Celebrity gossip is so over; it’s all about revealing behind the scenes glimpses of the New York publishing industry
Wednesday, October 26th, 2005Although I still check thesuperficial.com daily to get my
fix of celeb slander, the actual content of the stories included on such
websites or in the weekly glossies, (that I will still read) seem to hold less
and less appeal, particularly since all of the stories seem like total plants,
of course Kirsten Dunst slept with Orlando, it was practically contractually
obliged, as was the soon to be leaked grainy not too incriminating, but
unmistakably genuine sex tape they made. And what’s more those rags have
entirely too many pages devoted to celebrity hairstyles and makeup tricks,
don’t get me wrong I enjoy the red carpet shots but I frankly don’t give a shit
about how Ashlee Simpson’s stylist decided to soften her look with a loose side
French braid
It’s all about insider blogs where the gossip focuses on the
blunders of editors, publishers, writers and leaky fact checkers. O.K so maybe
it sounds dry but it’s not, and what’s better is that you also get celeb gossip
only you get it from the source, all the crap that will never make it to press
is getting leaked by some Conde Nast underling, who will be caught and fired,
and in turn provide the next days inside story.
So first I read superficial, then I go to GAWKER.com it’s
not for everyone, but if you’re bored of Jessica and Nick. Then if I have time
I’ll check out Jossip although the J.O.S. is a little more of a mix of in front
and behind. Occasionally OMGblog has something super funny, but my computer at
work won’t see that page properly.
For some reason reading dirty stories about the stupid
things rich and powerful people have done (despite the fact that I couldn’t
pick them out of a three person line up) is so interesting to me. Unless you got a real good dirty story
about: Brad, and I’m talking bare fact: he has a dungeon and is into 14 year
old boys or something good like that… no wedding conjecture, or for instance an
exclusive with Kate Moss about all the fashionable hypocrites she’ll never talk
to again. I think I’ve made my point. Pictures of coiffed people getting their
Starbucks are not going to cut it anymore.
Which brings me to a second and totally unrelated point. I
read this quote from the guy who’s all like big up for the American
broadcasting decency standards or some shit…
“The cable industry should do something to provide parents
with more tools to control what their kids watch. Cable operators could put
together a package of all channels geared to families and children and sell it
separately from channels not for families and children.”
Now hold on just one second Mister. Ok sure I think parents
should definitely be aware, or even involved in what their children watch on television, in fact in a perfect
"we all have plenty of time" kinda world I’d suggest that parents watch the teli
with their kids, but not as Kevin Martin suggest that we figure out yet another
way for absentee parents to “control what their kids watch.” That’s bullshit. Kids are people, short
bratty people, the whole notion that a parent can CONTROL what their kid sees
is unfair to both the parents and the kids, it sets parents up to think that
they have the right to try to control every aspect of their child identity (I
know two such parents who would not let their effete son take ballet class for
fear it would turn him into something he already was, and insisted that he play
baseball… an utterly dreary sport that left him totally unenthused and he got
fat, and felt bad about ballet… until years later when he got skinny and hot
and told his parents it was dumb for them to have tried to steer him a specific
direction like that, cause everybody gets to live their life and it’s just
plain selfish to try and live two)
But that’s what it all boils down to, A) you can’t control
the world your kids live in; all you can do is help them understand it. B) You
only get to live one life, if you selfishly mistake your child’s life (and
their right to make their own decisions) for yours, only one thing is guaranteed,
and that’s not that your son or daughter will turn out exactly as you wanted
(it’s that they will hate you).
B.G.A. is for the kids