Brad & Maddox Riding ATVs!!!!

# 1227 | ANNOUNCEMENT I was just about post the same thing. Thank God there’s a new thread. I’m sick of talking about Hillary Swank…and I actually like her!

JJ just put up a new thread about Angie’s tattoos. He said he’s out for vacay, so I’m fully expecting the vultures to swoop down and gobble the site in crazy you-know-who fashion. Umm..I guess I sound naive, but who is this Chad actor? What movies did he occupy?And excuse my touch of ADD, but did Agneiska ever return or answer my question back on 1160’s?Have a great weekend all!

# 1229 | stef |Awww, I’m glad to hear you doing fine. Rest up and the go wow them tommorow. Re FanficsRica posted earlier this week (Baby Shi’s discoveries) - Usual ThreadGitane has a new one in the Bamzs Family Pix threadCHM, Malibumom and Passing Through have theirs on the BP Home ThreadAlso on the BP Thread is New Writer Krissy. You’re gonna love it.We had to abandon the Rumors thread…it was getting to much to load but yoou can check it out for the fics you missed. I think that’s about it but if I’m missing ant….Estelle is sure to be on top of it.

# 1228 | Passing Through | ————————————————–Ditto

# 1217 | curious Thank you. :)

# 1156 | In Touch The tabs don’t even bother about fact checking and that’s why I don’t get why people still continue to believe the swill. Zahara may have been 6mths when she was adopted, but InTouch failed to mention that she was a very sick 9lb child who needed constant care because of of those serious health issues that steemed from malnutrition. She had mouth sores, fever. dehydration plus other issues that were not by a longshot easy to deal with, but we never heard a peep. (http://people.aol.com/people/article/0,26334,1092497_1,00.html).InTouch also assumes no one has ever had a baby, or realizes that the first few months are damn near wonderful apart from the sleep you lose due to feedings. Most babies sleep, sleep more, eat, poop, sleep, sleep more, eat, poop etc for the first month or so. Yeah, they have 2 other children to tend to, but they have help, and Angelina even said they had help in her last Anne Curry interview. Another piece of info InTouch failed to check on was the fact that:++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++The first film was shot at the Bellagio Casino in Las Vegas. Producer Jerry Weintraub told Variety that it was too difficult to shoot due to heavy traffic in the casinos as well as paparazzi. As a result, Weintraub says a majority of “Ocean’s 13’s” shoot will take place on five soundstages in Burbank, California, where a fully operational casino will be built. http://www.longislandpress.com/?cp=190&show=article&a_id=7963++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++jpf

1076-malayaForgot to mention Enrique Iglesias- (Julio’s son)mother is from a prominent family in the South PI.I don’t know his name, one of the BLACK EYED PEAS, was born and raised by pinoy grandparents.Re- Steve Mcqueen’s first wife. Can’t remember her name.She was a dancer in HW, much like J.LOin Living Color. Heard she was a beauty, just like the MCqueen wives after her.Times have change indeed. Hayek , Berry, Longoria and other latin/ colored women are now recognized in HW.I am bad at names- credits in some of R. Williams movies lists his wife-( GARCES ) as one of the producers. They have a teenage son.Thanks for the Monique info.Sorry BAMZ- out of topic. Just a little fyi to our friend malaya.

1110 Maniston,OMG, you are so funny.I could not stop laughing.

i hate bbt so ******* much! i wanna kill him

I just wanted to say hi to all and say that Brad was teaching Mad to swim at the pool today. Mad still can’t swim but he’s learning fast. He has to learn in case he lands in the water while waterskiing. The two are inseparable. Mad walks right behind Brad everywhere :)I cant stay here. We’re having a late party. Agnieszkaps Alexandrina- yes, this is me, not an imposter and everything is true.

