I don't know anything about hats

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I have what I'd like to describe as ambivalent feelings about the wedding that took place today. It falls under the rubric of things I almost couldn't care less about. However, the nuance comes in when I consider the variety of things like the Super Bowl, particularly when the Steelers are playing, that I think are a big deal that a lot of people who love hats probably don't give a crap about. A lot more could probably be said on this particular matter as it relates to things like democracy in the Middle East, earthquakes in Japan and the result of any reality television show or sporting event. I actually have a rather long and tedious argument to make on the subject that stretches back to the earliest stages of mankind, but I think I'll spare everyone until another day. For now, enjoy videos of people screwing up their weddings.

"To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we recoil from the dull. Maybe it’s because dullness is intrinsically painful; maybe that’s where phrases like ‘deadly dull’ or ‘excruciatingly dull’ come from. But there might be more to it. Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain because something that’s dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some other, deeper type of pain that is always there, if only in an ambient, low-level way, and which most of us spend nearly all our time and energy trying to distract ourselves from feeling, or at least from feeling directly or with our full attention. Admittedly, the whole thing’s pretty confusing, and hard to talk about abstractly…but surely something must lie behind not just Muzak in dull or tedious places any more but now also actual TV in waiting rooms, supermarkets’ checkouts, airport gates, SUVs’ backseats. Walkman, iPods, BlackBerries, cell phones that attach to your head. This terror of silence with nothing diverting to do. I can’t think anyone really believes that today’s so-called ‘information society’ is just about information. Everyone knows it’s about something else, way down." TPK