James Lileks on "true pop culture," right after he performs a vivisection of a recent People magazine cover:

No magazine really reflects the world as I see it. They either magnify an interesting portion beyond its importance, or float off into irrelevance. Which is why I prefer the internet. Every day a thousand pages. We make it. It's our magazine. It's the true pop culture, and the only question is how long it will take before the democratization of information makes the old celebrity paradigm irrelevant.

Amen, brother. Another "two worlds" paradigm: on the one hand, those who actually care about the vapid lives of "celebrities" ... and on the other, those who are fascinated by the million points of light in the blogosphere ...  ¶ 10:03 AM