I once read on Wired.com that some Slovakians think they’ve isolated what exactly caused the incredible growth that Rome experienced. A particular gene, when exposed to massive amounts of radiation from digital cameras, computers, television, radio waves, and subspace seems to induce an explosion in size. Several lab mice were effectively grown to the size of Labradors after being posted on YouTube. The tests are still in the clinical stage and they have yet to figure out how to produce the shrinking effects that Rome managed. You can still catch her show and she’ll appear in the occasional film, but for the most part Rome’s private life has disappeared from the public. You can still see her profile on facepage though. There are a few photos, ones of her giant days and some when she was still young and innocent. The captions are all blank though. Other than that it’s just a few random quotes. I was looking at it the other day when one of them struck me, “Great is the human race and alone I am of no account. But the individual is still greater than the human race. For though people will continue on long after I am gone, in the individual there is achievement, small comparatively, but actual. When I am done I will not be nothing, not as though I had never been. I will have gone forth bravely, so that others may follow.” I liked Rome. I’d thought she was hot, I’d thought she was a good actress, and I’d thought she was absolutely insane a few times. Hell, the quote even seems to be from a Celluloligist book. But for the first time, I thought she might actually be someone worth getting to know. So I wrote this blog, since there doesn’t seem much point in ever actually meeting her in person. What else is there to see? It is a strange relationship that we Americans have with our female celebrities.
