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Peg Herring And When I Die, and When I'm Gone...

I really, really hope CNN, FOX News, and all the rest have no idea. I'd like my friends to remember me the way they want to, not the way some overly-made-up (and fake in every other way too) "personality" summarizes, eulogizes, and characterizes me. Death of a celebrity in our culture creates a feeding frenzy of pseudo-news about the person, and it makes me sick that everyone who ever spoke to him or her seems unable to resist the urge to talk about it. And the speculation from "experts" about… Continue

Added by Peg Herring on June 30, 2009 at 9:54pm — 3 Comments

Peg Herring Obsession

The big news on television this morning was that Madonna and her husband, Guy Ritchie, are splitting. How sad. No, I'm not sad about the divorce; in fact, I could not care less. I couldn't have guessed the name of the man Madonna is married to this week if they hadn't told me. What's sad is that we consider it news. A private matter between two people becomes fodder for discussion, and millions of Americans buy magazines, tune in to television shows, and talk over their Starbucks about it. Are… Continue

Added by Peg Herring on October 15, 2008 at 10:50pm — No Comments

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