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What I am thankful for this year…..by Evie Aronson 11/16/06

What am I thankful for this year?…..That POP CULTURE HAS GONE TOO FAR!
I know a guy who used to prep for his dates by reading People magazine.
10 minutes before the date, he would read the current issue of People to catch up on the hot topics, and that way, he would never run out of dinner conversation. He’s married now, so I guess it worked for him. But that was back in the 90’s when the pop culture news was dispersed at a reasonably tolerable rate. Now we are completely saturated …..in print, tv, radio and, of course, the internet.
A few prime examples: did you hear that Brangelina (and if you know your pop culture, you know that is the code name for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie) are supposedly on the terrorist’s most wanted list? Why? Because they adopt children that don’t look like them? I guess Madonna will be next in line for that honor. Meanwhile, “Dancing with the Stars” is doing a nation-wide live tour with past contestants…..I mean come on – if you didn’t make it past the 3rd show, why would we want to see you live in person? But the real eye-opener was on November 7, 2006 – the day of the midterm elections……..at approximately 4:00pm the CNN Breaking News of the day was: “Britney Spears files for divorce from her husband Kevin Federline, citing irreconcilable differences.” No one saw that one coming, not even the Democrats……Britney and K Fed were trying to steal their thunder – or maybe the Republicans were trying to create a diversion while the polls were still open? The most important detail of the break up was that tech-savvy Britney used a text message to inform Kevin of the divorce…..these are crazy times, very crazy (insert your own TomKat punchline here). The best way I have found to stay on top all of this information is to tune into the clip shows like “The Soup” on E! or VH-1’s “Best Week Ever” – you can get all of the celebrity gossip and find out what’s happening on all of the hundreds of REALITY shows without wasting hours of your time actually watching the shows. But why am I thankful for the pop culture explosion? Because without it, we would have nothing to talk about on a date…..I mean seriously what else is there to talk about? Politics?! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!