The Shape of Days

So the dominant buzz on the Paris Hilton kerfuffle — sorry, make that today’s Paris Hilton kerfuffle — is that it’s all just a big publicity stunt carried out as part of the world-famous screwball’s deal with T-Mobile to promote their Sidekick mobile phone thingy. The predominance of T-Mobile mobile phone numbers and “@tmail.com” e-mail addresses in what is alleged to be the bafflingly famous personality’s private address book seems at least a little peculiar, if not downright suspicious.

Of course, the fact that the data leaked also included some topless pictures of the well known hotel heiress apparently getting it on with an MTV Latin America on-air personality would ordinarily seem to cast that theory into doubt … but on the other hand, if I were constructing a viral marketing plan, that’s just the sort of thing I’d throw into it to keep people wondering. Besides, we all know that Paris Hilton has no qualms about showing off her boobies. In fact, it seems like at any given time a sizable fraction of the world’s population is employed in various schemes to try to get her to stop.

As always, you can count on the forces of the global mainstream media to keep you on top of this story, and on the blogosphere to point at them and laugh.

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