The WWE Universe was shocked to hear that current World Heavyweight Champion Adam “Edge” Copeland was hanging up his spandex due to injuries.
Thank You Edge and Sometimes It’s Not About You
Category: Seriously WTF?
Let’s Reward Bad Behaviour!
Hip-hop singer Chris Brown made headlines last week when he trashed the dressing room of ABC’s Good Morning America.
No Flowers For you!
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/story/2011/03/16/nb-riverview-florist-1009.html
This story caught my eye and I felt compelled to say something about it.
Obviously, same sex marriage is a hot button issue for many people, even though we live in a society where homosexuality is part of the norm. So much so, that Glee’s Kurt & Blaine can share a sexy liplock on primetime & nobody bats an eyelash.
This issue particularly stuck out as for the last year, I have been helping a friend plan her wedding to her longtime partner. One chapel refused to conduct the ceremony but otherwise, no one has said “boo” about it. Obviously ASH Multimedia will shoot a same sex wedding, as we support all relationships, as long as they are positive.
Which brings me to my point. Religious beliefs are great, everyone needs to believe in something and kudos to you for finding what works for you. However, when you open your doors as a business, I don’t care if you worship Snuggles, the German speaking cat, your religious beliefs cannot affect your business.
Let’s reverse the situation; say these flowers were for a funeral & the widowed spouse was the same sex. Would this florist turn them away again? What about date night flowers? Does this florist check the gender of the plants’ intended? For all she knows, hundreds of her sacred Christian blossoms have gone to *gasp* the gays!
The Bible is man’s interpretation of God’s words. While it’s an excellent guide to follow, it’s not finite. Many animals have shown to engage in same sex unions, so who are we to say that it’s not just another part of the norm. We are not God, nor do we truly understand his feelings on any one subject. All we SHOULD do is continue to love one another until whatever higher power chooses to tell us what’s what. The flowers are already cut, does it really matter who carries them in their final hours?
Isn’t Insanity Fun?
Forget the crisis in Libya, there is something far more important in the world; the downfall of Charlie Sheen!
After all, what’s more socially relevant than an overpaid crack addict calling the media to tell us about his latest chicanery?!
No Kenneth Tong, I won’t aim for size 0
As week two of my weight loss challenge begins, I was pleased with myself and horrified with the world around me.
My first week of burn produced a six pound loss, thanks in part to the flu haha. Either way, it’s a positive step. I’ve taken to drinking more water & I’ve cut out almost all caffeine. Not to mention that the burn program is hard, so the feeling of accomplishment is worth the shin splints & the sweat.
Enter Kenneth Tong, the “self help” guru who has earned the ire of Gordon Ramsay & Simon Cowell for his size zero campaign. Tong claims that the tiny size is the standard for beauty & self control. Except that not everyone can be a size zero. Some body types are just not built to be a size zero and pushing these women may just kill them.
The problem with these idiots is that even though we know they’re idiots, the seed has been planted in the minds of women everywhere. They’ll mock him publically but then loathe in private because they aren’t the elusive size zero.
We can preach that women need to discover real beauty, regardless of weight but let’s be frank; no one’s listening. Everyone still wants to be thin. So, let’s promote realistic goals; no shakes, no fads, just a combination of smarter food choices, excercise and accountability. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be in the best shape for your body type, as long as you do it safely & aim for a realistic goal.
My status brings change!
A recent Facebook status change has prompted controversy & no, this time it’s not about bras or purses.
A request to “end violence against children” by changing your display picture to a cartoon character has prompted all sorts of controversy, ranging from rumors that it was started by pedophiles to people speaking out against the idea that a FB status will bring social change.
How can it be pedophilia if all the kids are grown?
GQ Magazine’s Glee-ful cover had tongues wagging this week as fans were treated to cast members dressed scandalously. The Parent Teacher Council claimed the shots were “borderline pedophilia” as stars Corey Monteith, Lea Michelle and Diana Aragon play teenagers on the Fox dramedy. The PTC says the men’s magazine is promoting the sexualization of young people.
While one can applaud the PTC for speaking out against the objectification of children, Monteith, Michelle and Aragon are all adults (Monteith is 19 and his ladies are both 24). Rolling Stone featured an equally as salacious Glee cover earlier this year where a draft swept up Michelle’s skirt, exposing her panties. The cover was met with rave reviews & no PTC complaints.
While the actors do play teenagers, they aren’t teenagers themselves. This isn’t the first time an adult playing a teen has posed provocatively for a magazine. Jessica Biel famously posed topless for Gear magazine in an attempt to get fired from 7th Heaven. Another 7th Heaven alum Ashlee Simpson posed in Maxim’s Blender Magazine promoting her first album (while still playing virginal Celia). Neither spread received flack. Not to mention that GQ is a men’s magazine. It’s not like these shots made their way into Teen Beat.
I’m surprised the PTC hasnt spoken out about nine year old Willow Smith, who has recently released her first music video. Surely that violates child labour laws. Either way, more people are talking about Glee, which makes Ryan Murphy very gleeful indeed.
For Sale: My Family’s Legacy
While surfing e-bay, I stumbled apon a listing for some World War II memorbilia. Namely, a man’s medals, logbook, cufflinks, medals and stripes. There were several auctions like this, apparently someone wants to sell off their late grandfather’s things and pocket the cash. There was another auction similar where someone was auctioning a longtime family heirloom, passed down over six generations because she wanted a vacation.
