This is a short video (via BoingBoing) about Chinese people being introduced to fortune cookies. Because they don't know what they are. Because America invented them. Because we are nuts.
I guess on the scale of horrible cultural bastardization born from a deep well of incurious ignorance and Xenophobia, this ranks pretty low. The whole slavery and annihilation of Native Americans was way worse. Not to mention Karl Rove rapping. But still, we are crazy, you guys. CRAZY FOR COOKIES. But also crazy for horribleness.
If you haven't seen the documentary Capturing the Friedmans, you should. It's about a family in Great Neck, New York, patched together from home videos, after the father and one of the sons is charged with child molestation. In the grand tradition of prosecutorial documentaries (see also: The Staircase, Paradise Lost, both great, get on it), you're left with the queasy discomfort of ambivalence. The law is an imperfect machine, and every family has skeletons in its closet. It's particularly rough when those skeletons have potentially been raped and/or murdered.
One of the Friedman kids, Billy, chose the a totally uncreepy (so creepy) career of clown magician at children's birthday parties. So you can imagine that the child molestation documentary was bad for business. But now he's appearing on the new (extremely ridiculous) VH1 competition reality show, Celebracadabra:
Remember when Gary Coleman was finally getting married? Well it looks like there's trouble in paradise. The honeymoon is over. The bloom is off the rose. Other cliches about relationships falling apart. The AP is reporting that not only are Coleman and his wife Shannon Price getting divorced, they're getting divorced on Divorce Court. Classy until the end, guys. I guess I'll have to throw out my Sharynnong t-shirt. (That's my funny name for them that rolls off the tongue, like Bennifer, and Shut Up It's Friday.)
My favorite quote from the article, though, is this one: "'If he doesn't get his way, he throws a temper tantrum like a five-year-old does,' Price says, according to a transcript of the show obtained by The Associated Press." Hahaha. Get it? Because he looks so young...because he had that disease that...no, I mean, I know it's depressing and his life has been a 40 year train wreck but at the same time....5-year-old...temper tantrum...Gary Coleman? No? Too Soon?
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