Celebrities and the Death of their Family Members

It's not hard to see when there is a new trend in scumbag celebrity reporting. First it was celebrity dating and who's screwing who. Oh man I sure can't wait to see who the next person to date John Mayer or who poor Jennifer Aniston will painfully break up with next. Dating wasn't enough. The temporaries in the Hollywood circles began to think that maybe their shacking up wouldn't look so bad if they had a ultra sheik wedding and claimed that they'd "finally found their soul mate!!!" That trend only lasted long enough to get to the next big trend, divorce! The more expensive and publicly painful the better. Style points given for verbal jabs that end up on TMC. But like the dress worn at the last People's Choice awards it was out of style before the night was over. Enter the Hollywood baby boom. Toting a new baby in a designer stroller and snagging the cover of People with the new tike's face and elaborate nursery was the new pink! If you're fertility doctor was lucky enough to dole up twins EVEN BETTER!! But kids grow up and what better way to celebrate that then someones kid ending up in rehab? Or better yet, what about if that kid we though was really cute in The Adventures of Growing Up ends up there! Even better!! The only thing better for the sick bastards who report this crap is what made me decide to write this entry, the death of someone who's famous. But now the latest shame, the death of celebrities children or family members.

Although I jest about these things it's gotten completely out of control. I am not just talking about the paparazzi or the Mark McGraths of the world. I'm talking about our need to see this crap EVERYWHERE!?!?. Have we lost all compassion or sense of wrong and right? It's hardly our business to know that they have passed on, let alone details of the death! When my local news decides that's more important news then showing that hundreds of people died in conflict or any number of things more relavent to the world it really really rubs me raw. If nobody was watching these shows or buying these magazines then there wouldn't be a market for it. There is a reason these trends got started, they followed the money trail. They looked at what was selling and put all of their energy into exploiting it. I know that to most people this seems like common sense, but yet the circus still sells out every night. It's almost like we get joy from others suffering. We aren't watching the real news or getting involved in our communities, NO! Instead we're piling up the kindling under the stakes for the modern day witch trials and reaching for the matches. Maybe to make our lives seem that much better, I don't really know. It's easy to not regard people as people if you don't ever have to have a conversation with them or be held accountable for our careless remarks. Yeah yeah yeah, it's a part of being "famous" right?? No!!! No matter what happens we have to have compassion and not have the need to know all things at all times. Sometimes things just aren't our business! And we should take comfort in the fact that we aren't having those problems in our life, not that someone else is. There are in fact REAL PROBLEMS PLAGUING HUMANITY!! Death is the end to every one's story and no matter how much we hide from it we will lose people very close to us, or we already have. Either way I think we can all appreciate a little discretion. In the meantime pick up a newspaper or a book, take a walk, volunteer, etc. It won't be long before the next trend is KNOWLEDGE!! Wouldn't you rather lead the trend then be behind the times??