Brangelinaston

Not that I read a lot of celebrity tabloids (really, I don't) but since I am the House Husband and do all the shopping, I can't but not see all the covers for the tabloids. Also, for whatever reason, US Weekly has decided to up their circulation numbers by sending copies of the magazine to people who didn't want to subscribe to them and so we now get US Weekly. And for those saying "a-ha," he does read them! the truth is that I've been ordered by a Higher Powers to throw them instantly away.

The interesting thing to me about the tabloids is that it seems like every week their is at least one story involving Brad/Angelina and/or Jennifer Aniston. Either Brand & Angelina are breaking up or she's sick or he's still pining over Jen or Jen is pining over Brad or she killed their pet rabbit. It actually makes me feel a tad sorry for them in that every week there's some story detailing something going on in their life. How would you feel if every time you go to the store, you see some tabloid with you on their cover with either some sort of made up tale or real tale? Like "Hooray For Anything Wears Pajamas All Day" or "Girl Who Bailed on Going to the Prom with Hooray for Anything Regrets Decision" or "Hooray for Anything's secret Affair with Jennifer Aniston." Okay, like there's any chance Brad, Jen, or Angelina actually go to a super market, but work with me here.

The amazing thing about it is that they have, for all intents and purposes, become sort of iconic romantic triangle for the ages and will forever be talked about and discussed. Like Arthur, Guenivere and Lancelot. Or Henry VIII, Catherine of Aragorn, Anne Bolyen, or Buffy Spike/Angel. They're intertwined now and will be forever to the point that when one of the three dies, the other two will be mentioned within the first couple of sentences in their obituary. Angelina Jolie could personally adopt every African orphan but she'll probably be known more for being the one who stole Brad from Jen.

But to me, the most interesting thing about all this is how the tabloids manage to churn out one story after another about the three of them. I can only imagine the editorial meetings in which all the editors and writers sit around trying to come up with yet another fresh angle on something for which no new angle exists. I'd imagine that at this point, working for US Weekly about the three of them is pretty much like how you'd imagine the writers at the Weekly World News try and come up with latest stories about Bat Boy.