I knocked History Channel’s program called Life After People in an earlier post. And though I still haven’t seen it, I take back what I said. After reading The World Without Us, I now get it and rescind my comments.
The thing I take away from the book is that there’s a group of people who believe it’s time for the human race to stop procreating so that we, collectively, may die letting Mother Earth return to a state of environmental harmony. They believe also that in doing this, humans will realize that because they’re the last generation, they’ll finally begin to be peaceful and take time to appreciate life.
They’ve obviously never seen Children of Men. That is how we’re going down. Not in a whimper.
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Whenever somebody starts talking about celebrity gossip like who’s dating whom, my brain shuts off. Initially, I wondered why people care so much about such things. But then I rationalized it and figured celebrity drama to girls is like sports to guys. I’m sure their mind shuts off whenever I talk about NCAA football.
There’s a real strong difference, however, when it comes to magazines. Sports Illustrated doesn’t really mock you. US Weekly, however, mocks you in their section called “Stars - They’re just like us!”
OK. I can see why people would want to know that celebrities are just like them. Because if B equals A, then A equals B. And everybody wants to be a celebrity. And some people take comfort knowing that Tori Spelling’s baby covers her in sand just like how their baby covers them in sand.
To me, it’s a little insulting because it’s like they’re saying celebrities are usually so disconnected from reality and they live in their own world of chauffeurs and private jets. But every once in a while, they do the regular stupid things that regular stupid people do. And they do it better than regular stupid people do simply because they do it themselves and didn’t hire somebody to take care of it. And you know they do it better than you do because they get photographed doing the menial task.
But what’s John Mayer doing that’s just like what I do? Pumping gas? Cool.
But wait…What else does it say?
John Mayer filled his Ferrari? That’s where Stars are not like us. They drive Ferraris. I drive Toyotas.
Fuck you, Us Weekly.
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