OMG you guys today was AMAZING!!! It was all about my girl BRITNEY SPEARS!!! You guys know how much I love Britney and how excited I was for this show, and it totally lived up to all my expectations. I was so very fortunate to have my BFF Alex come into town to go to the show with me, and I really can't think of anyone I would have had more fun with. We started the day by hitting up H&M to get some awesome (and cheap!) Britney outfits. There's a huge H&M in University Village by UW, and I swea...
I am getting reports in like crazy that Britney Spears STOPPED her concert in Vancouver for a full 30 minutes!!!! She just walked off stage. Apparently there was too much SMOKE around the stage (I'm guessing the funny-smelling kind of smoke). The concert-goers booed her.
Ohhhhhhhh Britney.
Get it TOGETHER! I see your ass TOMORROW and you better not fuck it up.
You guys, I totally have VIP tickets. I didn't even realize I'd gotten VIP tickets until we got our special VIP gifts in the mail. So what that means? Is that we get to get there at 4:15 and do all this shit. How amazingly cheesy does this look? I can't even believe how cheesy. But I don't think I can miss it! I wonder if they'll let me in to the special VIP experience if I'm wearing my pink wig and clutching my umbrella ...
Update: At the end of the show Britney reportedly said "Don't smoke weed ... unless you are outside!" You tell 'em, girl. />I am getting reports in like crazy that Britney Spears STOPPED her concert in Vancouver for a full 30 minutes!!!! She just walked off stage. Apparently there was too much SMOKE around the stage (I'm guessing the funny-smelling kind of smoke). The concert-goers booed her.
Ohhhhhhhh Britney.
Get it TOGETHER! I see your ass TOMORROW and you better not fuck it up.
You guys, I totally have VIP tickets. I didn't even realize I'd gotten VIP tickets until we got our special VIP gifts in the mail....
Hey all!
So I'll be in and out here over the next couple of days. My BFF is coming into town tonight, and I'm so excited to show her around my adopted hometown of Seattle, and to spend time with her, because I haven't really spent any extended time in the same city as her for years. Wendie will be around working her special brand of bloggy magic, but posting will be slower than usual because I won't be chiming in as often. However, I'll be sure to give you guys a full report on the Britney Spears show on Thursday, for which I am currently trying to find a pink wig. Anyone know where I can get a pink wig in Seattle?
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And, with that, all my contractual obligations for the week are complete. I'm outtie, kids. See ya at the Britney show! />Hey all!
So I'll be in and out here over the next couple of days. My BFF is coming into town tonight, and I'm so excited to show her around my adopted hometown of Seattle, and to spend time with her, because I haven't really spent any extended time in the same city as her for years. Wendie will be around working her special brand of bloggy magic, but posting will be slower than usual because I won't be chiming in as often. However, I'll be sure to give you guys a full report on the Britney Spears...
Update: FremantleMedia made YouTube pull the clip. But you can watch it here.
If you're anything like me, you were absolutely devastated last night when Adam Lambert's American Idol performance was cut off by your DVR. Because he is your fantasy man, despite the fact that he's hopelessly gay, and because the show ran eight minutes over. EIGHT MINUTES! How does that even happen? You've been doing this for eight seasons, Idol producers. No one over there has any capacity to keep their eye on the clock? Totally unacceptable. Maybe fewer commercials next time, eh?
Adam was -- in what's becoming something of a pattern, and I doubt accidentally -- the final contestant to perform. His entire performance went un-recorded by TiVos and DVRs everywhere.
So here's my question: Is this going to impact Adam in the voting? Obviously a lot of us headed straight to the Internet to find a clip of Adam's performance -- there's one above, if you want it -- but not everyone's so tech-savvy, or has an Internet connection at home. Will people fail to vote for Adam because they didn't get to watch him? Are they going to address it all on the show tonight? I'm very very curious.
Oh, Adam. I thought my days of crushes on gay men were over once I got over Reichen Lehmkuhl (okay, I'm not really over him, but we're making progress), but I've fallen for you soooo hard! I LOVE YOU, ADAM!!! />Update: FremantleMedia made YouTube pull the clip. But you can watch it here.
If you're anything like me, you were absolutely devastated last night when Adam Lambert's American Idol performance was cut off by your DVR. Because he is your fantasy man, despite the fact that he's hopelessly gay, and because the show ran eight minutes over. EIGHT MINUTES! How does that even happen? You've been doing this for eight seasons, Idol producers. No one over there has any capacity to keep their eye on t...
Check out this track by a group of Chicago DJs who are now referring to themselves as the Jump Smokers.
Basically, it suggests, in no uncertain terms, that Chris Brown should "get his ass kicked" or, ya know, just hang himself. It's catching on. I kind of love it.
Meanwhile, "friends" of Chris Brown are saying he's become increasingly depressed and drinking a lot. A source tells X17, “Chris is a mess. He lost a lot of weight, about 15 lbs. I do know that Chris is also in a depression and is drinking a lot. He almost got his butt kicked about a week ago.”
