Sweet, Dark and Crazy

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Wedding Vs. Marriage

Khloe Kardashian married Lamar Odom over the weekend. They had been dating a month.

What do you know about someone in a month? Not much. Everyone’s still on their best behavior at the first month. They aren’t farting around you or spending hours on the playstation. They are keeping their most annoying friends (the ones they spend the most time with ) away from you. If they have kids you probably haven't met them. You really don't know how they handle anger, stress, boredom.

You don't know their family very well. And if you do, recognize that they're on their best behavior too. Your drunk uncle stays close to sober when your boyfriend comes over to dinner. Your mother resists the urge to ask all sorts of prying questions. At your request, your father is not cleaning his gun collection. And your cousin the floozy hired a babysitter instead of bringing all 6 of her kids over to dinner. I know I wait a good and long time before I introduce anyone to my family … and as far as families go they are reasonable sane.

Then again, I doubt they were considering marriage when they got married. They definitely weren’t considering death-till-us part or building a life together. I doubt they were thinking past the next few weeks. They were thinking about a wedding and publicity. Someone asked, “How do you plan a lavish wedding in two weeks?” (which means they were planning to get married after 2 weeks of dating). Easy, this chick has had her ‘dream wedding’ planned probably for the past couple of years, all she needed was some dude to drop into the scene. And, when you plan a wedding to someone you’ve known for less than a month, he is … some dude.

Now most people will say "He’s a basketball player and he has money … and she’s a Kardasian and she has money." And I say, “So the fuck what?” Money is great but it is no replacement for: kindness, intelligence, common sense, class, talent, decency or any other value or trait. There are a lot of assholes, bimbos, perverts, weirdos and garden-variety miscreants who have money. Having money means you can indulge your whims … like getting married … that’s all it means.

Sooner than you can say, 'registry', they’ll be splashed across the tabloids getting divorced. I will care even less then.

Labels: Family, Gossip

posted by SDC @ 1:18 PM

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