Britney vs. PetraeusAh, a cozy Sunday night spent toggling between Britney Spears's expectedly disappointing performance on MTV's Video Music Awards and early word of Gen. David Petraeus's expectedly disappointing – to those hoping for a rapid draw down of forces overseas, at least -- "report on Iraq" that our dear "Austria, Australia, what's the dif?" President will pretty much base all of his future expectedly disappointing decisions on.
Both of these media hotspots are shaping up in the mind as almost miraculously opaque; the twin poles of current American culture -- celebrity and violent hubris -- apexed in such highly anticipated but awkwardly non-eventful performances that the status quo can only feel impelled to continue (dribble, dribble): Ms. Spears giving us tottering, soulless blah-horridness that will provide more WTF grist for her rumor mill$ ...
Praying for coverage. Screen grab from mtv.com
....and General Petraeus giving us simply a slight blah torque on Bush's "stay the course." (Petraeus's recommendations before Congress tomorrow, reportedly, will be to withdraw one surge battalion by December and four more by next August – a minutely faster timetable than Bush's "experts" had been predicting.) Of couse, Britney's decisions haven't killed thousands -- or have they?
If you've got a tub of Merlot nearby and a tinfoil hat on, like myself, the fact that both of these media blitzes were scheduled around 9/11's anniversary already holds attention. Um, remember?
But mostly it's just more profitable bafflement. Now we're in for a week of oracular media pronouncements: what will it all mean? where will it all go from here? Pundits! Perez! The Hoover Institute! TMZ.com! This very post!
Sigh. Really? For this I missed Super Soul Sundayz?
PS. Neo-nazis in Israel? Rumsfeld at Stanford? Cee-Lo and Foo Fighters? Who said multiculturalism is dead?
PPS. Yes, I'm a victim. How frickin' hot was Alicia Keys covering George Michael, though? Work that Korg keyboard!
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