Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Nominations for Time's Person of the Year

It was Stephen King's idea to name Britney Spears or Lindsay Lohan as Time's Person of the Year. From his interview with Time Magazine:

STEPHEN KING: So who's going to be TIME Person of the Year?

TIME: I really don't know, there's a very small group of people who make that decision.

KING I was thinking, I think it should be Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan.

Really?

Yeah. You know, I just filmed a segment for Nightline, about [the movie version of his novella] The Mist, and one of the things I said to them was, you know, "You guys are just covering — what do they call it — the scream of the peacock, and you're missing the whole fox hunt." Like waterboarding [or] where all the money went that we poured into Iraq. It just seems to disappear. And yet you get this coverage of who's gonna get custody of Britney's kids? Whether or not Lindsay drank at her twenty-first birthday party, and all this other shit... And meanwhile, you've got Pakistan in the midst of a real crisis, where these people have nuclear weapons that we helped them develop. You've got a guy in charge, who's basically declared himself the military strongman and is being supported by the Bush administration, whose raison d'etre for going into Iraq was to spread democracy in the world.

[snip]
Do you actually think Britney and Lindsay should be on our cover?

Yeah, I do.

Sort of a, 'This is what the media's actually interested it, so let's just put it out there' thing?

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy. We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics — trying to play a serious part in the world — to a culture that's really entertainment-based. I mean, I know people who can tell you who won the last four seasons on American Idol and they don't know who their f------ Representatives are.


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So, while I am in complete agreement with Mr. King, I do think perhaps we should simply go one teensy step further and nominate Ms. Spears' Pussy. Isn't that what the fascination is all about anyway?

3 comments:

Randal Graves said...

I enjoyed winning it last year, but I'll abdicate the throne to the sans-fuzz of Ms. Spears.

Dr. Zaius said...

Hmm... Britney's No-No Special Place seems to have more media clout than Lou Dobbs... Perhaps we should put her on the payroll!

Life As I Know It Now said...

give them what they want? Me, personally, I don't want it but have at it if you want to.