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Shoes on Powerlines: This guy Robert that I know hates America’s obsession with rich bitches.
Holy shit! Did you hear where Jessica Simpson spent the night last night? Did you hear that Paris Hilton went to that one movie premiere? GASP! Did you see what Nicole Richie was wearing last night?
I’m familiar with all of these things thanks in part to a live-in girlfriend with a tabloid obsession but mostly because, like Robert says, it’s tough to avoid if you’re literate and frequent typical grocery stores. It’s out of control, for sure. Has the amount of interest in low-rent celebrities always been like this? Is reality TV to blame? I mean, talent has been completely lost among the myriad, complex criteria for celebrity status. And though it never really ranked above having a hot ass (because why should it?) it used to matter a little. Right?
The sooner people turn off the E! Channel and stop obsessing over every little detail of whatever Paris/Nicole/Jessica/etc. is doing, the better off we, as a society, will be.
Yet, pseudo-celebrity obsession is more likely a symptom of America’s idiocy, rather than a cause. Maybe it can even help if, say, around late October Jessica Simpson and Mischa Barton are caught on camera in the shower together. There are a couple reasons this would be good, not the least of which is the possibility that a good chunk of misinformed voters will forget to cast a ballot because they will be too busy reading Defamer.
Right now, I am sure that if Jessica Simpson and Nelson Mandela would die on the same day… Jessica Simpson would get bigger headlines in the United States.
Nelson Mandela? Oh that’s right — Mary Kate’s new boyfriend. Or is he dating Ashley?
Mike wrote:
Man, don’t be such an a##! What else am I supposed to talk about with my 1,953,125 MySpace friends?…
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So, is your girlfriend the live-in or are you a live-in boyfriend? Maybe I’ll have my live-in wife ask her when we’re hanging out on MySpace this weekend.
Posted on 22-Feb-06 at 5:44 pm | Permalink
Charley wrote:
That is all true. Just make sure your live-in wife doesn’t tell my live-in girlfriend that I called her that, because I may end up needing a new live-in roommate to pay half the rent, if you catch my drift.
The worst part is I can’t take it back now that you’ve pointed it out publicly. After I posted that I almost deleted “live-in” because it’s both stupid and uneccessary — hallmarks of terrible writing. Now I have to own up to it since there’s no one I can logically blame. Thanks Mike. Thanks a lot.
Posted on 22-Feb-06 at 5:57 pm | Permalink
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