This angers and saddens me. My family has no real history to speak of. After my father’s untimely passing, a relative took most of our family possessions and ran. My mom doesn’t really talk much about my grandfathers (who both served in WWII) and it wasn’t until I married my husband that I really understood how important it is that you know where you came from. I’m rather sad that my daughters don’t have anything passed down to them besides an onyx ring and their great grandfather’s service cap. The fact that these people can’t see the value in something like that makes me sad. The medals are the worst, as Grampa risked life and limb to earn those stripes and medals. A museum would gladly take those off of your hands. I actually bid on something from this guy’s collection of auctions because it made me sad to see something that was likely once so prized being sold with unlocked iPhones and Justin Bieber’s hair.
I understand desperate times sometimes call for things we once loved to be sold but some things should be kept sacred IMO. My sister in law proudly wears her grandmother’s wedding rings and I imagine short of life saving surgery for one of her daughters, nothing would pry those things from her finger. I can’t imagine my husband putting his grandfather’s service cap on ebay. I would rather eat glass then sell my wedding rings. You get the idea.
While yes, they are just meager things, they are things that connect you to your roots and tell a story. Someday, Gramma and Grampa are long gone and the only thing that keeps them with us are the stories, the knicknacks and the treasures. Why give those things away?
I guess I don’t get it because the idea of family means so much to me. It wasn’t until I was a teenager until I felt like I was part of one and my husband entertains my constant need to build memories and traditions and all of the things that it seems were lost with my parents’ generation. Either way, I would hate to think that something I wore (or earned) and cared enough about to give to someone would end up auctioned off to a stranger, who would never know it’s true value.
Sticks and Stones and Glass Houses
In the wake of five teenage boys who committed suicide (a Rutgers University student most recently) as a response to bullying, the famous and infamous are speaking out.
After Ellen Degeneres’s passionate pleas to stop the hate; other celebs followed suit including pseudo-celebrity blogger Perez Hilton. This is all well and good, except that Hilton (real name Mario Lavandeira Jr) has made his notoriety as a cyber bully (who favours Miley Cyrus, Fergie, Vanessa Hudgens and Kristen Stewart as his favourite victims).
I understand that Hilton is a homosexual man and this cause hits close to home for him, but you can’t pick and choose who deserves to be bullied. This man often targets Miley Cyrus, a teenager 14 years his junior as a target and refers to her as “Slutty Cyrus”, a “skank” or “Mileybird the slut”. These childish taunts prompted 15 year old Phoebe Prince to take her life in January. Hilton offered nary a mention to teenage girls who may be living in a similar situation to Prince but continues to speak out to stop the bullying of LGBT teenagers. The message Hilton is sending is that while it’s wrong to bully LGBT teens, it’s okay to torture the crap out of straight teen girls.
It’s hard enough to be a teenager without the constant torment that comes from bullying. In this Facebook/blog/Twitter/text age, there is no escape. I was bullied in elementary school, but at least I could go home. Kids have no escape anymore. Social networking can be a deadly weapon in the hands of a bully, something Hilton knows very well. Hilton used YouTube to launch a campaign against Miss USA finalist Carrie Prejean (who said she was against gay marriage), encouraging people to call her a “c**t”. He also used Twitter to launch a childish tirade against Black Eyed Peas frontman Will.i.Am, whom he claimed punched him after Hilton reduced fellow Peas member to tears at the Muchmusic Video Awards and later called Will.i.Am a “f****t”. Hilton offered no apology to either Peas member for the slurs and continues to taunt them on his site.
While Hilton’s attempts to help LGBT teens is admirable, the fact is that he’s built his infamy on the tears of others. Unless he is willing to admit what he is and apologize to the men and women he’s hurt over the years and practice what he preaches, he’s no different then the kid in detention who writes an essay on being nice; everyone knows he doesn’t mean it and the kid who finally spoke out is getting a beatdown in the locker room. Hate is hate, regardless of who is on the receiving end and bullying needs to stop so that every single teenager can enjoy their high school years and look back on them fondly, instead of with the sadness that carries into adulthood.
***ASH Multimedia would like to remind everyone that bullying is WRONG and should never be tolerated. If you or someone you know at your school is being bullied, make sure you come forward. Tell a teacher, your principal or parents. If you don’t feel you can talk to them, remember the Kids Help Phone (1-800-668-6868). It’s not funny, or a game, or a joke. It’s CRUEL. Coming forward is not tattling or pussying out, it’s doing the right thing. Don’t let your friends or yourself be a victim.***
I need to win an Oscar so I can do my job better
Academy Award winner (& epic failure) Kevin Costner took to congress this week to talk about the after effects of the BP oil spill.
This begs the question: how is a guy who can barely do his day job well going to talk environmental science?
Seriously, were all the real scientists busy that day?
Celebrities moonlighting as people with actual jobs has become a really odd trend. Brad Pitt and his paramour Angelina Jolie are designing houses in New Orleans instead of an actual architect because he likes houses. John Travolta fancies himself a commercial pilot. Victoria Beckham is the lunch lady at son Brooklyn’s school, you get the idea.
I understand celebrity worship but there comes a time when we need to let the academically trained professionals do their job. You wouldn’t let Tom Cruise fly an F-18 Hornet into Afghanistan or Tori Spelling operate on your colon, so why allow a celebrity to talk science or build houses for the needy?
I understand things “seem real” when Oprah’s involved, but sometimes you’ve got to tell the celebs to make a movie & let the professionals do their job. I know I would make a terrible movie, just like I know Ashlee Simpson-Wentz was a terrible editor of Marie Claire. Let’s all go back to doing our day jobs, unless you’re Kevin Costner, you suck at your day job too. Perhaps you should look at acting classes instead of taking more science classes at DeVry.
The Misadventures of MHC 