Self-aggrandization and its discontents

A couple of months ago, I turned up on imdb.com, thanks to appearing in a Spanish documentary on Hollywood (I’d provide a link to that initial incredulously gloating entry, except that yet another problem with this blog server is an inability to distinguish Permalinks to entries older than a month. Boy, you get what you paid for).

I thought, hmm, this is interesting, and then, when my STARmeter jumped more than 1000% the following week – more than George Clooney, who at the time was nominated for an Oscar – I thought, momentarily at least, wow, this is exciting, and expected scads of big-bucks offers to come pouring in.

And, of course, they didn’t, and I quit looking at my imdb.com page. But in a rare idle moment this week, I returned, only to discover that my STARmeter rating has leapt 34% from last week, even though I have done absolutely nothing to merit this (not that I did anything to deserve an imdb.com listing to begin with). How did my rating ascend this late into my cinematic irrelevancy? No idea, since I don’t subscribe to the site’s deeper information. Anyone who does who can explain this to me might just get a cheesy TV-promo tchotchke in the mail.