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The 2012 Macy's Flower Show was all about Brazil - no recognizable celebrities, just ordinary folks going about their daily lives. A visitor commented "It's not because it's fake that it's not true".
Designed by Paul Olszewski and plantings by Ken Meullers.
Desperate Housewives: The Game Advertisment
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If there is one thing that America loves as a culture it is scandal. Celebrity culture is such a pervasive force that it substitutes for small talk just as well as the weather nowadays. High minded individuals may take offense to these subjects but in truth we are all attracted to the destructive flames of perversion and excess. Many disdain the hoi polloi for their distractions but I would contend that we all benefit from wiffs of scandal now and again.
Cathartic acts can heal and now we can now all engage in these sorts of behaviors without any of the consequences. The popularity of shows like Desperate Housewives takes all of us inside these dens of inequity that bubble away hidden in suburban utopia, confirming and arousing suspicions that we all secretly harbour. Of course no one really wants crazy murderous neighbors or philandering husbands in their actual lives but some of us wouldn't mind a little "fake" drama now and again. Actually we would all be better off because of it.
