Hi. So, I tricked you a little bit with the James Dean picture and blog title so that you'd come here and read my largely un-researched rant. It does relate to James Dean though.
Okay so, today I saw a link to the official website of James Dean.
My first thought was: this is strange. Why? Well, because my brain failed to align the idea of James Dean (brain says: old) and the idea of the Internet (brain says: new). I guess more specifically, James Dean died* in 1955 and the Internet wasn't born till the 80s or 90s or whenever. James Dean never saw the Internet, so I'm really racking my brains to try and think of how jamesdean.com could really call itself "the official James Dean website". Surely James Dean is the only person who has ever lived who could say whether a website could be that. Is James Dean alive? No, he's dead.
Okay, so then I thought, well, maybe it's got something to do with his "estate" or whatever that means. Like, his kids or something. Like how Yoko Ono is in charge of John Lennon's estate, there'll be someone in charge of James Dean's. Okay, who? James Dean wasn't really one to have a wife or kids. In fact, he didn't have a wife or kids. So who the hell is in charge of his estate? Maybe he had a brother who had kids. Are they in charge of his estate? Did they ever even know James Dean? How could they possibly be able to give jamesdean.com the permission to call themselves "the official James Dean website"?
Is it official just because their domain name is jamesdean.com, and not jamesdean.geocities.com or some other shitty unofficial sounding domain name? And, if the answer is yes, then is this MY official website???? Yikes!!!
The next thing you know there's jesuschrist.com which sounds "official" enough... SO WHAT THE HELL IS THIS THEN???
* Incidentally, James Dean has been dead for 55 years now and we know what happens to dead bodies after a while...so what do you suppose this would smell like?
