Barbie World

Like a fabulous smorgasbord for paparazzi, celebrity mating/dumping/spawning season is upon us now, and I find there being no point in feigning indifference, because I have to admit to making full stops at Page Six and Gawker, which gives me exactly what I look for, which makes me realize soon after that time spent there is much much better spent on literary pursuits, my present read being somewhere in the middle of A Novel Without a Hero that definitely qualifies. Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray, is a book that makes for one scrumptious-so-never-mind-if-drawn-out unfolding of the lives and scandale of the social-climbing Becky Sharp and her goodie-two-shod long-suffering friend, Amelia Sedley -- this being a satire on the often fickle-minded and superficial high-society situation in those days, all told in detailed and archaic language, which may very well be as gossip-worthy as Paris Hilton's present day adventures.

So what's my two-cent on the ultra-manufactured, plastic, fantastic coupling of Tom and Katie and their forthcoming little Tomkat? Eee. 'Tis a Barbie World indeed and that's all I got to say about it.,

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Tags: Gawker, Page Six, Tomkat, Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray