Celebrities

One thing I really don't like about the business I'm in is the obsession with celebrities. Yeah, I feed it sometimes by commenting on the latest trials and tribulations of Britney Spears. And I might reference sometime by saying something like this:

According to an acquaintance, Rush Limbaugh recently said something I didn't like. He says Rush doesn't have kids and has said he doesn't want to hear people talking about their kids anymore. Rush says he has talent on loan from God. In this case, he also has intelligence on loan from Kevin Federline, wisdom on loan from Britney Spears and charm on loan from Rosie O'Donnell.

I couldn't say that without having followed some celebrity news. But do I really need to know what toy store Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie took their kids to a couple of weeks ago?

Maybe celebrity news is a guilty pleasure of sorts. Part of it is getting old. I hear about this music star or that movie star and I say to myself, "I never heard of that person." All I know is that John Hartford is dead, and I have no more reason to buy any new CDs.

I wish we could go cold turkey on celebrity news. I really do.

Meanwhile, I'm heading over to this site where someone makes catty comments about what celebrities wear in public. And to this one devoted to celebrity plastic surgery gone bad. See you there.