it’s the megfowler.com dumb celebrity quiz!
Because who doesn’t like a fluffy and useless moment now and then?
I mean, that IS why you come here, isn’t it?
My mom DID stop sending out the cheques, right?
(Yes, “cheques”.)
Just for the hell of it, tell me:
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1. Do you read any celebrity blogs, websites or magazines, or do those things make you want to claw at your own eyeballs and eat a spoonful of Comet?
2. If yes, are you embarrassed or proud? And were you aware that I consistently misspell “embarrassed”?
3. Why do you think our culture is so obsessed with celebrity? Have we always been? Have you always been?
4. Do your friends feel the same way about celebrities that you do?
5. Do you use any celebrities as style inspirations? If so, which ones?
6. Do you have any desire to be famous?
7. Do you like tiny dogs?
8. Do you believe that wealth and fame are justification enough for the press printing anything they want about celebrities?
9. Have you ever had an odd brush with celebrity?
10. If you could steal any celebrity’s life and make it your own (not that I have any clue how you’d do that, but hey… go with it), who would you spend a day being?
May 8th, 2007 at 9:23 am
What a long questionaire! I’ll just try to combine them all into a random blather:
No - I don’t read celebrity mags, except to scan the absurdity of the headlines in the checkout. (I especially like when one mag contradicts another one)
I think we are obsessed with watching the “pretty” people and secretly gleeful when they screw up - or is this just me?
Unless a celeb decides to forgo fashion and dress for comfort, then no - I don’t emulate any of their “styles”.
I don’t want to be famous. If I were, I’d be the surliest famous person you ever heard of.
I don’t like tiny dogs.
I’ve never met a celeb - that I know of…
I don’t know who’s life I’d want to step into. I think I’d be sick of being recognized after about 2 hours.
May 8th, 2007 at 9:49 am
1. far too often. i can’t get enough of the celebrity smut.
2. i hold no judgment about my addiction either way.
3. i don’t know, because according to Us Weekly stars are “Just Like Us!” so actually i am surprised that i don’t have my very own paparazzi following me through the grocery store. yes, i think we always have been, and yes, i think i always will be.
4. friends? what friends? i spend too much time reading perezhilton.com to form meaningful relationships.
5. only if someone’s style includes ratty jeans and flip flops.
6. i have a desire to be universally adored and unimaginably wealthy…but not necessarily famous.
7. i love all dogs, but i would never have a tiny one.
8. no. but if celebrities are acting like assclowns in public, their antics are fair game and they should own up to their idiocy.
9. hmm, nope.
10. oprah? just kidding…i said that just for you, meg.
May 8th, 2007 at 10:42 am
1. No, because the covers of those magazines always seem to say the same thing!
2. I don’t judge!
3. I think people have been in America for a looong time. Even before there were movie stars there were famous socialites and famous cowboys even.
4. Some of my friends do and some of them can’t get enough of the celebrity “news”.
5. I want to be Kate Winslet when I grow up. Her style is so classic I think.
6. Not really. I’d hate to have to worry about looking nice if I just want to run out to Starbucks!
7. I’m not really a dog person. If you’re going to get a tiny dog, why not get a cat?
8. I don’t think it’s justification. But at the same time, people KNOW before they pursue a career in acting or music or whatever that fame comes with a price. So I can’t have very much sympathy for them.
9. Um, I ate at a Bob Evans in St. Louis one time with John Goodman a few tables away.
10. I’d be Kate Hudson and spend the day with Owen Wilson!
May 8th, 2007 at 11:52 am
1. I don’t read any celebrity blogs. Unless you call Darren Barefoot a celebrity!!
2. I wasn’t aware of the misspell. ;)
3. Beats me. Perhaps it is because normal life is so dull compared to a celeb’s life. We have always been obsessed with celebs. Jesus was one prime example.
4. I think so. Although it diminishes in your 30s.
5. None.
6. Who doesn’t
7. Tiny dogs, yuck!
8. It seems that way.
9. Only in my dreams.
10. Only one celeb! Hmmm, maybe Joe Satriani. He is my fav guitarist.
May 8th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
1. Yes, Popsugar and sometimes Pink is the New Blog
2. I’m not proud but not embarassed, I’m okay with it
3. I don’t think we’ve ever been this obsessed with celebrities or material/pop-culutre in general
4. Definitely not
5. Not really, I usually can’t afford and/or don’t like the grungy/80’s style of the current young and hip celebrity group.
6. Nay
7. Sometimes
8. No
9. I met and hugged the shit out of Dave Matthews, also drank a beer with Robert Randolph at Bonnaro one year
10. Angelina Jolie, so I could love-up next to Brad.
May 8th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
1. I read People magazine when I go to the dentist, otherwise, Comet! Yum!
2. I consider it a healthy curiosity. And — you do? I never noticed!
3. Because we like to live vicariously the life of fame and beauty and fortune. Yes, we’ve always been, and so have I.
4. Some of them are way more obsessed than I; others, much less. I have a wide range of friends, I guess.
5. No.
6. No.
7. Hell no. They’re rats on ropes and they pee everywhere.
8. No. There’s no excuse for lying.
9. An odd brush with celebrity - hmm. Nope, I got nothin’.
10. I’d be Ellen DeGeneres, because it seems like she has a lot of fun.
8.
