Welcome to the New Celebrity Semiotic!
We are delighted to announce this Celebrity Semiotic blog in the Boles Blog Network has moved from Microsoft Live Spaces to its new home here on Movable Type.
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Megan Fox Has Thumbs, and So Do I
It seems that every day brings us further along the track to being relentlessly inundated with Celebrity Overload. I don’t even want to have to mention a television show with a name like “I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here” which just further puts a divide between those that are celebrated and those that are not. The last week has brought out a deluge of people who seem to be obsessed with Megan Fox’s thumbs. Specifically, the fact that one of her thumbs seems abnormally large and resembles a man’s toes. This, dear readers, has been captivating the attention of the United States so much that it is actually a top tracker in Google Trends.
Annie Duke Wins Celebrity Apprentice
Last night, the awful Celebrity Apprentice ground to a halt to wrongly “choose” Joan Rivers as Donald Trump’s newest lapdog. The tragedy in the wrongful dubbing is that the real winner, the true winner, was poker champ Annie Duke.
The Celebrity Class and the Decline of Deference
Toby Young is Michael Young’s son. Fifty years ago, Michael Young wrote the groundbreaking book, “The Rise of the Meritocracy.” Today, Toby examines the popularity of his father’s book and how the very idea of a “meritocracy” — a term his father coined — to condemn the British elite, has now been replaced with the “celebritariat.”
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Michael Crichton Cheated Us Out of Goodbye
SuperGenius author and entertainer Michael Crichton died this week. He was 66. Cancer killed him. Unfortunately
— Michael kept his illness a secret from the public — and we take
issue with that selfish hiding as we argued earlier this week on RelationShaping:
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The Danger of Celebrity Twinning
Lisa Marie Presley — the single spawm of King Elvis — announced this week she is pregnant with twins.
I Hate a Parade
The New York Football Giants are having a ticker-tape parade today to celebrate their Super Bowl XLII win. I hate a parade. Always have. Ever will.
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