stop reading trashy celebrity magazines

Dammit.

is my big problem, rather than the print magazines. But I spent the past week in Florida and was able to stay away from the internet, for the most part, and even when I got online I didn’t go there. Let’s see if I can make it another week, now that I have unlimited internet access.

I never buy those magazines, but I read them, and I enjoy juicy gossip about people I will never meet way too much.

My major beef with these people is the whole Patrick Swayze thing. Splashing pictures of him in failing health with headlines about him dying across the front of a magazine is unconscionable. It makes me sick.

It just feels so mindless…why is there so much of it all around?

One good excuse for reading these magazines is that they are so mindless and silly that they make perfect gym reading. it is much easier to read Star on the elliptical machine than the New Yorker- whch i have tried. Serious reading and exercise just don’t go together for me, though if you are reading something intellectual while exercising, I’d love to hear about it.

I read 3! Actually worse than that, I BOUGHT 3. So much for this goal and buying fewer things that are not necessities.

Read only 1 trashy celebrity magazine per week would be a more realistic goal. yeah, they’re stupid and full of lies made up y the magazine or the stars publicists, but I get some fun, mindless pleasure out of reading these. ( Or to be more accurate, looking at the pictures , as most of these have no
“article” that takes longer than 30 seconds to read.)

These hit the stores near me on Thursdays. I’m going to stay out of any store that sells these magazines today.

I am not at all interested in the breakup of Jessica Simpson’s publicity ploy a/k/a marriage, but after years of reading these things i feel a compulsion to read a bunch of lies and speculation on this supremely inane topic. I think I had better read the Economist until the urge passes.

After making steady progress, I read 4 of these stupid things this week.