I love celebrity gossip, though I will admit that the recent run of Britney/Nicole/Paris/Lindsay/OMG-Heidi-and-Spencer (I honestly have no idea who they are or why they’re famous, and I don’t care enough to Google them) has worn a little thin. I don’t care about TMZ’s recent scoop on Britney’s acne. Or about Hulk Hogan’s daughter’s manager not paying his child support. Or Hayley Duff’s boyfriend moving into her house. Should I care? No. Why does anyone else? I don’t know. It’s always the same gossip from the same sources over and over and over again. And it’s always the same people.
Now, on a side note that will eventually circle back around . . . when I was in high school (around 1997, when my school district first got the internet) I spent a few months obsessed with NME’s website. And then I stopped, with the exception of the odd look every year or so. But I decided, in a moment of absolute boredom last week, to check the site again. And I fell in love with their Daily Gossip section (see, it all circled back). It’s full of bits pulled from various sources, but the utter mundaneness of the oh-so-important celebrity gossip sucked me in. My favorite from today’s Daily Gossip is:
Kanye West enjoyed a portion of large fries at McDonald’s in New Jersey (Daily Mirror).
Today’s Daily Gossip:
http://www.nme.com/news/daily-gossip/37246
Now, wasn’t that fascinating? No need to go on and on about so-and-so’s drinking problem or so-and-so flashing her vagina while getting out of a car or so-and-so’s tabloid-dubbed “Scientolotot.” It’s all about Kanye eating fries at a McDonald’s in New Jersey.
Maybe tomorrow Justin Timberlake will buy a roll of Scotch tape. Woo hoo!
