Tuesday June 23rd

Just got back from a work event. Four glasses of wine instead of the prescribed two. As a lite-weight this could be a bit of a problem. Oops. Pretty sure I told one of my accounts that I was just using someone for sex? And the someone was a chick and I am straight. Crap. Oh well.

Okay, onto the news of the day:

Welcome to the World Marion & Tabitha Broderick!

One of my fave's Ms Sarah Jessica Parker has become a momma yet again. Ferris Bueller and Carrie Bradshaw became proud parents, via a surrogate. The official quote released by SJP's peeps is as follows:

“Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick are delighted to announce the healthy arrival of their two daughters at 3:58 p.m. on June 22 in Ohio. Marion Loretta Elwell Broderick weighed 5 lbs., 11 oz., and Tabitha Hodge Broderick weighed 6 pounds. Both Hodge and Elwell are family names on Parker’s side. The babies are doing beautifully and the entire family is over the moon.”

Yay! Love SJP so hard and am happy that everything went well after the whole Surrogate break-in scandal. You heard about this right? 2 Police Chiefs from Ohio allegedly broke into the home of the surrogate in an effort to gather information for the tabloids. Okay, so being a celebrity means you give up some of your privacy. But for police officers to break into the home of a pregnant woman to gather dirt for the paps. Ugh. I hope they make lots of fun and interesting friends in prison.



Huge congrats and lurve to SJP and Matthew. I think these two munchkins will be quite the fashionistas and I can't wait to see them grow up! I am sure that James Wilke will love being a big brother to his new little sisters!

Perez is still a douche

I hate to give him more press, but Perez just doesn't know when to quit. He was called out by the good folks at GLAAD for his clearly homophobic slurs hurled at Will.I.Am. Another obscenely long statement "from the heart" was issued today defending his words. I agree violence is wrong. Buddy who clocked him shouldn't have. But Perez needs to realise that words can hurt as well. Okay I think I am done with this. Until the court case. Cause you know that Perez is gonna take it as far as he can.

Happy Happy Birthday to Joss Whedon!

Creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, and Dollhouse. And Dr. Horrible. Can't believe I almost forgot my NPH and Dr Horrible. I am so happy that you were born. You are beyond genius and have given us all some of the best TV ever. Hands down. Never stop Joss. Ever.

Awesome pic is from Neill's A-Z of Awesomeness. It is a rad site. Ch-ch-check it out yo!

RIP To Ed McMahon

Admittedly, I am too young and too Australian to really appreciate the whole Ed McMahon phenomenon. But I do know that he was the best sidekick ever. Much love to his family and friends on his sad passing

Blargh. Bed beckons me! Another long day tomorrow. but I am thrilled to report that it is the very last fricking cluster fam of the year! So beyond over these things and so over the moon thay are dunzo. Snoopy dance of happiness going on in my head right now.

Yet to watch True Blood or last nites Nurse Jackie. Just caught up on Chelsea Lately and My Jon Stewart. My PVR is at over 80% and that worries me a titch. Maybe on my vacation (5 more days of work to go - woot!) I can clear some stuff out. I have all of Angels in America on there. I love it, but need to be in the right mood ya know?

Okay, Special K Red Berries, then bed.

XO

Holy Mother 'effin' Day

Counting down the days until I am on vacation for a week and a half. 6 more days of work left. Woot!

I don't even know where to begin with today. So much smutastic news and so little time to review and opine about it. What a time for me to start this little venture.

Will.I.Am versus Perez Hilton

Ugh. This is so lame, but is big news. So Perez and Will got up in each others bizness at an afterparty for the MMVA's. Will told Perez he should respect him, Perez called him a "f#g", Perez got punched. Then Perez got scared and thought they might have guns so called 911. Then sent a call out to everyone on Twitter to call the 50 on his behalf. Srsly? Srsly? WTF? What a waste of fricking time is this. Glad to know my Canadian tax dollars are going to protect this douche.

I think the punching was wrong. But I also think that a self-confessed proponent of gay rights is just as much of a douche for calling someone a homophobic slur. To quote Perez on his 11 minute "statement" from this morning - "I made the split second decision that I was gonna say what I thought was the worst possible thing that thug would ever want to hear...... I don't need to respect you and you're fag and you're gay and stop being such a faggot". What a dick.

And then to call 911 because of what basically amounts to a bar fight. You think they have guns? You were in Canada honey, we don't carry guns. And having people on Twitter also call 911. Dumb-ass. He is so annoying.

Extra special cheer for the BEP when I see them in October :) Opening for U2 bitches!

