As you know by reading my blog, I am somewhat of a pop culture junkie. I love TV, movies, reading and devour Entertainment Weekly.
However, that does not mean that I like the relentless pounding of certain stories and celebrities into our brains. So here is a list of people and stories that are dead to this blog. If you want to read in the coming months about any of these individuals this will NOT be the place to come:

10. Fred Phelps–What would be better would be if all of us would commit to not bringing any more publicity to this guy and his venomous hatred. He feeds on the publicity, so why do we keep giving it to him?

9. Donald Trump–I can’t even bear to comment, here.

8. Rosie O’Donnell–Ditto above.

7. Pat Robertson–I will not respond to any of his visions, dreams or prophecies this year. The guy can leg press 12,000 pounds. Why would I want to mess with him?

6. Grey’s Anatomy–I know all of you love this. But I don’t watch it and don’t intend to. It has that Friends-Syndrome going on, where the individuals overshadow the show.

5. Britney Spears–Haven’t we all seen enough?

4. Any political scandal that involves the suffix -gate. Isn’t it time to get a little bit more creative? How about using -insky or -anamo? We could refer to the build-up of troops in Iraq as surgeinsky. How about the Scooter Libby stuff being Scootanamo?

3. American Idol–Yeah, I’m probably going to watch at least some of it because my two older girls want to see it. But I’m not going to talk about it.

2. I will not use the following words: emerging, emergent, ancient-future, the prefix neo-, crunchy con, Nazi in relation to any viewpoint, last days, end times, information superhighway, snap, cyber or top 8.

1. The following sports topics will be banned: Mel Kiper’s hair, athletes and coaches leaving the University of Arkansas, nefarious recruiting practices, and the integrity of baseball.

What else should be banned?