The " Why Bother" Bio

It's mildly annoying the range of people who think they qualify to write a Biography nowadays.

Paris Hilton - of course, but I'm not even going to go there.
A classic example would be Geri Halliwell who at the ripe old age of 27 or so, wrote a best seller bio. OK so she was in the highest selling girl-group of all time, but in other respects she's hardly worthy of awe.

Other super "why bother' authors include Monica Lewinski - her bio is titled "Monica Speaks" - do we really need to read about Monica's life? No we don't. And why does she call it "Monica Speaks' when in truth we know that her talents can be described quite simply by two letters, which also happen to be my initials.

Whilst also on the Monica subject, Monica Seles also has a bio out - "Monica - from Fear to Victory", an incredibly boring read which makes the stabbing out to be the only remarkable event in Monica's life.

It's so ridiculous that you'd think even Tonya Harding would have a book out. Oh wait! I just checked Amazon and sure enough there it is "Fire on Ice: The Exclusive Story of Tonya Harding" which amazingly ranks at 3 out of 5 stars. There are Tonya Harding fans out there apparently. Meanwhile, US darling Nancy Kerrigan's bio ranks in at 4.5 stars; she is also the new co-host on their programme "Stars on Ice - Skating with Celebrities", kind of like a more slippery version of our "Dancing with the Stars".

The Itch

There seems nothing more certain than the direct relationship between when a person publicly announces their departure from cyber space and their subsequent presence and posting spree. Maybe it's like yo-yo dieting

The New Virus - Lethal! - Beware

It has come to my attention that a new and extremely dangerous virus abounds.

The infectious little sod has the capacity to assume one's identity on communication means such as MSN, YIM, write daft spam on forums and blogspots, as well as send SMS and make late night phone calls under the guise of the infected person.

Yes, dangerous but true - the virus is called Copiousamountsofwine and the victim is often infected by supposedly innocent and well-meaning friends at dinner. It is shaping up to have far-reaching long-term affects, potentially wiping out the victim's entire friend group.

The only treatment known for the virus is to physically withstrain the person infected (often requires several very strong people),or put them to bed immediately until all symptoms have subsided.

Ta Ra Everybody :)

Just to let you know the wonderful news that I have been re-employed in the real world. Yes - I am now a Principal PI Underwriter (you can refer to me as "BeeJay - PI" if you like lol ;), which basically means I deal with lawyers getting sued - how funny is that!

I have enjoyed this cyberlife, well elements of it anyhow, and wish you all well.

I hope to still blog when time permits tho, just maybe not quite so late at night!! :nods:

More blogging soon...

Hello
sorry about creating a new blogspot and leaving you here post-less. I will blog again soon, am just not in much of a blogging mood today :(
thanks,
BJ

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Gripe for the day :)

Surfergirlbj1

It annoys me that when you go to a Cafe, the default bread with any purchase still seems to be white bread.

You would think in this edging-towards health conscious age there should be a move towards wholemeal or at least grainy type breads being the standard. I mean even McDonalds put real chicken in their mcnuggets nowadays!

I often forget I specifically have to ask for wholemeal bread then end up presented with this butter laden piece of preservative filled white processed product. Ok, I should be less mindless when ordering, but it annoys me anyhow. Does anyone apart from my sister still really prefer white bread?