all quiet on the front

So much has happened in pop news this last week! I can’t check any of my websites for news without being hit by a tidal wave of stories about celebrities passing. After being force-fed the minutiae of every situation, I have come to the not-so startling discovery about myself:

I really don’t care about pop culture.

I don’t care about it so much, that I debated even writing a post about it, because now I’m even further cluttering the blagonet space with more words. Regardless, here is my take on the events that have transpired:

Billy Mays and Farrah Fawcett are the two most tragic things of the weekend. I say this because Billy was young and had a family and it was totally unexpected, and Farrah because she had an ongoing fight with cancer that eventually she lost. The average family out there likely has someone close to them with heart disease or with cancer, and I feel this is a fare more relateable issue.

Ed McMahon was 86 when he passed, and if someone is above 80 I don’t feel as surprised when I hear the news.

MJ…..I don’t know where to begin. Before last week, news sources were making a brisk living at vilifying MJ for whatever transgression he decided to concoct. Now they’re making a brisk living at placing him on a pedestal and asking us all to discuss how amazing he was. I’m not buying it. I have the dozen or so MJ songs I like on my iPod since well before last week, and I didn’t go out and buy all the MJ albums I could when I heard he died (and by the way, what the crap is with that? It’s not like a CD bought the day after is different than anything else). My take has always been he made good music and was a messed up human being, and to me, his death hasn’t made the former attone for the latter.

So there is my take on what’s going on here. I considered doing a post on Iran’s last election and how basically it was between an evil person and a slightly less evil person and all of a sudden we’re acting like if Mousavi had won there would be a “free” Iran even though they’re ruled by an unelected body of clerics headed by someone who’s official title is Supreme Ruler, but then the uninformed liberals out there would try to argue with me that Mousavi is a savior and his followers choose green because they’re environmentalists or something, and I don’t have the energy for that.

Now that I’ve got that out of the way, I can get back to the business of making this blog something you want to read instead of such a downer. I promise I’ll be upbeat soon; short workweek!