Hey Guys-~~~~~~~Okay the rest of the fic is on BP home thread! Sorry about the complications! This computer hates me and i hate it! :)

Malaya, if you see this first, I do have a reply to your message for me in the Shiloh Meets Kingston thread. Brief mentions are for Original Curious, Zaiyana, Moi Jade, Malibumom and PT in the third paragraph. The rest of the message is entirely in reply to Malaya, so the rest of you may not be interested. Shiloh Meets Kingston# 797 | African GirlWhich one of you is Libby?When I caught the Libby name, I was racking my brain from where I first heard of her. Thankfully, my memory didn’t fail me (though it did take awhile)…well, of certain useless trivia and facts. I believe this Libby is a fictious alter ego of a gay man, whose writing as Libby focuses on her self-absorption. Yikes, you’re not saying PT or I have a self-absorbed humor or that of a gay man. Actually, I think gay humor is funny, so I’m okay with that. Well, Bruce Vilanch isn’t funny and I don’t find most television sitcoms, which are said to be written by mostly gay writers, funny either. Oh, never mind. I do like Carson from ***** Eye For the Straight Guy. He’s hilarious. Libby is/was a regular contributing fixture on Premiere magazine. I used to be a subscriber so that’s the reason for the faint memory of Libby, who I recall was funny. You know I’d hate to bother Jared with the passing of emails….the poor guys does a lot already.I cannot say this enough in consideration of Jared that he does enough as it is than to add postmaster to his title. I’ll repeat what I’ve suggested before for people who would like to exchange email addresses but fear shenanigans by subversives: Register for an email account with Hushmail.com, which requires only a creation of an email adress and a password for registration. Simple. No personal information is needed…or needed to be faked. It automatically deactivates after 3 weeks of inactivity, meaning you haven’t logged in within 3 weeks. From that temporary Hushmail email address, you can forward your permanent email address to the intended recipient. Man, I remember the days when people would exchange their real, permanent addies without reservations or fear on public forums. I certainly made some good friends - cyber or not - from those exchanges. It wasn’t until the forum I was at imploded and became bitchy that I got unwanted emails, even voodoo curses (which I just had to laugh at, as I would with other outrageous and simply stupid comments). But nowadays, I would be hesitant to post up my personal email address with the unsavory characters. For most people, it would be harmless to post their permanent, personal email addresses, as nobody has any agenda against them. For other certain posters, who attract unstable malcontents, including AG, PT, and I, it’s definitely not a good idea. Hey, while I’m here speaking to you, you should know that Jinx is back!! Well, she’s posting under a different name (among a few others), stepping out of the Garden of Eden. She’s a team player now (for the most part). I’ll let you take her however way you want. Me, I’m leery of duplicitous characters, just as the suspicions at the back of my mind about the resident Star Jones have all been confirmed. # 1032 | ntt I don’t understand why HS had to bring her x’s addiction up to justify the divorce.First, I don’t like Hilary Swank. She comes off as much as a phony to me as X. (I see that PT likes HS so I’ll have to respectfully disagree with her on all accounts on HS.) Her Oscar acceptance speeches didn’t help any to change my opinion, and perhaps may have cemented my disdain for her. She forgot to thank her husband in her first Oscar acceptance speech in 2000, while she thanked all the rest of her lackies; so she was on a mission on every freaking public forum making up for her oversight, regardless of it appearing she was hijacking the mike just to make amends in the public eye. It’s just a damn public gesture. (Frankly, I prefer the British practice of limiting their acceptance speeches to thanking colleagues.) But how he ever slipped her mind when he was in the audience crying his eyes out, I’d never know. Chad stuck out like a sore thumb with his weepy moment, which many observers couldn’t help but notice the paradox of the film for which Hilary won her Oscar, "Boys Don’t Cry." Tina Fey couldn’t write that stuff up for SNL. I mean, hell, surely a loving couple know the words to soothe over bruised egos, no? Or buy him a damn new car (as Kobe bought Vanessa a big ass rock) or get him hired for a movie with her as a 2-for-1 deal. But there she was in other award shows trying her best to undo a slight to Chad and emphasizing her love for him, as if that was her assigned community service for probation. As if that weren’t enough, the phony usurped the alloted speech time beyond not to add anything