Trying to keep the shirt from sticking to the moobs, eh?

You are still hot! Some people have moobs and a belly, some people don’t. It’s all good.

However, if you can’t help but be insecure about it, I have a few suggestions about that and some other things:

1. Change it! You don’t like it, so what are you going to do about it? Change it. Work those moobs off!

2. Put your moobs and soul into the Dancing With The Stars competition. Put your ALL into it. I notice that you seem a little shy and embarrassed about dancing. If you were not shy and embarrassed about having cameras all up and through your family’s lives, you shouldn’t be embarrassed now. Look silly. Work hard. Have fun. If you are going to do the damn thing, DO. THE. DAMN. THING.

3. Stop being unsure. You CAN do it. You have the chance to win, and you can do it if you really try. And along the way, the moobs will disappear. Win-win!

4. Stop being “a Kardashian“. You are Robert. All cameras are on you, now. Stop talking about them. Forget that they are in the audience. Forget they exist. Stop comparing yourself to the others. Sure, you did better than Kim. Now what? Now, do better than YOU! Make your own mark. Who knows where this can lead you, and it’s ALL yours.

5. Quit the reality show. Why? See number 4. You don’t seem to truly enjoy it. It is not your purpose. It’s not your dream. It has distracted you (and me on numerous occasions) from realizing and achieving personal dreams and goals. You don’t need it. I don’t need it. No one watching TV needs that show. We really don’t. There is nothing valuable and substantial coming from that show.

6. Accept the moobs. Accept the tummy. At least for now. They are there, they are queer, get used to it. They will be there tomorrow. And the next day. So stop sweating it and just do your thing, until you work them off. You’re still hot either way, and you have a great attitude lurking beneath the BS. Luckily, dancing is a perfect exercise, so as long as you commit to it you wont have to work in the boring gym. You get to dance around with Cheryl, every guy and gal’s dream. She’s friggin’ hot too. Hold her close. Dip her gently. Do whatever she tells you to do. Enjoy touching her body and dancing with her. As Ru Paul advises, “don’t fuck it up”.

I rarely ever watch the Kardashian show. From what I’ve seen, you’ve been searching for yourself. Sure dancing is hard to do, but if you like it, give yourself a chance to love it too. It may not be “your thing”, but it can definitely be “a thing”.

Good luck! I like you. Now, just give me a reason, besides being a kardashian or kim’s little brother, to vote for you.

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“I can be a shark! My whole house is great. I can do anything good. I like my school. I like anything. I like my dad. I like my cousins. I like my aunts. I like my Allisons. I like my moms. I like my sisters. … I like my hair. I like my haircuts. I like my pajamas. I like my stuff. I like my room. I like my whole house. My whole house is great. I can do anything good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I can do anything good, better than anyone!”

Sounds good to me!

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That doesn’t even make sense. He thinks that your mom is a devil whore that’s going to hell for running the city into the grave because, in his opinion – she’s a devil whore that’s going to hell for running the city into the grave. Got it now? A pretty girl should always have brains to back it up.

And the 3:30 mark, is that your impression of gayness? Or your impression of homophobia? I’m confused. Then you said “let’s go”…as if you were going to fight him. Learn to pick your battles. He’s a 47 year old bald man. He would beat your little dumpy inflexible ass. Don’t front like a big shot for the cameras. Big shots end up looking like chumps. Case in point.

I read the news today, Bristol. Which one, do you ask?  Most of them…with a great appreciation for the press, for the media. All of them. Any of them that has been in front of me over all these years. Specifically, the NY Daily News. I saw that a well paid public relations representative offered a statement defending your actions as self-defense: “[she] was approached in a confrontational and inappropriate manner when two men aggressively shouted expletives aimed at her in reference to her mother. Bristol responded to the unprovoked verbal assault by calmly standing her ground and defending her family.”

So…3 snaps in Z formation is a calm defense tactic?

Hated it!

