Andy Warhol has been world famous for 48 years for saying that in the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

Since then, however, advances in the art and science of publicity have allowed the seemingly only briefly famous to extend their time in the spotlight indefinitely.

For example, Clock Boy has now thrust himself back into the press, with its voracious appetite for incidents of “Islamophobia,” no matter how ambiguous or farcical. From today’s New York Times: