Poorman’s 15 Minutes of Fame: Dr. Paul Koudounaris “Paul K” (Author, Photographer, Art Historian, Lecturer)

“When I talk about the pet cemeteries, right, everyone thinks I’m gonna talk about cats and dogs, and it’s not. And that’s what’s beautiful about this, is the number of different animals people can bond with. So one day in this office in Maryland, these guys show up for work and there’s a fly buzzing around. They’re like, oh, damn it, there’s a fly. And this fly’s driving them crazy. It’s buzzing all around their office. And then they slowly kinda go this fly’s got this thing, you know? It’s got the it factor and they’re kinda like, hey, I kinda like this fly. Yeah. I like that fly too. Yeah. That’s a good fly. And they adopt this fly as their office pet, as their kind of mascot. And everybody in the office loves this fly. And then they find the fly dead one day and they’re mourning this fly, you know, an animal that we would overlook, an animal that to most people is just a nuisance. They had fallen in love with a fly. And then when it died, they took its little body and they had a little wake for it.” — Dr. Paul Koudounaris “Paul K” (Author, Photographer, Art Historian, Lecturer)