Salutations, traveler of The Internets! Welcome to William's Bloody Hell, so named after our founder, Sir Bloody William.
He is seen in the likeness above in a rare, 19th century woodcut. This
image was rumoured to have been
commissioned after a bout of unpleasantness
in the White Chapel district of London. Do enjoy your stay and peruse our many, varied offerings, much of which cannot be found elsewhere!
:: Today's soundtrack: The Chameleons "I Wanna Be Adored" ::
As previously stated, I come from a small town. How small is it? It's so small that our local newspaper is twelve pages long! That's it, and I'm not kidding. This paper mainly reports on only local news and events, but I swear half of each page is consumed by adverts, which makes it even less news. Page one is all the big local headlines, then pages two and three are brief reports on national and world news (also covered in half by ads). So naturally, having such a small paper to start off with, and only receiving a little over one page of national/world events, you can image how ticked off I was when a portion of this precious section was devoted to an article about the television show, American Idol.
I was filled with rage. It seems that some idiot at the show gave out gasp! horror! the wrong phone numbers to vote for you favorite contestant. This, is NOT news!! It's entertainment related nonsense! I mean, if I had been reading Variety or Entertainment Weekly, fine, I'm looking for stuff about the entertainment industry, but NOT my tiny local paper with room enough for only about five articles on "outside" events! I don't want to go from reading about victims in a suicide bombing overseas or the latest on the BTK case, to some snafu on American Idol! What the Hell?
I suppose this is the straw that broke the camel's back here. I don't understand the fascination with entertainment "news" and celebrities. It's been lately that I can't watch any news show without getting the latest scoop on the Michael Jackson trial. Who CARES? I don't need to hear about everything said in there accompanied by nice courtroom sketches. Get back to me when it's all over and done with and there is a verdict. Oh, yeah, thank the lords that no press is allowed in that room or else it would be on 'round the clock like that idiotic O. J. Simpson trial. Gah, that whole fiasco made me want to gouge out my eyeballs.
This inexplicable obsession with celebrity really gets to me.
At the market checkout, there are huge magazine racks, and maybe one or two of
them will be Newsweek or National Geographic, and all the rest are
crap like People, Glamour, and Star. Why do people even
WANT to know about which celeb couple is breaking up for whatever reason or who
is pregnant with whose baby and not married. It's sick, I tell you! Are so many
people uninterested in REAL news and what's REALLY important that they have to
immerse themselves in something so trivial? There is a real world out there with
real problems in it, you know! But then, what more could I expect from a world
where the death of Mother frickin' Theresa is eclipse by the death of Princess
Diana? For shame.
William (celebrity sick)
