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Here's what you need to know: Allison and Rachael are former college roommates and self-professed pop culture junkies. Unfortunately, there's no trivia competition for us to enter where we might use our magnificent collective pop culture knowledge, so we've decided to be bloggeurs. Here at Currently Obsessed With, you can expect to read all about the our fixations on the mundane, inane, and sometimes profane aspects of the world we live in. Consider this blog a a loving tribute to the things that entertain us when we're bored.
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Allison
I am a lover of all things Top 40, pop culture, Jimmy Fallon, inappropriate (especially jokes) and policy related. If that doesn’t take up enough of my time I’m also on my way to becoming a Social Studies teacher and couldn’t be more excited!
Rachael
The facts are these: I'm 22 and my main aspiration is to be a grad student. My favorite activity is laughing and anything in the pursuit thereof. I like the internet, postmodernism, and countless other ridiculous things. Sometimes, I don't make sense.
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CURRENTLY OBSESSED WITH: Gossip Girl -The Book Series
Serena returns after being expelled from boarding school sending the popular Gossip Girl website into a tizzy, that’s where the similarities between the t.v. and book series basically end. Instead of trying to humanize the characters or make them relatable Cecily von Ziegesar’s books capitalize on the absurdity surrounding the importance of a group of over-privileged and under-supervised New York teens. Serena’s chased by a rockstar who writes songs about her after their first meeting, Blair is dangerously close to being denied from Yale after laying a big kiss on the interviewer, Dan the angsty poet whose only caloric intake is coffee and cigarettes dumps Serena for shaved head, black clothing wearing, filmmaker Vanessa and Chuck Bass is still well, Chuck Bass in all of his sexual, dandy and hated self; typical right? The thing about the show is you can’t stop watching because you, just like the rest of Constance Billard, are waiting to see what new escapades or hookups could possibly happen next. In my opinion this is where the book series excels over the t.v. adaptation. Gossip Girl is not a narrator, she (or he since the identity is unknown) is a bystander who knows no more and no less than the info and email the school girls and boys give up. Instead you the reader are actually privy to more details than GG making the experience of getting to her (his) portion of the book that much more satisfying because you get to challenge GG at her(his) own little game.
If you’re into the t.v. series at all the books are a must to check out. A short and easy read that will make you laugh.
-Al
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