A few days ago I embraced my inner iconoclast and fired Internet Explorer in favor of Firefox. Then, just to add insult to injury, I canned Outlook in favor of Gmail, and switched my home page from My Yahoo! to Google. Ahh, progress...
Anyway, by default my new Google home page has a "Quote of the Day" module, which I normally disdain, but haven't got around to nuking yet. And gues what: today it served up a gem!
Here's the quote:
I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends.
- Moby
This is funny.
Why? Because, for the uninitiated, Moby—despite the fact that he is one hell of a musician—is arguably one of the most sanctimoniously fatuous morons in Celebrityville. Most recently, Moby has appointed himself official spokesmoron for PETA, toward which group I really can't possibly cast enough aspersions. He's also relatively fresh off the Live8 bandwagon, in which a number of musical acts challenged the United Nations for the coveted nadir of global relevance.
Seriously, this kind of thing would move me to tears if it weren't so godawfully silly. Up next, Michael Moore lectures America on the benefits of diet & exercise.
Hey, it could happen!