From the Mouths of Babes......or Celebs. Same difference.

"There are a limited amount of years where you can wear tight jeans. There comes a point where whether you can or not, you shouldn't."--Scott Weiland
The 40-year-old Stone Temple Pilots frontman, who continues to rock too-tight trousers, explained his personal pants philosophy in an interview.
(Agreed. Dear rockers, tight pants are uglarific!)


"I am a legend. I want to take drugs."--Amy Winehouse
The embattled singer was allegedly overheard screaming this shortly before she was arrested for headbutting a man on the street. Yikes.


"We call him our sensitive thug. It's from a Jay-Z song." --Gwyneth Paltrow
The 'Iron Man' actress revealed on 'Letterman' this week that she and husband Chris Martin have nicknamed their two-year-old son, Moses, after a line in good friend Hova's 'Heart of the City.'
(Dang them! I was going to name my firstborn son Sensitve Thug. They steal all my ideas!)


"If there is a song that gets me in the mood to play Andy Bernard, it would be an a cappella version of 'Africa,' by Toto. It's one of the greatest American rock songs." --Ed Helms
The actor admitted to Spin the one connection he feels to his relentlessly annoying, yet strangely lovable character on 'The Office.'
(Everyone else is making a comeback, why not Toto?!?!)


"The fatter she gets, the weirder she gets, and the more I love her ... I would marry her in a heartbeat." --Moby
The NYC DJ spilled his guts to the Sun about his feelings for once fellow chrome dome Britney Spears.
(Sorry Moby, it appears that Britney has lost the chub. Better luck next time!)


"It's like watching a 14-year-old boy fumbling with a girl's belt buckle: They're going to get there eventually." --Pete Wentz
Emo's poster child waxed poetic on how musicians (including himself) attempt to participate in politics in Spin's April issue.


"When [they said], 'Hey, Chris, how's it going?,' that was way better than any gold record or s--- that Nickelback would write about being a rock star." --Chris Robinson
During an interview with Spinner, the Black Crowes singer remembered meeting Crosby, Stills Nash & Young at Madison Square Garden.
(Oh Chris. We love you. And for the record, we hate Nickelback too!)


"I'm not really into female vocalists ... I don't think I would ever listen to our band, honestly." --Hayley Williams
The fiery frontgirl may love singing in her Grammy-nominated band, but, as she disclosed to Rolling Stone, that doesn't mean she actually likes Paramore's songs. Duh.
(Hayley, I love you, but when you say things like this it makes other people wonder if they should be listening to your music. Oh screw it, we love Paramore [we really do. when is the next album???])

"I see the profundity of ['My Humps''] lyrics. You do have to make him work, work, work. You do. S--- is true." -- Alanis MorissetteThe 'Ironic' singer insisted to Spinner that her 'My Humps' cover was devoid of irony.

"When I got my divorce, the women jumped on me like white on rice! I said, 'Look, I ain't ever did fish, I don't intend to do fish so leave me alone.'" -- Patti LaBelle
The legendary singer revealed her not-so-'New Attitude' toward the idea of girly action. She'd rather adopt dogs to combat loneliness.
(Did fish???..moving on.........)

Beyonce: Scam or just Light Skinned?

So all the blog seems to be upset recently over the new L'Oreal ad featuring Beyonce (shown below) where Beyonce's skin tone was supposedly lightened. They're all calling "bullshit" on L'Oreal, but I'm gonna take it a step further and call "bullshit" on the original "bullshit" callers (still following me?). I've taken it upon myself to find some pictures of Beyonce to see how her skin tone compares to the L'Oreal ad. The first picture below is a comparison of the ad to how Beyonce supposedly looks in everyday life. The pictures below that are in order of lightest skin tone to darkest (in the photos that I found and picked out of the millions of her on the web).

In none of this pictures is Beyonce's tone as dark as it is in the comparison picture (left side). Her tone in the live shots (which, maybe I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure aren't airbrushed) is much closer to the tone in the ad. Additionally, everything about the ad looks "faded".....which would most likely happen after being printed in a magazine (assuming this is from a magazine ad) and being scanned into a computer. Some distortions will occur! It is ignorant to think that African Americans skin tone doesnt' change- of course it does! They're just like Hispanics, Caucasians, Asians, all of us! If we spend time in the sun our skin darkens. The less exposure we have to the sun's rays, the light our skin will become (to an extent, depending on the person, NOT the race). Hair color can also be a factor. When my hair is a lighter brown or blonde, I tend to look even more fair skinned than I usually do, but when I dye it dark it generally adds some color to my cheeks.

My main point here is, race continues to be a major issue in our country largely due to the fact that WE MAKE IT ONE! The sooner we stop making it an issue, then the sooner we will eventually stop seeing it at all, and we will all just be the people that we are instead of the ethnicities we came from.

Unpaid Internships

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/

In most of the world when a person works long hours without pay, it is referred to as “slavery” or “forced labor.” For white people this process is referred to as an internship and is considered an essential stage in white development.

The concept of working for little or no money underneath a superior has been around for centuries in the form of apprenticeship programs. Young people eager to learn a trade would spend time working under a master craftsman to learn a skill that would eventually lead to an increase in material wealth.

