Exploiting Pammy!

I’m told that the best way to cynically increase traffic to your blog is to write something about Pamela Anderson. What does that say about the human race? Presumably there are thousands of hairy palmed teenagers out there, frantically thumping her name into google.

Nice image, eh?

Coincidentally, Ms Anderson seems to be getting divorced from some hairy rocker called Kid Rock. I didn’t know they were married, with good reason – why the hell would anyone care? However, this morning, that story is on the front page of the Irish Independent with yet-another-gratuitous-picture-of-Pammy’s-assets. Somebody in the Indo should be fired for that. Or at least whipped. Or at the very last, slagged off for the rest of their career.

Really, who cares that some two-bit TV actress has split up from her two-bit musician husband. I'm sure they're nice people if you know them, but what has happened to the Indo's news values? I know it likes to have a human interest style pic story on page one, but was there nothing more susbtantial going on in the world today? I'd better shut up now, in case any of them reads this. ; )

Back to Pammy. About the only thing of substance I can find out about her is that she has used some of her celebrity to draw attention to animal welfare issues. More recently, she let Sacha Baron Cohen attempt to put a bag over her head and kidnap her in his fantastic movie Borat: Cultural learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (which is, by the way, the very best piece of social satire to hit the mainstream in a very long time.)

I presume she signed a release to allow that to be released, so perhaps she even has a sense of humour.

Still, I’m not above a bit of shameless exploitation. Apparently, just by writing something spurious about Pamela Anderson, my blog can expect to be inundated with Pammy fans. Presumably disappointed Pammy fans, but hey, it’s not like I care.