So I’m sitting in an airport with time to kill, and how else would I want to spend my time besides writing down some thoughts on this here blog? Exactly.
Wanna hear something funny? That’s all I ended up writing in the airport. This page wasn’t appearing as I needed it to on my cell phone, so I abandoned the post before it even got going. So now I’m sitting at home instead of in an airport, and I have the opposite of “time to kill” but still want to get some lingering thoughts out. Here goes:
When I think about what’s wrong with our society, I usually point to two things. First, “The Hills.” “Famous” people who are only “famous” for being “famous” who do nothing but act like idiots but are somehow compelling enough for millions of people to watch. (Mind you, I’ve never seen the show but have seen enough of Spencer and Heidi that I want to gouge my own eyeballs out.) Second, our over-litigious society that causes empty cups to warn us that it’s possible there may be hot liquids eventually placed inside them. Well I think I may have a third, even though this is coming to me a little late. How did it happen that a hip hop artist, upon being acquitted on gun charges, made a formal announcement that he was changing his name from “Puff Daddy” to “P Diddy” – and people just went along with it? I remember watching that and thinking he sounded like a moron (especially since he already had, ya know, a real name) and that he’d be ridiculed non-stop. Instead, a day later and he was being called “P Diddy” by various information and entertainment outlets. This isn’t on the same level as the other two “what’s wrong with the world” items, but it still bugs me almost a decade later that his self-important fake-name-to-other-fake-name change was taken so seriously.
That’s it for now. I hope to get my other thoughts out soon, so stay tuned.