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Pop Goes the Culture (8/26/10)

Justin Long was on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night. Or wait…maybe it was a few days ago. I can’t keep track anymore now that I Tivo all these shows and watch them at my own convenience.

Luckily, the news stories these late night hosts mention in their monologues aren’t old.

I remember a comedian once saying he’d love to meet Billy Joel, and tell him he loves The Stranger CD, but he has his car set to “shuffle.” So, as much as he enjoys the songs, he doesn’t enjoy them in the order Joel intended for him to enjoy them.

I think of that as I watch these stars push their latest movies, which may have already opened and even left the theatres, by the time I’m watching these shows.

But back to Long.

He was talking about someone that sent him a text on his phone. It was a wrong number, and obviously a high school aged girl. Her spelling was horrible (I can sympathize).

She also did that thing everyone does when they text or tweet. It’s what I call “Prince writing.”

They abbreviate the word “for” as “4” and “2” for any of the three – two, to, or too.

Long showed this long series of texts, and it was funny for a few minutes. He said he eventually started spelling words wrong on purpose, since she not only abbreviated, but had horrible spelling. And of all the words he spelled wrong, the only thing she ever correct him on was when he spelled the name Beiber as “Beeber.”

I then thought about how the Union-Tribune ran a story about a man breaking into Paris Hilton’s home in L.A. last week. He was holding two knives, and the cops got there at 6:30 a.m. and arrested him. On her Twitter, Hilton wrote: “So Scary, just got woken up to a guy trying to break into my house holding 2 big knifes (sic). Cops are here arresting him.”

I’m not sure of the legalities of Hilton posting a photo of the cops arresting him.

I just thought it was funny that she didn’t know the word was “knives.”

It’s already a bizarre world we live in, when a person like Paris Hilton, or a Kardashian sister, can be famous just because they’re mildly attractive and party a lot.

It’s strange that they’re such egomaniacs they believe people are interested in every detail they tweet. It baffles me more though, that they pay to have personal assistants and PR firms, yet those people aren’t correcting their spelling or helping them keep their goofy fights in check.

Posted by Josh Board on Thu, Aug 26th, 2010
Last updated Thu, Aug 26th, 2010

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