Celebrity Reality Shows: The New Measure of Success

As of this exact moment, I am living in the storm before the calm.  Graduation is in two weeks and I have tons of shit due.  To add to that, I just moved, I got dumped, and I scored a new job.  So, please forgive me dear reader(s) for my leap of absence this past week.  I’m so busy that I shouldn’t even be writing this blog right now.   Needless to say, I am stressed the fuck out.

After going balls to the wall this weekend in an attempt to drown my sorrows and distract myself from my responsibilities, I decided to stay in and hang with the friend who is letting me crash on her couch for a month until I move into my new pad.  So, we decide to order pizza and hang out like a couple of fat chicks loungin’ on the couch in front of the tv. 

I don’t usually have a lot of down time so watching tv is not something that I get to do often. I mean, I like to pass out to late night showings of Seinfeld or The Office, but that’s about it.  So, it was interesting to see what the heck people my age watch.

And wow, looks like I wasn't missing much.  Before I realized it, we had watched a whole episode of Brandy and Ray J.  Sure, I can go into the intracacies of what was seriously wrong with this show, but it’s just too damn easy…

And then, after watching the last fifteen minutes of Brandy's amazing birthday party that her brother threw for her, another reality gem came on: What Chili Wants.  To be honest with you, I'm not even sure if that is the name of the show.  And I'm not googling that shit to find out either. 

Seriously people, what the hell happended to the world of television since the last time I turned it on?  Is this really what people are watching these days?  I guess fuckin' so because even in between this knuckle biting episode of Chili choosing between schmuck number one or two, there were commercials for the next eye opening celebrity reality show: Brett Michaels Goes Home–or something like that. 

All the while, I could not help but think a) why in the hell is my friend watching this crap? b) who the hell else watches this shit? c) since when did having your own reality show become the standard of success in this world?  What the hell is really going on here?

Sitting there, I couldn't take it anymore.  I started asking why the hell she watches this shit, and yelling about the D-bag behind the camera who is getting paid tons of money to produce such shit in this world. 

My friend laughs and says, its just entertaining.  Before I can suggest that we put on a movie, she starts flipping through the channels and lands on MTV, what's on: The Hills.

I'm gonna have to watch this shit for a month…..