Your rep also mention that “the situation ended with no incident, and accusing her of homophobia is completely unfounded and totally misstates her views.” Actually, the situation was an incident in itself, then it ended. Tell her also that totally adding “completely” and “totally” in front of words does not make the sentence and more completely true. And that you, being considered homophobic is not necessarily totally and completely unfounded.

Your “self defense” Zorro snap in Z formation appeared to be very homophobic. And its not a far fetch to believe you are homophobic because you have been raised by Sarah Palin, self-proclaimed homophobic, and your sister, Willow Palin is clearly fond of using the phrase “your [sic] gay” and “your [sic] such a faggot” as insults when “sticking up for [your] family”. So why would anyone believe that you would not also use homosexuality in another case of “sticking up for [your] family”?

You questioned if a man dislikes your mother because he’s gay. I’m sure that can be a reason. I can admit to not being a fan of Sarah Palin because she supports regulated discrimination against me and others like me, despite us being fellow tax-paying Americans. That’s not my only reason, nor primary reason. I have a feeling that wasn’t the Palin Heckler’s only reason either, but you didn’t ask “Why? Because she’s a woman in politics?” or “Why? Because she’s a republican?”. You didn’t ask if it was because she embarrassed the state of Alaska while representing their state. You didn’t ask if it was because he was jealous of her media attention. You didn’t ask if it was because she described the duties of the Vice President incorrectly. You didn’t ask if it was because she bullshitted her way through questions about Supreme Court rulings. You didn’t ask if it was because of Tina Fey‘s SNL Sarah Palin skits. You didn’t ask if it was because the media “wrongfully” and relentlessly made fun of her and portrayed her as a blubbering fool (though, the portrayal was totally and completely accurate).

Of all things….OF ALL THINGS YOU COULD THINK OF…You said “Is it because you are a homosexual?” YOU CHOSE his sexuality as a reason and chose it based on ASSumptions. You didn’t even ask if it was because he was bald, which was CLEARLY more VISIBLE than who he sleeps in his private time. That guy he was with wasn’t even his boyfriend. You asked him a question, and then you answered it for him with statement-question, ASSuming that the primary reason he must not like your mother is because he’s gay.

I am assuming that this is because your mother hates gay people…otherwise, why would someone hate her just because they are gay, unless they thought she hated them first?

If you still don’t think you are homophobic. Read this document of you and your sister’s Facebook banter. It’s full of slurs and insults, just the way you like it: IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY.

Bristol sweetie, let me give you some totally and completely good advice:

1. YOU’RE, is a grammatical contraction, or short for YOU ARE.

2. YOUR, is used for possession.

3. You should never talk badly about YOUR “baby daddy” on Facebook, for the sake of the son you two share together. Once you put something on the internet, it is there forever. You do not need him growing up and reading about how you spoke ill of his father. You have a baby, now do your best to be mature about it. No more high school antics.

4. Don’t refer to YOUR baby’s father as a “baby daddy”. It sounds like something a bird would say. Bird…like a chickenhead…skank…trashy. It’s more mature to say “baby’s father”, especially if you are trying to appear respectable. Facebook arguments are trashy enough, don’t take it any lower by telling your opponents “you’ll be as successful as my baby daddy”.

5. YOUR mom‘s show sucked donkey balls…for many people. Accept it. That is why it wasn’t picked up for another season. I know you love her and support her, and I think you should only tell her good things about herself. Tell her that she looked beautiful tv, that she’s the best mom, and that she’s super smart. Everyone is not always going to feel the same way about her though. Some people will think SHE sucks donkey balls. That’s okay too. Understand that they have the right to their opinions, as do you, and that you can’t force them to think otherwise. You especially can’t sway their opinions if you act like you have no home-training on the internet. Your behavior is a reflection of her child rearing skills. It was bad enough that during the presidential elections, the teenage daughter of a republican vice president candidate, who publicly supported abstinence-only sex education, ended up pregnant and was part of the downfall of her political career. Make it up to her. Act like you have some goddamn sense, already.

