cleolinda | Entries tagged with celebrity gossip

Apparently Britney's second child is now named Sutton Pierce, and I started thinking. I can't remember where I read this, but apparently parents tend to name children according to their own aspirations. ( What did my mother want for me? )

The "White Flour! White Flour!" comment y'all pointed out on the original Martha Stewart/Gawker entry was so awesome that I had to make an icon. Take if you want.

Gunman wounds 20 at Montreal college. Contrary to what was reported before, "Police spokesman Ean Lafreniere said there was just one gunman at the school and the search for any others was over. Although police initially suggested the gunman had killed himself, Police Director Yvan DeLorme later said at a news conference that 'based on current information, the suspect was killed by police.'" An article about the shooter himself.

Former Texas Gov. Ann Richards dies.

Lawyer Says Smith Tried to Revive Son. Also, TrimSpa CEO says Anna Nicole is incoherent with grief. God, she's got new-mother hormones on top of all this, too.

Tenth would-be planet's name changed from Xena to Eris.

Whitney Houston Seeks Separation.

John Mark Karr faces porn charges.

CBS wants to buy the next YouTube, not YouTube.

Gay Israeli-Palestinian love story alienates many.

Neil Gaiman, "drawn as an agent of the Empire spreading pestilence over our world."

The Go Fug Yourself girls review the Heatherette show at Fashion Week.

queenofattolia: "Hey -- I know you love jewelry, and I thought you'd like what this girl designs (she casts the Day of the Dead silver jewelry herself; most of the other stuff is from Oaxaca). She's a very nice person with her own little cottage industry, and I think her stuff deserves wider recognition." Outstanding--I like the Day of the Dead and Xochitl collections in particular.

quizzicalsphinx: "I have no idea if you or anyone on your friends list will realise precisely how freakin' awesome this is, but Peter Jackson has bought the rights to Naomi Novik's Temeraire novels and plans to get to work on them after The Lovely Bones and (potentially) The Hobbit are complete. If you know not of the Temeraire novels, they are Master and Commander with dragons."

Speaking of dragons, new Eragon trailer out. It looks like the cheesiest movie good money can buy--does that make sense? Maybe it will after you've watched it. The production values are good, but the production design, I guess... it ain't Chronicles of Narnia, I'll put it that way. Caveat: I am severely biased against this movie.

Same link as above: a second Apocalypto trailer.

skyblade: "On your digest blog [my note: which woefully has not been updated in forever, and may be combined back into this one], you made a prediction about Kristen Bell in the movie Fanboys and whaddya know..." I don't remember what my prediction was exactly, but if I had to guess, it was probably, "Five bucks says they manage to get her into the gold Leia bikini." And ~~as always~~ I was right.

Suri Cruise? Seriously?

ETA: PEOPLE, NO MORE PLACENTA-EATING CRAZY TALK, I'M TRYING TO EAT DINNER OVER HERE. (Just start reading the comments. Don't even ask me.)

ETA 2: "Mom! Katie Holmes just had her fake alien baby!" "HUSH, AMERICAN IDOL IS ON."

You know it's hard out here for a pimp
When he's tryin' to get his linkspam for the post...

( Break that shit down! )

>> Important note: I had four of the BPAL envelopes returned to me--the addresses were wrong? All I had to go on were the addresses on y'all's Paypal, so if you paid but haven't received yours, please get back to me in the comments.

>> My mother just up and cleaned the entire refrigerator from top to bottom, with bleach, on Friday afternoon right when she got home. Some vague, pernicious funk was emanating from the fridge, and whether it was animal, vegetable or mineral, we do not know. Yea, we do not know even now, verily, because it had vanished by the time the fridge was clean, and yet she never encountered anything stank on the way down.

(Pernicious Funk will be the name of my next garage band.)

>> All three dogs came home from the vet on Saturday with clean new Easter-print bandannas around their necks. The poms wanted theirs off pretty quickly, but Lucky is still wearing his--and before you start in on me about how making a dog wear a bandanna is tacky and/or cruel, he's worn them before, and he's always very sad when you take the bandanna away to wash it, and always very happy when it comes back. Don't judge my dog for being stylish, okay?

>> I think I had forgotten how very good chocolate-marshmallow-almond ice cream is. (Marshmallow ice cream. Think about that for a moment. It's actually softer and stickier than the chocolate ice cream. Zomg.) I think it just knocked chocolate chip back off the top of my list.

(It's actually chocolate ice cream, marshmallow ice cream, and chocolate-covered almonds, lest I mistakenly give you the impression that almond-flavored ice cream is involved. I have not yet witnessed such a thing.)

>> On Saturday, I finally read Stephen King's On Writing, and was perhaps the last writing-interested person on the planet to do so. It was just one of those things--I wanted the book, I asked for the book, I got the book, I... never read the book. Shit happens, what can I say. I did, however, mark this passage as a truth for the ages:

"In many ways, Eula-Beulah prepared me for literary criticism. After having a two-hundred-pound babysitter fart on your face and yell Pow!, The Village Voice holds few terrors."

>> Courtesy of iczer6, we have a charity request with a twist: a family that's had one hell of a time needs your help getting on Extreme Home Makeover.

