If you have a prurient interest in someone else's private life--anyone's--ask yourself why your life is so boring that you have to know what someone else is wearing/doing/saying every minute of the day. Then fix it, so you don't care any more if some screen star does or does not eat a doughnut. Don't buy the magazines. Don't watch the gossip shows. Go to the celebrities' movies (if you want), or listen to their music (if you want), or go to the concerts (if you want) but have the grace to let them be off duty at least some of the time. And off duty means off duty. No pictures, no screaming fans, no requests for autographs...just let them be. What they "owe" anyone else is their talent, used during their business hours. Period.
Writer's Block: The Right to Privacy
If you have a prurient interest in someone else's private life--anyone's--ask yourself why your life is so boring that you have to know what someone else is wearing/doing/saying every minute of the day. Then fix it, so you don't care any more if some screen star does or does not eat a doughnut. Don't buy the magazines. Don't watch the gossip shows. Go to the celebrities' movies (if you want), or listen to their music (if you want), or go to the concerts (if you want) but have the grace to let them be off duty at least some of the time. And off duty means off duty. No pictures, no screaming fans, no requests for autographs...just let them be. What they "owe" anyone else is their talent, used during their business hours. Period.
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How to Build a Fence to Contain Goats
As near as I can make it, this is how I heard it from one of the old men who used to sit on a bench outside the grocery (no bench there now) and chat…
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