6. The next time a heckler is bothering you, just IGNORE THEM. Don’t walk up to them and try to question them, you’re not Oprah. Don’t go to war with them in Facebook status messages. Don’t speak of it on twitter. Just ignore them. Everyone is not going to like you. That’s life. Get over it. You can’t do anything about that. A popular quote says “It is better to be thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove all doubt”. Even if you are a fool, honey, don’t prove it by heckling the hecklers back. Read this one to Willow, as well.

6. YOUR sister, Willow, uses language that would make people assume that she hates gay people. Tell her to stop. It’s not cool. It’s lame. And she should feel embarrassed to portray herself as a discriminator. Especially when she went all gung ho on people for what she probably perceived as discrimination against her family.

7. Since Sarah’s kooky political platforms, and your ironic teenage pregnancy skyrocketed you into the spotlight, YOU’RE going to need to learn the difference between what you WANT to do/say or what you SHOULD do/say. Let the SHOULD take the lead.

8. Don’t even bother with the “I’m not homophobic, some of my friends are gay” line. It’s the homophobic’s motto. The only thing you can do to unlink your name with homophobia is to become a lesbian yourself. Better yet, let your sister be the lesbian, since you’ve got the teen mom thing covered. Some of the most homophobic people are really just closeted gays. Feeling attracted to the same sex makes them feel uncomfortable and angry with themselves, especially if their own family makes derogatory remarks or discriminate against gays. It hurts to hate yourself, so instead they take the anger they have towards themselves, and exert it onto an external forces. Many times, these external forces are representations of what they hate in themselves. The most homophobic people tend to be gay. People who hate their moms grow up to be just like them. Haters hate haters.

9. You are not going to clear your name as a teen mom. EVER. So stop with the “abstinence is the best policy” Public Service Announcements. No one wants to hear someone who obviously has had sex and who probably still does, tell them not to do it. You are not a believable spokesperson, especially because you’ve lied about your sexual experiences before. “What is done, is done, and cannot be undone”, so move on. Work on being the best mom you can be. Set proper examples. Be more realistic for our evolving society, and advocate the importance of safe sex and full fledge sex education. Be different from your mom. Speak with your own voice. You don’t have to keep telling the world how abstinent you are to prove it, or redeem yourself. It’s none of their business anyway.

10. Consider being an advocate for gay civil rights and doing PSAs against homophobia. Admit that you were wrong for your past behavior in regards to appearing homophobic. Mention how you did not realize how offensive terms like “that’s gay” and “faggot” felt to others because you just did not think it all the way through. Acknowledge that even if it wasn’t your intent to, you were behaving homophobically. Make a vow to not use phrases and terms that are derogatory to a particular group of people and to support equal civil rights for all Americans. Do this, regardless of how you feel about being a lesbian yourself. Do this because it is the right thing to do. As the child of a politician, you should understand this: “United We Stand, Divided We Fall”.

I truly wish you luck. You can do so much more with your star power if you just channel it in the right direction. YOUR direction. Not your mother’s.

I’m so mad that the video below made me laugh. People are crazy lmao.

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JR Martinez is a part of the cast! Love him! Image via Wikipedia

I’d like to be considered for that lineup.

Dancing With The Stars made me proud today, because they were extra, extra GAY! Even fashionisto of Queer Eye For the Straight Guy, Carson Kressley was there to confirm that “Gay is the new Black“.

Chaz Bono did not disappoint! I can’t wait for him to get healthier from exercising for the show and lose some weight. I love that ABC has gone the route of embracing ALL people as people. Tolerance and acceptance is very important for the sake of unity in this country. I hope the gay community puts effort into voting, to show their power. I thought it would be weird seeing him dance with a woman, but it all went through very naturally. I liked it. I can live with it. I can’t wait for the sexier dances and the dances that end with stage-kisses. TV has come a long way since the Three’s Company days of avoiding even saying the word gay. And that’s a good thing, it’s about time.

I don’t know how anyone could be against people who seem so nice. Chaz is such a nice guy. There was a group of protestors that wanted to discourage people from watching the show because Chaz is transgender. These protestors are stupid. So the whole show should suffer? Even the people who aren’t trans? How about you just not vote for Chaz? Im tired of stupid protestors. Form a protest against something more productive. Protest wall street.  Protest animal abuse or child abuse. Protest kill shelters. Protest Kim Kardashian‘s music and video. While you are at it, protest her shows and people being famous for being famous.

