"Us and Them" and "Mick Jagger Wants Me"

So I have to say that the beginning of "Us and Them" definitely weirded me out at first simply because when i first moved to the town of Collierville I moved into a house 3 blocks from the school where I would be attending the third grade.  Not to mention that I moved from that house to one about a mile away.  So I can definitely relate to David Sedaris because in case the whole similar houses story wasn't strange enough, I also had a large family right across the street that was extremely sheltered and shut off from the rest of the world even to this day.  However, other than that I had a very difficult time understanding what Sedaris was actually trying to accomplish through his story.  I couldn't really tell if his focus was on selfishness, or perhaps the corruption of modern day society.  Overall though it almost made me want to ban my future children from TV and other similar things so that they would be blind to the same things as the Tomkey children were.  

Now in "Mick Jagger Wants Me", I can't really say that I related to what the author was saying but it was very entertaining.  I especially enjoyed her incredible graphics throughout the entire thing.  But I suppose that in the end i just didnt enjoy it quite as much as the other story because I couldn't put myself into the story quite as much as I could in the other. I really just cannot see myself as the type of person to be obsessed with someone that I know absolutlely nothing about.  However, i guess when you really think about it, the little boy in the first story was actually a stocker as well with the way that he would study the family at night throughout their window at night.  So who knows, maybe I am just more interested in cooky neighbors than celebrities.