Running away from runaway bride
Are you like me and hate this "Runaway Bride" story?
I sit and ponder why it is that certain stories which come down the human interest pike have this effect on me while others do not. For instance, I didn't mind the story about the guy that kept a tiger in his apartment. Remember that one? There was some guy who had been keeping this enormous twelve foot bengal tiger in his apartment somewhere in New York. I love that kind of story. Then there are those stories about fifteen foot alligators turning up in swimming pools down there in Florida. Great stories. Then there was the one just recently about the buffalo that got loose and stampeded through a quaint New England town. Liked that one.
Hmmm...I'm beginning to see a pattern here.
But this story? Pass. So some unstable woman decides for whatever reason that she doesn't want to get married and pretends to be abducted or whatever. I used to pretend I was sick so I didn't have to go to school. I don't remember CNN covering it.
I guess what irritates me the most is that I'm simply at the mercy of our media/ celebrity culture. We're force-fed this stuff and we just have to sit here and stop squirming and take it. Well I took my heaping spoonful of the "Runaway Bride" and I'm not happy about it. I'm still making a face as it meanders down my esophagus. Yuck.
John Mason and his fiancee's father, Harris Wilbanks, said the 32-year-old woman was working on a public statement. "She just needs some space and some time," Mason said. "She just wants the whole world to know she's very, very sorry."
The whole world? Gimme a break. Grrrrrr...I hate that I know what she did and I hate that I know she's apologizing...And yes I'm perpetuating it by spewing it on a blog!
I like to think that I'm just retching it back up.
I sit and ponder why it is that certain stories which come down the human interest pike have this effect on me while others do not. For instance, I didn't mind the story about the guy that kept a tiger in his apartment. Remember that one? There was some guy who had been keeping this enormous twelve foot bengal tiger in his apartment somewhere in New York. I love that kind of story. Then there are those stories about fifteen foot alligators turning up in swimming pools down there in Florida. Great stories. Then there was the one just recently about the buffalo that got loose and stampeded through a quaint New England town. Liked that one.
Hmmm...I'm beginning to see a pattern here.
But this story? Pass. So some unstable woman decides for whatever reason that she doesn't want to get married and pretends to be abducted or whatever. I used to pretend I was sick so I didn't have to go to school. I don't remember CNN covering it.
I guess what irritates me the most is that I'm simply at the mercy of our media/ celebrity culture. We're force-fed this stuff and we just have to sit here and stop squirming and take it. Well I took my heaping spoonful of the "Runaway Bride" and I'm not happy about it. I'm still making a face as it meanders down my esophagus. Yuck.
John Mason and his fiancee's father, Harris Wilbanks, said the 32-year-old woman was working on a public statement. "She just needs some space and some time," Mason said. "She just wants the whole world to know she's very, very sorry."
The whole world? Gimme a break. Grrrrrr...I hate that I know what she did and I hate that I know she's apologizing...And yes I'm perpetuating it by spewing it on a blog!
I like to think that I'm just retching it back up.
posted by Wonderdog | 11:04 AM | Permalink
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That silly story has been a hot topic on local talk radio for days. My guess is that people who watch TV (ie, everyone but me) got wrapped up emotionally in the disappearance story and were disappointed that they were snookered. (Wasn't there some Marshall McLuhan theory on media that applies here?)
Anyway, if my theory isn't true, then I must be heartless because the story just didn't have much of an effect on me. Just, "oh, how sad," a quick prayer, "oh, good, she's OK" and "what dopes the two of them are." (Her for dissing all her loved ones and him for not dumping her.)
As to that story, ask me if I am ignorant or apathetic and I will respond that I don't know and I don't care.
After seeing a photo of her, I'm surprised he didn't hit the starting block before she did.
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