Cult Following

Oh, this is getting to be too much. Some misguided slacker had Stephen Hawking’s portrait tatooed on his right leg. Underneath the portrait is a quote from a Monty Python movie: “He’s not the messiah, he’s a very naughty boy.”

I’m willing to wager that my own naughtiness far exceeds Hawking’s, but that’s beside the point. Clearly, the only way I can counter the Hawking media juggernaut is to do something noteworthy enough to steal his spotlight, like write a bestselling novel or take over a small Latin American country. And given the glacial pace of my writing, the second option is more likely.