Big Baby News

Did you hear the big news? No, it's not that my lovely young neighbor just had her first child, a beautiful baby girl, or that the sweet woman in my playgroup had her second son last Thursday. No, that's not news, the BIG news is that Angelina Jolie had her twins! Oh yes, if you haven't heard already, let me tell you: the WORLD is abuzz with the news. And why shouldn't they be. A woman gave birth to twins! When does that ever happen. Oh yeah, all the time.

If you didn't sense it through the computer screen, let me spell it out. I'm a just a little bit bitter about the Angie hysteria. I mean really people, what is the BIG DEAL? OK, she's a movie star/UN spokeswoman/savior of all third world children/out-of-the-box mom and her "partner" is one of the Sexiest Men Alive (which I think is the stupidest title ever since People Magazine's pool of men is limited to a couple of dozen hot-right-now TV and movie actors like Nick Nolte, Mark Harmon and Ben Affleck).

Yes, they're famous, I get it, but what on earth is so special about their babies? And on what planet does it make sense that the pictures of these babies is worth over $10 Million dollars. Yes, you read it correctly. The first pictures of Knox and Vivienne (yeah, I know, it's silly that I already know their names) are going to be worth somewhere in that ballpark.

It's not that I think that Angie's children aren't special, I'm sure they are special to the people that know them and ARE RELATED TO THEM, I just think they are not more special than anyone else's children. And even though I understand that people might be curious to see pictures of the fruit of two beautiful loins, I don't understand the extreme extent of that curiosity.

I, for one, am way more excited about seeing pictures of my neighbor and my girlfriends' baby pictures!