comments gone awry

work was exhausting friday. running errands all day debilitates my frail spirit. i'm not huge on leaving work late but i had no choice. but we've all got to toil hard in order to survive. except for some people who are already floating in money or currencies, working is part of life. in the fuchsia-painted walls, everybody is hard-up or pretends to be one in order to feign humility.

trawling into showbiz tabloid sites or even a broadsheet entertainment page is part of my day. reading from computer knowing it ruins me eyes is invigorating. E! news is stale as i don't really want to re-create a jessica simpson look. i have my fill of brangelina from the enquirer (i always forget her brother's name). so i read JAS articles. and her critics are mean. the scathing comments are enough to bruise even the thickest of egos. if showbiz followers and wannabes don't like someone or do not dote on her filmography and discography, why not just ignore her publicist's spread? don't buy the album. they're not being held at gun point to go see her films or listen to her chant no ordinary love. as i've read from simon cowell, the record industry is all about business. a singer may have the most beautiful voice in the world but if she's unknown, the album would not sell and the producers would not make money. one of the acid-tongued cowell's early record producing ventures was an album by the undertaker, i haven't even heard the WWE wrestler talk. but it made money. c'est la vie.

when gilmore girls was still on the air, during the early seasons, i would read vilifying anti-dean comments from teenagers, or i presume they were teenagers. dean wasn't boring to me but i was not a teenager ( i was from the BH 90210 generation and that series made the only character i like look the typical geek -- glasses, hideous style, braces). fans were not too keen on dean. it was all about jess this, jess that. people like rebels, i get it. i'd skipped the comments section but somehow there's this temptation, a push and shove to read.

web anonymity is such a charm that it is now the medium to hurl insults on issues and personalities. andrew keen, author of the cult of the amateur, in a metro newspapaper quote, believes " it's vital to establish social parameters online rather than leave the internet to take its own course." i know it's their opinions and it's next to impossible to expect proper decorum from every individual. it's the same with video comments, viewers have so much freedom propelling jives. enfeebling these comments is, i reckon, the way to go unless there's a software to ward off offensive observations or a very strict moderator to manage entries.