I’ve been watching those shows on how stinking rich celebrities live. It can be torture, but still I watch it- it’s part of my TV slumming. You know the deal; They’ve got all these gossip columnists going “Oh yeah, it’s nuthin for P.Diddy to blow a cool 70 grand to buy his entourage matching platinum diamond encrusted gangta sean-john toothpicks. Nuthin. Then he goes and swims in a pool filled with Cristal and towels off with hundred dollar bills.” (BTW, anyone against me going by E.Diddy?)

Anywho, I’m wondering why we watch stuff like Rich Girls or It’s Good to Be, etc. It’s a bit depressing to see these people rolling in such absurd amounts of dough when I’m sitting in pants I got at a yard sale, eating Mac-&-Cheese with hot sauce. Especially when you see the really dumb (“I have absolutely no marketable skills but I’m rich and famous so HA”) ones who couldn’t figure out an ATM without six personal assistants. So why do we watch? Is it b/c we like to torture ourselves seeing more bling than we’ll ever get our hands on? Is it that validation we get when we see that if we had grown up with that much cash we could also be that, um, challenged? Or is it that by watching that stuff we get that “hey, maybe I could get that kind of money some day” feeling? WHAT IS IT?!?!?!

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