Just when the world was breaking apart over the Ashton Kutcher/Demi Moore rumors, we can be at ease this Saturday morning:They attended a Kabbalah service together.

Kabbalah is still around…? I haven’t seen those little red string bracelets in a long, long time..

Ouch! An article slams Katy Perry, and a lot more: Katy Perry - The Boredom Of Whoredom

While it’s a nasty article, it’s extremely well written and after I was done, I couldn’t help but nodding in some sort of ‘old man’ sense of agreement. 

The quote from TakiMag’s article that stuck with me the most: 

Today, Katy Perry is married to former sex addict Russell Brand and dances around a Candyland gameboard dressed like Bettie Page shooting whipped cream out of her tits. Millions of little girls love her, filling arenas to max capacity. Some of them even got up onstage the other night to sing along:

Last Friday night
We went streaking in the park
Skinny dipping in the dark
Then had a ménage à trois

I have a son now… I have a child. A true child. Someone who will hear these words and maybe ask me what they mean. So forgive me for my sudden prudishness, but now I question some of pop culture. 

When I walk around a store and see lingerie-type underwear for young girls I wonder if pedophiles are behind it.. I wonder if the guy looking at my son at a supermarket is … someone that should stay away. I am protective. Which is natural. So when  I hear Katy Perry’s words, I think different as a dad than I would has a non-dad.

But sorry… I still like Ke$ha. Don’t know why. 

In the end, I just hope my son likes my taste in music: Billy Joel, Native American, Rag Time, Simple Plan, Lady Gaga, 70s and .. yes, Kesha. 

Once again, someone famous making us all feel good about ourselves.

Megan Fox says she’s too poor to have kids..Eh?

Out with a bang. Leslie Nielsen’s tombstone shows his enduring humor. But hopefully not odor.

The website parapolitical with a great example in the form of an image of our modern day news media:

… we expect the press to provide transparency and accountability to the people to whom governments are ultimately accountable so people are well-informed …

- Barack Obama extols the enlightened role the press play in American civic discourse (2006)

Freedom of Press: the founding myth of financial democratic politics?

 How true this all is.. One day in the life of media coverage of events.. and this occurs.

The big websites all following to the minute the updates from the Royal wedding—I got a few news alerts yesterday that the news alert writers should be ashamed of. Even more, I got an breaking news alert on my phone that the Royal palace last night ordered dozens of pizzas, delivered to the privileged few by London police.

I respect Brian Williams and NBC NIGHTLY NEWS a bit more, though.. at least he turned the jet around and they became the only news network to do on the ground and all-around good reporting on the calamity in the South..

But this CNN snippet—of a real screenshot of a day in the news—is very telling of how far our celebrity culture has been intertwined with news of the day..

Once again, tip of the coal rake to parapoliticalfor some good image for thought.

…and it’s for all to see.

What I originally thought was inventive marketing seems to have spiraled out of control..

Just as CBS fired Sheen from TWO AND A HALF MEN, Chuck took to a roof waving a machete..

Just as I thought the machete was just one last attempt to get some attention, he appeared on the internet, looking more like a corpse than a man, looking less like a star of a hit TV sitcom, and more like SKELETOR from the 1980s cartoon HE-MAN..

Is this the light of fame shining down on a soul of someone who has no shame? Is this, perhaps, the ultimate of greed profit in the sin city of Tinseltown..? Is this the image of a man who will one day have a star on the Hollywood walk of fame? .. shame.


No, this is the image of a troubled soul, empty and void of common sense at the moment.. And the world’s watching. But then again, all the world’s a stage.. And Charlie Sheen may be one of its best players..

…and the face of a very aged man. Or half man?