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This is Jenna, your guide to the vapidest of culture

Ms. VCMy name is Jenna and I am a Vapid Culture Addict. When it comes to the tabloids, I am disturbingly well-read. By day, I am an interior designer. At night, I’m a reality TV connoisseur.

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  1. I loved the word… the first time I heard it, and even more so once I learned it’s meaning. Applied to culture is a statement to be sure. I agree with Aldous Huxley in that “…man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.” will ultimately invite a vapid culture…

    Comment by Dougal | August 10, 2006 | Reply

  2. Jenna, I must agree with absolutely everyhting you said in your blog about this first season of Design Star. These poeple, dare we call them “designers”, fall FAR below par on the scale of talent. (I might take exception to episode #3 winner, Tym. Considering the “competition”, he was the obvious choice to win.)

    As a fellow Reality TV fan, a degreed designer currently working on a Masters, and professional designer at one of the country’s largest architectural firms, it is sad how easily I would define this cast as nothing more than a group of “ego-driven Deco-rinas”. Have you seen the audition tapes!?! OH-MA-GAW! It is absoultely amazing to me how this so-called “talent” is unable to budget a project, have the inability to communicate with their team members, have no understanding of the basic language and principles of design, bad or no taste whatsoever, and STILL manage to be in the running for their own HGTV Show. Are these producers high??? After all, if Hilde from Trading Spaces still has a job after all of these years of ruining people’s homes with the MOST stupid “ideas” I’ve ever witnessed (ie. hay and brown felt glued to dining room walls, sand on a living room floor, a mural of her face in a soriety house living room!?!), then producers ARE rolling-up and smoking the natural grass area rugs! After all, idiots DO make good reality tv. Starting with Hilde, the list is endless…

    This new show’s “casting problem” isn’t really a problem at all…those of us who have the REAL knowledge, education, skill and talent to do what it takes, are already doing it professionally and successfully in the “real world”. After a hard day’s work, I get to come home, sit down and relax, and get a good laugh from watching these morons who remind me how much more I have.

    I’m not a “hater”…having your own show on HGTV would be great. I just hope they call this new show “How to be a Decorina Nightmare”…and Hilde should host it!

    Comment by Gretchen | August 11, 2006 | Reply


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