Make Burbanked’s birthday wish come true, Day Three: buy me a celebrity keepsake!
By Burbanked on Dec 24, 2008 in Blogging, Celebrities, Gossip, Movies | 1,429 views |
Movie celebrities have always been the stuff of public fascination, dating far, far back into Tinseltown’s turbulent history in the near-constant scandals, divorces and sexual peccadillos that have run the gamut from harmless to deviant.
But these days we’re living in a celebrity culture in which all of the taboos are gone. There is no mystery left to be found underneath the larger-than-life guises of our favorite actors and actresses. In our needy and unending effort to recast them as “just like us”, we’re now witnesses to a world in which one starlet’s snotty boogers are being sold and another has boosted her possibly waning fame by covering her private parts with a tie. In this continually-devolving celebrity-manic world, it’s become increasingly difficult and sometimes impossible (*cough*TomCruise*cough*) to separate the celebrity from the character once we’ve paid our hard-earned cash to watch the movies they’re in, which were supposed to be the reasons we became obsessed with them in the first place.
Today is the last day of my blog-birthday celebration, and I’ve decided to go ahead and fully embrace my inner celebrity stalker by asking you, my fellow obsessives, to help feed my fame-lust.
For today’s birthday wish, give me a celebrity keepsake.
Pull it out of the tabloids or completely make it up, but I want you to come up with the most ridiculous celebrity-infatuated item you can think of…and then give it to me.
For the past two days of my blog-birthday extravaganza, I’ve tagged other bloggers with my gratuitous birthday wishes. Today I’ll give a shout-out to three of my most prolific commenters who don’t link to sites of their own, but who have nevertheless contributed greatly to the exciting, dynamic and delightfully oddball Burbanked community.
Are you reading today, Too too, Sulu and Scott? Get out there and find me the strangest celebrity souvenir possible. And leave me your address just in case I’m contacted by the police.
As ever, anyone else should feel free to play along as well. I will gleefully accept any and all birthday gifts offered, regardless of size, color, style, and/or level of disturbitude.
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Too too Badeenie | Dec 26, 2008 | Reply
I’d buy yuo Judy Garlands undies.
Too too Badeenie | Dec 26, 2008 | Reply
I forgot to say I would take them out of the hamper. And I would pay anythng to get them for you.
Michael Taylor | Dec 31, 2008 | Reply
Congratulations on reaching your third Burbanked birthday, Alan. Tempus fugit, as they say, and sometimes “they” are right. I certainly understand the push-pull of conflicting life/work obligations that can bring one to the brink of pulling the plug on a blogging “career” — but I’m very glad you’ve chosen to forge on. Burbanked is a unique little oasis in the blog-o-sphere, pointing out the good, the bad, and the ugly in the world of film (the latter two would be YOU, Michael Bay) without any particular personal or political axe to grind. Your enthusiastic passion for movies radiates from the screen. Like all blogs — and all people, I suppose — Burbanked is a work in progress, but it’s been a great ride these past three years, and a great blog.
Write on, Alan, write on.
Happy Blog Birthday, and Happy New Year.
Scott | Jan 4, 2009 | Reply
Wow, I don’t know what I could offer from my little place in the sun. Although, they might not be celebrities, but who would not want souvenirs made out of panda droppings?
http://www.beloblog.com/KHOU_weirdworld/2007/08/weird-world-panda-poop-souveni.html
No one, that is who.
Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year.
Burbanked | Jan 5, 2009 | Reply
@Michael: Thanks so much. Keeping this site would be tremendously more difficult without all the inspiration I find on insightful and well-written blogs like yours. Appreciate the kind words.
@Scott: Excellent! For my money, panda droppings are considerably more compelling than most of what falls from the likes Hollywood celebrities, so thanks for the very thoughtful gift!
Jason Owens | Jan 17, 2009 | Reply
I’ll make a deal with you. If there is something you really, really want for your 3rd birthday, and it won’t send me to the poor house, you may have it.
I’ve got an online store of screen-worn celeb clothes. Take your pick. Seriously.
http://www.LeadingMenCollection.com