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The other day, I’m on Yahoo! news like I normally am and I see all these “BREAKING NEWS!” yellow headlines that are normally reserved for something really important. Â Naturally I look to see what the breaking news is, and it leaves me with a feeling of “…huh?”
The breaking news of the day: Alex McQueen had died.
Now I hope I’m not insensitive when I say I had no idea who that is. Â I started thinking, “Was that Steve McQueen’s kid? Â Did Steve McQueen even have a kid? How long has it been since I watched ‘The Great Escape’? ‘Bullit’ is awesome. Â Yay cars.” Â Rather than keep going down the road of random free associates, I wikipedia’d Alex McQueen and found out that it was an English guy who made clothes. Â And not even clothes that normal people wear, but the kind that only anorexic models on runways wore for about 30 seconds and then never wore again.
Color me confused as to how this man affected my life. Â As far as I can tell, the only time we crossed paths was when this yellow banner appeared on my Yahoo news.
Maybe I’m wrong and I have half the clothes in my closet are somehow distantly related to something he did on a runway in Milan.
So internet, let me ask you, who was Alex McQueen and why should I care?
I’ll tell you right now, I hate “reality” television.  I think it’s about as real as Montag, as scripted as an Obama press conference, and as edited for television as a George Carlin routine.  So when I’m in the checkout line and see a dozen different magazines talking about Snooki, I’m required to try and figure out who the heck this Snooki is.
So after hours of research, I have been able to determine that she appears on this unholy wreck of a show called ‘Jersey Shore,’ she has large hair, and she got punched. Â Which, quite frankly, if the first two things are true then the third was bound to happen sooner or later.
So I’ve answered the first part of my question: who the hell is Snooki. Â And maybe I’m wrong about this next part and she has somehow affected my life in hidden and mysterious ways or invented a new vaccine for fake tans, but my dear internet, maybe you can tell me why I should care?
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about 1 year ago
Snooki is retarded, and I could give two shits about any clothing designer that doesn’t at least have a 2X in their line.
That’s real.
about 1 year ago
I would have had to look that up myself… I have no idea what is on TV these days and who is wearing what designer brand name.
And really, what does it matter to me? Why should I care?
I am with you 100%
about 1 year ago
Yeah that was insensitive. He was a great designer nontheless, whether he designed for skinny people or fat people. He still is human and he was talented.
I am quite sure that if you had kicked the bucket you would want people to care as well as be considerate.
I would have to give you credit though for looking it up and informing yourself.
Jus sayin.
about 1 year ago
I have no doubt that when I die I would want people to care. However, I’m sure it will be my friends and family and I won’t get a Yahoo headline. How many other 41 year old men died that day and only those close to them knew about it? Better yet, if I had died that day, would Alex McQueen have cared?
And unfortunately, there are few things I care less about in the world than fashion. I’m not even talking about what’s in and what’s out this year because that actually has some impact on what clothes I buy. I’m talking about those nutjobs who build ridiculous things that only size 0 models wear and thats it. So I have no doubt that my disdain for that arena contributed to my ignorance of designer.
about 1 year ago
Alexander McQueen was kind of a fashion icon, dude. I feel about the same way when I’m supposed to care that…an Olympic luger died because he luged on an unsafe track. And this affects my life…how? But there it is. People like to make a big deal about other people dying.
Sn00ki, ah…that show is just awful. But I watched three episodes out of sheer shock and sadness. Fist pump!
about 1 year ago
He was an international fashion icon, so I can see how his death would be news, but I get what you’re saying. There are some deaths that are covered where I’m just like, “and I care about this why???”
As for Snooki…as cliche as it sounds, it’s like watching a train wreck. You can’t help but notice and stare in awe.
about 1 year ago
Never heard of him . . . guess I’m not in with the fashion much.
about 1 year ago
This is a great shit stirring post, Jeff. I’m impressed.
I can promise you one thing though.
He won’t be going to YOUR funeral.
about 1 year ago
Well don’t feel alone cause I didn’t know him either, my son was telling me about him. I was like alrighty then that means what to me exactly lol..
about 1 year ago
1 gay fashion desinger down, a couple hundred more to go.
about 1 year ago
You aren’t wrong. You shouldn’t know or care.
Jersey Shore is the most ridiculous phenomenon ever. I can’t believe they are making a second season of that train wreck.
about 1 year ago
I totally agree with you. I thought the same thing about him. And when I found out, it was “So???”
As for Snooki, she’s an embarrassment to carbon- based life forms and should be removed from the public view indefinitely.
about 1 year ago
CLUELESS!
MANY phenomenal people who make life altering differences in the lives of those around them die daily. They don’t get Yahoo headlines.
about 1 year ago
You shouldn’t care, nor should you be on the quest to figure out why it even fucking matters, because it doesn’t.
You should go one youtube and search for Shane Dawson. The guys a genius and he does a wonderful Snooki impression.