Shit I Learned From TMZ

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Mecca]

So the headline is "Olivia Munn is likely pregnant with John Mulaney's baby"

But really what i want to talk about is: This is one of the rare celebrity gossip things that actually moves my needle. Like I have a knee jerk reaction and opinion, as if I know either of these people.

Maybe it's because I'm a huge fan of Mulaney's comedy? Maybe it's because we both identify as addicts, I feel some misplaced sense of familiarity with his life?

In any event, my real question is: Why do we have the pseudo-relationships with celebrities? And are they 100% bad, or is there maybe some good in our cultural connections to famous people none of us know?

Has Tom Hanks had a controversy?

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Bammer]

So the headline is "Olivia Munn is likely pregnant with John Mulaney's baby"

But really what i want to talk about is: This is one of the rare celebrity gossip things that actually moves my needle. Like I have a knee jerk reaction and opinion, as if I know either of these people.

Maybe it's because I'm a huge fan of Mulaney's comedy? Maybe it's because we both identify as addicts, I feel some misplaced sense of familiarity with his life?

In any event, my real question is: Why do we have the pseudo-relationships with celebrities? And are they 100% bad, or is there maybe some good in our cultural connections to famous people none of us know?

They’re just people

[epilogue]

So the headline is "Olivia Munn is likely pregnant with John Mulaney's baby"

But really what i want to talk about is: This is one of the rare celebrity gossip things that actually moves my needle. Like I have a knee jerk reaction and opinion, as if I know either of these people.

Maybe it's because I'm a huge fan of Mulaney's comedy? Maybe it's because we both identify as addicts, I feel some misplaced sense of familiarity with his life?

In any event, my real question is: Why do we have the pseudo-relationships with celebrities? And are they 100% bad, or is there maybe some good in our cultural connections to famous people none of us know?

We have them because human beings (in general) enjoy connection and desire to feel understood. When we perceive that understanding in someone else we are attracted to it.

I don't believe they are necessarily 100% bad. I'm not sure I believe they're mostly bad. Like anything they can be unhealthy but I don't think that's the default setting.

[Bammer]

Never meet your hero(s)

[Bammer]

Except Jeff Ament … he was pretty cool

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[E.H. Ruddock]

I’m with trag. Everything he is doing marketing wise feels kind of cheap