Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Pop culture addiction? Possibly ...

A while ago (btw ... have I mentioned that my ability to gauge when things happened has gone to hell in a handbasket?  I think it has something to do with working from home ... days just sorta start to ... fade together) I was talking with a friend (who reads this - Hi M!! ... and who I am sure will tease me mercilessly in the comments) who had a People magazine donated to her that day.  Which in itself is not a blog-worthy thing.  The funny part was when she was glancing at it and realised that she had very little clue as to who the hell this mag was talking about, and was very out of date on the "news" surrounding celebs.  Heidi and Spencer?  Megan Fox?  Pink is separated?  That chick from Black Eyed Peas is married????   

I should mention, that Ms. M watches TV, and, as we all know, I eschew TV.  However!  That apparently does not stop me from knowing all the gory details about the lives and happenings of celebs.  She randomly went thru the mag (which was a few weeks out of date) and I was shocked at my stupid ability to name not only the relevant pop culture reference (TV, music, movies - you get the idea) but also why that person was newsworthy at the moment.  For reals.  It was so freakin strange.  And scary!  I have never really been a celeb gossip follower.  Lately, tho, my browsing history seems to contain a lot of sites dedicated to that sort of thing ... sites like PerezHilton (who I have given up cause he is just too nasty for my taste now), TMZ, People, MamaPop and others.  I seriously think that I have given up a good percentage of my memory to random celeb facts. Memory that I could be using to retain things like math and how to do my job properly!   I was going to give it all up, but I just can't seem to.  Every time I open a browser to read something worthwhile (like the news or the weather or information on how to get my dog to stop trying to eat the cat food when I am not looking), I just automatically navigate to something trashy.  It is like my mouse hand has a mind of her own ...  

Ah well - everybody has to have a vice, I guess.  And I would so much rather mine be this than something worse.  Like cheese. 

3 comments:

Angela said...

Ah, escapism, the reason I cannot watch just one episode of Supernatural at a time.

More importantly, are you aware of the move to make a new Buffy movie without any of the tv show's supporting characters, and without Joss involved? Scandalous! (I'm only sort of kidding).

tigerleo said...

I did see the news about the upcoming and likely craptastic BVS movie ... Actually, I replied to the comment you left on MamaPop about it :)

Anonymous said...

I am torn between teasing you mercilessly and being embarrassed by my initial belief that The Hills was a horror movie.

It has to be noted, however, that while it started randomly, your level of triviaise was so astonishing that I actually backtracked so we could go cover to cover. There was only one celeb you couldn't come up with some interesting factoid on. Had a pig flown by my window, it wouldn't have seemed at all strange. Please don't change. The experience was utterly amusing and enlightening (*snort*).

As for the Buffy flick: no original cast, no Joss???????????? That's an act of sacrilege I will not take part in.

M.

p.s. before you ask (again), yes, I found your blog today by searching "just a girl wandering the city" ... darned computer reformat... you're back in my favourites... :-)