A welcome, and what to expect

Hi kids...I'm here to talk shit and talk gossip with other smart people. The tabloid and celebrity craze is getting as utterly out of hand as it is addictive. When you're too smart for your own good (or suffer from an astonishing lack of modesty) sometimes a little intentional stupidy is just the ticket for slowing things down a bit.

So who are you, fair reader?

Well, you enjoy watching "Project Runway" but also watch "Frontline" on PBS once in a while.

You listen to CAN and Regina Spektor but you love Duran Duran and even listen to Heart once in a while. Their cheesy 80's stuff, NOT the rocking 70's "Magic Man"/"Barracuda" era music (although you like that too).

You read "The Economist", "The Guardian" and "Black Book" but you also read "Us" and "OK!". But you only buy the latter to read on planes, right?

You make fun of other people's hideous fashion choices, but you're not afraid to occasinally wear things that are kind of hideous yourself, just because you really fucking like them.

You have a rather large vocabulary, and yet you relish the simple pleasure of a well-placed F-bomb.

You enjoy Almodovar and John Hughes in equal measure, depending on your mood.

If any of these sound like you, embrace it. Revel in your cultural hypocrisy and join me on a hedonistic romp through the utter ridiculousness that surrounds us and takes our minds off of the serious things we spend too much time thinking about.

You'll read about celebrity breakups, fashion faux-pas and eating disorders interjected with the occasional social commentary. Just enough of each to keep your brain from turning into Swiss cheese from lack of stimuli, but not so much that the denseness makes your head explode.

Lines will likely be crossed and the easily offended should not apply. And once we weed the dullards and pussies out, we'll have a lot of fun.

More to come, soon. Promise...