George Clooney is like parsley

See how I started this post title with George Clooney? I bet it got your attention. He's an attention-grabbing guy.

For my international news class we've been divided into groups and assigned a country to follow. We're supposed to follow the news in and about that country, and then we'll be giving a presentation about an as-yet undisclosed question relating to an issue there and how the media portrays it across the world.

My group has Sudan, so George Clooney was a hot (pun intended) discussion topic today. Being the attention-grabber that he is, he's been rather determined to pop up all over Sudan to raise the country's profile. It's more in-depth and less photo-bomb-ish than that, but at a skeletal level it's true.

So it seemed that no matter whether we were discussing genocide, political corruption, oil or American hegemony, George Clooney just kept popping up.

After the meeting, an Italian girl in my group expressed that she's getting a bit tuckered out with George Clooney, since he spends considerable time in Italy and his girlfriend is Italian and so is his family and he's always in the news. She told me that in Italy, they say George Clooney is like parsley, since he's everywhere.

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In other news, tonight Allister and I saw "The Social Network." The first thing I did when I got home was get on Facebook. Mark Zuckerburg, I am your puppet.