Brooke Burke is the WORST. HOST. EVER. I swear she asks the dumbest questions. “How challenging was this for you?” “Did you ever imagine, while you were in the army years ago being blown up, that you would later be in a reality show about dancing that hadn’t existed yet?” “Was it easy to learn to dance those hard steps you’ve never done before?” “I see that you are out of breath from dancing, are you out of breath from dancing?” How hard could her job be? Watch the dance and video clip, form a question that is relevant. Simple. Hire me. Or hire a kid. Anyone could do better than she’s doing right now.

Am I the only one tired of seeing the cast of The Hills and Laguna Beach on television. I wish they would just go away. Even though I respect her for doing very well dancing, I don’t even want to mention Kristen Cavalarri. I’m just tired of those girls. They all look alike anyway. Look different. Blonde hair, skinny, shiny tight short clothing, too much money for doing nothing but being born, ugh. *rolling eyes*

J.R. Martinez‘s story is just heartwarming for me. 40% of his body was burned after encountering a land mine while in the army, so his face is handsome in a melty sort of way. After leaving the army, going through 33 surgeries to repair him, he decided to go into acting. He didn’t let his melty face stop him from entering an industry that is sometimes obsessed with adhering to a strict code when deciding what is beautiful. He has been on All My Children for a few years now. I LOVE him. I love his spirit. I love that he was brave enough to risk his life for George W. Bush’s long ass deadly war he never even finished. I love his talents. I love his handsome melty face. I am rooting for him because he makes me feel good all over.

Here is a video clip:

All that being said, I have some suggestions for DWTS:

1. Fire Brooke Burke.

2. Keep annoying reality stars down to a minimum.

3. Consider a DWTS All Stars season. Winners against winners. Or 2nd placers against 2nd placers.

4. Continue to be diverse. Don’t let crazy people discourage you.

5. Don’t do what you did last season and make your show 3 hours long. Unacceptable. Why do you think the microwave was invented? Shows should not be as long as Lord of the Rings.

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Happy 63rd birthday! You are over the hill. And it shows.

At this fine ripe age, I expect so much more from you. Award shows should have more class. You are handing out gold-plated dust collectors and mantle decorators, for crying out loud. I do not think it is an appropriate venue for singing songs how much you love sex. That doesn’t make you “hip” or in tune with the younger crowd. It makes the younger crowd laugh at you for trying so hard. Young people will never relate to senior citizens using slang words and planking on their therapeutic beds.

You want some younger and more viewers? Here are some tips that do not involve Akon shucking and jiving across stage and laughing at your own embarrassingly bad jokes to deafen the silence:

1. Be more diverse. Invite black people, seat them in the front, and actually let them win a lot of awards. Perhaps even half. And don’t just invite the black people whom white people are talking about when they say “I have black friends”. The entire cast of Saturday Night Live falls under this category. Plus, everyone knows that black people are cool. Having more of them around increase the cool factor of the party and makes you seem less uptight and racist.

2. Stop the hokey singing. I enjoy a good theatrical number as much as the next gay guy, but even I can tell that your gimmick is so last year. At least take it seriously and make it clever, and GOOD. The comedic slapstick song at the beginning of the show is not risqué anymore. It’s traditional, and therefore boring. Only old people still think that’s taboo.

3. Fire some of your old faithful writers. Let them retire. Hire new, unknown, younger talent and allow the more experienced people to coach and guide them a little. You can find these funnier writers on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Blogs. These are the people who actually are making us LOL these days. Generate the economy and jobs, and give the real hilarious people a chance. Don’t make them merely the inspiration. Let them be the creators! You can search for them via my Twitter and FB friends. They make me LOL and click the LIKE button all day. By the way, don’t allow anyone over the age of 25 to use that LOL acronym in a sentence on stage.