Using this logic you would assume that the most sought after internships would be in areas that lead to the greatest financial reward. Young White people, however, prefer internships that put them on the path for careers that will generally result in a DECREASE of the material wealth accumulated by their parents.

For example, if you were to present a white 19 year old with the choice of spending the summer earning $15 an hour as a plumber’s apprentice or making $0 answering phones at Production Company, they will always choose the latter. In fact, the only way to get the white person to choose the plumbing option would be to convince them that it was leading towards an end-of-summer pipe art installation.

White people view the internship as their foot into the door to such high-profile low-paying career fields as journalism, film, politics, art, non-profits, and anything associated with a museum. Any white person who takes an internship outside of these industries is either the wrong type of white person or a law student. There are no exceptions.
If all goes according to plan, an internship will end with an offer of a job that pays $24,000 per year and will consist entirely of the same tasks they were recently doing for free. In fact, the transition to full time status results in the addition of only one new responsibility: feeling superior to the new interns.

When all is said and done, the internship process serves the white community in many ways. First, it helps to train the next generation of freelance writers, museum curators, and director’s assistants. But more importantly, internships teach white children how to complain about being poor.

So when a white person tells you about their unpaid internship at the New Yorker, it’s not a good idea to point out how the cost of rent and food will essentially mean that they are PAYING their employer for the right to make photocopies. Instead it’s best to say: “you earned it.” They will not get the joke.

Attention Nashvillians!

If you live in or around Nashville and are not poor (like me) GO to this show tonight!

MIracles DO Happen!

God Bless the Stars and Stripes, Britney is healed! Look at that girl, just look at her! She looks NORMAL. Woohoo! She sounds normal. Woohoo! And look at those babies. Adorable!

I have no idea when I turned from a Britney hater to a Britney supporter, but I've pretty much decided that was her plan all along. This is what I think.....Britney never went crazy! It was all an act (she should get an Oscar!). It was just a huge long term publicity stunt. Britney pretends to go crazy, go to rehab, and turn British, everyone feels sorry for her, and the haters convert. BRILLIANT!

She may act like a simple girl from Louisiana, but this girl's got brains y'all.

A Time to Read

A review of a few of the books I've read recently.

Jodi Picoult is, very simply, one of my favorite authors. Her books all contain some serious social issue (this one contains a school shooting- that doesn't ruin anything I promise). Her books are very well written, with no detail left unresearched. They are usually fairly lengthy ( best guess 300 pages +) but they are such page turners that they can definitely be read in jsut a few days.

Check out this book here

The book that I just finished over the weekend was In Her Shoes.

I think I was a little behind the boat on this one ( i haven't seen the movie either!), but i really liked this book. This was the first of Jennifer Weiner's books that I have read, but I think I'll definitely be checking out more.

I dont have a sister (which could be surprising considering that two out of the three books i've posted on are about sisters) but I still felt like this book was relatable. It was funny at times, it made me want to jump in the book and punch Maggie at other times. I kind of wanted to hit Rose for forgiving Maggie for all the things that she does, but I guess that's the sisterly bond that I dont totally understand. I've heard the book is better, but I guess I'm gonna have to run out and rent the movie now too. Check out this book

here

9021oh no she didn't!

TMZ reports that Tori Spelling has pulled out of the new 90210 because she doesn't feel that $20k an episode is enough money.


Dear Tori,
A lot of people dont make $20k a YEAR much less in a week! You should be ashamed of yourself. And, if we're being honest, it's not like you have any better offers.

Olympics!

I'm not Chinese (duh) but my little heartstrings were pulled last night when the Chinese men's gymnastics team won the gold. That must be an incredible feelings when you wint he high honor in your sport for your country while in your country.

I just love it when people win the gold. Congrats Chinese men!

You Wouldn't Be Pointing So Hard If It Were You

Everyone should really, really lay off John Edwards. The man made a mistake, yes. He lied about it, yes. But he lied to US because we had no reason to know. It's a family matter, his family knew about it, and his family has forgiven him, so there is no place for the public to even be involved. It's not like he had an affair with this woman in the oval office while he was the sitting President.

Infidelity happens for many reasons, many of which can't be explained, and it is HARD for the people who go through it, and even harder when they think (or KNOW) that everyone is talking about their personal family situation. John Edwards is no longer in the Presidential race. Why is this even news?

I say this to the journalists who are knocking down his door and tearing his name to shreds: If it were you ( and it IS many of you), you wouldn't want people putting your personal business all over the news. Leave the man alone.

Don't Bite the Hand that Feeds You....

Perez Hilton reports about oldest Jonas brother, Kevin, wearing a shirt that says "Team Demi and Selena"
http://perezhilton.com/2008-08-10-sending-a-message-to-miley

Uh, Dear Jonas Brothers, lets not forget that you guys were completely unheard of until a little over a year ago when one Miley Cyrus put you on her best of both worlds tour and you coincidentally blew up. Me thinks someone needs to learn a little loyalty and cut out the high school bull crap. Nick is only 15 so it's a bit more appropriate for him, but Kevin, aren't you old enough to drink? Stop picking on a 15 year old!