The fix is in!

It is so weird to look back at the older posts of bloggers who've been around for quite some time. I missed a lot of information in my pre-gossip life (have I mentioned that keeping up with the gossip of our times is a new venture for me??). So browsing the past brought up a lot of "she did whats?!" that would make the avid gossipists look away with shame for my naivety.  But I like to think that it gives me a fresh outlook on the news; none of the usual bias latched on to each person.  So how does one get started in this messy gossip business? It all starts with some innocent curiosity, a click of a link here or there, watching the girls sitting in front of you in class surf perezhilton.com. 

I started this site because I was spending way too much time on other celebrity gossip sites and I thought why not put my useless knowledge and interest about celebrities to good use.

This is Anne, the writer of the blog, I need my fix. And she is the voice of the consumer.  While the more popular blogs feature big name writers who are as much celebrity themselves as the people they report on, Anne is like you and me: so called normal people.  I'm pretty sure she doesn't have a slew of paparazzi folk stalking Jessica Alba and her adorable daughter or front row tickets to all the Grammy action.  But that's what differentiates from the cold-hard celebitches that rule the blogging world, and you know what? I kinda like it.

You can tell that for Anne, the world of celebrity is bright, dazzling and unattached from the rest of us.  Celebrities are real and fascinating, but they're not you and me.  There's even a disconnect between the average gossip reader and you and me. In her most recent blog, Anne writes about the eldest Jonas brother's wifey:

I can’t emphasize enough how the Jonas Brothers do nothing for me.  I’m kind of out of their age range by a couple of years :)

and continues:

I love the picture of the dog kissing her!.  I don’t know the name of the dog so I’m going to call it baby Toto.
For those of you young enough to be Jonas Brothers’ fans, you will not know what I’m referencing and it doesn’t much matter.  The dog is so adorable I can’t take it.

Mentioning the difference in age, and bashing the ridiculously young age of their fans removes her from die-hard fans of the Jonas brothers. Yet, she's writing about them, and admitting that even though she's not one of the fanatics, she's still interested enough to report about them.

This removal from the rest of the gossip world comes out even further in an older post about Rihanna and her inane answers in an interview with the British Sun.

“Every woman should have naked pictures taken,” she said. “In five years mybody might not look like this. I’ve always been borderline raunchy and a little sexy. But sexy at 19 and sexy at 21 is two different things. I’m just having fun.”

That ‘fun’ included her being ‘humiliated’ by a boyfriend who leaked those naked pictures online (gee…imagine?? naked pictures taken in the year 2009 and end up on the Internet…who would have thunk?)

I really like Rihanna but I rolled my eyes so hard when I read these quotes that my contact lenses stayed in the back of my head.  What the hell kind of advice is this?  If you take nekkid photos, keep them private unless you want them on the Internet then give them to a boyfriend.

It's a warning to all those adolescent girls who are hanging on to every word celebrities say...don't listen to Rihanna, she's crazy!  Anne is addressing the fact that sometimes celebrities don't know what the hell they're talking about, which is obvious, but some of those who are younger and more naive may not realize.  Anne is playing mom here, cleaning up the mess that celebrities and their big mouths leave behind.  And for us older audiences, isn't this what we're thinking anyway?  Seriously, wtf??  So Anne, thanks for pointing out the obvious because it needs to be done!  And also because it's fun to read :)