4. Make it more of a democracy. Let US choose who wins. If old people of the academy/committee/retirement home are choosing the shows, of course the younger crowd isn’t interested. OUR shows are not nominated. Once again, Saturday Night Live doesn’t count. Original cast members have given birth, became grandparents, and died. Young people do not watch Saturday Night Live. They are out on Saturdays…actually living.

5. Do a focus group. That’s the mature way of figuring out what people want to see on the Emmy’s. Pay attention to the demographics of the target audience for particular shows. Consider shows that cater to the demographics you are reaching for. Let them be nominated and let them win. Research what people of these demographics find funny today and proceed to number 6.

6. Break it up with some better entertainment. Use current popular trends. 2011 has been the year of YouTube videos going viral. Use that to your advantage. There could have been a segment devoted to planking (Click Here). I would have laughed. Or a segment that featured a loser freaking out, like the remote-booty-shoving guy (Click Here). I would have laughed. You should have invited the bad-ass honey badger narrator to provide some commentary on attendees. Hellooo…are you living under the rock you used to smoke in the 80′s? BE CURRENT. And every year, support a different social cause, so that the production doesn’t seem totally superfluous.

7. Invite younger people. And I don’t mean the young people that old people recognize because they play teenagers on tv shows that old people watch. Cough-Glee-Cough. Sorry, I was coughing while I said GLEE.

8. Grow old gracefully. With class, style, and a sense of humor. Stop trying so hard to be young. You are not young. You are an award show that hands trophies out for excellence in television production. That is no laughing matter. Don’t be all low-brow about it for cheap laughs. You are better than that. You have survived, and if you want to continue surviving, you will have to evolve with the times without trying to turn back the clock.

9. Never invite the Jersey Shore cast again.

10. Hire me. But be advised that I did not watch the whole show this year. It got boring. I used most of it as white noise. I doubt that I am the only one. Let’s work together to change that.

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A twitpic from yours truly.

While filming a video for CHARITY, of all things, 50 Cent and Mayweather waste valuable off-peak time minutes talking to each other on cellphones, scratch that…on stacks of money. Of course, because stacks of money do not have very well tower reception, they have to sit right next to each other to hear clearly. I hope it wasn’t a collect call. Because the type of therapy that Floyd needs, is going to take a lot of time and money. Plus, I don’t know if he didn’t realize it or not…but um…getting advice from 50 Cent is like getting advice worth 50 cents. Not usually worth it.

Instead of actually working on their star studded video for charity, 50 Cent and Mayweather take a well deserved break to spend valuable time starving the hungry and talking about how Floyd Mayweather‘s dad is a “hater”.

Not only does Mayweather have money-stack-cellphone, but he has two. Ballers! I hope the charity they were filming for isn’t fighting poverty.

Unless by, “Charity”, they were actually referring to a mutual baby mama.

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50 Cent and Floyd Mayweather were real wankstas for this one. Even more wanksta than using the word “wanksta”.

Watch the video and let me know if you are as perturbed as I am.

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Whenever I think of morphine, I think of being doped up and feeling no pain while hooked up to tubes in the hospital. Then I imagine begging for more and doctors denying you because they don’t want you to become a dope fiend. Of course, morphine should only be used in times of extreme pain. Not just for the hell of it. Or should I say, the heaven of it?

Did you ever wonder how did we come up with the name for this drug? Morphine is named after the Greek god, Morpheus. Morpheus is the god of dreams. It’s all making sense now, isn’t it?

Speaking of morphine…

The Bayer Company, who is most famous for its aspirin, is also credited with introducing another drug: Heroin. Heroin was supposed to be a non-addictive substitute for the addictive morphine. In 1898 it was marketed to suppress coughing. It was sold over the counter.

Ironically enough, morphine eventually was used for treating heroin addiction. Wait, what? No, it’s not the drugs, it actually is pretty confusing. Heroin was supposed to replace morphine, which ended up being used to replace heroin. So wait…what’s replacing morphine again? Um…heroin? No, my sweet little potential addict. Just say no to drugs, okay?

