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April 21, 2009

It Is Time To Shut It Down. All Of It.

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Seriously, HuffingtonPost? Look, I'm not going to lie to you. I share a small fascination with celebrity gossip (no perezo). Because I live in a world of other human beings whose value systems overlap and influence mine, and it's impossible to completely extricate myself from the dominating pop culture engine of the world, which at the moment is celebrity gossip. But this is unacceptable. Even US Magazine should be ashamed of itself (if they somehow weren't already). It would be bad enough if it was just a headline, or a useless, heartbreakingly dumb photo gallery, but someone took the time to interview people and make it into a whole story. Journalism!

This is my favorite part:

Pitt -- who donned a newsboy cap -- pushed the cart while Jolie followed behind them as they shopped in the produce, fish and meat sections, Ahmed says.

What, no deli counter?

We need a clean up on aisle 9 (that's the bullet aisle, and the mess is my body).

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Funtastik

But how did you miss this breaking news:
"They were here for 30 minutes and left."

YOU MEAN THEY LEFT WHEN THEY WERE DONE?

Posted by: Funtastik profile link at 04/21/09 10:43 AM | Reply
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No Perezo. amazing.

Posted by: Turkey at 04/21/09 11:02 AM | Reply
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etc

When it comes to celebrity "journalism" there is no such thing as shame. Have you ever watched TMZ? I caught approximately 13 seconds of it over the weekend and I still am having flashbacks.

Posted by: etc profile link at 04/21/09 11:02 AM | Reply
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This was the front page of their Media section a few days ago. SRS NEWS!

Posted by: Julia profile link at 04/21/09 11:08 AM | Reply
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Unless Angelina is blowing dudes on the parking lot there is no reason to report their (or anyone's) day-to-day affairs.

Posted by: FistfulOAwesome profile link at 04/21/09 12:21 PM | Reply
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dafs

phft...whatever. I've been going to the grocery stores for years. Now everyone's gonna think its cool because Brangelina goes grocery shopping. Fucking posers.

Posted by: dafs profile link at 04/21/09 9:40 PM | Reply
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'Because I live in a world of other human beings whose value systems overlap and influence mine, and it's impossible to completely extricate myself from the dominating pop culture engine of the world, which at the moment is celebrity gossip.'

This is so perfect, I'm going to fold it up and put it in my pocket.

Posted by: HN1 at 04/22/09 12:17 AM | Reply
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