do digital art, take artsy photos, or just have something to say, e-mail it to Mr. Ward, the art teacher at Nelson County High School in Virginia (we also publish online and the world can Google us --and the US has a couple of other Nelson counties). EXPRESSION wants as much student-made content as possible. (Keep it clean, friends.) Put “publish me” in the subject line please. We’d much rather put a byline with your name in it at the end of our articles than the usual “by NCHS Art Dept.” Let’s get *your* name on here --or that artsy friend you’re aware of. Show your friend this and let’s get their items printed in EXPRESSION.
Big thanks, by the way, to Marcus Briggs, who sent in sketches that liven up this issue’s Page 3 so well. Also, MK just sent something we hope to use next time. Again, e-mail your item/s to Mr. Ward at the high school. Spare us from having to keep saying “by NCHS Art Dept” like (sigh) now. (by NCHS Art Dept)
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| Mary Kattmann, drawing |
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| Marcus Briggs, personal sketches, digital |
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| Marcus Briggs, personal sketches, ink |
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| Andy Sutherland-Wallace, drawing |