Deep Thought of the Day

Filed in National by on June 26, 2009

Death doesn’t come in threes, it comes once.

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  1. Art Downs says:
    June 26, 2009 at 7:53 am

    Does the demise of even three entertainers come as the big news of the day, if not the week?

    Does this diversion have a scent of ‘bread and circus’ to it?

    We see an ‘energy bill’ being ‘Rahmed’ down the throat of Congress as if there is no tomorrow. Perhaps some congressmen should actually read and discuss the measure. But that might make them actually do something that approximates work.

    Will Mike Castle be rolled on this one? The pressure is on but a lot of voters are watching him.

  2. anon says:
    June 26, 2009 at 7:57 am

    Gov. Sanford will be eternally grateful to Michael Jackson for knocking his affair out of the news cycle.

  3. El Somnambulo says:
    June 26, 2009 at 8:53 am

    While there’s always a ‘bread-and-circus’ element to celebrity deaths, Fawcett and Jackson are different, IESHO, b/c each at one time was THE leading pop culture icon.

    So, it’s not just the death that is noteworthy, but the revisiting of what made them such icons, and the times that enabled them to reach such notoriety.

    There is also no denying that Michael Jackson had a major influence on music and all that surrounded it, and his influence will continue to be felt. Regardless of his bizarre personal life, which, when one thinks about it, played an integral role in his unique achievement, Jackson’s artistic and cultural legacy stands on its own and deserves admiration.

    To El Somnambulo, ‘bread and circuses’ nowadays means whoever Jennifer Aniston is screwing this week and whatever that Jon & Kate are up to, whoever Jon and Kate are. But the people following that stuff wouldn’t be following the latest developments in, say, Iran anyway.

  4. Joanne Christian says:
    June 26, 2009 at 9:14 am

    A complimentary copy of PEOPLE arrived at the office yesterday…”Kate” got the cover. Ed McMahon the sidebar. That’s about how it’s going these days.

    And before anyone starts, I know it may have been a deadline issue or whatever, but the sidekick remained a sidebar–even in the end–what 40 years or so later? Kate, maybe 4 months?

  5. El Somnambulo says:
    June 26, 2009 at 9:31 am

    ‘Bulo can’t remember who coined the phrase, maybe Dorothy Parker, “Famous for being famous,” but it’s not as if empty undeserved celebrityhood is a new thing.

  6. Joanne Christian says:
    June 26, 2009 at 9:39 am

    Like those Gabor sisters huh El Som?

  7. anonone says:
    June 26, 2009 at 9:52 am

    Hey El Som,

    How ’bout you start writing a weekly or daily “Bread and Circuses” post for those of us who know about Iran but don’t know “whoever Jennifer Aniston is screwing this week.”

    Inquiring minds and all that… 🙂

    Hey, who is Jennifer Ansiton anyway?

  8. Dorian Gray says:
    June 26, 2009 at 10:10 am

    I actually started working on an essay related to this topic provisionally titled ‘Cartoons for Grown-ups’. Perhaps it will go somewhere, perhaps it won’t.

    Art, re #1: I take your point, but the more I think about it the more I don’t think it matters whether or not MsOC read those bills anyway. Nobody reads anything with an open mind. It’s all partisan bullshit and confirmation bias. I’d say 8 out of 10 can’t read more than 2 pages at one sitting. Have you seen some of these clowns?

  9. El Somnambulo says:
    June 26, 2009 at 10:32 am

    Anon1: That would be a nightmare. Believe it or not, the Beast Who Slumbers has no interest in that bleep.

    The only reason he’s even aware that Jennifer Aniston sleeps around is that you simply can’t surf the ‘net for legit stuff w/o stumbling upon the weekly “Aniston Snuggles With New Beau” standing hed.

  10. Unstable Isotope says:
    June 26, 2009 at 11:15 am

    Jennifer Aniston was on the sitcom Friends (she played Rachel). She was married to Brad Pitt before Angelina Jolie lured him away. So, Jen & Brad were THE golden couple before “Brangelina” became THE golden couple.

  11. Andy says:
    June 26, 2009 at 6:56 pm

    No Accomplishment of Michael Jackson should out weigh the kind of monster he was towards kids all of that is being swept by the media machine for some bizzare reason

  12. anon says:
    June 26, 2009 at 7:00 pm

    Jennifer Aniston was on the sitcom Friends (she played Rachel). She was married to Brad Pitt before Angelina Jolie lured him away. So, Jen & Brad were THE golden couple before “Brangelina” became THE golden couple.

    Please cancel my subscription to “Delaware Liberal: Ground zero for all things political in Delaware”

  13. Unstable Isotope says:
    June 26, 2009 at 7:14 pm

    anon,

    Your $0 that you pay to read this site are hereby refunded.

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