Yes, but is it Art?

Oregon Public Broadcasting asked me to sign this waver for (possible) use of footage they filmed of me reading … erm… hm…

“Starting from an early age, I have maintained a nearly complete collection of my toenail clippings…”

And I go on for a little less than two minutes from there.

Curious.  I believe this was originally something I wrote in my (assigned) journal to annoy my 11th grade English teacher.  When I posted it to the Internet, two links came to it — one claiming (facetiously) it was the “most disturbing thing I’ve seen on the Internet”.  (I appreciate an amount of irony with that one).  I emailed both of them to disclaim any reality to this — was cleared with one of them with “I thought so, but one can never tell” — the other linker seemed to want to engage in some trolling with me, which I wasn’t terribly interested in.

I’m just not sure it’s a good idea to be shown on television talking about one’s toenail clippings.

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