Pop Culture - Nauseating and obnoxious, or degrading and evil?
September 21st 2006 18:51
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So apparently TV Week magazine is "thrilled" at the news that Marcia Cross is expecting a baby.
Isn't this the kind of thing that just makes you want to leap up, run outside, go down to the TV Week offices and spit on everyone there?
I mean, they're THRILLED? The magazine is thrilled that someone is having a baby. Not somebody that anyone AT the magazine personally knows, just someone they've seen on TV. And they're thrilled! Like TV Week is actually Marcia Cross's loving aunt, and for the next month the magazine will not be in newsagents because it will be too busy sitting at home knitting booties. It's amazing the ability of TV Week to hold emotions in the first place, really. All New Idea manages is a vague sense of unease.
They're THRILLED at TV Week. I can just imagine the staff there, dancing for joy around the room, throwing editorial confetti about with sheer euphoria at the news that someone who is basically a complete stranger has formed a zygote. I bet some of them have passed out from happiness and have to be revived by waving profiles of Chris Hemsworth under their noses.
"I'm so thrilled that Marcia Cross is pregnant, let's go to the meadow and weave wildflowers in our hair, for the world today is beautiful!"
"Yes, let's! After all, we're THRILLED!"
"Great! Hooray for the fertilisation of ova within the fallopian tubes of famous people on the other side of the world! Let's go! Oops, we can't, we're late for that appointment with some semi-literate cardboard cut-out who's going to talk as if his character is a real person."
"Well, I'm THRILLED about that that too!"
"Me too!"
I mean...Jesus.
Isn't this the kind of thing that just makes you want to leap up, run outside, go down to the TV Week offices and spit on everyone there?
I mean, they're THRILLED? The magazine is thrilled that someone is having a baby. Not somebody that anyone AT the magazine personally knows, just someone they've seen on TV. And they're thrilled! Like TV Week is actually Marcia Cross's loving aunt, and for the next month the magazine will not be in newsagents because it will be too busy sitting at home knitting booties. It's amazing the ability of TV Week to hold emotions in the first place, really. All New Idea manages is a vague sense of unease.
They're THRILLED at TV Week. I can just imagine the staff there, dancing for joy around the room, throwing editorial confetti about with sheer euphoria at the news that someone who is basically a complete stranger has formed a zygote. I bet some of them have passed out from happiness and have to be revived by waving profiles of Chris Hemsworth under their noses.
"I'm so thrilled that Marcia Cross is pregnant, let's go to the meadow and weave wildflowers in our hair, for the world today is beautiful!"
"Yes, let's! After all, we're THRILLED!"
"Great! Hooray for the fertilisation of ova within the fallopian tubes of famous people on the other side of the world! Let's go! Oops, we can't, we're late for that appointment with some semi-literate cardboard cut-out who's going to talk as if his character is a real person."
"Well, I'm THRILLED about that that too!"
"Me too!"
I mean...Jesus.
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Comment by Joy
Is it all idiocy? Sure.
Evil? Not so much.
Comment by BenP
Not evil? Just you wait. Complacency is the path to destruction. When TV Week comes for your children, you'll regret you did not heed my warnings.
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Comment by Bryn
Horrorphile
I'm even more thrilled that the thrill is being questioned as to its genuine thrillingness ...!!!
Comment by The Daily Sonnet
The Daily Sonnet
Lots of Sonnets
Comment by AllieWonder
Comment by BenP
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Comment by Always Eighteen
Always Eighteen: Japan Edition
Mum did.
(when no one was looking)
...I read it, too.
Comment by BenP