Today I had a groomer come to my apartment to give Indy a bath. It was awesome! So much better than all the crappy places I’ve had to leave him. It took 50 minutes. He was so happy! And so am I. Before you judge me look at this….
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speaking of liza
I love it so much! Judy & little Liza! I think they are magical!
Blackglama: the fur, Liza: the legend
hugh jackman
Hugh Jackman has refused to deny that he is gay.
The married actor has been persistently rumoured to be homosexual since he played Australian musician Peter Allen in camp musical The Boy From Oz in 2003.
Jackman is reluctant to refute the allegations because he feels it encourages a derogatory view of homosexuality.
“I’d be happy to go and deny being gay, because I’m not. But by denying it, I’m saying there is something shameful about it, and there isn’t anything shameful,” he said.
“The questions about sexuality I find more in America than anywhere else, because it’s a big hang-up and defines what people think about themselves and others. It’s not a big issue in Australia.”
Jackman also revealed he and his wife Deborra-Lee Furness – who have been married for 13 years – felt very strongly about adopting multi-racial children Oscar, eight, and Ava, three.
He told Parade magazine: “Mixed-race babies have such a hard time being adopted that Deb and I checked off that box specifically when we were filling out our forms.
“Our lawyer brought the form back to us and said, ‘This is not the time to be politically correct. Are you sure this is what you want?’ We were definite about it. Adoption is about taking a baby into your home and your heart. It’s the best thing we’ve ever done.”
4/23/2009
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=5&ContentID=137722
I enjoy Hugh Jackman very much.
A) He’s Wolverine, and as a University of Michigan graduate aren’t I obligated to like him?
2) I saw The Boy From Oz and he blew me away. Really fantastic! Like Liza. (The real Liza, tho the Liza in The Boy From Oz was quite good.)
3) Did you see the opening of the Oscars? Enough said.
4) I actually stood a few feet away from the impossibly handsome Hugh Jackman and his mixed race son, and witnessed one of my favorite interactions ever. It was so good that I didn’t even pick up on the fact that his son is mixed. Picture it: New York City. 2006. The Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle. Heading out of the building, Hugh and son. Heading into the building, Barbara Walters. (Standing in between, me, but who cares.) Hugh sees her and calls out, “Hi Barbara!” Barbara, head down trying desperately not to be recognized, keeps eyes to the ground moves to her left still heading for the escalators. Hugh keeps grinning and says, “Barbara? Barbara, it’s Hugh.” At this point they’ve caught up to each other. (Like right next to me, but who cares.) He keeps walking with her and actually bends down to meet her downcast gaze. “It’s Hugh.” She is simultaneously relieved and embarrassed. She laughs a bit nervously, “Oh, Hugh….” They have a nice little convo and part ways. It was funny and cute.
heidi and seal
I heart them.
From Us Weekly May 4th
Do you talk with the kids about having a biracial family?
“If being biracial ever comes up in school, then we would definitely talk about it. And I do think they see the different colors. Leni(almost 5) did this wonderful painting hanging in our kitchen of our family. It’s Seal, who she painted really dark. Then me, kind of white with a sparkle dress on. And she made herself exactly like me, and she has a crown on with a sparkle dress. And then is Henry, who is not as dark as Papa, so she chose a different brown pencil. And there is Johan, who has a different brown pencil. So it’s not like she says, ‘Oh, they are different,’ but I see that she sees it. I don’t think it’s a big deal.”
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transracial adoption
Here are some excerpts from a very insightful Newsweek article on transracial adoption…
http://www.newsweek.com/id/194886/page/1
…As a black father and adopted white daughter, Mark Riding and Katie O’Dea-Smith are a sight at best surprising, and at worst so perplexing that people feel compelled to respond. Like the time at a Pocono Mountains flea market when Riding scolded Katie, attracting so many sharp glares that he and his wife, Terri, 37, and also African-American, thought “we might be lynched.” And the time when well-intentioned shoppers followed Mark and Katie out of the mall to make sure she wasn’t being kidnapped. Or when would-be heroes come up to Katie in the cereal aisle and ask, “Are you OK?”—even though Terri is standing right there.
…the Ridings’ experience runs counter to these popular notions of harmony. And adoption between races is particularly fraught. So-called transracial adoptions have surged since 1994, when the Multiethnic Placement Act reversed decades of outright racial matching by banning discrimination against adoptive families on the basis of race. But the growth has been all one-sided. The number of white families adopting outside their race is growing and is now in the thousands, while cases like Katie’s—of a black family adopting a nonblack child—remain frozen at near zero.
Decades after the racial integration of offices, buses and water fountains, persistent double standards mean that African-American parents are still largely viewed with unease as caretakers of any children other than their own—or those they are paid to look after. As Yale historian Matthew Frye Jacobson has asked: “Why is it that in the United States, a white woman can have black children but a black woman cannot have white children?”
…”Let me just put it out there,” says Mark, a 38-year-old private-school admissions director with an appealing blend of megaphone voice and fearless opinion, especially when it comes to his family. “I’ve never felt more self-consciously black than while holding our little white girl’s hand in public.” He used to write off the negative attention as innocent curiosity. But after a half-decade of rude comments and revealing faux pas—like the time his school’s guidance counselor called Katie a “foster child” in her presence—he now fights the ignorance with a question of his own: why didn’t a white family step up to take Katie?
clairvoyant helped find chihuahua that blew away
This morning I saw a Detroit Free Press headline about racism in a Michigan school district, so I read it thinking it could be blog worthy. It wasn’t. But when I looked to the right I saw this headline and I just couldn’t help posting it.
Clairvoyant helped find Chihuahua that blew away
FREE PRESS STAFF • APRIL 28, 2009
The 5-pound Chihuahua that blew away Saturday in heavy winds at the Dixieland Antique Flea Market in Waterford was discovered tired, hungry and caked with mud in the hilly wooded area across the street on Monday.
A pet psychic “thought we were looking in the wrong place,” Dorothy Utley, Tinker Bell’s owner, said Monday. “She said, ‘I’d like you to go over and look under things and up high and on hills.’ She said she was going to be up high.”
The 72-year-old Rochester Hills resident said volunteers spent hours searching on Sunday before the Holly-based clairvoyant told them where to call the pooch’s name.
“The animal speaks to me,” Lorrie the Pet Psychic said Monday. “She was telling me she was OK. … I’m just so happy for her, that they have her home. I don’t call myself a hero or anything.”
kittens inspired by kittens
if you wanna laugh really hard watch this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtX8nswnUKU
i am definitely a dog person, but i understand kitty love. even if you don’t, you’ll probably enjoy the video.
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