Fame and decency
27 October 2004. Inspired by .
Jon laments the (hopefully temporary) disappearance of the complete stranger commenting on his blog, forgetting that Trackback might still work and allow complete strangers to comment via their own media. (Those without blogs not being complete, naturally.)
A good opportunity for you all to wade in is to join his post-Peel search for those elusive people in the public realm to whom you'd stand a pint - and who would be pleasurable company during it. This is not (necessarily) a space for heroes, merely those who fit his entirely reasonable four-point list:
"(a) a decent, essentially good person, (b) a person good to be around, (c) defiantly themselves and (d) in the public realm"
Public realm is entirely down to your own definition of course. Personally, I'd add Neil Gaiman, Brian Johnson RIP, Sir George Martin.
These are the kinds of people who would humour your questions but swiftly ask you about yourself in a way that you'd really feel that they meant it.