Nascent Trend: Boring Paparazzi Videos

Who wants to watch boring videos of minor celebrities doing nothing? We do. And you will too.

On, there's a video of former astronaut Buzz Aldrin and his wife supposedly arguing as they sit in their car outside Spago in Los Angeles. The unedited video clip was shot by a paparazzo, uploaded to TMZ's video archive, labeled "The Real Moonwalker" (you can see it above:, and viewed by people who probably don't know who Aldrin is or who, like me, know exactly who he is but have never, ever wondered what he's up to. Buzz Aldrin's wife might not be wondering what Buzz Aldrin is up to right now. In that strange moment, Buzz must have thought, I've been to the moon. I'm spry. Unquestionably, I'm a minor celebrity. But this is odd. I'm now sitting in my convertible with the top down, in Los Angeles, outside Spago, being photographed by another man as my wife sits in the passenger seat smiling nervously. Why am I not driving away? I don't know. Watching this video is like watching F. Murray Abraham grabbing a taco. Or Barry Gibb in the DMV. Or Trey Wingo eating onion rings. What I'm trying to say is, Buzz Aldrin is no Hayden Panettiere. But it's mesmerizing. It's as if the modern forces of celebrity and accessibility and a general rejection of judgment have collided to create a new art form: mundane celebrity. Even if it's unintentional, even if TMZ is spending a lot of money to throw pretty much everything online because everyone is supposedly interesting. Someone should exploit it. There should be museum exhibits devoted to the genre. It's a new way of seeing the world, where everyone is equally uninteresting. Which is fascinating.

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