Chris Brown versus LA Prosecutors

Ahhh to be rich and young in Hollywood. You can beat the crap out of your girlfriend, but if you have the $$$ for a slick lawyer you will get what in my opinion amounts to a slap in the face. This was a FELONY assault and buddy walks away with no jail time. I am calling bullsh*t all over this. It is disappointing, but to be expected.

180 hours of picking up garbage & graffiti removal for a FELONY assault to which he plead guilty. 5 years probation for a FELONY assault. I hope he violates his probation immediately and ends up in jail. All I can say is WTF?

This a photo of the convicted felon only weeks after seriously assaulting his girlfriend. Doesn't he look penitent & contrite? Sorry for what he did? He makes me sick. Justice was most definitely not served today.

Jon & Kate are Dunzo!

And I still don't care.

Emma Watson shows Miley & Ali Lohan how it is done!

Oh my how Hermoine Granger has grown! The press machine for Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince is in full swing and Emma Watson seems to be at the forefront of it all. From her Burberry ads (loved them) to her multiple magazine covers, she is showing the other the other teen starlets (yea, I'm talking to you Miley) how to grow up in the public eye and not be a total brat.

These photos from Teen Vogue are total gorgeosity. Look at that waist! Holy mother, girl needs a Big Mac (or 12), but at least I have yet to see her flashing the paps, drunk stumbling out of a club or basically being an embarrassment to anyone. And her parents? hmmmm don't recall ever seeing them around. Take note Mama's Lohan and Cyrus - you can raise a child in the Biz without becoming a fame-whore yourself.

July 15th is the day. I am contemplating a midnite screening, but I have a staff meeting out at the new Richmond Oval that starts at the crack of dawn (transport leaves at 6.00am to go out there), so I don't know if that will work. I am still deciding. I am even more excited about this than I was about Twilight, and if you know me in real life, you would know that is saying a lot.

Speaking of Twilight, I was given the email address of someone at one of the more reputable magazines in Hollyweird as they want an inside source on all things Twilight when they come back in August. Haven't decided if I will do anything about it, but it is funny that everyone I work with knows who to contact for anything related to Twilight. I am such a dork.

Okay, gotta get my shizz together for work tomorrow. Still haven't watched last nite's True Blood. Maybe I could squeeze it in before bed? I heard it was a whole lot of awesome? Yes/No?

XO

The Week In Review

What a week. I finally got off my lazy and sadly expanding ass and started this damn blog. Yay me. But that does not help with the expanding ass or laziness really does it? Crap. Who cares. The plan is to update a few times a week, but I said that with a live journal account also.....hmmm... what was the login for that again. Gah.


Crazy Mother-effing Twihards

Mr Edward Cullen AKA Robert Pattinson was attacked by crazy fans on multiple occasions on NYC. All you people who told us Vancity peeps to leave him the hell alone - People in Glass Houses, should not be throwing stones!! At least the crazy fans (of which there are many, trust me) in Vancouver did not result in him being grazed by a fricking cab! Come on people - do you really think squealing like a lunatic, and attempting to strangle him is gonna make him want you? Srsly? Get back on the meds people and let the man work.


My personal fave is the blonde in need of having her roots done is strangling the man while he is walking down the street. Yea honey, he is so gonna want to love you forever after that. Sheesh. No serenades, or smouldering looks for you sunshine (or is that just my fantasy.... sigh)

Stephanie Pratt had Bulimia for a minute or two......

Stephanie Pratt announced to the world that she developed Bulimia as a result of being on the Hills. I mocked her for this on Twitter by pulling out that fantastic Heathers Quote "Grow up Stephanie Pratt, bulimia is so '87". Some thought that was a little harsh. To clarify, bulimia is a serious disease, and I do not mock people who have it. But the occasional binge and/or purge does not a bulimic make in my opinion. Ugh, she is so annoying and stupid. And to go to a tabloid to announce it. Ugh ugh ugh.





Speidi's quest for World domination to be thwarted by E!?



To continue with the Pratt theme, E! is this close to banning the two biggest fame-whores in the world from their site. Kudos to you E!, but we shall see. Speidi are like herpes, they may go away for a while, but it just takes one slip for them to come back. Couldn't they have just left them in Costa Rica?

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I finally saw Drag Me To Hell with my friend Kent this weekend. It was a little bit of awesome. So disgusting and fabulous and funny. I did not really enjoy Alison Lohman, she was a little meh for me - but the crazy old Gypsy lady ( Baba-Ganoush?) more than made up for her lack of emotion. I was expecting to see a little of what Hell was like. As I have a seat waiting for me there and all, I was kind of interested in seeing what it would be like. Oh well, I guess I will just wait and see.

