So Sinker’s new book, The F—king Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanuel, just had a release party, and Jeff Tweedy attended. (So did the real Mayor Emanuel! Wow!) As per Sinker’s request, Tweedy was ready with an entire set of Black Eyed Peas songs. Well, OK, three songs.
Did you know that Joan Jett is Miley Cyrus‘ idol? See, V Magazine is doing this “Heroes” issue this month, and Miley nominated Joan, so they got to have a little chit chat:
“People see me as this perfect Disney star, and the moment I put out a record that says ‘I’m not 11 years old anymore,’ people look down on me,” Cyrus said. “That’s why I have always looked up [to] you. When you came out people were shocked that there was a chick that wanted to rock as hard as the guys.”
Jett, in turn, expressed her admiration for the former Disney star, who has it much harder with the press than she did.
“I was thinking to myself … how difficult it must be to lead your life as a teenager with the paparazzi and the amount of press you’re surrounded by,” she told Cyrus. “I thought to myself, ‘Wow that was kind of a blessing that we didn’t have that stuff when I was growing up in The Runaways.’ ”
Said Cyrus: “I love that you never apologized for who you were. It’s something I had to learn. … I’m sick of feeling as if I owe someone an apology for being who I am.”
I’m stuck between two feelings on this little excerpt, and one’s a whole lot more traumatizing than the other. Because I can definitely see how these two could get along or have some sort of mutual appreciation. But guys, this handful of quotes? It’s given me a lot more respect for Miley. And respect for Miley Cyrus is just not something that I know how to deal with.
The nerve of some people, right? When you leave your house in Canada and jet off to your house in Florida, all the while leaving your house keys in your unlocked car outside the Canada house, it’s like, who expects something like this to happen? Especially when you’re as famous as Celine Dion. What ever happened to a little thing called respect?
Well, apparently, it’s dead, because while Celine and her husband, Rene, were down in Florida, some guy just invited himself inside their home, courtesy of the keys in the unlocked car, natch. While he was inside, he went ahead and nibbled on some pastries and, just after he started to run himself a nice bath, he was arrested:
Laval police spokesman Franco Di Genova said the suspect was getting ready to take a nice hot bath when police arrived with a canine unit.
“He opened the water faucets, was pouring a nice warmish bath (and) he even managed to eat some pastry that was in the fridge,” Di Genova said.
Di Genova said police worked their way through the house, starting with the basement and finally confronted the man on the main floor.
“The suspect was coming down the big staircase and was asking: ‘Hey, guys what are you doing here?’” Di Genova said.
“So the officers replied: ‘What are you doing here?’ and they proceeded to put him under arrest.”
As I’m sure you’ve heard, Kate Gosselin and her awful show are on the brink of being taken away from us forever, and not a moment too soon. It’s been a good few years that we’ve had to hear about all the baby drama and midlife crises, but at last, it’s coming to an end. OR IS IT?
Here’s the most terrifying Kate Gosselin quote I’ve ever read:
“I want to stay in TV because I feel comfortable there, it’s an exciting life. I’d really love to find a place of my own on a talk show or something like that. I’ll be back. This is too much fun not to find a way back.”
You can’t threaten us like this, Kate. We will not be bullied. Your time has come, so go gracefully. Fade away, softly and quietly, and we will remember you with fondness in our hearts and smiles on our faces. Right, you guys?
After years of practice, I’ve just finally figured out how to intonate “Mos Def” in such a way that friends can tell whether I mean Mos Def the rapper, or “mos’ deff,” the idiomatic turn-of-phrase conveying my assent. (In certain music-related convos, things can get confusing!)
But that’s all out the window, now that the musician, actor, and activist is retiring his name. It’s a name from another place, another time—a name given to him that he, in turn, “built and cultivated over the years.”
“It’s time to, y’know, expand and move on,” he tells Peter Rosenberg of MTV. “Also, I didn’t want to deal with having any moniker, or any separation between my—the self that I see and know myself as—”
“—Exactly, and what people refer to you as,” Rosenberg concludes.
Mos Def’s new name for 2012: Yasiin.
So now, when my friends ask me if I want to meet them for pizza or whatever, I guess my go-to answer will be “Yasiin!” and they’ll be all, “What.”
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