Bloody Brilliant!

Death of a (Questionable) Culture

When I go back home to America for a visit, there are two things I do the minute I get off the plane.  One is buy my fill of crap, useless gossip magazines, and the second is stock up on all Reese's peanut butter candy bar products that are new on the market and aren't available here in the UK.

This time, something was different.  As I cracked open the latest issue of US/People/InTouch/OK!/etc. etc., I saw picture after picture of D-list celebrity doing stupid things.  So far, so nothing new.  The difference is that I had absolutely no idea who these people were.  I'm pretty good on my D-list celebrity knowledge (we all have useless skills, don't we?), but I fear I have now lost touch with US pop culture. 

Charlotte Ross (below)?  Alexa Vega? Emanuelle Chriqui? Gillian Jacobs?  Sara Ramirez?

Shenae Grimes (below)?  Rashida Jones? Jessica Lowndes? Jesse Tyler Ferguson? Kerry Washington?

Page after page of even more useless pix, because what good is seeing how horrible they look if you don't even know who they are? It's only taken 5 years, but there is now a whole culture of crap celebrity in the US that I know nothing about. Pardon me while I mourn a little piece of my life that has died. (Melodramatic? Hardly).

Thank God my peanut butter products are still safe...

But no pressure...

I hardly consider myself sentimental, but I dare you to watch this video without getting tears in your eyes. This video has gotten a ton of press in the UK, and it is a really sweet story.  I love when people do really creative things, and this certainly counts.  

 

There is a comment on YouTube underneath this video that does sum it up for me, however: an expression of total disbelief that this many people could have all found a seat. Now that, my friends, is a true commuting miracle.