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And again.

     And here we go again.  Earlier this week, Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus bit the dust as well.  Not a good week to be a female pop musician, apparently; they’re dropping like flies.  Earlier this year there were a rash of these fake celebrity deaths as well, as the likes of Eminem and Jeff Goldblum took the spill.

     These have been something of a staple since the inception of the internet, but since the week when we lost Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and Ed McMahon, it seems like we’re getting one every few days.

     So why is it?  Are we just a sad, morbid society who sits and waits for our celebrities to fall?  I think it’s simpler than that.  We bore far too easily.  We don’t want to be troubled with the mundane everyday happenings; apparently war, genocide, and major political meltdown all over the damn place aren’t nearly interesting enough.  We need to create our own fantasy news.

     So go on, as you were.  Just another false alarm here.  You have to feel bad for the next celebrity who really goes, though.  The way the media and internet cry wolf, no one’s going to believe it.