May 8th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
1. Occasionally. Mostly I read celebrity drabbles within other stuff (ie. the newspaper or Vanity Fair)
2. Indifferent, mostly.
3. Because we see them on TV/screen?stage and want to have the luxurious lives they have. We have always been this way, espcially because celebrities have generally been better looking than the average person. I am not obsessed in the slightest.
4. I think so, yeah
5. Pfft. Never
6. God no…I think I’d go crazy. Unless it was famous for something OTHER than acting/singing/whatever. Like winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. Or the Booker.
7. no
8. Absolutely not.
9. Not that I can think of, no, though I DID wait outside the Hard Rock Cafe in Edmonton for a half hour for an autograph from Ryan Smyth and Doug Weight.
10. I’d spend a day being…me. With money. I wouldn’t want anyone else’s life. But if i HAD to choose…Jennifer Aniston (minus the smoking)
May 8th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
1. Generally, they make me want to claw at my eyes WITH comet. But I suppose there could be the exception out there I just haven’t found.
2. No.
3. Because usually, they’re beautiful, and rich, and at some level talented (though that last one is the least important of the three, and optional in the face of overwhelming hotness). People love being close to that; if you can’t be the celebrity, you can be in the entourage. Even if it’s looking at a magazine.
I think we’ve been celebrity-obsessed since there were more people around than could fit into one cave.
4. Some of them. Others think I’m jealous. The rest think I should get over myself.
5. Uh, no.
6. My god. Never. I like my life too much, and I’d rather not hand it over to a million people and a publicist. Though I will second Megan’s comment above — if it was for something outside of entertainment, possibly. You usually have to be pretty smart to be famous in those fields though, so don’t run out and subscribe to The Economist just to watch my progress.
7. Dachsunds are hilarious. Any other dog small enough to fit entirely inside a purse is jewelry that pees.
8. The press seems to think so, and we’re buying it, so maybe they’re right about that.
9. James Earl Jones, in a hotel lobby in Springfield, Ohio, at 7:00 AM. He was reading a newspaper. He put it down for a second, made eye contact with me, and nodded his head just a little, and then went back to reading.
10. Justin Timberlake.
May 9th, 2007 at 2:42 am
In which I come out sounding incredibly smug and snobby (and Roshan, let’s not even consider that kooky possibility):
1. For about 7 or 8 years now, I’ve actively avoided celebrity news and interviews. I don’t even watch late night talk shows. I can honestly say with a fair amount of certainty that I’ve never heard Kevin Federline speak. The closest I get to celebrity interviews is the occasional episode of “Behind the Actor’s Studio”, which seems to be far more about craft than the person themselves. I will watch material that’s mostly or exclusively about a person’s work, but that eliminates a great deal of the material online or on TV.
2. I’m very proud of this fact. Downright smug about it, actually.
3. Our society’s always been obsessed with celebrity. It used to be called ‘royalty’.
4. For the most part, yes. I have nerds and artists for friends, and men generally don’t care for that celebrity schtick anyway. Several of my female friends do read the celebrity blogs, though.
5. Julie’s style icon is Milla Jovovich. Me, not so much.
6. Sort of. I think I want to be remembered.
7. I do love animals, but prefer a medium to large dog. I do feel that tiny dogs only belong in climates appropriate to their breed. It’s just cruel to drag a chihuahua (sp?) around Vancouver in the winter.
8. Absolutely not. Talented people should be famous. Talentless people shouldn’t.
9. Hmm…walked past John Cusack drinking coffee at Blenz. Shared a public bathroom with Michael Ondaatje. Ate dinner near Trevor Linden and the hot brunette from Smallville (on separate occasions). I’d see the Sedins (or was it one over and over?) quite often when I lived in Yaletown.
10. I think Nelson Mandela still has a pretty interesting life.
May 9th, 2007 at 10:54 am
1. I read US Weekly and People in the doctor’s office. I read Perez, A Socialite’s Life, ohnotheydidn’t, etc online.
2. I’m a little bit embarrassed.
3. I’ve always been a bit obsessed, but I think it’s because I grew up near LA.
4. No.
5. Any time I want a new hairstyle, I look to Madonna for inspiration.
6. I want to be rich but I don’t want to be famous.
7. I grew to love little dogs when I worked at the post office. They are so cute and feisty!
8. No.
9. I’ve had a handful. I’ll tell you this much: The woman that played Marcia Brady on TV, Maureen McCormick (sp?), is a total cunt.
10. Probably Madonna. And I’d want to live in Frieda Kahlo’s old house.