I had this idea which i mentioned at the gone & returned
daisy site,but I doubt any University is prepared for it just yet
although I did email BC and while I await I figure if I
print a few topics here it will help me to actually set
it down instead of allowing the hours to slide away awake
or asleep with the hundred thousand things yet to do...

GOSSIP GIRL 101 or "what are you going to get from him? used metro cards?"

LESSON ONE

In one of the later episodes of the cultural phenomenon
known cutely as gossip girl, the talented and lovely
Jenny Humphries expertly tells the jaded and aloof
Chuck Bass that the only human connections he really has
are those for which he renders payment.

The look on the face of the actor, Taylor Momsen,
was frightfully honest in the scene. It was the
look that more of us should have when confronted
by the awfulness of certain aspects of modernity.




What she says, to the thespian Ed Westwick,
is taken in stride or as the case was in character.
That is, until later, when he gives her - through
promise words - a certain hope that perhaps he isn't
all jaded and aloof.

Most of us, if we took two seconds to contemplate
or consider the statement, would immediately realize
that we have no connections which we do not pay
for on some level or another.

This is not to say that there is not kindness
or love, but for a good many people these gracious
things are only possible through monetary
stability or appearance of beauty or some
semblance of possibility.


END OF LESSON ONE. ACTIVITY, REFLECT, RESPOND.
IF YOUR HUMAN CONNECTIONS OFFER NO TIME FOR
HOMEWORK, GG101 WILL ACCEPT DUCT TAPE, NAIL
POLISH OR POSTAGE STAMPS.


LESSON TWO - idiolect

It is difficult to say when something is going
to be an enduring success. Take a series alike
Star Trek. Only aired a few episodes and yet
it evolved into something beyond the ordinary.
Even as I write this lecture, there is
a major motion picture being promoted
and it will be out soon in theaters
across the world.

Of course or on the other hand, a more
recent series alike Friends which ran
for ten years or so and is still heavy
in syndication albeit it hasn't the
mythic quality of the aforementioned
production or the impossibly haute style
and apposite substance of the programme
in question.

I suppose I got into the whole Gossip Girl craze
later than most fans or followers.I did see a few
of the first episodes and mostly I liked what I
saw. The style, the reflection of New York City's
nearly constant revival under Bloomberg.

One day, when a nearby university was standing
in for another ivy league college as their set,
I happened to be sauntering for pleasure and
sometimes when one wades through a big city
there are or could be strange moments but
not that day. It was all too perfect in some
way and upon reflection I would have to say
that it was because that aura, that special
intangible wonder which certain phenomena
contains was virtually at hand.
When I viewed the show, I found there was
a bit of a cat-fight, if you will, and
the excitement came through vivdly although
I was still watching on an olden antenna-type tele.
I am here making a reference to the alluring
and sometimes nakedly vulnerable characters of
Blair and Serena which are portrayed with expert
craft by the multi-talented Leighton Meester
and the sensuously beautiful Blake Lively.

From these observations and nearly personal evaluations,
I would conclude that Gossip Girl - whether it runs for
a few short years or for a dozen - will make a significant
impact on the stage of world culture.

I know for a fact that it has had a thrilling
impact upon my own experiences.



LESSON THREE: LEVITATION or "TELL JESUS, THE BITCH IS BACK"

It seems an obvious and nearly constant truth
that power does indeed corrupt.

We might not want it to be so, but how else
are we to explain or elaborate on the previous
queen allowing her beloved to be "manhandled"
for wishing to grace the stage with some
speech to expose her wit?

In the latest episode, the new queen is coerced
into handing down punishment. First, in the form
of gooey almond-laced yogurt and later in a covert
operation known suspiciously as DILLINGER.


A very sour treat to see the new queen so distraught
that her exquisite features became masked in
reproach and fright.

And yet, one imagines, this is the very face of
the realization that a line has been crossed and
one could decide to disappear from the throne
or let the broken hearts stand as the Springsteen
price until those "badlands" start treating you good.

Trick or?

Beyond the Halloween scenes or behind the sensation,
the producers have gone Orwellian themselves
by introducing a new main character in the form
of Olivia Burke. The persona even came with a secondary
presence which happens to be her publicist.

A two for one coup, if you will.


END OF LESSON THREE. HOMEWORK, explain to your
significant other that you are in possession of
his or her hot hot sex tape and hurry back to
inform me of the reaction. .