November 2008
ISBN 978-0-9803746-2-9
$14.95 flexibound
Lame Claims to Fame
by Patrick Witton
A small book with its sights set on the big time, Lame Claims to Fame revels in, and roots out, the cult of celebrity. Funny, reverential and downright silly, it takes giddy delight in real encounters with unreal people, liberating mere mortals to celebrate their own ephemeral brushes with fame.
Have you cooked a chicken Caesar salad for Nicholas Cage, pushed Meg Ryan into a shoe stand at Prada, or bumped Sandra Sully's car (and been told to keep it ‘mum')? See how your tales stack up in the league of lame.
Praise for Laim Claims to Fame
'It's hard to know which is the lamest claim to fame in this compilation... Fact is, they‘re all wonderfully, pathetically, embarrassingly lame.' Herald Sun
About the Author
Patrick Witton was born in Adelaide (home of the Hilltop Hoods), where he went to Unley High School (just like Julia Gillard). After a few years of aimless wandering (a bit like Buddha) he settled in Victoria. His home is now the Yarra Valley, where he writes for The Big Issue, The Age and his own amusement.
