Last night I was looking for the smoking section at the VMAs (there isn't one) and I stopped midway on the stairs from the lobby to the downstairs bathrooms. Behind a curtained-off area below, I could see below me all the web photo editors, speed-searching through incoming red carpet photographs. It was a hideous vision of the future, I tell you. A guy came up behind me. "Meditating?" he asked. (That was weird.) I was like, no, look at this digital sweatshop!

I went home to think about this new "People of Wal-Mart" blog overnight before I went off half-cocked. In the end: I'm not a fan, I think! And that's a hard and maybe slightly indefensible thing to say, coming from someone who, essentially, thinks Cintra Wilson is funny making fun of the fatness of J.C. Penney mannequins in the Times. So what this "People of Wal-Mart" is, is it is a website that pubishes stealth camera shots (allegedly?) of people in Wal-Marts (allegedly), taken by people apparently in Wal-Marts, who are horrified by the other people in Wal-Marts. Now I have been in many Wal-Marts myself and been [...]