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By my reckoning, it has been quite a while since my last post. A month in the blogosphere is equivalent to eons in geologic time. Every day, I am tempted to reflect on a popular culture current event and its psychological significance, but I have refrained. It is not for lack of interest because certainly much of interest has transpired. Maybe I haven't been inspired.
It was certainly no surprise watching Lady GaGa clean up at the VMA's or listening to Chelsea Handler's incessant and tiring sexual commentary on the event. Tiger seems on the mend, at least as far as golf goes, and all seems quiet on the Lindsay Lohan front. The impending Fall television lineup seems promising and provocative, and Kanye and Taylor have made a strange peace. No particular politician has been scandalized, even though Bristol Palin will soon take to the dance floor with other 'stars." We will soon learn what really happened behind the scenes at Facebook, and who knows, maybe there will be a meaty trashy story about some otherwise revered somebody's fall from grace. And it will all have psycholgical significance and ramifications, and I will be there, I promise.
As I look back over my last year in blogging for Psychology Today, I am struck by the popularity of a few particular posts, specifically those on tattooing, body suspension, lingerie football, superheroes and underground death metal. Sex, drugs rock-n-roll...thats what garners the big hits. However, I promise not to succumb to the pressure to engage in rampant yellow blogalism, just for 'hits'. And I promise to continue to scan the horizon for points at which psychology and poular culture intersect.
The clinician and scholar in me is hard at work on a few interesting projects; a volume on mental illness in popular culture, one on play-based interventions for autism spectrum disorders, and a casebook for clinicians using popular culutre characters.
In the words of the governator, "I'll be back."
