Mind Your Business

I'm sitting here watching Headline News and the story about people criticizing "mommy bloggers" (aren't we past that term yet?) for posting and tweeting about their personal tragedies. The story is about how @Military_Mom tweeted about her 2 year-old drowning in the pool. They also interviewed Mama Spohr about reaching out to the blogosphere when her family lost Madeline. It really irks me. People who don't understand the community and relationships that are formed via social media really should stay out of it. If Military Mom wanted to reach out to her online support system during a time of turmoil, then that's her prerogative. To those who have a problem with it? Here's an idea -

Unfollow her!

I Just Don't Get It

Why are celebrities still making sex tapes and allowing people to take nude photos of them? I mean it's 2009 people. Everything's digital and that means nothing and no one is sacred. Photos are taken on camera phones and emailed to the world or at the very least uploaded to Facebook. Videos are put up on YouTube (at least until they are taken down) and let's not even talk about the viral forwarding of emails. So just in the past week when I heard of nude photos of Cassie and Rhianna being leaked and a "sex tape" of Hoopz, I was aghast. Have they not learned anything from the unfortunate celebs before them who fell to the same fate? Or maybe they want the publicity. Any publicity is good publicity, right? Just ask Ray J.

Doin' It Big In Texas

Day 1 of our fabulous Dallas bloggerazzi trip is nearing an end. After a long but fun day of seeing how the other half lives, I am finally in bed, wiped. We spent all day doing a photo shoot and video shoot for the American Heart Association's Go Red for Women's latest campaign. It was a total gas having our hair and makeup done and going through multiple wardrobe changes and having a stylist primp and fuss over us for hours. The AHA staff was absolutely wonderful, as was our comedian of a photographer, Paul Schiefer. To end the day we all enjoyed a delicious dinner at Cibus. And I am beat. I can understand why Beyonce always needs to vacation in St. Tropez - this lifestyle is postively exhausting.

Disturbia

Did you all read the summary of the police affidavit from the officer on the scene after the Chris Brown and Rihanna incident? It's shocking. If the statements are true - and I have to assume they are because hopefully Rihanna wouldn't lie to police - then Chris B. has serious issues. And I would venture to say that she does too because she's supposedly back with him. I mean she's 21 for crying out loud. Can't one of her family members or friends let her know that she absolutely doesn't need to put up with that? That she has the world at her fingertips and that she just needs to let him go?

As for him - I hope he gets help. I really do. Up until this incident, he had the world at his fingertips too. But just like that, because of an angry rage over a freakin' text message, he will have a criminal record. He probably is the product of an abusive household as he's said in the past, but it's unfortunate that his past manifested in this way. No Michael Phelps Special Treatment for him. Nor should there be. I'm no therapist but it sounds to me like they have dependency and enabling issues.

What a mess.