The name “heroin” comes from the German word “heroisch”, or in English: heroic. Which is what users described feeling when taking the drug. Bayer was so excited for heroine that they sold to dozens of countries and handed out free samples before realizing that it, too, was addictive, just like Morphine. By 1913, The Bayer Company stopped production, removed it from its history books, and pretended it never happened.

It was all just a dream…

Below are Bayer print ads for heroin. Read it and itch. (Get it? I used “itch” instead of “weep” because dope fiends are always scratching. Eh…nevermind.)

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Did you know that butterflies are cannibalistic? Just went you thought you knew you could trust a butterfly.

Many butterfly species, while in their caterpillar stage will kill and eat other potential butterflies and moths.

When my little cousin was in about 2nd grade, her teacher assigned to her the responsible task of keeping a caterpillar in a tiny jar. It had a small piece of apple and a large leaf accompanying it. My mother objected, because she loathes creepy crawlers, so we kept it in my bedroom for safe keeping. I believe I was about 10 years old. As the days passed, we watched the caterpillar eat the leaf and the apple. Then it made a tiny green, protective looking cocoon at the top of the jar. A few weeks later, in the middle of the night, I heard something drop and some fluttering. Lo and behold it had turned into a butterfly! I called my sister and my little cousin into my room to see, and we released it back into the wild.

Im just sharing because it was a really cool experience. And for confession’s sake, because I felt really bad keeping a caterpillar in a jar instead of letting it be free. But who knows, maybe I saved it from being murdered and eaten by his own kind.

Other than all that. Butterflies freak me out. They are hairy, weird looking insects with pretty wings.

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$12 – Experience the ‘Dark’ Side of NYC, Reg. $26 | Travelzoo Local Deals.

Have you ever wanted to know what it felt like to be blind? What about blind in NYC? I could imagine that NYC is probably one of the hardest places in the country to be blind, with all its sounds and streets, cracked sidewalks, and ruthless taxis.

Get the deal now, because it expires in a day and a few hours!

Then be grateful that “this is just a test” and gain respect for the people who WISH they could pay 12 bucks for the experience and go home seeing again.

Highlights

• For $12, experience the exhibition The New York Times calls “an eye-opener”
• This groundbreaking new exhibit takes visitors through simulated “sights” of New York City from the perspective of someone who is visually impaired
• This deal is available for all dates and times Sept. 15 through Dec. 7

The Deal

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From 1946 to 1948 the government infected a bunch of people with syphilis and gonorrhea, on purpose, for research purposes. The goal was to figure out what happens if you don’t get treatment. The test subjects were unaware that they were being inoculated with STDs and many even died.

Where is the consideration for humanity? Oh yea…I guess it wasn’t in style back then. SMH. Should I mention that it wasn’t the first or last time it had happened?

In the 1932 until 1972, there were the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments. Black men in Tuskegee, Alabama were promised free medical care, meals, and burial insurance. In actuality, the government was using them as lab-rats to study the effects of untreated syphilis, despite penicillin being the treatment for it since the 40s. The study continued secretly until 1972 under the guise of Public Health Services, when details were leaked to the press. Just imagine if the press had never found out? Some men died, women contracted it from their partners involved in the study, and children were born with it.

I also want to mention the forced unnecessary sterilization of women of color (yes, including latinas and native americans…anyone not white really) and mentally challenged women, nationwide, from 1900 to 1970s. Many were bribed to submit with educational courses, money, or job training. Others were threatened of losing their public assistance. Most were duped into signing paperwork they did not understand. Some were just sterilized without their knowledge. More than 100,000 women are thought to be victims of this “study”. Approximately 3,000 are still alive. Some of the states have publicly apologized for it (did you hear of an apology because I didn’t) and North Carolina is considering offering reparations for the victims and their immediate family members.

It’s very sad. It’s all very sad.

That’s why I thought I’d liven this post up by talking about Kim Kardashian’s panties. Kim Kardashian in a blog post about syphilis…hey, why not. It’s probably not that far fetched. I saw the sex tape with the singer Brandy’s little brother. And I do not remember seeing any condoms.

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