no one mourns the wicked. celebrities and pseudo-celebrities of all shapes and sizes have web presences. i'd bet that at a certain point in their careers, every actor/musician/reality person googles their name to find out what sort of homepages have sprung up about them. some celebrities get awesome pages maintained by web-savvy fans and designed beautifully. some celebrities get crap pages, designed by bungling amateurs who hardly understand the intimate connection between mouse and computer screen. notice that the correlation between how talented a celebrity is versus how well-designed and maintained their page is is nil.

take for example what happens when you google "freddie prinze jr." good looking and charming as he may be, freddie prinze is hardly worth dedicating two pages to, much less entire websites. but lo and behold, freddie has a number of fan pages that are well designed and maintained. to contrast, consider the case of ana gasteyer -- of snl and wicked:chicago fame. her official fan page looks like someone from her family -- a young cousin or maybe a geeky uncle -- put it up. and ana gasteyer is certainly more talented and accomplished than freddie prinze jr.

then again, you might argue that freddie is more famous than ana -- he did star in both scooby doo's -- and thus deserving of more fan pages. still, it must really suck to be an accomplished celebrity and to google yourself, only to find two craptastic fan pages, neither of which are associated with your personal domain name and all of them still hosted by geocities or some outdated service like that.

something in me makes me want to dedicate my life to making semi-decent web pages for celebrities like this, the ones who are overlooked and underrepresented on the web. then again, i guess i could do something productive with my life. it's a real shame that all of my instincts always lead me towards pointless occupations and hobbies.