SeattlePI.Com: A year of bad luck leaves family struggling to cope: "Todd Downing and his two children, Kayleigh, 8, and Tyler, 11, of West Seattle have endured many hardships over the past year including the death of Sam, his wife and their mother, the death of Todd's father, a flood of sewage to their home on Christmas Eve and a fire which destroyed the home on Valentines Day 2006. Now the family is living in a rental home across the street."

Click the second link (EHM) to see how you can help. And no, collecting money is not involved--it's more "using the power of the people on the internet to make something good happen."

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dailydigestnews: Much linky goodness.

So, ice skating. I came out of the final night with an immense respect for both Emily Hughes and Sasha Cohen for continuing to fight and sell even after falling down (Cohen, particularly, because she biffed her first two jumps but it didn't kill her spirit; Hughes, particularly, for having so much spark and showmanship and recovering so quickly at such a young age). These two were particularly impressive after watching some of the early competitors skate limp programs, some of which were lifeless from the word go, but others you saw die on the vine right in front of you after a bad mistake. I feel bad saying it, but Miki Ando was just painful to watch. Meanwhile, Shizuka Arakawa was gorgeous and strong, and I think she fully deserved the gold, but at the same time, I drew more inspiration from Hughes and Cohen. I mean, I fuck up a lot. Not in the sense that I fall on my ass a lot, although it has been known to happen--it's more in the sense of missing a deadline, missing an opportunity, losing a contest, getting a rejection, and it's the guilt from one disappointment that keeps pulling me down to a second, and a third, and a fourth. Anyone who can go out there, fall down, and jump back up and immediately go into a flourish and grin--anyone who can START her program by falling on her ass TWICE but stay on that horse and ride it home to a silver medal--is okay by me.

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sunshine95: "Johnny Weir is also apparently obsessed with Russia...and Christina Aguilera. Yeah, I don't know either.")

(Tonight: Champions gala, whee!)

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dailydigestnews: The new Spider-Man 3 teaser poster; Supergirl?; Cary Elwes gets a TV pilot; Philip Seymour Hoffman obligated to bark Oscar speech? (Note: since I'm now doing 2-3 entries a day, friending that journal, if you're interested in it, may be a good idea.)

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: Emilie Autumn, "Rapunzel"

I don't have much to say about skating last night, because it was mostly good and not as snarkable. Although Emily Hughes (who was omgsocuteandawesome) does remind me strangely of Movie!Ginny Weasley. Also, Sloot had fireworks on her ass, or very near to it. I salute her for wearing pants, though. I keep hearing that Sasha Cohen looks like That Bitchy Girl You Hated in High School (paging

snacky...), but she skated with ver ve (and apparently ended her program, if you read her lips, with "Fuck yeah!") and that's good enough for me. (Come on, you smile like this while pulling your skate over your head and we'll talk.)

( So much linkspam )

And finally: Happy birthday to

laurelin_kit!

Current Music: Emilie Autumn, "Rapunzel"

Today's weather forecast on Yahoo Weather (12:54 pm):

High: 38
Low: 37
Current: 35

Wha?

VP Accident Tale Filled With Discrepancies. O rly. Ya rly: far from "zero drinking," there was, in fact, beer. Which... well, when you put it that way, doesn't sound all that awful. But then, I didn't think lying about a blowjob was so terrible, either. Clearly I'm not cut out for this politics thing.

From suenosdejmi: "There's a website, www.invisiblechildren.com, which is of a non-profit that is working to help children in Northern Uganda. There's groups of people travelling the country showing this documentary film about these kids, and the war, & their lives there...it's all really powerful stuff. I feel really compelled to help, but there's not too much to be done, you know? If you could just help me spread the word about this website, there's all sorts of information there about the cause & the mission. Thanks!!"

Isaac Mizrahi Defends Red-Carpet Behavior. Except he doesn't so much "defend" it as defy all critics, promising more of the same (most famously, he grabbed Scarlett Johansson's breast and squeezed, like, three times). I would give my eyeteeth to see some starlet mace him on the red carpet come Oscar night.

Co. Hopes to Market Kid Rock, Stapp Tape. But I thought assisted suicide was illegal...?

Apple Hackers Encounter a Poetic Warning.

Nick Lachey files for spousal support. And jewelry. No word on who gets custody of the boobs.

NBC goes after You Tube. That's right! How dare you make "Lazy Sunday" a cultural zeitgeist! It was particularly cruel, how you revived the show's flagging ratings! And the way you updated the video with "We know how popular that video is but YouTube respects the rights of copyright holders. You can still watch SNL's Lazy Sunday video for free on NBC's website"? Reprehensible.

Michael Jackson has a Katrina song. God help us all.

redrum! redrum!

Words you never expect to see in a cookbook, no matter how old it is: To make the Brain Cakes.

Franz Ferdinand cover of Gwen Stefani's "What You Waiting For." Right-hand side, near the bottom, go!

Sonic teenager repellent. There's a fifteen-year-old in me that's totally indignant. There's also a twenty-seven-year-old who hopes the man who came up with this becomes so rich.

Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog ("Top X searches in myne networke: 10. John Gowere swyving a donkey").