I go through life like a Karate Kid

I just finished watching 'Britney Spears: For the Record' and I only have a few thoughts. First, I dare you to watch it and not come away with even just a slight like for her. She was funny and very human. Second, you can't watch and not feel a tiny bit bad for her. Sure she chose her career but when you see the documentary you see a very real perspective of what life under constant scrutiny is like. It was interesting to watch the fans and paparazzi going nuts outside Britney's car and to see her and her carmates not react at all. Imagine living in a world where you can never really be alone ever...my skin crawls just thinking about it.




So in the face of it all I think at her age she's coming out of the negativity quite well. My favorite part was towards the end when she says she doesn't feel like a victim of her life and she chooses to be a happy person even on her bad days. I watched the doc to see exactly what Britney would say about the past two years and came away oddly inspired.

Margaritas: inspiring impulsivness since...awhile

So apparently what I have come to is being so curious as to whether Heidi and Spencer's wedding was legit that I google search it. And apparently the world as a whole has come to being so awesome that all I had to was type her name in my google bar and the first hit to come up was an article addressing just this. And so, everyone else, if you too were puzzled by this conundrum, now you too can have you answer. What a great wedding story. "Hey, remember that time we were drinking margaritas in Mexico and we all of a sudden decided to symollically exchange vows? I mean, by no way was that inspired by the presence of MTV's cameras or Us mag! I was just taken by the tequila and the Mexico and I looked at you and thought, one hour from now is the time to say a bunch of stuff about how cool I think you are in front of someone!" Can I get a free symbolic wedding this way? Like maybe I tip off the local paper I may or may not be doing shots at the local watering hole when I suddenly decide to declare my love to James Bond and then bam, we're symbollicaly joined as one. It probably won't be too hard to clear up legally then when I get fickle on New Year's and decide to declare my love to Batman after a lot of cheap wine. Thanks, Heidi and Spencer. Once again you've made life a little more cheapened.

Empire Records quandry

Did anybody else ever wonder why in the middle of the scene where she's calming down Cory after it's revealed that she does speed after it's revealed that Gina did Rex Manning on top of the copy machine, Deb suddenly goes to the bathroom?

Just askin'.

Text-o-rama

I didn't think that another cell phone commercial could ever replace Lauren and Brody's ATT spot as my favorite cell phone commercial (L.B.H., I didn't think I'd ever have favorite cell phone commercials) but leave it to The Prince of Darkness to one-up The Hills:

It's Black Friday, Charlie Brown

Nothing epitomizes America like mass murdering of birds, stuffing one's self beyond belief, and then getting so excited about some great "deals" at Walmart that they trample people. Seriously...I'm so ashamed.

Girl Meets Topanga

I wish.

Topanga Lawrence, or, the lovely lady who played Topanga Lawrence, has been trying to get in my brain for a few years now.

First- the names. Topanga AND Danielle Fishel (which I have been incorrectly pronouncing so it rhymes). Try to get THOSE out of your head. Can't can ya?

Second- the hair. Nuff said.

Ms. Fishel's first attempt was through a humorous piece of fiction I read on the internet called The Topanga Files. It has been awhile but I believe it was letters from a Topanga stalker. Of course, I can no longer find the Topanga Files on the internet. Damn.

In her second attempt, Danielle got arrested for DUI becoming another in a long line of long forgotten celebrities who comes back into the public eye through an arrest. Hey guys- buzzed driving IS drunk driving.

Next- my brother and/or sister in law told me about The Dish. "It is like The Soup but for girls" was how they described it to me. Loving The Soup, I wanted to check it out. But my memory is shorter than a goldfish's, so it wasn't until Brett Bretterson thoughtfully DVRed it for me so I could watch it at my leisure that I got to see the genius that is:

Danielle Fishel. Funny Commentator Lady.

If you get the Style network- watch it. I am falling in love with Topanga all over again. So I was thinking of maybe mentioning it on the old b-log when SUDDENLY, THIS WEEK............

Danielle did a plug for OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH at the end of her show. This girl can do no wrong. I am on this kick now where I am desparately searching for products, companies, celebrities, fund raisers, events, races, whatever that benefit ovarian cancer research.

For YEARS it has been breast cancer this and wear pink that- this is very important- I am aware. Don't get me wrong- I understand that we needed to raise awareness and get funding and all that ish, but now I think the fact that EVERYTHING produced in the month of October in pink means we have done a GREAT job in building the awareness. I think this is an easier task than for ovarian cancer because it does affect so many women (and men for that matter), so bravo, thanks Susan G. Kommen's family, lets take this energy and direct some towards ovarian cancer. First and foremost, a reliable screening needs to be developed to detect this cancer. Let's get on it.

Cut back to Topanga love- at the end of the Dish this week, Danielle gave a shout out to run for her, a race/walk to benefit ovarian cancer research. This definitely put her over the wall of blogworthy versus not blogworthy. Thanks, Danielle! Let me know if I can knit you a teal scarf!

And the rest of you- look into the battle against ovarian cancer. It is a very scary thing because it is very hard to detect in early stages. I expect to see a hell of a lot more teal next September- yeah- ovarian cancer has a month too!

Bear Necessities

It's official! Ash had the baby and named him...Bronx Mowgli. It's like honey how it rolls off the tongue, huh? Seriously, I like odd names and I appreciate the shout out to Rudyard Kipling but wowza. I guess after he masters the art of flat ironing at the age of 2 and begins hiding his eyes behind serious bangs, he'll probably be able to totally work the name.