You know how certain Fundamentalists refer to the devil as The Enemy in a sort of "He Who Must Not Be Named" way? While the Dada Drummer is no fan of the dark lord--Lucifer not Valdemort that is--this posting is about a different Enemy. Yes. You guessed it. Stupidity.
Stupidity wants you to be consumed with pointless preoccupations. Stupidity wants you to care about Lindsay Lohan's career. Stupidity wants to eat your soul.
This Enemy has many dark tools, among them People Magazine, Entertainment Tonight, MTV, and Yahoo News. These are the pulpits of Stupid Preoccupations.
Examples? Oh, I have examples:
"Brad says he and Angelina ready for baby #5!"
"Zoo sells guerrilla's art on e-bay!"
"Fall fashions to be more tailored, boy-inspired!"
"Britney was bad at VMAs, yes, but fat?"
"David Letterman is finally on Oprah!"
"Star Jones leaves The View!"
"Rosie O'Donnell joins The View!"
"Rosie O'Donnell pisses of The View!"
"Rosie O'Donnell leaves The View!"
"Whoopie Goldberg joins The View!"
"Steve Jobs apologizes for I-phone price cut!"
"California carpenter OK'd by Judge to work in the nude!"
Gentle readers--these are not current events. They are not social issues. They are not news.
Their appearance on a media outlet is illustrative of the need to fill programming hours. It is not an sign of importance.
I don't want you listening to or watching this crap. Change the channel. Turn off the radio. Burn that US Weekly magazine and, for heaven's sake, cancel your subscription.
Because every time you worry if Jennifer Aniston misses Brad Pitt or wonder if K-Fed is taking good care of those two boys, the Enemy has already won.
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Karl Marx said religion was the Opiate of the masses, but as Bill Watterson and others have observed, Religion has nothing on television in that regard.
Oh, and you should allow people to post even if they don't have Google IDs. I do, but no one knows me in the blogosphere as "Thomas."
this was too funny and true. Ironically when I browsed over to CNN today I noticed the headline referring to britneys Gma performance... And i thought the same thing.
Thomas--
The Dada Drummer loves Bill Watterson. The C & H posted on the blog is in your honor!
Someday I hope to get the complete Calvin & Hobbes. I have many cheap paperbacks and intend to educate my daughter via Watterson. It worked well for at least one friend.
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