Adrien Grenier

He knows us so well

This photo of Adrien Grenier had me totally pegged as I perused celebrity blog perezhilton.com in an effort not to do any of my real work.

Adrien Grenier eating an ice cream cone and holding a sign that says

But I really like the idea of a celebrity sending a message back to us, observing what we are doing at that very moment in such a completely accurate way while we try (or maybe Perez Hilton tries) to describe and make judgments about what he's up to.

I'm reminded of those shirts Britney Spears used to wear, in that those were sort of an anticipation of what the viewer was thinking about her, instead of about what, in this case, the viewer is doing.

Britney Spears wearing a shirt that says

In both of these cases there's a weird fusion of watching, making judgments, and sending messages that make reciprocal judgments all in one image.

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