[kj] amy shithouse & celebrity addiction in general.

[Brendan]

Joe Rogan's bit on Anna Nicole:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uagDLbn4t6Y


:)



> Yeah, the whole press game with all these crash-and-burn celeb types is

> insane. So many who get ink not for talent but for lifestyle. I try to

> keep it out. And I gotta say, sometimes I really like living in this

> self-imposed cave: it's kind of pleasant to never have heard of this

> Winehouse before she was mentioned on...the Gathering of all places!

> I'll just enjoy this bliss and not google her.

>

> Of course, the day a lady at work said, "Can you believe -- Anna

> Nicole's son died?" I went off about why the hell I should even know or

> care...so I probably need a nap. (That said, it helped, as the lady

> never mentioned when Anna Nicole herself died.)

>

> uncle benny's magical bra & liquorice factory wrote:

>> Hello, been away...

>>

>> Y'know what makes me smile with all this celebrity drug (and alcohol)

>> abuse is the double standards with which the press treat it all.

>>

>> The tone of the reporting is kind of:

>> Oh dear, poor Amy Winehouse. Her mum's really worried.

>> Kerry Katonas (who?) Drug hell -- her friends say with the pressure of

>> fame she's spiralling out of control

>> PETE DOCHERTY EVIL SATAN DIE! DIE! DIE!

>> Robbie -- how rehab saved me

>>

>> It bothers me the way the press treats this celebrity addiction

>> (depending upon whether or not the person in question is currently in

>> favour or not) as if it were no more than a case of a bad cold; that

>> we should feel sorry for these poor 'celebs' plight when really (IMO &

>> how I'd like it to be seen in the eyes of my kids) it should be

>> vilified across the board as pathetic & dirty & not something you can

>> spend a week in `The Priory take a Lemsip & be all better.

>>

>> Phew -- I need a lie down.

>> Or a lion...

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