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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When Death Takes the Famous
We are a society that covets fame.
When Brad Renfro dies, we pause and listen for details.
After Heath Ledger: Does Celebrity Kill You?
Heath Ledger is dead at 28. If he were not famous — would he deserve the celebrity mega-media coverage being blanketed upon us in the wake of his wake?
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Rove and Clinton: Drums of Racism Banging Obama
I suppose it had to happen sooner than later.
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Gossip as Entertainment
Gordon Davidescu wrote this article.
Sometimes when I go to the local market and pick up some food, I think of how fortunate I am that nobody cares that I am shopping. There is nobody around the corner waiting to take photographs of my shopping choices, writing down item after item — is that a bag of quinoa or millet he has there?
Britney Spears Impregnates Jamie Lynn Spears
Britney Spears — the most unfortunate example of the stereotypical, rural, White-Trash-Baby-Mama — has gone and done did the “Oops!” unthinkable again: She got her sister pregnant.
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My Kingdom for a Kindle or Two or Six!
The $400.00USD Amazon Kindle eReader sold out in less than five hours on its debut day November 20th. The next batch sold out even quicker — I was lucky to get one delivered Friday — and the third batch of Kindles will not be available for purchase until after December 25th.
What is a Celebrity Semiotic?
It’s a fair question to wonder on the meaning of a “Celebrity Semiotic”
— what is it, what does it mean, and what are you doing with the idea
here? The celebrity is the image — sometimes a craven image —
that lives beyond the ordinary life and into the excesses of the future
and the past.
Sycophants in Rejection: Making Terroristic Threats
Any big blog that’s been around awhile — like Urban Semiotic — has its share of rejected sycophants who just won’t go away after violating our publication policy or for being a personal nuisance.
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Celebrity Semiotic: The Bad Parenting of Paris Hilton
As a cogent and mindful people we are faced, once again, with the inappropriate disparity between rich and famous and the poor and unknown. I call this disconnect: The Celebrity Semiotic.
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