Pop Uncultured
My wife has a friend who, every few months or so, gives her issues of her already read celebrity gossip magazines. The magazines consist of Star, People and one that starts with IN and ends in CH but I can’t tell the name of the magazine because there’s always some person who I presume is famous covering the font. I’m glad to say I’ve never seen my wife actually read one of these rags.
Anyhoo, just now, I picked one up and looked at the cover. Picked up a second and looked at the cover. I did this a total of seven times. On the 7th, I actually saw someone whose name I knew in a little blurb at the bottom. It was Jennifer Aniston. So, there were lots of presumably famous people on the cover of each one. And I only knew one.
I’m getting old. Or smart.
September 19th, 2013 at 6:18 pm
I’m with you – the more of these people you don’t know, the better off you are.
September 19th, 2013 at 6:24 pm
The word is discerning .
September 19th, 2013 at 7:06 pm
My wife began getting one of these rags in the mail, without a subscription. It followed us when we moved, due to the USPS telling the magazine where to find us apparently.
Three months ago we got a “This is your last issue” notice from them, they lied apparently.
I noticed how many ‘famous’ people are mentioned on the cover sometimes….I know about one every other month….
–Matt R.
September 19th, 2013 at 7:08 pm
Smut.
September 19th, 2013 at 8:42 pm
I’ve been that way with popular music ever since I stopped listening to the radio 25 years ago, and stopped watching TV four years ago.
September 19th, 2013 at 11:04 pm
It’s a game I play whenever I grocery shop. While waiting in line, I look at the covers of the rags and marvel at how few of the people one them I can recognize.
September 20th, 2013 at 7:34 am
Meanwhile when I talk about hanging with Say Uncle, or Tam, or Marko, or Oleg, most people say “Huh?”
Their loss.
I’m constantly surprised at how many people outside of the blog circles who know who Larry Correia is .
September 20th, 2013 at 7:44 am
I pride myself on not knowing who those people are. I tuned out of that mess decades ago.
September 20th, 2013 at 8:46 am
Weer’d recall that Larry Correia is an author and his books are grand pulpy fun.
I have a French friend from anime circles who read the hard magic books and is now reading MHI (I didn’t recommend them to him, he found them on his own).
His primary complaint with MHI is that it’s a bit indulgent and new-writer rough.
His secondary complaint is that the book never shows the French Hunter team (as humans).
September 20th, 2013 at 12:13 pm
These mags exalt the cult of celebrity.
Yawn.
Do we really care what some trollop wore on the Red Carpet at last week’s (you name the) awards show?
These are made for people who watch Oprah and the Today Show, which excludes most straight guys.
September 20th, 2013 at 5:34 pm
I remember when the Enquirer was a solid fake news source – reporting primarily on UFOs, fake human/animal hybrid children of unnatural couplings, and miraculous recoveries from cancer after accidentally handling uranium ore or eating just a bit of a special, rare Amazonian vine root.
Good times, good times. And sometimes cleavage, as I recall. But I read it for the articles, really.
September 20th, 2013 at 6:08 pm
Hollywood doesn’t get my money. The more space you can put between yourself and that crowd, the better off you will be.
Network TV was pretty much dead to me when they killed Firefly.
September 22nd, 2013 at 12:19 pm
“I’m getting old. Or smart.”
Probably both.