eloquent or amusing but to thank her lawyer, publicist, personal trainer…dentist, etc. And this is the person Oprah said was genuine and real among all the stars she’s ever interviewed? Oh right, Oprah the star fawner who thinks she’s immune to being star struck. Or more like it, she’s deluded herself she isn’t despite all her Legend Balls self-congratulatory parties celebrating overhyped, marginal celebrities. Anyway, back to Hilary’s current Vanity Fair interview where she publicized Chad’s drug addiction problem as a factor in the marriage failure, even though according to her, he’s been clean and sober for 3 years. (Shouldn’t he have been the one disclosing his own failings? It was his drug problem, not hers directly.) That would mean his struggle with drugs was over before they broke up and tried to reconcile in 2006. What the hell happened between 2003 through 2006? It wasn’t the drugs as she herself said he’s been clean for 3 years or else wouldn’t the marriage have been derailed back then rather than 3 years after the fact. Or was she disingenuous when she said Chad was her "everything" in her 2005 Oscar acceptance speech, still making up for a slip-up from 5 years ago. Jeeze. Eh, I guess it’s more sensational to bring up drug abuse than the insecurities of a marriage of divergent career success. Good job, Leslie, in mining that nugget. I’m not a particular fan of Lance Armstrong either outside of his triumph battle with testicular disease (would rather hear of a lung disease survivor though; would have loved that Dana Reeves coming out victorious). In my mind, the Tour de France and similar marathon bike races are rife with under-the-radar cheating just as the well-accepted knowledge (wink, wink) that there is cheating in NASCAR racing with car owners pushing the limits of the allowable configurations of cars. Just because drug tests can’t detect doping doesn’t mean the racers don’t use illegal substances or blood doping. I’m a purist when it comes to competition, and Lance has too much baggage with allegations of cheating not to be taken seriously in a sport notorious for secretive cheating. Let’s not get into the innocent-until-proven assumption. That’s for a court of law and this is the court of opinion. Hell, even Greg LeMond believes he’s a cheater. His being a former Tour de France champion, I liken him to gays with their internal gaydar and running around in small circles to hear the inside scoop. No, it’s not the same as assuming Brad cheated as nobody around him or X has categorically stated he did. As for how he is as a person, he may well be an upstanding guy but I’m not interested. On Sheryl Crow, I’m relieved to hear she was a junk food addict. As skinny as she is, I didn’t quite understand her susceptibility to breast cancer. There are a lot of risk factors to breast cancer (including heredity and even a breast cancer gene mutation frequently found among Eastern European Jews), but diet is among the primary contributing factors (with studies showing Asian-Americans having as much risk as other Americans as opposed to the low risk of overseas Asians). I’ve never been a fan of hers, as I still think she ripped off Steelers Wheel, "Stuck in the Middle with You" with the chorus riff in her "All I Want to Do" (for which she won a Grammy). As far as I know, she’s never given credit to them. Eh, I just don’t like her music period, so I could not care less she’s friends with X. Figures, I say. # 974 | Original Curiousgive our daughter the life that I had of two birth parents together while growing up. Reminds me of Asian marriages that stick together for the sake of the family. Some may even be loveless but it’s part of the greater good of carrying on that family. In fact, I’ve known of two Asian couples who have stayed together despite love leaving the marriage. The husband and wife sleep in separate bedrooms. But don’t feel sad for them. In their older age, it’s something they’ve resigned themselves to and they don’t mind. It’s all part of the "greater good." Thanks for sharing your personal testimony. It’s not easy to open up your past wounds, but it is insightful and gives more perspective to the infidelity issue. # 598 | Passing ThroughAnd we all know that the DMV photos look like they were taken by a blind orangutan.I think some of us talked about this before. There are quite a few of us who are Camera Phobic.I knew if I waited, the opportunity would arise again to post the comments I reconstructed of the message regarding photo-phobia I had lost in my computer freeze-up about a month ago. I have my own story and it might flesh out African Girl’s following remark to the effect we aren’t necessarily haggish looking. # 1090 | African GirlSo because some of us have admitted to be picture phobic…you assume we’re not the prettiest of the bunch? # 281 | Passing ThroughThe most recent one is