I’ll recount cute little stories of my little kids telling me they’ve decided to sell their stuffed animals into slavery, and Vader can talk about coping with Sudden Onset Lava Disorder.

Amen!! I remember once when I was a kid, the tennis player Chris Everett was on Letterman, and was promoting a new calendar she had come up with, showing tennis players in street clothes doing ordinary things. She thought people would be interested in tennis players as “real people” rather than just as tennis players. Letterman was politely skeptical of the idea. I thought it was ludicrous.

You make a good point, that if the media weren’t so obsessed with “human interest” stories, this never would have had to become a big deal.

Personally I had only a vague idea about his girlfriend allegedly dying. I had overheard it someplace, but it went in one ear and out the other. My wife on the other hand, though not nearly the football fan that I am, knew EXACTLY what all the fuss was about.

http://www.southbendtribune.com/news/sbt-notre-dame-football-bishop-adds-his-perspective-to-teos-saga-20130121,0,1275896,full.story

And the glory of the telestial is one, ….
For these are they who are of Paul, and of Apollos, and of Cephas.
These are they who say they are some of one and some of another—some of Christ and some of John, and some of Moses, and some of Elias, and some of Esaias, and some of Isaiah, and some of Enoch;
But received not the gospel, neither the testimony of Jesus, neither the prophets, neither the everlasting covenant. D&C 76:98-101

Imaginary lovers
Never turn you down
When all the others turn you away
They’re around.

It’s my private pleasure
Midnight fantasy
Someone to share my
Wildest dreams with me.

Imaginary lover
You’re mine anytime
Imaginary lover, oh yeah
When ordinary lovers
Don’t feel what you feel
And real-life situations lose their thrill
Imagination’s unreal

Imaginary lover, imaginary lover
You’re mine anytime

[Instrumental Interlude]

Imaginary lovers never disagree
They always care
They’re always there when you need
Satisfaction guaranteed

Imaginary lover, imaginary lover
You’re mine all the time
My imaginary lover
You’re mine anytime.

Incidentally, I prefer “pseudonymous” to “fictional.”

Some of the posters on the JG are fictional.