This totally p'wned this

We then snuck into The Proposal. Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds and the incomparable Betty White. Love her so hard. I wish she was my grammy (I have none left, so I can say that without offending anyone - I also wish Leo, one of the volunteers at my work was my Grampa - he is most adorable). It was cute - typical rom-com fluff. More Ryan Reynolds naked (or at least shirtless) would have made me happier. I have heard not nice things about him - that he is a dick in real life, one of those I am a celebrity leave me alone type people, so that tainted my view of him a little. He also has the beady eyes going on, and I am an eye person. But that body.... le sigh. Scar-Jo is one lucky untalented singer.

Sadly, 2 movies in a row left me very nappish, so I bailed on a BBQ I was s'posed to go to and went home and watched a few eps of Buffy Season 5 - The Body is coming up and it always kills me - the scene when Anya is talking about how stupid and mortal it all is - Joss Whedon is a genius and Emma Caufield played it perfectly. But I digress.....

The Much Music Video Awards were on this evening. They are hard to describe for anyone outside of Canada. Seem way more fun than other Award Shows, but when the closing number is Nickelback........ sigh. The awards are like the high school version of a Broadway Show - they think they are fabulous and amazing and just as good as the real thing, but deep down inside you just know that they are not. Nickelback is just so bad. And they are not the greatest rock band in the world. It was the Juno's all over again. But thankfully I wasn't forced to breathe the same air as them tonight as they were in T.O. The crowd is also so random - Cleavagey slutbomb Cougars for Chad and the boys and hysterical tweens for the Vagina Virgins and Taylor Lautner. I guess the tweens could have brought their slutty moms? Hmmmmm. Lady Gaga was awesome - I really wish I had jumped on her bandwagon earlier. Kelli Clarkson was also great (she is just a great singer). I didn't know who half the rest of the "talent" was. See - high school. Jonas Brothers seem sweet and nice and sugary. And boring as hell. But whatever. It will only be a mater of time before one of them comes out and another is in rehab.

Lots more going on in the world than this bullshit though. Apparently my cousin's envoy in Afghanistan was attacked. He is not military, he works for the UN - but still. Holy Crap. They were all fine, but they had to crawl out from under the truck/car/van. He is kind of done with Afghanistan I think. Wants to move to NYC - which would be all kinds of awesome as I heart NYC with a fiery passion and would love somewhere to stay.

And Iran. Even though I do not claim to know a lot about what is goin on there, all I have read points to a false election and rigged results. Kinda like the US 2000 election? Ha ha ha Seriously though, that is lame.

But I will leave you with this amazing video of Johnny Depp on his birthday. From Puerto Rico. The man is all class, so shy and humble. And when he gives that girl the look. OMFG. There are no words. I used to know someone who could give that look. Sigh. It was a long long time ago. My Johnny Depp is now married with 2 kids. But I remember when I used to get that look. Loins quivering. Thanks to Lainey for posting this originally


XO

Altar Boyz - Arts Club Theatre

On Friday night, while Chris Martin (lead singer of a little band called Coldplay) was attempting to be incognito at Les Miserables, I dragged my tired self to the Granville Island stage to see Altar Boyz. Dinner before hand was kinda meh, which made us both a little grumpy. Thank G.O.D that G.O.D was in the house and perked me right up!

Let me tell you, my soul was thoroughly cleansed by the experience. Laughs aplenty abound at this tongue in cheek musical about the final night of a Christian Boy Band’s tour. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John & Abraham (natch) will keep you entertained for 90 minutes with tongue in cheek lyrics such as “Jesus Called me on my Cellphone” and “Girl you make me Wanna Wait”.

Encompassing every stereotype of a boy band member you can imagine, including a Latin heartthrob, a gangsta with more brawn than brains (his sly references to being hospitalized for “exhaustion” are still relevant and funny today), and of course a sexually ambiguous (clearly gay) Mark who struggles with admitting that he is Catholic to his boyhood bullies (my favourite song personally, what with me being the product of a Catholic upbringing).

While Boy Bands seem to be a thing of the past (for now at least), the sly references are current and the jokes do not feel dated. The religious jibes are light enough to be inoffensive. Their saucy dance moves and audience participation bring back fond memories of NKOTB and BSB.

The live band on stage is great for the most part. My only criticism would be that sometimes the music overpowers the voices of the cast. But that is a small thing. This is a superfun show that I highly recommend to everyone – well, if you are a crazy religious freak, I would suggest skipping it.

Overall, it was a somewhat surprising win for this show. A lot funnier than I thought it would be.

Those who love boy bands will enjoy it, those who hate boy bands should love it even more!