Saturday, August 24, 2013  Dear Hollywood and Covergirl: Time
for an Irony Lesson  This morning I woke up to the news that Ben
Stiller (who is creeping closer to fifty and apparently wigging
out about it) is shopping around a Reality Bites comedy series.
 It will be set in the nineties, and, one assumes, will follow
Lelaina and Troy around after they finally hook up.  I suppose
we'll be able to see if Vickie ever stops shacking up and if
Sammy and his mom reconcile.  My point is...nobody is going to
care about this.  The disaffected youth of the 90s are all grown
up.  We have kids now and mortgages and real jobs and the idea
of a young person doing the gas card/cash thing makes us look
anxiously at our children and ponder things like savings
accounts and bicycle transportation.  Samantha from Sex in the
City numbed us to the whole "I sleep with everybody" thing and
Doogie Howser came out of the closet in real life.  I mean,
really.  Ben Stiller, embrace middle age, buddy.  EMBRACE IT.
Anyway, I was all shaki