top ten meg cultural dodges.
I have either never truly experienced any of, or outright boycotted these cultural phenomenas.
Oooh!
Stubborn? Well…. yeah.
Will I? Maybe 6 this summer, but I’m thinking no on the rest.
1. Harry Potter books/movies
2. Lord of the Rings movies (though the books are genius)
3. Star Wars prequels
4. Big Brother
5. Fear Factor
6. Disneyland
7. Tae Bo
8. Soy milk
9. Splenda
10. CROCS, DAMMIT.
July 23rd, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Soy milk is a cultural phenomena?
July 23rd, 2007 at 12:20 pm
I hear ya on the Crocs! But Harry Potter totally lives up to the hype, seriously. (Okay, the books. Maybe not the movies) And Big Brother is my guilty pleasure in the summer. That and So You Think You Can Dance.
July 23rd, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Liz, on the West Coast? Yeah. I’d say the obsession with it and the tendency to rattle it off as part of a really obnoxious coffee drink makes it a phenomenon. Not just for lactose intolerant people, people who enjoy the health benefits, and perimenopausal women anymore, oh no… now it’s for people who just want an excuse to pay 60 cents more for their latte.
July 23rd, 2007 at 1:18 pm
Oh, I’ve done Lord of the Rings, Star Wars and Disneyand. You can keep the rest.
July 23rd, 2007 at 1:39 pm
Me too! Except I have been to Disney Land and Disney world - but I was a kid, so what could I do?
And, embarrassingly, I kind of want a pair of Crocs. Yeah, yeah, I know.
July 23rd, 2007 at 1:54 pm
1. Disneyland rocks.
2. Venti nonfat soy latte reminds me of “double decaffeinated half-caf with a twist” from “LA Story”. (everyone say it now: “I’ll have a twist!”)
3. The word “phenomena” is already plural, and ALSO, when you say it enough times, you get a Muppet song in your head.
~Kurt
July 23rd, 2007 at 2:05 pm
My editor says either works — phenomenas is considered kosher. :-) I thought about that for a minute, then I thought, why the heck am I sitting around wondering about this? TAKE A RISK, WOMAN.
July 23rd, 2007 at 4:45 pm
i have, in my position as queen of dorkdom, just converted not one but two of my roommates into harry potter dorks. :)
my work here is done!
July 23rd, 2007 at 6:06 pm
Wow, its like I’ve found my other half… or not. I haven’t seen any Lord of the Rings or bothered with anything Harry Potter. I haven’t seen a Star Wars movie, prequel or the originals. People find me incredibly odd for these facts, glad to know someone out there is with me on this.
July 23rd, 2007 at 6:06 pm
Lo, what dismay! Quelle horeur! I dropped my son off at his mom’s yesterday and, well, the conversation went like this:
-Are those Crocs? For Rhys?
-Yup.
-The front looks like a car.
-The best part is the back, look, they have blinking brakelights when he runs.
-Blinking, car-shaped Crocs?
-Aren’t they great?
I left that as a rhetorical question. ;-)
July 23rd, 2007 at 6:27 pm
Crocs are a visual offense, but possibly the Best Shoe For Kids ever.
July 24th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
I’m with ya on most of those items, but I have to say that the Lord of the Rings movies were - astoundingly - very nearly as good as the books!