Whatever. If you heard it on X17, it must be true, right? No. This is all a part of the Chris Brown publicity machine. They're trying to make us feel sorry for him so his career isn't DOA after all this shit. Don't buy into it, folks. Does this guy look depressed? />
Check out this track by a group of Chicago DJs who are now referring to themselves as the Jump Smokers.
Basically, it suggests, in no uncertain terms, that Chris Brown should "get his ass kicked" or, ya know, just hang himself. It's catching on. I kind of love it.
Meanwhile, "friends" of Chris Brown are saying he's become increasingly depressed and drinking a lot. A source tells X17, “Chris is a mess. He lost a lot of weight, about 15 lbs. I do know that Chris is also in a depression...
I totally have a thing for him. Not a crush, I just marvel at him. This is the dude who lost like 200 pounds by eating Subway sandwiches and has managed to ride that thing into a decade-long career. I loved him from the start. My college boyfriend thought it was so strange. We'd walk into a Subway and there would be a huge cardboard cut-out of Jared standing there and I'd be like "Oooh!!! JARED!!!"
So when some random PR chick emailed me and asked me to run this video of Laila Ali and Jared Fogle supporting the National Institute of Health's We Can! program, which aims to reduce obesity rates among children, I was like "Normally I would ignore a bothersome person like you. But this? This I will run."
Plus childhood obesity really bugs the crap out of me. Last week, I walked past a morbidly obese child -- like eight or nine years old -- wearing a T-shirt that said the following:
MY PERFECT DAY:
WAKE UP
PLAY VIDEO GAMES
EAT BREAKFAST
PLAY VIDEO GAMES
EAT LUNCH
PLAY VIDEO GAMES
EAT DINNER
PLAY VIDEO GAMES
SLEEP
I was, quite frankly, horrified. Because not only is there a parent out there who is buying the soda and junk food resulting in this young child being like 100 pounds overweight, but that same parent is shelling out the cash for the XXL T-shirt glamorizing his sedentary lifestyle -- the same lifestyle that's going to reduce his lifespan by a good 30 years, and his quality of life enormously more. These kids don't have the information or money to make their own decisions regarding food or exercise. That's a parent's responsibility. Get the facts, parents! />
I totally have a thing for him. Not a crush, I just marvel at him. This is the dude who lost like 200 pounds by eating Subway sandwiches and has managed to ride that thing into a decade-long career. I loved him from the start. My college boyfriend thought it was so strange. We'd walk into a Subway and there would be a huge cardboard cut-out of Jared standing there and I'd be like "Oooh!!! JARED!!!"
So when some random PR chick emailed me and asked me to run this video of Laila Ali and Ja...
Just on her head, though. And her pubes, but that's not what this story is about.
As women, when we split up with our significant other, our initial thought is to change our hair. I don't know why. It's actually my gut reaction to any major event in my life that leaves me feeling out of control. I decide I need a new me to handle it. And that new me needs to have a different hairstyle. Britney took it a step or eight (razor blades) too far, but I suppose that if the craziest thing Lindsay doe...
I am such a 10-year-old girl. I was talking to my friend Anna today about possibly carpooling to the Britney Spears show on Thursday. She was like, "Yeah, we'll probably leave around five." I was like, "Well, okay, here's the problem: Since I'm a member of the Britney Spears Fan Club ..." and I didn't get any further than that. Before I could explain that I had special fan-club VIP tickets that allow me to do a pre-show backstage tour and dinner, so I'd have to leave earlier than five, she had...
Lots and lots of very yummy man-candy showed up for the big premiere of the new Star Trek film -- in Australia!
The 11th big-screen film in the sci-fi series had its world premiere Tuesday at the Sydney Opera House in Australia in advance of its debut in theaters May 8.
Among the stars on hand: Chris Pine, who takes on William Shatner's old role as James Kirk; Zachary Quinto, who inherits Leonard Nimoy's Mr. Spock; Karl Urban, filling the shoes of DeForest Kelley's Dr. McCoy; and Eric Ba...
But don't touch that dial, kids! It's any minute now.
In the nuclear tabloid fall-out of her split from Samantha Ronson, stories about Lindsay's unraveling are everywhere.
First, we heard rumors of her blatant drinking on Monday night. It's no big secret that Lindsay's been drinking, but she's been making a kinda-sorta effort to hide it in public, up until now.
The rehab graduate grabbed a bottle of Belvedere vodka sitting on her table, turned away from other party-goers, and chugged it. ...
Wendie wrote this morning about reports that Jessica Simpson's name and artist page had been deleted from the Columbia Nashville and Sony Music Nashville websites. Now it's been confirmed: Jess is no longer with the label.
They're trying to spin this like it's no big deal. According to her rep: "She was on loan to Sony Nashville for her country album. [She] is and has always been an Epic artist," her rep adds. "She continues to be on Epic's label."
Jessica's country career hasn't been a ...
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