a 2 year-old driver’s license photo and we all know how good those suckers turn out.That is the longstanding joke about the bad driver’s license photos. It’s as if the DMV photographer has been trained to wait until the subject blinks, gets a facial itchy twitch, tires from the pose or a fly lands on his/her nose before s/he snaps that picture for which you have to carry around for years (in my state the renewal is much, much longer than 2 years, so if you took a bad picture, you’re SOL). Were they trained as photo punkers? Somehow by the grace of Tao, I lucked out as the pictures I like are unbelievably on my driver’s license. Most of them are good enough such that I don’t cringe, shocking as that may sound. Or maybe my standards are just getting progressively lower year by year (which I have noticed in recent years). That big ol’ pimple? Hey, at least it’s not on the tip of my nose!! Keep in mind, I’m like you in hating, absolutely hating to get my picture taken. It always feels phony with the forced smile. I’ve never had that natural smile down. Therein lies my aversion. But if it’s a gag photo, I’m in as the goofball that I am. Vanity goes out the window or the camera lens all under the banner of humor. I don’t care if I look like a dork, which is the whole intent. Serious pictures are another matter, though. For my senior year in high school, I finally wised up and bailed out in the picture-taking. Evidently, nobody noticed either. In the yearbook, it noted the seniors without pictures. Strangely, my name wasn’t mentioned at all as one of the MIAs. But I didn’t care one bit. To me, the cover-up was complete. As far as I was concerned, I vanished without a trace. Then, I had a habit of turning my face away from people trying to take pictures of me. I did that with a work colleague and he wasn’t quick enough. So he ended up with a slide negative of the back of my head. But he wasn’t nearly as bad as a friend’s father, who must have thought he was the reincarnation of Bruce Weber or Mario Testino whenever he had a camera in his hand, and I must have been his photo muse. Annoying, to say the least. In other words, I’m a classic "photo-phobe" case. Contrary to what it may appear to the haters to their warped perceptions, I don’t like to be the center of attention. There may be an element to that in having one’s picture taken. I avoid being videotaped, as well, cause I don’t like the focus of attention. It’s not that I am unattractive cause in looking back, my pictures aren’t horrid. I’ve tried to come around of recent to its sentimental value a couple of years ago when my sappy brother lamented our family didn’t take much, if any pictures (what an understatement that is as we’re probably the rare family that NEVER displayed pictures of anybody alive in the house and to this day, I have NO picture of myself displayed in my house). With my cat, it’s a different story as I am her stalkerazzi, and I have pictures of my cats - past and current - everywhere.Fortunately with digital cameras, you have the availability of the delete button. So, at the last wedding banquet with relatives, I was a cooperative victim, but I made sure my brother was damn intimate with that delete button, though. And it’s a good thing we’re honest enough with each other for him to tell me when I looked goofy (for gags, fine, but serious, no). I’d have him take a do-over. But I wasn’t so lucky to escape that for the grand, extended family picture taken by a so-called professional photographer. Speaking only for myself, it was horrible. I was caught completely off-guard with my mouth too wide open. I tell you he was an undercover DMV cameraman!! All I know is when I next visit my cousin, she better hide that damn photo or she’ll be missing something else than I when I leave. Yet, as I’ve noted, one of my best pictures is actually on a driver’s license. Go figure! I’d like to think that baby helped me get out of a couple of potential speeding tickets. Considering driver’s license is the last thing the cops, er, police officers stare at before they decide to write a ticket or not by giving a warning, it may well be the ticket-breaker that reminds them that you couldn’t have possibly driven as a racing Danica Patrick and you really do drive like a grandma crawling even in the slow lane. With that in mind, I may up the ante in my next license renewal by showing up wearing a halo, giving a wink, wink and putting on my best Shirley Temple smile as my picture is taken, just so the last impression a cop sees is an angelic face on my driver’s license. It’s that or ALWAYS driving within the state road rules, especially in ticket traps. But who are we kidding, right? Judge Judy?

Cindy2, just wanted to say Hello! If you have been posting I have missed them completely…don’t think I’ve read your thoughts for months. Glad to see you are still with us!