Bling is dead declares the Wash Post in this column from Friday.

Jems included this line about 50 Cent..."Rapper 50 Cent was draped in so many diamond and platinum medallions that one felt compelled to paraphrase a line from the film "I'm Gonna Git You, Sucka," which in 1988 first documented death by bling. "How'd he go to the bathroom with all that stuff on?"

Now, based on what I've been seeing out there, I don't think Bling is dead, but I think the ridiculous level of bling will be scaled back. As always things are taken to the extreme, backed up and then taken there again.

Not a fan of the bling ever, I recommend it being avoided at all costs, unless one likes looking like a clown.