Dead Body Guy

Gabe is very excited by Dead Body Guy. I'm mostly just jealous. I mean, does Dead Body Guy have to do aerobics or attend musical theater rehearsal? Come on! Dead Body Guy is a very ironic, postmodern symbol of our vain dreams of fame. And as Andrew Sullivan tiresomely opined, after September 11th, irony is dead!

But Dead Body Guy is going to get on 'Conan O'Brien'? Damn! All I ever got was 'The Daily Show':

Lamb became Dead Body Guy on Dec. 5, when he put up his Web site, DeadBodyGuy.com. The site features photos of Lamb playing dead in various scenes around his house. Crushed by his garage door. Electrocuted in the bathtub. One series shows Lamb lying face-down in a bowl of chicken soup, above a caption that reads "Dying from bird flu."

...His dream was stalled until last month, when he realized that anybody could play dead. By posing as a corpse on the Internet, he thought, perhaps he could win a role as a lifeless extra on "CSI: Miami." He took two days to build the Web site, then waited for someone to notice.

It was a short wait. It received 300,000 hits in its first three weeks. There were 530 hits from Uruguay, six from Iran. In two hours, the site received 2,000 hits from Spain. "I'm huge in Spain," he said.

...Meanwhile, he is waiting to hear back from a producer at the Conan O'Brien show. He has booked a flight to New York to meet with an agent. "I want to leave a little legacy," Lamb said. "I'd like to have a bridge named after me."