We haven’t really heard from Tara Reid since May, when she partied a tooth out and started looking like a crazy ol’ cokehead, but it’ll be July tomorrow, everyone, so obviously it’s time to check in on this girl.  What could she possibly be doing these days, you might ask.  Oh, just attempting to steal shopping carts from the Walgreens, same old, same old:

Kooky Tara Reid has a bizarre way of making new friends in Atlanta while shooting the latest “American Pie” movie. The disheveled-looking actress stopped two strangers in a Walgreens parking lot over the weekend, a source said, to ask where the “nearest Mexican restaurant was. She was wearing torn jeans and a pink hoodie, despite the 90-degree heat. She was pushing a shopping cart with her dog in it.” While Reid’s parking-lot pals gave her directions, a Walgreens manager emerged and ordered Reid to return her cart. “She whined, ‘I’m just borrowing it,’ ” our amused spy said. But Atlanta, it seems, isn’t Hollywood. “Ma’am, please, we don’t have that many,” said the clerk, whom Reid argued with before ditching the cart, grabbing the dog, and storming off.

I’m not going to touch the fact that they’re shooting yet another American Pie, that’s just too much cinematic tragedy, but stealing shopping carts, really? That’s classic Tara.  It’s also classic Crazy Homeless Lady, but I think it might work just a little better for Tara. After all, she can do anything she dreams of, if she only dreams hard enough.

Real quick before we get started:  how shady does Aaron Carter look nowadays?  So shady, right?  Right.

Anyway, Aaron did an interview with OK! Magazine, and he talked about his friendship with Michael Jackson.  It’s a little too creepy for me to paraphrase, so just check out Aaron’s quote:

“I never talked about it… This is the first time. I do… I miss Michael… I have spent such incredible times with him. I did things with him that nobody else did… But I was also troubled about what he did to me. Yes, he gave me wine. I mean, I could have refused, but I was 15. He gave me cocaine. I felt weird about that and other stuff… We spoke afterwards, hours and hours, on the phone. I admired Michael, but his behaviour bothered me a lot. Then my mother called the police…”

Obviously, these could be total lies, but I’m inclined to believe Aaron here. It’s clear that he’s had some substance abuse issues for a good long while now, and he just went to rehab in January, so he might just be getting things off his chest.  Or he might be getting ready to drop a new album so he needs some publicity.  Or perhaps he’s back on meth and is just making up stories for funzies.  I don’t know, all I do know is that anything is possible when it comes to the wacky world of the Jackson family.

And you know what?  She deserves it. Lady Gaga might make my soul bleed at times, but it’s no surprise that she’s the top lady of the year. What I’m way more surprised by is the rest of the list.  Rolling Stone looked into things like album sales, YouTube hits, radio airplay, awards, and popularity on social media, and these are the top ten ladies of pop:

1. Lady GaGa
2. Taylor Swift
3. Rihanna
4. Britney Spears
5. Beyoncé
6. Katy Perry
7. Pink
8. Miley Cyrus
9. Ke$ha
10. Shakira

Is Taylor Swift still that popular? And I’m absolutely loving it, but how did Pink beat Miley and Ke$ha? And how did Shakira even make it on the list?  Do other people go to YouTube to listen to “Underneath Your Clothes” for hours on end too?

I know that you guys were on pins and needles, waiting to hear if your new favorite show, The Voice, was going to be coming back for a second season.  I know that you’ve even shed tears over it, just as you did when you saw the inspiring Frenchie Davis show her lovely face on your television once more.  Well, the wait is over, because it’s been confirmed:  The Voice is definitely coming back, as are all four original judges.  Be looking for it around the beginning of next year.

I’m actually kind of excited about this, in all honesty, because I did watch a couple episodes of this show and I loved it.  I didn’t stick it out and pick out favorite contestants and then lose faith in America like I did with American Idol, but I thought the audition process was really fun.  Mostly because you get to see up close what a shallow bitch and total hot mess Christina Aguilera is.  And doesn’t that sound like fun?

Will any of you guys be watching next year?

Is Selena Gomez hooking up with another dude? [The Superficial]

Joe Jonas’s first solo video. LOL. [Starpulse]

Angelina Jolie: coolest mom ever. [INFDaily]

Michael Jackson was Aaron Carter’s drug supplier? LOL! [Bossip]

Jonathan Rhys Meyers may have attempted suicide. [Cele|bitchy]

What star loves the way Kevin Bacon smells? [LA Times]

Why women are always buying panties. [The Frisky]

Amy Winehouse‘s website hacked, racist message left. [TMZ]

The Royal Couple on their way to the US RIGHT NOW. [Socialite Life]

Anderson Cooper confirms his sexuality. [OMGBlog]

What Lindsay‘s doing with her freedom. [Yeeeah]

Miley Cyrus goes braless, says it’s intentional. Wait ’til she’s thirty. She’ll be singing a different tune. [Amy Grindhouse]

Snow in the middle of a summer rainstorm. Amazing. [Caught on Set]

Which coach is not coming back for a second season of The Voice? [ICYDK]

Jada Pinkett-Smith talks about sex with Will Smith. [Bossip]

Who broke up a marriage? Which pop tart is getting back into acting? And whose scar is penance for his cheating ways? None of the answers are inside, because it’s time for More! Blind!! Items!!!

Put on your Thinking Gloves and talk to me in the comments downstairs.

Here’s an especially juicy scandal:

What Oscar-winning actor is already being blasted as a deadbeat dad BEFORE his baby’s even born?! The brooding actor hasn’t ponied up for his baby mama’s prenatal care because he’s been too busy romancing a hot new gal!

The Internet already has this narrowed down to either Benicio del Toro or Sean Penn. Good work, Internet! Which is it?

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