Badassery Magazine August 2018 Issue 27 | Seite 11

occasional actress, but is also a
successful writer, having penned
six children’s books so far.
The negative reaction to humans
moving into different fields of
creative endeavour is all the more
puzzling when you realize that it
wasn’t too long ago that being a
celebrity meant you had to be able
to sing, dance, act AND be funny,
and in many cases, do it on live
television 5-6 days a week. Just
ask Betty White.
As I’ve already pointed out, this
issue was most noticeable to
me when I was but a lad, when it
was entirely common to hear, “A
model wants to put out an album?
I didn’t know they could speak,”
ad nauseam. These days it’s not
nearly so prevalent, thanks to
such polymathic luminaries of
“IT’S QUITE COMMON FOR CREATIVITY TO SPILL
OVER FROM ONE DISCIPLINE TO ANOTHER, OFTEN
LEADING TO THE FORMATION OF DELIGHTFULLY
STRANGE NEW AGGLOMERATIONS”
the Glitterati as Madonna, Hugh
Jackman, Zooey Deschanel and
Neil Patrick Harris.
It’s quite common for creativity
to spill over from one discipline
to another, often leading to the
formation of delightfully strange
new agglomerations (Amanda F.
Palmer’s crowd-funded “Theatre
is Evil” album, art book/show and
tour come to mind).
If a human-flavoured human has
the ability and desire to add to
the sum total of the universe in
more than one field of endeavour,
then who the hell are we to
forbid or otherwise hamper their
explorations?
Whether it’s a famous actor
considering a singing career or
a kid who wants to try painting
because it looks interesting, these
explorations benefit us all, whether
they’re “successful” or not.
In our modern society, we yammer
on endlessly about “courage.”
Standing up to oppression and
abuse, fighting for fundamental
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