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09/08
What I Learned From Brooke Hogan.
"Make me an offer! Bidding starts at $50!"
You find wisdom in the strangest places. I found it while watching “I Love Money” on VH1, which has to be more devoid of humanity and intelligence than any other place on your TV screen. So if you can find it there, you can find it anywhere. Of course, it wasn’t during the actual show, so take it with a grain of salt.
It was actually during one of the endless promos they run during the breaks. Bravo does this too – if you have gargantuan ratings for one of your shitty reality shows, don’t you squeeze as much cash out of those breaks as you can? Or do you just hype the new shitty reality shows…that you’ll just run more promos all the way through anyways? I don’t know – I’m not a sales expert. But whatever. It must work for ‘em, because there I was, watching Brooke Hogan.
And she taught me about myself in a way that ten years of self-examination and hindsight had failed to show. (more…)